The Morning Bee _ MORNING—EVENING—SUNDAY tmmo J*!E BEE PUBLISHING CO. B. UPDIKE, President B. BREWER, Vice Preeident and Benerel Minuw ”*-mber of the associated press Hill?,*?*»»*,B**. Of whick TH« tarn member, le excluelrelj Mtothanrlai KZli'Zi of *" ?rn «"*«<*« credited to It or hmtaTan i-Tt!!.0* ln,,fhl* p*wr’ “« »■*> the local ne»> publlabed norein. Ail light. of ropebilcatlone of our apecial dlepatcboa are alto reaarred. pi _ , BEE TELEPHONES „ Exchange. Aak for the Department AT la nlie J^*Dtfd- For Night Call* After 10 P. 11.: 1000 Editorial Department. AT Untie 1021 or 1042. *www OFFICES ’ ~~ r ' Main Office—17th and Farnam Co. Bluff. - - -15 Scott St. So. Side. N. W. Cor. 24th and N w..vi . ._N'W York—280 Fifth Avenue J^hlngton - 422 Star Bldg. Chicago - . 1720 Steger Bldg. BOTTOMLESS PIT OP BANKRUPTCY. Out in Lincoln county there is a toil-bent pio neer farmer who sold his land for $76,000 and sank It all in the Skinner Packing company. He will be ipterested in the announcement that $400,000 in bonds have been sold at 85 cents on the dollar by the receiver, Keith Neville, and his attorney, Arthur Mullen, These bonds, bearing 8 per cent interest, represent a first mortgage on the entire plant. There are hundreds of other farmer investors in all parts of Nebraska who will be interested also, for it is said that the assets of the company are be coming less every day. Some of them are protest ing this latest move. Promoted in the rare old days of war-time inflation, this is one of the most strik ing examples of the high and lofty financing that cost the amateur investors of the state millions. The bubble was blown too big, and finally it burst with such force that no one has yet been able to pick up the pieces. With the stockholders split up into factions, none of them satisfied what I ever is done, the case has been marked by one I quarrel after another. ‘ No estimate can be made when the last of this unhappy adventure will be heard. The motives of those who entered on it were legitimate enough, but the “know how” was lacking. Overcapitaliza tion and poor management brought it low. It stands today as a monument to folly and a warning to those who are unwilling to stop their ears to the siren song of fancy profits. There is today little or no blue sky promotion, and there is not likely to be more as long as the memory of these past events lasts. THE SUMMER TRAINING CAMPS. One of the provisione of the existing army law has to do with the holding of training camps an nually, wherein young men are instructed in the duties of a soldier. This is a substitute for the universal training that was proposed to be made compulsory. It is supplemental to the work of the regular army and the National guard, in that it se cures valuable instruction for a large- number of young men each year in the rudiments of military science. Service or attendance is entirely volun tary. This year three camps are to be held in the Seventh corps area, of which the headquarters are located at Omaha. One will be at Fort Snelling, Minnesota; one at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the third at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. Nebraska men will be sent to Fort Des Moines. The training camps will open on August 1 and close on August 80, the course lasting thirty days. All expense for food, clothing, transportation and the like is borne by the government. Aside from the fact that the camps are under military discipline, and the days are devoted to training and the nights to instruc tion, the offer of a vacation of thirty days with pay is a most attractive one. Military men are of the opinion that these camps are valuable as an adjunct to the service in a meas ure not to be calculated. Compulsory military serv ice is highly repugnant to the democratic mind, save in time of actual war. Preliminary training, when voluntarily acquired, is most beneficial. Even if the young man who takes this course of instruction never enters a military organization, he is bene fited, for the regular work under ordered discipline develops his mind and body alike, and he is more capable and competent for having received it. A nation should be ready at any time to defend itself, and the boy who may be called into military service for national defense ought to be prepared a little in advance. Cadet battalions in connection with schools and colleges are of help in this respect, and the units of the National Guard perform a great work itj their way. The Civilian Military Training camp will supplement all these, giving cadets a chance to continue their training, guards men and others an opportunity to extend their experience, and generally to serve the desirable end of keeping the young manhood of the nation in readiness to do' a man’s full duty on short notice. - - - - *V FLOWERS FROM THE HEART. What could be more appropriate in a