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OmalidVheiMhe^fest is at its Best
WONDER WORKERS ON FINANCE.
When Alice stepped through the looking glass,
she discovered a wonderland indeed, but the things
she met as she moved about with the Mad Hatter
‘and the March Hare were simple compared to some
that are now being displayed by wizards who are
straightening out the tangle into which the world
: has fallen.
Hon. Victor L. Berger of Wisconsin proposes, for
example, that a simple way of securing money to
pay the bonus is to compel France to pay her war
debt to the United States. As an alternative to pay
ing any, debts to anybody, the Berlin Vossische Zei
tung proposes that gold be demonetized. This will
destroy at once the supremacy of the dollar, and
bring the war debts of all nations down to nothing,
because there will be nothing to measure them bf.
In the absence of a standard, the finances of the.
world will come to tire same state of affairs as pre
vailed in Russia or Germany, or Poland, where money
meant absolutely nothing so far as value is con
cerned.
The experience of the former resident of Omaha
. who went to Germany at the close of the war, and
found that the price of the home he sold here has
ijeen reduced to about a nlckle in real money
through the magic of the printing press ought to
teach something.
* * *
Mr. Berger overlooks the fact that the French
debt owing to this country is carried as an asset to
offset an equivalent portion of the general bonded in
debtedness of the United States. One of the rea
sons for not forgiving that debt is that it represents
money loaned to the people of France by the people
of the United States. It was not loaned on any
pledge of German reparations, or security other than
the honor of the French people, .^confident belief
that the money will in time be repaid still exists, and
this belief is supported by the unwillingness of the
French to forego anything that is due them, not
from Grrmany alone, hut from Russia, where ext«n
sive loans were made before and during the war.
"'bat. policy the new socialist government of
Ferre may adopt is yet to he disrlnscd. .Ml that
lira developed so far is that the left-wingers, who
rre now in power, are not agreed among themselves,
rnd their advent simply brings promise of further
dispute and debate over what to do. Nothing in
sight gives supnojrt to the thought that any change
will occur in the American attitude, which is that
France will be required to pay.
Yet it would be an unwise step for congress to
make any appropriation for any purpose against the
French debt. France tried that policy, issuing paper
rotes against, the expected payment of reparations,
end has come to a very serious pass r.s a result. The^
Berger proposal, carrirfl on to its logical end would
bring r.boll‘ a similar state of affairs in the I nited
X>> n's*,rr bow sound our financial founda
tion, it will not hr improved by any such experiment.
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'Bhp proposal of the Vossische Zeitung, that an
international agreement to demonetize he made at
once is, according to tjiat paper, directed at the dol
lar and the pound sterling. With no fixation of the
"xrhange rate in gold, the metal will depreciate as
did silvpr at thp time of its demonetization. Thus
argues the Zeitung. whose editor has learned nothing
from the recent experience of Germany. His plan
is not to pull the mark hack, but. to bring down the
dollar and the pound. How that will help may be
discovered from what ha« just taken place. With
the gold standard set aside, gold will no longer be
reeded for money, and there will be no international
landard of value. The world will be back to the
wildcat days, when n dollar issued by the bank at
Florence wasn’t worth anything in Council Bluffs,
and vice versa. The age of periwinkles or cowrie
shells will be restored. Credit will disappear, for
there will be nothing to rest it on. Debts will dis
appear, for there will be nothing to pay them with.
International commerce will go hack to the Phoeni
cian days, when good* wore exchanged f^r kind, and
barter was the rule.
The people of the United States have twice had
somp such experience. ' “Not worth a continental’*
reminds us of the time when the currency issued
by the Continental congress had reached the stage
where it stood as the symbol of nothing at all when
it came to value. Greenbacks, Issued" during the
Civil war, went nearly as bad at one time, when it
was seen that there was no gold and might be no
government behind the issue. Other nations have
tried similar experiments, and with similar results.
* * •
Fortunately, there is little likelihood of these
wonder workers getting hold of international finance.
Germany will proceed under the Dawes plan, which
includes the establishment of a central bank of issue,
its currency resting on gold. France will revive and
pay the debts she owes as well ns collecting what Is
coming to her. And over it nil and under It all will
he the stability proceeding from the dollar, which
‘represents the power of the greatest people In the
world today. Only on such foundation can any en
during prosperity rest, and Americans are not ready
to abandon it, because it involves everything they
have, liberty included.
