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1 Omahd-Vhc^tbe^stis at its Best
FALSE ECONOMY.
Saving at the spigot and wasting at the bung
hole has been the policy of the state administration
for the past two years. Saving money by failing to
make needed and necessary repairs to state prop
erty, thus necessitating increased expenditures later,
is a fine way to make a temporary showing of
economy, but it results in added expense.
Making a brave showing of decreased expendi
tures by failing to carry out a well prepared road
program is calculated to deceive for a time, but
sooner or later comes the realization' that the so
called economy is not economy at all. The expenses
of the state have been reduced during the last two
years, not by a more careful administration but by
failing to expend money for things actually needed.
This is particularly true of the road department.
The apparent saving in road expenditures has
been more than offset by the increased demands that
will be made upon the state to make repairs that
should have been taken care of before they became
so extensive. The roads of Nebraska have been
neglected, and roads once in good shape have been
left to go to ruin because of a false economy that
sought, for political purposes, to show a saving in
expenditures. It will cost far more to put these
roads back Into shape than it would have eost to
keep them in good repair. A comprehensive road
program adopted after mature deliberation and sat
iafactory to the people most interested, has been
made the plaything of partisan politics. Nebraskans
want good roads. They are entitled to good roads.
They are willing to pay for good roads. All they are
demanding ia that the money put up shall be ex
pended wisely and with beneficial results. Least of
all do they want the matter of road building made
the football of partisan politics.
The people are rightfully complaining of exces
sive taxation. The burden of their complaint, how
ever, is not the amount of taxes they pay, but the
inefficient manner in which the taxes they pay are
expended. If they secured 100 cents’ worth of re
sults from every dollar of taxes paid, the complaints
would be reduced to a minimum. The tax dollar is
the easiest spent dollar of all. As a general thing
it gets less returns than any other dollar.
If the tax dollar were as wisely used as the dollar
expended in private business, not only would the
burden of taxation be lessened, but the actual re
sults would be greater.
The taxpayers of Nebraska have a right to ex
pect of the incoming state administration that it will
lighten the tax burden. They also have a right to
expect better results for the dollars expended. They
are not so much interested in saving at the expense
of the state’s unfortunate wards, or the road pro
gram, as they are in getting results from the dollars
they pay in the shape of taxes. In short, they are
not so much interested in totals as they are in re
sults. There is not so much need for tax revision
as there ia for better results from tax expenditures.
If the taxpayers get what they pay for they will not
complain so much about the tax burden.
Governor McMullen may be depended upon to
pay more attention to giving the state a business ad
ministration than to building up a political machine
and making for himself a record of economy at the
expense of the real needs of the commonwealth. In
other words, he may be depended upon to pay as
much attention to the bunghole as he does to the
spigot. And that, after all is said and done, is the
main thing demanded by the taxpayers of the state
—to get the things needed without the waste too
often following in the wake of public expenditures.
A MATTER OF MINUTES.
A minute is only sixty seconds long. But a
minute means a whole lot when wrongfully saved ,
or wrongfully expended. Many,trains have been
missed by a minute. Many a big business deal has
failed by the misuse of a minute. A minute sooner
or a minute later at the grade crossing and the auto
mobile wouldn’t have been wrecked nor the lives
lost. A few minutes gave Los Angeles a big chance
to crow over San Francisco, aud those same few min
utes cost San Francisco long-continued pangs of
envy.
The ZR-3 is the huge German dirigible that Ger
many was politely requested to build and send over
to take the place of one awarded but destroyed.
When it came across it was hailed with great ac
claim, but of course Undo Sam wanted some other
than a German name and number. So he let it be
known that he was open to suggestions. The mayor
of San Francisco wired asking that it he given the
name of his city. The mayor of Los Angeles wired
requesting that the big bag of gas be named after
his city. But the mayor of San Francisco saved
a few cents by sending a night telegraph letter, while
the mayor of Los Angeles sent his as a straight mes
sage. The San Francisco wire was sent a little ear
lier, but it reached Washington a fpw minutes be
hind the Los Angeles wire. So the gas bag was re
christened “Los Angeles.” Whereupon the trouble
between the two California cities broke out afresh.
Incidentally, the strife between the two has added
to the troubles and perplexities of Secretary Wilbur.
