Nebraska Newspapers

    The Morning Bee
MORNING—EVENING—SUNDAY
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OMAHA’S STAKE IN IRRIGATION.
The future of Nebraska is wedded to irrigation.
The outlook is brighter and surer for that fact. A
more complete and exact control of agricultural
production is possible by irrigation than by relying
on the uncertainties of rainfall.
For a good many years the people of the state
weie hesitant to admit the existence of certain sec
tions in the west where the precipitation was too
scanty to insure a crop of anything more than grass
lor grazing stock. Then in the vicinity of North
Platte, Gering and Mitchell ditches were dug which
poured out the waters of the North Platte river and
converted semi-arid lands into fertile fields. The
success of this reclamation work is evidenced today
in the harvest of small grain, alfalfa, sugar beets
and potatoes of tho^e regions. It is shown further
more in the intention of other districts to resort to
the sam* means.
fnere are times when even the humid regions
suffer from lack of rain. Supplemental irrigation,
supplying the subsoil with an inexhaustible resetve
of moisture is coming into use. The adding of water
at certain times of the year and the removing of
superfluous water at others is not a contradictory
policy, for irrigation and drainage are co-ordinate
practices, L ields may be parched at one crucial
season and too wet at another.
In Central Nebraska, from Hastings to Hold
rege, there is a region whose rainfall may he abun
dant one year and insufficient the next. One fall
there may be an abundant yield and the next a
crop failure. Supplemental irrigation, which con
sists sjmply of turning the water on the fields at
the flood stage of the Platte, is being advocated to
remedy this uncertainty. A government survey in
dicates that there is sufficient water available to
soak the subsoil and make every year a sure crop
year. What this means to Nebraska, and to Omaha,
which is the main market for Nebraska agriculture,
it is easy to see.
A party of government officials from the De
partment of the Interior are now going over this
project. They have also inspected irrigation pro
posals from Shelton to North Platte, and visited the
existing districts around Scottsbluff. South of the
Plattp, opposite Lexington, they have looked into
the new project that will water 540,000 acres.
Omaha is vitally interested in the progress of
these various irrigation projects. John L. Kennedy,
a member of the agricultural committee of the
Omaha Chahmber of Commerce, pnd Carl R. Gray,
who in addition to being chairman of this commit
tee, is president of the Union Pacific system, are
making the tour of inspection with A. P. Davis,
assistant secretary of the Dep< r ir of the In
terior, and his reckmation engine - s. Thursday
they will bring Mr. Davis to Omaha to speak at a
public-" affairs Jundieoi. at the Chamber of Com
merce. It is big news that they bring Hiiii/.'tjH
business men of Omaha are vitally interested In
, hearing of development of this reclamation work.
A GENUINE REFORMER PASSES.
, Twenty years ago a new name flashed across the
• national sky. It was that of a district attorney, who
; had set for himself a gigantic task, one of the big
’ gest ever tackled by a single man. He pitted his
! strength ami the majesty of the law against injustice,
, greed and corruption, arid he won.
V/hetj Joseph Wingate Folk was elected district
attorney for St. Louis it was in face of consider
able organized opposition, for he had declared in
advance his intention of cleaning house. His word
was not taken by all the forces of evil, else he
might not have been elected. At that time politics
p and the election machinery of St. Louis was in the
, hands of a most unscrupulous gang, whose opera
tions included all things and whose apparent con
trol- reached from top to bottom. Judges on the
bench, the city government, members of congress
and of the stato legislature, all were affected in
some way by the combination Prosecutor Folk set
himself to overthrow. His methods were direct, his
proceedings drastic. Grand jury investigation was
followed by indictments, these by trial, and as a
lesult of the trials some of the leaders were sent
to prison ai d the hold of others broken. Race
track gamblers were routed, election hoards were
purified, and the civic life of St. Louis was made
*. cleaner and better by reason of the tornado of
judicial wrath loo . d upon it by Joe Folk.
