Today
Two Little Earthquakes.
The Turk's “Jolly Life”
Ends.
A Fussing Husband.
Down Falls the Franc.
^By ARTHUR BRISBANE^
There was a small earthquake in
Costa Rica yesterday, destroying
the United States legation. All the
occupants escaped.
There was also a small earth
quake in congress, in the lower
house. A grand jury has accused
two congressmen of accepting
bribes—$30,000 is the pitiful little
amount mentioned. Where were
these congressmen when the oil well
spouted?
Senator Reed wants somebody
put in jail. It looks as though he
will get what he wants.
Kemal Pasha, new boss of Turkey
and the Mohammedan world, tries
experiments almost as radical as our
prohibition. He will end the cali
phate, doing away with the powers
of the all-powerful religious head,
supposed to represent Mohammed,
and inherit his authority.
The caliph, Prince Abdul Mejid
Effendi, will be driven out, and not
allowed to take the treasure of the
caliphate with him.
That is as serious a step to Mo
hammedans as it would be to Cath
olics if Mussolini were to drive out
the pope and seize the property of
the Vatican.
Even more serious to many Mo
hammedans is the forbidding of the
pilgrimage to Mecca, during this
year. That means absolute despair
to millions of Mohammedans, pre
paring for the trip, who believe the
new rule will damage their chances
of paradise.
What a trip to Mecca, and the
sacred stone from which Mohammed
ascended into heaven, means to Mo
hammedans is shown by the fact
that Arabs have been known to look
down upon that sacred spot, then
blind both their eyes, that they
might not thereafter behold any
thing less holy.
The harem of the caliph is in de
spair, and the caliph’s eunuchs have
refused food for three days. That
probably won’t help the caliph.
The question is, what effect will all
this radicalism have on Kemai
Pasha and his modern wife in knick
erbockers? And how much did
Kemal’s bolshevist friend have to do
with killing out the caliph?
Think about those many wives
and 800 concubines, dwelling in the
ealiph’f six palaces. They are all
moving to Egypt. Read Montes
qujeu’s “Persian Letters” to know
how these ladies feel—also to learn
just how they probably have fooled
that poor caliph from day to day
and hour to hour.
Eventually they will drift to
Anatolia, marry orthodox Moham
medan farmers that will feel highly
honored, and become useful moth
ers.
A rich New York man, suing his
wife, fusses about the fact that she
was of illegitimate birth. She says
he knows all about it. What dif
ference does it make? Adam and
Eve’s children were illegitimate, as
far as any marriage by a clergyman
or an alderman is concerned. They
were all dispossessed and put out of
the Garden. One boy killed the
other, yet the human race has been
steadily improving, even with such
a start.
It doesn’t make much differnce
how you were born. The question
is, “What do you do after you are
born?”
William the Conqueror was ille
gitimate—a great soldier and states
man.
Leonard di Vinci, greatest artist
except one, was illegitimate, and
had to support his legitimate and
respectable halfbrothers and sisters.
Blame the father, not the child.
The French franc sold lower than
ever yesterday, distressing news for
^hose interested in the welfare of
France. But the news may help to
traighten out European conditions.
Francs, after the exchange closed
yesterday, dropped to 4 cents each.
That is not a situation to be tri
'Icd with by the French govern
ment or other nations. A crash in
French currency would mean disas
ter to many outside of France.
Young gentlemen of Columbia
university, senior class, vote 119 to
18 against the bonus. They were
sleeping In their warm little beds
while the soldiers were sleeping in
trenches. That helps to explain the
vote.
They also vote against prohihi
tion and many of them, it is alleged,
proved by physical demonstration
the sincerity of that vote.
Four young men, Morris and Jo
seph Diamond, John Farina and An
thony Pantano, according to the
keepers, slept soundly in the death
house at Sing Sing prison last night.
They all rise early and eat very
heartily.
Lack of imagination is a bless
ing, after you land in the death
house. But the same lack of imagi
nation often helps to get you there.
The man with imagination does
not kill another one, or in the lan
guage of the modern young bri
gand, he doesn’t “give him the
works.” i
Madame Grandjean, only 31, took
snuff before she went to bed. Her
husband rebuked her and she shot
him dead.
“He made me mad,” she told the
jury. She will probably go free,
for the French are a gallant na
tion.
