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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 BEF. PUBLISHING CO, Publi.h^ N. B. UPDIKE, President BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLER. Editor in Chief ^ Business Manager MEMBFR OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, is 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 are •Iso reserved. The Omaha Bee is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the Recognized authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee's circulation is regularly audited by their organizations. Entered as second-class matter May 28, 190S, at Omaha postofficc, under act of March 3, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for a'F 1 a* 1 aaa the Department or Person Wanted. A I I All 11C lUUU OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Chicago—Steger Bldg. Boston—Globe Bldg. Los Angeles-—Fred L. Hall, San Fernando Bldg. San Francisco—Fred L. Hall, Sharon Bldg. New York City—270 Ffldison Avenue Seattle - A. L. Nietz, 514 Leary Bldg. MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES DAILY AND SUNDAY 1 year $5.00. 6 months $3.00, 3 months $1.76, 1 month 73c DAILY ONLY l year $4.50, 6 months S2.75, 3 months $1.50, 1 month 75c SUNDAY ONLY 1 year $3 00. 6 months $1.75, 3 months $1.00, 1 months 50c Subscriptions outside the Fourth postal zone, or 600 miles from Omaha: Daily and Sunday, $1.00 per month; daily oaly, 76c per month; Sunday only 60c per month. CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Morning and Sunday .1 month 85c, 1 week 20c Evening and Sunday .1 month 65c, 1 week 15e Sunday only .1 month 20c, 1 week 6c --—___J Omaha*U)here the West is at its Best ECHO FROM BYGONE DAYS. Some generations ago it was not an uncommon thing to secure removal of somebody who was in the way. Rivals in business, in love, one who blocked promotion—a long, list of reasons might be recited. As a rule, the removal was accomplished by an agent who made such things a business. His methods were his own. He might be a powerful wizard, gifted in the black arts, and capable of charming to death a victim. Not infrequently he was a double-dealer, and sold life to one and death to another, and no harm was done. Lucretia Borgia, with her brother Caesar, achieved much eminence in the gentle art of doing away with inconvenient persons. Even today there is a dispute about this, many contending that the fair Lucretia was but the victim of malicious enemies, who did not scruple to blacken her good name by lying about her. Among savage tribes the hoodoo is as greatly respected as ever. A voodoo or witch doctor is about as powerful an enemy as a native can have. But seldom does a civilized community like Omaha get a shock like that which comes with the tale unfolded by a witness in the district court. It transcends the gunman as a thriller, because it introduces some new features. The gunman is a professional, who goes out and “bumps off” a designated victim, just es a glazier sets a new light of glass in a damaged window. With about as little emotion. Here is the account of how one man hired two others to do away with a fourth. How the victim was stalked. Tracked to and from his work. Finally attacked, hacked with an ax and left to die. All the Sordid details of the bargain and its bloody con summation are given. And the cause is the most trivial imaginable. All in all, it is as wildly in credible as the most lurid plot of a sensational novel. Yet it is related in open court, under oath, by a wit ness who has been warned as to what may happen to him. Such an echo from bygone days should arouse those who sit in fancied security, saying to them selves, “All is well!” All is not well, when such bargains may be made and carried out. Even when conditions that might lead to such bargains exist. It is a challenge to-our whole scheme of civilizing, of Americanizing, of educating. Somehow, such ideas must be located and eradicated, before they bear fruit in action. CURBING THE WILD TRAFFIC. Commissioner Henry Dunn, as policeman, detec tive, chief of police, and now superintendent of po lice, ought to know about all that is involved in the handling of street traffic. At least as to details. He has made a careful study of modern traffic condi tions. Consequently his opinion on the subject de serves respect. ^Any suggested solution of the gen eral problem coming from him should be carefully considered. Therefore, Mr. Dunn’s proposal for the estab lishment of a traffic bureau at the city hall, to which shall he referred all offenses against traffic regula tions, will engage attention. On the surface it presents what seems to be a ready solution for Omaha's greatest trouble. Street traffic is steadily growing heavier, and its management more difficult. Chiefly because certain motorists disregard the rules laid down for their goverhment. By far the larger number of drivers are careful and considerate at all times. They suffer as much as any from the miscon duct of the few who indifferently disregard all rules and regulations, seeking always their own conveni ence or comfort. It is this comparatively small group that makes the trouble, and whose control is sought. In its general aspects Mr. Dunn's plan appears to be workable. In one detail, though, it may break down. Has the city council authority to create a tribunal? One that will be vested with power to assess and collect fines? To punish