* . The people of Missouri caught the infection of
"the St. Louis citizenry, and Folk was made gov
ernor of Missouri, an office he filled for two term
While chief executive of the state, he concluded the
* vfork he had commenced. Laws were passed that
~ cured many of the abuses, some, like the child labor
r law. that still blc:s the people of Missouri, while
- many other actions of the governor showed him to
2 iie a man of advanced and liberal ideas of govern
2 tient and its responsibility to the voters.
Folk’s career in Missouri brought him national
2 prominence, and he was talked of in 1908 as a can
didate for president, but he deferred to William
Jennings Iiryan’s claims, and missed his big chance
When Mr. Wilson came into office in 1912, he asked.
Mr. Folk to come to Washington as a solicitor for
the Treasury department, and for several years the
government had the benefit of his ability in this and
other capacities.
,.n. i ulx» career deserves consideration, be
cause of the character and quality of its intrinsic
^corth. He was a citizen of the type that has made
qhis republic great. A comparatively young man
When he began his public service, he brought his
High ideals and his youthful enthusiasm to the
handling of a job that had discouraged older and
rtiore experienced fighters. His zeal and courage
was such as inspired the citizens, and once they
learned that they had a champion who would not.
falter and was not dismayed by the evil influences
and power arrayed against him, they rallied to his
support, and a great triumph for civic righteous
ness followed. The political label affixed to such
a mull is not of much importance. He was an
American, full of the holy light of liberty, personal
and general, but strong for the right and brave
enough to assail evil in its strongholds. Ilin pa»w
ing will be noted with regret, but hi* record will l>«
remembered because it is one full of good for the
ncople of a free count**,
“THEY ALSO SERVE."
Memorial day this year will recall to Omahans
that all the men who have died under the flag were
not those who served in the great wars. No city
in all the United States has more of reason to
know this, and yet, curiously enough, our people
have accepted the presence of the men of the regu
lar army as so much of a commonplace as'to not
think of them as volunteer soldiers.
Almost throughout the entire history of the city
soldiers have been stationed here, and for sixty
years Omaha has been headquarters for an im
portant department of army administration. In
this time many soldiers have died at one or the
other of the army posts and are buried in the local
cemeteries. These graves have not been entirely
neglected, yet it is true they are apt to he over
looked by the great multitude when the day comes
around for bedecking the grassy tents with flowers
in sign of memory of the men who did wear the
uniform and serve under the flag.
No man more truly serves his country than he
who volunteers to give some of the years of his
young manhood as a soldier. Because the military
is subordinate to the civil authority in time of peace,
citizens forget now and then the necessity and im
portance of an army. The permanent force main
tained under arms at the various military posts is
not large, but it has a wonderful record of service,
j Omaha has much reason to acknowledge this fact.
It well befits a republic to do honor to its de
fenders, and none are more truly listed in this than
the men who make up the standing army of the
United States. “Neglected graves” has a harsh,
discordant sound, and we hope it will never again
be heard in Omaha.
“AND NOT A MAN SURVIVED."
All some people know about the Custer massacre
is gained from the lithograph that used to orna
ment so many western bar rooms, The United
States government did give Curly, the Crow Indian
scout, a pension, hut as to his being the last sur
vivor of the Custer massacre, the original state
ment made in this paper and questioned by a con
temporary, stands. As well call each of the officers
and men of the surviving battalions of the Seventh
cavalry, those who wore under the command of
Majors Reno and Benteen, survivors of the mas
sacre, for they, too, rode on that reconnoitre with
Custer, and came out alive, but none of the battalion
which followed Custer that morning in June ever
returned.
As to the government never doing anything
wrong in connection with this affair, it may not be
entirely amiss to refer to another episode of that
famous outbreak of the Sioux. When General
Crook was riding north to join with Terry, he en
countered Red Cloud and a war party of bucks in
the neighborhood of where Edgmont now stands.
