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1. Ntw Uaiaa Famnier Station.
2. Caatlauaa) imprevemant of taa Ne
hratka Hlfhvayi, including tha pave
naal af Mala Tbereughfaraa laadlaf
iata Omaha with a Briab Surface.
3. A (karl, low-rate Waterway from tha
Car Ball to lb Atlaatic Ocaaa.
4. Moa Rule Charter for Omaha, with
Citjr Maaagar form af Govarnmaal.
While Waiting for the Miracle.
It seem that President Harding hat made a
ccrioui mistake in catling a conference to con
sider certain ttubborn concrete facts in human
existence. He should have surrounded himself
with a rainbow, and pointed out the pot of gold
at its end. It would be so much easier to promise
the people a lot of things, and, when the mur
murs arise again to promise them something else.
That is leadership with a vision, according to the
estimate of tome latter-day commentators; a
world of dreams, in which nothing ever conies
true.
It has been thus from the beginning; "man
never is, but always to be blest," and probably
will be, the world without end. Man' unsatisfied
longing will ever lead him to reach out for
.something better than he has. It is the blessed
discontent that has led him along the way to his
present height, the never-failing urge that pre
vent lib sitting down to enjoy what he has
achieved. ' Furthermore, it is the exhibition of
, natures' plan, the evolutionary process that
works the stupendous changes in form, quietly,
persistently, and inexorably.
If our social system is wrong and it docs
have glaring defects its remedy is being
wrought out af' certainly as man's destiny ad
vances. Who can view tiie world today and say
that good has not already come from the cata
clysm through which it has just passed? Old
social forms have been modified until they are
unrecognizable; political practices and institu
tions of 1913 arc "one with Ninevah and Tyre."
Yet there are certain "iron laws" as immut
able at existence, and these are operative as cer
tainly how at any time, because, it is through
them evolution proceeds. Wilkins Micawbcr's
rule for happiness is eternal, for it is fundamental,)
What is Wrong 'with the American people, and to
AJeatextent, With the whole world, is that for
a few moments that law was forgotten. W e spent
: too much, produced too little, and are suffering
the penalty.
The Industrial conference may point a way
, out of the difficulty in which the nation is caught,
but it wilt not work any miracles, or set in mo
tion any revolution. Cold, hard facts of life are
f not to be ignored, no matter how unpleasant
they may be. For eight years the American
; people followed a leader who had a formula for
', solving all our economic, social and political ills;
now the man who is "no man to lead a reform
movement, much less a crusade," is trying to get
his country back onto the sound basis from
, jvhich it has slipped into the morass. That is
v ' all, and, while we wait for the miracle that is to
remove forever all the misfortunes and calam
tities, tha inequalities of fortune and to abolish
failure by -nailing every venture a success, we
will better follow Mr. Harding.
A "Revolution" in Washington.
Amateur statesmen, and this includes every
public spirited citizen, man or woman, will find a
good deal of .material for discussion in the plans
for the tomplete reorganization of the adminis
1 trative departments of the government. The re-
port ot the joint committee which has been at
work on this subject since the early days' of the
. republican administration is scheduled to be pre
sented at th cabinet meeting Friday.
Consolidations designed both for economy
' and efficllncy are proposed. The War and Navy
v departments would be combined into a body
known a the Department of National Defense,
and a Department of Public Welfare would take
f over the duties of the Department of Labor, the
veterans' bureau, the public health service, 'chil'd
welfare and similar activities. The Treasury de
partment Would be reduced to the position of the,
finance agent of the government, and all the
secret service forces, such as are now maintained
- by the Treasury and the State departments,
would be transferred to the Department of Jus-
; tice. '.' ' . . . r
Many other alterations are proposed, but
most noteworthy is one for the appointment of
-'an assistant to the president, to be known as the
cxecutivl Secretary. This official, who would be
paid $10,000 year, would take over all of the
routine Work, would be empowered to affix the
president's signature to documents and would
in general serve at a liaison officer between the
White House and other branches of the govern
ment. .
. A saving of $300,000,000 annually is claimed
for this reorganization plan. However, the
. changes are in some respects so fundamental that
. they should not be viewed only from the stand
point of taxpayers, but from that of good citi
zenship as well
When Experts Disagree.
