Evening Star Newspaper, July 24, 1923, Page 14

Senator-Elect Howell Held Advocate of Sane Remedies “Constructive and Courageous” Nebras- kan Said to Know What’s Wrong With West, But Chases No Rainbows. By FREDERIC WILLIAM WI OMAHA, Neb., July ~Amid the encireling gloom of western radical- 1sm. keep an eve on Robert Beecher Howell, the new republican senator from Nebraska—six feet of rugged progressivism, and all of It on the ground: a man with the idealism of La Follette and’the engincering mind of Hgpover, swept into. Congress on the tidal wave of rural discontent, but with no fanatic schemes for re- moving it. Howell js destined to fill the place in the Senate left vacant by the retirement of Kenyon. He comes at a chological moment, and, unless all signs are misleading; will be a healthy influence on Capl- tol Hill when called fellow-pro- ar s starg rainbow chasing. he country will soon know Howell for what he ive, coura- geous chs the brim with dge of at's west and a ful e wrong with advocate Ne ka, with Noj and farmer-labor radicalism ready to flood it from Misnesota on the north and lowa and Wisconsin on the east, counts itself fortunate to have a sen- ator of the Howell breed. He vields nothing to his colleague, Senator Nor- ris, in progressivism, as distinguished 2 stalwartism, but when La F lette leads the ive bloc” at Washington into the clouds. Howell will not follow. He has made no e; travagant promises to Nebraska and entered no entangling alliang at Washington. pnditions The conditions Howell to defeat Senator Hitchcoc ambition for re-election in 1922 are identical with those which have pitch- forked Magnus Johnson into the enate from Minnesota. Distre; ression among the f: Where in the west find plete counterpart in Howell was elected as a publican; for vears he has been the republican national committeeman from this state and a member of the +G. 0. P. executive committee. But it was mot essentially republican ngth. that stood Howell in stead November. He was solidly backed on-Partisan League and farm- wbor element, which saw in him less of a republican organizationist than an aggressive exponent of pop- ular rights as against special inter- ests. In the principle set founder of ment, W, verning Election. which permitted th, the 1922 elections in Nebraska celebrated “balance of power up by A. C. Townley, e non-partisan “‘n‘pu.\llg exemplified. Townley's original idea W non-partisan’ leaguers could press themselves at the polls by se- lecting men from among regular party nominces and then hurling their tull strength, like a lhundr'rb 1t, inst objectionable opponents. Thus, in braska last year, the non-part san element voted for Howell, repub- lican, for United States senator, and for democrat, for governor. Both elected, thanks to the Townley scheme of “punishing ene- mies” and “rewarding friends” Its advocates still exist and contend that this effectual obliteration of party lines better serves “radical” purposes than any other method. Others Who Profited by Method. Half a dozen western men recently elovated to high office achieved it in that way. Senator Wheeler, dem- ocrat, of Montana; Senator Brook- hart. republi of lTowa: Senator ¥razier, republ n, of North Da- kota; Senator Dill, democrat, of Washington, and democratic Govs. Davis (Kansas). Sweet (Colorado) and Ross ( oming) are cases in vint. Bach of these was nom- inated as a republican or democratic egular,” Al owed their election to the Townley “balance of power {dea, mobilized on their behalf. The newly organ federated farmer- labor party threatens to break with that principle—to put labeled cand dates of its own in the fleld in 1 in state and nation. But it rem to be seen whether the practice tha so far has worked so potently will not be maintained Herding Speeches Disappoint. President Harding's expedition into of course. appealed direct- vaska, Hardly any major {ssue raised by him is without defi- interest to this corn-raisin dered 3 the PI One gathers in Omaha, Lincoln, Grand Island and other cer ters of Nebraska the thought that Mr. Harding's speeches were found, on the whole. vague and a little un- inspiring. They did not seem to hold out enough categorical promise of relief to arouse enthusiasm. Ne- braskans apparently considered the President’s utterances good enough us far as they went, but felt they @ld not go far enough. They missed in_them anvthing around which the stricken west could rally, either Topefully or emotionally. A com- mon comment is that Mr. Harding ‘covered a lot of ground in the ab- stract and nothing very much in the ‘ooncrete. . His advocacy of the world court pleased, for Nebraskanas are for law, not war,” and, looking upon the league of mations as no longer #vithin the scope of practical Ameri- an politics, they like the gesture oward international, peace that ad- hesion to the world court suggzests. ! Approve Prohtbition - Utterances ebraska likes the President's Etrong prohibition® views, too. It thinks he took bold ground in advo- gating co-operative marketing. Yet, though voicing general approval of Mr. Harding’s western utterances, Nebraskans ~ were not Immensely tirred by them. He carried the state handsomely in 1920. Ask the average well-informed Nebraskan whether arding could do so in 1924, and the Imost ~universal answer is: “Not ainst a man like Henry Ford.” at seems to Indicate that there is nothing in “Hardingism” which romises better days to the Nebras- | ka farmer. Ford to him incarnates the hope and the prospect of the squarer deal the farmer demands. & Favor Ford for President Nebraska may be one of the first Wwestern states to organize a definite Ford-for-President “movement along *| tential It will be a farmer- labor’ movement when it gets go- ing, though it may at first seek to secure Ford's nomination on the dem- ocratic ticket. Attempts to organize a Ford democratic delegation for the national cenvention are about to be launched. They would counter the vroject, said to be fathered by Gov. Bryan and his brother. Willlam Jen- nings, to instruct the Nebraska del- cgation for McAdoo. McAdoo, apart from Ford, is the only democrat com- monly mentioned In Nebraska anent 1924." Among republicans, in addition to President Harding, one hears fa- vorable references to William S. Ken- yon, {f the G. O. P. nomination were to be given (o u progressive as dis- tinguished from conservative. A Kenyon-Ford contest in Nebraska. which is normally republican, would be a close fight, with party lines mashed into unrecognizability. Harding would probably defeat Mc- Adoo in the state, though not by such a majority as he beat Cox. Henry Ford, running as an independent, it is asserted, would overcome both Harding and McAdoo. Senntor Howell as Exponent. Nobody in Nebraska is qualified to discuss western political issues with greater intelligence than Senator Howell. Hereabouts and elsewhere Howell Is mainly assoclated in the popular mind with municipal owner- ship of public utilities, and an Im- pression has taken root that he gees in “state soclalism.” the cure-all for the people’s troubles, T am not for public ownership as an end,” he sald, “but merely as a means 'to an end. That is why I advocate, as a basic means of help- ing the farmer and the consuming classes, the purchase and operation by the federal government of a single trunk-line railroad system. I would have the government buy one rafl- road; operate it; show what it could do in the way public service, in respect particularly of rates; prove | by ‘practical demonstration whether the government can or cannot run a railroad with better results to the | people than” private compantes do; and then maintain or abandon gov- ernment ownership, as the lessong of the experience dictated. Such a plan would have two inevitable effects. In the figst place, if the system were sufficlently nation-wide in its rami- fications, it would, by the injection of competition, bring down private rates. In the second place, the coun- try would know, within a reasonable time, whether government ownership was or was not practicable. Experi- ence, in other words, would énd the agitation. We would have the proof of the pudding through having eaten it. There would always be time to third party lines. jrevert to private operation.” Reason for His Bellef. Senator Howell's idea for experi- mental government ownership of rail- roads springs from his experience as an Omaha munleipal official. For the better part of twenty years he has been an outstanding figure in the ity’s government. He vacates the post of general manager of the water board to enter the enate. A num- ber -of remarkable constructive ac- complishments stands to his personal credit. Omuhans enjoy cheap ice, cheap water, cheap gas and cheap electric power in consequence of them. Howell points to his installation of a municipal ice plant as an indication of what might be done by a federal railroad. Omahans once paid from 60 to 80 cents a hundredweight for ice. Howell put $750,000 into a city ice plant, which today is furnishing ice at 0 cents, at forty-two stations scat- tered throughout the city, as aguinst 50-cent ice (delivered) sold by. the private. companies. In 1 the gross income of the city plant was $260,000, derived from the sale of 57,000 tons of ice, retailed in as small as ent blocks. Hun- dreds of famlil thus were enabled to enjoy the necessary summer com- modity who otherwise would not have been able to afford ice. Howell in- stigated the establishment of city water and gas plants, which also Paves Way for Cheap Electricity. Omaha has no municipal electric- power plant, but Howell brought down the rate to almost the lowest kilowatt-hour figure in the United tates merely by what he terms “po- competition.” Having con- vinced himself that the private com- panies were “holding up” consumers of current, Howell went to the state legislature and paved the way for laws enabling Omaha to manufacture power. The “Interests” scowled and demurred, then made a sweeping cut in rates. That satisfled Howell, and he abandoned the city electric-power project. But the private companies have always understood he was wili- ing to renew it whenever extortion- ate rates were resumed. Some_day. he sa; it may not be Quick Riddance of Bed Bugs You may not be able t6 tell where they come from—or how they got into your home. But you can.soon be rid of them if you'll use “P. D. S.” The handy “spout” on the can will sift P. D. S. into the cracks and crevices where the vermin hide—and that'll be an end of the pests. P. D. S. is one thing bed bugs cannot stand. Use it freely. For Sale at all Peoples Constipation, Biliousness, Colds, Headaches and Malarial Fever. ‘A FAIR PROPOSITION Use one Radium bottle of Hay Fever Sblfition according to directions, and if your Hay Fever is not relieved, return the bottle and money will be refunded. Price, $2.00 Radium Products Corporation 1105 Connecticut Ave. NW. Main 6797 ‘Dm‘ Storu—-l’eoplgu Drug Stores have led to drastic reducttons in rates. | THE - EVEN for itself within four years. “Private ice company rates maj give the pub- lo & square deal,” he explains, “and we can close our plant, but we will be ready to open it again whenever necessary.” Senator Howell will “go along” with the La Follette bloc to the extent of JoIning An its ‘demand for repeal of the Esch-Cummins law. He sees in