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THE BEE: OMAHA. MONDAY, MAY 2, 1921. The Omaha Bee i DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY THB BEE PfBI.ISHINO COMPANY NELSON B. UPDIKE. Publisher. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS To. asstwisud Prtn. of which Th. B it a mssjbsr, fa m rlusinl enUtl4 I the um fof putolteaUoa of all b.ws dispatches erertlted tn II of art ethentls crsdlted la Ibis papsr. and also the laeal sews rublltktd Herein. AU rilhts of publication ol out sveeiel 4.sptcaes are alee niwrt. BEE TELEPHONES Prima Branch Eictanis. for lb IMiunnsnl of Psrsoo Wasted. Far Nlahl Call AfUr 10 . Kdilontl Department Circulation T.r-artma:'t ........ dranliiaf Pspartaicnt OFFICES OF THE BEE Main Office Kth aad Faraem Ltuneil Bluffi 19 Boott it. I Soul Hde, 4055 Bouts tttb ft. Out-ef-Towa Offices! ' Xe Turk :M riftb A" I Wathuirten 1SU 0 it. CJklcato Slater Bldg. I Pens, fTin.ce. 4 CD Rut St. Honor Tyler 1000 TIr KMT. . Trier lOnnti Tilar 1DOOI 1 fl The Bee's Platform 1. New Union Passenger Station. 2. Continued improvement of the Ne braska Highways, including tka pare ment of Main Tkorouf hfarea leading iate Omaha with a Brick Surface. 9. A abort, low-rate Waterway from the Cora Belt to the Atlantic Ocean. 4. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. Reduce Unreasonable Freight Rates. When the Interstate Commerce Commission gave permission for a general increase in freight and passenger rates to be charged by the rail roads, the thought was that the increase in reve nue would relieve the transportation' situation. Results have proved directly the opposite. In itead of the expected benefits the companies have found their affairs even worse than when the government's aid was removed and the lines put Lack on the responsibility of their management. Traffic has fallen away to almost nothing, the operating deficit has mounted steadily, and a ral crisis has grown out of the effort to remedy the evil This is almost wholly due to the fact that freight rates'are too high. Producers can not pay the charges. Especially is this true of the agricul tural and troitding industry. Farm products are felling, when sale is made, at figures far below production cost, and fhe building industry is at a stahilstill .generally throughout the country be cause of the high cost of material, due to freight rates.' Until this embargo is removed, and the blocadc that now checks the current of entcr prire is lifted, we will see no notable revival of business. That. the high tariffs have not helped the transportation industry is made plain by the fact that the ra:lroads are not employed. Freight is not moving, because farmers and factory owners can not afford to ship under existing rates. De mand for materials, raw and prepared, is urgent. Everywhere liousina; conditions are short; all Over the country there is a request for lumber, steel, qement, and everything that goes into building, but the movement is checked by the ' freight rates. Farmers have pocketed losses run ning into billions, because of the shrinkage in farm prices, but the consumer has gained little, for the cost of getting food to the table is ex tortionately high. Freight on a carload of lum ber from the coast to a Nebraska point is more than the original cost of the lumber; the same . is true-with regard to farm products, and nearly all other commodities. Such a condition can not be long sustatined, for the' railroads are involving the whole business , situation in ruin. Regardless of any question of wage adjustment, which really is not the prime po'nt.' concessions are needed for business, and should be granted without delay. Resumption of industry will follow, and the railroads will gain much, because they will have revenue at lower rte3, whereas row at the high point they have none. If private ownership and corporate manage ment of the transportation industry is to justify itself, it will do so by loosening up the grip it now has on the business life of the United States. If the mafrnrtes are in a mood to force govern ment ownership, they are piling up strong argu nunt3 in favor of such a policy. . Pay for the Preacher. An old story has to do with the installation of a minister in Scotland. The presbyter prayed that the Lord would keep him poor and humble in. spirit. "Ay," muttered an old woman, "let the Lord keep him humbtc and we'll keep him poor." This is brought to mind by the appeal from the Fresbyterian seminary for more young men to enter the ministry. In the Literary Digest figures are quoted to show that only 1,671, or less than 1 per cent of the 170,000 active pastors in. the t'nited States had salaries of $3,000 or over. The average salary paid to ministers, including the house he Jives in, was a few years ago about S700; last year it was said by the Interchurch Movement