The Morning Bee MORNING—EVENING—SUNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY NELSON P. UPDIKE. Publisher. B. BREWER. Gen. Munuger. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS lb# Associated Pp»sa. of which Tbs Bee is s member. Is erclusltely sutUled to tbs use for rei ubllcstion of all news dispatches credited to It or cot otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. AU rights of rcpubllcaUons of our special dlspatohea are alio referred. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for the Department at |..si, or Perapn Wanted. For Night Calls Alter 10 P. M; ' Editorial Department. AT lantic 1021 or 1047. lOOO OFFICES Main Office—17tb «n4 Firnam Co. Bluffs - - - 15 Scott St. So. Side, N. W. Cor. 24th and N New York—286 Fifth Avenue Washington - 422 Star Bldg. Chicago - - 1720 Steger Bldg. _ ' ‘ ~ I “A CONCORD OF SWEET SOUNDS.” tT What pArt does music play in the life of the race? Some answer to this question may be conceived by those who have been reading The Omaha Bee for the last few days. No single department of its endeavor has been given more space than that de voted to music. This is accounted for by the fact that the Nebraska Music Teachers' association has been holding its annual convention here, and the record of its proceedings justified the display given. That is from the news point of view alone, how ever. It is an answer to those critics who complain that the newspapers do not devote enough space to cultural topics. Also, it justifies the opinion of the editor of The Omaha Bee that music has a great place in the life of the nation. This article is not to tleal with music from a statistical point of view. We will not try to tell how many millions of dollars are invested in pianolas or graphophones, nor how many feline lives are up in blocks of nine that Kreisler and S4iMnjr Carmel and their kind may be kept in fiddle ■trtngs. Such information is i of service in its plac^, bat not here. Seriously, music he* been a factor in the life of man from the first. : It would be interesting to speculate on the surprised curiosity of the first who found out that the sound of a reed whistle could be varied, and his pleasure as he developed those varia tions into the semblance of a melody and found he : could control that melody. It is, as Ilamlet told I Guilderstern and Rosenkranz, "as easy as lying,” I but it permits man to imitate those marvelous melo- i dies he hears from the trees, where the birds gather, at)d which in very truth inspired him to the trial. Civilized or savage, man iias vented his emotions, his love or hatred, depression or exaltation, joy or sorrow, in song, and song has led to dance. A long and most honorable record has music, and its growth among the enlightened races of mod em days is a proof of intellectual superiority. Painting, sculpture, literature, all forms of art have advanced, but none in the degree that has marked the progress of music. From the Grecian lyre to the modern grand piano, from the pipe of Pan to the magnificent organs of today, is a long road, and it has mostly been covered within the span of three centuries. Such progress would not have been made if it were not for the continually increasing de mands of men for better things. The Nebraska music teachers represent in them selves the glory of their great art. Men and women, they are devoted to a cause that is so intimately bound up with civilization that none can draw a line and say where, its influence ends. Their work is to improve the. knowledge and by so doing the pleasure of the multitude. Not everybody can be a good musician, but everybody can enjoy good music, and it is to these the music teAcher finally sends the message. And that is why the convention got so much publicity while in Omaha. WHEN THE PARLOR LIGHT IS LOW. And now we are to have examined, scheduled, cross-indexed, weighed and annotated the secrets of spooning. Rockefeller Institute has decreed it, and Katherine Bement Davis is busy on the job. She has received and is now analyzing and cata loguing 1,000 replies to a questionnaire sent to col lege women, .asking questions intimate and ex tremely frank as to their “spooning” experiences. Solomon, who was a wise man, said that one of the four things he regarded as past finding out is “the way of a man with a maid.” Dr. Davia says that, “except for the pathological side, sex is an un explored world.” Conditions encountered by those who have ventured a little way into the unknown vary so slightly, and yet react so unaccountably, that no hard and fast rules have ever been laid down. What can she see in him, or he in her, is the