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The morning Bee MORNIN G—E V E N 1 N G—S U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Publisher. / MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated l*rew. of which The Bee le s member. Is exctusireU entitled to Uie use for repubUcatloo of ell news dispatches credited to it or uni otherwlee credited In this neper, end eleo the tooel news published hereto. All rights of republloations of our special dispatches ere eleo reeeired. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for the Department aT1««*Sc or Person Wanted. For Night Calls After 1(1 P. M.: Editorial Department. AT lantic 102J or 1042. 1000 OFFICES Pain Office—17tn and Famam Co. Bluffs • - - r6 Scott St. So. Side, N. W. Cor. 24th and N New York—286 Fifth Avenne « Washington ■ 422 Star Uldg. Chicago . . 1720 Steger Bldg. BACK OF THE AIR MAIL FLIGHTS. Long ago the air mail passed the experimental stage. When Postmaster General Burleson ordered the first flights between New York and Washington only a few years ago, it was felt he had started some thing that would spread. The Chicago-New York line, then the Omaha-Chicago and Anally the New York-San Francisco service all came in order, de i veloping as rapidly as the meager provisions made by congress would permit, till no longer is there any ‘ question of the practicability of the air mail. Now comes the continuous flight from coast to coast, day and night, with only six regularly sched uled stops on the 3,000 miles. That this extension will be as regular and dependable as the interrupted flight service has been is hardly to be questioned. And the air mail in 1922 covered nearly 100 per cent of its scheduled flights, delivering the mails as reg ularly as clock work. How deep the interest in the new venture is in dicated by the gathering in Omaha of representa tives of the great air craft builders as well as the high officials of the government. These men see in the step the Postoffice officials are taking a great stride forward for commercial aviation in America. Naturally, the government has been looked to as a leader in this method of getting about from place to place, and for the transportation of freight not too bulky and for the delivery of which there is some urgency. Unfortunately, the air service of the United States has been put on starvation rations by con gress. Each time the Postoffice bill has come before the house, since Burleson began his experiments the appropriation for the air mail has been stricken out on point of order, and only by reason of the/ fact that the senate has had the foresight to restore the item has the air mail survived. In both army and navy many important experiments and trials are held back for lack of money. But the air men are persisting with what they have, and are making plain to the public that they can do what they set out to accomplish. An army air man, whose experience is extensive, says that so far as the facts are known, that travel by flight is as safe as by rail and that the carrying of passengers and freight is not only practical but desirable. All who are engaged in the industry, whether in or out of the government service, are enthusiastic over its possibilities, and look to the night air mail flights as 8 means for making more certain the acceptance by the public of the use of the air lanes for com munication. AMERICAN SUCKERS GETTING WISE. A wail goes up from Deauville that must arrest attention. Despite til that may be done, the rich American sucker has not swarmed at the French resort, and the hotels, the beaches and the gambling joints are correspondingly downcast. This can not he for lack of vigilance or persistence on the part of th# press agent. One perfectly startling tale had for its heroine a French actor lady, who appeared on the beach one afternoon in a transparent bathing suit. No, she did not go into the water; as we . understand it out here, nobody does at Deauville. She just walked up and down until the crowd around her became so derse she had to don a cloak in self defense. What else could the poor girl do? Some may suggest that she put on seme clothing, but that wasn’t what she had in mind, at all. Another tale is cf American demimondaine, toss ing bundles of 10,000-franc notes on the tables with as little care as if it were but that many roubles. Still another describes stockings that give the effect of being barefooted, so sheer is the material; these cost. $10 a pair, and are worn,but once. And so on, yet the rich American does not put in appearance, and the season is not a success for the gold diggers. Whether the rich American has found another place to spend his money, or has accumulated * little sense, the effect is the same so far as this polite ap proach to absolute decadent iniquity is concerned. 