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x the MAN WITH A “PULL.”
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• Albert J. Beveridge is not going too far in de
daring that the man with a “pull” is doing more to
wflsck the social order than is any outright apostle
of; revolution. In fact, it is the man with the “pull”
or;special privilege of one sort or another who is at
thfc bottom of a great deal of popular unrest and
difeatisfaction.
I Equality of rights, opportunities and responsi
ti&tiea it the main object of democracy. A fair
field and no favors is the American idea. If men
and women feel in their own hearts that their right
tollife, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is as well
protected as that of any one else, no matter of what
class or group, then is there peace and harmony
within the nation.
Ex-flenator Beveridge recently had something to
say on this before a meeting of the New Hampshire
bar association. As a lawyer, speaking to lawyers,
he* touched only on one phase of the matter, that
of equality before the law. He said:
» “Everybody knows that the public mind is in a
|tate of unrest and discontent. Why? There are
many causes', and with one of these the American
tench and bar is particularly concerned. That
£ause Is Ihe general feeling that Justice is not ad
ministered with impartiality. Wherever two or
three citizens are gathered the comment may be
(eard that laws which should apply with absolute
^quality to rich and poor altk’e, arc not, in fact, so
applied. There is a good deal of truth in this com
plaint. Conspicuous instances will occur to every
body.
t “It Is common belief that during the war vast
fortunes were amassed by violation of law: that,
even now, millions are being accumulated by viola
lion of Jaw; that opulent lawbreakers escape whereas
lesser criminals are punished. General opinion is
that poor and friendless offenders are prosecuted
Jvhile wealthy and influential evildoers go unwhipt
bf justice. If this is not true, our public authori
ties should say so plainly and with all the emphasis
2>f official statement, albeit official assertion has
IJreen made of just such criminal practices. If It Is
true, then let Justice be done speedily, and without
i-e^ard to the wealth, power, prominence or 'puli’
Trf the guilty."
J These same principles of human justice must be
applied also to every department of life. Respect
fijr the law is paramount, and on this rests the
foundation of free institutions. But everywhere,
ill every relationship betweeen man and man, there
i£ the necessity for square dealing. Domeitic
piece is not to be had if the belief spreads that each
man’s hand is against his neighbor, seeking to take
unfair advantage. It makes no difference if the
‘t^ull” in in politics, business or what, the fact of its
existence or even the suspicion of its existence,
weakens the national solidarity.
• The evils of such inequalities, once they are per
DtStted, multiply and spread. Those who feel them
4$lvee denied are led to seek, not equality, but spe
cial privileges for themselves. A good deal of hop,
slip and jump legislation is designed to secure a
balance, or to weight the scale a trifle in the oppo
afte direction. The haste and passion that accom
panies these efforts at equalizing often leaves them
defective and futile. Let government, let business,
let society as a whole, respect and affirm the equality
ol citizens, rich and poor, not alone in theory but
ia practice as well, and there need be no fear of
unrest or disaffection.
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it AN ACTUAL FEDERAL SAVING.
• Democratic critics of the national administra
tion continue to find fault with the way Secretary
Mellon directs the treasury operations, hut the tax
payers of the United States will not complain greatly
at the showing, made at the end of the fiscal year,
t&at an anticipated deficit of $823,000,000 had been
tamed into an actual surplus of $310,000,000. This
<Sfference of $1,133,000,000 is not merely a book
keeping stunt, but is an actual gain in government
operations.
; The change was brought about by an increase
of $767,000,000 in receipts and a reduction of
(966,000,000 in expenditures. For neither of these
Acts can the democratic party take any credit
ifhatsoever. Its leaders in congress and out stoutly
opposed the McCumber tariff bill, but it contributes
ta the general result by adding an excess of $213,
(A)0,000 to customs receipts. The republican plan
for a new general revenue law also met strenuous
opposition from the democrats; while it raised the
l^mit on incomes, so as to relieve millions of small
t|xpayers, and lowered the import and excess profits,
tjie director of the budget reports an increase in
internal revenue receipts of $423,000,000 and in
tfiscellaneous receipts of $131,OOO,Q0O.
