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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.. PublUhxr N. B. UPDIKE, Prexident BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLE*, Editor In ChiefBusiness Mannger MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tho Associated Press, of which Ths Bee Is a member, Is exclusively entitled to the uso 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 la a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognised authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee's circulation is regularly audited by their organisations. ^>__— Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908, at Omaha postoffice, under act of March 8, 18*9. ’ BEE TELEPHONES ] Private Branch Exchange. Ask for AT lantic 1000 the Department or Persoe Wanted. ~ OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Chicago—Steeer Bldg. Boaton—Globe Bldg. Los Angeles— Fred L. Hall, San Fernando Bldg. San Francisco-—-Fred L. Hall, Sharon Bldg. New York City—270 Madison Avenue Seattle—A. L. Nieta, 514 Leary Bldg. MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES DAILY' AND SUNDAY 1 year 16.00, 6 months $3.00. 3 months $1.75, 1 month 75e DAILY ONLY 1 year $4.50, 6 months $2.75, 3 month* $1.50, 1 month 75c SUNDAY ONLY 1 year $3.00, 8 months $1.75. 3 months $1.00. 1 month 50c Subscriptions outside the Fourth postal tone, or 600 miles from Omaha: Daily and Sunday. $1.00 per month; daily only. 75c per month: Sunday only. 50e per month. CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Morning and Sunday .1 month 86c, 1 week 20e _ Evening and Sunday .1 month 66c, 1 week 15e Sunday Only .. month 20c. 1 week 6c -------/ OmahanlDhere the IDest is at its Best SUPER-POWER FOR A SUPER-NATION. When the Sherman anti-trust law was enacted the general use of electricity was just beginning. For ten years streets had been lighted. For two years trolley cars had been propelled. But the methods were crude, and nowadays are regarded as ; archaic. Research work was going on. Edison and . others were busy, and very soon the giant was being j harnessed. It was a feat-in those days to talk from one end of town to the other over the telephone. Now one talks across the continent. Then the air was filled with overhead wires. Now the wires are underground. Millions of American citizens make daily use of electrical appliances and devices w'ho know nothing of the conditions that prevailed in 1890, for they had not yet been born. They can appreciate what is going on now, because they are part of it. All around them changes are taking place, and making-note of the marvels achieved, the young man or woman of today looks ahead to the greater changes of tomor row. One of these is the super-power system of electrical distribution. Omaha is included in the general plan, which will connect all the important cities from the Missouri river to the Atlantic seaboard in one great generat ing and distributing system. Two things are to be accomplished. Lower cost of manufacture and greater certainty of service. Giant Power it is_called. It is not a myth, for It has been carefully worked out by cautious, hard-headed engineers. Water power and steam power will be united. Generating plants will be set up at pit mouth wherever possible. Enormous savings will be made. And current far beyond the amount consumed today will be pro duced and used. But the anti-trust law will have to be modified before these gigantic consolidations can be made effective. Conceived on the theory that the little old 75-k. w. station should be protected against the ag gression of the 100,000-k. w. plant, the law will also operate to prevent the system of 30,000,000 or more becoming a factor to overshadow the 100,000 in stallation. Super-power for a super-nation is coming. With it will also come freedom for industrial combina tions. Sunrise on the era of giants is at hand, and as a nation we should be ready to. greet its light. WHEN THE RIVERS GO TO WORK. Senator Arthur Capper, writing for Capper’* Weekly, makes this interesting statement: “A cargo of wheat went from Omaha, to St Louis by rail and from St. Louis to the flulf by barge line. The saving between the Joint rail water and the all rail haul was *7,500. Had the inland waterway system been in complete operation the grain need have gone only to Kansas City by rail, thence all the rest of the way by water, the raving to the shipper would virtually have been doubled. "Testifying before a house rommittee, Slate Senator K. E. Frizeli, who, perhaps, grows more wheat than any other Kansan, declared the present operation of the .Mississippi barge line from St. Louis to the (Julf saved Kansas wheat farmers not leas than $4,000,000 In 1024." This states the case for the river very completely. The federal government has invested $174,000,000 in river improvements, but these are not-connected «o as to be of general service. Estimates con template the expenditure of $70,000,000 to complete „ the links necessary to connect the system. The ap propriation bill for the War department, just sent through congress, carries a budget item of $40,000, 000 for rivers. At least $17,000,000 will be needed to repair