THE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY. APRIL 2. 1921
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The Bee's Platform
1. Ntw Umion Psusngsr Station. x
2. Continued improvement f the No-'
braska Highways, including tko pate
mont of Main Thoroughfares leading
into Omaha with a Brick Snrfaco.
3. A short, lowrato Waterway from tho
Corn Belt to tho Atlantic Ocoaa.
4. Homo Rule Chatter for Omaha, with
, City Manager form of GoTorameat.
out of perjonil friendship for any candidate, but
with the determination to give, the community
the benefit of one's best judgment, the citizo.i
reaches his full stature. The business oi gov
ernment is a serious one, and its responsibility
rests upon each voter. It would be better if all
would give more continuous attention to politi
cal affairs, but it is good that interest should be
evoked at least on the eve of the polling, and
the more lively the present campaign becomes,
the better, for thus is it shown that the citizens
are on the job.
West Indian Piracy
Days When the Jolly Roger Flew Free
In Caribbean Sea.
Looking for the Way Out.
One of the interesting developments in the
Icacllocl; between the railroad managers and em--iues
is the' request from the latter that the
resident call a conference at which all points
t;olvcu may be considered. Chief of these sub
ject oi disagreement appears to bo the nation
wide arrangement nude during the war. For
convenience of management Director JIcAdoo
icouiretl to consider all roads as. otic, and
rule made by him applied to all. Emerging from'
th& v;r ami returning to private management,
the roads found themselves bound by certain
agreements, particularly as to wages, that were
. htandardizd as far as such things can be. Against
tf'.is condition protest is made.
If Oneial Atterbury speaks with any author
ity, the roads desire an immediate return to the
system !-c ailing before .the experiment of gov
ernment control, when each line dealt with its
own einploxes. regardless oi what others did.
This was only partly true, for, certain wage
schedules were jointly negotiated in a broad way
covering defined districts for operating pur
poses. Abrogation of the general agreement for
handling labor matters on a war-time basis is
sought. The men oppose this, as a sacrifice of
some advantage. The principle of collective bar
gaining is involved, they, hold, and so they cling
tenaciously to existing arrangements.
While there may be some "question as to the
propriety of continuing the emergency machin
ery set up hastily for the handling of the trans
portation industry during a time of great na
tional stress, something is to be said oil the side
of the men. The rates and many other details
of the traffic relations of the railroads are strictly
regulated by the government, and on a nation
wide basis. This implies, at least, the power to
similarly regulate wages.; In fact, the Adamson
law, upheld by the high court of the land, recog
nizes and undertakes to apply this power. The
wisdom of its enactment has nothing to do with
the case; it is the lay.: , Therefore, the-Atterbury
proposal, that the roads go back to the unit sysr
tem in dealing with employe, meets a stubborn
obstacle at the outset.
' The plight of the railroad is serious, yet a
conference such as is proposed may . show, the
way out. Mr. Harding has consulted with Chair
man,' Clark of the Interstate 'Commerce commis
sion with regard to the situation- He knows
that no amount of rate raising or wage reduction''
will produce a pound of freight or a mit'ofpasr
senger travel. The general conditio ,of indus
try in the United , StateVjtnust undergo a change,
before any branch can e' materially, benefited.
Until this comes about, business must wait. One
great, step toward the end sought will be made,
when the owners and the workers agree on
something they can stand by.
Smith Bread Bill a Law.
