1 The Morning Bee
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HENRY FORD WINS FIRST ROUND.
Henry Ford’s offer $o lease the Muscle Shoals
plant for 100 years has advanced one more step to
ward realization. The house at Washington on
Monday passed a bill to accept the offer. In teims
expressed in the measure, the Detroit manufacturer
will have the right to lease for 100 years dams Nos.
2 /md 3 and the adjacent power stations at Muscle
Shoals. For these the lessee will pay the govern
ment in rental $219,964,954. Together with the
leases will go title to property which has cost the
government $83,915,000. for which Mr. Ford will
pay $5,000,000. In addition an obligation to pro
duce fixed nitrate to the* amount of 40,000 tons a
year, whether it can be sold at profit or loss, is
carried.
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This is under the McKenzie bill, which was passed
by the house. The opposition supported the Hull
bill, which was based on the proposals of a group
of nitrate and power companies, the terms of which
were on the surface at least more favorable to the
United States. Chief among the objections raised
against the tyill bill were that it would tend to pro
duce monopolistic control of the water power in the
south. In the nine south Atlantic states the esti
mated amount of hydroelectric power possible is
4,058,000 horsepower. Of this 1,500,000 is already
developed. At Muscle Shoals Ford expects to de
velopc 850,000 horsepower.
Should this fall into the hands of existing com
panies, competition would be shut off to that extent,
and users would no{ have the advantage that flows
from rival concerns seeking business. On this argu
ment mainly did the Ford advocates rely for support
of their measure.
• • •
Muscle Shoals will stand forever as a monument
to one of the chief blunders made by Newton D.
Baker while he was secretary of war. It may turn
out to be a triumph for him. A factor in the
ordnance problem was a supply of nitrate, not for
fertilizer, but for the manufacture of explosives
and other munitions. Chile was our main source of
supply. Always the possibility of.having that source
shut off was present. Nebraska provided the bulk
of the potash produced in the country, but the total
was far below requirements.
That situation demanded a remedy. It was de
termined to exploit the possibilities of Muscle Sheals
on a magnificent scale. What might have happened
there, had the war gone on, can be surmised. W hat
did happen was that the war ended before the work
was done, and the government had more than $ 125,
000,000 invested in a plant that was incomplete and
consequently unproductive. What to do with the
white elephant thus presented was one of the ques
tions left for peace time settlement.
* * m
Henry Ford’s proposal, made more than two
years ago, that he be allowed to take over the plant,
and start the manufacture of fertilizer as well as
electric power, set in motion a train of discussion
that is not yet ended. In his address to congress
j_n December, President Coolidge recommended:
"Subject to the right to retake in time of war,
I reeommen/l that thie property with a location for
auxiliary steam plant and ikeht* of way bm sold.
This would end the present burden of expense and
should return to the treasury the largest price
possible to secure.The great advantage of
low-priced nitrates must he secured for the direct
benefit of the farmers and the indirect benefit of the
public in time of peace, and of the government In
time of war. If this main object he accomplished,
the amount of money rereived for the property
is not a primary or a major consideration.”
What the senate will do with the bill is a mstter
of speculation. Probably some further safeguards
for the government will be put in. Indications are,
however, that the Ford company will be charged with
making the Muscle Shoal’s plant produce/ nitrates
and power. The action of the house is a blow at
the hill just introduced by Senator Norris, with the
support of Senator Howell, looking to the establish
ment of a great super-power system, to include
Muscle Shoals, the Rio Grande and the Colorado
rivers. It is not thought that this complication will
have more,than a delaying effect. The disposition of
the government is to get out of business rather than
still deeper into it.
A BIGGER HOSPITAL FOR A GREATER OMAHA.
Among the plans for a greater Omaha, we sug
gest early steps to secure a bigger hospital.
Conditions at the Douglas County hospital, de
scribed by an American Legion officer as “deplor
able,” are not a new thing. While the agitation
has not been as persistent, perhaps, as it might have
been, it is more than 10 years since The Omaha
Bee pointed out the inadequacy of the plant for the
purposes to which it is devoted. Even then the au
thorities admitted the lack of facilities and absence
of accommodations and equipment, but the subject
seems to have been forgotten.
The original proposal made hy The*Omaha Bee
may be renewed at this time. That the necessary
law be passed which will permit the consolidation
of city and county relief agencies, to the end that
one great general hospital may he provided, where
all cases coming under public control may be cared
for.