The mayor of San Francisco saved a few cents,
but the minutes lost were fatal. So far as his be
loved city is concerned the delay was as fatal as
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was the delay of a few minutes on the part of a cer
tain French general at Waterloo to Napoleon.
But he has one consolation left, even though it
be a poor one. It is quite appropriate, as no doubt
he has since pointed out, that the huge gas bag
should be christened “Los Angeles.” If he has failed
to make note of,tba appropriateness he is unfitted
for his high position.
In this connection we are reminded of the con
ference between citizens of St. Paul and Minne
apolis, the object of which was to select a suitable
name for the consolidated cities. Things were going
swimmingly and a man suggested “Minnehaha,” and
explained that it was peculiarly fitting, “Minne” for
Minneapolis and the “ha ha” for St. Paul, Where
upon the meeting broke up in disorder.
But the moral of this editorial observation is:
“Watch the minutes.”
THEIR COSTLY ADVICE.
Several weeks before election the price of wheat
began advancing. Immediately certain leaders of
a political faction gave voice to the charge that the
advance was part of a nefarious plot on the part of
the managers of the republican campaign to deceive
the farmers.
“They’ll push up the price of wheat just to fool
you!” shrieked the Shipsteads and the Magnus John
sons. “Don't be fooled, boys. It’s all a part of the
game. Just as soon as the election is over the price
will slump. Sell now and fool ’em!”
And thousands of farmers dumped millions of
bushels of wheat on a rising market. They followed
the advice of the prophets of calamity and disaster.
Just how much it cost them to follow that advice
will never be known, but it cost aplenty. Election
has come and gone, but instead of the price of wheat
falling off it has shown a steady advance. Those
who could have held on, but did not because they
listened to the Shipsteads and the Johnsons, are now
asking themselves: “Did it pay to listen?”
It most assuredly did not. It never does pay to
listen to the calamity wailers and the prophets who
croak about disaster.
The greatest enemy the farmer has is the schem
ing politician who appeals to his prejudices and
seeks to bolster up the failing cause of a party by
dolorious wails of impending disaster. In order to
bolster up their waning fortunes these pretended
friends cost the farmers they pretended to serve
many millions of dollars.
A NOTABLE ANNIVERSARY.
On December 4 the Orpheum theater manage
ment will celebrate the twenty-sixth anniversary of
the opening of its Omaha playhouse. The Orpheum
circuit was a rather small affair when it opened its
Omaha house under the name of Creighton Orpheum,
It carried that name for a time because the Creigh
ton theater, built by John A. Creighton and named
in his honor, was one of the best known playhouses
in the west. The name had considerable value to the
then new theatrical enterprise. Later the name of
Creighton was dropped and the theater known as
the Orpheum.
Since the Omaha Orpheum was opened the circuit
has been greatly enlarged, and of course the attrac
tion! have become better with each passing year.
This is due to the fact that longer engagements are
possible, better salaries guaranteed and greater art
ists interested.
Vaudeville has made great strides during the last
quarter of a century. It is an evolution. It did not
have an easy road to travel. But by merit it has
made for itself a high place in the amusement world
and is today the most popular form of theatrical
attraction. Vaudeville managers have to keep just
a bit ahead of the times. They must produce some
thing new and unusual every season. They have
overcome many prejudices and in many ways revolu
tionized theatrical procedure.
Omaha has always been fortunate in the selection
of managers of the local Orpheum, and nfever more
so than in the selection of the present manager, Mr.
Hartung. That he is in charge during the week of
celebrating that popular theater’s twenty-sixth an
niversary is a matter upon which the local theater
goers may well congratulate themselves. He sees
to it that Orpheum patrons get the very best, both in
stage attractions and in courtesy from house at
taches,
A pair of Hastings students eloped and were
married in Kansas. They expected to keep their
marriage secret, but a blowout on the way back
compelled publicity. They will be doubly fortunate
if that is the only blowout they have along the
marital route.
At the American eolony Thanksgiving dinner in
London the Prince of Wales spoke in flattering
terms of Chicago. Had he visited Omaha he would
have danced a jig on the Thanksgiving table.
A fashion magazine says the wasp waist is gone
forever. The office misanthrope growls something
to the effect that the pointed tongue is still present
in considerable numbers.
