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COOLIDGE, DAWES, AND FORWARD MARCH.
Only one interpretation can be put on the result
of the election of Tuesday. Americans are content
with Coolidge and have confidence in Dawes. Com
mendation is given the president for what he has
done. Approval is expressed for what he has pro
posed to do. Dawes made his position crystal clear
all over the land. He never was ambiguous. He
did not leave any doubt as to what his thoughts or
intentions are.
When Calvin Coolidge delivered his address to
the nation, at the time he was notified of his nomi
nation, he drew the issue. A government of com
mon sense, he said, is needed. The people have
taken him at his word. His career is the best pos
sible evidence of his sincerity. We may look for
ward to four years of administration of the public
business of the United States on the basis of com
mon sense.
Along with this renewed commission to the pres
ident goes a great responsibility. As leader of his
party, he will be expected to remove causes of dis
content as far as possible. No man could make
everyone happy and contented. It is a sociological
principle, long establshed, that with increasing com
forts come increasing grumblings. Much of the
hubbub that is heard is due to the prosperity that
now prevails. This will not be lessened, but rather
increased because of the republican victory. What j
may be done, and should be done, is to readjust some :
of the conditions, to the end that the grumblers will I
have to hunt up new causes for complaint. Just !
now it is forward march for every earnest citizen.
Skulkers to the rear.
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MMULLEN AND NEBRASKA.
Adam McMullen has been elected governor of
Nebraska in a three-cornered fight by a plurality j
that leaves no doubt as to the intent of the voters.
He is to be congratulated. His campaign from its
•tart to its finish was clean, dignified, and worthy
of the man. Nebraska is to be congratulated on
having chosen a man of such capacity for its execu
tive.
McMullen will go into office surrounded by a
group of well-tried administrative officers. Among
these will be Charles W. Pool, a democrat, but one
who made good in his job, and who should feel the
value of the high compliment paid him by the voters
of the state.
George W. Norris is returned to the United
States senate, Nebrnska for the first time in its his
tory giving a third term to a United States senator.
It is possible that, while he finds comfort in this
tact, he may also gain wisdom from the fact that
the voters of Nebraska also gave Calvin Coolidge
unmistakable approval.
The sitting members are returned to congress,
three democrats and three republicans, a proof of
the close division of political sentiment in the state.
Early returns indicate the control of the legis
lature in both its branches by the republicans. This
will', definitely locate responsibility as well as power.
No chance to pass the buck should result in care in
consideration of all matters, and produce benefits
for the people.
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AMENDMENT DEFEATED.
Most important of all the subsidiary matters
submitted to the people was the Sorensen amend
ment to destroy party organizations. This was em
phatically rejected by the voters. Its dangerous
character, insidiously concealed behind a pretense
to preserve the direct primary, brought on such dis
approval as should be a rebuke to the marplots who
are working always under cover to gain control in
the state. Nebraska will hold to the party system
of government. Its voters have found that institu
tion amply responsive to their needs at all times.
They will not discard it, even though they may from
time to time give’support to new party movements.
On this fact we also congrateulate the voters, be
cause they have thus shown -+n high degree in
telligent capacity to manage their own affairs, and
not to submit to dictation, no matter who the dic
tator may be at the moment.
AMERICA’S STAR BOARDER.
A "star boarder” is one who eats and never puvs.
Who does nothing but consume food. Americans
have long entertained a star boarder. If somebody
down at Washington were to take $100,000,000
from the Treasury each year and throw it into the
Potomac river, we would hear loud and prompt pro
test. Yet that sum of money is just about what the
people of the United .States pay each year to feed
the rats of the country.
In San Francisco, New Orleans and certain other
seaports efforts have hern made to exterminate the
rat, but the movement has not generally spread.
f»ot for lack of urging, for the health official* of
the ; land have brought the matter forward many
times, but with little effect. Another anti-rat
crusade is about to get under way. It is stimulated
by the appearance of a serious scourge of disease
from the Pacific coast. Rat-borne, the plague has
reached Los Angeles, and may got further. The
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medicine men are vigilant, though, and expect to
prevent an epidemic.
Plague or no plague, the rat should be doomed.
He is not native of America, and is the most ob
noxious immigrant ever brought to the land. Vigor
ous, prolific, a great traveler, capable of eating a
hole in a concrete wall, the rat offers one of the
toughest jobs the public has yet taken up. That
fact may account for its still being with us. If he
had succumbed to mild treatment, he would have
disappeared long ago.