Red Cloud insisted he and his followers were merely
on a hunting expedition. Crook knew they were
heading for the general rendezvous, but he told
them they could hunt as well on foot as on horse
back, and so killed their mounts, 450 cayuses, and
Red Cloud and his party returned to the agency
near Camp Robinson. Some fifteen years later, the
United States government paid Reel Cloud $45,
000, or $100 apiece, for these ponies.
Nobody familiar with the facts ever questioned
General Crook's judgment, but the official act of
congress will stand in history as rebuke for him
and a justification of a wily old Sioux, who never
was a friend of the white man. It is not pleasant
to revise history, but it is very easy to distort the
i - record.
CLARA PHILLIPS FINDS IT OUT
A figure unique in criminal annals is Clara Phd
lips. But for all her cleverness, she is not to escape
the penalty of her crime. Hidden away among the
mountains of Central America, yet the law found
her and hrought her back for punishment.
In the moment of tempestuous anger in which
she beat the rival for her husband’s affection to
death with a hammer she could not have been think
ing of the consequences of her act. After her con
viction in the California court for murder she may
have realized for a time the meaning of the law.
Later, when by bribery or stratagem she was en
abled to flee from her cell, she may have felt with
Dogberry that the law wax an ass.
Supplied plentifully with funds, she made her
escape out of the United States and no doubt was
beginning to feel safe once more when she was de
tected in Honduras. There is among some crimi
nals the dangerous belief that they are above or
beyond the law. This mental attitude may be com
pared to thp megalomania of monarchs in past ages,
who considered that t+iey could do no wrong. H. G.
Wells places Napoleon in this category, and there
have been countless little Napoleons since that day
who have found that such course ends up in St.
Helena.
Mrs. Phillips knows now that the law ran not
be outwitted. She matched her wits in vain against
the force of justice and is now reduced to the ex
tremity of claiming to have been convicted of a
crime she did not commit. No one will waste tears
on her, nor is she entitled to any sympathy. The
whole case is filled with spectacular occurrences,
but soon she will be back where she belongs—be
hind the bars.
Roy Scout camps at Omaha this year will cost
75 cents per Hay per scout, which is offering the
biggest value for the least money the bargain coun
ter has presented in a long time.
The offer of a billion dollars for the ships, etc,,
held by the United States government indicates
that the stuff is worth something to somebody.
Abilene kicks in with a mnxtmum of 100, show
ing that it is summertime somewhere.
"Joe” Folk's death will awaken many echoes in
old Missoo,
Homespun Verse
fly Robert Worthington Davie
MEMORIAL DAY.
W here Bear ones rest In death's repose
Beneath the May! I me sod,
We tread to pin. « our love, a rose.
Ret ween their graves and (led.
A tribute to their memory
As life may best endow—
f.lived ones who with US used to he.
Rut sleep In silence now.
Reside the tilei. 'lie sacred place,
Unspoken thoughts reveal
Mure than a kiss nr an embrace
The love w> living feel
Up grnre I he consecrated neat
In reverential way.
Thus the unspoken Is eapiessed
Upon Memorial day.
“From State and
—— Nation”
hdilorinis from othrr
ruavspapors.
Bovine T. It. l-.nulbation.
j From the Kearney Hub.
It is diffic ult to comprehend the
continued hostility of Governor Bryan
to the bovine tuberculosis eradication
campaign, and his assumption that it
is almost entirely in the Interest of
tlie packer* and veterinarian*. It will
be remembered that the governor op
posed the bill in the last legislature
for tlie continuance of the appropria
tion for eradication purposes on the
grounds above stated, and that next
to lhe administration code issue this
was the outstanding feature of tlie
j session.
However in the face of the gov
ernor's opposition the legislature
| passed a bill separate from the gen
I oral appropriation bill, appropriating
$286,000 for the purpose of eradicat
! ing tuberculosis in Nebraska cattle
.Sixty votes in the house were neecs
] sar.v for passage, blit the majority
for it exceeded that number and in
| eluded a number of democrats who
| were otherwise supporting the gov
ernor's measures A large proportion
of the farmer members, who evident
ly did not coincide with the gover
nor's views, assisted in its passage.
