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Oiikilid Whefe (lieVist is dt its Best
HIGHWAYS WORTHY OF A GREAT STATE.
Three hundred and fifty men gathered at the
Good Roads luncheon at the Omaha Chamber of
Commerce, a living pledge of sincerity that is now
behind the good roads movement in Nebraska. These
men came from every part of the state. They rep
resented every industry in the st?te. In their per
sons they typify the citizenry of the state, and its
determination to carry out to a successful consumma
tion the six-year program that is now under way,
and which contemplates the expenditure of $7,000,
000 each year, until Nebraska is provided with a
complete system of arterial highways.
A fund of $30,000 is to be raised at once by the
Nebraska Good Roads association, for the purpose
of carrying on an educational campaign among the
people. Omaha’s quota of this is $10,000, which
the Greater Omaha committee has agreed to produce.
This is recounted as an evidence of the earnest pur
pose that animates those who have taken up the
good roads crusade so earnestly in Nebraska.
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It is an old, old story, that of how the state has
suffered because of its lack of all-the-year-round
highways. This loss has never been so great or so
apparent as it has since the automobile came to
awaken us all to the fix we are in. A good truck
costs more than a team and wagon, and more is ex
pected from it. To get all the good possible out of
an auto truck it must be operated under the most
favorable conditions. This means that rough sur
faces, steep grades, poor bridges, and all those
things, bad enough for horse-drawn traffic, but in
finitely worse for the self-propelled machine, are
too costly to be borne with.
It is not alone to get Nebraska out of the mud,
Lut to get out of the rough, soft roadbed, the heavy
pulls over steep hills, and to make crossings over
streams and gullies safe. When this is done, the
annual cost of hauling the crops from the farms
to the railroad will be more than cut in two, and
the farmer will find an added profit on every pound
of stuff he sells and an equivalent reduction in the
final cost of everything he buys and hauls home
from market.
That is principally what good roads mean to
Nebraska.
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This will cost money. Estimates contemplate the
expenditure of $48,900,000 in six years. At the end
of that time Nebraska will have 700 miles of hard
rurfaeed highways. This will mean main highways
east and west and north and south. In addition,
3,000 miles of road will be graded and surfaced
with gravel and clay. Substantial bridges and cul
verts will be built, drainage will be provided, and
it will be possible to get anywhere in the state over
a highway that is worthy of a great commonwealth
and symbolic of the spirit of an industrious, enter
prising and progressive people.
Plans for raising this money include a tax on
gasoline and license tax on automobiles for the main
features. Federal aid will provide another consid
erable portion, and the lesser amount will come
from direct taxation. Under the constitution is
suance of bonds is forbidden. The levying of a
tax is the alternative. As we explained some weeks
ago, this tax amounts to about 5 cents an acre on
the improved lands of the state on the basis of the
1923 valuation as returned for taxation.
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F ideral aid does not depend exactly on a dollar
matching proposition. What it does come to in the
long run is a return to Nebraska of a considerable
proportion of the money paid in taxes to the federal
government. Because of the wide area and the
greater number of rural free delivery houtes in the
state, Nebraska’s claim on the post roads funds is
greater than of smaller states of larger population
and wealth. This is an appreciated advantage.
The main point is that a definite and encouraging
start has been made. Between now and the time the
legislature convenes plans will be matured and pre
sented to the people of the state for consideration.
It is confidently expected that the people will gener
ally join in urging the legislature to take the needed
action, so that the real work of getting Nebraska
out of the mud will he under way in 1925.
OUR BIGGEST BUSINESS.
In the general turmoil attending a national, state
and county election there is danger that the biggest
business in Omaha may be overlooked. The biggest
manufacturing business in any community is its
public school, but unfortunately it is too often over
looked in the heat of partisan battle.
Five members of the board of education are to
be elected by the voters of the Greater Omaha school
district next Tuesday. There aro several “slates”
in the field, ea^h with its own appeal to the voters
and taxpayers. Parents should give particular at
tention to this phase of the election and use their
best judgment in selecting members of the board.
