Today
A Law Respecting
Nation.
There's No Bolshevism.
Hiram Johnson's
Strength.
Colvin Coolidge Is Safe.
^By ARTHUR BRISBANE^
President Harding, a faint smile
on his face, lies in his coffin,
guarded by American soldiers and
sailors, on his way back to Main
street, to the quiet plot, under tall
elms in the little Marion cemetery.
He began at the bottom in life,
went as high in honor as an Amer
ican can go, and now returns, as
we all must, to the soil thdt re
ceives American presidents and the
great crowd that lives unknown.
Calvin Coolidge, the new presi
dent, is sworn in by his father, an
old farmer, in a little Vermont
farmhouse at 3 in the morning,
by the light of a kerosene lamp.
The principal ornament of the sit
ting room was a large wood-burn
ing stove, its iron pipe running
through the ceiling, out through
the room above.
With the oath administered by
his father and the constitution of
his country as his authority, Mr.
Coolidge begins his work as presi
dent of the United States. And of
the 116,000,000 human beings in
cluded in this nation, not one
dreams of questioning his author
ity. Not even the most restless,
rebellious spirit has a thought of
interfering with the lawful
progress of events.
The quiet succession in author
ity, its simplicity, democratic
soundness and inevitable certainty,,
are a sufficient answer to the gov
ernor of Ohio, Mr. Donahey, who
fears that a wave of unrest may
sweep the country, following
President Harding’s death.
They should reassure Senator
Ferris, who fears that Harding’s
death “may give radicalism a firm
er hold in the government of the
United States.”
This is a democracy and radical
ism of the right kind, which means
government in the interest of a
majority, ought to have a firm
hold in the United States.
But the people intend to have
orderly, lawful government, not
controlled by plutocracy at one end
or ragged irresponsibility at the
other. And that kind of govern
ment will endure as, with time and
death, presidents come and presi
dents go.
In the republican party, the out
standing candidate, and by many
hundred per cent the strongest
candidate, is Hiram Johnson.
With such a man elected, no
body need fear control of govern
ment by cold-blooded selfishness
at the top, or by ill-considered
hatred at the bottom.
And there are men available for
the democratic nomination whose
-*• .character would give to the nation
the same guarantees of stability
and strength as are found in
Hiram Johnson. ,
There is no need for any man,
provided he asks only his just due,
to worry about the new president,
Mr. Coolidge.
Ilis term will last just 1 year,
30 weeks and 3 days. In that time,
it is safe to predict that ultracon
servatism will be just about as
much disappointed in him as will
ultra-radicalism.
Meanwhile, the little that is
known of Mr. Coolidge is reassur
ing to those that remember to
what an extent the selectiqn of
vice presidents is a matter of com
promise and of geography.
Selections fron#the vice presi
dent’s utterances will not surprise
or startle you. This second red
headed president of the United
States—Thomas Jefferson was the
first with red hair—is free from
fiery emotions, in public speech, at
least.
Union labor leaders, speaking
cautiously, not for publication, ex
press the opinion that President
Coolidge is hostile to labor. Such
hostility is not conspicuous in his
record.
There are included in his public
utterances:
“Self-control is arduous, self
government is difficult.”
“Do not hesitate to be as revolu
tionary as science, do not hesitate
to be as reactionary as the multi
plication table.”
The new president of stem, pur
itanical New England stock, looks
with a suspicious eye upon the
immigrant. “Aliens who are dang
erous to our institutions should
be deported, even if they are not
guilty of breaking our laws to the
extent of earning punishment such
as may be inflicted by the courts.”
That seems like an intellectual
hark hack to Cotton Mather or to
John Calvin himself, the presi
dent’s namesake.
But another quotation shows
hat the president sees another
lide. He says:
“Justice granted brings justice
n return, injustice breeds discon
tent and destruction. It is not only
righteous but expedient for capi
tal to give labor a square deal.”
That is sound, is righteous, it is
expedient, and most important, it
is safe.
President Coolidge, who worked
—he didn’t merely pose—at hay
making on his vacation, has a
horror of the idler, even when that
idler is a parasite with a big bank
account and belonging to the right
clubs.
“There is coming a time, not far
distant, when it will be as much of
a disgrace for those who are af
fluent to remain in idleness as it is
today for these men who go about
the streets in idleness and beg
ging.” _
Our new president takes a little
too seriously, perhaps, that mod
ern bugaboo bolshevism.
“Our first duty is to get the im
migrant a job and make him a pro
ducer. Then our duty is to educate
him before he is gathered in by the
bolsheviki.”