How completely snuff-taking has
disappeared from civilized life.
Once it wns the badge of refinement.
When this writer went to school in
France all but the youngest teach
ers were snuff-takers. The vener
able Pore Moyer declared that
snuff aided thought and prevented
colds. It didn’t hurt him, he lived
long and was kind.
(Copyright, 1i24.)
Present Officers Retained.
Present officers of the Kt. Agnes
court of Foresters will lie retained
for the coming year, tt wns decided ut
the last meeting of The organization.
Time Not Ripe for I
Independent P. I.
Coolidge Says U. S. Owes Pro
tection—Reaffirms Faith
in Wood.
By AnsOfTateri FreM,
Washington. March 5.—President
Coolidge informed the Philippine in
dependence mission today that in his
opinion the time has not yet come
for separation of the Philippines from
the United States.
In a letter to Manuel Roxas, chair
man of the mission, the president also
declared that the United States gov
ernment "has full confidence in the
ability, good intentions, fairness and
sincerity of Governor General Wood.
"In the present state of world re
lationships,” the letter said, “the
American government owes an obli
gation to continue extending a pro
tecting arm to the people of these
islands.
Mr. Coolidge's letter was written in
reply to resolutions passed by the
island legislature asking for Inde
pendence and attacking General
Wood. The president’s views are ex
pected to have weight in house con
sideration of a bill providing for in
dependence, recently reported by the
insular committee. This measure,
committee members say, was brought
in merely to place the question
squarely before the house itself for
discussion.
"The government of the United
States,” the president wrote, “would
not feel that it had performed its full
duty by the Filllpino people, or dis
charged all of ite obligations to civili
zation, if it should yield at this time
to your aspiration for national inde
pendence.”
Subject of Disagreement.
"The extent to which the griev
ances which you suggest are shared
by Filipino people," the president
wrote, "has been a subject of some
disagreement. The American govern
ment has information which justifies
It in the confidence that a very large
proportion at any rate, and possibly
a majority of the substantial citizenry
of the islands, does not support the
claim that there are grounds for seri
ous grievance. A considerable section
of the Filipino people is further of
the opinion that at this time any
change which would weaken the tie
between the Filipinos and the Ameri
can nation would be a misfortune to
the Islands.”
Declaring that the world Is In a
state of high tension and unsettle
ment, " the letter points to the possi
bility “of either economic or political
disorders calculated to bring misfor
tune, If not disaster, to the Filipino
people unless they are strongly sup
ported.”
The government Is convinced, the
president said, that General Wood,
of the Philippine legislative bodies, had
the Philippine legislative bodies, had
intended “to act and has acted within
the scope of his proper and constitu
tional authority.”
•'Thus convinced,” he continued. "It
is determined to sustain him; and its
purpose will be to encourage the
broadest and most intelligent co-opera
tion of the Filipino people In this
policy.
To Sustain Hint.
"Looking at the whole situation
fairly and Impartially, one cannot but
feel that If the Filipino people cannot
co-operate In the support*and encour
agement of as good an administration
as has been afforded under General
Wood, their failure will be rather a
testlifiony of unpreparedness for the
full obligations of citizenship, than
an evidence of patriotic! preparedness
to advance their country.”
The communication was 3,000 words
la length and reviewed in detail the
declarations of the Philippine legis
lature and the grievances againet Gen
eral Wood. The gist of the complaint,
the president said, was "that the
present legislative authority of the
Islands Is In your opinion out of sym
pathy with the reasonable aspirations
of the Fllipinlo people."
Indian Woman
Out on Warpath
Rose Truedall, full blooded Sioux
Indian woman, was on the war path
last night, her landlady, Mrs. Deatrlce
Gardner, 2715 Q street, testified In
South Omaha municipal court
Wednesday morning.
Mrs. Gardner said Rose threatened
to throw her out of the house, ns the
result of an argument. Rose was dis
charged on her agreement to seek
lodgings elsewhere.
Three for Representative.
JJncoln, March 5.—Three filings
were made today for stale representa
tive. W. B. Votaw, Maywood, repub
lican, filed for the office from the
Eighty-sixth district; H. M. Klnslngcr.
Hayes Center, democrat, and John S.
