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The Omaha Bee] M O R N I NG-E V E N I N G— S U N D A Y THE BEL PUBLlSHINC.CoT. PoblTflhrr N. B. UPDIKE, President BALLARD DUNN. ' * JOY M. HACKLKR, F.di*or in Chief Business Manager MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Ree is a member, !• exclusively entitled to the use 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 ara also, reserved. Yne Omaha Ree is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognized authority on circulation audits, and Tha Omaha Bee’s circulation is regularly audited by their organization!. Entered as second-class matter May 2S, 1908. at Omaha postoffice, under net * f March 3, 1S79. BEF. TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for AT lAntic- 1 OOO the Department or Prison Wanted. A 1 ,aiUIC 1 UW OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Chicago—Steger Bldg. Boston—Globe Bldg. Los Angeles—Fred L. Hall, San Fernando Bldg, flan Francisco—Fred L. Hall, Sharon Bldg. New York City—270 Madison Avenue | Seatt le—A. L. Nie^z, 514 Leary Bldg. MAH. SUBSCRIPTION RATES DAILY AND SUNDAY 1 year $5.00, 8 months ?3.00, 3 months $1.75, 1 month 75c DAILY ONLY 1 year 14.50, 8 months $2.75. 3 months $1.50, 1 month 75e SUNDAY ONLY 1 year $8.00, 6 months $1.75, 3 months $1.00, 1 month 50c Subscriptions outside the Fourth postal zone, or 600 miles from Omaha: Daily and Sunday, $1.00 per month; daily only, 75c per month; Sunday only, 60c per month. CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Morning and Sunday ",.1 month 8fic, 1 week 20c Evening and Sunday ...1 month 65c, 1 week lot Sunday Only .... 1 month 20c, 1 week 6c V.,, ..../ thousands of attempts were registered by anti-air craft guns. Such as did land w^re more a matter of chance than of aim. The effect noted is that fire from the earth has a tendency to discourage too close approach from the air. On the other hand, the fact is already established that bombing from the air is equally uncertain. In exhibitions bombs have been planted with a fair degree of accuracy, but under conditions that will hardly be possible in actual war fare. For the gunnery practice against floating tar gets, the report is that it was surprisingly effective. Objects fired at were totally destroyed. Naval au thorities assert that, in the case of the Oestfriesland for example, the damage wrought by the aircraft bombs was below what would follow the explosion of a high-caliber shell from a naval gun. - The rivalry will proceed, just as it has for ages, ^between offense and defense. Other things being equal, success in battle depends upon the accuracy nneb frequency with which fire is delivered. So in the end, the best shot has the best chance of coming out ahead. . .~N Bill Was Busv! _j;_ >■_) U \ SUNNY SIDE IIP lake Comfort.nor forget. IhatSiuirise ne\/er failed us’ Celt a. ‘jnaftet" a--- ---/ f------- ' Galveston, Tex.—Caught a shark this afternoon— a tegular man-eating shark. Of course it wash t lug enough ^o eat h man. but Ihal was because we caught it \oung. Ii was only about 1 ii Inches lone, hut it was a regular shark. Ttvo ions of leetli and ever'thhig. Also caught a few sail water cattish a very few. Hut enough for breakfast. There are not many h-h to be caught right around hero, but b'V . howdy, you ought to see Ote fishing boats come in from down Corpus and Tampico way! Red snapper is the choice fish of the lot. I liev weigh front three to fifteen pounds and are caught mostly on the •Mexican coast. Routs often come in with front ia.nuO to 30,000 pounds of red snapper. Galveston is an old city, and not many years ago was the metropolis of Texas. Rut Dallas, Houston, AVaeo and other cities have passed it. The flood of the 00s and tlte storm of 1015 gave the city severe backsets, but It is now coming out of it In fine shape. The government seawall 1“ a trenieiidoirg work, and the citizens feel secure against further invasion or the gulf. Nmv the city has several sky sera i>ers and the streets are till welt paved. The palm trees are a source of delight to the northerner. -3: If ever we become the owner of a circus we 11 make f < - , * ton two or threir tidies a year. AA'e struck the city on 1 in n day. Honestly, we didn't know there were so many colored friends and brothers in tlie world! Relieve us. It was some day for tlte colored population, and they came fr^tn the mainland in swarms. — We cannot help contrasting the difference between the opinions of 'Texans regarding their governor and 1 lie opinion of AVjoining citizens regarding their governor. So far as 1 have been able to Judge, Texans look upon Governor Ferguson as a mere proxy governor, her husband. Jim. being considered the real goteriior. In Wyoming Mr-. Ib>-« is c onceded to be go ei nor, and a mighty good one. One hears only praise of Gov ■ ernor Moss while In’ Wyoming, but down here neatly everybody smiles when they mention .Governor Ferguson. 