The Omaha Bee] M O R N I N G—E V E N 1 N &—S U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Publisher N. B. UPDIKE. President BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLEB, Editor in ChiefBusiness Manager MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, la exclusively entitled to the uaa for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also tho local news published herein. All rights of republication of our apecial dlspatehea era also rasarvod. The Omaha Be* la a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulationa. tho recognised authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bea'a circulation is regularly audited by their organiaationa.__ Entered aa second-class matter May 28, 1908, at Omaha postoffioe, under act of March 3, 1879, BEE TELEPHONES Private Breach Exchange. Ask for AT lanlie 1 nflfl the Dapartmsnt or Person Wanted. A 1 IBnUC lUWf ” ! OFFICES Main Office—17th and Famam Chicago—Stager Bldg. Boston—Globe Bldg. 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He makes this explanation in order to satisfy critics who think he was unnecessarily severe. The youth had committed a robbery, enforcing his demands by flourishing a pistol. For such a crime the law pro vides a sentence of 25 years in prison. The judge had no choice in the matter. Examine'the facts calmly. A group of experi enced men, of sound judgment, calm and dispas sionate, framed a code for the government of the citizens of the state of Iowa. Along with this went the definition and gradation of crimes, with penalties attached to each. Some of these penalties are se vere, just as the crimes appear to be heinous. Plac ing life in jeopardy in carrying out a robbery was regarded as a serious offense against both person and property, and was so dealt with. • • • In the case at point, the culprit was a youth sud denly homesick at a holiday season. Penniless, he conceived the notion of robbery to secure funds to get home for Thanksgiving. Sentimentalists have pleaded this in his behalf. His condition and his de sire combined afford no justification for his action. Other boys have been away from home on Thanks giving, and have been as penniless and as homesick as this one, and have not sought to violently possess themselves of another’s property in order to relieve immediate desire. A Council Bluffs magistrate suspended sentence on a man who was caught stealing coal. The pris oner pleaded a freezing family. The judge went with him after trial, secured for him supplies and sent him back to his family. In either of these cases application to the proper persons would have secured relief, and resort to crime would not have gotten anyone into trouble. It is unnecessary in this land for anyone to steal to re lieve creature needs. Generous hearts are open at all times to the call of distress, and the unfortunate need only to ask to get help. • * * The generous impulse that would assist one who Is unfortunate should not be permitted to over shadow a sense of justice that would punish a crime. The law is intended to protect society, and not merely to punish an offender. Its penalties are heavy just as crimes are odious. When the moral fiber of the people is strengthened so it will not yield so readily to sympathy with a criminal, but will balance his offense against the good and welfare of all, we may see a recession of the “crime wave.” A judge is set in a most trying place. He holds the power of life and death over offenders. When the law says to him plainly what he must do, he should be commended for following it faithfully. Unless we can have something of this sentiment among the masses, we need not be astonished that reckless men and women flout the law and laugh at its impotence. Judge righteous judgment, and do not condemn a Judge for dealing with a criminal ac-' cording to the law he is bound to maintain or be recreant to society. For it is society he is protect ing, and the courts do not pursue private vengeance. » FROM OUT THE PAST. Far ba It from us to Join the doleful chorus of those who wail that the world la growing worse. Their lubrications make no appeal to us. The only effect of their dolorous lamentations is to emphasize the r rowing goodness all about us. But at this joyous Christmas season, when we are Somewhat given to retrospection as well as to introspection, it might be well to remind ourselves that even if the world is growing better, it might progress more rap idly if it were not so prone to forget some of the good things of yesterday. Sometimes it appears to us that in our zeal for efficiency and economy of production we overlook a thing or two greatly worth while. For? instance, , speaking of the good old things of