The Morning Bee M O R N I N G—E V E N I N G—S U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., rabliihm. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Th« Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of ail news 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 alse reserved. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for the Department j^y (antic or Peraon Wanted. For Night Calls After 10 P. M.: mftn Editorial Department. AT lantie 1021 or 1042. OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Co. Bluffa - - - If Scott St. So. Side. N. W. Cor. 24th and N New York—286 Fifth Avenue Washington - 422 Star Bldg. Chicago - - 1720 Steger Bldg. EUROPE AND THE FARMERS. An investigation of world markets for American farm products was ordered by the late congress. Secretary of Commerce Hoover has named a no table lilt of delegate! comprising farm leaders, bankers and business experts as a committee to study economic conditions abroad qjid the effect on agricultural prices. With the erratic conditions in Europe it is impossible to predict the future, but it is essential to secure an accurate understanding of present conditions and what the result of various pos sible changes might be. Those who have always favored American entry into the League of Nations now advance the argu ment that low prices of farm products are due to the upset condition of Europe. The market for farm products would be much larger, these claim, if the United States would pitch into the interna tional situation and clean it up. These advocates of the league never advance any figures to prove their case. In fact, they have no statistics at all. All the real evidence points to the contrary. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, who has made a study of the question, inclines to the opinion that as Europe recovers it will become more nearly self-sustaining, and will buy less food from America. “It ought to be perfectly clear that the low prices for farm products were not caused by lack of export demand,” Secretary Wallace recently de clared. He added figures showing that farm ex ports during the last three years have been greater lhan before the war, and greater even than during the war. The latest report on exports shows that the total value of all meats exported in the eleven months ended May 31 was $132,935,744, a gain over the same eleven months a year previous of $13,600,000. The poundage of beef exported was smaller than a year ago, but there were tremendous gains in the exports of all hog meats. The various gains were: Fresh pork, 16,600,000 pounds; hams and shoulders, 48.000. 000 pounds; bacon, 53,000,000; pickled pork, 7.000. 000; lard, 141,000,000 pounds. This showing should dispose of the claim that lack of a foreign market has caused the low price of hogs. It is easy enough to adopt a theory and ex plain everything on its basis. The theory that join ing the League of Nations would help the American farmer, or that the key to prosperity lies overseas is attractive to those who already are biased in favor of internationalism, but neither can be demon strated by any real evidence. Much good may be done by the committee in vestigating the foreign market outlook. If they find that there is prospect of a diminishing Euro pean demand, then the fanners must prepare them selves. And if they should discover a way in which to increase sales or hold them at their present high figure, that also will be of help to the producers, who are not interested in theories, but must know the facts before another year’s crop is planted. OKLAHOMA MOBS. The sovereign state of Oklahoma is just now be fore the world in a light that none will envy, yet which few will fully understand. Several populous communities, and one or two entire counties are un der martial law, by command of the governor, who finds that the local authorities have not been able to enforce the laws of the state and maintain order. Part of this may be ascribed to the activities of groups who have taken the law into their own hands. Encouraged by the existence of an organization that does Its business behind masks, individuals have made free to wreak vengeance, either private or public, on persons whose behavior did not meet approval. The governor has the report of 2,500 “whipping parties” held in the state in a single year. In addition to i his many other forms of lawlessness and disorder have been noted. One of the scandals of a few months ago was a bout at fisticuffs between the ^then governor and the prosecuting attorney of one of the populous counties, originating over charges made in connection with an insolvent bank. We do not feel like reading the people of Okla