The .Morning Bee MORNING—EVENING—SUNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING CO~ NELSON B. UPDIKE, President B. BREWER, Vice President and General Manager MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tha Associated i'ress, of which The Bes is a member. Is exclusively entitl'd to the use for ^publication of all ness dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republications of our special dispatches are also reserved. BEE TELEPHONES _ 7 Private Branch Exchange. Ask for the Department AT lantic or Person Wanted. For Night Calls After 10 P. M.: 1000 Editorial Department. AT lantic 1021 or 1042. OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam 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. THE SHORT BALLOT IN NEBRASKA. Some things are not to be accomplished through the heat of partisan controversy. If the state of of improving the efficiency of government, the move ment must have the support of men and women of all parties. The moment any party leaders attempt to make political capital out of advocating or opposing such development, the cause is menaced. It is sin cerely to be hoped that the short ballot conference tailed for Lincoln on June 7 will be left free from any party considerations. The principle of the short ballot is founded on :he belief that no citizen can possibly have a wide enough acquaintance to be able to judge the qualifica tions of the contenders for all the various offices that now appear on the ballot. Its advocates consider that with the public attention concentrated on the major offices to be filled, choice for the minor offices is & good deal of a lottery. Of course there is no democracy in a lottery. How ever, some people hold the impression that under the short ballot certain rights and powers would be taken away from the citizenry and placed in the hands of an executive. This is because the elective offices that are abandoned under the shortening of the ballot would become appointive. Important as the -election of a square and competent governor now is, under the short ballot it would become more so, since he would be called upon to fill a larger number of offices by appointment. But, say the advocates of the short ballot, if people are not confident of their ability to select the right man for governor, how can they maintain that they will be able to choose the right men for i the minor positions? They assert that only by the abbreviation of the ballot can a thoroughly intelli gent and conscientious vote be polled. It is indeed impossible for the average citizen to acquaint him self with the merits of each individual candidate tor public office. Because of the great number of candidates for the great number of offices confusion results and a good deal of voting becomes merely guesswork. The contest narrows down to the more important offices and the careful selection of the others is neglected. Thus the argument goes, and unless one believes in the casting of a straight party ballot under all conditions, it is a difficult one to answer. Prominent members of both the republican and democratic parties have united in calling a conven tion at Lincoln to organize a campaign to add a short ballot amendment to the state constitution of Nebraska. Their plan is to initiate an amendment reducing the number of elective offices from nine to two or three. Such a movement can never suc ceed unless there is an overwhelming sentiment for such a radical change. The petitions for an election alone requires 40,000 signers. This question be comes the most important one of a political nature at this time. It should be discussed fearlessly, frankly, intelligently and calmly by every news paper in Nebraska. Each man and woman, also is called upon to give this matter serious consideration. The short ballot is not a thing to be condemned nor approved off-hand, and judgment should be based on thorough investigation of all its phases. FINANCIAL PILOT OF THE. WAR. Claude E. Kitchin will belong to history be cause of his position as chairman of the ways and means committee of the house of representatives during tbs war. It was under his direction that the great revenue law of 1917 was framed and passed. When considering the achievement as a whole, the wonder will be that it was so well done, under the circumstances that surrounded the proceeding. One of the features of the unpreparedness, which had been so rigidly maintained that no question could be raised as to the sincerity of our national attitude of neutrality, was that congress had de vised no plans for levying the heavy taxes that were needed. Almost nothing of a preliminary nature had been accomplished. The Underwood tariff iaw had been the last tariff measure put through con gress, and it had been amended in some respects at the behest of President Wilson, but that was all, and it was far from being enough. Mr. Kitchin was at the head of the committee that must bring Jorth the measure that would provide the needful, and the income and excess profits tax law of 1917 was the result. , As floor leader for his party Mr. Kitchin was active until stricken by paralysis in 1920, arid re gained the position until his death, although the du ties were looked after by' other democrats from the south. He was a southern democrat in the fullest sense of the word, intensely partisan, and unrelent ing in his advocacy of what he conceived to