THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1921.
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Where Money May Be Saved.
When Secretary Mellon appeared before the
wayt and means committee of the house, he
excited a train of activity that may in its final
application touch the point. Floor Leader
Mondell in the house, ably seconded by Mr.
Madden, a member of the appropriations com
mittee, and Senator Borah in the senate, have
become clamorous for reduction in expenditures
that taxea may be lowered. All this is com
mendable, and The Bee hopes that the rash will
spread, until every honorable gentleman under
the dome is affected by it.
However, the methods proposed vary, and
until they can be harmonized we fear little of
real good will come from it. Mr. Mondell, for
example, is ready to accept a deficit of $1,000,
000,000, that o much may be lopped off the im
mediate tax levy. Mr. Madden is willing to
forego, for the year at least, the $500,000,000
sinking fund contribution, and some similar ex
pedients are suggested. Mr. Borah would fur
ther reduce the army, navy, and shipping board
appropriations. Each of these suggestions con
tains the element of further waste. .
In his second year in office Secretary Mc
Adoo was compelled to resort to short-time
borrowing in anticipation of tax collections, that
the government might meet its obligations and
pay current expenses in cash. The deficit has
been present steadily since then, one year's turn
over in short-time certificates amounting to
$19,000,000,000 plus. For the year 1920 these
certificates were redeemed in the sum of
$15,589,117,458.53, and in 1921 the total re
deemed was $8,552,225,500.60. These figures will
give an idea of the magnitude of the transac
tions in hort-time loans to the government.
Thi money has been borrowed at rates varying
from 2 to 6 per cent, mostly around 5j4 per
cent. The last statement of the public debt
showed a total of approximately $24,000,000,000,
of which, in round numbers, $18,000,000,000 was
War Savings certificates. This leaves $6,000,-
Barriers to Prosperity.
Nebraska is the banner agricultural state this
year. Its wheat, corn, hay and other crops are
abundant. People out here don't think about
that; they consider that good crops are the nat
ural and almost inevitable result of industry and
skill and that if Nebraska's harvest is promising
it is no more so than that of farm areas beyond
our borders, probably not so good as in some
favored localities. '
One of the products of which Nebraska has
a surplils is hay. In many dairy states to the
east pastures are burnt up by heat and drouth
and meadows have failed. There is a shortage
of hay there and cows and calves are being
slaughtered as the easiest way out of the diffi
culty. There will result also a shortage of milk
unless the situation is met. In Illinois, Ohio,
Indiana and even Massachusetts dairy farmers
face catastrophe. Eastern Iowa also is suffering.
It is an old saying that one part of this great
nation was built to save the other. And so it
might seem, with a bountiful hay crop in Ne
braska, that the surplus here would find a ready
market there. Yet much of last year's hay crop
has spoiled on the farms, and unless certain
conditions are altered,, much will go to waste
again this year. A member of the Omaha-hay
exchange tells of a farmer with 2,000 acres of
fine prairie grass, who intends to burn it off
instead of cutting it. He has figured that the
cost of cutting and getting it to market would
amount to $1.04 a ton more than he would re
ceive. Between the farmers to the east, who
need hay, and the Nebraska farmers, who have
hay in abundance, stands a freight rate so high
as to make relief impossible. It is less unprofit
able for some farmers to destroy their hay than
to market it, and it is less unprofitable for other
farmers to kill their stock than to pay the pres
ent rates on feed. .
This is only one crop out of many which
Nebraska stands ready to share with the nation.
Yet the distribution of every one is hampered by
high transportation charges. Nebraska cannot
consume all that it raises. It must ship vast
quantities to other regions, and instead of as
sisting this movement the railroads are hamper
ing it. The Interstate Commerce commission is
soon to consider the plea of the Nebraska State
Railway commission for lower rates on farm
products. This plea must be made a demand.
Every ounce of pressure must be brought to
bear to obtain relief, not only for the sake of
Nebraska, but for that of the whole of America.
