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AMERICA AND IMMIGRATION.
The movement to lift the drawgates and admit a
new flood of immigration to America is not in accord
with public opinion. The nation as a whole, includ
ing both those of foreign and native birth, is pretty
well satisfied with present restrictions. These pro- •
‘ vide that “the number of aliens who may be ad
mitted under the immigration laws of the United
States in any fiscal year be limited to 3 per centum
of the number of foreign horn persons Of such na
tionality resident in the United States, as determined
by the United States census of 1910.”
This law expires June 30 of this year, and there
is beginning a determined drive to have its provisions
modified. Such complaint as exists arises from the
tact that great numbers of foreigners from the south
and east of Europe are kept from entry by the quota
set for their country. The races of the north of
Europe, which formerly constituted the backbone of
new Americans, have r.ot filled up their quota. Under
the present law many more of these could find ad
mission.
Shortage of labor in some industries is alleged
by those who seek to bring in aliens by the million
under new legislation. Some of these interests
would even have the literacy test eliminated ami let
in anyone with a strong back.
The problem of Americanization would be in
tensified many fold by such a policy. The organiza
tions seeking u new supply of cheap labor fail to
realize the seriousness of this. Lowered cost of
production is indeed a desirable thing, but not at.
the price of American standards. To pass a tariff
to protect American workingmen against cheap for
eign labor and then to admit that labor to compete
on our own soil is not statesmanship. President
Harding rightly withstood the pressure to urge
easier immigration laws.
Involved in this question is the maintenance of
the American standard of living. These races from
abroad have simpler wants and can work for lower
wages without any sense of sacrifice than can na
tive Americans. It is well to consider the full im
plication of this. A lowered standard of living
means less buying and selling. The market for
moat, for clothing and all sorts of commodities would
slacken under this influence. What would he saved
in wages would be lost in the decrease of sales.
It has not been proved that there is any shortage
of labor in America when wages sufficient to main
tain a decent standard of living are offered. A
year ago there was no employment at any wage for
millions of men and business suffered for lack of
popular purchasing power. Conditions now are bet
ter stabilized and nothing should be done to destroy
the balance.
To select and limit our immigration is not in
violation of the historic function of America as a
haven of the oppressed of every land. The decline
of autocracy and the freeing of the subject nation
alities has placed the peoples of Europe in a posi
tion where they should be able to work out their
own salvation at home. America stands ready to
welcome as many from abroad as it can absorb into
its life, but does not wish its institutions swamped
by unassimilable quantities of alien blood. We want
quality not quantity and public sentiment will not
endorse any surrender of this policy.
START SAVING WITH NEW YEAR.
“A pin a day is a groat a year, and a sixpence
saved is a shilling clear,” sang “Poor Richard” many
years ago, putting in homely rhyme a most important
truth. Secretary Mellon of the Treasury depart
ment urges observance of this maxim on the Amer
ican people. Not in so many words, but, calling at
tention to the fact that the federal government had
saved a billion dollars during the last year, he asks
for further economies in 1923, to the end that pros
perity may be restored. -He says:
“Let us make 1923 a better and more prosperous
year than 1922. It can be done, if all of us will
unite and try to save more and waste less.”
In the last two words is contained the real meat
of the secretary’s message. Waste less. Our great
national shortcoming is wastefulness. We have
been for many years a source of shocking surprise
to our neighbors in the world because of our im
providence. Not only in national resources but iti
private possessions as well. During the war we got
a lesson in economy that should have been of great
benefit. Being told that food was necessary, and in
face of an estimated shortage in cur own land, we
contributed millions of tons to support our allies
in Europe, and not a case of starvation was re
ported in the United States. For example, we sent
abroad 135,000,000 bushels of wheat after the stock
had fallen below estimated requirements for home
use.
