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RAILROAD MAN FOR GOOD ROADS.
Every once in a while some brother rises to his
feet, gets the chairman's attention, and then pro
ceeds to dilate on how the motor truck ia snatching
business out of the hungry maw of the railroad.
Such an one would be benefited if he could take
time to read in the current number of the North
western Railway System Magazine the leading arti
cle by Marvin Hughitt, jr. Mr. Hughitt is a vice
president of the company, and as much interested as
anyone could be in getting freight for the railroad to
haul. He is an ardent advocate of good roads. He
is for good road* because they permit the farmer
to haul bigger loads to market with greater ease and
at less expense.
While he argues from the standpoint of a prac
tical railroad man, looking at the union of two ele
ments of the transportation service, Mr. Hughitt
also has the viewpoint of a good citizer\. He knows
I hat transportation is vital to the welfare of the
nation. What helps the farmer in his big job of
setting produce to market also helps the railroad.
This is true not only in the matter of providing
freight to haul, but in the too oft forgotten factor
>f continuity of service. Interruptions incident to
-iiccessive periods of had roads and good roads loom
jig in the prohlem of furnishing cars to meet de
mands of shippers. This is but one of the places
where the two come together.
Mr. Hughitt also has a thought on the point re
cently referred to by us, in the editorial on “Good
Roads and Their Users.” The thoughts expressed in
hat editorial have been generally approved in let
ers from our readers. It is with the same argument
hat the railroad man concludes his article: *
"Therefore, we would advocate in behalf of tlie
farm and the transportation line, a co-operative plan
ihat will serve both of them by good road construc
tion that will penetrate the farm community and
serve as a feeder to the steam line, thus promoting
real service.
"tVhile fully appreciating fhe demand for good
toads that parallel steam lines we would suggest
that such roads should he constructed and main
tained by those who make the principal use of them.
The farmer should not be taxed for roads used
primarily for the pleasure or profit of some one else,
nor should the steam railroad be taxed to build and
maintain the roadbed of a competing commercial
transportation enterprise.
"In the Interest of good business and fair play,
trucks and other vehicles in commerce should ba re
quired to pay a license fee commensurate with the
\atuc of the service secured to them in the use of
good loads."
ARCHDUKE WHO DIED A SOVEREIGN.
If in very truth John Salvator is finally dead
and buried, a paragraph will be written in the run
ning story of the scandal that surrounds the House
of Hapsburg. Whether any of the yarns that have
been told of him be true, or if any of the many
reasons cited for his disappearance from the Court
of Vienna be the correct one, the fact is that he
stepped out of a brilliant circle into the obscurity
of private citizenship. The rest of the tale is hia.
If he did disclose his identity to anyone, that also
was his affair.
What he did was to escape the exactions of
the life, to which he objected, dangling around
the imperial throne of Austria. No court in Europe
shone with greater brilliance. None, except per
haps that of Spain, was governed by more rigorous
discipline. With an extreme of courtly etiquette
and polished address went an extreme of brutality.
Beginning with the emperor and going down through
the minute but carefully demarked gradations of
rank, the man above was permitted and privileged
to visit any sort of indignity on the one below.
The inferior must accept whatever he received,
no matter how humiliating or degrading. Hia only
recourse was to pass it on to the man below him.
Out of such artificiality passed Johan, arch
•duke and next to the throne itself, leaving behind
him a broken sword. According to some accounts,
an emperor with two well-blackened eyes and a
sorely bruised body. If this is true, Johan possessed
both spirit and enterprise. Austria might have been
better off if more such men hsd sprouted from the
Hapsburg tree. If the latest story from Brooklyn
is true, John Salvator, American citizen, lived to see
the throne at. Vienna emptied of its pride and crum
bled, into dust^ while he died sovereign of his own
soul, a power Emperor Franz Josef never possessed.
NELSON THE VIKING.