(Copjrlf ht, 1111.)
V
Nation’s Capital
Waits to Receive
the Nation’s Dead
Body of Harding Due to Arrive
in Washington Shortly
After Noon—Funeral
Services Wednesday.
Hr rnlrennl Service.
Washington, Aug. 6.—The capital
of the nation, a silent city, Tuesday
receives its dead.
Leaders in world affairs will forget
all the homage due a beloved chief.
When the special train on which
President Harding left Washington so
hopefully barely six weeks ago re
turns again at 1:30 Tuesday after
noon, It will be met by a new presi
dent, Calvin Coolidge.
Beside Mr. Coolidge. with heads
bowed in sadness, will stand his mili
tary aide, Colonel Sherrill, members
of the cabinet, Chief Justice Taft of
the supreme court, and Senator
Cummins, president protempore of
the senate. Speaker Gillett of the
house will be on the train. v
, Twelve defenders of the nation—
soldiers, sailors and marines—will
bear the casket from the train through
the east entrance of the railroad sta
tion to the draped cassion waiting
without to take the remains of War
ren Gamaliel Harding to the White
House he attained from a modest
middlewestern home.
Move to White House.
The 12 bearers will place the casket
on the caisson, the troops will be
brought to "carry saber," and the
escort will move off to the White
House with President Coolidge and
his party Immediately behind the
caisson. Two troops of cavalry will
move in advance; then will come the
caisson and the official party; and
finally will pass the third troop of
cavalry.
Through the silent streets of
mourners, along the famous stretch
of Pennsylvania avenue to the White
House, shadowed by the great monu
ment to George Washington, will
mave the solemn procession.
Such will be the official picture—
but there will be another scene, with
out pomp, without ceremony, simple
and darkened by pathos.
As the nation takes from her the
body of her beloved husband, Mrs.
Harding, with a small party of most
intimate friends, will slip quietly away
and be taken inconspicuously to the
White House. There, In the home
where she was loved so fondly as
first lady of the land, she will be
received by Mrs. Coolidge and the
woves of members of the cabinet.
Will Await Body.
Then, as Mrs. Harding waits, the
slower moving cavalry escort with the
body of the dead chief executive will
approach from Pennsylvania avenue.
As the troops reach the entrance to
the White House grouads they will
swing from column Into line in front
of the great treasury building and
come to "present” while the caisson
moves through the gateway.
So will the caisson, followed by
President Coolidge and his party,
enter the White House grounds and
come to a halt before the great white
entrance that Warren Harding knew
so well. The 12 bearers will tenderly
raise the caaket bearing their loved
commander-in-chief and carry it Into
the east room of the White House.
There it will rest where once rested
the remains of Abraham Lincoln and
William McKinley.
» Mow sv W realh first.
Within (he east room, the flrst
wreath to he placed on the bier will
he Mrs. Harding’s own. There will
he, also, a wreath from President and
Mrs. Coolidge, one from the supreme
court, put in place by Chief Justice
Taft, one from congress and others
from the heads of state and foreign
governments. No other wreaths, ex
cept those from Mrs. Harding's inti
mate personal friends, will be received
at the White House.
There at the White House until 10
on Wednesday morning, the nation
will leave the body of Warren Hard
ing with his widow. Promptly at 10
the bearers will again carry the
casket through the glass doors to the
waiting caisson.
As the body passes through the
doorway a blast of the bugle will
bring to "attention" the great mili
tary escort formed along Pennsyl
vania avenue before the White House
grounds. There will be another blast
and the troops will be brought to
"present." A third sounding of the
bugle will signal the placing of the
casket on the caisson; the troops will
i.e brought to “order," and at a Anal
signal the escort will swing into
column and move off toward the
capltoi.
There in the rotunda, the nation
will hold religious services for its
departed chief, and then the doors
will be thrown open to the public as
the body lies in state, surrounded by
a guard of honor made up of non
commissioned officers belonging to the
army, navy and marine corps. This
guard will remain in position until
the remains are taken from the capi
tol to the railroad station.
At 6 on Wednesday evening a de
tachment of mounted troops will
escort the body to the station through
ranks of infantry, marines and tail
ors formed along the line of march.
As the remains of the commander-In
chlef pass by each organization will
be brought to "present" in a fins!
salute.
At the station, Washington will say
farewell to Warren Gamaliel Harding,
senator, president, and beloved man.
The same special train on which
Mr. and Mrs. Harding left Washing
ton on June 20 will take the Harding
party to Marlon, where Anal services
will be held Kriday afternoon at 3.
