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The Omaha Bee] M O R N I N G—E VEWIN G—S U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Publisher N. B. UPDIKE, President BAILARD DUNN, JOY M. HACKLER. Editor in Chief Business Manager MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of ^1) 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 is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognised authority on circulation audita, and The Omaha Bee's circulation is regularly audited by their organi rations. Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908. at Omaha postoffice, under act of March 8, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for AT lanlie 10041 tha Department, or Person Wanted. ^ 1 ianilc 1UW OFFICES I Main Office—17th and Farnam Chicago- Fteger Bldg. Boston—Globe Bldg. J*»s Angeles— Fred L. Hall, San Fernando Bldg. Ban Francisco— Fred L. Hall. Sharon Bldg. New York City—270 Madison Avenua Seattle—A. L. Nic»*. fit4 Leary Bldg. MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES DAILY AND SUNDAY 1 yaar $5.00, 5 months $8 00. 8 months $1.75, 1 month 75e v DAILY OhfLY 1 year $4.50, 8 months $2.?fi. 8 months $1.50, 1 month 76c SUNDAY ONLY 1 year $8.00, « months $1.76, 8 montha $1.00, 1 monlb 50c Subscriptions outside the Fourth postal r,one. or 600 miles from Omaha: Daily and Sunday, $1.00 per monlh; daily only, 76c per month; Sunday only, 50e per month. CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Morning and Sunday .1 month 85e, 1 week 20e Evening and Sunday .1 month 65c, 1 week 16* Sunday Only .1 month ?0e, 1 week fic V Omaha-IDhere the IDest is at its Best GOOD ROADS GAINING GROUND. A decided victory for good roads has been won in the house, where revenue bills must be originated. By a vote of 77 to 22 on its final passage, the house adopted the gasoline tax measure in the form that is most acceptable to the advocates of a definite pro gram. A tax of 2 cents a gallon will be collected on gasoline used to drive pleasure cars and motortrucks. It will go into the general fund, to be used in matching dollars with the federal government in the construc tion of highways. Any surplus of the tax collected, above the amount needed to equal the federal ap propriation, will be prorated between the counties. One-third on the basis of the number of cars regis tered; one-third on the area of the county, and one third on the mileage of postroads in the county. This division seems to be on an equitable basis. It is far more reasonable than was the 60-50 plan, which would have allotted but half the tax to the general fund and the other half to the counties. Also It. does away with the glaring inequality of the plan for division on area. Under this plan, the repre sentative from Banner county stated, his home county would receive $7.15 for each dollar paid In tax. Rodman of Douglas pointed out that eight western counties, from which $31,000 in tax on gaso line would be collected, would receive $310,000 in the proposed distribution. Four eastern counties, Douglas, Lancaster, Gage and Dodge, will pay 41 per cent of the tax, and neither will share propor tionately under either the 50-50 or the area plan. The Byrum amendment, adopted in committee of the whole, takee rare of the distribution after a fashion that leaves little room for criticism. The prospect of the measure as approved in committee of the whole being passed is good, and the sentiment in the senate is to accept the plan as approved by the house. ' A great step has thus been taken toward the goal of good roads in Nebraska. The whole has not yet been attained, but a start is made, and work along the lines now planned will aid in bringing the final result. Nebraska is going to get out of the mud. DAWES BOOTS FINE CHANCE. The remarkable proceedings in the senate on Tuesday afternoon possess a quality of humor that in a large measure offsets the bitterness of defeat lhat must be felt by the president. Nomination of Charles B. Warren to be attorney general was re / jected by a single vote. This is bad enough, but a sorrier tale goes before it. , On the first vote the senator* divided equally. Forty voted to confirm and as many to reject the nomination. Had the vice president been in the chair, to exercise his constitutional function, his vote in the affirmative would have brought the confirma tion of the nominee. But Mr. Dawes was absent. Search failed to disclose his whereabouts. After a senator had changed hi* vote from aye to no, to give him a tactical advantage, which proved futile, the nomination was rejected. Senator Walsh, who led ■he opposition to Warren, thpn clinched his victory with a successful motion to table the motion to re consider, and the fight was over. Senators who resented the scolding given by the vice president a week before had triumphed in a double sense. They not only sent to Coventry the vice president, but they also wreaked a bit of ven geance on the executive. Coolidge's offense was in presenting as a member of his cabinet an attorney who bad once represented a great sugar refining concern. When it is recalled that the democrats nominated a presidential candidate who was ob jected to because be was at the time attorney for a great banking