Nebraska Newspapers

    - THE OMAHA BEE: FRIDAY. AUGUST 4. 1922.
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A convention will aembl at Lincoln on Auruit
15, to formulato tha platform for tha coming- cam.
paign. No tffort will b nada bcrt to anticipate
tha content! of that document, beyond the autrtiott
that it will be one in keeping with tha purpose of tha
party, malting provision for tha preservation of good
government under the law. for tha continuance of
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GOOD GOVERNMENT FOR NEBRASKA..
1 A political party that is only a name, and haa
. nothing definite and constructive to offer as a pro-
; gram, does not deserve support.
Tha republican party of Nebraska confidently
asks support from the voters this year because it has
t something definite and constructive to offer. Its rec-
ord ia long and honorable, but its past is onty a guar
' antee that its nledsres for the future will be redeemed.
li The state is now coming out from a period of dis
ci turbed conditions, and is getting back to a stable
i. basia for ite business. Certain readjustments are yet
I to be mada, and these the republicans expect to make,
guided by experience and with courage to apply
- methods that have support in wisdom.
Forward steps have been taken by the admihis-
,' tration within the last' four years, and these have
jj been fairly well consolidated. Whatever of-change
:s,r modification is required will be made, with the
ji intent of fully redeeming the pledge made in the
platform of four years ago, when it was promised
, that business methods would be applied to carrying
on the affairs of the state. Good government, hon
. estly administered, and carried on at the least possi
ble cost was the pledge made then, it is the one
great purpose of the republican party now.
i
The ticket chosen at the primary last month is
' not recommended to the people solely because it is
- the choice of the republican voters. Other reasons
far mora potent should control, and judgment resting
' On these reasons commends the republican candidates,
i 'Frora the head of the ticket down to the last name,
jf the men selected are men of affairs, and who are
known to ba clean and trustworthy in every par-reticular.
These men were not selected as a result of trade,
-and dickers, of aub rosa understandings "and various
forms of secret diplomacy by which political bargains
: are struck between bosses and then presented to the
!' public aa "compromises" and "understandings," "neu
trality agreement," or other transparent subter-j-
fuge, Anally paraded as' a substitute for a primary
( 'election. Each candidate on the republican ticket
- presented himself fairly to the voters, told them
squarely what he stood for, and what he expected to
' do. Such men can be trusted with, office, for they
will not betray their constituents in order to gain for
themselves any temporary advantage; ,
THE PUBLIC'S "SENIORITY."
Following their rejection of President Harding'a
plan for settlement of the railway strike, the execu
tives announce, in the language of the dispatch from
Washington, tha president has been informed that
the door is still open for negotiations "on the basis
of preserving the seniority rights of the men who
have remained at work, hut not otherwise."
This is not a fitting way in which to reply to tha
head of the nation. When it is learned that these
executives considered the opening lines of the presi
dent s note much like an ultimatum, their calm re
fusal to accept hia proposal appears to array them
against tha national administration.
It does not meet the requirements of the situa
tion for the railroads to say, "Let us alone and wa
can handle this ourselves." Transportation is an in
dustry in which tha public has vital concern. There
are few other lines of business in which the right
of government intervention is so clear. Even if the
railroads should end the strike in their own way, that
would give no guarantee for the avoidance or settle
ment of future controversies. A principle is at stake.
Moreover, it was not to the opinion of a single
man that the disputants were asked to yield, but to
considerations of urgent public need. What is of
fered is a compromise that will restore transporta
tion, reduce the peril of a coal shortage, and estab
lish the principle of peaceful adjudication of indus
trial disputes. -The railway strikers have gone far in
acceding to terms by which, validity of all decisions
of the Railway Labor Board "would Jbe fully recog
nized. This point' fs the main one of the whole plan
of adujstment. The question of seniority is, so far
as the railroad companies and the public are con
cerned, a detail. It is, however, of high importance
to the individual employe. .
Merely because the railway managers issued a
statement that strikers would lose their seniority
rights a matter involving pensions and promotions
is no good reason why the American public should
be made to suffer. Between compromise on this stand
and a curtailment of transportation the choice is easy.
To the public President Harding'a plan seems rea
sonable. By agreeing to send their original griev
ances back to the Railroad Labor Board for rehearing
the men have made a praiseworthy concession. Their
employers should show themselves equally reasonable.
