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EMIGRANT BLESSINGS.
The flurry raised regarding the
emigration wave is dying down. The
excited folk who seemed to think
th;.t alien residents were Rcli.g to
carry Lack to the Old World nearly
all our available supply of labor and
lui.ney are jrrowinj; calmer.
The aliens are emigrating, right
ilong. but not in such vast numbers
as were prophesied? Neither, so
far as calm inquiry can find out, are
they takins with them billions of
cash., Enough are going to threat
en a real labor scarcity, which will
be felt keenly enough if other con
ditions develop favorably for a big
business revival. Their money could
be used. too. to advantage. But the
country can get along without cith
er, if it has to.
There are pome compensations. A
good many of these homing Euro
jwans are people we can lose quite
cheerfully, because they were never
assimilated. a:id they made harder
the tak of Americanization. If they
do not appreciate American life and
opportunity enough to want to stay
here and become real Americans,
we are better off without them.
"With them gone, we can more eas
ily assimilate the rest.
The good ones, the sensible ons.
the adaptable, teachable ones. are
likely to come back. When they
yt-e what the old country is like
now. in the light of their American
experience, they will lie glad to take
up their abode permanently in the
land of progress, tolerance and op
portunity. And if. in the meantime, there 'is
a hampering lack of unskilled labor,
tii'-r- wiii !' all tlie more incentive
to exten'i the i:sc ri lab-jr-s-tv i!ig i World-Herald
machinery. It may prove a bl'-.ssing
in the nd.
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Leader Mann was quoted as saying
there was no necessity for suspend
ing the vacation as "there was
nothing but chicken feed on the
calendar anyhow." To the public
that was a surprising remark from
the man in congress charged with
the duty of producing and facilitat
ing legislation for the country in
this crisis. Measures growing out
of Secretary Lane's proposals for
land for returning soldiers, railroad
problems, remedies for price infla
tion and profiteering may seem like
"chicken feed" to Leader Mann, but
they loom rather large in the minds
of the general public. -The
fact is that the leadership" of
the senate, in a desperate effort to
defeat the league of nations, has set
congress to floundering in a sea of
inefficiency. In an obstinate effort
"to save their faces," as the New
I York World says, after taking the
j wrong end of he argument on the
league of nations, anti-league sena
tors have made that fight the ex
clusive contention for dragging
weeks while congress is thrown in
to confusion and the country suffers.
Serious consideration of currency
plans impossible and all efforts to
meet the problems so vital in
American homes today are laggard
and indifferent. It would appear
that after all the house might just
as well have had its holiday.
The house has gone slowly in :
considering any of the pressing
needs outlined by President Wilson j
in this session. It has done noth
ing to change the transportation
system from a war to a peace basis,
as suggested by the president some
time ago. To the country at large
such inaction is inexplicable. r
All of which is admirable," pro
viding, as suggested- . above that
along with the narrow specialist
!
t ratting In taught the broader lew
and' literature, art and the othe
things of the spirit are recormUed
as really superior to bread and but
ter learning, even though lesn at
tenfion Is paid them.
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SOME GOOD IN ALL CREEDS.
A FLOUNDERING CONGRESS.
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CARNEGIE AND EDUCATION.
We heard a great deal of a re
construction program jut following
the war's end. Efforts of thinkers
and "leaders in the large conduct of
the nation were combined in pro
moting big gatherings in different
parts of the country to discuss
methods of leading the country back
into normal ways In those meet
ings was found the warmest advo
cacy of the league of nations and
the president of the United States
Chamber of Commerce in a speech
in Omaha strongly urged that this
method of permanent peaceable org
anization of the world be adopted.
Hut other matters were discussed as
well, including the transportation
question, varied problems of dis
tribution, finance and appropria
tions, prices and proper treatment
of our returning soldiers.