Governor McKelvie having given his approval
to the Smith bread bill, it now becomes a law,
and under the constitutional rule will be opera
tive on June 30. Under it bakers are required to
furnish loaves of a standard weight, in half
pound multiples, with a two-ounce leeway. This
is designed primarily to protect the purchaser,
ensuring him that he gets proper value for the
price he pays. Bakers offered what to tjiein
seemed good reasons for asking to be permitted
to go ahead on the basis on which they have
operated for so long, but did not convince tho
legislature they were not proper subjects ior
regulation. Bread loaves now being furnished
vary in weight, the most popular size being the
21-ounce, but the range has been wide, although
the price has been standard. What adjustments
will be necessary, if any, to meet conditions aris-
ing under tne new taw ma dc niacic Known in
time. It seems reasonable, though, that a stand
ard weight be adopted for the loaf, even in these
times when most purchases are made in packages
and little account is taken of the cdntents, even
though weight or measure is stamped or printed
on the w rapper or container. An allowance of
two ounces is liberal, it seems, for it amounts to
.25 per cent on a half-pound loaf, liMs per cent
on a pound loaf, and oJi per cent on a two
pound loaf. Within this range, the purchaser is
assured that his loaf is what it purports to be,
and the honest baker will suffer nothing by ad
justing his output to meet requirements.
Sent to the Gallows By Women.
With bowed heads and tears streaming down,
four women in Des Moines voted "Guilty" while
serving as jurors in a murder .trial. Their ver
dict will result in the hanging of a youth. who
was charged with wantonly slaying r.n age3
man in the presence of his young daughter and
then firing a shot at the girl.
For tw-enty hours the four women and seven
men were closeted in deliberation, The strug
gles of emotion that took place in that time will
probably never be known. The result, however,
upsets the charges repeatedly made that women
placed in a position of this kind would be swayed
by sentiment rather than the cold array of facts
upon which the evidence was based.
With a sneering smile- on his face the youth
ful murderer coolly stared at the eleven men
and women who held his life in their hands.
In direct contrast were four women with
tcar-strcaked faces, one of whom was so over
come 'by emotion that she could only whisper,
"yes" when called upon to answer if she agreed
to the verdict.
Women have met the test fearlessly. Fight
ing down the mother lore that they always have
for the unfortunate they took the stand that laws
are made to.be enforced, not broker!.
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(From the New Vork Sunday Times.)
There is a song of the bad old times which
has it that ,
He sang to them of Pyracy, of Wrecks
mid Death and Hum. ,
When Douglas G. I'rowne puts these disso
lute lines at the head of an article, entitled "The
Jolly Koger" in the March Elackwood's Maga
zine it is not because he has any fellow-feeling
for the Kidds and Teaches of his story, or views
their exploits through the lenses of romance. On
the contrary, ho thinks them all, unspeakable
ruffians, and says that "the genuine'pirate of the
early eighteenth century" the period with which
he deals "had few redeeming qualities." For
the buccaneers of the seventeenth century he has
a certain tolerance, because the chronicle in
cludes "some arresting figures like Drake or
Morgan, some' enterprises that were not wholly
predatory in design nor brutal in execution, anil
some startling military exploits."
There were ferocious brutes among the buc
caneers, like Francois L'Olonnois, who used to
play executioner to his prisoners until his blood
lust was satisfied; like Montbars, who was
proud of his renown as the exterminator; like
Henry Morgan, whose sacking of Porto fiello
sickens with its abominable cruelties. The
buccaneers did not practice the honor among
thieves that was supposed to hold them to
gether in bonds of evil' fraternity. They plun
dered one anotlier and betrayed by stealth. .Not
one of them could be trusted if another's share
of loot was greater than his own. Lussan, the
fascinating rogue who wrote as well as he buc
caneered and gambled, survived the retreat of
his hand across the Isthmus of Darien only by
dividing his gold and jewels into small parcels
and paying, or bribing, improvident comrades to
be his porters. Word had been brought to Lus
san that twenty of the buccaneers were conspir
ing to make -away with him. The truth is that
with a few exceptions, like eminent gentlemen
adventurers and such men as Francois Groguier,
Edward Davis and William Dampier, they were
a deplorable lot. But they were brave to a
fault and no more cruel and vindictive than the
Spaniards, whom they detested and upon whom
they made war in America and Asia, often with
the sanction of their own governments.
After great wars great license. The lawless
ness of the present period, the robberies, out
rages and murders by armed ruffians in all coun
tries, has many parallels. Mr. Browne points
out that "the heyday of genuine piracy" followed
the peace of Utrecht in 1713. For a generation
warfare had been the occupation of the scum of
society, the riff-raff of England, France, Spain,
Portugal, Holland. It was more attractive than
crime and less dangerous. Even a rogue may
love adventure and hazard. When peace came
the men who had lived by privateering and
predatory methods of all kinds drifted to the
West Indies, where the best was like the worst.
