The Omaha Bee MORN1N G— E V E N I N G—S U N P A V THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Publi*h«r N. B UPDIKE, BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACK! KR. Editor in CKtef Bu*ln»«* M»t.ng«»r MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Th# A«*oriatrd Prrii, of which Th« H** is * member, ft exclusively entitled »n the ti-e for republic*! ion of ell new* dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, nnd also the local new* published herein. All right* of republication of cur special dispatches are also reserved. The Omaha Bee !* * member of »he Audit Bureau «f Circulations, the recognized authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee* circulation is regularly audited by their organisations. _ _ _____ Entered a* second-ell *s matter May C8, 190*. at Omaha postoffice, under act of March 3, 1879. BEE TF.LEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for AT Untie 1 OOO the Department or Person Wanted. ^ I lawllC lUAAJ offices Main Office 17th and Farnam Chicago—Steger Bldg. Boston—Globe Bldg. Los Angeles -Fred T.. 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Sentiment is rapidly crystallizing along the linos ihat mean good for Omaha in all ways. Not in many jears has such an intense community spirit been noticed as is manifesting itself today. Dreams do not control, unless it be that some of those of past, days are about to be realized. Practical plans for expanding the city’s life and worthy activities arc being brought forward, supported by influences that will make them effective. A Loyalty League is now proposed—rather, the initial steps to its organization for work are being taken. Its name explains its purpose. To set Omaha's stakes a little further ahead each day by giving support to Omaha institutions- To buy goods that are made in Omaha and handled here by Omaha dealers. Such a mission can have only one effect when properly carried out. When goods made in Omaha are sold in Omaha, Dip benefit is shared by all. ' Expanding business means increased pay rolls. Pay rolls, as Henry Ford explains, are more than mere rows of figures on a sheet of paper. They are coal bins, and grocery bills, and children in school. The home depends on the pay roll. Why should Omaha pay tribute to the east or any other place for the things that ran as well be produced in Omaha? The principle is the one on which thp industrial supremacy of the United Slates has been built. A protected market, all but closed to the competition of the world. Omaha need not enact any protective tariff law. Its best and surest protection is that adopted by the Loyalty League promoters. Buy homo products at home. Malcolm D. Baldridge has set in motion a great project. It will get the undivided support of all who have the good of Omaha at heart. A Loyalty League is needed. If ft becomes the militant organization it may eas ly bf nu de, its influence on the future of the city will run without mci ure throughout the coming year*. • HI5 MONUMENT ENDURES. When Edward H. Harriman was assembling his executive staff of railroad builders, one of his "lirst selections was Julius Krutschnitt. Now, having reached the three score and ten mark. Mr. Krut schnitt is about to lay aside active work, and rest on “borrowed time.” His was the engineering abil ity that translated the visions of his great leader into practical reality. Harriman saw what should he done, Krutschnitt. found the way to do it. The Union Pacific, the Southern Pacific, the Cen tral Tacific, were trahsformed under the genius of this pair. Rebuilt, refitted, given more capable tools, these l'nes became wonderful agents in the service of man. Harriman had them welded into one harmonious system, closely cn-opcrattng on all points. Transportation in the west was revolution ised by the combination. The great development foreseen by the builder was made possible by the service provided by his competent lieutenant. When the federal courts set about to unscramble the eggs, and the Harriman system was dismembered, Krutschnitt went back to the "Etspee," and set about to carry it further along to the goal originally set for it. As a railroad men he was first of all an en gineer. Looking at all problems, administrative or operative, from the viewpoint of practicality. Under his direction and control, the Southern Pacific sys- i tern has come up to a high standard of efficient service. Nothing better could he said of .tulius Krut schnitt than to point to his achievement. His great chief was not spafed to see the culmination of his dream. Krutschnitt was privileged to take over a portion of the job and carry it along to great ends. Harriman has posthumous vindication in the provi sion made by the transportation art for consolidation of lines into systems. Krutschnitt lived to see this, ard he may retire with the pride of a good workman in a job well done. His monument will endure. k. _ ____ ,, ' THE AWARD WILL STAND. Mr. Coolidge has answered the Peruvian note after the manner that was to he expected That is, he tells them that the