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The Omaha Bee M O R N I N G—E~V ENIN G—S U N DAY THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Publisher N. B. UPDIKE. President BALLARD DUNN. JOY M HACKLER. Editor in Chief Business Manager MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, !s exclusively entitled to the use for 1 epublication of all n*w« dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of our special dispatches are al«o reserved. The Omaha Bee is a member of the Audit Rureau of Circulations, the recognized authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee s circulation ia regularly audited by their organizations. Enteied as second-class matter May 28, 1908. at Omaha postoffice under act of March 8, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for AT lantie 100(1 the Department or Person Wanted. ** 1 Iani,c OFFICES idain Office—17th and Farnam Co. Bluffs—15 Scott St. So. Side —N. W. Cor. 2 4th N. New York—World Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bldg, i Chicago—Tribune Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bldg. St. Louis—Syn. Trust Bldg. Los Angeles—Higgins Bldg. * San Fran.—Hollrook Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg. -> Omulid Vhefe fheM?st is at its Best A MAN FOR A MAN S JOB. Charles G. Dawes, selected by the republican con vention to run as vice president on the ticket with Calvin Coolidge, stands four square a man. He has a record for public service, not. alone to bis country, but to mankind, that marks him as possessed of sig nal ability as well as sound judgment. Mr. Dawes' most recent accomplishment is one that will now get even more attention than it has had. As chairman of the international experts to examine into and report recommendations for the rehabilitation of Germany, he carried through a work that so far has had the highest praise from statesmen and financiers of all countries. Germany has accepted the report. France undoubtedly will accept it, as the recent election turned almost wholly on the foreign policy of Poincare. Even Poincare was favorably disposed toward the Dawes plan, seek ing to obtain only further advantages for France in the way of concessions. For the Germans the Dawes plan is like a life buoy to a drowning man. Through providing a way by which Germany may recover, Dawes has served the whole world. * * « When the A. E. F. was tumbling men into France at the rate of 10,000 a day, a gigantic task was set for some one. One of the biggest jobs of the war was the organization of the quartermaster’s depart ment. General Pershing asked General Dawes to take hold of the task, and the winning of the war in so short a time as elapsed between St. Mihiel and the armistice is a tribute to the efficiency of the or ganization behind the firing line. A pushing, ener getic, hard-working man, who knew how to get re sults, supported the soldiers. American efficiency plus found its exponent in “Hell’n’Maria” Dawes. After the wrar was over, President Harding signed the budget bill, which President Wilson had vetoed. General Dawes was called to reorganize the business methods of the United States government. One of the most dramatic meetings ever held in America was that called by the new hudget director, v hen he assembled the bureau chiefs, heads of de partments, and such others as were interested, and told them flatly the things they would be expected to do. It was unprecedented, and it was indignantly resented by a lot of bureaucrats, who were poorly pleased with the thought of having anybody direct them in what to do with the money congress set apart to carry on the work. 1 The fact that the republican administration has been enabled to reduce annual taxation by $1,250, 000,000 since the budget was adopted is most elo quent proof of how well Mr. Dawes did his work. He taught a lot of old dogs some new tricks, and the public is yearly saved more than a thousand million dollars thereby. * * * Nebraskans are concerned in Charles G. Dawes for other reasons. He was once one of us. For fifteen years he was a citizen of Lincoln, engaged in business, and developing those characteristics that called him to success in a broader field, made of him cn international figure. He is still Charlie Dawes to those who knew him, as was his cousin, who is numbered among the former governors of Nebraska. He holds interest in the state and its people, and is legarded as a neighbor who has just moved away. A side of Charles G. Dawes that is not often turned to public view