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GREECE PROUD: ITALY AGGRESSIVE.
Greece did what might have been expected,
assuming that it had a shred of national self-respect
left, and declined to assent to all the terms of the
Italian ultimatum. Following this, Mussolini has
declared the Grecian reply to be highly unsatisfac
tory to Italy. Thus are the progressive preliminary
steps to war being taken in order.
England and France, bound to Italy by terms
of the alliance formed during the great war, and
not yet fully discharged, must openly side against
Greece. However, underneath it is understood they
have made it very plain to Mussolini that war at
present is highly undesirable. A diplomatic remon
strance has been forwarded from Paris to Rome,
and it may have some influence in retarding action.
What the tone of the next notes will be depends
on whether the Italian government really wants war.
Announcement that a fleet had been dispatched from
Toranto to occupy Corfu is significant, for that will
give Italy command of the entrance to the Adriatic
from both sides, and practically turns the classic
sea into an Italian lake. This will have effect on
Jugo-Slavia, and might turn the Little Entente to
the side of Greece. In such event, the conflict will
he more worthy of note than a war between Greece
and Italy alone.
Italy still holds islands off the Syrian coast, occu
pied during the war for convenience, from which
>t was supposed to have retired, but which are yet
neld under one or another pretext. A belief is
current that Italy has no intention of retiring from
hese islands, and Greece is impotent in its pro
ests. Italy is seeking an outlet for excess popula
tion, and apy little island lying around loose,
specially those adjacent to a mainland that might
some day be taken over, will not be overlooked by
he statesmen at Rome.
Greece is in a most deplorable situation, its
only hope at present being that influence can be
brought to bear on Italy, sufficient to compel it
to desist. Whether this influence will come from
Italy's allies, or from the league of nations, it
probably will be exerted, for Europe does not want
r war of the scope that surely will follow actual
lighting between Italy and Greece.
BOB WALLACE, APOSTLE OF HOPE.
A lot of sermons may, and probably will, be
written about Bob Wallace and the circumstances
surrounding his death. His friends may know some
reason not disclosed in the newspaper stories, but
it seems mighty queer that a man of his disposition
should yield to such an impulse as led to his death.
Bob Wallace has spoken before every luncheon
or dining club in Omaha and Council Bluffs; he
had addressed Boy Scouts and Y. M. C. A. assemblies;
from the pulpit and from the platform he radiated
optimism, a healthy, genial philosophy of life. He
taught a gospel of love, of hope, courage in presence
of adversity, and trust that brighter days would
follow the dark ones. He was industrious, ener
getic, seemingly a success, and he had the love of a
wide circle of friends and generally the respect of
the community.
What happened then to curdle his life so that,
it was no longer to be borne? Idle gossip will be
busy with his name until some new sensation comes,
for it is one of man’s sorriest traits to uncharitably
dissect the reputation of the one who has passed on.
Bob Wallace is not the first good fellow who has
taken refuge in death to end his worries, his heart
aches and his disappointments. Others have yield
ed as he did, and have torn great gaps in man's
faith in man. for it is doubly a tragedy when one
who has been a leader in the world seeks admission
into the great beyond and opens the door with his
own hand.
Bob Wallace knows some things better now. One
thing he must know is that his life was not a failure.
No life could be m failure that was devoted as his
was, to the sowing of the seed he scattered broad
cast. It may be written of him, as was of another
teacher of the law of love long ago: “Others he
taved, himself he could not save.”
CHILDREN AND CITY PLAYGROUNDS.
This week will end the season at the Omaha
public playgrounds, so far as supervised play is
concerned. All through the long fall months the
parks will be opened, and will be used as they al
ways have been. But the principal play activities will
be transferred to the public school grounds, where
the youngsters will be congregated until the long
lummer vacation opens again next June. Ira Jones,
recreation director, gives some very interesting in
formation concerning the park playgrounds, in a
few figures.