Contrary to expectations the bill
was not vetoed and became a law in
due time without the governor's sig
nature. Within the past few days
Governor Bryan has explained that
lie did not think the governor had
tlie "moral right” to veto a bill passed
by so large a majority. Possibly not,
I but If he was deeply and con
| scientlously opposed to tlie measure
for the reasons ho had stated. it
would seeni that it was his "morat
duty" to veto it, and having failed to i
do it to add his official signature.
i ne latest pnase nr tne governor h |
hostility i;« exhibited in an arraign j
rnent of the state university college ,
of agriculture officials for their aetlv* ,
ity in seeking to induce the farmers \
of the state to forth county organ iza j
tions and take advantage of the work j
of tuberculosis eradication. This ar I
tiv ty is characterized by ths governor ]
as “a raid on the state treasury." and
not a part of the duties of the stat»* 1
institution. Seemingly this criticism
is pretty farfetched and more quer
eiout than consistent, for tt seems to j
he the natural and proper thing foi
the state college of agriculture to co
operate with the agricultural and live t
stock interests in a work that i« in i
tended not only f«>r their benefit Hut |
for the protec tion * well of the pub
lie health nnd interest.
Any person informed as to the in
roads of bovine tuberculosis and rhe
startling effects that hive been fre
fluently in evidence may well stftjrider
w hen endeavoring to realize the calam
itous effects of a “bars down" policy,
with every fellow for himself and the
devil take the hindmost. Tils contin
ued assumption that "this scheme !
hacked by the veterinarians and pack- j
era neither eradicates the disease nor
affe« »** the health of the public.” !*
so violent and vulnerable that tt is
not deserving of consideration.
Five Issues for 1921.
From the New York World.
In his statement made to the
World. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler. ,
president of Columbia university.
I names the five issues which he he
iieves to be paramount before the ,
American people at this time These
issues are "our foreign policy, pro
lubitlon, the railways, taxation and
the problems of agri ulture and the
agriculturist." It would l»e denying
the obvious to question Dr. Butlers
statement that "the prohibition ques
t n has been kept out of national
I party platforms for a generation
thicjgh f« of polite al consequences,
but tt cm n not l»e kept out of
I the minds *»f voters any longer ‘ To
this mind have the Volstead a- t and
state enactments of which the repub
i Ucan Mullan Gage law Is a sample,
rough! a public which in opposing
the s-1loon or alcoholic excess never j
needed to he convinced.
The problem* of the railroads are
• 1 • farm p hi* m, as P JPn
f i •- "toijcl.- .> both t be q ..*■**
■f foreign policy and the question of
railways." That is a very real proh
lent. Taxation bunions lu sts of Amor
a.-ijis who before the vvai felt it only
indirectly. But I>i Murray corrot
h estimates tin comparative weight
i of his Issue* when he discusses flist
of all our relations with foreign lands.
"Probably not few* r than KO per cent
of the voters of the country he says.
" are in favor of a constructive policy
of international co-operation " That
constructive policy is before the vot
ers in the form, primarily, of Presi
dent Harding s appeal to the country
for participation in tlte perrusnent
i court of International justice. But he
| hind that immediate Issue appears
the hope or the fear real «>r assumed,
that the court might lead tis som*
! pa- • further toward participation In
Daily Prayer
i>.ft-r** f i«v unt« 'on 't no
th.. mb? for vour i f*' what \*- ■hall »•»*».
what v* ■hall drink, nor yet for jour
l i ly, what ' ** eh* II i»’i* on I* not »h*
lif* mnr« than rues' end * h# hod» titan
r * nnent ? R**h<d»J th* fowls of f h* »*r.
tor they now not neither do thev r«-«n.
