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The Morning Bee MORNING—EVENING—SUNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Publiaharf. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS •Be Associated Press, of which Tho Boo » a member. It exclueirel? entitled to the use for republican™ of ell naTs dlipttcbee credited to it or hot otherwiie credited tn thte paper, end alao tho local oewe publlehed hereto. All rlghle of republlcatione of our epeelal dlepatcbra are alao marred. _ . BEE TELEPHONES ._, Private Branch Exchange. Ask for the Department AT Iantic or Perton Wanted. For Night Calla After 10 P. M : 1000 Editorial Depnrtment. AT Iantic 1021 or 1042. OFFICES Main Office—17th and Fa mean Co. Bluffa ... 11 Scott St. So. Side, N. W.Cor. 24th and N New York—288 Fifth Avenue Washington - 422 Star Bldg. Chicago - - 1720 Sieger Bldg. GETTING MARRIED. Some of the newspapers in Nebraska are de nouncing the new state law relating to marriage, it would eeem without justification. At least no such protests were heard when the legislature was con sidering this measure. Certainly the new law, which was introduced at the request of the women's clubs as a reform move, does not detract from the sanctity of wedlock, but rather gives it increased dignity and consideration. After July 1, when the law goes into effect, runaway marriages will cease to be possible in Ne braska. Before any couple is able to obtain a wed ding license they must file a written notice of their intentions with a county judge, who will post this application in a conspicuous place in his court room. It also becomes the duty of the judge to notify the parents or guardians of all minors. Both child marriages and elopements are put at a disadvantage by these requirements. The ten-day period of waiting may be sufficient to pre vent many mistakes. In some cases the contracting couples may cool off and withdraw from what had been a hasty and unconsidcred decision. In other parents may be able to dissuade their children from unsuitable matches such as end up in the divorce courts. No licenses will be granted to boys under 18, nor to girls under 16. Some critics of the law remark that it only means that such elopements will be carried into other states which do not enforce these stipulations. True, in some cases, but nevertheless it is well to do as much as possible to impress the serious na ture of matrimony. Certain other precautions, of an eugenic nature, are ordered by another section of the new statute. This reads: • No person afflicted with a venereal disease shall marry in this state. No person who has been adjudged an imbecile, or a feeble-minded person or a person who Is or has been adjudged afflicted with hereditary epilepsy or hereditary insanity shall marry in the etate. until after he or she has sub mitted to an operation for sterilization.” For the safety of the race and the prevention of the unfit such provisions are warranted. Doubt less the law will be evaded in some instances, as all laws are, but nothing but good can come of efforts for its enforcement. Taken as a whole the new law may be expected to reduce the number of divorces. Marriage has of late been considered too lightly. There has been nothing to call the attention of young persons to the seriousness of entering into such an obligation as that of husband and wife. Yet some will refer to it as a piece of “crank” legislation—but these will consist largely of tthe cranks themselves. OBSOLETE BOOKS IN THE SCHOOLS. Disclosures contained in the story published in The Omaha Bee, relative to the books used in the Omaha public schools are such as must startle the citizens. Antiquated and out-of-date text books containing such information as that digging on the Panama canal is going ahead nicely and that tho great wovk will be of much assistance to the com merce of the world when completed, must astonish even the children who use them. Equally so the books that still use the census of 10 or 20 years ago as a basis for stating the relative importance of com munitiea. What must an Omaha youngster think of a text book that sets down the population of his home city at 124,000, when he knows that it is at least 76,000 from the truth? These are just random examples of the outgrown information that is contained in the geographies now in use in the Omaha schools. Who is responsible for the situation does not so much matter. Certain it is that in the efl^rt to meet other educational re quirements of a rapidly growing city the text book question has been sadly neglected. Now that the matter is openly called to the at tention of the Board of Education, that body should take steps to see to it that when the schools reopen in September, the books handed out to the children to study will be of dependable quality so far ns the information contained therein is concerned. This will cost some money, but