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WHY AMENDMENTS GO ASTRAY.
One of those unaccountable things that have
beset the way of making laws for many years, and
have pestered the most careful of lawmakers, is
just now confronting the legislature at Lincoln. A
' bill to create a banking commission was passed and
sent to the governor, who approved it. The gov
ernor has selected the names of the men who are
to form the commission, and has sent them to the
senate for approval. So far, so good.
It develbpes, however, that somewhere along the
not always straight and seldom if ever narrow path
bills must travel from inception to their final place
on the statute books most of the teeth of the new
banking commission law dropped out. An amend
ment that is vital has disappeared. Senators are
very positive it was adopted; records seem to show
this, but the original amendment can not be found.
Inquiry will follow, of course, and the law will
doubtless be cured s6 that it will contain the pro
vision now missing. Yet this will not be sufficient.
Our system of law making is good, but in practice
it is open to many abuses. Committees allow work
to accumulate, the house and the senate clutter up
and clog their general files, and invariably the dos
ing hours of the session find prospective legislation
in a terrific jam.
That is when the danger is greatest. Smooth
workers, representing special interests, not always
operating for the good of the public, get in their
work at the last minute. Jokers slip into bills,
amendments are lost, errors occur in engrossing
measures, and a long list of things happen that
should not happen. Seldom is a culprit located;
frequently, if the blame is fixed at all, it is sawed
off onto some subordinate, a temporary employe,
who serves as a scapegoat, yet who rarely if ever
really are culpable of anything more than careless
ness induced by crowding of work at the last minute.
In the case of the banking commission law the
emission is discovered in time to permit correction
without serious loss, yet this does not always hap
pen. The lesson is before every legislature that
meets, but it gets little attention. As long as the
present plan of law making is pursued, it will^be
open to this danger. Strict rules for repressing
♦he lobby arc enforced at Lincoln, yet they are not
•uflicient to prevent confusion. The right of the
people to approach their legislators is not to be
questioned or denied, yet it should be so arranged
that ^he orderly work of making laws will not be in
terrupted *by insistence from groups that have spe
cial interests in proposing or opposing legislation.
DAUGHERTY POINTS HIS GUN.
Accepting as accurate the report that raw sugar
prices declined 50 points on the announcement
that Attorney General Daugherty had started a suit
against speculating profiteers, the conclusion is justi
fied that the government is proceeding along right
lines. The great question is, Will the effect be perma
nent?
One of our difficulties, as the greatest sugai;
consuming nation of the world, is that we import
three-fifths of all we use. Most of this is raised
in Cuba, but some comes from Java and other regions,
where the United States is not in authority. In Cuba,
for example, the sugar men are said to have perfected
an understanding that means the American users
will have to pay tribute to them for a long time to
come. Most of the capital of the great sugar planta
tions of the island is furnished by Americans, but
the control is located in Cuba.
One thing that is plainly demonstrated is that
the tariff is in no sense responsible for the upward
/ flight of sugar. Under the democratic administration,
when sugar was soaring, nobody thought of alleging
that the sligh# duty was to be blamed for the work of
the speculators. Nor is the present tariff sufficient
to bring about the undue rise in the price. Supply
and demand should govern, and in effect do, but
manipulation is possible, and in this instance the be
lief is that such is being practiced.
As the time of year is approaching when sugar
will be in greatest demand, the hope may be ex
pressed that the move of the attorney general wi|l
be a little more than a gesture, and that he breaks
up the combination that has been running away with
the market. The people want relief, not at the ex
pense of legitimate interests, whose rights should
be given all consideration, but from the greedy
profiteers who have been extorting unreasonable re
turns from their customers.
LOVE, AND COMFORT, AND LIFE.
