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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1925)
W I - OmahdHlDhere the West is at its Best BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE. H. R. 345, the Isaak Walton League Conserva tion bill, is up for consideration at Lincoln. One of the really progressive measures presented to the leg islature at this session, it demands careful considera tion, It should be passed. As a conservation measure, it is of prime im portance. First of all things, it contemplates the perpetuation of wild life as far as is possible. In wild life is included birds and animals, fish, and the forests and streams. Nebraska has not so many wooded areas as we will some day see. Streams and little lakes are numerous. These give fine breeding grounds for game fish. Also resting places for mi gratory wild fowl on their spring and fall flights. Prairie chicken and quail are becoming numerous again, thanks to protective laws. Pheasants and other birds of the like are beginning to multiply. Some antelope and other deer are reappearing in the sand hill region. All due to the wise policy of conservation. t The “Ikes” want to extend this policy, and make it even more effective. In the bill under considera tion ten specific things are asked. Chief among these is a reduction of the bag limit for hunters. Shortening of the hunting season, or “open” time. Extension of the Valentine fish hatchery. Encour agement of forestation. This may sound like selfishness on part of those who; are interested solely In the sport of hunting or fishing. Only a little thought is needed to dispel that notion. Even were it so, the citizen* are inter ested in this matter to an extent not realized even by those who do take out license to shoot and fish. In tjie two years, 1923 and 1924, fees collected by the ptate for this form of license amounted to more tharl |274,000. While the law says all this money should be. expended in conservation work, Governor Bryan felt moved to neglect that provision. As a re sult Jfte law was laxly enforced. The fish hatcheries only, partly functioned. The whole purpose of the movement was slackened. Eighty active chapters of the Isaak Walton League are engaged in the promulgation of the con servation policy. All classes of citizens are con tained within the membership. Its prime purpose is to preserve some of the great outdoors for the enjoyment of everybody. Nature lovers are just as much concerned as sportsmen. House roll 345 has been drawn to further the great object of the League, and to give all an equal chance, birds, beasts and fishes, trees, flowers, streams and ponds as well as men, women and' children, an equal chance. We are confident the legislature will see it in this light. JIMMY GRIFFIN “TAKES THE FALL.’’ Death has done away with the need of further proceedings at law in the matter of the People against James Griffin. He died with sealed lips, true to the code of the underworld. "You never had a statement from me, and you never will have," he. told the police authorities. To iw friend of years he said, “It was me that was shot," and refused to com ment on the shooting. The public, however. Is not so easily satisfied. Conflicting stories have been told as to the manner of Griffin’s taking off. He was shot hy a rity de tective, who asserts he believed that the dead man was about to draw a weapon. Griffin's friends say he was not armed. No one saw the actual shooting. The police owe it to themselves to clear up the fcase completely. Leave nothing in doubt as to the circumstances connected with the affair. Public sympathy is always with the officer of the law. Omaha people will support the men who risk their lives every hour in their endeavors to suppress law lessness. This very feeling is the best, of reasons for asking that the facts be given to the public, so that ‘Jio doubt will exist as to the justification of Sergfatit Potach in his act. GENTLEMEN, HAVE A HEART! A few weeks ago, when the legislature was about to convene, we heard modest statements to thd' ef fect that this was to be a short, snappy business session. All hands agreed we had law* enough. One very imperative duty laid on the members was to ndd no more than absolutely needed legislation to the great mass that now overwhelms us. Monday was the last day for the Introduction of bills tn the house. The barrier fell on a total of 456 measures offered. Closing of the gate was accom panied by the wails of several members that they were jockeyed out of the chance to offer other hills that they wanted to get in. The