Full Text of Davit* f Speech of Acceptance (Continued from page two.) wrong end when it attacks ths pay of government employees, -who are Justly entitled to pay equal to that they would re ceive from private employers for similar work. Every busi ness executive knows that un derpaid service is ths dearest of all. "To the enforcement of the law, And all the law, we stand definitely pledged. We shall enforce It aa fearlessly against wealth that en deavors t» restrain trade and create monopoly, aa against poverty that counterfeits the currency; as vigor ously against ambition which seeks to climb to office through the cor rupt use of money as against ths teaser greed that robs the malls. 18th Amsndment Closed Issue. "FOr no reason that Is apparent to me the question has been asked, as perhaps It will oontlnue to be asked -until It has been definitely answered, -what views I hold concerning the •enforcement of the eighteenth amendment and the statutes passed -to put it Into effect. Why the ques tion; is it not the law? **| would hold In oontempt •ny publlo offiolal who took with uplifted hand an oath to support the constitution of the United 8tntea, making at the seme time a mental raaarvatlon whereby a aingla word of that graat dooumant la axoludad • from hla vow. An aamimsira-ive omcwr w no murw «ntltM to ohooao what atatutoa ho will or will not anforce than la a oltisen to ohooao what laws ha will or will not obey. A* well might he oak to strike from the Ten Com mandments those he was not In clined to keep. Obedience to the Jaw la the first duty of every good ■oltisen, whether he be rloh or whether he be poor; enforcement of the law agalnat every violator, rich or poor, Is the solemn obligation of •very official. “But all that we do will be un done; all that we build will be torn down; all that we hope for will be denied, unless in conjunction with the rest of mankind we can lift the burden of vast armaments whloh now weighs upon the world and si lence the reourrlng threat of war. This we shall not de by pious wishes «©r fervid rhetoric. ’ We will not con tribute to it as a nation simply by offering to others, no more con cerned than ourselves, our unsolic ited advice. Providence does not -give the gifts of peace to those who will not labor to achieve them. In the name of the democratlo party, therefore, I promise to the oountry that no enterprise sincerely directed to this end will lack our approval oand co-operation. “We favor the World Court In sincerity and net merely for oampaign purposes or se an ave nue of escape from the consider ation of larger questions, “We believe It a real advanoe to ward the peaceful settlement of In ternational disputes; an advance from which America cannot turn •way without proving herself falsa to ths teaching of a century. We wish to see America as a nation play her part In that reconstruction of "the economic life of Europe which bas proven Itself so indispensable to -our own well being and prosperity. We are ready for any conference on disarmament, provided it la so gen eral In Its membership and so wide In Its scope as to be able to deal broadly with so broad a theme. “We do not and we cannot ao oept the diotum unauthorized by any expression of popular will that the League of Nations le a closed incident so far as we are concerned. "We deny the right of any man to thus shut the gates of the future .against us and to write the fatal word 'Never' across the face of our foreign policy. Favors League of Nationo “My own beliefs on thla particular .subject have been so frequently avowed, and are I believe so well understood, as hardly to need repe ii*4or. I yield to no man In my re solve to maintain America’s Indepen dence, or In my unwillingness to in volve her in the quarrels of other nations. Yet, from the day when the proposal was first put forward I be lieved that American duty and American interests alike demanded ■our joining, as a free and equal peo ple, the other free peoples of the world In this enterprise. Nothing that hca since occurred has shaken :me In ttat belief. On the contrary, the rrjfch of events has shown not ■only that the League has within It the seed of sure survival but that It is destined more and snore to become the bulwark of peace and order to mankind. Fifty four nations now Bit around Its -council table. Ireland, I rejoice to say, has shaken off her long subjec • cent whenever ell the other na tions of the world assemble to discuss world problems. But I must be permitted to doubt the intellectual honesty of those who profess to favor organized inter national co-operation for peace and who studiously turn away from the only agencies yet cre ated to that end. Holds High Hope for League "In my own thought concerning the League, two aspects of the ques tion have been constantly before me. I have never found It possible great ly to