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I .7“ ■ ... ■ ' -.- "',l" 'The Omaha Bee MORN 1 N G—E V E N I N G—5 U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Publisher N. B UPDIKE, President BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLER, Editor in Chief Business Manager MEMBER OF THE ASSOC IATED PRESS The Associated Pros?, of which Itie Bee is r member, in exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches Credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of our special dispatches are also reserved. The Omaha Bee in a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognized authority on circulation audits, apd The Omaha Bee’s circulation is regularly audited by their organizations. • » ' *7T-*-— Entered ns second-cla^n matter May 28. 1908, nt Omaha postoffice, under act of March 3, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for AT LNi!^ 1 HCin the Department or Person Wanted. ^ * lRIiilC 1UUVI OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnnm Chicago—Stoger Bldg. Boston—-Globe Bldg. Los Angeles—Fred L. Hall, Son Fernando Bldg. Ran Francisco—Fred L. Hall, Sharon Bldg. S 0 New York City—270 Madison Avenue Seattle—A. L. Nietz, 514 Leary Bldg._ MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES - , DAILY AND SUNDAY 1 year $8.00, 6 months $8.00, 3 months $1.75, 1 month 75c DAILY ONLY 1 year $4.50, 6 months $2.75, 3 months $1.50, 1 month 75c SUNDAY ONLY l^.year $3.00. <5 months $1 75, 3 months $1.00. 1 month 50c Subscriptions outside the Fourth postal zone, or 600 miles from Omaha: Daily and Sunday, $1 00 per month; daily only, 75c per month; Sunday only, 60c per month. CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Morning and Sunday.1 month 85c, l week 20c Evening and Sunday.1 month 65c, 1 week 15c Sunday Only .. month 20c, 1 week 5c V.-—-' GmalwVlKie IheM'St is at its Best THE REAL REASON. Divers and sundry democratic organs have en deavored to explain the overwhelming defeat admin istered to the democratic party at the last election. None of them have submitted an explanation, how ever, that equals the one hidden in the pronounce ment by William J. Bryan. Mr. Bryan did not in tend that it should be an explanation, but that is what, it amounts to. few days after election Mr. Bryan came for ward, again, to suggest coalition between the demo crats and the cohorts headed by Senator La Fol lette. There lies the real though negative explana tion,for democratic defeat—“coalition.” The posi tive explanation is that the people of this country trust more in the principles and policies of the re publican party. Time was when the democratic party was not only a militant political organization, but was also a party fighting for fundamental principles. That wag before Mr. Bryan appeared on the scene. Bryan relegated principle# to the rear in order to make roo^a for political expediency . Since that fateful day fn Chicago in 189G Mr. Bryan has been the real bell Svether of the democratic party. He has led it away from its fundamental principles to wander in the bypaths of “paramount issues” that gave some promise, however forlorn, of deluding the people into the support of the democratic party. It is characteristic of the Bryan mind that he should now seek to draw in the supporters of T.a Follette. What does it, matter to him that La Fol lette supports almost everything that the real founders of the democratic party denounce. The democratic party under Bryan has wandered so far afield that only here and there is heard a demo cratic voice in opposition to the unnatural alliance proposed. . None other than Bryan would have the nerve to suggest an alliance of fundamental democrats with a disorganized factional bunch that proposes put ting the constitution at the mercy of congress; that caters to socialist# and communists; that “waves the white flag in time of war and hoists the red flag in time of peace.” Under Bryan the democratic party has become the Adullamite party of the nation. It no longer has fixed principles. It hns hecome the party of dis content, the party that arrays itself in opposition to whatever is. The proposition advanced by Bryan as the cure for the party ills, is only one more dose of poison, the slow poison, the Bryan poison. If the patient is to get well it must call another doctor. IT’S UP TO MA AND MRS. ROSS. Mrs. Ferguson, governor-elect of Texas, and Mrs, Ross, governor-elect of Wyoming, are fronted with great opportunity. They are the first women to be elevated to gubernatorial position. Other wofhen have been elected to congifss and to legis latures. There aro several women gracing the bench. Buk- Mrs. Ferguson and Mrs. Ross will he chief ex ecutives of sovereign states. It is up to them to make good for more reasons than one. Theirs is a difficult task. They will he subject to more careful scrutiny than men elected to the same position. They will be cited as witnesses either foi* of against the ability of women to occupy high political place. We