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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
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“The People’s
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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.
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The United States Congress
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Acetanilide to mark plainly on the
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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
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•arefully the label of every cold and
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those that contain the harmful
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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.
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