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TAe Bee's Platform
1. New Union Passenger Station.
2. Continued improvement of tha No
braska Highway, Including tho aT.
ment of Main Thoroughfare leading
into Omaha with a Brick Surfaca.
3. A hort, low-rat Waterway from the
Com Belt to tho Atlantic Ocean,
4. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
Need for Nonskid Dollars.
Life was made safer when the nonskid auto
mobile tire was invented. Life might be made
happier, to say the least, if someone would de
vise a nonskid dollar, a dollar which would not
slip and slide through everybody's finger like
the pellet of quicksilver which children are wont
to abstract from grandfather's thermometer.
Particularly in the public treasury would the
nonskid dollar be a welcomed resident. Year
by year, the people's dollars have shown a
steadily increasing inability to stick to the fin
gers of those chosen by the people to handle
them. Representative Charles L. Knight esti
mates that the per capita tax in the United
States for all purposes amounts to 40 per cent
of the earnings of individuals. Another statis
tician estimates that it requires $60 a year for
every man, woman and child in the nation to
maintain the federal government, with $22
added for local government, a total of $328 a
year for a family of four.
But it isn't only the aggregate amount but
the disposal of it that troubles the taxpayer.
There are taxpayers in Omaha who are worry
ing about the public school finances. There is
now a deficit of $1,800,000, accumulated in six
years time; the people have voted bonds to the
amount of $7,000,000, of which $4,500,000 have
been issued, and still the city is awaiting the
building of schools which it needed and fa
vored in 1916.
At a meeting of the city council, Mayor
Dahlman finds it necessary to warn fellow city
commissioners against carelessness in spending
city money. C6mmissioner Butler charges
openly that some officials are paying political
debts by patronizing favored merchants, instead
of calling for competitive, bids.
State and county officials have been per
turbed considerably over indications of care-
lessness at least in the mixing of concrete for
county road pavements, a matter which is de
clared by State Engineer Johnson to have im
periled the investment of many thousands- of
dollars of the people's money.
Meanwhile over in Illinois, the governor
stands indicted for misconduct as state treas
urer for alleged appropriation to his own use
of hundreds of thousands of dollars of. money
earned as interest by state funds in his care. -
These various items have no direct connec
tion. They range all the way from ordinary bad
business judgment to possible criminal miscon
duct. The connecting link is that in each case
the public money has slipped away without
satisfactory demonstration that the public got
its worth in value returned. All in all, it is
time to put on the chains, drive slowly and
avoid skidding.
Substitute for the Norris Bill.
What is accepted as the administration plan
for dealing with crop movement has been of
fered in the senate by Senator Kellogg as a
substitute for the pending Norris bill The new
measure, authorship of which is ascribed to
Secretary Hoover, differs in at least two es
sential points from the measure it Is intended
to supersede. Instead of a flat appropriation of
$100,000,000 to finance a corporation for the
handling of export war products, the Hoover
bill places the matter in control of the War
Finance corporation, which has practically un
limited funds; half a billion dollars of a revolv
ing fund is made available, with the added au
thority of increasing it to a billion. But the
government is restrained from actual purchase
of grain, as was contemplated by the Norris
bill. This seems to be a wise provision, as the
presence of the government as a purchaser of
surplus in any commodity is not desirable. As
sistance in the movement of crops, especially in
export operations, is welcome and probably
needed at the present, but compulsory pur
chase may also mean compulsory selling, and
the government might easily be forced to ap
pear as an unwelcome competitor with the
grower. The main point of interest is that the
Harding administration is moving as fast as
possible to relieve the distress in the agricul
tural industry.
