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©inohcv’VneTo fhe^bst is dt its Best
, FOR SHAME, MR. BRYAN.
When Charles W. Bryan was making his cam
paign in Nebraska two years ago, he spent much
time and effort in denouncing and seeking to dis
credit the administration of Governor McKelvie.
After he assumed office he deemed it wise to con
tinue this course. He persistently indulged in ex
treme criticism of “my predecessor.” Concerning
the handling of the state’s finances, the governor’s
charges were specific if not definite. Particularly
and frequently he assorted that a great deficit ex
isted in the cash account of the state.
Again and again during the time the legislature
was in session in 1923 Governor Bryan charged that
the cash funds of the state were from $250,000 to
over $4,000,000 short. Efforts to get him to locate
the shortage, or fix responsibility for it failed to
produce more than the vague and general assertions.
He always blamed the “previous administration” for
having recklessly expended money, creating a huge
overdraft in which all the expected revenue had
been anticipated. His own part would be the gigan
tic task of restoring the treasury of Nebraska to a
healthy condition. This he would do.
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Just now Bryan supporters are beating the tom
tom and crying aloud, “Nebraska’s finances are in
good condition. Taxes have been lowered. Our
governor has made good. See what he has done!”
When the governor had made his sweeping
charges several times to the public in general, and
the legislature in particular, there was a feeling of
apprehension in the lawmaking body. Naturally,
f’e members wanted to know the exact conditions.
It is finally up to the legislature to make appropria
tions. Its members have a direct responsibility on
this score, regardless of the governor’s budget. In
truth, any economies that have resulted since Gov
ernor Bryan went into office are due to the acts of a
republican legislature, not to a democratic governor.
The senate named a committee to inquire into
the charges made by Mr. Bryan that a deficit ex
isted. The governor had finally located the shortage
in the road funds. Two members of the committee
we’fe republicans, the third a democrat. Notifying
the governor of the appointment of the committee,
he was asked to grant a conference. Not once, hut
four times was this request made. And just as often
did the governor decline or neglect to meet with
the committee. He did send long letters to the com
mittee, in which he repeated his assertions.
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In one letter the governor fixed the amount of
the deficit at $295,000. Another time he alleged
that the funds were short $581,513.47, again it was
$2,925,000, and then it was $4,040,387.93. Twice
at least the governor was meticulous even to a
penny. Failing to get into personal touch with the
governor, the committee began its independent ex
amination, and verified the facts as published by
The Omaha Bee last year. Instead of there being
a deficit in the road building fund, the committee
finds an unexpended balance on June 30, 1924. of
$419,844.2.3.
Thus does the governor’s bogie man disappear.
The committee's unanimous report is:
‘ The committee Is of the opinion that the gov
ernor's charges in his messages are without proper
foundation, are extremely misleading, and do not
state the facts as recorded In the offices of the state
treasurer and state auditor.
"Governor Bryan, In the opinion of the commit
tee, by alleging large deficiencies In the funds of
the state departments that did not actually exist
then or since, has discredited the true financial con
dition of the state, ss the state government Is in
excellent financial conditions and has been so for
years.”
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This report is signed by John W. Robbins of
Omaha, George Wilkins of Emerson and W. B. Ban
ning of Union. All are members of the state senate.
Each is known as a man of integrity and high
character. Neither would be suspected of making
a report tinged or tainted with partisan bias. It
was the truth they sought. It is the facts they have
disclosed.
• These facts convict the governor of having, either
through ignorance or malice, discredited his own
state. Instead of defending the financial credit of
Nebraska, he has wantonly ahd without good reason
assailed it.
Books and records were open to the governor, as
to the committee, and he easily could have ascer
tained the exact condition of the funds. He was
content to repeat his unwarranted and unjustified
allegations, varying the amounts from time to time,
until it was apparent to anybody the governor did
not know what he was talking about.
Now he seeks to be elevated to one of the high
est positions on earth, that of vice president of the
United States. His ambition is unbounded, but what
will the voters say to a man who is thus unmasked
in his astonishing attempt to cripple the credit of
his home state for no better reason than that he
might possibly make himself look good to his self
deluded admirers?