? On the other side of the account, a saving of
({151 ,000,000 was made in general expenditures of
government, and $45,000,000 in interest on the
public debt, while there was a further decrease of
JH70,000,000 in capital outlays and similar miscel
Ifheous operations of the government.
! Cordell Hull, chairman of the national demo
cratic committee, calls attention to the fact that
(be greatest reduction of war debt was made by the
democrats in 1919-20. This is admitted, but Mr.
Hull neglects to explain that it was accomplished in
tbe easiest possible way, simply by the natural slow
ing down of the wheels, discharging the short-time
borrowings and using funds available to discharge
4oating indebtedness, leaving to the Harding admin
istration the problems of funding the Victory notes,
tjpking care of the hold-over certificates, and a few
Hther remnants of the happy-go-lucky days of Mc
4doo and his successors.
;• What the republicans promised was a reduction
4f both expenses and taxes and the payment of the
'debt inherited, with the least possible disturbance to
IKisiness. The balance sheet at. the end of the fiscal
^ear, June 30, 1923, shows how this promise has
Ipecn kept.
• Governor Bryan may be able to make another
fjsh commissioner, but it will be a long time before
He gets another as good as “Billy” O’Brien.
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! “Tommy” Gibbons may have won s moral vie
4>ry, but’“Jack” Dempsey got $250,000, and that is
what counts in prize fighting.
• t
j Again Omaha got an illustration of the differ
ence between a newspnpci and a dub,
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RACING WITH A TRAIN.
An Illinois Central engineer, Charles H. Barnett,
who pilots one of that line’s fast trains over a south
ern division, writes to the National Safety News a
discussion of the ever-increasing danger of railroad
grade crossing accidents. Viewing it from his own
standpoint, and that of his fellow engineers, he
writes:
“I have known engineers, whose locomotives
have struck automobiles and one or more persons
have been killed. These men never entirely re
cover from such an experience. The horror of that
momentary glimpse of white, upturned faces in
# the instant before the crash, they tell me, Is some
thing that time can not eradicate.”
Mr. Barnett calls attention to the fact that a
train moving at the rate of 60 miles an hour covers
one-eighth of a mile in seven and one-half seconds,
which is not a very long time. An automobile going
30 miles an hour covers the sam^ distance in 15
seconds. Therefore, if the train is a quarter of a
mile from the crossing and the auto 200 yards, the
train has the race won, and the auto driver will
better admit his defeat. Dealing with this point,
Mr. Barnett writes: ,
“The trouble lies in the mistaken idea of respon
sibility. The public must learn to accept its own
responsibility In this matter. . . . Judgment
and caution are the only safeguards. The man
who takes a gambler's chance with death has no
one to blame but himself if death calls his bluff.”
Such advice from a practical man ought to
have great weight with all it reaches. A momentary
delay on the road, while waiting for a train to pass,
will not seriously affect the affairs of any one, but
it will make sure that those affairs will go on after
the train has passed.
GOLD NOW A CURIOSITY.
An old, old anecdote tells of how a youth to win
a wager stood on London bridge, offering gold sov
ereigns for a shilling each, .and uuable to make a
sale. The passing throng was too sophisticated to
be taken in by such a ruse. Now a similar tale comes
from Broadway. Probably the wisest bird extant
’today is the Broadway bartender. Even the vener
able owl could learn something from him. Ilis wits
are sharpened day by day through contact with
“slickers” of every sort, each striving to put one
over on his fellow men. Even a drink of illicit
“hootch” is prize enough to tempt the trial of an
ingenious swindle.
So, when a western man with a pocket full of
$10 gold coins went to buy a drink, the bartender
was ready for hitn. Anything that looked like a gold
coin was spurious; a “sbinplaster,” whether for ru
bles or dollars, might have passed muster, and a
silver “cartwheel” would have met instant recogni
tion and welcome, but a $10 gold piece—there ain’t
no such animal on Broadway. For the matter of
that, they are mighty scarce anywhere outside the
treasury vaults and the banks.
The bartender was not altogether to blame, for
very few people have seen one of Uncle Sam's eagles
since the war broke out. They are still making
them, down at Philadelphia, but when made the
handsomest coin the world knows goes into respecta
ble retirement. Its beauty is not sullied by the
passing from hand to hand; silver, “patient drudge
between man and man," is seldom seen any more,
but while pockets bulge with paper money all is
well.