Poor old John Barleycorn! Even the tomb
affords no respite for him. He is as much of a
storm center and a goat as if he were active in
the affairs of men, instead of having been ban
ished to oblivion by the Eighteenth amendment
and the Volstead act combined. What we are
driving at is a sidelight on the Arbuckle cape.
"Billy" Sunday exonerates the accused and hh
companions, and puts the blame squarely .on
' booze.'' His argument is sound from his stand
point. However, here comes G. K. Chesterton,
whose antipathy for prohibition is at least defi
nite, who alto exonerates Arbuckle and othera
who participated in tht proceeding thtt brogght
a painful death to on of tha mernct of the toy
slerert, and !) tht blame on prohibition, Thut
wt have the contradictory fyllogltmit If it
were not for liquor, tuch parties would not tie
poitible; and, if it were not for prohibition, tuch
partiet would not be necessary. Where do we
go from here?
Electric Light Rates Again.
The expert employed by the city commit
tionert to review the electric light and power
ratet, ordered by their predecessor! and tut
pended by referendum, hat reported that the
proposed ratet would have increased the reve
nue of the Nebratka Tower company by JJt7,-
000 a year. ,
The figurct presented are open to question.
It it ridiculous, for instance, to anum an in
create in revenue from the Citiient Gat &
Electric company of Council Dili fit, all of whote
stock it owned by the Nebratka Power coin
pany; thit item it limply a bookkeeping thiit,
without real result. There are other item
which require explanation. ' Definite checking of
the retultt mint await more detailed data at to
how the city's expert reached hit donclmioni.
He that at It may, the problem of Omaha'
rates for electricity for light and power still it
1 f'e citv commission. The old ordinance
is a thing of the put, and an almost complete
cn-nc lias been made in the personnel ol the
commission. Very evidently, the present com
mission intendt to chart itt own course. Let
it do to.
Five months have passed since the disputed
ordfnance wat passed. That ordinance cut the
rate of residential lighting, affecting over 30.000
consumers of electricity. Because it wes de
layed by referendum, these users of electricity,
who include in their number all of the ordinary
householders, have paid 6 cents per kilowatt in
ttead of 5 1-2 cents. If the disputed ordinance
is not satisfactory, if the city commission fcart
that it increases the burden of the wholesale
users of electricity more than it lightens the load
of the small user, then let the commission pre
pare a new ordinance,
A Red-Headed Boss.
A rare message of faith and enthusiasm is
voiced by Samuel M. Vauclain, president of the
Baldwin Locomotive Works, in an article in
Collier's Weekly under the unusual title, "Have
You a Red-Headed Boss "
Mr. Vauclain has worked his way in a period
of fifty years from a machine shop apprentice
to the leadership of one of the country's largest
industries. His message to other business men
today is that times of depression are times for
decision and action. Times will never get better,
he declares, if everyone simply sits around and
waits for someone alsc to make them better. He
remarks:
I find that in business it is merely a matter
of one day seeming to be harder than another
day. It is usually harder to get business today
than it was yesterday or the last time we got
any business. We recall the pleasures, but
forget the hardships of any time that is past.
There is always somewhere to get. It is
never just the place you want to get to but
it is somewhere.
And Mr. Vauclain practices what he preaches.
In 1914, when orders from all over the world
were being canceled, we went to Russia and col
lected millions for sales to that country. - In
1921, when there was no sale for locomotives in
the United States, he went to Mexico and found
business there. He sums it up:
It is the first duty of a president of a com
pany to be red-headed and hopeful, to keep his
fears to himself and to think day and night to
make his company and its individuals prosper
ous. ' . . 1
It -is up to the boss. His is the job that
r never ends. His is the day that has no hours.
He ought to know if his people are earning
their pay. But first he has to answer to him
self the question: "Am I earning my pay?"
If he is, the others will.
To .which he adds: "If business isn't in your
front dooryard, go down the street a block and
find it."
The Husking Bee
Iff Your Day
Start It With a Laugh
Toll Taken by Peace.
