The Morning Bee THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY ^ NXL80N B. UPDIKE, TubKiher. B. BREWER. Gen. Mnnagrr. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Aesocisied Prerr, of which The Hee ie e member. ia neladrih entitled to the uee for republicetlon of ell newt dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In 0 Is paper. and elso the local news published herein. AH rights of republicanism of our *)>eclal dispatches ere also reserved. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ark for the Department at or Parson Wanted. For Night Calls After 10 P. M.: Editorial Department. AT lantic 1021 or 1042. 1000 OFFICES Main Officq—I7th and Farnam Co. Bluffs ... 15 Scott St. So. Side, N. W.Cpr. 24th and N New York—286 Fifth Avenue Washington • 422 Star Bldg. Chicago - - 1720 Steger Bldg. Paris. France—420 Rue St. Honore MIXED UP FIGURES. No citizen of Nebraska need be alarmed over the statement from the governor’s office that there will be a deficit in the state treasury of a million dollars at the close of 1923. The only trouble is that the governor has become badly mixed up in a lot of figures that he does not seeip to understand. He began with the claim in his budget message that the outgoing administration hari left a deficit of more than two millions. This was based on the assumption that everything was going out and nothing coming in to the state treasury. That is to say, no account was taken of the fact that the bulk of taxes foa the previous year is never col lected until along in the spring. Property taxes for 1922 do not become delinquent until July, 1923, and a great many people take advantage of the op portunity for delay. In January the state treasury is always low, and this year it was particularly so because of the railroads delaying payment pending suit. The legislature inquired for more light on this charge. The reply of the governor seems designed rather to confuse than to clear up the exact finan cial standing of the state. His itemized account in cludes at least two duplications. For one tc.ing,'he lists "bills payable'’ at $640,000 and then appar ently includes the same item in another item esti mating state expenses. The good roads figures! which include both federal and state money, are not analyzed or separated. The federal government does not pay its share of road construction until projects are completed. Accordingly, the state has advanced large sums to contractors that will later be repaid from the federal treasury. There are millions involved in this road building, yet the governor’s figures do not di$tinguish between fed eral and state expenses. The fiscal year ends June 30. Appropriations sufficient to run every department of the 6tate until that time were made by the last legislature. As the taxes come in, these expenses will be paid off. The budget system makes sure of that The fact seems to be that Mr. Bryan is finding the business of running Nebraska is not a simple thing. It is possible that he is seeking for a soft place to light, aiming to place the blame \n advance on other shoulders. His muddled up figures of state expenditures, past, present and future, do not prove anything. Much better would it be to cease this wrangling about what his political opponents have done and get down to real constructive states manship of the sort his friends expected. KEEP SCHOOLS OUT OF POLITICS. A bill pending before the house contains ele ments of danger to the public schools of Omaha. It is,H. R. 634 by George S. Collins, and proposes that members of the school board shall be elected from districts coterminous with the twelve wards as they now exist. One of the first reasons fdr opposing this meas ure is the one that led to the adoption of the com mission form of government. Seven commissioners are elected by the voters at large, and these are vested with control of the city's affairs. In like manner, twelve members of the board of education are chosen by the voters at large. The law which set up the Independent School District of Omaha, passed by the legislature of 1X71, and adopted by the citizens of Omaha at the first re(erendum held under the state government, made the boundaries of the school district coterminous with those of the city. It also provided for the independent board of education to be chosen at large by all the voters of the district. Many attempts have been made in the last half century to change the law, to provide for election by districts. That these have not succeeded is the best possible reason for continuing the plan. To argue that a certain section of the city is without representation on the board is not sound. The board represents all sections of the city. Members are so chosen, both at primary and at general elections. ) The present board of education has had some i difficult problems to solve, and has proceeded as in its judgment seemed better for all. Some sections of the city still are short on school