City cases are either shunted onto the county,
or are cared for in private hospitals- The present
county hospital is of limited rapacity, old-fashioned
and antiquated in every regard. I'he provisions
were ample 35 years ago, when the present, building
was accepted. The additions made to it since have
not kept pace with the demands upon it.
A wealthy community, such as Omaha, ahould not
be niggardly in the matter of caring for the help
less who are thrust upon it. Modern practice is to
make the county hospital really the best to be had.
Is it'not time that Dougins county and Omaha were
getting together on this most important matter?
Enough money is expended on the present in
adequate service to more than support one that will
be a public credit.
CHESTER H. ALDRICH.
The passing of Chester H. Aldrich will recall to
many the days when the "bull moose" rampaged
through Nebraska. No admirer of Roosevelt was
more zealous than Judge Aldrich in the movement
that split the republican party and yet he fell a
victim to the very forces he had invoked. In 1910
he sought and received the nomination for governor
on the republican ticket, having previously served
as state senator. His campaign was one of the
hardest fought in all Nebraska's history. James C.
Dahlman of Omaha was his opponent. The prohibi
tion question, whifh had figured to a large extent
two years before, when Shallenberger defeated
Sheldon, was brought actively to the front in the
contest; between Aldrich and Dahlman. Dry voters
triumphed, and Aldrich went in as governor. Two
years later he led the Roosevelt forces, and the
democrats elected Morehead to succeed him.
Governor Aldrich lived to see prohibition become
the law of the land, and to see the republican party
reunited with the genera! endorsement of the
Roosevelt principles. He was elected in 1918 to the
supreme bench of the state, where he served with
distinction until his health broke several months ago.
An untiring worker, a staunch advocate of what
ever cause he espoused, he made his influence felt in
Nebraska politics. His chief acts while governor
were the veto of a measure to merge the telephone
systems, the signing of a bill to put public stock
yards under control of the state railway commission,
and the appointing of a commission to draft a work
man's compensation law.
His career begun in Nebraska as a school teacher
in 1885, and closed as a judge of the supreme court,
with services as senator and governor in between, a
record any mail may be proud of.
ED MEREDITH FOR PRESIDENT.
Another Richmond is looming up in the demo
cratic lists, seeking the nomination for president of
the United States. According to the St. Paul Dis
patch, democrats in that city have been carefully
sounding out the prospects of Edwin T. Meredith of
Des Moines securing the Minnesota delegation for
the New York convention.
This is almost the first intimation that the Des
Moines publisher is actively in quest of the honor
of leading the hosts of his party through the com
ing campaign. Yet the party might go farther and
fare a lot worse. Ed Meredith has done a good
many things that entitle him to recognition. For
one, he has built up a very respectable business as
the publisher of a farm paper. Successful Farm
ing has been a real success in a field that has been
pretty well occupied by energetic rivals for many
years. The farm'paper that amounts to anything
must be handled on a live wire basis. To bring
such a paper to the eminence attained by Mr.
Meredith denotes capacity on the part of its owner.
Politically Meredith is not without experience.
He made the race for governor in Iowa in 1016, and
many folks over there- still think he would have won,
hafl it not been for a mistaken impression the
farmers got of his attitude toward good roads. Mr.
Wilson found a place for him in his cabinet when
Secretary Houston was moved over from the De
partment of Agriculture to the treasury. On this
job the Iowa man acquitted himself with credit, as
have several other Hawkeyes in the same place.
If he should become a serious factor in the race,
he will have the advantage of a clean record. What
ever else may he said about him, he did not try to
capitalize his connection with Woodrow Wilsan, that
he might sell his services to some corporation willing
to pay a high price for the presence of an ex-cahinet
officer on its payroll.
William H. Broughton, commissioner of the pub
lic debt, testified before a house committee that
stiver dollars could not be put into general circula
tion because they are unpopular. We unhesitatingly
declare that Mr. Brighton was speaking for himself
on that unpopularity thing.
Mr. Bryan commends Musgrove of Alabama as a
democratic presidential candidate, saying that Mus
grove "would spend his wealth for the masses.” It
will ha admitted that this would be much more satis
factory than merely spending one’s glittering gener
alities for the masses.