I ne of the wonders of man’s experience is the
«' uraga of the old vikings, who put out to sea in
their long ships, and took a chance on what might
happen. The biggest of these boats would about
make a goorf sized tender for a modern ocean going
vessel, and they were at all times open to the
weather. Yet in them the Norsemen challenged old
Neptune, and casually made their way in all sorts of
weather from port to port. They did not hesitate
to venture where they never had been, if only there
was the promise of a good light or a load of loot at,
the end of the voyage.
One of the descendants of these vikings brought
hia ship into Philadelphia, 23 days out from home,
after sailing through a continuous storm. "The
winds were playful,” said Captain Christian Nelson,
after he had berthed his ship in a safe harbor. He
was 13 days late, because, as he said, he no sooner
maneuvered his ship out of the path of one gale
until he encountered another. We who live on
shore grumble at a day or two of stormy weather.
Ilshat of the three weeks on end that this modern
viking had to put up with?
" It was men of Nelson’s type who spread civili
zation over the world. Great, mass movements of
men were possible on land. It look the sailor to
conquer the terror of the ocean, to carry commerce
over the seas, to bring together men who otherwise
never would have met. From the time the firat
[ Phoenician captain set his prow to the west on the
inland sea down to Christian Nelson, there stretches
a glorious company of bold adventurers and cour
ageous explorers to whom the world owes 'a debt
that never can be paid. Sailors are a commonplace
' nowadays, but the romance of the sea has not been
exhausted.
COUNCIL BLUFFS REPUBLICANS AWAKE.
We heartily congratulate the republicans of Coun
cil Bluffs on the splendid victory won in the city
election on Monday. It was a clean-cut triumph,
and places control as well as responsibility in the
hands of republicans. Ordinarily, city elections
turn on local issues purely, and are not regarded as
reliable indications of the general sentiment. In this
case, however, considerable more than a merely local
result may be noted.
A popular democratic mayor was defeated by a
republican; a popular democratic park commission
er will turn over his office,to a republican. The
same is true of the city engineer. The republican
nominee for city treasurer went in, and the repub
lican city attorney succeeds himself. Four of the
six aldermen elected are republicans. Such a Sweep
ing of the platter as this can only be accomplished
by concerted and well directed action, supported by
efficient working party organization.
The effect of this will be noted in November
next, for national victory begins at the precinct
elections. A militant party organization gains its
strength from units that are knit together, firm in
their determination to carry on for the right as their
party represents it. Such an organization is noted
at work in Council Bluffs, where the republicans
gained their victory after one of the most heated
campaigns in recent times.
It shows that the party h*s not been weakened
by the slanders that have come from the Washing
ton mill. Republican voters have the courage to
meet the foe, and to boldly and firmly stand for
what the party represents. Undaunted by the demo
cratic attacks, the voters of the grand old party in
Council Bluffs have paved the way for an even great
er victory at the polls in November next.
FOOTBALL STARS TO CONTROL.
New York is moving to a solution of the subway
traffic jams that might have suggested itself long
ago. Police Commissioner Enright has put on a
special squad of former football players at the
Grand Central station, whose especial duty it is to
apprehend those who crowd or push unnecessarily.
Traffic jams result from a single cause. Everybody
wants to get away first. Instead of moving orderly,
and thus gaining timp, all join in the rush, and no
body can make progress, save at expense of much
personal discomfort and that of others.
Omaha has not yet reached the point where traf
fic jams are serious, for our streets are broad and the
passage of a fairly large and steady stream of traffic
is easy. Yet even with this advantage, blockades
do at times occur, and mishaps without number are
noted, merely because somebody thinks of his own
progress and disregards the rights of others to use
the same street or sidewalk over which he is career
ing. No traffic rule will reach this individual, and
as he multiplies traffic jams increase.
Order is the only remedy for the evil. How to
instill a sense of order into the multitude is quite
another question. When all are going the one way
at the same time, it seems too much to ask anyone
to give up a place for another. It is not asking too
much though to suggest that those who are second or
third in line do not try to displace those who arc
ahead of them.
We must all get the habit of now and then elect
ing ourselves to take second place or somewhere back
of it in the line and move accordingly. *Then, and
only then, will street traffic jams disappear.