decision of the arbitrator is “final and without appeal." He also declines to give consideration to Peru’s proposal that Americans he substituted for Chilean officials, pending the plebiscite. Now, it is in order to look for the carry ing out of the award. Suggestion has been made that Peru did not. make its protest in good faith. That is, the move was a gesture to indicate a desire to continue the controversy as it has gone on for forty years. Taena and Arica are the “lost provinces,” the “irredenti of Peru. President after president has pledged him self to the restoration of these provinces, hut none has made headway. Now the end is at hand. Peru's politicians do not relish th*» prospect, and that ex plains the appeal to Washington, to whirh the presi dent has made reply, standing by his decision as arbi trator in the case. Friends of the League of Nations see in the in etdent. argument for their cause. The United States pains the favor of Chile by forfeiting that of Tern Had the decision been made by a group of nations, Instead of one, then disyleasuit would at least be I ineffectual because of being disper-ed. The argu ment is mor# ingenuous than convincing. An honest derision, honestly made, never ran have a lasing • ffect against the tribunal or individual who makes it. Pehu may be chagrined, disappointed, even peev ish, over the outcome. But this -entmient will dis appear. The probity of the United States will out weigh any resentment of the Peruvians. The strong can always afford to be patient with the weak. In lime the people of Peru will value the friendship of that great American republic, and rely on it again, as they have in the past. In any event, the future of Tama and Arica rests with the voters of these provinces. POLITICS AND DEBTS IN FRANCE. An adverse vote of the French senate toppled ever the Herriot cabinet, and France is all at rea again. A victory for Poincare, but with no com pensating balance of a definite forward policy com ing from him does not promise tranquility or prog lcss for the republic. Germany's election is pro ceeding under the sinister shadow of the wood cutter of Doom. This, too, will have its reflex in France. Along with the crisis ought to be considered the attitude of the United States as regards the debt owed us by the French. Opportunity will shortly he given M. Daschner, ambassador from France, to state the intentions of his government on the question, i.'nele Sam has not sought to be looked upon as a nag ging creditor. But he lias not been encouraged by the fopearance of France as a disdainful debtor. Espe cially is this irritating when the French government effects to regard with little favor the proposal to further reduce national armament. Objections set up on the part of France, and now being considered by other governments, are not regarded as put forth in very serious mood. In the budget which the Herriot government sought to balance by resort to a capital levy are contained provisions for increase of armament that are not only extravagant hut unnecessary. Why, for example, should the French people at this moment bp asked to assume the cost of rebuilding the French navy? Yet the government has adopted a twenty year construction program, running well into the bil lions of francs, to bring the French navy up to the Jull strength permitted under the Washington agree ment. Expenditures for the army are on a similar scale, so that France will keep up a military estab lishment costly beyond the ability of the ppople to maintain. Talk of taking from the rich some part of their wealth and devoting it to public usp is the socialistic 'ormula by which the Herriot plan is expressed. If it were a great public crisis, the scheme might have support. Just now it looks like the subterfuge of politicians who lack the courage to take the path wisdom points out. France i« not now in danger of attack from without. It is, however, faring a grave danger within. It will he sorrowful if the nation that survived the extravagance of the Bourbons, the calamities of the revolution, the dehauch of Na poleon, and the disaster of the Third empire, should now he wrecked by a group of incompetent political schemers. Yet the world has faith in the indomita ble spirit of the French people. They have saved the home land at other times. If they get the op portunity, they will save it now. SAFETY FIRST FOR THE KIDDIES. Whatever may be the attitude of the people of the United States toward the child at work, the child at play is getting better things. Reports made to the Playground and Recreation Association of Amer ica all tend to establish the fact that supervised play brings good results. Deaths from accident are re duced in number, because danger of accident is guarded against. In many cases it is entirely elim inated. This is possible, of course, only where the organization is such as permits careful oversight of t ie youngsters as well as ample provision for their games and recreations. The first big effect of supervised playgrounds in a city is the removal of the children from the