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The Omaha Bee MORNIN G—E V E N I N G—S U N P A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO . Publisher N. B UPDIKE. BALLARD DUNN JOY M HACkl.FR, Editor in Chief Buslneai Manager MEMBER OF THF_ANSOCIATLD PRESS The A<*Miriitfd Press, of ehidi '1 he Be« i* * member, it exclusively entitled to ihc use for republtcation of nil news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited is this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of cur special dispatches are •Iso reserved. The Omaha Bee is a membei of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognized authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee s circulation is regularly audited by their organisations. Entered as second-class matter May 28, lt08, at Omaha postoffice, under act of March 3, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for t -t* ■ *; 1 flfifl the Department or Person Wanted. ^ * IBIltlC IUUU OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Chicago—Stegrr Bldg. Boston — Globe Bldg, i Los Angelea—Fred L. 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An acute rush of the constitution to the office of the secretary of the state may be the means of bringing to earth one of the balloons set afloat by , Charles W. Bryan when he was governor. A com mittee named by the senate of the 1923, legislature made an exhaustive inquiry into the road fund. It also made a complete and very interesting report. Now the secretary of state, Charles W. Pool, de clines to approve vouchers to pay the expenses in curred by the committee in making its investigation. The fact that Mr. Pool is a democrat is merely inci dental. He would be as conscientious in his adher ence to the letter of the constitution if he were of any other political faith. On the surface, the affair has the appearance of a state official seeking strict conformity to a consti tutional provision. If it were true that the senatorial committee had been commissioned for the sole pur pose of providing employment and thereby increas ing the emoluments of the senators who compose it, the objection raised by Mr. Pool would be valid beyond question. In reality, the committee was ap pointed to carry on an inquiry into certain allega tions made by the governor. Charges that seriously fffected the credit of the state. That tended to place obloquy on the administration of the governor’s immediate predecessor in office. Contractors who sought payment for work done were told they could not have the money they sought. Goverror Bryan declined to assist the commit tea. He hrd declined to consult with the senate’s committee while the legislature was in session. It wm necessary for the committee to carry on its in quiry after the session was ended. For that pur pose the committee was continued. Had its report been made while the legislature was in session all it< expenses would have been paid without objec tion. Why, then, is it not equally legitimate to pay costs incurred by the committee after the session ended, when the work had been authorized for the public good? Nothing will be lost through having the whole matter aired in court. The committee’s report de veloped the fact that $400,000 was in the treasury at Wash ngton, awaiting action by the governor on approved contracts. This at the time Mr. Bryan was insisting that the road fund had a deficit of half n million dollars. The same deficit is again being paraded. We believe the secretary of state is strain ing the constitutional provision, but it will be a good "hing if the action is followed up hy a full investi gation in open court. SLAPPED EM ON THE WRIST. Recently ths republicans of New Orleans had the temerity to actually nominate a full set of can didates for city offices. Naturally the aristocracy, the elite, the chivalry, of Naw ’leans was aroused. Something had to be done about it. Immediately nrose an insistent demand that a severe rebuke be handed these political upstarts. Well, it was. It was more than a rebuke. The impudent republicans were not only rebuked, they were slapped on the wrist, and slapped severely. In a total of 36,000 votes the republicans were allowed 2,000 in the count. Just how many republican votes were cast will, of course, never be known. The sur prising thing about the whole affair is that the re publicans were allowed to have the names of any candidates on the ticket. It is surprising, too, that they were allowed any votes at all in the count. The usual plan is to allow only enough republicans to show up to fill the local federal offices in case of re publican victory in the nation. It is going entirely t< o far for republicans to aspire to local elective offices. The stinging rebuke administered to the pre sumptuous republicans of Naw ’Leans was well de served. What will become of all the treasured tra ditions of the south if these political upstarts are not curbed? What medicine could soothe the shattered nerves of chivalry in such event? The New Orleans Item says it was a “stinging rebuke.” It was more than that. NEWEST