is his interest in humanity, lie has not given all his time and attention to the accumulation of wealth. That has come to him be cause he is a big man, capable of dealing with big affairs in a Fig way. With all his occupation in business, he has kept in close touch with humanity. One institution, the home for down and outers, named after his son who was drowned, stands as a monument to a generosity that is as deep and broad as is his capacity for business. The nation will hear a lot about this man during the next few months, and the more it hears the bigger he will loom as a man in every regard. :.YE GLORY IN HER SPUNK. Miss Anna Olson • of St. Edward, Neb., Is a schoolma’am after our own heart. We speak in the sense of meaning our approval. The evidences are that she is a successful sehoolma’am, too, for the members of the school hoard of District. 39, Platte county, tendered her a contract for a second year’s employment. It is also evident, that Miss Olson Is a young woman of spirit, for when she learned that one mem ber of the hoard insisted on a clause in the contract forbidding the teaeher employed to indulge in that most, pleasurable of all youthful pastimes, “court ing,” she flatly refused to sign the contract and told the board members to go to. We are for Miss Olson, stronger than the proverbial horseradish. We are for all schoolma’ams. for that matter, but especially atrong for the schnol ma’ama who have the courage to stand up before the whiskered old grouches who have long since forgot ten that they were once young, and who Insist that the schoolma’ams they employ shall forswear all of those things that make life rosy and happy, and tell ’em where to head In. Miss Olson may not have contemplated indulgence in courtship during her term of school In District 39, hut like a free-born, white and 21 ritizeness of this great commonwealth, she would have it distinctly understood that she wouldn’t give up her inalienable right to receive the attentions of admiring male friends whenever she could do so with becoming propriety. And for her I independence we pause in the midst of a day’s work and worry to give three rousing cheers. Time was when schoolma’ams wrere supposed to be austere, soured of disposition, angular of frame and uncertain of age. But we have, glory be, pro gressed far in later years. Just as we have im proved our school houses, our text books, our ideas of pedagogics and our ideas of discipline, so have we improved our ideas of what schoolma’ams should be. That’s why the vast majority of them are as good to look at these days as their predecessors were hard to gaze upon without shudders of apprehension for the long route ahead ere we were ejected out into the business world. , It is all right for a school board to maintain dis cipline and to require certain things of teachers, hut when it comes down to condoning their efforts to subdue the natural instincts of the schoolma'ams, to say nothing of depriving some stalwart young Ne braskans of the rare pleasure of the society of a rosy-cheeked and sparkling-eyed schoolma’am—well, all we have to say in that connection is that we are ag’in it. It is our expert opinion that if Miss Anna Olson continues in the teaching profession much longer it will be because the young fellows of Platte county are woefully lacking in good judgment, and short of the pep and appreciation that characterized the young fellows of our own generation. FOR REASONS NOT ANTICIPATED. Through the stubborn narrow-mindedness of a single democratic senator, farmers in western Ne braska and other western states have been denied the benefits of the liberal and constructive modifica tion of the reclamation law’s proposed by President Coolidge. The amendatory law urged by the president was prepared in conformity with the recommendations of the fact finding commission appointed by Secre tary Work of the Interior department. Had this law been passed, it would have brought real relief to farmers in the irrigated sections who are now op pressed under the workings of an unscientific pro gram. The single senator who defeated the passage of this bill together with other needed legislation is Senator Pittman, democrat of Nevada. An appro priation of $800,000 for an irrigation district in his state—which had all the earmarks of pork-barrel legislation—had been cut out of the appropriation hill. In a spirit of stubborn vindictiveness Pittman held the floor of the senate during the closing hour of that body’s deliberations and refused to yield. W’hen