In the waters of the far-strctching archipelago,
and among their-keys and reefs, seamanship
under the black flag could be made to pay. Land
and sea combined to welcome the lawless. There
was plenty to eat for him who could take, the
climate was genial, and, as England and France
maintained no regular naval stations, freebooters
had to reckon only with the Spaniards.
So "a great horde of predatory undesirables"
swarmed the West Indies. "During this loijg
peace," wrote Capt. Charles Johnson in the pre
face to his "General History of the Pyrates," "I
have not so much as heard of a Dutch Pyrate."
The United Provinces in their extensive fisheries
found employment for everybody who wanted'
work. The "pyrates" were British, and French,
chiefly British, but they often served together
under a masterful navigator and arch-villain.
Sometimes he had sterling qualities of leadership
and maintained a rude sort of discipline. Such a
pirate chief was Bartholomew Roberts, and
11 owel Davis was another. " -
How to Keep Well
By DR. W. A. EVANS
Quotient cancerninf hyflsne, sanita
tion anil prrvsntlon of sllssasr, sub
mitted to Dr. Evan by readers of
The Bee, will be answered personally,
subject to prer limitation, where a
stamped, addressed envelope is en
closed. Dr. Evan will net make
diagnosis or prescribe for individual
diseaaea. Address letters in cars oi
The Bee. '
Copyright, 1021, by Dr. W, A. Evan.
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Taft, Tariff and Taxation.
While it is not at all likely that Mr. Tait
'will write any part 6f President Harding' mes
sage to congress, when it convenes on Monday
week," he has made some suggestion that'will
find an echo in the Capitol. One is that a rev
enue law must be devised along lines that will
encourage rather than depress business. We
may philosophize and speculate to the end of
time, and we can not do away with the fact
that millions of dollars that should be active ?n
the business world .are frozen in tax-free securi
ties, whither they fled for refuge from the ex
cess profits and surtax levies. This capital will
come back to the service of the world only as :t
is uncongealed by the slow process of liquidation.
What is needed is some form of raising revenue
that will not frighten money into hiding. Mr.
Taft says on this point:
We must find a source of taxation to be sub
stituted for that of the excess profits and sur
taxes. The tariff will not do it. The sales
tax could be made to do it. The need for re
lieving the business of the country from the
paralyzing effects of excess profits and the
heavy surtaxes is felt by every business man
in the community. The republican party
can not afford to ignore this universal demand.
If it is to be the sales tax, in any one of the
several forms that have been outlined, well and
good. If it is to appear as any one or all of a
number of special devices proposed by members
of the ways and means committee, all right. The
government, must have money to carry on its
necessary functions, and this money can only be
had by taking it from private owners and put
ting it to public use. Viewed from any angle,
the job before the incoming congress is the big
gest to face by any in peace time in the nation's
history." .'. '
Citizens Back on the Job.
An election is something more than a dog
fight or a contest between rival sets of politically
ambitious men. Aside from the fact that under
democratic government the people themselves,
choose their officers, there is the advantage that
for the period of the campaign the people as a
whole undergo a rebirth of public spirit.
In the more or less mechanical routine of
private occupations, individual "attention is cen
tered pretty largely on self atone. Municipal and
atate affairs, and even matters of national im
portance fade into comparative neglect It takes
an election to make men and women realize tint
their interests are cot separate from those of a'l
ethers, but closely connected.
By interesting one's self in the campaign, aot
Writing to the Paper.
It is interesting to read the letter ( column o
The Bee. It is like a cross section of life, dis
playing the opinions and comments of people,
of all 6orts. Public opinion there is seen in the
making, with two extremes, conservative and.
radical, which in the .course 'of .time will be
fused into general compromise ad agreement.