There are 132.000 old maids in California
accent on the “old.” It will require an awful lot of
advertising about climate and sunshine to overcome
that handicap.
The 2.76 per rent advocates in congress may raise
a lot of froth in Washington, but the production else
where will prohably remain a« now. |tractically nil.
The senatorial oil investigation having reached
the “You’re another” stage, we may expert some
results worth while, after while, a long whife.
Amy Lowell says that Americans waste too much
time doing inconsequential things. But not many
of them do it by reading free verse, Amy.
It is reported that men buy 70 per cent of the
•ilk stockings worn by women. Perhaps that is the
reason why so many men do not marry.
Doubtless a lot of people who are whining and
complaining about corruption in official places will
forget all about registering this spring.
Are we to understand that those who have taken
a hile at fake oil stocks are also to he barred from
political preferment ?
Morning salblution in Washington: “Hello, have
you been decoded yet?”
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Homespun Verse
—Bjr Omaha's Own Poet—
Robert Worthington Davie
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THE POSTAL CLERK DESIRES A RAISE.
Th# Pouf a! Clerk dodre* a rnlM«* —
I Hr axkunt f i* «1 Ih* i €•*• t'
• IP* Inim common "*eMUng” d*t\ r,
Ilf Jiiir to drcNM and rut,
II** hurt IiIm trouble* like th*- rent,
He ha a hi* Hock to keep,
lie Ir the ‘mall” bird of the neat
'Hie tihcpherd of hla Rhecp.
The Pom Hi I Clerk Ir human, ton;
lie need* n change and rent
Hex mi the job and trie* to do .
, Ax logic l ella him her!.
^ I know he dream* nf l hone who ►,
When night calm and dear,
To H«e an entertaining a how,
And • I..p their him*!* :md cheer
I know he dre.ini* nf other iov*
A h Hi it li fully In hi ltd *
T'» men and women. gut* and hoy a
Kind greeting!* from th»lr friend*
And I Im hold him -horieat, true,
And worthy of your pralae,
\N hI« li may h** glv**n now. If ymi
Will Mill l»* k i udg< IiIh i i I* 9
i “The People’s
| Voice’’
Kditorials from render* of The Morning
Brt. Reader! of The Morning He#
invited to une thi» column freely for
expression on matters of public
interest.
All Important Nebraska Industry*
Scot tali! it If, Neb. To ’the Kditor of
The Omaha Bee: The development
<>r the beet sugar industry of Nr
hraska presents many Important and
interesting points. In this article v.•
will endeavor to state a few general
conditions and perhaps later tievelop
i he story in detail.
Nebraska produces about enough
beet sugar to meet its own sugar
needs, yet about one half of the sugar
consumed in the state is cane sugar.
This condition requires the beet sugar
companies of the slate to ship one-half
their production outside the stale at
increased freight charges, 'lice in
creased freight charges react direct
ly on the price tlie beet grower re
ceives for his beets.
The ('^-Operative Beet Growers’ as
social Ion of Bcottsbluff. Neb., a co
operative marketing association cover
ing the territory of the Great West
ern Sugar company in western Ne
braska, is keenly interested in pre
senting to the farmers of Nebraska
the need and desirability of using
home-grown products, especially in
the case of beet sugar, since cltemlcal
analysis and practical experie nce has
demonstrated beyond a doubt that the
one is the exact equivalent of the
other in every way.
I'neier the contract now in use be
tween tlie beet growers and the Great
Western Sugar company in the North
Platte valley, the price of beets de
pends directly upon the net price”
which the sutur company receives for
sugar. By 'net price” we do not
mean net profit. The “net price” is
determined by deducting from the
gross receipts from flUgar sold cer
tain fixed charges, such ns freight,
trade cash discounts, storage outside
the company's warehouses, loading,
etc. None of the manufacturing costs
are deducted from the gross sales of
sugar.
for years Great Western beet sugar
has been used for canning and pre
serving and has been found an ideal
sugar tor this use. often the failure
of fruit juices to jell has been blamed
on the sugar used. The real reason
for such condition js not the quality
of sugar, hut tlie lack of a requisite
amount of a substance known as
“pectin” in the fruit juices.
Exhaustive experiments ba\e been
made with beet sugar iu canning, pre
serving and Jelly making. The bureau
of chemistry. United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, reports as fol
lows: “This bureau has conducted
experiments relating to the manufac
ture of apple and grape jelly, using
commercial granulated beet sugar and
commercial cane sugar under identi
cal conditions, ami no difference was
found to exist in the finished products
in any of thflr characteristics, no far
as the use of cane sugar and beet
sugar was concerned."