democracy than to have the chief executive of che nation mobbed by a group of school children? Not in the sense that they sought to do him violence, or that they lacked in regard for the dignity of his high office. It was the outcome of their eagerness to testify their respect and love for the smiling man and his good wife who stood on the platform before them. Little Johnnie Somebody could not get close enough to hand his flowers to the president, so he just chucked the bouquet over the heads of those in front of higi- His act get off the others, and presently Mr. Harding and his Kfelpmcet were buried under a barrage of posies that sailed through the air and landed all around them. No need to be a prophet or soothsayer to in terpret the augury that may be drawn from this. While the children of the United States hold in such esteem their president, and while the president can so becomingly greet the future dtizens of the United States, our institutions are secure. Patriotic fervor has led men and women into wild, even mad, demonstrations at times, when their emotions sought outlet in form of extravagance and even violence. That same emotion is noted in the behavior of the children at Washington, each of whom will carTy through life a recollection of the day the president was bomuarded with bouquets. It was not merely Warren Gamaliel Harding, it was the president of the United States, and the symbolism is extended and made the more complete by the president’s acceptance of the compliment with the gracious smile and behavior of a great man who is also a simple one. Those who are wor ried for the future might get courage out of this Incident. Shooting timber wolves is not one of the regular summer park amusements in Omaha, but we f»el safe In assuring any such critters as do intrude on the local playgrounds that they will be shot. . A Denver woman actually flew from Kansas City to visit her sick baby at home, showing the airplane Is helpful io many ways. ANOTHER BUILDING BY GOODHUE. Nebraska’s new state capitol may be the crown ing achievement of Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue’s architectural career, but he is receiving a great deal of praise in the east for his design of the new home for the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research council. This building, to be com pleted by fall, covers an entire block facing the Mall near Lincoln memorial. Critics acclaim the design as fitting admirably into the stately plan of the city of Washington as conceived by L’Enfant under the personal inspiration of George Washington. It has also the approval of the Fine Arts commission as carrying out the general architectural scheme for public buildings in the national capitol. It will be interesting to Nebraskans to note that the sculptural work there, as in the capitol at Lin coln, has been entrusted to Lee Lawrie. There prob ably could not be more intelligent or severe critics than the scientists who are to occupy this building. And they say that Mr. Lawrie has seised admirably the spirit of the undertaking and embodied it in his designs, which will symbolize and depict the progress of science and its benefits to humanity. Those Ne braskans who have studied his designs depicting pioneer life for the walls of the new capitol feel that he has achieved the same success in these. Nebraska has been a bit slow to understand the magnitude of its capitol project, or the reputation of the men who are putting the work through. Years of pride will succeed the doubts and misgivings of the past wjien this monumental edifice is completed. "THE NORTH AMERICAN GIANT” Returning from the Pan-American conference held at Santiago, Chile, Henry P. Fletcher, head of the American delegation, reports that the Monroe doctrine is still held in great respect by Latin Amer ican statesmen. This is contrary to all that has been heard of this doctrine in late years. In one of the latest books on South America, Prof. J. Warshaw of the University of Nebraska declares: "Accepted at first In the spirit In which it was enunciated, as a protection to Latin America against European aggression, the Monroe doctrine has be come today in the Spanish-American republics a cordially disliked political pronouncement. Brazil alone views It with equanimity and friendliness. To the rest of Latin America It is synonymous with ‘the North American peril’ and is taken much more seriously than t^e overrated German or Japanese ‘peril.’” A number of American publicists, among them Prof. Hiram, Bingham, now lieutenant governor of Connecticut, who has Written a volume entitled “The Monroe Doctrine an Obsolete Shibboleth,” appear to doubt the adaptability of the declaration of 1823 to the present situation. Prof. Warshaw himself declares: “It was conceived in a broad spirit and has often been applied in a narrow spirit. It is sus ceptible of infinite