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ABSOLUTELY, MR. HARDING.
Disrespect for the law is a national peril. If
one set of citizens flouts any section of the constitu
tion or encourages violation of one statute, then
it may be expected that another set will become
emboldened to flagrant disobedience of some other
law which conflicts with their weaknesses or habits.
It is not for men to choose which laws they will obey.
President Harding, in his address at Denver,
came into direct conflict with those who urge that
because the prohibition laws are difficult to enforce
they should be repealed. “There can be no issue
in this land paramount to that of enforcement of
the law,” the president declared. Thus does he res
cue the question of prohibition from the flood of
hysteria and place it on a sane and reasonable basis:
“The issue is fast coming to be recognized,
not as an issue between wets and drys, not a ques
tion between those who believe in prohibition and
those who do not. not a contention between those
who want to drink and those who do not; it is fast
being raised above all that, to recognition as an
Issue of whether the laws of this country can he
and will be enforced. So far as the federal govern
ment Is concerned, and I am very sure also, so far
as concerns the great majority of the state govern
ments and the local governments, it will be enforced.
A gratifying, indeed it may fairly be said an amazing,
progress has been made in the last few years to
ward better enforcement.”
If the state of New York hoped to discourage
enforcement by repealing its liquor laws, its effort
was in vain, for Mr. Harding announces that there
A will be no relaxation of the national government’s
■ activity in this regard. State and local authorities,
* he believes, should bold themselves resposible for
local enforcement, but if they do not, the federal
officers will step in. To his mind the action of New
York, instead of emphasizing state’s rights, merely
exhibited the weakness of the state government in
throwing its proper burdens on the nation.
It is to his regret that the prohibition issue has
not been removed from politics, for, as he says, it
will continue a demoralizing element in our whole
public life and “be a paramount bar to the wise
determination of many issues utterly unrelated to
the liquor question.” Venturing into prediction, he
expresses confidence that “neither of the great par
ties will see the time within the lives of any who
are now voting citizens, when it will declare openly
for the repeal of the eighteenth amendment.” He
goes even farther:
"The prohibition amendment to the constitution
is the basic law of the land. The Volstead net has
been passed, providing a code of enforcement. I
am convinced that they are a small, and a greatly
mistaken, minority who believe the eighteenth
amendment will ever be repealed. Details of en
forcement policy doubtless will be changed as ex
perience dictates. Further. I am convinced that
whatever changes may be made will represent the
sincere purpose of effective enforcement, rather
Than moderation of the general policy. It will be
the part of wisdom to recognize the facts as they
stand."
The president speaks with the voice of common
sense. The prohibition law must be respected and
enforced to the same degree as are all other laws.
That community brings disrepute upon itself and
peril to the republic that encourages contempt for
the Volstead law or the eighteenth amendment.
WITH LIFE IN THE POT.
“You’ll have to kill me to get my money,” said
the victim of a holdup, and the robbers at once fired
three bullet* into his body. He died a few hours later
at a hospital.
This was the end of a sordid story. The victim,
a professional gambler, had “organized a party,”
and out in the country, far from the reach of city
authorities, he opened a “layout” for gambling. A
number of so-called sports attended, and bet (heir
money on the turn of the dice. Not a man there
but knew he was breaking the law. In fact, they
sought the open field at the dead of night, and by
the “lantern dimly burning” they gambled.
Excitement was what they were after. Most of
them probably cared little if they won or lost; they
craved the sensation that comes with a risk, the un
explained feeling of satisfaction in an adventure
that has the elements of wrongdoing. No amount
of discussion will ever touch the reason for this, for
it is bom in some men, and they yield to the im
pulse as naturally as to breathing. But they also
know that such ventures are likely to lead to very
serious ends. ,
Not a great while ago a murder was committed
ss the outcome of a quarrel over payment for a jug
of bootleg liquor. An Iowa farmer faces a future
of prison life for this crime.
Now Iowa’s fair name is stained by another
murder, as wanton and as useless as that of the
bootlegger, also the outcome of petty lawlessness.
Men who engage in these bits of lawbreaking are
not vicious, simply reckless. That a great crime
grows out of a little one, and that murder follows
their dicing, is a consequence they do not consider
when setting out for a “good time.” Young men
must learn some day that gambling and similar
things are not outlawed just tb deprive “boys” of
any chance of having fun, hut because they are
evils, minor, perhaps, in themselves, hut. leading to
greater ones as certainly as water runs down hill.