Omaha's Growing School Needs. ,
An increasing problem faces the Omaha
Board of Education. While it is bending its
energies chiefly in the direction of getting a
group of buildings to house the high school ac
tivities, the demand for accommodation in
grade schools h pressing more than ever. Re
turns from the last school census show an ln
crease of more than 1,400 in one year of per
sons of school age in Omaha. Admitting that
one-third ol these are above the grade school
age, the thousand left are enough to occupy a
twenty-room building. These are scattered all
over the city, to be sure, but they serve to in
crease the pressure on the grade school seating
capacity. It is a common experience of grow
ing communities, but that does not answer the
problem. Arrangements mast be made to take
care of the steadily Increasing army of young
sters ynho trudge away to school in Omaha.
The big program, for which a five-million-dollar
bond issue was voted, includes additional
grade school facilities, and these ought to be
provided as soon as possible. Some part of the
high school program may have to be postponed
for a time, in order that arrangements for the
younger pwila may be made, yet tne demands
of the latter are imperative and paramount, and
should not be denied if our city schools are to
completely discharge their function.
Congratulations, Mrs. Buell.
Attorney General Harry Daugherty is said
to be looking about for a woman to take the
place of assistant attorney general of the
United States, made vacant by the resignation
of Mrs. Adams of San Francisco. We offer fpr
his consideration the name of Mrs. I. C. Buell
of Ashland, Neb., who has just vindicated her
self and the law by winning a notable victory.
The Bee has no desire to debate the merits of
the case as to tys origin. Ashland is divided
sharply over the righta and the wrongs of the
situation. But, "thrice armed is he who hath
his quarrel just," and Mrs. Buell at least had
the town ordinance on her side.
Those who do not agree with the provisions
of the ordinance have recourse elsewhere; as at
torney for the public, it was her duty to see
that each and every rule and regulation is lived
up to. In the classic language of the dead and
gone Mississippian, "She knowed her duty and
she done it I" No amount of threat or persua
sion could sway her from her appointed task.
Whatever her personal sympathies might have
been, and we can conceive that Mrs. Buell,
learned in the law, and with experience in life,
may not be averse to the harmless ebulition
which found expression in the discharge of
"sparklers" on the eve of July 4. She probably
has human impulses, and maybe some of the
weaknesses of ordinary mortals, but it was her
obligation to the public, a sense of duty above
all else, that impelled her to proceed in the
name of the people to enforce the laws made
by the representatives of the people.
It is that sort of devotion that has saved this
republic on many occasions, and never did the
land stand more in need of it than right now.
If all "could be assured of a rigid and exact en
forcement of the laws at all times, we would
have far better order, and we might have fewer
dam fool laws. The i Bee congratulates Mrs.
Buell on her victory, and the people of Ashland
on having such an inflexible monitor to look
after their public interests.
Easing the Money Strain.
Remoyal of the progressive rediscount rate
in this federal reserve district is to be wel
comed as a further step toward normal condi
tions. The plan of progressive increases in the
interest rates charged to member banks, by
which they could borrow a certain amount at
6 per cent, more at 7 per cent, still more at 8
per cent, and so on up to extremely stiff
charges has been in use only in the district con
taining Omaha and Kansas City. By this
means the brake was applied to credit and
pressure to retrench was put on banks that had
loaned too freely.
Decision to suspend this method August 1
would seem to indicate that the purpose, which
was deflation and liquidation, has been achieved
and that the money strain is about to be eased.
Since no other federal reserve district has
adopted the progressive rate, it has been largely
an experiment, and opinions differ as to its
value. Some claim that the existence of the
system heightened the cost of all loans and
others assert that legitimate business, which
could not afford high interest payments, were
placed at a disadvantage compared to specu
lators, who count on larger profits and are will
ing to pay high for loans. However this may
be, such restriction soon is to be removed, and
this is symptomatic of the recent improvement
in the financial condition of this great agricul
tural region, brought about largely through the
liquidation that has accompanied the unprece
dented flow of wheat to market.