entertain no fears about their success. We would call their attention to the fact, however, that as pioneer women governors they may he expected to set a precedent that will make it more easily possible for women to be elected to simi lar office in other states. And that, Madam C>ov i rnor, is going to be a real job. WOMEN’S CLUBS AND THE WORLD. Ernestine Evans, long interested in the work of women’s clubs and similar activity, is not pleased wi|b results so far achieved. She discusses the topic at,some length in the November Century, making clear only the fact that she is not satisfied with what hnk been done. She jjotes the expansion of the clubs in .numbers, and admits they have done some good, but— ' ‘‘Yet, there Is, In the present program of the I- general' federation, no broadly philosophical con servation resolution, rooted In conviction that pub lie property ought never to become private property to yield profit to private persona. There Is not a spark of revolutionary logic In those middle class women- They formulate no plans for getting back *bat has already been plundered from tho public domain." We wonder if Mi Evans, or any of the glorious company of young and fearless knights errant, who are riding on similar quests, over stop to think what is .meant by "getting hack what has already been plundered from the public domain"? And if, after having definitely defined that, they have an equally clear notion of how to go about the job of making the recovery and where they would stop in the prpeess. ; Every farm in the United States was once part efUthe public domain- Each individual holding is BOW’being UBed for private purposes. Every high priced lot on Broadway once belonged to the public as represented by the king. Every con] mine, every gold mine, every oil well, every natural resource 1 of mineral or otherwise, has been developed, not by the people but by private enterprise. It was the pioneer and the prospector who searched the wilder ness and made the discoveries. Do the records dis close any attempt to reward these men? Who was it went into Death Valley and located the great borax deposits? Many years elapsed before inves tigators discovered the uses that have made these beds valuable. Should we now seize them for the public, because they were located on public domain? The iron deposits in the Gogebic range were useless until the magic workers of steel brought them into public service. Is that a robbery of public wealth? We might go on through the list with such comparisons. Only in the matter of forestry has there been willful waste. If it had not been for private enterprise, looking to private gain, the enormous wealth of the United States would be .iust where it was when Columbus led the way across the Atlantic. This may explain why the women's cluhs have not started a crusade to “recover"’any part, of it for the benefit of those who had little or no part in turning that potential wealth into tangible assets. THE REAL PROBLEM. Luther Burbank, the plant wizard, said a whole volume when he remarked that if we paid as little, attention to plants as we do to our children the whole world would soon be overrun with weeds. Right now Ihe country is flooded with gloom spreaders who declare that our young folks are run ning wild; that the morale of the country has broken down, and that the nation is headed for the rocks unless they are given the helm. Of course they are wrong. If there is anything particularly wrong with the rising generation, "and there is not, it is the fault of the parents, not of the children. Instead of the pessimistic reformers set ting about the reform of the children, let them de vote their time to reforming parenthood. Better yet, let them proceed to give us an example of good parenthood. But better than all, let these pessimists crawl into some convenient hole and pull the hole in after them. The children of today are not one whit worse than their fathers and mothers, or their grandfath ers and grandmothers. In point of fact they will measure up better In some respects, especially in | the respect of being a bit more open in their mis chief. If at times they appear to be a bit froward, or get a bit out of hand, it is because they have had that sort of an example set before them. Unfortunately for the children, they have no way of selecting their forebears. If it were possible for them to do so tho problem would be easy of solu tion. But that being impossible, the next best thing is for parents to so educate themselves that they will be able to teach by example as well as by pre cept. After all is said and done, it is more of a paren tal problem than it is a child problem. With that fact firmly fixed in mind and acted upon, the work of solving the problem may be tackled with con fidence. THIS MAY EXPLAIN SOMETHING. If each motor vehicle registered on July 1, 1924, in the United States had a carrying capacity of seven passengers, the entire population of the coun try could go joy-riding at the same time and