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KEARNEY’S FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY.
The beautiful and progressive city of Kearney is
issuing a call to her children to come back home dur
ing the week of September 11 to 14, and help cele- ’
brate her fiftieth anniversary. Kearney’s children
who have remained at home give the promise that
the entertainment provided for the returning wan
derers will be sumptuous, and the promise is as good
•a performance with those who know Kearney.
Much of Nebraska’s history is intertwined with
the history of Kearney. That city was one of the
early trading posts on the old Overland trail, and
began its real growth about the time Fort Kearney,
on the south side of the river, was abandoned. For
a time it was the western terminus of the Burlington
& Missouri River railroad, although the Union Pa
cific had reached there several-years before. It was
at Kearney that the first irrigation and power proj
ect in Nebraska was established, and Unde David
Campbell, its projector, lived to see his dream real
ized. Kearney had electric street cars before Lin
coln did, and was the third city to be lighted by elec
tricity, the power coming from the Kearney canaL
Nebraska pioneers will recall the marvelous
“boom” inaugurated in Kearney in 1888, promoted
by Massachusetts financiers. It brought into ex
istence the Kearney Daily Enterprise, which for two
years was the marvel of daily journalism in the
middlewest. It brought the colossal cotton mill,
which was the wildest dream ever wrought. It built
the famous Midway hotel, afterwards destroyed by
fire, and it exploded during the tremendous drouth
and financial panic of 1890. It took more thar a
decade for Kearney to recover from the effects of
that wildcat era. But it recovered, fully.
During all those years the Keame£ Daily Hub,
with the veteran Mentor A. Brown at the helm,
prophesied the future that Kearney now enjoys.
Today there is not a prettier city in the west, nor one
with more enterprise and public spirit. Broad
streets, well paved, magnificent trees, beautiful
homes, great business enterprises, and a spirit of co
operation that is an inspiration to see, mark the
Kearney of today. When wandering children of
Kearney return home to take part in the fiftieth an
niversary, they are going to see the Kearney of the
dreams of Uncle Davy Campbell, Uncle Mose Syden
ham, and Mentor A. Brown.
SIMPLE STORY OF A BRAVE LIFE.
Sixty-four years of married life, from 1859 to
1923, without “hard words between us,” is the rec
ord claimed by an Omaha couple. Also, they say
Ihey never have been in debt.
Such a record is attained by few. It is the more
smarkable in the present instance because of the
act that the husband’s earning power was limited
hroughout his life by reason of feeble eyesight. Per
haps in this fact may be found the secret of their
access. Affliction taught him patience, and thrift
■as another lesson that came from the same source,
is chance for employment was precarious, and he
iok no unnecessary chances with his job when he
ad one.
Simple enough, and what a lesson it contain? for
lose who have full possession of their faculties, are
t far better circumstances so far as material things
o, and are discontented. This worthy couple got
long with what they had; no Idoubt they, too, would
have appreciated many of life’s comforts, little and
big, but could not have them, so they enjoyed what
they could have. “Sweet are the uses of adversity,”
one of which is to develop that philosophy which
sustains one under the load of care that life lays on
some.
A sweet, calm courage has sustained this couple
through long years of toil, frugal living, restraint of
desire, and bearing bravely the burden of honest
poverty. Sons and daughters came to them, and
were counted blessings. These have been reared to
iseful manhood and womanhood, and in turn have
reared their own families, and now grandchildren
*nd great-grandchildren bless the lives of the sturdy
old man and wife who did not let misfortune shut
out all the light from life for them.
"The short and simple annals of the poor” fre
quently contain lessons that the greatest and richest
of all may well con closely. This one is eloquent
of content and sublime courage sustained by faith.
SPANIARDS IN NEBRASKA.
Ak-Sar-Ben has made most people familiar with
the expedition of Coronado in search of the mythical
Seven Cities of Cibola, and the Kingdom of Quivera.