concern myself as to the terms of our adherence or the language in which those terms might be phrased. Deeds are of more consequence than words. Time and custom and the laws of natural growth will have their way In spite of language, pro vided a sincere purpose lies behind them. Whatever the character In which we shall finally appear. It Is the fact of our presence that will count Neither have I at any time believed nor do I now believe, that the entrance of America into the League can occur, will occur or should occur until the common Judg ment of the American people is ready for the step. "We waited for this judgment to ripen in order that we might enter the war. I am content, if need be, to wait until it speaks for the agencies of peace. "That a day will come when this great question will finally be lifted entirely above the plane of partisan polities t when men will cease to take counsel solely of their passions, their pride and their fears; and when the voice of public approval will find means to make Itself heard, I am serenely confident. "Until that day arrives I deem it the duty of the chief executive to co-operate officially by every means at his command with all legitimate endeavors, whether they come from the League or from any other source^ to lessen the prospect of future war; to aid In repairing the rav ages ef the wars that are past; to promote disarmament and to advance the well-being ef man kind. Equally, too. his duty and the duty of congress, burdensome as It may be, to maintain the means of ade quate national defense until reason Is permitted to take the place of force; we cannot throw away the sword whea other scabbards are not empty. Nor can I reconcile It with my Ideas of the dignity of a great nation to be represented at Interna tional gatherings only under the poor pretense of ‘unofficial observation.* If I besom* president of the United States* America will sit as an equal among equals when ever sho sits at all. Disagrees With Klan Creed7 **Thla brief outline of the vlewa and purposes of the party as I un derstand them might well serve all the demands of this occasion, but In the platform we have adopted I find a further declaration concerning which my own convictions are too profound for silence. We have taken occasion to reaf firm our bsliaf In the constitu tional guarantees of religious freedom, and to daplore and con dtmn any affort from whatevar source to arouse racial or relig ious dissension in this country. Such a declaration every right thinking American must endorse. Ne disaster that the mind can picture equals in its hideous pos sibilities the ooming in this cqjin try of a separation of its citi zenship into discordant groups along racial or religious llnea. Nothing would so utterly destroy our happiness and security at home and our dignity and Influence abroad. Let ue thank God with rev erence that those who bullded the Inheritance we enjoy dealt with that question and settled It long ago. Let It be said to the Immortal glory of these who founded the province of Maryland that religious freedom on this side of the water began with the Toleration Act which they adopted In 1«49. It broadened with the years until it was written into the constitution In language too plain to be mistaken that In this happy land of ours every man might, without loss or threat of loss, without lessening or threat of les sening, his civic, social or political rights, worship In his own way and fashion the one God and Father of us all. This toleration runs not on ly to the creed professed by a ma jority but to every creed, no matter how numerous or how few its ad herents. . . a. . . a I. - a _ _L ix was wnuorif iu«> «■ ■ and state should be forever so far separate that neither the right nor the duty of public service should be diminished or enlarged by the religious belief of any man. It Is the solemn duty of every be liever In American institutions to oppose any challenge of this sacred doctrine, organized or unorganized, under whatever jiame or In what ever character It may appear. His Appointments and Religion. "From one who aspires to the presidency, however, a declaration even more direct than this may be rightfully expected. I wish, there fore, not merely to denounce bigotry, Intolerance and race prejudioe as alien to the spirit of America, I wish also to state how and In what way the views I entertain are to influ ence my actions. Into my hands will fall, when I am elected, the power to appoint thousands of per sons to office under the federal gov ernment. When that time arrjves I shall set up no standard of religi ous faith or racial origin as a qual ification for any office. My only query concerning any appointee will be whether he Is honest, whether he is competent, whether he Is faithful to the constitution. No selection to be made by me will be dictated. In spired