manipulation, and may be ad vanced at one time as a measure of protection to struggling nations and at another time as a meas ure of self-protection.” The growing strength and competence of such great southern nations as Chile, Brazil and Argen tina has made them to a certain degree partners with the United' States and to this extent has al tered the pronouncement of President Monroe in accord with Pan-American aspirations. And yet, even without the Monroe doctrine, the political supervision that the United States exercises, in this hemisphere would have arisen just the same, out of our greater wealth, stability and power. Our atti tude toward Mexico, Cuba and the countries of Central America and the Caribbean could not be other than it is, both on account of political and economic factors. The maintenance of peace and the protection of American interests is at the basis of America’s Latin America policy. No neighbor which conducts its affairs in decent and orderly fashion has anything to fear from the “North Amer ican giant.” AND THIS IS JUNE. “Knee deep in June” once more, the fairest month of all the year, when all the world is in tune. The month of roses, and brides, and sweet girl grad uates; when man and bird and beast, and tree and flower and shrub and grasses feel alike the impulse of the wonderful season. When great billows of fleecy clouds fldfct lazily through the bluest of skies, and the golden sunlight bathes a verdant world through hours of inspiration, and then dies out in an evening of such gorgeous splendor as baffles poet and painter alike, and leaves the beholder silent in his adoration of the Creator and his marvelous works. That is June, the midmost month of the year, the ending of spring and the beginning of summer. In this month the earth will have inclined nearest to the sun, and the hours of daylight will reach their maxi mum. It is a time when the greatest enthusiasm is shown by nature, when the rains gush freest, the trees are most opulent with foliage, and the flowers are richest in their colorings. All outdoors is an in vitation, an invocation and a benediction in June. Other months have their beauties, each peculiar to itself, and a message that deserves consideration for its meaning in the cycle of the seasons. That of June is the one of great promise, of urge to action, and of love and hope and courage to persist. "And what Is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven trlea the Earth if it he In tune. And over It softly her warm ear lays.” It is June, and all should take full advantage of the great opportunities this month of months affords. A Texan went crazy after waltzing for 197 hours, and another broke his leg after playing 97 holes of golf. Nature is bound to keep the balance even. Irrigation isn’t needed when the spring rains are deluging the earth, hut it isn't always spring. Homespun Verse By Robert Worthington Davie NEAR ADAIR. Near Adair the busy farmers hasten forth at dawn of day; , Near Adair the flowers are climbing from the foliage aerene; Near Adair the birds are singing an exquisite roundelay, And the barrenness of Winter Is a threaded mass of green. Everywhere the hue of Summer seems enchanting to the eye; Every mortal seems to revel In contentment, more nr less— And there Is a soulful Something In the clouds that hasten by That reveals the placid aweetness of platonic happl ness. The prosaic world hat 'wakened to the beauty of the Spring, And If earth could be a heaven, surely Paradise It there, Where the fields and woods are primping and the winged warblers sing, And the sky looks down In silence on the valley of Adair. “The People’s Voice” Editorial! from nidm of Tbo Moralnt Bvo. Rcatftri of TH« Mornluf Boo oro lovltod li um tbit column freely for oxproftiioo oo matter a of public Interest. The Paean of Nebraska. Ravenna, Neb.—To the Editor of Tho Omaha Bee: Nebraska—the Eden of the central plain*—the "store house of plenty," permit us to take a trip with "Old Sol” ns he makes his daily journey over the state. Long before his slanting rays scatter the mists of the Missouri valley the throbbing cities are astir. We hear the laboring engines as they pull their loads of golden grain on tho sidings. The hum and clang of trolleys as they move their crowded loads to store and factory. As the mists are scattered we see, as It were, a long red worm winding its way to the stockyards to swell the droves of kine, sheep and swine. Where mingle the bleat of the sheep witti the baa of the calf. Where the fatted steer restlessly' awaits the slaughter whereby the hungry world is fed. As we travel westward the glinting rays of the sun rebound from the roofs of happy homes, business houses, churches and school buildings, to take up the work of scattering the dew from rich meadows and waving corn. When the jealous zephyrs spring up and kiss the curls of the maiden aa she carries