Even under the new rate, the Tenth Federal
Reserve district will continue to bear heavier
interest burdens than will three eastern and one
western district. There the rate has been low
ered to Shi per cent, while it will rest at 6 per
cent here. There -may be reasons why higher
interest should be charged borrowers in the mid
dle west than in New York (possibly it is
thought that it can be better borne here) but
it is full time that the farmers, merchants and
industries of this region should be given some
explanation.
Sales Tax Not Wanted.
Indorsement of the enactment of turnover,
or sales, tax by the United States Chamber of
Commerce probably has come too late to af
fect either the action of congress or the de
cision of public opinion. Straw votes of the
kind represented by this referendum of com
mercial organizations are always interesting,
but seldom indicative of the ultimate disposal
of the matter.
In spite of the prodigious efforts to arouse
the enthusiasm of the people for the principle
of the sales tax, it has failed to appeal. Touted
as the one way of painless taxation, it was
bound to arouse public suspicion, since any one
who has stopped to think knows that the mere
act of levying on the people's pocketbooks is
bound to pinch, no matter what method, direct
or indirect, may be adopted. Taxation on use
ful production ought to be avoided as far as
possible, but to slam the entire burden on con
sumption, as would be done by some pro
ponents of the sales tax, could easily become
an obstacle to business, and furthermore, would
lay a disproportionately heavy burden on the
people who have to spend almost their
entire income to meet living expenses.
As E. R. A. Seligman, an economist
of note, expresses it, "The sales tax is virtually
an inverted, or, upside down, income tax. It
puts the burden where it can least be borne,
and it prevents the utilization of the graduated
feature which has become an indispensable ac
companiment of all income taxes."
President Harding, on the advice of his
physician, is to take up horseback riding. It
has been thirty years since he has been in the
saddle, and surely a president has the right to
pull leather if he feels himself slipping.
Morris Hillquit, who has not been allowed to
land in England, ought to be grateful for having
something else to kick about Anyway he is in
the same boat as Frank P. Walsh, who is having
difficulty in getting a passport, too.
Postponing The Bee's fishermen's contest is
going to result in an awful strain on the imagi
nation of a lot of anglers.
An aviator landed in an extinct volcanic
crater. The trickVwai to get out again, which
he did. , j
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Lake-to-Ocean Waterway
Possibilities of Power Generated by
Water from St Lawrence River Dam.
The following: article relative to the pro
posed EC Lawrence river waterway develop
ment Is the most amazing:. In many respects, of
the series -now being published by The Bee.
It deals with the hydro-electric power features
of the project.
By VICTOR B. SMITH.
The people of the middle west are Interested
in the development of the St. Lawrence river as
a Lakes-to-Ocean water highway because of the
probable reduction in the cost of getting their
products to market. The people of the eastern
states are Interested In it for an entirely different
reason. As a shipping proposition it may do
them harm; it may lessen the monopolistic grip
of north Atlantic ports upon the nation's com
merce. But these states are interested in the
project as a power development.
To know just what the St. Lawrence project
means, as a producer of electric energy, it is de
sirable to review the general industrial situation
of the north Atlantic states.
The north Atlantic states meaning that ter
ritory north of the city of Washington, east of
the Alleghenies and south of Vermont and New
Hampshire are facing a power famine. Expert
engineers declare that when business resumes its
normal growth, there will be a demand for
power which cannot be met by existing facilities.
Factories, they declare, will be unable to expand
simply because power will not be available at an
economic price.
Some of the biggest consulting engineers of
the country have given most of their time for
the last year to this problem, under the chairman
ship of W. S. Murray, the engineer who electri
fied the New York, New Haven & Hartford rail
road. They have had the support of railroads,
public utilities, coal producers and factory own
ers generally. These men made a survey of the
entire power situation in the north Atlantic
states. Their report declares the present meth
ods of developing power to be extravagantly
wasteful. Their recommendation is that inde
pendent power plants, including railroad locomo
tives, be eliminated, that all power be generated
in huge central stations- with a unit capacity of at
least 40,000-horsepower.
