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| The Omaha Bee M O R N 1 N C—E V E N 1 N C—S U N P A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO , Publisher N. B. UPDIKE. President BALLARD DUNN, JOY M. HACKLER, Editor in Chief Business Mensaer MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, is exclusively entilled to the use for l epublication of all news dispatchet rrcditrd to It or not otherwise credited in this rarer, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of our aperial dispatches are also rea^rvwl. Th* Omaha B*e !* * mamb^r of tha Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recogniaed authority on circulation audit*, and The Omaha Bee's circulation ia regularly audited by thoir organization*. Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908. at Omaha postoffice under act of March 8, 1K79. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for AT lantic 1000 -hr Pens-tmetx Ml- Person Warped OFFICES ,tsin Office—17th «nd Fernem Co. Bluffs—15 Scott St. So. Side—N. W. Cor. 54th N. New York World Bide. Detroit—Ford Bide. Chir»*o—Tribune Bide Ksnses City—Bryent Bide. St. I.ouis — Syn. Trust Bide. Los Aneeles—Hieeins Bide. San F'ren.— Hollrook Bide. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Hide. 1.- --' OiTtdhd Vhei^ the^fest is at its Best UNDERNEATH THE TRADE EXCURSION. Omaha trade boosters have returned from their annual pilgrimage, having spent five full days visit ing in a remarkably rich and fertile region. Prox imity to the Omaha market marks that region as naturally dependent upon this city as a market place. Through Omaha should go to the world each year all the products of the farms and orchards of the country inspected, and from Omaha should go out oil the supplies needed to meet the wants of the residents there. This assumes that all other things are equal. Omaha has alert and energetic competitors bidding for the patronage of these people, and that is as it should be. One of the really basic reasons for American greatness is that no community absolute ly dominates another. All must stand or fall as they deserve to succeed or invite failure, for this reason the trade excursion is a good thing. It extends acquaintance, permits personal interviews, and gives a first-hand knowledge of the needs and requirements of the customers, actual or prospective. * » * Omaha business men understand these things, and it has been one outstanding characteristic of the commercial life of the community that it has pro ceeded on the live and let live principle. There has been no thought that grain and live stock should he shipped here because this is the natural market for the region. Constantly an effort has been made to induce growers to send their produce here be cause yf the advantage the market affords entirely aside from the single factor of availibility. The same thing is true of the manufacturers and jobbers, who put their wares on the market in competition with the world. Natural laws of trade, however, operate with certainty when unrestrained by artificial conditions. Such operation brings the people of southwestern Iowa and northwestern Mis souri to Omaha to do their trading. Access to the market is made easy hy train service and Rood roads ' over which automobiles and trucks move the year round, and swell the ever-growing commerce. Omaha people are vitally concerned in the affairs of the country around the city, and have always taken a deep interest in all the big and most of the little things that interest their neighbors. Not in a meddlesome way, for our people have no desire to interfere with the things that belong to others, hut in a helpful way when possible, and always with a desire to further strengthen the bonds between the city and the country. • • • This form of intelligent selfishness, if it may be so expressed, is the high mark of civilized relation ships. Omaha cannot prosper if the region around it does not prosper. The city is located in the center of the richest farming region on earth. No other similar area in the world raises and sends to market each year so much foodstuff as comes from the land within a radius of 150 miles from Omaha. That the eveater part of this should move through Omaha is hut natural. That all of it does not is merely as eribable to the enterprise of competitors, who are ah]p to offer such inducements as lures some of the trade away. Only one sure way is known to meet this. Find out what the rival is doing, and meet him half-way or a little farther, so as to bring the business along the line it ouaht to travpl. If the trade excuraion did what it should it found out some of the reasons why competitors are able to get business away from this city. Effort* should be made to offset any thing of the sort, and this in turn will