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The Omaha Bee MORN1N G—E V E N 1 N G—S UNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Publither N. B. UPDIKE, President BALLARD DUNN, JOY M. HACKLER. Editor in Chief Business Manager MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which Tha Bee is a member, is exclusively entitled to the use for ^publication of all new* dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republieation of our special dispatches are also reserved. The Omaha Bee is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognised authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee's circulation is regularly audited by their organisations. Entered as second-class matter May 28. 1908, at Omaha poatoffice under act of March 8, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for AT Iantic 1000 the Department or Person Wanted. OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Co. Bluffs—-lo Scott St. So. Side—N. W. Cor. 24th N. New York—World Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bldg. . Chicago—Tribune Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bldg. St. Louis—Syn. Trust Bldg. Lo* Angeles—Higgins Bldg. San Fran.—Hollrook Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg. L; Omaha Vhefe rhe^st is al its Bosl SPY SYSTEM SHOULD GO. A really interesting outcome of the orgy of in vestigation that has so long raged at Washington is a recommendation from Senator Brookhart that the bureau of investigation in the Department of Jus tice be done away with. Agreeing in principle and in fact with the senator, we congratulate him on hav ing reached a conclusion so defensible. W. D. trim, special assistant attorney general, told the committee of which Senator Brookhart is the chairman that the spy system in America is without reason, and that the sooner the bureau of investigation is done away with the better it will be for the department. Attorney General Stone began the work when he accepted the resignation of William J. Burns and declined to name a successor. This indicates the es timate the attorney general puts upon the practice which has grown to such scandalous proportions around the government at Washington. His example should have influence in enabling congress to give support to the Brookhart proposal. Whatever changes in form are made with regard to the Depart ment of Justice, the elaborate arrangement for spy ing on persons in office should be obliterated. • • * Properly a secret service should be maintained. It has a legitimate part in any system of govern ment. The United States deals with criminals of every class, has many penal statutes to enforce, many regulations to he observed, and many citizens who like to engage in the pleasant little game of evading or breaking the law. Society can not be left at the mercy of these, any more than Omaha could with safety abolish the detective bureau of the city police department. But all of this ran be carried on legitimately and without subjecting the citizens to the annoyance of snooping, gumshoeing meddling in private affairs that has prevailed for the last ten years. Disclosures made by the investigations have uncovered an as tonishing state of affair*. Not only did the govern ment have a horde of paid agents, each busy in “in vestigating” somebody, but private iorces were main tained. Sometimes the two worked together, and now and then one of the operatives, more enterpris ing than the rest, found himself on two payrolls at ;he same time. Such persons have little or no trouble in finding what they go after. They are shrewd enough as a rule to know what their employer thinks he wants to know, and they invariably find it for him. Name and reputation of a victim mean nothing to such har pies. One of them admitted that he had been in the service of Japan and Germany as a spy as well as that of the United States. At the time he was testifying to his activities as an “investigator” for the Department of Justffe, be was being shielded by the committee from seizure by the federal courts, being under indictment in New York for attempting to bribe government officials. He also admitted that he had, while being paid by the United States, han dled $100,000 in one bribe for a Japanese concern that was trying to defraud the United States. * * * How can any justice be rested on such a founda tion? Does our government tequire such support? Criminals must be uncovered and brought to justice, sedition should be brought into the open, treason be unmasked, but how can a spy system aid inAhat? The bureau of investigation has grown until it recalls the old epigram about the fleas who have smaller fleas to bite ’em. A start has been made on the clean-up process, and it should go on until the last vestige of espionage has been wiped out. America should be so free that there will be no need for any who wish to hold a convention or a a consultation to meet in secret. Open discussion of the government at all times is one of our dearest privileges, and there should be no restriction on it. Bribe givers and takers, grafters and the like, ran be handled by the police department. Gossip mongers and rumor pedlers, who have done their utmost to destroy the faith of the people