from barnyard the precious product of the dairy. We see tlie boy with his mowing machine as he disturbs the honey bee gathering the nectar from the waving alfalfa field. While the father and hired men are piling up the Bwect scented hay. We pasa the dusty threshing ma chine which Is humming and shaking as It separates the grain from the an CLYV , The highways are dotted with wagons and trucks, like the capillaries In the web of a frog's foot with cor puscles, carrying the grain to eleva tor and mill, which are full to burst ing with the grain that taxes the rail roads beyond their ability to move to market. As we Journey up the Platte valley we see, besides the wheat the corn and the alfalfa, acres and acres of sugar beets, cabbages and potatoes. When w-e approach the sandhills we see thousands of horses and lazy cattle cropping the succulent grass, or lying beside the clear lakes that are teeming with carp, buffalo and cat fish. The highways are crowded with motor vehicles. The tractor has in vaded the field, the wireless furnishes news and entertainment for the rural dweller. And the air is ridden as the fast mail plane sweeps over hill and plain as if it were endeavoring to overtake "Old Sol" as he sits in the gory peaks of the west permitting the shades of dusk to envelope a prosperous and happy people. W. A. HARDING. One Service Man’s Lament. Omaha—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Publish this in The Omaha Bee if you dare print the truth: Lucky dead, now honored and sung— Fortunate to have died in war. Else they had come back to be damned; Disgraced, dishonored by the courts, slurred upon, made light of. For having served. ROT A CARD. Importance of Police Court. Omaha—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Our police court, vastly the most important of all city offices as it stands alone between all of the peo ple, rich and poor, their liberties, their property rights, and the law-break ers; or as a loop hole through which can stalk unafraid the criminal ele ments, Is not being conducted In a more "snap-judgment." superficial manner, than always in the past, though possibly more spectacularly, thus to a greater extent focusing the public gaze on It. Always lack of dignity, poise and deliberation, has marked the functioning of this court, born and bred on the borderland of the under world; where its home has mostly been; alwfiys prisoners have been milled through it much as sheep are run through the stockyards; and Judge Wappich In line of succession to Its bench has simply. In a general way, followed the system inaugurated by his predecessors. Naturally It would seem that since the people employ and pay the police judges and the police officers, that they would operate as one a great family against the common foe. the lawbreakers; and that the police ofll cers as units of the court would al ways be given the benefit of the doubt In presenting prisoners at the court bar, since not many of them would make arrests without reason. But never have these forces so operated, and on the other hand have often operated as counter-irritants against Daily Prayer He heereth the prayer of the rlfhteeue —Prov, 16:29. Gracious and loving Father, with what tenderness Thou hast guarded and guided us! Gratefully we acknowledge Thy goodness. We crave a closer fellowship with Thee. Show us the plan and program of life marked out for us tn Thy lov ing kindness snd Infinite wisdom. The Struggle up Is hard. O empower us for life's tasks and temptations. Grant tm trustful resignation where mystery surrounds the way Home Keep us calm while all about us is turbulent. Keep us patient when conditions are most trying * Mav the Redemptive Passion of .lesus riirlst be In reality Imparted to ua, so that we shall delight to render humble service tn Tliee. Help us lo love our fellowmen. Make us willing lo under take hard and apparently Impossible tasks when we are Impressed that It Is Thy Will. We would know the truth Reward us with revelations which will hulld us and bless us. We pray for those In deep affliction Tench us how to hear comfort to the sad. hope trr the discouraged, peace to the troubled, ronfidence tn the belated and overwhelmed fin every child of hst mantty may the healing rays from the Sun of Righteousness fall. Make us ready for service and snertflre. Pro tect us. snd provide for all our needs, and grant the forgiveness of all sin. through Jesus Christ, ourtierd Amen A. S5 CONRAD. D. D. Boston Mass NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for APRIL. 192.1, of THE OMAHA BEEi ; Dally. 75,320 * ] Sunday. 