The Morning Bee MORNING—EVENING—SUNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY NBLSON B. UPDIKE, Publisher. B. BREWER. Gen. Manager. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Pres*, of which The Pee Is ■ member. is nehuivelf entitled to the use for republlcation of all newt diapatches credited to it or no* otherwtee rredlted Ln thte paper, and aleo the local news published herein. All rights of republlcation a of uur apertal diaratrhre are alao reserved. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for the Department lantic or Person Wanted. For Night Calls After 10 P. M i Ann Editorial Department. AT lantic 1021 or 1042. ,uuu OFFICES Main Office—17fh and Farnam Co. Bluffa - - - 15 Scott St. So. Side, N. W. Cor. 24th and N New York—2$6 Flftl* A>mue Washington - 422 Star Bldg. Chicago - - 1720 Stegcr Bldg. ! Paris, France—420 Rue St. Honore NOT A MACHINE-MADE VICTORY. Inventors as a class are a good deal like poets. They are apt to conclude, if their brain children are scorned or ignored, that the fault is less theirs than that of the public. Thomas A. Edison, in his re marks on the failure of the Navy department to adopt his forty-five wartime inventions, may have grounds for complaint, or he may be speaking mainly from wounded vanity. It will be remembered how in the exciting days when America was preparing to throw its full weight against the central powers, the popular mind turned to thoughts of short cuts by which the enemy would be exterminated by mechanical means without any great risk of American lives. If one 1 saw a knot of men gathered on the street corner or before a newspaper bulletin board, one might be j sure that before they broke up their conversation I would turn to speculation over what Henry Ford or Edison would do. Everyone imagined that mar- | velous engines of destruction were in the making. It was even a common topic among the Yanks at the front. They amazed their French and British comrades with accounts pf Edison at work on an eleetric device that would strike down the entire German army in one flash of lightning. The Ford Eagle boats that were to dear the seas never got into action. And now Edison re veals that his contributions to the science of war failed in many instances to receive so much as a trial. Some of these, it is claimed, were later adopted by other nations. A richocheting shell, ex plained as a bounding projectile that would ex plode six to eight feet above the ground, was turned down by the United States, but toward the end of the war the Germans are said to have resorted to a similar invention. At all events, it did not w.rt the war for them. Flesh and blood, and anguish of soul, not any machine, paid the price and brought the victory To American minds there is magic in the name •f Edison. If he actually was slighted by naval officers, intent on carrying out their own ideas and unreceptive to the suggestions of civilian inventors, the public wants to know it. If his many inven tions were actually of no more importance than those of thousands of amateurs, it will be quite a shock. Edison stands unique today as a man who confesses that it was not he who won the war. DEATH IN THE BLIZZARD’S BREATH. Curiously enough, the saddest part of the story of the great storm that swept the country last week comes latest. It has to do with the toll of human life, taken as a sacrifice to the terror of the winter. First we had news of how the whirling winds and drifting snow had interrupted communication. Snow bound trains and wrecked wires were features of the early reports. Then came the accounts of how ships at sea were wrecked, six reported in one day. Now we get the meager news of human lives lost. Twenty-eight, in different parts of the storm’s track, are numbered in the list. Women and chil dren are among them, and men, too. Exposure and exhaustion, incident to the stress and severe cold, are the causes of death. All the accounts are pa thetic, some are pitiable, pointing fo the inability of man to safely grapple with Nature when she ex erts her great power over animate and inanimate things. Death rides on the blizzard, death in terri ble shape, and victims are seized without warning. Yet the blizzard, a mighty manifestation of the unmeasured energy of natural forces,' brings with it something of good that is not readily recognized. Cold biting blasts, sweeping in from the upper regions of the air, clear away the smoke-laden atmo sphere that has hugged the earth, bearing off the disease germs that multiply in the steamy stratum, bringing a fresh supply of ozone to revivify hu manity^ So it is not only death that comes with the storm, but newer life for those who survive. Nature is as kind as cruel; life comes and ends and is renewed in endless cycles, and the great mysterious processes of birth, growth, decay and death, mystify man now as much as they did in the beginning. “God moves in a mysterious way His wronders to perform." MAN NEEDED FOR MAN-SIZED JOB. Porto Ricans are not