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The Morning Been MORNIN G—E V E N I N G—S U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Publisher N. R. UPDIKE. President BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLKR. Editor in Chief. Business Manager. j MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS I The Associated Press, of which The Bee ts a member, is exclusively entitled to »he use for publication of oil news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local new? 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 recognized authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Hee’a circulation is regularly audited by their organizations. , Entered as second-class matter May 2*. 1908. at Omaha postoffice under act of March 8. 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for at I s* 1 AAA the Department or Person Wanted. ^ ‘ iRfltlC 1 UvU OFFICES Mein Office —17th and Karnam Ce. Bluffa—18 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 Trurt Bldg. V___J FRANCE LOOKS AT FRENCH CLAIMS. While the debt experts are in Germany, examin ing the situation at Berlin, the French authorities are beginning to look into matters at home. Premier Poincare has not entirely emerged from a stubborn fight over the budget, which entails a still heavier rate of taxation for the French people, already grievously burdened. Much of this hangs on the failure to collect in full from Germany the amount of the French claim of something like $32,000, 000.000. Anticipating the collection of indemnity, the French government set about feverishly to recon struct the devastated areas, and has made commend able progress in this direction, it has involved the liberal and almost prodigal expenditure of money, accompanied by what, is now growing into a suspicion that, all is not wisely nor evbn well done. M. Riebel, minister for the liberated area, has .iust brought into the chamber of deputies a request I hat all French claims for damages above 500,000 francs be re-examined. He charges that the chair man of the committee of the chamber that has handled these matters has been unduly liberal in allowing claims. The chairman retorts that it is a difference of opinion between himself and the minis ter, but the premier is inclined to take the minister's view. Should’it be determined, after inquiry, that these big French bills for damage have been stretched, then the wisdom of the Dawes committee will he plainer than ever. One of the principal blunders of the peacemakers was the assessing of the enormous indemnity against the Germans without full and careful investigation as to what was due. The total sum was made big enough, hut, as Keynes pointed out at the time, it was fixed on ex parte evidence or no evidence at all, and ought not to he allbwed to stand. The basis for settlement should be justice, not passion, and there was too much passion at Paris and Versailles five years ago. The iituation in the French chamber is encourag ng, for it gives reason to think that the gallant na tion is coming to its senses. The reduction in the army bill, a determination to contract the budget as much as possible, and a full re-examination of war indemnity claims, looks like the turn in the road. The collapse of the franc convinced Poincare, as it did all on the outside, that France must find a way back ®r ba lost in the morass that swamped Russia and Germany in a flood of worthless paper money. These are lessons of hard teaching, but worth re membering. ANDERSON KNEW BETTER. Now and then a jury turns up whose members ^re skeptical when it comes to miracles. They have been told all about Santa Claus and the like, and have become hard-boiled, so to speak. One of these .iuriea listened to the tale told by William H. Ander son, head of the Anti-Saloon league in New York. Also they listened to witnesses for the state. On the testimony and evidence submitted, the jury found Anderson guilty of forgery and other offenses. Here is another case of a good man gone wrong. For years Anderson battled to put the Anti-Saloon league over, and succeeded. He was at the front in every campaign the organization entered. Ne braska felt the influence of the league, when in 1916 the state prohibitory amendment was passed. Two years later the nation entered the dry stage, chiefly because the Anti-Saloon league applied its own brand of “practical” politics at Washington. ] It was the policy of the league to fight the devil with fire. So Anderson should have known the ins and out* of the game as well a' any nt»n The league raised funds and used the money in waging political battles, and made no secret of it. Confiderable of the money expended in carrying on its work has never heen publicly accounted for by the league, and prob ably never will be. The heads of the organization know where it went, and feel it was wisely applied, and that suffices to satisfy the members. With this knowledge in his