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The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09
AN AMERICAN PRINCESS.

"My family has been American in all its
branches both direct and collateral for many gener-
ations" SO wrote Ulysses S. Grant in the opening
sentence of his memoirs One must study well the
character of that great general and former pres-
dent appreciate the pride he felt in the fact And
the resentment he must have had at the marriage
of his daughter to an Englishman, from whom she
was afterward divorced.
American history presents few pictures more
noble than that of the old warrior, sitting the
front porch of his home overlooking the Hudson,
expendng his last conscious effort to complete his
life story. 1t is not alone monumental work of
history but it served to clear honored name
from the cloud into which it plunged by an un-
worthy business partner And in and out through
the rooms of that home over which hung the pail
of certain doom moved little girl, named for her
grandmother, Julia Dent Grant. She, also, was to
mark another break in the Grant tradition of exclu-
sive Amercanism
With her father she spent many months at the
brilliant Austrian court, going to school with the
daughters and playing with the sons of the proudes
nobility of the world. Here she fell in love with
and later married the son of of the oldest
houses in Europe, Michael Cantacuzene. Back Of
his name stretched thousand years of honorable
service Ten centuries ago the Cantacuzene family
was an eminent one in the annals of the Byzantine
empire SO the scion of the house might well be
looked for close to the throne of imperial Russia
Michael Cantacuzene not play noble. lie
managed great estate in the Ukraine, took part
in the business of the empire, and when the war
came on went to the front with his regiment His
valor was attested by wounds that ncapactated him
for service but he doing what he could to carry
on when the revolution swept him and all his like
out Of the picture in Russia.
His wife, who is we'll Princess Esterhazy as
Ayoar
picture of life at the czar's court well as the
early days of the war and the revolution up to the
hour when she was forced to flee with her children
to escape the ravages of the reds. Omaha will hear
her today, and should appreciate the opportunity
In spite of her expariation by marriage. even her
stern old grandfather could hardly wish better
American than Julia Dent Grant Cantacuzene.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09

and was beginning TO sit up and take
notice Of things-and then he had TO
come along and spoil II all Just like
holding a nice big glass OF lager beer
under the nose OF a prohibitionist.
Well. dreams are all right when one
can't get the real.The modern method
OF eating is bringing about a result
that the generation VIII talk about.
IL won't be the way mother used 10
cook or anything about pot likker.
but II Will be something like this:
What You think about these Neeito
Food Tablets2' Instead OF cooking
the next generation will eat tablets:
predigested for they will receive such
an heiratage Of indigestion from this
generation that no one viii be able
to eat ordinary everyday cooking.
let alone anything akin 10 pot likker
This generation is on the down grade
right now. so far as cooking and eat
ing Is concerned. When We get TO
travelling In earnest through the air
and on motor husses, we won't have
time to stop and eat, so we viii con.
sumo our rations on the way in
tablets and capsules. oh. its bound
70 come before long and Is strongly
on the way now. Why waste time
cooking over hot stoves when we can
he doing something more agreeable ,
why wash dirty dishes when there
Is no need OF it, Use paper dishes
and throw them away when used.
That will do away win the kitchen
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09
Oma Where the West is its Best
AUTEN WRITES A "MOUTHFUL."

