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The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-08-23
Man Held for Theft: Loses
Own Case in County Court

Hastings, Neh. Aug .s1lames
Williams WAS bound ever 10 district
court ia face charge of erand
larceny after he bad pleaded his own
case in county court here
lie WIS a4eusod of the theft ot
diamonds from the home II pr. I. a.
Brewster that We're worth SSp5.
Williams was I'm the air service dun
ing the war. pr. Brewster was the
first man in Nebraska To own a plane
He employed Williams as his ehauf
four soNcral months 100
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-08-23
Politics of Business Situation
Uppermost in Washington Minds
Economic Normally Hinges on Settlement of Ruhr
Situation-Relief for Farmers Is Also Found
Necessary by Leaders.

tempt anything in the way Of initia.
tive toward settling the Ruhr Ques-
ton. 1t is q thing of fate which we
cannot control or affect within the
restraints of wise action ON our part.
There are some who say We might
try TO purchase an early prosperity
in Europe by forgiying several billion
dollars of debts, but practically nc
one in any position of responsibility
believes it would be either wise or
practicable for us TO try.
The cure of Europe must arise
within Europe. Only in case all the
parties concerned should ask us to act
as mediator can we take a hand In
the situation. As to the money and
credit which Europe must have so
soon as it gets on the track again,
every Business man in Europe knows
that American private bankers have
an abundance Of funds which will be
available as soon as the conditions are
right.
Farmers Condition Bad
Next to Europe, the American
ject of consideration. His condition
IS very bad. The present price of
wheat does not pay the cost OF
producing II. and If present prices
continue. a good many wheat farm
ers must face bankruptcy. But this
applies only TO the farmers who raise
wheat only. Farmers in other lines,
and farmers OH the whole, are not as
badly Off as they were two years
ago. In the near future. several
things are expected TO make things
somewhat less distressing to the farm.
et. One is that the most Of what he
buys is likely to go down. The build
Ing boom in cities. which is now the
principal area of excessive demand for
labor and consequently excessively ex-
alted wages, is expected soon to reach
the point where the five years ae.
cumulated deficit of buildings will
have been filled and the pace will
slacken.
Relief to BE Discussed.
Nevertheless. when congress meets
in December, the relatively submerged
condition of the farmer will be most
to the front Everybody in Washing
TON admits the need to help the farm
er. Everybody is willing to go the
limit TO help him. They are willing 10
regard the farmers az preferred in
dustry. But when It comes 10 prsc.
tical suggestions, there are not many.
One has been TO relieve the farmer of
taxes, to admit frankly that the farms
should be preferred to the cities and
10 put the taxes on the latter. But
that is less for Washington to do
than the for. the states. Federal
taxation on the farmers is slight. II
is the state taxes for roads. schools
and the like that have recently been
expa nded TO unreasonable heights.
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The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-08-23
80 DeMolay Chapters Send
Delegates to Hastings

Hastings Neh.. Aug s2-Dele-
gates from 30 chapters of De Molay
from over Nebraska are hoeking to
Hastings 10 perfect a state erganiza-
zion OF that body Three grand ofli.
GERS Will be among the speakers The
meeting will close with a banquet in
the Masonic Temple al o'clock Wed
ncsday night.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-08-23
largest County Fair
Opens at Broken Bow


Broken Bow, Neb., Aug. Gus
Ter county fair opened here Tuesday.
The exhibits arc the largest in the
history Of the fair, livestock exhibit.
tors being unable to find room for
their large number of exhibits. A
good program Of auto races were
staged Tuesday, and Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday will be given
over to horse races. The night snow
viii be a feature this year, 4 wonder
ful program of fireworks, free acts
and music te be staged each evening.
The attendance promises to be good,
and it can wei be believed that this
win be the biggest fair Custer county
has ever mad. T. r. Varney is presl-
dent Of the association and =. j.
Davis is secretary.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-08-23
100000 Tons Of Wine
Grapes Destroyed

san Francisco. Aug. 22.-Approxi.
mately 100000 tons of California $
estimated crop Of 100000 tons Of
grapes Of all varieties have been de-
stroyed by mildew, sunburn and wind
burn 1t was announced here today by
e. NJ. sheehan, president of the CALI
fornia Grape Growers exchange. The
worts damage is In the Fresno and
Lodi districts. with a spotted condi-
tion in a number of other localities,
he said.
The wine grape crop IS estimated
at 10000 tons and the other varieties
at a like amount. The wine grape
loss alone is 100 900 tons. sheehan
said.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-08-23
Creighton Graduate Opens
Office at Broken Bow
SpeeinI DisnnIeh Ia The OmnhA Nec.