A headline describes the scene at Oppau as
one resembling war; in time perhaps the anal'
ogy may be clearer, and we shall learn how to
value the relations between the two. Just as
"Peace hath her victories no less renowned than
those of war," so also hath peace her terrors, as
dread and as destructive as any following in
the train of Mars. Now and again we give a
sorrowful sigh as we think of the young men
who marched away so bravely to battle for the
right, and who are now being brought home
from France for second burial in their native
soil. Do we ever give more than a passing
thought to the inexcusable fact that peaceful
industry each year takes greater tbll than did
the war for the time we were actively id it? In
this dire calamity that practically wiped out a Ger
man manufacturing community, the suspected
cause was one that might have been avoided.
While the truth may never be known, the explo
sion is attributed to a.n experiment that was to
produce a new gas. In order to carry out the de
tails, it was necessary to subject the material
to a pressure of 300 atmospheres, or 4,500
pounds to the square inch, and to employ a
temperature of 600 to 700 degrees Centigrade,
which it equivalent to six or seven times the
boiling point of water, or, expressed in Fahren
heit, 1,272 to 1,484 degrees, Imagination
scarcely can embrace the destruction embodied
in such a combination. Yet it was apparently
carried on with little or no regard for its poten
tial harm. Such is the tale of a vast majority
of industrial accidents. When war wipes out
a thousand lives, it is an awful thing; when
industry takes its turn, the dreadful happening
is but an incident of progress.
Adam Breede, invited to join a country club,
responds somewhat enigmatically that while one
does not have to be Crazy to play golf, it helps
a lot.
Cleveland is to have a new union station, and
is now in a war .over which of two sites shall
be selected. Omaha has not progressed even to
this stage.
. Babe Ruth holds his breath while knocking
out a home run, an investigator announces. Hum,
he doesn't hold it nearly as long at the pitch
ers do.
Doubtless Spain will halt its slaughter of
Moroccans before they are all exterminated, or
there would be no one left to exploit.
Prvumably that baby elephant seen in Fonte
nelle park was a white one; it could scarcely be
pink or greed in these dry days. . . i
VALOR PLUS DISCRETION.
Alexander the Great wat a brave-hearted guy
Who never would run from a fight;
He gloried in battle where he could apply
The ttrensth of hit will and hit nnnlit
Though history tellt ut he revelled in ttrifr.
We'll bet Alex never talked back to hit wife.
In Mi Commentariet J, Caetar admits
That he it the man conquered Gtul,
Ad unum omnet he gave the foe lit
"Homo turn" (tome man) ihaft all:
And though Cae.ar tarried where trouble wat
rife,
lie never, no, never, talked back to hit wife.
Lord Marmion bold wat a braw, handsome
wight,
So aith our friend. Walter Scott.
Deil't burkie wa he when it came to a fight,
And red-wtt the glade where he fought:
Rut Scott, when he wrote of Lord Marmion' life
Doetn't t how that he ever talked back to hit wife.
Old Solomon lived in the dim, by gone years,
A much-married man, the old king.
Yet he lived in peace never irked with the fcart
Domestic affair often bring:
From which one at thi tae conclusion arrive,
King Solomon never talked back to hit wives.
PHILO-SOPHY.
It is the head of the family who hat to foot
the billi.
An optimist in a young man who can whittle
a wedding march while looking for a vacant flat
to rent.
SHORT CHANGE.
Xevvwcd: What a change a wife makes
around the house.
Oldun: I haven't noticed much change around
the house since I got married.
A man shouldn't criticize a girl's eyebrows.
They arcnt' alwayj at black as they are painted.
See where the squirrels arc storing up golf
balls. Looks like a hard winter for golfers.
Another reduction has Iicen announced. No.
Filbert, not in rents or coal merely in the street
car men's wages.
"Hear Victor records in our sound-proof
room," invites a local ad. How can we hear 'em
if the roof) is sound-proof?
. -
Speaking of sound-proof rooms, wouldn't that
be a darb idea for adjoining- apartments?
PROOF.
How do we know that autumn's come?