possession, Anderson stands in a worse light than would an inexperienced person caught in the same predicament. He knew better than he acted, and Ihe penalty of exposure is the more just because of this fart. ANCIENT CUSTOM STILL HONORED. One of man's first discoveries was that he was not personally equal to combat with all other brutes. Some of them he could vanquish but more he could not. He therefore provided himself with what has come to be known in the vernacular as "the odds.” That is, he provided himself with a weapon. First he had only a club, nr maybe a pointed stick. Later he tied a dornick to the club, and so on through the march of ages the improvement has gone on. Some inventive genius among the early races doped out the bow and arrow, providing a missile weapon. Roger Bacon in his day gave the world gunpowder, and American inventors provided repeating weapons. The cycle may not yet be complete, but it has gone far enough. Now the great problem is to get men to disarm, to quit gun-totin’ and settle down to the condition of quiet, orderly members of society. One of the great difficulties, an obstacle almost insurmountable, is that the powers that prey are invariably armed. Decent citizens feel they must arm in self-prolec tion. Expert criminologists have advised against this, pointing out the great, advantage the criminal haa because of his familiarity with the u«e of weapons. Some deplorable tragedies have followed attempta to meet a bandit at hi* own game. But this does not encourage men tamely to submit to outrage. No romance of the film is complete without a hand-to-hand fight of some sort, and one of the greatest of heroes is the two-gun fighter. Very few of these ever lived; here and there a man became really expert as a two gun handler, but seldom was there a real fighter of the sort. The old-time gun fighter rarely fired more than once; he did not need to. That race is almost, extinct, but it has been succeeded by the hop-head variety of gunman, who carries his ‘‘gat” in a shoulder holster, and shoots when his victim is not looking. The only chance he takes is that he may be caught by the police, and ihis is remote. Senator Copeland of New York asks ^hat a icpnje f*p of 1100 be collected for every pistol iold, and that cartridges be priced at not less th*n 11 each. This would disarm the peaceable, but a'ould have no effect on the criminal, who seldom suys either weapon or ammunition. It is easier to steal them. Missouri passed a model law a few years ago, designed to discourage gun-totin,’ but bandits still swarm in St. Louis and Kansas City. Nebraska has an excellent law against carrying con cealed weapons, but it rarely enforced against any one. What is to be the end? An inspired frontier reporter once wrote of the “sad, sweet note of the six shooter, cooing to its m'ate in the night,” and that note still is heard where men of peace love silence. A new deal is desirable, and it might be well to make it as dangerous to carry a weapon as it is to carry a flask of hootch. WHEN THE CALENDAR WABBLES. One of the little questions that comes up to puz zle folks every fourth year is, "Why is leap year?” The easiest answer is "because.” That does not tell the whole story, however. In the beginning men reckoned time by the rising and setting of the sun, and divided the year into two seasons, summer and winter. Spring and autumn were added in due process, and then months came to perplex and in some ways annoy. First these were based on the moon, producing a year ihat varies, as in the Jewish calendar from 353 to 385 days in length. Finally, Julius Ceasar, bothered by the confusion into which the reckoning of time had fallen, had prepared what is known as the Julian calendar. I’nder this the year was divided into twelve months, with a total of 365 days. An odd quarter of the day was carried on, and each four years a day was’ added to February. This decision, reached in the year 46 B. C'., served very well until 1582, when the discovery was made that the calendar was all out of kelter. Faster that year fell on March 11, instead of March 21, as it should have. Pope Gregory set his astronomers and mathematicians to the job of straightening out the tangle. They did it by dropping ten days. The pope also made a new rule for leap years, or bisex tile, and ordered that until 2000 comes around no year ending a century shall be other than the com mon sort. This fairly well balances the reckoning, yet leaves something just short of accuracy. The "tropical,, year, which means the time of the earth in passing between the two equinoxes, is 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 46 seconds in length. The "sidereal” year, or the one used for calendar pur poses, because it means the time taken for the earth's journey around the sun, is 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes, 9 seconds long. The “anomalistic” year, which means the tim% for the sun to return to any given point