THE BEE: OMAHA. MONDAY. Sm'EMBElt 5. 1921.
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remain deluded by MaraUm lino to b laved at
the expense, of the possible effect of contact with
agenti of the American republic. Thia would
be humoroui if it were not tragic Morria IhlU
quit and hit anociatei art lying toft, enjoying
all the advantage! incident to American cltiien
ihip and reiidence in the United State, and art
making no lacrifke, to it ia easy for them to
advite the Runian to atarvt and remain faithful
to Lenine. What a mockery of common aeniel
The truth it that the Americana art not go
ing into Rutiia on a political mission.. They art
going to feed women and children who art dying
for want of food. Herbert Hoover ia trying to
stir the purblind Russian leader into an effort
to help themiclvei, to employ their own re
sourcei to the limit, but he ia not trying to con
vert anyone from the faith they have in the
apoatlcs of ditordtr. Our socialist friends do
themiclvei but little credit in auuming the atti
tude they have taken.
The Bee's Platform
1. New Uaioa Passenger Static.
2. Continued tmereveaeat of the Ne
braska Highways, Including the pave
Mat of Mala Tboroafbfares leading
lata Oaaaha with a BrUb Surface.
3. A abort, low-rate Waterway from Ike
Cora Bait to tba Atlaatle Ocean. .
4. Hoase RnU Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager farm of Corernment.
Labor Day a Time to Think.
Millions of good Americans will march today,
proudly wearing badges or bearing banners, de
noting thela membership in one or another of
the great labor organizations. They will disport
themselves at picnics and elsewhere in pursuit
of the pleasures made possible by the holiday,
and i few at least will listen to the speakers who
will address them. The Bee would like to make
a short address to them.
First, we do not want the pleasure of a holi
day marred by any sinister or unwelcome
thought; neither do we wish that the working
men of the United States should in their sport
forget they have a full share in the grave prob
lems that confront the people of the world, and
must aid in reaching the solution that happiness
may be the common lot of all. We do want to
warn them against the man who comes with
promise of a day when there will be no inequal
ities in society, either as to rewards or oppor
tunities. That time probably will never come,
certainly not until the millennium is ushered in.
We also wish to warn them against the false
economists, who preach the "easier way" of less
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worn ana nigncr wages as xne solution, aucn
doctrine is both fallacious and pernicious. '
Wealth is the result of work; the more there
is produced, the more there is to divide; when
nothing is produced, there is nothing to divide.
Lessen production and wages can not be In
creased., j. . ., '
Thest ' propositions are elemental and axi
omatic. Another thing to be remembered is
that the government of the United States is not
a class government, and could not exist if it
were. Therefore, any proposal that is calculated
to give One class or group an advantage over
another ia inherently dangerous. Also, bargains
which are supported by force alone are bad bar
gains, and can not permanently endure. Justice
should be the foundation -of any agreement.
In preaching this gospel, The Bee does it
with full appreciation of the nobility and dignity
of labor, understanding that only as the men and
women who toil in mills and factories, in mines
and on farms, on railroads, and wherever human
labor is usefully employed or human skill and
ingenuity is serviceably engaged, are prosperous
and happy, so is the race moving to its true
destiny. Content is not to be looked for, for
advance is the result of dissatisfaction with con-1
ditions. s -
't As the labor unions learn to respect their
obligations and accept responsibilities, so will
they prosper. They must not engage in oppres
sion and hope to escape the oppressor. What
they would have for themselves they must be
willing to grant to others. A square deal is the
utmost anyone is entitled to in this world, and
that is what each should be ready at all times to
give. Labor day is a good time to con over
these points. , s
Dormitories for the University.
The project of erecting dormitories to house
students of the University of Nebraska has re
ceived added impetus from the increase in rents
.put into force by owners of apartments in Lin
coln. The rise which went into effect Septem
ber 1 comes under the disguise of an offset to
the cost of heating these flats, and this in spite
of the fact that no end of the hot weather is in
sight and little if any coal will have to be burned
before October. The real motive is said to get
rents up before the students return.
