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The Sunday Bee^1 MORNIN G—E V E N I N G—S U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Publisher N. B. UPDIKE, President BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLF.R. Editor in Chief Business Manager MEMBER OF fHE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of our special dispatches art also reserved. Tha Omaha Bee ia a member of tha Audit Bureau of Circulations, tha recognised authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee's circulation is regularly audited by their organizations. Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908, at Omaha postoffica under act of March 3, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for at l._sl. 1 non tha Department or Person Wanted. A 1 1RIUIC 1UUU OFFICES Main Office—i7th and Farnam I Co. Bluffs—16 Scott St. Now York—World Bldg. Chieagtr—Tribuns Bldg. St. Louis—Syn. Trust Bldg. 1 San Fran.—Hollrook Bldg. X So. Sid*,N. W. Cor. 2 4th N. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bld;f. Lna Angelee—Higgins Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldr FATHER-MOTHER, AND THE BOYS. Plana are being laid for an elaborate observance of boys’ week, to be carried out the last week In April. The object, of course, is to improve the quality of boys. Mental, moral and physical culture will be exemplified. Suggestions will be made as to the' future men of the race. How they may be made into all that they ought to be and kept from becoming anything they should not. Much good will come of the plan. At this time it is well to reflect upon how boys were raised in the good old days, to which constant reference is being made. Many changes have come over society since then, but always we must realize that certain fundamentals never change. In those days the family was the unit, and the father was head of the family. If mother was the stronger character she was the head. Boys and girls alike imbibed at home lessons that served them through life. They were taught the meaning of honor, the ways of industry, and habits of thrift. They lacked the distractions that are present to in terfere with home training nowadays. But their training made them good citizens. Few opportunities are presented for following t the daily round of homely duties that kept growing boys out of mischief half a century ago. Chores that took up morning and evening are lacking now. The saw and buck, said to be the greatest gym nasium ever devised, is superseded by other arrange ments. Vet it is still possible to give useful, healthy occupation to the growing generation. What we are trying to get at is that the home Is the proper place to train the young folks. Par ents who have children should not evade the respon sibilities assumed when the babies were born. Rear ing a family as it should will interfere with consid erable social activity. Fathers and mothers, how ever, can fine no better occupation than training f>oys and girls. One of the promoters of the boys’ week program says it will help keep boys out of re -form schools. Good home training, when all Is said, i must keep the boys’ week program alive. ■ Any movement for the benefit of society, or that will better conditions under which we live, deserves |our hearty support. We are just old-fashioned ‘enough, however, to think that nothing can take the 1 place of home when it comes to raising children. t'That father's influence or mother’s sweet example is the best possible guiding star for a boy or a girl. If E boys’ week comes and goes without learning and ■ acting on that lesson then it will have fallen short. — “NEARER MY GOD TO THJEE.” fST i Wilbur Glenn Voliva’s Zion City band played ft number dedicated to the firemen, and sent it broad* «<nt by radio. Th# following morning the ehiaf of ‘ Zion City waa pleased to receive a letter, com ■ nlimenting the bend on its performance. But he | was surprised to read also a request that the band f play or sing, “Nearer My God, to Thee.” He in ‘ quired of the writer, an old fire chief, the reason "■ for the requeat, and was told that good old hymn * is the fireman’s favorite. The “smoke eater” knows when the gong taps he alarm for him that he is off on an uncertain mis ■ion. It may be a tiny blaze in a pile of rubbish. It } nay be a roarding hell of flames in an oil-soaked " warehouse. The battle may be under the sidewalk, jj or in a sub-basement. Maybe it will be high up in 5 i great pile of atone and steel and glass. Wherever it is, the fireman knows that death stalks alongside him, every step he takes. So the old fire chief wrote to Voliva: "I believe that the new* Items of-any dully paper inn «how you why the firemen like to hear th*t beautiful piece played or aun*. It bring* back to the firemen the memory of *ome pal who went to hi* reward tr>ing to Rave life and the destruction of property." Wa are inclined to put in with the firemen on this hymn. It has for most of us the same quality, and its sweet appeal touches the human heart with a tenderness that not many other songs ever attain. Its comfort, consolation, promise never fail, and the teliever always sings: "Then let my way appear. Step* unto heaven. All that Thou aendest ml In mercy given.” EASTER AND ITS VARIATIONS. Elevan years ago, as Omaha has sad cause to re member, Easter Sunday fell within one day. of the earliest calendar date possible, March 23. This year tht great festival of the Christian church will fall [>n almost the latest date possible, Sunday, April 20. 