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— jTHE Omaha Bee M O R N 1 N G—E V E N I N C—S U N D A Y TIIE BEF. PUBLISHING CO. I'ubU.iT.r _ N. V. UPDIKK. Pruid.nt 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 usa for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of our special dispatches arc reserved. The Omaha Bee !s a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognized authority on circulation audita, and The Omaha Bee’s 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 Privata Branch Exchange. Ask for iTE_i* 1 AAA the Department or Person Wanted. ^ * lallllC Ivv/U OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Chicago—Steger Bldg. Boston—Globe Bldg. . Seattle—A. L. Nietz, 614 Leary Bldg. Los Angeles—Fred L. Hall, San Fernando Bldg. San Francisco—Fred L. Hall, Sharon Bldg. New York City—270 Madison Ave. " MAIL SUBSCRIPTION~P.ATES DAILY AND SUNDAY JL year $6.00, 6 months #3.00, 3- moiuna $1.75, 1 month 76c DAILY ONLY 1 year $4.60, 6 months $2.?&» 3 months $1.50, 1 month 75c SUNDAY ONLY - i year $3.00. 6 months $1.75, 3 months $1.00, 1 month 6Cc Subscriptions outside the Fourth postal zone, or 600 ~ *i miles from Omaha: Daily and Sunday. $1.00 per month; * * daily only, 75c 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 month 20c, 1 week $c ^ 3malidVhefc (ho'UisI is at its Best WHEELER’S CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST U When Senator Burton K. Wheeler was giving shelter to Gaston B. Means from the officers of the federal court, he knew the man he was dealing with. , 't is impossible that a lawyer like Wheeler could not letect the character of a man like Means. Yet day ; ifter day Wheeler shielded Means from arrest, even tfter his bail had been declared forfeit. Means was : providing W’heeler with ammunition for the mud , gun he was directing, not against Harry M. Daugh •rty, then attorney general of the United States, but against Warren G. Harding, who appointed Daugh erty, and against Calvin Coolidge. Columns of sensational testimony, of no value save as it impressed the unthinking multitude, came I rom the committee under Wheeler’s skillful direc :ion. Alternating Means with Roxie Stinson, the senatorial mud gunner kept a steady stream of in nuendo,-surmise, suggestion and insinuation, all scan dalous and indefensible, pouring from his battery. He varied this by introducing one Remus, a Cincin lati bootlegger who had been sent to federal prison. Vndrew Mellon was involved in this. No member if the Harding official family was to escape. Demo cratic senators boasted they would drag the scandal lirough the White House. » * * * Many days ago Remus, from the federal prison it Atlanta, issued a statement, completely repudiat ng his testimony before the Wheeler committee. ' Now Gaston B. .^eans makes a similar statement for himself and Roxie Stinson. Means charges that Wheeler knew the testimony was false. That he had arranged the stories Means and Stinson were to testify to. That the whole proceeding was a put up job, and that Wheeler bribed his witnesses by hreats and promises. We have no more faith in Gaston B. Means now han we had when he was reciting his fantastic tale -t the behest of Burton K. Wheeler. He was a liar lien, he is probably a liar now. His statement only arves to show what a misty foundation the monu ment of fraud built up by the senatorial lynching -ommittee rests upon. Wheeler rejoiced in Means, Stinson and Remus, when they were attacking Daugherty. What will he say of them, now they have turned on him? He will probably answer they have been purchased by Wall Street. Will that offset their assertion that ‘hey were first bought by Wheeler? * * • The whole sickening mess is made the more lauseating by its present addition. That dignified senators of the United States could hold the reputa tions of others, living and dead, so cheaply as to idmit the testimony of such persons as Means and Roxie Stinsoti was regrettable. That such testimony .hould be deliberately concocted is almost beyond belief. But Burton K. Wheeler's chickens are com ng home to roost. Even if he is a victim of slan ler, he will at least know how those he attacked felt under his assault. HEADS ABOVE WATER ONCE MORE. Are business conditions improving in the north west? Has the crest of the great wave of depres sion passed? Read these few words from the Min • leapolis Tribune of Friday, September 19: "Excellent crops anrl good prices being received by farmers will result In the reopening of approxi mately 40 northwest banks, now closed, by January 1, banking authorities announced Friday." Forty banks will again serve the public. None