Some way may be found to evade this costly,
wasteful and dangerous guest of the American pub
lic. One good way is suggested by the city health
officer, Dr. Pinto. Let each citizen kill a rat. Every
day, and keep it up. Soon the rats will be gone.
Those who have the opportunity may exceed the
limit, and kill as many as they wish any day. Put
the slogan should be, “The rat must go!’’
OMAHA GOING STRAIGHT AHEAD.
Voters of Omaha have approved certain im
provement projects by giving assent to three bond
issues. One for the. extension of the public school
plant, one for the erection of a branch of the
public library on the north side of town, and one for
the creation of the Riverside Drive as part of the
boulevard and park system. Each of these bond
issues has for its object the provision of a needed
public improvement.
Naturally, there was a division of opinion and
opposition to the bonds. Whatever the basis for
objection to the proposals, it was not sufficient to
overcome the sentiment in favor and the bonds will
be issued. The sign is a good one. Just as the
citizens show their confidence in the future by the
authorization of extensive public mprovements, so
will individuals feel encouraged to go ahead with
betterments on private property. New school build
ings, new library buildngs, and new boulevards
should stimulate new homes, new business buildings
and new enterprises in other directions.
Omaha is going straight ahead, along the
road that leads to greater and more permanent
prosperity. It would be amazing if the impetus that
is felt throughout the land had no favorable reaction
here. Shake off the lethargy and get into line,
and help to make the city where you live all that
you dreamed it should become when you cast your
lot here. This is the clear call to every citizen, and
should be heeded.
CURTAINS FOR MR. BROOKHART.
Iowa voters seem to have preserved a sense of
the high dignity and personal probity that made
the Hawkeye state a power in the councils of the
nation from the first. They have handed Smith
Wildman Brookhart his walking papers. In all the
annals of party history no act of political treachery
exceeds his conduct in turning on the ticket nom
inated by the party whose candidate he was.
No question is raised as to the right of Mr.
Brookhart to give his personal support to La Follette
and Wheeler. It was indecent of him to try to drag
along with him the republican party by clinging to
a nomination given him as a member of that party.
He did declare his opposition to President Coolidge
before the primary, but he did not then intimate
that he would not support the party's choice ./or
president and vice president. Had he boldly de
clared his determination not to act in harmony with
the party before he was nominated, he might not
have been so honored.
He selected his own course, followed his own
counsel, and has been repudiated by the voters of
Iowa. If he is game to follow his own ideas with
regard to “lame ducks," it might not be out of
place for him to resign at once, and let Governor
Kendall send to Washington a man who actually
will represent the people of Iowa for the remainder
of the Sixty-eighth congress.
THE WORK AHEAD.
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What has been perhaps the most curious po
litical campaign in the country’s history has just
closed. With that out of the way there comes op
portunity to consider carefully some of the things
that need to be done to make a better Omaha and
a better Nebraska.
In the city there is need for more community
centers, more improvement clubs and a better
knowledge of the city’s great industrial life.
In the, state there is need for better roads, bet
ter marketing facilities and improved school con
ditions. Most of all is there need for a better
knowledge of Nebraska, its opportunities, its possi
bilities and its people. We need less worry about
European conditions and more attention to the de
velopment of Nebraska resources. There is need j
for a publicity bureau that will not only tell the
world about Nebraska resources and invite capital to
develop them, but will also acquaint Nebraskans
with the “acres of diamonds” at their very doors.
There is an immense amount of constructive
work to interest Nebraskans and keep them busy.
Now what a mere trifle likp electing a president
is out of the way, let us give a considerable part of
our attention to the absorbing question: “Will Ne
braska beat Notre Dame?”
Uncle Sam credited Germany with $2,000,000
when the 55R-.1 was turned over to him. A* usual
gas was most of what Uncle Sam received.
* Europe will not worry about the refusal of the
United States to enter the League of Nations so long
as it is foremost in the Loan to Nations.
If President Coolidge really believes in reciproc
ity he will now inform us about the met its of n cer
tain make of cur.
Charles Hose of Chicago conducts n rubber
works, and the only Stocking we know is a banker.
A lot of gas money burned last summer would
look good invested in coal right now.
Good morning! Huve you snaggud your rat?
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Homespun Verse
— By Omaha’s Own Poet—
Robert Worthington Davie
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EVOLUTION.
Farming, clerking, I raveling --In March of heeded wealth,
•)f ex**n lN»\ amusement and Incessant nigged health,
Diversity mid learn* dnes* and logic straight arid plain.
And.dignity and reverence and necessary gain.
