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The Morning Bee MORNIN G—E V E N I N G—S UNDAY 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, la exclusively entitled to *he use for publication of nil news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of our special dispatches are also reserved. The Omaha Bee is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognised authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee's circulation is regularly audited by their organisations, Entered as second-class matter May 2S, 1908, at Omaha postoffice under act of March 8, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for A T Iinnn the Department or Person Wanted. A 1 IBIUIC 1UW OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Co. Bluffs—15 Scott St. New York—World Bldg. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. St. Louis—Syn. Trust Bldg. San Fran.—-Hoilrook Bldg. So. Siue. w. w. *.;r. Z4tn is. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bldg. Los Angeles—Higgins Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg. ' "ONE MORE UNFORTUNATE.” She was a butterfly of Broadway; young, beauti ful, daring, and without sense of responsibility. Men flocked around her, and her favors were shared by many. From obscurity she came up to notoriety, by the old, old path. Luxury was hers, and excitement. Costly fabrics went to adorn her, and jewels. She had that which has turned the head of many older and more experienced than she. That road has but one end. “The primrose path of dalliance” has always led to the same destination, “the everlasting bonfire.” It was so with Louise Lawson. She was brutally murdered. With a hor ror of detail that shocks even those who are hardened to such recitals. The police of New York are comb ing the town for some clue to the man who so ruth lessly separated body from soul of this lovely bit of' feminine physical perfection. So far it has been with little prospect of success. In the meantime, the real tragedy, the genuine acme of calloused indiffer ence, is shown iu her funeral. Of all the smart crowd with which she spent her nights, all her asso ciates by day, not one cared enough for her to see that she w^g buried. Not a flower was sent to her in death who when living toyed with the choicest. Not one of the men who vied for her favor cared enough to show his face over her coffin. Alone, neglected, unwept, she lay three days at the mogue. Then her cortege passed alone through the streets of Gotham. It was a single truck, with a driver and an assistant. At the railway station, they pushed the casket into a baggage car. Louise Law son was on her last journey, to her girlhood home. There she will be mourneJ. Farents who loved her. Schoolmates who played with her in happy girlhood. All the small town circle that watched her grow up and develop into the wonderful beauty she became. Those who looked for her triumph when she went out to conquer the world—these will mourn her, sin cerely, for they were her true friends. Yaps, and hicks, and jays and rubes, yes, maybe, they at least have hearts that are moved by human emotions, and breasts that are warm with human compassion. “For every light on Broadway there weeps a broken heart,” runs an old song. Many believe it is true. Louise Lawson was just another poor little moth, whose wings were singed in the bright lights. Whose dream of happiness and success was swal lowed up in the maelstrom of human misery that masquerades as pleasure. The lesson has been told over and over again. It is always the same, and yet unheeded by enough of the foolish to keep it ever fresh. What a pity! AMERICA’S CLAIM IS WAITING. Uncle Sam has a little bill of nearly $400,000, 000 against the German nation. He expects it will be paid. Last week notice was served on Americans who have personal claims against Germany that they must wait until the government is paid. That is all right at home, but the idea does not go so big in Paris. A bill was presented in the French chamber of deputies last week, intended to ratify an understand ing whereby the United States be paid $260,000,000 on account of the occupation of the Rhineland after the armistice. Along with the hill went a hitherto unpublished letter, in which it is set out that the United States government expects “to participate legitimately in the advantages stipulated by the Treaty of Versailles.’’ This was addressed to the allies, after their declaration with reference to reparations. In presenting the letter to the cham ber, along with the bill, the government said: “The allies judged it would be inopportune to reply to this letccr.” A disposition to require the United States to stand back and wait for the second table has been manifest ever since the reparations commission began te function. France, Belgium, Iatly and England all irant theirs first. That feeling can be understood, but it is quite as natural that the United States should feel the same way about the matter. Some sort of an understanding will have to be reached sefore long. Whether the time is opportune or not, *he allies must reply to the letter from Washington. THE WIZARD AT SEVENTY-SEVEN. We hasten to congratulate Thomas Alva Edison >n having advanced n milestone nearer his fourth icore of years. That he Is in good, rugged health, lound in mind and full of hopeful vision is some