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GREAT GAME OF HIDE AND SEEK.
“Wee Willie” Keeler, who died a few days ago,
was a champion batter in his day, a terror to pitch
ers and fielders alike. Asked once for his formula,
he replied: “I hit ’em where they ain’t.” In those
simple word* is expressed the plan of action of the
professional bandit.
A great game of hide and seek is in progress in
Denver, where, since December 18, the police have
been trying to locate the men who stuck up the
Federal Reserve bank messengers at the front door
of the mint and escaped with $200,000 in green
backs, after killing a guard. A nation-wide net was
strung at the time, and in several parts of the coun
try traces were reported. A Wichita paper even
went to the extreme of saying the bandits were safely
housed in Omaha. The bandits knew better, and so
did the Denver police.
The first thing that occurred to the mind of the .
average citizen, not engaged in crime, was that the
bandits had made good their escape in their high
powered car. This being the obvious thing to do,
it had the popular favor. So the police encouraged
the idea, but they also had in mind something equal- I
!y obvious, that the robbers, after driving I
furiously a short distance into East Denver, turned j
their car back and reached cover somewhere in the
city. Discovery of the dead body of one of the
men, left in the car by his companions, alone in a
garage for nearly a month, shows the correctness
of at least a part of the latter theory.
By this time the surviving robbers have scat
tered. If any Denver man was engaged in the af
fair, he is yet in Denver, where his greatest chance
for safety lies. That the dead man was a stranger
gives color to the belief that most of the band were
from out of town. One or more of them had been
in Denver for weeks, studying the situation and ar
ranging for the coup. This is proven by the fact
I hat the automobile used had been stolen weeks be
fore, the garage had been rented, and all the pre
l.minary business attended to. Such crimes are
carefully thought out in advance.
Now the police have won a point in the game.
The dead man is a substantial clue as to the iden
tity of the “mob” of which he was a member. With
this start, the whole story will some day be told.
Criminals are clever, shrewd and daring, but the
law is certain to win in the end, for it is the law,
and the men who enforce it are just a little more
. lever, shrewd and daring than the criminals who
break it.
HAS THE TREATY BEEN BROKEN ?
The charge that France has violated the Treaty
of Versailles by its invasion of the Rhineland is
followed by announcement from Berlin that fur
ther reparation payments arc to be suspended. This
resort to passive resistance presents a difficult prob
lem for the French. Some observers predict the
final extinction of all possibility of Germany com
pleting its reparation payments.
It is quite probable that the cost of France's
venture in the industrial district of the Ruhr will
exceed its financial return. It is a costly thing to
maintain an army in the field. Even though Ger
many be compelled to pay (he expenses of this new
occupation, that will only mean that the amount
available for war reparations is diminished by so
much. Meanwhile thousands of Frenchmen are
withdrawn from productive industry at home and
mobilized into the army. Such a situation can not
lie more than temporary.
The deficiency on which Premier Poincare based
his military movement amounts to 1,500,000 tons
of coal and $500,000 worth of telephone poles and
timber. His strategy resembles sending an elephant
to catch a flea.
Chancellor Cuno says that Germany did all it
could and intended to make every effort to meet the
leparations terms. At the same time he seizes the
opportunity to decline to make further payments,
on the ground that the treaty has been set aside by
the action of France and Belgium. One of two an
swers must be made by France: it can send its troops
further into the country, or it can withdraw and
give the Germana an opportunity to produce enough
goods to meet the indemnities. The longer the pres
ent policy is pursued, the greater the prospect of a
rewriting of the treaty becomes. The question
whether or not the treaty has been broken by
France is a difficult one, and certainly is embar
rassing to the Paris government.
HONORING A REAL- MAN S MEMORY.
Wa notice something especially fitting in the
presence of Hon. Joseph Gurney Cannon presiding
at a session of the House of Representatives where
tribute was paid to the memory of Hon. Moses P.
Kinkaid. *Uncle Mose” and “Uncle Joe” were com
panions on'the floor, friends and intimates outside
the house, and had in common many things. One
that may not have occurred to the casual reader is
that both were pioneers.
