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.»*■* .1 1 ■ ■ ^—■——■—— OmdhdVhc^e (heM?st is dt its Best WORKABLE PLAN FOR THE FARMER. If American agriculture is to win its way out of the depths of depression, it must be through ap plication of economic efficiency. No poultica of politic* will aid in the process. This is tha message Charles Gates Dawes brings to the farmers of the nation. We agree with our democratic friend* that the farmer ia justified in his complaint. We have stated this on many occasions. Also, we have set out again and again that the farmer’s trouble is eco nomic and not political. Telling over hia wrongs and reciting his disadvantages will not assist him tq get on a solid footing where his industry will be established on a sound eonomic basis. Until he is on an equality with his contemporaries in the world of business, the farmer will be at a disadvantage. NO amount of talk will ever change this. !; Charles Gates Dawes, a practical business man, who has behind him a long record of solid achieve ment, has just addressed the farmers of Nebraska, and through them the agricultural industry of the United States on this important point. His message is as encouraging as it is clear. No clap-trap, no iheap phrasing, no mincing of words or hazy gen eralities as regards fact. General Dawes talked in his own straightforward manner, as a business man, in the consideration of a serious situation in which we are all deeply interested. * • * As the republican candidate for vice president, hip address is of political importance. He comes to Nebraska fresh from a conference with President Coolidge, at which the subject of agriculture was given chief consideration. That the minds of the president and his running mate coincide on the im portant topic is clear from the utterance of both. In his message to congress, in his special messages sent later, and in his speech of acceptance the president disclosed not only his sympathy but his understand ing knowledge of the farmer’s problem. General Dawes supplements with his own state ments the thought of the president, who said nine months ago to congress: “With his products not selling on a parity with the products ot Industry, every sound remedy that can be devised should be applied for the relief of the farmer.” The farmer’s distress has not just been discov ered by the republican leaders. Their thought for its relief is further explained by General Dawes: "We make but one promise—that the republican party, utilizing the best minds, and those by train ing best fitted for the task, will bend its every en ergy to the study of our agricultural problem to the end that through legislation or other means, its so lution may be accomplished. Whoever promises more than this is entering into a contract which can not be filled.’* * * • A nonpartisan commission to make inquiry, to devise and report a workable plan, is the remedy proposed. It is not a promise incapable of being fulfilled. What it means is thus set forth: “The difference between an economic and an un wise political settlement of what la to be done for American agriculture, through new legislation is the difference between success and fallura. There must be most careful consideration of the applica tion of economic principles, and also close calcula tion of the probable effectiveness of any proposed remedy. “The immediate political exigencies of tha great political parties In this campaign would be settled If they could make the American agriculturist be lieve in the fulfillment of an unfulflllable promise. But this must not be made a matter of political exigency. It must be considered without prejudice god from every standpoint.” • Plan after plan brought forward by tha adminis tration or by the farm leader* from the west in congress was defeated by the efforts of the demo crats and the La Follette group. In the very closing hours of the session a measure intended to relieve eettlers on reclaimed land was talked to degth by Senator Key Pittman. Every attempt to give aid to agriculture that depended on the passage of a law failed, because the groups that are now opposing President Coolidge for re-election united to prevent bis being of help to the farmer. The way is now made plain to them. Organiza tion for marketing, for the dissemination of informa tion as to conditions they must face, in short, co operative control of their own business. An inquiry economic lines, to determine what is needed for the permanent support of agriculture. Protection in the home market. These are the factors in the farmer’* problem. And the republican party prom ises him to aid in carrying on until he has solved that problem. No magic formula, no hocus poeu* or sleight-of-hand. Just serious, eareful, prudent and effective handling of the greatest economic question before the people. Nonpartisan, for the benefit of all. The wonder-workers can promise