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The Morning Bee MORNING—EVENING—SUNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY NELSON B. LIPDIKK, Publisher. B. BREWER, Gen. Manager MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Ree is s member. Is exclusirrly entitled to tha ose for i 'publication of all newa dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also ttie itieal news published herein. All rights of republications of our special d) spa trice are also rcscrrcd. BEE TELEPHONES rrivate Rranch Exchange Ask for the Department AT Untie or Person Wa ittd. For Night Calls After 10 P. M.: mnn Editorial Department. AT lantic 1021 or 1042. Iuuu OFFICES Main Office-—17th and Farnam Co. Bluffs ... 15 Scott St. So. Side, N. W. Cor. 24th and N New York —286 Fifth Avenue Washington - 422 Star Bldg. Chicago - - 1720 Steger Bldg. i GENTLEMEN, GIVE US ACTION. An utter lack of harmony is exhibited at Lincoln just now, the legislature and the governor acting at cross-purposes on the most important matters that have been before them from the start. Governor Bryan, especially, has disappointed the hopes held out by his admirers, winning the approbation of his partisan admirers, but failing to measure up to the high standard of administrative ability expected from one elevated to his eminent position. Governor Bryan laid out a program which the legislature declined to approve. His scheme for re arranging the government of the state was not adopted, and he now appears to be animated by a determination to retaliate by defeating any effort of the republican majority to properly take care of the state’s needs. It is not economy, for the meas ures that were defeated on Thursday, if passed, still leave the appropriations fully a quarter of a million dollars under the Bryan budget. A provision in tended to safeguard the state against extravagance is called upon to defeat justifiable legislation, thus turning the law’ against the people. To accomplish his ends, it is alleged, the gov ernor has brought into play all the great powers of his office. He is charged with having threatened to veto measures in which democrats are interested, if they fail to support his policy; it is also asserted that one of the reasons for delay in making ap pointments by/ the governor is to keep certain of the members in line. This attitude is becoming to an adroit politician, but not to an executive, earnestly seeking how best to sene the state. The course of the Bryan and Dysart bills in the house, and of the Mathers bill in the Benate has made it clear that code revision at this session will require more considerate and judicious action, in which partisan fervor will be tempered by a judicial regard for the needs of the state. Such action may yet be taken in time to modify the shape the ap propriation measure is now in. Half a million dol lars has been cut from the governor’s budget, a very tidy sum to save, but possibly achieved at the expense of some service for want of which the pub lic interest will suffer. This measure may be passed by the constitutional majority, since all sums are within the governor's estimates. In this the legislature may win a “victory,” but at the expense of public service, which is worse than no victory at all. Reasonable regard for all inter ests would appear to defend the course advised by The Omaha Bee weeks ago, that the republican legislature and the democratic governor drop party politics and earnestly endeavor to compromise their differences for the benefit of the state. This might have been done long ago, it is not too late to do it now. Should the present temper prevail, the out come bids fair to be disastrous for all. Nebraska’s public interests arc greater than those of any politi cal party, and should be so considered, both by the governor and the legislature. An honest effort to compose the differences will not humiliate either side, and possibly may lead to an understanding that will make possible harmony on the appropriations. Both sides have found out what they can not do; let them now give attention to finding out what they can do. PLANT MONEY, WATCH IT GROW. How many times have you given your mind an exercise gallop by trying to figure out how much money Adam would have had by now if he had put 1 cent out at compound interest at the rate of 6 per cent on the first day of the first month of the first year, and had never touched any of it? It is a pleasant pastime, only the mind soon begins to reel in its effort to comprehend the enormous fig ures that result. A Chicago