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PROTECT THE WHEAT GROWER.
It was in Omaha that the first move to save the
wheat farmer was msde—Omaha, the greatest pri
mary grain inarket in the wold. The demand that
every thing needful and possible be done to bring
wheat prices up to a point where they will return a
profit to the farmers has been heard in Washington,
and the news is that it will be heeded. What then is
needed is that the farmers should reduce their acre
age of wheat.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace has promptly
brought before the cabinet the imperative needs of
the farmers. Better than most federal officers he
understands the situation. And the splendid cam
paign that has been waged by business leaders in
Omaha has plowed the ground for his sowing. In the
last analysis it is public opinion that guides political
action. The publicity that has been given the Omaha
proposals throughout the nation has done much to de
velop a favorable and understanding public sentiment
toward the wheat growers and to give backing to
public servants such as Secretary Wallace.
The plan to increase tariff duties on foreign wheat
to 45 cents a bushel has been taken up at the White
House. The air is full of suggestions that “should
the American wheat market go up, Canada will dump
its wheat on us.”
This keeps the American fanners’ market down.
The protection of a higher tariff is the answer to
this.
Omaha has prospered when the farmers have pros
pered. It owes them a debt of gratitude which it is
now endeavoring to repay. If the demand for action
becomes strong enough, action will come, and with
out delay.
MODERNIZING THE MOVIE FARMER.
The farmers are tired of being misrepresented in
the movies as well as in the speakies, and they have
filed a protest. They have suffered long and their
protest is timely.
Though the farmer of today can scarcely be dis
tinguished from his city brother, though he drives an
automobile and has a bath tub, electric lights, hot
and cold water, a talking machine and radio outfit
in his home, the stage and screen still represent him
as he was 50 years ago—Si Whiffletree with his
pants stuck into the tops of his leather boots and
with long chin whiskers waving in the breeze.
It may be that the movie directors haven’t seen a
real, up-to-date farmer. Possibly they err through
ignorance. It has been said, too, that audiences are
accustomed to types and won’t accept anything else.
All farmers, in the fan’s fancy, must have chin whisk
ers and wear boots, just as all villains must have
black moustaches, all cruel landlords must be thin
and occupy positions as deacons, all detectives must
keep their hats on under all circumstances, all busi
ness men must have valets.
Not only should the screen farmer be revised, but
also his son' and daughter. Son has his own car
nowadays, hears the latest music by radio and has
it on his victrola, while daughter looks as up-to-date
as her city sister and maybe is a college graduate.
The subtitle writer should direct his careful atten
tion to making the farm folks talk right. No “Wal,
I swan” or “By crackey” conversation is found in
the speech of the modern tillers of the soil.
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HONESTY IN OFFICE.
There is much loose thought and loose talk nowa
days on the subject of dishonesty in public office.
Many men of fair judgment and discrimination really
believe that all public officials are grafters. You
hear it expressed every day.
It is a dangerous conception, damaging alike to
individual and to public probity. A little thought
would show these loose thinkers and talkers the fal
lacy of their loose belief.
Public officials, in the first place are under bond.
And, aside from that, even assuming that they would
like to graft, they are so surrounded with rivals
watching for one false move that they have to guard
their steps as a matter of self-protection.
Of course, among certain types of appointed pub
lic servants there is a good deal of petty graft. Now
and then one of the small fry is caught. And, at
longer intervals, higher officials betray the trust the
people have put in them.
But, as a general rule, men in public office are
scrupulously honest, and it were well for the people
• to get this fact more firmly fixed in their minds.
One man who has held high office in the county
said: “An official would be a fool of the worst sort
to graft. Supose he accepted money from some one,
he would forever after be under the dominance of
that person through threat of exposure. Nothing
less than a million would be worth taking," he added
with a smile, “and even that wouldn’t repay most
men for loss of self-respect.”
CREDIT TO THE POLICE.