streets. “Kids will play In the street," a well known apo thegm impressed on the minds of motorists, still pre vails, but not to the extent that it did before the swiftly moving traffic made the streets terribly dan gerous for youngsters bent on the enjoyment of childhood. Development of the playground as we know it now dates from the coming of the automo bile Communities quickly saw the need of providing for the children, who must have a place out of doors to play. The need has been generously provided for in most, American cities. Omaha has made much progress in the matter of playgrounds. Those established are well equipped and well looked after. Others are to he added dur ing thp coming summer. Park Commissioner Hum mel has always put extra etnphasis on making provision at the parks for the youngsters. X'nder his watchful eyp the service has rome to he greatly appreciated by the mothers, who, after all. are most concerned in the playgrounds. Safety first for the kiddies i« a good practice. The head of Harvard informs us that a number of students who drink, exrent on stated occasions, i< small. Wp know a number of men right here in Omaha who drink exactly like that. A wife faking an attack to get her husband home early is something of a relief front a husband fak ing an engagement to explain why he got home no late. Donald MacMillan's efforts to find a newr con tinent in the region of the North Pole should he sup plemented by an effort on the part of a lot of Amer icans to rediscover the real United States. Again Ik may he noticed that none of Senator Norris' rebukes to his republican constituents bear a date coinciding with .hat of election day. We hasten to call Wizard Burbank’s attention to the fact that to date the only discovered use for the ; dandelion has been declared illegal. r-—-v Homespun Verse By Omaha’s Own Poet— Rnlicrt iforlliington Doric. ____* FAME. The fame that conies with swiftness will not linger long, I'm sure; The slow hi ili Ink prestige Is Ihe Mini thal will endure, line may extol another's wares for money's selllsh sake. I’m only loll and merit will s ieal Impression make. 'I he lies! In fume ohm never lie I lie wealth I Pat It he a tows, lf« vital good Is likened In Die liesnty of the lose Its virtue Is the kindness wlili li those who Impart II lend A* one delights In helng line In a iiinrh I mated fi lend hits, It Is line: Forsaken Is the lelsnte money plies, While friendship In llie falnlesi end of re. olle. iIon lives Thai which we offer to all olheis will unto ourselves he gain. As to ihe llibsly, growing plnnis Is Mpi lug s raft ashing lain., V <* s Letters From Our Readers All Ifltcri mini br tifntd but nam* will hr withheld upon rrqneat. Cow mmm alioni of 200 woidi and l*i» will bt given piefeier.ee. V---/ (ondiii I or MIH, Stand I p. Omaha—To the Kditor of The Onia ha Bee: Mny I express through th»* columns *>f your paper my Apprecia tion of ihe kindly act of Conductor of the \nrili Forty fifth street line of the Omaha Council Bluffs Street Hallway company? I got on tills gentleman's ear at Fifty fourth ami Leavenworth street this afternoon while it was raining unite heavily, and discovered the in teresting fact that I lacked 1 cent of having enough to pay my fare, hut when I offered to get off the car, the gentleman dropped the penny in the box out of bis own pocket. It i* just sin'h acts of kindness ns this that makes the old world of bins a better place in which to live, it was Klla Wheeler Wilcox who said: “So many gods; so many creeds. So many paths that wind and wind. While just the net of being kind Is all the sad world needs.” If K. ROBKRTS. Personal Views, Omaha.—To the Kditor of The Omaha Bee: In the first place I will give you an outline and birthplace. Was horn in Pike county'. Missouri. In the year of 1X56 on a farm near Clarksville. 1 have voted the repub* I lean ticket since I was 21 years of age because l believed it is beat for tiie 1’ulted Stales and all con* cerned. 1 am a »od farmer and stock raiser. I have read all the t ilk of our leading men in regard to help ing the farmer. My opinion is the fanners to a certain extent are to Idame. Land Is worth just what it will produce and no more. Some farms sell as high as from $200 to $450 an acre. A man pays taxes according to assessed valuation: perhaps ha will farm this land, and more apt to rent nut to some good farmer, taka half no raises delivered at market, and T know some that take half and $1 cash in acre. This renter can’t do that, hut farming is nil he knows and mud f.nt, for he can’t buy. In other words his farm is watered stock. Pay taxes ind something not got you will sav and is worth what It ran sell for. f ♦ay it is not. for it will not pay 6 per ent on the dollar. I was in Henry ount.v, Iowa, when a young man. At hat time the land was fresh and sure. Had never had a plow in it: you could break prairie sod in ttho fall and in •pring double disk, harrow and plant lour corn. You most of the time got i.b bushels of corn to the acre. Corn Hold to feeders for 45 cents per bushel lelivered. The farmer has never had he right In a sense to return the iricc on what he raised, hut if he had to buy everything he had to ask ivhat will you take for if. T lived in i Quaker settlement. A flue set of neople and good farmers. There Is ijo more at present. If you can read this md it is worthy of publishing I will ome again In another line. ROBKRT W. DCNCAN. McMullen's Service fo I.a bar. Omaha.