Addison E. Sheldon, secretary of the Nebraska His
torical society, has added a very interesting and
valuable chapter to the record. In the quarterly
magazine of the society, of which he is editor, he
publishes for the first time the tale of a Spanish
sxpedition that set out from Santa Fe in 1720, to
locate and pc?:;?ss mines on the Missouri, and to
'.hallenge I" r.ch occupation of tho r '/'on. A body
sf 60 S/1: iz penetrated as far as the junction
of the I' • ■ id Loup rivers, where they were
massacred 1 "d of Otoe Indians, masquerading
as Pawn/ r has.
Mr. Sh .) i"ai‘hfully translated the narra
tive from . . n i nd Spanish documents, and ac
companies his cc. ,.nt of the exn Uition wilh copious
/nd serviceable notes, which will greatly assist the
itudent, or any interested in the story of this battle,
it rV.her, slaughter that took place in Nebraska 202
/ears ago.
The Spanish soldiers who fell victims to the
treacherous and murderous onslaught of the savages
deserved a better fate. They had painfully made
their way, encumbered by tools and implements for
opening and working mines, across" the desert from
Santa Fe to where Columbus now stands. They
cnew the French were holding the territory along
.he Mississippi and the lower reaches of the Missouri,
»nd hoped to pioneer the region they were penetrat
ing, to hold it for the king of Spain.
French influence was so strong with the Indians,
though, that the Otoptata tribe cheerfully slew the
adventurers, and carried loot to show their French
frienda in Illinois proof of their prowess. This wns
in time scattered an far away as Michigan. Two
Spanish soldiers made their way back to Santa Fe,
and one priest, who was made prisoner, afterward
escaped in Missouri, but his fate is not known. Re
ports to Madrid and to Paris, and portions of the
journal of one of the Spanish engineer officers,
preserved by some happy fate, afford the source of
this fine bit of historical work by Mr. Sheldon.
WHAT WILL THE HARVEST BE?
All summer long boys and girls of Omaha have
tended garden patches. They have spaded, hoed,
raked, weeded, watered, and generally nurtured the
crops which were about to be presented for the in
spection and judgment of men who can tell a turnip
from a carrot, and who know a ripe onion from a
potato. For the end of the season is at hand, the
fruits of a summer’s toil are to be reaped, and in
the comparison of results will be attained the settle
ment of which of the competitors is better qualified
to plant seed and get the benefit in richest form.
Not all who entered the contest will win, for
that is impossible, so far as prizes are concerned.
All have gained something, though, for the experi
ence is worth more than any other reward. It is
not alone in the useful effort expended, and the gain
to the family larder that comes from it. These
youthful gardeners have become acquainted by
actual contact with nature’s greatest process, that
of life and growth. The preparation of the seed bed,
the planting of the seed, the care and cultivation of
the plant, those are man’s part in the mysterious
operation. Nature provides the germ, the very foun
tain of life, the warmth, the moisture, the alterna
tion of day and night, the times of strenuous and
rapid growth, and the periods of rest to consolidate
gains and set out on even greater. Finally, the
great mother earth tosses into the laps of her chil
dren her bounteous gifts, lavishing on all who faith
fully serve her good things beyond measure.
This is what the little gardeners have learned.
When they set out their triumphs on Saturday, it
will be with honest pride in their effort and its prod
ucts. For on Saturday The Omaha Bee-Moose gar
den contest is to culminate in the judging of flowers,
fruits and vegetables, and the awarding of prizes and
praises to those who took part in the competition.
Omaha will then be given a splendid illustration of
what the girls and boys can do with a plot of ground
in the home yard, and that is, to say the least, worth
while.
UNCLE SAM’S STEAMSHIPS.
Government ownership and operation of a mer
chant marine fleet is opposed by managers bf
privately owned steamship lines. Gale H. Carter,"'
vice president of the Steamship Owners’ association
and president of the Pacific Mail Steamship company,
declared before the shipping board in a conference
Tuesday that “all business men agree that the gov
ernment can not conduct a commercial enterprise
as efficiently as private citizens skilled in the busi
ness.”
