The Omaha Bee^ M ORNING—E VENIN G—S U N D A V THE BFE Puil-ISHING CO., Publisher N. B. UPDIKE. President BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLER. i Editor in Chief Business Manager | MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS J 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 are \ 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, undei act of March 3, 1879. BIiE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for AT |anhV 1000 the Department or Person Wanted. /w I IBliLlC 1 OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Chicago—Steger Bldg. Boston—Globe Bldg. Los Angeles—Fred L. Hall, San Fernando Bldg. San 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 l year $6.00, 6 months $3.00. 3 months $1.75, 1 month 7Gc DAILY ONLY 1 year $4.50, 6 months $2.75, 3 months $1.60, 1 month 76c SUNDAY ONLY 1 year $3.00, 6 months $1 75, 3 months $1.00, 1 month 50c Subscriptions outside the Fourth postal lone, or 600 miles from Omaha: Daily and Sunday, $1 00 per month; duily only, 75c per month; Sunday only, 60c per month CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Morning and Sunday......1 month 85c, 1 week 20c Evening and Sunday.1 month 65c, 1 week 15c Sunday Only .1 month 20c, 1 week 6c V.-—-' OraalidVtefe the^st is at its Best TROUBLED WATERS. Democracy in New York state, under the leader ship of that genial and able vote-getter, A1 Smith, is having engine trouble. Senator Royal S. Copeland apparently has thrown a chunk of lead in the ma chinery. Governor Smith is a Tammany man, through and through, and it is fitting that he should be so. It wa» Big Tom Foley, one of the late Charles F. Mur phy’s chief lieutenants, who gave Smith his start in politics. Smith’s star rose with the backing of Foley and Tammany, until one day there came the realiza tion that the popular A1 was stronger than his makers. But there was no jealousy; Smith and the Wigwam worked together in perfect harmony for the common good. After Smith had been beaten in the three-ring circus at Madison Square Garden last summer dur ing the free-for-all fracas for the democratic presi dential nomination, he was drafted to run for a third term as governor. Tammany knew he was the only democrat who could win, and Smith knew it also. It would be a feather in his chapeau, and a bid for presidential honors in 1928. So Oliver street’s fa vorite son campaigned against Colonel Roosevelt, ran nearly a million votes ahead of John W. Davis, and was the victor. However, the entire democratic state ticket, including both branches of the legisla ture, went down to inglorious defeat. Al’s smooth sailing, however, was short-lived. Attorney General Sherman, beaten for re-election, was the first to protest. Then came Senator Cope land, friendly to Mayor Hylan and William Randolph Hearst, neither of whom may be regarded as par ticularly cordial to Tammany. He called Smith a Venus de Milo, not a leader of the party. Said the senator: "Thp recent election showed that Smith Is not a party lp.-ider. A leader must take others with him, not go It alone. All the democratic nominees on the state ticket were defeated. The governor did not tearry a county for them. If the governor would put his energy into the leadership he would he entitled to It. He has a position never before held by a public man and he deserves It. He is a great governor. “Perhaps my phrase. Venus de Milo, was not well chosen. tVhat I meant was that he was apart * and aloof from all others and not a leader of the organization. The democratic party has made a failure of it in this state. That can not be con troverted." Democrats all over the country have pointed to the Smith victory as presaging a new Moses to lead the disgruntled party out of the wilderness. But they reckoned without their Copeland. The senator is, by virtue of his position, the spokesman of the New York democracy at the nation’s capital. He seems to have hit the nail on the head. The only comfort the democrats of the land of the free and the home of the brave got in the recent republican landslide was Smith’s victory in the F.mpire state. And even that appears to be clouded. WORTH THINKING ABOUT. Patrick Powers, a Madison (Wis.) policeman, shot and killed a man he detected prowling in his yard. The prowler proved to be a young university student. Powers was arrested and tried on the cliarge of manslaughter. The jury acquitted him. The attorney for Powers gave utterance to a senti ment worth thinking over when he said: “The po liceman who shoots first is often taken into court, but the policeman who doesn’t shoot first is often taken to the morgue.’’ That is a truth that many critics of the police force often overlook. The prowler, the yegg, the burglar and the highwayman are potential murder ers. Nine times out of ten they are prepared to kill rather than submit to capture. Now and then a policeman may be in too great a hurry to shoot, but if he ha3 been a policeman very long he knows that he is not going to a polite social function when he undertakes to apprehend a suspect. Members of the Omaha police force have had some bitter ex periences with criminals they sought to arrest. Sev eral officers have been killed and others wounded for life in gun battles with desperate men. One or two such experiences is enough to convince any police man that the officer who shoots first may be taken into court, while the officer who waits to be the second to shoot is too apt to be taken to the morgue. A little less sympathy for suspects wounded by policemen in the discharge of their duty, and consid erably more sympathy with