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LET HARDING HANDLE IT.
Americans who recall the success of the Wash
ington conference will be inclined to sustain the
president in the request that he be allowed to deal
with the present delicate situation as regards for
eign affairs. Mr. Harding has shown his sincerity
of purpose in the matter of world peace, and he
also has disclosed his sympathy with the predica
ment of the nations of Europe. Declining to es
pouse the cause of one against another, he has with
stood a siege of propaganda as well as personal
solicitation to become entangled, and by so doing
has given proof of his willingness to help all who
show an inclination to help themselves.
Moreover, he has distinguished his administra
tion so far with such ability as a diplomatist that
must mark him among American presidents. We
may ascribe this success chiefly to his desire to be
fair and square with all hands, and to do nothing
that will have a tendency tj> favor one or another
of the contending groups abroad. This seems to be
the true American policy, resting as it does on the
square deal and the open door.
Senator Borah and sonie of his associates evince
a desier to force the hand of the president in his
foreign policy. The request of the president for a
free hand ia deserving of popular support. It can
be linderstood that the Borah amendment might
create an unfortunate impression both at home and
abroad. The president, it is understood, has certain
negotiations under way, and would appreciate being
allowed to carry these to an outcome without inter
ference from the senate. It might be well, relying
on his record, to give Mr. Harding a little more time.
A BUSINESS MANAGER FOR A STATE.
Pennsylvania now has no political boss. Which
may explain why the proposal to reorganize the
state government on a business basis is now brought
to the fore. Under this measure 107 existing execu
tive departments, bureaus, boards, commissions and
divisions would be consolidated into 46 state agen
cies.
One bill creating the administration and finance
department provides for a superintendent who would
be the state’s business manager. His duties would
include installing a uniform accounting system, pre
paring the budget, exercising control over expendi
tures authorized by the legislature on the basis of
budget estimates, purchasing centrally for depart
ments and institutions, supervising printing, classi
fying state positions and standardizing salaries and
studying the state administration with a view to mak
ing recommendations for improving its efficiency.
This superintendent would investigate duplication
of work and the efficiency of the whole organiza
tion. He may also adopt a system for the shifting of
clerical forces from one department to another as
the rush of work makes advisable.
Pennsylvania’s program, which is now in the
hands of Governor-elect Pinchot and the incoming
legislature, sounds a good deal like something we
have been building up in Nebraska. It is, in fact,
simply the code system on a larger scale. The depart
ment of finance under the Nebraska code has per
formed many of the functions proposed for the busi
ness manager of Pennsylvania. Our state has taken
a forward step in the direction of applying business
principles to government, and should be careful now
not to step backward. Any alterations in the code
should be designed to increase the businesslike fea
tures of the code system and further limit the polit
ical features.
SCRAMBLING MORE EGGS.
While the Ripley plan for grouping the railroads
of the country is being considered by the Inter
state Commerce commission, and an impressive force
is demanding the repeal of the Esch-Cumrains law,
which makes the zoning of the railroads possible,
some enterprising Cleveland financiers are startling
the country by their handling of certain of the
lesser known lines. Most of these have vaguely
been listed under the general heading of “Gould
lines,’) although some, like the Nickle Plate, have
been allied with the Vanderbilt group.
On the surface the van Swearingen operations
remind one of the swoop of the late E. H. Harriman
across the transportation firmament. Only Harri
man was something more than a skyrocket or a
comet. He left behind him the permanent and dura
ble impression of his genius. Whatever the van
Swearingens will do this, or whether they will end
as did the Moores in their manipulation of the Rock
Island, must await the passage of days. The scheme
is an ambitious one, capable of great things in the
service of the middlewest.
How it will hook up with the Ripley groups is
another point to be considered. Should certain of
the roads that are being welded into a single uni
fied system by the new emperors of finance be al
lotted to a combination other than is designed by
their new relation, complications might arise. In
this is found further reason for at least the modi
fication of the present law, if not for its absolute
repeal.
Discussion of the Ripley plan locally deals with
the relations of the Union Pacific, Northwestern and
Rock Island. It might be well to keep in mind that
the Union Pacific and the Northwestern have had
a close operating relation for thirty-five years, and
that the Rock Island holds a lease on the Union
Pacific bridge and Omaha terminals that yet has
966 years to run, so any action of the Interstate
Commerce commission scarcely could bring these
lines closer together than they now are locally.