senate will not stop receiving bills until Thursday. It now has 154 pro posed new laws in hand, and wi'l probably double that dumber. Tljia evidence of industry on part of the law makers will not make the impression that might have'followed an equally energetic effort to get rid of some of the dead letter laws, and to rlrar up the book as It now exists. Some of the proposed laws have merit. Others deserve very little consid eration. Not even the most enthusiastic devotee to the of "Be It Enacted" will Insist that there Is need for more than 600 new laws in Nebraska. K* peciajly when most of these measures are calculated merely to change something that ia working to the general satisfaction of everybody. Surely therp is no great public demand for such activity, no series of crying evils that calls for remedy by law. We ‘rust the committees to which this flood of measures has been consigned will take a rational view of the situation. Let us have no more whole sale law-making. Nebraska does not need so much reform. W. O. W. BROADCASTS FOR OMAHA. When "WOAW" takes the air, lesser dispensers of radio are forced to haul in. The great wireless station shoots a tremendous volume of waves over a vast distance. It has made the name of Omaha very familiar to radio users, and most agreeably so, because of the quality of its programs. It is, how ever, but an adjunct to the far greater W. O. W. A peculiarly Omaha institution, born and fostered here, the Woodmen of the World has grown to be a giant among the life insurance concerns of thp world. Aside from any sentimental value that may at tach to its existence, and that is beyond computa tion, the W. 0. W. has a material worth that com mands respect. It owns assets amounting to $119, 906,674. Each month in the year it collects more than a million dollars in premiums On its payroll in Omaha it has more than 350 names and for their wages it paid out in 1924 $554,243. Omaha prop erty owned by the W. O. W. is valued at $2,264,151. Its bank clearances in Omaha in 1924 were $35,527, 968 Taxes paid In Omaha in 1924 were $31,336. Its bill for printing in Omaha last year amounted to $558,706. Postage paid was $77,476. These are just some of the items that aflTeet Omaha directly. In a more general way the record is quite as interesting. During 1924 W. O. W. paid msurancec laims amounting to $6,738,272 Since its organization here in 1891 it has paid out in death claims $154,219,613. Fifteen hundred representa tives, scattered throughout the country, make at least one visit a year to the home office in Omaha. Insurance examiners from all the states call here ti look after the company's affairs. W. O. W. is broadcasting Omaha about as suc cessfully as its great radio station broadcasts a pro gram. Its first head was Joseph Cullen Root, a steadfast Omaha booster. His successor, William A7 Fraser, is just as enthusiastic for Omaha. Omaha should appreciate the W. 0. W. ANOTHER NEBRASKAN HONORED. The “never had a chance” young fellows are cor dially invited to make the acquaintance of Emory R. Buckner, born in Nebraska and a graduate of the University of Nebraska. Buckner has just been‘ap pointed United States district attorney for the southern district of New York. He.succeeds William Hayward, another native son of Nebraska who grad uated from the university of his native state. Emory Buckner was not. bom with a silver spoon in his mouth. He is the son of a Methodist minis ter, and Methodist ministers are seldom listed in the capitalistic class. Being a “preacher's son” the probabilities are that young Buckner had a little bit harder time than most boys. What is classed as ‘animal spirits” in the sons of the butcher and baker and banker and lawyer is usually dubbed “down right meanness” in a preacher's son. But Emory, like many another preacher’s son, overcame that handicap. No one ever heard him bemoaning the fact that he had no chance, or that he was handi capped because of his father’s calling. He dug in and acquired an education, working his way through school. After graduating he did not wait for op portunity to turn up. He went out and turned up his own opportunities. Evidently he did not have a drop of quitter blood in his veins, nor the faintest semblance of a yellow streak. Nebraska has furnished a number of good men to the east, lawyers and physicians and financiers and engineers. To the long list is now added the name of Emory R. Ruckner. He did not achieve his high place by accident, nor by sitting around and whining that he never had a chance. Every young fellow in Nebraska has the same chance that