Not in behalf of the unions, and not in behalf of
the owners of the railroads, but for the sake of pub
lic welfare, President Harding haa intervened to end
this deadlock. . The stubborn stand of the railroads,
taken together with their previous legal maneuvers
in defiance of the, power of the Federal Labor Board. ,
provides a perilous example to labor organizations.
ONE LESSON OFJHE FLOOD.
A report from the courthouse says that roada and
bridges in Douglas county were damaged to the extent
of $20,000 by the freshets of last week. This is a con
siderable sum of money, but it invites comparison with
previous experience.
Before Douglas .county entered upon its campaign
of permanent construction, freshets- were accompani
ments of the summer." The Elkhorn and' the Big and
Little Fappios came" tumbling down just as they do
now, mad torrents of muddy waters, swirling and dash
ing, and sweeping, away all they could move. Flimsily
constructed bridges, and culverts went out before them,
and dirt roads' crumbled like sand piles in their way.
Each summer saw the experience repeated, until the
county authorities ; took up the work of meeting the
problem with more dependable construction.
Now roads and .bridges have a permanent character.
Many thousands of dollars have been expended to
reach a place" where the disaster' of a big runoff .of
rainfall, carried along the streams that course the
county, and which drain the state for many miles, does
not sweep away all the work done on the highways.
Douglas county's experience is repeated many
times in Nebraska. It was estimated ten years ago that
the state had for many years annually suffered a joss
of around $5,000,000 a year, because of damage done
to dirt roads and poorly built bridges and culverts by
storm waters in the spring' and through the summer.
The campaign for better bridges and permanent roads
j; In 1006 the republicans went beforeHhe people
?? of Nebraska with a definite program of reformatory
L legislation. Successful at. the election,.the legisla
ture controlled by the republicans passed and a re
publican governor signed laws redeeming each of
these promises, and the, laws then enacted for the
relief of the public and the advancement of the in
terests of tha people of the state remain on the books,
save the revenue bill, which. has been "changed, first
! ' by the democrats, and af ain by the republicans who
' have sought to restore the law to a condition of serv
v ice. To such a record as this the party can point,
offering it as proof of sincerity of intent to redeem
. any pledge made in a platform. In 1918 other definite
promises were made, and these, too, have been re
' deemed.
. The one great outstanding issue of the present
." campaign is that of taxation. No matter what other
questions may come up, they all turn on this one.
j Each republican candidate has pledged himself pub
i licly to do all that can be done to lower the cost of
i; 'government, at the same time-'preserving the service
r-of government Ecohomy wjll.be practiced, but notj then bglin ha$ borne jrujt in-many wetl constructcd
: a 4 4 It a ajA4 tltaat twAnai la A itm Aav PAtrnrot wit An oil. .... . ... . . .
rv ... ." river crossings and highways that will withstand a
.' tremendous floating debt was built up, because of in- cloudburst 0r the sudden breaking up of a hard winter.
; emcient metnoas or collecting revenue, ana wasie
f ul methods, of public spending, a monument
;;',to democratic mismanagement, and, which had to be
(j- wiped out by special levies under Mickey and Shel
j; don. Nor will it be of the sort that marked the
ij- Morehead administration, when the governor had to
.go into court to compel the treasurer to evade the
spirit of the constitution, and devote unappropriated
.'"fee collections to the payment of current expenses.
; Deficiency appropriations have been done away with
under the budget system adopted by the republicans,
;! in redemption of the platform pledge of 1918, and
' heads of state departments will be turning back sur
i plus funds instead of asking the legislature to care
for overlaps. Taxes will be lowered, and state gov
emment will cost less, because it will be run hon-
estly and on a business basis, and not in the hap
" haiard fashion that permits each money-spending
agency of the state to follow its own plan.
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Democratic success in any part of Nebraska this
year will ba made possible by republican division
, only. The patched-up harmony arrangement between
; tha Bryans and Hitchcock, between the wets and the
drys, tha suffragists and anti-suffragists of the demc
; cratic party is a coalition of selfish leaders, bent on
' achieving individual success, but it also has a mean-
,'ing for republicans too plain to be ignored. Any
i factional differences that may have 'divided the party
in tha past must be hid aside for the, good of all.
( ' Personal ambitions can be made -secopdary to the
; .general welfare, and the disappointments of former
' campaigns may be forgotten in the forward move
' H ment that ia now commenced.