Cannon grew up with Illinois; Kinkaid grew up
with Nebraska. One knew no more than the other
about the beginning of things, for Illinois was in
the rough when Joseph Gurney Cannon first settled
and hung out his shingle at Danville; Nebraska was
just as raw when Moses P. Kinkaid told the world
that he was practicing law at O’Neill. Each had a
similar experience in that while clients did not over
crowd his office, he made such an impression on
those about him that the public soon demanded his
service in public office, and in many ways both
found opportunity to do good work for the common
run of mankind.
Kinkaid will be best remembered in Nebraska
for his efforts on behalf of the settler; he will leave
at Washington memories .of a quiet, dignified man
of attainments, whose counsel and advice were
sought by all of his associates, and who modestly
but capably assisted in framing many of the great
laws of the land, and who took a man’s place at all
times of crisis.
Congress honors itself in paying tribute to such
men.
The average flivver owner will sit up and take
notice when he reads Mrs. Stillman’s request for
$100 a week to keep her car going.
TINKERING WITH THE TAX LAWS.
Two questions face the state legislature in re
gard to taxation. The first is how much money it
needed to run the business of the state without
crippling its service to the people. The other con
cerns how that sum shall be provided.
It is no easy task to adjust either of these prob
lems fairly and satisfactorily to the people. No one
enjoys paying taxes, but the burden is eased by
the knowledge that each is paying in proportion to
his means. If one man escapes payment of his just
dues, the load on the rest is so much the heavier.
If the bulk of taxation is placed on production, the
development of the state is hampered.
The cost of collecting the taxes is another item.
Thus, we find Dwight P. Griswold, editor of the
Gordon Journal, writing:
' In the state of Nebraska it costs 30 cents per
capita to assesK* and collect the taxes that were
paid last year. We will have to do what the mer
chant ha* had to do—cut down overhead.”
A stronger and more centralized state control of
taxation offers the most feasible way to reduce this
overhead. Divided and scattered authority should
be avoided in this as in other administrative work.
At the same time, the test of ease of collection
should be applied to every proposed change in the
tax laws.
It is on this score that the low rate of taxation 1
on intangible property finds its defense. The same 1
facts apply to taxes on personal and household
goods. Property that is easily concealed will go
into hiding when the levy reaches a certain height. I
Any tax that makes liars of otherwise honest citi- j
zens is a mistake.
Nebraska is far from having an ideal system
of taxation. This condition, however, can not be
remedied by hasty, ill-thought-out legislation. No bill
should be enacted that is not passed by those
expert in taxation matters, or before an estimate
of the amount of money it would raise is possible.
Tinkering with the tax laws is dangerous business,
and is a matter for scientific investigation rathev
than of political expediency.
DR. CHARLES WILLIAM WALLACE.
A dispatch brings news that “a former member
of the faculty of the University of Nebraska" has
beeen injured in an automobile accident in Texas.
It goes on to name him as C. W. Wallace, who is re
puted to have made a fortune through lucky invest
ments in oil stocks.
A few may recognize from this description Dr.
Charles William Wallace, sometime professor of Eng
lish at the university, whose work deserves recogni
tion far beyond that accorded him, either by the
school or the state. Prior to the war, and until mili
tary operations interfered, Dr. Wallace was carrying
on the most important inquiry in connection with
William Shakespeare ever undertaken. He not only
made deep and careful search in the musty archives
in London, and in other parts of the kingdom, but
he brought to light many discoveries, all throwing
bright light on the life of the great poet.
Shakespeare as a man, as a business man, as a
neighbor, as a citizen of London, as a theater man
ager, and as an actor, all were illuminated by Dr.
Wallace’s discoveries. He was given much attention
for his work, loaders of English thought paying him
the consideration due his ability and achievements;
the American public was apprised of his work and
its results through magazine articles, and the Univer
sity of Nebraska published at least one of his re
ports. Funds were short, and although the regents
extended Dr. Wallace’s leave from year to year for
several years, no money was available to publish his
reports. A few months before the war came on he
tried to secure money, just a few thousand dollars,
to publish his book, and failed.
