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THE OMAHA BEE: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1922. The Morning Bee MORNING EVENING SUNDAY THE HI fUBLUHlNQ COMPANY MUOtf B. UNllKC, reluer. B. lUKtU Cm. Mww, MM1U Of THC AMOCUTBO fRUS fW AasaifetaS Mielle ae aje til rltftw at he neHUHIl f I 11 MM, Net varan cireeUtiea l Ta Owki lea, Jea. 1SU Daily 71,731 Sunday. . . .77,034 B. BUWCK. Ownl MtM' IIMIM S. HOOD, tlrealauea Waar mm ta aa aukMriM Mm pm rale S(a 4r el Jt. IBM. (Seal) W. H. QUIVtY. NMMT f TW (MM a b) f Ik A MM kNN f CUealaUeaa, tte m mum m aueaiauea eaam mm im aw iw ew EC TUJEPHONU Meat litMk KuUift. Aik fa DHKti Af l.-.j. Pnx Wulid. For MsSt Cell Aft IS P at. I Atiit" ElMerlal DmiImL 111 ltl. iwww orricea Mai Offle lit m4 raraaa C. Bluffa .... II ett M- Bmiih Bid . . 4111 i. t4tk M. New York M rHfl Avcae WtJkiMloa 411 Star Bis. Chieaae lit Itestr Bids, ran, rm- anwn The verese paid laity circulation of Tkt 0jaa Bm far Jua. ltl. waa 71,711. tain of IMS' ovtr J una of 1(11. TKa average Mid Bunda, circulation of The Oath B for J una, 1033. ea 17.014. gala of fS.lt er Juna of ISIl. Thla la larger fain than that mad br any other dally or Sunday paper. REJECT THE PRESIDENT'S PLAN. ' Executive representatives of 148 railroads, meat, i ins in New York, have rejected the third lection of : President Harding's plan for settling the railroad shop strike. These will not agree to receive back the strikers on the basis of their status at the tine of the strike. Other suggestions by the president are acceptable that both sides agree to abide by the ' decisions of the Labor Board, and that suits started since the strike began be dropped. Shopmen's rep I resentatives have accepted the president's proposals , in full . ' Reasons for holding firm to the position on ,j seniority Are set out in an advertisement published by authority of the western railroad president, a ,: paragraph of which advertisement reads: Not only Justice, Jbut the publio interest, de I manda that in any settlement of the strike the t seniority rights of all men who are now working . shall be recognised.. If those who have struck against the decisions of the Labor Board-and tried to Interrupt transportation are favored In any set tlement that may he made, the incentive of men to stay at work in case of future strikes will he destroyed and the difficulty of maintaining trans- ( portatlon service increased. The new men in many . cases left other employment with the understand- ins that if competent they would he retained in ' their present positions. I Plainly any chance for early settlement now de pends on cession by one side or the other of the question of seniority. Judge Lovett,, head of the Union Pacific, is quoted as saying to the executives assembled at New York: a that there was no moral reason why the roads should budge from their position, nor was there any practical reason inasmuch as the country's raliroad service was generally satis factory. President Harding's proposals were made in a " sincere effort to establish a working agreement and to end a situation that is not satisfactory to the pub. lie, howeyer it may appear to Judge Lovett. ; We ' believe that public sentiment supports, the president, and that now if ever is the time to stand firmly behind the president. ' Those coming here from foreign land can aval! themselves of these without cost to themselves other than such behavior at shows them to be worthy of the title of American eitlien, It is America's great at triumph to be ensbled to share these with all who deserve them. TRANSCONTINENTAL MAIN LINE The Southern Pacific company has petitioned for a rehearing in the supreme court on the order that requires divorce between the "Esspee" and the "See pee. '? No" "need to look' far for the reasons that actuate the Southern in its desire to control the Cen tral Pacific. They rest on a desire to dominate the transcontinental traffic. When E. H. Harriman took over the Union Pacific and later the Central Pacific, he found both properties in poor physical condition. His first business was to restore the roads to serviceable state, which he did by rebuilding the lines all the way from Council Bluffs to Truckee. He had on foot a great project for tunneling the Sierre Nevada range, to cut off a lift of practically a mile, over which all traffic must be hoisted. This Was adjourned following his death, and the plan may not be revived until another builder with Harriman's vision and energy acquires a dominating position in the affairs of the road. Harriman left the main line from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean in first class condition, a model railroad in its physical aspect. It absolutely controlled in transportation. Disintegration of the system this remarkable man had formed resulted in the removal of the Southern and Central