Portrait of a Consumer.
For him crops are raised, goods are manu
factured, stores established, railroads built,
mines dug, novels and plays written and inven
tions and discoveries made. Without him wages
and profits would cease, industry would close
down and both capital and labor would silence
their dissension and disappear. ' i
Viewed from one side he is king,. but from
the other he appears a slave. It is he who pays
all the taxes, all the interest on loans and stocks
and all the dividends on bonds. He pays the
rent on yonder great store, supplies the means
with which the plate glass and marble fittings
are obtained and even foots the bill for the ink
with which the bookkeeper addresses his bill.
Jones may pay the freight, but the coin in
which he pays is from the well-worn purse of
Mr. Ultimate Consumer. Smythe may pay taxes
of a million dollars a year, but before doing so he
000,000 of floating indebtedness, on which the
interest charges at 5 per cent amount to
$300,000,000 a year.
Secretary Mellon wants to fund this floating
indebtedness at a rate of interest not exceeding
that paid on the Liberty bonds. This will admit
of return to a cash basis, and will save at least
$100,000,000 a year in interest charges. The
Borah demand for further progress; in disarma
ment may well await the proceedings of the
forthcoming conference on the point, while his
demand for the discharge of clerks and other
curtailments of public service can easily be left
to General Dawes, who is diligently progressing
with' his undertaking as head of the budget bu
reau. The Mondell plan will entail the addition
of $60,000,000 to the annual interest charge, while
the Madden proposal will simply postpone the
payment of $500,000,000 of indebtedness and con
tinue the interest charge of $20,000,000 a year
thereon.
Secretary Mellon is proceeding on business
principles. The plan he suggests for the gov
ernment has been adopted by some of the great
business houses of the country, who were forced
to borrow large sums at ruinous rates of in
terest, and who have since succeeded in con
verting the indebtedness so created into bonds
rather than notes or certificates. The advantage
of this must be readily apparent to any who
give careful thought to the subject. If the
Treasury can be put back to a cash basis, fur
ther borrowing eliminated, and the budget bu
reau achieves even a portion of what is expected
from it, relief from taxation will be certain. Such
relief in permanent form cannot be achieved by
smashing things. The burden was piled up
through the adoption of haphazard methods of
meeting a great emergency, and . will only be
properly removed by the application of sound
principles of finance. '
Out of the. Primitive.
Unless some act of violence such as has been
ascribed to the Ku Klux Klan in other states is
committed under the disguise of the white
shrouded membership, honest folk can afford to
smile at the initiation recently held at Lincoln.
Mystery, strange oaths of allegiance to an "In
vioihl Emoire." a flaming cross of glass, ap
parently built on the principle of an electric
light, a white headpiece showing oniy tne eyes,
and a flowing robe of muslin, cut not on the
skimpy style of the present day, but full length,
sucn as woo mc wvu.b
these appeal to tne primitive rasimm ui
oSa nfav oirate and bandit, hoisting the
skTull and cross-bones over a make-believe ship
nr rliVo-inir a cave in the security of some weed
mvrrrA lot are answering to the same call out
; of the past , . .
i. m the nuroorted objects of the Klan
are concerned, so long as it refrains from vio
if ha at much rieht to exist as any neigh
borhood improvement association or fraternal
orcanization. If the members desire to deck
ttrti1vH out in a uniform such as is com
monly ascribed to the midnight spirits of a
graveyard, there is no great harm done, although
the connection between this masquerade and
nnroliiv and Americanism remains one of the
v .?
. secrets of the order. At all events, the order
represents nothing more than the logical exten
sion of the popular sport ot worrying aooui ine
' conduct of others without feeling any particular
responsibility for the conduct pt oneseii.
obtains the funds
circus comes to town and gives a free parade
the city charges a heavy license fee and the
bill for both of these is duly honored by the
pieasant-mannered, open-hearted and necessary
Consumer.
