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KING AK-SAR-BEN’S ROYAL WELCOME.
His Gracious Majesty, King Ak-Sar-Ben, extends
to all his loyal subjects throughout Quivera, and all
visitors without the boundaries of the realm, a most
hearty welcome. Never was there a kindlier monarch,
nor a more willing and loyal lot of subjects. The fame
of our king’s gracious rule has spread throughout
the confines of the earth, and drawn upon his loving
subjects the congratulations and the envy of those
subject to far less gracious rule. Because they are
happy and contented, and Hcause they see only
happiness and good fortune revealed in the crystal
globe that reveals the future of the realm, the loyal
subjects are flocking in multitudes along the king’s
highway to pay their annual tribute of love and
esteem at his court.
Many and wonderful have been the changes and
improvements since that far gone year of 1896
when King Ak-Sar-Ben issued his first royal man
date and ascending the throne rescued by his wis
dom and optimism a realm plunged into ill fortune
and despair. By the power of his example he in
stilled new hope and new courage into the hearts
of his subjects, and they turned with smiles to their
tasks and forgot the disappointments of their yes
terdays. Never has his rule been harsh or onerous;
always has it been unselfish and kindly. Never has
he looked backwards, save only to see where he
could build better upon the mistakes of yesterday.
He has aent waves of happy laughter across his
realm to wash away the memories better forgotten;
planted the seeds of optimism to grow and crowd out
the weeds of pessimism and despair, and added hours
of happiness to days once filled with gloom and
doubt.
Gladly, then, do his loyal subjects travel by
rail, by automobile and by airplane to this splendid
city wherein his court is held, and royally do the
local subjects of his gracious majesty welcome their
fellow subjects to the precincts of this kingly city.
Glittering and glowing are the colors of King Ak
Sar-Ben as they wave in the autumn air. But over
and above them wave other colors to which even
King Ak-Sar-Ben bows in humble tribute, even as
foreign monarchs, less kindly and less gracious, have
been impelled to bow and bend with far less
graciousness.
Long live our Gracious Majesty, King Ak-Sar
Ben. And long may his realm be filled with loyal,
happy, prosperous subjects to journey to his kingly
city in annual pilgrimage to pay their tribute to his
wisdom and his kindliness!
OF THE WEST WESTERN.
The New York Times waxes facetious in its com
ments upon the suggestion of Senator Kendrick for
president upon the democratic ticket Also sarcas
tic. But why the sarcasm? Kendrick has been a
leading figure in congress for more than a quarter
of a century. It is true that he has not been as
vociferous as some western democratic leaders—or
southern—not mentioning any names, but he seems
to have been accomplishing things despite his reti
cence; or maybe because of it. The man who could
carry every county but one in republican Wyoming
against Mondell, surely has some claim upon the
consideration of the democratic managers.
It is true that Wyoming has but three electorial
votes, as against Kew York’s 36, but let not the
New York Times overlook the fact that presidents
have been elected by as narrow a margin as three
votes. Not that we apprehend for a moment that
a democrat will be elected by any sort of a margin
in 1924, but that we are inclined to the belief that
in such a contingency, as little as it is to be desired,
Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming would be
about the least objectionable man the democrats
could name. He is of the west western, yet broadly
cosmopolitan; he poses neither as a statesman nor
a diplomat, but he is broadminded, patriotic, and
very human.
We have just about lost hope that the time will
ever come when a New York newspaper will he able
to see and appreciate anything that has not its
genesis east of Buffalo. A sense of fairness impels
us to protest against such unkindly and uncalled for
sarcasm against a really big westerner.
WORK AND AIR FOR PRISONERS.
Revelation of conditions in the Douglas county
jail emphasizes anew the need for a workhouse. It
might be given some more pleasing name than that.
Whatever its name, it should be a place near, but
not in th« city; a place where employment could
be given the prisoners and where they could get
plenty of fresh air.
These two things cannot be given them in the
present jail in the courthouse. And these two things
are most necessary to their physical and mental well
being.
The present jail is clean, perhaps, but it is per
meated constantly by a sickening odor, compounded
of cooking smells, steam from the bathrooms and
odors from the bedding.
In this atmosphere the 200 prisoners must spend
days and nights in absolute idleness. No wonder
they consider transportation to the penitentiary a
happy relief! At the penitentiary they have em
ployment and they get an hour or two in the fresh
air and sunshine every day. What that means, no
body but a prisoner can realize.
