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The Morning Bee MORNIN G~E V E N I N G—S U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Publisher N. B. UPDIKE, President BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLER. Editor in Chief. Business Manager. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, is exclusively entitled to *he Uhe 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 recognized authority orr circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee’a circulation is regularly audited by their organizations. Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908, at Omaha postoffice under act of March 3, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES * Private Branch Exchange. Ask for * i nno the Department or Person Wanted. ^ ^ loilllC 1 uUU OFFICES Main Office—17th 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. Lo'tfs—Syn. Trust Bldg. Los Angeles—Higgins Bldg. San Fran.—Hollrook Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg. HIDING PLACE FOR LAZY DOLLARS. Lacking the necessary two-thirds majority, the Green resolution for a constitutional amendment failed in the house on Friday. Unless the senate should initiate such a resolution, the matter will rest for a time. Yet it will only be dormant. It must come up again, because the issue is too vital to remain unsettled. In the argument on the floor of the house the objections to the resolution mainly took the form of state’s rights. The entire theory of tax-free securities rests on this. The federal government will not permit the states to tax its issues. So the federal govern ment will not undertake to tax state issues. This extends to all forms of public bonds. Certain of the Liberty bond issues bear a tax. These can be discovered by looking at the market quotations. Out of the practice has grown an evil that is threatening. Not only does the tax-free security offer a safe hiding place for the lazy dollar. The demand for it has stimulated local expenditure to a point that almost amounts to reckless extravagance. On December 31, 1923, the total amount of ab solutely tax-free securities outstanding in the Unit ed States was $12,309,000,000. At four per cent, this amount produces an untaxed income of $492, 360,000, and the tax it should bear is shunted off to that produced by the dollars actively employed in carrying on the' industry and commerce of the country. Mr. Mellon says that the high surtax levied on the incomes of rich men induces the dollar to go into hiding, to obtain immunity from tax in the form of securities under consideration. To what extent? From Mr. D. R. Crissinger, governor of the Federal Reserve board, we learn that in the calendar year 1923 a total of $4,303,394,000 of new capital found employment in the various enter prises of the United States. That same year $1,070, 901,000 went into tax-free issues of various sorts. In other words, one dollar out of every five avail able for the extension of enterprise sought seclusion where it would contribute nothing to the carrying on of enterprise. It is true that many necessary public works have been carried out. Funds necessary for their ac complishment were supplied through the tax-free security. It is equally true that many communities have been plunged deeply into debt because money could be so easily had to pay for work that might have been postponed or financed in a more econ omical way. The main question, however, is wheth er the people are going to continue to provide bomb proof funkholes for dollars that are unwill ing to work so long as security can be found in the type of security that is untaxed. If high tax rates continue, capital will continue to dodge. The steadily mounting heap of billions that escape their just share of paying the expense of government is proof of this. If we can not check the issuance of tax-free municipal securities, we can at least so arrange that money seeking em ployment will regard the industrial, productive av enue as favorably as it now does the unproductive. Common sense as well as national safety demands this. DEALING WITH THE DANGEROUS DOG. Two recent happenings in Omaha suggest the pos sibility of a serious local problem. It has to do with dogs. Let it not be understood by anybody that The Omaha Bee is unfriendly to dogs. On the con trary, we have the greatest possible respect for the upstanding, dignified, well-behaved dog, who attends to his own business, who is gentle, and a companion foreman fit in every sense. Such dogs are more than companions. They are a valuable asset, a possession not to be overestimated. The man and his dog, the boy and his dog, the faith ful dog who guards the family. The kindly dog who plays with the children. All are well attested and familiar. But there are other dogs. One of the rages in this country was for police dogs following the war. The police dog is essentially a one-man dog; that is, he attaches himself to his master, and to none else. He may not be dangerous, but he is not genial. He is apt to resent familiarity. The lit tle boy who was so badly mangled by one last week is a proof of what may happen. Other dogs occasionally show bad traits. One