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The Omaha Bee M O R N I N G—E V E N I N G—S U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Publisher N. B. UPDIKE, President BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLER. Editor in Chief Business Manager MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which 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 also 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, 1908, at Omaha postofficc, under act of March 3, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for AT 1 s* inAA the Department or Person Wanted. ™ * IBfltlC IUI/U 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 Fadison Avenue | Seattle—A. L. Nietz, 514 Leary Bldg. MAIL”SUBSCRIPTION RATES DAILY AND SUNDAY 1 year $1.00. 6 months $3.00, 3 months $1.75, 1 month 75c DAILY ONLY 1 year $4.50, 6 months $2.76, months $1.60, 1 month T5c SUNDAY ONLY 1 year $3.00, 6 months $1.75, 3 months 81.00, 1 months 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 .I month 85c, 1 week 20c Evening and Sunday .I month 65c, 1 week 15c Sunday only .1 month 20c, 1 week 5c v.-/ Omaha" Where the West is at its Best NO PARTY IN REVENUE LAW. At a dinner recently at Richmond, the speakers were Secretary Mellon, Senator Carter H. Glass, and Under Secretary Winston. Senator Glass was sec retary of the treasury for Some months under Presi dent Wilson. In the course of the speeches it was brought out that both President Wilson and Presi dent Coolidge advocated the same policy with refer ence to raising revenue. That Secretary Glass and Secretary Mellon had expressed ideas identical in form and almost in language. Indeed, Secretary Mellon said the so-called “Mellon plan” should have been named the Treasury plan. Unfortunately for the country, this agreement as to policy did not extend to the congress in either instance. Revenue measures were enacted on a partisan basis, rather than with due regard for the principles of taxation. In 1918, in 1921 and in 1924 the object appeared to he which provisions would raise the most votes, rather than which would pro duce the needed revenue with the least disturbance of business. From the trend of the talks at that dinner, a sincere effort is likely to be made to di vorce revenue from politics, and bring forth a taxing measure that will rest on reason rather than on party expediency. Senator Glass pledged his support to a measure that will reduce the surtax maximum to 20 per cent, or 5 per cent lower than the Mellon plan sought. This is a detail. What is looked for Is a measure that is founded on justice and right One that follows the Seligman dictum that the tax should h« sought from the source best able to pay It, yet always keep ing in mind that taxes, no matter by whom paid, finally come out of the sum total of wealth produced. Only when wealth is being produced can taxes be secured, no matter if the levy be high or low. When production is at a standstill, there is no wealth from which to take toll for government. The trouble with the law as it stands is that it leads to evasion of taxation, sends wealth into hiding, and so reduces the productive enterprise of the nation by limiting ics life-blood, which is a ready supply of new capital seeking employment. Conferences that are being held presage a suc ressful effort to pass a revenue law that will provide for the government’s needs, and also give enterprise its chance. Such a law will surely meet opposition in congress, for many senators and representatives are wedded to the ideas that are reflected in the ex isting law. Hope lies in the fact that it will not he enacted in the face of an impending presidential election, although the congressional campaign of 1926 will be on hand. If taxation can be separated from politics, a great victory will have been won. FLAT RATE ON “INTANGIBLES.” What may reasonably result in a distinct advan tage to the general assessment roll is the new law dealing with "intangibles.” Under the provisions of the bill as adopted building and loan stocks are ex empt, while banks will be taxed on 70 per cent of the capital employed. Other credits and similar property that is classed under the general heading of “intangibles” will pay a flat rate of 5 mills, except cash, which is taxed at 2V4 mills. Under this law, the assessment on the banks will • be increased from 25 to 70 per cent of the amount of local levies on tangible property. The.banks agreed to this, after having won a suit which placed them under the 25 per cent provision of the old revenue law. Intangible rates, however, will be at a gener ally lower level, for the 5 mills flat levy will not amount to 25 per tent of the local rate of taxation anywhere in Nebraska. It does, however, embody the principle of the Smith law on real estate mort gages, and thus avoid double taxation. Money