With swift motor transportation, a workhouse
just outside the city, with plenty of space around it,
would be praeticully as convenient in handling of
prisoners as the present jail.
The men should lie given some sort of employ
ment and possibly small remuneration. A large
garden, potato field and so on, could be operated.
Chickens and hogs and cows could ba, k<pt for the
supply of food to the prisoners. There should also
be workshops in which they could be trained for
other industries, mechanical or factory.
Such an institution would keep the men in health
and, properly handled, would send them forth, at
the expiration of sentence, better men and women
than when they went in.
IS KANSAS BLEEDING AGAIN? \
Can it be possible that dear old Kansas is bleed- !
ing afresh? A Topeka dispatch announces that the
secretary of the state board of agriculture has asked
Henry lord for a donation of $5,000 to a fund now
being raised to assist farmers of 14 southwest Kan
sas counties, whose crop virtually was a failure this
year. We trust that Henry responds quickly and
gladly, for it would be an awful drain upon the other
91 counties of Kansas were they compelled to take
care of their neighbors in the matter of seed wheat.
Something like three months ago the dispatches
contained tearful appeals from Kansas for help in
harvesting the bumper wheat crop, but perhaps that
was merely because the force of habit is so strong.
Kansas has been issuing that touching appeal every
harvest season for many years. Nebraska, which
produces as much wheat per acre and per capita as
Kansas, also has a few counties in which the wheat
crop proved a failure. But Nebraska always manages
to harvest her enormous wheat crop without putting
up plaintive appeals for help, and will also see to it
that the counties devastated by the black rust are
provided with seed wheat, and without issuing ap
peals to outsiders for help. In case of emergency
the southwest Nebraska farmers who lost a wheat
crop doubtless would be glad to contribute to a fund
for the purchase of seed wheat for their Kansas
brethren. The Nebrakans plowed pp their wheat
fields and put them into corn and sorghum and har
vested a goodly crop. Incidentally this proves the
superiority of Nebraska soil and climate. If one
crop shows symptoms of failing, instead of calling
for help our farmers merely plow up the failing crop
and proceed to plant and harvest another.
But we do hope Henry Ford responds to the tear
ful appeal from those 14 Kansas counties. It would
not do to compel the other 91 counties to refrain
from boasting long enough to help their fellow courv
ties out of their distress. They might get out of the
habit of boasting.
—
Oklahoma’s first governor, Haskell, was deposed
as treasurer of the democratic national committee
for being too intimate with Standard Oil. Okla
homa’s latest governor shows . mptoms of some
thing unusual, but the only thing we’re sure about is
that they are not symptoms of common sense.
The Missouri Valley Medical society sayB the
automobile is responsible for 50 per cent of the
fractured skulls. But defective skulls are respon
sible for more than 50 per cent of the automobile
accidents.
A bull moose recently took possession of the
streets of Bangor, Me., and wrecked several au
tomobiles. There are those who remember when a
bull moose took possession of the G. O. P. and
wrecked a steam roller.
Mention of Charles G. Dawes as a “compromise
candidate” for governor is calculated to get a Helen
Marie rise out of Charley, who isn’t in the habit of
compromising on anything.
The best way to get a full realization of why
there is so much that doesn’t matter, is to pick up
a daily newspaper that is about two weeks old and
read its headlines carefully.
Captain See, U. S. A., declares that the sea’s
leakage caused the earthquake in Japan. But whence
came the big leak that deluged this vicinity so re
cently?
And to think that a contemporary owned and
controlled by a light wine and beer advocate should
exhibit such frenzy over a little mistake about water!
A Chicago dispatch headed "Mayor revokes li
censes of thirty-eight saloons,” reads like an item
from the “Ten Years Ago Today” column.
Why travel to California to see an eclipse of the
sun when it’s more fun to catch an unobstructed
glimpse of the sun right here in Omaha?
A big increase in the sale of bananas is attributed
to the song. But that isn’t what it drove some of us
to, even if we couldn’t find it.
An increase of $35,000,000 by reason of the
Pinchot settlement of the anthracite coal strike is
where the pinch comes.
May it not be possible to relieve the German
monetary system by inducing the pressmen to go
out on strike.
It’s a cinch it wouldn’t have been that way with
the Ringling brothers alive and personally managing
their circus.
No joke is any good until it is old, asserts Jay
House in the Philadelphia Ledger. That’s old enough
to be one.
The Omaha Bee will try to refer to David Lloyd |
George without incorporating the “little Welshman” i
bromide.