—To the Kditor of The >maha Bee: It required courage for Jovernor McMt.llen to veto the hill hanging the present Nebraska work nen's compensation law. and it would int he right to let this occasion pass without some comment. If i« very iiffh ult to understand where labor and ts representatives. Including the law rets who are presumably supposed to look after such matters for the laltoi anions, were when the bill was pend ng in the slate legislature. Some • ne was* surely a«leep at the switch when this vicious legislation was r»er mitted to pass unat. tacked and tin no ticed. And It was asking almost too much of the governor, after being guilty of permitting the hill to pas« ♦o smoothly through the state legisla lire, to request him to veto It. But oir governor rose to the occasion and o sav that the workingman ought to .e proud of this act of Governor Mr Mullen, is not to say enough. Labor •f Nebraska, organized and unorgan ;cd. owes tiie governor a debt which an never he fully discharged because SUNNY SIDE UP lake Comfort, nor forget. ^hat Sunrise ne^erfaUea. us ijet: Cilia *7 _' /-—-' Tf the to win* In plan doesn't have the effect of stopping the illegal parkin*, why not try iteflatlng tho tires of oil >ar» IIIckhIIv tiarkcd. From bitter experience we are prepared to sa> that pumping up four tires with a hand pump on * hot day leaves a felFw til a fram* of mind calculated tn rnaks him humble. Something le«s than a year ago we visited In McCook see ing the occasion to jot down a few observations relative to the depot and division office* at that place. What we later wrote whs seemingly acceptable to McCook people, for it was repro duced In tha local newspaper*. We said then, and repeat now, that McCook needs a new depot adequate to the needs of both th* city and the Burlington. From that dav tp this we have been devoting a few minutes daily to mental telephsty in Mc Cook's behalf. We now liave a hum h that McCook 1* going to get that new depot, and *et It very soon. In fact we rather expect to note its beginning in less than 60 day*. Of course this Is only a hancli on our part, hut if It fails we II never play a hunch u^ain and we've played <> lot "f them with reasonable success. We contemplate h visit to McCook tn th* very near : | future iuat to see If our effort* to bring h earning desire to flab. Kit her well have tn go fishing pretty noon or »sll the family doctor. j "I think." remark*’.! C..I l.efriiigwell HeRlIltk aa he lighted a Philadelphia made .Igai. ilia! this propnailIon to buy Omaha made good a la n tnlghit good think Then mining to the dark ha hough! a t».* pound box of <'liee tern's I'IiIcmso msde rhorolstee before continuing "I am pretlv busy right now. a* I have to go down lo the pnstofflce and buy a money nrde* In aend with an ntdel I am mailing to (Italiem A lloldwii. whose r.alalogne la I he higgoat and heal 1 ve seen In teat*. Put 1 ve alwava got time to booal tor ntv homo city and lla Indnalrlea by making a|ieo*’hoa whenever tailed upon. Wlah I could talk to ton longer on thia eubjed, but I to got to go over lo the gro* ery and toll the proprietor that tho laal nark of Mlnneapo lla flour I got of him tan* no untal .and the Itotc of St. laud* craokera he delivered yeaterday was atnle "Vottr finv Omaha Matle flood* campaign la a move In the right direction." w rllee the managing partner of the fb in of Sponge A Soak. The letter la written on a letterhead printed In rhlcagn anil emloaed In a government prlntprt envelop. Owing lo cii'i Iitiialain ea titer whit'll we have no control we will be .tide lo attend a Ollzen a Mlllllllt Training camp. We real el Ihl* to i much. Wohjil Hint ll were otherwise lint l ie le Ham la very el rid In i he matter of age a voirOuptda and am h like Wltollt nnail from the llll111*i f Itlea the* camp* are wottdi*rfnl lltlnge The government la a non lo begin work on 'hedging a huge aliln canal lo Houston. The harbor Is now alMJul eight ndlea nivat. When oceangoing aleameia lie up at Houston that tily la going I" lake nil an even greater growth. It gap1, . in become the New lock of the aotith. Wild. M Md'PlN. Real Folks at Home (the Switchboard Operator) _Iv^K ' nLO MOM - A uV t,-m W6 t® eat ll>J THIS mam's house. I'M STAKUEO' \ f (See - A LOT OP OUTSIDE \ Call S Today- • I LL BtT i ivt plugged nj Tvajicej \ As MWYCALL.S Ay' f t> I -D That MAlO \ AH * HE'S ALI_ RIGHT HELLO- HELLO -HhLLCJ AlOMoy tod ma-H£'.S HARMLESS VAJHAT wOm0EP yod I ToCAV-- THAT [ LET'IIM RA'JE - - CALL i H-l or element of their con stituency is impossible to understand. As a lawyer who has come some what in contact with the coinnen.st lion law and its actual application in rases involving both serious and or