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The Omaha Bee! HORNIN G—E V E N I NC-S UN DAY! THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Publisher N. B. UPDIKE. President BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLER. Editor in Chief Business Manager MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it f-r not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of repuhlication of our special dispatches are al«r> reserved. The Omaha Bee is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognized authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee's circulation is regularly audited by their organizations. Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908, at Omaha postoffice, under act of March 3, 1879. ~ bee”TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for ATT 1.-.1* 1 Ann the Department or P?rson Wanted. ^ * lanClC 1UUU OFFICES Main Office—17tb and Farnam Chicago—Steger Bldg. Boston—Globe Bldg. Los Angeles—Fred L. Hall. San Fernando Bldg. San Francisco—Fred L. Hall, Sharon Bldg. New York City—270 Madison Avenue Seattle—A. L. Nietz, ft 14 Leery Bldg. MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES DAILY AND SUNDAY 1 year $5.00, f> months $3.00. 3 months $1.75, 1 month 75c DAILY ONLY 1 year $4.60, 6 months $3.75. 3 months $1.60, 1 month 76c SUNDAY ONLY 1 year $3.00, 6 months $1 7 5, 3 months $1.00. 1 month 60c Subscription-* outside th:» Fourth postal zone, or 600 miles from Omaha: llaily and/Sunday. $1 00 per month; daily only, 75c per month. Sunday only, 60c per month. CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mornmg and Sunday. I month hue, 1 week 20c Evening and Sunday.1 month 66c, 1 week 15c Sunday Only ..1 month 2Uc, 1 week 6c V.----s ©mateVhefe the^bst is at its Best SURPLUS AND DEFICIT. President Coolidge, in his address to the Asso ciation of Land Grant Colleges proved again his grasp of the problem confronting the farmers. He points out a condition that many have overlooked, namely, that we are already consuming more food calories than we produce. While exporting 293, 000,000 bushels of wheat, worth $250,000,000, in 1921, we were importing 4,000,000 tons of sugar, worth more than $350,000,000. It is pointed out by the president that with the rapid development of our commercial and industrial life there will come a corresponding decrease in agri cultural production. The problem now is to bridge over the difficulties resulting from abnormal and war-stimulated production and to "prepare for the fast appreaching time when this nation will be one of the greatest buyers of agricultural products.’’ The president clearly sees and points out what far-seeing students of agricultural conditions dis covered long ago, that the imperative need right now is economies and efficiencies in production, and scien tific methods of marketing. The average farmer is too busy producing to give the necssarv time to the solution of marketing problems. If he takes the time required to solve the marketing problem he has no time to produce, hence will have no need for mar kets. The remedy lies in saving productive time by efficient methods in order that more time may be had for the study of other problems. Production Is the simplest item in any business. It is the marketing end that causes the most worry. The manufacturer employs the best marketing brains to solve that problem for him. So, too, must the farmer call to his aid men who make a speciality of that particular line of business. Too much stress can not be laid upon that por tion of the president’s address which calls attention to the fact that while we export a surplus of some soil products, we import even more of others. The most striking example is that of sugar. Other ex amples are coffee, tea and wool. The value of these impprts is greater, perhaps, than the value of our exports. Clearly one of the things needed is less produc tion of those crops which must be sold in competi tion with the rest of the world. While we are doing that we must give attention to the production at home of those things we now import in greater quan tity than we produce. There are many angles to the problem of agricul ture that no one man is capable of solving it without assistance. President Coolidge realizes this fully, hence his appointment of a commission, in accord ance with the pledge of the platform upon which he was elected by such an enormous majority, that com mission being made up of men whose ability and in tegrity are above question, and whose patriotic de eire to reach a wise solution can not be doubted. REFORM SHOULD BE LIKE CHARITY. The old adage that charity should begin at home may be easily fitted to other situations. It is equally true that reform should begin at home, for instance. This does not mean that either reform or charity should remain on the scene of their beginning. It docs mean that neither can be successful abroad unless first successful at home. The truth of all this is found in the experience of Rev. O. J. Kvale. It was Rev. Mr. Kvale who de feated A. J. Volstead for-congress, claiming that he was “the driest of the drys.’’ But it seems that the reverend gentleman was so Intent upon reforming the whole world that he overlooked a little work of reformation right at home. His son married a Zieg field Follies girl a year and a half tipf, and she now applies for a divorce, charging that Her husband had been intoxicated most of the time since the marriage. It will appear to many thut Rev. Mr. Kvale would now be in better position as a reformer had he paid a little more attention to home conditions before undertaking to tell the wide world what to do. Hut that, unfortunately for all concerned, is not the method of the average professional reformer. A FUNNY WORLD, MY MASTERS. This is a funny old world, isn’t it? And such a funny lot of people in it. Before a man is allowed to run a locomotive on a flked track and in accordance with imperative or ders, he must servo a long apprenticeship. Any moron with enough money to make the first pay ment on an automobile is permitted to drive it on the public highways. He can drive it, too, pretty much ns he pleases and in utter disregard of all the commonsense rules of safety. We shudder with horror when we read of a rail road wreck that snuffs out u half-dozen human lives, but we read in the same newspaper of a dozen auto accidents that snuff out a dozen human lives and nonchalantly turn over to the next page for some thing really exciting. More people are killed every year in preventable Occidents in the United States than were killed in any battle of the civil war. We shuddered with horror when we read of the toll death claimed in the American army during the world war, but we pay no attention to the longer death roll due to pre ventable accidents, chiefly automobile. A street car motorman must undergo an exami nation for eyesight, caution ami physical well being before he is permitted to handle a controllerbar. But a man with strabismus, cataract, neuritis, phle bitis, neuroris and senility is allowed to drive an automobile. ‘‘A funny world, my masters.-’ And we are such a. funny people. We w’hoop with joy and throw our hats into the air when commodity prices and wages take an upward turn. We ignore the fact that hu man life is the cheapest thing on the market, and getting cheaper all the time. PITY THE POOR WHINER. Floyd B. Olson was a candidate for something or other on the farmer-labor party ticket in Minne sota. He is county attorney of Hennepin county, but aspired to something higher, governor, if mem ory is not at fault. No matter; whatever it was he was defeated. His after-election comments disclose the incontrovertible fact that Minnesota voters knew what they were doing when they turned him down. After being assured of defeat Mr. Olson made sure of a prominent place in the gallery of Great Ameri can Whiners by giving voice to the following: "Manufacturing plants, factories and mines were shut down, and the workers were virtually told to return to work after election only in case of a re publican victory. Fanners were threatened that their loans would <be pressed." As a prize-winning whine this is above and be yond all competition. Also it sets a new high mark for political prevaricators to shoot at. Mr. Olson is county attorney of Hennepin county. Unless county attorneys in Minnesota have duties far different from similar officials in Nebraska, it i3 his duty to enforce the laws. There are. laws in every state prohibiting intimidation of voters. If Mr. Olson is not lying, and knows he is not lying, it is Jiis sworn duty to quit whining about it and set to work prosecuting the offenders. Mr. Olson may believe his statement true, but if he does he is too gullible to be entrusted w’ith public office. He would probably invest his first salary cheek by purchasing the statehouse at St. Paul or the capitol building at Washington. Th« terse description of a certain king of Egypt fits Floyd B. Olson of Minnesota like the skin fits a banana: "Pharoah, king of Egypt, is but a noise," NO BALM IN GILEAD. Elmer Thomas did not need to tell Nebraskans he wouh^pay no heed to Judge Soper’s decision in the case of Representative Hill of Maryland. Mr. Thomas is very much like all the rest of us. If he is in accord with a court decision he is very much in favor of it. If he is not in accord with it he merely goes on about his business and pays no at tention to it. That is, he pays very little attention to it unless he happens to be within the jurisdiction of the judge rendering the decision. Judge Soper decided that home-made beer or wine could contain any percentage of alcohol, pro vided it did not intoxicate. But the decision, even if good outside of Judge Soper's jurisdiction, would not hold