Foreigners say \fre have no art in this country. '
How about the art of keeping our money nt par?
Now who will come forward with a big prize for
a peace plan that will apply to Oklahoma?
• Mr. Volstead says one drink doesn’t hurt a man.
But doesn’t it depend upon which one?
Now what the Sam B. Hill happened in that
Washington congressional district?
Envy may have been the basis of that bald bar
ber’s demand for the $1 haircut.
The good 6-cent cigar has arrived at last. It still
costs 15 cents, however.
Homespun Verse
—By Omaha's Own Poet—
Robert Worthington Davit
THE PATH WE HAVE FOLLOWED IS BEST.
We frequently think how aucfeaa might have brought
Our freedom and fortune If we had but thought,
And focused our efforts, or altered our way,
Or clung to the trail of a far-faded day.
The change we've pervaded, the failures we've known,
The heartless adverses, the things we atone
Might have been avoided had we been dlscieet,
And prudently followed the opposite street.
Hut fate has been kindly, though we may regret
Our lessons are many, companions wo've met.
And much have* we gained at a trivial cost
That elsewhere or otherwise might have been lost.
There’s rapture behind us—though fleeting and smnll—
That gives us Incentive and answers our call.
And much Is In mem'ry Ineffably dressed.
TUI surely the path Wc. have followed la beat.
“From State and
-Nation”
Editorials from other
news/xipers.
Speeches Do Not Help,
From the Salt Lake Tribune.
We agree with President Coolldge
that speechmaking on the state of the
nation and the Ills with which the
farmers are afflicted will not do any
good. Clear thinking is of prime im
portance Just now. During the win
ter months needed legislation can be
enacted if the foundations are laid
before congress assembles. The coun
try has been treated to a whole lot of
claptrap In the past few weeks and
remedies galore have been proposed.
It may be that some or the ideas ad
vanced are worth serious considera
tion, but they should not bo Incor
porated in our laws until they have
been carefully studied and digested
by the senators and representatives
and the chief executive and his con
stitutional advisers. The administra
tion should be given a chonce to
formulate a program which will ben
efit all of the people and take care
of the various "blocs" at the same
time. In other words, the rush should
not b^attempted in the case of Pres
ident Coolldge.
Too Much Stress on Dollars.
From the Lincoln Star.
At the recent Methodist church
conference, a speaker was applauded
when he said the greatest need was
to close up more desks, have fewer
peoplo at work conducting drives and
more at work preaching the gospel.
The responsive sentiment rnhich
these remarks invoked, cropped out
several times during the the confer
ence when ministers acknowledged
that too much stress had been placed
upon dollars and too little upon the
soul.
Perhaps It would have been char
itable to have said that more demands
are being made upon the churches
than ever before In history. The re
lief work, and the educational work
attempted by the churches of Amer
ica in the last 10 years has been most
amazing. It has no parallel in his
tory. Colleges have been given huge
endowments; missionaries sent to all
of the far corners of the earth, and
work in America itself has been tar
ried forward on a scale never before
attempted.
Kor a period of five years America
rolled In wealth and this condition
was reflected in the generosity of her
gifts. Men gave to this and to that,
without a thought as to the nature
of the tiling to which thev were con
tributing. There was title of the
spirit, of the giver in the great out
pouring of wealth. They gave because
they had been accustomed to giving.
It was bad for the churches; it was
bad for the educational institutions,
and it was bad for the donors.
Now that has changed.
Other organizations of a nonrelig
ious character might well profit by
the sentiment expressed by these
Methodist ministers. If there are too
many desks in the churches occupied
in conducting drives, there are too
many desks in othi r organizations
which could as easily be eliminated
for the same reason.
Questioning Senator Norris.
From the Wall Street Journal:
Senator Norris of Nebraska, in the
columns of The Omaha Pee, has been
discussing the question of railroad
rites and the farmer. He says that
“everybody knows" that the cost of
transportation Is unreasonable. I'is
"everybody" also knows that freight
rates are too high, and that ' a large
proportion of the capitalization of
railroads is watered." Everybody
doe.s not know, and certainly Senator
Norris does not give any indication
of knowing, that rates are not fixed
upon eapltgiization, and especially
n t upon stock capitalization. These
assertions are not worth discussing
because they are manifestly untrue,
coming from a critic who docs not
know what proportion freight rates
bear to the pr'ce of the farmer’s
product or the extent to which freight
rates on farm products are already
below the rates on other freight.