question most frequently asked, when a seemingly mismatched couple appear*. Tastes differ, and ao do impulses, and we never know how many felt as did Sanders, who fell into silence after Mary had agreed to wed him. “Have ye nae word to say, clear?” asked Mary. “I’ve said too much already,” nnswered the repentant Sanders, whose emotion had overcome his wariness. But, men and women alike, all are dead game sports, and generally go through with what they have promised when they plight their troth, and it is a good thing for the world that they do. Science may be advanced by a disclosure of the details of courting or spooning, yet it might be as well if it were all l#Tt to the realm of the mys terious. Analysis may neither prevent nor improve, and the practice will continue as it has, under cir cumstances such as existed that night, when "The landlady and Tam gv* w gracloua, Wi* favorn. secret, nwppt and prtciou*. TAMING THE WILD DRIVERS. When a worm sticks his head up through the softening ground these days, he finds a robin wait ing for him. When an over-ambitious motor car driver steps on the gas, he is very apt to find a motorcycle cop ready to direct him to the police sta tion by the nearest route. Once at the station he will find a police judge whose bowels of compassion are all sealed up when it comes to dealing with speeders. He is showing » great many of these offenders the error of their ways, We will admit that life is moving fast these days; the hustler, the go-getter, is the one who suc ceeds, but this is no excuse for the reckless, who wantonly push others aside or endanger the lives and property of friends and neighbors that they may get some place ahead of somebody else. The more haste, the less speed,” holds as true today as ever it did. Omaha’s streets are wide, and accommodate a very heavy traffic, hut this traffic proceeds safely only because all who take p>»rt in it give heed to I he reasonable regulations that are made to govern the movement. When an individual so tar lorgcts himself hr to think he is above these rules, or that they were not meant to be applied to his particular case, then he is ripe for a term in jail. The police authorities are meeting the demand xvith commend able certainty. SAVE THE SNAKES. Have you a little snake on the farm? If so, let him alone. He does not eat grain or fruit, or any thing of that sort. His preferred diet is rats, mice, gophers, and similar small deer. Now and then he eats a bird or sucks an egg, but only when he can not get the other. Seven hundred and fifty different varieties of rodents infest American farms and wood l lands, and the toll they take is enormous, mounting into hundreds of millions of dollars each year. A nation-wide campaign against rats has been urged year after year, because of the immense amount of damage they do. Fanners have fought them, and the pocket gopher, the field mouse, the rabbit and the squirrel and the four-footed, sharp-toothed pirates are gaining headway. Nr. Gayne T. K. Norton, writing in the Nature magazine on the subject, says: "Snakes, experiments show, prefer animals to birds. When mammals are present, they will not molest birds. "Of the harmless snakes some forty species should be unmolested. These are the racers,- in cluding thd gopher, black and coachwhip snakes, and the bine racer: the fiat nosed snakes, the rat snakes, including the corn and pilot black snakes-,' the pine, bull and king snakes. "One fair jsized snake- is worth a dozen rodent traps. Snakes prowl in rodent burrows. One hun gry snake will destroy a Utter of young rabbits, six to eight mice, or two to four rats at a meal. How many trees is a snake wort^i? An interesting question to ponder. Suppose a mouse accounted for ten trees a year by girdling and eating seeds and roots. One snake would eat from April till October 144 mice, so saving 1.440 trees and seeds. "It Is worth our while to have the snakes on tho job. All we have to do to reap the benefit of the trees anil crops they save is to save ourselves the labor of killing them." Admitting that there is danger from venomous reptiles, Mr. Norton insists the good they do more than offsets any menace they may hold, yet he does not advise that we refrain from killing them. What he does argue, and with reason, is that the insensate killing of the harmless varieties of snakes is making the world safer for rats and mice. DEEP STUFF ABOUT DUCKS. Part of the trouble has been located, or, definitely assigned. When your radio goes “z-z-z-z," or “b-r-r-r-r,” or snaps and whizzes and does quite a number of different and unseemly things, it’s static, of course. Just as when a