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WEST COMES BEFORE ISTHMUS.
Colonel Bunau Varilla’s proposal that the United
States expend a billion dollars to construct a sea
level canal through the isthmus of Darien is getting
considerable attention. Brought forward by the man
who made the only real progress achieved by the
French in their attempt to construct the canal, and
who sold the rights held there liy France to the United
States, the project will get tfite consideration that
is its due.
American officers have already expressed opin
ions as to the need of another canal to take care of
future commerce, for which the existing ditch is
certain to prove inadequate. Perhaps the “strait”
is the solution, although it was abandoned for the
lock type of canal on account of the cost of con
struction. This, everi with all modern methods, will
be higher than it was when Roosevelt started the
work that has proved so serviceable, and which is
Viow to be supplemented by additional facilities of
like nature.
Something else is needed betore another passage
between the two oceans is cut by man. Internal
waterways are yet to be improved, that commerce
and industry of the great central empire of the coun
try may have cheap and dependable water trans
portation. Complaint is being made that certain
great industries located on this side of the Alleghan
ies are at great disadvantage because of the water
routes thafe-eannect the coastal cities. These demand
concession in rail rates. Against this other indus
trial plants set up that if the petition is granted they
will suffer in turn.
What should be done? It is plain that the trans
portation question is the key problem, and that it
will not be solved offhand. President Coolidge, along
with a number of men who are well equipped to sit
in judgment on the nation’s needs, say that the in
ternal waterways should be improved; that there
should be a deep.water passage from the Great Lakes
to the Gulf of Mexico in the one direction, and an
other to the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the other.
These projects are practical and feasible, and
will be of vastly more service to the interior of the
United States than another canal at the isthmus.
The latter will come in time, but it should await its
turn. Interests of the region that is developing in
dustrially as well*as commercially, that produces the
great food crops and the raw material for most fac
tories deserve and should receive attention before
other great sums are expended to improve^ the situa
tion for world commerce.
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BUSINESS METHODS IN THE CHURCH.
A layman of a local church is out with a thought
that is engaging, to say the least. He proposes that
a card index be prepared, not only of the church
members, but of good “prospects.” Through this a
real check can be kept on the membership, who may
be recorded from time to time as to their activities in
the work, their zeal or laxity, and other items of con
duct or service that may be of weight in determining
their devotion to the cause they have espoused. This,
of course, might be of assistance to the recording
angel, who could, if he wished, accept a clearance
'card in lieu of what his own-books might show.
The other feature will appeal to most men as a
good business practice. Insurance people have a
similar system; automobile men used to keep very
accurate records of probable customers; some lodges
have card indexes for the same purpose, and very
many business men operate a “tickler,” that they
may keep up to the minute in their own lines. Even
swindlers have adopted the method, and oqe bunch
of crooked cotton brokers, recehtly brought to book
in New York, tried to enter their “sucker list" as an
asset of great value with the receiver.
_ Seriously, there is no good reason why a church
should not take on ways that are found useful in
business, and very many good reasons why it should.
.Salvation still is free, but the maintenance of a reli
gious institution of any kind requires more than the
good will of the people who benefit from it. As long
as the custom of tithing has been dropped in general,
and voluntary contributions are relied upon, all the
more need exists for careful scrutiny and oversight
of all the business affairs of a church.
The card index idea is good in every way, chiefly
because it is the best device for giving easy and
speedy access to the information that is needed for
the efficient carrying out of any plan. When the
churches get this system into effective operation, it
will cut .out a lpt of things that give the managing
boards trouble now.
ANOTHER LESSON FROM TUT’S TOMB.
In I Kings we are told that Solomon’s temple was
built without the sound of hammer, axe, or any tool
of iron being heard about the premises. This shows
the progress that had beep made between that date
and the time when King Tut was laid to rest. Dis
coveries made by those who opened the old Egyptian
monarch’s tomb disclose proof that not only were
metal tools used, but that considerable confusion,
haste and even carelessness marked the work.
Hammer marks* tool marks of many kinds, gold
inlay bruised and mashed, because of the hurry
shown in pounding together the parts of tfic canopy,
all signs that the workmen were eager to get it over
and get away, are found in plenty. Egypt hail cun
ning workmen, artificers skilled in dealing* with the
materials used, but they had some traits that have
come down with little change to the present.
