Bryan Domination of Democrats Missing First Time Since 1896 From 'Washington NEA Service. For the first time in nine presidential elections, the demo cratic party will have to get along this year without William Jennings Bryan. The Old Commoner’s absence may have no effect on the fortunes of his party, and then again his passing may mark a new era for it. With Bryan have gone most of Bryan's men, and those who remain are no longer a power in the land. Most of Bryanism has gone, too. Many of his best measures are now law and the Avorst are no longer supported. Perhaps the most important item from a purely political standpoint is the virtual disappearance of the Bryan idea of carrying elections with the south and Avest and letting the east go hang. A1 Smith’s prospective nomination definitely throws that idea overboard; it means that if the New York governor is nominated the democrats will carry the fight into the great stronghold of the republicans. The party has been getting away from Bryanism ever since the first Wilson administration. MeAdoo attempted to carry on his principles and failed, even Avhile Bryan still lived, to sway that great body of democrats to whom he Avas Messiah. vara • . 1 l 111 1 .1 ■» a 1 C 1_* _ .1 il olilllll snuiliu uu tritrcuru «mu iuiji uui a umii ui uiuou, liberal vision, so much the better for the party and the coun try. At the moment, he is neither a crusading radical like ' Bryan, nor an ultraconservative like Underwood or Alton B. Parker and every informed person knows that a democratic candidate must stand somewhere between these tw© extremes if he is to stand any chance in 1928. The democrats were not a minority party until Bryan ran in 1896 and scared Big Business into panic-stricken op position. In five preceding elections they received a popular vote plurality except for one defeat by 10,000 votes. Then the party went into the hands of the Bryan forces and under took to array south and west against the northeast. In the last eight elections, from 1896 on, the party has had a plural ity just once, except when the opposition split in two. It hasn’t had a single majority in New York state. Some of the party’s finest men, honest and unselfish progressives, still hold that it shouldn’t truckle to Newr York and other populous states which haven’t been voting the ticket. They are heartbroken at the likelihood of a Tam many man’s nomination and would go back to the Bryan system, remembering that Wilson barely won in 1916 by beating the east with the west. They cite the Cox and Davis defeats as proving the folly of compromise. But the more hard-headed politicians remember that the good old days when the democrats had an even chance were when they had a good chance to carry New York and that governors of New York or New Jersey have been the party presidential candidates who polled its six national pluralities in the last 72 years. Preachers as Go-Getters. James Brett Kenna, Pastor of First Methodist Church Wichita, Kan., hi Harper’s Maga zine. The church is caught in the oc cidental, and more particularly Am erican, habit of gauging success by the spectacular. A suuccessful church, like a successful furniture shop, is the one that has the big gest assortment of wares, and af fords the est incomes. Forgive r or putting it so bald ly. I could have made it several shades balder by adding, “and has the most customers.” I did not, be cause except in my worst moments I do not think of my people as customers. But all the same a considerable part of my work is not so different from that of the executive charged with the responsibility of getting new customers into a furniture shop. He is a successful advertis ing manager if at the end of the year he can show an imposing per centage of new customers. In the eyes of my colleagues, official board, arid the world in general, I am a successful minister if at the end of the church year I can show an im posing number of new members. If tinder my direction the membership doubles in three years, I am a won der and certain to be asked to a new and bigger parish where the ^ salary is more, the publicity better, and the advertising problem stiffer. To that end I must keep in mind every minute when I am in the pul pit that out in front of me are doz ens of prospective members. I must plan visitation campaigns and surveys—must, forgive me again, “sell” my institution just as sure ly and skillfully as the hired man by the local chamber of commerce "sells” his organization. The dif ference is that he was hired for that express purpose, and I. tradi tion says, was hired or should have been, for something else. I am aware that a great many ardent church members will vio lently resent my stating the matter on any such basis, and that moet preachers manage to keep them selves from facing the problem. The River Cruise. From the Aberdeen News. In this day when everything is Investigated, probed or surveyed, a group of South Dakota officials are going to float down the Missouri river, to see if the land-hungrv, cantankerous ornery, cussed Big Muddy "will ever amount to any thing.” Louis N. Crill, secretary of agri culture, who has written vivid pic tures of South Dakota's possibilities, will be in the party, and Governor W. J. Billow, the "skipper" will go along claiming new sandbars for the commonwealth. J. Maugls Brown, and Dr. E. P. Rothrock. act- ; ing state geologist, intend to get the truth about mineral possibili- i ties along its bank. Time was when the old Missouri was the main highway for South Dakota, and many an oldtimer cussed its quicksands, driftwood, sandbars and treacherous currents in the sulphurous language that ! was common in that day. Of late years the river ha* been sadly neglected ar.d occasionally i ha* retaliated by gobbling up a farm or two during high water. The only craft to sail it* waters have j Hr Dent I iihrr. From Life. North: Ye»—certainly I under- i stand women. West: What do they mean when they hold out their hand in the car ahead? -*-r ... >»■■■'■ ■ — Q What president first kept sheep on the Whit* House lawn? , A President Wilson wa« the first president who ever had sheep on the