Wise, Ifumlet. republican, each filed
for election from the Eighty-eighth
district.
James H. H. Hewitt, Alliance, filed
nonpolltlcally for Judge from the Six
teenth district.
Petition and receipt were filed for
placing om the primaries ballot the
name of H. B. Hhellenberger, Stam
ford democratic candidate for state
senator. /
Rudolph Brnzda, West Point, clerk
of Cuming county, filed on the demo
cratic ticket for state auditor.
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Foreign Mission Field
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Veteran Pastor
Dies at Gering
Rev. Walter W. Well*, 70, resident
of Nebraska for 45 years, died Tues
day evening at Gering, Neb., of heart
disease. He was born at Cherry
Creek, N. Y., and came to Schuyler,
Neb., In 1879. He also lived In Mit
chell and Seottsbluff, Neb. He was a
Knight Templar, and a member of the
Masonic grand lodge for 25 years.
He was deputy grand custodian at the
time of his death.
He Is survived by Ills widow and
three children, Mrs. George Green of
Ewing, Neb., Miss Sarah Wells and
Chester C. Wells of Omaha,
Funeral services will be held Fri
day afternoon at 2 at Schuyler, Neb.,
Bishop Beecher of the Hastings
diocese officiating. The Masonic
lodge will assist. Rev. Mr. Wells was
superintendent of public schools at
Schuyler for 20 years. He was
ordained In 1902.
Officers of Nebraska lodge, No. 1,
A. F. & A. M., announce that the par
ty scheduled for the Scottish Rite
cathedral on Thursday evening has
been Indefinitely postponed.
Market Week
Groups Named
Chamber of Commerce committee
in charge of the observance of spring
market week In Omaha Tuesday
announced the following committees
for the entertainment of visitors from
out of town:
Monday—Georse Miller, chairman: F.
H Garrett. M <*. Prefer. VV. W. Brummy,
Tuesday—K. M. Hundley, chairman; K.
H Hoe], George K Williamson, H. B.
Trimble, C. B Jteliner.
Wednesday—P. E. Powell, chairman:
Charlea Docherly, A. V. Bpelr. E. E.
Kimberly, E. .1. Snyder.
Thursday—Harold Marsh, chairman: O.
E Jennlnus. Clarence Hughes, M. J. Co»k
lev. J K. names
Tickets, Roy Moore, E. IT. Hoel: prism,
J. F. Uarnee. M. .1 Coakley: reception,
Ray Brown. M. <1. Hayward. George Cun
nlnitham: finance, [.ester Itrtahaus. Roy
Bvrne. I. B. Clough: advertising. J A.
Moran. Charles lVocherty. I>esn Wilds.
Miss Nora A. Walker Dies.
Miss Nora A. Walker, 37, 2723 Fort
street, died In Lincoln Tuesday,
she had been a resident of Omnha
for 37 years. She Is survived by two
brothers, Louis Walker of Gary. Ind.,
and Harry Walker of Slou* City, la.,
and one sister, Mrs. Charles Kenney
of Omaha.
The funeral will he held Wednesday
afternoon at 3:30 at the Hoffmann Fu
neral home. Burial will be in Forest
Lawn cemetery.
Orphans Saved ‘
From Gun Fire
Missionary F'rom Centra I
America Describes Perils
to Bible Class.
IIow 28 persons were secreted
under mattresses in order to save
their lives from gunfire, was told by
Miss Kern Houser, formerly of Min
den, Neb., now of Guatemala City,
Central America, to a class of 60
women at the Omaha Bible institute
Wednesday morning.
Miss Houser has been head of an
orphanage and Bible teacher in Cen
tral America aince 1914.
With Miss Estelle Zimmerman of
ta)s Angeles, Miss Houser went from
the Moody Bible institute at Chicago
to Guatemala to establish an orphan
age there known as tho Garden of
Roses.
“Our lives and those of the chil
dren were endangered during the rev
olutlon," said the missionary. “When
the assembly voted the president In
sane and unable to govern, he and
his forces resisted the unionists for
six days.
“On the day of the last battle the
soldiers were quartered near the or
phanage. They plared a machine gun
on one side of the building and a
cannon on the other.
"Twenty-eight person* had to hud
dle in one room under mattresaos for
three hours for protection. The or
phanage waa used as a first-aid sta
tion after the battle.”
