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- 1 ■ ■ . N The Omaha Bee M O R N 1 N G—E V E N 1 N G—S U N P A Y ! 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 ell 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 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 th^jf organizations. I Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908, at Omaha postoffice, under act of March 3, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for \ m i 1 AAA the Department or Person Wanted. ^ * IRnilC IWU OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Chicago—Steger Bldg. Boston—Globe Bldg. Lo» Angeles—Fred L. Hall. San Fernando Bldg. San Francisco—Fred L. Hall, Sharon Bldg. New York City—270 Madison Avenue Seattle—A. L. Nietz, 614 Leary Bldg. MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES DAILY AND SUNDAY I 1 year |6.00, 6 months $3.00, 8 months $1.76. 1 month 76c DAILY ONLY t jrear $4.50, 6 months $2.76, 3 months $1.60, 1 month 73c SUNDAY ONLY t year $3.00. 6 months $1.76, 3 months $1.00, 1 month 50c 'Subscriptions outside the Fourth portal zone, or 600 miles from Omaha: Daily and Sunday. $1.00 per month; daily only, 76c per month; Sunday only, 60c per month. CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Morning and Sunday...I month 35c, 1 week 20c Evening and Sunday.,,..1 month 65c, 1 week 15c Sunday Only .1 month 20c. 1 week 6c V*_ _/ Oroalid'Vtefe the^fest is d( i(s Best GET READY FOR THE HEARING. Assurance is now given that any hearing on the tramway company’s application for an increase in fare will be held in Omaha. This is right. More over, the announcement should be accepted as ample notice by those who are interested to be prepared to state their case. The company will naturally make the strongest showing possible. It has already made out a strong case from its viewpoint. Support is readily given to its request that it be relieved from certain charges that appear onerous or unjust. What arouses public resentment is the attitude assumed by the city com missioners, that nothing can be done to give the company relief in the way of tax. reduction, and therefore it will turn to increased fares in order to obtain the revenue it desires. * * * Until every other remedy has been applied, every expedient exhausted, there should be no effort to advance the price of rides. This plan would put the burden on those who are least prepared to bear it. The item of car fare weighs heavily on the budget of the working people, who travel long distances by street car every day going to work and getting back home. Any increase on these should come last, if it comes at all. What the company asks to be relieved from is the occupation tax and the cost of paving between tracks. Either this, or such additional compensation from patrons as will cover the two items. The city commission points out that the budget has been ar ranged and the levy made for the year, and there fore it is impossible to give any relief through reduc tion of taxes. This leaves the alternative of adding to the cost of rides or denying the company its increased rev enue. On this point the railway commission will have to pass. Further reduction in service is hardly possible, for the number of trains now operated has been reduced to a minimum already. • • • All this is independent of the franchise question, which will come up in good season. It may reappear in the same form as two years ago, when the legisla ture was asked to grant permission to operate busses in connection with the street cars. W'hatever ac tion is taken in this regard, the fare question is the »ne most pressing. Improvement clubs and other similar organiza tions should be ready to meet the railway commis sion when it convenes, that the case of the street railway patron may be properly presented. City and company will be on hand, and the straphangers ought *.o be. FIRST OF A NOBLE LINE. Many times the story of Dan Freeman, first American homesteader, has been told. It is not, however, so hackneyed that reference to it may not be made again In fact, the recent division of the homestead between his children calls attention anew to the beginning of what was finally the distribution of one of the most glorious estates ever parceled »ut among men. When Dan Freeman settled down on a piece of ground in whr.t is now Gage county, Nebraska, ho made bis selection from all out of doors. Under the lun he was free to choose from millions on millions ef unoccupied acres. What determined him in his thoice does not matter. He made his selection, and ivhen the homtstend law was finally passed, his fil ing Was in so early that he got the first patent is sued under the new :>ct. So Dan Freeman became the first of what grew to b* a wonderful army— “Tho first low wash along the shore Where eoon shall roll a human sea.” After hi n came a fl jod of homeseekers. Over land they came, and then on the railroads that rap idly were pushing into the new region west of the Missouri. Kansas and Nebraska, the Dakotas, Okla homa, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, parts of Iown and Minnesota, fertile acres and a new world, were available to those who followed Dan Freeman. Rich was the reward of those men and women, who overcame the hardships and