The triumph of virtue over villainy and of law over
crime is always a pleasing thing to see. The cap
ture of four men in the act of robbery last night is
particularly gratifying because it concerns everybody
in Omaha.
The officers acquitted themselves well. The cap
ture was a decided score in favor of the police de
partment, for not often can the holdup gentry be
caught in the very act.
The police usually come in for more criticism
than praise, but here is a case where the public can
bestow the mead of commendation on the guardians
of safety.
Lord Ducie has returned to England after 70
years’ absence in Australia. But London doesn’t .
change much in that length of time.
Germany is “on the verge of revolution” as often
nowadays as the crown prince was "killed” during
the war.
Oriiaha barbers endorse bobbed hair. The butch
ers will also recommend the eating of more meat.
“Reds win!” But this refers to Cincinnati, not
Bulgaria.
Trotzky has been assassinated again.
A JAIL INVESTIGATION. ,
Sheriff Endres indicates that he will not volun
tarily allow a probe into conditions at the county
jail.
Whatever tan be legally done by the people
should be done on behalf of the men and women
behind the bars.
The county attorney says there are two ways.
One is a grand jpry. The other is a demand by
Warden Fenton to inspect the quarters of state
prisoners and interview them regarding their food.
This would apply only to state prisoners.
The welfare board, roused by the latest food riot
among the prisoners, has also moved to investigate
and properly so. One member tells of reading a let
ter recently which "sounded like the wail of a lost
soul.” It was from a man who recently finished
serving a term in the county jail.
Three county commissioners made an unofficial
tour through the jail yesterday, accompanied by
Sheriff Endres and Jailer Sherry.
“It’s the grub; they don’t give us enough to eat,”
the prisoners shouted from behind the bars.
Of course this may not have been true. In fact,
Jailer Sherry is reported to have shaken his fist at
them and muttered, “You’re liars!”
The way to find out the truth is an investigation
with the law behind it
The local democratic newspaper now criticizes
Endres and conditions in the jail. Yet last winter
when The Omaha-Bee was doing all in its power
to have the law changed so that the county would
feed the prisoners, the democratic organ did not once
raise its editorial voice in favor of the change.
Sheriff Endres or one of his men was continually
at Lincoln from the time the bill was introduced un
til it was finally killed, though it was recommended
for passage by committees of both houses.
If the bill had passed, the prisoners would be get
ting good food and plenty of it and, according to
County Commissioner Unitt, the county would be
saving $15,000 a year.
A significant indication of the profits in feeding
the 200 prisoners is Mr. Unitt’s statement that in
mates of the county hospital are fed by the county at
at cost of 14 to 20 cents a day. Endres gets 50 cents
a day for feeding the county jail inmates.
The people, who own the jail and pay Endres
have a right to know what is done with their money.
They have a righteous concern regarding the food
provided for the unfortunates behind the prison
bars.
A PEACE OF MIGHT,
Nothing is ever settled until it is settled right.
The new European agreement by which the Ger
man chancellor surrenders to French pressure on the
Rhine ia no more permanent than is any adjustment
obtained by force.
Let no American fool himself; crisis will continue
to follow crisis in the old world. First one power
will have the upper hand, and then another. Eng
land by its weak policy has passed its leadership to
France. And if the Germans can maintain their na
tional integrity the day will come when they wreak
violent revenge on their conquerors.
In none of these actualities, present or future, is
there material for good cheer. It would add noth
ing to the peace of the world or the welfare of hu
mankind to have an armed Germany triumph at some
later date over its neighbor dnd rival.
World politics is on the wrong basis, entirely.
The politicians of Europe have failed. Only the
hard sense and the soft hearts of the people of those
lands can ever bring an end to the vicious set of
circumstances into which they have been plunged by
a combination of political and industrial factors, of
which they know very little.
CURBING SPEED MANIACS.
“Ostracize the speeder and you’ll put an end to
him,” said the preacher.
Very good so far. We ostracize murderers. But
murder continues.
A number of girls and women, interviewed en
dorse the minister’s remedy. It all sounds very fine,
indeed.