good in Nebraska. So let the bibulously inclined restrain their joy. The Eighteenth amend ment could be wiped off the books. The Volstead act could be repealed, and it wouldn’t affect condi tions in Nebraska a little bit. Nebraska is dry by her own ukase, by constitution and *by statute. Of course, there is a little illegal irrigation here and there, but on the whole the state is arid. Judge Soper’s decision will not make things more moist, neither will it halt Mr. Thomas’ efforts to make it more arid. Congressman Hill is achieving the results he set out to achieve. He is getting his name in thf news papers. He is a fine samplp of what the newspaper reporter calls a “publicity hound.” He is getting results because the foblish “wets” think they see in him a Moses who will lead them to the delectable lakes. It may offer light reading for the long winter evenings, but it contains no balm of Gilead for the thirsty, out here in Nebraska. The Nebraska law is horse high, hog tight and bull proof. BROOKHART’S DILEMMA. Senator Brookhart is facing a dilemma. On the face of the returns he is elected by a miserably small majority. He had the better of it by approxi mately 600 in a total vote of three-quarters of a million. On the face of the ballots actually cast Brookhart received a minority. Many ballots er roneously marked with an arrow as well as an X in front of Steck's name were thrown out. There is no question about the intent of the voters who cast such ballots. They were against Brookhart. Does Brookhart recognise the intent of those voters? Ho does not. The voice of the people means nothing to him now, provided he can silence it to the extent of slipping back’ into the senate aginst the wishes of the majority. But Brookhart will have another river to cross, even if he lands safely on the other aide of the river in which he is floundering today. The senate will have the last voice. The constitution of the United States provides that. "Karh house shall he the Judge of the election returns and qualifications of Its own members.” The courts may decide that the arrow-marked ballots are illegal, but the senate may decide that they are legal. If the senate so decides and refuses to seat Brookhart it will be well within its rights. It may decide that Brookhart is not entitled to a seat that he secured by false pretenses. The senate is republican, hut Brookhart is estopped fi'om ap pealing to the majority as a republican. By resorting to technicalities Brookhart may se cure a majority of the votes allowed by law. He knows now that Iowa repudiates him and that the party he basely betrayed owes him nothing but con tempt. ---—--*v Homespun Verse -—By Omaha’s Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie -—---—--—' WHEN I WAS YOl'NO. When I wnn young wo didn't buy much fancy stuff, you know. The necessary thing" were nil we had; wo could not go To this and that because our dads were rather close and poor; We had to earn our treasures few—our hands were rough and sore. Wo often yearned for many things—we cannot this deny— Rut what we got was greatly prized In the dear days gone by; We knew not leisure such as Is In common vogue today. We were a thrifty set, and we were schooled to tread life's way. But now hy boy expects to get the things for which he asks; He falls to do ns I would like those many hoyhnod tasks. And yet—his numerous requests I seldnmly deny. And while he shiftless, careless grow*—of course. 1 I wonder why. - — ■ - » ... I. ■ ■ "■ > And Still We Wonder Why We Have so Much Unrest m This Country | — V/KATChAAICB K>Wfc'VOU WHEM ****■ CAPITALISTIC GIAHT HAiOMf ****& _ OM YOUR throat AUJ THE (/ other xh Your Pocket v 9 $ YOU BET r -v COURTS ARB ROTTEN \N1TH COJttUPTiOtff TKEV ARE A WAYS W * y'.-t ' THE FKIEND OF THE RICH n AND The POOR Man's EUCMV’—” ■ \ \ ! Tirfe i r _*' V. ^_ --■ —1 ’ - 'S Letters From Our Readers All letters must he sign'd, but name will be withheld upon request. Communi cations of 200 wotds and less, will be given preference. v.-----' Why Not Go to Russia? Omaha.—To the Editor of The: Omaha lice; What have we here? j Boston, cultured Boston, raring up! on her hind legs and howling he* a use a musician, h recreant son of Russia by the way and openly reactionary, calls a Russian city by the name which the established Bolshevist gov ernment has chosen for if. It was Boston that returned run away colored chattels to chains and slavery. It was Boston that dragged William Lloyd Garrison through her winding streets and would have killed him If a proslavery mayor had not put him in jail to save his life. Bos ton, in spite of her highly intellectual atmosphere, stands just about where she was a century ago. The human rnlnd is the mind's most j mysterious subject of speculation. It is one of the mysteries of the mind that the educated, cultured and refin ed can be so inconceivably stupid. Perhaps it is because they