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THE MORNING BEE MOHW1W G—E V E N I N G—S U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. PublUhtra. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tha Aaawlattd Trent. of which Tha Baa la a member, la eieluiirely entitled to tha use for repuhltcatton of all newa dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper, and aleo the local news publiehed herein. All rifhu of repuhllcations of our apecial dlepatebes are alao reserved. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for tha Department AT (antic or Person Wanted. For Night CaHe After 10 P. M.: .___ Editorial Department. AT Untie 1021 or 1042. IUUW OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Co. Bluffa - - - 15 Scott St. So. Side, N. W. Cor. 24th and N New York—286 Fifth Avenue Washington - 422 Star Bldg. Chicago - - 1720 Steger Bldg. A MESSAGE TO THE EAST. Things can never be right in America until agri culture is restored on a sound £asis. Let the east turn ita eyes to the west if it wishes to face the big gest problem of the time. Senator Caraway of Arkansas declared in Wash ington yesterday that the nation is facing agricul tural suicide. He spoke of the drift from farm to city and the danger, if this drain be continued, of the catastrophe of famine. To those who are able to call their grocer on the telphone and have delivered within a few minutes all that fancy or appetite de mands, this will seem unreal. But is it? Mark this down. If it no longer pays the farmer to raise plenty of food, he will raise less. The first indication to be seen of this is in the restriction of cotton acreage in the south, a maneuver that has kept the prices of that commodity on a level with those of manufactured articles. B. W. Snow of Chicago, who is generally recognized/as one of the world's leading crop experts, predicts a general de crease in farm production during 1923. Shortage of farm labor he finds has in many instances pre vented the replanting of fields that were winter killed. * . One of the most distressing situations in the middlewest at the present is the slump in hog prices. No one knows how to apportion the blame for this condition. It is a fact that there has been an un usual movement of hogs to market. Some say that farmers who are pressed for money are sacrificing their live stock in order to meet their maturing or overdue obligations. There is the further view that in a few months the price of hogs will take a shoot upward, after thousands of farmers have sold at a sacrifice. Something is wrong there. Without doubt shipments have been too heavy. A way must be found to distribute the supply more evenly around the calendar. There is need for a farm leader to come forward with some workable plan for adjust ing the marketing situation. Farmers must not ex pect the market to absorb without any flurry what ever tremendous amounts of goods.they unload at one time. A scheme of rationing supplies in such a way as to stabilize the market must be developed as a part of the rejuvenation of agriculture. Underlying the whole problem is the question of how to establish the prices of farm products and manufactured articles on a common level. Until a I hog, a steer or a bushel of grain will exchange for as much in the city as it did before the war, there can bo no sound prosperity for America. The mal adjustment between the prices of farm products and other goods is bound to injure all industries. The fanner necessarily restricts his purchases when the price of what he has to sell falls more rapidly than the price of the manufactured goods. When the actual condition is one in which the prices of farm stuffs falls while the price of everything else is ris ing, then indeed there arises the danger of agricul tural auicide of which Senator Caraway warns. HATS OFF TO '9*. Let your mind slip back 25 years. \ ou will note a group of handsome young men, neatly uniformed, lined up on Harney street, in military order and panoply, about to take train for Tennessee, where they went into camp at Chtckamauga. About the same time another similar group lined up at Seven teenth and Harney, ready to start to San I rancisco, whence they were sent to the Philippine islands. One. was the Omaha Guards, the other the Thurston Rifles, company G of the Second regiment, Nebraska National Guard, and company L of the First Ne braska National Guard. One battled typhoid fever, and came home five months later, shattered in health and worn by camp duty, disappointed because of not having “smelled powder,” but proud of having done its duty. A year and a half later the First Nebraska returned from the Philippines, tried in the crucible of war and proved to be a splendid organization. Its colonel and 36 of its best officers and men were shot down in one fight, the heaviest loss incurred by any single r«®iment in all the campaign, and company L was the heaviest sufferer in the regiment. On a June morning, 25 years ago, we gathered on the Exposition grounds, and lined the avenue while the Third Nebraska, with Colonel William Jennings Bryan and Lieutenant-Colonel Victor Vifquairi at its head, passed on its way to Jackson ville, whence it later went to Cuba. No finer body of men ever marched behind the flag than the regi ment Colonel