The Omaha BeeI MORNIN G—E V E N I N G—S U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Publisher N. B. UPDIKE, President BALLARD DUNN, JOY M. HACKLER, Editor in Chief Business Manager MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, 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 ars also reserved. The Omaha Bee is a 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 j Private Branch Exchange. Ask for ATI®***!#* 1 flflO the Department or Person Wanted. * I»imc IU OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam ChicaBo—Stcger llldg. Boston—Globe Bldg. Los Angeles—Fred L. Hall, San Fernando Bldg. Ban Francisco—Fred L. Hall, Sharon Bids, New York City—270 Madison Avenue Seattle—A. L. Niels, 514 Leary Bldg._ MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES DAILY AND SUNDAY 1 year *5.00. 6 months $3.00. 3 months *1.76, 1 month 75c DAILY ONLY 1 year $4.50, 6 months $2.75, 3 months $1.60. 1 month 75c SUNDAY ONLY 1 year *3.00. 6 months *1 75. 3 months $1.00, 1 month 50c Subscriptions outside the Fourth postal zone, or 600 miles from Omshn: 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 86c, 1 week 80c Evening and Sunday.1 month 66c. 1 week 15c I Sunday Only .1 month 20c, 1 week 6c ^ Omahd-Vtefe fhe^bst is at ite Best KEEP RIGHT ON GOING. . Official Father and Son week ended Saturday night. Father and Son weeks, unofficial to be sure, but the real thing just the same, have been in progress for years on end. They will continue through all the years to come with increasing inter est and profit as fathers and sons learn the value of palship. Father and Son week has been of immense value. It permitted many fathers and sons to give public , jfpfession to inner feelings they have long shared in common. It stirred many other fathers and sons into greater appreciation of one another and estab lished new confidences. Too often fathers and ons suppress their feelings, one for the otliei, be cause of a false sentimentality. If Father and Son week does no more than bring out what their hearts (eel it has been a stupendous success. If it has called renewed attention to the growing need of a renewal of the home life that characterized America in other days, and it has not served its full purpose if it ha* not done that, it has been greatly worth while. It is !n the home that lessons of thrift and in dustry must be taught if taught effectively. It is m the home that honesty and genuine love of coun try must be inculcated into the minds of the boys and girls who will be the citizens of tomorrow. All this is not a task to be delegated to the public schools, or to the Bible schools. If many fathers appear to have lost interest or comradeship, it is only because the problems of business life are complex. If sons appear to have lost filial respect and comradeship with their fnth ( rs, it is only because they hesitate to bother Dad while he is immersed in business. The loss is seem ing, not actual. Anything that will tend to restore to outward practice that inward feeling is immensely worth while. And Father and Son week is serving ’.hat useful purpose. During the week ending last night more than one hundred Father and Son ban quets were held in Omaha, and more than fifteen thousand fathers and sons met around the board to sing and joke and give outward expression of a heart feeling too often under a mantle of seeming indifference. All over the county similar scenes have been enacted. It was a wonderful week. It „ will-mean successive weeks of similar meetings, held ‘ in the privacy of American homes, strengthening ; comradeship, providing mutual help and rebuilding stronger than ever before the bulwarks of the re public. DO IT EARLY. It probably will not do a bit of good, other than to give us a satisfying feeling of having performed a duty, but we cannot, refrain from advising our readers to do their Christmas shopping early. They . ought to do so, whether they do or not. Perhaps ' the very fafct that they should do so is an explana tion of why they will not. . “There are numerous reasons why early Christ ’ mas shopping is desirable. The shoppers have more ! time in which to make selections. They have a ! wider range of choice, to say nothing of oppor ' lunity for mature judgment. They avoid the mad dening crowds. They get better service from clerk and saleswomen. They are not imposing hardships upon the good folk behind the counters. But why enumerate all the advantages of early , Christmas shopping? They are well known. They ; have been outlined time and time again. Yet in ; all likelihood Christmas shopping will be put off by i ihe majority until the last minute. Then will come ; *he mad rush, the disappointment:- and the regrets. I Thus the real joy of Christmas is sacrificed. Do your Christmas shopping early! We have performed our full duly. We have ad vised you for your own good and the good of oth ; , is. We can go no farther. We wouldn’t if we ; could. i _ - . GOODBY, EMMA! 1 * Emma Goldman, deported from the United .Stutes in 1919 as an undesirable alien, went to Rus sia. She went to Russia because it was there the great experiment was being tried out. Emma had been demanding just that kind of experiment