'The French people would stand much higher in the eyes of Americans if they closed up seme of the spe cially baited traps they keep to allure dollars from the pockets of rich but senseless Americans. In decency has too long been made a paying adventure over there. It is not an excuse that the sink holes of vice are patronized almost exclusively by Ameri cans. It is an insuit to us as a nation that a friendly people would set about to pander to such tastes. If Deauville were to be doted, it would not be a tribute to prudery but to decency. GIVE THIS MAN THE LIMIT. Omaha ia a city of beautiful lawns, of handsome flower beds, carefully clipped hedges, and well •rimmed shrubbery. Homeowners and citizens gen •;rally take great pride in the appearance of premises, and in all the land there is no community which as a whole presents a fairer view than Omaha. Knowing this as well as we do, it is not easy to believe than an automobile driver could be so thoughtless as deliberately to destroy a flower bed that he might have a convenient place to leave his flivver for a few moments. Yet the police officers stationed at pill box No. 5 have such an offender rnder arrest. Here is another argument for our pet theory of 'estitution. This man may be fined a small sum for his carelessness, but that will not compensate those officers for the hours of loving care they put in on that flower bed, nor the money they expended in purchase of plants. In it they expressed the innate aspiration of the nature of man for something higher and better. That flower bed was not merely a symbol of the numerical rating of the pill box. It was a testimonial of the esthetic longing of the souls of the men who created it, their desire for the beautiful, and their constructive purpose to elevate their surroundings and through that effort to better the world. Without thought of this, but only for his momentary convenience, a driver pushed his car fnto safe parking space, to the damage and destruc tion of the flower bed. Such an act nearly ap proaches true vandalism, the destroying of beautiful things solely because they are beautiful. Such an •fTender should be required to restore all that ho can of the damage he has done, not only as an example to others, but as a lesson to himself. RIFLES AND RIFLEMEN. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was inspired to write a notable poem by the view offered of a lot of old-fashioned muskets arranged in the arsenal at Springfield. Wonder what he would say if he saw the same number of the modern Springfield rifles, similarly displayed? He would have to omit refer ence to their gleaming tubes, but he could raise their potential power for destruction so much higher than he gave to the old guns that the result would amaze Alim. The musket that awakened the poet lobbed a round or conical chunk of lead about the size of a man's thumb something like 150 or 200 yards, and it seldom was. accurate at any distance. In the case of the conical ball, it was as apt to turn end over end, or sideways as it was to spfn true. The round ball had faults of its own, and the deadly aim of the marksman was frequently defeated by the fallibility of his weapon. Not so with the arm of the soldier at this day of the world. A Springfield rifle today is a weapon to desenie the respect of anybody, and the man who, like Fii^t Class Private Delbert Leffler ot Holdrege, can knark off a score of 295 from a possible 300 at target pi»c tice is also entitled to the designation of “first claps.” All the shooting done by the boys at the range last week was of high order, and indicates that a left of good eyes are enlisted in the 134th regiment qtf in fantry. Everybody hopes there will never be another oc casion to test the skill of these men under battle con ditions, but that hope is none the less sincere when it rests also upon knowledge that we have mrn who know how to use their weapons if they hrva to. GOOD OLD TIMES IN IOWA. Matters over in Iowa are going very much as they used to in the olden days. Time was over there when Col. Ed Campbell of Fairfield, Col. Tim Whlke'r of Bloomfield, or Col. John P. Irish of Iowa City, used to go galloping up and down, nostrils extended and eyes blazing, while they hurled all manner of de fiance on behalf of the democrats at John Henry Gear of Burlington, Dave Henderson of Dubuque, Pete Hepburn of Shenandoah, Ret Clarkson of Des Moines, who did the