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, 1922-01-11
SHUT EN- OUT A PENETRATION.

The American Legion asks congress to put a three
Year stop to immigration" observes the Minneapolis
journal. IF three years why not thirty-three years?
y three years stop will postpone invasion just three
public and keep us American. A shorter period will
help but of itself will not suffice to save.
Three years complete shutdown, as the legion pro-
poses, is better than the three per cent seepage al.
lowed under the present act. But it is a piece of hand.
to-mouth legislation 1t allows the European hordes
to hope that finally they can bring themselves, their
near-Bolshevism, their lower standard of living, their
different psychos over here to work our deterioration
to make our political functioning more difficult, to
compromise our national loyalty, to augment our r-
cial and group disintegration, perhaps to encourage in.
surrection or to achieve revolution.
II immigration is bad for the next three years, IL
Will be bad for thirty-three. Let the legion 20 the
length of their patriotic impulse and demand that
America be kept American for a full generation. We
hope the labor unions will join the legion In the de.
mand. We hope all patriots will now give full tongue
to raise such a clamor as congress must heed.
Not Indifference, but negligence, is the defect of
cur Americanism. When reused to national peril, we
are not Indifferent at all; but SO many demands are
made upon attention that we fail to perceive a peril
until the eleventh hour.
The evil is not a transient one to be altered or re.
voked by changing circumstances. Three years from
To-Day there may be q demand for unskilled labor in
TINS country that would absorb all the immigration
that could come. But such a demand would not be a
good reason for allowing immigration. Nor is the rea.
son Tor barring immigration now the temporary un.
employment. The true reason is a permanent one
"hch VIII last a generation anyhow. The true rea.
son cannot be affected by change of circumstance. II
Is not q matter of employment or unemployment. II
: % q question OF a year or three or five.
10 we want America here, or a social Balkaniza.
IN us steadE-that is the question. Shut the gates
-+ 'Hee ana thirty years! Shut them nowl'
, 1922-01-11
The Essentials Of S~alesmanship

The possibilities of Casper can
not be measured by feeble language
AS Ex-Governor Brooks said today;
7 hope some day Il VIII be United
States eenator instead Of Governor
in his address before the woolgrowers-
Casper Is facing its banner year. You
should be proud - aid In the develop
ment OF his city. One Of b greatest
things that you can do f. to impress
upon our peopis to ~patronize home In
dustr.es 20 trade with home people.
and to buy home producta- II we do
not do this we deprive our community
of that circulating medium n as
sist IN building foreign communities
with rot their own. Our
want Of support may deny stability 10
home concerns and give u TO outside
competitors. Patrons Of other mar
kets are usually kickers on business
conditions and knockers on their home
town The man who extracts r1cney
from his own town and spends It In
another may be q patriotic citizen and
a booster, but no Is Q booster for the
other fellows toxn and q parasite
upon tho progress ans prosperity of
his own. II we p~atronize the industries
OF our own town We may not be able 70
build n sky line as great as that OF
New York where so much Of our
money Is flowing. but we viii bund a
town 81 s~uccessfui enterprises and
prosperous citizens.
, 1922-01-11
nAsEBALL PLAYERS SALARIES.

Baseball, according 10 some of the conservative
managers of the game" opines the Chicago News, sis
SO far from returning to normally as to be well on
the rosd 20 lunaey.
For instance, the New York National league club
is reported to have paid ~SlS0,O00 to the Cincinnati
club Tor the privilege of using the services Of Heinie
Groh. Other major league clubs have paid $4,000,
S4O,O 900 and $50, 900. respectively, for the right to
sign contracts with certain promising but not thor
oughly tested players in the minor leagues
Heading OF the extravagant sums their managers
are paying for these young stars of the minor leagues
tie big fellows of the major leagues perk up and de-
mand larger salaries. Babe Ruth asks for $4,000
for next season, $4,000 from his own club and $4,000
each from the seven other clubs in the league whose
parks he visits during the summer. Rogers Hornsby,
enc Of the hard hitters of the St Louis Nationals,
thinks he cannot be satisfied with less than $4,000
fol- his services In 1922.
Babe Ruth, to use q baseball phrase, certainly
does pull money in through the gate, and, in a way,
may be worth $50, 900 to the club of his league. But
if the officials Of the league should order less rubber
in the ball next year, and therefore less residence, the
Bambino's home run might be less frequent and his
drawing power accordingly diminished
Ruth may or may not get his $4,000, AID Horns
by may or may not get $4,000. If they do it will he
difficult to explain on any rational grounds why base
ball players should draw such salaries while the chief
justice Of the United States is paid only $4,000 n
year"
, 1922-01-11
The FaIlacy Of Intemaionalism
AMERICAN ECONOMIST.