it is quite as important sn item of school administration as salaries for teachers or janitors, or as the provision of new schools. Children could study in old buildings, hut they cannot learn much that is accurate out of old text books. BLUE SKY IN ART. Millions of dollars have been spent on faked Gothic art antiques in the last decade by American collectors and museums. Of 100 pieces imported by John D. Rockefeller a few years ago, three-fourths are declared to be spurious by a Paris expert. John Vigoroux, former manager of the New York office of a Paris dealer, not only corroborates this, but says also that there are at least 20 pieces of fake Gothic in the Metropolitan museum. His testimony may or may not gain weight by his confession that he sold them himself. It is not surprising that Rockefeller should have been imposed upon in a question of art. If it had baon a purely business deal, the laugh probably would have been on the other side. And yet when inventory was made of the estate of the late J. P. Morgan it was found that his vaults contained a considerable amoun* of what would be termed in the case of less astute observers, blue sky stocks. The miracle men of finance doubtless have their credu lous streaks. An interesting vista of speculation is opened up by the news that many of th» statues and tapestries of wealthy collectors are not what they were believed to be. Certainly these objects are none the less beautiful, whatever their origin. If John I). paused of a morning to admire some of these bogus speci mens, will he now abandon that practice? It is probably true that the possessors of these beautiful impositions will immediately lose their taste for them. There ie something ridiculous in the idea that a piece of carved marble can be valurd at n fabulous amount on# day and the next be worth nothing more than its value for making lime. Poor folk who have to he content with a cheap print, or a home made watercolor will chuckle at this, hut it's tragedy for the connoisseurs and collectors. CHANGE “PLUS" TO “MINUS." Not all taxes are laid by the government. Heavy levies are made on industry and production by va rious trade practices established by private con cerns. One of the worst of these is that institution known as “Pittsburgh plus.” Briefly, under this system buyers of steel are charged with the cost of shipping this material from Pittsburgh, Pa., no matter where it was pro duced. Suppose, for example, a building is being erected in Omaha and the steel for its frame is bought from a mill at Gary, just outside Chicago. Added to the purchase price is the bill for the fic titious transportation of this steel from Penujyl vania to Omaha. Again, consider the case of a farm machinery manufacturer in Illinois. He may pur chase his steel from a mill in a neighboring town, but still he has to foot the imaginary freight charge from Pittsburgh. It is estimated that the farmers of America are taxed $20,000,000 a year by this trade practice, which adds materially to the cost of every farm im plement. And the farmers are putting up a stiff fight to abolish this method of fixing steel prices. At the request of the farmers and rolled steel con sumers, the legislature of Illinois has just struck at the evil by appointing a committee of five with an appropriation of $25,000 to work for its solution. The state legislatures in Iowa and Minnesota each appropriated $10,000 to be used in the campaign. In Nebraska and Michigan the legislatures, at the request of farm organizations, adopted resolutions condemning “Pittsburgh plus.” When one pays a tax to the city, the state, the school district, or any other governmental division, one receives in return some benefit. Official taxes are designed fundamentally for carrying on public service. Part of the money may be wastefully ex pended, but there is always some return to the citi zen. Unofficial taxes, however, such as those col lected by the steel trade, bring no more good to the community than do the activities of one of those gentry who wear a black mask and begin their mid night remarks with “hands up.” BREACH OF PROMISE. Not to our knowledge has any novelist cen tered his plot around a breach of promise suit, al though Dickens burlesqued the situation in “Bardell vs. Pickwick.” There simply isn't any romance in a breach of promise suit. The award of $50,000 damages to a young woman in a recent trial in Omaha is provoking con siderable comment. In a way it serves as a vindica tion and doubtless was so intended by the jury. The victorious plaintiff is the recipient of many congratulations and throughout the trial enjoyed much sympathy. In situations of this sort it is frequently said that “the woman pays.” Doubtless that is so, in a certain sense, but not in all. Suppose the condi tions had been reversed, and after long acquaintance it had been the woman who refused to