The following statement was made
by Dr. Dari L. Alsberg. chief of the
bureau of chemistry: “The highest
grades of granulated sugar on the
market reach an ideal state of purity,
so far as all practical purpose* are
concerned, and it is believed that
where the highest grades of commer
cial granulated sugars are used there
is no choice between beet and cane
sugars ”
Dr. Upson of the University of Ne
braska says: “There is absolutely no
difference between cne stigr and sugar
manufactured from sugar beets
One of the largest manufacturer*
of ice cream arid condensed milk In
the west says: * In our use of sugar,
both in the manufacture of Ice cream
and the by-product, condensed milk,
we find we <*m use Great Western
beet sugar every bit as successfully
as the highest grade of can* sugar.”
Under the existing contract the
Interest of the sugar beet grower doea
not end with the delivery of beets to
the sugar company, as the price per
ton of beets depends upon the price
»eceived for sugar. The less the de
livery coat of sugac the more h* re
ceive* for beets. The better the price
of beet* the greater the bee t acreage,
and naturally the less the grain acre
age. This In turn will tend to help
relieve the grain marketing situation
In our own state
Is it not logical then that Nebraska
can help its own condition by using
home-grown products, especially
where the quality is on a par with
product* from any other territory?
I.. It. LEONARD.
Jacoby on Progressives.
Havelock, Neli To thef Editor of
The Omaha Hee: What Is a pro
gresaiv*?” Who 1* a progressive?”
If we take the mouthing* of .J. L.
Beebe and W. .f. Taylor *s law and
gospel, the only' true progressives
are Beebe and Taylor, end the only
progressive principles are those pro
claimed by Beebe and Taylor.
I was much amused to see the chal
lenge issued by Chairman Beebe to
Governor Bryan to debate the ques
tion whether Governor Bryan Is a At
man to he the candidate of Chairman
Beebe'* party, r am inclined to think
that, right now Governor Bryan'* du
ties «* governor may prevent him
from debating with the Rev Mr.
It tech*, but at present I have plenty
» f time to accommodate the gentle
man, and I should he very glad In
deed to act as a substitute for ut»r
worthy governor Jn this matter.
For no other governor. In inv recol
lection, can compare with Charles W.
Bryan in what he has dune f(.r the
people of Nebraska (and is doing every
clay), and It raises my "dander” to see
a hunch of wolves in sheep's clothing
sneaking along behind him in the Imp*
of *n.t|qiihg him when he is not look
ing.
Beebe Is surely the last man on
earth to nils* any question ns to who)
n a progressive. Regardless of the
position he holds, Reel** ia right now
hand in glove with the reactionaries
who take their orders and get their
latnpalgn funds from the "big boys'
in Wall street. lie < an not success
fully deny that he is working secret
ly- if not openly—for the su'cess of
Graff and Sloan, neither of whom can
by any wildest stretch of the imagina
tion l*e regarded as progressive.
Frankly, I haven't much use for
Messrs. Heebe and Taylor politically.
I’ve watched their tactics too often to
take any stock at all In their profes
sions of being progressive. And so
I'd dearly love to debate sgainst the
two at the same time and in the same
towns mentioned in Chairman Heebe's
challenge to Governor Br>an—omg
ha, Lincoln, Grand Island and North
Platte.
Hut I'd wish to make a slight modi
fication in the question for debate.
And, to put it somewhat formally. I
challenge J. L. Heebe and W. J. Tay
lor to debate the following questions.
I to uphold the affirmative and they
to take the negative:
"Resolved, That J. L. Heebe and
W. J. Taylor did more than any other
two men in Nebraska to aid in the
•dertion of a reactionary legislature
in the fall of 1922. and thereby defeat
the purpose of Charles W. Bryan in
his program to abolish the civil ad
ministrative code and to bring about
adequate tux reduction.*’
This will effectively raise the ques
tion as to who Js a progressive And
before J get through with these gen
tlemen in the deflate (if they have
‘sand” enough to accept my chal
lenge!. 1 shall show that their game
is now—and was two years ago—to
divide the progressive force* in Ne
braska and thus enable the reaction
aries to win. They are, as 1 have
said, political wolves Jn sheep cloth
ing. and their teeth are sharp and
their appetites insatiable
Messrs. Heebe and Taylor, dare you
debate this question with me" We
three can arrange the dates and
places and division of time, and each
can pay his third of the expenses lb»
you dare come out In the open and
defend Graft and Sloan, these sleek
proponents of 'save the babies" and
similar bunk* I. W. JACOBY.
