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FARMING MUST PAY.
With high freight rates, high interest, high
i taxes and high labor costs, the American farmer is
at a disadvantage the moment he tries to compete
j with the peons of Argentina, the ryots of India or
the mujiks of Russia. Those do the farmer a dis
service who hold out to him the illusion of profit
able competition in the world market. Exports of
American farm products are heavier now than be
fore the war, yet this has not increased the price
received by the producers.
Senator Capper, who represents the agricul
tural state of Kansas, declares that America can not
raise a huge surplus of wheat in competition with
cheap foreign labor and get fair prices for it. He
says the acreage must be reduced. Every other
line of production has adjusted its production ‘to
the probable jlrofitable demand, but agriculture has
been taught to believe that large yields are equiva
lent to prosperity. The error has arisen from the
belief that the gross selling value of farm products
represents new wealth. As a matter of truth the
only new wealth that comes out of the fields is the
difference between what it costs to raise the prod
ucts and what they sell for.
* * *
“Present indications,” says Wallace’s Farmer,
“are that unprofitable hog prices will continue
throughout the greater part of 1924.” That pre
diction is based on the opinion that more pork is
being produced than there is a profitable demand
for. Senator Capper estimates that wheat is selling
about 60 cents a bushel below the cost of produc
tion. If actually there is an overproduction, no
hastily devised system of co-operative marketing,
intermediate credit or warehousing can give the
farmer relief. He can only obtain a fair price by
adjusting his production to the estimated demand.
The problem, then, is not one of raising the largest
possible crop, but raising an adequate crop at the
least possible expense.
• * •
The mortgage indebtedness of the American
farmers is approximately $7,000,000,000. The float
ing debt and bank loans of farmers are estimated
by the Department of Commerce at $3,500,000,000.
The total exceeds the amount owed to the United
State# by the governments of Europe. If France,
Italy and the rest of the foreign nations feel that
they are in pretty deep, what shall be said of the
farmer!
* * •
Nevertheless there is hope. The American farmer
is indomitable. He has never been a peasant, nor is
he willing to be reduced in the social scale by lack
of reward for his services. He is , >ing to find a
way to make agriculture pay. The foreign market
is never going to provide that opportunity. Those
branches of agriculture are best off today that pro
duce for the home market. In the course of time,
with the increase in city population, it will be all
the farmers can do to feed America. But before
that condition arrives something must be done. The
plain fact seems to be that the action is up to the
farmer, but he may be assured that he has the sup
port of all lines of business. It could not be other
! wise, for the prosperity of America depends on the
welfare of the basic industry of agriculture.
LIMITS OF MENTAL GROWTH.
To each nature awards different gifts. It is for
U3 to discover and develop them. Special abilities
and disabilities must be taken into larger account in
the process of education. It is futile to attempt to
cast all minds in the same mold.
“Every human being born into the world has
the potentiality to develop to a certain degree and
no farther,” says Dr. H. H. Goddard, an authority
E on child nature. He is referring mainly to mental
ability. It is rather a new view that beyond a cer
Itain limit it is useless to attempt to impart knowledge
to some individuals. Americans have always liked to
helieve that, given the opportunity, every man could
■ become as expert as any other. This we know is not
true in the mechanical trades; many men have abso
lutely no engineering or mathematical ability. Artists
are, as a rule, notoriously poor business men, and
lew business men shine at writing poems or painting
pictures. Furthermore, it is doubtful if any system
of teaching could impart these traits. Millions of
dollars are wasted every year in giving music lessons
to children who have no sense of harmony.
If what Dr. Goddard maintains is true, there are
many young people who attend college who gain
nothing from contact with higher education, and who
would be more usefully employed in other ways.
It may also be true that there are some children In
high school who would be better fitted for life if put
to some work for which they have an aptitude. It is
not out of perversity or wilful inattention that some
children fail in their studies, but simply because their
brain pan is not shaped in that direction.
And yet it is beyond tho powers of any scientist
or educator to select tho ones who are best fitted for
thinking. The opportunity must be open to all who
wish to take it. People are not to he sorted out,
indexed and card catalogued as to their particular
role in life by any so-called scientific test. The most
that can he done is to provide suitable channels
f through which each child may muke his way accord
* jng to his taste and ability. There is a dignity and
worth in every soul that is not dependent upon the
amount of hook learning that is stored up in the
mind.
