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The Omaha bee M O R N I N G— E V E N 1 N G—S UNDAY 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 Preas. of which The Bee ia a member, ia exclusively entitled to the use for repubhcation of all new* dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in thi* paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republiemtion of our special dispatches are also reserved. The Omaha Bee ia a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognised authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee's circulation ia regularly audited by their organisations. Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908. at Omaha postoffice, under act of March 2, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for XT 1 AAA the Department or Peraon Wanted. ^ * l®nllC 1UUU OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Chicago— Steger Bldg. Boston—Globe Bldg. Los Angeles—Fred L. 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CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Morning and Sunday .1 month 85c, 1 week 20c Evening and Sunday .1 month 65c, 1 week 15c Sunday only .1 month 20c, 1 week 5c V.-J Omaha* Where the West is at its Best SIFTING THE MINDS OF MEN. “The greatest American obsession is the habit of going to school,” said J. B. Johnson, dean of the University of Minnesota, to a group of school super intendents. / He was not talking about the attendance at primary schools, but of the quest for "higher” educa tion. Many who knock at the doors of the colleges and universities are unfit to be admitted. Experi ence at the University of Minnesota has proved this. Of 80 freshmen picked at the beginning of the cur lent year as certain to fail, all have failed to reach even the lowest mark that would permit their going ahead with their courses. In four years 409 students have been picked as probable failures, and only nine of the group have attained even the lowest mark for graduation. All the others have failed In these cases the prediction is based on the work done by the student while attending high school, and on his general habits and his response to mental tests. Dean Johnson’s contention is that hoys or girls who do not show capacity for assimilat ing education should not waste time in trying to acquire it. All are not capable of absorbing knowl edge. He says: "The only way to do Justice to these students of low ability Is to educate the publio to understand that there are thincs other than going to college which are worth while and satisfying and honor able. that to go to college requires a peculiar type of personality, that to encourage unqualified per sons to go to college only wastes public resources, discourages the youth themselves and steals away the facilities which the capable students could use, and that this waste could be avoided hy frankly facing the facts. "No civilization can long endure a universal dis dain for work, for labor." Elementary schools are not to be disturbed, hut beyond them minds are to be winnowed. Time will not be spent to pound into a dull brain information it can not grasp. Educators are working to the end that intellectual misfits are to he kept out of the way of the competent, that the cause of learning may he advanced and not retarded by the adoption of too low a standard. Experience at the University of Minnesota may not be conclusive, but it is at least significant of the need of a thorough examination of the problem. SPRING FEVER. It is an epidemic that knows neither age, coior, sex or previous condition of servitude. It enters the hovels of the poor, the mansions of the rich, paralyzes the energies of the normally industrious and devitalizes the usually obstreperous youngsters dawdling over the desks of the schools. It slows up the mental processes of the thinker and the student, sets the worker to dreaming and obstructs the flow of commerce and trade. Medical science has sought in vain for drug, herb or essence that will counteract its effects or prevent its annual recurrence. It eludes the diagnostician and thumbs the metaphorical proboscis of the dietician. It refuses to yield to pills or potions. There is but one cure for it, as scientists will attest, and that is to play truant from the job, get out into the open, tramp the woods or seek to lure the finny tribe from the pellucid waters. It rises through the human anatomy coincident with the rising of the sap in the trees and can only be allayed by communion with Mother Nature. It is useless to strive to avoid it. It sneaks in like a thief in the night to steal away ambition. It is unwise to combat it, and wise to follow only the im pulses it raises in mind and soul. It is nature's method of restoring mental and physical balance. It is the balance wheel of the sea sons. It is a blessing to mankind only if allowed to pursue its natural way. The lackadaisical eye, first symptom of itR attack, is soon followed hy a keener look, a sprightlier step and a renewed ambition. It is the physical low barometer pointing to storms that are easily avoided. It is something to be welcomed, not something to condemn. Those who have never been afflicted with spring fever