1th. date may be as early as March 22, or as late as 25. The spread of 27 days, or almost four weeks, in the course of eleven years marks the tdar variation of this great day. N\> need to go into the ecclesiastical reasons for fixing'.the time for celebrating the occasion, which commeiporates the resurrection of Jesus. It is connected in a way with the Passover, a Jewish feast established by Moses. Jesus observed the oc casion witfi the Twelve in what is handed down to us as the Last Supper. They partook of the Paschal lamb together, and otherwise fulfilled the require ments of the' Jewish ritual, even to the washing of the feet, BuK the Christian festival varies in time from the Jewidh. At one of the council* held at Nirra an attempt was made to fix faster on a definite Sunday follow ing the Vernal equinox. This failed, hut it was de termined that Easter should always be observed on Sunday. Also that Its date should he controlled by .he position of the nuAn. Pope Gregory set the place of Easter Sunday whAn he reformed the calendar. The Passover Is determined by full moon following the 21st of March, the <Vite of Ihe Spring equinox. But, that Easter might nAver fall on the same Hate with ths Passover, the pop* settled on an imaginary full moon. This may come as long as three days after the actual full moon. In spite of this precau tion, the two feasts actually did fall on the same day in 1923, and on several other occasions. Easter has another function for the Christian church, in that it determines Lent, the forty day penitential season observed by the devout preceding the festival. Wednesday will be the beginning of Lent. Ash Wednesday is so called because on that day in the Roman Catholic church it is the custom to sprinkle the heads of the penitents with ashes. These are obtained by burning the palm leaves car ried on Palm Sunday of the year before. Palm Sunday denotes the date of the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, just before His trial and crucifixion. An important cycle of historical and religious events is bound up in these dates, and the next forty days are regarded by the church as the most mo mentous of the year. The period alludes to the fast ing and temptation of Jesus, the fast of Moses, and other episodes mentioned in the Bible. JUSTICE FOR THOSE WHO FOUGHT. All the “Wobblies” imprisoned for interfering with the prosecution of the war have been turned loose. The conscientious objectors have all been turned loose, and paid off. Following an outpouring of oceans of maudlin sympathy for the political prisoners, all of them have been released. What about the scores and hundreds of young fellows who answered the call of their country, donned the uniform and showed their willingness to fight, and fell from grace by committing some crime or misdemanqr? Many of them are still behind prison walls, lerving sentences that were as a rule far more severe than sentences imposed for similar crimes in civil life. Courts-martial are seldom conducted with the same regard for the rights of the accused as the civil law makes imperative. A few of the soldiers are imprisoned for manslaughter, but the majority of them were sentenced for robbery, embezzlement or desertion. Are those crimes even murder, any worse than the crimes perpetrated by “wobblies" who by their conduct as deliberately shot the soldiers in the back as though they had used a rifle to do it. The civil law of most states imposes indeterminate sentences for minor crimes and misdemeanors. Not so the military law. Had the sentences of those imprisoned soldiers been imposed in civil life, most of them would have been released long ago under the mini mum rule. Why all the sympathy for the “Wobblies,” the slackers and the objectors? Why not a little for the boys who really tried and succumbed to the impulses of the moment? Surely they are entitled to as much consideration as was given the political prisoners. Let each one of these cases be carefully reviewed, and without any further loss of time. SILVER SPOONS DO NOT MAKE DOCTORS. Poor boys should not tackle the study of medi cine, «aya Dr. Walter L. Niles, dean of Cornell Uni versity Medical college. Why? Let the doctor tell you: “Experience show* that the poor boy Is seldom a leader In his class, due to Impairment In health from overwork; that his echolastlc attainment*'are dimin ished, and that, worst of all, he has developed a rigidity of mental process that precludes Imagina tion. Very few poor boys attain even average gradee in their'medical studies, and very few are lleted ae desirable for hospital lnterneshlpe." What a fine thing it was for the world that Lin coln, Grant, Garfield and a few other poor boys did not find out