That lesson wras forgotten at once, when the war
was ended, and in the speculative spree that fol
lowed we restored our old habit of waste in all its
evil fullness. If our country is to get ahead, and
it will get ahead, it will be because individuals live
economically and use their saviitgs wisely. Mr.
Mieawber’s recipe for happiness still is good, and its
practice will cure many of the ills wo suffer from.
In Omaha almost $50,000,000 is employed in the
building of homes through the simple process of
saving. As many more millions may easily be put
into great productive enterprise through the same
method. Secretary Mellon’s message should sink in.
The bird who was caught locking the door of his
establishment, over which several families were
sleeping, and in the basement of which a fire was
brightly blazing, says he cannot stand confinement
in jail- Mas a time in Council BlufTs when he
wouldn’t have had cause to complain on that score.
A train in Georgia went off the track when run
ning at thirty miles an hour. No wonder; tracks
down there are not built for such speed.
That little sample snowstorm on New Year’s day
was acceptable. About a foc‘. of it will meet Ne
braska requirements.
Democrats only reques' four-ninths of the com
mittee assignments in the eirislature. Their modesty
ia ebanning.
ANOTHER PARIS CONFERENCE.
The gathering at Paris of the premiers of Eng
land, Italy, Belgium and France, to confer with re
i gard to the reparations question, is perhaps the most
momentous of the many post-war assemblies. It is
portentous as well, for as its result may turn one
way or the other will depend the solution of a num
ber of questions. The proffer from France to re
duce the reparation charge to 60.000,000,000 gold
marks is a most notable concession, indicating as it
does a change in attitude on part of the French gov
ernment. This with the further grant of a two-year
i moratorium makes the prospect of an understand
ing with Germany'more probable.
At his New Year’s reception to the newspaper
correspondents, President Millerand had declared thnt
France would not recede from its position of repara
tions, ami that the peace of Europe and the world de
pends on strict and literal observations of all the
provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. This French
view has not been adopted by the other powers, who
incline to plans that contemplate something less than
French occupancy of another sector of the Rhine
land. President Millerand and Premier Poincare
furthermore are committed to the seizure of all the
productive agencies of Germany, in event of further
default in payment of reparations. It is this part of
their program their allies object to.
for the. present Germany’s ability to pay is not
so much at issue as is the general effect of Ger
many’s financial policy on Europe’s commerce and
industry. Some way must be found to dry up the
flood of marks and to restore the industry and
commerce of the Germans to a healthy state. A
moratorium on reparations payments has been
granted, but not of sufficient length to provide the
relief needed. Bonar Law proposes that the whole
question of reparations be re-examined by a com
mission of experts, to the end that some readjust
ment be made. This seems a reasonable thing to
do, and the adoption of such a plan would be reas
suring to all. American financiers are inclined to
adopt this view as offering a solution.
France would gain little if anything by undertak
ing to enforce its will through seizure of the Ruhr
valley and other regions across the Rhine. A better
way would be to aid the Germans in recovering
their national health, and then to press for payment
of claims. The French position will not be weak
ened in any material way by adopting views held by
peoples on whose friendship the French rely.
If the present Paris conference leads to a break
in the four-power combination, the situation in
western and central Europe will be more chaotic
than since the fall of 1918. Should agreement
come from it, the terms will probably be such as
will enable Germany to get on a more stable foot
ing, and so tend to a restoration of general health,
not Only to western Europe but the world.
MORALITY AND THE MASSES.
Charles M. Schwab is quoted as saying that he
likes the morality of the working man. Well, why
shouldn’t he? lie is wrong, though, in undertaking
to set up the toiling masses of the land as superior
to those who are not engaged in the mills and work
shops. Americans are moral by nature and inclina
tion; not merely from choice, from heredity, or
environment, but because of the natural tendency
of man to do good and be good. No class is in pos
session of exclusive control of those virtues the sum
of which is contained in the expression moral, nor
does immorality or the lack of morals attach to one
group and not to another.