Broken Bow. Neb.. Aug. 22.=-sDr. L..
J, Noy Of etrand Island opened a
dental office in Broken Bow the first
Creighton Dental college. and has
tcen associated with his brother N
.Grund Island iol some time past.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-08-23
Steel Overhead Bridge
Planned at Pawnee City

Pawnee city. Neb., Aug. ga new
overhead bridge is 10 be built over
the Rock Island tracks on Pawnee
City's main street. The present
wooden structure has been in use
for many years and is located on a
street n mile long which is paved
the entire distance. Tho new bridge
IS to be OF steel.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-08-23
Frost in South Dakota;
Crop Damage Unknown

Norfolk. Neb, Aug. 22.-Frost was
reported at Winner. s. D.. Tuesday
night. according to special dispatches
10 the News. but whether II was
heavy enough 10 do any damage had
not been determined. O'Nein. Neb..
reported 81 with frost In. the low
lands. The official minimum for Nor
folk was announced as 40.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-08-23
Birth Control Flayed
by King S Physician

london.-i'aron Bertrand Dawson.
physician ordinary to the king Of
England. IN recent talk before
turope's most prominent medical
men. declared "sex love between hus-
band aud wife, apart from parent
hood. is something to prize and cher.
ish for its own sake.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-08-23
Hoboes Well Supplied
With Money When Arrested

Columbus, Neb.. Aug. 22.--six no.
boes taken from freight trains here
were escorted TO tho Union Pacific
passenger depot and ordered by po-
lice to dig up their own fare" TO get
out of town They compiled, all pro.
ducing large rolls, one man buying
n ticket 10 Chicago
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-08-23
World Tourist Sought
As Wilber Horse Thief
special Dispatch 10 The Omaha Vc,

Beatrice, Nebs Aue 22.--Authori.
ties are looking for Ed Jackson. world
tourist, Who IS charged with stealing
a horse from a farmer neor Wnbsr.
\ reward rs offered Ter the recovery
of The animal aud Jhe arrest ~ IaelS.
son.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-08-23

Chicago. Aug. 22.-Pilot Harweli
Thompson, carrying the westbound
mail in the second days test Of con
tinuous transeontinental mail trans
portation. landed here al s:09 ?. m
central standard time. IS minutes
ahead Of schedule.
Pilot Harold Lewis left AT 81 -.
IN. for Omaha. three minutes bcinz
required here FOR the transfer - maj
Favorable weather reports westward
indicated that Lewis viii be stu
farther ahead Of schedule. Wren he
drops 70 the ground at Omaha
Pilot Thompson reported favorable
weather almost al the 3sa miles from
Cleveland 70 Chicago, making the
Zip in three hours ard u minutes
lie passed over Bryan. o. about mic
way AZ 5:2S. eastern time. Besides
Inc Zoo letters started from Ns0
York, Pilot Lewis took on five pack
ages Of mail here for.westsrr points.
Two packages were dropped here froia
the eastern shipment.
Fog Halts Plane.
The esstbound plane forced X
abandon temporarily its flight 81
Laramie last night. arrived a. Oms ha
Al 12:5e p. N. today, central time.
where Z viii await the plane leaving
San Francisco Al b.26 6. n. TO-DAY
which left Rock Springs, We. q
I.52 p m, mountain time. for Chez
enne Mail vas transferred AT Rocs
Springs IN 80 seconds and .he plane
vas nearly two hs>as ahead =
schedule when 1t resumed its fiig3f.
eastward
Crossing the continent almost vitn
IN the hours from setting sun % Sc
ing sun demonstrates the advance
ment in mail transportation from tbs
day in 1850. when a broned rider =
the plains mounted a mustang al =
Joseph. Mo. then 1 struggling froH.
tier settlement. and BEGAN the eighs
day dash over The trackless plains
and mountains to The neNs-hung2
gold miners Of Nevada and GaAfof
MA.
Advancement Shown.
The pony oNprses. considered =
marvel Of speed in its day. has bcan
dwarfed by the giant De HsVilsaa
planes. covering miles where the
staunch ponies covered yards. An
Yet the first attempts IN the tive
ventures. more than 81 years spari
are similar in many respects.
Carrying messages at the rate -
S2.5o a half ounce the pony ride
dashed cut ef =. Joseph over a bare
plain peopled with hostile Indians
his first goal e. miles away, where IL
changed mounts and dashed en. The
bearer of the countrys msn then Wa
7 selected because Of his hard ridins
sureshootins proclvities. EiEht days
after the start frem $ Joseph. liz.
dropped from his mount a ths hay q
san Francisco
The riders ef teday. the'r ueslaues
changed re gisnt mechanical hirds
Wins their Way across country
friendly below. bu, best by legs ana
rain. cross winds and mechanical
troubles
+ ~ the landing s,lds ihe nail
Whisked from one plane to anothe
an seain ihe raoe ss one ueN pie
/ at the helm
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-08-23
$50. Slander Suit Filed.
-pe.inI Uisuatett 10 The Omaha R..