'Tis not because the leaves are turning,
Nor yet because the wild geese hum
In V-shaped bands with southland yearning;
'Tis not because the girls have shed
Their summer furs, although that warning
Makes a fellow from his head
Remove thp "straw" that was adorning;
Nor that the sun with listless lilt
Is swinging towards the far equator,
But winter quarters have been built
For Mr. Hummel's alligators.
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In 100 years women will be bearded, opines a
scientist, during what was, we wot, a moment of
relaxation and idle conjecture.
But if this proves out, the safety razor will
become, as it were, another bone of family con
tention. "Is that a detective in that car?"
"I don't think so. Why?" t '
"He just ran a man down."
GOING THROUGH THE RYE.
If a body meets a body
With a little rye '
If a body ask a body
If he's very dry,
Would you ay, "I thank you, no "sir?"
Lives there such a guy?
The chances are that all of you
Would do the same as I.
L. E. C.
"People," sagely remarks a marital expert, a
bit tritely, "should always marry their opposite."
Which is why a poor young man should al
always seek to marry a girl with money. 1
"If my wife gets this divorce, I'll go crazy."
. "Will you marry again?" asked the inquisitive
reporter. .
. "Well, no-o-o. Not that crazy."
ROUND OF PLEASURE.
Through the blithesome summer time
We have the lawn to mow, .
Ere soon 'twill change to winter's clime
When we must shovel snow.
AFTER-THOUGHT; Buying coal is what
puts the ash in cash, & PHILO.
How to Keep Well
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Colleges and Reconstruction
It seems as if the object lessons of the world
war and the demands for improved industrial
processes and men fitted to apply them to the
problems of reconstruction were acting as a spur
to the colleges to turn their efforts as never be
fore to the furtherance of practical ends. Co
lumbia has enlarged its university extension pro
gram beyond all previous bounds, and is offering
new courses in pofts and terminals, ocean traffic
management and foreign trade; also courses in
income taxation,, investments and department
store accounting. Massachusetts "Tech" has just
established a course in public utilities operations.
Clark university has instituted a department to
teach geography with a special view to its com
mercial and industrial bearings. The University
of Maine has planned a course to cover the most
important industrial and governmental problems
that Confront the residents of that commonwealth.
These are a few examples of the efforts taking
shape in the colleges to give impetus to forces
that shall make for efficiency in industry, trade,
commerce and government. Interest fostered in
the first instance in the summer schools is assert
ing itself in work of the regular college year. In
this way the colleges are lending a helping hand
in respect to our reconstruction needs, just as
they gave hearty support in a multitude of ways
to the prosecution of the war. But such ten
dencies do not reduce the value or the need of
cultural education. Springfield Union.
Women to Slay Tammany.
In the approaching election women can exert
the deciding influence. They know this, and so
do all the candidates. Where this influence is to
be thrown, was foreshadowed on Tuesda;-. In
their sleep the braves of the Wigwam are dis
turbed by dreams of an unending march of the
petticoated, each bearing a ballot and a look that
bodes ill to New York's ancient institution of
graft When Tammany finally yields up the
ghost, at tome day it will, on its tombstone are
not unlikely to be graven the words: "Slain
by the Nineteenth Amcndment."-New York
Tribune. ' .
THE NEGRO IN INDUSTRY.
Tha Hit ranaiit ahuwed two ten
denula untune nents.
Til Unit ta thai thsjr ara movlnf
out of iha rural Into th urtan tlla
trUt and eaiatl.tlly Into the great
liiiliiKtrlal illsirli ts.
Whan tha treat Iniluatrlnl enter
prttea war short of labor durlnc
tha wurld war they rtni"mlMral
thnt tha neero due not lend liim-
at'lf readily l orfe-anUailon and tlioy
putiiicrd on him na n iwrvolr or
Uply. Whan they did thry aiarteil
aomvihlmr which wilt cost many a
penny before It atnM.
Tha renana show that the migra
tion of iiaaroea w avery northern
Mute wua It'-avy ami thai it waa
liciivlrsl to tha Industrial camera.
Tha aoi.onU point shown by tho
rtiisua waa thnt tha negro tlmtth
rata la nlnioM hluh aa the- birth
rate. In tho ti-n-VMir iirrlod. ac-
i-ordliiK to lha atatlNili-nl hullotin of
Iha Metropolitan Life, Hie negro
population liicrraaeil only 6.t iter
cent, or ,85 of 1 per cant a year.
