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The Omaha Bee] M O N 1 N G—E V E N 1 N G—S UNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Publisher N. B. UPDIKE, President BALLARD DUNN, JOY M. HACKLER. Editor In Chief Business Manure* MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Til* Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, la exclusively entitled to the nss for republicatlon of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited la this paper, and also the lobal 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 recognised 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 poatoffice, under act of Mafeh 3, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for »T l.-it. 1 nnn the Department or Person Wanted. “ * IRfltlC 1UUU OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Chicago—Steger Bldg. Boston—Globe Bldg. Los Angeles—Fred L. Hall, San Fernando Bldg. San Francisco—Fred I,. Hall, Sharon Bldg. New York City—270 Madison Avenue Seattle—A. L. Nletz, 514 Leary Bldg. MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES DAILY AND SUNDAY 1 year $5.00, 6 months S3.00, 3 months 81.75, 1 month 75c DAILY ONLY 1 year $4.50, I months 82.75, 3 months $1.50, 1 month 75e SUNDAY ONLY 1 year $3.00, 8 months $1.75, 3 months 81.00, 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, 50c per month. CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Morning and Sunday.1 month 86e, 1 week 29e Evening and Sunday.1 month 65c, 1 week 1.5c Sunday Only .1 month 20c, 1 week 5s V./ Oraaha-Vheie tbe^fest is a( i(s Best WHERE THE KING’S PLUME LEADS. Samson stuffed the loral mail bag with 4,000 notices to the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben, notifying them that 1925 is another year. Good King Ak of the triple X wants each and every one of them, but he knows that the password that was potent last summer will be as useless next summeu as a sec ond hand in a jackpot. You cannot open on it. Just why should the summons be heeded? Be cause Ak-Sar-Ben is a measure of Omaha’s pros perity, business activity, social life. It is one insti tution that reflects the conditions of the community. Not of Omaha alone, but of the region around Omaha, on whose activity the success of the me tropolis depends. From the first it has been made plain that the great festival is not an exclusively local affair, but that it considers and relies upon the interest of all the region near and far that is included in Quivera. * * * A season of real work faces Omaha. Enough al ready has been announced as settled upon to make certain that all hands will be kept busy. Many mil lions of dollars will be laid out in ways that will serve the general good. No need to particularize on this at this time, It is on the docket that the highly satisfactory record of last year will be exceeded in all respects during the next year. Ak-Sar-Ben’s part in this is two-fold. First, the institution reflects the energy of the live-wire men ,who make up the city, the go-getters who keep the • wheels turning. At the Den each Monday night from June to September, these men meet in com munion such as they have nowhere else. Relaxa tion is the order of the hour, and business i? for the time set aside. Yet each one realizes that in the gatherings at the Den is to be found inspiration and ncouragement. One thing only is emphasized out iherc, and that is the greatness of the kingdom. For the second part, there is the unlimited ad vertisement of the city, continually flowing from the existence of the most unique institution of its kind ever known. Nothing in the world quite equals Ak Sar-Ben. Visitors who attend one of the Monday night shows go home with a new notion of the Omaha spirit. They are impressed with the quality of community energy that makes the existence of •:.uch a show possible through the years. No other .s ingle agency has been as influential in the develop ment of the city in all ways. • * * l The thirty-first year of the royal line of Ak-Sar :Ben opens most auspicicrusly. Early approach to the troming season of doings at the Den is well timed. Out of the response, which should be both prompt f and enthusiastic, the workers will build for the sum ;mer. Gus Renze and his gang have never flagged Jin their zeal, but they do appreciate support. The {first Monday night in June will be a welcome oc 'cnsion, for it will bring together not only the wheel : horses of the kingdom, but as many of the ardent v believers in the benefits of boosting as the old | building will hold. t For that is the real secret of Ak-Sar-Ben. A ¥ ■ knocker soon changes his nature in the atmosphere • at the Den. CERVANTES AND OTIS SKINNER. I If you want to know why “Sancho Panza" is «uch a delightful comedy, it will be worth your while to study the careers of the author and the actor who gave the child of fancy the solidity of flesh and blood. One will find In this such har mony between the great Spanish jrriter and the great American actor aa will certify the reason for the