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The Omaha Bee M O R N I N G—E V E N I N G—S U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Publisher N. B. UPDIKE. President BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKI.ER, Editor in Chief Business Manager MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, fs 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 iierein. All rights of republication of our ayecial dispatches are also reserved. The Omaha Bee Is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognized authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee’a circulation is regularly audited by their organizations. Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908, at Omaha postoffice under act of March 8, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Privnte Branch Exchange. Ask for a T* 1 Ann the Department or Peracn Wanted. A 1 lailUC 1UUU OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Chicago-— Steger Bldg. Boston—63 Dovenshire St., Room 8 Seattle—A. L. Nielz, 614 Lary Bldg. Los 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 1 year $6.00, 6 months $3.00, P montna $1.76, l month 76c DAILY ONLY 1 year $4.50, 6 months $2.?.r* 3 months $1.60, 1 month 75c SUNDAY ONLY 1 year $8.00. 6 months $1.75, 3 months $1.00, 1 month 60c Subscriptions outside the Fourth postal zone, or 600 miles from Omaha: Daily and Sunday, $1.00 per month, daily only, 76c per month; Sunday only, 60c per month. CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Morning and Sunday.1 month 85c, 1 week 20c Evening and Sunday...... 1 month 66c, 1 week 16c Sunday Only ...1 mor th 20c, 1 week 6c _■> Graded Vhefe is dt its Best PLAIN POLITICAL PETTYFOGGING. John W. Davis is a lawyer. Good enough to be employed by J. P. Morgan. Morgan employs only the best available when it comes to hiring lawyers. We want to be understood as meaning this as a compliment to Mr. Davis. It may, in the mind of W. J. Bryan, disqualify him as a candidate for presi dent. . Indeed, Mr. Bryan has definitely expressed himself to that effect. But, if the American people want a lawyer, they ought to be ns smart as Mr. Morgan, and employ the best they can get. Ability should not debar a man from serving the public. Some of Mr. Davlp’ recent maneuvers throw a little doubt on the judgment of Wall Street mag nates on whose payroll he was so very recently. We can imagine the misgivings of his employers, should he go into court with one of their important case3 and try it after the fashion he has adopted for pre senting his own affairs to the public. Far be it from us to prescribe to Mr. Davis a course of con duct. He has the great American privilege of car rying on his campaign in any way he wishes, or may be we ought tp say, in any way his committee, will let him. ... Mr. Davis seems to be convinced that he will make a lot of votes by accusing the republican party of being corrupt, of conniving at official mis conduct, and insinuating that Calvin Coolidge has blinked at party rottenness in and out of office. Not to put too fine a point on the matter, Mr. Davis lends the respectability of his standing to the slanders of Gaston B. Means, self-confessed former German spy, and Roxie Stinson. As a lawyer he knows that their tales would not stand a minute before a self-respect ing court. But as a candidate for president he feels he must give them credence. Not only credence, but through his veiled and carefully worded utterance, he comes before the public as a character witness for irresponsible gossip-mongers and reputation as sassins for whom he can not help but have the ut most contempt, just as all decent people do. A year ago the nation was bowed with sorrow because of the loss of a president who had worn himself out in public service. Today the memory of that president is besmirched with utter reckless ness by the candidate of a party seeking to ride into office through wrecking the good name of a dead man. • * * As a preliminary to the campaign of 1921 demo crats in the senate launched a great crusade against the administration. Cabinet officers were attucked, and one senator from the south boasted they had carried the trail of corruption to thr White House, and would drag it through. Edwin M. Denby, secre tary of the navy, was singled out in connection with the leasing of oil lands. He was first to be im peached, and then his resignation v,as demanded. Finally he did resign. When at last the report of Vthe committee on leases upon naval oil reserves was submitted by Senator T. J. Walsh of Montana, it contained this language: "It should bo stated In this connection that neither the secretary of the navy nor the assistant secretary had any part whatever