President Coolidge and a party of
officials will leave Washington on
Thursday evening to attend the last
obsequies.
Crew AH Shriners.
A delicate compliment waa paid to
th* late prealdent Harding and to
Mra. Harding by ofth-lala of the
Northweatern railroad when the fu
neral train left Omaha. The train
crew In charge of the comfort of the
paaaengera. were four Nohlea of the
Myetlo Shrine. Prealdent Harding
waa a Shrlner.
Thd four trainmen were to take
the train from Omaha to Boone. In.
They were; Charlea Van Oorder,
conductor; If. Q. Brown, braketnan;
H. M. Amandus and H. O. Bralnard,
trainman.
Harding Memorial
Plan Given Approval
(Continued From First I'sge.)
tver the death of the president. lie
endorsed the meeting today of load
ers of all organizations of the city.
"I am heartily in sympathy with
the idea". It is fine," Commissioner
John Hopkins said.
•Judge George Holmes, presiding
judge of the municipal court, said
it was the right thing to do.
Mrs. W. A. Wilcox, president of
the War Mothers, stated that she
believed Omaha should hold an ob
servance next Friday. Her organi
zation will be represented this noon.
Mrs. Draper Smith, who has been
active in republican party affairs and
also In women's welfare movements,
believes that next Friday would be
a fitting time for the city to hold a
memorial demonstration.
Would Test Patriotism.
The following statement was made
by United States Senator H. B.
Howell: “The greatest misfortune
can be turned to an advantage by
the wise. Notwithstanding our
mourning, this should he accomplished
now. by impressing upon the youth
of the nation a reverence for those
who have served—that tho people are
really not unmindful of the honor
due the public servant who sincerely
performs his duty as he aees It. This
Is the only apparent compensation
that can come to us through-Mr.
Harding's death, and the proposal
of The Omaha Bee Is merely one for
reaping this compensation.”
"I think it is the proper thing for
every citizen to stop and take Inven
tory that will test his true patriotism.
There is no more fitting time than
this. I will attend the meeting."
was the sentiment expressed by J.
H. Beveridge, superintendent of
schools.
Mr. Beveridge announced that sum
mer classes In session at Central,
Technical and South High achools
will be suspended from 11 to 12 Fri
day morning and the period devoted
to some appropriate' observance In
respect to the memory of Mr. Hard
ing, in accordance with the proclama
tion of President Coolidge.
Otto Nielsen, secretary of the
Omaha lodge of Elks, said, "By all
means all organizations sho^d take
part In this memorial. I will attend
the meeting tomorrow.”
Albert W. Jefferis, former congress
man, asserted that he will attend
the meeting in the council chamber
today noon.
There has been no official notice
that the postoffice will be closed
Friday on account of the funeral of
President Harding, according to
Charles Black, postmaster. However,
several offices in the building will
close that day. it was laid.
Grinnell Coeds
Prefer Cavemen
Grinnell, la., Aug. 6.—If a husband
wants to be happy with a Grinnell
college co ed, he must be of the cave
man type, according to the answerr
of the girls of the Quadrangle, college
dormitory, to the question "What sort
of man do you wish for a husband?"
The prospective hubby must also
have a sense of humor and a "sweet
heart" disposition. The girls prefer
smokers to nonsmokcrs and dark men
to their blond brothers.
One modern bobbed haired girl
hoped that her husband would be a
liar with some finesse, as she w:s
bored with men whose lies were
palpable.
Heart of the Nation
Grieves for Harding
(Continued From Hut P«*e.>
Dixon, III., having been brought
there, from Chicago on especial train
over (he Chicago & Northwestern.
Much of the day was spent by Mrs.
Harding in rest, preparing herself for
the trying hours to follow the arrival
of the train In Washington, Tuesday.
She also has been giving some
thought to her plans for the future.
While no definite decision has been
reached, it was thought prohubie by
some of the closest friends avith
whom shehas talked that she will
make he home, at least for some
time after leaving Washington, with
her brother, C. B. Kling, of Marlon.
Mr. Kilng for several years has
spent the winters at Kockledge, Fla..
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and the president and Mrs. llarding
visited him there last March during
their southern vacation trip.
Many Touching Inridents.
As the train drew near to Chicago,
the largest city through which it
has passed and in whleh Mr. Harding
was chosen by bis party In the 1920
national convention as its leader,
there were manytouching incidents,
all exppresslve of the sorrow of the
great city.
Steel mills slong the tracks became
silent and their workers, leaving their
machines, formed a line outside the
buildings, along the railway, on top
of freight cars land even on the
roofs. All stood reverently with
bowed and uncovered heads as the
cortege passed.