common understanding between them if that may be said of a living man and one who was laid away three centuries ago. Cervantes was a soldier of fortune in the truest sense. He was a soldier, a sailor, an actor, a slave in Algeria, anything but a quiet, peaceful citizen of the dominion over which Philip ruled and the In quisition exerted Its influence. Yet, with all his ad ventures, he was never accused of crime, nor does the record disclose that he £ver committed one. He was a gallant man, who faced fortune bravely, and toojr whatever she allotcd him with h face that never lesembled that of his greatest hero. The trade of writing did not pay well in Snain in those days, and it gives no surprise to find Cervantes in jail when he I began the work that won for him immortality. But I he was in jail because of the fault, of another and not his own. Otis Skinner’s adventures have been those of a * player, going about the land, enacting many roles ! J for the delight of the people. He has found his greatest success in comedies, wherein he has had op portunity to present the man who wins by reason of Ids wit. In a long line of these he has builded up a remarkable list of real triumphs. Finally, in Sancho Panza he has found an epitome of the homely wis dom and bucolic wit of the humble. Cervantes used , the solid sense of Sancho as a background for the fantasies of Don Quixote de la Mancha, and from the two constructed, if not a real allegory of life, at least something far beyond a mere burlesque. Those 1 who ran not discover this quality in the chronicles rtf the Hon miss its whole message. Skinner does find in Saneho Panza the thing that Cervantes intended to put there. It is the sympathy I between their habits of thought that enables the one to so clearly and happily interpret the other. It is a good thing for the American people that we have an Otis Skinner eager to devote his talent to the il lumination of the common tie between men as ex pounded in the simple philosophy of the goatherd who was not swept away from his solid footing by temporary grandeunr ONE DAY OF REST. More power to the Omaha retailers who have petitioned the city council for an ordinance extend ing the Sunday closing rule. The big stores are now closed on Sunday. Now conib the smaller stores and ask that an ordinance be passed that will close, on Sundays, all jewelry stores, all pawnbrokers, all dealers in men’s furnish ings, in shoes and in merchandise of like character. There are 54 big stores affiliated with the Asso ciated Retailers. For years and through voluntary action they have closed their stores on Sunday, giving a day of rest and recreation to their 4,000 employes. Grocery stores to the number of 700 are open only six days a week. Because of this some 3,500 are given a day of rest. Barber shops are closed on Sunday. Ordinances directing closing for both the grocers and the barbers have been sustained by the courts. Therefore, the city council has ample warrant both in principle and in law for adopting the ordi nance now being requested by the jewelry houses, the pawnbrokers and the men’s furnishing shops. It is of course, to be regretted that these smaller places cannot agree to a voluntary program, as have the larger stores. Practice, however, shows that they cannot. It is a splendid indication that they have petitioned for the ordinance, that will thus become the'eommon rule for all. The wives and members of the families of these smaller retailers, as well as the proprietors them selves are entitled to one day they can call their own. The employes of these stores will welcome the chance for a free day. The ordinance should be passed without delay. BEST TIME FOR PRAYER. A world-wide week of prayer, beginning with this morning, is announced by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. It will proceed along a carefully arranged schedule, to be used all over the world, wherever there are adherents to the tenets represented-in the council. Not in a mood for scoffing, or with lack of Teverence, we would in quire, Why? Those who profess Christianity, and those who hold to faith of some other sort, alike have trust in prayer. They make their supplications for aid, they voice their adoration and confess their iniquities and misdeeds, addressing the god in whom they trust. Daily for some, once a week, maybe, Tor others, but all in prayer. Is it possible that a chorus will be more efficacious? One of the sublimest, be cause the humblest, of prayers devised by man comes down from John Chrysostrom. “O God! Who hath given us grace with one accord we make our common supplication unto thee!” But, it goes on, the prayer is “to fulfill now the devices and de sires of each” according to the wisdom and grace of the Most High. Not according to human will or wish. Such ji prayer will be answered. Its author,, wiser than many who have succeeded him, knew that. He also knew that believers will pray according to their limitations of selfish interest, and that such prayers frequently should