N*3 STATE MI»TO _ iCAL SOC UMIV The Omaha Morning Bee ,,Y - - - ■■■ - ■ ■■ ■ * ™ ^ VOL. 53—NO. 131. SXF Z TWaW Krftfbi! OMAHA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1923. * g:,.:;.11 V,r)i.nD.,,'(>, » TWO CENTS “ COOLIDGE JOHNSON ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY Hurls Cry of Progress as Challenge Senator to Seek Presidency as Progressive Republican on Strict Isolation Policy, Go Direct to Voters By Anaoriated Pmn, Chicago, Nov. 15.—Senator Hiram \V. Johnson of California tonight an nounced his candidacy for the re publican nomination for president, de claring that "the ensuing contest will determine whether the republican party shall be the permanent Instru ment of reaction or whether it shall respond to present day conditions and aspirations.” In tossing Ills hat into the presi dential ring. Senator Johnson declared himself for direct presidential prefer ence primaries In all states, saying the need today was for a "revitalized republican party" which should be an Instrument "neither of static reaction nor destructive radicalism,” and ex pressed opposition to the league of nations "and all its subsidiaries.” His announcement follows: “Theoretically, under our system, the people of the United States select their president. Those states with presidential preference primaries not only recognize this theory but put it in practice. They preserve the spirit as well as the letter of American in stitutions. It is an American’s birth right to submit himself and his politi cal tenets to the decision of his fellow citizens. People Must Rule. "He Is entitled to their decision and they are entitled to make it. I recogn ize no prescriptive right to office; and J deny that anyone or any tiumber of nven may disregard the popular will, and In defiance of It dictate our candi dates. Peculiarly should this be so at Ihjapresent time. sphere is discontent abroad in the land; there is threatened disentrega tlon of the republican party. The discontent and party difficulties arise not because of popular government lint from the lack of it. The warring philosophies of government in the na tion, just as in the slate from which I come, struggle for mastery. Desig nate them as you will, the contest between them is age-old. “The one ultra-conservative, ma terialistic. stolidly and stubbornly re sisting any claims and vigorously contesting every human advance, in vites an ultra-radicalism. The other, mindful of existing rights, but recognizing conditions and mankinds gradual progress, is idealistic and for ward-looking. It avoids alike ultra conservatism and ultra-radicalism. It's the old. old struggle lieginning in the early days of man's first achievements and never ending since. Reaction Against Progress. "Reaction and progress must fight It out again in the republican party in the coming presidential primaries. I question not men now, but their philosophy of government. That which obtains at Washington does not fit present day needs. Ultra conservatism there rules; progress ivlsm challenges It. And the ensuing contest will determine whether the republican party shall be the perma nent Instrument of reaction or whether It shall respond to present day conditions and aspirations. "We would have a revitalized re ^pC Jllcan party, a party representing alone Its rank and file, the Instru ment neither of statlo reaction nor destructive radicalism. Only such a party with the broad understanding vision and human sympathy of progreseivism can solve our pressing domestic problems. "Not onl yis there tne fundamental and Irreconcilable difference In our domestic politics, but a like diver gence, perhaps of ever geratpr Im portance, In relation to our foreign affairs. A foreign policy once en tered upon may with difficulty be changed. One false move may do what years cannot undo. "The whole future of national ex istence may he endangered by the Ill-considered act of a day. I am Svalnst the league of nations and all Its subsidiaries, membership In which Would tend to ifartlcipatlor., directly or Indirectly, In the league. To take Now and for Evermore That is the way Mrs. J. Bixbey of 2877 Califor nia Rtreot, feels about it. Mrs. Bixbey has just rent ed her rooms with a Bee * Want Ad. This is nothing new, for Mrs. Bixbey says that she always gets results from her adver tisements in The Bee and that the service we give her is just fine. We enn rent YOUR rooms if you I-8"' will let us try. Rhone AT lantic 1000 and see. “IT'S RESULTS THAT COUNT" us Into the league court or to In volve us In political struggles abroad Inevitably will draw us Into the Eu ropean maelstrom from which we fondly Imagined the election of 1920 had delivered u*. Wants Tien