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THE WEST’S DEMANDS.
Western senators and congressmen are about a
unit in demanding that the Smith-McNary bill be
enacted into law. The Smith-McNary bill is cal
culated to do for reclamation interests what the
merchant marine bill is calculated to do for Ameri
can shipping; and certainly one is of as much im
portance as the other. The great difference between
them is that the subsidy paid to American vessels
does not find its way back into the public treasury,
while the funds set aside by the Smith-McNary bill
are merely loans upon the best security in the
world—western farm lands—and eventually repaid
from the profits made by raising products upon
land now useless because of lack of water.
The one great mistake in the reclamation serv
ice was in believing that repayment could be made
in too short a time. Ten years was the limit first
set, but this time has had to be extended, but even
the extension provided was not enough, owing to
the ignorance of eastern representatives, and the
apparent lack of proper explanation on the part of
western representatives. Right now hundreds of
farmers in the irrigated districts of Nebraska are
facing bankruptcy because of high water charges
and their inability to pay them from the sale of
products on a market that shows a loss over the
actual cost of production. If congress is really de
sirous of extending help to somebody, then its first
concern should be for those who produce the prod
ucts that make possible a merchant marine.
The Smith-McNary bill provides a revolving
fund of $250,000,000 for the reclamation service,
to be used in rapidly completing present reclama
tion projects now under way, and beginning and
completing projects approved but held in abeyance
oecause of lack of funds. This fund is to be main
tained by repayments from the owner of reclaimed
lands, whether they be irrigated lands of the west,
the reclaimed swamp lands of the south or the cut
over lands of the north. It entails no loss to the
federal treasury, being in effect a loan without in
terest with a security that is doubly ample. And
with the enactment of the Smith-McNary bill should
come a speedy reorganization of the entire reclama
tion service, to the end that it speed up its work,
thus reducing the final cost to the land owners.
As usual with all government work, the overhead
is entirely too great for the actual work done.
ASTORIA’S PAST AND PRESENT.
Conflagration, started by an incendiary torch ac
cording to the belief of the mayor, has turned at
tention to one of the historic towns of the great
northwest. Following the exploration of Lewis and
Clarke, and building on the reports of various adven
turers, John Jacob Astor flung his challenge in the
face of the Hudson Bay company, and set up a trad
ing post at the mouth of the Columbia 112 years
ago. Astor had competed in the Omaha territory
with the British and the French, and with success,
but he sought to seize and hold an empire.
Many accounts have been written of the trip
around the Horn of the vessels of the Astor expedi- j
tion. Puget sound was the original destination, ac
cording to the most reliable accounts, but wind and
wave had a part in determining the outcome. Over
the bar at the mouth of the great Columbia the
Astor vessel rode and Astoria was founded. It was
the first American settlement on the Pacific coast.
In 1787 Captain Robert Gray, sailing from Boston,
had visited the region, and had continued his voyage
westward to China, and thence to his home port,
being the first to carry the Stars and Stripes around
the world. In 1792 Captain Gray returned to the
region, sailing from Boston again, and this time en
countered Captain George Vancouver, who was in
command of an English vessel and looking out for
the interests of the Northwest company. Gray’s
Harbor was discovered and named for Gray on this
voyage.
On these beginnings and that of Astoria rested
the claim of the United States that finally settled
the boundary between this country and British Col
umbia. One of the most interesting chapters of our
history is written around Astoria and the rivalry
between the fur traders. That the historic place
has suffered so severely is most regrettable, but it
will rise again, for it has commercial as well as sen
timental value.
HOW TO BUILD A STADIUM.
The oft-repeated anecdote of the three stone
cutters, one of whom was working for the union
scale of wages, the second was cutting stone, and
the third was building a cathedral, is getting elo
quent application in Nebraska just now.
Students at the University of Nebraska have
long realized the need of an adequate athletic field.