As the location of the university and numer
ous other state institutions, Lincoln is in peril
of becoming- little more than a parasite city,
living off the taxes of the people, supplemented
by what it can get out of those whom duty or
necessity force to live there. The American sys
tem of free ouhlic education Is hamoered bv the
greed which exacts the utmost price for shelter
from boys and girls whose parents in many
cases are making heavy sacrifices to send them
to college. 3 ;
- Living costs could be diminished materially
by housing the students in dormitories, built
either by the state or'by public-spirited citizens
who ask no more than a fair profit from their
investments, and in addition to this, a more uni
form standard of wholesomeness and comfort
could be assured.
Better Times Nor Far Ahead.
Treasurer Tobin of the American Federation
of Labor voiced his disapproval of President
Harding's conference on unemployment by re
signing from the executive council of the labor
organization. "What labor wants is jobs, not
talk," he said. Thii thought is not original with.
Mr. Tobin; it hai been expressed many times of
late. Unemployment it serious; in London the
idle workmen have revolted, although they were
recipients of out-of-work pay from the govern
ment, some of them actually receiving more for
idleness thin they earned when employed; in
the United States conditioni are approaching the
situation that we "reached in 1914, when over
7,000,000 workers were unemployed.
President Harding has sought to meet the
emergency with a conference of those most in
terested, to the end that something be done if
possible to revive industry and provide jobs.
Treasurer Tobin's pique will not remedy the sit
uation, nor will President Harding's good will;
the government can not provide jobs for the job
less, nor carry them through a hard winter on
out-of-work allowance, for it has not the means.
What is possible is for the congress to hasten
the work before it, to the end that legislation
now sorely needed be passed, and the way cleared
for a revival. The revenue law, the tariff law,
and the railroad refunding bill are all essential to
any renewal of industrial activity.
In the meantime some hopeful signs are noted.
Chicago reports such activity in building as
has not been seen in many months; in Omaha
word is given out that work is to be resumed
at an early date on a long delayed project of
first-class magnitude, and from many parts of
the land come reports of encouraging nature.
Business is quiet, work is very scarce, but better
times are on the way for everybody.
, Starvation and Socialism.
Two million Russians are doomed to die dur
ing the winter, beyond the power of the nations
ot the world united in an effort to save them
'. from starvation. - Broken down transportation
lines, insufficient means of communication, pre
cluding the possibility of getting food to the
hungry, is responsible for this. Only one cause
may be discovered tor tne awtui condition; it is
a direct, inevitable effect of the communistic
experiment, tried out to the absolute limit of
lauare oy tne sovieu 01 Russia, a more icrnoie
indictment of the bolsheviki could not be written.
Yet in free America the socialist relief com-
mhtee", headed by Morris Hillquuv declines to
recognize or co-operate with the United States
government, or the Red Cross,-because the re
lief commissions formed by them are operated
"on "counter-revolutionary' lines I " In other
words, it is better to perish from starvation anc
The Church and the Home.
A decision in the district court, holding a
portion of the zoning ordinance to be invalid,
will permit the erection of a church , in a re
stricted residence district It is noteworthy that
the church was not objected to as a church, but
because the plan for its erection contemplates a
structure whose walls will project beyond the
line established for the other buildings along' the
street. A nice point is raised here, that of the
right of the congregation to depreciate the value
of the adjoining property through shutting off
the prospect by putting up a church. Something
may be said on both aides. The connection be
tween church and home ought to be so intimate
that no dispute would ever arise as to the effect
of propinquity. We believe the court has cor
rectly interpreted at least the sentiment if not
the law, and as the opinion is well reasoned, it
is fair to assume that the law is served as well
in the decision. Very likely the zoning ordinance
will get other dents as time wears on, for only
experience will show what its merits really are,
yet .there will at all times be not only a strong;
sentiment butood reason back of the effort to
maintain restricted residence districts. A city
can not be modernly equipped and managed
without such arrangements.
A Missouri as a Landing Field.