that “act discriminatory treatment, which the farmer justly resents. ress Coi dered. roceed to deal with sald Senator Howell, “on the general principle that it is a condition demanding amelioration, We must set as our definite goal the evolving of ways and means to achieve that amelioration. We shall not do 8o, I am convinced, by any wholesale pulling down or_busting up of things as they are. Evolution, not revolution, strikes me as the orly practicable method of accom- plishing anything worth while. The farmer responsibly argues that there is no greater justification for a fed- eral guarantee of rallroad earnings than for guaranteeing him a statu- tory income. Our problem fs to see that the farm industry, which cer- tainly is as fundamental as transpor- tation, I8 enabled to earn an income equivalent to. the labor the farmer expends, the investment he has at stake, and the risks he undertakes. It is a complicated problem and fts solution will not be hastened by pur. sulng chimeras .or wasting energy on indiscriminate vilificatio What Congress has to do, above ail, is to keep the problem before it aw a goal. and work it out dispassionately and sclentificall Senator Howell graduate. He left the Naval Ac emy with the class of 1885 included Admirals Coontz. Eberle and Strauss. Englneering is his specialty d he strayed into politics by acei- is an Annapolis in Omaha. It is well for the farmer and for the farmer’s “traditional foe the industrial east, that a level- headed citizen of Howell's type will be on the congressional firing Mne for the next few years. (Copyright, 1923.) SEEK MAN IN FOREST. Saginaw Business Men Searching for Associate Who Disappeared. By the Assoclated Press SAGINAW, Mich., July 24.—Approx- imately 200 Saginaw business men who during the night made the 130- mile trip by automoblle to the north- west section of Crawford county, near Lovells, at daybreak today bezan to comb the forext region in search for Join J. Tompkins, prominent local automobile distributor, who disap- peared near Lovells Sunday morning. Tompkins, member of a fishing party, became separated from his companions and is assumed to have become lost. Grave fears are enter- tained, as he is known to have suf- fered from the intense heat that pre- vailed preceding his disappearance. The Saginaw searchers were joined today by twenty-five woodsmen and a like number of state fire wardens, the latter being detailed by state o ficlals. Bloodhounds have been sent to the north country. s ‘Jules Guillot, an engineer of France, recently developed a process for ob. taining electricity without cost, by directly utilizing the component parts of the atmosphere. d- | which § G- STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. JULY 24, 1923, VEASHINGION, D C, TURSDAY, JULY 26 M8 e necessary for Omaha to ‘make ice, al- (:A”FURNIA’ though the municipal plant ?vlll pag’ S Shock Felt Over Wide Area, But Results Largely in “Freaks.” By the Associated Pr: L0S ANGELES, Calif,, July 24.—Ex- cept at San Bernadino, Redlands and vicinity, where considerable damage was reported, southern California had almost forgotten today the earth- quake which shook the south half of the state late Saturday night. Outside of the San Bernardino reglon, where the quake centered, it did little dam- age in the affected district, which was from San Diego.on the south to Santa Barbara on the north and as far east as the Arizona state line. The disturbance of the earth rattled dishes, set off burglar alarms, stopped clocks, cracked windows and opened artesian wells which had not flowed for years. Ralph Arnold, geologist. discussing earthquakes In’ general, said: “Cali- fornia will have more earthquakes. plenty of them. The earth’s crust is cal history. But there Is no reason to fear. Peril to human life in earth- quakes is virtuaily negligible when compared to the heavy toll taken by dent through his municipal activities!lightning, storms and floods in other | | parts of the countr: Canadian Farmers Expect Handle 1923 Crop. 1 REGINA, Saskatchewan, July 24.— Formation of separate wheat pools with a central selling agency for the three prairle provinces was decided upon at conferences of farmers' or- ganizations here. An official statement was given out which said the establishment of a pool for each of the provinces would be commenced immediately, and that they would be in operation in time for_the handling of the crop. “‘,‘“w LERDS Tg 4y, & Just like dropping into Washington for an Having The Star—Daily and Sunday—sent to you wherever you are summer- ing will keep you thorough- ly and reliably posted on what is going on here at home, It'll be equal to drop- ping into town for an hour each day to get the news. 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Then Dimitri came to Wichita, tried to cash a check and was ar- rested while suspecting police wired Kansas City to' ascertain whether the check was good. . was. Then Dimitri produced cre- dentfals in an effort to prove he was all he claimed—a Russian nobleman and cousin of the late o The manager of a department store then offered Dimitri the job. SINGAPORE FORTS MYSTERY.TO JAPAN Foreign lfininter Sees No Excuse for Britain in Far East Relations. BY E. B. EGGER. By Wireless to The Star and Chicago Daily News. TOKIO, July 24—Count Uchlida, Japanese forelgn minister, inter- viewed today by leaders of the op- vosition from the house of peers, said that Javan haw no secret under- standing with England regarding the announced plans for fortifica- tion of ‘Singapore, which the British oclaim fs justified in order to protect British interests in the orient. 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