they lacked imagination ,and had im paired their physical health by study at unseemly hours, while their bodies were undernourished. Or Warren G. Harding, Grover Cleveland, Ramsay Mac donald, James J. Hill, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and a rather long list of others might easily be named. None of these became doctors of medicine, It Is true. They did show every sign of being possessed of imagination and pluck enough to make their dreams come true. If all the doctors who have worked their way through school in Omaha were to be dismissed from practice, some very notable and successful men would be missed by a community to whose health and well being otherwise they have contributed extensively. Is the door to medical science, the noblest profes sion of them all, to be unlocked only by a golden key? What an absurdity 1 It is one of the real crowns of the medical profession that enough of its disciples are true to the terms of the Hippocratic oath to obscure the presence of those whose chief aim is to accumulate wealth. As long as the doors of the University of Ne braska College of Medicine and Creighton Univer sity College of Medicine are open, ample opportunity will be afforded the boy, no matter what his station, who wants to become a doctor of medicine or den tistry. Out of these schools have come healers of men worthy of highest praise because of their serv ice, and they will have successors as the year* go on. Some of the best of these have toiled early and late to pay their way through school. They, too, will have successors. Knowledge Is power, and education in Nebraska is free to all who seek to acquire it. Mind is not measured by money, nor is a big bank balance the sole standard of success. Let us make the best doc tors we can, but not through the suggested method of sizing up a boy’s pocketbook before he enters on his classes. The Garner tax bill as it stands may produce, some revenue, but. It certainly will create a deficit. But that la what the Garner party takes great de light in. Noting the anxiety of some senators to punish without trial or conviction, it is not difficult to un derstand why the anti-lynching bill was defeated. The "beer bloc’’ has also shown up In congress, 42 members of the house standing pledged to some thing stronger than 2.76. Watch ’em Grow. At least, Charlie Graff has one advantage over Charlie Bryan. The first knows what he is talking about when farming is the subject. A Chicago man who has just invested a million dollars in Omaha says the city is on a sound basis. His faith is shown, all right. A New York court has just, issued sn order to ban ghosts from a tenement. How useful that might have been to Macbeth. That grinding noise in the state democratic ma chine is merely Charley Graff’s monkey wrench go ing through the cogs. Mr. McAdoo is reported still to have faith In his chances. Maybe he is right, at that hs never had much chance. And there whs a time, ton, in our history, when we referred to "the grave and dignified senate.’’ The political pipe liner srems to have ousted the I political wire puller By EIIWIN G. PINKHAM. Franklin’s Shoestring of Diplomacy and What He Made of It If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are deod, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing.—Benjamin Franklin. • XXII. BHE year that followed the Valley Forge winter pro duced little In military re sult, but it witnessed the treaty of alliance with France. In February. 177S, while Washington's tattered soldiers hugged the fires on their bleak hillside, Ben jamin Franklin at Paris affixed his signature to the document that pro claims him the greatest and most suc cessful diplomatist in history. Three may keep a secret If two of them *re dead.—Poor Richard. Lees than two years before Frank lin had appeared at Paris as commis sioner from congress, and though as a philosopher and scientist whose reputation extended over all Europe he was received by all classes, official France durst not recognise him open ly. Franklin had spent IB years in London, previous to the revoluti.cn, as agent for Pennsylvania and other colonies, and was known and regard ed abroad not only as the greatest of Americans but as among the greatest Of men. His story was known In every country; how as a boy he had started out to make his fortune with nothing hut a lost of bread under his arm; how he had taught himself out of books and from observation of na ture all the wisest men had learned at universities; how. by Industry and the persevering development of his extraordinary mind he had raised himself from printer's devil to the highest pinnacles of literary, philo sophic and scientific fame. Europe warmed itself at Franklin stoves; Franklin lightning rods protected Its capitals from a heavenly wrath they had two good reason to fear; his max ims of wisdom had been translated into every language; his scientific dis coveries were discussed In every academy. If you have no honey in your pot have some in your mouth.