Mr. Carter goes on to explain that in his opinion
the shipping board and private owners can work to
gether to the end that finally the government may
withdraw from the shipping industry. That will he
an end worth working for, but it is well to keep in
mind some of the things that have led to the present
situation. It was under private ownership and oper
ation that the American flag almost entirely dis
appeared from foreign trade. When we found our
selves engaged in war, we also found we had no
ocean commerce carriers.
To meet this emergency, the federal government
expended enormous sums of money in equiping ship
yards and building ships. This has been charged off
as war expenditure, but certain salvage remains in
the shape of a huge fleet of steamships. Efforts were
made to dispose of these vessels to private owners,
that the government might get out of the shipping
game entirely, but Americans seemingly did not care
to get into the business. At any rate, the govern
ment found itself with ships on hand, rusting in
docks, and costing something over $50,000,000 a
year to maintain in idleness.
A huge subsidy scheme was proposed, the effect
of which would in the end have amounted to present
ing private owners with ships built at government
expense. Sentiment against this plan was so strong
it has finally been abandoned. Now, if the ship
owners really want to get the government safely and
entirely out of the transportation industry, they
might come forward with an arrangement to take
over the vessels at something like their actual ton
nage value, and operate them in the trade the gov
ernment is taking care of.
No good reason appears why the people of the
United States should make a huge donation, either
as a subsidy or an outright gift to private enterprise
in this or in any other country. Uncle Sam has been
forced into the business of operating ocean com
merce carriers, and wifi continue in that business
until a decenlj outlet appears. So far the ship own
ers have offered none. They will find the people
ready to co-operate with them, but not to the tune of
a lavish subsidy, no matter what form that may take.
After divers and sundry attempts to remove Col.
Tom Majors’ scalp, the statesman from Peru still
wears a rather heavy head of hair.
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The fact that President Coolidge is rather spar
ing of speech is incomprehensible to some state ex
ecutives with presidential aspirations.
Presumably all this space filled with stories of
Secretary Mellon’s retirement is food for the Wash
ington correspondents.
Now if the “Pittsburgh plus” plan would only
operate in favor of the farmer’s product, he would
be better satisfied.
The Swiss are complaining now of the occupation
of the Ruhr. The pockethook nerve has been touched
again.
Oklahoma is sending klan floggers to the peniten
tiary. These are learning that the law will triumph.
Cool weather in August is nlways relished, but
we could get along without the hail storms.
While we are on that subject, it wouldn’t hurt
anything to give the sewers some attention.
Homespun Verse
—By Omaha's Own Poet—
Robert Worthinpton Davie
POLICE.
Police, Police! I sometimes sit amt think about your lot,
I envy none the Joy of It, I seek your glory not;
1 picture you as human men with hearts ant hopes ami
tears,
And hardened to the legal ken from strife of many
years.
If now and then I did not feel that you had acted right.
Relieving that a straight appenl would prove your
erring might—
I would forget, I would forgive, and ask myself to say:
True virtues In the shadows live and will their strength
display.
Rotwlxt the walls of right and wrong you ns preceptors
are,
You lift the weak, you guide the strong, you are the
Traffic Star;
Your faith In men may often fall because of what you
see,
i But you are human after all as everyone should be,
“The People's
Voice"
Editorials from roadera of TM Morning Baa.
Readers of Th« Morning Baa ara Invited to
um thin oolumn treaty for expression on
matter* of public Interest.
What One Fanner Wants.
Walthlll, Neb.—To the Editor of
The Omaha Bee: Many a one has
offered suggestions as what ought
to be done to overcome the condi
tions in the middle-west, and par
ticularly to gain the confidence of
the farmer In making for a brighter
future. All seem to be so willing to
help the poor farmer, and many dif
ferent cures have been proposed.
Speakers of reputation tell us that
it is only our imagination that we
are hard up, so that' if we just
forget about it everything is all right.
The white houses and the yed barns
speak prosperity everywhere. We
have such pure air to breathe. The
moral atmosphere is perfect for the
raising of children.