A Georgia negro aged 82 ha* just been sentenced
to 99 years’ imprisonment for a murder committed
Jn 1882. Presumably he will know better than to do
It agaiq after he serves h1s full term.
Botullnus is a' dangerous bird, but succumbs to
heat. Cook your canned atuff thoroughly, and be
Mill
TIMID TROTZKY IS WORRIED AGAIN.
Tavariseh Trotzky is alarmed. He admits it.
In an address to the comrades of red Russia he says,
referring to the ambitions of the United States:
“No one knows in what dreams the bourgeoisie of
America is indulging.” He means no one but Leon
Trotzky. He knows, every time, uncffingly. This
time it is poison gas, whereby all good tavarischky
are to be overwhelmed, and the loathsome brand
of the boozhwah is to be once more imprinted upon
their simple lives. Maybe, it will be on their backs,
or their necks, but Trotzky knows what we are
scheming for over here, behind our smoke screen
of smug pretense of friendliness.
However, if Tavariseh Trotzky will only pene
trate a little deeper into the arcana of America,
he will find the bourgeoisie over here so much en
gaged in their own affairs that most of them have
forgotten that anything like soviet Russia exists.
It is only when some well meaning but over zealous
person arises to tell us of what is being done by
the emancipated millions of the old Muscovite em
pire that we recall there is or was any such thing.
Sufficient unto the average American is his own
trouble. Between coal in winter and ice in summer,
the ever present need for gas, to income tax and
such other incidentals as go to make up modern
life, our bourgeoise citizenry, sleek and fat and not
much given to uprisings or the like, find plenty of
occupation.
A little first-hand knowledge of America would
not hurt Russia, nor the other way round. Trotzky
and his like thrive on keeping one afraid of the
other. The bolsheviki have nothing to fear from
America, and America has little to fear from the
bolsheviki. Else were made a great mistake in
letting William .1. Burns go. He was tht man who
could unmask Trotzky in this country, just as
Trotzky has unmasked us at Moscow.
DEFINING A DEMOCRAT.
Now, speaking about this matter of trademarks
as applied to political parties, just how would you
go about to classify a democrat? Is he one who
wears the good old “16-to-l 1 brand, that W illiam
Jennings Bryan had registered in the herd book back
in 1805? Or does he wear the “Bar-X-Bottle” under
which Tom Taggart gathered his hosts? Is it the old
“Pluto” sign, or the “XX” that was handed to Alton
B. Parker? Is a democrat one who shouted for Jud
Harmon, or yelled his head off for James M. ( ox?
Does Oscar Underwood symbolize the "party today,
or William Gibbs McAdoo? Will he nestle under th#
wing of Jake Thomas, who shouts for free trade in
Nebraska, or John B. Kendrick, whose protected
sheep graze on the highlands of Wyoming?
If every party presented the appearance of a
crazy-quilt or a hodge-podge, it is the democratic
party of today. It has but one idea, one animating
purpose, and that is to get back into power by hook
or crook. It will be wet in New York, Boston, Phila
delphia and San Francisco, and dry as Sahara in
Omaha or Atlanta. It will favor the tariff in Ala
bama and oppose it in Nebraska. Locally, it will
follow Arthur Mullen and vote for Charley Bryan.
Never in all its history has the party exhibited
as many facets as it does at this tfme. Old Mo
kanna’s philosophy never found better illustration:
"That prophet 111 befits his holy call
TVho find* not heaven* to suit th* wants of all."
In the democratic bag of tricks are all sorts of
heaven's but the one they hope to reach, that being
the possession of power in the government once
more. But how to accurately define a democrat
these days is a difficult task for anybody. We pass.
SOLUTION OF A SERIOUS PROBLEM.
Whether the erow is a blessing or a curse is a
moot question tkese days. A powder company has
issued a brochure, "The Truth About the Crow,” and
therein asserts that the crow it a curse to the farmer
and little else than a menace to civilization.
