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The Morning Bee MORNING—EVENING—SUNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY NELSON B. L'PD IKE. Publisher. B. BREWER. Gen. Maaafcr. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS rti AOTorlttMl PrMl. of wblcb Tbi B« II ■ dkioImi. U uelulnly Aultt.cd to the u»p lor rn<ul>llcttUbO of all oeea dispatches credited to it of not oUiarwtM credited la th.» paper, and also ths local neiR* published hsreia. ▲11 rl(hta of rspubl. cations of oar apacial dispatches art also rsaarrad. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for the Department AT lantic or Person Wanted. For Night Calls After 10 P. M.: ifWW) Editorial Department. AT lantic 1021 or 1042. IVVW OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Co. Bluff* - - * - 15 Scott St. So. Side. N W. Cor. 24th and N New York—286 Fifth Avenue Washington • - 422 Star Bldg. Chicago - - - 1720 Steger Bldg. Paris, t rance—420 Rue St Honore JOHN WANAMAKER: MERCHANT PRINCE. A truly great man is dead in Philadelphia, John Wanamaker, who made his name known in more useful ways during his life than perhaps any man who has lived in America since Benjamin Franklin. In writing of him one finds it perplexing to decide ! w hich of his many activities was of greater impor tance. The casual reader will think of him as the "merchant prince,” and bracket his name with that of A. T. Stewart, whom he succeeded. We have had oilier merchant princes, however, who have come to great success and a high place in public esteem, but none of whom touched so many things in an effective way as did Mr Wanamaker. It was not vanity, but an intelligent business policy that led him to adopt his systematic manner of advertising. Not many newspaper readers can recall a day when the Wanamaker store did not have its full page in each of the Philadelphia papers, telling in simple English of the bargains offered that day in its several departments. Mr. Wana inakcr always wrote some portion of those adver tisements, a "store editorial," to which he signed his name, and through which he made the public acquainted with his business policies. Sixty-one years of continually expanding business life found its daily expression through the newspapers of his home city, which is noted throughout the world for the high character of its newspapers, having more and better of them than any other American city, principally because the example set by Mr. Wana maker has been intelligently followed by his con temporaries. It will come as a surprise to most people to be told that John Wanamaker was the first paid Y. M. C. A. secretary in America; that to his skill as an organizer much of the success of that great in- i stitution may be traced He gave his talent to or ganization work in connection with the Civil War, ! and he served the United States as postmaster gen eral in President Harrison's cabinet, and brought to the department the benefit of his organizing abil ity. He found time to give much personal atten tion to c hurch wot k and to politics, and through his long life proved that a man may be a devout Christian, an active participant in the civic affairs of his community, his state and his nation, and a success in business as well. John Wanamaker heg-an at the bottom, an er rand boy in a retail store; he rose to the very top, ihrough patient industry, honest and approved methods of enterprising merchandising. His career has in it little of the elements of romance, but is far from living a sordid tale of unremitting plod ding. A man who could found so great a business, and could actively engage in so many other ways as filled the busy life of this man can not be looked upon as a plodder. Rathe^, he deserves to he con- i sidered a genius, and to have rank as such. MORE POWER TO THE UNION PACIFIC. No indication of intention to electrify any part of its line is to be gleaned from the announcement i hat the Union Pacific lias just placed another ordei lor locomotives As these are to be of the heaviest type, the presumption is fair that they will be used on the western divisions, where the stifffest pulls are encountered. Engines recently ordered are soon to lie delivered These include 55 of the heaviest pas senger locomotive ever built, designed on new lines and intended to make long runs at high speed. It, was announced at the start that some of these en gines are to be placed in service between Omaha and Denver, making the run from one terminal to the other without change. This is an innovation in rail road practice, and will he the longest single run on which engines are regularly employed. Other locomotives to he delivered shortly are 10 Mallet compounds, huge