The Morning Bee MORNING—EVENING—SUNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY NELSON B. UPDIKE. Publisher. B. BREWER. Gen. Manager. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tbs Associated Press, of which Tbs Bes la a member. Is exeluslrelr endued to Ue use for rcpuMtctUoa of ell newt dlspateLst credited to It e» not otherwise credited in this p*PV> end else the local news published bsrelo. All rights of republicadohe of our special dispatches are also reserved. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for the Department ]antie or Person Wanted. For Night Calls After 10 P. M.: Editorial Department. AT lamia 1021 or 1042. low OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Co. Bluffs ... IS Scott St. So. Side, N. W. Cor. 24th and N New York—286 Fifth Avenue Washington - 4?2 Star Bldg. Chicago - . 1720 Steger Bldg. Paris, France—420 Rue St. Honors DICTATORSHIP BY PROPAGANDA. Just because a horse is incapable of working in double harness is no reason for assuming that he can pull the whole load alone. This homely truth may well be applied to the situation at the state capital. Governor Bryan has made it plain that he de sired no advice from the legislature or from hny other state official. Having drawn up a plan of state government centralizing all power in himself, he pronounces it good, announces that it will save $9,000,000 in taxes and declares that it must be ac cepted without change. The legislative branch of the government he assails and defies. In place of its deliberations he attempts to substitute the force of propaganda. Twice he has sent out an appeal to the people of the state to write their legislators insisting that whatever measures he proposes be put through without alteration or delay for consideration. There are ninety counties in the state, yet he challenges each legislator to debate the question of Nebraska’s government with him at the county seats—a thing that would take more than three months. All responsibility for the conduct of state af fairs is not centered in the governor. Even though Mr. Bryan charged that Governor McKelvie under the code system had the powers of a czar, now that he is in office he wishes more power for himself than McKelvie had. Once he claimed that under the code the governor appointed all minor officials. Now he asserts that corporation lobbyists desire the code because they can influence secretaries to make appointments favorable to their interests. For merly he charged that the code secretaries were de void of all real power, merely creatures of the gov ernor. Now he claims that to leave even three of them would be to have four governors instead of one. Power—centralized power—that is the aim of Nebraska’s new governor. Day after day he asks the people to believe that ho is the only honest, con scientious and capable person in the state house. He considers himself so eternally right that all who differ with him are criminally wrong. He is not able to work in double harness and therefore wants* to pul! the whole load of the state government by himself. Under his outline for the revision of the code all appointments would be made without the con firmation of the senate and not a wheel could turn without his nod. He has even extended this scheme to include new powers to go into any county or town and dismiss the law enforcement officials with out giving them first a hearing in court. He has barred newspaper reporters from the meetings of the state capitol commission. Such nows a3 is given out of the probe of graft charges is to come through him. The explanation given is that otherwise the news might be distorted—that he is the only one fitted to sift the matter and get at the truth. Already there is an instance of the way in which his power to appoint state employes would be used. It is pnly a small matter, the appointment of a new stenographer in the insurance bureau at a salary of $90 a month. This is more than any other girl doing the same sort of work is paid. Under the code system employes were carefully graded in such a way that each one performing the -ame sort of duties received exactly the same pay. Political pull found no place in the uniform em ployment system, which amounted to modified civil service. As a girl advanced in the quality or na ture of her work she automatically entered the next highest rank, with an increase in pay. This merit system, maintained by the finance, department, would be obliterated under the plans of the governor. It would be preserved under the simplified plan ad vanced by Representative Dysart and his commit tee. If there is to be economy, such businesslike practices as this must not be abolished. These two plans are now before the legislature, put before the house without recommendation cither