“Save Norton!” is now the slogan of Nebraska
democratic managers. They are sacrificing Davis
and Bryan for the paltry loaves and fishes of state
government.
LET "BATTLING BOB” TELL US.
Robert Marion La Follette, self-starting candi
date for president, is to speak in Omaha on Mon
day. Tickets already on sale. The local managers
say that anyone will be welcome, although the man
who comes with the dollar will be doubly apprecia
ted. At St. Louis the senator outlined the issues he
expects to present to the farmer.
First, he proposes to relieve agriculture by the
passage of the McNary-Haugen bill and the Norris
Sinclair bill. "With strengthening amendments."
What the nature of these amendments will be he
docs not say.
Second, ho will repeal the Cummins-Esch act,
and revise railroad rates downward.
Third, he will revise the federal reserve act.
He has several other plans, mainly of the nostrum
variety, such as putting "dirt farmers” in the cab
inet and on the federal reserve board. It may not
be impertinent to inquire why, if the senator favors
the McNary-Haugen measure, he did not put the
weight of his influence behind that bill when it was
going down to defeat in congress under the on
slaught led in the house by Voigt of Wisconsin, one
of his trusted henchmen? A word from “Battling
Bob” at that time would have brought support to
the bill that would have passed it. He must have
been saving it for the campaign.
Also, railroad men and farmers alike will be in
terested in knowing how the Wisconsin wonder
worker plans to cut down railroad revenues and
keep up railroad wages. Maybe he does not intend
to. Until he succeeds in establishing government
ownership and democratic control, he will not be
able to get money from the federal treasury to meet
the deficit, as was done under McAdoo. when the
government paid $2,700,000,000 for the fun of mis
managing the railroads for twenty-seven months.
Wages are higher now than then, so the deficit will
not be less than $100,000,000 a month, and some
body will have to stand it.
Another point on which La Follette could en
lighten Nebraskans, if he would, is why the cost of
carrying on the public business of the state of Wis
consin is more than sixteen times greater now than
when he was first elected governor. La Follette be
came governor of Wisconsin first in 1901. Between
1900 and 1923 the cost of running the state has in
creased 1,605 per cent. A rather high price to pay
for a theorist’s plans. Also, not a very strong
recommendation for his promise to lower the cost
of government. He might tell us how he does it.
TEACHING BY EXAMPLE.
Fred Peregrine of Grant, Neb., is entitled to
the blue ribbon for conciseness of speech and for
the merit of his message. Mr. Peregrine was the
recipient of the pure-bred sire traded at Grant for a
scrub, and when asked for a speech he said:
“I came here six years ago with one cow and
$1,600 and went into the wheat raising business.
In four years I was broke and in debt. A Grant
banker staked me to dairy cows, and I got back into
the game I had left in eastern Nebraska six years
ago. Today I am out of debt, do not owe even a
store account in Grant, and have a little money in
the hank. And it is all due to my good cows. I
thank you.”
There may have been many speeches of greater
length delivered in Nebraska, but seldom one that
was so fraught with meaning to the farmers as the
brief speech Fred Peregrine made to his farmer
friends at Grant. In it is the message of diversifica
tion of crops, of more intelligent interest in farm by
products, of profiting by bitter experience. Men
like Fred Peregrine with brevity of speech and
wealth of example are factors most sorely needed
right now in the development of permanent pros
perity in this commonwealth.
One often hears the statement that some par
ticular section of Nebraska can raise nothing but
wheat, or that another section can raise nothing but
corn. The statement is absurdly false. There is
not a section of Nebraska where good milk cows
may not be made profitable, and in many so-called
one-crop sections the dairy cow can, and has, made
comparative prosperity possible where in former
times a mere living was about all that could be
hoped for.
The cream check and the egg check have chased
away tie clouds of gloom in many of Nebraska’s
farming sections. And the more and bigger these
j checks the fewer will be the clouds.
Henry Ford withdraws his Muscle Shoals proposi
tion ‘‘because a business proposition has been mixed
up with politics.” And yet the crying need of this
country is politics founded on as substantial a husi
i ^ess basis as big business. And “hot air” is not the
right kind of political foundation.