thing for the world to be congratulated upon. For Thomas A. Edison does not wear the name of "wisard” unworthily or without reason. He has •een so many dreams come true that it were a weary task to undertake to enumerate them. V/hen, therefore, he tells us about the wonders yet to come, he speaks as one having authority. He lights a beacon of hope for the race that will be here in centuries yet undealt with save by the men who dream these great dreams. Morse, Bell, Siemens, Thompson, Tesla, Marconi, Steinmetz, Edison! What a chaplet fame must wreathe to enclose those names! What a debt htfmanity owes to them, and to the glorious company unnamed here who labored with them, to bring about the benefits beyond calculation that are the common places of today. Old Archimedes, standing alone in the annals of the race, might find among them the answer to his demand, “Dos pou sto,” “Give me a place to stand.” This Archimedes asked, and with it and his fulcrum he would move the world. These made their own place to stand and have moved it. So, when Edison tells us the radio will never ggpplant the newspaper; that science will find a source for light, heat and power in the sun, the Wind and the tide when all fuel is gone, vs are willing to believe him. The day is far in the future, but will be provided for as occasion arises. Also, when Mr. Edison tells us that Calvin Cool -idge is the best man for the place and should suc ceed himself, we cannot help thinking he voices the sentiment of rilany of his countrymen, including Henry Ford. CONSERVATION AND THE COMMON WEAL. In his Sunday letter to The Omaha Bee Mark Sullivan reviews in an interesting manner the story of conservation, as it has to do with the Roosevelt Taft-Ballinger-Pinchot affair.* He does not, how ever, go back quite far enough to get his historic background. Conservation as such began under Grover Cleveland, when his commissioner of the general land office, William Andrew Jackson Sparks, carried on his famous and successful endeavor to preserve the public domain from the raids that were being made on it. Sparks, who hailed from Illinois, was named under Lucius Quintus Curtis Lamar, the genial secretary of the interior, from Mississippi. His suspension and subsequent rejection of more than a million final proofs was the beginning of a policy which, after an interim of 12 years, was greatly extended under Roosevelt. The Ballinger episode is but proof of what the opposition to any form of conservation has been as the Fall affair is proof of what it is, and what it may be. The question has two sides, and has been ably debated on both, with support for both from able and capable men, who honestly differ in opinion. The Cleveland Roosevelt idea, that the public domain, and all that pertains thereto, is to be kept and used for public good, and not for private enterprise, has hud the better of the argument, for the very obvious reason that the American people are partly awake to the effects of the opposite policy. If, as suggested by Mr. Sullivan, out of the Fall affair shall come such consolidation of public opinion as will forever prevent any recurrence of a Teapot Dome scandal, or an attempt to alienate a huge area of mineral bearing or coal carrying land, to be exploited by private enterprise, the up heaval will not have been in vain. As a nation we have been extremely generous in giving out the marvellous resources of the land, recognizing enter prise in discovery and the like with tremendous bounties. Now the day is here whb the people feel that some of the reward should come to them. That they should he permitted to share in the bless ings of providence that remain unappropriated. It is not alone to keep what we have, but to restore some thyt has been wasted. It is for this reason that the policy of conservation has been set up and contended for. The issue is between the public and the exploiters, and, in such case, the public interest is properly paramount. Good for all, rather than benefit for few, must ever be the watchword in America, else we miserably fail of our high destiny ns a nation. POPULAR PARK PROJECTS. Two very interesting propositions are being brought forward just nowr by Park Commissioner Hummel. One is the purchase of land and con struction of the Riverside drive. The other is the improvement of the water front at Carter Lake park. Both these projects have been extensively discussed at other times. Both have public approval. There it would seem unnecessary to spend much time discussing them. % Nowhere along the entire stretch of the Mis souri, from the time it leaves the mountains in Montana until it gets to the Mississippi, is there a more naturally beautiful stretch than at Omaha. For miles up and down the stream is a continuous frontage of bold headlands, interspersed by deep ravines, all covered with fine timber. It is a ravish ing sight, that requires but little from man. All that is needed is the linking together of existing sections of boulevards. The construction of certain bits of highway to close gaps. The acquiring of a few acres, that the public may have full ownership of the entire stretch. This work has been neglected too long. President Shuler of the city planning board, the real estate board and other interested civic organizations have given the drive their hearty ap proval. We are confident the voters