yesterday, what I has become of pork sausage? Not the conglomerate moss of scrap beef, ham scrapings and pork rem nants that only too often comes to us disguised as pork sausage, but the real, genuine, pork sausage, made from real pork and garnished with sage and black pepper and thyme and other savory herbs? W# mean the kind of pork sausage that provided it* own grease in the frying pan, and whose savory pdors during the process of cooking permeated the house hold and started the gastric juices to working in pleasurable anticipation. No, sir; we do not mean the conglomeration ground up one minute and put on. sale the next; but the savory concoction care fulljF pt^served from hog killing time until it was properly iw^oned and just the right kind of weather offered for its consumption. Parked down in melted lard or hung In festoons from the rafters, carrying with it the odors of Araby the blest and appealing alike to smell and taste, it was the kind of food upon which empires were conquered and cornerstones of states laid to endure for all time. Real, genuine old fashioned pork sausage, flanked on one side by a stack of real buckwheat cakes and on the other by a pitcher of sorghum. All we hnve to say is that the efficiency that has made that sort of breakfast pro I vender unattainable' is not the kind of efficiency upon which to base a real forward movement for spiritual, mental or physical uplift. The world is better than it ever was, and grow ing steadily better. But it wouldn’t hurt that sort of progress a little bit to retain a few more of the good things that stood the test of time jn strenuous days now gone. Please pass the sausage—the real old-fashioned sausage of other days! INAUGURAL BALL—MAYBE. I President Coolidge, it is given out, has ap proved plans for his inauguration in March along the lines that attended the ceremony for Warren G. Harding in 1921. Ceremonies will be simple, will be open to the public, and the appropriation for expenses will not exceed $35,000. This does not meet the approval of Washing ton hotel keepers and some others, who regard the inauguration of a president as a quadrennial dis pensation in their favor. If windows along Penn sylvania avenue can not be renter! for the day at a sum almost equal to the cost of the building the event is not a success. Mr. Coolidge, however, is of the opinion that the inauguration of a president is an affair in which all the people of the United States are concerned. It should not be made the occasion of turning some easy profits Into the pockets of the innkeepers or retailers of the Capital City. He does not, however, extend his views beyond the actual official events of the day. What anyone wishes to do unofficially is all right with him. For this reason he says he has no objection to a ball being given on the evening of the day, but he will not attend, either as president or as Calvin Coolidge. So any other sideshows may be set up, but they will not be^part of the great public cere mony. Whether promoters will care to venture the uncertainty of a successful ball without the pres ence of the president is not certain. It is certain, though, that the president’s determination to keep the ceremonies simple, and to avoid lavish outlay of public funds will be approved. Americans love dis play, but they also like a man who has the courage to say "no” when it is proposed to make him the central feature of a Roman holiday that does not harmonize with the spirit of American institutions. EITHER VERTICAL OR HORIZONTAL. A new standard of prosperity is suggested. Here tofore we have been accustomed to gauge material well being by certain specified commodities. The visible supply of wheat, for example, represented so many millions of bushels, valued at so many dol lars. That was tangible. So many million bales of cotton ginned, exported, or sent into storage by the spinners. So many millions of tons of unfilled orders on file with the steel mills. Bank reported surplus dollars available for loaning. Railroad re turned earlot loadings and movements between ter minals. To the careful analyst these told a story of how business in general was going in the land. Now we may adopt another test. Dictionary makers report that they are many months behind with their orders. All sorts are in requisition, and it will be long before every ambitious citizen can have his own private compendium of words and defi nitions, to refer to constantly. Even in the public libraries, rules have been enfo.rced, limiting the number of moments any one patron may have pos session of the dictionary. Everybody knows the reason. Stimulated by the crossword puzzle, the great American public is in pursuit of words of four, five or six letters, mean