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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1925)
I i I - —_ fhe^fest is at its Best A STATESMAN QUITS OFFICE. I Charles Evans Hughes will retire to private life on March 4, after twenty very full years of public service. Beginning with the job of counsel for the Stevens gas commission in New York in 1905, Mr. Hughes has been successively counsel for the Arm strong insurance commission, governor of New York two terms, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, candidate of his party for pres ident, and secretary of state. He served as special counsel and investigator for the United States dur ing the war, and for two years following the Arm istice was member of a law firm in New York, to which work he will return. Lacking any other explanation, and none is of fered that deserves consideration, it is fair to con clude that Mr. Hughes seeks opportunity to work for himself for a while. His income as a practicing attorney will probably be several times the sum he receives as salary from the United States. This may seem selfish, but It is in accord with a custom so I general that his will not be an outstanding example. • • • As secretary of state Mr. Hughes performed his most noteworthy work. He inherited a task that might well have daunted the strongest of men. Ofir country had come out of the war about as it went in, unprepared for war and equally unprepared for peace. No department of the government was as completely disorganised a> that which deals with our foreign relations. Bryan, Lansing and Colby in suc cession had made a mess of affairs, and the illness that overshadowed Mr. Wilson’s last days in office contributed to the general confusion. Secretary Hughes was required to negotiate treaties of peace with Germany, Austria, Hungary * and Mexico. To conclude treaties with the new na tions of Europe, set up by the Treaty of Versailles, to which the United States is not a party. • The Washington conference for the limitation of arma ment. Participation in many post-war conferences in Europe. Setting in motion the events that led to the Dawes commission, with its plan that secures the peace of Europe. Delicate intercourse with Latin-American governments. In fact, the business of settling up the most confused and complicated foreign situation that ever was faced by the govern ment of the United States. How well he did his work even contemporaries admit, and future his torians will certainly find a wealth of rich material in the four years Charles Evans Hughes has served as secretary of state for the United States. * • * Frank B. Kellogg, who will succeed to the port folio after March 4, is well equipped to carry on. He first came to general attention when he was made “trust buster” by President Roosevelt. Long service in the senate of the United States, where he was a member of the foreign relations committee, his legal training, his service as ambassador to Eng land, all fit him for the work to which he is called. He is familiar Kith the, affairs of Europe, and the cnnouneement of his elevation is welcomed in Eng land and France because of his qualifications. In accepting the resignation President Coolidge writes as follows: “But I can not refrain from expressing my feeling of personal loss at the prospect,of your re tlrement, and also the loss that must Inevitably ensue when one of your Rbillty and experience goes out of an office which he Is so well qualified to fill. . . . I trust you may have a well merited repose and that satisfaction which alone can come from n consciousness that the duties of this life have been well performed.'' Secretary Hughes’ retirement is a distinct loss to the world as well as to the nation. He faced a . tremendous task, and surmounted it with honor and for the benefit of humanity. From the day he began work as a special counsel for the state of New York, to settle a gas case, to the end of his term as secre tary of state, he has served the public conscientiously and with a single purpose in view, the good of all. On this record his honor and credit will rest secure. — / WHEN A GOVERNOR STOOPS TO FOLLY. Jonathan M. Davis Is winding up his term ns governor of Kansas in a fog of disrepute. It is quite possible that the governor ieipnocent of any wrong doing, either In act,«; by intent. Yet such a circum stantial case has been tijpvon around him ns makes necesaar.v the fullest inquiry before final judgment can be passed. It has to do with the exercise of clemency, that function which is vested in every executive. It is the power to pardon criminals, to set aside the sen tence of the court, and to pronounce the convicted culprit free and restored to citizenship. Governor Davis is accused of having participated with his son in the sale of a pardon-to a man who was convicted under the banking laws of the state of Kansas. He was sentenced to prison and released on parole. His application for a pardon is by him said to have met . with a request from the governor for a considera tion. Carrying out the negotiations, a group of pewspaper reporters, stenographers and others were Assembled, concealed, snd overheard the transaction. Naturally, the governor denies any part, in tho transaction, other than signing the pardon. The son assumes all responsibility for whatever may he crimi nal. All the rest will be a matter of proof. How the jflblie will regard ths affair li qulta another t thing. In these days when so much is heard of of ficial corruption, the affair is not likely to he passed off lightly. Oklahoma impeached and removed a governor. Indiana sent one to prison. Now Kansas has a chance to try one for high crime. The record is not a pleasant one. Weak men are as likely to get into office under a