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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.
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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.
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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.
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Homespun Verse
—By Omaha's Oyn Post—
Robert Worthington Davie
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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
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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.
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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
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Abe Martin
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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.
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V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr.
Sukarribtd and awom to bsforo ms
this 4th dap of April. 1*24. j
W. M. QUIVEY.
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(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
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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
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[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.
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When Women Shoot
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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.