It will be right nice of them if they will only
get the prize fights all settled in time to let the
American people have the line fall days and nights
to attend to sopie simple matters like the railroad
problem, the world court and a few other things.
What piques an outsider's interest is to know
how they distinguish fake from genuine buying
i orders on Wall street.
Mussolini is showing the boys what a real dicta
tor looks like. He has just put a muzzle on the
Italian newspapers.
Argentine also produce* pugilists as well as
©thcr things to compete for Yankee custom.
FRANCE ON THE RHINE.
Development of science and industry have made
the Ruhr region the richest prize in Europe. It could
not be otherwise than a temptation to the French
statesmen to seize and keep control of this region.
Even during the darkest days of the world war
French imperialists preached the gospel of annexa
tion. The Rhineland has for centuries been the
French desire for safety and for conquest.
Mark Sullivan may point out that Poincare and
Baldwin are' suffering from nervous strain and ascribe
General Degoutte’s occupation policy to his lack of
fresh air and exercise, together with illness in his
family, but he would admit that there Rre deeper
forces at work than these in the European situation.
Many times since the 13th century one flag
has been pulled down and another hoisted along the
Rhine. It may even be true that the people them
selves do not take the matter of nationality so ser
iously as do Americans, but certainly they have no
cause to revere the French. Back in the 17th
century, during the wars of Louis XIV, the southern
German provinces known as the Palatinate were dev
astated by the French after they found out they
could not hold them. Lord Macauley, in his “History
of England,” gives the picture:
“Duras received orders to turn one of the fairest
regions of Europe into a wilderness. Fifteen years
had elapsed since Turenne had ravaged part of that
fine country. But the ravages committed by Turenne,
though they have left a deep stain on his glory, were
mere sport in comparison with the horrors of this
second devastation. The French commander an
nounced to near half a million of human beings that
he granted them three days of grace, and that, with
in that time, they must shift for themselves. Soon
the roads and fields, which then lay deep in snow,
were blackened by innumerable multitudes of men,
women and children flying from their homes. Many
died of cold and hunger; but enough survived to fill
the streets of all the cities of Europe with lean and
squalid beggars, whq had once been thriving farmers
and shopkeepers. Meanwhile the work of destruc
tion began. The flames went up from every market
place, every hamlet, every parish church, every
country seat, within the devoted provinces. The
fields where the corn had been sown were plowed
up. The orchards were hewn down. No promise of
a harvest was left on the fertile plains near what
had once been Frankenthal. Not a vine, not an al
mond tree, was lo be seen on the slope of the sunny
hills round what had ones been Heidelberg. No re
spect was shown to palaces, to temples, to monas
teries, to infirmaries, to beautiful works of art. to
monuments of the Illustrious dead. The far-famed
castle of the Elector Palatine was turned into a heap
of ruins. The adjoining hospital was sacked. The
provisions, the medicines, the pallets on which the
sick lay were destroyed. The very stones of which
Mannheim had been built were flung Into the Rhine.”
Another armed march into Germany has come
now. Doubtless the attitude of the French has been
influenced by Bismarck’s unjust annexation of Alsace i
and Lorraine, but this alternation of revenge must
stop some day. Just as France’s lost provinces
guaranteed a new war, bo would the theft of other
territory from Germany sow seeds of further con
flict. In the interest of justice, of peace and of
humanity, of this generation and of those to come,
it is to be hoped that French statesmanship will
revise its historic policy on the Rhine.
YES. WE HAVE NO GOLDFISH.
Divorcement has been practiced among all races
in every clime and country and all ages of human
history. Many interesting volumes have been writ
ten around the institution of marriage, and not all
the varying theories of sociologists are entirely to
man's credit with respect to his motives for the
sanctity of the vow. Singular customs are recorded,
from the simple expedient of merely kicking an of
fending wife out of doors to the elaborate pro
cedure of the modern courts.
In some societies it is considered good form to
require the discarded or deposed wife to wait as
servant on the new. This gives the husband a dis
tinct advantage. He may continue to have the
a new feature into American divorce. She must
have carefully conned history and romance as well
pleasure of the cookery and other attentions he has
become accustomed to, and at the same time'enjoy
the society of a bride whose charms still attract.