to be $937. In October, 1919, the De partment of Labor set $2,262 as the minimum re quirement for a family of five. These figures may. indicate a reason why fewer young men are entering tht ministry. Salvation still is free, and hundreds of devoted men apply themselves earn estly to carrying the message to those who sit in darkness; but this does not provide for the crea ture wants of the minister and his dependents. The church can not expect to compete with com merce as a field for the activity of those who look to laying up treasures here below, but it does owe something to those who strive to extend its in fluence. Let the preacher be assured of reason able compensation here, and perhaps the short age now complained of will in time disappear. less direct but wholly appreciable way on the school life. The more intimate the acquaintance of the schools, the better chance for the growth of that finer democracy they are supposed to represent. What the Track Meets Mean. 7 A gathering at Philadelphia of what is dc , scribed as "the cream of the college athletes" of the east and west is significant of something more than just a competition between some well-trained young men. Even that is worth while, for the race is better off physically and consequently morally because its men are taught such things as make for bodily growth and muscular develop ment. A broader aspect of the meeting may be noted in the coming together of youth from va rious sections of the country, each a representative of his school or college, and capable of observa tion and comparison. Rivalry will be keen and competition clean and helpful, and each of these young ambassadors will take home with him Jomething that will be of benefit We are not so tntxch interested in the outcome of the contests as represented by the winners, but believe that the assemblage is one of the most important of I the annual events, for the effect it must have on aKBoot athletics throughout the land, and in a Era of Guess Work Passes. Good cooks may still prepare excellent dishes by taste and not by measurement of each in gredient, and tome musicians who play by ear and not by note may yet be able to please, but the method of hit and miss in other regards has been largely superseded. Stung by. the criticism that, Avhile science and invention have increased the mechanical advance of life and industry, the same expert attention has been lacking for social and economic problems, modern industry is more and more being driven to study itself. Just now the farmers are making a concerted effort to put their business on a less primitive and more dependable basis. The first thing they discovered was that little accurate information existed on which to base any valid conclusions. One of their first moves has been to engage economists to collect facts by which their organ izations will be guided. The members of the railroad brotherhoods found themselves facing the same predicament, and how they met it has lately been seen in the numerous and voluminous reports of W. Jett Lauck, a trained investigator and economist. The miners' union also has engaged experts to over haul matters affecting them, and most of the great industrial enterprises also maintain a staff of men who do nothing else than study human and economic factors. One of the most widely read publications to day is the monthly survey of business and indus try written by George E. Roberts, vice president of the National City Bank of New York. Tough minded college professors and hard-headed busi ness men alike place confidence in his evenly balanced regard of the facts. Thousands of busi ness men subscribe to the advisory service of statistical experts who provide them with con cise statements and precise charts on matters of policy and the future outlook as based on the present facts. In other days public utilities de pended on lobbies and a genial open-handedness to settle questions of rates and franchises. Today the city, or whatever part of the government is concerned, calls in its experts, the utility company sends its own experts and the question resolves iself into one of facts. This reasoning process, this increasing disin clination to settle human affairs with a lick and a promise, gives hope and assurance of a new era of industrial peace and progress. When the music of prosperity returns to America, it will not be played by ear, but with all the certainty and clearness with which a proficient musician ren ders his harmony when the printed sheet lies open before him. Omaha's Balance Sheet. When the managing directors of a great cor poration get together to settle any question of policy, the thing they most frequently consult is the balance sheet of the concern. When mak ing returns to their stockholders, they exhibit the state of the corporation's affairs in the balance sheet So