The orphanage cares for children
of all classes In need. The natives
are of Spanish and Indian blood.
,Another speaker at the Bible Insti
tute this morning was Mrs. E. B.
Young of Wayne, Neb., who Is re
sponsible for native missionary work
In China, Japan, Burma. Tibet, Por
tugese-Afrlca and the Canary Islands.
Interdenominational missions send
out native teachers of the gospel
under direction of Mrs. Young.
Girl Trips Real
Dance of Death
One of Three Sisters Plan
ning Vaudeville Career
Dies at Rehearsal.
New York, March 5.—Beatrice
Shaw, of Vancouver, B. C., died of
heart failure Tuesday while In the
midst of a whirl in a dance she was
rehearsing.
The girl's death ended her plans
and those of the unknown three Dale
sisters to captivate vaudeville audi
ences.
They had spent all of their money
for clothes and weeks of preparation
on polishing their act.
Beatrice, clevereet of the trio, who
did the eccentric dancing and played
the soprano Maxophone, fainted as
she danced and died before an ambu
lance arrived.
Ex-Gob Admits 30
Omaha Robberies
George Mead, arrested for Investi
gation in connection with a series of
recent burglaries In Omaha, Is al
leged to have admitted to police that
he has robbed between 30 and 35
homes in Omaha. He also admits, ac
cording to police, that he twice de
serted from the navy.
He was arrested after he pawned a
pearl-handled automatic revolver
which was stolen from Anna Crlppen,
2706 Burt street. The weapon was a
gift to her from Fred Swoboda, Uni
versity of Nebraska student.
Mead was bound over to district
court in municipal court Vednesday
morning on $5,000 bond.
Talk on Temples and Tombs.
Mr. George A. Miller, pastor of the
First Christian church, will speak on
"Temples and Tombs" at the meeting
of the Concord club at Hotel Fontr
nelle Thursday noon.
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20 Investigations
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Washington, March 6.— More offi
cial investigation! are now In prog
ress in congress than at any time
in the history of the country. These
Inquiries include:
SKVATK.
The leasing# of government oil
lands.
The official nets of Attorney Gen
eral Daugherty.
Alleged propaganda in favor or
against the Mellon tax bill.
Charges of land frauds In Texas,
of Senator Mayfield of Texas.
The bureau of internal revenue.
Charles of land frauds In Texas.
The veterans' bureau.
Medical "diploma mills.”
Sale of seal furs by the govern
ment.
Conditions in Russia.
Diplomatic methods In connec
tion with world oil supply.
The agricultural situation.
The charges involving "juggling”
of revenue figures in treasury.
IIOl'SK.
The United States shipping board.
Conditions among the Indians.
The Philippines’ proposals for a
new naval base on Pacific coast.
The soldiers’ bonus.
Regality of the Denby-Doheny
Hawaiian construction contract.
Connection of congressmen with
veterans' bureau scandal.
Government aircraft contracts.
Omaha Insurance
Manager Is Dead
Thomas II. McWilliams, 51, district
manager of the Mutual Rife Insurance
company of New York with offices
in the City National bank building,
died Tuesday night of paralysis after
a month’s illness. He came to Omaha
20 years ago from Des Moines. He Is
survived by his widow; a daughter,
Margaret; and a sister./Mrs. H. C.
Rudden of Mineral Point, Wls.
Mr. McWilliams was a Mason.
Funeral services will be held Thurs
day afternoon at 2 at the Crosby
Moore funeral home.
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Who Pays Taxes?
Everybody pays taxes;
ONE may not own land, or a house or a
business, but one living u normal life lives
in a house and follows some occupation.
HE who owns a house pays taxes direct.
He who rents a house pays taxes indirect
ly through the owner.
\ N increase in taxes on real estate causes
■*' *• an increase in rents.
AN increase in taxes 'aid by the manufac
turer causes nn increase in the price of
manufactured articles.
'r*HE railroads pay taxes direct to the state
a and national governments amounting to
about 614 cents out of etch dollar enrned.
THE railroads pay their employes wages
out of which the employes pay taxes both
direct and indirect.