accommodations. Their needs will be met iff time, but their relief will not*come the sooner through breaking down a pro vision of the law that has so much of reason to I sustain it, and so little of sound argument against it. Omaha’s public schools are safely free from poli tics now; let us so keep them. Ward nominations will surely lead to the injection of ward politics into the school board. •-« AS A MATTER OF HEALTH. , It is not only because it is wasteful that the practice of returning goods ordered from the stores is to be condemned. In many cases the public health may be imperilled. In recognition of this fact many cities have adopted ordinances forbidding the return or exchange of certain articles as a sanitary precaution. A good many of the articles returned to shops * an Omaha are never used again. For example, a comb returned by a woman shopper after several days’ trial was broken iinto pieces by the manager of the department before her eye —an evidence of the waste and of the possibility of spreading infec tion if such a precaution were pot taken. Chicago has a very thoroughgoing law limiting the kind of goqdH that may be returned after use. Articles or garmenfs that come in contact, with the skin should not be subject to exchange. Who would want a mattress that had been used for a time in a home of which nothing wap known? The possibility of spreading contagious diseases lies In the too liberal use. of the return privilege. It would he 1 good thing if the city council of Omaha would go into conference with the retail merchants on this subject. Perhaps the whole prob lem could be settled equitably by the passage of an ordinance. If .people knew that, it was against the law to grant these favors, the merchants would have some protection, and at the same time a costly feature of merchandizing would he eliminated. A new way of making rain has been worked out over in Ohio, but rc requires a cloud to start on; TAXING PUBLIC UTILITIES. The success of Omaha's publicly owned utilities is due to their having been administered in a thor oughly businesslike manner. It is not for any man in the Nebraska legislature to cast aspersions on these institutions, of which Omaha rightly may be proud. * An undertone of unwarranted hostility to the Metropolitan Utilities district of Omaha marked the discussion of the municipal light bill in the lower house. Though the question at issue was whether the utilities board should be authorized to submit a bond proposal to a vote of the people, a good deal of the argument turned on other points. Consider, for instance, the objection raised by one representative, that public ownership deprives the state of taxes. This line of thought, which has been industriously sprrad by the Nebraska Power company and other privately owned utilities, has not much real weight. * Certainly no one would consider taxing public schools, postoffices, court houses, city halls or pub lic parks. The thing is so preposterous as scarcely to be entitled to discussion. It is true that the peo Iple who are not served by a publicly owned institu tion, whether a court house or a gas plant, receive no direct benefit and even suffer a small loss through the fact that if this had been privately owned it would have paid a certain amount of taxes into the state. These taxes, by the way, would first have been * llected, in the form of rates for serv ice, from the people of the district. The corporation pays no taxes .that it has not first collected from its customers. THERE WILL BE OTHERS. A dolorous story is sent out from Washington, the result of a tabulation that shows how, year by year, the young men who went into the American army of 19171918 are being eliminated from the roll of those who are liable to military duty under the selective draft law. What the writer of that yarn meant to say is that day by day those young men are growing older. They are not being put out of the race by disease or death, but simply by the ticking of the clock. Also, it is well to bear in mind that as fast as one man comes to be too old to be drawn into mili tary service, another steps into the list at the other end. It is self perpetuating, and will be until race suicide or something as dire checks the birth rate in this country. We need not worry because the boys who went to France are likely to be too old to go again. If need comes, there will be others. PALS. Frequently a father and son can forget differ ence in age and experience and assume the role of real jials, but even though frequent, these instances are still too rare. A son loves his father and often considers him the one perfect specimen of man hood whom he hopes to emulate, yet, while in his presence will be .diffident and- tfhnatural. This causes him to hesitate to ask advice, fearing he will be misunderstood, so often he seeks counsel from the wrong person. Others have seen the necessity of breaking down this barrier and, as a result, we hear of activities