homa moral lecture, for they are capable of running their own affairs in their own way, and will have to bear the effects of their own doings. What may be pointed out is that the situation down there just now is a good illustration of what happens when self restraint gives way before self interest, and men begin to choose which of the laws they will obsprve and which they will ignore. Oklahoma will quiet down and become as orderly and as decently behaved as any of the sisterhood, but just now the proceedings down there present a strange light on democracy. BLOWING THE HORN OF PLENTY. “You’d better beat it, bo. Somebody went for a cop!” This warning was whispered to a man a* the entrance to the subway trains in New York one day last week. What misdoing was he guilty of? The most heinous known to the calendar in Gotham. He was trying to give himself a good time by helping others. Standing by the gate, he was pouring nickels out of hjs hat into the cash register as fast as passengers hurried through the turnstile. “I like it," he said, but his excuse was not enough. He was immediately voted crazy, and was hustled away from his stand for examination. New York is not alone in this attitude toward minor philanthropy. If a man make a donation to a charity, found a hospital, endow a college, or any thing of that sort, he gets great public acclaim. Let him start to paying fares of passengers on a street car, settling the checks at a cheap restaurant, or any thing like that, and at once he becomes an object of suspicion. A few yoars ago out at Seattle a Siwash Indian came into possession of several thousand dol lars, and procured a sack of silver coins, which he carried up into an unfinished skyscraper. There the police found him, enjoying himself to the limit, cast ing quarters and halves down for the white men lo scramble for on the sidewalk. He realized it would not be long until the whites had his money anyhow, and so thought he would have a little fun with it while it lasted. The police stopped him. The moral to this Is, if any, when you want, to give your money away do it quietly, if it be a small turn only. TO A VANQUISHED FOE. All honor to those wounded American veterans who stood at Minneapolis and drank a toast to the dead son of Ernestine Schumann-Heink. He served in the German navy, and went down to an unknown, unmarked grave with a U-boat, Wrong? Yes, frcm our point of view, but right from his own. He fought for his fatherland, for the glory of the empire, and he died as millions of others died in the struggle be tween two ideas. Death hallows all whom it touches, and Americans have no quarrel with the foes who have fallen, for giving them even as we forgive the living, once the test of battle has decided the issue. Four of Schu mann-Heink’s sons marched under Old Glory; two of them served under the German flag, and her mother heart could not divide between them. Of her fealty to the land of her adoption there is no question. She was loyal and is loyal to the United States, but she loved that boy who sleeps his last, long, unbroken slumber at the bottom of the sea. Without approving his judgment, there is no question of his motive. He fought as honest men have always fought, for that which he believed to be r.ght. Vanquished foemen, living or dead, are entitled to respect for their valor, and the true soldier does not grudge to accord to the men he met in battle the meed of praise due them for their steadfast courage and endurance. Our boys who met the Ger mans know if they were fighting men, and none will testify to this more readily than the disabled veterans who drank that toast to the dead German “gob.” Only in such a spirit can the world be made a safe place for humanity, as well as for democracy, and we may confidently trust the men who did the fighting to carry on now and in the days to come the great work of building that temple of brotherhood in which all the world will some day be united, saying with Bayard Taylor, to those who fell: "Sleep, soldier, still in honored rest Thy truth and valor wearing. The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring.” PERIL OF BEING A BABY. Americans may be jolted a little to hear from the secretary of labor, Hon. James J. Davis, that in nine other countries babies have a better chance of growing up than in the United States. As a people we are devoted to our families, to our homes, and to our children above all things. Committed to such belief, we must pause when told that not less than 250,000 babies under the age of 1 year die annually in the United States; Surely there is a reason for this, and just as surely there should be a remedy. It is not because we are obtuse or