endured the priva tions of pioneering. The lands they chose were fruitful, and from the teeming bosom of mother earth they drew the wealth that has made great the states cut from the empire they founded. Indeed, It was a noble line Dan Freeman headed, one whose honor will not fade while the solid foundation of western farms remains. OUR NATIONAL DISH. President Burger of the United Restaurant Own in' association declares that ham-and-eggs is our Great National Dish. Monsieur Gourile, who name denotes his nationality, says the griddle cake is en titled to the honor. That the dispute may be settled Without further loss of time or display of acrimony, W# issue the ultimatum that President Burger is tight. Not that wo have anything against the grid dle cake, the flapjack ns it is commonly known. We’re for it In its proper place and time. But we will fight for the honor of the good old ham-and until the stars grow cold nnd the leaves of the Judgment book unfold. There’s the dish that sticks to one’s ribs, paints rosier the dawn, and streaks the western horizon with the golden hues of hope and contentment as the sun sinks to sleep. The flapjack is a wonder in satisfying a craving for something toothsome, but it has never been the in centive to conquer the desert, span continents, ex plore the forests and extend the frontiers of civili zation. But the good old ham and!—there's the com bination that has filled men with the ambition and the strength to dare and do. Rising from the succu lent combination at early dawn, men have gone forth to deeds of high emprise. Back from desert and jungle, worn and weary with he-man exertions to make a new world, we hear joyful exclamation: “Gimme a plate of ham-and!” and the appearance of the order, the ham crisp and the eggs gleaming golden in an aura of white, would inspire a smile radiant as the sun. Ham and-eggs the national dish? We'll tell the world! Right here is one of the reasons why this is the greatest nation on earth. Flapjacks are good, they appeal mightily to the appetite. We like them in their place. When all is said and done, however, we must vote for President Burger and ham and ?ggs as the national dish. HOME-MAKING IMMIGRANTS. One little feature of the report on immigration for the last year deserves comment. It is that while the tide of entry has swelled many-fold, the outgoing stream has dwindled. Here is the way the report tells the story: "For a long period prior to the World War the number of aliens leaving the United States wag fully one-third as great as the number admitted, but the exodus declined rapidly during the three years when the quota law was in operation, until In the last year only 76,789 aliens departed, compared with 706,896 admitted.'' One of the stock phrases of the late John M. Thurston was, “The gates of Castle Garden never swing outward.” By this he meant that once an immigrant reached this land, he stayed. Mr. Thurs ton lived to see a considerable return movement. He saw America exploited by thousands of Euro pean laborers, who acquired a competence by dint of a few yeacs of sweating toil in American mines and mills or on the railroads, and then returned to a life of comparative ease in their homeland. One of the complaints against our immigration law was that it cut off the stream of wealth that was enriching the lands around the eastern end of the Mediterranean, including Italy. German, English, Mexican, Scotch, Italian, He brew, Scandinavian, Polish and African, in the order named, are the racial stock chiefly making up the immigration of last year. These are, with the ex ception possibly of the Mexicans, homemakers. Even the Mexican prefers life on this side of the Rio Grande. Uncle Sam is gainer as a result of his re solve to let the gates at Castle Garden swing less freely inward. DOLLARS DEVOTED TO SERVICE. Not all that is going on in the world has to do with man’s meanness and weakness. While there is plenty of evidence that humanity still is prone to err, signs of a better nature are not wanting. Tucked in between the accounts of battle, murder and sud den death, with which the news columns bristle, may be found little stories of more encouraging nature. For example, we read of one millionaire announcing further gifts fco educational institutions of $12,500, 000, which brings the total of his benefactions up to $63,515,000. A rather tidy sum to be given away with so little ostentation that not often have people heard of George Eastman, Another millionaire, James B. Duke, has just ar ranged a trust fund of $40,000,000 to be devoted to educational uses. In Nebraska a small college makes public the fact that it has just received $40,000 from an unexpected source. Browse around through the records as printed day by day, and many of these items will be found. Men who are thus disposing of their accumula tions are doing several things worth while. Prob ably neither of them ever thought of the tax col lector, but they are making his task much lighter. And they are also making the way smoother and easier for the boys and girls who are coming into the world. Ample education will be placed within the reach of more students, and as thiB is applied the general quality of the citizenship will be improved. Benefits will