But closer inquiry into the the practical side of the
business shows that ostracizing is easier said than
done. -
Who shall be denominated a speeder? Shall it be
any person who has driven an automobile at more
than 30 miles an hour? Or more than 40? Or more
than 50? Or shall it be a person who has been ar
rested for speeding? Or shall the taboo be placed
only on those who have killed or maimed human be
ings while driving automobiles?
And when this mere question of definition has
been decidqd, how shall we know speeders from ordi
nary citizens? It will be necessary to know them in
order to apply the process of ostracism. Shall they
be branded on the forehead?
A swift, sure application of jail sentences to all
speeders, without fear or favor, to men and women
of high and low degree is a more practicable cure
for an evil which is Universally recognized and de
plored. A few killers in the penitentiary, for 1 to
10 years under the law as it stands, would have a
wonderful effect on the throttle foot of the speed
criminal.
Every once in a while comes consolation for the
bachelors, both masculine and feminine. In the first
two columns of the front page of a paper are these
items: “Woman is held as poisoner of her son’s
wife," “Man slays his wif# and himself in New Al
bany," “Wife charges silence strike" and “Mrs. O.
H. P. Belmont says marriage is a failure."
The American marines, landing at Yokohama after
the earthquake, established first a bakery and next
a motor repair shop. This is, indeed, the automotive
age.
The fog yesterday — didn’t it remind you of
dear old Lunnon and Piccadilly and the Embankment
and Old Holborn and all that. Eh, what, old thing!
How thankful the people of Europe must feel that
they don’t live in the land of Herrin and Oklahoma!
Homespun Verse
—By Omaha's Own Poet—
Robert Worthington Davit
A FAIR AND BLUSHING BRIDE.
Life's splendor Is before her—
• A fair and Mushing bride!
And fame and fortune o'er her.
Companion by her side.
The best of life beyond her,
The skies of love so blue.
The thrills of Joy and wonder.
The faith of lover true.
The dreams of future blending
Her heart with pride and seal.
Utopian pathways ending
In palaces of rest.
Into the vast she's going—
A fair and blushing bride—
With hope and rapture, knowing
That he Is by her tide.
4 * From State and
-Nation”
Editorials from other
newspapers.
The Unseen Hand.
From the Fremont Tribune,
The tragedy at Lincoln that snuffed
out the lives of two young Fremont
state university students in an auto
mobile accident, left its Imprint of sor
row in the homes where the young
couple were known in Fremont and
the circles in which they were promi
nent in school life. That two young
lives, both on the threshold of futures
that seemed to promise unlimited suc
cess, should be sacrificed in such a
manner, is indeed sorrowful. The af
fair has cast its shadow of grief over
two cities.
Inquests and investigations, no mat
ter how far-reaching in effect, will
never make up for the terrible blow
sustained by the parents of these
young victims. All retribution within
the power of mere nuyt will never re
place the emptiness that now fills the
hearts of bereaved parents.
In one rase a mother, struggling
without her helpmate for the past
eight years, was also a father to their
only daughter. £he worked and fought
only as a mother can, to give her
daughter an equal opportunity with
other daughters. Accomplished, dili
gent, studious and appreciative, the
daughter was equal to the occasion
and bore out her mother's hopes and
wishes, bringing satisfaction and jov
to the heart of the mother who had
worked and sacrificed In order that
her offspring might benefit. And then
came the tragedy that like a bolt of
lightning shattered the hopes and am
bitions and dreams of years.
And the father who remains to
mourn the lost son is more than wor
thy of the sympathy that is extended
by sorrowing friends. Cutting short
his vacation in order to enjoy a few
days’ visit with his boy before the
school term commenced, he arrived in
Lincoln silently happy with the sur
prise he had planned. He had been
looking forward to these few hours
with his son and the brief contem
plated reunion filled his heart with
Joy. But only a silent form, stretched
cold In death, was thepe to greet the
father. Shocked beyond expression,
the stricken parent could only look
on in mute norror. His own flesh
and blood, but a few hours before a
happy, laughing youth beloved by all,
snatched from the living by an un
seen hand, awaited him cold and stark
in death.