stimulate those competitors to still greater endeavors to se cure or hold trade. That in turn will bring better conditions to the people who are buying and selling with keen competition for their favor. • • • Here is the real mission of the trade excursion. While on the surface it looks like a move of Omaha men to secure greater business for themselves and Iheir community, in the deeper analysis is seen an advantage to the people who have things to sell anil who in turn must buy. Omaha is their natural mar ket. and all things else being equal they will come to Omaha. But our city must be ever awake to the fact that it has rivals as eager for this business as Omaha, and so there should be no relaxation In effort. VENGEANCE IS A MIGHTY MOTIVE. ■ “For,” said old Mazeppa, aa he lighted hi* pipe and drew hi* big cloak closer about him. while hi* companions listened for the rest of his tale, "Time at last sets all tiling* even. And, If we hot watch the hour. There never yet was human power That, could avert. If unforgiven, , The patient wait and vigil long Of him who treasures up a wrong." He was thinking of how he had settled the score with the Polish nobleman who had sent him on his famous ride. What, a warm place he would have found in his heart for the young woman who Is now trudging her way from New Orleans to Bremerton, on a similar mission. According to thia young wo man’s own atory, she Is going out there to “give a piece of her mind” to another woman. The animat ing impulse is revenge. When thia girl was younger, she was under the care of the woman she now pursues, and was treated like a slave. How long axo that was does not matter so much. It has not been forgotten, and now the stout and healthy young lady, sustained by the thought of her own joy in scolding the elder woman, is tramp ing 3,500 miles just to get even. Is such h vengeance worth such an effort? Perhaps, when the girl gets out a little ways from the thickly settled region through which she has thus far pro ceeded, she may find something to change her views. “Under the wide and starry sky,” with nature undis turbed around her, the great spaces of the plains, the majesty of the mountains, all the wonders of God's work around her and very little of man’s, she may get a better notion of her own insignificance, of the triviality of her wrongs, and the pettiness of her purpose. If she can tramp across the miracles that lie between the Missouri river and her goal un touched and unchanged, heaven help the other woman! MOVING TO THE WORLD COURT. Just now the senate is interested in some plan to get into the World Court and keep out of the League of Nations. To Senator Pepper was delegat ed the task of drawing a resolution that would ac complish this result, and this resolution will be pre sented to the senate for consideratidn very soon. President Coolidge made his position very clear in his address to congress in December. He then said: "Our foreign policy lias always been guided by two principles. The one is the avoidance of per manent political alliances which would sacrifice our proper Independence. The other is the penceful settlement, of controversies between nations. By example and by treaty we have advocated arbitra tion. For nearly 25 years we have been a member of The Hague Tribunal, and have long sought the creation of a permanent World Court of .lustlre. I ant in full accord with both of these policies. I favor the establishment of surh a court intended to include the whole world. That Is, and long has bten. an American policy. Pending before the sen ate Is a proposal that this give its support to the Permanent Court of International Justice, which Is a new and somewhat different plan. ... It should he discussed with entire candor, not by a political but by a judicial method, without pres sure and without prejudice. Partisanship has no place In our foreign relations. As I wish to see a court established, and as the proposal presents the only practical plan on which many nations have ever agreed, though it may not meet every de sire, I therefore commend It to the favorable con sideration of the senate, with the proposed reser vations clearly indicating our refusal to adhere to the Ueagtie of Nations." This language letvijee no doubt as to where the president stands on th'e question of the World Court. In the Harding and Hughes proposals, the United States would be required to act with the League of Nations only in the election of judges of the court. This does'not seem to be an insurmountable obstacle. How much further the -enate will want to go in safe guarding the nation from contact with the League is not clear. Report has it that several of the ir reconcilable group have declared a willingness to support the court plan, if it is made plain that such action will