marry, in stead of the man. Wouldn’t he have been laughed out of court if he attempted to recover damages? There are many human problems connected with such cases as the one that has just ended the chap ter in Judge Wakeley’s court. Real life in this in stance has set a hard pace for fiction, and even for psychology. MUSHROOM OR TOADSTOOL? The American public is not credulous. Rather, a spirit of profound skepticism prevails. This is making the going hard for petition passers and or ganizers of mushroom secret societies. The “hokum” of the Ku Klux Klan has by now been pretty well penetrated by the sharp eyes of public opinion. President Harding in his address at Washington made this plain by his distinction between “secret fraternities” and “secret conspiracies.” There are some of these movements, however, that seem loss of a conspiracy and more like a hoax. The failure of the widely advertised order of Fas cist; to hold its mass meeting in Omaha June 1 suggests that, this society of the black shirt is not finding it easy to line up new members. Having invited the former governor of Kansas, Henry J. Allan, and the former mayor of Seattle, Ole Han son, to address thia meeting, the organizers made great claims for the expected event. Thousands of members from all over the nation were to attend, and a mighty blow was to be struck for all the principles contained in the charter of the F ascisti. In the language of the headlines, “the Fascisti meet proved to be a dud.” No one came, neither speakers nor audience. Still, the public is not conscious of any loss. The cause of American patriotism, of democracy, of pub lic order and private morality and all the other causes to which the Fascist: heads dedicated them selves, goes on. just the same. The palladium of our liberties still stands, even though the Fasciati are not there to protect it. If this new order has failed, it is only because there is no public demand for it. Men do not need to pay dues to such an or ganization in order to be good Americans, loyal citizens or upholders of the right. Governor Davis of Kansas is shocking his fellow residents in Topeka by propping his stockinged feet up on the rail of the executive mansion of an eve ning. a In Jiggs. We’ll bet he dotes on corned beef and cabbage, too. Notice George J. Gould's will left his millions right in the family. Fortunate thing, for few of the members of this family would be able to make more I than a bare living by their own efforts. The average employe of the Municipal Utilities district will not grumble about who signs the pay checks so long as he gets his money. Homespun Verse —By Omaha'* Own Purl— Robert Worthington Davie HE'S A SOLEMN LITTLE FELLOW. lie* ■ «<i"inr» little fellow Would I leave him to distress \VI ' . ,;l< deed of kliidnen* may promote hla happi near? All! I know how deep he a longing for the greeting" of a friend. And he gaze* in the futiiie toward a melancholy end How hla mother uaed to i lieer him In her aweetl.y gentle way How convincingly enchanting woe the thing* *he n«ed lo *ay. lie remember* her .sicese* and the fondne** of Ills toy. Ami hi* countenance cxpr< * '■* sorrow of an orphan hoy. lie* a solemn liltl# fellow, and (he world seem* truly grlm Touchlov memories ami mellow make the future dark lo him. I am fain lhai I can fathom the Impression of hi* plight, And assure him that hla mother wad he* o»«r him to night “From State and -Nation” — Editorials from other netcspapers. Ignorance of Our Country'* History. From • Commerc* and Finance. A reader writing to the Washington Post tells of the comments heard while waiting for the unveiling of the Hamilton statue. One bystander said that Hamilton was a signer of the Declaration of independence: one at tributed to him the saying "I had rather be right than president.’’ An other was surmising why that partic ular spot had I teen chosen for the statue, at which his companion veil tured the guess that perhaps Hamil ton had had somthing to do with the treasury at some time. One man thought the statue represented him as too young, and another wondered what state he was from. This Is pretty had, although of course it Is not quite so bad as it might be. as most of the comments are not so far from the fact as to suggest that Hamilton's name meant notning to the makers. There has been much criticism of late of our revolutionary histories, but such ob servations as those of the Post reader suggest not misconception so much as total ignorance of our colonial and revolutionary fathers, as persons go ing to see the monument unveiled may ha presumed to take a little more in terest than the average in the career of the man thus commemorated. Until recently American history was all one got in the public schools, and might have supposed the pupils got that fairly thoroughly. Our national story is an interesting one and our heroes are so frequently alluded