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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
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“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
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Sunday.80,029
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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?—
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