One thought is born of the activity now progress
ing in the railroad management The further
scrambling of the eggs would not take place if it
were not that somebody has faith in the future, and
believes that the lines can be made to pay if prop
erly managed.
T. J. McGuire is another example of what a really
good newspaper man can do. A few years ago he
was a reporter on The Omaha Bee, now he is the
assistant attorney general of Nebraska. “T. J.”
worked and studied at the same time, if you want
.to know the answer.
THE OTHER SIDE OF AMERICANIZATION.
We have been so thoroughly occupied with our
consideration of how America is touched by the im
migrant that we have almost entirely overlooked the
question of how America touches the immigrant. In
quiry along this line has been made by a pair of in
vestigators from Chicago, who have carried on their
investigations in Italy, among the Serbians, Slovenes,
Albanians, Croats, Greeks and the Czecho-Slovakians.
The result of their inquiries is published in one of
the January magazines, and affords a most interest
ing view of the general question.
Most of the immigrants who have returned to
their native land have done so because they find
conditions of life more satisfactory to them over
there. This is especially true of the skilled workers.
An Italian girl, for example, highly trained in em
broidering linens, which were sent to America for
sale, followed her work across the ocean, hoping to
receive higher pay. Here she obtained employment
as a stripper in a cigar factory and at running coarse
seams on a power machine. An expert machinist
went back to Italy because on this side he was put
to running a machine a baby might have tended,
while his skill was leaving his hands. A group of
Serbian fishermen came to Chicago, only to find
no work for fishermen, but employment in a steel
mill. They are again fishing a Serbian lake and
rearing their families.
These are but a few of many examples cited.
Other things that surprise one is that the Italian
sends his son home from America, to be educated
as an engineer, because there are no technical
schools in this country. The boy had a good gram
mar school education obtained here. More gratify
ing it is to learn that the returned immigrant takes
with him the language he has learned on this side,
and some habits of living that are a distinct im
provement, as well as some that are not. In many
towns it is possible to pick out the homes of re
turned "Americanos” by the roofs of the houses.
In others it is the front yard, the absence of walls,
the garden, or some other touch denoting the free
dom of life in this land. Detached homes are be
coming common. •
In general, the conclusion is inevitable that our
efforts at Americanization have not gone deep
enough. In the case of most of those who went
back to Europe, America scarcely had touched them,
save in a superficial way. One Italian, who worked
in the mines in Illinois, said “only my hands and
feet were in America.” If we are to assimilate the
foreigners who come to our shores, we must reach
their heads and hearts also, and this is not being
done.
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GIVE PRISONERS WORK.
Interest in the idea of providing work for prison
ers is widespread. Judge W. C. Harris, president of
the Kansas Bar association, is the latest one to ad
vocate the end of the present wasteful idleness be
hind the bars. Instead of allowing county jail in
mates to sit around playing checkers he would have
them set to useful and remunerative tasks. A bill
to this effect is to be introduced in the Kansas leg
islature.
In Pennsylvania the proposal takes the different
form of abolishing county jails altogether and mak
ing the care of all convicts a distinctly state func
tion. What the reformers seek is the gradual substi
tution of state farms for the prisons, where criminals
can be kept in more healthful surroundings and
where work may be found for them. The state al
ready has designed a new penitentiary where em
ployment is to be found for the criminals in farming,
quarrying and other pursuits.
There is a business side as well as a considera
tion of humanity in the plan to a'fford opportunity
for work to convicts. County jails and state prisons
are unduly costly to taxpayers. There is no reason
why the inoffensive taxpayers should be forced to
support prisoners in idleness. The opportunity to
train these men in self-supporting industry should
be seised upon as a method of reducing public ex
pense and at the same time in redeeming these men
rather than, as at present, confirming them in their
criminal tendencies.
Some progress has been made in the state peni
tentiary of Nebraska to this end, but more is needed.
The situation is entirely unrelieved in the county
jails. The profits that accrue to sheriffs from the
care of prisoners make this office one greatly sought.