will authorize the improvement if the decision be left to them. For the work at Carter Lake park, quite as much may be said. That plan, however, has also suffered some because other things have pressed ahead of it. Not only the improvements at the park, but the extension of the municipal bathing beach, should be looked after. The park commis sioner is on the right trail. More power to him. Refore some Nebraska democrats denounce Fall for refusing to testify before the senate board of inquiry, they would do well to consider Governor Brian’s refusal to appear before the state senate board of inquiry into the road and bridge fund situa tion. Funny that Lloyd George should have sprung that Wilson-Clcmenceau story while the Tiger still is living. Why not wait till both are dead, and so start a real argument? Mr. Gregory was quick to see that he should not longer be considered. Some folks say that his example might well be followed by at least one presi dential aspirant. a There are indications that some people are more intent upon smirching the characters of men in high place than they are in getting at the real facts of the oil scandal. That bottle in the doctor's office at the county jail must be loaded with some of that B. P. stuff we used to hoar about over on Douglas street. Mr. McAdoo appeals to the country, but be will first have to be examined by the senate committee. Know Omaha week is almost over. Don’t forget what you have learned. f Homespun Verse —By Omaha's Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie ANTICIPATION AND REALIZATION. Wc’rs oftentimes gladdened by things that arise. With swiftness and glisten In front of our eyes. And seem at a glance to have blazoned the way Where men have endeavored to Journey for aye. I We're oftentimes thrilled by the wonderful lure Of something chaotic that can not endure— Of enmethlng that dawns with a. ponderous power. And stays an does nothing Inside of an hour. Km h day of our lives we are living to meet Illusive Impulses Ineffably sweet; We vision them fade as they swiftly arose To lead us and lure us where nothingness goe« The duller things keep their linmarulate glow C'onereteness Is usually counted as slow, And definite purpose to subsequent goal Is led by substratum as csntuiles roll. ] Origin of the Representative Principle. lly EDWIN G. PINKHAM. And first it (law) is a rule; not a transient, sudden order from a superior to a particular jierson; but some thing permanent, uniform and universal.—Blackstone. X IT. HERE never whs a time in the history of the. English kingship, Saxon or Norman, when it was not conceded in law and custom, that the king could not tax his sub jects or legislate for them without their con sent. That principle goes back to the very earliest times of which we have record. But, of course, we must not suppose the principle always was ob served by the king. When In the days before the Con quest, the Saxon kings got into trouble and consulted their wise men as to how to get out, they could have had little Idea that they were putting into practice what we know as the representative principle. Yet that Is what they were doing. They were calling upon thiir subjects—the most representative of them—for advice. These councilors did not Jhlnk of themselves ns being representatives of the people, yet that Is what they were. And presently when they be gan to charge for their advice—and for their consent, for the one soon came to mean the other—and to liar gain with the king, they did not think of themselves as bargaining for the people, yet that Is what they were doing. * After the Saxons came the Nor mans, and we think of the Normans as being* absolute kings: arbitrary in rule, cruel in oppression, terrible in punishment. .So they were and meant to be. But though they hated the Saxons and treated th'em with the ut most rigor—though they tried to stamp them out as a people—they In sensibly or of necessity incorporated the laws of the land Into their own system. Thus Immediately after the Conquest William I summoned to him a number of persons from each coun ty to give him an account of his new subjects, and Sir Matthew Hale tell; us this assemblage when It met the king was "as sufficient and effectual a parliament as ever was held In England." Wo can see what he meant by that, for a parliament meant simply a talk between the king and his subjects Nobody at first, and least of all the king, regarded these talks as of much importance: hut we know now that the king of England In.the course of a few centuries talked himself out of most of his powers and that his subiects talked themselves into them. Thus the representative system be gnn. The king, if he thought of it at all, which probably he didn’t, thought of himself as sending representatives down to his subiects. That fs. It was his custom previous to tlie thirteenth centurv to appoint his councilors to go down in the counties and towns and find out how much each could psv In taxes. But after a while this svsteni was reversed and the counties and towns sent their representatives mi to the king to confer with him on these matters. That little reversal of a custom—perhaps made for mere convenience—was a tremendous revo lution. The representatives were no longer representatives of the king, hut representatives of the people. The king's representatives had gone down to