Today
John D. Sinks One.
"Cal" and "Mac," Per
haps.
Innocent Mr. "Tex."
Spring Is Here.
^By ARTHUR BRISBANE^
John D. Rockefeller “sank a 21
foot putt” hole on the Ormond
Beach golf links and made the hole
in 3 par.
If that energptic and prosperous
person would sink another hole,
about five miles deep and experi
ment with the possibility of utilizing
the heat at the earth’s center,
which might easily replace all other
power, he would interest the whole
world.
Production of heat and power at
low cost might interfere with the
value of oil and gas, and with
Rockefeller profits. But that
wouldn’t make much difference to
the Rockefellers. When you live
on the edge of Lake Superior you
are not stingy about water. When
you live on the edge of the Rocke
feller fortune, money cejses to be
very Important.
President Coolidge won in North
Dakota because La Follette and
Hiram Johnson defeated each other.
Between them they got a big ma
jority of the votes.
The stars seem to be working for
Coolidge, with his two strongest
opponents running against him,
dividing the majority, giving him
the state.
McAdoo’s overwhelming victory
in Georgia has stirred up the en
thusiasm of his supporters. It
would not be surprising next No
vember to hear the orators shout
ing for “Cal” and “Mac.”
Mr. “Tex” Rickard, who manages
the big prize fights, and does it ably,
tells the Washington committee that
he agreed to divide his winnings on
the moving pictures with certain
gentlemen, and they in turn were
“to produce a law that would make
it legal to show the films anywhere.”
“They didn’t keep their word,”
Mr. Rickard says, and he was “flirft
flammed.”
You can hardly blame Mr.
Rickard for trying. He knows that
big corporations are able to get spe
cial laws. He has seen the railroads
that needed more millions, getting
them simply by taxing the people
with official consent. He has seen
public monopolies putting their
private lawyers on the bench in
every state in the Union, why
shouldn’t he, innorent wild wester
ner, believe the two men that told
him they would give him a brand
new law if he would go “fifty
fifty?” _^
Ours is a big, variegated coun
try. Spring has begun, you read
of deep snow in Oklahoma and one
little yellow crocus in Brooklyn, hot
sun and millions <>f flowers in Cali
fornia and Florida. You can find
anything you want in this country;
it's surely the best.
Being the best, may it. have sense
enough to keep out of foolish com
j cations with other countries. Our
soldiers are in Honduras, trying to
straighten out a revolution and
some of them are shot at by local
soldiers. No great harm done, but
such a thing might have been seri
ous.
We can’t help it on this conti
nent that we share with others, but
we can keep out of such things
across the ocean.
Mr. F. W. Ruckstull, “great
authority,” decides that Velasquez
was and is the greatest of painters.
Velasquez was a pleasing painter,
and had genius, but compared with
Michelangelo, he was like a prairie
dog village compared with the Alps.
Michelangelo was the greatest
painter that ever lived, and the
greatest architect. He can rest on
that.
The republican party celebrated
on Thursday the 70th anniversary
of its birth. The party was born
approximately, since it stood for
human liberty, in a little public
schoolhouse at Ripon, Wis. Fifty
four men, a mixed crowd of whigs,
tories, and free soldiers, formed
the republican party.
The party has changed considera
bly since then, and has some things
to worry about that the little group
of the Ripon schooihouse never
thought of.
When will the new party como
along to fight the extension of
graft, corporation control and the
new kind of taxation without rep
resentation?
There is a lot of money looking
for investment. Stock exchange
speculators could borrow yesterday
at 2% per cent. Of course, if you
wanted money for business, you had
to nay a higher rate.
But the "call” price of money* for
gambling is the barometer, nnd it
shows that there is plenty of loose
cash.
Liberty bonds were higher yes
terday than ever this year, if you
are an investor don't forget that
those are the Hafe bonds. A
mortgage oip everything in the Unit
ed States, including Rockefeller,
Morgan, Vanderbilt, every moving
* picture star, the Rocky mountains,
all the banks, factories, farms,
mines und oil wells, is a mortgage
worth having.
