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MBW i * Drives out the catar rhal poisons, dispels the infiamation of the mucous linings and reinforces the system against dis ease. For safety take Pe-ru-na during ho! _ weather. Tablets or Liquid Sold Everywhere si\ Visit Canada thi9 summer iff —see for yourself the op Hff portunities which Canada a* offers to both labor and fi capital—rich, fertile, vir m gin prairie land, near rail b ways and towns, at $15 to $20 an acre—long terms if ' desired. Wheat crops last year the biggest in history; dairying and hogs pay well; s mixed farming rapidly in j creasing. f Excursion on 1st and3d ‘ Tuesday of Each Month ' from various U.S. points, single fare plus $2 for the round trip. Other special rates any day. Make this your summer outing —Canada welcomes tourists— no pa39ports required—have a great trip and see with your i own eyes the opportunities that k await you. ■ft For full information, with free gn booklets and maps, write f* G.A.Cook,Desk W. Water ik town, S. 1>.; W.V. Bennett, “ Desk W ado Peter's Trust k Bldg., Omaha. Neb.; It. A. k Garrett, Desk W, 311 W. U Jackson St., St.Paul, Minn. Av&arixti Cui£is Gkv*t Aft. 8I0UX CITY PTG. CO., NO. 30~192i i =■■:.— t-j "" .'{ MATTER HE DIDN’T MENTION Boastful Man Got Away With Box of Chocolates, but There Was I a Reason. A man was boasting to some other^ he had met that he could take any article from a shop without being deT tected. One of his hearers bet him that he could not take a box of choco* lates In this way. The man agreed and they went along to a grocer's shop. “You wait here,” said the daring one, “and you’ll see!” With these words he went Into tli« shop, took a box of chocolates from the counter and walked out. “There you are!” he said proudly, “I’ve won the wager!” The stranger smiled. “You’re very smart!” he answered, “But I happen to be a detective and I am going to arrest you for stealing!” “Walt a bit, sir,” said the other coolly. “I happen to be the proprietor iof the shop!" Yes, Indeed. | I “Did that rich uncle of yours leave (many heirlooms?" “I should say so. A new heir looms up almost every week.’’—Boston Eve, nlng Transcript. < — It Is buying without thinking that fills the market with so many good second-hand bargains. i Dessert Is an edible which comes Vend goes with company. mJMSwM iBM NEBRASKA NO TES. Visit of Bryan Brothers Starts Gossip—Why Reclamation? Rains Prove Gravel Roads—After Economy Record. BY DENNIS O’LEARY. I It was quite the natural thing for W. J. Bryan, who made a trip north to attend the Christian Endeaver con vention at Des Moines, to stop over In Lincoln for a visit with his brother, Governor Charles W. Bryan. Yet some of the political "dopesters” tried to attach political significance to the visit. They said the Bryan brothers had their heads together with a view of figuring ways and means to con trol the Nebraska delegation to the next democratic convention. Governor Bryan did Invite in a few friends to rehash old times with his Florida' brother of greater fame but fewer campaign victories. The small assemblage did not, however, have the appearance of a Btar chamber session of democratic clan leaders. Congress man John H. Morehead, former gover nor, was about the only prominent democrat Id attendance at the recep tion held in honor of the "Commoner.” The Lincoln correspondent of the Omaha Bee. after trying to picture the Lincoln reception as an “inner circle” political confab, had to men tion tho prominent democrats who were not there In order to give political flavor to the incident. Ap parently the technique in this case was to create envy and offense among those not invited. In the same ar ticle it was admitted that the recep tion guests, aside from state officers, "were Lincoln friends of the Bryan brothers." §ai<i tfie Bee correspondent: "Such men as J. N. Norton, James C. Dahl man, Dan Butler, Congressman Shal lenberger, Theodore Osteman, Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Arthur Mullen, W. H. Thompson and W. J. Taylor, whose presence at a democratic function spells harmony, were not present.” No doubt Hitchcock, Mullen and others appreciate the implied resent ment of the republican Omaha Bee because of the alleged affront to democratic wheel-horses. Why Maks Things Worse? D. W. Davis, former gorvernor of Idaho., now special assistant to the secretary of the interior, said in the course of an address before the Omaha Chamber of Commerce: "We of the west should be thankful that our government takes such an Interest and is willing to advance large sums of money in irrigation projects, which mean so much to our de velopment.” With production needs more than J met by land already under cultiva } tion—so much so that normal mar I keting rules are continually upset—It is difficult to understand why cither individuals or governmental agencies