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NO TIME TO CHANGE ARCHITECTS.
Both the democratic and republican platforms
in the last state campaign called for the construction
of the new state capitol within the limit of the
$5,000,000 appropriation. The resolution adopted
by the house of representatives, calling on the cap
itol commission to hold expenses down to this figure
is in accord with public opinion and the law.
It is, however, one thing to demand economy
and quite another to suggest a change of architects
midway in the project. The proposal in a new
resolution to discharge Bertram G. Goodhue, the
designer of this great building, can not be consid
ered as a move toward economy. -Only large and
unnecessary waste could be expected from the ter
mination of this contract. Mr. Goodhue has been
engaged to carry out the orders of the capitol com
mission, and undoubtedly if this board instructs him
to plan the work on a smaller settle he can do so.
As Lincoln said, the middle of the stream is no
place to swap horses.
What must be held in mind is that Mr. Goodhue
is one of America’s greatest architects. The com
mittee of investigation did not find anything of
serious consequence in the charges brought against
him by the disgruntled former state engineer,
George E. Johnson. Nor did the report of this
committee advocate any such action as is now pro
posed in the legislature.
Mr. Goodhue is the right man to carry the monu
mental stale capitol to completion. Since the original
plans arc his, it is to be believed that he can put
up the building at less cost than any one else. Let
the capitol commission hold in mind the limits of
the appropriation and so arrange affairs that they
will not exceed this.
What the taxpayers of Nebraska have ordered is
the best state house that can be built for $5,000,
000. A clear statement from Governor Bryan and I
his fellow members of the capitol commission should
be forthcoming to the effect that they will endeavor
to meet this demand.
AMERICAN GOOD FAITH.
Confidence between nations receives a great im
petus through the action of President Harding in
regard to increasing the power of American naval
guna. His action in ordering the elevation of gun
turrets to be held in abeyance displays a thorough
resolve to live wholly within the international agree
ment for the limitation of armament.
One of the finest achievements of the Harding
administration was the Washington conference at
which the great powers agreed to certain definite
limits of naval expansion. The mad race for arma
ment threatened to bankrupt many nations and
<. reate dangerous suspicions. In putting a stop to
this menace not only were great savings to the peo
ple of the world made possible, but one cause of in
ternational friction w-as removed.
The late congress, through a misunderstanding,
was led to believe that Great Britain had so elevated
some of the guns on its warships as to give them
longer range. How this impression reached the
United States Navy department is something of a
mystery, for both Secretary of State Hughes and
the assistant secretary of the navy, Theodore Rdose-»
velt, jr., have since announced that it was untrue.
Before this was discovered, however, changes had
been ordered in our fleet.
In order to avoid any charge that America was
violating the Washington agreement. President
Harding has now held up the $6,500,000 appropria
tion for elevating American guns. The whole mat
ter is to be submitted to the next congress.
Thus America has scrupulously guarded against
any appearance of flouting the disarmament pact.
An example has been set for the other signatory j
nations. No excuse has been given for their ex- |
feeding the provisions of the treaty, and no ques
tion can be raised against the good faith of America. ;
THE HEROES OF PEACE.
Some of these days a literary genius will sit down ;
and write the Great American Novel, and the hero
thereof will not lie a soldier, nor a financier. He ,
will be the old-fashioned country doctor. Not the
present Hay medical specialist who covers many miles
in his automobile, hut the old country doctor who
rode horseback when the roads were so bad his team
could not pull the buggy. No matter what the dis
tance or the condition of the roads; no matter what
the weather, or how long it had been since he has
slept in bed, he was ready to answer every call, and
to give all he had of science and experience to his
neighbors and his friends. A poor business man as
a rule, he seldom acquired earthly riches, but be did
lay up treasure where moths could not corrupt, nor
thieves break through and ste.d. He advised not only
.n matters of health, but in matters of thi heart. lie
set the feet of many ati erring girl back upon the
paths of righteousness, and put starch into the back,
bone of many a young fellow who was wobbling to
. wards destruction. •
The old-fashioned country doctor is now almost
its extinct as the dodo. In his place is the medical
specialist, the doctor who specializes in surgery, and
all the other branches. The old-time physician had to
know enough about all of them to serve his day and
generation, and he served them faithfully and well,
Most of us have seen the reproduction of the point
ing. “The Country Doctor.” It shows a father and
mother standing with arms entwined hy the side of a
cot on which their stricken babe is lying. Seated by
the cot is the old country doctor, one hand on the
baby's pulse, the other iydding his watch while he
counts off the pulse beats with the ticks of the watch.
