jToday Havana to Honolulu. Try the Sahara. Straus on Building. Pity a Poor Prince. By ARTHUR BRISBANE Ralymond Coll, managing editor of the Honolulu Advertiser, writes: “Recently we contracted for the publication of your daily column, ‘Today,’ and our circulation gains during the short period we have published the column have been especially gratifying.” Very much obliged. This stuff is published across the line, in Vancouver; it’s published in Span ish in El Mundo, R. R. Govin’s able Havana newspaper. And now it travels out in the Pacific to Hawaii. Seventy cities in this country publish this column. What a pity it is not better worth read ing! Professor Imbeaux \ells the French Academy of Science that the Desert of Sahara covers a vast belt of “artesian water.” These wells could reclaim the entire iesert, making it a garden and viping out one of the worst dis sase spots on the globe. The job would cost $400,000,000, less than France has wasted in the Ruhr, a mere nothing compared with the cost of war. Wealth that the world needs must be taken out of the ground It cannot be squeezed by one na tion out of another. France might get from Sahara’s sands more than she will ever get from Germany. S. W. Straus, just back from Europe, has done more than any 10 others to promote and make possible the building needed in this country. He, and his father before him, have invested for the people many hundreds of millions of their savings and no investor has lost a dollar. If every rail road builder could say as much there would be fewer people in poorhouses. Mr. Straus brings news of a building boom in slow-going Lon don. S In New York and other great cities, he says, the building of ex pensive private dwellings is about ended. Business buildings will gradually crowd out slums. Apart ment houses and apartment hotels, economizing labor in service, will house the people. “Fine houses’ will be built in the country. The ready-made clothing trade of Leeds has given a ready-made suit to the prince of Wales, and in these “carry-on” democratic days, he has got to wear it. That means nothing to you, but an aw ful lot to the prince of Wales. Much poetry has gone from the lives of kings and princes. No jousts, no black armor, no more suivez mon panache blanc. Steady pay, good food, many corner stones to lay, make a drab life. But ready-made clothing for a prince of Wales—that .s some thing that an anarchist would hardly have suggested in 1914. This will interest Mr. Eastman of Rochester. Dr. Hitchins, scien tist, says diseases will soon be diagnosed by photography. Cur ing is easy, diagnosing is difficult. On your fingers and toes you can count the good diagnosticians in any city. Soon the doctor will take your photograph instead of looking at your tongue, and say, “the photo reaction shows scarlet fever.” Photography tells us about the stars, discovers new suns, catalo gues the heavens, gives us the movies. Now it will show us to ourselves, diseases and all. Mr. Eastman will furnish film and camera. __ A mile a minute, in a machine weighing 600 pounds, using half a gallon of gasoline for 60 miles— that’s the flying record of Mons Barbot, just arrived. His machine is an engine-driven glider. Cas oline does half and gliding does , hnlf. It is to the air what the auxiliary steam and sad boat is to the water. We shall all fly be fore long, except for the short est distances. If railroad man agers do not get ready, heaven help railroad stock owners. Michael Murphy and Joseph O’Rourke were executed Wednes day in Ireland for bank robbery. The free state means to discour age crime. , , We need not hang criminals so freely, but this country might do something about oil swindlers, bucket shop thieves and other get rich-quick sharks who steal 100 times more than all bank thieves and burglars, and escape, thanks to lawyers as criminal as them g€l Vi'S. If Mussolini were here, he would take one look at a group of swin dlers and their lawyers, then s^nd the swindlers to jail for JO yeais and their lawyers for life—not to make any mistake. President Harding made an elo quent. and radical Decoration day sneech. The radical part was his pledge that if war comes again, profiteers, industrialists and moneyed interests will be drafted along with “ordinary manhood. War must be outlawed, the presi dent says,.and “God grant that no conflict will come again.” All admirable, but that “God grant” prayer has been offered by mothers for 100 centuries and still war comes. And when war comes, “ordinary manhood” hns to do the fighting, and "money interests" know how to get what they want, in one way or another. God grant that this country may keep out of war by keeping out. of entanglements. “Lead us not into temptation” is a wise prayer. And “Lead us not into the league of nations or the world court” is also wise praying. Keep out of hurope and you’ll keep out of war. (Copyright, Ap >3 ) Official Favors Irrigation Plan D. W. Davi?, Assistant to Sec retary of Interior, Tells of Trip in Nebraska. The Inside story of how D. W. Davis, special assistant to the secre tary of the interior, and A. P. Davis, director of reclamation service, hap pened to spend several days inspect ing the possibilities of the Central Nebraska Supplemental Water asso ciation project, came to light Thurs day. "We had no intention of inspect ing any except going projects on this trip,” explained Assistant Davis, on his arrival in Omaha Thursday morning. "But Carl Gray, president of the Union Pacific system, and members