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Such noteworthy figures as there are must be sought in industry rather than in politics. This is the situa tion as Dean Dexter S. Kimball of Cornell univer sity reviewed it in an address retiring from the presidency of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. A new type of leadership is evolving, he declared, a leadership coming from men and women trained in the engineering or business world. This new style of leadership he asserts is neces sary if civilization is to endure. The history of America shows that before this there have been changes in the types of men who have led public thought. In the early days of the republic the great national figures were military heroes, these later giving way to lawyers and politicians. These in turn may have to yield to those of more prac tical training in the problems of human and public relations. Going further back, it is seen that the warriors who first ruled were succeeded by the power of the church, which in time was replaced by the political state. The trend toward an in dustrial leadership and civilization is apparent. The demand for more efficiency in government and in dustry is heard from every side, and this can only be obtained by the application of technical methods to the questions involved. System, organization and practical knowledge are the needs of this age. The sort of engineer Dean Kimball refers to is the one skilled in the ap plication of science to the actual affairs of life. It is not alone in the governmental field that this in fluence must bo exerted. There is need for such leadership in every branch of life. A new type of labor leader is needed, for instance—a production engineer who deals with something more funda mental than questions of wages and is something more than a good bargainer. The farmers also must have men of special training and wide ex perience to tackle their problems. A broader view likewise is needed in the transportation industry and in all business. The problems of capital and labor, strikes and lockouts, the distribution of goods, the spread between prices paid to producers and those paid by consumers, the adjustment of supply and demand and the increase of well-being and decrease of poverty—these are among the things that require the application of exact think ing rather than oratory or demagogic theory. The sort of men who can handle these issues in private life are the sort that will assume national leadership in the political field. There remain the time-honored principles of politics and industry, blindly defended on one side and blindly attacked on the other, but there are as yet no really great figures about whom the people rally. Dean Kim ball believes practical men must come to the fore to reconcile the old and the new and establish in telligent co-operation in place of the present con fusion of pulling and hauling in all directions. The application of the best trained business and techni • cal minds to America’s problems offers the oppor tunity for real progress. LINK UP ALL ROUTES TO MARKET. Planning ahead is necessary if America’s trans portation facilities are to keep pace with its indus trial development. The invitation to the railroads to attend a conference with advocates of the Great Lakes waterway to discuss a concerted transporta tion plan follows closely on President Harding’s declaration in favor of co-ordinating inland water ways, truck lines, electric lines, railroads and ocean lines in one related system designed to move traffic at the least expense and with the least delay. Instead of fighting each other, these various agencies of distribution should be working together. Reduced to its simplest terms, the problem is to adjust transportation facilities for the largest pos sible service to American industry. One of the great sources of present trouble is that the main i object of the railroads is to return a profit instead fjof meeting the needs of the public. , * In the past the railroads have fought the devel opment of water carriers and there are today dis ‘griminatory rail rates designed to discourage water ‘transportation. The friendly attitude of western yailway men toward the St. Lawrence project is gn encouraging sign of a new spirit. Let this pro posed meeting between the railroads and the water way commission be held. A much more friendly spirit toward the railroads would be inspired if they jWill join with the waterways, forget competition and help build UP a great co-operative system. INSTEAD OF TEA OR COFFEE. American Ingenuity has evolved many varieties of drink, hard and soft, but up until the present there has been none of them to take the place on the table occupied by tea and coffee. Now, how ever, the bureau of chemistry of the Department of Agriculture reports that a wild southern plant, grow ing from Virginia to Texas produce* a delightful beverage that resembles tea in many respects. This is the cassina plant, which