Cut Senator Norris <1 cc* say some
thing which is worth discussion, be
cause it is hin major premise, tssumcd
by him to be an axiom, self evld -nt— i
something which no rational inind
can fall tn admit. He save pie
railroad, after nil, is nothing but •
great middleman." The first inference
intelligence would draw frem this
statement is that Senator Norris is
Incapable of defining either a mid
dleman or a railroad. The dictionary
defines a middleman as "one who
nets as an intermediary between oth
ers in any matter; an Intermediate
lessee, contractor, negotiator, trader,
broker, etc."
1 leurijr, railro.»<l In nonr of
things. It does nrft buy the fanner’s
gram nt lte own price, on threat of
leaving It on the firm, and then sell
It on Its own terms In t'hlcago. The
railroad is not *n agent but a pro
flu.er Anything the farmer raises
Is valueless until It ran he placed In
the hands of the man who wants It
for consumption All the surplus a
castaway on a desert Island could
raise would be a useless burden with
ent a ship to carry It to market The
farmer performs only a part of the.
operation of production. In a real
and perfect Sense Iho railroad ml -a
wheat.
Senator La Follette hns never per
formed u useful eervtce through the!
u'hole course of his political career!
except when he did not Intend it. Tty
a needlessly costly method, however,
the physical valuation of railroads
he showed once and for nil whnt the
Interstate Commerce commission had
been demonstrating for years before, j
that rates wer« not adjusted to cap- i
llnllzatlon. Compelled hv an eeonomle
law stronger than Itself, the Interstate
bommeree commission, whether It
wills to do so or not, must has., rates
more or less on the value of the serv
ice performed.
And that Is the haals for the farm
ers price for wheat. Th« world mar
ket settles the value of the service he
performs. It most properly declines
lo undertake t|,e task of fixing a value
until the service is complete.I |,v the
railroads. All the legislation against
the coal roads, where It has bee,, i„
tell gent, has been m the direction id
tnffulahlnsr iinv chnrnrtor of mid
dlomnn. with the r. s„lt of eniphael/
Ing the service of the carrier In pro
duct Ion. *
Hut It Is not difficult to see that
Senator Norris' "everybody” Is bcn
a!nr Norris And lie doesn't know.
A ltea ut) at »«.
A beauty competition for elderly
women at Turin, Italy, was won bv
a 96 year old competitor. There were
130 entrants, one, aged 73, having
perfectly black hair. Thirty of the
competitors were single women—In
dlanapolls News.
• •noil Substitute.
A medical man wrlic. "While on
holiday always strelch the lungs by
deoil breathing ” A recently returned
tourist claims that a punctured tire
or an air pump offer good substitutes
—Grand Island Independent.
( hanging I’laces.
There are probably as mnnv people
willing to Change place* with you ns
there are people with whom you
would like to chango places.—I'ana
(111 ) Palladium.
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The Omaha Bee welcomes let
ters from readers recording In
timate observations of animals or
plants. A bird perhaps ont has
seen while waiting for a street
car, or u voluntary flower or some
creature one has come upon in
the woods away from the noise of
the city—these are—and always
; have been—of interest to ethers.
FRIENDLY FOES.
An observation which I made during
the past summer may be of Interest
to Mother Nature lovers.
Early In the season a pair of robins
made their nest in a small poplar tree
in my front yard. About 12 feet dis
tant was a large elm tree in which an
old mother squirrel made her home.
The robins' nest and the squirrel’s
nest, on outlying branches, were
scarcely three feet apart.
One day my attention was attracted
by a great commotion among the
branches and I went out to investi
gate. The mother squirrel was on the
limb just outside her nest, with tall
flared up over her back, and chat
tering angrily at Mrs. Robin, who
likewise was scolding and flying back
and forth In front of Mrs. Squirrel.
Curious to know what this neighbor
hood row was all about, 1 hid behind a
nearby tree and furtively watched for
the outcome.
gresenuy airs. squirrel moveo
slightly toward Mrs. Robin's nest.
This infuriated Mrs. Robin all the
more, and screeching loudy, she dart
ed straight at Mrs. Squirrel and gave
her a sharp peck squarely on the
nose. With a half growl, half bark,
Mrs. Squirrel sprang into the air after
Mrs. Robin, lost her balance and fell
about 25 feet to the ground. No soon
er had she landed than Mrs. Robin,
spying an advantage for a further at
tack, darted down and gave Mrs.
Squirrel three lightning-like pecks
about the head before Mrs. Squirrel
had time to think what it was all
about. Mrs. Squirrel ran madly up
the tree and disappeared In her nest.