Pacific lines from their connection with the Union Pacific. It is rather ironical that the branches to Portland and Los Angeles should have been used to cut the main line in two at Ogden, but that is what happened. Now, if the Southern can retain control of the Central, it can put that line back 'to where it was prior to the time Harriman took it from the Hunting tons. The Huntington policy was to divert all traffic possible to the Southern, and that policy will prevail again. It is a longer and a more expensive route, but it is Southern Pacific all the way from San Fran cisco to New Orleans, and from there by boat to New York. Elaboration of the effect of this is unneces sary, for shippers know what it means. The transcon tinental main line should be restored. TARIFF At AN ISSUE. Hon. William Jennings Bryan announces that the tariff and the revenue laws art to be the Issues In Nebraska this yesr. Which is as much as to say that they are the things be proposes to talk about Ne braskans are concerned In both these, and will greatly rejoice to hear what the eminent democratic states man has to say concerning them. Mr. Bryan, when a member of congress, wss one of the ways and means committee that framed the Wilson tariff measure of 1894. Ho was in charge of the Income tax schedule in the revenue bill of that year, win he remind his hearers or what followed the enactment of the tariff law, that year? Do the farmers of Nebraska want to go back to 80-cent wheat and 13 hogs? And do they want to see fac torles closed, railroads In receivers' hands, industry paralysed, soup houses and bread lines set up, hun dreds of men sleeping In the corridors of the post office, the court house, the city hsll and the city jail, as was the case in Omaha ? Mr. Bryan is a wonderfully gifted orator, especially versed in talking about the tariff. He may even re vive his old tale about the wire nail, which he made so much of when he xan for congress in 1890. But he knows that what he said then did not come to pass, and that what he promised In 1894 was not redeemed. He knows that wire nails were cheaper under the McKinley tariff than ever before, and that the worst depression this country ever underwent came with the Wilson tariff law that Mr. Bryan helped to frame. Nebraskans are interested in the tariff, and will give Mr. Bryan close attention while he talks about it, just as they always have. Most of them will won der, though, if he thinks they have forgotten what happened when he made his .famous expedition into the realm of free trade twenty-eight years ago. He is a persuasive talker, but the facts are against him on the tariff issue. BABE RUTH A MENACE ? What did you want to be when you were a boy? Your parents may have dreamed fo a career high, wide and handsome for you, but the standards of childhood are not those of maturity. Perhaps you did wish, as you tinkered with wires and batteries, to be an inventor, perhaps you dreamed of being a presi dent or Icing, but more probably you just wished for the time to come when you could drive the grocer's wagon. The point is hardly to be missed that your long ings then had little or no influence on what eventually you developed into. Merely because boys play pirate or train robber they are not headed for a life of crime. It does seem that the united states commis sioner of education, John J. Tigert, is unduly alarmed at the lack of proper ambition among the oncoming generation. As long as the boys think Babe Ruth is the greatest man in America, and neglect their school teachers, Mr. Tigert says, the country is in danger. This is plain bosh. If any such juvenile charac teristic as idolising physical skill or prowess is an' index of degeneration, then the 'world would have gone down in ruin long before this. Not even in maturity is this respect for athletic success an un wholesome thing. Mr, Tigert professes regret that the people are not paying enough attention to education, which he seems to have erected as a sort of religion. Possibly we might have a better sort of , education, but not withstanding that, the people are now paying the greater part of their local taxes for schools. If the proper results are not obtained, that is more the fault of the educators than of the public..- AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP. Advice given the Italians at their picnic is good for all foreign born residents of the city. "Get your citizenship papers," was the first section of the ex hortation. Those who were born abroad and now are living in this country are making a great mistake if they do not proceed without delay to secure full citi aenship. , A new value was placed on American citizenship by the war, and it has been growing ever since. So jnuch has it enhanced that a strong move is under way to make even more difficult the process of se curing naturalization. It Is harder now than prior to 1917, and it is worth more. No longer can the alien vote on his "first papers" or declaratory statement But, if he starts right, observes the law and lives as a good citizen should, he can acquire all the privileges and rights of an American in five years after estab lishing his residence. Advice to these is to proceed without delay. The second section was to secure for their chil dren all the education possible. That is a pretty big order. In Nebraska schools are free from the kinder garten to the degree of doctor of philosophy, the end of the list The state supports, pays for and super vises the training of all the children, and insists on their attendance at school up to the age of 16, or the completion of the eighth grade. Two priceless boons, free education and the franchise of a freeman, are within the reach of alL HOTELS AND HOSPITALITY. ' Western hospitality is a byword, and one of the best ways in which a town can express it is by main taining a good hotel. Beatrice is to be commended for the earnest way in which it is proceeding to the erection of a new hotel to cost 8300,000.' It is worth noting also that local capital is financing this structure. This is evidence enough of the wealth that is con-, centrated in the agricultural capitals scattered about the state. Fremont previously did this same thing. Norfolk, with a fine building partially completed, is expected to resume operations, though it may, call in the aid of outside capital. York, Hastings,' Columbus and Scottsbluff already have splendid hotels that draw trade to their merchants and provide a haven for overland tourists and for traveling salesmen at week ends. , . ' The old Paddock hotel at Beatrice was famous for its accommodations and its cuisine. President Harding never meets a citizen of that town without mentioning the banquet he enjoyed there. Its succes sor, under the same auspices, will fill a long felt need. How long before such thriving communities ss Su perior and Alliance will be graced with such modern provision for hospitality. . WALKING ON HIS RIGHTS. The chorus of complaint that too many laws exist to limit the personal liberty of citizens is joined by a business man of Iowa City. Warned by a police officer not to cross the main street in the middle of the block, he not only refused to turn from his course, but defied a threat of arrest. Jaywalkers are found in every town, though they have not yet organized to maintain their rights. Up to this time there had been no hint that their ven turesome manner of crossing the streets was due to anything more than carelessness of their personal safety. Now, however, it begins to appear that jay walking is a matter of principle. All eyes will be on Iowa City if the question of the constitutionality of the traffic laws is taken into court. Somehow we can not refrain from commending the action of the judge at Los Angeles, who is hold ing the Obenchain jury to its work. More such judges and we will have fewer such juries. Roald Amundsen is going where he will not be troubled by questions of fuel or transportation for several months. At that, a girl shows pretty good judgment when she declines an invitation from a stranger to ride in his car. Now would be a good time to put the swimming hole question to a vote. Omaha can look at Chicago, and feel thankful for something. , Dog-day sensations are coming fast enough. On Second Thought What Other Editors Say By B. V. BTAyHirm. Some people complain because of poor health, but manr more bave poor health because they complain, - No ttouJemcnt of Dlahonor. F- Ike haw Tarfe Herat. It was the United States railroad labor board Itself which gave notice when the striking shop unions walked out, that the old men that stuck to their posts and the new men that came In to fill vacancies would become the recognised shop (raft organisation entitled to every light, privilege and benefit the strlk Ins unions and striking men had enjoyed. The railroads confirmed this an nouncement of the board. They pledged themselves that should there be a settlement of the strike every competent old man that stayed and every competent new man that Joined the force would be sept on his job. And the railroads pledged them selves that when these men retained their jobs, after a poaalble strike settlement, they should retain all the benefits golnar with the ioba. oar ticularly their seniority rights. This latter fact was iterated and reiter ated In all the newspapers and bla zoned over the land. There Is no shadow of doubt In the mind of any man, whatever hi interests or whatever his station, what this Pledge said and what it meant. For the United States railroad labor board or the railway manaae- ments or anybody elae to bring aooui a settlement or the ahop unions' strike on a basis that would cost any of the competent men