of this generation should be encour aged to expend huge sums for the reclamation of additional agricultural lands through drainage and Irriga tion. Such expansions involve neither business sense nor conservation sense. The people of this country may need the additional production facilities 1,000 years hence and they should be held over for possible future contin gencies. The Interior department would b« doing more for "we of the west” by spending the government’s irrigation and drainage funds for toy balloons and allowing the employes of these departments to put In their time playing with them. It’s bad enough to spend huge millions that could be saved, but to spend the money in , making things worse is about the . limit in official foolishness. Gravel Roads Stand Test. Skepticism as to the roadability and durability of properly constructed gravelled roads is confined largely tc communities which have not tried them under fair conditions. The Nor folk News contends that the heavy rains of May, June and July have given a good test to the small mileage of gravelled roads in that vicinity That newspaper says: Norfolk has had an object les son thfs year in the value of gravel as a road surfacing ma terial The almost constaru rains of the last month or six weeks have kept the dirt roads in a de plorable condition. The down pours followed one another so rapidly that road patrol men were unable to geL out on the high ways. Durin#all of this time the two short stretches of gravelled ^roads were not only passable but In first-class condition. Even the hardest rain failed to affect them. They stood up fine under the most trying season this section has had in many years. The Nebraska highway department figures the averago construction cost of gravel roads at $4,600 per mile. Allowing $800 per year for replace ment of gravel, $176 per mile per year for maintenance, and $270 per year Xor interest on the original investment, that makes the average cost of gravel ed roads in the state about $1,246 per mile per year. Carrying the compu tation farther, the department takes the average traffic on main-traveled roads ar.d' estimates that the saving in transportation cost on gravelled roads, as compared with dirt roads, (the saving including automobile maintenance over the two types of roads) is $2,889 ger mile. With all items taken Into the Calculation, that makes the gravelled roads cost $1,844 per year less than nothing. The Iowa agricultural college, following exhaus tive tests, gave out figures somewhat to the same effect. From a statistical standpoint, there’s only one possible Joker in the situation. To get the gravelled roads calls for the $4,500 per mile invest ment, plus $1,245 per year running ex pense, then some talented folks are liable to stop and "absorb" the savings which otherwise revert to wipe out the maintenance cost. A surprisingly large number of people in this country are able to live by their wits, in one way or another, and the competition in that line Is more or less legitimate. 4nyway, figures are fascinating. After Economy Record While circumstances arise which 6eem to justify both praise and criti cisms of Governor Bryan’s policies, all of the newspaper observers at Lin coln agree that the governor Is trying to reduce the cost of Btate government —and that he actually is making headway in that respect. Persons connected with departments which have been affected by the economies seek to show that the governor is "penqy wise,” of course, gut it is not at all certain that he has eliminated or modified any official work of out standing importance. Under Governor Bryan’s own bud get for the two years standing July 1, 1928, the expenditures will be $6,000, 000 to $10,000,000 less than the expen ditures for the last two years of the McKelvie administration. These sav ings are. foreordained under the re duced appropriations made through Governor Bryan’s budget schedule, which the legislature could not over turn because of inability to muster a three-fifths vote. The governor’s budget, as provided in the Nebraska constitution, is one of the best budget systems in any state. It is a clear and practical centralisation of budget re sponsibility. Governor Bryan has made executive and political mistakes, without ques tion, but if he can go before the people of Nebraska with a showing of $10, 000,000 saved In two years he can sit back and let his opponents do th# arguing. Operations from January 1, 1923, to June 30, 1923, under the Bryan administration, were part of the Me-1 JCelvie budget. The code question was featured in the Nebraska campaign last year, largely on that claim that it had been partly responsible for in creased state expenses. Bryan was elected on an economy platform. If he makes good on it. he will almost be in position to claim a new world's record. Circuit Judge Threatens To Evict