be the right. It was this quality that gained and held for him the position of influence he maintained during his long service in congress. HONKING FOR FORD There is something about Henry Ford’s candidacy that tickles the popular imagination. The discom fiture of democratic politicians over the entrance of such a variable and unknown factor into the sit uation adds to the general enjoyment of the oc casion. A straw vote taken by Collier’s shows the flivver statesman running next to President Harding in the number of ballots received, and far ahead of McAdoo, Gox, Underwood, Smith and all the other democratic presidential possibilities. All this talk of Ford for president is interesting, but it is also deceptive. It is a good deal like a practical joke or a political sideshow. Judging from the past, there is not the slightest chance of his parking his car in front of the White House. As a business man and an employer, Ford has at tracted the public imagination. His rise to the position of America’s wealthiest man has been made by a new method, and in defiance of all the old rules and methods. In this he has appeared as a sort of industrial prophet. Between his phophecies nnd his profits he has become an outstanding public figure. But prophets in America have never found sue cess in politics. Vastly useful in their wny, con tributing greatly to the national good, yet that way does not lead to public office. Neither our greatest prophets nor our greatest profitmakers have ever been elected to the presidency. DEDICATED TO PEACE. Not Americans alone, but the world will find comfort and encouragement in the words of the president, delivered at Arlington Height' on Memor ial day. Mr. Harding there voiced as nearly as it ever has been done the genius, the aspirations, the great purpose of the United States of America in her relations to all other nations—the message of true Americans to their brethren and sisters every where. He said: ‘‘I spoke a moment ago of the deeper gratitude expressed in action. My thought was not of com pensations or of pensions, or of the government's care for the disabled. These are obligations, and their discharge is a duty. There can be a gratitude of action which is a still finer and nobler thing. "There is another gratitude of action which surpasses all expressed in the others, which I hope to see recorded to glorify the last days of the civil war veterans and to add fullness to the lives of the world war veterans, and tranqullize the lives of all America and the world, i devoutly wish the United States to do its full part toward making war unlikely if not impossible. While I would abhor a pacifist America. I would rejoice to have the United Suites proven to be unafraid, and yet the most peace-loving and the foremost peace promoting nation in all the world.” Nobler, loftier sentiments of patriotism and humanitarianism were never spoken in simpler phrases. No trace of ambiguity, no tincture of philosophic sophistry, mars the clarity of that ex pression. It contains all that Woodrow Wilson meant when he spoke at Philadelphia in reference to the Lusitania incident, and used his unfortunate phrase that “We as a nation are too proud to fight.” Subseo.uent events disclosed how far from Mr. Wil son’s thought was the act of abject submission ;n order to avoid a conflict. Mr. Harding’s use of the word “unafraid” is a far happier choice. This is not a time for the splitting of hairs, however. It is good to know that the patriotism of the man in the White House is beyond any ques tion or doubt, that he sincerely desires that all na tions dwell in concord, and that America show them the way. Vet in the pursuit of this end so greatly desired by all, the United States will be at all times mindful of her own peculiar interests, and those of her citizens. No threatening gesture is involved in this utterance, for it is merely the restatement of the policy that has characterized the nation since its foundation. Never aggressive, never oppres sive. never seeking that which rightfully belongs to another by unworthy means, Americans have bat tled only for* their own rights and for liberty to all. We will remember our dead, we will carry on the work they have so well begun, and constantly strive to bring about a day when war, if not im possible, will be less frequent. The oft-repeated statements that we have lost our leadership in the world are not true. Only recently the statement of Great Britain and Japan simultaneously an nounced that the naval armament pact, entered into at Washington, is being carried out in letter and in spirit, and these and others have also testified that the Pacific agreement has solved more of the perplexing problems of world relationship than was ever expected. Warren G. Harding's devotion to his own coun try is not at issue, for it long ago was admitted. The people, however, are coming to understand that the partisan allegations of his adhesion to a policy of aloofness and' exclusion of the United States from a proper part in the business of the world have no foundations. His Memorial day ad dress is a direct answer. OUT OF THE RIVER, ON TO THE LAND Once in a while Omaha is able to render some signal service to other parts of tht state. Its latest Opportunity has been in the extension of irrigation in the west. D. W. Davis, assistant secretary of the interior, has stated that his tour of inspection