During May, June, July and August up to now,
attendance at the playgrounds has reached a total
of 170,662, or for the hundred days, an average of
more than 1,700 children daily playing under con
ditions that make for safety. In the three months
of the swimming season, 1 14,280 persons entered
the pools in the parks. This comes to about 1,600
a day, and that is just about all the park pools will
accommodate. One girl and two boys were injured
at the playgrounds, and one girl was drowned, the
xe^iilt of a most deplorable accident, she having
been pushed into the water by a playmate. These
figures are a most creditable showing.
One thing has been demonstrated by the sum
mer’s experience, that there is need for an exten
sion of this work, particularly of the swimming
pools. Every park in Omaha should have a com
modious pool. Only a few exist, and these are kept
constantly crowded by the residents in the vicinity.
park, Elmwood, Fontenelle, Kountze, Hans
com and the other city parks that now lack facilities
for swimming should be looked after in this regard.
Supervised play at the parks is an established
institution, and is justified by experience. It should
be continued as one of the chief features of the
service, but bathing ought go right along with play.
John Drew’s old vaudeville joke has come true. A
Rhode Island miss shot and killed a man, and then
discovered her victim was not the party she was
looking for. “The joke’s on us,” declared Alkali
Ike to the widow, “We’ve lynched the wrong man!”
One interesting fact is that it took less than one
day to cast the vote in Ireland, and four or five to
count the ballots This is due to preferential vot
ing, which makes allowance for second and third
choice.
WHAT CAN STOP A COAL STRIKE?
Issues involved in the anthracite coal industry
have come down to a single point, that of closed or
open shop. John Lewis, for the mine workers, in
sists on full recognition of the union. Samuel D.
Warriner, for the mine operators, declines to recog
nize the union.
On this point the strike' is called. Governor
Pinchot’s efforts at conciliation have failed, just as
have all other attempts to reach a settlement come
to naught, because of the inflexibility of the leaders
of the contenders. We have no purpose here in ar
guing the merits of open or closed shop. Enough
already has been said on this point. Just now the
rights of a large element of our country’s popula
tion are set at naught because men who have power
and authority over an essential industry persist in
pursuing a policy that is opposed to public good.
Under our government there is no way to com
pel either side to take a different course. Governor
Pint-hot advised that the operators give recognition
to the union, and that the union abandon its demand
for the check off system. This the miners, fit is un
derstood, have accepted, while the operators have re
fused. Now they are engaged in a test of strength,
the end of which depends on the future.
In 1902 a great strike occurred in the anthracite
fields, wherein the recognition of the union was in
volved, but was not the main question. It was then
that Mr. Baer uttered his famous words with re
gard to the divine trust imposed on the owners of
the coal mines and railroads. His position brought
on him the ridicule of the entire country, and made
the work of the Roosevelt commission that much
easier. The settlement was on the open shop basis,
although the report of the commission strongly ad
vised the recognition of the union.
Whether a similar commission can attain suah a
result this time is yet to be disclosed. The great dif
ference in the situation is that the coal miners are
much better organized and equipped to carry on
such a struggle now than they were in 1902. Unless
something not yet in sight turns up, users of anthra
cite coal may as well turn to substitutes now as a
little later on.
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TIME WORKS WITH THE FARMER.
As the population of the United States continues
to grow, the position of the farmer will become
more secure. When it is considered that there are
each year a million more mouths to be fed, right
here in this country, it becomes apparent that
sooner or later supply will have a difficult time keep
ing up with the demand for food. Instead of the
Iivmer seeking buyers for his products, the buyers
will seek him out, and even go so far as to take
the expense of shipment off his hands.
In an address before joint stock land bankers
in Chicago, Dr. L. C. Gray, economist in the United
States Department of Agriculture, drew attention
to the way the silent force of population is working
to aid agricuture.