Tha whit population Increases 2 per
i-rnt a year, of that 1 per cent I
due to txcesft of lilrtha river deatlm.
The lieirro In Amprira hna coma to
have a low birth rnto ns compared
with negroea elxeuher. Vor ttiia
vanertal dioe.iw la a large nn1 per-
nap tne largest factur. Voluntary
birth control la not a factor of importance.
According to the. bulletin nitoted.
unlita the dPAtha ns it IjakIh find fix
ing that rnto na luO, tho rlty negro
nirtn rato la 104. whllu thee of tho
country negro l.i 1S9. Hlneo tho
luvro la movInK Into town, beforn
lone tho chief factor In tlvcreaMinar
tho negro birth rulo will be "mov
Inrr Into town."
Thcro seeniH to bo a fair rhanro
that venereal clldi-mon will be
brought tinder control, but It will
tuko several year mora thnn ft
dopnde to rnluo tho birth rate by
deereaHlnir venereal disease.
Thoae now sterile by such dldeases
will I'cmuln no for life.
Tnless aomcthiiifr in done tha ne
Rro population presently will come
to a stmidxtill. uliice there Is no
neRro immigration worth ppeaklne
about. What will tho negro do
about It? Tho ohy-ious way out is
to reduce tho death rnte.
Moving Into Brent industrial cen
ters has made things worse in more
directions thnn one.
First, there is bound to bo a great
increase in rickets. ,
West Indian negroes' ftro Raid not
to huve rickets ut all. Southern
negroes do not have much of It.
Recently a Chicago baby special
ist said that every negro child in
that city had rickets. It generally
is agreed thut n very lurga propor
tion of negro children In northern
cities have rickets.
Moving to Industrial center" In
creases the danger of consumption,
and the consumption rate of adult
negroes is twice and of adolescent
negroes ten timet aa Men as that of
wbltei of tho aamo e Thr
will be an Increased baby deuth
rut.
Tho negroea In thoae industrial
vii .Km Ma anlaaaas frwlr la Ms I lhei-8 U lllll.t thut uu bo mill: f ir
rmdrra ana rara ia niaraw aur ia klirw aa mu ll ttltout It a lie tllil
ETSSile li-i J S? -rU " M ' lldoua M.m.ul. h. ,l.-lt th. rcl.l.
aimniMr tHlf, awsaaafilr i Kur In.uiuc, III. r ;ih that war-
f... Mui.iiriNM, ut thai !'' " telloua trutur that had four b'B
kMW Mh St!2' sVm hut knee. It rir.t Maudln
mt ylnkilM atprmatf tf arf- . IIK"lllt trcca luO ofltfll f.llc. I..-, auao
.Mlrat la la !"
Tha CwNakarNl
lrvlngton Nt.. SP'- H To the itiua iha deceived beast p.rUhed.
lMltor of The Uae: The other eve- Himll irly. bent on avoiding I
Iha huntera hid .ittud almost
through them, a. that tho weight of
ft. a h'Hnifitr aiitiniil fellrd thtm i.tut
mo negroea m ti.o """ , 0: Mn hour on tho porch b. nt pnomr of him who ought f,
center ara U-aa aubject to mala rid. ' 1 ' citslUr- Mr. O. any: -I have erred." Mr. l-nio,,
typhoid fiver and amnllpox a a Uh MBV,Ji hvlnt lately Urow., loan, ngal.nt a (aUhood
rule. All In all. the problem of r.ieo t f,m?kZc Urk..n.nd now and fll. Vet I do im. in ii. ..t
Improvement which tho ere. 'u,'JriXm.on. Xrn ot hU bUmo Mr. Umwii; but I do bh.im
must oolve will not bo un rey one. ''"n'" ' rtHAinhn teacher of Latin At.-, h ..
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enjoyed being conllned In a ho-' from tho aphonia of ilu . o.imiy,
Hl I who huvo "taken" l-i'in. y. i m-ver
'I'll te you, Mspk," ald be. "tho l li arned It: who. In four ,r even
,.n.nii,ni v.ni feel while lying ick i elisht year, have m.t hi ink red
t'roluthly Kit lnngcr.