not he construed as in any way approv ing of the League of Nations or assuming any re sponsibility to that organization by the United States. Sentiment throughout the United States is pre ponderantly in favor of the World Court, because of the possibility of its service in the avoidance of war. Whether it will achieve all its advocates prom ise for it, the court plan does hold out that much as a certainty. Anything that makes war more remote will receive support from our people, who are at all times sincerely opposed to going to war. Senator Lodge has withdrawn his plan, which met but slight favor, and has given his support to the Pepper resolution. On this the debate will turn, and perhaps the senate will agree to let the United States become a party to the support of a tribunal where international disputes may be settled on terms that will avoid armed conflict. FACTS ABOUT THE A. E F. One thing the passage of the bonus law’ did that W’ill he appreciated by those who like precise in formation. It brings out the exact number of men who served with the colors in any capacity during the days we were at war.’ The total number of men who were finally accepted and performed military service w’as 4,051,600. Those who performed both home and overseas service were in number 2,057,907. Those who performed domestic service only num bered 1,993,699. The average number of days’ serv ice of those who served overseas and both overseas and at home is 312. Average number of days for those who served both overseas and at home, 171. Average number of days for those who served only at home, 212. Average number of days for those who served more than 60 and less than 111 is 84. All who went overseas served more than 111 days. | Only 8.5 per cent of the men called served less than 60 days, and only 14 per cent served less than 111. Of those who went overseas 115,274 are ex cluded from the benefits of the act. Those serving at home who are excluded number 404,822. For domestic service only 1,309,760 men will receive bonus on an average service of 228 days. Men who will receive bonus for both home and overseas serv ■ ice (the average time being 486 days, 312 overseas and 174 at home,) is 1,942,633. The bureau that will handle the claims expects to hear from 5,250,000 claimants. Many of these will be rejected as ineligible. At present 7,076 fil ing cases contain 160.000,000 documents pertaining to the soldiers’ records. Maj. Gen. Robert S. Davis, adjutant general of the army, says every record is as complete as is necessary, and that he is ready to start on the big job. Newspapers that lately printed lone obituary no tices of Sun Yat Sen are now carrying pqually lengthy proclamations the doctor is issuing, defying the powers of the world in general. For a dead man he is making a lot of fuss. The American army fiiers are doing right well In their race against time, distance, and the British and French competitors. No sign of consolidation is noted in the move to establish a railroad ticket office on every downtown corner. .Southern Presbyterian* made short work of evo lution, but Mr. Bryan belongs to the church north. One fact brought out by the committee Is that bootleggers thrive In Washington. /■ 1 -1 " ---—x Homespun Verse ■—By Omaha’* Own Poet Robert Worthington Doric __/ A FARMER'S OPTIMISM. I'm able to buy Hie nn evvltIc* yet. I’m plodding abend In rnv usual way; Thera * much that I'm living with hope to get But when i'll succeed 'twould be foolish to aay. I reckon I'll atay on the farm awhile, 1 may not get rb h but I'll manage to keep My courage and maybe have reason to smile When barley and onions are ready to reap. Thing* don’t nlwava suit me and seldom!y turn The wav that would bring me Hie cash when I'm low, Hut I like the other* nm living to learn The fate i defy a* j harvest and *■•*. And gleaning It all at a glance I nm * One place |* a* good a* nnothei I Life * all a* we take |t, vivacious <*r dr-’i* And changing about doesn't help It a lot. _______ - ... 1 N -- Can t We Ever Do Anything Without That Old Kill Joy Tagging Along? _____—-----' f-> Letters From Our Readers All IrMfrii mimt be tinned, but name will be withheld upon readmit. ( om rnunlratioii* of 2IHI words and less % will be given preference. V ---d Nebraska’s 1 *ul>lie* Schools. Omaha— To the IMitor of The Oma ha Bee; The Bee. in an editorial re cently, comments upon an address de llvered by Dr. St raver before the Schoolmasters’ club in Idncoln. The Bee concludes with the statement “That something remains to be done That Is most certainly true As our school system now stands It cannot make progress or remedy many pres ent conditions. It Is a state school svsfem largely In name only, and for that reason nur children are not receiving eijual edu cational advantages in the state