The Omaha Bee M O R N I N G—E V E N I N G— S U N PAY THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Publisher N. B. UPDIKE. President BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLER. t Editor in Chief _Business Menager MEMBElToF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which Tha Bee is a member, is exclusively entitled to the use for repubiication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the loeel news published herein. All rights of repubiication of our epecial dispatrhea an also reserved. The Omaha Bee is a member of tha Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognized authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee's circulation is regularly audited by their organizations. __ Entered as seeond-clasa matter May 28, 1908, at Omnhs postoffice under net of March 3. 1878. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. A.«k for s m innn the Department or Person Wanted. A* l»ntlC 1UWJ OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnarn Co. Bluffs—lfi Scott St. So. Side—N. W. Cor. 24th N. 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Before the primaries were held, or ever a delegate had been elected to the national convention, the issue was decided. It was Coolidge. The people discovered for themselves that at the White House was a man who wanted to succeed himself as president, a worthy ambition. But above that, he wanted to serve the people by complying in every detail and at every point with his oath of office. Calvin Coolidge has been called a Puritan, his “New England conscience” has been cited. His characteristic impassiveness has been dwelt on many times. These are all attributes of a man who takes his work seriously. To be chief magistrate of the greatest nation on earth and to discharge well the duties and responsibilities that office imposes, re quires a man of high courage as well as ideals. If Coolidge were not a man of high courage he would not have vetoed three popular measures, each of which might cost him many votes. He did it be cause his conscience would not let him approve either. He put right above expediency; what he deemed the interest of ail against the interest of the smaller number. • • • His record, however, is more extensive than those three vetoes. When congress came into ses sion in December last, the president presented a comprehensive program for constructive work. This included as its first item a reduction in taxation. He urged that laws be passed to give temporary and permanent relief to agriculture. A revision of the railroad rate structure was urged. Development of v the inland waterways, especially the routes from the lake to tidewater by way of the St. Lawrence end the Mississippi, was recommended. Member ship in the World Court. Restriction of immigra tion. Encouragement of education. Limitation of expenditure. Strictest economy in administration. All these were in the list he proposed to congress. Can the most ardent of the so-called progres sives find in this anything on which to hang an ob jection? The president did not ask for public own er-hip of railroads, the nationalization of eoal mines, or any other great industry. Because he failed to do this, he is sneered at as a reactionary by that de voted group which still practices trying to lift itself over the fence by bootstraps. If this program was not followed by congress, the president is not nt fault. He made spec ial |>i« as, particularly for some measure of relief for the farmer, but could get none, because the marplots were busy framing up for the campaign. • • • When he failed to get congress interested in the matter of giving relief to the farmer, Mr. Coolidge called together a group of financiers and organized n $10,000,000 corporation, which functioned for the benefit of the sections most sorely pressed. He re ouired the TarilT commission to make an examina tion into the wheat situation, and on the report from that body increased the duty and raised the protection to the American growers. *' A few days ago, when the budget for the next 'iscal year was put before him, it was the lowest since 1017. After examining it, the. president called together the various heads of departments, chiefs of bureaus and others who spend government money, and told them that he expected a still further reduc tion in estimates. At least, $83,000,000 additional should be cut out. His idea of spending public money is to adequately care for the service, but to indulge in no fancy touches. For these things, and others of like nature, the people arc for Coolidge. Not because he is a re publican. Nott because he comes from New Eng land. Because he is honest, courageous, capable, full of warm sympathy for his fellow man, not given to display, a simple man living on a plane with his kind. And Americans know that is the sort of man this great big rountry needs for its head. Know ing this they were for Coolidge long before'the con vention. They will he for him through and after the election. POSTERITY WILL PAY THE PRICE. Brush and limber fires along the Pacific roast have afforded the sensational news for several days. How they started may never be known. Any of a great number of causes may be assigned. Most fires in the timber begin in somebody’s