A few days later I was again at
tracted to Mrs. Robin and Mrs. Squir
rel. This time their quarrel seemed to
huve been forgotten. Perhaps the
dignity of motherhood hail softened
their animosity, for this time Mrs,
Squirrel and her baby offspring, a
tiny bundle of yellow and gray, sat
side by sale on the limb close to their
nest, while just across the way, on
Mrs Robin's premises, sat Mother
Robin and her two wee babes. Mother
Soulrre! and Mother Robin eyed each
other curiously, and Mrs. Squirrel
barked gleefully, Willie, glances were
exchanged, as much as to say: "Oh.
well, what’s the use of neighbors
quarreling, anyway?"
T had almost forgotten the Incident
until about three weeks ago. when
this time, a tragedy attracted my at
tention. Mother Squirrel .who had
grown quite tame, was run over in
the street by an automobile and killed.
Suddenly, as if she might have been
watching for something like this to
happen. Mother Robin appeared on
* - ■' ~d with a great fluttering
and cries that were touched with a
.row. she alighted, gazed
curiously at the body of the squirrel,
tilting her head first to one side and
then another. Presently Mrs. Robin
began tugging at the corpse as if try
ing to drag It away. For two or I
three minutes she worked and succeed i
ed in dragging It several feet toward
the curb. Then a hoy appeared, picked
up the dead squirrel and carried It j
Half an hour later. Mrs Robin was
een perched on the limb by the
squirrel’s nest, uttering not n sound,
while her drooping figure bespoke dis
consolation and sorrow.
Her one time enemy, become a
friend, was dead and she was sorrow
ing, even as human creatures sorrow
at the loss of a friend.
This strange friendship of bird and
squirrel and the overcoming of their
ft " I struck mo as quite unusual.
Might not humans, who are prone
to baker with their fellows, learn
many a valuable lesson front the dumb
creatures of woods and fields?
J VVInklemnn, Nebraska City, Neb
Daily Prayer
The T.ord ie my hrht And my aa!v»
tlon —P. 27 !
Our Heavenly Father, we of this
household, with varied needs, unite
to revere Thy name. We would glor
ify Thee in our ordinary life w#
thank Thee for the quiet shining of
the light upon the world, and for the
quiet shining of Thy light In ths
souls of men. I.lght us on our path,
lest we lose the way. We would
make league with Thee for the Mas
tei s presence May Jesus he guest
and chlefest friend at our fireside, the
listener to every conversation, coun
sellor in every day of doubt, light In
every hour of darkness, refuge In
any time of storm, solace in the night
"f grief Hlrss us In hi'ket and In
store. Make us rich In all the things
"f the Kingdom of God.
Give us the gladness of Thy love
and wisdom can trust us with, and
only enough of trial and of storm to
make us pure. When our fret shsll
have grown tired upon the road of
the years, and death shall scatter the
mist upon our fairs, and we grope
with Idtnd fingers for the latch of the
rate of Thy house, may He guide tis
with the unfailing cunning of His
love, and give abundant entrnnee Into
the graveless, deathless, nightless city
which Is Thy home snd ours.
Forgive us our trespasses. And
this we pray for all who name Thy
name For Christ * sake. Amen.
RKV I tM'OLN A. KKRKI8,
Raltimery. MAr)Und
( KNTEK SHOTS.
It Is clear that Mussolini !s running
it.ily, but who Is king of Italy any
way?—Taylorvllle ltreete.
Koltg skirts are dangerous for wo
men. Short skirts are dangerous for
men.—Aurora lies con News.
When the political bee stings a i>er
son the swelling alwnya goes to the
head.—Fdwarrfsvllle Intelligencer.
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Ihia 4th day of September, 1013.
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“THE PEOPLE’S VOICE”
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on mattcre *1 pohilc Internet.
Suspicious of British Visitors.
Omaha.—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: Is there a conspiracy of
silence on Lord Birkenhead's and Sir
Alfred Cope's mission to America?
The latter gentleman is the former
Mr. Cope of Dublin Castle, who is so
dexterous that he was-able to get in
touch with Mr. Michael Collins dur
ing the black and tan regime. Mr.
Cope was directed by Birkenhead &
Co. to find out every detail about the
lives and characters, and especially
the weaknesses, of the Irish sent to
London to negotiate the "treaty.” He
did his work thoroughly.