What has congress done toward
preparing and forwarding a pro
gram? Not long ago the house of
representatives was largely agitated
because the president suggested that
there are so many urgent prohlems
that it seemed unwise for congre-a
to take a summer outing. There
were mutterings and 'complaints in
the public rrints. Republican
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Nearly all the money given away
by Andrew Carnesie. amounting to
hundreds of millions, was devoted to
educational purposes. He establish
ed libraries and educational institu
tions, particularly along technical
lines. lie was ready to help any
plan for public instruction, if it
could be shown that the plan was
practical.
He may have over-emphasized the
utilitarian view. Certaintly even
this modern life is more than steel
machinery and electricity. What
old-fashioned people call "liberal
education" and "the humanities"
and 'general culture are still nee
sarv, to be insisted on more tucn
ever, perhaps, because the present
tendency is so much the other way,
toward the severely practical.
Eut Mr. Carnegie never placed a
ban on the educaiton of the spirit.
In the libraries he founded and even
in the institutions ne created any
one might read as much poetry and
study as much philosophy and re
ligion and art and history as he lik
ed. And he put no fetters on the
colleges he befriended; the profess
ors were free to continue their cul
tural, humanitarian, idealistic work
along with the technical work with
which the philanthropist was pri
marily concerned.
Mr. Carnegie's philanthropy
might be said to represent the pres
ent attitude of the Ainerican people.
There is greater stress than ever
olaced on education. The bulk of
nublic money is always spent on
schools. Instruction is being made
more practical .than ever before.
more closely related to every day
life, better calculated to help boys
and girls to a mastery of the know
ledge and skill required to make
their way in this modern industrial
world. Vocational and technical
training are gaining steadily. Edu
eatina Is fceiug mora widely diffus
ed. and id beinjr given s mora di
Md, ueul relation to life. .
Never reek to take any man!? re
ligion away from him, no matter
how ridiculous it may seem to you
or how different it may be from
your own convictions unless you
have something better to give him
In Its place, which you have not.
Wo are bere reminded of an old
stors-, said to be true, about General
Sickles, who was a friend and fre
quent companion of Robert J. Ing-
ersoll's. At a Xew York hotel one
dark and stormy winter's night the
general, who walked with a crutch,
went to a wjndow and looked out
into the storm of 'snow and sleet
long and earnestly. Returning to
his seat by the side of Ingersoll he
said: "nob, 1 Just saw a sad sight
out there In the blizzard. An old
soldier was hobbling along the ice
sidewalk with a cutch, when a big
burly man kicked the crutch from
under him and the old soldier fell."
Ingersoll jumped up and was for
rushing out to give punishment to
such a brute, but the general de
tained him. saying: "Bob. I was
speaking in metaphor. I am that
old soldier. The good old religion I
used to have was my rrutch and only
support and comfort in my declin-
ng years. "You Kicked it from un
der me, leaving me nothing in Its
stead."
Every man is entitled to His own
religion, to hU own creed-and to
he privilege' of Worshipping his
own god in h'r- own way, and none
should seek to rob him of that right.
ny religious erred" is' better than
none at all, and all are good.
It takes different kinds of creeds
for different kinds of people, and
they all go t make-up th sand
stone, the quartz, the marble and
the granit, flnd the many other
kinds of -rock out of which the
Temple of the Lord is builded.
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AMERICAN BO-PEEPS.
rhorter hours under the r.r&t'ense 0f i
meeting the high cost of liv(ng are
only making a Lad matter worse for
themselves and for everybody else.
If they are rvally concerned with
reducing the eosr of living they
must begin to tako an interest In
the matter of production. This warl
cannot be liquidated by schemes for
doing less work for more pay, and
the whole world is bound to be
confronted by high priced until
rome of the loss and waste' of war
has. been, replaced."
If thero is any panacea at all for
existing economic evils, it is In
creased production. The profiteers.
of course, must be curbed. Hut
that is only half the battle, and
possibly less than half. There must
be less waste, more efficiency, and
a new, constructive attitude toward
the situation. The motto of every
man and woman, of every occupa
tion, should be, "Produce, produce.
p-oducel"
BOLSHEVIK PIPE DREAMS.