VIOLENCE FOR PRQFIT.
A strange mania persists in America. Certain of
our citizens have imbibed the notion that nothing
matters, so long as they have their own way about
whatever they are doing. Chiefly, this is exhibited in
connection with lawlessness of one type or another.
For example, down in Kansas a party of harvest
hands resented the effort of two bandits to rob them.
Immediately the. robbers opened fire, killing one and
wounding a number of others of the workers, whose
only fault was they would not fork over their earn
ings on demand of the desperadoes. Kansas City
contributes a story of how a man working on a new
house was set upon and beaten to death by four
others who happened to be on strike. From Chicago
we get a report of a pitched battle between two
gangs, with one dead and several wounded as a toll
for the weapons that were freely used in the fight.
Not a day passes but a gleaning of news columns
will duplicate this showing. What is the answer?
A strange psychology is denoted, one in which the
underlying motive seems to be to possess something
that belongs to another, the money he has worked
for, his right to work, a dispute over the division of
loot, any of a long list of reasons, but all meeting at
the same point.
The challenge to our civilization Is clear. Some
way must be found to restore the balance, at leasbto
put a higher prica on human life than seems to prevail
at the moment.
An honorable gentleman serving in parliament
says the Briti.<^ peerage is a joke. Yet some folks
say an Englishman never sees one.
No reason is given for the cut in the price of
' lead, but now is the time to lay in your supply.
The “glorious Fourth” put up a record almost
equal to an ordinary Sunday for casualties.
When they get to “hijacking” the police station
the time seems to have come for action.
Shelby now realizes what is meant by the “cold
gray dawn of the morning after.”
Sailing in a thunderstorm will not daunt the
Leviathan.
Homespun Verse
—By Omaha’s Own 1’oet—
Robert Worthington Davie
LOOK UP AS YOU GO.
You purchased a home, did you, brother? You vs a
wife and it girl and a boy.
And It seems to ins you are standing tndny at the peak
of material Joy.
You grumble because you're not wealthy; you look
upon life with a sneer
When you'd ought to lie counting the glory snd splen
did diversion that s here.
You'd ought to be building the future with fatherly
ardor and pride.
For this little home is a kingdom where fervor and
virtue abide.
The wife who line given you courage, the children who
love you today
Are more than the wealth of e nation mold ever In
gratitude pa>^.
They live to ennoble your efforts, you cannot he deaf
to appeal,
Ful show them liy deeds of your doing the true sdora
tlon“you feel,
And let them see life as a minor where rapture and
godliness glow,
Fur bliss leads us upward toward heaven, and grief to
the taverns below*
“The People’s
Voice’’
E*ttart*li trom rattM •• TM Moral** Bo*.
BaaBara af T ha Moral** Baa *ra Invited to
UM mil column «raal» lor aurtaalaa an
mattcra at aublla latareat.
Changing Farm Demand.
Council Bluffs, la.—To the Editor
of The Omaha. Bee: There i* a fact
existing in the mldtllewest that no one
seems to take into consideration, and
this fact is that gasoline is furnishing
almost the entire motive power for
traffic on the streets of cities, and
much of that In the country and on
farms. That in consequence of this
fact, horses and mules have practic
ally disappeared; the livery stable and
the lmrns for dray horses have been
supplanted by garager and the farmer’s
market for corn and oats has gone
glimmering.
No editorial article on "The Situa
tion In the MiddlewestV or "A Mes
sage to the East,” as published in
The Omaha. Bee, nor Mr. Harding’s
sympathy for the farnjer can alter this
bottom fact.
Get the statistics on the entire out
put of every manufacturer of automo
biles, trucks and tiActors in the very
recent history of the world and the
wonder is that the corn fanner hns
any market at all. Imagine the sit
uation If tho gasoline supply should
fail and we again became dependent
on horses and mules to move the traf
fic. Where wmuld prices stop for
horses and mules and corn and eats
to feed them? W. H. PELTON.
Proposes New Wheat Plan.
Frederick, Okl.—To the Editor of
The Omaha Bee: Here Is a new wheat
plan whereby the government sets
the price and the producer guarantees
the price. Let the guverninent call a
congress of the representative wheat
growers of the country to ascertain
the actual average cost of production
per bushel to produce and deliver to
local market, plus a fair profit, with
the average freight haul added to the
main market.