There is in many instances a loss to the taxpayers
through feeding contracts, but a much greater loss
through the idleness of the inmates. Surely, the
penal problem is one that should be brought up when
the legislature meets.
It is probably just as well that Europa does not
hav^ to take all the doses suggested, and yet it will
have to take some medicine very shortly, for the
Coue method isn’t working very well.
It might be well to make a little preparation for
that Atlantic atom, which appears to be working
westward.
Chicago is going to have the biggest graft scandal
on record. They never do things on a small scale in
Chicago.
Some friend ought to reason with the Greek
army before it gets too far into Thrace.
However, no sun strokes were recorded.
Anticipations of Zionism
-Itabhi Joel Blau, in The North American Review.—
The Jew of today, the Jew steeped in the noble
Pharisee spirit and tradition as here conceived (I love
to call him the modern Pharisee), is convinced that in
Palestine this symmetry of the racial structure can
be restored, enhanced and raised to its highest pitch
of perfection. The Jew needs to be humanized; to
learn and unlearn a great many things. He must se
cure a new education in freedom, a new skill in sel
management. He must rid himself of the “reproach
of Egypt”—of the many faults acquired in the land of
the stranger. He must retain only what was best in
his past life and training, and slough off what may
mar his character and conduct. For example, the old
dialectic studies of the Jewish school made undoubt
edly for nimbleness of Intellect; but such nimbleness
is its own nemesis. The kind of mentality that an
swers one question with another is, for all its keenness
and subtlety, unfit to adjust itself to the less idiosyncratic
mind of mankind at large. The Jew must learn how
to face difficulties squarely, man-fashion; how to meet
them without subterfuge, shortcut or loophole. He
must also learn that mind is but one-half of man's
being, while spirit is the other half—and the better
half at that. Rationalism has been his bane, nation
alism will prove his boon; for only through a whole
some national existence in Palestine can the Jew
again be attuned to the call of the Infinite. He who
erstwhile drew from the Jordan the waters that re
freshed the heart of the world, and heard the Father
whisper in the mysterious silences that broded over
the mountains of Judea, must return to the same old
fountain head of inspiration, and interpret for man
kind the speech of the mute skies. Truth ever grew
out of the Palestinian soil; it will sprout afresh from
under the plowshares of the Zionist pioneers. Zion
ism. in a word, Is naught else than a stupendous
scheme for the re-education of an entire race)
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“From State and Nation”
—Editorials from Other Newspapers—
The City of the Future.
From th* Sioux City Journal.
Increasing population provides man
kind with an Interesting and serious
problem. In some countries, notably
Japan, its consideration is most
grave. The situation there is very
much like turning water into steam
with no outlet for the pressure from
within. The Japanese cannot expand
on thigK own territory because it has
Umits^mLoUc&lIy reuched, yet the in
crease in population continues. Some
other countries present similar situa
tions in larger or lesser degree, and
it is observed that all experience the
same difficulty in attempting to work
out plans of adjustment.
America, too, is thinking about in
creasing population, although she
■till has vast spaces unoccupied and
an overproduction that could support
more millions than now depend upon
her for food, fuel and shelter. It is
estimated that America easily could
support twice or three times as many
inhabitants ns now live here. China,
with resources Inferior to those of
America, is peopled by more than
400,000,000, and the United States
has approximately 110,000,000, The
average American would be unwilling
to go very far with the comparisons,
for he would not be content to live
as the Chinese do. but when it comes
to a matter of supporting life a coun
try and a peoplo will be compelled to
muke the best of possibilities and dis
pense with sellish desires. The task
would be, of course, to sustain the
multitudes that the generations
brought.
The city of the future—what will it
bo like in this country in 50 years, in
100, or 1,000? The population is in
creasing very rapidly in America.
There are more births than deaths.
The average span of life is now
longer, and infant mortality is lower.
Immigration, while restricted for the
present, still permits many thousands
to come every year from other
crowded regions. America by 1950
may have 175,000,000 to 200,000,00*
inhabitants. That will necessitate ex*
pansion in various directions. The
rurul districts will be more largely
populated. The village will become a
town; tbe town, a small city; the
■mall city, a bigger one, and the
metropolis. already holding millions,
will contrive some way to hold more.
