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BROOKHART’S PETULANCE BOILS OVER.
One conclusion is irresistible in considering the
fcmarkable outburst from Colonel Smith W. Brook
hart. He is evidently preparing for his transition
from the republican party, which has honored him,
to membership in the heterogenous collection of di
vergent groups that is milling but not massing be
hind La Follette. To indicate the nature of the sup
port that is going to "Battling Bob,” note that in
Washington four different aggregations are contest
ing in court for the privilege of putting the names
of* La Follette ami Wheeler at the head of their
tickets. Victor L. Berger, one of the leading spirit*
ar.d prime movers in the Cleveland conference, has
just formally declared his intention of supporting
the nominee endorsed by that conference.
All this proceeding has a silly aspect. It is the
tomtom beating for calling the tribes together to
join the war dance. Brookhart s part in it is extra
ludicrous. His assault on Charles Gates Dawes goes
no further than the calling of names. Names that
sire petty, fantastic, the emanations from a mind
that is rancid with envy.
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Compare Dawes’ record of public achievement,
of genuine service, with that of Brookhart. Begin
with his appointment to be comptroller of the cur
rency by McKinley and follow him on down to the
present. It was not only as a soldier, as the organ
izer of the supply service of the A. E. F., as director
of the budget, and as head of the commission that
gave Europe a basis for settling its troubles, that
Dawes has served the people. He has been active in
private as well as in public life. A citizen whose
high .iense of civic duty has rested on lofty ideal*,
and who has contributed to the development of mod
ern life to an extent that is not attained by any of
.ris detractors, Dawes has a standing that will not be
rricv.siy affected by such assaults as thesj coming
om Wheeler and Brookhart.
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The Brookhart proposal that Dawes be removed
,.rm the ticket and a candidate acceptable to him
: jlf be placed thereon is preposterous. It hardly
son be made in good faith. Dawes was nominated
oy a convention at which the regularly elected dele
gates from the state of Iowa were in attendance and
voting. Iowa’s vote was cast for Coolidge and
Dawes, and for the platform on which they stand.
Is it not absurd, then, for a single member of the
party, even though he be a nominee for high of
fice, to insist that the work of the convention he
overturned and set aside that his personal wish may
prevail?
Nothing in connection with the present political
campaign is more certain at this time than the elec
tion of Coolidge and Dawes. Unless it be the abso
lute certainty of defeat for both the Davis and La
Follette tickets. Radicals in both groups still cling
to the hope that the election will be forced into con
gress. The people, however, awakened to the dan
ger that lies in that direction, are determined that
no such calamity will be permitted to overwhelm the
nation. “Coolidge or Chaos" is the choice, and they
are choosing Coolidge.
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Should Brookhart pursue his gesture, and land
himself bodily in the La Follette camp, the cffecta
on the national ticket will be slight His influence
outside his own state is no more than that of Burton
Kendall Wheeler, whose defection is not reckoned as
severe by the democratic leaders. In Iowa the prob
lem will be one for the republican committee to deal
with. And there the matter will rest.
If Brookhart’s attitude were not ridiculous be
fore, it is now. Hi* attempt to dictate to the party
in a national way is but a weak and belated imita
tion of the course of La Follette. "Battling Bob"
only asked to write the platform. Brookhart onlj
wan)* to name the candidates.
SUPREMACY IN THE AIR.
Down it Wilbur Wright Field, Dayton is cele
brating the t.ventieth anniversary of (he Wright
brothers’ *.r umph. About that same time the globe
girdling flyers of the United States army landed at
Seattle,. making the official contact that concluded
their monumental job. The third side of this inter
eating trilogy is getting the ZR.1 ready for its trip
acros3 the ocean.
