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Omaha daily bee., 1920-03-14

Fremont, Neb, March 12.-To the
Editor of The Bee: Do you know
that our constitutional convention
now in session at Lincoln is about
to fall down on about the only point
wherein 1t could improve upon our
present constitution, namely, a pro-
vision for greater expedition in the
administration of Justice?
This convention began its duties
under most favorable auspices. The
election Of its delegates removed the
threat of radicalism. They seemed
to have the single aim of devising
the best constitution possible /
thought them the finest body of
men I ever saw assembled in the
capitol. And yet, after months Of
time wasted in polite consideration
of nonsensical proposals foredoomed
to defeat. their mental powers seem
to have become so exhausted that
they are on the very verge of monu.
mental blunder in providing for q
supreme court.
Their present plan seems to be as
follows:
/. Leave the number of supreme
court judges at seven, as 1t now is,
one to be elected from each con.
gressional district and the chief
justice at large.
/. To require majority of the
seven for decision.
8. To empower the supreme court
to call in district judges to assist
the court In its work.
This plan is both inadequate and
vicious II will result in no prea fer
expeditlon OF Juolclal business. and
is hkely 10 lead TO sort OF 1udl.
clal courtesy among the district
judges 10 alllrm each others de-
cislons ana thereby subVert the re-
viewing function OF the supreme
court
On the opJectlon OF lnadequacy'
tne error perslsts tnat an increase
in the number Of judges OF the su-
preme court VIII result IN a cor
responding increase III the output OF
decisions. Ihis IS not the fact as
the figures presently to be given
demonstrate. III the NUMBER or our
supreme court Judges were increased
to 10 or Il (and the constitution still
required a majority or them to pro-
nounce decision), there would not
be any increase in the NUMBER OF
decisions. There would be no lessen
ing of delay. A moments rellectlon
should convince anyone that 1t taxes
more time for a majority OF II TO
agree than 1or majority OF three.
Also. as the number increases the
sense of judicial responsibility de-
creases, IN d concentration or
thought diminishes. Seven men can
husk field OF corn quicker tnan
three men. but 1t does not at all foi.
low that majority or them could
come to an agreement sooner. ANA
yet our past legislatures ana our
present convention have failed to ap-
preciate that simple fact. Also, they
have been blind to the facts ana
figures, part of which are as tol-
lows:
In 1895 our supreme court OF
just three judges decided 5f4 cases.
In 1907 our court OF three judges
and six commissioners decided 56i
cases-seven less. So nine men IN
1907 decided seven less cases than
three men did in 1895.
Again in 1908, our seven supreme
court judges decided but 39o cases.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-03-14

that the code bill only aims at better govern
ment with less friction and at lower cost. De-
bate will be general before the vote is taken.
and whether the entire law Is placed in the
hands of each voter or not. the explanation
should be made clear, that it may be intelli-
gently DISPOSED Of
Omaha daily bee., 1920-03-14
Value Of Nebraska Lands.

The report Of the Bureau of Crop Estimates
on the average value of Nebraska lands, as ex-
pressed in terms of dollars and cents, indicates
general advance of $50 per acre over the fig
ures of year ago. The values given are
neither speculative. nor basis for taxation, but
an estimate of worth as income producing
property. Farm prices on products enter into
Omaha daily bee., 1920-03-14
An Interesting Political Prophesy.

Mrs. Elizabeth Bass of Chicago, head of the
womans section Of the national democratic
committee, speaking the general subject of
women in politics at the Hitchcock banquet,
and Of woman suffrage in particular, said:
The party that makes it the easiest for
woman to enter her heritage, will reap the
benefit of her vote.
Republicans will not take issue with the elo-
quent lady on that prophesy and pledge. That
the women of the nation should be grateful to
the party that is giving them the ballot and
making it easy for them to enter into their
heritage Of equal political rights with men, is
natural and right; and the definite declaration
that it is their intention to vote with that party
comes with peculiar force in democratic gath
ering.
The record, so far as made up in the ma
tonal contest for equal suffrage is as follows:
A republican congress passed the suffrage
amendment two weeks after it came into power.
Twenty-eight republican legislatures in as
many states have ratified the amendment
No republican legislature has voted against
its ratification Only six democratic legislatures
have ratified the proposal. Six other demo-
cratic legislatures have voted down ratification;
and these bodies, hostile to womens rights, con-
stitute the very heart of the south, which has
controlled the democratic party for genera
tons. They are Maryland, Virginia, South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.
Yet to be heard from are Florida, Tennessee,
North Carolina and Louisiana.
The great northern republican states have
made woman suffrage possible. The controlling
democratic southern states have opposed it.
That is the record It will be entirely in
keeping with the woman's clear sense of justice
and intelligent reaction to truth, for her to ally
herself politically with the republican party,
which has proved itself her political friend,
rather than with the democracy, which has op-
posed her advancement to political rights from
the beginning.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-03-14
SPRING" /"