nor K«*h*i into burn* yet ' our f|r*v*n
I* Father feedeth them Are ve n* t tnu h
batter t h -’i it t he v - Matt *:'2S-2t
Almighty God. Thou Who nrt thr
f'l* dor, the Preserver, nnd the Bene
ficent Ruler of the universe—God the
Father, God the Hon, and God the
Holy Ghost, we praise and magnify |
Thy Great and F.x* client Name, not
! only he atise of Thy Majesty and
Glory, but also because of Thy Divine
Love and Compassion. We thank
i Thee for Thv Goodness, and all the
Messing of life, sod we most humbly
1 !)f»v#»pc|, Thee to forgive our son. to
j increase our faith, and to make us
j hop Thee more and eer\ e Thee b« t
ret We pray for the peace of the
i world, for the spread of Thy Gospel,
and the solvation of mankind Do
Thou most graciously grant us in this
life food, ml mailt. shelter. lome.
friends end happiness, and in the
world to ronie. life everlasting
We ask It all In the Name and for
fHi sake «*f Thv Beloved Hon. Jesus
Christ, our Savior and Redeemer.
Amen.
JITIKIE HENRY W II A RTFR
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We Nominate—
For Nebraska's Hall of
Fame.
Francis la flesche h son of
thief Joseph La hi •"'he of the
Omaha tribe. He has been for
many years a member of the staff of
the Korean of American Ethnology. ;
with headquarters in Nebraska. He i
has, however, paid not infrequent vis
its to Nebraska. Mr. La Klesehe is
Joint author with Miss Alice Fletcher, |
recently •]<-< eased, of the great mono
graph on the Omaha tribe published j
by the government, and lie is the {
author of th<* even more elaborate
work upon the rites and <eremonies
of the Osage, which Is being issued in
four volume" by the Kureau of Amer
ican Ethnology. Mr. La Fleaehe is
also the author of a book which no
Nebraskan should fall to read, for it
is certain to become one of the class
ics of the literature of the middle
west This is his "The Middle Fite,”
which is the story of his education in
the school for Indian tgjys ;,t Kclle
viUe Nebraska hoys should find in
this charming volume more interest !
than "Tom Brown” un give, for It j
deals with the country they know, j
end with boys whom thev will know
w hen they follow the story to p. rnd
—as each who begins it must.
or H'<o< iation with the League of Na
tions?
And why not" Returning leas Than
a month ago from a conference in 1
Augusta with Mr. Harding. Dr. But
ler pronounced the world court "sound
republican doctrine " So it is and
so is the league—if Colonel noospvelt.
Mi. Taft. Mr. Root. Mr. Wickei sham. '
even Senator Ia»dge himself, are coin -
pclent party assayers of doctrinal pur
ity. It* was only when the league
was furthered by President Wilson 1
that it became. for campaign pur
pose . democratic and suspect. Pres I .
dent Harding himself, who hef«■?* elec
tion would "take and combine all That
is good and excise all that is had
frern both organizations" (the court !
and the league), said after h s in- j
auguration. but before he had felt
th» full weight of senatorial disci
pline. that it might be well for us to
"engage under the existing league.'*
Dr. Butler will, then, he speaking
from the text if lie informs British
hearers of the Watson Foundation
le lures which he is to deliver, that
our "people are very restless under
a situation w Mr h permits them pt ac
tically to do nothing* because of .1
"situation in the senate whereby a
very small group are in a strategic
position to pre\ ent action.'’
The part-, strategy «f the moment
may compel him to add that "those
gentlemen who are so vigorously op- '
posing our acceptance of the existing
international < ourt nr m-tice ».n the
hollow ground that this means enter
ing the League «»f Nations hj*» likelv 1
fo ;*» treated to a great surprise "
The great and vital fact. not t«» )>e
denied, is that th*» Ameren? people
.ire well aware that we cannot ignore
world Questions and expect world
problem* to p*s» us by unt-un he«l
Off the Track.