not be answered. Final ly, he knew that the efficacy of prayer depends en tirely upon the piety of the one who prays. And in this sense piety is used in its best meaning. It is Ihe earnest desire for divine aid or favor, the sin cere resolution to amend, sought to be expressed by words. A week of prayer should not relieve from the injunction to “watch and pray,” continuously and daily. Nor should. it he needed to pray that right things be brought to pass, for all who really pray in stinctively do the right thing, as they see it. And in the end there is the rub, the thing that has kept man at all times from having a common formula for prayer. The best time to pray is when one can, in the words of the litany, approach “the throne of heavenly grace with a pure heart and a humble voice.” “HE WAS GOOD TO ME." A 17-year-olil girl spent New Year’s day In a southern jail, waiting for officers from another state to take her for trial on a serious charge. Her young husband was killed a day or two before resisting ar leat on a train, and she was captured. It was the end of a perfectly lovely romance. He was known to the underworld as “Handsome Billy.” She met him casually over at I)es Moines only a few weeks ago. He admitted to her that he was a thief hy trade, a fugitive from justice, an es caped convict. Her mother tried to interpose be tween the girl and the crook, hut the latter won. The girl left home and was wpdded to her romantic hero. From town to town they journeyed, seasoning the honeymoon’* sweetness with little bits of rob bery, incidental to the meeting of hotel and other expenses. Finally, he took a sawed-off shotgun and went to a bank in New Orleans. He returned with gold and silver money, which he poured into his bride’s lap, and she smiled lovingly at him as she played with the loot. There was the flight, the pur suit, a husband shot and the wife captured. Down in Louisiana bank robbers do not get off iis lightly as in some other states. This young woman is going back to face a trial that means a long term in the penitentiary. For a few hours of delight in the company of a criminal, she will pay the best years of her life. Her girlhood, her young womanhood, all will he sacrificed. The home, the husband's love, the babies, all that is worth while, will be denied her. Instead of bring n loved wife, an honored mother, a respected and trusted neighbor, she will he just a number on a penitentiary roster. “He was good to me!” That was her comment vh"n spoken to oft her dead criminal-hero. Will the memory of that goodness sustain her through the dark years ahead? Or will her pillow he drenched with tenrs of regret for something that can not he helped? Just another beacon along the highway of life, to warn the phasing plodder*. We hope that girls who are coming on will take note of this one’* ex perience, and shun the danger. Governor Bryan dissents from a supreme court decision, but that will not materially affect the re sult. If the lawmakers do nothing else, they should put the jail feeding graft to rest with the dodo. Well, how did you like the rabbit? I /——-—-■ : ' The Effects of Good Roads on Your Business ____S Speech by Arthur C. Thomas before Omaha Kotary Club. We hear a great deal nowaday* about the $45,000,1100 plan of the Ne braska Good Roads association. Wc are Inclined to say: "That is a lot of money to spend," whereas we should say, "That is a profitable investment.’’ Do you realize that such an ex penditure will bring about $20,000, 000 of new money into the State of Nebraska from the federal treasury and that a large share of this is really a contribution from eastern tax pay ers to us? And if part of this money Is raised by a bond Issue the bonds will probably be sold in the east, and that will mean more new money. Do you realize that at least 85 per cent of the $45,000,000 or say $38,000. 000 will stay in Nebraska? This Is $135 for every family in the state. Money is a means of exchange. If you get from $22,000,000 to $40,000, 000 of new money in circulation In Nebraska it will keep turning over and over and the good it will do will be incalculable. Now let's see where this money spent on roads goes to. The first thing necessary on a road program I»to get the roads to grade. In rocky country that means cutting down the hills and using the dirt to build up a road bed across the valleys. In level country it means the digging ditches and throwing up a road Uhl from the sides. The first process is cut and fill, the second Is borrow-. The prevailing price on such work is around 20 cents a yard. Incidentally now Is the time to do such work. Personally I believe the price of mov ing dirt’ is going up. It has been go ing down gradually since 1920, but 1 believe we have reached bottom and the trend should be upward. It would he the part of w-isdom for the State of Nebraska to let as many grading jobs as possible this winter. The state can buy more for its money this win ter than for several years to com*. The chief Item of expense in a grading