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The Omaha Bee MORN1N G—E V E N I N G—S U N D A Y THE BF.E 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. Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. X All rights of republication of our epecial dispatches are S 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 a* second-class matter May 28. 1808. h nt Omaha postoffice under act of March 8, 1878. BEE TELEPHONES ’ f'rivnfe Branch Exchange. Ask for 8 i AAA e Department nr Porscn Wanted. A 1 lailUC IWU I " OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam J '"hienge*—Steger Bldg. f > Doston—At Dovenahire St., Room 8 » Seattle—A. L. Niels, 514 Lary Bldg. \jo* Angeles- Fred L. Hall, San Fernando Bldg. ,» San Francisco—Fred L. Hall, Sharon Bldg. New York City—270 Madison Ave. -mAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES » DAILY AND SUNDAY J 1 year Ij.UU. u months 88.00. * months 81.76, 1 month 76e DAILY ONLY 1 year $4.50. 6 months $2.75, 8 months $1.80, 1 month 75c SUNDAY ONLY 1 year $8.00. 6 months $1.75, 8 months $1.00, 1 month 50c Subscriptions outside the Fourth postal rone, or 600 miles from Omaha: Daily and Sunday. $1.00 per month: daily only, 7 6c per month: Sunday only, 60c per month. CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Morning and Sunday......1 month 86c. 1 week 20e Evening and Sunday. 1 month 66c, 1 week 15c Sundav Only .1 month 20c, 1 week Ac V__— GnwIia Vhoie the^fcst is at its Best GET THE AUTO-MURDERERS. Two persons were killed on roads near Omaha l Sunday, because drivers of autos did not observe < ordinary caution. In one case a car that stopped t was struck and overturned by a following car, and »' a woman killed. In the other fatality, a pedestrian i walking where the road seemed > lear and safe was i struck by a driver who had sv/ung his car toa far I out, because he was going at too high a rate of j » I • peed. • • In neither case is the culprit known, because in | : V'o.th instances the driver of the death ear fled. I iOY/a authorities are reported to be conducting a I j tale-wide search for one outfit, and the Nebraska I authorities are determined to find the other. No f pains or expense should be spared to make the quest I successful, and when the reckless drivers are caught f they should be punished. No driver ever'sets out with the deliberate in tent ion of killing anybody. Probably nobodv regrets $; a fatal accident more than the one Yvho causes it. 5’ Yet neither of these considerations can undo the S' result of a moment’s thoughtlessness. Too many S' drivers yield to the temptation offered by a good piece of road, and “step on it,” just to get a thrill. And every day the papers chronicle a death as a l result of that method of seeking excitement. When some action is taken by the authorities 3; to make the penalty of this sort of criminal careless V ness outbalance the thrill, the sport will become »; legg popular. If drivers knew the penitentiary was : at the end of the route, in event anybody dies be ’ cause of their speeding, there would be less speed |■ rig. No other way seems open. It is up to the *: 'uthorities to make the roads ns safe from speeders J: 's from footpads. PRAIRIES SOON WILL BLAZE. Early visitors to Nebraska were charmed by the fc landscape. From the Missouri river far back and ■ up toward the Rocky mountains, the sweeping plain* * were covered with lush grasses, besprinkled with dowers of varied and brilliant hues. Whichever * way the eye turned, it was both pleased and refresh d by the sights that greeted vision. In those days ,3. he verdure afforded not only food hut shelter for *; many wild things. The wilder men used to hunt Si ihese timid creature*, and to facilitate the chase ‘J ,vcrc accustomed to fire the dry grasses in tlie fall. J' -tomdimes the tire started from other cause*. A J holt of lightning, spontaneous combustion, might rt 'et off the blaze that swept the ground, a terrifying t pectacle, and always dangerous. All that belongs to a past day in Nebraska’s his tory. although men and women now living well recall •X the blazing prairies. This year we are to witness > nmething as nearly akin to that as is possible in a it’ icgion where most of the land is under fence and * cultivated. Nebraska is now debatable ground in J ihe matter of politics. A distinction not sought. » ,ut. due entirely to the merits of the people has * ome. Great political parties, seeking preference J rom the voters, desire that the citizens of Nebraska ■J ass judgment upon their claims. J They do not send their tyros or understrappers. * at the great sachems, sagamores, shamans, of the j t iribes will come, for the exchange or proffer