was used by some Indian tribes, and during the civil war. when tea and coffee could not be obtained, by the people of the southern states. Perhaps on account of the boycott on tea origin ating in colonial times, Americans have not been as heavily addicted to the use of t^n as to coffee. Both habits, however, are firmly entrenched, and it will take much effort to upset them. If the verdict of these new laboratory experiments with a native plant is borne out by the great jury of consumers, a new industry of great benefit to the south will be de veloped. Incidentally millions of dollars that are now spent abroad would be kept at home and the course of international trade considerably upset. When the American continent was settled by white men and the Indians were pushed back, the immigrants introduced plants from abroad and dis regarded the poasibilitiea of native food species, with the notable exception of. corn. It is said that the leaves of the cassina, when treated by processes simi lar to those used in curing tea produce an excellent beverage. It may be that there are other neglected opportunities among the old Indian plants. LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO CUT TAXES. The editor of the Nelson Gazette expresses doubt of any material reduction in taxes, in spite of all the pre-election promises. However, the activity of taxpayers' leagues in various counties through out the state evidences the popular determination to fight the issue through. State, county, school and city expenses are being surveyed and scrutinized. A questionnaire recently sent to a number of Nebraska editors by The Omaha Bee revealed little vestige of the cam paign idea that millions could be saved by abolish ing the code system. The chief target now appears to be the schools. The three chief expending agencies of the state, the penal and charitable institutions, the state nor mal schools and the state university, have presented requests for increases of $3,000,000 in appropria tions for the coming two-year period- A large por tion of this is for the purpose of expansion, includ ing new buildings. Frank O. Edgecombe, the Geneva editor, declares that if the other state institutions need additional housing facilities as badly as the industrial school for girls in his town, it would be cruel neglect to deny relief. A suggestion for economy that is seldom heard is that of consolidating some of the widely scat tered state institutions. W. I. Farley of the Hamil ton County Taxpayers’ league recently said some thing on this topic: "Wc have four normal s ‘.t jls when two are ample. They started only to provide for two-year courses, hut soon enlarged to double that term. The agricultural school, at Curtis, was needless extravagance, and there are many duplications thut should be wiped out." Not many will agree with his position that the medical college maintained by the state is not prop erly a field for public support. Training for public service is to be distinguished from mere education of the profit motive. There is a feeling that edu cation along business lines has been carried too far in the schools of Nebraska. Thus, the Harlan county taxpayers’ committee declares that short hand and typewriting should be taught in business college, and not in high school. It takes the fur ther position that home economics and domestic science should be learned at home instead' of in the class room. The present emphasis on athletics is protested, as is also music teaching and the giving of class plays. There is some sign here of an un warranted opposition to cultural courses, and a pinch-penny policy that would deprive the children of contact with anything more than, hard facts. There is reason, however, in the proposal for closer methods in the purchase of hooks and supplies, and the standardization of texts throughout the county. The schools of Nebraska must not be allowed to suffer through mistaken economy; neither should they bo erected into a fetish. They are no nearer perfect than any other function of the government, but those do wrong who would lessen their valuable service as a means of lightening the tax load, even while allowing other divisions of government to escape without paring their expenses. The small attendance at the recent state convention of Tax payers’ leagues ig Hastings may be attributed to the belief that too much criticism was directed at the schools and not enough at other expending agencies. COURTESY OF THE ROAD. A Lincoln traveling man owes his life to the fortunate fact that the button which blew the horn of his overturned automobile was caught so it kept the horn going until help came. Otherwise, he might have perished. Against this may be set the case of an accident that occurred some two or three years ago. when a man pinned under an overturned car perished because his wife could not get any passing motorist to come to her assistance. It is not selfishness but safety that leads the driver to pass