of them amounts to as much as a city bank in Its ' trray of figures, but to the community where it is • ocated it is as vital in its way as the bigurst bank ; hat ever opened its doors. When these forty hanks •uspended operation it meant that at least forty mall towns suffered. Money handled over the coun ters in these banks was cut off from trade. Notes, •epresenting the loans to customers, were put aside. ")pen accounts suddenly became closed. The man who had money on deposit found himself with no balance to check against. All that has passed. Good crops have had the expected effect, and the Agricultural Credit Cor poration is announcing the reopening of closed down banks one after another. It is not due to any political party that the farmer has secured such splendid yields. It is due to Calvin Coolidge, how ever, that the Agricultural Credit corporation ex ists to facilitate the rehabilitation of industry. It was Coolidge who called together a group of finan ciers, after congress had refused to furnish the re lief needed. He arranged for tho organization that is now functioning so well. It was La Follette’a crowd in the senate and house that aided the demo -rats to defeat every measure of relief proposed for the farmers. Now that the farmers are getting their heads above water again, it is quite likely they will remem ber who it was threw them an nnchor when what. they needed was a life preserver. W. .T. Prynn announces he Is going to take the . it.nmp for Davis. Goodne: gracious, don't that man ' a-ant ever to give any other democratic candidate 4 chance to win? Brother Fharley Is having spasms over the state’s a^ter power. What he really means is wind power.. THE BURDEN OF PROOF. The proposal of the school board to ask for $4 ,000,000 is bringing responses from those who pay the taxes—from those who are parents, and who pay taxes. The Omaha Bee, in commenting recently on the recommendation of the Chamber of Com merce and others that ample fund' for present needs could be secured in an authorized bond issue of $2.* 600,000, said that the burden of proof, for the larger sum was upon the school board. Letters from parents would indicate that the school board owes a duty to take steps promptly to prove its case. There is a strong feeling that the school board has been needlessly extravagant. There is a feeding, too, that funds voted in past years for specific purposes should have been used for those purposes. The final cost of the Technical High school, which is so much more than estimated, has resulted in the belief in many quarters that the esti mates of the school board should have just such a survey as that made by the Chamber of Commerce committee. Here is a case in point, an expression from one who pays taxes. The complaint comes from a father whose daughter has been a student at Technical High, where she enjoyed the elaborate baths pro vided at public expense. “Mother and I had to save for six years,” says this father, “before we could scrape together enough money to build a modest bathroom in our own house.” There will never be any movement in Omaha to deny to the school board the things that are actually required. It is admitted, too, that the requirements of modern schools are much above what they have been in the past. The record of the school board, however, in recent expenditures puts its present $4,000,000 proposal on the defensive. Comments such as the above make it necessary for the school board to give serious consideration to the proposals of the Chamber of Commerce and the Real Estate board- Omaha taxpayers do not desire to vote against school bonds. They may be compelled to do so unless there is abundant proof of their need. BON VOYAGE TO BISHOP LOWE. When Titus Lowe, bishop of the Methodist Epis copal church, takes off for his area in Singapore, he will be followed by the warm wishes and earnest prayers of many Omaha people who are not mem bers of his denomination. It goes without saying he will have the prayers of all the Methodists. It was Bishop Lowe’s good fortune to build for himself many close friendships outside of his church circle while he was here as a pastor, and these have not been terminated by his elevation. Bishop Lowe is not a stranger in the country to which he is going. He served there for years as a missionary w'orker, and experience then gained will be doubly valuable to him now. It is interesting that the late Bishop Homer Clyde Stuntz was the leader of Methodist work in India when Titus Lowe was a missionary preacher there. This fact made their association in Omaha the warmer and more in timate. Those who came close to them enjoyed a rare