From Fremont Tribun*
Isn't it possible that Mr. Bryan in
so energetically pushing his fight
Against the evolution, theory sr.d hta
opponent* in as energeically support j
Ing the same principle are both wan
dering far afield from the teachings
• •f ('hrlatianity?
After all. what doe* it matter by
what manner man came to be upon j
this earth so long as we do not ques
tion the fart that it was through th*
nr? of God that the genesis t true to
pass?
A body of men. go.»d men and treat
men. ha\e been assembled at Indiana
polis for tile exp! eased purpose of ad
\Slicing the cause of all religion, and
they have succeeded in little beyond
the creation of bitterness ami hostil
ity In the minds of those who bold dif
fering opinions on the question as to !
whether or not the human evolved
to his present state from a life germ
similar to the form* of protozoa
known to biologists through the va
rious forms of nniui.il development.
The leaders of the Presbyterian
church would look a lot better in the
estimation of the general public if
thev had spent their time seeking for
a solution of our moral problems or
In working nut an antidote for the
prevalent criminal trndem lr*.
“THE PEOPLE’S VOICE”
tdlt.rltl lr*m r.«i.r. •« lh. Bm »f Th» Bm
id invited to uee thli column freely ter i»preeeion
•o meiteri if public latcrMt.
The American Home.
David City, Neb—To the Editor of
The Omaha Uee. According to God *
laws and commandments, there must
he homes and children, for without
them one generation would see the
end of mankind and all things ma
terlal. Then, If there must be homes
and children, why is it so extremely
difficult to establish and maintain ihe
home?
After careful study and thought, I
am convinced that the highest, ambi
tion of at least a majority of young
men is to establish and maintain a
home, free and independent of any
outside help or interference, and the
same noble ambition prompts a ma
jority of our young women to want
to have her part in the establishment
of the heme, which should lie the hap
piest spot on earth, in which w e should
find a happy and contented man and
woman; some healthy, happy bright
children, growing up among pleasaal
surroundings, developing high Ideals
along the lines of our Christian civ
ilization. taught to have faith in our
flag and reverence for the laws of
our government and state. Where
the father and mother have time to
play with those children, to go on
strolls, or go camping with them and
In other ways to make the environ
ment of those children such that they
will develop clean, strong minds, he
healthy and naturally happy and In
dependeent ns they grow older.
Hut. alas, how many homes like
that do we find? Just think it over
a little and you will he able to call
to mind many cases like this:
A young man persuades the lady of
his choice to share his lot, they es
tablish s home, maybe go in debt for
their furniture and other home equip
ment; they both have good health,
are working steady and are able to
meet their payments as they come
due The future looks bright to them
for possibly several years, then a
babe comes into their home and they
are extremely happy for a time, but
soon find that with the added expense
of the little one, and only the father
working, lie Is soon unable to meet
the hills for only the bare necessities
of life and must deny those he loves
many things they should have.
As the years come and go and
other little ones come into that home
ai .1 must be provided for. the cares
of life hang too heavy, and God only
knows how many either suicide or go
lo the asylum. The same thing 1*
true of people on the farm or In
business.
When Gr-d touches ihe hearts and
c-in-ejener* of men of great influence
and unlimited w ealth, when they once
get (j,o vise - of what might be on
this earth In fact, when our highest
officials the men who control and
direct our nations! affair*, can com
prehend and grasp the true meaning
of the golden rule, then will it tie pos
siblc fi r any man who is honejr and
willing to work to establish and main
tan a home which h» and hi* family
will ho proud of_O E DAVIS.
Damage of "Sloppy Thinking.”