Exactly what this means is difficult to vision. It
holds too much of demonstrated possibility along
side of hoped-for future accomplishment to make
easy analysis of a service that is yet so young, but
which has shown so much of capacity for the benefi:
of humanity. Chiefly, the science of air navigation
has been developed in connection with war. As yet
aviation is discusted mors in connection with its pos
sibilities as u means of national defense than for any
other phase of its adaptability in the United States.
To the army and navy has been left almost ex
clusively the task of studying the science, of And
in* out what may be done and how to do it.
Chiefly, the developing of the airplane as a fac
tor in commerce has been in connection with the air
mail. There the fact fs developed. What its future
will be depends on commerce, whether it will give
the support that must he had to maintain the cross
country flight of the airship bearing the mail sack.
So slight has been the commercial use of the air
ship in this country outside of the mail that it
scarcely amounts to experiment.
First to fly, first to encircle the globe, owning
the greatest of rigid dirigibles, the Shenandoah and
the ZR3, America has every right to claim suprem
acy in the air. France has many times the number
of airplanes owned by the United States. So also
have other countries. It is not the number, though,
but the use that is made of them. Application of
what has been learned within the last few months
about aerial navigation should increase our su
premacy in the air. When we also become first in
practical use of these machines, our claim will be
complete. ,
SWEET TIMES WITH SUGAR.
One of the chief centers of attack by-the free
traders has been the sugar schedule of the Fordney
McCumber tariff act. What seems to be the prin
cipal cause for complaint is that the sugar industry
has returned a profit to those whose money is in
vested in it. H. E. Miles of Racine, Wis., head of
the “Fair Tariff league," is carrying on a cam
paign for a reduction of the rate of duty charged,
and as an argument in favor of his proposal cites
what purports to be the profits of the Great West
ern Sugar company. Against this, Mr. Miles con
trasts the beet grower's experience:
"This year's contract with the liopt grower Is
the most favorable in years. It gives them $5.50
per ton for beets with about 15 per cent of sugar
content. Heretofore It has been about $5 and at
that price the growers have always been ns hard
up as our wheat farmers for the last 1hree ye^rs."
We do not know that Mr. Miles is aware of the
iliding-scale feature of the contract between the
growers and the sugar company. He might he will
ing to modify some of his statements, were he bet
ter informed as to the facts. Sugar beet growers
In the North Platte valley have so far been paid *8
per ton for their 1923 crop of beets. Final settle
ment is due on October 1, when another dollar is
expected, making a total payment of ?9 per ton, in
stead of the $5 recorded by Mr. Miles.
That the tariff has not caused the great increase
in price of sugar complained of is shown by the
experience of four years ago. In 1920 no protest
was made by the Fair Tariff league against the Un
derwood rates on sugar. Omaha housewives who
paid that year as high as 30 cents a pound, and were
able to get only a pound at a time, know that the
high price was not due to tariff. Nor is it today.
England has found out to her cost the beauty of
free trade in sugar. Philip Snowden has proposed
that the government subsidize the production of
sugar at a rate above the Fordney-McCumber
schedule, in order to relieve the British breakfast,
table from the extortion of foreign sugar producers.
Only the fact that the United States does produce
one-fourth of the sugar its people use and that the
output of beet sugar is steadily mounting, preserves
us from the experience England undergoes. In
1920 we got a taste of what it means to he at the
mercy of the foreign sugar producers. Wipe out
the home industry, and that condition will become
permanent. But base the action, if taken at all,
on more defensible grounds than that the capital
employed in the carrying on of the industry is earn
ing a profit.
ALL OVER BUT THE SHOUTING.
Old King Corn is coming down the home stretch
three lengths ahead of Jack Frost. It’s all over but
ihe shouting and cashing the tickets. It has been
a tight race from the time of the first planting.
Ung Corn, out of Optimism, hy Hope, has been the
'avorite all along. Millions were put up by his back
ers, and they played him to win against Jack Frost,
Cold Spring and Flood. Cold Spring failed to last
1o the quarter, and Flood switched his tail at the
half as a token of defeat. Only Jack Frost was left,
and proved a contender all the way.
