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The Omaha Bee MOKNtN G—E VENIN G—S U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO ., Publisher N. B. UPDIKE. Pr**M#nt BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLER. Editor in Cbi#f Ru*ln#»» M**i«r*r MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tb# A»*oei*t#d Pms, of which The Bee i* » member. !■ excJuBively entitled to the ute for repuhlintion of *11 _ dinpatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in thie paper, and aleo the local new» puhlinhcd herein. All right* of republication of our epecial dispatehea are aleo reserved. The Omaha Bee it a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulationi, tha recognized authority on circulation audit*, and The Omaha Bea'» circulation ia regularly audited by th*ir nreanizat inns. Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908, at Omaha postoffice, under act of March ", 1879. BEE TELEPHONES " Private Branch Exchange. Ask for AT lantlC 1000 the Department or Persot Wanted^ OFFICES Main Office—17th and Fnrnnm Chicago—Stesrer Bid* Boston—Globe Bldg. Los Angeles—Fred L. Hall, Fan Fernando Bldg. San Francisco—-Fred I*. Hall, Sharon Bldg. New York City 270 Madison Avenue Seattle—A. L. Nietz, Bit Leary Bldg. MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES DAILY AND SUNDAY 1 year $5.00, 6 month* $3.00, 3 months $1.75, 1 month 75c DAILY ONLY 1 year $4.50, 6 months $2.76. 3 months $1.60, 1 month 7$c SUNDAY ONLY 1 year $3.00. 6 months $1.75, 3 mnrths $1.00, 1 month 50c Subscriptions outside the Fourth postal zone, or 6o0 i mile* from Omaha: Daily ar4 Sunday. $1.00 per month; I daily only, 75c per voi 60c per month. CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES * Morning and Sunday .1 month Jt6c, 1 week 20c ! Evening and Sunday . .1 month 65c, 1 week 16c I Sunday Only .. month 20c, 1 week 6c Omaha Vhr’kMtieU'st is <al i(s Best NEBRASKA'S MEDICAL SCHOOL. Dr. Irving S. Cutter goes from the Medical col lege of the University of Nebraska to that of North western university. I)r. J. Jay Keegan succeeds Dr. Cutter as dean of the Nebraska school. While the departure of Dr. Cutter will be re gretted by all the sincete friend* of professional education in the state, he will be congratulated heartily on his future prospects. Instead of being harassed by politicians as he has been in the past. Dr. Cutter will have the support of a faculty that is definitely devoted to the advancement of the science of healing. He will not be compelled to beg from the legislature niggardly sums for the support of the school he has done so much to build up. Dr. Cutter will have the administration of a fund at Northwestern that exceeds the entire appropriation for the support of the University of Nebraska. Irving S. Cutter is a product of the schools of Nebraska. An alumnus of the University of Ne braska. He has given of bis talent and ability to the upbuilding and development of education in the state, especially in the science of healing. His re ward has been remarkable. On the one side the loyal support of a group of men and women who can un derstand and appreciate the value of his service, both as an educator and a man. Against this must be set the persistent attack of those who sought to thwart or undo all that Dr. Cutter accomplished. Two years ago an inquisition was sitting at Lin coln, ostensibly looking into the needs and control of the University of Nebraska. Its object was to “get” Dean Cutter, along with other faculty heads who had given offense to certain elements in the state, Dean Cutter bad resolutely declined to have certain “chairs” established in the school. Dr. Keegan, who takes up the work Dr. Cutter has carried on, is well equipped for the big job. He knows the conditions and the circumstances. Sup port will come to him from the university authorities and the medical profession, and it should come from the people. If the passing of Dr. Cutter will arouse Nebraskans to the realization of the situation, some pood will come from a misfortune. Our great school should not he the target for political animosity, nor hampered in its work by somebody’s devotion to an “ism” of any sort. It should be free to teach pure science. If a school for the inculcation of any of the other methods or practices is to be maintained at public expense, it should be independent of the Medical College of the University of Nebraska. CLEAR UP THE CLOGGED DOCKET. Bench and bar alike are asking that the legisla ture do something to relieve the litigants from a condition that exists. The supreme court of Ne braska is two years behind with its work. This means that an appeal taken today