to that it is hard to believe that the average American’s impression of them should be cloudy. Hamilton was one of the very greatest of them. There were not all told half a dozen men whose part in the foundation of our institutions and In giving them form and direction were in any way to he ranked with his. We suggest that our readers try it out on the elevator man. the book keeper, the stenographer, the plumber, the golfer, the baseball fan and his neighbor who has Just bought a new car. Ask them who was Alexander Hamilton, and tabulate their answers. We are optimistic, but open to con viction. Arrested Development. From the Nfbranka State Journal. Fifteen years ago a Governor Bryan would not only lie putting a medical follower of his own at the head of the state health department, but would have had numerous other rewards to dispense to political doctors of his persona! entourage. The several hos pitals for the Insane would have fur nished berths for a small battalion of Bryan-hoosting M. D.'s. Bryan serving educators would have been compensated at the expense of the schools for the blind, the deaf, the Institution for the feeble minded, and the home for dependent children. Some lame duck Bryan sheriff could have been comported with a warden ship of the state prison. The thought of sucli a past disgusts us Those were the dark ages of Nebraska politics. With self-satisfac tion we contemplate the end which we have made to that business But it isn’t ended—within a week we have seen the child welfare bu reau at the state house turned to new and untrained hand as political spoils. The same thing has happened with the health department. About the same thing is in store for the hanking department, a field for purely technical, expert service. We are not mentioning these nauseating facts In criticism of Gov ernor Bryan or of his appointees. This Is merely a democratic admlnis t rat Ion doing w hat republican adminls t ration* did before it Of course, Mr. Bryan claims to be an instrument of good government while the repub llcans were Ineorrlglbly devoted to Daily Prayer That at tha nama of Jaaua a\ary kna# ahould bow. of thing* In heaven, and 'hlntra In earth ami thlnga undar tha aart *i Ami that every tongue ahould • onfe*« that Jaaua f'hri*t la I.nrd. to the glory of Uod the Father Wherefore, my halo-.*ad. a* ya hava aiwava obeyed, not aa in my r*r»eenre only, but now much mnr« In my abaenre. work out your own aalvgtlon with fear and trembling For It a find which worketh In vny both to will end to do of Hia good pleaaure —Phil. 2:l«.f 3. Merciful God. our Father, we thank Thee for health, and life, and every good gift. Thou hast crested us tn Thine own Image, and highly en dowed us as thinking creatures. We recognise Thy dlviae right to rule over us. and we pray thnt we may be kept true and right t>efore Theo Give us grace for this day's duties, and make us kindly disposed toward our fellow-men. Support Thy people everywhere In the midst of difficul ties. and bring this world to Thyself Regard with much mercy the poor mid unfortunate. Redeem m»n from the sins that beset them. For our selves, our loved ones, our common ity, and our nation, we make humble pra> ei Mercifully grant unto ns all thoae blessings Thou srest w# need, through the merits of .lesus I'hrlst. our sdor able Savior. Amen. PROF CHARI,KS (I HKCKF.RT. !> ft , UprlngflaM. YOU MAY BE LOSING MONEY if you arc sick and do not investigate Chiropractic. You can investigate in safety, as no qualified practitioner will accept a case he cannot help. The Thomas Chiropractic Offices 1712 Dodge, Gardner Bldg. ATIantic 1293 N ET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for MAY, 1923, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily. Sunday . Door not Inrluda rat urn*, lafi Ovtra. a ampin* or papara apollrrl »n pnn'ini and Inrluda* no aparial •alas B. BREWER, G#n Mtr. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. M«r. 5uhaf r ityad and awot n to balm a ma this 2d day al Juna, |H2.t W. II QUIVfcY, (Saal) Notary Public We Nominate— For Nebraska's Hall of F ante. YOI' wn make a painter, sir.” William SI. Chase said that after viewing the student work of the native born Nebraskan. Robert Spencer. A true prophecy. What other American at 44 has ever achieved a (ilace of greater distinction in the world of art than has been attained by Mr. Spencer? In recent years his landscapes have had a prominent place in the chief ex hibitions of this country, also In Lon don and Toronto. He Is represented in the leading permanent collections, such as the Metropolitan museum, the Boston Art club, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Detroit Museum of Art and the National Arts club of New York. Among the awards Mr Spencer has to his credit Is the gold medal given in 1914 by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the George Inness gold