balloon suddenly van ishes, leaving a smell of burned rubber. But what is static? A Nebraska “savant answers the question. It is the result of having the air stirred by the wings of innumerable wild ducks on their way back to their northern breeding grounds, 'these birds of passage travel at the rate of an hundred or so miles an hour, and to do this must generate not a little energy, which is expended in the flapping of their wings. From the friction so engendered in the atmosphere flows the static. And as static is vagrant, irresponsible, and en tirely without"law, it is just a? apt to attack a radio buzzer as it is to wander into a telegraph office or occupy the attention of a balloonist, who knows the danger of a spark coming into contact with the en velope of his vehicle. While the professor doesn’t say so, the natural inference from his remarks is that one good way to get rid of static would be to have the ducks walk instead of fly, when they arc on their way north from winter quarters. To he sure, it would require some hours of a duck’s time to cover 100 miles, but what is time to a duck? Another point come to mind. From whence comes the static that troubles the radio cir cuits when no ducks are flying? Are we to un derstand that the spring flight of these migratory fowl generates enough of the stuff to last through out the year? Or does the static remain indestruc tible, and so leave us subject to the operation of all that has been produced since first the northward flight of ducks began? This, brothers and sisters, is a deep subject. WHEN AN ARMY VOTES. When 600,000 American citizens march to the ballot box, bent on selecting officers to manage their local affairs, it is reasonable to concede they know what they arc about. Therefore it is fair to Chicago ; voters to credit them with knowing what they wrre | doing when they chose a mayor and other city of fleers on Tuesday. That the candidates selected were almost without exception democrats will be inter preted by some of the medicine makers as indicating an approaching triumph in the nation for that party. Maybe this can be admitted without any material I harm. At any rate, one of the political prophets points ! out that it is a great personal victory for “Bose” Brennan, who succeeded Roger Sullivan as dictator of Illinois democracy, and who cut such a swath at San Francisco, when the McAdoo apple cart was over turned and Cox was named to be sent to the sacri fice. Just what the Brennan ascendancy may presage is not easily noted. He is the accredited leader in his own state, hut when he gets outside ! of Illinois, he is in contact with accredited leaders i from forty-seven other states, and must have sup j port from them if he hnR his way in anything. So far as Chicago is concerned, it is not an un usual thing for the voters there to pick a demo cratic mayor. Many such have served the great J city in the past. Also, it is unfair to judge Chicago by reports of gun fights, bandit outrages and labor , feuds that get front page space. The fife of the i city is not made up of such episodes. Chicago is a great modern community, one of the busiest in the ! world. It has industry, commerce, art and culture. Millions live there, engaged in ail the multitudinous I vocations or avpcations that fill men’s time and pro j vide him a livelihood, and the proportion of the i unruly la perhaps no greater than in any other com munity. So, when the good people of Chicago select their I city officials, all other Americans can do is to< let j them have their way. I - Homespun Verse By Robert Worthington Davie WHEN FATHER AND MOTHER SANG. Long did he list to the music. The wavering, quavering music With dash and cotillion strain. /Vnd then—when the singers were quiet lie murmured to mother. "Let's try It." And together they sang the refrain: When You and I Were Voimg, Maggie U\er nnd over again They sang with the fervor of children, With the rapture of lassie and swam. And as the evening grew older In whispers some set ret ho told het, And their voices In unison rang As "The I.HSt I tore of Hummer" they ».m. \ml they finish'd an evening line ; To the tunc o£ "Auld Lang Syne 1 \ We Nominate— For Nebraska t Hall of Fame. OLIVER I-A MERE of Winnebago, i IS'eb., is a member of the Win nebago tribe and a recorder of its history and lore. Mr. La .Mere has contributed a chart of the Winne bago tribal organization to the publi cations of our state historical society, and has been associated with similar work connected with the history and culture of his people in this and other i states. He is at present working upon a collection of the tribal cere