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Revenue and bonus bills are having a hard time
of it with the oil and oiher scandals going on. Front
page space is pretty well mortgaged these days.
Columbus Junction has just elected a woman1
government. Old-timers hereabouts will recall that
there is where “June” Whelan got his name.
General Ludendorff was acquitted of a charge
of treason by the court at Munich, but he still is
under suspicion of having been a dam fool.
“National prohibitions laws must be enforced,”
runs the instruction from the head office in Omaha.
All that remains now is to do it.
Poison hootch gathered in six more victims in
one batch at Toledo, and there was not one boot
legger among them.
A flying field named for Jarvis Offutt will serve
to keep alive the name of a gallant youth who gave
his life for liberty,
A local candidate complains the campaign is
quiet. Wait till the sun shines and then see the boys
get busy.
Spring must be here. They are talking over in
Chicago of adjourning their building campaign
again.
Eric von Stroheim may be a devil before the
camera, but a Los Angeles judge tamed him in
court.
If the tmning-up roars of the Lions mean any
thing, Omaha is going to have some party in June.
April 1 went by without any building trades
strike. Let us keep up that record indefinitely.
What will an Ak-Sar-Ben parade look like with
out Ev Buckingham and Charlie Black?
Council Bluffs "seen her duty and done it.”
Homespun Verse
—By Omaha’* Own Poet—.
Robert Worthington Davie
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FISHING AND FISH.
I've read the tnlea nf fishermen, and I have fished a bit
I've tried my lurk In ralin bayou, In rolling lake
and brook,
I ve *hared the deep suspense that Is the saddest pait
nf"lt,
And I have tried In vain to Ret the fish to bite Ihe
hook.
I've tried a store of roaxing srhame* and used the
proper bait.
I ve seen the fleh Jump high shove Ihe water,—
teaalngly; '
Upon the hank I've stood from dawn till night nil
growing late
And sensed the shame of seeing f1»h with rudeneas
laugh al me.
Bui In life's whirl of sundry things the human flah
i espond
Wdhout delay nr t h'nug hi fulness to halted hooka
and surh,
Ar.I thus It seems an atrange that those In river, lake
and pnnd
Hive been endowed with w lednm nhlrh the othei*
need so much
— Koke t Worthington Davie,
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Letters From Our Readers
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<i% 11 on i of word* and leea will He given preference.
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About the Bonus Hill.
Sutherland. Neb.—To the Editor of
The Omaha Bee: It is with no little
pleasure that each morning just be
fore "starting to punch the Keys" l
always pick up The Omaha Bee to
read your splendid editorials, Bris
bane's column and "Sunny Side Up."
written every day as only W. M. can
do It. Then, too, being an ex-service
man, 1 am always Interested in the
news regarding adjusted compensa
tion. The new bill which has passed
the house and now in the senate is
fine, I think, but which is. however,
the cue for the following:
Bonus Hill Needs Filin'.
Now. 'tain't as if I think the boys are
not entitled to some more,
'N especially those that saw service
on the other shore.
But just the same, it sort of some
how seems to me
That this new bonus bill ain't drafted
Just like it ’orter lie.
Insurance part is fine—they don't get
it for twenty years.
But after careful study, don't look
so good as It at first appears.
Seems to tne that U'ncle Sam had bet
ter watch his p's and q's
Or else an awful sum he stands a
chance to lose.
Just supposin’ now, say within the
next five or six year
That from coast to coast we once
again the cry should hear—
"War's declared," 'n the boys ail
called again to beat the Dutch
l'ncle Sam might lose some dough—
ever figure out how much?
'N so I makes a motion that to this
bill we adds this clause.
“In case of war. insurance all is can
celed." Well, because
Figurin’ the boys might aft get killed.
'n figurin’ the insurance rate.
Gosh, Fncle Sam could never stand 1
it the risk Is too darned great.
HAROLD L. DL'NN.
Exposing the Conspirators.
Red Cloud, Neb.—To the Editor of
The Omsha Bee: The people of the
country are being given a rare oppor
tunity to view the inside workings
of the commercial conspiracy classes
who live by plundering the public and
polluting the body politic with bribery
and other criminal practices.