for or against, for full consideration and debat^. It should be possible, out of the two to arrange an ef ficient, economical plan of government. The gov ernor has refused to work with the legislature. But the legislature should not therefore refuse to con sider any good features that it finds in the gov ernor’s proposals. Nor would the people of Ne braska like to see the legislature abrogate its func tions and pass any sort of measure, however unwise, merely because of the governor’s gift of propaganda. KEEPING EDUCATION ASHORE. A considerable part of the increased costs of education results from the fact that pupils nowa days enjoy better buildings, better laboratories and better facilities of all kinds. Public opinion in the main endorses these improvements., even though the realization Is growing that any economy that does not interfere with the proper development of tha children must be put into effect if taxes are to be held down. The decision of the Omaha board of education not to install a swimming pool in North High school is a welcome sign. The $21,000 thus saved can bet ter be applied to relieve the congestion in other parts of the city’s school system. The patrons of F'arnam school, who have been demanding relief for their children who are now housed in a worn out building, can at last see hope. Twenty-one thousand dollars is sufficient to construct two school rooms, and there will he a further annual saving in the expenses of maintaining the pool. The rate of growth of Omaha’s school popula tion is such as to add 8n expense close to $500,000 a year for new buildings and teachers. At the pres ent rate forty additional rooms, the equivalent of two large achools, will be required each year. The school board is wise in looking forward to this need, even though such modern innovations as swimming pools will have to be eliminated. Education for the present had best be conducted on dry land. As if the world were suffering from a dearth of bone heads, the inquiring archaeologists have now . ug up one 500,000 yearn old. He would feel right el home if he were here now. ONE RULE FOR ALL AMERICANS. One issue to be fought out is clearly defined by the president, in his letter to the secretary of the Federated Shop Crafts at Jersey City. It has been growing for a long time, and will have to be defi nitely settled, one way or the other, if anything ap proaching permanent peace is to be established in the transportation industry president Harding charges that certain railroad magnates are responsible for the fuel famine in the eastern states, where so much of suffering has pre vailed during the winter. These leaders have re fused to adjust their differences with the men who went on strike last July. A result of this is de rangement of transportation, because the rolling stock of the road3 is not in condition to handle the business. Messrs. Loree, Atterbury and others named by the president feel they are well within their rights in their opposition to the shop crafts as formed. The supreme court of the United States has held them to be wrong. It is beyond reason that the workmen should be required to accept without any question the decisions of the Labor board, and yet leave the railroad managers free to accept or re ject as suits their convenience the orders of a gov ernment agency. If our government is to remain a government of laws and not of men, all who live under the law must respect and observe the law. Willful groups of labor or of capital should not have the power ] to disturb the public in pursuance of their own j plans. A decision of the supreme court rests equally i on all, and the railroad president who defies it is i tending to anarchy just as surely as is any red agitator who ever mounted a soap box. Chairman Hooper of the Labor board, discuss ing the present situation, uses this significant lan guage: It Is a. weak government which does not pro vide some method for the adjustment of labor con troversies In the essential industries, without per mitting them to be fought out between the Im mediate parties. A government which stands by and permits capital to oppress labor in these great essential Industries and permits labor to wage civil war for the redress of its grievances, real and imaginary, invites and will ultimately encounter chaos.’’ m Along with this should be considered the atti tude of the Bteel industry, which has just secured in the District of Columbia a restraining order to prevent the enforcement of a government regyla I tion requiring certain information to be reported | monthly. These giant combinations are an out j growth of our civilisation and its attendant indus trial development. The question is, “Are they to control the government, or be controlled by the government?’’ TURK AGAIN TALKS TURKEY. Refusal of the Turkish government at Angora, which really is the Turkish government, despite any pretense thwt may be made at Constantinople, to | accept the Treaty of Lausanne leave® the entire j question in the air. Terms proposed by the assem . bly are in effect those offered by Ismst Pasha at i the conference and on which Kcmal and his assu dates have stood since the Greeks were expelled | following the rout at Smyrna. Should these terms be accepted, it means the 1 entire readjustment of the Treaty of Versailles and ! of Sievres so far as the Near East is concerned., i The Turks require that occupied territory be re turned to Turkish control. This means the restore tion of Mesopotamia to the empire, involving the destruction of the kingdom of Iraq, the dismissal of | King Feisal I, and possession of Mosul by the Turk. Palestine will go hack to the Ottomans, the neutral tones around the Dardanelles - will be abandoned and France will have to give up Syria. Already the Greeks are out of Smyrna and eastern Thrace, and Armenia is restored to where it wae in 1914. A word from William T. Ellis, one of the closest observer# among Americans, written at Lausanne, may give a serviceable view of the Turkish attitude: “The tragtfj truth Is that Turkey is lark in Eurofe as a conqueror. an Seeking and ftndlng unfathomsd delight. Songs of Courage By John G. Neihardt AND THE LITTLE WIND— Said a rose amid the Juno night to a little wind there walking (And the whisper of the moonlight wag no fainter than it* talking); “It 1* plainly providential," so remarked the garden Tory, “That tho ultimate essential is the gentle rose's glory. Let the sordid del vers cavil! Through the world-fog singing seaward And the planetary travail God van slowly groping me-ward. Weary ages of designing, aeons of creative throes Spent the Master in refining sullen chaos to a. rose! Shall He rob*: His chosen meanly? Look upon me; am I splendid ' Here she stood erect and queenly, curled a lip and ended. And the little wind there walking, riot desirous of dissension, In a gust of cryptic talking freely granted the contention. 'Like the murmur of a far stream or a zephyr in the sedge*, Scarcely louder than the star-gleam raining silver on the hedges. Came a whisper from the humus where the roots were lolling blindly; 'They enslave us, they entomb us! Is it just and is It kindly? Ours, forever ours, to nourish—oh, the drear, eternal duly!— That the idle rose may flourish in aristocratic beauty. Not for us Hie wooing, tender moon ( merges from the far night Not for us the morning splendor and the witchery of starlight; Not for us the dulcet cantlon of the rain to throbbing lutes; And there's no cerulean mansion for the roots.” Now the little wind, demurely sympathetic, cogitated. And declared the matter surely ought to lie investignted. ‘Fie!” observed the fair patrician, "on their itilly martyr poses' Not content with their condition, always wanting to lie roses!” Whereupon a. theophanic, supcrlunar phosphorescence Flung tlie haughty into panic, awed the humble to quiescence. Twas the Vintner of the June wine on his world-wide, endless vagrance; \nd he spoke the tongue of moonshine in the dialect of fragrance: Brother, Sister, softly, softly! Glooming, gleaming though the way be. Who is low and who is lofty in the scheme of what you may be? Bride and plaint ure irreligious. Hoot and blossom, lo! you plod Upward to some far, prodigious rose of God! ’ And the little wind, though slyly sleeping out the time of talking. Woke to praise the sermon highly, and continued with his walking. u brom State and -Nation” Editorials from other newspapers. Gambling in Sugar. From the American Sugar Bulletin. Earl D. Babst. president of the American Sugar Keflning company, has made the following statement: "I have just returned from Cuba after an annual visit. The sudden jump in the price of raw sugar naturally is very gratifying to the Cuban people and will be very helpful to them in their undeserved rewrites. It, how ever. mystifies them not a little. The weather In Cuba is fino and the crop moving, rapidly. "The supply of sugar in th» T'r.ited States, according to our weekly can vass. Is ample. We have on our books practically a 30 da}- business for our customers and lave raw sugar to operate all of our refineries at capac ity for that period. The one thing, however, thn' we. as refiners, cannot provide against is a stampede either in the trad" r • among consumers. Such unthinking action only tdav a :oto the bands of specuiati and the public puts up sugar prlc*.