Resent* Social Disease Charge.
Lincoln. Neb.—To the Kditor of The
Omaha Hfe: I enclose rnpv nf letter
sent to the editor of the Lincoln State
Journal. From the standpoint of the
48.000 ex-service men In Nebraska we
with to get *t the fart* and either !*e
proven guilty or innocent of the st ate
menta herein referred to.
t HAllLKS W. TV LOR.
1 department Commander.
Kditor TJncoln State Journal. Uu
ruin. Neh Mv l»rar Sir. Within the
past few months I have noticed
two or three editatrials in your
columns, o I most identical In wording.
In which xoil made the statement that
over 27 per cent or thereabouts of the
men who were called to the color*
during the world xfeu were afflicted
With venereal dlseiscs at the time
their Inductltui into the service.
Inasmuch ns this «‘»sta a reflection
upon the virile young m.mlmod «*f our
country, particularly upon those who
rendered service t«» their country, and
Inasmuch »s your figures and state
ment* differ v»mv materially from the
writers observation and expcrienc«»
in the urmv, wild inasmuch ns it
seem* to 1>c your polh y to repeat tills
statement in your columns, we wish
t<> «sk you tt» produce you authority
for tiie statement* mentioned above.
If we nre wrong in our own ob*
nervation?* and knowledge «»f facts,
xxhlcli j tin directly contrary t«> your
datenn nts. vxo w ish 14» ho corrector
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/ li.v K1IW1N («• riNKIIAM.
The Birth of the Party System
The fabric of American empire outfit to rest on the
solid basis of the consent of the people. 7 lie streams
of national power outfit to flow immediately from that
pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.
Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist, No. X\H.
XXXIII.
W1 -"-1 ITII the beginning of the gov
ernmt nt undet the • onetitu
lion there came gradually
rgygj Into existe nc e the two great
political parties, which, un
der various names, have continued
down to the present time. The con
stitution being an accomplished fact,
everybody, of course, was for it; but
not everybody thought alike as to just
what it meant or as to how it should
be interpreted and applied. It was
on thee*- points that the parties di
vided and began that political con
test whic h must continue as long as
men do not think alike on theories of
government.
These parties may he best described
as the broad constructionists and the
strict const ructionists.
The broad constructionists believed
that the powers of the federal gov
ernment were very extensive; that the
constitution was a very llexible in
strument that might be stretched to
uny length that the public welfare
seemed to require. The cither view
was that the powers of the govern
ment w'ere limited to those jpxpressly
delegated to the constitution; that
these powers were delegated by the
states aid that all powers not so ex
pressly delegated were reserved to
the state*.
This was a controversy bound to
arise under a dual system of govern
in'nt. If the states were sovereign,
as they c laimed to be, and the I nlted
States was also a sovereign, as it must
be if it was to stand, where was the
dividing line between their powers’
The government under ihe old con
federation undoubtedly had been a
government of the* states—the articles
c.eHared it to be such. The preamble
to the constitution as reported to the
Philadelphia convention by the com
mittee of detail began, “We, the peo
pie of the *t*tes.” and named them
Anally reported by the committee
on style and as adopted, the preamble
began, “We, the people of the United
States."
This declaration roused much oppo
sition in the states when the constitu
tion came up fot ratification. Patrick
Henry was one of those w ho attacked
it. The old government could a* toniy
on the »tate*; the n»*w one, it was per
ceived. would act directly on individ
uals. The question whether an indi
vidual was a citizen of his state or of
the United States was at the* bottom
of the long controversy that raged
over states' rights, and was finally
determined by the 14th amendment:
“All persons Imrii or naturalized in
the United States, and subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of
the United States and of the state
wherein they reside.
