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The Morning Bee * —.— ..... ... -— —.... —■ MORNIN G—E V E N I N G—S U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Publisher N. B. UPDIKE, President BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLER, Editor in Chief Business Mgr. ■..*— MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this 4>aper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of our special dispatches are also reserved. 1 he Omaha Bee is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognized authority on circulations audits, and The Omaha Bee's circulation is regularly audited by their organizations. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for AT la1 ADD the Department or Person Wanted. ^ a lftlillC 1 VIVJVI OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Council Bluffs—15 Scott St. New York—World Bldg. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. St. Louis—Syndi. Trust Bldg. San Francisco—Hollrook Bldg. So. Side. N. W. Cor. 24th ami N. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Kansan City—Bryant Bldg. Los AngelesHiggins Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg. FARMER'S STAND IS VINDICATED, End of the deadlock in the senate over the chair manship of the important interstate commerce com mittee will be viewed from different standpoints in different ways. Partisan comment naturally will take a biased survey, but the real significance is not apt to be lost, even on the most hidebound of party men. A group of western republicans absolutely re fused to "give support to Senator Cummins, joint author of the transportation act the repeal of which is so arderktly sought by western fanners. Whether right or wrong, the feeling is widespread through out the farming region of the middlewest that the Egeh-Cunmiins law lays an undue burden on agricul ture. Cost of transporting products from and sup plies to the farm is too high, a#d efforts to secure relief under the existing law have faded. Therefore, the remedy lies in amending or repealing that law. To continue Mr. Cummins at the head of the committee was to give assurance that the chance for relief was slight, and so Cummins was unable to se cure enough republican votes to secure the position. Responsibility for' this must rest with the regulars as well as the insurgents. Reasonable compromise might have been had, the election of Senator Couz en for example. Organization senators preferred to lose the place to the democrats, and to see an avowed opponent of the law installed as chairman, rather than make a concession to the group demanding the change. What should be clear to everybody is that the de mands of the western farmers are not made in a frivolous mood; they are deeply in earnest in this mat ter, and will see to it that their petition is not in vain. AND THEN HE DID. “The marines have landed and are in control of things.” Something pleasantly familiar about that. We’d heard it from Nicaragua to China, and from the Mediterranean to the seven seas. When Uncle Sam's “leathernecks” marched ashore things just naturally quieted down after a short rumpus. When Brig. Gen. Smedly D. Butler of the Marine corps was loaned by President Coolidge to Philadelphia for a year, the dive keepers and strong arm exhibitors of the city chortled with glee. They'd show that tin soldier a thing or two. They’d get him and get him quick. Better for them had they consulted with some of the people who had ex perienced some of the ways of those husky “leather necks” and their officers. General Butler became Philadelphia’s chief of police Tuesday morning, with instructions to go as far as he liked. Cleaning up the city was his job, and there were no strings on him. And before nightfall Philadelphia’s under world was quite well convinced that the marines had landed and were in control of things.” “Say, bo, this guy Butler means business,” was the way the policemen stated the case when they notified the dive keepers, the slrongarm* squad, the brothel managers, the bootleggers and the sure thing * gamblers to close up and move on. The fellows who went to bed Monday night saying it couldn t be done, dozed off into troubled slumber Tuesday night with the thing pretty well done. After clean ing up on revolutionists in many countries, suppress ing riots in a score of ports, and chasing trouble out of dozens of weak little republics, cleaning up a city like Philadelphia was merely an incident in a very busy life. “That guy means business.” Those “leather necks” of ours arc experts in cleaning up on rough necks, and General Butler is going through Philadel phia's underworld like a besom of destruction. I hat s what he was sent there for. The United