little girl on her way to school lost her lunch to a dog, who was doubtless hungry and seized the food he scented. These dogs are obeying a natural in stinct, but provision should be made to curb them. The late G. W. Hervey labored many years to get a comprehensive dog law passed in Nebraska. To no avail. Mainly because the legislature did not know dogs as well as Hervey did. He did not want dogs exterminated. He wanted owners made respon sible for dogs. Until we get such a regulation, the dog question is going to be serious. Any man is willing to guard a worth while dog; the worthless sort must be dealt with in a fashion to render them harmless. , DISEASE, OR JUST SYMPTOM? Herrin may not bo a melting pot; indeed, tho elements there seem to bo so repellent that ordi nary fusion is unlikely. But it is a great test tube just now. Obscure and unnoted, had it not been for the definite lawlessness that developed there in June, 1921. Herrin just now fills a considerable place in the public eye. First, the question of prohibition, second, the presence of the klan, have served to center atten tion on this little mining town that should be as placid as • mill pond, instead of as irritating as a cantharides plaster. A considerable number of foreign born are gathered in and near the town. These do not readily comply with the provisions of the Volstead act. They regard Its restrictions in a personal light. Just so, too, they are prone to interpret liberty as a personal matter. Why they are to be forbidden in a free country that which they had as a natural right, as free as air or water, in the old home, they do not comprehend. The law lives in Herrin and Williamson county. Sheriffs and judges, chiefs of police and jailers, and coroners are there. And there is work for all. Yet the klan sets up its own form of government, and decrees a sweeping reformation, to be carried on in such a foamier as is most exasperating to those who fall under its effects. This brings the anti-klan. A blaze of murderous rioting again sweeps the community. State authority in the form of soldiers comes into control. Complaints are made to representatives of foreign governments, and this involves the federal authorities. 'Verily, little Herrin may become the leaven that leavens the whole, unless some sort of counsel prevails there that is not supported by six shooters nor defiance of written law. HOME LIFE IN A BUSY CITY. Several weeks will yet intervene before Father Knickerbocker takes off his old cocked hat, and says, “Howdy!” to the folks who plan to be there with him while the democratic convention is in ses sion. Yet the New York hotel keepers are reported to be making plans to entertain a great throng, and anyone who ever attended a national convention knows what that means. The New York Times, taking cognizance of the preparations, suggests: “If the legend of an effete Babylon between the Hudson and the East rivers is to be finally dis posed of, the delegates should be shown the other side of New York. They should be taken on a sub way trip at 5:30 in the afternoon. They should be . Invited to private homes on days when the plumber is In possession and the hot' water is turned off. They should be invited to dinner just when the cook has quit without warning. They should be sent to the box office to buy their own tickets for the evening's show. They should be invited to join in a day’s search for a larger and cheaper apartment. They should be encouraged to bring their children along and try to get them into a part-time double session school. After all that, Texas might be convinced that New York is not inhabited exclusively by bedizened boulevard iers, but by human beings and fellow-sufferers.’* That’s a good idea. Folks who never have visit ed New York get their notions of the great metro polis through reading of gun men episodes, daring holdups, moving picture maneuvers, stage divorces, Wall Street operations, and the like. It is hard for them to think of human beings, living there just as they do in Gopher Prairie. Eating, drinking, sleeping, working, worrying, the same as in the smallest of hamlets. Only a little more so, for the domestice problem is greatly complicated in New York, because of the complexity of life there. Let the Times plan be carried into effect, and the visitors learn something of the other side of life in New York. It will be good for the old town. The wonder will be then not how, but why they live there. And echo will answer, “Why?” TAXES AND TRANSPORTATION COSTS. Samuel O. Dunn, editor of the Railway Age Gazette, as deep a student of transportation prob llems as America has yet produced, gives as his opin ion that bankruptcy will accompany any great re duotion in railway rates. Of course this assumes that the expense of operation will be held at its present level. C. H. Markham, president of the Illinois Central system, says: “Taxes the railroads pay, are a part of the cost of suppyllns transporation service and must be borne by the public In the 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. But the $330,000,000 paid by the railroads In 1823 for taxes represented only their direct taxes. Indirect taxes enter into the cost of all materials and supplies used by the railroads In their operation and are necessarily passed on to their patrons.’’ Mr. Markham also contends that the issuance of tax-exempt securities keeps capital out of the reach of railroads. Bonds and other forms of investment on which no tax is paid are more attractive than railroad issues that must pay tax. These are some of the items that enter into the problem of trans portation. Until solved by wise and effective meas ures, the same difficulty that confronts the business world now will continue to perplex those who are trying to establish a live-and let-live policy for the good of all. The constitutional amendment to prohibit nontax able securities, now before the house, is one step toward the remedy. Another will be the bringing of selling prices for the farmer up nearer to the cost of what he has to buy. It may take time, hut it will be accomplished. Members of a men’s brotherhood in a local Methodist church decided that the eighteenth amend ment is not the best way to handle the liquor ques tion. Either they have some good debaters or some weak Methodists out that way. Among other evidences of renewed industry is the spectacle of a lot of lawyers going through their books to ascertain if they have ever had oil mag nates for clients. Governor Bryan is said to be looking for a real independent oil company. Suggest that ho write to Eddie Doheny, who has one he might sell reasonable. Homespun Verse —Bj Omaha’* Own Pwl— Robert Worthington Davie FOLKS. DREAMS AND LOVE. When I gaze across the regions where the deed ver benas lie. Where the barrenness of winter Is repressive to my eye. And tt)e sheen of snow enthralls me aa reflective beauty clad Tn the hue that brings 11s rapture, hut reveals a long ing gad;— When I gaze, and when I wnnder, o'er the paths knee deep in anow— Folka, I feel, have much In common with the withered * planta below. When I watch the stars unnumbered In the distant iky aglow, While the wlnda above me whisper words I can not hope to know, And the calm of night Is softer than the fleeting touch of breath, And the atlll of night Is sweeter than the visioned peace of death,— When I walk beneath the heavens, viewing magic In the sky,— Dreams. I feel, have much In common with tha tvvlnk ling stars on high. When hear the snowbirds twitter, and the dava sie bleak and drear,— True to each as 'are the swallows In tha summer of the year; When 1 see them swiftly winging through the sir In seeming play. And behold them woo and warlde while the cold hours glide away — Borns unseen and hidden Spirit says Impressively that l/ove 11ns so ninny tlungn In common with the faithful birds abovS. i Shall This Government Live or Die? Uy EDWIN G. PINKHAM. As applicable to all of you. I will ?av tliut it 1h highly expedient to go into history; !o Inquire into what hue passed before you on this earth, and In tho. family of man.—Thomaa Carlyle. II. The Kents of Our Institutions. T*-““""I HERE is a really line saying of Danton, the French revolu tlonist, who, when urged by ©rjKKjl his friends to save himself by aGiSaBI night, asked with contempt, "Does a man, then, carry his country on the sole of his foot?” We tend In history of exiles, ban ished from their country, braving every danger and death Itself to steal back just to breathe its air, to glimpse again its familiar and loved scenes, and to carry away with them to foreign lands some twig or plant or handful of grass, gathered from a native hillside. It Is this love of country we call patriotism, the finest and deepest sentiment of which the human heart Is capable, for it often has been found and accepted as a maxim that a man who does not have this love of coun try in his heart can love neither father nor mother nor wife nor child. Poets and philosophers tell us such a man can he trusted in no human relation. Always, from the earliest times of which we have record, the highest crime known to the law of any country has been the crime of treason. For that crime the most terrible punishments were reserved, and the most lasting Ignominy at tached to the name of the man who committed It. Even his blood was tainted as the ancient law declared; and his children and his children's children, generation after generation, were regarded by their fellows as ac cursed. This country of ours, this America, ought to be regarded as our dearest possession on earth; but if we are to have that love for ljt which is its sole protection and defense, we must never neglect the study of its history and institutions or allow ourselves to for get by what devotion and sacrifices It was made for us who now enjoy Its blessings. Let us look at It on the map. It is a vast continent washed by two mighty oceans. To no people any where has been given a greater or richer domain. It embraces fertile valleys, broad plains, great rivers and lakes and majestic mountains. It yields to us In bountiful measure everything that goes to make a race re.t and rich and strong. It h» ours. We hold it in fief to no king or lord, pay no tribute and re'nder no service to strangers for Its use. How did Americans come to possess and enjoy