sharpshooting for the republican party in those days. There were other leaders, Kirk wood, Xllison, Wilson, Junkin, Leffler, Claggett, just to name a few of the giants on either side. And yet, on one occasion, when an admirer asked Tim Walker why he did not start a paper like the Marshalltown Republican, the great democratic hero of many a hunt in Hacklebarney replied: "Why don’t you buy the Iowa Central railroad? Running a democratic paper in Iowa is like peddling peanuts in a graveyard!” Hon. Edward Thomas Meredith did not get his eminence and fortune by running a democratic newspaper, but he has expended some of his substance in pursuit of office as a candidate on the democratic ticket. Now he plaps to add 30 cents to his bank account, as well as some unction to his soul, through suing Smith W. Brookhart, United States senator, for libel. Brookhart has been rampaging all over the land scape, demanding the recognition of soviet Russia as a method for stabilizing the price of wheat on the farm. Meredith has been attempting to out-talk Brookhart on the other side of the question, but with little avail. Each has said some unpretty things about the other, and now the former secretary of agriculture wants his opponent to come into,court and accept responsibility for some of the compli ments he has passed. The affair ought to be good entertainment for the Hawkeyes. If it proves noth ing else, it shows that the spirit which made cam paigns interesting over there in the '70s and '80s is not dead. In those good old days there never was any question as to who was going to be elected. The only question ever debated seriously was whether a democrat had a right to vote. Detroit has been headquarters for various forms of lawlessnei'i for a long time, one of the penalties of being a border city and growing too fast. An Indiana parson thinks the world can stand Sunday morning golf as long as it can put up with Sunday afternoon movies. He is right. Now that Ed Meredith has sued Smith Brookhart for libel, we may consider the campaign in Iowa as being fairly under headway. An editor has sued Henry Ford for $200,000 for slander. What would happen if Henry should mako up his mind to retaliate? The South Dakota man killer finally bit the dust in St. Paul. When the law starts after a man It nearly always gets him. Half a million barrels of oil In one blaze will cut the surplus a little, but that is not the way to go about it. A man who wants to drink bad enough to take on canned heat ought to be allowed to go the limit. A typhoon that can sink a submarine is entitled to some respect, and might be useful in case of war. Loving cup sounds queer in connection with sol diery, but the boys will know what to do with it. Most of the lawns are wet enough for the time. ^ | Homespun Verse —By Omaha’s Own Post— Robert Worthington Davit DREAMING OF THE BABY SHE IS NOT. Oftentimes I hear her murmur In my dreams of other years. And I view the living picture of her face beside my . chair; * She Is sighing, she is crying, and the great, big baby tears Trickle down to mark distinctly the extent of her despair. Oftentimes when I am dreaming In a semi conscious slain, She returns to me from somewhere quite as vivid as of yore—1 I can see her waiting, peering through the lattice of the gate, I can hear the urgent patting of her hands upon the door. I can vision her In mischief, hear my scoldings that were brief— Gentle frowns and exclamations that a father must Impart; I behold her half heart-broken while .the sharpened pangs of grief Seem to reach the strings of sorrow In the bottom of her heart. All she was, the pan she acted In the bygone years returns, And her mother often wlahes she was still a little lot; 61ie has grown and left us aching with a loneliness Hint burns, And ws dream of her and love as tho baby she is not. “The People's Voice’’ Ciltortilf from r—4tr% til T*t B*. Ktalcfl of lha Mornin# Bn art Invltai 1n uk column tract* tor •*pr»aio« on mattes ct public lotcrtat. CredO and Cheaper Freight Needed. Faffr field, Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: I would like to sug gest to you some Ideas that might be of some service to you. Your Omaha Chamber of Commerce Isb trying to help the price of wheat by tjuying small amounts of wheat. That may be of eervice, but I believe there is jusi one way luey can ne.p. J nat is if they mean to go into their pocket book and do business. Form u .arge interimma.e c.eait mink to lie of service. Then the farmer could get credit to carry the wheat where it should be, right on the farm. Of course the small banks could do this, but they can't go