infractions of rules and ordinances? Some doubt exists as to this. If the council has that power, it will be worth while to give the Dunn plan a complete try-out. SENATORIAL PRIVILEGE. Burton Kendall Wheeler is a senator of the United States from the sovereign state of Montana. He was a candidate for vice president on the La Follette ticket. He is an attorney at law, and for five years under Woodrow Wilson was United States attorney for the district of Montana. He is also under indictment in Montana for of fenses against the government of the United States. A new indictment has just been returned against Pirn by a grand jury in the District of Columbia, in both he is accused of doing those things which as a senator he should not. Also which, as an attorney at law, and especially an attorney on behalf of the United States government, he should have known were forbidden by law. As well bb common decency. It is alleged by tho government that Senator Wheeler, after his induction into tho senate, con tinued to represent private interests before the sev eral departments of government at Washington. That he was especially active in connection with cer tain tracts of land, the same being held for ex ploitation by oil seekers. Further, that he was in • forested as a share-holder as well as an attorney in the concern on behalf of which he acted before the department. A special senate committee, of which Senator William E. Borah was chairman, has exonerated Wheeler. What the trial jury in Montana, where the case there soon will be called, will do remains to be seen. Last winter Senator Thomas J. Walsh asserted that Attorney General Stone was dragging his client away front his home state and half across the con tinent, to force hint to trial in a strange land. Mr. Stone retorted very promptly that he had no such intention. He proposed to try Wheeler in Montana, and also to indict him and try him in the District of Columbia on entirely new charges. 0 The unfolding of this chapter of the oil land scandals will be as interesting as any. It will go far to more definitely determine the matter of senatorial privilege. Also, it will give Senator Wheeler his opportunity to vindicate some of his acts that do not iook just right when put under the test of the law. CAN THE ‘‘ROAD SHOW" BE REVIVED. The continual decline of the “road show” is be ginning to alarm the middle western theatergoer who enjoys and will pay for a good play, well acted. And, it is probably neeedless to add, his alarm is shared by the New York producer who rules the destiny of the traveling company. Omaha can still offer an occasional good play, and the season now drawing to a close has brought us Ethpl Barrymore, Otis Skinner, “Blossom Time" and others worthy of the high price demanded for a first-class seat. But Omaha, which supports a more or less intermittent “legitimate” season, packs seven other theaters featuring motion pictures, or vaudeville, or a combination of the two. What is more, the last few years have witnessed the building of most of these theaters devoted to the film and the rapid-fire entertainer, while the “legitimate” has huilt no new houses and has witnessed the destruc tion of one of the two that once offered plays to Omaha. Down in Texas there is not one theater remain ing devoted exclusively to the drama. If a road ronipany would go to Texas it must ask the motion picture manager for the loan of his house. And Texas includes in its borders San Antonio, Dallas, Houston, Austin and Fort Worth. Broadway producers have blamed the motion picture for their troubles, and have recently added the radio to the list of scapegoats. John Golden, distinguished producer of “Lightnin’” and other successes, would have it otherwise. “The theater on the road is not being killed by anything,” he writes in the current issue of Collier’s. “It is committing hara-kiri.” Whereupon Mr. Golden announces a discovery that the patron of the roafl made for himself some time since. “I found second-rate New York productions ad vertising all-star New York casts that had nevar been nearer New York than Xenia, O.,” he says. “I found plays billed as New York successes of which I, a fairly well-informed New York manager, had never even heard. I found displayed, in more than one of the theaters, photogranhs of players who were supposed to be in the cast, but who, I knew, were actually playing in New York. I found one musical comedy advertised as the original New York produc tion; the whole road show traveled in two old trucks and the cast had in it exactly 1*1 persons.” All of which leads Mr. Golden, after an an nouncement that “the road is worth saving for good plays," to offer his solution. He would have an Academy of the Theater. Membership in it would be a thing prized' and difficult of attainment. Its members would represent the entire interests of the American theater. And its members wouli- ac complish, either of themselves or through highly paid and competent secretaries, a number of things. The academy would either approve or disapprove cf every play contemplating a journey on the road; it would advertise these approved plays nationally; it would provide more and better theaters; it would establish a school of the theater; it would scout the country for adequate actors and actresses; it would seek to standardize stage diction; it would foster first-class stock companies; and, finally, it would as sist the amateur actor through providing