There are a number of American
P.o-Peeps living in poverty -in Eur
ope who have asked for perm fss ion
to return to this country and bring
their sheep.
They are wealthy American wo
men who were married to enemy
aliens, and whose holdings in this
country have been temporarily con
fiscated during the war.
If the husbands will come with
their wives, forego their foreign
citizenship and titles and become
American citizens, it is quite pos
sible that th property will be re
stored. Otherwise some other dis
position of it will be made. It is
no part of Uncle Sam's Intention to
finance any enemy uprisings.
It may be a little humiliating to a
proud German or Austrian sheep to
come to this country and become a
plain mister, leaving his titled tail
behind him, but good American dol
lars are worth considering. Crowns
and titles are of little value in these
days.
PRODUCR
Level-headed people concerned
with the cost of commodities have
long been emphasizing the fact that
the only sure way to bring down
prices and place the necessaries of
life within the reach of the masses
is to concentrate on increased pro-,
duction.
Everybody wants to be able to
consume more, and in order to do
so there are universal demands for
higher pay. Often, strangely
enough, those demands are coupled
with demands for absurdly short
hours. That is to say, the . hours
asked for are absurd In view of the
present situation, though . they
might be just in normal times.
The New York World ably sums
up the situation. In a paragraph:
"The labor unions that are de
manding new wage Increases and
Some society with headquarters
at Xew York has been sending out
to all the newspapers of the country
Russia soviet pamphlets. We have
received several and perused them
with interest, having not only a
nose for news but a hankering to pry
nto most anything that is pryable.
The headquarters of these Rolshe-
vik propagandists has just been
raided by government authorities
and tons of this literature seized.
so maybe, our waste basket will con-
inue in the act of yawning for
want of any more of the pamphlets.
They are like many others of the
kind we have seen, promising every-
)Ody two or three thousand dol
lars a year for four or five hours
work a day, on condition, of course.
hat the fantastic, fantasies of Eu
gene Debs, Carl Marx. Wayland and
others of that ilk-are put into prac-
ice. The theory as to what ails
he patient has some merit, "hut the
medieine they propose would kill
him. or all such isms we are an
Iconoclast, -a breaker "of images and
a fighter of shams. The radical
error of this .dreamland dop and
happy hallucination Is that there is
a power in our political society
higher- than the individuals of
which the political society is com
posed. There is no such thing. In
dividualism has made this govern
ment all that it or this people are
today. Communism would tear all
that down. All we have or are .is
due to individual effort. A major
ity of men are doomed to mediocrity.
The few succeed; ' many fail. The
multitude, -as such, is a failure, a
big bag of wind like unto a German
Zeppelin, always has been and al
ways will be. It is the individual
that wins and succeeds. Such is
history since the dawn thereof.
Bolshevism to the contrary notwith
standing. Eighty out of every hund
red men die penniless. It is the one
who reaches the heights and the
eighty which compose the Bolshe
vik propaganda. The laws of God
and nature can not be abrogated by
a conglomeration of theorists etern
ally seeking the refuge of those
born tired.
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Xow we may see whether the
leather trust has a leather hide.
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George Washington manufactured
2000 barrels of whisky every year
on his farm. . No wonder he whipped
the British! .
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Jf he carries her powder rag in
his pocket -when they go out togeth
er., that is a sign they are progress
ing first rate.
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A. girl is mighty sensitive.
As everybody knows
And hates above all other things
A freckle on her nose.
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A mormon, an Indian, an actor
and a fool commit bigamy. Also
that illustrious American citizen,
the Sultan of Sulu.
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A .motion picture show is adver
tising 'The Weaker Brother In Two
Reels." We've seen weak brothers
make more .reels hasthat. ,
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