rep resented by notes and eredits is also represented by tangible property, and Is so assessed. To assess it again on an equal basis with tangible property amounts to double taxation. The effect of this would inevitably be that the borrower would have to pay the tax through an increase in interest rate. The new law is expected to bring out a ronsid crable amount of intangible property which has not been returned in the past. If it has this effeet, and It has in other states so operated, the Increase In the general assessment roll will more than offset the loss in tax collected. Because the great hulk of ln 1 ngibles has been paying no tax at all heretofore. Experience will prove the wisdom of the plan, but its promise is encouraging. NORRIS AND THE PRESIDENT. Writing to the chairman of the republican com mittee of Custer county, Senator Norris points out the many issues on which he does not agree with President Coolidge. From his own forecast, the senator is likely to be found opposing the executive most of the time. This Is entirely within his prov ince. He will act according to his own judgment, just as he has in the past. But it is within the memory of Nebraska people that last summer Senator Norris answered a direct question in a manner that seemed then to smack of equivocation, yet did contain what might reasonably be construed as a binding promise. He said in effect that he would abide by the choice of the voters In the matter of support to the president. The plain Implication of this was that the action of Nebraska voteee would guide him. At the time the pledge, slight as it was, was made, a lot of noisy claequer* were insisting that La Follette would carry the state. Mr. Norris, under his own statement, could give sup port as a senator to Coolidge, Davis, or La Follette, as the election would determine their local standing. Why does he not redeem that pledge? Some Nor ris supporters refer to the vote. One thing should be remembered. Norris had but one opponent, while Coolidge had three. Yet Coolidge had a plurality of 81,296 and Norris had a majority of 109,277. The unescapable preference of the Nebraska voters was clearly shown in the Coolidge vote. Likewise the mandate sought by the senator was equally emphatic. Why does he not heed the message? PERU SHOWS PEEVISH SPIRIT. President Cooolidge, acting as arbitrator between Chile and Peru in the Tacna-Arica dispute, ordered a plebiscite to be taken among the inhabitants of the provinces. On this will determine the issue of na tionality. Peru shows a disposition to not accept the award. A sharp and almost petulant note has been sent to Washington from Lima. It lays down conditions that hardly will be acceptable to the L'nited States, and which, if insisted upon, will termi nate the proceedings. It all started back in 1874, when Chile and Bo livia engaged in war over certain saltpetre deposits at Antafogasta. Peru took sides with Bolivia, and Chile, in 1879, emerged victorious over both. Two southern provinces of Peru, Tacna and Arica, were annexed by Chile, although the treaty of peace pro vided for a ten-year occupancy and then a plebiscite. Instead of the vote being taken in 1889, as it should have been, postponement has been had from time to time on one or another pretext. The record amounts to several thousand pages, and discloses a maze of I.atin-American diplomacy that is interesting to the student of skill in evasion and delay. Europe’s cleverest chancellery would be hard put to match in duplicity and equivocation the course of the several governments of Chile, Peru and Bolivia in handling this question. The provinces in dispute have been pretty thor oughly developed by Chile, from whence have come all the officers of the civil and military government. Also the nitrate deposits as well as the saltpetre have been exploited by Chilean capital. The outcome of the plebiscite ordered scarcely can he doubted. Naturally, Peru clings to the slimmest of chances to recover the lost provinces, which in area are about c.ne-fourth the size of Nebraska. Bolivia’s interest is in a window on the Pacific. Just now that interesting country is completely land locked, access to tidewater being over the moun tains through Peru or the disputed territory. Opinion in this country has generally been that the president is right in his decision. This is true even though it amounts to perpetuating the claim of Chile to the rich provinces seized as a result of the war fifty years ago. What is interesting is that Peru may revive a threat made some time ago, and take the matter to I the League of Nations. That will bring the Monroe Doctrine into the dispute. Being a matter between American governments, and wholly domestic to them, it is not certain that the League of Nations will take jurisdiction. Especially, when such action would in j