Our esteemed democratic contemporary makes
the mistake of quoting from the wrong Palmer in
discussing the sugar situation. Instead of Truman
G„ it should tell what A. Mitchell Palmer did to
help out when he was attorney general of the
United States. Some folks around here paid ns
high as 30 cents a pound and could only get a
pound at a time when “Mitch” Palmer was running
things.
Sounds like old times to read about a schooner
laying a shot across the hows of another, but in
this esse it was only a dry boat chasing a rum
runner.
Looking for a place to help? There's the hree
Ice and Milk Fund; everybody's welcome to subscribe.
It gives 100 per cent eervice.
«A1” Smith ought to read the Denver speech twice.
/
CONSCRIPTION OF DOLLARS.
When, on Memorial day, President Harding de
clared himself as in favor of drafting every dollar
as well as every man into the service of the nation,
in event of another war, he aroused a storm of pro
test. Now, at the army general hospital at Denver,
and in presence of men who are battling for life
against disease and injury incident to service in the
army, he renews that pledge, in these words:
"But I want to tell you if ever there Is another
war, we will do more than draft the boys. If I
have anything to do with it, we will draft every
dollar and every other essential.”
Most of the objection to the president’* pro
posal rests on the Fourteenth amendment to the
Constitution of the United States, which says, ‘‘Nor
shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty
or property without due process of law.” This is
one of the matters left by the federal constitution
to state control, hut it must be read in connection
with that section of the constitution which empow
ers congress to provide for the public defense. When
the selective service was first put into effect, it,
too, was attacked on the provision of the amend
ment, which did not exist when the draft was re
sorted to during the Civil War.
The answer of the supreme court at that time
was to the general effect that the draft law was
for the general defense, and so within the power
of congress to enact and enforce. It called every
man between the ages of 18 and 45 to Berve with
the colors, or wherever he might be stationed. Prop
erty was not so drafted, and, while over 4,000,000
men were called upon to enter the military establish
ment, other millions were permitted to pursue their
normal vocations without interference, except that
the productive resources of the country were gen
erally mobilized for war purposes, yet with the un
derstanding that ‘‘due process of law” would provide
ample compensation for any property used.
Efforts were made to offset this by certain pro
visions for the benefit of the soldiers, such as the
insurance and educational plans, hospitalization,
and the like. None of these plans, however, has
ever been adequately carried out. Aside from the
insurance feature, the rest of the program has been
badly administered, and the men who went into the
service feel they have been shabbily treated by a
government that has not in all things redeemed its
promises to them. Of the 4,000,000 and over of
men who wore the uniform from 1917 to 1919,
110,437 paid with their lives that their country
might live, and that freedom would continue to bless
mankind.
The government can take from these men their
dearest possession, that of life itself, demanding
that they risk it in the general defense: does it not
seem as reasonable that the power that can conscript
human life can also conscript dollars? Just because
it never has been done is no good sign that it may
not be done, and a lot of young men will march
away to another war, if such calamity should befall
the nation, with lighter hearts if they know their
exposure is not going to result in enormous profit
to some greedy profiteer, lying in safety behind the
defense they provide.
WHAT DOES FRANCE WANT?
“The new German note offers as fair a basis for
the settlement of the economic problem of repara
tions as is within the power of the German govern
ment to give.” That is the opinion expressed by John
Maynard Keynes, author of “Economic Consequences
of the Peace," and probably the best informed man
in the world on the subject. Politicians have bungled
the problem from the start, and to Mr. Keynes’ notion
it is high time for a settlement on a business basis,
taking into due regard the German capacity of pay
ment.
Poincare, he says, wants a blank check from Ger
many, but if Cuno should hand it over, his govern
ment would collapse. He ventures to say that in
such event a government of communists and social
democrats would endorse the check, though without
any intention of making it good. The choice, accord
ing to this theory, lays between payment from Chan
cellor Cuno or a signature from the communists a
la Russe.
This English financial expert has shown an un
canny gift of prophecy in the past. That makes more
interesting his speculations on what would happen if
another German revolution should break. Then, he
.says, the world would see Bavaria, Saxony, East
Prussia and the Rhineland splitting off under sepa
rate governments, soon to he brought under French
control. Instead of collecting reparations France
then would establish a military empire beyond chal
lenge by any other power.
