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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 Mummer MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Be# is a member, is 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 !a 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 net of March 8, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for AT lantic 1000 the Department or Person Wanted. OFFICES Main Office—17th 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 I Seattle—A. L. Niet*. 614 Leary Bldg. MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES DAILY AND SUNDAY - I year |5.00, 8 months $3.00, 3 months $1.75, 1 month 75c DAILY ONLY 1 year $4.60, 6 months $2.75, 3 months $1.60, 1 month 75c SUNDAY ONLY 1 year $3.00, 6 months $1.75, 3 months $1.00, 1 month 60c Subscriptions outside the Fourth postal zone, or 600 miles from Omaha: Daily and Sunday. $1.00 per month; daily only, 75c per month; Sunday oftly, 60c per month. CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Morning and Sunday .I month 86c, 1 week 20c Evening and Sunday .1 month 65c, 1 week 15c Sunday Only .1 month 20c, 1 week 6c V- -.. ..../ Omaha Vha& iteVfest is al ifs Bes( DECENT REGARD FOR THE LAW. . We hold that a law officer has no right, in the attempt to enforce one law, to break another. Re straint of the law should be even more strict on the officer than on the unofficial citizen. On this point reasonable minds agree. Courts have held in every case that the officer who goes about the business of discovering and checking crime must at all times have the law on his side. In cases where the trial judge has sought to give the law what appeared to be advantage, the act has been repudiated by the court of appeals. Jus lice docs-not demand sacrifice, but does require ex actness, as nearly as it can be obtained through human agencies and under human institutions. * * * Henry Beal’s act in filing a complaint against the federal prohibition enforcement officer and two deputy sheriffs is taken in defense of the law. As county attorney he is convinced that a wrong has been done, and it is his duty to see that it ia righted. • * • Enforcement of the intent of the Eighteenth amendment and a law made to carry out that intent does not give to any man or set of men a right to sweep aside all other provisions of the Constitution or to ignore the rights of any man under the Con stitution. Federal prohibition agents and enforcement of ficers have been over-zealous In a great many in stances, and have been rebuked by the court for overstepping their authority under the law. Homes have been invaded, men and women have been as saulted, searches have been conducted with no re gard for the security of property, and the most sacred rights have been ignored. Why? In hope of securing evidence that the prohibitory law has been or is about to be violated. Such conduct will not, can not, bring regard for the law. No law on the statute books contemplates the breaking of another law. * * • If prohibition ever becomes effective, it will be brought about through a process of education. No amount of terrorism can be made an effectual aid to the process. On the other hand, the brutal processes adopted by enforcement agents in too many cases defeat the law. Making it so obnoxious in its every aspect as to alienate the sympathetic support of those who on principle might stand for 1he law. Sometimes we wonder if the course has lint been deliberately adopted in pursuance of a plan to make the whole law so odious that the pub lic will consent to its repeal, feeling that the old conditions of liquor traffic are preferable to the un holy combination of bootlegger and conscienceless lino .0 hound wc are now asked to endure. * * * Whatever the conclusion, we feel Henry Beal has 1 loved in the right way. Robert Samardick is quoted s'.-- raying: “And we are going to continue cracking lh m in the nose, Beal or no Beal.” As czar of the booze hounds, Samardick may voice his sentiments. I •' lie persists, he may learn that the enactment of iho Volstead act did not suspend the operation of all other law of the land. Some things are worse ihnit possession of contraband liquor, and one of 1h''m is the illegal invasion of a home in search for i \ idence. POSTAL RATES AND WAGES. President Coolidgc is sustained by the senate In his veto of the bill that intended to increase the rate of pay of employes of the postal service. His rea sons, given just before the adjournment of congress in June, was that of economy. No provision had been made for producing the revenue to meet the expenditure, and so he could not approve the measure. A measure providing for new postal rates is pend ing in the senate. Efforts to obtain consideration of this were thwarted by the efforts of those who de sired to override the veto. That plan having failed, attention will now probably be given to a new bill, suggested by the president, which will provide in crease in pay for certain classes of postal service employes and