One would guess that he must be immensely
rich, but as a matter of fact he is not. Some
times he may have an income of only a few
dollars a week. Yet the mere spending, of this
makes, jobs for thousands and profits for many.
That matter of income, however, complicates
the picture It becomes apparent that the entire
Consumer family is leading a double life. With
the exception of only a few, every one appears
during a part of the time to be disguised as a
Producer.
It is impossible to think of a class known
as consumers and distinct from another clas9
known as producers. There is no dividing line.
Consumers and producers are all one but it is
not until this fact is generally recognized that a
beginning can be made at consolidating their
efforts under an intelligent plan.
Secretary Mellon' s Suggestion
- Businesslike Proposals to Get
Money Enough for the Government
From the Boston Transcript.
The report that the self-styled "leaders" of
the house of representatives are displeased at
the recommendations of the secretary of the
treasury relative to tax revision will not surprise
those who take the preca. ion to recall that
Secreary Mellon is not a politician. He is a
great constructive economist, endeavoring to as
sist the legislative branch in raising the revenue
necessary to run the government by ways and
means that the people will clearly understand
and recognize as honest and intelligent. The
fundamental difference between Secretary Mellon
and some of his critics in the republican house
lies in the fact that he is opposed to deceiving
the taxpayers or insulting their intelligence by
trying to deceive them. His recommendations
are based on the theory that in the raising of
taxes an expert knowledge of the theory and
practice of taxation is a better guide than the
whims and fancies of pork-barrel politicians.
Secretary Mellon proposes a federal license
of $10 on automobiles, believing that their own
ers will cheerfully make this contribution to
help pay the costs of thp war. He proposes a
stamp tax on checks, because it has been tried
in the past and found to be a good revenue pro
ducer, easily and cheaply collected. Moreover,
the people who pay it constitute an intelligent
public, alive to the fact that in spite of new
economies in public expenditure, and in spite of
retrenchments all along the line, the tax bill of
the nation for many years to come must be
heavy. We see no reason why the same sort
of tax should not be levied on papers exchanged
in all sorts of legal transactions.
Instead of taxing the children for their ice
cream, and men. women and children for their
"soft" drinks, Mr. Mellon proposes to increase
the tax on tobacco, and here again his proposal
will commend wide approval outside of con
gress. The increase of the present 10 per cent
income tax on corporations to 15 per cent, and
the repeal of the excess profit tax; elimination
of the $2,000 exemption corporation tax, and the
elimination of the income surtax above 40 per
cent, with an increase on these rates of income
from $6,000 to $50,000, are among other recom
mendations that have excited the ire of certain
republican politicians who come up for re-election
next year.
If Secretary Mellon can command the unfal
tering support of his chief, it will not take long
to develop in the senate and in the country at
large an intelligent sympathy with, and an un
derstanding of his program that will prove to
the house politicians how false and unfounded
are their personal anxieties and selfish suspicions.
It is not surprising that the present house should
take a cynical view of Secretary Mellon's faith
in the common sense and common patriotism
of his countrymen, because a large number of
mediocrities in congress todav owe their election
to the fact that they were able to misrepresent
themselves as men of real ability, disinterestedly
desirous of an opportunity for national service.
They hooe to be re-elected next year by resort
ing to the same deception. This ambition Sec
retary Mellon may not have taken, into account
in the scientific study that preceded his recom
mendations for revising taxes. Let us hope that
the administration will share his faith in the
'people's willingness to meet the costs of the war
and to maintain the government even at the
expense of replacing at the next election many ot
the mediocrities in the lower house of congress
today.
Smash Cost of Government
The cost of pretty nearly everything in this
country is coming down faster and farther than
the cost of government, but the cost of govern
ment should come down faster and farther than
pretty nearly anything else. This is true of local
and state governments which had no direct war
rom the ssjtkt source. burdens eiijrg:HHt : as wu.j-vrw.w
government with its prodigious war debt charges
Cards Down, Face Up.