But King Corn, the winner in many s spectacu
Tar race, set the pace the entire distance. Into the
itretch and next to the rail, the good old rider is
striding to certain victory.
The bookies will please get ready to rash* the
tickets.
WHERE THE BLAME RESTS.
It is something more than a coincidence that the
rising tide of radicalism parallels the ebbing tide of
interest in the franchise. In 189(5, just 28 yenrs
ago, 90 per cent of the legal voters went to the
polls. In 1900 the percentage had fallen to 73. In
1908 there was further decrease to (5(5. Eight years
later, 1912, the percentage was 62. In 1920 it was
for the first time In hiatory below 60 per cent.
If the republic is to endure, its people must take
a more active and intelligent interest in politics.
Government hy a minority of a minority spells ulti
mate tyranpy.
It is all well enough to die for one's country,
but living for one's country is also well worth while.
Every time you pause to listen to a man who
complains that the politicians are running the coun
try, you are wasting time listening to a man who
just sits around on election day and does nothing to
prevent the politiciens from running it.
Political prognosticators who base their predic
tions of no election on the ground that Nebraska is
one of the states La Follettr will carry, should throw
a few more toads and things into their witches’ pot.
Beaver Dam, Wis., has one of the prize hands of
the United States. Don't Givva Dam, in Nebraska,
is very likely to result in the adoption of Sorenson's
fool amendment to the state constitution.
An 80,000,000-candle power searchlight has just
been constructed. It will be needed to find the
firains of the citizen who complains about political
corruption, but never lakes the trouble to cote.
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Homespun Verse
— By Omaha’* Own Poet —
Robert Worthington Davie
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SATISFACTION.
There's lot* of way* undoubtedly
A riinn can make a haul;
There'* lot* of chance*, too, that be
Will go straight to the wall.
I've hud my eye* on lot* of scheme*
1 thought were.pretty good.
And oftentimes I might have tried
To swing them, If I could.
There's wealth galore in mining "in. t
If on* gets what Is sought
There* fortunes hurled casually
In sand hill* cheaply bought—
And thrra'a a chanca to get rich uni' l,
In nearly every trade.
If at Ilia proper time lhe deal
Desirable la made
Hut I've been gathering my wealth
In little hits and slow
And what I gat I do not risk
Or gamble with. 1 know.
And whlla I ean't expect In pul
A great amount sway,
1 11 have the meager pile I've mode
When I Kr<>'4 old and giay.
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Looks as If the Pitcher Might Have to Invent
a New Curve or Something
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Letters From Our Readers
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Graft That Was Graft.
Grand Island. Neb.—To the Fdltor
of The Omaha Bee: I ere much in
another prominent Omaha paper In
headlines, editorials and letters writ
ten about the rotten republican ad
ministration. These paragraphs often
quote Senator Wheeler, Iji Kollett*
and J- W. Davis. All the world know*
or should know that Wheeler started
th« phoney Investigation to turn the
attention of the people from the
prosecution of grafters who stole the
people's money during the war under
a demoerallo sdrnlnistration. Why
don't these critics demand the prior
ity rule and prosecute the men who
were responsible for the following
graft:
Bought:
41.000. 000 pairs shoes for I TOO,000
men.
131.000. 000 worth of harness for mo
tor vehicles
31,99.1 new automobiles, sent to
Franc* after the armistice si*
months.
3,033,204 nose bags for 391.000 hnrsss.
36 sets of spurs for each ofTWr en
titled to wear them.
1.000, t>00 double aets of harness, 3 for
each team.
195,000 branding Irona for 391.000
horses.
149,456,611 bread carts, 4? for every
man.
If every democrat who grafted dur
ing the war was In the penitentiary.
Heaven worth would he the metropolis
of Kansas. S A. A NT) 10 K SON.
More \bout the Klan.
