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CF.LLS YAWN FOR “GUN-TOTERS.”
" hen a man with a criminal record is found
carrying a revolver, the inescapable conclusion is
that he is planning to use it for some wrongful pur
pose. When William A. Rich was discovered by
police practicing at a target in the railroad yards, it
did not require the acute mind of a Sherlock Holmes
to conclude that he was preparing for something
less regular than joining the army.
This is the man who now in Cleveland confesses
to slay.ng the Siefkins in Omaha. His career con
, sists of one crime after another. He was arrested
at his target practice just two weeks after the shoot
ing of the Siefkins. It was known that he had
lecently been released from a cell in Iowa. Ac
cording to report now, he was carrying a weapon
of the same kind with which the killing was done.
Setting aside the question why he was not brought
under suspicion of this crime, the question still
may be asked why he was not given a heavy sen
tence for going armed. If he had saved $200 from
the proceeds of his lawless career, hej^ould have
been released at once. As it was, he paid off his
tine of $200 and costs by remaining in jail for about
two months.
Law-abiding citizens frequently inquire why
stricter laws are not passed against carrying
weapons. They do not know that under the law as
it now stands any person of suspicious character
who is found armed may be sent to prison for two
years. Here is the statute:
"W hoever shall carry a weapon or weapons con
i call'd about hjs person such as a revolver, pistol,
liowip knife, dirk or knife with a dirk blade at
tachment. brass or iron knuckles, or any other
dangerous weapon shall on conviction be fined in
any sum not exceeding *1,000 or imprisoned in the
state peiiltentiury not exceeding two years: Pro
vided. however, if It shall be proved from the testi
mony on the trial, or at a preliminary hearing of
such ease that the accused was. at the time of car
rying any weapon or weapons as aforesaid, engaged
in any lawful business, calling or employment and
the circumstance in which such person was placed
at the time aforesaid was such as to justify a
prudent person in carrying the weapon or weapons
aforesaid, for the defense of his person, property
or family, the accused shall be acquitted or dis
charged."
When a man of known criminal tendencies arms
himself with a revolver, the public safety clearly
i* menaced. The law makes it a felony and au
thorizes a stiff penalty, If the custom should be
established of giving such persons the limit, many
crimes might be nipped in the bud, and the public
■dould be relieved from the presence of swaggering
desperadoes who only bide their time to prey upon
society.
CORKING UP THE JOKERS.
A law just passed jn Minnesota has the approval
of the newspapers of the state. It lays liable to
prosecution any one who gives false information
to a newspaper with the hope of getting the same
printed.
Persons not connected with the business will not
be able to understand just v.hat is involved in this.
Any well managed newspaper gives the strictest
scrutiny to the items presented for publication.
Names are insisted upon, not for publication, but
to protect the editor. Requests for announcements
are verified by every possible means, and yet, in
spite of the utmost vigilance, every now and then
some annoying mis-statement creeps in.
A joker with a distorted or ingrowing sense of
humor, calls up on the telephone and asks that an
approaching wedding he announced. He maay even
go so far as to give a fictitious name in lieu of his
own. On inquiry the story is found baseless, yet
sometimes in the rush the item goes through. Then
there is grief. Other hits of personal information
are similarly proffered, sometimes with malice, and
always the danger of deception must be guarded
against.
Once in a long while the process is reversed. It
is oh record in an Omaha netvspaper office how a
certain prominent citizen came into the office one
night, asking to be posted on what was done at a
public meeting. He was supposed to have attended
t, but for some reasons of his own did not go. The
information sought was given, and presumably it
worked, for no divorce was granted.
The newspapers of Minnesota are trying to guard
themselves from a source of annoyance. News is
news, and it should always have the element of
accuracy, for without that it is valueless, save as it
may give the merely curious a moment of sensation.
SHE MADE THE WORLD SIT UP.