or Influenced by the race or creed of the appointee. "One word more and I am done, and th'.s of a personal character. It Is known of all men that the nomination which you tender me was not made of my seeking. It comes. I am proud to believe, as the unanimous wish of one of the most deliberative oorven tlons In American history, which weighed In the balance with sober ness my too scanty virtues and my mnnlfold shortcomings. It Is not for me to reject so clear a call to duty. I am happy, however In the thought that It finds me free from pledge or promise to any living man. I shall hold It so to the end. Perhaps my sense of obligation Is all the greater because of these things. To those who saw fit to present my name to the convention for Ita con sideration, and to the delegates to that convention who accept ed me. I am under a duty to Justify their choice which I fully re alize; to the party which honors me with Its leadership I owe every ef fort which my faculties will allow; and to my fellow-countrymen whose support you bid me to solicit I owe the duty, first, to speak the truth as I see It, without fear, favor or eva sion, and then so to bear myself that every person In the land, no matter how high or how humble, may feel that he has in me a friend, and that every citizen may know that he can look te his govern ment for unflinching honesty in thought and action. When it be comes necessary, as no doubt it will, to raise funds for tho con duct of the campaign thoy will ba contributed with this under standing and this only: that nei ther the domooratlo party nor i aa Its loadar have any favors for oalo. We can make but one promise to alt man alike, that of an honest, an impartial and, so far as human wisdom will per mit, a just government. V “To these things. Mr. Chairman, I pledge myself. In the struggle to secure them I Invoke the support of all patriotic men and women to whom country Ur greater than party, honor more sacred than expediency and the right dearer than personal gain or all things else beside. In this spirit I accept your nomination and, relying upon a strength that is greater than my own. I am ready with joyful confidence to assume the leadership you offer me. 8WEDI8H EXPERT COMMENDS U. 8. FED. RE8ERVE SYSTEM Stockholm, Aug. —The remark able stability of the price level in the United States during the last three years has made the dollar a firm basis for the value of gold, and the way now lies open for Europe to restore the gold standard, and, by connecting her currencies to gold, to contribute further to the stability of the value of gold. This Is the timely declaration of Professor Gus tave Cassel, financial advisor to the League of Nations, in an expert re port prepared for the Skandinavlska Kredltaktlebolaget, of Sweden, the leading banking Institution of Scan dinavia. While Sweden was the first coun try In Europe to resume the redemp tion of notes with gold, the restora tion of the gold standard Is not com plete, since the free Importation of gold Is prohibited. This prohibition, says Professor Cassel is due to the fear that the value of gold might fall and that a free Influx then might cause a new inflation In Sweden. He then goes on to show that there Is no real danger of a sur plus of gold. It Is true, he says, that in the United States the amount of gold in actual circulation at the be ginning of this year was equal to 58 per cent, of the total circulation of money; but this percentage could even be Increased without having to be regarded as anything abnormal. He presents statistics to show that the normal development of business In the United States will probably require an annual Increase of about 4 per cent, in the gold circulation, or, in other words, that about $200, 000,000 a year could be added to the circulation without necessarily en tailing a rise of prices. “Looking farther ahead, and sur veying the total gold requirements of the entire world," continues Profes sor Cassel. “one is forced to the con clusion that the annual output of gold is nowadays far too small to meet the requirements which will arise when it comes to a tolerably normal economic development. The burning question therefore, .taking a far sighted view, is by no means the sur plus of gold, but the shortage of gold." The unusual stability of prices In the United States, especially in the year 1922, is attributed principally to the steadying power of the Federal Reserve Board policy, under which the discount rate and other means for adjusting credits have been brought into use. The constancy In the American price level thus at tained must be regurded as most sat isfactory, says the Swedish expert, and is calculated to inspire consid erable confidence In the capacity of the E>deral Reserve banks to main tain the dollar at a tolerably stable value in the future. No Shortage Yet From the