THING IN POLITICS. The world does move. Assuredly, for the men vbo “somewhere in this favored land" are contin ually in pursuit of public office keep things from stagnating. Last summer we watched with interest the employment of the radio as an adjunct to the stump speaker. Addresses by prominent advocates of all parties were carried into the quiet of the home over the ether waves. Audiences were boosted into the millions by this plan. What the effect may have been perhaps can be read in the returns. Certainly the voter was not without information as to the '•iews of the candidates and their supporters. Now comes a Lincoln man with another idea, novel in that it is for the first time being put into uae. He employ* the telephone. Calls up a number, and for a moment talks to the voter who answers. Just a few words of peraonal appeal. Intimate, con fidential even, although the burden of hia little chat *r. published in a Lincoln paper. He gets attention, does not talk long enough to confuse the party he is talking to. Puts his personal case in a light that must impress the fair-minded voter. \ ery likely he will get substantial benefit because of his idea. Long talks over the wireless, or hy any other s means, are apt to fall as easily out of the mind as they do out of the ears. Memory retains only a I ! azy outline of the trend of the argument. Sen Tnces may be recalled, but little of the text. By telephone though, a few words only are uttered. I Not enough to clog the memory, and just enough to ! make an impression. This form of campaign will surely spread. PRODDING A NEGLIGENT DEBTOR. Nations, it seems, are like individuals. A sense of obligation for favors enjoyed is not developed to a point where it becomes an embarrassment. Take Rumania. When the war came to an end, that bit of nationality, along with quite a few' others, was in a precarious position /or lack of ready money. In stead of allowing the Rumanians to work out their own salvation, the government at Washington staked Rumania to a considerable sum of ready cash. This was used to sustain the king, and help him carry on. Other nations were similarly provided for from the generous government that is supposed to he devoted exclusively to dollars. Now further evidence of the correctness of that popular conception is afforded. Mr. Coolidge has, through the State department, advised Rumania that the loan was made with the thought of its being paid at the earliest convenient time. Rumania has, it seems, been making Uncle Sam a preferred credi tor with reverse English. That is. the policy at Bucharest has been to let the debt to the United States ride while other obligations incurred since that were taken on have been provided for. Natur ally, such a policy is exasperating, and a pointed note has been sent, expressing the American view of the | situation. The note to Rumania is undoubtedly intended for perusal in several capitals. When the Wilson government was loaning billions to poverty-stricken European countries, after the war, the purpose was io aid in restoration. If the process of recovery has been retarded, it is because of the peculiar brand of oolitic* that has prevailed during the last seven >ears. Settlement day can not be forever post poned. Common decency requires that the claims of the United States have some consideration from ~hc debtors. Wrangling factions in France might get a hint from the note sent to Rumania. The “ring of steel’’ France has erected around the German empires in cludes Rumania as one of its links. Each of these nations has looked upon the American loan as some thing that might be subject of negotiation, pay ment of which may be indefinitely postponed while theories of government are being tried out. Awak ened from this, the debtor nations may be prodded into assuming a more stable condition. Probably the payment now overdue will not be hastened, but a definite notion of what to expect ought to be de veloped. IT CAN BE DONE. Sunday in Omaha was a beautiful day. Memory lues not recall a fairer Easter Sunday. All nature was an invitation and all hands accepted that invita tion. Men, women and children were out. enjoying ’he warm sunlight and the glories of early spring. Religious services claimed the attention of thousands. After that they had turned to the rational enjoyment of Clod’s wonderful work, and in it found pleasure. Of course, the automobiles were out. Thousands of them whirled up and down, along the boulevards, through the parks, over the crossways. Downtown streets were crowded with the heaviest traffic ever registered. A traffic officer of fifteen years’ experi ence, says he never witnessed the like, a steady stream >f swiftly moving cars, all day long, and far into the night. Without an accident. Not even a minor collision reported. Far out on North Thirtieth street a care less driver marred the perfect record of the day. He was proceeding at a high rate of speed without lights, and knocked down a pedestrian couple. “Bloody Sunday" to the discard, because the mo luring thousands so willed. A day of terror