There Is little to be written that can
in any great way relieve the suffer
ings of these two parents. But little
more can be said. The sustaining
help that can come to this father and
mother is faith. Faith in the form of
love for a Creator "from whom all
blessings flow" and in Him they will
find guidance that will lead them
through the days of darkness that are
to follow the loss of these loved ones.
America's Better Part.
From the Grand Island Independent.
America is showing to the world in
the most effective manner possible
that it is not a selfish motive, in a
sordid sense, that prompts her to re
frain from meddling in the political
and military affairs of other nations.
The sending of millions of dollars in
cash and goods to the unfortunate
people of Japan, one uf the otlftr
great countries farthest removed from
the United States, is the best evi
dence of the falseness of the charge
that we desire to remain "isolated”
and "to help no one.” No greater
error could be made, for Instance,
than that by a Nebraska Exchange
this week when it stated:
"Reversing an old saying, one touch
of disaster makes the whole world
kin. This Is demonstrated by the ter
rible disaster which overwhelmed Ja
pan, and by the spontaneous and gen
erous response for means to assist
the Japs in their distress It Is but
a few months since our government
appropriated and spent $20,000,000 to
save Russia from starvation. And
yet would be statesmen go up and
down the country saying 'that we
have no interest in world affairs and
must avoid foreign entanglements.’
or words to that effect. Don't it heat
you?"
There are nations whose hatred,
envy and desire to take territory from
each other is such as to keep them
constantly at war. Money or can
celled obligations donated to them
only feed their military machines and
cause them to be the more domineer
ing and brutal against their neigh
bors. That is the "entanglement In
foreign affairs" that is absolutely and
unequivocally to he shunned if we
have any regard for our own welfare
and do not wish to come to the aid
or mere International murder and
rapine. Millions of the people of Ja
pan. through no act or negligence of
their own, are made homeless, are
Injured, or subjected to disease and
ramlne—and we aid Immediately with
nut any expectation of any return. Is
that Isolation? It is better for Amer*
ca to appropriate and donate a mit
llon for such a cause than to donate
a thousand for reconstructing the mil
itarism and Imperialism of the Euro
pean nations.
The Tree-Growing Movement.
From the Columbus (O.) Dispatch
"You can't make It pay to grow
timber,' a prominent West Virginia
lumber dealer said to the writer some
years ago. Hut even then there were
many in America who had come to
the opposite conclusion, and each year
seen i, largo Increase In the number
or those who refuse to regard the re
lation of iho lumber industry to the
forest as merely destructive. The
conception of a great American forest
area which will be continually repro
ducing substantially a« much timber
aa la annually cut Is rapidly taking Its
place in the public consciousness as
the only forest policy compatible with
interests of the nation.
With this aim clearly and steadily In
View, anything which will work to
wards Its accomplishment. In anv for
H?lisn .-fr°nI ,h# wood-lot on the In
dividual farm up to the gronl timbered
or cut-over areas still belonging to the
state or nation, ia to lie encour »k*'<I
In this connection thero Is mailer
ror great encouragement In fn.ts re
cently given out by the conservation
coni mission of the state of New York
Orders for young forest trees for fall
Planting are coming to the rotnmla
slon earlier and In greater numbers
than ever before. Orders nggregnt
,hJ,h{ y'.ZL'! h*v* 1 ,"‘1 ,n mine heart
*nat t might not atn H'rine Th.-- linear,I
-Pa ?i'i Vl 1»r<*' T"' ■<«"“«
Dear Father In Heaven, rge come
to Thee In love and praise for all the
blessings we enjoy; for the food we
have to eat, for the water wo drink,
the raiment we Wear and the fresh
air w» breathe. We thank Thee for
our home, our loved ones, and thal
we live In a land und an age when we
can worship Thee openly. We thank
Thee for the open Bible, hut above all
else we thunk Then that Thou ill.1st
lead ua out of darkpesa Into Ugh
through th* gift of Thy dear Hon
O leather, help us to become more
worthy Thy watchful cate nnd love.