on its orbit* is 365 days, 6 hours, 13 min utes, 48 seconds long. The first of these years will he 44 minutes, 56 seconds short of a full 366 days in leap year, the second is 36 minutes, 36 seconds over. However, few of us need worry about the calen- | dar being disarranged. As at present adjusted the | difference between the civil and natural year will amount to one day in about flfty centuries, or look ing ahead from -now, February will have ,30 days in 6924, which will be soon enough. The declaration hv Assistant Prohibition Com missioner Jones that his evidence agents often have to fjrink liquor is likely to cause a rush of applicants. It might be well to. have ambulance* handy to take care of those injured in the crush. Frank A. Yanderlip recently declared this to he "a nation of financial illiterates." Recent financial history is so involved that the average citizen is to be excused if he is ignorant on that subject. As a witness before the senate rommittee Miss Cape seems to think more highly of her rights as an American citizen than some of the inquisitive senators do of their privileges as senators. Congressmen should take due note that the peo ple are doing a little congressional investigating themselves these days, and the report is due the Tuesday after the first Monday in Nevember. r The main trouble with a law limiting campaign expenditures is that it is practically impossible, to define campaign expenditures, even if they are pos sible of location. Now they are vising gasoline fumes to hasten the golden color of California citrus fruits. Gasoline fumes have often hastened the golden harp period. If the winner of the Bok prize is summoned to appear before the senate committee he will probably feel that be earned it before he gets through with the quiz. The inventor of the coffee percolator died the other day. The coffee apeculator atill lives, however. At any rate the pipeline leading into Washington seems to he pretty effectually clogged. And now it appears that it is high lime to put sn end to government by propaganda. Speaking of filling at.ation service, Sinclair and Doheny seem to he there and over. Homespun Verse ^ —By Omaha's Own Poet— ^ Robert (Torthington Davie DOWN THE TRAILS OF YESTERDAY. • When I hasten through the country, And i sen the birds awing. And the lien* go clucking gaily lest as though they lived In amg. When 1 hear the rattle mooing And I see the calves at pls.r I rejoice and go a dreaming I>ow n Ihs trails of Yaeierday. W lien I hear the crickets warble W hen Ihe sun hits slipped from algid. And the whippoorwill Is giving Hi« glad welcome to the night. And Ihe farmer boy la whistling In his truly merry wn,\ I rejoice and go n dreaming Down the trails nf Yesterday. W lien I hear the call to supper, And the boys and dad go in. When t hear the milk palls hanging I'm down on the farm agin When around the hearth th»v gather While the svanlng wafts awsv— I rejoice and go a dreaming liown Ihe trails of Yesterday. ' “The People’s ' Voice” Editorial* from reader* of The Morning Bee. Reader* of The Morning Bee are nvittfi to use thi* column freely for expression on matters of public interest. ^ Swats at O’Neill s Munchausen. Farrsftut, la#—To the Relit or of The Omaha Bee. Tour issue of the 14th insr. published an article from O’Neill, Neb., to the effect that carp (fish, I suppose), in some of the small | er lakes down about Chambers, Holt county, were migrating to the larger, lakes some 1M» miles distant, through | the deep snows of lhe valley. Now, we people over here in good old Iowa have never become acquainted with fish of such great sagacity, so we beg leave to write to some «*f these carp and have them come over. \\ e will meet them at the train and pay their railroad faie and take them to our deep river the Nishnabotna where we can introduce them to some of their kith and kin where they will never have to go afoot any more. We would also implore you to give us tHe name of your correspondent in said town of O’Neill that we may correspond with him and fiud out all about those carp and, if possible, in troduce them into our town and com munity. Now, laying all jokes aside, we would like to find out the outcome of that fishy experience of the man who could get by with such a funny story. N. K. VAN SICKLE;. Herrick, S. 1).,—To the Kditor of The Omaha Bee: While it is true that a little nonsense now and then is enjoyed by most of us. 1 think that for a good, sensible paper you are letting someone from the O'Neill ter ritory make a fool of you and your paper, with all the yarns coming from that point. And the front page posi tion you are giving the stuff Is rnme than we can figure out. Talking crows, pet fish, fur frogs, moving pike and all the other trash along that line that you have handled. It would not surprise ua to see such stuff in The Penn Gritt or the Saturday Blade, but we do look for sorpething dif ferent in a paper of The Omaha B*»e s •landing. 