would not have included Nebraska at all if it had not been for the insistence of the business men of Omaha. Having traveled for five days over the ; projects, both those now operating and those pro posed, he will take back to Washington a new in terest and understanding of the Nebraska situation. Some of the biggest men Omaha has grown left their private affairs to conduct the federal reclama tion party over the territory. Carl It. Gray, John L. Kennedy, Walter W. Head and G. W. Holdrege deserve the gratitude of the state for their success in interesting these government officers in the proj ect of supplemental irrigation in Gosper, Phelps, Kearney and Adams counties. In his speech at the Omaha Chamber of Com merce Secretary Davis expressed a thought that only now is coming to the fore in Omaha, that by putting a little water on the farm lands production can not only be doubled, hut insured as well. At a time when all the rage is for larger farms he pointed out the fact that under irrigation small units are best. Forty acres, he said, is a good sized farm in an irrigated district, with eighty acres desirable in some instances. One of the troubles with irrigation has been that too many land owners, struck with the speculative possibilities, hold tracts too large to lie cultivated economically. If, as he declares, better profits can be made off smaller acreage, then indeed is the future of irrigated districts bright. A more intensive agri culture. doubling or trebling production, support ing three or four families on tract's that formerly gave a hare living to one that means more wealth dnd more population. Omaha is as solidly hack of the proposal to increase irrigation as any of the towns located in the midst of these districts. The housewife whose diamond ring was found embedded in the ice in the family refrigerator now knows the nature of one of the experiments the class in elementary physics always tries. Ho rn.es p u n Verse Ry Robert Worthington Davie MY LITTLE BOY He's h lively litt’e codger, t'uto and running an ran be. And his Mother rail* hint Roger, Hut he’s simply "Hon'' tn nie There in mischief in his glance*. Genuinely boy I* he. 1'p and down the hall h* prance* With cherubic pi ide and glee. How completely he erase* Wrinkled furrow* of dismii' Whi'n hr swamps me with embrace* A I t he sunset of t lie day How hi* wholesome smile enhances, And hi* tiny finger* play. And how rapturous hi* glame i* When I rock hi* can*.* away. lie's a lively little codger. Good a* any hoy can lie, And ht* mother t alls him Roger. Hut he’* simply "Hon" to me. And l love to see him glowing, And t«» rock him on my knee, For It seems a way of knowing That I oiuje was young and free “From State and -Nation” Editorials from other newspapers, A Friend of Sportsmen. From the Neltgh Leader. Governor Bryan is credited with an intention to displace W. 1’. O'Brien as superintendent of the tish hatch eries in Nebraska. He has already taken action putting Mr. O’Brien and the hatcheries under the control and jurisdiction of Game Warden Koester. Mr. Koester is a good game warden, but is not to be compared with Mr. O’Brien in knowledge of fish propa gation. Mr. O'Brien has been in his present position for 30 years under democrat, populist and republican re gimes. He was placed there in the first place by Lew May, as radical a democrat as ever lived In Nebraska. The writer has known Mr. O’Nrlen and been familiar with his work for more than 20 years, but does not know what his politics is and does not care. He has tended strictly to business of propagating fish and the effort to stock the streams and lakes of Nebraska! It cannot be ques tioned that he is one of the most ex-, pert men in his line in the nation and so far as a job is concerned being let out in Nebraska means little or noth ing to him, for he can easily find an other one. His services, however, do mean much to the sportsmen of Nebraska, for now. for the first time sinfe his his tenure of office the department has the funds to really accomplish « unething in the direction of fish pro pagation, since the fish and game licenses money goes to that purpose and is ample to produce results under skillful guidance. Men who thor oughly understand the breeding and rearing of young fish are scarce, and If Mr. O’Brien's services are dispensed with. It is doubtful if his equal will be obtained to take charge of the work. His long tenure under all ad ministrations iielies the claim he has not been faithful to his duties, and the governor’s motives, therefore, in displacing him are difficult to under stand. Off Again, On Again. From the SL Louis Olobe-Democrat. (ielett Burgess too. has been writ ing in a popular magazine about table manners. There is an apparent re vival of Interest in this perennial sub ject. The revival itself may be more apparent than real, and if real it may be attributed, rightly or wrongly, to the large increase in the number of new rich people, most of whom feel very uncertain of themselves, and are willing to sit and learn at the foot of almost any person calling himself a social authority. Mr. Burgess relates that he was once with a surveying party the mem hers of which "combed their mus taches with their forks " IVe would tie left to infer that Mr. Burgess did not use his fork as a mustache < mb in the outdoor camps, hut for his good sense, or that if lie did not con form, he immediately