rarelessness. In this instanre the damage was the greater because the conditions were favorable for (he spread of the flames. A dry senson had left Ihe underbrush as in flammable as tinder, and ordinary fire fighting meth ods were of little avail. •Spectacular as a forest fire is, terrifying in its aspect and terrible in its effects. Its cost to the present generation is insignificant compared to what posterity will have to pay. Rurning the brush off the hills in the Santa Barbara region does not seem so much, for it has been repeated many times. It. (Iocs, however, prevent the development of a service able forest growth. Mesquite and chapparal will soon ■ pring up again, but the cedars, pines and other u rftil trees are el hack if not wholly destroyed. Flames rushing through the splendid pine woods • of the Siskiyou range is much like a fire raging along a busy business thoroughfare in a great city. Mer chandise is being destroyed that will not be replaced for many years, and will be needed for man's uses long before it can be renewed. One company, it is estimated, has lost $2,000,000. That is only a drop in the bucket to what the total loss will be at this time, and the cost to the future outruns computa tion. One of the best things done by the last congress was to pass the McNary-Clarke bill, which extends the forestry service of the United States and puts it on the way to real usefulness. But, in the last minutes of the session, when Key Pittman was mak ing his selfish stand for Spanish Springs, Nev., the appropriation to extend the fire protection service failed. The nation is now paying for it, but the bill that will be handed to posterity will be something stupendous. We are wasting now what the world will need a few years hence. HAPPY DEMOCRATS. Is the democratic party in Nebraska really a political party, or is it a fairnly affair? "Doc" Hall’s familiar query is getting especial emphasis just now. It was to the effect: “Does loyality to W. .1. B. carry with it fealty to the entire royal family?” A lot of democrats, such as Charles Graff, Ar thur Mullen, John Hopkins, Ken MacDonald, would like to know if a demorrat can run for office as such, or if he must needs also be tinctured with strange doctrines. In the Bryan annals fusion is tradi tional—that is, what t^iey call fusion. William Jen nings Bryan once ran for the high office of president of the United States, heading two tickets, each with a tail of its own. To accept political dogmas dia metrically opposed is rio feat for either of the Broth ers Bryan. Knowing this, it is not hard to understand Mr. Bryan's statement that his successor must be both a demorrat and a radical progressive. Real demo crats cling obstinately to the view that a democrat should head the party’s ticket. “No man can serve two masters,” and it has been shown that not even a politician as adept as a Bryan can serve two par ties. The muddle at Madison Square Garden was se rious. It is mild in comparison to the one that Brother Charlie stirred up when he reached home. However, the whip is in the governor's hands. He will crack it over any back that refuses to bow to his imperious will. Democrats of any stripe or no stripe will be brought to order by the candidate for vice president, who demands submission, and a hybrid for his successor. Thus does the donkey change into a mule in Nebraska. CONSIDERING A COAL FAMINE. This being July, we are listening to the annually repeated advice of the American Engineering coun cil, that steps he taken to provide for above-ground storage of coal. Through such means only, the council warns, is it possible to surely avoid a fuel famine. The rountry may not run short of coal during the winter that is to come, but anything may rome to pass. Snows have blockaded highways and railroads, and cut off access to coal mines. Winter weather is always uncertain, and the need for a steady supply of fuel is paramount. Therefor* storage during the summer is an assurance against winter needs. , Especially does this advice apply to industrial users of fuel, but householders have their share in the situation, for they, too, are exposed to the hard ships of a possible fuel shortage. However, as all through the years of the past, this advice is un heeded. Yrery little if any headway has been made toward the provision of ample storage of coal above ground. Neither is much being done to conserve the fuel supply by adopting any of a number of processes that have been proved practicable. Henry Ford and some of the cement manufacturers have equipped their plants in such fashion as to permit the use of pulverized fuel. Ford extracts by low distillation most of the volatile properties of the coal he buys. He gets enough creosote, phenol, gasoline and similar substances to more than return the cost of the coal and its treatment, and then by pulverizing the coke and feeding it to the furnace in a spray, he gels more heat and a higher percentage of the theoretical en ergy than is secured any other way. Some day the American public will learn how to use and save fuel. The name of Harrington in connection with the I.a Follette campaign will recall memories of the “pop” days to old-timers in Nebraska. It was the same then as now. Brother Charlie knows who