Severed. “Of course we would always pro mote peace and endeavor to prevent war. We would help Europe In any rational way: We would continue to alleviate suffering, clothe the naked, feed the hungry, but we would ever be the sole judge of our own actions, the arbiter of our destiny. Our coun try, the greatest on earth, should have its own foreign policy, thorough ly understood by our people, frankly proclaimed. “Preserving our country as it 1s, we preserve the world’s greatest as set, civil,zatlon's highest promise. Our timid, vacillating and contradictory positions demand that America’s for eign policy again be decided by the whole people who must themselves, at whatever cost, maintain it. This time the decision should be so clear, so definite and certain that no casuis try, no specious plea, no Indirection can distort it. “Upon these as fundamentals, am plifying and expressing details here after, to the men and women who con stitute America's free citizenship, 1 will make my appeal. In every state the contest will be waged. In those states where the voters may express their preference the issue can be defi nitely decided; and, I hope, all candi dates will participate In the presi dential preference primaries, Includ ing California, and cheerfully acqui esce in the result. "No man who aspires to the high est office In the gift of the Amer ican people should shrink from a verdict by those he seeks to serve: and equally, none Is entitled to the presidency whom the people do not want.’’ Church at Fremont to Have Golden Jubilee Fremont, Neb., Nov. 5.—The Pres byterian church of Fremont will ob serve Its golden Jubilee November 23, when impressive services will be held to mark the 50th year since Its organization. Clara B. Pillsbury, Bong Beach. Cal., is the only living charter mem ber of the church aid It is doubted whether she will he able to he pres ent. Rev. Alexander S. Foster was the first pastor. For a time he served both in Fremont and Colum bus, but later accepted a call to the local pulpit. Among those on the anniversary program are Rev. D. B). Wilson, pres ident of the Presbyterian seminary, Omaha; Rev. R. B. Wheeler, pastor emeritus of the R. B. Wheeler Memorial church, Omaha; Rev, Frank Reed, pastor of Morningsld* Presby terian church. Sioux City, la., and Rev, R. V. Kearsn, pastor of the Presbyterian church of Fremont. “Wishbone” of Car Caused Driver to be Arrested Columhus, Neb., Nov. 15,—The wob tding course of an automobile being driven along one of the business streets during the midnight hour led Patrolman Felix Smngaoz to believe the driver intoxicated. The driver was promptly arrested and hurried to the city jail. Then officers tried to take the automobile along with them and found that a broken "wishbone" on the oar was the cause of the wavy driving and the prisoner, a local salesman, was speedily released. Continued Fair Is Cold Weather Shuns Middle - West States Forecaster’s Promise Omaha’s small precipitation ot Wednesday evening proved but a scare, and the sun smashed through a line of broken and disconcerted clouds yesterday with the same beam ing radiance displayed throughout the last few weeks. Omaha continued to enjoy another day of Indian summer weather, although the mercury showed a slight depression at times. The wind yesterday was from the west. When the instruments at the weather bureau began their official working day at 7, the mercury chose its stand at 42 degrees, from which point it alternately rose and fell, un til by mid-day the temperature was 49 degrees. From that time it began to rise gradually. The thermometer reading was 56 degrees at 4. Weather throughout the Missouri valley was generally clear. Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Nevuda and neighboring states enjoyed the same brand of weather that Omaha experi enced. Rain fell in parts of Iowa and Illinois, in northern Montana and Wyoming, and along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Keokuk. Ia.. report - e da light rain of .04 inches, while •IS inches fell at St. Louis and .04 inches fell at Springfield, Mo. Chi cago and I’eoria also reported show ers. The rain which had been falling along the Atlantic coast was blown out over the ocean by western winds. Lander, Wyo., continued to be the coldest spot in the country yester day with a low mark of 12 degrees. The highest mark was reached at Los Angeles, where the maximum temperature was 82 decrees. "Fair today, with little change in temperature,’’ is the forecast for to day. “Dmg£” Cartoonist, Undergoes Operation Rochester, Minn.. Nov. 15. — J. (Ding) Parllng. cartoonist, is In a sanitarium • here recovering from an I operation on his right arm. He is expected to leave In