It remained for Marjorie Rambeau to introduce
to get on track of a novel symbol, but she struck
one finally. She simply passed a bowl of goldfish
across the table to her husband, and he accepted it
as a sign that all was over between them.
Marriage ties that git so lightly may as well be
dissolved by a bowl of goldfish as by the most pa
tently corrosive of acids. Yet we doubt not that
Marjorie will bp required to go through certain for
malities in court before she is permitted to set up
another fish bowl ns a “Mizpah” with another hus
band. Nor is the great institution of marriage
menaced In any substantial sense because some
people are so foolish. Incense will still ascend from
millions of altars on which loving hearts have laid
their hopes, and little hits of humanity will gurgle
and coo at parents proud and happy because their
lives have truly merged into one, nnd goldfish bowls
will be tolerated only as swimming pools for silly
fish.
Well, suppose Grant Shumway did use the state's
time and the state’s stationery, and the state’s
stamps to invite Brother Charley to attend a party
in honor of Brother Bill—could he have made better
use of the time, the stationery and the stamp?
Twenty-one T. W. W. agitators at Los Angeles
prefer state's prison to renunciation of their views.
Thus does the list of martyrs grow.
Dope mixers down at Lincoln nre fixing some
fine tickets for next year, but the voters may yet
decide the nominations.
Homespun Verse
—By Omaha's Own Poet—
Robert Worthington Davie
PIPE DREAMS.
Each evening when the stars are out
1 light my pipe and dream,
1 hear the hoot owls weirdly shout,
I we those stars agleam.
From my rotreal I gaze afar
Amid the putts of smoke—
1 view the things that sacred are,
1 see the eltn and oak:
tVilhin the gloaming straight they aland
Against s quiet sky
Their boughs l each out to shake your hand
If you are passing by.
I hesr the whippoorwill's clear call
From my secluded dell,
And 1 am happy with It all—
More so than I can tell.
I hear the coyote crying out
Koine where along the way —
I shudder at his gruesome shout.
But still my heart la gay.
1 puff my pipe and deeply gas*
Into the apace of night.
And dream of tha exquisite daye
Long lost In rapid flight.
“The People's
Voice"
Editorial! from reader* of Tda Morning Baa.
Reader! of The Morning Boa ara Invltad to
uaa thl! column frail* for axpraaaloo on
matter! of publlo latercit.
Supports Idea of Poets’ Club.
Hastings, Neb.—To the Editor of
The'Omaha Bee: The suggestion The
Omaha Bee has made and is widely
discussing of founding a poets’ club
or writers’ guild for Nebraska or the
mlddlewest seems a good and potent
one. Why not? Nebraska has much
to be proud of and could start with
colors flying. That phrase, "The
Great Plains Guild of Writers and
Authors,” sounds like a march to vic
tory. In literature Nebraska is bear
ing good fruitage. With her writers
—seekers after soul’s growth—banded
together it might prove a ribbon of
light radiating in all directions.
Hiving with and for a great thought,
a great purpose, one grows toward
it. This spirit, working in fellowship,
might and ought to find new growth,
new strength and beauty in that fel
lowship, when it has no fetterings,
hut only the helping reach outward
and upward; and sometimes co-opera
tion proves an efficient energizer.
Our great Nebraska is in Itself s
rich, a fertile field for the poet or the
novelist. We ony need to think and
dream over it for a while and we find
it is all there. Though I have con
fined myself mostly to the universal,
yet I see the great field near at hand
and have been Impelled, sometimes
thrilingly impelled, toward writing an
epic drawn from this rich source
alone; only interfering conditions have
prevented; hut it rings Its music in
me o'er and o'er; it rises on the
mind's horizon like a mirage of the
beautiful calling for its realization In
expression.
It may he a wrong to one's self
and one s state by not responding to
the call. May The Omaha Bee-s wise
suggestion become an accomplished
fact and that banner of fellowship
he waved over our great calling west.
They have these poets’ cluns and
writers’ leagues elsewhere; why
shoudn’t Nebraska he alive and
active in the interests of this greatest
line of endeavor for human progress?
CAROHYN RENFREW.
Hostile to McAdoo.