States marines have a well settled habit of doing what they are sent to do. A CHRISTIAN SOLDIER MARCHES ONWARD. Jim and women have been singing “Onward, ■ Christian Soldier” for so many years that they have * perhaps come to believe that the author of that marching song of the church militant long since ! passed to his reward. But it was only a few clays ago that the author, Sabine Baring-Gould, died nt the age of 90. . , .. . . t That song has been the rallying cry of the church ■ militant the world around. Written by a clergy man of the Church of England, it has been sung tn every Protestant church in the world. It has been sung by converts in the jungles of Africa, in the frozen wastes of the Arctics', across the burn ing wastes of Sahara, in little sod chapels and in magnificent cathedrals. Great bands have played it at the head of civic and military parade*, and families have sung it around the evening altars. Rev. Sabine Baring-Gouid’s ability as a rlergy : msi„ may have been great, hut all the sermons he t delivered from lecturn and pulpit could not, if com bined, equal the powerful influence of that rallying song of the church militant throughout the world. It has inspired the hearts and souls of countless mil lion, of Christians, and set their feet gladly upon the roads of greater endeavor for the world’s re demption from sin. WHY WORRY ABOUT MARS? Mars will glow reddest in 50 years during the coming summer, and consequently will he searched by *uch a battery of telescopes a* never before were turned in that direction. Ever since Professor Pick ering suggested that the planet might be inhabited, speculation has been rife'on the point. Astronomers are divided as to whether any of the planets sustain life at least such as we know about. A few of them are’cooled to a point where the surface is solid enough to hear the weight of foot prints, but most of them arc not* much if any beyond the gaseous Father William Rigtfo. astronomer at Creighton university, and recognized for his ability in the \ scientific world, give as his opinion thal the earth i u the only Inhabited planet, lie is convinced that t none of the others uffords conditions necessary for the life of such animals as exist in our world. On the theory that germs may withstand th^ cold of interplanetary space, and so may be borne from sphere to sphere, he is noncommittal. • Just now mundane affairs are at such a state of flux and confusion as will call for the undivided at tention of otir wise men. Mars may or may not be inhabited, but if it is, the people there can not possibly have more to vex and exasperate them than do the folks who live in this good old world of ours. While we nre having all the perplexity of present day disturbance, it seems like borrowing trouble to dig into the business and social life of the Martians, if any such there be. We do not want to be regard ed as selfish, but if we are to keep out of Europe, we might make a start by letting Mars alone. MINORITY GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA. Whether or not politics interferes with business, we are going to have another 10 months of politics. A presidential election impends, and presidential elections have come to mean something more than selecting candidates and voting for them at the polls. Responding to popular requests, laws have been enacted that provide for the expression of pref erence as to candidates, for the election of dele gates by the voters, and for doing other things that once rested with conventions. All of this has placed the burden of elections a little closer home to the voters. Recent study of the effect has tended to support the belief that the voter does not appreciate his opportunity \as he or she should. Instead of going to the polls a very considerable fraction of the electorate refrains from voting, the result being that office holders often really represent a minority. The latest contribution to literature on this sub ject is from the National Security league, which has compiled a table from vote taken on United States senators in the 1922 election. This shows a condi-i tion that will surprise most of the people. Com pared with the potential vote, it shows that in no instance did the winning candidate receive more than 42 per cent. Senator Hubert D. Stevens of Mississippi was denied by 7 per cent of the possible vote of his state. Senator R. B. Howell of Nebraska went in with only 32 per cent. Voters have no right to complain about results if they voluntarily abstain from voting. Citizen ship is valuable beyond price, but entirely too many citizen^ neglect their greatest privilege, that of tak ing part in the government under which they live and pay tax. FARMERS TAKE COUNSEL