Helen of Troy, Joan of Arc, Margaret of Anjou,
< leopatra Ptolemy, and a few other ladies whose
l ames might be mentioned, fitted themselves se
<urely into history by different methods. None of
them were so simple, however, as that employed by
the nurse lady at Eacanaba, who has had the
medicos on the qui vive for a fortnight. By the
Hiniple expedient of a hot water bottle she managed
lo send the mercury in the clinical thermometer
kiting up to 115 or thereabouts whenever the doctor
took her temperature.
She presented a baili ng mystery. Such a fever
was unheard of, and thfc strangest part of it all was
that the patient did not seem to be a great deal
the worse from the effects of a malady looked upon
os necessarily fatal. Day by day in every way her
temperature stuck around the highest mark" ever
recorded for a fever patient, and day by day she
went on, living and failing to waste away as one
might be expected to when being consumed by such
a flame. Finally, one doctor, more astute or more
auspicious than the others, located the source of the
fever, and the show was over.
Why did she do it? Well, why do folks do a lot
of things that are not to be accounted for on the
basis of reason? If she was looking for notoriety,
►he got it, for columns have been written and printed
about her strabge case. Did she have another end
view, we hope she secured it, for such ingenuity
and persistense as her* deserves success. And,
when you think of it, she might have sent the tem
perature to n much higher point, if that would have
Jielped any
A HIGH-PRICED STRAWBERRY.
If anyone still has the idea that the farm does
not offer some wonderful possibilities, they have
not read the story of Harlow Rockhill, a plain Iowa
farmer, whose name was flashed over the wires not
long ago with the announcement that he had sold
a strawberry of his own creation for $50,000.
The first thing that would strike the casual reader
is the idea that this is a large amount of money for
' a strawberry. But there is another angle to the
story, and that is the fact that Harlow Rockhill
spent twenty-five years of ceaseless endeavor t*
creating the strawberry of his dreams. Buring that
time he grew thousands upon thousands of plants
only to throw them away for the reason that they
did not satisfy h:s ideal of a perfect strawberry, or
that when satisfactory, the seeds would not reproduce
| their kind.
Rockhill is not a college trained man. His
knowledge of plant breeding was obtained in the
I school of hard knocks, wrung out of the very soil
upon which he toiled. He had set his heart on grow
ing a superstrawberry and he did not cease his
plodding and patient endeavors until he reached the
goal of his ambitions. He has the satisfaction of
obtaining more money for a new plant creation than
has ever been obtained before. But there is a far
greater satisfaction than that—the knowledge that
pluck and hard work and thinking deeply of his
task, has won the day.
The work of Rockhill in obtaining this new
strawberry which bears his name, involved the
crossing of thousands of plants and studying the re
sults of these crosses. The average man would have
given up long before, but this man was not a quitter.
The purchaser of the Rockhill strawberry, who will
propagate and advertise it extensively, is well pleased
with his purchase and he takes occasion to praise
the man who had the ability to produce it.
“Opportunities on the farm are gone,” say some.
Hardly, not until some one produces a superwheat,
a superior variety of corn or oats, or potato, or
any one of a score of other superior types of plants.
The lesson of Rockhill shows what brawn coupled
with brain and with the spirit of stick-td-it-ive-ness
will accomplish on the farm.
ARGENTINE’S VANITY EXPANDS.
Argentine is yet a new country, and yet we hear j
a great deal of its culture, especially as represented
in Buenos Ayres. A few years ago the tango swept
the country, even after the truth was disclosed that
it had its origin in the dance halls of the Argentinian
capital. Ibanez has made the locale familiar, through
the pictures he drew in “The Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse.” This has not detracted from the ad
miration expended on the gay city, where grand
opera, the great newspaper. La Prensa, and other
evidences of extreme culture jostle with squalor and
degradation.
Buenos Ayres has now attained the last fillip of
excitement. From the pampas comes a conqueror,
and the word flashes over the cable to the South
American metropolis that Luis Angeles Firpo has put
the kibosh on Bill Brennan in a prize fight. It does
not much matter that Brennan consists largely of
what is called in the vernacular of his profeyion a
“set up.’’ He is a stepping stone to Jack Dempsey,
and his being vanquished removes one obstacle from
the onward march of the Argentinian to the throne.