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It only for a few hour hr It Irrltuted "iitlm. which wean you awny. for a,
tho membrane of my lips, causing a time nt leant, from desperate sorrow.
sorenoH which unnnved mo for a "ml extravagant, unbecoming niel
wcelc. It I very dllllcult for mo f. nmholy. lint reason I 11111 reading
go nslecp as a rulo because tho In-1 I'octry Is, that I may And some lines
stunt 1 loso consciousness my Jaw that fitly express my regard for his
drop and awakens ir.e. When 1 do obliging; attentions, his cheerful and
sleep 1 snore constantly. It occurred homi ly wisdom, and his wit that dc
to me that Komo of your reuders llKht. without hurtliw anybody,
might know of aomo device against "And while you are sp.-.klng of
which thero aro no objection, which benefactors." put In Mia. C.uilcy.
would prevent my lower Jaw from "you aro not going to forget to pro-
dropping. I am an invalid and get noutu.e tne name 01 110c or nn
very llttlo sleep."
clrse! Thero Is a physician I shall
always remember with a deep, en
during satisfaction: and. If he ever
dies, 1 hopo It will bo from an excess
of happiness iind prosperity! And
if you ever have occasion to dispose
of your tonsils, Mr. Mack, or bo-
conio afTlietod Willi sun-consi;lou
There Is Nome Hanger.
C. H. W. writes: "Do you think
danger lurk In the telephone
mouthpiece, especially if more thnn
0110 uses tho same instrument?"
ItElT.V.
There is somo dinger, but It Is
slight. I havo written recently an
artlclo on the subject.
Drink More Water. t
Mis. li. M. writes: "Can 1 do any
thing to relieve my six weeke old
breastfed baby of gas in the
bowels?"
It E PLY.
T'rnlmtilv vnnr milk ). too rich.
Drink more water, filvo the baby not write what Mr. Ilrown attributes
n, llttlo water before ho nurses. Do to him, nor indeed anything similar
not keep him at the breast so long. I tc it. Mr. Hrown simply tnado a
mistake; he did not intend to assert
Kot Unngerous With Food. a falsehood: really he thought that
a. 1!. S. writes: "Would be glad Caesar wrote the words which he
to know if salt taken In medium Quoted. Tnder these circumstances
per cent reduction In the u.i.-.-m ,,f
bullillng mechanics would only 1.
ihieo the cost of the biilldliu: .1 ! 1 m
9 p. r cent. In other words, the r
ctsslvo cost of building may l
properly laid ot tho door if the
profiteering mnterlnl mannfa. iuicik.
Labor ha not proilteeird in the
building Industry.
Kviuenco has been produced re
cently to show that tho labor coir of
a pair of shoes which retails at lis
Is 11 ho iH $1 3(1. 8I10PM which retailed
at S3. 60 in 1914. carried a labor cost
of about 0 cents. Wages advanced
until the labor cost went up to $1,
wlillo the retail cost of the shoe
advanced from 13 f.O to $12. Labor
did not profiteer In the shoe Indus
try.
ineso two examples wnicn migni
be multiplied many '.imcs Indicate
that there Is something untruthful
about the continued cry that wages
quantities is injurious to those of
nervous temperament?"
IVErLY.
No.
Miami Comes to
Judgment
New Einstein Tests
. Beefsteak Naturalized.
A beefsteak barbecue doesn't have a very New
Englandy sound, but with all six New England
governors partaking of it at once, its adoption
and naturalizatxm mny properly be regarded as
Officially complete. Springfield Republican. - J
(From the Living: Church.)
Nearly two month3 have elapsed
since the outrage at Miami, Fla.,
whereby our archdeacon for colored
work In southern Florida was at
tacked by white rufllans and was
tarred and feathered. We are as
suming, as a matter of course, that
the community will vindicate its self
respect by apprehending and severely
punlshinir the criminals. Thus far
It seems not to have been successful
in doing so. We learn from a dis
patch from the sergeant of detectives
in Miami that "No progress has been
made In the archdeacpn's case. He
could give no description of the men
or automobiles," One wonders what
detectives are good for. The ser
geant's telegram seems to indicate
that the gentle art of being a detec
tive has not developed far in Miami.
