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JUSTICE.
"I don’t mind for myself, but I have a wife and
family to consider,” an Illinois farmer said when
asked to testify in the Herrin mine riot trial. Such
is the atmosphere of terrorism that clings about the
case that this witness feared to contribute his part
to the cause of justice.
He had seen one of the defendants in the crowd
of maddened miners that was leading over a score
of captured strikebreakers out into the country
where later their bodies were found. He had, more
over, heard this defendant talking, but when the
prosecution asked what it was that he*4ieard, he ap
pealed to the judge for permisson to remain silent.
It was then that the judge's command drew from
him a vital piece of testimony. What the accused
had said was, "We ought to take these men out and
kill them.”
Hefore going on the stand this fanner had wept
and begged to he spared from appearing. No doubt
he still is in a condition of terror over the possibil
ity of reprisals. After the slaughter of Herrin it is
easy to understand this.
Such a desperate condition ought not to exist in
any part of America. Public sentiment should rally
to the support of the courts and free legal proceed
ings from the menace of gang rule. The least
thought or intimation of revenge on a witness in any
trial should be eliminated from the search for truth
and justice. The worst that can be said of the crime
of Herrin is capped by the fact that witnesses fear
for their lives.
This is not a solitary instance, for the same con
dition crops up from time to time in other cases,
though not in such a noticeable way. It does not
matter whether the malign influence for silence
when a crime is committed is exerted by the black
hand or by the blaek hand impulse masquerading
in the guise of union labor. Violence and terror
ism must he put down wherever it is found. Or
ganized labor owes no support to those who com
mitted the massacre in the mine field, and it should
make clear its repugnance to all such methods.
The public generally should stand firmly behind the
bulwarks of law and order that protect civilization.
If America is in reality what patriotism hails it for,
that farmer in southern Illinois should rest easy
in the consciousness of having performed a public
duty for which he can neither he criticised nor
harmed.
HELP FOR THE FARMERS
The farmers under the government controlled ir
rigation projects in western Nebraska, and doubtless
under similar projects elsewhere, must have speedy
relief in the way of extension of water payments
and a decrease in the price of the water. It was
only natural-that in the first enthusiasm of getting
water on their land the farmers should be too op
timistic about their ability to pay. The first agree
ment was to pay the cost of construction in ten
years, but it did not take long to ascertain that this
was impossible, and then began the long fight to
secure extensions. Twenty years was finally se
cured, and now it is very evident that this time
will not be sufficient. Unless thg time is further
extended many of these farmers will be dispos
sessed. •
It seems difficult to make the general public un
derstand that irrigation projects are not paid for
out of the public treasury. Homesteaders seeking
to wrest a home from the wilderness are not treated
with the same consideration shown those who own
farms in the Mississippi valley. The western home
steader or farmer who wants water on his land has
to pay for it. The Mississippi valley farmer who
wants the flood waters kept from his land finds a
beneficent government ready to perform the work
and foot the bills. In the case of the farmer who
wants irrigation the government performs the
work, advances the money, and takes a mortgage
upon the land irrigated. This being the case, there
is no reason why the irrigation farmer should not
be given ample time in which to pay, for pay he
must.
Farmers under the irrigation canals in western
Nebraska are asking for relief in the way of ex
tension of payments, and for a reduction in costs.
They arc clearly entitled to this relief, and the
reclamation department should not be slow in grant
ing it. If congressional authority is needed, then
congvess would do well to act speedily.
VULCAN DOING A COMEBACK.
A cartoon that touched many a memory was the
one showing a couple of boys at the door of an old
fashioned blacksmith shop, with a sled they wanted
mended. The surface thought of the cartoon is that
the smith today is putting on tires and filling gas
tanks for tourists. But the help wanted columns
of the Sunday papers tell another story. In them we
noted several advertisements that would have been
familiar enough a score or more qf years ago. They
expressed the pressing W'ant of competent black
smiths, men who can sharpen plows, shoe horses, do
woodwork, who are good workmen, and to such
steady employment is promised.