and maintain work already done, leaving $23,000,000 for carrying on. Work between Kansas City and St. I.ouis on the Missouri river will be continued. In time the work north of Kansas City must be taken up. The stretch between Kansas City and Sioux City should he as serviceable as any. Its use will serve the Nebraska, Iowa and Dakota farmers, and save them many mil lion! in cost of reaching markets. Putting the rivers to work is the biggest thing on the program for the mlddlewest. - ^ i SPIRI'J THAT MAKES A CITY. Kansas City recently witnessed a real calamity. Fire destroyed the great building in which the au tomobile show was being held. There was a loss of a million and a quarter. Before the firemen had ceased playing water on the emberi, plans were laid for constructing a better building on the aite. The American Royal Livestock show will continue. Fine exhibition of community courage. Kansas City’s people have faith In themselves, In their present and their future. If th^y had not held thla faith, and backed It with fighting energy, the great city they have builded never would have come to pass. No discounting the advantage Kansas City had In location at tha gateway to the southwest, where such abundance of riches has been developed. That is not enough, however, to create a great in dustrial and commercial center. Add to that advantage the human element, the ■trong-hearted, far-seeing, courageous men who laid the foifridation and built up on It, and you can un derstand Xansas City. Men made that town If ever man mada any town. Wa congratulata our neighbors down stream on tfie splendid exhibition of civic pride and energy they gKve In their resolve to at once put up a bigger pad batter exhibition ball. We commend this exam I pie to Omaha. Faith is all right, but faith without j works is as nothing. Let the two be combined here, ! as in Kansas City, and note the result. GOOD DOSE FOR OMAHA. William A. Fraser of the Woodmen of the W’orld will probably not set up as a physician. Yet he did prescribe a dose for Omaha that may well be swal lowed. Nor. should it taste bad, either. Mr. Fraser suggests that the way to make a bigger and a better Omaha is to buy in Omaha what fs needed for use in Omaha. This applies to all lines of business. We do not intend to particularize. Every business man in Omaha knows of the situa tion. Of the amount of money that is spent else where for articles and supplies that can be pro cured at home. For service that is offered by home town concerns. .ATI this can be remedied if the men who are most interested in Omaha prosperity only devote themselves to the development of what in turn will bring better conditions for themselves. Mr. Fraser makes his proposition in a broad and generous sense. He does not want Omaha to become narrow or parochial in the least degree. Instead of this he says: "I do not mean to Infer that a stone wall should he built around Omaha and that our entire business should be confined to the city or even to the state, but I do say that all things being equal our home Institutions should be given due consideration when goods are to be purchased by Omaha or Nebraska citizens.” “Omaha is no ldnger a one-horse town, neither is it a one-man town,’’ says Mr. Fraser. But, if Omaha i» to fulfill its destiny, to become the great center of industry and commerce it should be, every citizen must regard it as a civic duty to patronize home concerns. He will find that this leads to civic pride, and results will surely follow effort. Omaha should, take the Fraser dose without batting an eye. SOLID LICKS FOR FUTURE. As*fine a bit of news as has been printed in a long time is that which tells of the offer made by a group of Omaha men for the assets of the M. E. Smith & Co. concern. This will save for Omaha a great wholesale es tablishment. One known generally throughout the land. It was an old concern doing business over a wide territory before falling into the trouble that overwhelmed it. The value of such an institution to the city is not easy to he computed. Not only the payroll of more than *50,000 a month, the steady employment of more than 500 people. These are • big items, but do not tell the entire story. Presence of such a store is an addition to the prestige of the community. An advantage to the general trade. Customers coming to do business with M. E. Smith & Co. will also do business with other firms. To preserve such an institution from ex tinction, is a great service to the entire region. The good faith of the Omaha men who have hid for the assets is supported by the substantial de posit of *200,000. In no better way could their con fidence have been shown. Their trust deserves sup port of the community. When courage backed by money comes to the rescue after this fashion, it means that trust is firm in the future of Omaha as a market center. No amount of talk or publicity of any nature can equal this act as a proof of the solid front Omaha presents. A few men are doing a powerful lot of good in the way of restoring to Omaha some of the spirit that was lagging. Releasing energy to supplant lethargy. Putting pep in place of apathy. Not a boom. Blowing no bubbles. Chasing no rainbows. Just