machines, with two cylinders and eight driving wheels on each side, capable of dragging immense loads of freight. The order just placed calls for five more of these, which is evidence that the Union Pacific is making preparations to take , are of largely increased traffic. Fifteen of the big •‘Mikado 2-10-2” freight engines also are expected soon, and 73 more have been ordered. Business conditions warrant the expenditure, for the country served by the Union Pacific is growing, and the probability of its outstripping the capacity of the railroad is ever present. It is to he recorded, however, that the policy of James J. Hill and E. H. Harriman, to he ever ready to take care of business has not been departed from by either of the great systems they headed. , ALL ABOARD FOR OKLAHOMA Governor-elect J. C. Walton of Oklahoma pro poses to have an inauguration that ought to endear him to the democratic heart, whether it does to the rest of the world or not. He proposes to feed free of charge 200,000 persons for two days, the time to he spent in celebrating his advent as chief executive of the state. Not at the government's expense, however, for he has called for donations of live stock, to be slaughtered and barbecued, and of other provender to be worked upto dainties for the populace who will bhe present. The governor-elect expects to ride a $5,000 horse, seated on a $10,000 saddle, in the parade that wdll open the festivities. All the notables of Oklahoma. Pawnee Bill. Col. Zaeh Mulhall, Col. George Miller of the “101” ranch, and Dan V. Lackey, prize fight promoter, will be in charge , “It will be no pink tea party," says Mr. Welton, and we may well believe it. The program sounds more like the proceedings that followed the eleva tion of a satrap to eminence under Constantine and his successors, when the recipient of the ap pointment was expected to ruin himself in paying for the entertainment provided. He remembers, also, the days of which Walter Scott recorded, “A Christmas gambol oft would cheer A poor man’s heart through half the year.'1 and wants to fix things so that Oklahoma’s people may forget their other troubles for a time. It will be some party, if the next governor of the great •UU *f Oklahoma hia way. "NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS." A farce that has come down from the Seven teenth century to the present day is an English laugh at certain maneuvers of people to get even with one another. Some memory of “A New Way to Pay Old Debts" is suggested by the proposal that the United States forgive France the war debt owed, that England may do likewise, and that in turn France will accept a readjustment of the reparation terms and consent to a long-time mora torium for Germany. Germany literally can not pay under present conditions. France has depended on reparation payments for her own needs, and without them will not make any sort of settlement with either the United States or England. It is certain that Germany will not be able to pay France within a great many years, unless per mitted to do so in kind, and this form of payment has been rejected by France. Equally certain is it that the United States will realize little if anything from France in many years. While neither France nor Germany has admitted or pleaded bankruptcy, the facts are too eloquent to need exposition. A creditors’ meeting might as well be called, and something decided upon. What the proposed course actually involves is making the United States pay a portion of the war debt incurred by the nations to be benefited. Such a plan amoftnts to little less than requiring the United States to pay the German debt to France to the extent of three billions of dollars. As at the close of business, August 3,1921, France owed the United States $2,997,477,800, cash advanced and interest France has repaid *46,714,861.81, but now seems unable to go further. The proposal made does not include forgiveness of the debt owed to the United States by England, but a fifty-year moratorium is suggested. How this project will be accepted in the United States is r.ot plain, but the sentiment of the people generally has been against any forgiveness of these debts. On the surface the whole scheme looks like a plan to make the people of the United States pay bills incurred by Europe during a war in which we were unwillingly involved, and for the aftermath of which we are in no sense responsible. Americans have been at all times ready to help the Europeans, when they get ready to help theemselves, but no sign is at hand that that time has arrived. ONE MORE UNFORTUNATE." For a brief moment it is given to peer over' the edge into the underworld. A girl has been slain after