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The Omaha Bee MORN1N G—E V E N I N G—S U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO, Puhlimkmr N. R. UPDIKE. President ! BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLE*. Editor in Chief Business Manaffer MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tha Associated Press, of which The Bee fa a member, exclusively entitled to tha use for republication of all news dispafcles credited to it or not olherw{sa credited in thie osoer. and also the local news published herein All rights of republicans of our special dispatches are also reserved. The Omaha Bee is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognized authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee's circulation is regularly audited by their organizations. Entered a* second-class matter May 28, 1908. at Omaha postoffice under act of March 3. 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for » *r i _»• i non the Department or Person Wanted. ^ * IRIliIC 1WV OFFICES Main Office—17lh and Farnam Co. Bluffs—15 Scott SU So. Side.N. W Cor 24th N. New York—World Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. Kansas City—Brvant Bldg. St. Louis—Syn. Trust Bldg. Los Angeles—Higgins Bldg San Fran.—Hollrook Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg. -1---—-' OmahaWhefe fleetest is at its Best MR. WALSH’S DRAMATIC ANGER. Wrangling, angry partisans on the floor of the United States senate very nearly have turned that ancient seat of dignity and urbanity into a veritable bear pit. Watson of Indiana and Ashurst of Ari zona almost came to blows, and Walsh of Montana "sank back into the chair, his face scarlet, his breath coming short, and shaking.” This was the culminat ing point of a day of sharp exchange of personali ties, of bitter expressions, and charges of delay for political reasons. For weeks the democrats have engaged in unre stricted denunciation of the administration, con demning its policies, assailing the president, the cab inet, and everybody in responsible position. Charges of all sorts, even to the verge of treason, have been heard, and many times the question has been asked how long the course could be pursued. In this case Senator Watson charged that the oil investigation had gone far afield in an effort to make political scandal. After having proved the case, he said, the pursuit had become broadcast in the effort to dis credit the president with the people. It was to this that Senator Walsh took such exception, alleging • that he 'was being personally criticized because of his connection with the affair. * * * Watson had told the senate he has no thought of terminating any inquiry, that he will continue as chairman of the committee to investigate the revenue bureau, and that the democrats may go as far as they like. He added, though. "The senate is lower in public esteem than ever before, and as the senate has deteriorated, the president has gone up.” Nothing was more certain than that the proceed ings of the investigating committees would come on for discussion on the floor of the senate, nor could anything have been looked for other than that the methods adopted would come in for the rebuke they deserve. Senator Walsh should not complain if his motives are interpreted in the light of his conduct. He was in possession of the main facts in regard to the oil scandal for many months. The inquiry could have been held a year ago, but that was too soon to affect the course of the campaign of 1924. Conse quently, the inference is justified that the senator waited until his bomb would do the most damage. He wanted the smoke it would raise to serve as a screen for the democrats during the presidential cam paign. Nor was he content with b-inging out the charge of bribery against Albert B. Fall. For days he al lowed discredited men and women, confessed spies, former felons and the like, to pour out the foulest of slander and libel against public officials. Not only the living but the dead were assailed. While Walsh was directing this, Ashurst, Carraway, Robinson, Heflin, Harrison, Dill and other democratic senators were encouraging him by their applause on the floor. It was their festival, and they enjoyed it to the limit Now, when a republican points out the effdet of what was done, the only effect that might have been expected, Walsh gets too angry to talk. Ashurst vents his ire upon Watson because the latter ques tions the propriety of attacking the secretary of the treasury for no better reason than that certain inter ested persons want to vent their spite on him. Couzens, who wants the Volstead act modified, and Pinchot, who wants it literally enforced, demand An drew Mellon's official scalp, and the democrats are willing to give it to them, because that will be an other bit for use in the campaign. Plainly, the thought of justice to individuals, or the preservation of good government, has no place in the democratic program. Heflin's boast that the trail of oil scandal would be carried through the White House has failed, but the determination to pursue party politics rather than public business is ms strong as ever. No relief will be given the public in any way. Farmers will be left to suffer, taxes will not be reduced, the business of the government will be allowed to get