I hear the spring calling.
Oh, bid me not stay.
II brings birds and sunshine
To make the world gay.
Too long has the winter
A captive held me:
From his icy-cold grasp
Now ! am free.
The spring brings the flowers
That have slept meath the snow,
And brooks that were tce-locked
Are beginning to flow.
All now are calling
And | must obey.
Long I've been waiting.
oh, bid mo not stay.
--BELLVlEW.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-03-14

France will not ask the president who h
was looking at when he wrote to Senate
Hitchcock but this does not lessen the deligh
afforded.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-03-14

Admiral Sims is now producing the papers
which makes it all the more interesting to
Josephus Daniels.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-03-14

The statute of limitations runs against tn
grounding today.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-03-14

Lincoln has adopted the "junior" high school
plan, and will start on its first building this
year. Omaha led off on the idea, which seems
to be spreading.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-03-14

German politics continue to be interesting.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-03-14
[QDNY
The Day we Celebrate.

Morris Levy. capitalist and
philanthropist. born 1854.
DR.. A. F. Tyler. physician, born
1881.
Thomas r. Marshall. vice presi-
dent of the United States, born at
North Manchester, Ind, Sc years
ago.
Maxim Gorky, celebrated Russian
novelist and reformer, born at Mini
Novgorod, So years ago,
William N. Selig, pioneer motion
picture producer, born in Chicago. Sc
years ago.
T.. c. Boville, for many years
deputy minister of finance of Can.
ada, born in County Antrim. ireland.
so years ago.
DR.. Richard E. Burton. dean of
the English department OF the Uni.
versity Of Minnesota, born at Hart
ford, Conn. So years ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-03-14
Thirty Years Ago In Omaha.

S. s. Curtis began the erection of
three-story and basement brick
carriage warehouse at 3l4-318 South
Eighteenth street, to cost about $l2,,.
900.
Mr.. Nixon Waterman, the Small
Change" artist Of the Chicago
Herald, called at The Bee offices
He was formerly employed on this
paper.
Captain Rustin. Ben Gallagher,
and Louis Schroeder returned from
Mexico, where they had been to in
spect their gold mine the eel
Refugio.'
c. c. Belden was in Chicago on
business,
Omaha daily bee., 1920-03-14

slick-IIow do you get 80 many girls.
Slicker--oh. 1 just sprinkle q little
gasoline on my handkerchief--Stsnford
Chaparral.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-09-29
Harding Appreciates
Support of Women

Writing to Mrs. Mary Hatch Will
lard, chairman of the Republican Com
mittee of One Hundred, composed of
women prominent in the pre-conVen-
ton campaigns of various candidates
for the Presidential nomination, Sen
ator Warren G. Harding says:
81 am especially glad that the ladies
whose names are appended to your
letter have reached. the conviction that
they can best exercise the suffrage,
which has been accorded as right, by
allying themselves with a party in
whose principles and policies they find
reflex of their own views and con-
victions.
GAS citizens of the Republic THEN
interests, their aspirations, their well
fare are involved in the same problems
as those which confront the male vot-
ers. Certainly there should be no dl-
vision in the electorate along sex lines
~ accept most gratefully the tender
of support by these loyal members OF
the Republican party and these for,
ward looking citizens and electors OF
the United States"
The letter was in reply to resolu-
tions of support from Mrs. Hatch's
committee.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-09-29
"READ THAT, Mr.. cox"
AND Mr.. COX DID READ