reformed on re turning to more formal living. But »hy msv we not assume, with eyual safety, that the other men in that party did. on getting hack to formal life, aliandon thcjr camp habits? Everyone who has been in a ramping party has committed, and seen other men commit, eating atrocities there which' they would scorn to commit at any well set table, either as host or guest Nobody can he at constant guard nr attention. The man who rannot flrd relief from the cnsion in a camp will find It in a restaurant, where he can loaf ind invite his soul, either at n table or on a stool at a counter. My ladv and her family kitchen In which she can find onpnrtunity to en joy in negligee the flavors of her fa vorlte dishes, and without b ng a particle of the good table manners which distinguish .her ordinarily Mr Burgess illuminates the subject In one particular. Tie savs that King Edward VII picked bis teeth at table That is illuminative of the general subject, but we fear It will .confirm many of the new rich in this one of their old habits however Mr. Burgess may change some of their had table manners in other ways. Questions Harding's Advisers. Fr«m th* Omaha Trlbun#. The great inatie of the last cam paign was the league of Nation*. Now. there are two kind* of jmuw. the real and the artificial, and it i* hard to determine with which category the league should he classed. Wheth er nr not all the mt*ehlcf prophesied by the opponent* of the league would have happened to the I’nlted State* had we Joined the league i* a ques tion. As a general proposition na tion* do whatever i* to their advan* Daily Prayer The liord ** n rht unto alt them that call upon Him. — Pa. 1 4 5:1 n 0 Thou. Clod ami Father of us all. Thou art over all Thy children—-over all their joys ami sorrows. la* it a ft on, Ma«s NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for APRIL, 1923, of THE OMAHA BEE I ; Dally. 75,320 j Sunday. 82,588 Dn#i not include return*. left - | oc nr*. sample* or papers spoiled in printing and Include* no apodal 1 f*l«* B. BRFWKR, Gen Mgr V. A. BRIDGE. Cir. Mgr j Subscribed and »*orn tn be lot* mr thl* 2d day of May, 1921 W II QUIVEY. 1 ' {Seal) Notary Public A We Nominate— For Nebraska's Hall of Fame. i AH. SHELDON of Lincoln, -■ ratary of the Nebraska • Historical society, has done much to popularize the history of our state among its citizens. In addition to much writing and editing for the Historical society, and the state legis lative reference library, of which he was director 15 years, he has pule lished two volumes of historical sketches, Poems and Sketches of Nebraska,” and "History and Stories of Nebraska.” Dr. Sheldon has lectur ed for many years at the University of Nebraska on our state history and institutions. tape, regardless of moral camouflage, and it la very doubtful if fhe I'nited States would have fulfilled all the obligations assumed by its joining the league. But. in any event, we should have been in fhe wrong, Itefore the world, had we shirked any of those obligations, and there was no good reason why we should have put our selves In such a position. The same applies to the world's court, another issue which cannot be clearly declared a "real” issue. Never theless, it remains a fact that in ternational high finance is working under high pressure for the participa tion of the i'nited StRtes In the inter national court, and that fact sufTiies for the great mass of the people to view the matter with suspicion The democrats are heart and soul for It. Why. then, should the republican party follow Its example and dis please the electorate? In so doing the republican i«»rty eliminates a good and ittrai ti\e issue and puts itself in a wrong attitude before the public, because if It accepts the world court idea it would inferential!!-' also ac cept the League of Nations The great mass of the people do not recog nize any hair-splitting differences be tween these two Institutions. One Wesley Wait of Newburgh. N V has earned the doubtful merit of calling the world's attention to a crime committed by tba legislature of his slate. That crime is the re peal of the state prohibition law, which Wait brands as treason. He asks the president to suspend every member of the legislature wno voted for the repeal, together with the gov ernor, incase he approves the repeal. The president « answer to Mr Wait, from a legal point of view is, to say the least, not unassailable and ts probably not meant for an expert legal opinion Mr. Harding fs not a jurist and hss never claimed to be one It i« much more significant that on the same dav a declaration was made from the White House regard ing the president's attitude on the prohibition Issue. In this declaration. Harding saj* he experts the republican party In the nest campaign to come out for 100 per cent prohibition. He prom ises to do all he can during his pres ei ’ Incumbency to make prohibition effective and. If re-elected, will make that one of the most Important points during his second term. The presi dent emphasizes especially that he stands not only for strict observance of ilie lUth amendment and the Vol stead act. tint that hr considers pro hibition as an economic an*T moral factor of the greatest importance tine sometimes hears the remark that Harding is only a politician. Noshing is further from the truth. His predecessor soundly abused the polite iris, but only In order to give tin Impression that he. from his ex sited position, looked down upon* the trivial performances of that ilk. at l* III L !" (lie duties *-f Ids high of flee ,* chief of * grt if people. That W o i conscious |M>se. because Wood row Wilson was a politician through and through the most astute that eser occupied the White Mouse Mar ding is not a politician. He does not allow Itis decisions to be infiuetn-ed by political expediency. Instead, he submits too much t-> tire Influence of advisors, who have little or no con caption *.f I lie reiitbi enicnls of the p- |de or undei standing of the welfare of the party hnglntni'ft \\ ay. JJnfc. 