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The Omaha Bee MORN1N G—E V E N I N G—S U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Publisher N. B. UPDIKE. President BALLARD DUNN. JOY If. HACKLER. Editor in' Chief _Business Mens err MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee ie a member. Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all r.ewa dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication tt our epecial dispatches are also reserved. The Omaha Bee is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, tho recognised authority on circulation audits, end The Omaha Bee's circulation is regularly audited by their organisations^__ Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908, at Omaha postoffioe, under act of March S, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for 1TI..1J, 11Wl the Department or Person Wanted. cw * IRllwC 1 wu ; OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Chicago—Steger Bldg. Boston—Globe Bldg. Los Angeles—Fred L. Hall, San Fernando Bldg. Sen Francisco.—Fred I,. Hall, Sharon Bldg. New York City—270 Madison Avenue Seattle—A. L. Nlcts. 514 Leary Bldg. MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES DAILY AND SUNDAY 1 vear 15.00. 8 months 83.00, 3 months 81.78, 1 month 78c DAILY ONLY 1 year $4.50, 8 months 82.75. 8 months 81.80, I month 78c SUNDAY ONLY 1 year *3.00. 8 months *1.75, 3 months *1.00, 1 month BOc Subscriptions outside the Fourth postal rone, or 600 miles from Omaha: Daily and Sunday, $1.00 per month: daily only, 7Dc per month: Sunday only, 60c per month. CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Morning end Sunday.1 month 85c, 1 week 20e Evening end Sunday.1 month 86c. 1 week loc Sunday Only •••••• month 20c, 1 week 6e V. - - Omaha Vhei&the^fest is at its Best BURNING UP THE DOLLARS. Look out of your office window. Any time of the day, in any direction. You will see some chim ney vomiting huge clouds of dense smoke. Try to realize what that means. Half the value of the fuel i* going up in the smoke screen that is doing no body any good. Fuel at $7 per ton is expensive. When $3.60 per ton goes up the chimney, and out to offend the atmosphere, it means that the amount that serves to produce heat or other form of energy is used at the late of $14 per ton. • If the coal dealer were to double his price on fuel, what a chorus of protest would go up from the building owners. Yet they will permit antiquated or inadequate furnace#, plus unskilled and iguorant liremen, to double the price of their fuel, and fancy they are handling their affairs efficiently. Smoke is an evidence of waste. It is a sign that combustion is not perfect. Only one way is known to obtain anything like the heat value of soft coal, and that is to burn it properly. This calls for ad mixture of oxygen with the gases that arise from the smoldering coal. A sufficient quantity of atmospheric air admitted to the firebox at a tem perature that will ensure the combination of the oxygen with the other gases produces the result sought. Only in this manner can it be obtained. Many properly constructed furnaces are avail able. Methods of preparing soft coal for fuel pur poses are known. There are grades of coal that we call “smokeless.” . In reality these grades of coal burn better, more completely. Any plan that gets more heat out of coal will save money, and big money to the large user of fuel. But, “the smoke goes up the chimney just the same,” and it represents dollars that are passing - — through the firebox and leaving no trace of useful . nos.-. Downtown Omaha should not be everlastingly under a pall of soot and smoke. Why not do some thing to remedy the situation? It means a large sav ing in actual cash $s well as improving the eondi l Lons under wHcftwe live." CURING THE LAW’S DELAY. Two notable addresses to the state bar associa tion emphasized the same point, although from dif- ! ferent angles. President Wright mentioned the well known congestion in the Nebraska supreme court docket. A case appealed today, he pointed out, will be decided late in December, 1926. That is, the court is two years behind in its work, and is not catching up at all. Various reasons have been as ; signed for this condition. Whatever the cause, the effect is discouraging to litigants. Cases on appeal involve matters that should be speedily adjusted, ’.hat the parties to them will know how to proceed in their business affairs. The law’s delay in this is mighty costly. Juclge Woodrough spoke of the great burden that La? been laid on judges of the federal court, whose work has been enormously increased by the anti liquor and narcotic laws. More judges are needed, t ko rays with some reason, to handle the business that r r.ow presses on the district courts of the United States. To the one problem the answer is comparatively ;.. y. Increase the number of judges on the federal (strict bench, so that they may expeditiously look •:fter the work that conies to them. When it comes u the state supreme court, the remedy is not so certain. Similar situations in past years have been met by the expedient of employing a commission, which would enable the court to overtake its work. ; ueh a plan is suggested aR available now. Another plan, not so attractive, is to constitute an intermediate court, which will have final jurisdic ‘ lion over certain specified classes of litigation. This would check a portion of the mass of cases that now (logs the docket. Another remedy, one that law ~ yers talk of in conference, but for obvious reasons 2 ere reluctant to openly discuisa, is greater industry 2 on part