“One more unfortunate” has sought the solution
of her life’s problem by hurrying herself into the
next. Eleanor Oles went to a Pittsburgh hotel,
wrote a letter and took poison. Her letter gives clue
to her trouble, and puts a question to the world. She
says in her last message;
“Please give the unfortunate girl a chance. Don’t
throw her open to public opinion, don’t shut her in
the reformatories and after a couple of years expect
her to be a good angel. It will have hardened her
to the world. What she needs is real love and some
one to comfort her, not to constantly remind her of
her little wrongs.”
It is not a little wrong, however, nor one lightly
expiated, yet in this girl’s letter is contained the
one sure way to bring those of her kind back to a
sure footing on life’s pathway. Love is the thing
needed, and comforting. Psychologists, sociologists,
criminologists, medical men, and other students have
analyzed the girl who goes wrong. They have in
one or another ways applied tests to her, examined
her mental capacity, her moral attributes and her
physical accomplishments. Many formulas have
been laid down for dealing with such eases, but all
of them fall just a little short of the mark.
A hungry soul is calling out for love, for com
forting. It is not self pity that moves them, but a
deep and unsatisfied longing, a hunger that will not
he stilled. A little love, a little comfort, and life
may be brighter and sweeter, and work easier, with
sunshine instead of gloom and a strong determina
tion to live instead of a yearning to die.
“Hath no man condemned thee?” Christ asked
the weeping woman who knelt in the sand at his
feet. She answered, “No man, Lord." And Jesus
said unto her, “Neither do I condemn thee; go and
sin no more.” He knew what was needed to heal
that broken, bruised heart, just love and comfort.
It does not cost much, but ;t is priceless
WOMEN WILL INSURE WELFARE.
Woman is still seeking to establish her place in
the general scheme of things, but in one department
of life’s activities she is without peer or rival. That
is what is generally summed up and classified under
the label of “welfare work.’’ It is not to be won
dered at that the women of the Sixth Nebraska dis
trict proclaimed themselves in favor of certain de
fined items in the general program, and against the
demolition of the Nebraska welfare department.
These women understand a point that is missed
by the public. The really active opponents of wel
fare work of any sort are the ones who most strongly
bear down on the lights of the sovereign states
whenever federal activity and support is suggested,
and who then bear with equal ihsistence on the
natural rights of the individual when the state takes
hold. Governor Bryan came under the spell and
gave his assent to the dismantling of a welfare de
partment that had scarcely begun to function. Lo
cating some of its factors in other departments of
bureaus, he struck out some, and arranged that what
ever welfare work is carried on will be done piece
meal. This was one of the reasons his plan for re
forming the administrative government for Nebraska
was rejected.
, Sixth district women are awake to' the im
portance of giving active support to the things that
are intended to conserve and promote the general
health and happiness of the people. They know
the need of giving mother and child assistance and
protection; they know how vital it is that school
children be looked after, that home and community
alike have attention, and they know these things
can not be left to the whims or notions of individ
uals. Standards must be set up and maintained, and
money must be spent that good may come to all.
It is a fine thing, not only for Nebraska and the
nation, but for the world, that women are devoted
to just such matters as the district delegates at Ra
venna gave their warm approval.
WHEN A GOVERNOR GOES TO JAIL.
A peculiar sequence of events has brought some
notice to the office of governor of Mississippi. A
stenographer sued the governor on a sensational
charge, and a former governor was subpoenaed as
witness in the case. He was chivalrous enough not
to appear, although he had been summoned on be
half of' the lady. For this the judge had him
brought to bar, and sentenced him to jail as guilty
of contempt of court.
Accordingly the ex-governor went to jail, from
which he is about to be liberated because of clemency
on part of the offended judge. While in jail he
did not undergo material inconvenience, other than
that he was deprived of his privilege of strolling
about the streets of Biloxi, meeting and greeting
friends and chatting about the weather, the new
canal that shortens the distance from New Orleans
to the sea, and other items of the moment. A
thoughtful sheriff vacated his private apartments in
the calaboose, and furnished the rooms with all
modern conveniences, so that the distinguished
prisoner might not miss anything while in jail.