Discouraged by this, and somewhat disheartened
when the war came on, Dr. Wallace set about re
search work in a more profitable field, that of Texas
oil. His discoveries- there have paid him far better
than the finds he made in the historical papers of
the English archives. Some time he may give the
world the book he has material for, but some Ne
braskans will always regret that this brilliant, hard
working man of letters must be referred to as a
“former member of the faculty of the University of
Nebraska.” He should have been retained.
Not a good time to soften terms of debt payment
is the conclusion reached by the president after
consultation with members of congress. On the
other hand, a little tightening up might help somo
of the unruly on the other side of the Atlantic to
cool down.
A highly successful farmer himself, “Barney”
Baruch is now letting go of some inside tips to
ether farmers, who will probably pay no attention
to them.
However one may feel towards Germany, it is
not easy to work up even a sob for Herr Hugo
Stinnes.
If the weather man feels like chucking a bou
quet at himself, it is all right with the rest of us.
British High Commissioner in
Constantinople
"■ From Asian Magazine. ■1
Sir Horace Rumbolcl was for a strong policy. Sir
Horace is a British diplomat of the old school. He be
lieves in secret treaties and has not much use for the
press. Tlie blankness of his expressionless face hides
exceedingly well an excellent diplomat. Ho smiles
seldom, and on special occasions only, and is very dif
ficult to rouse. He has not many familiars: for the
icy glint of his monocle bars the way to outsiders de
sirous of approucing him. His handshake itself is a
warning. In the heavy, early Victorian embassy, he
had stood aloof from outsiders, during the eighteen
months of his residence in Constantinople, und he was
apparently in touch only with official reports. When
the crisis began I heard many say, "How thankful
we ought to be to have Harington here, for Rumbold
would certainly have made a mess of the whole busi
ness.”
And yet the only man who had seen right from
the beginning was the British high commissioner. His
aloofness gave fiim time for deep reflection on the sit
uation and the men with whom he had to deal. From
the very beginning he realized the danger of giving
in to the Turks. He advocated not exactly a policy
of provocation, but one of extreme firmness. He be
lieved. for exumple, that the national aspirations of
Turkey should be reconciled with the vital interests
not only of the allies, but of all foreigners. One of
these vital interests was the preservation of the extra
territorial privileges granted to foreigners hundreds of
years ago. It is true that "capitulations" Interfere
with the complete independence of a country, but in
a country in which the laws are founded on a religion
and the highest judge of the supreme court receives
a salary equivalent to some $150 a month, it is diffl*
cult to expect the courts to work as in our own land.
There is a saying that “Any Turk may be bought at
a price." "Bakshish” is more frequent on the lips of
the Turk than "Good morning." Ever since foreigners
began to trade in Turkey, the have been covered against
Turkish "misinterpretation” of laws by the capitula
tions that the Kemalists, having won their point in re
gard to Thrace and Constinople, now wish to abolish.
It was just this type of far-off result of any sign of
weakness that Sir Horace feared.
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“From State and Nation”
—Editorials from Other Newspapers—
Tli* Inspiration of Statues.
Edgar Howard In the Columbus Telegram
Was ever an American so lost to
sense of affection for the builders of
our republic as to fail to have the fire
of love of country kindled anew In his
breast in that moment when gazing
upon a George Washington in marble
or in bronze?
Is it possible that any man of the
north land has ever failed of new in
spiration to loyalty to his country's
flag when viewing the perfect figure
and features of the great Lincoln,
modeled hi stone or bronze by some
great sculptor?
Did ever a son of the south raise
moist eyes to the statue of a Lee with
out tieing inspired to emulate in hum
ble way' the goodness of that great
soul?
And us the statues of those mighty
personalities have served to Inspire
tile American millions, so would Ne
braskans be Inspired through all the
ages by heroic statues of the noble
men who made possible this Nebras
ka of ours. And so I am trusting that
some organization—perhaps the So
ciety of .Nebraska Pioneers, or the
State Historical society, may now
begin intelligent agitation looking to
the placing of heroic statues of wor
thy pioneers of Nebraska In otir won
derful new stale capitol now under
construction.