Hastings, Neb,. Aug '22.--uans
Hansen, former lumber dealer IN this
city, has filed q suit for $50 900 dam.
ages against Perley NJ. Green Of Los
Angeles. in which he charges slander
Tho suit VIII be heard at Alma
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-08-23
Pcnne, Store at Broken Bow
special pispRtrh io III. Omaha ue.

Bokon Bow. Nob. Aur ~. The
!. 9. Penney company viii epca p
store in this city ON Thursday. August
% \ DOUBLE .ioro ronn = fhe
niefks hloeN has b'ou Yvmo8elci. a.
o. Malms1vu viii RaYe charge,
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-08-23
Beatrice Farm Land Shows
Marked Decrease in Value
S,..i.t It,.nat..t, In Tho Omaha Bee.
Special Dispatch 10 Tho Omaha y

Beatrice, Neb. Aug. 22.-Ihe so
acre farm of J. n. Reynolds, adjoln-
ing beatrico. was sold TO b. r. cox
st foreclosura sale for SLICES an
acre During the boom few years
ago the same piece OF land brought
/. $500 an acre.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-08-23
BY MARk SULLIVAN.

Washington, Aug 22.-What every
body calls the business situation is
much on Washington's mind. To
some, 1t is a matter of concern for
political reasons. looking to the cleo
ton next year. To others, it is a
matter of concern from the point of
view of the administrative manage
ment of the country This latter
group is trying to determine first
whether business is likely to grow
better, or TO grow worse, through the
operation of ordinary conditions, and,
second, if bad conditions threaten,
what can be done TO forestall them
within the limits of legitimate gov
ernment influence on business and
industry.
Nearly all the pessimism starts
with the Ruhr and Europe. 1t is
true. that from the economic point
of view, the Ruhr and Europe are
Very had indeed. They have been
worse all along than America Has
understood. From the standpoint Of
business and getting the world back
to economic normalcy, the Ruhr situ-
alton is sheer madness. But, the thing
to remember is. that the Ruhr situa-
ton can change for the better over
night.
Hopeful Possibility.
I II is within possibility that on any
morning the dispatches from Europe
might be such as to give procucally
every line of business in America
stimulus toward optimism II France
and Britain should settle their diff
ferences, and IL they should fix Ger
man reparations al a feasible sum. in
stantly about every business man in
Germany and mann in other coun-
tries would be a customer for Ameri-
can goods and American credit.
This is the hopeful possibility.
On the other hand il Britain and
France do not agree, things VIII be
very bad indeed throughout western
Europe, and from a present bad, they
would go to q future worse. But
while this Is true, il is not true that
worse conditions in Europe will alone
or necessarily make worse conditions
in America. Nearly everybody, who
looks into the situation thoughtfully,
says that America has already dis
counted the worst that can happen in
Europe In other words, one turn Of
affairs in Europe might give an Inn
mense stimulus to America; the other
turn cannot make things materially
worse for us.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-08-23
Fastbound Plane Lands.