In the regular news stands this
heading, "Boys Are Rarred From
High .Schools for Having Flasks on
Their Hips.” Who would have
dreamed of that, when we were told
so earnestly that prohibition would
put an end to drunkenness?
Who would have imagined that a
bottle of whisky, on the hip, would
be transferred from the old, sea
soned and miserable drunkafd to
boys in their 'teens, or that drunk
enness among very young peopls
would exist under prohibition as it
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Relief Sought
bv Irrigation
Farmers of State
Units* Reclamation Service
Expenses Are Cut, Many
Farmers Will See Farms
Confiscated.
Scottsbluff. Nob., March 13—While
the investigations now under way at
Washington are of Interest to the
people of irrigated Nebraska, there is
another investigation that should be
m*e, and which will arouse vastly
more interest in these parts than all
the others combined.
That is the thorough Investigation
of the reclamation service.. The fact
finding commission appointed by Sec
retary Work was sadly hampered in
its work hy a lack of funds, but it
might have accomplished much de
spite that fact, had it not been ham
pered by the activities ot underlings
In the reclamation service.
When the commission met at Salt
Lake City there were more employes
of the reclamation service present
than there were representatives of
the farmers under the irrigation proj
ects. As one representative of the
people put it: "Employes of the rec
lamation service did everything hut
blackjack the witnesses in an effort
to prevent them from getting before
the commission with their com
plaints."
Ask Square Deal.
The North Platte valley of Ne
braska will not have come into Its
own until the farmers under the Irri
gation projects secure the relief to
which they are Justly entitled. They
are not seeking to repudiate their ob
ligations to the government. All they
are asking is that the government
keep faith with them, and not compel
them to pay the enormous costs piled
up by engineering experiments and
mistakes. They are willing to pay for
their own mistakes, but they contend
that the government should pay for
its mistakes and not charge them up
to the men who own land under the
Irrigation projects.
These landowners further contend
that they are not the only ones who
profit by Irrigation. It means in
creased markets for eastern manufac
turers. It means control of flood wa
ters, thus lessening the expense of
taking cwre of flood waters in the Mis
sissippi valley. It means an almost
national benefit, therefore these Irri
gation farmers feel that they should
not be compelled to bear all of .the
hurden.
Confidence in Secretary.
There Is a general feeling of confi
dence In Secretary Work. Although
he will not get all of the facts from
his commission—nor even a small part
of them—he will get enough to con
vince him of the necessity of a thor
ough investigation of the department
and the doing of simple Justice to
land owners who have l>een exploited
and Jobbed past, endurance.
These fanners are more than will
ing to pay tbe first estimates of the
engineers. They object, and with rea
son, to being compelled to pay two
and three times the original esti
Ponce de Leon’s
Kin Found in Florida
HAEgy -R -PoyrCB |
Mary Ramnndlne Ponce of St.
Augustine, Fla., takes a leading part
lir the annual Ponce de Leon cele
bration Ihere. She Is believed to be
the first actual descendant of Ponce
dc Leon lo he found In this country.
By tracing ancient records in Seville,
Spain, and with the help of the His
torical society of s£ Augustine, Miss
Ponce's ancestors were found to have
possessed lands ceded to thpin by the
Spanish Crown.. In 1824 the fainfly
disposed of these holdings.
mates, together with maintenance
charges two and three times higher
than originally estimated. And the
brutal truth is that unless the Irri
gation farmers of Nebraska, and sev
eral other states, get relief due them,
thousands of them will see their lands
confiscated and the work of years
gone for naught. Borne of the best
irrigated land In the \ alley will lie
Idle this year because the owners can
not meet their payments and pay for
the water necessary to grow 1924
crops.