in their institutions end officials, have shot their bolt and failed. Now let us have a rest from their idle and malicious buzzing*. OUR ARMY ON ITS WINGS. Three young men, wearing the ‘‘wings” of the United States army air service, are now in Siberia, by virtue of having “hopped” across the Pacific ocean. True, their longest flight was but 850 miles, very short in comparison with the 10,000 miles that stretch between San Francisco and Manila, the route usually traveled by our army when on business across the western ocean. Yet even that short distance contains the making of a real thrill. It was the first time that aircraft had flown from America to Asia. A gap was spanned that never bad been bridged in 'bat way before. Scientists tell of how early animals, and prob ably man, crossed the land bridge that once existed .here. It is now broken up into a series of step ping stones, advantage of which was taken by the fliers. Yet even these stepping stones were pre carious. Witness the fsilure of Major Martin, through a series of mishaps. That his companions had better luck does not detract from Martin's ef fort, even though it does enhance theirs. When the fliers have completed their journey, as *4iey surely will, now that, the worst part has been passed successfully, we will get some definite news as to what actually has been accomplished. For the tim« the publie will get its thrill out of the fact that the army is able to handle its wings. Americans ■till keep to the froisj, in all matters concerned with 1 •/*» s' ■ »- * • ' ' ' - * J . practical aviation. The next thing is for congress to make proper provision for the support of the air service of the army, that it may develop to a point where its laboratory tests will be of actual use to the nation, in either peace or war. GET ACTION ON THE BRIDGE. The question of whether a bridge is to be built over the Platte river in the neighborhood of Yutan should be decided without any more delay. Fully two years of discussion has simply served to bring to a deadlock the advocates of different sites. One group favors one, the other the other, of two avail able crossings. Engineers have examined and re ported, county boards have considered, and interestert parties on one side or the other have argued the matter. Letters have been sent to editors contending but not settling anything. In the meantime, much good time has been wasted. Farmers of northern and central Saunders county, who might use the bridge on the way to market, are deprived of its benefits. They must make long detours in order to reach their destina tion, or not come at all. It is not so much what they have to buy or what they have to sell that is of concern to them. Once they ran get across the river into Douglas county, they have goftd hard-surfaced roads, leading directly to the stockyards and other big markets of the city. That is what interests them, for it gives them the advantage of being able to reach market with their product by a shorter and better route. Another factor, and that ought to control, has just entered the problem. Unless Douglas and Saun ders counties can get together and decide on the bridge location very soon, they will lose their chance fog the state aid. As this amounts to one-half the estimated cost of the structure, it is worth consider ing. A decision ought to be coming very soon, in order that the bridge which all agree should be built may be opened to the service of the public before very long. Private interests should have no weight in the settlement. RT. REV. TITUS LOWE, D. D. If the matter had been left to a referendum vote of the Methodists in Nebraska, Titus Lowe would have been a bishop long ago. During his pastorate of the First Methodist Episcopal church in Omaha he built for himself such a place in the affections ot the people he served as not many men have at tained. It was not only his personality that marked him for eminence, though. Along with his charm of manner, his democracy of behavior, and his unfeigned sympathy for all he met, he showed such high order of ability as made his rise in the church organization a foregone conclusion. He was an executive of rare attainments. Long before he was called to become secretary in charge of foreign missions, he had proved his capability for handling business affairs. Frequently he was called into council on delicate and important matters, and gave to the church the benefit of a long experience and sound judgment. Added to this is the great weight of his presence in the pulpit. Doctrinally sound, he held such liberal views as to the destiny not of the church alone but of humanity in the whole, as distinguished him not alone as a thinker, but as one possessed of a singular faculty for clear expres sion. In Omaha he had a large part in the civic life of the community, his range of activity taking him far outside the confines of his denominational du ties. Here he measured up to the full standard of a man of strong convictions and the moral courage to support them. Omaha, feeling deeply the sorrow that attends the retirement of Rt. Rev. Homer R. Stuntz. will rejoice that he has so worthy a suc cessor in Rt. Rev. Titus Lowe, D. D. FORESTRY FIGHT NOT ENDED. One of the regrettable