There are some school d strict* so for tunate ns to hav* as many as three or more railroad systems running through the district, paying heavy j taxes towards the maintenance of the schools in the districts; other districts | having no railroad or other public; utility ot* corporations to tax. and it is in such districts that school taxes repre sent a l.crge portion of ihe t.iX levy and become a real burden to the taxpayer. In Douglas county the Klk City school district comprises nine sections of land with no corporation or public utility to levy a tax upon. Maintaining a 10 grade school .a a heavy burden upon the land. Kaoh district is a law unto itself as constituted at present, governed by state laws. However, these state law s lack tee th, and unless a taxpayer wants to go to the trouble and go to court there Is nothing to prevent school boards from exceecMng their! budgets and get away with it. The | same thing is true on the c imimluin j side, which, after all, is the more Jrn i port ant. It is true we have our! county superintendents, but their ! func tion is limited also. Tn many di* trlcts sectional feelings and political leaders inject themselves ftlto the af fair s of the s< bools for their own purposes often men are placed upon the school hoards who have no Inter -- v A be Martin » Many a feller would hr ali\ri ('day if hr hardn' saved rnoujrh t’ I retire. Never tell a sinirle woman she don’t look it. i Copyright, 1 4 > ■ ' ——— NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for April, 1924, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily ..74,265 Sunday .77,999 Dom not in* I mis return*. left overt, atinplaa or paper a apoilad in printing and in* ludea no aper ial • •lea or ftea rlrrnlation of any kind V. A BRIDGE, Clr. M«r. 3uba<i tired and aworn tn before mi thU 10th day of Mav. 1024 W H QUIVF N , (Seal) Notary Public est In school matters, and what Is worse, do not rare to acquaint them selves with the same. This !s also true relative to our county superln tendents. This office should be filled by persons selected for their ability to serve the schools and not for their popularity of being elected. As to supplies and equipment, there Is a tremendous waste in our present system, every district buying Its own supplies at long prices, and sometimes very Inferior when compared with what should have been purchased. A more centralized administration should receive our attention. Jn this respect we can well afford to look into the school administration of some other states. Books and other school sup piles should be purchased through one s'ate office. Quality, adaptability and price should then receive expert at icntlon. Teachers' salaries should be uniform In the state. Supervision should be provided for counties nr di* trirts. A state school hoard, composed of men versed In school affairs, should he created, with county boards work ing under their direction. A general state school fund rather than count' funds would give to every child equal opportunity to If el\e an education. Certainly this whole matter should he looked Into by a commission, such as was suggested In the last legislu tine. It is too important a matter to allow It to go on as It la. Impor lant not only to the teachers of the state and to every taxpayer, but what is of more Importance, to our children. HENRY F KIESER. Precision. From a small school girl s essay on My Family:" ' In tnv family there are three of is, by father, mother and me. I am 'he youngest."—laindon News, LISTENING IN On the Nebraska Press. "The further congress backs away from the president, the farther the country gets away from congress," sagely remarks Editor Brown of the Kearney Hub. • • • Editor Sutherland of the Tekamah Herald ears a good neighbor Is one whm can tell you what's the matter with vour car and then helps you fix It. • • • Kr»d Howard of the Clay Center Pun save it has always been a mystery to him why a girl who has never b»en in should have a romlng out party. • • • "C*n you remember.” plaintively wails Charley Botkin of the nether burg Independent wh»n a poor man had nothing for hreakfaat but ham, eggs, biscuits and coffee”' • • • Fndornin* Tb* R** n nt editor ini. Vtm tb* Idl*» Rlv#r«,” th* K**r m»y Hub exclaim* that * a rlv*r that | baa nothing to do but run idly and ! endlessly to tb# aea. ahould be |dammed at every opportunity.” • • • Ed.tor Hammond of the Cambridge Leader and Kditor Holmes of the Cam bridge Clarion now have another bond of sy mpathy. Each waa fined $25 and costs in federal court on the charge of printing stuff about a lottery. The alleged lottery was a prize giving con test put on by local merchants. • • • Allan May of the Auburn Herald doesn't lie!le\» all Hie had things he hear* about the Ku Klux Klan. He In your wall* Celotex