Omaha daily bee., 1922-06-14
Nebraska Notions

York News-Timss. II Il costs al
much TO get a nomination In Ne.
braska as II does In Pennsylvania
somebody 10 going broke.
Grand Island Independent: Sen.
ator Hitchcock predicts that the
United States will join the league OF
nations before 1894. IL would seem
that tho former president OF the
country 10 still hearing voices in
the air. that the Nebraska senator
Ia still woodrow's spokesman and
that. like Cox. he shifts another
solemn referendum" Let 'er REF
erend!"
Nebraska City Press: "can
Crime Be Cured by Psychology ?"
reads q headline. Perhaps IL can.
but 4 sawed-off shotgun In the
hands OF police who are not afraid
TO do their duty will do more.
| Edgar Howard In the Columbus
Telegram: heard a man say that
within one year Ford for Presi-
dent" clubs will be organized in
every state In the union for the
purpose Of making Henry Ford a
candidate for president OF the Unit
ed States. Some weeks ago ! was
down In Alabama. and discovered
that the people down there were
getting ready TO organize Ford for
President" clubs. And the fever
has reached Nebraska. Frank Whe-
don OF Kearney says that one "Ford
for President" club has already
been organized In Buffalo county,
and that others will follow soon.
Keep an eye on the Ford for Presi-
dent" clubs. They are already dis
turbing the peace OF mind OF many
politicians.
Grand Island Independent: The
gentlemen Of the district bench at
Omaha are advising all men to resist
the highwayman even though It cost
their lives, as a means Of eliminat-
Ing crime. May 1t be respectfully
suggested that, in addition thereto,
there be more prompt prosecution
and conviction generally Of the
criminals who are caught and not
quite SO many technicalities by the
defending attorneys or early paroles
after conviction?
The Tariff.
Hasting Tribune: There have
been all kinds of heated debates
and discussions In the upper house
Of congress In the past three weeks
on the tariff bill and 1t IL doubtful
II the people throughout the country
Have been giving very much atten-
ton to what was said.
Party politics and the tariff 60
hand in hand.
Happy will be the day when the
tariff will not be considered a party
issue-it should be taken out of
politics entirely. #a-
Just SO long as the tariff is a
party issue, we will never have a
scientific tariff bill properly con-
structed-and all efforts to bring
about such bill by political debates
will fail.
The men who are candidates for
congress this year should be warned
against dragging the tariff issue into
the party-the tariff must be taken
out Of politics If the people of the
United States are to be benefited
by 1t.
Grand Island independents: Bank
er Wentz Of Aurora, only two years
ago looked up to, respected, and
enjoying the confidence and trust
Of his fellow men, is now in the
state penitentiary as the result Of
playing false to that trust, and per-
mitting himself to be tempted by
the theory that the traditional pow
er Of money to talk, could also crate
him out of any trouble should his
escapades be discovered. Money
does talk; often its pleadings are
far too effective. But more often,
when the battle encompasses staid
principles of right and wrong it
pleads ever so eloquently and yet all
in vain. The old proverb read that
wine, women and song took captive
many a man. Today it should be
changed to hootch, flapper and
poker; but essentially 1t is the same |
thing. Each one of these factors,
and each combination of them, con-
tinues to ruin men, regulations and
business. And the first chapter al
ways reads something like: "Aw,
come on, be good mixer, not an
old fogy."