Machinery has done wonders on the farm, and
the self-propelled vehicle has displaced the horse
to a considerable extent. But nobody can take the
place of a blacksmith when it comes to sharpening
a plow, or to fixing a wagon, or for any of the
myriad of uses to which iron and wood are put
around the farm. When the services of a black
smith are needed, only a good workman is wanted.
And the blacksmith who really is a good workman
is also an artist.
Another thing to be noted in this connection is
that the present demand for the blacksmith is a
hopeful sign. It means that preparedness is the
order of the day. and, although spring plowing is
yet some time ahead, those who plan on doing any
are getting ready. Vulcan is doing a come-back in
Nebraska.
Senator Capper is planning to break up the habit
of pistol-toting in Washington. If he succeeds,
ether communities will probably compete for his
servicea.
WHAT ONE YOUNG COW DID.
I.a Verna Lincoln’s death has been announced
twice in the news columns of The Omaha Bee, a
most unusual distinction for a cow. But La Verna
Lincoln was an unusual cow. She was the cham
pion butter producer of her day, just as her mother
before her was champion.
The latest death notice describes La Verna
Lincoln as large and awkward, even for a cow. She
did not give promise of her talents when she was
yet a young lady cow, and her, lack of graces left
her with no claim to notice. In the etiquet of the
Holstein cow, however, “handsome is as handsome
does” rules, and this now distinguished representa
tive of the race set about several years ago to
turn out records' in the way of producing milk and
butterfat. *
When she was 2 years and 10 months old her
yearly record was 14,374.7 pounds of milk, and
483.4 pounds of butterfat, equivalent to 604.25
pounds of butter. In her eight years and ten
months of life, La Verna Lincoln produced 104,570.7
pounds of milk, and butterfat equal to 5,484.49
pounds of butter. That is, assuming her weight to
be 1,200 pounds, she brought forth nine times her
own weight in milk and more than half her weight
in butter each year of her life.
Had she been butchered as a 2-year-old, she '
would probably have dressed 800 pounds of mer
chantable food; that year she actually furnished i
14,374.7 pounds of milk and 604.25 pounds of butter. 1
In addition 4to her other activities, La Verna
Lincoln contributed calves to the perpetuation of I
the milk-making machinery of the world. Five of I
her daughters are carrying on, making records of
their own in the same line of endeavor, and the
youngest, now a baby calf, will some day be in the
same good work. The other of her six offspring is
the father of numerous progeny at the North Platte
experiment station.
La Verna Lincoln was a champion, but also she
was an example, one great argument in favor of ;
dairy farming and thoroughbred stock.
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A ROMANCE OF OLD AGE. !
Young love thinks of life as impossible for pne
without the other. As the years wear on this feel
ing of attachment and mutual dependence may grow
weaker or stronger. The story of the death of an
aged couple in Omaha within two days of each
other exemplifies how strong the bond may be, and
how reality sometimes coincides with sentiment.
“We lived our share and I don’t think I care to
go on without him," said the faithful wife, broken
down with long watching at the bedside of her hus
bund. And now there will be a double funeral.
One of the heroic figures of the Titanic disaster
was another such wife, Mrs. Straus. When the i
women were being helped to the lifeboats, she took |
her stand on the sloping deck w;th her husband,
choosing death with him rather than life alone.
The world asks no such sacrifice. The oriental
custom of suttee, by which the widow is cremated
on her husband’s funeral pyre is not for a moment
endorsed by western sentiment or convention. Yet
when the bonds of companionship are so strong
that death itself can not break them, the ordinary
world, filled with examples of couples who seek
through divorce the separation otherwise impossi
ble, pauses to marvel.