He estimated that the increase in world popula
tion is about 20,000,000 a year. The continuance
of this rate of increase even for four or five years
might exert a marked influence toward restoring
cereal prices to a normal level.
Our own population, increasing at the rate of
at least 1,000,000 a year, would require an additional
area of crop land equal to that now employed in
producing for export to provide for the increase of
domestic consumption in about 16 years. Although
we probably shall not divert all of our export acreage
to domestic uses, the next three decades are likely
to result in the rapid diversion of our export sur
plus of cereals to domestic uses and it is not im
probable that within that period we shall find our
selves on an import basis or at least forced to pro
tect our producers against the exports of other sur
plus-producing nations.
This stage, Dr. Gray believes, will mark a nota
ble change in the position of a large proportion of
American farmers. Instead of having to subtract
the cost of transportation to the world market they
may enjoy a differential advantage amounting to the
cost of bringing grain or its derivative products from
distant markets to our own centers of consumption
Farm land values are likely to increase gradually,
and the growing scarcity of farm land will compel
important modifications in methods of production
and in national standards of consumption.
In spite of the reverses of agriculture, faith in
the land and its productiveness has never heen lost.
While it may be doubted if an increase in the value
of farm lands would be of any possible benefit, at
least no apparent good would result from their
cheapening. For the time being, the farmers are
wise in their resolve to plant less wheat and hold
back that which they have on hand. But time works
with the tiller of the soil, and as America becomes
more thickly settled, there will be no interest so
firmly entrenched as agriculture.
Peace with Mexico was not hard to establish after
the Obregon government found out that a lot of big
property holders did not speak for the United States.
“Do your spooning at Sixteenth and Farnam,”
says Police Superintendent Butler. Gosh, Dan, have
a heart!
Staid and soher ladies still are scolding the flap
per. Were these s. and s. ladies always that way?
If President Coolidge ever comes to Omaha, late
September or early October is the time.
King Com is doing his stuff right now.
Homespun Verse
—By Omaha's Own Poet—
Robert Worthington Davie
RETROSPECTION.
Oft as In the bygone while I return to erstwhile ml:
lTp the steps I treml. a smile seems to tiring my rupture
not,
And I knock upon the door, list'ning for m.v Mother's
call—
But It welcomes me no more—nothing stirs within the
hall,
So I lift the latch and go through the cosy home of yore,
Pausing now nml then to know Hint It Is a hnnie no
more.
Mere and there a trace I see of the old cxi|idsjtc joy —
Belies truly dear to me when I was a little boy
Scattered lie about the floor, left to rust tit dust away.
While duet covered on the door Anger marks of child
hood stay.
Rambler roses upward wend o'er veranda where I
played,
For litis prlv'lege to extend fragrance, (|UlctncH* anil
shade.
I
There Is something that reveals sadness tinted with
content
When one travels hark and feels In his dreams the
sweetness spent,
While his Mother watched him glide through the hmen
In that while.
And was ever by Ids side with a kindly, chierful siulh
We ere always glad to go hack and view what yet re
mslns
Even though we can not knuw youth * Ineffable refrain*
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“The People’s
Voice”
Editorials from reader* of TIM Moralni Baa.
Reader* of The Moraine Baa arc Invited te
u*e thl* column fieeljr tor axpraaalon an
matter* of publle Intereit. ^
Political. Parlies.
Omaha—To the lOditor of The Oma
ha Bee: Some months ago we com
tributed a few letters to the people’s
column of The Bee. on this important
subject. We would like to return to
it again as the time is opportune. Our
parties exert a profound influence on
the public welfare. It is sometimes
said that parties are simply political
machines to promote personal inter
ests. rather than the public good. Un
fortunately there is more truth than
poetry in this charge. We have
heard some good citizens say that the
only justification for a party is to
bring about some vital reform, or to
remove some corrupt or wrongful
condition. Having accomplished thiB
purpose the party should cease to
exist, because if continued it would
soon degenerate into a political ma
chine.