But the arguments for the federal
power that went f»< tins conclusion
were* not accepted at first. The states
were jealous of their powers and con
tinued to assert them, and but for the
judicial powei established in the con
stitution it is probable that the con
flict between the state and federal
power would have quickly brought
about disunion. But the constitution
provided an authority to decide these
questions. The supreme <onrt has
i»een described a* the noblest work
of the founding fathers, and by its
authority the compromises of the
constitution have been so interpreted
as to render the whole enduring. The
constitution was made workable by
judicial interpretation.
The supreme court's labors in this
field have been monumental, it has
made innumerable dec isions on every
clause in the constitution, on the
preamble itself, which contains only
'.‘Jfwords. 3<» important case* involv
ing the most fundamental questions
of government have been founded.
The judicial powers of the supreme
court are the most extensive ever
conferred upon «>i acquired by a
tribunal. It is «he only court in the
world that can set aside an act of a
national legislature
“What parliament doth." said
Blackstone, no power on earth can
undo."
But the supreme court of tb# United
States not only has a veto on ad* of
congress, but hens and settles causes
between states, aid between states
and the United States. Of this high
jurisdiction Toqueville has said
Jn the nations *>f Kurope the courts
of justice are only < ailed upon to try
the controversies of private individ
uals. hut the supreme court of the
Unite*! .State* Mirnmont sovereign
powers to it* bar. ’
In cases affecting the amlsissadots
j of foreign powers, and those to which
I a state is a partv. the supreme court
: h is original jurisdiction: hut in all
others it acts only on appeal. ]ts ap
! i*ellate jurisdiction * xtend* to all
1 ca-es arising under the constitution,
the ftiw* of the United Hta^e* and
treaties; to causes to which the United
states is a partv to those between
j citizens of different states, and be
tween state* or citizen* and foreign
states. It passes, on appeal, on any
law. state or national, which may lie
challenged as not being in conformity
with the constitution or the laws of
ibe United States. and from It* judg
ment there is no appeal,
i Only one original power of the su
i preme court has l>een withdrawn from
it. The judicial power at first ex
tended to case* )e-tw»*n a state and
c itizens of another state. This created
alarm, but the defender* of the con
stitution in the battle for ratification
declared a state could not be sued by
a citizen of another state. Hamilton
ifi No. Jil of the Federalist, said: “it
is inherent in the nature of sover
eignty. not to be ;imei).|.tl)le to the suit
of an individual without its consent.”
But when in 179.1 a citizen of South
Carolina sued the *t *te of Onrg.n
(Chisholm against (ieorgial the su
preme court took jurisdiction. This
case led to the 111)i amendment to
the < 'institution, which declares the
I judicial powers 'shall not extend to
i such suit*. The United States, how
ever. has established a rourf of
! claims in which it consent* to be
sued.
We shall see how the operation of
this judici.il power tended to consoli
date the government and infuse the
epifit of nationality into the union,
"’nnvnght. Kens** City 5'a*-)
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The same standard of ptirltv.
strength and excellence is maintained
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If i* s« lentifleally . .tnpounded
i from vegetable herbs.
It is not a stimulant and is taken in
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It is not recommended for every
thing
It i* nature's gieat helper in re
lievlng and overcoming kidney, Jivei
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A sworn statement »f purity is with
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SUNNY SIDE UP
Jakt Comfort, nor forget
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1MOTHKR (iOOSK-IIEVIHEI).
Sing a song of XVarhington.
l>apot Home and oil.
Senate, full of suspense.
The pot begin* to boil.
When the pot was opened —
I lun’t it beat t lie deu< w—
What a lot of grinding
That isn't any use?
Hi diddle diddle.
Both sides and Hie middle,
Jim Keed of Missouri has 'blew.
Bill McAdoo's grin at the news com
• ing in,
And W. Bryan s is, too.
The mvstery of how the street c*i
conductor knows when to quit crank
Ing the mill wherein we deposit our
fare still remains unsolved. But we
have just solved what ha* long been
on even greater mystery to us
Have you ever noticed that every
oil and gas truck is driven by a man
who carelessly leaves a chain drag
ging behind his truck? For a long
time we marveled that only gas tank
drivers were subject to this form of
carelessness, and then came the
thought that perhaps it might be
sonie sort of a lodge signal. The
other day we made hold to ask the
driver of a gas tank truck why he
didn’t loop up that chain so it wouldn't
drag on the ground. Fortunately he
was a driver given to the courteous
imparting of useful information.
"That's oui ground connection." he
rema rl.ed.
Btiil were w» unenlightened and *<>
remarked.