consideration the aitruistic carnou,
hage OF these proposed methods Is
Tho internationaiists who urge the
cancellation OF the European debt on
tho pretense hat this course is neces.
sary to the reimbursement OF world n.
nancos. truthfuily speaking. are mere
ly propagating IA doctrine which has
for its aim the promotion of their
game OF gambling In international
currency and trade.
In considering the tariff policy of
the United States. and the many ar
suments and warnings OF retaliation.
it is well to nzk. "For what part OF
our commercial. Industrial and agri.
cultural are we indebted 10
foreign countries? What did Europe
ever do to promote industrial and com.
nercial greatness for American
Tho objects for all nations arp the
re-establishment OF the industries de-
stroyed by tho war. the retention of
the Increased power of production
made necessary by the war, or the
promotion OF measures looking to a
superior system of self-protection in
the future.
, 1922-01-11

Your uncle Warren Harding is not devoid Of diplc-
macy. Coming, as he does. from a country where sucn
things are taught in both day school and Sunday
school, it is to be expected that the lessons have been
If more or less profit. 1t is seen in the White House
dinners he is giving to the senate and house leaders
and the leaders Of the old guard and farm bloc fac
tons of the majority party.
The object is plain and commendable. 1t is to recon-
ejIe the differences of the several factions as to legis-
lation and smooth the way for its passage through the
two houses. And in an effort like this, the president
is particularly skillful and in most cases successful
So to speak, the two houses have been running loose
with divisions and subdivisions and with no apparent
COHESION of the majority. 1t is a congressional phase
that has been known before and in the present case a
passing of leadership from one section Of the country
to another, from the east to the west
The president with his acknowledged ability in con-
Citation will sooth ruffled feelings and soften rough
spots and present a working program that will be vel
coined.
The passing Of old leaders and the disagreement of
the newer ones has disturbed the ordinarily even
operation of the legislative machine.
Out of the conferences with the president will come
better things.
, 1922-01-11

Great Britain up to a few months
ago employed = preferential tariff
policy among the members of her
vast empire. by which each member
offered such Inducements and prefer
ences In its trade with the other mem
beers as to make Il more profitable for
them to trade with zach other than
IL would be to trade with other coun'
tries. Even this system OF preferen'
tiai tariffs could not Withstand the
destructive ravages OF her ~free-trade
policy, and October. 1891. found Eng
land. in an enort TO save herself from
industrial ruin. casting aside her pol
icy OF free-t-ade. and inaugurating a
protective tariff system. What a ter
ribic shock this must have been TO
those disciples of Golden. who at
every mention OF protection would
point to free-trade England As an ar
gument in favor of their foolish doc
trinei
Free-trnders talk about our foreign
trade. Our entire foreign trade Is
only a small percentage Of our total
domestic and foreign trade. So far as
domesticl prosperity is concerned. our
foreign trade Is practically n negii-
gible quantity. A nation prospers
only go far as her domestic prosper
ity goes. The people who must be
kept 1 n employment. the land that
must be titled. the factories that must
be kept going. and the railroads that
must be kept running. are those with
in our borders. all OF which go To
make up a prosperous and successful
nation.
To the casual observer. the many
plans and suggestions offered by in
ternationnlists for the solution Of the
foreign debt problem. would appear
to be the panacea for. all the worlds
economic Ills But on serious
, 1922-01-11