The Board of Education does far more than handle
millions of dollars. It is entrusted with the selec
tion of teachers who mold the minds and form the
characters of the boys and girls entrusted to their
care. -#hat body has a far greater responsibility
than merely handling and accounting for the money
paid by the taxpayers for the support of Lhe public |
schools. It is dealing with the future citizenship of
the community and nation.
For these, and many other reasons that need not
be outlined, it should appeal1 to every thoughtful
parent that wise selection of members of the Board
of Education is imperative. Every taxpayer should
fully inform himself or herself of the qualifications
of candidates for the board, and make careful se
lection. They are dealing with the most vital factor
in Omaha's growth and development.
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TACTFUL ROBERT.
While Mr. La Follette was campaigning in Wis
consin, Michigan, Nebraska and Colorado did he
jump onto the sugar trust? He did not.
Rut when Tactful Bob landed in Maryland, where
they raise neither sugar beets nor sugar cane, he
donned his spiked shoes and jumped on the sugar
trust with both feet. He sunk the spikes into its
quivering corporosity, rent it was claw and fang and
shredded it up until it was ready to act as good silo
filler. Standing in the midst of the tobacco and
peanut raisers Mr. I.a Follette said nary a word
about the tobacco and goober trusfc, but he did
charge that the beet sugar manufacturers were con
spiring to use the tariff in such wise as to permit
them to manipulate the price of sugar.
“Aha, a conspiracy to muke the sugar bowl pay
tribute to a predatory combine!” shrieks “Rattling"
Robert, the shirking being postponed until he had
far removed himself from the sugar beet fields.
One of La Follette’s greatest faults is knowing
so much that simply is not so. He fails to inform
the people how the producers of 800,000 tons of
beet sugar are going to corner a sugar market that
totals 12,000,000 tons. Nor does he explain why
sugar was highest when the tariff was the lowest
in years. He merely scents a conspiracy, and La
Follette has the best long-distance smeller on record.
He can smell a beet sugar conspiracy in Maryland,
but he caught never a scent of it w’hen he was
within the hearing of the beet raisers of the west.
The United States produces less than 25 per
cent of the sugar it consumes. But that 25 per cent
prevents Cuban and Javan sugar producers from
controlling the market and exploiting the American
consumers. Destroy American sugar production
and foreign sugar makers would levy just the same
tribute on the American sugar bowl that they levied
a few years ago when sugar went to $30 a hundred,
only it sold by the single pound and the housewife
was lucky to get that much.
Now why did La Follelte wait until he got away
off yonder in Maryland to put the spikes to an indus
try that means millions to the beet raisers of Ne
braska? Why didn’t he tell them about it face to
face, and then skip over into Maryland and hurl
defiance into the faces of the tobacco and goober !
trusts?
You know why; and so does Tactful Robert. He
wouldn’t get very far with that stuff in Nebraska,
where we produce twice as much sugar as we con
sume, and where the sugar tariff adds from $2.50
to $3.50 a ton to the million tons of sugar beets
raised by Nebraska farmers. And the same applies
to Wisconsin, Michigan, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah
and California.
The men who toil in the 80,000 acres of beet
fields of Nebraska really ought to advise Tactful
Bob to tell them about it face to face, and then skip
over into Maryland and talk tobacco and peanuts.
Peanut talk, by the way, would be so extremely
characteristic of Tactful Robert.
Dr. Joseph Alexander Leighton, professor of
philosophy at Ohio State university, say? the
church, education and medicine are flat failures. ,
Is 01’ Doc Leighton trying to shove Bob off the su- ‘
prenie pessimists’ pedestal, or just trying to adver- i
tise?
Democratic wails about the amount of republi
can campaign money sent into Nebraska recall simi
lar wails over the division of $20,000 of democratic
money sent into Nebraska a few short years ago.
A lot of democrats who deprecate Cal’s reticence
are equally loud in their denunciations of Bro.
Charley’s vociferousness. Some people just won’t
be pleased.
On October 1 there were more than 15,000,000
automobiles in the I'nited States, and before the
month ended we had dodged all but two or three
of them.
Anybody wishing to engage a “brother act” for
the coming season should address either “C. W. B.”
or “W. J. B.” at either Lincoln or Miami. State
terms in first letter. At liberty now.
