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The Omaha Bee M O R N I N G—E V E N I N G—S U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Publisher N. B. UPDIKE. President BALLARD DUNN, JOY M. HACKLER, Editor in Chief Business Manager MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which Tha Bee la a member, la exclusively entitled to the use for republioation of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republicatton of our sptcial dispatches are also reserved. The Omaha Bee la a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, tha recognised authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee'a circulation it 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 1000 the Department or Person Wanted. OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Chicago—Steger Bldg. Boeton—Globe Bldg. Los Angeles—Fred L. Hall, San Fernando Bldg. San Francisco—Fred L. Hall, Sharon Bldg. New York City—270 Madison Avenun Seattle—A. L. Njet t, 814 Leary Bldg. MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES DAILY AND SUNDAY 1 year $5.00, 8 months 88,00, 8 months 11,75, 1 month TSe DAILY ONLY ! 1 year 84.50, 8 months $2.75, 3 months 81.60, 1 month 75e SUNDAY ONLY 1 year 83.00, 6 months $1.75, 8 months $1.00, 1 month 50c Subscriptions outside the Fourth postal none, or 600 miles from Omaha: Daily acd Sunday, $1.00 per month; daily only, 75c per month; Sunday only. 50c per month. CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Morning and Sunday .1 month 85e, 1 week 20c Evening and Sunday .1 month 65c, 1 week 15c Sunday Only .1 month 20c, 1 week 6c Omaha-lDhere the IDest is at its Best KANSAS CITY SHOWING THE WAY. Our friendly neighbor down the river is just now 'wrestling with the traffic problem after a fashion that may interest Omaha. The conditions are not exactly parallel. In Kansas City the tramway prob lem was vexed by politics. It was made a football, and the company was reduced to penury. Service was impossible and finally something like a truce was signed. While the tramway has not as yet recovered from the drastic treatment it received, a movement is on foot to charter a bus line. This will provide for competition, if not improvement, in the service. Omaha has not as yet reached that state of af fairs. Relations between the tramway and the com munity have been fairly satisfactory to both sides. This is said with due regard to the sporadic and not always well considered pot-shooting that has taken place. That will very likely go on, notwithstanding any arrangement that may he entered into. What is of moment to the community is this: Service must he had. A tramway is just as much of a neces sity as water, light or gas for domestic uses. The company sets up that its patronage has been falling off materially and steadily for months, until limita tions on service have been forced. Would a division of the traffic between the tram way and a bus line better the situation? Is it not a place where a single properly regulated agency would he better than two? Competition under the circumstances would be ruinous, rather than bene ficial. For this reason, it may be well to allow the tramway to supplement its service through a bus line addition. Exclusive franchises can not he granted, and at any time the community might give permis sion to another company to operate. Such permis sion, however, would merely serve to grant to the competing line the right to clutter up the streets, and without giving anything really worth while in re turn. When the mayor says that to change a word in the pending hill would be in the interest of the street railway company, he Is merely indulging in hyper bole. The fact that the measure was prepared by the city's corporation counsel does not remove it entirely from the examination of interested citizens. Several words might be changed without sacrificing anything that is in the city's right now or for the future. Full consideration of the measure, dispas sionately and with a view to coming to a decision that is just for both sides, is what is needed. WHY NOT CALL IT A TIE? One of the little incidents of the senate last week, where the members are too busy talking to at tending to legislation, Caraway of Arkansas and Heflin of Alabama indulged in a debate. It was a contest as to which is better qualified to speak for the common people of whom both are so fond. “I was born in a two-room house, with a dirt floor,” said Caraway. “When I grew up I worked on a farm for $3 a week.” Heflin told how he cut cotton on a farm until he was 19 years old, and still loves the farmer. The senator from Alabama was put out of action when the senator from Arkansas retorted that the farmers he knows do not wear white vests and swallow-tailed coats. In