more, hut can they do as much? Thirty-four year* ago Uncle Horace Boles was telling the farmer* of Iowa the same thing that is being told them today. Somehow or other they have managed to stave off bankruptcy during the interim. __ Straw vote* signify nothing, but one taken at the Wisconsin state fair gave: Coolidge, 667; La Follette, <104; Davis, 124. FREE SPEECH AND WORLD PEACE. A peculiarly impressive example of how political freedom may be debased comes from Germany. In the reichstag the London settlement almost failed of rati fication because the activity of two minority blocs is able to prevent a two-thirds majority. The com munists, frankly opposed to any existing form of government, kept the body in an uproar contiually through its sittings. At no time does it appear they undertook to add anything constructive to the de bate. They simply obstructed. For a different rea son the junker group voted with the communists. A stranger coalition is seldom witnessed than that of the extreme militarists voting with the extreme apostles of anarchy. There may be an affinity be tween them. Bismarck, many years ago, defeated the Marx ian socialists by the simple expedient of enacting most of the program into law and making state so cialism an imperial policy. Democracy suffered as much from this as it did under Lenin in Russia, who all but destroyed it. The echo of these incidents in the reichstag is heard in the vote that defeated rati fication of the London agreement. Fortunately for Germany, the government was able to muster the needed vote. The agreement is ratified, and the na tion is set on the road to peaceful recovery. The lesson, how'ever, is too impressive to be passed over lightly. In the spectacle may be noted what might hap pen in the United States, were the John W. Davis plan adopted, and treaties submitted to both houses of congress for ratification. A resolute minority group could defeat a treaty as easily as certain ad ministration measures were defeated at the late ses sion. Free speech is a possession beyond price, but can be made a terrible menace by men who put their personal ambition above patriotic duty, and pit their individual judgment against that of the overwhelm ing majority. WAITING FOR DAVIS TO COME. On* of th* real pleasures of the presidential campaign in Omaha will be the visit of John W. Davis, democratic candidate. Mr. Davis is scheduled to speak her* on September 6. He will find a courteous welcome, as enthusiastic as the democrats can make it. He should not be carried away by this. There will be many republicans in the crowd. They are anxious to see what manner of man it was the choice alighted on after 102 futile ballots had been taken. It will be a voyage of discovery for the nominee. His life has been bound in the “shallows and mis eries” of the effete east. To him the great open spaces that lie this side of the mountain range of his birthplace exist only as a panorama viewed from the car window as he traveled to the convention at the Golden Gate. He is going to be delighted by what he finds out here. We regret for once that Omaha is so close to the Missouri river. We might wish it were next to the Wyoming line, in order that Mr. Davis might see the wonderful country that stretches between here and there. We would like to have him see the gorgeous vistas of browning stubble that mark the wheat fields from which the bounteous yield has been har vested. He should be permitted to feast his eyes on the waving corn, now maturing under the fervor of midsummer sun. All the glories of the world’s garden spot await him, if he will only take time to look. And looking he might learn that the farmers of this state have learned one lesson. They know that the free trade gospel dispensed so lavishly by John W. Davis is buncombe. Experience has taught them it is much better to sell American produce to Amer icans. To depend on well paid workers of the United States rather than the underpaid masses of Europe. He would learn that the farmers of Nebraska have heard the siren song of the wonder-workers so often they are tired of it. Mr. Davis will be welcome here, and if he is observing he will learn a great deal. La Follette’s name is to go on the Nebraska bal lot, and now Governor Bryan is looking up the law to see if he can appoint the electors chosen at the Grand Island mass meeting in event “Fighting Bob” gets the vote. Votes for Coolidge will save the gov ernor much embarrassment. Probably the saddest news of the season is the announcement from Oklahoma that old Jack Dalton is dead against Dawes. If the truth ever comes out, it will probably show that Dawes is not very strongly in favor of Dalton. A story comes up from Lincoln that Brother Charlie is so busy attending to other matters that he has no time to prepare his Labor day speech. Cer tainly something must be done about this. A1 Smith has finally refused to run