Keep ua In the straight and narrow
I>Hth. Bless ua In our pinna and pur
poses, htrt defeat ua In them If Ihev
lead US from Thee. Help ua to let
our light shine, an.l give ua souls for
our hire. In the name of Jesus we nsk
It. Amen.
*"V «iali. S£.ANDT
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— .It
The Omaha Bee welcomes Jit
ters from readers recording In
timate observations of animals or
plants. A bird perhaps one has
seen while waiting |pr a street
car, or a voluntary flower or,some
creature one has come upon in
Die woods away from the noise of
the city—these are—and always
have been—of interest to ethers.
Horticultural scientists at the New
Brunswick. N. J.. agricultural experi
ment station have solved a mystery
that has baffled plant physiologists
for more than 150 years. It is why
hydrangea blooms change color in
different locations. The answer Is
short and simple—the amount of acid
In the soil.
Growers of hydrangeas, not only
amateurs, but experts wbo make a
living producing the flowers and
plants for the market, have long won
dered why the same variety bear
pink flowers one year and blue the
next. Or why the flowers are pink
on one side of the porch and on the
other side mauve. Just as puzzling
It is to large growers of hydrangeas
for forcing to find in pots of soil from
one field flowers ranging in color from
pink to blue.
Exporers for new ornamental plants
many years ago found species of hy
drangeas In China and Japan which
bore blue flowers. When they were
taken to France they bore pink flow
ers.
From recent tests it was learned
that a certain degree of acidity las
Indicated by the hydrogenion concen
tration) seemed associated with each
color variation. Plants were grown In
agricultural soils varying in acidity
and the flowers produced were in ac
cord with the degree of acidity in the
soil.
After experimenting for several
years with hundreds of plants repre
senting 12 varieties the New Jersey
expert found that in any good garden
soil ground limestone at the rate of
10,000 pounds to the acre will induce
the formation of pink flowers with
out further injury to the plants. But
then some persons like blue hydrang
eas. Almost anything not toxic to the
plants that will make the soil acid.
If used In sufficient amount, will bring
about the blue flowers. If not used
In sufficient amounts Intermediate
colors appear.
EDWARD O. DEAN.
lng more than a quarter of a million
trees are also booked already for next
April's planting. Since the reforest
ing movement began, the state au
thorities have supplied nursery stock
for nearly 10.000 plantations, aggre
gating not far from 80,000.000 trees.
The commission has developed a nurs
ery system so economically managed
that 2-year-old trees can he furnished
at $2 per 1000 to private planters.
3-year-olds at 23 and 4 year-olds at 24.
By the close of the fall season, it Is
expected that the planting for 1923
will have reached the verv encourag
ing aggregate of 10,000,000 trees. Ohio
ought to be doing that much now.
New York will soon be doing several
times as much.
County Fairs.
From the Hastings Tribune.
From every corner of the state
comes the news of the splendid suc
cess of county fairs. •
This Is good news.
It Is very good news.
It Is doubtful if there is anything
that can build up a fhrming commun
ity or state faster and more sub
stantially than a county fair.
As a result of these fairs Nebraska
Is fast getting a better and higher
grade of cattle, hogs, poultry and
horses.
Besides this, boys and girls have
been taught to take a greater inter
est and more active part In doing and
promoting things that pertain to a
greater Nebraska.
That Itself Is worthy the effort.
The Nebraska state fair is an or
ganization and Institution to which
every loyal Nebraskan can point with
pride.
Its splendid success Is due to co
operation—and It is co operation that
makes the county fair, and the coun
ty fairs help materially to build up
the state fair.
So It Is that the more fairs there
sre. the better it Is for the people In
general.
THU SEC RET.
A small room, dark with heavy clouds
of smoke.