a drunken spree. A dissolute character of the cabarets and roadhouses endeavors to explain in his broken English how the fatal shot was fired. One more unfortunate Weary of breath Rashly Importunate, Gone to her death. Few can be so fastidious as to deny some sym pathy for this girl who came from a country town in Missouri only to fall into such a life and such a death. Through what train of circumstance was she drawn into the meshes of destruction? The hon est life of poverty from which she sprung was not half so hard as the tawdry existence into which she plunged. The kerosene lamp on the table at home gave a much clearer vision than the blight lights of the midnight resorts. Untrained to cope with the world, unskilled at any honest employment, she came to the city and was reduced to companionship with a deniaen of the underworld whose only grace was his ability to sing and play the popular jazz airs. There was not one line of honest sentiment or real feeling in all this music—it was as shoddy as the rest of her environment. It seems unreal that this should be called a life of pleasure, or that any other girl should follow along these paths. There is but one end to it all, whether the death be a living one or not. One can not know with what longing she went back to the home of her mother nor with what thoughts she ieft after the occasional visits to her brother’s fam ily out in the state. Such a simple, home and peace ful life of domesticity might have been hers. There is something about the underworld that saps the courage of its victims and prevents them saving themselves Take her up tenderly, Rift her with cave; Fashioned so tenderly, Young and so fair! Her poverty-stricken mother now comes to the city, scarcely able to understand the situation. She suggests that the man accused of her daughter's death help pay the funeral expenses. This form of primitive justice, conceived perhaps through the idea of expiating sin, does not draw an immediate proffer ' from the prisoner. She does not understand how I lost to all honor is the world in which her daughter } moved. j The “soft drink" parlors and bootlegging joints have claimed another victim—or two, if the rrtan is worth counting. For a moment Omaha peers over the edge of the underworld. A girl is dead, and her manner of going may serve as a warning to others. Before she is forgotten, too, some effort should be made to clean up these sources of corruption. It is not always easy to feel kindly toward Medicine Hat. The Buckner Controversy f'ron) the Independent. ———— It is not nectssary to call names or to impugn mo tives in discussing the action of Bishop 1100101' C. Stuntz and his associates in the Nebraska Methodist conference in retiring the Rev. J. D. M. Buckner, and getting themselves disrespectfully talked about there by. Mr. Buckner, like half or more of his fellow Meth odists, denies the verbal inspiration of the Bible and believes in "the historical interpretation." Me accepts "the demonstrated conclusions of science in the fields of geology and biology" and holds that religion "should emphasize personal service to fellow men" rather than "personal reward.” From his own story, published in a pamphlet, en titled "llow I Lost My Job as a Preacher," it appears that he had protested against J>e!ng retired, and that Ins demand for formal charges and a trial was denied. The committee on conference relations "heard Mr. Buckner repeatedly." says Dr. Clyde Clay Cissell, ex ecutive secretary of the Omaha area of the Council of Boards of Benevolence, in a telegram to Zion's Her ald. and then retired him without “formal charges or case against him." Zion's Herald is maintained by the Methodist Episcopal church, and is, in that sense, an organ of the denomination. It is therefore higjily significant that the Herald, reviewing the case in its issue of November R, says: "After studying tin* facts in connection with the Buckner case we are convinced that there is truth in the foregoing scathing indict ment of Methodism, a*d we propose to face the issue squarely." The "scathing indictment” referred to was a pub lished article which had characterized the action of the conference as "despicable," and said that Bishop Stuntz and his fellow committeemen "did not dare face tho consequences which a public admission of their verit able intention would bring down upon them." After this it was nice of Zion's Herald to add, "these church leaders may have made a mistake, hut they are not dishonest; neither are they politicians.” Of course they are not dishonest, and the evidence is strong that they are no pllticians. at any rate not the kind that have nothing further to learn . , “From State and