From manhood to the labyrinth In yonder mystic deep,
Through changes and perplexity like meteors we sw*-cp
In sunshine and In shade our ways half consciously
we wend
I nto the rainbow'* beauty and life's migratory end
It matter* none where'er we dwell, nor what we choose
to he,
Nor what we prise, nor what we seek to ofTer destiny;
There Is a single winding way that leada ns straight
Iway on
Fnto the end of earth’s brief day and break of Heaven's
dawn.
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Well, Anyway, They Still Have the Wagon
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“From State and
Nation” j
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Stone* From the SUjr.
From th* T.ondon Wall.
The earth in a target for many
kind* of celestial missile®. Astrono
mers estimate more than 20,000,000
meteorites enter our atmosphere
every 24 hours. They vary from
microscopic pur tides to huge masses
of several hundredweight. Most of
them, however, are so small the fric
tion they encounter as they rush
through the air set* them on tire.
They are entirely consumed before
the reach the earth's surface.
Some, however, are massive enough
to survive the passage through the
air and are afterwards recovered. In
J492 a meteorite fell ut Ensiaheim. in
Alsace. A terrific noise drew atten
tion to its full. It was found in a
hole, having penetrated three feet
in to tlie ground. It was deposited in
the church and drew large crowds to
*ee it. The mass weighed originally
260 pound*. A fragment is preserved
in South Kensington.
A meteorite fell on Mount Vaisng,
in Provence, in 1637. It was about
the size and shape of a mans head,
and weighed r»4 pounds.
Another small meteorite fell st
Milan in 16f>4. It str uck and killed a |
Francisco n.
The first recorded English meteorite J
fell at Wold Cottage, in Vorf hire in
179a. Now in South Kensington It
weighs .*6 pounds.
A shower of some* fell at T.'AIgb
Jn Normandy, in 1*0.7. A brilliant
meteor was seen moving with great
rapidity. Then a violent explosion
was heard and mn**“* were seen t«»
fall. The largest weighed 7K pound*.
The "Batsurn" meteorite fell in,
India in 1*61. A loud explosion wa
heard ami fragments of stone fell over
n wide area. When reco\«»red the\
fitted together, thouch pieces still nr
wanting. Another instance of shat
tering I* recorded in 1*64. A fireball,
apparently as large as tin- full moon,
was seen from Argued, in Fiance. It
exploded, ami more than a hundred
fragments were found. OriginalU
this must have been nn enormous
one. A mass of nearly ure iron fell
nt Rowton, Shropshire, In 1*76. It
weigh** h pounds.
In 19 14 i mass weighing pound
fell ii«a r Wigan, whib m 1917
stone weighing 28 pounds felt *!
Perth. Scotland. Till* was broken
into four pieces
The famous stone in the Kasha.
Mecca, which Mohamnudnn worship,
is a meteorite.
No Time for Politic*.
"Who are you supporting tils
year"" asked the man interested in
poll! |f .*
A wife, three children, s:t poor re
lation* and a car,'’ growled the man
who wasn't.—Cincinnati Enquirer,
Another Tramp Story,
“But T gave you a dime only yes j
tenia.\. my good man."
“That \\a* for food. No\y I need
money for a d- spepsla t ibiet for ovci
eating Battle Creek Visitor.
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Abe Martin
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11’« jest about )fot »o Hi’ only
tiling wo kin he without a slush
fund it a palllx'urrr. \\ ho re mem
her* when a feller shook your hand
'cause he wuz triad t’ see you?
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Hopes for the Future.
Omaha.—To the Editor <>f The
[)tnaha Bee: T wish to congratulate
rhe Omaha Bee, its editors and its
partisans in the contest, of the past
week upon their smashing victory. I
sincerely hope that the greater con
fidence which they had in the pa
triotism, wisdom and efficiency of the
Eoolidge administration and its ad
visers is not misplaced and that my
i'\vn impressions were erroneous and
mv feu+s unfounded.
I regard the American Ballot as
the real Supreme <*ourt, as does Hob
r*rt I,a Eollette. This court has now
given a verdict in favor of the defend
ant. and I. as one of the plaintiffs.
< ept the verdict, and not only agree
in, hut far as 1 am a part of
public V^Mpnn, Upon the reins being
1* ft in the hands of the adviser* of
I’oolldge.
I shall give the coming government
rnv best wishes and would discourage'
nil heckling and obstructing tacthjs. |
1» will either manage things better j
than we expected nr it will exploit]
the people so badly that they will be
sufficiently outraged not only to take
ibe power from its leaders but also
in one way or another to take away
from them again the resources they
will steal from them.
fMir comfort lies In the fact that In
a democracy composed of fairly well
educated people any oppression and
> xploitatinn of the masses must have
its limits the pendulum will swing
only <> fat swollen fortunes will
LUMBER
Millwork and Central Building
Material at
25% or More Saving
to you. Don't oven consider buy
ing until you have sent us com
plete lists of what you need mid
have our estimates by return
mail. No money down. We ship
quick and pay the freight.
