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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.
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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
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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.
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< 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.
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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. His reply was
that it would be impossible for any
such thing to happen, as the screen
was not a substitute for thought.
That statement takes much of the
value out of Mr. Edison's prophecy.
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