Nation” —Editorials from other newspapers— The Electoral College and the Inter regnum. From the St. Joseph News.Freer The first fruits of tlie new “pro gressive" bloc in congress are two proposed amendments to the federal constitution, one doing away with the electoral college, and the other short ening tlie interregnum by advancing inauguration day from March 4 to the third Monday in January. It is not improbable that favorable action ran be obtained, In both houses of congress. Approval by the legisla tures of the required number of states, however, is less certain. As to the electoral college, there has been a growing impression for years that it has outlived its usefulness, that it Is cumbrous and represents a system that has been completely su perseded by custom. The amend ment would simplify the method of voting for president and vice presi dent. Names of the candidates them selves would appear on the ballot, in stead of the names of presidential elec tors, as at present The ease of the interregnum is less simple, for while it has proved embarrassing at times, some authorities contend that it serves ft very definite purpose, and that its utility «nore than outweighs any in convenience that may arise from it. The interregnum is generally un derstood to mean the interval of about four months between the election of president and vice president in No j vember and their inauguration March , 4 of the following year. In 1860, ac cording to some historians, this “hia tus" nearly destroyed the union, for it permitted traitors in the govern ment to use the government's re sources to build up the strength of the secessionists. If Mr. Hughes had won In 1916 we should have had a serious situation, with our policy as to •iermany suspended for four months. In 1920 some embarrassment as to <>ur relations with Mexico arose in the \ interval. The interregnum was handed down to us from a time when news was transmitted by messengers on horse back and when the most rapid transit known was the coach-and-four, but there is reason to believe that the tap was not wholly a concession to the primitive modes of those days. It might easily tide over a time of crisis serving as a safety valve to let off steam from a superheated electorate. There are good reasons why a set of newly elected officials, fresh from ihe inflaming influences of a political campaign, should have an interval In which to cool off and get their bear ing before assuming seats of power. Thus the Interregnum would serve ns a shock absorber. Plans for its abridgement call for the best that congress has of wisdom and foresight. I.ose $.‘>0,000,000 a Year. K IF. Smith in the Sclentlf.c American. One dollar is stolen by the forger and check raiser for every $8,000 cleared through the banks of the I'nited States. The clearances in re lent years have fluctuated in the vi cinity of $400,000,000,000 yearly. Uu the other hand, according to tlie estimates of various experts, including some- of ficials of bunkers* associations, the yearly amount stolen through the misused checks is now about $50,000,000. In 1880 tho loss was probably not more than $2,000,000 a year and pos sibly as low as $1,000,000. In 1013 Wllll&m J. Burns told lIn? American Bankers' association the stealage had been $23,000,000. The writer esti mated the 1018 loss as $30,000,000, casing his calculations on reports which seem now to have been Incom plete. It was more silkelv between 840,000,000 and $,’.0 000,000 yien. and the best informed specialists in hank protection believe that it has now passed the latter figure. Cheek manipulation is, therefore, one of the commonest and costliest forms of property crime. Only swin dling by means of corporate issues, which costs tlie American public see oral billions a year, and embezzle <nent or defalcation, which totals more than $100,000,000, can be ranked above it Bank burglary and robbery, type* of crime which strike the aver age imagination as much more dan gerous because they are committed in u more dramatic manner, probably yield the thieves about $2,500,000 every year, one-twentieth the check alteration loss. Accordingly, there Is and lias been )n progress a long-standing warfare between the hanks and their support ing police organizations on one side and the cheek criminal on the other. Into this fight the inventor and teeh nirian has been drawn in more recent limes and he has devoted untold en ergy and Ingenuity to the tactful problem of flrnking and routing the larcenous forces. To date he has achieved no victory. Indeed, the mounting figures of check losses would seem to indicate clearly that the tide of battle is swinging to the other side. Ford and Street Cars. From the York