of j * wampum belts. Dawes, Bryan and Wheeler, candi * dates for the vice presidency, will lead off in Ne braska. Here they will tire the heaviest guns in * iheir battery, here they will sound the war cry of ihe campaign. And when these are done, there will be. others. LoFollette mav come, and Davis, and *J I’oolidge surely will send word, for the biggest and the best are noxious to have the approval of Na braska. The prairies will figuratively blaze once more ’ In Nebraska this coming fall. Our people certainly 1 are not insensible to the compliment thus paid them. As Intelligent, progressive, and independent voters, » their verdict is worth something to the parties. >»• __ _____________ FIRPO AN UNDESIRABLE ALIEN? Luis Angel Firpo came to the United States to *■ c ;.fry out an engagement that may turn over to him f « quarter of a million dollars. He is to exchange J buffets with an American citizen. Hypothetically. T some one of the multitudinous and unclassified hon- , on of Fietiana is involved in the affair. With this t phase of Scnor Firpo's presence in the United States * w* are not much concerned. It will be fully treated at length and in proper season by the sporting editor, « who is erudite in *uch matters. Scnor Firpo approached our hospitable shores In company with a young woman w)io admits she is * iot his wife. He was admitted, while she was sent ;•* on to Havana Some yean ago, when Gorki, the 1 Russian novelist, sprung an unofficial "wife’’ on SI New York society, he was surprised at the public i reaction, and returned to Russia more than ever i convinced that Americans are hopelessly "hoozh J wah,” uncouth and lacking in the proper qualities ;* for accurately estimating a genius. Firpo did not j get quit* that far, and the official* ut the immtgra J tion liurcnu say he was allowed to (ome in because \ no evidence sufficient to exclude him, was submitted i . Canon William Sheafs Chase, president of the [ New York Civic league, i* before the immigration t f, i,i Weshincton. Insisting that Firpo b« ^•jiw. d. lie 111 offered .ome evidence at least us to the relations between the South American pugil- | ist and the woman who waits for him at Havana. What action the commissioner may take is not in dicated. Americans are not prudish, or squeamish as a rule, but they do have certain old-fashioned notions, and we doubt if they are sufficiently enamored of the prospect of seeing a foreign prize fighter to willingly forego their traditions of decency. And Firpo has paid very little attention to the prevailing notion that lies behind the Mann act. ENGLAND’S LABOR GOVERNMENT. An interesting thought conies up in connection with the address of Richard Henry Tawney of Eng land, before the Institute of Politics at Williams town, Mass., last week. Mr. Tawney, who is Pre mier Ramsey MacDonald’s chief adviser, asserted that the British labor party has become “a perma nent phenomenon in British politics. To give sub stance to this and support the further implication of its success, Mr. Tawney said: "A socialist and pacifist is prime minister. A socialist and pacifist is chancellor of the exchequer. The founder of the Fabian society Is president of the board of trade. The former secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen is minister of war. An Iron founder Is at the head of the home office. A miner Is the head of the poslofflce. And the world still continues to revolve." After allowance is made for the British tories, who are much like the Bourbons, in that they never forget anything and never learn anything, Mr. Tawney’s assumption of permanence fails to take into full consideration the mutations of politics out of which the British labor party was born. The United States will afford him a background, if he is interested, for conclusions quite at variance with those he voices. Our experience here is that politics, and political parties,, are in a continual state of flux. As in England, the labor party did not come up to power until it had acquired a sufficient number of converts from the older parties. So here, no party can endure, save as it can hold popular support. Views that were regarded as radical a generation ago are accepted as commonplaces now. Evolu tionary processes carry political parties along, just os society is advanced in other lines. A more interesting point is whether Ramsay MacDonald is premier because he is a socialist and a pacifist, or in spite of it? Whether Snowden war made chancellor because he is a socialist, or Sidney Webb was put at the head of the Board of Trade be cause he formed the Fabian society, or for some other evidence of marked ability? Did "Jim” Thomas come to be minister