are to be pitied. Such have never felt the urge for the outdoors, for the first song of the bird', the first glimpse of the green of the trees, the first scent of the newly turned sod. “WHAT HAS FORD WROUGHT?" "Maiden Dearborn,” which name suggests a habit of somebody to play on words, “roared its way” into Chicago, according to dispatches, carrying a cargo of 1,000 pounds of Ford parts. It was the first Ford-built flying machine, off on a typical Ford mission. Not just to test out the machine as to its capacity for substantial flight, hut to serve a useful purpose. If the result is satisfactory, then Omaha may expect to hear one or more of the machines loaring across the Missouri river. For the first fleet Is to be engaged in carrying parts to Ford assembly plailts, and the one in Omaha is putting together wore cars every day than the one in Paris, which is getting much attention. What airmen are most concerned in is the prac ticability of Ford's ides of lessening the cost of sir planes. He certainly did succeed in putting a very serviceshle rsr on the market, at a cost, none of his competitors has ever been able to meet. Can he do the seme for the machine that uses the air for its course? At present the government is paying around $25,000 for army planes, depending on the type. The hig single item in the cost schedule is the $10, 000 or more for the engine. Ford talks of a plane to sell for $4,000, Whether this will he for army use, or for commercial pur poses must yet he developed. But if the predictions that are now freely made as to the use of airplanes in commerce come to anything, the end will he hast ened by reduction in cost promised by Henry Ford. He may have the secret here, just as he had ir. the manufacture of cars. Time will tell. The advan tage will be with the maker who ran produce the better ship at the smaller cost. AN OLD-FASHIONED MAN. Somehow or other we greatly fear that Bill .Jar dine is going to be a misfit down in Washington. As secretary of agriculture he isn’t going to devote his time to evolving a lot of schemes whereby the farmer may pull himself up by the hoot-straps, and that sort of thing is calculated to make him non persona grata down there. And Bill shows so many symptoms of being an old-fashioned sort of fellow; one who is disinclined to hit the social pace and intent only on doing the job entrusted to him. Why, Bill is so blamed old-fashioned that h» actually believes work is good for boys, and he still clings to the antedeluvian notion that parents ought to realize their responsibility for the proper training of their offspring. He even expresses disbelief in the popular theory that the only thing needpd to correct an evil is to Pass a Law against it. Bill is really unique. He admits that when he was a boy he would willingly have paid for an opportunity to play football, and now he can’t undestand why boys have to be babied into playing it by the offer of gaudy sweaters and trips in Pullman sleepers. Bill Jardine is so far behind the times that many people will be inclined to classify him with the dodo, the three-toed horse and the saber-toothed tiger. But there are others who will incline to the belief that Bill is just the kind of man needed to leaven the Washington lump. It is possible that he will be abb to jolt a lot of people into a realization of the fact that this old w'orld would be greatly benefited by a return to some of the homely virtues that produced men like Bill Jardine. Bill may be an objeqt of curiosity in the east, but be strikes westerners as a pretty good sort of a man to tie to. A PALPABLE ERROR. The newspaper that misquotes the Bible is in for grief. Of course no newspaper will intentionally misquote the Book of BooITs, but in these days of typesetting machines and composing room hurly-bur ly, mistakes will creep in. One such error, and a most palpable one, crept into The Omaha Bee's Easter morning editorial under the caption, “The Resurrec tion Morn.” The word “asleep” appeared in place of the word “arisen,” as written, and now the letters are pouring in, as might have been expected. “And if Christ be not arisen, then is our preach ing vain, and your faith is also vain,” wrote Paul to the Corinthian brethren. The word "asleep” in place of “arisen” destroys the whole context. The editor of The Omaha Bee is fairly well acquainted with the Good Book, but he would not dare to at tempt quotation in print without verifying the quo tation word for word before turning the copy over to the printer. This explanation is made to order, if possible, to allay the fears of The Omaha Bee readers that this newspaper is trying to “improve” upon the Bible, and incidentally to stop the flood of letters coming :n to call attention to the error. Many men and women object to the lingering kiss that always comes along with the fadeout of a movie, probably because they have never been privileged to participate in a similar fadeout with the screen hero or heroine. Now that they have started padlocking New York caharets we may expect to sea the establish ment of correspondence schools in padlock opening, with the name of Houdini featured. The University of Chicago announces that it could make good