On the other hand, the United States Department
of Agriculture issues a brochure on “The Crow in
Its Relation to Agriculture,” and insists that the bird
is a blessing, a devourer of insect pests and a terror
to rodents.
Rending the powder company’s pamphlet we feel
likp ru' h'ng out and demanding a liberal bounty on
crow scalps. We presume that crows have scalps,
Reading the government’s pamphlet we feel like
campaigning for a subsidy for crows. As it is, we
have worried about the matter greatly, losing con
siderable sl»ep and spending weary daylight hours
trying to devise the Right Thing to Do.
Comes now the New York Herald-Trfhuns with a
solution so clear, concise and common sense that we
wonder it was not conceived and brought forth long
ago.
It4>elng generally admitted that the crow's worst
fault is a voracious appetite that is imfnense in Its
diversity, thh Herald-Trihune suggests that we pro
hibit the crow by statute from rating what it should
not.
Simple Indeed, and doubtless efficacious. Just
enact the law and trust to luck for enforcement.
That has been the plan with regard to other evils
that menace. It ought to work as well in the rase of
the crows as it has in most of the ,other$.
A Nebraska newspaper is printing verses of
scripture under the caption, “Moments With the
Bible.” That's the trouble—moments with the Bible,
and the hours with jazz orchestras and automobiles
parked along lonely country roads.
Hat. dealers have decided upon the date that
straw hats may he worn. Presumably they have also
decided the price the wearers must pay.
Very careless of the republican stale committee
not to adopt the program outlined hy the democratic
strategy board.
Homespun Verse
—By Omaha's Own Pool—
Robert Worthington Davie
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THE OLD HOMt TOWN.
Who lives and does Mot. cherish
Tha old home town, and keep
The haunts that were familiar
In mem'ry'a vision deep?
Who lives and does not linger
With retrospection fins,
While In the mental mirror
The old town" street lamps shin'
Who lives without close keeping
To heart the old town scenes—
The pleasant evenings yonder—
The fervid, Joyous 'teens?—
Years when was wrought the fuiu
As youth went swiftly on,
Years fading fast and faster
Until play days were gone.
Time can not dim the picture,
Nor still the echoes. Age
fteveaIs the mellow beauty
Of life’s lost heritage; -
And while the sun moves westward.
And dews orvlusk come down.
Who lives and does not wander
Back to the old home town?
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Letters From
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Why Not I’«y ili« Teacher*
Massachusetts Inatltuta of Tech
nology—To the Editor of The Omaha
Bee: In a previously published news
paper letter, the present writer pre
dieted condition* in college* similar
to those existing now In secondary
schools- an exodus of men teachers
and a deterioration of the teaching
atalT. And .he indicated, aa one of
the chief contributory causes, poor
pay. A a for thla poor pay, he knew
from personal experience how poor it
can he and la in inatitutlons of rob
leginte grade. And he knew how
poor it is aald to be in secondary
schools. But, knowing how the high
school place has been regarded as
a financial plum by the college in
'strut-tor, your correspondent was In
dined to wonder if the high school
teachers were really as badly off as
they have been represented to be,
and If their increases in aslary since
the war had not greatly helped them,
and put them in the claaa of self
respecting because adequately paid
wage earners. ,
An article in the number issued
April 24 of School gives the answer
Referring to a recent research bulle
tin of ilia National Education associa
tion ss its authority. It quotes figures,
comparing the average of high school
teat lists’ salaries with the salaries of
government employe* of a comparable
class, \rith results as follows; II omit
tears six, seven Slid eight hecause
unessential and for space saving!.
Ttish School
government T - her ,
Y*»ri. KmpioTA*. Avfirtgf
«>»• . f 1.4ft*
Twa . . J.lft# 1,70t»
ThiM . *,?** 1 *00
four . I 2M l.fOQ
Piv# . t 4«t •.**<*
Mm . 1.4M ? 400
In view of the fant that government
employes s re considered to be far
from overpaid, a study of these post
wsr t*hles makes us better understand
the present position and the Justice
of the complaints of even the high
school teacher. Competent men and
competent women will not continue
Indefinitely to teach only for teach
Inga' sake In a discredited profession.