of war because of his former experience as secretary of the railway men’s union? Might be some reason in this. Germany’s president was a harnessmaker, but that had no bearing on his being chosen president. Warren G. Harding was a printer and an editor, and yet became president, Woodrow Wilson was a school teacher. The list is instructive, and hears out the thought that men are not put into high public place because they have a trade or calling, but be cause they have brains, and a fitness for public serv ice. England'* labor government will be tested on this line, rather than on vocations of its members. MOT HERS-IN-LAW FIND CHAMPION. Some diligent excavator may yet unearth the original copy of the mother-in-law joke. It comer down to us from an antiquity that is awful to con template. Only, if all that haa been so far discov ered is reliable, mother-in-law in troglodyte days was valued because of her usefulness. She could do a lot of chorea, and thereby spare her daughter, whose active time was employed in ministering the wants or needs of the lord of the premises. He had enough to do in pursuing game, waylaying enemies, or plotting the downfall of whoever happened to be above him. Somewhere along the line the mother-in-law joke was evolved. It is perhaps the hardest of the Jot. At any rate it lives among jest* just a* the shurk and the alligator do among ihe denizens of the i!eop. Without material change it has come down through millions of years. Now, however, we get vvhnt every married man knows, from Judge David Gorfinkle of Yonkers, N. Y. Settling a family fuss, the judge said: Mothers In lrfw- ai a rnis sis all right, I alwey* welcomed mv mother-in-law amt was glad tc sr« her. I think mothers-ln law ars much mlsunder »tood." It is well to remember that mother-in-law Is also grandmother. She is useful in so many way* that no home can be really happy without her. Young husbands or young wives may think they know it all. They are apt to forget, however, that mother-in-law was up against the same proposition before either of them was born. She is a philoso pher, guide and friend. She knows what to do In any emergency, from colic and croup to putting up strawberry jam. Her services are many, she seldom get* and never expects reward. Some day the ba bies will have a chance to vote, and they will give first placa to grandma, who is ma-in law first. The suggestion that the automobile speeder be called a “rnotoimoron" doe not meet with the ap proval of this Great Family Journal. "Jailbird” is the proper appellation. Just a little mistake in orthography on the part of those who called it the "Great American Desert." It is really the Great American Dessert. If that coffee served In most restaurants comes from that rebellious Brazilian province, our hope is that the Federalists win in jig time. Several weeks ago we admonished the world that Nebraska had never lost a crop because of too much rain. Look at what happened! r-n Homespun Verse —By Omaha’* Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie ----- THE HILLS. I lov» the placid valley. The ewerded waving weld) But to the hills I sally Because the hills are old And wise, and they remind me Of deeds ennobled, wrought By higher hand* end kindly, Which fashion dream and thought. I love the prairie, blending lie green with heaven's gray; But lonely Is Its ending, And, oh, so far away! Its width and breadth enthrall rue, Its welcome aerrneth < old Because the great hllle call na And they are wise and old 1 lot e the glade so quiet, The tiers that 'round It rl«e The stream that Journeys bj It, And murmurs lullabies But rue my fabrics carry I rnm taller, glade and rills i iurn vacant lonely prairie t rile tilt welcoming lull*, " --- #_ Waiting for the Starter’s Gun 1 ^__ - ' * look out es You'<-l GET RUN OVER ' Letters From Our Readers All letter* must be ftlzneri. but name will be Withlieltl spun r»qil«--.». Cvm man lent ton* of TOO wurtl* null leu* , will tie given preference. V__/ Toward Which We Mot*. Omalui—To the Editor of The Oma ha Bee: young people have too much freedom, -older people are saying, and (tie Franks murder case in Chicago is lining itoinled out as a horrible ex ample. The young millionaire murderers did have too much freedom, but chief ly such freedom as their money g»ve them, and certainly they had too much money ami too much leisure. They are horrible examples, not of excessive freedom, I it of unearned wealth and leisure popularly supposed to supply Incentive for doing tilings under the present industrial system. Loeb and lutopold did things all right, but they did nothing for the world, gave it no new discovery, ex tended no knowledge of discoveries