However, it might be well to suggest that the
policeman be not in too great haste to open fire,
even if the fellow he thinks ought to be arrested is
running away.
Oklahoma shows unmistakable signs of lining up
for C.oolidge and Dawes, if you are interested in
knowing how the campaign is going.
A legislative record is a mighty inconvenient
thing when a man is running for office and wants to
forget what he did.
Oswald Garrison Vlllard say* he is not. a “parlor
red.” All right, let him be classified as he will. He
talks the language.
Straw votes may not be conclusive, but when
they all point the same way there must be a reason.
Dan Butler is also sprinkling some tacks along
the route over which Bre’er Norton is skidding.
Did you notice how many water ships It takes
to get one airship across the ocean in safety?
The Shenandoah is showing the weakness as well
as the strength of the rigid dirgihles.
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Homespun Verse
—By Omaha's Own Boat—
Robert Worthington Davie
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THEY HAVE GONE AFAR TO ROAM.
The folks are widely scattered, and have gone afar to
roa in;
They used to write to me and say that they were far
from home:
They used to aak about the friends whom they were
wont to know;
They used to wonder much shout their Joyous Bong
Ago.
But Time has dimmed the mem'ry of the cottage where
they grew*
The playground and companions have been lost to
mem’ry, too,—
And In the distant regions where today they gaily
roam,
They've found Ihe hunted arbor, and they have secured
a home:
A horns it is a* wan l he one revered by them when they
Were Pad and Mother** little tola Incessantly at play.—
A hums where tht element* that fashion It complete,
| And give It charm and reverence, and keep It ever tweet.
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And Many a Political Nostrum Has Turned Out the Same Way ,
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Letters From Our Readers
AH letters must be signed, but name will be withheld upon request. Communi
cations o! 200 words and less, will be given preference.
Pleads for (he Merchant.
Omaha.—To (he Editor of The
Omaha Bee: "Do away with travel
ing salesmen," one contributor re
cently stated in these columns would
reduce the overhead expenses of
merchants in Nebraska nearly 11,000.
000, which would equal the amount
of eggs sold for one year. Another
writer suggests that the merchants
resort to advertisements in the daily
newspapers to overcome the waste.
No doubt there are good reasons for
the suggestions. But why resort
these methods of past ages? We live
in an age of progress and lots of pep.
Therefore let ns not burden ourselves
with the old systems, hut awake and
arise to the hour. Let every rural
merchant Install a radio receiving set
in his store and each dhv of business
the sales manager of the wholesale
house can call in to inform said mer
chant of the change in price of the
articles he Is most Interested in. I
We deeply sympathize with any
merchant, for he is unlike the scien
tist who can go to the public library
and secure biographies of great
scientists and artists, showing what
they have accomplished in the face
of hardship and under handicaps.
The physician may attend a course
of lectures and acquire through what
he learns has been done by others. A
photographer may go to a meeting of
his wrother photographers and learn
of the wonderful success devotion to
their profession has accomplished.
An automobile dealer may go to the
factory and there get filled with en
thusiasm for the car he sells. But
where, oh where. Is the poor, down
trodden merchant going to get an in
jection of Inspiration and enthusiasm?
Probably he should call on a lot
of damphnola that know nothing
about his business in do the inspiring
part. H. O. CAMPBELL.
Repulsive Puds.
Omaha—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: If the degrading pas
time of slaughtering fenced In
game, indulged In by former Euro
pean potentates, Is to he revived
here (as denotes a news Item from
California), it will be s bitter pill for
those with faith In the supremacy of
high Ideals over more or less harmful
superficialities on our stage of prog
ress.
We advance or retrograde accord
ing to surrounding conditions that fit
ths direction of our destiny by se
lecting or favoring certain character
istics necessary to or facilitating sur
vlval. The greater our Intellectual
advancement and the closer our co
operation, the stronger will become
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I Abe Martin
Th’ reason wily paupers are so
blamed scarce under prohibition is
because, they (fit poisoned before
they kin qualify fee th' poor house.