News-Times. Henry Ford, always out for some free advertising, is going to get some more. The Detroit manufacturer gives his fellow citizens some advice about managing tho municipal street rail way. Couzons is going to the senate and there must be a new mayor and Mr. Ford gives hint some advice that is free as the air for the tires of his cars. Mr. Ford says to cut the street car fare in two. If this is done he de clares there will be a great increase in street car traffic and the munici pal-owned plant will pay big and everybody be happy. Mr. Ford claims the people who now ride down town in their cars and pay for storage and run the risk of having cars stolen will take to the street cars If the fare is made half of what it Is. Probably he is right in his deduc tions. At any rate tho experiment can be tried easily. The Itloc in Legislation. From the Washington Star. About this so-railed bloc business Does anybody understand it? Have those who have formed the blocs on Capitol Hill, and arc employing them in the legislative equation, thought out the problem thoroughly? Is there any assurance that in the end a sort of chaos will not result and that we shall not witness the amazing and expensive spectacle of every bloc for itself and devil take the hindmost? The party system wo arc all fa miliar with. That has been iu opera tion from the beginning. It is by no NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for NOVEMBER, 1922, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily.73,843 Sunday .78,103 B. BREWER, Gen. Mgr. ELMER S. ROOD, Cir. Mg.-. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 5th day of December, 1922. W. H. QUIVEY, (Seal) Notary Public means perfect, and hence does not produce perfect results. The fact is we should not know what to do with perfect results if they came our way. They might dis organize us. Nothing is or could be on a perfect basis in governmental affairs. But the party system in Its hun dred-odd years of service has pro ■ lured many excellent results, and. I operating with it, we have built up a government which in world conditions of appalling confusion and incertitude is the strongest government In exist erice. It is so strong the other gov ernments are flirting with it for rec ognition and favor. Let us move cautiously, if furthei at oil, in this bloc business. It would ho most unfortunate and expensive if we found that, after taking our party system to pieces, we could not arrange the pieces for effective service, and had only produced a new sort of Chinese puzzle, interesting enough us a study, but without practical value as a legislative agency. Prospects for Potato (•rowers. From the Lincoln .Star. Many a farmer in Nebraska wht raised a big crop of potatoes this year only to find that he could not sell them at a profit will throw up his hands, say “Oh, what’s the use?’’ and refuse to plant any tubers next spring. Without taking the trouble to figure things out he will conclude that it doesn't pay to raise potatoes and will put his land into other crops. But the shrewd farmer who looks ahead and makes thoughtful calcula tions will be likely to conclude that next year, above all others, is the very time to grow potatoes. It will occur to him that very many who planted them this year will be dis couraged and quit raising them, lit will perceive that instead of being produced in great abundance the com ing season, potatoes are probably go ing to he scarcer and in more de mand. So while other farmers are desert ing the potato and going in far some thing else, the far-seeing ones will stick to it. They will start with a big advantage—plenty of good seed on hand for which no cash outlay is re qulred. Their neighbors will he buy ing corn, wheat and oats to seed down former potato acreage, or perhaps stdl mere expensive alfalfa seed. The overproduction of potatoes this year was the result of an unusually large acreage, planted in anticipation of high prices, and an exceptionally large c-op raised all over the couu try. For several years, potatoes had been on a high price level, and farm (rs thought they could make more money by raising them than other (rops. But the raising of an unpre cedented crop completely changed the Hluution, and the result was disap pointment all around. With the farmer as with everything else, it is perhaps best not to put all of one's eggs in a single basket. The vise agriculturist diversities his crops, raising some wheat, some corn, some outs, some alfalfa, and some potatoes, if he is in a potato growing district. He will not abandon potatoes for the mere reason that prices have been l.eluw cost of production in one sea son. The same thing may happen to corn or wheat next