A distorted vision is presented by reason of the
fact that the misdeeds of the wealthy and the ele
vated get more attention than those of the lesser,
because the public is for some unaccountable reason
more concerned with the behavior of one who has
succeeded in attracting notice to himself than it is
about the man who merely plugs along in his place
in the column.
Mr. Schwab, however, may well feel proud of
the friendship of the men he worked with and their
successors, for that is something that is not lightly
given. His statement with reference to their general
character is also of service, because it answers the
pseudo-reformer, whose inexperience usually finds
expression in deploring the immorality of the work
ers, and in providing means to enable the working
girl to avoid selling herself into shame.
Katherine Bement Davis long ago classed as a
cruel and unnecessary insult the frequently repeated
assertion that girls who work are driven to sin by
low wages. Their natures are as healthy, their char
acter as strong, and their morals as pure as any.
Schwab finds similarly for the men, and the two
agree on a point that long has been apparent. For
if it were not true, our country would have been in
a bad fix long ago. The masses of the American
people are moral, in every sense of the word, and
that fact is the force that sustains America.
I * ~ "
When the Union Pacific gets all its new locomo
tives and box cars and other expansive equipment
lined up, we would like to call attention to the fact
that Omaha was promised a new passenger station
titteen years ago. Or maybe that isn't too long to
wait.
The Big Sixth is on the map at Lincoln as well
as at Washington.
Poor Old Pharaoh
■-From the Philadelphia Ledger.
In all the world there Is no privacy nnr is any mail
safe from the curiosity of his two-legged fellow crea
tures. They are about to digJioor1 old Tut Aukhamen
out of his tomb at Thebes. Doubtless the mummy of
lie who was lord of the Nile will bo shipped away
somewhere and put in a glass showcase.
Forty centuries ago this Pharaoh of a mighty
Bg.vpt laid himself down In hi.- royal tomb. With him
he took, after the manner of Pharaohs, his throne, his
lied, liis chairs and his Chariot. Favorite (Statues and
wall paintings, were there. Stone walled him round
about when the cmhulmers and burial priests had fin
ished with him and the old Nile flowed on through
Thebes.
Forty centuries of sleep unbroken in this sumptu
ous narrow house. Then the other day the picks and
shovels of curious white men broke through and into
the stillness and the dust of 4.0(10 years. Children of a
rich, resourceful and marvelous era, these men were
stunned by the richness, the marvels and evident re
sources of the dead and gone Theban empire that lias
been a dusty half-myth these forty slow-footed ecu
turies. '
Gold and silver, yes, and ebony and Ivory. Won
derful alabaster vases, the like of which no living man
has seen. Porcelain, earnelian, turquoise, piled heaps
of wealth around the door of a second-rate king of old
Thebes. It is like the cave in "King Solomon's Mines”
all over again, doubled, trebled and multiplied.
It is a pity that it can not stand as revealed and
stay as it was found, preserved from the gnawing tooth
of time by sand and silence and the arid air of ligypt.
i It can not, of course. Kgyptologists are raving over
I it now. Its riches will Vie carried away from their set
; ting and will rest under alien skies.
The privacy, stone-walled and desert-buried, of poor
old Tut-Ankhamen is at an end. The world has bur
rowed in and found him just ns it burrowed into the
dust heaps of Babylon and under the buiied stouts of
Troy.
“From State and Nation”
—Editorials from Other Newspapers—
Front Nebraska to the Sea.
Krtgar How ard In th» Columbus Telegram.
It seems absurd to demand that the
i grain states shall send their products
! all the way to New York in order to
reach the sea, when by employing
harge systems on the Missouri and
Mississippi rivers the route might bo
shortened one-half.
As a member of the American con
gress I shall take active interest in
any plan to get the product of the
grain states to the sea more quickly
and at less cost than the present hide
ous charges levied by railroads, and
perhaps 1 may even support the New
York plan, but before my vote will be
least for that plan l shall first demand
government action to employ the wa
ters of the Mississippi and Missouri
rivers to that good end.