The tomb of the king would be sealed against in
spection by human eyes, and th^y were willing to
take a chance with the gods. Not one of them could
dream that after a lapse of thirty-three centuries
men of a race of strangers would examine their
work, and firhl in chips, splinters, and defective
workmanship evidence of their indifference and will
ingness to slight the job. These workmen arc gone,
but their record stands.
How different from the great caro lavished on
the monuments that stood in the broad daylight.
Human nature has not undergone a very great
change since then. Man insist* on putting his best
foot forward, and expends his effort on the things
that will be seen of men, just as he did when the
valley of the Nile was the home of a great civiliza
tion. “Whited sepulchres” may be found every
where, but this does not make them any the more
pleasant to contemplate. The best workman is he
who does the job right because it ought to be done
right.
PROBATION FOR FEDERAL OFFENDERS.
Welfare workers are approaching congress with a
plan to reform federal court practice. At present
no law permits the placing of*any federal prisoner,
juvenile or otherwise, on probation. Records show
that an average of 1,000. children under the age of
18 are tried and sentenced each year in United States
courts. If these were before the state courts, the
majority of them would be released of\ probation,
but the federal judge has no such option. Once a
culprit is convicted by Uncle Sam, punishment must
follow, and most of the penalties are severe.
Even those who sympathize with the theory of
the federal practice grill agree that in the case of
juvenile offenders some softening of the rule could
be had without ^seriously interfering with justice. If
state courts find it helpful to release a youthful of
fender on good behavior to a trustworthy sponsor,
and that practice has proved beneficial, the same
might work well in United States courts. Senator
Copeland of New York and Representative ^Graham
of Pennsylvania are engaged to press the needed leg
islation in behalf of this reform. -
Alongside of it the welfare workers are setting
up another idea, that of adult probation. Eleven
states in the union are without this provision, and
the hope of making it general animates those who
have observed and 'been encouraged by what has
taken place where the practice is followed. Nebraska
has not been altogether happy in this regard, nor
has the rule worked 100 per cerjt anywhere, but
enough of good has come from it to justify the
preservation of the court’s power to suspend a sen
tence during good behavior, and to let a culprit ex
piate his crime outside prison walls. The world is
slowly moving to higher standards in this regard.
ANOTHER ALLIANCE WITH AUSTRIA.
Another great international crisis is passed,
Colonel Henry Huddleston Rogers having agreed to
accept his daughter’s choice of husbands as his. Just
what else he would have done might be the subject
of considerable interesting speculation, but why?
Another foreign born man has walked off with an
American girl, plus her interes#t in one of the most
adipose of American fortunes.
Miss Millicent Rogers that was is now Countess
Salm von Hoggstraeten, but she still is in line for
the H. H. Rogers millions that were accumulated in
Standard Oil. Her husband, described by the New
York Times as “six feet tall, black, smooth hair,
shoulders broad and straight, immaculate in evening
clothes, flashing white teeth in a quick and pleasing
smile,” admits that he divorced the Baroness von
Kumstra in Vienna in 1922; came to this country and
played the sheik in a moving picture, and was about
to commit matrimony the second time with a fashion
able divorcee, when he#met Mi»» Rogers. It was
“love at first sight,” he confessea, and she, too, so
they romantically kept their secret until they could
get to the city hall in New York, where they were
wed.
The average father will not blame Colonel Rogers
for feeling a little cool to the son-in law his daughter
picked for him, seeing he had never met the gallant
youth until she brought him home. Now that he
has forgiven him, the rest of the country may, and
we will probably hear little more about it until the
future develops if it is to be a repetition of Anna
Gould's adventures with French nobility, or Helen
Zimmerman’s tryout with the duke of Manchester.
The count says he proposes to return at once to
his ancestral home in Austria, where he will surely
be welcomed for the bride he brings back, not to
speak of the wherewithal to aid a future that other
wise was not so bright for him.
When women begin tossing their hats into the
political ring will it bring about a stabilization of
fashions, or merely an increase in millinery bills?
Isn’t it awful, Mabel? No soner had the gov
ernor headed for Washington than the oil octopus
jumped the price of gasoline 2 cents a gallon.