'A* arc -oing over.to Austin a few days and investigate at li M hand, one has to take into account prejudices down here. Partisan polities has practically been lost sight of in Klan and anti-Klan scraps. This is especially true in these parts. Of course there Is only one political party of an? Consequent. In Texas, hut It ha« two factions, and they put up enough fight to make —* The government Is adding materially to the area of Galves ton by building a huge extension to the seawall and filling In behind it. After the first big flood the site of Galveston was raised about 10 feet by filling in. Ttie port of Gulvestofi is a busy one. but tlie government lias to keep a big force here dredging the channel. Tlte gulf Is net deep along this coast. -- * For years Galveston lias been lacking In just one thing— enterprise. Rut she Is waking up, now that she has found other Texas cities getting ahead. There Is no reason why this should not be one of the great pleasure resorts of the south, and with oil for fuel it could become a manufacturing city of note. All of eastern Texas needs rain badly. And that reminds state, lie said if he owned hell and Texas, he'd rent out Texas state. He said If he owned hell and Texas, he'd ten out Texas and live In the other place. AVe wouldn't go quite that far. Texas being a rather pleasant place, but to date we haven't seen snvthlng calculated to lessen our love for and lovi.Vy to Nebraska. WILL, M. MAFPIN. 1 __y f TEAPOT DOME AND THE FUTURE. It is a mistaken notion that’the public has lost interest in the Teapot Dome case. Even more mis taken that the prime purpose of that suit was to es tablish whether the government had been cheated in the lease made. The greater issues involved concern the right of the executive department of the govern men to* carry out a policy of administration without getting specific authority from congress. Whether, when the congress has enacted a law that will permit the following of a certain line of policy, mandatory or nut, it is essential for the executive to ask for permission each time it moves under the law. Opinion will always differ as to the policy of dealing with the oil reserves held in tlie name of the 'government. Whether storage above ground or re tention in the natural reservoirs is better may never be answered to the satisfaction of all. While yet the war was on, the Navy department began to move in the direction of storage of fuel oil at readily avail able strategic points. Secretary Daniel was com mitted to the policy, and not only sanctioned certain leases, but outlined the policy to be pursued. Sena tor Walsh of Montana helped to pass the law under which leasing of naval reserves were made possible. Then came the change in administration. Along with it Albert B. Fall, and the Teapot Dome affair. While that matter was of political value, the land fairly rocked with the scandal. Not so much noise was made after the case got into court, hut the ar guments presented to the federal judge at Cheyenne were of far more service than the diatribes of the senators, denouncing everything and everybody con nected with the administration. On the court's decision, which will doubtless come finally from the highest tribunal, will depend the course of the government in the future. Whether the president is in fact the executive or is merely a messenger boy for congress. If the executive can do the things that are needed and right as well as expedient for the proper administration of the na tion's business, or if he is required to obtain separate sanction for each individual action. Teapot Dome will decide something more than whether there was a deal between Fall and Sinclair. A Texas man on trial for murder of his son-in law admits that he shot his victim seven times, and then hit him over the head with the revolver. He pleads he did not know what he was doing. Usually a Texan in his right mind only shoots once. A Chicago woman complains her husband treated her coldly on the tenth anniversary of their wed ding. Accordingly she shot him. That ought to convince that at least he has an attentive Spouse. • - The federal government estimates that at the late the work is progressing it will take 100 years to get Nebraska’s roads paved. AN ait till the new law is passed, and then judge. “Ma" Ferguson has named herself a full quota of colonels and the like to make up the customary gov ernor's staff, and has not put a woman on the list. Doesn’t look right. Sinclair oil concession In Saghalien has been an nulled by the Russian government and the forfeit money returned. Now nobody knows if the field contains any oil. President Coolidge has instructed Secretary Kel logg to go ahead in arranging for the arms confer ence, ami Europe will either have to shoot or give up the gun. An improvement club suggests one-way streets for trolley cars, to make room for more automo biles. Why not remove the tram cars.altogether? Premier Uerriot informs the I.eague for the Rights of Man that he will not meddle in American affairs, showing he has good judgment at times. More coal measures have been lornted in north ern Russia. The soviets will have plenty to go on when