monies. Mr. La Mere published and Issues for the current year a very handsome illustrated "Winnebago Calendar." dedicated to the memory of the gifted Indian artist of his tribe. Angel De cora. The calendar contains choice hits of Winnchugo wisdom and ia In terestingly illustrated. Among his other accomplishments: Mr. La Mere is a maker of Indian flutes and a singer of traditional songs. On a recent visit to Lincoln he gave to Tburlow I.n urance a beau tiful Winnebago Dive .Sonc." com memorating the storv of a Winnebago maiden who married into a foreign tribe, only to find there unhappiness and longing for her home people. Th<* song, which Mr. LleuranCe expect* to set during the . omlng summer. r» cords tin spirit of longing with which ttin maiden look* toward the land of her tribesmen. “The People’s Voice” Ctltorltl* from rnOs •! Ths Mimlnf *M. . F.iCri .! The Msratst Km sis ISMtta* Is us tali cols** (fs-ly far aipraaalea an j auatlrn at vabllo lalaraat. I ■ | Do the People Want the Beat? Omaha.—To tho Editor of The i Omaha Ik e: Some of the later tie vclopments in the world have a little more than pit-.aiBg intrust for me and somehow or oth forth. Indicate that a great Civilisation once existed m place of th* heaps of ruins where wolves and Jackals now have their homes. Why the decline? History tells that one set of -men. the wenlth Into the hands of a few tsm of interest. Anally nmassed all the wealth Into the hands fo a few. thereby forcing the people Into slav ery—a few too wealthy the many too poor. Thus ( lull'llion perl*h«sl. Ho It has been all through history, i Habylon crumbled to dust when all wealth gathered In a few hands I'arlhsge. the mistress of th* ancient eos*. Is no nime for tip- same cause. Ancient Greece and Home went on the roelis for the same teiison. Europe is now' falling to piece* and America Is slmky on Its foundations 4 for the smuts nhntUul iau«(i that f I-• —---- ~z. 1 e Sow ®r j lnirw jriemfe ! I By Nefiraslza's Great Poet I dWm i_— iContinued From Wednesday.) It came to pass The valley yawned upon a sea of grass That seemed to heave, as waves of gloom and glare Ran over it; and. rising here and there. i Tail buttes made islands in the living tide That roared about them. Still with swinging stride And rhythmic breath the little buck skin ran Among the herd, that opened like a fan And scattered. But the roan was los ing ground. His breathing gave a gurgling, hol low sound, As though his life were gushing from his throat. Ilis whole frame quivered like a scut tled boat That slowly sinks; nor did he seem to feel Upon his flank the biting of the steel That made him bleed. Fink cut the rifle-boot And saddle bags away, to give -the brute L*>ss burden. Mow it happened, as they neared A' lofty butte whose summit glim mered weird fieneath the lurid boiling of the sky. Talbeau was startled by a frantic rry Behind him; noted that he rode alone. And, turning in his saddle, saw the roan Go stumbling down and wither to a heap. And momently, between a leap and leap. The love of self was mighty In the man; For now the Terror left the hills and ran With giant strides along the grassy plains. Bear Yesterdays fought wildly for the reins. Tomorrows for the spurs. And then the mare Heeled to the sawing bit and pawed the air And halted, prancing. Once again Talbeau Looked back to where the sparks were blown as snow Before that blizzard blast of scorch ing light. And saw Fink running down the painted night Like some lost spirit fleeing from the Wrath. one horse—and who should ride it? 1 All he hath A man will give for Ilf*! But stall he give For living that which makes it good to live— The consciousness of fellowship and trust? I Bet fools so prize a pinch of throbbing dust! ' Now Fink should ride, and let the rest he hid. ITe lamnded from the mare; but. as he did. | The panic stricken pony wheeled ( about. Won freedom with a lunge, and Joined the rout | Of fleeing shadows. Well, 'twae over now— i Perhaps it didn t matter anyhow— Thev'd go together now’ and hunt for urn: And momently the world seemed very still About Talbeau. Then Fink was at his side. Blank horror in his face. "Come on"’ he cried; "The butte! We'll climb the butte!" And once again Talbeau knew fear. Now. gripping hands, the men Scuttled and dodged athwart (he scat tered flight Of shapes that drifted in the flood of light. A living flotsam; reached the bare butte's base. Went scrambling up its leaning lee ward face To where the slope grew sheer, and | huddled there. And hotter, hotter grew the air, I'ntll their temples sang a fever tune. | The April night became an August noon. Then, near to swooning in a