T oday 'Another Revolution. Smith Versus Bryan. No Logical Religion. “If I Were President. ^By ARTHUR BRISBANE J Revolution in Bulgaria. The king sides with the revolutionists, as Italy’s king sided with Musso lini. Kings, royal in inheritance, or royal in cash, do not object to revolutions, when made in their interest by conservatives. But a wise king would fear any revolu tion. One kind breeds the other. These are happy days for W. G. McAdoo. Present explosions in the democratic party are all good explosions for him. First came the world court, which tied the republicans up with a second-class “league of na tions,” and took one heavy curse from Mr. McAdoo, in case he should run. Now A1 Smith, governor of New York, and William Jennings Bryan, protector of prohibition, are fighting. That eliminates Mr. Smith as a candidate. One thing Mr. Bryan can do— he can prevent a nomination by the democratic convention. To go into a democratic conven tion to fight Bryan is like going into a Florida swamp to fight alli gators. That’s not the place to fight them. Moses Steinberg invents a new religion, and, says he, it is "the only religion appealing solely to man’s reason and capacity to un derstand and not at all to his ca pacity to believe.” That is exactly the kind of re ligion that nobody wants. Men seek in religion answers to ques tions that can be answered only by faith. Mohammed’s angel, with a huge face, eyes set miles apart, or the Christian picture of Elijah travel . ing up to heaven in a chariot of fire, plus a simple explanation of how the earth and the creatures on it were made—that is what the simple human brain requires. We ‘‘long to know the unknow able and unscrew the inscrutable.” Nobody wants a logical religion. Many men go to sleep mapping out what they would do “if I were president.” Henry Ford gives part of his plan: If he were president he would “stop fodlish parading by the army and foolish social waste of time by the navy." He would put army and navy to work chasing bootleggers. Such a good manufacturer should have better use for the army and navy. If John D. Rockefeller were 30 years younger jnd had the chance, he would make the navy self-sup porting and it would be the big gest in the world by a thousand per cent. And he would make the army self-supporting digging canals, irrigating deserts and draining marshes. And he would double and treble army pay. There are more important things to be done, even, than hunt ing bootleggers. Clergymen of 15 different kinds ask President Harding to get to work in the near east and settle questions there, relieving the afflicted, etc. It's a pious sug gestion, but there is a great deal to be done in the much “nearer” United States. The right kind of thinking is done by Lloyd George, who says: “We spent $50,(100,000,000 in the last war and have not spent a thousandth part of that sum since the country came into ex istence, remedying conditions in the slums, where multitudes of Britishers are living under condi tions perfectly infamous.” This country snent a great deal more than $50,000,000,000 in that war, including bad loans to Eu rope. It is about time to begin spending our money not in the nearer east, but near home. Two inventions are announced. A French scientist “sends cir cles of light by means of wire less.” This means that we may actually see, by wireless, and to a distance unlimited. Men may one day see the sur face of the moon or of Mars, ns plainly as they now see the surface of the buildings across the streets. The other invention, of less cosmic importance, deals with the steering of big ships. A German invents a small attachment to the rudder, which makes unnecessary a special crew and special engines for steering. The little invention causes the~power of the water to do the steering. It is like turn ing the switch and utilizing the force of a big power house. Gandhi, who was to free India from the British and whose follow ers believed in pictures showing him holding the Himalayan Moun tains on one finger, is in prison. The British put him there. He spends his time spinning cloth by hand. That shows how far India is from self-government. Gandhi thinks the handloom spells free dom. WhHt his 300,000,000 fel low Indians need is freedom from the handloom, freedom from the beliefs that have kept them pros trate for a thousand years. Samuel Gompers denounces the effort to break up unions in the textile industry in Massachusetts. Frank Munsey’s New York Her ald says the open shop is making gains all over the country (o the tune of half a million workers In a year. When jobs are scarce and pay Is low, men, frightened, stick to gether and pay their dues. When jobs are plentiful and pay is high the unions suffer. Such is human nature and human folly. (Copyright, till.} ( Armour Officials in Omaha on Visit to Inspect Plant Former Office Boys Head De legation — Rebuilding De pends on Market—Busi ness Prospects Good. Two men, who not so many years ago began their business careers on salaries which were not more than $10 a week, arrived in Omaha yester day morning. They are now at the heads of two of the biggest institu tions in the world, with more millions at their command than they had dol lars in the early days. These two men are F. Edson White, president of Armour A Co., and James Simpson, president of Marshall Field A Co. They came to Omaha with a party of Armour A Co. officials and di rectors, in the personnel of which are several of the leading financiers of the country. There is romance in the story of their rise to power and fame. Mr. Simpson began work with the Marshall Field A Co. store in Chi cago at the age of 13. That was 31 years ago. His job was running er rands, and his salary $6 a week. "I started In the wholesale section of the business.” related Mr. Simpson yesterday morning. "The personality of the late Marshall Fie^d meant piuch to me, for he kept in touch with all his employes as much as possible. I knew him for 16 years. The Mar shall Field A Co. now does a business from $175,000,000 to $200,00,000 a year.” Mr. White began his career as a clerk in the Godel & Son Packing company at Peoria, 111. That was in the days when clerks didn't receive much salary. Mr. White had ambi tions to he a salesman and spent much of his time working in the sales department. Both men were only recently made presidents of their institutions. They hoth assert the chances for the young American are as great now as at any time. Mr. White first was questioned re garding plans for rebuilding the por tion of the Armour plant in Omaha which was destroyed hy fire. He re- | plied that unless the market made ] the rebuilding necessary the company i will endeavor to operate with the : combined facilities of the old plant I and the Morris plant, acquired by : the recent merger. "The merger proposition is now in 1 the hands of the Department of Agri culture,’’ explained Mr. White. "The department is conducting hearings on it. We anticipate a favorable de vision because, for one thing, there ' has been tm evidence of any parttcu- 1 iar antagonism toward it hy the pro ducers at any place where hearings have been held." Seven New Directors. There were seven new directors of the Armour & Co. in the party which spent the day In Omaha. The flection of these directors and the large blocks of stock in Armour A Co, now held hy the public is hailed as the beginning of a new era for the company. "There are now 40.000 stockhold ers in the company," said Mr. White, "whereas 10 years ago there wero only six. It has changed from a fam ily institution to a national affair, a public utility. We hope to have 100.000 stockholders." "The outlook for business in the immediate future is very bright," said Mr. Simpson, who is one of the new Armour directors. "There should he a healthy condition for the next six months at least. K very body is em ployed at* good wages and there is no surplus accumulation of stock. Consumption has overtaken produc tion, but production Is not in excess of consumption. This dors not ap ply In the meat products line, how ever, because there is such an unusu al run of hogs that the supply is greatly In excess of the demand. We hope this won't continue long.’’ "Kcal Dirt Farmer.” Harvey J. Sconce, ovnir and man ager of the Fairvlew farm at Sidell, 111., who is hail'd by his companions as a “real dirt farmer, t>ut not a dirty one." expressed the belief that only farm land that can he made to pay should be farmed. Too much unsuitable land is being cultivated for the preaent population of thle country, since foreign markets are lax, Mr. Sconce said. He urged a greater diversity in farming The party Inspected the Armour plant yesterday morning. Members A WORD ABOUT BIFOCALS Many of our new customers have said to me: “I cannot get used to BIFOCALS. I have tried and tried and it’s no use trying again." These same customers after being fitted by my system go away wearing our new BI FOCAL with perfect comfort. In