medal, also in that year. In 1915 he received the $1,000 purchase prixe from the Boston Art club. Born at Harvard. Neb.. Mr. Spen cer moved with his parents to Kan sas. to Missouri, to Virginia, finally to Yonkers, N. Y. After graduating from the Yonkers High school his art training began. He studied first at the National Academy of Design and later at the New York School of Art. For a number of years he has resided at I^ambertville, Pa. evil. By his own standard* and pro fessions Governor Bryan is con demned He promised to do better than the republicans. He has not done so. But republicans must judge Governor Bryan by their own record, not by his professions. The governor is doing just as the republicans did before him. He is as bad as they. They were no better than he. That is no reason why both should not be made to do better. The public cannot pride itself on maintaining an age of enlightenment while these ves tiges of the dark age of politics re main. The Job is unfinished. Ths development was arrested. If it was well to end the regime of political doctors and political educators and political accountants in a part of our state institutions, it will be well to eliminate them as to the rest. By the time Governor Brysn's politlcsl appointees have learned their new duties at state expense, a republican governor will tie installing a new set of apprentices to learn their trade at state expense. That may be well enought from a politician -tandpolnt. From the standpoint of the taxpayer and of the public aervlce it Is absurd and intolerable WTirre the Romano- Really l.ies. Frem the Buffalo Express. Home way must be found by the building industry to stimulate among the rraflsmen employed In construc tion work a sense of the romance of building and a realization that there is an Interest In accomplishment out side of the direct financial reward. This was the view expressed hy a New York architect, talking to mem hers of the New York building con gross. Perhaps sot It sounds well, anyway. And, too. It might he a means of curing some of the evils of which complaint is made. Rut no practical suggestion sccnm panles the thought, snd ft Is evident that some decidedly practical obstruc tlons are In the way. tine of tlua is that to the worker the greatest romance connected with his Job lies in his pay envelope. And after nil. is not there where most persons look for such romance as attaches to material things’ “THE PEOPLE’S VOICE” ! Editorial from raadara ot Tlta Moraldi Baa. Raadera at Ida Maralao Baa are Invited to um thla column freely for *xpre**lon ea matter* af public latoreot. Separation of Churrli and State. Omaha.—To the ldditor of The Omaha Bee: To be sure children should have Christian education. This is a Chriatian nation. The supreme court of the L'nited States has so de clared time and aifain. And other so called religious training is as much out of place as red propaganda. Sepa ration of church and state is a primary fundamental doctrine of our institu tions. When any group or citizens, or citizens in groups, buna together, or conspire. If you please, to ask the state to gather together the children of the community and by the power of its school laws to then turn these children to a group of so called re ligious Instructors who are responsl ble to no one. it is the grossest possi ble violation of the letter and spirit of our constitution and laws. No pos sible allowance for fanatical bias can clothe with the garb of sincerity a statement to the contrary. I am a Arm believer in the organ ized church. Religious education is an important part of the work of the church. The tragedy of the times is that the church has failed on its Job. and that by negligence. Religion has rjot failed. It Is the cnureh that has fajledi This tragedy, this failure is not because the doctrines of the church are unsound, not because we need new or rewritten creeds, hut be cause the teachers of the church have failed to maintain sound and estab lished doctrines. There Is no more need nr rewriting the fundamental doctrines of Chris tianity than there is of amending the laws gravitation. The move to put upon the state the burden of bringing the children of our schools under the Influence of denominational partisan teaching and by the power of the law forcing them to attend, whether they will or not, Is a crude attempt to cover this failure. The move will fail and should fail: It Is a move backwards towards the times when every citizen of the state was a member by law cf the state church. The next and logical move will be to ask the state to pay these so called instructors, to subsidize this socalled religious training. Such a move is absolutely illegal and unconstitutional, our children are gathered to the school buildings by the laws of the stale This au thority can not be delegated. To send them to some other building, to put them under the power