of the court. If the number of cases handled by each judge in the course of a year were brought up to the mark attained by some who have adorned . (he bench in Nebraska, the congestion would be re duced if not wholly removed. Rights of litigants demand that some adjustment of the condition be made, that the law’s delay be less vexatious. HENRY IS GREATLY TO BE PITIED. v Henry David of Springfield, Mass., is a poor, miserable unfortunate to whom our heart goes out in pity. Unfortunately for Henry he is so situated that we can not extend relief. If he will hut come to Nebraska we will point out to him ten thousand relief stations. Henry wrote to Collier's asking the why of the umlercrust in pie. He said it was always soft and soggy, always indigestible, and neuriy always inedi ble. Wo have no doubt that Henry slated the truth. Henry lives in Massachusetts, you know. While they may know how to bake beans and prepare the suc culent codfish hall, we lake It that the nri of pie making is unknown, or having once been known is paw s lost art. I’ie-mekwg In all its pristine glory |* be*' known in Me hr ask*. Here we find, even in t' * pie with undercrusts erbp and fiuky. I * In tens of thousands of homes there daily appear pies with upper and nether crusts so rich and tooth some, so alike in texture and composition, that it requires an unusual amount of “filling’' between them to keep them from coming together to talk, one to the other, about their superior virtues. Ne braska housewives take to pie-making as naturally as a duck takes to water. To build a pie in Ne braska is a labor of love, not a mere detail of the daily toil, and Nebraska women are so loving that we just can not help loving them. No, not for their lucious pies alone, but for their own sweet selves. And because they put so much of their own sweet selves into the pies they bake, Nebraska pies are the best in all the wide world. If David Henry will pry himself loose from the provincial purlieus of Springfield and trek out here to Nebraska, we’ll feed him pies that will cause his outlook upon life to become rosy with cheerfulness. MEN WHO TRAVEL KNOW THE ROADS. No surprise need bo expressed that the traveling men are for good roads. It would be amazing if they were not. The automobile is a little more than an adjunct to their business. It is indispensable. To get the best use of the automobile, they need highways in condition to travel in safety. So the traveling men, 100 per cent strong, have put their influence back of the movement to get rid of the “mud tax” in Nebraska. They have endorsed the program of the Nebraska Good Roads associa tion. Gasoline tax and all. In fact, the traveling men know, as do the farmers who have looked into the matter carefully, that the substitution of a gasoline tax for the “mud tax” is really a move toward [ economy. Good roads mean more miles per gallon, because less power will be required. Saving in power means lowering the ton cost of hauling. If the 1924 yield of wheat, corn, oats, hay and sugar beets alone in Nebraska were hauled to market as such, it would amount to the transportation of 15,190,750 tons. If the average haul were but five miles, and the saving effected by good roads over bad were but 10 cents per ton mile, the actual saving to the farmers on the one crop movement would be more than $7,500,000. In other words, that is the mud tax the farmer pays on just five items of what he has to haul. As suming that he hauls stuff from town, and that he transports cattle, hogs, sheep, potatoes, and other commodities to the market, the final calculation will show this just doubled. Regarded in this light, does it appear extravagant to ask for a program that will return in a very few years the cost of building roads in actual saving on haulage? The men who travel know the roads, and that is why they are so enthusiastic in favor of good roads. HER LIFE FOR OTHERS. Mrs. Edith Shinrock's name wall probably never i shine frdni the pages of history. She did no deed of single daring, no act of high endeavor, to win even passing fame. However, she did devote her time to a work that gained for her the gratitude of many of the humble and the lowly, the unfortunate and the afflicted. Many years ago Mrs. Shinrock took up the work of promoting ideas of temperance among the chil dren of the Sunday school in the church of which she was a member. This soon led her into a broader field of work. Among the prisoners in the city jails, the unfortunate wherever they might be located, she found occupation. It was not alone a message of religiUn, of redemption and salvation, she taught, but one of love, of help, and of courage for the fu ture. How much of good she accomplished none can say. She did good, though, for nq effort a* sincere as hers is put forth In vain. She truly gave her life for others, not by dying, but by living that she could assist those who needed aid, and at the time they needed it most. And of the many ho heard her kindly voice, her gentle counsel, soma must mourn because their friend has gone, A motion picture director at Hollywood died, leaving an estate of $4,000,000. His estate would have been much larger had he saved a lot of film wasted in the preliminary titles and announcements of the pictures. It seems that W. J. Bryan forgot to sign the check he sent to pay his membership fee in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. What's this: more monkey business? Williags H. Anderson, convicted anti-saloon league leader just released from Sing Sing, says he is a victim of persecution. He ought to know what persecution is, too. The manufacture