in ! the United States. The language she used in mak ing her demands rather got on the nerves of Uncle 1 Sam, who, though a mild-mannered old gentleman ; and overly inclined to patience and long suffering, S finally took action. Emma, with other “demand steam for the propeller when it came time to head in at the hallot box. Emma Goldman is beginning to realize iier fool ishness while orating about the failures of the re public. She Is probably willing to admit now that what she denounced as failures nre far better than the successes she thought to find elsewhere. Among other who are chortling over the elec tion returns as they touch unon and appertain to Governor Bryan, one Bill O’Brien, long timp fish commissioner, seems to be getting the most out of it. If Governor Bryan goes into the coal business on his own hook after January 1, he will find things a little different when he ha to pay for his adver tising out of the gross receipts. “Pa” Ferruson may he privileged to give nS vice, but in view of certain facts of Texas history “Ma” Ferguson would do well to accept it with mental reservations. “What happened to wheat?” queries the New York Tribune. Well, whatever it was it wasn’t what La Follette predicted, hoped and expected. Russia pretends to resent Uncle Sum's failure to recognize. It is all pretense, for Uncle Sam recognizes Russia all too well. Speaking.of cinch bets, there is the wager that the next democratic national convention, if any, will not he held in New York. Judge Fitzgerald’s instructions to Jimmy Decker are equally good for all drivers of automobiles. t — ~T Homespun Verse —By Omaha’* Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie —---' THE FINEST Kill EMI I'VE GOT. Of honest men amt kindly men I often ililnk » lot. The man who sells rne eoul has proved the finest friend I’ve gut; His fortitude is wonderful, lie waits until T pay. He doesn’t tome along and try to take hi* fuel away. \ His patience and bp no voir wo nre dear. Indeed, to me: He knows that things don’t always prove ns they had ought to ho Hut bo in e'er considerate regardles* of strife’* trend. And 1 have conic to know him a* niy one deserving friend. Ills heart 1* in the proper place, his fnltli Is doubly strong; He seems to know how hard It for me to get along; lie knows about bow much It* costs then** hungry mouths to fill— Vnd If a n an to I b avi n goes, I’m certain that be will “From State and Nation” k — ■ • The Poor Bachelor! From tho Kansas City Star. In a recent (school examination the following definition was given for the word bachelor: "The only man in the world who can do as he pleases." But there was a time in the early life of the nation when an unmarried man was looked upon with the gravest disfavor—indeed, almost as a criminal. He was not permitted to choose his own residence, and had to live with whom and where the court assigned hitn. in Hartford, Conn., an unmarried man of colonial days had to pay 25 shillings a week to the town.for the selfish luxury of living by himself. Hew early laws seem more unjust and arbitrary, or more amusing, than this order, which was issued at East hum, Mass., in 1695: ‘‘Every unmar ried man in this township shall kill six blackbirds or three crows, while he remains single, or as a penalty for not doing it, shall not marry until he fulfill this order." One old text reads: “In order that lncouridgement be given these hesi tant ones and a temptation to wed lock, let them be given a town lot on which to build.” In Medfleld there was at one time a district known as “Bachelors’ Row," which had been given away In this way. During the early days of Salem, “Maid lots" also became popular, but the custom was ordered abolished by Endicott, who saw evil and trouble ahead in the pract.'ce. When this lot giving was stopped, there was much dissatisfaction, and more than one In dignant maid. Endicott speaks of offering one maid at this time a bush el of corn, when she had come for a house and lot. No Two Voices the Same. Chas. McGee Adams in Atlantic Monthly. The similarity of voices is not con fusing (to the blind) as a rule. Many are similar, to be sure, but T have pever encountered absolute doubles, and in general voices are as sharply differentiated as faces—in fact, often far more. The onU- difficulty I have experi enced, strangely enough. Is caused by one person's having several voices. All of us have; we change tone and quality more or less unconsciously, according to our mood and condition. But In some the change is dismay ingly unmarked. One woman, for ex ample, has as many as five voices, each quite distinct. The physical condition is also re vealed by the voice in a striking de gree, both as to change and normal characteristics. Fat people, for ex ample, have a voice quality which is all but Invariably detectable. Character, too, is easily read. In fact it seems that character is re vealed In the vo.ee even more fully and accurately than In the face, no doubt because the seeing, falling to recognise this, makes less of an at tempt to mask the voice. A Tribute to Honesty. From the the St. Taut Dispatch. No more striking evidence of the admiration aroused In the popular mind for honesty is to