TOGETHER. If in multitude of counsel lies safety, the farmers of Nebraska are on the right road, for what has come to be known as Organized Agriculture week is being very well observed. This is the time of year when the farmers can get together in their different so cieties and discuss not only experiences, but ex change views on the future plans they have con sidered. . One of the interesting features of the general sessions held on Tuesday was that of the Farmers’ union meeting in Omaha, where reports for the last year were delivered. W’hile a decreased surplus was shown for 1923 as compared with 1922, the gen eral operation of the organization was reported as profitable. As a buying and selling corporation, the Farmer’s union is one of the best types of co operative merchandising organization existing in America, and its progress is the more notable be cause it differs so essentially from the Rochedale unions of which so much is heard. At Lincoln the experts assembled tackled the tax question, which is one of the big items in the farmer’s budget. University professors expounded theories of taxation at considerable length, and gave the farmers advice it will bo well to consider care fully. Plans for shifting the burden of taxation can not be adopted haphazard, nor on the strong recommendation of anybody, unless the whole course from start to finish is followed in detail. The farmer should know where he is coming out when he starts down a new road. Chief of benefits to be derived from these ses sions is the exchange of experience’ and the com parison of views, and of these the farmer has plenty of the one and a good supply of the other. A Chicago woman has endowed a department of “home arts.” If the idea is to bring back the seemingly lost arts of salt r’isln* bread and apple pop-overs we are for it unanimously. The prire of brass is advancing, but the sounding thereof and the tinkling of cymbals in political cir cles does not appear to be any less in volume. The French government is trying to suppress hostile speculation in the franc. They ought to look up what happened to the assignats. David Star Jordan is for and Hiram Johnson < gainst the peace plan, if you want to know about he California situation. Add list of undesirables: The man who hangs /iis coat on one hook and his hat on another in a :rowded restaurant. The Woman's club immolated, the mortgage on Its new home, which is a most commendable form if celebration. Another sign of passing days and approaching spring time is the reviving conversation of baseball magnates. Pictures that talk may be all right, until the peo ple in them begin talking like they act when off stage. Now that secret is partly out. W. J. B, favors some man from Florida. Who can it be? The grave of Virginia Pare has been found. But the spirit has long since Down. i ■■■'■ . ■ ■ - ■ ■ " - T .. Homespun Verse —By Omaha's Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie HEALERS. The healers aro for l*. thry greatly adore us nnd mo thin tbs way to relief; They cure us or Kill us. their offerings thrill us »and leave us to gladness or grief; Tl* easy to Unit them nnd pteasont to mind them and dream of their magic and might.. •Tla shameful to doubt them and foolish to flout therm but noble to think they are right. And when we are achy and grouchy and shaky, and something about us is off. And when we are stooping with ailment anil whooping till Jupiter hears when we cough. And when sc are sighing and gradually dying, and gasping so Vainly fur breath. The healers take um and struggle to make us escape the seclusion of death. But strangely nnd truly we call fur Doc Dooley or Fletcher nr Williams "r lla.vne* We want to he sure of relief ni a cure for roughs and carbuncles and pains; We're full It III their knowledge they got It In college! They're guided by Science, hut then They're apt to he certuln In slopping the hurtlli' of children and ,women and men. > “The People’s Voice” Editorial* from renders of The Morn ins Bee. Reader* of The Morning Hee ire Invited to uio thia column freely for nxeresslon on niattera of publio lntereat. Opposes Bok Peace Plan. Grand Island, Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Boe: There is right anti wrong peace. There is peace that submits and bows at the feet of lord ly. arrogant, high authority—peace'of oppression, slavery and chains: this is the wrong peace and makes a weak, flabby and dizzy world. The right peace finds Its inception in the coun sels of the common people and grows in grn^e, knowledge and wisdom while irl daily pursuit of life and com mem duties: right peace makes a strong, healthy and happy race. The Bok peace plan will not give the world the kind of peace the