Some of their figures are literally amazing, as
follows: ,
As the railroads operate today, it requires
an average of seven pounds of coal per horsepower-hour.
Central stations of 40,000-horsepower mini
mum could produce energy at an average coal
use of 1.02 pounds. This would cut the eoal
cost of passenger service to one-fourth the
present amount, of freight service to one-fifth,
of switching service, to one-sixth.
The maintenance of electric locomotives
would be but one-third of steam engines.
The average private industrial or public
utility plant requires from 1.5 to 4.5 pounds of
coal per horsepower-hour. The central sta
tion plan would cut this to slightly over one
pound.
The resulting saving of coal is stupendous.
Mr. Murray estimates it at 49,000,000 tons a year
in 1930, the earliest date at which the new plants
could be in complete operation. The total an
nual production of coal in the United States is
less than 600,000,000 tons, of which less than
400,000,000 tons is used for the generation of
power. The saving estimated by Mr. Murray
amounts to 8 per cent of the entire coal produc
tion of the country, to 12 per cent of that part
devoted to the production of power.
In view of the gradual but certain exhaustion
of the nation's supply of coal, this saving becomes
tremendously important, not only to the indus
trial states of the east but to the entire country.
The 49,000,000 tons saved would furnish one-third
of all the fuel required for heating purposes in
the entire country.
The cost? Here is another amazing fact. The
investment necessary to substitute large central
stations for existing small units, including junk"
ing of present equipment and electrification of
railroads in the area considered, would be ap
proximately $1,100,000,000. The operating ex
pense would be about $350,000,000 a year. But
this is worthy of careful attention the saving in
cost of power, according to these engineers,
would enable a return of better than 14 per cent
on the entire investment.
On the basis of power consumption In 1919.
the saving of waste due to the substitution Oi
more efficient methods of producing power would
amount, it is estimated, to $240,000,000 for the
public utilities, $190,000,000 for the industries and
$80,000,000 for the railroads, each year, a total of
over $400,000,000 annually.
England, it is pointed out, uses one-horsepower
per workman to produce $1,500 worth of
product; the United States uses 3H-horsepowef
per workman to produce $3,700 worth of product.
What England has done, the United States can
do and must do.
What has this to do with the St. Lawrence
project? Just this:
The figures here given do not contemplate
the generation of electricity by water power.
They simply indicate the saving possible by more
efficient use of coal. The engineers have pre
pared plans for the utilization of water power in
the area considered, to the extent of from 15 to
20 per cent of the total. This would require the
investment of approximately $45,000,000 in addi
tion, but wouid cut the operating cost $70,000,000
a year.
Suppose, in addition, that the St, Lawrence
river be developed as a shipping highway and
also for hydro-electric power. There is a drop
of 326 feet in the St. Lawrence between Lake
Ontario and tidewater. Fully utilized by a
series of power plants, this will yield a total of
4,000,000-horsepower. One development ' alone,
just above Cornwall, Canada, will give a head
of seventy-four feet and yield 1,470,000-horse-power.
Half of all such power may properly
be allocated to the United States and half to
Canada. The cost at the switchboard is figured
at $15 per horsepower per year. Any manu
facturer can testify to the cheapness of power
at that figure.
The St. Lawrence project is within 200
miles of Utica, N. Y., and other cities of New
York and New England. It is entirely prac
ticable to transmit electric power that distance.
Power from Niagara Falls is delivered at
Windsor, Ont, today 220 miles away and is
due to go across the river into Detroit in the
near future. It can be delivered at New York
or New England factory centers at a price of
less than one-half cent per kilowatt-hour.
Four million-horsepower of hydo-electric
power means a saving of from 25,000,000 to 50,
000,000 tons of coal a year. That saving amounts
to from $100,000,000 to $200,000,000. To haul
this coal from mine to factory would require
one trip of fronf 500,000 to 1,000,000 cars, a fur
ther saving in money and, what may be more im
portant, in transportation facilities.