Long ago it was said of the Missouri river
that it is too thick to drink and too thin to
farm, and yet the vagrant stream has been of
some use. It may be of even greater service
when a new type of airplane now being talked
about ia perfected. This is to be an amphibious
sort of affair, like a duck, for example; capable
of extensive and rapid flight in the air, but also
built to alight and move on land or water. A
"ship" of this type could utilize the Missouri
river, and might find it admirably adapted to the
needs of aviation. Landing, the pilot might turn
the plane's nose upstream and would not need
to apply the brakes to secure an easy and prompt
stop; taking off down stream, he would find the
speed of his "boat" accelerated by the current,
and would gain headway and lift more readily.
This may solve the problem for the air mail, as
it would provide a landing place right down town.
Over in Chicago the lake might be used. No
claim of originality is made for this, as the ex
periments in progress are going on between Lon
don and Paris with the Thames and the. Seine
to furnish the rivers, neither so muddy, so wide,
or so swift as the great, river that sweep's its
royal course past Omaha's front door.
Welcome Home to Claridge
It is natural to resent the increase of rents
in Washington when those hundreds of foreign
statesmen come to the disarmament conference,
but at the same time, as long as the economic
laws of supply and demand rule, these sporadic
spasms of altruism can hardly exert any great
effect ' ..
Automobile accidents in Omaha fell off in
August to one death and 61 injuries, and the
hope is that this relief is permanent and does
not in itself constitute an accident
Careful consideration should be given the
Twenty-fourth street and allied projects. If the
work ever is to .be done, it should be started
before very long.
The Spanish army is buying mules in Amer
ica, but is it sure that the brutes will understand
the Castilian variety of profanity?
r Maybe it will serve to get people so they
observe surface traffic rules before getting ex
cited about regulations for aviation.
. Fewer automobile accidents in Omaha is sai3
to be due to the volunteer traffic officers. Thanks
are due to somebody.
Chicago boasts a building boom under way.
Omaha is getting started.
The country stni needs a good nickel cigar.
(From the New York World.)
The way of the middle wet with its prodigal
ions may bt hard for outsiders to understand
when ptey hrir of the brats band and the tumult
of ecstatic voices that welcomed Frederick Clar
idge, wrecker and former president of the Castet
ter Bank of Blair, Neb., back to his home town.
Since lait February, when his bank closed its
doors as a result of lending $400,000 on doubtful
securities, Claridge has been fugitive from
luktice, working at odd Jobs to earn a living.
Not t cent of the vanished money seems to have
lined bis own pockets. When hard times struck
Nebraska he couldn't bear to lee hii friends and
neighbors go under, so he lent them what they
needed to keep them afloat They came through
the crisis, but the bank went under.
Now he is back and his fellow-citizens weep
on his neck, vying, in the court room where he
is arraigned, for an opportunity of going on his
bond. "I love you people, so I couldn't leave
you," Garidge explained; "I came back as soon
as I had enough money. I have $175 and want
to start life anew." The fact that he is under
indictment doesn't prevent his fellow-townsmen
from loving him as much in return. There is no
drawing away of ikirts, no averting of eyes.
"Fred is back," and Fred is a good fellow.
In Wall street it wouldn't matter whether
Fred was a good fellow or not. Wall street
won't understand this forgiving spirit, this ex
altation of the banker who broke his bank over
other bankers who weathered the financial
squall. But Main street will understand it
A FUGITIVE AND YET A FAVORITE.
(From the New York Timet.)
It is not safe to assume that the inhabitants
of Blair, Neb., are essentially different from
people elsewhere, especially as regards bank
presidents who suddenly run away to parts re
mote and unknown, leaving 'the bank vaults
empty of cash and negotiable securities. One
therefore must look to local conditions for an
explanation of the enthusiastic welcome which
F. H. Claridge received from what seemingly
was a large majority of his fellow-citizens when
he returned to them after an absence of six
months and pleaded to the four indictments that
had been found against him.
The underlying peculiarity of the situation
apparently was a "complex" involving two parts
Claridge in certain bad crop years of the past
had endeared himself to a considerable number
of men by helping them through their financial
troubles and saving them from ruin, and no de
positors in his bank had lost anything, thanks
to a state law that guaranteed their money and
under which their losses had been distributed so
widely that they counted for little in the gen
eral levy.