In the negotiations resulting In the execution of the leases here being canvassed, nor. for that matter. In those culminat ing in the Sinclair lease." That statement from a committee frankly at enmity with the administration should not be con sidered as an attempt to whitewash anybody. It is a belated admission of truth. Head hunters were bent on having a victim. Denby was singled out. When the committee came to make its report, the admission is made that Denby had no part in the matters that were being investigated. This ought to satisfy even Judge Davis. * * • So far as Albert II. Fall is concerned, his case is in the hands of the federal court. Indictments have been secured by attorneys chosen by the presi dent, approved by the senate, and working for the public. That should also content any reasonable man that justice is being done and guilt punished. So far Mr. Davis has confined himself to innuen do, but the nod from the throne is apt to become the royal mandate by the time it reaches the street, ' and he knows it. He is too good, a lawyer to be ignorant of the effect he produces. Does he want to do what the oil committee did, whoop and yell in pursuit of a victim, and finally come out and acknowledge that the victim was innocent? Or does he want to give the law its chnnce, let the matter go before the court to be tried on its merits? If no democrat had ever been guilty of anything involving moral turpitude, the course of the candi date might be excusable. When one assumes to be immaculate, one ought to be very sure of his fncts. The Walsh report on the oil mutter finally con cludes that the whole thing turns on a question of opinion. If the policy of leasing was right, says the report, and it mny he, then the chief offense was In not asking permission from congress. Candidate Davis may find himself in that fix if he keeps on. If New York republicans are looking for a real mart to be governor, “Bill” Hayward is at their service. Nebraska knows ami recommends him. Very likely President Coolidge did not. expect to please Senator Walsh, ho the senator’s disappoint ment need surprise nobody. WHICH WAY ARE WE GOING? In the news dispatches is an account of how an armored mail car was tried out in a test simulating t a real robbery as nearly as possible. The robbers were repulsed with the loss of two killed, six cap tured and one missing. That is, theoretically. How it will work in practice is to be determined. Some of the older members of the community may recall how the “iron clad” treasure coach fared. It was the boast of the Wells-Fargo people that no road agents would do business with that contrivance. On its very first trip out of Deadwood “Laughing Sam,” Charlie Carey and three other determined men staged a reception for the iron-clad coach at Cold Springs. Boone May, Gale Hill, “Little Bill” Wilson and two more guards were with the coach, but when the battle was over the road agents had the loot, nobody ever knew how much, and were away. In those days anything marked “U. S.” was im mune. Robbers had a wholesome respect for the federal government. They knew that pursuit was relentless, and that conviction would be followed by severe punishment, mail train robbery was re warded with a life sentence and sometimes hang ing. The sentence, too, was usually carried out. Once in awhile some daring or desperate soul essayed a trial on a postoffice. Almost invariably, however, he paid the penalty. The iron-clad treasure coach has vanished from service, and along with it has gone the regard of the highwaymen for the label, “U. S.” No game has paid better of late years than robbing the mails Immense sums of money and large quantities of other valuables are carried in mail sacks nowadays. One recent robbery, not far from Chicago, gave the oandits pjS.et.Mon of $2,600,000. It was carried out with ali the precision of a military attack. Gas bombs were used. Mail clerks, fighting to protect the mails, were overcome by fumes in their cars. The robbers wore gas masks. To be sure, most of them are r.ow in custody. The larger part of the loot has been recovered. The Postoffice department records, however, that more than $6,000,000 has been lost since the modern road agent has turned his attention to the mails. Now it is reported 3,000 armored cars have been contracted for, to carry our mails in safety across the country. Wherein resides a sad but elo quent commentary on our civilization. King Alfred caused pursdfe of gold to be exposed along highways, to prove the honesty of his people. What would he say if he were told that the most enlightened gov ernment in all history had to adopt bomb-proof, armor-clad vehicles to carry letters and packages entrusted to its care? POLITICS