Bryan led that day. Nebraska had a proud share in the Spanish-Amer ican war and the Filipino insurrection that followed, and Omaha is proud today to welcome the survivors of those magnificent organizations. Our lists are off to the veterans of the Spanish-American war. GOLD PLATED ROMANCE. How cheap is a man who sets a value on $1,000? This question is raised by the action of a young woman in Chicago, who has just been ordered by a jury to return to the young man whom she has n jilted the engagement ring he provided. She has the alternative of paying him the $1,000 he paid for the ring. She says he ia a “bum sport.” If her remark be given its reasonable interpre tation, she holds to the view that he should relin quish any claim to the ring, allowing it to remain in her possession. This brings up the question of the sportsmanship of the girl, who would decline to keep her promise to wed a man, but who would also retain the presents he lavished on her, including the ring. It is admitted in ordinary circles that $1,000 is a respectable sum of money, and that an object worth that much, a diamond, for example, is well worth having. Is a man “cheap” because he values $1,000, or any other sum of money? Most girls would es teem that trait in the young man they plan to wed. Thrift is a quality that has its proper place in any well regulated matrimonial partnership, and most of us will regard the young man as having shown good sense In requesting the return of a ring of any value after he has been rejected by the girl who promised to wed him. On the other hand, the girl deserves to be listed among the “gold diggers,” because she shows that she is willing to hang on to the ring she condemns her former swain for trying to recover. K thU, wmit AINU BLUB. "It's your flag, and my flag, And, oh, how much it holds— Your land, and my land, Securp within it* folds!" One June 14, 1777, Betsy Ross of Philadelphia finished making the first American flag, with thirteen white stars in a blue field, seven red and six white stripes, and a new emblem of Liberty was swung to the breeze. It first floated over a military post at Fort Schuyler, now the city of Rome, N. Y.; it first was hoisted in the navy by John Paul Jones over the “Ranger;” it was first carried into battle on the banks of the Brandywine. All these events were in the year of its birth. Since then it has gone around the world, has been smiled upon by the sun of every clime, kissed by all the winds that blow, and everywhere it has gone the harbinger of freedom, of liberty, justice and right. It has inspired many poets, produced many panegyrics, none more worthy of memory than that of Henry Ward Beecher, who said: "The American flag means, then, all that the Fathers meant in the Revolutionary war; it means all that the Declaration of Independence meant; It means all that the constitution of a people organ izing for justice, for liberty and for happiness means. The American flag carries American ideas, American history, American feelings. Beginning with the colonies and coming down to our time, in its sacred heraldry, in its glorious insignia, it has gathered and stored chiefly this supreme idea: Divine right of liberty in man. Every color means liberty, every thread means liberty, every form of star and beam of light means liberty—liberty through law and law for liberty. Accept it then in all its fullness of meaning: it is not a painted rag. It is a whole national history. It is the govern ment; it is the emblem of the sovereignty of the people. What wonder, then, that with the poet, we instinctively throw up our hat* and shout wild huzzas as the glorious old ensign of our repuhlic passes by? ' Purity speaks from your folds of white, Truth from your skies of blue. Courage shines forth in the crimson stripes , And leads to victories new." Today .the red in the stripes is a little deeper, for it has the hue of the added sacrifice of heroes, falling that it might forever wave. Its blue has deepened also, as truth is firmer entrenched, and its white is ever purer, because of our longer experience with and enriched devotion to the eternal principles of justice. Forty-eight stars now gleam from that field where first there were but thirteen, emblematic of new sisters in the group that stand firm for all the old flag means. And, as we stand today under the Stars and Stripes, we realize more than ever the meaning of Sam Kiser’s words, part of whose poem is quoted above: "And half the world around i »ld Glory hear* our glad salute. And ripples in the sound." SENATOR BORAH LOOKS IN In a hit and run interview between trains in Omaha Senator William E. Borah touches off the topics of the day with all the readiness and aptitude of Mr. Gallagher or Mr. Shcan. There are not many statesmen of the caliber of the gentleman from Idaho who speak so frankly what is on their minds. Some public men use language to conceal thought; others use it and betray lack of thought; Senator Borah uses it instead of a club. He is forceful, aggressive and outspoken. When he remarks that he is not a candidate for president, there is no reason to question his sincerity. No man has ever been known to refuse the nomination if it were offered, but still a distinction must be made between active and latent candidates. In some