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The Morning Bee M O R N f N G—E V E N I N G—S U N D A Y _ THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Publisher. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Th« Associated Press. of which Tlia Bee Is a member. la exclusively entitled to the use for rrimbllcatlnn of all news diar&tohes credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper, and also the local new* published herein. All rights of republicatlous of our special dispatches are also reserved. BEE TELEPHONES * Private Branch Exchange. Ask for the Department |antic or Person Wanted. For Night Calls After 10 P. M.: 1000 Editorial Department. AT Inntio 1021 or 1042. OFFICES Main Office—17tn and Famam Co. Bluffa ... 15 Scott St. So. Side, N. W. Cor. 24th and N New York—286 Fiftfy Avenue Vtaahingion - 422 Star Iildg. Chicago - - 1720 Steger Bldg. NOW IS THE TIME TO UNITE. Certain factors in the industrial situation in the United States are out of line. Which is another way of saying that something is wrong. The big end of the load has suddenly been shifted onto the farmer, and the question at present is how to restore the balance, so that the food producers of the fcoun try will get something like an equal share of the prosperity that exists. A wide diversity of views are expressed by men who ought to know and who have given the situation close study. No need to spend much time in discuss ing these views, as none of them will finally control any solution of the problem. In this connection, the best thing that has been said of the situation is that the remedy lies right here in the United States, and not in Europe. The most apparent need of the farmer just at the moment is better organization for marketing what lie has to sell. Various schemes have been consid ered within the past few years, none of them finally having been generally adopted, because those roost directly affected were not fully convinced of the practicability of any. Co-operative marketing in some form may be the solution for the grain farm ers of Nebraska, as it has been for the fruit and nut farmers of California, but the present situation can not wait on the setting up of machinery to carry on the business that will fall to it when ready to start. That is for some other day. The wheat problem is right here. Very generally the Omaha plan for dealing with I he situation has met approval. At Washington of ficials of the Department of Agriculture approve the idea of parties buying wheat and flour to sustain the market. The effect of the plan is not fully noted yet, nor will it be for some time. Appeal to the lailroads for a reduction of 25 per cent in the rate on wheat for export only was generally regarded as well timed. A meeting of the railroad executives held to consider the matter has resulted in a decision not to grant the request, according to press reports 1 rom Chicago. This is a great disappointment to those who were supporting the request. Details of the reply will be made public soon, and the reasons for the stand may then be considered. Experts differ as to the probable final yield of wheat, and as to the amount that will be available for export. What is true is that the world will have as many hungry mouths clamoring for bread next winter as last, and therefore the purchase of wheat by the ultimate consumer is very certain. This is not the time to “sing the blues," but to unite in full upport of a plan that promises relief. CHARLES R. SHERMAN. GOOD CITIZEN. You knew Charley Sherman; everybody in Omaha must have known him. For years and years he was 'light here one of us. He began as a peddler 6f per uimas, and wound up as head of one of the biggest retail concerns in the country. Whether he was working as a clerk or looking after the details of the immense business he founded and helped to build up, i e was the same Charley Sherman at all times. His life was not all spent in a drug store; he min ded with men, and was beloved of them, for he had a peculiarly genial way that drew men to him. He served others as well as himself, and he served the public, too, with quite as much zeal and fidelity as he employed in his own affairs. Especially as a member of the Water board was he active and pro gressive in looking after public welfare. He helped set the machine in motion, and contributed much to the great success of the enterprise that has made Omaha’s venture into public-owned services notable throughout the land. A few weeks ago he strode down Farnam street, his head up. a new light in his eye. He had retired from active business, after half a century of hard work, and he was going to play for a time. He didn't know just what form of play he would take up first, but would make plans and then carry them out. The main thing was, he had some time now to devote to doing things he wanted to do. He will be met on Farnam street no more. Be fore even his play plans had taken shape, he went to the hospital and now he is dead. What seemed like a simple ailment apparently had struck deeper than