world needs, because it will not produce councils In which a majority of all nations can participate, and mokes no provision for permanent centers of general information of developing edu cational nature. It will have no po lice protection and can be easily un dermined. The plan presents nothing new, ,all has been gone over before. It follows the beaten path of ap pointive power, paved with dictator ship and bedecked with garlands of special favor and personal privilege— .that path will not lead us away from war. The Buk method of finding a plan was Itself defective. A committee and a jury of seven were arranged for by one man, to puss upon a question that affects the entire human race. It is only natural and could only tie ex pected that the jury would select a plan to conform with the promoter's desire. , tit Is noteworthy that Madam Mar ch's widely heralded predictions and the peace plan referendum both come at the same time; each one will lend fire to the other. By withholding the author's name, through a system of voting planned to be of electrical rap idity, It may lie possible to secure an approval before people nre fully In formed and force tlie United States .into the League of Nations against the will of the people as expressed in the presidential election of 1920. So far, Bok's work is about like the work of a king; If the people will give Bok the crown of npproval we will live for a time under the Bok regime, but not in peace. Moral—Let the United States gov ernment offer rewards for new ideas, all plans to be published end distribu ted, and the right plan* can soon be found. The house of representatives and the United States senate should be the Judges. AN ALL AROUND READER. Not Only Dry Ijiw Broken. Omaha.—To the Kdltor of The Omaha Kee. Your paper telle us that during the year 1923 thieves obtained loot in this city amounting to $260, 299.50, also that this represent* an in crease of more than $60,000 over the record for 1922. Add to this the amounts taken in other forms of thievery — embezzlement, forgery, fraud and swindles of all sorts—and you would have a grand total that would be staggering. Yet there have been law* and stat utes. written and unwritten, against stealing since some time in prehistoric ages, in fact, one of the Ten Com mandments. on which all law Is based, is aimed at tills great wrong. In spite of ail law stealing continues and is on the increase, ns the foregoing tig ures show. But do you know of any individual or organization working for the repeal of the Kighth command ment? Maybe someone is missing a golden opportunity in not organizing such a movement. If the time should not lie considered ripe for outright appe&l. maybe It would lie better to work for an amend merit to start with—say limit all thieves to take only a certain pa rentage of their victims' valuables, perhaps 2.75 per ci-nt would do ns a starter. Look at the millions of dol lars spent in law enforcement which might he saved if there were no laws against stealing. Besides, these laws interfero with the "persi rial liberty” of a considerable portion of our popu lation. All Joking aside, the age old laws prohibiting stealing do not seem to be working any better after HV00 years, than tlie law prohibiting the menu facture and sale of Intoxicants after five years of enforcement. WATT IfOE. Products of the I-arm Are Too High. University Hare, Neb.—-To the Urtl lor of The Omaha Bee: \Ve pay at the average hoarding house at the rate of $40 per hundred pounds of meat, $40 per hundred for flour and $10 per bushel for potatoes. The farmer re ceives $7 per hundred for livestock, $1.30 per hundred for wheat and 60 cents per bushel for potatoes. The farmers are paying out (too) much m-oiey to the promoters of farm or ganisations to hark up the wrong tree. I believe that railroad rates ought to tie adjusted, hilt 1 cannot see where the farmers will receive any more beneHl than the meat nnd grain speculators, and the farmer Is doing all the lighting nnd paying out nil the money. As long ns the farmer will trust to the grain and meat epecu lators to aet a price on the products of his labor Just that long the fnrmer will walk In poverty. I have run a farm In Custer county, Nebraska, for iiS years. I shipped n carload of h<«ga lo Omaha. I think It was in the year ISOS In the morning when I unloaded my hogs. 