Therefore we read that “Buenos Ayres went
wild when the news was received.” What Ameri
cans can see in it is the forthcoming of another
deluge of propaganda, leading up to the renewal of
a million-dollar “audience” along about the Fourth
of July, to watch a meeting between the eminent
emergency ship builder and the late vaquero, while
the pair exchange wallops and look ahead to shar
ing the munificent gate receipts with the astute
business men who are promoting the affair.
The outcome? What difference does it make?
.tlillions will be wagered on the event bitween pa
triotic Americans who would like to see Dempsey
knocked for a row of derricks and equally pa
triotic Americans who can not abide the thought
of another land having a bruiser who can excel one
of our own in hammering an opponent into subjec
tion. Great world problems may be set aside for
the time, but none of them will be settled by the
impending prize fight.
The bill to purchase the Louisville and Platts
mouth bridges for the state will be welcomed by all
who have reason to travel by these roads. By ap
plying the tolls to paying off the cost of the pur
chase the government will be achieving what, is gen
erally held impossible—lifting itself by the boot
st raps
Congress gets more kicks than kisses, and the
declaration of the American Farm Bureau federa
tion that the last session “has done more for Ameri
can agriculture than any other session in history,”
therefore seems startling in spite of its obvious
truth.
The house joyously boosted the bonus law one i
notch nearer the people. It has to get by the senate
and governor now.
What has become of the o. t. street car con
ductor who always called the names of the streets?
If the World-Herald is to be believed, it hopes
| soon to be almost as good a paper as The Omaha Bee.
A lot of lawyers' heads will now sink back on the
pillow, realizing it was only a dream.
‘‘Cho Oho" is one educated down.
*
Homespun Verse
Ry Robert Worthington Davie
BILL’S LUCK.
"1 used to have ri sweetheartsaid lanky Bill to me—
I "An" once I thought the world of her, an’ dreamed of
days to be—
j A cozy home, a little farm, a fuithful little wife—
An’ everything a fi ller needs to live a happy life—•
An’ when she up mi turned me down an’ took another
guy
I thought ’twould get the host of me—I tried an1 tried
to die—
f’cried just like a baby, ’twas mighty near a year
Till loneliness an’ sorrow began to disappear.
"Today I read where she had gone hark to her folks to
dwell.
An’ ho Is suing for dfvorce—they’ve got a little gal—
A cute an’ lovin’ little thing. It makea my heart so
sad!
He took her to the orphan’s home—she hasn’t any dad;
Hhe hasn’t any mother now—tho little tot must live
Without the smiles an’ kisses which a dad an’ mother
give.
“Perhaps I can b" thankful for the day aho turned me
down.
An’ took the other follow because ho lived In town—
For nil my nr lies an’ sadness I missed this awful mugs,
An' guess I'm rlgbl In thlnkln' I was the lucky cuss.’’
“From State and
-Nation11
Editorials from other
newspapers.
The Law of Harmony.
From the Tulis World.
One person geta nothing but discord
out of a piano. Another evokes rav
ishing harmonies. No one Halms that
ihe piano is at fault. Life Is much
the same. It is possible to produce
either discord or harmony in it. .Study
to play it correctly, and It will give
forth exquisite melodies; play it false
ly, and it will give forth harshness.
Higher than any other is Just the art
of living happily, with ourselves and
each other.
Of course the piano is not to blame
for the raucous discords. Because if
the laws of harmony were understood
and applied, the Instrument would
give forth the most ravishing music,
capable of stilling the savage In man,
or arousing the spiritual in the nth
degree.
Likewise the world, li^e, human re
lations. These are not to be blamed
for what you are getting out of life,
if you will understand and apply the
Jaws of harmony there will be avail
able all of heaven that the human
mind is capable of receiving and ap
preciating.