Hampton, Neb.—To the Frill nr of
The Omaha Bee: A letter appeared
In your potter September 25, "Why
Worry About the Klan I am not
going to either, bec,(use It has not
rot my JH-. and furthermore. Is not
going to. I'd like to talk to you, Mr.
Duzzenmatter. ns T have to several
other members. You say, 'Its here
to stay," I don't know about that,
but 1 do know that It has been here
even since 'Tti, when my parents' par
ents were driven out of Kentucky
Just because they wore the blue In
stead of the gray. One kluxer came
to me for an argument and he got It.
He was a Christian. I was, too, and
he wanted my membership.
t «ald; "If you can prove to me
that It Is for the better end not for
the 116 F1I join." How do yoy think
hs went st It? Came out with a lit
tle card bearing these statements: "I
believe in America; I believe Jesus
died on the cross; 1 believe that M.iry
was Jesus' mother." I said. 'T do,
too, and It did not take Jin to make
to# believe it." I told him nutyl*e
sonic Catholic or negro had that card
printed. "No. no," he said, "they're
all alike," and he went end got my
Abe Martin
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Lester Mopps has barn out o'
school far ni*h on two years an' ho
can't even play a saxophone. No
matter how much money n woman's
tot she can't look up-to-date unless
she's got th' nerve.
it*ut. it:*.) ,
wife's Bible and showed me the chap
ter on which the klan la based, Bo
mans, I nth chapter, In which he
would not read and explain, and Mr.
BuzzorunaUer, If you read that chap
ter and can prove to me there 1* any
place In It that upholds the klan. I’ll
enter Juat a* 1 entered the rhurch,
without iiaylng $18 to enter, but to
pay as T liked.
Why did not the originator put on
his Utlla card, "I believe everything
that la In the Bible? ' Because some
one would ask him what about the
wolf In a lamb's skin—that's the
kluxers.
This one kluxer when Vd get him
In a corner he would quit talking.
Said the klap did not allow' the mem
bers to argue because maybe they
were not smart-enough. I said, does
the Bible advise you to Join and be
long to anything which you do not
understand ’ He would not ssv any
thing except "I'm breaking my oath
if I argue " AH this happened In
August. He said. Watch the klu
klux If the-, don't hang lampold and
Ia>«b." I said "What are they going
to do?" "We are going to show the
people money cannot rule. Them laov*
will he hanged if the K. K. K. has to
do It."
If the K TC. K. Is ns good as you
say, as strong as you Bay, and is a
just organization. I'll have some com
petition on this letter I want It. I
am not sl atted Jesus said there is
only one heaven, only one hell. There
Ain KH1 ISKMUNT.
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lead to serloua lung troubl*. You
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an emulsified creosote that la pleasant
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soothes and heals the inflamed menr
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Of all known drugs, creosote 1* re
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treatment of rhrontr coughs and ( -Ms
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■uat of the trouble and destroy* the
get ms Unit lend to consumption.
Creomulsion Is guanuitead satis
factory In the treatment of ihronli
coughs and (olds, bronchial asthma
catapihul bronchitis and other form*
of throat and lung diseases, and Is
excellent for building up the system
alter colds or the flu. Money re
funded If any cough or cold, no mat
ter of how long standing. Is not re
lleved after taking a-- oriling to
direction*. Ask your druggist. Creo
nuilslon Co., Atlanta, (la.
will be people of all nationalities, of
all colors in heaven. If so, why dc |
you bar them from your order’ 1
learned mine on the Farm Bureau
Farmers' Fnion Dffe insurant. You
learn your* on the klan. They were
nil for us till they got all the loose
rash and then they had enough, and
people who have enough retire and
quit work. R. E. REED.
Money Gratefully Received.
A good—and I am told, perfectly
true—story about Rttdyard Kipling I«.
that of an American autograph
hunter who read in a paper that .Mr.