82,588 Doe* not. fnetada return*, left over*, *amp1e* or paper* spoiled in printing and Include* no aperlal tales. B. BRF.WF.R, Gen. Mgr V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. fttiiltrrihed and iwnrn to before me tbi* 2d day of M«y, 1021. W. H. QUIVEY, (Seal) Notary Publfa _A- _ , ' ; We Nominate— Far Nebraska's Hall of Fame. Anna brownell dunawat is a native of Kansas, but has lived since her marriage, in Ne braska. Her first story was published several years ago in the Metropolitan. She is a regular contributor to the Youth's Companion, and the Sunday School publications, and has sold short stories and articles to Collier's, Black Cat, Pictorial, Parisienne, The Fra, Peoples Home Journal, and other publications. Mrs. Dunaway’s stories are of the mlddlewest type. With her writing finger on life, she loves to write of simple, homely, every-day folks In the average small town or community. She does not care for the overwrought emotional plots of the so-called red blooded or problem variety. One of her stories, 'SThe Estate,” published by Collier's, was given an asterisk by Edward J. O'Brien, the short story critic of the Boston Transcript. Another, "Candle Power,” which appeared in the You'h's Com panion, was recently broadcast through the United States from sev eral stations. Mrs. Dunawav is a member of the Omaha Woman’s Press club, and is chairman of the state writing contest featured by that organization, for the ensuing year. each other, to the demoralization of both and to the grief of the people. More than a hundred police officers comb the city day and night to pro tect the people employing them. They must carry the fruita of their toil to one common center—the police court, where one man must reward their labors or render them void; and it is no uncommon thing to see these prisoners set at liberty with a light word or ridiculously inadequate pun ishment, although there is no ques tion of their guilt. Never have our police courts made it a business of punshing lawbreakers commensu rate with crimes committed; and yet right In these police courts is where erime is tarottled or is encouraged to stalk over the city unafraid. Just criticism attending the stares of the people at the system of the police courts, without malice, and not at the men temporarily on their benches who have not yet risen above the system, is bound to do good, and will tend to curb the abuses of the court; for encouraged, the police offi cers will do their duties through self Interest. Let us reform the police courts in Omaha and minimize crime. GEORGE B. CHILD. Exaggerated Wages. Omaha—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: No doubt in one or two of our large eastern cities me chanics are geettlng big wages and bonuses brought about by a shortage of certain kinds of labor at those par ticular points, hut in the west and middiewest it is different. Mechanics, such as bricklayers and carpenters, are receiving $9 a day, five and one half days, about 40 weeks a year, and unskilled labor scarcely enough to live on. Railroad men’s wages have been cut down to where it is a problem to make both ends meet. Trackmen, coach cleaners, roundhouse laborers and other unskilled laborers are re ceiving $2 96 a day and mechanics $5.66 a day. I have been In the rood service es frrman and engineer for .11 years and my pay is $4 96 a day. Statistics show the average day's pay for the laboring man In this coun try Is below $4 a day, and It would bo below that if it were not for such men as Henry Ford. The high paid laboring man is sadly In the minority W. O. PRINGLE. Coueism Hits the Pacific. Drat ItT Tills every day and-ln everyway husifiess catches us with s full box of yeast tablets on hand.— San Francisco Chronicle. “From State and Nation” —Editorials from Other Newspapers— "Popular" Movements. From the Nebreeke City Prese. We hear a great deal lately about “popular" movements for this and that. As a matter of fact, and we can prove It by the record, they are not popular at all—most of them. Most tju good movements, as we have caustically observed before, are engi neered by someone who has a large, dull ax which needs a closer ac quaintance with the grindstone. Re form movements—and we speak of the little reforms, not tne evolutions of civilization which are cosmic In cause and effect—are reform move ments only because reformers of the pee-wee type need the money, the presume, the revenge or the publicity. Drummed up movements, as Ed Howe calls them, have raised more dis turbance in this country during the [last year than did the war—and many of them, by the way, were born of the worries and anxieties of the great cataclysm. Newspaper editors know a lot about these do good ventures, for they are daily importuned to print columns of do good literature, fiee of charge, to the end that the glory of the do gooders may be enhanced and the general public may be further nauseated, if such a thing were possible. And the worst of it is, of course, most of us are driven Into these do good ventures whether we want to get in or not. The average person hesitates about being called a knocker or a grouch. So we get into the