,; ; A ticket headed by Howell and Randall is of
. fered tha people by the republican voters. Three
members of congress, whose .record ish worthy, have
- been 'reoommated, while in'three other, districts men
of proved ability have been selected as the party's
nominee. Strong county and legislative nominees
are presented, and the general aspect of the situation
BLOOD THICKER THAN WATER.
Americans have long admired the most outstand
ing characferistic of . William Jennings Bryan, his
earnest advocacy of moral reforms, whether popular
or not He has fearlessly championed the cause of
religion, of peace, of morality, and especially of pro
hibition. For years he was the only great political
leader who dared to openly advocate the complete
banishment of strong drink from our land. His con
sistency, his courage and his persistency in this re
gard earned for him the respect if not the support of
the whole American people. v
What do we now discover? Mr. Bryan's brother
has been named as a candidate for governor of Ne
braska, by reason of a bargain made with the avowed
enemies of prohibition and tha personal foes of Wil
liam Jennings Bryan. The Peerless Leader, whose
public life has been one of stern opposition to mofal
wrong, finds the ties of consanguinity too much for
his resistance. He is willing, that he may aid his
brother in the Nebraska campaign, to stultify his
record by making a bargain with those who have op
posed him in season and out, and who derided and
flouted him, because of his principles and his. beliefs.
Bryan has, it would appear, made a bargain, not
with Senator Hitchcock and Arthur Mullen, but with
his own conscience.
State taxes are coming down, much to the disgust
of the democrats, who thus are deprived of another
campaign cry.
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The ever ready pistol is making a lot of trouble
again.
What Other
Editors Say
The Wheal Harvest Is On.
Trim tha Mian.apoha Journal,
Tha sialic of athaat haa baeema tha
oraaafrult tree of the world. Bom h
trn Mlnnaaota and South Dakota
Will .begin euuinsr the wheat thla
wk. The stand vrywhre is
niatnlflrant. The sight of the grant
rolllna flsldi of train, fully rl and
wavlne In tha winds of tha pralrls,
Is ona navrr to bs forgotten.
Through July and Auguat tha buay
harvaat hands work thalr way up
through tha Dnkoina. throuah Uani.
toba. Saskatchewan. Alborta and
IlrUlnh Columbia, whers grant har
vests are promised. But theaa ar
not tha only July and August wheat
fields. On the other aids of the
world the harvest la on In the Bal
kan stntea. In Germany and Auatrla.
and also In Hungary, England.
nuasis, Denmark ana roisnd. Scot
land, northern Russia and Hcandl
nnvia harvest their grain In Sep
tember and October.
Let us follow the harvest further
and by months. The record Is a
wonderful one. In November the
harveit will begin In South Africa.
In Trru, Argentina 'and other Darts
of South America, while Christmas
Ltlme finds the wheat falling before
the reaper in Flurmah. Australia
and New Zealand follow hard after,
of the new year harvest time reaches
Indian and Upper Ejr.vnt, Cuba.
Ferula, Mexico. Asia Minor and
Iiower Egypt cut their wheat In
April. May brings the wheat harvest
In China, Japan and Central Asia.
And now the harvest haa leaped
the ocean again and begins In south
ern Texas. Wheat Is being cut there
In May, And by Juna It has worked
up to Kansas and Nebraska and to
the Pacific coast on this side of the
ocean, while on the other the reaper
la buay In Bpaln, Italy, Greece. Tur
key and the south of France. '
Thus the circle la complete, and
Puck has placed hta girdle of plenty
around the world. What a wonder
ful panorama, when seen with the
eves of the mind, ia thla ever-
advancing and never-ceasing falling
or the- wheat before the reapers or
the world! The harvest never ceases.
Is there crop failure or damage in
one quarter, then le there plenty and
aurplus In another. So varied and
ao widespread are the climes where
the wheat Is grown that a ' world
wide erop failure Is now almost out
of the question. Transportation and
the breaking; down of hostile bar
riers have made the world one In
Its .crop of wheat, forever growing
somewhere and forever coming to
maturity and being garnered.
Songs of Summer.
From tha Spokane Spokaaman Review.
"Where are the songs of sum
mer?" Tom Hood once asked. The
query still has pertinence and timeli
ness. The glory of the Imperial sea
son has hut seldom been caught by
poets. The snows or winter, the
promise of spring and the fulfill
ment of autumn move them more.