privilege when this pair felt like discussing matters relating to the region. It was a rather graceful compliment to Bishop Lowe that he was permitted to preside over the meeting of the Methodist conference of which he was so long a distinguished member. Ministers and elders appreciated the fact, and it is admitted that the conference felt something of the spirit that was thus evoked. Be that as it may, The Omaha Bee, in company with a host of other friends of the bishop who are not Methodists, wishes him bon voyage on his departure. We hope he will some day come back to make his home here, where he did . n. h ; d work as a pastor. DEATH AS A KIND FRIEND. "All people that want to die are not inraru This is a wonderful old world, and I hate to glv* it up. I coujd live on forever, and enjoy it, If I had good health." Thus wrote R. R. Lee a few minutes before ht shot himself to death. A busy world will pay but little heed to his passing, yet it might be well to ponder his problem. Life was pleasant, he knew, when it might be so taken. Afflicted and oppressed, the savor of existence lost in pain and suffering, death seemed preferable. Anciently, euthanasia was a common practice. Friends of a hopelessly afflicted mortal administered a sure, speedy, painless death that victim might be spared suffering and saved from suicide. It was be cause, as Hamlet expresses it, that “the Almighty hath set His conon against self-slaughter,” or at least so we are taught, that euthanasia fell into dis use. “Hope springs eternal in the human breast,” and the eye of man is ever fixed on a happy recov ery, even when there is the least chance. Some, however, with clearer vision, perhaps, de termine forever the solution, and find surcease in what the Japanese term quaintly enough, “the happy dispatch.” R. R. Lee must have seen this. “I have but one choice,” he wrote, and then he left this message that deserves thought: "And In going I have but one regret to make, snd that is that I haven’t been able to do more good In this old world than I have. "There Is a great opportunity In life for all to be happy by seeing how murh we ran do for other* and a little les* for ourselves. And I hope some day that everybody will live up to this Golden Rule." La Follcttc gave great praise to Baron von Steu ben, and it is well deserved. But because that good old German soldier did splendid service to the Amer ican cause in the Revolution, is no reason why La hollette should he elected president now. Looks like the Wheeler investigating committee will have to call for a new deal all around. Homespun Verse -—By Omaha’* Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie J DKlJoHTI S BE LANE Pellghtue Pe Ban* Never worked In the rain. Nor bought when 'twaa hnndy to borrow. Congenial and gay tie traveled hi* wav. And flouted "Beware of Tomorrow." 'Twa* aenaele**, he *ald, To keep looking ahead — To bother with alnlater,worry. And needle** to give The few year* we live For going through life in a hurry. <>o glow, he advised, Nor grieved, nor surprised, Nor unto vast promise tie ettnglng; I.lv# life a* 'twa* made. And alt In the ahnde. And atnlle—and forever go Ringing liellghlit* DeBane U a«lee|i hla refrain Huggeata the egtent of hi* glory— A atone, where he llaa tiooklng Into the aklrV Uata unto the wind tell hi* *lory % I *.. ' ■— —-—"■■■■■ . ■ w The Stuff Campaign Speeches Are Made of > ■ -t- 1 ”.. VI* HAVF RFtN /Av ■ . *i o«« L°orfDAS■;_, 0ue ; and the ' * HECK j GOVERNMENT anDIS GONE'r°’THr GK^INDIMG tj a \°r ^ ‘ ^'ii maybe it /1 ysJVyx O'XA ^ouLCBF- ; 1 1M/a^-VX-rZ-rZ-^'' o setter to I '- 'b VJA1T UMTlL £'^\V r after the, ' *& / '-awe to I ->V -V' o ‘X X: ■ TE LL THEM11 TxAAlFV- nA^i i }xAT) '-*?” / y/xQv1^''' ^AvV#B4|4E*\ —f\ i'/w>W *—o -> ^ ^ --V Letters From Our Readers \ All letter* mu*t he signed, but name will he withheld npon request. Communi cations of 200 words uml lews will be given preference. I ^ _._ . - --- - ■ ■ —^ i ‘•Battling Bob" and “Incle Ike." 1 Omaha—To the Kdltor of The Oma ha .Bee: When the writer was a very young boy he lived In a little back woods town In Wisconsin where big wealthy business men were just ordi nary lumberjacks and we knew no class differences. About the biggest man in my opinion at that time was an old lumberman named Isaac Steph ens >n. We had made Ills pile in luin her, honest or otherwise I do not know, but I do know that he was the Idol of that part of the country, fnclc Ike, as he was called by every one, had ono ambition in life and that was to serve his people in the United States senate, but being nothing but an honest. Ignorant old codger and no politician, he didn't stand