year, or even to live stock. The fellow who sticks and goes ahead in the face of adversities is the one who wins out in the end. , Predicts Marriages in Parks. From a New York Letter !n the Pitts burgh Dispatch. “Women used to make up in their boudoirs: now they do not liestitate to perform their toilets on Fifth avc nue or nnv other street. Courting is done iri tile parks or on busses, in the streets, or elsewhere, in view of the nubile. T predict that the lime is •omlng when marriages will he per formed in the public square. The world's point of view has become scientific end we have lost our sense of (lie lltness of things." These and other startling remarks were made to members of the fash ionable Contemporary club at New ark hv Dr. Frank Alvali Parsons president of the New York School of Fine and Applied Art. “The primitive woman on a day like this.” said Parsons, "would wrap up In a fur or rug to keep warm. Oil July 4. the woman of today would lake the same fur or rug and wrap :'t around her nrek. going half naked below. “Then observe the home with lub ber plants in green .iars at the win dows. In earlier days people had windows which could be opened. “N*iw one needs a moving van to get to the window. Did you ever read of anything more hectic than life of today? “And, why, oh. why, do women wear a skirt to the ground on one side, and to the knee, fastened to a tin plate, on the other?” A Call to Library War. From the Los Angeles Times. Teachers and librarians who were getting together at the convention of the American Library association to select a small library for us in schools from the first to the eighth grades all agreed in giving Louisa Alcott's "Little Women" as their first choice of books. "Alice in Won derland.” "Robinson Crusoe." "Tom Sawyer" and "Treasure Island" came next in the order named After that opinions divided over a wide field. It is no easy task to agree on the fiO best books for young folks. j A Book oj Today \ "ROADS OF ADVENTURE.’* by Ralph l>. Paine. Houghton-Mifflin company. Host on. This book of 452 pages, with 42 illus trations from photographs, demon strates that truth may be stranger tl.an fiction when it is written enter tainingly. Mr. Paine, as a war corre spondent. had a varied and eventful career on land and sea, from the time he was a member of the winning crew of Yale in 1592 until he visited the i allied lleet in European waters during I the world war. With this wealth of 1 experience to draw from, the author lias given a charming account of his J adventures. He has a talent of seeing i tho bright side—tho humorous facets I —even in tho grimness of war. He takes the reader on a personally con ducted tour over the roads of adven tore which he traversed during a pe rind of 25 years. Mr. Paine’s narrative of his experi cnees aboard the "Three Friends.” dur ing the Cuban revolution and before this country declared war against ; "pain, is about as delightful a bit of reading as one could wish for. It scintillates with a style of humor that places the author in a class by him self. There is nothing of the brag gadocio in it. Mr. Paine under! mk to deliver for W. R. Hesrst a J2.000 sword from the people of New York to Gen. Maximo Gomes, Cuban revo ' lutionary leader. With Ernest Me Oreadv, a New York correspondent, be shipped from the port of Fernan dina, Fla., on the Three Friends, a large white towboat, carrying a wrecking license, but technically at that time a pirate vessel on a mission of carrying men and supplies from this country to Cuba. Captain "Dyna mite Johnny" O’Brien was in charge of this filibustering expedition. Whose romance on the Spanish Main was "served piping hot,” ns Paine writes. We read that: It impressed one, this hold invasion by an unarmed sea going towboat whose destruction with all hands had been decreed In resound ins phrases from the palace of ad ministration in Havana. It had the flavor of bygone centuries, of an era when the little ships of England had sailed to the West Indies and the South Seas to singe the beards of the viceroys of Spain and to laugh at the tall galleons with their tiers of carron ades and culvertns. Now was it far fetehed to think of 'Dynamite John ny' O'Brien ns a comrade in spirit to Hawkins, and Dumpier and Edward Davis?" New York newspapers carried big stories at the time of the exploits of the Three Friends, against which this government started proceedings. Mr. Paine relates the circumstances of McCready and himself meeting Rich ard Harding Davis and Frederic Rem ington in Key West, which was at that time a whispering gallery of revolutionary plots and the base of secret comm’unieations with Cuba. The book give close-ups of Theodore Roosevelt in Cuba, of Admiral Stamp son's flagship. Leonard Wood. Shaf fer and others. 