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The Morning. Bee M O R N I N 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 Manager. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, is exclusively entitled to ♦he use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of our special dispatches are also reserved. The Omaha Bee is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognised authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee's circulation is regularly audited by their organisations. Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908, at Omaha postoffice under act of March 8, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for at 1 _*.* i nnn the Department or Person Wanted. A I lAfltlC 1UUU OFFICES Main Office—I7th and Farnam Co. Bluffs—15 Scott St. So. Side. N. W. Cr. 24th N. New York—World Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bldg. St. Louis—Syn. Trust Bldg. Los Angeles—Higgins Bldg. San Fran.—Hollrook Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg. v_____> NO "RABBLE ROUSERS.” ' This is no time for a Roman holiday in Wash ington. The country wants no running amuck on the part of Senator Walsh or any other senator. President Coolidge has taken hold of the oil lease scandal and the American public knows there will be no let up in the prosecution of the guilty. If democratic senators think they can advance their partisan interests by turning themselves into a flock of mud hens they are mistaken. They may enjoy the mud but when they get in discriminate with it they are likely to And it will fall back upon themselves. Senator Walsh's demand that Sectary Uenby resign under a threat of impeachment brought the sort of answer any red-blooded American would make. It was the proper answer. The doings of Albert 3. Fall must and will be investigated. His doings, however, are far from basing a reason for a whole sale attack upon the administration. Partisanship befogs reason and heats the blood. Spellbinding democrats in the senate are turning it into a gala day. In the south where many of these spellbinders come from they are known as "rabble rousers.” They may feel that tactics successful in the south will win for their party advantage throughout the country but they must remember that the "hill billy” is peculiar to their own section. The better part of citizenship at this time is to trust the president. Cal Coolidge will clean house. No one doubts this. He will not be hurried into any sort of action by the clamor of a group spurred on by a mad desire to make party advantage out of a national misfor tune. He proved this when as governor of Massa chusetts the democratic mayor of Boston passed the buck to him in the police strike. Secretary Denby demands that the senate vote ‘on the resolution of impeachment. Naturally that worries the spellbinders. It is too juicy a morsel for the opposition senators. They can make the cham ber ring with their superheated oratory for many days before they give the accused man a chance to be heard. In the end the truth will be known. If the secretary of the navy, the attorney general, or any other officer of the government is guilty, Coolidge will find it out. POLITICAL SOOTHSAYERS BUSY. For a moment let us turn aside from the major troubles of a great and busy nation, and consider some of life’s little perplexities. One of these at the moment that is giving a lot of thoughtful per sons something to worry about is how t<j form a third party that will sweep into power. Some well meaning and decidedly earnest citizens of the United States are working overtime on this proposition just now. Out in California, for example, the leaders of the farmer-labor group have decided to nominate George Wt Norris of Nebraska for president and Dudley Field Malone of New York, Paris and other points east, for vice president. George G. Kid^ell, chairman of the California executive committee of the party, expects to unite the socialists, nonpartisan leaguers, and other similar groups behind this com bination. We are afraid that Mr. Kidwell lives up to his name. Passing on, we find at Bryn Mawr Prof. Marian Parris Smith arranging for a coalition of the democrats and laborites, from which merger will issue the conquering host that is to redeem the coun try and put the government back on the solid foun dation of simplicity. She sees in this something like the labor party of England. Mr. Bryan may see it also, but how will Norman Mack or Charley Murphy or some of those birds regard it? In our mind’s eye we have a picture of Parley P. Christiansen and Max S. Hays throwing up their caps and shouting for the party they have so long denounced and de rided. Such nostrums will not cure the growing pains from which this land of ours is suffering, unless it might be by stopping