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The Omaha Bee hoknin g—e v e n 1 n g—s u n d a y THE BEE'pUBLISHINcTcO." Publisher N. R. UPDIKE, President ■ALLARD DUHN. JOY M. HACKLER. Editor in Chief Hu.inrn* Menairer MEMBER OF THE ' ASSOCIATE D_PRESS The Amoeiated Preea, of which The Rce is h member, I *xclu*iv*ly entitled to th« use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise erediled in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of our special dispatches are •lao reserved. The Omaha Bee is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the reeognir.ed authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee's circulation is regularly audited by their organisations. Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908. at Omaha postoffice, under act of March 3, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for AT Untie 1 OOO the Department or Person Want*d. ** 1 iamiC 1 OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Chicago—Steger Bldg Boston—Clobe Bldg. Los Angeles—Fred L. Hall, Ban Fernando Bldg. San Francisco—Fred L. Hall, Sharon Bldg. New York City—-270 Madison Avenue Seattle—A. L. Nietz, 514 Leary Bldg. MAIL SUBSCRIPTION”RATES ! DAILY AND SUNDAY 1 year 15.00, 6 months $3.00, 3 months 11.75, 1 month 75c DAILY ONLY 1 year 14.50, 6 months $2.75, 3 months $1.50, 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 til'0 miles from Omaha: Daily and Sunday. $1.00 per month; daily only, 75c per month; Sunday only. 60c per month. CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Morning and Sunday .1 month 85c, l week 20c Evening and Sunday .1 month 66c, 1 week 15c Sunday Only .I month 20c, l week 5c -/ ■ - ■ — - A ©iraliaVhefe the^test is at its Best HOLDING ONTO POWER. A few more returns like those recordrd from Wyoming, Kansa^and the Dakotas, and ihe proposed Twentieth amendment to the Constitution of the United States will be definitely laid away. This does not mean that the people of the United . States are not thoroughly aware of the evils of child j» ^abor. Nor that they are not willing that the law _ . Jhall throw what protection it can around the little ones of the land. Our people are not so calloused as to see with indifference the exploitation of im mature children by greedy industrialists. Happy homes all over the land, troops of children throng ing the school houses, or playing in the parks, in dicate the attitude of the American citizen toward his offspring. A lesson that may be drawn from the rejection of the amendment is an obvious one. Americans are undergoing an experience that is not altogether happy, growing out of a mistaken experiment. Pro hibition in its actual application ha? shown the un wisdom of writing police regulations into the funda mental law that should contain only principle?. With the example of the Eighteenth amendment before them, Americans are loath to release any further power of such character to congress. Workers for the child labor amendment have tried to answer this objection. They have clearly stated that the power of congress comes from the people. Congress represents the people. Very well, say the people, we will not give congress the fur ther power that would go with the Twentieth amend ment. And there you have the real reason. Othpr ar guments for or against may he laid aside. Ameri cans are npt in a mood to relinquish any more of their own power to their representatives in congress / than now lies there. POOR FOOLS. An Omaha boy is dangerously ill at a hospital. Two others are in jail. Three mothers moan for their sons. It is the finale of a wild orgy of dances and crime. “We had to have the money to step,“ ex plains one of the lads in custody. So they set about to get it by robbing. Several times they succeeded in holding up men. Finally one intended victim re sisted. One of the lads was seriously if not fatally wounded. Again and again is this sordid story repeated. These lads were not moved by hunger, nor any ma terial need. They wanted to “step.” To pose. To Wear good clothes. To dance and to impress the girls they met. That called for money. Either work or steal, and they preferred to stpal. Certainly this should teach something. Some thing is radically wrong with a civilisation under which such affairs are possible. If this were an iso lated case, not so much could he argued from it. But it is just one