Ami since the agitation in favor of
the Chicago-New York canal will cer
tainly carry that scheme to the atten
tion of the new congress, I suggest
the formation of a grain states con
gressional bloc in the new congress—
not for the purpose of defeating the
Chicago-New York plan, but rather
for the purpose of demanding that
there shall be considered in connec
tion with that plan the proper legis
lation which will make New Orleans
the great export city of the products
of the grain states—such products to
bo borne to the sea by the waters of
the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. I
suggest a conference of all the Mis
sissippi and Missouri valley congress
men to consider this vital need. I fur
ther suggest Omaha as the most cen
tral and convenient city for the hold
ing of such a conference.
In this connection I have no
thought of arousing antagonism to
ward the plan of tile New Yorkers,
but I am bold to say that it is about
time for a compact organization of
grain states interests in Congress to
fight for the interests of the people of
the grain states. Too long the New
I'ngland states in general, by the aid
of tariff kgislation, have been bleed
ing the grain states, and too long
New York, by financial manipulation,
has been exacting unfair trihute from
the people of the grain states, I am
not now running to the length of call
Ing such a conference of grain states
congressmen and senators as here pro
posed, but I am quite ready to par
ticipate in such a conference if it
shall be called by the Mississippi Val
ley association, or by any other or
ganization which has for prime ob
ject the guarding and the promoting
of the interests of the people of the
grain states.
Go Slow!
From tho Louisville Courier-Journal.
Applicable in almost every urban
community, great or small, is the
warning recently issued by the Hart
ford (Conn.) Courant respecting the
temptation of towns, varying in pop
ulation from 100,000 to 500,000, to
take on airs uf "big towns” like New
York, Chicago or Philadelphia.
__ “Our assessments,” says the
Courant, in commenting on the pend
ing Hartford budget, “have been in
creased until everybody is ready to
cry enough. The tax rate should not
l*e increased, if it is even maintained.
It is better to go even slowly toward
prosperity than fast in the opposite
direction, in which, by the way, so
many cities are headed nowadays.”
in the process of deflation that has
been noted since the close of the
gieat war—deflation of currency, of
labor, of many other things—it is de
pressing to note that there lias been
little if any deflation in taxes, federal
slate or municipal.
1 he tendency has been everywhere
toward inflation of burdens, deflation
of benefits.
Municipal budgets continue to rise;
expenditures in carrying on city gov
ernments persist In Increasing: as
sessments keeD on going up; tax rates
show no disposition to come down.
liven tho old deception of increas
ing assessments to conceal the higher
tax rate is still practiced.
Nearly every city needs the pruning
hook of economy, and needs to emnlov
it diligently.
What Hartford needs is needed
none the less by almost every other
town, big or little, in the country.
Sit Down and Simplify.
From th* Norfolk News.
Once upon a time there was a wo
man whose house ran badly because
she was always getting rattled. Then
a change came over h r nnd her en
vironment. Little by little her life
straightened out, her house became
orderly and her days likewise. A
friend, likewise c the nervous type,
always behind v ,th everything she
wanted to do, sskod her secret.
It's very simple," said the serene
friend. "In fact, simple Is the word.
When 1 get all fussed over the num
ber of things there are to do in
a day, I just stop everything, sit down
and simplify. I pick out the things
that are absolutely necessary, and I
arrange time for those first. (Do
not forgot at this point the time for
enough rest of body and soul to keep
your own strength up and your spirit
sweet is one of the most necessary).
Then I scrutinize the rest of the
planned activities with an eagle eye.
It they can be cast off entirely, I do
so, I try not so much to postpone as
to clear out. Postponing Is apt to
clutter up the future.
“The first thing I know, all the
necessary things are done and the
day has a margin of pleasantness and
peace. It's the unruffled mind that
turns the trick. Next time you get
yourself into a mess, just stop where
you are, sit down nnd simplify."