for governor of New York, which simplifies the problem for Tam many. All the sachems have to do now is to find a democrat who can carry the state. Nothing seems to worry the democrats more than that neitWrCo'olldae nor Dawes speaks foolishly. Some of them resort to the doubtful expedient of faking an interview. The interesting feature of that explosion of hootch at the Detroit police station is that the stuff was intended to be drunk by human beings. Aside from the possible extent of the democratic majority, what would a republican candidate for governor of Texas have to guess at? Nebraska is shipping alfalfa seed to Australia. That is a fair exchange for the ballot we got from there. If Dawes gets the vote of every man or woman whoever says "damn” or “hell,” the rest will be easy. If Dr. David Friday sees improvement In the farm situation, it must be so. f Homespun Verse —By Omaha’* Own Po*»— Robert Worthington Davie _ * OUR LITTLE GIRLS AND BOYS. I often alt and wonder—thinking of th* old world'* Joys.— What we'd do without the presence of our little *lrle and hoy*; And at night, time when my children romp and alng the while away, I am fain to watch and listen,—more than word* will let me eay. I have seen them romp and ravel, gay or aolemn. hut content Aa their day* enwrapt by vlalons and with energ' were epent; I have plrtured them a* grownup* In the daya that ara to he, And each little deed they master toward th# futura lendeth m». From lh». dawn until the gloaming I have kept their farewells deep. And a dreaming of their virtue# 1 have often gone to sleep; And I sometimes all and wonder thinking of the old world's Joys, - What wad do without the presence of our little girls and boyi ( m \ Since Everybody Wants Peace for Pity’s Sake Let’s Have a Little _ I »AM«« P£/^CE7 LICK ANYONE vJ^O TRIES START ^WAR / « _ —amj> as roe vou/you aicr ked necked militarist I J —WHY You POOR. LILLY-UVERED PACIFIST* / i ~ —' '—.. ■II '—- “ — ■ ' Letters From Our Readers All letter* mimt he *l*ned. hot name w ill be withheld npon renoeet. Communl- 1 ratlop* of 200 word* and le** will be tlren preference. L _ — « ' - ■ ■ " ■ Ha wee' Candor Win* Vote#. Columbu*. Neb—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Whatever other slda Issue* the republican candidates for the office of president and vice president may be required to meet, Mr. Dawes In his speech at Augusta. Me , met the klan Issue challenge by Mr, Davis, the democratic presidential candidate, In a way out of the ordi nary In which the like ha,ve hereto fore by aspirants to public office been handled. In accepting the challenge, after giving common sense reasons for the Ku Klux Klan and kindred organtz-a tions’ presence among us that any body can understand; reasons, too, which pierce the mysteries which sur round them and take* away the ter ror and misgivings with which ordi nary people usually regard such or ganizations, while at the same time Mr. Dawes’ explanation of their ac tivitles lodge# the blame exactly where It belongs. In passing, he re mind# his hearer# of "Joaiah Quin eye" conclusions on the subject, So clety Is never more certainly in the path of destruction than when It trusts Itself to the guidance of secret society.” Did any candidate for high office since Lincoln express himself In such candor and unmistakable sincerity” To cap the climax: Hy showing his matchless grip on real conditions this truly great American waives the Im pression that hy his candor he 1* try ing to hypnotize his fellow country men for the sake of voting him Into office when he put# th* entire matter up to them, saying: ”1 have told you why I am opposed to the klan. Take what I say Into your hearts and con science and think over It calmly. However It may be with your mind, there Is no acrimony In conscience.” I)o you And In the record# of the sages of all time greater wisdom and practical advice than Is contained In the 27 words from the soul of Mr. Dawes? In place of appealing to prejudice and malice, arraying American# against each other, the republican vice presidential candidate In guile less word* Invites hi* fellow citizens to reason, thereby cementing Amerl can kinship. A rarity in political campaigning. It shows Mr Dawes I* a rational conservative thlnkerand worthy mate of President Coolldge. Th# word* and work* of the repub lican candidate* for the highest of Ac# In th# land ere representstlve of th# fundamental though whldh called the 1'nlted State* Into being. In my humble opinion, their* I* the proper course and method hy which to main tain peace at home and abroad. And to continue the Integrity of the union and her national and International prestige unimpaired. Itnqueetlonshly Calvin Coolldge and Charles O. Dawes are worthy of the conAdence of every American votet Q. FOI.KEN. Mike Harrington's Forecast. O'Neill, Neb —To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: In your