' A very graceful acknowledgment of a real
victory for American diplomacy or the lack of
it, as some may insist marked the close of the
imperial conference just ended at London. The
assembled premiers explain that the insistence
of a preliminary conversation prior to the Wash
ington conference, grew out of their misappre
hension of some part of President Hafding's
invitation. It was not their intention to take
any action that might bind the conference; the
idea was to clear away some misunderstanding
with regard to the Pacific problems, and to plan,
if possible, a broader and more substantial "con
vention to take the place of the Anglo-Japanese
alliance, one in which the United States would
be a contracting party. Delegates attending such
a preliminary conference would have been vol
unteers. All this, however, will be set aside
and will have no effect on the gathering that
probably will be held in November.
Thus delicately do the leaders of the British
empire pay a tribute to our "shirt sleeve" way
of doing things. President Harding announced
himself in favor of a free and frank conference,
where all should meet for the purpose of consid
ering the business in hand, hampered by no pre
liminary arrangements or secret agreements of
any kinds. It was the unsuspected arrangement
between France and England on the one side
and Japan on the other that helped to wreck
President Wilson's plan at Paris. Part of the
work at Washington will be to undo the results
of that secret treaty. .
Questions affecting the world's peace may
be openly discussed, even if such proceedings
do entail the sacrifice of secret ambitions or pri
vate aspirations. The time is here to lay the
cards on the table, face up, in hope that a peace
ful understanding for the good of all may be
reached. , V
Conditions in Mexico are said tcr'be improv
ing. No doubt they have tried the fad of the
moment and been restored to complete well-
being and prosperity by tickling themselves in
the ribs.
The Russians may not have understood that
under the prevalent theory of government,
whatever party is in power is responsible for
drouth, grasshoppers and crop failure.
How to Keep Well
By DR. W. A. EVANS
Quootiono concerning hyflono, sanita
tion and prevention oi diooooo, aub
mitted to Dr. Evana by raadora oi
Tho Boo, will ba anowerod personally,
aubjoct to proper limiution, where a
stamped, addressed anvelops la on
closed. Dr. Evana will not make
diafnoois or praocribs for Individual
diooaseo. Address letters la cars ol
Tha Bee. .
Copyright, 1921. b Dr. W. A. Evans.
Th cost of srovernment should come down
with a rush, because of the numbers of em
ployes which went on aH public pay rolls but
are no longer neeaeci tnere ana snouia not uc
kept there beyond the next pay day; because the
wages of day laborers have come down sharply
everywhere and, even after superfluous employes
ore rut off pntirelv. dav laborers are employed
in armies by the municipal, county, state and
national governments; because oi tne neavy
drop in prices in materials and supplies, includ
ing food, clothing, and all commodities con
sumed in stupendous quantities by government
agencies all over the country.
Any government manager, national, staie or
local, anvwhere in the country and under what
ever circumstances, who cannot and does not
get down his government operating expenses,
and get them down heavily, without being driven
to it by budget commissions, investigating com
mittees and legislative appropriating bodies,
needs the skylight treatment without explana
tion or mercy.
Smash the cost of government ! A ew loric
Herald.
Generators in Service 26 Years.
It is almost 26 years since the famous 5,000
horsepower electric generators were installed at
Niagara Falls. Engineers and laymen who think
back can remember the country-wide controversy
over this first large installation at the falls.
Many were the dire predictions made regarding
this apparatus because it differed so radically
from machines then in use. Electrical engineers,
many of whom stood in the first ranks of the
technical men of that period, found fault with
the design.
Yet this apparatus has withstood years of
criticism and of intense activity. This machin
ery has generated literally millions of horse
power since it was installed in 1895. At that
time these 5.000-horsepower generators were the
most powerful in the world. As they were so
vast, according to the reckoning of that day,
engineers concluded that they would not be ef
ficient. Now generators are made with capaci
ties as high as 120,000-horsepower, a giant this
size having been installed recently in the Colfax
power station of the Duquesne Light company
of Pittsburgh.