The trouble with us, according to
Mr. Bailey, bead of the Kansas City
Federal Reserve bank, is that we
only work three hours a day and
the balance of the day we run our
automobiles. John L. Stream, presi
dent of the Chicago Board of Trade,
says that if the farmers hold 200,
000,000 bushels of wheat from the
market it makes uh incompetent
speculators. Others claim a willing
ness to buy 1,000 bushels of wheat to
help us in our trouble. And the
bakers are willing to pay 50 cents a
bushel more for wheat for the sake
of help.ng us out.
The old type political rlngsters are
very fearful of Capper, Johnson,
Brookhart, and we will be warned
against such men from now on.until
after election in 1924, and, of course,
for our benefit.
In the opinion of the farmer the
above is to be expected from those
that are not rural-minded. They are
one of two things—either very igno
rant or not sincere—and I fear more
of the latter, coupled with selfish
ness.
We have been told that we farm
ers don't know what we want. It is
true that on some things we might
differ, but In the main we are to
gether. 1 think I am safe in saying
that 95 per cent are in favor of
either repealing or amending the
Esch-Cummins law to make for
rheaper freight rates and nn honest
to goodness competition among rail
roads; also that we favor the St.
Lawrence river project to make for
cheaper transportat.cn. We have
had enough talk about It, and it
should be built. We favor also In
doing away with the federal reserve
system, the greatest menace in our
country, that can upset prosperity
whenever they want to. We certain
ly also favor the electing of presi
dents by popular vote of the people;
of the many more things that I could
enumerate that would be healthy
and beneficial legislation, not only
for the farmers, but for the people
at large.
I am just wondering If the Cham
ber of Commerce and others pro
fessing such profound sympathy for
the farmers, if they will assist with
might and resources at hand in the
accomplishment of the above.
Another thing that would have a
healthy and wholesome influence,
and would place more confidence in
the administration by the farmers,
would be for President Coolidge to
have a desire to meet with 300 or 400
farmers from the agricultural sec
tion of our county for a conference,
for first hand Information. It would
show a nearness, a directness, and a
plain desire by our president to meet
with those that are hurt, and I am
sure, while wo may not be trained
diplomats, we would extend our
president the proper courtesies and
that Washington would not need to
put on an extra police force.
WALTER SANDQFIST.
Overplayed His Hand.
Omaha.—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: Makeshift imitation
statesmen wild in Wilsonian fashion
so over advertise their wares and
goods that their constituents cannot
recognizo the package they receive,
when comppred with the advertising.
The governo*'s constituents have the
"code” that killed them, and, accord
ing to the wails of woes in the ad
vertising, is the reason why the Wil
sonian deflating they got, the butt
ing their own gnat gave them, made
the "code” a thing that the gov
ernor could not live in the same state
with. The ten million taxes the
governor didn't talk off, not even 10
cents. This Information exasperated
tho deflated constituents, to such an
extent, tho governor submerged,
came to surface in Magnus John
son's cactus pasture. The governor
tried all the Wilsonian tricks, elo
quonco and gestures, but the un
talked off ten millions of (axes haunts
the governor. In the thorny wilds
of Minnesota the governor's thoughts
of Brother Bill; who waded the shal
low i'latte, shouting: "No man, no
matter how great his personal popu
larity. can stay the wrath of un in
dignant people.” The wee small
voices In the air keep up the roaring.
What nlsjut the ten million taxes?
Then another stanza of Brother
Bill's: “The humblest citizen in the
land, clad in the armor of a righteous
cause. Is greater than all the hosts of
error.” i
The governor, in midst of vines,
bugs, rust, cheap wheat, and the
Voles of Brother Bill, added to the
wee small voices In the air, "What
about the ten million taxes?”
Brother Charley sees that over
advertising brought him a Job he
does not know what to do with, now
that he has it. T. S. FHN'LON.
When to Iluy Coal.
Omaha.—To tho Editor of The
Omaha Bee: I often wonder why
people do not as a rule put their
coal in (Airing the summer months,
when It can he obtained In ample
quantities and at a saving In price.