Emory R. Buckner had. The trouble is that so many of them will not see that chance. The United Stales Steel corporation lias quit making horseshoes, hut there are plenty in sight to keep the horseshoe pitchers supplied for several sea sons. By the end of that time they may have cul tivated biceps that will enable them to use discarded automobile tires. Old Doe Cook will keep right on knitting. The court of appeals has affirmed the sentence that took him to the penitentiary. Uncle Sam is not in a mood to fool with those who monkey with his mails. The United States court of appeals at New Or leans has confirmed the sentence of Dr. Frederick A. * ook. It was a colder day than any experienced by Doc Cook on bis once vaunted polar expedition. That loud buzzing noise down from Miami way is only W. J. B. getting ready to say things about Tom Marshall's declaration that "no decent demo crat ever favored prohibition." Mohazzeb-ed-Dowleigh, the now Pesian ambassa dor to this country, has arrived safely. It is not. expected that be will act as jazzy as his name sounds. Henry Ford offers to aid if the federal govern ment. will develop Muscle Shoals, This may be classed as a rattling good offer. College boy clothes are to predominate among the men, we are told. We decline, however, to pay *5 for a pair of spats. The weatherman is doing what lie ran to take the sting out of the groundhog’s bite. The Riverside drive is not lost just postponed. (-'t Homespun Verse —By Omaha'i Own Po»t— Rohcrl Worlhington Davie V.____ OLD ADAIR. * Old Adair Is white and batten, old Adair Is bleak and still; Smoke arises from the chimneys, And Is lost beyond the hill. Mellow lights at evening glisten Through the windows tie. ked with snow, Arid within the rnzv havens t'hlldren frolic tn and fro. Old folks, 'round the hearth reclining, Head and talk till night Is late Out of doors the wind sigh* gently As II swings star the gate Out of dnnrs the stars are etitnlng With 1helr opalescent glow, Aod the tipper world a* ever I.ooks upon Adair below. old Adair I* winter burdened, And dcaerted ate the nnnke P'or the many Indoor pleasure Games and songs and story bonks. But Adair ta not leas lord Than It was In blooming Mar, And I cart not think tt older While 1 feel eo young and gay. | I If the Budget Is Too Small for the Expenses— L_._____— -—- mm ■ -* ITS TOO SHORT hemeverlcanoct / s\L *Z tN* iNSiEe***» £fif«s£$\* OI'T DOWN THE EXPENSES r Letters From Our Readers All letters must be signed, but name will be withheld upon request. Communi cations of 200 words and leas, will be given preference. __J Fanner'® Wife Speak® Out. Davenport, Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: “Help the Farmer" is the cry we hear through the paper*. Hut where Is it coming from? Our only hope, I believe, is in ourselves, sticking to farming, regardless how much we gain or lose. In a way the prices thin year have helped the farmer a little more than the last three years, but these high price® are costing ns a lot to keep our stock—living Is still high. There are not many farmers in this community that have their wheat. They had tn sell shortly after thresh ing to satisfy debts, so these high prices are not. benefiting them. What w4 want is fair prices for what we •-ell prices we can depend upon year after year. But here the farmer sits, end the Speculators are having a good time off their hard work. Suppose, Mr. and Mrs. Speculator, you hand part of your gain back to the farmer? Look around you and see the suffering these high prices are causing among the poorer people. After reading the art! c|e which cam# out In your paper by A. ,T. Loren® on Friday, January SO. • >f those two speculators and a lot of "thers in the ring, it sure makes the farmers angry to see such works being carried on. Just a few days ;igo I read in your paper where the brokets were shouting “World famine!" “Shortage”’ Such stuff is mostly “bosh." They have a good supply on hand and now i* tits time 'o make it easy going for the spp« u lators. regardless to how the poorer • lass of people might suffer for want "f "bread.” Let’s not tear down the prices of "♦her labor, but bring relief to the farmers so our prices will corn# up 10 iheir«. We farmers have been working hard for 10 years trying to own ® home we can coll our own. With debts, a growing family and high cost of living, has caused us to have a broken heart many times. For this year we have lost $700 by selling our wheat to pay debt* FROM A FARMERS WIFE. Oppression by Tole®. Omaha —To the Kditor of The Omaha Bee; In the Free State of Danzig 1 have a brother. He |* year® old, very poor, almost blind and III. For Pbriatmas ! sent him a gift IMckage. containing second band win ter clothing, which is duty free in al most every civilized country. 