It is interesting to note that B. G. Lamme,
who designed the generators for installation at
Niagara Falls, also was insrumental in the Col
fax apparatus. Westinghouse Electric & Manu
facturing Company Bulletin.
Simplified Finance.
Briefly, an important element in reconstruc
tion should be the making of America more gen
erally investment-minded. This demands able
anrf nnoular mihlicitv effort. The average man
must first be interested and then informed fairly
and fully upon the possibilities of the invest
ment market. And his education must be ac
companied in a homlicr terminology than that
in vogue among financiers, which terminology is
well devised to puzzle the public and even to
leave its own followers very often uncertain.
New York Commercial.
. Will Be on the Right Side,
Men who thought they would make no money
on this vear s croo are going to find that the
big yield plus lower harvesting costs will bring
them out on the right side of the ledger. Pen
dleton East Oregoman.
Quite Sol
Mustaoha Kemal Pasha is at the moment flee
inn- toward Smvrna. but one flee more or less
makes no difference to Mustapha Kemal Pasha
than to a wire-haired terrier. Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Succeeding in Life.
Persons who make a specialty of giving ad
vice on how to succeed in life generally pre
scribe liberal doses of optimism. Thrift Magazine
"WHEN DOCTORS DISAGREE."
When Surgeon General Cummins;
called on the American Red Cross
to help succor the south because of
an emergency created by a rapid
and great Increase In the ravages of
pellagra, he threw fuel on a flame
which has been burning a long time.
Hirsch says that by 1730 the dis
ease was quite prevalent around
Lake Maggiore in Lombardy. But
not much thought was given to Its
cause until Mazzarl contended in
1810 that it was due to a diet of
corn. Lussana and Frua went a step
further in 1856 and said a diet of
corn caused it because corn was de
ficient in protein.
The next theory to find wide ac
ceptance was that of Lombroso of
northern Italy, who claimed that it
was due to eating spoiled corn. Most
of the chapters in Hirsch's 'Hand
Book are taken up by argument sus
taining the theory that it was a
mold on aorn similar to ergot that
was the cause of pellagra.
In 1905 Sambon claimed that It
was contagious and that the con
tagion was borne by the buffalo
gnat.
This theory was getting along
finely until 1912, when Funk said
pellagra was a deficiency disease,
due to lack of something like a
vitamine which was removed from
corn by hulling.
In 1913 Alessandosini and Scala
claimed that it was due to eating
colloidal silica, a form of sand.
All of this is by way of setting
the stage for the latest contest.
Tbe Thompson-McFadden com
mission, on which there are seven
United States army officers, has been
working for several years in and
around Spartanburg, S. C. They
have done considerable research
work, and have had a great deal of
clinical experience with the disease.
They contend that it is contagious,
that it results from bad sanitation
and that the way to fight it is by
building; privies, cleaning up gener
ally, fighting flies, and, incidentally,
improving economic conditions.
Goldberger of the public health
service has been detailed to the in
vestigation of the cause and cure of
this disease for several years. He
holds that it is a deficiency disease,
of the same type as scurvy and beri
beri, and that contagion has nothing
to do with it.
He contends that it developed In
this country about 20 years ago be
cause of the poverty of the poorer
people in the south and that it in
creases there whenever times are
hard and decreases whenever times
are good. This is because in hard
times the poorer people do not get
enough fresh meat, milk and butter,
whereas in good times they get more
of these foods.
Goldberger gives figures which
show that the number of cases in
Mississippi in 1914 was 11,000. In
1915 times were hard and the num
ter rose to 16,000. In 1916 they
were good and the reported cases
dropped to 8,000. Times have been
very hard in the south since the fall
of 1920 and if the Goldberger theory
be true there must be a great In
crease in cases.
So the fight now is between the
public health service, backing the
Goldberber theory, and the Thompson-McFadden
commission and the
contagion theory.
"v.-. Write to Minneapolis.
