OMAHA'S GREATEST Per Year $2.00· AND BEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Single Copy,______ 5c EDIATO VOL. XIX OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31,1923, No. 42. BUTLER. SHOULD BE ITeHE WHO OWNS THE MEDIATOR REPORTED BUTLER IS Another High School I Friends of Commissioner BuUer are circulating the re­ PUBLIC MAY DEMAND ~Iays. port that Tom Dennison owns 'NE······.A·R"·'LY:'T'D'ROUGH Teachers the Mediator. Nothing' could._ . '.. •..... .,., , '. WIth FIre be furthut' from the truth. Edwin L. Huntley is' DOW and A high school teacher, well known I' HE BE TRANSFERRED to Omahans, who teaches the young has been f{)r the past seven years, sole owner and publish­ ·A·PED".....~. CLAIM HE W' ILL BE men and yong women of Omaha, the er of this paper and .expects DAIL.:y ..P .. " . ....' . ways of the world, along with UGLY CHARCES MADE AGAINST HIM • "reding', Riting anf 'rithmetic", is to continue so throughout the coming years. SwiTCHED ABOUT SEPTEMBER 11 playing with the fire in an unusual way. This miss does things out of I--------------~-.: BRINGS MATTER TO A HEAD '. ARMS the '8rdiinary, and she carefully ·TIZE'NS'" O.F OMAHA ARE UP IN . avoids breaking into her own big BARBER SHOP DEALS ALSO CI salary. She has her playhouse in a IN HOOCH ON FARNAM HE HAS FELL DOWN ON THE JOB well known apartment building, HAS INVOL'\T:ED HIMSELF IN HUr>.:TJ>RED THOUSAND DOLLA.RS where her suite is richly furnished It is openly charged by neighbor­ MEDIATOR IN TWO ARTICLES TOIlAY PRESENTS CONSENSUS WORTH OF LAW SUITS-SLA,NDERS l\I1NISTER OF GOD­ at the expenses of Omaha's best ing busiess men that a barber shop OF OPINION AS GA.THERED FIWaf LErfTERS RECEfVED­ HAS ALWWED LA.RGE NUllIBER OF PROSTITUTES .h-nown printer. This printer is one in the Harley hotel, at Twetieth and AS P().LICE HEAD HE HAS FAlLEn TO APPRImEND TO PLY THEIR '.rRADE----.~HOW CONTE~IPT OF of the boss printers of, the city and Farnam streets, is "dealing." Other SINGLE l\ml\LBER OF SAFE BLOWER OANG-- Co-URTS BY REFUSING TO HONOR ORDERS does a business of that sort that bootleggers in" that neighborhood are FAVORS SEA.RCH AND SEIZURE WITHOlJT means many thousands of dollars up in arms. Most of them are open- WARRANT Report has it that Dan Butler will experienced and much more quali- every month. He is a widower and ly defyi11g the law by dealing openly be shifted-from the police to the. fb, -.fied than Mr.~ut:er bu~ that. was don't care who knows it. and they complain that the place in -The mediator last week printed I According to reliable inf-ormatioll nance department, over which he of no concern to him. HIS contmuaL This playhouse is located in question is getting by without even just an insignificant portion of the Butler involved himself in nearly formerly presided on September 11' ranting finally got on the nerves of Omaha's largest and best appointed making apology to the law. There Ifacts at hand concerning commis.- S100 000 worth of lawsuits. No or within a week or so of that date. the other commissioners who· made building quite in keeping With the are several bootlegging joints in this sioner Butler, To say the least it hroad-minded man would ever be We do not know if the reports are up their mind they would give swell ideas of both the high school neighborhood, among them one run by caused a real sensation in all parts tangled up to any such extent. true but if they are-not they should Butler a chance to, qualify in some teacher and with the printer. He an automobile man in the neighbor- of the city. Dundee, Fairacres, the As head of the police department be. Since the "Big Seven" were ele- other place on. the commission. drives up in his big sedan at regular hood. This auto dealer sells one of east side, south side, down town, he has failed to appl'ehend a single cted the last time the citizens in Butler was especially bitter toward intervals, usually in the evening to the popular cars but he says he is north side in fa~t all over town member of the safe blower gangs general have had time lind opportun- the police department and gave out make his nightly calls. Sometimes doing a big business at his place, people besieged agents of the paper which have cracked a full score of ity to judge of the men what they to the newspapers that if he was he returns to his room and some- nearby selling hootch. for copies because