Team after team has been compelled to do its train
ing and put on its exhibition contests wherever the
athletic director or coach could find a place. Once,
when Nebraska was coming to the fore in football,
big games were played in Omaha. It was here the
championship was won several times by the Scarlet
and Cream. The fair grounds at Lincoln, the State
Farm, and other places afforded the athletes a place
to work, but none of them met the needs of the
teams. In time a gymnasium was erected, but it is
tar too small to accommodate the student body at
this time. Then came the present football field, a
great improvement on anything that preceded it,
but soon outgrown, as the prowess of Nebraska in
creased and the fame of the Coinhuskers spread.
“If you want a thing well done, do it yourself,”
said the alumni of Nebraska. Each of them has
been through the mill at Lincoln, and each knows
, what is necessary. So the subscription fund for
the construction of the stadium, that will seat 40,
000 and accommodate all the teams and games has
gone over big.
These former students at Nebraska Uni were
not merely building a stadium. They were erecting
a monument to their own faith and loyalty in the
great school that has realized something of the
dreams of its founders, and that is truly growing
greater with each passi- ; year. The stadium next
year will show the wov' i what the boys and girls of
Nebraska, now grown into men and women, mean
to do for their state in days to come.
NEBRASKAN FOR THE RESERVE BOARD.
Under the law President Harding is expected to
appoint one member of the Federal Reserve board
who is a real “dirt farmer.” One might be of the
opinion that the only thing a farmer knows about
banking is that a bank is a place to go to pay in
terest; some also borrow money there. In very
truth, the successful farmer of the modern school
is fairly well up to the minute on economic as well
as political questions. Nebraska has many of these,
for Nebraska has been sending her boys and girls
to school, and then back to the farm, where they
have added all the abstract and theoretical knowl
edge gathered up in the class room to the concrete
and practical information accumulated on the farm,
and the result is a type of farmer who knows a hawk
from a handsaw, and is not bumptious about it.
One of these is now being offered to President
Harding for a place on the Federal Reserve board,
Arthur J. Weaver of Richardson county, or Falls
City, to get at his postoflice. Mr. Weaver is a dirt
farmer, and knows the game all around the year,
for he has worked at it and made it pay. He is
also a lawyer, good enough to preside over the late
constitutional convention. The advanced ideas of
that charter for Nebraska’s liberty under the law
owe much of their value to his skill and care in
shaping the form in which they are embodied in the
fundamental law of the state. He is a business man,
and is not a politician.
If Mr. Harding is looking for a man to grace his
judgment, to bring ability and experience to a diffi
cult task, and in whom farmers will have confidence,
Nebraska offers him “Art” Weaver.
A QUESTION OF MUSICAL APPRECIATION.
One may well suspect that those American Le
gion men who objected to a concert by Madame Gad
ski lack musical appreciation. It may be assumed al
so that the commander of the California Legion,
who has given out the word that there is no reason
why ex-service men should take offense at her sing
ing, has a better ear for harmony, and is not a whit
less patriotic than the objectors.
Music, art and science—these are three things
that know nothing of race, creed or national bound- ;
aries. It is readily apparent that a scientific dis
covery is no less true because the moral character
of its proponent is bad. The art of Benvenuto Cel
lini is no less beautiful because he was a scamp.
Nor have the political or patriotic views of Madame
Gadski the slightest effect on the sweet tones of her
voice. It may be that some music lovers are unable
to enjoy' her art to the full because of her having
been the wife of a man imprisoned during the war as
a German spy. The natural thing for them to do is
to stay away from her concerts and let those go who
do not thus confuse politics and music.
There is little enough beauty in the world, and
those who have the power to create it should not be
hampered by those who would censor their personal
views before allowing it to be produced and enjoyed.
NEWBERRY’S SUCCESSOR.
A plain business man, James Couzens of Detroit,
has been appointed by the governor of Michigan to
fill the seat vacated by Senator Newberry. There
are many reasons to expect him to become one of
the outstanding figures in Washington. For this is
a man who has faith in the people, trust in democ
racy and a high determination to apply the ordinary
principles of good business to the process of gov
ernment.
Couzens made an immense fortune from a lucky
investment in the scheme of Henry Ford, yet when
he dropped out of the business, he was not content
to live idly on his income. His interest in public
affairs led him first to accept the office of police
commissioner of Detroit. There he came into con
stant conflict with organized vice and the ward po
litical machines, but won the confidence of the peo
ple. Then he was elected mayor, for two terms.