they get ready to start work. Cupid or n “complex” is putting in overtime among the high school students. Organize another chapter of the Bed Slat Club. Governor Ritchie says citizens no longer have any rights. It docs seem that about all they ever had has left. Even under the “pint” law, Uncle Sam will try his own liquor cases in Omaha. This saves the state something. --- Letters From Our Readers All letters must be signed, but name will be withheld upon request. Communications of 200 words and less, will be given preference. _ ■J ; Omaha-'lDhere the West is at its Best STOP IT ALL AT ONCE, IF POSSIBLE, BUT STOP IT. A report, comes up from Lincoln that the hill to •Jo away with the county prisoner feeding graft will pass the senate. With an amendment that will sus pend its operation for two years. In other words, ‘‘.Mike” Endres is to bo permitted to continue to enjoy the profit that comes from feeding prisoners at a less cost than the County pays him. Senators, and everybody, for that matter, should know that this bill is not aimed at Sheriff Endres. It is intended to destroy the system that has pre vailed so long, and against which so much criticism has been directed for longer than a generation. Mr. Endres simply is the present incumbent. He is no more personally involved than were any of his predecessors when similar attempts were made to change the law so as to destroy the graft. No defense can he made of a system that permits the sheriff to gain .thousands of dollars annually from his office, which includes the duty of feeding the prisoners in his keeping. In Douglas county men go Into the office of sheriff poor and come out rich. They account for all the fees of the office to the proper authorities. But they do not make any ac count of the money for feeding prisoners, other than to collect so much per head for prisoners fed. The county pays a stipulated sum for each, and any dif ference between that and actual cost goes into the .sheriff’s personal pocket. No sheriff has yet pre sented a bill to cover a deficit caused by feeding prisoners beyond the sum allowed by the county. It is to end this system, as old as the sheriff’s office, that the pending measure is devised. It was passed in the house, and should be passed by the senate without amendment. To suspend its opera I tion for two years is to confirm Sheriff Endres in the enjoyment of something the law itself will say is wrong. Will give color to the erroneous and groundless assertion that the support of the measure is animated by opposition to Endres. Such a course thould not be adopted. Senators should say by their votes if they ap prove or disapprove of the inexcusable graft. If they disapprove of the system that all admit is wrong, then they should vote to end it without delay. Do not camouflage a good act by arranging to extend a detestable custom until the incumbent of the sheriff's office in Douglas county has extracted the last pos sible penny of personal profit from the prisoners con signed to his care. If votes enough can be secured only by the two-year amendment, it will he better than nothing. Stop the whole practice at once, if oossible, but in any event, stop it. PATENT RIGHTS. By executive order the patent office lias been transferred from the Interior department to the De partment of Commerce. Secretary Hoover, in mak ing the announcement, points out one place in which American inventors are at n disadvantage. Many foreign countries require that thu inventor establish a factory and continually produce the article he has patented. Otherwise, he forfeits his rights and any body can take over the invention. Automobile mak ers found this out several years ago, when Portugal, notably, began to imitate American-made machines, despite the patents that were supposed to protect them. A result has been that many American fac tories have been established abroad to save the rights of inventors. Our patent laws have no such provisions. The foreign inventor may patent his article in this coun try, and receive full protection of the law, while doing the manufacturing elsewhere. How this may operate is disclosed in the fact that wherpas an ounce of gold buys 20 hours of work in the t nited States, it will buy 50 hours in Great Britain, 00 in Japan, 100 in France, and 200 in Germany. A con ference on this subject is called fdr The Hague in •September. In the Secant imp the American inventor . is at a decided disadvantage compared to his foreign i eompetitors, who register patents or trade marks in he United States, and enjoy r#i privileges and pro- i ection here and the benefit of cheap labor abroad. That Inventive genius is not slacking, however, is ndicated by the fact that the average number of patents granted or trademarks registered in the United States each year is above 55,000. Solomon may have been right, as to there being nothing new under the sun, but inventors are continually digging up something. BATTLE TO THE BEST SHOT. “Trice armed is he," wrote Shakespeare, "who hath his quarrel just." Amended by an