come to all the world as a result. The leaven of Christmas is working, for its ef fects are noted in such announcements as those cited. Dollars so devoted to the general service of the human race are well placed. And America con tinues to afford proof that mere possession of wealth does not harden men’s hearts nor baget oppression instead of kindness and love for mankind. W. .7. Bryan tells the ministers that one way to establish peace is to find out the causes of war and remove them. If he had always talked so sen sibly he might have been president long ago. Let us have the Riverside Drive, but let us also be certain of the legality of the bond issue. Tech nicalities now may not amount to much, but twenty five years from now they will loom big. The little girl who took her saxophone and set out to make her way in the world has plenty of spirit, but showed bad judgment in choosing her weather. An Omaha preacher told his congregation the sort of girl needed to make an ideal life. Then he assured them no such girl lived. Frank at least. Old Boreas will do well to pipe down and let Santa Claus have the stage. Air mail might also be used for business as well sentimental reasons. If it wasn’t a blizzard, what was it? (———-'I Homespun Verse —By Omaha’* Own Poe*— Robert Worthington Davie v___ MY GOAL. f.n*t night a* I sat In my rocker— Last night when day'* trouble* were done. With little esaentlnl to bother, And rhyme* for the Mvenlng »|iun My darling, a ml*chlevoti* cherub. Climbed up to my lap In a heap, And naked me to hold her and rock her Until she had fallen to sleep. Last night when my darling lay sleeping In mythic somnolency's charms, I thought of the precious wee nuisance Asleep In my welcoming arm*. I thought nf the value of riche*,— Of potent material thing*,— Of fume and exalted achievement Which Kate to ho few of un bring*. Last night as I rocked, and wn» taken To wonderful vistas of worth, 1 came to the highest dominion The plure of a father on earth;— And may I sagaciously nil It— It I* the proverbial role! Let others go elaewurd and upward, Hut mine 1* the lovelier goal Dam It! — ...... — ■ ■ 1 1 t---— ' ■ Letters From Our Readers All letters must be signed, but name will be withheld upon request. Communi cations of 200 words and less, will be given preference. ---- ---' ii-cent fare ami an amount sufficient to enable the stret railway company to earn a fixed rate of dividend such as might be determined by a commit tee well qualified to judge such mat ters. The Scent fare will advertise Oma ha favorably to the outside world. The 5 cent fare will let the poor man who is compelled to use the street car system us his means of trans portation pay ids just proportion to wards the maintaining of the system. Property in Omaha would depreciate very much in value should the street car system l>e discontinued. There fore it Is quite evident that the prop erty of Omaha Is benefited by having the system in operation, and a prop erty tax would be the means of rais ing the funds to make tip the deficit between a 5-cent fare and a fixed rate of dividend, details to be worked out. C. F. WHITE. W orsc Lurk. It was in Twin Peaks tunnel. Some thing happened to the lights and they all went out for a moment. When they came bark a woman complained to the conductor. “Somebody kissed me I” “fiwan." growled a workman. "Vou ain't got no kick. Somebody swipe-1 When Will H Stop. Albion. Neb—To the Editor of The Omaha Bte: We notice in to day'* Issue Mr. Frank Martin presents Rome more of what he calls ‘'anti-pro hibition arguments.” Arguments? Hls first “argument” Is that 'the Vol stead and th i hone dry laws were put over In a time when the natinn was fully occupied by he world war.” Now nny grammar school pupil could tell Mr. Martin that when the United States of America entered the war 2* states had voted dry and that over 85 per cent pf our area, Inhabited by more than 6y 000,000 people, was dry territory. They could tell him that five months before we went Into the war. with prohibition the great iR.sue of the campaign, the congress which proposed the amendment was elected, November. 1916; by January 16, 1919, the 36 states necessary had ratified the amendment with a combined vote of 4,086 to 626. Since ratification 10 more states have come In with a com bined vote of 1,016 to 416. The 18th amendment was not "put over” In a few months or years; It was not “put over” at all; but after 72 years of struggle, of education, agitation and legislation the enlightened citizens of the United States of America carried it over the top with the most over whelming vote given any of the amendments. He asks; ‘ What partic ular business would benefit tremen dously by closing the saloons?" That Is easy; every business but the two that are hand-in-hand with It, 1. the vice den and gambling den. lie asks where the saloon frequenter "would take hls family” when the saloon was closed? Where did he take them when It was open? He talks of bootleggers and poison—It Is all poison—liquors, as If they only came Into being with prohibition. Fif teen or 20 years ago a neighbor of ours, living almost within a stone's throw of our home, bought wood alco hol of a couple of bootlcgg. rs and went blind and then Insane. Ills fling at the sold.era and what they fought for we pass by, ns their glory Is too great to be affected by hls blame or my praise. The cry against the loss of "personal lll>orty" Is such an old chestnut. On pnge‘10, column three, today's Issue, Is an account of the conviction of two youths for attempt ed attack on a girl. Why interfere with their personal liberty? Or why have a law on the subject when It does not prohibit such crimes? We read In a Toronto (Canada) paper that the government there was having trouble with men who had left off the smuggling of booze for the more tu cratlve smuggling of aliens Into the United States They get the money and land the alien If It Is easy; If any danger arises of being caught they sink their dupe and hls belongings /.. ' --N Abe Martin - —■-.