the people and asked, "How much can you pay?" The people’s repre sentatives now came up to the king and asked, “How much will you give?” In the way of concessions, that Is. AVe find this representative system creeping in everywhere. Thus, when Henry JI ordered a collection—a tax really—to finance a crusade, some of his subjects complained that their share was too great, or.perhaps tried to dodge giving anything at all. So what was done? Why. In every coun ty a board was organized, a board of assessors we would call it, to Judge these cases and fix the tax. Thus there were little neighborhood parlia ments all over the country each sup erintending the local taxation. A representative system complete, and In the twelfth century We think of these kings as abso lute, yet here was the. great principle working. Again when Henry III wanted money to annex the crown of Sicily to his own—the pope having given it to him on the condition that he go and get It—r*e see the great council refusing to Invest In the en terprise. Henry was furious but helpless. "No money until you cor rect our grievances," said the bar ons. Henry sulked and the crown of Sicily went elsewhere. Tf we want to understand the Im portance of these precedents we have only to note how the principle and even the language of the early con stitutlonal guarantees persisted through the ages. No matter how often they were violated by strong kings, they were revived w-hen a weak one came along and kept alive until they finally stuck. John was the weakest of the Conqueror's line, and John It was whom the barons nailed and made to put their guaran tees in writing, and In the Great Char ter of 1213 It was written: "No freeman shall he taken or Imprisoned, or disseized or outlawed, or exiled or in any way destroyed but by the law ful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land." Nearly six centuries later this same principle was written Into the consti tlon of the T'ntted States in two places. The fifth amendment says’ "No person shall he • • • deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law. • • •" And the fourteenth amendment repeats as to the states: "NorSshall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law." Judgment of his peers and trial by jury are the same thing. The law of the land and due process of law are the same thing. John's barons thought they were working for themselves, hut now wc see that they were working for a great principle of government that was to outlive them and all their kind. fCopvrtght. T^ansss City Star 1 “The People’s^ Voice” Editorials from readers of The Morning Bee Readers of Ths Morning Bee are Invlteo to use this column treaty for expression on matters of public Omaha's Street Railway Situation. Omaha—To the Editor of The Oma ha Bee: Patrons of the Omaha street railway are familiar with the propa ganda that Is circulated through the medium of the cars themselves. In cidentally, the psychological effect of reading one of those pitiful appeal* while one's feet were freezing might provide an Interesting study for some investigator. That, however. Is an other story. Now the letter columns of The Oma ha Bee are being used in the time way and for the same beneficent pur pose. Omaha citizens are told by one writer of the need of n cross town line on Fortieth street. Bless his heart, thAt line has been needed and was talked of 25 years ago. Also the loop down town. In fact, a number of great Improvements shave been sug gested but few put Into effect. After the need for the extensions has been referred to, then the letter in mind plunges Into the meat of the subject. Will not the citizens please permit the lowering of taxes on the lines, so the company can pay a bigger dividend, and thus sell more securities? No assurance Is given that the rate of fare will be lowered, or that any extension or Improvement will be made In the service. Only that dividends A-111 be brought up to the "full- earning" standard Just now, when many Industries are struggling to keep even, when the railroads, the farmers and others are taking small or no profits at all. It strikes me that the street railway company might share Just a little In ths common experience, and not harp so Insistently on the fair return string. The company has told us many limes of its Impending bank ruptcy, but somehow It has managed to squeeze through, like the rest, of the community, dust now It |s pay ing a dividend, but not as large as Its management would like. A lot of good concerns are not paying snywhere near ns well ns the tramway. If the occupation lax. for example. Is taken from the tramway, It will have to la- laid on the community: If the cost of paving between the rails Is not to he rhnrgcd to the company. It must l>* charged to the allotting property. All right to talk of the public paying for this Indirectly: It does so now, snd If will continue lo do so after the change' Is made, for the bonus to the company will go to swell dividends nnd not to Improve service. EXPEKIENr'K. Ton Many Dog*. Omaha—To the Editor of Tl\o Oma ha Doe: I appreciate the advice, "Know Omaha." Of courao that mean* *11 It* good point* and wl*o all ft* Had point*. No on* I* » bigger booeter for Onialm than the writer and T embrace every opportunity dur ing my yearly travel* to extol out* growing city. Hut Ju*t now I want to call vniir attention