1 suppose the man from O’Neill gets so much per line for all you print and so it is a source of revenue for him, but you should think of the rest of us some, too. JOHN F. ORORGKMAVRB. From an Old-Time Farmer. Hampton, Neb.—To the Kditor of The Omaha Bee; I am an old hay seed. I lived 3 4 years in Maine. My father took his family to Wisconsin; Jived in Iowa 37 years, 20 years in California, Canada and Nebraska. 1 voted for "Teddy" in California. My father was a ship builder: what he did not know about farming would fill s book. The way to help the farmers is just to leave them alone. They rorne to town and buy canned goods that they should raise themselves The renter has a car. the eon a car. and the owner lives In a fine hmi-e in town and has a fine car. I srn S3 Mv farm was 4o a re*, fenced with s stone wsIL Five ho\* and six gMs we raised jn good shape. W hat they did not ra so they did without. O K. SWEKTSER. “Polly Titian'' on Johnson. Fork, Nab.—To the Killtor of The Omaha Bee: Senator Johnson is out on Ihe slump crowing lo attract at tentlon. When he gets that in- stalls alt six cylinders working in hiau to criticise the administration for every, thing In sight, and then sees things in his day dreams that no one rise ran see. He is very much against the World Court, he auae he is against the I.eague Sif Nations. He is no more against the latter than I am. hut he does not seem to see mv dif. fereme between helping arh.trate a trouble between neightiors A and H than helping A beat up B Tet ha once had great hopes of The Hague peace plan, as ha* ked bv ex President Roosevelt; hut this i* sure a little in advance of that plan, so why should he oppose it7 Mv opinion Is that It Is because he wants to he president Well, says one, he has just as much right to be president or to try to he as anyone. Generally speaking, that Is true; hut. under the present condition, I am out to deny that right. Four years ago h» was out for the same high office, but when the noses were counted he was found a fa* short. Then the convention proceed ed to do just what Ills lodge or any Other society would have done That was to offer him second place, which 't did. arid Senator Johnson said no. Then they turned lo that fine. Sturdy New Knglander, Calvin Coolidge He did not want it, as he thought he had another Job in Massachusetts that was not complete yet: hut when they pressed the call he said "I am In the hands of the party and If thev think T ran better setvs them and the country there I will accept." And, by virtue of that splendid Trait of his of local obedient e he Is today president of ihs Cnlted States iho very position that Senator John son Is now striving for, but which tie would now hold had he beer, willing to obey and serve Instead of dictating or bossing the party. So tn.lav |t matters not what his abilities may be In some lines, lie sura has some weak points that overbalance them. How he or any one els# ran figure out that he has any rtalm on the Party voi* for that office m this time is beyond my vision. I sac his Cleveland speech ought to settle his case for good and plentv When he gets out his tar can nnrt brush end mud paddle and classes Menrv Ford and Calvin Coolidge willi Red Bill Ha V wood and F.mma C.o|d man. he Is not only going too far-li sure 1s the hml> Then be rakes Ihe politicians rhrv are surelv bad If worse than that PCd LT TITIAN. Ranthl.i A cniiplg of tourl.t. puling through rj.o'gi* onmi lorn-. a road of who., d.atlnatlnn th.v tv.r. uncrfaln Sr. Ing in old pigro woman on i porch th.v call.il tn h.r "Aunt!*, run vnti t.ll tn wh.r. till, rniil go.i’" Sh* gAf.il thoughtfully it th. wind Ing country rood, md tonic h.r pip. out of It.r mouth long .nnugh tn rrt lighten th.m IV.II. hnn.y." «h. Ill Id. "hit go., fu.t on. plan, and th,n another .1 udg. NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for D.r.rnh.r, 192.1. of THE OMAHA BEE 1 Haily .Vo, 107 Sunday .80,795 Di»#« nnt Im lndf rntiitna, l»tt nvm, Minplfi At papara • polled tn printint and include* nn apodal •alea ot fraa rirctilation af any kind. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. .Vikarnhed and taotn tn knfnta mt tkla 7tk day of lanuaty. 11*24 W H QUIVCV. | (Iwl) Nntary Public ___ v | “From State and Nation” —Editorials from Other Newspapers— Good Sense, Hut Doubtful “Politics." Frnm th« Minneapolis Tribune. Senator Oscar I'nderwood of Ala bama ought to bo careful not to got a reputation for two straight thinking if he really has hope of landing the democratic nomination for the presi dency. I'p to the present moment it has looked as if the plum would fall to a man who tries to make the rank and file believe two plus two is three instead of a man who is willing to admit that two plus two is four and stand on that fact as a campaign t enet. We have in mind a speech Senator 1 nderwood made the other day in (.’lev eland. Speaking In t lie capacity of an avowed candidate for the presi dency, he let it