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OmahdVheK? fheM?st is at its Best
ONCE BITTEN, TWICE SHY.
Nothing could be surer thfan that Nebraska, now
experiencing the joys of renewed prosperity, will
not soon again indulge in the orgy of wild specula
tion that marked the boom peribd of the World
War. In many a home are tin boxes that were once
(he rcceptable of Liberty bonds, but which now eon
lain only sad reminders of gullibility in the shape of
gaudy stock certificates of long-vanished corpora
tions. Four per cent a year looked infinitesimal to
men and women who were thinking in terms of 100
per cent. Smooth-tongued and high-powered stock
salesmen were quick to take advantage of the pecu
liar situation.
There were those, too, who took particular sat
isfaction in discrediting the bonds of their own
country in order to make appeal to prejudice and
passion and thereby advance their own political for
tunes. Liberty bonds bought at par under press of
the country’s necessity gradually went below par in
the speculative market. These bonds never were
less than par, but because they were quoted less
than par on the market, high-powered salesmen
many a fat killing by offering to take them at par
in exchange for blue sky stocks that promised to
pay exorbitant dividends.
Millions of dollars were invested by Nebraskans
in these worthless stocks. One unfortunate result,
not mentioning the loss to the investors, was that
legitimate stocks were unmarketable and industrial
development was needlessly hampered. The need
of a thorough revision of Nebraska’s blue sky laws
was never better emphasized than by the ease with
which those phoney concerns secured permits to sell
stock, and the difficulty encountered by legitimate
concerns seeking the same opportunity.
But the experience of that extravagant era is
better protection now than all the blue sky laws
ever enacted. Several years ago a vaudeville sketch
represented a farmer getting ready to go to town,
and the farm wife reminds her husband to get a
teething ring for the baby.
“Let the baby chew on the gold brick that I
bought a couple o’ years ago; I cut my teeth on it,”
grimly replied the husband and father.
After the unfortunate investments of those boom
times, Nebraskans are going to think more than
twice before investing hard-earned money in stocks i
of any kind. And, after thinking it over a few
times, if they have, learned much in the school of
< xpcrience, they will consult men who have made
(hat branch of business the study of a lifetime.
THANKSGIVING DAY.
Time was when Thanksgiving Day was just that.
It was set apart as a day for giving thanks to Al
mighty God for His bounties, and men and women
gathered in the churches for that purpose.
It isn’t that at all now. It has become a day of
merrymaking, of football, of golfing and of over
eating. Instead of giving thanks on bended knees
we stuff ourselves until we coudn’t kneel down if
we were so minded. We call it Thanksgiving Day,
but that is only because so doing has become a fixed
nabit, like shooting of crackers and rockets on the
Fourth of July to celebrate our independence.
A few good people will foregather in the
churches on Thanksgiving Day to render thanks.
Most people, good and bad, however, will observe
t. with overworked molars nnd regret it with over
worked stomachs. Governor Bradford issued the
first proclamation of Thanksgiving, Rnd it was ob
served by fasting and prayer. President Coolidge
issued the last one, and it will be observed by gas
tronomic indulgence and pretty much everything but
prayer. Thus do times change. Whether the new
method of observing the day is better than the old
method is open to serious question. There are those
who insist that the old way was best.
This is not the time or place to discuss that ques
tion. But it might not be out of place to remark,
however incidentally, that it would not hurt this
country a bit to get down on its knees and really and
truly thank Divine Providence for the manifold
blessings showered upon its people. The chances
are that’ it would help a whole lot. It would be
worth trying, anyhow.
STUDYING THE JOB.
John J. Bernet, president of the new Nickel Plate
railroad system, did not get his job through favorit
ism. Neither did he get it by pull. He is a com
paratively young man, being considerably under 00,
and while he has gone far he is going farther.
Thirty-five years ago he was a lad working in a
country hlncksmith shop. At 21 he was a telegraph
operator at a country station. He was not content
to merely pound a key and write reports to he mailed
in to superiors. He studied his job. He became
train dispatcher for the New York Central at Buf
falo. When high operating officials had dismally
failed to solve the problem of congestion in the Buf
falo yards, Bernet offered a suggestion. Everything
else having been tried without success, his sugges
tion was adopted. It worked. In a short time he
was vice president of the New York Central.
In 1916 the Van Swearingens bought the Nickel
Plate, the "poor old Nickel Plate,” from the New
York Central. It had 500 miles of single track.