People with:' pretty, definite opinions write to
the 'newspapers, and it 'is good that they do, for
their very . air ..of. certainty 'is stimulating to
thought' In others. Their briefness adds to their,
ability to . attract thought sfnd attention.
Bernard Shaw is said. to. have carved above
his fireplace the words, "They say what care I
what thfcy say? Let them say." Contempt for
public opinion may be very well for a genius,
but newspapers are operated on a very different.
theory, striving to serve, as the mirror of the
public mind. And nowhere dc they more truly
perform this function than in publishing the let
ters from correspondents.
Community Center Activities.
Closing programs for the year are announced
by community center clubs, , which have beci
carrying on enthusiastically during the winter
season. This should not be so.' The community
center ought to be an all-year 'round affair, with
no vacation and no postponements. To be sure,
all members would not be expected to be present
every time, but enough of interest should be felt
to keep the spirit of communion alive perpetually.
Any good that comes from the community cen
ter must flow from the contact of neighbor with
neighbor, the interchange of experience, idea,
even gossip, which always leads to a better un
derstanding of problems that are mutual and
are more readily solved when shared. The use
of the school houses for these gatherings during
the winter months ha been a concession, but it
well can be extended. Some expense may at
tach to the sen-ice, but that may be minimizsd,
for not muchight, heat or janitor service will be
required for meetings between now and next
fall. That the community center is of use lias
been well demonstrated, and so good a thing
ought not to be abruptly dropped.
Xo doubt women like to have their names in
the paper more than men do, for no matter if
she kills someone, forges a check, makes a
speech at her club, elopes, gets a divorce, refuses
to return a ring, takes a ride in an airplane, is
injured in an automobile accident or frightens
a burglar, she is bound to be described either
as pretty or beautiful, but no doubt some of
them are thankful not to" hajc their picture ap
pear alongside.
Madame Curie, the discoverer of . radium
hasn't a gram of it to her name, but there are.
also carpenters who haven't a house, automobile
workers who haven't a car, farmers who don't
own an acre, and loafers without a loaf, so there
is nothing really remarkable about her position.
Over in England manufacturers have an
nounced that they must cut wages i 'order "to
compete with cheap American labor," which il
lustrates the truth that it is a poor excuse that
won't work both-ways.
The Peace of Utrecht wa9 not a year old
when the Spanish Plate fleet was wrecked in the
Gulf of Mexico. Almost fabulous treasure's had
been sunk. The Spanish government salvaged
a large part of ir Picces-of-eight estimated to
have a value of - 3,500.000 were stored on the.
isthmus for trans-shipment back to Havana.
The secret could not be kept. With three sloops'
Capt. Henry Jennings of Jamaica and Charles
Vane set sail for the mainland, surprised a weak
Spanish guard and, with, the treasure, seized a
Spanish ship; ' Jennings doubtless- had to dfs
gorge much of his plunder in Jamaica, where ad
dition, division . and silence saved him
from prosecution, After! this great coup the
guild of pirates made a base of the" Bahamas,
selecting Nev Providence as their headquarters,
The proprietors, the earls of - Craven and Bath
and Lords Berkeley, Ashley. Carteret, had long
neglected their 700 islands. The fort at Nassau
was crumbling, the guns long ago spiked by
l'rench and Spaniards. Only twelve families re
mained on New. Providence, which, as it com
manded the , trade, route through the Florida
channel, was an ideal pirate rendezvous. "And
now," we- are told, "from the ends of the At
lantic and the Caribbean, from Campeachv, from
Honduras, from all the-islands of the Antilles
and the swamps and rivers of fhe main, a great
fleet of ships under the Jolly Roger came crowd
ing into the harbor of Nassau.'''
But there was a nemesis for the pirates,
among them Edward Teach, Bellamy, Fife,
Martel, England, Roberts, Rackam and Oliver dc
la Bouche, who caroused and diced in the in
tervals of their sea raids. Capt. Woodes Rogers
was ent out from England with two ships to
ictuvci- iew r-roviaence ior tne proprietors.