it should be with a city. Omaha is something more than a big business concern, but it does have financial transactions of such magni tude as to warrant giving them careful attention. Million's of dollars pass through the city treas urer's hands every year, and it is of great inter est to all that these be carefully watched and ac curately recorded. . When W. G. Ure was made city and county treasurer a few years ago, about the first thing he did was to institute a reform in the handling of the sinking funds, and through a simple process he saved many thousands of dollars in interest to the taxpayers. When he took over the department of the city government of which he is now the head, he brought into it the same sort of efficient management and oversight that marked his course as treasurer. One result of this is that while under the. preceding adminis tration only $40,000 of bonds had been redeemed, the showing for the present administration is more than $600,000 in bonds retired, and not a dollar of renewal bonds issued. There is the best possible reason for the re election of W. G. Ure. His wisdom and experi ence is worth many thousands of dollars a year to the taxpayers.. Those who are serving with him have acquired such knowledge of city man agement that they, too, are worth something to the citizens. They have done big things, and may be trusted to look well after the big things yet to be dons. Ure, Ringer, Zimman, Towl, Falconer and Butler should be re-elected. May Day and Its Meaning. It doesn't much matter just how the European "reds" came to fix on May 1 as a peculiarly ap propriate date for demonstrations. The day is also by tradition given over to moving, and on it renters are wont to flit from tenement to ten ement, bettering themselves only in that they have fled ills they had to others they know not of. Once upon a time, the 1st of May was more or less consecrated to the tapping of "bock" beer. The lighter variety that had been quaffed all winter long was relegated for the time, and the heavier, darker, more potent beverage came foam ing from the faucet as the keg was broached, to quench the thirst that ever sprang anew. . This custom is obsolete in America now; "home brew" can by no stretch of imagination be considered as "bock" However, the migrttory householder is yet with us, although this year he is reduced in both number and range because he has no where, to go. Until the housing shortage is re lieved, the moving van will not be so extensively employed. Alsd the "red." In Europe every day is May day for him now, and his existence is one perpetual demonstration. He has established about everything he ever set out to accomplish, except to divulge the secret of how to live with out working." Some of them hare mastered this art. but none of them are likely to be envied or imitated extensively. In this country the police graciously permitted the marching proletariat to carry banners, sing songs and shout down with everything, including work, but banned the red flag. With that missing, and no beer flowing, the joy of demonstrating is gone. Only the faithful can appreciate it, and even these are no longer so numerous, especially since Emma Goldman. Alex Berkman and "Big Bill" Haywood "have gone to Europe. If May day ever had a mean ing in this land, it is rapidly fading away, and becoming just another mark on the calendar to remind u; that bills are due once more. Fifteenth and Douglas will soon be back to normalcy. ' Smash the slates 1 Mix 'em ifp) Foreign Element Population , Soms Facts Disclosed by Census Carefully Compared and Analyzed (From the Boston Transcript) That the increase of our foreign-born popula tion in the decade 1914-'20 has been only 2.6 per cent, as against an increase of 14.9 per cent for the entire population of the country, and that there has been an actual decrease of the principal foreign-born national elements in that period, may seem at first glance to be a matter of en couragement to those who fear the development of foreignism or influences strange or hostile to American national development in our population. But the real question in this regard is not the particular percentage of increase or decrease in the foreign-born as a whole, but the question whether the point of saturation has been reached or passed, and also the question1 whether the less desirable, useful and assimilable elements arc gaining on the more desirable. The simple fact is that 50 years ago a million immigrants were more readily assimilated than-a hundred thousand are now. Opportunity quickly opened for them as they arrived, and as yet few of those vast reservoirs of the unassimilated, such as now act as a deterrent to the absorption of newcomers, had been created. We are now at the very point of saturation in this regard. The days are gone when a Schurz, or a Muir, or