actions of the conferee,■s on the revenue law’was that which struck out the sen ate amendment to encourage reforestation of cut over lands. Thig, of course, was as a matter of economy, but even as such it is unwise. Americans are not yet thoroughly awakened as to what is in volved in the forestry problem. Preaching so far on the subject has fallen on ears that have but faintly responded to the sound, yet there has been some response. It is encouraging even that the sen ate should have adopted such an amendment, even though it was finally cast overboard. Such a sign of interest in congress leads to the conclusion that when the matter is finally fairly presented on its merits, as it will be, the decision will be in favor of renewing the timber growth, that the future may be assured of a supply that is now threatened with ex tinction. A New York congressman of the name of Celler says he can not live in Washington for less than 110,000 a year, and wants his pay raised accordingly. Mr. Celler might learn with little trouble that a lot of government employes are living in Washington on much less than $10,000 a year, and some of them are holding pretty important jobs. If everybody in contempt of the senate is to he arrested, what arrangements have been made to take care of the prisoners? Put a fence around the na tion, maybe. "Bonus or bunco?" inquire* the Minneapolis Tribune. Probably it is neither, hut it is what the boys asked for. "The way to resume is to resume," said John Sherman. The way to use the rivers is to set boats on them. The law may be an exact science, but it shows a lot of queer turns ip Nebraska. Reproductions of a photograph sent by telephone look as if it had been. /-\ Homespun Verse —By Omtha’i Own Poe! — Robert Worthington Dario WHO IS A FRIEND? Who Is s. friend" 1 oft pretend To learn the answer true. And where does loyal frtendahlp end I aonietlmes wonder, too. How, menaured with agnostlre gold, Does friendship dear compare - And are we not In spirit told That all will be friends There? There In the Placid and Sublime Where souls breathe free and pure; Whirs Life lo mortala Is a* Tim# To Eden Is secure Oh. friends within that Vast will meet To share of bllse ungueaaed. To laugh and praise and love anil greet. - And with all needs he bleated. Who la S friend—and further whv" The Afterwhile will show: All who exist will aome day die And from thla orbit go, And when In that Abode they reat Where ell the good ones aerend, Melhlnks the trulh will he expressed And proxa "WlWiia a friend." a / Letters From Our Readers All letters must he signed, hut name will he withheld upon request, fommoui « at Ions of 200 words and less will he given preferem e. V.---«' A Word for Norris. North Platte, Neb. To th# Editor of The lice: It has been a source of great pleasure to rue to read in the press a few days ago. every word of which I endorse, an honest statement as to the stand he takes as between the people and the old party. I mean l'nltcd States Senator Norris from Nebraska. It has caused some con fusion in the ranks of the republican party as those among them who place party before duty set up a fierce howl when the declaration was made by him that Justice and right he would place before party, and I think there are good reasons why all honest men In either of the old parties should •ever their rnnnrction and declare for justice. Lest we forget It. let us repeat a few facts discovered bv- an investigation committee appointed bv congress found and reported by them: For a powder factory In Nitro, YV. Y'a . that neitter furnished or even made one single pound of powder, tkere was expended $60,000,000 for building expenses snd after the war the whole factory, Including the mov able property of an estimated value of $10,000,000, was sold for a little more than $6,500,000. For th# build ing of a powder factory In Nashville. Tenn , although in which during the war no powder was made that was of any use. the government expended $00,000,000 and more than $116,000, iiiio fur nitrate factories in Muscle Shoals and Sheffield. Ala., Toledo and Cincinnati, which during the whole war did not furnish one single pound of nitrate. More than $1,000,000,000 were expended for the building of airplanes, but not one single one was completed. .\ special Invcsl Igatlop committee, the then Chief Justice Hughes presld Ing. recommended to the ndministra tlon on the basis of evidence and proof material put hefore them, and considered sufficient, the criminal prosecution of the guilty, but Presi dent YY 11 son did not take any steps, -Nearly 61,200.000,000 were expended during the war for the fabrlcstlon of cannon, but at the time of the armis tice there were. In spite of it. only 333 cannon at the front, hullt In the United States. Four thousand million dollars were expended for ships, w hich because not coming Into use, did not add the least to the winning of the war A great part of this sum. name ly that paid for wooden ships, was money thrown away, because this kind of ships were not seaworthy and lying at anchor simply rotted. For hundreds of these ships the govern ment at the sale to private Interests received only a fraction of the actual building costs. Those are only a few of hundreds