AND PEACE TERMS. When the London conference had reached an agreement, and all hands were content with the terms, it was pointed out that the big job still was ahead of Herriot and Marx. They had to go back home and satisfy the cabinets and the legislatures of France and Germany. Marx has succeeded. He put the matter up to the reichsrat, which is the Ger man senate, on what amounted to a take it or leave it basis. Germany did not get all that might have been wished for, but Germany was likely to get far less if the present pact were rejected. In France Herriot has followed much the same plan. “I have chosen,” he says to the chamber. “It is now for you to choose.” Marx bluntly told the nationalists what they might expect if the pact was rejected and a govern ment controlled by nationalists sought conference with the Allies. Similarly, Herriot tells his opposi tion that France may never again be able to align the support she had nt London. The premiers are thinking clearly and talking frankly. We wonder, though, if the politicians will understand this. In France the group that overpowered Briand and set Poincare on the driver’s seat is willing to do the "ame for Herriot. Not, perhaps, that its members do not desire peace, but that they long for more power. The nationalist-communist combination in Ger many has but one thing in common, the destruction of the republic. Marx is fortunate in being able to split this alliance long enough to get a majority for the London agreement. Herriot will very likely succeed in Paris, but the interpellations will disclose a spirit that is far from reassuring to those who earnestly desire a tranquil future. The statesman Who prefers glory to peace still exists in Europe, and can make a lot of trouble. "Blots of dork colored surface material, helieved to he vegetation, are now developing” on Mars, ac cording to the astronomers. Wonder if the Mar tians worry over crops as much as Nebraskans? Candidate Norton says the republican party Is not credited with the present good times. The demo cratic party has been responsible for the bread lines every time it has been in power since 1860. Add gas story: Governor Bryan has at last met the cut made by John D. Rockefeller two weeks ago, and is now selling gasoline at 13 cente at the corner of Sixth and South streets. Pat Harrison is sitting pretty once more. He has the democratic nomination, and that is enough in Mississippi. If he were running in Nebraska, he would have to go out and get elected. The fact that Brother Charlie lived In Omaha several years before he wont to Lincoln lends em phasis to his statement that he is just beginning to get acquainted with the metropolis. Old George White prophesies that Davis and Bryan will have 346 electoral votes. What makes this most interesting Is that old George made the same prophesy for Cox four years ago. r > Homespun Verse —By Omaha’s Own Poat— Robert Worthington Davie v^_ VACATION. Away from the toll for a little while, And ucrosH the open lea To gain again the fervid smile Thnt the gods expect of me: To the tranquil wood where Nature Ilee Arrayed In her gm-tm-nts fair. Where the wren revolts and the peewee files. And the flowers nod In prayer. Away from mart for a little while— To the calm of a calmer land, Where silence rests and winds beguile, And the earth js rapture spanned. Away to rest for a week or so Where the breadth of the free world brings To heart the faith and grace that grow Tn the wild and rugged things Hun rind days and boon-moon beams-— Gifts of the gods of old; Thoughts long waiting to change to dreams — Thoughts that the work days hold. Away from toil for a little while. And across the open lea To gain again the fervid smile Thnt the gods expect of me. U.Q- _■ r-*», __ __ _ --—--s Letters From Our Readers All letters must be signed, but nnme w ill be withheld upon request. Communi cation* of 200 words and leaa will be given preference. -- - J Boost for tile Sandhills. Thedford, Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: The tourists of the eastern part of the state do not real ize that the Potash highway, through the sundhllls, Is the best possible route to the Yellowstone park and the Black Hills. This is especially true during the'wet seasons. At that time the sand mads are at their hest. There are some rough spots, but there are many good stretches of roads. There are many tourists coming this way. When the Lincoln highway Is muddy, many tourists leave It at North Platte and come north and then continue east. Another evidence of Its pussabllity is that the traveling men are more and more resorting to Ifhe use of th> ir cars through this flection of the state. Mr. Tourist, why not try the Potash on your