much • liance. Among his friends he had a very shrewd young lawyer named l..t Follette, who also had political ambitions but no money and no fol lowing, and because of his reputation for craft and scheming was generally uisliked, but politics are funny. Be tween Uncle Ike's money and I>a Fol lette's brains they cooked up a scheme to buy all the newspapers in Wisconsin outright and make Bob senator, l,a Follette tn turn was to use his influence after he became senator to get Uncle Ike the aame kind of job. All went fine. Uncle Ike spent something like a million and a half and put Bob across, but after La Follette got where ho wanted to get then Uncle Ike didn't fit Into the picture, so he was polltelv left out in the woods where he felt more at home. This made Uncle Ike so mad that he just naturally busted loose and spent another $1160.000 and gut himself elec ted in spite of La Follette. And then the fun began. l.a Follette didn't want Stephenson busting up his well laid schemes and Stephenson was Just ns determined to throw n monkey wrench Into them. Well, anyhow Bob was the foxiest of ilie two, so he hail Uncle Ike thrown nut of the senate fer spending more money than the law- allowed to get himself elected. Get that? That's the r_M|y that's runnlnt for president today. Kook up the records and proto mo wrong If you can. TOOTS. One for Mr. Stnljcy. Wnii«.i. N"el> To the Kflltor of The Omaha Bee: It la amusing to read Mr. K. G. Stnllev's letter In The Bee Indicting the Nebraska conference for progressive political action. Referlng to the republican and the democratic parties Mr. Stolley bluntly cnlls them the "rotten" parties. Now, a political party In made up of IndHIdual per sons and nothing else. Therefore the character of the party Is simply the sum total of tho character of the in dividual* constituting the party. [ ■ Martin Another peculiar thing about a nrnsimist in that he suspect* ever' buddy but hi* liver. Somehow, we'd hate t’ be a waiter an’ know when a cuitomer order* chicken pie he won't git no chicken. (t ip> I iftht, 1914 ) Hence, according to Mr. Stolley. the thirty odd million voters of the re publican and tho democratic pai tics, or a majority of them are "rotten," or corrupt, which means the same thing. But the majority rules in this country, so the few honest and re spectable fellows, who are neither re publicans nor democrats, will have to grin and bear it. But I do feel sorry for Mr. Stolley, closely surrounded as he is on ail sides by a mass of corrupt people. For when the ballots are counted in November it will be found that the great bulk of the citi zens of the fair city of Grand Island is made up of republicans and demo crats. The assertion Is also made that "all labor organizations as well as Farm ers' unions in this state are suppoVt Ing the candidacy of Ijh. Follette and Wheeler." Is that so? So far I have met only one labor union man and no Farmers' union man who has declar ed himself for I.a FVollette. Possibly the heads of those organizations are trying the whip cracking game Mr. •Stolley refers to. Mr. Stolley waxes eloquent toward the close and calls upon all progres sives to stand shoulder to shoulder to "save this nation of ours from ruin and destruction." Save It from whom—the republican and demo cratic parties? Is It not reasonable to believe that the country will be safer under them, that stand firmly for keeping our three departments of government Intact, each one a check upon the others, the way the writers of the constitution established them, than under one who Insists on tying the hands of one department Hnd placing the fate of liberty and Justice wholly at the mercy of a whimsical congress and ditto legislatures, as l«t Follette would have It’ That was the way Itussla was "saved" by Benlne and Trotzky. self-appointed dictators, as Mr. I.a Follette 1« a self, appointed dictator of the Ba Follette party. I presume Mr. Stolley is a signer of the Sorenson petition for the amendment to the Nebraska constitu tion lo take the party circle and the party names off the ballots, whereby both the republican and the demo Give ue ■ men who cen smile when he is down end out “Welcome Stranger” From Asron Hoffman’s Stage Success—Now s Picturo Have a complexion that everyone admires matter how beau tiful your fea ture* are, you cannot be truly attrac tive with a .rough: I b I o t c hy ; gray > looking akin. i Reainol Ointment; aided by Reainol Soap, i* what you need to overcome auch trouble#. The gentle, but un usually cleanaing propertiea of the aoap, together with the soothing, healing qualities of the ointment, make the Reai nol product* ideal for any akin. All druggist* aell Reainol Soep and Ointment. Uae them reg ularly (or a few dava and watch your completion improve. Resinol -1 cratic parties would be killed In this state. OLD TIMED. Crawled Out Siiccessfilflyi Daughter had just returned from finishing school. “That air—her father began as they sat down In the dining room. “Father, dear," the girl interrupted, 'you should say 'that something.' or, preferably, just 'that.' It's vulgar to say 'that air.’’' "Well, this ear—," the father be gan again. ''No,' said the daughter. 