In their trials and tribulations this aged Omaha
pair may have thought all romance had been
squeezed out of life, and yet with their death, ro
mance lives again. ,
Nebraska can hardly spend ,$6,000 better than in
helping to carry on the lakes-to-ocean canal promo
tion work. It is literally bread cast on the waters,
and the return on a single crop of wheat will be
many times the amount.
Fiance is showing the ability to help itself, all
right, but not the right sort. And as long as it helps
itself thus, it cannot count on the aid of other na
tions.
Mailing by machinery will also help Uncle Hu
bert Work to extend the service of the postofficc
without increasing the cost.
No one will doubt but that Samuel Untermeyer
knows a trick when he sees it, whether he practices
it or not.
Is Lieutenant Governor Barrows doing it for
the fun of the thing or to establish a precedent?
Santa Claus need not worry over the effort to
abolish him in Moscow.
The told snap gave the firemen plenty of ex
ercise.
Last week for Christmas shopping; get busy.
Radio and International Politics
’ '""tValdemar Kaempffert, In Asia."""”"
The development of radio In the Orient is so inextrica
bly bound tip with international politics, treaty rights,
the League of Nations. Japanese. French and British
ambitions, spheres of interest, leuses and concessions
that it will take more than one conference of the powers
to clear up the muddle. In China, for example, the
Japanese and the principal western governments have
done very much as they pleased, with little regard for
China's sovereign rights. Indeed, the situation created
has become so irksome that at the Washington con
ference the Chinese endeavored to assert their para
mount rights to their own ether. China is threatened
with a swarm of small and large competing radio com
panies. At the instance of IQlihu Root and Senator
Underwood, a resolution was finally adopted which ex
pressed the view that the radio stations erected by
legations, concessionaires, and lessees were merely
“suffered” by the Chinese government and that China had
not surrendered her right to demand their removal and
transference to herself. In other words, China was po
litely permitted to continue in her "suffering.-’
The United States navy is permitted by law to use
its radio stations until June, 1925, for press and com
mercial messages and is therefore in direct competition
with tile private radio companies. The press rate of
the private companies between California and Hawaii is
5 cents a word—the cheapest In the world for the dis
tance; the navy rate over the same rout,e Is 3 cenU. The
navy sends radio messages across the Pacific by way
of Honolulu. Guam and Cavite to the Samoan. Society
and Fiji islands, French Indo-China and the Dutch East
Indies and to Japan (by cable).
At present there is no direct radio communication
between Asia and the United States. The Chinese gov*
ernment, realizing Its own Inability to erect a station
sufficiently powerful, has contracted with the Radio
Corporation of America and the Federal Telegraph com
pany of California to provide adequate facilties for radio
communication. A transoceanic station is to be erected
at Shanghai and subsidiary or "feeder” stations at Har
bin. Pekin and Cajiton, and ail are to be free of Japanese
and British censorship. The total cost of these stations
Is to be $13,000,009. of which the Chinese government
will pay half. Ultimately the Chinese government will
acquire these stations. The stations are to be completed
in two or three years. Regular radio service from the
United States is now maintained with the Hawaiian ,s
lands and Japan. The Hawaiian station is owned by the
Radio Corporation of America and serves to relay mes
sages to Japan; the Japanese transpacific station, on
the other hand. Is owned by the Japanese government.
“From State and Nation”
—Editorials from other newspapers—
The World Policeman.
From th« Si Paul Pioneer Free*.
At the risk of unintentionally of
fending a class of persons whom we
hold In the greatest esteem, we are
bound to take exception to Hr. Ed
ward C. Moore's expressions on the
subject of American foreign policy in
a recent address before the Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
Dr. Moore, in common with a great
many others, believes that it is the
duty of the United States to become
the international policeman. Partic
ularly, he laments that the country
did not do anything possible to pre
vent the resurgence of Moslem power
In the Near East, which, sweeping
everything before it, has nullified
much of the splendid work in
broad territories by the missionaries,
lost the region to Christianity and
probably rendered a continuance of
past achievements impossible. Amer
ica must undertake a cruside into
the world for the righting of wrongs
wherever they exist, preferably by
pacific means but otherwise.if neces
sary.
