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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. HACKLER. Editor in Chief Business Manager MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Be* is a member, la exclusively entitled to the ua* for republication of all news dispstches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also th* local news published herein. All rights of republieation of our special dispatches are also reserved. The Omaha Bee Is a member of tha Audit Bureau ef Circulations, the recognized authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee * circulation ia regularly audited by their organisations. Entered as second-class matter May 28. 1*08, at Omaha postoffice under act of March 3. 1878. ~ BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for » "p inAA the Department or Person Wanted. ialWC OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Chicago—Steger Bldg. Boston—Globe lildg. Seattle—A. L. Nietz, Bit T eary Bldg. Los Angeles—Fred L. Hall, San Fernando Bldg. . San Francisco—Fred L. Hall. Sharon Bldg. New York City—270 Madison Avs. MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES DAILY AND SUNDAY 1 year $6.00, 6 months >3.00, 3 montns <1.76, 1 month 76c DAILY ONLY 1 year $4.50, 6 month* $2.7ik 3 months $1.60, 1 month 75c SUNDAY ONLY 1 year $3.|p. 6 months $1.75, 3 months $1.00, 1 month 6Ce Subscriptions outside the Fourth postal rone, or 600 miles from Omaha: Daily and Sunday, $1.00 per month; daily only, 76c per month; Sunday only. 6Uo per month. CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Morning and Sunday.1 month 85c, 1 week 20c Evening and Sunday.1 month «5c. 1 week 15c Sunday Only .1 month 20c, 1 week $c Oraahd-Vbejetbe^st is at its Best “BENEFITS FORGOTTEN.” We have heard so many assertions that the present administration has been deaf to every ap peal from agriculture or from labor we wonder if those who make the assertions ever looked up the record. It is true that the congress passed no law to dehorn the supreme court. That it did not enact legislation to revolutionize industry. But it did enact a large number of wholesome laws for the re lief of agriculture and the benefit of labor, all of which were duly acknowledged by the American Federation of Labor. That was before the Cleve land convention declined to incorporate in its plat form the planks prepared by the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor. a » * Maybe it will serve to refresh the memories of some who are complaining if we look up the record of the administration since the 4th of March, 1921. The Sixty-seventh congress met under President Harding, with a fair working majority for the repub licans in both houses. Responsibility for all legisla tion enacted rests upon the administration. That congress passed 17 laws that received the approval of the American Federation of Labor, and which were so reported to the convention of that body held at Cincinnati in June, 1922. It passed more laws for the benefit of agriculture and the livestock interests than had ever been written on the statute books of the nation in any 25 years be fore in the history of the United States. These laws were enacted at the request of the various groups and organizations representing the interests of agriculture and the rank and file of the farmers of the United States. It is a matter of record that not a request from any substantial group representing agriculture was denied by con gress. * * * Some of the specific acts of congress in which farmers were more directly concerned than any ■ ther class of citizens were: Authorizing the War Finance corporation to make loans to agricultural amt livestock Interest*, and providing a blllion dollar revolving fund for the purpose. Revised federal highway act, and appropriated ITij.OOO.OOn for construction of highways. Law regulating trading in grain futures. First act was declared unconstitutional; second act im mediately passed to cure the defects noted by the court. Seed loan art for ajd of farmers in drouth stricken areas of northwest. Series of laws giving leeway on payments due from settlers on irrigate^ or reclamation projects, and from those using government land for grazing purposes. Increased available funds of Federal Farm Loan bank by 125,000,000, and amended law to facilitate marketing of bonds of these banks. Packers and stockyards law, regulating the handling of livestock in interstate commerce. Legalized formation of co-operative marketing associations by agricultural producers. This act permits such associations to enter Interstate com merce. Filled milk law. • Rural or intermediate credits law. Created a dairy bureau in the Department of 1 Agriculture. Emergency tariff law, for the relief of farmers. • • • In the Sixty-eighth congress an earnest effort was made by the administration to secure the pas sage of further legislation for the benefit of the farmer. Such measures as the Burtncss-Norbcck bill and the McNary-Haugen bill were ruthlessly slaughtered by a combination, whose representatives are now clamoring for farmer votes. President Coolidge asked to have the Elwood Mead plan to re lieve settlers under reclamation projects adopted. Senator Key Pittman, democrat from Nevada, said pay at the last minutes, and the nays carried the day. No state in the union would have benefited more directly by this law than Nevada, but