'The price they paid was $1 per hundred less than they paid the evening before, nnd the railroad rates were Just the same. There wss a large shipment of livestock that day. lust think of the amount of money that the puckers swiped from the pro dttcer* without one moment's notice. The price came hack In a few du>'S nnd the consumers never knew any. thing about the drop. During the last year of the world war I had 1.600 bushels of rye and. as 1 lived only one mile from I/odl depot. I concluded to ship It to Omaha. I tried to get a car all that fall nnd winter, but I rotild not get one until kite next spring. I presume that the greatest portion was In the Ic^ndi of the grain speculators about that time. When mV car of rye «,,t to Omaha It sold for *1 a bushel more than I could have gotten the previous fall and wilt ter. in other Wolds, the grain specu lators made me sic il $I.Mll) from the government on one car of rye. The picking houses raised tin- price of livestock 67 above minimum prices the farmers were generally -cillafted with the government minimum pi ice, and If our government hod tn.i-le the price nn established price and paid the grain and meat ape, Ulatora a commission for handling, our national debt would be one-fourlh let ... than I! now is. • The average farmer Is util a bust ness man. lie has not Ihr ability to regulnlo the business of crooks ottd he Is foolish lo pav out Ida llionrv for that purpose The formers will have to blot off their program rail road rales, bankets business men and merchandise. They will have to eoncentrnle their whole energy lo tin1 establishment of a price at tl,-- prod ucts of their labor lust ns all Ilia other Industries Itt lilt- United States have done, and lliev ire not spending their money to light the railroad coin punies The Inrnieis Ought to receive on the (unulut mill knt 61 Ml per bushel 1 Where the Tall Corn Grows The Council Bluffs Nonpareil rather opines that there are demo crats in * lie country who are con vinced that their party is sadly in need of relief from disorders brought upon it by professional politicians. And the Nonpareil looks south nnd west while so opining. Noticing that some have accused President Coolidge of lielng too mod est, the \\ ebsier City Freeman-Jour nal remarks that no such accusation lias ever been been brought against a republican presidential aspirant from California. . “Thank Uod thqre is no tax on Christmas greetings," was the In scription on a card recently received by the Pierson Progress. But that's about the only kind of investment that should be tax free, eh? The Davenport Democrat asserts that the league is neither moribund nor dead. Another case, perhaps, of "hope Springing eternal, etc.” King Tut's scepter, just discovered, reminds the Keokuk Gate City that scepters are merely relics these days. The Spencer Herald insists upon paying the bonus right away and get ting it out of politics, lias the News Herald forgotten another thing that whs to lie taken out of polities in a manner something similar? The rtolfe Arrow admits that wise and courageous leadership is worth more to it than political manipula tion. There are others who feel the name way about it, but they seem to he in the minority, or woefully indif ferent. After watching President Cooildge for a spell, the Waterloo Tribune is satis fied that tlis country will not go to speeding if the president can help it. "The first duty of America Is to pay off its debts," says the Dps Moines Capital. Ti.oea owing wijl please step up and make it possible for Cncle Kant to liquidate. Looking straight at France, too. « The Keokuk Gate City asserts that the consumption of gasoline is a good Index of the country's prosperity. Per haps the automobile owners were not Interviewed by the Gate City. for wheat and *10 per hundred pound* for fat rattle and hogs. This is ask ing the least profit of any other indus try 1n the United States, considering capital and labor Invested. If the farmer had been organized four years ago he could have held up | his prices like all the other Industries and the crash wouldfnever have come. When th# farmers are paid a fair price for the porducts of the farm they can put enough money In circu lation to do the retail business of the country. We are told that our na tional debt is paid through internal revenue, but If the land would cease to produce crop*, where would the in ternal revenue come from? If the fanners could sell their wheat and livestock on the same margin as they have to pay for merchandise that they have to buy. the farmers could hold or give to the poor that 10 p<-r cent surplus that is usually shipped to Europe. I have raised and sold grain and livestock for 40 ypars. and when I was dissatisfied with the price the dealer always cited European prices. I have bought merchandise for 40 years and I never heard a mer chant quote European prices once. If the farmers refuse to let the govern ment set a price on their products a* the packing houses have done and are doing, he will have to organize and help himself. The farmers can or ganize through the