This is a feature of the St Lawrence project
which is entirely independent of the shipping fea
ture. It was this which led seventy eastern
business men and engineers to join the recent in
spection of the St. Lawrence. The territory these
men represent needs power, needs it badly. The
St. Lawrence affords the only practicable oppor
tunity for getting it. That is why opposition to
the project on the part of New York and New
England, due originally to selfish fear of damage
to their commerce, is giving way under the pres
sure of manufacturers who feel the need for
cheap power.
(Tomorrow's article will deal with the cost
of the project and how it can be financed,
without expense to taxpayers either of the
United States or Canada.)
Times Have Changed.
Something is wrong over in the Dark and
Bloody Ground when one Kentuckian sues an
other for alienation of his wife's affections. They
didn't use to Cf things that way over there.
Knoxville Journal and Tribune.
How to Keep Well
By OR. W. A. EVANS
QuMtioB eonesrnln- hyficn. sanitation and prsvsntion of dlseas, ubrnlld
te Dr. En by rsadar of The Bee, will be en-wend personally, subject te
wooer limitation, where a etamped addrasstd envelope le endoeed. Dr Even,
will not meke diagnosis or prescribe for individual diseases. Addreea letter
in care of The Bee.
Copyright, 1921, by Dr. W. A. Evan
"THE SAFE VACATION."
The United Sttates public health
service will send anyone who writes
for It a booklet entitled "The Safe
Vacation."
Its interest is In health and for
this reason it advises every man who
can afford it to get away for a little
vacation. But and notice that but
the prospective vacationist must
take certain precautions or he may
lose more than he gains.
Before he selects a resort he
should have a satisfactory answer to
such questions as:
"Is the water supply safe?"
"Is there a sewerasre system?"
"If not. is sewage properly dis
posed of?"
"Are the kitchen, pantries and
dining rooms clean and protected
against flies'"
"Is the milk pasteurized?"
"How about mosquitoes?"
Those who are going into the
wilds are advised to take 2 gauze
handasres 2V, inches wide, 2 cotton
bandages 3 inches wide, 1 roll, of
adhesive plaster 1 inch wide, l
dozen safety pins, 1 ounce of ab
sorbent cotton, 1 yard of plain sterile
gauze, 1 ounce tincture of iodine,
1 dozen compound cathartic pills,
2 ounces of bicarbonate of soda,
1 dram of permanganate of potash,
4 ounces of castor oil, 1 clinical
thermometer, 1 hot water bag.
If one of the campers gets a head
ache give a cathartic and place cold
water, Jn the bag, at his head. Pain
In the abdomen calls for heat and a
cathartic. Most cases of diarrhea
and some cases of fever yield to a
24-hour fast.
Camps should be pitched on a
ridge in sandy or gravelly soil.
The instructions for the recovery
of drowning persons are not only
given In detail, but they are Illus
trated. After the unconscious per
son is taken from the water he is
turned-on his abdomen and the res
cuer stands astride him, places his
hands under the lower part of the
abdomen, and lifts the hips- and
lower part of the trunk about one
The Tax Situation
(Edwin B. A. Seligman, In the North
American Review.)
Equality of taxation is the very
cornerstone of tax programs. . . .
The continued exemption of billions
of state and local securities is scarce
ly defensible from any point of view.
Bo far as the exemption of federal
securities from federal taxation is
concerned, the problem is somewhat
more involved. From the point of
view of principle, there is always a
possible choice between upholding
the credit of a government and se
curing equality of taxation. That is
to say, if it becomes a matter of life
or death with the state in a great
emergency to market its securities
at a reasonable rate, the exemption
from taxation may be a cheap price
to pay. If we have to choose be
tween political existence and eco
nomic equality, the latter will have
to give way. But in the United
States, when our existing debt was
created there was no such alterna
tive. It was simply a question of
Issuing the Liberty or Victory loans
at a higher rate of interest. We
sacrificed equality of taxation not to
fundamental necessity, but to
ephemeral convenience. While It
Is true that the holders of exempt
securities do not entirely escape
taxation for when they purchase
the bonds they pay somewhat more
for them, and when they receive in
terest they get a somewhat s""--amount
yet not only is the corres
pondence by no means complete, n-t
there is in addition a feeling on the
part of the non-exempt members of
the community that a privileged
class is growing up among them.