a Carnegie, or a Riis, arriving here from abroad, stepped almost at once into the center of our most characteristic life, and became an actual exponent of the Ameri can idea. We have become surcharged with for eign elements, so that in certain spots our life is affected by them more than it affects them. Nevertheless, there are, in the analysis of the returns of foreign-born made by the Census Bu reau, considerable grains of reassurance. Our national strength, relatively to the foreign in flux, lies in the extraordinary diversity of that influx. The influence of any element of the foreign-born, as set over against the influence of the old population, is offset by that of some other element. For example, our largest foreign-born element is still the German, which is represented by 1,688,298 persons born in Germany. But the population of the whole country is 105,000.000, so that this element alone cannot be regarded as presenting an insoluble problem of assimilation. The result of the war showed that the 2,500,000 of German-born who were in the country in 1910 were readily taken care of. And when the account is fully made up, there can be no doubt that the German immigrants have been one of the most valuable elements ever added to our population. That there should have been a decrease of 600,014 in .the number of the German-born in the country, in the decade, is on the'whole not surprising. We have no "German menace" in our population. Our second most important foreign element, numerically, is the Italian. We have 1,607,458 natives of Italy. This valuable element is not yet sufficiently permanent, though it tends to become so. The Italian blood can hardly yet be said to have entered into the veins of our nation. But the interest of the Italian people in our in stitutions is intense and friendly, and we can rot too much encourage the tendency of these industrious and eager people to abide with us, on American terms. The third element in numbers is now the Russian-born, with 1.398,999 people. The Russion-born are mainly Jewish, and to them must be added many thousands from Austria, Hungary, Roumania and other countries, so that undoubtedly the Jewish race now supplies one of the largest, if not the very largest, of national unassimilated or partially assimilated elements in our countr. Politically speaking, the Jewish race has possessed, with us, the property of hav ing no national tie abroad, but with the setting up of the "Jewish national home" in Palestine that condition may pass. The assimilation of the Jewish element is a problem which Americans of Jewish faith and race are manfully helping us to solve. The Irish-born are still 1,035,680. and there has lately been among them an intensive re vival of national feeling a revival that spells "problem" for us. But at the same time that we contemplate this problem, we find. as a make weight to it the fact that we have in the rnnnrrv $12,414 born in England, 809,455 English-speaking Canadians, ts,wt scotch and 67,071 Welsh, con stituting a formidable total of 1,943,422 all told. This British element, in reality, though its speech, its culture and its traditions parallel our own so closely, might, if its old reluctance to naturalize were maintained, constitute a problem on its-owo account; but it is worthy of note that the duty of naturalization is now quite recognized by the British-born. Taking one race thus with another, we find that the problem of Americanization is a general and not especially a racial one. It js. as we have sug gested, a serious one still, in spite of the degree of protection that we may find in racial diversity. We have had enough of indiscriminate and unre strained admission. That the time has come for regulation in earnest is admitted by th,e whole nation in the favor shown to the immigration regulation bill now before congress. And even more radical means, it is apparent, must be sought to hold our immigration down to the elements that may be assimilated. We want no millions nor thousands of immigrants who cannot become citizens. We are for America, and not for Asia. Why Men Fail. Men fail for various reasons, little and big. Most men fail because they are lazy. To be lazy means to be late, to be slovenly, to be a poor economist of time, to shirk respon sibility. It means to say of anything that is clamoring to be done: "No, I'm not going to do that, be cause it isn't my work." Laziness is at the back of most of the lesser reasons for failure. The minor causes arc derivatives from that one great major cause. It is so easy to dream in the sun and let the world go by; to dawdle and procrastinate, till one wakes up too late. Late and lazy are, in fact, first cousins. If you are late, you waste other people's time as well as your own. Lazy people have all the time there is, and yet they haven't time to be