A little incident connected with cam
didate Cox's recent campaign visit
to New York indicates that the Demo-
cratic nominee is striving TO forget
certain indiscreet editorials which ap-
peared in his newspaper, the Dayton
News, before the owner of the paper
aspired to the Presidency.
As the Democratic nominee was
leaving the Hotel Commodore after
luncheon a commercial traveller forced
his way through the throng of curious
spectators and thrust into Mr.. Coxs
hand an editorial clipping which prov
ed to be his denunciation Of the
commercial travellers of the United
States. Read that, Mr.. Cox" COM
manded the travelling man. The Demo
cratic candidate unfoIded the frayed
column of newspaper matter, glanced
at the heading. scanned the FIRST para
graph, flushed scarlet to the ears and
crumpling the offensive and offending
editorial In his fist mumbled some
thing which none Of those near him at
the time would repeat and hurried to
his waiting automobile.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-09-29
Act Quickly

Do the right thing at the right time
Act quickly in time of danger.
Kidney Pills are most effective. Ask
you neighbor.
Plenty of Redwood Falls evidence
of their worth.
Mrs. E. M. Warner, Mill St., Red
wood Falls, says: 81 had kind of
smothery feeling come over me and
every bone in my body ached. l felt
tired and nervous and was in this
condition for several days. At first
| didn't know what was wrong with
me until my kidneys began to show
that they were disordered. My back
ached by spells, too. l decided to try
Doan's Kidney Pills, as they were SO
well recommended by a neighbor and
was more than pleased with the re-
suits. Doan's Kidney Pills cured me
and felt better in every way"
Price 6Oc, at all dealers. Don't sim
ply ask for kidney remedy get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Warner had. Foster Milburn Co..
Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-09-29

Gus campaign, has come out squareIy
against the idea of separate Wo-
mans Party. Under a Chattanooga
date-line the Associated Press has sent
to all its members the following:
''The women of the nation should
join with the two great parties ana
should not attempt to form party OF
their own, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Colt.
President Of. the National American
Woman Suffrage Association, decIar-
ed today in a formal statement
"'There is no mortgage on the wo-
mans vote" she declared. But they
should ally themselves with the exist
ing political parties. | hope they will
remain independent in thought anc
will determine their choice Of parties
platforms and candidates after intel
ligent reflection"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-09-29
No "WOman's Party"

Mrs. Gait Urges Suffrage t To Stick
To Present Organizations.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-09-29
London Wins.

Over in London they say they have
the prettiest ankles, meaning, the
smallest in circumference. The aver
age, as reported by cable, is seven
inches. And Britishers go so far as
to say feminine ankles there are small
Ter, and by the same token, prettler
than those exhibited by the fashion
ably short skirt this side of the Allan
tic.
Be that as it may. Does anyone
care? Is it something to be proud
of?
The living skeleton of the circus has
a simmer ankle than that which Sc
firmly upholds the latest lady on the
nearby platform. Would you say 1t
is prettier because SKINNER?
So it may be just as well to conceed
to London the more or less doubtful
of having the prize skinny ankles
Des Moines News.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-09-29
Advice to Lovers.

Woman suffrage seemingly being
ratified, it behooves young man in
love to gain thorough knowledge OF
the political issues of the day:
Fancy him calling on his girl on
Wednesday evening-isn't that the
evening for calling ?-and saying to
her: "Where will you go tonight ?"
And she replies Let's stay in the
parlor this evening and you tell me
all about the League of Nations, and
especially about that Article K.
don't know thing about them and
YOU know the election is coming on
All, young man, that will be the
hour of judgment for you. She viii
discover quickly whether her hero is
but man with feet of clay and head
of bone.
How will you get by, young man
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-09-29
What will you say 7?

W nat VIII you say
Nov let's begin with Article X, -
she will go on. Just what is it ?"
Chilly you have answered her ques-
lions at baseball games, and have won
reputation with her as a fellow whp
seems to know everything, but here i,
where ignorance at length intrigucs
and betrays you.
Better study up, young man
If woman's suffrage thus will pro-
mote political education among young
men who desire to be well thought of
by their girls, that will be another
feather in the cap of the good cause
-Des Moines News.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-09-29

In 1904 one of Mr.. Cox's newspapers
denounced the army of travelling sales
men as "unmitigated bores" What
would he say now that he desires their
votes7-South Bend (Ind) Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-09-29
A. J. PRAXEL
REPRESENTATIVE at Large
Redwood and Brown Counties
Candidate for Reelection.
For Commissioner.