“France would have achieved what Germany was
broken in attempting," Mr. Keynes says. "Such s
project is capable of achievement. Poincare msy be
deliberately pursuing it. It the light of history it is
not improbable.”
This is monstrous, full of woe for the German peo
ple and full of peril for the peace of the world. The
hope is that Belgium and Italy will withdraw their
support, and that the English government will aban
don its trimming and speak what is in its mind.
“Queen of the Seas” is some title, but the Levia
than is big enough to wear it gracefully.
“Bob" Samardick has the federal court criminal
docket all cluttered up again.
A good plan at the Muny beach is to keep inside
the life lines.
“Icelrss Sunday” was no delight to anybody.
Homespun Verse
—By Omaha's Own Poet—
Robert fT'orlhinffton Davie.
WHEN SUMMER COMES.
|,ong ha vs we Sighed, tong have we yearned, for sum
mer e fragrant halm.
And dreamed onr dream and sun* our son*—our heart
enthusing psalm
Around the rosy Are we sat In winter cold and drear.
And yearned that aummer's *w#lt ring days would
hasten to ua here.
Our heavy coats we vould di<-o*id our caps In garret
fling.
Roll up our sleeve* and mow the card, tune up our
lyrewand aliur.
A nil feel the honest ([l atitude of them w hose aehe* are
none,
And rest content upon lit* porch when da>* turmoil
was dene
O, joyous dreams' The day* are hot, the scorching
zephyr* blow.
The hug* and »keeteta *pars us not. we'd Ilk* to hav* It
anow,
We d *lilver with sincere delight and ruh our ear* with
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“The People’s
Voice”
Editorials from roadora at Tfca Maralnt Boa.
Rcai'cn of Tilt Murnliif Baa art invited to
uee this column freely for •xprmfoo on
matter* at subtle latoreot.
His Life ft Miracle of Faith.
Omaha—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: If you would bring a
message of cheer and hope to the
dope fiend and the drug addict would
you not count it one of the greatest
privileges of your life?
Paul T. Hill, the sign painter, went
to his reward a few days ago. Before
his conversion seven years ago in the
Billy Sunday meetings he was a dope
fiend and a drunkard. He would even
smoke In a day as many as 65 clgar
ets. He was a victim of the chloral
habit, and his case seemed far more
hopeless than that of many a victim
today.
But he found a Savior in the Lord
Jesus. Ho learned that Jesus Is
mighty to save. No less a Savior
would do the man who knew his lost
condition. He determined, now that
he had surrendered to Christ.-to learn
all he could and to do all he could
In service for others. He was di
rected to a veteran Christian. Dr. T.
C. Webster, then pastor of Oak Street
Methodist church, whom he always
looked upon as his spiritual guide.
Listen, men and women who have de
spaired of deliverance from the grip
of the dope. Listen to Paul Hill s tea
tlmony when he declared that he lost
all his taste for drink and dope. What
a deliverance!
This Is not imagination, nor the
boasting of man without experience,
but the testimony of a man who for
seven years lived an exceptionally
Godly life In Omaha, quietly, unas
sumingly laboring in his paint shop,
working at night in mlsaions or in
the street, or holdlog little prayer
services in his shop or elesewhere.
Think of the change. Once a bur
den to himself and to society, now
wondrously converted, and furnishing
the proof of it by seven years of most
loving, devoted service for others.
Time and again has he had a word
of prayer with men who dropped Into
his shop. But one of the most beau
tiful services that Paul Hill did was
his Interest In children. Here was a
man who died at 63. hut up to the last
laboring untiringly with the boys snd
g-rls of Oak Street church, teaching
them. 30 or 40 boys and girls, Sun
day afternoons. Nothing but the grace
of God could enrich a life like that.
The Oak Street Methodist Episcopal
■liurch was crowded when the last
service was held. There was scarcely
s dry eye. A man of God had passed
rrom us and, old and young, felt a
ereat personal love. He, lieing dead,
yet speaks a most wonderful message
of cheer and hope for the hopeless, for
all who will trust implicitly the same
Almighty Savior. W. H. JORDAN.
Prefers English Propaganda.