In view of these figures, all the fuss
being constantly made ss In what and
what not and how much yie child
shall atudy anil when, conduce* to
ennui. In the last analysis, the Mark
Hopkins figure on the end of the log
Is and always will be the school. Why
bother about Ihs quality or the quan
tity of the current, If it Is merely
going to run up against a non con
doctor? Why an carefully prepare a
product and at the same time know
inglv wreck Hi* transportation sis
lain? Why not pav the leather*
S F. BEARS.
Mnc.
Buch a lit!!* while
Are ws here;
V little work,
A lilt!* play,
friends- a few
To cheer you,
A Util* Joy,
\ ilttl* Sorrow
Always—there's l»i>»' u
Oftentimes glad,
Sometime* sad *
Such * little 4 hllr
Ate we here,
That la I.lfe.
- If. F. Hilbert.
NET AVERAGE
PAID CIRCULATION
for April, 1924, of
THE OMAHA BEE
Daily .74,265
Sunday .77,999
I)mi nnt Include nhirm, Uh*
nvart, santplaa nr paptri spoiled in
printing and includes nn aparial
] aalaa ar fraa elrrulatlon ol any kind.
V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mfr.
Subscribed and awnrn to before mo
tbU lOtb day of May. 1924.
W. H QUIVEY.
(Seel) Notary Fuhlla
“From State and
Nation”
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The McNary-Haugen Hill.
from ths tom r*!ls Argua Leader,
f After months of delay and stalling
'around In congress the McNary Hau
gen agricultural export bill Is finally
due to come up for a vote In the
house In the next few day*. It Is to
be taId of this bill that it has groused
more attention than any other farm
relief scheme that ha* been proposed
It hss won strong support from man}
sjrrlcultural organisations and leader*
and equsllypronouncedoppoeltlon from
other*. The division of opinion extends
even to-the president * cabinet, where
it i* endorsed on the one hand by
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace end
opposed by Herbert Hoover, secretary
of commerce. Many agricultural
writers have been agitating for It*
adoption, while others, like Dante M.
Pierce, publisher of the Iowa Home
stead, have gone so far as to declare
that they never heard of "a more cum
beraome. Impractical, visionary, com
plicated and deceitful measure."
The Argua Leader has always been
opposed to price-fixing measures In
general, knowing that past exiverlence
haa proved them to be unsound and
dangerous, but in view of the con
fusion which surrounded the McNary
Haugen bill this paper refrained from
inking a positive aland against It at
the outset, hoping that the objections
that had been advanced against It
| might !>• met bef<u» the hill tame up
I for a vote. This has lieea Mccomplish |
led on certain points, particularly with
I reference to the script provisions
tvhi, h. if It had not been stricken out.
would have rendered the measure tin
constitutional, but the bill Is still fa’
from satisfactory.
At the best It I* only * radical ex
perlment. on# whereby a government
commission would arbitrarily fix the
price of wheat and other fgrm prod
nets monthly on a basis which would
bear a constant relation to tho price*
of other commodities, and accomplish
this by dumping the surplus abroad
It 1* moreover so complicated that
even Ihe most sanguine supporter* of
the bill cannot be at all sure It will
I work out the w iv thev want It to
One of the first things to which Pres
Ident Coolldge is likely to object If
tn» Hill ever reaches hint Is that It In
voices * government appropriation of
$200,000,000 to put the scheme into
effect, *t a time when he la trying to
do everything possible to cut down
government expenditure. More serious
still Is the fact that It does not setlle
the farmers' problems, only postpones
the day of such a settlement since It
is prnpoeed only as sn emergency re
lief measure to be revoked at acme
! Intei- date. And when that day came
I II would only make nuittera worse
l instead of belter, since by fixing *
price on wheat it would have stlmu
, tiled over production Instead of pro
moling diversification. Moreover It
Am r.HTiaKMioT
RECIPE TO DARKEN
| GRAY HAIR
Anti Can Make a flatter Oray ll.ilr
Remedy Than Voil ('an Huy.
Gnu . atraaked nr faded hair l« not
onlv unbecoming, hut unnereaaary.
Anyone ran prepare a alrnpl# mht
lure at hoipe that will darken gray
hair, and make it aofa and gloaay.