There Is a good deal of truth in this
statement too, but parties are neces
sary under our system of government.
They are presumed, no matter how
much they may differ, to guide their
steps towards the same goal, viz: the
public welfare. It is also said that
there is no difference between existing
parties. There is no truth in this
statement; it is all and altogether
false. Since the foundation of our
government, there has always been
a vital difference between the differ
ent political parties. There was such
a difference between the policies and
principles of Hamilton and Jefferson,
the leaders of the first parties In our
country. So on down through ail
our political history parties have dif
fered. The debates between Web
ster and Calhoun during the early
days of the last century, reveal a
wide difference between the parties
they represented.
There is a vital difference between
the party led by Woodrow Wilson
and the party led by Senator Bodge.
The duty of the voters is to examine
the policies and principles of the par
ties and to vote, not under the spell
of candidates’ personalities, nor on
account of emotional feeling, not be
cause of racial or religious sentiment,
but rather because of the principles
involved. Kaeh voter should decide
for himself whether in his judgment
the appeal made for his support
would he for or against the public wel
fare. Voters should therefore sepa
rate personalities from principles in
making up their minds which party
they will support.
There is talk of some important
changes in the constitution «>f the
country to improve the political pro
cedure concerning the time for con
vening new congresses and the in
auguration of the president. There is
an important change that should be
made in our local procedure. It is this,
state conventions should be held in
advance of the primary elections for
the sole purpose of adopting platforms
of principles. Having made the plat
form. the voters will be better able at
the primary election to decide which
of the candidates, on the score of
character and availability, should be
selected for the platform. The main
requirement should be to capitalize
character. He who seeks office as his
chief ambition will put availability
first, because he wants to win. The
voter who does not seek office and
only thinks of the public good should
steer clear of the self seeking candi
date.
Two requirements are necessary:
First, character, and then availability.
Character alone, no matter how high,
when it is connected with erroneous
ideas of government, would exert
great power to lead people astray.
Political science has taken possession
of the field of inquiry. It is not ham
pered now so much as in the past by
ignorant opposition based on old time
exploded theories. The one supreme
folly and sin of the voter is to be
neglectful and Indifferent toward Ini
portant matters of government. Less
than one half of the voters Interest
themselves in the affairs of govern
ment. There is no government with
out laws, and there can be no laws
under our system except through po
litical parties. f). F. DOLAN.
Who Cut the Tax Levy?
Omaha—To the Editor of The Oma
ba Bee: 1 have sent the following
letter to Governor Walter M Pierce.
Salem. Ore.
Dear Sir: The following statement
appeared In the Omaha World Her
ald of August 26. 192.1
LIKES BRVAN'S TAX REDUCING
"Special Dispatch to the World Herald,
"Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 25.—Governor
Walter M Pierce of Oregon thinks
that the dty Nebraska has been able
to cut taxes under Governor BryanV
administration Is just about the prop
er thing, according to a letter re
reived from the Oregon executive to
day by the state tax commissioner.
W H Smith
"I wish to congratulate you as
state commissioner and the people
of Nehraska on the fine showing
made In your tax statement for this
year.” Governor Pierce w’rote.
"Tt is far better than we ran do
*n Oregon.**
i The above extract would seem to
warrant n statement from someone
as to lust how it was acconfpllshed.
The state hoard was able to reduce
the state fax levy 3-10 of 1 mill for
the following reasons
1. The valuation of the state upon
which the tax was levied was In
creased over that of 1922. $11.500,000; j
this amount was obtained In Douglas
county, being the county In which the
city of Omaha Is men ted.
2. The legislature of 1921 made
provisions for the amount of $2,000.