democracy, however, as are the crafty and venal under an autocracy. Human institutions are not perfect, but that is no reason to despair when a weak man is de tected in wrong-doing, no matter how high his office. STRAIGHT AHEAD FOR OMAHA. The good things in this life are not going beg ging. Somebody is after each and every one of them. All’the time. Success only comes after effort. Hard, relentless, vigorous effort. This applies to communities, cities, as well as to individuals. It applies to Omaha. If this city is to prosper and expand as it should, nothin! can be omitted that will tend to bring home the bacon. It does not matter how big or how little the piece may be, if it is worth having. An example is afforded by Minneapolis. A committee of 100 leading citizens of that town has been organized. Former Governor Preuss stepped out of.the executive’s chair into the position of chairman of the committee. On the day he left office be said: "I will work half a day for the state of Minnesota, the other half on my new job.” What the committee aims at is told by A. E. Zonne, president of the Minneapolis Civic and Com merce association: ‘The completion of plans to finance the actual sales and promotion elements of efforts to build up Minneapolis iiydustrially fulfills a promise made to me when I accepted the presidency of the Civic and Commerce association a year ago. It was a great step forward in the program for amalgamating all efforts looking to the advancement of the city. The business men who have made possible this large program through their financial aid are to be highly commended, as there Is nothing more Im portant to the city Itself at this moment than a vigorous campaign for new industries.” A fuller declaration of purpose is made by the editor of the Minneapolis Journal, who says: "We want to gather here no hodge-podge of short-lived Industries, snatched from neighbor com munities in an unneighborly scramble. But we do want here far-sighted, dependable, long lived Indus tries, and we want them here, not because we are 'go-getters,' not because they will smudge our skies with a little more smoke to which we may point with pardonable town pride, but because the location here of the right sort of manufacturing enterprises will be of immense mutual benefit to those who build their forges here, to the artisan* whom these forges attract here, and to the nearly half million people who are already here, engaged in nearly every trade that North America knows.” There is thought for Omaha in this. Our rivals for commercial and industrial supremacy are active. If Omaha ia to grow, Omaha must hustle too. Many worth while prizes may be obtained by the exertion of a little effort, and certainly the reward is worth going after with full power. The Greater Omaha committee and the Chamber of Commerce have the support of the city in what they may undertake. A MOST POPULAR SUGGESTION. Those members of the legislature who suggest a short and snappy session should follow up their suggestion by action toward that end. Nothing could b* more popular with the taxpayers of the state. With all the complaint that is heard about the bur den of taxation, the taxpayers of Nebraska are not so much concerned about the amount collected as they are about the manner in which the revenues are expended. Give them an adequate return for the taxes they pay and the taxpayers will not com plain to any considerable extent. There is really little need for new legislation in Nebraska at this time. Amendatory provisions for the revenue act, some amendments to the guaranty net that will provide relief through more rigid ex amination and regulation, and the foundation of a good roads program are about all for which there is my demand. Nebraskans are thoroughly weary of political manipulation of appropriation measures for personal advancement. They know that a great and growing state like Nebraska demands a constantly increasing expenditure of money. They do not want their unfortunate wards stinted, nor do they want the state institutions to depreciate. They want scientific economy, not political camouflage. The legislature will not be censured if it makes liberal appropriations for needed purposes; it will he cen sured if it makes reckless appropriations and in dulges in an orgy of useless lawmaking. Nothing could be clearer, judging by the election leturns, than that the voters of Nebraska are weary of grandstanding, weary of palavering for personal political preferment, and weary of carping criticism of everything and everybody. They have elected a legislature of more than the average mental caliber, and they confidently expect that legislature to do business in a businesslike way, do it in the shortest possible time, and adjourn. A few amendatory laws, If you please; reasonable appropriations for needed activities, the repeal of some useless and conflicting legislation, and a speedy adjournment. California authorities have decided that a mos quito bite is a compensatable industrial mishap. In New Jersey it is a casualty. Election of school board members by wards will be n change, but not an improvement. — Homespun Verse —By Omaha’s Own Pool— Robert Worthington Davie ^_> DOWN AND OUT. Said a disappointed fellow who was looking for a Job;— 'Tou've a way of growing roses In the frozen river, Bob.