ing- something, they do not care a hang what, so long as it permits the horizontal to match and pro duce the vertical. And the tragedy of it all is that no sooner has one word been found than search must commence for another. It is a fascpating amusement. At any rate, it holds its victims as have few other forms of Indoor entertainment What it will lead to goodness only knows, but it certainly has boomed the dictionary business, James Griffin, convicted of manslaughter in con nection with the murder of Henry McArdle, asks for a new trtal on the ground that The Omaha Bee printed furl accounts of his trial. The Omaha Bee pleads guilty to the charge of being a newspaper. Parson Weems’ story of George and the cherry tree may have been without foundation, but we’re going to cling to the story that George swore like a pirate at the battle of Princeton. Now let the iconoclasts do their worst. The Omaha criminal who barricaded himself in his domicile and battled with the notice until he died, is one criminal who will not be pardoned or paroled, or even garlanded with flowers from the Sob Squad. After struggling against it for a long time we finally succumb to the temptation to remark that organized baseball seems to have put the Ban on Johnson. If it is true that a white Christmas means a green graveyard, Nebraska is destined to enjoy un usually good health during the coming year. Millleent Rogers has lost her count, Ludwig Balm von Hoogstraeten. Losing a husband with a name like that is almost as bad as losing one’s bass drum. If this coffee situation keeps up much longer the coffee bootlegger will.be greatly in evidence. Nebraska continues white on the business map, and also white for Christmas. Good morning! Have you sent your Christmas basket where it will do the most good? r - •> Homespun Verse —By Omaha's Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie v._) PLUCGIN' AWAY. When they smile and they frown, And they loiter sroun' Just like they were snoopin', he goes As he ever has gono To the dfty’s end and on. Concerned with the faith that he know* When they whisper end grin, And they whisper sgln. And their laugh Is a kind of a lay,— lie notices not That they're tickled a lot For he's always Juat pluggln' nwsy. When they meet him end smile In a wiseacre style,— lie secs hut he speaks not a word; . And ho plods ever on To tha dusk from the dawn— , He's seen but he's seldnmly hoard! Ms will rise and sttaln Ills allowable gain— Me will get to the summit some day. And lho reason will ho Uses use don't you see*— lie is always Just pluggln' away. f--—------'*\l There Are Only a Few Days Left for You to Catch Up With Those Things You Said You Were Going to Do This Year L-—-— ■ ■ " — ■■■■ - - ■ — ■ t “From State and Nation” —Editorials from Other Newspapers— >_i Boys of Other Days. From the Fslrbury (Neb ) News. Older FaJrbury residents will sjrre* with us that a boy didn't cost much in ths days gone by. A patr of cordu roys, a cotton waist, and a 10-cent pair of suspenders made a wardrobe that came to less than a dollar. If he at# a great deal he didn't run up a doctor bill. A stonebrulse or a bad ease of sunburn were ailments that never cost his father a cent. He didn't have to have a dollar s worth or salve and sterilized bandages every time he wejit out and stubbed his foe He was of some help about ths place, too, from the time he was 7 years old. and when a father leaned across the checkered table cloth at supper time the evening before the circus day and, putting a quarter In his son's hand, gave a few words of advice about staying out of trouble tomorrow, he knew that while he would probably not see his son again for S6 hours the honor of the family would be maintained. He knew he wouldn’t have to stop his work to get ths boy out of Jail for speeding or becoming too friendly with a bootlegger. There were no Boy Scouts and fresh air f-amps In those days, and no gym. naslums. But the fellow who has never stood barefooted In pasture or orchard grass, or burled his toes in the cooling dust of a country road, with the rising sun bringing another bunch of freckles to distribute over his face, ha# missed something out of boyhood he can never put back. Today the world give# a lot of boy hood, but when we think of the boy# of yesterday and then compare their joys with those of the boys of today we can’t help feeling that at the same time the world Is giving them much It Is withholding more. Radio’s Divining Rod. From the Denver Newe, Radio, tha omnipresent, he* pane trated geological fields. It has be come a handmaiden to metallurgist and prospector for oil, gas, water or "pay ora." as the case may be. It lets man "hear" Into the heart of the earth, and discerning