•*"' ' ~ OfTOWO
An Arithmetic Revival.
From the RL Pnul Dispatch.
•St. Paul's city schools could not be
engaged in more useful work than
teaching arithmetic thoroughly, a.
movement in which direction has
heon started, as a result of some in
vestigations made into the progress
of tlie pupils. It is harder to teach
arithmetic efficiently, as it is not. as
Interesting a subject to most minds
as music, drawing or nature study,
but on no account should It he neg
looted. Without disparaging the more
ornamental branches of instruction,
it is Indisputable that they have been
cultivated of late years at the ex
pense of the old multiplication table.
It ought never to he necessary for
a grocery clerk, for instance, to put
down 10 nnd ?4 on paper to add these
amounts, as is often clone,. The ag
gregate of time lost in St. Paul in one
year by slow adding would be worth
many dollars, if it could be saved.
NET AVERAGE
CIRCULATION
for NOVEMBER, 1922, of
THE OMAHA BEE
Daily.
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B. BREWER, Gen Mgr.
ELMER S. ROOD, Cir. Mgr.
Swam to and subscribed before me
this 5th day of December, 1922.
W. H. QUIVLY,
j (Seal) Notary Public
\ Mental arithmetic is an accomplish
ment of comparatively few, but prob
ably has been neglected because it is
I not easy to teach to large classes.
Arithmetic necessarily includes the
subject of weights and measures, in
i which the United States and England
have the most complicated and
| archaic systems on earth. As long as
! we do not have the metric system,
there should bo thorough instruction
| in pounds, quarts, bushels, pecks,
,gallons, Uarrels, acres and other
units of measurement.
—
The Movie Actor.
From the Cincinnati Times-Star.
For centuries the actor dwelt apart
from society. Even in Shakespeare's
day the “players" had to get them
selves beyond the limits of London to
make the most glorious history that
the drama and, indeed, all literature,
have ever known. The actor was
hunted down or out by communities.
In the reign of the Stuarts he was
more favored until Jeremy Collier's
' blast drew both the decadent Resto
ration drama and its performers out
of their theaters and into the thin atr
of Puritan morality. Then, later,
came a restoration, not of the Stuarts,
but of the drama, itself. Sheridan
and Goldsmith wrote immortal coin
edies and Garrick and Mrs. Slddons
realized the possibilities of Shakes
peare for their generation. The ac
| tor was again received in good so
ciety, and the better kind of actor
realty has never relinquished his po
sition. Rut there has always been a
dividing line, expressed in the modern
theater by the footlights, between
the actor and the outside world, lie
never moves among his audience
with complete freedom, any more than
his audience invades the Btage. They
dwell apart, the actor and his audi
ence. “The only honest hypocrite,”
as TTazlitt called him, is under sus
picion by the less honest hypocrites
who applaud him as a professional
and shun him as a social animal.
The result has been that, as a rule,
the legitimate actor is supposed to
have his own code of morals, which
is less rigorous than the butcher's,
the baker's, or (he candlestick mak
or's. But if the legitimate actor has
a rone or morals different from that
of the audience which he faces, what
must he the code of morals of the
movie actor? Tf the men and women
of the legitimate stage move, as it
were, on a different hemisphere, the
men and women of the serpen must
move on another planet. They never
see their audiences. Apnlau.se is un
known to their ears. The ra<)t ex
pression or the laughter of apprecia
tive men and women are remote both
in distance and in time from their
performance. Their acting partakes
rather Tf a series of exhausting dress
rehearsals than of the drama. There
is no sequential tide of dramatic
movement to carry them on, as in a
play. And all is done before what
might he called a recording vacuum.
And the only society the men and
women of the "movies” have is them
selves, Artificiality and nervous
strain tries to find recreation in fur
ther artificiality and nervous strain.