and distribution of the so called looney gas will not he appreciably curtailed in Nebraska until we have a distinct modification of our primary law. Wreckers tearing down an old courthouse In New York state discovered a bottle of 100-year-old Scotch whisky. There are no courthouses in Ne braska that old. It seems to be a close race between New York’s gunmen and wood alcohol purveyors to ascertain which can accumulate the largest casualty list. A revival of the old-time parental discipline ad ministered in the woodshed might help make some youthful glands function properly. Governor Bryan has been photographed at a desk in the new capitol building. Flashlight, and fash pose. LOVE. While otliere are penning wllrl briefs of affection In various measures and hoes. Ami naming It Heavenly—when, as T lake It,— They're 111 with the miserable blue*— I'm working like sixty from five In the morning Till night when the clock clatters nine, To settle for clothes. And the victuals. Uod knows. That I owe to (he dear ones of mine. Vex, love Is a task In this world of adhei^ffoe For those who are men with a rare: And love la I he pleasure of lighting the hattle, And fighting* It honest and fair: And love Is the hope that iieralstently struggl And flaunts our Illusion widespread, And rises In shade When the soul is afraid, And gallantly leads ns ahead. Hove once was ft dream to this bard who has whisker* That reach nearly down to Ills toe* A hoe lit If Ul Isle such as artists have painted. As poeta have tried to disclose; fhtt time am) consIderAble effort cxitended Fur various causes of need Have proven in well A* adventure must tali' That love’s not a dream -hut a Utevl — ■ ■■■ " ' I ■ ' 1 Almost Enough Business to Pay to Rig Up the Old Bus ---- —.—' ( Letters From Our Readers All letters must ha signed, bill name will be withheld upon request. Communi cations of ZOO words and less, will be given preference. _^ Why the Hullabaloo? Missouri Valley, la.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: His honor, Judge Wheeler. Is the center of a little ■ ritlclsm which he should not le reive. With the facta and the law before him—why And fault? To hon estly Riid fairly decide a great, many things even less complicated — Iry m umpire a kids' buseball game. 1 on 11 he swamped with many viewpoints of the same question. A judge can make every one else shut up while he thThks, anyway. One judge took lfl days in the mountains to think on a case the. likes of which other judges have given it decision In a hurry. Ke memlivr It? Suppose young Oraham could have had Ihc advantage of a considerable defense fund? W hat if t l iiciice Har row's keen mind could have laid his defense for the state to hammer down? Couple the minds of some of Omaha's criminal lawyers nnd M them scheme his route to freedom? What would have happened tn his honor’s court? Would it have been 25 years? What would It have been? No need to guess. The lad may or may not he cap tured. Harrow or 111* equal did not defend him. The decision has been made. Now let's give our sympathies out where they will do some good, and ovtr criticisms, too. His honor or the court were put to no test at all. Wait until the state pulls a good I one and really does something before putting out all the spare, comment and sot* stuff. When the state and some judge puts a man where he be longs, (nnd keeps hint there!. In spite of money and quick-witted lawyers, you've got something to crow shout Why all the hullabaloo about the Ora ham case? Thanks. I. T. Dt’ZZEN MATTER. One 'fan Outline* His find. Omaha—To the Editor of (he Omaha Bee: On this Christmas day. 1P24, I shall not write very much about Christmas, but It is altogether pos slble that the sfdrit of the season has descended upon me nnd en forces this writing by a mandate all Its own. A few days ago t finished one of the best sellers, but It Is not a new l*ook, in fact. It Is centuries old. 1 had read parts of It many times, but never all of it. ft portrays a vindictive. Jealous Jehovah. It supplies authority for the subjection of womanhood and the slavery of the mind. I turn, how ever, to the story of the stable and the birth of Jesus, to the Psalms and the Proverbs and passages In and elsewhere, and ran understand the high literary value of the ltlhle and the pence and hope nnd purity of life It has brought to so many who have anchored their souls In Its t-1-“> promises. If I am unable to ascribe to It any si»ecial divinity. It Is lie cause my own intellectual Integrity will not allow sui li a surrender, and even more largely because all my ca pacity for reverence and rectitude seems centered in the life that i«. In people that are. In problems of earth. I like to think of God, for «sample, not as a mighty being on a throne, surrounded by adoring mul titudes, but as a magnificent person! fieatlon of every human virtue, of • very human tenderness, of every hu man power for sacrifice and self-con trol, and expressing himself best, not fn holy books, not in supposed revela tions from the skljts, hut In the lives of struggling mankind. I possess and frequently' advocate certain ideals of logic and justice in economic relations, to he secured mainly by a militant, well-organized] labor movement. These ideals are a] part of my conception of God. I like to read, not merely the pass ing fiction of the day, but books which, like the Bible, have stood the test of time and are the foundation of an enjoyable, endurable mental structure, such as the works of Hugo, Dickens. Shakespere and others. Here, too, is God. In a pocket, as T write. Is s hand kerchief, threadbare