such a contest, why not call it a tie, and split the pot? The honorable senators are not the first to rise from lowly to lofty positions. Nor does their jumping off place entitle them to speak with any more authority for the humble of the land. Some really worth while service has been achieved by men who started with every advantage. In a great democracy like ours, wealth nor the lack of it has much to do with determining success in life. Mental equipment and moral character always have controlled, and probably always will. In the makeup of the successful individual is something that is lacking in the failure. Just what it is can not be easily defined. Many names have been given it, but whatever else it is, its most essential elements are grit and gumption. Given these, the rest can be acquired. . CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S MARRIAGES. At this distance, and from here to Los Angeles is far enough to furnish a fair perspective, it looks as it Charlie Chaplin were having an experience that is not uncommon. He thought he was marrying a little girl, and finds out he married her whole darned family. Not only the mother-in-law that goee with any well regulated matrimonial venture-A grandma is always a handy thing to have about the house or the neighborhood. But Chaplin also married a father in-law, some brothers-in-law, and at least one uncle In-law. The latter also happens to be a lawyer. As Ham let said, "there’s the rub.” It would be easier, should a marital difference come up for hearing, to have aomething In writing. A little document showing how much money the eomedinn was willing to settle on hla wife would be a very nice thing as Exhibit A. Here was a movie plot, and with no chance to throw • custard pie or do a funny fall. When Mr. Chaplin is not acting before the camera he is not a fool. Something of a smart busi ness men he Is rated by those who come In close re lations with him. So now we get the news that, after aeveral days of talk about divorce, separation and tha ilka, Mr. and Mrs Charles Chaplin are happy in ttoir littla boma neat. Mr*. Chaplln'a mothar haa moved into • home of her own. Also resolved to have nothing more to do with lawyers. One infer ence is that Charlie won. At that he may have lost. But he has found out that in-laws sometimes are ex pensive and bothersome things to have around. THREE CREIGHTONS AND OMAHA. The Civil War made necessary means for speedy communication between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Pony express riders had notably shortened the time between the Missouri river and the Golden Gate, but still days were required for a message to cover the distance. A telegraph line was decided upon, as well as a railroad. The wire line was built first. To build it a contractor was needed, and this brought Edward Creighton to Omaha. With him came his wife, Lucretia, and his brother, John A. Many thousands of people live here now, enjoy ing the fruits of the harvest the Creightons sowed, and knowing little of them. Out of the generosity of Mrs. Creighton’s heart came the big St. Joseph’s hospital, familiarly called by old-timers, “Creighton Memorial.” The next beneficence was Creighton University. Neither of the founders lived long enough to see this become what it now is. Their vision, maybe, saw its colleges grow in stature. At any rate, their dreams are partially realized. A great nonsectarian school is carrying on well the mission of education. Like the hospital, it has grown far beyond the first beginnings. Just because the city has grown, and the liberal endowment made by the founders has enhanced in wealth until bigger things can be done in a better way. “Founders’ Day” was observed by religious cere mony, and many citizens took part in the proceed ings. On other institutions than the school and the hospital the name of Creighton rests, a memorial to the husband, the wife and the brother, who deserve so well to be recalled with gratitude by Omahans. MAKING THE LAW RIDICULOUS. Nebraska was bone dry before the Eighteenth amendment was passed. Our statute to enforce pro hibition, enacted by the legislature in the winter of 1917 and enforced since May 1 of that year, is more drastic in some of its provisions than the Volstead act. Why, then, is it necessary to add more teeth to the double and triple rows that already give terror to the law? The passage by the house of a bill designed to give further power to the law seems an entirely use less gesture. If prohibition were to be made effective by enactment of laws, the country would have been drier than Sahara long ago. Will not the “pint” measure have directly the opposite effect to that which is intended? The great difficulty so far encountered by the en forcement