To Ban the Devil's Prayer Book.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Maine is the latest point to be
reached by the mania for the regula
tion of personal conduct and private
life now so widely prevalent In this
era of hysteria. The general assem
bly has taken up the highly important
subject of banishing card playing in
the state capital, the joint resolution
before it prohibited even members of
that body from indulging in a game
of seven-up, euchre or modern bridge
in the committee rooms- State of
ficials and their employed must pot
permit this relaxation In their as
signed quarters. The distinguished
author of the restrictive measure
seems to be under the Impression that
there Is something immoral In this
amusement, ahd hence it must be pre
vented in the interest of purity, If
not made an adiunct to gambling, the
very worst that can be said of card
playing Is that It is a waste of time.
In this respect It certainly cannot he
any worse than taking up the atten
tion of a legislature for houra and
even days to discuss the advisability
of banning it from a public building.
Neihardt and Nebraska.
From The ,N>bruks City Press
It would be poetic justice, in a dou
ble sense, if John G, Neihardt, Ne
braka's poet laureate, could be in
duced to become a member of the
faculty of the University of Nebraska.
Nebraska cannot afford to lore Nei
hardt to some other sehool and Ne
braska can afford, the practical mind
ed governor notwithstanding, to re
tain Neihardt by making it pleasant
for him. Poets are born and not made;
they are also usually more poetic
than affluent. The world today does
not read poetry as It did a generation j
or two ago, but there are enough folks
worth while who realise the necessity |
for expression of the beautiful In life |
to persuade the rest of us that It j
would be a fine tribute on 'he part .
of Nebraska to encourage the man 1
who has made Nebraska so well j
known to remain and through his j
splendid influence transmit to the 1
young folks of tho university some
of the things they need to know. Ne- j
braska should recognise genius, no
matter In what soil it is produced.
Roan’s New Code.
From th«> G* ring Courier.
The Impression grows that Gov
ernor Bryan does not want the cotie
law repealed for political reasons. It
Is evldeht that if he can hv Insisting
upon the well nigh lmpoeible sweep
ing changes he proposes force a dead
lock he can pass the buck to the re
publican party, and thus avoid the
certainty upon final and practical
analysis of his plans in actual opera
tion that they will be found in effect
m Improvement, but on the contrary
rather a step toward more arbitrary
domination by the governor than he
charged to the McKelvie administra
tion. On the other hand, the majority
party proposes to comply with its
platform pledges by a revision of
phases 06 the present system which
will remedy the few defects which
have become advisable.
The governor will accept nothing
»*cept hi* own proposal without tho
dotting of an "1" or the crossing of a
”1." and asserts he will veto anything
less or mon Of course. If the legis
lature will not <-oni|dy with his de
mands he ran say he had no w.iy of
going ahead to fulfill the bomliastlc
promises he mads in his campaign.
Htid which were regarded as bunk at
the time. Then he will be enabled to
go ahead with appointments for th*
fat jobs for his own partisan*, and at
the same time plead an sllhl for him
self. Such Is politics, and no one has
evaer accused Brother Charley of
living anything less than an astute
tiollthian, but tho net result will he
found that, like his eminent, brother,
he Is long on promise and shy on per
formance when It comes to govern
ment.
Allegations that he has a mandate
from the people to do so and so nr«
made, to be sure, but cnMi judgment
fails to reveal any stu b mandate. *He
was ele< t«d by a peculiar.combination
of circumstances, yet at the same time
live sevenths of the state ticket and
both branehes of the legislature
were elected on a platform distinctly
pronouncing for a revision ns needed,
not an upheaval, of the code system.
Daily Prayer |
doit rxmii'eth the prnud,- but giveih
grain unto the humble.—Jura 4:1
Our graciou* Hod and Father, we
Praia* The* for conatnnt gt-cean to
The* In Jeaua Chrlat. Wo hlou The#
f«r Thy gift* day by day for apirlt,
*oul and laxly. We thank Thee that
Thou art ever the name In Thv On
changing love and grace und we rn.