recteo, = compromise winch checks the dram that an
imperlsIsuc naval competition would entail and which
eliminates the disorders produced by indemnities that
cannot De paid. America could AFFORD TO take an &C
I've part IN the consolidation Of European peaes and
prosperity. In so far as American claims upon the al
lled governments represent a crushing burden upon
the allied peoples America might properly be expected
TO entertain proposals for their remission In tbs
meantime It is just as well that congress refuses to
entertain such proposals There is no advantage in
taking the attitude Of & lenient creditor towards ma
tons whose policies, national and International are
carrying them remorselessly toward bnkruptey. Eu-
rope will have to Try in good faith to put her own
house in order Il she wishes her difficulties 20 receive
sympathetic attention from the United States"
, 1922-01-11

II Won want to be carried back to the days OF VINO
eyed and impossible socialism with its rantns appea
40 reason and raving against the rich ana near IT, ~
r.rn,e the rawlings Of the nonpartsan league ana It's
disciples of discomfort -o,ov
instead Of pulverizing Wall Street and the money
rovrr Il /. now big business that is blamed for all Ehe
ills Of mankind -r
The victims of the present exploitation, however
ara the same. The farmer and the man out OF wofs-
ms farmer. because In war REIMBURSEMENT, MS proc
ucts are at the beginning of things, the pass on re-
vired prices. No one denies he is being temporary
pinehed. Everyone is more than willing to grant an
possible help to restore his economic status 10 Ge-
served prosperity. The man out OF employment, the
laborer. is in somewhat the same predicament- Eco
nomic law governs the one, the law OF supply ana ee-
mand the other. Time only can restore these Two I'M
rortant interests to the condition of good fortune we
al desire them to enjoy. ,
(, II Is this seeking advantage In the misfortunes o,
the people, and unfortunate circumstances produeeo
by world events over which we could have no possible
control, that disgusts every honest citizen with the
non-partisan league and its methods. The league
thriyes only upon calamity. Its promises are prepos-
ferrous and unreasonable, in the light Of its own MS
tory. and no person of information takes the league
or its theories seriously.
, 1922-01-11
FOREIGN INFLUENCE IN AMERICA.

The Detroit Free Press quotes a high school prin-
cipal Of that city when addressing an audience of for
eien born that foreign born pupils and the children of
foreign born parents are making the best showing in
the public schools and that there is evidence that they
will be running the country when they grow up.
This may be, but the history of the country hard
ly supports the prediction. Leaving out Alexander
Hamilton and Albert Gallatin, who were not born in
the United States but were in the country before the
Revolution, the average American viii have difficulty
in thinking of any foreign born statesman who has
achieved prominence in American affairs except Carl
Schurz and Franklin i. Lane. The present chairman
of the senate judiciary committee, Knute Nelson, falls
into that class and there are others but they are not
common. In the mass the foreign born element has
exercised a large influence in American affairs. They
have made great inroads, for instance, on the Puritan
Sunday, but when the fight was started for a little old.
fashioned l~egislated morality it was not the foreign
born element that put over the prohibition amend.
ment.
However, Principal MiIlers news Is welcome. The
pupils of whom he speaks will certainly have a share
in the government Of the United States and their pres.
et diligence is evidence that their share of the work
will be we'll done. They viii have their chance to run
the county IL they can, and il the country lives w
TO lis ideals it will prove so good for their descend,
ants that within a generation or so they will be a.
much American as any descendant of John Smith and
Pocahontas."
, 1922-01-11
COMPROMISE CONFERENCE NEXT.