—Poor Richard. Now, when he was TO years old and had won In many Holds a renown as great as that enjoyed by the most re nowned in each, he had crossed the ocean at the risk of capture to meet in the field of diplomacy, the most skilled votaries of that distinctly European art. Ail Paris crowded to see him. The great Dr. Franklin was more in demand than a king's minis ter. Hi* portrait was in the shop windows; his sayings were handed about In society; the fashionable wore their clothes a la Franklin. The high est in the government received him privately, but gs France was at peace with England the ministers were care ful not to give offense. Franklin him self was equally decorous, but the English ambassador was not deceived. He warned the French government not to he hoodwinked by the doctor's Innocent sppearance. "Dr. Franklin," said Lord Stor mont. "has got the better of three English foreign ministers, snd is never so dangerous ss when he ap pears the most simple." This was the gentleman whose name Frsnkltn made fsfhons In Tarie r by hi* retort, when asked If a certain statement I>ord Stormont had made were true. "No." replied Franklin, "It Is not true. It's a—Stormont.” An ounce of wit that is bought Is worth a pound that la taught.—Poor Richard. Franklin worked quietly and un obtrusively. He even withdrew from the city a short distance to Plassy, where his house became the rendez vous for all the notables of Fiance. Even this popularity, the manifesta tions of which frequently wers die tasteful to him—as when ho had to sit and hear laudatory verses recited in his honor at social functions—was skillfully capitalized by him. He con trived by these rneane to make the American cause fashionable in Parie, and in Paris that meant a great deal. One by one the ministers were won over, not to open recognition of the United States at first, for that would mean war with England, but to Franklin's proposals for secret cred its. This point gained, he fell to bor rowing, and first ai*d last he bor rowed 26,000.000 francs from the French and spent It with them for supplies for Washington's army. The wise man draws more advan tage from his enemies than the fool from his friends.—Poor Richard. • At last came the news of Bur goyne’s surrender, and the French government threw off the mask. Franklin was received openly by the ministers and king, and the treaty of alliance was made. It was Frank lin's hour of triumph. He had to come to France on a ship that car ried a cargo of Indigo, which was sold when he reached port to pay the expenses of hi* mission. On that shoestring of diplomacy he had, ly his energy, his patience and the com pelling force of his own personality, achieved a result that would have heen pronounced Impossible by every statesman in Europe. He had not only raised up a friend for America, but an enemy for England. He that scatter* thorns, let him not 80 barefoot.—Poor Richard. Poor Louis had his misgivings of this business. He. too, was in the king trade, and while willing to deal a blow at Kngland and a brother king, had his royal doubts about the wisdom of encouraging rebels. For tunate would it have been for Louis if his own rebels, when the time came for him to have them, had been, like George's, on the other side of the ocean. On the day that Franklin went to King Louis’ court, in his simple dress, spectacles and unpowdered hair, walk ing through lines of the applauding, hewlgged and lace-ruffled nobility of France, the I'nlted States took ‘ Its recognized place among the family of nations. It has gained admittance there, not solely through its demon strated ability to maintain it* own independence, for the issue of the war was still in doubt, but through ♦ he sdroit and untiring labors of his country’s first and greatest contribu tion to universal genius. Dr. Bon homma Richard Franklin. (Copyright. Kanai City Sisr.) - . - - .... * An Indian Protests t__ v Niobrara. Nab.—To tha Editor of Tha Omaha B«e: Tha Indian bureau is a branch of the office of the Secre tary of the Interior. If the head goes wrong the branches may be aleo con taminated. Tha Indiana ara blamed for not making any progreaa In civilization, tha public who pay taxaa for tha sup port of tha Indians are getting tired and for my psrt Individually do not blame them, but, la It tha fault of the Indiana? I aay, Investigate the Indian bureau: read some of the reports made by both houses In congress In the mat ter of the treatment of the Indians at these secluded reservatlona, see If the Indiana are getting what la coming to them: aea how their money la han dled; whether money belonging to them are drawing any Interest and did they get thla Interest: taka their land, do they get tha asms amount of rant money ae tha white man's farm? If not. why not? Whan their lands ara sold to tha highest bidder, do they get the same price as a white man's land lying along elds? If not. whv not? The Indian bureau pasaea laws through congress for Its own conveni ence but alwaya claiming for tha best Interest of the Indians; many of these laws work hardship upon the Indian but he Is powerless to change them. The Indian bureau also makes rulings that no power on earth can change. Once put |n force It la there to stay for all times and It Is appli cable upon citizen Indians as wall as the uncivilized. 