Since Nebraska is first of all an
agricultural state, why not In the new
capitol life-size bronze or marble
statues of Robert Furnas and J, Ster
ling Morton, who have often been
spoken of as the fathers of scientific
agriculture in Nebraska?
And from the ranks of the writers
of pioneer days why not choose for im
mortalizing among men the memory
of Dr. George L. Miller ami Edward
Rosewater by placing the bronze or
marble forms and faces of those pio
neer intellectual giants in the new cap
itol of the commonwealth?
And from the ranks of those brave
priests and preachers who came to
aboriginal Nebraska to carry the gos
pel of the Master to the red children
of the prairies, would It not be ap
propriate to choose an Elder Hamil
ton and a Father Ryan to stand
lifelike in statue in the new capitol,
there to silently plead the same mes
sage they carried to the hungry ears
of the pioneers?
And will the circle of statues livthe
great edifice be complete without rep
resentatives of those valorous ones who
wleldefl their swords In the cause of
humanity and human liberty In the
days of Nebraska's babyhood? Cer
tainly not, and certainly no two
names, no two forms or faces might
serve better in statue to represent to
present and future ages true types of
the military men of pioneer days than
(he figures and the faces of Gen. John
M. Thayer, sietesman-soldlcr, and MaJ.
Frank North, the great white chief of
all the Pawnees. .
A Bronze Tablet to Convicts.
From the Baltimore American.
A bronze table was unveiled In the
Eastern penitentiary (Pennsylvania) a
few days ago as a memorial to 120
convicts, among them B6686. The
number represented the identification
tag of an American soldier, a former
convict, who lost his life at tho Marne.
He was killed while attempting to
cross a light bridge that was Bwept
by tlie fire of German snipers. A regi
ment was needed on this occasion and
volunteers were called for to clear the
way. Two hundred and eighty-two
men responded to the call, the first
being B6686. He did not com© back.
The ceremony that commemorated
his service and the service of other
men who had gone out of this prison
in answer to the call to w*ar was en
tirely in the hands of the convicts,
one of their number designed and
modeled tho tablet. During the com
memoration services it was stated
that of these 120 war veterans, men
who had served time in prison, wheth
er discharged because their terms
were up or out on parole, not ono had
been returned to prison.
It is a record such as this, service*
such as this dead convict and his com
rades gavo their country, that justifies
the efforts made, fruitless at timeH
though it proves to be, to sift out of
the human wreckage in our \risons
those who have left in them tTfe will
and the capacity to mhke good. When
we find among them men such as
these, ready to make tho last great
sacrifice for the flag, who shall say
tho work Is a waste of time and ef
fort?
More Work, More Pay.
From tho St. Paul Dispatch.
Hailroad shop employes at Beech
Grove, Ind., are experimenting with
collective bargaining for their serv
ices on an entirely new theory. In
stead of belntf paid for their time,
they have stipulated for pay for their
output. It is said that the men are
carping more money than the railway
labor board's scale, Hlnce they place
no limit on the amount of work any
1 Daily Prayer
For Thy Namo's saks, lsad me, and
gutds me.—Pa. 81:3.
Dord, hear our prayer In the morn
ing. We need Thee all the day.
through all the days. We have our
call to prayer at any hour, but partic
ularly when the night is spent, and
Thou hast kindled the dawn as if
Thou hadst made tho day for us and
only for us. Then we have strange
need that Thou shouldst take our
hand in Thine, and that our feet walk
the road where Thy footprints should
show the way though Thou shouldst
need to leave us for a moment. We
pray our morning prayer; we lift our
singing hearts to Thee and praise
Thee that all the ways wo take we
shall surely have the good compan
ionship which on a day long since
made hearts to burn, and turned a
funeral day Into one of laughter and
great dreams. Blessed by the Eord,
Who has guided our going all these
years, and Who will continue to be
our help and our rejoicing. We will
make melody all day; we will walk
modestly ail day; we will work help
fully all day: we will do things which
shall not need to bo undone all day;
and since these matters are too large
for our accomplishment, we ask Thy
mighty aid. Fail us not. our God.