about a week of 10 days. His work, interrupted during this period, will be resumed immediately upon his recovery. Corn Crop Yield Contest Will l»e Planned Today Earl Maxwell, county agent, and Charles Gran will attend a meeting at Lincoln today to make plans for a corn crop yield contest, at the suggestion of P. H. Stewart of the agricultural college. li. R. Snipes. Cass county agent: Walter Roberts, Saunders county agent: B. Wolf, grower of Nehawka, and P. L. Gross of Lincoln will at tend the conference. Mother I- Warded ? I ..">00 for Death of Daughter Beatrice, Neb., Nov. 15 —The case of Mrs. Jack Gorman against, Pr. L. E. Benner of this city, suit for $20,000 for the death of the former's daugh ter. Rose, who was killed last spring by an auto driven by the doctor, has been settled. The jury in the district court recently returned a verdict of $1,500 In favor of the plaintiff and the case was settled on that basis. SUNNY SIDE UP Dr. Cook’s explanation of those mysterious lights in Holt county is very cleat, in fact luminous. But what'n thunder illuminates the luminosity of these illumined mole cules? The Plalnvlew firmer who made up a stock mixture that set fire to his harn has a fortune at his com mand. Think of the kick the con firmed consumer* of modern-day hootch could gift cut of that concoc tion! An upcountry friend of mine sug gests that while there mny be some doubts about the Identity of the man who reduced the price of gas. there isn’t a lilt of iloubt about the Identity of the man who has manufactured the most over the Incident. The report that Kmlle Coue Is com ing back to talk to us some mom confirms my long settled belief that Bamum lacked about 99 per rent of guessing correctly the rapidity of their birth. Is there no escape? A woman In Omaha has had a man jailed for making love too violently. Numerous Instances of men being arrested be cause they failed to love enough. Truly man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. Noting that numerous Influential women of Omaha object to being fa vored In the matter of detention after being arrested for speeding, reminds me of Judge Klnkaid of Colorado, who opposed equal suffrage with Ills pen and on the stump. After equal suffrage won out, Its support ers celebrated by holding a big ban quet at a Denver hostelry. Thinking to embarrass the Judge they invited him to attend and respond to the toast, "The Women, Hod Bless Them." Much to their surprise. Judge Klnkaid accepted. When his number was reached on the toast list he was Introduced very hand somely by the toast mist lesH. Rising and bowing low to the toastinlstrcss and addressing her in proper fashion. Judge Klnkaid raised his glass—of water—and said: "The women, God bless them. Once our superiors, now our equals.” Rowing again to the toastmlstress, he drank a few swal lows of water and resumed his seat. Rome Miller Is not Interacting me with his talk about watermelon at Christmas time, either this corning Christmas or the hext one. If Mr. Miller will say something to me about Thanksgiving dinner, and 1 mean the next ono Cn the list, at that, ho will find me a most attentive listener. The Lincoln fireman who Is suing a man named Castle for alienating his wife's affections has put a h"W kink In the old saying. Ho wants It understood that while It Is his home It Isn't his wife's Castle. Omaha wife gets home at 1:80 a. ni. Husband remonstrates and then hosts her up. Hope husband gets 1,000,000 years In Jail. Suppose his example should Impel wives to remon strate same way? About two thirds of us married fellows would bo in the hospital all the time Aren't you getting pretty well fed up on this reform thing? I am, and don't care who know* It. Every time some man or woman sees something they don’t like they .mmedlately set about to have n law enacted against It. Approached today by reformer who wanted me to sign a petition for an ordinance prohitu log children tin der 14 from attending picture shows unless necompanloo by parent nr guardian. When ! had finished my refusal she left In a huff. Klee horn American* are today suffering under more repri dv< and suppressive lows than any czar of Russia could have put over by Imperial uMsse. Am thinking some of running for gover nor on a platform demanding life Imprisonment for nine tenths of the reformers now abroad In the land. Anil the other one tenth would have to walk mighty softly If 1 should he elected and find myself able to Hut My Hist form Over. W. M. M. Friends Are Shocked at Boy’s Crime Youth Who Shot Parents Was Popular in School and Regarded as Model Young Man. Love for Autos Blammed Special Olupfttch to The Omaha Bee. Shenandoah, la., Nov. 15.