It is not recorded in the dispatches from
Blair that the stockholders in the bank, who lost
their entire investment and presumably as much
again, shared the joy which Fred's reappearance
caused in the town, and perhaps the other resi
dents, when their first emotions have subsided,
will take a graver view of such banking as his,
even though it did not include the putting of
money into his own pockets. They still may try
to believe that the man was unfortunate rattier
than dishonest, but just what he was will be
clearer after the four old indictments and sev
eral new ones now in preparation have been
tried in court. i
Bankers, of course, should be kind, and they
even may be "good fellows," but it is extremely
well that they should remember that they handle
funds not their own, and that their generosity
should be limited strictly to their private re
sources, just as that of other people who are
honest has to be.
FACING THE MUSIC.
(From the Wichita Eagle.)
TheN president of a Nebraska bank, which
went to the wall last February, returned to his
home town after disappearing a few days before
the bank failed. He was given a reception by
his townspeople. When called upon to make
bond or go to jail a dozen former patrons of his
bank stepped up to the counter ready to sign.
The bank president fled to escape dishonor.
He took little with him. The bank's failure was
due to the contraction of credits and deprecia
tion of values. The public learned this in the
six months since the bank failed and the presi
dent fled.
His reception was an amazing thing. It
demonstrated that the public is not the fickle
element we sometimes term it. Those sturdy
Nebraskans realized that the bank president did
not cause the smash. They learned that their
banker,' who had grown up among them, rising
from office boy to the presidency, was honest
at , heart and that his only reason for fleeing
was a terror at facing his life-long friends with
news that his bank had gone under ajid taken
their money. '
"I have come back with $175 to start life
again," he told them. . " .
, His actions were so unusual from the aver
age that he won back his standing as an honest
man. If more of our bankers, who go smash,
would face the music as this Nebraska banker
has, the public would not be so prone to believe
every flame of gossip that springs up about our
financiers. .
AN OLD STORY. "
-.(From the Baltimore Sun.)
Warm hearts and soft heads seem to have
been equally in evidence in that little town of
Nebraska which so emotionally greeted its re
turning son, who is accused of having diverte-1
$800,000 of his bank's funds to improper uses.
He is now under indictment for embezzlement;
but since the state insurance fund protected the
bank's depositors from loss, no one except the
unfortunate stockholders 'had any personal
grudge against him.
Time and again America see' a phenomenon
of this sort. A man need only be a "good fel
low," and sometimes not even that, to receive
an astonishing lot of sympathy during his diffi
culties with the law. It seems to make little
difference to many citizens that a man is charged
with the fracture of laws whose observance is
fundamental to 'he welfare of society.. Insur
ance, especially fire insurance, covers a multi
tude of sins, and the Nebraska law which pro
vides insurance for depositors seems to have re
moved the sting from embezzlement It is all
very sad, but we have no doubt that there are
people who view the $50,000,000 bandits of Chi
cago with considerable admiration.
POPULAR HEROES.
x'V (From the New York Sun.)
The man who broke the bank at Blair, Neb.,
seems to be as much of a popular hero as the
man in the song, who broke the bank at Monte
Carlo. ;
Unwarranted Waste.
Throwing money in a sewer would be
frowned upon, but business men do what is just
as bad and never think about it
The findings of the Federated American En
gineering Societies Committee on Elimination of
Waste in Industry shows sins of many kinds in
this regard. An example is furnished by federal
reserve bank checks. These cannot be cut from
any .regular size of paper without a lot of paper
going into the scrap heap,
In the war period the people at Washington
sent out a questionnaire that would not fit in
any standard size filing cabinet Special cabinets
had to be built to accommodate it
And the waste ofpaper in catalogues has been
Outrageous. Of 927 catalogues examined by the
Technical Publishers association 147 different
sizes were found. What this variety means may
be appreciated when it is said the trimming of
one-quarter inch from a 6x9 page equals 7 per
cent of the cost of the paper. Philadelphia
Ledger. -
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HYBRIDIZATION AND
HUMANITY.
In a recently published lok ty
Lothrop Btoddard the tm of .
un4 Importance In the argument for
the book is an arvument tupportint
a warning the bat effeet ot rros-Ins-
racial stocks that are widely
dlffarent
When an effort Is made to mate
two specie of animal widely dif
ferent In their characteristic failure
result, The animal will have noth.