be known that lie is not one of those who think tax reduc tion can go along with the payment of a general soldier bonus, in this particular his democratic mind parts company with the minds of William G. McAdoo, William Jennings Bryan and other “deserving democrats.' Because he Js of the opinion that tax reduction is the great need of the day Senator I’nderwood not only opposes a bonus, but be is in acco ti with President Ooolidge In his posi tion that there should he no further expansion of government activities except in such cases as may be abso lutely necessary to the general wel fare, and not merely desirable in the judgment of this or that group. The Alabaman is disturbed about the growth of’bureaucracy incident to the reaching out of the government into new channels of supervision and con trol With 548.000 civilian employe* on the payroll of the federal govern ment. and with government agencies appropriating about one-eighth of the people a income each year, he submit* that it 1* time to call a half. “Bureaucracy/* be says, “has been a contributing cause to the decay of Europe. Germany was honeycombed with it long prior to the fall of that empire. Bureaucracy ha* added peril to our own republic, not alone in the j establishment of a government of bu reaucracies. or in the enormous tax ! burdens, or in the loss to constructive | industry of thousands of ablebodied men and women, but in the weapon afforded the political party in power with it* legion of henchmen securely entrenched In Its offices/* | Senator I'nderwood is aware that we have not yet reached the apex of bureaucracy if one or more of the pending proposals for further addi tions to Gin already swollen functions of government are approved. Something must be left for addi tional citizens, nr for communities in their civic capacity to do, jf the citi zenship of the countrv is not to suffer a fatal weakening of it* moral fiber and an undermining of its sense of direct responsibility. Fenafor T nderwnof la rather ton practical in his discussion of thc'-e things to limn himself forth as a par 'v prophet when a political campaign ;s near at hand. If he were less sen “Ihle he would be more shnWy as a candidate, and it is ail too frequent that a plume hearer j« permitted to crowd out a real horse in % political race. Kighl Hour l»ay in the Steel Indue try Prom lha Christian H »n a Monitor It seem* generally agreed that if la now only a matter of time before the eight hour ajiift heroine* piactfcallv universal In the sleet lndustr\ of the lotted States. The reason for this is -een in the fart that, while it la true that the change from the 12 hour and iU hour shifts causes an increase in the costs of production, the greater efficiency of the worker* and the con dition of bettered citizenship which accompany the chance more than offset the added costs Practically all the reports printed the other day in the Monitors survey show that even In the less than six month* dur ing which the shorter working hours hare been In operation there has been noticeable a remarkable change for the better, both in the case of the men themselves and also of thejr f*m Hies Who come In close relationship with them. 80 obviou* la this, eape dally in the case of moat American horn employes, that the majority of these laticr feet certain that thera is virtually no rhatue that the formei regime will return. Those officials who have given their opinions of the changed conditions believe. In most instances, that it will he impossible to determine for at least a year what is the real cost of the change Notwithstanding this, .Judge Ktbert II. Gary, chairman of the board of the United States Steel corporation, summed up the result* for President Uoolidge the other day by saying that It had increased the cost of production 10 per cent. He also has expressed the \ lew. however, that wlih greater efflrien. y and Inter est of tha workers which ha\e *|. ready manifested itself, together w th tlie new Inventions which are almost hound to go hand In hand wlih the shorter hours, makes t probable that -; Energy Wasted i is Money Wasted. Save energy by Saving Money in this bank Interest at 3% | TbcClhaha National Bank jarrumaiulhSt. I f LISTENING IN^ Reading !n a Helpful Hints depart ment that by cutting the end off n Christmas horn a serviceable funnel could be obtained, l.ew Shelley opens the editorial columns of the Fairbury News to Innnlre: “What the Sam Hill goes a man want with a funnel now," • • • Kditor Gardner of the Wayne nemo crat asserts that Mr. Bok has put It up to the senate to either act or keep still. • • • The Pierce Call insists that the politician who tries to play politics with the Mellon,tax plan is barking up the wrong tree. Perhaps, but lhey hate to hark up some tree, don t they? • • • John Rhoades of the Blair Knter prise waxes sarcastic. Asserts that, not only must the jnodern school l.e provided with playgrounds, but It must have a suflicient number