IN / am a candidate for the office of
%County Commissioner for the 5th dis
trict and your support during the cam
paign and vote at the general election
November End will be appreciated.
A. M. Monsoon.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-09-29
GCIDMEDAL.
h !!!!1!;!4.Q on

The national remedy of Holland for over
200 years; it is an enemy of all pains re-
sulting from kidney, liver and uric acid
troubles. All druggists, three sizes.
Lock for The name Gold Medal on every bex
and accept no imitation
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-09-29

One of the candidates viii nos
make any ar-platform or front
porch speeches this year. The waI-
den won't let him.-Topeka Capital.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-09-29
BETTER
DEAD

Life is burden when the body
is racked with pain. Everything
worries and the victim becomes
respondent and downhearted. To
bring back the sunshine take
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-09-29

Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, the Gen
eral -in-Chief Of the Woman's Suffrage
armies during their final and victori-
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-06-03
Valuable
Records Are
Lost In Fire

The actual property loss in the fire
which destroyed the moneI foundry Of
the Edwards Valve company at East
Chicago Tuesday night has been placed
by officials Of the company at between
$4,000 and $4,000 with only a part or
it covered by insurance
The building. which housed the
foundry was a total loss. but some Of
the machinery was not badly DANA ged
by the fire. large number of pa
terms which were in the building were
DESTROYED and the loss Of them will
cause the company much delay and ex \
pense before the work can be continued.
The loss, which is the hardest blow
to the company. is the destruction of
the company's records Of the last three
years. which were in storage in one
section of the building. These records
can not be duplicated and their loss is
an important one to the company.
No cause for the fire has been de-
terrnined. All fires in the foundry were
put out at o'clock as usual and since
the fire did not start until after no
reason can be found for the fire. II is
evident that the flame started inside
of the building so that sparks from out
side could not have been the cause.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-06-03
EAST CHICAGO POLICE
KEPT IN QUE WYE
Two Shootings and Six Rob
berries and Some Folks
Want Force Reduced.

With the police department Of East
Chicago shork Of the usual number of
officers and S+sersisten& demand on tho
part Of some citizens for further re-
duction in the force. the police reports
for yesterday and last night show a
total Of two shootings and six rob
berries
Alex Greganich, who lives at us 15fst
street was walking in Kosciusko park
last evening shortly after . o'clock
when he was shot through the left
breast by an unseen assassin. The bull
let passed just above the heart and
caused wound which may prove fatal.
Af.er medical attention bv DR.. r p.
Hale. tho injured man was taken 70 ST.
Margaret's hospital at Hammond. where
little hope for his recovery is held
Greganich who is about 45 years old
and was employed BY the General Amer
lean Tank Car corporation. knows Of
no one WHO would have any reason for
shooting him and saw no one in the VI
cinity either before or after the Shoot
ing. He has a wife and family in the
old country. The police have found no
clews
steve Kocoick who lives AT 56os Ivy
~fff'Is jlQihil8 fATONTs was r1dfnE
hicylce on his way to work when he
was shot through the hand bv some
man who passed in a Ford. After the
shooting tho man threw the gun out Of
tho machine and drove on It is be-
heved that the man in the machine was
drunk
six different robberies and hold-ups
wcre reported: Guest Budros. 3561
Block avenue. was held up BY three
negroes who took $40 and his watch ana
chain. The house Of James Lattas.
1924 Cedar street. was broken into and
s11s was taken. The home OF Mrs Gay.
1907 137th street. was entered with
loss Of SIS and cameo brooch. Ben Rey,
1851 Block avenue, lost suit Of clothes
and an extra coat 70 an Intruder Her
man Gustafson. 3545 Michigan avenue.
lost S15 when some one entered his soft
drink parlor through the transom over
the back door and the American Drug
store at Chicago and Tod avenues lost
three revolvers when some ono broke
the window with a brick In addition
tho police are asked to help Miss Kyle
4 teacher Of the Harrison school to find
her pocket book conta ning A $50 Lib
erty bond and $40 cash, which she lost
on a South shore car.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-06-03