mail. Petition# can be gotten Up for the signature of the farmers. The petitions can -be sent to the country school districts tlnxmgh the grain and meat produo ing states of the nation. The farmers of the United States can.be organized for IS cents per member. The farmers have got. the best market of any Industry In the world—the human stomach must he fed three time* a day. There i* one thing that a farmer will have to know that hjs'stnte oflleers are dirt farmers and are working for the farmers’ Interests. The farmers ought not to he directed by high-salaried of ficer* that advocate everything that Is in favor of the grain and meat speculators The American people ate not looking so much for quality as they are looking for quantity and money to pay for the food *l'-n they buy it. During the war when the farmers were getting a good price for their product* everyone who was will ing to work had money and the banks were run wide open. WIDE!AM C. JOHNSON. Protecting Woman I abor. Omaha—To the Editor of The Omaha p-ee: DatlglitWS of toil, be of good cheer. 1 met with the members of the civic* committee, of the Worn an’* club today and they promised aid In the enforcement of the female labor law. I gave o general outline nf the dtf fleulty 1 have to contend with and I told them Iliat support for the en I forcenient of the female labor law was lacking from quarters where It j was least expected. JERRY HOWARD. - , \ Missouri Intimation. Four men of Shelhv county hove agreed to 1st their whisker* develop until March 1 Personally we'rs on th* side of the men who want to grow a rrop of whiskers This was a virile country when all the men who could grow one had a beard, tlrant wore whiskers. So did I.ee and Stonewall Jackson and J E. H. Slew-art—light er* all I hiring the days about the bailie of Waterloo li was a mark of dialInelIon for a soldier to wear N' beard Some times the soldiers would get mail at civilian* for wearing hair on their faces "Vanity Fair.” by Thackeray, telle about It. It niny be these four Shelby county martyrs have started something — Maron ChrOnlrlr llerald. More Prn« tlcnl. The Convalescent- I'ld you have niv brown suit churned and pressed while I was In the hospital? His Wife No. t had your Mark suit tiaet! up. I thought that would be better In rase anything should hap t an - .1 u ige. NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for Decsmbsr, 1923, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .75,107 j Sunday .SO.795 i |)09i not include leturna, left- ‘ ovrn, umplM or papers spoiled in piintinf anti imlnd*i no a pet ial • ale* or Irae circulation of any kind. V. A. BRIDGE. Clr. Mfr. Suharrike«i and iwntn to helot# me thu 7th day of January, 1924 W II QUIVK. Y, j iSeal) Notary I'ublti , “From State and Nation” —Editorials from Other Newspapers— Juggling the Figures. From the Nellgh header. Figures <lo not lie, but they can be juggled easily to deceive as is evi dent by Governor Bryan's statement he has saved the taxpayers of the state more than $1,000,000 during the first year of his administration com pared \^th All Kelvie regime, in actual outgb of cash Ills statement is ap proximately correct but an analysis dots not look so good to the people of the state. In the first place by holding up highway improvement lie spent approximately' $800,000 less than during the last year of McKelvie, but this Is in no sense a saving for the money was rallied by taxation and can be spent for this purpose only and ultimately will be. What Mr. Bryan's object whs in holding lip the work this year in not apparent, but it will de velop in all probability during the next campaign. He has also refused to spend the money appropriated by the legislature for the eradication of bovine tuberculosis, while such ap propriation was used by Governor Me Kelvie. Here are two items alone which account for bis million dollars, money’ that properly used for the purpose for which it was appropriated would have been a good investment for the taxpayers and would have met with general approval. The real ques tion is. has Governor Bryan's adminis tration reduced expenditures in ear rying on the government of the state as he promised the taxpayers during his campaign. He pledged the peo ple great things in that line and they believed him and elected him gover nor. He was going to cut out ir.nny employes and adopt more econom ical methods of administration. If lie has done this he Is entitled to credit. Auditor Marsh however, presents flg tires on this question which show that for administrative purposes the expenses of the state under Bryan have been just $25,000 less than dur ing the same period of the last year of the McKelvie administration In a business running Into the million* this is a rnoitie and a difference in the price of a few supplies for stale institutions would easily account l'or more (ban this. Slate Representation ill Congress. From the Minneapolis Tribune, The New York Tribune has a quar rel with congress because that body has not made an apportionment of representation in the lower chamber pn the basis of the 1 !