A certain proportion of men would be more
likely to vote if they had to sneak up an alley and
get their ballots from a bootlegger.
I’lease correct this sentence: “I had a long talk
with the governor of Nebraska and he listened cour
teously and patiently.”
Brother Charlpy says he has more confidence
each day. But Brother Charley always was a great
confidence man.
New York Board of Health forbids the sale of
“looney gas.” Enough “bugs" in Gotham without
making more.
Perhaps those alleged Martian signals are only
some fellow trying to give us the result of a straw
vote up there.
At any rate, Samuel Untermeyer did not make
much when he started to bullyrag Val Peter.
The conservatives in England certainly did stage
a come-back.
One campaign where all can unite is that for
good roads.
Ramsay MacDonald now knows what a real wreck
looks like.
Homespun Verse
—By Onuht'i Own Poet—
Robert Worthington Davie
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TIIK DIFTERKNCK.
I wnlked across a man's estate
One leisure given day,
[ skinned my elbow on Ills gale,
And sued him right away.
Ills premises had done me III—
Tills he could not deny,
And he, of course, would pay the 1,1 It,
Or know the reason why.
With ellmw done In plaster cast.
My anxious days were spent
1 often wondered If nt Inst
I'd get emolument.
Day unto day I suffered an
Prom waiting and with grief;
Mo one will ever truly know
How much I sought relief.
But If the inan had had no weal.
My Injured elbow might
Have hastily eomnienred to feel
As though It was all right;
And 1 would not, perhaps, have sued
The mortal gray and grim.
Believing It a practice rude
To lay the blame un him
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What We Need Now Is Some Good Modern I
Machinery to Get Out the Vote
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Letters From Our Readers
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cations of 200 words and less, will be given preference.
Timely Topic*.
Omaha—To the Editor of The
Omaha Rcp: "The war that will end
war will not be fought with guns."—
Columbia Record.
No! Nor with wind either.
If I .a Koliette expected to be elect
ed. he would make fewer promises."
—Toledo Blade.
What difference does It make" No
body but a few of the “chosen" be
lieves In hi* promise*. The reason
the most of the people who vote for
him do ho is because they don't know
enough about their own government
to lit well enough alone, and want a
"change." just as a lot of us want
a new suit of clothes or a new car;
not because we need it, but because
we want something different.
"They are painting La Koliette a bit
'red,' but there is no oil mixed with
the paint."—Columbia Record.
He will wish there was before he
gets through counting the cost of his
fool venture.
"It is a good idea to kiss the ehli
ilren good-night If you don't mind
waiting up for them."—Peru llnd.)
Tribune.
Why not do It In the morning and
save the trouble of waiting up?
"A lot of people will lie unhappy
in hi: yen when they find out they
can't institute any reforms or pass
any laws.”—Columbia Record.
Whnt becomes of all the editors?
And the political promisors?
"The dedicatory nnthem at the open
ing of Chicago's skyscraper church
w*as, of course, 'Nenrer My God to
Thee.’ "—Norfolk Virginia Post.
How do you know that God lives
In that direction?
" 'I)o Plants Suffer?' asks the Liter
ary Digest. This will he a good ques
“Eventually, why not this fall?”
is th* slopan of Artie Small, canny
dnto for sheriff, who’s out for jjov
er’ment ownership o’ bus lines. A
Mexirnn dop is th' only animal loft
that don’t finnlly end up in a fur
coat or neckpiece.
(Copyright, is:t >
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Sunday .73,865
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1 .Subscribed and iwnrn to before me
this 4th day of October, 1924.
W H. QUIVFY,
, (Seal) Notary Public
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tinn to put on their next straw ballot.'* j
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A lot better one will be, “Does the
fellow that raises the plants suffer? '
And, by the way, Mr. Plain Dealer,
straw Isn’t a plant; It is the relic of a
plant, besides being a proverbial ex
presslon.
*'A newspaper humorist gets brain
fever trying to be funny, and along
cornea a linotype operator who sets It
up Chios \V. Bryan by mistake"—
Detroit News.
It's a good thing th!« campaign is
nearing its end, or there would be a
lot of progressive and democrat edi
tors In a worse fix than either. While
we have our doubts about the '‘hu
morist” having brain fever, we also
have some scruples in believing that
the "operator" made a mistake.