Let the government set the minimum
price, based on foregoing conditions.
The government to handle the wheat
after the plan used during the late
war, with the following exceptions:
Ths first of July each year make
an estimate of the probable amount
of wheat to be pxported, and probable
price of same, which will give the
approximate loas lietween set price
and export price.
The government to levy, say 10
per cent per bushel, more or less. «i
cording to the amount to be exported.
The same to lie levied on the producer
at the local markets. laical buyers
give bond to pay to hank or postolflre
as designated, to lie credited to the
government. The levy credit referred
to In foregoing sentence shall he con
strued to mean and to act as guaran
tee fund both to the producer and the
government.
Any wheat Imported shall be taxed
per bushel, the difference between the
set price and the export price. The
same to go to the guarantee fund.
Any deficiency "hall lie added to next
year's levy. Any surplus left over
shall lie deducted from next year's
levy. If the producers only raise
what wheat is consumed In this coun-l
try. there should be no levy: but, on I
the other hand, the larger the surplus
to bo exported, the less the producer
receives.
There should be a small advance per
bushel each month, beginning with
September, for the remaining year
crop, to Induce producers to hold
wheat off the market, so It will come
gradually W. K fHAMBEBS.
Court* And Liberty.
Itordvill*. Neb.—To the Kilttor of
The Ornuha I!< < ; In on* word "Lib
erty.’' is bound together all that
America stunde for, and through the
misconstruing of that one word every
great evil seeks to undermine our
problem.
Liberty as set forth In th* Declara
tion of Independence and constitution
of the United iitates does not mean
freedom for every Individual, group
or class to do as they have a mind
regardless of how It affects others; It
means very broadly that the people
at large of a state or of the nation
shall decide on laws for guidance and
regulation for each and all of them.
The liberty of ono |iei son or many
people ends where It interferes with the
rightful htierty of another person or
other people
Thesuprcme court can Bnnul a law
enacted by the chosen representatives
of a slate, a number of states or of the
nation, but it cannot deprive people
of reason or change the statutes of
human nature. Th* constitution al
lowed tJie supreme court to he formed,
but the constitution can he amended
so as abolish th* present court and
provide for the creation of a national
tribunal that will not he superior
to laws enacted by legialature and the
congress. \V. BARTO.
Profiteering on Taxes.
Omaha.—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee. fcilgh taxes ate now
blamed for the high cost of living.
Railroad managers say taxes are re
sponsible for. high freight rates; land
lords use the same excuse to sustain
rents, money loaners to Justify Inter
est rates, workmen to excuse wages,
and so on all along the line.
Let us look at a phase that seldom
is viewed. When the 1917 revenue
law went Into effect. It Imposed a tax
on tobacco, more particularly on the
manufactured varieties. A brand of
smoking tobacco I then favored had
been selling at 10 cents per ran The
day the law went Into effect I laid
down a time to pay for a fresh tin of
my favorite, and w:i» told hv the
denier that It would then rnst II
cents. Why? The gmernnient had
Just put a tax on that tobacco. Yes.
but the government tax was only one.
eighth of a cent per enn Well. Mr.
Daily Prayer
•*An«1 m tha flare a© ahall thy strength
bed«ui.
Our Urarloua Heavenly Father, for
the light of another day wo thank
Thee, for Thy watch rare over UK
during the past night when, uncou
acinus and helpless*, w# nought rest for
our weary bodies. Thou hast g run ted
to lia another day wherein to honor
and glorify Thy Holy name May It
he lived for Thor. May all th© words
Mpokeit to on© another and all the
meditations «»f our hearts he accepts
hie In Thy sight Strengthen un with
might by Thy Spirit In our inmost
being that we shall be fortified against
temptation. Havant to ua more and
more th© unspeakable privilege of
continuous fellowship with Thee.
Shed abroad In our hearts that love,
ao unnatural to ua hut of Thyself,
which shall enable un to lovo the un
lovsly, am! th© unloved, th«»cb who
may slight or insult un, and thou© who
may despise and hate in Kill out
hearts with pear© through the clear
conacinunn©nn nf sins forgiven, with
Joy unspeakable that names are
written In Heaven* and with hope not
only for Thy resurrection which awaits
ua. but for Thy speedy r«npp©arsm©.