hardened. Whoever stood beside a little casket, where the loved one of a fond father and mother lay pale and quiet in the unending sleep, and did not feel a clutch at the heart that no philoso phy could lessen? It is not enough to say the little one has escaped the trials and vicissitudes of life. It also has missed the joys and pleasures of life. Be fore the cradle stands the big world, holding out to that little one the chance for life, with all its possibilities of service, its triumphs as well as its failures, its rewards as important as its trials, and from that cradle flows the strength of mind and heart that is to carry the world along to greater progress. Our babies deserve something better than is now given them. More pains should be taken to see that when a little mite of humanity comes into the world, borne on the love of its parents and all those who are near to them, that it does not have to face such a struggle for existence as makes possible the terrible figures presented by the mortality records. A quarter of a million babies is too high a toll for an enlightened people to pay for the privilege of neglecting some duty. Senator Wheeler, democrat, of Montana is back ing Magnus Johnson, farmer-labor candidate in Minnesota. Not to help the democratic party, he ex plains, but to beat a republican if possible. That is true democratic strategy always. A Nebraska woman has proved herself worthy n high place in the postal sendee by driving through a flooded district with delayed mail. It takes more than a little mud and water to hold back a Nebraska woman. -1 A democratic senator says neither the world court nor prohibition will be an issue next year. Well, there’s always the tariff to fall back on when other issues fail. “May the best man win,” is the customary senti ment, but little wailing will be heard if Gibbons should happen to knock Dempsey cold. Hailstones 14 inches in circumference are re ported from Falls City. If Nebraska has anything it must be the largest. — June hung up a nice little percipitation record, and everything growing out of doors shows the ef fects of it. The equalization board is through for the year. It will be missed but not mourned by many. Mr. Harding invaded Montana quite a distance, yet managed to give Shelby r wide berth. British labor declines to do away with royalty. They must have their show pieces. Safe and sane on the Fourth means sound and well on the 6th. President Harding picked a good place to spend Sunday. Nebraska’s far-famed climate is doing itself proud. Omaha's streets still lack drinking fountains. Homespun Verse —By Omaha's Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie MEMOIRS OF ADAIR. There's a modest little cottage In the valley of Adah. There's an apple tree betwixt it and the sun. And an Ivy vine Is clinging lo the porch; an empty chair Seems to murmur Ihst its useful days ate done. There's a melancholy curtain like s shadow folded down O'er the visions of a dreamer far away. The old lane Is left to lovers who niranrtei from the town, Seeking quiet at the . lose of busy day. There a a grove beside a pasture, and s stream Is winding through Clover fields that (ill with essences the sir. Snug within a fenced enclosure stands a hay stark sweet and new. And a mile acroie the valley liee Adair, Fourth of July at Shelby Some Sharp Remarks by Editors Regaiding the Championship Bout. ' Whatever the sporting pages may say, editorially the newspapers are taking a fling at the spectacle of the championship fight. The amount of money involved has even attracted the attention of publications devoted to business topics. Richard Spillane, the noted financial writer, deals thus with the event: "it looked for a day or two as if the Fourth *>t July were going to be a total loss this yegr. Some ardent persons out in Montana had planned to celebrate Independence day with a prize fight between tiie Honorable D^mpRey, champion of the world, and Tom (ribbons of St. Paul, Minn. The Honorable Dempsey was willing, pro vided he got $300,00(7. of which $100, 000 was to be paid upon signing ar ticles. $100,000 on June 15 and $100, 000 on entering the ring. He got $100,000 when he Rigned. but despite stories of wonderful sules of tickets east and west, north and south. It de veloped that the promoters were shy of cash to meet the second payment. Patriotic citizens came nobly to the front, raised enough to meet the sec ond installment of the Dempsey hon orarium and Montana was saved from the everlasting disgrace of having de ceived the Honorable Dempsey and the sport loving American people. "The rise of thfe Honorable Demp sey has been remarkably rapid. Ten years ago he was what you might term