policemen who^are hon estly trying to do their duty, would be a powerful factor in making the police force more effective. ’ RAILWAY ECONOMIES. At a recent meeting of the Association of Rail way Executives in New York, figures were submitted showing ttbat during the Inst twelve months the railroads had saved $952,591,000 by efficient and economical administration. This saving in expense of operation was accomplished without reducing wages, part of the saving wns due to a reduction in the cost of material, but the bulk was auved by better methods of administration. Of the nearly billion dollars thus saved the ship ping public benefited to the extent of $667,000,000 in reduced freight rates. These freight reductions < i-- ■■ ■ ■ -- -1 t-^ “From State and Nation” —Editorials from Other Newspapers— tion of 37 to make a crime wave, o countin' Coyote Charley, we'll sa; 37tfc. We have traveled an' mad notes. Compared to a regular Chi rago crime wave, the worst the Gulol could do would resemble a drouth.”— Washington Star. Among the differences between thi sexes which persist in spite of every thing are suspenders and giggles. Columbus (O.) State Journal. What Will Congress Do? From the Chicago Herald and Examiner Next Monday congress will assem ble—the same old congress that fought with bitter enthusiasm all through last winter, until ns an In stitution It came to be regarded as a kind of rash upon the body politic— something like prickly heat, itching, irritating and unreasonable. Quite generally It Is asamued that not a great deal will be accomplished at the session. Legislation for farm relief, the burning question before both houses last winter, may be passed along to the new congress a year later. Prices of grain are high right now, and the consensus of those who are presumed to know most about the crop shortage In European countries Is that prices will go much higher be fore another harvest In the United States and Canada. With such a prospect. It will he dif ficult to make the country at large believe that right at this time agri culture needs legislative assistance. Taxation Is the big subject that may receive most attention- But even that may be more discussed than modified. Wllh the new congress In 1925 the administration will come Into its own emphatically. In the senate, allowing the three seats formerly occupied by Senators Bodge, Colt and Bmndegee to repub licans, there will he 55 republicans, 40 democrats and one farmer laborite. But at least five of the republicans must tie counted with the opposition because of thetr established Insurgen cy. This allow s a republican majority of four. William Tyler Page, clerk of the house of representatives, makes the alignment of that body 247 repuh --- N Abe Martin -- licans to 183 democrats, three farmer laborites and two socialists. Allow ing the opposition 15 Insurgent re publicans leaves a republican major ity of 29. These figures make clear why the administration will be satisfied to al low big legislative questions to go over from the old congress to the new. Pilgrimage of the MOO. From the Milwaukee Journal. Eighteen hundred school children of lowa and Missouri, in three special trains, are visiting Lincoln's tomb on Thanksgiving day. A good deal of work is required to organize such a pilgrimage, but It is worth a good deal. At no other spot on the conti nent does one feel so much that he Is In the presence of the real America as when he stands beneath the ailent shaft at Springfield. The children will he shown through the archives In which the old keeper has gathered all he could about the human side of Lincoln, such stories as that of the gaunt, homely candidate growing a beard at the advice of * little girl. They will stand In the room, beneath whose floor rests the great leader, and perhaps will wander down to the old statehouse to read those words of Lincoln to his neighbors when he left for Washington. And they will return to lowa and Missouri resolved to be better Americans. A good way. too, to remind us all of one of the things we should be thankful for— that we have ever had leaders who rose to heights and gave their coun trymen a new vision and new stand ards. Word of Protest. "We're tired of havin’ Crimson fliilch held up to attention as a tough town," said Cactus Joe. "Hut you have an occasional crime wave.” "You got to have more'n a popult W hen in Omaha Hotel Gonant 250 Rooms—250 Baths— Rites $2 to $3 i iHfo andthe GULF ^ CQAST^ Sunny skies, green turf end fragrart (lowers are bidding you come and enjoy summer in winter. Scores of «»tractive winter resorts in Florida or along the Gulf Coast. Take the Omaha-Chicago Limited a* far aa Chicago; then you will be tree cling in the u timet comfort right from the at art. Thia popular overnight train earnea ohaer vat ion club car. aleeoiog cara machea and dining car—all "alii waukrr" owned and <»pcrated. Ticket* ami Injormahow si City Ticket Offlre. 90# 9. I«th Si Pkone Jarkaeat 44# I Union Mai ion. lOtk an# Mercy Ska Phone Atlantic #113 W.L Beck, Gen. Agent Pam. Dept. Omaha. Nak Chlcaqo Milwaukee 6 St. Paul Railway Lige Bentley, who's wife ran off last .Tune, an' whp’s only daughter disappeared with, a fillin’ station bnndit last montW, an' who’s home wuz sold for taxes last week, sui eided last night on account o' car hon trouble. Mrs. Lafe Bud wur. up town t'day fer th’ first time since she didn't git an invitation t' th' Literary Digest poll, (Copyright. 1924,) NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for Sopt., 1924, of THE OMAHA BEE S Daily .73,340 ? I Sunday .73,868 j Do»i not (nclutlfi raturna, !