As a practical man, he handled the many diffi
cult situations confronting a city of spectacular
growth without undue regard to past methods and
without fear of adopting new ideas to meet the needs
of the time. Detroit had perhaps the worst street
railway system in the country. It was outgrown
and inadequate. Mayor Couzens built a municipal
line and later induced the city to buy the old lines.
This was not in deference to any theory, but simply
a business man's way of meeting a problem that bad
to be solved.
There are no tags on Senator Couzens; he be
longs to no special group and is not bent on ad
vancing his own political fortune or any personal
hobby. His aim is simply to get things done. Con
gress needs more men of this type.
At last the army balloons will be filled with
helium, the noninflammable gas. If this could have
been arranged sooner there would have been many
fewer lives lost.
A star has been discovered that speeds through
space at the rate of 2,500,000 miles an hour, a
record that no automobile speeder can hope to
attain.
The shipment of 2,700,000 eggs this season from
a Grand Island creamery is something for Nebraska
to cackle about.
Wreckless driving is what is wanted in Omaha,
but too many motorists are dropping the “w.”
I ---—
Mediocrity and Individuality
-I*rof. John Dewey, The New Kepublic.
Mr. George B. Cutten in his inaugural address as
president of Colgate university recently informed us
that it is now “discovered’’ that "only 15 per cent
of the people have sufficient intelligence to get through
college.” From this "discovery" he draws the con
clusion that as we have never had a real .democracy,
so "the low level of the intelligence of the people will
not permit of our having one."
Ho not only makes the undeniable statement that
we are ruled by an aristocracy in industry, com
merce, professions and government, but he terms this
aristocracy an intellectual aristocracy! The adjective
seems Incredible. But President Cutten thinks there is
the same scientific warrant for assuming that con
spicuous success under present conditions is a sign of
innate intellectual superiority as for saying that 25
per cent of the population are mentally subnormal and
that only 15 per cent are capable of higher education.
\Ve may be thought to ignore the interest which
many testers have shown in pupils of superior abili
ties. For some the testers tell us that one of the
chief beneficial consequences of testing is that it en
ables us to pick otit the superior tenth, to rescue the
saving remnant from the ruck in which they are now
submerged. But the seeming exception proves the
rule. The idea of classification still fatally pursues
and dominates. "Superior" is still a classiflcatory
word.
The size of the class is reduced, say from a million
to a hundred thousand. But what kind of superiority
marks a particular individual is still unrevealed to us.
If there prevailed from the elementary school up the
kind of inquiring and creative education which Presi
dent Cutten desires for the college, perhaps democ
racy, In spite of native inequalities and inferiorities,
would not be in such a parlous condition. Until we
have tried the educational experiment, we simply do
not know what Individual capacities and limits really
are. For it is not just the quantity of our education
which is confessedly at fault; it is its quality, its spirit,
method and aim.
Demand for Lower State Taxes
Nebraska Editors Point Out Methods
by Which New State Administration
Might Conserve the People’s Money.
Blair Pilot.
Don C. Van Peusen: State taxes
may he reduced by the new adminis
tration and they may not, since the
legislature has the say so. They
might be raised. In our opinion thegr
cannot be lowered by doing away with
the code bill and the budget sys
tem. which the elected legislature
won't and should not do. They
should not be lowerd by stopping our
state and federal road program.
Neither should the auto license tax be
lowered. State expenses should be
cut to the lowest possible point and
preserve efllcieney. New buildings
for state institutions could be cut out
if possible. Many of tis would like
to have things we cannot afford. Un
der present circumstances, this should
be the attitude of the state govern
ment. The fund for law enforcement
should not be cut if the cut would
mean lax enforcemeent. Most of us
want taxes reduced, but we weakeen
when it comes to the definite items.
That is what tho legislature will find
when it gets to grinding next month.
Incidentally, the legislature might cut
Its employes to the minimum and tho
session be shortened. That would
help some.
tiering Midwest.
