The Omaha Bee M O K N 1 N G—E V E N 1 N G—S U N P A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Publi»h.r N. B. UPDIKE. President BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLER. _Editor in Chief Bntinees M,nnjr*r MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tho Auoeinted Press, of whirh The Be* is * member. In enrlusively entitled to the use for repuhliention of nil aewn dispntrhn* credited to it or not otherwise eredited In thin pnptr, nnd nlso thn lornl news published herein. All rifhtn of repuhliention of our spreinl dispatehrn nrn nlso reserved. | Tha Omaha Baa in a member ot tha Audit Bureau ot Circulations, tha recognized authority on circulation audita, and Tha Omaha Bee's circulation ia regularly audited by thair organizations. Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908. at Omaha noetoffice, under act of March 8, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Prirnte Brnnrh Esehanire. Ask for AT Untie 1000 tha Department or Person Wanted. OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Chicago—Sieger Bldg. Boston—Globe Bldg. Los Angeles—Fred L. Hall, San Fernando Bldg. San Francisco—Fred L. Hall, Sharon Bldg. New York City—270 Madron Avenue Seattle—A. L. Nietz, 514 Leary Bldgn MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES DAILY AND SUNDAY 1 year 96.00, 6 months 93.00, 3 months 91.75, 1 month 75e DAILY ONLY 1 year 94.60, 6 months $2.75. 3 months $1.60, 1 month 75c SUNDAY ONLY I year 93 .00, 6 months $1.75, 3 months $1.00, 1 month 50a Subscriptions outside the Fourth postal zone, or 6('0 miles from Omaha: Daily and Sunday, $1.00 per month; daily only, 75c. per month; Sunday only, 50c per month. CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Morning and Sunday.^.1 month 85e, 1 week 20c Evening and Sunday .1 month 65c, 1 week 15c Sunday Only ...1 month 20c, 1 week 5c V___/ OmahaVha& is a( i(s Best GOVERNOR M’MULLEN’S CABINET. An encouraging fact is noted in connection with Governor McMullen’* first official act. In appoint ing his cabinet, he show* a commendable intention to be ruled by the spirit as well as by the letter of the law. Governor Bryan’s antipathy to the “code” law led him into a position that might be a source of trouble. Failing to secure the repeal or material modification of the law, Bryan fixed it to suit him self. Instead of naming secretaries as heads of de partments, as the law requires, he chose “deputies,” retaining to himself the position of chief. Governor McMullen returns to the reasonable ob servance of the law, and has carried into effect its provisions. He has done more than that. In mak ing his selections for office, he has been governed more by a desire to secure men who are fitted for the special work that will be theirs, regardless of their political influence. If either happens to'be a politician, it is incidental merely, and not a prime factor. • * * • For the highly important place of secretary of finance, the governor has chosen Dwight S. Dalbey of Beatrice. Mr. Dalbey has been active in politics. He is far better known, however, because of his business ability. In fact, it was this qualification thet commended him to the voters of Gage county. Under his direction it is not likely that many $400, 000 errors will creep into the records of the state financial transactions. Another most excellent choice is that of H. J. McLaughlin to be secretary of agriculture. Farmers are more and more concerned in certain phases of government each year. This department comes directly in contact with the farm, and under the , direction of a genuine farmer, who is versed in prac tice as well as theory, will be made truly serviceable to the farmers of the state. ‘Trade and commerce will be looked after by Kirk Griggs of Hastings, whose successful career as a hanker well qualifies him for the place. • * • Still another appointment, in which experience had far more of weight than political influence, was that of Frank A. Kennedy to be secretary of labor. Mr. Kennedy was first to hold this job, and it was lie who developed the old labor bureau into an institu tion of genuine worth. He gave particular attention to the administration of the workmen's compensa tion law. Amendments were secured that greatly improved the law, and he secured a number of no table decisions from the court which strengthened the statute and secured the rights of victims of in dustrial mishaps. His selection should bo taken as an earnest of the attitude of Adam McMullen to ward the working people of the state. Roy L. Cochran, who is named secretary of pub lic works, is a hold-over from the Bryan administra tion. He has had the active support of a large ele ment of good roads advocates, and his retention in the important office may be ascribed to his ability as a road builder. It is well known that Governor Mc Mullen is entirely “sold” on good roads, and is anx ious to do all he can to advance the cause. • » • One other appointment that will meet, general approbation is that of Lincoln G. Frost to be secre tary of public welfare. Judge Frost has engaged both as a lawyer and a Judge actively