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The Omaha Bee M O fTnTn G—E V ENIN G—S U N P A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Publisher N. B. UPDIKE, President BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLE*. Editor in Chief Business Manager MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Pres6, of which The Bee is a member, Is exclusively entitled to the use 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 are •Iso reserved. The Omaha Bee is n member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognized authority on circulation audits, 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 .3, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for » *y I__a* | aaa the Department or Person Wanted. ^ * lalltlC 1UUU OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Chicago— Steger Bldg. Boston—Globe Bldg. Los Angeles—Fred L. Hall, San Fernando Bldg. Ban Francisco—Fred L. Hall. Sharon Bldg. New York City—270 Madison Avenue Seattle—A. L. Nietz, 614 Leary Bldg. MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES DAILY AND SUNDAY 1 year $6.00, 6 months $3.00, 3 months $1.76, 1 month 76c DAILY ONLY 1 year $4.60, 8 months $2.75, 3 months $1.60, 1 month 76c SUNDAY ONLY 1 year $3.00, 8 months $1 76, 3 months $1.00, 1 month 50c Subscriptions outside the Fourth postal zone, or 600 miles from Omaha. Daily and Sunday, $1.00 per month; daily only, 76c per month; Sunday only, 60c per month. CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Morning and Sunday'.1 month 8fcc, 1 week 20c Evening and Sunday.1 month 65e, 1 week 15c Sunday Only .1 month 20c, 1 week 6c lv—----> OroahdVhefe |heM?st is at its Best JOB FOR GOOD CITIZENS. The appeal to voters to cast their ballots against the Sorensen amendment is bearing fruit. Interest has been awakened in this most insidious attempt to destroy, as far as Nebraska is concerned, the sys tem under which our government has existed from its foundation. Good citizens, irrespective of party affiliations, have united in an effort to so arouse the people to the danger that is contained in the initia ted amendment to the constitution of the state and indications are it will be decisively rejected. The names signed to the published appeal and warning are those of men and women of influence and stand ing, whose character is attested, and who have only the good of the state at heart. The sinister character of the attempt to destroy the party system of government in Nebraska is dis closed by a slight examination. It is an emanation from the now nearly defunct Nonpartisan league. That organization, professedly neutral as between the parties, gained whatever of power it attained by “boring from within.” Secretly* selecting its nominees, it secured for them the label of a party through which election might be secured. In North Dakota the league seized and wrecked the republican party. In Nebraska a similar attempt was made, but did not meet the success attained where Town ley established his autocratic rule. If the Sorensen amendment should be adopted, it will revive the Non partisan league, giving to it the power that it can not obtain by coming openly before the people. * * * The party system has existed in the United States from the first. It has had the approval of the wisest and best of American statesmen. Under it the of ficers of the government, from top to bottom, are chosen. In party councils, called conventions, policies are determined upon and principles enun ciated for the approach to the people. All this is done openly with ample freedom of discussion. On this rests the security of American institutions. Whenever the government falls into the hands of little groups that meet in secret, lay their plans and make their bargains behind closed doors, and never submit their program for public examination, the end of liberty, as we understand it, has been reached. And that will come when it is made possible by the abolishment of effective party organization as we knew it now. In secrecy leaders of oath-bound groups will be able to consolidate their forces behind slates picked by themselves, and through the only possible form of organized and concerted action at the polls, concentrate enough votes to win in any election. • • • The one certain way to defeat this proposal and to avert the danger it contains is to vote “NO” on the Sorensen amendment. The pretext'that it is in tended to protect the direct primary is absurd. The direct primary does'not need such protection. It is in no danger, for no attack is being made upon it. The rhief object sought by the promoters of the amendment is to do away with all legitimate forms of political organization in Nebraska, and to clear the. way for cabals, cliques and factions, working in secret to secure ends concerning which they fear to approach the voters directly. In order to accomplish this the amendment proposes to forbid the use of any party circle, name or designation on the ballot. Just the name of the man under that of the office he seeks. Only confusion will rome from such a law. We urge on all voters of whatever