doing things for the good of the community, and doing them in a solid, thoroughly workmanlike way. THAT SURCHARGE. The interstate commerce commission has decided that the railroads are entitled to make a surcharge on Pullman tickets. No one can dispute the right, as tha law so provides. The law permits the railroads to make passengers pay to them one-half as much as is paid for the Pullman accommodations. Of course that surcharge means considerable extra revenue for the railroads. That was the in tention. But there exists a doubt whether the extra revenue compensates for the ill-feeling created by the surcharge. It gives rise to a suspicion, however ill-founded it may be, that the railroads deliberately curtail day coach service in order to realise on the sale of Pullman accommodations. The argument that use of Pullmans is in the na ture of a luxury is not good. They are no longer to be so classed, and even if they are, the regular Pullman charge is high enough without having a surcharge tacked on. The railroad managers might as well ask them selves if the revenue derived from the surcharge compensates them for the resentment it arouses In the minds of the traveling public. It is gradually dawning upon the people that the constitution is not something to be tinkered with by any reformsmith who happens to come along with a Great Remedy. Clarence Darrow says the human race is not worth saving. But he has profited hugely by Having some of its worst specimens. Report is that Russia is thinking of paying up. Just thinking. '-■ -N Homespun Verse By Omaha’s Own Poat— Robert Worthington Davie > —-—* PROSPECTS FOR BETTER DAYS. Writ** a feller from the country where all things are big and fine; "You are welcome to my pleasures, If you'll trade your Job for mine; You nan have my eream and butter, and the orioles will sing While you plow your ground and seed It In the blamy days of spring, "Yon can spand your Idla hours In the winter hauling hay,— You can chop down trses and saw them up to pass the time away, And you'll not ba bothared avar by a boss who doesn't know That you are tha least bit human from tha way ha makes you go. "In the autumn whan you'ra working you ran look up at. tha trees. And behold them there Ilka giants swaying In tha gantla breer.e; You can aea. aa sees tha arttat, atich perfection and delight, Where tha flelda of corn are reaching mllee and mtlaa beyond your eight.’’ I im gripped with faaclnatlon. and I'm half Inclined to go Where the treee behave sedately, and the corn and nnlona grow,— i Where tha moon of night entiles sweetly while one dreams and does tha .chorea, , And la wholly captlvatad by tha dear old Out of Ooora. I r ' " Seems to Be at Least One Slight, Inaccuracy in Gen. Mitchell’s Testimony *____.___ — WHAT DID ^_ HE MEAN <e NEVER, ALLOWED TO SAY „ ANYTHING /----—N Letters From Our Readers All letters must be signed, but name will be withheld upon request. Communications of 200 words and lass, will be given preference. __I---/ To Stop War. Valentine, Neb.— To the Editor of The Omaha. Bee; The foundation of war and murder Is the state legisla ture legalizing murder. A bill is now before the Nebraska legislature to do away with capital punishment, which is only another name for legalized murder. Have you watched and seen that every time anyone la executed by the state, murders Increase? 1 ha\e, for many years. They do mul tiply. One reason being. It i.s the sub ject most talked about (when witness pfl to the execution had TO tie stopped, because one or more of them always committed murder very soon there after) alxjtit everywhere; headlines on front pages of newspapers of sur rounding circumstances; passions were aroused In those who allow them •elves to hate someone else. “Thou shalt not kilt' makes legalizing it the most coldblooded, calculating, pie meditated way when done by the state. Each reader of this, you write to your member ul the house and senate at IJncoln. Do it now. A. B. Wide and Prohibition. Council Bluffs, Ta.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Mr. Maupln f» en tlrelv correct in the assertion that no scriptural authority or basis can he found to sustain prohibition, and the effort to thus suppress the use of In toxlcatlng liquors. justification thereof, from a Biblical standpoint, is impossible until we first realise end admit that our people pos •ess only a form of <iodllne»s and deny the power which always inheres in trite righteousness. In other words, If we wer# a Christian people or held more limn a form of rights oneness, the leavening Influence would make prohibition unnecessary. True Christians cause the water of the fountain of life to flow so freely that men will no longer desire the things which are harmful or defiling. Prohibition le pure Mohammedan ism and contrary to the spirit and purpose of Jesus Christ in every par ilcular. Force le the cornerstone of the former religion, while liberty and freedom ofc choice ere elemental al ways In the kingdom of heaven, in adopting prohibition, our nation fol lowed the lead of Turkey and Ms hornet, and every true Christian must blush with shame, for we have nevei before drawn our inspiration there from or copied the Turk