was suspected. Omaha has lost a really good man, whoge usefulness was proven in many ways, for Charley Sherman really has retired so far as this life goes. LIGHT SUMMER READING All along the line, as far as any record is known, .lie human imagination has expended itself in the creation of wonders. When the ancients drew a map of the world, they shaded off the unexplored portions of the globe into nice regions which they peopled with headless men, and similar monsters. Sav ages have mixed their every-day experiences with dreams, and produced heroes, demigods, beasts that never did and never could exist, and puzzled in vestigators to trace to their origin fanciful tales that lead well, but do not test out on examination. Fic tion writers love to let their fancy play lightly over the scene, and give us men who have gorgeous ad ventures in all sorts of wonderful places. Marco Polo and ( apt. John Smith furnished the scientific world of their day with plenty of material for con versation simply by not spoiling a good tale in tell ing it. Whoever it was first devised the Indescribable monster in the alkali lake south of llay Springs, he did a better job than he knew. Just the mere an nouncement did not get the attention such a dis • covery or invention deserved, hut when they added the whale hurting outfit, then it went over big. Pa pers from Boston to Tpcoma have given over front page space to the announcement of the proposed hunt, and the matter has started many a debate throughout the land. How much publicity will he gtven to the fact that the owner of the land on which the lake is situated declined to allow a dinosaur hunt on his land will get is not in question. Nobody who hasn’t seen the animal is in good position to argue with thoie who say they have seen it, and ao the story goes over as unfinished Uq«in*%« Is may a* mo, enH meyhe not, hut It has 'll ip pood raiding for tha atlly saaioti. whan falka If* *«« M»WH»Vhiag U minus «« 4j GOOD NEWS FROM THE SICK ROOM A "handicapped physical machine" is functioning with such reliability that doctors and everybody else are encouraged to think that President Harding soon will be out of danger. Any man laid out from an attack of pneumonia is in grave condition, whatever his strength. He is just the battleground for one of the fiercest fights that can be waged anywhere. The bacillus of pneumonia is a ferocious foe, and does not fight according to any rules but his own, and thus the blood corpuscles whose business it is to overcome such intruders have their work cut out for them when pneumonia develops. In addition to his physical machine, which is all right aside from being a little tired, the president has the greater advantage of a will to get well. He is determined that this illness shall not prevent him from carrying on the work to which he has been assigned, and this very determination is worth more to him in the contest than many tons of medicine. His attending physicians are greatly encouraged by the fact^ as they have developed. All over the country, and the world, too, the thought of the people turns to the bedside of Warren G. Harding. Prayers for his recovery are going up from altars in the home, in the hamlet, village and city. Rulers and heads of great nations are waiting for news, and no business^ is so urgent but it can be halted for a moment to learn of what is going on in San Francisco. The famous hospitality of California, which was to have been shown in receptions or processions, pageants and parades, is exhibited in the thoughtful precautions taken to secure rest and quiet for the distinguished invalid. City noises, as far as may be, are rigidly suppressed, and everything possible is being done to ensure the safety and comfort of the city's stricken guest. With fever dropping, heart action stronger, and general condition advancing, the president has won the first round in the fight. The unanimous hope is that he wins each of the other by as good a margin and ends the contest with a clean knockout for the pneumonia germ. A LITTLE NEIGHBORLY SWAPPING. A proposition that has some very attractive qual ities is being put forward in both Germany and America, having to do with the sale of our surplus wheat, or so much of it as the German people may need. Germany has a contract with the soviets for 16,000,000 poods, or 12,000,000 bushels of wheat, to I be paid for in machinery the Russians need. More wheat may be secured from the same source and through the same means, but the conditions imposed by the soviet government are rather onerous. Now the Germans are approaching America with an offer to exchange commodities, say potash or dyestuffs, for wheat. In the absence of gold, a resort to barter is not at all out of place. Immediately following the close of the war quite an amount of cotton went to Ger many on the basis of payment in kind, and various sorts of food also were exchanged. So there is noth ing new in the process. Germany has the potash that can not be eaten; we have the grain, but need fertilizer. Instead of effecting an