youth has just placed in the corner stone of a building at Northwestern university a deposit certificate for $25, to be allowed to draw interest at 3 per cent, compounded, until the build ing is razed. The life of the building is estimated at 400 years, and the estimators calculate the fund will be $6,523,000 by that time. Ben Franklin left in trust a certain sum, to be allowed to accumulate for a century, when the whole amount was to be devoted to certain specified purposes. Long ago the courts broke the trust, be cause it was imposing unreasonable conditions on the trustees. Something like that may happen to this. No bank will relish having any considerable sum of money in a “sleeping” account. To build $25 up to more than six and one-half millions, con tinuing over a space of four centuries, is not a trust to be sought for. Maybe the building will not stand that long, for a lot of things can happen, even in Chicago, be tween now and 2323. Still, it is a good thing to talk about, and shows that the heart of the student is in the right place. He is willing to try the ex periment, and the rest of us may well afford to let him. TWO-FISTED PREACHERS It is recorded of Rishop Homer E. Stuntz of the Methodist church that once, when an unruly chap disturbed a meeting he was conducting, he knocked the fellow down, threw him out, and went on with the meeting. This qualifies the bishop for high place in the ehurch Bishop Ernest V'. Shaylcr wants, a church in which the gospellers will be men of muscle as well as of mentality. The idea is a good one; the bishop clearly secs that the fancy of boys and men is more readily taken by the strong and artive, rather than by the effeminate, however powerful of intellect, Yet this should not mean that all mnphasis he laid on physique, for, as Watts wrote long ago, “the mind’s the standard of the man.” Weak bodies iiow and then house giant intellects, and the reverse is true. This must have been in Bishop Shayler’s inind when he made his appeal for the proper phy sical development of the divinity student. Educational effort in a general way is tending to the symmetrical development of mind and muscle alike. The church Is striving to impress on the world the fact that, a mnn may be both devout and healthy, may reverence and worship God and enjoy the good things of the world ut the same time 4 EVENSTEVEN ON SCHOOL FUNDS. Debate in the house over the Mathers Dill to limit levy for school purposes in communities of' 1,000 or under to 12 mills, with the privilege to the citizens to increase by vote the amount to 1(> mills, should aid in centering attention on one of the weak spots in the present system of levying taxes for school support. Speakers pointed out the disparity in wealth between districts, and that 12 mills in one might lead to extravagance, wjpile in another it would not provide a decent support. The uneven distribution of wealth between counties and school districts has produced a result that was not anticipated when the law to standard ize education was enacted. A recent study of the situation in Nebraska disclosed the fact that “the assessed valuation per pupil in average daily at tendance ranges from $1,223.52 to $21,3(12.57 per pupil.” Seven Nebraska districts have an assessed valuation of less than $1,500, while three have an assessed valuation per pupil of more than $20,000. How can these weak districts be expected to keep up in the race with the stronger? The contest is bound to be unequal. Several plans for remedying this state of affairs have been suggested, the most obvious, and maybe the most convenient, being to collect all school funds by one central agency, and apportion them to the districts on a per capita basis. This would equalize the money', but it is open to considerable objection, notably that it would take away in a large degree the local pride that now finds expression in ad vanced means for providing education. A way will have to be discovered, however, to aid the less wealthy districts, if they are to keep even in the race with the older divisions where property values are high and a low levy means a liberal fund. PROFITS IN THE CITY PLANTS Figures do not always make good reading, and balance sheets are as a rule not especially entertain ing. Yet The Omaha Ree is printing one that should be read and studied by every citizen, for it is the showing of profit made by their own plants, the wa ter. gas and ice services owned by the citizens. Analysis of this statement will show several ! things, mostly plain enough to be understood by all. I