on as best it can, but the in vestigations will continue. Just where the further munition is to come from is not disclosed, but if mud can be discovered, it will be thrown. • • • Out of it all stands clearly one fact disappoint ing to the democratic faction, but consoling to all Americ,an» who retain faith in the institutions of their government. The president has not stampeded. Calmly he has viewed the turmoil at the Capito’, courageously he has met each question that has come to him for action, and persistently has he appealed to congress to do something besides wrangle. He has been neither schoolmaster nor dictator, but ha* carefully kept within the constitutional limits of his office, and has as completely kept the legislative branch within it» bounds. Watson is right. The president has gone up in public esteem as the senate has gone down. Coolidge has gained, while the on slaught of his partisan opponents has cost them much. It is the public that ha* suffered through the Walsh tactics, not the president. TASTING THE EVIDENCE. An alert lawyer is going to establish the right of the jury to test evidence submitted in cases under the Volstead act. He alleges it is incumbent on the government to prove that the liquor offered in evi dence is such as is forbidden by law. To allow the jurymen to decide by the simple process of sampling the proof Is illegal, according to the attorney. This will strike most folks ** a quibble, hut it h*s some merit in the finer-spun processes of law. A rule Just laid down by the circuit court of appeals up hold! tha aontonUon, to far aa proving tbs nature of the liquid in question is concerned. The law sets up a standard of alcoholic content beyond which the beverage can not go. A simple chemical analysis is all that is necessary to determine this. As to the exact nature of the liquor, we doubt if the jury under ordinary conditions would be able to decide. The specific terfns of “whisky,” “gin,” etc., have long since lost their significance. Con templating the situation, one is reminded of the old time bartender who served bourbon with his right hand and rye with his left, and it all came out of the same bottle. In each case the customer was satisfied. Synthetic gin and “white mule” look and act so nearly alike that ‘•The man who quarrels for the difference of hue Deserves not the radiance (hey shed o’er the soul." We earnestly hope and trust the appeal may be prosecuted to the final determination, so that in the future courts may proceed with the certainty essen tial to secure full compliance with the law. Let us have nothing left to speculation when it comes to deciding issues involving bootleggers. JOHN C. WHARTON. A considerable gap is left in the ranks of the bar in Nebraska by the passing of John C. Wharton, who for 37 years was actively identified with the practice of the profession in the state. It was not only in his profession, however, .that Mr. Wharton' impressed himself on the public mind. He had a great share in many activities apart from the courts, in which his sound and generous judgment was always an asset. Mr. Wharton is entitled to be listed as a builder of the community, not merely because he had a share in forwarding its material welfare, but as a factor in its moral advancement. • He took an active interest in religious work. He felt it his duty in this respect as sincerely as in any. Without ostenta tion or parade he at all times zealously labored to make the conditions of life around him cleaner and stronger. In politics he was a republican, and, without seeking office or preferment, he assumed burdens and responsibilities in the management of the party’a affairs, both in the state and in the nation, serving for years as the financial representative of the na tional committee in Nebraska. As postmaster he made many improvements in the service, doing much to increase the efficiency of the local plant, so that it would be up to the needs of a city which was growing faster than the high-ups in the department seemed to realize. The Y. M. C. A. was his particular hobby, and the young men of Omaha enjoy many things they would not have had were it not for John C. Wharton. No where will his big booming voice be missed more than around the “Y” building. The "foghorn” is silent forever on this earth. CANADIAN COMPETITION CUT OFF. "The 12-cent increase in duty on Imports of wheat from Canada (from 30 to 42 cents a bushel), put in effect April 6 by the president under the flexi lde provision of the tariff law, lias virtually stopped such imports. Figures of the Department of Com merce show wheat imports from Canada for the week preceding April 6 were 2,260.000 bushels, while only 37,000 bushels were imported the week follow ing."