000 to be set .aside for the relief of
world war veterans. This amount
was raised In the levy of 1922 and
Daily Prayer
Who *ti*ll R«U'Rrst* UR from th** 1o\ * of
Chrlit - - Horn R . 3R
O Uod, kneeling nt this family altar
wo liail Thee trustfully as nur Filth
er As a family wo Worship Thee,
and pray Thee to look upon us in
love, ami ah we approach Thee for
guidance and strength for the dav
with Its unknown problems, grant
that we may have no fear of Thee,
or of tlie night, or of the morrow
Let perfect love cast oijt fear
We acknowledge Thee to he nur
Lord Help ns to obey Th.^ law’, and
to do Thy will Forbid that We should
stumble, through ignorance, or err
through forgetfulness. or falter
through fcni fulness Let us not lose
our way, or our Joy, or our souls.
We htitnhl} confess our ains. and
wait Thv word of forgiveness. Have
mercy upon us. <> Hod. have merev'
Make us pure, and kind, add unself
ish <lninl 11s the blessedness prom
iso<| to those who hunger and thirst
after righteousness From selfishness
and Indolence, from pride and hard
ness, from envy and vengefulnea*.
do Thou In mercy deliver us. O Lord'
Make Thou this day a good dav for
nur family Tie Thou our shield, nit
refuge and our strong fortress And
help us to he eager to work glad to
bn alive, glad to be the children of
Thy care and love For Jesus Fhrlat's
sake Amen
a v h WALf.Arr. i» n. t,b. D..
MonU«*l, Quebec, Canada.
Once in h while Mr. Rosewater
left off writlnK about the Nebraska
and Omaha'’ political situation, and
devoted hr* attention to affair* of
I other lands. In 1876 a considerable
war cloud was hovering over eastern
Europe, to come to a head in the war
of 1877 between Russia and Turkey,
on Tuesday evening December 26,
1876, the governmental reforms in
Turkey were discuaned.
“AND STILE IT MOVES."
"And still the world moves. This
(act is again forcibly illustrated by
the radical though peaceable revolu
tion that has Just taken place in
Turkey, /fter centuries of the most
irresponsibe absolutism, the Turkish
sultan has been compelled to yield to
the progressive force of modern civili
zation by the promulgation of a con
stitution—almost as liberal as thut of
Great Britain. Under the new funda
mental law under \\ hieh Turkey is
henceforth to be governed, the sultan
Is to be a constitutional sovereign,
exercising limited prerogatives. His
subjects are to be citizens, protected
in the enjoyment of life ami liberty
by judicial tribunals. While Islarnism
or Mohammedanism will .^tlll be pre
dominant as the religion of the great
body of the Turkish people, ami wi|f,
as heretofore, continue to be the re
ligion of the state, this, prof easing
Islarnism will have no special privi
leges over citizens professing any
other creed. The liberty of the press
and freedom of education are granted,
and primary education, the funda
mental basis of popular government,
is made compulsory. Henceforth all
men. regardless of r;i^e. color, or pre
vious condition, are to be equal before
the law, and all, regardless of religious
creed, are eligible to public offices.
"The right of property is guaran
teed. and the domicile of all citizens isf
to be held Inviolate. An independent)
irremovable Judiciary is established^
and the functions of the Judges ar<I
defined. Judicial proceedings are ti»
be public. All judgments are to hi
published. The rights of defense are
recognized. The ministry has no right
to interfere In judicial matters. The
confiscation statute, labor torture, and
the inquisition are prohibited. The
sultan, as chief executive, is to ap
point a responsible cabinet. The min
istry are made impeachable by the
chambers, and they are to be tried by
the national supreme court. The civil
service is to he for life, depending
on competency and fidelity. No public
official can be dismissed without legiti
mate grounds. Their responsibility is
maintained and they can not he re
leaaca rr«»m li ny me uin oi uuviuk
received orders from a superior if
those orders are contrary to law. The
legislative branch of the government
is to consist of a chamber of deputies
and a senate. They will receive mes
sages from the sultan and have the
freedom of voting and expressing
opinions. The Initiative of framing
laws belongs to the ministry and th^
deputies. Daws submitted by the
chamber of deputies and revised by
the senate will require the imperial
sanction A court of accounts, which
is irremovable, except by vote of the
chamber of deputies, will annually
present the chamber of deputies a
complete financial account. The pro
vincial administration will he on the
broadest basis of decentralization.