a mil lion cars would be left without any passengers or drivers. Between July, 1923, and July, 1924, motor vehicle registration in the United States increased 20 per cent. The total on the latter date were 15, 552.077. Of these Iowa is credited with having 569,415. Nebraska has 273,236. Three states have more than a million cars licensed New York, with 1,223,362; California, with 1,184,015, and Ohio, with 1,160,000. Illinois has 986,480, and Nevada has the fewest, with only 15,481, about the same number as in Lancaster county, and less than half as many as are owned in Omaha. Maybe this is one reason why the country posi tively refused to see red. At any rate, it is an indi cation of such prosperous conditions as amaze and confound the world outside. No people in a!! human history ever enjoyed in so great a measure the good things of life. The automobile is merely a symbol of this epoch of American civilization. The registration of July suggests that, if the ratio of increase is maintained until the end of the j year, January 1, 1925, will see more than 18,000, 000 motor vehicles registered. That will make it one to every six persons. The greatest problem is to provide streets for them to park in. Nebraska is setting out on a course Dial will in time offer good roads for them to run ofcr. When congress convenes Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi will have some' trouble explaining bow come his ward in Gulfport returning a repub lican majority. Senator Pat’s friends must have been looking the other way when a few of their col ored friends and brothers appeared at the polls. “Let the people rule’’ was the democratic war cry a few years ago. And when the people took the advice and proceeded to rule, the way the demo cratic organs whined about it was wonderful to con template, and equally sorrowful to hear. A statue to William the Silent was recently un veiled in Central Park. New York. There is not the least danger that it will be mistaken for a statue in memory of a recent distinguished citizen of Ne braska. Mr. Bryan’s proposition to amalgamate the demo rratic and La Follette forces is hailed by tumultuous silence in the ramp of democrats who have long suffered under the Bryan handicap. Coolidge and McMullen having been safely put over, about the only thing Nebraskans have to worry about Is the outcome of the Gornhusker-Notre Dame game next Saturday. Good idea to proseeute tho jay-walkers now, so as to be in shnpe to take care of the jay-talkers dur ing the next campaign. -- Homespun Verse —By Omuhn’i Own Pont— Robert Worthington Dario K______ AN Ol.l) I.ANK. Thoro’s an nlfl la fir—e\or no old - And an nlill and mo barn today, Where the ground la covered with gold. And tho ground 1m littered with apt ay. And tho Minlight rea«du n down |,IUo it eeorrhea unsheltered pdnde. For the h avea the lmvon nro brown! And there lan’t ono hit of abado. Thor*’* an old lane— over ao old That T view n« I alnwly trend Oyer tho pillowed gold, t ndor the trees half dead. And thla in the Ian* T ann. And horn wnr* tho bird* that ain In tho dream* that aro railing mo Hack to the blooms of Spring. Already Beginning to Make Up to the Widow ! \*_ --- - - . — - ■■■ ■■■■■■ ■ ■ —-- 1 - 1 •' "■ ■ ■ — ^ ' - N j Letters From Our Readers All letters must be sign'd, but name will be withheld upon request. Communi cations of 200 words and less, will be given preference. ‘L_ . j What I.a Follette Really Meant. Fremont, Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Referring to your editorial In Kkup4 of the 5th Instant, captioned “Tell It to a Grand Jury," please allow me to say that you talk like a “house afire." and certainly in a manner to l»e condoned only under the swelled head state following “landslide” election returns for your favorites. In your normal frame I hardly think you could have been guilty of the editorial. With the many years of your experience you surely know* that there is a difference in tills matter of bringing a person to justice, and the circumstances of the La Follette remark that he would bring the offenders he had in mind to a term in the federal prison are per se indicia of the case being one of the “different" kind. Even all the pull as governor of the state availed Mr. ‘Walton naught toward bringing the Oklahoma Ku Klux depredators to the punishment they deserved, and which many newspapers, both in and outside of Oklahoma at the time pub* ljcly agreed that they deserved. He succeeded with a few to got them ns far as the grand jury, (In your editor ial you seem to have a high admira tion for the grand Jury), but not to justice. You see. that Is where La Follette is smarter than you—or. perhaps, more true to his knowledge—he knows that "justice" is not invaria ldy justice, and so in making this challenge ns he did. ^ felt at the time of the reading of it he mnde It simply under the conviction that only the prestige of the president carried Influence enough to the Justice machinery in action even In these presumed "higher