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The Omaha Bee MO R N IN G—E V E N ! N G—S U N DA Y THE BEeTpUBLISHING CO.. Publisher N. B. UrDiKE. rresidrnt BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. JTACKLER. Editor In Chief Business Mumper MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS* Tha Associated Press, of svhich The Bre is a member. Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of our special dispatches are also reserved. The Omaha Bee Is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the rerognired authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee’s circulation is regularly audited by their organisation*. _ Entered a* seeond-class matter May 28, 1908, ^«t Omaha postofficc, under act of March 3, 1879^_ “ BEE TELEPHONES i Private Branch Exchange. Ask for AT lantic 1000 th. Department nr Fcrvoa Wanted. OFFICES Main Office— I7th and Fnrnam Chicago— Sieger Rldg Bnston—Globe TUdg ' Lo* Angele*-—Fred L. Hall, San Fernando Bldg. San Franrlaeo—Fred L. Hall, Sharon Bldg. New York City- -270 Madison Avenue Seattle—A. L. Nieta, 514 Leary Bldg. j MAH. SUBSCRIPTION RATES DAILY AND SUNDAY 1 year 15.00, S months S3.00. 3 months $1.75. 1 month 75c DAILY ONLY l year $i.50, 6 months $2.76, 3 months $1.50, 1 month 75c SUNDAY ONLY 1 year $*.00, 6 months $1.76, 3 months $1.00, 1 month 50c Subscriptions outside the Fourth postal rone, or Sou mile* from Omaha: Daily ard Sunday, $1.00 per month; daily only, 75r per month; Sunday only. 60c per month. CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Morning and Sunday .I mouth S5c, 1 week 20c Evening and Sunday .1 month 66c, 1 week 15c Sunday Only .1 month 20c, 1 week 5c V... . —-■-' * Omaha-UJhere the U)est is at its Best - ----- “BLAH” IN THE AIR SERVICE. When General Mitchell went before the congres sional committee, he had one big idea in mind. That Was to sell the nir service of the United States to i'ongreas. To secure, if possible, the establishment t)f a unified service, so that instead of being divided jhetween the army and navy, the forces would be jtnder'one department, acting with the others for of fense or defense in time of wav. For carrying out a fcreat educational and service function in time of peace. Commercial nir men have twisted the Mitchell mission away from its original design. Now, instead of setting up the air department as distinct from Ihe army and navy, the stress is being laid on buying 9 lot more machines for the service as it exists. We fcet word of how much money other nations are spending. Details of the race between powers in air (equipment rather than in army or navy extension. All of which is interesting, deserving of considera tion, but entirely aside from the original proposition set forth by General Mitchell. ♦ * * On the Pacific coast an experiment has just been tried which substantiates Mitchell’s principal claim. That an attack by airship on a battleship can be suc cessfully carried out. That bombs may be accurately placed by bombers, flying at a height of two miles or more. That anti-aircraft guns do not provide a perfect defense against an attack from the air. Then comes the main question. Is the policy pro posed by General Mitchell, and supported by the air men and some of the army and navy men as well, the wise one?. Or, is the stand of the general staff officers, including General Pershing, correct? No amount of “blah’’ will determine this. Nor will the zeal of commereial aircraft manufacturers aid in settling the dispute, /t is admitted that both army and navy should have more air equipment. Must have, in fact, for that now in service is not only .^adequate, it is fast wearing out. .• As to the demotion of General Mitchell, it would ■be a disappointment to patriotic Americans if an of | fleer should be punished for his having taken the course followed by the general. He courageously assumed to differ from his superior officers over a l public policy of great importance. He gave reasons i for his belief, his convictions, to a committee of * congress. In tnis he has not even technically vio J lated military customs or practices. It would be J unjust to set him down, simply because he holds J views that are not shared by others concerning the J highly important business of defense of the nation. ' If anything, we need more men like Mitchell, for at 5 least he knows what he is talking about, and has not ‘ as yet talked at random. "LOST IT ALL Wl’ CHARLIE." Back in