Omaha—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: When the boy orator of
Russia, Mr. Kerensky, was selling hia
speeches, he attracted tha attention
of Mr. Wilson, who exclaimed: "The
new Russia will make us a good part
ner.” Just then Mr. Kerensky's New
York ambassador called on the crown
prince, who was secretary of the
treasury. At the concuston of the
chat Mr. McAdon, guardian of the
public money, held Mr. Kerensky's
ambassador’s I. O. U. for $187,000,000
of the people's money. Will the suck
ers now exclaim: "The crown prince
would make us a good president.”
Tha crown prince doesn't like isola
tion; there are good reasons why
OBSERVER.
What the World Needs.
Omaha—To the Editor of The Omaha
Bee: Not many days ago I heard a
group of Christian people tliacus w hat
was wrong with the world. They ills
cussed for some time. They concluded
that the world needed Christianity.
The world Is In u meet. Most people
admit it. The particular group In
question were sure of It
What Is the matter? Who should
bear ths hlarne? Our rulers in shop
and state? We who submit are to
blame. Not a government, not a so
cial system, notan industrial regime,
could last twenty-four hours In the
face of united, widespread opposition.
All rule Is by open or tacit consent of
those subject to It. The ruling classes
are virtually our agents. They have
failed, but we do not protest effec
tively; therefore we have failed.
What Is the matter? We have failed,
but why? If the reason Is lack of1
religion, what would happen If religion
were present? Simply believe in God
and hope for the best? But most of
us do that now In a leisurely sort of
way. ?dost people mean well, but that
is not enough. They do as well ns they
know, but their knowledge is so sadly
limited. Few can explain even tha
first principles of government. The
average person lives and dies without
thinking that he lives under an In
dustrial system. It is easy to persuade
many that "ths dictatorship of the
proletariat," for example Is a new
disease or a brand of dynamite.
"Knowledge is power.” nnd the lack
of It Is weakness and hopelessness and
a crazv old world.
Few of ua ever will know much, per
haps. but fewer still need to lie stupid,
given half way normal conditions
Read. Think independently. Take
nothing for granted. Know something
of history and economics, labor and
society. Read your Bibles with open
eyes, paying particular attention lo
Isaiah. the Psalms and the Fermon
on the Mount. Don't atop even a‘ the
risk of being called a radical, for the
greatest In history have borne the
huted brand. Even the Nazerene!
1 firmly believe that a general
movement In this direction would
bring about stuiiendous and beneficial
changes. Just how they would affect
the i hureh I do not know, hut surely
religion would !>e purified and
strengthened, and I do know that they
would not lead lo a single human aoul
being rejected from the arms of ever
lasting love and Infinite Intelligence.
EDMUND R. BRUMBAUGH.
Trifling With Speeders.
Omaha-—To the Editor of The Omaha
Ree: Omaha has had it* full share of
atitomohlles. Many citizens have ad
or*. Every month there I* a toll of
human live* and maimed men. women
and children, caused by speeder* In
automobile. Many citizens have ad
vnnoed the Idea that drastic steps
should ha taken In curbing these
speeders nnd make life safer on the
streets of Omaha.
But In spite of *11 this, wo have the
*|K*etaol* of a voting girl speeding
recklessly 41 miles an hour down
On^ha'S streets Sh.- lib mil, deftSd
Daily Prayer
Nay, 1n all thaaa thing# wa nr# more
than ronquarora through Him that In vail!
on K«r I am p*raua<1#«l, that q#lth©f
<1 ruth. nor Ilf#, nor ang#l«. nor prln< ipal
iti##. n<»r pow#rg. nor thing# pr#aant, no
thing# to corn#. B«»r hMght nor il^pth B«r
any oth«T <-r#atura •hall t»* aht# to aap
nr#t# ua from tha lov# of Ood wh!' h t#
in I'hrlat Jr#u# our Lord Homan#
» I. ttt
Almighty God. our Heavenly Father,
In Whom wo live and move and hnv«
our being, wo i©nd©r Tim© our hum
hi© pmIm*h for Thy preservation of ua
from iho boginning of our liv©* to this
day; for Thy many met ©ion wo Mean
and magnify Thy glortmia name. Anti
alnm it i* of Thy mercy. o grnrlntin
Kalb©!*, (hnl another tiny la added lt»
our liven. wo hoi© d^tlirnl# both our
aoul* nnd our bodies to Tit* © nnd Thy
sorvlr©.