Cambridge, -Mass. — To the Editor of
The Omaha Bee While 1 hold no
brief for m against Henry Ford, the
straw Mite in o Kier • giving that
gentleman the bad for president of
the I'nited S'i''« m Ifijt. brings into
relief two pertinent fact*. First, that
straw votes seldom come out like real
"ties, second, the slimness of thinking
that the American people bestow on
the most important thing*—the;r gov
ernment Simply be- aure you know
a man's name, a Ford car, know that
he pays good wages, does not net es
i-arily mean that that man is ti'ted to
rurr the United States government.
Yet, bei ause they don't think much
al>r ut their government, th# Ameri
can people do think a Ford car or its
equivalent un be president of the
Untied States.
It is all a part of what Governor
Pin. h ' calls sloppy think.ng ’ ai d
President Emeritus <" W Eliot of
lla: raid university ihe growing irra
tional excitement of the American peo
ple,"
And. the danger comes not only
from the sl-.ppy thi: -.mg Itself, hut
from the advantage taken of this poor
thinking bv men who hate brain*. For
example, there ate men today who
want to attain certain cods, “wet,
warlike or monetary end* To help
on these ends ihev (>ervert the morn
g of word* and fi-tcn them tight
onto then- amazed ail versarles. Just
now the word that Is being used over
tlme is i onununtst." For example,
i national officer In a large women’s
organization was approached the other
dyv by an editor of * reactionary
t-l'eef and told th it She ws* a rnm
mirnst, because she believed in fed
EARL H. BLRFF.T
M K.BURKET &son
F»t*bli»hrd 1A7*
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
Farnam Street at 34th
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VISIT FORKS! LAWN
You and your friends are cordially invited to visit Forest
Lawn Cemetery.
The profuse floral decorations, the brilliant hues of bloom
ing shrubs and plants, the magnificent forest trees with count
less song birds, the broad expanse of undulating landscape,
all conspire to enhance the charm of the natural attractions
uf Forest Lawn.
—the most beautiful ceme
tery chapel in the country—
The mosaic chapel will he open for inspection all day
Memorial Day.
Visit the Three Soldiers’ Hints
I AM NORTHBOUND ELECTRIC CARS
Office* •! tha C«m»t«ry and 720 JRrandait IKaalai Rutldmf
! era! aid for education and In federal
i prohibition. In tho aame way morn
tier* of thin group talk about "so
cialist*. commu nut*, international
let*." Their aim would seem to be to
Incite people of pretty near zero men
tality to dub civic-minded people of
real mentality dangeroua radical*,
thus caualng a panic In the brain
market of noble reform that might
go far to overturn thege reform*.
The result i* a deplorable mixture
of poor moral* and poor thinking. Peo
ple who believe In federal aid, fed
i eral prohibition and a world court
I are not dangerous radical* seeking to
i overturn the United Blates govern
ment by violence. They are reformers
of sound minds, and to throw the dust
of false epithet* around them. In the
j hope of discrediting their crusade, is
' dangerous generalship. It is slaught
••ring the innocent >«■ order to bring
about in the minds of the Indifferent
and the nebulous, a brain panic that
shall call retreat on protective legls
lotion, prohibition enforcement, fed
eral aid for education and partlclpa
] tion in the world court.
I Democracy cannot be run unless It
has behind It exceptional honesty and
exceptional wisdom, The really dan
gerous thing today 1* the loose think
j ing of our people that allows Itself
; to he played on by reactionary male
' fa' tor* of great wealth interested
primarily in their own pocketbooks.
Watch your thinking—don't let the
: highest bidder own your political
I power. ELIZABETH TILTON.
"Larks” and the Laws.
Omaha—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: In the matter of lies* B.
Nixon, who, with a companion, is al
leged to have attempted a holdup in
San Francisco, ex-Judge Bears, con
gressman elect, is quoted by the
'Omaha Bee, May -’3, 1S33, as saying,
' among other things, that "The boys
were hungry and broke, and were too
proud to wire home for money, I
| would trust Hobs with anything I
line, he is a chap of excellent char
acter, and I believe him when he'
said it was only a lark.’ ”
Grasp the significance of this: Con
giessman Sears first admits that Ro*s
attempted a holdup to get money be- :
t cause he was broke and hungry and, ;
m the next breath, declares that it ]
was only a lark.