It is a picture that tells a story to millions of fathers
and mothers. Now the world awaits the writer who
c an give us the really great American novel, written
about, one of that noble band of real heroes, the
country doctors.
The only solution of the dandelion problem is to
discover some use to which the pest, may be put. and
then it will have to be cultivated. No. dandelion w.ne
will not do. In the first place it isn't wine a tall,
and In the second place it is worse than the original
dandelion.
COLLEGE SPIRIT AND THE CORONER.
Class spirit is commendable, and class rivalry is
inevitable at any school, but one boy is dead, an
other is dying and several others are in the hospital
because of an insane exhibition of class spirit at
Northwestern university. The feud between the
freshmen and sophomores has risen to such a tide
that a truck loaded with freshmen was driven in
front of a rapidly approaching car, the intent being
to halt a sophomore class procession.
It, worked. The procession was halted, to gather
up the dead and dying, t.hc wounded and the wreck
age, and so the experiment was a success to the ex
tent that it carried out the plan. But what a plan!
In 1921 the sophomore class kidnaped a freshman,
who never since lias been seen at Northwestern. So
the natural feud between the classes was embittered
and is carried on. The ordinary person will not
easily understand why this is so. The sophomore
class of 1921 is the senior class this year and the
freshmen of that year will be the seniors in 1924.
One might he excused for thinking that the bitter
ness would be between upper classman, and that
the lower classes, who have entered school since the
affair of which they complain took place, might have
some better cause for rivalry than an event of the
sort.
What about the authorities at. Northwestern,
who permit this sort of madness to continue? Are
the presidents, the deans, the faculty members,
stripped of power and authority, so that they can :
not check the foolishness? College spirit is highly I
desirable, but the effervescence of youth should he j
checked somewhere this side of murder and suicide, j
BARROWS TO LIVE AGAIN.
"Pel” Barrows is back in the newspaper game
again. Me has tired of the husks That arc doled out )
to politicians,-and weary of the cares and emptiness !
of office-holding. As lieutenant governor of the '
great state of Nebraska during four momentous
years, he contnbuted materially to its history, for !
he was acting governor during quite a spell of the
time. Yet that is just what settled his mind on the
point.
As executive of the state, he found himself
hampered and hedged about by laws, rules and reg
ulations, constitutional provisions and all that sort
of thing, with people urging him this way and that,
and just a figyre on the board. As the editor of a j
great country weekly, he will be a different Bar- |
rows. Sometimes he will be able to say his soul
is his owiT? to write what is in his heart, and to do
a lot of things he never could do when he was in
office. He can go fishing once in a while, he can at- !
tend the meetings of the state press association and
mingle with a lot of mighty good fellows, and in I
many ways may enjoy himself as he was not per
mitted to do when in office.
When it comes to pursuing the delinquent sub
scriber, he will not he a great deal worse off than
he was when he was trying to collect his pay from
the great state of Nebraska. The legislature did a
fine thing when it discharged the public obligation
to this faithful servant, lie is now in a position to
repay this by public service of the sort that only
the editor of a real family newspaper can give, and
we feel very sure he will give that service.
TITLE ADDS NO WORTH TO WIFE.
"A prince may make a belted knight, a marquis,
duke an’ a’ that,” wrote Burns in one of his finest
flights, and went on: “A honest man's aboon his
might.” This flashes into the mind on reading that
the night before her wedding King (icorge IV clc-,
vated Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon “to the dignity of
princess.”
As if that coaid make any difference to her. She
already had the highest of earthly ranks for a woman
—she was queen over the heart of a man, about to
become his wife, and the mainstay and prop of his
home. N'o matter if that home is a royal one. sur
rounded by all the pomp and magnificence of kingly
state, its glory in the end depends on wife anil
mother. No title bestowed by man can add dignity
to that simple but most honorable condition. Lady
Mary has wedded the man of her choice, and her
husband has the girl he wants. That is all there
is to it.