General and municipal councils are to
he formed by election Finally, the con
stitution is only to be modified by a
vote of both chambers and the sanc
tion of the sultan.
"These are the outlines of the new
fundamental law of the Turkish em*
pire as transmitted by cable. If the
sultan has the ability to overcome
the national prejudices of the Turkish
people by a practical enforcement of
this new' constitution. Turkey will in
many respects, have a more liberal
government than the boasted French
republic, where free press and free
speech are still throttled at the pea
sure of the ministry."
does not have to be considered In
1923 levy.
3. The present state board was
content to allow the value of the rail
road property to remain the same as
fixed by the hoard of 1922. That was
easy enough.
The state taxes charged to the
county of Dougins fn 1921. was 11.
180,931. the state taxes charged In
1922 under republican administration.
$816,883. which is representative of
30 3 10 per cent reduct inn. whereas In
1923 there was charged" againnf Doug
las county for state taxes the sum of
$734,120 which is representative of
only 10 1 10 per cent reduction over
that of 1922
If the state of Oregon cannot do
any hetter than this, surely it should
not throw bouquet.- at the state of ,
Nebraska.
Yours verv truly.
li G rot’NKMAN.
County Assessor.
Douglas County. Nebraska.
Accounting for All of I s.
Soma of us are anxious to earn
money and more of ns are merely
anxious to get it —Maryville (Mo.)
Democrat Forum.
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212KARBACH BLK.
Phona AT 6751 15th, Near Dougla;
NET AVERAGE
CIRCULATION
for July, 1923, of
THE OMAHA BEE
Daily .72,472 j j
Sunday .75,703 '
f)n#s not fnrluH* rrturnp. Irft- '
oven, sample* or papers spoiled in
printing and Includes nr special
sates. !
B. BREWER, Gen. Mgr.
V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr.
Subscribed and sworn to before ms
this 4th day of August. 192 V
W H. QUIVEY,
I (SealI Notary Public. J
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“From State and
— Nation” —
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Editorials from other
newspapers.
The Nation and Mr. Coolldge.
From the St. Louis Post-Dlsputch.
The Nation, published in New %prk.
declares that a "Cooiidge myth,” to
the effect that Governor Cooiidge waa
the person who put down the Boston
police strike, landed him in the vice
presidency and now in the White
House. It says the strike was really
put down by the mayor and the press,
and that the governor took no part
until the crisis was over.
The Nation made Its own small con
tribution to the "Cooiidge myth,” It
appears. In its issue of September
20, 1919, in its only reference at the
time to the Boston occurrences, the
Nation read a lecture, not to the
mayor and press of Boston, but to
President Wilson and Governor Cool
ldge, on the merits of the police strik
ers' case. Wilson and Cooiidge were
the persons whom th« Nation then
saw fit to blame for their narrow and
one sided view that a policeman should
be loyal to the public rather than to
his own organization. Now-, the same
periodical, under the same editorial
direction, discovers that its blame, and
the accompanying credit generally be
stowed, were wrongly placed, and
scolds Mr. Coolldge for having ob
tained political advancement under
false pretenses. President Cooiidge
may as well make up his mind that
the Nation simply is not going to like
him. Its sketch of M*\ Cooiidge in its
article on the death of Mr. Harding
exhibited a deep seated hostility. It
found no virtue in him.
Five Months' Vacation.
From the York N*w*-Tim«*».
An electrial expert named Stein
metz is reported tiS be confident that
electricity will become so generally
used and so efficiently employed that
men will do the world's work in
much less time than it is done now
and that each worker will get five
months vacation annually.