naturally turbulent; they have some well fashioned notions of liberty, how ever, and want a chance to indulge a little in the way of self determination. This was manifest be fore the island was transferred from Spain to the United States. One of the difficulties in the path of progress has been the division of opinion amongst the people of Porto Rico. Readjustment of social and political relations incident to the change of gov ernment has been attended by considerable friction between the classes; to some degree this has been made the harder because of changing industrial conditions. Therefore, the man who goes to take the position of executive in that island should be one of uncommon ability, possessed of patience, tact, and an unfailing sense of justice. President Harding is about to be relieved of the effects of a mistake by tho resignation of E. Mont Reily, who will shortly give up the work of gov erning Porto Rico. Governor Reily was made un popular before he re,ached the islands, by reason of the activity of one group of influential islanders whose activity brought the matter before congress last year. Mr. Reily lacked the qualifications neces sary to overcome this opposition, and affairs under his administration brought no peace to the people he was supposed to serve. His withdrawal may open a way to a better undemanding. Genera! Edward* of Massachusetts has been suggested as a nuccessor to Governor Reily. He will if appointed take to the Porto Rican* some quality of the assurance of a square deal that Gen era! Wood took to the Filipinos. At any rate, the ,ob is a man-sized affair, and our Rovcrnment owes ir, to the people of the island to put a man at the head of things down there who i* qualified as an administrator, and not merely a politician. WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT. Love of money and a selfiah desire to profit at the cost of other classes does not explain the ag ricultural unrest with its demand for better credit, market and transportation facilities. Something deeper and finer than this lies back of it all. If it were merely to be able to buy a more expensive motor car, or to be able to move to town and livA on the profits of a farm worked by a tenant, the improved accommodations sought by the farmers would scarcely be justified. The problem is one of living. John Morris Gillette has written a thought provoking work, “Rural So ciology,” which makes this plain. He says there •'From almost any angle viewed, the most needed thing in the life of the country people is socialize tlon. This statement recognizes that when measured by tho demands of modern satisfying society rural communities are backward. Are the houses and* home life adequate? Are the schools up to date and efficient? Do the young people and the older people find ample and satisfying recreation, amusement and cultural conditions? Have the people of the cohn try caught the social point of view and developed the methods and organizations by which it might be realized? Such questions as these bring out what is meant by the statement that socialization is the main rural problem. "That the country and country life Is not satis fying to multitudes of people living on the farm is demonstrated by the fact that there is a steady and large flow of population from country to city In the United States and other modern nations. j This movement is so extensive in this nation that every year it Is sufficient to make a city the size of Minneapolis. We may find thlB great flow away from'the farms is a necessary one to keep popula tion adjusted to the demands of a working society, yet many inquiries into the immediate reasons these migrants have for changing their residence indicate that the chief motive for the move is an overween ing social hunger. The country does not satisfy their ideals and needs for a larger social life." Money is not everything—in fact it is nothing but a foundation for the satisfaction of human wants. Side by side with the agitation for improved finan cial conditions in agriculture is a quiet movement in the homes and on the part of whole communities for a better organized social life. This requires better financial means. If the farmers were content to live as peasants, in solitude and knowing nothing but toil; if they had no desire for the education of their children and the comfort of their wives, so much would not be heard of the agricultural problem. It is not purely a question of farm income, but of living. ALEXANDER ? LOOK AT HENRY. “How big was Alexander, pa, that people called him great?” 