will probably reach a derision in January or February, 1027. In the meantime everything affected by that decision will he held up. Many important cases are In the jam. In fact, every case that is there under consideration is of importance to someone, for they all affect, personal or property rights. To clear away the work the Bar association suggests iho appointment of a commis sion, whose business it will be to help the judges to catch up with the accumulated docket. Along with this goes a proposal looking to the establishment of an intermediate court of appeals, which will serve to prevent such a congestion in the future. This is not so immediately urgent as is the commission askpd for. Lawyers and judges of the lower courts are not entirely agreed on the establishment of a court of appeals, hut.they practically all are in fuvor of the commission. Whatever reforms may or may not he contemplated in court practice, they all face the fact that more than two years’ work is at present ahead of the supreme court. Some step should he taken to liberate the jam, to get all the hundreds of pending cases decided. One attorney says it does not so much matter which way they are decided, so long as they are finally passed upon and the parties will know what to do. The legislature should art in the matter with a view to helping those who have causes undetermined. Justice is being sadly delayed In Nebraska. TRAMPS IN A NEW LIGHT. Something may he said in favor of the two tramps who turned a pair of runaway hoys over to the authorities. Representatives of a vanishing in stitution, this pair will give the public n different view of the genus. Time was when the word “tramp” and “thief” were all hut synonymous. When the hobo anrl the hum were linked together in the minds of the people and no distinction was made between them. In this case the tramps themselves insisted on the distinction. Inured to (lie hardships of the lives they lend, they easily knew the boys were, iis they ex pressed it, unfit to he "hums.” So they gave the wnn dering and homesick lads into the custody of the town marshal and he did the rest. In the heyday of ho fcoism, that might not have happened. As time and Industry hava thinned ths ranks of the wanderers, those who remain are sharply divided into two gen eral classes. The true trnmp nod the true bum. The one is, whatever the popular opinion may be, u • worker. Migratory, casual, seasonal, subject to sev eral sorts of conditions governing his employment, but a worker just the same. He builds the railroads, digs the canals, opens the mines, helps to erect big buildings, does a lot of things that are useful* to so ciety. The bum i* usually, almost invariably, an outcast, a homeless, confirmed mendicant. These boys, who left home for a lark, learned *n a little while that the "road” is not a pleasant place for the inexperienced. While they managed to get more than a hundred miles away from the home nest, it is a good guess they were glad to get back again. And it was a bit of good fortune .they fell into the hands of tramps who respect their own class, whatever they think of the rest of the world. And it is known that the real tramp regards the "homesteader” with something made up between wonder and contempt. JUST A PARTIAL PAYMENT. Miss Kathleen Hearn of Aurora, Neb., is on her way to visit her former home in England. She will make the trip on money contributed by former pu pils she taught during her 25 years as one of the teaching staff at the AilYora public schools. The news item says $1,000 was raised through the “gen erosity” of the boys and girls who had been under Miss Hearn’s charge. We move to amend by striking out the word, "generosity.” On the surface it may look like that, but it is not. Itather, it should be regarded as a partial payment on a debt that never will be dis charged. Miss Hearn earned the love, tho gratitude and the esteem of hundreds of boys and girls while f-ho taught school. To do this she must have put into her work something that was not stipulated in the contract she mnde with the school board. How would you set about to measure the service of the woman who devotes her life to the honorable work of teaching school? If she is a success, and most of them are, it is because she possesses qualifi cations that are not measurable. Especially are they not to be set out in the examination she must take to get her certificate. That wonderful attribute of womanhood, called the mother instinct for want of r. better word, goes out from the teacher to the chil dren of others. She lavishes her love, her tender ness on little ones not her own. Teaching them by precept and by