In the work for child welfare. He is fitted by nature and train ing for the delicate and important service he is now asked to give. W. C. Condit for state sheriff, T. E. Williams for tax commissioner, J. V. Craig as chief of the bureau of securities, John C. Trouton ss fire warden, and John C. Jenkins as fish and game warden, all are well qualified for their particular work. Taken as a whole, the governor’s job of sifting out the ones he wanted from the host of names he had to choose from seems well done. Ha has not sought to build a political mnehine, but has moved in the direction of getting good men to do the work for Nebraska. We can all look forward to a real administration, • business administration. AMERICA ON BALLOON TIRES. Not so very many years ago an Omaha automo bile dealer loooked over his list of “prospects" at fhe beginning of the year and sighed. The “satura tion point” was nearly reached. So he dosed up his business and sought other lines of activity. He does not express his feelings now, but we wonder what he thought when he read the announcement from the automakers that a million more drivers will be added to the list during 1925? In face of the fact one in every seven and one half of the country’s entire population already is'a driver, another million of them are to 1>p added. Oil producers will view the prospect with equanimity. Those who are concerned in development of substi tute fuels will take courage. Traffic rops will groan as they see their already complicated Jobs made more ao by the Incursion of a host of new thnrioteers eareenln* through the highways and hvways. Prin cipally through the highways, for the suto seldom aaeka the byways. That is the essential difference between the machine and the horsa. A horseback 11 I rider may seek beauty and pleasure along paths that are closed to the auto. But a million more drivers sounds respectable, even alongside the 15,000,000 and over already en joying the car in all its many uses. It is not just a salesman’s dream, but a conservative statement of what may reasonably be expected. It will surprise none if more than a million are not added. What further proof of the general prosperity of the nation as a whole could be afforded? Call it what you will, the steadily mounting number of automobile* in use is a tribute to the American people, if for no other thing than that it exemplifies the increase in ma terial wealth. And we believe that intellectual growth and spiritual advancement is in step with material advance. KIPLING WAS ALL WRONG. One of the happy effects of the evolutionary growth of higher education in the United States has beeen a sort of laboratory experiment in geography. Young men who have achieved proficiency in the pursuit of certain knowledge that is outside the cur riculum, and yet connected with the general process of education, got first-hand information about the country they never could obtain otherwise. Kipling wrote “East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,” and he thought he knew what he was writing about. He was all wrong. Of course, when he told that pretty tale of the col onel's son and the brigand chief he did not know what the first quarter of the Twentieth century was going to do for the youth of America. Now east and west meet, and the two tangle up with the center in such comradeship and competition as has fairly obliterated sectional lines. Happy is the young man who ran make the grade on a football or other athletic teapj belonging to one of the great schools. To such come great re ward. Whereas, in olden times the “grand tour” came after graduation, now it goes along with the course. The big or nimble undergraduate goes across the continent in special trains, stops at in termediate points, does his stuff for the delight of admiring millions, and gets back home in time to have a “condition” put on or taken off. All in the regular routine of a college career. Must he some time devoted to study, although we do not hear so much about that. It is not on record that a team of Phi Beta Kappas ever journey from the Atlantic coast to contest with a similar group on the Pacific. Highbrows do not burst forth in half-tone pictures or double-column headlines. Yet there remains considerable competition at most of the schools for scholastic honors. All geopraphy study is not carried on from the platform of an ob servation car. 0 LYNCH LAW LANGUISHING. One almost exclusively American industry shows a distinct and altogether weleopie falling off for the year 1924. Only sixteen persons, all negroes, were lynched in the United States "last year. This is the smallest number recorded since the keeping of ac curate records were begun by the Department of Records and Research of Tuskegee institute. In 1923 the number was thirty-three, so the reduction i« almost 50 per cent. The records show that in forty-five cases officers of the law prevented lynchings. Only one con clusion is possible. That is that more respect for the law prevailed during the last year than has for many a day. We may be very certain that crime did not in any part of the