the growth. The United States does not need a new political party, it just requires the return to common sense, proposed by General Dawes as a remedy for Europe’s troubles. LENINEGRAD AND PETER THE GREAT. Pctrograd, once Petersburg, which was St. Peters burg, now becomes Leninegrad, indicating the shift ing fortunes of Russia’s former capital. Conceived and built in the wilderness by a despot who devoted his life to leading his country toward the light, as he interpreted it, it will now bear the name of an other Russian zealot who was autocrat of a com munistic state instead of an absolute monarchy. The site of St. Petersburg, on the marshes at the mouth of the Neva, was 'chosen by Peter to escape the reactionary atmosphere of Moscow which threatened to disrupt his plans. He sacrificed human life with reckless abandon that he might veneer his countrymen with western civilization. “The most indispensable tools were lacking,” we are told by Waliszewskl in his account of the construction. “There were no wheelbarrows and the earth was carried in the corners of men’s clothing.” Artificial economic channels created hy the great czar diverted trade to his capital. Nothing was left undone that might be done to increase the growth of the city on the Neva. When revolution threat ened at Moscow Peter covered the Red Palace with gibbets upon which he hung his enemies after he had tortured them. Grumbling and dissatisfaction he. crushed without regard for the suffering he might cause. So, too, did Lenine relentlessly crush his oppo nents. More than once the press of the civilized world has cried out against the charnel house created by the Cheka. Human life has been swept aside with as much indifference as in 1703 that an autocrat's plans might be realirxd. Sir Philip Gibbs has described Lenincgrad of today as a deserted city in which the empty streets reecho to the footsteps of the occasional passerby who walks alone where once great crowds hurried. It will probably never wholly regain its former glories, but may some day reassume enough of its old self to satisfy enthusiastic admirers of the dead Russian leader. EAST FOOLING WITH TROUBLE. The attitude of certain of the eastern leaders in congress and business toward the wheat growers of the west is past understanding. A refusal to permit increase in the tariff on wheat, aseribabie to the dread of opening the whole tariff question, seems ridiculous. To call it selfish is to characterize it mildly. A similar expression is noted with reference to the requested reduction tn freight rates. The New York Times cynically announces that “while the farmers’ bloc in congress is counting votes, Wall street farmers are counting bushels, and the price of wheat will follow the count of bushels.” The same newspaper goes on: “The reality of the crisis among a limited sec tion of the farm country is not denied, but it does not answer the conundrum what price consuming countries will pay. To hold vheat out of consump tion would only make difficulties for the next crop year. To fix prices by statute is hopeless. To re duce freight rates on agricultural products is of little avail, so small are the total rates compara tively. In 1923 the value of crops Increased 3213, 000,000 more than the whole amount paid by farm ers In freight'rates. In two years farm crop values increased several times the freight rates paid in 1923.” None knows better than these eastern wise men that wheat and' flour moves into Atlantic ports cheaper than the middlewest growers can lay it down. They know, too, that this is because of lower transportation rates by water. Yet they will not aid the farmers of the Mississippi valley and the northwest to reach market on anything like even terms with their competitors. Canada and Ar gentine get the favors. These same wise men, preaching patience to the toad beneath the harrow', marvel that Brookharts, Johnsons, Shipsteads and the like get into the senate from the wheat growing regions. If they do not wish to see their ow’n house shattered by unwise laws, they will do well to aid in relieving a situation that is menacing. The east can not prosper when ' the west languishes. Reminding the wheat farmer that the cotton farmer, the tobacco farmer or any other of the divisions of agriculture has prospered, does not help him meet his obligations. And it is the wheat farmer who is seeking relief. So far the eastern manufacturer is denying that relief. As the slang phrase has it, “When will they get next to themselves?” RESILIENT MR. REED. James A. Reed of Missouri fias authorized the filing of his name as candidate for president on the democratic ticket. Yes, this is Senator James A. Reed, orator, whose mellifluous voice is heard from time to time in the senate chamber, or elsewhere, as occasion may