party to carefully mark the ballot against the amendment. Do not neglect this important duty. ZINOVIEFF SPILLS THE BEANS. Several times during the campaign in the United States the Third Internationale has been referred to. Each time a chorus of indignant denial has gone up from the leaders of the third pnrty movement. They have no connection with the Russian reds. And the Russian reds have no connection with the Rus sian government. And, finally, the Russian govern ment has no purpose or intent to interfere with any other on earth. England was getting on much as usual with a general election with not much out of the ordinary, as the English view elections, to ex'-ite cormpent. Then came an extraordinary lettr-r from Zinovieff, calling on the communists to rise for the revolution, at once. Naturally, the British resent this, and the Moscow authorities were quick to deny the author ihip of the call to arms. Ramsay MacDonald looks upon the letter as genuine, and is at a loss only to account for its getting to the public before it got to him. Weight is given to the British episode by the appearance of communist advertisements in Ger man papers, also calling loudly for the revolution. In Englund Zinevieff alienated mnny voters from MacDonald. Whatever the final result, it is certain that many refrained from voting for the laborite or lihdral candidates because of the soviet propaganda. These episodes discredit the efforts made in this country to convince people that the Russian reds had changed their nature, and no longer seek to de stroy all governments hut their own. fn Omaha anti-re(fV0Pai?anda haR bepn discour aged, because, we are told, there is no cause to fear the radicals in the United States. Each time the law-abiding forces of the nation look away, the law defying groups steal a little ground. Only one way is know to oppose them. By publicity, keeping the radicals in the open, and by meeting their unreason with reason. Not by saying they are not active, for they are. JUDGE STAUFFER'S CANDIDACY. Burt and Washington counties are linked with Douglas county in one judicial district. Naturally Douglas, with its predominating population, over shadows the other two counties, but that is no rea son why Douglas county should demand the right to select all of the district judges. Of the seventeen judicial candidates in the district Judge Carroll O. Stauffer of Burt county is the only one residing outside of Omaha. Judge Stauffer’s record is alone sufficient reason for his re-election. If any further reason is needed it may be found in the fact that the northern end of the district is entitled to representation upon the bench. With a candidate of Judge Stauffer’s admit ted ability and splendid record it would be unwise to nullify the splenid relations that have always ex isted between Omaha and the rest of the judicial district by centralizing all the judges in one county, and especially unwise to centralize them all in one city. Judge Stauffer’s residence in Burt county is merely an added reason why he should be re-elected. The chief reason is his judicial record and his ad mitted ability and fairness. MAKING IT SNAPPY "OVER THERE.’’ England is just winding up a short-order cam paign that will preclude anyone from that side ever again raising eyebrows at American crudity. A lot of rough stuff has been pulled at one time or an other in the way of political stunts in this land of youth and beauty, but the worst we have ever been guilty of is harmless as skim milk compared to what has gone on over there. From one end of the land to another sneakers have been mobbed, riots have occurred, meetings have been broken up. Men and women have been severely handled, some seriously •hurt, all in the name of liberty. The intelligent British voter must vent his feelings in violence, it seems, or the election is not a success. It would be well to note just what exists in Eng land, for thfey are under the form of government some eminent gentlemen on this side would like to adopt instead of what we have. Parliamentary gov ernment, in place of our constitutional form with its system of checks and balances. Three parties in parliament, neither with a majority. Any govern ment is dependent upen a working agreement be tween two minority groups. No policy can be adopted, no plans carried out, only routine business can be transacted. Twice this year an election has been called. Neither time have the people given any clear authority to any party to govern. What would happen here if such a system pre vailed? England, where stability is required just now more than anywhere else, is drifting to destruc tion because of the levity of the people. They make their elections snappy, hold them often and settle nothing, while their national affairs go to ruin. We can have the same sort of thing over here by adopt ing the parliamentary form of government, which the socialists, the “progressives” and other pseudo reformers would have us do. ONE OF THE REASONS. “I’ll guarantee that every man awaiting death in Sing Sing is there because he was without a good lawyer.” In those