partic ulars Senator Borah differs v*ith the policies of President Harding, yet he has never broken over the party lines. The radical movement which sought to make him the candidate of a third party has not been heard from of late, and evidently has received no en couragement. Neither is much now heard of his pro posal to “outlaw war." One of Borah's aversions is the world court. In stead of President Harding's plan for America join ing this tribunal, Borah would have the United States move to establish a new international court which would perform the same functions as that of the one Mr. Harding favors. Borah's reason for this rather odd position of endorsing the principle of an international court but at the same time objecting to the one already at work is the opposition to any thing touched by the league of nations. The aver age citizen is not able to draw the hairline legal dis tinctions that lie between Borah's plan and the presi dent’s. There is not, in fact, any great difference between the two proposals. The winter wheat crop in Nebraska may be a little short this year, but just think of the alfalfa and com and oats and rye and sugar beets! And, of course, we must not overlook the spuds and apples. After assuring us that Nebraska is one of the “dryest’’ states, Mr. Rohrer ought to put a quietus on that antedeluvian monster story from the sand hill lakes. The two do not go together very well. \ William Jennings Bryan's “paramount issue’’ right now is to prove that he is not descended from a monkey. But why make one of himself in so proving? Governor Smith of New York is now giving us a remarkably good imitation of the man who tried to sit down between two stools. China insists that Japan apologize, which may recall to some the old tale about the rabbit and the bulldog. King Ak is the only monarch wearing an easy crown these days. Homespun Verse —By Omaha's Own poet— Robert Wortliinglon Davie TOGETHER FOR A SPAN. Together for a span. There dawns a gloomy da> — Ts boy becomes a man and hastens on hta way; Into the world Is led by dormant power of will. Enthusing words are said, but hearts with sorrow nil, And tears beneath the smile departure.'* scene await To tint with gloom the while when he turns from the gate. The old home empty seem* and ell I he joy Is dead. And myriads of dreams are memories Instesd. The soothing songs of old return to grace the mind With Jeweled thoughts sml gold of happy dgya behind. And withered fingers touch the erstwhile eertins of care With which they tolled so much when he resided there. Together for n span of love and pride and Joy At length e stalwart man become* the little boy. And dlslsntly lie goes the luting Vael to roam Somewhere awaits, he ktrawa, Iris own desired hone Home day, somewhat* will he enchanting phrases n.n Wli,h pride, but solemnly, when bis boy goes sway. A “The People's Voice" Cditorlili In* reader* «t Tkd Mtral*( Be*. Reedere •( The Mernlav Bee *r« Invited to uee title columa tree Ur ter eepretelon *n Matter! al dubllo letereet. Politeness Softens The Way. Lincoln—To to Editor of The Omaha Bee: "Politeness is to do and say The kindest things in the kindest way." That little verse might suggest that at times “Politeness" may be known as "Tact." To explain, let us choose for example the hard-working, over burdened editor of a country news paper who finds to his dismay that he has to “write up" an account of the wedding of two prominent young people of the town. Now the editor knows as well as his next-door neigh bor that the bride could not bake bread If her life were endangered for not doing so: that the groom never earned a cent in all his mature 21 years: and that, eventually, they must return to the parental domicile, but does he publish it? No, he dares not! He aim ply writes a column or two on the social success of the af fair, cautiously skates over the thin Ice marked "Character" and all Is well. He has done his duty: he has measured up to the social standards which are judged by "politeness,’’ for he has said “the kindest thing in the kindest way.” Not long ago there was a letter In one of the "Please Tell Me" columns of The Omaha Bee asking if it were the proper thing for a young man to raise his hat when he passed his mother and sister on the street. Natur ally. the answ er was in the affirmative, and the editor further added that, had the boy the proper respect for the feminine members of his family as well as those of other families, he would perform this small act of ’'polite ness'' without any effort and certainly without off-stage prompting. We are unusually polite to older people because we respect them. We give to them little deeds of kindness because we feel their years have earned them. Ktlquet is a form of politeness that is almost, if not wholly, a habit. The little phrases that express to others our feeling in regard for their consid eration of us, fall from our lips almost unconsciously if we have been care fully trained through our earlier years. The arts of children when they are away from home are exactly the same as when they are at home. It is a mistake for parents who are rude and impolite to each other, tact less and disrespectful to others, tq ex peet their offspring to conduct them selves properly in the presence of company. Yet there are fathers and mothers who put their kitchen table bred voungsters at the same table with countless spoons, forks and nap kins and expect them to get enough to eat without disgracing the family. Politeness is one of the ear inaiks of well bred society, excellent envir onment and educational opportunities and should lie cultivated A rourse In our nubile schools for the purpose of teaching the children one of the basic principles of congenial living, polite ness, would not be amiss. DOROTHY STT’BBI.EFIELD ! Blames Women Lobbyists for Mar riage Law. Oxford. .Neb.