Washington Post Scientists In attendance at the World Power conference. In session at London report that with countless natural sources of power, Including falling waters not yet utilized and with alcohol available as a substi tute for gasollfte, a shortage of power is not threatened. This may be reassuring, but it was v.nneces sary, for few have been impressed by alarmists who have been fore casting such shortage. Doubtless the first dwelier on the plain when the first drought befell thought the world was menaced with exhaustion of water. So from time to time have humans wasted unwarranted alarm over other “shortages." The world is very old and has a way of taking care of Itself In the matter of ne cessities._ _ _ Congress will be asked to establish an academy of diplomacy for the train ing of youth as statesmen. It has been announced by Sulgrave Institute. The academy, officials say; would be one of several planned as memorials to George Washington. Pupils would be appointed as they are to the array and navy academies. _ This year’s Rhine and Mosel wines have been Jeopardized by the appear ance of a fungus disease in the mid dle Rhine districts. The fungUt was first noticed last week, and the benches of young grapes are already tailing off in considerable quantities in some districts. COLLEGE VIEW BANKS MERGED Unusual Court Procedure Resorted to to Permit The Consolidation Lincoln. Neb.. Aug. <—(Special)— The Hank of College View was taken over Friday by the Farmers' State bank of College View, under the terms of a consolidation agreement made a week ago. In order to make the transaction legal, the Bank of College View was declared Insolvent and Van E. Peter son of Curtis, Neb., was appointed receiver by District Judge Stewart Friday. The court order was made after filing of a petition in the dis trict court by Attorney General Spillman asking that the Bank of College View be adjudged unsafe and unfit to continue longer In business. CHARGE AGED MAN A88AULTED YOUNG WOMAN Aurora, Neb., Aug. *“V— County Attorney M. F. Stanley has filed a complaint against Royal Peck, 70 of Aurora for alleged attack on Mrs. Genevieve Graves of Aurora, IS. September 16, 192S. Peck pleaded not guilty and was held for prelimi nary hearing September 10 on $1,000 bond. TOWN TO HAVE REAL RAILROAD STATION Lincoln, Neb-, Aug. *—The town of Gralnton, Perkins county, Is to have a station at the expense of the Burlington. The state railway com mission, passing on a complaint from the citizens, says that the pres ent facilities are Inadequate, and that the railroad must Include a new de pot in its 1926 budget. Meanwhile the two antiquated box cars that serve respectively for freight and passenger stations must be fixed up so that they can be used In the win ter, and a caretaker provided to per form most of the duties of the agent aside from selling tickets and using the wire. DEFENDS HER JUDGMENT IN SUPREME COURT Lincoln, Neb., Aug. “V—(Special) •—Miss Daisy Sttemsen or Memphis Saunders county, who Is defending In supreme court the Judgment she obtained In district court for (2,500 against Oren Sanders, who married her sister, and who, she says, de bauched her, wants to know why Sanders -was carrying her picture in the back of his watch if he had not been her wooer as he denies he was. She also submits a letter from San ders in which he said that he was afraid to visit her in the hospital be cause another brother-in-law, might shoot him. Mrs. Sanders is ranged with her husband In his battle wltb her sister. WINSIDE PREPARES FOR BIG PICNIC Wlnslde, Neb., Aug. «—(Special) —The annual Wayne county Old Settlers’ picnic will be held here Thursday, August 28. A program which is expected to attract crowds not only from within the county, but from the surrounding territory, has been completed. The band of Clark son, Neb., has been engaded to fur nish music for the day. Hon. A. R. Davis of Wayne, has been secured as speaker, and a progressve parade, designed to mark the progress of the country since the days of "prairie schooners," will be one of the fea tures. A free baseball game between Car roll and Hoskins will also take place In the morning. Another feature will be the afternoon baseball game be tween the Leland Classy Browns, a colored aggregation, and Wlnslde. Wlnside has won nine out of 12 games and is expected to give the colored pastimers a hard game. Minor sports and horseshoe games follow, with liberal cash prizes for each event. In the evening the American Le gion is sponsoring 20 rounds of box ing, with Kid Ray of Wayne, and Kid Frankie of Norfolk, on the main event, which will be a 10 round go. Free watermelon and lemonade will be served throughout the day in the city. Brothers Held for Trial On Hog Stealing Charge Wayne, Neb., Aug. i.