U. S. Senator From Room Grand Rapids, Mich., .. , V—A United States senator was rebikcd by' j a circuit judge and told he would be ! removed from the court room if he did not conduct himself properly, during the hearing here yesterday of the di vorce suit brought by Mrs. Mabel Ferris against Phelps Ferris. Senator Woodbridge N. Ferris, had been an Interested attendant at the hearing in which his son and daughterinlaw are the principals. Mrs. Ferris was testifying. Occasionally I __ Senator Ferris smiled during her tes timony. Judge M. L. Dunham interrupted the hearing. "Senator,’ he said, "it is very un pleasant for Mrs. Ferris to sit on the witness stand and have you look at your lawyer and smile at each ques tion and answer. That must be stop ped.” When the Judge threatened to have him removed Senator Ferris arose from his chair, apologized and the in cident was closed. The Largest Thermometer. From the Kansas City Star. The largest thermometer in the world has been erected on the board walk near Michigan avenue, Atlantic City, N. J. It is 60 feet high, enabl ing promenaders a mile away to read the temperature. The mercury In the tube is 10 inches wide and is operat ed by a system of small thermome ters with electrical relays. Lights on the board indicate the temperature accurately and automatically. "The worn turn”—into a tape worm probably, for the farmer to feed as per usual. Motion picture films, collars, cuffs and many toilet articles, are made from certain forms of guncotton which are less highly explosive than the guncot ton used in war and in blasting. In connection with the electrification of Swiss federal railways the mechan ical signal system has been replaced by an electrically operated signal system, said to be the first instillation of its kind in Europe. Mrs. Lovllla Oldrlch threatens to scrub her young: ’uns faces on the wash board If they don’t g:et down to talc dirt business. Lady Astor, young American from Virginia, first female in the house of commons, gives English mothers cause for gratitude. By a vote of 257 to 10, the house of commons, yes terday passed Lady Astor’s bill pre venting sale of intoxicating liquors to minors under 18 years of age. This doesn’t forbid Englishmen to give beer or wine to their children, but children cannot buy it in publlo houses. That’s a step in tho right di rection, regardless of anybody’s opin ion on absolute prohibition. Maple syrup Is the favorite sooth ing syrup with young and old alike. The old order must be changing In Missouri. From that state which gave the world Senator Vest’s fa mous eulogy on the dog and that time-honored battlehymn, “You Got to Quit Kickin’ My Dog Around" comes a report that one city, Excel sior Springs, has enacted an ordin ance providing for a dog tax which will near bankrupt the average fam ily to keep even one “houn dawg.’’ Folks with keen ears can usually bear the jpggplclously loud humming cAddress by W. H. Finley, President Chicago and North Western Railway Company before the Chamber gf Commerce at Des Moines, Iowa Friday Noon, June 29th, 1923. The Chicago and North Western Railway pays for the space in this jiaper that it may from time to time present matters of first importance to the readers of this publication. We would warn the voter of the continuing attempt of the political demagogue to undermine the exist ing order of things to his own tem porary advantage. The insidious at tack upon the railroads but cloak an attempt to break down the nghts of private property. In publishing extracts from a re cent address by Mr. IF. II. Finley. President of the Chicago and North Western Railway, we present to the voter certain facts easily verified. In later issues we will quote from others who are experienced not only in railroad management but in the relations- existing between the rail road and its patrons. Transportation Act of 1920. President Finley, in discussing par ticularly the Transportation Act of 1920, referred to the wonderful serv ice rendered society by the railroads. Recognizing the necessity for and the benefits of reasonable regulation of the carriers, he showed most conclu sively the advanced step in legislation in the enactment of what is known as the Esch-Cummlns or the Transporta tion Act. * In referring to the,thirty-three years of experience In the regulation of the railroads since the creation of the In terstate Commerce Commission, he stated that, “It woul'd seen* natural that during this period the Commis sion should have established or de clared a formula by which the reason ableness of rates should be measured. But such an occurrence did not take place. During this period, processes of government by commission have had considerable development, not only ns concerns the railroads of the United States, but as affecting most of the so-called public utility Industries. The railroads, being