What th’ average father can't un
derstand is why th’ public schools
don’t teach his boy what an nrchi
pelaeo is instead o’ puttin’ it. up t’
him.
(Copyright, nil ;
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the demands for the finer qualities ,
and the less those most necessary In
the caveman will he required. The
instlnet of the hunter will be toler '•
ated so long as it is useful, but in I
the realm of intelligent manhood to
show pleasure in killing is considered
a sign of atavism.
In beast and man behavior depends
on the impulse or mind faculty hav 1
tng the upper hand at the moment of 1
action. Permanent control by the
more recent mind centers is brought
about in the race, not by personal
aggrandizement peculiar of our day.
nor by the negative self effarement
<*f the ascetic, but through valorous
and sagacious self-expression In the
service of a vital cause or worthy en
deavor otherwise.
A new dawn will bring forth new
ethics, more dynamic, changing the
ancient "Thou shalt not" destroy (do
evil) into the modern "Thou shalt
"aspire, create. And to reach a goal
that attracts through superior re
wards, we will forego time wasting
fads and foolish or vicious stunts now
touted as something non plus ultra.
H. P. MELL. 2011 Burt Street.
Cartoon Tells Lesson.
Lincoln, Neb.—To the Editor of
The Omaha Bee: After looking at the
cartoon on your editorial page—it is
too bad you can not drive home the
idea to all the nation. I think that
some slides in the movies would do
a whole lot toward showing the peo
ple their peril. But. anyway, tills
nation is quite sane and will back
('oolldge and Dawes to the finish. \\>
stlfl believe in the government our
dads built. Anyone who don't like it
—the bark doft- is as large as the
front one.
LEONARD ROBINSON,
11401 Holilrege Street.
Ally EKTIHEMENT.
SOAKS RIGHT IN
AND LIMBERS UP
STIFF JOINTS
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Pharmacists call it “fttint
Ease” because it’s for Swot- j
len, Sore Painful, Creaky
Joints Only.
It took a good many yean to get
together a combination of pain sub
duing and swelling reducing agents]
declared to be the one remedy that
almost instantly penetrates through
skiti and llesli and starts right In to
make swollen. Inflamed, creaky, pain
racked Joints as good as new.
They call this new and wonderful
preparation ■'Jotnt-Knse'' because the
medical man who turned the trick,
worked for years to perfect some
low priced remedy that would really
benefit the millions of people who
have one or more Joints that need
helpful attention.
So "Joint-Kase" Is prepared only
for people who have a swollen, pain
ful, creaky, distorted or stllT Joint,
whether It lie In knee, elbow, shoul
der, ankle, neck or finger and whelh
er It Is caused by rheumn|tsm or
something else.
of course. It can't help but quickly
put an end to such superficial ail
ments as luntlwgu. neuralgia, neuritis,
aching muscles, stitch in the side,
crb k lit the neck or sore feet beenuso
of Its penetrating action, Inti what It
Is really recommended for is joint all
meats of any nature whatever.
* Ask for a tube of "Joint Kase."
Vou can use It several times In one
evening for quick results, because It
.goes right through the skin with only
« few seconds rubbing. It surely Is
a swift penetratin' and when It gets
under Hie skin II starts right in to
dean up all joint trouble.
All druggists dispense It dally for
about tilt cents a tube, as do first
class druggists everywhere.
Always remember, when Jolnl-Kasc
gels III Joint agony gets out—quick.
Mall orders fitted, cash or t\ t>, 11
Hope iuiboiatoilea UtOtowell, Me Inc!
Center Shots j
After all, when you think of our s
automobiles, prohibition and the Chi
cago murder trial, it almost seems as
If the Japanese ought to pass a reso-1
lution thanking us for keeping them)
out.—Philadelphia North American.
Air fleets are like umbrellas. They J
are most useful when up. But they
have to he provided before the storm. I
—Chicago News.
I.lke most Americans the prince of
Wales feels that he needs a rest be
fore going to work following his vaca
tion.—Brooklyn Eagle.
NET AVERAGE
PAID CIRCULATION
for Sept., 1924, of
THE OMAHA BEE
Daily .73,340
Sunday .73,865
Do# a not include returns, left
overs, 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 me
this 4th day of October, 1924.