a traveling gentleman. He wasn't particularly fond of work. so. having no money, he beat his way around the country. Some persons called him a bum and a loafer. Dempsey's personal biographer dwells at length on Dempsey's liobo days. "Having great strength and an In clination to "scrap,” what more nat ural than that Dempsey should earn a few dollars occasionally by swap ping punches with some one else for the entertainment of some patrons of pugilism” in the hands of a good trainer he developed into a really great fighter, and look where he is now! For one hours work or less than one hour, on July 4, he Is to get as much as the president of the L’nlted States receives in four years and much more than the average man earns in a lifetime. une thing you probably do not ap preciate. but which you should get straight, so that you may understand the people of today. Is that the real heroes of the world war are those who stayed in America and kept ' e home Area burning. "Yes slr-ee—them was the heroes." "The proof is before you every day. Do the people concern themst >h about the thousands or tens of thou sands of young men who "went across." lost leg or arm. were gassed, or shell shocked or driven Insane? Who gives a thought to this pitiful army of heart broken, spirit broken, disillusioned young men—boys a few years ago—now in hospitals, sanitar iums, asylums, objects of charity and. If reports be true, scant and slipshod chai ity ? “Why bother about these human wrecks while we have the Honorable Dempsey with us? Didn't he do war work too? Certainly he did. There's a picture to prove it. He went to Hog island one day and was photographed In overalls Just like a common laborer. Think of it! The Honorable Dempsey in the garb of a lalwrer! I'nfortunate ly. however, the Honorable Dempsey neglected to remove his patent leather shoes w'hen he donned the overalls. "Some persons advised against us ing that photograph widely. Possibly they feared r«»tent leather shoes might become a fad ns silk shirts did later .n fashionable labor circles, "Despite the Honorable Dempsey's eminence some crotchety persons don't like him. They are mean enough to declare tlisr. as a stacker, he was worse than the notorious Berg doll for whom it could be urged that he was of German blood and sym pathles "There always are killjoys like Mist. The Honorable Dempsey holds them in supreme contempt. "Them guys." he says truly, "don't know the war Is over " lie is right. They don't "Why. that is just what we Amer icans want to do. We are ' fed up'' on war stuff and we resent anything in the way, shape or form of a re minder. We want the home run hit ters, the slap stick comedians and the "champeens" like the Honorable Dempsey They .are the Idols of young if not middle aged America They are the heroes who "Make this a better world to live in " If you don't believe it look at the gate receipts. Therein Is the proof.” A w estern point of ' iew Is expressed by the editor of the Kemmerer (Wyo.) Republican. This Is the way the editor expresses his disgust: "Isn't the American public about "fed up" on Shelby (Mont.) publicity? We belic\e If the fight was a month later, with the silly publicity continu ing and given opportunity to sink In the crowd attending would be about the size of a corporal's guard. livery morning for the past two months The Republican mail has contained a let ter from the publicity manager at Shelby, covering every act of the Mighty Dempsey and the Gibbering Gibbons, even to what they ate for breakfast. On top of this we have the sensations that break from day today, concerning Dempsey getting a ' mek over the ej'e from his sparring partner, and hts demand for his sec ond Instalment of IKK).000. Think of this great patriot, who fights on the anniversary of the nation's birth get ting over *300.000 for this battle! Dempsey Is entitled to pity over his loo zealous sparring partner dousing his scarred glim, and It was right that be was ostracised from the camp. Something really desperate must be done to protect our boxing champions from the rude proletariat I he 8t. Paul DiRpntch »eea a blow h' boxing hr ,i Rporl. allying "If. after *210.000 in Imr.l caah bn* been paid to him. the nvorh h.ua man itger of Jack Dempaoy i efueea to permit the conteat at Shelbv. he may find himaelf Juatlfled by the tenna <,f ilia contract. and utterly condenmed by public opinion at ibe amne time. I' may have more far reaching ef f.'.'ia upon the future of prof, h .onnl The Spice o f Life llllnka after Invltlna III. frleni .link* to •I nner, waa telling lilm nh..ut ih. i. in.rk memory of hi» lim. ..... m„m,, h* wl11 remember m. *' I Jink*. ^ i M#m#mbsr you* Why, certainly hs An hour la»#r thsy sntcrsd *fh* hnuie snd. sftwr .link* had *r#rt#d \fr# fMlnk* 'li* *ll#»l ftobhv ox#r to him "And do >ou rtm#mb#r in#. »nv lift!