The Minneapolis Journal editorially discusses
“the art of spending tax money.” And we thought
all the time that it was merely a fixed habit.
King George might thank Ramsay MacDonald
or someone else should the -pomp of his procession to
the House of Parliament be omitted.
About the easiest way to bring about a reduction
of taxation is to bear well in mind that tax money
is not collected merely to be spent.
“Coming Coolidge’s way,” asserts the Washing
ton Star. Including, of course, the verbal brickbats
and dornicks heaved by Hiram.
The announcement that Uncle Sam is 33 billion
dollars in debt will arouse in the minds of some
folk only a feeling of envy.
Having washcyl Miss Philadelphia's fare, General
Butler should now give due attention to the ex
panse behind her ears.
A surplus at the end of the fiscal year may not
mohn economy in expenditures. It may mean exces
sive taxation.
It appears that Mr. Bryan's announced choic*
merely plunges democracy deeper into the Ever
glades.
Collggc girls are not as bad as they are painted,
asserts a welfare worker. Some of them couldn’t be.
Homespun Verse
—By Omaha’s Own Poet—
Robert Worthington Davie
INCONSISTENCY,
It doesn’t matter how much you know, nor the num
ber of f|eeils you do,
A month Is little, a week I* less, but years ara all to
you;
You turn from one to another task till life Is a wheel
of change.
You grope along, but do not get your eye on the rifle
range. *
You're well prepared, your goal Is high, you're wholly
a man at heart,
You never shirk and you honestly try to ever play your
part;
Huccess comes near but the wait la long, you’re ana
lous—too anxlflua, tt seems; ,
Your pallenr-e Is never as strong as Is tha rail of ta
riffable dreams. ’
You climb up on the ladder, and then (he peak la a
trifle too high.
Allured by the glare of another desire you alter your
Journey, and try
For other attainments, niu| thus you lepeat with failure
forever your fate.
And learn, to yom grief. In Ilia and that you've found
the secret of progress too late.
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“The People's
Voice"
Editorials from readers of Tha Moraine
Bee. Readers of The Moraine Bee are
inviteo to use this column freely for
expression on matters of public
interest.
Soldier’s Wife Wants Bonus.
Omaha—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: No doubt many like my
self read the letter entitled "Soldiers'
and Mothers’ Pensions," in The Peo
ple's Voice, and wondered how any
real true American citizen could ever
believe or give utterance to such
statements.
How foolish it seems to try to
compare a little war like the one of
1X46-1848 to the late world war. The
one concerned a boundary of one
state, the other involved a whole
world. Really, there can l>e no com
parison. Then include all the wars
that came between the war of 1846
.1848 and the late world war. When
anyone tries to compare the conditions
of these wars, the value of a dollar,
etc., he has a task on hand that will
lead him nowhere, but to a condition
of thinking that Injures not only his
own mind but of everyone who reads
or hears his theories.
I am the wife of an ex-soldier.
Many, 1 know, can think back a few
vears ago and remember what we did
with the bonus of $60. Was it wasted?
Ah, yes, if to pay for coal, make a
first payment on furniture or home,
pay exorbitant rent, or buy new
clothing for the one, who. If ho wore
his uniform a bit longer than our
kind citizens thought he ought, would
remark: "Of course, he thinks that
khaki uniform will get him anything."
That is the same boy who was prom
ised, should he come home from war
everything would Ire' at his feet. Did
he find it so on his return? Wc all
know the answer too well. "And, still
they want more." How much bet
ter it would be to say, "Bet us give
them more.* When our "husky able
bodied ex-soldiers” are 75 years old,
they will not need a pension. Many of
them will not be here and those who
are will no doubt have grown fatnilies
who will gladly care for them, if in
the years that go by from now till
then, they have not been able to put
away a little nest egg.
The civil war veteran gets an in
come from the government. Besides
that, many of them are wealthy, due
to the lands of the tniddlewest they
were able to claim after the civil war.
Has the world war soldier ever had
such an opportunity?