White House lawn. The number at first was nine and had inci rased during the administration to 40. IWy aere sold before the Wilsons left the Wulie House. LOVE. By Richter. Love one human being purely and warmly, and you will love all. The heart in this heaven, like the wandering sun, sees nothing, from the dew drop to the ocean, but a mirror which it warms and fills. been government snag boats, and the only trappers it has seen, have been small boys hoping to get a few muskrats. The Missouri has been suggested as the ultimate solution for the power problem in this state. It has been boomed as a pathway for commeroe if it can be made to grow up, and behave, instead of planting sandbars in the paths of boats. Its banks may contain valu able minerals. As it is the only product that we can remember coming out of the Missouri was when some citizens dug down into the cabin of a sun ken vessel near Elk Point, a few years ago and resurrected a whisky supply that a hardbitten river pilot was taking upstream to a frontier post along about 1850. This was quickly put into the channels of trade. When the cruise is ended we will have a good idea of whether this old stream that is as much a part of South Dakota as the Badlands or the Black Hills, has possibilities or whether it will continue as it is now, a sullen, muddy old river that rears at the touch of a bit, and refuses to serve man’s purposes. French Labor Auction. (From a St. Etienne, France, Letter to the Baltimore Sun.) Older in its history than the abol ished slave markets of the south ern states of America, the tradi tional farm labor auction took place in st. Etienne, France, recently, with young faim girls and laborers standing on a block while excited peasants and land owners bid for them. The St. Etienne auction, which disposes of several hundred humans every year, is the closest existing link with slavery, although the la borers are only “rented,” not “bought.” But for one year they are bound to their bidder, bound by traditions not to run away. The provisions of the rental call for good food, a clean place to sleep and suitable clothing. There was a labor shortage in 1827 and prices were high. Last year a shepherd boy of 14 was sold for 1.400 francs, a rosy cheeked highlands cowgirl went for 2,000 francs, while a strong backed farm hand was “rented” for 3.000 francs. The money is paid to the director of the auction. At the end of the year he takes a slice for himself and turns the remainder over to the laborer. Last year there were five bidders for every available farm hand and prices soared. The demand so ex> ^eded the supply that some of the herd girls put in provisions that their dresses should be embroidered. For centuries this auction has been on the day after Christmas, at a time of the year when the farms in the highlands of central France are burled under snow and the laborers have finished their work for the year. A New Approach. From Answer*. "Well, who’s been waiting the longest?” asked the dentist cheer fully as he opened the door of his surgery. ”! think I have," said the tailor, presenting his bill. ”1 delivered that suit you're wearing three year* nrr* ” IVrvsbptf. From Humorist. Householder ills flooded area); Well, what is ltf Collector and •**«* K rented* Kara C'rram make* four akin l-aaLtfi-l. (1 26. FftEB HOOK l JCT Amk tour dealar nr wr.ta Dr. C. H. Dktry Co., 2979 Mi> hi^an Av«., Chicago Color War in Edinburgh Following the refusal of some res* taurnnts to admit Asiatic and African residents, not because of their con duct, but because of their racial origin, Edinburgh has n color war that has gotten into the house of commons. The secretary for Scotland was asked to take steps, by legislation or other wise, to stop the discrimination, and he replied that he did not have the power to intervene and did not think legislation along the line suggested would be practicable. A delegation ot students representing the Edinburgh Indian nssoclation protested recently to tite lord provost of Edinburgh, and the members of the organization re fused to take part in the recent charity pageant. Odd Number Diner—The price for four pigs’ feet Is only SO cents. Why are you charging me GO cents for just five? Waiter—Because that forced us to kill another pig, sir. In evil the best condition is not to will.—Bacon. Stable Man Showed Grim Sense of Humor Aid to ilie true but trying stories of Hie week '.lie ease of the young Indy who was most noxious to reach her gentleman friend posthaste. Knowing him to be an ardent horse man and confident (hut he was riding at the moment, she besought the tele phone lied Book. With no more In formation than tlie fact that he rode a mount named Molly, she proceeded to query academy after academy. Kventually, success was to be hers. Nearing tin* end of her list of num bers, her impatient "hello" was un swered by a gruff-voiced stable man. "Is lids the Park academy?" she asked. "rep," answered the voice. "Well, have you u horse named Molly?" The answer shocked her Into speech lessness. "Sure," said the grnIT one. “Shall I bring 'or to the phone?"—Detroit Free Press. Delving Into the Past Evidence of the antiquity of tnnn. from the eaves of Europe and the deserts of the Near East, will he col lected this year hy an expedition of the Field Museum of Natural History of Chicago, headed hy Henry Field, anthropologist. From the caves ami anthropological sites of France, Spain. Germany, Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Switzer land and Belgium there will he brought specimens and artifacts, together with notes, sketches and plaster casts to he used In exhibits In the Field museum’s proposed hall of prehistoric man. Mr. Field will nlso visit the north Arabian desert and the excavations ut Kish In Mesopotamia. Unusual Duty It Is not often that a tire department Is engaged and paid for burning a building, but tbts was the case at Fryehurg, Maine, when the department supervised the burning of an old build ing owned by Mrs. Harriet H. Creigh ton. The building had fallen Into de cay and was unsightly us well us a menace. 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