when "she" gave It to me, bgt auperlor to the rarest silk. Behind the book* In a bookcase Is a pile of letters I seldom read, for the sake of my own peace of mind, but which are treasured for the wealth of patience and kindness and character which they contain. Aiim of Rod. •Many more details might be in cluded. making a more satisfying ex planation, but why I* so frankly re vealing? Home things should be stored in secure recesses of the heart and guarded for what they presently lie come and remain—pure gold of the spirit. A thousand trifles combine to constitute the only Rod I know, and yet my soul may be safe, and flames of fire and fumes of brimstone may not be waiting for me simply lie-cause the orthodox frown at me as a heretic or regard me sadly as a straying sheep. “Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that Is very far off." I rest content. EDMUND R.’ BRUMBAUGH. K,tii|net of the Hat. Without consulting any of the au thorities on etlquet. we will answer the question, “When Is the proper time for a man to lift or remove his bat?” for the lieneflt of our readers. At the following time* and on the fol lowing occasion*, respectfully, the ha? should be removed or lifted as the circumstances indicate: When mop ping the brow; when taking a bath when eating; when going to bed when taking up a collection; when having the hair trimmed when bein^ shampooed, and when standing on the head.—I)odo. / ' ' Pretty fine, wasn’t It? Twenty five or thirty choirs from as many churches anti almost as many denominations, meet ing under one ehurch roof to sing Christinas carols to the Christ that all those denominations profess to love and wor ship. There comes Instinctively to mind the questions: Why so many choirs and so many churches and so many denominations? Why all divisions and bickerings and jealousies? Why all tills divided effort, instead of a united effort, to save a world from Its sins’* Possible now to ge through the stores. Christmas shop ping Is over. Bargain sales now on, but iieople pausing for breath. Bay or two will see them milling around after the January snaps. Christmas decorations still in sight, but rather bedraggled. Why do the gills wear their goloshes flopping around the! rankles? Prices of neckties slashed since Christ mas. Wiiat has become of all the fur caps the men used to wear? Where do Christmas trees go when they are discarded? Alia: Likewise 0-ho! The National Cloak, Suit and Skirt | Manufacturers' association has decreed that spring styles in skirts shall show the hem ten inches from the ground, and in extreme cases fifteen Inches. But why the discrimination In favor of the fifteen Inch class? Is not thought to lie given to those of the dear creatures who really, don't yer know, are In terested 'n skirts more concealing? We suppress our personal inclination to favor the flfteen inchers in order to do justice to those who really need a ukase from Dame Fashion to the ef- || feet that three or five Inches will tie en regie. This is a wonderful country. Its possibilities are tin- i I rounded. It can do more for a man than schools or college*. It can pick up a man whfi doesn't know tieplate from a Miller coupler, elect him to congress or the legislature, and before • the ink Is dry on his commission he knows more about building and updating railroads than ail the men who have spent their lives in the railroad business. He may not know the difference between a watt and a transformer, but election to a law-making body equips him with more electrical knowledge than Edison possesses, and more ability as an electrical business executive than the head of the General Electric company ever dreamed of having. It ia not only the land of promise, it is the land of miracles. ' t ^ We have just discovered that Instead of six safety razor blades in a package there are only five. This is a matter that demands the Immediate submission of another Constitutional Amendment. Merely Passing a Law will not suffice. Our labors are faring fruit. J. Hyde Sweet of the Ne liraaka City Press is writing a Sunday sermon every week, and they are mighty good sermons, too. Llayd Thomas, who secretary's for the Hastings Chamber of 'Commerce, sends us a New Year greeting card bearing several scriptural reference*. A letter from Frank Helvey contains a couple of Biblical verses pertinent to the subject he discusses. For a long time we felt discouraged, but now we are beginning to t-enlize that our labors . have not been In vain. An enthusiast says Nebraska's new capliol building will be the Taj Mahal of America. Very likely. The Taj Mahal was erected as a sarcophagus, and the new capital may bejust that ! for a lot of political ambitions. With all due respect to the eminent gentlemen who ad dressed the annual meeting of the Nebraska Bar association, their addresses were not nearly so Interesting a« the exchange of experiences in the group meeting? that met informally. A huge stack of Christinas card* from every section of the country- testifies to friendships that are above price. A good job that privileges us to work with a bunch of mighty fine a fellows Is a treasure more valuable than rubies or much fine ff gold The good fortune to lie permitted to live in a city whose open-hearted generosity is making It possible for Christmas to i enter every home Is not to Ire measured in dollar* and cents. 1 WILL M. MAUPIN. j V_il | Abe Martin “I reckon I ought I’ t>o mighty glad I don't look like u guinea pig." said Farmer Newt Stiff t'day, while kind neighbor! an’ friend* nut pickin’ til' allot out of him. 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