# m* n * *'i>ui»#. T do You'r# t|i# man that ps brought hom# Inst y#ar. and mini* m* #<» wild a bom |t tbw* *ht< didn't •|>#*h i«i l*s for A w»»#kMobil* H#gl*' *t An American. Baling >il tb# stupendous • rul larallk* mu**#* of ths Hpttttlsh calhf | drill of Toledo "Mid t*» hi* guide Mow ■ i"nf did It t*it« to tun up fl*4i* *ff*Ir* * |'ft'# hundr*d y*ftik **nor.' t b# gultla I miwrrftl lb# Amerban ute a ton t m»i»t nous i * tic b Flv* miiulrsd v#Hte* Whv, o*#r in Ootl * own rnuntrs tv* could build * strut lui# Ilk# Ibst *nd hav# it fffll to pl#« ## on our b*nd*. *11 tnsld# of twn or thr#s Vf»r« -Ths t hil»t:an i Lxsnftltsl (fit. Louis). boxing than Air. Kearns can conceive. "The champion has already received a little more than two-thirds of the amount due him. Another $100,000 is due. It is obvious that the ‘•gale’’ will not justify tills. Mr. Kearns in sists upon it, nevertheless. Most peo ple will think that $210,000 Is entirely too much to pay a champion boxer, let alone $310,000. They will consider that a sport conducted on such a plane is not sport at all. If Kearns demands his pound of flesh, we trust that the public will see to it that he never gets another chance to exact It." The New York World raises the doubt, after all the money grabbing, if many will attend the light, saying: "If Shelby had known how much trouble a prize fight could be even be fore it began, it is doubtful if the town would have ordered the Dempsey-Gib bons combat. There is not a leading citizen who hasn't lost time, sleep and weigh!, and sunk more money than he could afford in the project. Day after day some new worry assails every promoter and investor. "Nothing remains but to gather a crowd. It is this last essential which keeps Shelby awake these hot nights. What If nobody should come? What if Uie 1’nited States doesn't care for lights since the war—or doesn't think this one worth traveling so far to see? Shelby could almost be sorry the thing ever got started. The New York Sun and Globe seem ingly resents the ambitions of Mon tana, expressing the opinion that New York is the proper place for such ex hibitions. In so doing, however, it is not blind to the imposition on the public of the tactics of the promoters. Us opioion follows: "However, Shelby's expensive les son may have its good effect. It has emphasized some interesting aspects of modern prize-fighting. This ac tivity, once the sport of village greens, is shown by the event to be more and more an affair for the city In its least commendable phases. It is a drug for jaded clerks and brokera, profes sional sports, mere Bpenders. How much these arc willing to pay for their pleasure is indicated by the Dempsey price. Carson City and Goldfield asked for smaller crowds. Prize-fighting has grown beyond them. It Is now only for cities which justify fex Rickard's $5,000,000 palace of sport. And tills is a comment on tile gullibility of the public in such places. Perhaps Shelby may bring home the lesson where it is most needed. The little western town has tried to buy Its gold brick and may not bo able to do so. Other and larger towns show to little better advantage in being able to pay successfully for the folly be yond the reach of Shelby.” WastingPublicMoney From the Kansas City Star I* the resignation of an assistant secretary of agriculture of so much Importance that the department is jus tified in mailing to every newspaper in the country a copy of the letter of resignation, a copy of the letter of acceptance, and a third sheet announc ing the incident? Such nonessential work as this Is one reason why all the departments at Washington require many more employes than are neces sary for their essential labors In car rying on the government. The same envelope which contained these enclosures carried a five page statement that the secretary of agri culture ts going to Alaska, and some commonplace information about the territory, taken largely from the census reports. It is not fair to the secretary of agriculture to assume that he person ally prepares such unnecessary com munications that load up the mails, under his name. The Department of Agriculture probably is no worse than some of the other departments in this method of squandering the public funds. The-c multitudinous nonessentluls account for millions of dollars of the taxpay ers' money wasted by the government They keep the list of goiemment em ployes larger than it should he and they load the postal department with nonrevenue producing mall, not to mention the burden on newspapers and other business