staged in different parts of the state, where the father enjoys the companionship of kis son for an evening, and the son has the opportunity of be coming acquainted with a father who is altogether different from the stern parent he has previously imagined him to be. Such a banquet was given in honor of the fath ers and sons at the Albion High school building by the faculty recently, the domestic science class, under the capable leadership of Miss May Finch, domestic science teacher, serving refreshments. In vitations were responded to with such readiness as to gratify the originators of the idea and to verify the belief that those for whom it was planned would take joy from an evening together. No better place could be found for such a gath ering, which woul(J have a tendency to turn the memories of the older men back to their own school days, and thus all become schoolboys together. In order to understand the temptations, hopes and aspirations of the younger generation, the older people must strive to be companionable to the young, in order that they may guide them safely past the many pitfalls that are always ready to re ceive the young. * Maybe the cold snap will clear the air of the flu bug, that has been having such a lovely time In and around Omaha far the last few weeks. If so, tha populace will be the gainer. A Joint deflate between '‘Billy” Brady and Rev. Harry Bowlby may be of much Interest In New York, but the country at large will observe it with but mild concern. s _ That Nebraska boy home from the Rhine ought to be returned to his native state long enough to again acquire a taste for the U. S. A. Nevada has repealed her dry law, hut that will not bring nearly so much discussion as if it were the divorce law. Mr. Harding will see his debt settlement pro gram carried out if he gets nothing else from the I dying congress. Los Angeles announces the latest accommoda tion for tourists, a hotel for visiting dogs. This ib hospitality. How will Washington men like an inauguration in January; that point ought to be considered. Wienie roasts are all right, but not on the scale staged at the Armour plant. Baseball schedules are reappearing. Spring surely is not far away. To Old Boreas: ‘‘Kamerad!” Homespun Verse By Robert Worthington Davie SUBLIMITY. A rose is in the garden of my dream*, My daisies ar« in bloom across the way; The essence of my magic flower* terms At genuine as May. And yet they are hut memories to me - Fond recollections of a sweetness dead. Of beauty, truth and sublimity Within my presence— fled. rims do the noble deeds of turn Kisr front tin- secret vaults today And blossom like i v flower* win u i The »now is on tuts clay. I !' i “From State and Nation” —Editorials from Other Newspapers— Nation of Eleemosynaries? From ths Rocky Mountain News. From a rather unusual quarter conies a warning to the United Stales to look carefully into the mouths of its gift horses, despite the ancient maxim not to do so, before taking them over, for fear of their turning out to be Trojan horses. The dan gers attendant upon large scale giv ing are stressed in the recent report of the Carnegie corporation of New j York, a trust created by Andrew C'ar ! negie. The accumulations of large fortunes in the United States from the "exploitation of a newr continent and the unprecedented fortunes that have resulted therefrom” have led < to foundations whose combined en dowments In New York alone is more , than half a billion dollars. The full amount for the nation is not given, | but it must be very large, when one ' cityHias so much in itself. There arc Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Pitts burgh, San Francisco and the univer sities of east and west to be counted in. • The Carnegie foundation Is prob ably the second largest in the coun try. The assets of the New York cor poration are given at $125,000,0011. ihe Rockefeller foundations cap the list. Th y are doing good, undoubt edly. in different fields. Wonderful | work in the medical field Is credited [ to the Rockefeller Institution, and the Carn- gie foundation lias done a great deal toward thp cause of scien : title investigatlori/ond discovery. And yet it is Ret down in the Came- : Bio report, credited to Dr. Henry y. j Pritchett, acting president, that "It Is fair to assume there may be found a I true lutictlon for the trust established hy accumulated wtalth which may ! Justify- Its continued and indefinite existence. This problem is now being tried out in the United States on a scale never before attempted in any country of the world. Even in the short experience gained in the last j two decades. It Is clear that some of ! th" dangers pointed out hy Turgot and others are not wholly imaginary. ! It may be fairly assumed that under any organization which is effected for ! the administration of such trusts the I n'tlrcote success will depend, in great measure, upon the leadership of thopo * with tile administration, and ! that