Prehistoric Tooth Weighing
Two Pounds Found on 1* arm
West Toint, Neb.-. March 23.—A
large petrified tooth of a prehistoric
animal was found by Frit* Wleae In
a small stream on his farm. This
tooth, with a part of a corner miss
ing. weighs more than two pounds.
Mr. Wiese intends to send the tooth
to Lincoln for further investigation.
He believes that the creek contains
more signs of prehistoric life.
W ymore Couple
Wedded 61 Year?
Early Settler* of (rape County
l Are Still Enjoying
Good Health.
Wymore, March 23— Sunday Mr.
and Mr*. Jacob Feaae, early settlers
of Wymore. celebrated their Slat
wedding anniversary at their home
here. They are among the eldest
persons in southern tiage county,
and they have lived together longer
than any other couple in the county.
Mr. Keese is past 82. having been
born on a farm near Burlington, la.,
while .John Tyler was president of
the United States and six years be
fore the close of the Mexican war,
and Mrs. Keese, who was Miss Ahbie
Mains before her marriage, was lsirn
79 years ago In Clairmojit coun
ty. O.
The couple were married in eastern
Iowa in 186*. and eight years later
came to western Iowa, locating at
Tabor. In 1883 they located on farm
land near what is now Odell, this
county, where they resided for nine
yeags, coming from there to Wymore
10 years after this town was
platted, and they have resided hero
continually since that time.
Mr. Keese became an employe of
the Julius Neumann Mercantile com
pany, the first and oldest in AA’y
more, in 1893, and he remained in
that service 27 years, retiring in
1920. He was superintendent of the
Methodist Sunday school in Wymore,
for 17 years, and Mrs. Feese was one
of the first Sunday school teachers
after the ehurch was erected in Wy
more. There are four children, ail
living, nine grandchildren, and 15
great-grandchildren. There has been
but one death in the immediate fam
ily, that of s baby greatgrandchild,
four years ago. The children of the
aged couple are; Cora, wife of Sim
Hogrefe, farmer near Odell; Ida, wife
of Jacob Young, farmer near Odell;
J. p. Feese, physician at Franklin
for 16 years, ex-president of the Or
leans State bank, and now president
of the Franklin State bank, at
Franklin, Neb., and Dr. E. L. Feese,
dentist at AVymore for the past 24
years. The- couple still *njoy fairly
good health, being able to keep room
ers and tend garden at their home
here.
Omaha Woman Heads
State D. A. R. Order
A committee headed by Mr*. J. B.
Reynold* was appointed at the closing
session of the D. A. R. state conven
tion In the Blackstone hotel Satur
day to communicate with the chil
dren of the late Mrs. John M. Thurs
ton regarding better care of her grave
which Is reported In neglected condi
tion.
The following were elected officers:
Mrs. B. M. Anderson, Omaha, corre
sponding secretary: Mrs. York A.
Hinman, North Platte, treasurer;
Mrs. Dr. Potter, Falrbury, historian;
Miss Harriett Ballard, Blair, chaplain;
Mrs. Adam McMullen, Beatrice,
librarian.
The Sedan—$1595, at Flint
Dort, with ten years* experience in automobile mami
• facture, has built both fours and sixes. Today all the
energies of this institution are devoted solely to the
building of six-cylinder cars, because only in a six is it
possible to get that steady, smooth, vibrationless power
flow so vitally important to motoring pleasure. The
pronounced success and widespread popularity of the
Dort Six “Bathed in Oil** engine, bears out this fact.
Dort Sixes $1095 to $1595, at Flint
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NEBRASKA NEWS NUBBINS
j Humboldt—The Home Construction i
company of this city has been award
cri the contract for all new bridges
to be built In Richardson county thle
yea r. t
Humboldt—The American legion
post of Humboldt ha* finished de
thery of 60 American flags and staffs,
which the merchants have agreed to
use for uniform patriotic decorations
Wymore—City Marshal Cs W. Lytle
of Wymore arrested two strange
men. taken from a Burlington train in
the local yards Friday night, and
lodged in the city Jail, charged with
drunkenness and disturbing the
peace. The men were so drunk that
they could not tell their names and
bottles found on each of them were
labeled - Jamaica ginger, sold by an
Omaha drdggist.