they had not been safes since he has become commis- are and what they are capable of police commissioner hI'! ,:,ould show Itinles he does not. able to obtain the facts through the sioner. doing. the people how that department This is one of the high school CLAImS AUTO LICENSE daily papers. Knowing the interest Without due process of law he Their work has brought out sev- should be -run, ~r ,he intimated as Iteachers Omaha is employing, and LAW IS NOT ENFORCED the truth in this matter has has ordered his officers to search eral interesting facts that can not much. The commISSIOners transferred appears to like her. The attention A reader of The Mediator writes aroused we are today presenting a the homes and seize the persons and be ignored, not even by the com-him and gave him his chan~e. They of Superintendent Beveridge is res- that the automobile license law is few more facts that the people in effects of our citizens and to hold missoners themselves. The one of should haye knowjl a man hke But~ pectfully c~led t? thi~ con~ition. not enforced. Hu?dreds of autoists, Ithis city may get them,. and get them in jail, not because but in spite most general interests concerns the ler, could never have_ run the depart Although The MedIator IS not m the he savs. are runnmg- two or more them, and get them strmght. of the law. police head. W'nen Henry Dunn was ment and give the public what is information business, it could di- cars ~n' one license, Trucks are op- Hundreds- of letters have been re- In one case that we personally ansigued ·the police department demanded and expected. vulge s6me startling things if that Ierating on pleasure car licenses, and ceived fl"Om all. classes of people, know of, he has slandered a minis­ there was general satisfaction as the From the first Butler' has f-ailed was what it was doing. It suggests not one chauffer in three has a nearly all demanding to know wheth- tel' of God for calling his (Butler's) people of the city felt that he, with miserably and he as well as every that an investigation by members of booge. Ier we published the truth or whelli- attention to vice conditions in the his years of eJqrerience was well able one else .. kno:ws it. After. three Ithe school .board would not be This is a bad condition, to say' tl:e er what we have had to say was all city. He has allowed large num- to cope with the situation. Dunn months tlille It was the plam duty amiss. least. ''1'110 is responsible for It IS Ia lie. To these people we have but bel'S of common prostitutes to ply made good or as nearly so as any of the other com:nissioners to put I In this case names of the princi- not determined, but it is a mat!er a single word: If what we said is their trade on the streets of the city man could under the circumstances, Mr•. Butler-.back m the finance de- pals are not disclos:d for :he r;r.es- that should receive prom~t.attentIOn untru:. there.is cause for a libel and in the hotels while apparently Every man in the department work- partment where he belonged and toIent, because there IS no dIspOSItIOn from the proper authontles. Mr. suit; If true, It stands. persecuting other ,vomen of the same ed -for him.as they would work for have made the change in such man- to stir up a bad mess in the Omaha But\ler. is so busy, t.aking care of Just before presenting other rea- ilk, who for some reason has either , themselves. Gradually Mr. Dunn ner that Commissioner Dunn w~d. schools by mentioning names, 'al- his'rfulitical fences these HInes that suns why, in om' opitl:on, Cmnmis- !'o'aineli hi6 dh.fav!,)r or the disfavur of brought the department up to the have again been made head of pollce 1though this may become necessary he cannot, stop to look after such sioner Butler is unsuited for the po- some of his men. This in itself is high standard of efficiency it had 1affairs. This they hesita.ted. to do, in the not distant future. small matter, it is said. sition as police commissioner, we an interesting story and will be han- attained until the Ringer adminis- possibly fearing that certaln elem- It is suggested this business lllan ,Yish to say that as head of the fi-I dIed next week. tration muddled things up. during Ients would m.ake a political issue of and his f.. riend take a day off to BIG ('tTICKUP WAS nance dep;rtment we beliieve he i It can not be denied that Mr, But- the "reform" regime.