are con cerned chiefly with the development of the Individual. They are not so rial minded; they have little thought for the nerfl and the w iy of swaying great numbers permanently for their good. The great Gladstone was great er than usual when hr .said that In almost every question involving so clal welfare educated people were on the wrong side. Humble fishermen followed the Nazarene and founded a religion on love and mercy and justice ami the eternal dignity of the human soul. Before then and afterward the mnk era of history have been men and women in the common walks of life. They tfre making history today. It may not be altogether vicious and treasonable to suggest that working people are making history, glorious history, in soviet Russia, which can not be recognized by capitalism even In her choice for a name for one of her cities. Chattel slave Interests controlled the country yesterday, but yesterday became today, and controlling inter ests changed. Tomorrow will come and with it other changes Poston could not prevent it; Boston cannot prevent it. EDMUND R. BRUMBAUGH. Paling Sour Grapes. Omaha -To the Editor of The Omaha Bee; It was the good pleas rue of the writer to hear a sermon preached from one of the pulpits of this city by an able and learned divine ftnent the coming “Father and Son" week. While this message contained most excellent thought on the eating of ■‘our grapes and the effect, “setting the children’s teeth on edge.” he did not pry the Ud off and reveal the fruit of the vine in the boiling j>ot of the seething, surging vessels found in to day's business. I* is true information was imparted to plant good seed in the best of soil. | and beneficial results would obtain: | hut who is selecting tlie seed and s«»il? in the fall season when fes tivals and civic bodies are on parade flaunting this idea and that fad as part of the attraction, how often do w»- see the nearly nude forms and gaudily dressed women ns port and parcel. Father nn<! mother, arise* Tt Is in reality your week. The mighty pa rade is on, and young bo3*s and girls from 8 to IK are sifting up and taking notice, and were the cry issued -Be ware'— in loudest note, we would be laughed to scorn. The makers of drug store complexions would n\y, “Vou are ruining my business." The plaint of the i ootlegger from darkest recesses would be, “You are taking mv subjects " Soil and seed are represented here, but may we hope and believe it is sfHl it* th* minority. With such con lit Ions prevailing, is it any wonder the children's teeth are “set on edge,” ind its gnashing is reflected in the hearts of present day parentage. May we pause to consider the pats ing of a diseased condition to the off • !>rlng of marriage contracts from such source, with ill equipment for raising sons to "multiply and replen ish the earth." The mighty parade is on and sour grapes, while not In the majority, are strongly in evidence, and we fathers should rise at the foot of the cross ind sound a warning voice to them that are unruly, and hv voice, pr cept and example burst p: i ■ i l-ars of bondage, and the pains "of the children’s teeth being set on edge" will be reduced to the minimum, re flecting more glorious credit to ail concerned T .1. HILDEBRAND. CKNTEIt SHOTS. The difference between actual in nanity and legal insanity is that a verdict of acquittal usually cures the latter.—Little Kock (Ark ) Gazette. Most of us nre opposed to child labor as well as other kinds.— Colorado Springs Gazette. 1 takes us 36,000 years, at the speed r.t which light travels, to -«• certain stars There are a lot of film stars like that, too.—The Passing I Shown People never crowd a shoe too full of foot unless there i« available pink ing space in the skull—New York Telegram. Thomas A. Edison voted for Cool idge and Dawes, thus giving further evidence that tie is a man of prac tical common sense as well as a great Inventor.—Boston Tra nscript. Now they are calling for a poll of the nation on prohibition, with the drys convinced that straw votes will go to soft drinks.—Philadelphia North American Abe Martin \ Nothin’ makes a feller feel as buncoed as havin’ t' buy an ulster after he (jits to Californy. We •'now a lot o’ other tfas bays that M-ujrht t’ cross th’ ocean, or better still, get half wav across (Copyright, 1*24..’ NET AVERAGE : PAID CIRCULATION for Sept., 1924, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .73,340 Sunday .73,865 Do#» not Include returns, left overs, samples or papers spoiled In printing and includes no special sales or free circulation of any kind. V. A. BRIDGE, C«r. Mgr. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4th dsy of October, 1024. W. H. QU1VF.Y. (Seal) Notary Public HKK \VA.