now at work their Jobs, cost any of them their seniority rights or cost any or them any other benefits belonging ie mem oouid be nothlnr mora and rothlng leas than a betrayal of the men wno, reiyinr on tne Diedran t the board and the pledges of the railway manaa-rn. mtnnA hv th poara, stooa by the roads and stood oy tne public. Tha United fltatea railway laoor board, in n.rntintin such a settlement, would have oroaen raitn with the loyal workers and with the public. The railroads, in agreeing to ana accepting such terms of settlement, would have committed a moral wroner an abhor. rent as the legal wrong. If, after all the pledges that have been given and after all that has nappenea in getting- tens of thou sands Of men to leava nther. mm. ployment and go to work for the nuiroaas unaer those pledges, the men now on the, inh ahnnM h. thrown out or should be deprived Of any Of their ria-hts nrlvii... "" u-.raniea to mem by those men. aner a settlement of such dishonor, there would bn no reason wny union men or nonunion men, why the man who stuck on nig Job or the man who quit his Job, why railroad worker or the general public should have a shred of faith left in the United nHim n.n.j labor board or should again trust the railroads in nnvthinr .t time. : " " "v Let there be nn atrilr. ..fft.m.nt of dishonor! Changes in Nebraska. From the Salt Lake Tribune, The recent Nebraska primary elec tion has resulted in a complete and interesting realignment of the demo- SJSiV.0 Po'lt'eH clana in that state. William Jennings Bryan is to cam paign for Senator Gilbert M. Hitch cook, for 20 years hie political en my. Charles w. Bryan, brother of the Commoner, become the Rmn of Nebraska, seelnar that wmiam Jennings has betaken himself to Florida as a cltisen. Charles W. Bryan won the democratic nomina tion for governor in the Nebraska, primary. William Jenninea Br van rannnt campaign for hia brother withnut also campaigning for Senator Hitch cock. The statement was made some weeks ago that should Charles W. Bryan win, the gubernatorial nomination. William wnnlrl n,mn the atate for hint. At the same time Hitchcock will be found faithfully working for the elentinn nt C oxi date Charles, also his long-standing yviuicai enemy. Another curinun turn in h braska situation is that the prohibi tionists will Drobablv against Charles Brvnn. iif.u.. prohibition leader. Superintendent High of the Anti-Saloon learns nnounced some time th. . league would oppose anyone nn the san ticket with a wet advocate. This is understood to have had ref erence to Senator Hitchcock, who is credited with sympathizing with the movement for modification of the Volstead act, although he has an nounced that he favors the enforce ment of that law and nn inn.- in siders the prohibition question a fac-J lul pohucs. huh later, High an- ..uuiicou ma opposition to Hitchcock, S statement of previous "' counts, ne win have to op pose Bryan for governor because his "" appears on the democratic v;.ei iuong witn that of Hitchcock Y 17 J II YVI.a . i wstory Kanit Folncare With the Kaiser? From the New Republic. ' The French chambers have ab solved Poincare from all responsi bility for bringing on the last war. in miure generations it is possible that historians may ascribe a trifle of weight to the vote of the cham bers. But they are more likely to find their energies absorbed in an alyzing Polncare's responsibility for wio next war, or ratner, or the next great plunge of Europe toward an archy. It was the political menace of Poineare that prevented Briand rrom joining with England in mak ing common sense adjustments un der which a republican Germany might live. In the interest of the profiteering industrials of the Creu ot group Poineare practically spiked - the Rathenau-Loucheur agreement, by which the Germans would have been permitted to pay a substantial part of the indemnity in the only form in which they can pay it, their labor and industry. Poineare killed the Genoa confer ence and has succeeded in turning the Hague conference toward futil ity. His record before 1914 might be lily-white although it is not and yet his chances would be excel lent of being enrolled, alongside the kaiser, among the great architects ot human woe. Youth and Crime. From the Peoria Journal. The statement of a Massachusetts Judge that he has discovered "more skill in crime in boys of IS, 17 and 1$ years of age than was formerly found in old men who had spent their lives in criminal pursuits," would be alarming were an obvious explanation not discernible in the trend of the times. This is not a sophisticated age. Even a Massachusetts judge might be expected to appreciate this fact and e therein a logical, if some what unpleasant, answer to his ob servation." No doubt, his honor is correct. Judges are not usually given to exaggerate statements. Youtha lead as gunmen and