exchange by means of credit or money payments, why not make it the rate of bushels of wheat for tons of potash? Not all the surplus would be so accounted for, but enough of it to make an appreciable difference, trade in both countries would be stimulated, each would dispose of what it has to sell and get what it must buy, and on terms that should be satisfactory all around. What is wrong with the idea? Some day the old, old dream of consolidating the City of Omaha and Douglas county may come true, and so end the long argument between the city and colinty commissioners over who owns the court house and the city hall. Both buildings belong to the public, but the officials often overlook this fact in their efforts to dictate to one another. Federal reserve bank reports show no sign of diminution of industrial or commercial activity in the Tenth district, to which Omaha belong*. If we ever get the price of wheat back where it ought to be, there will be no holding this section of the country. France is talking of tightening up on divorce laws. This will be a bit hard on some Americans, who are accustomed to going to Paris for their di vorces, the same as they do for their clothes. One difficulty in dealing with wheat is the differ ence of opinion as to how to proceed. Too many cooks are likely to spoil the broth here. Abe Martin asks who can remember when we used to rest on Sunday instead of Monday, but that was before the days of gas. It is perfectly legal to cut the bonds of matri mony, but not with a knife or razor, as some Omaha couples seem to think. A landing field for airplanes is to be dedicated at Leadville. Many a high flyer hit the ground there in days gone by. Warden Fenton again complains his prison is overcrowded. Is this a signal to the pardon hoard? Homespun,Verse —H.v Omaha's Own Post— liohort Worthington Davit SHALL A MURDERESS PAY? We casually are saddened by the gruesnmeneaa of crime. Although we'll ever like to meet the nohle end sublime. •Hie t raged v of life we re nil end wonder and remet. And we are left with horrid thottshl* that we can not A mother proved a murdei Incredible H To im who know a mothei h Iovk and wonhip It In dream*. A mother waita to pay the price for life a aatoundlah deed, While hapless, homeless children cry and roam the etieets In need. Is this revenge? 1» Justice done? We doubt or we affirm; Perhaps the Wiser penalty would lie a prison term. Another, fie., to live and love the victim of hm l.lnvve Whh torn from I fe and sleeps today to wekenlcss repose, A not list home his Inn lie til# «. ef, ihe ahuddeis and despair And olhet .git.lien wait in vain In yieet their mother l here. Khali w. forgei tin sld-plng mu Mh.ill we fi.igive the other lie, mis. fin all Ihr ahe hn» done, ahea been a fellhful nttlt her'' If cold, dellbeiale were her deed and devilish he. Intent Khali she survive? Shall she escape Ihe doom of pun ishmciit? "e seek the hie**' We veem let Wise we wnrehlp the mtbl.uie And '.miubutst.vp eseuia to gl,« euteuiegeiatat tv “From State and -Nation” Editorials from other newspapers. A Record of From the Beatrice Eipreee. It la an account of stewardship of the present administration at Wash ington that the series of messages President Harding has delivered in person to the people on his western trip hold greatest political interest. Ttead in connection with the record of his administration, it is Inipregna t>le argument for the electorate’s sup port. An account of obligations fulfilled, of pledges made good, Is contained in the executive's sketch of the nation's increasing prosperity, his exposition of financial conditions and of reduc tions effected in taxation, his state ment of economic and businesslike ad ministration of government, his out line of achievements promotlve of in dustrial peace and of the public's in terest. When the Harding administration came in business was almost par alyzed. productive industries were partially active, the railroads were earning scant returns on Investment, finances were in a panicky state, agri culture was ulmost in collapse, mil lions of workers were pnemployed, construction was at a standstill, hard times were reported from every quar ter. In striking contrast with the above are conditions today. Business is reg istering prosperity on every hand and at every turn, productive Industry Is active and In many fields is working at maximum activity, the railroads report increasing earnings, finances are in sound state, agriculture lias shown marked improvement and is still advancing in that direction, un employment has disappeared, con struction is going ahead. These re sults are manifestly to be credited to the helpful and prosperity stimulat ing policies and practices of the party in control. The tax burden which, under the preceding administration, was so placed that it crippled business and industry and tended to hold back in vestment. has been lessened and re distributed—with results shown in generally Improved conditions now with the nation. Great economies have been effected In almost every line of