A lot of democratic organs arc talking like they
believed that sugar was on the free list before the
Fordney-MeCumbcr tariff was enacted. But that
is about the measure of the average democrat's
knowledge of the tariff.
Of course that hunch of Omaha boosters will not
have to do any knocking while they are swinging
around the circle. All doors will be open to tHem
long before they get within knocking distance.
The hum of prosperity drowns out even the
direful and doleful wails of the prophets of adver
sity. This portends a shifting of campaign issues
between now and next spring.
Harness the 1’latte and Niobrara and make them
pull the industrial load. Tame the Missouri and
make it carry a goodly share of our commerce to the
gulf.
About the greatest Haul of Fame we recall was
when Uncle $am pulled Europe out of the clutches
of Kaiser Bill.
Homespun Verse
Ry Robnl Worthington Davie.
DAWN 1$ NIGH.
Price* rise and pi i* e* fail, fortunes com#* and for
tunes go,
Men with hacks against the wall strive to brave tho
final blow;
They who gn ruble Fate defy and some day must pay
the price,
Speculation’* death is nigh, the producer gets his slice.
Right is slowly winning out to the toller’s glad sur
prise,
And his smile will he « shout when the plans ma
terialize.
Time will thank the patient few, honor them as well
it can.
Who, so arduous and true, give equality to man—
Rocnmponr-e for manly tasks, time and means for
needed rest:
These the tired farmer asks and b> them is being
blessed—
Messed by naught but what he earns fighting for the
world’s success.
Feeding it for fair returns for his toil and faithfulness?
Come, O, com#! The siren calls to the verdant fields
and fair
Where the man in overalls keeps i he masses from
despair,
Puilfls the cities wealth endotv*, labors that the woild
lie fed.
fclow r- and weeds and reaps and plows for the future
harvest bed
t ollie. II. come to meet lux smile which has known a
struggle grim!
II* has earned the bettei while# yive your grateful
thanks to him
“From State and
-Nation”
Editorials from other
newspapers. \
The World’s Homeliest Woman.
From the Hastings Tribune
There may be one or two girls in
Nebraska w ho could not be counted
among those who drew a blue, ribbon
at a. beauty show, but at that they
would haye as much to lie thankful
I for—as all Nebraska girls at*e pretty,
if not beautiful.
But, at that. beauty is only it priv
ilege of nature.
At least it is safe to say that Miss
Mariar Bevans of New York is of that
opinion.
Miss Bevans is traveling with a
circus, and is being widely billed as
the "homeliest woman In the whole
wide world—and she admits it.
One glance at her physiognomy
wop Id cause one to think that an
Egyptian mummy was as beautiful as
a million-dollar screen actress.
Her face is shaped ,like a warty ou
eumber, and judging from' her pic
tures in the piper, very much resem
bles a stewed prune.
Her hands look like hams, while It
would take a yardstick to measure
her little pink toes.
She has anything but a swanlike
neck, an alabaster brow, or a shell
like ear. I
Her neck looks like a deflated foot
ball with a ruffle a round It. and her
ears resemble a couple of decayed
pumpkins.
As to her form.
Well, say! j
It is one of those kind that look
like a molasses barrel bursting j
through the middle.—
No doubt her carriage is like that j
of aitruck horse, and her movements
as graceful as a cow.
But, after all, the fountain of
beauty lies In the heart, and It, Is the
divinity within that makes the divin
ity without.
The Farmer'* Son.
From the Fremont Tribune.
Without consulting statistics, it I
would probably be perfectly safe to ■
make d guess that of all men the 1
farmer works the hardest throughout
his life and gets the least material re. '
suits. He is a workman whose labors !
are governed' entirely by the condl
lions under which they must In* per- \
formed. There are no set hours by
which bis working day is regulated, j
Front dawn until dark, year in and
year out. he must go faithfully about
his task of providing foodstuffs fur a
hungry world nnd Incidentally- of pro
'Mine the means' of livelihood for
himself and his dependent®.