May our witness he ho clear nnd un
mistakable that aoltt© soul ere this
da y Ik over shall he led to
ncuujiintanc© v-dtli The© our adorable
hard anil Havlnt Amen
tt*.\. hen nr w flToyaii. nu.
Wheaton, ti^.
Omaha *xp*rienc*d aom* pratty cold
weather during .January. 1*78. but that
did not keep the politJeal pot from
boiling over. On the 25th of that
month Mr, Roaewater paid hla reape«*ta
to tho manager of one of hie local con.
temporariea after thia fashion
"WHO IS THE BLACKMAILER?”
"Cbauncey Wiltse, the man who, at
at not a very remote period, declared
to a prominent republican of Omaha
that lie could send I’hineus W. Hitch
cock to the penitentiary if he want
ed to, has the temerity to denounce
The Bee as a blackmailer. Now.
we defy him and the whole brood o£
political desperadoes who constitute
the Hitchcock ling to name a sin
gle instance where The Omaha Bee
or its proprietor has exacted a dol
lar of hush money from anybody,
or where he has ever levied a dollar
upon anybody by threats or intimi
dation.
“On the other hand, we charge
and are ready to substantiate that
Chauncey Wiltse has blatkmailed
Senator Hitchcock, and through him
the United States government was
blackmailed out of vast sums of
money by threats of exposure.
“We charge, and we are ready to
substantiate, that the <»maha Re
publican, the paper of which Chaun
rey Wiltse is manager, lias been for
years and is now being kept up by
hlackmui! contributions levied upon
federal officers.
•'We rharge, and we are ready to
sulistantiate, that James W. Ne
ville. United States attorney for Ne
braska. lias been forced to orditribute
and did pay within the last four
months. $500 toward the mainte
nance of the Republican, while other
federal offi< ers have, during the
same period, been blackmailed out
of various sums. Some of the men
who have been bled to infuse young
blood into Mr. Hitchcock's rejuve
nated mummy, are already prostrate
from the excessive bleeding; others
will lie in that condition before the
centennial year expires.
"When an organ—conducted sole
ly for the purpose of reelecting a
man to the United States senate,
whom even his own chief organ
grinder has denounced as a fit sub
ject for the penitentiary—attempts
to destroy public confidence In The
Bee bv raising the cry of blackmail,
it is high time that the public be
made acquainted with its real char
acter.'
Dealer couldn't pay It. and as there
was too much bookkeeping to be done,
he had solved the problem In the ess
lest possible way. He collected one
eighth of a cent for the government
and seven eighths of a cent for him
self
All the way along the tine this can
be traced. Kverv time a tax was
I moated, the price was boosted, so that
the consumer not only paid tthe tax,
but a handsome profit on it as well.
Taxes are high, no mistake about
that. Taxes will remain high, and
we will get no relief until men agree
to pay taxes wtfhnut seeking to secure
a profit to themselves equal to what
their income wotild lie If there were
no tax to pay. As soon as we aban
don our inverted finance health will
be restored, and not till then
P J PRESTON.
Why Not a Porta' ( livh*
Omaha,—To the (alitor of The
Omaha Bee-: The "Hall of Fame"
which you have been publishing in
your paper has been a revelation to
me I did not dream that there were
eo many able writer* In Omaha and
Nebraska, simply because the fact had
never been brought to my attention in
such a forcible manner.
With the traditions of the pioneer*
to encourage them, the wealth of tha
stile. Its geography and its people.
Nebraska is ideally situated and
equipped for the producton of writers
of superior talent.
I believe that these writers should
be brought together In closer com
munion. I believe that social contact
would 1>« an encouragement to them,
particularly the youngerione*. Conse
quently I have thought seriously of
the advisability of organising a poets'
club. There are so many In Nebras
ka, and such on organization in Oma
ha would furnish a common meeting
place for them. The exchange of
ideas, the friendships that would ha
formed and the mutual interest in a
common endeavor would stimulate In
tv rest In poetry.