W. H. QUIVEY,
(Seal) Notary Public
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< " The Same Kindly Care Afterwards that you Gave Before "
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rhe Reposing Rooms
A sorrowing man came to our doors not
long ago. He had committed to our
care his best friend. He wanted to see
Mother—to be alone with her for a little
y time—for the last time, in fact, before
£ was paid the final tribute of all her friends who would
£ follow to her last resting place.
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^ “Why—is she upstairs?” he asked, surprised, as an at
^ tendant led the way. And surprised deepened in his
^ face when he was ushered into a room, softly glowing
with pink lights—a room with thickly carpeted floor, and
C' dresser and chairs.
£
^ And then he saw Mother—sleeping her last sleep in a
£ handsome bed, with soft, thick mattress and snowy jjl
^ linen—sleeping just as she might have slept in her own
^ bedroom at home. ||
^ “1 didn’t hope for anything like this,” he said, with awe
^ and gratitude in his voice. 1 thought she might be—l
^ didn’t know where—perhaps downstairs with—others!
You don't know how much I appreciate this!”
S It is refinements like this which have made Hoffmann
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Aboard the Pure Bred Sire .Special. S.u.iewlier.Mri Nehraska
_The recent period of hard times front which the ‘-ountry if
now happily emerged, taught the people a few valuable teMOJia.
As we travel across the state members * out V*rty r«™»,k
about the lessened amount of farm machineryto.eseensUn.
Ing out In the open to fall away Into rust and decay. It must
be that the farmers have, either learned that It P*y«'to
their machine.y well housed, or they have notJ’?*n Jjuy.£k
much during the last rouple of years. Perhaps both. If th
have learned that it pays to keep their machinery tinder covei
when not in use. it is going to protit them a great deal.
It is easy enough for a fellow to keep his watch in step
with the changes In time between central and mountain, but
to date we have found it tough to make our stomach under
stand the why of the changes. The first thing you know the
time between breakfast and luncheon is shortened and you
don't feel like eating. Then the next thing you know the time
between luncheon and dinner is lengthened and hunger gnaws
at your vitals. We change time five times on this trip, and
by the time we get home we expect to lie lugging around a
case of dyspepsia that will make our society an aggravation.
The Liberty quartet at Curtis really ought to be employed
by the Nebraska Dairy Improvement society to travel about
the state and sing their original song, "The Scrawny Red Bull '
Jt is a bovine classic and the quartet aings it well. Then they
hare another song. “Dairy Land," sung to the tune of Dixie,
that is uproarously funny. We move that the society engage
the quartet to sing up and down and across the state.
7t happens in nearly every town. Some officious fellow who
Is not connected with the local committee forces his way to
the demonstration platform car and proceeds to tell John
Damson and De« Ford, managers of the special, just how thev
ought to do things at that particular point. It speaks well for
the patience of John and Dps that so far they have maintained
their calm demeanor and taken all of the suggestions under
consideration, although they never act on them. If It were
possible to abolish the Buttinsky by legislative enactment, we
would insist upon Passing a Law.
It is especially pleasing to note how often the words ‘ and
Son" appear after the name of the recipient of the purebred
sire at our various stops. It Is that sort of partnership that is
going to make farm life more popular and profitable. The
pride some of these young lads phow w hen they lead their new
possession away is good to see.
There is a good mother In Karnam ,
Who has three daughters. She'll warn 'em:
"If there's holes In your hose.
Then the dear goodness knows.
You ought to get busy and darn 'em.”
Which reminds us of the motherly old soul who wore a »
pair of white silk stockings when she was wed. She darned
them with black silk until they had entirely lost their original
color, but she always referred to them as "the white silk stock
ings I wore at my wedding.” But who darns silk stockings
these days?
A dozen or more politicians have made pleas for opportuni
ties to talk from the lecture platform of the pure-bred sir#
train. To date eveier one has been turned down with a dull,
sickening thud. Their kind isn't the kind we are demonstrating
on this trip. WILL M. MAUPIN.
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