of many, occurring daily all over the United States. Only one conclusion is possible, and that is the looseness of present day discipline. Government has loosened its discipline. The law is laughed at. Courts wobble and their hands are palsied. The church has loosened its discipline. The Ten Commandments are all right--if we confine our selves to preaching about them. The discipline of the marriage vows breaks to nothing if it inter feres with the personal pleasures of husband or wife. Home discipline is getting to be hut a memory. In dividual discipline—it is being swallowed up in the vicious philosophy, “I'm going to get mine.” Civ ilization without discipline dies. The story of thp poor fools—Parker and Gillespie, is the story of what happens to the weaklings when discipline is loosened. It is time the law tightened on these weaklings if there is to he any law. BUDDY, HOW ABOUT IT T Omaha post, American Legion, is the largest in the country. Also one of the most enthusiastic. It will be host next October to all the other posts in the wflrld. This is only part of its mission, though. Legionnaires carry on throughout the year, helping where others can not get in to help. A needy vet eran will appeal to his “buddy” when he will not let the world know his condition. So the good work that is based on the rock of comradeship goes on. Just now the members of Omaha post are pre paring for a drive. It is over the top for them, just as it was seven years ago in France. Not to follow a barrage across No Man's Land. Not to up root a machine gun nest, or to demolish a "pill box.” No crash and rattle and thunder of guns and "H. E.” shells, nor miasma of poison gas in the way. The hoys arp going out to get the ex-service men of Omaha who are not but should be members to sign on the dotted line, put s button on Ihe coat and a, card in the pocket. To become members of the Legion in fact as well as in spirit. Not easy to think that any who followed the colors through training camp to fields "where pop pies blow" but is a Legionnaire in spirit. All have not taken out membership, for one reason or an other. Some day all will he members. The hrnnr.e button of the Legion has a significance as high and as fine as that, of the G. A. R. How about it, buddy? Are you ready to get in line with the comrade who was alongside of you through so many weary) trying days when you both I wore khaki and earned a heavy pack? That is one part of the Legion’* creed—to carry a buddy’s pack. Afl right, let’s go. WHINERS AND WAR DEBTS. The low point to which the moral courage of certain British and French leaders has fallen is illustrated in the whining which we continue to hear concerning the war debts of those countries to the United States. A Frenchman, one Louis Marin, member of the chamber of deputies, declared it would he a "moral iniquity if France is compelled to pay its war debts to America.” An Englishman, Ernest .Remnant, writing in the English Review, says: "'The odd ltelief that she won (lie great war Is still unaccountably prevalent In America. It would seem, however, that America Is determined not to rob her allies of the honor of paying for it." Now that we have the perspective of hiatory through which to study the great war, its causes end its treaty of peace, we realize that that cataclysm Came as the ripe fruition of the stupid diplomacy of all the nations involved. j One thing is certain, has always been certain— (he war was not America’s war until we were forced to make it our war—by that same stupid diplomacy. America won the war? What a useless debate. Whether America won it, or didn't win it consider ing the fighting before America got in, if we hadn't • got in the Central Powers would have won either a victory or an easier peace. The issue now is the war debts to America. Who grabbed (he loot of the war? Chiefly England and France. Now their leaders whine about paying their debts. Here is another excerpt from the Englishman’s whine: "The va«t majority of Americans are purely pa rochial in their outlook. They have no knowledge of, or sympathy with, European or world politics. They are 'in the grip of a huge political machine, which, although its operators may play upon the sentimental weaknesses so prevalent amongst the American peofde, is provincial and purely material iatic In character. Revenue aurpluses, dependent upon the