When our law* maker* consider
felonious acts, committed with a con
fessed criminal intent, as mere larks,
because the *aul maker is a friend
of the confessed law breaker, is it any
wonder that there l* a I"*s of respect,
among the masses, for law and nrdeU5
Uongressman Bears got* on to say ,
"It * a shame, too. for Ross won’t
leave the house on account of the
affair." Had -Mr. N’lxon been a pen
niless, disabled, ex soldier. It is very
possible that he would not have had
a chance to either enter or l»ave his
home for some time, after this
lark ROr A CARD.
509 South Twenty-second street.
Abe Martin
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Remember when we used t’ be
foolish enough t’ think Germany
would come across? One dandy
thing about a late spring—it gives
winter elbows a chance t’ shed an'
clear up.
A Book oj Today
Johan Bojer's "The Last of the Vik
ings," is the latest of the great Nor
wegian's works to be published in
America, it follows six o'hers which
have had American publication, of
which "The Great Hunger" has had
the outstanding success—in fact, a
success which was phenomenal in ex
tent and quality: one of the rate ex
ample* of a truiy great book (ac
claimed as such by the most notable
of American and Lnghsh authors and
critics* becoming a genuine popular
favorite
"The Last of the Vikings" has been
published in America as a serial in
the Century Magaz.ne. in France in
“L illustration," and then as a book
by Calmann Levy of Paris in a regu
lar edition and an edition deluxe. It
has been exceedinly well received
there the author has written to hi*
Ametican publishers, tha Century
company, that he "had no dream of
the possibility that this book should
be such a success.”
It is a s.mple unstrained narrative,
with no apparent reaching alter ef
f«*et. of the fortunes and lives of men
of the Lofoten fisheries in their homes
on the fiord and in the far. dim. north
ern seas off the coast of Norway. The
Actional theme is a Asherwife's hatred
of the sea, and her attempt* to draw
her sons away from it: but, as a mat
ter of fact this, though a strong
thread of interest, is only a thread in
the wearing of a marveloua tale.
Vocation climax j
Traveling westward, see the Rockies, jjj
Weber and Echo Canyon*. Great Salt -i
lake, the Sierra* and Amencan River W
Canyon. t
Even as a tale of adventure carries you on
to a thrilling clitnaa, so your journey via
the Overland Route carriea you on to San *
Francisco. Thar# ia no other city in tb# J
world like Sen Frandaco—non* offering
Such variety ol entertainment. San Fran
ciico shows you Muof
old Spain, the M editar
ranean, tha Orient and
tha South Seaa. Chi pa
. from every port and
throngs of plaest ra
seekers from all ovar the world. Near by art
Yoae'iita.thc w orld's biggest trees, mountains set.
shore, and, ju t -var tha western horizon, Hawaii
No tour of tha west i- complete without a viat
to San Francisco. Go direct via tha Overland
Rout# or return that wsy, and, incidentally, sea
Yellowstone Perk en route — it's only overnight
irom Ogden.
San Francisco Overland Limited
Leaves Omaha at 9:*5 a. m. daily. Solid Pullman train witS
observation, buffet-club and dining cars.
Continental Limited
Leaves Omaha at 130 am. daily. Standard observation and
tourist sleepers, chair cars, diner. Sleepers ready at 10:00 p. -TV
Greatly kedoced Round Trip Sommer Tourist Ores 9
F.- wmaim, cemrlea mFo—ctnce end aaciffue heciiea,
A. K T'urte, city raaserg.r tgent Vnlon Ta-iftc pTstem.
lf*t I % 1c- ?r Fhore Jackson r>.t. Omaha. Neb
Consolidated T*- net Office U1S Dod«e b* . Phone Atlantic JCU
or I'nton Station, loth and Marcy £t.«.
Union Pacific
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