Wo would rcm©mb©r before Thy
Throne of Grate all than© who ar©
n©nr and dear to ua. and nil for whom
w© nr© bound to piny.
Tl© merciful to nil who ar© In any
trouble, and b© araoloualy planned to
f«1<© tia and nil thing* belonging to tis«t
under Thy Fatherly rara and protec
tion thin dny, and forev©rmore.
We ask It for Ghrlet’a aak©. Amen
BISHOP r/nin.BKnT talbot,
South U«thith«m, Ja
Thlrty-thrc* years ago Omaha wan
diac-uasln* the question of municipal
ownership of public utilities, and In
July, 1*90. the Omaha Water company
was applying for an extension of It■
franchise, which was to expire In l#o?.
On July 18 of that year, Mr. Rosewater
wrote.
"MAKE HASTE SLOWLY.”
"The proposition to extend the char
ter of the American Water Works
company twelve years beyond the
limit of its present tenure should be
carefully considered and weighed in all
its bearings.
"Under the present charter the city
will have the privilege of purchasing
)he entire plant within 13 years, f-'lnce
that contract was made the population
of the city has increased loO.OOO and
Its area has been extended from nine
to 25 square miles.
The hydrant rental for a city of
35,000 population was reasonable at
$84 per year, but the number of hy
drants have been Increased from 200
to 1,100 and the water tax has reached
dimensions that almost absolutely pre
clude the planting of additional hy
drants.
"The company now proposes to put
in 400 additional hydrants at a yearly
rental that will not exceed the amount
now paid for the 1.100 hydrants, pro
viding the city will extend the fran
chise 12 years.
"This proposition should be con
sidered purely from a business stand
point. The question is, will 400 addi
tional hydrants offset the reduction
that we shall Inevitably get, not only
for the city but for private consumers,
bythe time the present charter ex
pires?
"This Is a proposition of such grave
moment to all classes of our citizens
that no hasty action woud be Justi
fied. In any event, no ordinance
granting such an extension should t>e
enacted without submitting the propo
sition to the voters of Omaha for
ratification."
the police who arrested her and be
cause or the fact that her sw eet hi art
was In town, was granted a 24-hnur
reprieve. The sentence given was only
two days—two days when there was
every chance that she might have
crushed out the lives of little children
as she dashed madly along. Two days
seemed small sentence Indeed for one
who openly defied the law and boasted
that In California sne used to speed 50
miles an hour.
Treating the whole nffair as a joke
this young lady, guilty or a crime for
which most folks believe there should
be drastic punishment, was let off
after serving only hair a day. Are
Omaha's streets safe’ Hardlv when
disregard for speeding laws Is so open
and defiant and the penalty so light.
Should we trifle with a proposition
that Is a menace to human 1 if•
II. H R
A Call to the Poets.
Omaha—To the Editor of The Omaha
Bee: Anent the Poets’ cluh. could you
make some announcement of the fact
that I am planning a meeting of all
Nebraska poets to bo held In the near
future at the Chamber of Commerce
for the purpose of outlining plans of
organization, and would like to have
every poet In Omaha attend?
I would like to have everybody inter
ested write me at the Chamber of Com
merce and when I get an Idea as to
the number In attendance. I will nr
range for the meeting and the date
JACK LEE.
Historic Spots Neglected.
Ogalalla—To the Editor of The Omaha
Her Tour editorial. "Drama In the
Field*." is very fine and very sug
gestlve. We need men and w men
who are hlg enough and broad
enough to assist In keeping the
Ideal* of the past before the ever
changing times of today. Personally
I am ns much interested in some little
article which has been preserved and
handed down ns any man living. I
never see an old stage roach, but what
I ran not help standing before it with
a feeling of awe. and you might say
reverence, for 1 realize the great part
it played in the civilisation, especially
in this great big west. T can not help
but Wonder of the thrilling tins i tis
occupants must have had In the trips,
they took across the ever same but
still very new frontier Whenever I
see the murks of buckshot on its aid' s
I can form picture . f the In i. in
raids, and the great race for suprem
acy in the new countries. Have rve
dona anything to preserve theso land
marks’’ One may take tha trip to
Halt I<ak* and there In the most promi
nent place In the city stands the first
log house built there In the early days.
