Omaha Vherf? ihe'MssI is a( its Best
RUSSIA’S BAIT FOR RECOGNITION.
Dr. E. Dana Durand of the Department of Com
merce told the National Manufacturers' association
that a trade treaty with soviet Russia is not es
sentially necessary. Trade is being carried on be
tween firms of the United States and Russian hyyers
and sellers in a volume that will scarcely be in
creased by the adoption of any form of agreement.
Irving T. Bush, head of the great New York Ter
minal company, supported the statement of Mr.
Durand.
Isaac J. Sherman, head of a foreign trading con
cern, disagreed on the point. Concerns with which
he ia connected, he says, have done a business of
$20,000,000 with Russians In the last year, and this
might be greatly increased, were the avenues of
trade to be opened by a treaty. Industry, he says,
it reviving in Russia, and a great market is awaiting
there for American products, which are now shut
out by reason of the attitude of our government.
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Mr. Sherman's argument strangely resembles that
of other propagandists on behalf of Russia. Trade
* ia carried on with Russii, but is at the risk that at
taches to individual, rather than to government
frredit. The soviet government insists on supervising
all buying and selling, but does not assume the re
sponsibility of payment for goods received or guar
anteeing the delivery of goods ordered. More than
this is concerned, however.
Mr. Hughes long ago qffered recognition and
treaties to the Russians on exactly the same terms
that were laid down by Ramsay MacDonald. Rus
sians will he required to restore or account for prop
erty of Americans seized by the soviets. No inter
ference with the right of the soviet government to
deal with Russians as it sees fit. Private property
1aken from Russians for slate purposes does not con
cern us in the least. The right of Russia to have
any sort of government its people set up or submit
to is not in question. What is asked is that that
government, if it is to become a part of the sister
hood of states and nations of the world, accept its
obligations as such.
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Among these obligations is that of regard for
ihe private personal belongings of individuals or
firms, sojourning or doing business peaceably in the
land. Several million dollars worth of property be
longing to Americans was expropriated during the
general upheaval in Russia. I.enin and Trotzky
made no effort to distinguish between what was
owned by Russians and what was owned by foreign
ors. Indiscriminately everything was seized and turned
over to state uses. Equally everything was wrecked
or destroped. Now, American citizens ask that the
soviet government, which destroyed private wealth
so ruthlessly, be good enough to make them whole.
Naturally enough, the soviets object to this, for that
will amount to a recognition of the individual’s right
to own his private property.
This point was presented to the Russians by I.loyd
George, by Aristide Briand, by Italy and by Bel
gium, as well as by the United States. Ramsay Mac
Donald gave it first place on the list of points to be t
considered at the recent conference, wherein Russia
asked recognition from England. A decision has not
been announced, although soviet supporters in
America insist that the labor government of England
lias recognized fully the soviet government of
Russia.
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As to the external debt, all that is in question
I rtween the United States and Russia is the sum
loaned to the Russian republic after the revolution
of March, 1917. No part of the debt contracted
under the czuristic regime is included in our de
mand. Surely, it Is not wrong to expect }.he soviets
to repay the money borrowed to sustain the goverrf
ment to which they succeeded, and the conditions
which made it possible to set up the present regime
at Moscow? To repudiate a debt so honestly con
tracted, in the name of the Russian people, would be
outrageous.
England and France are in a different position.
Each has large claims on account of nationals whose
holdings in Russia were seized by the soviets. Each
lips heavy claims for moti/ey loaned the Russian gov
ernment to carry on during the war. French peas
ants are reported to own a billion and n half of
Russian bonds. They are not willing to give over the
hope of collecting some part of this immense debt
at a time when anything that looks like an asset
counts for so much in France.
Strange as it may seem, the Russians hope to
bribe their way back into good standing by the bait
of international commerce. If Russian trade were
swelled to many times its prewar proportions, and
all of it guaranteed to’a single nation, it would not
offset what is Involved in the compromise of principle
sought. Americans have and will continue to buy
and sell in Russia, without the protection of a treaty.
When the Russians recognize what is due in decency
and order from them, they will And the United
States among the first to help them.
AMONG THE OLD RESIDENTS
Sunny California scores again, this time with a
squalodont, estimated to ha at least 1,900,000 years
old. That of course sounds mngnificent, hut It
doesn't amount to much in the lifo of a squalodont.
The number of his days were more than three score
years and ten, hut even at that he (ltd not live long
enough to see everything.