of persons who have no responsibility to the school officers Is preposterous It is a subterfuge. The school authorities are to retain control, to prescribe penalties if the children do not at tend these educational side shows hut still the claim is made that this de nominational training is not being given In the public schools. There Is no semblance of authority for Jhe school officers to send the chil dren away from the school proper. If they have the right to do tills for one tljlng they have for another. It would he Just as legal to dismiss tiie children one day a week apd compel them to attend instruction under a dancing master or a card shark as this so-called religious instruction: or all th» various political parties might [demand that the poor kids be scat tered abroad to receive training in civics and practical politics at the hands of ward heelers! Our public schools are a glorious heritage. They cost lots of money, they pile up the load of taxation, hut they are worth 10.000 times the cost. The teachers in our schools comprise the best talent and character that our democratlo institutions have produced It is the bounden duty or every citi zen to see that there *e no diversion from the object for which our schools were established S J. WOODRITF Democrats Not » Factor. Omaha—To the Kditor of The Oma ha Pee The World Herald Maehme ton i-orrespondent In reporting the Minnesota senatorial election next month, quoted the republican whip" in the house of representatives as saying "that any republican candi date will be defeated by a hundred thousand" The significant feature of thia Washington message is that it .does not aav a democrat Is going to be elected According to that newspaper s standards, this is no reflection uiwvn the reporter. Why should the readers of his paper hive the facts' As long as he Is laboring for a par tlsan political advantage he may con ceal the truth and even stretch the farts a little and etlll he received In polite and powerful society One partlean political correspond ent will write in blue, another in yel low and another In black. In order to get the basic facts you must have th» scientific knowledge of how to blend those colors to arrive at the actual situation. Put. to return to Minnesota The W. H. correspondent dl<1 not speck of democrats in Mlnne^-ta for. like the snakes In Ireland—there are none The farmer labor movement threat ens to sweep all before It. The three candidates of this party. Magnus John son. a state senator: former Congress —a permanent division of General Motors —to be the finest light Six. OAKLAND MOTOR CAR CO. Oakland Rldf . 30tk and Hamay Ma. Ttl. A1 Ian tic Whnlaaala and Ratail kactaiy Ri ant It S«rvtea which manna a rarmanant inta*a*t m axaiy Oakland and ita ownai. man Eindberg, who introduced the "money trust" investigation in con gress. and Ur. E. A. Fritsche are the three farmer labor candidates. This trio of political reformers have Intro duced a novelty In American politics. They are traveling together and speak from the same platform and collec tively agree to support the winner of the June IS primaries. Should one of those three farmer labor candidates be elected in July by the voters of Minnesota to aeconi pany that other farmer-labor senator. Henrik Shipstead. it will take a long stretch of the imagination to note the advance that constitutional radicalism has made in the home of "Jim'' Hill within the past two years. Senators Frank Kellogg and Knute Nelaon were tried and true friends of the steel and other trusts, but they overplayed their hands and Minne sota takes the place In progressive ranks that Nebraska occupied In the latter '90s. W. H. GREEN. For More Keliglnus Training. Creighton, Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: In The Omaha Bee of May 23 I notice an editorial superscribed. "Schools and Churches.” provoked, In all likelihood, by a reso lution adopted by Omana churches and presented to the school board of that city. I am sufficiently unfor tunate not to be In possession of the mentioned resolution, ond am there fore obliged to reconstruct it. as best possible, from the references made thereto in the editorial. Accordingly. I must imagine the following to be a rough outline of the resolution: After representations as to the serious con sequences of neglig»nt religious in struction the recommendation is made that children, at the choice of parents, be given permission to absent themselves at given times from pub lic school classes and repair to else where for religious instruction. Keeping in mind the editorial. I cannot help but think that Its author is little In sympathy with the real work of Christian instruction and has an even more limited understanding of the problems with which It must contend. The editorial speaks of the methods employed at the present as having been "successful for many generations.'' But Is not a well known fact to all who are Informed that the methods which have Indeed been "sue cessful for many generations" are the methoda which for the last decade have been little used and are con tinually more and more falling into disuse'.’ Nor is that the case be cause religious educators are at odds with those methods, but because our compulsory school laws, though good in themselves, have taken from us the time required to instruct the chil-! dren acchrdiug to those methods "sue ceesfui for many generations," In a word, be.-ause they make It, to say the least, a misdemeanor to employ those methods. The religious leaders of the present are the fruit of yon era when there was still sufficient time to give thorough religious in structions Today that time has been shortened bv law. i he editorial continues: ' What shall we think of the statement that unless the whole tradition of Amerl can government is infringed upon, the nation 1* likely to fall into atheism and godl< That question, pre sumably, has reference to a probable request in the resolution to grant •ome of the time new all .tted to public school work for religious In struction and interprets that request as an Infringement upon the whole trad.tlon of American government. Is it really a tradition of our govern merit to legislate out of existence, by withdrawing the necessary time, thorough religious instruction: er is that tendency not rather an achieve ment of the last decades and the forces hostile to religion” If th* for mer Is* true, then we have long since permitted the pearl of religious Ilh erty delivered to us by our fathers to slip from our Angers and have made this a country In which atheism Is the normal and Christian faith the abnor mal condition Is it an infringement upon the whole tradition of a govern ment founded on the principles of re ligious liberty to ask for lend re Abe Martin I’D QOlT FAHrllW f IF I (OULO^CLLS Mr co+t ) We're steerin' clear o th’ Darwin controversy, but we defy anybuddy t' tackle us on th’ Barnum theory. With all th’ fightin’ an’ turmoil in Europe, we all ought t’ be glad we’re livin’ in America, even if we're only democrats, or farmer*. Copyright. 1133. ceivel sufficient of the youth's time for Christian training? Is it true that, as the editorial continues: 'To dismiss a certain number of pupils from attendance at the public schools on certain days or for certain hours of a day, that they may attend an other school for religious Instruction, is getting dangerously near the line of the things forbidden by the constitu tions of nation and state?' It is for bidden plainly by existing school laws, but never the federal or state con stitutions. Under the constitution those parents who desire to have their children Instructed in their own faith have a right to ask that a sufficient time be allotted for that purpose and that that time be protected by the law. Then we could practice re ligious liberty under protection of the law. while at present such practice can proceed merely under toleration^ of the law. and. without referrrng to any language law. even that is being made increasingly difficult. I am not advocating religious in struction in the public schools. It would be altogether out of place there on the one hand, because our teachers themselves usually have only a very thin veneer of religion; on the other hand, and that is more important, because by our constitution church and state are separate. And that is one of the greatest treasures our con stitution holds But by that same con stitution the church has the right of existence within the state and is the state's best source of moral strength. The proper solution would be that our school laws be amended so as to permit a child, at the choice of its parents, during its educational years to be withdrawn from public school one year for the purpose of religious instruction. The state might even re quire proof that the time is actually used for the ostensible purpose The church s problem of instruction, as far «s the state is concerned, at least, would be solved, and the state would be well repaid In citizens ''subject unto the higher powers for conscience sake.'' Give to the church a chance and she will take care of her work. That the state reeds the church is sufficiently proved by the resolution passed by the lec.siature of South Dakota GEORGE OBERMEYER. Saving Their Backs. WM Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: On a large construction ioh I notice the men using the short handel shovel snd making that he*-k breakirz stoop in their loading effort. Tha' could easily be avoided by using the long or*. I think If contractors realized how much better physically their men v.- uld be at the end of the day by making the change wherever possible, tbev would take all their short handled shovels to the dump. A. 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