band wagon and become do good ers ourselves. The first thing we know the thing has been put across —and what a terrible, worthless, mon strous, unneeded thing It is after all! J.ook about yog and you will see the wrecks of a dozen do good movements; you will see the mangled corpses of a dozen erstwhile splendid citizens who wasted their time and substance working on the committee. In the In terest of humanity, for causes which were primarily designed to enhance and magnify, not the community’s good, but the reputations and private fortunes of the do gooders who &ead the committee and never do any of the work. A son of Confucius. From the Kansas City Kansan. A lineal descendant of Confucius, the great Chinese sage, Is a student at the University of Wisconsin. He is the 76th in direct line from the wise man of China. Perhaps he is a wise man, to come to America for instruction. He saw an advertisement of scholarship to be given by American colleges on com petitive examination, tried for the honors and won. When he graduates he expects to enter in the business of selling paints in China. On the surface, this seems to be a triumph for Christianity over Con fucianism, of western ideas of trade over the stagnated life of the oriental. That a descendant of Confucius should study in America is tribute to the work of the Christian missionaries. Amnesty. From the Wichita Kagle. William Allen White of Kansas is among the thousands who have sigo ed the petition to President Harding asking amnesty for American politi cal prisoners. Flrty-tw-o persons still are in prison In the United States for the expression of opinions during the war. William Allen White knows how to feel for such victims. He went through the war unscathed, but was arrested and threatened with impris onment by the defacto government of Kansas during the terrible peace. Only Mr. White's prominence saved him from Incarceration for expressing a feeling of brotherly love for strik ing shopmen. The present governors of Kansas and Oklahoma also arc among the prominent signers of the petition, as Is ex President Wilson's son In-law. Francis Sayre. The list of signers, in fact, contains the names of prac tically every person who may be called a humanitarian of note in the United States. For some time the United States and Russia have enjoyed the distinc tion of being the only nations on earth oocfining political prisoners, and of these two the United States alone continues to keep In prison the politi cal prisoners sent up during the war. Russia s are all postwar prisoners. Great Britain released all her political prisoners two years ago. and Ger many and France were much more prompt about It. The Wear and Tear of an Airplane. From the Christian Science Monitor. It may be a surprise to soms to learn that, according to a report re cently issued by the British air min istry. the wear and tear of an air plane in the air Is practically nil. This fact Is extremely important be cause of the hearing it has upon com mercla’ aviation, and the basis for Its statement is found In evidence gath ered in connection with the Daimler company's lie Havilland St. which. New Brunswick Records Daily THE NEW HALL OF FAME Sigrid Onegin Contralto Metropolitan Opera Co. \5048—' ‘Sapp hi ache Ode”. . . Brahms < Sapphic Ode) "Auf Dem Kirrhhofe’* Brahms (I n the Chan1 hvard) (Suae n 5mm) Eigrid Onegin Treated a sensation as a new member of the Metropolitan Opera Companv. Her voice h«« the glorious richness of tone looked for in great contralto*. Like other artist* of the New Hall ol Fame *he iclected Brunswick to immortalise her voice because of it* faithful interpretation of the difficult tones, its clearness and brilliant interpreta tion*. Mme. Onegin give* the two beautiful Brahma selection* a rendition full of glowing color and rare loveliness of repression. Be sure and hear then*. Nnr Rrynayiah Raaarda or* SBme unisi ssvv day. They MS he playad an nay pMsa*rs*S Sul hast an Tha Pmnmyttk. _ between April 8, 1922, and March 14, 1923 flew a distance of approximately 113,000 mile*. The condition of the machine, the report Raya, was found to be very satisfactory, “and from thla it would appear that the life of an aircraft which la well cared for la almost Independent of the amount of flying done." Of course, the atatement that wear and tear In the air la practically nil must oe interpreted from the stand point that exceptional strain on a machine usually occurs In landing, and the inclusion of the words “well cared for" should be remembered be fore drawing a rash conclusion re garding airplane upkeep, etc. In this connection It la worth noting that another De Havilland machine, which since 1917, when It was built, has flown 10,000 miles, and on which care ful account has been kept of all ex penditures, has "only” coat In the neighborhood of $2.50 per mile flown, this price including original