I favor a poets’ club simply because
I am Interested in that department
of literature. Thos* interested in
other departments could also form
clubs, and in a short time Nebraska
would have a literary guild that would
!>e outstanding among similar organ
izations of the United States.
I do not claim my idea of a poets'
club as original, in fact, others no
doubt have thought of the same thing
I am just taking a definite step. If
there Is any way w# could encourage
the organization of a poets’ club or
any others have any advice to offer
along thia line, I would he pleased fo
have your cooperation. 1 hope thnt
any Nebraska poet wishing to form
such n club will write me or *Thr
omnha Bee JACK l.F.E,
Author of Niobrara Waifs.
Wasted Energy.
If Ihe energy wasted by the Ameri
can youth In smoothing hark his re
Ivellio.is pompadour were put to bet
ter purpose, the lawns of this country
could be kept In perfect condition.—
Dallas Journal.
NET AVERAGE
CIRCULATION
for MAY. 1923, of
THE OMAHA BEE
Daily .73,181
; Sunday .80,200
Do** not Inclurt* return*, left
over*. eample* or purer* •ppiN in
printing and Include* no eperlal
«•)«*.
R. BREWER. Gen. Mgr.
V. A. BRIDGE. Clr. Mgr.
.Subact ihed and sworn to before ma
! thin ?d day of June. 1921
W. H. Qt’IVKY, ;
j (Seal) Notary Public i
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“From State and Nation”
—Editorials from Other Newspapers—
Tile Public's Business.
From the Fremont Tribune.
The jury system discussion started
by the Tribune some time ago is gain
ing apace. A Central City writer, sign
ing himself "A Citizen,” sends the
following comment on the subject to
The Omaha Bee:
' It is interesting to read the article
republished in your paper from the
Frynont Tribune in which the editor
expresses himself upon a subject
which has been apparent to many
people for years. The writer has
known jurors to be selected to sit upon
important cases who bad not even a
speaking knowledge of the English
language.
"The better plan to select Jurors in
a given case would be for the presid
ing Judge to select them irrespective
of any quizzing by attorneys, Eet the
Judge take the jurors in a private
room and select them, then, maybe,
men of intelligence could be secured.”
The Tribune cannot regard the sug
gestion as very sound. This “secret
room” stuff goes against the grain,
regardless of where it is pulled, when
public interests are involved. Good
citizens always get suspicious when a
court room or a city council chamlier
is cleared of press and public to per
mit a "secret” discussion. Huch ac
tion gives the impression that some
thing important is being covered up.
Graft, corruption and dishonesty
find their most fertile breeding
grounds behind closed doors. The pub
lic's business which is in the hands of
the public's own representatives
should be conducted above board and
in the open.
Romance on The lUver.
From t hs St. Louis Post -Df •patch
The •'race" up the Mississippi be
tween the towboat* St. Louis and
Cairo has done little to waken the
sleeping romance of the river. The
winner was 12 days reaching Cairo
from New Orleans. Nobody seemed to
care. No crowds atood on the bank
along the way to see the craft mosey
past! No tall silk hata were lifted in
salute. No silken sunshades waved in
encouragement.
It was not so in the olden days. Eve
ning lawn parties were given then on
riverside plantations that the guests
might watch the Robert E 'Lee and
the Relle of Shreveport storm past,
flames lielching from their towering
stacks and th> black smoke steaming
a mile behind. The boats ran all
night, and far as the records s'iow,
they never stopped to clean their
boiler tubes.
Those were the days. Nobody dared
ship bacon on a fast packet because.
If the craft were challenged, the loyal
crew would seize the freight and
throw it Into the furnace to make
more steam in the boilers. The en
gineer was famed afar for his skill and
nerve. His religion was "to treat his
engine well; never lie passes] on the
river, and to heed the pilot's bell,”
In times of stress, he would send *
negro up to sit on the safety valve,
that the precious element of speed
might not be sacrificed to mere safety. |
I'pon the decks, belle# of unmatched
beauty strolled with gav blades of
high family connections but lament
able habits. In the smoking room
poker games were played for fabulous
stake*. One of the players wore a low
cut aiiken vest, a longtailed black
coat, and long mustaches. There was
a cold look In his calm, steelv eve,
and in his vest pocket wss a double
barreled Derringer. He was the pro
fessional gambler who was doom'd
some day to meet his fate at the
hands of the pale young Georgian who
had ju«t lost his last acre and his last
nigger In the classic endeavor to make
on ac# high straight heat a pat hand.