outfit is labor. From very good Information I estimate that 60 ---si Romance of Helium j From the Mlnneap 11* Journal. Helium, the ncSln flammable ras that makes giant dirigibles proof against accidental explosion and In cendiary bullet alike, Is available In America as in no other country, and, if the nation’s supplies are developed properly and safeguarded properly, they should give the United States an incalculable advantage over the rest of the world In sky navigation by llghter-lhan-air craft, both in time of peace and In time of war. Kxperts figure that, from tested natural gas fields In Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Ohio, enough helium could he ex tracted, at a cost of from 6 to 10 rents a cubic foot, to fill at least 30 dirigi bles the size of the ZR J and keep them aloft for five years. And small er helium sources have been tested and mapped in seven other states. Like most of the achievements of science, the development of helium has come through hard work, rather than amazing magic, though its original discovery was attributable In great part to chance. It was more than half a century ago that Jannsen, Swedish astronomer, went to India to observe an eclipse of the sun and, while thus engaged, discovered In the solar spectrum a strange yellow line which no other scientist ever had noted. His ilnilings created a sensa tlon among savants, indicating as they did the presence In the sun of a previously unknown element. But the layman was not Interested. What, he asked, could one do with a new clement In such a far-away place as the sun? So hellutn was given a name from the (Ireek word “hellos,” meaning the sun. and went. Into the text hooks. There.ef°r 27 years. It remained buried. All the professors could tell their students about helium was that it was an element. Then, in 1834. Sir William Ramsey, that wizard of the test tubes, that seeker after new vapors, accidentally Isolated a minute quant Itv of a strange gas that, for a time, defied all analyti cal! tests. Finally the British scientist tried the spectroscope on his new find and, in that Instrument’s field, he saw the same mysterious yellow line that Jannsen first had seen in the solar spectrum nearly a generation earlier. Ramsey had found helium, the new ! clement, on earth! He had captured and saged Janssen'* baffling yellow line. I-Jut many, many more years were to pas* before helium wai to become a negligible Inflater of dirigible bal loons. Count Zeppelin used hydrogen In his great flying cigars because hy drogen was the liest available floating agency. Helium was not to tie had l'p to and through the world war.' all the powers used hydrogen In their | lighter than air craft, despite hydro , gen s well known affinity for fire, he intise hvdrogen was tha best thev could gs*. Germany, at the war’s eubreak. was known to posse** a small supply of tee little known helium gas. and one | day In 1917 a British aviator, at close range, flred Incendiary bullets directly Into a German Zeppelin's gas bag and was surprised when th* balloon failed to burst Into flames. He reported this remarkable Incident and It hid thi British grently worried. For It wa* evident that tho strangely Immune gas bag was filled with helium, nnd. if the Germans had found a way of procuring helium In quantity, the dp felines against airships that the allies had developed would be worthless. Those fear* proved groundless. Newer Zeppelins flared up and burst when pierced by Incendiary bullet*. The Germans apparently had used all their helium to fill the one bag. It v is not until 19'JO that llir first American helium tilled blimp, tbe Clt-7, took 1 lie air at Forth Worth. Tex. Since then development has been rapid And. perhaps by an ail of Providence. nature lias given nl most a monopoly of known helium sttupllos to the least warlike of all the great nations. Automobile Lawlessness. tine of our New Hampshire towns wanted to discharge Its policeman because nn automobile guide hook blacklisted the town Why? For ah solutcly no oilier reason whatever than that the policeman enforced the parking rules, let no one. multi mil llnniilre of (he local summer colony or the poorest owner of a broken down fliv ver, slay at the riirb longer than tho legal time Vlsltora In the country are sore not because they ore subject to undue discrimination In the mailer of enforcement of I rattle laws hut because they are not permitted to break them a* their sweet will run*. And there I* it disposition In the conn try towns to let them do It In order Ihut they nmv not pass the word, a* Is constantly done, to "cut out" that town anil so cause business to suftiu Manchester I'nlon. It Is. ''All tbe world's s stage." ‘'Welt, tt s s til* production. Louisville Courier Journal. per cent of the cost of the job goes to labor. Most of thlB is spent In the localities where the job is located and lertnlnly very little of It leaves the state. Feed for horses takes 20 per cent and most of it Is spent with the local farmers and merchants. About’7 