—Pressed by anguish at the awfulness of the crime he committed against his par ents, Claude Carmichael, 21, who has confessed to shooting his father. Bert Carmichael, and who also wounded his mother, occupies a cell to think of the things which turned him from the straight path to the one which led to hopelessness. Life imprisonment or worse. If his father dies, stares him In the face. Shooting wdth Intent to commit mur der, a crime punishable by an in determinate sentence of & minimum of 30 years in prison, is the alterna tive. It may be one or the other, re gardless of what is asked by the dot ing mother or the father, If he re covers and forgives. A,nd the dazed friends are wonder ing why the son got himself hope lessly involved In a net of alleged forgeries. Scarcely more than a year ago Claude was a popular member of the large senior class of 1921 of the high school. He was singled out by the most conservative youths as a friend who could bo relied upon to do the right thing. I'lanncd fHillege Course. The farmer youth for several years had planned to enter Iowa State col lege at Ames, hut Cupid Intervened. A school romance. In which Bernice Lemon, star basketball forward, was the leading lady, resulted In a mld r.lght wedding In August at the Meth odist parsonage. The son's wayward ness first began to worry his father early in the year, when his father, a renter, bought an 80-acre farm for the son and gave hi mmoney to buy stock. Claude used the funds to take an auto trip to Wyoming. Then ho starteil an oil wagon out of Coin and had dreams of striking It rich in oil. He passed an alleged forged note for $1,000 and deposited It at Blanchard, telling the banker It was to finance three new oil stations. Hla father learned of the note and gave the boy until Monday to straighten It out. Another check for 1500, given a Coin hanker, led to a warrant for his arrest, and the return of another • heck for $159 given In an automo bile transaction tightened the web. Fond of Automobiles. Love of automobiles had Its In fluence upon the youth, who was the owner of the most highly decorated car In the county, with lights on every fender. But he wanted a larger car. His father, spoiling one deal, the boy confessed he had been a fool and promised not to do It again. Im mediately he went to another ^ealer and gut possession of an automobile. In three days he drove It titil miles. Outside his family the person who has taken his downfall the hardest Is a member of the faculty who took a particular Interest In the lad. Sho broke down and wept. Mrs. Bernice Lemon Carmichael, girl wife of Claude, visited her hus band In the county Jail this morn ing. the first time she had seen hliVi since he was arrested at the home following the shooting, where protests against his arrest were made hy the mother and the young wife. Affectionate Greening. The dramatic meeting lasted but five minutes. Both seemed glad to see each other. While her father. E. E. Lemon, and her brother, Cecil Lemon, who works for young Car michael In an oil station at Coin, looked on. the couple exchanged af fectlonate greetings and then busi ness matters regarding the oil sta tlon were discussed. The father, who is a patient at Hand hospital, is reported to have spent ft fairly restful night and his condition Is no worse. Ills chances for recovery, however, nre still un certain and for that reason no charges will be filed against the son before Friday or Saturday. The non has not asked for a heat lng nor has he engaged an attorney. Broken, haggard and thoroughly re pentant, he seems satisfied to take his medicine, in case his father lives, the charges will be assault with In tent to murder, stated County Attor ney George Anderson. Friends of the young wife say she did not know of the alleged forgeries which caused the tragedy and that she did not suspect her husband had done the shooting until he was ar rested at Ills father’s home on his return that night. ( ttliimliUH hikes Action lo Oct I'clcgrapli Office Uolumbua. NH», Ni.v. K. Furthci fiction tn obtain a connnpiclal office of th« \V« Ntcrn Union THcKinpb company In beinfr taken hen* by the preparation by IniNlnrH* m«?n who an* • oriNtant um<»in of tin* win n to fib» a formal complaint with th* bonn! of flir**ctorN of thn cimnibiT of Uom* tn'Tiv nuking a NtrofiRcr office appeal to tile Omaha office** who, it In un flNfNtood, «•** not nvoifl I«> th*» eiitfib Uniting of a commercial offlc* htra. Where’s Mamma ? Firmly clasping his sole traveling companion, little Pat Somerset demanded of photographers that they tell him where his mother, F:dith Day, actress, was. With husband. Pat Somerset, site met him as Aquitania docked Jn New- York. Back for Quiet Life I'nllke most diplomats, Col. George E. Harvey (with granddaughter above) former ambassador to England, was valuable in his opinions on return to this country a few days ago. He said Coolidge will keep us out of league of nation*. They Traveled 4,500 Miles to Worship Tills interesting |>irtiire shows a group of Arabs in white relies which they wore at worship at Erave of Mohammed, which they traveled 4,500 miles from .lava to Arabia to visit. The list Ml miles were made on foot over desert. Farm Agent Warns to Pick Seed Early " ,, i Large ^ ater Content Found in Douglas County Corn— Dry Rot Is Reported. Warning to farmers tn select their seed corn as early as possible has been sent out by Karl uA: > ! .