Julyj 1023, Governor Charles W. Bryan ; of Nebraska gave public notice of his intention of ! taking on the oil octopus for a trial of strength. He \ would make McMaster of South Dakota look like an ! amateur. McMaster had a considerable stock of | state-owned gasoline which he could market, and did to some extent. Bryan had none, but ho was re sourceful, and none connected with his office doubted v but he would find a way. Time wore on, and people waited. Meanwhile John Hopkins of the Omaha city council started a "muny” pump, and inaugurated a merry war. All over the ountr.v the price of gas began to go down. 1 Finally, Governor Bryan swung into action. He un i limbered his biggest gun. and fired volley after Vol I1 ley from a one-pump station, situated away out at ■the southwest corner of town in Lincoln. Then lie went down to New York to pick up any little nomi nation that might he lying around loose. Somebody challenged the right of the governor to plunge the state into the gasoline business, hut the district court of Lancaster county said it was all right. The governor's gas pump went on, belching forth huge quantities of gasoline, sometimes as much as ten gallons in a single day. While the governor pursued the high office of vice pri Vent. The court decision was appealed. The popular « verdict was against having Mr. Bryan as vice presl !' dent. The frost was general. Now comas the su preme court of the state of Nebraska and decides 1 flatly against the governor’s pet pump plan. It is ultra vires, non compos, duces non tecum, and sic semper McGinnis. Thus ended the chapter. Write your own moral. HARKING BACK. I It seems only yesterday that the most popular > song of the day was “In My Merry Olds Mobile." • Wasn’t it w-whiz?—wo mean the car, not the song. t ;It was the wonder of the age, that dinkey little buzz 1 wagon. Now it is a joke. You could put the wholtf thing under the radiator of some of the big nu'to * mobiles that are ns common on the streets today as ! the old sidebar buggy was thirty years ago. Nothing better shows the rapid development of industry than the automobile. A luxury yesterday, It Is a necessity today. The world has been motor tied; the universe smells of exploded gasoline. How did people get around in the old days of the horse and buggy? How did politicians make ] their campaigns? It has been such a revolution that »De world can not realize Its dimensions. A quarter of a ctntury ago the automobile was a curiosity, and a nuisance to the owner. Today automobile building is one of the greatest industries in the world. The world is riding on rubber. NORRIS THREATENS BLOCKADE. Once again Senator George W. Norris of Ne braska takes the center of the stage at Washington, end threatens to blockade the passage of any law unless he can have his way. He seizes as his pretext the failure of his amendment to the constitution, dealing with the time for inaugurating presidents and beginning terms of congress. It was passed by the senate, but is held up in the house, Norris says lhat President Coolidge, Speaker Gillette and Rep resentative Longworth are responsible. Unless the house gets busy at once and passes his resolution, he will not permit any more legislation to go through the senate. One of his plans is to open anew the debate on the Muscle Shoals matter. He can do this, when the conference report is called up. He alleges that the conferees injected new legislation into the measure. Endless debate is possible. The prospects are that the session w'ill end a week from Wednesday with the conference report on the Muscle Shoals project ns unfinished business. In the meantime, the farm relief bill, postal pay bill, and other administration measures will be stranded. Regardless of the merits of the Norris amend ment to the constitution, and it has some advan tages, the spectacle of a senator holding up the work of that body in an effort to compel the house to take action is novel. No sBssurance is given that the house will adopt the resolution if it is brought to a vote. Congress must be impressed by the fate of the Child Labor amendment. That is evidence that <he people are not in a mood to further amend the Constitution of the United States. These considerations must have occurred to Sen ator Norris, but he seems to be uninfluenced by them. He has a plan, which he deems to be good, and he will hear to nothing less than having it adopted. One man can, under the rules of the