Even this is not the interesting part of the per
formance. As he entered the cell, the one-time
chief executive of Mississippi smugly delivered him
self of an address the burden of which was that he
hoped his fate would be an example to all who were
disposed to hold in light esteem the courts, of the
country. We hope so, too, and we also hope it will
not be necessary to send any more governors to jail
to remind them^iat they ara amenable to the law
they have sworn to uphold and administer a3 well
as the common or garden variety of citizen.
Somehow, this Mississippi episode reminds us
of the tale of the man who was about to be hung,
and to whom the sheriff had accorded the special
privilege of addressing the throng assembled to wit
ness the execution. "Ladies and gentlemen,’’ he
said, "I’m not a public speaker, but one thing I do
want to say. This is going to be a hell of a lesson
for me!”
LONG LIFE TO THE T. P. A.
Omaha is cn&rtaining a very interesting group
of man just now. Or, rather, a very interesting
group of men are entertaining themselves In Omaha.
These are th«k delegates to the state meeting of the
T. 1\ A., now in convention. Essentially a business
organization, and composed of business men, it
mingles with its existence considerable that is es
sentially of a social nature. Just what else could
be looked for from a group of traveling salesmen
is not clear. While tHS man who kisses his wife
goodby on Monday morning, and spends the week
hopping from one town to another taking orders—
and, singular as it may seem, these fellows are tak
ing orders now—is no longer a peripatetic joke book
and dispenser of “good" stories, he still holds such
an element of the milk cf human kindness that he
couldn't be unsocial if he wanted to. That is why
he has a good time, even if he has to make it for
himself; but Omaha knows and honors the travel
ing salesman, and the T. P. A., and wishes for them
and for their delegates an harmonious and beneficial
business session, and a social stay that will surpass
any former experience.
“Jimmie" Larkin might be sent to Russia, where
he can taste the fruits of communism. Only he'd be
put to work over there, as were Comrades Haywood,
Berkman and Goldman.
The injunction may not be a popular institution,
but it seems to have worked out all right on the
sugar combine.
At least, the D. A. R. elections are not cut and
dried affairs.
April is commencing to act like April.
Homespun Verse
By Robert Worthington Davie
KEEP PLUGG1NO.
Once In the days receded a fellow came to Had
And said, 'Tin lip against It, I don't know what lo do.
For while I strive and struggle things keep a going had,
And 1 have come a hoping to get relief from you.”
laid looked nt him and answered quite bluntly with a
smile,
"Keep plugging and I reckon you will get there after
while."
\ vividly remember what father said that dnv,
And yet so often guileless the words have seemed
to me,
But when the tempest rages and blows my hopes away
I think, perhaps, that future will gentler, kinder be.
I keep my faith, though solemn, and wistfully I smile.
Believing as my father—I'll get theta after while.
We all must weather sorrow and weariness pervade,
Come casually to waver at the edge of grim despair,
And pray the most for sunshine when we are given
shade,
Be haunted and be flaunted by perpleglty and rare.
Yet let us be persistent, within the darkness smile.
I For belter things ure coming and coming all the while.
“From State and
— Nation”
i
Editorials front other
nctvsjtapcrs.
The School Situation.
From the Nebraska City Press.
Placing the limit of school levy at !