country diminish propor tionately, so it is fair to reason that the public was more inclined to allow the punishment of offenders to rest with the authorities. Also, as the number of frustrated lynchings shows, the officers of the law were a little more vigilant in the matter of protect ing prisoners under their charge. Only one lynching occurred in a northern state, Illinois; all the others were in the south, Florida leading the list with five. A diminution of mob vio lence at a time when so much reason for excitement otherwise existed ought to be subject for congratu lation, were it not for the fact that enough of the mob spirit remains to excite regret. In time, maybe, the law will have its full chance, and exasperated persons will not assume the function of judge, jury and executioner. Ruthenberg will have from three to ten years in prison to think it over. He may reach the same conclusion that Emma Goldman did, that America is a good country to be free in. But a poor place to mistake liberty for license. The “lady from Sarpy” was the first woman leg is lator to take the oath in Nebraska. If she serves the state as well as she did The Omaha Bee when she was a reporter on its staff, her record will be first-class. Second growth ice is twelve inches thick around Omaha, hut the ice companies have no use for it. Houses all filled, and big consolidation being formed. Smith Wiidman Brookhart is going to have the time of his life convincing a senate committee that he really was elected to succeed himself. The English editor who referred to "Robert M. I,a Fayette” is not much further out of the way than were a lot of American voters. Leningrad is now flooded, if you are interested in knowing what General January is doing for Holy Russia. Gaston B. Means is under arrest again. Seems as if the federal courts can not let a “good” man alone. Governor Bryan kejjt his record straight to the end. His final guess was about as wild as his first. ( Homespun Verse —By Omaha’s Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie <_> FACES. Th*r# Hf* folk* with far** li.'igtf&rd, Th*r* nr* folk* with f ir** guy,— And I like to not* the rontraat* Thai f *** from d«y to dnv. There «»#> countenance# thoughtful, Thor# are rountenanre* kind Th*r# ar# oth*r* vain and *hn|low By proclivity dealgned. Tber* nr* tho** w* m**t with plMRUn, There nr# tho** w*d Kindly *hnn, Th*r# at* oth*r* who remind us Of com* old familiar on#; Th*r* nr* tho*# who *»* forgotten— Ami w# oft*n know not why; Tlt*r# nr* other* w* r*r^*rntr*r Though hut nnr* w* pn** th*rn by. All th*** far** hapl***, hojmful, Hoi*mn, genial, vain and gay - Mak* nnr live* worth living alwnv*. A ml dfv*r*lfy Ilf* •* way. J|«*r* a *rnll* awalta to greet ua, Th*r# * algh, or th*r* a frown, * Ami th* whole of them tog**her Keep th# vmmJJ*' from breaking down. r- ' "" ’ They Are Best Helped Who Help Themselves v« ■ ■■■■----— f HITT UNITED BACK OK A BATTERING RAM THE SAME FORCE WOI 1,1) RE IRRESITIHI E ' ' ' “ i / Sabotage in the Senate Dial of South Carolina Chides His Colleagues Because They Merely Kicl( Wooden Shoes Into Machinery and Hope to Be Praised for Doing So. Senator Dial of South Carolina took the breath away from his party col leagues, and even made the repub lican* gasp, by a speec h in the senate c hamber on Saturday last. The Mus cle Shoals hill was under disc ussion, and Senator Rrookhart of Iowa had Indulged In some criticism of the president. Rial came to the defense of Calvin Coolidge, and chided his party for its position. Soma excerpts from his address follow: “It is a mortifying, hitter truth th*t the quiet and close Thinker In the While House. Just elected president as the republican nominee, is a better democrat in many essentials, more in accord with the foundation princ iples of the democratic party, than many men who have obtained high and hon orable places as ostensible democrats 1 honor the courage and respect the wisdom which hava moved him to clean house In Ills own party. He rids his organization and himself of those who, however pure their pur poses or high their characters stand before the country for imported Ideas of government and its functions re pulsive to American instincts, habits and ideals. One of these policies la that of sabotage, destroying machin ery by throwing into it a wooden shoe or monkey-wrench while nominally working with and for it—a villainy as abhorrent In politics ns In industry. Vo one of us. If managing an Indus trial or other establishment, would harbor for a moment the thought of Inducing part of the force of a rival establishment to injure It by starting Are on the promises or ruining the appliances of the trade, however in tense the rivalry might he. T. for I one. believe the same ethic s and rules of honor we observe In our personal conduct should govern us in politics Home of us on this side of* the cham ber hava been abetting and urging sabotage and apparently expecting the admiration and applause of the American people for the brilliancy nf the performance. The people have neither applauded rir approved. We have incurred along with the sting of defeat