already made. They had no Ideals, dreamed no dreams, and approached young manhood extreme Ivpe* of that individualism on which the pres ent industrial system is hawed. Part of the press tried to prove that Loch and lu*opohl were radicals in tlie usually understood sense, were trying to tear down Institutions, were, part of a movement for wholesale de struction. Those papers failed la menlsbly. and little more is heard of this side of the subject. The failure was foredoomed. Extreme individual ists. like these two young men, are Incapable of serving any movement, good or bad They can t co-operate. Youth Is only another name for possibility, and the exuberance of youth mar be trained and turned into a mighty motive force for betterment. No goody-goody counsel will do It, no ferocious hellflr# preaching, no mistaken pointing toward a placid, submissive, eating, breeding exist Abe Martin | r \\r didn't know .Top I.ark had a jterond-hand car till he told u* he wua jc«t tinkerin' around. Some lawyers don't seem t' defend no hud'dy hut truilty people. (Copyright, 1124 ) NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for Jung, 1924, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .74,616 Sunday .76,224 I Oom not Include return* left* • vert, templet or paper* Spoiled in j printing and Include* no tprrial ■ air* or f*ee circulation ot any kind V. A BRIDGE, Cir Mgr : >ul**r?ihrd and leorn to hefoi* me thi* 9th day ot July. 1924 w it quivrv (Saal) Notary Public ence. The world has I art plenty of this already and "now look at the darned thing." The problem Is not one of youth, but of maturity, as Judge Lindsey IMtints out. "It concerns you, mother, aud you. father, and you, teacher, und.all of our institutions responsible for the future of the race through that childhood which i* left as a. divine trusteeship in our sverlastlng arms." biuf Judge Lindsey del not see far enough; certainly lie gives no evi dence of it. Justice in economic re lations. which means an emancipated, wholly reconstructed social order, will not solve all the problems of life, may actually leave Intact most of life s fundamental pleasures and pangs; but justice In economic rela tions will sweep away rubbish that ho# hindered too long, and will leave the path of progress smooth and straight ahead. If humanity does not take advantage of the opporturritv then offered, then huinnbity is not human. If bringing about this op portunity is not a real job, one for full-grown men and women, then nothing Is. Speaking for the young people of this generation, we are not all good and 've are nnt »11 had; probably most of us are both gnort and bad. Many are more Interested in special person ol problems than in group, political, social problems, hut.others of us are interested In other ways as wel*. are none the less human, are simply mice thoughtfully human. Me <-sn have a lot of fun while we go along, and our share of petty worry with the rest.I but. being lorn into a helter-skelter civilization without our leave, a civ ilization that seems to grow more halter skelter every hour, we must protest, we can’t keep still. Me can’t and w* won't. The protest will have power if made long and hard enough, and the world will And and be regenerated by the freedom it want* and need*. Tli* beautv end strength of modern youth ! NDCcial for Wed. Eve. < Fried Sugar 9C . j Cured Ham Steak j Natural Gravy. Currant Jtlly J!; r* MOT El ROME' i lafeleria Rcful* r titling* from ^ Y Oft:. iWtKnn, Mooncil M'tONBS DAY'S* P**<r*» iiMli irrvtcf to VNitKtmDtcti iivl C hwhoutg. sATDRPAYSroCohh 0**eer>* rvTwtxt, 1 on^nufeni, U*frpo*l, ilfnvHtfh. lnrwlog and Hambatt ANCHOH LINKS KttiiUoh lit Pwi^totn CV»*gt . ID Tomorrow L'W JUNIOR*—Llttl* Nt* On*-thitil th* taKiiUr do**, Mad* o( Mm* inKtodianti, th*n c»ndj roatrj. pot children and adult* ■ toco ay voi'R cruooi*t*wi will be Immortalized by absorption Into the coming civilization. What an adventure It ia that !*, calling to us! KDMI ND K BRI'MBAt (ill. — A Kerman ( all. Omaha—To the Kdltor of The Omaha Bee: In your issue of August 2 you write: We know what wa think of a man who torturea a baby, but cannot put it In the paper That Indeed is good news for the poor babies In Germany who have outlived the torturea for the last six years—tortures of hunger with the consent of the American people, I hoi>e to God thet you will not change your mind, but help to awake the ion science of the grid but misled American people A JIKADFIR. Butler Oter Norton. Omaha - To the Kdltor of The Omaha B<*e The well fed editor of the World-Herald, squealing like a pig caught In a barb wire gate, calls on all of the resources of his power ful vocabulary of ridicule