Out of this seething social cauldron
have come some ugly ihings. The
hectic monotony of it all has pro
duced murders and "dust nariies."
and will produce other murders and
"dust parties.” These "Franken
steins,” producers and actors, have
created the instrument of their de
struction The moving picture must
he humanized, hoth on the screen and
behind (he screen for the sake of it
self and its sacrificial victims.
Where Politic* Need Cleansing.
Roseoe C. E. Brown, In tha North Amer
ican Review.
The civil service reforms of 1883
checked customs that threatened to
swamp American statesmanship and
turn American politics into a mere
base struggle for spoils. But tho
work is not finished. In more than
three-fourths of the states of tho
union tho spoils system still domi
nates administration and bedevils
politics. Down into the city and
county services of a larger part of
the country tho political parties reach
for the nourishment with which to i
build thoir organizations. There can i
1 come no healthy politics of ideas from
I creature* so fed. . . . How can sin
cerity and courage in the exposition
of ideas, or even an agreement on na
tional party policy, he expected from
parties made up of state, county and
city organizations dominated by and
in turn largely concerned with tho
patronage of their own localities?
The establishment of the federal
merit system only half rescues na
tional politic* from the dictation of
the spoilsmen so long as all these
reservoirs of spoils remain. They
permit the building up of organiza
tions of voters lacking common prin
ciples and held together only by the
cohesive power of patronage. These
organizations in turn make up the
national parties and stand for such
small measure of ideas as can be res
cued from the conflict of their local
opinions, controlled chiefly by an eye
on local spoils. Not until the whole
field of politics, local as well as na
tional, Is freed from this misuse of
government to build up party ma
chinery ran national parties be made
effective instruments for carrying out
political principles.
“Rabbit Snoiv”
The guns arn full of laughter,
When fields are full of enow,
When dogs go running after
The rabbit trails of woe.
For traitor tracks will taftls
Of ways that rabbits ran
Too weak to wage a battle
With gun and dog and man.
The guns have happy voices
When winter snows are deep,
An l cv’ry dog rejoices.
But. all tho rabbits weep.
For, trails have mm h of sorrow.
Ami blood will clot the snow,
i And over meals, tomorrow,
The men will glory bo.
On padded pathways tremble
So many furry ones,
Whlin happy men assemble
With gloating dogs and guns.
For. tracks aro then betrayers,
And rabbit legs uro slow.
And men are merry slayers
When fields aro full of snow.
—Jonathan Johnson.
“The People’s
■ Voice’’
Editor!*!* from rr-dtn of Th* Morning Bo.
Roadfri of Tho Mornlr.* Be* art Invlttd to
ust this column !r**ly for **pr***lgn on
matter* of subtle Intere-f.
The Packers’ Combination.
Kansas City. Mo.—To the Editor of
The Omaha r.ee; The combination be
tween Morris and Armour is a bad
thing for all the world. As it is today.
Armour is bigger than the I'nited
States and it controls politicians of
both old parties.
Morris has always boen a thorn in
Armour's side. \\ hen the smoke
clears up you will find Armour own
ing tho Morris Packing company and
Morris will own all the stock.
It will reduce competition; it will
not reduce your meat bill, and will
only cost you more money.
N. B. O.
Violations of I.abor Hoard Decisions.
Chicago.—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: The railroad labor board
has received many inquiries in regard
to tile number of violations of its de
cisions. The people are apparently
anxious to ascertain the extent to
which tho decisions of the board,
without the sanction of a penalty,
have been respected by the parties.
A careful check of our records shows
the facts set out below:
Thera are in the United States 201
class 1 railroads and 892 short lines.
Of the class 1 carriers, 58, and of the
short lines and miscellaneous com
panies, 56, are alleged to have vio
lated decisions of the board. The vio
lations that have occurred on the
short lines affect a comparatively
small number of men, but involve the
same principles as those on the large
railroads.