dinary injuries, I can say from ex perience that the companies have been in the habit of fighting cases dear through to the supreme court which should have been settled in the first instance. The court costs and attorneys' fees of course have been barged against the premium ac count. T must nay here, however. ! ha t our supreme court has made 'hurt shrift of these appeal* and that he only gain made by the insurance otnpanics in these appeal cases has been the satisfaction of requiring the injured employe to wait six to eight months lnry;er for his compensation. And yet they claim that the rate* are loo high. Clive thanks to our good Unvemor McMullen and to the mem bers of the supreme court of Ne braska. J. .T. FRIKDMAX. Wanted It. Jimmy's mother was settling her self down for a good rend when she noticed her small son stride oxer to he window, seize the kitten that was loving on the ledge, and. swirling it lbout by its tall, give It a vigorous sha king. “Jimmy! Jimmy! Stop that at once.” sire cried, and. making a grab *t the kitten, rescued it from Its formenter. ' What do you mean by being so cruel to the poor little thing?” she de manded. I wasn’t cruel, ' said Jimmy. When lad was playing cards last night J beard him say, 'Now. hoys, there's at east $:» In the kitty,' and well. 1 was just trying to shake It out.”— l.os An self* Times. Listening in On the Nebraska Tress The Old Quiz, published bv II. IV Leggett, has celebrated its 43d birth day. It has been under Hank s direc tion for eight years, growing better all the time. The Sldiiey Country club will dedi cate its new club house on April 1$. It is a fine one. Here's hoping that i when Jim McIntosh starts to drive out there he won’t forget to luv* plenty of gas in the tank. Bridgeport taxpayers refused to vote a $$0,000 bond issu* for a new high school. The I fern Id says the general opinion was that time was not ripe. Frank Kimmell of the McCook Tribune surmises that when we have learned »o deliver the goods with the same efficiency and success that we now pass the buck and explain the failures, this old world will have mad* a mights stride toward supetdom. The Tekamah llera'd man Intimates that every time lie Inks at congress he has doubt*-about evolution. A Thurston young man was forced !<• seek a physician and have a needle • * 1 d from Ills right forearm. Now the Thurston and Fender newspapers are demanding an e*** lunation of how the needle got the | .T A. Wild has sold his Wilber Re publican to Mr. and Mrs. H. N. CriMy • »f McCook. Mr. Wild established the Republican 3 Kyear* ;i*ro and has pub lished it routine R* from that time. Senator Dwight Hftrwohl is Itack on ihe job of editing the Cordon Journal, and .*pys he is glad of it. lie admits he enjoyed the legislative game down Lincoln wav. hut he pre fers being back borne where he can call must folk by their front names. Who recalls when thcr u-ed t’ he two or three fellers in ever' town that would have been world heaters if liquor harin' held 'em down? 1 recall when a feller had t' be.dratrfred t’ a banquet, an' now he has t’ be held back. (Copy right. 1 *r .V ) Sunday Attraction. Kittle Albert was a solemn eyed, spir itual-looking child. One morning he came up to his aunt, who was visit ing the family and inquired: “Auntie, is this the lord's day?” No. dear." replied his aunt, ' this isn't Sunday, it is Thursdax “I ni so worry,' said the little fel low sadly and went, ba« k to Ins play. 1'gicli suiseeding day he asked the same question of the aunt in his *«* rious manner, and she remarked his mother: "Really, Jane, I «1.,i t think that rhild will live lone, lie is ton soud for this world." When Sunday mornins name the same question was repeated and the aunt replied: "Yes, dear, this is the Lord's da "Oh, sroodie!" shouted the young ster. "Then where's the funny pa per"" Boston Transerlpt. NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION For MARCH. 1925. THE OMAHA BEE Daily.76,525 Sunday .78,473 Doe* not include return*, left-over*. 4 samples or papers spoiled in print in; and include* no special sale* or free circulation of any kind. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. M*r. Subscribed *nd sworn to before m• tbi* l*t Jay of April 192S. (Seal) Notary Public W H QUIVEY. of the Condition of The Omaha National Bank | A* made to the Comptroller of the Currency, April 6, 1925 RESOURCES. Cash on Hand and Due from Federal Reserve and Other Banks ..$10,330,288.63 United States Bonds. 1,200,000.00 • Municipal and Corporation Bonds. 1.506,041.08 Banking House. 1.000,000.00 Due from United States Treasury. 50,000.00 Loans and Discounts. 17,159,286.01 Customers’ Liability under Letters of Credit. 84.898.29 Interest Earned . 72,388.22 Overdrafts. 5.861.30 Total .$31,408,763.53 Wj £Vj LIABILITIES. |H Deposits by Customers. $28,175,818.20 Circulation . 995,250.00 i Customers' Lettters of Credit. 85,802.29 Total .$28,255,856.49, INVESTED CAPITAL. il! I Capital Stock . ▼..$1,000,000.00 Surplus and Undivided Profits. 1.152,898.04 Total.$2,152,898.04 Hie QbahaNational Ba k ^amam cduih St.