12 mills on the dollar will not bring j
the relief the legislative supporters of j
the measure predict. Unfortunately. !
not all school districts In Nebraska |
are financially able to weather a storm !
if the tntlexlble limit of 12 mills Is In- ]
slsted upon by statute anti Instead of
forcing the people to economize, by |
law, as the friends of the bill propose :
to do, we shall (Ind it necessary in
a short time to provide funds for dis ■
trlcts whose wealth is negligible or |
far less than the assessed valuations !
of more fortunate sections. Two 1
remedies of the situation are proposed: ;
One provides for local elections to ;
raise the levy to a point not in ex- 1
t css of 16 mills, an expensive ex- ;
pedient at best: the other proposes a
"common pot" for all the school money
in Nebraska, to be distributed by the
department of education, a plan
which is destructive of the "home
rule” idea and not likely to be coun
tenanced in any form, for centraliza
tion of power in this regard would as
suredly destroy the pride patrons have
In their' home school systems. \V>
realize, of course, that the discussion
of the problem grows out of the feel
ing that education is costing Nebras
kans too much money, but economies
cannot be enforced equitably through
the’enactment of any such legislation
as is proposed, and, after all. It is not
likely that any relief can come except
through local remedies. The moment
the Mathers plan was suggested, rep
resentatives from sparsely settled dis
tricts in Nebraska raised the point
that a limitation qn levies would ruin
lheir schools, for many assessed valua
tions are not high, and this is an ar- j
j gument that seems to have been over
looked by proponents of the bill. Mr.
Mathers Is fortunate to live in a dis
I triet which has great wealth and a
limitation of levy might not work the
harm it would, for Instance, in Cherry
county, where the chief resource is a
region of "magnificent distances.” Nr- :
braska City's assessed valuation last
year was f5.376.8tS, with a school cen
sus of 1.877 to provide for. or a per
capita valuation of $2,865. The propo
sition of Mr. Mathers would not ma
terially affect school finances In this
«ity just now, but no man knows what
contingency, requiring further outlay,
will come next year. Half of nur tax .
money goes toward education, most
of It for local schools. With that ever
In mind, would it not be best, after all.
to permit localities to solve their own
problems, make their own levies and j
fight out their own destinies. Just as ,
they have been doing tn the past. Most I
assuredly none of us wants to hand!
cap the school work of the state, hut
hy attempting to centralize the power,
by Insisting on applying the same
hard and fast rule to each district In
| the state, we shall do the very thing
I we are trying to avoid.
—
Farts About Florida Peonage.
From th« Ntw York World.
Investigation on the spot bv the
World correspondent In connection
with the death of Martin Tabert In a
convict camp shows how closely
guarded by secrecy is the whole peon
age system In Florida. It is estab
liahed and enforced in a way to keep
front ths public ail knowledge of the
mistreatment of prisoners or even the
barest information about the rondl
tlons under which th»y live What
happened In this case might easily
happen in.scores of cases and nothing
be ijpard of if.
To a board of county commissioners
Is given (ewq, at its discretion, to
lease the county prisoners to private
contractors for labor in the same or
another county. Their interest In the
prisoners ceases when they are turned
over to tlie contractor by the sheriff
on receipt of fees, apparently varla
ble. They mny lie shipped to distant
lumber camps in the wilderness and
that is the end of the county's re
sponsibility for their care. Whatever
happens there Is evidently nobody's
business hut the contractor s
All prisoners of the state are sup
posed to be under the charge of the
stste commissioner of agriculture Put
when the World correspondent asked
Commissioner McRae for the number
of counties that lease their prisoners
to contractors and the number of
prisoners so leased, the reply he re
eeivod was: "I can't tell you. The
counties are not required to report
that Information to the state."
Theoretically, state aupervisors of
prisons, of whom there are four, visit
tlm ronvlrt camps once a month and
repbrt on the health of the prisoners.