One of the chief reasons, for in
stance, why the higher brackets of
our income are yielding continually
Bmaller revenues is because of the
temptation on the part of the
wealthy to Invest in tax-exempt
securities. As a result of our system
not only does the government lose
hundreds of millions in annual
revenue, but the income tax, in
stead of being borne primarily by
those who can afford to pay, is
borne primarily by the unwary and
those who find it difficult to convert
tho sources of their income into tax
exempt securities. The actual dero
gation from the principle of uni
versality of taxation at the present
time in the United States is perhaps
the chief indictment of the entire
federal system. The elimination of
our present forms of exemption is
the most crying demand of re
form '
The practical conclusions applic
able to our present situation are not
difficult to draw. In the first place,
the needs of governmental economy
and efficiency are paramount. Un
less the total expenditures are re
duced to manageable proportions,
no system of taxation that might be
devised can fail to be burdensome
and injurious. Expenditures must
always "Bear a certain proportion to
the social income. Where taxes are
made to trench unduly upon the
social income, they will react upon
both consumption and production,
and, except in the very-unlikely
event that the government spends
its money In a more economical
and efficient way than private indi
viduals would do, it is bound to re
tard economic development. Ex
cessive taxes, no matter how levied,
are injurious.
Secondly, care must be taken to
preserve the balance between taxes
on wealth and taxes on expenditure,
with the understanding that, inas
much as wealth forms a relatively
better criterion of ability to pay than
expenditure, the larger share of the
taxes should come from wealth.
Since the opening of the great war,
however, the proper balance has not
been kept. From three-quarters to
four-fifths of all of our federal
revenues have been derived from
taxes on wealth. If to this we add
about nine-tenths of the state and
local taxes, which are almost ex
clusively levied on wealth, it is not
surprising that the strain has be
come too great. Our excess-profits
tax has already broken down and
our income tax is in danger of fol
lowing suit. Not only is the revenue
declining, but the regrettable con
sequences upon business and enter
prise are only too apparent. The
taxes on wealth should be reduced.
This means that the excess-profits
tax must be eliminated, and the
higher brackets of surtax in the in
come tax be reduced.
On the other hand, we must be
careful not to go too far in the other
direction. The proposal of a general
sales taxes is unwise for several
reasons fiscal and administrative,
but chiefly because It would unduly
repress the balance in the other di
rection, and cause the major part
of our revenues to be .derived from
taxes on necessary consumption. The
sale tax is virtually an inverted or
upside down income tax. It puts
the burden where it can least be
borne, and it prevents the utilization
of the graduated feature which has
become An Indispensable accompani-,
ment of. all income taxes,
foot from the ground. Hold In this
position as long as water runs out
of mouth. Use finger to clear the
mouth of froth, sand or other for
eign material.
Artificial respiration by the Sil
vester method is done.
Wrap the legs with warm, dry
covering.
It is advised that small clots be
allowed to bleed well.
When a fish hook sticks in the
flesh it is advised to push the point
and the barb forward until it comes
out of the Bkin, then to break off the
bnrb and withdraw the hook.
To prevent chiggers"; the skin is
well lathered and washed. To get
rid of them, a needle sterilized by
heat isyused to pick them out.
For sunburn apply the followlnc
lotion:
A tablespoon of boric acid Is dis
solved in 'i pint of hot water and 20
drops of carbolic acid Is added.