1 now received word from tnv brother that he was told by the Polish customs house officer® that he had to pav Ml gulden duty (about $10, which was more than the value of the whole lieckagei. The old man borrowed the money from Some good hearted people and paid under jnolest, with the re Abe Martin V._____A \\ p oiirlrr if i mlm don't dnvr morp ppnplp down own thmi lllPV kopp Ht homo? ‘Unut lh' only thinjr n wonmn trip* t' hidp tlir*r limpi- i* hrr *i:r. (Copyright, lint I stilt that after three days the Poles [gave him hfs money hack, hut threatened that In the future duty must be paid on all gift packages, la there not anything the League of Nations can do to protect the citizens of a free state? M. Ci. Cyril K. Finley, CAnaha.—To the Editor of The I Omaha Bee: A number of year* ago when I was walking down Twenty third street l met a bright-looking, red haired boy whom 1 had not seen before, and he took hold of my hand, and from that, day on be and I were almost brofherlv friends That litrle boy was Cyril E. Flnlev one of the best young men ever reared In what was at one time the city of South Omaha. When this splendid young man had the chance he rn listed in defense of hfs rountrv, like many other fine young men of old South Omaha, and when h*» was on one of the battlefields of France he wrote me a letter on one of those j>e CUllar sheets of paper that could he used as an envelope. I have that let ter today and will keep If tn memory of one of the most cherished young friends T ever had. In the lo-s of this fine voting man the world has suffered a distinct loss We should all of us honor the world war veterans while they lice, for they seem to be passing on at a fat* more rapid late than did the veterans of the war of the rebellion. Thev are worthy of all the honor we niav heap upon them. FRANK A. AfJ.NKW. Ain KhTlskMK.vr. YOU POOR KID, WHY ARE YOU $0 SKINNY? t»on't your mother know that Cod Elver oil will put pounds of good healthy flesh on your Iwmes in just a few' weeks? Te|| her every druggist has it In sugar con ted tablet form now so that you won f have to take the nasty. Ashy tasting oil that i* apt to upset your delicate etnm*» h. Tell her that McCoy’s Cod Elver C* 1 Comj>ound Tablets are chock-full of vitalizing vltnmine* and are the greatest fle««h producers and health builder* she can find One sickly thin kid. sge f, gained 12 pounds In 7 months. She must ask Sherman 4 McCon cell Drug Co.. Reason Drug Co.. Bran dels Stores, or any good druggist for McCoy’s Cod Elver Oil Compound Tablet* firt tablets—60 cent* .is pleasant to take ns candv. Cod Live p OM Compound Tablets OMGIMAL — OCNUINl 60 Tablets OOCants Pi/.zv? Pepressed? You're Bilious 1 Take a T .axative Breath Bad? Stomach Upset? Bowels are Inactive I i For Constipation. Headache. Biliousness | Center Shots | V---' All London is agitated al>out a pic ture painted by a grocer. London should see some of the pictures paint ed by an American real estate agent. —Abilene (kan.l Reflector. “There are 1,270,(100 statutes and ordinates in the 1’nited States." A million of them could be repealed If everybody Mere t«* observe the golden i ule. Toledo Blade. A gentleman named Griggalewig Asojedoffski has been arrested in Ber lin for forgery. Well, you can hardly blame him for not wanting to sign hl.s own name.— Punch. It is a wise thing to exclude the KtirrrpeAn criminals fmm our shores, where It is very likely that their mor al* w fuiId soon !>e corrupted.—-Colum bia Record. T,nndon debs are wearing rainbow dresses. Hoping. proha hi v, that fhere'll be a pot of gold at th* end of the trail.— New York Herald Tribune. a Washington is gradually going dry. There wets only 14,<»13 violations of th* liquor lawn there In the last fiscal year.