It has long been known that these
cunning person* were engaged in a
nefarious practice which would long
ago have resulted in destroying the
morals of a less Intelligent and pa
triotic people than ours are. and
would have produced anarchy and the
destruction of the social fabric but
for the steady going nature of our
citizens.
This 1* » big. healthy country,
abounding In unlimited resources,
which explains the ever increasing
assaults made on the rights of the
general public without regard or con
alderation for the consequences to
either the country or the moral effect
on the public, and it haa reached such
proportions that concealment could
no longer.be made, with the result
the whole scheme is being exposed
to the gaze of the nation. It is just
as well it is so, for the people have too
long been led to believe in and wor
ship political frauds and persons who
In reality werq actually undeserving
of their personal freedom, and who
should long ago have been behind
prison bars. It looks as though some
of them would before long be met by
a reception committee In charge of
the federal prison, nnd it Is to be
hoped the original briber and ac
ceptor will receive his juat deaert* in
punlahment for disregarding all the
rulea which govern and make posal
hle the existence of a nation such ss
we have today.
This Is not a political situation
which besmirches either party, but
catches tjie so-called "higher ups" in
both parties In official life at Wash
ington. The snake fastened its head
in the White House, where the presi
dent dwells, and wiggles Its tall over
all the remainedr of our fair land,
poisoning and polluting everything
and every person it touched.
We have witnessed the president
fbeing thrown under suspicion of be
ing in league with these criminal con
spirators: have seen a cabinet officer
caught in lies when accused of ac
cepting bribes and hiding In shame
while under surveillance by secret
service operatives: have received the
report of the suicide of the attorney
general’s friend because his mind was
not strong enough to longer carry the
fear of being caught In connection
with accepting money in return for
bartering away government privileges
and protection to law violators; we
--
are now witnessing the most repulsive
exposure imaginable in connection
with the affairs of Attorney General
Daugherty's administration; Colonel
Forbes of the Veterans' bureau, under
Indictment for graft of funds In bis
department; two congressmen ready
to be indleted in Chicago: the lioose
velta rushing before the investigating
committee to say they were not a
party to the oil frauds; we have
learned the late President llarding
twice Investigated Secretary Mellon
of the Treasury department and
caught him the last time—and he still
holds office; and will soon witness
further exposures never dreamed of,
but let us not get excited over the sit
uation, for the string of guilty will
most likely reach clear back into the
Cleveland administration, providing
there are any of the ''saints” still
living. Nevertheless, it is a lesson to
the public, and one not to be forgot
ten soon.
A few' men in the United States sen
ate, like Senators Norris of Nebraska
and Capper of Kansas have long tried
to make the public realize what, was
going on at Washington and have
pleaded in vain for the people to elect
men to office who would assist in pro
tecting the public from the ravages
of the criminal commercial conspira
tors, and it now begins to look as
though their years of work had borne
fruit which will not "frost kill’’ for
many years to come.
J,et the people awake to the situa-,
tlon and realize it is their own fault
this deplorable condition exists. It
can only he remedied when the voter
uses intelligence enough to vote for
honest, capable candidates for office,
and it is the voter's right and duty
to bq certain of a candidate's position
before placing him in any position of
trust or authority. A. C, POTTER.
About tlie Woman.
Omaha.—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: I was much Interested
In the article, "Are Men More Do
mestic Than Women?” by Fanny
Heaslip Lea, In Sunday's Bee. I
think she has the situation figured
out about right, only that she did
not tell us how the America* man
has spoiled the female sex by being
overkind and Indulgent. What has
become of the good old-fashioned
home making women of our grand
mothers’ time? There are a few of
them left, but they are getting scarcer
every day. In their place we have the
modern flapper and the girl who
paints and powders her face until she
is as sweet as a peach in September.
But, oh dear! If one could see how
."catty” they are at home sometime*,
you might conclude that the sex was
no better today than they were lie j
fore the foolish men gave them the
right to vote.