On the class 1 roads there have
occurred 61 cases in which the hoard
lias formally held that its decisions
have been violated. Of these, 46 are
comprised In the so-called "contract”
cases, in which the carriers let to
contractors, independent or claimed
to-be independent, the work of cer
tain classes of their employes.
In addition to those cases wherein
the board has formally held its de
cisions to have been violated, there
are 76 cases pending before the
board in which it is charged that
class 1 carriers have violated de
cisions, but upon which charges the
board lias not yet taken action. Many
of these are contested by the carriers
and a majority of them have been
heard and are ready for decision.
A large percentage of the alleged
violations involve unauthoriz<«i re
ductions of wages and unauthorized
changes in rules. In cases complain
ing of such wage reductions, the
hoard has decided seven in favor of
the employes and one in favor of the
carrier. In cases complaining of ar
bitrary changes, in rules, the board
has rendered 10 decisions upholding
tho employes and two sustaining the
carriers.
Only tw'o of the board’s decisions
havo been attacked in the courts, in
both cases by the carriers. In only
one instance to my knowledge has an
employe gone into court to assert his
rights under a decision of tho board.
In that case the supreme court of
Mississippi gave judgment in favor of
the employ© and upheld the board’s
decision.
There have been no violations of
the board’s decisions by employes, un
less the shop strike and the Missouri
& No’ th Arkansas strike should be so
accounted. In the shop strike, how
frer. it must be remembered, that the
shopmen did not accept the board's
decision and consequently claimed
that they did not violate it but exer^
cised their legal right under the
transportation act to reject it. There
is no way in which the employes can
violate a decision and remain in the
service, because such violation would
mean discharge.
REN W. HOOPER,
Chairman T'nited States Railroad
labor Roard.
For the Tragic Muse.
Some fellow wilh a gift for rhyme
and reason should write a poem about
“ 'Twas just before Christmas, and
the fourth income tax installment was
due.”—Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette.
Common Sevse
Before Signing a Contract.
Before you sign any agreement
binding you to do a certain tiling,
read and think .
When you pledge your word to ear
ly out certain provisions in a con
tract you are assuming an important
obligation, and are bound by law to
fulfill
A contract cannot be considered as
something which "will probably come
out all right.”
You bind yourself to something
when you sign a contract.
You are signing away a certain part
of your effort, your time, your money,
your brains, in fact some of your most
valuable posses: ions.
Do not allow anyone to hurry you
Into signing a contract which com
pels you to pay a certain sum, or de
liver a certain service or goods within
,* specified time.
Allow yourself time to read and
digest carefully the provisions of tho
agreement, and to consider its phras
ing and what It means.
If you feel that Its provisions will
not be required of you, do not sign
it then anyway, leeatise it is more
than likely that every provision in it
will he rigidly adhered to and you
will have to fulfill.
(Copyright, 1P22 )
I
Nebraska Wesleyan
University
University Place
Colleges of Liberal Fine Arts
with Schools of Music, Art,
Kxpression.
Teachers’ College with
Training Schools.
I Chancellor Shreckengast
Money to Loan on
Omaha Real Estate
Present Interest Rate
Charge Is
6%
A Book oj Today
The new work of Lothrop Stoddard,
"The Revolt Against Civilization,”
will please those who are well pleased
| with themselves. Upon extremely
i doubtful anthropological evidence and
the much mentioned tests. Mr. Btod
! dard builds up his thesis that the no
j ble edifice of present day civilization
! Is being menaced by the "under
i man.” This under man Is. of course,
usually poor, belongs to the inferior
social classes, and Is less fit biologlcal
I ly and mentally. It is racial impover
! ishment, therefore, and not the bolshe
vik propaganda, which threatens the
existing economic system.