per cent goes Into equipment and repairs. The remaining 14 per cent of cost is about equally divided between the railroad companies, bankers and mis cellaneous Items. These percentages are based on cost. As to profits I don't mind telling you that has been a small item with dirt moving con tractors recently. • • • It may Interest you to know that a large )>ercentage or all profits from dirt moving jobs In Nebraska and Iowa come to Omaha, because Omaha ffe one of the leading centers of dirt moving contractors In the Vnlted States. Omaha contractors are work ing In New York, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and almost every state west of the Mississippi. If some one want ed to build a new airline highway from New York to San Francisco the job could be let In Omaha and finished in two years. The figures I have used have been devoted to dirt roads because that is the class of work I know the most about. However the same thing could be applied to other types of construc tion. Take gravel roads for instance: An added items of expense Is the gravel whieh would all be purchased in Nebraska. You don’t hear so much about gravel In Nebraska ss you do about concrete and brick because, for one reason the gravel producers are not so well organized, at least so far as publicity efforts are concerned. Some times you hear that grayel roads can not be laid in the sandy soil in the western part of our state. If you will put a layer of clay between the sand and gravel such a road Is practical and has so proven under actual tests. In the case of concrete roads the added item of expense In cement but a large proportion of the cement used In Nebraska road construction is pro LISTENING IN On the Nebraska Press v__/ J. Hyde Sweet of the Nebraska City Press has found something to worry about: he is worrying lest the re porters spoil Governors Ferguson and Ross before they settle down on their governing jobs. • • • Editor Kuhle of the Leigh World says a Leigh girl is so absent-minded that recently she dressed for a dance, and, thinking she was ready to retire, crawled into bed and went to sleep. • • • The Greeley Labor-1 ndependent has been absorbed by the Greeley Leader, and Ed Curran says he is going to make his Leader a good enough news paper for everybody in that section. • • • The Auburn Herald says a woman of that city bought an alarm clock with a luminous dial, but forgot to tell her husband about It. He woke up in the night, thought he saw a ghost, and next morning called up his bootlegger and canceled the order. • • • The issue between Mayor Lowen thai of Chadron -and the ('hadron Journal has reached tho open letter stage. Editor George Snow punches a mean typewriter when he is stirred up. Glenn Trumbo. who has been as sociated with Ray Ryason In the pub lication of the Bridgeport Herald, has retired from the firm and will seek a lower altitude In hopes of benefiting bta health. Mr. Rvason will continue as sole owner and editor. The Bloomfield Monitor has entered upon its 35th year. Kdltor Needham says he has been running It lone enough to know just what to do with the free publicity stuff that comes In marked "release on receipt " He re leases it into the waste basket in stanter. That's more than some puh. Ushers have learned In all the years of their service. • • • The Fremont Tribune note* a Oreat Change. A few year* ago the first big snow meant getting out the bobsleds and aleighbell*. Now it mean* get* ting out the tire chain*. F. 1>. Stone, editor of the 1 farting ton Herald, ha* been ailing for month*. He spent a year in New1 Mexico, then came back to ramp f<>r o. time in an Omaha hospital. Now he 1* miftb iently recovered to do % little editorial work and give *om utteiftlon to busine**. The brethren rejoice beoau*e of hi* rt*nv.nle*i *nce. duced or can be secured at our own cement plant at Superior. In the case of brick roads the added item is brick ami very little of this is . produced in Nebraska. However, if Hie $46,000,000 plan is adapted I estimate not over $7,000,000 or about 15 per cent will be silent outside the state of Nebraska. • • • Now I have devoted most of my time to what becomes of the irtoney spent in roads, and every man in this room will and have very little time left lo speak of many other benefits which will come to your business from a g«*id roads system in Nebraska, so I will touch on them briefly. \ As soon as there are paved roads across Nebraska and Iowa the tour ists will spend millions of dollars an nually in this state. Fur a time we will lose part of this benefit because as soon as the paving is completed across Missouri a large share of tourist traffic is going to the south of us but later our roads will be on par with theirs and the traffic will llow bad into this channel. This good road system will Increase the value of land in Nebraska not cnly the land Immediately adjacent to the roads but for a considerable distance back.' There are ‘24,000,000 acres of Im proved farm land in Nebraska. The government estimates