governmental activity. By reducing expenditures and increasing the efficiency depart ments. bureaus 'and other agencies, the administration has applied busi ness methods and has effected savings and better service. The administration's achievements promotlve of industrial peace have been impressive. The president not only hits rendered great service in bringing employers and employes to a better understanding that makes for peace, hut has spared no effort to drive homo to both classes the right of the public to a fair deal and to jUBt consideration in industrial con troversies that affect Its Interests, either directly or indirectly. The beneficial results from repub lican administration are in plain sight. Partisan dissent and denial will not carry far with an electorate that has been given to realize the changes effected under it. The people cannot fall to know that they are in better condition now than they were when struggling under depression chargeable to the preceding adminis tration, and just elements will not fail to place rredit for such outcome where it is due— that is. to the ac count of the party in control. The American voters not only have seen the administration exert effective ef fort In dealing with matters brought before It. but have aeen it go to meet the needs of the nation—instead of waiting for them to be presented for treatment—and have witnessed its ex ercise of statemanshlp in working out and applying preventive formula against threatening Ills. Against the facts on the adminis tration's records, the arguments that nre being advanced by the opposition for a change of control can make no headway—with those of the elec torate who Judge the comparative merit of a party by results obtained The party In power has proved Its rhamplonshlp of the nation's best <n terest. The Hnrdlng administration has earned the support of the voters by the service It has rendered. A Mipor Character. From the Kaniii City Kinatn The Km pot la Gazette introduces a minor character in the great drama of the harvest in Kansan. This la the way the great novelist. Wil liam Alien White, draws the picture: "Up at daylight gathering garden produce, shoes wet with the early dew; shelling mountains of i»eas. peel ing piles of potatoes, stringing beans without number, frying chickens; standing on blistering feet in the afternoon heat to wash interminable dishes to be filled and washed again after sunset." The man on the reaper, the "oc casional worker" who happens around to aid in the work of gather ing the grain, the elevator man who I buys the wheat, even the machinist who keeps the engine and reaper In repair, all have "speaking parts." and are in every picture that is taken of the harvest drama Hut the "women folks" work harder and longer than any of them and have minor parts. There nothing vary poetical in preparing three meals a day for very hungry men to swallow down. Hut, after nil, meals are the important tiling'* «t harvest tiime. They are also the things thut are llkeh to be remem bered the longest, whethei good or bad. So ail honor he to the "worm n folks The meals they prepare, 'hough appearing but n short time Daily Prayer Lay not up for your»fl\r« tr.-n»uir» upon cNtth, where moth ami nim • loth tor nipt, anil where thieves bonk through uikI steel; Hut ley op for youni«>lv*>M imiurM In Hraven. v\ li**r< n»th<r ninth nor rust doth corrupt, ami writers thieve* «1o out break through not st**ni For where your traiiun- in. tHer<* will your liegrt be also. — Matt, t 19-91. Our gra* Ions Father, wo would take account of tins day in Thy pre.tue. It is Thy gift to ii« new. and apeak ing of Thine unfailing can . clean; and may we luwp It so, and return it to The# fl<» filled that the da\ may be pUstsIng to Thee, an honor to our living hold, and n help to those with whom we live and work. Grant lie some new manifest a l ion of Thyself today, some deepei experience of Thy grace; a dourer vision of our field of service, and mure joy In its work May we have a fill inclination to our duty, and an honest preference for Thy will Ho may our fellowship with Thee Is5* unbroken toda \\ «> commit ourselves nnd friends with our needs and anxieties, to Thy faithful keeping Therefore may w* be glad and free from care. May the day come soon when all the earth shall reek its ref uge in Thss Forgtv# our sins, and msks us tnors Ilk# our M*sr#r—• eensl Mvt en* strung unselfish and true tut Un • sake *n*eu Iiy IMOjtY w HUM. , IfMlM £u!tJi floor of thf telephone building will read the following f/om The Omaha Bee of July 17. 1$80. and emlle. Yet it was a big thing for Omaha In thoN day*, arul denoted the enterprise that marked the city even ai that ttm*. “GEARED LIGHTNING." “The Maze of Masts and Meshes of Wire.” 