One day, after the patriarch had been
than usually tried by the windy arguments of his
friends he calculated: "Oh that mine
adversary had written book James Auten, who
sits as one of the democratic representatives in
the Nebraska legislature, has written letter which
will do well any book 1t illustrates the view
of the chief opponents of the gasoline tax. Shows
their Inconsistencies, their uncertainties and their
windings in what amounts simply to factious oppo
sition to a republican proposal for the benefit of
the state. AS matter of fact the good roads prob
lem has partisan bearings, and never should have
been tnctured with party politics. 1t was Governor
Bryan, however, who brought the whole matter into
the arena from which it is difficult to remove it.
Writing to the editor of the North Bend Eagle,
Representative Auten expresses his views the pro-
posed tax on gasoline His first appeal is to class
prejudice:
"To illustrate large property owner pays
quite heavy road and bridge tax and he con-
ceives the idea of tax to make the poor
fiyver build good roads to enhance the
$ value of his land holdings but not It's productive
=. powers"
Then he tackles it from another angle, although
ust how this applies to the problem as he sees it
is not plain:
eve are asked to build many long lines of grav
eed highway and then tax ourselves to put In
great system of public parks so the people viii
have some place go. You know p T. Barnum
said there born every minute
Finally Brother Auten admits that the gas tax
will "all be used on trunk lines of roads that the
farmers haul their crops to market over How
that can possibly harm the farmer is beyond under
standing He gives remote inkling of what he is
driving at when he says that 81 500 900 of prop
erty in Nebraska escapes taxation and that $780,
100000 of tax free bonds also exist Admitting
fbe truth of these figures which at best conjec-
tural how can it materially help in solving the road
sroblem? Unless direct tax is laid, and on whom
will such tax fall heaviest? On the farmers whose
rnorganized condition Mr.. Auten bemoans as follows:
'The Chambers of Commerce, commercial clubs,
Lions clubs and Cubs organized and they work
as a unit for what they want and they usually get
it, n fact all classes are organized except the iarin
ers and the inmates of the asylum
He concludes his plea with adJuration to all
That they remember the gasoline tax is one more ruse
of the wealthy shift the tax from wealth to labor
That part of it sounds like something coming from
soap-box If labor drives the automobiles that now
20 fitting over the highways of Nebraska to the
fune of something like 900, not to speak Of the
thousands of Visiting that the roads every
day in the year, then labor ought to pay the tax
The fallacous quality of the Auten arguments
are made clear from his expressions. The gaso-
line tax rests only on those who use the roads, II
will be expended to build and maintain roads. only
one way to escape the direct tax is to levy the IN
direct Or else abandon the idea of goods roads
And to that point the Auten plea tends.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09

Omaha-To the Editor OF The Oma-
ha Bee: This article IL respectfully
called TO the attention OF the Greater
Omaha Committee. Several times In
the past three months letters from
people who count In the commercial
world have been published in the
Omaha papers. One OF these was
from the president OF Sears Roehuek.
Another from a Chamber of Com.
merce official.
Which proves that the big Eel.
lows read these letters as well as the
man.in.the street. And this is spite or
the contempt in which the average
editor holds these miscellaneous et.
fusons
wish 10 commend 10 these leaders
perusal of the article In the sat
urday Evening Post Of February 20
written by j. r. Sprague.
Probably Omaha business men de-
plore the present plight Of Omaha
more than eny other class OF citizens.
individually or through the Cham.
ber OF Commerce they recently raised
and presented to the National Amer.
lean Legion n certified check FOR
$50, 900 To secure the 1925 conven,
tlon. The delegates and visitors VIII
he here for n few days The $4,000
will be spent for their entertainment
Certain hotels will benefit temporar.
ilv aud that's practically all the di.
rect benefit Omaha will receive. The
advertising Will be duplicated by
some other city next year as II wax
by st. Paul lntt year and amounts to
comparatively little so far as permas
nent good 10 Omaha is concerned.
Omaha n centrally located as to
the wool producing district Of the
United States. Montana and NNo.
ming. with some sheep in Minnesota
and Nebraska. Most OF the raw wool
today IL shipped TO Boston and manu-.
factured IN Lowell. Mass. and cloth
md garments are reshipped TO this
section.
suppose that $4,000 paid for n
few days hulahaloo had been used
TO start a wooden specially mill here,
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09

with the raw material at our door
and a large saving in freight over
that paid by eastern manufacturers,
how would results compare for
money spent?
In Lowell. Mass, some OF the in
dlvidual minor executives have left
the American Woolen company en-
ploy to manufacture specially woolen
lines on their own. These small plants
are handling short runs on special
designs OF cloth, etc, which are un-
profitable under the system in vogue
In the trust mills but which are prof
liable to the speciality mills. Those
interested can easily find out why.
Does It pay TO squander $4,000
on convention lasting few days,
where the value of permanent re-
suits are decidedly questionable-I
might say negligible-or would this
money do Omaha more good as an in
vestment in an industry that has
every natural advantage here2 How
does $50. 900 wasted on strangers who
don't give a hoot for Omaha compare
with a factory giving employment to
men and women, who In turn spend
their wages year In and year out In
Omaha?
wouldn't these generous donors ac-
complish more by investing instead
of giving (wastingl. Wouldn't it be
better n sharp business men inyesti-
gated this proposition and searched out
the right man TO head It. perhaps
man from Lowell who grew up In
wooden mill? The Greater Omaha
committee has the brains 10 size up
the right man and the money 10 back
him.
Think II over. Find out the facts.
Then really help Omaha.
HARRY b. POTTER,
Member Omaha Typographical
union.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09