one-act plays either free or at a purely nominal charge. It is an ambitious program. Mr. Golden believes it possible of accomplishment. Perhaps it is after New York,has cleaned its own theatrical stables and the producer whose vision does not extend beyond the box office has been made to see the error of his w ays. But even if his efforts come to nothing the road has gained, since one producer, at least, has discov ered that the taste of the smaller theatergoer is as discriminating as that of the New York first-nighter. After all, as Mr. Golden himself admits, two-thirds of the box office revenue in New York cotne from the pockets of the visitor. The confidence of the “road" in the veracity of New York producers has been quite justifiably shaken. If Mr. Golden can restore that confidence by restoring good companies to the smaller city boards he will have done much for American culture. PURIFYING THE PICNIC. In the relentless pursuit of germs, the health up lifters spare no possible lurking place wherein a bacterium or bacillus might conceal itself. Notice the prohoun. The germ is neuter, but far from being neutral. In this regard it differs from the mosquito, of which the female is more deadly than the male. So far as science goes, there is neither male nor fefnale, marriage or giving in marriage,, among the disease germs. They increase and multi ply, and some encase themselves in protective armor ns they go about their nefarious business of undermining health. Yet they have their uses. Were it not for the bacteria, there would be no decay of i nimal matter, and the world long ago would have gone out of business because it could not hold the dead things that must be provided for. ^ This is all a little Ixjside the point. Science, at least that division that makes its headquarters at Chicago, has decided that the lemonade pail is a lurking place for disease germs, a sort of snug hnr •bor for the creatures that menace the well-being of all, young or old, who drink of its contents. Natur clly, this aims nt the picnic. No picnic is complete without a lemonade pail, or its substitute, the tub or the barrel. What will the circus or the county fair be without this traditional adjunct? It is all right to discourse of the danger con cealed in the pail, or the tub, or the barrel. We as a race arc getting hardened to such information. Of course, no sane person advoentes deliberate exposure to menace of any sort. We have done with approval and benefit many of the things science has sug gested. Better milk, bread, food of every sort, Is provided because of sanitary precautions in it* preparation and handling. Even the picnic will be purified by the banishment of the old tin pail in which the lemonade wns stirred. Such a* wish may get it out of a bottle, but there will he a sort of regret to the older folks, who recall the days when i fun was not nlwnys alloyed by the dread of catching j something /•-'I Facts About Electric Service Costs “Super-Power and, .“Giant Power" Com {wired as to Farts; • ff yer Report on Ontario Service Called Ifiarcurate and Misleading; Cost of Distribution Current to Farmers. ____— Super-Power and Rates to Consumer. . Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omahg. Bee: l was very much Interested and pleased to read’jfouivortltorial on the subject of “Super Power' and t he.J®> I saw the story in the pn'pers a few -lays ago oh tlie talk that Senator Norris had made 'MX tlte subject of “Giant Power.” lh ‘whlrhS&Kiiibuui. 1'0 1 bolstered up his rase by comparing the Ate* Qf Wash ington, 1). with those of Toronto, (Vinjyg4<i* Of course, this comparison is entirely uniratr fur. many'reasons. In the first place" Washington’s rate is naturally higher than in a city"'like Torotfjo lie cause in Washington there is practically no’industrial load, with’ the result (hat the lighting rates fnnst carry the entire burden. As you are no doubt well aware, one of the fundamentals of our business, which allows us to get along on low rates, is what is known as high "load factor." To obtain high load factor it Is necessary to have a load which utilizes the investment through many hours of the day rather than just a few hours, as the case in a city like Washington. It is also true that Toronto is served by the Hydro Electric Power commission of Ontario, and It has been the general policy of this commission to charge low rates for electric service to residence users. These rates are, in fact, lower than exist In most cities of this country. However, to make up for this Jow charge to residences, the power users are required to foot the biff for the loss tftat is accumulated in the sale of energy i to the residence users. Naturally, the political reason for this arrangement is obvious, as the residence users form a large majority of the voting population. It is also worthy of note that the Hydro-Electric commis sion pays no taxes for the support of the government, while privately owned companies in this country usually pay about 10 per cent of their gross earnings in taxes. Naturally, tho commission in Toronto can sell at lower rates than could any privately owned company in the city of Washington. • * • This so-called "Giant Power” scheme as set up and talked about by Norris, I,a Follette, Howell and others Is similar to “super power” which is being much talked of in the public prints with the exception that it advocates tying together only municipally or government operated