To a half pint of wafer add 1 ounce
of hay rum, a email ho* of Rarbo
Compound and 1 4 ounce of glycerine.
Three Ingredlenta can Im bought at
any drug aloro at very little coat, or
tha drugglat will put It up for you.
Apply to Ih# hair twice a week uniII
Hi# dealred ahnde la obtained. Thla
will make a gray haired peraon look
twenty yea re younger. It la eaay to
uer, doea not color (ha arnlp la not
atlcky or greaay and doea not rub off,
Manawa Park
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Saturday, May 24 |
threaten* to destroy the agricultural
co-operative movement w hlch haa been
developed as the result of ao much
effort and which promises ao much for
the future. Dumping of our surplus
abroad would be likely also to provoke
retaliation by other countries and re
suit in commercial warfare Last hut
not leant, it would definitely result in
American agriculture becoming the
football of politicians.
All these are most serious otrjec
tlons. Anxious ss the Aj-rus Leader
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<JAat sunnt'n.Hr/a.Iedufvet^"
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IjOUd above the gloomy chorus and the pessimistic groans,
l-'alrlv drowning out the blue notea of calamity* deep moan*,
Sounds the clicking of the planter* starting out at early morn
o'er Nebraska's fertile acres that will soon be field* of corn.
Sweetest music, sounding louder under May sun mounting high
Till it echoes in a cadence from the blue vault of^the sky;
And I vision glsd time coming when esch broad Nebraska field |
Calls the harvester to gather for mankind its golden yield.
Clicking clicking down the furrows, **rlv morn till d*w-y night,
Dropping, dropping gleaming kernels hidden for a time from
sight.
Then to burst in green robed splendor, waving In the breeie*
free, |
AVith the promise of plenty In the harvests soon to he.
So I tune my ears to hear it, music sweet upon the air
O'er the moaning and the wailing of apostles of despair,
And gives promise of the favor soon to pour from Plentv's horn
When we've gathered In the harvest from Nebraska* fields
of corn.
The report that »Jils country uses ;,fino,noO ton* of soap
annually will be greeted with derision by the average small
boy. He knows that he alone is forced to use more than that.
Come? now the report that British scientist* exploring In
the Jurtgles of British Guiana have discovered s species of bright
red frog possessing a tremendous voice. Boy, page Mr. Vo!
stead, He's needed down there.
Another Law Needed.
The men who kick about the state of weather, or growl about
their business being punk, I’d like to put them in a cart to
gether and wheel them off to one who deal* In junk. The
men who spend their time In loud complaining, and never
turn their hands to better things, I'd like to put them in a
‘ pot containing some boiling oil and other stuff, b'jlngsi
I'm weary, 6 mi weary, of crape hanging, and yearn to meet i
the men who wear a smile. I'm weary of this pessimistic
clanging, and yearn to hear some boosting for a while. I
hope to greet a glad new day tomorrow when prophet* of j ^
deep gloom are stricken dumb. It wouldn't give me one
heart throb of sorrow to Pass a Dw and Put Them on
the Bum:
‘‘Why not,” querle* Ol Doc Bixbv, "come to a dead atop at
the grade crossing and look about a little before proceeding’ '
The very Idea: When on* Is in a hurry to get no on* know*
where, wasting time by hesitating at the. crossing Is little short
of criminal. We suggest something better l>t u* Pas* a Law
making it Impossible to kill anybody but the fool driver.
A great many reformer* lose interest a* soon a* th» salary
attachment disappear. Others lose interest as soon a* something
cornea along that promise* ready money. We wish that on*
or two purported political reformers down Lincoln way would
be retained In a law suit, thus relieving them of their self im
posed task of saving the rest of u* from our political foolishness
WILL M. MAT.'PIX.
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1« To sec everything possible clone to
promote the best interests of agricul
ture, It therefore csnnot support this
bill. Better nothing at all than to
start off on a false basis.
\o Spellbinder.
"Ton used to be a spellbinder and
sway ths masses,"
•Tv# quit that.” answered Senator
Sorghum. "I try to keep my con
stituents convinced, but unemotional
Ued. Once you atart a mass sway
ing, there s no telling when some fe!
low will coma along with a punch
And away it away across In the oppo
site direction.—Washington S'ar.
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