The first thing that will strike the observer is that j all the services are turning in handsome profits, with a steadily mounting surplus after all allow ances are made for depreciation and sinking funds. j The net gain for the year from the water service was $331,545.26; from the ice service, $67,453.72; and from the gas service, $433,223.97. The water fund now carries a surplus of $1,770, 411.64, after all reserves for insurance, taxes and sinking fund Rre set aside. In the gas fund the net surplus is $339,366.16, while the ice plant has a sur plus of $287,097.88, a total in the three funds of $2,396,875.68. These figures are eloquent as to the character . of the management of the several plants. In them will be noted possibilities of extension, improvement ' and general betterment of the services, and the sug gestion that rates charged might be appreciably lowered without jeopardizing in any way the sue- : cessful operation of either. We commend the report, which is as of January 1, j 1923, to all our readers, as worth the time it will take to gather and digest the information given in i the summarized showing. GIRLS GET THE CREDIT MARKS. Year after year the record is repeated, but it is t always worth the telling, just the name. Girls in the high school lead the boys in the matter of high markings for scholarships. In the Central High this disparity is more marked than ever this year. In the top rating two girls are named, and no boys; in , the next, five girls and two boys, and in the next ten girls and two boys. The boys have this consolation, however; within the next five years conditions will be evened up. It is one of Old Dame Nature’s ways. Yet that fact should not be presented as an alibi for the boy who is falling behind in his study. Ills developing body should not have all the attention, for a little ought to go to his mind, as well. Boys will be boys, and the rule that has continued from the beginning is not likely to be much changed i now. They may not make high grades in school work, but they are absorbing a lot of other knowledge, , some of which will be of service in days yet to come. And the girls will go on getting the honors, fulfilling their destiny, and sometime whispering as did Whit tier’s heroine, "I’m sorry thnt I spelled the word." It is life’s honored rule, never broken and seldom bent. A New Orleans heiress is reported to have mar ried a stable boy in Zurich. A Rockefeller heiress has just wedded a riding master, hut how this will affect the gasoline market is not clear. United States exports for March total $3f>0,000, 000, or $21,000,000 more than in March, 1922, if you still think the foreign market is closed against American producers. Strawberries are reported to he going up in price, but it is a bit early to get excited about this crop. . . —... -— - A revival of the bandit industry might have been put off with no detriment to anybody. A burglar who steals 13 cents and drops $."> void pieces would be welcome in many homes. Judge Lovett may plan on surprising Omaha with j a nice new passenger station. And those bandits didn’t have the virtue of being polite! Well, the Omaha team started all right. Homespun Verse By Robert Worthington Davie ADAIR. Oner when but n little tyke Just old rnoual) to talk. My feet extremely clumsy gave a waver to mv wnlk, 1 toddled to a Mil top in my mother's lender rare. And she pointed out the village hi'h she told mo was A ill I r*. Through the years of youth that village was lo me a sort of Jewel Where t played with other children, where I used to go to school, And a quaint old house was standing In the shelter of a birch Where 1 often went ori fjahbath day to Sunday school and church. Long ago I drifted distant In the new and mystic vast. With tny eyes upon the future and my hack turned to til" past, lint a multitude of treasures paint rt'lrospeitlon fair In my dreams 1 see the valley and the village of Adult 1 - “From State and -Nation” Editorials from other newspapers. Roads I’aj- for Tlirmsrlm. From tJi* Lincoln Sentinel. The total number of automobiles laud trucks registered in the United States for 1023 is approximately 12, <>00,000 (exact number, 12,238,375). The average life of a car, according to highway experts, is five years. Thus Die United States buys 2,200,000 mo tor vehicles every year for replace ment. Good roads will add at least one year to the life of an automobile. Good roads will save, then, to the American public the purchase price of 400,000 automobiles every year. The average purchase price of auto mobiles is