words Clarence Darrow gave the best explanation of why so many people have lost faith in the courts, and why so many openly sneer at the law and lawyers, and too, by the way, have lost faith in Mr. Darrow. If any considerable number of people declare that justice is bought and sold, or that laws are made by lawyers for the purpose of being set at nought by technicalities, it is because some lawyers have prostituted their high calling for money. When a majority of the people are of the same opinion as the one expressed by Clarence Darrow, there will be an explosion that will blow skyward our present judicial system. And a few more law yers of Darrow’s prominence making the same sneer ing assertions will provide the majority. Thomas Riley Marshall said a mouthful when he told the world that vice presidents must speak or starve. But William Jennings Bryan made this plain when he was secretary of state, and left his office to go on a Chautauqua lecture tour. A Chicago woman asks $5,000 damages because a marcel waver caused a bald spot as big as a dime on her head. At that rate we know some Omaha men who could ask $7,000,000 damages. Frank Harrison raises his voice in righteous pro test against the corrupt use of money in the Ne braska election. Frank, you know, is in politics merely because it gives him the opportunity to do somebody good. Charles M. Kittle has rises from the position of water boy for a railroad construction gang to that of president of tho world's largest mail order house. It Is quite likely that this Kittle did not waste any time calling others of his kind black. Montana farmers are apparently not afraid of a democratic victory. They have just contracted to raise 8,000 acres of sugar beets for a new mill. The linot.vpist who set it up Chaos W. Bryan should be switched from the machine to the “In formation for Readers” department. The chief howl about slush funds usually comes from parties who failed to collect or participate. Good roads men do not seem to be worried over a democratic victory. f '■ ■■ " ----- *\ —By Omaha’* Own Poet— R abort Worthington Dnvio _____J IIIS IIAIIIIY WANTED IIIM. Ills daddy wanted him! Ami when the others came To take hltn hence, and let him keep his lonely daddy's name— Their wishes were denied. “He's mine!'1 the father said, “I'll went him ever near me through the venri that He abend:” ' I'll need mv boy to keep me ever tolling for his good 1 ran pot let you take him at the edge of Babyhood I ran not now forsake him as your taking him would he. Because I must abide by what his ninlher said to in* ‘"Twill he a lltlle difficult at first, as others say, But l will manage somehow and mv lltlle hoy must slay. He'll smooth t he rougher places, and togelher \i e will grow Just as his mother hoped, we would, and 1 am sure she'll know.’' Sunny sue up Hake Comfort.nor forget. QhatSunrise re\Jerfailed us yey CeLta €jriajte*m ____— /— * ■ ~ ' "TAKE MY HAND." When the toil of the day is at last laid away, And at eve to my home I draw near. I hear down the street the sound of small feet That lightens my heart with Its cheer. A shrill boyish 'oice bids my soul to rejoice, I'm the happiest, man in the land. When ho rushes to me and shouts in his glee: "Plqase, father; take hold of my hand!" Dear lad, may I hold as a treasure untold That trust till the end of the road. May our hands be entwined till at last I shall And The place where I lay down my load. And when at the last o'er the river I've passed j To yonder Delectable Land, May I reach out and say, as my boy does today: "Please, Father; take hold of my hand!” We rare not what others may do, but we are going to vote for the library bonds. As a general proposition we have been agin bonds of late years, but extending the opportunities of our people to acquire useful information and become acquainted with good literature should not be allowed to pass by. Perhaps you have noticed the absence of tag days and special drives during the year now closing. Hasn’t It been a wonderful relief? You could start down In the morning with a couple of dollars In your pocket and be assured that you wouldn’t he jlpped for a quarter on one corner, a dollar on an other corner, a half on another corner, and the last quarter at the office door, thus making the lunrheon hour a dismal waste of time. That’s what, the Community Chest Idea has accom plished. to say nothing of its greater efficiency in handling matters of charity. Our contribution thereto will, perforce, be small, but it is going to be made joyfully. If any of our friends expect to play bridge whist all day Instead of going to the polls, we hope the bridge collapses and lets ’em all drop Into hopeless debts. "What has become of the old-fashioned political candidate who kissed all the babies?" queries J. Hyde Sweet of the Ne braska City Press. It may be, J. Hyde, that he Is kissing the babies' mothers. If that is the case, running for office these days ought to be less Irksome than In the Good Old Days. It may truthfully he said of Laura Jean Libby’s novels that they were not crammed with sex etuff, and her heroines acted