Occasionally, however, tye find *
farmer who has been fortunate
enough to combine hard work with
good luck to the extent that he has
amassed a fair portion of the world's
good?. As such a man looks hack over
the years of privation, toil and hard
ship. it ih his devout wish that his
children, and their children, shall
never have to slave for existence as
he has done.
Have you ever heard a retired
farmer exclaim "One thing i« sure,
1 will have th** comfort of knowing
that my boy will'never have to work,
as i have** " Once delivered from his
life-long burden of toll, the retired
farmer desires onlv peace and rest
in a comfortable Utile home where
he and his wife, his helpmate through
all the trials and sufferings ««f the
years on the farm, may pass their de
clining years. Hut for his children his
views are different. He wants them
to lx* happy and free from care, to
have the advantages of education and
to be free to select their own occu
pations.
We know i.f such a farmer who
made a tidy fortune from the soil and
when he was well advanced in age,
moved to a neighboring town with
his farnih His determine?ino that
his boy should not know the grind of
hard labor was welj kept The lid
was given a car. clothed well and sent
to school. He was to have every op
portunity to make a man "f Mrne* If
with the Past possible effort
Hut lie didn't do well at hb* studies
His carefree existence was re
fp'fed in his attitude toward life.
While still in his teens he left
school. He apparently had no
definite idea of what he was to do in
the future. He didn’t rare He drifted
in wit li a crowd of ho vs of the same
temperament and sought his pleasures
in pool halls
This turn of affairs did not please
h;s father but he t • »1* I lim.-e'lf that
the Hoy "must have his fllnsr" l*»for*
settling down to work. It could not
he possible that his son was really
lazy Xo boy with the blood of gen
erations of hard workers in his veins
I could he i no account
The lad continued In his Indifferent
< otirse. He w as not had. but his care
lessness got him Into little scrapes
that annoyed the parent. Suddenly
| the storm broke.
A group of men had been gambling.
Daily Prayer j
flojoico evermor* Pray without ct««
Irir In ew-ry thing give 'hink f*.r thin
I* the will of tjoil it* * TiriM J»mi* con
cerning you. Quench not the spirit l»o
M"*e not prnphem ,'u;. |’r« « all thing
Ai | f.• wt fh^t nhli It t.1 good Al'-tiri
from all appearance evil. And the very
tjod of |>c«i «• eari- tlf/ pm wholly- ami I
piny (iotfl jour whole ipirll am! *oui and
lx»dy tw» prfaarvod M«nie)**a unto the
coming of our Lord Jenua Christ —1
The** «:1<I-21
Create In us n clean heart. O God
*ind renew m right spirit within un
Fast ux not nway front Thy presence,
and take not Thy Holy Spirit from
us. We commend to Thy loving pro
, tertion all those for whom we long
| to pray (especially those whom w o
j now name in our heart ft before Thee
>. <»ive to them ail their heart s
'desire, we pray Thee, m as fat •
Thou seost it l»« st, for .Tentin' • tk<
Bring fitch of us. t> Father, to ttte
• lose of litis day in peace and ln»noi
For all those who love us so much
better than we deserve, we thank
ripe. For Their sitk* * help us to
sanotify ourselves this dav. And do
Thou, O T<ord. grant that we rnn\
abide steadfast Jn tills purpose, and
1*V Tfcv continual aid he fully master
of nil the desires and emotions of our
I hearts. For .Testis' sake Amen,
nrv .mi iv i ms ah park.
West New mn. Ma«r
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CIRCULATION
tor MARCH. 1923, of
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V. A RRIDGE, Cir M«r.
| .Suh*crihed and iwnm In he fore me
thia .id day of April. 1112 I
W H QUIVfV.
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We Nominate—
For Nebraska's Hall of
Fame.
Itoberl .1. Dinning, ,lr.
ROBKUT J. DINNING, Jr., painter
chiefly of landscapes, was born
and raised |n Omaha, lie iias
to bis credit at least six years of
study in the Art Institute of Chicago,
• he Pennsylvania Academy and the
Art Students’ league rtf New York.
