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The Omaha Bee MOHNIN G—E V E N 1 N G—S U W P A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO- Publisher N. B. UPDIKE. President BALLARD DUNN, .JOY M. HACKLER. Editor in Chief Bueiness Manager “ MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Preee, of which The Bee is a member, le exclusively entitled to the use for republleatlon of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in thle paper, and also the local newa published herein. All rights of republication of our special dispatches ara also reserved. The Omaha Baa la a member of tbs Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognised authority on circulation, audita, and The Omaha Baa's circulation is regularly audited by their organisations. Entered as second-class. matter May SI, ISOS, at Omaha poetoffice under act of March S, 187*. ” BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for sm l.-ii, lAAfl the Department or Person Wanted. A1 lanllC lwu ' OFFICES Main Office—17th and Paraam Chicago—Steger Bldg. Boston—68 Dovenshire St- Room 8 Seattle—A. L. Ntele. 814 Lary Bldg. f Loe Angeles—Fred L. Hall, San Fernando Bldg. San Francisco—Fred L. Hail, Sharon Btdg. New York City—270 Madison Ava. MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES DAILY AND SUNDAY 1 year 18.00, 8 months 88.00. 8 months $1.71, 1 month 76a DAILY ONLY 1 year *4.60. 8 months $2.76. 8 months *1.10, 1 month 76a SUNDAY ONLY .. 1 year $8.00. « months *1.78, 8 months *1.00, 1 month *0e Subseriptions outside the Fourth postal sore, or 400 miles from Omaha: Dally and Sunday, $1.00 per month! daily only, 76e per month; Sunday only. 60o par month. CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Morning and Sunday.1 month SSet. 1 Eyening and Sunday.1 month Sunday Only .. month 20c, 1 week *e V———-.——-— OraaliaWheik freest is dt its Best “AIN’T IT AWFUL, MABEL?” What an awful fix this country is in, to be sure. Headed for the rocks, and the spray of the deadly surf already soaking our garments. So gosh-awful is the fix our country is in that today it is the only country in the world into which the people of other countries want to get so badly that they suffer privations in order to smuggle themselves in. So near are we to destruction that it is the only country in the world where men and women fight deportation, fearful that they will be deprived of some of the comforts and opportunities afforded them by our distracted country’s threatening fate. O, what’s the use? For half a century, “there ain’t been no chance a-tall for a poor boy.” A boy bom on a New England farm a half-century ago was so hampered and restricted that all be has been able to accomplish is to become president of these United States. A boy born on an adjoining farm was so hampered and circumscribed in his opportuni ties that despite all his efforts all he Could become is president of one of the greatest railroad systems in the world. Right here in Nebraska, where thing* have been in a heluva shape for years, a boy was born on a farm a bit more than a half-century ago. Despite bis energy and courage and faith he has been so hampered that all he could accomplish was to become president of the largest bank In Boston. Another poor and downtrodden Nebraska boy saw his maturing years so handicapped by environment that despite all his efforts all he ha* been able to become is the head of one of New York’s greatest financial institutions. O, what’s the use? A fe— ./uort years ago a Nebraska boy began railroading. His opportunities were so circumscribed that in spite of his hard work and loyalty all he could become i* general manager of the country’s greatest railroad system. From call boy to general manager in three decades. Goodness only knows what he might have become if he had been given a fair shake. No chance for a poor boy no more, a-tall. The country no longer affords opportunity for young men of push apd loyalty and efficiency. It is not calling for giant intellects to develop its super-power systems, its agricultural combinations, its marketing associations. It does not need intel lects that will organize the coal interests so as to eliminate waste, reduce costs and provide steady instead of intermittent labor. It does not need a giant intellect to systematize scientific reforestra tion to replenish the devastated forests. Nothing to do but just sit around and whine while the old. ship drifts on the rocks. Only it isn’t so. This is the greatest, grandest, richest country in the world; the home of opportunity, the uplifted torch of civilization. Its greatest menace is the bellyaching, self-seek ing, windjamming, pestiferous politicians playing to prejudice and passion, stirring up discontent and appealing chiefly to the thriftless. If it isn’t the best country on earth, then why are there so many who want to get in, and so few who want to get out? “FORE!” The city commissioners have another fine oppor tunity for public service laid before them. It grows out of the difference of opinion aa to fees to be ex acted from golf players who use the municipal links. If the city is to maintain