blast of heat. They heard the burning breakers i boom and beat About their lofty’ island, as they lay. Their raping mouths pressed hard against the clay. And fought for every breath Nor could they tell How long upon a blistered scarp In hell They gasped and clung. But sud denly at last— An age in passing, and a moment, passed— The torture ended, and the coo! air : came; And. looking out, they saw the long slant flame Devour the night to leeward. “From State and -Nation” Editorials from other newspapers. Nebraska I'nhersifjr. Krnm th% 8coaver« Are Capitalists From Ths Kansas City Tims? The British labor party plan? calls on parliament to declare that futur" legislation should be directed toward "gradually suppressing the capitalist system-' TVhy wouldn't it be better , to declare for gradually suppressing human nature? For what we'call the capitalist system is simply human na ture trying to make a living on sonic sort of a civilised scale. So long as our primitive ancestors of the stone age ate up the game they killed as fast as it waa killed and the berries they gathered as fast as 1 they were gath< red there was no "capitalist system." and not much of ' any civilization It was only after the man with the club had saved up enough food so he had time to make ■ stone ax ami so make Itis efforts more effective, that ho began lo ad vance. But that stone ax was one of the beginnings of the capitalist sys tem. When we do not consume all we pro'trwc but save -> little to l>e used to help build railroad* and factories The it Sofimer The Piano of the Theatre. .Seventy-seven New Y otk Theatres use the Sohmer Piano exclusively. Years olexperience have demon strated to them its super iority in tonal excellence and durabilitv. J You’ old pdtno l*Krr ir% *xi/nny». AJ§aspe<&) Kverythini in Art And Music 1313-11 IXHJGLA* M A # The Zero Hour._ THE \AW VOU FEEL THE FIRST DM AFTER DISCARDING VOUR veMear o - get a tractor, we arc capitalist* and are part of the capitalist system. The world Is a large place and peo ples have developed here, there, and everywhere But so far as we can. i learn they all have found It necessary to resort to the capitalist system he- , fore they got very far. 1/crtine and the other bolshevikl have deplored this peculiarity of human nature, but their efforts to ignore it have proved disastrous, lie seem to be made that way. Banishes Petticoat Rule. North Dakota town of I>s Irv. after a year of petticoat rule in w- n all the offices were administered by women, has turned it out. bobbed hair, galoshes, vanity boxes, powder j puffs and all. Men apparently didn't relish the Idea of being ruled at home and downtown, too.—Philadelphia In quirer. Nigns iif Spring. The vacation ad« art beginning t appear in the newspapers, so we n;ovt conclude that winter is about don* *3 Toronto Mail and Kmpire. i NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for MARCH. 1923. of THE OMAHA BEE Daily.73,997 Sunday.80,029 B. BREWER. Gen. Mfr. V. A BRIDGE. Cir. Mfr. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 3d day of April. 1*23 W H. QUIVEY, i Seal» Notary Public Diseases of Children and women usually yield readily to our method?. If you are in doubt about your case, you can investigate in safety, regardless of what the dis ease may be, as no qualified practitioner will accept a case he cannot help. The Thomas Chiropractic Offices 1712 Dodge Street Gardner Bldg. AT lantic 1293 Pay Day C'ROM office A boy to presi ® ident. from janitor to proprietor, we have a sort of fondness for pur pay envelope .And we should, for a week of our lives is in that pay envelope. Remembering this, surely you wouldn't deliberately plan to spend it all. 1 « In a few days all you will have left of that week represented by your pay envelope will be two things — experience and vour savings. Better keep them both. First National iBank of Omaha Professor Silver in his recital at First Baptist Church, Monday night, used a Iftasxm Those who were privileged to hear him reoojrniied the work of an artist. The highest evade piano n the world today is represented in the Mason A Hamlin. Fv*rvlh»«f m Art and Muiit A.^ospc (Jo. IS1JM4 tV>u(U» , St, Om*h* THE OMAHA BEE DICTIONARY COUPON 3 cT„r 98c ! ••corns this NEW, authentic Dictionary bound in black seal gram, illustrated with full pages in color Present or mail to this paper three Coupons with ninety-eight cents cents to cover cost of handling, packing, clerk hire, etc 22 DICTIONARIES IN ONI All Dictionaries Published Previous to This One Are Out ot Dele MAll OHDEftb WILL UK rilMD A44 ter estate Vp i* I SO m>lee. 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