Ills instruction was tinder Daniel Gar
her. Arthur R Carles, J-Mwin H.
niashfleld, John K. Carlson, Kugene
Speicher ami others, llis contact
with these men registers deeply in
his work, not in imitation but in the
constant effort to go beyond the super
ficial aspect of his subject. Although
his preference is landscape, his cun
\ asses of city.scapes and of In
teriors with figures attest to his well
rounded training and versatility. He
sees great possibilities for a painter
in this new country of ours and in
his Nebraska subjects be shows his
grasp of its essential characteristics.
One is always conscious of Ills love of
color as well as a sound understand
ing of the principles of painting, al
though neither obscures the Impres
sion of the work as a whole.
Mr. Dinning has exhibited in New
York and Philadelphia. He woii first
prize in the eonmurs of the Art Stu
dents Dengue for landscape painting.
He exhibited in both of the Nebraska
artists’ exhibitions held by th" Omaha
Society of Fine Arts and last vear
was awarded honorable mention.
Mural decorations have occupied much
of his interest during the last few
years. A number of hl» paintings
have been acquired by Omaha col
lectors.
_4
there was trouble among them, one
of them was shot. They were all ar
rrated and confined in the city jail—
all hut one v\ ho had disappeared. This
one man was th*- farmer's son.
Nnw Hv.c the parent, the industrious
farmer who had wrested an unwilling
living fr*<ni a stubliorti t*«»iX* < an re
fleet upon the past, we wonder who
he will Main* inure, the son or him
self.* Did he do the boy a favor, or
did he deliberately undermine his fu
ttire. by making life's p.ith easy for
hlin'’ lie did not teach th* lad the
same habits of thrift, industry and
honesty that had enabled him fhe
father t*> attain cmct Pn& He built the
smooth highway upon which ambi |
ti.»n might travel;'w ithout ever reallz
i g that In this very act he was kill
Ing ambition itself.
Where Much Fault Lies.
f’^in th* WajDf ll*ra)4.
People usually look too fu in try
ing to find the cause * f their trouble®
They blame the government or social
conditions, whereas the fault usually
tests with themselves. Lunr judg
tuent. unwise investments, luxurious
habits or wild spending cannot he
justly charged to one's town or neigh
borhood or to the inadequacies <»f so
eiety generally. The government
cannot order people's brains re
churned and redistributed and their
tendencies altogether modified or
* hanged When we do foolish things
for which wo have to suffer, we
should not employ a spyglass to locate
the cause, but take ourselves out into
the Micky,ml and talk ovej dthort
comings privately and quietly and fix
the responsibility where it belongs, at
the same time resolving to he drawn
into the vortex •<( (diildish indisrretihr
with less frequency. Conditions are
not so much qt fault as ourselves.
Hound to Happen.
Tip for the icvkbss driver: You
can never tell w lien you are going
to meet some other fool in the road
— New Orleans Times Picayune.
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“The People’s
Voice”
i Editorial! from reader* of Th* Moralnf Be*. (
Readers of The Morning Bee ar* Invited to .
w«e this column freal* for cuprasslen on I
matters of public Interest. S
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In Defense of the Railroads.
Council Bluffs, la.—To the Editor
j °f The Omaha Bee: 1 have noticed
from time to time expressions from
i William R. Daly with always a refer
< nee to the shopmen’s strike.
It seefns that the railroads and the
general public have forgotten this
strike and if there are some men who
are working at smaller wages than
that which they formerly received
with the railroad the gates are open
for them to go and ask for a job. The
most of them have asked for their old
jobs back but as other men were in
their places it was Impossible to use
them at this time and there are others
that they would not have back. I am
referring to the men who don't know
what union principles are and cast a
reflection on the entire organization
by their criminal acts.