of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce, began bombarding us with telegrams. They also bombarded Washington with messages, urging that we stop off in central Nebraska and look over the proposed tri county project. So we did. Benefit to Burlington ' The remarkable part of it is that the project, when completed, will ben efit more Burlington than Union-Pa cific country, yet President Gray of the Union Pacific was a leader in getting us to go over the proposed project. It’s a wonderful spirit, and I want to state that Omaha can do no greater thing for Itself, as well as the state, than to co-operate In aid ing the state to develop.” Assistant Davis was enthusiastic over the land of central Nebraska. "By getting enough water from the Platte to irrigate the land in the fall, the crop can be doubled or bet ter each year in such counties as Gosper, Phelps, Kearney and Adams,” he declared. "It Is the most won derful farm land in the world, rich, black soil, and what we term full Irrigation isn't needed. Farmers in that section probably wouldn’t need to buy more than an acre foot of water, where out west, in Idaho, for example, we have to have three acre feet of water.” Former Idaho Governor. Assistant Davis is former governor of Idaho, having retired from that of fice last January. He was born in Rlppey, Green county, Iowa, where irrigation isn’t needed, but since go ing to Idaho in 1905 he has acquired a large fund of information on irriga tion. Hd and Director A. P. Davis have inspected 16 going irrigation projects, including those in the vi cinity of Scottsbluff. “I am convinced that this supple mental project in central Nebraska is quite feasible," said Assistant Davis. “It will cost several million dollars, but when, you consider the fact that 500,000 acres probably will be made to double their production you can see it is quite worth while. "There is an engineer going over the proposition very carefully at present, and It will be his report which will finally determine just how feasible the project is. I think the people in the counties affected are In the right mood.” Suggests Bond Issue. Assl'lant Davis expressed the opin lon-that the people living in that die trtet should form a district. Issue bonds, and then either have the He Urges Development of State’s Resources reclamation service or some other competent organization Install the system. Ho also Indicate--1, that it is entirely possible that the reclamation department might ask an appropria tion to carry on the work.” Mr. Gray, who Is chairman of the Chamber of Commerce agricultural committee; W. H. Holdrege, former general manager of the Burlington, and John I,. Kennedy, vice president of the United States National bank, accompanied the Davis party during its inspection along the Platte river. Both the assistant secretary and the director were to speak at the Cham ber of Commerce this noon. Irrigation in Nebraska Endorsed by Officials i Conti nun! from I ’age One.) from Lincoln and joined the party here. Other* present were: Clarence Davis, former attorney general; W. H.' Schwartz, Loomis: George H. Titus, L. T. Johnson, Fred Brown, C. W. Me Conaughy, Andrew Jensen. V. Jensen, Harry Johnson, Holdrege, George P. Kingsley G. P. Kingsley, jr.; F. D. YOU’LL ! HATE ! Santacilia a* the Cuban beautie* hated Hi„. \ rw ^ I Anders Randolf with I BARTHELMESS in I ¥ BRIGHT j , SHAWL'V^ COMING SUNDAY APPROPRIATE GIFTS FOR JUNE BRIDES AND GRADUATES Let your home be truly beautiful and representative of your artistic tastes bv having the GRAND piano you want. No other PIANO HOUSE in the middle west can offer such a com plete stock of quality instruments to choose from. 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It was made very plain the co-operation is a support that the department looks for. “Thif^.project,” said President Gray of the ‘\.'nion Pacific, has been a revelation to me, although I con sidered myself fairly familiar with irrigation front Hudson bay to the Rio Grande. “So far as I can see, what we have here in ground storage is absolutely new in irrigation. The project is physically practical, 1 am convinced.” President Walter Head said the Omaha Chamber or < ommerce is enthusiastic for this great Nebraska project and similar sentiment was ex pressed by John L. Kennedy. Testimony in Heart Balm Suit Amusing (Continued From Fare One.) nell was considerate and kind and often treated the family for various Illnesses without charge. The large crowd and Jurors strained their necks when Jewelry was Introduced as evidence without any objection. The defense scored a decided point, when Judge Wakeley sustained an objection to the question, “What rela tionshlp dops this ring with sapphires and diamonds have in your family?” Jewelry Is Evidence. The ring, a bracelet, a wrist watch, a silver drinking cup engraved with the doctor's initials, two rhinesstone shoe buckles, two silver shoe buckles, two gold rings, gold hatpin, three brooches and embroidery scissors were Introduced as evidence. Mrs. Amy Johnstone Kenah, a sis ter. corroborated most of her mother's testimony. "On one occasion, when Dr. Con nell kissed me, when he helped me with tny coat," said Mrs. Kenah, "I told him. that Violet might not like it, and he replied, 'Oh that's a brotherly kiss.'” Mrs. Kenah stated that she saw her sister and Dr. Connell frequently din ing out. Kiss Was Serious. "When Dr. Connell kissed you," asked Attorney Del.acy, "did he do it 'okingly?” I hope he was serious and meant it," she replied. 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