he wants to run for governor, and it is easy for an expert to pirk the right name out of the four he submits as models. Stale income from school land in Nebraska has increased 100 per cent in ten years, another sign of the general breakdown noted by the socialists. Saskatchewan also turns hark from prohibition. By the way, that name is almost as good a test as “Braw brecht munelirht nirht the nicht.” Representative McLaughlin will find his opinion | shared bv most of the home folks. Ooolidge not only can but will carry Nebraska. Somehow, the demand for an undiluted democrat does not seem to have penetrated the fastnesses of the state capitol. Brisbane say* l.a Follette knows he is nominated. Might as well have added he knows who did it. Sinrlair Oil company passes dividend, but that Hoes not interest any of its late attorney*. Expansion of Homestie trade is another big hur dle for the Calamity Brothers to go over. Jupiter Pluvius: “Enough's a plenty! Lay off!" *-— ' s ! Homespun Verse —By OmaHa't Own Po«t— Robert Worthington Davir L_ GETTING A GRIP. llow often nr# we chided for our made dealt# to gain Knoiigh to keep the vulture forever from our door, And we aie persevering in aunahlne and In tain To a five otiraelvea the ronaequenoea of alwaya being poor. There cornea the faith adherei hie word* ate aundry now What good l« gold for greater thlnga and privilege# it 11‘ here; With hn fid upon the rlghteoua hook he antirtlflea hia \ ow; Ilia eloquent e la genuine, hie motive aeetna alnrera. IMaln a|>okeM f*4!Un we like to meet when they the truth port ray, A tul when thev do not aeek to prove w hat Ingle needs defy. Hold 11 e\ r vx III enrich too mm li the common ones, nor pla y Too gtent a fi«« lot in t hg li\ra of Tom and I Me k and I ' _____-_—-—■—.. -N The Party Which Tries to Eliminate Bossism Will Have to Drive Out the Whole Human Race v___ - ■ __ y_'"- _— | IS THAT SO * V*IL THVT all DEPENDS , . OmxmethcrVouR Say who am I wishes conform to AROUND THIS HOUSE PRACTICAL MANAGE- ___ DO NY W'SHES AMOUNT M = NT 0p THE HOUSE -- TO ANYTHING. £» W*T — QB THEY"’ WELL WE'BE NOT GO'NiG TO SEE ABOUT iT» OH VERY WELL ^ HtA' WE'LL GO AND > » s' 7 '£MTAJ< ORGANIZE a IPTHIT paotv thatwt viAnt to Can SBUN E KNCNJYJHOS ~_1*— T abound MY END OE THE HOUSE ra tell'em qunk Enoulh ' t----" Letters From Our Readers All letters must be *l|nrd. but name w ill be withheld niton request. Conimnnl j rations of *«0 word* and less will be liven nreferein e. ! I_-_—-—-' Referred In the Governor. Omaha —To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Brother Charley evi dently has mode a big hit In Chicago, if one Is to believe this editorial from the Chicago Journal of Commerce for July 16. I believe it should be passed on to the Nebraskan* who have watched Brother Charley a career of demagogic equivocation. C H.G. The editorial follows: "Governor Bryan's Simple I.ittle Remedy." ‘Governor Bryan is a forthright man. favoring simple remedies for complex diseases. lie dei laws him self In favor of governmental opera tion of railroads, other puhltr utili ties, an'i coal mines unless service costs to the public are reduced by 25 or 30 per rent. "Mr. Bryan has no way of knowing whether the rate* charged by these Industries are Justified He merely notices that people would like to pay less for their fare* and for their freight and for the coal they bin. If that's what the people want, let them have It. l.et there be a cut of 25 or 30 per cent in tlie servi. « costs i of public utilities and coal mines. I.ei it be done! "But unfortunately tbe operating ends »,f railroads and • »*vi 1 mines do not precipitately plunge 2 5 or 30 |icr lent at the imperious command of 'Governor Bryan, any more than the sc.i waves rilled liack in humble ohedi •nee to the order of King Canute. "If Governor Bryan believes I he railroads should cut their cost*, what does he believe their earnings should be? Hast year, when they were com paratlvely fortunate, the Class 1 rail roads. Including practically all the railroad mileage of th# country, earn *d sn average of 6 10 per cent, which Is appreciably less than th# 6 76 per Herman ran’t read ’em. Not cvrn a family o' two kin grit anyhrre without a hos.«, t' say nothin’ of a national convention. NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for June, 1924, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .74,616 Sunday .76,224 I Doaa not Include return*, left | nvrri, samples or paper a spoiled In printing anil In* lode* nn ape* tal • alee or fraa « In illation of any kind V. A. BRIDGE. Cir. Mgr 5nli*irihed and iwmn to before me I thia Hth day of July, 1024 W II QUIVEY. (5aal) Notary Public __ .ent which the commission says the railroads are entitled to. “If Governor Krvan believe* 5.10 per rent is an excessive return, to he eagerly sought by investors, why are ^ he railroads utterly unable to sr*il any stork? “And how much of a return nre coal mining companies entitled to? More coal is being sold at a loss to day than at. a profit. In this case Governor Bryan is not seeking a de crease fti earnings; he is seeking an increase In deficit. Pet the coal oper ators cut their prices 25 or 30 per rent. If they r.m't do that and still earn a profit, let the government takeover the mines and operate them. The in tellectual giants who compose our bureaucracy to show the slow poking coal operators how to run their bus! ness. “Governor Bryan's arbitrary rem edy Is admirable in its simplicity; and it is also admirable in its simple mindedness. if you happen to admire that sort of thing “ Walter See* It Ml Hou-ton, Tex Senator Hubert M. L.t KuIleUe, Washington. I> i In going more carefully into the demo* era lie national convention proceed Inge I feel positively certain now of the trend of the d*.