—Capper s Weekly. Just what the tariff was intended to do. A flood of Canadian wheat was pouring over the northern border, affecting the market for the home-grown grain. Canada produces wheat at a far less cost than the United States, and rati well afford to sell at a lower price. Therefore the farmer of Nebraska is unable to compete with the farmer of Sakatche wan or Alberta. The only way to equalize the rela tions between the two is by imposing a tariff, and this is republican policy. Let down the bars, and Nebraska farmers will lose even more money which will go to enrich the wheat raisers of our northern neighbor. That is the democratic .policy. The next great step in the farmer’s program is a curtailment of production. This action is as essential as the tariff. These two steps, tariff and curtailed production, form the cornerstone of the farmer’s program advocated by The Omaha Bee. The first part of the program has been put into effect. It is now up to the farmers to take the second step. With these two steps taken the farmer’s great prod uct, wheat, will sell in a domestic market at domes tic prices. A 14-year-old wife in Florida slipped a poison tablet into her Imsband’s coffee, "just to make him sick.” It workcohll right. The husband died. Running arms to Cuba nowadays is not so ex citing as it was a few years ago. The government buys openly and the rebels are broke. Senator Walsh has dug up another witness who knows all about it, but he has produced no new stuff. The inquiry must be nearing its end. The Des Moines jury that thought the reporter was crazy need not feel so bad. Even city editors have made the same mistake. We trust the reduction in freight rates on roal will hold good until after the bins tre all filled against next winter. Nebraska’s per capita wealth looks very nice on paper, but most of the inhabitants have to hustle for a living, just the same. Mr. McAdoo is assured of the support of Texas and Oklahoma democrats, a tribute to his law practice and movie stunts. Japanese exclusion will go over as unfinished business, but an end must be made to it some time. May’s trick* with the thermometer are Interest ing, but far from entertaining. California’s native sons seem to be unbending to ward outlanders. * II ■ - 1 ■ ■■ - -.■ ■ " 'V Homespun Verse —By Omaha's Oyn Post— Robert Worthington Davie -: THE PREACHER’S SON. The preacher's son Is not so had! - A hoy's a boy In »plt# of Ihe vocation of hi* dad; - He's full of vim and bright. Because Ilia faHier lives to strive Kor higher faith and trust. We would the boy his joy* deprive And censure him unjust. Much has been written and been said About the preacher's son Until to wit the phase has fled. To end the story run. But now and then a preacher's child, Unshackled, flees the fold. And to the multitude seems wild A* In Ihe day* of old. But urchins good are very few A* "good" precisely read*. And hoy* may live and never rue Their primal prank* and deeds, And If Ihe liveliest need claim flood ministers for dads, I vouch for their *ui'cce*a and fume, » And suvy ih*ir, ■■ lads. IVE! BEEN TELLINGr ' } HIM HOWAlt OlTR "WHY SURE,LOOK PRESIDENTS HAD ATGEORC? TO WORK WHEN WASHINGTON 7HEV WERE ANDAERAHAM little Lincoln soys — 7* —--—« ----' Letters From Our Readers All lettere tnnul be tlcned. but name w III be withheld upon requeat. fnmmnnl ratlom of 2041 words and Irea will be siren preferenee. k . -> Sara I). Jenkins. New York.—To the Kditor of The Omaha Hee: There died laet week in Oswego, N. Y., one of those rare dominating personalities whose Jnflu ence her many pupils of Omaha and of the state of Nebraska will carry to their graves. Possessed of magnetism and Insight Mrs. Sara D. Jenkins, at the Peru Normal, laid before the then future teachers of the state (many still doing efficient work in the ranks) such standards anil ideals of work whleh. after more than 30 years of their practical application in the school room, have distinctness and command respect. A movement on foot to erect a tab let to be placed by her pupils on her grave haa brought forth nemarkable evidences of the force of her cork which remains vivid to this day. The dean of your Commercial High will forgive me. I am sure, when I quote from her letter which I hold In my hand: "Whatever of success has attended mv efforts at teaching has been largely due to the principles which she hammered In with precept and example more than a generation ago. I also know that the educational world haa not yet caught up with her teachings of 40 years ago." A former Nebraskan, a professional man. residing In an eastern state, says: "With one exception, she did more for me lhan any Instructor 1 ever had." A teacher In I.ong Island City writes: "I wish I might adequately express my appreciation of her thor ough Instruction and the intimate per aonal Interest she took In rny profes slonal equipment and advancement Through her l have had opportunities and experience* 1 would not have missed at any cost." The head of the department of Frenrh In the Cnlversity of Chat r-*--1 Abe Martin V _» V* Our idee o’ cool restraint is when a feller’s wife meets his stenograph er. We don't see how anything that's dressed as thin as a woman kin set out a circus. (Copyright t • 2 4 > NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for March, 1924, of THE OMAHA BEE j Dali* . i Sunday .... Dn#t not liulud* roturtia, loft • vrrt, umplu «» p4pm ipoilfd in printing and Inrludr* no iprrlal soles or fir* circulation of any kind V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. Sukarribtd and awom to bsforo ms this 4th dap of April. 