about $800. On the 400,000 cars good roads would make a saving of $320,000,000 annually for replace ment. Which shows the greater economy? To expend the amount on road con struction or to scatter it along through nuidhnles and rough roads? The United States “mud tax" for re placement. alone amounts to this enormous sum—$320,000,000. These 12,000,000 automobiles, aver aging a distance of 5.000 miles a year, , travel a distance of 60,000,000,000 miles every year. Good roads will easily reduce the fuel and repairs cost 1 cent per mile. This would make a saving on the 60,000,000,000 miles traveled of $600,000,000 annually. This brings the “mud tax" of the United States to nearly $1,000,000,000 annually, and this tax must he odh t in tied every year ns long as it Is j spent as “mud tax." If it were used j for the construction of good roads it ' wuiid pay big dividends on the in- j vestment, hut expended as a “mud j tfTx" it is a total loss. This “mud tax" would hard surface j about 30,000 miles of road every year, i or it would pay for ten paved roads | from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Applying these figures to Nebraska with iter 256.654 automobiles and trucks, good mads would make a re placement saving of $12,831,200, or a total of $18,565,600 annually. 7s It economy for Nebraska to pay this enormous “mud t;fx?" This amount would pay the cost of traveling 5.000 miles of road every year. lawlessness and I .aw*. ITom the* Minneapolis Tribune. We Americans lead the world In ■ two unique respects: In lawlessness | and laws. We wonder if there isn't a certain association between these two apparently dissociated distinc lions. It is estimated that congress and | the state legislatures together pass I .12.000 laws a year. In 1915 alone no j less than fiO.OOi) hills were flung at the heads of legislators, state and na tloral. Of these about 2,000 were ve 'loed and 13,000 passed. Nobody knows how ,many laws we already have on 1 ,air statute books, but the best guesses lie somewhere between 50,000 ns a minimum and 100.one as a maximum. At our present rate of 120,000 new laws per decade, wrought to pass the million mark about the time the pres ent century draws to a close. The full significance of these figures is best unedstood when they are jux taposed to the British figures. As I against our average of 12.000 laws i per year, the British parliament aver- , ages only about 150. When not launching a n»w aval anche of laws, we Americans are ask i mg ourselves why we are so lawless is a nation. Well, one answer to the question is to be found right here. If voii have a few tried, tested, well ma tured and carefully considered laws on your statute tiooks, your respect for laws a* a whole is likely to be high. If you have r vast heterogen ' e, ,u s mass if ill-digested, hastily con structed c*d Indifferently Improvised j laws on v-itir statute books, your re I spec t for law s as a w hole is likely to be | less high. Kven the good laws suffer las a result. More than that, wlmt hecomes of ' ottr axiom that "Ignorance of the law is no excuse?'' Such an nxtom Is cer tainly sound and desirable, but how, in the name of common sense, is any bodv going to keep up with 30,000 or 12.000 new laws every year? IMiginn in the laboratory. From Th« New York A New York rhureh announces that i it has established a laboratory In . Which religion will he scientifically i analyzed. Thin will do tin harm. . It may result In good. The ah hem I 1st.-, looking for the secret of gold, (laid the foundation of modern chemis try. A man seeking to produce a per ! petual motion machine might stumble ! upon some new application of me |rh«nic.'il principles. The world plunges ahead In science land takes its religion with It. Religion 1 manages too live beside science; to 'most of us. In fmt. every new scion 1 title discovery is another manlfesta Jlion of the wonders of Providence. Keen Prof. Klnsteln's elTort to demon strate the finity of the universe—only made the Infinity more real. !,et the scientific work of the theologians go on; also the theological work of the scientists. The earth Is interested in both lines of resrnrrh. Hut without wishing to discourage any inquiry Into religion from the viewpoint of the chemist and the mathematician, let us suggest that the del vers expect not too much. Home day man may weigh moon light. find the secret of the glow worm's lamp and tnlk with the peo ple of the outer stars Hut even In that day and generation ho will still he nt a loss to account, hy any for mula of the laboratory, for