officers has been the lack of healthy pub lic sentiment in their support. A vast majority of the American people are apathetic on the question of prohibition. They are not inclined to ascribe to it the importance given the policy by the extremists on either side. So long as this state of mind exists, that long the law will lack the regard it should have. Efforts of the drys to add further terror by graft ing new penalties on the law will avail but little. Bootleggers and their patrons will not be frightened by more law on the question. If steps were taken to make the law more effective by its reasonable en forcement, without the sometimes sensational and sometimes silly proceedings that mark the record now being made, much of the difficulty would disap pear. Enough of the law already exists to govern the situation. If it is not effective, the remedy should be sought somewhere else, and not in the enactment of still more law that will be flouted just ns are those that now exist. DRYING OUT THE LOW GROUND. Nebraska presents some interesting physical prob lems. One has to do with drainage, or rather, dis tribution of water supply. From the Missouri river the state gradually rises over 4,000 feet to its west end. This steady uplift is scarcely perceptible to one who just crosses the state on a train. It is noticeable, though, in the swift current of the running stream*. One of the effects it produces is that out west the farmers are looking for more water for their acres while along the river they have to scheme how to get rid of some of the surplus. While Phelps, Kearney and Adams counties are planning for the tricounty supplementary irrigation ditch, farmers in Burt county have just let a con tract for- a drainage ditch that will cost $200,000. It will take care of the outfall of five little creek systems. Water that now runs down the hillsides and sours the ground along the creeks will be given a straight and narrow course to the Missouri. By this means a great many acre* that now languish be cause they are water-soaked will be made the more productive. This drainage method has nothing to do with the harmful and often wasteful methods of reclamation, such as were practiced in northern Minnesota, where pest bogs were drained and fire traps instead of good farming land were established. Man is learning a great many lessons from nature, and on* Is that dis turbing the balance frequently does a lot ,»f damage. “The wealth of the country is gradually flow ing into fewer and fewer hands,’’ says the Grand Island Independent. Is this a covert way of saying that the bootlegging business is growing greater? February 7 was a great disappointment to those who were hopeful that the midnight before would obviate the necessity of Ailing out their income tax returns. The Stone that some of the senators would have rejected has become the head of the corner. The prince danced with a blind girl, hut the item doesn’t say if he opened her eyes. Those Collins cave promoters got the publicity, if that is what they were after. ' Homespun Verse By Omaha’s Own Poa»— Robert Worthington Davie V- - 1 DIVORCE. Divorce Is the worst of nit evils! We il better lie chllilless, I say, Than bound by the law of mere mortals To travel a separate way. I-ove cen not endure If It’s shackled. And driven by legalized force; There's cheapness enough without adding A law that will nourish remorse. The orphan la rh-h In life's goodness Compared with the unwelcome one Who comes to the house that deplores him, And wishes him hencoward anon. Ths babes In the cradles need mothers Whose love Is a yellow brocade. • Whose courage and conscience la sacred And mothers are burn and not made. -— ■ “ " ' One Lesson We Can’t Seem to Leam y - ■ ■" ■ —— ■ —" — LET ONE MAN EAT AN OYSTER AND GET TYPHOID FEVER AND WERE OFF OYSTERS FOR LIFE /— -—— ' Letters From Our Readers All letter* must be signed, but name will be withheld upon request. Communications of 200 words and less, will be given preference. _ Enforcing the Law. Boston, Mass.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Although I am not a subscriber to The Omaha Bee, 1 have read many articles and editor ial* from your paper and have always understood that The Omaha Bee was one of the representative western newspaper*. In last Saturday'* Boston Tranacrlpt there appeared a reprint from The Omaha Bee, entitled, "Challenge to Civilization," which referred particu larly to Bloody Williamson county. In the last paragraph of the editorial you ask eeveral questions, I. e. 1. "Poes Illinois have no citizen with sufficient ‘political influence' to arouse the authorities to action?" 