AVa trust that the authorities of
this city understand that the Episco
pal church throughout the country
feels that it has been assaulted in
this assault upon one of its mission
aries. We send missionaries Into the
heart of Africa, into China, and Into
other pagan lanas, and they are safe.
If a missionary were assalted in tho
hinterland of Liberia we should of
ficially and corporately make every
effort to Secure redress and to pro
tect him and his successors in future.
China lost a seaport to Germany by
Just such an outrage. So far as the
missionary Is concerned, wo should
honor him as a martyr, in whatever
degree he was Injured. His name
would Stand high in tho annals of
the church.
If the authorities of Miami fail in
thelf duty It can only be because
their own civilization is less advanced
than that of Liberia, wher'e mission
aries aro safe; for we need not be
told that they cannot apprehend and
convict the criminals if they try to
do go. If Liberian officials can pro
tect missionaries and Miami officials
cannpt, which demonstrates that it
has the higher civilization? We are
rather anxious that the Florida of
ficials should demonstrate their ad
ministrative equality with Liberian
officials.
And It is certain that the entire
Episcopal church makes the cause of
Archdeacon Irwin its own. The pre
siding bishop and council meets In
October, If the criminals have not
been apprehended bv that time we
shall hope that a suitable reward for
their arrest and conviction will then
be offered. But even more we shall
hope that the Miami officials will
vindicate the expectation of all rea
sonable Americans that they will
themselves perform their duty and
so vindicate not only the law but the
white man's civilization.
Miami advertises Its beauties nd
attractions as a winter resort. It
seeks to attract tourists. We are
confident that its advertising will be
In vain unless It can demonstrate
that It is a community in which law
and order prevail.
Church people have been rather
prominent In Its winter colony in
recent years. We venture to suggest
that before any of these shall make
reservation for next season they will
write tfie mayor of the city and ask
what Miami proposes to do in order
to avenge Its insult to the Episcopal
church, and that they will find a
civilized community in which to
spend the winter months In place of
Miami if ample reparation be not
made.
As for the church's work among
the negroes of southern Florida, it
Is going on, and the bishop of the
ritatrtrt mnv rpRt nasiirpri that ha has
li A Ofknl. itl.lil.nh nohlni. him I
Aa for Miami, if it shall fall to
vindicate its civilization, we may per
haps suggest to the entire religious
press Of this country that they carry
conspicuously cross one of their
pages through the winter the slogan:
Keep Away .from Miami, the Town
in Which Missionaries Are Not Bate.
Men's Two Ambitions. '
Every normal man has two great
ambitions: First, to own his home;
second, to own a car to get away
from his home. Lifa,
(From the Baltimore American.)
Acrording to a statement given out
hero by Dr. Frank Schletlnger, direc
tor of the Yale observutory, further
verification ot the Einstein theory
has been obtained thrpugh tests
made at Mount Wilson, in California;
at Kodalkar.al, in India, and at as
tronomical laboratories in Great
Britain and Germany.
These were entered on in an effort
to verify what was called the "third
prediction."
According to this there was to bo
a displacement of light from the sun
toward the red end of the spectrum,
as compared with light of the same
end produced on earth. This is
known technically as the "redward
shift."
The difficult nature of tho test? is
explained as follows by Dr. Schles
inger: If the atom of given element
vibrates more slowly on the sun
than of the same element heated
in the laboratory, the light from
the element on the sun should
appear closer to the red end of
the spectrum when the light is
analyzed by a spectroscope.
But the displacement toward
the red which is called for by
the Einstein theory Is too slight
to be visible to the naked eye.
The rate of vibration on the sun
should be slower by one part In
several million of its rate on
earth. The most exact use of
the most delicate instruments
is necessary.
Although Dr. Charles E. St. John,
one of the ablest estrone mers at
Mount Wilson, failed in his tests of
this "third prediction" some time
ago, it is now said that his latest
experiments "may be regarded as
completely in accord with the Ein
stein theory."
