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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
<<lould not have been made had it not been for ef
ficient and economical adm'nistration. Today the
railrouds of the United States are in better physical
condition than ever before in their history. During
the last two years the railroads have expended more
than two billion of dollars for new equipment, in
cluding locomotives and cars. As a result of this
policy the railroads are today rendering the most
satisfactory service in their history. The periodical
complaint of car shortage heard so often in days
gone by, has not been heard for a long time, due to
enlarged equipment and vastly improved methods
of moving traffic. The railroads have made wonder
ful forward strides since the day when they were
handed back to their owners in an utterly demoral
ized condition. If not further hampered by ill-ad
vised legislation, and subject to no more govern
ment interference than is absolutely necessary in
the interests of the public, the time will soon come
when the railroads will not only be able to render
the service the people are entitled to, but will be
able to do it at rates considerably below the present
level.
WHERE JUSTICE LIMPED.
Stannie Clayton, negro longshoreman of Nor
folk, Va., is entitled to sympathy. More than that,
he is entitled to a better brand of justice. If the
justice meted out to him is the kind that the golden
goddess hands out while blindfolded, then she ought
to take her blinders off once in a while. We are
here to claim, realizing full well that we are outside
the jurisdiction of the Norfolk police court, and
therefore safe from punishment for contempt—as
we were saying when we interrupted ourselves, we
claim that Stannie Clayton wasn’t treated right
at all.
Going home a week ago, his weekly pay envelope
snugly in his pocket, the same containing $40, the
reward of weary toil, Stannie was held up by high
waymen and dispossessed of his cash. The next pay
day Stannie armed himself with a large-calibered re
volver, and when he arrived at the scene of the
holdup he stopped and in a loud voice invited the
highwaymen to work that little game a second time.
There being no response to his invitation, Stannie
proceeded to perforate the circumambient atmo
sphere with bullets, probably to give emphasis to the
notice that he was prepai’ed to protect his cash. Un
feeling and prosaic policemen, devoid of sentiment
and ignorant of the mental processes of the colored
man’s mind, pinched him and haled him before hiz
zoner. He was charged with carrying concealed
weapons and shooting. It was no Daniel that sat in
judgment on Stannie’s case. Neither was it anyvne
even remotely resembling Portia. Stannie was fined
$70 and sent to jail for 30 days.
Of course Stannie should not have perforated
the atmosphere when the highwaymen refused to
emerge and be perforated. That much is granted.
But at that he did not deserve to be slammed into
jail, when all he meant to do was to serve notice
that he wouldn’t stand for any more monkey busi
ness at the hands of highwaymen. A gentle repri
mand would have been sufficient. That is probably
all he would have received had there been no colored
pigment under his hide. Really and truly, Justice
ought to take a peep now and then.
THE RECALCITRANT SENATORS.
Republican senators in conference at Washington
by an overwhelming vote decided to place the ban
of disapproval upon Senators La Follette, Ladd,
Frazier and Brookhart. These four senators, elected
as republicans, will not be invited into future con
ferences called for the purpose of discussing party
policies. Their present committeeships will not be
disturbed, but their names will not be considered
when the time comes to fill any republican vacancies
on senate committees. Senator Howell opposed the
adoption of the resolution, and Senator Norris
characterizes the action as a “piece of vaudeville.”
The right of these senators to sit, and their right
to exercise their individual opinions, will not be de
nied. But their republican colleagues are clearly
within their rights when they refuse to let the four
senators named, ostensibly republicans, use their
position to thwart the expressed will of the repub
lican majority, and to inject into the well considered
and carefully formulated republican program the
peculiar isms of state socialism, communism, and
other theories directly contrary to the principles of
the party to which they primarily owe their election.
By their own actions these four senators have set
themselves apart from the party that made their
political preferment possible, and they have no
good grounds for complaining if the party leaders
take steps to protect the party from their maraud
ings. No business organization would tolerate the
constant interference of a little group of men intent
upon wrecking the whole organization. No general
would be able to achieve success when his assistants
were doing everything in their power to frustrate
his plans and lend aid and comfort to the enemy.
The four senators named may now flock by them
selves. If they throw any more monkey-wrenches
into the party machine, they will have to do it at
long-distance range. They no longer have the keys
to the engine room and r free access to the tool
box.
Just as soon as that little trouble in Egypt is set
tled we may have an apporunity to learn just wha‘
it was that Great Britain wanted from the Egyptians.
Senator Curtis of Kansas succeeds Senator I/odge
of Massachusetts as senate floor leader. It took a
long time to make the jump that far west.
The cables fail to inform us what the League of
Nations is doing while Great Britain's fleet is headed
towards Egypt.
Now that Chnrley Chaplin is safely married again,
let us all hope that he has put his funny foot in
again.
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Homespun Verse
—By Omaha’* Own Pori—
Robert Worthington Davie
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I WONDER?
A dark cloud advances,—
A crepe hanger prances
Around In the shadows of woe,
A wish goes unspoken,
A promise lies broken,—
But straight on my Journey I go
The slock market falls me,
And poverty trails me—
There's strife and there’s tumult galore,
(load fortune defies me.
And naught ran surprise me
So muc h I already deplore,
1 falter, f blunder
T hate tt like thunder!
But nothing Is gained by regret.
One better be dying
Half happily trying
To gain what be knows be can't get.
Than moaning and living.
Incessantly giving
Ills tears for the others to dry
And wringing his fingers
Because rvhlle he lingers
The others could Joyfully tils
Right This Way, Please
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“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
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Abe Martin
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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
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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.
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Pkone Jarkaeat 44# I
Union Mai ion. lOtk an# Mercy Ska
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Omaha. Nak
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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,)
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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.
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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‘“''"
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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<tut th StmU-inl Oil the laws of the state, dome busi
pioncers a. toed out by Cjmpmf if Nihuihi **■! th rimtUtt imu nr > in Nebraska and directed and
the SavagCS after a dc:- I. ill h muihJ tr *s s<s-» th Lut juirr- operated by tesidcuta Ol Nebraska.
ttinmnl tu ipfurtd.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF NEBRASKA
AGmOjU OMAHA
Br—ck Ofvu. LINCOLN HASTINGS NORTH PU\TTE **
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