The first thing we know one of these fellows
trying to modernize the Bible will be telling us that
Eve ate the apple so she would be able to learn where
to park her car.
The Nebraska legislator, who neither introduces
a hill nor makes a epeeeh on the floor, will be en
titled to a prominent niche in Nebraska's Hall of
Fame.
Leonard Kip Rhinelander seems to have over
looked the chance to make the excuse that he was
color blind.
The Lame Duck session will make itself famous
by refraining from enacting any quack legislation.
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Homespun Verse
—By Omiht'i Own Poet—
Robert Worthington Davie
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MAIL YOUR PARCELS EARLY.
Tack and wrap your parcel*
With th* greatest tact and ear*.
Address them distinctly,—
And they'll travel quickly there;
Mall ypur parcel* early
To avoid th* rush and Jam—
Have a( kindly feeling
For the boys of'Uncle Ram.
Play your part In helping
To adjuat th* overflow
Which the Christmas mailing
Makes unusual, you know.
Every little effort will
Do much to expedite
Parcels of all classes,
And the message* you write.
Think of those who serve you —
Ever faithful, ever true. —
Thoughtful of your promise,
And your expectation too;
Mall your parcels early
To avoid the rush sn>I Jam
Have a kindly feeling
For the boya of Uncle Sam
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If Thick Fur Portends a Long, Hard Winter—
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IT’S CERTAINLY GOING TO BE A TOUGH SEASON IN SOME QUARTERS.
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“From State and Nation”
—Editorials from Other Netvspaperi—
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Calling In the United State*. <
From The Chloia X«*i:
Deferring to the United States as '
a great disinterested power capable J
of stepping in and bringing about
concerted action in the face of seem- “
ingly hopeless deadlock is becoming r
more and more common among Eu
ropesn statesmen. The belief that 1
America comes to a conference table J
with clean hands and genuine '
humanitarian sympathies 1* at the 'f
?>as« of this attitude.
It will he interesting to notswheth- ,
er Influence is effectively brought to
bear by the American delegation to ,
th# International conference which la
discuaalng the grave problem of the
world's opium traffic. Here, certain- (
I.v, ia a hard task for any adviser. j
Th# cause of humanity must he sup- (
ported against nations that have lm- f
portant financial interests Involved.
A concrete proposal must be made to ]
delegations that apparently are more (
Interested in salving coneclences ,
with generalizations than In taking ;
any specific action. .
In spite of the difficult!#* It Is to
be hoped that the five American (
delegates will be able to induce the (
conference to agree to discontinue
the Importation of raw opium from -
China for a period of years, at least,
until that country shall be in a po- 1
altlon to make It* own restrictions. I
It is Also to be hoped that the Amer
icans will he able to obtain an agree
ment limiting the manufacture of
narcotic* to the medical and scien
tific needs of the world.
Forest Thrift.
Fr*m tJi* N*w York Hertld-Trtbvin# ,
The aspect of forest thrift which
directly concern# th* National Con* .
ference on Utilization of Forest Prod
ucts la the prevention of waste in
th# process of lumbering and manu
facture. President Coolldge In his
impressive address to the conference
on the forest problem laid proper
emphasis on thla wastefulness. Near- i
ly two-thirds of th# total volume of
cut timber ia lost before the wood
Is put to use. About one-third of
this loss, It ia estimated, can he
saved by skillful economy in cutting
and manufacture, a savtng almost
equivalent to the nearly growth of
timber. The conference gives prom
ise of Intelligent and concerted ef
fort to eliminate In large part this
unnecessary drain on the timber sup
ply.
Th# greater menace, however, la ,
th* progressive depletion of the for
ests beyond the power of renewal.
At the present rat* of destruction
th* exhaustion of th* unprotected
forests can be predicted with mathe
matical certainty. About 15 per rent
of the consumption Is mndn good by
new planting each year. Manifestly. ,
th* end ts In sight unless restraint Is
praeticed along with a great extension
of eelentlfle reforestation.
Regarding th* national forests,
[ Abe Martin }
I.afo Hud an* his wifo have final
ly gone hark t’jjether airnin, I.afr
reservin’ ono day n week for inde
pendent action. If you hain’t seen
vour wife smile at a traffic cop you
hain't seen her smile her purtieat.