Cozad. Neb.—To th* Editor of Th'
Jmaha Bee. In the ' People ■ Voice'
column of June 20 was a letter con.
learning British Influence in America
.s injurious to Americanism. The
writer of that letter seems to be a
on firmed anti Anglican of the sort
who me always blaming Britain for
ill our misfortunes Any fair-minded
man can see that of all the foreign
propaganda In America, the English
variety would be the least harmful
-ecause of the similarity of the two
lations.
If Mr. Howard wants some real
harmful propaganda let him look to
jtlaer foreign countries. The Ger
mans. for instance, are proving that
Washington and Lincoln were Ger
mans Let him look to the Japa and
Chinese of California and to the
Slavic and !.atln population of th#
east. Why pick on the English alone?
I agree with Mr. Howard that for
sign propaganda is had. hut I insist
that the Slavic. I-atln and Oriental
kind is worse than the Anglo Saxon.
R H.
‘•Reinstate Trapp and Dunn.”
Omaha—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: la-t me express my em
phatic endorsement of iho sentiments
expressed in jour editorial entitled
Reinstate Trapp and Dunn. ' The ac
tion of the city commissioners ap
pears to an outsider as an unmanly
method of fighting commissioner Bui
ler. Us effect is Just the opposite of
lhat desired by the opponents of But.
I*t. It has advertised Rutler ns a man
if bei kNine and grit, Just th* typ*
f a man needed to ' bust up" the tin
lerground ma- bine which has run the
iffslrs of this city, especially th* iav
lice department, to the heart's desire
nf such gsmblers and bottleggere ss
ire considered useful as vote getters
It may be true that the action of
:hc»e two detectives failed to comply
t l*h the letter nf the Inw If this was
he .-use, the responsibility falls upon
Rut let who gave the older for It: If
Butler did Infringe upon the
Daily Prayer
My (led. unto Th** will l prif.—P*
II
Holy Father. w* thank The# forth#
privilege of prayer It i* of Thine
amazing goodne** that we ore per
mitted to pray, and of Thine Infinite |
wisdom that our prayers are an
swered Our gratitude goe* out to
riod for life and health, and all the
blessing* which come to up. Above
ill other Messing*. we are grateful to
The# for the Savior. In thinking of
the bleaalng* *o graciously bestowed
upon ua, our heart* adopt the word*
nf Scripture—“Thank* he unto God
for Hi* unspeakable Gift “ We lay
ourselve* at Thy feet, moat Holy One.
w# adore Thy Great and Holy Name
Thou alone art God, and beanie Thee
there 1* none el*# I>o Thou hie**
our home, and guide u*. To make It
mjrh a home n* Thou wouldat have It
to be Sanctify our relation* one to
another, to become all that God ha*
planned for our live* Hie**, we pray
Thee, all other famtlJe*. our neigh
bora and friend*, together with the
arranger afar off though an enemy,
hear u* fnr them, moat gi avion*
Father, and gi\e to them every good
thing we would aak for ourselve**
Ml#** our country. Give the *p!rlt of
wfadoin and wound Judgment to all
r|v'tl officer* arid those in authority
So overrule, that peace shall be main
talned among *11 nation* T<*t Thy
Kingdom come. Spend the glad day
when every knee whnll Vow and every
tongue confess Him loot'd to th* glory
of God th* Fuller Amen
RRV F r M.rONNKLt,. Atlanta Ha
NET AVERAGE
CIRCULATION
for MAY. 1923, of
THE OMAHA BEE
Daily.7:1,181
Sunday. 80,206
Pea* net Include return*, left
aver*, ••mpl#* nr spelled In
rrintine and Include* no eperlal j
•alee.
R. BREWER. Con. Mgr. I
V. A. BRIDGE. Clr. M*/. !
SutiirrlkMi and tworn to hefor me j
thie Zd 4my of June, 1*2*.
W. H. QUIVEY, !
(Seal) Notary Public i
1 ■' I
Fifty years ago sugar beet culturi
had hut experimentally been under
taken In th*- United Htatea. It was
already established in Europe, and
beet sugar was a competitor against
cane in the market* of th*' world
Nebrawka * adaptability an a beet
rais.ng state was impressed on Ed
ward Rosewater, and on February 29,
1*72, ha wrote the following:
"SUGAR BEET CULTURE.”