municipal golf courses, it should he done on such basis as will place the • service within the reach of any citizen. A modernte fee, for the reasonable purpose of defraying at least a part of the cost of upkeep, will not be objected to. ' But the fee should not he set at a point that will exclude any one who wants to play golf. Omaha is one of very few cities in the United ~tat.es where three golf courses are maintained by the city. This fact has frequently been commented upon hy outsiders. The existence of these facilities has greatly added to the popularity of the game in Omaha. Thousands use the links. No doubt at times the crowds are such as to interfere with the pleasure of some who get impatient under such con ditions. These should remember that the public owns arid has a right to use the golf courses in the parks. No exclusive privileges exist. The city commissioners, whatever action they take in the matter, should be guided by considera tion for the grrat crowd of players who throng the links, and may never get around under 100. The fee should not be such as will deprive anyone of the pleasure of playing golf. If the choice must be made, it will be better to anandon the links entirely than to set up a discriminatory charge for their use. BRIGHT DAYS FOR DAKOTA. What everybody says must, be so, when all hands unite in saying that business conditions are improv ing, some real foundation must exist. A survey just taken of South Dakota warrants the statement that the situation up there has improved immensely with the crop development. It was but a few months •go that, our neighbors on the north were under j the influence of a number of heavy bank failures, j I Credit was suspended, cash was scfrce and the fu ture was about as unpromising as could be. All is not over yet, but the most conservative of bankers and business men agree that the change has been so decidedly for the better no doubt is felt as to the full recovery soon-being experienced. F. B. Stiles, vice president of the Agricultural Credit corporation, says, “Sbttth Dakota is rapidly ap proaching a time when its banking situation will be entirely Bound." A United States Treasury official declares “all advices we get now are optimistic and favorable,” referring to South frakota financial af fairs. This recovery is due entirely to the industry of the farmers and the bounty of nature. Not all de pended on the gamble with weather and seed, but stuck to other and more dependable sources of in come. Cattle, hogs, and cream provided much money for helping out. Hard work and good luck have brought the Dakotana out of a deep hole, and we congratulate them on the fact. Their prosperity will be felt in all parts of the region, just as their misfortunes had some effect on all. It is a great year in the short grass country along the Missouri. WILLIAM J. CONNELL. One of the real builders of Omaha was William J. Connell, who has just passed on. Fifty-seven years ago he came to the bustling town, a youth just attaining his majority. From that day until the end he was an active factor in the development of the city. Of positive character, never neutral, he made firm friends and equally determined op ponents. Once he had made up his mind as to the right, he did not swerve until the issue was decided. In court or out, whatever forum he found, he was an advooate to be depended upon, an opponent to be respected. Mr. Connell studied law and was admitted to the bar after he came to Omaha. Shortly after he be gan to practive he was chosen district attorney, and later was made city attorney. In this capacity he was of great service to the city. During his long term in the office he handled many of the impor tant and difficult cases that came up in connection with the affairs of a readly growing community that was emerging from the town to the metro politan stage. One of these was the viaduct cases, which he took to the supreme court of the United States, winning for the city all he claimed, and settling forever the principle that requires the rail roads to provide safe crossings. In 1888 he was elected to congress, succeeding Hon. John A. McShane, and in turn was himself defeated in 1890 by William Jennings Bryan. One of his great achievements in congress was to secure the enactment of a law making eight hours a day’s work on government contracts. After he left con gress he again served Omaha as city attorney, retir ing to take position as general counsel for the street railway company, which for twenty year* occupied hia attention. William J. Connell wa* one of that group of energetic, broad-minded, far-seeing men who built Omaha. With the others he enjoyed the reward of hia labor, the fruit of his faith. Hs saw the city rise to eminence end wealth, and become e great center of all the activities of civilization. The in vestigator of the future, pursuing his research work, will find many places where Mr. Connell la bored and did his work for the good of the commu nity. He has entered his rest with the honor snd re gard of a city he helped to make. The press reports are to the effect that Governor Bryan has completed his