-/ TV wealth o’ th' country may be unfairly distributed, but. lh‘ auto* hain't. It's jest as wicked to say you prefer chicken t* turkey as it is U lie shout anything. (Copyright, 19X4 ) and present an innocent appearance to the officers. Why a law aga.nst smuggling, murder or any other crime? Because we are a civilLed people. The man that buys or sells booze or dope does It because of his criminal tendencies, and those t> n dencies would crop out whether there was a written law against them or not. One grain of wheat is found among the chaff. He says: “If ever there was a good prolific field field for the professional fool killer It Is here in the United States.” ELLEN S. WATSON. Tramway Suggestions. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: A suggestion Is offered in connection with the street car problem in Omaha. It is suggested that the city of Omaha will limit the street ear fare to 5 cents and that the street railway company be subsidized by the city to an amount equal to the difference be tween the revenue produced by the mi. via the ideal route One way via Denver, the Pikea * Peak Region, Royal Gorge, Colorado Rock* ies and Salt Lake City. Theothervia *• !fdf,,c^?"h' west, Portland, Colum* Wdy River* Tacoma, W/ Seattle, Spokane, Gla* cier Park, Yellowstone. This is the Burlington’s 6,000 mile Grand Circle Tour of the golden west — the finest rail journey in the world. Come in and let us explain in detail some □i’ll be glad to know about this trip. _ URLIMOTON TRAVEL BUREAU Itilh snd Farnnm. Omaha. Nab. rhoasai Atlantis AA7A anil MA.t I W SIIAHI’I , l.rti \g»*nt !»**■ l».pt H» mm m il* ( lt« Pnsaenger Igrttl II. KKINOl l»H. ( Ity Tlrhel A**r»l White Birch Wood From the Canadian Border Choicest for the Fireplace ALSO GENUINE MISSOURI OAK UPDIKE ^lbecro* WA lout 0300 SUNNY SIDE UP Hake Comfort, nor forget , Qhat Sunrise ne\/erfailed . —^===! One thing that doe. puzzle us: What ia sole leather made out of these days? The assistant treasurer of the United States reports that he is experiencing trouble in forcing silver dollars Into clr^'i‘ tlon. Being very sympathetic and therefore sorry for our ove worked public officials, we haHten to proffer him all possible as sistance within our power. A firm Is advertising “53 miles to the gallon. W« know a man who went around the world, saw all the animals existent and some that Noah never heard about, all on less than a quart Just supposin’ this case: A self-respecting young woman Is walking home from her duil.v work It is growing dark. A strange man driving an auto pulls Into the curb and leetlngly asks the young woman to get in and ride. .She refuses. H insists. She pulls a revolver and fills the man as full of holes as a colander. Young woman Is arrested and put on trial tor murder. You are drawn on the jury. What would be your verdict? Right you are. and that would be the verdict of the whole jury if we were a member, or that jury would be hung until Its bones rattled In the passing breeze. Six p. m., Omaha time. Saturday. Dec. 13.—That s the exact time and date when we are going to parade with a small sec tion of our family before the mechanical dingus at WOAW radiocasting station. This announcement Is made again In response to several letters of Inquiry. Wonder If they are In quiring so they can tune in on some other station at that hour . Too bad. isn’t It. that President Cootidge had to visit “the world's greatest market” last week. If he had postponed it for j couple of years he could have visited it right here In Omaha. Merely to settle all disputations we’ll say that Mrs. Nellie Tylor Ross of Wyoming will be the first woman governor. .She will be inaugurated a couple of weeks before Ma Ferguson is made governor of Texas. I’m going to pass up J. Jimson Wynn. All he has left is Synthetic gin. Make your good resolutions now. and if you can keep them until January 1 you may be able to keep them through 19!a. Confidentially, all we are going to swear off is swearing off. There are several hundred children in Omaha who would think they were living in heaven if they were as comfortably housed and well cared for as most of the dogs exhibited at the recent canine show. . Another thing that doesn’t worry us a bit: What becomea of all the second-hand gum? Will somebody please explain why it is that the morning when you do not have to got to work early is the morning when vou simply can not sleep as late as usual? 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