Will Maupln: The ono great burden
of taxation, heretofore cheerfully
borne, has been for the support of
the schools. So long as those who
paid these taxes hud the chief voice
in the expenditures the burden was
not unduly heavy. But a centraliz
ed system of management has been
foisted upon the people under the
guise of "higher education," and a lit
tle educational hierarchy now adds to
the burden by exacting conditions that
do not fit our local schools, but com
pel us to ignore in large measure the
educational welfare of 08 per cent of
the children in order that 2 per cent
may be fitted for the university. Our
local schools are no longer hooked up
with our community life, but hooked
up with something indefinite and
far off. The solution is to central
ize; to give the control of local schools
back to local authority and make
the community school the big factor
in community development. Cut out
the overhead, get down to practical
things, and make education a practi
cal development Instead of a process
of mental stuffing. 1 believe our
school taxes may be reduced 35 per
cent without any decrease in effi
ciency.
Norfolk Press.
Marie Weekes: Make no appropria
tions on the 50-50 plan which permits
the state to exploit the taxiwyer 50
per cent while the federal government
rolls him for the other 60. Lei's get
back to normalcy in educational mat
ters, and while giving every boy and
girl a free, broad and fundamental ed
ucation let the individual who seeks
special privileges along this line pay
for them. Cut down on the agencies
that are reaching out to control the
individual, the home and the school.
Let’s get back to the good old demo
cratic "states rights” and eliminate
the "overloads.”
Bloomington Advocate.
P. M. Crane: Use the same econ
omy in running the state as is used
in taking care of private business. Cut
off the state inspectors and make
those kept do double the duty. The
adoption of a budget system and liv
ing up to it will help. Quit matching
dollars with Uncle Sam. See that
the people get $1 value in service
for every dollar in taxes paid. The
biggest part of the taxes come from
the local governments, where the
economy should start in.
Kearney Ilub.
M. A. Brown: Requirements of
university, normal schools and state
Institutions prohibit retrenchments in
those directions. Highway taxation
must lie maintained, directly or in
directly. There can be healthy elim
inations in state departments, bu
reaus, etc., by removing duplication
and overlapping. Three persons
should not be employed to do the
work of two, and it should not he
possible for one person to hold the
job and employ a second person to
do the work. A program cannot be
formulated. Common sense must pre
vail.
Falls City .loumal.
Aaron Davidson: Taxes will auto
matically tie reduced to the lowest
possible level consistent witli good
government when tlie affairs of the
state will be conducted with the ef
ficiency of a private business. Over
lapping of work to supply plums for
political workers have helped swell
taxes, and the elimination of this evil
will be a great step toward tax re
duction.
Scottsbluff News.
George Grimes: Tax reduction
should begin with the county, and
should include the state. Then the
first duty of every public official who
takes office the first of the year should
be to keep every expense within his
control at minimum. The governor
and the legislature should earnestly
seek to kep expenses at a minimum,
shun the costly business of matching
I dollars with the national government
and reduce the length of the payroll.
Nelson Gazette.
We are unable to figure any likli
hooil of a material reduction In taxes
in the Immediate future, although we
have in mind the prediction prom
ises made to do so. Twentieth cen
tury customs have brought about big
plans and some inexcusable extrava
gance in public affairs. There should
be more rigid economy and the pay
roll might be cut somewhat by re
ducing the number of employes, and
still meet all legitimate requirements.
Taxes pay for the privileges and the
protection we enjoy as citizens of a
great commonwealth, and the cost
is largely what we make it. But there
should be no favorites. All should
pay their just share. This is not be.
ing done. In Nebraska the principal
resource comes from the farm and
for it to prosper it must not be bur
dened beyond its equitable propor
tion. The capitalist and the salaried
class, who control legislation to a
very great degree, are not paying
their full share, in fact, many no
share at all. Hasten the day when
there will be no tax exemption, nor
tax-free securities. Then, with proper
economy and efficiency, the per capita
tax may be materially reduced. Levy
taxes on actual incomes, rather than
acres of land or visible property
possessed, and the cry of ctass against
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CIRCULATION
for NOVEMBER, 1922, of
THE OMAHA BEE
Daily.73,843
Sunday .78,105
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ELMER S. ROOD, Cir. Mgr.
Sworn to and subscribed before me I
this 5th day of December, 1922.