payment of war debts bv Impoverished dehtors, are more easily transmuted into voles by the promise of ele<Ct,ral bribes than by appeals to abstract justice or Christian charity. Charity be gins at home, especially in the mtddlewest and far west." England and France, the ehief beneficiaries of the war, wjth all their loot about them, are in dan ger of losing that thing which makes great nations— virility, courage. The world will think better of them if they put a stop to the whining. _ _ t OPENING OF THE OYSTER. Samuel M. Yauclain, head of the Baldwin Loco motive works, is another who does not believe that opportunity no longer awaits the boy or girl start ing on life’s journey. He says: "The greatest opportunities of all ages are faring the voting man anil the young woman of today. With modern inventions, nothing should hinder the young man from success. But he will hate to work anil stay on the job." “Why, then,” says Ancient Piatol, “the world's mine oyster!” He proposed to open it with his sword, and devour its lusciousness. , Any youth has the same chance. His sword, though, should he in dustry, not an attempt to get by easily. Success be gins in effort, generally hard work. Sometimes drudgery. Even the humblest of toil has its lesson*, • and these are capable of leading to the higher thing’s. Many a man in a big job looks back to the day when he was occupied with little things, over which he was faithful but not satisfied. A story is told of Lord Northcliffe, owner of the London Times. He met an employe one day and in quired how he was getting along. The young man replied, and was asked if he were satisfied with his work and pay. On being told ye*, Lord Northcliffe immediately dismissed him, saying he wanted no man in hi* service who was satisfied with what he was getting. Work will not lead to jazz palaces, to jail, hut It will lead to decent living, to competency, and to success in life. Not from the material standpoint merely, hut a well-rounded success in which all the worth while elements of human achievement are present. The world is the oyster of every boy or girl. It* opening is not an easy matter, hut when the shell is opened the reward is ample. Work, and stay on the job. That is the oyster opener. MISSIONERS OF MF.RCY. “I was sick and ye visited me.” . A brief statement, followed by the explanation: "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” And it is again a pleasure to testify to the work of the Visiting Nurse association during the last year in Omaha. Reports just made show that 8,173 patients were looked after by the association during the twelve months of 1924. Tare of these neces sitated 6.3,239 visits. Other work inrluded the main tenance of six infant welfare stations, at which there were 7,796 attendances during the months they were open. It was in connection with this work that the money raised by The Omaha Bee Free Ice and Milk Fund waa expended. Other farts are given in the reports, which will interest those who are concerned with figures. The greater thing is not capable of being Bet down in formal statementa. Who can measure the benefits to suffering mortals that flow from the existence of this association? Flow express the pain that has been assuaged, the fear turned to hope and confidence? Lives saved because the “V. N. A.” was on the job? Its members and its nurses are niissioners of mercy in the truest sense. They go to those who otherwise would he helpless. Larry comfort and healing into placra where misery anil suffering and sorrow otherwise would prevail. No other charity organized in Omaha measures higher in real service then this. It is called blessed by those who receive its ministrations. It should he reverenced by all, be muse of its devotion. /"■*' --- ■ • ■«. Homespun Verse —By Omaha’* Own Pont— Robert Worthington Davie <-; FIVE YEARS AGO. Five year* ago her parent * rrled— Five yeara ago today! But *he wan then h hliRnfnl bride, And Hum ahe went away To huljil a home where lane defied The H’aiija to make her gray. 1**1 ve year* have been a. fleeting wlflle Ho *vv Iff Itfe'a current* flow! She wean the tame delightful amlte, Her- eve* fit HI nparkla r»» A* when tier loved one* watched the dial •Ilint flve abort year* ago. Five yen re away the day ha a flown • How brief the distance aeema To one who rnnatantly h«« known The time that faith redeem*. And w ew \ mm unaided and alone Brocadt from )iviii|j^i *a loaf -----— >1 What a Lot of Difference a Little Knowledge of Astronomy Has Made in the Way We’ll Feel Today ^_——■ | ( *> Letters From Ou/ Readers All letters must be signed, but name will be withheld upon request. Communi cations of 200 words and Iras, will be given preference. j Liberty, Not Personal Liberty. Guide Rock, Neb.