trans formed into a day of pleasure, because drivers were on the lookout, and accidents were avoided. It can be done, for it was done. Easter Sunday’s record should be a glowing example for all the Sundays that are to come, and the week days in between. Drive carefully, and enjoy the outing. That is all. A sniourning Russian prince whose aristocratic I name ends in the suggestive “nopoff,” has visions of | being restored to a $350,000,000 estate. He probably also has visions of selling some of it in America. I He just popped off. T’ncle Sam did a fair business with the outside world in March, running up a total of more than <800,000,000 in exports snd imports. More than | half was exports. This is what makes the free trad i its groan. The Tennessee legislature prohibited the teach I ii,g of evolution in the schools of that state. Whioh enactment is proof positive that there is no such thing as evolution in Tennessee legislative circles. Germans are to have the opportunity of telling I the world if they propose to go ahead as h republic 1 or backward as a monarchy. We are confident what I the answer will be. It wound profit a number of young people to give a thought to mother before, instead of waiting until after. It transpires that efforts to get the democratic factions together resulted only in their flying further apart. Homespun Verse By Omaha's Own Poet— Robert If orlbinfilon Davie. V./ SOMKIHV. Hruneday, when I hui wine am! old. I'm going to strive to blend Together those quaint plot tiros which to distant youth extend; — And which, from year to year, like Jewels retain their colors true. And more resplendent grow in thought mm di earns of Mother do. Someday, when other tasks are done a4td I am free at last. The ecstasies of life will rise from that much cherished past: The ersiasles which Effort stole from Hardship's oohoea, while A Mother who had kneeled to pra> arose to wear e smile. Someday, the old forsaken path* will bloom with tones sweet; There will he happiness and pride when we far hence ward meet. And one who keeps n Mother’s faith and foresight learns that flood Ethereal o'er the cradle m^uis the songs of Babyhood r “From State and Nation” v_:-' Making Good Indian*. Free »h« Si Imii> I’tspHt n When the full force of the comil i tlons surrounding the recognition of I’resident Foolidge as a member of the Hunk papa branch of the Sioux j Indian nation, and his being given the name of ‘ Beat Ribs" in memory of a former wise counsellor of that tribe ;are understood it will be seen that the president has won quite n vlctorv over tlie* wild men. sufficient, indeed, to be taken as an omen for a like triumph over the wilder red men of t he congress. The Hunk papas are now located in : Sioux county, North Dakota, where i the recent prairie fire raged. They were the last tribe to submit To guv* ■ ernment control or go on reserva tions In 1S54 the Indian agent wrote: "They of till Indians are now the most dread.ed on the Missouri." They de manded lihertv to wage war and to plunder. Their name means some thing like "Gypsy," being equivalent for "wanderer" or "those who camp by themselves." Their character and independence will be recognized when it is pointed out that "Sitting Bull" was their chief. They fought at Lit tle Big Horn and helped wipe out Fuster and his command. That the descendants of* these men. under the signatures of their chiefs, should now give tokens of fealty, and name the president after ’Bear Ribs, because he \\«js right and far-seeing ‘when he urged them to take up the white mi ns ways and cease becoming lovers, is not a mere gesture with | these Indians. They are serious and | the action taken Is one of moment to J them. At that, they have set an ex : ample to some white brethren who find It easier, after electing a presi dent. to assume a captious attitude him! not with detached and critical glance the errors, that being human, he is hound to make. Instead of ten dering him the support his merits deserve and his efforts evoke. The Hunkpapri Indian can teach some of us something, yet. Taxing the Intangibles. From the Korney Hub: Passage of a new intangible tax law with an emergency clause im poses a rather difficult tax on the assessors, who have already started their rounds, inasmuch as the sched ules for 1025, which have already been printed, are based on the old law Instead of the new. It bring too late to get new blanks without Incur ring considerable delay It will lie nee j • cssary to make many pencil changes to fit the requirements of the new stai ute. I’nder the new law there are two classifications whereas under the old law there was only one. Onder one, of these cl.