Where deep, unbroken silence reigns
profound.
Where thoughtful men In comfort sit
around.
Moving strange carven pieces with
great care.
Here Uttle time Is paid to merry Joke:
Each for himself, and burled deep In
thought.
Paying small heed to any others there:
Host In a world of figures strangely
wrought.
Here In this room, apart from all
their kind,
A different order reigns from that
without—
No sordid thought, no class, no caste
about.
No air of earth, no rule, but of the
mind.
What Is the power that makes this
order strange.
Whst makes the liand that draws no
social line.
What miracle creates this state Ideal,
What Influence can make this group
so fine?
'TIs not mere chess alone that makes
this seen'’—
Where nations fall, this recluse hand
succeed.
They have I he key to common broth
erhood—
A common Interest and a romtnoh
creed. — H L.
An Overnight.
•'My doctor put mo on a rigid diet,
but he said I could eat all the spinach
I wanted."
"Well?"
"The darned fool evidently didn't
know that I like spinach."—Weysldc
Tales .
NET AVERAGE
CIRCULATION
for August, 1923, of
THE OMAHA BEE
Daily .72,114 '
Sunday ..75,138 '
Doti not fnrlodo return*, left
over*, mmole* or paper* spoiled tr
printing and includes nr sporta)
•ale*.
B. BREWER, Gen. Mgr. i
V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr.
Subscribed and sworn to bsforo mo
litis 4th day of September, 1t23.
W. H QUIVEY, |
(Sool) Notary Public.
“THE PEOPLE’S VOICE”
Cfttarlal from rutin at Tha Maralaa Baa. RaaBart at Tha Maralaa Baa
ara larltaa ta aaa thla aataaia trarl* tar axaraaalaa
aa ai a tiara at pablle Intaraat.
Another Farm Remedy.
Omaha—To the Editor of The Omaha
Bee: While there have been many
propositions made to help the far
mers, none, so far as practical, as
the president stated. I will try to
remedy that defect. Let congress
vote a credit of. say. 1100,000.000 to
Germany, which Germany will pay
back and agree to buy only American
farm products for it. such as wheat,
corn, meat. lard, bacon, wool, to
bacco. cotton and cottonseed oil.
Thus the product being taken out
of the country and consumed would
bring steady prices, restore the pur
chasing ability of the farmers and
stimulate business all over the coun
try, since It would bring money to all
sections, furnish freight for railroads
and our Idle ships, giving more em
ployment to labor. Thus It would be
worth to the country many times the
amount Involved and doing besides
a charitable, God-pleasing act: help
ing a people in great distress, where
children and others die of hunger or
are driven to suicide So let us urge
congress to act along above lines and
the problem of how to heln the far
mers is solved. )
HENRT C. BEHRENS
Doctoring the r Miners Ills.
Oxford. Neb.—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: Without doubt many of
the great army of farm doctors who
are prescribing for the farmer s ills,
both real and fancied, are honest In
the belief that their special dope will
work a cure. On the other hand
there are many demagogs who are
using the present farm conditions for
making political capital. While Hard
ing was .a his deathbed four of. these
wired his physician that an extra ses
sion should be called to relieve the
farmers of a national calamity that
had befallen them.
Coolidge had scarcely taken the
of office when a second bunch claim
ing that they spoke for the farmers
of the United States asked a special
session that a price might be set up
on the farmer's wheat. Now a covey
of senators are worrying the presi
dent to convene congress at once that
legislative relief may be given the
farmers. Have these dopesters for
gotten that congress has been pretty
much on the Job the nast two vears
with opportunity to trv on their farm
prosperity schemes? Didn't we have
the farm bloc that made the life of
the president miserable and disgraced
the farmers by making them appear
as a hunch of sore heads demanding
special legislation? Have we not the
t'apper-Tlncher bill which was to bring
higher prices to the farmers and guar
antee to the consumers his living at
cost? Have we forgotten- the farm
credit bill that was to bring us sure
salvation and plenty of easy money?