Grain Exchange Inquiry
Denied by Washington
(Continued From First Page.)
ho learned of the reply from Wash
ington.
“Under the Omaha Grain exchange
rules its officers are required to ex
pel any member who is guilty of
sharp practices or uncommercial con
duct and these officers have never
failed to take summary action and ex
pel those found guilty.
“Such articles create suspicion and
doubt In the minds of those who are
unfamiliar with the rules and prac
tices of the grain exchange, whereas
if the facts were actually known the
people generally would look with
favor and approval on the numerous
transactions made on the trading
floor every business day.
"All grain Inspectors must be li
censed by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture before they are
permitted to inspect and grade gTain.
The docking of grain Is a part of the
inspection, and government rules,
designating the kind of equipment for
arriving at the percentage of dockage
under those rules are clearly speci
fied.
"The grain merchant has no part
In the grading of the grain handled
through the Omaha Grain exchange
and he must not be expected to
'stand by’ and permit such wilful in
sinuations to go unchallenged.”
No Outsiders Are
Aboard Funeral Train
No private citizens were permitted
on the funeral train bearing the body
of the late President Harding east
ward.
Nelson B. Updike went to North
Platte Saturday, planning to return
to Omaha on the funeral train, but
found that, owing to lack of accom
modations, the funeral party had been
compelled to make It a rule that no
private citizens be carried on the
train, no matter how close their
friendship for the late president may
have been. »
During the first 82 days of the
world war, $1,059,836,000 worth of
property, art works, crops, cattle,
railways, bridges, roads, supplies, etc.
were destroyed by the Germans While
passing through Belgium.
Coolidge s Program
Regarded as Sound
(Continued From First rage.)
be done In just as important and in
addition they have now had long
personal touch with Coolidge and
have come to think as highly of him
as he thinks of then:.
Mellon Well I,lked.
They are all three ihspirlng ex
amples of devotion to the public good.
Mellon has come to command the en
thusiasm of everybody in Washing
ton regardless of party. He in a man
whose wealth could command literally
everything the world can yield In the
way of ease, foot-free independence,
material satisfactions and the pleas
ures of any sort of pastime he might
choose.
Yet, having all this Mellon tolls
like a tired clerk at the infinite de
tails of the treasury business. Mellon
does not even get the satisfaction of
glory or vanity, for he is a markedly
•shy man, utterly without vanity; and
as to glory he tries to run away
from It.
Neither does Mellon care for that
satisfaction of ego which some men
might get from the direction the
head of the treasury has over thou
sands of subordinates; for Mellon in
private life, as the dominant figure
in a score of big corporations, could
hire and fire 10 times as many men
as he can In the treasury. In point
of fact one of Mellon's most marked
characteristics in office has been his
firm resistance to those republican
patronage seekers who would like to
see a good deal more hiring and fir
ing done.
Mellon Deep in Work.
Mellon is now In the midst of the
immensely important business of pull
ing tiio ragged thongs of our war
bonds into order and refunding them
at lower rates of Interest. He Is also
in the midst of adjusting the finan
cial relations with foreign govern
ments which run into billions of dol
lars. Mellon will be the last man
to dismount front that kind of a
horse In the middle of the present
kind of stream. And as Coolidge has
the Batne enthusiasm for him that
most of Washington has there is
every likelihood of Mellon remaining
in the treasury.
Hughes has at his fingers' ends
the details of our Intricate and deli
cate foreign relations. Coolidge's
emphasis on continuity of policy will
lead him to wish most earnestly that
there shall bo no interruption In the
State department, and there is every
reason why Hughes should work as
willingly and happily with Coolidge
as he did with Harding.
As to Hoover, in addition to his
own department he is everything that
is embraced in the dignity and ef
flciency of the phrase "A competent
workman." He contributes able and
faithful trustworthiness for such fre-1
<iuently arising emergencies as coal:
strikes, unemployment, conservation
and a dozen other manors calling for
hard work, concentrition of mind,
and Immensely varied knowledge. It
was one of the comparatively few
Home Brew!
In the "goml ohI days"
it used to be. the brew
with the frothy
cream which quenched
thirst—note it is
the brew with the tang
of mint in it that
roots our throats arut
keeps us smiling through
the hot flays anti
evenings. It's Home
Hreiv at that—made
from ISorthup-Jones
leing Sperial Tea.
fay i
TRY MAKING IT THIS WAY—Put the usual
amount of tea in a crock of fresh co^l water and
let It stand all day. Strain it in the evening, chill
it, add bruised mint leaves and a bit of lemon. It’s
a drink you could offer the new President without
apology.