the largest of the in dustries affected, reflect probably more fully thnn any other the full effect of this form of government by commis sion. In general, the procedure before the Commission is as follows: that any one who sees an opportunity to prbflt by the reduction of a rate, whether It Is reasonable or unreason able, originates a complaint before the Commission. The Commission than hears the testimony of the complain ant and that of the carrier In defense, and the Commission, usually consider ing a compromise ns expedient, gives a decision somewhere between the two positions taken by the opposing parties. The tendency of this proce dure is always to reduce rates, but not to advance them. This process does not tend to establish justice. The only way that justice can he established is by competent authority acting in con formity with sound economic theory based upon a full and truthful knowl edge of the facts pertaining thereto, and apart from prejudice or ulterior influences. “The Transportation Act of 1920 was necessary In order to clarify the situation from a legal point of view. In the experience of the Commission, and In the exercise of its administra tive powers, it had come in conflict, time after time, with the Courts. The various State Gommissons in their ag gressiveness, had, from t'me to time, overstepped their authority and com pelled the carriers to take their coses to the Supreme Court of the United States. It is clear that such regula tory processes are unnecessary, and that the multitudinous questions in volved in the transportation industry cannot reasonably be brought, one by one, before the Supreme Court of the United States for settlement. “The Transportation Act brings into concrete form and expresses the prin ciples which Lave been established by the Supreme Court of the United States out of the experience of m.jny years, and from a legal point of view, is a masterpiece of legislation, in that it simplifies and clarifies those ques tions which had been in dispute and settled from time to time, piece meal, through litigation. If there is anything which will assist materially in the conduct of tills great industry, it is the clarifying of legislative en actments so that they may he fully un derstood, and litigation will then be unnecessary. "The Transportation Act, in an nouncing a Kule of Rate-making, did not enumerate any new principles or create any new conditions relating to commerce, but did state In clear and concise terms those principles which, by thirty-three years of experience and controversy, had been established through decisions of tlie Supreme Court of the United States. These principles had been established through court decisions resulting from the straggles of public utility enter prises against the injustice which regulatory commissions would other wise have inflicted upon them." President Finley referred to the ex perience of government control during the war and the lessons learned from It, and showed how the Transporta tion ACt aided In the "re-establishing of the financial credit of the depleted railroads." He stated that the provi sions of this Act “clearly intend to (a) introduce economic theory Into the making of rates; (b) provide adequate wages for the employees, and (c) pro vide Just and adequate compensation to capital actually employed. The above are, therefore, perfectly natural expressions of the government’s inten tion to deal fairly with the railroad In dustry, both as to employees and In vestors, and remove, If possible, this whole question from the field of con troversy and litigation. We must also recognize that the commerce of the United States Is expanding. Our na tional wealth and productive power is Increasing, and our continued prosper ity rests upon continuance of all our favorable conditions. Our railroads must expand, providing additional lo comotives, cars, terminal and other fa cilities which mean added Investment. Investors cannot be expected to put tlielr money into enterprises that do not yield a reasonable return—nor will they—-and It Is necessary that in the future, investors may be made to feel that the savings they put Into railroud properties are a safe and secure In vestment. Continued attacks on rail roads, with the intention of destroying their credit, will do incalculable harm to the nation.” lie summed up wnai naR Deen, ex perienced under the Transportation Act as follows: 1. “An adjustment of all freight rates and passenger fnres to the new level required to put the railroads upon a Bound economic basis and meet the increased labor costs. 2. “A sudden and unexpected decline in traffic which introduced a new dif ficulty Into the situation so that the operations for the year 1921 were dis appointing because they yielded a lit tle over one-half of the intended In terest upon the investment. 