like modest and self-respecting women. "Soft stuff," per haps, but at least free from the taint of immorality. t Nebraska Limerick. There is a young lady in Nellgh Whose voire Is highly pitched and quits squeally. In her lover's embrace She will lift, up her face And ecstatically shout, "O, really!" Speaking of "( Inches.” we know of one. It !s s cinch that we shall vote against the adoption of the Sorensen amendment. And If we know It we shall vote against any candidate for office who Is in favor of its adoption. The more we see of "reform" the greater our need for an enlarged vocabulary of words ex pressing denunciation. The Ay swatting season being about over, before you get. out of practice take a good swat at the Sorensen amendment. XVILL M. MAUPIM. ^ — ■ —■ ... / > ■■ " ■' t I r \ Letters From Our Readers i All letter* must be signed, but name will be withheld upon request. Communi cations of 200 words and less, will be given preference. I ^-:-:-—-—> Every Vote Counts. Washington, D. C.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: In 1811 a Rhode Island farmer dallied to release a pig from a fence and arrived at the polls too late to east his vote. The fed eralists lost the precinct by one vote; as a result, representative who fa vored war with Great Britain was elected to the legislature, which In turn hy a majority of one elected a United States senator who favored war. Then the congress, by a ma jority of one, declared war, generally known as the War of 1812. Our country In Its colonial dnys fought a hard and hloody war to win its independence and to establish gov ernment hy majority. The principle of government by majority is the most valuable possession of the re publican system, yet for many dec ades there base been an Increasing tendency among voters not to cast their ballots In presidential elections. Tills tendency has reached a grave anil critical point where we ate very close to a government by minority. Do you want government by major ity or minority? You answer quick ly: "By majority!” The vote slacker hy not voting expresses Indifference as to what kind of government we have, good or bad. The ballot is I he foundation of pop ular government. By wise use of the ballot citizens can remodel our po litical and economic Institutions; In short, can have any kind of govern ment they want. I’ your vote Important among mil Hons? Remember the Rhode Island farmer whose failure to vote caused a war, and you answer: "No, a thou sand times, no!” Do you want better government, a voice In making It l oiter? Do you want to help keep America a government hy majority? Then he sure to cast your ballot this fall. W. A. CALLANAN. What I -a Fdlctte Means. T.OS Angeles, Cal.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Ponte time ago the writer In a public letter gave some of the reasons why ns a farmer he was for Calvin Coolldgo for presi dent to succeed himself. I now crave the liberty of your columns in order that I may convey to my fellow farm ers some of the reasons (aside front any consideration of the policies for which he professes to stand), why I am opposed to Robert M. l,a Follotle for president. And I shall endeavor to show further the litter uselessness, not to say folly, of voting for him at all. At the outlet, however, I want to renounce any disposition to ques tion the sincerity or rssall the mo lives of any who may h,.ve It in mind lo support Mr. Ba Follette by their Vote. I am against Bn Follette for the reason that I believe he is not In good faith a candidate for the presi dency at all. I feel sure that as a practical politician he realizes, and has from the first, that he stands no chance whatever for election. What ami all he hopes to do Is to defeat the elect ion hy the peoplo of any othet candidate for the 'presidency Thus ho would practically disfranchise (so far as voting for president is con cerned), every voter In the United Stales, Including his professedly much beloved farming and laboring classes. What he aims at, and all ho hopes to accomplish, Is lo throw the election of president Into the house of representatives, where he ' " illz.es he has no possible chines of ele. Hon, but hopes to control sufllclenl Of the votes of the state to ilefeat the election of nny other candidate. This means simply to defeat the popular will, without nny possibility of being elected himself. t’nder the foregoing condition, the duly would then devolve upon the '■mite of i|„. fulled .Stales to make choice from the two candldnles for Vice president having the highest number of electoral votes. It Is quite as possible, If not altogether probable, that no choice could he effected In llwi senate more than in the house of rep tesentaUves. The possible„«n<i even probable outcome and result of sup. port of Mr. ].a Kollette therefore seems reasonably to portend entire failure to elect a president at all if, and provided Mr. La Kollette shall re ceive any considerable support at the hands of the voters. This Is a se rious but altogether rational consid eration of the situation. But were there any possibility of his