If a prisoner dies, his death is re
ported to the eommlsaioner of agri
culture. Martin Tabert. the North
Dakota bov. while ill. was brutally
beaten on the pretext that he did not
stand up to hia work, and died a few
days after. His death was reported
as due to pernicious malaria
In Denn county, where Tabert was
sentenced to pay a fine of |2!i or serve
!10 days' Imprisonment, the county
commissioners leased the prisoners to
the Putnam I.umlier company. In an
other county The receipts on file In
the county clerk's office showed tliat
105 prisoners were leased out In IS
months, hut County Clerk latng says
ths entry number was 126. a dlscrep
aney of 21. Prraumably one third of
the prisoners were white men and
two thirds negroes, hut "the commit
ments and receipts for their delivery
do not show "
"If we had guesse‘1 what the con
dttlnns In that camp were," pleaded
County tlerk Ijing, "we certainly
would never have leased out our pris
oner* to that company." That the
Daily Prayer j
On# thin* h»v# I 4#alr*4 #f the Ix>r<l,
thet will 1 #«rk after —*F# 17 4
We need Thee, O living God \\>
are lonesome, discontented. helpless,
d( ft it< di Without tm. •• How ihAli
we know ourwelves aright unless Thou
tench us? How shall we love good
ness and strive after holiness, nnd
know' the deep Joys of the soul unless
Thy Spirit abide In us? How shall
w4 be able to meet Thy Just «x|>ecta
Hons unless we companion with the
Most High God? flow shall we hear
our burdens ami overcome our tompta
Hons, or he unselfish In service, or
turn away from otid sins, or grow Into
the beauty and tnoflest v of the rhurat
ter of Christ, unless Thou tnko poa
session of us?
Thankful ws are. then, that Thou
dost not withhold Thyself from nnv
eager, hungry, obedient heart. V’o
know that Thou art willing to give
Thyself to us. Teach us how to open
our natures to Thee Help us to he
obedient to Thy will. Joyous in our
allegiance, cooperative In all of Thy
plena.
Disturb ua when we go astray; dla
ripline us when we a-e willful:
hearten us when discouraged;
strengthen us when perplexed.
Through nil Hie experiences of our
Uvea, fashion ua Into the likeness of
our exalted Christ, mo that we may he
Thy true sons ami daughters Amen.
PlllMP t. FRICK. Ph. U
J Huffslo, N Y
We Nominate—
For Nebraska's Hall of
Fame.
9
Anders John haugseth is
instructor in painting in the
University of Nebraska, to j
which he comes from Chicago, where |
his studio had already achieved a
reputation among the younger artists ,
of the modernist movement. He has ;
exhibited in Chicago and New York,
as also in Cora Arden's traveling ex
hibition. Mr. Haugseth’s work is of j
striking originality, decorative and
imaginative and vividly coloristic. He '
is deeply interested in stagecraft and j
stage settings and has done extraordin- i
ary work in this line for the Univer
sity F’layers during the present aea
son. Like other Nebraska artists. Mr.
Fiaugseth is looking forward to a sum
mer In New Mexico, drawn by the
scenic charm of the southwest.
Leon county commissioner* ever gave
a moment's thought to the matter
there Is not the slightest evidence.
They signed the contract, delivered
the prisoners day after day and col
lected the money.
The Florida legislature Is proceed
Ing to an Investigation. But the sys
tem is inherently wrong, and im
mediate action to root It out would :
better suit the situation.
Asia Conies Next.
From the Kansas City Hanoi.
The interest of the world centers In
Asia, it is there that American capi
talists have but recently obtained con
cessions for building 2,000 miles of
railroads and numerous cities along
modern lines. It was there that Ger
many was planning to rebuild the
empires of antiquity when the world
war came. It is there that France
and England and Greece have been
looking in all their negotiations since
the world war ended.
All this means that a circle has been j
completed, and the attention of men
is turning to the localities where his- I
tory began. When the Bagdad rati- ■
way Is completed; when Nineveh. Je .
rusalein and Babylon are rebuilt as
modern cities: when the old Irrigation
canals are reopened and repaired, the
valleys over which races fought for
generations will again be excedlng j
ly fertile, and great empires may once
more spring up on the stumps of old
empires long since d»ad.
But when on* reflects on the numer
ous wars that have keen fought upon
the old valleys—by the Euphrates,
the Tigris and Jordan, by the Helles
pont and Hie Rhine—the longest'
stretch of continuous valley land in
almost a straight line In all the/horld i
—it seems that by thts time men j
should have learned to build to rn-i
Joy rather than to fight for the thing,
builded.