higher rate*.of postage to produce the revenue needed. Generally it is recognized that our postofflee workers are underpaid. They did not receive jus tice in this line during the war, and have not had proper recognition since. President Coolidge knows this, and has expressed himself as being in sympathy with the principle of the move to remedy the con dition. What he asked is that means he provided for meeting the Increase. This congress has failed to provide. Mail service workers will be disappointed at having to start all over, but may succeed if they follow tha line suggested by the president. In the meantime, the postal rate bill will come bn in its turn for consideration. As reported, It will meet much opposition, because of the fact that tha Increase In the second-rate postage la out of Jina with other Increases. Publishers have shown the unfairness of the burden laid upon the Industry, and succeeded In getting material modification by the committee of the rates proposed by the postmas ter general, hut even this Is regarded as unsatisfac tory. However, the problem Is simple In ita main fctariiyrs- Postal workers arc entitled to more pay; I money is needed to meet the increase. From which source to get the money is the one thing to be de termined upon. It does not seem fair to require that the newspaper* and periodicals of the country be asked to bear more than their fair share of the levy, but that ia what the bill now pending provides. A better adjustment should be made than is con templated in the Moses measure. GOVERNOR BRYAN’S BUDGET. Taxpayers always welcome an announcement of cut in the cq*t of government. That means a re duction in taxes, which is in order at any time. Yet we doubt if the taxpayers of Nebraska are quite ready to consent to a reduction in the bill for admin istering the business of the state which includes the crippling of institutions that are the pride of the state, and the existence of which unimpaired is necessary to the state. Governor Bryan, about to step out of office, pends to the legislature a budget that includes many sweeping reductions. On the face it indicates that he simply swung the ax at random and hit every de partment of the state’s administrative system save the governor's office. An increase of $76,000 in the governor’s allowance is made. It is offset by a de crease of $542,176 for the support of the University of Nebraska, and $580,000 for the State Board of Control. Certainly, when the university authorities are pressing for means wherewith to meet the steadily growing demands on the great school, the reduction of half a million dollars for its support must chal lenge attention. Similarly, and for like reasons, the cut of more than half a million in the allowance for the support of the state’s charitable and penal in stitutions will require examination. Other specified reductions will also be subject to careful inquiry. Governor McMullen wiH- make his own recom mendation for budget expenditures, and by it the legislature will be guided. It is ijot easy to set aside the suspicion that Governor Bryan’s farewell shot is intended to embarrass rather than assist his suc cessor. PRESIDENT SHIFTS THE LINE UP. Another shift in the batting order of the Cool idge team is noted. This time Attorney General Harlan F. Stone goes to the supreme bench. Who will step into his place Is not yet announced. Ex pert cabinet makers at Washington are trying to fit a number of men into the vacancy, any one of whom may be the one, and any of whom would do. It may be accepted that the next appointee will not be to fill a vacancy, but will be designed to take a permanent job for at least four years at the head of the Department of Justice. The appointment of Harlan F. Stone to be asso ciate justice of the supreme court will be found gen erally satisfactory. His few months of service,as attorney general of the United States brought him before the public very favorably. Energetic, alert, vigorous in his management of his important office, he has notably engaged in such changes as were ap proved by all parties. His training and experience made him valuable as a cabinet officer. The same qualities will serve him well as a judge. The prompt action of the president in choosing a successor to Justice McKenna can not be regarded as an evidence of desire to shift his cabinet. Stone was his own choice, made at a time when the pres ence of a strong man at the head of the Department of Justice was essential. The promotion is a reward for service rendered. We hope that the next attor ney general will be of the same sort. BROKEN ON LIFE’S CRUEL ROCKS. She felt an urge to create. A desire to give the world something fin* and durable. She “heard in her soul the music of wonderful melodies.” Yet she had not reached the power to express them. Her ambition was greater than her strength, and she went down. That is the short story of Maizie Reavis. Too poignant for telling in words. Her body was too frail for her mind, yet she struggled for