group, the indignation of Senator W'alsh at the presentation of a sugar-trust lawyer to be attorney general of the United State* may be properly valued. However, the senate remains consistent in Its in eincerity, but this fact will be lost sight of for the 'ime in the spectacle of the vice president’s action. Mr. Dawes will hardly have another such an oppor tunity during his term. It was a chance that comes rarely enough. The lesson will not he missej), but the greet event has passed. SHE IS EARNING HER KEEP. With admiration for her energy we record the fact that a lady pig over in Page county, Iowa, has presented her owner with 81 marketable piga during her three years of life. Her last offering on the altar of her aax totaled 21 pink-nosed, curly-tailed little grunters, who in good peaaon will he worked np into ham, bacon, side meat, sausage and the like for the edification of the world. Not ao many years ago an "expert.” had a lot of fun because The Omaha Bee said that pigs would come at the rate of 12 to 14 In a litter. We then were enabled to support the assertion by referring to certain prolific females who were industriously increasing the porcine census by several more st a sitting thsn the number we had modestly regarded a« safe. Now this Iowa exemplar of fecund mother hood has put the mark so high thst It may never he overtopped. Her progeny, going over the scales at around 200 pounds each at present day prlcea means that her owner will have taken in more than |2,100 from sales of ths young sow's offspring, and ha still hai the low. The incident ie noteworthy for several lessons, but non# more than that there is at least one pig that is abundantly paying for her keep. LOOKING AFTER THE FOREST TREES. Fresident Coolidge has announced the week of April 27-Mav 3 will be “Forest Week’’ for Ameri cans. He calls attention again to the rapidly disap pearing forest growth of the country, and to the need for careful attention that timber for future uses may be available. His words ought to strike deep, especially these: "Our forests ought to be put to work and kept *t work. I <lo not minimize the obstacle* that have been met. nor the difficulty of changing old Ideas and practices. We must all put our hHnd to this common task. It is not enough that the federal, state and local governments take the lead. There must be a change In our national attitude. Our In - dttslrles, our land owners, our farmers, all our citi zens must lesCn to trest our forests as crops, to be used, but also to be renewed. We must learn to tend our, woodlands as carefully as we tend our farms.’’ This applies to Nebraska as well as to any other state in the union. Unfortunately, the people of this'commonwealth have not yet been awakened to the seriousness of the situation, nor to what may reasonably be done to provide against a woodless fu ture. Some know the possibilities, but not enough. Farmers are too familiar with the rotation of crops that require a few weeks of months to plant, mature and market, and do not care to waste time on any thing that takes years to mature. Yet they are pay ing for the folly that has wasted the timber resources of the United States. Everything into which lumber enters costs more each day, because the supply is being reduced, the distance is being increased, and the demand i» spreading. A farm woodlot will pay for itself, be cause of the material it will afford that now is bought at high prices. Our sand hills region will grow pine trees where nothing else grows. This is not guess work. The federal government has demonstrated the fact by its fine experiment at Bessey Nursery. Some day Nebraskans will awaken to the value of the great asset that is now neglected. The president’s proclamation puts the start of “Forest Week” several days after the date of Arbor day, April 22, in Nebraska. Our citir.ens should ob r.erve the holiday as they always have, by planting trees. Then they should observe Forest Week by planting more trees. Also, by informing themselves as to what is possible in the use of land that now is wasted. Maybe in time the sentiment will grow to such a point the legislature will see the merit In a bill for the creation of a Bureau of Forestry under the Department of Agriculture, whose business it will he to foster forest tree planting in Nebraska. -- I BILL KNOWS BETTER. Our old friend, W. H. Green, who live* on for lorn hopes, has a la^to say about the action of the republican senators who disciplined those who bolted the party. One has to read Mr. Green’* letter at least twice to get his drift. He is subtle, and ironic as well, and he hopes to get much political suste nance from keeping alive factional dissenaions in the republican and democratic parties. Any defections from either, he feels, will ultimately result in accre tions to the “progressives” he now temporarily af fects. We say “temporarily” advisedly, for W. H. Green is a bird of passage so far as politics is concerned. He is consistent only in his inconsistency. Less than a year ago he, in company with several others, at tended a conference at St. Paul, where the farmer labor party was to be hog-tied by the communists. Just what happened has never been told, but all of a sudden Green, Beebe