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. . EDITORIALS ... 1 -ijaiaaaBnranMBraaraMiraMiraazi^^ THE OMAHA GUIDE Published every Saturday at 24618-20 Grant Street., Omaha, Nebraaka Phone WKbeter 1750 Entered as Second Glass Matter March 15, 1927, at tbs Poat Of fice at Omaha, Neb., undertheActof Congress of Maroh S, 1879. TERMS OP SIJBSCRn*TI(>N *2 00 PUR TEAR Race prejudice must go. The Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Maxi must prevail. These are Mia anly priciples which will stand the said teat af gaad FIVE REASONS FOR AGRI CULTURAL COOPERATION li. J. Taber, Master of the National Orange, rocontly put forward the following f.ve reasons why cooperative, market ing can do for the farmer what no other method can accomplish. 1. It gives him a voice in the control of his own affairs, increasing his sense of responsibility, his value as a citizen, and his independence. 2. It permits him to control quantity of purchases, and standardize his products. 3. It enables bun to secure the type of merchandising, packaging and (4 atributiom service that best meets his needs, as well as the needs of the eoasuming public. 4. It makes it possible for him to use the law of supply and demand to better prices. 5. It permits him to own his marketing machinery, and keep open his avenues of credit, production and sales. This is a great stabilizing influence. Those are basic virtues of agricultural cooperation. They allow how cooperation in farm production and marketing en ables farmers to achieve sound “form relief” through their own efforts and abilities. BE CAPTAINS OF THE ROAI) There is an unwritten law of the sea that is followed relig iously—namely, the desire to save life. Why can’t we have the same high purjvi.se on landf Such voluntary action is always based on necessity. life saving in automobile traffic is now as important as life-saving in sea traff'e. Such rules as the following, adhered to with sincerity, would save life a hundred fold. 1. Before making a turn, get in traffic lane nearest de sired direction. 2. The rear vision nf'rror is for something beside looking for traffic officers—-watch curs behind you. 3. Never tnkio chances in passing and do not crowd the right-of-way. Saving seconds is no excuse for causing one un necessary risk of life, 4. I/earn the feel of the car on tlw road, liko the capta'in does his ship. Study the action of the car on the dry pavement, wet pavement, grave! road and icy road. Even the highest abil ity is not one hundred percent perfect in driving. 5. Take driving seriously; you are probably no smarter than the hist person whose neck was broken on a windshield. The smartest men (supposedly) meet with unfortunate disaster hrough gross carelessness. Courtesy is not a sign of weakness; it is a sign of character and wisdom, and the ability to he fored ghted and obliging. The sea captam doesn’t unnecessarily take chances when they can be avoided, but he willingly risks his life and his sh?p to prevent nn nccidnet or aid another vessel in distress. But automobile drivers willfully risk their own lives as well as the lives of otheTs, for no go«vl reason at all; it deosn’t make sense. If ordinary rules of common sense and courtesy were fol lowed in diving (unwritten laws), accidents would be caused only by freak circumstances. ONE MAN’S INVESTMENT EXPERIENCE Some time ago a man surveyed his investment experience during two generations. Uis first investment was in real estate. Hard times came alog, taxes soared, and values depreciated. Ho was forced to mortgage it—and eventually the mortgage was foreclosed. This investment wttm nearly a total loss. llis next investment was in a small business. It did fairly well for a while—then a bettor product came on the market. The business went to the wall. This investment was a total loss. His third investment was in securities that were regarded as first-class. However, changed conditions proved otherwise—• the securities declined in value and finally became worthless. This investment was also a total loss. During this time, other savings he made shrank to about ten cents on the dollar. One investment has not only held its value, but appreciated. That investment was a life insurance policy. For downright safety, it would scrim that life insurance tops the list for the savings of the average man. WHEN THE MERCURY DROPS THE FIREMEN SWEAT! Strange as it may sound—the colder it gets, the hotter the firemen and insurance adjusters become! That heat., of course, is not caused by the weather; it is brought about by more work. Statistics compiled by the National Board of Fire Under writers reveal that severe winter weather causes an epidemic of fires. It 'is not difficult to see why this is so. In an effort to be comfortable, people foroe their furnaces to the limit and also use makeshift heating agencies. Under these conditions, it is natural for more fires to break out and this means more work for the fire departments and more losses for the insurance companies to adjust. Hence there is an extra amount of work for all who handle the reports and other matters incident to the claims. If you don’t want your house to become so hot that you have to park outside, you should exercise the utmost care in operating your heating paint—especially when the mercury drops to low temperatures. Far better to take more time for increasing the heat in the house, than to suffer a destructive fire from an overheated stove or chimney! “Forcing” a fur nace is definitely