—Saglna w News Courier. When in Omaha Hotel Conant 150 Room'— 250 Ritli'— Rair« $2 lo $.5 I jf I -- - -— \ r ]f President Coolidge and congress want to do something calculated to put the postal department on a self supporting basis, we are prepared to give them a pointer on how it may be done, at least to some degree. if the government will null printing and furnishing stamped envelopes below cost a godly port ion of the deficit would be wiped out. It strikes us that there is no more reason for the Postoftlre department furnishing stationery below cost than for furnishing patrons of the de partment with clothing, shoes, hats, underwear, tobacco and «hoe* below cont. } Members of the T Knew Him When Club will kindly shove along and make room for Charles W. Deacon. He needs no Introduction to the members of the craft to which your secre tary belongs. Kor » number of years Charley was superin tendent of the 1'nion Printers' Home at Colorado ttprings. which, hy the way, is one of the most remarkable institutions in the world. He is now- sales manager of the Chicago branch of tiie Mergenlhaler Linotype company, and visits Omaha 10 show the last word in the greatest mechaniral Invention of the age. Charley says the machine will do everything any printer evei did except chaw terlatcker. It ran be made to spit by con necting the water cooling dangbat that is attached to the mold kodttkey. A prinler of the old school who loved his trade, a business man of parts, and a genius for making and holding friends, you'll like Charley Deacon, latest addition to the or sanixatiou. That was a dlitv trick played nn a lot of unsophisticated members t>f the legislature—taking an adjournment on the .nth dav and thereby shutting out a lot of hills. We ateone ofJhe victims. Ber-ati'e of this snap judgment a lot of I pltf we hud prepared can not now be introduced. The result Is that a lot of people will suffer because there will he no I-aw Passed to set their feet on the right toad. But the loss Is nit outs. AVe were animated only bv a desire to Ito Brest Oood. and the members who took advantage of our youth. Innocence and inex pet enre must bear the blame if everything goes wrong. It is not ton late, however, for us to Introduce some needed amendments to hills already introduced. We shall 1n sist. upon amending Representatiie Mines marriage hill. the provision requiring the birth of a child before the completion of three years of the marriage contract should he extended so ns to provide for the arrival of twins and triplets. The hill nf Representative Piiney providing for the closing of all theaters nn Sunday must lie amended to Include the prohibition nf gnlf. bridge, auto riding, visiting, osculation, hand-holding and pet ting parties on the same day. If we deride that we can do an without endnngertng a rather comfortahle ioh we shall also In sist upon a further amendment to the effect that there shall he no Monday newspapers, the work on the same having to he performed on the first day of the week, commonly called Sun day. Then there is the question of Sunday street car service. Sunday train service, and a few other minor matters upon which we are tint yet der ided Speaking nf the membership drive nf Omaha Post Nn 1. American Region, we Jiave in mind a couple nf young men who ought to he members if they are not. If the post adjutant will rail on us with proof that the names nf the two young fellows In question are not on the membership roll, we w-fll take pleas ure in Whispering » few hurnlnc words Into their ears. If thev hope to retain their 'landing ns members of our family circle they'll hove to come across. • Kxcuse us for the day. AA'e now have to go out and look after matters connected w ith the construction nf the new home. • AVI RR M MAMPIN. 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Sh*el3« 1 Di» I«k> •. Pawenfef ^*em l 1991 Hirntf M.. Photie Jekrhki 0710 MiVfebash. wm0 - — ->| | \r[ ' AIIU.HTIM M V\X. Never Kiss A person with a cold Co Ms srr spread hv kis'Cti|£. 1" encoring and by cough?. He ware of those germ* He careful if ><m have them- avoid them If you haven't. A c«dd menn* danger and dist'Oin fort. Nobody know* what the end will be. Million* me wrecked l>> cold*. Net a i old ran lw broken 1n ?4 hour* The fever and headache will end. and l«a Urippe can 1** stopped In 1 du>* It 1* folly to suffer colds, and compel other* to n\otd >oc The wax i* with 11111* «'**• ns H^untde Quinine. it t* r>< c that m>hk ha\* d*v*lo|**d no way to tin PTOV* it tl itpcs all that Is nsecsaar'. It ih* V< th* <»M. It r*mov*» th* pots on* i-au**i! by colds. It tou*s th* *n Hr* s'stotn with two tonics of htgh ordot, It r*stor*» vitality. This i* th* host way to do it. Your own neighbor* know it Million* ha'* • >n p to latish at colds, bscaus* th*' know yy hat Hills do** One* you us* Util'* t*hl*t* you yvill always m*p thorn to tight cold*. You wUS t isist on thr gonutno, and won't ^ del '. I yf hour lost at th* start f v ••i v <fru£iti*t k u A r AOtOf* >•> tHirfhi* th*t million* of homo* h • x o n«1o|xir«i It. S«» ptrfVct that -i AlUrut**. Prtc* tPe CASCARAii.OUININE ^ o« tun u« ^ROfAA1^ •** I' n»» m • a n $ tr ' r • hf»\ir» of din* Am fOM t oMl t*>» « -*H< •ootothin* 1»: • »r *««« Hr « i> ch*v k ov'