and others from Nebraska found themselves ,outside the tent, and not even looking in. Later on they were attached to the La Follette movement in Nebraska. A conference aji Grand Island, where Frank Harrison counted nos^s at least, twice to make up the legal number of at tendants, Green and Beebe were again separated from command. Still later, the flare-up between Harrison and Otto Muta over the control of the party's affairs in Nebraska gave them another jolt. Through each of these mutations of party man agement, “Bill" Green has kept himself regular in his irregularity. Nobody better than he knows the power and force of party discipline. Why, then, does he complain when the republicans administer to some of their own recalcitrant# a dose so often taken himself, or helped to give to others? ■ ~ " ■ -- ' “You pays your money and you takes your choice.” If you go to Florida the aea sharks will get. you, and out in California it is the land sharka you j have to dodge. It might *profit those angry senators to atop and ponder over the fact that the Dawes plan brought $21;000,0fl0 from Germany during February. Vice President Dawea’ fame as a musirian will he made if he succeeds in making the senate dance to his syncopation. “What ails boxing?” plaintively queries an es teemed down east contemporary. Well, we’d aay locomotor ataxia. Nebraska’s senator* are reported to be for the World Court. In this they reflect home sentiment. It is now up to the senate to devise some method of demoting unsatisfactory presiding officers. Another “cult” leader has been declared insane, hut what about those who adopted the cult? The robins are here, but the worms have not yet thawed out. —---“\ Homespun Verse By Omaha’* Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie -----J JUST A SITTIN’ BY THE WINDER. Juat a alttln’ by the winder. While you're many mile* away,— For there'* no on* here to hinder Anything T do or eay: I preeum* that T am lonely, Decking out erroaa the loam: I am dreaming of you only— When, oh. when will you he homo? And wander# forth at *uri.t»t •Julte a taak la It, I'm finding. Keeping hone# Juat a a you do,— Doing thing* that keep reminding Me how much I'm needing you. Surely, 1 receive ynlir letter Kvery morning, hut ’twill he Much lee* loneaome nnd for better When you acamper home lo me. Juat a alllln' by the winder In the warm ray* of the aim, For there I* no one to hinder Me from doing all that'* done. Much I do of rourae, I do It When In dream# remote I ro«m— It will wait till you get to It When #t length you Journey horn* Getting to Be Almost a Pleasure HAVF YOU f NOTICED HOW" \ MUCH LIGHTER. THE INCOME. TAYL I? THIS Year ? ».—.. ■■ ------s; Letters From Our Readers 1 All letter* must be signed, but name will be withheld upon request. Commuaications of 200 words and less, will be given preference. / How to Obtain Concord. i Columbu*. Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Broadly apeaklng. tha character of a government and a nation's Integrity la Judged by the stable value of its money or exchange medium, which circulates in th# chan nels of trad# and commerce and sus tains the nation * activities. Also a man's word which circulates between man and man from mouth to ear and by other methods" in every field of human endeavor Is an exchange rne dinm. T.lke money, t he word i* regarded a standard measure of value, but be cause of indiscretion In handling both or either, their values fluctuate. Ac ■ orditig to the vaiying iace and na tional conception of such things, the standard value of money 1* estah lished by a people's statutory law. and’the standard valua of the word is established by a people # moral law. In the confusion ot thought and confusion of tongue It is difficult to maintain at par tha valua of word and money In a nation where only one language I* spoken: and in a na tion of many languages th# situation becomes more Intolerable. Strife In creases confusion and depreciate* the value ot word and money and the* maintenance of order present# aj most perplexirtg task. To attempt to: stabilize the fundamentals of society and harmonize civilization hy way of a world state seems a forlorn hope. In a world of a thousand languages, each of which has Its own logic and method of reasoning within Itself, 1* rent by hate and antagonism, even seeing through different mental and physical eyes. No human effort, he it at ita source ever so sincere, can hope to establish uniform and arnica bie understanding. # In the absence of a etmpier and more rational plan, then a world state to strengthen the word and the money value# which constitute the basis of peace and: tranqullitv, th* present civilization i appears doomed to follow the course of ail its predecessors. O. FOLKNER. Those Insurgent Republican Senator*. Omaha.