the more bitter sting of eon tempt. “Instead of railing to its the In 'urgent republicans and offering them opportunity to he useful and effective with us by adopting and accepting our principles, we have able* tly trail ed behind them, allowing them to lead us to roitlbinad uselessness and Ineffectiveness, not only mortifying but ltMlricroti*. Trying to use them In ways disgraceful to both, we have allowed them to use ns to the datnnh tlon of both. Home of us seem yet to be tempted to go with them in progress toward centralization and concentration of power here In Wash Ington and Inevitable consequent weakening, subserviency and degener ation of American manhood and wo manhood, which the most obsessed of the old time federalists, monarch 1st a and whlgs would not have dared consider. The president, bead and lender of the party supposed to be tbs heir of federalist and whig and their contention* for ever Increasing power In the general government, bnldlv and frankly repudiates the whole idea of government ownership and operation of utilities. Home of us who call our selves democrats, supported to be heirs to the tradition that those people are best governed who are least governed. giVe direct and indirect aid to out spoken advocates end s poet lee of gov eminent ownership.” • e e **We ha vs com# pretty far from the democratic concept and have followed that dangerous downward path with democratic votes In congress. We have taken from the states the right of determining qualiAc ttIons of their cen electors, thereby Incurring fear fnl risk* w hich m«> fsce some • *f u In the future We have deprived the 'talcs of control and execution «»f po lic-c power* within their own lw»idn* and are moving now to usurp from them their right to tesrul.il* their own child labor and to give the fed*t>tl government a new power 10 Interfere with the domestic * affaire of eveiy family In the land, to demlve fathers and mothers of intiuageu^ju of their own offspring. For one. 1 believe we have reached the time nnd place to halt. I believe the result of last No vember should be not only warning and admonition, but Inspiration to us of the democratic party to renew now our allegiance to sacred first princi ples. It is a burning humiliation that we have ceased to be the party of I hope and real progress and firm stand on the Constitution, have fallen to the lamentable condition of having all our hope* for winning the election based on prospects of calamity, of havingj no function but to aid in dogging and hindering the dominant party with < hildish, spiteful de«ire to mal e it *aif useless to the country as we our selvea have become.’* • • • “The result at the polls last No vember is the stern summons • »f the people to us in this cham)»ei and elsewhere who call themselves demo crat* to choose and declare tins day whom we will serve- whether high, straight outspoken American denn> racy or some kind of shambling, has turd, shamefaced combination or compromise or mixture or loeaueu democracy and foreign-born social ism, or liolshevlsm or communism* or, hell broth of all. There Is no use try ing to dodge or blink facts. There was tio issue of League of Nations in the last election, or even of tariff nr taxation, or Ivu Klux, or toleration. The gr.■ » citizen, accomplished ora tor and high thinker nominated by the democrats ^national convention1 was weighed and judged and tried, not on h.a own line merits, but by the record we representatives of his party made here in congress. The smash Ing, fearful verdict was not against John W. Davis or the democratic party. It was against us here in congress and elsewhere who under take to b id that party and who have perverted and distorted it and made it ridiculous. The Muscle Shoals d.s ( cushion gives us opportunity to purge ourselves at least of some of the stain It appeaia to me that the opportunity has been neglected. As one humble democrat 1 ani trying to declare‘my self. I do it on my own response btlitv." Misplaced. "Walter," said the flni«-al diner. ’ bring me another menu: the unm ) >s of soup ate opposite the wrong names on this one.”—Boston Tran .“dipt. Apparently Not. "Are there germs in money?” "The doctor# don't seem to be afraid of it.’*—lamisville t'outler Journal. I-1 /%%A A KML^y Aspirin SAY “BAYER ASPIRIN” and INSIST! Unless you see the "Bayer Cross’’ on tablets you are not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe , by millions and prescribed by physicians 24 years for Colds Headache Pain Neuralgia Toothache Lumbago Neuritis Rheumatism Accept only ‘'Raver'’ package ^ Cl which contains proven directions. £ llnndv "lUyvr" box»« of 12 tnhlrl* ^ 9 Alto hot tint of 21 nnd 10■ r Another feature of old-lime sessions of the legistature Ihat is missing hut not especially mourned. Is the P"*« ^penser fscd to he if anybody wanted to go anywhete all h« had to do was to see a certain party and tell his roubles. f t was a member who made the request, he would get a note the n >xt morning, or perhaps the same day, containing the enurtesv No more It Is related that once the legislature as a body marie a visit to