volve the ignoring of a decision made by the presi 1 dent of the United States. Peru may not relish the 1 prospect, but it looks as if the end of the long-drawn out controversy had nearly been reached. GOOD START MADE ON ROADS. Adoption by the legislature of the conference report on the gasoline tax measure open* the way to a good road campaign in Nebraska beyond any thing heretofore undertaken. The law will make available a sum estimated at around $4,500,000, to be matched by an equal amount from the federal government. This will be expended on construction of trunk-line roads. Direction w-ill he centered in the governor, who will operate through his state en gineer. * The advantage of this central control can scarcely be exaggerated. Relieved of the Interfer ence of any commission or other body, the adopted program may be proceeded with after a fashion that should give greatest results. “Market” roads, which means highways off the main line and designated to serve local needs rather than the general traffic, will be taken care of by the proceeds of the automobile license collections. Sev enty per cent of these collections will be retained by the counties in which they are paid, the other 30 per cent going to the state for the general fund. County authorities will have control of their own funds,* as has been the case in the past. Much local improve ment will be possible, because the main line high ways will be removed from care of county funds. The one little fly in the ointment is the exemp tion of certain users of gasoline, which may cause an attack on the measure. Farmers may rightly be entitled to escape the tax on gasoline for generating power for strictly farm purposes, but city cleaning establishments and others who use gasoline in large quantities aside from that, burned in automobiles appear to have as good a claim to consideration. This point, though, may not affect the general provision of the law, and can be settled as equity requires without upsetting the whole program. May 1 is to be designated a* "Child Health Day.' Might as well be that. No longer needed as “bock beer” day, moving day, or parade day for the reds. Now they are scolding the farmer for not raising more, vegetables. How ran he, when he needs his acres for wheat and corn? Twenty-five candidates seek to he city commis sioner of Lincoln, and not a Bryan amongst the lot. City council is said to favor the “muny” aviation field. Lose no time in putting it over. The legislature seems not to have heard the whistle. Homespun Verse By Omaha'* Own Poet— Fohrrt Worthington Doric. _> THE WISEST PLAN. If you're keeping youreelf. amt ere hnppv to do It. When you're young and new married nnd k«' Go remote from your kin, get a Job and atlrk to It. And I’ll a tv ear that you’ll find It will pay. If you're one of thoae fellow* with hope and ambition: If your Idea* are wholly your own, You'll *ort of fit In to that, far off pocttlon, And you'll he more contented alone. There will not. he *nm* who are ever edvlelng. And explaining the thing* you ahotild do; And your critical kin won't, perhap*. be aurmlelng. And a**l*llng—yet burdening you. They have lived their live*, or they ehnuld hate, God b!e»« eml And they ahouldn't deny you that right: In your dream* you ran love nnd prala# and < *re*a 'em And your dream* will not end In a fight. r-- ' > “From State a nd Nation” * V ---> llom« Training. From ih* Nebraska City Fieaa. In his reply to the Literary Digest'i question ns to the underlying rausei of juvenile delinquency which ha1 grown to such proportions that law enforcement officials wonder what wll be the end of it all, D. E. O'Brien, cits prosecutor of»Omaha, expresses whal it Is believed to be the Important caust when he says: "During the last few years that 1 bare been prosecuting for the city ol Omaha 1 have docketed more than 8,000 cases. I made a more or less thorough Investigation of the religious training and education of girls chargee with various crimes, and in dicusslns: the crime and Its effects with the dtf ferent Individuals, and In discussing their early lifu with them, I asoer talned that less than 8 per cent ol the cases I investigated had had the benefit of religious education, elthei in the school or In the home." Mr. O'Brien's findings are ratified by other law enforcement officials Ir various parts of the country, although in different words. "If religion can he construed ft mean high ideals, desire for hettei music and literature and all forms ol entertainment," says Mrs. Alice L Magill. an officer In the prosecutor’' office at Los Angeles, "honor for par ents, love of country, and respect fot law and order, then I say, most as suredly, there Is too little religlout training In our homes. Our laws ar< constant, and willful violations ol these laws by those who have reached maturity and our