Omaha-To the Editor of The Oma-
ha Bee: / wish to endorse your splen-
did editorial in this mornings Bee IN
regard TO the NJ. T.. Smith Il Co. sale.
On every hand The Bee Is being
praised for its strong. constructive
stand in this matter. The people are
looking to you to sift this matter
down and ascertain the facts, and IL
Omaha is harboring "wrecking
crew" who hope TO gain for them
selves at the expense OF the great
majority. public opinion should de-
scend upon them with such force
that Omaha will be anything but a
pleasant place for them to live.
No business ever built itself up by
tearing down another just as no man
becomes great by belittling a brother.
II there Is such a vicious ring In
Omaha the people want to know II,
and the vigorous way in which The
Bee IS going after the truth recon-
mends your paper to all honest. fair
minded citizens. The Bee is growing
daily In the confidence OF the people
and YOU may rest assured that IL you
befriend the people and carry on
your broad, constructive. fearless
policy the people will not fall you.
There IL so much bitterness In the
hearts of the people toward Omaha
in the last few months that It Is high
time some attention Is paid to the
canker that Is eating into the vitals
OF the city, and not attempts TO heal
over sore place from the outside by
slogans and such nonsense while Inc
fostering is going on from within. \
charity worker told me that hun
dreds OF Mexieans and negroes had
been brought into Omaha by the ad-
vertlslng propaganda about Omaha
being a good place to live. and were
taken care OF by charity during the
winter, as there was no work Tor
them. Many of them begged 70 be
sent back south where they could AT
least keep warm. We can't afford
any more parades like the one staged
the other day. for the next parade
will be a parade OF the unemployed,
which Will run into thousands. This
certainly wouldn't be in keeping with
our slogan, "Omaha week" sermons
in the pulpit and all such fruit'ess
dry rot. Let's get down TO brass
tacks, and face the disagreeable facts.
Until we acknowledge the failures
and set about to do something TO
remedy the situation. all Is but Idle
talk. Incidentally we might develop
sense of humor. II we can't ap-
preclate the tragedy OF the recent
failures we might learn to see the
Joke. FAIR PLAY.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09
Accomplished.

What did you learn at the business
college, asked the boss OF the fair
young applicant for a position as
stenogra pher.
Il learned many things" she an
swered. '.one that good spelling IS e.
sential 70 stenographer.
Very good said the boss with :
chuekle. and now let me hear yea
spell essential" /"
For just second the fair one hesl-
tated.
There are three ways OF spelling
it, she replied. which one do Vol
prefer 2''- London Weekly Telegraph.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09
Do Something Quickly.

omaha-To the Editor OF The Oma.
ha Bee: Is Omaha going back so fast
that we will have TO replace our
downtown streets with hitehing posts.
gas lights and possibly tear up the
streets. return to mud lanes and old
Dobhin and the shay?
II looks very much that way un-
less the people OF Omaha set together
quickly and put an end 10 the graft
and the few who now control Oma-
ha.
Why not organize real Chamber
OF Commerce which will work for the
hetterment and enlargement OF the
city instead Of being dominated by a
few or is Il "the few?
For the preservation of Omaha
start something and start II quickly.
A VOTER.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09

altogether. Think II wont come?
Don't fool yourself. 1t Is On the way
right now. We will get our pot likker
in cans or bottles-just warm 1t IN
your thermos or canned heat. OI
course not be like the old-timers used
TO make, but then nothings like 1t
used TO be There's one comforting
thought in my mind: when this comes
about ] won't be here.
c. f. FREDERISKs.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09

THE JAZZ AFFLICTION.

have demurred
With other birds"
Upon the jazz afiiiction;
have agreed
That there's a need
For more or less restriction,
But what inspires
These rash desires
That often wend 10 folly7
The picture shows
TO which one goes
Are pious-no. by gollyl
The fllms are made
To get the trade
It all pertains to money
And why should we
Not strive 10 be
Both popular and funnyf
I'm getting gray
I've had my day
Perhaps. that's why I'm taking
The horrid view
That what we rue
Some other dude is making
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09
The Worm Deserved Ii.