«dl«». k and the ob ject of it. You will readily see the significance of the present situation, and 1 now feel more certain that you made a mistake m making a positive announcement a few weeks ago that you Intended to make the run for the presidency. The announcement gave ♦he Well street financiers a positive basis to work upon, and your an nouncement has changed the entire movements and strategy of the finan ciere and political manipulators. The financiers have evidently laid down the program to al»andon Pre*i dent Coolldge to fate, w :th the full in t ent ion of electing Mr. Paris and time* financiers must certainly be lleve they have the presidency in their grip W'hMe the thousand* of politicians have had it figured that the eh utlon °f s president would not he nffe■» hr the general election of lfiL'4, but would be i ant Into the house of rep i esentativ *«. the financiers have evi dently undertaken to preclude cast ing the e!c- ;iun into the house of rep reeentative*. and to* democratic dead lock nf two weeks in the national convention was for no other purpose than to elect a president ;n the gen eral election and avoid the election .n the house of representatives Naturalb the men at the demo cratic national convention, who did the thinking, began in about this way: What are the states which may be positively figured for a reactionary candidate of the type of Mr. Da via? Let us follow the figures of the flnan lers when they figured it out. The states vshich will positively go to Mr. Davis: Vot» • Votes Alabama . . 1 - . It Arkansas.* f,nui«lan* . . .. It,’ Florida ♦ M m .It* North •'arol.n* 1? West Virginia 4 South Carolina 9 - T*in. .:o Total _ 12* Virginia .12 There is no reasonable assumption that Mr. Davis will not carry those state? as they are. with the excep tion of West Virginia, no-nothing democratic. Then the financiers figure with fhe power of Governor Smith in New York, with the associated bootleg gets, that state mav he forced over to the democrats by a majority of l ,ibout 2**0,ooo \ t*s in the election I This will give •* total *»f 167 to Dftvia, which is just vote* short of the i ■ ■♦■s.N.iry majoi :t> »»f _'6t> iu the elec tor.d i ullege N’nH. what have i he financiers to ‘work o*i to get the '*'.* voles to make e; tain of the election of Davis in the electoral college? They have Torn Taggart in Indiana .. !i vote* Hit>nn«fi in lil.uui*. :- vt*t*a * 'fit n Obto. -4 I'klihoma.. 1 ** '•»** KenlUfky .. ’I voim T«nn^»#ps .. I". ' e! es M ■••ouri . 1« vetes Tot ft! .114 set*ft Tha pros-am !a to abandon Fresi dent Ooolidce completely and make ir’« de.perate ttuht in New York which they fifure tj> carry eaailv They will pile the money Into those, state. at the last moment, to avoid! the election in the house They ex-1 port to put Coolid*e In the poaition nf Taft in 1912. WALTER JOHNSON. \ Sad I aa* I haie gfit to hate a ;ob. am man 22 tear* old, Intelllpont but married. . ( la sal (led advertisement in San An ton In Expresa. BAPTIST MINISTER GIVES TANLAC FULL CREDIT Nn greater praise can he accorded a medicine than the voluntary ten. ■tony © t i mitt lit or of thi g tgx i hi|h - ■ Ring put* a grave reaponalhlllty on hia eve > word, and he will not jeopardise hlr reputation hy commending a thing without flrat assuring himself it is* nli right. Tania-’ has been endorsed by mim hers of prominent ministers. Thev have put 'tanlie to the t**r of jtor sonal service and their words can v conviction because they an” what they know to ha the truth fine of the late** to apeak out In behalf of Tanlac »* Rev. H. II Hell « retired Kapilst minister. ?07 Him Nt San Antonio. I‘e\as. who • ’h Refore taking Tnnlar I Imd auf fared from stomach and nerve troubles for over ;to years and there were times when my condition was stub that it reunited almost super human effort for nie to prepare mv sermons and go through v Ith mv Sunday services. Indeed, niv work seernad like some great obstacle serosa by path wav a louden too big to carry in my weak physical condi Mon. "Hut in six weeks’ time Tania* transformed mv entlie outlook, giving me what seemed like a new set of nervea and a brand new digestive s\ * tern. My appetite became tavenoue mv nerves steady, my lhrr action regular and I could sleep sound for the first time In rears. Whenever l have the slightest svmptoms of trouble now I slvvava resort to Tan Ur, am taking so,tie at pre*ei t. and it n*\»»r falls to Miuxith thing* out for m# l on in nl> hate th%* l>r*i Mason* for frHlnjt grataful to Tan lar," Tanlno !* for wal«» by all rood drtt* Ktata An*|*t no nuhfttHut*. Ov*r 4ft million bottU'a aoh* Tanlar \>g*tat»la I’M* for onatlna fion mud# and t *« ommerttfal by th*» manttf.o t ut-ci* of I an la* AlvortUr Mlt tit. SUNNY sib: c)ake Comfort nor foryet [