so-called good clti zens Is creating in the younger gen eration an uttqr disregard for law and its underlying principle." Bad home conditions, including the menace of divorce, undoubtedly are at the bottom of juvenile delinquency Boys and girls do not Just "happen to fie had and go wrong. They begin life under favorable circumstances most of them, and if they stray from the path of rectitude, nine times oul of ten it is the fault of the home training. It Is a responsibility which cannot be dodged, no matter how hard we try. Reformation cannot he ac compllshed In jails and penitentiaries —it must he started and completed where It should, In the great Ameri can home. Midi Pay for Dog Stars. fi Catherine Brody In Saturday Evening Post. Peter the Great, who belongs to a flog trainer. Is supposed to be the best paid privately owned dog In the pic tures. He la highly bred, the de scendant of a long line of German police dogs, and If he were purchas able he would be worth about $5,000. Peter brings his master In a little more than $1,000 a week under a con tract to which he has duly afli*ed his paw. Kin-Tin-Tin. another privately owned dog and also one of the major stars, gets a salary of $500 weekly, or the same price as a rather widely known vampire who Is much In de mand at present. Then the lesser fry that are billed on the posters as appearing with cer tain actors, generally with the added comment that this Is a new wonder dog of the screen. A certain fox ter rier that responds to commands very quickly, and is therefore a favorite with the much-tiled director*, has earned a small fortune for his msster In driblets of *350 a week throughout a. number of years. Another, a small white dog. gener ally cast with children, makes $250 weekly and works all the time, some times In two pictures at once. There is a beautiful white poodle, highly* trained and with etage experience, that Is paid $25 an hour for his work at the studios. A great Pane, who belongs to a producer, earned some little fame for himself even before the days of the dog stars. He was the first dog that directors thought of when they had a rough dog part, until he got too old and tame to pursue villains valiantly. The pay envelop# of a trained canine never contains less than $15d, nr about $20 a day, as compared with the $7 50 a day meted out to the two, legged extras. Small Town Stuff. From ths Bison City Tribune Thera Is nothing quite as foolish ss the senseless rivalry which very often Is exhibited by neighboring email towns. The people of a little town will de vote quite the major portion of their time, when they are hltten with the hug, to running down their aister town. And. a few mllea up the pike the sister town will he wasting val uable hot air. telling the world what a hum town Its neighboring village Is, and how much better It la. The Inhabitants of both towns are foolish. Great sections a re built, not through foolish striving to keep a neighboring village on an Inferior plane, but by trying hard to pull all the towns to a higher status. No section builds Itself when it* pen pie are torn by dissension, even when the dissension Is based on ab surd, *rnall town Jealousy. Not Cheated. An eastern university professor de Clares there are *50,000 feeble-minded persons at large In this country. Con gress and the college* seem to have their "quotas."—New Orleans Times Picayune. Ha Knew Better. "T want soma bird seed, please.'1 said the customer. "Ho! you rsn't fool me," replied the store boy. "birds grow from eggs not seed!"—Progressive Grocer. -v Abe Martin V_> * Rome Kiris K't married for money, some for love, an’ some jest fer a lark, but no girl ever got mar ried t' live In a little town. Who ever wrote, "What we don't know won't hurt us," never got examined j>y a real dlagnoticiso i (Cop> right, 1121) r Letters From All letter* mu*t b* »igned. but n*i Communication* of 200 word* *r _— - Pardon* for Criminal*. Omaha: To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: The article in your paper by "J. O. G.” on "Echo of the Bossie Trial" was surely a hummer. A good many people prophesied that l?ossie would get off lightly for the reason that he Knew a little too much of doings at the city hall. But few expected that the trial would be such a farce, with the mayor playing the leading part. I have not been In Omaha very long but II seems la me that the mat ter of Issuing so many pardons to criminals, really encourages law vio lations. So many pardons are issued that it is becoming a joke. Most any one feels that they get some one to recommend them if they are sent to Jail, and the mayor will soon pardon. 