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.
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The varied Interests represented
and the spirit which prevailed made
a better showing for supplemental
water than has been made at any
gathering connected with this subject.
Friendly to Project.
Assurance was given that the de
partment of the interior is friendly
to the development of the west, hut
at the same time. 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
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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.
Dr. Connell did not smile, but his
alleged sweetheart laughed aloud.
"Did he do It in a spirit of fun?"
continued DeLacy. "You didn't re
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