MrsVsH- W. K. writes: "1. Can I
obtain a'SPPffton breast feeding in
Minneapolis? fHas not able to
breast-feed rny boy, -Who is now 2
months old. I had a haitf"' fltotv'to
raise him on a bottle.
"2. He eats fresh vtotnVio
quart of milk, cereal twice a day,'
SOUP, fresh fruit, stale bread. iti
sugar, butter, or meat.
4. I would like to have another
baby, but I am afraid to face bottle
leeuing- again." ,
REPLY.
I. Write to the Mi
fant Welfare society, asking for lit
erature ana sending stamped, ad
dressed envelope.
2. One pint of milk a day is
enOUKh. Butter Ik c-nnrt 'tnr hi
About one ounce of meat a day wili
not nurt mm. He can have un
strained soups. Don't you give him
custard or rice pudding, and how do
you keep him happy without
cookies?
3. You should be nMe tr h,o..
feed your next baby. Read all you
can find on the suhiecr
with your physician. I have writ
ten anotner article on the subject
which will appear shortly. It con
tains one or two new suggestions.
Not on Right Track.
Yvonne writes: "fainvi
- vu.vjwu 1 V J J 1 1
mend a tonic for purifying the
blood f It seems as though every-
"" eai onngs out rashes on my
arms and chest. I am at present
taking pepto-mangan, and have not
had any results as yet. Do you
uuiik. a ougnt to Keep on?"
REPLY.
There are nn rinlrta toMT. mnfn
the blood. The blood purifies itself
wun tne am or tne liver, kidneys
rum ana lungs, unere is no rela
tion between the rashes on your
skin and the purity of your blood.
You could take a barrel of pepto
mangan without purifying your
uiooa or anecung tne rash.
Humorous Wife Helpful.
A. O. T writo.' "A a n rt
inquiry regarding the skin between
the toes neel inC Cff loo 1'ino1 C llO
in the raw flesh, I was troubled the
name wa-. Aiier trying every rem
uuy m a. anig store, witn no resu
my wne, in iiin, suggested t
maybe snmn finrr merilr-ina
good for me. I rubbed the toes with
mange cure morning and evening
and in 10 days was entirely cured
and have never been bothered since.
V nil are t-eWm. tn vi
..w...u v r uil k 1 1 J CI null,
mation for some other unfortunate
sunerer.
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CENTER SHOTS.
What's become of the fussy man
who used to grumble about the
racket made by the pneumatic rivet
ers? Syracuse Herald.
The biff hone for tha ilwirf.. r
the freedom of the seas lies in the
fact that Pussyfoot Johnson is no
i:sn. .rntiaaeiphia North American
They've put a ban on "throwing
rice" in the depot at Washington.
Now, for a ban on "throwing the
bull" a few blocks distant. Grand
Rapids Herald.
Some men for the speckled beau
ties, some ror the freckled. Boston
"Soft lights in the home would
nvoia many divorces," says a light
ing expert. A little soft soap, how
ever, is even better Richmond
(Ind.) Item.
Grave Reflections!
It is estimated that so, 000 people
are killed or injured every year
tnrough accidents. A time of peace
is still a time of perils. Washing
ton Star.
OX
About a Grand Jury. ;
Omaha, Aug. 6. To the Editor of
The Bee: In considering the ques
tion of calling a grand Jury to in
vestigate criminal responsibility in
the failures of numerous nusmess
concerns in Omaha, those who have
the authority to call such inquests
should carefully deliberate the mat
ter before taking the step. Al
though it may involve the county
in much expense and aaa to our
overburdensome taxes and our over
crowded court dockets, yet if after
due deliberation it is deemed best,
the grand Jury should be called.
In calling a grand Jury at tnis
time, and for the reasons generally
given, it might be well to Dear in
mind some essential things:
1. The purpose generally of call
ing grand juries in this state and
elsewhere where prosecutions by in
formation by the county attorney
are ordinarily adopted.
2. The nature of the matters ana
things which the grand jury is to
investigate.