speech of acceptance. If this is true it proves that fne governor has nothing to say therein about gasoline. Noting the remark that the voter i* the back bone of the nation, the Fremont Tribune aaaerts that, the politician is the wishbone. And the selfish office seeker is the jawbone. Governor Bryan say* we have avoided several wars by not being prepared. Many of us have avoided battles by being prepared to run with the old hose cart*. % Iowa is in a hectic discussion at to the merit* of corn and beet sugar. What difference, beet, cane, or corn, so long as it Is home produced and does the work? Between bank bandit*, auto murder* and the Chi cago trial, it takes a mighty clever politician to make the front page these days. Rome young folks who set out to get. tanned should be well tanned before being permitted to start, then they would not go so far. Nominee Davis was notified at his home in West Virginia, but he will vote «t hia home in New York. Nothing like being veraatile. Mr, Davis' campaign manager predicts a big majority for hia chief, hut the result on election day will probably Shaver. “Man Stabbed Over Rip in Panta," headlines a Chicago newspaper. Now just where was the aeat of trouble? If Henry Ford does run for senator he will ex perience no difficulty financing the gas for a flivver campaign. “Fuzzy Wuzzy” is getting restless again, and stories of Gordon, Wolaeley and Kitchener may he revived. “Kid McCoy” has finally made a match for him »elf he had better not lose. A nooae ia the penalty. /- ' Homespun Verse -r;By Omaha’* Own Poet— Robert. Worthington Dairie v_---—-/ DARK DAYS. In this strange use where myriad* behold the darkness coming.— When they In mournful g«rh and g«i* are frequently repining — I like to meet, the fellow who a favorite tune I* hum ming;— One who believes the sun will shine If now It Is not shining. Daik Ilavs me these with modernists and flapper* e\*r bringing Frivolity and fic kleness and other leaeer tiolliera; Dark days. Indeed, they aeein to n* the while that we are Ringing Glad praises to attalnmenta and achievement* of our father*! But aurely till* 1* Progreaa stealing In to leave Itatrerae. As It Incessantly haa done In month* »nd ysara be hind ua; While laaales boh th»lr hair and paint their laughing, winsome face* I'm fain to know tAat th|a is vague of much If needs remind ua! When dark are davs. and da> a are swiftly darker, gloomier growing. When drear our prospects seem while we our Meats are beguiling — I rn fain to feel with all mv heatt that we at* forward going. And have good teaaon to be gay and spend our mo manta smiling. I Question: How to Get a Wider Distribution of It. j ^ I WISH I COULD BE I-n AS SURE or a c-ccd [ s". T--- —t f • CO^RS-T* AS I AWT or A ^ ,/^T^v GOOD . ‘N. '-- ' Letters From Our Readers All Iftlari mini Ho alffBod. but iiamo will bo withhold aiwa rogiaoat. tommual nation a( *00 arords aaad loaa will bo glaoaa larofrroora. > ■■ ■ --—'" .. 1 J Work for tha Gibbon. Neb —To the Editor of The Omaha l^ee: A* the harvest time of the demagogues ie approaching. It la a littla amusing and somewhat dis gusting lo listen to some of the magic remedies they propose. They would have ua believ* that th* "money power" is tesponlhle for all the mis fortunes that tiefall ua and that If we will bu| entrust tha running ot the government to them our troubles will Ire over. Now. J am not uphold ing tho rich In any wrongs that they may do. but why should w# blame them for some thing* for which only ourselves and clrcumatances are re sponsible? It can plainly he seen at th# pres ant time that too much time and ef fort are being wasted In nonproduc tive enterprise. Therein Ilea our greatest difficulty. In our struggle and desire to "keep up with (he times," or a little bit ahead of them, we seemingly have lost (he ability- to distinguish between necessity and luxury. As fanning receives most of the solicitude of the demagogues, let us consider a few things concerning that Industry. Not an many yeate ego the raising of horses was a source of profit to many farmers. The livery barn was a flourishing institution in all the towns and cities, consuming much of the farmer*’ grain and hay. The family driving horse did double duty by working In the field. The traffic of hiiggies anil wagons did not wear out roads faster than they could he constructed. Th* houeewlf* of the future received her training through an apprenticeship in th* kitchen do ing her hit toward making th* farm what It should he—a self supporting Institution. The farmer of the future received hi* training hy working on the farm, helping to produce some thing to feed and clothe the world. The average person was rontent to wear clothing mad* of cotton or wool. How different today' The horse ha* been practically driven from the streets of the towns and rltles so far aa performing any useful service la concerned. The demand for horses from that source Is gone. Th* livery barn has vanished, and In Its place, multiplied aeveral times, stand the filling station, th# tire shop, the ga rage and the automobile sales room. All these vie with one another In sat tiring