Issue of Mon day you have an article relating to political conditions In Nebraska and you state thnt It 1* the opinion of one Charles M. Wheeler, connected with the International News Service, who spent four day* in omnha Interview ing democratic and republican editor* from out In the elate end Interviewing other people, that La Kollette will |o*e the elate to Coolldge. To n person familiar with Nebraska condi tion* this la little leas than amusing. It puts me In mind of the statement given out two year* ago hy Josephus Daniels who, after spending a few day* In Nebraska, gave Ihe press en Interview stating that Seflntor Hitch cork would he elected hy 20,oan ma jority. Now. It Ju*t happen* that Senator Hitchcock was defeated hy 72.00(1 majority, SO Josephus missed hi* guess on Nebraska hy Pl'.OOo At that he, perhaps, made as good a guess a# Wheeler. There seems to lie s desire on the part of lioth republicans and demo i tats to minimize Ihe La Kollette vote In Nebraska. Hot It seems to me that the newapn|»ct'a of the state can afford to tie fair. You republicans, a* well s* the democrat a, have your K a multitude of us In the state sup porting ba Follette who will not vote for any candidate on either state ticket, there are tens of thousands of ba Follette supporters who. no doubt, will vote for candidates for state office. This Is a large crowd and can surely throw the state either wav on the state ticket. 1'nder these conditions we ought to be entitled to pretty fair treatment. The leaders of the I-a Follette movement In Ne braska are not going to Interfere In the election of either a democratic or republican etate ticket Insofar as I can discover, if the republican or democratic newspapers can show that any particular candidate on either of the old party tickets can do some thing to build up Nebraska, then let them go to It, for here ts this big In dependent vote that can throw the election either way on any candidate on the state ticket. bet me give you briefly what Is going on In the “open spaces’ In Ne braska. not the report that Mr. Wheeler may have got from the cor poration element In Omaha Or from the democratic and republican editors present. Of course, every republican editor would tell him that Coolidge would carry the stale and every democratic editor would tell him that Davis would carry the state. But let us take a few "samples” of conditions. About three weeks ago a picnic was held by people residing In east ern Holt county and western Knox Abut 85 people were at the gathering I Jake Bentley ha* traded his sev en-passenger car fer a one-*eated roadster, so *ome o* th’ fainiily ’ll he left t' run th’ farm. If you w-Hnt t’ make your wife mad, don't notice that her hair's bobbed. Copyright, 1114. N ET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for July, 1924, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily ..74,010 Sunday.74,792 Poe* not Include return*. left, over*, samples er papei s spoiled in printing and includes no special sales or free circulation of any kind. I V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. M«r. Subsetibad and sworn to bsfore mo this llth day of August, 1924. W II QUIVKY. __ _ Notary Public | on a Sunday, of which number 60 were voters. At the conclusion f the dinner a vote was taken on presi dent and every voter present, both men and women, voted for La Fol lette. John Miskimmons. a lifelong re publican, but supporting La Follette, has been buying cattle all over this county. He has not tried to stir up party talk, but has heard plenty of it. He reports that every person he has talked to among the farmers of Holt county on the political situation ia for La Follette. William Froelict). a college student who has been selling books in south ern Holt county, has heard expres slons from a very large number of people in that territory. He tells me that every person who has expressed an opinion is going to vote for I>a Fol lette. A poll was taken of 61 people in Havelock. Kaoh person wrote his or her name and the name of the candi date he or she intended to vote for for president. Here was the result: t'oolldge, 1; Davis. 1: I-a Follette, 59 I have a letter from a hanker friend of mine who runs a hank in Harri son, the county seat of Sioux county. He is a lifelong democrat, as his father before him was, but he Is sup porting La Follette. and here is what he writes me: “We have been argu ing politics ever since the democratic convention, and all the democrats we could find is one. and h» lives in Omaha, sent here by one of the Oma ha banks to close up some undealr able business We have run across two republicans so far. If there are any more they are afraid to acknowb edge It." , Now some newspaper correspondents living from 500 to 1.500 miles away, may come in here for four days ami express the opinion that Cooliilge or Davis may carry Nebraska. But eieo | tion night It will be discovered that La Follette has struck Nebraska like an old time prairie fire. M. F. HARRINGTON. __ Family Menagerie. "Funny, ain't it, pa," said Johnny, "that everybody In our town la some klnd^of an animal?" "What do you mean?" "Why, mother's a dear and hah.v's a little lamb and I'm a kid. and—I can't think what you are, pa " "I'm the goat, my son."