A squalodont, for the benefit of those who never
met him, is, or was, a whale who swam the ssas and
basked in the swamp of age* gone. He was some
thing of a hang-over, too, for he went through the
•ocene, plciocene and miocene, without undergoing
very extensive structural changes. That is one thing
that will be a bit perplexing in connection with this
California specimen. A range of about 2,500,000
years in his age is possible, one way or the other,
but the public can safely let that point rest with
the paleontologists, who may be depended upon to
cover it thoroughly and reach a number of equally
positive conclusions regarding it.
What Nebraska is interested in is that California
is stealing our stuff again. Originally this was the
banana belt, but, “yes, we have no bananas today.”
When we got to fossils we thought we had them all.
Northwest Nebraska is a treasure house • for the
bone digger. Here he gets the real thing, and enjoys
picking up a hit of backbone and reconstructing a
snake 80 or 90 feet long. Now that California is in
the game with its squalodont and its contemporary
for the Neanderthal man, Nebraska will have to find
something to match the tooth found by Brother Cook
at Agate a few years ago. That set man in this part
of the world further back than anywhere else on
earth. Let us keep that record unsullied.
BONUS TO SOLDIERS A LAW.
All theorizing and speculation with regard to the
adjusted compensation for ex-service men ia now
ended. Congress has by decisive and even im
pressive vote overriden the veto of the president and
the measure becomes a law. Dispute as to the exact
amount it eventually will cost prevents accurate
statement. This will be developed by experience.
In his veto message the president set $2,280,000,000
as the final sum which will he required to meet the
obligation in 20 years. For the present it will he
less than that, but the administrative cost is also
estimated nt $114,000,000 a year.
Cash payments will not be so much, only about
$50,000,000. Taxpayers will be concerned most in
the fact that the passage of the law sets that much
farther back the prospects of tax reduction. Some
revision of the revenue measure will have to follow,
in order to provide for the money* needed for the
bonus. As the bill passed by the senate is said to
have created a deficit, regardless of the bonus, it is
plain that considerable change must be made if the
money needed is forthcoming.
The politics in the passage of the bill is not easy
to descry. Between the parties honors are fairly
easy. Democrats and republicans divided on the
merits of the measure, and so effectually destroyed
any argument of a partisan nature. Other than that
the president does not have the unquestioning support
of his party in congress. This was made plain many
weeks ago. Mr. Coolidge has shown himself courage
ous enough to stand for what he believes to be right.
If he can not agree at all points with congress, the
difference must be that between men equally honest
in their opinions but divided as to what they believe
to be right.
Ae bonus had great popular support throughout
the country, and its approval by the congress will
not carry great disappointment to anybody. If the
lawmakers think they are giving to the soldiers that
to which they are entitled, the people will say
amen.
A KEYNOTER WHO WILL PITCH ’ER HIGH.
Senator Pat Harrison is billed to b^ the keynoter
at the democratic national convention. This is as
surance doubly sure that the note will be pitched fHr
above the treble clef, the motif lofty in the extreme
and the melody enchanting in its syncopation. As
a cacophonophiiist Senator Pat is the chief of the
clan. With the palladium of our liberties clasped
firmly to hiH bosom by one hand, and the gonfalon
of democracy waving high from the other, he will
parade proudly and vociferously before the assembled
hosts of democracy and hurl his defi into the teeth
of all who may oppose.
When Pat Harrison thunders the earth trembles
with the tread of armies long since returned to dust,
and the disarticulated bones of democratic leaders
long since consigned to Mother Earth spring to
gether once more, and the skeletons parade pom
pously for another brief time, then again back to
mold and decay.
When Pat Harrison rides with lance acouch,
visor lifted to give his vocal apparatus full play, he
rweeps like n besom of destruction upon the rnnks
of all who dare oppose, and courageous indeed Is he
who dares to sit and listen.
When Pat Harrison gets info action ns the demo
cratic keynoter, the reputations of orators of today
and yesterday will be shattered into infinitesimal
fragments, history will shriek and flee in dire dis
may, truth will hide her beauteous fa re, and only
Bomhasio Furioso will aurvive.
With no partition wall dividing his imagination
from his information, Pat will hold .his democratic
brethren enthralled by tho spell of his vociferation,
and sound without sense will once more be vindicated
as the real keynote of a party whose religion is op
position to the thing that is, and unwavering adher
ence to anything that was, and is not because ex
perience shunted it ihto oblivion.
A characteristic democratic keynoter, Pat will
pitch it high in piercing tremolo, and the hosts of
democracy, hungering and thirsting, will stand and
sing, as always, the calamitous wail of those who are
out and seek nothing higher than to get in again.