example, too, the things that supple ment the lessons learned at mother’s knee. In this way, and in other things, the woman who has given over a quarter of a century of her life to the children of a community, has earned something that community can not make up to her in money. The thousand dollars that enables Miss Hearn to take a trip to England is but a drop in the bucket alongside what she has done for Aurora, for Ne braska, and for the world. “HE KNOWED HIS DUTY.” “Big Bill” Martin modestly takes his place in America's galaxy of real men. A deep pit in the foundation work for a new building filled with deadly gas. A workman collapsed at the bottom of it. Three others went down one at a time to the rescue, and all went under. This gave proof that certain death awaited the daring man who undertook to plumb the deadly hole. Then came William V. Martin, stalwart and strong, known among his fellows as “Big Bill.” Down he plunged, wearing a gas mask. One by one he sent up the bodies of the limp and lifeless victims to the surface. Up he came, the last to leave the hole where death had claimed four lives. Without the gas mask. It had interfered with his work, and he calmly stripped it from his face that he might proceed more swiftly. When questioning men rrowded around him, hr refused to talk. “The bosses ran tell you all about it,” he said. “I won’t.” What could the bosses tell that would add anything to the simple facts? Just in the course of a day's work, “Big Bill” had dared the great adventure, and had won. His courage and his strength gave him triumph where four other lesser men had succumbed. Chiefly it was the strong heart, that reeked not of danger when duty called. A splendid tribute to American manhood. Wil liam V. Martin belongs to the unsung group of so ciety. A building laborer, yet a man in all senses of the word. As was written of Jim Bludso, “He knowefl his duty, a dead sme thing, And he went for it, thar and then." The world will not be lost so long as there are men like “Big Bill” Martin around when a great crisis confronts man. Coolidge asks congress to hurry up with legisla tion for farm relief, hut so far no disposition to heed the president’s advice is noted. Lots more fnn just to talk. Seems like Attorney General Stone knows what he is doing in the Burton Kendall Wheeler rase, re gardless of what the senators think. President Coolidge sends a message to the senate which contains but four sentences. The senators will supply the missihg words. Gloria Swanson has added a French marquis to her collection of husbands. She will keep on until she gets hold of a real man. Charles W. Bryan may learn several things if he will just follow Governor McMullen’s messages to the legislature. One point not in dispute at Herrin Is that some body did tire and somebody else was hit by the bullets. Hiram Johnson scents another political battle. He is alwaya on the trail of something of the sort. A wedding in Chicago cost $100,000. Divorce comes much cheaper. Right away the snow followed. Homespun Verse —By Omaha’* Own Poat— Robert Worthington Davie v.; .WHEN HOME PLACE HAS CROWN FAMILIAR. The longer one lives In a plum If seems .Smaller Jn thought and bigger In dreams. Time takes the strangeness and newness awny; Scenes grow so rommnn one passes them by T.ike they were nothing, and day after day Views them na though they were earth or were sky. Hyes g.jssa beyond the mere object a of scope into tiie regions of piomlse and hope. Where the familiar is distant and blurred, Where tilings occur ns one wishes and when. Where the kind words of ones yearning ere heard, Bin'll as men speak In the nieitVry of men. One, when the place of tils home grows so small That he knows It so well It Is seen not at all, When It’s common as wintertime’s eold Departs to the land where his dreams hold sway, Where nothing Is frequent and nothing Is old, And night wears the wholesome resplendence u( day. • _ _ __ ■ —————— > Anyone Feeling Bored Should Remember There’s a Whole New World Waiting to Be Explored r-—---s Letters From Our Readers All letters must be signed, but name will be withheld upon request. Communi cations of 200 words and less, will be given preference. V. - - ■, - ■ --- ■ —^ Why People J)on't \ ote. W;yit«t. Neb.