Smile on our many activities and bid
them Godspeed to the end. that at set
of sun all may be well with our
hearts, and we may be bidden by
Thyself a kindly good night. Amen.
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man may do. but encourage effort, so
that each individual may Increase his
earnings. Production has been in
creased 25 per cent in the past three
mc#iths, with a smaller force than
before.
Whether the pay is for time or for
product makes little difference, un
less voluntary limitation of output
is abandoned. On the time basis, the
usual disposition Is to work at a
slower rate, so as to ''nurse” a job
to last as long as possible or to pro
vide work for more persons, or for
both purposes. The output or piece
work basis does not completely
change the situation, however, as
illustrated in coal mining. Mine
leaders ure paid by the ton, but since
the war only 75 or 55 per cent of the
men apply for work when there is
work to do. From 15 to 25 per cent
regularly stay away so as to provide
work for more persons. The indus
try Is overmanned and the public pays
for partial voluntary idleness.
If the output basis, without volun
tary idleness, were to become general
in Industry, the cheapening of prod
ucts and reduction in the cost of liv
ing would be astonishing. The effi
cient would not have to carry the in
efficient. The immigration problem
would settle itself, and the cry for
letting down the liars to relieve the
labor shortage in some lines would
not be heard. The American work
*ir, trained to do several times as
much work as the newcomer and able
to demand pay in proportion, would
not fear the competition of aliens of
less ability. The castoffs of Europe,
unable to earn more in American than
they are worth, would not come here.
Immigration.
From the Nebraska City Press
Cries are already heard that the
ban on immigration is "hurting"
American industry. Just what this |
"hurt" is it is not difficult to analyze.
Lack of immigration of cheap labor
from southern Europe is requiring
large industries to pay living wages to
Americans. An influx of cheap labor
would restore labor competition and
provide a "floating surplus" which,
thanks to the late immigration re
strictions, lias almost disappeared in
the large Industrial centers. There is
not yet any good reason why me bars
should he let down to the hordes of
unprepared, unaasimlable, too-anxlous
foreigners who are clamoring for ad
mittance and whose presence here in
large numbers would again produce
an Immigration crisis.
Unfortunately, immigration for the
past ten years lias not come from the
favored portions of Europe, those sec
tions from whence come the peoples
who have been easily and quickly
Americanized, who have been assimil
ated with little difficulty and whose
aims and ideals of citizenship are. for
the most part, not at variance with
the views and beliefs of the native
American. Lowering the bars to the
hordes from southern Europe means,
once more, a fight against commun
ism, bolshevism. Ignorance, misunder
standing and crime . Americans who
cherish- their institutions will insist
that, for the time being at least, im
migration restrictions be kept at the
present level.
Suspicion Is Placed.
From the Louisville Courier*.fournsl.
The klan is running to form!
Whenever a secret order is formed
to proceed, by metods unsanctioned
by law, to get done things it wants .
done, disorder and crime results. The
secret order denies responsibility for
the disorder and the crime, and in
sonic Instances it actually Is the fact
that crime results from organized op
position to the secret order; from the
Institution of other bands operating
secretly, but always there Is crime.
The Imperial wizard's Imperial voice
may grow hoarse from protesting, but
the utmost wizardry cannot convince
anyone that the terrorization of More
house parish and the Institution of the
Ku KIux in Louisiana are events un
related.
Common Sense
Use Your Own Head.
Did you ever try to originate any
thing?
To make something different from
anything you have ever seen Is worth
an effort, so study on It.
A writer once produced what proved
to be the best series of articles he had
ever published and one of the best of
the day and age.
These articles laid a big sale and he
made lots of motley out of them.
But they concerned the ordinary
things of life.
Dozens of writers could have writ
ten the stories—If they had thougRT
about It.
Do you know what you might In
vent—what you might \vrite If you
would set about It in your own way?
Do you ever get away by your
self and seriously try to write “some
thing different?”
No, you try to copy another's
style.
You try to steat another’s "thun
der” as the saying goes, when your
own would be much better if you
would use your own head and your
characteristic style.
