T oday
Papyrus, Derby Winner
The Locusts Are. Back.
Power Wheel Microbes.
Labor Kills Thought,
^By ARTHUR BRISBANE^
Papyrua won the derby yester
day. That interests most English
men intensely. Betting was 100
to 15 against the winner; more
than $25,000,000 were bet on that
one race. What gamblers don’t
realize is that all their thinking,
planning, worrying adds not one
dollar to the world’s wealth. Hu
man energy and nerves wasted,
nothing created. It was the third
derby win in succession for
Donoghue, the Lancashire jockey,
giving him the right to wear the
golden spurs. He’s liappy.
Seventeen-year locusts appear
here and there, and curious they
are. The male locust sings, enjoy
ing himself with usual masculine
irresponsibility. The female, hard
at work, lays her eggs in little
holes bored in twigs of trees, caus
ing the foliage to shrivel. When
hatched, the grubs fall to the
ground, bury themselves, and re
main under earth for seventeen
years, occasionally changing their
skins, getting bigger. Then they
come up and start all over again.
That’s mysterious ^enough to
make anybody think for a minute
and a half, and what are we but
grubs, buried here under the
atmosphere on our planet, to re
main for 70 years, and then, as
we believe and hope, rise, get
wings like the locust and enjoy
bliss forever?
Scientists have artificially pro
duced a lightning flash represent
'ng 10,000,000 horsepower, more
:han enough, if it could be kept
up, to run all the machinery of the
United States.
That artificial lightning flash,
compared to the roar in the sky
that follows an electric “spark” 8
or 10 miles long, is like a child’s
popgun compared with Germany's
“Big Bertha” that sent shells 70
miles into Paris.
The earth is a gigantic driving
wheel, generating not millions
but trillions of horsepower. We,
building our tiny power plants on
this big wheel, are like microbes
living on the rim of a driving
wheel rigging up windmills to
catch the breeze, instead of har
nessing the power of the wheel.
That 10,000,000 horsepower
artificial flash is encouraging.
Whatever men can imagine, they
can do, and Guiseppe Faccoioli,
the electrical engineer who pro
duced the big spark, is the fore
runner of men who will really
harneaa the earth and put it to
work.
P. S.—Don’t let that future un
limited supply of heat and power
keep you from putting in next
winter’s coal supply now.
Forbes, learned writer on fi
nance, says of the 12-hour work
ing day in steel mills, “America's
destinies are unsafe in the hands
of the class of citizens thus pro
duced.” In one way, not in an
other.
The best possible way to keep
men down and out of mischief,
is to work them hard 12 hours a
day. Men thus worked do not
make revolutions, or do the think
ing. After working in a steel mill
12 hours men can’t think. And
thinking makes rebellion. Tailors
on their benches and shoemakers
at their lasts do much thinking.
Physical labor doesn't take all
their energy.
It was not the overworked
French laborer who caused the
revolution. He only howlod around
the guillotine after it started. Men
who never knew hard labor start
ed it, ran it, and eventually
brought the French republic out
of it.
“Mo chain is stronger than its
weakest link.” you have heard that
solemn remark perhaps. The hu
man race is a chain. How weak
is the weakest link in civilization?
Read the news from South Africa.
Six pavages, sentenced to death,
burned alive a young man named
Manduza, to please the rain god
dess. Manduza, son of a chief,
was accused of offending the god
dess, so they burned him alive.
Strange to say, the drouth broke
and rain fell just after he was
burned.
The human race that has in
South Africa people burning each
other alive to please an imngina^
rain goddess, and that has in
Washington, capital of this nation,
perfectly sane white men, child
ishly pleased to call themselves
“imperial potentate," has a long
way to travel.
Klhur In carload lots has drop
ped as low as $6.25 in America.
In Bulgaria, they propose to whip
food profiteers in the public
streets. If that were done here,
many things would drop with
flour. But the American system
is to allow profiteers to whip the
people. It pays better.
(Copyright. 1922 )
“Flivver” Plane Wrecked;
Pilot to Return to France
Psulsboro, N. J., June 7.—tleorjce*
Burbot, French pilot of the "flivver"
airplane, announced todsy that he
had temporarily abandoned his
flights In lids country. Although his
machine suffered little damage yes
terdsy when the frail raft plunged
Into a tree, curio seekers further dis
abled the mechanical flying marvel
Rarbot had brought to this country.