of ice i ream soda and soft drink places within easy reach. • • • Mrs. Chattie Weatlnfu* says in the Stromnburg Headlight that the first robin In that city wax reported by a iivtui wHo never took a drink in hi* jiff*. Maybe he took it through the arm. • • • Kditor Sutherland of the Tekamah Herald explains why W. J. Bryan lias not tossed his hat into the presi dential ring. “He has lost so many that way already,'* is the explana tion. • • • "Jtiitt a* we thought we had con quered the air," way* Mentor Brown of the Kearnev Huh in a mournful tone of voice, "Hi .Johnson exploded in a fresh place." • • • The Hold re ge Citizen aay* a poor loan's Idea of a good joke is a rieh njen worrying about paying h « in come tax. • • • “If you go to n barber shop to get jour shoes shined, don't ki'k if your wife h i es her sewing done." is the sage advice Ole Buck hands out through the Jlarvard Courier. • • • The Fremont Tribune insists that health conditions in the United States senate must Vie improved. Jt notes that every time a grafter is brought before it fop investigation he gets sick. • • • The Grand Island I ndependent has It figured out that people will never be satisfied until everybody ha* more than everybody e]*e. ft large part of the added costs will be absorbed in the mill*. Aside altogether from this some what uncertain factor, however, and balancing it nit the other side of the S'-aie are r»rtain indisputable facts. For instance, henk deposits lit Youngstown, ft., have increased dur ing the part year approximately S1 a. ono.oon, indicating that, with the greater satisfaction felt by the work er,*, they havp found means of aav inc. despite the slightly lower wage scale which automatically followed the introduction of the shorter hours. From Rethlebem. Fa . come, the r*1 port that the .shorter day is a boon to the employer, the worker and the community. In South Rhlcago there hss been a great advancement in home conditions and Americanization among the foreign elements employed in the mills. And so on throughout the entire field On all sides the re ports which are returned show an improvemeilt in morale, a better con dilion of living and happier homes. There is bilf Ifttle doubt that the eight-hour day la in the Industry to etay. . ^ Nebraska j When I waken In the morning, See (he eastern sky aglow With the rave of God's heaven Waiting, on Nebraska to bestow. I think we are most favored By his omnipotent hand. Scattering the glorious sunshine On this our blessed land. I stand upon the hilltop And view the landscape o're, Its long leaching vistas With its mystical folklore, Its lakes and its rivers So beautiful to see, Its hills and Its valleys Are good enough for me. Its rich and fertile country Its springs, rills and rocks And its acres of green pasture With its grazing herds and flocks. Its broad rolling prairies So lovely In the morn. The shimmering, waving, wheat fields And rows of ripening corn. Its cities are a wonder With the "Gateway to the West” Where everyone is welcome And treated as a guest; The schools and institutions Where opportunities are grand For the fitting of our precious youth To take their places in our land. Wilh the nations In commotion And the world so full of hate. We should thank our Heavenly Father For giving us this state. Where there Is peace and plenty All around to see; And the people are so happy, So joyous and so free. In the center of the union The center of God's heart f,et every man do his duty And even' woman her part. To keep this as God's country Given to us in trust. To preserve h:* high ideals From being trarr/pled in the dust. So! Here's to Nebraska The state I love the beet, With all Its glorious suns»t* Painted In the west; Its fine to visit countries And traveling Is great Rut when It comes to living There's no place like our state. RHODA R SEARS Decatur, Neb. r Center Shots j The fellow who said the north pole was slipping south ha* lot* of fol lower* now —Dallas New*. The neighbor wom»n ri»v«r rule out any testimony as immaterial.—Ohio Ptate Journal. The man who first called them easy pa'mrnts was a poor judge of adjec tive*.—Phreveport Journal. The more you study mankind, the greater you wonder that so few- go to the poorhouee.—Trinidad Picket wire Onlv re men are running for pr»si dent of Nicaragua. But then, Nicara gua is a small country.—Jacksonville Journal. Perhaps Oeneral Elawe* will sue reed In impressing members of the reparaMons commission with the sim ple fart that attending dinners here and there doesn't improve the seld s finance*. Ail the commlasioner* cot out of their work during the past four or five years was Indigestion.—Toledo Blade. A shrewd politician !* ore who can convince the farmer* that the law of supply snd demand was passed hr the other side.