1 saw in the paper the other night a list of reasons for pardons which seemed In be no reasons at all. For example in most every case promiscu ous persons recommended the par dons, and then they were given. Here are some of the excuses offered by the mayor for pardoning law violator*: "position waiting." "husband prom ised to take her from the city," "prom ised to be more careful in the future,” "has work now,” "promise of future good behavior,” "needed to care for home," etc. All mighty weak excuse*. T)n laws mean anything at all when criminals can get pardons so easily. Is it any wonder that crimes Increase in Oma ha? Is It any wonder that many think If a good joke to he arrested, for they expect to be pardoned? K. F. SHANLEY. .More About Rock Creek. Valentine, Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Not until I returned to Nebraska from a western trip did I learn that ex-secretary of agriculture. Grant Shumway, had replied to my criticism of the Rock t'reek purchase. I desire to give your readers sortie facts concerning, that deal. Rock creek In Dundy county, Nebras ka Is a small spring-fed stream that rises In the sand hills about 20 miles northwest of Benkleman. It Is almost entirely upon the ranch of Baumber ger Bros., or which formerly belonged to them. It Is a prptty little stream and at one time contained some trout. The writer has fished every crook and turn of It and with some success. However, Mr. Baumberger told me that so much taking of trout by sack ing had nearly depleted the stream and that he was about discouraged In further stocking it. So far as this so called hatchery Is concerned, there Is not, nor ever will be anything there more than retaining or nursery ponds Whether these will be practical or not Is a question. The project was once tried and being so far from the ranch house there was no projection against poachers who take fish regardless of size or manner of getting them. Any fish culturlst or man who Is familiar with Nebraska waters will tell you at once that a dozen other sites, better watered, nearer a railroad, and more practical in every respect can he pur chased for $10 per acre. To say noth ing of the Illegal manner In which this purchase was made, $100 per acre was an outrageous price to pay for this nursery pond site Mr. Shumway says that mtlllona of trout may be hatched there Does he pretend to tell an Intelligent people that trout may he hatched In creeks or ponds? If so I have just visited a big hatchery on J. B. Et oil's farm near Johnston and there are two more be ing made at Chadron and one at Har rison. on Monroe creek. And speak ing of Monroe creek, allow me to say that there Is s 1,000-acre tract of tlm hered land, crossed by three trout brooks, sll having large springs slong their courses, and this beautiful park may he purchased for practically the same sum as was paid for that tree less, sandhill, 45 acres In Dundy county. However, the sportsmen of Ne hraska. who. several thousand strong are organizing to protect themselves N ET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION j For FEBRUARY. 1925 THE OMAHA BEE Daily.76,202 Sunday .77,710 Does not Include returns, left Avtri. umplM or papers spoiled is printing snd includes no special •ales or free circulation of any kind. • V. A. BRIDGE, C»p. Mfr. .Subscribed and •worn ta hefers »• this 2d day ef March, 1925. W. H QU1VEY, (Seal) Natary Public ADM FRTIPEMENT. Broadcasts Good News I - -t hi luloph^r fM udl<*. Topeka. Kan—"Of l*r. Pierce* aeveral remedlca, 1 will mention Ihe 'Holden Medical Hlaonveiy,' a Mood medicine ami general tonic; the 'Fav orite I’i cei-rlptlon' for women'a weak Irene, the ‘An uric' Tnhleta for back nrho anil rheuniatleni. amt the Plea* ant I’cllcta' foi the atomach, llier and howela. There la never a time when at lenat one or more oftheae ipmedlee cannot I* found In my houae and they Inive all proved to l>* all that the pmprletora claim for them. There la no doubt at all about the reliability of Hr. Pierce a feme diet" Mia. 1'ha.rlea Dixon. &13 Lime Hi. Obtain now from your neighbor hoial drugglat Hr. Pierce a family reniedka. Write Tir Pierce, Pica invalid a Hotel In Buffalo, N V foi free advice, and aend him Me fivi a j trial pkg of any of hta medicine*. | — Our Readers 1 n* will be withheld open request, d lete. will be given preference. ___ against just such Irregularities as this Rock creek project, will not al low’ Mr. Shumway to hide behind 1,090,000 trout or 10,000,000. They know and he knows that not one penny of the {50,000 appropriation to buy and improve lakes was legally available for the purpose of building hatcheries. They know and so does he know thet this Rock creek deal was slipped through on the quiet Just be fore election last fall. The men who helped put It across, themselves ques tioned the legality of using any part of the lake fund for such a purpose. But a higher authority told them to go ahead and he would protect them. Since then he has lost so much of his protective power, that about the only thing for the other fellows to do is to evade the issue. But here Is the real question that should be answered fairly and square ly by Mr. Shumway. Why do we not have a biennium report from the department of fish and game for the year 1923-24? (i. H. .