he,found than in the election to the supreme bench of North Dakota of John Burke, for mer -governor and for eight years treasurer of tho United States. The personal equation entered little into the result, for two reasons. One was that his opponent, former Justice Charles .1. Fisk, Is as highly esteemed, had been elected twice to the su premo bench, is, like Burke, a demo crat, and the two men had worked along the same political lines and were friends of old standing. The other was that Burke as a name had become a tradition. The generation that elected him three times governor In a republican state had passed along and tho newer one knew him less. The thing that appealed to the vot ers was the honesty of the man. That Was the one quality that served to characterize him to the voter. They knew of the crash in New York and they saw hint str p himself of his life's saving. $20,000, of his insurance policies, $6,000, and even of his bank deposit, $1,500, anti walk out of the place penniless, to return to his home state at the age of 63 and start all over again, In dingy offices facing on an alley in Fargo. And all this with out a whimper or complaint. That such a course should catch the popular imagination and arouse ad miration speaks of the heart of the people. They elected Burke, hut they Yoted for honesty, as art abstract principle to which they paid tribute. Most of them disagreed with Burke politically, many of them did not know ldtn or had forgotten him when be fought his battle 20 years ago, and he was unable to make a campaign in renew himself to their minds. Burke's friends of pioneer days will rejoice with him in his success, but fellc tatlons nre due North Dakota people for the manner of man they have chosen for their highest court. The Meanest Man. From tho Sioux City Jumna). Omaha has nianv good things ss a matter of course, but it also lias the meanest confessed thief encountered anywhere out In this section of the country for a long, long time. Ernest Taylor, a young man, was caught robbing church poor boxes wherein contributions were placed for the re lief of unfortunate families. In con fessing Taylor sa d: "it's a good racket (robbing church boxes) around Christmas time: you clean up ns high as $200 and $300 at a crack.” The saddest part of the story Is that bo eatme Taylor was caught taking small amounts of money tho elmrgo against him must l>« petty larceny and the maximum of Ills punishment Is 90 da vs In Jail. --s Abe Martin y — — — * “O' course, 1 know how t* sew an’ cook, hut you don't think 1 wiu gain' t’ tell him, tin you?" said Mrs. Fern I'nsh, t'day, who’s hus hand walked out on her yisterday. 'Hold th’ only event these days thnt don’t wait for th’ camera squad is tin uuto smu-hup. (Copyright, 19-4.' (- “— Letters From Our Readers All letters must be si«ned, but name will be withheld upon request. Communi cations of 200 words and less, will be *iven preference. V._—- —' Sunny side up i , Hake Comfort, nor forget Qhat Sunrise ne\JerfailecL^r _ _ j v - ---------—\ r We confess to being sadly puzzled. Something seems to have gone wrong somewhere, hut just where we do not know. We seek enlightenment. A few years ago we were told that practically all of the crime schemes were planned and hatched in saloons. Now we haven't any saloons, but there are more crimes than eVer before; more highway robberies, more bank robberies, more dope rings, more divorces, and the jails and penitentiaries hold more prisoners per 100.000 of population than ever before in history. We do not think the abolition of the saloons is responsible for it, but Why is it that the nbo lltlon of the saloons did not prevent it? Then there is the matter of transportation charges. A quarter of a century ago the people demanded regulation be cause the railroads were gouging the life out of them. I he people got what they demanded, regulation in 57 varieties, all just what the people Bald they wanted. Now we are paving almost twice as much for passenger tickets as we did when we first started to kicking about extortion, and we are paying from 25 to 60 per cent more for freight. Now that we have what we imperatively demanded we are kicking worse than ever. • ^ We can remember when we insisted that we have an elect ed railway commission because the appointed commission was always "the tool of the corporations." When the appointee commission granted an increase in telephone rates we howled ' because the commission had been bought. We got what we demanded, and telephone rates are higner than ever. We pay an attorney general $3,000 a Sear and expect him to uphold our cause against a score or a hundred corporation attorneys getting from $10,000 to $30,000 a year each, and holler our heads off because he doesn't succeed 100 times In every 100 cases. » We indulge In profane vociferation every time we think of our tuxes, and never lose any opportunity to vote added debt ^ that must be paid by tax levies. We send our children—that is, some of us do—to Bible school for an hour once a week and let their moral training go at that. Then we spend a goodly share of our waking hours deploring the breaking down of public morals and weep scalding tears over the decadence of tiie rising generation. We see something wrong and hasten to the legislature for a law prohibiting it. Then we skate away from the law as far as we can. never overlooking an opportunity to deplore the moral indifference of people who do the same thing. There is only one thing in the world like human nature, and that is human nature. When we get wl.at we demand we omplain that I: isn't what we want, and if It is what wo need we don't pay a bit of attention to It. O, fudge! What's the use WILL M. MACPIN'. -■—' , V ■ ——* don't you hoodlums ever get gay with the professor In geology?” The answer was prompt and il luminating. "He's always got a pile of rocks on his desk."