Institutions who ' must open innumerable envelopes con taining news not worth printing or Information not worth reading, or else throw the entire mass of such mail Into the waste basket unopened, as. doubtless, ts done In many business offices. The government at Washington needs some men with sufficient cour age to suppress the tons on tons of useless stuff that now cumbers the malls. Daily Prayer faithful la Ha that railed you —* Tli«?a. ft.14. O God. our hope Is In Thee. We lift our ryes to the hills whenre rnmeth our help. We are in the v alley « her* there Is darkness; but looking tip vs can see the light of Thy glory on tlis hill tops above us. and the vision dis pels our fears and fills to twih hops and courage. Kill our hearts with a longing for Thee, greater than the longing of those who wait for tlis morning, and grant us that know! edge of Thyself, through Jesus Christ our Lord, that Thy presence ntay be constantly real to us (iranl us strength for our tasks, and may we do all of our work as in Thy sight and for Thy gloty Make tbs way of duty and service very plain to ns. Quicken us in fallli and hope and lots and strengthen us In all our worthy purposes and desires, and make ua a blessing to others. Keep us from all mistakes or blun tiers in word or act that might bring re proa i It upon Thy Name and Thy cause. Make us quick to see every opportunity for service, and faithful to Improve It. Cleanse us from all "in. perfect us in all goodness, give its victory In time of temptation, and make our lives in be beautiful with tlte Iteatity .if licit All of which met cles and blessings we ask In the Name and for the sake of Jeaus Christ, our Lord Amen WIGWAM IVIHT KING, tip,, Hi t.nuli Mo Always N«jbra*kan* hav* been on l the alert for that coal mine that ao far ha* eluded them Am long ago mm 18 73 the subject was a. live topic, and the legislature of that year en. gaged in debate or a bill to eubaidiie exploration*. Mr Ro*«water# on February *. 1*73. discussed the mat ter in the editorial which follow*: HOW TO DEVELOPE OCR COAL. "There are now several propositions before our legislature looking to the development of our coal interests. There is a proposition to offer a bonus to the owners of any coal mine or mines, who shall first succeed in de veloping a vein or veins of coal of a specified thickness. Then there is a proposition to appropriate several thousand dollars for an accurate geological survey of the state, with a view of choosing the ground where experiments in boring for coal are likely to succeed. Professor Aughey of the State university, in his recent lecture on geology, very properly stated that little could be expected from a mere surface survey of this state, and nothing very thorough could be achieved without a general upheaval of the whole upper crust that underlies our soil. The face of this state has already been pretty thoroughly surveyed, and so far we know presents nothing definite to war rant any positive assertions about ex tensive coal fields. "Mr. Thomas Wardell of this city, a gentleman who Is thoroughly fami liar with coal mining in this country, expresses the opinion that nothing de finite has been ascertained about our coal measures or their existence. He regards the artesian bore at Lincoln as unreliable, so far as Its measure ments of the coal veins through which it is claimed to have passed is con cerned. Mr. Wardell thinks it use less to niter any special inducements to mining experiments until we know positively whether coal is paying quantities exists in Nebraska and how deep wc shall have to dig down for it. At any rate be deems it of the highest importance for the sta'c that a series of an urate experimental bor ings in various parts of the state should be undertaken to obtain the desired information. Machinery which w ill bore a hole from two and one-half to three inches in diameter to a d< | th of SThl to I.JftO feet, inn tie procured at reasonable prices, and if the legis lature would designate a dozen points where these experiments are to lie conducted, we should, within a few months at the outset, know what Ne braska can do in supplying her own coal. "Mr. Wardell informs us that ho would willingly superintend these rx. periments without charging a cent for I his personal services. Whenever it shall tie practically demonstrated that we have good veins of coa], at reason able depths, there will be no difficulty to find capitalists willing to engage 1 in mining without any special bonuses. ' According to Mr. Wardell, the ex- I penses attending a dozen borings I would probably not exceed IJii.OOO to I J30.f»00. Such an outlay, wc eppre- j hend. would amply remunerate tax-| payers of Nebraska, and