Kipling never put pen to a paper for
When in Omaha
Hotel Conant
250 Rooms—250 Riihs—Rues $2 te J3
less than half a crown a word. He
conceived the idea of sending S shil
lings to the great man, together with
his autograph album, asking him to
write two words in it.
The album came hack without the
a shillings, but Instead of finding the
words "Rudyard Kipling ' as he fond
ly hoped our friend discovered the
I words— Thank you."—New Yoiii
Evening: Post.
European royal bloods eet $7 a day
as super*. If they had been content
with that, they mlcht have held their
old Jobs.—Chattanoog-a Times.
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The 900,000 Buicks
in daily service
prove
Buick performance.
fyuick leads in performance/
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Nebraska Buick Auto Co.
LINCOLN OMAHA SIOUX CITY
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OMAHA RETAIL DEALERS
Nab. Buick Auto Co., H. Palton,
19th and Howard St*. 2019 Farnum St.
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I SUNNY SIDE UPT
*> Hake Comfort.nor forget.
I Qhat Sunrise nei/erfailecl us uet:
Ctli-a. eh-aXtetr J
Winging Through Wisconsin—Greatly disappointed
Thought that when we reached the great dairy section ve
would see pretty milkmaids In costume, tripping blithesome'y
from barn to dalrv house, caroling sweetly and smiling si -i1
at the tourist, liu: nothing Ilk- that. More men in white dut ;
uniforms manicuring the eov.s while patent milking me
extract the lacteal fluid. Haven't seen a milkmaid on the * n
tire trip. Thus has lomance given way to practicality In tni
mechanical age.
We have nlwavs been interested In sign- A* For’ At n
son we saw one ibat Intrigued. We got a laugh out of It, ani
hand it on.
"BULL MILKING MATH INK CO."
(Explanatory Note: The Inventor of the machine was named
Bull.)
A glass of milk In a restaurant in these parts Is more thr-c
a gla«s of milk. The line of demarcation is easily disceina! I
and it is always quite a ways below the top of the little bottle
In which it is serwed.
Memories of youthful days down in old Missouri recall’d
up heie. We gathered a handful of butternuts from a tree
Showed them to the Nebraskans on the special diary train and
only one roan In twenty knew what they were.
Misfortune camps upon our trail. We arrived In Fort A*
klnson late Sunday night and did not get up until late Monday
morning Fort Atkinson had a big brewery in the pre Volstead
buys, and when prohibition came It engaged in the almost !>.*er
game. That I*, it so claimed. But the day before we got here
the prohibition agents landed on It and discovered several the
sand bottles and a hundred or more kegs of beer that wa*r> t
almost but quj^e. And they dumped the whole lot less than T4
hours before the hot, tired and thirsty Nebraskans arrived.
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George Jackson of Nelson, ex-speaker of the Nebras'
house. Is a member of our purty. George sings firs’, tenor lit
tite Milkmen's quartet. And George Is as good a tenor a« h<
is a speaker, whit h puts him In the Caruso class vocally.
A high spot on this trip was Waukesha, for there w» ha-’
the rate pleasure of again meeting and greeting Major
Buchanan, formerly general passenger agent of the Fremont,
Klkhorn .fc Missouri Valley railroad, now the Northwestern
Major Buchanan was located in Omaha for many years, but
upon retlremen* from c tive connection with the Northwestern
he moved to Waukesha, where he is gracefully growing old.
The major is now in bis K7th year. Fifteen minutes spent with
this rare good soul recalled to mind many pleasant recollect.on
of early days in Nebraska. Major Buchanan s’nt greetings
through this department to ail of his old friends and neighbo-s
in Nebraska, and it gives us utmost delight to **• t messenger
for this Grand Old Man.
Pon t it just beat all how many pin-headed politicians then*
are who think they ’an improve upon the monumental w ”rk
of Franklin, Jefferson, Haniilto n and their co-worker*? I
WILL M MAC PIN.
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