1 Henry Ford had an idea. It took the form of a motor car that has run it* way around the world in a single guise but many times. An English gen eral is quoted as saying England could not have won the war in Mesopotamia, had it not been for the Ford car. The death toll of the World War would have been greatly extended, but that -the “flivver” ambulances made toeir way back and forth between the front lines and the hospitals under conditions that seemed impossible. On city streets, in country lanes, wherever wheels carry passengers or freight, there flits the Ford. Out of that idea has blossomed a number of others. Henry Ford bought a railroad, that he might better control the distribution of a portion of his great factory's output. He bought a coal mine, to get fuel; he bought a forest, to supply the timber he needs; row he has bought a factory to make his own glass; his own steel mill and rubber plant will come next, and Henry Ford will soon be the world’s greatest industrial^ magnate, if, indeed, he is not already that. All this grew out of the Idea that took posses sion of the mind of a hard working machinist a few years ago. He was a dreamer, but he expressed his dream in a finished product. The Ford car did not spring like Minerva, full-armed from Jove’s brain, but did develop because the man who con ceived the thought was persistent enough to carry it through. Around it clustered other ideas, not for refinement of the car itself; that was the embodi ment* of simplicity sought, bu for improvements in manufacturing processes. J'l'w, 3,000 new Ford cars salJte the rising sun each morning. Let your mind surround these facts, and how ever big Alexander may se^in to you, it is likely that Henry Ford’s greatness will overtop the aiuieut ; Macedonia. “Tall oaks from little acorns grow-,” and one of the tallest of these days is that under which Henry Ford makes his plan*. How to live to be 90 is all well enough to talk about, but most of us are just now wondering how we are going to meet the tax collector after the tradesmen get through with us. One of Omaha's police magistrates complains that the color scheme in the court room gives him the headache. Red paint used to do the same for others. Denver mint robbers are being gathered in up at Minneapolis, which relieves Omaha of certain dis tinction some envious tried to thrust upon her. Washington street oars are stopped to aid a scien tific experiment. We know other reasons for doing the same thing. Jsmet declares himself as anxious for peace, yet he would not take it when offered. About the surest cause of laughter is to hear one bootlegger tell of how another deceived him. Homespun Verse By Robert Worthington Davie THE STRICKEN FAMILY Grandma's ailing with the flu and wishes she was dead. Gr$nd-dad's got the rheumatic and ran t get out of bed. Mother—weak from toil and grief—can hardly get about. And father's got some queer disease the doctor ean't make out. Sitter Jane's immensely blue—I hear her moan and sob. And brother Jim is dreary, too, because he's lost his job; Aunt Sally comes and cries around and makes a frightful fi»»s. And swears she can't imagine just what will become of us. We get a dozen bills a day—our savings have been spent— The landlord says Wre'll have to scoot if we don't pay our rent; flic doctor wants his money, too—we're nrarly out of luel — The world—though I'm an optimist seems infinitely cruel. The neighbors come to pay respects, but that don't settle hills— Although I gin- a cheerful word makes easier our ills; We taut g. t credit .it the 'ore I i< verv plain loser ; That grief galore is hanging o'er the stricken family Songs °/Sburage John J. ^(eihardt Nebraska'sToef JCaureale BATTLE CRY. •More than half beaten, but fewless Facing the storm and the might; Breathless and reeling, hut tearless. Here in the lull of the fight. I who how not but before Thee, Iuff News. George Grimes: The Indeterminate sentence law should be repeal'd he caus public opinion In the state, as represented by the vote at the last election Is fop the repeal. It seems necessary at this time to be more Daily Prayer I will lift «r mine aysa unto tha hllla. from wlp-nre romeih my help tty help 'QRIrth fr.nn the bold, « htrh mit' heaven and -arth Ue wl.l not puffer lb. foot tn b- maved fie that ki-epeth the# will not alumber—!*«• 1-1: 1-1. O God, Giver of light and power' We thank Then for otir Mountain* of Transfiguration, for boms of melght and Joy. Hut vision has not Insured effectiveness In service, Like Thy ills.’lpies tit the foot of til* Mount of Transfiguration, "We are not able,' and we come to Thee with the great question, "Lord, why could we not east It out?" We know that aHthlng are possible to him that belioveth snd that faith filled prayer, whether it he fellowship with Thee or intercession for another. Is efficient prayer. Help Thou our unbelief Hr\p us to conic so closely snd truly Into Thy fellow ship that we shall he filled wlthpown not our own May we he truly Iden tiffed with Thee . May we perfectly Imitate Thy mind, and so lie filled unto all the fullners of God. fto tcerh US In the school of true prayer, that this day may he on* of continued Joy because Thy power has free course In us. Tills we ask in the name of leans Ghrlsf. our Ikird Amen WIU.IAH HORACE PAV tt P . P.D., tea Angelo. Cal NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for JANUARY, 1*23, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .71,55.'