very far as theh resources will not allow them to ex tend very much cred.t, and the only way this ever can be done Is through ihe government lann loan bann, and tbe only way it can be handled that way la for tne intermediate cred.t bank to make the loan according to the present law. The large corn crop Is coming on and if this bank was started right now it would be in running order by the time the corn is leady to husk and also the stock to go into the feed yards. Now. nobody would offend the small bank by extending this credit, as they Would welcome this help to do business. It might be too late to help much or) the wheat, but had this been in existence in Illinois the big receipts would have been avoided and wheat would never have been so low. If the farmer could have had money on his wheat he would certainly have been able to get part of the gain In the price of this wheat as these speculators will iind one of these days that just made a mistake as to the amount of whpat that they will have. I mean real wheat, as there will not be any excess of milling wheat in Nebraska before another crop. They will find this same rust clear through to the Canadian country be fore long. But have yqur people start the intermediate l ;:nk so ns to keep the price of this corn where It ought to be to make some money for the farmer—to help him balance his ledger. There are other years coming for this wheat. The present price of wheat makes not such an awful dif ference as they have not the wheat, but they have the corn. But the main thing that affects the farmer Is the railroad rates, if your Chamber of Commerce really wants to do something, let It start agitating the railroad rates. See that an ex tra session of congress is called and put the 4 per cent rate of Income In place of 6 3-4 per cent. Why should a railroad be protected to 5 3-4 per cent when the very lands beside this road do not earn 3 per cent? See to these two main points and the wheat market will take care of Itself. As soon as these threshing ma chines get through you will hear of the receipts. With a raise In the prices of products this land will go to moving and money will get Into cir culation. Get a move on-the interme diate bank and the railroad rates. Just stop and figure these railroad rates on this coal and every com modity. Talk don't go, whereas ac tions ro further. There are other troubles entering Into the farmers Ills, part of wh’ch are his own actions but the holding of grain on the farm and the rates are the two greatest evils. I notice Capper says there is no i need of a meeting of congress, but he; is a feurflugher talking in bis paper. ■ With no actions. I had correspondence with your Mr. N. B. Updike two years ago along the line n* the fanner credit i 111. and that Is right where Capper fell down. The credit should have been direct to the farmer and not in a round about way. C. J FURER. Dp Valera Not a Coward. ! Omaha—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee; Arihur Brisbane, whose golden sentences adiun the Hist page of Tne Omaha Bee, commenting upon the capture of Eamtn de Valera, says; He (De Valeraj la accused of cowardice by the men that captured him." Mr. Brisbane doe* not believe that De-Valera is a coward. The great syndicate writer Is. as usual, correct. Nor do the American people believe that the president of the Irish republic is a coward. False wit nesses accused Christ In Pilot's court; but their triumph wan short-lived. The "free state '—which is not free — made a mistake in capturing De v alcra. and It made a greater mis take In accusing him of cowardice De VaJera can stand before his false witnesses and say to them "You are the cowards. You have retarded the freedom of your country by your servile submission to one of the most unscrupulous statesmen that ever de ceived a people." De Valera Is not a coward nor a traitor. He Is a self sacrificing pa triot, _JOHN KUSH. Get After John D. ' Omaha—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee. Your editorial on the gas situation In this morning’s paper did rnt see -, i . r.v a .• ua •>. it was not what I had expected. Surely you ap preciate the fact that the policy of the various states In reducing the price of retail gas Is falling right into the hands of what the Standard Oil company Is working towards, that Is. killing the Independent ell enm pan’es. This ran he accomplished very easily at this time and the Stan dard. to aU * uts‘de npotaranoes. working with the public instead of against It. The buying of large quantities of gas by various stater; and munlr polities, although not really changing the supply. Is moving It from a wholesale to a retail mar ket, which will tend to raise the wholesale price In this way the In dependents must buy at a price that 1 Daily Prayer Locking unto J»*us, tho author and rinlahar of our faith.