\ICHORS. Pleads for Murderer*. Chadron, Neb.—To the Editor ot The Omaha Bee: Was greatly inter ested in ihe letter you recently pub lished from A. ('. Meyer of Battle Creek. Mich. One thing, “Life impris onment. that means what it says, would be by far morst appropriate punishment." To have it “mean what it says" in Nebraska would mean the addition to our pardoning board of the chief jus tice and a majority of the members of our supreme court. They having known the evidence, are the ones who should be consulted in addition to the state officers. Having had 40 years experience in courts and my father having been on the behch for over 30 years previous, we decided the records proved, that the most cold-blooded, premeditated murder in existence was the legalized murder of the juries as permitted by stste laws and court*. Because one murder has been com mitted by some one, does another mur der, deliberately planned by those In authority, cause more or less deaths'.’ Seventy years of unprejudiced reading of the news of the days, shows that after a “legalized murder” many more killings follow. The talk of peo ple Inflames the minds of those who allow hatred In their hearts, “what is right for the state Is right for me." Imprisonment means “Give every one a chance.” After a prisoner has been executed, how many times the really guilty party has confessed or been found in some manner. Particularly Is a pardoning board needed, when young persons are con victed. After they have spent as many years In the penitentiary ss would allow them to be really re formed, why'not pardon? Theca.se of the young man taken 'o the penitentiary this week Is In point. Nineteen years old Not old enough to be old enough to own property, nor vote—but old enough for 13 men (are they?) to say he shall be legally murdered. Do two wrongs make a right? No matter what the pris oner did. or under what circum stances. It will only add another crime for the state of Nebraska to commit murder, dellbere'ely. “Thou shall not kill.'' F. M. R O'LINN. When You Feel s Cold Coming On Take Laxative BROMO QUININE Tablet* to work off the cause and to fortify the svatem against an attack of Grip or Influenza. A Safe and Proven Remedv. The box bears sig nature of E. W. Grove. 30c.—Adver tisement. Sunny Side UP; Hake Comfort.nor forget qhat Sunrise never failed uS^etr^ . -J __— — - --- ----N -' JI ST WANDERING. Wandering round down in Texan, where there* ocean* and LazylnT^undlnTe sunshine and watching th. row. In bloorn^ Tampering With Trifles, that, me now, just watchln* the And' Ashing"^nd5sleeping and dreaming beneath the Texas NothIng"to Jobless T want to; Just loafing around for a spell And. believe me. folks In Nebraska. I'm doing the ^ uP v^lj Nights with their gentle winds blowing; days with their ar And roses'and palm trees plenty—but Nebraska I'm thinking of you. Wandering round in Texas, and enjoying each hour of the day; Soaking up sur.shlne and wishing a chance tor prolonging my watching the waves on Ihe beaches and over the horizon's Hm. .see the steamers home-coming from lands that are distant and Thinking' perhaps that my dream ship might sail up the sll very bay And anchor a't’last In the harbor, at home at the close of day. Dreaming and hoping and wishing, though seldom a dream comes true; x. But ’midst all my dreaming and wishing I m thinking. Ne braska. of you. if Wandering ’round In Texas: land sat s. what a whale of a stats. As big as a dozen New Knglands, and hitting along on all eight. Proud of her glorious record, her men it* the eventide glow (?ather their son* 'round to tell them the tale of the oM A amo. Tell them of Crockett and Houston, and all of the heroic men AN ho made the proud Now of old Texas the fruit of the terrible Then. , , ,, ~ . . . WhenI hear the final trumpet calling. I’ll quickly tell Gabt.el mv choice— First Nebraska, then Texas, then Heaven, and gi\en either one I’ll rejoice. ^ The stranger In Texas always has trouble in comprehend ing the illimitable distances. We Nebraskans think we have a sizable state, and we have but gosh all fishhooks, it’s puny compared with Texas. You look at a man of Texas and think you’ll hist run over to Brownsville by boat. Its Just a llt’le wavs you know. But it isn't. It reouires 72 hours for the round trip. Nebraskans who live in Sioux county think they ate a long wavs from the state capital. They are. too. But they can travel from Harrison to Lincoln, thence to Omaha, thence to Chicago and back again to Omaha and not travel as many miles as the Texan in the extreme northwest part of his stare h-,s to travel to get to Austin. A