senate, indefinitely blockade the progress of that body. A group of men can entirely frustrate the work of all the others. Norris know* this. He has had experience. He was one of the “little group of willful men” who checked President Wilson’s plans in March, 1917. He may bo able to head off President Coolidge in 1925. Senator Norris’ avowed desire is to compel the calling of the Sixty-ninth congress into extra session immediately. If the administration program could be carried out, such a session would be unnecessary. In the meantime, others than Norris must share the blame for failure to enact needed legislation. One time-wasting device after another has been prac ticed, for the sole purpose of delaying action. Op ponents have denied the existence of any secret fili buster, but the delay has been noted, just the same. The almost total failure of the senate to act on meas ures deemed important for the relief of the country is an evidence of what may be expected of three party government. Half a dozen senators, elected as republicans, joining with the two farmer-labor mem bers, have opposed and thwarted the other party j groups at almost every turn. Instead of order and party discipline, we have had disorder. Instead of legislation, talk. ' i Back of it all is partisan politics. Determine tion to hamper, and not to help. Even the farmer on whose need for aid all are agreed, is to get noth ing. Just because the senators prefer to play politics. IN "POVERTY-STRICKEN” NEBRASKA. A little object lesson in pictures was afforded by the Aicogravure Section of The Sunday Omaha Ree. Some of our folks love to "sing the biucs.” Nothing pleases them better than to hear of a catastrophe. The funniest story they ever hepr has to do with a failure of some kind. The more complete the wreck, the greater satisfaction they get from it. To such the pictures referred to will be sad and dolorous. To the man who is hopeful, whose digestion is work- , mg on schedule time, and who sleeps when he goes , to bed, those same pictures tell a story that he will shout with glee to tell. These pictures show the main streets of a few , Nebraska towns. Not especially selected for the purpose. Just picked at random, as a part of a series i f such pictures that have been running for some | weeks. Each shows a well-kept, generally well paved, thoroughfare, lined with substantial business blocks, and alive with business. Not one hut is well filled with automobiles, and some, like that of Kear ney, literally jammed with cars. What a story of prosperity those pictures tell. Gone is the old-time hitching rack around ghe public «f|Uare. Gone the hitching post, gone thl old buggy, the "democrat” wagon, and alDthat sort of thing. The automobile is the vehicle of the masses today, rnd the streets of any city, village or hamlet in the state attests this fact. No better proof could be asked of the material well-being of Nebraska than is found in the pictures that show the arterial activity of Nebraska's business. This isVio good place for a pessimist, for he will he very lonesome. The son of Ohio’s governor has been sent to Jail for speeding. These sons of governors may yet re move some of the burden of suspicion from the shoulders of preachers’ sons. The Denver man who lived in a haystack for 40 days was probably impelled to do so by the length of his ears. Governor Ferguson of Texas will attend the Inaugural, accompanied by .'lyy Texas men and Pa. • It appears that Mr. Durant kept his motors in good order and his gas tank filed. r~. ■ .. .— — ■■■ Homespun Verse By Omaha*! Own Poal — Robert Worthington Davie s-------* A LETTER FROM A STRANGER. A Idler comes; It's from a stranger!— One among tlie worldly throng, Who, like I. with hope nnd fervor, Elves nnd loves nnd moves along,— And defies the trivial grlmnesa With the faith of one whose life Has been spent 111 making sunshine Whore so ninny nentter slide. True II seems thill life s 1 en I purpose, And life’s pleasure, Is to slime (’heel fulness slid Jnv Slid * omfnrt ‘ With nil people everywhere, And to know that others hunger For the sweets nnd ecstasies Everyone wants, and will offer Minlltude for such ns these. Just ns I peruse the letter From s stranger, Who, tod.iy, Ibis become n friend by saying Hindi ns nn\ friend would ssv - Veils of dark nm| gloom sre lifted From lbs minds of people who Toll sod often pause In wonder i Why the laeUe of life they do. The Cook’s Last Week on the Job _; - -<r--—-“ I / -----N 1 Letters From Our Readers 1 All letter* nuit be alffned, but name will be withheld upon request. Communications of 200 words and lea*, will be fiven preference. _J I Mr. Marlin's Personal Liberty. i Omaha.