Thousands and thousands of people
from all over the rvorld each year visit
that little log shark.
In our own little city there (till
stand one or two of tho early build
ings. and on a hill Just north of (oyvn
are the marks of what used to be Boot
Hill cemetery. To me these marks of
the early day are Just as Interesting
as the hooks and the poems of the
great men who have long since passed
mi
WALTER C NYF
The Home Town.
from tha Albuquerque Journnl.
"The home town," says bora do Taft,
American sculptor. "Is the dearest
place on earth Why not make It the
most beautiful?”
It takes a number of tilings to make
a tow u beautiful. Trees ami flower*
and lawns are Important. Ho are
attractive and well grouped buildings.
• ’lean streets, good roads and attrac
tive parks contribute much.
But It taki s work and rivln pride
and public cousclousiieas to make a
town beautiful. With theae things as
a beginning, the rest will soon follow.
A Silent Revolution in England
Worn (he London Outlook.
A silent i oiistltutloiml revolution
has taksn pla o this w**k. which will
tie duly chronicled by some future
Itallum of parliament The Wing's nc
ilon In passing over Lout Curson may
nave been well advised, and perfectly
right In tho circumstances, but It does
mean that In future no peer can hope
to be prime minister. The gn at Lord
Salisbury, W'ho resigned !h years ago.
was th* last of a line \vhtch Included
ilusselts. Delink, end half tha great
uatnaa In English history.
LISTENING IN
On the Nebraska Press
The young woman who dawdles over
the keys of tho piano, clad in the lat
est "style" her hands and neck
white and alluring, her face lending
g-lOry to the sunset through the
matchless advertising methods of the
cosmetic makers and the superior
salesmanship of the druggist, is less
important to the world than her
mother whose hands are red and
water-soaked from a seance with the
supper dishes, whose back Is bent and
tired from "picking up" after the fam
ily. Mother knows these things, but
she Is too tired and weak kneed to an
sort her independence. Why should
she submit to the mean Imposition
which has been added to her daily
burdens? Vou may know the answer,
it Is one of the most interesting and
important problems in the world.—Ne
braska City Press.
In all the world there is no better
roadway, none more pleasing to home
folks or tourists, winter or summer,
wet or dry, than a roadway with a
tot) dressing of Platte river gravel.
Then why should Nebraska neglect to
dress her highways with Platte river
gravel? It Is a question too big for
me. It also seernR too big for most
Nebraskans, and so while It makes me
mad lo see Nebraska reject the gravel
treatment of her roads, I am consoled
and mollified by knowledge of the fact
that the organized cement craze is dy
ing aw rapidly as the Jazz craze, and
that pubRo sentiment will compel the
dressing of 5,000 miles of Nebraska
dirt roods with a coat or two of Platte
river gravel within the next two
years.—Columbus Telegram.
The Omaha Bee has been reproduc
ing from its columns of the early
seventies, editorials written by the
newspaper's founder and original edi
tor, the late Edward Rosewater. These
editorials show the concise and aggres
sive style of this pionter editor. They
show his wonderful resourcefulness,
his dynamic expression. He went
directly to the point without any cir
cumlocution or any unnecessary loaf
ing along the way. Mr, Rosewater's
fine literary production and brilliant
newspaper success were due mainly
to hard work—a thing within the
reach of all, but not very popular nor
often followed to excess—Wayne
Herald.
Iowa is now commencing to pay the
bonus to the capitalist of the east and
incidentally the soldier lads will get
a share of It for going to the front
to save the world from being overrun
by Germany and h< r allies. There is
this difference between the soldier and
the money loaner. The soldier is to
get a lump sum. and for every dollar
he gets the people will pay two or
mere dollars before the race is finish
ed. and the soldier lad, if he pays
taxes, will he helping to pay his own
bonus.—Wayne Democrat.
The slate of Nebraska has taken
a very definite step toward curbing
landscape disfigurement along public
highways by the erection of unsightly
bill boards, which prove a double
nuisance in many instances in that
they also shut off the view of motor
ists at danger point*, t'nder a hill
passed by the legislature the Depart
ment of Public Work* is made the
guardian of the state s t*>nuty spots.