—To the Editor of The j Omaha Bee: Inasmuch at Nebraska was In th# limelight last Monday, when tha Iron heel of tha brutal ma jority of th# plutocratic republican senate Was placed upon th# neck# of the protesting insurgent members. Nebraskans have more than the or dinary privilege of having their say. Wo are not greatly disturbed over tire procedure, not that w# ara out of sympathy with those disciplined eens tor*, hut that Is part of th# game. -\ Abe Martin V j The callousness of those democratic senators In permitting those insur gents to he politically crucified visual izes that bunch of torle* as a flock of political buzzard* hovering about ex pectlng to pick the bones of the vic tims on the grill. That smile that has been away from the faces of the democrats for flvo years returned in a hectic fashion. Those senatorial handmaids of ape rial privilege from the southern sea •oast states have no fundamental sym pathy with the cause those insurgent lepublican senators plead. Will the radical sentiment repre rented in part bv those disciplined re publican senators hearken to the cr> r>f “Wolf! wolf!" by those democrats who wish to get up to the feed trough again? AVe doubt it. AVe sat at n breakfast table in the Driscoll din Ing room a few feet away from the rhairman of the interstate commerce committee of the house of represents lives. Mr. Adamson of Alabama. AN' J. Bryan was to arrive In. Washington that day. In a voice that was heard rill over the dining room this south ern congressman said: *T have a dog that can get as many votes as Bryan. Imagine otir# astonishment a feu hours later at seeing this political hypocrite coming down the hall at th»* Baleigh hotel with his hat in hia hand i to call upon the Nebraskan. This southern lory despised Bryan, but he knew that he had to have the Bryan following In order to get control of the government and consequently the federal patronage in the southern states. The members of the third party group all over the land watch thD political evolution with complacency. We say to the victorious republicans This Is your day and on with the dance. Don’t let any handwritings on the wall disturb your feasts. To the democrats we inquire Where is the sackcloth and ashe« you rascals should have he#*n wearing for the ADV ERTI8EME.NT. UPSET STOMACH, Chew a few Pleasant Tablets, —Stomach Feels Fine! So pleasant, so Inexpensive so quirk to settle an upset stomach The mo ment "Pape s Pis pepsin " reaches the stomach all pain and dletresa from In digestion or a aour, gassy stomach vanishes. Millions know Its msrle. All drtiB slats recommend this harmless atom sch correctIve. NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION For FEBRUARY, 1925 THE OMAHA BEE Daily.76,202 Sunday .77,710 Dne* wot Include return*. left over*, aamplei nr papeia epniled In printing end include* no •|»ef»nl ante* *r free circulation of any bind V. A. BRIIXiF. Cir. Mgr. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2d day of March, 102ft. W. If QUIVEY. (Seal) Notary Public T« huminitf kflttr in tim* «( (rdteil Hrcd. - "Lookin' up from a drink Ml. wrinkle th' forehead," writre Mies Kiwn Lippinrut, in "Milady's Cor ner," in th’ Weekly Slip Horn. "Oh, ha'a worth rnnsiderahle money. Ha’a got. a grown daughter that hain't. workin'," wa heard a feller aay t’day. tCopriiaht, ini > Sunny side up lake Comfort, nor forget. j lhat Sunrise ne^r/ailedus ---- It Is a little early. of course, hut already we feel the Im pulse to vet out the favorite llshing tackle and hie awav for a day or two. Living In an apartment, we are lgnorant.of habitats nf (tie fish worms hereabouts, and we will not again try to pur chase (lie aforesaid of the supply houses out by the lake. The woi ms provided there are all In the kindergarten stage, and we want ’em In the high school stage. No self respecting Ash would even nibble at the diminutive worms that the halt houses furnish. We are going to make connections with some freckle faced. tow headed lima!! boy who knows right w here to dig for the big. fat, milky ones. It amuses 11s greatly to hear our Omaha friends talking about going up into Minnesota, or out into Colorado or W' omtng to get good fishing. M e re tried ’em all. and we ere here to say that when we want bass and crappy, or perch, well tackle again the lakes In Brown ami Cherry counties. And when we want trout we'll tackle the stream* and drainage ditches In Srotts Bluff county. An automatic telegraph-typewriting machine Installed In the telegraph room of The Omaha Bee excites mv admiration. The blooming contraption just writes awav by the hour, tak Ing down the day's news from all the world. Somehow or other labor saving devices never served us much. One summer, when we were a hoy, father did have a crew come with a cir cular saw and cut up six or eight cords of wood, thus giving us release from the old bucksaw and aawbuck. But apart from that we have ne\er profited. The typewriter merely added to the sum total of our labor. We paused 011 the street recently to watch an electric driven concrete mixer at work. Time was when concrete was mixed on a hoard by a crew of huskies using shovels. We wat< bed ati electric hoist carrying concrete and brick many stories In t ne air. We put in one never to be forgotten summer carrying brick and mortar up a ladder lu a hod. Marble cutter- now use an electric dingus. They used to use a mallet and chisels. We forgot one convenience for our use There 1" the pern 11 sharpener out In the city editor's room. Iwo-thirds of the time we forget It's there arid sharpen our pencil with a dull pocketknlfe. Personally, we worry not a tall aliont the "word of mouth" law. We strive to