3. “Reductions in rates and adjust ments In wages In an effort to meet the changed conditions of traffic." And then, after reviewing this and other pertinent facts, he asked: “Do we want the Transportation Act to be continued! or. Do we want to destroy it? The answer Involves the whole question of the public's Interest in the* subject of transportation and how it may lie best served. The public’s in terest Is primarily centered upon the amounts they must pay ns passenger fnres and ■freight rates. Those are de termined by four factors, namely. (1) Wages; (2) Fuel and Material Costs; (3) Taxes, and (4) Interest on Invest ments. If these four elements are just and reasonable, it follows thut the rates themselves must be Just and rea sonable. If the rates themselves are too high, then one of these four fac tors is being overpaid. The public is Just now confronted with rates ap proximately fifty per cent higher than in 1917, but from every reasonable economic point of view, these rates are fully justified by comparison with the general price levels of other com modities, and particularly of other services. There is at the present time, no perceptible slackening up of com merce due to the so-called high freight rates, and th# bare fact that the com merce of tho country is moving freely is evidence that the freight rates them selves are fully within the value of the service rendered to the public. “The Rule of Rate-making, Section 15a of the Law, should be upheld by every right-thinking citizen, and when the full knowledge reaches the Ameri can public that it Is a meusure con forming stricjly to the Constitution and as just a»d reasonable ns human Intellect can conceive, it will meet with popular approval.” Mr. Finley emphasized the fact that “It was necessary and is still neces sary, if capital Is to be attracted into the railroad field, thnt the Congress of the United States, speaking for all the pe<q)U', should assure Investors in rail road securities tjiat the administrative authorities will fix rates upon a basis that will afford a fair return, and that the Judders of railroad securities will not be relegated to the Impracticable and uncertain remedy alforded through the ordinary channels of lit; . guron. ‘‘While there is no guaranty con tained anywhere in the Transportation Act, yet Sectleo 15a does express the policy of giving fair treatment with out the necessity of litigation. "To repeal the Transportation Act now w'ould amount to a legislative declaration that the Interstate Com merce Commission was Invited to do an unconstitutional thing, to-wit, fix rates that would not produce a fair return upon the value of the property, for the most that Is contained in the Transportation Act upon this subject Is found in paragraphs two and three of Section 15a, und they may be analyzed briefly as follows: “First—It Is prodded that tlys Inter state Commerce Commission shall fix rates will will produce a fair return, as nearly as may be, upon the- value of the railway properties devoted to the transportation service. “Second—The Commission is author ized, from time to time, to determine what percentage or rate of return will constitute a fair return. “To now repeal that portion of the Tninsportatlon Act referred to would nmount to a declaration by the people of the United States that they w'ere | not willing to have their administra tive officers fix rates that will produce a fair return, even as that fair return Is determined by the Interstate wr ens' merce Commission, on the present basis of 5% per cent. “I do not believe that the peo; l ■ of the United States, wlten properly ap prised of all the facts, wHl" permit their representatives in the Cor:; ess of the United States, through legisla tion, to announce that it is the pur pose and'policy of ‘the Govern roes; to deny a fair return upon fair values of railway properties. Such would be the effect at this time of repealing Section 15a of the Act to Itegulate Commerce. “The Transportation Act undertakes to establish, by government sanction, tiie elements within the cost of trans portation, two of which, wages and in terest on the investment, have had considerable public attention drawn 1o them by propaganda of organized la bor on the one band and politicians and demagogues on the other. A close analysis of tills propaganda will give evidence that they are hot it an organ ized attack upon invested capital, and both of them have a tendency toward nationalization of railroads as the first step toward the socialistic tendency to nationalize all industries in the United States." Dusky Feminism. Judge—Do you believe in divorce? Liza—Yus, suh, I does. Rastufl (interrupting)—How come you believes in divorce, woman? Liza—Well, It’s ibis way, Judge. I soft a feels we need somethin’ to keep us women In circulation!—Penn! State Froth. 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