Ini to do with each other, or If the
mating la accomplished no progeny
result. If two specie somewhat
more cloMly related are mated the
result I sterile progeny. Example,
the mule.
The human racial stock are so
closely related that they will mate,
beget progeny, and the progeny Is
just as sterile as the parent. Croat
lng races, then, does not hazard the
existence of human life on the
planet, o far M the Immediate ef
fect on fertility' 1 concerned. Uut
beyond that Stoddard ha nothing
favorable to say of croeies between
white and black men or ot any of
the other mixing of breed a be
tween white, yellows, brown, rsdi,
and black.
He says two things are necetasryS
for the control existenoe of a race
it must remain Itself and It must
breed it beat. Translating thia into
term of the white race. It must not
mat with any other race and it
must keep up Its birth rate and keep
down Its death rate, lie say that
"In crosses, apeclallzed characteris
tics, great rapacities and unusual
abilities are bred out and the
progeny revert to generalised medi
ocrity. "The best field in the world for
the study of the evil effect of eroas
breeding is Central and South
America." Stoddard quote from
Garcia Calderon of Fern, Prof. Ross,
nnd other to show that the cross
ing between Indians, negroes, and
whites in these countries has pro
duced a stock that Is without most
of the good qualities of the con
tributing stocks.
Most informed observers agree
that the mixed blood of Latin
America are distinctly inferior to
the whites.- The mestizo or cross be
tween, the Indian and the white Is
superior to the mulatto or cross be
tween the negro and the white,
partly because the Indian is a su
perior being to the negro. Worst
of all is the sambos or cross between
the Indian and the negro.
In discussing crosses with other
colored races 2Stoddard says the
Eurasian or crdas between the white
and the brown men of India is with
out the good qualities of either par
ent stock. He warns against crosses
between whites and negroes, says:
"In ethnic crossings the negro dis
plays his prepotency, for black blood
once entering a human stock seems
never really bred out again."
However, there is no proof that
mixed race become infertile or ac
quire susceptibility to certain dis
eases or lose their Immunity to
others.
Grease Massago Helps.
E. R. K. Write- "A trier,
mine, who has had smallpox, has
been out of quarantine three or four
weeks, but the red spots all over her
f&GA have Tint rilunn.nr.il AnA ulnna
it is so warm and she perspires, they
ucn ana annoy ner very much, wr.at
can she use to relieve them and pre
vent marks?" ,'
REPLY.
About all she can do in to massage
her face dally with her greased fin
gers. Symptoms of Foolishness.
M. J. writes: "Can you kindly
tell me the symptoms of llabetes?
For the last two weeks I have been
drinking entirely too much water.
The more I drfnk the more thirsty
I seem to get and my t6ngue always
is dry and irritable. It cannot be
my stomach a I have taken quite a
number of physics."
REPLY. -The
symptom which is worth all
the balance put together five times
over is the presence of sugar in the
urine ash shown by chemical test.
The hot weather could explain your
symptoms. Taking physic could
also explain them. How can you ex
pect to feel well when you take
physics frequently? First thing you
know you will be taking calomel and
wondering why you feel like the
devil.
Better Rely on Doctor.
Reader writes: "My girl, 10 years
old, has Just recovered from scarlet
fever. She got along fine all through
the illness and when the doctor dis
charged the case he pronounced her
to be in good condition. Now every
one tells me the disease leaves seme
weakness. I should like to know
if there are exceptions to the rule
and i; not when are complications
apt to arise?" .
REPLY.
Not Infrequently scarlet fever
leaves heart disease, kidney disease,
or ear trouble in its wake. If your
physician said your child was all
right and the child is happy, I th'nk
I would close my ears to what the
neighbors say.
Some Amateur Mlndreadlng.
Mrs. A. L. writes: "I ehould like
a little advice about high blood pres
sure. A woman, 52 year old, has
that trouble. Do you think it best
for her to go to the mountains or the
seashore?"
REPLY.
It will make no difference. Quote
me as backing up whichever she Is
trying to get her husband to con
sent to.
CENTER SHOTS.