cost, maintenance, repairs, both as to new material and labor, and all other ex penses. Still, even at that, It seems quite a lot of money. A Woman Editor's Opinion of War. Marie Weekes in the Norfolk Press. Do you realize that to oppose war and the causes of war, to be a be liever in the gospel of peace and good will preached by the Redeemer Him self, is to lay yourself liable to the charge of pacifism, to be accused of being the tool of the soviets and an employe of the Russian government? Do you realize that the University of Nebraska is being used by the mili tarists to build up a military machine in Nebraska? Only last wreek Maj. Gen. Duncan of Omaha at a meeting of the Lan caster County Reserve Officers’ asso ciation declared that “all red and pacifist propaganda being spread in America la financed by the soviet gov ernment of Russia." The Lincoln and Omaha newspapers carried the story of the meeting and-the Omaha major general’s speech, but not an editorial line have we seen in any newspapers In criticism of it. Maj. Gen. Duncan's further declared that the soviets are trying to overthrow the governments of the world and the American pacifist movement is but one of their schemes. Has the major general from Omaha proof that Senator William Borah, who wants to outlaw war, is in the employ of the soviets? In 1921 the American Federation of Labor passed resolutions saying “the working peo ple can end wars if they have the in pendence to think and to give their convictions reality by daring to do." Did the labor union folks draft that resolution because they were financed to do it by the soviet government? Maj. Gen. John F. O’Ryan said: “No matter how righteoqs the cause, the experience of a soldier at the front tends to lower the finer sensibilities. If any soldier came out of this war a better man than when he entered, it is in spite of and not because of his battle experience. War is the denial of Christianity and of all the most sacred things in life. It exalts force. It thrives on lies.” Does Maj. Gen. Duncan of Omaha dare to insinuate that Maj. Gen. O'Ryan wants to over throw his government? Pirtures vs. Books. From the Richmond Times-Dlepatch. Mr. Edison’s prediction that books will be driven from the school rooms by moving picture machines has pro voked a deal of discussion pro and con. Whatever conclusion others may reach as to the plausibility of his prediction, the wizard himself firmly believes he will be verified in later ex perience. He supports his prediction by telling of his own experience in teaching chemistry and physics through use of the silver screen. *Buf Abe Martin Have you ever noticed that Bryan never suggests anybuddy fer th’ democratic presidential nomination that coud beat him t’ it? This must be th’ high ole time we’ve alius heard so much about. (Copyrifht, 1123.) A Book oj Today "Knowing Birds Through Stories," by Floyd Brai’iar, Is an exceptionally attractive work and one that will prove equally interesting to the adult and the child. The author "grew up" among birds on his father's farm in. southeastern Iowa, where a 10-acre grove was set aside as a playground. Phis favored spot seems to have de veloped into a sort of sanctuary for the birds, and it was here that the author followed his fancy of “frater nizing" with his feathered friends and studying their habits and peculiarities and he tells some of the most charm ing little stories about them. It Is published by Funk ft Wagnalls. "A Desk Book of Idioms snd Idiomatic Phrases in English Speech and Literature,” by Frank H. Vise telly, Litt. D., LL. D.. and Leander J. De Bekker has just been publisheed by Funk & Wagnalls. The English vernacular is filled with picturesque expressions, yet the dictionaries de fine comparatively few of them. There are times, however, when It is almost essential that they be understood. A work of this sort, explaining the meaning of more than 11,000 of these quaint and curious expressions and virile metaphors should prove of un usual value to newspaper editors and writers, lawyers, litereary people, speakers, translators. foreigners learning our language lexicographers and ail others who are interested In English speech and literature. even the wizard’s prophecy does not necessarily mean that the books will be burned. There can be no doubt that pictures have an educational value unlike that of other forms of teaching. With pictures, the mind can be led to a wide knowledge of the external world, strange places may be shown, the processes of industry may be revealed. Many branches of knowledge can only be understood thoroughly with the help of the eye, but the eye is not all. The testimony of Joseph Conrsd in this connection is entitled to weight. On landing In America. Mr. Conrad was asked whether he ex pected that the novel would be sup planted by the screen. 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