—Boston Transcript. " ’ _A_ When in Omaha Hotel Conant 230 Rooms—250 Baths— Rate.* 92 to 93 -my Rheumatism is gone - ” "HPHERE are thousand* of you 1 men and women, just like I •nee wae—slaves to rheumatism, muscle pains, joint pains, and hor* _ribli stiff. ness. 1 had t h • wrong idea about rheumatism for Tears. I didn't realise that Increaa* i n g blood* cells had the effect of kompletely knocking out rhea* matic impurities from the system. That is why I began using 8. 8. 8. t Today I hare the strength I used to have years ago I I don’t use my crutches any more.” S. S. S. makes people talk about themselves the way it builds up their strength. Start S. S. S. today for that rheumatism. You’ll feel the difference shortly. _ i t 1 Is mid at atl *w*4 jl druff •tot** In •»•»•• Tkt lirgif tin ia non itoaomual C C Worlds Bert |gkO.J.JL WoodMrdfdnc SUNNY SIDE UP cJaJae Comfort nor faro*/, . After riding on the front end of an inspection engine tor three days « do not wonder at the number of " talkie*. The wonder is that there are not more. It is aurpria ing how many people will look up and seea train ««“■*“™ then try to beat it to the crossing. And often the «PK‘n*er does not know what the auto driver is going to do. stop, start up or try to make the crossing. Before we »cc«P j a job running an engine we ehaU Pass a Law making * j penitentiary offense for an auto driver to cross a railroad track without first stopping dead still and looking both wa>s. The indications are that Nebraska's vote this year will be the largest in the state's history. If It Is 20 per cent greater than It was two years ago La Follette hasn t a Chinamans H chance In Nebraska. The other day we heard a railroad employe cursing the management that employed him. The general manager was a ■•lave driver the superintendent was a crook, the directors were robbers, and every official a thief. This employe is working less than 48 hours a week and making from *160 to *200 a month. Such a man deserves to be fired bodily and forcefully. j hut, unfortunately, he cannot be because of the rule*. •' s man who can not give,loyalty as well as efficiency to his emy ployers ought to have the decency; and manhood to quit and hunt another job. And it ought to'be possible for an employer to Are such an employe without warning. During the past few days we have interviewed no less than 200 farmers, and to date hardly a word of complaint. It is joyful to hear on every hand the statement that the wheat T " turned out better than expected, and not a single whine be cause the recent hot weather has hurt the corn. And of some 40 or 50 bankers so far interviewed everjr one reports increased 4 deposits, satisfactory liquidation and a better feeling all around. $ - • 4 | Traveling across the state and talking to bankers among others, we found one pessimist. He conducts a bank at Palisade. His plaint was that hi* bank had a lot of money and could not j loan it. We offered to help him out, but he immediately began talking about the weather. _. » Worried Father: Better get a new bootlegger and keep his name and address a secret from your son. A new lock on the sideboard drawer might help some. Just supposin', Mr. Merchant, that some farmer came Into your store, grabbed up a dozen pairs of sox, or a half-dozen neckties, and walked out without paying therefor. Wouldn't you holler for the police and Make a Great Outcry? Well, is picking up neckties or sox any worse than your ■topping your auto by the roadside, hopping the fence and swiping a dozen or so roasting ears from some farmer's field? Supposin’ you think that over for a little while. A number of acquaintances have sent us souvenir post cards from the northern lakes, depicting delightful scenes, with size able fish predominating. Those inscribed, “Having a good -* time; wish you were here,” afford us opportunity to scratch • the authors from our visiting list. WILL M. MAL'PIN. Something Different— Visit the Wonderful •> Black Hills •K South Dakota This mystic region, favored by Nature with unequalled con dition* for fishing, hunting, horseback riding over mountain trails, motoring, bathing in the medicinal waters at Hot Spring* With an abundance of pure air and unusually picturesque scenery, it ia an ideal place for rest and recreation. Splendid hotel accommodation* Low Summer Fares For tickets, train schedules, literature and lull particulars, apply to — G W. HiU, General Agent 1413 Farnam Sc., Omaha, Neb. Tel. Atlantic 7836 Chicago & Northwestern By. i — '4 t \ Telephone Your JKonf Ads (i to The Omaha Bee $