-isslfications money and, certificates of dei>o*it are taxed at the rate of two and one-half mills on the dollar. With the exception of lank stock, all other intangibles will be taxed at the rate of five mills on! each dollar. Formerly bank stock has been taxed at the rate of 25 per cent of the rat«j on tangible property, but the new law raises the rate from 25 per cent to I 7<» per cent, or an increase of 45 per cent. j Fountv clerks will also be burdened with considerable extra labor In ex tending the tax records to comply, w ith the new law . If Is unusual to I adopt an emergency clause In this' class of legislation and in this in stance it is not anparent that an em ergency really exists. Nebraska legislatures are given to constant changes of the tax laws so that neither taxpayers nor taxing officials know from one two-year period to another what to exi>ect. Tf. th** new statute i* even tolerably sat nf icforv it ought to be permitted to stand ujitil tax-pavers are familiar with it. The Real Cause. From t>.# Nebntskii City Fr rw The 1’niversity of Nebraska will not get sympathetic atteniion and ear-' nest support from the state of Ne bra ska until the legislature is filled with men who have a right under standing of the needs and purposes of education. The failure of the late, lamented legislature to finance a school which i- grow iutc out of its swaddling clothes it an amazing rate was the failure of its component units, for the most! part, to appreciate the university. Send men to the legislature who are not so provincial and narrow between the ears 'i« to evaluate every human I need in terms of dollars and cents. ; and the snlendid educational Institu tions of this state will not languish and lag The f nit lies, of course, with the electorate and. hack u/ that, with the timidness of good men who need, drafting f<*r important work in th*! state house. Mediocrity In the gen-j era I assembly of the state fs a curse ; although not many |>eopl« will admit it publb ly. Center Shots V The month's award for unconscious Irony Is herewith handed Congress man .1. W. Dm ns nf Tennessee for his referen> e in a recent speech to "unavoidable saving* in government al costs."—Detroit News. We wonder that the Irreconcitables and Senator Borah did not t ike pains to ascertain if John f». Sargent had not at some time defended a Vermont maple wap farmer- Houston Poet Dispatch. A bulldog at Macon, Da has been given two baby tigers to raise, and some day that bulldog Is going to feel like most American parents do now American Lumberman. To some persons It seems perfecth plain that the crossword pMBXl© was invented l*v the rublao trust to pro mote the demand f«u erasers, Chlc.i go Dallv News. | Martin Theae hit great Ha,v» t’ buy n home jp»l aa good an new. I.eater Pine, prominent rInh man an’ only leeently married, died with hia ahoea n(T t'day. (C»r>iHin. liJi . Movie of a Man Crossing a Busy Street- ---, ^ f>U0VIMCi Tt-t* N(CI I BKt 5** WALK Hj V.-teL OFFICS cornea To Busy ATwesT CR0.A51N6 AND LOOK 5 FOH AUTO-5 5ees owe approaching Cut Thinks He C/am l^iAi<e it -AfJD HAS NAR«OU> eSCAPE FROf'A DEATH A**?IVES AT MiBpLt OF '•TweftT VA/HfiPR. TRAFFIC SUJDENLY Aecomes Terrific Both W^y."> - • OFFERS SILEHT PRAYER - Im VERITABLE bedlana AND >AAeLS~rROrv\ 0F MACHINES . - Cr Sees opening and ivaaakE-S Flr-JAC DAiSH for. curb - n./ nt»u»»r.• ARRIVES .SAFELY BUT HURLS EPITHETS AT CAR WHICH NARROUJLY MISSED riUMT-'IRG HIM" ^sunnysujeup lake Comfort.nor forget, lhat Sunrise ne\Jer failed us yet: Celia, nhatteir V_J f A woman who ha* traveled much write* us. asking that her name be suppressed, ami compliments Omaha on its clean ■><1 reefs and efficient fire department. She say* she has been In New York. Boston, Philadelphia, ^an Francisco. 1-os Angeles ! and other large cities, but nowhere ha* she seen cleaner streets nor watched a better fire department at work than right here in Omaha. The good woman incorrect, but most of us Oma harts iust take that sort of thin* for granted and never sa> inything about It. That a one trouble with a maturity of . it» jj zens. Thev voice a protest at a moment's notice, hut seldom do they voice a word of appreciation. This is "Be Kind to Animals Week." but only the usual • seven day* for ijs. Thinking to take advantage of the week we threw the papers all over the floor, dropped • igaret ashes adlib and threw burnt matches around with reckless akwndon. Some how or other the rules of the special week did not appeal to the other side of the household. From now on we are ferninst all these special week*. The news that pictures are to l»e used bv radio due* not j intrigue us even a little bit If the pictures look like most *»f ihe radio mush sound®, we’ll have none of them. We opine that the men in authority who sought to muzzle • '••lint Karolyi ate all bachelor*. No married man would up tier lake to muzzle anybody; at least he wouldn’t trV it the second time. It Is difficult to describe an Omaha man of our actiuaintance, but he is the kind of man who lets his wife select hi* hats and necktie*. In the good oM days when we flitted from point to point in pursuit of our trade of setting type, usually looking for the work that we honed we would he unable to And. we met one Charles M. Keefer. Charley was a fixture. He was a foreman and usually we held a grudge against his kind. Rut not against Charley. A lot of water has passed beneath the bridge aim e the dav the machines came in and a lot of us okhtime printers abandoned