- on it (If unnecessarily. These facts are given to the public iu an effort to foies: ill oven a start of conditions which l mem ber that they have only part • f the facts. It Is their oflice merely to record statistics. When tin y em inent ou their statistics or prophesy, ihcy then step out of their office and do so with grave risk to the public. The present speculation on tin- N* w York Sueur exchange Is greatly to be deprecated. Tbo.-. who fust. :■ it id those who follow ;i . inducing a gambling element into a food ns i* sitv. which in my judgment should bo left entirely to the law of supply and demand. Terms of Congressmen. From th* ?tiiwauk*e Sentinel. The move to change the term of members of tho house of repr. *enta il ves from two to four years mists questions that are altogether pxj com plicated to bo det'lilol offhat I. Tim. remain* to he - "it. It m v L>. desirable to t.vi c. ngi.-M-men a t -t and make their tenure of .til. n lit tie more secure, instead of ■ t man for tho purp. . t i starting his campaign for r< tl . > But w hether u four-year I -m v> otild . ure conger srn. n of tl>. I.. . ..f Ing re-election and regulating their conduct with an eye to the. > asto-niry 'second cup of coffer i» .ir-oiijer question. Concern for th future Is inherent in all elective • .flier* The presidential term Is four years. v<-t '■ears ago Lowell ctiinpl.ii d that presldsnts live more iu th. future than In the present. The old Herman emperors were elected for life, and Lecky says that they generally «p> nt their lives trying to secure th< -,ic > -’ssion for their families. One might reflect thai bv r vine congressmen a r. st. the voter- weald also get .-I rest, which i - .!«.«..•■. ... d I I fie# fh*RK* l<1 fin,1 n ■ »u •II, making m#ntloo >>f -n » ■ ■ » .•*■ *jr. «*•», remembering without ■ « jr ' •• k cf fnilI,-. at. I I . 4 T^'rn# of hep* 'u i.iir i# *'hri»t, fn Ih* *lgh? of <».m| ■ j jr Father; knowing, Prethr r, t ur *!**•. Mon of Qn-I I » rot unto you in w-of.j • . U n pnwar. a ml In the H ',i I ,n much aaauraner — J Th *0 .1 I ; . Internal Ood, our I- ■«11»< r’ r- u < go out Info th»* world tu in* # t p. i, (|e -1 ml temptation*. wo roino 1 ■ Tin* f«»r *tri ngtli f*» fortlfv * u* phit* Give lie Thin* own hrm«»r—Trull m our thmifhtii «nd motive*. 0*1* won't* and net|r»ne. ft Ptii-e of 4*t»l• _ »tp jour work and in all our tvlatk • I rotirage to floe lifAmlly, In tu-. w know we are true and therefor* have lie Father with ue. May >■ ,. daily tgakn. whether common pin < • . x jftHad, ho glorified In the i oi'h I'Hj* neae that we are doin. uii( 1 Hi. r bidding Give it* pa Mem* with the »hortrointi|0a of other*. and v ! ion In the dlaripilnlnr >f our « hnni. f*r.. M;«v no evil blight thia >i « I mar the finikin •] rtttiottiro of . r Ihw but may w* keep ourealvc une potted from the world. And .ia w .. mir gaveral way* wilt Thou w.iieh b* tween u* while wo ur* nlwent one from the other. Grant in t bne prnver in c.*hrl*t'a name Amm. CHARt.M A KAp'N. i» ?' -T \. N># Tork <*li), n 1 NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for JANUARY. 1*2.1, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily.71,665 Sunday.78,845 B. BREWER. Oenorol M«r. VP.RN A. BRIDGE, Cir. M«r Swora to and •ubmlhMl b*lora me this 3d dmy of Irbtuery. 11*2.1 W. II QUIVF.Y. <3«el> Notary Public fd under tho system of primaries which makes two elections grow where one was before. But as long as state administrations are elected every two years, no great extra effort Is required to add the names of con gressional candidates to the ballot. The fundamental consideration Is the question of keeping tho lower house of congress in close touch with the people, Such was tho Intention of the constitution, and the people will he slow to depart from this principle. In fact, the current of public opinion at present Is In the other direction. atonal and presidential primaries aim at more direct contact with the people, though in practice this object may not always be achieved. But It is easy to see that a four-year con cress, together wth a four-year admin i"t rat ion. may stray far from popular sentiment without reaiiruig Its drift. A two-year term not only keeps the house responsive, but Is also a valua ble reminder to the administration. Icet's Hare Facts. Kfom t’-! Norfolk New*. Governor Bryan's recent statement th.it there ie or will be a deficit In ‘'ate fund* of about M.OOO.OOfl has met with severe rrlticitm from those "ho have studied |t. it |. charged that the governor has included dupli cal ions In his figures; that he has jvmIii -ted certain expenses and tii it h< has failed to take Into ar • irit the tax mom y and other funds t i will come in between r.ow ard tic i nd of the year. Tin- KOvrrn..r's proposal to save the ‘at- 19.000,000 in the next two years change* provided tn the forty four •■ills he lias just Introduced Into the legislature ha* also met wttb conaid •raliln fling. Hi* plan to do away with 1 j0 state employes 1* said to be hi ■ ) upon the rather flimsy sub terfuge -f taking the lists when they contained the maximum number of name-, not as they are now. State "d! ■say Uiey cannot do the work the governor's plan would put m their a-'ci. ui!h Use number of employe* he proposes to give them. Thi’. .