Why should there be rivalries be
tween France, England, the k'nited j
States..and even Germany and Greece |
and Italy, over which shall gain ad- 1
vantages in the new building to be]
done? W ould not all prosper more
if they were to work together instead
of seeking only nationalistic advan
tage?
Since the discovery of America i
Europe has lived by exploiting dis j
tant lands. Now that field has dosed]
for that continent. The Monroe doc j
trine ts practically a command for j
Europe to keep out of the western ;
continent for purposes of conquest.
In reaching for Asia—each nation for
herself—Europe has been beaten bv
America. Europe is practically out or
It, except along two lines. First of
these Is a system of world conquest;
and she Is losing colonies rather than
gaining them. The other is, in uni
versal co-operation for the good of
all.
Whether we like It or not. we have
come to the point where w\ muet
think In term* of world progreas and
happiness, or else reap the results of |
destruction.
Prairie Gems
Kearney I* putting on metropolitan
alr« by building an apartment houae. I
Thank heaven, Nebraska City la still 1
a place of homes and home builders!
—Nebraska City Press,
If the bootlegger's Industry goes
to ttie dogs it will have no one but the
liootlegRers to blame because they are
beginning to make the stuff so bad
that their customers are reporting
them to the police.—Grand Island In
dependent. (
It's a cinch that If somebody ride*
free on the railroads somebody else
lias got to pay for It.—York Repub !
bran.
—
I/ots of mothers wear last rear's
hats so (laughter can have the latest
model silk stockings.—Harvard
Courlt r
Bight million dollars have been paid >
for bank guaranty. This seems a
needlessly large sum. and it Is hoped
thnt the new law will show better re
sult* Hamilton County Register.
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NET AVERAGE
CIRCULATION
for MARCH. 1923, of
THE OMAHA BEE
! Daily.73,997 j
j Sunday t.80,029
Poss nnf inrl.nl* returns, lefl
;j «v«ra, samples or papers spoiled in j
printing and Include* no special
Nates.
B. BREWER. Gsn. Mgr.
V. A. BRIDGE, Clr. Mgr.
Stibcrrtbed and swum to bsfovs ms
this 3d day «f April. IP2.1
W. H. QUIVEY.
(Seal! Nstary Public
“The People’s
Voice”
Editorials from reader* of Tho Moral#* >H.
Readers of The Morning Boo are Invited to .
■*. use this column freely for oppression on I
matters of public Interest. |
Complains of Insincerity.
York, Neb.—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: Pl:ase pardon the in
trusion, but I notice in The Omaha
Bee that practically all classes of the
English people, churchmen, Protestant
and Catholic and others, trades un
ions, laborites. tory and conservatives
and liberals are going to demand the
expulsion of the Russian trades dele
gation and bolshevik! of every de
scription, and that the question is to
come up in parliament some time for
some sort of action there, and all be
, cause Russia's so called "government”
killed Vicar U-eneral Butchkavltch be
cause the vicar general, according to
l he Russian government, had been in
terfering in the affairs of Russia.
How sympathetic English trades
j unions, churchmen, Protestant and
! Catholic and others, and laborites, and
lories, and conservatives and liberals,
etc., are when Russia kills a Catholic
I priest. Their crocodile tears over
things like this raises the waters
around England to flood tide, and
j some people, "not quite nil there.” are
'silly enough to believe the leaks are
j sincere.
But wh.A about Father Crifbn of
Oranmore, (Ireland, whpn England's
black and tan« killed him, a man of
peace, carrying the consolations of
religion to the sick and dying, bap
tizing the new arrivals and burying
the dead, denying himself of almost
everything except the llttla that would
keep his own soul and body together
that he might continue for a little
j longer to carry on his priestly mia
1 sion and give rest to the victims of
l the British, and then the "tans” hid
j the dead body of this inoffensive priest
] In an Irish bog. where it laid for weeks
! until accidentally discovered, and then
j given decent hurial?