“A farmer who ha* for two succes
sive years experimented in sugar beet
culture in Colorado, gives hi* expert
ence through the Colorado Press, from
which we glean the following item*:
The proper time to sow the seed I*
from the 15th of April to the 1st of
MHy. About 10 pounds of seed to
the acre is Hie average quantity used.
The rows were 24 Inches, and the
plant* eight inches apart. According
to an analysis made in November last,
100 pounds of beets yield 14'<i pounds
of sugar. The average product Is
about 75 tons to the acre. Calculating
upon thjs basis, one ton of beets yield
200 pounds of sugar, or st 75 tons per
acre, 21,750 pounds of sugar, which
at 71 cents per pound would bring
$1,031.25 The value of the dry pulp
for stock raisers is also estimated at
$10 per ton.
"The cost of raising sugar beets Is
estimated at $10 per ton. which would
therefore leave a net profit of II,
631.25 per acre. There l* no doubt
that Nebraska soli is fully equal, if
not superior, to that of Colorado for
sugar beet culture, and we only need
the establishment of sugar beet mills
to inaugurate the most profitable agri
cultural production adapted for our
soil and climate.”
sacred rights of the slleged manager
of a gambling establishment, he
probably did so because he knew that
it would he child's play for such a
shrewd bird to pass the word to his
pals that the "oops" are after them
It seems a little odd that the tender
sympathies of the majority of the city
commissioners should so unusually
and suddenly be aroused by the tern
porary hardship which. In the Inter
cst and law and order has been been
imposed upon a party who, if common
teporls are true has been known for
a long time to be one of th* leading
spirit* of a sport which our laws in
clude among criminal offenses.
Should It he possible that the vie
tim of Mr. Butler’s drastic astion is
one of those gentlemen who worked
so arduously two years ago to get
Mr. Tom Dennison's slate fleeted’ In
that case jt is of course, nothing but
human that the city fathers should
take < are of "one of th* boys '
ALBERT KUHN.
Pastor of Bethany Presbyterian
Church.
The New \m1t “Wet" Issue.
Omaha—To the Editor of Th«
Omaha Bee. There are some western
politicians who are so provincial that
they think Governor Al Smith of .New
York has designs upon th* president y
by the booze route. Not a very great
compliment to their cosmopolitanism
There Is not s Ihing to this anti-pro
hibition flareup hut the utter poverty
of the democratic party to furnish a
singh issue of commanding fotce that
appeals to the radical and liberal ele
ment. •
This Smith Hylan bum h of demo
cratic outlaws Whipped th* repub
licans In New York city by nearly a
half million plurality, in this may
oralty contest the guerrilla demo
crats had not only to fight the repub
licans. but they had to fight the Wil
son lories, represented by the great
so called democratic papers. the
World,Times and other*. In the state
fight it was almost the same, though
the paper' were more favorable
In talking with these men they do
not tall imdifli itlon of tlia Volstead
set or light wine* and beer, they talk
the foot rail ami blowing the foam
off on to the mahogany."
We have worked with some of those
Smith Hylan jrolltlcal sharp-shooter#
and. while we are unalterably op
posed to their program yet we would
LISTENING IN
On the Nebraska Tress
Western Kansas Is having floods
Two months from now the crops will
b« burning up. Kansas never could
do anything conservatively.—Norfolk
News.
Isn't there something inspiring
about the smell of the freshly tilled
soil and the sight of trees in full leaf?
Isn't the spectacle of growing crops
enough to gladden the heart of the
most confirmed pessimist? And Isn't
there enough inspiration In every
thing about us right now to cause us
tc forget our troubles; to wipe away
the frowns and bring out the smiles;
to inspire hope and confidence, and
give us the grit and determination to
buckle down to business?—Gerlng Mid
west.
Try to vision the Platte valley of
the future with four small Irrigated
farms where there Is now one large
one. This valley will th»n be the
wonder spot as well as the garden
spot of the world —Kearney Hub.
Omaha church members are aaklng
the board of education to aet aside
one afternoon for children to attend a
rellgiotia school for instruction. Shift
ing responsibility again. %Vhy not
look after the religious Instruction In
the home a little bit more?—Gerlng
Midwest.