. Sunday.78,845 B. BRFWFR, Gonaral M«r. VF.RN A. BRIDGE, Cir. M*r. Nwarn la and tubicribad b#for« raa thU 3d Hay of February. 1023 W. H. QUIVF.Y. <*••!) Noiary Public stern with criminals because of the few notorious instances of paroled men returning to prey upon society. The criminal problem la on*- w hose so lution has not yet been learned by society and it is to be regretted that it seems necessary at this time to re vert toward harsh, rather than len ient measures. Central City Republican. Robert Rice: The Indeterminate sen tence law should not he repealed. 16 do so would remove the most powerful of all incentives for a prisoner to choose the high road. Furthermore, the figures submitted by Warden Fen ton disclose the fact that the law op erates to the end desired Common Sense That European Trip. For years. perhaps. you have longed to make a European trip. You cannot npare the money and you wonder how certain other men can. Two men were discussing this sub ject recently. One had Just returned from a win ter vacation trip, the other was lamenting his inability to take such a trip. . The man of the ocean voyage had worked 10 hours a day for 20 years, the other had worked eight hours a day for tfce same length of time, troth at approximately a dollar an hour. Figuring the extra time. 12 hours a week for 52 weeks, and for 10years, the nvin of the cruise had taken in I12.4S0 more money than the other. Hut the eight-hour a day man be longed to n club with dues amounting to !2 a week, and the $2 more a week amounted to 14.l«o in the 20 years The lO hour a day mart spent $3,000 on his trip, hut the other had spent only $$40 less on his club. Which was the most worth while, you can decide for yourself. Copyright. IMS. Nebraska Ideas ■ Hen house hooch" is Hie lat»«t. One drink and there you lay —Blair Pilot. Just think how long Methuselah might have lived if he had had hie tonsil* and appendix removed.— Genoa Leader. Report* that Bergdoll Is leaving Germany would indicate that Ger many really Is preparing for war.— Grand Island Independent. You earn* be a sport and save money.—Hastings Tribune Subject Call* for Iteep Thought. ■ \Yho knows?” ssks the New York Tribune, "why handkerchiefs sre square?" They used to be blade in various shapes. There is no apparent reason why they should not he now, especially those that are used chiefly for decorative purposes. Here Is a subject for the deep think er to investigate. The inquiry would lead In many directions—historic, philosophic, economic, sociological, perhaps psychic No superficial lnve« ligation will suffice. I>c«s important questions have been debated for yrais —Philadelphia Inquirer. Knr Ihwitl I .nek. The shadows lay thick beneath the nee. and where they were deepest a figure crouched Suddenly he heard a sound, a light footfall on the gross "That you, mate?" h« whispered hoarsely. "Yes." ranie the answer "What you doing with that dog'"' he muttered, ns his burglar partner drew near. "Why." answered hia confederate, "there was nothing worth taking In the house, and it'* had luck to come away without anythn.g So I pinched the watchdog and tli»*e hurglar alarms!"—Houston l’ost. “The People’s Voice” Editorial* from roadert of Tho Morning Boo. Ro-MUra of Tho Morning Boo nro Invltod to uio thin column frPoly for oipreiaion oa matter* or aublio lotarasf. Expression Versus Repression. I Thurston, Neb,—To tbe ^ itor of The Omaha ^Bee: One need not be a ; Latin student in order to analyze and : sense the deeper meaning of the words “expression" and “repression." The dictionary Will tell you that each I of them comes from the word pre mere to press, plus the suffix ion, 'the act of. The difference, then, lies in the prefixes and their meanings. You will find the meaning of ex to tie “out." and that of re to be "back." , Therefore, the literal translation or I interpretation of "expression" Is "the act of pressing out,” while that of "repression" is “the act of pressing ! back.” Let us now consider the application of these words. We know that the human soul generates desires and emotions as steadily and as constant ly as a working steam engine pro duces steam. What, then, becomes of these desires and emotions? One of three things must liappen to them. Either they are expressed (and the results of repressed desiris and emo tions are far more dangerous than those of repressed steami. expressed abnormally and unlawfully, or they are expressed as the Creator meant them to he. It requires a certain amount of knowledge and of self-control to en able one to' understand his emotions and to express them normally and 1 iwrfully. But It Is the duty of each person not only to express himself j lawfully, hut also to al'l those under i his guidance in the expression of themselves, their better selves, if you ; phase. And remember that the men tal and spiritual "makup" of one per- j son requires that he express himself in one way, while that of another ' calls for a different form of expres sion. But expression there should