make Intelligent selection (if candidates be fore entering the election booth, and we can read and write English. We have no Interest In any political machine Tf We did worry about the law. or cared greatly about It. we'd most certainly attack Its constitutionality. Before anv judge Is called upon to deride that point, however, we want to remark that the judge who would uphold it wouldn't Increase our respect for him. We have just finished perusing our copy of “Nebraska Beautiful.” compiled by Dr. Ceorge E. f.'ondra and published by the Conservation and Soil Survey department of the state. It added greattv to our knowledge of Nebraska and Increased our pride therein and loyalty thereto. There Is just one trouble about “Nebraska Beautiful.” The supply Is too limited. A copy should be In every Nebraska family, and a million or so copies distributed in other states, especially in those state* to which Nebraskans have flocked to spend the money they never could have made anywhere else than Nebraska. "Nebraska Beauti ful'' is not a bulletin—It Is as interesting as the most popular of published romances, and a real descriptive history of a wonder ful commonwealth. WILL M. MAT’PIN. --— grievous transgressions you were guiltv of when you were last in power? W. H. GREEN. Favors Greater Air Service. Lexington. Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee. J wish to compli ment you upon the stand you take on otir nation's aerial defense question. I sincerely believe it the duty of every true American citizen to urge our congressmen or representatives at Washington for quick action on this most vital question of today. Vital because our very future exist ence a* a free nation possibly hinges upon if, for we are well aware we have our enemies as well ss Indi viduals have: take, for instance, the lives of our greatest and noblest men, such ss Lincoln. Garfield and McKin ley. Did they not give t*he supreme sacrifice so that the great principles of this nation may live? They were truly noble men. Yes. great men. but fell by the hands of their aesasitis on account of prejudice, envy, or what ever motive. Likewise today nations are envying and eyeing one another for suprem acy of the sir; the moat susplctoua eye todav is the one with a slant In it. Let us practice true economy and ask for the strongest and most np-to the minute aircraft in existence. RET. Ily Their Own Works. “I understand that Crimson Gulch has passed an ordinance forbidding any citizen to buy bootleg liquor from Snake Ridge.M “Yep.” answered Cactus Joe. “The Gulch 1* their only market. If them Snake Ridgera have to drink their own stuff there won't be any of ’em left In six weeks. We’re goin' to put that there Iniquitous village off the map, but we want to proceed lawful and strategic/1—Washington Star. R(MSormre. "I wish you would assure m*." said a nervous woman, approaching the captain of an excursion boat, "that this vessel would be able to eonte safe ly through a storm." “[.ady.” proudly asserted the grlz ?|ed skipper, "this old craft has come through ao many storms that half; her timbers is unj'lnted."—American I.egion W eekly. .Sized I p. It’s not a case of dogs of war that's exciting the army snd navy authori ties at Washington—It's Kilkenny cat*.—Anaconda Standard LUMBER Millwork and General Building Material at 25% or More Saving to you. Don’t even consider buy in? until you have sent us com plete lists of what you need and have our estimates by return mail. No money down. We ship quick and pay the freight. W. F. Hoppe Lumber Co. 9th and S Ste. Lincoln, Neb. RADIANT COAL Smokeless Semi-Anthracite LUMP $13.50 MINE RUN $11.50 SLACK $8.50 Phone WA Inut 0300 UPDIKE ^lbecro4 j Sea Samples of THis Coal at Hayden’s Grocery Dept. t In Time of Emergency The Hoffmann-Croshv Staff ts Large Enough to \fcet It. • Our large staff is required to handle the ever-increas ing number of calls made on us, and it is because these men and women are busily engaged in service, with little idle time, that we can render the exceptional ser vice we do at the comfortingly low prices we charge. • Because our business is the largest of its kind in Omaha, our staff necessarily is the largest of its kind. When necessary we can detail half a dozen or more experts on any call for service of an unusual nature. This is one outstanding reason why we are called to serve at funerals of unusual size. No other like in stitution is thus equipped to serve in Omaha. The funeral home requires experts in many lines, if it is to give the SCIENTIFIC .service required by law, as well as the comforting service the funeral director today wishes to render those who come to him in their hour of great trial. Rccause we are able to meet any emergency is one reason why we always are busy; and because we are busy our lowered overhead, as before explained, makes possible lower prices, without in the least affecting the high quality of the service rendered. i Hoffmann-Orosby Funeral Home Twenty-fourth Omaha Wh Telephone nt Dodge St. wmana, rseo. JAck*onS90i TMi l« 1K- of • t-not of ifv#iin»»«iii ilMlinf -ilk Ik* Sn> ■ ••• •rononnrl of ftllltitl ttlrotllot I'ontmiclit • rriHrnm It imilrj ftom tk* pit* *,<•. CaprriiKf. !•»», Woffmton-riotkT Funottl Horn*.