"A bontleggersuggestH that Ameri
cans should boost home trade by buy
ing moonshine Instead of imported
liquor. Here is a good chance to die
for your country. -Fort Worth Rec
ord.
Not in Texas. The forbears of the
Texans were drinking moonshine
when the constitution was a bahv.
‘‘The way to keep audiences at po
litical meetings from going to sleep
Is to stop lugging in the old bunk"—
Norfolk Virginia-Pilot.
That wouldn't affect a tlj\. Foljctte
audience Most of 'em are not u *ed
to a "hunk" of any kind; they just
don't have ’em in tho jungle**. By
COUTH AL MtTlSK.Mi.NT,
Notit
Or^anizt
A committee representing the R
progressive farmer*’ organization* ant
has been engaged in examining the r
candidate* for Senate and for Congresi
want ration* are eo-op«ra* ing in condu
the election of the friend* of the peo|
wherever po**ihle. of thn*e who, by tl
friendly. Regardless of party affiliatw
submitted a* the position of our Orgar
member to comply therewith:
SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DIS1
Progressjve Nominee for Congee**, ha*
of the Second Pi*triet. Hi* opponent
publican, who voted wrong on the ar
and wrong at all time* on the Howe
Station Restriction Pill in 1924, and
to give hi* support and record him*ell
ment. Mr Pear*, on thi* record of *u
betrayal of the trust imposed in him
should he vigorously opposed and ov
who in a real Progressive and who is v
District and i* receiving the undivid*
should he vigorously supported and el*
j Fraternall
THE ORDF
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th* by: wonder h»»w they hold th«
'solid south" together.
"The Bryan brothers are probably
entitled to the credit for the reduc
tion in gas prices, back east. They
started the overproduction.—San
IHego Union.
There ought to be some distinction
between gas and wind.
F J. MARTIN.
Support tlie* Bond Issues.
Omaha.—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: I do hope that every
La Follette booster, and there may
he a few left even among the readers
of The Omaha Bee. will vote for all
three appropriations for Improve
ments in Omaha, which come up for
public approval.
The river drive will add Immeasur
ably to the future appearance of the
city. Every city of refinement spends
a good deal of attention to its river
front, as it lends Itself so much to
beautiful landscaping Surely we do
not want Omaha to hang back as far
as tidying up is concerned.
The enlargement of our school is
a plain debt to our children. If w«*
must cut down expenses, let us n«>t
take it out of our children. No money
brings as large returns as that spent
on our public schools.
The branch library proposed is a
step in the right direction. Other
• ities of our size have libraries that
ure far more monumental and costly
than ours. We must progress in this
matter, but the better way Is not
to build a ne\s palace down town, but
to build branch libraries until every
rhild is within walking distance from
such a place of refinement and study.
If will help to fill the minds of young
October 24. 1924.
:e to
;d Labor
abroad Labor Org* niutionn several
the American Federation of I,ahor.
•cord* and quaiifictiona of all of the
in the several State*. All thene or
ating the congressional campaign for
de and for the defeat and opposition,
leir own record, are nhown to be un
in, the following recommendation* are
nation*, and we wi*h each and every
RICT— MR. ROY M HARROP. the
he endorsement of all the Progren*ivt * j
in Willia G. Seam, reactionary Re
lendment to the rules of the House, j
ll-Parkley Bill: wrong on the Intmi- I
lid not vote for and therefore failed j
In favor of the Child l^abor Amend
hnervience to the vented interest* and
by the people of the Second District,
erwhelmingly defeated Mr. Harrop.
ell known to the people of the Second
d nupport of the progressive force*.
Pted.
y your*.
E. J. M ANION. President.
R OF RAILROAD TELEGRAPHERS.
St. Ix>uia, Mo.
"SUNNY SlPEllP ’
lake Comfort, nor forget. 1
Qhat Sunrise ne\/er failea. us L/ey
CtLia. wox cetr
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After voting and doing our dally stint next Tuesday. »*
expect to go to l»ed at the usual hour and sleep ns soundly as i
our wont, assured that no matter what the result, this good old
republic is going to go right ahead towards its glorious destiny.