~ - «■» “""wdi, iuij/./Bfjiwic- iu eyt'ii
dream of comparing mothers with u
bonus. Remuneration? Indeed there
is remuneration for the mother and
father, too, who see their fine stal
wart son march off to war. YVe moth
ers do not want a bonus for raising
children. It Is not a commercial art.
but the highest, most holy God given
power that has been given the human
race. For shame to those who should
ever tolerate the thought of compar
ing motherhood and all It brings with
a paltry dollar.
It cannot lie that anyone who thinks
our boys were flooded with luxuries
at the camps! Those who hud hus
bands. brothers and sons there can
well remember how necessities were
sold at such high prices they seemed
almost like luxuries. Then how con’d
they save enough to accumulate any
wealth while In service? The great
est business man in America to<Say
says a man should not even try to
save until he is 40 years old, yet some
people think the ex soldiers who have
been working for five years should.
In combination with their war profits,
find themselves ready to retire Give
the soldier a bonus and let him see
if he’ll waste it. If paying debts, buy
Ing necessities, nnd for those who feel
an Interest In the American mother,
I repeat, give the ex-soldler. who Is
her husband, the bonus he so
deserves. His wife will he benefited,
too. for she knows only too well what
homemaking, with all the high costs
of everything, has meant since the
war.
These are the real heart felt senti
ments of wives and mothers of over
4 000.000 ex-serVlce men In America
today. A BEE READER.
Koliliei- Rejects Bona*.
Nebraska City. Neb.—To the Editor
of The Omaha Bee: If I may have a
little space In the "People's Voice” I
would like to answ'er acme of the
pleas for tho soldiers' bonus. First,
I will say that I am opposed to able
bodied men getting a Ixonus. Here
aro gome of my reasons: I spent 22
month* over there. I've stood on my
knees in the cold mud till It seemed
as though my holies would split. It
goes without saying that we had hell
and hardships a plenty. But I can
face God and man with a antic and
say that I never thought it a sacrifice.
I wont because I felt it my duty tot
my people and my country.
when I take Into consideration the
burdens that our folks at home had
to bear while we were away, I some
times wonder if those of us who got
home sound had a harder time than
the loyal ones at home.
I realize that the war made mil
lionaires out of too many of our coun
trymen and I would like to see con
gH*s pass and enforce laws to rrxtke
xho rich bear more of the government
expenses and lighten the tax burden
on those who are noyr paying more
than they can well afford.
For those that were disabled in the
service, i would say give them com
pensatlon; they are entitled to a coni
fortable living the rest of their lives.
Then, if nny one else must have a
bonus, line up the widows and orphans
and tho poor women and girls (most
ly In tbs eastern anil southern states)
who worked In mills and factories for
from $4 to $12 per week during the
war and had Just about half what they
needed to eat and had to pay 3.") cents
por yard for their gingham aprons
(which was their best, too): make It
possible for them to have the noces
snrles of life and for the little ones
to go to school at least seven months
In the year till they pass the eighth
grade. Until you can do the things
above mentioned you don't own me
anything, Uncle 8am, and If I can
serve my country again In Europe
let me know. C. KDYVAIU >fc.
* Religious Liberty In Russia.
Omaha—To thn Editor of The
Onmha Bee: Bishop Homer f. Stunts
of the Methodist church, seems to
disagree with Bishop Edward T. Blake
also of the Methodlsr church. Speak
ing hi a meeting of a local Uhamber
of (loin met re committee--unite appro
priately, by the way. Bishop Stunlz
opposes recognition of soviet Russia,
declaring, for one teason, I tin t re
llglnua freedom is denied In Russia.
But Bishop Blake says, Recording
to a dispatch nppeaimg last May:
"The soviet government al present
appears to me to lax tolerant toward
religion ami frlendjy to (lie churches,
which confine their activities to the
spiritual services of the people The
Methodist Episcopal church carried on
It* work during the revolution.''
A month later. Bishop Blake xvns
reported ns saving to the Paris repre
sentative of the Chicago Tribune:
"Under the czarlst regime, priests
wero not allowed to preach except
sermons Hint had first been censored
ny a government official Under tin
soviets, restrictions have been re
moved. ,
"Tils churches of Russia ale not
closed. Them ore bO.OOO priest* work
LISTENING IN
On the Nebraska Press
Gus Buechler of the Grand Islanc
Independent Is suffering from tem
porary loss of memory. He Is unabl)
to recall what his new year resolutior
was.