And a Plate of Fresh Nor thup-Jones Pastries Goes
Mighty Well With Each Drink
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puTTgqMiLic SM~or>
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Northwest Corner, 16th and Farnam St*.
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easing comforts that Harding had in
his difficult presidency to know that
.it any hour, day or night. Hoover
was at the end of the telephone wire
subject to call for any emergency.
It was a reliance that Harding made
frequent use of.
Among the other cabinet members
one whom Washington has come to
look upon as having to a strong de
gree the approbation of Coolldge, Is
Secretary of Labor Davis. Davis Is
a virile man. rich In vitality which
he is willing to spend probably for
his chief, with a capacity for spon
taneous reaction on matters that
come up, an Instantaneous Celtic in
sight which goes along the game
lines with reasoned Judgment and
has the additional value of hearty
fervor for the commonly and dearly
held beliefs of ordinary Americans
and their habitual point of view about
public affaire.
Weeks “Tower of Strength."
Secretary of War 'Weeks fulfills
mentally and physically the trite
phrase "A tower of strength.” Aside
from Weeks’ ability and sound Judg
ment he comes from Coolldge's own
state and politically belongs to the
group in Massachusetts with which
Coolldge has been more closely Iden
tified than he has with Senator
Lodge, for example. Weeks could
well be excused for seeking the rest
of his cool New Hampshire farm, If
he chose to do so.
But he is not the man to place ease
above either abstract duty or the
personal call of a man like Coolldge.
Moreover, he has a steady sense of
responsibility toward the country and
toward his party which will un
doubtedly make him inclined to
stick. Further than this Weeks has
always been a believer in the policy
of the president taking a strong hand
toward congress and assuming leader
ship of it.
Weeks had deep personal affection
for Harding but this did not prevent
his clear mind from regretting Hard
ing’s failure to assert himself more
strongly as the head of his party
and the leader of policies for con
gress. Harding's disinclination to
take this sort of attitude toward con
gress has always been contrary to
Weeks’ Judgment, which he frankly
and frequently expressed to Harding.
If it should develop that Coolldge
should be willing to assert a more
definite leadership of emigres*, Weeks,
for that reason alone, will want to
stay with him and help. Weeks
earnestly believes that that course
makes for the salvation of the re
publican party and for the good of
the country.
(Copyright,
$20,000 in Gems Seized.
Chicago, Aug. 6.—Two young ban
dits held up the David J. Fried, manu
facturing jeweler, offices on the sev
enth floor of a State street building
today and escaped with a box of unset
diamonds valued at -between $15,000
and $25,000 and other jewels w-hich
they snatched from a safe, an em
ploye reported to the police.
Guardsmen Off for
State Encampment
Two hundred national guardsmen
left Omaha Monday on a tpeclal
train, headed for the Nebraska N^^
tional Guard camp at Ashland, whef^
they are to share with 1.B00 Nebras
kans two weeks of target and com
bat practice and military theory.
Brigadier General Paul is command
ing officer at the camp.
The largest motion picture theater
in England, built on an American de
sign, is to be opened soon in Eondon.
The amusement house will seat 2,400.
/ $2.89 \
Choice of Any
House Dress
Every one of them—pretty tissues, cool dotted
Swisses, imported ginghams and novelty wash
fabrics—all of the house dresses in our entire
stock on sale Tuesday at $2.89. Many of them
originally sold at two and three times this
price. The dainty coloring and attractive
styles make the majority of these dresses
equally suitable for street wear.
Size8 15 year8 to 52
• But not in every style.
Second Floor
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N. “Buy a Sack of Wheat Flour Today”
Here It Is/
Stryker’s ollarESale
of Low Shoes
This announcement will be hailed joyfully by women _
who have bought shoes at our “Dollar Sales”
in former years; they “know“ that Stryker Dollar
Sales mean unusual bargains, because it is Stryker's
Policy to give customers the benefit of these big sav
ings instead of selling these shoes to a merchandise
“broker” to resell at a profit We “know” that every
pair of these shoes sold means an added friend for our
store—and we’re building a great shoe business on
friendship.
Come to this great Dollar Sale. Buy several pairs for
the family’s future needs—and at a fraction of their
regular price. These shoes are all regular stock—odds
and ends of the season’s selling. See these shoes to
day. You’ll say they are worth many times what we’re
asking for them.
W. S. STRYKER
DOUGLAS SHOE STORE, Inc. ^
117 North ltoth Street Opposite the Postoffice