What brought this strike? The men
cast aside medfation, conciliation and
arbitration and by force tried to make
congress pass a special law and at the
same time tried to destroy their own
employers and make the public suffer
by stopping up the arteries of the na
tion. Wages were still 40 to 113 per
oent over prewar wage and the freight
rates are up alxtut 60 per cent. The
railroads paid taxes per mil© in 1912,
$440.00. while it was $1,100.00 per mile
In 3921. The unions don't care where
the money comes from as long as
somebody else furnishes the brains to
make the money that pays th*dr sal
ary. The Bock Island railroad an
nounced they would operate their
shops with 9.500 men where they for
merly had 11,500. This looks like they
never will settle with the walking del
egates as the company has no quar
rel with the men and actually gave
them limited time to think it over and
come back to work and receive* their
pension and pa-s privileges with the
assurance that they would not be laid
off. The men took their letters to the
labor hall and after a fiery speech
from some of their number they made
a bonfire of these letters of special
privileges.
The McAdno fool rules are a thing
of the past on the railroad© tDat have
not settled, and I find with the com
pany uninn that the modern breezes
of conciliation are working with per
fect harmony between the men and
the company.
At the end of your article you state
how much will the sugar fru«t con
tribute to the campaign to re-elect
Harding Just noticed that an injunc
tion was issued against these profiter*
and they will feel the effect of the
law a^ it strikes against the rich as
well as the poor, only the rich man by
denying himself at some fhne in his
life was able to create a surplus and
«tave off the law for a time
GEORGE CLANCY.
Against Potato Grading
Alliance, Neb..—To the Kditur of
th»* Omaha Bee
What are our state* senators sent
to Lincoln for?
! write this in defense of the f irm
**r* of ’ho state.' The farmer* of the
potato growing districts in Nebraska
•petitioned the state legislature to re- 1
peat the potato grading law which Is
compulsory on ail growers and ship
pers. This law is a c urse to the p* *a*
to growing IndustrV There were
several petitions filed with the agri
culture committe*.*. Those petitions
carried signatures of over 100 names
of farmers and business men asking
the repeal of this law Otheo repre
aanta lives framed a new bill w hich
w as go<*d. Kverybody was satisfied with
i■ and it passed unanimously, but
when It got to the senate it was kill
d
Now what farmers want to know
I* what do we send those senators,
down to Lincoln for? Ts it to sit
around, smoke hieh priced cigars and
live st the finest hotels and make
laws for the corporations, make laws
to increase our taxes or make a,state
park somewhere or put a few fish
»h some pond 'hat frog* can't live in?
Th>* i- rsl "(it the M/* "f the l»w*. we
*?"t from th* *enHtf*rs tliN w inter but
when the f irmers who sent their
senators flown there want a law
imended they get turned down bv a
f* w men. that are so narrow minded .
they «-annot *ee atjy farther than
th* nose on their t *■ <\
Those senators who voted against
• *
1 »i<l their friends in Lincoln county
good by: they never will gel l Sick after
another election. 1 want -utile . .f the
senators who voted against thi* bill
n explain why thev did so If they
cannot give a satisfactory answer to
he farmers of the potato growing ,
districts in the -tote, they might as
ell resign their position as law
maker* for the farmer* for they are
not doing anything for the people
that sent them down there
no you think we people In the po
tato industry are going to stand for
rnch narrow minded servants as this
THE NEW HALL OF FAME
Fir at Record b\ the
Metropolitan'.»
brilliant new tenor i
GIACOMO
LAURI-VOLPI
This great new tenor, who astonished New
York at his recent Metropolitan Opera Com
pany dehut. has chosen to he recorded ex
clusively by Brunswick. His first record is
out now:
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! lias shown you to l><- by compelling
tts by law to work and plant and bar
vest a crop of potatoes and then have
to throw away halt of them to g, t to
fell the other half? Potatoes an sell
ing on the market here now from X to
20 cents per bushel on account of phis
cussed law. Potatoes in Kansas are
selling to consumers for $1.3.', per
bushel, where they have no conipul
sory grading law. There, have been
housands of busheTs of good table
potatoes gone to waste here on ac
count of this compulsory grading law.
LEO KASTNEIt, Jr.
Women and Politics.
Omaha.—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: O. I". Guessbopp? I-guesMd
j who he is the first time. Il»p is a man
| who should be proud of America's in
telligent women. Brooklyn bridge re
mains Brooklyn bridge and it will
I throughout the ages, but no longer
<<f any use to the public. A new
bridge has been built to take its plap
And a rule la a ruin, i*p he s»n* i
know of no rule that works any bet
ter than the "golden rule."