—Heb 1. . Father, whenever we kneel In the quiet of the hour of prayer, the won tier of Thy love enthralls tis. We are thrilled by the memory of f’ahart; we marvel at (tie mercy which for gives sin; we are tilled with awe at the thought of the goodness which has followed 11s all the days of our life. Hut wre find It hard to keep our hearts aglow when we arise from our knees and go forth to fare the stress and ttie strife, the disappointments tint! the heartbreak of our common life Then we nrc prone to forget Thy love. Oh, help ns each day, the bit tercet as well ns the brightest, to have so vibrant a sense of Thee that eve shall act ns those who are holden by ttie spell of nn Ineffable love Olvc us each hour such an abiding memory of Thy merry that we shall Ilnd It hard to tie unmerciful to others Keep us ever *0 alive to Thy goodness that evil shnll be hateful to us And mu\ the vision of da I vary so Impress Itself upon us. that we may not hesitate to do tlie saerlfirial deed that the need of some brother may demand. And do Thou walk with us In life; and In death take us, dear laird, to dwell with Thee. Amen REV. AT,REIIT E HAT. A M Ctuclnnstl. G. Many of the older residents of the north part of Omaha will recall the threat of the Heifensteln claimants, who sought to enforce an »dve title to some 400 tow>n lots lying north of liuruulie street and nuKu »U to compromise for a cash consideration, giving s quit claim deed to all who would settle with them. These claims were knocked higher than Gllderoy’s kite when the courts got hold of them, but at the time this editorial whs written by Mr. Rosewater. Wednes day r'ebruarv 6. it. 90, the ileilen stem group was active "THE HELFENSTEIN ROAD AGENTS.” "If John P. Helfenstein of St. Louis should venture upon a visit to Omaha at this tune, he would meet with a very warm reception, liut Mr. Hel fcnsteln is only a straw man in the hands of designing villians. His pre tended claim to an interest in 30u or 400 lots on the north'side, and to which he has no more title than the man in the moon, is one of those ras cally schemes begotton by unprin cipaled lawyers, who are not a whit better than road agents. In fact, they are a good deal meaner than the desperadoes that formerly Infested the overland s.age routes, and compelled passengers to give up their money and valuables at the muzzle of a re volver. The road agent at least took chances on his life, snd very often ‘was known to spare people who were in actual distress. But Helfenstein s road agents have no mercy upon any body. They are holding up the wage worker who has invested a life's earn ings in a small home, and seek to rob him and his family of the proceeds of the hardest of toil. "One of these legal sharks is very indignant because the citizens have banded together to protect their homes. He says that the 'law of the case is with the plaintiff, and while the speeches at the meetings of the home defenders are of a violent na ture. and smack of a revival of the old Omaha Claim club, yet the majesty of the law will prevail.’ “Majesty of the law, forsooth! If the majesty of the law. which means justice and equity, prevailed, the rogues who are manipulating the bogus Helfenstein claims would wear zebra suits. They have already ex torted money from some property owners who were not able to await Justice by the slow process of the law. and their aim Is and has b»en to bulldoze and blackmail others Into paying a ransom for their families. "Hellorie-eln himself probably did not get tEOO out of the whole deal, but the sharks who are trying to bleed property holders expect to realize thousands upon thousands of dollars bv playing uprn the fears of 300 or 400 people up'-n whose property they have thrown a temporary cloud. If i Helfenstein believed he had a title to this large tract, which with the im proveo-ep’s is rmrtnnted to be worth over $1,000,000. he would have heen content to make two or three te«t cases: but the man'fest ob'ect of hia mad agents In pouncing upon every Individual owner of land In the free* is to ex'ort large sums for ouit ri-'ms which In the opinion of some of our best lawyers are not worth the paper thev are written on." will not enable them to cover run ning expenses and consequently be ruinous Thus the Standard snd the c. mpanles wh eh it controls shall have a complete monopoly. If its ac tions ere as In the past, monopoly prices