Then she writes like the man
might be conceited enough to think
he was the "boss ” What a mistaken
idea at this date. It is no wonder
that the more home loving man. who
has a little money or property, hesi
tates before getting married nowa
days. fie might get sued for divorce
and alimony the next week after
wards. I have every respect for the
bueiness woman, who earns her own
living. But. when a woman ven
tures out in matrimony, she should
he willing to do her share of home
making ae well as the man.
EX BACHELOR.
Family Jobs.
i ' How would you like a Job healing
rugs this afternoon, Bobby?’’ asked
Bobby * mother.
"All right.’’ replied Bobby, atigeli
cally. "but I'm afraid I ean't take it,
because Dad gave me 25 rents to do
something for him this afternoon."
•'What was that?”
•\Vbt make a lot of noise?'—Every
body's Magazine.
Abe Martin
Dyspepsia 'll work wonders, hut
a feller ought t' he a good all
around failure t' he what we’d call
n fancy cynic. We recall when th'
doctor got th' longest an’ widest
whiskers got th' business. Some
times they’d git caught in his saw.
or tickle a wound, hut he cleaned
up th’ dough.
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TUr \V»»liiiiKlon Probes.
From lb. Salt Lake Tribune
In the course of one of the investi
gations now in progress In Washing
ton it was determined lev the. senate
committee lliat there should tie an
examination of contributions to the
publican national campaign fund in
1920. A proposal to call certain wit
nesses for questioning was made and
promptly adopted. riome of these
witnesses have lieon interrogated and
others are to In- questioned.
Now a member of the investigating
eommiltee proposes that contribu
tions lo the democratic campaign
fund hi 1920 lie looked into, .lust
as promptly the committee authorizes
this inquiry. There were no votes
1^1 opposition lo the proposal lo scru
tinize the democratic campaign ac
counts, nor was there any opposition
vote when it Was proposed to Inves
tigate the contributions lo the re
publican war idlest. •
It Is difficult, of course, to keep
the senatorial investigations free from
the flavor of politic*. The natural
desire to reap partisan advantage
crops out now and then, but the very
political aspect of the scandals is
making certain that the investiga
tion will get to the bottom of mat
ters. at whatever cost. Any opposi
tion to a proposal to open new chan
nels to exploration would have a
riastv appearance; hence the unanim
ity with which such proposals are
ordered.
The public reaction lo the Wash
ington disclosures is having its full
effect at the capital. If partisunism
creeps into the Investigations it will
only serve to sink the probe deeper
into the nasty mess. So there is
little reason for regretting the rather
unmistakable trend of the senatorial
i inquisitions
On Your Feet!
From the Philadelphia Bulletin
It isn't stated when or where or,
how Nathaniel Talmer lost his two
legs. He may have been a cripple
from the day of his birth. More
likely he was the victim of a railroad
accident. Anyway, he had no legs a
decade and a half ago. With a pair
of sandals on his stumps and a
twelve-inch cane in his hand, he had
dragged himself about the streets of
Brooklyn for tifteen years, begging
for pennies as he offered unwanted
notions for sale. Anil then something
happened lo hi* tnind or soul, or
whatever one chooses to call that part
of a man which®* not physical.
Talmer decided a few months ago
that he had had enougli of creeping
and crawling and cringing and grovel
ing and whining and lieggin^. He
decided that he was sick of being a
cumberer of the ground, in every
body's way, his head hardly above
the knees of other folks. In short
he decided to buy for himself a pair
of artificial legs and lift himself to
the level of the people all about him.
He decided to get a regular Job and
I go to work like ary other self respect
ling man.
This he has now done and ot ms
experience he says. "You don’t know
what it means to be able to look a
man straight in the eye after grovel
ing round at his feet for fifteen
'ears." It Is an old proverb that no
one can lift himself with his own
boot strap. Hut Talmer has proved
both to himself and to his friends
that a man can. by determination
and a pair of artificial legs, lift him
self in his own estimation and in the
good opinion of others.