1 do not care who the person Is If he goes to any one w-ho la connected with the Indian bureau and undertakes to correct complaint from an Indian. If It happen to be at the office of a farmer In-charge, who Is tha tall end of the Indian office, ha would naturally tell him to sea the superintendent; go to the superintendent and he will tell him to go to Washington end aae the com missioner of tha Indian affairs. If the case la sufficiently Important for a person to go to Washington and sea the commissioner, ha would refer harlf to tha superintendent and the superintendent refer back to the farmer In charge. Ho tha ring goes on without and. Thera used to be Inspectm a sent out by tha Indian bureau that would (causa a atlr at the Indian agencies, hut now It la considered a Joke for an Inspector to try to Investigate anv agency affairs. If an officer la dls missed Trom service |t Is because n deaf and blind person can detect wrong conduct, or may be a new ad ministration wanted the office for its political pet. but ae to upholding Indiana In their complaint or serious charges against sn Indian office cm plove, that never waa known to the writer. One white man's testimony outweighs a dosen Indiana any lime The Indian bureau la the moat gigantic organisation to demoralise and degrace the Indian. To back up this statement I will Insert the words of Congressman Clyde Kelly of Penn sylvania, as follows: "The Indian horenu system Is g wasted profligate beyond description. It wastes every year millions of dol | Isrs collected from A mat Icon lax payers and millions more abstracted from the possessions of th* Indians themselves II wastes still other mil lions which would accrue fiom this iiutaaSd Indians wealth once It ixasi I Americanised. It wastes lha self re spect of a rare and tha possibilities of a proud race. It wastes material resources by inefficiency and spiritual resources by dependency and pauper ism. It wastes tha confidence of the Indians by setting up decoy* that lead them to their doom. It wastes their labor by setting them at futile tasks which have no value In American civilization. It wastes their youth in segregated schools which perpetuate tribalism. It wastes their maturity by keeping them In wigwam and tepee and making them aliens in the land of their fathers. It wastes money and manhood, character and citizenship, and conserves only Idleness and Ignorance and vice." Our Indian people are made to believe that the Cnited States government Is a Christian government and we use-1 to believe It childlike and some of our old people do yet but these old people do not know that their money It squandered and their property is turned over to the thieves. Congress appropriates money purporting for the use of the Indians but this Indian bureau enhancea its power with It and by this power the Indian bureau sup presses the manhood of the Indian. It will not be long before either the state or the charity organization will have to take car* of th* broken spirit ed Indians, for their manhood has l>cen ssaasslnated. They have nothing that they can call their own, not even their soul; they are In bondage to the ruling of th* Indian bureau from which they are not able to get free dom and unrestricted citizenship. Are we not In free America? Some one Investigate, a*e If the Indian Is free and sea if he g«ts the protection from the government, as other Citizens; see what powers hs Is gov erned with snd his property; see If when st home that he Is living In sn open unrestricted happy home, see if ois own stock has free range snd sro increasing, If not. why not? This Indian bureau. It was said In congress, has grown to sn army of When in Omaha Hotel Conant NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for January, 1924, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .74,669 1 Sunday .80,166 Dcm not include return*, left - oven, umplM’ar paper* spoiled in printing and include* no *pecial •ale» oi free circulation af any kind. V. A. BRIDGE. Cir. Mgr. 5t>b*rrihed and iworn to before me thi* ath day of February, IM4 W II QUIVF.Y, i^mII Notary Publie What Congress Is For From the New Yerk Times In the mans of news from Wash ington. one Item of two lines must have escaped the notice of most read ers. It stated that congress has passed one of the major appropriation bills. Having been In session three months, this might seem a pretty small grist to have come from the legislative mill. But against this mea per record of actunl business done we have a splendid list of achievements to hold up to those who fear repre sentative government Is losing pres tige and that congress is declining in public respect. I.et these pessimists count up the number of irrelevant and abusive speeches made In both houses of con gress. Let them enumerate the reso lutions that have led to nothing, the charges that have been exploded even while they were being uttered, the in vestigations that have been extended to all things in the heavens above and the earth beneath. Let them reckoh