There Is little to be said for the
book. It Is not true that the mental
age of the average American Is 14
years. It Is not true that psycholo
gists have yet agreed upon the value
of mental testing. Somo value may
bo attached to their use; but certainly
I they can not be made the basis of
-uch hasty and sweeping generalizft'
lions. And certainly they cannot be
used to bolster caste and class
privileges as the proof for the declara
tion that those who control the eco
nomics and politics of the world today
are the most intelligent. IValter
Uippm&n has recently contributed to
the New Republic a good critique of
tlie use of these tests. Prof. Franz
Moss' little book. "The Mind of Primi
tive Man," is a calm scientific, yet
readable, discussion of the general
problems involved.
Mr. Stoddard Is adppt at using a
few sources which uphold his views.
Hut he has not seen the other side of
the case. The cultural and economic
fact »s making for unrest, the wrongs
inflicted by the industrial system upon
human nature he does not properly
evaluate. And the compromise with
which he concludes consists of quite j
empty plirases: That what we need
in the United States is a new arts- j
tocrac-y of blood and talent, but that ,
the our present rt( mocrncy should not ,
be tampered with.
Propaganda of this sort, which is so |
widenin') .id and popular, needs to be !
counteracted by more dispassionate
Daily Prayer j
Make His praise glorious.—F»- 66:2. ^
God, our gracious Father. W0
IojK to Thee now for Thy benediction.
We are Thy suppliant children, who
subsist under the cover of Thy pa
tience. We praise Thee for all Thin**
extraordinary mercies. Thou hast
mnde us like Thyself In the desire ant!
In the capacity for fellowship. May
fellowship with Thee lie the basts and
supreme Messing of our fellowship
with each other. May (lowers of dt -
votton breathe their fragrance everv
day upon the family altar. Teach us
how to he aliased and how to abound.
Keep our feet from unhidden paths,
and our eyas from tears; or if tin
tears must come, let the Comforter
come as well, that He muy wipe them
all away. Temper to us the long night
watches of pain and sorrow. If weep
ing endure for a night, bring Joy in
the morning: and when tin* long after
noon shadows deepen townrd tho
eventide of this earth’s life, bring ua
very gently to the turn of the road
from whence we may catch the vision
of the home eternal. May this our
present habitation lie a promise and a
foretaste of the house which has
foundation whose builder and maker
is God. H< Ip us In our social Joys
and pleasures to remember Thee,
Grant us all to face all life's tasks
bravely, and perform them earnestly.
And bring us in the end witli Joyftd
hearts and glad faces to abide with
Thee, through Jesus Christ our Kord.
Amen.
CHARLES F. WISHART, D D.,
Chicago, Illinois.
The American Way.
When the great American public
isn't sure what it wants, it votes foe
something different from what it ha«
—Hutler (Mo ) Republican-Press.
investigation of what civilization
slsts. of biologic heredity, and of etgi
nomlc stratification unit its causes.
Those Americans who believe in so
cial democracy have a task to per
form— to inform their fellow citizens
concerning themselves.
They're Moving Fast!
—and Is There Any Wonder?
Our “Pre-Inventory Sale” of Pianos, Player Pianos
and Grand Pianos has been most successful, and
why not? Never before have such high grade in
struments been priced so low -and the terms, too,
are exceptionally low. NOW IS THE TIME TO
BUY—if you would secure an instrument at the
lowest possible price.
Baby Grand Pianos
$575
Our stock of Baby Grand
Pianos at this price ie rapid
ly diminishing—and it stands
to reason that they’ll not las* a
long. This is positively thi |
greatest valua ever offered In
an up-to-the-minute baby
grand, in beautiful shaded
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Terms $4 Per Week
New Player Pianos
Brand new 88-note player pianos.
Choose either oak, mahogany or wal
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Terms $3.00 Per Week
New Upright Pianos
Modern in every respect and with a
tone that is second to none. Complete
with stool and scarf. Our * r) J r
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Terms $2.50 Per Week
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An instrument that was taken in ex
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rKLL wiM 9|ve free with
every player piano,
15 rolls of music, your own
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oiano.
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