This is well shaken and dabbed
every 30 minutes if desired.
Blisters are not to be opened.
Poison ivy is prevented by wash
ing with soap and Water.
To relieve irritation when the erup
tion appears wash with salt water or
1 teaspoonful boric acid in a glass
of hot water or apply a soda paste.
For snake bite a tourniquet is ap
plied above the wound. The wound
is burned with acid or caustic or
gunpowder, or 1 per cent solution
of permanganate is Injected Into the
wound. The binder Is left on 20
minutes, then taken off for 30 min
utes and then reapplied for another
20 minutes.
To combat shock, aromatic spirit
of ammonia is given internally and
heat is applied externally.
Illegal In Some States.
L. A. S. writes: "1. Kindly give
your opinion of a marriage between
first cousins. 2. Would their chil
dren be normal?"
REPLY. .
1. The marriage of first cousins Is
Illegal in some states.
2. If the parents have Inheritable
defects or diseases, or if their par
ents had such defects or diseases.
there would be danger that the chil
dren would suffer; otherwise not.
Depends on Uio Degree.
S. M. writes: "1. Is a girl of 18
years fully developed who has a
curvature of the spine since child
hood and considered as well physi
cally as one with a perfect body?
Will It hinder her health or maturity
in any .way in years to come? Can
she bear children without passing
the defect on?
"2. Will the Insurance companies
accept ner? '
REPLY.
1. She may be.
Depends on the degree of curva
ture. As a rule it does. Whether
or not she can bear children depends
on the location and the degree of
curvature. Ordinarily it is not in
heritable.
2. Depends on the conditions
present in the case at issue.
OX
Will Improve Slowly.
Mrs. J. B. writes: "What is the
cause of milk leg after childbirth?
"2. What is the best remedy?
"3. How long will it take to get
netter ?
REPLY.
1. Infection of a vein or lymphatic.
2. Keep the leg warm and still
and follow your physician's direc
tions. 3. It will Improve slowlv. You
will be a little lame for a long time
in an prooaDinty.
Facing the Farm
Drive
(From the Philadelphia ledger.)
The senate has decided that it may
as well face the drive of the "farm
bloc" and face it now. Exasperated
irritated and pressed by the senators
from the agricultural states who are
sponsoring certain drastic and well-
nigh revolutionary farm-bred meas
ures, the senate has sidetracked
other legislation and Is preparing
grimly to fight it out.
Party lines have been smashed by
tne "farm bloc". The struggle will
come between those senators who
favor special legislation and regula
tion that tends toward nationaliza
tion and the conservative group that
believes in "less government in busi
ness." Democrats and republicans
will be found in both lineuns.
The Importance of the first great
measure to be considered should not
be overlooked. This Is the Norris
bill, providing for the formation of a
$100,000,000 government corporation
for the buying of- American farm
products and their sale In foreign
countries.
in addition to tnia enormous
credit, the corporation would be per
mitted to issue securities totaling
li.uuo.ooo.ooo and the United States
treasury would be liable for the pay
ments or an bonds and other obliga
tions. Nor Is this all. The corpora
tion would have a free hand, prac
tically, ltv the granting of such
credits and the acceptance of such
securitiea as it cared to handle.
The administration Is well nigh as
troubled over this as it was over the
soldier bonus bill. The president
strongly opposes it, and may veto
it. Secretary Mellon warns that It
will be disastrous to all other gov
ernment securities, including the
Liberty series.
But tho farmers, about 2.000.000
organized farmers, want it. They
have built up an extraordinarily
powerful and successful lobby in
Washington. This lobby Is tapping
tne "farm bloc" senators on the
shoulder. The American Farm Bu
reau Federation, with about
1,250,000 members in 43 states, is
ably led and is backing the Norris
bill. These farmers are of the
opinion that this special legislation
and much more is due them, and
that the government should furnish
the capital and act as a sales agent
for them with the Whole nation
standing back of any possible loss.