There are thousands of toilers In
shop, office and on farms who hc/pe
Rteinmetz has the right dope though
there are a few of the older ones
who fear the blessed condition will
not develop In time to do them any
good. ♦
Electricity is the great power of
ths world. No one knows just what
electricity is. Home call It "energy”
and some call It a “fluid” and others
do not call It at all for they have no
name for it but it Is a powerful ele
ment and is becomihg more and
more useful to humanity.
There are some speculators of the
future life who claim that the future
world will be one of electricity in
manifold and glorious forms. This
is mere speculation, but there is a
thought there that is worth consider
ation.
The development in things elec
trical in the next decade will aston
ish the world. I-et the astonishment
come.
Beautiful Nebraska.
From thw Norfolk Pres*
To really love America one must
go to the country, to catch the vis
ion of the big outdoors, to see where
earth and sky meet in a line whose
beauty exceeds the power of our
poor words. Vast stretches of rich
est green with here and there
splashes of gold, purple, gray, sage
ureen. oh. suen colorings, such Mend
ings as only the Master Painter dare
make! We never witness those great
dretches of country fields without the
Feeling that God is there Sometime*
it is hard to think of Him in little
ramped churches, filled with fashion
able women, men whose worried
brows denote their thoughts are all
IA Book of Today [1
"Grey Towers" attacks the "ruling
body" of a great university. It seems
more effective than many of the at
tacking books which now are in
vogue.
A faculty of drab persons who are
convinced that except for experi
mental purposes the teaching of un
dergraduates is quite a waste of ef
fort; who would discourage the incep
tion of Ideas to gratify their penchant
for research and who endeavor to
eliminate entirely the personal con
tact with the student—is pictured by
the author, whose identity is not
made Known.
There are petty politics, too, to wor
ry the heroine of ‘Grey Towers:"
politics played in a suave but deadly
manner by the educators. And when
the order is given to grade students
so low that they must leave the uni
versity. regardless of the quality of
their work, the heroine, a teacher of
freshman English, resigns. She be
lieves the students, entering the
school with high hopes, are being mal
treated, and no doubt she Is right.
Yes, "Grey Towers" is very con
vincing. Yet one wonders what the
book can accomplish It is rather
brilliant in places, rather absorbing.
Strangely enough, sentiment has no
small part in It. Anyone who has
the slightest Interest in the school it
makes its subject will find it of pe
culiar interest, and it is serious
enough work to interest a large group
of educators. Hence a goodly sale of
the book is assured. But it is not
probable that the hook will change the
plans of the “ruling body;" plans to
make the university a graduate rather
than an undergraduate school. The
publishers of "Grey Towers'* are Con
vici & McGee.
on business cares. The music fit the
wild birds is sweeter than that of
any organ, any human choir. Watch
a sunset or the moon rising over the
yellow- hanks and see if you don't
agree with usl that God is wonder
fully good to Nebraskans and espe
cially to Madison county folk. A Ne
braska sunset is a glorious sight
with ito myriad of colors that turn
al! the world to lieauty. And there
is a later hour in these summer eve
rings wonderfully bewitching. It ie
just before dark—a deep, velvety twi
I ght that seems to_ turn everything
to a magic softness words can't pic
ture. And there is none so poor that
he can't enjoy these purple pansy
twilghts and few- who need deny
themselves long a gripping thrill at
sight of the setting sun.
JEERS AND JIBES.
This is a colorful age. between the.
whites and blacks, the reds and
pinks, the other fellow being yellow
and ourselves green with envy, and'
all of us singing the blues.—Lansing
State Journal.
"My daughter's music." sighed the
mother, ‘has been a great expense."
"Indeed?" returned the guest, "some
neighbor sued you, I suppose?"—Bos
ton Traveler.
Senior—Howr do you I ke your new
room? Soph—Rotten There aren’t
half enough chairs to hold my < lothes
—Oregon Lemon Punch.