election, personally I should most strenuously oppose him, because In the hour of peril to our country he w.,s against our country. While our boys were In the trenches shooting from the front he was stabbing from behind and shouting "sic 'em'’ to the enemy. In support of this condemns lion I cite the following facte, the truth of which any voter can easily demonstrate should he doubt, towit lie was hung in effigy at Sheboygan, Wls, a- at raitor during the war. The Wisconsin State Council of I>e fense and 71 county defensp councils 1 ailed on him to resign from the 1'nlted States senate The Wlscon sin legislature adopted resolutions formally censuring him for his ills loyal utterances. . . . Surely these Incidents are all satisfying, and thej were enacted hv his home state |>eo pie. They were the outward expres sion of righteous Indignation by an outraged people In time of war. A man disloyal to his country In the hour of its peril Is not the mail to trust at the helm of the ship of state In time of peace. As It appears to me, it would be Idle to discuss the policies for which Mr. I.a Kollette professes to stand, since there Is no possibility, nor as I believe, hope or expectancy on his part of his being elected. Nor was there ever. As It nppears to me, his professed policies are but the smoke screen from behind which he seeks to conceal his real purpose. If he succeeds at all In his real aims snd purposes, the net result practically will he that he will hnve nullified the right of every voter of the country to participate by his vote in the elec tion of the president. Every voter therefore who \otes for him prar tleally votes to disfranchise himself or herself. To defeat the popular choice of a president at the polls will be to precipitate a condition of po litical and business i haos. tlie ills astro us results of which, viewed from a busings standpoint, would first ruinously affect the farmer and la borer (lasses throughout the country. This is a matter for our most serious consideration, In our own Interests and from n business point of view. .Tnd while wo still hnve our ballots within our control. F M BARNES. Nobuddv kin kirk on th’ current price o’ human Hfr. II takes one ladies' tailor t’ break a man. (Co|i.vrl|hi, lt:» ) J LISTENING IN On the Nebraska Press. “Smash the Sorenson amendment.!” exclaims Kditor Sutherland of the Tekamah Herald. Sound advice, we calls it. “Why do people laugh at the law?” asks the Grand Island Inde pendent, and then proceeds to an swer its own query by saying, "be cause they can not heMi it; it's funny.” You have one guess on what law the Independent was talk ing about. You guessed correctly. Hew Shelley says Frank Harrison just can't stand a ladylike campaign, so went out and stirred up a row inside his own outfit. Fletch Merwln of the Beaver Cite Tribune puts it neatly. He likens every voter to a holder of common stock ir. th5 govornmen*, and says election day is when the stockholder should walk up and vote hla atock. There are no proxies. The Beaver City Times Tribune in timates that what a candidate stands for isn't half so important as what he falls for. John Sweet of the Nebraska City Press arises to inquire ths where abouts of the old fashioned woman who raised a row when asked to pay more than 50 cents for a pair of stockings. The chances are. John, that she is raising a ruckus because the barber didn't execute the bob to suit her. Fred Howard of the Clay Center Sun >sayn the most disconcerting thing political blatherskites have collided with of late years is the silence of Calvin Cooltdge. The Kearney Dally Hub has en tered upon Its 37th year, with Mentor A. Brown still at the helm and steer ing the good old ship on a straight course. Kdltor Brown was a veteran before he established the Daily Hub, and he Is now the oldest editor in point of continuous service in all Ne braska. The Hub has been one of the most potent factors In the de velopment of Kearney and Cfntiul Nebraska. t* -- The Seottsbluff Republican Indig nantly denies that Frank Harrison has wrecked the Ea Follette party in Nebraska. Editor Westervelt pays the blooming thing was wreck ed by Coolldge votes at the spring primaries. The Eagle Beacon makes due noie of the fact that Brother William speaks about four good words for l.a Follette to one for Davis, but more for Brother Charley than Bob and John put together. The wife of a former Omaha rnan sued for divorce and ho answered in verse. Editor Carlson Insists that the answer proves that .the wife should he given « decree,____ Page 5 1 £ • ___ £ ' The Same Kindly Care Afterwards that you Gave Before f ^ When a Tiny Soul Takes Flight M * £ Midnight sees a limousine gliding silent ^ ly through the streets, bearing a woman j! ^ j on one of the saddest missions she can ^ undertake. ^ Death has touched the tiny body of a s' new-born babe—a little one whose mother perhaps still j £ lingers in the Valley of the Shadow, bewildered and £ broken hearted at her loss. To her this woman is going. j ^ Alone she enters the room of suffering and sorrow’. 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