—To the Editor of Thej Omaha Bee: "Prohibition Is here to1 stay." Sure, let her stay. What's in a name? Why not let her stay? Sh**i doesn't Interfere with ou getting all we want to drink if we want it bad enough, so why get rid of her? The, pure food law was a joke and still is. The Mann art is less than 10 per rent enforced, and the narcotic law Is about as cffi< ientl.v enacted as the dry law. There is no law forcing any particular individual to break any of these laws, and there are many people who do not break them I simply because they have no occasion | or desire to do so. I have no moral right to tell my brother to drink liquor or use dope or go against thej Mann act, because I consider it all1 right to do so. I resent any one* telling me what to do and what not to do just as though J had not sense enough to look out for myself. 1 do lot drink or use dope or violate thej Mann act. but I do not constitute my self keeper of those who do. When Kansas was a prohibition sla»e liquor could he had any time, only it wasn t called bootlegging in the days previ oils to the dry act. The anti clgaret! law' Is prohibition and how does It j work? The trouble with the “antis"' is that they have made up their minds that their way is going to be "the wav." whether or no, regardless of facts. HENRY MARTIN. An Appeal lo the Women’s Clubs. Urawford, N>b—To the Editor of The Omahs Jler; Let us hive less law making. See that the proposed 20th amendment to the constitution Is de frated— the giving of control of our children until IS years old to con gross. It may be true that in some localities children are overworked, hut1 in the United States, in Nebraska.! nine-tenths of them do not work enough for iheir health or morals Shall w'e add to our taxes to pay those whom congress appoints to watch our homes and children In every neighborhood? It Is true that In some places they work too much, hut parents, teachers, villages, towns cities, counties and sli'.r*s should have first control. There would not be much left fo# congress with its vagaries to act upon. If congress had had control in the past, would we have had h Lincoln or a majority «»t uttr greatest men.' Their foundations of character were all laid before they were 18. This proposed ?()th amendment would poaitivelv do away with the first, fourth, fifth, ninth end loth Minendments, without which the cun stltution never would have been rstl i Abe Martin | V/ ^ * 4 . Th’ Volstead law is five year* oil' an’ it begins t’ look like it wux t’ In* h dwarf. President I’oolidKi* has sained eight pounds. Now watrh th’ women folk* talk more’n ever. f (Ctipyrl|ht, fled by the 13 original rolonie*. .1us» read "No person shall he deprived life, liberty or property without due process of law." No parent, be If mother or f :ther. wishes this to pass, unless there ar> other things he nr she r.iie mice f than the welfare of their « htblre*. The nearer we stav by the Ten Colif mandments and the constitution of the United States, the better. O. C. B. Ter Order He Mufti. Omaha.—To the Kdilnr of The Omaha Bee: The fatal day Is drawing nearer when a squlrrely bachelor in l.lncoln, who himself shies at the dm, ties and responsibilities for home and family, will try his best to nmke the various Pinto marriage proposals n. law. Both should be rewarded with an appointment as president and vice CM president of sortie government lncn bator station, to ascertain wbiett kind can hatch the most chickens in the least possible time. Artificial hatch ing has already insulted In chickens thousand-fold, while poor, old fash ioned Kiddy In the natural way and lime three weeks—has to her credit only one Roosevelt family. If these elevated positions don't suit the two gents, they can go back to law-hatching: If they have no luck with the rradle, then let them try the grave. Since we should enter this world by law, to balance It properly we really need another law. setting a time and age limit when to make our exit. Some one has said people ought to die when they are fin, he.ause the men's most productive years are over, and the women ^nrn out by work and worry. A law hv some grand mufti, sitting on a throne with scepter amt 7 < LOBSTER DINNER Comptet#, $ J 50 mV.no Clam