on Bueh terms so great a heritage? How did It happen the European system was not extended over it? Whence came those Institutions and laws, and finally that government, under which America found freedom and happiness ami the energy to develop a continent at a time when “From State and Nation” "To Recapture the United States." From the Detroit News. A member of the Wisconsin uni versity board of regents has hail a very bad dream. He ta agin1 the Rhodes scholars, because, as his Im agination conceives it, the scholar ships are designed "to extend British rule and ultimately to tecover the United States.'' At which the normal, sane and healthy American laughs. The very first group of Rhodes scholars w ho went to Oxford showed their readiness to hand over the Unit ed Stales to King tloorge hy introduc ing lutsclioll to the British college world. The ringleader In thla act of servile king worship was Frank Ay delot te of Harvard. So thoroughly did lie succumb to the hidden object 'f the late Cedi Rhodes that be re turned home and now Is president "f Swarthmore— doubtless with the idea of furthering the fell design. Scarcity of lUver Tearls. Prnm the Milwaukee Journal. Pearl producing clam sheila In the upper Mississippi river and Wisconsin inland streams are becoming scarcer every year and now are only 10 to 20 per cent what they were 15 or 20 years ago, according to pearl and shell experts. While clams are still plentiful and many clam fishers earn their liveli hood fishing for them, the present supply la of the younger variety, tho oljl clams In which good pearls are usually found have become rare. There was a time, some years back, when Wisconsin pearls were famous and commanded good prices In gem markets, hut so few of the precious pearls are now being found In this territory that the state's reputation Is slipping. Kfforts to conserve the clam heels that remain are being made, but Just what effect these at tempts will have In producing good pearls remains to he seen. Fair-sized pearls, selling for $400 to f&OO each, are found now end then, hut the better oncR that are worth Abe Martin It's mijrhly helpful In any sort o’ business t' know when we’re tnakin’ somehuddy tired. We reckon an Airedale is railed a one man doe ’cause it keeps one man busy bunt in' him. Ceerrlihl. list tlie Old World was prostrate under the oppression of kings? The story of how these things came about should be known to every Amer ican: It is a story that ought never to be allowed to grow old or dim: every generation should hear It again, and again retell it to Its successor: for only with knowledge can we under stand Us marvel and with wisdom alone can it profit us. We must go far hack of our own history as a nation to find the roots of those Institutions which, trans planted in the soil of the American colonies, produced the government that we know. It Is Important that we trace those roots, for unless we understand the nature of that govern ment we cannot know the secret of its operation. Ours Is what we call free or representative government, and Its working must always depend, not upon the fitness or Intelligence of the few.'as in countries that have the monarchical form, but upon the In telligence and interest of all the peo ple. Government in our country Is not handed down to the people. The people hand It up to those delegated by them to exercise its powers. Of all forms of government, then, free government requires the most of those to be governed—the most in patriot ism, the most in political education, the most in wisdom. Oovirnment, we may be sure, never will rise higher In these essentials than the source from which It comes. If . we follow back the roots of our Institutions we shall find their first growth was in the soil of England. Hut their growth there was not free. Through long centuries there had been waged in that country a contest between kings and their subjects that had left unsettled the rights of both. But in the course of that contest a few constitutional landmarks had been <set up. not securely and often not easy to identify; but their gen eral effect had been to limit more and more the power of the king. The time came at last when the king was obliged to consult his sub jects about the making of laws, and he consulted them—very reluctantly and with fierce anger In his heart in what came to he known in time as his great council. We must not think of this council just yet as a parliament, though it was the begin ning of that Institution. Only the barons came to this council, and they were as haughty and fierce as the king, as Insistent upon their own rights ns he and as contemptuous of the rights of the common people, whom they held to be no better—and to have no more part in the govern ment of England—than the cattle that grazed on their broad lands. But in this great council was a principle, not recognized vet and scarcely thought of. that was to be come great and powerful In the his tory of peoples and government, and we shall next find out what this prin ciple was and trace its growth a little. (Copyright, The Kmm City Stir) from $1,000 to $2,000 each, and which were found In considerable numbers years