'You must avoid such expressions as this 'ere.' " 'Look here, my girl," said the father, “I'm going to say exactly what I mean. That air is bad for this ear of mine and I'm going to shut the window.”—Montreal Oazette. NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for July, 1924, of THE OMAHA BEE • p j Daily.,...74,010 Sunday.74,792 Does not include returns, left, j j iv*ri, samples or papers spoiled in printinf and includes no special sales or free circulation of any kind. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. Subscribed and sworn to before^ ma this 5th day of August, 1924. W. H Ql'l V£Y. (Seal) Notary cTdday we rode in the new PIE RC E ARROW »-» Series 80 <-« Once vou have ridden in the new Pierce-Arrow Strits SO you, too, will want to tell your friends of your experience. You will he amared that such a remarkably fine car is priced so moderately. This new Pierce Arrow is now on display in our showrooms. 7-PASSENGER i-T OOC TOURING 5-Pa»»engrr Sedan, Rufjh ffaawTHf *rr*nttmrntt•** b »*' HfftiFttawtt kemtimf r« \ t, -.- ....- ■*« HILL-GERSPACHER MOTOR CO. Leavenworth St. at 21*t, Omaha, Neb. JA cloon 42SO V ------* The more we travel about Nebraska the more we mourn that our towns and cities, our counties and our streams, wer» not given sonorous and historic Indian names. There is a lilt and an appeal to such names as Niobrara and Keya Paha that doe* not attach to the name* of mere politicians. Minne ehaduza would be a mere creek Instead of a picturesque little stream if It were nanted something modern. \\> even prefer Stinking Water to Republican as a name for a river. 8oot»s Bluff is not a good name for a mountain, but whatever the old Indians call it would be characteristic and really de scriptive. Thurston may'be a good name for a county, but one it tiie old Indian names would have been more appropriate. Nebraska ml-sed a whole lot witen it failed to perpetuate early traditions by clinging to the Indian names, as New Mexico and California did by holding fast to the old Spanish names. And, speaking of cognomens, being somewhat old fashioned, we prefer the old feminine names like Mary and Sarah, and Susan, and Margaret, to Ymogyne and Vyvyan, and Ysobel, and Maymye of these modern days. Our own name, which it not william, arid never was, is of no moment. The old parson who inscribed it on the record page of the family Bible was weak in orthography insofar as proper names was concerned, and he spelled It In so fearful and won derful a manner that when we arrived at the age of under standing we amputated the last syllable of it. Given names of men do not always fit. Percy Brownell Sales was the fightingest young scamp in our old school crowd, while Morgan Mosby Welty was the quietest. The last we heard of Percy he was a switchman in the Kansas City yards and Mose was for many years a successful minister of the gospel. A fashion expert Informs us tl. t the wise woman will dress to suit her eyes. Not on your life she won't. She will keep right on dressing to suit the eyes of sombody else, and eontinu" to score a pronounced success, just as she has from the day Eve coyly donned a fig leaf and paraded for Adam s benefit. Say, but It makes a fellow feel old when he is accosted by a matronly looking woman with the remark, "I'm sure you do not remember me," and recognize her as one you danced on your knee when she was a wee little mite of a girl. That's 1 just w hat happened to us the other day. We'll name no names \ but admit that after the short meeting was over we felt the l need of a cane as we walked away. Our old friend. Charley Clancy, was lulled to talk on the constitution in a neighboring community, and half the people who attended brought their family doctor book to check up ind see if Charley knew what he was talking about. The devil chortles with glee every time he sees a man who never t otes ostentatiously doffing his hat when the flag goes by. A lot of men who declare their willingness to die for their countrv are too blamed careless to spend ten minutes voting for It. WILL M. 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