1*24. j W. M. QUIVEY. (Sool) Notary Public i ■■■■■—■■ % (atmoga says: “With affection and gratitude 1 remember that through her has grown up my life work." The writer consider* Mr*. Jenkins to have been the most remarkable person, man or woman, whom she has ever met. Doubtless each of us treasure cer tain striking events or movements bo trrise as to tie remembered among our holy of holies. Such a one Is an oc casion when conducting the morning exercises In chapel, standing at Jhe hark of her chair, with her bead like eyes fairly gleaming, with never a glance at the text; she spoke the selected words from the Bible with wonderful solemnity snd impression. Something happened that morning that I shall never forget. MAROARRT H. READ. The Hoys' I'aratle. Chadron, Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Did you s*e the parade on Thursday last? It was a gladsome sight To see the malty handsome lads With eyes so bright. And to see the flush of happiness O'erspreadtng each fair cheek. As the boys matched together Celebrating Boys' week. May OOd Ides* each little marcher All over this fair land, Tmhulng them with courage And with a spirit grand. And may He lead their footsteps Only where the path* sre fair— Ever onward, ever upward— is each parent's fervent prayer. WINNIFRED BEATTY. ( hall-man llitrhrork'a I'leading. Omaha—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: When former Senator Hitchcock appeared before the recent democratic state convention he dla covered that the delegates were prac tically the same men and women whom he had addressed In this state in 1920 and 1922. The former senator le a master pleader and he always bans hi* hook for republican votes. We are concerned with only one paragraph In this political kimono in the Hitchcock fashion parade: “The republican policy of deflation in cred Its and currency set forth In the re publican platform of 1920 depressed our prices ' The ex senator does not appreciate the Intelligent e of his for mer constituency very highly when Its thinks we have waited till this late day to learn where the deflation came from. <>n the Uth day of May, 1920. *ev eral weeks liefore th# republican na tlonal convention, the entire member ship of the Federal Reserve board, every member being an apputeiee of a democratic president, met in a *e tret conspiracy with some of the in ternational bankers and brokers and decreed to rob th# producers of their savings. Not one of those democratic When in Omaha Hotel Gonant 250 Rooms—250 Btth>—Ritrs $2 to $3 ADVKHTlSrMKNT Has Your Husband Got Indigestion Nothing ri#at"* dnmaatfc discord quick ar than an attack of Ind igcadon, and I nothin* «a»a rut Of IndlgaattOn quicker than Risuratad Nfagnaala. No man ran ha sasat t am pared, good naturail or a\an fa Ir rnlndad whan hla stomach 1a constant ly tick, sour. s*»ft.V. and upart with aflor "Mint dlaitt"" If your husband has stomach tinuhl" nclthar wold nor pity him. but h"lp him It> """lot that h" haa n ptipplv of til*ur*t"d Maan<*la falthai I'tDMici in taMHa) tunatanilv at hand A (t*B.b|ittonfm hi uontlai oi lw« igl'l" a n « llltl" watar afl"i ma*)« will inataniM nau t rail as tha at td" in hla moniat It that a» " causing hla trouhla and ha can an toy hla ni"ala with no mora fear of India"* Hon ftlatiratrd Mar.n"*i* la tha apai lal form of M*Rn"aln uaad l»v thousand* to n*utrali*q ptnmat h acidity and ijut« Ub ov"t« oiiio indlgaatlon do not ronfuna with Milk, t'srhonats. hlnrk or Cicala of Mag naala Insist on Hlaiii|t«<l Ha action !■ »afp. prompt and am a and H .-an ba oh lalnad at small U«l fiont any raliabl" drua atuia, I »•* I appointees, sworn to protect the pen pie. raised their voice in protest against this destruction, but one or two of the great bankers warned the aasemiily that they might be starting t fire that they could not extinguish. The machinery to build this defla tlon was constructed on a partial yacht cruising on the high seas by Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island. Paul Warburg of Hamburg, Germany, and New York, and some lesser financiers. Senator Hitchcock's paper thundered against this measure as it came to congress from the republicans. In answer to questions by Benstor Bris tow, Paul Warburg testified that the Aldrich bill. Introduced by the repub licans. was substantially the same ss the Glass Ow'en bill passed by the democrats. The WorldHerald or Senator Hitch cock did not tell us that congress was abrogating its constitutional right to issue the currency of the nation in favor of a band of International specu lators who lengthened the yardstick and the scale beam over night. Did the World Herald and the emi nenl senator know these facts, or did they designedly conceal them? W. H. GREEN. fiwith gasoline as with paint ^BALANCE ( that COUNTS High quality pigments and oils don’t guarantee a paint that spreads, covers and wears well. Neither do low, medium and higher boiling point fractions in gasoline assure su perior motor fuel. In both cases balanced pro portions determine real worth. If altering the proportions of low and higher boiling point fractions in Red Crown would improve it, we would change it to a blended gasoline. But Red Crown Is so accurately balanced to give quick starts in any weather, bums up with such a slight residue of carbon, develops power so dependably and gives such big mileage per gallon that it would be a mistake to change it. Innumerable experiment* have proved that you can neither add nor take away any fraction of Red Crown and have as good an all-around motor fuel. ‘Write or ask for Drive in to any Red Crown Service Station and