power plants, and in addition the development and tying in by the government of water power plants, such bs Muscle Shoals and others not now developed. The plan is impracticable in the extreme. The municipal plants of the country turn out less than 4 per cent of the total electric energy used, and if the privately owned power companies, who make the other 95 per cent, have not yet found it impracticable and desirable on an economical basis to tie their plants together, it clmost goes without saying that to pick out and try to tie together these small municipal plants is nothing rhort of ridiculous. I trust that the public will never be Inveigled into carrying out any such expensive ex periment. Super-power, to those who are familiar with the business, is nothing new, but Is merely a new name for an old'thing. Almost since the inception of the indus try we have been working along the lines contemplated by tit is scheme, and the only reason for giving it the name at all ha# been the fact that in recent years power plants and transmission lines are being built in larger units than'they were in the past. The public has formed the Impression that this superpower is a recent discovery which is going to enormously reduce the cost of electricity and perform wonders In the distribution of energy to the farms. A* a matter of fact, those who know what it is do not look for any such result and, as was brought out in the world power conferences in London a few months ago. th« principal function of these great super power sys tems will he to keep the cost of electric energy where it is in the face of rising costs of labor, material, fuel and the like. • • • Another popular misconception is that water power is essentially cheap power. With very few exceptions, even though water power can ba cheaply produced, the market for i,t is so far from the point of production a tint the cost amounts to about the same figure as steam power, due to the cost of transmission. It costs about four or fivei times as much (o develop a unit of electric power by water ns it done hv steam, and the carrying charges on this large investment, together with the In vestment necessary to get power from Its source to Its market, will in moat cases more than nffset the addi tional fuel coat of steam plant. Much haa been promised by these advocates of pub licly owned “super power” systems, or “giant power” s-stems, with t-eganl to service to the farmer. It might be Interesting to note that the cost of producing electric energy has very little hearing on the service to the farmer. There are two things which stand in his way. The first Is that up to the present time the farmer has not been educated to the wide use of electric energy on the farm, nor has he been provided by the manufacturer of farm Implements with machinery which can utilize^ small amounts of power for long periods of time, thereby® making it possible to serve him at low cost. The other block is the fart that, especially In this part of the country, the farmers are so widely separated. Ordl narily they do not nverage much more than three to the mile, and the carrying charges, including depredation, taxes, insurance, maintenance and the like, on the in vestment, necessary to serve a farm, runs to about 190 a year without the driivery of a single unit of electric energy. It. therefore, becomes necessary for the farmer to use considerable amounts of energy before he can get it at a low rate, and- it still is vitally necessary that he must take his energy in small quantities over long periods during the day so ns to keep dowui the Invest ment the power company must make to serve him. Sufier-power can do nothing in this regard except In so <ar as the building of/ widespread distribution systems brings, more farms within reach of the producing com panics. The major part of the cost of service to the farmer, however, is not going to lie effected by the i'uilrttng of the«e big power houses and high-tension lines. This letter has heroine considerably longer than I had intended when I started to write you about your editorial. However, this is a very live issue and one that is very much misunderstood by a great many peo ple. It Is difficult to say anything about it without say iiTg a gmod deal. I know (hat if you would care to In vestigate It you would find that the facts I have given above are essentially correct. ELECTRICAL ENGINEER. IVycr's Report is Questioned As To Accurracjj. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Editor ials have recently appeared in The Omaha Bee reproach ing Senator Norris for misleading the American public with favorable reports on the Ontario power system,* when, according to the Wyer report, instead of being a phenomenal success, it Is a dismal failure. This Wyer report, although written by a private consulting engineer, was published by the famous gov ernment-controlled Smithsonian Institute, and. If true, would pull out the largest thorn in the side of the op ponents of government ownership. Sir Adam Beck, president of the Ontario Power Commission, replies, however, stating in effect that the Wyer report is a tissue of lies and garbed facts and that the only one of Ihe charges made by Wyer, which is true. Is that the Ontario plant tends to give the farmers some advantage in the matter iff rates. Beck further intimates that It is a disgrace that the present administration In Washing ton should lend the funds and the authority of