3. That when convened they
should cover the whole field of prob
able crime, and not a part of it, and
that when the grand Jury is in ses
sion all preliminaries in prosecu
tions must come before it.
4. How long will the grand jury
be in session if it thoroughly inves
tigates the numerous business insti
tutions in addition to all other mat
ters of crime which then must come
before it.
5. That the purpose of a grand
Jury is to investigate probable crime
and to return indictments charging
specific crime.
6. What will be the result if a
wholeBale batch of indictments are
returned when they reach the pettit
Juries?
7. What will be the capacity of
the average grand Jury which is
chosen by lot to understand the
complex conditions and ramifica
tions which will be found In records
and other evidence in institutions
which fail through manipulations of
experts?
8. Is not the usual method by
prosecuting officers adequate?
9. Has there been in the past in
Douglas county, or In the United
States courts or attorney general's
office any evidence of unwillingness
on the part of county attorneys, dis
trict attorneys and attorneys general
to do their duty? Furthermore, this
is not a case where such officers
would hesitate to do their duty be
cause of fear or favor.
10. It cannot be claimed that a
grand jury is essential because of
its ability by process of subpoena to
force witnesses to tell the facts al
though the prosecuting officer has
not the right of subpoena, yet any
one acquainted knows that the pros
ecuting officer is always possessed
of more facts than ever can be
pluced before any Jury, and further
more the main facts involved in
the failure of various institutions are
of public record, or have been made
public through bankruptcy and
other proceedings.
11. Cannot the attorney general,
United States attorney and county
attorney, wlttn experts more thor
oughly investigate and file com
plaints in all cases where' there is a
reasonable probability of conviction?
And it is said that the attorney
general and United States attor
ney now have much evidence in
their hands.
13. Shall we add to our over
crowded dockets unless for good
reason?
13. Shall we add to the expense
of our overburdened taxpayers un
less for good reason?
On these matters every citizen
has a right to think and express
himself. Ask anyone who has
served upon a grand jury.
CITIZEN,
About Railroad rasson.
Falls City, Neb., Aug. 1. To the
Editor of The Bee: I would like the
privilege of answering the letter of
Preston Duvall in regard to rail
road passes, printed in your issue of
July 29.
In his letter air. Duvall stated
that "thousands of people are trav
eling all over this country on free
passes just for fun and to kill time,"
and he also stated that many em
ployes take the passes issued to
them and sell them for one-half the
regular fare, thereby causing the
railroads to lose thousands of dol
lars a year. Other statements were
made in his letter that were equally
as fallacious, but they refute them
selves. In the first place, 1 wish to state
that my husband is a railroad man
and as such, gets one foreign pass
for himself and me once a year if
he desires it. But the fact that he
is allowed no vacation and for every
day that he takes off his wages
are cut in proportion, prohibits many
vacations, especially since the re
cent cut in wages. By "foreign pass"
is meant a pass over another divi
sion or railroad other than the one
on which he works. bi
foreign pass a year Is limited. Un
less an employe has worked uu a
-division for five years or more he
may get transportation over his own
division only. If he has worked for
the division for five years he gets
transportation over a foreign road
but not to exceed 1,000 miles. If
he has given the road 10 years of
faithful service he may get a pass
for more than a 1,000 miles. It
requires a great deal of red tape
and patience to get a pass, and
many thousands of employes never
J apply , for them. The few fuels
may help to correct tne impression
about the railroad employes spend
ing so much time traveling JuBt for
fun on free pnsne.
But why, may I usk, shouldn't the
railroad man who works 3ti5 dnys
a year, Sundays the same as week
days, be granted some favors by
the company for whom he, works so
faithfully? In any other business
the employes are granted at least
a week's vacation on full pay nml
most companies grant two weeks'
vacation, besides giving their em
ployes every Saturday afternoon t-i'f.
Do you hear the railroad men crab
bing about it and writing letters to
newspapers advocating the prohibi
tion by the United States govern
ment of all vacations on pay? By
all means, let us have equal rights
and justice for all. and not so much
"sour grapes," Mr. Duvall.