his faith In a future world. And ho will still Daily Prayer j The Juit nhfill llv* by faith —llnl» ? « Oraeloua and mont merciful Father, un como to Thee in Ilia hallowed Name Who Loved ns and gave Him* t*lf for im. We thank Thee that Thou didst guard our home and keep un in anftdy while we alept. We thank Th»*e for the promlaea of Thy Word, ;ind fur the AMiurance of their fulfill* merit to all who trout and tden* Tin t-. We thank Thee for all the bir^nlng* of opportunity and service which have inmo to on with the rryornlng. Help oh to he faithful to Thv Word in nil duty urid opportunity, and to he kind to all In word and nervier. In every tank nr trial, may Thy presence nt lend tin. Make vin dicat e to Thv will .«iir Joy. Help n* In all things to fnl l »\v the example of our Lord. and ihoa to become like Him. Help U* to he kind to the poor, find to all in need. Hive comfort and healing to the nick, to the tired and lonely everywhere, anil help them to look to Him whfii'O cometh help t tone to (he aiiiful In graclouA compaaelon. and hl«pa every efforta to win them to Thyaelf Remember our pastor, and all who pregcp the goppt l In ogr own ,in«l In heathen landn. Put nway the hurt of the sinful and the erring* everywhere, ami hasten ‘the coming and triumph of our Lord. And to Thv Name. Father. Son and Holy Spirit, he all the praise Amen m nunorca t* r sit. l.Uliltf. M'» We Nominate— For Nebraska’s Hall of Fame. — UGI'STA H. KNIGHT came to U Omaha a* Instructor of art at Brownell Hall, but after a num ber of years organized at Omaha uni versity an art department, which has been steadily Increasing in value to the school. She has exhibited since Its origin with the Omaha Art Guild and has Rlso been represented at Chicago Water Color society, Chicago Art institute, has received honorable mention at Northwestern Artists' exhibition, St. Paul, and the Robert Morsman prize for a group of paintings at the recent Nebraska Artists' exhibit. In painting, both water color and nil are used as a medium, the subject chiefly landscape, in the domain of design she both teaches and works In such various handicrafts as leather tooling, silver smithing, copper and pewter, and also batik dyeing. She is a graduate of Pratt institute. Brook lln, and a pupil at various times of St. Isiuis School of Fine Arts. Art Stu dents' league, New York; Chicago Art Institute and the summer colonies of Bodthbav Harbor, Me.; Saugatuck. Mich., and the previous summer at Charles Hawthorne, Provinctown, Mass. be unable* to say, after looking into his test tubes, why one man lays down his life for his friend. For there Is a higher chemistry than that which science knows ps wonders come front the crucible of the human heart. Railroad Efficiency. From Th« Washington Star Senator Couzens of Michigan re. centlv issued a statement charging that the American railway* had not increased in efficiency In the last IS years, and that they are now seeking to make savings primarily by reduc tions in wages. This allegation at tracted widespread attention, and was taken up at once in railway manager ial circles. Today comes to hand a brief in defense of the railways by Julius Kruttsehnitt. chairman of the executive committee of the Southern Pacific company, recognized as one of the leading practical railway of ficials of the country. In a statement given to th» press Mr. Kruttschnitt asserts that Senator Couz»ns' assumption that the chief railway economy has been red wed wages is mistaken. Out of a reduc tion of approximately $1,000,000,000 a year in labor cost of railway opera tion he claims that only $350,000,000 represents decreased wages. The bal ance, he asserts, has been the result of efficiency and economy of opera tion. He points out that the railways In 1922 carried a traffic not great ly less than that of 1920. To do this, he gays, "they employed an average of 1,615.237 employes in 1922, as against 2.012.600 In 1920." Commenting upon Senator Couzens' charges that In IS years there has been no Improvement In locomotive performance. Mr. Kruttschnitt holds the statement to tie erroneous. He says that during the past IS years the increase in power of each locomo tire, plus the lncrenrn In tho number of locomotives, producer) an Increase of 97 per cent in the aggregate power of freight locomotives, so that "with only 97 per cent increase in power they have moved 139 per cent more revenue ton miles." Senator Couzens had quoted from Henry Ford's sug gestions for effecting economy on rail roads and elsewhere. Mr. Kruttschnitt says that Mr. Ford, "a novice in