use of $17,500,000. We know sev eral people who could cut off the five ciphers and use the balance to good advantage. Now they are arguing about the year golf was introduced into the United States. It will he settled about the time we settle the year of the English sparrow invasion. In picking out a democrat to apprize of his forth coming visit to Omaha, Senator Norris at least steered clear of complications with any republican faction. “Great poems do not have to be correct in de tail," declares the Louisville Courier-Journal. The same thing applies to successful politicians, evidently. It is said that a woman member of congress served two years without making a speech. If that is true, why in the world did she go to congress? If Hindenherg expects to be elected president of Germany he will have to have a better political line up than the military line he boasted about. ---- Homespun Verse By Omahk'i Own Poet— Robert IT orlhington Doric. ----—■' TUFA- DIDN’T BEY ’EM DIAMONDS WHEN FATHER WAS A LAD. No, they didn't buy ’em diamonds when my father w«« a led; Bo It was that he ndvlard the other day: And he anted rather strangely like he was a trifle mad. And he aald a lot that t wnud never say. He Informed me that the wealthy, even, very seldom bought Sparklera for their sweethearla long st". I would hate to tell Eliza half the awful things he thought When 1 asked him for the necessary dough. I advlaed my loving father that the tlmea are different, And that cuatom won't tie changed for anything.— Thai the only true endowment and befitting aacrement (if engagement la a precious diamond ring. He la much opposed to spending as they were In days of old. And he call* It Just a fancy- What’s a peer!. Or a diamond, nr a ruby set up In a band of gold (Jot to do with one's engagement to a glrlf It Is Wholly artificial, thinks my father; I ean't hug And such s foolish trinket, I now know; — But. I still am somewhat solemn, end ss yet 1 wondar why, Bui there Isn't any use to tell him so. It'a a alia me that father wasn't In his prims In Fashion a day. I can't figure what to tell nn Liza true: - Bui they didn't huy 'em diamonds when my dad was young and gay— 1 am puzzled, 1 atn awed and 1 am blue. f--——-- ' Letters From, Our Readers All lsttsrs mint be aifned. but name will be withheld upon requeat. Con'* municatiana of 200 words and iota will he given preference. V----^ “As a Man THlnkcth." Albion. Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Poes it not seem as If i,. H. Monroe In his letter, "It Is a Wicked World,” Is rather pessimistic” Now 1 wonder if he really does think the world Is growing worse. Once it was counted no wrong for a man to take front his neighbor anything lie coveted, front his herd to his wife. ■ hildren or castle—if he were strong enough to take them. Once a man was considered a nincompoop who could not “get drunk like a gentle man.” Once people saw nothing amiss in ministers of the gospel smoking and drinking their wine nr “toddy,” as they discussed churchly affairs. Does not the fact that people hate become awakened to the evil of these tilings prove that the world is getting better? We deplore the increase in the use of clgarets and tobacco, but we must not lose sight of the fact that there Is an increase of population as well. Nor should we lose sight of the fact that we are in the trying years after a war—a war tn which warm hearted, softheaded people became dupes of the tohacco trade and swamped our hoys with clgarets. and In which all conventions and restrictions were re moved from our girls. O yes. when we see the comparative safety of life and property, the establishments for the care of the poor and unfortunate: when we remember that many things called crimes today were not thought wrong at all 50 or 50 years ago, and. above ail. when we remember that He who said, “Ask and ye shall re ceive.” has also taught us to pray. 1 Try Kingdom come. Thy will he done on earth ns it Is in heaven.” we must surely believe the world is growing better even if It is halted sometimes in Its growth as our crops are. Mr. Monroe says if the world is growing better preaching Is ”a waste of breath.” We would not commend the intelligence of the captain who. when Ms men had taken the outer trenches, tried. "Retreat;” It’s no use. We haven't settled the whole war. What would have been the fate of mankind if our Lord had said,/‘For three years I have been teaching and preaching, and if they call this making the world lietter I sm going to give it up. Why, they are getting worse all the time, for now they will kill the Son of God.” But He did not sav It. Instead he said. “And I. if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto Me,” and If there are more sinners in the world than for merly there are also more saints. E. S. W. Not Reeking Federal Control. Valentine. Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee. Referring to an ar ticle published In the Norfolk News, under date of April S. relative to the establishment of a federal game sanc tuary in Cherry county. The territory covered In this pre tentious scheme takes in about five townships, and includes about all of the best fishing lakes in Cherry coun ty. Thousands of people, coming from all parts of the state, fish and hunt in this territory every season. If Congressman Howard and other gentlemen associated with him In this enterprlss really desires the federal government to purchase these lands and place the best fishing and hunting grounds In the state under federal control, would it not have been better to have referred this matter to the regular meeting of the state division of the Isaak Walton league and let the sportsmen of Nebraska thrash this matter out at their state convention? It would then b« time enough to take the matter up to the national conven tion and ask for their eid In putting the project through congress. If the best part of Cherry county I* turned into a federal game preserve It might improve the duck shooting at Columbus and some Mher towns along ths lower stretches of the Platte river', hut what about the sportsmen of northwestern Nebraska and other sportsmen who come h«*re to fish end hunt? The Valentine chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America is opposed to this presumptuous proposition. We don't need federal control of our hunt ing and fishing grounds. If we need game sanctuaries, let the stats estab lish them and keep same under state rontrol. We don’t want gome bureau crat eent out here from Washington and tell our sportsmen where to get off Incidentally, we wish to advise Con gressman Howard that we have In our district a very efficient and highly es teemed congressman, Robert G. Sim mons. who Is quite capable of looking after our interests at the seat of government. He la a big man. from e big district, and has the honor of representing the best people on earth, who live In the Big Sixth R. R. BROS It'S. Serretarr. LISTENING IN On the Nebraska Pres* --' "Whether you consider the world round, square or rroked depends upon the jrart you humped against," chor tles Fletrh Mcrwin of the Reaver City Times Tribune. The N'ellgh Leader Insists that Nr hraskan* have been entirely tort mod est In advertising their state, and should begin at once to do the right thing. The Leader has always done Its part. The rierce Call Insists that »n long as Senator Norrla was elected by re publican votes, rcnubllcans have a right to tell him what meaaurea they would like to have him support Our Idea of a real optimist Is the editor of the Pierce Call. { Abe Martin | “Oh, it jest got so we hardly ever used il any more," said Mrs l,afe Hud t’day, when somehuddy asked her why she sold ther home. Ther's few thing* a* gabby a* th’ feller we pick up an’ haul downtown. Copyristtt, HIM Ain’t It a Grand and Glorious Feeling __]_ ... I NOw I M (SoifJC, To / START HOUSE CLEANING \ Tomorrow and the I HOUSt WILL BE ALL \ Torn UP POR a week ^ -—c-"" OH h -h Boy aim t it A GR R R Ramd ^ ^ GlOR r-r riouj PeeuM I SUNNY SIDE UP lake Comfort.nor fozg et. lhat Sunrise ne\Jer failed, us yet: Celt a *7/i a/t*r ___* r-' TIMES HAVE CHANGED. (It l« currently reported that Willie in Jennings Bryan lies made a million or more In Florida real estate deals.I How well do we remember. Bill, those fl*ry days of old When you feared we d be crucified upon a cross of gold. When with an eloquence sublime you fought tha toiler s fight And whipped the Money Devil till it sought relief in flight. How well do we remember. Bill, we paused with bated breath When you could corner "Capital" and talk it moat to death. Them was the good old days, dear Bill, when you thought of our cares; But aow you have deeerted us and joined the millionaires. How well do we remember. Bill, the days when work was done— When we would go to hear you talk about sixteen 1o one; And how wed r'ar right up and cheer, and then sit down and * cuss. When you would deftly pull apart the Money Octopus. But, Bill, it seems you've thrown us down and grabbed the flrstest chance To get yours, leaving us to wear old patches on our panls And Bill, when we think of the tears you shed in our behalf. Then see you with a million—well, b gosh we gotta laugh. The cross of gold la laid away, no more the crown of thorns You talked about In davs of old the brow of toll adorn* At least you ain't a saying much about 'em. are vou. Bill' And Wall Street don't concern you now—at least you re keeping still About the Money Devil and the Vnearned Increment That used to fill us both chuck full of grief and discontent. (lone are them good old days, dear Bill, things have gone wrong somehow — 1 haven t changed so gol darned much, but you've a million now-. "Why didn't yon stop and help the man you knocked down?" asked the judge. "I didn't dare s‘op, your honflr. I saw a parking place Just ahead and I wasn't taking any chances on losing out. Bev. S Parks Cadman makes a plea for "moralised in telligence in the press " Not to he outdone hv our clerical brother, we hereby mske a plea for sensible sermonizing In the pulpit. A London scientist has fabricated silver that will not tarnish. We are not Intereated. What we want is silver that will not vanish. We are woefully short on psychology, and we are an abso lute vacuum when It comes to spiritualism. Our admiration for advancement In medical and aurgical science Is unbounded. But If we had a wart and wanted to