The story has its application for
lots of folks who wre not physical
cripples. Plenty of people are prac
tically legless—so far as their wills
are concerned. They grovel about in
a moral of self pity. Iieggirg lor doles
of sympathy, not having enough
gumption to stand erect and faie
their fellows eye to eye in the strug
gles of life Kven so great a man
as Thomas Carlyle, in his autobio
graphical "Sartor Resartus." describes
a conversion not unlike that of Nr
thaniel Talnier—when he decided once
and for all to quit whining against
Fate and be a man.
Capitalizing Sentiment.
Although a waiter, he was very
human, so when he perceived that
the young couple assigned to his
tabla had many matters of a tender
and confidential nature to discuss he
withdrew to a respectful 'distance and
stared at the opposite wall.
k “Don't stand away hack there.'
said the proprietor coming up. ' Go
and hang over that fellow » chair for
awhile.
"But they want to talk privately,"
raid the waiter.
"Of course they do." returned hi*
hcifs. "That s why 1 want you to butt
in Every time you come near they
will send you to the kitchen for a
fresh order to get you out of the
nay."—Boston Transcript.
Routed, Stewed. Hashed Mimed.
There were callers at the hous"
and little Charles felt that he ahould
contribute something to the conver
sation. "We're had chicken four
times this week.-’ he offered politely.
"Four chickens? What luxury!" e«
elaimed one of the visitors, smiling.
"Oh. no. said Charles. “It was th#
same chicken."—(Exchange.
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Hie bass jumpin' an' th' ring perch bitin
I gotta. study an' practice writ in'.
Mull frog a croakin' by th' swlnimtn' pool
Hut I gotla slay in tins doggone school'
Kisliworms licggiu' t’ be used f'r twit.
But ol' school ain't out an’ I gotta wait.
tlreen things n grow In’ ever'where I look.
But I gotta study tills blamed ol' book.
Ain't a bltta use in ibis doggone thing
ii' keepin’ up school when if'a done turned splint
A feller runnln’ loose will Ipain a lot. more
Than a bein' penned up from k till 41
I>a says N.itur' knows moron teachers d".
An' my pa's Jus' right, I'm a tellin you.
But. dpggonit ’tall, pa jus' says, "Son,
You inns' ke/p guln' till th' school year's done.
It's funny t' me pa ud talk that way—
Then make me hustle oft t' school each day.
I can't hardly wait f'r th' Inst o' May,
F'r then comes what they call Commencement Uay.
There ain't no sense In 'at as 1 kill »ce;
'Stead o' commencement it's th’ end f'r me.
Clive three rousin' cheer* when I hit th' door.
'Cause schools goin' t' close f’r three months more'
Again, by the way, now that proholntion has forever put
to sleep the old "wet or dry” fights we used to have in the old
days, we wonder what small cities like North Bend find to
scrap about at their annual spring elections. We gathered from
a few hours' wait there that they were having a red-hot cam
paign, but we couldn't rjulte make out what it was all about.
One thing sure, it wasn't over license or no license, like we used
to have it when we were new "papering in that burg.
Bill tiallocks. back in the old hom. town in Missouri, was
a little bit the best speechifler we had in our midst. U e a!
ways nsrd Bill on the Fourth of .fuly, and our colored friends
and brothers always had him down for an address on the
Fourth of August. The only trouble with Bill was that he
wasn't content to speak when called on. He insisted on
speechifying on all occasions.
He always showed up at town meetings for civic better
ment to throw monkey-wrenches in the machinery. He sup
ported candidates for city ofTh-p at one election, only to abuse
them and oppose them at the next election. If he djdn t get
, what he wanted he sulked and pouted and knocked. When
Cleveland was elected in 1?S4 Bill asked for an appointment
to a foreign conaulaie. and it was astonishing how unanimously
we all signed his petition.
The only trouble with Bill was that he took himself too
durned seriously. Whatever was was wrong, according to Bill.
His political gyrations would have been a delight all the time
if they hadn't been so darned annoying most of the time.
The assertion that bobbed hair means a race of baidheaded
women In the near future, won't do. If she wants it bobbed,
bybbed she'll have it if she has to wear a wig next week.
The moral of this reminiscence lies in the application of it.
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