and thmugh von that of the proper partie* to one matter which I* now n nuleance and fait becoming n dangci to the peopl* of our fair city T refer to tho ting nulianre. The city t* crowded with all *nrt* of «!og* running at large In thi* nelghlnir hood they are moatly of (he larger i breeds, bull dogs, alrdale*. shepherds and curs. They herd In packs, come up on your front porch, chase round your home, occupy your hack yard and give you a look of acorn and con tempt should you attempt to drive them away. I scarcely ever go out In my back yard without finding one or more of these vicious brutes wandering round. I don't say a word or attempt to drive th»m nwav. for It's a well known fact that if you throw a stone or stick at a dog he'll remember you and when a more favorable oppor tunity occurs he will attack you. One of these dirty brutes almost killed a little orphan boy this week, and The Bee records that another such animal followed a child on her way to school and took her lunch away from her. I believe In kindness to animals, but when dogs Increase and run at large as they do at pres ent In Omaha the wild In them be comes uppermost and they become a real danger. Where Is the pound? I'd consider children and safety be fore dogs. J. J. The Troubles of the Artists. Omaha—To the Editor of The Onia ha Bee: Recent reports of disputes among artists havs reminded me of the following excellent philosophical piece of verse contained In Stcdrrmn'a American Anthology, and credited to Arthur Grissom: The .Artist. He wrought with patience long and w ca ry v ea rs t'pon Ills masterpiece, entitled ‘Tate." And drenmed sweet dreams the while his crust he ste, And gave his work his soul, his strength and tears. His task complete at last, ha had no fears The world would not pronounce his genius great. Rut poor, unknown—pray, what could he create? The mad world laughed, and gave not praise, but Jeers Impelled to ssk wherein his work w as Wrong. lie sought, despairing, one whose work was dead. But on whose brow were wreather the hays of fame: The master gazed upon the rleture long: ■'It lacks one thing to make It great," lie said, And signed the pnnvaa with hla own . groat name. T am reminded also of some of M irk Twain's humorous philosophy: ''A I lassie is s work that you have to like whether you like It. or not." What did lie mean? RKRIAH E COCHRAN'. r ' '■ NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for January, 1924, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .74,669 Sunday .80,166 Dnaa not includa returns, left j overs, samples or papers spoiled in printing and Include? no special sales or frea circulation of any bind. j V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 6th day of February, 1024 W. H. QUIVCY, (Seel I Notary Public Lincoln By < athertne Kll/.abctli Hanson. In a log cabin many years ago, A child w as born and God >saa kind to UR To let him live to lead his people through The burning flames that almost then devoured A nation made by noble Washington. The nation that emerged from that abyss. Was born anew to a more loftier life. Ah, God was kind when he gave him to us, A practical, ungainly, homely youth; The sad eves in whose depths a slave could see Release from lifelong drudgery and chains. Pierced the dim future with prophetic gaze; There in the open ranks alone he stood— Hated and loved, denounced—or bless ed by all! Through those long months that tried men's souls. The furrows deepened on his lofty browr; The face grew sadder as disaster came And swept the ranks of both the blue and gray, Until the fertile fields were red with blood. And he? He stood a suffering martyr there, Torn between love! Love for the blue and gray! And all the while he felt the nation’s pulse, Heard the cries and saw the tears of mothers, As step hy step his feet sought firmer ground. ‘ He was the first to see the light of p.ace Above the battlefield of fallen men— He was the man whose clear, red healthy blood Baptized a nation's union, sealing It. And now, the ages claim him as their child, And hang the wreath of fame upon his brow; The symbol of a man who knew and cared. And wore his crown of thorns that others might Kind perfect peace. He led the way and fought Like other martyrs for a cause and died Ho that the freedom of a race might live! Abe Martin I ■ lAwms Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, an' others jest keep still. An explanation may save a law suit, but it never healed nothin'. _op> right, it:<_ Sunny Side up Comfort, nor fbrgtt fiat SunriK nwr /feuyet' THE TRIUMPHANT TRIO. .She's a mlM and gentle creature, fair of form and fair of feature, Worthy of your highest honora ev'ry day. If you will but treat her rightly she'll respond In manner sprightly. And convince you that she'll more than pay her way. Though the days be dark or sunny, she will bring you chunks of money, And assist you well In getting by somehow. So the praises I am singing till I set the prairies ringing Of tho patient and deserving Dairy Cow. ller endeavors you can’t shackle, and the echoes of her cackle Sound across our good old state from east to west. And her product, laid and crated, can not be exaggerated, But can be eggsactly stated as the best. She haH but an humble station, but her yearly wealth creation Helps to lift the load of debt from backs of men. So when posies you are