A mammoth city of the mlddlewest
la visioned by persons who are plan
ning for city and county improve
ments along the lower shores of Lake
Michigan. Think of a city 125 miles
long and containing 50,000,000 people!
That is what Chicago will be. say
these students of present and future
conditions. It would reach northward
to envelop nnd ahgorb Milwaukee and
its suburbs. Racine, Kenosha, Lake
Forest, Highland Park and Winnetka
would belong to the greater city.
Southward the new Chicago wouid
embrace parts of Indiana, extending
to Hammond, and, perhaps, to Michi
gan City.
Unwieldiy? Such a city might be,
indeed, unless a new form of govern
ment administration were devised to
meet the demands. Obviously, it
would be imperative to have such an
enormous city cut into districts with
individual operation of utilities,
schools, fire and police departments.
Business centers would dot the me
tropolis in every direction. There
might be under mayors of districts.
The big city itself might attempt a
method of federal administration of
government with the various districts
on the same basis of relationship as
the states now bear to the nation.
The city of the future presents many
interesting possibilities, social, eco
nomic, political. Increasing population
and the need of expansion will de
mand much of civilization.
A Dangerous Move Among 014 Men.
From til© Minnesota Star.
A new species of flapperism threat
ens civilization. It conies from a
most unexpected source. If present
Plans in New York city do not mis
carry. very old men—men from 90
years old up—are staging an organ
ized comeback into life and youth.
There seems to be no end of dan
gerous Ideas nowadays. These none
ganarians seem to have become un
duly emboldened by the latest glandu
lar and other discoveries of science
and are actually organizing for the
prolongation of their lives at least
another hundred years.
The term, "flapper,” is used ad
visedly and after due consideration of
the limited effects of rejuvenation on
old age that have from time to time
been observed. The term "gay old
bird” has been applied many times
to linrejuvenated, but unregenerated
old men. The episodes of "gay old
birds" are well known. Old age,
where conditions are not too unfavor
able, seems to expand the heart and
raise the spirit astoundingly. Often
mere youth has no chance in compe
tition with these "gay old bids,” espe
dally when old age has plenty of gold
on Its side of the balance.
Now imagine what would happen
If the usual handicaps of old age and
approaching death were removed! It
would And the very old men united
solidly In an International union. In
Daily Prayer
The Lord la good to ell: end Hie
tender mercies are over all His works.—
Ps. 145:9.
O God, our Father, wo are about to
enter upon a new day. To meet well
all duties and responsibilities that
come to us; to resist firmly every
distraction and temptation that seeks
to draw us from our path; to be utter
ly prepared for any danger or any
crisis that may this day befall us;
to be found, when the evening Is
come, pure and holy—this Is our de
sire.
And we would be friendly with all
rnen; strength to the weak, hope to
the despondent, Joy to the sorrow
ing. power to the tempted.
We wait, therefore, our Father, for
the coming of Thy Spirit upon us ere
we venture into all that this day
holds for us. In the quiet of this
early morning hour, bowed before
Thee, our souls wait. Touch us with
that hand which has been laid In
blessing upon others before us; speak
to us with that stUl, email voice of
power: fill us with Thine own right
eousness.
Give us of ThyselX, that we may
this day eo live for ourselves and
before men that through us Thy
Kingdom may In part come, and Thy
will more fully be done among men.
For Jesus' sake. Amen.
RETV. SEELEY K. TOMPKINS,
Cincinnati, O.
NET AVERAGE
CIRCULATION
for NOVEMBER. 1922, of
THE OMAHA BEE
Daily.73,843
Sunday .78,105
B. BREWER, Gen. Mgr.
ELMER S. ROOD, Cir. Mgr.
Sworn to and aubacribed before me
this 5th day of December, 1022.
W. H. QUIVEY,
(Seal) ' Notary Public
possession pretty much of the purse
strings, the golf links, ’the polo
grounds, cabaret* and roadhouses,
and given over to a hilarious enjoy
ment of life of which we can form
only the faintest conception. Their
hectic gayety would constitute a
prominent feature of our street life.