• • •
J. P. O'Furey, editor of the Hal ting
ton News, wants to be on& of th)
delegates from the Third district tc
the democratic national convention.
* • •
The Tekamah Herald calls the atten
tion of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt t(
the cold fact that Nebraska gave 120,
000 majority against the League ol
Nations Idea.
The Fremont Tribune opines thal
W. J. Bryan has learned a lot by ex
perience. Having lost so many of hi!
own hats tossed Into tho presidential
ring ho is now tossing other men’)
hats.
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Adam Breede tells the world that
the greatest dam of all is being erect
ed In India. And here we were think
ing that It was the combined one ut
tered by Nebraska democrats when
they learned the identity of W. J
B.'s preferred candidate.
• • •
Frank Kimmel of the McCook
Tribune asserts that the state-federal
road quiz "is leaving Govcmor I^ryan
at the rapidly diminishing end of a
mdre or less sizeable fiasco.''
• • •
Noting that the marriage fees art
going out of the state and the courts
throwing monkey-wrenches into tht
plan of the railroads to give passes
to ministers, Editor Carlton of the
Oakland Independent wonders If 11
isn’t high tin^e for the clergy to form
a bloc for their protection and priv
ileges.
• • •
"In election In the United Statet
they count the straight ballots." snye
the Beatrice Express, “but in Mexico
the count the straight shots."
• • •
The Hastings Tribune claims thal
one-third of the cigars manufactured
In Nebraska are rolled In Hastings.
This impels the Sutton Register to re
mark that with Clay Center making
most of the incubators used In the
world that immediate section of Ne
braska ought to figure some in the
statistics.
• • •
"The old-fashioned Kcnesaw girl
who wore enough underwear on a cold
day to fill a trunk has a daughter who
goes out without enough on to fill a
cigar box.” remarks the Kenesaw Citi
zen in a ruminative tone of voice.
"One trouble with the country." tie
dares the Nebraska City Press, "Is
that the average girl expects her new
husband to be able to keep her ward
robe looking like that of a chorus
girl."
• • •
Ole Buck of the Harvard Courier
declares that the politicians who were
oijce scared at^ft at what tile women's
votes “knight do to them are getting
over It.
• • •
Noticing a report that a New
.Jersey carpenter got drunk <12 times
fast year, I,ew Shelley of the Fair
bury News claims that he is inter
ested only in learning how the carpen
ter financed himself.
• • •
Editor Carlson of the Aurora Re
puhllcan radios the Interesting state
ment that the man who spent all his
life saving rponey now has a son whc
devotes his entire attention to spend
ing it.
• • •
Allan May tells in the Auburn
Herald of an Auburn man who had
to take his wife's electric Iron down
town In have It equipped with a new
cord. The explanation is that when
she threw it at him she forgot that
it was attached to t£e socket.
• • •
The Beatrice Express informs us
that heavenly stars tell the future,
differing In this respect from the
movie stars. Who tell the past.
Ing ns usual. There Is no Interference
of any kind. I preached twice at the
Methodist church at Petrograd to
crowded congregatipns.”
Bishop Blake has been on the
ground and observed at first hand.
Bishop Stuntz has been thousands of
miles away, depending on "authori
ties.',' It Would be Interesting to have
him cite his authorities
I am Inclined to think that the
questions of Industrial reorganization
and larger freedom for labor Involved
in Ihe Russian situation have quite
n> important bearing on moral and
spiritual value's as the permission of
formal religious activity, but .his
opens up a subjtvt Impossible of dis
cussion here on account of limited
space. The fact remains, since no
contrary facts have been given, that
religion remains In Russia, facing a
prosperous future ns a regenerating
Influence, hut doomed to destruction
if used to drug the people -Into sub
mission to* a new slavequ
EDMFND R BRl MBAUGlf.
Cruelly lo Horses Prevented.
Omaha.—To the Editor of The
Onanha Bee: A small Incident n few
days ago caused me to write this I
was out In the cold garage and had
occasion to pick up a nail and. to free
my hand to do something else, un
thinkingly put the nail In my mouth.