the trade. Charley is no longer a foreman. He is an insurance man. But hla reformation is not complete. In fact, he hus fallen from grace In at leaat one respect. Charley is actually wilting poetry. If isn’t such had stuff, but somehow or other we can t visualize Charley grinding out rhymes. But you never can tell what an ex foreman of a print shop will do. »ny more'n you can tell what they will do before they tiecom* »*x e*. In order to make sure this ttaragraph will get b\ we’ll hasten to say that this does not a indy to all foremen of com posing rooms. The echoes of our growl about being restrained from using the little old typewriter on the Pullman are coming latck from all quarters. We have been Informed by diver* and sundry railroad friends that it is a Pullman regulation, not a railroad regulation. Perhaps we owe an apology to George McNutt and his railroad, the Katv. If so. here it I*. Rut there are some railroads—outside of Nebraska—where a man doubly earn* his money when he tries to grind out typewriter copy while riding j their train*. "Don't get your terms confused." advises Ol' Doc Rixby. who I* some fiddler himself. Music is music and .lasts Is noise. ’ We prefer music even that of Ol* Doc's fiddle, to jazz. Northwestern university Is to start a nrobe into student night life In the old diva students burned the midnight oil. Nowadays entirely too much midnight gas is burned. Perhaps right there is the place to start the probe. After listening In on our radio for a couple of nights we are forced to the conclusion that the whereabout* of a maiden named Ha II > have been ascertained. WILD M. MAUP1N. ---- Letters From Our Readers All letters must be signed, but name will be withheld upon request. Corn* munications of 200 words end less will be given preference. \_y Combatting Socialism. Beatrice. Neb.—To the Kditor of The Omaha Bee. Yesterday VV. B. Fisher. < hlef counsel for the govern ment in the Armour-Morris merger controversy, .said in answer to the op posing counsel who argued the im possibility of monopoly in the pa< U ing industry, that “the vital thing is. the preservation of competition. ’ The tendency toward centralization of control In most large American in dustries results in avoiding th*» pre servation of competition in reality Such tendency reflects upon those very industries themselves bv an im mediate Himor for price fixing or public ownership «»f those industries 'the politician rides to office upon the issue of puhlh: ownetship of the ice pl«int, the gas station, the power plant and the most popular of ail might be the price control or government own crahip and distribution of necessaries. The operators of classes of la i ce American industry should curb the theory of ofntralizution of control and substitute therefore the motto of j “each for himself" that the reins of j state and nation may slacken toward independent operation of these ind trie** and halt this thorn of socialism. RJLOYD CROCKER. Can 1 "‘i ih-at it? MacTavish had been invited t< spend an evening at a friend's houso listening to a wireless program. At its conclusion his ho^r said. “Well, Mac, what could a Seotsma desire better than that? Hinging. in strumentalists. a talk on blue bottles opera, news and dance music—ail for nothing-. ’ “Aye." said MacTa vish, "hut w * dldna have any acrobats.” NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION For MARCH, 1925. THE OMAHA BEE Daily.. . .76,525 Sunday .78,473 Dor, not incltidr r.turn*. Irft-ovrr,. samples or papers spoiled in point ing end includes no special sale* or free circulation of any kind. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mfr. . . Subscribed and sworn to before me this 1st day of April 1925. (Seal) Notary Public \ W H. QUIVEY, Tha rolotad wondar land in Souihain *; l'tah—Zion National J j| Bark- - Brrva Canton i [i and C«dar Brraka - 11 apana Mai 15th. 11 Plan Your Vacation PaqebyPaqe HAVE this book before you while you're making your vacation plans. Tt de scribes by word and picture the greatest of our natural play grounds: geysers shooting two hundred feet skyward; im mense cauldrons of sputtering “paint pots"; the inspiring canyon: petrified trees and hills of glass; friendly bear, elk, buffalo and other wild life. $4C°0 Grand Circle Tour from OMAHA Effective Jmnm It also describes the Grand Circle Tour of the West—a trip embracing Salt Lake City, Ogden Canyon, the Wasatch Range, and Colorado with its mountain parks. The Union Pacific offers you all of this for the lowest fare to Yellowstone alone. America s biggest vaca- [ tion bargain through West Yellowstone, the Parks most popular entrance. A conveni ent side trip en route to the Pacific Coast. Setid lot frat Kwks today t, Hrindorff OUn A«t Paaa r>M»t Hmf." >'H> T ok#t 1.V ls-*.b»rn»m St rhon*. '**’ Kaon MS; and Atlantic >:i( ,, , Omaha N»h 1 nlon Station, 10th * Marc' Si. tt* Persoruilly Escorted Tours A*k about out all-axpanaa pataonally aacortad tenrI to K.vkt Mountain National Park. Yallowatonr National Park: alao to ilon National Park. Btwa Canyon, Cadai BraakJ and California.