Saddened and embittered youth would
look on with envy while sprightly and
rejuvenated old men with the en
larged craft and wisdom of experience
would snatch from them the prizes of
life.
What chunee would the rest of the
world have against solid organization
of rejuvenated old men? Mere youth
oould not compete successfully with
a sort of restored youth combined
with experience and wisdom. Youth
would have to sit patiently at the
second table for 90 years! The real
triumphs of life would not begin for
the younger man until he had at
tained the age of 90 or 100 years. Will
some one page Methuselah?
Taxes.
From the McCook Tribune.
One of the menaces to American
business progress and prosperity
seems to be the rush of big money to
buy nontaxable securities and re
fusal or failure to finance enterprises
that might spell prosperity. There
seems to be a steady withering of
productive business enterprises. No
doubt the issue of nontdxable securi
ties has grown beyond the danger
point already. But this does not dis
close the cause or reveal the reason
why big money prefers to Invest in
the perfectly safe small Interest rale
bearing nontaxable securities—and
doubtless reasons there are. and some
of them are no evident that the grade
school hoy must know them. High
taxes, hostile public sentiment and
difficult labor conditions are a few
of the outstanding causes. The peo
ple may well begin to note and draw
a sane distinction between legitimate
business enterprises and predatory
wealth in its activities. It seems to
be an instinct with money to hide
away upon public clamor and attack
and too much of this warfare may
yet do more serious damage to
America’s business.
A New Method of Voting.
From the Oklahoma Leader.
Dr. Benjamin F. Wooding has or
iginated a new scheme of voting at
publio elections which he warmly de
sires to substitute for the present
Vlan.
In brief his plan is to have all vot
ing done by mall, and to have the bal
lots mailed by the voters to the school
officials of each district, who aro to
be the judges of election. The votes
are to be sent through the mall In
franked envelopes. The judges of
election are to have the signatures
of all voters, as a bank does of Its
depositors, so that no one can vote
more than once, or vote in more than
one district, or vote in the place of
somebody else. The signature is to
be separate from the sealed ballot,
preserving the secrecy of the ballot
as now.
It is a unique and skillfully drawn
plan. Probably it will bo widely advo
cated, and it is well to become fa
miliar with It.
The author claims for it extreme
inexpensiveness as compared with the
present method of voting. He says
that—In addition to the election of
officials—referendums could be taken
if desired, without prohibitive cost.
Common Sense
By J. J. MI NDY.
When Home Folks Fall.
“One of the best things you ever
did for yourself," Bald one friend to
another, “was to go and stay among
strangers immediately after you were
married.”
The one who made the remark had
been always among relatives and
homefolk.
The one who made the remark was
disgusted because in every effort to
get ahead and aicomplish something
unusual, some one of the homefolk
or an intimate' friend would laugh
and say: "What do you know about
that? Billy is making a big bluff
that he knows So-and-So and this and
that and—why he has never been
away from home, and I could do it
as well as he, if I had (he nerve.”
And so “the wrench fell in the
works” and another amUtlon was
killed.
It very often happens that those
nearest and dearest do not appreciate
the ability nor the possibility of the
characters associated with them in
the human life.
Neither do they appreciate how
tpany longings have been stifled and
embryonic efforts dashed by the shal
low laugh of a supposed friend,
brother or sister, when a bit of faith
and encouragement might have made
a really great character in the long
run.
Don’t make it necessary for your
boy or girl, for your brother or bIs
ter to go away from home to find
appreciation and encouragement.
(Copyright, l»as.)
When m Omaha Stop at
Hotel Rome
Dt KING’S PILLS^
—far constipation^
the bowels.
<Tiind~ w
Resinol
over that cut caui see how it heals
Little cuts and scratches are aggra
vating and painful, and they can even
become dangerous if infected. Prevent
such a condition by cleansing the in
jured spot well, and then applying
RESINOL OINTMENT. Its gentle
antiseptic balsams soothe while they
heal. A physician's prescription, ana
recommended widely,—it is no longer
an experiment to thousands who have
used it successfully for various slfin
affections. At all druggists.
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“The People’s
Voice*
Editorial* from r»-d#r» of Th« Morning Boo.
Roadon of Tbo Morning Boo gro Invited to
in till* oolmnn 1 rooty for gKproiaio* on
matter* of puM'e interest.