Bishop King of Chichester would
have had it spring always, but had
to borrow from the summer flowers
of June. Matthew Arnold sang of
flowers drenched with the dew of
auriimer's eve, yet his flowers were
those' of spring. Unusually It is
summer's associations or scenes that
shed back a borrowed beauty on
poems about spring.
Writers of prose have done bet
ter by summer than writers of verse.:
Entire chapters In Hardy's novels
are the very embodiment of sum
mer. It is by exception among the)
poets that Tennyson works thai
miracle of creating something Ilkel
summer when he sings that the lily
folds its sweetness and the white
and the crimson roses sleep. Wll
Ham Morris revealed some of the!
marvel of dawn In summer wheni
he wrote- that "the morning light
slips faint arftj gray betwixt the;
cloud bars patiently watting for'
dawn, patient and' colorless though
heaven's gold waits to float through
them along with the sun."
Shakespeare's references directly
to summer are relatively few, bub
his exhaustless magic Indirectly
creates hundreds ' of summer days.
Again and again he gives the breath
and body of a day In June, ana
Lowell likewise did so when he ask
ed and answered,, his own question:
"What is so rare as a day in June?"
The slightest or most incidental ref
erence that Shakespeare makes to
summer recreates and pictures It.
Wild music burdens every bough"
and "briars be as sweet as sharp."
Dobson struck the summer note
when he said that "along the south-,
ern wall keeps the bee his fastlval."
De La Mare bits it with the words:
I heard the summer noon resound
with call of myriad things unseen."
Thompson gave the tropic sensuous-1
ness of the season in these words:
Summer set lips to earth's bosom
bare and left the flushed print in a
poppy there." Whlttier caught the
languor of the season when he sang:
My ear is full of summer sounds.
of summer sights my languid eye."
On Second Thought
B7 H. at. ST A SI IX.
Whether or not life Is worth living depends greatly
uoon the liver.
Population.
From the Cincinnati Tlmee-Star.
What does a city exist for, any
how? Is ,it its chief function to
gather together in one place the
largest possible number of people,
speaking the greatest possible num
ber of languages? Or is it its chief
duty to fit itself to be a good place
for a smaller number of people to
live in?
It is curious the hold mere pop
ulation figures have on a certain
type of mind. Tou hear people pre
dicting ecstatically that the United
States will have two hundred mil
lions of people twenty or thirty or
forty years from now. This may
be true; if so, what does it mean?
It means that life in America will
be much harder than it has been.
Tou can see in Europe and still
more plainly in India and China
what crowded populations mean in
the existence of the average human
being. If conditions of life have
been easier in America than else-'
where, it is largely because we have
had a very rich eountry with a com
paratively sparse population.
Two hundred millions or Ameri
cans in 1950! One million people
in Cincinnati in 1940! Great slo
gans, aren't they? But after all,
what is to be gained from a tremen
dous increase in the nation's popu
lation or from the crowding of huge
masses of people into cities whose
census returns go up two or three
hundred per cent in twenty years?
Women as "Bosses."
From tha Knickerbocker Press.
During your working hours, would
you rather have a man or a wom
an for a doss? 'mis question nas
been asked in Chicago, with replies
that are unanimous in their tenor.
You can probably guess the an
swer.
A middle-aged advertising man
eays he prefers to work for a man,
because a man doesn't want to be
bossed by a woman, anyhow. Se
riously, he says, a man is more
likely to be solid, stable and busi
nesslike, while a woman is more
prone to be temperamental and to
"act the part of the modern wom
an." whatever that is.
The men are not alone in this
view, it appears. A young woman
artist says she would rather be
bossed by a man, -any day. - A man,
she says, from tha depths of . her
experience, will not find at many
faults with your work as a woman
will. A woman will .scrutinize every
angle and try to find something to
complain about, while a man will
simply let It go for what It's worth
perhaps, though she da nut aay
so. In reala-nod deapalr of gattln
anything batter. Moreover, this
girl haa found out that mm will pay
mora than women.
Than there ia the opinion of a
flapper student, who haa not yet
guns to work, but who wants a man
boss whan ah does. Man, she any a,
haven't the nerve to tell a woman
to do more than she la able to do.
"A man reaped" a woman and he'd
rather do something for her to stive
her the trouhl. A woman won't
do anything Ilk that."
On lb whole, it doea not seem
that the woman manager or bona
gets much the worst of this aym-
malum. If her princfonl fault la
that ahe la exacting and run not be
fooled or kidded, ahe ought to be
a fairly efficient employer.