What Europe needs worst of ALL" suggests the
New Republic, "fs q conference to hasten the process
Of compromise which alone can save the continent from
general bankruptcy and disorder. Such q conference
would no doubt be called to discuss economic and fl
nancial questions, but it would promptly appear that
such discussion would amount to nothing until the ma
1or political issues lad been cleared away. The role
of America in the political discussion would necessar-
NY be little more than that Of spectator, Just as the
role OF France in the Pacific conference has been that
of spectator.
After g workable political compromise has been eff.
, 1922-01-11
INVOLVING LOCAL
NEWSPAPER IN COURT

CHEYENNE. wyo.. Jan ia suit
wherein W. b. Holiday OF Denver.
seeks to secure a cancellation Of . note
held by tho Citizens bank of Casper.
Il on trial in the United States district
court here. Holiday claims hat he
did not receive n valuable c~onsidera-
ton for the note. which was executed
IN pursuance OF a plan 10 purchase the
Casper Herald. a daily publication
, 1922-01-11
By LILLIAN vAN BUReH.

Our beautiful mountain sunsets.
Drifting clouds OF every hue.
Gray. crimson. gold and purple.
How they make me think OF you
Reaching deep into shadowy canons
Responding the dome of blue.
lowering DER chasms and valleys.
oh. they make me think Of you.
Oh. Jul Western mountain sunsets
Gorgeous skies Of every hue;
As I watch the drifting spiendor
Dear. II makes me think OF you.
, 1922-01-11

BAN JUAN DEL SUR. Mic. Jan IL
Tho volcano Ometepe on the island
Of omefepe Is In active eruption Many
thousands Of coco plants have been
destroyed. large areas Of grazing lands
are covered with ashes. and many cat
tie are dcad-
The Inhabitants OF the adjacent VII.
lzsez- terrified by rumbitngs. are flee
ing to one Of safety Considerable
lava Is flowing. The eruption is the
worst since 1885.
, 1922-01-11

Miss Mildred Brown has been ehos-
en- secretary-manzger Of tho chamber
OF Of the city Of Alton. IL
, 1922-01-11

Reduced prices on first g-ade oual.
ity brown hair switches at Marineijo
Beauty Parlor, Smith and Turner BaI.
cony. 1-9-3t
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-15
MKelvie Urges
Credit to Europe
Tells Governors Meet This
Would Increase Demand
for L. S. Farm Products.

White sulphur Springs, W. Va,
Dec. 14.--F'arm legislation and Indus
trial problems occupied the attention
OF the 14th annual conference of gov.
ernors today at it's opening session.
The chief executives of nearly a
score Of states We're in their chairs
when Governor Sproul OF Pennsyl-
vania called the meeting.
Granting additional credit by the
United States TO foreign countries hav.
ing stable forms OF government. with
certain restrictions. was recommend.
ed by S. r. Mckelvie. governor OF Ne
braska, speaking before the confer
ence. as n means of increasing the de-
mand for American agricultural
products, thereby strengthening the
farming industry.
In making this recommendation
Governor Mckelvie said he did not
favor cancellation OF foreign debts 10y
the United States and before grant
ing additional credit to q foreign na.
ton tho governor stated the United
States should first ascertain whether
the applicant had reduced its. armed
force to sound peace basis. He urg-
cd payment Of obliga tions now owing
the United States. by nations maintain
ing military organizations jeopardiz-
ing world peace.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-15
Barrows Occupies
Governor S Office

Lincoln, Dec. 14.-When fully sat
isfied that Governor S. Il. Mckelvie
had crossed the state limo en- route
to West Virginia, where he delivered
an address before the conference of
governors today, Lieutenant Governor
Pelham A. BarroTs established him.
self as acting governor OF Nebraska
by occupying the governors suite at
the state house.
The ..bsence of Governor McKelvie
from Nebraska Will continue until
December q. it was stated by his
secretary.
Before taking up the duties of act
ing governor. Mr.. BarroNs received
an opinion from Attorney General
Clarence a. Davis which reads in part
as follows:
Il take it that YOU become acting
governor as soon as the governor
crossed the state line, whether you
have been officially notified or not.
This must be so, as the state is GER
tainly not without chief executive
merely because someone fails TO mott
fy you.
Mr.. BarroEs said no one notified
him in this case. although he left Ill.
reotions at the governor s office where
he might be found.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-15
Cold Wave Headed
Here, Is Forecast