would meet with their general approval.” “The People’s Voice” editorial* from rtidtn of Tkt Moral*! Boo RtlScn of Iko Mornlno Boo trt Inxttn! fo uu tan column froolx lor uxprtuUu oa motion of publlo ItUratf. The Railroad Problem. Republic, Kah —To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Before we can sug gest. a remedy we must face the facta as to the railroad situation. Statistics recently published showr that the retail prices of certain meats has risen In 10 years from 12 to 73 per cent, while the price paid to cat tle raisers has declined 17 per cent. Part of this retail price of these cattle entered into the shipment of them by railroads. , Part of the high maintenance cost of the railroads Is due no doubt to the high prices paid during the war which the railroads are endeavoring to get back. The high rates are also due to the mismanagement of some of them, watered stock and high cost of labor. Therefore, in order to show a profit, the railroads are obliged to in crease the rates. It is being proposed that all the railroads be consolidated into a smaJl number of systems. The whole to be under a rigorous government super vision. That some of the weaker roads be consolidated with the stronger. Here is the rub. Who shall be the judge as to which roads shail be consolidated and who are the men that can reconcile all these conflicting Interests involved in such an enormous reorganization? Would the stockholders of these va rious railroads, who also have their political leanings, be willing to leave it to a partisan administration? Surely not. The trouble wlt.i some of these roads is that the are controlled by in dividuals who dominate them. They fix their own and favored ones salar ies, regardless w hether they are com petent to earn it. Congress should'pass a law , "that no corporation manager should receive a salary, but a percentage of the cor poration’s gross earnings,•' similar to a traveling salesman s remuneration. He would soon get out and hustle to put its business on a dividend paying basis. There should also be a law compelling all corporations to have a standing inquisitorial committee made up of 12 stockholders, similar to a grand jury, whose duties it shall tie to investigate the busi 'ss methods of the company, and publish Its find ings for the benefit of its stock holders. The public at large would take more interest then In investing their money in such securities. Another feasible plan would be to have federal control of trunk line rail roads, w ith spurs running Into each sfate. This involves federal owner* ship, and without a check on their management is ,s now proposed would he a farce. Even with a railroad com mlasion it would not be the best policy to run it that way without a check. But. if each federal judicial district had a atanding grand jury, whose sole duties would be to only Investigate, the affairs of each railroad in their; jur sdiction and publish its findings Abe Martin our idee of an item that hain’t o’ general interest is when some dude goes t’ court an’ wins his ring back. A reg’lar wife is or.p that don't look fer her husband 'till she sees him cornin’. Copyright. from time to time, the public would not have any fear of extravagance or mismanagement of its railroads. Congress should even go further then that and extend the grand jury system by having two grand juries in each district: one devoting V* entire attention to investigating the man agement of the various federal de partments. It is worth the expense. The trouble today is we do not know how the money collected from various sources is applied for the running of our government. MARTIN BERNHARDT. The Hypocrite. Brayton, la.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: “No matter where you chance to be su< h humbugs you are aure to gee."— The Hypocrite.'’ I know a sanctimonious jay wh®^ claims he treads the narrow way, who's always praying, night and day, and says his sins are washed away. All Sabbath meetings he attends, and there unto the Lord he lends a jitney, or sometimes, maybe, a quarter, so some folks ran see how liberal he ran be while waiting for eternity. His neighbor* claim his talk is bunk: they t'hun him as they would a skunk; (hey would not trust him in a trade, .’or he lets taxes go unpaid. He'll side track from the narrow grade If he « not careful. I'm afnud. We read of such in Holy Writ. Beware of such a hypocrite. C*. B. S. " hat are the People Saying? Of course. Colonel House was right when he said that the United Bute* tbe g ing of world affairs. But it will not to ieft to a small group to determine what the proper place is—Albany Journal. 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