the gavel fell, not only did the appropria tion bill fail, cutting off funds needed to pay the bonus and care for the normal opperations of the government, but it destroyed all hopes of passing the much needed irrigation bill. In an effort to offset the evil consequences of this stubborn and stupid action, President Coolidge has written to Secretary Work urging him to “give liberal interpretation to the present law,” for the purpose of protecting settlers on irrigation projects. In his letter to Secretary Work, President Coolidge referred to the failure of the bill as having come about “for reasons that could not he anticipated." The conduct of Senator Pittman was so alto gether stupid that the president, might have been for given had he referred to the Nevada senator in pic turesque as well as forceful language. In keeping with his entire character, however, he recognized that Pittman was a mere incident in the matter, that the real issue was the failure of the bill’s passage and that something must be done to protect those living in the irrigated districts. Senator Pittman is prominent in the councils of the democratic party. He will be one of the guid ing spirits in the New York convention. No doubt he will be among the many speakers at that convention who will spend hours denouncing President Coolidge. Like most democrats, Senator Pittman believes that noise is synonymous with executive ability, that speech making is a mark of statesmanship and that denunciation is a badge of progress. “It will be a pleasure to be associated with you in public service,” said the president to the candi date for vice president. And watch what pleasure I the people will have in voting1 for the pair. A scientist informs us that they are no cyclones, and that a circular storm is a tornado. That’s all -i-Tht, but perhaps you have noticed that definition makes no difference in the results. The roster of teachers in Omaha city schools would once have made a list of pupils to he proud of. Nowhere is the solid growth of Omaha better re fleeted than in the schools. High school hoys who went to camp are entitled ' to something for the way they have endured hard ship. No veteran ever will thrill them with tales of how it rained in France. Ohicago may be a highly moral town, hut it cer tainly turns out some highly efficient train robbers. Senator Pittman would have it understood that as Nevada don't go, so don’t, go the nation. Several democrats would like to have the surplus of votes Coolidge had and did not need. Senator Howell also disappointed the democrats by declaring himself still a republican. Now that, the democrats know what they have to meet, what will they do about it? Nebraska is glad the shortage in rain was wiped out, but why do it all at once? Nobody but the specialists and the democrats ■ ?s disappointed at Cleveland. Cleveland is not Washington, ns some senators found out. A Homespun Verse -—By Omaha's Own Poet— Robert IT'or thin fit on Davie ISAAC WRITES AGAIN. Isaac wrote thrice In April, And as many times In May, And with .Inna beyond Its dawning II* has much of cheer to say: "Everywhere the fields are lovely. And becoming are the trees: In the lea from dawn til] evening Buzz the hud fed honey bees. "It Is fine beyond description In the country," Isaac writes: "Days are dreams of bliss and splendo: Calm and fragrant are the nights. On the porch I sit by twilight, And behold so much that's fine, TUI I wouldn't take a million For this little place of mine. "Here I toll without Instruction; Heie to my desires I rest; Here I'm ever unmolested, And with luxuries I'm blessed. Her* amid the Inexpressive I may labor or recline, And I couldn't think of parting With this little place of mine.” '--— ■ Col. R. V. Winkle, Former Boss of the Eleventh District Goes to a Rally j l _ ... . ■ ■ . — --—— ■■ — -- ■ ■ * I---——— —y ^a&in unL // I TAKE PLEASURE IN INTRODUCING, ^ ff MADAME HENNA JINSE .AUTHOR* OE'CEAL/TY mints' WHO WILL. SPEAK. ON THE SUBJECT OE ■r THE STRAIGHT ticket V I TWt - " MARCELCfc WAVE Letters From Our Readers All letter* mu*t be eignerf. but name w ill hr wtthhrld upon reqqewt. Commnnl rattnr* of 2tK> word* and leu* will he given prefrrrnrr. ---S If he ifrnesn’t think the government a little extravagant when it continues to carry a letter across the I'nlted Scales for the same fee today <1924t as It did 20 years ago (19041; a fee of 2 cents However much the postal clerks were disappointed in the action taken by our president. I am sure we will still try and continue to give