In those days, toddies were rarHcd
from the bar to card table# iq relays,
ore waiter starline l>ack to the snipe
of supply as another was leaving with
rations for the front.
When St. I/Ottia was reached an
open carriage met ths captain at the
foot of vine Street and he drove to
the company's offices to report. Now
the raotsin Mephones out home that
"he's in" and his wife goes down in
the Ford to meet him.
There is no pulmotnr for a dead
romance.
He 'senectutr.
Freni the Adveest* of barf
A fundamental ouestion in our se
rious moment# Is: How best can we
prepare for old age? Nothing is
more pathetic Ilian a sight of an old
man solitary and vacuous. AVith a
background of \ear* filled with noth
ing but the humdrum of routine, he
find* himself at last with no soul sat
isfying occupation. There seems to
be nothing hut the pain of loneliness.
Is this th» inevitable result of life?
AA hen Rochefoucauld remarked that
"Old age was a tyrant which forbade
the pleasures of vouth on pain of
death." did he tell the truth? AA*«
think not And yet If old age is to
find anv recompense It must he pre
pared for long In advance This can
be done Here Is a man 77 year* of
age who writes:
"I am all right. Have Just passed
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my 77th birthday and am aUll work
ing my garden, cutting my own wood
in Florida, winter*, and last year gave
a course of lectures on ‘The Life and
Times of Dante,' and it was great fun.
The fun was in playing around with
the schoolmen and saints of Dante's
age, Just as, long, long ago. It was
fun for me to march along a narasang
or two, or stretch upon the sand* of
I he Luxine with Zenophon and his
10,000. and mount a charger and ride
with Cyrus, a boy, over into Media,
and tarry with the youth in the home
of Astyages, hi* grandfather,"
XuiO-ly this is a man who has dis
covered the secret of life itself. The
spirit of thin genuine letter breathe*
the breath of Immortal hope. Because
of it the possible infirmities of after
years threaten with little effect. The
writer is a kind friend, for he has
lifted from the browr of age it* crown
of thorns.
“I.ux ex Tennebrie."
From the Philadelphia Public Ledfer
The greatest of modern surgical
triumph* is to l.e ac hieved. If achieved
at all. in the Vnlted State*, though
by a surgeon trained in Vienna. It Is
the grafting of a seeing eye in ^lace
of a blind one.
The imagination trembfes at the pic
ture of such an operation, performed
successfully on human lieings. What
would not a blind man give for sight?
fan It l>e done? I>r. Theodor Kop
panyl, famous Viennese biologist and
surgeon, has transplanted the eyes of
rats and rabbits. He has not carried
his experiments to a conclusion be
cause of poverty Vienna, once the
world's medical i enter, is beggared
by the war. There is no money for
Science. Otherwise America could not
have lured him away from his familiar
laboratory. The miracle is to he at
tempted In Chicago, which is bidding
for Vienna's crown.
There are many intermediate steps
to lie taken before the last bold ex
periment—that of attempting to
transplant the human eye. In the
course of these experiments the sur
geon hopes to prove that the trans
planted eye performs the visual func
tion. Scientists are disputing this
point. To their assertions that it
cannot be done the investigator an
swers that the transplanted eve has
every normal appearance and that
th» optic nerve, sutured wfth delicate
skill, has knit and grown normally.
The world will wait for the final cx
Abe Martin
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Th’ newest thin? in suiters is th*
feller that wouldn' have a closed
car if you'd give it to him. Com
pany is civilizin’ an’ helpful t’ a
home even if th' dishes do pile up.
< np» right, lttl.
perimeut. If it nueccedr' If. some
day the l.ndagM are stripped from
a blind man's eves, after long dark
ness and while surgeons wait breath
lee-, he stares about him and cries
ou*: "I can see!”
For that Is the splendid goal to
ward which Koppanyi of Vienna Is
working. If the blind can be led nut
of the esterior darknean into thn
world of light and color, surgery w II
have accomplished, by a titan's skilled
hands and the vision of hie soul, the
kindliest marvel of modern science.
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