— And you paint delightful picture* of the man who's out to Wit), Tou believe.that every loser ought to wear a hopeful ftrin, ' You predict Aha t one with courage straightway to suc cess will tread. And you're over dinging, dinging on the good that Ilea ahead. "But thera’s not a thing disturb* you, you have naught to frot about,— You at least are breaking aven, you were never down and out; \ou know little of the hnrdshlps end the travail end the etrlfe, And there Isn’t one lotn of dissension In your life; You should lake the place I'm taking, you should meet with all I meet, And I’ll wager that your music wouldn't he #o dog goned sweet. "You'd be walling, walling, walling -worse then I heve ever done, You'd be counted as a loser ere votlr hsttle w*f begun, And your sunny disposition would be rsther overcast AVIlh the clouds of melancholy, which hn\e missed you in the past; You would chant the truth not fiction would you harp . and harp about, And your ewn folks wouldn't know you If you were cleei down tad ov#v _______— It’s a Poor Father That Won’t Set a Good Example for the Rest of the Family ^—-—- - — (--- ■< Letters From Our Readers All letters must be slpned. but Bams will be withheld upon request. Communi cations of 200 words and less, trill be (Ivea preference. . _ - - ■ —J This Settle* It. | Council Bluffs—To the Editor of. The Omaha Bee: Your editorial page haa carried an undue amount of Jocu larity In the matter of Mr. Bryan re cently becoming a member of the Na tional Science association. The great mistake is In your as sumption that the doctrine of jackass or monkey origin, which Mr. Bryan unanswerably opposes, has any rela tion whatever to science or scientific facts. It belongs among the snclent and ghastly Jokes which the human mind have originated, and Is the wild est of all the wild guesses which lost and blinded and foolish men have made concerning their own origin. The doctrine haa no foundation what ever In truth, and Is contrary to any and everything which mankind aver felt or saw or knew. Science Is revealed and demon strated truth, operating nnd acting, In its particular field or realm, and trua si lence Is an aid always to mankind. The belief that man Is descended or developed from the lower animals Is an absurdity, and results from the fooolish bewilderment of lost and blinded men. who try to solve the question of their origin and drstlny by their own devising, and who for get that only He who made us can fur nish the Information desired. Like the mole they only burrow still deeper In the darkness which they have rhosen for themselves. The tendency has long been present In persons so sit uated to link themselves to the lower animals, and so-called Darwinism Is not a new theory by any means It existed 2,000 years ago. For proof note the first chapter of the Book of Romans, 21st, 22d and 23d verses. They are a* follows: "Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain In the Imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened." "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools." "And changed the glory of the un corruptible God Into an Image made like to corruptible man. and to birds, and four-footed beasts and creeping things." The author might well have added, such aa monkeya and mules, and the llkenoss to our present-day Darwinism would b* complete. Few persons are more to be pitied than those who are so lost ss to their high origin nnd destiny in keeping with such origin, and I Inalst such foolishness Is the very opposite of *11 true science. L. H. MONROE. Jerry Sounds the Tocsin. Omaha.—To the IVIItor of Tho Omaha Bee; Fellow ritixens, awake, arise; your work begins anew In Ilia year 1920 you defeated Wilson's dream, the League of Nations, and. the issue at the recent election was not the World Court. But lo, and behold! I notice that a number of distinguished persons met at the Fontenelle hotel for the pur pose of putting over the Illegitimate offspring of the League of Nations Senators of renown have passed away, but enough of patriotic sena tors remain to follow in H}e footsteps of the founders of the republic and adhere to Washingtons words of warning which are as sound and logi cal today as when he uttered them. "Beware of entangling alliances." Can It be possible that Anglo-Sax onlsm has penetrated the ranks of an element of the American people to such an extent that they are In triguing to ensnare the United States into the World Court, which is tanta mount to supporting England s policy of trade and conquest? China ii struggling to free her peo ple of th* shackles of opium fastened upon them by the British, and recent iy staged a sort of a second Boston tea party by ordering the destruction of 20,000 chests of opium on ship* near Canton. JERRY HOWARD. Reavis Was Known. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Rcc T lead with interest In the Public Pulse department. “We do not know," in regard to Malzle Rea v:s, and wish to correct that assertion. I went there in my canvassing work and. after being told, by the mother she could not afford to buy anything. I started away, when a lady came out and remarked, “That is a pitiful case " I asked her about It, and she said Malzle. the daughter, was very talent ed indeed in w-riting. I thought I could help her get her MSP through. The lady had a roll of It in her hand at the time and told me ehe was going to take them to some literary club and see if the ladies of the club would finance her and push her work. I went back and had the pleasure of talking to one of the most brilliant young ladies it has been my pleasure to talk to in many a day. I told her of literary bureaus where they sell the manuscripts without a charge and send the check direct from the editor to the author and promised her my stenographic work to do. I took her work to do. but could not get any one to the door. I wish to say that I know personally that other organizations knew about Maizie Keavls. It seem* a pity with all the money given to charity some thing could not have been done for a beautiful, virtuous girl like that. Now why all the flowers? WILLIAM H. OWEN. Leavenworth Street. SPICE OF LIFE. Willie got a little gun; Shot his uncle's eye out; Vowed that It was neatly done For a first time tryout. —Washington Star. "Where's your mother, son?" "She said if you could go out and sow what people called your wild oats, she was going out and raise what Sherman called war ”—Ziffs. "He says he thinks I am the cutest girl he ever saw. Wonder if I ought to give him a date?" ' Naw, let him keep on thinking so." Virginia Reel. 