A father was lecturing his son on
The evil OF staying out late al night
and rising late in the morning. You
Will never succeed" he said. unless
you mend your ways. Remember the
early bird catches the worm"
And what about the worm. faith
er2' asked the Young man. Wash I
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09
LISTENING IN
On the Nebraska Press

They say" ohortles Fletch Mer-
win OF the Beaver City Times
Tribune. that even Maiden Blush
apples are handpainted."
Editor Harris OF the Harvard
Courier covers lot OF territory when
he says the Today marriage law was
the most foolish law ever put on the
statute books.
Noting that the legislature has
gone on record against gun toting.
Editor Sweet Of the Nebraska city
Press expresses the hope that Ne
braska women viii obey the law.
Adam Breede's Hastings Tribune
features an article, advice to the
Fair but Plump" But what differ
enoe does it make TO that old baehe-
lor whether they be plump or fair. or
both?
Bob Rice or the Central City Re-
publican asserts that the burning
issue today Is whether California or
Florida il the land OF greatest
promise. Well. its purt night tie
on the promise thing, isn't it, Bob?
Speaking OF optimists. Allan May
OF the Auburn Herald tells OF a
mother IN that burg who had her lit.
tie boy listen in on the inaugural
ceremonies so lie would get some
idea OF what weuld happen when he
was inangurated
Dale krehs OF the Scotia Register
says some people Will never be salts
fled until they get a job that permits
a six months vacation twice a year.
Charley Best OF the Neigh Leader
ventures the opinion that Nick and
Alice Longwerth are giving DR..
Pinto the merry ha ha.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09

defeat the nominees of the party, nominees chosen
by the people themselves.
The rebuke administered in November is to be
mildly echoed in the reorganization of the senate.
The republican party bears full responsibility,
and it should deeently exercise complete authority
within its councils
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09

he rather foolish to get up so early
My boy" said the old man. 'that
worm hadn't been TO bed at all. lie
was only getting home. ''-Des Moines
Railway News
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09
Pot Iil.ker and the Future.

omaha-To the Editor Of The oma-
Ia Bee. Darn that editor and his
Pot Likker,' thought I'd just
about gotten over being homesick
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09

Eiehty-seven more names have been added 10
the citizenship roll in Omaha, and that many more
foreign born ready to take the1r aui sare ~ =:
carving the republic to its destiny Such news is
welcome,
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09

Cliff Apartment houses side. sed 10
Note families
living in garages pending they build the house
Looks strange o an old fashioned
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09

past where rooming mouse
stood Rented in that ola
house Tommy with Bought furniture on the In
stall pla Stalled.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09

After listening to Vice President Dawes Tor
few minutes the senators proceeded TO stage All
inaugural bawl of their own.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09

"Ey" Buckingham did not leave much worldly
gear, but he did bequeath name that eould ho' oe
bought with much riches
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09

Chicago is awarded food of water from Lake
Michigan but it will not be used for beverage pur
poses.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09

March "A will be a red-letter day at the postoiice
all over the land. Clerks VIII then get their DacN
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09

Name "Dex" Berlin suddenly into mind one time
Missouri river yearned
to hold but about the ready after it the
office was abolished. Just luck
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09

General Mitchell is gone, but he will not soon
be forgotten.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09

Used to be Twentysixh and Grant Con.
prospered and moved to handsome brick
Venture that IN the new
church they socas enjoyable those we used
o hav Grant street.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09

Transferred twice. Drug store on each corner They
weren't drug old days Don't quite Ike that
nnaborhood' sticler for orthography
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09

All voters should look alike under the Nebraska
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09

The surest sign o spring is when
A woman wears her best winter hat
Z tn grocery. We're goin { eat
downtown t'night. fer I'm hungry
fer semethin' warm" 'phoned Mrs,
Lafe Bud, & her husband t'day.
(Copyrisht, 1fas.)
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09

sites left for filling stations seems 70
be of suburban movie houses Nhat mas
becom the livery stables?
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09

AK Sar old Coliseum then Remember now
mad Charley Montgomery when free silver democrats
undertook to hece Cochran there That was IN
1896 Scene Disqualification debate. Politics has lost
a lot OF its zip those old days.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09
Letters From Our Readers
Forward for Omaha.

will be withheld
will be preference
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09
SUNNY SIDE UP
Cake Comfort. norfox2et
- Gaia 1hofter