its democratic senator was not in the mood to let any auch law go over. We do not believe that farmers are so stupid as to be entirely misled by the assertions that are being made by the wonder workers. The course of the republican administration since 1921 has nbt been an easy one. Yet great things have been done for the good of the country, and the work is still going on. Calvin Coolidge does not set up to be a wizard. He says the country needs a government of com mon sense, and that just about tells the story. Western farmers will understand what he means. OTHELLO KNEW BETTER THAN HICHT. Philosophers and poets alike stand aghast at the tale that comes from a little country community in Illinois. A man and woman felt mutually attracted, and in order that they might indulge their longings, one murdered a wife and the other a husband. All efforts to dissect or accurately define the tender passion of man for woman have fallen short. Poets have used up ream on ream of paper to ex | press in rhapsody the emotion excited when “Love took up the harp of life.’’ Tennyson goes op, say ing the little god , ' Smote on all Its chord* with might— Smote th* Chord of self, which, trembling, Passed In music out of sight." But Pastor Hight and Mrs. Hwrrtin thought of themselves alone, They thought with perversion of tthgt ghouid be a holy impulse. In cold blood they i ' ! killed the persons whose presence seemed a barrier to their unholy desires. The case is bound to at tract attention, not because it is a rarity, but be cause it exhibits a twist of mind thnt interests the student. Jealousy frequently leads to murder, but such an excuse is not at all sufficient in a case like this. The spouse of neither of the guilty pair seemed suf ficient of an obstacle to prevent their liaison. Othello, one of the greatest lovers in literature, killed Desdemona out of jealousy. He knew better than Hight, however. It was not to clear the way to enjoyment of an illicit amour, but to gratify what he thought was an affront placed upon his honor by his wife. We can write of the Moor, in his own words, “as one who, being moved, was sore perplexed." Of the Illinois preacher it is possible only to express amazement that a man of any grade of intelligence should be guilty of so gross and bru tal a crime, and seek to excuse by saying he was in love I NO, JIM, PUT ’EM IN JAIL. No, Jim, we can not follow you. The speeder is a menace. It is no excuse that only a few of them are caught. It may be that the judge is a speeder, that the prosecutor is a speeder, that the policeman who made the arrest is a speeder. It may be we are all speeders. That doesn’t excuse. It is no defense for one speeder, caught, to point to the other speed ers who are not caught. The campaign of education in safety will in fluence some automobile drivers and turn them from speeding to careful driving. It is hoped that it will influence most of them. The speeder, before safety education or after safety education, can only be curbed by a strong policy of dealing with them. If experience discloses that jail is the place to put them, then to jail with them. A convenient rock pile, as an adjunct of the jail would help. It may be, as the mayor says, that in jail the speeders will find hardened criminals as his cell companions. Why not? If the speeder doesn’t want to associate with hardened criminals let him stop speeding. It is very simple. No Jim, throw them in. Throw in the judge, if he is a speeder. Throw in the prosecutor and the policeman who makes the arrest. Thow us all in. What is more, keep us there until we are cured. Out on the farm when the old hen gets the set ting fever, and the farmer doesn’t want her to set— preferring that she lay eggs instead—he takes an old washtub and turns it upside down over her. After a few days the fever is gone. The hen goes back to laying eggs. Turn the tub over the speeders, Mr. Mayor, by putting them in jail, even if it is necessary to put the whole town under the tub. We will get over the speeding fever in that way. But it will take a strong hand. 1 The new safety council in Omaha will teach the “jay-walkers” that such a practice is unsafe. Its work in the schools and homes will teach the lesson of safety to children who too often run out into the streets. Many things it can do. It is one of the best programs Omaha can get under way at this time. In time it will influence those speeders who have brains to realize the danger they are to life and limb, but there are some speeders without brains. These the safety council will never reach. Jail for them, Mr. Mayor, jail. Then again, jail. DAVIS IN THE MIDDLE. Henry Allen, who runs the Beacon at Wichita, Kan., has traveled over the world enough and had experience enough in big things to bp able to get a perspective of American politics. His comment on the position of the three candidates in the presiden tial contest is for that reason entitled to more than the casual attention given to such statements during a political campaign. It is Allen's opinion that the strength of Cool idge as the conservatively progressive candidate, and La Follette are sucking strength from Davis from both sides. Davis has not been strong enough to overshadow Coolidge as the candidate of those who believe in making progress by starting from the foundation of that which has been tested and found to be true. He has