Barbot says he will go bark fo
Franco nnd bring over a similar ms
chine.
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New Tnal Asked of
Suit Against Connell
(( ontlnurd From l'afe On*.)
ment of the action bars It from trial
in both Nebraska and New York.”
The motion further charges that
Dr. Connell "did not get a fair trial,"
end alleges “misconduct of Jury,”
and that "the verdict is excessive
and given under Influence of preju
dice.”
Reasons 57 ami 58 rend as follows:
Claim Jury Fixed.
“For the season that said jury was
influenced and controlled In render
ing its verdict for the plaintiff and
against said defendant and for the
large and excessive sum of $50,000
by reason of the wrongful and prej
udicial demonstrations of the lnrge
crowd attending said trial and the ex
pression of approval of plaintiff and
denunciation of defendant and ex
pressions of sympathy for plaintiff
and hostility towards defendant by a
large number of glrla, women and
others present in the courtroom dur
ing the trial and crowding the door
of the courtroom and the hallway
leading thereto.
"For the reason that the trial of
this action owing to said demonstra
tions and actions was in the nature of
a vaudeville show and of an extreme
ly sensational and predudicial char
acter and was not a fair trial for
the defendant.”
Affidavits, the attorneys said, would
be filed to support this motion.
Attorney Emmett Brumbaugh, for
Miss Johnstone, laughed at the mo
tion as filed.
"If the lawsuit as tried was a
vaudeville show. \V. J. Connell and
Herb Connell were the leading actors;
surely not the jurors, the court or
Mr. Gray or myself participated in
any joy-making. It was serious with
us. I don’t care how many motions
or affidavits they file."
Short Ballot Campaign
Is Launched at Lincoln
(Cont I mi pd from Pure One.)
Stebbins also quoted laudations of
Woodrow AVilson, Theodore Roose
velt, William Howard Taft and Sec
retary of State Hughes on the short
ballot.
Some Offices Unchanged.
"We do not intend to withdraw the
courts, railway commissioners and
university regents from public elec
tions," Stebbins said. "They will re
main as they are and so would the
legislature.
"Our plan is to adopt the federal
form of government in our state gov
ernment. AVe will give the governor
power of removal of any member of
his cabinet he sees fit.
"There is no reason why every sta‘e
shall have a different form of gov
ernment. The form we have in view
is not new in state governments.
Maine has elected the governor for
only four years. The mime Is true
in New Hampshire, Tennessee and
New Jersey.
"I have lived in this state for 40
years. It has been that many years
of turmoil, buckpnssing and discon
tent. The governor is made the Chief
officer of the stats and Is held re
sponsible for the acts of all oth?r
officers over whom he has no con
trol. He passes the buck to them and
they pass it to him.
Subject to Approval.
"We elect a governor every two
years. He can’t go against the
wishes of a majority very long. The
governor wouldn’t make all appoint
ments. They would be subject to
legislative approval in many instance*
and his cabinet officers would make
appointments for their departments
the same as President Harding's cabi
net officers make appointments for
their departments."
Prof. John R. Senning r,f the Uni
versity of Nebraska urged the short
ballot, in order to attain the follow
in gresults in government: Himpllfi
cation, fixed responsibility and co
operation.
We would absolutely know who
was responsible." he said, "because
our government would be simplified
and we would have co-operation bo
cause al 1 units would be In tune
with the platform and views of the
governor. Four states have the short
ballot and 14 the partial short ballot.
"Every person in Nebraska is dls
gusted and determined to do away
with our present dual system of gov
ernment,” Judge Wray asserted. “I
favor a single, clear-cut Issue on this
proposition.”
Ignorant of Candidates.
"I don't know one half the candi
dates on the ballots and I don’t be
lieve 90 per cent of the electorate
do.” John A. Davies of Huttc, a mem
ber of the constitutional convention,
asserted.
"Outside of the candidates for gov
ernor 1 didn't know any of the quali
fications of our state candidates at
the last election," Senator McGowan
said.
"I’ll take one of our present five
foot ballots and wont know the busi
ness qualifications of more than four
or five candidates for state offices,"
Judge C. H. Slama of Wahoo as
serted.
"Often I have been absolutely ignor
ant concerning candidate^ and voted
for the man w hose name came at the
top of the ballot," Representative Neff
affirmed.
Outto Mutz wanted to Incorporate
an initiative petition for small a
legislature. This was voted down be
cause it was feared it might confuss
the issue which the advocates of tho
short ballot wish to stand out clear
cut and alone.