offer. Also, it is the same James A. Reed, who was incontinently ousted from the convention at Kansas City, where he sought to he seated as a delegate from Missouri. He had previously been thrown out of the democratic sideshow at Jefferson City, in his home state. Senator Reed’s high offending took the form of failure to sneeze when Woodrow Wilson took snuff. He opposed Herbert Hoover, and did a lot of other things the regulars did not like. In 1022 his Mis souri enemies set an old-fashioned coon trap, one that catches coming and going, hoping to do away with Jimmie Reed forever. He went through the one and over the other, and back to the senate in triumph. Now that he has announced himself as a com petitor for the great prize, we will wager anything reasonable” that the unterrified down in the old home state treat him with more of consideration than they did four years ago. Then he was ex pelled as a traitor, and pursued to the gathering at San Francisco, where he was refused the seat to which he had twice been elected by the democrats of his district. One answer to this was a plurality of over 150,000 for Harding, and another was the re-election of Reed to the senate. Sometimes it pays to have the bosses run the steam roller over you—-that is If one can do a come back like Jimmy Reed’s. Senator Walsh calls up Senator Carraway’s resolution to cancel the Teapot Dome contract, that he may offer a substitute, whereupon Senator Len root objects, in order that he may make a statement, and so the matter goes over under the rule. The Sinclair people may drain the reservoir while the senate spends time in elaborating details. A trio of college hoys carried one prank too far in Montana. They robbed the postofflee, and now are in jail. Now the wets are govng Into congress, as if that poor perplexed body did not have enougji trouble already. Christmas savings clubs aro on the increase, say the local bankers. Santa Claus will please take notice. No wonder Mr. Zevcly wanted to tnlk it over with Mr. Fall before they went to Washington. Ramsay Macdonald has been a premier a week, and still the sky has not collapsed. The bronchoscope has just saved another baby’s life. That instrument is as useful ns its name is uncouth. One good way to avoid carbon monoxide is plenty of ventilation. “Oh, what a Fall was there, my countrymen.” Homespun Verse —By Omaha's Own- Pwl— Robert Worthington Davie ■■■■■■■■ - ■■ —- — ■ — - THE PASSING OF LENINE. With tho passing of Lenin* Come* n question, yours nnd mine, Even though he wore the symbols of s c rown And his subject* deeply loved hlin. And In mourning weep shove him— pay their honing* to a Nero stricken down. Might was Right, and lie. the Master. Wrought deplorable disaster, And destroyed nil hilt the mem'ry of the carte. Itut tho horror of Ills reigning The discrepancy remaining— Designate* it for the better that he passed Oh! It scorn* that those whose power Rules dominions In life a hour Could be kind and yet lie mighty to the end And go on when they have brought tis What the Bon of Msry taught u*— Universally as friend remembers friend. “The People’s Voice” Editorials *from readers of The Morning Hee. Readers of The Morning ltea are Itvittu to use this column freely for expression on matters of public interest. i y Against Mixing Church and State. Missouri Valley, la.—To the Editor of The On®ha Bee: Mr. Baggstrom of AVausa gives us a, hypothetical law for religious instruction in the public schools. In the name »f all that the constitution stands for, may that be all the further anyone will get with such a proposal. Give us the "littlo red school house” where Protestant. Catholic, Jewish, and children of nny other faith inuy go, but keep religion out of it. Get such a law as that, and you are Just a step further from the causes w hich made Plymouth Ilock an item of his tory. You say moral delinquency is mounting. Undoubtedly it is, but for all that is reasonable don't try to remedy It by sending a lot of preach ers snooping around our school houses. It may be true that a per centage (have it to suit yourselfl of the children are not attending Sun day school, but don't try to cut It down with the public school as an In strument. A'ou say the church cannot compel attendance. Wall, brother you don't have to turn back many pages of history to the time when they could. It's-not pleasant reading there. Is it? Don't go back to It. Read your own plan over again. AVouldn't you sure have a balled up mess? Lack of religious instruction Is not the cause of moral delinquency, AVe have enough religious Instruction. If the churches would keep out of the public's business there would be less moral delinquency than there Is now. The church has its own vital and Important place, but It is not for them to butt into affairs of school