It must have been the under
takers' lobby that put over home
brewing Saginaw News-Courier.
"A person who has accumulated A
number of good tastes is rich," says
Dr. Frank Crane. He has to be.
Columbia (fl. C.) State.
' If Grovef Bergdoll has to keep on
traveling around in Europe it won't
be long until he needs that pot of
gold. Nashville Banner. -
The new thousand-dollar bills are
said to be very beautiful, but we
have been unable to verify the ru
mors. Arkansas Qasette.
Some people work about as hard
as the spare tire on a new car.
Syracuse Herald.
Congress Starts Thirty-Day Rest
Headline. That's one thing con
gress has started which it can finish.
Indianapolis News.
No use, fellows. That tax exemp
tion you'd ' gain by marrying
wouldn't even pay for the ring.
Nashville Tennesseao.
Every nation in the world re
joices that Ireland is not a floating
island, -Columbia (S. C.) Record,
Chicherin Thanks
United States
trnm the rkUaSlbla Udsar.t
Oeurr Chicherin, of the old ltu
slan nobility and the rsar'a tllplo.
matlo service, who ha taken service
undor Moscow and I on of the
great lord of the sovlrt. thanks
Amerlt-a for help that is coming and
nope shall gt betur acquainted.
Incidentally, lie launchv the
pet'ted soviet propaganda to nmke
political capital out of such rein
lions, purely charitable, as have been
establlnhed. His restatement ot the
aovirt case Is that the soviet want
capital on their own terms; that
Moscow wants trade relation on its
own terms, and that while petty
capitalist are not to h hanged, shot
or strangled, Lenin and Trotsky pro
pose to hang on to the lands and In
dustrial plants. The peasant is a
hopeless proposition and ought to be
let alone.
No, the Soviets haven't swung fsr
to the'richt," according to the gos
pel of Chicherin. They want to trade
with America on the same terms set
out In ltll. It is Interesting to nots
that Col. Raymond Itobln was the
soviet emlsasry In those day. This
puts the Chicago Red Cross colonel
exactly in the clasalAcation given
him by former Ambassador David
K. Francis In his book. "Russia
From the American Embassy," in
which ha calls him "The courier for
the soviet government."
Great Russian capitalism is dead,
chants Chicherin, and will never re
turn. The Soviets are wedded to
their own mud idols.
Possibly Chicherin Is honest. May
be he Is too close to what has hap
pened In Russia to sea why it is that
millions are dying there. Maybe he
la more or less Indifferent to famine
nnd things mundane' and un
Marxlan. Certainly he says nothing
Indicium that he sees Kuxsla is on
its back with famine and plague be
cause of sovletlsm.
The RuHsIa of Chicherin hits not
changed; but neither has the United
States. They are still the worlds
span they wtre In May. 11. when
Colonel Robins started home with
the soviet terms In his kit bag.
Nor is the Chicherin propaganda
and the blasts that will follow it
likely to change the American atti
tude. Russia is now more of an
"economic void" than it was when
Secretary Hughes summed it up.
Soviet exports consist mainly of
trouble. Soviet Imports are mainly
food given by charitable "capital
istic" countries to save the victims
of that same beneliclent "com
Don't Sncew."
"If VOll hfiv hav fnwr 4nn't
sneeze," is the professional warning
given by a doctor in an eastern city
to sufTerpra from "anmmBf. nnlH. "
Victims of hay fever who have never
ineu una aimpie maneuver can nave
no i-unceimon vi me reuci to De
reached in that wav. -'Or if vnn
must sneese," comes supplementary
aavice, - aon i sneeze tnrougn . the
nose, but through the mouth."
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Washington's Chance.
The disarmament conference will
meet in Washington on Armistice
dav. it ifl now nrnnna.it anil vAmaln
in session for months. This will en
able the Washington hotels to get
back the money that Europe bor
rowed Los Angeles Times.
Wisdom in Three Words.
"Disarm or bust," is the terse ul
timatum of George W. Norris of
Philadelphia to the nations. He is
governor of the federal reserve bank
of the City of Brotherly Love, and
his warning is not without meaning.
Brooklyn Eagle.