Jnlr-e that we may draw from Thv full
mum each moment according to our
need*. Orant to ua a deep and In
ci caalng cntiaclouaneaa nf tha pri rlnti*
ncaa of Chrlat aa our Divine ltedectn
or, and a growing ..if the
iDtialant auppl.v of Thv llolv Spirit
for dally living. Teach ua liy that i
Spirit how to depend continually on
Thy grace, and how to receive Hint
grace by alrnplo faith, and how to np
propriat# for otir Ilf* the rich provis
ion Thou makeat for ua. Then may
Thy love he reflected In our dally roll
ducf and may It cnnatraln ua to live
to Thy praiae, and to ho the mean*
of helping other* a a Thou art helping
ua. We dealre to ahow "Whoa* we
are and Whom we nerve" end to lie
a channel of bleaalng at homo and
abroad.
tile** our relative* and frlen-la, with
all needful grace, and give to them
and to un mil'll a deepening arm* of
Thy low that we may do our til moot
to make known the Uoapel to llto-"
In far off land" And ao for our loved
nnrg. for our frlendN and acqualntnn
i'pn and for Thy whole Chtieh. wo
*r*k th# fulllieNN of Thv lilraalng,
| through .Trail* Chrlat our laird Amen.
w »i. umrriTit tiiomab, icu.
| Tim unto, .Can.
Songs
John G%?ihardt
MebraskasToef Caurpai?
THE POET’S ADVICE.
i
You wish to be a poet, Little Man?
More verses limping 'neath their big
intent?
Well—one must be a poet if one can!
Hut do you know Ihe way the others
went?
Who buys of gods must pay a heavy
fee.
The world loves not its dreamers
overmuch:
And he who longs to drink at
Castalj ,
Must hobble there upon a broken
crutch.
One sins by being different, it seems;
At least so in our human common
weal.
Who goes to market with his minted
dreams,
Must buy and bear the Cross of the
Ideal,
Lo, tall amid the forest, blackened,
grim,
The lightning riven pines! — God
kissed was he.
How all the little beeches jeer at
him,
Safe in their snug arrays of
greenery!
And who shall call the little beeches
mad?
Mot I. who know how big are little
acts.
Want what you have, and cherish.
O my Lad,
The downright, foursquare, geometric
facts!
II
nut—Dh, the ancient glory In your
eyes!
How bursts a dazzling wonder all
around!
Wild tempests of Ineffable surprise—
Alt color, dream and sound!
You Up thp awful flagons of old time.
And mystic apples lure you to the
bite!
Blown down the dizzy winds of woven
rhyme.
Dead women come and woo you In the
night!
You tread the myrtle woods past
time ami place.
Where shadows flit and ghostly
echoes rroon;
And through the boughs some fatal
storied fare
Breathes muted music like a Summer
moon!
I know the secret altars where you
kneel.
T know vfhat lips fling fever in your
kiss.
That sorry little drab to whom you
steal
Ts Queen rfgmlramis!
The Bacchanalia of the sap now re
signs!
TTlapIc fires burn yonder bough with
blooms!
I,o. gsiat-songs warbled from the vine
yard fanes!
Lo, Venue, nipples in the apple- j
glooms!
Ah. who Is older thsn the vernal
. surge,
And who Is wiser thsn the sap
a-thrill?
Forever he who feels the lyric urge
Shall do its will!
Your rhymos'—Some nimbler f «ded
have been worse.
What broken trumpet echoes from the
van •
Where march the cohort* of Im
mortal Verse!
Well—one must he a poet of one can. I
“The People’s
Voice”
CdltnrldU from rud«n of Tha Morning Bet
Realm of The Morning Bn« art lavliaO to
uae thli ccrtuma frgrlv for e*pr«Mlon on
matter! of public leterMt.
Marble* for Liberty.
Omaha.—To the liditor of The
Omaha Bee; It was a small game,
hut the stakes were high.“The place,”
the Juvenile court, the court of dis
cipline to teach our youth the lessons
and laws of obedience; the partici
pants in the game were a school of
fleer and a boy who was supposed to
bo incorrigible.
Now we have the right to suppose
that if this boy was taken by this
officer to appear before the Juvenile
judge he had committed some mis
demeanor. If so. are these pitiful
cases to be made the butt of a Joke?
When necessary to take a child to
the Juvenile court it is a Berious mat
ter and should be so considered, anti
should only be done as n last resort
and after all other methods had failed.