polite. They disdain the forms of ceremony that sweeten life. They are grouchy, surly, gruff. It pains them to be pleasant, to say thanks and to smile. Therefore they remain underlings. There is plenty of room at the bottom for the boy who has never learned to be polite. To be deferential is not to be servile. It is merely to be decently respectful. The biggest men are the most unassuming and the most unpresuming. It is the insignificant people who fluff them selves up with a false and foolish pride and arc forever orating from the flimsy and slippery plat form of their own touchy dignity. Failure is generally elective. It rests with the man himself to decide whether he cares enough for success to pay the price. Philadel phia Public Ledger. Relativeness of Luxury. Reproof of Americans for love of luxury brings up the question, "What is a luxury?" In the early days of railroading, travel facilities now offered .by the humble smoking car would have been regarded as decidedly luxurious. Washington Star. Robust Generalities. We sometimes think that success in public life in this country, depends chiefly upon the can didate's ability to come out in a general way for God, for country and for home, and make it sound perfectly fearless. Ohio State Journal. How to Keep Well By DR. W. A. EVANS Queetlene cencerntng hygiene, aanlta ttian and prevention of dieses, sub mitted to Dr. Evana by readera of Tha Baa, will ba answered personally, aubject to proper limitation, where a a tamped, addressed envelope i en - cloaed. Dr. Evans will net make dtacaoele or prescribe for individual diaeaeea. Address letters In care of Tha Bee. Copyright, 1121, by Dr. W. A. Evans. Free From One Danger. One advantage the Russian ruble has over the other money is that it will not be counter feited, since the counterfeit would cost more than the original is worth. Chicago Daily News. Where It Becomes Sounding Brass. Silver-tongued oratory often holds up work of ldcislation. Boston Transcript.' the TO PREVENT NEARSIGHTED NESS. More people are wearing glasses than ever before. Perhaps this means that the human eye is degenerating. There are some who say a large part or the people- have needed glasses in every age, the difference being that the twentteth century man gets what he needs. There Is truth in the statement. Present day standards are tar higher than standards ever were before. Men now wear glasses when men of a generation ago wore headaches. To substitute glasses for headaches U not a degeneration. There are others who say near eye work and poor illumination are gradually making the human eye in to a nearsighted organ. In a lec ture on the prevention of nearsigh odness,' Eldredge-Green says that reading and other close-up straining eye work do not cause nearsighted ness. Having covered the question from the negative side, he proceeds to tell what does cause it and why and what can be done about it. That is what we are interested in. First on the list he puts measles, then come whooping cough, cough ing spells, heavy lifting, especially in tho stooping position, boxing and a few others. The nearsighted eye is one In which the ball is too deep. The outer 'coat of the eyeball is a very dense inelastic white membrane. The weakest part of this dense inelastic sao is the back where the nerves. arteries, veins and lymph vessels pierce it in order to reach the in terior of the eye. If the pressure in the Interior of the eye becomes too great this heavy sac, , called the Rclera, stretches at the back, mak ing the eyeball deeper than normal. A very slight stretching can convert, an eye with normal vision into a nearsighted eye. Measles docs it by injuring the tis sues cf the eye itself. Everybody knows that measles picks on the eye. Whooping cough does, not because the whooping cough germ picks on the eyes but because the hard cough ing spells almost make the eyes pop out of the head. Any coughing or vomiting spell or any other strain ing which wakes the eyes almost pop out. of the head is liable tf in duce nearsightedness. Then the first lsson is, if measles cannot be avoided, avoid all forms of eye strain and eye irritation dur ing the attack. - The second is to avoid all coughing spells, vomiting spells, or any other strain which makes thfe eyes feel like or appear like popping out of the head. Lifting heavy weights is a form of straining which accomplishes the same purpose. Darwin, recognizing that lifting heavy weights increased the amount of fluid in the eyes and made them feet like popping out, wondered why men did not. intuitive ly close their eyes when at the height of such strain. Other observers say thev do and that Darwin was right in his surmise. The eyeball seems to give under this strain more fre quently when the subject is looking downward. Eldredge-Green advises against doing things under a strain, particularly