11 'HE railroads buy material from the manu
■ facturers who pay tnxes both direct and
indirect. )
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L'CONOMISTS have figured ourthat one dol
lar in every eight of the nation’s income
is paid as taxes. j
'■pllF. indirect taxes ure approximately equal t
1 to the direct taxes.
'"pllE direct taxes paid by the railroads plus
* the direct taxes paid by their employes,
together with tho indirect taxes paid by both,
are equivalent to considerably more than one
eighth of the railway operating revenues.
IT would be more nearly correct to say that
out of every dollar paid the railroads for
transportation, twenty cents, or more, event
ually finds it way through the various chan
nels of tnxation into the coffers of the govern
ment, national, state and municipal.
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Vet Bonus Likely
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House Kx-Servire Men, How
ever, Urge Optional Uadi
or Insurance.
Hy AMwtalrd rreaa.
Washington, March 6-—A twofold
soldier bonus plan providing options
of full cash payments or paid-up in
surance *was proposed to the house
ways and means committee today by
a committee of veterans representing
house democrats.
Kepresentatlve Jeffers, Alabama,
chairman of the democratic commit
tee, who presented the plan, argued
the government owed former serv
ice men adjusted compensation
which should be offered in the "coin
of the realm."
Full cash payments would eliminate
administrative difficulties and cost in
volved in other bonus programs, Mr.
Jeffers said, and would enable the
government to settle the whole ques
tion in a year.
If all veterans elected to take cash
payments, Mr. Jeffers said, it would
take $! ,319,500,000, which could he
met by a bond issue. He favored com
pensation for army officers up to the
rank of captain.
The same basis of figuring adjusted
compensation used in the bill passed
last session—$1 a day for home serv
ice and $1.25 a day for overseas serv
ice, would lie applied in the plan, and
payments would be limited to $500 for
home service and $625 for overseas
service.
Hy International New* Seri lee.
Washington, March 5.—Small cash
payments and paid-up Insurance poll
clos will form the basis of the new
soldiers bonus hill, soon to he passed
by the house, according to all indica
tlons today.
With the approval of the American
legion, the house ways and means
committee plans to draft a bonus bill
providing for cash payments only to
those veterans who are entitled to
no more than $50 on the basis of $1
per day for home service and $1.25
a day for services overseas. It Is
estimated that this will cost the
treasury only $30,000,000.
The great majority of the veterans
will get Insurance policies, the
amounts to be based on their length
of service. The policies will have
a cash loan value.
Representatives of the American
I/egion In conference with the fram
ers of tho bill have agreed to drop
the land gift,-farm loan aid and
vocational aid features of the bonus
legislation vetoed by President Hard
ing in 1922 and to concentrate on
the new twofold plan.
Demos and Rebels Agree.
Representative Garner of Texas,
leading democratic member of the
ways and means committee, Indicated
today that the democrats were ready
to swing to the two-way bonus plan.
Representative Fish, republican, of
New York, leader of the “veterans'
bloc" In the house, also approves It.
Garner explained the attitude of
the minority when he announced hi*
willingness to support a bonus bill,
which he has opposed for two years.
"The quicker this matter is dis
posed of. the better it will be for the
country," Garner said. "If we can
settle n foi »l,;&n,OOO.OOn. it Is better
to do so right now and relieve the
great uncertainty that lies behind the
threat of a great bonus payment.
"The business of the country will
be facing uncertainly until the bonus
Issue Is disposed of and I am pre
pared to vote for a bonus bill,
though I have voted against bonus
legislation three times."
May Be Delayed.
Chairman Green of the ways and
means committee said today that it
might not lie possible for the commit
tee to bring out the bonus bill by Eat
urday because of the division over the
two plans Involved In the general bill.
If the two way plan should come from
the committee, as now seems proba
hie, It would be nonpartisan.
Charges were inserted today In the
committee's record to the effect that
President Coolidge had reversed his
position on the bonus. They were In
the form of a letter to the president
from Massachusetts department of
Veterans of Foreign Wars. It was
pointed out In the letter that the
president had approved the state
bonus bill In Massachusetts while ho
was governor, but had now turned
around and declared hls opposition to
further compensation for the veterans.
Petitions for Council.
Petitions are ltelng circulated in Is1
half of Mayor Dahlman and City Com
missioners D. H. Butler and 11. W.
Dunn for the city primary April *.
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