I^ing ego we ceased viewing with alarm.
Assurance that we are soon to have a reduction of J cents
per thousand feet of gas is hailed with three rousing cheers.
Six rousing cheers would greet the announcement of an in
crease in some things around the center where municipal ga*
activities are greatest.
Geographical.
.Mary's dad has lots of dough
And buys her gowns most rare; (
Rut IJeila Smith has no such dad.
So what shall Delaware? —Hastings Tribune.
Ida Jones, she owns a farm.
Rut nothing there will grow:
■She's tried her best to make it pay.
t-o where shall Idaho? —Nebraska bit y Press
our Mary took an airplane flight; ,i
The stick slipped from her hand. I 1
The plane began a tailspin then—
o where will Maryland?
We are seeking the services of some efficiency expert w ho
will devise for us a simple system w hereby we may know three
weeks from now Just what we wanted with the clipping we
stuck into our inside coat pocket today.
At all times there is disagreement among even the most
active prohibitionists as to the efficacy of enforcement. Rut on
one thing they unanimously agree—there must be larger ap
propriations for enforcement. *
Tile Pest.
With a loyalty undoubted be arose each day and spouted, and
the slackers a!l he flouted—for America stood first. Those g*
who howled and agitated and with fears the future
freighted, he each day loud deprecated, and the anarchist
lie cursed.
For the dangers dread confronting he Mime certain cure was
hunting, and he filled the sir with grunting is he s|iouted
bout the flag. Night and day he spouted freedom, sought
our neighbors so's to lead ’em. saying I'mle Rani would
need ’em hack from anarchy to drag.
Night and day he kept, on simutlng. all the foes of freedom
routing, and for patriotism shouting till he fairly ripped
his throat. Then election day came rolling, found him
’round the golf eourse strolling, trying hard at better
holing, and he clean forgot to vote.
Somehow or other recent lm uhrations about the excessive
use of money in campaigns reminds us of the good old demo
ratio friend who was asked if he ex|ierted victory at th-’ elec
tion next day.
"We are bound to win If them d-d republicans don't buy
us," he asserted.
Our compliments and regards *o O T Wither of Oiblior
He may be correct about horse <-.rs In Kearney, buf he Is
dreadfully wrong when he says he knew ns when we ran «
• little paper in North Emi We wou'd have him know that
when we tan a paper in North Rend it w is the biggest and
best darned newspaper in Nebraska, bar none.
Wlt.L M MAl’PIN.
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and ol.l with wholesome though'.; and
uplifting vision".
Great care should Ire exercised in
The selection of our school Ironrd. Men
of known refinement and practical
business sense should be the only ones'
considered. Our colored people ought
to have one representative the num
entitli
them to it. In Father Williams they
hive a capable candidate. Of the can
dldates on the list I would especially
inot for Mr. R, M Switiler. a flne
tyre? of an attorney, who combines a
practical tnind with a splendid edu
cation Hnd an appreciation of things
that are lugger than money. A citi
zen, regardless of party, can hardly
go wrong in giving him his vote
ALBERT Kl'HX.
Fully Explained.
A holiday maker was highly
amused at a signboard which read:
This farm for sail." Always ready
for a little pleasantry, he naked the
When in Omaha
Hotel Conant
250 Rooms—250 Ruths— Rite; J: to $5
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The 30,000 Home Own- \
ers of Omaha owe a vote I
of thanks to Harry G.
Counsman for the tax \
reduction which they
will enjoy shortly, and > . <
which means a saving of
at least 20 per cent. g
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Vote tor COUNSMAN tor County Commissioner |
.'..imer— wife when the farm was to
sail. Sh*- stared at him steadily for
i few moments and the nanswered;
Just as soon »s the man comes
alonn who can raise the wind."—
"Vorkahfre Post.
fill IT!< U. ^vTVrKT IsI MKNT,
JUDGESLA8AUGH
will appreciate
your rote and help
DISTRICT JUDGE
SLUMBER
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to you. Don't even consider buy
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plete lists of what you need and
have our estimates by return
mail. No money down. We shi;
quick and pay the freight.
W. F. Hoppe Lumber Co.
9th and S Sts. Lincoln, Neb.
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