when the Right Is directed toward the ground. For instance, be says riding a bicycle up a hill with, the body bent over th handle bar and the eyes fixed on the ground Js provocative of nearsightedness. . . Hard exercises should be taken with the head thrown back' and the eves pointed upward. The pictures of Paddock, the runner, taken In the middle of a sprint, do not indi cate that he was endangering his eyeballs. In using tne eyes ior une ur, n. i better to have the work held high than to necessitate looking down ward. The shape of the socket is another factor in nearsightedness. People with shallow sockets are lia ble to be farsighted. Those with deep sockets are apt to have long eyes and therefore to need glasses for myopia. But if the shape and slse of the socket is a matter of in heritance, certainly it cannot be changed by anything we can do or refrain from doing.. It Won't Harm You. A. B. writes: "Can a person take too much essence of pepsin in order to gain an appetite? Am 70 years old." REPLY. i Taking, essence of pepsin win scarcely harm you. On the other hand, it will not help you. Some people can get up an appetite by taking bitter tonics. Exercise is the best of all appetizers. It's Your Pet Poison. 15. G. writes: "I am troubled with the hives very often. I have the kind that come out like mov equlto bites. What ean I do?" REPLY. There Is some substance which poisons you. Do you keep company with cats, dogs or horses? Perhaps it is some food which poisons you. A skin test will show you what causes your trouble. Social Training Tfecdcd. ; Regular Reader writes: "Is stam mering curable? How is it caused? "Will these so-called stammering sehonU do any good?" REPLY.- Your children can be cured of stammering very easily. The mothers can do the job. The habit in school children is more firmly established and harder to cure. In adults it Is far more difficult. Yet many adults are cured. All the schools cure some cases. The more they recog nise the neod of training the stam merer in poise and mental and social calm the more successful they are. Bono Tuberculosis Treatment. Mrs. C. writes: "Please give me diet and treament for bone tuber culosis In the ankle." P.EPLY. The point should be iun mobilized. It may be advisable to drain the pus and .chisel nway the dead bone. At the proper time massage, passive motion and exercise are called for. AU bone tuberculosis lesions are benefited by ieliotherapy. Exposo the ankle to the sunlight gradually until it Is burned a deep brown but is not blistered. After it has been burned brown it can be exposed longer daily with advantage. Tuber culin Injections are used with advan tage in bone tuberculosis. A life of rest In the open air is advisable. There is no special diet. Slight Chunge Diet. H. H. writes: "I have been trou bled with a glaring red nose for tho last year. I a,m 21. My mode of living does not justify such an afflic tion. It is so bad that it prevents my mingling socially and causes me much misery and embarrassment Vhe redness is much more In evi dence at night. What do you advise?" REPLY. Drinking alcohol is only one of several causes of red nose, Sortie form of Indigestion is the cause in many cases. Try changing your diet radically. Are you at all constipated? ox Fair Tlaj" is Mystified. Omaha, April 2Sth. To the Editor of Tho Bee: Last night's Evening News contained an inquiry from an "Old Subscriber" asking for the Party Affiliations of all the can didates running for commissioners. Whan I read it 1 wondered "Why this inquiry." Did it come from one who desired to vote forvnone but his own party affiliation candidates? May be it was done for the purpose of carrying out the wishes of "His Lordship" on Fifteenth and Farnam street. For days it has been rumor ed, and especially among the demo cratic ladles, that they should vote for none but the four democrats on ' the tickets. Hopkins, But ler. Murphy and Dahlmau, that mearis that Koutsky, Hummel. Dunn and Zimman are to bo sacrificed or double-crossed for the three demo crats on the ticket of the United Seven, also that Falconer, Grlmmcl, Ringer, Towl, Sutton nnd Vre-are to be (louble-crossed for Murphy. But what could you expect? If it is right for the democrats to disregard tho nonpartisan law and vote for none but democrats, why isn't it just as right for the republi cans to vote for none but republi cans? Whnt is to hinder the repub licans from voting for Falconer. Grimmcl. Ringer. Towl. Sutton and Ure on the progressive slate and one other? "What is fair for the goose is, or ought to be, fair for the gander. I have not been a resident of this fair city very long, long enough, however, to vote next Tuesday, and maybe I am a crank, but I believe in fighting fire with fire. If the demo crats are to vote for none but demo crats, then I am certainly in favor of every