that a national good roads system would Increase farm value $5 an acre. If the “value of Nebraska farms Is only Increased $2 an acre this increase is more than the cost of the plan contemplated. The government estimates that the good roads save the farmer 17 cents per ton per mile In actual cost of haul ling. This means a good roads system in Nebraska would actually save sev eral million dollars a year. Good roads allow the. farmer to get his produce to market quicker and at more seasonable time. He can come nearer catehing the turn of the mar ket than before. This saving while hard to calculate is very considerable. Good roads mean Increased school attendance in rural districts. This makes far better education and a higheP citizenship. Good roads mean an improvement of living conditions. It means that the rural population during the winter months will not be deprived of some of the advantages we enjoy and will be able to attend picture shows, lec tures, entertainments, social affairs, etc. • • • The automobile is here to stay. Good roads follow autos as surely us day follows night. That is part of the progress which we can’t stay. We must not try to interfere with progress. You can’t do it safely. Now the progress In good roads has been kept pace with the increased use of automobiles. We will have an un balanced economic condition until we have a national good roads system similar to the unbalanced situation during the early stages of railroad construction. Some of the advantages I have men tioned come with the next generation and that is one reason 1 predicted that sooner or later there will be an amendment to our constitution allow ing us to bond the state for a larger Fhare of our good roads so that the expense will not all be bore by the present generation. Missouri has floated $60,000,000 of bonds and will soon vote on $80,000,000 more. Illinois has floated $60,000,000 and will vote on $100,000,000 more. Iowa is planning a $95,000,000 program. Nebraska should get behind this $45,000,000 program. Omaha should help. We have loosened I>oiiglas coun ty out of the mud—let’s help the rest of the state get out also. W A Yesterday. V-----' Hush! Do yoti not hear it, see it? lawk behind you. see. tts there. As it follows on mur footstep*— Follows, follows everywhere. Tis the ghost of all your has-beens. All you've done and all you’ve said. Thoughts with which you've built and fashioned; Though forgotten, yet not dead. It Is call.ng through the silence. Wrath today s loud voice It runs An inseparable companion, Soul's eternal orisons. And It bids you make Its lessons Footsteps up to !>etter things: l.lke the crawling of the moth worm I'pward to Its spreading wings. Heading o'er the blotted records, Help us while wc kneel and pray: Help us bless today, tomorrow. Oh thou ghost of yesterday. —Carolyn Hettfrew. tadk Service Meets All Comditieinis Stack Service is an unselfish service always lending every aid to lift the burden of sorrow that must come to all. There is seldom a month passes when we are not ealled upon to furnish n funeral service without charge. We do it willingly, feeling that it is hut one of the many ways in which we may serve humanity. Day and Night Cadillac Ambulance Service Stack Funeral Horn® “Omaha's Most beautiful Funeral Home' 3224 Farnam Street HA rney 0064 ■—■ ■ V W ^ «i ng iimimi p -—-—---'j Charles Hercules Van Wyck was a member of congress from a New York district before he moved to Nebraska and set about winning a seat in the senate. Nebraska never had a wilier,, shrewder politician than Van W yck. And, by tn« same token, the state has had few men who were his equal in forthright ability. There were giants In those days Van Wyck and J. Sterling Morton, between whom there was not only political feud, but a personal enmity. Upon the supreme bench in those early days sat such men as Samuel Maxwell, O. P. Mason and Amasa Cobb. .Johri M. Thayer, beloved of Grant ami colonel of the First Nebraska regiment In the Civil War, was twice governor. His lieutenant colonel, Thomas J. Majors, was afterwards lieutenant governor. Of all those named Tom Majors Is the only survivor, and he Is still hale and hearty and seemingly good for many more years. Wandering about the old state house the first of the week, after looking over the new building, we were flooded with memories of the old days. There was the famous Majors Howe feud, that used to furnish plenty of newspaper dope. But somehow or other both of them residents of Nemaha county, always managed to come to the legislature together, one to the house and the other to the senate. The "third house" was al ways in evidence in those days. Charley Magoon, Tom Cook, Walt Seeley, Brad Slaughter, Tobe Castor, are some of the names'that come readily to mind. Those were the days when the Platte river was really a dividing line. When It came to the election of senators really more attention was paid to position relative to the Platte river than to the abilities of the candidates. It still has some bear