to prove to the Ka F'olletta men of Nebraska that .!. N. Norton, an avowed 100 per cent Davis man, la a far better bet than Dan Butler, an avowed 100 per rent Ia F'ollette supporter. In his double column, double leaded editorial. Beetle. Greer and Ilutler.' Kdltor Newbraneh spread" hi« usual smoke screen, but there have been times In Nebraska lately when the voters were not (divided h, tills edi torial barrage. The nomination of Dan Bullet shrew this btvm. h of polithal hybrids into convulsions just when they had *• imm-; Pushing Back the Wall “/y»//£ vast territory covered the voice of man. To places and 1 bv these lines at once strikes to people he has never even seen the observer, and some conception fly his wire-borne thoughts. tna\ be had of the importance of Over distances which it would the long distance telephone in the take him days to travel his words business world oj the east.” speed in an instant. This was the contemporary The 90,000 miles of toll wire comment of a scientific journal of 1890 have grown to more than on the long distance telephone 4,500,000 miles carrying a daily service of 1890. The “vast terri- average of more than 1,600,000 tory” ended with Pittsburg on long distance conversations, the west and Washington on the Thus has the wall of silence south. Along its frontier stood been pushed back to the edges a wall of silence. of the continent. In its place is a □cr now confines nation-wide telephone service. iTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY BELL SYSTEM ^ One Policy - One Syttcm - I nirermxl Service I sunny she up! chJce Comfort. nor fornet | <HuU J| EVERYTHING YGVELY. It's hmter'n the hinges of Sheoi: I'm tarsing from night until morn. But never complaint do I utter; It sure is the making of corn. T wipe the sweat off'n my forehead: My collar's as limp as a string: But Oosh, the way corn la a-growlng , Is enough to make any man alng' So. perspiring and panting. I'm happy, My heart Is chuck full of delight; For Nebraska's cornfields are a wonder; There ne'er was more beautiful sight. j My shirt is glued fast to my body, The sweat trickles down in my eyes; j, The sun glows above like a furnace: My body just sissies and fries. I But ne'er a complaint do I utter, I just sit around In a sweat And laugh with pure joy with Nebraska I O’er the bumper corn crop she will get. I see green corn blade* a waving, I fairly can hear the stalks grow; I wring out my handkerchief gaily. I My heart with pure gladness aglow. I swab off my neck and my forehead And long for a tall, pooling drink. M.v mind turns to days long departed When soda squirts answered a wink, it's hot in Nebraska, thank goodness! j I tumble and toss through the night. But thank the good Lord up above us. il's making a. corn crop all right' We must be growing forgetful. Last Monday was an an niversary that we allowed to get by its without notice. It Is never celebrated in Nebraska, but in our boyhood days down «• in Missouri August 4 was some holiday. It Is known •» Emancipation Day. being the anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the West Indies, and celebrated with great pomp and circumstance by our colored friends and brothers, to gether with their wives, sons and daughters. You people "up nawth” have never known what genuine cooking Is unless you have been the guest of honor pf some old time Negro family at an Emancipation Day dinner. Speaking of comparative statistics, all the promises made by La Follette If placed end to end. would reach from here to there without getting anybody anywhere. If providence permits we shall sneak off on August ,4 of next year and make connections with one of those fine old Negro families down In Missouri and show due appreciation of the culinary skill of one of those splendid old Negro "mam mies." We'd give a great deal if once again we could eat a meal prepared by Mammy .land Welch, the kindly old soul who so faithfully served my mother during her early youth, and watched over her long after 1'ncle Abe's proclamation made her free In fact as she always had been.In effect. WILT. M MAT'PTN. 1 completed their work with the stilleto and the chloroform sponge. It was to be expected that the master mind who dared not trust hie candidacy to the tender mercie* of the Nebras ka voters would wheel out this 75 centimeter at Kifteemh and Karnam, but we think they have missed the range. W. H. OKEEN. Criminal Waste. Waste of natural reaourcea through preventable fires is not only an of tense sgsinst the present generation. It :« a crime which will endanger |in»terity and which merit* the tronseit denunciation. — Baltimore News. 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