"Doomed U NplnattThmxi."
From tha Laulavilla Posu
The Berlin correspondent Informs
us that "26,000,000 women In Kurop
are doomed to lifelong aplnater
hood." Well, there are many of the
:s. 000,000 who will affirm that they
do not consider anlnaterhood
"doom." Many women do not get
married because they do not want
to, and not because they never have
a "chance."
Looking at the figures presented
by the Berlin man wa find that he
eatlnialra tha male population or Eu
rope, adults alone considered, at
224.23i.000, and the female popula
tion at 250,000,000. Before the world
war there were LOSS women In Eu
rop to every 1,000 men; now the na
tion is 1,111 women to every l.ooo
men.
But when we analyse the figures
the plight of these women "doomed
to splnaterhood" Is not so bad. There
Is a great surplus of women In. Rus
sia. But do Russian women want to
get married? Those that do are not
erv wise. In England and Franc
and Germany the surplus of women
are numerous, but about as many
mala children an female are being
born, and the ratio will right itself
In time.
Unofficial Diplomats. '
From tha New York Tribune.
The hotels of London and rarls
are thronged with American guests.
So the nations are hrougnt to
gether. Their diplomatic repre
sentatives meet one another on
guard. The unofficial representa
tives, on business or pleasure, aban
don reserve and talk rranaiy bdouc
questions that no envoy would dare
mention.
The result is better mutual un
derstanding and a discovery that
different peoples are much alike,
after all.' Friendships built on
British golf courses and on French
boulevards are the sort of friend
ships that all nations need.
The presence of thousands or
Americans In England and France
meana that they are consciously or
unconsciously "selling" this coun
try to Europe and that they are- at
the aame time "buying" Europe.
Our peace and comradeship with
Canada are due largely to the fact
that the people of both countries
have long freely intermingled and
known each other so well that the
idea of a fortress on the frontier
seems nonsensical.
Readers' Opinions
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VUy lit WoiHlcra,
Omahit. Julv ! To (he Kdtior of
The Omaha ilea: A quiik-ihid
thousht, t wonder why tha ten
dency to exaggarate In thought the
vlls of life. Today the quirk phyai-
ciogirai ininxer ia tailing you how.
Klg huainaaa Is smiling. . Wall stre
I telling you how. Oraanixad rani-
tnl la peraplcarioualy smiling. Labor
Is wondering why. Th proflteers
ar smiling. "I wonder why?" Th
commonwealth I wondering why Its
taxea ar higher than ever before In
hlatory. Uibor la wondering why
its rent Is high. Th landlords ar
situ wining to ask mora, with smiles
on their browa, " wonder whyir
nign coat or living la her. Th
queallon. why? The physiological
thinker will tell you why. Ilia bual.
neaa and Walltreel la telling us
now ami wny. now long ar w
wining to let th peaalmlsm xlt?
"I wonder how long?"
A. O. BLODG ETT.
Ilcrrln ami. Oilier Crimes.
Lincoln. Aug. L To the Editor of
The Omaha Bee: As .. professional
man whose Interests are neither for
nnur nor capital wnen their activi
ties ar aaalnat tha nnlilio .ir...
I have followed with Interest your
paper's accounts of th recent
iruuoios in in roal-mlnlng dis
tricts. Thl Is reaction you get from
me wim your editorials on the Her
rln outbreak.
The mont horrible thins- ahnut
the Herrin trouble waaknot the mas
sacre itself, not that the perpetrat
ors nave not been nun ahed: hut
rather, that the press should feel
called upon to hold a cause In dis
repute because of the insanity of a
local mob. Why did vou not
flaunt In flaming headlines and cry
out in editorial wrath against the
massacre of . helpless women and
children at Ludlow by hired thugs
or tne KocKefellers? Ia the lit of
a score of homeless wretches who
thrive only when a strike exists
worth more to society than the Uvea
or two-score women and children?
Ia it worse to shoot imported strike
breakers than to burn in oil suck-
linn . babes and White-haired wom
en? Why grieve when weeks 'have
not brought to justice the poor per
petrators at Herrin when years
have passed and the great assassins
at Ludlow still live? And, too, why
have you not been aroused by the
super-legal government in the coal
regions of West Virginia imposed
by the coal operators?