All this is distinct from the "sec
ond prediction," which was verified
by British men of science, who took
photographs in the Southern Hemi
sphere of the eclipse of the sun in
1919.
It was demonstrated that rays
from stars were deflected by gravity
in passing the sun and arrived at the
earth by a different path from that
on which they had started.
It Is to be noted that the check
ing up of the theory is entirely In
the hands of the astronomers, while
It was formulated by a man who is
a mathematician. '
Einstein's theories certainly lend
themselves to caricature by the para
grapher and columnist. But, appar
ently, our stock of enjoyment of it
is drawn from the bottomless pit of
popular inability to understand what
the professor is really talking about.
One doesn't have to understand that,
however, to realize that the experi
mental verification of -Einstein's
philosophical predictions proves his
tin intellect the equal of those that
foresaw the discovery of the planet
tTranus and the properties of the
element gallium.
Boat Hails from Omaha.
Some people might claim that no
deep sea racing yacht could keep
Its self-respect and hall from a place
ao far from salt water aa Omaha,
Neb. Just now It appears that all
such claims would not hold water,
as one of the largest racing craft In
the New York Yacht club, the 50
footer Virginia, has the name of the
famous Nebraska city painted on
her stern.
L. I. Crofoot, owner of tho Vir
ginia, lives in Omaha, out spends
most of his summers racing In New
York waters and to the eastward.
Mr. Crofoot figures that as long as
Omaha Is hta "home port" his racing
aloop might as well hall from there.
New York Sun.
pre-existing, paradoxical presenta-; must come down to restore nor
Hons, I hope you Will employ Doctor ! n,.,!,... Tho mero fact th-it wages
Amiro Aro you going' Well, followed the tremendous rise In tho
good-by!" H. O. Mcl.NTOHll. C(,st of commodities, and In no in-
stafico was the raise In any degree
ns great as was tho cost 01' tho Un
ibhed product, indicate that the rea
son for tho high prices which ure
strangling industry and pauperizing
tho buying public, lies in tho profi
teering of the middleman, find that
In charging labor with profiteering,
these Interests nro camcluflaElng
their own criminal greed.
The charge that labor loafed on
the Job is also dlsfiroven by tho fai t
that 6,000.1100 of them ure now Idle.
Evidently they worked so hard that
one in every five are now umib'o to
get any work. They are in want
because they havo produced an over
production of goods.
WILLIAM B. DALY.
'I'm VobNciun."
Omaha. Sept. 23. To the Editor
of The Bee: Mr. Benton Brown has
not produced tho sourco of his cita
tion about the character of the Irish
nice. How could ho? Caesar did
a lover or Trutn liKe unto air.
Brown, Instead of belching up a
screen of puerilities, in order to es
cape behind it, would acknowledge
his error, and so close the chapter
with grace and honor. '
Of Caesar's knowledge of Ireland
Latest Wall Street
Quotations
(From l.lfc.l
A fool and his money aro soon
parted. Poor Kichard.
Ye cannot serve God and Mam
mon. New Testament. 1
Honor sinks where commerce
long prevails. -Goldsmith.
Many go out for wool and
come home shorn themselves.
Cervantes.
God tempers the wind to the
shorn lamb. Sterne.
He has spent all hie life let
ting down buckets Into empty
weils. Sydney Smith.
Flat burglary as ever was com
mitted. Shakespeare.
Water, water, everywhere, nor
any drop to drink. Coleridge.
He is brought as a lamb to the
slaughter. Old Testament.
In skating over ttiin Ice our
safety is our speed. Emerson.
Landis Scores Again.
The latest decision handed down
by Judge Landis is that "the most
upright will lie for liquor." The
wisdom of that man Landis some
times positively is uncanny. Cin
cinnati Enqulrrer.
THE HOUSES.
Across the street the hill runs high.
The hill runs high and very steep.
And up the narrow twisty road
The little houses lie asieep.
Their roofs are drawn down lik brows.
Their window pyea are all shut tight.
They sleep so soundly all day Ion sr.
And then they wake up. Just at nfghte
1 wttrh the lights begin to show .
And up. as far as 1 ran see.
The houses open ail their eyes
Arross the street and look at me.
Marjorie Charles D rise oil, ia Leslie's.
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