the peo ple of Omaha 1924 mailing service. Yours truly. El'GRNR R. MORTON. Postal Clerk Providential Interference. The average man thinks that It is a special dispensation from Provi dence when he gets something good that rightfully belongs to somebody else. About the Trainmen. Missouri Valley, la —To th« Editor of The Omaha Bee: Dr. Farrell of Kearney seem* to be all worked up over the trainmen. Snm* thing* you say. Doe, are logical and true. The labor board really does seem to be a joke. About centralization of power In Waahington you are right. About the question of rates you may be or may not be right. I do net know a thing about them. Never made a study of It and will give you the benefit of the doubt Listen, Doc, I do not like the train men any more than you apparently do, hut when it comes to a discussion of intelligence on their part I want to say you had better stay by your pills or bandages or get a better grip on your subject before you epout off. As a mechanic I have stuck a leg In overalls for the best part of my life. Have been with them day In and day out. under all kinds of circumstances wrecks, accidents, bad weather and about everything else that makes rail roading a man's game The men In the engine and train service, as a man, I have found possessed of a grade of practicality, brains and horse sense you'll have to scratch like hell to find In any other body of men. If a man has not got It in his make up he don't lasf long. Were you ever present before an ex attaining board when a claps took their examination for englnemen? Well, Doc, they get just as stiff an examina tion as any medical hoard ever gnve a hunch of atudents. Do you know the percentage who fall down and or« n»v»r civ»n an engine or train' Do you know that these men are watchpd. hounded and looked over by officials with a persistence that would make the postal system of spying a kid's game of hide the thimble? if a m^n lasts four years at it. he is on» hell of a ways from being a block head. Do you know that after a man has pot to be an engineer or trainman liis Job is about as safe as an egg • oiling around on top of an airship" If he gets tanned after he is 4n.,what has he pot? Do you know what a man's expenses are out on the road" Add to this the cost of keeping a family at home. It takes four years to make an an Kinsman or trainman. This last strike ■showed that you could make some pretty good mechanics in a dam sight less time than Hat. Ther are just as many train service men laid off and on the bum proportionately as there are men of any other class. Nobody Is getting any cream. I am not a train service man. I've probably got more things to dislike them for ss a class than you have. But get it out of your head that they are a hunch of dumb hells. I could say a whole lot more and know what T am talk ing ahnut. hut I don't ward a whole page of the paper. I admire a man who says what he thinks, hut an ac (urate knowledge of real facts should be the base nf any discussion I. T. DI'77 EN MATTER. Postal Dorks Grateful. Omaha—To the Editor of The Omn ha Bee: May I he permitted to puli Holy th ink through your columns the business men nf Omaha, and more tn particular nur Representative W. G Sears and honorable Senators G. W. Norris and R B. Howell who took such s»-eclive pRrt In our recent wage legislation passed so unanimously by both houses of congress, but vetoed by our president. When the president vetoed our hill he la reported as saving that "This government extravagance must he stopped." I believ e he certainly used the wrong phrase that time. Our president seems to forget that to maintain an underpaid force of clerks Is more extravagant than giving them a fair return for their labor 1 worn I Abe Martin 11 In oinkin' n garden first kill your neighbor * chicken*. Kvidently lot o’ folks that git (her pictures in th' paper only imagine they're cured. (Copyrluht. 