American humorist to read, "And four times he who gets his work in first." The army version of this was ex pressed by an illiterate but understanding Civil War leader, who said victory would go to the side that "got there fustest with the mostest men.” Some time will elapse beforo anything more than a genera! description of the naval maneuver off Ran Diego will be available. Troperly, the navy will probably keep profoundly secret the preri«e In formation it has gnii ed. Ori the surface, though, ore fact in clear. In the matter of defense against aircraft, the deck gunnery is not effective. Eight hundred shrapnel shells were fired r( targets towed fcv airplanes, and not a lit registered. Hiis bears cut experience in the war. hew hits out oi many The short session of congress was also sweet, tor the incoming congressmen. “Many” golf may be illegal, hut. it is very pop ular. /-— Homespun Verse i By Omaha’* Own Poal — Roltert If nrtliineton Davie. I_:-> HE NEVER PRAYED. Ite never prayed. I've heard them eay. But since he's gone I know Thai player "as on his lips each dn> lie never hinted so; But sin h a nian as lie who led A straight and honored path .Need not hend low Ids graying head To show the faith he hath. A man who gives hi* best to those tVho on Ills strength depend. And o'er the fields of friendship low • The virtue of a friend - Need not on bended knee recline Ills fil'h and trust to »lmw. Recalls* the spark of love divine In Jewel like deed* doth glow lie ales'* prayed, and yet, not one Relieved hi* heart dev,ail, Rat since Ids worthy life !■ don# Tha truth comes stealing out 1 i-nm dawn till dusk. In light and gloom While *iep by step he trod, .'list ns 1he summer loses bloom lie kept lile faith iwfh Uod. More Indignation. Omaha—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Dear fellow gardener* Is It possible for us to devise some way whereby dog ow ners can he com polled to keep the!? property at home out of harm's way? I do not like to see any animal hurt and It Is cans lng the owners such a lot of anguish. We might as well start a fund and fence their hack yards for them, and their dogs inn do their digging ami wallowing right at home and not be over In their neighbor's garden, where they have no right to be. The writer has spent a good deal of time and money trying to beautify our place, and a row of peonies of choice variety is our special Joy and pride. But last sitting, Just as they were heavy with bud and ready to burst into bloom, two large d«iiJi wal lowed litem Hat to the ground. Now we felt much as s dog owner does when something happens to his dog. These flowers furnish pleasure to a number of people, as some that have no way of raising them nre always delighted to receive a bouquet of them, while generally people nre not very enthusiastic over Ihe other fellow s dog. My family is very fond of salads, and I always have plenty of different kinds of salad plant* for ourselves and enough to give away, but, as dogs are not very nice or clennlv about their habits, It Isn't very ap petizing to have'them running nrpund through your plants. After setting out jnr young plants ,in the spring I have to guard them all the time to keep tho dogs front tramping them down. Most of our tomato plants were hroken off by dogs steeping all over them before they got. started. I also like to bleach my linen on a llttlo patch of gtas I have, but tho neighbor dogs also want to bring their bones there to gnaw atul that Is not pleasant. I don't blame the dog. He does not know any better. 1 have owned sev eral that I thought a great deal of. but do not feel like fencing nty yard and giving It over to a dog and feel It Is 100 per cent aelflahnesa to keep one and let him run loose on my neighbor* Why ate rs'ople so touchy iilmut their dog* ’ I naked a neighbor who hns n big dog that makes tracks most like a cow If she would please keep hint from trampling down my plants. Her head went up In the air and she has not been In my house since. The dog still runs loose Now Is there a way that we may enjoy our gardens and still keep the good will of our neighbor dog ow ners? Would be glad for any suggestion*. HARDEN LOVER Dogs or Garden*. Omaha To th* Editor of The Omaha Bee: If *ounds to me much "like a Joke” when people put up such e howl when something hap pens to tlielr dogs They wit! eure come to no harm If they are kept nt home where they belong. Instead of running loose 1 f•!t afflicted, ten, Inst mimmer, when doi.-s wallowed j f Abe Martin | down my lovely ferns and hollyhocks. .Maybe the reason the reporters seem to take the question eo lightly that there are two sides to the dog ques tion. It Is a pretty pass when a householder can’t hate a little patch of garden without Its being run over and dug up by other people s dogs. Keep them at home—it’s a sure rem edy. GARDENER. Against the Tint law. Heartwell, Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Hee: Everyone with common sense certainly should con gratulate you for w riting such a ser\ iceahle editorial in regard to the law. "A Dint of l.lquor Makes a Bootleg ger.'