—To the Editor "f The Omaha Bee: Why don't people get out to the election and vote? is a question we often hear asked. At the last election most strenuous ef forts were put forth to get the vote out. At It was a most exciting three cornered presidential contest nearly one half of the voters went to tho polls and voted. At the primaries only a small fraction of the possible vote was cast. (Something wrong somewhere. Without a question tho main trol.le ran he located right ai the beginning of the elec! ion process. I nder our present primary law the voter has no voice In i housing the candidates for nomination. That Is what gives him an apathy for the whole process that follows. I'nder our present primary law the party circle or the party name ha mi no logical reason to appear on the ballot. An attempt was made a' (he last election by the element that clings to our present primary law like a drowning man to a straw to have both the tairty circle and the party name removed from the ballot by con stitutional amendment. The move was logical, especially ns concerns the primary ballot, lint the proposition was defeated by a large majority. The majority would have been much larger had the voters all understood what the proposition meant. That shows that the people as s whole are decidedly In favor of re taining the party system, which Is In conformity with our plan of govern ment. Then why not change the prl mary law- so as to make It conform to that system? Unless that Is done It will not be long until another attempt Is made to wreck the party system with a constitutional amendment more cun ningly framed than wss the Inst one. .1. E. BAOaSTKOM. •Iszr and the World. Omaha To the Editor of The Omaha Bee; The high priest of jazz made his dehut. In Omaha end left be hind him a bunch of conflicting opin ions. Gilbert Seldes declares for Jazz, but his attack hasn't any wallop he hind It. The way to find out the truth about anything Is to examine the cause ami then Its effect: note tho results. Seldes Is right about Chick Kales being an artist, hut he is wrong In his comparison. Barrymore Is as great In his field ns Kales Is In Ills. Neither could do the other's work »s well as his own. Why compare them? The right wav to compare Is to take two of a kind. The only good that can come out of Jazz music Is the dls covery ef new ways of harmonization and orchestration. N'o lasting com positions will ever he evolved that will lake llie.r places among the hot Wo never hop nny homely, un selfish money makers in th' divorce court. A hick (own i* one with n speed (nip, h yellow brick r.ym. n Carnegie library, an* no aidewalkH. 1.,'C) i i»io, iti .1 ier class music. Human beings react to what they see anti hear as well as to what they taste and feel. One can become intoxicated with music ns well as gin: or with dancing as well as fine clothes. We wouldn't expect a democrat to praise the republican party; why expect a jazz devotee to decry his gods? NORMAN’ STRONG. Tribute to ( liarlie Bane. Omaha.—To the Kditor of The Omaha Bee: I would like to add my love of manv years, m the sudden death by heart failure, of my friend, t'harlie Kane. He and l were forever friends. He was loved by my wife, nnd by my son. who. at present is thief clerk of Hie passenger depart ment of th»* Union Pacific railway, Uhioago, who.no doubt, with myself. now mourning our lo*s» of a dear friend. Uharleg J. Kane was agent at Blue Springs when I was agent of the Union Pacific at Beatrice, many years go, when agents were rated by what they knew and were worth and not by what they are Instructed to do. 1 ? emernber w hen he left Blue Springs to try his luck with the stock for this company, and watched him all the way to his later high position, which was worked up to by merit He was a loyal friend to any on© that he knew was nn the square, in or of bis official business. He was on© of us common fellows, that was easy to approach, and easy to con vince if it was correct, otherwise would surelv convince you before you left him. Faithful to his comfgtny. and a loyal, jovial companion at any place. I am sorry that I am sick: T would ' love to add mv name to tho«v» who Fernwood Arkansas Anthracite for Base Burners $13.50 m A Very Satisfactory Fuel Sunderland Bros. Co. Old aches Comforter! at last No matter how obstinate, Imqj rtiuidlng and acute. Sloan'* gi\ea quirk positive relief. Pat it on gently. At one* you fuel a glowing warmth a* freahty puri fied blond Uaent tingling through I ho infected spot. Then in no lime release from pain. All tlrugglata .)& eenta. Sloans Liniment J ~killspain! Invert him hid] knew him beet and to attend the la#t #ad rite# with the reel of hi# friend#. JOHN GARRETT POLLOCK. ItaeU to Hie Old Wa>*. Rafferty— The new boa# of the fac tory'll he an old faahioned man. I'm thinkln*.** O’Hara—“He’s #o rrtd-faahionert he will he takln' the belts from the drive wheel# and replacin' them with sue pendera.''