—(Special)— Three brothers, James, Charles and John Wax, all charged with grand larceny, were bound over to district court Friday by the grand Jury o* 11,000 bonds each. It Is alleged that the three brothers stole 78 hogs from farmer* living In the nearby territory. Frank Wohler, a farmer living nine miles south of here, identified 15 of his hogs which were sold by Wax brothers at Pilger, Neb. William Wohler, a brother of Frank, also Identified eight hogs sold at Winside, Neb., as belonging to him. They will be tried in the September term of court. Unable to get bond they were held in county Jail here. Thlrty-cent cotton for early fall Is forecast by George B. Terrill, agricul tural commissioner. Texas production will be about 250,000 bales less than In 1923, It Is estimated, and corn 60 per cent, normal, with last year’s acreage cut 12 per cent. _ GIRL WANTS BACK IN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL Geneva, Neb., Aug. ■*-—Mattie Smith has no home and eight months ago she was sent to a farm* er’s residence from the girl's Indus trial school here. Today she return ed and asked to be re-admitted on the grounds that she "was lone some.” The girl is housed here and will remain among her former associates until authorities solve the perplex ing problem of whether she may be legally quartered her*. GIRL RETURNED REFORMATORY Beat Her Way on Train* to Montana After Making Her Escape York. Neb, Aug. ?.—Mildred Boae man, 19, known as \he overall kid," la back at the York reformatory for women after having beat her way to H\'ena, Mont, In live days. She was brought back by State Sheriff Carroll and Mrs. Carroll. She told them that she rode the “rods’’ and the “blind," wearing a pair of over alls. She said that she was put off the train several times. She said she caught a freight train here the day she left the reforma tory, Jl8y 9. On arriving In Helena she worked as a domestic In two homes, one of them being the home of the attorney who fought the granting of the requisition for her return to Nebraska. She has one year yet to serve and may now face a charge of running away from the Institution, which carries a penalty of from one to 10 years. FORD’8 NAME NOT TO BE ON BALLOT Lincoln, Neb, Aug. '“•—The name of Henry Ford will not be placed on the Nebraska November general election ballot, Secretary of Stat* Pool announced. YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE ENDED THEIR MEET Grand Island, Neb, Aug. V-A 10-day assembly of the Baptist Young People’s organisation of the state came to a close here today with graduatlpn exercises and an ad dress by President J. Mason Wells •f the Grand Island college. A sightseeing trip was given the vis itors by the Chamber of Commerce Friday. A number of prominent speakers In missionary and educa* tlonal lines featured the session. KEPT BUSINESS TO THEMSELVES -- < Strange Acting Men Wanted Fast Ride to Omaha But Not on Train Denison, la., Aug, —(Special.)— Sheriff A. G. Green of this county la puzzled over the conduct of two strangers who made a fast trip from Denison to Omaha, Sunday evening. - The two men, after standing about town for a time watching two youths, Pussy Luvelt and John Go berson, working about their auto, finally approached, them and dis playing a roll of bills offered the young men $20 to drive them to Omaha, providing the going would be fast. There were numerous public taxis about, a fast train about due for Omaha, still the young men pre ferred the auto ride with two strange young men. Sheriff Green says he phoned the Council Bluffs and Omaha police to detain the outfit but on the return home yesterday of Luvelt and Go berson they said they did not see any officers nor were they halted anywhere. The boys gave a good description of the men and said they had acted strangely. Arriving In Omaha they asked to be driven In front of a store where they alighted and soon disappeared. One of the men had an address upon a piece of paper which they did not see. The men appeared to be desirous of coV« erlng up their movements. Is Pinned Under Mower and Dies " v Jackson, Minn., Farmer Sus« tained Fatal Internal Injuries Jockson, Minn., Aug. '"-Internal Injuries he received while operating a mower on his (arm have resulted In the death of William C. StruDe, 35 years old. While running the mower it slip ped Into a deep ditch and Mr. Strube was pinned under It. Hla death oc curred two days after the accident. CAR ROLLS OVER TWICE: OCCUPANTS NOT INJURE!) Pipestone, Minn.. Aug. To have his sedan roll down a seven foot embankment and Its three pas sengers escape with only a few slight Injuries, was the fortune of Emil Nelson, of Bralnerd, Minn. Nelson, with his mother and an other woman was enroute to Egan, S. D., to visit relatives. When five miles north of Pipestone on the King of Trails highway a car from a side road crowded them into the ditch. The Nelson sedan turned over twice. Each of the occupants