recognition. It did not come. Editors returned to her the manu scripts she so hopefully sent out, and at last she took refuge in the last retreat of disappointed mor tals. Little good will come from speculating on what might have been, had she been strong enough to hold on a little longer. Fragments of her com position show th^t she had imagination, creative power, the elements of real talent. She lacked strength, suffered from bodily ill health, due to un der-nourishment, and that ascribable to dire poverty. Just another wreck, battered and broken on the cruel rocks of life. Things as they are sometimes are terribly tragic. So it proved in this young girl’s case. Sorrow for her Is wasted now, for she Is beyond any effect of the world’s sympathy or cen sure. Yet the mind that could create this might have done much better things for a world that still needs the fancy of poets: "They awoke a soft, ecstatic glow In Pandora that seemed to shine out on the garden. It became an enchanted garden with softly crowding shadows and bnsh people White plum blossoms fell eoftly as she swung. The tree bloomed but It never bore It was an enchanted tree and the enchantment would end the year that It bore. Pandora loved It and so did the stars. They wet* shining down softly, sil vering the white blossoms.” A genius may have been lost when Malzie Reavis gave up the struggle. Death rate In the United States was lower for 1924 than for 1923. Life was also better worth living. January thaw will he due In about ten days. /-'m-----N. Homespun Verse —Bjr Omaha'* Own Poe!— Robert JVorthington Davie ^ AS THEY GROW. A* th# little folk* grow, and their Tot hood I* rapidly left In arrears;— A* they hasten too fast on the Journey That leads through the cumbersome year*— I itinrk well the changes apparent WhI# weeks like the tempest epeed past, I sigh, for my children are growing away From my lonely old arm* too fast. At twilight we alt In our rocker, We rock as th* early hour* flyi I comfort their we# hurt* and sorrow*, Their tear* with care**** I dry. We re pal* of a kind that Is faithful, We’re friends of a klan that Is true. My Joy Is th# Joy that 1* given Through deed* that my little one* do. When they've grown, and have ventured Far distant to fashion their dream of today . When they often will yearn to be looking Ahead to an hour of play— We 11 still be the pals of the present, All wholly and *|yvay* for each,— And we ll nerer forget th* rare lesson* Th*l T9t h994l YlS»ffttUd#S iHSftl, -— Letters From Our Readers All letter* mint be aigned, but name will ba withheld upon requeat. Communi cation* of 200 word* and leaa, will ba given preference. L_' Child I.abor and Humanity. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Of course the opponents of a national child labor law have raised the good old communlet bogy to bolster up their more than doubt ful cause. Of course they are making frenzied pleas for '‘states' rights" and the awful peril of government tyran ny If the nation as a whole declares that all children must be given a chance. Of course alarm Is expressed lest parents lose control of their chil dren and the latter be let grow up In laziness and degeneracy. The truth doesn't matter when ea cred profits are at slake Certain Interests, notably In the south, have long depended on child labor because It meant or was thought to mean cheap labor. If this element could be eliminated from the struggle over the slaughter of the1 Innocents, there would be no struggle. Now, as In the days of negro slavery, few men are willing to waste time and energy on abstract questions of po litical theory. They may pretend to do an, but If they do pretend, very practical reasons are behind their pre tending. Negro slave Interests tied up with the states' rights question be cause It was their only ealvatlon, and their logical successors In both north and south today, for similar reasons, have dragged the foul old corpse from a dishonored grave and are using It to spread contagion at the very sources of life and citizenship. Wise old owls whine about the rights of the states, but what about the rights of the children? In this connection, I recall a story of Wen dell Phillips when Massachusetts aided in returning fugitive slaves to thetr masters Said he In substance: "Above the state house door Is the legend: 'God bless the commonwealth of Massachusetts!' but If this proud state Is to he turned Into a slave hunter, then may God damn the com monwealth of Massachusetts.’ " For the old form of slavery, substitute the new, and the story becomes applies ble. No form of revolution 1s too swift or bloody for the government that will not throw a protecting arm around young human Ilfs and protect It to the utmost. A revolution Is not needed to abol ish child labor, however, In spite of the communist bogy. The social sys tern Is safe. Parental authority Is not attacked. The children are to tie given a chance, not made degenerates. The real enemies of tyranny and friends of liberty are fighting for the child labor law. They will win, for they always win ultimately. Bead history and be encouraged— or discouraged, according to your viewpoint. EDMUND R. BRUMBAUGH. Crow-Word Puizle. Omaha —To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Not long ago a wise man said that he did not know that the cross-word puzzle would leave any bad effects, but, on the other hand, he knew of no benefit that would ac crue from It. At that time he did not know that this fad would stimu late the sale of dictionaries, and that manv a person or family will become the owner of a dictionary, regardless as to whether It Is ever put to use again after the cross-word disease is under control. A dictionary—like the Bible—Is a sign of culture, (though It Isn't absolutely necessary to have a stock of culture on hand; one can be “Just out’’ like some storekeepers), and It Is a handy thing to have around. Some one has said that the dictionary is the most valuable book extant, providing one studleg it, to day. But any person who has time to devote to cross word puzzles cer talnly wouldn't waste his time study lng the dictionary. Of a certainty he will rummage through It and find out I the meaning of a lot of words, hut he will Immediately forget them the moment a new one Is sprung on him There Is no serious danger of any one Improving their spelling by this meth-j od, or their knowledge of the meaning of words, exrept for the moment Every bo often we have some sort of a puzzle epidemic which sweeps the country and gradually dies out. Year* ago we hRd the famous IS puzzle: not so long ago we had the puzzle, ''How Old Is Ann." and now we have the cross word Influenza. When It Is over wdth, we will find that the gain was In the production and distribution of dictionaries, and thnt the loss was In time, which might have been devoted to something that would have been more productive of worth-while re suits. However, we have these epi demic* to show clearly how much like children a great many of us are; how purely trivial we ogji be with the precious time at our disposal. No man ever lived near long enough to gain even a slight knowledge of all the things contained In this earth, yet many of us waste our time with - such childlike pastimes as '•puzzles." j The magazine, "Life," offers a prize A for the most fitting name to a picture ( depicting an elderly "puzzle fiend." A ( friend of mine sent In the title, "A | Member of the National Plague." If I ^ were the judge he should have the ( prize. If every person who puzzles ( (?) his mental works over a cross- j word problem should devote the time . to a study of the dictionary,, or the Bible, or the famous "Lights of His tory," or anything that would bring useful results, a large amount of gain would result; but then, If every person did this w e wouldn't have near so many childlike mentalities among the adults. Puzzles are for children and we ought to have dignity enough to let them alone. It Is said that the puzzle stimulate* the mind. So does any other form of mental exertion, but stimulation Is not much good unless It produces something that will last. About the only redeeming feature of the puzzle habit is that it will give the jazz “nuts" a little diversion and a lot of us a rest, for which we should l>e thankful. "It Is »n 111 wind that blows nobody good." In this case It is the dictionary makers who reap the chief benefit. GEORGE MASON. It Rains In Para. The port of Para, near the mouth of. the Amazon, has a rainy season, when rain falls continuously, and a "dry season" w hen it rains every day. "I'll see you tomorrow morning afler the shower." Is a common wnv of making an appointment. You step into a cool shop to escape the burn ADVKKTI8FMKKT. ADVCRTltiRMK.NT. BETTER THAN WHISKEY FOR COLDS AND FLU The sensation of the drug trade Is Aapironal, the two minute cold and cough reliever, authoritatively guar snteed by the laboratorlea; teeted. approved and most enthusiastically endorsed by the highest authorities, and proclaimed by the people as ten times as quick and effective as whis key, rock and rye, or any other cold and cough remedy they have aver tried. All drug stores are supplied With the wonderful elixir, so all you have to do Is to step Into the nearest drug store, hand the clerk half a dollar for a bottle of Aapironal and tell him to 1 serve you two tesspoonafitl. With I All\ KKTPt MrVT. your watch tn your hand, taka tha drink at one swallow and call for your money back In two mtnutea If you cannot feel the distressing symptoms of your cold fading away like a dream, within the time limit. Hon't be bash ful, for all druggists Invite you snd fxpect you to try It. Everybody's doing It. Take the remainder of the bottle home to your wife and children, for Aeplronal is by far the safest and mot* effective, the easiest to take and the most agreeable cold reniedv for children as well as adults Quickest relief for catarrhal croup and chil dren s choking up at night. AI)VCTTISr.