W. F. Hoppe Lumber Co. c
9th and S Si*. Lincoln, Neb. I
gradually, by the force of public opln
ion, through taxation, control of cor
porations and in other -.ays, be re
duced in in the interest of the mass
of the people. Let us hope that the
stand-pat republican leadership will
recognize this political law.
ALBERT KUHN.
A Smart Bobber.
"For the love of Mike! Officer,
what e the excitement? Is there a
riot?" asked the passerby.
"No," grumbled the cop. who vru
trying to keep the mob liack; “that
tool barber advertised bobbing for 48
cents ami these are the long-haired
women all rushing to take advantage
of the bargain price."—Cincinnati
Enquirer.
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horn tuituicd and dis Igiuedby st.,i
itching, burning dm eruption, Jmi
apply a little of that soothing, heal -.- *
Rrstnol Ointment to the irritated sur
face and see if the suffering *s not re
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gets well quickly and ear lv ur < •
the trouble is due to some sciious in
ternal disorder.
Doctor* prescribe K 1 widely, t
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SMILE.
When you think life* not worth while,
Sit straight up and force a smile.
Smile and shake your fist at fate:
Hit the line, don't hesitate.
Smile and say, "World, howdy do:
Here's a looking straight at you"'
Shake yourself and force a smile.
You'll see clear sky after a while.
When you meet a brother, sntlle:
fhasp his hand: walk double file.
Smile and say, "Hello, old chum:
t'beer up! Don’t be sad and glum
Smile, and every time you do .*»
It pays Interest to you.
Waste of time salt tears to shed—
Snyje, and keep on straight ahead
Tn the crowded market place
Keep a glad smile on your fare.
Frown, and you give birth to doubt—
Next tiling you'll be down and out.
Smile and say, "Things coming fine,
only carload lots in mine.'' , ▲
Waste of time to sigh and sob— f J
Smile, and stick tight to your job.
Jn a day or two we purpose Indicting a few comments to
a Norfolk weekly publication whose editor cast some aspersion*
on some recent political correspondence written by us and pub
lished in the news columns of The Omaha Hee. We'll not eon
fine ourself to saying, "I told you sec,” either.
•lust to satisfy the Insistent demand of the COlnnel. who
sits at our left and between us and the window, ve pause long
enough to remnrk that the country enjoyed republican weather
last Tuesday.
We admit that our knowledge of transportation problems
Is limited, and we would know more. Hut now and then we *
see something that bids us pause and wonder if there is any
use trying to solve them On a recent trip we stopper! at Har
vard for h few hours. While there an eastbound freight train
whizzed through with four cars of fat hogs thereon. A few
minutes later a westbound freight train whizzed through w;'h
four cats of fat hogs thereon Then ami there it struck ns
that It would have been a good idea to trade hogs before ship
ping, thus avoiding the payment of so much freight.
During the last three weeks of the campaign we personal!'
urged 125,(10(1 people to go to the polls and vote. It would seem
that every one followed the advice, bringing five or six oth> «
with ihem.
Members of the We Knew Hint When Hub will shove along
on the bench and make room for f'ol. Hi iff Thom.-.s of Harva- 1
AVe kicked a job press in his Courier office at Harvard neailv
40 years ago. and remember what a howl of derision went up
when Colonek Thomas and his son. Harris, installed the first
linotype put mto a weekly newspaper office |n Nebraska AA'c
old hand peggrrs knew that father and son were erazv. Both
are out of the newspaper game now. although Thomas, ar .
still carries a key to Ole Buck's Courier offh e and now and
then writes a few bright thoughts for publication AA'el! along
on the sundown side of life, Colonel Thomas etlll plays snare
drum in the Harvard band, enjoys good health and. a* always,
looks out on life with a sunny smile. _ A
For several weeks we have missed something There was
a hiatus in things that we could not define, henre worry and
fretting. This morning it dawned upon us that here we are
with the beet pulling and topping season two-thirds gone and
not a single sob of wail in Collier s AVrekly about the poor
lit tie* children will* frozen fingers in the beet fields of Ne
braska Has Collier's tveen so busy saving the nation that It
ov erlooked a subject that it has been whanging a wav at for
years? AVILL M. M A UP IN.
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