throwing don't forget a lot are owing To the patient rind deserving Biddy Hen. If for something you are hunting upon which to hang the bunting As a mortgage lifting factor on the place, Then just cast your eyes upon her and proceed to do her honor. For in multiplying she sure sets the pace. She's not choice about her eating, hut she can't be beat “repeating," And her grunting Is most musical, I trow. Poland-China, Bershlre, Duroc, she puts money In the old sock. So you've got to hand it to old Mother Sow. Here's a trio full of beauty, failing ne'er In dally duty, And we ought to sound their praises loud and strong. What great wealth this trio offers to pour dally in our coffers If we only help to push their game along. They are waiting now and ready to bring money flowing steady To the pockets of all enterprising men. t That Is why in lilting phrases I am singing loud their praises— Dairy Cow and Mother Sow and Biddy Hen! Ole Buck writes In to indignantly deny that Meerschaum tobacco ever came In paper sacks, and asks us If we do not recall that we used to save the muslin sacks to carry our mar bles In. We did not say that Meer schaum came in paper sacks. What we did mv was that in the old days a dime would buy a sack of Meer schaum about gg big as a bag con taining a dollar’s worth of sugar at present prices. It will always be the chief regret of Ole's life that it was another of the wms name who was recently hanged In Dea Moines. . Omaha s Boy Scouts laid a section of rail fence on the court house lawn, just to show how It Is done. Recol lections of days spent In taking down and setting up rail fences bring to us : a backache that is anything but a I recollection. We are quite certain ; 'hat If all the rail fence we have | helped to build. Including tho sections taken down and set up to permit the j ingress or egress of the livestock. were laid in a straight line. It would reach from here to there, and P*! haps a whole lot farther. A supporter of the Mellon tax P'en points out that It even reduces the tax on the small income of Jo.000. But It so happens that our Idea .or a large and Juicy Income Is exactly Jo.000. It required no particular restraint upon our part to refrain from mak ing mention of the fact that Babe Ituth Is to continue drawing a wage of $52,000 a vear. Nor have we ex perienced any difficulty in remaining aloof from the discussion about the merits or demerita of the new golf ball. We dislike to mention the Bam bino’s salary because It makes our own so insignificant by comparison, and we have yet to take our first smack at a golf ball. Our ac quaintance with golf was limited to a free use of the language around the 18th hble in the days before Mr. An derson, now on his way to prison, set about reforming the morals of sin ners like us. The execution of Gee Jon at Carson City, lethal gas being the instrument used, suggests a thing or two. As a rule we would not express the wish that political gas, of which we have a plenitude, were poisonous, but there have been times, and probably will be again, when even death would be a welcome relief from the outpour lings. _ Now if one political party would nominate Carrie Chapman Catt for president, and another party would ( nominate Congressman Poynter, and •(till another would nominate Judge Lyon, and still another would nomi nate Congressman Wolfe, we might ctart up a pretty lively campaign. But l fear that with the republicans keep ing cool with Coolidge and the demo crats determined to McAdoo with their candidate, that things will be pretty tame. Charley Dawes Insists that when the reparations commission meets the cards be spread face up on the table. All of which is very well, provided several of the commission be search ed for cold decks before they get through the door. — Col. Bob Oberfelder writes from Lawz Ongieeze. Cal., to express sym pathy with us because we have to en dure such a climate as we have in Omaha. As we gaze out through the open window of our palatial and lux uriously furnished office room, noting the goiden February sunshine flood ing the landscape, we are Impelled to thank Colonel Oberfelder for his rois j directed sympathy and suggest that he come back to Nebraska where the air is as pure as Hollywood society ain’t._WILL M. MACPIN. When in Omaha . Hotel Conant A Tribute by President Coolidge ; to Abraham Lincoln □ IYESCORE and ten years ago that Divine Providence, which infinite repetition has made only the more a miracle, sent into the world a new life, destined to save a nation. No star, no sign, foretold his coming. About his cradle all was poor and mean, save only the source of all great men, the love of a wonderful woman. When she faded away in his tender years, from her deathbed in humble poverty she dowered her son with greatness. There can be no proper observance of a birthday which forgets the mother. Into his origin, as into his life, men long have looked and wondered. In wisdom great, but in humility greater, in jus tice strong, but in compassion stronger, he became a leader of men by being a follower of the truth. He overcame evil with good. His presence filled the Nation. He broke the might of oppression. He restored a race to its birthright. His mortal frame has vanished, but his spirit increases with the increasing years, the richest legacy of the greatest century. —Calvin Coolidgc %OMAHAt“$