of almost incredible facts. Can It he wondered at that Mr. Norris and all honest tnen, when acquainted with these facts, denounce and seek to change the system that wants tu a! low their continuance? Our great cuuntry and llttls minds go illy to get her. Inequality Is the source of itll revolutions, for no compensation can make up for Inequality. The best stale of human nature is that hi which while no one Is poor, no one desires to he richer, nor has any reason to fear being thrust back bv the efforts of others to push themselves forward. Law does not rreate right. Might must dictate the law. The ruin or prosperity of a stale depends so mu. h on the administration of Its govern rnent. YY'e nerd only observe the con dition of the people to convince us of this fan. I hope the mass of the P—Ple will heck up their friends and send to the junk shop to follow their devices, all traitors In both the old parties, and then we will see a gov ernment by the people that will see to It that the rich have ;in tight to the property of the poor, nor the poor have no right to the property of the rich. YY'hen we arrive at that, time peace and good will will reign WILLIAM LY MAN. Music In the Concrete. rhalco. Neb To the Editor of The Omaha Her Not long ago | read In The timaha flee that more funds must he supplied if Master Sammv Cornel was to continue Ills vjnhti course „„ was In!<1 out for «htm b\ Mi Ktiesler w hen he was In Omaha lie waa asnf to some mils, al . ol lege In some eastern city, vvheie he must reach a slag., of proficiency, al most the limit, before the professor selected by Mr. Krlealer will take charge of hint tn give him Ills final training and hla aheepskln. Had Sammy contlnuedFiia studies I ‘T;t with his Omaha teacher. Miss Emily Cleave, or some other Omaha violin instructors, who ate ably competent to advance him fur five years to come, I think he would have been much bet ter off. By that time he would have been old enough to go away to col lege should his advancement bv that time been sufficient to warrant the expense. I would say to the musical societies of Omaha who ate desirous Iof furthering the study of music tn |Omaha, to pay the tuitions to the Omaha Instructors. Your money re mains In Omaha; so does the puptl; where you can keep tab on the pupil s I progress at all times. If you find his progress nut satisfactory, stop the ex pense. When you send a pupil to some distant city to finish their musi cal education, you have no way of knowing about its progress, or wheth er you will ever have the pleasure of seeing the pupil again. Omaha and Lincoln, outside of their movie show*, employ very few mu clans compared tn the sire of the cltie* I personally know of orehes tra leaders from both cities who are canvassing the small surrounding tow ns, almost begging for a chan- e to gi t to play for dances in the halls. T am told that the city of Omaha charges a license fee of JSO a year for restaurants to have music dur ing their meal hours. This, added to the eoet of the mu sicians. Is so much they cannot afford to employ them. Do away with this license fee and thereby help the mu sician to get a Job snd have musk while you eat. I won|d like to hear from other mu sicians oil this matter. A MUSICIAN. Use for Crows. Neola. la,—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee Anent vour learned edi torial on the disputed usefulness of the ubiquitous crow. I wish to re mark there need be no wnrriment along that line because, ss I sire the debated question up. there will be a horde of rejected politicians sfter the ensuing election estlng crow, snd tHe11 number will be appreciably decreased. J.,\r. L. Bring the Slang Dictionary. He—Tou ought not to go far on a fiat tire She—I never go anvwhere with a fiat tire.—Uinrinnati Enquirer Center Shots "The day of the flapper is over." says Lady Terrington. We'ie afraid so. There's too much maternal com petition lajndon Opinion. Our insignificant opinion is that the third party won't get any scandalous contributions from big business—Bos ton Post. Adam would bate fallen anyway when he began gardening and turned up a fish-worm.—Associated Kditors, Chicago. The oil mi’ll' is tiad. of course, but isn't it fine to hear a bat crack again? —Springfield State-Register. Half the world doesn't know how the other half lives, but it « investi gating.— Wall Street Journal. The most famous A is of our time are Jennings. Jolson. Smifh. imony, et at.—Dallas Journal. Tt is hard to make Hi Johnson be lieve that virtue is Its own reward when Harry Daugherty had more peo ple at hi* Columbus banquet than Hi had to listen to his Columbus speech. —Cleveland Times. \ TWIG or RAGE Hiti Ml For mile* and miles the desert widens through Thar region of the Red Man's broken bow, W her# white, aps, indistinct and row on row, Make notches In the long hnrlaon's bine. Vast rolling sieas of sage gieen line Kxtend from ashen trail to rodeo, And. varied, interspersed, the < icti grow A million thorns and blossoms in the view. With broad brimmed hat and swing ing pistol sheath. The herdsmen leaps his steed uf tossing mane. Among s thousand rattle on the hea'h. Or in the gulch, he draws a careful rein. But gallops In abandon from the wreath Of dust he mikes upon the sunny rlsln. —Willis Hudspeth. The Rest Need. The Virginia legislature has s de Vice 'hat will record the \ot* of all its members in four seconds, but whit l* needed is a device that will cut de bate to that period.