*20 census, and it has the better of the argument. The country has been running along in this respect on the census of 1 !* 10. Bince then some of the slates have grown much mote rapidly in popula tion than others. Under the constitu tion they are entitled to more repre sentatives. hut they’ are the victims— if that word may be used—of the sloth of congress in its failure to carry out a mandate of the organic law. The house voted In the last session Ur a ratio which would keep the metiiler ship to 435 as at present, hut the measure did not get through the sen nte. It is desirable that this duty be at tended to at this session so that the several state* may be more equitably represented in the rext electoral col lege foi purposes of the presidential election. It would tie Interesting to know what would happen if the pres ent representation continued and some Increasing Crowds Daily—WHY? Good food: “speedy service" Soft music: SENSIBLE PRICES 75c Luncheon (Complete) In the Beautiful Mair Dining Room of the HOTEL FONTENELLE Have You Tried It? Here is the menu; Boston Clam Chowder Cod Fish Cake Poached Lgg Fresh lobster Sauce Broiled Fre»h l.»ke Superior Trout Lemon Parsley Butter lain* Branch Potatoes Slewed Magnum Prunes Fried Noodles _Cinnamon Sugar Boiled Chicken Wings Celery and Oyster Sauco Rice Dome Blanche Boast I.eg of Veal with Sage Drceslng Tan Gravy _____ ‘"arrant Jelly Freeh String Beans ^ Potatoes An Grnttn O'Brien Apple or Blueberry Pi* Bread aud Butter Pudding Nutmeg Sauce • Pineapple Sundae with Petit Fours Chocolate or. Vanilla Ice Cream with Butter Cream Cake Lelredkrant Clieeae with Toasted Crackers Corfee Tea Milk (Same Menu in Indian Grill) Real Music I,nnl« Culp's extraordinary or chestra U delighting noon-day crowd* dally In Ihc main dining room, The mu*lr la soothing and I refreshing. Senorita By CATIIKKINB K. HANSON. How your eyes shine, Kenorita! Why. they're laughing now—at me! Put your fan down. Henorlta! Your bewitching face I'd nee, And those little feet—so dainty, They would grace a ho 11 room floor; All, the maiden, she is blushing, ! I will look at her no more! Ko I turn and walk back slowly Wondering if she knows [ care, , When there—in t)ie path before ine .Stands my Senorita fair. |Oli. the rapture of the moment | As l took her little hand. And f kissed her—thrice I kissed her, And she seemed to understand That I loved her. for she nestled Her sweet head upon my breast. And we walked the trail together With our faces to the west! In the winning of a maiden , You've just got to take your chance. But for some It's not so easy— - I won mine with hut a glance' And it's just the same today, boys. As when I was twentv-three. For tile maidens want the loving And they want it liberally; Yes. they're all like bucking mus tangs. You've just got to tease and pet. But it's worth it—than, it's worth it. For there's Senoritas yet! state should raise a legal question re garding the validity of tile election under the test of the provision* of the constitution. Nothing of the kind is likely to take place, however. As to representa tion. congress lias paid mighty little, attention to the basic law from which i it obtains its sanctions. The 14th amendment, which provides that rep resentation shall be determined by the extent of the franchise each state shall adopt, lias always been a dead letter, and the l»th amendment, deny ing the right of any states to limit | the franchise on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude, has ] met with no better fate. The Capital ; offenders have been some of the south-1 ! ern states, and no congress lias called; them to task In the way that it is cm-! powered to do. As a matter of fact most of the; states could not "go into court'' withl clean hands on this question of i equitable representation within their i own jurisdlcti ,n* The several legis-j iat tires determine the'boundaries of congressional districts, taking their reckonings from the population ratio stipulated by congress. Lustra ts are supposed to l,e as compact territorial lv is possible and as nearly eqifftl in population as it is practicable to make then.