ago, are rare Indeed in the upper Mississippi and In the Sugar and Rook rivers and inland streams of Wisconsin. The cause Is simply that the old 'dams, In which the good ones are usually found, have about been fished out and the younger shells still quite plentiful, though nothing compared with former days, are not yielding pearls to any very great extent. Shakfwprarr. Sajmman. From tha St. Paul Dispatch. In a speech l*»fore the Automobile Dealers' association at Chicago re cently, Shakespeare was brought for ward In a hitherto unsuspected light l\v Mr. William Burrus. The higher criticism as applied by this thinker has revealed the great poet as a great salesman, too—one, no doubt, who could have taken out anv ••line'' and in his handling of it proved himself s regular go-getter.” Mr. Burrus of rera the instance of Anthony-s speech over the body of Caesar as proof that •Shakespeare was well acquainted with the principles of salesmanship. “An thony had the hard Job of selling s crowd already sold to another man.” Mr. Burrua observed. According to this simple principle, an of the great orators of the ages have been salesmen of the first grade. Patrick Henry •sold" the colonies on the revolution In the speech which culminated with the famous line: "Give me liberty, or give me death. Lincoln at Gettysburg when he pleaded that "these dead shall not have died In vain" was an effective salesman. .Napoleon sold the world on hia philosophy in many a rlngli* speech. And, to name only one In stance of more recent date. Wlllldm Jennings Bryan sold the democratic convention of 1*9« on free silver. But. with proper apologies to the boosters, a protest must be registered against this tendency to reduce all great literature to the terms of sales, manahip. 1° the same way all the V'tlnr. Including even the love JTlc* Hfn-lrk, may be translated 'thro mantle Idiom. We should hate to see the time—though ir the salesmen continue their ap propriatIon of literature we msv live to see it—When the title of Dr. Kllot's k Ivo Foot Shelf of literature will be Changed to "The Go Getter s Five ^ oot HhHf of Llttratur*." Terrors, . f originally meant a goblin. The Welsh word bug signifies ghost The Hebrew word, which In realm xcl 5 is represented hy terror, was In the -'arlv translations rendereit bug the rerse reading. "Thou no, ■ to he afraid of any hugs Bt night." „ , B"*h for roolidge. « al la an abbreviation for two inlgbty fine names, California and 'ahln. And It becomea more and more apparent that In the coming primaries those two "Calf are go Times1 "*l<k Angdes I--■ i ■■ , — __ NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for January, 1924, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .74,669 Sunday .60,166 [>«•• not Include retuina, left, over*, aamplra ar papara apollad in pilnlln* and ln< luder nn aprrlal aalaa or (rra circulation of any kind V. A BRIDGE, Cir. M,r. .Cuban iked and awnin to bcfru-o ma thla Sill day of brbrnaiy. 1034 W. M QIIIVIY. (Stall Notary Public “The People’s Voice” Kditorutlx from readers of The Morning Bee. Readers of H»e Morning Bee are invited to use this column freely for expression on matters of public interest. Charges Wastage of Calve*. Papillion. Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Dairying is being boosted all over Nebraska. Far be it from me to throw cold water on the undertaking, but 1 do not see why I we should go to other states for our i cows when we can raise them here. Week after week for years 1 saw some of (he finest grade Holstein Friesian female calves being sent to South Omaha for veal from Harpy county. Our milk condensing factory is closed and some milk producers com plain of the treatment they receive from the Omaha milk distributors. 1 do not know that they are justified in so doing. RICHARD EBBITT. Philosophers in Omaha. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: In the interests of “Knowing Omaha," I would like the privilege of calling to the attention of the people of Omaha; through the medium of your very valuable paper, the fact that we have in Omaha a so ciety known as the Omaha Philosophi cal society. This society was Organized in 1890 and has continued to meet regularly every Sunday afternoon since that date. Some of the most prominent people in the city are members of this society and the very best talent available is procured to address those who attend its metlngs. There is a great demand for thought these days, and If we are to meet the many problems that confront ■ our city, nation and state successful ly, we must develop our thinking powers. As the purpose of the so ciety is to teach people to think it would be well worth the careful con sideration of all our citizens to think and reflect wisely before rejecting the contributions of this organization to our civic life. He who cannot think is a fool: he who will not think is a bigot; he who dare not think Is a coward, and he who does not think is a slave. Dll. EDGAR ROBERTS. Education In Omaha. Omaha—To the Editor of The Oma ha Bee: As this is "Know Omaha Week" I thought it would not be amiss to bring to the attention of the public two of Omaha’s greatest bene factors along educational lines. Thursday, February 7, has been set aside by Creighton university as founders' day. This will be the 17th annual observation of founders' day and will be celebrated by a solemn mass at 10 o'clock at St. John church In memory of the founders, Edward Creighton, John A. Creighton and their wives. Just 50 years ago Edward Creighton died at the early age of 50. Four years later, in September. 