fill up RED CROWN with balanced gasoline. You will receive prompt at Pjoad Map tention, courteous service and full measure of gasoline that is suited to the needs of modern motors and /ftCffflX Polarine motor oils that give protective lubrication. (lew) ) STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF NEBRASKA cThe : i *- ■ --- --aaa— ($ NNY SIDE UP cJake Comfort, nor forget [VAaf sunnse n^rfa.ledusiiet^" j The ease with which Mr. Mortimer Schiff talk* about bl>- ^ lion* anil humireii* of million* in really marvelous. He doe* it no differently from the average political orator. Mr. Schiff pronounce* the word* a* one having had actual contact, while (he politician talk* exactly otherwise. Hence, we say. It was really a pleasure to listen to Mr. Schiff. Kver the sight of a man who actually visualizes hundreds of millions 1* something. o Speaking of money in terms of billion* Is something we readily understand. It I* when we hear talk of $8.40 or $17.»8, or some such sums, that we begin stumbling and fumbling men tally. We have cherished numerous ambition* during our long and uneventful career, most of them now' abandoned forever. We still cherish one, however. It i* to be handed a weekly pav check and feel the tremendously *atisfaotory fact that every dollar of it i* our very own. with nary a string attached to it. , Mr. Schiff is traveling about in the private car of President Taussig of the Wabash. Traveling in the private car of a rail road president would be no ngw experience for us. Onca upon a time we traveled on the private car of President Jay Gould of the Missouri Pacific. We did not get on the car at the invitation of Mr. Gould, but we did get off at gedaila at the Invitation of a flagman. If we recell ths fact* correctly we got In several day* on J. West Goodwin's Sedalia Bazoo upon leaving Mr. Gould's palatial car. There are point* of similarity hetween Mr Schiff and our self. We can each write our checks for a million sesterce*. But right there the similarity end*. Mr. Schiff I* many time* a millionaire, but after a short contact, with him we are willing to cheerfully admit that the only thing about him that is stuck-up is his collar. We won der if Mr. Schiff has ever experienced the real joy of wearing a woolen shirt, open at the collar, and the pocket filled with the "makin’s?” Majbe he doe*. We hope so. He looks like lie would enjoy it as much as we do. Mr. Schiff is always listened to with the closest attention. This is not due to the fact that he is a multimillionaire: it I* due to the fact thst he has something to gay. But. ju*t the same, we opine that if we had a few millions tucked away we d be listened to with more attention than is now accorded ue. A* «n orator*Mr. Schiff Is a very genial and companionable millionaire. As we listened to him w'e could not help wondering how he would feel and act if ha had to spend Saturday fore- . noon figuring out'how he wa* going to make the weekly pay * check stretch over the week's household hills and leave enough for lunch money during the coming week. Mr. Schiff is a great financier, but he isn't in it with the wife of the average American mechanic. But men like Mr. Schiff have trerhendoua responsibilities. There is quite a difference between hustling the money to meet the pay roll check* and merely apending one of the check*. We know all about it. It'a far easier to walk up and get the check. We do not envy Mr. Schif his job or his money. "We onlv envy him for hi* opportunities for good with hia million*. And he appears to be seizing them in a manner highly com WILL M. MAUPIX. .— - - —4 r-- y When Women Shoot __/{ From the Toledo BJad*. The bobbed hair bandit of Brook lyn, sought diligently and vainly by a corps of detectives, shot to kill the other day. This Is In keeping with the traditions of feminine marksman ship as the police know it. It has been observed for a long time that when a woman shoots a fellow hu man being she almost always makes a complete job of It. She may know nothing of firearms, and simply points. That pointing is deadly true. She has only one thought and that is to do a lot of damage. Her hand does not waver because of any troubling about arrest and trial and peniten tiary. The case Illustrates the power of a mind concentrated upon one, and only one, purpose. The peril to so ciety from the bobbed hair bandit Is less In the forceful Redistribution of property than In that woman s finger on the trigger. if the dead could talk they could testify to the fact. Spice of Life "How are all the folks out your way, Mr. Johnson?’’ asked the able editor of the Tumllnvllle Torch of Liberty and Tocsin of the Times "Mildewed from a month’s—p’tu!— rain, mostly." replied Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge—Kansas City Star. Chauncey Depew relate* that he was accosted by a street beggar one day and feeling rather out of sorts he said to the man, “Tou can’t hold me up."’ "Not even as a good example " »a< the mendicant's retort.—Boston Tran script. "Why do you insist that women have mere wisdom about politic* than men?" "For the reason.** said Miss Cay enne, "that so many more women than men know enough not to run foe office."—Washington Star. Inconsiderate, in a Way. The meanest man in the world is the warden who puts a tacit in the electric chair.—Bison.