from the sound, he can tell what Is In there. W# have been told by one Inventor of a ma chine which he plants In the earth and listens to vertical waves'that hr has penetrated 25,000 feet deep and heard the crackling and rumbling of a volcano In the bowels of the earth. If temperatures are required at dif ferent degrees of depth they can he Indicated by applying ‘‘radio'' to the earth waves. He relates other strange things which ha has heard "down there" by means of his delicate In strument. Ha hears and tells w'hnt la to be found In tha different earth layers from tha sound. Another In ________________________ strument Is so delicately attuned that It responds to tha metals under ground. Tha "douse-stlck," as divining rod, came to be known In the old country. Is giving place to an Intricate elec trical apparatus. The "douser," hold er of the twig that told him where water might be found under feet, or perhaps mineral, Is upheld and cerl fed by radio. He was no faker: his twig had no "magic" In It: he was responses to the earth or ether waves, Tha human responded, as the machine now does, to the elements underneath him: but the marhfne can Indicate a good deal more than the human and Is more accurate because It Is devoid of “personal equations.” ‘'Wildcat ting" should becopie less hazardous. We cannot see into the earth, but by using the other sense can w e do about as w ell. Great Men's Vain Desire*. From ths Manchester Guardian. In the history of letters there are precedents enough for Sir Arthur Conam Doyles lament that tha public has preferred Sherlock Holmes as against his own preference for "The White Company” and Us successor, j Sir Nigel." Over and over again It has happened that tha public ap preclation of an author s work has not been quite on the lines of the author s own desire*. Browming believed In himself ** a dramatist In spite of public neglect, saying to a friend st the very end <>f his life: "Shall I whisper to you my ambition end my hope? It Is to write Abe Martin s — > C. H i Horn Slrmp bii' Clem Shaver wuzn' In th' limelight long enough f I ell ^ 'em apart. "Hu went t,’ th’ library early thia morn in' t* look fer a fur bearin' animal o’ three letters peculiar t’ Tibet, but I expert him any minute," said Dr. Mopin' other girl when th’ Bent ley family tried t’ git him lust night. ! fCupyrtfhl, 19.1 t ADVERTISEMENT. A THREE DAYS' . Chronio coughs and persistent cold* lead to leriou* lung trouble. You cm stop them now with Creomulsion. in emulsified creosote that is pleasant to tike. Creomulsion i* s new medical discovery with twofold action; it soothes and heala the inflamed membranes and kills the germ. 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I think of it constantly.’' Thackeray might be considered hap py when Trollope could write at his death that all the world agreed that "Vanity Fair," "Esmond" and "Pen (lennis" were masterpieces, the gen eral public preferring "Vanity Fair,' the critics "Esmond," and the per sonal friends "Pendennis;" but Thackeray was not content, for his gres- ambition was to write a suc cessful play and he never achieved it. We may guess that Thomas Hardy would put "The Dynasts" far above "Tess," but the public has decided otherwise, just as the public cared little for Meredith's verse. Words worth's "Peter Bell" was the very essence of his creed of simplicity of subject in poetry, but even the Words worthlans could not stomach "Peter Bell." Would Dickens be happy tn the thought that his "crusades" are for gotten in the grand humanity of his novels? When Wilkie Collins wrote "Min and Wife" he thought that he was striking r crushing blow nt ath leticism. Who reads or cares for the We Turn Over a New Leaf Jan. lst--Another Best Seller Coming Nebraska Fuel Co. 1104 City Nat’l Bank Bldg. JA ckton 0430 • * \J "" ■" " - ,UE.HML_M^ ------ It Is still mads. What we mean Is peppermint candy. The morning after Christmas found upon our battered and always untidy desk a bag of 'em, accompanied by tha following soul ful verse: "A few days ago in your ‘Sunny Slda Up’ Ynti were sighing for Just a few licks At the candy we had when Heck was a pup, So here are some peppermint sticks." And there they were, big. fat, striped sticks, with the old time flavor. Charles U. Graves of Union, Neb., talks our lan . guage. We don't know Just how it struck others, but to our mind the biggest thing about Christmas this year was the wonderful spirit of helpfulness shown by everybody. It seemed that all that was needed to Insure help for the needy was t0 make the need known. We’ve seen a whole procession of Christ mas days come and go, but the last one seemed to be the great est of all in Its exhibition of the real Christmas spirit.