1578, Creigh ton College of Arts was opened for the free education of young men re gardless of color, race, social posi tlon or creed. Mr. Creighton died without a will. He was survived by a devoted wife. Lucretia Creighton, to whom during his lifetime he had often expressed a desire to found a free college for boys. Without any legal obligations, Mrs. Creighton chose to carry out his desire and in her will provided *100.000 for the erection and maintenance of a free college for young men. In later years, John A. Creighton added extensively to the educational plant and to the endowment by making a gift to the endowment fund of *2,000.000. How small and unpretentious the institution was in the beginning is evident from the fact that the highest class was the sixth reader class and even for this elementary instruction there were not enough pupils to take all of one teacher's time. In 1S91 the first degrees were conferred, and from that date to the present time, the story of Creighton university ha* been full of achievement. In less than 50 years, Creighton has moved f™ a shack of one room with an enrollment of J3, to a unherslty with a group of live class room buildings and an en rollment of 2,<65. The university now comprises four Class A professional colleges, a College of Libera! Arts and ticlences. and a high school Jt is the only free college of its kind In this countrv, as well as the only free Catholic High school. It is therefore fitting that at least once a year a clay should lie set apart for th» proper commemoration of these two illustrious men and their noble wises. It l« fitting, too. that the exercises should be not only reli gious in character but public as well, for they belonged in a peculiar way to the whole people of the middle, west. Their fortune was expended without stint for the public welfare and the public may well pause to re flect upon the far reaching benefac tions of these sincere givers In whose minds there was no thought of self advancement. The magnificent buildings which they constructed for the enlighten ment of human Ignorance and the relief of human Buffering, are the greatest monuments they could have erected to perpetuate their name and erected to perpetuate their name. P. A. BOOAKDI'S. • » »Safety for Javinpe' •*"• sa? Association VV HM*<cr rr. .■ --r-jdsfmsFJtmu. . • PASSES LAW THAT WILL SAVE MANY LIVES The United States Congress passed a law compelling every man ufacturer of a remedy* containing Acetanilide to mark plainly on the label the amount of Acetanilide that remedy contain*. It wbs found that at least 95% of all proprietary cold ami headache remedies contain Acetanilide, a drug that deteriorates tho blood, degenerate* the heart, kidneys and liver and often forms a habit. Everybody is urged to read •arefully the label of every cold and headache remedy and to refuse those that contain the harmful drug. Acetanilide. « To obtain prompt and at the <nme time safe relief for a cold, leadarhe, neuralgia, rheumatism or pain in general, get from your druggist, a few Nebrin tablet*, take 1 or 2 every two or three hours and you will always get safe ami satis factory results. Nebrin tablets do not contain Acetanilide or other lutnuful drugs and are considered the safest cold and headache rem edy a»d pain reliever obtainable Aspirin users should also giro Nebrin a trial They will find Ne brin entirely free of the depressing action that is so objectionable in Vspirin. Nebrin tablets arc not c\ ttenslve and can be obtained at local li uggista.—Advertisement SUNNY SIDE UP. J&ke Comfort,nor forget jhat Sunrise never faiJedusyet' TIIE PIONEERS. O. the long, long trail that leads away To the old, old times of yesterday; To the stirring times of vanished years When the land was new, and pioneers With gallant hearts and a faith in God Wrought homes and wealth from the prairie sod; And working on with a courage great Foundations laid for a mighty state. Through the summers hot and the winters cold, With a faith sublime and true hearts bold, They reckoned nought of their sacri fice, But with eyes alight they paid the price That courage pays when the odds aro long And tasks are faced with a courage strong. So they toiled till ev'ning hours were late To lay foundations of this great state. We sing the praise of the warriors brave Who give their lives their land to save: But what of those whose hands have wrought Till they reached the goal they liyig had sought. And builded here on the prairies wide A state that warrants their children's pride! Should we not honor these trulv great Who made Nebraska the Wonder state? On the Wing, Feb. 3_Nebraska ? baby town is Lyman. And a strong and healthy baby it is. Lyman is Just about "two spits" from the Wyoming line, as some of our early boyhood