- a strong suspicion that the lovtrnor i« trying to make a showing for i.oiiomy Instead of attempting to work out a feasible and economic plan for conducting the -tate government. Tl, s suspicion ahould not. however, prevent o fair and unbiased Snves'.lgar tlon of his proposals. l! i‘ easy to make suggestions "i a ay ticcome the basis of a i.i vo a car h lienee; especially f th- s igKcstion* are turned ■ i ,nd u-ver put to the te»t What it' public wants to know t* just how I; n cr-it there i« In the Brian pro i < od this It is ih( business of legislature to determine. Common Seme'i Grt lour I'lan l mkr Way Thit Very l>«>. V- i ire long on kl«u but *hort on <* > ing them to completion. Full f f rnthu*iA*m when you bit up** : »n idea you think mffht be vaV , uaM*?. But w ben it* development re qutrf work. poaalbty • mi • t niiunent you have —' .1* tmi »vj atvny which " l ' .] twvAMt financial* 1' »»»■! H# a s. i >oil allow thcae nil i- to n it«iH dormant. • h* f iiuuy f iturc m not a good oim* for tlif* hh’* you hope to at \.>n i* the time to Mart, for .• may t .i*:' time tha ><>u think to • win or t-w f > nui’ |jl:«n 1 -itfUM' to Mart an undertaking ha* ■"•I tm»n> *i man to t*« . failure. COopyrifht. 1132 ) Ll< I 1*1 AFTER THF “FLU" Epidemic Leaves Much Suffering While the "flu" epidemic which wept tli* country hut a ahort Hm* ic.i woe not no vere ae the former outbreak. II lefi behind It theueanda l people who wer< weakened and run down. In Juel «Ut h <-ondllloua aa th I idin John’a Medicine haa proven of greatest value. He rich food elctnenle ere ao aclen tlflcnlly prepared that It bulhle new [elrenglh and liealth without Impoa I lug ally extra burden upon the weak | ene.1 dlfMtlvo a.' atom. Vath'ir John'e Medicine la a Hue tonic Iw.-auae It doea not stimulate. hut actually build* now Nliength through added nourlah nienl in a form mini really taken up. It la anfo for all lha family to take hciaiiee It i» gun vail toed free from .alcohol or dangerous druge ___1 “The People’s Voice* Eliterlaii Iren reeSen e» rite Merilnt bee. Reeder* ot Tbe Morale* Bee are tented te uee title relume treat* tor extreme* on matlere el eebHe telenet. Advocate* More Men Teacher*. * Hamburg, la.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: The purpose of our pub ; lie schools ia to mould the minds and character of the growing generation , along tbe lines of civilization and gor-d citizenship and Impress upon !ihem as they advance the fundamen tal principles of good government, su'-h as our forefathers wrought and la bored to maintain. And, withal, the cultivation of a moral atmosphere. I the uplift of social system and a de j cent respect for mankind, i Such was the need that called into i existence our public school*. But in ; this day of advanced Id as end so ‘tailed progress we are losing sight of some of the vital elements which i should compose our education, to ; make Its purpose endure, we are los , ing some of the virtue and moral tone I that is necessary to our social Integ rity. Without which we cannot long | endure as a race and nation. Next to the movies, our public | schools need censoring in matters of discipline, morals and dress more than .'.riy other problem before the people. Our graded schools of today present more the appearance of a dress con test-—with the girls—than an educa tional Institution. The pupils of the upper grades and high school divide their time between making •‘dales’ for “joy ridrs" and "petting parties ' and their studies. The nverag* teacher In the grades lias not lived long enough nor well to : realize her responsibilities, nor tbe i Importance of he.- precepts and n 1 ample tc, the youthful minds under h»r direction during this, the f row* j live period of their lives. A majority of the teachers are mere girls them selves and tinctured with the present , day “lip stick" vanities of life, and ' I their code1 of morals and ideas of dlr Iciplinc do rot. to say the least, exert a wholesome influence upon the minds I of the pup'lg. After the primary and two or three ; grades b dewing are passed, the pu tills should have teachers of more ma I ture minds and experience. Supple 1 nientlng this, a fair proportion of ' worthy men should be employed in the capacity of teachers. In days past woman was little known In the school room, and I do not feel that with all the changing condition* of life, we have made it better by swing ing the pendulum to the other ex I trente. 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