-, hut we have had "shoestring'' districts and "saddle-bag'' districts deliberately laid out to create undue partisan advantage. Some parts of states have fair representation, and others have pot, and so it goes, with both big parties offending the repre sentative principle contemplated by the constitution. If we mistake not. Illinois has two representatives elected from the state at Large, and Pennsylvania has four, because neither has rearranged its congressional districts since before 1910. There should be a nev- apportion ment by congress, of course, and It should be devised to decrease rather than Increase the house membership, if any change in numbers is to be un dertaken. Abe Martin r-. - -- “Now then, swallow mat right down with a glass o’ water," said Druggist Artie >-mall, t'day, as he sold a liver sandwich. Wouldn't a toupee parted on th’ side be re freshin’ novelty? Copynaht, Center Shots Shrewd politician*, following the ex ample set by James O. Blaine, make their important announcements on Monday. That * the reason it g now called Blew Monday.—Milwaukee Journal. "Ford has bought a herd of pr;7.5k milking cows." Thought they were' * ( steer*. But what we started out to say was that he ha* probably aban doned the idea of giving the world a synthetic cow.—Toledo Blade. It may lee Secretary Mellon's mis sion lo reverse the tendency of taxa tion in time to prevent a situation which will n.nke a correct, con scientious return possible only to those versed In the higher mathema tic*.—Washington Star. The decadence of modern - outh 1* strikingly exemplified by the fact that a number of college freshmen are so ill in formed / on their' country's his tory they think Henry Janies, the author, had membership in the fa mous James band of robber*. The father* of these youngsters would never have confused Henry James with Jesse James, nor mistaken Wil liam James for Frank Jamie*.—New York Herald. Never can tell what a woman want* A wife who complained that she near ly lost her husband when bibulous rriends threw him on his head from a taxi at,the door, now is trying to get tid of him in the divorce court — Louisville Courier-Journal. Heal Class We have with us today the st • ■ eflned person who pronounce* "msh longg" with a French accent.—Chi* ago News. When in Omaha Hotel Conant • - A BWK HTATF.Mr.3T. Bt'K MTATKMENT --~~1-— -- ' Charter No. 2775 Reserve DBtrict No. !9 REPORT OF CONDITION OF THE MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK AT OMAHA IN THE STATE OP NEBRASKA, AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON DECEMBER 81. 1928. RESOURCES. Loan* and discounts, including rediscount .. H0.-42.7i5.39—119,242.788.6? Overdraft*, unsecured -... 11.2?' ! U. S. Government securities owned: Deposited to secure circulation tU. S. Bonds par value* 50.090 *0 All other U. S. Government securities <including pre mium, if any). 6*8.507 07— 6-507.97 Other stocks, bonds, securities. etc.i 190.412.«B Banking house .. 780.908O0 Real e 'ate owned other thaniBnkirg house .. " lawful reserve with Federal B*a§r*e Hank. 999.215.14 Item* with Federal R**-eree Bank in proc**s of coi Iwtion .* m.so« I* Cash in vault ar.d amount due from national bank* 1,948.192.47 Amounts due from the .State hanks, hankers and trust compan.ee in the United States. 649.11*.53 Exchanges for clearing ^hou*e 4*6.042.97 Cheeks on other hanks in the rarac city or town a* reporting hank . 89.948.84 MiseeUaneou* c**h item* ... . . 5 4.719.76 Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer at.d due from U. S«. Treasurer 2509.90— 8,827.121 16 Tvtal . . f 11.181.994 16 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid m .... • 1 000.000.9« Surplue fund . . , 300 000 f • Undivided profit* . I .*;.275.4 1 244 171 4: Circulating note* ou^'st.d ng . 40.359 00 Amoun* due to ryUtonal bank* .. 621.2S2.77 Amount due to State hank*. bonlfer* and trust com pane* In the tT. S. and foreign countries. 1.815.919.14 Certified check* outstanding 7 28.218.91 Cashier's rhree* outstanding 265.688.39 Demand deposits iother than bank deposits) subject to Reserve (deposits payable with)-' *9 days): Individual deposits j*ubjeet to check 9.917.292 4* Certificate* of deposit due in !es§ than 20 days tother than money boriowedi . ... 757.248.29 PlditlKls v-pa..i . . 12.479.99 Tim* depos ts subject to Reserve payahe after SO dav* or subject to 30 day* or more notice, and postal saving*» : Certificate* of deposit (other than for money borrowed' 47 1.733 99 ro*tal saving* depont* . 14,097.4$— 11 114.910 27 r.tlis payable# (including all obligations representing money borrowed other than rediscounts) 8'.*. 04'' 99 Note* and bills rediscounted, including acceptance of other bank* and foreign lulls of exchange or draft* sold with indorsement of this bank.. . .... 1.914.499 48 Tot*! . 912.188.99* 46 State of Nebra ka. County of Douela*. s# ; I. S. S. Kent. 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