"Own-Your-Honie" Slogan Amended.
"own your nome ' is a good slo
gan, especially if you can make your
own repairs. Boston Herald.
Hope for Release
Of Debs Growing
Many Believe Harding Will
Grant Clemency to Socialist
Leader Soon.
Washington, Sept. 4. Poaaibillty
that President Harding, after the
(ormal conclusion of peace with Ger
many, may, through extension of
executive clemency, open the doori
ol the Atlanta penitentiary to Eu
gene V. Debi, socialist leader, wis
ittRgeited by administration offi
cial!. Speculation at to disposition of
hii case hat been widespread here
for leveral weeki. Reports were
general until a few dayi ago, il-
Ihnnnh without official confirms.
tion, that Attorney General Daugh
erty would recommend mai ne oe
pardoned. Thii belief, however, wss
lessened and in iomequartcn dissi.
ntd hv the stand taken hv Mr.
Daugherty in hii American liar as
sociation aadresi ot lafit vv canes,
day againit release of what he calleJ
''political offender!."
Several" official!, on having their
attention called to the stand taken
by the attorney general, immediate
ly pointed out that a distinction ex
isted between a pardon and an ex
tension of executive clemency. A
pardon. It wai explained, would op
erate to reitore Debi to the full
and nrivitrffes of citizenshin
in addition to freeing him from pris
on, while the extension ot clemency
merely would give him freedom.
These officials were itronaly of
the opinion that in view of the so
cialist leader1! age and because his
offensei have been held to be of
wordi rather than deeds, the ques
tion of clemency might be consid
ered by the attorney general and
the president.
Assertions also were made by
thee nffirialc ihnt annmximatclv
200 offender! against the war law!
now serving prison sentence! might
be treated apart irom ucds on me
nn.ciiAn nf imnntv. fanv of these
offender!, officials maintained, were
convicted of infractions of statutes
enacted before the war and that
waiving provisions of the emergen
cy act, study would have to be giv
en their casei along the lines of the
usual federal prisoner for whom a
pardon is suggested.
Veteran Union Pacific
Engineer Kills Himself
North Platte. Neb., Sept. 4. Al
bert Chamberlain, veteran Union Pa
cific railroad engineer, killed him
self by shooting here. He was
retired on a pension a few weeks ago
because of physical disabilities.
Reorganization of
"Dry" Forces Planned
(lil.i Triea.OaMke IWe Wire,
Washington, Srpt. 4. Virtual c
iiowlrd-rmriit tlut prohibition en
forcement ha not been effective in
the larger ritin of the eat and mid
dle et was given by Treasury de
partment officials when it wa nudo
known that reorganization of the
ktaffs and method! in more tlwu a
doien citici are to be undertaken im
mediately by Prohibition Oniimi-
lioner llayne. v
Mr. llaynei will go to New York
next Tuesday with t view to looking
over the situation in the metropolis,
regarded ai the worst enforcement
problem the department has to con
tend with. Previous to his returu
to Washington be will visit Boston,
r.shimorr, Pittsburgh, Columbus and
possibly Chicago. A more extensive ,
t.nr of the miildlrwcstcrn lilies,
v. here prohibition enforcement is re
garded a a difficult problem, will he
made later, it is understood.
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Another Price Reduction
The Lowest Price at Which
Ford Cars Have Ever Been Sold
I The Ford Motor Company announces the
following reductions in prices, effective as of
4 Sept. 2, 1921. All prices f. o. b. Detroit.
Old Price. New Price.
Touring, regular $415.00 $355.00
Touring with Starter and D. R .... . 510.00 450.00
Runabout, regular 370.00 325.00
Runabout with Starter and D. R.. . . . 465.00 420.00
Sedan with Starter and D.R. 760.00 660.00
Coupe with Starter and D.R. . 695.00 595.00
Chassis, regular 345.00 295.00
Truck Chassis : 495.00 445.00
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Universal Motor Company,
Adkins Motor Company,
Galbreath Motor Company,
McCaffrey Motor Company,
C E. Paulson Motor Company,
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4911 South 24th St
60th St. and Military Ave.
15th and Jackson Sts.
20th St and Ames Ave.