Unfortunately, nations who are par
ty to a dispute regularly take a view
of its moral aspects which coincides
almost exactly with their own ma
terial interests. The United States is
powerless to change this state of af
fairs, nor is it by any moans clear
that we are so superior to other na
tions that we have a right to make
so much as the attempt. In any
event, it so happens that a disinter
ested nation cannot throw its influ
ence or force on either side of a dls
pute without incidentally champion
ing the imperial interests of one
party, and combating those of the
other. The disinterested nation be
comes a catspaw for one nation, and
makes of the other a dangerous en
emy. It spends Its own strength, and
makes its own taxpayers pay for the
profit of another nation. Such a
foreign policy goes at least In the di
rection of disaster, and, at the last,
hardly more can he said for it than
the moral point of view than for one
of Christian forbearance from fight
ing unless attacked.
We are sorry to see the Turk back
in Thrace because he is an incom
petent administrator, intolerant to
the point of fanaticism of religious
and racial minorities, and essentially
non-European in culture or spirit.
But there was and Is neither moral
nor material reason for our Interven
tion in the Near East on the scale
contemplated by Dr. Moore and the
others. As for world politics in gen
eral, it is true that we cannot es
pouse a narrow isolationist policy.
Our interests do not permit it. but
neither do they require that we throw
ourselves on one side or the other of
the balance of power.
Is This a Dreadful Thing?
From Farm bite.
We were at a sale the other day,
where a somewhat decrepit old
farmer, on a somewhat decrepit old
farm, was disposing of his stuff and
getting ready to move to town. He
confessed that he couldn’t carry on
any longer. Mb had two bright and
enterprising boys, and one of them
had been hauling logs and the other
had been teaming with the construc
tion gang on the nearby state high
way.
“Isn't this a deadful thing—to see
these folks leaving tthe farm?” said
a conventional uplifter, who went with
us to attend the sale.
"Why, no,” we answered. "What
is there dreadful about it? The old
gentleman has earned his rest and
the boys are doing well enough. They
will make their way. It's hard to
wring a living from these old hills,
and why make a tragedy about leav
ing them?"
Hut tile uplifter couldn’t look at It
that way. He had been reading about
the dredful drift to the cities, and he
kept on with the sob stuff until we
got back to town. You couldn't have
chained him down to that farm, but
ho was full of anguish because some
body else wanted to leave it.
Maybe the old farmer and the boys
were making a mistake, at that. We
don’t know. What we do know Is
that they had a perfect right to reg
ulate their own lives to suit them
selves. And this is the thing tlie up
lifter does not know.
Hasn’t America Done Enough.
From tlie Kun.at, City kt.ir.
M. Clemenceau's suggestion that the
Ignited States hasn’t done enough for
France recalls somehow the question
that came up to Iteatrice Fairfax in
her advice to the lovelorn.
"Miss Fairfax.’’ a youth wrote, "I
took my girl to the theater last night.
I sent her flowers, and took her in a
taxi, and got good seats and took her
home, but r did not kiss her good
night. That has bothered me some.
Did I do right in not kissing her good
night?"
“Young man." Miss Fairfax replied,
"you did perfectly right. You had done
enough.”
Deserting the Farms.
From the St. Louis Globe.Democrat.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace,
In his annual report to President
Harding, says that “the American
farmers, comprising about < ne-thlrd
of the country's population, notwith
standing their hard work and large
production this year, are still laboring
under a serious disadvantage as com
pared with other groups of workers
because of the dlstortionate relation
ship of prices,” and he tells us that
the are deserting the farms in in
creasing numbers to seek more profit
able occupation.