been too conservative for those who have been itching for change of some sort. The ideal situation in American politics is the middle ground. The truth is Davis has not suf ficiently impressed himself as the leader of the mid dle ground forces to attract attention. He is a novice in politics. His career has been a steady, easy climb, backed by a fine intellect. He has not had to wrestle with the hard facts of life. His corners have not been kn.ocked off. He is learning, however, and should he be nominated again in 1928 he will make a much better candidate, a stronger candidate. The childlike Innocence with which he has taken the advice of local politicians, none of them his equal in intelligence or understanding, reveals the true condition of his campaign. His own strength has been sapped by these advisers. He hns at no time been really himself. For these reasons Henry Allen believes that Davis will not and ran not make much headway. An interesting feature of Allen’s comment Is what he describes as the position of the socialist party—laughing up their sleeves at the hoax they have put over on the American people. They arc following the same tactics in politics that they fol lowed so many years against Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor. They are “bor ing from within.” Gompers kept them out of the A. F. of L. Now he is working with them. We seo once again the truth of the old adage, “politics makes strange bedfellows." Gompers and Berger together carrying the banner of La Follette. Homespun Verse —By Omaha’s Own Poat— Robert Worthington Davie V - ^ WE WISH THAT THEY COL'U) I.IVE AGAIN When we have struggled year by year and through the dark day* pa»»ed. When time for lost end happiness he* come to u* et last— We often think of those who tolled and battled *trlfe In vain, And wish that they could live again snd ahare with ti* our gain: Those who were neer snd desr to u* In childhood gay and free. Whose love and cars have mad# ua til that we have hoped to be; Those who thought not of sscrlfjcs, but often braved the fray That we might meet with fewer knock* on life's un even way. When we stand st glad t'ornfort e door, where Tate our steps has led, And think of those who lived for us snd tried to get ahead — Wo wish they could arise sgsln from that strange mystlr Keep, And share with us the harvest which with seat snd pride w« reap. --— ' The Big Game Hunting Expedition LOOK OUT’ V.'HtRP You'Re SHCOTfN'l ] po YOU WAN T TO KIM. NY '' -Live STOCK_ I rip'ict' I \ Ji _ ABOUT ONLY PLACE HR CAN FIND TO ATTACK WITHOUT DANKER OF HITTING I.OT OF DEMOCRATS -—-> Letters From Our Readers All letter* mint ho »lrned. hot name will ho withhold npnn roqneat. Communi cation* of 20(1 word* and lo*» will bo *lvon preference. _ ■ " 1 ■ "" 1 ^ tried to start one is perfectly well known to every American. The real object of our Defense day demonstrations, as I see it, was to see how our people stand on patriot i-m. The world war opened our eyes to the fact that a great number of our people were not only disloyal but outright enemies of our country and its institutions And we have yet among as those to whom this coun try is not a home but a gambling den. And they are not confined to any one political party either. During the war It was difficult to tell who wer* really loyal anil patriotic at heart, es so many displayed patriotism falsely on account of fear, or for selfish or treacherous purposes. Hut a peace time demonstration. In viting all men and women standing ready to defend their country and its Institutions against Its enemies, to gather around the colors, will show pretty well the patriotic strength of the country. And furthermore, there Is a real blessing in these gatherings arounu the flag in that it warms our hearts with more patriotism and a greater appreciation of our great country and its institutions and Inspires us with n-. ro seal to do our bit to promote ns wollfare,ODD TIMUR Mr. Crocker’s Position. Beatrice, Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: May I explain my position In this campaign with refer ence to the republican nominee for United States senator for Nebraska. The Dally Sun of Beatrice, of Sep tember 23, l!i24, in an editorial said In part, that "on account of their partnership, the organized men will support Norris despite his contempt for parties and organizations In poll tics." I have heretofore said that "to vote for a man. in the general election, and not for a political party was not the intention of those whq made pos siblo our present system of placing men at the head nf our government. Such practice forms a coalition government where the whims of classes in power work detriment to the massee of the people, forming numerous blocs. Our country has been stable from the fact that we have political parties which send representatives to office pledger! to principles of their respec tive platforms. This assures the peo ple that for a certain definite time a particular eet of principles will be carried Into effect. To vote for a man to represent the people, who ia not pledged to, and has no Intention of abiding, for four y ears by the pledges of a platfotm prevents stable condi tions. gives us a coalition govern ment, and works detriment to all American trade as well as avoids the purpose of parties, both republican and democratic." A democratic United States senator pledged to