2. “Can murderous gangs run wild in Herrin or Chicago, settling affaire according to their own code of murder and rapine? The hlggeet funeral pa rade that ever passed in Chicago was that which followed Pion O'Bannion, dead gangeter, to the grave. But no report Is made of any arrest foe. hts killing." S, "Howr long can civilization en dure if these crime* go unpunished?" It I* surprising to me that there can be any question formulated, espe cially by a representative newspaper It seems to me thnt the answer to all these questions should he obvious, not only to the man In the street, hut to newspapers who should hove the very best source of information on political and public question*. With the state of politics In Illinois, such ns It is when people will elect a man Ilk# I.en Small for governor, the citizens who would hsvc any political Influence in the state of Illinois would he people like Umbrella Mike Boyle end others of his henchmen, whom Mr. Small pardoned from Jail sen fence* No. 2 says: "Can murderous gangs run wild In Herrin or Chicago, settling affairs according to their own cod* of murder’" The Torrlo shooting and the O'Ban nion killing was the result of nothing more or less than a bootleggers' war. The whole thing can he denned up If the newspaper* of thla country will support law and order and hold up a high standard. The answer to vettr third question la civilization cannot endure very long 7 “lie omrht V he l.'iick now, lie je«l atppped out a moment V' git n character wltneaa," anid Ilnotlegger Ike l.ark’* wife t' a raller thia mornln'. Movie renaorln' ahould begin at home. tCegvrigkt. ' If such crime* go unpunished, hut the reason imderlylng the state of such matter* In Chicago, Herrin and other places In the United States I* a con tempt for the law, which start* at the top and goes right down to those poor, Ignorant Immigrant* who com prise the rank and file of the polltl cal organizations In most big cities and such communities as Herrin. The so-called good citizens sre afraid to make any move because they will he exposed for their connection with bootlegging. 1 do not mean that they have any real connection financially with bootlegging, hut they buy their liquor from bootleggers, snd this is a club that Is held over their head*. This Istter Is not intended to he s temperance advocate. I am In no way Interested in the prohibition amendment except as It 1* a law, be cause I do not see how we can legis late people's tastes and desires except the fundamental code of decency which Is necessary to uphold law, order and propriety, but until there Is a concerted effort to clean tip the situation such as exist* In Herrin and Chicago, there will still he such quaa AIlVrKTIgKMKNT. RECOVER QUICK FROM GRIPPE OR FLU! After s spell of Grippe or flu, when your system I* all run down and your legs are so weak thsy can hardly hold up your body, the best thing you can do to get back your health and strength quick, Is to start right In taking Tanlac. It's wonderful how soon yon really do start to Improve! Tanlac sails right In snd puts tha system In fight ing trim. It clean* the blood, re vitalizes the digestive organs, gives you an appetite for solid food and makes you feel like a new person. Nothing will turn the trick quite as fast as Tanlac, made after the fa mous Tanlac formula from roots, bark* and herbs gathered from the four corne- s of the earth. Huy a bot tle to.ln . end get started hack to full strength and vigor. Take Tanlae Vegetable nils for Constipation * 'AN LAC ran your heajJth Ail, Ml I Break a Cold Right \Jp with "Pape’s Cold Compound" Take two tablet* every three hour* until three dose* are taken. The first dose always gives relief. The second anil third doses completely break tip the cold I* I e s ■ s n t snd safe to tske Uon tains no quinine or opiate*. Million* n*a "Papes ('old Compound." Price, thirty flv# cents. Jiiuggiai* guar •nle* a. f V4 . linn* asked as those contained in your editorial. R. Ct. WATSON, 41 North Market Street. The Ananias Cluh. "John." *ald his wife, "tell the guest* those old stories of yours. I always pet a kick out of hearing you tell those Jokes and I know they'll enjoy them."—Cincinnati Enquirer. \rt Exhibit "Have you seen the Hungarian prints?" "No: where i* he? I didn't know there was to tie any royalty at this affair."—Ianiisvllle Courier Journal When in Omaha Hotel Conant 250 Rooms—250 Baths—Rates $2 to 15 j ¥ ■ _ Great j vl Mardi Gras Gmival February 19*24, 1925 C Only in New Orleans can von witness nocb a cele bration of old-time npfendor and unrivaled beaatv — a festive season of feasting, gay pageants, magnificent Ivtlls ami tableaux. Mardi C»ras is eonoedevl to be the , world's gavest and most famous carnival celebration. Cl Carnival Week proper begins on the IT New Thru Passenger Train T| February 19. and runs IL Kansas City—New Orleans J] thru six days of fun and frolk-— a season ^ ol merry-masking ^ ^ „n « Oty Tkk* Ofcv. you 11 never lorgrt. 