Was there any weeping and wailing
; in England by churchmen, Protestant
. or Catholic, or others, by laborites and
I trades unions, and tories. and liberals,
and conservatives, or others unplaced
i politically over the foul murder of thir
! Irish priest’ Did the above worthies
i or any of them demand an investiga
i tion of this infamous murder of an
1 Irishman and demand due punishment
for the perpetrators of the inhuman
! crime’ Peace and justice and human
] ity will reign when governments like
! England and governments like Russia
! find their way to the scrap piles as
! worse than worthless iunk
*. E. CARLIN,
i
Where the treed Originated.
Sidney, la.—To the Editor of The
I Omaha Bee: On page eight of The
Bee of Tuesday, April IT. is a col
' umn headed "From State and Nation”
1 --editorials from other papers. The
. second item in this column is entitled
* "An American’s Creed” and is subbed
i "From the Cincinnati Enquirer.”
Mv dear editor! This creed for
which the Enquirer gives a nun in
an Ottawa (0.1 school credit, was writ
She’s Just a Tiny, Timid Thing!
COM! AIL VC Vl*ip
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ten ill Baltimore and was awarde# a
prize for excellence In a nation-wide
•contest for an American's (freed. Its
author is Wtlliaip T.vier Page, and it
is oil the walls of almost every school
l in Iowa, and I suspect of almost every
! school in all the other states.
Does the editor of the Enquirer be
] lieve this to be original? The eiun
would have been the last to claim
originality, I am confident. Does the
i editor of The Bee print this editorial
I in an attempt to “show up” his
i brother editor of the Buckeve state?
FRED D. CRAM.
Clear Falls. Ia.
Why Ihe Labor Paper Moved.
Omaha—To the Editor of The Oma
ha P.ee: In a recent issue you pub
lished in your "Editorials by Our
Readers” column a communication
from W. K. Riter. under the head line
of "Organized Labor Cleans House."
In the letter referred to, it is In
timated that the Midwest Labor News
is moving out of the Labor Temple"1
at the request of the Labor Temple
board because it has championed cer
tain matters, the merit* of which
I need not be discussed here.
That there may be no nusunder
itanding and in justice to the Midwest
Labor News, the following statement
is made Home months ago. the editor
of the Midwest Labor News appeared
before the Labor Temple boanl and
stated that he found it necessary to
have more office space and gave the
board permission to rent the room he
occupied as soon as it had an op
portunity. When the carpenters’
unions of Omaha consolidated on
April 1 and a private office was
wanted for the new secretary, the
board rented the room to the car
penters’ organization, after it had
taken up the matter with the editor
of the Midwest Labor News and was
assured by him that he still desired
to secure larger offices.
The Labor Temple board wishes it
understood that there is none but
kindly feeling between It and the Mid
west Labor News, and that any Infer
ence that the paper was forced out
of the Labor temple is a misstatement
of the facta. HENRY F. WULF
Chairman of Board, Labor and Agri
cultural Building Company.
Sinclair
Refining Co.
Announces
the opening of the second of
its Fourteen New Omaha
Service Stations
AT
30th and Redick Ave.
SATURDAY, APRIL 21st
Each purchaser of five or more
gallons of gasoline at this sta
tion Saturday, April 21, will
receive a Souvenir Kewpie Doll.
A Carnation for Each
Lady Customer
An Eveready Flashlight will be
given away free of charge to
each customer purchasing a
$10.00 coupon book for cash on
opening day. This Flashlight
ordinarily retails for $1.70.
Sinclair Coupons arc redeem
able for gasoline and oils at Sin
Hair Service Stations or the sta
tions of dealers handling Sin
clair Products in Omaha or
elsewhere.