Thoughts on a Sunday about Omaha; As
Remember when the hshwhee bicycle riders S
Of boys who bike races out there
nearly forty years ago?
Grace street between Twentyfouh. Used
live along there blocks those days and
in terri terrible state Of sn depS en 1a o% WOOD '''NS
AK ar.Ben den now. Coliseum Remember how
undertook Cochran there That In
1896 scene of Bryan. Politics has lost
lot of its zip since those old days
Omaha entertained political convention once Held
in & Old @ 1err F@pss F0P eoee p G one
political oed Of Bqan qa"E Mny NJ b ende in those
days too
Name of "Dicke Berlin suddenly pops mind. One time
Missouri river eommissioner only
office abolished Just our luck
Business block now Rented T99m in 'sSt @ n
plan. Stalled
Cliff dwelers Apartment houses side Used to
be vacant lots Note several families
strange old fashioned man
Transferred twice Drug each . They a,
weren't drug stores IN IN the od s sa f rtborraphy bo
Used to be a little church a sixth and Grant Con.
sreEanon pfospered and grey ] amq no @ " bat the new
to have over on Grant
Several good filling stations Seems to
be suburban houses Nnat mas
becom OF livery stables?
Lax beginning to show squirrels busy Ihsre
goes have wintered here Weather so lne
be a stor mustn't pessnistie
ay information that time approaches for
Sunday dinner.
sn' getting along in years We've al
We cling hat until II is too disreput-
able because hate breaking In new
until soles the
uppers speaking terms Wed rather take licking
a 0 But thing hate worst
# breaking In is We cling to the old
Ethiopian We accepted prohibit
ton With when they begin trying TO deprive
of the pipe the we're going TO
a the flag the mast and
fighting
Nebraska Limerick
There Is a fellow in Mead
plumb TO sesd
Said is 'Ts
you're get
nd the cure effective indead
poullar magazine is Offering $4,000 for an idea Gloria
swanson can picture But wouldn't real idea
In a picture he fatalF
WILL MAUPIN.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09

Omaha national political convention once Held
Peoples Independent Party, lsao Mary
Cyclone Davis and other forgotten
political during its sessions Big fight was
of bitter enders in those
days, too.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09

Lawns beginning show green. Squirrels busy Thare
goes a robin. have wintered here Weather so fine
be a But mustn't pessmstic
Day information that time approaches for
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09

street Twentieth and TNentyfonrth Ised
to live along there blocks those days and
dsrepar Old wood blocks helped
through oneh winter Real paving now.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09

Thoughts on Sunday afternoon jaunt about Omaha; AK
Ben dem when the highwhee bicycle riders
around its oval Wonder what mas be-
boys who bike races out there
ago?
Putnam patriot., 1925-05-22
WEST WOODSTOCK

Mrs. (. NJ Jones has been among the invaiids this week.
 Farmers are improving the fine weather getting in their crops.
 Henry Lyon, who has been visiting aut-of town relatives, has returned to his home.
 MT. and Mrs. Sidney P. Butler of New Haven spent the weekend at the Butler homestead.
 Miss Mildred S. Jones of Boston spent several days of last week with her mother at Broadview.
 Mrs. Edward L. Morse of Hartford and Luke Morse Of Piainville were guests at kenelm Monday.
 Wayland F. Harris attended the meeting of the Guernsey Club held at Danielson Tuesday evening.
 Mrs. Raymond Young, instructor Of the West school, wltn her seventh grade pupils, attended the speaking and spelling contest m Putnam Wed nesday.
 Mir. and Mrs. F. ]. Williamson, Paul Williamson. Miss Mary Williams and Mss Ellen M Williams of Hartford were at the latter's nome here over Sunday.
Putnam patriot., 1925-05-22
ABINGTON

There will be whist as usual in Music Hall next Tuesday evening, May 26. All invited.
 Next Sunday, May 24, a memorial service will be held at the church with special music in keeping with the occasion.
 On Saturday, May 3Gth, Memorial Day will be celebrated here. A pa rade will form at Grange Hall at 2 0 clock in the afternoon of ali ex-ser- vice men and the Civil, Spanish and World Wars, Red Cross workers and nurses, also school children carrying wreaths, flowers and flags. and will march to the cemetery, where the sol diers graves will be decorated and ap- propriate exercises will be held. band will lead the parade, and there will be a speaker and special music. After the exercises at the cemetery the parade will again form, and march back to Grange Hall where refresh ments will be served. Everybody is invited.