ing on conditions. But what a joke it has always been! When Norri? Brown was elected senator it was maintained that the North Plafte country was entitled to the honor, and Norris lived at Kearney. He was north of the Platte, all right, but Kearney is within about 40 miles of the Kansas line, just the same. , v When Governor Bryan was forced lo ap|Kiint. eight repub licans as presidential electors it struck a iot of Nebraskans a« rather funny. But something like that, happened several years ago. G. M. Hitchcock was the last United States senator elected by the legislature. All but two or three candidates for the house and senate had pledged themselves under the then ex istlng law' to vote for the senatorial candidate receiving the majority of the preferential vote. K. J. Burkett was the re publican candidate. Burkett was defeated at the polls, but the legislature was republican. Then was given the spectacle of * republican legislators voting to send a democrat to the senate. The late-Peter Jansen was one of the two or three legislators who had not signed the pledge to abide by the preferential vote, and he cast a futile vote against Hitchcock. The old state house will soon be a thing of the past. For tunate It Is that its old walls will not be able to talk. If they could, and did, some reputations would be blasted forever. A lot of money has changed hands under the old capltol dome. We’re for Dr. Rolla O. Reynolds of Columbia university strongern horse radish. Dr. Reynolds told the assembled edu cators at Omaha that the stuff they prepared for the news papers lacked human interest and punch. And he told ’em a mouthful. Having piloted a country newspaper for more years than we like to recall, we are prepared to go even further than Dr. Reynolds. About the only stuff that will equal the edu cator's newspaper copy in points of dryness and sadness is the stuff the ministers send in as "church news." S*>eaking of school news, we'd like to have a compilation of editorial opinion—we mean coflntry newspaper opinion—on the f kind of copy the school students turn into the school columns. Speaking again as an experienced country newspaper man. we insist that the comma is practically unknown to the average student, the semi colon Is known only by hearsay, and the colon an absolute stranger. When the superintendent of schools writes something for publication it is pedantic, sawdust dry and absolutely without a gleam of humor. WILL M. MAUPI-W -------—--/ So to Speak. Peyton Bogwell, the art critic, was ' talking about French fashions. "The French dressmakers." he said, “tried to brine back the long skirt last year, but it was no go. The women wouldn’t have it. "This year in Paris and Cannes the skirts are shorter than ever. Yes, this year's skirts are ultra. In fact, you might say they are knee plus ultra." — Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele graph. _I* W hen in Omaha Hotel Gonant 250 Rooms— 250 Baths—Rates $2 to $3 N ET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for the SIX MONTHS Ending Sept. 30, 1924 THE OMAHA BEE Daily .73,790 *** Sunday .75,631 Does not Include returns, left- ; overs, samples or pspers spoiled in printing and includes no special •ales or free circulation of any kind. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of October. 1924. W. H QUIVEY. (Seal> Notary Public THE SEASON IS ON ^ffm —and it's gaining momentum for the " mid-u inter peak of thrilling sports rccn/s and spectacular attractions ’Tho you have until May—better come right *wa» for the all-winter program —something new rvery dav. Hotel accommodations greatly increased. Miami now opening 14 new hotels, 150 new apartment houses, and over 2,000 cottages just completed for this season. By water, rail or highway, Miami is easy to reach, and easier to stay in. It anticipates your particular desire for ease and comfort and appea.s to the aportive and social elements of your malqgip. Eight wonder golf courses to woo you trom da«\n to sundown; surf bathing in lukewarm waters; si« hundred varieties of fish — the tropical kind—to tantalire you: polo, hi-li, tennis, greyhound racing, quoits and roque. Annt^l Mid-Winter Regatta will be held in March. Horseracing inaugurated this winter on the new Million Dollar Track. Nor can you forget ARTHl'R PRYOR'S FAMOI S BAND Playing Iwiro daily ia R»«at Palae Park And too, Miami, with its wonderfully mild and feealthfal ci:ma>e and genuine trope*! aurroundings, is an "above average** city. It*i growing ao fast that it can’t be stopped and from a residential viewpoint it spell* resort perfection with hve letter*—M • I A M I. ^ Today, there are «i) hotels, tvo apartment bouse* and vooobunga low* and cottages to chooae trom—tcmorrow there will be more. Tran «p»ttat»o« fai'tnaa graailr t«C*aaa*4 Tkrvaigb train# fr*rr» ■ Si IxHM*. I'Wwt. CkwlMvi. Cincinnati, Hoaton. Naw York ami VS «ih,ngton ■ IWiffc PuUmmAm all Urge Northern noaa *«M ot kanaa*. tm’uding ■ Qjyabm ami Montreal. 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