Fremont, traveling by s|>eyut the state interfering with the counties on the road building program. He was willing the state should take on the job of looking after >Iorton park, however, ^ Senator Cooper of Douglas Is overseeing the real job of the organization days. He Is trying to distribute the committees so that everybody will get the chairmanship he wants, and no committee will have more than one chairman. That's all he has to do. Mabel Gudmundsen Gillespie told Hje men folks she was used to tobacco smoke. .She must have acquired the taste after she quit working as a rejsirter for The Omaha Bee. for nobody here smoked while she was on the staff. Wild, M. MAI 'TIN. . .Made Keverse Application. Lolta — Charlotte Crabtree — who died worth *4.000,000— wm asked one day by a Boston reporter why she had never married. The famous actiess’ eye twinkled as she answered: “I've always kept in mind, young mail, the old Greek philosopher's dir turn—of course I put the reverse Eng lish Oil It—'He who takes a wife takes care, hut he who takes care doesn't lake a wife.'"—Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph. Street Car Episode. “Ia>ok here, announced the young lady. "If you don't stop staripg at me so fixedly I'll poke you in the eye " "It s a glass eve. miss," responded the man civilly. "The nniv way it can look Is fixedly. But poke It if you like —Louisville Courier Journal f=~===^ NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for the SIX MONTHS Ending Sept. 30, 1924 THE OMAHA BEE Daily .73,790 Sunday ..^75,631 Does not Include return*. left- | overs, samp'es or papers spoiled in printing and includes no sp-cial sales or free circulation of any kind. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mpr. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of October. 1924. W. H QUIVEY, (Seal) Notary Public Chart,r No. 1162* R,«»rv# District No. 1# RKPORT OP CONDITION OK THE PETERS NATIONAL BANK AT OMAHA, IN THE STATE OF NEBRASKA, AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS DECEMBER 31. 192 4. RESOURCES Ix»an« and discounts, Including rediscount#, acceptance* of other hank*, and foreign bi!!» of exchange or draft*, *old with endorsement of this hark .11.147,5*3 64 — $1,147 5*3 t Overdraft*. un*eeured . 167.5* U. S. Government aacuritiea owned: All other United State* Government securities < includ ing premium*, if ary) . 200.765 65 200.765 fr< Other bonds, stocks, securities, etc.: . .... 595,5*9.4 2 Furniture and Fixture* . . Lawful reserve with Federal Rrsrrve Bank 1 • 934.52 Item* with Federal Re«erve Bank in proees* of eo ecin>n 7 9.0#! 91 Ca*h in vault and amount due from national banks.... 356.077.74 Amount due from State banks, bankers and tr-*t com* panie* in the United States tother than included in three preceding item* . 120.913 41 t'hecka on other banks in the same city or town as reporting bank ....... 3$.S0*.S7 Total of four preceding items . . 6 4 4.3*1 IS M iscellaneous cash items . 6 917 20 Total .. $2,575,359.74 LIABILITIES. Capital flock pa d In . . 3 200 000 00 Surplus fund .. . . 50 000 oft Undivided profit* - - I 40.9*6 30 40,9*6 Reserved for ta\e*. interest, etc., accrued .... 63 4 Amount due to national bank* . . 26.579.69 Amount due to State hank* hnnkc- , ard :ru*t com panies in the Un :ed S’ate* and foreign countries tother than included in preceding item). 191.#<*3 *6 Certified checks outstanding .. D4.S# Cashier's check* outstanding ... 3$,$6> 7 Total of four preceding ;,‘m? 2.’1 * 16.76 Drmsrd Deposits (other than bank deposits) suhjr t to Ren iv*: idepont* payable wi.hin ?• .!a> • Individual deposit* subject to check 1.573 929. '6 Certificate* a1 deposit due in le** than .%0) d.*' * u . her than for money borrowed 42.17; 61 State, county or other municipal depo*\: * secured by pledge of a«*et* of this bank or surety bond 155.6'*4 *1 Other demand depoait* . 425.0# Total of demand deposit* tother than bank de posits) subject U» Reserve. foU1- peered n . :*rv 1 7. .'.409. IS Time deposits subject to Reserve (payable aft^r 3# day or subject to 30 day* or more notice, ar.d postal • a v mgs ) ; Certificates of deposit (other than for money borrowed 169##.' >9 Uther time deposit* ISO.9X1.67 Total of time deposit* subject to Re*er*e. t wo preceding item* 31t.5kS.76 United States deposits tother than p«** al *a\ ■> in cluding War loan deposit account and lei"'H> f Unite*! States disbursing officers . . 16.650. ft# Total ..... 12,575,359 7 State of Nebraska, County of Douglas **• I. K. I- Linduueat, Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the shove statement is true to the Lest of my kuowudgi and bf.ef. K I.. L1NDQUEST. Cashier. Subscribed and awvra to before me th;« 7>h «i v of J* • •* l” (SEAL) YU ik*K C. UKAUAM Notary Pub ■ *. Correct Attest: K C DETERS M D, t AM..RUN. K i \ IN. Jr . I* SQI a ire Well And Happy Hot* Nairn#'* lit, Natvta'i hR Tablet* ) • aativa, ton** tha organs and rslwvsi Com tip, lion, Btliouinvii. Sick HwdukM. U—4 f*t Omr SO y#ars | : Chip* off the m JUIMOU#—littto NVa Tha aama Ml—In ana-third tfoaaa. rainlv coatad. 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