shall be charged and the only way this could possibly be controlled Is by public action. Again this falls Into the hands of the politicians very favorably for the public Is anxious to have a cut In re tail prices, and as the politicians in1 i ftlce can gratify this wish it givea them a much better chance for re election next year. What could suit them better? A very pretty situa tion. EDWIN L. LOEWENSTEIN, 2S6? Titus Avenue, Endorse* Knapp's Views. Monroe, Neb—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: In regard to the W. E. Knapp letter, there ought to be a few more citizens to voice their thoughts likewise and then si me. It Is tried every day that a person who does this one year and some thing else the next year, he never gets anywhere as a I'nlted States citizen. So therefore what we farm ers need is an organization of our own and by our own to set prices on our output. As it is the government has it .ill put over the farmers and the only farmers that stay by some thing, does h!s duty towards family and wants a good government Is the one that gets the dirty end of it all, and some flay If this bunch can organize a W. E. Knapp organiza tion. our government will come to lime. Most likely they will want to do more than we ask. and that ts n square deal. We are Just ns human, even If we wear overalls Instead of tailor mndes Hoping W. K Knapp will Just get busy. C. E. 8. Improvement*. "I* Crimson Gulch contemplating any municipal Improvements?" "I'll any no," replied t'.ictus Joe. "We're goln' to run Three Finger Sam out of town at daybreak."— Washing ton Star. On the Mail in tier I it krt. Nominate Solomon Roebuck of Bear*. Roebuck A Co. for vice |>re*l dent! What n ticket Ford and'Roe buck would Im> to get the votes!— l’nt blinder. NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for July, 1923, of THE OMAHA BEE 1 Daily .72.472 Sunday .76,703 Poo* not Include return*, loft , over*, sample# or paper* spoiled ir j printing and include* nr special j B. BREWER, Gen. Mgr. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. I ftubaiiibed and sworn to b*foro m« ! tkU 4 th day of Aufu*t. 1923 J W H QUIVEY. (S**l) Notary Publtr - - - “From State and Nation” —Editorials from Other Newspapers— Work WUI Do It. Front the Sioux Falls Frees. The Omaha Bee wonders if "it may not be po&sibie that the present condi tion of unrest and dissatiafaction with things in general is due to the fact that we have been relying too much upon legislative enactment to produce prosperity. andAelylng too little upon individual initiative and effort." Both the pertinency and truthful ness of the query are unquestioned We neglect our bus-ness or err In judgment and we thenceforth and im mediately mount the Intellectual soap box to decry the government and at tempt to brow beat the legislator Into considering the plight to which we. have brought ourselves. We insist that In this land the law protects and aids only the one who has but pays too little attention to the man wno would get. We seem to believe that "Unto him that hath shall be given but unto him that hath not, ehail be taken away even which he hath,” ex tends without exception to the field of economic endeavor, rio we urge upon legislative bodies to make us success ful. when all that Is needed Is work and the exercise of good Judgment. Continues The Bee: "It would seem that after a while It would bore into the mind that not all of our social and economic evils are solvable by legislative enactment, and that as Individuals we must ac cept our personal share of the respon sibility. ‘Of making of books there Is no end' Is not more true than that (he making of laws there Is no end. The result seems to be that we. as a people, have come to look upon the mere enactment of lawB as the solu tion of all our troubles, thus relieving us of individual responsibility as citi zens. Another result of this Indis criminate enac'ment of laws is a grow ing diBreipect for law that Is being re flected In growing lawlessness and a rapid lowering of the moral tone of the entire country." And not in this country alone Is the preaching and practicing of such doctrine seeded. There are the e who believe that all the trouble In Eu rope Is the result of unwillingness of ths inhabitants thereof to go to work instead of demanding that their re spective governments make things easy for them. Unerr lonal observ ers who have visited Europe for the purposes of arriving at ponA- con clusion as to the cure for the ills of tho entire continent all come back with the same stnrv—If <he people there will go to work, conditions will right themselves. Bet's have more of such doctrine. C-bofs Versus Kabotchnick*. From lbs tvichl'a Beacon. 