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AH drug stores sre supplied with the wonderful elixir, so all you have to do Is to step Into the neatest drug store, hand the clerk half a dollar for a bottle of Aspironal and tell him to serve you two teespoonsful. With your watch In your hand, take the drink at one swallow and call for your money buck In two minute* If you cannot feel the distressing symptoms of your cold fading away like a dream, within the time limit. Don't he bash fill, for all druggists Invite you and expect you to try It. Everybody's doing it. Take the remainder of the bottle home to your wife and children, for Aspironal is by far the safest and most effective, the easiest to take and the most agreeable cold remedy for ( hlldren as well as adults. Quickest relief for catarrhal croup and chil drens choking up at night. When Stomach “Rebels” Instantly! Knd Indigestion, Gas, Heartburn. 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Clean, wholesome, running the gamut or human emotions, the Sales brand of humor Is refreshing m these days of nudity, jazzlty and auggestlveness. If there is gray In your hair, if your waist line is too much in evidence, and If you want to get rid of It all and Just be a country hoy again, come along with us and see ‘ Chic.'' In theatrical parlance we are “hooking for an angel t\ e have the sure fire scheme, all right. We want to organize a concert company made up of real singers, four men and four women. We want mixed quartets, ma!» quartets, female quartets and all sorts of duets, trios and sextets. The concert program will he made up of the old time songs, arranged in cycles, and each cycle to be properly costumed and staged. e will attend to selecting the program, all we w lit is an angel | who will attend to the little matter of making It possible for us to secure the right vocalists and the proper costumes and take care of a possible deftctt during the first, season, The second season we'll guarantee the S. R. O. sign at all return en gagements. There are enough people in every city who love the old songs to crowd the largest auditorium if only they can be assured that they will get what they want. Our sorrow for the plight of the reoent state employes is not the les= sincere because it i* not deep, Once upon a ,,rn* TV, held s State job, and we thought the heavens had fallen and the future dark and dreary when we had to step down and out. Worth little enough at our best, we weren't worth a whoop for a couple of years, and then we landed again. But the sec ond time cured us. We actually resigned before our time was up. and the best Job at the disposal of the governor would not tempt us now. They aren’t worth while. The young man who seeks a political Job Is to he pitied. Great as modern Inventions are, we still lick a few things We'd like to have a nonlosable collar button, a shoestring that will not break when we are in the greatest hurry, a street car that will not glide bv just before we get to the intersection, a telephone that will not get the wrong number, a typewriter that never needs cleaning, a lead pencil that well be in the upper left hand vest pocket when needed, n pastepot that will not dry out. a pair of scissors that w-ill leap to hand when needed, an inexhaustible pocketful of matches, and a few other little things like that. The field of invention is still wide open. On principle we are opposed to a movie censor law. but if the producers do not take a speedy tumble to themselves we are going to get busy. We do not pay our good money to sit and watch 500 feet of film run through the machine glorifying director, photographer, scenario writer, title writer, and such junk. The title of the pictiye and the name of the author of the story will suffice. And we are thinking seriously of Pass ing a I,aw that will protect us from being compelled to sit and read a lot of advertisements before we can get what we have paid for. We have received a questionnaire from * gentleman down east who asks a lot about the value of the “colyum." Is it a circulation builder? Is It a circulation holder? Does your paper or vour colyumlst receive many letters regarding the column’’ These are a few of the questions submitted. Our answer is the same to the first two ques'ions. We don't know. Our answer to the third question is 'hat the response is very satisfactory to us—we haven't bought a pipe or any tobacco for several months. Nor several other things we might men tion hut will not. The financial returns are satisfactory to us if not to the front office. But what may we ask. is *he object of the inquiry. Are we to be made the suhject of Bocial Uplift, or something? WILL M. MALPIN. . v,---—-.-— ——————■ clean and renovate furniture, old clothe* and restore upholstery.—Lon-' don Opinion. DIXIE ‘Omaha’* Fine»t Furnace Coal' Delivered Without Sleek MAKES NO SOOT, SMOKE or CLINKER f W( Are Sole Agent* CRESCENT COAL COMPANY 16th and Laird WE 7121 f ——fc. y NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for the SIX MONTHS Ending Sept. 30, 1924 THE OMAHA BEE Daily .73,790 Sunday .75,631 Does not include returns, left overs, samples or papers spoiled in printing and includes no special sales or free circulation of any kind. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. Subscribed and sworn to before ma this 4th day of October, 1924 W. H QUIVEY. 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