—Louisville Courier-Jour nal. Well Instructed. The Judge—Now, are you sure you understand the nature of an oath” The Youth /scared stiff/—Sure: Hin't i f yer caddy down at the links?—Mel bourne Pun<;h. Cup-tie Conversation. The cup tie brings together foot ballers and football enthusiasts from all parts of the kingdom. At one of the recent cup ties a Cockney and a Lancashire lad were trying to make a conversation. '•if ver asks me " saJd the Cockney. •'I thinks we're going ter 'are a da'pn* J Call.'' 4 "Dost"'' replied the Lancashire 1 .A "No. yer silly.” said the Cockney; "ryne."—Buys' Own Paper. Heavenly. Alice—You look so happy, dear. Virginia—I am. I am secretly en caged and everyone is talking about it.—Judge. When in Omaha Hotel Conant' 250 Rooms—250 Baths— Rale* $2 tc $3 MY' Bank is my Collector. jj If / have a Note due from a debtor in another city, M't Bank will Col lect it for me. All I have to do is to give the Note to MY Bank, with the address of the debtor. MY’ Bank will call upon its Cone- (*• spondent in the distant city to make *A the collection. The same process applies to the col- A lection of Drafts, Trade Accept ances, Checks, etc. All this is just a part of the Service \ given Customers of— ! 1 _4 Takes. Issue With Brisbane. ] Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee; Arthur Brisbane is a wise owl in most things, but every once in a while he flies off the handle and straddles the wrong hobby-horse. Now he is trying to squeeze out a few tears for the obsequies that are about to be held over the unfinished battleship, "The Washington.” This ship may he condemned and sunk— $,1j,000,000 worth of material and labor. *Mr. Brisbane is thinking ,of the dollars. Has he given a thought to the fact that battleships are just about in the obsolete class? Has he thought that this same Wash ington qhip might lie finished and, in ease of war, sunk with all on hoard by a diminutive air plane. Which would be the worse? To sink her now- and stftp the folly of building more of her class, merely for airplane bomb fodder, or to go on and waste not only money, but life? If there Is no more war. we won’t nerd such costly trifles as battleships of the Washington class; if war comes these ships would be useless, for they would be sunk and disposed of the «-ery first thing. Why get worked up iver a paltry $35,000,000, The money 9 still In circulation and the poor aximyer has probably some of It in ids pocket right now. Let's not min gle common sense w-lth sentimental ism. HENRY COX, City. Speaking of Fusion. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee; Your pleasing editorial in Wednesday's issue answers con clusively the question asked by the World-Herald November 5 under the caption, "What’s the Matter With the Democratic Party?” This perplexing question has created quite a sensa tion, judging from the articles ap pearing in the “Public Pulse” of that paper. The trouble, as you have so ably pointed out. Is "too much Bryan Ism,” and I will try and point out a few political facts pertaining to the last 12 years. Bryan led a fusion in 1390, and by playing both ends against the middle he dominated the party until 1912, when he maneuvered the party Into nominating Woodrow Wil son and relegating that real demo crat, Champ Clark, to the political ash can. Wilson was elected solely been use of the republican spilt of that year, and he Immediately dropped the democratic principles and inaugurated principles of his own, which, good as some people think they are, were never the eternal principles of democ racy. He was re-elected in 1916 on hi.s famous declaration. "1 kept you out of war,” and because a sullen re publican convention nom.nated Hughes, a man Incapable of healing the wounds of 1912, and which came to open warfare between Hughes and Johnson. Bryanism was temporarily rejected and Wilsonlsm reigned supreme over the prostrate form of fair democracy, but not for long, because the voters were awake to the dangers of plati tudes. expediency, reckless intention al adventures, and in 1920 they went to the polls and rolled up a huge majority for the opponent of the League of Nations. Wilson proposed to hang his op ponents "as high as Haman,” hut they burled his political opinions to such depths that we thought they would never ho resurrected by wise men. But vain wo if' our hope when we looked on the political horizon In 1924 and saw W. J. Bryan astride the donkey. Now comes the democratic conven tion In New York, and such a mess dished up to