a large por t of what the farmer Is able to produce. Practically every farm Is supporting from on# to three motor care, besides. In many i a"*e. the truck and tractor, all of Which. though convenient. are a source of constant outlay, and. tin - -- Abe Martin __/ I Th* feller who's aatislicil is rich, tin mailer how much money he's got or how many people he owes. Mr*. Tipton Bud tried t* drag her husband t' rhuren yistonlay, hut he hates t' git among al rangers, • Ilk# th* horae, *d<1 nothing to the fertility of the soil. Also th* average life of th# horae la from two to three times that of the motor vehicle. Ureat sum* are an nually being apent In building road# that cannot last many year* under the present speed craze. The house wife of the future today studies "do mestic economy which might tet ter tie called domestic egtravagance -J In a "modern" schoolroom from high ly paid teacher*. The farmer of the future today receive* hi* training in an agricultural college. *' a greet costj to himself and to the taxpayers. Silk la tiecoming the moat up-to-date ma terial for wearing apparel. Will It not he a glorlnu# sight to watch the demagogue* changing these things? GEORGE I/I KENBIU.. War a* "Reds" View It. Omaha Bee: "I do not know ." was1 the reply of John Maynard Keynes.; prominent author and economist, toi the question, "What did the world! gain from the world war'.'' others replied at length, some wisely snd sum# not so wlselv, but Mr. Keynes thought f"iir wools snf deed Th# difference wa* refreshing An honest admission of Ignorance I* often the beginning or wisdom On the other hand, to those acquainted with Mr. K#yne*‘ work. It seems likely that he merely meant te tave time, to avoid controversy, t* egpress himself conservatively. H# does know, and some of th# reat of u* know, that the world gained little from the war but death and degrada tion. and a burden of debt that sfill take the world several generation* to dislodge, even granting tflMepread peace In th* meantime Th* gain was negative, or. In oth*r word*, it %as nn gain at all Certain Idealist* think th*t th# hor ror* of the war brought good ,ln thfjr train by turning millions agtlnet th* whole war principle, snd tbl* la true to a certain extent, but It It a dan gerous thought. , one lodded with power to promote Immediate war for the ostensible purpose of adding war In some far. vague future. Why not have another war. an th# people will he more horrified and Indignant" Ar guing thu*. even General Pershing could pose aa a parlfat. I am not a par I hat, and for that reason am able to oppose wat from a different, more effective angle. 1 am In favor of fighting as a temper ary measure, can Imagine cases In which It might he highly necesaarv. but pay particular attention—I am not In favor of fighting the other fel low's battle*. If capitalists, seeking foreign tnarkels, howl for war, let • hern do the fighting. Tf big business men believe democracy Is In danger and define tbe democracy threatened let them tight for their democracy, hut perhaps 1 .shill refuse to accept their definition and even to help them. If only the capitalists and business men would fight their wars and only the workers would fight the workers wars well. then, the <s wouldn't be any wars, for the first class would fear to risk their precious bodies while the second ,las< the workers, wouldn't have anybody held before them to hate and kill. No "red" work ing class army marches against an other ted" working i lass army to day; they march together, and they wuuld tie plowing mul building in s esd of marching. If It were not for th* ferocious opposition of the entire capitalist world, armed to the teeth. The solidarity of the workers, scorning boundary line* and 'resting lightly « host of national traditions. Is a more potent power for peace in the passing of a single dav than year after year of purely parlflatlc teach Ing Or so called preparation for de fens# Norton to the f oreign Born. Kea . t r- Crossing, \>h -To the Kd Itor of The Omaha Bee; At the thir tl*th annual picnic her* today Mr. .1. N. Norton, candidate for the gover nntshlp made the maiden *pce> h of Ills campaign. It Is generally t egret ted by democrats that Mr. Norton lent himself to sn arts k on iltizrns of foreign origin to who** tiumeii cal strength he aitlihtlted ninny evils, and to adjust niattets he suggests a leduition In the number of such citl zens. but the means to attuln that end, presumably, Is to lie withheld, until he assume* th# duties of guver nor. By a blanket designation he depicted foreigner* and their religion as "hoclfbinlsTn but to be fair to him he Restricted lh>» epithet to Cat hoih ism. To toady to tii# ignorant, lo add; fuel to tlic (lames ..( hatred and prejti dice, to displsv an ohBeoui"U*ncns p« cullar to * r Ins n or a charlatan, may t* essential • *i|tilreinent* on tlic cheap I». tur* platfoim, but a* every democrat knows, they unfit a man for put.lie position, *uch Is dead i»d only awaits burial. M. C. V. -v — -—„—•——_ \rhievcment. "He says Its is confident of a hrll lianf and successful future." remark ed the heiress. "lie a quite light alwnit It," an swered Mis* Cayenne, provided he succeeds In marrying yon.' - Wash ington Hint No Reciprocity. We politicians are mighty sympa thetlr with you farmers." lea." answered Parmer Corn to* ■el: "hut where's the good’ The man who served me papers about my mortgage I* one of the fellern I voted lo put In office " -Washington Star. ! 