the principles of his plat form will serve better, the people of this commonwealth, then one who serves a coalition of classes, the tradewlnd of which is as liable to blow from Hussia as from monarchy. The price of agricultural products Is governed by the price paid in the competitive world market, for the surplus, above the exportable and home milling product. The only means of securing a lasting high price for a product is to create a acarclty nf that product, but to create a government owned and controlled grain corporation would not only bankrupt this government but la one mote step toward the government ownership of the farm that produces that product. Government ownership and opera tion of first one Industry and then another has been the poliey nf Sena tor George W. Norris, in Washington, contrary to republican or democratic principles, yet through our defective system of naming our party esndl dates, he is again riding to office with the support of the republican organization in ronjurtlon with com munists and socialists. It will not inlure the remainder nf the republican ticket In the state of Nebraska ihould the republican or ganization openly deny communism, socialism and bolshevism as well as refuse to support those not pledge-! to stand by the principles of that platform. As a republican who stands for principles that are good, for the masses of the American people, an I not for the classes w hen those prin ciples are detrimental to the masses, such principles as have heretofore made and maintained a great and prosperous nation. I oppose George W. Norris as a party candidate for T.'nlted States senator In this ram paign. LLOYD CROCK.Ell. Believes In Defense. Wausa. Neb,—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Why all this agitation about the National Defense day? Why so much pretended suspicion about our country wanting to s’art a war? That the I'nited States do not want to start a war. nor ever have Abe Martin Th' loser of a mesh bag contain in' ft recipe fer elderberry wine, seven telephone numbers, s lip stick, an’ n pair o' horse clippers, kin have th' --iime by callin' on Lib Pash *y’ payin' lat havin' th’ clip per sharpenei 1 SUNNY SIDE UP ' Hake Comfort,nor forget. QhatSimrise nes/erfailed j ==' The Sul tit and Sinner*—and we want the compositor to see to it that the Saint Is singular and Sinners plural—the Saint and Sinners' table over at the Athletic dub is only inch when we are invited over, we furnishing the singular part of tit cognomen. It is the Sinners' table when lack of Invitation pre cludes the possibility of our being present. To listen In on the conversation is to discover how much can be mubtrocU* from th- sum of human knowledge in one brief hour. It is ar .und this table that the membership draws upon its imagination for its statistics, and individual opinion for Its h story. To clde with the opinion of another Is an adm sslon of weakness nnd to accept any etatement wthout disputing it is sum lent grounds for expulsion. It is when the conversation is general that the least is being said, and dead silence reigning is proof positive of a re lapse Into temporary sanity, apeclal and political. On dfvej and sundry occasions, the same not being as frequent as w* would wish, we have discovered that it is a waste of time to try to convey information on topics which vV are an authority upon, and to accept the Information so freely tendered by oth ers is to accumulate a varied and vast fund of misinformation. We do not know Just who is responsible for the bunch (hat dally foregathers around the table, but whoever it may be has much to answer for. We suspicion that It is Judge Ben Baker, although Fred Wright. Herman Aye and John Latenser may not be guiltless. But be all this as it may—and it really Is—the fact remains that an hour around that particular table give* a new zest to life, makes the afternoon's labors a joy and affords ample proof that foregathering with a bunch of good fellows is very much worth while. Isn't it funny how a paper cap. a bagful of confetti and a feather tickler will make a middle aged man or woman act like whai their father would have licked them for In their youthful - days? ' V I). M. V— Thanks, sincere thanks. Lettei s such as yours are like unto a drink of cold water to a traveler in the desert; like a gleam of sunshine through a rift In the cloud*. We are frank to declare that we would prefer to have our flowers w hile we can inhale their odor. There would be more reapect for law in this country if ; there were not *o many fool one* on the statute book*. Campaign contribution* would be more liberal if the people had not eerved notice that they were going to watch appointees more closely than ever before. In n few days we expect to be in Milwaukee, which, by the way. bo* at least one less attraction ;han the Milwaukee of other day*. But. being as how we will be attending the Na tional Dairy Show* we will be satisfied to look out across the lake and think of what may be had over on the other *ide. I Milk Isn't auch a bad drink, after all. WILL M. MAUPIN. I . — ^ I -- " - - - If You Are Seeking HEALTH I Investigate Chiropractic 1 No matter what your disease I may be, you can investigate B with safety, as no qualified § practitioner will accept a case I he cannot help. Hours, 9 A. I M. to 8 P. M. 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