1 .’4n«I has put a Ivin on Mara than dancing for the same* reason that padded cells were Invented—to keep lunatics from destroying them - • St Louie Post Dispatch ‘■THE PEOPLE’S VOICE” Editorial from reader* of Tha Morning Baa. Raadar* of Tha Morning Baa ara lavltad to uaa thl* column fratly for **pra*»lon oa matter* of public laUraat. ■ —----- 1 I nreconciled to Science. Meadow Grove, Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Forty distin guished Americans issue a statement denying that there is any antagonism between science and religion. Natur ally such a declaration carries con siderable weilght. Now. with all due respect to the integrity of these eminent signatories, they do not speak ex cathedra. The fact remains that between science and the religion of the Bible there is a very pronounced antagonism. Science repudiates the Bible story of creation and substitutes the ape-man theory. The fall in the Garden of Eden, the virgin birth, resurrection, and other Bible doctrines are denied as being unscientific. In a word, It is evolution versus inspiration. Certainly, there is no antagonism between science and the modern evo lutionary religion. But there is a vast difference between the religion of the Bible and the modern religio-scien tiflc amalgamation. The modern product is a compromise between Christianity, paganism and oriental philosophy, with a tinge of science that tickles the atheistic mind. In stead of maintaining a strict course along the "narrow way" marked out by the Master, the church locked arms with the world and sold its re ligious birthright for a mess of scien tific pottage and has lost all claim on the Bible as a standard of faith. The conquest lias all along been on the side of science. At no time has science yielded to religion. But re ligion has surrendered at every point of conflict until the church is honey combed with skepticism and doubt. The Rev. Albert Kuhn says in a recent issue of Th» Omaha Bee: "It was the lack of a gripping science, enlightened by a true Christian re ligion, that brought the world war with all its mystery.” Certainly! And this false, scientific ape-man religion with its "lack of a gripping con science.” will bring the next war. The world war, w-ith all its misery, was a scientific achievement, and the next world war will be still more scientific, not religious. It is frankly admitted that the religion of Jesus Christ, if applied, would eliminate war. Science will do nothing of the kind. And just to the extent that religion, any re ligion, dabbles with and absorbs a false, theoretical science to that ex tent does it weaken Its moral fiber and lose its grip on the conscience, and between religion and science there will cease to be any antagonism. E. E. EONG. Brookhart's New Political Creed. Omaha—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Vnlted States Senatoi Smith Brookl.ardt of Iowa, about to sail for Europe 10 make a personal Investigation of conditions there. was questioned regarding his position on current commercial and political af fair*. "I am opposed to everything Gary I* for" answered the Iowa sharp shooter. If Senator Brookhart is organizing a new political circus we bespeak for the J<-b of carrying water to the elephant because this is going to be a real show. Having been born within the shadow of a steel mill where the head of the family worked before those "living hell" furnaces we have been intere-t ed in the steel industry. Ex-Senator Kenyon has expressed practically the same conviction that Brookhart states and Kenyon ought to know, for he served as special assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice in a vain endeavor to convict those commercial criminals. Judge Gary is neither a steel expert or a Judge. Me la simply a strongarm f.nancial hrlgand. Mary is the living exponent of the "Pittsburgh Plus" freight steal This means that if the steel being use 1 to build the*new steel building on Nine teenth came from the Mesa ha range in Minnesota and was manufactured in Chicago that when the way bill was presented to the railroad in Chicago that S? per ton advance etiarges to equalize the same with the rate from Pittsburgh was exacted This simply mea t* that the Bank ers’ Reserve Life Insurance company will have to pay a bandits insiaom of f? a ton on every ton of steer that goes into that skyscraper. Gary advertises that he is the boon companion of Mussolini of Italy. Birds of i feather always do flock to gether Mussolini is the late.