His coming to Nassau was heralded. To
strengthen his authority the government offered
amnesty. Many of the pirates scuttled, others
sought pardon. Teach and Vane and about 2.000
followers were still at Nassau when Rogers
sailed in. A great decamping ensued. But there
was plenty of work for Rogers to do m the
Bahamas. Once he resigned for lack of sup
port at home. He returned to make a clean
sweep of the pirates. By 1729 all their leaders
were dead: some in fif?ht; others hanged on
West Indian beaches; others at Execution Dock,.
London, as an example, Kidd, more notorious
than able, among them. After the War of 1812
piracy lifted its head again in the West Indies,
but the American navy made short work of it.
KEEPING PEP IN PANAMA.
rr. R. E. Colby spent several years
with hts regiment in the Canal Zone.
When his regiment Win returned to
tho states, lie said, "I came away as
lit as the day I went down and with
Just as much pep, energy and am
bition." What is more, lie accumulated a
choice collection of opinions aa to
how to live In the senU-troplcs. Many
of these opinions Are at variance
with the prevailing notions. In weigh
ing tha valuo of Vr. Colby's views
w o must bear in mind that he came
uway full of pep and that he had an
opportunity to judge the effects of
climate on the men in his regiment.
tie does not think the climate of
Panama takes tho "pep from sol
diers" or thins their blood. He readi
ly admits that some soldiers and
moro civilians do become demoral
ized, but ho attributes this to be
liefs, habits and customs and not to
climate.
The children in the Canal Zone
play lit tue sun just aa actively as
any children elsewhere. Why do
they not become nallow and "pep
less," aud Dr. Colby asaures us they
do not.
The soldiers w ho are forced to drill
regularly, who take long hikes, and
who carry out their full military du
ty have shown ability to march 30
miles In heavy marching order In a
forenoon, to follow with games of
baso ball and tennis. Those sol
diers who get assigned to white col
lar Jobs become as helpless as civilians.
Tho civilian women stay in the
house until late in the afternoon, and
then walk out for a little exercise.
They lose their complexions because
they do not get out in the sunlight
enough to preserve them.
The civilian mon are slaves to the
fallacious theory that they must stay
quietly in tho house during the mid
dle of the day. They do not get
enough exercise to keep them
healthy.
The afternoon nap comes in for a
lot of blame. Dr. Colby noticed that
the men who regularly took "bunk
fatigue" in the arternoon were the
night owls. The afternoon nap up
sets the regularity and vholesome
ness of the night sleep.
The 'people generally dring too
much. Of course, they1 have no busi
ness drinking w hisky. Most of them
understand that. Many understand
that they have no business drinking
fermented beverages. But few ap
preciate the harm from drinking
ginger ale, pop, and other carbo
nated waters. To drink water in
excess causes excessive perspiration,
and this in turn results in excessive
thirst.
Undtr the stimulus of this great
thirst ginger ale, pop, and other fab
ricated waters may be taken. In
quantities capable of disturbing the
digestion and upsetting the stomach.
. He says the proper rules for the
maintenance of physical fitness in the
Canal Zone and in all other semi
tropical districts do not vary radical
ly from those for other1 colder places.
They are: To cat - In moderation,
sleep in proper amounts and at prop
er hours, avoid beverages of all1
kinds, drink water in moderation,
and, above all, get plenty of outdoor
exercise. . "
The greatest- drawback to the
maintenance o physical vigor is the
mental hazard. If everyone would"
quit talking climate and exercise-and
expose themselves to the sunlight as"
they do elsewhere they, would bo bet-
ter off. , .
"Athletic liolo in tho Ground.
Omaha, March i0.- To the Editor
of the. Sec: I notice that City Com
missioner Towl makes a statement
In all of the city papers in regard to
tlis hole in the ground that he calls
an athlotic park. I see that Us men
tlons a number of people who favor
the proposed park, out I will bet Mr.
Towl a horse that I caa find 20 or
26 people who are opposed to the
park, where he can find one who
favors It.