and state. Let this stuff alone. Don't monkey with that grand old word, "toleration.” AVhon the preachers start to enter ing the schools to teach religion, may the doors be blocked by red-blooded Americans ready to die keeping them out. Listen, Baggstrom, You can think and say what you please So can I. So can every one else. AA’hat Is It? Freedom of speech and of press. If the church (1 don't care what onel were In power, could we do so? You know we coulden’t. I'll buy the cigars now, Baggstrom. Let's forget it. I. T. DUZZENMATTER. Jerry Howard Complain*. Omaha—To the Editor of The Oma ha Bee: I ask your Indulgence for a few remark* about the enforcement of tho female labor law. Nowhere In all tho world has womanhood been so exalted and reverenced us In the T'nlted States. Our country has won for Itself abroad the proud title of the "paradise of women.” It needs but a cursory examination of existing conditidns to realize that we have begun to drift awny from cur old moral Ideals. Whether this Is due to a drop In moral tone or Is a result of our desire to njake money is a moot question. The desire to make money through exploitation of women and glrla is a national scandal that Involves those responsible for the enforcement of the female labor law. The good name and the good faith of the labor de partment has been brought tinder suspicion. The confidence of the peo ple in ItB essential Integrity la shaken. Only by some unique demonstra tion such aa exhibiting a gun, etc., is It possible to bring the female labor question before the public, an fur as It concern* certain employer*. The club women could be of as sistance In arousing public sentiment, j hut their farsightedness 1* engaged In looking after the actions of the movie actors at Los Angeles and elsewhere That Is commendable; however, look ing after tho needs of the women and girls In Nebraska would be far more logical and benevolent. When the moral elements of this state combine, nothing can atop them. Our adversaries nro numerically In significant. it was moral sentiment effectively expressed which put tha existing law on tha atutute books. Let us now display enough moral in ter-est to obtain its enforcement. • JERRY HOWARD. Distrusts International Action. Ansley. Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Flee: It would seem that soma cult or power within tha Cnltd States, aided hy a large expenditure of money, would so befog the waters around about that popular opinion would sanction our entering the league of nations, or perhaps a world court. This cult nr power seems to have forgotten the derision rendered hy the American electorate In 1920 when they turned down, hy a ma Jority of 7,000.000 votes, the league of nations, placing the brand of Cain on all Its advocates. • The propagandists of the Bok plan of entering the league will not de reive the American electorate by cans Ing it to reverge the verdict of 1920. We should, and It's our duty, to grant aid to Europe In every way possible without entering the league, hut to Join the league and submit our theories and plans to the enrtvpromls. Ing Influence nf a committee, would destroy our Influence |n European nf folr*. H hen we enter the league, to tie consistent, let ns first repeal the Monroe doctrine, and sav to nur southern neighbors that hereafter they will hive to look to the leneuo to rescue them In the event some European nation takes a notion to redress grievances against them. ]f 1 he league would *0 vote (hy a ma Jority) that (let-many or England might enter either North or South America to extend their Institutions for the purpose of forcing nnv one of those nations to perform their In tcrnatlin.il obligations, It woutd |A our decision and our nnny and hat tnllons that would have (o' |>c drawn upon to quiet the disorder If any arose Our nation being nearest to the disorder, our army would he the one cotiaerlpted to do the dirty work of European nations. Our Itunglna Hon need lint be keen to Imagine the tinttallons that would spring up In this government to combat our enter Ing with our army, the snored pie einets of nnv of the nations of South A merle*. We learned to our sorrow during the late world war that psychologically the melting pot hm not annealed our people so ns (n causa them to forget the pal Ion of tlielr origin. A world ooitrf founding Its Juris dictions I powers on constitutional limitations such a* the limitations on • lined In nur Culled Slates < niistltu Hon. would he a dangerous expedh >i notwithstanding that ll« power would h* confined to International suhje.ii e lth the same rigor of constnailtm ns our supreme court construes |i power over the states of 'the Amrii • m union Hit h n court would ne> cssaiitv be given the power to en force Its decrees, and In doing so would enter the states