-t product of the international imperialists with Ku Klux Klan embellishments Hnookhardt's challenge is thinly veiled for it is well known that it i* the senior senator. Albert Sidney Cunv mins, that. Is dnred to pick up the gle\ e. The trans Mississippi countrv has suffered painfully for the political treacheries of the Allison'. The tVi! sons and others of lesser opportu nists. and if Senator Brookhart tears the veil from those masquerading political puppets he will serve his i country well and restore Iowa to thr position she should enjoy In this great agricultural domain W H GREEN His Kcg.irris to thr Monkey. Gibbon. Neb—To the Kditnr qf The Omaha Bee: W. .T Bryan la devoting a lot of time and energy to con vine ing the public that the evolutionary theory is wrong He says lhat the evolutionists have not proved their claims; hut neither hag be disproved them. As ho temporarily out » f any other "paramount Issue** this ques tion will probably answer his purpose as well as would any other; but in giving his side of the argument be appeals to the sentimental and spirit ual side of humanity instead of rely Ing upon any concrete proof He may believe what he says concerning his own origin, but he surely thinks the rest of us are descendants of the monkey nr of some le-»s intelligent The Best Lawn Mower Rolls smoothly and easily on Hyatt Roller Hearings. It requires oiling once a year—no oftener. Its five knives revolve at high speed insuring even, effort less cutting. This mower is the Coldwell Imperial — built to Inst a lifetime and priced (18-in. size) at ! , //# lawn mowers particularly you uill find that Hardware that lasts is cheapest. James Morton & Son Co. 1511-1513 Dodge Street quadruped, or lie would not have ex pycted us to believe all the thlr.gfl he has told us since the days of free silver.” 1 have no quarrel whatever with religion In the generally accepted meaning of that term, hut It seems to me that we should lie proud to claim the monkey an our ancestor In stead of being ashamed of it. The monkey lives according to the natural laws of Creation; our so-called civ ilization does not. And I would like to ask' Mr. Bryan and his support ers if. in comparing a drunk person and a monkey, they think the mon key suffers by the comparison? Do they think that nations in settling their difficulties by war have improved upon the methods of the monkey? Do they think that the monkey would pollute the atmosphere of his jungle home by smoking a weed of which even the swine refuse to partake? Do they think the meaningless chat ter of the monkey suffers by com parison with high school or college yell? Would a monkey wear furs in the summer time and pattern h.s win ter wearing apparel after the style of Father Adam? Do they think any bunch of self respecting monkeys would pay more than a million dol lars to see two other monkeys pound one another? Do they think a na tion of monkeys would be Joy-riding into bankruptcy at the rate of f.Cblt, 000 new motor cars ea< h year? Are the wildest and most brutal instincts of the monkey comparable to the frenzy of the human mob? And, in conclusion, may I ask is not Mr. Bryan, in a certain sense, a living example of the survival of the fittest? GEORGE EUKENBILL. * For the Short Ballot. Gothenburg. Neb—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: I am in receipt of a letter from Representative Lamb stating he and others are calling a mass meeting at the Lindell hotel in Lincoln for June 7, at J o'clock p. m. to consider initiating a constitutional amendment providing for a short Ell iot. I hope many men and women from Omaha can be there. I find sentiment much stronger for the proposition than I ever anticipa ted. One of our leading democratic farmers who had seen in the paper what The Omaha Bee reported from Gothenburg regarding the short ha’ lot. came into our store Saturday, stating he had read this article and Abe Martin ’Bout th’ only expense that haln’t tdyjuldered by th' < >nsurner th<-*e days is th’ wages o’ sin. Th’ best ioke vit is th’ $15 shod an’ silk hosed housewife cuttin’ down on a little thing like sugar. (Copyright. 1923 ) that he was with us In the matter, that he would circulate petitions and help In any way he could : . put it across. He seemed to understand the Sii i well ,-:ld the fact that he had been doing so much investigating along this line himself surprised me. W. M. STEBB1NS. Picks a Bone With Butler. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Police Commissioner Butler, I see, wants k.ds to quit play ing ball in streets He gave officers orders to arrest them. Is this a crime? Will he take fingerprints of them, as he wanted to of poor news boys trying to make a living? Another bad deal is trying rest poor crippled and blind trying to make a honest living. I give Mayor Dahlman credit: he has a big heart for a small man, and Butler a small heart for a big man. The kids will rememl-er Mr Butler, police comm.ssi ner of On.-. A VOTER. I Nowhere can you enjoy a more delight ful vacation than in the great west Hun dreds of thousands go each summer for its endless variety of attractions, and the complete rest it insures. To go now, when fares are reduced, is to see this wonderland at a great saving. Ramdl’£ Omaha g Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo. Rocky Mountain Na tional (Estesi Park. West Yellowstone l Yel lowstone National Park* \ Four and one-half days' motor trip in tha park, with accommo dations at hotels 154.00. at camps 345.00. Side trip Denver to Rocky Mountain National Park. 310.501 Portland, Tacoma, Seattle. 200 miles along the scenic Columbia River. 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