A leading business man w ho pays
as much taxes as almost any three of
the people Commissioner Towl
named, said to me this week that It
will cost the taxpayers much over
$1,000,000 to fix up that proposed
athletic park as proposed by Towl
nnd that ho Is in favor of giving it
back or selling it back to the owners.
There is an abundance of ground in
our natural parks for all athletic
sports necessary and they are much
more appropriate than any manu
factured park". Commissioner Towl
is apt to figure out bow the people
of the Bouth Side stand on his pro
posed athletic park about next Tues
day evening after the votes for city
commissioner are counted out of tho
ballot boxes. SOUTH SIPER.
"For Ways That Are-Dark."
Connecticut as the land of steady habits, keeps
up her fame. She will tolerate nothing but
standard time; no daylight saving for her. Trade
in wooden nutmegs, like the beauty of over
maturity, demands half-light in no uncertain
tones. Brooklyn Eagle.
The
Apollo
And its interpretation
features will amaze you.
Every "music lover" will
be interested in hearing
the reproducing perform
ance of this wonderful
instrument.
Furthermore it will be a
pleasure for us to demon
strate this "master produc
tion" at any time.
1513 Douglas Street
The Art and Music Stora
Some Truth in This.
Mr. Harding says he hasn't time to bother
with patronage. He had better find the time.
Otherwise the drift toward the democratic party
will begin sooner than was .expected. Charleston
News and Courier.
The Mud of Ages.
A returned war observer tells of a column of
troops that was halted by mud on the slopes of
Mount Ararat. We supposed the mud had dried
out there centuries ago. Arthur II. Folwell in
Leslie's.
But Victim Gets Same Finish.
The "didn't know it was loaded" maniac seems
to have given way to the fellow who hadn't any
idea his car could go better than forty miles
an hour. Xew York Telegraph.
Save a Lot of Us From It.
Auother sure cure for sea sickness has been
discovered. Current steamship rates are an ex
cellent preventative. Pittsburgh Dispatch.
A number of the resort hotels in Southern
California have cut their rates in half, but even j
at that the altitude is such as to make the av:r
age purse look flat as the boundless prairie.
When Is So Definite. . I
Possibly the enforcement of the Volstead act
will become easier when the government finally
f uds out just what the.act really means. Detroit
Free I'icss. , .. .
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VOTE FOR
GEORGE B.
DYBALL
CANDIDATE FOR
City Commissioner
Good Word for Mr. Martin.
Omaha, March 30. To the Editor
of The Bee: I want to do the best
T can to give Omaha a commission
that will carry on constructive poli
cies begun and will feel that in sup
porting the candidacy of Mr. Fred
B. Martin, manager of Wells-Abbott-Neiman
Co., I am working to that
end.
This position Is take after having
observed his position on many mat
ters of serious import.
A. L. IRELAND.
4101 Xorta Twenty-third Street.
Organized Labor and Politics.
Omaha, March 31. To the Editor
of The Bee: Having been aligned
with the conservative and progres
sive element of organized labor in
Omaha for more than 25 years, and
feeling that organized labor as a
class stands for tho best in human
endeavor, I am asking space from
you to give briefly as possible my
views of the unwise and unreason
able attack of the radical business
element on organized labor under
the guise of the "American plan" for
establishing the "open shop." ,
First, let me say that 'there can
never be such an Institution as the
"open shop," principally for the rea
son that no one Is going to pay dues
into a union for the privilege of
working with a non-unionist. There
are but two good reasons for a union i
man to work in an "open shop" and
one is that he hopes eventually to
bring about a unionization of the
shop, or, second, because he feels
that he will want to seek employ
ment where the union memhershin
will bo necessary.
All that stands between the radical
elements of organized capital and
what is called bolshevism and I. W.
W.-ism today is tha labor union as
represented by the American Federa
tion of- Labor. Success In breaking
down that barrier would mean a
conflict sooner or later between the
radicals of both capital and labor
that this country could much bettor
do without.