of the world with Its process snd msndsles to en fore* Its dserses. Would ths Amsri LISTENING IN On the Nebraska Pres* The Elgin Review objects to put ting Hen Franklin's picture on the new $100 bill, in 11s expert opinion the man who lays claim to the owner ship of one of the bills Is likely to be a man who needs Ben's advice about thrift. • 0 • Maintaining that Nebraska has the finest climate in the world. Editor Pickett of the Cedar Bluffs Standard admits that he would be better satis fied It the weather man turned on a little heat. • * • A Wayne bootlegger recently whis pered into the p«r of Editor Gardner of the Wayne Democrat the real rea son why he plied that trade. "It isn't the profit I make that appeals, but the many fine people 1 meet who treat me as their social equal,” he said. .... • • • The Beatrice Express suspects that the Chinese of today are descended from a long lino of least resistance. • • • The Bloomington Advocate is sur prised that folks who seeir< to know that the world is corning to an end can’t beat a raincrow prophesying rain. • • • The Norfolk Press explains that they are called “doughboys" because they have received so much dough from the government. • • • The Harvard Courier insists that It Is better for the women to spend big sums for face powder than for the government to spend it for gunpow der. • • • The Hartlngton Herald says the Commercial club of that city wants a slogan. How would "Hike Along With Hartlngton” do? • i* • The Holdrege citizen explains the democratic situation In Nebraska by saying that "the great trouble is thut both the Hitchcock and Fryan fac tions 'marked the place where they buried the hatchet." • • • Tlie ('hadron Journal explains the trouble by saying tijat the anguished cry of an unbelievable number of American citizens is: "Get the murder er. the thug, the pickpocket—but for heaven's sake let the bootlegger go"' • • • The Tecutneeh Chieftain man stopped shoveling snow long enough to note that the local hardware stores were featurlna incubators In their display windows.' • • • Charley Kuhle, who pilots the Eeigli World, asserts that the present primary law Is turning politics Into the hands of the moneyed class, "for under the system only people with money have any business running for office.” can people permit nn International to levy upon the Union Pacific and sequester it for the payment of an international decree? How long would it be until all the trusts, monopolies and great combinations of wealth would |ms all internationalized and then he free from the restraints and regulations of local courts? A world court not possessing the in herent power of enforcing its own decrees according to Its own practice, would he not a court hut an Investi gation committee to furnish places for those who wish to visit the capi tals of the world. Every true American who reveres the doctrines of our fathers should vote against the Bok plan either for the establishment of a league of na tions or a world court. J. R. RHODES. A Farmer's Complaint. St. Paul. Neb—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: The cartoon ln Saturday's Bee expresses the light of the farmer as 1 hear It every day. So I wrote these lines w hich you may print if you wish: D. E. MARTIN. I am a poor sick farmer, I have never done any harm. This is a hard luck story— The ijiortgage has taken my farm. I have lived here now for 40 years. I have tried to do what Is right: Now when I see how things have gone I can not sleep at night. I have lost money on my wheat. I’ve sold my corn for less than cost Then on my hogs and cattle Good money 1 have lost. They say there's a profit in fresh eggs. But rr.-y hens are not laying now There's a little money in milk and cream. But the mortgage took my cows I have no credit at the bank. The storekeeper won't trust me. I can get no money any where— I am as poor as a man could 1m I yet up early ln the morning And 1 work till late at night. I have always tried to pay my dbots But now the end is ln eight. So I think I'll get a good strong rope And hang myself on a tree. Then maybe when they find n.e The county will bury me. Seem* So. "This was a queer war.” "How so?” "We hear more about the sergeants than the generals.”—Washington Star. Same OI<l Place. Normalcy appears to have Im-cu re stored In Mexico.- New York Tribune ADI KRTISKMK.NT. - _ Say “Bayer”-Genuine! «!' 11■ i.11< Humt raliltta of A* tillin ' li.no Itoii pin'i'il aafu li.v lull l.oll Hill 11| osi n Ill’ll I- > 1111 > II'I.IM nvor 211 'on ' f.I'la mill erljii'o inl.