The best estimates, he states, “indi
cate that during duly, August and
September twice as many persons
left the farms for the cities as nor
mally," and he declares that the in
adequate return which the farmer is
receiving "inevitably must result in
readjustments in the number of peo
ple on the farms and in the cities,
which will not be for the continuing
good of the nation." The farmers can
never be able to relate production to de
mand with the ease of the manufactur
er. the secretary observes, and while
manufacturers have tided themselves
over a period of falling prices by re
duced production, and organized labor
has insisted upon high wages, the
farmers have had no better alterna
tive than to produce as much as pos
sible and to accept the prevailing
prices for their products. This has
resulted, he says, in the failure of
thousands of farmers to "weather the
storm,” and in an abnormally large
movement from the farm to the city.
These statements are all based upon
facts. The farmers have been and are
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the greatest sufferers from business
depression and instability. The aver
age farmer, even in normal times,
struggles with an eye to many un
certainties that take form in drouth,
flood, ravages of insects and other
forms to rob him of his profit hut in
addition to this he has been faced by
a slump in prices which has made
profitable farming almost impossible.
And yet, through the readjustment
which Secretary Wallace views with
deep concern is now going on, another
natural readjustment, a natural shift
ing of price levels, is also in progress,
and it may be viewed as a hopeful
sign. Farm products, though still too
low, are selling at higher prices than
a year ago and the farmers are in a
better condition financially, he says,
than they were at that time. As aiv
other such sign he points to "the In
creasing willingness of people engaged
in industry, commerce and finance to
help bring about a more favorable
adjustment for the farmer." This is
a recognition of the fact that the pros
perity of tlie whole country depe fls
upon prosperity in the basic industry
of agriculture, and, when considered
in connection with the promising rise
in prices, it is a reason foi believing
that the farmers in spite of their pres
ent conditions, may look forward
hopefully to the developments of the
next few yearg._
Cut Out Duplication.
From tho Aurora Register.
The budget for normal schools at
Peru, Wayne, Kearney and Chadron
has been prepared and an Increase
slightly under a million dollars will
be asked for the biennium. Instead
there should be arrangements to close
up at least two of them and devote
the buildings to some other state pur
pose, to save building somewhere,
some place at a future time.
Girlish Independence
From tba Lob Angeles Times.
One of the leaders in the national
women's purty expresses the opinion
that girls must be as independent in
finance as they are in other matters.
They must pay their way. When a
young man and a girl are together
for an evening the male should not
be expected to pay for the whole shot.
If there is a show, a supper, a taxi
cab and a dance it is only fair that
the bill should be divided. This fem
inist leader insists that the female of
the species should be under no obli
gation to tho male. She should be
able at any time to look him calmly
in the eyes and tell him where to get
off. Possibly she does it. nnyhow, but
she should be in a position to make
it stick. Anyhow, no financial obli
gation ought to be recognized. By
this time the girl should have money
enough to take care of herself and
her end of the card. The distinguish
ed leader does not say where she gets
it, but she is supposed to have it.
Perhaps she advertises for it or maybe
she rounds up her per capita and
puts it into oil stock. But. at any
rate, she must be independent of the
male and when she enters a high
priced fodder palace on the arm of a
gent it must be with the idea of pay
ing for at least half of the refresh
ment. If this leader is going to run
the national woman's party on that
basis she will have some hearty sup
port from the hall room boys, but will
soon run out of female votes.
The Rural Parliament.
From the Shelton Clipper.
A resident of a large city remarked
the other day that when lie wanted to
secure a clear insight Into the public
questions that bothered him. lie did
not find the most light in the social
circles of the city, as many people
would believe. On the contrary, he
gained more when he could go back
to the old country home and discuss
conditions with his former friends.
The country folks, ho said, are read
ing and thinking more than they ever
did before. They cherish high ideals,
tempered with practical experience.