Do not lay away the fly swatter just because the
weather has not been favorable to the great indoor
sport. Plenty of time between now and next winter
fur hunting down Muaca Domestics.
John Hopkins’ muny gas pump appears to be a
money saver as well as a life saver for the local mo
torists.
Omaha's good will excursionists are supposed to
lie rainmakers, not snow bringers.
Well, It ts Mayor Jim for the sixth time. This Is
some record in Omaha.
Even a little nas war will help some in OmnliH.
Wall street is nervous about something.
Homespun Verse
—Bjr Omnha't Own Poet—
Robert If'artliinulon Davie
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DARIUS LOTOR.
Kai h miilng Itailu* fait or repaint* III* I'eerlea* '(Iglit,
And ovnrliHul* the motor until *h* throttle* grpnl;
lie gi ouhch wheel and hearing, lie 11kItt•>nn holt mid
(urew,—
impatient to lie tearing away brneatR the blue.
From dawn to duak b* hurrle* to gel Id* ear In trim.
And time not labor jvonlea end oft dlalraaae* hint.
Th* eull I* et*r ■urging while lumtner'a flower* corn*,
And all that 1* 1* urging him out of door* to hum.
Karh aprlug llnrlua Kotor fnr*gk*l rnnflning walla,
And take* the tint* to mnlnr to fag Niagara Fall*:
Through age Itn gray I* giving and wealth he bn*
■ not »tor«ul.
11* look* Ilk* h* U b* living u* long a* tho*e who liouitl.
All Done But Getting the World to Move Out ;
of the Old One Into the New
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Who I* Playing Politic*?.
Waterloo, Neb—To the Editor of
The Omaha Bee. To tho taxpayer* of
Douglas and Saunders counties: In
reply to Mr. Park s statement In the
Thursday (May 161 Evening ’'A"'1'1
Hern Id. r<*K*rdln>? the Platte nrinRo
location. I wish to ask, who Is play
ing politic*, Douglas or Saunders
county? —
Let’* lock a few forte In the fare
Eight year* ago thin fall when A. J>
Compton w;ii running for county
commissioner, the three Saunders
county commissioners, consisting of
llelsing of Wahoo, Horen Miller of
Morse Bluffs and George lleldt from
Yu tan, met with the Douglas county
commissioners, and all three Saunders
county commissioners voted for this
wagon bridge, to be placed below the
railroad bridge, l-’uur of the Douglas
county commissioners said before the
meeting that they were going to vote
tor the south location, but two of
them changed their minds the last
minute and voted for the north site.
Then Compton went In as a commis
sinner of Douglas county and always
held two of the other four Douglas
county commissioners with him.
Compton also bought up all of the
land next to the Platte river on this
north site that rould he purchased
Then Bam Bander* went In fl* com
mlsstoner In Haunders county. He n!
wave voted for the eolith location.
Moline and Pollard, eOmmlaslones* of
Saunders county, both expressed
themselves for the south location, st
one time, but changed their minds
after A. D. Compton was defeated and
lost rontrol of the Douglas county
board. Also one of your last onmmls
sloners of Saunders county. Mr. Speck
man. voted recently and always hss
voted for the south location. Mr.
Moline, who just east his vote for
the north location, T am told, has
brothers with land holdings north of
Mead, and Mr. Malloy, I am told
does not want a bridge across the
Platte river because It will draw trade
from the towns of Saunders county
into the larger city of Omaha.
These farts will show that out of
the eight commissioners from Saun
ders county .during the last eight
years, seven of them have at one
time expressed themselves for the
riuth location. Five of the eight
have always stood for the south loon
tion, while two have changed for the
north, and only one of tlie night lias
always stood for the north location.
If Mr. Park Is correct tliut Douglas
.ounty Is playing politics, then Doug
las county must have eroSMi-il the
river Into Haumlers county to play the
game. And wouldn't it really ho wiser
for Mr. Park to ask one of the Saun
ders county commissioners to change
his Vote to make a majortty for the
south location from Haunders county
rather Gian to ask three of the Doug
las county commissioners to i hange
Ihelr votes to make a majority In
Douglas county for the north lorn
tion? Our live commissioners arc
unanimous for the south loeatldn,
while the Haunders county eomrnts
sinners Hie divided two to one for the
north location.