It was a bitter cold day and the nail
froze to my mouth, taking the skin
Willi it. %
I thought of the poor, dumb horse
having a frozen hit put In his mouth
and the consequent result of trying
to cat hard corn with a frightfully
sore mouth. The bridle. If not kept
in n warm place, should always be
dipped In hot water before using dur
ing the cold weather. M. A. H.
Tin: MAN WHO KNOWS IT UA
When he dies 1 shall heal a tom tom,
I shall carry a banner and sing,
I shall see him laid low In the dust,
And the earth worms shall crown
him their king!
I shall not shed a tear nor feel sad.
Though he haunt me the rest of inj
ure.
Ami the moans and the sighing" and
psalms
I shall leave to my church going
wife.
And I've found out as I go along.
That it's always the proud ones who
fall;
But that man wilt b» boasting In
hades.
For that man when he lived knew It
all!
Catherine Ellzatieth Hanson.
NET AVERAGE
PAID CIRCULATION
for December, 1923, of
THE OMAHA BEE
Daily .75.107
Sunday .80,795
Don not include returns. loft*
over*, iflinpln or papeis opoilrd in,
printing and includes no special
soles or free rirt olatioiyof any Wind.
V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 7th day of January, 18.'4
W if QUIVKY«
(Sral) Notary Public
“From State and Nation”
—Editorials from Other Newspapms—
A Development In American Railroad
ing.
From th« Christian Selene* Monitor.
It Is not^often that a railway can
give tangible proof. In the form of a
locomotive engine, of a reconstruction
of the attitudes of mnnagernent and
men toward one another. This, how
ever, is the case with the Baltimore &
Ohio, for when engine 1003 rolled out
of Its Glenwood repair shop last Sep
tember It became, as descrilied In Jhe
Survey Graphic by Otto 8. Beyer. Jr.,
"the symbol In the eyes of manage
ment and men of a new and auspici
ous development in American railroad
ing." It represented a concrete ex
ample of effective cooperative pro
duction based upon collective bargain
ing between a railway administration
and the standard ehoperaft unions
affiliated with the American Federa
tion of Labor.
In the article In question. Mr.
Beyer covers in Romo detail the steps
which led to the determination on
the part of the railroad administra
tion to cooperate with its employes
and stabilize their work to as great
an extent as possible. With this In
view, it was determined to develop a
program in which repair work for the
railway should be done in the rail
way's own shops. Instead of con
tracting out repair work, that is to
say, it is now organizing its necessary
repairs into a steady flow to the work
men In its own shops. Some BOO old
locomotives are at present in process
of modernization, and engine 1003 was
simply the first that was restored and
rendered completely serviceable under
this new regime.
Much has been accomplished by this
new arrangement, according to Mr.
Beyer. And that the advantages
gained have been by no means one
sided is not surprising, when it is
recognized that a right idea is behind
the plan. The Baltimore & Ohio not
long since resumed payment of Its
regular 5 per cent dividend on Us
common stock, for instance, besides
making large appropriations l -.r fu
ture retirement of bond Issues. Then,
again, Its locomotive condition, ac
cording to the interstate commerce
commission, has been unusually good
and an efficiency of operation has
been effected which is enabling it to
accomplish a lot of work at a remark
ably low cost. Mr. Beyer sees an
even more far-reaching conclusion as
warranted by the start so fur made.
He says:
"Above all else what the co-opera
tive developments on the Baltimore *
Ohio signify Is that organized labor,
under proper conditions, will rapidly
acquire a fundamentally constructive
attitude toward industry; that labor,
once having acquired this attitude, is
actually able so to. exert Itself that
the conduct of irdustry Is perceptibly
Improved. In other words, our trad*
union movement, given constructive
industrial functions in addition to its
present special humanitarian func
tions, will measure up to Its enlarged
responsibilities."
And It la Justifiable to hope that this
conclusion will be found to be a true
one.
More Tax Revision Proposals.
From the Washington Star.
It is stated that the treasury ac
tuary has been set to work to deter
mine Oie amount of revenue that
would be yielded by the Garner tax
reduction bill if enacted Into laThis
Is a most important matter. ■ It really
is the foundation of any proposition
of tax revision, and it should have ac
companied. rather than followed, the
introduction of the bill.
At the same time it is interesting to
note that another tax' revision meas
ure has been put into the hopper in
the house, or rather a sheaf of bills
relating to the same subject and
forming a system of proposed amend
ments to the revenue raising proeeas.