The Herrin incident does not
shake the foundations of free gov
ernment, .it does not ahow an utter
contempt for law and order but
It was a crude and brutal attempt to
get justice on the part of a humble
citixenry who have shattered their
delusions about the impartiality of
the courts and the press. .
No one can excuse murder. But
WOTTA LIFE! WOTTA UFE!
the coal klnga have no right to
howl at on little defeat nor no rea
son to be discouraged, for they have
won hundreds of auch battles In
Colorado and West Virginia. Hym
pathy ought to be given to the fam
ilies of the killed (if they have fam
ilies). But If we ar to prevent any
auch recurrences of murder, we
must see that our Industrlnl condi
tions are Improved and, that justice
is given the workers.
ROBT. FULLERTON.
Editor's Note: If Mr. Fullerton
will take the trouble to look over
the back numbers of The Omaha
Bee he will discover that this paper
did denounce the doings at Lud
low: that it did sharply criticize the
governor of West Virginia for allow
ing guerrilla warfare to break out
there,- and so on. But in the name
of common sense, how can a crime
in Colorado or West Virginia be
held to excuse one in Illinois? Two
wrongs never made a right, and
justice does not rest on violence.)
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What Is Detroit's Secret?
Detroit reports that It Is making
money on it municipally owned
street car lines on which the fare Is
6 cents. That will surprise some
public utility board which have
been getting their information about
the street car business from other
sources. Knnsas City Star.
Where Restraint la Needed. .
It is equally necessary to restrain
those coal operators who are In
clined to Jump prices and those pan
icky buyers who are beginning to
offer high prices. Bufalo Express.
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lie Voice of the- People
IS BEING HEARD ON
rrohibitioi
mi the Boms !
Nearly Half a Million Votes Have Been Counted and
Tabulated in the Nation-wide 10,000,000 Poll
"It should be possible to form an accurate
estimate of public opinion," predicted the
New York Tribune, commenting on the tabu
lation of the first 200,000 votes in the
"Digest's"' national referendum on Prohibition
and the Bonus, when the third or fourth hun
. dred thousand are tabulated.
In this week's issue the tabulation of more
than 480,000 votes is presented; and numer
ous publicists are ready with estimates of the
state of public opinion which the ballots
. show. The Pittsburgh Sun, with an eye to
certain humorous aspects of the .situation,
says : ,- t : . c
"It has been amusing, when not distress
' ing, to read the wild statements of the 'wets'
and the more rabid 'dries.' Each camp has
assured the patient public a thbusand times
it holds 90 per cent, of all. American citizens.
Of course, the 90 per cent, can not be in both
camps at the same time, tho a considerable
proportion of us may carry water on one
shoulder and something else on another.1 It
will be as refreshing as the outlawed mint
julep is said to have been to have adequate
and accurate information as to just what we
do think, these hot sumfner months. . . .
. Whatever the outcome of the vote, it is likely
to put an end to the foolish claims of the ex
tremists on both sides by affording authentic
information upon which to base discussion.
And that is what we, the people, chiefly need
authentic information."
As to the Federal Bonus for Soldiers and
. Sailors, a small number of strongly pro-bonus
advocates join the several "dry" leaders who
have announced that the present poll is not
representative. The Indianapolis Star takes
a more commonly held position and says:
"THE LITERARY DIGESJ is not champion
ing or opposing either Prohibition or the
Bonus, but is interested .only in disclosing sen
timent on those subjects. If the force of public
opinion is not back of either proposition, no
harm can come from knowing that fact. If
it is back of either or both, much good may
be expected from such a disclosure."
The results of this tremendous poll of the
nation will be published in the "Digest" from
week to week throughout the summer, and
when complete the people of the United
States should know, as never before, the .'ac
tual public sentiment upon these two burning
issues. Other striking news-features in the
"Digest" this week are :
Quaint Customs and Methods of the Ku Klux Klan
Also a Review of the Ku Klux Political Victory in Texas
To Keep the Coal Strike from Hurting What Was Settled at the Hague The Howell from Nebraska
Uncle Sam No "Joiner" A New Party Hat in the Ring The Supreme Effort for Europe's Redemp
tion India's Fight Political, Not' Racial Substitutes for Gasoline Air as a Steel Cutter Radio on
Your Pleasure Boat The Rising Tide of Religion A Plea for More Open Air Preaching Healing Re
ligious Rifts in Canada Topics of the Day Many Interesting Illustrations, Including Calrtoons.
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