311 s. lMh Su tAtlamic «SSS', or write tv T. F. t'iodfrey jj IStWn r—Hill S^HHI B uemorat rsciFte Vaiuroad 00. I lit* SM N.iir«.IJi.a I I I IT DAILY St.HF.imJt I ApWSS I T.v. Omaha .t :56 p.m., Hon. I Ly. t'lty 10:00 p.m.. Mon. 1 Ar. Ft. Smith.. .P:0fl a m., Tuee. ft Ar. Little Rook. .1:60 p.m., Tur*. I i Ar. Alaxandrla. 18:10 a m., Weil. § Ar. Lk. Charles, 11:00 a.m., Wn) 1 I Ar. New Orleans 6:30 a.m., Wed. I SPECIAL REDUCED ROUND TRIP FARES FOR MARDI URAS — — Sunny sidetipH lake Comfort.nor forget , lhat Sunrise ne\)erfailed l - -----' /—---—---s. The lower branch of the legislature has passed a bill mnk In* the possession of a pint or more of liquor prima facie evi dence that the owner Of the liquor is a bootlegger. The bill now goes to the senate, where we shall use our personal influ ence to secure an amendment. The bill as It stands is not ■broad enough. We shall move to amend to make the possession of a deck of cards prima facie evidence that the owner Is the keeper of a gambling house. Also that the ownership of a knife with a blade more than two inches long, or a revolver shoL gun or rifle prima facie evidence that the owner l» medlUUn* murder in the first degree. When we Pass a Law let us make It horse high, bull-strong and pig-tight. Some bills Introduced In legislatures-not in Nebraska of course-are prima facie evidence that the introducer* couldn t com# within seven miles of passing a Binet test. We commend the placing of a guard about the horns of ‘Senator Norri« If another southern miss should decide that life is not worth living without a kiss from the senior senator from Washington, and hiked to Washington to get It, a world cataelvsm would result if she managed to catch the senator unaware. The sanctity of the senatorial lips must be pre* served at any cost. Our own opinion of the prohibitory law may not he of gen eral interest, but we make bold to express it. Prohibition is The law of the land and should be enforced. The purchaser or con sumer of illicit liquor is as guilty, morally, as the vendor. But there'is nothing sacred about the prohibition amendment or laws. One may appose without being guilty of a mortal sin. One may not violate, however, and escape guilt. If prohibi tion has any reason for being, that reason is economic, # - have never been convinced that the drinking of liquor is im moral. And we have yet to be shown that there is any scrip tural warrant for prohibition. Governor "Ma" Ferguson, proposing a tax on cigarets and other forms of tobacco, says. “Men who smoke are usually the most liberal men In the community.” Wise and clever politician is “Ma.” Most men smoke, and all men are susceptible to flat tery. Were we a voter In Texas we’d vote for "Ma" spite n inferno and the increased volume of water in the river. Refer# we forget it, the room we are preparing for our private use in our new home will have a rag carpet on the floor Not one of those fancy factory-made rag carpets, but a genuine hit-and-miss Missouri product, woven on a hand-and foot loom by an ancient female who smokes natural leaf in a stone pipe. . Our apologies to J. Hyde Sweet of the Nebraska City Press. We never wrote it "Nebraska City Tribune." We have the copy to prove it. We have provided the boiling oil in which to plunge the erring linotvper. The proof reader being a perfect lady, we have let her go unscathed save for an admonition. Our accuracy is on# of the things we proudest are of. And we'll bet the linotyper and the proof reader try to straighten oot the preceding sentence. Again we have been overruled. The interstate commerce commission rules that the surcharge on Pullman ticket*, which we hav* condemned bitterly, is justifiable. The commission holds that when it is possible to reduce the cost of travel the consequent having should be to the benefit of those who can not afford luxuries, but must “count the pennies." That may look reasonable at first glance, but the second time It fades a bit. We don't have to count our pennies—we have to ask for them. Riding In a Pullman is not necessarily a luxury: It Is often a penalty However, our opposition -to the surcharge baa been somewhat lessened by the fact that very frequently of late j we've been a guest. Now we are Informed that the bill proposing the closing of all movie and theatrical attractions was prepared by some jokesters. Members of the legislature need not go far out of their ordinary way to make a joke of the whole aeasion. WILL M. MAUPIN. j - ....'J1 A Sure Way to Prosperity Buy one of our guaranteed Typewriter* or Adding Machines. Save one-half. Easy terms. LOWER RENTAL RATES All Makes Typewriter Co., Inc. ^^20SSM8thSt^^^^PhoneAT2413|241^^