- i }l | Pit 0*|l. |M ll.Mirlv TiTMIKPI ilum. •*> n m i. • A Wl ... 4^ la i« .4 •' 4 it m.5 4 * * !•■ « l •' a in M a i« 112 uoon i iv m..,. ii i p m . ...It * i m. is 4 p nt . !♦ k l» m Ik * p m 4 i , in . Tariff Hike on Wheat to Come Soon N. B. I prlike of Omaha Con fers With President and Finds Immediate Ac tion Planned. No Remedy Neglected Washington. Nov 15.—A higher tariff on wheat as a means of aiding the mlddlewest farmer will la? a real ity In a few weeks, according to Nel son ft. Updike, publisher of the Oma ha Bee, who was a caller at the exec utive office at the White House to day. "I found that President Coolidge had already taken steps necessary to Increase the tariff," Mr. Updike said, "and was amazed to find that he had voluminous and accurate information at hand concerning the middieweet conditions. "The president presented me with a copy of a letter from Attorney Gen eral Harry M. Daugherty, replying to an inquiry by the president as to the preliminary steps necessary to impose a higher wheat tariff. The letter from Mr. Daugherty, stating that first an investigation must be made by the United States tariff commission before proclamation could be issued for a higher tariff, was dated November 18, ar.d It was the day following that the investigation by the commission was started. It indicated that the president means business and is do ing everything to expedite relief of the mlddlewest farmer. .VI1 Information at Hand. “There is little doubt that the In vestigation will be short, and I know that It will result In developing fart* that will warrant the president in in creasing the duty on wheat. In fart, all the Information which the com mission has announced it desired in its present investigation into the wheat situation is already in the han’s of the Uni'ed States Depart ment of Agriculture, which tor sev eral months haa made a thorough in vestigation ef its o»n ah-,g exactiy the same lines. “Transferring the Information from the United Startes Department of Agriculture to the tariff commission ar.d its assirniliation by tbe commis sion will not take long. Kxprct Ixmer Freight Rates. “The president emphasiied the fact that if the investigation showed fa » to Justify the higher tariff, as It is my opinion it will prove, the higher tariff will be nly for the purp-'se of meeting the present emergency in the wheat belt Meantime, everything will he done to avert a slmiliar con dition among wheat growers in the future. The president gave assur ance that every facility was being pressed into service to carry on an In vestigation of proposed plans f r per itnanent relief of wheat fmr.ers suck as pushing to completion an investi gation for th» purpose of readjusting and lowering freight rates on export wheat and wheat product*. “Another possibility proposed by Secretary Wallace and others is that ef purchasing surplus wheat with a view . f exporting it to foreign mar kets The needs of charity for Europe I may cause a large demand on wheat. "Paving the wag for farmers to " ik out their own co-operative wheat marketing movement if found advis able by them, is also planned. "It will be gratifying to the wheat farmers of the m'ddlewest to learn that the first thing President Cool idge has done is to take steps to meet the present emergency as It now ex.sts and permit other plans so work as fast as possible.” Beatrice Legion Post Elect? New Officers Beatrice. Neb. Nor. IS.—Anderson post No. S3. American Legion of Wjrroore. was entertained at luncheon by the Kiw-anis club of that place, and at the close of the banquet. Capf. F E. Crawford presented the Ameri can flag and an American Legion post standard to the post The ac ceptance speech was made by Vlode Ellis. .1 Ed C Fisher, farmer state •'•'mmander of the legion, was present and in a brief talk told what the legion stood for. At Tic ’ - til * ■ a m these officers were elected: Post cornu toil er. L D IVnamore vice commander, Arthur Hughes; adjutant. 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