The statement that the employes
get tha passes and sell them is pre
posterous and anyone who has ever
examined a pass knows how impos
sible such a thing would be. Mr.
Duvall should inform himself on
these questions before attempting to
mislead the public, and if he can
prove that passes have been sold, it
is his duty as a public-minded citi
zen to soo that the law Is enforced
in regard to such misdemeanors.
MRS. MARION HARMON.
Read Saturday Kventng Bee.
Omaha. Aug. 5. To the Editor
of The Bee: I have been noticing
for some time articles in the various
papers concerning the Ku Klux
Klan, and I am interested to know
more about this organization or
fraternity than the papers have seen
fit to print through either discre
tion on their part, or due vo tho fact
that they are ignorant also as to
what this "klan" may represent.
If it is a patriotic organization
then why are not all those who have
participated in tho las( world war,
to the extent of service In any line,
not generally informed through the
medium of the newspapers or mag
azines? If it is a true ritualistic so
ciety of national scope then why ara
not the qunllficatlons of this society
openly published and exploited so
that those qualified, who have not
been personally solicited, be allowed
to place application?
Where was this latter Ku Klux
Klan originated, please? Why are ita
qualifications, meeting places, of
ficers, Us creed, etc., etc., kept si
lent? Is this Ku Klux Klan really
a patriotic organization or is it Just
a fraternal organization so that so
cial position, money and the recom
mendation of a member of the klan
is needed before one can become a
member. ,
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
I would appreciate any informa
tion that you can give me about this
"Klan" and a brief description of
the work, or mission, of this organ
izations Thanking you for - the
couresy of a reply, I am,
ONE WHO IS INTERESTED.
Why
it's better to o
J via West6
Yellowstone
to
w1
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t ' V
Jatimffll Pas-Ik,
THE Union Pacific System is the most popular way
to Yellowstone, by testimony of all statistics. There
are good reasons for this marked preference here are
five of them.
1By going in and out by the West Yellowstone Gateway you
"get the COMPLETE Yellowstone tour and see its wonders in
most pleasing sequence.
2 You see more of the scenic West for the same money the
"Rockies of Wyoming, the Wasatch Range, beautiful Echo
and Weber Canyons, Great Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, the
picturesque ranges of Idaho, and ALL of Yellowstone and
Scenic Colorado.
3 Through sleeping cars for Yellowstone Park (West Yellowstone
"gateway) leave Omaha every morning 9:40 A.M., going via
Salt Lake City on a fast luxurious Limited train.
4The Union Pacific is double tracked practically all the way
" to Salt Lake City and you are protected by Automatic Safety
Signals all the way from start to finish.
g-Six Great Sight-Seeing
iTips ior ine price oi a
Ticket to Yellowstone alone arTax i4-13 Ejtra
Prom Omaha
The above fare includes ticket to West Yellowstone (entrance to Yellow
stone National Park) Ogden, Salt Lake City, tbe Royal Gorge, Glenwood
Springs, Colorado Springs, Denver and return. The cost is no more than
for a ticket to Yellowstone and back direct; an advantage enjoyed only by
travelers using the West Yellowstone gateway.
Four and a half days in Yellowstone National Park, auto transportation
and hotels, $54.00 additional; if permanent camps are used instead of
hotels, $45.00. Detour from Denver to Rocky Mountain National
(Estes) Park and return, $10.50 additional
Go first to West Yellowstone in through sleeping car from Omaha and
visit the other places returning.
Ltt us send you fru booklets and plan your trip. Mention by nam thtbookltts dtsindi
"Ytltotvttom National Park," "Colorado's Mountain Playgrounds," "Jtocky
Mountain National (Ettes) Park.' "Utah-Idaho Outings.
Far Information art
Union Depot, Consolidated Ticket Office, or
A. K. Curt. City Pau. A tent, V. P. rtem
"18 Dod( St., Omaha
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