the best the officers ran expect from their trustees Is the inspiration "f th_e!r association and their dis criminating judgment upon the pro posals that may be made. ... It 1r not possible to make a grant of con siderable size to any agency without complex effects, some of which can scarcely be anticipated. All giving. ’ like all accomplishment Intended for human betterment, cut more than one way. Oftentimes the by-products of -giving, even of giving to a good cause, result In more social toxins which do enough harm to more than coun teract the benefit that may come from the original gift." Further on in the report It Is ad mitred that time, the great tester In such things, has yet to make report on the • fflcacy of the sums given the last score nr thirty years toward (du ration, scientific experiment, medicine I and the general amelioration of man kind. An Unusual Interview. From the Boston Post Mrs. Fisher, who says her real name Is Dorothy Franc e Canfield, asked to tell about herself, sai l "A l^rge order. Let’s see My ! peoplo came to America In 1636 and settled In Connecticut. In 1764 cer tain of my ancestors came over the Indian trails from Uonni< ticut to Ver mont. See that spring out there?” Whf. printed to a tiny fountain that I bubbled over the front law n of her ' Arlington home. “Did you drink”” sh» asked the re P rter "Then you noticed perhaps tl it thr-u iter is soft. That Is unusual i about lo re Wi ll, my great great . great ancestress, dismounted from her horse on the trail there 157 years ago and found that the water was soft. ’Here Is where we stop,’ she an nounced.” “And,” continued Mrs. ; Fisher, “the Canfield family h is been i | here ever since; My father was j James Holme Canfield, an educator. : a college professor and president Of | sever al state universities. ' “W hat is Mr. l-'isher's profession?” “He Just lives h>re and tends to I things. We have a /saw mill, you ; know, and cut timber here—no small , timber. -Mr. Fisher is very strict about 'liit Mr. Fisher is of an old l'tiiia I delphla family of doef. rs and lawyers His gr««tgrandfather found'd the Hogan library there." "Is Mr. Fisher & doctor or a law yer?" “No. He was captain In France with the American ambulance Service. He was captain, too, of tin last football team at Columbia univer sity Now he Is Intereatsd In lumber lands and reforesting. We have put out about 60.000 young pines on the mountain side here." "Does he write, too?" "He is the remarkable critic of what I write,” she answered. Threatening the New Freedom From th* ehlra.o Kv.ntng root. The Cl. n. Cost It toe Which was re guided as the height if faehfhn riur uig the prrlori beginning with the sprlhg nf 1917 confirmed a Rtrong prf ; • nmp;ti**;*n h ml right* "tm A go«-t man ! r>h*w*th f*vnr, mnit )*n«1eth I * ulll gu .1 • hl» uffnlr* with «!'*« ration SurMy h* M-h«l| noi h* ?.»r**\#r. th 1Ik Hteou* I «h*l| b#» In •\*ilnv:«n* T*HifMi,l.r nm ♦* - I> IU 4 r. Almighty Ood. our Heavenly I ,t|j*r, wo thank Thro that Thou hart taught ua to rail Thru "Fathci * In the Mrtnirtli of Thy wt* fro fmth to ! meet tho temptation a anti tho dtitle* ff oua heart* by n papMoii for being • .i 1 led 'I'fc1 children. May w» j htivo Thy patloiu < »»n*l tonderneea in ‘our donlinK with othiu*. * **p- ilnlly w^h tho member* of nm nun hotioe hold. May wo have pity for nil weak and tempted prr*on*. and l»*nd them (»ur atrofiffth. a* Thou dn*t Ion.I Thy ftrongth t») if*, riot ho u* thl* day with tha aimejr of light May wo havfl Thy purftv. 1hn hormr of all evil thought* an<\ all unholy d* Mr* . and - may they ho overcome and rapt out of our heartjfhvn pasaloti for HoIIiipna. Whatever wp may Hava to do w»- do It j ao that it ah.ill |m* ui*I1 plnmlttf to The*. HHrt iim (o adorn th* tlodrinf | of Cod our,H*ivlor In all tlilm l*re verve iim In *11 danger: keep tie In tho way of Ilf#, and bring tin at hint to j our Fat Hep a houa«* in prn« r Through I Je*h* <’Hi| t our IdOrd Anv il. 1IICNRY I.VMUSi'N COIIII, l> P. ‘ *«vtr York City. N. x, f the golf links or the tennis court with out bothering about the too prominent suspenders. Leather also lacked the marvelous expansive qualities of the rubberized fabric after a month of wear. The feeling of tension on the shoulder was distinctly A. W. O. L. As a result suspenders became as popular an article of sale as hay and oats on Michigan boulevard. Natur ally, the manufacturers grieved, and, it Is suspected, conferred with the 1 style committee of the National Asso ciation of Merchant Tailors along these Hues; ''Y’see. now that normalcy's on the way, a lot of the men who bought GO and 76 cent garters won’t pay inore'n two bits a pair. We've got to do something to save our dividends.” Anyway, irrespective of what went on behind the scenes, A. Lincoln Stadler, chairman of the style com mittee, has reported to the merchant tailors that suspenders will be "abso lutely necessary” this year. An an cient cut of trousers has been re r k It in in the broad est sense; agriculture profitable to the proprietor, to the land, to the state, ts that which is prosecuted hv own ers who (xpect to remain for life upon the farms. Large areas, much of the land ly ing In rivr-r valleys—the James, for example—reflected by ruin and un productive!]' ss .