up, above all, the enormous amount of political capital that haa been created out of surmise, conjecture, slander, unfounded facts, calumny, stale, accusations, bombastic threats and uriproved assertions. Is It noth in? that so many citizens have been enabled to establish a perfect charac ter for rectitude by going before a senate committee and making oath that they did not know Mr. Doheney. had never met Mr. Sinclair, and would not recognize ex^Seeretary Fall if he wolked Into the room? This Is the kind of Inspiring result for which we go to the pains and ex pense of electing representatives and senators. By comparison, It Is what Webster would have called a "miser able interrogatory' 'to ask about ap propriation bills, speedy and rational revision of taxation and the intelligent and orderly dispatch of the public business. Is there anybody left who thinks that the great Intellects In congress ought to concern themselves with such trifles? The true states man today is nothing if not sensa tlonal. That he Is. incidentally, futile ought not to be held against him. about 7,000 employes and Its growth since Its first authentic report is 3,800 per cent. Its power is such that a chairman of the house committee on Indian affairs, said, "It is a complete government within itself. Every func tion of government, except that of the army and navy, la exercised by the Indian bureau," There are little over 300,000 Indiana In United States and about two-thirds are now turned loose, though their property in good many cases is all or partly in the control of this great self-constituted monster, this great octopus has 7,000 arms or finger tips or whatever it may be called to handle the Indian property and they handle It to suit themselves, in majority of instances without the consent cf the owner and there is no court on earth can interfere in their actions. Can any set of citizens stand this kind of usage in any part of this fre.e govern ment? If not, why not? Well, you say It is against the constitution of the United States. Very well. If your constitution Is something worth while, let the Indian have some of the benefits; If it's good for one class of people It ought to be good for the other class. I am firm in the faith that there will be sunrise for the American Indians, when out of the night of the tihreaueratlc control and injustice and misery they shall step forth as Americans into the dawn of a new day of freedom and development as full'flcfjgsd members of this great, grand republic. With the sincere hope for the Amor lean Indian that the preeident will not only sweep the main room of the secretary's office but also the closets end dark corners of all branches that 'ook suspicious particularly the Indian bureau. JAMES GARVIE. Niobrara. Neb. Member of Ihe Sioux Nation. SUNNY SIM UP ’%ktCmfiri,norfinvet JAatAiuH*ntnrfM^ur^t V_—- ■ ■■— THK CALL FOR MEN. Are you doing your part In the battle of life. . . Or standing away back and whin ing? Are you playing the man in the war fare and strife, Or skulking, complaining repining. Are you drawing the robes of your righteousness close Lest they’re soiled by the touch of some fellow? Are you telling your virtues In man ner verbose And showing a broad streak of yel low? Are you playing the game as an hon est man-should. Or playing the cur end the coward? Aie you fighting 'gainst wrong and upholding the good, And trying to keep marching for - ward? Are you doing your part to banish the wrong. Or meekly complaining and yowl ing? Are you Just pulling backward, or moving along? Are you singing or dolefully howl ing? The country la galling for men of true heart Who'll give to it their beat endeavor. For men who'll keep on when once they make start. And battle corruption forever. The walls need rebuilding! The call is for men To stand forth for fighting and dying; For men of tried courage to battle again , To keep an unsullied flag flying. Dearly beloved, for our text this beautiful Lord's day, marking the ad vent of another spring, we will take the third verse of the sixth chapter of Xehemiah. reading thusly: "And I sent messengers unto them saying, I am doing a great work, so that 1 can not come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?” Right now, dearly beloved, while public confidence la tottering, while suspicion is undermining the body politic, while the breaches in the wall of popular government are many and wide, it is high time for another Xe hemiah to stand forth and rally around him the real patriot*. We have always looked upon young Nehemiah as one of the great out standing characters of history. He was one of those dreamers who dreamed a big dream and then went out and worked himself to a frarzle making that dream come true. An at tache of a rich king's court, sur rounded by luxury and in a position to lease his king's oil wells and alienate his timberlanda and mineral Helds for his own private profit, Ne hemiah remained true to his trust. When he got started on the job Ne hemiah didn't waste any time playing netty politics. His job was to rebuild those walls, to restore Jerusalem, to bring Israel