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1 (Seal) Notary Public
class anil of high taxes will lie ma- [
terially reduced.
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Geneva .Signal.
Frank O. Edgecombe: Available in
formation indicates reduction must
be made in dollar swapping with fed
eral government. If there are other
state institutions needing additional
housing facilities as badly as the In
dustrial school for girls at Geneva
needs them, it would be cruel neglect
to deny reasonable relief through ad
ditional buildings.
Fairtmry Journal.
W. F. Crumb: The way to reduce
taxes is to reduce. Each and every
department of the state should be
carefully scrutinized and the non
essentials ruthlessly pruned. The
sanctity of education should be laid
aside for the time and our school
system completely overhauled and its
control returned to the people. The
system is top heavy. There are pro
fessors in our state university and
state normal schools who are doing
the people more harm than good, and
others who are teuching subjects
which have no place in any sane sys
tem of education.
Thirty years ago and previously,
two-thirds of the students in the state
university believed that unless they
studied Eatin and Greek they would
not be educated; today it is "business
administration.'' Which period had
the correct idea? To train the mind,
the hand and the soul is the purpose
of education; beyond that is folly. It
is the everspreading out and ever
taking on more subjects that is break
ing down our educational system and
making tt an intolerable burden upon
the people. Let the motto of the in
coming administration in Nebraska
be, "The fads must go; we will sup
port the essentials liberally.”
Seward Independent.
Mrs. F. W. Mickel: In answer to
the question, how best may the taxes
be reduced by the new administration,
I will propose more efficiency all along
the line of state employes, but no par
ing of state appropriations.
The New Stale.
Joseph Gilbert: There is no way to
greatly reduce state taxes as long as
the public demands good schools, good
roads, protection to health and prop
erty. and the various advantages
now derived from state activities. It
is true thaat rigid economy practiced
in conducting the affairs of the state
will effect some saving, but not to
any considerable extent. It is possi
ble, however, for the state to engage
in some productive enterprises, such
us elevators, storage warehouses,
packing plants and other profit mak
ing industries now the subject of
monopolies, and by serving the pub
lic in this manner reap a small prolit
which can bo applied to other state
needs, instead of as now these profits
going to private corporations for such
services. In this manner these prof
its going to the state would lessen to
that extent the necessity for taxes.
The only alternative in the matter for
reducing state taxes is to deprive our
selves of tho many advantages now
enjoyed through state activities sup
ported by taxation.
Seward Blade.
Mrs. K. E. Betzer: I would not de
prive the state of the state sheriff,
for then intoxicated drivers will
throng our state highways, a menace
to motorists. The small sum of 19
cents state tax is tno small to argue
over, but, please, Mr. Bryan, do not
do anything to lessen the comfort of
our state's unfortunate charges.
ADVERTISE.
fm Jest a common geezer, I’m lookin’,
like the rest
To find the place where I can buy the
cheapest and the best;
I ain't got time to travel around from
store to store.
And grab the biggest bargains—my
trampin' days Is o'er.
I scan the daily papers and generally set
my mind
Tty readin' advertisin' what bargains I
can find;
But ev’ry day some feller whose friend
has got a store
Is tollin' how his prices Is clear down
on the floor.
Wal, mebby so, but bearin' ain't seein',
you can bet
And 1 ain't never guessln’ on what I
want to get. %
The paper's alius willin', I wonder In sur
prise
Why that there bargain merchant his
stuff don't advertise.
I epos.* a lot of people Is pretty tight
like me,
And has to squeeze their pennies and
spend ’em carefully.
But here and there's a merchant who's
groanin’ in dismay
Because he's got the bargains and still
can’t make it pay.
Wal, we don’t know about It—that’s
where the trouble lies,
And so again I’ll shout It—-why don’t
he advertise?
ROBERT WORTHINGTON DAVIE.
Bum Sports.
Russia demands the recognition of
open straits. It’s just like those bol
sheviki—they'll want bobtailed flush
es legitimatized next.—Life.
Hip-Pocket Money.
The bail of a bootlegger in New
York was placed at $101,000. It took
nearly all his small change.—Life.