W. F. Dale of University Place
favored election of the state superin
tendent.
Statement by Bryan
on Short Ballot Plan
(Continued from I'u- One.)
have simply had four or six gov
ernors as the case might be.
Too Much Power.
"Before the people can consider
this short ballot proposition theV
want to know, In the terms of the
boys In France, 'where do we go from
here,’ and if It is intended to leave
all of the power In the hands of the
governor as the original code bill did.
If It Is, it Is too much power for one
man, because he decides all of the
policies of the state and has control
of all the appointments and ad
ministrative power as well and act
ing for other state officers who
formerly passed on policies as a
group.
"If this short ballot movement con
templates as its next step the thing
attempted here this winter—to have
the governor appoint a cabinet of code
secretaries and have those men be
come executive officers as the new
constitutional provision permits and
was attempted by the republican ma
jority of the legislature this winter,
then the people, in my Judgment,
should rise up and protest in a way
that would have no uncertain mean
ing.
"Big business seem* to he back of
this short ballot proposition through
out the country. It seems to want to
Cut down the number of the people s
elective representatives so they can
deal with a smaller number, and this
applies whether it is the size of the
national congress, the state legisla
tures or elective state officers.
Will Fight Plan.
"I cannot and will not approve any
plan that contemplate* permitting the
special interests of this state to get
control of the entire state govern
mental machinery by the election of
one man, whether he be a governor
or whatever title they *ee fit to give
him. and I will oppose to the last
ditch any movement that provides
that the governor shall delegate his
power to socalled cabinet officers, or
appointive state officers, where those
appointive officers, after being ap
pointed and confirmed by the legis
lature. would have independent con
trol of their respective departments
where the governor or no other elec
tive officer could reach them and he
responsible for their policies and the
management of their respective de
partments.
"Big business seems to want to dl
vide the state s business up into the
hands of appointive executive officers
so they can bring pressure on them.
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om> at a time, in order to carry out
any administrative policy that it
might be interested In. This applies
to the banking department, insurance
department and public loads depart
ment, which have auch a far-reach
ing effect for good or evil on the fi
nancial welfare of the people of this
state.
"I believe in and shall support
the plan that the people approved at
the election last fall, that is, that the
policies of the stnto should he decid
ed by elective state officer* acting as
a group, so that the special interests
will have to present their cases to the
state officers publicly and not he per
mitted to deal with them privately,
one at a time, where they can bring
pressure to bear, to get results.
Policies Are Public.
It is the governor's business to car
ry out these policies after they have
been decided upon in a board meeting
of the state officers where the gov
ernor himself only has one vote and
where each decision mn'de would be
arrived at publicly and a record vote
made of each policy determined. The
governor should appoint the adminis
trative employes with power of re
moval.
"In place of (.ailing a conference
to lessen the number of the people's
representatives who are elected by a
direct vote, as the short ballot advo
cates contemplate. J uni In fiivor of
bringing to a direct vote of the people
at the next election Hie repeal of the
code bill and establishing the power
in the governor and elective state of
ficers acting as a group to decide pol
icies of the State.
"I am also in favor of submitting
by the initiative the other measure*
that were defeated bv the joint lobby
representing the special Interests.be
fore the state legislature this past
winter, such as water developments
by the municipal, district or state
Rroup; I he rural credits bill permit
ting the state to loan money direct to
the farmers without Interference by
the bankers; the co-operative bill; the
labor bill providing for a stale board
of mediation and the bill which would
permit cities and towns to establish
municipal coal yards, ice plants, etc.
"1 believe in putting these up di
rectly to the vote of the people with
out intervention of the legislature and
without the aid or consent of any
lobby on earth. The organized lobby
that was in evidence at the state leg
islature all last winter could not in
fluence the voters themselves like
they seemed to be able to mislead
some of the people s representatives
in the legislature."
Church Is Homhrd.
By AnNoHoIrd Prfw.
Sacramento, Cal., June 7.—A bomb
was thrown against the United
Brethren church here last night but
did little damage. Within the church
several hundred persons were listen
ing to a lecture by Rev. O. P. Har
nish. The bomb rolled Into the street
before exploding. Police say the Rev.
Mr. Harnish received a letter ear
lier in the day. saying that the
church would be blown up. Officers
say the, bombing was the work of
high school pupils. In a lecture last
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