This—to regard the collection as a
whole—is the proposal of the "pro
gressive” republicans, or at least one
of them. How far he acts for the
entire group of so-called insurgents
on tthe republican side is not now
known. Terhaps he is moving indi
vidually, and possibly there will be
other bills, or groups of bills, from
other sources.
There lies the trouble about taxi re
vision from a partisan point of view.
There lies the danger of either crip
pling action or such confusion that
nothing is accomplished. Anybody can
write a tax revision measure. Any
liody can take the present law and
draw lines througn the rates and sub
stitute others, lower rotes for the
smaller taxpayers, Sind it may be
higher rates for the larger ones. Hut
will these rates work out in terms of
real reduction will they work out to
the point of sufficient revenue, will
they be equitable?
Of course all fiscal wisdom does not
reside In the Treasury department.
Secretary Mellon does not claim a
corner on knowledge of how the in- ,
come tax system works. The records
are open to everybody who cares to
Inspect them and who has the hardi
hood to study them and attempt .in
analysis. But in the Treasury It Is
the business of officials to know how
matters stand, how the Income taxes
are paid, how they bear upon the peo
ple. Those officials have now made a
showing In which the secretary has
given form in a bill submitted to con
gress, which, It is scientifically esti
mated, will yield enough revehue to
maintain the government without sur
plus or deficit, and which will relieve
the taxpayers in equitable propor
tions. To counter this measure with
substitutes, drawn plainly for political
purposes and not with any assurance
whatever that their yield, if any of
them were adopted, would suffice to
meet the government's needs, or that
their working, in such case, would not
bring serious suffering upon great
numbers of the people, Is to make a
partisan game of the serious business
of national finance.
Horse Extinction.
From the Kansas Citr Post.
Prof. E. L. Furlong of the Univer
sity of California is the latest fore
caster of the enfl of the^borse. Not
withstanding the statistical proof
that the number of horses Is Increas
ing, the professor says the horse will
lie extinct In 100 years, or survive
only as a curiosity maintained for
zoological display. The motor car and
the tractor have released the horse,
or are relieving him In ther ufrtl sec
tions, have removed his cause for ex
istence, Is the burden of the thesis.
However, the man of science over
looks a factor, cites the Louisville
Times. The horse would lie worth
maintaining as a means of giving
pleasure to men and women. The
survival of the dog In modern times
has hardly been based on man's
actual need for what the dog. has
been able to do in the way of com
mercial service. The city man who
cherishes his Russian wolfhound is
hardly expecting to hunt wolves.
The owner of the English bulldog is
not keeping the dog to fight bulls.
The value of thw average ''lap-dog"
as a watch-dog Is probably overrated.
Until the hillside farm/ had been
abandoned: until racing has ceased to
exist; until hunting has lost Its charm;
until mankind ceases to enjoy the j
motion of the good saddle horse, there
will be horses.
MeanwHWe, If Professor Furlong be
lieves that the horse has ceased to be
In demand for commercial purposes
he might visit some of the rural sec
tions of America. The tractor and
the automobile are working In,, but
the horse and the mule still have their
uses on the farm. This is especially
true of districts that offer difficulties
for motor transportation and the ex
tent of these districts Is immense, not
only in America hut over the globe.
Some Possibilities.
While a man doesn't see much of a
girl's family when he is courting, he
is apt to see a good deal of it when
When in Omaha
Hotel Conant
Abe Martin
We wonder how long it's been
since any woman horsewhipped a
masher fer makin’ eyes at her?
Outspoken people alius seem t’ be
fond o’ onions.
(Copyrlsbt. 1SJ4)
he is housekeeping, and while he doe
not marry hi* wife's father, there is
nothing in the marriage vows to pre
vent the old man from borrowing
money from him or h's fife's mother
from telling his wife how to run her
house and boss her husband.—Eu
faula Citizen.
Not Only Birmingham.
The chief ailment affecting public
enterprises in Birmingham is the^
sleeping sickness.—Birmingham Age
Herald.
Scientific.
Willie (who ha* got a microscope
for Christmas)—Say. cook, lend me a
flea, will you?—Bostcn Transcript.
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