Lord Birkenhead completed the
work by the sinister influence he at
tained over Mr. Collins, to whom he
paid great attention in London.
Now, these two men are in Amer
ica, and Secretary of Labor Davis is
arranging for Lloyd George's coming.
What can be the mission of these
trained and tricky diplomats? Is It
to discover the weak characters Id
American politics so that British
diplomacy may achieve another vic
tory?
Let every loyal American watch
closely the activities of these inter
meddling foreigners.
JERRY HOWARD.
One-House Legislature.
Havelock, Neb.—To the Editor of
The Omaha Bee: I have a letter from
United States Senator Norris, dated
September 21. at Waupaca. Wis. It
is too long to set out here in full, but
in substance he charges me with mis
representing him in a recently pub
lished communication to the news
papers and says: "I hope you will
correct the statement that you* as
cribed to me.”
I certainly have no wish to misrep
resent any man and assuredly not a
man I regard so highly as Senator
Norris. The offending sentence, to
which he” takes exception is this: "Sen
ator Norris favors a one-house leg
islature of about 20 or 25 members
who are to be paid about 25.000 each
year and required to be in session a
good portion of the time each year.”
My authority for this statement Is
a letter from Senator Norris to C. A.
Sorenpen of Lincoln, dated at Wau
paca. Wis., July 6, and published in
The New State for August. In it he
said: "A small number of from 20
to 30 would become at once a busi
ness Institution. . . . We ought to
have men drawing a salary similar
to that received by the district
judges.”
Senator Norris now says: ”1 had
in mind the salary that the district
judge received when I was on the
bench and that was 12,500 a year." In
view of the fact that our district
Judges get $6,000 per year, and as I
hud no means of knowing what Sena
tor Norris had in mind, except his
printed word, I cannot see that my
summing up of his position was a
serious misrepresentation.
My objection to Senator Norris'
small one-house legislature is that it
is centralization of government. My
objection to the present system is
that with two houses and a small
senate, the "big boy;s" can control
legislation with 17 men, and as I
have said before, the "big boys" have
now all the robbing legislation they
need. They are "sitting pretty" and
now use the state senate to block any
repeals or amendments.
I. W. JACOBY,
Representative Thirty First District,
Nebraska Legislature.
Ford Worker* Busy.
O'Nelli, Neb.—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: Is Henry Ford s vast
selling organization in Nebraska to
be used as a political machine to
capture the democratic presidential
primary in the state next spring? Are
Ford owners to be urged to act as
precinct captains and workers in the
interest of the Detroit man's candi
dacy?
Ford agents in the several county
seats of north Nebraska, regardless
of political affiliations and acting on
Instructions are securing from their
county treasurers new and complete
lists of the Ford owners In their re
spective counties and are paying well
tor the new mailing lists.
The campaign for a complete roster
of Ford owners began several weeks
ago, and as fast as belated Ford own
ers. not already holding licenses for
their cars, take them out the agents
ire adding them to the lists they al
ready have. That the lists are being
compiled for other than business pur
poses is evident from the fact that the
iealers do not engage in mall adver
tising campaigns for their wares and
that the lists are being forwarded to
Omaha as fast as secured. Regular
members of both political parties are
considerably disturbed over the activi
ties of the Ford boomers.
It is estimated that every Ford car
In Nebraska represents at least two
votes, man and wife, and that if but .
50 per cent of the cars owned in the
state are giving satisfaction to their
owners tho Ford strength is most
formidable.
Ford agents refuse to state why I
Abe Martin
itHAHKY9U
CO*E
one ofw
^—«—,
We haint heard none o’ our re
turnin’ senatorial investigators say
they’d like t’ live in Rushy, if they
could sell out. Salesmen have long
since discarded knockin' as bad
business, but th’ habit is still all th’
rage ’mongst friends.
{Copyright, 1929.)
the lists are being prepared and to
whom they are being forwared, al
though not denying that they have
been requested to get them and admit
ting that they are not securing the
lists for their own personal use.
L. C. PETER8.
Wants More Garys.
Omaha.—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: As a reader of your
paper for 37 years. I saw several ar
ticles In your paper last summer In
regard to slaving people 12 Jiours.
I see that Mr. Gary has give nup
and let his men have eight hours in
the mills.
Why should a certain western cor
poration, with headquarters in Oma
ha, force a few old men to elave 12
hours when every other department
in their organization has eight hours?
A READER.
Devastating. ^
Why bother about scrapping those
-hips at Philadelphia? Why not send
them out to the Pacific coast for a
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