You do not want to burden your
mental resources, is tha real reason
why you do not work In an original
way, and say you just cannot Invent.
But you do not know till you have
tried.
(Copyright. 1923.)
Nebraska Wesleyan
University
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Auburn, Neb.—To the Editor of
The Omaha Bee: I think there Is one
way that the entire world can be
made prosperous, all debts paid and
every one have a fair deal and an
rquill opportunity, as far as that Is
po*iVile. It Is this, guarantee the
farmer enough to make hint prosper
ous and there need be no worry about
the rest of the world, for when he Is
prosperous, everyone is prosperous or
can be so. for they can be farmers if
they wish. What labor needs is not
higher wages, but regular wages and
full wages. The way to make the
farmer prosperous Is to make what
he produces, (that !» necessary food
products) the basis of value for our
money.
As Thomas A. Edison has explained:
"Let the government build great ce
ment warehouses." and give the pro
ducers a fixed value for all grains
and properly preserved foods, the
price to be fixed by an expert commis
sion according as it may compare in
food value to wheat, which may be
taken as the baste value. If the
faVmer gets $2 per bushel for wheat
and all other things accordingly, he
can easily pay the freight rates, and
pay off his mortgages and debts and
buy all kinds of implements and neces
sary manufactured articles and some
luxuries. Farmers should be the most
independent of all people, but today
they are the most helpless. They
have the power hut do not use it.
What would the rest of the world
do without the farmer? “Only starve,
that Is all.” What would lie do
without them? "Only just live." that
is all. So if we must depend on the
farmer, why not give him a fair show
for success? As it is, if he raises a
hig crop lie can't sell it for enough to
live on. If he falls in a crop he has
nothing to sell. If the government
had the products stored there would
always be plenty for famine or off
times. Then the value of food prod
ucts never fluctuate, but always go
together, and wages will always buy
the same amount of food. The farmer
will have to agitate, educate and do
a little judicial advertising in order
to get his due. T, H.
Home Ownership and Taxation.
Kansas City, Mo.—To the Editor of
The Omaha Bee; Your excellent edi
torial. "Own Your Own Home," might
have gone farther in encouraging
home building. Nebraska should pass
a law exempting from taxes any
$t.500 house used as a home. In this
way you would see Omaha boom and
it would soon look like a city beauti
ful.
You would have a different class of
people—who would raise less cain and
more garden and chickens. There is
no better way to encourage thrifty in
stead of destructive citizens.
KICKING BIRD.
Tlie European Crisis.
Omaha.—To the Editor of Tlie
Omaha Bee: Pom- France, can she see
tlie handwriting on her political wall?
Her action of the last few days may
lead to a European revolutionary
eruption which will astonish the civ
ilized world.
I am delighted with the editorial in
Tlie Omaha Bee of Saturday entitled
"Revise the Treaty.” The lieo struck
the keynoto in that editorial. That
treaty has been a thorn to the whole
civilized world and also the embryo
of a European revolution.
American, under the wisdom of
President Harding, saw the danger of
such treaty and refused to be a party
to it. The cartoon in The Bee of the
same date entitled "Withdrawing Our
Troops,” shows the six pertinent ques
tions that would have drawn us into
tlie European conflict for the second
time. But Harding's answer of "No"
fell like a bombshell.
Uncle Sam has a right to congratu
late President Harding by saying,
"You are doing just what the people
want.” Let us not forget that the
I-atln nations possess a peculiar na
ture, they Worslp a hero today und
cut his head off the next day. Pre
mier Poincare is the hero today and
may be an exile tomorrow. Let us
watch the European situation and see
the results. Also let us stand behind
the president to a man, for he has s
heavy burden to bear, and he needs
our moral support.
_ JESSE MARTEL.
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Fall's Consistency.
At any rate. Albert B. Fall, ns sec
retary of the Interior, ran true to
form, lie was ns good a secretary as
he had been a senator.—Chicago
News.
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The old fashioned calendar that
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Year's seems to have Rone to Join the
comic vulentlne.—Minneapolis Jour
nal.
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