Farmers who have been close ob
servers have found that thev suffer
more damage from their professed
friends than from those charged with
being their enemies. It is a cold
undisputable fact that thousands of
farmers are broke because thev could
get money easy and thoughtlessly
abused their credit. It is also true
that speculation in wheat helped in
stead of hurt farmers. Farmers are
not blameless for the condition in
which they find themselves. They
may 1m? the best of Judges of all kinds
of livestock and have a thorough
knowledge of the best grains and for
age plants, but It seems that many
are at sea when it comes to choos
ing between statesmanship 'and gal
lery playing; and have assisted un
der the humbug primary law In send
ing the greatest bunch o demagags
to congress that was ever assembled
In one legislative body on the globe.
Recently some of our good friends
started a "bny-a-thousand-bushets-of
w heat, a sa< k of-flour" slogan. Of
course It fizxled, but suppose tills silly
:dea had worked as its promoters
hoped, and the farmers sold their
w heat to the philanthropist Instead of
the grain dealer, In what wav would
he be benefited' How anv sane man
could think such a scheme would
establish a better market unless the
grain was destroyed as purchased is
beyond comprehension, but we can't
help but admire the honest effort and
value the sincere friendship of otir
citv neighbors.
Now some one has a scheme? for
raising wheat 15 cents per bushel bv
boosting the tariff. Senator Norris is
going to pull us out of the hole by
cutting freight rates; George has been
In congress since a hov and I am
wondering how tnanv more genera
tions it will take for him to get those
cheap rates' In 1*90 when George
was fighting the farmers’ alliance
their hobby was "watered railroad
stock and sing of Wall street.” Now
George has them skinned a mile with
the calamity howling. If some one
will Investigate they will find more
watered stock in our farms than the
railroads ever dreamed of and we ars
being taxed on this water regardless
of the fact our crops often fail for
want of moisture. Norris Is right
when he says nearly all can shift
their taxes but the farmer; and in
Nebraska he not only has to nav his
but Indirectly most of the other fel
low's.
We hear the claim every day that
80 per cent of our taxes are local and
regulated by the farmers at home. A
blacker He never was uttered since
Satan deceived Eve In the garden.
School district taxes are even di
rected by state law County officials'
salaries and fees are fixed by the
state. Often unnecessary clerks and
deputies are forced on the people by
the state. The farmers are even forced
by the state to pay salaries and ex
penses to county ’agents that they
have no more use for than a toad
has for a tail. It Is the state, not
the home people, that taxes the peo
ple to send their county officials on
a Junket to boost for mors salaries,
more fee*, more help and less work.
It Is the state that as soon as our
teachers are hired starts some kind of
scheme to holiday them on full pay
for a week or more. Ib Is the state
that makes our district schools simply
preparatories for the high school In
stead of temples of learning: and high
schools are made preparatories for the
university Instead of fitting our youth
for the battles of life.
It is therefore plain that our taxes
are not to any extent controlled local
ly. Our legislators, state and na
tional. are everlastingly creating more
offices, bureaus, inspectors and in
vestigators. Salaries are Increased re
gardless of the price of wheat. Here
is where our friends >n the senate
can bring relief without anv class
legislation.A C. RANKIN.
Abe Martin
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Well, ever’buddy’s sati.fied with
th’ outcome o’ th’ coal strike—th’
Diners are satisfied, an’ th’ opera
;ors are satisfied, an’ th’ public has
ieen satisfied all along that it would
pet th’ worst of it. Ever’ time we
>ee a real swell lookin’ gal we try t’
imagine her darnin’ a pair o’ socks
before they go too long.
(Copyright. 1*21.)
Cold Comfort.
The world's production of coal ex
ceeds l.uoOJIOO 000 metric tons a y 'll.
This fact may encourage the New
England householder whose bin is
imply.—BoKon Transcript.
A Kansas Orgy.
After a good time of playing, re
freshmen’s consisting of watermelon
ind chewing gum were served —
Lyons (Kan I News.
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