4 4 \ I Si IMTSDEUP ‘ lake Comfort, nor fonet <1Kai r '*' _ A i-mrm of bees attacked s mother and baby on B *,r**,; (he story being properly recorded In The Bee. because the bees believed In being given becoming publicity. They Bent special courier on s l-ee line to The Bee with the informa tion. I jlm" McIntosh of Sidney has made a sad discovery. At ter Investing $4,600 In u new automobile he learned while conveying a party of friends on a sight-seeing tour that a palatial -automobile has to have Just as much gas aa a fliv ver. His guests had the same thing impressed on their minds after they had walked three- or four miles with Jim, looking for a farmer who had gas Members of tbe I Knew Him When Pluh will please move over to make room for ( buries .1 Dane, fic-ight fac totum Of the I'nion Pacific. A pleasant visit was had with him “while trundling along in Jack Mulh k s work i.ir st the tail end of the Wheat Special. Prince of goo,] fellows, a trie onteur who spreads Information like an enc yc lopedia and fun like s vatidevillia n. Knew him when he was station Igent at Beatrice s little less than 100 jears ago. Couldn't keep his light under s hushel and was drafted for higher place. Never been married and younger now than when h« was located at Beatrice. Interesting sign over store In North Platte: ‘Tramp* Shoes." Inquiry developed fact that they must be paid for before being tramped In. Discovered several fellows eligible for tbe I Knew Him IVhen Club while riding the Wheat Special. Shove over and let Mike Poach sit in. Passenger conductor on the west end. Knew him when he was conductor of local freight on east end. Same old Mike, only he has softened his language a bit. But he hasn't forgotten the words. More than one chance to go higher, but preferred to wield a ticket punch. Members of the club will like him when they get ac-quslnted, Mike is that sort of a fellow. Those who Imagine that the Kluxers are not growing In (cumbers in west end 0r state should Iwcc k up and taka another guesa. Would advise its opponents to cease adver Using Iv In view of present-day restrictions it Is difficult lo under stand why the family refrigerator is just as voracious In its demands as It was during the old day*. It Ponlrary to opinion entertained in some quarters, the Ne braska farmer who raised 1,000 buahels of wheat this year has l not cleaned up a round million dollars on his crop, though the farmer* all together have done a lot better than that. , Most of tiie people who declare that the country is going • to the dogs are doing nothing to prevent it except out-howltng the dogs WII.L M. MAI PIN. LISTENING IN (In the Nebraska Pres*. Thieve* broke into (he juras* of •Jack Kroh. who pilot* (he Ogallala New*, and stole $300 worth of part* from three automobile*. No aympa thy hora. An editor who hou*e* three auto* deserve* none. • * • (lie Buck ,* en tour, whbh I* Fren. h for panhandling. leaving in hi* wake a trail of devastation through garden* and poultr} yard*. • • • George Burr of the Aurora Kegis ter intimate}* that the poor ILeopold hoy might have tone through life ignorant of the fact that he possessed thyroid, pineal and pituitary gland* if hia father hadn't v*e#n a multi-: millionaire. • • • Weldon Kelley ha* sold th* Maxwell TVlbune to WH*on Tout, publisher of th* North Platte Tribune. The Tribune will publish an enlarged Max well department • • • * K row would he scared to death it some of the at off sold for country butter. ' soliloquizes FIet« h Merw in of the Be«\er City Times Tribune. • • • An Omaha man married, and late* discovered tiie lady was twice his «*re und had a son older than her new husband "This." says Charlev Oms* venor of the Aurora Sun. "proves the wonderful si>e**i| at which the worlu ;s loosing P • "There is a difference between pre paring for war and preparing against war. says <Jua Bust hl«i in the Grand Island Independent. Clarke Wilson of the Milfoil Re* r1" — ■' .— view declares (hat crop* in Seward are fine and (he farmer* regaining prosperity. Then he adds that it it doein t mean es«y picking* for M » ckv salesmen: not hv a long shot • • • The N’eilgh leader admits that it wouldn't seem l;ke a political ram paign iu Nebraska without Fiane Harrison having a finger in the pie. wiih the aroent on the pie When in Omaha Hotel Conant 250 Room*—250 Bath*—Rite*$2 to $3 i NETAVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for July, 1924, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily ....74,010 Sunday.74,792 Dm set isclud# returs*. left* »v«», *arr. p!#a or paper* spoiled la printing and include* no special •alt* or free circulation of any kind. V. A BRIDGE. Cir. Mgr. Subscribed and sworn ta before me | this Sth day of August. 1924. W. H. QUIVEY. 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