'The rapid growth of Omaha's tele phone system has far exceeded the anticipation of the company, and has proven to our business community its great advantage as a means of quick communication. The company has found it necessary to do away with the old battery system, and are now engaged in substituting the magneto system. This will require a far greater number of wires, as every subscriber will thereby b# provided with a special wire to the central sta tion,, thus avoiding the liability to be ‘cut out' every time he attemps to talk over the wire. "This great number of wire* makes it necessary that larger and higher poles be erected on the principal streets. On Douglas street the masts have been raised. They are about 45 feet high, with five crossbars each and eight wires to the bar. A similar line is now being erected on Karnharfi street. The additional poles to be erected in the residence portion of the city will he 30 to 35 feet high. Four 60-foot poles are being put up—one near the Western Union office, one in front of Peter Goos’ hotel, one In the alley In the rear of the telephone office, and one in the alley near the K. C. & C, H. ticket office. “The 65-foot mast, with 16 cross bars to accommodate 98 wires, which has been raised at the corner of Douglas and Fifteenth streets, is a sort of center pole for the entire sys tem. "On the top of the telephone office there is being built a cube-shaped tower, eight feet high, nnd all wires from the masts in the Immediate vt clnlty w ill be run Into this tower and thence into the office, which is to be supplied with six 50-wire switch boards. accommodating 300 wires, which number it Is expected will be increased to 500 within one year. “These improvements will cost the company over $5,000, and will make the Omalia Telephone exchange equal to any in the United States. The company asks the indulgence of its subscribers for a few days longer as the confusion caused by the trans ferring and restretrhing of the wires has i aused some murmuring among the subscribers.” on the stage !n the drama of the harvest, are likely to be more en thusiastically encored than any other feature of the harvest. What Is needed Is the poet of the dining table, who can dramatize It as It should be done. Oklahoma's Girl I-aureate. From the Brooklyn Easts. .She's here because she * her< Who's here? .Miss Violet McDougal, aged 25, apparently aged only 20. opp< nent of boblted hair and poet laureate of the sovereign state of Oklahoma by appointment of Governor J. G. Wal ton. Her cheeks are pink, her eyes are blue, her pen and Ink ahd rhy thm are true. She had her first ioem printed In tho New York Times eight years ago. She was backed for her appointment by the Writers' Guild of Oklahoma City, the Poetry Guild of Norman, where she graduated at the state university, and most of the women's clubs of Oklahoma Youthful” Nonsense. Poets have no age. Miss Violet is precisely a* old as James MarPherson when he puzzled the literary world with "Os slant" two years older than Bryant when he brought out "Tbanatopsls " To be sure, he had published one hook of verse when he was 14, hut he never expected anything in It to live. Miss Violet's first book Is to come out shortly. She collaborated in It with her sister, also a genius. Miss Mary Carmack McDougal. There * nothing egotistic Or fsme grasping about Mis* Violet. I.et us apostrophize ihe girl laureate of Oklahoma In the lines of Denver Smith's classic: "Your years arc few your life is new, your aou! untried, and yet. Our trail Is in the Kimmeridg* rlsy ami the scarp of the Ptirbeck flag. We have left our hones In tho Bag shot stones, and deep In the i ora line i rag; Our life Is old. our love !■ old. and death shall come amain Should it come today, what man may any we shall not live again'"' So, welcome, warmly welcome, la Miss Violet to New York! Her soul oannot long remain untried In this metropolis. In the years in come may «h« ha ye the name and the fame and ihe range of experience of Mrs. Klta Wheeler Wlloox No poet can ripen fully In the atmosphere of an nil gusher commonwealth Belli Have Had Keroril*. !' would ho Interesting to know which ha* started the greater iiiim hei of wars, the pence conference at l.ausanne or the league of nations — Springfield (Mo.) Hepuhlican. Barely Considered. The one Important question eon ■ einlng anv iniididiile for public of Hoc I* 1* he well qualified -Albany Journal. NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for June, 1923. of THE OMAHA BEE Daily . 72,791) Sunday. 77,783 Doe* not Include returns, left j nvor*. •ample* nr paper* spoiled In j printing untl include* no sperial •ale*. B. BREWER, Gen. Mgr. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. , Subscribed and sworn to bofaro m* ! thla Ttb day of July, IIH t w h Quiver. • •••* ‘ N**o#-w “THE PEOPLE’S VOICE” Editorial from raadara al Tlta Morala# Baa, Baadara at tha Maralai Baa ara Inaltad la uaa thla eglaaia lraal> far aatraaalaa aa mattara at dttklla latareat. Plight of the Wllsonlte*. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Since dimension has arisen in the Wilsonian fold over the selection of one to aeli membership for $10 a round in the Wilsonian party to promote a return of these rejected policies, we sorrow and feel for democrats deflated and butted by their own goat, the federal reserve system and Wilsonian tariff. We cannot understand how one can be found with salesmanship qualification sufficient to explain why the value of farm land and its products were cut in two while Woodrow Wilson and his secretary of treasury, Houston, to gether with a Wilsonian hand picked federal reserve board were in charge of the "credit liberator," a thing bear ing the Wilsonian guaruntee and high est recommendation. I can sell any thing that will stand up. but if they chose me to sell Wilsonian policies I would look for a Reid where weak minds prevail with lost memory. Minnesota isn't it. Nebraska isn't it. Clyde Herring, over in Iowa. 1922. found no customers. I have con cluded England Is the best market for Wilsonian policies Missouri lias no market. Smith-Hylan of New York do not keep it in stock. When you meet a careworn, dilapidated. Wilson ite, he tells you over and over he "wants to tlx up Europe.” Then the only thing a sane democrat can ask is. "Why don't you fix up ourselves so as to be flt to be seen?" Do you really wish to hand Europe such a package as Wilsonian visions handed to us? More debt; then more debt, and still more debt, as Senator Under wood proposes. T. S. FENEON. An Appeal fo Reason. Salina. Kan.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: This article Is written In an endeavor to Impress upon the general public the fact that the rail roads need their help to bring success to the great "Cross Crossings Cau tiously” campaign now in progress. In the last five years more than 10.000 persons have been killed and over 25, 000 injured in railroad crossing ac cidents in the United States. The railroad* can not stop these accidents alone, they must have the help of every man, woman and child in the country. I will cite you an Instance in which common genre and caution were absolutely disregarded right here in our own community. I happened to be walking north on Santa £e street a few days ago and came to the place where the Santa Fe railroad crosses this street. A freight engine was pulling a string of cars ovrr the crossing, and so I stopped and waited. While I was waiting a loaded truck and an auto mobile drove up and they also had to wait. The train only had about 10 cars, and when the last car was on the crossing they stopped and I saw the brakeman give the back up sig nal. and the train started to back. The man driving the automobile chose this Inopportune moment to make a dash across—the train moving, mind you. and just shout a half car length clearance; what possessed him I do not know The brakeman railed frantically to him to stop, while I whistled und yelled, but on he came like a mad man. seemingly unaware of the chance he was taking. Well, he made It, hut what foolish ness it was. He took his life In h's hands and did not stop to think of his wife, his children or hi* relatives, and all this Just to save a minute pr two of time. It happens that the writer knows th,s man and know* •hat he has a family that would be broken hearted if he had been kijled or injured. I am asking the public to rend this article and to be impressed with the fact that it may be your father, broth er. sister or wife who will try this next. Do you reulize what it means to be telephoned that your husband or some other deer member of your family haa been killed on account of heedless driving'’ This happens every day; some home is made sorrowful every day in the year by a death in a crossing accident. B really gives me great pleasure to tell you of this one instance wherein the man was not killed, but it was not his fault, every one who saw him try to beat that train across fully expected to see him crushed to death. The foregoing is written by one who firmly believes In “Cross Cross ings Cautiously” and wants every one to do their part. It is your duty not only to be cautious yourself, but you must caution your friends as well. Remember that you wtll be instru mental in saving many human lives If you become a booster for “Cross Crossings Cautiously.” CITIZEN. Greatest Rusiness In the World. Omaha/—To the Editor of The Oma ha Bee: The life insurance eompunies of the United States have accumu lated over $10,000,000,000 of assets, and these are invested in the highest classes of securities under the supervi sion of the peoples representatives in 4<t states and the District of Colum bla. Approximately 00 per cent of the assets represent socalled reserves which are In reality trust funds which belong to the policyholders and repre sent 4 he amounts necessary, with premiums to be paid and compound interest, to meet the face of each and every policy of the fifty billions in force at maturity of the endow ment period or death as the policy may provide. These assets as in vested are the greatest force today back of the industry of the greatest country In the world. There are over 40,000.000 life insurance policyholders and many more policyholders in the many other lines. These policyholders pay the taxes on insurance thrift Just as surely as they pay the labor cost on their transportation or the manufac tured