'A man by the name of Kabotchnick In Boston—born in America, but pre sumably from some Slavonic or Slo vakian strain—decided the other day that he would like to change hi* name to one of more Americah tinge. Natur ally he chose the modification Cabot. He instituted the proper legal pro ceedings, and all went well until the Cabot family heard about It. You perhaps remember the little verse about Boston, "the bonac of the bean and the cod, where the Lowelle talk with the Cabots ar.d the Cabots talk with God ” or something to that effect. We. have lost the precise nno tation. Well, anyhow, Prof. Philip Cabot, head of the George school; Judge Cabot of Boston; Frederick P. Cabot, a distinguished attorney, and Dr. Hugh Cabot of Michigan university, all came to the scene and began to make a scone. They d.d not propose to have the fair name of Cabot handed over to a Kabotchnick—not by the topgallant mainsail of the Mayflower. All of which illustrates a most pe culiar condition which exists In Bos ton. One day about three years ago we h -me lost seme where In the vlclnl’y of Old North church. The s'reeui were narrow and seemed to go in cir cles We stumbled over banana carts and past pawnshops. On one side we heard the bew.lderlr.g c'nfer*of Yid dish and on the other, the mellifluous v.ut unintelligible babel of I‘al in We looked In vain for the thin-lipped Yan kee w'th the nasal drawl In despair we employed a dark 'oe.-d Italian urchin for 'he price of cents to gu'de us to Faneull hall, the cradle of liberty." Surrounding the shrine were other 1J AVE The Omaha * Morning Bee or 1 he Evening Bee mailed to you when ' on your vacation Phone AT lantic 1000, Circulation Department ____J banana carls and pawnshop* and sau sage shops, with the odor of garlic hanging heavily over the scene. One might have thought it woe a street in Naples or Vienna. The Cabots have the Kabotehnlcks on their hand*. In fart, the Kabotch nicks seem to outnumber end some times outvote the Cabots. What is to be done about it? If the Cabots wish to dominate Bos ton, they should take better cart* of the ehrines. Cosima Wagner. From th« Louisville Courier-Journal. Cosima Wagner, widow of the great composer and daughter of Franz Liszt, is passing the closing days of her life in poverty In Bcrl.n The copyrlghte on her husband's works have expired A pension which had been granted by the bavar ian government shopped in lit Ik. Com merciullsm has taken the upper hand In Germany and art finds no place amid the operations of Btlnnes and the almost hopeless efforts of the gov ernment to work out some plan to save Germany from ruin. If conditions were anything like normal Cosima Wagner would not be In the straits she is in. It is not in keeping with the traditions of the German government to allow those who have furthered German art and science to go without assistance from the state, a state that has been pa ternalistic in the extreme. But Ger many today, much like the widow of the great composer, see* poverty and want on all sides. It Is unable to bring relief. It Is in much the same predicament Itself. Mrs. Wagner, however, has tasted poverty before. In Switzerland, in Italy, in France, in England with her exiled husband she had known depri vations which are not uncommon with geniuses who are blazing a new trail In their art. Wagner spurned con ventions He was not satisfied to fol low the beaten path. He believed with Emerson that consistency Is a vice of little men. and his Independence of the trammels of convention made his road to financial success slow and dif ficult. England scoffed at hfs work as a concoc’ion of cacophonies. France gave no heed to the new Abe Martin Our returnin’ statesmen found Europe jest as they knowed it wuz —wet. Maybe if Edison could see Wilbur Bentley roll a cigaret with one hand he’d change his mind about collects. (Copyright, 1821.) movement in music. Italy applauded only where there was the old note of the traditional opera. And It was through years of trials that he reach ed recognition. Nevertheles. Coelma Wagner had seen her husband reach the height of his career. She had known luxury when Baireuth for years presented "Parsifal” as a government monop oly. It la with a backward view at a.ruggle and success that she now turns to the gloom of the present and the hopelessness of the future. But life plays queer tricks on these who have done most In adding to the sweetness and light of life. Mrs. Grubbrldge—Gecrge. you drive me out of my m'nd! 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