re. reived only slight Injuries. Useless Phone Talk Nuisance From the Bradford Era Whether all social converse should be banned from the telephone wires and nothing but business, profes sional or emergency calls be permit ted seems to be open to discussion. Carf the telephone play no legitimate part In the social Ufa? The answer to these problems may differ with different persons and circumstances. But useless talk Is a nuisance any where, and the telephone patron who takes that to heart might really con tribute a good deal to telephone ef ficiency. WOULD COLLECT AN OLD CLAM County Commissioners Want Cash From Former County Judge Lincoln, Neb., Aug. (Special) The county board of Brown county has filed a brief In supremo court asking for a reversal of the judg ment of the lower court that cut' down Us claim against J. W. Barr, for many years county judge, from $4,4480.80 to $62.42. The petition al leged that Barr had overcharged per persons, retained fees that the sheriff had earned and had failed to account for all fees. The board now frankly says ihat the contrversy la an effort on lts purt to compel Barr ard his bonds men to make a settlement with It. What It Is asking the court to do. the brief says, is to permit his claims for salary for ;he last two years to be applied on a pre-existing indebted ness covering a period when tha county was unble to recover because his bondsmen wera not good, and to enter a Judgment against the present boudamen, who are good, for the re mainder of the tees collected during the last two years. The bondsmen say thsy ware relieved from liability when the legislature ch tnged the of ficio from a fee to a salary basis. AIRPLANE PARTY HAD CLOSE RUB WITH DEATH Oconee, Neb., Aug. \—(Special)— Ralphs Anderson, formor army avia tor, and Herman Ragatz and Joel Roberts, passengors, had a narrow escape from death while flying 2,000 feet above the earth hers. A propel lor on the plane snapped and the aviator was compelled t» shut off his motor In mid-air and make a forced landing In a haytlold. SIMMONS GETS NEW REPRIEVE Boyd Couaty Murderer*a Case Set Ahead to Next Month by Governor f * 'L Lincoln. Neb., Aug. •» (Special)— In the rush and whirl or politics, Wal ter Ray Simmons, convicted Boyd county murderer, came pretty close to being forgotten. . • According to the tetins of the re prieve issued In June; by Acting Gov- ■> ernor Johnson, 91rr.inons had only un til August 7 to tive. Governor Bry an -was busy at ths time with his speech of acceptance, and made no announcement to the reporters about the case. Tuesday hs filed a reprieve that puts off ths execution until September 6, and while it bears the proper date It Is suspected that It was a bit late In being signed. This does not mean that the execu tion will take place then. The gov ernor can reprieve for only 3b days at a time, and It will be October be fore the federal supreme court reach es the Simmons case. 8EE THE END OF MUNICIPAL COAL YARD8. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. ~\ (Special)— City Commissioner Cowgill is threat ening to close up ths municipal coal yard for good and all. This was his inheritance from Charles W. Bryan, now governor. He says that his fel low commissioners, who have never thought much of this form of public competition have neglected and re fused to appropriate from the treas ury the $5,000 profits that he depos ited there and which he says he can not get out without such action. The other commissioner/ say that the money Is there to the credit of the fund and that Is why It wasn’t apropriated. They hint that Mr. Cow gill is peeved because the matter wai not handled as he desired It done. DEMOCRATS TO FILL VACANCY Will Meet at Huron, August 20, to Name Candidate For Governor Klk Point. S. D„ Aug- . (Special, —Louis N. Crill, democratic state chairman, has called a meeting of the democratic state committee to meet at the Marvin Hughttt hotel at Hur on, Wednesday, August 20. at 8 p. m. for the purpose of nomina.ting a candidate for governor to fill the va cancy caused by the death of Andrew S. Anderson. It requires a basket or marks to buy a basket of food In Germany. The pres ent price for a loaf of bread In Lerlln is 4.600.000 marks. Butter sells for 36. 000,000 marks a pound; one cake of laun dry soap 6.000.000 to 12,000.000; a box of matches 3,000,W0; potatoes, if obtain able, more than 1,500,000 a pound. BLOOMFIELD POSTOFFICE IS TO BE ENLARGED. Bloomfield, Neb., Aug. (Special) —Work has been started on the ad dition to the postoffice building here. The addition will be i5 feet long and will provide the postoffice with the e*tra room that hag been needed for some time. , The basement of- the 1 1 building 4s occupied by a newspaper office and this part of the structure will be extended the full length of the building. W. H. Needham ia the owner of the builQmr.