—To the Lditoi of The Omaha Bee: Your recent editorial, "(Jetting Married," charged those who expressed disgust with our legislators' horseplay as being mostly crank*. That would include SKI per cent of the people of Nebraska if they expressed their hone-st opinion of this idiotic marriage law. W. J. Bryan Is doing heroic work to combat the crazy theory that man developed from a monkey, and now his brother has signed a law that evolutionists can point to as proof that man has not reached the ilmit in improvement. You wonder why the people did not protest while this law was being con sidered In the legislature if they did not want It. Why, bless your heart. It never was considered In the legis lature. but Just swallowed at a gulp as the women lobbyists dictated, and then people were very busy trying to raise money to pay tlieii taxes. They had sent their representatives to Lin coln, not to monkey with Hie mar riage laws, not to Increase the useless army of Inspectors, fee collectors and busybodles. hut pledged to cut out useless governmental functions with their official brood who live off the producers of Nebraska They paid little attention to prom ises or the needs of their constituents, and the marriage law they enacted will certainly not add to their popular ity. It Increases the cost^JOO per rent as a starter. Think of a nice couple who had seraped up enough to pay for a ring, a license and a small tip for the preacher entering the Judge's of fire with sll the statistics required hy their ancestors since the Declare tlon of Independence, and tielng told that a new Plumb progressive law had gone Into efferi: that they could not get married todsv, tomorrow nor next day. and that while It had been the custom since the memory of man to take the couple's wmrd that they wished to go Into life partnership, that this new motherly law required them to file a written notice of their Inten tinne. Would lie kindly give them a license then’ Oh. no' After they hart dug up for the cost of the notice he would have to post It up In a con spit-unus place for Inspection of the Idle crowds for Id days. In the meantime the rouple would have to hunt up some of Bryan's new flock of msrriage Inspectors and buy Daily Prayer “And If children, then heirs; heirs of find, snd Joint-heirs with Christ.”—Ro. ms ns 8:17. Our Heavenly Father, we gratefully acknowledge Thy providential love nnd care. We thank Thee for the joya at the morning, the fresh outlook, the new opportunity, the unspent strength, the hunger for conquest. For life and henlth and work we praise Thee. May we live and move and have our being conaclously In Thee. May every hour bring thoughts of Thee, and a sweet eeuae of Thy favor resting upon u*. Ulvo ua to go cheer fully on our bualneea. and to do our duty In our appointed place. not ns hireling*, hut a* nun* nnd heirs in their Father'* house Mercifully de fend ua from all harm. Teach us to taka our Joya a* they come, ami to make friends with our trinls. to know that life la good, whatever skies It may please Thee to bring over us (live u* th* ready word of cheer nnd comfort for thoae who may crosa our path till* day. We ask not for lighter burden*, hut for greater strength, not for easier discipline, but for more grace files* our homes, hies* our country. Hasten the day when Thy Spirit shall pervade all the affairs of moo, md all governments nnd rulershlpa shall acknowledge Thy most gracious sovereignty And now. dear Father, we go forth unto our work and to our labor until evening At the end of the tiny, may we enter Into the pence amt reel of those who have walked and worked with Oort, through Jesus Christ, our Lord Amen U. 0. EVANS. PH D. D D. Clnrinntll. t> We Nominate— For Nebraska's Hall of ' Fame. HOUGH burn in Mount Pleasant, la., Ethel Evans is closely Iden tified with art matters in Oma ha, having been supervisor of draw lng In the city schools from 1891 to 1895. when she went to Pari* for fur ther study. At the end of two and a half years she returned to Omaha and was elected art instructor In Central High school, which position she held until 1903, when she was called to New York City to take a similar posi tion in the Rryant High school. In 1911 she again went to Paris and de voted herself to painting, both In the studio and out of door* until the out break of the war In 1914. During the period of t>ie war she painted at Gloucester and other parts of New England during the summers and in Florida. Porto Rico and the Isle of Pines during winter season*. Her work includes both portraiture and landscape and she has achieved distinct success as a painter of fish ing boats and harbors She is a mem ber of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors and of the Pen and Brush club of New York City, and is a regular exhibitor at their annual exhibitions. While In Paris she exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Francais In 1897 and the Salon dcs Rcaux Artes in 1914 Dur ing the Omaha exposition, at the re quest of The Omaha Bee. she wrote a series of artirles upon the tdetures exhibited in the Fine Arts building. In 1920 she again went to Europe, working at her art in Floretiee and Sicily, returning to New York in Sep tember, 1922, where she I* at the present time. a certificate of health, and then, make positive ptoof that they are not craxy for wanting to get married. Now. if all has gone well and they can find some friend who will loan them money enough to pav the extra ex pense they can get married. "There will he no runaway mar riages in Nebraska after the first of August," we are told in acclaiming the good to come from the law. and we might add. "not many stay-at home marriages either." Why, Kansas Judges snd prearhrrs are making great preparation* for the business loom from southern Nebraska. and border states will soon have welcome signs or ever1, road leading from our state. Prospective grooms declare it will lie cheaper and pleasanter to buy ga« and take a little wedding trip, and the hrldea-to-be swear that their in tentions shall never be nailed up In any old county judge's office In Ne braska. Can you Marne them? Wis consin. the home of freak lawmakers, passed a similar law two years ago. but repealed It last winter as unwor thy of pls'c evert among the crazy quilt laws of that state. I heartily agree with the editorial that the marriage vow Is too often consider#! lightly, and that young pco pie should give more earnest consid eration before signing the life con tract. btrt the Ifi-lav holdup pre c rihed hv this fool law will rather aggravate than help lemedy the evil. A change of youthful environments and education would do much, and hero Is where our women clubs can do much good, rather than trying to manufacture laws with which we are already overburdened A C. RANKIN. “Don'la of Every Day Life. Council Bluffs. la.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Here are a few "don fa" of every day life: Don’t be an optimiat In society and a pessimist at home. Don’t be a Christian on Sunday and a devil on week days. Don't think because you are blue you have religion. It may be due to Indigestion. Don't take the Joy out of the child's life because you have forgotten your own childhood. MARGARET HOLLAND. CENTER SHOTS. If air flivvers ever become as plenti ful as automobiles It may be neces sary to build concrete raves as duck ing places for pedestrians.—Canton News. Egyptian "antiquities" will soon outnumber the spinning wheels thet came over In the Mayflower.— Phils delphta Record. Florence Yates of Beloit, who lias just Inherited $15,000,000, still wishes to he « school teacher. If is a pleas Ing occupation, and it fake* the mind oft of one's wealth.—Minneapolis Journal. Alaska's psychological moment to press her claim lo statehood would lie during the first hot wave.—Mil waukee Journal. Friend; One who will lend you money Enemy; One who did — Hartford Times. Cheer up. brethren. We have never yet missed having n warm spell he tween winters—lies Moines Tribune. NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for MAY. 19^23. of THE OMAHA BEE Daily.73,181 Sunday. 80,206 hoes not Ineluri* raturna, laft ovrra. •ampDn or pip#n spoiled to printing and fnrhidrs no apodal aalaa. B. BREWER. Gan. Mgr. V. A. BRIDGE. Cir. M«r. Suba< tibad and sworn to bafors ms this 2d day of Jims. 1923. W »< QUIVF.V. ( Sr all Notary Public L..._..i “From State and Nation” —Editorials from Other Newspapers— Swatting the Fly. From the Kansas City Kanun. Jennie S. Owen speaks in the K1 Dorado Times: "When I was a kid it was always my Job to cut cotton wood sprouts and shoo the flies off the table from the time mother ‘set' it until the visitors had finished their meal. And then after I had eaten I had to hie myslf to the cow lot and brush flies off the cows while the hired rnan did the milking." This reminiscence becomes singular apropos at this time, because the man who instituted the "swat the fly" campaign in Kansas, from which it spread throughout the world, is leav ing Kansas and going to Tiew York. Many can remember what a pest the fly was before it was discovered that the same motion which swung the cottonwood sprout to shoo the pest away might kill it and In doing that end its own annoying habits and at the same time stop the possible breeding of numerous progeny. Since Dr. Crumbine enunciated his gaapel of "swat the fly," the earth has traveled far, and that gospel has been preached throughout the world The results have been great, for such an apparently trivial thing There is not one fly now to where 100 of the pests made life a misery for every body then. Public health has been improved because the flv has almost disappeared. And think of the energy that has been conserved by doing away with the fly brush, substituting the swatter instead The gospel of fly swatting, going out from Kansas, was productive of great good. Kansas is giving the world something bigger, perhaps. In sending out the originator of that gos pel. There is no telling what