dangeorus. A little time sepnt inspecting a heating plant is a good step, too. If, for any reason, you do not feel that absolute safe ty is assured, you will do well to call in a heating expert and follow his advioa. TAX-EXEMPTION PRIVILEGES UNFAIR Taxation! ! What an ominous wound that word is begin ning to have for millions of citizens. Whenever government goes into any line of business new taxes are demanded and old business that cannot compete with government goes out of existence and the taxes it paid are re assessed to remaining taxpayers, for government enterprises are generally tax-exempt. This faet is becoming better understood every day and is the reason for growing sentiment to make publicly-owned busi ness enterprises pay identically the same taxes that are paid by privately-owned industry. When government goes into business it haw stepped outside the function of governing and the excuse for tax-exemption priv ileges no longer exists. If state, municipal or federal business competes with private citizens, it Should not be granted tax exemption and public subsidy privileges denied to private citizens. GoWrnment-owned business enterprises should stand on their own f<H't and be subject to the same regulatio and taxation as are applied to private business. It is just as necessary to protect the publie from ineffic iency, graft or over-charging by a politically-controlled and op erated business as it is in a privately-owned business. Whenever any person or any enterprise escapes taxes, all others have to pay for the tax-exempt, privileged few. DOING EACH OTHER’S WASHING The open' ng of the Pan-American Airways service across tlie Pacific ihaa drawn vivid attention to the possibilities of in creased markets and reerelational resorts in the various count ries rimming the world's largest ocean. American initiative and enterprise is pushing into the East. Albert U chard Wetjeu, the sen story writer, who has been traveling for several months in Australia, says there is a grow ing desire in the commonwealth for free trade with the United Stutes, ami a clear desire for American methods of production and distribution. Further, he says, from the tourist viewpoint, travel has been influenced to some extent by the situation in Europe, but apart from that there has been a steady increase in the number of visitors- as much ras 75 percent and more to the South Sea Islands and up to nearly 50 percent to New Zealand and Aus tralia. In the reverse {Enaction there is also an increase. American shipping firms on the Pacific arc optimistic about the future. Liners have already boon launched comparable with anything afloat. In Australia and New Zealand hotels are be ing built or modernized to appeal to Americans in particular. Americans travel perhaps more than any other people and the money our tourists spend abroad enables foreign nations to buy from us the modem things tehy desire and often desperately need. With conditions unsettled in Europe, new trade relations are going to be established around the Pacific, that will be per manently beneficial to countries rimming that ocean. Economic conditions between these countries must, be adjusted to encour age that trade. As Mr. Wetjen aptly says: "We actually do all live to «i great extent by taking On each other’s washings.” INDEPENDENT MERCHANDISING The charge that the developenmt of the chain retail system, in such basic lines as food, drugs and automobile supplies, is rapidly driving the independent dealer to the wall, has been made often due ng recent years. A large number of people have been misled by this statement. Statistics paint a different picture. According to government figures, more chain stores than independent stores went out of business during the depression years. And a new comparison of business activity in 1935 as compared with 1934, shows that where the retail sales of all stores increased 10 percent, sales of chain grocery stores in creased but (5 percent. In other words, independent merchants received a larger share of the business revival than did chains. This is perfectly in accord With the opinions of a number of men who have made exhaustive studies if the subject, and have come to the conclusion that there is a definite limit to the growth of chains—and that that limit has just about been reached. Chains perform certain service appealing primarily to certain classes of people. Independent stores perform other kinds of service appealing to other classes of people. Each form of merchandising has it sfollowers—each has an established field. And neither can destroy the other. It is a demonstrable fact that independent stores have made great progress as have tho chains. It is also a fact that many independents have gone out of business from natural economic causes—as have many chain stores. Good service to the Amer ican consumer—whose interest is paramount—can be achieved only if every legitimate form of merchandising is permitted to develop normally. hVVWAVV.W/AWWAVA \ PROVERBS I ;i AND i j; PARABLES | < by A. B. MANN 5 WAwmwvwwwwjwi for The Literary Service Bureau The Hog That Never Looks High er Than His Head In one of the old readers there was a picture of a hog in an or chard. He was under an apple tree feasting. Above him in the tree, was a man shaking the apples down. But so busy was the hog that he never looked up to see the source of the apples. That was alright for a hog. It was in keep ing with hog nature. Hogs are not supposed to consider the source of