And why should there be any de
mand to disrupt labor unions? When
you find a "skllltiil" workman outside
of a union, ask him why, and if he
answers you truthfully he will give
you one of three reasons either he
has at some time betrayed his fel
low w'orkmen, is lncomptent and
feels he cannot compete with union
workmen, or the union of his craft
is not run according to his Ideas; he
believes in "ons big union" In other
words, he believes the only way to
make headway is to become bolshe
vistic, and that is what the radicals
in the business world claim they are
trying to suppress in their fight on
organized lsbor.
The workman wlo is not a mem.
her of a union gives as his reason
that "the union gets nowhere." It
Is no exaggeration to assume that
the labor union as at present consti
tuted is "too tame" for tho non
unionist, and yot the open shop ad
vocates would rather entrust their
places of business to that sort of per
sons than to our present day labor
unions.
Personally I shall rejoice when or
ganized labor shall have accomp
lished Its mission, but to my mind
the lqbor union is needed more today
than at any time in its history if the
radicals ari to be saved from themselves.
I don't mean to infer that labor
unions are always right I only wish
they were nevertheless they will
average up with other classes.
The main need at this critical
period Is a determined effort to sup
press the agitators of both capital
and labor and a getting together of
those who are interested In the wel
fare of our country as a whole.
I. J. C.
matter how popular and competent
a eandldate Is if he does not get on
one of the newspapers' slates he win
not be in it at the primaries. One
only has to look back as far aa three
years ago to prove this assertion.
If 1 remember right, even' man on
the newspaper elates wers nominat
ed, the election was a battle royal
between the newspaper slates backed
up by a number of groups of men.
Under the nonpartisan plan, nothing
Is said even by the newspapers about
a candidate's fitness for the mce.
Under the old partisan plan if a
candidate was not competent and fit
to fill the high office of councilman,
the opposing partyaw to "that his
record was mado plain to the vo
and he could vote with some degree
of Intelligence. 1
With this nonpartisan law a fail
ure by reason of tho present plan
of slata making, why would it not
be better to go back to the old parti
san plan? One thing sure we- got
a far better standard of men to vote
for than under our present law. I
am heartily in favor of going back to
1, ..nrlan Intf In all alt?Ctl0llS
and would favor a straight-out parti
san ticket in this election, a jruw
slato is Just as exeusable as this
"group" slate making and "newspa
per slate making. VOTEH-
Nonpartisan Plan Fails.
Omaha, March SO.' To the Editor
of The Eee: This nonpartisan poll-
tics In city affairs is a delusion and
a snare. It sounds good but in prac
tice it is a failure. The standard of
candidates under the old partisan
plan were 100 per cent better men
than we get under the pew. The
privilege of drafting the tight man
for the right place if necessary. Is
dono away with under the present
law.
The purpose of tho nonpartisan
law was that every man should stand
on his own fitness for the office of
councilman, but .as practiced today
and has been practiced ever since the
law went into effect, "Slate Making"
and "groups" of voters arraying
themselves in favor of selected can
didates cannot be stopped, this fact
destroys the nonpartisan aspect of
the law. Groups of voters are not
the only ones in the slate-making
business, the newspapers get out
their slates a day- or two before the
primaries and election, whose slates
have been successful in the past and
will continue to be in the future. I
am frankly of the opinion that no j
The Odd Fellows? Home.
Omaha, March SO. To tho Edito
or The Hoc: Your issue of this date
carries news Item under reading,
"Odd Fellows' Home Sends Cattle to
Omaha Market."
It is indeed gratifying to read that
Odd Fellowship Is progressing, and
has such signal success" along practi
cal lilies. However it is not a chari
tnlil Institution, for in 42 states
Btates an Odd Fellows home, each
of them built and maintained by a
tax upon tho membership. Kach
member has an equal share In the
home that he contributes to, and
any may avail themselves of Its privi
leges if circumstances in their de
clining years make it advisable to do
so. It is really their home that they
have helped to pay f5r.
The home and what it means to
humanity is but one part of the great
work surrounding the goal fixed
when the standard of the I. O. O. I.
war first raised in America 103 years
ago. W. O. TOH RET.
O. R. S.
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