The rules men have made are -so
irqnclad, yet, 1 believe b*: is sincere
w'hen lie says a child can break them,
but a man won t. A man s a man,
for a’ that and a' that."
Women are determined to master
politics. Where there is a will there
is a way. Hi, d:iy is; fast approach
ing when all these hamburger-frying
women will be aide to grease the
wheels of ti,o government and savi
the day—for "the mastei of politic.'. '
MLS UF> A^X Cl'AIM ING.
A Bonnets Woman on Prohibition.
Norfolk. Neb.—To the Editor "f
The Omaha Bee- Edwards of New
Jersey says through the press and on
the lecture platform that the prohlbi
non Law is the most damnable law of
today. Edwards, you are an illusion
Aou have ejes and see not, eats and
hear not. "
I ant a traveling representative for
a high class wholesale hou-» I have
laen on the road for 15 years. 1 «as '
on the roait when we had saloons, and
p-ince saloons have iwa-n closed I feel
the prohibition law itself )s very good.
Now the thing today that is dsmna
,Me > the. nonenforp "men, of the pro
hibition law by our policemen, city,
county, state, and sometimes unr gov
eminent officers Now Edwards, be
honest to our God and our dear r g
A and your fellow men and your
M‘r and you will never r.f."at what
.'on sai,J. The Bible tea.-hes that
Plunk IS wrong, in Numbers x 3 we
read the law concerning the Nazar
! ,J!, rea^* **' shall separate
himself front wine and strong drink.”
In Leviticus 10 9; -Do n..t drink wme
nor strong drink. Thou ncr thy sons
with thoo " Ho Qov-rnor K iwanin,
right about fare, forward. inarch.
Forget .-elf. forget polite* forget
money. Ut God direct you in 1928
1924.
"For what proflteth a man if he
gain the whole world and lone hie
*ou!.“ We cannot he true to God
and true to America and be on the
"wet aide." "You cannot serve G*>d
and mammon." Yours for law en
t' t cement. MRS. NELLIE FRANK.
Immigrants \re C oming Fast Enough.
Fffjifi th^ r»«* Capital.
Ninel y-ejght p« r cent of the people
■ h'j li * ■ u it ■/* *ted v''lions- uf
New York **iiy live in rented apart
n f-niH or ||r. •,». jf, wiipj-, only
‘1 per cent own their own homes. This
»>* a distressing statement of facts.
The .situation i* not helj»ed by the fact
that New York is in a large measure
a foreign city. .V v it i« proposed to
make the situation worse by liberaliz
ing the laws in regard to letting peo
ple in. from other countries The
claim now is tliat there is a shortage
of labor. The steel cori^rations and
other large employers are asking that
more laborers be admitted from
Europe.
Thoso who advocate letting the
cheap labor of Europe in as a rule are
in favor of having the products of
Europe kept out. Th* want “free *
Irbor «ind a protective" market.
These two position? are inconsistent,
but that makes no difference to thos*
who have learned how to make money
rapidly. These people do not alwar -
"top to consider the fact tliat our vot
ing population now contains a
tremendous number of ignorant res.
dents w ho do not vote and who would
i -■! h*ip the Situation mu* h if they
did. At the last presidential flection.
20.ndO.OOo of voters fiid i t vote. Yet
at a convention held in Des M^nes
recently a speaker recommended
turning the government of the United
States over to the people, forgetting
that th* government is already in the
' "f the people if they are int*
r *ted enough to go to the polls. There
i« to b* an election next year and it
i» time that the facts be placed be
the p. *pje not t v idle talk*:*
but by those who are responsible for
what they mv.
Th* ('apjvil not in favor of ,
creased immigration. Tb* most im
portant duty is to educate the ini
migrant? we have already received
and try to interest them in the affairs
of .he United States.
The Shy Wallflowers.
An e , r!y discus. n of pres.dent..1!
Candida* k s :s *o he encouraged as a
inf ns of giving prom r ent e to wor
thy people who would never othej
wi-e u- mentioned.—Washington Star.
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