democracy—Davis and Bryan! Davis the silk pants lackey at the court of St. James; Davis, the smart corporation lawyer, with his silly smile for the producers; Davis, the high-ball prohibitionist, who promised the syncopates that we yould enter the league—and Charlie Bryan, the cigar store clerk! Why the republicans could have beaten that pair with George Harvey and McKelvie. What excuse has a party to life that rejects Bill McAdoo and A1 Smith for that pair? McAdoo would at least have saved the party face because La Follette wouldn't have dared to run. The recent vote means this: We don’t dislike democracy, but we don't like hypocrisy; we want an aggre: sir's opposition with principles; v don't care to know of republican vices ss much as we want to know of democratic virtues, if any. The Washington scandal In vestige Mods were dropped hy mutual con sent when It bec-imo known In Wash ington. as It was known at large for eight years, that both parties were equally to blame, and when we stood on the corner of Fifteenth and Doug las listening to a noted lawyer ex pounding republican vices, wo couldn't help but think; Thank hear en. we still have Old Man Sears, even though he Is too Indolent to make a ca tnpalgn. Lest we forget about the famous NETAVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for Sept., 1924, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .73,340 Sunday .73,865 Does not include returns, left I over#, samples or papers spoiled In printing and includes no special sales or fres circulation of any kind. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4th dsy of October, 1024. W. H. QUIVEY, (Seal) Notary Public | democratic convention In June, when republican publications were so exer cised as to who would be the demo era tic nominee, \ve noticed tho above papers wero strong for Davis. Come, ’fess up; answer this straight question; “Was Davis the republican party’s choice, or, to put it stronger, was not the nomination engineered l»y republicans, and was not Davis the unconscious republican candidate for the defunct democratic party?” Tlw democrats have to reorganize end clean house if they ever «xpe'-t anything, but it seems as If they love io fuse with other elements. That’s Bryan’s nature—he was hnrn politi cal y on fusion, and he will die po litically cm fusion. In conclusion, 1 notice by repub lican publications that W. J. 12. Is still in the nng and Is making over tures to La Follette and socialists. Well, all we can say as to the out come of such action Is to tell the old Biblical story of the map who left his home that was all swept and garnish ed, and, returning, brought home with him other spirits more wicked than himself, and the last state of that man (party) becomes worse than the first. JACOB INGLE MAN. The Rat Campaign. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: I note In your Novem ber 1 Issue that "Anxious" tries to mako out that the pneumonia plague reports from Los Angeles are all As soclated Press scare stuff and thul his relatives do not mention them Have just heard from Los Angelef relatives, and their letters are fully ,n accord with all the news dispatch es. In fact, they picture the situation worse if anything. People have long since known the value of conducting rat campaigns. “Anxious” may never have heard of them, hut there have been scores of rat campaigns held In many cities of the United States in previous years. If “Anxious” wants to look into the matter he will find that the plague in Los Angeles is nothing to be sneezed at. Has he forgotten the fact that 500.000 people of the United States died in the Spanish flu epidemic? Health authorities are not blind, neither are folks who know the Im portance of these diseases. No one is manufacturing reports about the plague, and it is well that everything possible be done to see that it does not spread. Prevention is much better than cure. COM,MON SENSE. -■ Center Shots -^ England really ought to get over the notion that an election should be conducted like a war on a small scale. —Des Moines Register. Bee containing 2.75 per cent "alco hol may be Intoxicating, but to those most Interested It is far from satis factory.—Indianapolis News. Gold-braid diplomacy is obsolete. Hold-trade diplomacy has come to stay. Sir Esnie Howard tells the world so. and nobody questions his opinion.—Brooklyn Eagle. As the Russian government be comes more businesslike it will inevi tably become less like sovietism.— Washington Star. Now that a Milwaukee jury has con victed a househohl brewer it is profit able to reflect that there are times when it is advisable not to keep the home fires burning.—Milwaukee Journal. “A little nonsense now and then is relished by the best of men,” "Undoubtedly," answered Senator Sorghum. “The only trouble is that when you put a little nonsense into your talk it’s liable to prove the only part that some of your auditors take seriously.”—Washington Star. Explained. Some of the instructors had trou ble about keeping order among the boys, others did not. The head mas ter could see that some of the pro fessors had lietter luck than others, but he couldn’t understand why. 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