*^he Van Swearingens thought they feaw an opportun
lty to develop it into u real railroad system, so they
looked about for the right mail to lead. They found
him in Bernet. Now the idea <>f a man giving up
the vice presidency of the great New York Central
to become president of a measly little railroad con
sisting of 600 miles of single track! But Bernet
was not looking for the easy job. He was looking
for the big job and opportunity, and he accepted
the offer. He is not the president of a little 600
mile road now. He is president of a Nickel Plate
with nearly 5,000 miles of main line, and about to
become president of the Van Swearingen system of
more than 16,000 miles.
There is no secret about Berpet’s success. He
didn’t sit around on his job as a country telegraph
opetfior and bemoan the fact that there was no
chat® for a fellow. When he became a dispatcher
he wasn’t content merely to keep trains from get
ting all mixed up and spend his leisure time com
plaining that there was no opportunity for advance
ment. And when his knowledge and ability had
made him vice president of a great railroad system
and a power in the railroad world, he wasn’t con
tent to lay back in his chair and remark to himself:
“Pretty soft; I guess I'll stay right here.’’ He quit
the seemingly big job to take a little one, believing
thut he could make the little job bigger than the one
he left. He did.
Old stuff, and trite, to ha sure. But it shows
what pluck and industry and studying the job will
do. President Bernet has shown that it can be done.
Scores, yes thousands, of other men have shown
the same thing. But that does not keep other thou
sands of men fronted by the same opportunties from
whining about there being no chance for a man these
days. There isn't for men of that kind. There are
plenty of chances for young men who have in them
the stuff that John J. Bernet had when he w»as a
country operator, and when he was n train dis
patcher.
The moral? If there is one in the story of John
J. Bernet it lies in the application of it.
FROM LAKES TO SEA.
If the central west is ever to have water trans
portation direct from the Great Lakes to the Atlan
tic, it will be through its own efforts. Certainly it
may expect nothing in the way of help from eastern
interests. It may expect from that source only re
sistance. With this great waterway project, as wdth
reclamation projects, the western and central west
ern states must combine to overcome the indifference
and the opposition of the eastern sections.
The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence waterway is to
the west an economic necessity. Its completion
would stimulate western enterprise, ^hus stimulating
enterprise everywhere. It would not only profit the
producers of the west by givng thAn more accessible
markets at a lower cost of distribution, but it would
stimulate eastern industries by givng a wider mar
ket for eastern manufactured products. This is a
point too long overlooked by eastern manufacturers
when the subject of reclamation by irrigation has
been under discussion. The more farm homes
opened up by reason of reclaiming arid lands, the
greater the demand for implements and other manu
factured products.
Stimulating western development by making it
easier and less expensive to get western products to
market, means stimulating the business of eastern
manufacturers by increasing the purchasing power
of the agricultural west. Notwithstanding this evi
dent fact, however, the east will no doubt continue
its policy of active, or passive resistance to measures
calculated to stimulate western develi^wient. This
fact might just as well he realized first as last by
the advocates of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence
waterway.
So long as the thirteen western states vitally in
terested in reclamation work proceeded separately,
they made no headway. When they combined and
exercised their combined power in matters of legis
lation they commanded instant attention and began
securing whnt they had failed to get working sepa
rately. This lesson should not be lost in connection
with the efforts to build the proposed seaway.
STRANGER THAN FICTION.
Had your read it in a story book you would have
set it down as pure romance and nothing but fiction.
But it happened in real life.
Charles E. Cummings of Omaha enlisted in the
Foreign Legion at the outbreak of the World War
and was assigned to the flying corps. His sister joined
the Red Cross as a nurse and followed him overseas.
Flying over Dijon, France, Cummings sighted an
enemy plane and the battle in the air was on. Cum
mings shot down the enemy plane and wounded its
aviator. Then Cummings proceeded to take his
wounded enemy to a prison compound and called for
p nurse. His sister responded. The wounded Ger
man, Baron Ringhausen, was nursed back to health.
Then the war ended. Baron Ringhausen returned
to his home in Germany and Cummings and his sis
ter, Mrs. Bertha Wendell, returned to their home in
Omaha. Now, six years after the war, Baron Ring
hausen is n Omaha to marry the woman who nursed
him back to health, the sister of the man who shot
him down.
There you have the plot of a romance equal to
any George Barr MeCutcheon or Richard Harding
Davis ever wrote. Such things often happen in
books. But that is becauRP they happen in real
life. The great difference is that the romance of
real life is more interesting than romance in fiction.
Thp superman, whether of the football field or
the prize ring, sooner or later collides with the
super-supermnn.
