Omaha daily bee., 1922-05-31

ufcf, FORMER thrthpet OF thu lrhtstaE
lure and the constitutional eanNens
ton, suggests that all taxing bodies
meet with citizens at once and asfee
upan future program OF economy,
as has been done in this county With
the result Of u saving Of probably
ons.shlfd over former leyies.
Kearney Hub There will he no
resf.ts that Clifford finehot has
succeeded in breaking the power Of
the old republican machine In Penn
sylyania, now that the old leaders
are all dead and new order il nat.
nrai as well as desirable, CLIFFORD
pinehot as governor and George
Wharton Pepper as senator VIII
warthily represent the Keystone
state and the party 10 which they
belong,
Beatrice Express Investigation
% war frauds will he rushed" In
The house. Evidently that body
wanted TO make sure the war was
over before taking any drastic
uteps,
Falrbury News: The democratic
party. we are told. is on a stili hunt
for campaign issue. II worst
comes To worst they may still call
In Bryan. He manufactures 'em
while you walt.
Norfolk News: Director Dawes
report that tho budget system has
ssvcd the nation f2sO,o0p,ooo con-
firms the worst fears tho politicians
i.a af tI n
Fremont Tribune: secreGry OF
Labor Davis. In predicting a new
wave OF prosperity. better times and
ample employment. has based his
forecast upon tho encouraging farm
ing situation. The industry OF agri-
culture has come into its own as the
barometer OF international industrial!
conditions.
Nemaha County Herald tAuburn):
More business is government" is
saving the people s4.000,000 day.
The cost of running the government
for the present fiscal year will be
about one and n half billions less
than for 1921. due almost entirely
to the retrenchments of the repub-
lican administration. the discharge
of superfluous federal employees and
better coordination in purchases
among the various departments.
Beatrice Express: The esteemed
Omaha World-Herald extracts
grain of political comfort out Of the
rumor that J. w. Mckissick OF Be-
atrice will be candidate for the
legislature next fall. on the ground
that he never fails to pick demo-
cratic year to run for office. IL men,
ory serves correctly MAC" was
candidate no longer ago than l92V,
when democratic stock was at its
lowest ebb, but that's about as near
right as the VIII. ordinarily gets in
politics.
Grand Island independent: Does
it pay the girl of today to learn to
sew and make her own dresses? A
Grand Island woman OF the older
school reports that she recently set
about to buy a dress for her grand
daughter. 1t was quoted at s42 at
the store. But the older school
woman knew how. bought the ma
terial, and exactly the same dress
cost her s14. The sum OF SIS saved
on a single dress-does it pay the
girl of today to learn to sew and to
make her own dresses?
Grand Island Independent: Very
often we are most inconsistent lot!
We lampoon our councimen and
members of our school board for
high taxes and almost in the same
breath demand of them that they
shall extend the activities and the
services normally rendered by the
community as whole-by the city
for by the school government. The
municipal authorities have no get
up," are "old fogies," are behind
the times" etc, if they do not pro-
vide, along with the desirable and
unavoidable essentials, this entertain
ment or that for the public--or for
that minority Of the public that can
take advantage of such entertain
ment. Our school board has been
/ increasing it's levy without care as
to our ability to pay, we plead; but
| we want it to have just as many
school buildings, and want such
buildings to be just as extravagant
and elaborate as those of cities twice
rs large or old. If Omaha estab-
lished grill room for its high school
students for luncheons. and golden
bath tub of the old Roman type
certainly Grand Island should not be
behind the times! A contemporary
laments the action Of the people of
Fremont for not providing, by taxa
ton Of all, recreation and enjoy
ment that would probably be par
ticipated in by less than 20 per cent
of all the people-a city swimming
pool-despite the fact that in Fre-
mont, as elsewhere in Nebraska. the
tax rate is beginning to function in
manner similar to confiscation. and
the people who want it are privileged
to establish it, The one and only
way to get back to normalcy In tax-
alton is to bring and to keep our
governing units back to a normalcy
of function, leaving the people to look
after their health and their pleas
ures individually. Most of our pio-
neers lived to be close to or over so
years of age.
Nebraska City Press: bad Roads
Halt Spelling Match" reads a head
line in an exchange. Another carries
a story about a big social occasion
having been rudely marred because
highways were not passable. Still
another complains of poor business
in the town of publication because
roads were unfit for use. And yet
we have candidates for office run
ming up and down Nebraska decry-
ing good roads movements, objecting
to expenditures for highway, derid-
ing the federal aid method and de-
claring. perhaps sincerely, that the
money spent on highways is wasted!