Then it is a tragedy 4n the life of
the child. If wrongfully or needless
ly done, it is a crime against child
hood.
1 would like to ask what could this
boy have done that was worse than
gambling or the power of a political
puli with any Judge strong enough to
avert a sentence if justly deserved?
This boy has certainly learned two
pertinent lessons. One is, there Is no
crime in gambling if you "win," and
another, you don't nerd to obey the
law if you only have pull enough to
square yourself with the judge. Well,
he lost this time, but he will hope
for better luck next time. He will go
down to ‘ Kearney,” an institution
that is a factory that grinds out tim
ber for our penitentiaries (and work
over time at that), and after he come*
out if he should become a prince of
world wide gamblers he will never
gamble for higher stakes than on the
memorable day of this notorious mar
ble game. And the officer is allowed
to go on his way, gambling with other
Incorrigible*, and possibly his example
may be taken up by other officers, and
our adult criminals may, too, have
their chance to tie squared with some
judge on the merits of a crap game
or game of poker As long a* this is
the value or the law placed there by
the ones who execute It, it is po won
der that we are a nation of law
breakers. CRISP.
The Man Worth While.
Omaha—To thq Editor of The
Omaha Bee: It is in time of catas
trophe that human nature sheds Its
foibles and superficialities and stands
undressed before the gaze of men.
A great transcontinental train,
speeding across the Kansas prairies,
crashed Into a train of oil cars on a
siding and was wrecked. Out of the
wreck nine men were taken, some
more seriously Injured than others,
but all seriously enough.
It was a jam of scattered coaches,
blazing oil cars and broken steam
pipes. It was a trial by tfre and suf
fering. Nine men trapped in the
crushed car w ere stripped of all sham
and pretense and their real characters
were repealed.
Here was one pinned in the wreck
age silent and with grimly set^llps,
waiting for the help that must corns
soon If it was to come at all. Here
Was another, screaming and frantic
with the pain of his injury and the
fear of the spreading flames. Another
with eyes fairly bulging in terror was
trying to mumble the words of a long
forgotten prayer.
But one man among these trapped
victims seemed different. He was
crushed and broken even more se
riously than some of the others, but
the smile, which was his natural habit
of countenance, was still there. He
tried to calm the fear of the others
by lViehing at his own predicament.
He Jollied and joshed the rescuers as
they helped him from the debris of
the wreck. He cracked Jokes with
the doctors and nurse* as he lay on
the old wooden platform awaiting his
turn for attention. All through the
long hours of suffering when sleep,
even under an opiate, was denied
him. the Irrepressible smile fought for
place among the draw n lines of pain
upon his face.
Is it anv wonder that a man of that
character has friends'' Is it any won
der that, when he could he moved
and was brought lack to his home
town the "boys’ who knew of his
comine fairly mobbed the train on
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which he arrived In order to let him
know of their sympathy and the
anxiety which they had f« !t for him?
Is it any wonder that they almost
fought for the privilege of acting as
"pallbearers ’ as he jokingly named
lem from his stretcher? Is it any
wonder that his sick room at the hos
pital is one great bower of flowers
and that the callers at his bedside are
just a continuous stream of friends
and well wishers.
N'o, it really Is not any wonder.
Human nature loves courage, and a
courage that smiles in the face of
danger is all too rare. But it was not
this man's courage in pain ami suf
fering particularly that brought out
this tribute from hi* friends It was
the manner of life he had lived be
fore and among them that brought
them rallying to his side. He was
always cheerful. He aiwavs smiled.
He always found the joke in life and
shared it with his friends. The wreck
was only another opportunity to re
’ veal the real man and the man who.
' his friends knew, was worth while.
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When the world raovea along like a
song.
But the man worth while
Is the man who can smil*
When everything goea dead wrong
d. t. a
NET AVERAGE
CIRCULATION
for FEBRUARY, 1923, of
THE OMAHA BEE
Daily .71,558 ■
i Sunday .78,661
B. BREWER. Gen. Mgr.
V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr.
Subscribed and sworn to before mo
this 10th day of March, 1923.
W. H QUIVEY,
fSeal) Notary Poblk
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