1»:« i When in Omaha Hotel Conant 2M1 Rooms—2^0 Baths—Rates $2 to $.1 she doesn't Know thai Resinol Soap would clear her skin "She would be a pretty girl, If It wasn't tor that pimply, blotchy complea lonl" But the regular use of Resinol Soap, aided at first by a little Resinol Ointment, would probably make it clear, fresh and charming. If a poor akin is your handicap, begin using Resinol Soap and see how quickly it improves. pe«inf*| S'! p an A Rmlnot Omtmcnt art ••'Id bv aMdnif ant* Fr'f tr*« Mmpla oi •a«:h, wHtatn I>*pt 9-K, Ka» lnr*l, Baltimore, Md. WILLIS C CROSBY Until the November issue of the tele phone hook w r are listed not *« Hoff mann • Crosby — but an the HOFFMANN FUNERAL HOME. 24th and Podge Sts .!A rknotj *991. j Sunny side up I claJee Comfort, nor for yet Vkat sunrise ni/er failed us yet ,, [ J €•/<*. Ik^Sttr j HAPPINESS ' " Over the hills and far away Some seek happiness day by day, O er the world and Its distance wide. Forest and stream and mountain chain; j| Over the sands at the ocean's side. Swamp, morass and the wind-swept plain— Vainly they search as the days go by, Failing to see she Is standing by nigh. Happiness dwells where the heart heats true And a love lit face smiles up at you. j Cabin or palace, 'tls all the same, All declare she's a fickle dame. But few there he with t%» wit to know She lives only with warm heart heats; Dwelling content In love's warm glow, Palace or cabin or far retreats. Vainly they search In the old. blind way, For what stands forth in the light of day Happiness dwells where the heart beats true And the lips of love reach up to you. Still unbought by the sheen of gold; Changeless still in the heat or cold. If In the heart of the seeker dwells Purpose strong and a faith supreme; If with a will the soul compels Endless hours for Its youth's day dream. Happiness dwells in the lowly cot. Scorns the palace where hearts are bought. Dwells content, where the heart heats true. And love holds out a hand to you. Far be It from us to undermine anybody's faith, or put obstacles in the way of those who seek to point the better way. but if all the murderers who announce at the foot of the ga! lows that they are hound heavenward are right, then our whole religious education has been put on backwards Among other old fashioned notions to which we cling tenaciously is the one that a few minutes of repentance and prayer at the tail end of life are not sufficient to excuse a long life of wickedness and impudent Ignoring of God's commands, — There tieing no certainty that a circus will visit our neigh t borhood this year, we suggest the desirability of dating up Dor Butler and Doc Elliott for a catch as catch-can debate on the Eighteenth amendment. It wouldn't settle anything but it would be a lot of fun. Fear tha we might be cfearged with a desire to be cruel to animals is the only thing that prevents us from expressing an inward wish that we might see Charlie Irwin officiating as jockey on one of hla own gallopers at the June race meet. Speaking of the "truth In fabrics'* h’U now before congress, we hope It will be amended to Include those handsome but cheap leather suit cases made of a fair quality of paper. Including the handle. Nor would It hurt this country to get back to the old fashioned 10-cent dish of Ice cream. WILL M. MAUPIN. Not Full Satisfaction. "I don't think there's anything wrong about asking for an increase of salary," said the clerk to his em ployer. "You may remember you promised me a raise when I had been with you a year "I know I did." rejoined the em ployer, "but didn't I make it condi | tk.nal upon your giving me every sa' isfaction? ' "And in what way, eir. haven't I given you satisfaction?" asked the clerk. In what way?” replied the em ployer. with a show of anger. "Do you think you are satisfying me in asking for a raise”"—Yorkshire Pest. SPECIAL SALE USED CARS AND TRUCKS All Guaranteed as Represented No Finance Charge J. M. Opper Motor Co. HA mey 0635 2558 Farnam St. Why Hoffmann-Crosby Charges Are Lowest LEO A HOFFMANN FFREQUENTLY we are asked why it is • that Hoffmann-Crosby service is more reasonable in price than the ordinary service. The question is a fair one. for price is a thing in which everyone should he interested. A funeral home is at a large expense, whether it has many calls or only a few. 1 A building, properly equipped and ap pointed; embalmers, hearses, capable funeral directors, skilled attendants, drivers, office force, etc., these are necessary expenses to all funeral di rectors alike. Official records show that we are called to direct many more funerals than is any other funeral home in Greater Omaha. Our fixed expense is but little more than that of the others having a third as many calls. That is the reason why our charges are so reasonable. The greater demand for our service en ables us to purchase caskets and the necessary merchandise at a lower price, and the saving is passed on to you. It enables us. without extra cost to you, to maintain a more complete and desirable funeral home; to employ attendants who are more skilled in their work; and to give the many extra services that have made us so many friends.