next trip? The people ap preciate your coming and our garages will not hold you up. When you pet to Halsey, make a detour through the Halsey forest reserve, where Jay Higgins, the superintendent, will wel come you. The reserve road consists of easy grades, 5 per cent, winding through nearly 14 miles of Bessy na tlonal forest reserve. We wish that the people could be come better acquainted with this part of the state. They will not find the Potash highway equal at nil times to the Lincoln, hut, ns I said. In wet weather the sandhills are passable when the Lincoln needs a tractor t pull them out of the mud. Then, too, there nre lots of good things to see up here. Possibly, even yourself, would lie surprised to know that our pure sand hills will produce from 15 to 40 and sometimes 45 bushels of corn to the acre. Land that sells for from $5 to $76. We will appre elate any Interest you might show through your paper for our part of the state. JOHN M. TURNER. I-oague Is Unnecessary. Columbus. Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Unless purely phll snthroplc and patriotic, every organi sation except matrimonial and per haps some religious organizations, are antagonistic to the organization by whose grace they exist and thrive. Further, when organizations within an organized constitutional govern ment like the United States thrive, they Individually and collectively thrive of the substance that of right belongs to the nation and to all the people comprising such government. In any event, whether organizations do or do not thrive, besides being sn unnecessary tax burden they are the greatest possible menace to con stltuted government. Any one who looks owr the situation may easily observe that It Is difficult to keep running smoothly the political nnd economic machinery of tho United / .— Abe Martin v_______ Lem Beasley's wife walked out on him, t’day, leavin' two idle ears In th' garage. Who don't remem ber when a family used t’ die off one at u time Instead o’ bein' wiped out In a group? Cverruiit. ) »s« States, which has only on* language and one aim, and that private organ! zatlons, because of their interference with state and federal adjustment machinery to the fulfillment of mak ing their respective enterprise* a sue cees, it becomes a tremendous task to keep each state of the union in its proper sphere within the union a orbit and to maintain their several and col lective Integrity. Realising these obstacles, every In telligent voter—man or woman—will readily see the complication* surelv to arise when the United States at turtles Itself to the league of nations and becomes a state of a world state with hundred* of languages and aspirations. Within the comparative small realm of the Un.ted States, conflicting legi timate interests require a sacrifice by the people. When organizations jvlthin the organized government of each state and of the United StHtos interfere in the settlement of such conflicting interests, sacrifics by the people increases manifold. The same measure magnified beyond concep tion applies to a federation of na tions. The league of nations or world state Is a scheme urged mainly by banking and commercial and allied organlzn tlon* ror whom the United States has hemmo too small. And because inter national treaties are by them regard ed insufficient serurlty for their-con tern plated enterprises they want to create a condition where treaties chall not bother them and where. without let or hindrance, thej van carry on world commerce. On the whole, the league of na tlons' program Is a bolshevik move ment. .No less so because It began at the top of civilization. When it finally collides, "as it surslv will." with the bolshevik movement that began at the bottom of civilization, look out for the grand collapse. G. FOLKERS. Prohibition a Mistake. Mln5en, Neb —To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: It seems strange that there are some wasting time trying to make believe prohibition Is a great success. “Common Sense" says It would be just as logical to repeal the law on robbery and murder. If you will Just forget about prohibition long enough, you will note no sane person ever asked for the repeal of those laws, but millions do ask for the re peal of the prohibition law. Robbery and murder are crimes, but no sane person will say drinking liquor is a crime. He also states that drinking people were not peacable. Put the facts arc. AN INVESTMENT nf J100 or more placed *?ter careful investigation of the merit and legiti macy of an offer I will make yon by mail upon requeet, should at leaet double your money, with every reason able provision for safety of principal, which ia later returned out of a sink ing fund provided therefor. My offer is strictly limited ard for serious-minded people orly who can realiie when shown the unlimited pos sibilities in the manufacturing of Elec tric Heating Equipment. Write me today for proof. D J. O'Keefe. 