back home. And when Sanballat and (ieehem suggested that he quit the work and come down and mix a little political medicine with them, Nehemiah spurned them and their offers in the words we hate chosen for our text. It would have been easy for Ne hemiah to have said to himself: “What's the use of my working ray head off for the people? They won't appreciate It They are liable to de feat me at the next election. And right now 1. a good time grab off enough to lire easy the rest of my life. Anyhow, here s a go,dm opportunity to frame up a T/',. milk the public treasury, and I th!l.M I'm wise enough to get away with U One trouble with our beloved conn try today is that It has so n .:.y Shemaiahs. Shemaiah. you wU .e member, advised Nehemlah to - k all by himself. In other words he wanted Nehemlah to be like t. «<■ present day citizens of ours who -ie too good to participate In pol. who are too busy with selfish ir poses to work for the com™" * / '• But Nehemlah wasn’t that kind a man. "Should such a man e« I flee!” replied Nehemlah. But Nehemlah did nothing o. ^ kind. He refused to play polities or to personally profit from the joh In hand. He was a real patriot- the kind that the good old U. S. A. atnnds sadly in need of today. Dearly beloved, there is work In this country for many Nebemiahs. They should stand forth from Hie counting houses, the editorial room,, the farms and the factories, and work ing with trowel In one hand and sword In the other, should set to work repairing the breaches In the walls of popular government—brearh es made by indifference, by selfishness, by greed, and by corruption. \nd every HanbaJIat and Gesham who voice suspicion, who play the hyp ocrite. who display the yellow st eak —all the reds and bolsheviks who -eek to destroy popular governnir'it— should be discredited and warned away from the work of repairing the walls. - I O. for more Nehemiahs In our pub I lie iife: For men who will step out from their latiness and Indifference, who will sacrifice ease and comfort, who will turn their backs on soft Jobs and sycophantic courtiers, and donning the habiliments of workers for the public good step forward and tackle the job that needs to be ri n». Remember, dearly beloved, that Sr hemlah didn't go orating aroune all over the country. He dldn t damn everybody who refused to believe his way. He wasn't a reformer. He was just a young man who loved hr country and his people, without thought of self. And when the op. portunlty came he tackled his job in th* fear of the Lord and with an unselfish purpose. The danger* that threaten this re public are not graft and corrupt -n. The greatest danger is the ind-Ser ence of the people. It is that ind. “Ter ence that makes possible graft and corruption in public life. And as long as you. dearly beloved, are in different to your duties as citizens you are responsible for the graft and corruption, and you can not face the final judgment with clean hand* and hearts. Study the life and works of N> hemiah. dearly beloved, and then make up your minds that you arr to be like him aa nearly at de. You may not be able to lead out. You may not be able to be the biff foreman on the job. But you ran wield the trowel or the sword. Ia conclusion, let us stand and sing. "The Sona of God Go Forth to War." And if there be any among you wil ing to step out on the side of civic j righteousness and duty to God and country, let all such come for® d while we sing. Let ua stand, and may we all s.ng with the spirit and with understml lng.WILL M. MACPIV Where Every Call Means a Service of Three Days | a l THREE-DAY service confronts the’Funeral Director when called on a case—frequently the time is R-1 more extended. *-' The first summons may come at any hour of the day or night. Ability to respond as quickly at the midnight hour as during daytime sunshine is essential. A second day is spent in those necessary technical details which demand a- highly-trained force, able to meet emer gencies of which the public knows but little. The third day is given over to the burial service. A score of littie details which make for perfection must be given attention here. Newspaper notices; permits required by law; music; chairs (when needed at the home); disposition and arrangement of floral tributes; preparations at the burial plot so that it may be less distracting to the family; conferences with relatives and friends, and finally the dignified, refined con duct of the service itself (in strict accord with any creed or belief). To relieve the family in the time of greatest need, of all these details, and many others, is as much our duty as that of supplying the material items needed for the service. Hoffmann Service overlooks no assistance which can be rendered—no comfort or aid that can be given. If you have heard that this service is expensive, you do yourself an injustice not to find the truth. Hoffmann’s Complete Funeral Service for adults may be commanded for $100 up. according to the wishes of the family, or perhaps even instructions given in the will of the deceased. 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