-oi' llmnly liiDtoa of 12 liMita ooRt only frw unlit .il hiij ill uu atom Knoli punknc* onntnlna ptuvoii illioo tloiiH fnr t-olda nml toll* how to pit pam an Aaplrln »ar|la for am a throat and tonallltla “From State and Nation” - —Editorials from Other Newspapers— A Social Kvcrit? From the Milwaukee Journal. The scene i« a. t .uil 100111 where a man stands charged with shooting one other. The scuts were crowded with men, women and babies, "all Norinand fans." tin the bench the rmn-esenta tive of justice, slid In tlj(P witnesb stand ono of the movie goddesses who used to throw custard pies—but doesn’t any more. And here is what the news man saw: "Mabel, ever the comedienne, had the crowd with her from start to fin ish, and once they clapped her as they mUtht have done if they saw her on "the Htage. . . . Mabel was dressed In a simple Mark suit, trimmed with little silver lieads, gray shoos and stockings and a gray felt hat. with a big black how on the side. She made a pretty picture, she kept the crowd happy—sometimes with a funny little gesture that might havo been devel oped in her custard days—sometimes with a vehement protest that she W'anted to tell the truth.” Is this a hearing In the halls of Justice or a social event? The judge is reported as nut at all satisfied with the testimony, and one con under stand how it is possible for him to feel that way. Judges have been known to take severe measures to restore the memory of recalcitrant witnesses. Perhaps severity would have a salutary effect on those in volved In this* movie scandal. And the public—that public which attends and applauds. Just what does it think of Itself anyway? If It thinks at all. it ought to understand that Its attitude toward this kind of thing makes possible In other cases the es cape of those who outrage public de cency and break up homes. Nuisance Taxes. From the Washington siar. Announcement is made that the house ways and means committee has tentatively agreed on reductions of items in the so-called indirect and nuisance taxes, totaling $103,254, 485.63. This Is not to be confused with th*- income tax reductions recommended by Secretary Mellon and the president. .Mr. Mellon's proposal totaled a net reduction of federal rev enue of $323,000,000, or about $220, 000,000 more than the reduction now proposed by the house committee In the item of nuisame taxes alone. Doubtless the conanittco will soon formulate and announce the reduc tions on the score of the direct in come tax schedule. These nuisance taxes are mostly on luxuries, though some are on what have become necessities. In round numbers the reductions are estimated as follows: On telephone and telegraph message*. $30,330,000: on beverages, $10,131,000; on admissions, $33,000,000; on theater seating taxes. $7,112,000; on candy, $11,315,000; on Jewelry. $10,000,000; on produce sales. $3,507,000; op bowling and billiards. $1,200,000. The remainder of the re duetions are on hunting, Irowie and dirk knives, on livery and livery hoots, on bunting garments, on yachts and motor lioats, on carpets and rugs, on trunks and valises, on portable lighting fixtures, on purges and pock etbooks and on fans. Of the total or $103,254,488,63 approximately $57,530, 000 reduction will be effected In the taxes on entertainment, candy, jew elry and sports. The $30,380,000 re ductlon on telephones and telegraph cannot be classed as a remission of luxury taxes, for these means of com munication are rated now as es sential. The tax which is chiefly felt di rectly by the people is that on admis sions to plsees of entertainment. In addition to the steady Increuas In ad mission rates for some years a tax of 10 per cent Is imposed. It will be interesting to note whether with the rerillsslon of this tax there will be any advance In the flat rates of ad missions. There Is no warrant what ■ever for such an advance. Any at-, tempt to mulct the public by retaining anw part of the 10 per cent tax by covering It Into the flat admission would be deeply resented by the patrons of places of entertainment. Indiana, First in Roads. from the New York Herald. There are now more than 400,000 miles of surfaced roads in the United .States outside of cities and towns. That is the estimate made Oy the United States XXepartment of Agricul ture, which reports that 33,000 miles were constructed In 1923 and that the total for 1923 Is expected to equal that of the previous year. Of Im proved and unimproved roads the United States today has more than 3,000,000 miles. Of the network of Improved roads so great in extent that Us total mileage Is 16 times the circumference of the earth at the quator. Indiana tias more than nny other state. At the end of 1922 there were 42.292 miles of surfaced roads In Indiana, either paved, or of sand clay, gravel or macadamized. Ohio was In second place with 37,272 miles, and next in order were Wisconsin with 21.672. New York with 20,209. Michigan with 19.756 and Georgia with 19,060 miles It is surprising to find that Illinois, with her wealth, population and geo graphical