(Ccmi*bw m*.
hers Is no cause for apprehension,
'hey are well administered. The for
st service has a fine record of ef
ciency. and Its new experiment Sta
tons will contribute still further to
dvanced forest practice. Various
tafge also. New York notably, are
eeping pace with the federal exam
ile. They have made marked prog
ess, especially on fighting the fire
lazard. and the assistance offered by
ongress In the McNary Clarke for
stry law will extend fire protection
o lands, both public and private,
iltherto ill protected.
It Is the privately owned timber
hat Is surely vanishing. Some
iroprietors individually and In arso
latlon have learned commercial re
orestatlon. A great manv others
gnore it. Since nearly four-fifths of
he country’s timber Is privately
wned and furnishes more than 30
ier cent of the annual timber cut, it
« obvious that the halting of forest
ievastation depends upon private ln
tlatlvr. Gifford Plnchot said years
go “Europe practices forestry. We
irartice forest devastation." Ills as
lertlon holds good today of vast for
•st areas. Mr. Tinchot has advo
cated uniform national control to pre
rent forest devastation on privately
AllVEKTISEM EVT
f You Need a Medicine
You Should Have the Best
Have you ever stopped to reason
vhy It Is that so many products that
ire extensively advertised all at once
Irop out of sight and are soon for
;otten? The reason Is plain—the ar
lele did not fulfil the promises of the
nanufacturer. This applies more
particularly to a medicine. A roedi
.inal preparation that has real cura
Ive value almost sells Itself, as like
in endless chain system the remedy
s recommended by those who have
reen benefited, to those who are la
leeed of It.
A prominent druggist says "Take
or example Hr. Kilmer's Swamp
rtoot, a preparation I have eold for
nany years and never hesitate to
ecommend. for In almost every case
t shows excellent reeults, as many
>f my customers testify. No other
cldney remedy hss so large a sale."
According to sworn statements and
verified testimony of thousands who
lave used the preparation, the sue
■ess of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root Is
lue to the fact, so many people claim,
hat It fulfills almost bvery wish In
ivercomlng kidney, liver and bladder
illments, corrects urinary troubles
ind neutralises the uric acid which
a uses rhenmatlsm.
You may receive a sample bottle of
iwamp-Root by Parcel Post. Address
L)r. Kilmer A Co., Binghamton, N. Y ,
ind enclose ten cents; also mention
hla paper. Barge and medium size
pottles for aale at all drug stores.
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Thousands
Recommend it
from experi
ence that no
matter how
many othar
traa t m en t a
hawa been
tried without
auccee*. Reti
nol Ointment
i» often the one that brings
speedy relief from chafing, ee
»ema or similar itching, embar
rassing eruptiona.
Its soothing healing action
fa brought about by qualitiea
which cause it to sink deep
into tha pores and reach tha
vary root of the disorder. It
is absolutely harmleee and does
not smart or burn when applied
to the moet irritated aurlace.
To keep the akin healthy
many people have adopted tha
daily use of Reainol Soap. Un
surpassed for toilet and bath.
All druggists sell Resinol prod
ucts.
Resinol
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owned land. Wasteful timber owners
may make such regulation imperative,
but it should not be necessary- Self
interest should advise them of the
folly of razing their forests without
renewal.
.Jazz to the Fore.
From the Philsdelphl* North American.
If mundane projects are matters of
comment in the beyond and spirits
there dwelling express themselves
freely, what an entertaining trlalogue
must have taken place between Wag
ner. Verdi and Gounod when came the
earth-echoes of Otto H. Kahn's offer
to produce a jazz opera if Irving Ber
lin or some other equally proficient
composer would syncopate the story
of a typical hob haired flapper!
Mr. Kahn, financier and patron of
the arts, is chairman of the Metro
politan Opera company, and his son
Roger recently varied the course of
rich men's heirs by organizing a jazz
orchestra. Whether or not this has
anything to do with this capitalist s
yearning to fill the famous golden
horseshoe In New York—and the his
toric Academy of Music In this city—
IuNNYSIPE' P
lake Comfort.norforset
^Jhat Sunrise nei/erfaileauS^etr^
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If the boy* of today are getting any kick out oftha kind
of book* offered, all we have to aay is that the^ *r* Z*®1,0
tally unlike what boy* were when we were going barefooted in
summer and wearing red-topped boot* In wlnl*r;„ °f nfv*LT,
have been performing the task of revlewlng a buneh ot ».
for boys offered for the Christmas trade, and If they have any
interest for modern boys we feel sorto sorry for Jh* boys.