bandits. Their ingenuity also provides them with sensational trimmings in exe cuting their crimes of which older criminals were ignorant But. it is also true that youtn lead in other line of human en deavor beside crime. Youth la e eftmlnr mare sjid mart the vitalfziner force in industry.' government, sci-1 ence and art. Modem life offers l more opportunities for broadening ' eeeni-lea Is touch vouth than ever before, liulh farmer and city boy are lees Ignorant than boys of &0 or 100 years aso. The Maaaat'huMtla Judge's obser vation with Us Implied reproof of the times is futile. Crime in youth Is revolting, but it is leas reprehen sible than crime In estreme age. In the latter rase it show moral de pravlty, while in the former It is partially excusable. The degree of skill in crime ti which the judge refers is not an alarming symptom. If we are to have greater skill In honest men we must expect greater skill in rrimi Bale. Where Amerknn Farmers Lead. From the Cleveland Newa. Statistics recently published show that the value of farm machinery used in the United States in 1920 was nearly three times a much as it had been in 1910 and five tlmos as much as in 1100. A part of thla remarkable Increase was due, of course, to the great advance In the price of reaping machines, mowing machines and all other kinds of ma. chlnsry used on farme, but In the decade from ltuO to 1910 there was no great change In that respect, and In the main the Immense expansion of the Investments of American farmers, in machlnea for use in their business, must b credited to tho possession of more such labor-saving devices. In that respect the farmers of this country lead the world, and it Is their great utilisation of machinery which has enabled them to surplus all rivals in the crops they grow, not by the acre but In proportion to the man-power employed. The agricul tural statistics of the United States look bad by comparison with those of many European countries, if they are measured by the area of the land cropped, but they beat the world if the base or measurement is the number of workers who grow the grain and other staples produced. Farmers In this country use much land and machinery, in proportion to their harvests, but few men. In Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy and other European countries it is quite otherwise. There more men are employed on a Riven acre age, and for a certain production, but much less machinery. Readers' Opinions Trying to Put Something Over. The senate now hopes to pass the tariff bill by AuguRt 1, that being the period of summer when human vitality is the lowest. Kansas City Star. (This Swan awe la Aaalaaa Sa brwuicaallna tiailua ttuanuk aihlfk rasa ere el Tka Oawbe Be tmmf aieak aa ullreea aawtwriaa tretl aae IM.eua anajerte e.klle telaraet. Letters Keultf be akarl am aaaea Ihea SS trerSa. trkj letter aiM k BaiaMi4 kr In naene el Ike rller. ev.e Iheaih he re. im-., inn ii eat pwuene,) Omaha Publio IJbrary. Omaha, July :. To the Editor of The Omulrn He: J note there Is a movement on foot to vote on the proposition to put two extra stories on the Omaha, publio library, re model the building and put In two elevators. If the Omaha publio library were used exclusively a a public library as It should be, there would be euf flclent room In the present build Ing to provide for the care and clr cutaHon of all the goods that will be bought by the city In the next generation. It la neither necessary nor desirable that the publio library should house a museum or make room for exhibit of pictures, many of which are worse than useless in their debasing of public taste In the art line. There Is no reason why the mu rum material should not be ex hlblted In the grade and high schools of the city where the cull dren, for whom these exhibits are intended, rimy have access to in same. All of tho good and desirable pictures that the library will ever receive can be shown to better ad vantage In tho high schools or th city. There Is no reason why the rich and aristocratic Society of Fine Arts should not rent wall space to show its traveling collection or pic tures. It is an outrage to tax the city for such abortions and even im moral mutures a are snown at times by the art societies that bring exhibits of olcturea here. what would be more aesiraoia and ia needed In the public library is a passenger elevator. I am sure we would be willing; to name it after the donor. We would even go so far aa to suggest a wealthy cltl zen who is deenlv interested in librarv matters ana has no neirs aa the proper person to present that elevator to the library, or nis Drotn er, also wealthy and heirless, might cresent it as a thanksgiving for having secured the appointment of his brother to the only position in the public eye that he could ever have acnievea. 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