Chowd#* Whole Broilrv Live l.obottr J ii lien ne Potato** Cuff** FRIDAY Special Indian Gru Noon to S:30 and 9:30 to 9:30 p ■»• ^Hotcl Fontcnclle^1 [%l>\ Mi l |H» M KMT. _ "Pape’s Cold Compound" Breaks a Cold Right Up Take two tab lets every three hours until three dives are taken. The first dose al ways gives relief Th. second and third dnees com pint el y break up the cold. J'lensant and safe to take. Contains no qul nine or opiates Millions us. "Papa's Cold j Compound." Trice, thirty flva cents Druggists gmuantc. It. i town, admitting poor mortals Into Klyslum with eternal bliss and rest Is l>adly needed. lnla wr—first. Outlaws—last! Let a ko to it. LAW-ABIDING. Practical, if Nothing Rise. “Money isn't everything,” said the old fashioned girl. "Of course not.” says her grand daughter. "Bonds or jewelry will do just as well.” Harm News. Ufa's Injustices. First Red—iJovely morning, com rade. Set-^nd Red Yes: but the bloomin' rich can enjoy) It as well.—Punch. I NET AVERAGE j PAID CIRCULATION 1 For JANUARY. 1925 THE OMAHA BEE Daily .74,002 Sunday .77,234 Does not include returns, left overs, samples or papers spoiled i> printing and includes no specie sales or fro# circulation of any kind V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. Subscribed and sworn to before m this 2d day of February. 1925. W. H. QUIVEY. (Seal) Notary Publu "sunny SIDE BP ,Z" ___/ V -- . - ■ — r It !« a clever advertising scheme, and doubtless a lot of m-tddlewest new spa |>eis will fall for it. !-"» Angeles promote! s hate offered prizes ranging from ... to V"' Pest letters written about I-os Angeles ami southern i allfornl.r That liart Is all right. But the catch is that In order to be eligible to a prize the writer must secure publication of the fetter in some newspaper back east. Former residents of Ne braska will write letters extolling 1-os Angeles anil the slat . and send them to the editor of the paper in the old town back home. Maybe there will be a hint of a division ot the prize money if won. We shall watch the exchanges closely, and every one falling for the scheme will be listed and the ll*t sold to some free space grafting outfit hack east. And thete ate a lot of them. Among other reasons why we like Judge A Men of Boston I. .ha. he i-n f whining about conditions. He doesn t wA. a face long enough to cat oats out of a churn because he thinks fwl Jnrld f» growing worAe. im the contrary, he wears a smile because he knows the world is growing letter. He ddesn t wnrrv about the voting folks, knowing they II be what the oh. folks make His only worry is *!>•’>* ‘he a'm’anothef oiiinea that they are beginning to wake up. And still »n°iner reason for liking the Boston jurist Is that he lint trying to Pass a Uw. He actually believes the country is going to b saved by common sen«e. The only trouble Is that there are so few of him. If you get what we mean. W K 1) Stokes, the millionaire who Is trying to smirch the character of the mother of his children, complains that he i- In receipt of many threatening letters. \S e are pot siirpi ised at this Weiv we not so Infernally lazy wed sit down and write him. perhaps not threatening, hut telling him in chaste and dignified language just what we think of him. Bong we are disinclined to take typ the task of selecting the chaste and proper words, those we would most like to use being cal culate.! tv get us into trouble with the postal authorities. Buy v. Touvelle aaya he feats the repeal of our blue *k> law would make Nebraska dumping ground for worthless se curities Is it possible the Guy is developing an unstispe- ted vein of humor? •outdoor Fiction" is the title of an address Adam Breeds Is going to deliver at the Nebraska Press association conven tion. Wonder if Adam is going to tell us aitoul some of hia big game hunting trips. What Ha* Become *f— J.ightnlng rod agents” ... The little tin sign the Insurance agent used to te .. ---et toe front door? Sidebar buggies” MuUonchop whiskers? 1'ndersklrls? Paper collars? Coach dogs? Women need to marry men to reform them. Tt Is now suspected that some women many 'em because they smoke the same brand of cigarets. Gild McIntyre sat- lie saw two prohibition padlocks In one New York city block. But It mav be possible that there was only one padlock. fnion college, at I.lntolii has banned loose, cosmetics an.l lipsticks. Ptobably preparing to become a college for men only. 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