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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
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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.
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Say “Bayer”-Genuine!
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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.
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PAID CIRCULATION
for December, 1923, of
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Daily .75,107
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over*. samples or papers spoiled in
printing and include* no special
sales or free circulation of any kind
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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"
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on the problem of protecting
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A wav was pointed out to him.
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