The cold wave flag was hoisted for
the second time this week over the
federal building. at yesterday after.
noon.
The mercury VIII drop to between
I and 10 degrees below zero by
dawn Friday according 10 the federal
weather bureau.
The official forecast given out yes
terday was snow and colder laec
night, Friday fair and colder,
The cold wave flag was hoisted tho
first timo this year last Monday
when the mercury slid down to de-
grees below zero Tuesday morning
for the coolest temperature Of the
year in Omaha.
The federal forecast for the Mis-.
sissippi valley for the week was be-
low normal temperatures.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-15
Days Activities
in Washington

The census bureau reported that
cotton consumption in November was
tho greatest III any month since Oct.
ober. 1917.
Hearings Oh oil and gasoline prices
wero resumed b. a. senate manufsic.
turers subcommittee With w. G..
Teagle. president of the Standard Oil
Company of New Jersey, as a witnesA
Secretary Denby announced that
drilling Of offset gas wells to prevent
draining of oil reserves on naval 70
serve No. in California. would pro.
coed Immediately.
Senator Brookhart. republican.
| Iowa, offered an amendment TO the
administration shipping bill for pay.
ment of subsidy TO American Indus.
trial and agricultural producers, while
plans were continued for displacing
the measure In the senate for farm
credits legislation.
Secretary Wallace, in testimony be-
fore the Interstate Commerce commits
sion, supported the application OF
western states for lower Transports
ton rates on hay and grain
President Harding, in q letter read
at the National Council Of Farmers
Cooperative Marketing associations.
| endorsed their activities as an effec-
| tive means of providing relief 10 agri-
culture. Secretary Wallace also en-
dorsed them.
Two senate committee hearings on
various farm credits proposals con-
tinued with Eugene Meyer. Jr, direc-
tor of tho war finance corporation,
among the witnesses urging enact
ment Of relief legislation.
y resolution was offered in the
house by Representative Newton OF
Missouri. endorsed by 20 other repub
lican representatives, for a $4,000, 900
appropriation to relieve famine condi
tions in Germany and Austria.
The house. beginning consideration
Of the naval appropriation bill. was
told by Representative Lineberger,
republican. California that President
Harding has been. engaged with the
question Of negotiating with other
powers for limitation In construction
of smaller craft. Representative Kel-
ley. republican, Michigan. in charge
of the measure, said the Navy depart
n1ent had recommended a construc-
tion program costing 1881 100000.
Representative Keller. republican.
Minnesota, refused to proceed further
before the house judiciary COMMITTEES
with his impeachment charges against
Attorney General Dausherty. Geclar-
ing the proceedings were "a comic
opera" Hewas summoned 20 appear
before the committee Friday to give
testimony under oath as to his
charges of high crimes and misde-
meanors against Mr.. Daugherty.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-15
Frisco and .4tl1nfd
Hold Tmo.Wdy Wireless
Telephone Conversation

San Francisco, Dec. 14.-San Fran
cisco and Atlanta. Ca. established
radio telephone communication last
night IN what IS believed TO be a rec
ord feat for two-way conversation
on the air. The same communication
vac established between san Fran
cisco and Kansas City. Mo, an ex.
tended conversation travelling both
ways with the Same case as over a
telephone.
kFDB. the station Of the Mercan-
tile Trust company OF California, 10.
Gated on Telegraph hill, San Frncisco,
using it's experimental call. 6XB.
talked at . this morning with aHV,
the experimental station OF the Swee-
ney Automobile school station at
Kansas city.
After an exchange of pleasantrles,
kansas City reported WGM. the sta
fion of the Atlanta Constitution, had
been trying 10 get Telegraph hill. The
local station tuned In for WGM and
the Atlanta station returned its call
letters TO San Francisco. The dis
tance between Atlanta and San Fran
cisco Is Approximately $3.50 miles air
line