—To the Kditor ofj The Omaha Rce: I note with inter ! ret opinions given concerning the sue < css or failure of our prohibitory law, and it leads me to venture my opinion, based upon my observations as a traveling salesman. In the last five veers I have heard a great many very interesting arguments pro a mi • on on this question. 1 have always tried to ascertain if possible the < haracters of the persons producing arguments which I have kept diary of. and 1 find a great majority of per sons maintaining that the law hn.i been a success are either Christian people or at least have a great rev er cnee for the laws of our God. our lountry and our state, and a desire to help make this country of ours a bet ter place in which to live. Also a willingness to stand and abide by the law that the people have seen fit to enact. *>n the other hand, those l have tabulated who argue that the Itw Is unsuccessful have most gener ally shown themselves in the past, as v.ell as the preaenf, to be very much in sympathy with the lawless ele ment, and even showing no willing i.ess to stand and abide bv law themselves, thus encouraging crime in all phase* foi all crime Iims broken either the law of God or man. We note that many tiling* may he practiced for years that ought not to be. but as soon as a law prohibiting swine is passed and arrangements made to enforce same, the offender is brought • into the limelight and it becomes general gossip Have we not seen in our school day* a timid ’itfle clrl slip up and whisper, s.ty ing: "Teacher, Johnny is chewing gum again." but it didn't happen till the gum law was In effect. Could we live without law? Of course not. and every law is more or less a prohibl *nry law'. The first law that our Creator ever gave to humanity was a nrohibitor law, and yet that law was broken hv' a woman hrfore 1t ever got on the statutes. She. of muro thought If infringed on her personal liberty. What a selfishness these two words portray. We want liberty, but not personal llherty. W#, the people of these good Cnited States of Amer ha, with onr prohibition, enjoying the greatest liberty of any nat on in the world not personal llbertv —but a liberty we divide with our fellow men. If by repealing this law' be* cause It has not been obeved to the letter. and licensing breweries to make liquor and dispense liquor, wilt whip the lawless element out and bring about better conditions, why not trv the same on some of other pro hibitory laws, as MThon shalt not | Abe Martin | T.r»« Mont nn' hi* wife have «p|i up. Hr look hi* radio cl an’ unit home, nn' -he look lh’ baby an' wont f work. Wr unad t' irarnt it if lomrhi dry told il* how t’ run cur huainr**. lull I'dny we hire-'em t’ dn it. (Criunabti ikm steal,” “Thou shall not kill?” When we And a fellow defending his argu ment on prohibition as a. failure we generally And one who wants more personal liberty law nr no law. 1 only know of one animal that lives these principles—the swine. lie needs no law, his brains could not comprehend it. and without law he*i*< forced to Aght his own battle* for what lie gets; he gives nor gets no co operation; his liberty is per sopal. Ho the result i«: Personal lib erty is only limited by the amount of brute force lie d splays. So if v.e, like the prodig.<1 son of old, v.sh to reduce our associations to such standards, let us have more brut© force, less law and less brains To admit this law a failure is only admit ting our weakness as citizens, as our laws are only a« Strong as mjr citi zenship. CllABLKS HOIK*K8. Kettifnltig to Nebraska. Osceola, Neb To the Kditur of The < Un i ha Bee: 1 hav e been a constant reader of W. M. At.iupin s corner of I lie Ur|mha Bee. In Sunday’s issue lie speaks of the Weary Willie'' re tm n to Nebraska, after once having lived here. That is true, as ! have noticed about seven out of ten in variably j el ur n The other three I fU-ute as being dead About the first thing those returners do is to go and take h look at their* Ar*sf and general ly