the 1'nited States government to such a false and mislead ing attack upon an important department of a neighbor ing and friendly government. The Ontario public power plants furnish electricity at less than half the price charged by the American private plants and It would not be surprising of the latter would gladly spend far more than the Wyer report cost if It could explain away this discrepancy in rates. H. GIFFORD. How Is This For Horse Sense? • It Is impossible to transmit or distribute power, however cheap, any great distance and have It remain cheap. Every mile of line costs money to build, and ihe interest and depreciation charges must be paid out ot the revenues received from the power transmitted over it. The further from the source of production the I more expensive your power becomes Many prominent hut misguided persons keep advo cating the development of water power as the one great teat that will provide cheap power for thW farm. They have persuaded thousands of people that if water power resources now going to waste were developed that im mediately the whole country would be blessed with power which costs practically nothing. But water only produces power—It does not deliver it to the farm where it is to be used. Water power projects are very expensive to build, but let us suppose they cost nothing and that the power costs nothing at the power house, would the farmer get it for nothing? Take an average case for Nebraska, say a 10 mil# line, serving SO farms. Tha line, If used for power, would cost at ie^st $1,500,per mile, or $15,000 for 10 miles. Al lowing 8 per cent for return on Investment, 5 per cent depreciation, 2 per cent taxes and Insurance, and 3 per cent for maintenance, we have a total fixed charge of 18 per cent, or $2,700 per year. The line will cost those 30 farmers $2,700 per year, or $30 each, whether snv current flows through it or-jiot. Each farmer must pay 37.50 per month, even though the power Is furnished to him free. If he uses 30 kilowatt hours per month, a fair house hold figure, the power that he thought he would get for nothing actually will cost him 25 cents per kilowatt hour! If he uses 300 kilowatt hours per month, it will cost him 2’i cents per kilowatt hour. The more he uses the less becomes the cost per kilowatt hour. The problem of serving (he farmer Is not on# of pro duction st Mil- The greater part of the service is in the fixed chsrges in the distribution system, and to get this cost down we must teach the farmer to use kilowatt hours to advantage in driving the machinery of the farm. The men of the electric industry realize this and’are concentrating their efforts along this line If electricity can be made to do ihe work of men around the farm. It will ni/t only solve the labor problem, but also give the farmer cheap kilowatt hours—and the more he hses the cheaper It will bpoome But. this result cannot be ob tain# dthrough cheap production alone, there must be economical distribution and good load factor.—Me K innon. - A Two Strikes and Out v__ From the Kearney Hub. The Insurgent and democratic sen ators won a costly victory In the inat ter of the Warren confirmation. A few more like it will mark a, shame ful and Ignomlnous end. A democratic newspaper ssserts that Warren was nominated for at torney general by the president as a “reward for political service." How long since this cdnmon political prac tice has become a misdemeanor? From time immemorial the rewards of office have gone (but not always! to those who have earned them. The check on Improper appoint ments, however, has been the test of ability and fitness (again not always!, as a proper balance for the giving of political rewards. The Insurgent senator? Insisted that Mr. Warren was more than an attor ney In the organization of the sugar trust, In fact that he was personally Interested. This Is of course an as sumption and a pretense for the em barrassment of President Foolldge The facts as shown by the public record of Mr. Warren reveal an abil ify and tangs of experience far out of the ordinary, with never a breath of shame or suspicion touching an official action Although tbs Warren nomination was twice rejected by the senate, through a combination of the Insur gent bloc with the democratic minor ity, President Foolldge stood ready to make p recess appointment, but this was not satisfactory to Warren, nnd the second rejection stands as final. A fair-minded democratic newspaper declares that Inasmuch as President Foolldge was elected by an overwhelm ing vote of tbs people, who at the same time gave him (supposedly! a republican senate and house with which to round out his policies nnd to supplement his administration, hence he ehoufft have a free band In the matter of appointments for which he alone might be judged, from a test of service. However, that is now neither here nor there. The Incident Is closed The Tpatter is settled, so far at least as Warren is concerned. In the nomination of Barcent of Fernmot. President Fnnllds* has np Vsrentlv chosen a man of le«s ex rtrlenct and ability, but nevertheless { A Soul to Save '| A life to live, a goal to reachr A dally thought of Thee A soul to save, a hell to fear. My dally litany! A soul to save' Yes, Just one eoyl! A heaven prized to gain What more could mortal man desire I’pon his1 bed of poll)? For riches, then, shall have na power, Ami worldly fame shall fiy^e As o'er the helpless form of man Death's mantle white