be. . regardless of what "they say." Many a person has been been branded as a failure In life simply because -m ambitious parent, loving but shortsighted. caused him to take up work for which he was not fitted and which did not give him ari op portunity for self-expression. Some times, in the struggle for existence, US I • follow an undesirable oc cupation for a certain length of time because we cannot yet "cash in" on the thing we love to do. but. when such is the case, do not let your soul go to sleep. Let the thing you long for be your avocation it not your vo cation. If you are a bookkeeper in reality but an artist in your dreams, plan for the time when you can make those dream real. Devote a few hours or -ven minutes of each day to the study ‘ f are lor whatever your dream may t e built uponi and. above all, do not i |o»o faith In yourself and the desire j of your heart. Sometime, somew here, it will be yours. •StTIOOL TEACHER. \ Better and Belter World Hunk, Neb—To the Kdltor of Tho Omaha IJee: One of the nation a moat serious problems is the great task in volved in decreax.ne the amount of crimes committed among her people It is not a problem of government of ficials slone, but it is the duty of every loyal citizen to co-operate in this matter in order to educate our people into nobler type. We do not wish to attempt a more severe method of punishing our erim Inals, Jhat would probably effect a certain degree of caution for seine i riminals, but in general it would un doubtedly never accomplish any speci fic betterment We must get at the hasio points nnd causes f. r improvement i f citi zenship. Schools, homes and society are tb< cut standing factors respin •■jble for the principles laid down in the minds and souls of the American youth. Therefore, each citizen must see to it that his children are admitted into the limn satisfactory soc ety. the most ideal schools, and the best and purest of homes However, ue cannot say that crimes are increasing in our day. In fact the> are decreasing rapidly. Many pe«s'ml*ttc folk* say that we .,r• • be ing tn the most atrocious and sinful period ..f history. But. dear citizens, l- t us Iock backward and review In our minds farmer periods of l. so ry. K- - Instance, the time of th» vicious Ro man emperor. Nero. Nero, himself was a matrii de. Crum s at that tlmo were Innum ruble and horrifying mur >ier* w r- e merely common Incidents of their daily life. No one of this ago 1 Europe :av«| St iSa *«• Uwtmm Raiu data open aaa on Canadian Pacific Liners It l arp* Piaatncrt c hi pa maintain I tract itrc 'tea trotn MONTREAL and QUEBEC to SOUTHAMPTON, IIVfRPOOL. CLAS COW, CHERBOURG, HAVRE, ANT WERP and HAMBURC Tn Landau and Faria In a Waak ■artia In Nina Dap Kaaurihilh iIInarrated Snellen and hill Ini ca rnation Item St rial. Kip A4anta evtryat heat, aa appll lo R S EL WORTHY Cana ml Ajrnl S. S. Paaa Or pc aa N. PaaiS'ta St. Ckl,i|a Money to Loan on Omaha Real Estate Present Interest Rate Charge Is 6% Pop at the Fancy Party tef'j T like THU ±.£‘*‘77 N'UM- .-3 -M' I LEW ran even imagine such a period now. Today Christianity has reached almost every nook ar.d corner of the globe, while in former times Christians were persecuted ar.d treated like dogs. Clean habits, ideal principles, and thorough education can never be too fully impressed upon us. In the hearts of our children we should engrave such emblems i f puri ty which through generations would stand the t• of st' rm. Then the fJN tore people of our nation and of tfc< world would be of su< h standard that tha institutions of learning, large! than ever before, would be filled to the utmost while only a very few would remain behind the pi.son bars. V.'or each day ns though you should live forever and liv* each day as though vou were to die at the setting sun. * B. C. P. Pay Dirt When onr fathers caine to Nebraska they didn’t have to get down on their knees and sort out the pay d;rt with a wash pan like the prospectors in California. The plow turned up pay dirt everywhere. Nebraska’s pav dirt has made men rich : it has built beauti ful farm homes; i't ha* bought modern conveniences: it has educated the farmer-’ children : it has built towns and cities Most significant of all, it is still paying millions of dollars every vear and. with the proper care our farmers are now giving it. it will continue to pay for countless generations Nebraska dirt nays most under better farming methods. For 63 years The Nebraska Farmer has been a great clearing home where the best ideas for making Nebraska dirt pay most have been'gathered together and sent out to many thousands of farmers each week. The better farmers are readers of THE NEBRASKA FARMER The Only Weekly Farm Paper PubUthed in Nebratke LINCOLN Sakteriplien price. S I per year: 5 yemrt for S3: Sample copy free The Doo: to Desirable APARTMENTS is the Apartments For Rent Column of The Omaha Morning B?e ' - The Evening Bee " Hat* ycv cn ofartnunt you wish to rent? 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