will be stronger * than wood sheathing and generally costs less when in place. Turns Sum Bar’s heat and Winter’s odd. ASK YOUR LUMBER DEALER over 40 Billion Dollars, which they hold subject to the order hi of the owner. This Bank will welcome an opportunity to afford you this service. ,(.j lhe| UuMKtuy^ m Bunny side up1 ''lake Comfort, nor forget [9/uz< sunrise ni^r/u/edas UK, UK. GKORt.K! Why should friend George rush to deny That one sweet Georgia miss With gleaming mischief in her ey« Ga\* him a dainty kiss? Why should he show himself !r«t# And raise a dreadful fuss? We rush to seize this tlm- to state We wish It had been ua. It grieves us sore that George should rave And wildly saw the air When charged that a sweet maiden gave To him a kiss so rare. Had w-e been Gem ce and got that kiss We'd play the game with zest. And give It back to that sweet miss With compound interest. O. George, youn actions w» deplore And wish we had been you. We couldn't cuss; we’d ask for more. ' At least we'd made It two. Tour action makes no hit with us, Tou merely give us pain. Had we been you there'd be no fuss— We'd say: "Do that again.” —: W« have had some political ambitions In our t!m» but no* until now have we ever s!m»d so high as a United P»a*ea sen a-nrshlp But If to be kissed by sweet young misses who s' •end senatorial hearings and Investigations Is one of the sere ferial prerogatives, we announce* here and now that we are going to shy nun chapeau into the ring Tou may rest assured that instead of raising a fuss and charging blackmail when sn osculatory fare** I* mentioned in connection with our name, we will not only admit It, but actually boast about it. In *11 our long and more or less eventful career we c*. necall but one kiss that annoyed us. It was when we wert about 12 years old. An old maid school teacher larruped u« for soot* eg nor, and then to prove that she had no 1 : * feeling toward us. planted a kiss upon our unwilling lip* When we become a senator of the United States no woman need fear that we will fall to reciprocate. We will be utterly unlike Senator Norths in at least one respect. We always did believe In reciprocity. The name Craig stands out rather prominently for us. Tt was at. Craig. Mo., that we edited our first newspaper. It 1* at Craig. Colo., that we have a vicarious Interest in an op well. And at Craig. Neb., we had the pleasure and honor of addressing >he finest bunch of high school graduates that 1' has ever been nun privilege *o see Nine stalwart young men and nine beautiful girls made up the class. That * the kind of a 50-50 split we like to see. WILL M MAUPIN. H =J mv« if th»v were true th»r» wouldn't <e wo many eaxopnone player* run ninjr loose. • • • “If th# stork were popular there would be less demand for parrots." surmises Fred Howard of the Clay Center Sun. • • • The York News-Times man Is an optimistic sort of fellow: Things could be worse," he says ‘Just sup pose. pow. you h • 1 to lather the lawn before cutting the grass." StilJ With It. “What ha» become of »ne man »'ro user) to buttonhole you? “He now holds you firmly hy the b»!r.''—Louisville Courier-Journal. W hen in Omaha Hotel Conant 250 Rooms—250 Baths—Rates $2 to $5 6% NO COMMISSION 6% § I REAL ESTATE LOANS Is § 6% INTEREST § 1 NO COMMISSION ! O /iasf/ Repayments £ o The Conservative Savings & Loan Ass’n c 2 1614 Harney Street 6% NO COMMISSION 6% WWest f f Round Trip From Omaha Ql?50 Denver, Colorado ** O— Spring», Pueblo. ' _ * *2700 Rocky Mountain ** 9 National (£»<«) Park. ^4/)^ Weet Yellou'ttone [YtUowtonn National flefb). Poor and ona-half dart' motor trip C •nt in ,h* p*rt wl>h •ccommodations at hotala 11/ $54.00. at camps $43.00. Sida trip Danvar WdTlUGritlSt 0 RtH'k? Mountain National Patk, $10.50. Each aummar finds. |U 7OflO Portland, Tacoma, iT.’n^w 9 Seattle. 200 mil., along tng in tho Wan ha.k- th# ,,.,nlc Columbia Rivar. Sid. trip, to lng and finding raat and , v .._ ... , •» diva,afon in "Qod'a -4 < RcKkT *«»«•*» National graat outdoors.” Bring. P*,k* *’ ,m*n aapanaa. rramorias of dava 'and |l 72^. ^an ^'rQnCI,CO> Lot nights spent in ths open 9 “ Angelet. Ona way via •P*'-'**- Ogdan, Salt Laka City—rate mi ng through Danvar. Sida tnpa to Y a!to war ona s->d Reeky Mountain National Parka at small additional aapanaa U $O/1£0 Circuit Tour of the Union Pacific to Portland, rad or stsamar to San Francisco, r.turning diract through Ogdan or via Loa Angrlo. and Salt taka City. Rout, may ha reversed. lncludaa Danvar. * tarraIn .-hi da Cc'rrada Aptto.a wit hem ntra ».■ • ,r ... .!i, ju. ariaatr dallr. Mar i> i„ *t,iorh„ » y, late alone lure 1 ta Sertember u ,* ,n cth,r nolrla. lent 1 to Srplrinhar » Si no, ,r» «r v - «hrrt *n rckite Finel return limit CVwber Jl. »VW» frr armwrwe. 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