else he may develop. In Another’s Place. From tils Fremont Tribune The writer was sitting In a court room recently at the trial of'a man accused of a major crime. The de fendant sat apart from the attorneys and from the court attaches, hia eyes fixed upon the jury box from whence the ultimate pronouncement of hia fate was to come The jury was being selected. At torneys were closely examining every prospective Juror. Two days had thus been consumed Forty two men had been questioned before the required 12 could be selected as suitable per sons to hear the evidence and to len der a just verdict. To a person unfamiliar with court pro< edure, It appeared that all this examining was designed to pick out the 12 most Intelligent men of the 42, the 12 men most capable of properly weighing the facts of the case and ar riving at an opinion. It seemed reasonable to assume that the lawyers themselves were seeking this type for the jury. They must want fair minded men. impartial mdi But as the writer listened he recalled an article he had once written in de fense of the reins'atement of Roscoe Arburkle. Rising his argument on the fact that the comedian had beep regu larly acquitted by a jury, and how a prominent lawyer had taken issue with that contention, saying We all know what the opinion of the aver age Jury amounts to.” So he paid a little closer attention to the questions being asked Kach man was carefully sounded out as to what he knew- about the case. Moat of them had read about it In the newspapers some of them had heard it discussed on the street. One mail stated that lie read the papers every dav that he had followed the case from the time of the commission of the crime, but he also sa d. under oa*h. that he had not formed any opinion concerning the guilt or lnno retire of the defendant and that he could serve on the jury with an im partial mind, granting the accused man the legal presumption of inno cence until proven guilty. Here was a man of intelligence H# was in the habit of keeping In dally touch with the world s affairs as de pirte.1 In the current pres* He wa* a reader and therefore a thinker And yet he was ltroadmind»d enough to realize that the c««e was not being tr ed in the newspapers hut these me diuma were merely presenting the facts of or< urrenee and did not hv any conception attemp* to establish' the guilt or Innocence of the defend- j ant. But when the completed jury died into the box. the writer was surprised to And that this man. this reader, this thinker, this broad-minded man. was not among the chosen 12. It suddenly dawned upon the writer that the examining attorney* did not want men of extraordinary in telligence to serve on that jury, they did not want readers, they <1 id not want thinkers. They wanted men who had never read or heard of the case, if it were possible to And them They wanted men who read the news papers only guperAcally. if at all. They wanted men who had neither the opportunity nor the inclination to think deeply on a matter that should concern all citizens. Jury service is one of the foremost duties of an.American citizen. Under the conception of justice a* outlined by the constitution of the United States, jury duty should entail more than the average intelligence, should require familiarity with court pro cedure and should demand the exer cising of wit, of metal discernment and of the ability to accurately bal ance contradictory testimony. Ideally, a man who serves upon a Jury should be of the highest mental order. Prac tlcally, as it is apparently being worked out in the courts of today, the man who serves upon a jurv must he below the average of intelligence if he is to survive the cross examining of the attorneys. If we gather that these premises are true- then It is evident that our whole jury system is laboring under the shadow of error, or at least of misconception. The ordinary citizen thinks very little about this situation, but if the day ever comes when he must sit in the defendant's chair, apart from the rest of the court, then he will give it a lot of thought War Is Hell. From the Hasting- Tribune In his recent memorial address President Harding said that if war ever comes again we will not only call to reserve the youth of the land, "but we will draft every activity and all the wealth." That is a startling thing for a re publican president to say. !' d Mr. Harding given utterance to these word« prior to the world war Abe Martin uresr fVura>T< ► * ■ ■ ' “I’ve often walked morc’a mile for part of a cigar, but cigareta never seem t’ hit th’s spot,” de clared Pony Mopps t’day. Mrs. Em Moots, who has been missin’ fer several days ’phoned her daughter this mornin’ that she’d finally found a parkin’ place. (Cop) right. 1923.) he never would have become president of the United States. Pa pern and persons who were say ing such things at that time were de nounced as rabid sck ialists. It took the world war to make the thinking people of this country realize that war is hell, as General Sherman said. ____ Difficult to Identify. "A man should be content to let well enough alone." "Very true " repined Miss Cayenne. "But think how wonderfully wise a man must be to recognize well enough when he sees it."—Washington Star. Dancing. 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