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Homespun Verse
—By Omilit'i Own Poet—
Robert Worthington Davie
V., ■ M - -—---S
THEY COME AND HO.
They eonto and go! Life somehow seem*
An interlude of pleasant dreams;
From somewhere they drift Iti to stay
A year or two, and march away;
As butterflies on wings arise,
And lose their wee selves In the skies;—
Hut they—our friends whom we linve known •
Somehow remain when they have flown.
' We wish them pleasure ntul success:
We wish them llthold happiness.
And wo are fain that they may tread
To gain the better things ahead—
For even though afar they stray
They ore remembered day by day,
And our bright memory of them
Is like a flaming diadem.
They eome nnd go! Like sheep they wend
Their ways unto the beck'nlng end
Where homes are built, nnd where Love gleam*
Exultantly across their dreams.
From humdrum mart to cozy home
The pretty stenos" gaily roant.
And there where adoration thrives
Kesign themselves to live their lives
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The Farmer's Problems.
Omaha.—To the Ivlr r of The
Omaha ] See; Recently n letter appeared
In your columns linxing that quiet
tone so characteristic of men who
know whom they are talking to. The
letter In part dealt with the farmers’
ills ns they know them, the main
point being that they should organ
ize. While that is not by any means
a new point. It is a l u ge one and one
that might, if properly used, keep the
new agricultural commission from
lagging.
To organize Is the big determina
tion, hut as to how to organize nnd
what might tnkff pla--e afterwards is
not so pressing. Suppose John and
Jake make a bi t fts to the price they,
the farmers, wonld get for wheat, if
either wins, would that be robbing the
farmers?
On the other hand, suppose some
one hot the I'nlted States miners with
in a few million dollars of their
combined wealth on wheat nnd the
millers lose.' They then consequently
could only pay the farmers about ?a
cents tier bushel for wheat. Ho, sup
pose the union owns the mills (the
government don't want theml nnd
France contracts to purchase a large
consignment of grain, but later on she
countermands or cancels the deal,
could the farmers keep what she hfol
paid down, and, if so, would that not
lead to gambling, and if so, necessitate
In—as a means of eliminating su*»
picion—the vote or voice of several
thousand county ngfnts before each
and e\ery transaction bo made? For
some reason unknown, the county
agent Is to the average farmer as the
“bonus lemon” Is to the ex-soldier.
Hut, 'on this French turn, would
you lose If you had not known she'd
back out and. If sf>, would the farmers
benefit as much by your l->*s ns thev
think they would have lost if you
hay won?
Why do most farmers, as a riddle
sell everything from a turkey to a
truck patch, through n dealer? H
cause the dealer can, after making a
commission, big or little, still allow
blm more lhan ho could have gotten
himself. While it Is possible that
the present system of handling grain
gives the farmer a better price than
be could get himself, it Is more likely
that If the trick of buying wheat
from commissioners or buying It
jlirect from farmers could be made op
tlonal, it would then create a competi
tion that In Itself would reveal not
only just what supply and demand
actually Is, but where It Is actually at.
C. C. K.
Commends the Sermon.
Columbus, Neb.—To the Editor of
The Omaha Hoe: In rending the gol
umns of The Omaha Sunday Hoe of
November id I cannot help but t x
press my gratitude and approval to
you for Mr. Maupln's splond.d set
mon given therein, which T hope was
i f ad by every reader of The Omaha
Bee. I also trust that the clergy of
our great -American churches will
read it and give us more sermons
based on the teachings of that great
Book of all Books, which has been
nd always will be the only method
in the uplifting and betterment of all
mankind. Through religion and love
alone, and not through force or law
enactment, can we ever expect to les
sen crime, make happier homes, and
work for a better and successful na
tion. PAPE H. JAKOGI.
‘‘Impertinence in the Pupit.*'
Preston, N«?b.—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: Referring to your edi
torial, November # 13, 1924, entitled
‘ Impertinence in the Pulpit,” I must
admit ignorance, as 1 cannot see why
an editor should be privileged to ex
press from his office h.s political
preference for this or that candidate
and restrain the minister. I assume
both to be honest in their belief. It is
• duty to talk politics, to discuss the
different offlceseekers; the duty of
every one. AH people should have an
interest In every election.
It is not for mo to tell you. Mr
Editor, that there are certain subjects
u!" n which you must remain silent;
if you write stuff ihat does not inter
est tne, I do not read it. If the inin
ister wants to talk politics from the
pulpit, what right have I to rebuke
him? “Preach Jesus Christ,”—sure!