up a signal to stop on a country road after night. More often than not such signals are made by persons with criminal intent. Motorists who stop to help an unfortunate are set upon and robbed, frequently subjected to many idignitfes, and forced to undergo hardship as well as loss. So it is little wonder that a driver feels impelled to go when he notes some one in the road making signs. On the other hand, and this is a comforting thought, the driver who is not willing to render aid when he knows the case is one of genuine distress, is rare. Motorists are always willing to take a chance in this regard, and will put themselves out to help one who has encountered a mishap of any kind An eastern writer recently boasted in print that he had driven from Philadelphia to Omaha and back in his “flivver” and never had changed a tire. When ever he encountered trouble, he filled his pipe and smoked in content, knowing that presently somebody would come along who would know how to remedy whatever was wrong, and never was he disappointed. Such a driver is not to he commended, perhaps, but he did prove the case for other drivers. The Lincoln man was lucky, but his case, like others, brings to the mind the need of some way to preserve the courtesy of the road, that has been so seriously disturbed by criminals who take advantage of man’s kindly intention to rob him. Nebraska’s champion cow has just died, but she set a good example by leaving seven daughters, who will try to keep up the family name. Those Minneapolis sports are not the only ones who win or lose as the thermometer goes up or down. The Tiger is on his way home again, and we wish him a safe voyage. — Death rides the high tension wire. — r- -. ■ - - —- . Gandhist Communities Turn Away From Revolt * —Maurice Joachim, in Current History Magazine. Expressions of dissatisfaction are not oonfined to westerners in Jndia who have realized that the coun try is unfit for Swaraj, but are typical also of an lm important section of the Indiuns themselves, as was shown by the case of the people of Batata—hitherto a distinct pro-Gandhi community. Two or three months ago this community organized itself and launched a campaign against the non-co-operative movement. In an open letter to the leaders of that movement, this community set forth graphically the religious persecu tions and other tyrannies to which India was sub jected before the advent of the British, and referred to the measures taken by the British administration to help the fallen sections of the populace to better their status. The letter further advocated the neces sity of following up gradually the even path of re form and forsaking spasmodic progress. Regarding the non-co-operation movement, they point out the disaster wrought by the Hijrat activities and the loss sustained by boycotting the schools. The letter then referred to the constructive program of the congress, exposing the futility of all its items, and declared that they were all devised to spread hatred against the government. It concluded with the assertion that the boycott of foreign cloth is a vindictive measure, in jurious to the cause of progress, and the boycott of councils a wrong principle. First Page Stuff. From the Kansas City Kansan. The Atchison Globe, which excels in pungent paragraphs as well as other kinds that do not smell so strong, seeks to reform the rest of the news papers of America. Bays the Sunday school superintendent, who edits the "Snort" column of the Globe; "Crime should be published; but It should be confined to the inside pages, the first page should contain only con structive news, exploiting crime on the front page is like showing a pot of jam to a small boy and telling him not to touch it. He’ll touch it, no doubt about that.” The point is well taken. The great est example in the world, the Bible, doesn't report a crime on the first page. On the second page, however, it tells of the swindle committed by the devil, "which first brought sin into the world and all our woe.” On the third page it reports a murder. The fourth page announces bigamy and a second killing. The fifth page broadsides the story of the wicked ness of man, which was so great that God became disgusted with It: and then comes an account of the slaying of all the people on the earth, with the exception of nine, as well as of most animals. This is going pretty strong on the reporting of crime, and sensation, and has never been exceeded by the yel lowest of modern journals. It is true that no crime appears on the flrs^page of the Bible: but it is not every day that a newspaper can find as big news as that which is spread all over the opening page of that hook. Indeed, it has been a long, long time since "God created the heavenR and the earth." If such a thing should hap pen again, it would be well deserving of first page space. Possibly if such tremendously big news had not broken out for the first day's reporting of this wonderful book, a couple of