goods they buy. These taxes amount to approximately $520,000 a year in Nebraska and are paid by the thrifty policyhblders who believe In life insurance saving and pro tection of their property. Every company, foreign to thia state, pays taxes on and out of the premiums paid by the citizens of Ne braska. Nebraska companies pay taxes on premiums collected In other i states. The Prudential's industrial; branch figures have been cited, less I than half of the Prudential's Nebras-| ka business The Prudential has more than $15,000,000 invested in Nebraska first mortgages against the day of maturity of the accumulation of the face of its policies. The same applies to the Northwestern and the Commonwealth. Any honest inquirer can get the full Information regarding Abe Martin It otK,' too*! Tl\ / iu V/tf-TuT r riLH // I Sc 'fifiOj/t/Ht. U&l >*£o r //IP VAn //Jg ^5 Who ever thought th' time would come when a girl coudn’ afford git married? We don’t know which is th’ wurst, friends or enemies, hut o’ course we kin be on th’ alert fer enemies. Copyright, 1923. any line of the insurance from the men. than whom none are more ho: est. who are engaged in the \arious lines of insurance throughout the state. With the best interests of our country at heart and as loyal Amer: cans admitting that as in every bur ness, and there are some unworthy and that the methods are not all pre fect, ask the Amenoan policy of fair play and the understanding help cf the public in bettering this great but. ness HENRY H. LOVELL. The Bounty on Eagles. There is a bonus of $1 for each eagle shot In Canada, but shots at the American eagle are barred. In thia^^ country there is a bonus of 110 f each golden eagle found in the rigb hand panta pocket.—Los Angers Times A Slight Error. Tessie—That Jones girl Is a terrible dumbbell. Jessie—What makes you say that’ Tessie—She thinks that a so- ial 1k> is one that makes friends with the other animals.—New York Journal IJ AYE The Omaha Morning Bee or The Evening Bee mailed to you when on your vacation. Phone AT lantic 1000, Circulation Department. Money to Loan on Omaha Real Estate ^Conservative SAVINCS6LQAN association ff r* n o y Illinois Central System Dollar: Where It Comes From and Where It Goes Because railway statistics are confusing to many, we have attempted to tell the story of the receipts ami expenditures of the Illinois Central System for 1922 and 1921 in terms of the cents which make up a dollar; that is. to show the source from which the Illinois Central System obtained each dollar it received in 1922 and 1921 and how it paid out each dollar it received, as follows: WHERE THE DOLLAR CAME FROM CENTS 1922 1921 Transportation of freight 1922—52.002,324 ton*, aver age distance par ton 290.09 mile*: average revenue per ton per mile 0.891 cent. Thi* comoare* with 1.015 cent* average revenue per ton per mile received in 1921) . 73.65 71.7t Tran*portation of paiaenger* (1922—37.596,707 passen gert: average di*tance per paaaenger 24.91 mile*; av erage revenue per paaaenger per mile 3.035 cent* Thi* compare* with 3.104 rent* average revenue per paaaenger par mil# in 1921). 15.58 16.98 Transportation of mail . 1.37 1 69 Transportation of express. 2.19 1.53 Source* related to freight service, such as demurrage and storage, and special service . 0 41 0.49 Switching service ... . 0.97 0.85 Source* related to passenger service, such as operation of parlor cars, excess baggage, etc . 0 61 0 56 Hotle, restaurant, dining and huffet service. 0.53 0.58 Station and train privileges and miscellaneous 0.39 0.32 Rents of equipment, road, buildings and other property, joint facilities and miscellaneous income 2.22 2.79 Income from corporate investments . 2.08 2 50 100 00 100 00 WHERE THE. DOLLAR WENT CENTS 1922 1921 Maintenance of tracks, roadbed, buildings, bridges and other structure* . 13.63 15.65 Maintenance of locomotive*, freight and passenger cars and other equipment . 17.17 18.94 Train, station and switching operations, and other trans portation service 24.96 26.69 Traffir agencies, compilation and issuance of tariffs, miscellaneous traffic expense* 1.44 1.28 Hotel, restaurant, dining and buffet service 0.57 0.62 Fuel . 7.97 7.50 Salaries of clerks and other general office employes 1.27 1.48 Legal exoense* 0.23 0.18 Pension department expenses ... 0.17 0.16 Salaries of general officers . . 0 18 0 19 Valuation expenses . 0.11 0.15 Miscellaneous general expenses . 0.32 0 '7 Depreciation and retirement of equipment . 4.72 3 90 l oss, damage and casualties. 1.77 1.97 Rent of equipment, leased line*, joint facilities and mis cellaneous rents . 2 42 2 45 Interest on bonds and other interest charges. 6 95 6.85 Dividends on capital stock 4.44 4.48 Taxes . 6.89 5 54 Balance available for enlarging and improving the property . 4.79 1.60 100.00 100.00 This statement is made for the purpose of keeping our patrons informed about the Illinois Central System. A similar statement was published last year. Constructive criticism snd suggestions are invited. C. H. MARKHAM, F’reiidrnt, Illinois Central System ♦