—Oklahoma City Time* Abe Martin K _ Very few people know that t saxophone is a very ancient music instrument, an’ if it wuzn’ fer *lUj fish, close up dancin’ it never con have come back. Miss Fern Moo says she alius hates a holiday 'caui she can’t fit in th’ jewelry store fit her wrist watch fixed. Copyright. lf*4. C The Spice of Lije V. "Why is s strong man like As tound begging’ 1 Ah, madam, tt i« the only prof*/ sion in which a gentleman can a dress a beautiful ladv without r formality of an introduction Toronto Telegram. "la that play flniahed you wo working on?" "It Is.” "Has it been produced yet’” "yes. that » what flniahed It.”—Hr ton Transcript. "How are your n»w falsa teeth' •Best thing in tha world ’o rna: a man keep h!s mouth abut.* —L/su1 ville Courier-Journal. Tou d like to travel and perhapa yt fret Because you're kept at home—b you forget. A dallv ride Earth gives to averyor And none a year a trir around t! aun. —Boston Tranacript ■ What must I talk about to a !a< to p!ea«» her’" Her beauty." "And If ahe baa none* ' About the plainness of other* • Turin Pasquino. The reaper h*e harvested Anael M Plimp And buried him deep under groun He nailed hi* dear helpmate Hideoua Simp Before carefully looking around —Akron Times When in Omaha Hotel ConanL Illinois Central System Shows Why Railroads Are Interested in Tax Revision Proposals for reductions and readjustments of federal tax levies have been made. While there may be differences of opinion as to method, there can be no doubt about the wisdom of lightening and equalizing this burden of govern mental expense which is felt by every person in the country. This tax burden is borne by those who often do not realize that they pas tas? at all. It has been estimated that one dollar out of every six spent by consumers goes for taxes*—federal, state, county and municipal. Taxes, be cause they enter into the cost of production, are in the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the rent we pay. Every business man who has any control over his selling prices adds his taxes to his operating costs, then not infrequently adds a little more to make it even money and passes the total on to his patrons. Taxes upon buildings are paid in the end by rents. Taxes paid by manufacturers and distributors are passed on to the consumer. As tax burdens increase the cost of living they cre ate a demand for increased wages, and increased wages in turn are reflected in higher prices paid by everyone. Taxes are a part of the cost of conducting every form of business, and they inevitably form a part of the prices established for the goods or services produced in every field of productive industry. Regard less of who pays the taxes in the first instance, in the end they are paid by farmers, business men. mechanics, laborers and all other classes of our population. »-*1 Indirect taxes are paid by more person? than direct taxes. Among those who pav indirect taxes are the patrons of the railroads. Taxes the railroads pay are a part of the cost of supplying transportation service and must be borne by the public in freight and passenger rates. Railway taxes in 1923 amounted to $330,000,000. 5.2 per cent of their gross earnings, or almost exactly $3 for every man. woman and child in the United States. Rut the $330,000,000 paid by the railroads in 1923 for taxes represented only their direct taxes. Indirect taxes enter into the costs of all materials and supplies used by the railroads in their operation and are necessarily passed on to 'heir patrons. There are now extant more than $12,000,000,000 of tax-exempt securities Aside from the fact, that such securities allow part of our population to evade income taxation, the attractiveness of such investment has caused railway invest ment to appear unattractive by comparison. To the extent that the ready sale of tax-exempt securities encourages civic extravagances, it increases taxation in general and tends to saddle undue burdens upon the public. To the extent that such sale helps to keep capital out of the railroads it prevents the railroads from installing th>- modern facilities that increase efficiency and make possible reduc tions of rates. A way must be found to change the channel of investment of owner* of large incomes from tax-exempt securities in:o productive enterprises where the investors n-sume some of the risks. If it is necessary to lower substantially the surtaxes of those "ho have large incomes in order to encompass this change, it is in the interest of aN of us to lower them. I.ot us not make the mistake of in juring all classes of our people by trying to punish one class. Our purpose in making this statement is to point out to our patrons that taxes are reflected in the rates which they pay for transportation and to urge them to help themselves and also help us by putting forth even* proper effort to bring about n reduction in taxes. We believe that few persons realize the ex tent to which freight and passenger rates are aftectcd by direct and indirect taxation. Constructive criticism and suggestions are invited. C. H. MARKHAM. . President, Illinois Central System