They are constantly coming in contact
with business men and travelers and
know more about what is going on in
the w’orld than the majority of the
city people. The "country grocery
parliament” used to be ridiculed, but
much plain truth has been swapped
in this assemblage of worthies. The
shams of modern society do not affect
country people so much as they do
the highbrows of the city, and they
see life about as it really is.
“2 he People’s
Voice*
Editorials from roodors of The Morning
Boo. Roadors of Tha Morning Boo
•re invited to uso this column freely
for expression on matters of public
interest.
Irrigation ami Flood Control.
Kearney, Neb.—To the Editor of
The Omaha. Heel I have read with
considerable interest your editorial,
“The West's Demands." it is to be
hoped that the Smith-McNary or some
other hill covering our needs will be
passed at this short session of con
gress.
In my humble opiflion, it is high
time that the “west” in congress get
together, regardless of party affilia
tion, and work as a unit for the inter
est of the west.
Itas it ever occurred to you or your
readers that tills great government of
ours has spent hundreds of millions
on tho improvements of our rivers
and harbors, and not even directly or
indirectly has one cent of these vast
sums been returned to the national
treasury?
Does it not seem a little strange
that when the people of the west ask,
not for a gift, but rather a loan, that
it should be denied them? At the re
cent meeting, December 6, 7 and 8,
of the Nebraska Irrigation conven
tion, hold at Bridgeport, it was shown
that many of the beneficiaries of
government aid were suffering be
cause of too high an interest charge
and too higli a return payment. Why
not reduce the interest charge and ex
tend the time of repayment? The
people who have settled on these oncp
barren lands have had to make the
fight usually incident to pioneer set
tlement, but with government help
they have made this land to hud and
blossom like the rose. On the pros
perity of these farmers depends the
prosperity' of the towns, villages and
cities of our state. Instead of spend
ing money to hold the flood waters
within the river channels why not
spend the money in building more
reservoirs, thus holding back the flood
waters for use during the dry seasons
of the year? This would relieve the
pressure on the levees of the lower
rivers and assure an abundant crop in
the irrigated territory.
The passage of the Smlth-McNary
hill will mean much to the west. Be
sides the projects now under way
there lias been within the last year
a most careful Hnd comprehensive
survey made of the land along the
Platte river in Buffalo, Dawson and
Lincoln counties. The project is of
such gigantic proportions, covering
nearly 50U.000 acres, that it will be
impossible for private interests to
finance the development.
I ne plan is to construct large reser
voirs Into which the flood waters of the
Platte can be stored for future use.
The water so stored will not only fur
nish ample water for Irrigation, hut
will also furnish ample power for the
electrification of the whole valley.
This is not a dream, bot the plans
have been carefully worked out by a
competent engineer, who has had
years of experience on irrigation proj
ects. So far the burden has been
borne by citizens of the valley who
have had a vision of the possibility of
our water development. Rut we have
gone as far as we can without gov
ernment help and we are now mark
ing time anxiously waiting for the
message of this most needed legisla
tion. Again let me say, “Let the west
unite and, without any regard for
Party affiliation, work for the Interest
of the west.” C. B. MANUEL.
Costly Freight on Fruit.
Hyannis, Neb.—To the Editor of
The Omaha Bee: Hast week Joe
Parks received a car of apples from
Wftiser. Idaho, on which the freight
was $508.53. One doesn’t have to
look far to see why people leave fruit
and vegetables to rot on the ground.
THE ALDEN MERCANTILE COM
PANY.
CENTER SHOTS.
Why not buy father a ton of coal
for Christmas?—San Antonio Express.
Civilization is just a 6low process
of building more emergency wrards.—
Birmingham News.
“The man in the street" has now
become “the man in the flivver.”—
Illinois State Journal (Springfield).
It was back in the days when a
meat dealer didn’t charge for a piece
of It that it got the name of “suet
I pudding.”—Detroit News.
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by Mary E. Marcy, published by
Charles H. Kerr & Co., Chicago, is1
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phenomena, it is illustrated by many
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