The Harding administration is
anxious to do all it. can for the farm
ers, but the whole trend of the
"farm bloc" drive is counter to the
Harding policies of divorcing busi
ness and government. The time has
come when the issue must be settled.
It is a curious situation. The ad
ministration and the conservative
democrats are on one side and the
organized farmers and their congres
sional spokesmen on the other. It la
useless to get down the party lash.
Not only useless, but it might be
dangerous to use it
They Revise Upward.
Where did the Idea come from
that the producer of oil is a reduc
tion company. Detroit News.
Tlurt Will Make Them Wilder.
Tlayer pianos are now being sold
In Africa. No doubt they will be
used to tame the savage beasts.-
Hastings Tribune.
Why Reformers Never Have 'Km.
It. is a happy disposition not to
desire to "ImMovc" . others. St.
Louis Globe-Democrat,
American Democracy.
Omaha, July 23. To the Editor
of The Bee: I want to express my
candid and "earnest opinion In ro-
gard to law enforcement. The na
tlon, states and cities have laws
which are in the form of statutes to
legulate the actions of citizens. But
many of them are unconsciously or
openly violated. Where there Is
law obedience there is discipline
vlca versa, there is chaos. Viola
tlon of a city ordinance leads to
violation of federal laws. Omaha
has a city ordinance concerning tho
cutting of weeds in empty lots hut
there are many lots in the main
part of the city that are immune
from the law. Why should the
property owners openly violate this
ordinance while thousands of men
are Idle? The health commissioner
cannot be blamed, for he cannot be
all over Omaha in a day. The peo
pie that live close to a weed patch
should report the same to the health
commissioner or the police chief,
that would bo co-operatton.
Federal, state and municipal of
ficers very often are targets for
spontaneous and unreasonable critics
that delight in fault-finding, but are
too full of egoism to co-operate with
officials to enforce the law.
We are, no doubt, the greatest
law-making ration in the world, but
we are also the slackest in enforcing
the same. We are also great in
promises, but we fail to fulfill the
same. Promises were given to the
overseas men who went to Europe
to crush military despotism. They
were told that their Jobs would bo
kept for them and that they would
be taken care of when they came
back. But unfortunately they were
abandoned upon the highways and
byways. The business element that
made these promises had nothing to
give to the defenders of democracy.
A big noise is going around criticis
ing the present administration for
not doing something for the over
seas men, but the noise came from
the democratic wing, of course.
President Harding has done more in
four months with an empty treasury
than the Wilson administration had
accomplished In two years following
the armistice for the welfare of the
overseas men. Harding had also
the undertaking of clearing the
wreckage of the previous administra
tion. I realize it is true that the
corporation and business men who
made these unkept promises bought
Liberty and Victory bonds and fur
nished food, clothing, guns and am
munition to the boys. They have
done their share' in helping to crush
military despotism, but God knows
they were well rewarded for their
troubles.
True. , American democracy is
obedience to law and promises. These
two are the bulwark of true Ameri
canism. If the present ruling gen
eration leads the young one wrong
this young generation will not be
able to right the wrong they have
inherited when they become the rul
ing power. Let the people back their
lawmakers and ofilclals for obed
ience to law. Love of country and
flag Is co-operation of all law-abiding
citizens in upholding thi majesty
of the law for discipline is tho safety
valve of our nation. My principle
Is my country and its flag first: my
religion next. To my way of thinking
he that puts his religion above coun
try or flag cannot bo trusted in
teaching Americanization. Let ua
lead the young generation In the
path' of American democracy, then
the nation's destiny will be tho light
houso to all nations.
JESSE MARTEL.
S66S Davenport Street.
G rover Has Quit Lnufthluff.
Canada wanUs Bergdoll for tho for
gory of a passport. His versatility
mny yet prove his uqdoing. Wash
ington Star.
BUSINESS IS GOOD THANK YOU
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