get rid of it we d go down to the old home town In Missouri and Set an aged colored aunty to charm it away. t Somehow or other we can't help feeling suspicious of tha man who admits that his automobile Isn't as good as oura. Tn the old days the Easter bells pealed. Now the Easter belles do the most peeling. Geraldine Farrar aaya the champagne found 111 her private car was onlv near beer. Tut. tut. Geraldine! The idea of a woman trying that. We pulled one like it nearly JO year* ago and haven't heard the last of it yet. Now another mnlinn picture actress I* to sign s contract with a record breaking salary. Rut what we are honing tn see Is a motion picture actress who breaks a record by earning whaiever salary she receive* Tn our anxiety to prevent the enactment of some foolish law* hv the l*«t legislature we neglected to Pa«* a I-aw os' culsted tn restrain the tree butcher. The tree butcher chop* off the limbs of trees, regardless, lie exercises about as much Judgment as a sheep. Tie mutilate* tiee* Instead of pruning them. Ife Is a nuisance that should he suppressed WILL M. MAUPIN. V._, . .— —< •V --- Children Cry for MOTHERFletcher’s Castoria is especially pre pared to relieve Infants in arms and Children all ages V'laliilfncy,fcjmjMu|Mm^wBj'^fcgiyj5K~ajmM Wind Colic and Diarrhea; allaying Feverishness arising there from, and, by regulating the Stomach and Rowels, aids the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep. To avoid imitations, always look (or the signature of Absolutely Harmless-No Opiates Physicians UM)f«k«l raconamend it. I (-” “ N Spice of Life «■ ■ - —-e1 "Did Liza .lane git a good man when she ma'ied down in Memphis?" ■'Sho' did. Ma'ied him right outen de jail house. He didn't have no time to git In no trouble '—Legion Weekly. Customer—How ran one tell Imita tion pestle from the real ones? Salesman—Ah, madame, one does not tell: one keeps it to oneself.— Boston Transcript. The genius whom T once admired, To blame I now begin. His great inventions make me tired When monthly bills come in. — Washington Star. Tramp—Tour dog just hit a piece of flesh out of my leg. mum. Woman—Glad you mentioned It. I was Just going to feed him.—Nabor News. A friend meeting up with Mozart Wombat, asked: "What ate you doing now. Mozart?" "Working for a composer.’’ "Kh"" "He can t write music.'—Louisville Courier-Journal. Hub—Did tou ask the new maid if she has had any experience with children? Wife—Don't need to. I could tell by the wav she glowered at 'em that she had—Hartford Courant. Maybe. Distracted Wife lat bedside of sick husband)—Is there no hope, doctor? Doctor—1 don t know, madame Tell me first what you are hoping for—Lord Jeff. ' Suspicious. "I sav," said the Englishman as he was about to hand over the ticket which entitled him to see Charming Pollock's popular plav. "i sav, there is nothing personal intended here, is there? " "Beg pardon, sir?” said the bew :1 dc red doorman. • Well, it's nlj right. I suppose.” murmured the other, but the ticket says: ‘The Fool—Admit One. "—Bos ton Transcript. Almost Right. Teacher—Tommy, does this world of ours move? Tommy—I should say it do' Teacher—How do you know it Itl'-’-o’ Tommy—My father is a traffic cop— he tell* it to!—Peacock Feathers. NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION For MARCH, 1925. THE OMAHA BEE Daily.76,525 Sunday .78,473 Do#* not include return*, left-over*, sample* or papers spoiled in print ing and includes no special aala* or frea circulation of any kind. •* V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mfr. Subscribed and sworn to befora ms this 1st day of April 1925. (Seal) Notary Public ! W. H. QUIVEY, ! Summer Tours West i EFFECTIVE JUNE 1ST R'inni! Trip COLORADO and UTAH from Omaha Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo .S 26.50 | Salt Lake or Ogden. 46.00 ROCKY MOUNT AINESTES PARK Via Denver with free side trip to Colorado Springs . 37.00 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK (Opens June 20) Cody. Wyo. (Eastern Entrance). 46.00 Gardiner, Mont. (Northern Entrance . 46.00 ! Including Auto Tour through Park. Hotel Way. 100.00 Including Auto Tour through Park, Camp Way. 91.00 GLACIER NATIONAL PARK (Opens June 15) r Glacier Park Station or Belton M •. 51.00 ! GLACIER-YELLOWSTONE PARK COMBINED TOURS Two National Parks on one tour. . 55.50 1 MOUNTAIN RANCHES and RESORTS Sheridan. Wyo. n.5.7.% Thermopolia. Wro. 40.00 BLACK HILLS Hot Springs. S 1>. 25.00 Deadwood. S. 1>. 27.00 Lead, S. 1). 27*00 PACIFIC COAST POINTS (Effective Mav 15th) San Francisco, Loa Angelos.*. 72.00 Portland. Seattle, Tacoma . 72AH) San h ranciaco, l.oa Angeles, one way xia Seattle, Tacoma and Portland .. 00.00 . 07.00 Free Bookleti Covering Above Tour* on Request. I.*t ns explain these toura ami how the rturlington m«> be ti'il -ed for dlrerae route and circle toura. and ticket yon to the end that you ntay realfre and appreciate the meaning of a’ pro me tra\e’ comfort. BURLINGTON ESCORTED TOURS Tha Rurllnatnn has tnsuaurated a aerie* of Personalty K.acorted touts to Colorado and \ellowatone and C.laeiet this summer Lei me tell you about them BURLINGTON TRAVEL BUREAU litOi and }«rn*m v%. j. w MitKI'F I'httiH* IT Unllf ftpnpril 4^111