•#• - ' nvara, iamplM ot paper a apnlli d In 1 | printing and Inrtudaa no aprrlal i I aalat or fra# circulation ol any kind I V. A BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. Suharribrd and sworn to hafora tna thla 4tb day of Octobar, 1924. W. H. QUIVEY. <5aal> Notary I’ublla Thoughts while taking a Sunday afternoon stroll around Omaha: Medical Arte building looks like Christmas tree the week after. Huge telephone building makes one wonder who It was that said "talk Is cheap." Removing top Btory of old Rohrbough block calls to mind that at one time it was consid ered "some" building. In old days we used to cover the courthouse run as a re porter. Our legs still get full of cramps when we look at pres ent magnificent court house and remember the 'steen million ; steps we climbed In the old days when the court house stood on top of a mountain. There was a time when Omaha would have been perfectly level if It had been twice as hilly. Brief glimpse of Will Norris. Recalled old Hear store on Farnam between Fourteenth and Fifteenth. Those were the f days of ticket brokers. Took a long time for the railroads to reach unanimous agreement to put the brokets out of business. Bite of new Federal Reserve hank building Forcefully reminded that hanks have been too blamed reserved to suit us. Probably better for both of us. Used to wonder how so many saloons managed to pay ex penses. Now we wonder how so many tl'llng stations manage it. Wonder more about the latter, if possible, because we don't use gasoline. Heavily befurred woman riding in limousine and fondling ! diminutive dog. Borne babies are wonderfully lucky. Over on lower Douglas street. Walked a couple of blocks and wasn't “panhandled" once. It wasn't like that in the olden days. Display windows crowded with Christmas goods. Toys are more expensive than they were when we were a hoy. At that they are eapier to buy now than they were then. Remmber how much candy we could get for a dime when you were a boy? Magnificent motion picture theater on site of old Continen tal block. Those were the days when a man could get a good all-wool suit for the price of a vest these days. Remember, what a dandy good restaurant Rome Miller used to run in that block? Southwest corner Sixteenth and Dodge. Just saw by dis patches that Cadet Taylor has been elected to Californ a’state senate. He used to be connected with a bank located on that corner O'd book shop on North Sixteenth. Wish it was closer in. We'd like to prowl around in it more than is possible now. Twenty-fourth and Farnam now one of busiest intersections In Omaha. It was away out in the suburbs when we first chased the elusive item through Omaha streets. Agitation about sell ng county poor farm reminds us that when it was first lo cated there was complaint that it was too distant and out of the way. What became of the old shot tower located west of the Six teenth street viaduct? Speaking of metal reminds us of the time When pig silver used to be piled up on express trucks down at the old cowshed depot. It has been a long time since we saw a cowboy in chaps and sombrero, rifle in hand, getting off a train at an Omaha depot. Used to be a common sight. Has anybody seen an overcoat made from a buffalo hide recently? Do your Christmas shopping for us early. We wouldn't have you worry about us for a single minute. > WILL M. MAUPIN. . — ■ =1 LEAVES FROM THE BOOK OF NEBRASKA WTHEN Abraham Lincoln approved the perate fight. This is known as the Plum »» building of the Union Pacific, the nation Creek Massacre. It was part of thc price of was in the throes of the Civil War. About half progress. a million Americans in thc West were cut off ,n thc 5CttIi of Ncbraska a heavy toll of from rail communication with thc rest of thc hIood anJ toll *nd #uffe^n? was pa,d. H thc nation. hardy pioneers who turned unfcnced prairies So the gigantic task of building 1.000 miles into tilled fields. They were men and women of railroad across Indian-infested plains, who showed the qualities that make every through deserts and over forbidding moun- American proud of his country and people. l1! undertaken. Regun December ist, With few and scattered tree* w hen the first settler* came, 1863, thf last spike was driven May’ 10th, 1 Sh9. Nebraska now has orchards that produce more apples than TJ„ ; j _• _ ■ _ j./r. 1. _ _ the states of Orecon, Wadir-pton and Idaho combined. Resides engineering difficulties overcome Her hen* contribute thirty n H ■in dollirs toward her and hardships and privations endured from billion dollar annual ine rne Her death rate IS ;6 percent the blazing summer sun and winter's bliz- lower than that of California And Neheaska has no state zards, the attacks of hostile Indian tribes had ****** to be faced. Rifles, revolvers and knives \serc Nebraska eoes forward. Since kerosene lamps and Un just as nccessarv tools as shovels, crow bars jeroafast lighted her sod houses, petroleum products have 11- ' been necessary supplies, u ith the introduction of.eaaolme auu pita axes. driven automobiles, tractors, trucks, lighting and water Across the prairies swept bands of painted *' ,hf' hi,yelbfen ' ,n,Por‘“‘10 thc P10"** Sioux killing and scalping stragglers and ‘'■■l,"sl'" uu‘“''" *««»“>* *"j - dering construction crews. u m >/ a tmn if sJirrtummi <« in all parts of the state, the Stand Near the CltV of Lexington *■ u-htch hit«r itvli snJ mtJtnti r* ,\V ard Oil Company ot Nebraska is a working party of railroad hitiry at.'.' h If > •» ar.irr 1 a home *0 • um- vliarrercd ci der 1 umfhti fill if 1 «, m in Nebraska and directed and the SavagCS after a dc:- I. ill h muihJ tr *s s