82 Church Street, Room 5-C, New Haven, Conn. 1 ■ ■ -i 6%_NO COMMISSION 6% § I REAL ESTATE LOANS § = 6% INTEREST g 1 NO COMMISSION 5 ^ tfasj/ Repayments ^ o The Conservative Savings & Loan Ass’n o 2 1614 Harney Street ^ 6$ NO COMMISSION 6% |S INNYSIDEUP'' C4lake Comfort, nor foroet [ <lKal ; Near the main exit et Krug park. Itj eompany with Jim Bulla, we were passed by a bevy of dusky damsels who had Just finished serving a delightful dinner to the editorial breth ren. And we heard one of them say: "My cah Is pahked ova there. You girls come on an' ride with me.” Jim paid both our fares on the street car. E. Buckingham’s reputation as an orator Is 100 per cent among the newspaper folk of Nebraska and Iowa. He makes short speeches, full of entertainment and Information. He makes tile same speech once a year, always just preceding the annual dinner served to the editors by the Union Stock Yards company. Clearing his throat, “Buck” steps out In front of the brethren and sisters, and says: “Come and get It:” Members of the I Knew Him When club will shove over and make room for Ol' Doc Frye, caterer in chief and chef extraordinary to the Union Stock Yards company. Doc has a trained flivver. It barbecues meat, tea and coffee, and re frigerates fruit Juices for salads. The blooming thing not only roasts the meat on spits, but actually turns the spits. All Doc has to do Is to Jack up a hind wheel and put the wheels Into action. Doc says he has hopes of being able to teach the con traption to talk so It can call him when It Is necessary to re plenish the charcoal fire or baste the meat. “Twice a-Week” Graham, one of Iowa's veteran editors, never misses a summer meeting of the editors. He calls at tention to the fact that he has but one eye, and does so for the purpose of explaining why he always looks twice as long at a pretty woman, although he can see a chance for refresh ments as quickly as a man with two good eyes. A number of people sought to gain political Information from the newspaper folk while they were here. They were greeted with raucous laughter. The editors were here for fun ^ Even efforts to get group meetings of republican and demo- ™ eratlc editors proved futile. The only business considered was to make the most of an opportunity to forget business and politics. - ’I President Coolldge says he carried a sap bucket when a boy. In that particular he has nothing on us. We, too, have carried a sap bucket. We have also provided wood for boiling the sap, and we have sugared off and packed maple sugar. Unless Cal has attended a sugarlng-off party, pouring the syrup into fantastic shapes on the snow, there to congeal, he ain't seen nothing. Wonder what Cal made his sprouts from? We made ours out of elderberry bushes. . Sign on Farnam street: "Pocket Flasks, Glass Lined ” A wise provision. The stuff they sell for pocket flasks these days would eat a hole through all-metal flasks. What Is most needed now Is an automatic kadukey that will shut off the gas and water when the householder goes away on a vacation. It seems that our municipally owned utilities shove more water and gas through the pipes when there Is nobody home, than at any other time. ! WILL M. MAUPIN. 11 - prohibitionists are no better. He further states that railroads refuse to hire drinking men, while the facts are they ask nothing of the kind, and if they did they would not be doing busi ness very long. But they do ask their men to be sober while on duty. He also says drunken men are a rarity. If he will go to the trouble and look over the records, he will note there are more arrested now for drunkenness than ever—and getting worse every day. No. "Common Sense," prohibition is a Joke and should be, as a great majority are against It. BEE READER A Modernist. Teacher—You'll have to stay In after school and work on your geography lesson You didn't locate i single one of the cities. Willie—I can't locate them, but I snow how to tune in on the whole! lame lot.—American Legion Weekly NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION , for July, 1924, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .74,010 Sunday.74,792 Doe* not include return*. left 5ver*. • ample* or papers spoiled in ^ printing and includes no special *aie* or free circulation of any kind V. A. BRIDGE. Cir. Mfr. i Subscribed and sworn to before me j this 5th day of August, 1924. W. H. QUIVEY, I3eal) Notary Public j toSt.Louis The popular way is the Wabash way. 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