—Detroit New#. When in Omaha Hotel Conant 250 Room*— 250 Rjihv— Rite* $; m |3 NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for the SIX MONTHS Ending Sept. 30, 1924 THE OMAHA BEE Daily .73,790 Sunday .75,631 Do#* not include returns, left over*, samples or papers sported in printing and includes no special , sales or free circulation of any kind V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. Subscribed and sworn to before m« this 4th day of October, 1924. W. H QUIVEY. (Seal) Notory Public Funeral Directing-a Business f Next week we begin a series of advertisements on the economics of funeral directing. It is unusual advertis ing. but we believe it will be more than interesting to the public—we believe it will also be very helpful. The funeral director is of great importance to the pub lic. Proper disposal of the dead is necessary to protect the health of the living. This service the State itself would he compelled to perform, did not private institu tions do so. For the public good, States regulate by law certain practices of the funeral director, iust as they regulate the practice of medicine, law. etc. Christian custom, and the love and respect we have for the departed also de mand that fitting tribute be paid to their memories. On the funeral director, therefore, falls the double dutv t» ..r*. bum.nit. 1)1 fari,1K Properly for the dead, and providing a funeral b.ti.r in tin.. o( service which comforts by its refinement, beauty and (r.«t.»t n.*J. respectful compliance, both with civil and religious customs. In doing all these things the funeral director works un der the same economic laws as any other business man —in competition, expense of doing business, etc.—and he must meet economic conditions—or fail. • Because we believe a better understanding of these mat ters will be helpful to the people genenrll.v, we shall discuss funeral directing as a business. Sincere, constructive criticism of these advertisments is earnestly invited from readers of this publication. Hoffmann-Crosby Funeral Home I Twenty-fourth Telephone at Dodjje St. Omaha, .lArkeon S901 Copyright, lf*l. SUNNY SDK UP Hake comfort.nor forget , <Jhat Sunrise nei/e r failed us^er^ j ' __—--■ ■ - ——— ■ “N MY MOTHER'S SO NO. On* evening ns the sun went down Behind ihe western hills, And left the glowing June twilight To paint the rippling rills, 1 wandered down a village street And heard a melody Conte floating on the listless breead— •‘Nearer, my God, to Thee. The voice was weak front fleeting years, The tones were soft and lots', But 'ey ry accent clearly told Of Christian heart aglow. With thoughts of home beyond the skies Where many mansions be: For lo, another day was done ‘ Nearer, my God, to Thee.” And stealing o'er my troubled soul l ame thoughts of peaceful rest; A rest aa sweet as that of sun Adown the purpling west. A thought that when this life was done My mother's face I'd see, And hear her angel voice in song— "Nearer, my God, to Thee. Went out to llansiom park the other evening to watch »ha skateis. Recalled old days and old chums. There mas Hun gers ismd, almut two miles from town, over the Missouri hUlg and far away. Our crowd used to walk it every moonlight night. W« didn't have the fancy all-clamp skates in those days. Ar riving at the pond we laiys would build a brush Are Hobs 'n the old log right at the edge of the ice, and then wed fuss around until we got HER skates fastened on. Then we'd strap on our "rockers'' and begin. Remember how those straps up over your ankle- wore raw sores? But what did we care for a little thing like that? A.nd, going home after two or three hours! O hoy, wasn't it glorious, sauntering slowly over the hills and through <he woods, singing and laughing and shout ing. Ever spread (he eagle, and do the Dutch roll, and th» grapevine twist, and the toe-Hpin? Well bet a cookie the hoy* and girl* of today don't have as much fun skating as we boys and girls did in the days of long ago. Nebraska IJmrrick. An old-fashioned father In Salem Had several liad boys and he'd whale rni Saying. "Boys, it's ton bad To thus tiae the gad. But 'twa* good for whatever might ail 'em. Ssrifly Note. "Would you like to have a sonata liefore dinner’ asked the gracious ho-tess. approaching the piano. ' Well." replied Colonel Todhunter. I had a couple of high halls and a -wig at your husband's flask befors we left the of flee but 1 guess I can stand another." Musical Notes. The young I .an w ho ha* lieen wondering what became of Sally will probably find her in a beauty parlor having her hair permanently waved. A policeman who slopped a young fellow just a* he was rha-fng another man tip an alley was Informed by the young man tbit be was merely Irving io follow the swallow WILL M. 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