murders, which were made up on the second and third pages, might have been given top of column on the first page—who knows? Newspapers are not without their faults, but if there is one thing above another that the average city editor has rightly developed it is news value. What he puts on the front page gen erally belongs there. The city editor of the Bible made up the “good news” of the future hope of the world on the last page. Who shall say he was not right? College Presidents and Football. Prom the Sioux City Tribun*. It has happened at last, just as the professional funny men used to pre dict. A college football team has met with a disastrous season, and the pres ident of the college has resigned aa a result. It at once raises questions as to what a college Is for and what are the duties of a college president. It recalls the ironic speech of a Harvard man w'ho was the guest of honor at a Yale hunquet a few years ago. The banquet waa held during the whiter following Harvard's famous 41 to 0 vlctot-.v over Yale, and the Harvard man remarked: "Now that Yale has lost her most Important industry, she may Hnd a little time for such or dinary pursuits as the teaching of English, mathematics and the sciences." He was speaking, of course, only in fun; and the laughter which greeted his sally showed that the Yale men appreciated it. Hut Geneva col lege, at Heaver Falls, Ha., took such things much more seriously. This fall the football team won only two games, and a cry went up for the coach's head. The trustees, however, refused to make a sacrifice of the official, and the president and the professor of mathematics have thrown up thetr Jobs, with the alumni vociferously ap plauding their action. OtheafVesigna tions are expected among the faculty. However the row ends, It will serve to put Geneva college on the map, and not in a very favorable light. A small college can not expect to turn out regularly a whale of a football team, if it follows legitimate course. The material Isn't there. Yet it is remarkable how some small colleges manage year after year to have among their students eleven ex traordinary football players. It makes one wonder if there is really some point to the saying with regard to such Institutions, "Well, now that the season Is over, I suppose the football team has gone hack to work in the boiler factory.” It seems as if the state of Pennsyl vania's educational department ought to examine the scholarship stand ards at Geneva college. Not a Bigot, Nor a Boob. Sam Blythe In the Saturday Evening Post. The fact of It Is that the Hon. W. G. Harding of Marion, O., placarded far and wide as the soul of amenabil ity and the syncretlzer of all political discordances and divergences, has displayed and does now, on occasion, display a tendency to do what he wants to do rather than what he is wanted to do that is discouraging and disconcerting to various designing gentlemen who figured that courtesy and consideration, cordiality and a pleasant smile make the possessor thereof an easy mark. It has been impressed on these and sundry oth ers that there are times when the president isn't so durned sinipatico as though he undeniably and regularly is G-O-P-ish in his tendencies, demon strations and decisions, he is no bigot; nor is he any boob. It Is fair to say that any expert analysis of the president when he came into office In 1921, any skillful and understanding separation of him into his various political, economic and philosophical constituents, any careful diagnostic determination of his beliefs and the bases of them would hove set him down as a conser vative. There was nothing about his politics or his principles that was not regular and reactionary. He was of the old guard. There was no tinge of radicalism about him; nor is there any yet, in the extreme sense of the word: but since he has been in the White House those who are close to him have observed, .and are observing now. a certain progress to wards nil intelligent, useful and pa triotic liberalism, and a growth in vision and appreciation of the new conditions that exist. To put it in a paragraph: The pres ident knows that the old order is changing, hut that the new order is not yet apparent save in its most vague and symptomatic form. A more conservative man would deny this shifting, and a more radical one would seek to accelerate it. He con NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for NOVEMBER. 1922, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .73,843 I Sunday .78,105 B. BREWER, Gan. Mgr. ELMER S. ROOD, Cir. Mg.