position, Is not only out ranked in this respect by the states already named, but has a smaller mileage of improved roads than Ken lucky, Minnesota. North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Washington, not to mention Texas and California. Ne vada Is at the bottom of the list with only 200 miles of surfaced roads. In its total road mileage, improved and unimproved, Texas naturally leads the union. There are 167.665 miles of roads in Texas. Oklahoma is second with 145,2b.) miles, which is n remarkable showing, for although Oklahoma is the 17th state in area and the 21st in population. Its road mileage is greater even than that of California, a state which ranks sec ond in area and eighth in population. Oklahoma's mileage of surfaced roads t» small In proportion to its total, but t i« large enough to exceed that of Kansas. Regarded from the standpoint of the ratio t-etween surfaced and unsur faced roads some state* really de serve higher rank than their totals of surfaced roads give them. In diana's right to first place, however, cannot 1* disputed, for more than half its mads are surfaced. This ratio ts not equaled by any other state. Waste. In a little backwoods town an !g norant salesman, undeterred by the extreme poverty stricken appearance of one house, tried to sell the head of the family a certain article. He rot the reply. "Say, I only spent one dime in all my life for foolishness. An’ that was for a pair of socks."—^Kxchanre. When in Omaha Hotel Conant Abe Martin rtfWfATfrt co** * OY *T~t *■ S ‘‘Ther’s nothin’ unusual in bor rowin’ chairs an’ dishes for a party, but when they ask t’ borrow one’s bootlegger things are goin’ purty fer,” said Tell Binkley t’day. Th’ servant problem gits worse'n worse, 'specially th' public servant problem. Copyright. 152 4 •'HIS ANGELS THAT EXCEL IN STRENGTH.” His Angels that excel in strength * Are not all in the sky; Sometimes we pass them carelessly As on our way we hie. Again, discouraged, a« we fall With, seemingly none near. Behold' A timely Angel comes— Uplifting us with cheer. And. maybe, in our direst need— When all the world goes out— There's one steps softly In and says “Oh. sister, do not doubt Sly friendship: I will gladly be Your helper: round about Your soul I wrap my sympathy And deep devotion stout: ’ How sweet it Is to know the while Until life's devotion ends. The time till our arrival where The weary highway bends. Is fragrant with the faithfulness That heaven only s»nda Through others “that excel in strength--— His Angels we call “friender* —Alta Wrenwkk Brown. NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for December, 1923, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .75,107 Sunday .80,795 Dee* not include returns, left over*. samples or papers spoiled in printing and include* no special sales or free circulation of any kind V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mfr. Subscr'bed and sworn to before me this 7th day of January. 1924. W. H. QUIVEY, (Seai) Notary Public “These Insurance Policies Are My Estate" A BUSINESS MAN was talking to a trust company officer on the problem of protecting bis family’s future. “Wl'.at will your estate consist of?” asked the trust officer. “Mostly life insurance,” was the reply, “but 1 want that protected, if • possible, like an estate consisting of any other property.” A wav was pointed out to him. Under the plan adopted the trust company will receive the insurance ( when it is paid. It will invest the money in sound seeuritios, yielding (lie best income consistent with safety. The income from the investments will be paid to the family regularly. By a wise provision in the agree ment, should there be a pressing need for extra payments, such as might be occasioned by serious ill ness, the trust company is allowed to pay additional sums up to a cer tain specified amount. This is a wise plan for most men of family. It can he carried out with the policies you already ha\e and, as you increase vonr insurance, the new policies can be added to the lur.d. You may pay the premiums yourself or may deposit securities nith the trust company, the income to be used to pay the premiums. This plan affords you the opportun ity of making a protective vet flex ible plan for your family's future. I nder certain circumstances you may also obtain important income and estate tax advantages Ask a Trust Company for the booklets: "Your Wife and Your V**' r«» ■'** Insurance" and "Safe guarding Your Family a Future ” Ask one of It* officers for further In formation on Ilf# Insur ance trusts. Or, if more convenient, address your Inquiry to the New York Office of the Trust Company Ptviston of the American Hanker* Ae soclatlon First Trust Co. U. S. Trust Co. Peters Trust Co. Omaha Trust Co Members American Bankers Association