—Indianapolis New* Discipline "What has become of the old bar VETERAN JUDGE GIVES FACTS IN HIS CASE Hon. A. P. Tarbox Tells How He Over came Stomach Trouble of Long Standing by Taking Tanlac. Honorable A. I’. 'Tarbox. distin guished lawyer and Judge, iending at ! 217 Went I'.ld St ., 1-nlverslty Place, Nrh, lend* hi* name to further the cause of Tanlac, the famous treat ment that ha* proved of such great benefit to him. “If anybody know* what Tanlac will do," recently *aid Judge Tarbox. “It in me, for the medicine baa kept n.c on my feet and able to work for the past two year*,** Judge Tarbox ha* be$n a member of the bar since early manhood and ha* practiced law' iir Illlnol*, Nebraska and Oklahoma for more than a half century. He \n a charter member of Farragut Post. Lincoln n. A FJ ,! and also prominent in fraternal order! circles. Speaking further of his ex j perlenc* with Tanlac, Judge Tarbox said: “Stomach trouble had been the bane of mv existence even before the t’lvll War. Indigestion such *• I had Is about the w ot st enemy a person could have, Mid It kept getting worse nil the time “I simply could not have kept going the past two a eat* if St had not been for TanlAc. It. mode my weak stoma* a sound and wholesome, did away with all sign* nf Indigestion i * nd built me up In a wav 1 had i IkAuahl Intnusslbla. 1 • In fart. Tanl»e liaa brought me iralth. etrength and happiness when t t\;«s a >k and suffering, an t ha\e uety reaai'n to give It my tmquall ied endnraetnent and malar Tan la r la for aale by a good drug t ela. Accept no allha .t ine Oi er Ml mlltlcn bottles aold. Tinian Vegetable Villa for const i >atlon, made and recommended by lbe nanufartti'era if T. mi., Advertise agnt, Hsiimmy SIDE UP: i i 1 I I conformed to the requirements. -- At the risk of being charged with belonging to the botir geoise, whatever that is. or even being charged with kowtowing -o the capitalistic classes, we venture the opinion that one great trouble with this country is that too many people are running around in circles demanding a law or two to help them out of their difficulties, instead of buckling down and working them selves out. Furthermore, it is our further opinion that the ax. the grubbing hoe. the plow and the rifle did more to advance the real prosperity of the people in days gone by than law enact ment can do today. We still cling to the old-fashioned notion that Industry and "thrift beat Passing a Law if prosperity is the goal sought. The output of motor cars in April was only 337.777, s slight decrease from the March output. This indicates that we will experience increasing difficulty in seeking the distinction of being (he only man in America who is not owned by sn auto mobile. Incidentally we would remark in clarion tones rliat the click of the corn planters promises greater relief than may be ex peeled from Passing Some More Iasi. -. “I* jazz dying?'" asks s musical critic. We don't know hut If It smells half as had as most of it sounds it must hsve died quite a while ago. - —— — An Omaha father just dropped in to tell us that Just shout the time he gets his radio tuned in on a really good bedtime story the kiddies have the phonograph going full tilt on the Very latest In Jazz. The other day a baby was born lo a family occupying a Philadelphia flat. The next day the father of the baby shot and killed the landlord who ordered the premises vacated be cause of the arrival of the little one. We don't know what will l>e clone about It. hut we do know that if we were on the jury it would either be an acquittal or a Jury hung until hades boiled down to a poultice. Ton may pass lots of laws And enforce them as you will, Bur you'll never get rid Of the small private still. WILL M MAC PIN. v — I tender who opened a soda fountain?") "We had to deal severe with him," I replied < aetus Joe. "lie kep' puttin'1 up signs that looked like advertise ments of the old fashioned mixed drinks till Anally we had to run hint out o' town fur obtainin' money un - der false pretenses Washington1 Star. W hen in Omaha Hotel Conant 250 Rooms—250 Baths—Rates $2 to 13 Effective June 21, 1924, the interest rate on mortgage loans will be Six Per Cent PER ANNUM This rate will apply to the loans already on our books as well as those written after that date. H'e pay dividends to our borrowers Omaha Loan and Building Association Corner Fifteenth end Dodge Streets BOYS WANTED! We want an ambitious bov to sell The Omaha Bee in your town. The Omaha Bee has sales boys in over 500 Nebraska and Iowa towns, but there are still a few towns in which we have not yet established sales boys. Hundreds of boys are earning their spending money and in addition have started a nice bank account from earn ings made selling The Omaha Bee. If you live in a town that does not have a boy selling The Omaha Bee. sit down NOW and write for information on how to make some real money this summer. Address Mr. Shannon, care The Omaha Bee, and he will give you complete details by return mail. THE OMAHA BEE | *