lip" cases It was ids only < hance. As a common chi 7.en he or anyone else Is not even deuce high against the Wall Street men or big interests nabob outside of Wall Street Now, Mr. Editor, If you nr# no sure that the knowledge of wrong is ell that Ic ne essnrv^o get the wrong doer to his punishment, why don't you, yourself, proceed against the many New York brokers that were layinfr wagers on the election result'’ You know that betting is "gambling." and gambling Is against the law. You might even succeed (with success at all possible, of course), in making a few "false pretenses” cases, inasmuch as the knowledge !e quite common that much of the Wall Street wager Ing was arrant bluff. Am s good newspaper man. then, too, you might feel a pride for the sake of your read ers, in ferreting out the source of the*e big wads of money that were 'unstrained to no more arduous task than to "talk." I like to se* monev talk when it Is made to take a legiii mate course, nnd this whether in one enterprise nr another, hut when it Is used In fake odds laving, much on the par of the hank roll of the bunko Mteerer that Is meant to ben we the sucker, T think the time for remedial | • Mr*. Km Pash ha* started a slush fund lor a pair o' goloshes. Our hire of a (rood downright piers o' real now* would he a t’aliforny iudtre refusin' somebuddy a di vorce. (Copyiifht, its* ) legislation ha* come, and I am glad that e\er and anon we have a candi date for office that hits at tha thing in about, the only way he can. I feel this much—that we have naught along this line to hope for from "Silent” Coolidge. t*. MORGAN. Horne address, Fosters' hotel, or Box 44. Highland Park Station, I>p* Moines. Time to Retire. Omaha- To the Kditor of Tic Omaha Bee: It would seem that a Her so many decisive defeat* In the polith cel field that William Jinx Bryan would have the common sense to re tire and let the significance of wh.it the cowboy in New York said—after being thrown out of a select dance for the third time: “Well, I guess they don't want me in there," sink Into bis mentality. Now, lie is going to attempt to give the poor. old. sole ly wounded democratic party the tin Ishing touch by merging it w*ith Use' !a Follette mixture. That ought t<» make a sweet smelling compound William the Jinx expert that self-re specting democrats want to l»e Mem tied with frothy ebullitions of the melting pot. and can it he possible that lie think* they will accept any port in the storm of republicanism that ha* twice in succession swept the country? Tf so, he is badly mi4* taken. What the democratic party need*, and badly, t* new' timber new material to be used In its repairs I? wants to ditch all such element* Rrynnlarn, McAdooiem and Tamilian* Ism It has had no real presidential! timber in its ensemble since Cleve land A1 Fruit u makes a good ernor and that is the size job that fir* him. lfe would be lost In the pres dent In l seat, a* would any of the others an far » induced. When men let their personal feelings inti '«a c with their party patriotism it is hu:h time to clean out the storerooms and put In new' stock Neither Smith nor MeAilo© could have been elected, but they could have saved the pnrt\ to PRACTICAL NURSE ADDS TESTIMONY Mrs. Grail Says Taniac Is Without an Equal. Mrs Haiti* Trail, a highly suc cessful and popular practical nurse 32nd and Douglas Sts., Des Moines Iowa, is another among the many of her admirable profession to cn dorse the Taniac treatment. Following a period of severe nerv ous prostrmion two years ago.” de cl a red Mrs. ('rail recently, "l was so weak, restless and uncertain of myself that i scarcely dared go on the street alone I suffered from violent t headaches and dixxy spells. nnd 'gain from ft condition of m iirnie drowsiness. For a time I was 'impelled to give up my work. Hut with Tsnlne my recovery ns« <urprt*lngly rapid.- Rnd soon m> nerves were entirely normal, the pains left rny head, my appetite and digestion became perfect and I was strong enough to resume my work of nursing. In short, T.mtac bulb me up so I have enjoyed sound health ever since." Tsnla# Is sold by nil good drug gists. Accept no substitute. Over 40 million bottles sold. Tanlnc Vegetable Pills recom mended by the manufacturers of Tania Advertisement. niZZ’i ? Rreath Rad? ^ on need a Stomach Sour? I axative (.