Wymore—Grain and livestock ship
ments along the Kansas line west of
here have almost entirely ceased dur
ing the present week, on account of
the almost impassable condition of the
highways. It is also noted that many
more shipments of local freight, such
as butter and eggs, are passing
through here on merchandise trains
since the bad roads set in. This
commodity of freight has been mov
ing mostly by auto truck for tlie last
two or three years.
Wymore—George Sprigel. Gage
rounty Overland automobile salesman,
of Beatrice, passed through here yes
terday, en route back home from
Kentucky, were he went, accompa
nied by C. B. Mumford of Beatrice,
to fulfill an order given him by John
N'. Willy*, president of the AVillys
Knlght Overland company, at Toledo,
ADVERTISEMENT.
Man Made “ Young
At 84 Tells How
He Regained Vigor
Another remarkable report of being
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Kaw City, Okla.
"It ha* simply been wonderful!"
say a Mr. Rowell. "My eyesight is
elearer and my muscles feel supple.
I walk with a firm, springy- step and
now can do a man’s work. I am en
joying a remarkable re-lnvigeratlon
and restoration of gland and nerve
activity, and I feel as young and vig
orous as I did at 30. I have found a
real 'fountain of youth.’ "
Mr. Rowell says he r”ejuvenated"
himself in only ten days by- taking
the recently discovered korek com
pound in tablet form. Many others—
young and old—make similar reports
of their experience with this com
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vigor and premature age. In fact,
letters praising korek are being re
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American distributors of the com
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O., to purchase some good horae*.
They bought three fine saddle horses
at a slock sale and had them shipped
to Toledo.
West Point—Mrs. Bloedorn was de
elated by the board of insanity a At
subject for the asylum In Norfolk
and was taken to that place by Sher
iff Sexton. For some time Mrs.
Bloedorn made her home here In the
home for the aged, but in spite of
the closest wat< hing by the attend*
ants, She had a method of slipping
away from them.
Columbus—The high school gradu
ating class this year will number
about 60 young people, according to
li. B. Mathews, high school principal.
Central City—The negative debating
team of Nebraska Central college
came off victorious over Hastings col
lege here Friday. At Hastings, where
the college s affirmative team ap
peared, the decision was reversed,
Hastings being declared winner. In
both instances the decision was unan
imous.
Ilesliler—The following officials were
elected at the annual meeting of the
Fleshier Woman's club Friday: Presi
dent, Mrs. E. J. Mitchell; vice presi
dent, Mrs. Jl. F. Wolf; secretary,
Mrs. Henry Wittier; assistant secre
tary, Mrs. I,. C. Lentz; treasurer, Mrs.
W. G. Hopfer; assistant treasurer,
Mrs. Henry Albrecht; library trustees,
Mrs. L. C. Lentz and Mrs. Wilfred
Caugh'ey: delegates to district meeting
to be held in Aurora in April, Mrs.
E. J. Mitchell, Mrs. William Cun
ningham and Mrs. S. F. Rinkler.
Columbus—Columbus will have a
spring style show, to be conducted
under 1he «uj>ervi*ion of the board of
director* of the chamber of com
merce. The board ha* detailed Ho
ratio H. Adam*, Toggery manager, to
take over the active promotion of a
style show.
Columbus C. of C. to Probe
City Planning Systems
Columbus’ Neb., March 23— Inves
tigation into the methods of city plan
ning commission* for cities of thl»
size will be the subject of Investiga
tion by Herbert Hahn, secretary of
the Chamber of Commerce. A num
ber of Illintds and Iowa cities the size
of Columbus have followed, on pro
portionate scales, many of the Ideas
employed by the Chicago planning
commission to create a city beautiful.
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