“Well, as we drive over the Omaha
hills the gas in the tanl*s sloshes
around, with the result that electric
ity I* generated. Time was when you
now and then read of the mysterious
explosion of our gas tank*. A* tank
wagon* increased in number the ex
plosions became more numerous. At
fir*t it was thought that the ex
plosion* were caused by careles* driv
er* who smoked while on duty. But
that theory was soon abandoned.
"Then the experts and scientists
and efficiency men got to work, but
they couldn't stop the explosion*.
Finally a driver who didn't know *
kilowatt from a transformer sug
gested that it might b» electricity that
wa* setting off the gas generated in
the tank* He was laughed to in.
hut he figured out that if he hitched
a chain to the metal tank and then let
one end of the chain drag on the road.
h>* would have » ground that would
carry off the current.
"He tried out his theory, and per
»uaij“d a lot of hia companion* to do
the same thing. Tanl: wagon* with
tlie drugging chain didn't explode, but
others did. and finally the scientists
and the high brows and the efficiency
shayks admitted that perhaps the
driver was right. Now we *11 have
chains dragging. I reckon about 11
people a day call my attention to it
and sugg'-et that I’d better hook It UP
I thank 'em and drive on."
There are those who pretend to
hold lightly the concern our old friend.
Jerry Howard, has for womankind
Not an with us. The fact that Jerry
nevei married Is convincing proof to
us that he r“ally mean* it.
For a moment we fed like leaping
from our somewhat battered off e
chair *f.d emitting a s«rie« of joyful
shouts. At first gla. at a he»d n
,h* sporting |wge we thought it *-,i
Ulg Demand for New Courae m
Spelling at Stanford I niverr.t
•|,ie se.-ond glance, however, revealed
that the demand wa- for a new -nurse
in • Veiling,’’ nut Spelling.
"Whit is funnier than halloon tit's
on Ford wheel*?” ... ■'
.lent III the "Sta rill in * man of tue
Kansas City Star. ' Well, there', the
gold monou-rani on the door of *i Fo- t
runabout. ' t*P»e* the Htarhean.s
man. Also, and again, there I, the
»>:. motorm-tcr often seen on tire
Surd roadster.
After considerable diffl- ulty the pub
| Ur has identified the ' apples and
••peaches" and "apricot*" of the m
I telegram* ln Itlp oil ^'•nt^xum y
hasten to explain that although the
word "Prune" does not appear In ar
I „f them, it lurked in the back of t<
I,rains of the -ode arrangers and
referred tu all the rest of us
Of -nurse y- i tu" familiar w 1
those patent wire paper fasteners f
rest snugly in a little container up
the desk of every busy business ms
Are you like us in having an irree.‘
b|e impulse to reach over and g
one while talking to the gentlem
who presides at the -|e*k. «•
straighten it out and twist it aroun •
and jim it all up. flnallv thrwrng
lit at the waste basket. We presume
that during the last II years v.e hi.
twisted something like r.T.SSJ o; th*|n
out it shape.
We see great possibilities ill Ret
Mr, Wagner's i-ler of illustrating s*
irons by a< trial scenes. Wtren he
illustrated his sermon on the in-ident
of Jacob wrestling with the angel by
having a/couple of wrestlers ln ros
tume putting on a real wrestling
match, he ventured into a field that
seemingly ha* no limitations. We'd go
a long ways to see a realistic repie
scrttatlon of Samson wielding a large
and solid jawbone and smiting divers
and sundry Philistines, especially if
we were permitted to furnish the
Philistines.
And doubtless the ape- ta-le of imi; •
lion she bears devouring imp--- t
and froward children would I*
greeted with spasms of delight In
certain quarters. Wouldn't It l-e
thrilling to s e some diminutive
David trying to sni.te some over
grown Goliah with a paper mache
rock hurled from a sling?
We greatlv four, however, that ow
ing to certain limitation- ae to stare
properties. Rev. Mr. Wagner would
have to leave a realistic representa
tion of the “Children of Israel Cross
Ing the Red Sea" to Rev. Dr. Miller
of the First Christian church, or Rev.
Dr. DeLarme of the First Baptist.
Being somewhat familiar with the
flood Book we are prepared to offet
suggestions calculated to insure
crowded house, if thev are car »d
out. WILL M MAI PIN.
When in Omaha
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