-arly in the history of the I nited States as an independent country the soil mining that was b gun in colonial days when the virgin soil of America was believed Inex haustible. Chinese and Egyptian farms under continuous tillage 6,000 years remain tn a fine state of tilth. The French farmer knows that maintaining the good condition of his soil Is as necessary as feeding his tti ck. Manv Americans who are fullv aware <,f the value of constructive farming practice destructive things because they are tenants, and In many Instances owners, who do not look forward to getting a living f,Jif, from the farm, or passing it ■ look aft. r that honio th.it he inav be proud to entertain Ills fi I* nds In it. The man who has not such a home I* not going to be a real home man He I* Ilk* ly to go to the homes of others, or to clubs or lodge* for enter j lalnment. It ls natural for a man to desire to prove tlml lie is able to have nn :it trartlve. well kept home, but If. de spite what he muy do to make it at ' tractive, Ills Wife doea not do her port, he Is not likely to ask his friend* to be hi* guests And If be g,,,.* to i the homos of his friends without in viltng them to visit him lie will be looked upon as n "sponge,’' who al | wav* takes but never gives. ■ * Few nun would willingly !»• away ! ! from their homes at night if ttulr homes wire what they should l> if they were letter kept, if theye were less grumbling, less quarreling with 1 the children, more good nature. Most men want to stay In a homo that la a real home. t «P> rlsht. IMS. NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for JANUARY. 1923, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily.f 1,555 ! Sunday ^.78,815 B. BREWER, Control M,r. VERN A. BRIDGE. Cir. Mtr. Sworn to and auhacrihrd bcforo nt« fhia .Id day of February, )02.1 W. H quivi y. i ($»al) Not at y Public i ___— “The People’s Voice” Editerlali from reader* of Tho Mornlef Baa. Reader* of The MorjiU| Baa ara Invited to uae this column freel* tor axpraeaien on mattera oi subtle Internet. We Are Not Teaching Women AH Wrong. Fall* City, Nob.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: It has taken sey eral centuries of civilization to teach the world that woman is the erjual of her mate and entitled to the same privileges; the right to a career of her own choosing if circumstances and her inclination make it necessary and to be desired. Wo deplore the social conditions ex lsting in countries where women are kept in seclusion; when their only education pertains to the affairs of women and the home. If our coeducational schools were abolished, would we not soon be liv ing under the same regime? It is true that the ultimate place for woman Is the home, but suppose she happens to be one of the many who do not marry as soon as their school dags are finished, if at all, and who have no visible means of sup port. To enable her properly to cope with the w/jrld she needs the broadening Influences, and the calm self assur ance that are to be ohtained only In a modern coeducational institution. The world that the business wo man of today meets Is not a world that has b en edurated In a girl's finishing school and. in order to fight a victorious battle she must have at least a part of the training that her competitors have had. Suppose the dejir girls do forget their mathematics and their Latin. So do their brothers, with the rare exception of a few who teach thos« particular subjects, or use them di rectly In their work. But the charac ter formation and the ability to think clearly that were the result of mas terlng the physics and political economy remain. The measure of a woman Is th$ sons she rears, and If those sons are brought up under the Influence of a mother whose only education was gained from the nnrrow seclusion of a glrl’a finlsh'ng school, what manner of men will they be’ When seeking advice as to whether theirs shall be the career of ar'hlt«et or lawyer, soldier or physician, would you have their answer b<-. "My son. I can advise you as to the relative merits of china painting and litera ture, but 1 know nothing' of the things of which you speak.'' Would those sons be able to say, as so many of the wor! « greatest men have sail: "All that I am. and Did Your Car Start Hard This Morning? With AC Carbon Proof PluF* the Min. toot tig edire* of the hitch tern perafnre fin* do not l>ermit the carbon to accumulate cicrer the entire surface, a* these thin edire* heat up rapidly and bum ana) the soot before It turns to carhou. This effec tual? break* np short circuits, make* for ensier startlnir and a better nmnlnsr enirine. 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