man in Texarkana is nearer Duluth. Minn , than he Is to Brownsville. Did you ever spend a day in a big city where you didn't know a soul, just wandering around? After calling on some fellow newspaper workers In Houston we walked around for a few hours, longing for the sight of a familiar face. Just before boarding the Interurban for Galveston at 5 o'clock we saw ope It was the face of The Omaha Bee staring at us from a rack in front of a news stand We fell upon it with tears of ioy. It was three days old. but to us was as fresh as the morning dew and more welcome than roses In May. Galveston has the arterial street system. Ail traffic most come to a full stop before crossing these main arteries. It curbs speeding and it prove* mighty helpful to pedestrians. Houston has a splendid street bus system, supplementing the street car «v*tem. After trving both we prefer the busses WILL M. MAUPIX. i Jv- --^ —-— ■ 1 ’ ~ ' ~—i^■—^ YOUR MONEY INVESTED IN WINDSWEPT QUALITY SILVER FOXES •• foundation stock will create an ever-increasing independent income | for you. too. Nature guarantees it. Wonderful opportunity for 500 red-blooded Omaha men ard women to ;j: join the NEBRASKA WINDSWEPT SILVER FOX ASSOCIATION now^ Applications will ho taken Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday of this week only. Such applications, if accepted, will participate in this spring’s increase. 100% increase is very ordinary. First come, first m . rrred. Apply at 1112 W. O. W. ldg. Open Evenings : Illinois Central System Shows That Freight Is Only One Cent on a Dollar Meal Many persons have mistaken ideas about the influence of freight rates on prices. Transportation is such a stupendous thing, involving the receipt and disbursement of billions of dollars annually, that one realizes only with astonishment how sma an influence it really has on prices of most commodities. In July, 1921, we computed the cost of assembling a typical restaurant or hotc' dinner at Springfield, 111., selecting that point because it is a central point on our lines. At that time the freight charges on an entire meal, such as that shown below, which would cost the purchaser at least a dollar, amounted to only about 1 cent and 9 mills. Our computation has Keen revised on the basis of present freight rates which are substantially lower than the rates of 1921, and the revised figures show the present freight cost of assembling this typical dollar meal to be about 1 cent and 1 mill. Foodstuffs for this meal are assembled by rail from widely scattered parts of the country and are carried in equipment and over tracks costing billions of dollars to build and other billions of dollars to operate. And yet the entire freight cost of assembling all the items of the meal is but a small fraction more than the smallest American coin. That is the miracle of modern railway transportation. The following shows the information in more detail: Beginning Freight Freight Item of ail Haul Amount in 1925 in 1921 Coffee .New Orleans . Ho*. $.000169 $000187 Pepper .New York.1-16 ox. .000049 .000059 Salt .‘.Ludington. Mich.’» ox. .0000,18 .000041 Beef .Des Moines . 8 ox. .002525 .003275 Butter .Madison, Wis. 1 ox. .000625 .000700 Wheat .Fargo, N. D. 2 ox. .000456 000518 Peas .*.... Detroit . 4 or. .001575 .001725 Potatoes .Waupaca, Wts. 6 or. .001106 .001219 Salmon .Portland. Ore. 2 ox. .001444 .002188 Strawberries.Hammond, La. 4 or. .002525 .002800 Sugar .New Orleans. 2 or. .000675 .000750 $011187 $.013392 The difference in the freight cost of the meal of about 2 1-5 mills is small in amount but great in proportion. It represents a reduction of freight rates on these products averaging 161 -j per cent. This is roughly indicative of the reductions made in all frieght rates in the last four years. Since 1921 the public has paid aboir $1,600,000,000 less for railway transportation than it would have paid if there had been no reduction in rates during that period. The benfit of those rate reduction in 1924 alone amounted to about $600,000,000. or nearly $6 for every member o our population. Increased efficiency has made this saving possible of accomplishment along will the improvement there has been in railway service. More ought to be said aboir the increased efficiency of American railroads than has been said. It is helping . ; lines of business. The Illinois Central System is better equipped to serve its patrons with freigh and passenger transportation than ever before in its history. We request our friends to pass this word along to their friends and help us increase the number of our oi - tomers. We believe that our service to the public is appreciated by all those who t use it, but we are anxious to increase the number of users of that service. Constructive criticism ami suggestions are invited. C. H. MARKHAM. •‘resident, Illinois Central System