"What is it, Emily?" "Cook.She
hasn't given notice?" "No; hut she will
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Folks that travel on their look;
alius walk back. “We can’t laugt
in our sleeves this summer, an’ it':,
hard t’ keep th’ boys at arm’:
length,” said Miss Tawney Apple
this mornin’s, as she wuz simonizin
her elbows.
{Copyright, 1922.)
If I don't put her up for the tennit
club.”—Punch.
When a young couple bragged abou
their new machine 20 years ago i
was a sewing machine.—Altoona Slir
ror.
“Is this an exclusive hotel?” '‘Th«
last word in exclusiveness. However
I believe it’s -permissible to addresi
the head clerk without the formalit
of an introduction.”—Eirminghan
Herald.
English Author (on location)—1
makes one think of Goldsmith's "De
serted Village,” does it not? Director
—Goldsmith? Goldsmith? What com
pany's he with?—Life.
"Goodness, daughter, your husband
looks to me as if he were in a very
bad humor.” "It's all right, mamma is
he just thinks I'm going to invite yov M
for dinner."—Paris Sans-Gene. <1
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Illinois Central System Discusses Taxation
and Government Ownership
#
Taxes constitute one of the large single items of expense in providing rail
way transportation service. Federal, state, county and municipal taxes paid by
Class I railroads for 1922 amounted to $300,620,358, an increase of nearly 205
per cent over their 1911 taxes, which were $98,626,848.
The rate at which railway taxes have increased in recent years exceeds the
rate of increase in any other item of the cost of providing railway service. If
freight and passenger rates had increased on the same scale as taxes from 1911
to 1922, the average passenger fare in 1922 would have been about 6 cerrts a
mile and the average charge for carrying one ton of freight one mile in 1922
would have been about 211. cents. Instead, the average passenger fare in 1922
was 3.028 cents a mile, an increase since 1911 of only 54 per cent, and the aver
age charge for carrying one ton of freight one mile in 1922 was 1.176 cents, an
increase since 1911 of only 58 per cent.
In the analysis of the Illinois Central System dollar for 1922, recently pub
lished, it was shown that 6.89 cents of every dollar received were required to
pay the system’s taxes last year, as compared with only 4.44 cents devoted to ^
dividends. The various governments collecting taxes—federal, state, county and f*
municipal-received about 55 per cent more revenue from the operations of the ’
Illinois Central System in 1922 than its owners did.
Comparatively few of our citizens openly favor government ownership of
the railroads. However, many of them are advocating a substantial reduction
in freight and passenger rates. Some are espousing the cause of restoring the
right of the forty-eight states to make rates in conflict with interstate rates.
Others favor confiscating railway property by scaling down values unreason
ably. Those who seek thus to hamper the railroads are simply playing into the
hands of the advocates of government ownership. Making it more and more
difficult for the railroads to exist under private ownership is recognized as the i
only method through which government ownership of the railroads is likely to *
be brought about.
The federal government does not tax its own property. The states do not
tax the property of the federal government. They could not do so in the case of
government-owned railroads, just as they cannot tax the property of govern
ment-owned postoffices or forts or arsenaHs. If the railroads should become the
property of the federal government! there ^ould he destroyed a si urce of tax
revenue which in 1922 amounted to more than $300,000,000. From what source
would the federal government, states, counties and municipalities make up this
lost revenue? •
It is not reasonable to expect that lower railway rates would compensate
the people for their governments' loss of tax revenue. In the light of our own
experience during federal control and the experience which foreign countries
have had, there is every reason to believe that gove "merit ownership of the
railroads would result in large deficits, which would also have to be made up
by increased taxation. There can be no reasonable doubt that the effect of
government ownership would be higher freight and passenger rates, poorer
service and increased taxation.
Constructive criticism and suggestions are invited.
C. H. MARKHAM,
President, Illinois Central System.