Is laid. By godly tSwSs sod (SaS) IhM And banishment of sin. We sll may. with the grace of God, A glorious victory win! A life to live a goal to reach. A soul to lose or save. Oh. weary pilgrim persevere. And sinners, weak, be brave! —Catherine Rllzaheth llsnson. !J10 St Atlhin Street, Sioux City. Is. a person in whom he has confidence and a lawyer whom he can trust and the country approve Question of (idod Tsele. Jar P It ohm In Philadelphia Public l.edarr. Probably we nre too tolerant of the obscene book and the obscene play. W a find them dull, horesome and tin llUcicallUK. and wo reason tlmt every body worth bothering about finds Mas la* that Is a lopsided fv of (L All we know In support of s that'ho book or njay ever led mstray About hi! Aeutuoiv that Is object tunable we learned In the clean country community In which we were reared, and we knew It all before we were IS years old. . Hut. as we have frequently pointed out. the only sovereign remedy we know A civic and proletarian life Is good taste. t'f sll the restraining forces ll Is the most powerful. *A mho may scout law and the neighbor hood conception of Indei enev. hut he Is ever reluctant to do the thing that isn't done And good taste never 1S the product of rule or regulation It Is something Inbred or laboriously ac quired \ Changed Cry. The old cry of "fie! a horse ' seerus m hn'e been changed to Get a pede* I, I tilan,"—l.lf*. j III* - ,-s—---' Galveston. TeX.—Been spending a-day on a dredgeboat In Galveston harbor, the government spends millions providing waterways for* shipping, but It Nebraska farmers want water on their land they have t(> pay for It. If Inland Nebraska "ants transportation they must depend on railroads, but const cole* get their transportation facilities for nothing, and Nebraskans help pay for It. Tho government provides the water right-of way, dredges the channels, provides the lighthouses and main tains a coast guard service to look after wrecks. Nebraskans help pay for It, hut when Nebraskans want irrigation they have to pav 'the government for It. The government does not pro vide Nebraska with rails and rights-of-way over which to run This morning wa watched a big Southern Pacific steamer warping into Its dock here. It hnd cleared from the port of New York. It* cargd will he trans-shipped by rail from here to California. "By some strange freak of legislation ships owned by railroad companies are.not allowed to use the Panama canal. But everv- foreign country can use it. and coastwise steamers are allowed to go through. Must ahead of this Southern Pacific steamer was a Japanese boat that had sailed from Japan. ; passed through the canal and docked here. \\ e haven t been ! able to learn why the railroad boata are dlarriminated against, nor why the people along the Southern Pacific are penalized There are three big dredger* at work In this harbor. They work fiere practically the year round. F.ach dredger employs about 60 men, and th* average datly^xpense is about 61.son. Maintenance of these three dredgers, together with all the other harbor expense, averages about $1,000,000 a year. It is all for the benefit of shipping, which paya not a cent for it. Some of theae days the central west will get wise and (naiat that for every dollar spent by th* government for private ship owners it shall spend at least 36 or 30 cents for reclamation. Two big banana boats came up the harbor today.^ Thpy were formerly acout oruifjers In use during the World War and are rakish-looking vessel's. It was interesting to watch them unload the thousands of bunches of green fruit. A carpo of bananas looks like It would supply the world for a year. It Is hard to believe they can stow so many hunches in a boat of that size. A little saunter through the nubile market revealed an astonishing situation. We supposed that negroes would make ,m the major portion of the track raisers, hut we were wrong. Ninety per cent of the truck raisers are Greeks and Italian*, the. rest white Americans. Only now and then does a negro peddle truck down here. They are dock laborer* mostly, or handy men around town/ A few are fishermen and oystermen. In a short time tlylr numbers in the cities will decrease be cause 6f work in the cotton fields. Down here the negroes Pock to the cities after cotton picking is over, and do odd Jobs until cotton cultivation begins. Nebraskans In the sugar beet sec tion will recognize this system. That's the way beet field labor Is recruited. A pleasant visit to the office of the Galveston Daily New*, which Is. we believe, the oldest newspaper In Tera*. At any rate It waa a dally newspaper when Texas was a republic. Time was when It was the greatest daily newspaper In the south west, but It fell behind when Houston and Dallas began boom ing. Recently the News changed hands and now It Is hiddlng for leadership again. It Is a morning paper. The Tribune is I an evening paper and coming along fine. j The past winter was unusually severe In southern Texas, with plentv of snow and sleet and freezing weather. But today i« like midsummer In Nebraska. It Is uncomfortable warm. Strawberries. 25 cents a box; tomatoes. 10 cents a pound: grape fruit. big ones, four for a quarter: fresh ovsters. 35 cents a quart, and fresh shrimp. 25 cents a pound. At home they have trouble keeping cigars and tobaccos moist: down here the trou ble is to keep them dry enough to smoke. 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