for virtue. Ood Is In nd sense a prohibitionist. If otherwise. He would have con strueted en Impassable fence around the tree of knowledge at the creation □ Martin House Painter Lem Beasley is varnishm' toast in a sandwich shop. Nothin’* ever said about who a* .rends t’ th throne when a Chicago Bring gita riddled with bullet*. “ iPufivrlfliL Hi! * to prevent access thereto by our first patents. He knew all th* tragedy of sin and tba. pain, misery and death which It hu* entailed upon mankind, but His love and Infinite wisdom were too great and vast for Him to create us with a moral hall and chain hung upon us for restraint. lie alone knows the meaning of true liberty, and designed to preserve it to His creature*, at whatever cost. Jesus Christ came to give mankind j the power to choose good and also the motive and ability to resist and ovei com© the evil in al! its forms. This Is th# on# mission and purpose of Hi N ET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION Far JANUARY, 1*25 THE OMAHA BEE Daily .74,002 Sunday .77,234 Does wot Include return*, loft over*. sample* or paper* spoiled In prlatlof and Includoo wo special •ale* or froo circulation of any kind. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mfr. .Subscribed and sworn to before MO tkis 2d day of February. 1923. / W. H QUIVEY. (See!) Notary Public — ——~---—yt followers, to make known this wonder ful Savior to sin-cursed humanity. No greater blasphemy seems possible than to liken efforts for prohibition to Christianity. They are utterly op posed in every detail and the w^rld has been made immeasurably worse by all the prostituted efforts of the church In behalf of that principle. One person truly caused to know Jesus Christ Is a greater victory for true teniperan e than all the efforts in the whole world for prohibition since man was first created. I*. H. MONROE. Robert >1. I.afsjette. One of the great English papers has twice referred to one of the candidates In our recent election as Eafavette. Th.s should tie ample reason for the Wisconsin senator declaring war upon ft rent Ih itiin.— l-o* Angeles Times. When in Omaha Hotel Conant 250 Room#—250 Rath#—Rates $2 to $3 ASH At the Show The Special Six Sedan For Fivt Passengers For Constipation. Biliousness^ Headache « * rW" The following letter from a genuine old-timer will be read with inlet eat by many other old-timers, one of whom we at e which, If you know what we mean: Auburn, Neb.—Reading your stuff every day reminds me very frequently of the good old days of long ago. Did you tner '‘work the hook for a phat take'."’ Fresh from the mili tary service of the civil war I went into the office of the old Nebraska Advertiser at Prownville to learn the printing trade. V ent out to Pawnee City In the fall of ’G» and assisted In es tablishing the first newspaper in that village, the Pawnee • Tribune. Was sticking type In the print shop at Brownvilie when Wash and Frank Fairbrother established the Chleftalrl at Tecumseh. If there Is any other man than myself living today who was in any way connected with that old newspaper at Brownvilie during the latter 'GOs and early '70s, 1 do not know who he Is. I could tell you a lot about the early days, but not at this time. JIKNRY SANDKRS. Did ever work the hook? Bid we ever Jeff for the beverages? Did we ever paste a cold dupe? Of course we never did. We were a model young man while working at the trade. O well, we may have soldiered a bit now and then, knowing that the hook contained something Juicy. And we ' admit an occasional thirst. Probably, too. we once or twice pasted a cold one to get even with the foreman for discrimina tion. Rut what a wonderful store of printer lore our Auburn friend must have. Nearly 60 years since first he fronted up to a case and pegged type by hand. Ever notice how much difference It makes in the way you say a thing, i We notice it now and then as we endeavor to find standing room in the street cars. One conductor will say. "Move up in front, please,” and say it in such a tone of voice that not a single passenger stirs. Another conductor will say, ‘ Move up in front, please," and say it in such a way that every body makes a concerted move forward. One automobile horn will snarl at you and make you turn around shake your flst ^ . «l the driver and mutter words unprintable. Another horn will make Its announcement in such a way that you fee! impelled to turn around and beg pardon for being in the way. Birth control does not Intrigue us. Eugenic marriages hold not a bit of Interest. At our age It is girth control that worries us. and we are Interested only in seeing that true love; not expediency. Is the controlling factor in marriage. We are too blamed busy with the present to worry a-tall about the fu ture of the race. We have no desire to engage in reforming mankind. We are kept fairly busy restraining impulses to kick over the traces. We try to love all mankind,s but confess that now and then we fall when we see so many people working overtime attending to everybody's business but Their own. Ptesident Coolidge did not pick his secretary of agriculture from the best state in the 1'nion. 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