Missouri friends would de scribe it, being just a quarter of a mile from the Nebraska-Wyoming line in Scotts UlufT county. Leas than four years old, Lyman has about j everything that a modern city boasts except street railways and paving. It has electric light and powgr, ample water supply, good business houses, a strong bank and a wonderful terri tory round about. The Gering and Tort Laramie irri gation canal runs to the south of Lyman about seven miles, watering a valley that means more than 50.000 irrigated acres within seven miles of the little city. And this area is ad mittedly’ the best sugar beet territory in western Nebraska. Lyman is just as sure of a sugar factory within the next year or two as a dog is of hav ing fleas. The reasons are. in addi tion to the beet acreage, an ample water supply and good railroad facili ties. And if you know anything about beet sugar making you know that a water supply is very essential, for beet sugar making requires an im mense amount of water. The pioneers who settled in western Scotts Bluff county on the south side of the North Platte river waited w ith- j in infinite patience for nearly 40 years for a railroad to come. Among them is Perry Brazeil. who came north from Texas with the second cattle trail. To him Emerson Houghs novel. "North of Forty-Six.” was almost a personal reminiscence. In oonversa tlon with some friends recently, when the subject was the rapid develop ment of the Kiowa country, Terry said: "I own two or three sections of this Kiowa land, and at one time I could have bought all the rest of it for two quarts of whisky. "Why didn't you buy it? queried Oscar Gardner, another pioneer. "Because I only had two quarts," replied Perry. Hugh Oe l,a Matter, another pioneer of the Kiowa country, watch ed the building of the Vnion Pacific's extension west from Gennc with in tense interest. He had watched for th» beginning of building operations for nearly 40 years. The morning the first construction traiu crossed the Lyman townsite Itor Hugh, more than si* feet tall and as gaunt a" the pictured pioneers of the old da> stood on the right-of-way and as the engine approached raised his hands, palms to (he front, In the old Indian sign of friendship ami greeting. "Ugh, long time coming; heap big smoke; good medicine," he grunted. A few miles southwest of Lyman, and in Wyoming is Table mountain. The government should make it a national reserve, for it is one of the scenic beauties of the vest. Its broad, fiat top embraces several sections > ' land, smooth as a billiard table. If it could be Irrigated it would nmke several splendid farms, but it Is 4.00" feet above sea level, iri an arid section —and it would cost a fortune to, .'on struct roads to the top. Table moun tain is a favorite pleasure resort for the people in that section. Not the least prominent features of Lyman are the hunting and fishing near by. In the duck shooting sea son the territory close by is a para dise for hunters. Packer's lake, a mile from town, affords the finest <•' bathing, and some day it will have its own ffeet of launches And we ai< prepared to prove from personal e:, perlence that It contains the most and the biggest bullheads to be found in the central west. Last summer ;t «%e stocked with bass, croppy and perch, and in a few years it will be a great fishing re-sort. Within an hour or two drive in a reasonably good flivver one may find the finest trout fishing in the west. fe. Lyman Is the chief trading point f . the service men who were lucky in the land drawing of a couple of years ago. Perhaps "lucky” is not the word to use in the case of the most of them, for certainly they were handed a package by the combined efforts of l.'ncie Sam and the men who control the destinies of the reclamation serv ice. We hope the fact finding com mission at Salt Lake fcity was told of the great injustice those young fellows labored under last summer and the summer before. With the completion of the irriga tion project in the Lyman territory there are visible signs of an agricul tural development that is going to be one of the- wonders of this generation. People who are striving to "know Nebraska" will have to study nights if they keep themselves informed al>out this section of the magnificer.t North Platte vallev. __WILL M. MAL'PIN. Low Freight Rate Household Goods WE LOAD CARS To Denver Feb. 14 Los Angeles Mar. 10 Expert Packer* Furnished Fire-Proof Storage JA 1504 Terminal WarehouseCo.— 10th and Jones—On Viaduct I When in Omaha Hotel Conant Convenient Night Train to Chicago The famous “Pacific Limited” over the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul now leaves 1 Omaha at a very convenient hour for many Chicago-bound travelers. You have the entire evening free for the theatre, for visiting and other purposes. The Pacific Limited at 12:35 A. M. A “Milwaukee" operated tiain over the shortest route between Omaha and Chicago. ‘•Milwau kee" service and attendants all the way. Standard observation sleeping car, standard and tourist sleeping cars, chair car, coach*, and din ing car serving famous “Milwaukee" breakfast and luncheon. 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