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DIVIDENDS QUARTERLY —ABSOLUTE SECURITY GET RICH BY SAVING 1RTH AND HARNEY 33 YEARS IN OMAHA “THE PEOPLE’S VOICE” Editorial from roaderi of TM Marnln* Baa. Raadara of TM Moml«« §•• ara Invliad to B>a ttila column treat* for axproeetoa on mattara of public Interact. A Cynic on Politics. Missouri Valley, la.—To the Editor of The Omaha Dee: Oh my, oh my. why all this fuss about poor Mr. Daugherty? H« Is not to blame, and it's a ten to one shot he'd like to pack up his grip, extra collars and socks, and get out of Washington In a hurry, but he's just sport enough to stirk it out and take a part In the political carnival of film flam and bunco which tho polltlcans are all staging for us poor dam fool voters. Convict a profiteer? That is out of the question, and any mutt with sense enough to button his shirt all the way down ought to know it. Daugherty or any other bird on the job before him is chosen by the Wall street gang and carefully taught just how to behave. Why cuss the poor hired man for doing as he is told? Was Palmer any hettpr? The mess you aro giving poor llarry the deuce about started when our democratic friend had the job. You couldn't pick up a paper but what Palmer’s picture was in it and a tine line of bunk about him. Ever read about him now? He was a good sport, too, and just did his little act. made his bow and got off the stage. Whenever Daugherty or any other attorney general con victs a profiteer and sends him to the hoose-gow tile Missouri river "ill he flowing backwards and the capital of Heaven located at Council Bluffs. jt s runny, too. i^ei some poor cuss make a lead nirkel and there's more special agents around than there’s cooties In an army shirt. The bright est minds .of the secret service are turned loose on some fellow who does the Dana Gibson stunt on a new one dollar bill. Vet when it comes to get ting some guy for stealing the United States mint it is absolutely impossi ble to get evidence if he throws it over his shoulder and takes a rest in Mr. Burns’ office. Everybody with a badge or star walks on eggs. It's all right though, brother. Caesar had the same trouble with his congressmen and governmental de partments, too. Poor old Solomon had his grafters to contend with. Father Abraham had a hard time with his sticky lingered henchmen. There’s nothing new about the graft business at all. They used to take the profiteers out and chop olT their heads. Now they get shot by a chorus girl, or go to Europe and die of the jim Jams from drinking too much whisky all at once. It saves us the trouble. If they’d put you or me in Daugh erty’s job; slip a roll and tell us how to act we’d do the same thing. It's so, too—isn't it. brother? The trouble is that all us little fry are so busy trying to steal, rob and grab that we get a ease of sour grapes when some gink makes u big huul and gels away with It. Our fault Is that we crab among ourselvis Instead of getting to gether and lauding on our congress men fop not doing business. Nobody but a few fanatical prohibitionist* every hot-foot any of them. The prohibitionists had a system. If Congressman Keller Is giving Harry the deuce, it is because Keller is getting benefit from doing that par ticular thing. He got his job from saying he would. Why shouldn't he put on an act? He'd probably gat kicked out if ho didn't. Oh. it's a great game, and until we. the audience, who call themselves citizens, wake up, all we "ill ever do is clap when the curtain goes up and when it goes down. The politicians nut on the show. Next. I. T. DUZZEN MATTER Credit for Shantung. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Oma ha Bee: In the Evening World-Her ald of the ‘.Uh appears a reprint or an editorial from the Louisville Cour ier-Journal purporting to prove the vindication of Woodrow \\ ilson on Ills position that Japan would withdraw from Shantung, China, under the terms of tile Versailles treaty, where in is provided that Japan will with draw from the Chinese province "at the proper time." Anyone with an ounce of common sense knows that Japan is withdraw ing from Shantung because such an arrangement was required by Charles E. Hughes at the Washington con ference. and for no other reason. Japan would never have with drawn from Shantung by reason of any provision of the Versailles treaty simply because tlie "proper time" would never come, according to her own view. Such rot as this clipping from the I Louisville paper is quickly snatched ! up by the World-Herald. JESSE FRAHM. Thank* From a Democrat. 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