Now, In regard to Mr Park's state
meat that It would cost JMI.oici more
to build a bridge below tho railroad
lirldge, where there Is only 1.3110 feet
of water to cross, as compared to 2 100
feet of water to cross one mile far
ther north, l want to say that Mr
Johnson, nur former state engineer,
stated before the stole legislators Hint
It would cost the same it either pl.i-i
to ere- t tills bridge. Alan Mr. Dock
mi, our present state engine, r. w hlh
In Omaha recently, stated that the
ins) would tie the same at either (oca
tion, but Harrington, Howard A Asti
of Kansas t'llv, the largest bridge
building flint In the I lilted States,
bnv« cstlmotad that tbo north alle.
considering the fills to he made, would
cost $ To,000 more also Mr. Piper, who
erected the 1,300 foot Burlington rail
toad bridge, made the sunn estimate
Again, the Saunders county engineer
Mr. Traey, hss estimated that the till
■ n the Haunders county side would
cost ll.flliit on ths north, as compared
In 13,076 on the south.
Again, you must remember that
three fifths of the population of Haun
dels count v live south of the Hurling
ton radioed bridge, with only one out
let to lima ha, and I trot is pj miles far
ther south at the extrema corner of
«
Saunders county, by Ashland; while
It Is only seven miles north to the
Valley bridge from this said Burling
ton railroad bridge, and there is also
a bridge at Fremont and one at North
Bend, making three bridges for two
fifths of the population of Saunders
county to use in getting into Omaha,
and only one for the other three-fifths
of the population and one at the ex
treme south corner of the county.
Better think this over and then
tell ua who Is playing politics.
Now the proper thing to do is to
Widen,, oat the Burlington railroad
bridge and use It for a wagon htidge
and save |J 611,800 to the taxpayers. I
happen Jo know that the Burlington
railroad officials would be willing to
allow thla to be done, and it will he
done unless some has been politician
like Mr. Bark puts more stumbling
blocks In the road.
Please remember this Burlington
railroad bridge is located half way
between Center and Q streets
IIA BUY U. OOVYLKS.
Patriotism and ‘'Paytrlotlsm."
Omaha- To the Kslitor of Th# Oma
ha Bee: If we were to measure in
dollars and cents the value of the
services of the army that stood be
tween us and threatening Imperial
ism\in 1914 18, what price would we
put on It? How can we ever go about
to estimate the worth of heroism then
displayed, the cost of the silent suf
fering. the Intense devotion, the
magnificent courage and the sublime
Indifference to self manifeat by those
who united their ell to make vlctorj
certain?
Could there hy a price set on anv
thing so priceless to humanity?
Idherty ha» he«n denrly bought, won
hy blood and sacrifice through count
less ages of struggle against the forces
of dcpotlsm. and only the brave have
been free. It takes mors than mere
physical murage to make a brave
man. He lias but one price on hie
liberty, and that Is his life.
Concede that we owe a debt to the
young men who wore the uniform of
their country, whether they went
overseas or not. It Is n well known
fact that many sn ambitious lad did
tiot get across wtto fairly netted to
he on the tiling line. Duty railed
them elsewhere, ami each did some
thing to make victory certain. Can
that debt be measured In gold? If it
• un. whut lias become of that highest
of all human attributes, the thing
that is above all oilier things In the
brave man's life? la tha patriots
devotion to his country proportionate
to the wealth his country lavishes
upon him? I toes he put It on the
market, us other commodities that go
up and down with changing conditions
of trade?
If tills be true, why single out the
ex service men, to make them rerlpi
cuts of a bonus? Did not the women,
tha mothers, sinters, wives, sweet
hearts, of Hie soldiers suffer and
sacrifice also? Who knit socks ami
sweaters, rolled bundages and made
pads, prepared dressings, nnd did the
thousand and one other things that
required tlmo and trouble, nnd skill
us well, nnd got nothing for It? 15 110
-qirnt millions on millions of hard
When in Omaha
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HEALTHY WOMEN. HAPPY HOMES
(tiMitl disponil Inns MtlOCUIItll. llillH*
I'llii v and snappy retort like the
plain nf happiness ami amiability.
Sunshine 1* driven out of homes, In
f.lpt, they nre often wrecked, nod
friends are eat ranged been us# women
suffer with aliments peculiar to their
M X. 'Plie use of l.ydt* K. IMnkhatn »
N egetidde t’ornpoupd w ill overcome
such ailments slid real ore health sod
i happiness. Tin not resort to strong
istimulants or nareotlca when tliia
|gre?»t strengthening, heeling remedy
I made from loots ami herbs is always
within reach.
earned dollar* buying yarn or other
materials, to turn into comforts for
the eoldlers? Who were the nurse*,
the Red t'ross workers, the canti
meres? Hid they not help to win the
war? I ll ■ v iI ■ ’ 1 -••■■■ • tee
women of America from A. E. F. and
find-out wimt a - >.o.c »..» i«i
In the suptKirt that kept burning. not|
only the home fire*, hut also those
up at the front.