‘lean \our Bowel* For Constipation, Headache, Biliousness * a considerable extent by one or the other stepping bark and giving the other a chance .Smith should have stayed In Ins stall, not on account of his religion, but be cuse he knew that he couldn't win and that he was sim ply making it harder or impossible for McAdoo to win. Neither cared a fig for tlie party or w hat happened to d. Now John \V. iJavis is quitting, and the old warhorse. Shaver I honor these men for quitting. They^ know when they are through and are content to retire gracefully. No one can convince me that W. J. Bryan Is h smart man. If he were, he would never have allowed his brother to be made the goat in the democratic fiasco which has just been enacted. He sens that tlie republican landslide this year was not as disastrous to the democrats ns it was in 1320. He forg'fs that there was no third party in 1920. and if It had not been for Tja Fullette no one knows just how dis astrous it would have been "this" year. Further! ire, no one can tell yet Just how disastrous it will turn out to be. If Mr. Bryan would start a new party and call It the know nothing. put himself at the head and attempt to defeat republicanism. he wouldn t rut a sorrier figure than he does today, or than he certainly will Irving to merge democracy and Ua Folletteism. Me admire stlcktoitive pess as mm h «< any one, but when It gets tu lie a nuisance we want to call for relief FRANK MARTIN. < I \TKIi SHOTS. An alienist is a person who draws big fees for introducing testimony that is alien to the subject.—Ottawa (Kan I Herald. Institutions and movements woti’d do well til knock the ‘paean ’ out of some propagandists New Orleans Times Picayune. Nowaday® nobody who eats supper c. ti get into society.—lAtuisville Times. But how can a f lamer feel radical when he . n ' • il a nr with two more ryllndr Baltimore Sun Seek Law to Pii'di Prime Head hue Hilt 11 lei if got laws for every Hsunnysijjeup . Hake Comfort, forget Qhat Sunrise ne^erfailed _^—_S V-------—- -- - i - ------—— \ r ■ Tnto n store to purchase a needed article After looking for . whir ls male clerk if it -ns to be found In store. ■■you're lookin' right «t it. anchya? Vm your eyes. The ar tide was purc hased at another itor«. Sud reminder of the late election. Vnl Kuska notified Ui that lie needs a new hat for winter -ear, and expects us to nrnvUJe the chapeau That's what we get for bacl^1"*l °“I 'judgment as it was formed early in the campaign. Along o wards the last Val refused to allow us to hedge. The passing of a good man. while sad to chronicle alwav. leaves memories to he cherish. .1 Judge Jesse B Strode. - hose death occurred in Lincoln the first of tho week, -as a man among men. A veteran of the Civil War, a member of con gress. a judge upon the district bench, and one-time commantier of the G A n.. Judge Strode lived a busy and useful life. Ha was one of the men who helped to lay strong and secure the foundations of this commonwealth. The death of Judge Strode recalls one of the most tlonal murdor trials **v#»r held in the we st. Mi a. .l»»hn • h,"“ v was accused of complicity with Monday McFarland, a nee in the minder of her husband. Shoed.v was known all over the country as a "s'luaro gambler" and all around sportsman. ag Judge Strode was leading counsel for the defense of M s. * Sheedy, and, after a trial laating two weeks, secured s verdict T of acquittal. .Slight disappointment the other night. Dropped info ’he Rialto mot e to hear the music than for anything else. Young lid\' who played the harp on former visits was mi-sing. So was the harp. Will have to speak to Harry and llarrv about this. They promised us a harp solo, and we expect them to make good. Corpora! Marvin TViwnar of Gering. who piloted a Duck n the S. O. S.. and drove up to the front line trenches it aov s time, brought back numerous souvenirs. But the one souvenir ha —'anted he was unable to bring home. It was a huge cop per kettle he requisitioned in a French village. It was a com munity soup kettle. He grabbed it, filled it full of water, started a fire and when the water wa* the right temperature he pro ceeded to take the first bath h» had mi joyed In seven weeks ^ Much to his regret he had to leave the kct'lc behind to continue its service for the community. It hardly seems possible that six years have passed since thp dsv we who remained at home turned loose to celebrate the signing of the armistice That was tile blgg'-t celebration ever lield in the good old T. ft. A. It was. all the bigg-r be cause of the fake armistice report broadcasted a couple of days before. One of the tragedies of married life comes when the wife simply cannot make a couch fit in the corners whern s' e wants It. Penalor I-a Follette ex brasses himself as well satisfied w 'h the result of the election. “'Well, that makes it well nigh unanimous. WILL, M. MAITPIN. s'- - .- -'a thine and crime goes mcrriiv on its way.—Louisville Courier-Journal. One should pity the blind, but it is, hard to do if the rascal is an umpire. —Altoona Tribune. The latest thine for women is ermine fur wigs. It has gone to their heads.—Detroit News. Mr. Hrookhart sounds like the sort of person who when lie runs out of other excitement, heckles himself.— Detroit News. A “good loser" feels just the same about it as the hart loser doe*, the difference being that he is a better liar.—Boston Transcript. W-O-O-DI Fireplace, Furnace j' " Cut to Lengths 12, 16, 24 Phone AT 2700 Aik for Our Coal Chari Sunderland Bros. Co. On your way Grand Canyon National Park without change of Pullman ““ dct'iils I C A Mivra, 0#n A|»nl, Santa jr* f\f, •*l H dg I>a* M 'tnaa, iewa I'bPO* iUrk*t :»4!