Hampstead. \. Z Aug. 22.-Pilot
9. Eugene Johnson OF the air mai
service. landed at Hazelhurst Field a.
Al Eastern standard time this sft
ernoon with load Of mail which had
started from Cheyenne. Wyo.. last
night. after tbs first eastbound effori
a. trsnscontlnental air mail service
had been broken at Laramie, Wyo.. 90
miles west OF Cheyenne. johnson
brought the plane from Cleveland.
where ne relieved Pilot Wagner.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-08-23
United States Action Opposed.

Th consideration Of this European
aspect Of our American economic
future may be concluded by saying,
Lhat practically no person OF any CON
sequence in Washington believes that
America either can or ought to at
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-08-23
The Weather

49, "a hnufE HHdins o. m Aur. q.
Temperature.
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Hs
Iufal ek eras .#nE. IauuHff fHt
Relative Humidity. Percentage.
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Precipitation. Inches and Hnndredte>.
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The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-08-23
Radicals VIII Fail.
Urges Middle Course

NJ" therefore coaclude that sound
national policy though unable 10 di
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-25

the vast amount of revenue which the
authors OF such measures would collect
from the taxpayers was not called for
by the board of control. One who reads
the correspondence between Mr.. Gar
rett and the legislator to whom he APP
?lied for information is likely to be
constrained by logic and a knowledge
of human nature to accept the con-
:lusion that the legislators letters con-
tain about all the information he was
able to furnish
When such men administer the at
fairs of the particularly their
financial affairs-the fact that the state
isn't utterly ruined must be recognized
as a high tribute to its natural strength.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-25

the holders right to property; even that
property may not be wealth. Consider,
for example, stock in a mining company.
If the mine is not fictitious to begin
with, and ore is found in paying guam
titles, and the officials of the company
and operators of the mine are honest
and efficient, the property will be valu-
able; hence it may be defined as wealth.
If the mine actually exists, but fails to
yield ore in paying quantities, it has
no value as a mine and cannot be listed
as wealth. 1t ought to be. perfectly OBJ
vious that the mining stock in the latter
case would be neither wealth nor prop
erty-except in so far as the paper, as
such, might be regarded as wealth or
property. The mine would be property
in the practical as we'll as the economic
sense, but even the mine itself would
not be wealth.
In the other case-wherein the mine
proved profitable-the stock would
merely represent the holders share in
the property and the proceeds there
from. The stock might be destroyed
without any loss to anybody, except the
expense of having it reissued. In Ger
many, stock has been deliberately de-
stroyed as a means of evading a law
which forbids the expectation of stocks
from that country. There being no law
against the reissuance OF stock, it is
easy for Germans to offer in foreign
countries, as security for loans, any
stock that was originally issued in their
own land. If the original stock was
either wealth or property in the true
economic sense, this process would be
impossible.
So much for generalities. Now con-
slider whether the correction insisted
upon by the professor removes the origi-
nal objection TO double taxation. If it
is unjust to tax. a title to property in
addition to taxing the property itself,
would it be just to tax mortgage, bond
or stock in addition to taxing the
wealth represented by those securities,
even il there was no doubt as to the
value Of that wealth, or irrespective of
whether it actually was wealth? )
The LIGHTS original conclusion is
not impaired by the University mans
protest Whether they define stocks,
bonds, mortgages and the like as prop
erty' or wealth." people who persis-
tently strive to pile up taxes on the
possessors of such securities are expon-
ents of double, and sometimes triple and
even quadruple, taxation. /
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-25
BEGIN AGAIN.