The bill not only provides for a per
mit fee but empowers the department
to remove any sign it cares to remove
without giving cause. Billboards give
all American towns a sameness when
viewed from a railroad train, and are
unsightly But that will no longer be
the rasa In Nebraska, and neither will
» b hwsv« def . ,1 by them if
the Department of Public Works see*
to it that the law is enforced.—Shel
ton Clipper.
Drop the “I"
From ih. I.otilrviil* Courier-Journal
Hu the world of letters made up
Its mind that the American news
paper correspondent's formula. I
have this moment come from the
Kremlin,'' In rein Unis the assassination
of a Russian c*ar. Is the thing? Js
It cither essential for substance, nr Im
portant for form, that the writer a
personality lie Intruded upon the
reader, and intruded with an egotism
that is distinctly repelling?
Hardly a field tn the wide domain
of letters nowadays escapes thia
nuisance. Ft nka reck with it. Maga
ilnes Mare it. Future articles in
newspapers parade It. Politicians,
artists, critics, engage in it.
While Kenatnr Horghum In * Hal! at
one street comer is saying ' t tike to
think that th> tariff is a Messing to
all our people." Representative Bun
combe, in a hall across the street, con
lldcs to his hearers "I know you agree
with me when t say that the tariff
Is a national Might,"
In making a little talk, callow youth
opens with ' When I was in London In
the fall of lids'' and winds up with
something like I shall not soon for
get how 1 felt while m Tokto when
the orange trees were abloom"
Apart from letting their hearer*
or Hie reader on to the fact that
speaker or author h is been about a
hit, this use of the first persona] pro
noun is valueless. From It disciplined
minds turn to literature that lives, to
writers and speakers who were im
mersed more In their subjects than In
themselves
Politicians. In search of a model,
are ejoinmended to make friends with
Jefferson's first inaugural address and
Lincoln's Gettysburg address. Kssav
ists may do well to consult Bacon's
essays. Writers of history may profit
bv Motley, whoso "Dutch Republic"
Is rightly said to be as nearly perfect
a* industry and genius could make it.
In none of these may tha offense now
In mind be found.
Writers and speakers who have a
message are self detached. What they
may say or write ts free of egotism.
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"JARVIS'-—By Reginald Kaufman. The
Ht. Botoloph Boclety.
This book, the first efforts of a use
ful mind focussed on sex problems,
lias been deemed worthy of reprint by
some of the author’s friends.
It deals with the tragic-comedy of
an American boy who has been
brought up alone, an only child, never
attending a school, either private or
public, nor ha%’lng any of the natural
associations of boyhood. Books and
adults Immersed in business or so
ciety make all his world. Just when
he ie ready to enter Harvard he meets
In his own social connections a young
woman who would in these days he
styled a ’’beautiful vamp." This fair
Delilah beguilea bis Innocence and he
departs for Harvard burdened with
anxious thought.
The flood of books on etlquet con
tinues in sn unmannerly way. A re
cent volume is that of Laura Thorn
borough, "Etlquet for Everybody.”
iRarse A Hopkinat. Less bulky than
others, It seeks to cover all phases
of the subject and to be "a guide to
social usage for old and young.”
Joseph F. Fishman served for a pe
riod of years as Inspector of prisons
for the United Htates government,
and he has been an independent prison
investigator and consultant for state
and municipal governments. In col
laboration with Vee Perlman he has
written “Crucibles of Crime,” being a
strong indictment against jail condi
tions as he observed them In many
states. The author explains that It
Is his purpose to arouse public sen
timent. "The opinion has been eg.
pressed that once the public became
cognisant e>f this barbarous situation,
It will demand a swift change,” Mr.
Fishman w rites. It is evident that
the author was a keen observer while
making his rounds in the penal Insti
tutions of the country. The book is
published hy the Cosmopolis Press.
New York City.
Abe Martin
“Oh, give me another chance,
don't be a brute!!!” shrieked Miss
Fern Moppe, this mornin’, when
'Squire Marsh Swallow told her
she’d have t’ wear cotton hose at
th’ reformatory. Lafe Bud washes
his Ford ever' mornin’ so he kin
identify it right off th' bat.
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