republican in tho city to pick out. and vote for none but re publicans, and especially the repub licans on the progressive seven slate and one other. It occurs to me that nonpgrtisan ism as practiced in Omaha is a "De lusion and a snare." The spirit of the law has been and is being abused by the very ones who should stand up for its enforcement. If any party has a kick coming on this nonparti san law it is the republican. This city Is strongly republican. For 15 years we have had a repub lican council and a democratic mayor. This is' brought about by the democrats' getting a few strong republicans on their .ticket, to pull them through, but not until the re publicans had pledged their votes if elected to vote for Dahlman for mayor. Shame on such republicans. Anyone, democrat or republican, who would sign away his birthright, man hood to a minority partisan for the purpose of being elected to officp ought to stay out of and never bo permitted to enter the city hall. All the years that Dahlman was mayor, did you ever hear of one measure that he fathered or even proposed to the betterment of the city? Did you ever know of one lit tle effort lie made to enforce any of the criminal laws of the city, ex cept, maybe as it suited his hench men in riding roughshod over the laws, to do so? Yours very truly, "FAIR PLAY." Cut Out Improvements. Omaha, April 29, 1921. To the Editor of the Bee: The question of taxation is being discussed more and more in every department of the government and a demand will be made that- public improvements be made less costly to the tax payers and that the most rigid economy shall bo practiced in all public works. A multitude of taxes have been created to meet emergencies of the hour without the slightest re gard to laws of political or public economy and without attempt to have the taxes consistent, one with another, or to organize them into a coherent and equitable system of tax ation. The grossest inequality and favoritism characterize the assess ment and collection of taxes, par ticularly state and local taxes. In the last two decades, states, counties and municipalities have en gaged in any orgy of expenditures that not only exhausted, but ex ceeded their expenditures. AVe have an examnle of it right in Omaha where millions of bonds ore being issued every year. There should be a limit to the vast expen ditures of money and it can be done by cutting out lots of unnecessary boards and commissions', and by spending . less for what are called public improvements until times set tle down to the old basis. Instead of spending money for more parks, more boulevards, more Dlay grounds, why not use the filled in grounds for building purposes for the people of small means. Instead of wasting the grounds for more parks anl more stadiums? I am not in favor of the candidates for city commissioners who have publicly announced that they are in favor of vast public improvements in case of their election. The people of Omaha wilt vote with their eyes open and if they want a tremendous increase of bonds and taxes, they want to vote for the men who have been advocating buying up more holes and byways to make them into parks and boulevards, when we now have many parks that are hardly used" throughout the year. "We want men to run this city for the next three years who will try to cut down taxes, instead of increas ing them. If we elect the Sutton-Towl-Rin-ger ticket next Tuesday, our debts and public burdens will be increased at appalling rate. It is not especially the question of men to elect, but whether we are to be burdened still more by taxes in the next three years. FRANK A. AGNEW. Lawyers for Dahlman? Omaha. April 29. To the Editor of The Bee: It is my opinion that at least 75 per cent of the lawyers of Omaha, both republicans and democrats, will vote for Dahlman and most of his ticket next Tuesday. The sentiment among them seems to be almost overwhelming. So the votes cast for Dahlman next Tues day will not all be from the toughs and criminals, as some who have jobs and some who expect Jobs under the proposed Sutton adminltratKm, haye been telling. I find plenty of the best citizens, both men and women, who say they intend to vote for Dahlman and most of his ticket next Tuesday. The commission form of govern ment is supposed to be nonpartisan, so we all have a right to cast our votes as we please without our mo tives being impugned by zealous workers on either side of the fence. FRANK A. AGNEW. Sees Fraudulent Voting, Omaha, April 27. To the Editor of The Bee: Would .like to say a word on the coming city election in regard to the tactics being used by the old "Third ward gang" in their desperate last attempt to again gain control of the police department, as they did before the election of Dean Ringer and his fellow commissioners. They are going over the hotel regis