their only pioneer effort* and tret haps idled a tear over what they think might have been. No marks « f the obi soddy remain. Perhaps a f-w* cottonwood trees that stand high, in tlie air th.it were only slips they stuck into the breaking around the old sod house remain to remind them I hat they had ev er been there before. A highly improved and well cultivated farm tells the rest. I.c * ,wrr. u hat they really did miss Fernwood Arkansas Anthracite for \ Base Burners $i.35o ;s: A Very Satisfactory F uel Sunderland Bros. Co. MM » KThf wf:\t Guard Against “Flu” With Musterole Influent.i, Gripne and Pneumonia uaiiallv *t«rt with a mid. The mo ment you get those warning ache.*, i i of husv with good old Musterole. Musterole la a munter irritant that relieves congestion (which is what a < "Id i rally l»i and stimulate* clrruln tion. It has .ill the good quality** of the olr| fa*hloned mustard piaster without the blleter. lu*t rul» if on with your flngot tip*. Kirat you will feel n warm tin gle a* the healing ointment penetrate*! tiie poiPH. then ;• emthltiK, cooling • MHatlon and quirk irllef Have Mu*teru)e Iihih1v for emergen ' v n*e It may prevent aerlnu* illneae. T» Mother*; Mii*tcrolr K a No made iu milder form for h'th'"* and small rhildren. \*k for Children'* .Mti*terole. <* »«• and ti »e, ill Jai* ami tube*. Ileller Ilian a mu*latd plaster While it is true that Polk county t«* , day has no supeilor as to beautiful h landscape and progressive agr culture. I but it was the pioneer senior that i paid the price after ail is said. Wejj • une here in ..tis, so kite v «»f what j v. e speak. Reducing a desert to a ( semblance of civilization is no pl' tiie. Fifty seven years ago Polk c ounty was spoken of as part of the Ameri can desert that was unfit for human habitation. (>f course people smile when yon remark thusly today. Some two or three families moved into the county in 1KR9. In 1869-70 some sol diers and others, a'l single men. came. | hut most of them stayed only one summer. In the springtime the land s« ape was something Iceautiful to look at- wild life on ever' hand. Hut ''hat a changed condit:,-n when July | entered in. The rains ceased, the 1 grass dried up. ami the Ida- kened • ountry. made '-•» by the pmlr e fires :hat swept over the country: and as ••non as the early dav blizzard put in • n appearance. everybody that had a little money hiked for God's country, i and those that had no means to hike I on. stayed it out. There are perhaps some half-dozen j of the older folks that moved here prior to 1ST0 still here. No, sir, noth* J ling would Induce me to he the first' few to settle a new territoi . I would j rather let ‘'George" weai off the rough edges: then I would move in' some -•> 'ears later and bu> him out for a song. I,. ('LARK. 9 The racing season i* on now in quaint, colorful, carefree old New Orleans. Enjoy the thrill and excitement of daily turf classics under a blue sky, in a warm sun ... Or else goif, sail, ride a horae; or wander about in the enchanted Old World atmosphere of the I itux Cant , . . One of the rooac pleasurable features of your holiday w ill be the trip on tha [panama [united the finest train in the u orld. Fastest to New Orlean* by 10 hours, 35 minutes. Leave Chicago 12:30 mid-day. Leave St. Louis 3:50 p.m. Arrive New Orleans 11:15 next morning. All-Pullman All-steel. Observation-library car, bufiet car, compartment—single or en suite—drawing-room and open Mid-Wimer Tour \. ^tion PV1'm*n^1 thrpu«h. Pullm*n to Gulfport, serving MarM Gras R'lovi *nd 1 **• chrisll*n- Unrivaled dining service. Valet, . maid, barber, shower bath. ftnvanth Mld Waitr Mar Hi Gee# _ . V«cM.n r.m I*, m a>k.,- .-a Two other fast trains from Chicago dailv at 9:00 a. m and fM Louie. Saturday. Fah 21«. r#* . . c _ r 0-1 . - . . ... ’ turning u«vn OtIum. 