Governor Bryan Is spparently en
t-iylng the needed exeroiee of shaking
the political plum tree. Not In too
great a hurry, just an occasional
•hake, while the plum hungry are ho
coming every day Just plum hungry,
sith an oocastonal ripe one shaken off
and anticipations whetted. Other gov
ernors have been Inpatient to finish
i he job by giving the tree one good
Shading, but not King Charles, no
sirreei—Kearney Hub.
We doubt if there is a place on
earth that presents a more beautiful
picture or more inspiring scenery
than n drive over the country roads
-if Nebraska at this season of the
year. There la no need of going to
distant regions to enjoy the wonders
of nature when there la so much of
It In evidence on the rolling plains
right here at home—Aurora Repub
lican.
A chemist claims to have dlseov
fred a substitute for coffee But there
isn't anything new in that A good
■nanv restaurants have already t'cen
using one for years.—Grand Island
Independent.
With taxes on Nebraska farm lands
Increased more than 100 per cent, and
-he products of Nebraska farms bu>
ng only about the usual amount in
i,anufactured articles, the farmer Is
, t IS vet out Of the wood* into wh.ch
ho was shoved under the Wilgorden
deflation policy.—Grand Island Inde
pendent.
It is stated by the statistician of the
Mate bureau of agricultural economics
•hat taxes pn Nebraska farm lands
have doubled within the past eight
rears And not farm lands alone, it
s piohable that nearly every form of
property Is taxed to three times a*
i,caw as before the war. < ost of go*
•rnment has Increased with every
hlng else and the ecallng down will
>*. very alow —Kearney Hub.
•Tust to avoid future complications
he powers should get together and
osist that if any nation starts an
vther war she must pay for it t
D.—Norfolk New*.
Now they have Started * contest
unions the farm girls in milking eon
<«t* Mi-s KUse Krs«ney of Kansas
is in the lead In two minutes she
Ailed a two-quart patl full of auperfine
Jersey milk Bentce Wallen of Mis
pu.uit was her nearest competitor.
This heats -lance marathons ah to
pieces.—York News-Times
It seems like the supreme court h*»
found out the war t« over Now if
, he rest of us ran bring ourselves to
0,1 pse it we will socomplish more for
peace and good will than all that ha*
in that direction.—York rl*
pubUran. _
not Insult their intelligence by char*
them with, what a blind calf
kn-wa. that r residential issue of
thi« kind which might land New lorn
in the democratic column would eer
talnlv take Texas out of It
These men are afraid that the tot .e*
are In the ascendancy In the demo
-ratio party and they have fixed up
an issue to perpetuate their hold "
the i Ity and state of New Wvrk and
Lh, balance of the country can go
" some of the tr«U, profiteers »nd
•her graft*,* ate broadcasting th
moor-am* of this issue, but It I* >n
I T»e, of removing the spotlight from
[Urn own misdeed* But .ha^t-n
nthor «tor> " —
Two Heads
Better Than One
MOTHER guides the Childish Mind—
leads and inspires the Childish Soul—
with the Wisdom that comes only from
a Mother's Love.
The TRUSTEE named by the Father's
Will Safeguards the Child’s Inheritance
—insuring the funds for Home and Edu
cation—with the Wisdom that comes
only from Experience in Rusiness
Affairs.
Our Trust Officer Will
Explain Hair to Prevent the
Dissipation of VOI R Estate
Postscript to the
Hall of Fame
In the article which follow* th*
editor of th* Scribner Ruetler give*
an interesting end altogether so-ur,t,
estiiuai* of the litersry sblllty of
Richard L Metcalfe of Omaha. It
«a» natural that the question *hould
have been a*k*d whjr Mr Metcalfe s
picture did riot appear In The Omaha
He* a "Hell of Fain*. ' Th* beat
gnawer la lhat hinted at by the Ne
braska edltoe—the modeety of tiie
man. Mr Metcalfe " a* one of 'he
firat Nebraskan* Invited to appear
In thi* gallery, but loqueated to be
excused from the pubic ity If* sug
gested the namee of % number of
other Nebraska authors who later
appeared In the eerles. but it was at
hi* express wish that he himself "ia
omitted. The attlcl# from tb* Scrib
ner Rustler follow*;
The Omaha Bee 11 running a “Hall
of Fame'' column In which it* ha*
named various men and women whom
it believes should be known to poster
ity for their individual greatness.