What more than to consistently
pr» *< h good citizenship. There are
foolish ministers as well as foolish
editors, and both have sent out ques
tionnaires. A foolish minister has a
limited number of bearers; the editor
of a great paper has a heavy respon
sibility; so many people read what he
writes. You would accept the minis
ter s set mon if he will preach as you
want him t<»: yon choose the subject,
it i4 my humble belief that you have
your privilege to express your opinion
upon anv topic. Why limit the
preacher? JAMKS T. MARGRAVE.
CKNTKR SHOTS
The trouble with some men on the
straight and narrow path is that they
lay more emphasis on the narrow
than on the straight.—Cleveland
T ftues.
To call some flappers* "chickens" is
to reveal considerable ignorance con
cern.ng the nomenclature of adult
fowl.—New York Telegram.
There is good old hickory-smoked
sausage on the other end «*f Novem
ber. Press on.—Houston P**m Dis
patch.
Tt is not because the pe»»pie of the
I'nited States hate children or love
the evil of child labor that they are
withholding: their approval from the
broposed constitutional amendment.
It is l>eca use they detest unreason
able federal encroachment and the
steady growth of bureaucratic eon
trol.-—Chicago News.
I Abe Martin
Mrs. Fm Moot uncle, who's boon
in jail since last April, has asked
'er a change o' menu. Wouldti’
newspapers hr awful (lurin’ n p'liti
cal campaign if it wuasn' for comic
strips?
(Copyright, 192 4.)
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Kvery time we hear Rome old fossil bemoaning the dress <»f
the young folks of today we know we are listening to one who
is suffering from failing memory. One of on- most treasured
possessions is an old album full of photographs taken main
years ago. Gosh all-fishhooks, how the young men and women
dressed In thorn* days! There's a photo of a dear old maiden
aunt, wearing a hoopsklrt eight feet across the bottom, and
right opposite the photo of another female relative, fide view,
with a bustle as big as a bushel basket. There's a picture of
an uncle, who wears a pair of skin-tight trousers with a strap
under the instep to keep ’em from pulling up over the boot
tops, and a bell-skirted coat that makes him look like an
elongated wasp.
There’s another photo of a young man—we'll not disclose
his identity, and there is enough cloth in each trouser leg to
make « whole suit. His head is surmounted bv a little flat
derby that looks like a pancake with it* edges curled down,
and hl« shoes are of the ramjet extreme "toothpick' variety,
Th« derby set* far enough back on his h°ad to disclose a beau*
tiful curve of hair plastered neatly down until it almost meets
his left eyebrow
Just opposite is a photograph of the lad's sister, and *iie
| is wearing a basque-—isn't that v hat they called ’em?—that
has mountainous shoulders and enough ruffles >>edecking it to
make a skirt for her two daughters today. The side view
presented shows her to he about three feet wide In the raid
section and a foot wide where the pull buck is in full effect.
Praise he that the stylo* have changed! We can imagine
the roar that would go up from the average 14 year-old boy
if he had to go to school clad in a pair of trousers e ns mailed
from a pair Dad had discarded—the kind our mothers made-- jj
and when we wore ’em we didn't know whether we were going
or coming. Half of that old album is taken up with pictures
of men. and they wore enough whiskers to «tuff a couple of
mattresses.
The men who bemoan the bobbed hair fashion of todac
ougfit to take a j*»ek at some of the photos in that old album
and see the mountains of hair piled up on feminine heads. No
woman on earth ever grew that much hair. Chignons and
waterfalls! Hully gee, hut bobbed hair looks like « million
dollars aft^r « look through that o'd bum And those cute
little f-urls pinned under the edges of the chignons and care
fully hung over the left shoulder! Women really 'had hips in j
those days, and were so proud of 'em that ttaev emphasized the
fact with puffs and panniers.
Ln the old fossils rave. They are better than a farce
comedy.
Advice to legislators elect: Stay off n that "be it e.iacted'*
thing and l»ear down heavy on "the same is hereby repealed.’* ■
We have striven for some time to get the re a: facts about
that war in f*hina. Tt now appears that it was *r*,usM by get
ting the laundry tickets mixed.
Our idea of the perfectly useless ig a goldfish in a bowl
and a canary’ in a cage.
It is really fortunate for some babie~ that they did Hot
land in arms that dearly love to fondle a pug dog.
We have often wondered w hat excuse Adam offered Eve
when he tried to sneak in a' 2 o’clock in the morning There
v.; *n • an\ place for him to go. WfLL* M. MAT’PTX.
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