Kath arine Newlin
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most powerful stories
are not necessarily
written by men. See
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Voice*
Editorials (rom readers of The Morning
Bee. Readers of The Morning Bee
are invited to use this column free If
for expression on matters of public
| interest.
A Woman Motorist Replies.
Kearney, Neb.—To the Editor of
The Omaha Bee: As one of the many
women drivers of automobiles today,
I feel that a “Real Man's” letter
which appeared in Saturday's paper
should not remain unanswered, for
he ought to know that when ho starts
anything like that he is going to get
all that’s coming to him, and partic
ularly for being so complimentary as
to call woman drivers “public men
aces.” *
His percentage was very “reason
able”—nine out of every ten. If nine
out of every ten women drivers to
day are public menaces, a good share
of the blame can be placed upon the
men themselves, for nine out of every
ten women get their driving lessons
from some male member of the fam
ily, who puts them in the driver's
seat, shows them how to stop and
start, then turns them loose, never
losing an opportunity from that time
on to criticise their technique instead
of taking the time to show that a
car has more to it than a wheel to
steer with, a clutch, brake and throt
tle ,Co step on, and a seat to sit in.
In the event that one has the ex
treme egotism to call themselves a
“real man,” would it not behoove
them, (in case they know anything
about a car), to assist women drivers
in the art of driving well instead of
handing them packages because, per
haps, some lady honked the horn in
his ear when he was looking the
wrong direction for traffic on his side
of the street.
I have driven a ear for 10 years,
and not always where prairie dogs
and gophers live, and have nothing to
my discredit yet.
Speaking of women who lie to al
lay the blame when they have an ac
cident. they haven't a thing on the
men, for in our line of work we meet
Just those very people, and the men
are there and over when it comes to
"passing the buck” in regard to the
blame.
Also, while you are chalking up
the scores against women drivers,
don't he too careless, and you might
reverse the debit side of the ledger
before you get through, and if you
care to, you can lind plenty of wo
men drivers willing to compete with
any “real men" for driving honors,
and for brain work when it comes to
a pinch. A WOMAN DRIVER.
Christmas Tree Vandalism.
Alpena, Mich—To the Editor of
The Omaha Bee: Like other Ne
braska people, I have always sup
posed that Christmas trees were taken
only where they stood too close to
gether. and this in effect was really
a benefit to the remaining trees. But
for several days I have been out
with other men cutting Christmas
trees for shipment, and 1 find that
evergreen trees which stand very
dose are not the right shape and few
are taken. As a rule the best shaped
trees are taken, regardless of location
or their future value as lumber. So
trivial a matter as ownership will not
save a tree. Trees too large are cut
down and the top taken. To nry mind
this is an unnecessary sacrifice of
one of our most valuable of natural
resources and one which only an
awakened public sentiment can pre
vent. T. It. JONES,
Alpena, Mich.
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has made an illuminating study of
their volume and influence in "The
Negro Press in the United States"
(University of Chicago Press).
Mllllcent Newberry, the simple
“sleuth," solves another of the tnys
trles written by Jeannette Lee. “The
Mysterious Office" (Scribner’s) is a de
tective story made in the style which
has secured many readers for Miss
Lee, who has a style and finish about
her writing that Is most attractive.
Walter Cordon Merritt, counsel for
the League for Industrial Rights,
gives the conservative viewpoint of
reeent. Industrial history, in a little
pamphlet, "The Struggle for Indus
trial Liberty.” It Is especially di
rected ngainst unionism and the |
closed shop. It la published by the
league
Fifty of the most familiar of our
proverbs are traced In all their forms
In different lands in Dwight Edwards
Marvin's “The Antiquity of Proverbs"
(Putnam). Many of aur maxims, as
we know, are old folk sayings, and
Mr. Marvin has performed a service
in collecting variants and precursors.
In these days of unemployment the
question of health insurance and the
relief of sickness is important. Mr.
Gerald Morgan has written a discus
sion of these problems In America
and Europe. "Public Relief of Sick
ness" (Macmillan). His conclusion is
that medical benefits should he pro
vlded by state-aided health organiza
tions, to be developed on the principle
of the pay dispensary, cash compen
sation for loss of wages to bo left to
compulsory health insurance.
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