Without meaning to detract from the
words of praise which these individ
uals have elicited, this newspaper de
sires to advise the Omaha newspaper
that I* seems to have forgotten ' ihe
greatest Roman of them ail.” Mr.
Richard D. Metcalfe, of Nebraska.
For one to know Nebraska as It
should Ire known he. of necessity, must
know “Dick"' Metcalfe, the man who
has written millions of words that
have sent the red blood coursing
Ihrough the veins and caused the
heart to sing songs of Joy—has lifted
up the fallen and comforted the widow
and the orphan. No Nebraskan ;s
known better or more favorably than
he—newspaper man, gentleman and
scholar.
If Mr. Metcalfe were to be asked his
opinion as to his greatest achievement
during hlg life, doubtless he would
reply with a smile: “Well, I didn't
know I had ever achieved anything
great.'' And he would mean it. for
iie is a man who does things that sre
gieat and forgetn them. That's
Dick” Metcalfe, (rue to life, and
Hint's why about a half million of i
Nebraska’s population believe he is j
mtitled to sit In the hall of fame of1
his adopted state.
If Richard L. Metcalfe hid never |
written a line In his whole life other
than those which are to be found be
tween the covers of his 'Such is the
Kingdom. ' or performed no other
memorable thing, that alone should
ause him to be famous—would place
him high on a pedestal above prac
tically every man and woman named
for “hall of fame honors by the
3maha newspaper, and on an equality
with the very best mentioned
If you have never read “Of Buch Is
he Kingdom.'' go to the public libra-'
y and get a copy. Read it and you
will knew- the real Metcalfe, for its,
iweet stories of child life will appeal j
to you as do the verse stories of;
he immortal James Whitcomb Rilev.
rhroughout his long and honorable
areer as a writer Mr. Me’calfe has
written almost an endless number
■f articles that have left their Impress,
hut none—editorial, news story or
;plc—that has caused him to b* more j
worthy of a place In the hall of!
’.me of Nebraska than his de! ghtful
book. Of Such Is th« Kingdom."
Europe's Program.
In winter Europe suffers s'srva lon
md cold, and in summer It think* of j
ear. Something ought to be done
ibout It.—Chicago News
Threshing Before Sifting.
One year from r.ow we shall know j
more about possible presidential candi |
late*.—Albany Journal. 1
Abe Martin
ftRw / cotntp etfrf
IPtebfroiLtrl n+hHec /
l 50AF6 5**rr*KY I
U-—XWpasf
Th’ Chinese bandits have released
th’ foreign prisoners held from May
6 t’ June 11, an' now we know how
long ‘‘only a question of a few
hours” is. Next t‘ an invitational
affair, nothin’ leaves so many sore
spots as failin' off a stepladder with
an arm full o’ window curtains.
(Copyright 1923)
Center Shots
Under an ordinance against nol*»
a hundred years age, Elizabeth. N.
J.. silences radio horns. 'Which proves
the old maxim that if you keep any
thing long enough. some use will be
found for it—Brooklyn Eagle.
it is reported from London that
The Merry Widow" has been revi-.ed
Since I>ondon went mad over the
Egyptian exhumations, there's no fell
ing what they'll dig up next.—Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
The weather se-s the youth of the
country a had example It Is willful, -
capricious and has no settled habit*.
—Kansas City Star.
The honeymoon is over when he be
gins to borrow from her household
money to complete th« payments on
■ e engagement ring—Roanoke World
News.
The r»al shir' sleeve diplomacy is
ha-, rg '-ne's coat 'IT when the boss
comes in early In th# morning —Al
bany Knickerbocker Pres*.
A d--ting ..-hed Journalistic thlr.k»r
advis*- ■ ( : body to take up aviation,
because :• w:’l be so much safer than
land traflV— there’*'plenty of room
in the air " And that is mors or le*»
true as long as everybody doesn’t
take up aviation.—Tacoma News Trib
une.
If there* anything In this new
French theory that fruits feel psin,
• e green app'.e would apptear to hat*
a good comeback.—Detroit News.
Or ac unt of certain tendencies in
modem dancing it has been suggested
th.it dancer* be equipped with bump
er*. And while they are at it. shock
absorbers might rot be an unw.se ac
essory —Nashville Banner.
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