\ r A1 j| TIll'A WG KKSl'L.TS^:—~-;~:r~ UM \ HT1>KMFNT r=- i| Baby Tortured Day and Night by Eczema Resino! Stepped It chief and Heeled Sick Slue Brooklyn, N. Y., May 10:—*T thought it might interest yon to know how much Resinol has done for my baby. Her fare was covered with scabs and the itching was so severe 1 had to keep stockings on her hands to keep her from scratch ing. 1 had to I'o up at night as it bothered her to she rould not sleep. Two doctors, one of them a skin specialist, told me she had enema. 1 tried several remed'es. but noth l mg helped, so when 1 read in the 1 paper about Resinol, 1 thought 1 I would give it a trial. I can't praise it enough, for it has done wonders 4 i for the baby's skin and she sleeps ' nil through the night now, I wou'd advi«e any one with a similar case to . try Resinol Ointment.'1 (Signed) Mrs. Rose Goersdorf, ''' Furman Avenue. A’I Unifgtsu sell Rh*» in, ui StniMH. ' SUNNY SIDE UP lake Comfort.nor forget lhat Sunrise ne\Jerfailed __ \-----— _ __— - * - ; The old Lindell hotel at Lincoln lias changed hand* again. ,nd 'Gene Epplev has added another hostelry to his collet tlon. That man mlljts hotels like ^hai ZngS antiuue furniture, or rare coins. The Lindell has thane o hands frequently since the old day when the Hoover*, .athe and son. let go. _ When we first knew it the Llndell was a small structure in a rather out-of-the-way place The old Capitol a_t h^ev and P streets was then the favorite hotel Beginning with the Lindell has lH-en political headquarters -'er since The Farmers' All.ante forces selected It as headquarters in 1890, and it was the scene of some fiery conferences of alienee leg islators during the famous 1891 session. The d*,d, Sot ag in mucuses, so conferences were held. The ( api.o hot .1 hid I teen republican headquarters for years, but when it was abandoned the republicans moved over to 'he Llndell. in Farmers’ Alliance party gave way to the people s Independent party, and the latter was swallowed up by the oemocrats. Dr. Hoover built the Lindell. and as prosperity increased it -I was added to until it covered a qunrte? of u block. Old-timers I will remember the discussion created by the establishment oi a l,at in the Lindell, Dr. Hoover lieing a prominent mem-e: of the Methodist church. Steve Hoover, the son, was in cnatge of tile bar. Nobody paid any attention to the anti treat ng Jaw, and Steve, when behind the bar bad a private bottle he drank from when the "house'' was'invited to Join in a drink with the merry revelers. The liottia contained colored water and Steve collected the usual 15 cents just the same. It was at the Llndell that the "pop" members of the legis lature held tlie conference that resulted in the election of "II liam V Alien to the United States senate, but it was a merry scrap wh.le t lasted, it was at the Llndell that a republican legislative caucus nominated John M. Thurston for the senate. if some of the rooms In the Llndell could talk they would tell some interesting stories of political intrigue and legislative corruption. Beneath the trees in front of the building all the battle's of the Civil War have been refought time and again. Fr«m a balcony the republic's greatest orators have performed their Stunt of spellbinding—Harrison, .McKinley, Roosevelt. Taft. Bryan, Dawes and many others. The Hoovers sold the Lindell manv years ago, and since then ft has < hanged hands frequently. It is a better hotel than it used to be, hut not as good ns i: now holds promise of being. But it will never again he Ihe smn.. of poiit ml doings equal In interest to those of a bygone day when men took their politics seriously and the political game was the sport of uncrowned kings. An Omaha b*-y rushed into the house the other evening and asked his mother: "Who'wa« that big man who asked me to go to a Father and Son banquet with him tonight?" "What kind "f looking man wa« he?" inquired the mother. The hoy described the man very carefully, whereupon the mother exclaimed: “Why, Jack, dear that must have been your father. He hasn't seen >*>i since the golf season opened last spring.” While rummaging through a box of old papers the other evening we ; n across a little souvenir we acquired on a visit to Louisville. Kv.. more than 12 years ago. We used to see similar articles sold n the dining cars for a quarter. They ,re now lteyond price. We have employed an armed guard to M • take are of that resurrected souvenir until Christmas eve. r Meanwhile we shall devote a IPtle time each evening to fur ther searches of boxes, dresser drawers, bundles, etc. A friend of ours offered us some real old stuff” the other evening He yds telling us all the ieasons why democrats took a h an awful trimming on November 4 If that isn't old stuff bv now we don't know what old stuff is. WILL M. MAUPIN. - - -H Very l nusual. "I fear your act was too radical for vaudeville." "In what way?" "While the pianist plays the singer makes nn exit of two minutes with out changing her gown."—Louisville Courier-Journal. 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