Every day is a fresh beginning,
Every day is the world made new;
You who are weary of sorrow and SHINING,
Here is beautiful hope for YOU
hope for me and hope for you.
All the past things are past and over.
The tasks are done and the tears are shed:
Yesterdays errors let yesterday cover
Yesterdays wounds which smarted and bled
Are healed with, the healing which night has
shed.
Yesterday now is a part Of forever.
Bound up in a sheaf, which God holds tight;
With glad days, aud sad days, and bad days
which never
Shall visit us more with their bloom and their
blight
Their fullness of sunshine or sorrowful night
Let them go, since we cannot relieve them,
Cannot undo and cannot atone;
God in His mercy, receive, forgive them;
Only the new days are our own,
Today is ours, and today alone.
Here are the skies all FURNISHED brightly,
Here is the spent Earth all reborn,
Here are the tired limbs springng lightly
70 face the and to share with the morn,
In the chrism Of dew and the cool Of dawn.
Every day is a fresh beginning;
Listen, my SOUL to the glad refrain,
And, spite Of old sorrow and older SHINING,
And puzzles forecnsted and possible pain,
Take heart with the day, and begin again.
susan NVVH0bS''
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-25
If 1 SHOULD DIE TONIGHT.

If ] should die tonight,
My friends would look upon my quiet face
Before they laid it in its resting place,
And deem that death had left it almost fair:
And laying snOw-white flowers against my hair,
Would smooth it down with fearful tenderness,
And fold my hands with lingering carcss.
Poor hands, so empty and cold tonight!
If should die tonight
My friend would call to mind with loving thought,
Some kindly deeds the icy hands had wrought
Some gentle word the frozen lips had said
Errands which the willing feet had sped;
The memory of my selfishness and pride
My hasty words would all be put aside
And so l should be loved and mOurned tonight
If I should die tonight
Fen hearts estranged would turn once more TO me
Recalling other days remorscfully.
The eyes that chill me with averted glance
Would look upon me of yore perchance
And soften in the old familiar way.
For who could war with dumb unconscious cIay
So might rest forgiven of all tonight
Oh, friends I pray tonight
Keep not your kisses for my dead, cold brow;
The way is lonely, let me feel them now.
Think gently of me; am travel-wOrn:
My faltering feet pierced with many a thorn
Forgive; oh hearts estranged, forgive, l plead!
When dreamless rest is mine l shall not need
The tenderness for which ! long tonight
-Ascribed to Rev. A. J. Ryan, 1862: also
to Alice Cary Ben King, and others.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-25
A PROFESSIONAL QUIBBLE

The LIGHT recently expressed the hope
that an error had been made in a news
report quoting a member of the Uni
versity of Texas faculty as saying that
bonds, mortgages, stocks and the like
constituted property and should be
made to bear considerable part of the
burden OF taxation. Since then the pro-
lessor and the newspaper in which the
report appeared have. got into an argu-
mcnt-if discussion in which the OBJ
vlous facts are exclusively on one side
may be called an argument The Uni
verslty man, stating his grievance, pro-
tests that he was egregiously mis-
quoted. Whereas he was represented
as having said that bonds, mortgages,
stocks and the like are forms of prop
erty, he complains, what he actually
said was that such securities are prop
erly defined as wealth." and should
therefore be taxed.
Thus is THE LIGHTS hope blasted.
For, although the professor was mis-
quoted, literally, his. own version Of
what he said does him no more credit
than did the report which he says was
IN error If bond mortgage or stock
IS not property, neither is it wealth. If
1t IS, political economists are extremely
ignorant folk.
Such security is merely evidence Of
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-25
MY DREAM GIRL.

know the dearest grille.
One that's not like the rest;
She has a charm about her
The others don't possess.
Her voice has magic power
That is both rare and sweet
And when you once have hcnrl 1t,
You'll be swept off your feet.
Her features are most perfect
And wOndrOus are ktr ways;
know she'll make me happy
For many nights and days.
She does not chit" the powder,
Nor does she hit" the paint,
And yet she's far from being
A little stained glass saint.
For you can take her with you
If you would wild oats SOW,
And raise she very dickens"
For she's that kind, you know.
Oh yes. I'm "vamped" completely
But then. this girl I'll follow:
You should have guessed by now,
IT'S the girl on the silver dollar.
CHARLIE CAMP.