the busSiess of running a railway." ar rives at conclusions which are at va riance with the exjieiiienoe and judg ment of those who spent their lives in the study of the subject. The railways are to be under dis cussion increasingly from now on, and the public will he interested. Ex changes of views between laymen and experts on the great question of man agement and efficiency of the people's transportation system ought to prove enlightening. Mill Too Many, From Tli* ( Isvtdsnil Plain l'*al*r. Culling olT federal employes at the rate i f r,t>,00<l a year, the administra tion proceeds with Its task of demo* blitzing the civilian nrniv which was recruited fur the war. There are still more than half a million on the Wash ington pay roll, or approximately 25 per cent, nil'll- than there were be 1 fore the war. So far the facts are 1 encouraging. The disconcerting part of It Is that, ns seen at the capital, the number of federal employes Is not likely to fall much lower than the half million level. The machinery of government at Washington is overmanned now, as I It was In-fore the war. (Julie prob ably. more employes are needed now i than were needed before we crossed the sea to Join the allies against (ter many. The trouble goes back far beyond 1917 or 1914. It baa been ac cumulating through many years JO very expert survey of government activities demonstrates the fact that the government departments are over loaded with men and women whose host service to the country would he to come home. AVERAGE CIRCULATION (or MARCH, 1923, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily.73,907 Sunday.80,029 pitta not inrludr rrturtii, Wi - i 0irr«, sttnplra nr p*prr« spoiled in * uHuHttff *u4 li»«ludr« no «p*ri«l j *»!«*». * » ** B. BREWER, Gtn. Mgr. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. j \ Auhan ihrd and iwotn to hr fat a mr (hi* Ad day ®! April, 102.1 W II QUIVEY. (Aral) Notary Public “The People’s Voice’’ ItfiterlHl* from read'rg of Tht Moraln* R*» of Th* Morning Rm or• Invlfod to IM thl* column frnnly for e«pr«iilon on mattcri of public letarcat. In Reply to Mini Wbo. Superior, Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha lire: The writer wi:hcs to thank The Omaha I’pp tar tlie -plendid privilege it gives to daily . readers for free * x precision on mat I ten* of public interest. The sketch, “Politics and Women.” signed “Miss Who,” of Wednesday's edition was read with Interest. The question. “Can the modern woman master politics?" might be answered mor«* clearly by defining the words “polities’' and “modern.” According to Webster: “Politics is the science of government; management of a politi cal party, or. in a bad sense, political i trickery.” “Modern pertains to pres ent time: novel, new." Most d linitions | have double meanings, good and bad sense. The question therefore dis I solves itself into the following: “Can I the present clay woman grapple with | the science of government: can the, i novel, new woman capture and charm the trickery of politics?” Judging from the active federated womens clubs throughout the coun try, it only need be affirmed that th® “woman” is doing it. She begins at home, organizing her home duties into system. In city affairs, she euoour- j ages clean alleys, streets swept, sup- 1 ports protection of game and birds. ; She is found in the school, seeking to lift standards higher, encouraging 1 great love and co-operation between J home and nation, l*ast but not least, I her active interest is shown by at tendance of all elections. The ques tion is no longer open concerning | woman’R ability. Facts show that she is proving her faith by demonstration. The novel, new woman whose in terest is dress. r:ryle, physical beauty, is hardly worthy of consideration. She has no trouble in grappling with and mastering political trickery. She is well started. Reports show that men have gone insane over her stunning j beauty. Modern jazz songs talk ft the vamp as a hero'ne. With smiles and klsseg of Judas she wins the male sex and with bouquets ot flattery she keeps her own sex engaged in an infinite round of fickleness. Little Mies Who, we admit that much, does depend on broadminded ness, but some “streams are so broad they are shallow’.” Right is always radical. It is l»eing shown that the real woman can demonstrate the » science of government, and certainly; no one will doubt but that the coun terfeit can maintain the art of it, (if we ar® allowed the privilege of at tributing the “smoothness" of tricks being called “art?”) MRS. WHO. Organized Labor Cleans