ters in the lower wards and sending men to register in their names and then have a crowd of "thugs", here from all the surrounding cities to vote the same names on election day, and It Is very hard for the election commissioner to get inspectors that know the situation well enough to find the fraud, "an the proprietors of this class of hotels are in league with the "gang" and are instructed and instruct their help to cover the fraud up and unless the inspector would return at midnight and make the proprietors produce the man or wo man, ns the case may lie, it would be difficult to check up. But with the right kind of work and if tho "good government" forces would start prosecution on each and every ono they would knock out a very large number of fraudulent votes. But the word passed out by the "gang" is to win regardless of money or expense. Every ono of iho old keepers that ever ran any kind of a Joint or dive is back and bending their every effort to bent Ringer and they have been promised to bo ablo to run wide open as in the old days. But if the people of Omaha will just elect a man like Dean Ringer for another three years that element of the underworld will be eliminated and then ho will be able to organize his department as he would like to do. As I worked under him. and his chief of police and If there were ever a fair and square pair of men at the head of our police department it Is Dean Ringer .nd Chief Eberstein. but they, like anyone else, have made mistakes but the smallest kind of a mistake made by them was grabbed up and made to look like a terrible thing. I do not mean that the old "gang" can iise or handle all of their slate, for instance Dan Butler and John Hopkins. Dan lias always fought for what he thought was right and as every one knows they ' tried three years ago to beat Dan for being fair and would do the same now only they need Dan a world more than Pan needs them. John Hopkins is n clean-cut, bright man and would be fair, and square with every one and T do not believe would have any part in letting the old "gang" take our police department in their hands and use it as it has been used in the past, catering to dive keepers and "thugs." TAUL. 13. .SUTTON. THE SPICE OF LIFE. Th fallow who Know a whore th flab r biting tan nlwajs borrow a quartaf.- Albany 1 1 era l.l. Prohibitionists have no objection to rrlcos taking a drop. Chaparral. Now th new ronrr, reviving old de bate. Iho thoughtful aoul resigns Unfit to foto. Pittsburgh Hun. PomptlniM ws think tli world is grow Intr wurse and aomrtlm think it i n.CTcly bfttcr liiturmrd. Dallas News, "Siniplo Simon went a-fithlng in hi j mother's pull." lie iuukik nullum,. Mr Aniilor; "but lie saved nr'lir, and Kiildo lure. I've dou worae myself." Louisville Courier-Journal. "Whero run I rut tills suitcase V "I'm aorry, old man. but I ho ice-box IS full." Iowa. Krlvol. T;le Acnes alwpj'S finds something to harp on. lies.- Yes: t only hop she'll he, aa firtnnule In the ne.t world. Alumnus. I'yni.Tl Cyrus ssya: 'A girl that. Beta hnir bobbed oufht to he swllrhed. and sh vill be m noon as It goes oul of fashion.' Sun I'odger. "Is she m,v prelty? ' "Pretty? Say! when she sets on s street ear th ndvertininR Is a total loss." Boston Transcript, "Go to th aunt, thou sluKiinrd!" lie went she would give him no mors; So ho had to ko to his unelp Where oft he had been before. Boston Transcript. "A hes ut if id l'ly lawyer to defend beautiful client. What chance hao w ta win this case?" "Can't we net a few homely ladies on the jury?" BlnnlnKhitm Age-Herald. A t.over I wish you'd find out how I stand with vour fsther. Ilia I.bfs Whyt A Lover He gave m a. tip on the stock exehanito tonight London Mail. cnonoacnononononc D 8 An Invitation to the Public "Hooch" and "Milk" Streets. The road downward to the lint place has always been crowded. The road upward to the land of "milk and honey" has plenty of elbow room for all of the self-denying people who have decided to go that way. Richmond Planet. 5..j...;..j...j.;..;..;;..j;..;..;..;..;..; SPRINGS J. t For All Cars and Trucks I INSTALLED ? While You Wait j Truck & Tractor i Corporation l! 1310 Jackson St. O D O D S After more than two 5 months' work and spend j ing over $15,000 in o cleaning, painting, re Q carpeting, we now have Jj the g Henshaw Hotel 2 Omaha O i , . f 1 1 -i V. clhnv.A Ttrft rt Dju outu oiiart mat nc M . feel we can welcome the t2 ' public to stop with us g with every assurance of n satisfying them. o a o a o 0 o D o a o g D S n o D o a o D Conant Hotel Company o o n ft Proprietors JJ 5 JOS. H. KEENAN, Manager p onononcnononoaono rOI.ITM'.V, ADYERTINEMICNT roi.rricAi. advertisement Vote For For City Commissioner and you cast your vote for honest efficiency at all times. His record in public office is 100. Vote Tuesday May 3d, for riiosphate Bairind 4B0a 'Sterns, I T