* Any little schoolboy should know better. We litre men and pay them good wages to pass laws that should be satisfactory to all. or at least to the great majority. This the}' have failed to do and are still not doing It. That's why so many voters. Including my self and whole family. ha\e cut out voting, as we do not believe In pay ing anyone for doing dirty work. Every school kid know* that a great majority will not help enforce the prohibition law, as they don’t lielleve in it. and still these lawmakers that we pay good wages to work right against them, and still they want us to vote, but what encouragement 1* there tn voting? Nothing. That’s why so many have quit Trying to Whcri* th' husband an’ wife both drink neither kin smell It, Kvpr' Ihinsr comes t' Imn what waits, but th' i«*ult of nn invi'Stticntlbrr tCtwillUt, ml.) f J I make the dry law tighter Is plain humbug and child's play, as it has been tight enough and proved a fail ure. Better try Something else'. BEE HEADER. Make Dogs Behave. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: I have no sympathy with any person who will poison a pet dog. But what gets me Is the way people hold their dogs over chil dren and human beings. We can hard ly pick up a paper without reading of some child bitten by a dog. which is often done by these same pet dogs, w hile the owners seem to think if you hadn't annoyed the dog and went around on the other side of the street you would avoid being bitten. The city is full of common curs that guard their master's house by dashing out after everything that comes along, and are to lie seen everywhere one goes. They should be taken care of bv a painless process. I am against keeping a dog In town. He is generally a nuisance and there are 40 ways lie can get his owner into trouble. One remarkable thing about these people that think so much of their dogs is that whenever a child has been bitten by their pet they seem to offer no word of sympa thy, thus putting their dog above chil dren and human being*. It Is only re cently that two young women were chewed up by bulldogs here In Omaha in one day. One it took half a school to pry the bulldog off the girl's leg. and the other nearly got her nose lilt off. It was no fault of the good In tentions of these dogs that it was not a very serious matter. I think tills in Itself Is enough to sink all the dogs In Omaha.E. X. WOODARD. NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION For FEBRUARY, 1925 THE OMAHA BEE Daily.. 76,202 Sunday . 77,710 Doe* not include returns. left overs, samples or papers spoiled ip printing and includes no specia sales or free circulation of any kind V. A BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. — Subscribed and sworn to before me S this 2d day of March. 1925. W. H QUIVEY. (Seal) Notary Public % WHEN IN NEED 01 HEI.P TRY OMYIIY BEE \>\NT Min Mason Sl Hamlin Haines Bros. AMPICO Complete Stock of Ampico Rolls A. Hospe Co. 1513 Douglas St. HK' A Big Opportunity for You in a New Industry You are invited to Joil U e "Nebruka Wind I organizing. Applications must be m*tiot later than \lanh SI to get no sr. age of this spring's litter VVtnd*nrpt Quality Silver Foies, as foundation stock, will create an ever-increasing, independent income for you too. \S ill you do your ahare? Inquire 1112 W. O. V* . Bldg.. Omaha. Religious Denominations Differ In Detail Only “For as vp have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office; so v.e, heinp many, are one body in Christ, and every one members of one another. Rom. CIENCE has proved that no two things in nature have been created exactlv alike. No two individuals have ever been identical either in their physical or mental construction, and therefore, it is reasonable to assume that the Divine Creator intended that humanity should arrive at the truth through different processes of thinking and reasoning. Mam different and diver gent types of human nature make up mankind, yet back of all these differences in detail the ultimate goal remains the same. There are many religious denominations in the world toda\ all putting forth their fullest effort for the same ultimate good: the interpretation of the will of Divine Providence and the application of these truths to individual life, fhe only difference between these denominational beliefs are minor details. • Religious denominations and sects are Ihe outcome of different types of human nature. Your process of reasoning may not coincide with the doctrine of all the churches, but you have the privilege of making your own church affiliation on the basis ot your own belief. Select a Church and Then Support It by Your Attendance “In a wider appeal to religion and to religious faith'is to lie toiind the answer to the grow ing tendency toward law violations which we see on even hand. ^ This is tin* judgment of a group of Omaha men and institutions, who have arranged toi .» pro grnm of appeals for church attendance. The appeal published herewith is eighth of the series. _ ___ __