House. Omaha—To the Editor of The Oma ha Bee: Organized labor of Omaha; seems to have caught the spirit of spring, and has decided to clean house. ' The board of directors of the Labor , temple has forbidden any more meet irgs of the Trade I*ni«m Educational j league or the I^abor Defense council in the Labor temple. Also, the local labor paper which has been promoting these two organizations in Omaha, and which has had its office in the ] temple for several years, is moving out. There seems to be a real de sire on the part of tlie Labor temple ■ management to divorce the Labor tern* ! pie from the Fosterized. boring from- { within, parlor bolshevism, and in this determination, the home of labor is I to be congratulated. One of the things that has gotten j organized labor into a false position) before the public is the fart that : while the bona fide labor men are looking after their own affairs, the ! revolutionaries are continually and' Every Little Bit Helps. News note: fourteen fish profiteer* were sentenced to jail hj a Mas sachusetts judge. From th« Waubmg'on Star vociferously clamoring for the ear of the public and pretending to speak for labor, except that these two organiza no connection between the Trade Union Educational league and the Labor Defense council, both children of the brain of William Z. Foster and his fellow communists, and organized labor, except that these two organiza tions have been organized by the one lug union advocates to destroy the legitimate trade unions. To allow them to meet in the Labor temple, and pose as representatives of labor was a mistake and the correction of this mistake by barring them and their promoters from the Labor temple will go far toward establishing the real labor organizations and their spokes men in the confidence »»f the public, W. K RITER. Walking by Faith. Omaha—To the Editor of The Oma ha Bee- Much has been written of la*e in opposition to Dr. F. G. Smith s lectures, relative to the correct inter pretation of Bible events. While many of us cannot agree with his manner of reasoning: hut inasmuch as we do not help support the magnificent edifice wherein lie holds forth, perhaps it would look more j»o!ite to let his own congregation, if they are not rati fied with his views, settle that matter among themselves. It is a fact, however, that Christ, or none of his apostles, ever questioned the truthfulness of the accounts given relative to the creation, the flood, or any other that are now being dis cussed. We have never yet heard the | honesty of any of these early teachers questioned, and we are Inclined to believe that it is altogether too late now to spring anything of this kind, to have any effor t upon the honest-to t»od i 'hristians. who are exhorted to "Walk by faith, not by sight." The deplorable thing about all such discussions is the fj.-t that they are all im-lined to encourage a skeptical view of not only the old Bible, but the teachings of Christ and his a; * tlr-s in the New Testament, The old dyed-in-the-wool sectarians would much rather hear subjects of the kind orated upon, than their duties *o their fellow man. and It is only the new born lambs that are liable to be led ast ra v. Modern methods are to make it as easy as possible to become a member of the congregation, and then to feed them on skimmed rnilk instead of nourishing food. Listen to Paul s let ter to the young preacher, Timothy: "Preach the word: be instant in sea son. out of s-ason: reprove, rebuke, exhort w ith all long suffering and doc trine. Por the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine." Second Timothy, fourth chapter A. M. TEMPLIN’. And Tliis From England Tr, the recent debate on Lady As*or ■ liquor bill a member of the British* house of commons said that there were now but two clasaes of Ameri cans. "those who still had a little and '.hose who had a little still." Is this of British or American vintage?— Springfield Republican. S Lowe Brothers g paints - Varnishes SOLD IN OMAHA BY C. O Hurd. Ben .on Nerth Sid. Hardware Co, W illiamt-Vounf Hardware Co, in, k, .. . _ 220 South 24th St. 4'12 North 24th It. Merer Hardware Ce. M J' Sl”<m> 291S Leavenworth St. 5302 Sou,h 3®«l> »*• AM Schoeninj Hardware Ce, f£k jy^^^^^T06Wea^Br^^way^^Counci^Bluffe^I^^^ New Car-A' ht*_. You V\ hy don t you stop driving that dingy old car? Uress it up with a new glossy coat, such as comes out of a can of Lowe Brothers Auto Varnish Colors. * ^ f.?s^ °{ a ^ew gallons of gas you can give it a linish like a looking-glass. 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