-. Sworn ta snd aubecribed before me this lib day of December, 1922. W. H. QUIVEY, (Seal) Notary Public a ceives it to he his part to do what lie can to maintain the equilibrium between the disappearing old and the dawning new: to hold things on an even keel so far as he is able; to re construct whatever may be. but not to advance destruction for the mere purpose of giving un^ioyment to the amateur and theoretical and fanutic architects and builders who feel they have a mission to plan and build whether they have tho ability or the experience, or not. The Inherent and natural tendency of the president is to play safe. He is no passionate protagonist to rush out and grasp the standard of a new order: nor is he so closely welded to the old order as to bar the way to the new one when It comes with pop ular credentials and knocks for ad mission at the national door. The change in his personal considerations and convictions as to the demands of the present on the fixtures and process of the past have come gradually, and is due to tiie widening of his contacts since he has been In the White House. He is still an old line republican, but the line Isn't the rigid one it formerly was. There are fluctuations in it. It doesn't run straight across the chart from nor malcy of trio date of 1896 to normal cy of the date of 1920, or what he thought was the 1920 brand when he was elected, both about the same in texture and operation. The line on the Harding chart of the last months of 1922 spurts up to the points marked "more liberal views," "broader aspects," "present trend of political and economic, events” and "wider horizon.” And it sags hack in places, also. It would be going beyond the facts to do more than combine the opposites of politi cal designations in speaking of him and call him a progressive conserva tive. or a conservative progressive. It may be only a temporary fluctua tion. or these may he oply temporary fluctuations. Events will prove that I am in no way trying to show that President Harding is a progressive, a liberal, a radical or anything that he is not. What he is or what he will come to be. he will show himself. The point is that, at the time of writing, far along in the second year of his term, the president has stepped a few paces to the front of his old guard colleagues—not very far. per haps, hut a few paces—and that it may turn out that he will continue stepping to tho front rather than fall ing back to the rear. The future will tell. And those. In his confidence know that he does not hold It to bo his part to advance in any welcoming attitude to whatever of liberalism may de velop, any more than he considers it his duty to try to stop that advance. Moreover, if we could have a referen dum on It. it Is quite likely that this position is held by the majority of our people to he not only a sane and a moderate attitude, hut exactly the most useful position for a president of the United States at this time. Thp “Onp-House Idea Again. From the Rapid City Journal. The Idea has been launched In this state to'do away with the expensive house and senate now maintained and substitute a single law-making body of small number who phidl devote their entire time to deciding upon necessary laws. The idta is spread ing to other states, and it is to be hoped that South Pakota will be the pioneer state In the adoption of this economical and wise method. Senator Norris of Nebraska has announced that he intends to devote himself after his retirement from tlie senate to work for a uni cameral legislature in his state. He means by this that he favors this radical change In state government and for the sake of bet ter times and wise and uniform laws, he will work for reorganization of the legislature in Nebraska to a. single body of a comparatively small num ber of men who would he paid sal aries. as Judges are paid, so that their time would be at the call of the state. He .would have this legislatur? non partisan and so exalted before the people that responsibility for its acts would invariably be placed directly upon the right parties. This change would also take at least 150 candi dates out of the field at election time and end a political strife at each elec tion that is unnecessary and unprofit able. The new Idea will come up for discussion at the coming session. GETTING WARM. When the enow a snowstorm brings. Out upon the hilt we go With our sleds and slide and elide 'rui we have to go Inside. We re ao cold, ao cold you know. Every toe and finger slings. Sometimes, though, so cold I’ve been— Well, a fellow even cries. Then mv mother rubs me and Says. "What I can’t understand, I should think you’d reallae When you're cold, and come right In.’’ But It’s not the snow nor storm That ts moat to blame for It; When it hurts you Isn’t then. It’s when you’re Inside again. (Jetting oold don't hurt a bit. All that hurts is getting warm. (Copyright, 1922.) A Book oj Today j "P#nl*»n« of the PeMrt." hr Kdniund C. J&effor Houghton Mifflin company, Boston and New York. Habits and home life of the wild creatures that infest the great Amer ican desert are related by Edmund C. Jaeger, biologist of Riverside, Cal., who is at once a sound scientific observer und natural literary man. in his bonk, "Denizens of ttie Desert" (Houghton and Mifflin), which Is generously illus trated with photographs taken front life. One of the most interesting chapters in the hook is the battle of the rep tiles in which the author takes an ac tive part, breaking the seeming death grip of snake and lizard with his cane, but only temporarily for the lizard quickly leaps back into the fray again, only to be dragged to the mouth of the snake hole and once again torn loose from his enemy by the writer. Other chapters in the book give in timate glimpses, some related in nar rative style, others in didactic style, of the California road hunters, the neotamas or pack rats of the desert, Billy Bobtail the hermit wood rat. the spiny pocket mice, the cactus wren, Catherpes the canon wren, Betsy Bounce the rock wren, the ground squirrel und near relatives, Eleodes the beetle that stands on his head, the mason bees, the desert bighorn and near relatives, Don Coyote, the phaln opepla, the poisonous ratrodectus. the It- conte Thrasher, the gnatcatchers, and verdlns, the desert lynx, the des ert white-crowned sparrow, the black tailed hare, the gridiron tailed lizard, the chuckwalla, the sidewinder, the desert tortoise, the vlnegarvon, the desert horned lizard, and the spotted skunk. The author for 10 years was a con tinual saunderer over mountain and desert trails, and in his preface he a* tributes the publication of this book to a desire to share his pleasures in searching in wild places of nature. The information he sets forth in these sketches of the denizens of the desert was largely gained by obser vation without trap or gun, lie says. The book would tie a valuable add! tion to any library. After faltering through the fall crop of essays and fiction, which. It seems, would annihilate Americanism an it is expounded by noonday and booster clubs, one might well pause for a quiet moment and examine F. J. Htimson's translation of "Ariel," by Jose En rique Rodo (Houghton Mifflin). "Ariel” has the power of lifting one from a pushing, material civilization to a plane where the art of life, per sonal dignity, courtesy, beauty and purity of thought hold its proper im portance. In a style which through the scholarly ami sympathetic trans lation from the Spanish has retained much of its grace and beauty, Rodo presents a lofty philosophy which should be a specific balm to the splri Ually ailing. llis readers will not be as numeroue on this continent as in South Amer ica, but one who reads him compre hendingly will be inclined to wonder at tho comparative smallness of his audience here rather than at his great popularity in southern America. Tho facts of evolution agree with scriptural truth, according to i)r. W. W. Keen's new work, “I Relieve in God and in Evolution" (Kipplncott). The Threefold Common wealth Pub lishing company has just Issued the American edition of I>r. Rudolph Steiner's work on the social question. "The Threefold Commonwealth.” This is a work which has attracted much attention In Europe for its ideas on national and international organiza tion which must, he followed in order to stem the growing chaos in the world. A hitherto unpublished play of the late Leonid Andreyev. "The Waltz of the Dogs." has recently ta-en trans lated from the original manuscript by Herman Bernstein and published by Macmillan. Realism is effectively blended with symbolism, as in other of Andreyev’s plays. "The Waltz of the Dogs” shows how a strong, well halaneed man is affected by a disil lusionment resulting from disap pointed love. "Practical Radio," by H. S. Wil liams (Funk & Wagnulls) is a guide to the understanding of the principles that underlie radio phenomena, as well as to the making of radio outfits. "Samphire” is a collection of 20 poems by the noted critic, John Cow per Powys. There are poems of the earth and of ultimate uptake, of the pollen-dust of buttercups and the gold dust of Orion. "Samphire” is published by Thomas Seltzer. Another of the series of autobi ographies which are coming on the book market in such great numbers is “The Adventure of Living,” by John St. L’oe Straehey (Putnam). Mr. Strachey began his literary career in 1886 with the London Spectator, with which he has now been associated al most 40 years. He relates portions of his memoirs which are of merit. Sev eral series of incidents are of especial interest to Americans, among them, his association with Roosevelt. This Laxative Works Fine on Old People TUuudi bin kept tbianlni bnltb; with Dr. CiMwcU'i Sjr»p Pipiii Advancing ape with it* subdued ambitions and strivings could lie made very happy if only good health accom panied it, and the basis of good health, as every one leams upon reaching the age of 60, is the regu lar daily move ment of the bow els. If it can be effected through the food you eat, the water you drink and the ex ercise you take. so much the lietler. But if nature will not. operate it must lie assisted or sickness will follow. Neglected constipation causes the blood pressure to go up 28 per cent, and that is the forerunner of hardening of the arteries. 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