0:15 p* Hi., trcsm ot. Louis 1^.40 p. it), ind 11:22 p. m. Wednesdit, Feb 24th. Com from Chicago to \’#n Orleans and ruum C •wefliMf cennoetrons with fast limiiod trains for A,k *" r— c***"*« "—*«' . , . _ _ . FtW torts *n.j rr>*«»rrw (*>"«, o%k tporial Cartbboan Cruiaa ro tha Panama Canal via Havana legve* Cite Ticket Otic# 911 South 14 h Street Than# Atlantic till New iVtleana, January lath. D#- C* Maydeck Dietaien Taaaenget Agent llllnota lenttnl Natltood acnptiv« girculat uu <«sue#i IIS i'll* National Bank Hldg . If h and Marne* Big.. Phone JArkeen 9144. Omaha. Nab. II I THE R O a n OF TRAVEL L U.X.URU ^———————— ^unnysbdeup Hake Comfort.nor forget Qhat Sunns? rie\Jerfailed _ j ^ - ' ' s 1.0IIK Miro we . eHee.1 saying II coubln't la- done. Tb“l ajwhy we as gospel truth the statemeni that wlrelesii refrlgera 1 ion la at band. The housewife rne.elj lm.ee h '* filaeiator Is cooled, the hulter kept hard, the milk preset veil and the almost 1 leverages reduced to a palatable temperatuie. Nothing wonderful about II. after all. It is much more prob able than the telephone was a half-century akm the ™ ’ thirtv veins ago. or the airplane a -imirtei of a cen ts ago. It will not he long until we cut sec and talk with relative* a friends thousands of miles away without Interven.ng wire* at J regardless of time and spat# Perhaps we ran sit at a. spreda table and think our menu It. « space and have it at earning form before us. The seven league hoot* of fal.v lore would he commonplace halos and the magic ' .fleet of the Ara hlan N gins' merely an ordinary means of transportation. We are not thoroughly posted on the objects and aims of Altrnsa, hut If all dubs are made up of immlieis like llm.se of A It rusa In Council Bluffs, then we are going to seek the posi tion of national lecturer, or chief counsellor, ot something that will permit us to make regular visit’ A del ghtful company <■ bright, alert business women who know buss to put one rathei bashful male guest at ease, and svlm have the happy faculty or making a speakei believe he has made ..I, whether lie tins or not Bottle Clifford, indulging In t chocolate orgle. admits tin,I i he membeis of the Council Bluffs A ll rusa. have excellent judgment ... even if their judgment as to speakei a is open to question. After h terrific simple we have overcome oui natural modesty him! Rive a place in this col> um to the following l»mr from (Ii cm responding secretary of tiie Omaha Business \ o* man's club, and addressed to ns, personally: j “Because our acquaintance with you dales away buck of your appearance on our platform, and Im. uuse of the happ> | w.i. in which you took us into ymir confidence that evening, we almost feel a* if you belonged to un. Me liked the wav you talked. Me liked your refreshing view of life. We liked >our informality. We liked to read what you said about us after ward.* in The Omaha Bee. Tome again. On behalf of the club 1 wish to thank you for so kindly starting an annual custom. T.uy l.averty of Burwell wr tes to say that he docent si* ways agree with us. but lie does agree fully with our ideas about the selection of a cabinet. Disagreeing with us is not uncommon. We often disagree with ourself after thinking it | over. But to have somebody write in to tell us when they do agree with whnt we say is so uncommon as to mark a high ) ypot In our daily grind. "We have turned over the letteis of Mr. I*averty and the secretary of the Omaha Business Mo* man's Hub to the Big Thief, having hopes. A Texas minister who is opposed to women in authority announces that he is going to don a Mother’ Hubbard and preach against that sort of thing. Me hereby enter violent protest against th« desecration of the Mother Hubbard. That minister would he’ter don a bridle, if he can find one lug enough to permit pushing his ear s through. • ‘‘Blossom Time' is an opera that contains not a bit of jazz. No four fifths nude women dance interpretative gyrations. There isn't a suggestive line in the opera. No comedian spring** double entente jokes. It Is an o|»era with real music, real lyrics, leal singers and costumes of a former century. It played a week at The Hrandeis last fall to big business. Tt 1* just closing a return engagement of a week, playing to ca pacity house*. Some of these day* ibe big facts behind this plav and its success will percolate ihroi ch the i\*bry of a lot of theatrical promoters. Ml LB M. MAI'BIN. • V_/ > ■ I Hard to Conduct. "Are you going to conduct any in* vest iga t tons?*' “Ipvcslijcatlons are seldom con ducted,” answered Senator Sorghum. "VoU can ^i\e them a Start, hilt aft-' he first few days thev almost in . \ triable run away from you.' U'.^hir ton SU. r. ___ ~ W hen in Omaha Hotel Conant 250 Room*—250 Bath*— Riie« $. fc $3 RADIANT COAL Smokeless Semi-Anthracite LUMP $13.50 MINE RUN $11.50 SLACK $8.50 I Phone WA Inut 0300 j UPDIKE tS"LBE"o* B See Samples of This Coal at Hayden’s Grocery Dept. \