their supplies. But there are human being who dnjoy all the benefits, eat what the fields produce, use all that na ture supplies, and yet never look and give credit and thanks to the Giver of all blessings. In this, such individuals are no better than hogs. Are you such a hog? Are yeu? YOU ARE GOD By R. A. ADAMP for the Literary Service Bureau (Continued From Page 1) To apply this caption to a man, as d|d the foolish followiers of “Father Divine” shows gross ig norance. To claim to be God or claim to see God with mortal eyes indicates incurable dementia. To see God in His works is reason able and admissable, but more than this, it is possible to see the mani festatioin of God in deeds per formed by others. I was reading an article in the Literary Digest. It concerned a man who because of a mental weakness had been bound to a tree for three consecutive years and treated cruelly. He was carried to a certain institution, chained and in a cage. The physician ordered that he be released immediately. The officers demurred but the doc tor insisted. Released and receiv ing kindness after years of abuse and degradation, the unfortunate man weeping saUB, “Thank you doctor, you are God.” The doctor was not God “de! | facto;” but in his humanitarian spirit and action he manifested the God spirit; so, in this way—in ministering to human need—men represent and manifest God. To |me, the title of the movie “The sacreligious, but he did play God, or act God in His spirit and his deeds of helpfulness. It was this matter of manifesting God by his noble deeds that Jesus had in mind when He said, “Let your light so shine that men seeing your good works may glorify your father which is in heaven.” SERMONETTE By Arthur B. Rhinew For The Literary Service Buretu HEADACHES - HEARTACHES The usual crowd of loungers had not arrived at the country store where they would sit onthe porch and philosophize on the events of the day, local as well as world wide. Only the minister and his neighbor, a comical individual by the name of Dave, were there. As they chatted, a horse and buggy drove up, and the owner got out to buy provisions. The young min ister, by way of prodding the con versation, made a remark about the horse. What he said was all wrong, displaying a lamentable ignorance of horseflesh. Dave guf fawed so that he could be heard all over the village which consist ed of seven houses, including the church. “Well, now, Dave,” the minister protested, “there are some things I know you don’t know.” “Not much, my boy, not much,” Dave drawled patronizingly; “you would have an awful headache if you knew all I know.” They both laughed, but in the years that came and went the min ister has often seen the truth in the reply of his neighbor. As he leamdd in the school of life, he be came more and more assured that he certainly would have had head aches had he known all that Dave knew, for much about the old fel low was unsavory. He was not a happy man, despite his droll wit. If you want to have headaches and heartaches, live the life of mere indulgence, regardless of how it will hurt yourself and others, j Happiness and gayety are poles apart. Contentment, without good ness is counterfeit. HAPPENINGS THAT EFFECT THE DINNER PAILS National and International Prob lems Inseparable from Local Welfare No federal officer has a tough er job than Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau. The secretary of the treasury is purely an executive official. He is emtirely without legislative po wer, Yet, when congress passes a bill requiring public expenditures for which no funds are available, 1 the secretary must find the money. | He may think the bill is danger- | ous or unwise—but, in spite of that, his duties force him to do everything in his power to pave the fiscal way. A short time ago, the President delivered a budget message, that showed an estinyrted deficit of $1,600,000,000—less than in other ( recent years. However, the presi- | dent was frank to admit that the ; budget was incomplete—such vital , matters as relief expenditures were , yet to be detailed, and were not included. Best guessers say that,; while relief spending will be less j this year than last, Congress will j appropriate $2,000,000,000 for the purpose before it is finished. In addition, maturing government obligations call for an additional $6,800,000,000. The bonus, not con sidered in he president’s budget j mesage, will cost at least another $2,000,000,000. , As a result, the deficit will be in the neighborhood of $11,000,000- j 000—every cent of which must be raised in the next year and a half. ( That is Mr. Morgan thau’s job. The secretary of the treasury muBt determine what type of bonds to issue, and what rate of interest to pay. He must accurately estimate ' conditions in the bond market. A 1 successful secretary is one who raises money most easily at the lowest interest cost—an unuccess ful secretary is one who fails in either of these two particulars. So far, the New Deal has had things all its own way in financ ing. Issues have been oversubscrib ed within a few hours after their appearance. The cost of carrying the debt is lower now than it was a few years ago, because it has bedn found possible to cut the in terest rates much below previous levels due to investors’ fear of risking money in commercial en terprises. Whether it will find conditions I the same in the future is the ques tion. A short time ago, Secretary Morganthau was called before the Senate Finance Committee, which ' wished to ask him whether he , thought the Treasury could stand J the drain of bonus payments. He avoided answering the question ( directly, though he was obviously doubtful of the bonus’ financial wisdom. And he was, according to 1 all observers, somewhat worried j about future financing. He pointed | to the confused outlook and said, "So many things have happened that effect the Treasury that I certainly am not smart enough, and I haven’t met anybody that is smart enough, to say what is the future of the government bond market.’’ When asked what would happen if the Treasury attempted to float, $11,000,000,000 worth of bonds and failed, the Secretary replied: "the minute I cannot raise the money required to finance the govern ment, that minute you will have complete chaos.” Mr. Morganthau aid not inti-, mate—nor has any other respon sible authority—that the U. S. credit is in danger. However, there seems to be a saturation point be yond which government bonds, no matter how securely backed, can not be floated on favorable terms. As conditions imjprove, oddly enough, it becomes increasingly | difficult for the government to ob tain cheap money—better business tempts investors to purchase in- | dustrial securities which either pay higher interest rate, in the case at bonds,or offer the chance of great appreciation of principal and earn ings, in the case of common stocks. Some observers thnk that the pre sent Congress, listening to words such as Mr. Morganthau poke, will go low in spending. And there is 1 also the possibility, and perhaps necessity, that Congress will be forced to raise money not through bonds but through new or still higher taxes. Action of the Con- j gress on the bonus gives no indi- ! cation of that body’s future atti tude toward spending—common belief is that if the solons realized that payment of the bonus would have actually shaken the Treasury, many of them would have voted for it anyway, motivated by the political considerations that arise inevitably in an election year. Mr. Morganthau’s testimony, MAXIE MILLER WRITES 1 (Fer the Literary Service Bureau) than that—wrong to deprive child drunk with “Smell of cigarettee in her clothes"—husband lost con fidence aond thinks of divorce— doubtless husband has done worse than thtt—wrong to deprive child ren of parental care—forgive and forget—start over again. (For advice, write to Maxie Mil ler, care of Literary Service Bur eau, 518 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kane. Ifor personal reply send self-addresswd stamped en velope. ) Maxie Miller: I guess it la all right for a man to write you to beg for advice Bo I’m doing ao because I need it very much and I think you are« able to give it to me. I am a married man and I am no angel but I have my ideas about how a married woman ought to aet and da My wife went to a party and came home most nearly drunk and with the smell of cigarets in her clothes. This wife of mine confess es she was tempted and that the friends teased her into doing what she knows is wrong. I tell her she ought to have been stronger. Now I’m afraid I can’t be hap py with this wife any more be cause I lost confidence in her. D* you think I have a right to get a divorce? We have two small children tnd I don’t know what to do. Please tell me.—Peter Rex. Peter Rex:—While your wife made a mistake, she did only what thousands of the most highly re spected women do, these days. Then, since she ccmfcses the wrong and I suppose promised not to do so again, you should forgive and start ‘all over again.” You have no grounds for divorce, and sure ly you would not deprive your children of parental care. More than this, it is probable that you have done worse things and your wife had to forgive you. Search your own record, Mr. Rex, and un doubtedly you will feel differently Yes, forgive and forget. —Maxie Millar PASSING JUDGMEN T By R. A. ADAMS (For Literary Service Bureau) We should not judge another by any man, By days and years—by his allot ted span, But by his service to his fellow man. Wo should not judge tnother by his creed, But more by kindly word and noble deed, And minstering, forsooth to hu man need. So, ’tis a principle both wise and true, And worthy of consideration due, To judge men by the service they may do. ALTA VESTA A GIRL’S PROBLEMS (By Videtta Ish) Dear Alta Vesta: Almost any other girl would have been crying too much to write so soon after her father had left her, but you have always been an exceptional girl. I am proud that you are be ginning to think of serious prob lems, but I am almost dreading the day when you wil be grown up, and I wonder if you will love me so much then. Do you think yon will? Mow I will tell you what I have decided about the bird. I shall send you a bird; you may keep it in a cage for six months, and then you must open the cage and allow it to be free. If because of your kindness the bird chooses to come back and remain in the cage it will bo alright; but you must open the cage each day. In this way I shall be satisfied, for the bird will choose whether it desires to stay or not. In another letter I shall answer your question concerning colored children. That is I shall give you some information, for the race problem, as i is called in this coun try, is the most ancient and most serious one known to the human race. With abundance of lore Your Father. coming from the principal fiscal °fficer of the Administration, in dicates that men at the top are thinking seriously about the pub lic debt