Some of those who remained at
home carried on as resolutely as those
who went to the front. It was not a
pretense of sacrifice that governed
millions who lived on restricted ra
tions. who deprived themselves in
many way* that not only money hut
(pod In abundance could be provided
for the t)ghting men. This ought to
be remembered by some who are just
now shouting so loud for the payment
of a bonus. All the lighting was not
done In France, not by any means,
nor did every t*ue soldier wear a uni
form or carry a rifle.
This is wliat t'altin Coolidge meant
Jngredimt do not asmfe .
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CONSPIKZ!
of nuisance* w# have enough,
But Mill the roster grows,
And life's a gam* exceeding tough.
As everybody knows.
And now that summer days sdom
They bring another shock —
The man who mows his lawn each morn
Before it's 6 o'clock.
About th* tlms I get to sleep,
Weary and worn and wan,
Forth from his bed he'll gladly leap
And start to mow his lawn.
Beneath my chamber window he
Pursues his fiendish way,
And seemingly with wild-eyed glee
Proceeds to mow hi* hay.
He breaks my sleep, mv nerve destroys.
He makes me fairly sick,
As he gums up th* air with noise
From his iawnmower e click.
Befors I'd treat my neighbor thu*
I'd let my gra*s grow free.
But he is such a thoughtless cuss
He never thinks of me.
The familiar touch of the “can you Make me to a sandwich
and a cuppa coffee'."' man becomes more numerous Seldom
do w» fail to respond to the touch, knowing well that we are
being spoofed, but always hopeful that «e have benefited some
poor soul. Speaking out of the depths of a somewhat varied
experience as an Itinerant typographer, we hold that there
Is no exeiise for an ablehodled man to panhandle, other than
the excuse of being constitutionally opposed to laboring.
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Members of the I Knew Him When dub will pleas* ihove
over and make room for I.ew Raber, printer, veteran of tbe
civil war and all round good fellow. Printer* of the old days,
when printing was printing, will remember Lew Raber's shop
as one place where there was always a day’s work on the
hook, regardless. Sometimes the applicant had to wait out
In the hall until the line moved up, but the day’s wag* ws*
being earned, just the same. It has been SO years sine* Lew
Raber was mustered out of Uncle Sam's blue clad army, but
here he Is, looking and feeling younger than a lot of fellows
we know who were born shout the tlrpe Lew quit the army.
He has been enrolled on the list of the Hope He Lives a Cen
! tury association.
At the time this paragraph Is being gleefully perused by
a huge army of admiring readers, we shall be wearing a pretty'
little white hat adorned with the Ak-Sar-Ben colors, and parad
ing ai^und under a multi-colored umbrella, following Dan
Desdunes and his aggregation of melody makers. It does just
beat all how much pep Is instilled Into a fellow of three score
when he dons a pretty little hat and goes parading with his
fellows under an umbrella that carries more color* than the
rainbow.
WILL M. MAUPIV.
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when he said patriotism Is not a thing
to be bought or sold for a price. If
vbe country owes a bonus to the sol
diers, It owes as well a bonus to some
millions of fathers and mothers who
were left at home. What about the
women, who worked in fields, that
food might be produced for the army
who tended flocks, that wool might
he had for blanket*; who worked on
the railroads, in machine shops and
factories, in packing houses and else
where, that the intensity of life be
hind, the lines might bring forth the
things the army had to have? Are
these entitled to no consideration?
"I an itching palm.’' retorted <‘as
sius to Brutus, who replied; "Shall
we now . . . sell the mighty span
rf onr large tionors for so much
trash as may be grasped thus? ... I
had rather be a dog and bay the moon
than such a Roman:" Surely a better
spirit prevails aipong the young men
of America than the demand for the
bonus indicates. Our common coun
try has always ma0" provision for
those who were disabled and for the,
dependents of those who lost their]
li» es in Its service. It always will.]
But It owe* to no able-bodied man
more than an even chance to work
out hi* own fortune. OLD FOOT.
N ET AVERAGE
PAID CIRCULATION
for April, 1924, of
-THE OMAHA BEE
Daily .74,265
Sunday .77,999
| | Does not include returns, left
overs. samples or papers spoiled is
printing and includes no special
sales or Iree circulation of sap kind.
V. A. BRIDGE. Cir. Mgr.
Suberribod and loom to before me
tbie JOtb day of May. 1824.
W. H. QUIVtY.
fSeal) Notary Public