«X>T. Abe Martin --/ A clrl'll tolerate moat hov kind of a rhump rathrrrt' miaa any auto ride*. T'heer up! Some o' th' greatest men in history didn’ even own a vtlociped*. ituBinihU Ends Indigestion Instantly Corrects any Sour, Gassy, Disordered Stomach Whan fnmls "dlMgree" In stomach ant, harmless stomach corrective. snt hnd I sues indigestion or gasn*. hasrt to Id and digestive alwar* *t hand, hnrn. flatulence. arldlt.' don't slay Thay know that If they aat ton heavily miserable and upset. or of wrong foods, they ran alwav* de The moment Papa e Plapepeln" pend upon a few taMata of Pnpa'a PI* reach** the atomarh all becomes wall pepsin to gtvo almost Instant relief, again distress Just vanishes Large *0 cent package* guaranteed Million* of famillea keep tbl* pleas by druggists everywhere. "SUNNY SIDE UP „ Hake Comfort, nor forte t. QhatSunrise net/erfailed us ueir C«fia ‘Jh.after __j v--—-— -------N f It Is rumored that the newspaper men whose duty it is ,o cover the state house run. will petition the capitol commis sioners to install an Intramural railway around nwaed corridors. Failing that, they will insist upon a state owncl and operated taxi service. Whoever Is custodian, manager, superintendent, or what ever you call it, of the old state house, is entirely loo economi cal with the lights. The dingy old building always was gloomy enough, but with the new capitol built around, it is more like a dungeon than ever. The lower corridors have less light their entire length than the average sluing room. Some of tin o davs a couple of fellows will collide in the dark, with resultant injuries, and then there will be Introduced a bill for the relief of the injured parties. Senator Scott's bill providing for an appellate court to re lieve the pressure on the supreme court, caused a farmer mem ber of the house to sigh and mournfully Vemark: "For a right nice, easy Job I'd like to be a member of the supreme court.' Kd Danielson quits as secretary of the State Board of Agri culture, which body manages the state fair. He has held v e office eight years with credit to himself and to the satisfac tion of the board. Now he is going into the outdoor amusement business on his own hook. George Jackson of Nelson, ex speaker of the house, is slated to succeed Danielson. George Is admittedly one of the best qualified fair men In the west. He was the first tenor of the Dairy Train quartet on the re cent trip through Wisconsin. The other three members relied on him for the tune, time and harmony. Trenmore Cone has Joined the ranks of newspaperdom. His publication will be called Cone's Boomerang. Trenmore Is dead sot ag'in a lot of things and will use his Boomerang on them in true Conesque fashion. By the way, again recalling memories of old days, what ever became of that massive chair the Samoset club of Omaha gave to Governor Boyd, the first democrat ever elected gov ernor of Nebraska? It weighed about a ton, ita back was nearly eight feet high, and its original cost, augmented by the expense attending its presentation—which was long before Volstead was heard of, must have been several thousand dollars. There promises to be a Great A old in this session. Tom Benton, for years the representative of a corporation or two, chieflv the Pullman company, will not be on deck. Tom Is in failing health and has been on the Pacific coast for some time. A state house visitor was being shown about one day last week. 1'p in the governor's suite of rooms the acoust.c tiling w as pointed out by the guide and its me: its enlarged upon. "The tile absorbs sound waves, with the result that there Is no vibration, hence no echo,” explained the guide "Pretty fine,” agreed the visitor; "but it won't be so neces sary after January S." Speaking of prohibition, which we are not allowed to do as we are Inclined, a hotel bellboy informs us that he Is mys tified, and at the same time rejoiced. He is mystified by the increasing consumption of ginger ale and rejoiced at the profit accruing from the sale of empty bottles gathered from the r°°mi WILD M. MAUPIN. I _/ --- ^ ng lun, says a traveler, and while ou are making a purchase the street utslde is deluged. A clerk hastily loses the doors, or the place would e flooded By the time you have laid your bill the sun Is again shin ng brightly. But the shower has ooled things off.—Youth's Compan DO. When in Omaha Hotel Conant 250 Roomv—250 Rjies Ic $3 RADIANT COAL. Smokeless Semi-Anthracite LUMP $13.50 MINE RUN $11.50 SLACK $8.50 i Phone WA lnut 0300 UPDIKE LcWtEc*o& See Samples of This Coal at Hayden’s Grocery Dept. Sunny golf links for you. Good schools and spring-like days for sonny— x Week-end motor trips for the family, on thousands of miles of (*•) paved highways. {he )ounieyQieie~a joy pullman samaF?ed Harvey reservations S * all the way’ *nd *!**-■* n W 4 Hath fratna—Including the v evtviMvrtv ftm-clam Califor nia 1 imited offer the acme r a **♦"* of trav«l<omfort Pullman. ► »"U fr I'' . _ , . , . •si t^vitaNs vms . r>ss Mo n*. io«a via k*tand Canyon National rao.. Harfcat mi P,,k-ooen all the test. I