Enforce the "Dry" Laws.
Omaha.—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: On certain afreets of
Omaha you can see drunks nearly
every hour of the day. In the dis
trict between Tenth and Fourteenth
streets and a block each side of
Douglas there are plenty of them.
A clean, law-abiding citizen should
he able to walk anywhere without br
ing compelled to have to dodge leer
ing, filthy drunks.
Sometimes we think there should
be a place set apart and surrounded
by a high wall and shut off from the
public view, where people who wish
to place themselves under the Influ
ence of intoxicating liquor could go.
Tn this place they could practice "per
sonal liberty” or personal license,
which is what they really want. In
this place they would have a chance
to mix with their own kind and the
rest of the people could be relieved of
their presence. Of course if the law
is enforced such a place would not
be needed.
A majority of the people, and this
includes a great many of the people
who drank themselves but desired to
give their children a hotter chance
to resist the drunk evil, voted for nro
hlbltlon. These people got so tired
of the drunks, their crimes and the
suffering and want brought upon the
families of these drunks, that they
made the prohibition act a part of the
constitution.
Daw is law. If each of us obeyed
the laws that we liked, where would
we be? The drunks and bootleggers
do not like the prohibition law. The
murderers'do not like the law that
sends them to death as punishment
for their ertme. A person who sells
another stuff to drink that blinds him
and poisons him and tn many cases
causes death is no better than a mur
derer.
In nearly every theater at every
performance on the stage some actor
will mention something nhnnt wines
and beers being brought lmrk. Do
the owners of theaters think there Is
no one attending their places of
amnsement. hut people who favor
boose?
They say they want wines and
heers. What they want is intoxicat
ing liouor. in plain TTnited States,
something that will make them drunk.
The law can ha enforced. All that
Is necessary Is the right kind of men,
men who are fearless and not Influ
enced bv a bribe. We need some of
the old-time officers who went out to
get their man and generally got him.
regard’ess of bow much money there
was tn view There are plentv of good
Americans who would make good of
ficers. A man does not have to he
nnv certain nationality or have a
stand In with the foreign element or
he an ex-saloon keener to make a
good offleer although he might need
anv or all those qualifications to hold
a lob.
The onlv reason the law is not en
forced Is because the men who are
hired to enforce It do not do their
duty. There is a movement among
the friends and svmnathizers of
booze to do everything they possibly
can to discredit prohibition.
FRED T. BETTS.
Work for Convict*.
Roscoe. Neb.—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: In reading your splen
did editorial in today's Omaha Bee en
titled “Using Prison Manpower," it
occurs to me that one solution of the
problem would be for the state of
Nebraska to either buy or build and
equip some place in the state where
suitable materials could be obtained,
a cement and pavfrig brick plant, the
products to be used by the state in
public works, such as state aid
bridges, public buildings, paved roads,
etc.
There is at this time and will con
tinue to be a gpeat demand for these
products. The crowded condition of
our state penitentiary is a serious
problem, one that is going to be
brought to tjie attention of our leg
islature for solution. Warden Fenton
says the idleness of his men is one
of the worst conditions he has to
meet.
Governor McKelvle in his inaugural
address, January 9, 1U19, said regard
ing convict labor: "Nebraska has
large supplies of Certain valuable road
building materials, such as sand,
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gravel and clay for making brick.
These deposits should be obtained by
the state and placed at the disposal
of the road building public. In this
connection, I believe It is entirely
practical to ompldy tho convicts of
the state penitentiary for work in
these fields.”
Employment at this class of work
does not call for occupational train
ing, as the details of the work are
easily mastered. The call for products
of this kind is practically unlimited.
This would teach them what a real
day's work means and would bo a
means of eliminating the chances of
his resorting to crime again whan lib
erated. ^
The prisoners could be paid a wage,
thus giving him a source of Income as
well as the state.
EA1U..E HILLIARD.
Paris Nets a Winter Fashion.
Paris bans hat-tipping during cold
weather. Another thing should ceasa
in this country—attendants at funer
als standing around graves with their
hats off while services are going on.
That promotes other funerals.—Chi
cago Journal of Commerce.
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