and presenting credentials showing
that they were druggists OF Tulsa.
Okla. they would obtain the amount
of dope specified in the form and would
depart. Purchases had been made in
Chicago. New York and Hammond
This was the plan adopted when they
called at the offices OF the F. s. Betz
Co, in Hammond. AS there was moth
ing in their appearance or credentials
to cause doubt. their orders were fill
ed by the Hammond firm The arrests
followed when they attempted to leave
town.
The men had been living recently
1t the Victoria Hotel in Chicago, but
the greater part of their time seems to
have been spent in travelling Accord
ing to the signed statement of Nc
Gonagill. the stuff was disposed OF
among the negroes of the Southwest
Purchased at SIS an ounce. it gener-
ally retailed at about $40 an ounce
One trip to New York alone nered
the smugglers $4,000. Using the same
blank forms as found on them at
Hammond they had invested $500 in
dope which they sold for $4,000.
The five counts against the men in
the federal court will be for acting as
dealers in morphine and cocaine with
out having registered with the collec-
tor of internal revenue and paying the
tax; using narcotic order forms for
the purpose Of unlawfully procuring
drugs; nnlawfully Transporting drugs:
having drugs in their possession with
intent to sell same; fradulently pro-
curing and executing narcotic order
forms with intent to unlawfuily use
same. Some Of the counts carry as
high as fve-year sentences
The men will be given a preliminary
hearing Tuesday before L. s. Commis-
sioner Charles Surprise in Hammond
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-06-03
DOCUMENTS
JEOPRAD|zE
VALIDITY
Intricate Legal Questions In
Supreme Court To
Decide UCon
BT HARRY L. ROGERS

STATE CORRESPONDENT l. n. sEsv:@EI
WAsHINGTON. June s-Dou.s ~
thrown upon the validity or title or
thousands OF oil leases in the state OF
/ Texas by ancient documents brought
to the attention Of the department OF
justice today following litigation be-
tween Oklahoma and Texas involving
oil deposits in the Red River district.
LEASE JUMPERS MAY GET THEM
Unless the documents now at the dis
posal OF Atty. Gen. Palmer are de-
clared by the supreme court to be in
valid or applicable, more than a
| billion dollars worth of oil lands in
Texas may pass out of the control Of
their present holders and become the
property OF the first lease jumper"
who files upon them.
ROYALTY CLAIMS IN QUESTION
Should il be decided that the lease
holders affected must comply with the
new federal oil land leasing law TO
retain title to the property. they would
have less than three months in which
to do SO; would be subject TO 20 per
cent tax on all oil removed between
February %, 1920 and the date upon
which the new lease was issued and
thereafter would be required to pay the
usual 12k per cent royalty to the U. S.
iE1OAL u ESIiONS INV OIINED
The nice legal questions involved
nave TO do with the old Spanish law
regarding mineral rights, international
law, regard treaties Of annexation
and modern statutory law as exempli-
fed in the acts of congress.
The principal documents bearing up
on the case are a formal conveyance
OF plenary power by the republic of
Texas TO its ministers at Washington
dated Nov. 16 1886; a treaty of an
nexation signed by Secretary of State
John c. Calhoun for the L s. and
Isaac Van Zandt and J Pinckney Hen
derson. for the republic of Texas; the
diary of President James X Polk for
the year 1s45 a joint resolution Of
congress erecting the now state of
Teas" the L. s. mineral land law
of 1866; and the federal oil land leas-
ing act of Feb. 25 1920.
WITH DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
All these documents are ither on file
with the department Of justice or are
in the archives of the department OF
state.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-06-03
OLD LANDMARK
IS REMOVED

VALPARAISO. Ind. June s-The Old
Gould House. which in the civil war
days was the prominent hostelry Of
this city. is being removed from its
present site in the business district.
to the rural district. where it will
serve as a home
The old structure was the scene ot
many a gathering in the antebellur
days of the war OF fse1-1ss5. Prom
inent men were guests at the tavern.
and many personages stopped here on
their way to the western country
The site on which the building stood
will be used for a new hotel building
costing $1,000 which Will be built
BY Frank NJ. Cleary. Of Chicago and
syndicate Of business men OF this city,