There were real boys’ book* in the old day*—books that h*M
our boyish interest so closely that even today we can pick on*
of them up and forget all about the strenuous life.
There Is Thomas Bailey Aldrich's “Story of a Bad Boy,**
for instance. We confess that even now a lump comes into
nur throat when we read about little Benny drifting out to sea
never to return. And we know yet Just how Tom Bailey felt
when, after years of separation, he recognized his pet pony
performing In a circus ring. We can realize lazily on the o d
couch and shake with laughter as we read how Tom and hi*
pals fired off those old 1S12 cannon down on the water front,
to the dismay of the old inhabitants.
Although there Is more silver in our hair than we like to
notice, we can pick up “Treasure Island ' and dig for pirate
gold, shudder at Long Tom Silver's cussedness and, figuratively
speaking, flee in dismay from those bloodthirsty enemies. *
haven't been able to throw a single shudder or giggle a single
giggle while reading all these up-to-date offerine for boys. In
the whole lot of them there isn’t a single, solitary red-hooded
lad like Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn. We wouldn’t trade Tom
Brown for the whole bunch of boys embalmed In these modern
books for boys.
To be real frank about it, we would sooner feed our boy*
on the Rollo Books than on the books prepared for them thes*
days and the Rollo Books are. In our opinion, the last word in
literarv punVdom. Before we forget It, we are going to hustle
out and endeavor to locate two or three of Harry Castleman a
series of books for boys. We have a couple of lusty lads still
romping around the family domicile, and we want to get them
some boys’ books worth reading. In strict confidence, we have
a selfish motive in this. We sorto’ hone to read the “Gun Boat ^
Boys” again.
The greatest Christmas present we ever rereived, or at
least It is the on* that remains most firmly fixed in memory,
was a steam engine. A hoy friend of ours secured it as a prize • :
for getting a new subscription to a Boston periodical, and gave
it to us. That was fully a half-century ago, but we can still
feel the thrill that went through us when it got up steam and
actually ran. We are rather inclined to get our boys one, just
so we can steam it up and watch it run. Maybe the boys will
enjoy It, too. *
There are some people who deprecate football because it is
such a brutal game. When they were boys they probably never
played that old game wherein you got soaked In the ribs with
a solid rubber ball when you tried to break out of the bullpen,
and got socked harder if you tried to remain inside.
We are naturally of a mild and gentle disposition, slow- to
wrath and not at all vindictive. But we serve notice here and
now' that we want our children to learn the truth about Santa
Claus for themselves, and the man or woman who sows the
seeds of suspicion In thei>- childish minds, no matter for what
reason, would do well to keep well out of reaching or hearing
distance.
The chief trouble about this “do your Christmas shopping
early’’ stuff is that it is so blooming har3 to find any place
around the house to hide the stuff for the kiddies.
Answer to Query: We opine that a pair of slippers, size t,
would be all right.
„ Answer to Another Querv: We prefer on* with a straight
stem. WILL M. MALTIN'.
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with a saxophone flood of revised
ragtime Is relatively inconsequntial.
The important fact is the artistic rec
ognition of joy-music implied bf such
offer.
There would seem to be no good rea
son, granted a Jazz opera were writ
len. why it should not be performed.
Apart from visualizing Oalli-Curci as
Oraoe. the gum-chewing stenographer,
or the ever-vernal' Scottl as an ele
gant lounge lizard, the proposition
appears simple enough. The fnunda
ticn for virtually every opera thue far
written might be made to look like a
novelty in the guise of “Glad Bags
and 'Carolina Carrie ' and what the
saxophone section, 2® or 30 stronr
could not do to the tired business ma i
and hie equally fatigued mate is ’
matter that passes words.
Roy Haynes claims prohibition
succeeding because there is less frir
«|on in its enforcement. But th«:
no less Action.—Columbia Record.
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