I never remember of hearing of a
coal strike or coal shortage until
wlntW approaches. The man who
has his bin filled or partly filled
need not fear either.
There is no ether commodity that
stores better than coal there is no
depreciation, and most coal dealers
will tarry reliable patrons for 3n or
60 days, or accept partial payments.
By placing your order for coal
now (even a ton or two) you w.ll
relieve congestion later mi and tie
prepared for the first cold snap that
may corns any day now.
You will be tbe gainer, as you
will secure cleaner, better fuel that
has had little handling, in some
cases right out of the cars
FRANK .1. CAREY.
Malice llenry Clear.
Omaha —To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: Henry Ford's enemies
are discussing him from every angle,
from every standpoint, every Ford
utterance, every turn, except one,
tlie all Important one. Henry Is ■ x
posing our financial system, that ac
counts for SO per cent of our people
being sheltered in rented quarters,
and 65 per cent of the we iltli being
owned by 2 per cent of the people.
That is why Henry is the idol of
the Intelligent commoners. That is
why Henry scares others into fits
niui causes them to point out Henry's
Insignificant shortcomings.
T. 8. F.
“There 1* nothin* n»w under the
nun." nald Solomon, and certainly the
fuel problem is not a novelty. Omaha
and Nebraska felt it in 1880. and on
Wednesday. December 16, of that year
Mr Rosewater dlneussed the situation
editorially.
‘•THE FUEL PROBLEM."
"Nebraska Is not alone in the In
convenience and distress which she
is enduring from a lack of adequate
supply of fuel. Minnesota, Kansas,
Dakota and Iowa are equally per
plexed for a solution of the furl ques
tion, which at the present time is
particularly pressing. The problem
of fuel supply for the prairie regions
of the west is vitally Important to the
settlement and development of our
country. As we are now situated,
our people are dependent entirely for
their fuel upon the supplies of coal
hauled over the transportation lines
from great distances and laid down at
our doors at high prices. The lack
of cars on our railroads has lately
prevented them fronj furnishing the
prairies regions of the state with a
sufficient amount for their most
urgent demands and much Incon
venience and distress has been the
result.
•‘‘But even If the supply of wood
and coal were equal to the demand,
there are thousands of our poor peo
ple who can not afford to pay the
prices asked for them. Some cheaper
substitute for these kinds of fuel
would be a boon to this class of our
people, and. recognizing this fact, in
ventors are directing their attention
to this question with strong hopes of
its speedy solution. The Pioneer
Press, In a leading editorial upon the
subject, mentions the use of hay
among the Mennonites. Hay has,
however, been found Inadequate as
fuel because the ordinary stoves in
use require such frequent replenish
ing. Another recent suggestion is the
pressing into solid blocks cornstalks
and coal tar and using in an ordinary
wood stove. A western farmer who
says that he has made the experiment
with great success, proposes that
every farmer should raise his own
fuel by planting half an acre or so
of sunflowers. The sunflower grows
with great luxuriance on our rich
prairie soil. The stalk in a summer’s
growth from seed attains a height of
six or seven feet, and is about as
big around as a man’s wrist. It is
oily and burns well, and Is said to
be a far better fuel than hay, and to
be little inferior to wood nr coal,
while Its cost would be next to noth
ing. It would be an Interesting and
cheerful feature of our farm eco
nomics if the sunflower could be made
to do such practical service In the
winter ns supplying the household
with fuel.
The Pioneer Press thinks that the
most practical suggestion on the fuel
question is one that proposes to do
away with fuel entirely in heating
houses.
"Professor Webster Wells, late of
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology. has discovered and had in
practical operation for several months
a machine applying the principle of
friction for generating heat for
houses, cars. etc. It consists only of
an Iron cylinder, two feet long and
one foot In diameter, having a fixed
plate of hardened Iron In one end.
and a second plate attached to a re
volving shaft, which presses lightly
or closely upon the fixed plate, as
circumstances require. The cylinder
is filled with water, the Fhaft revolves,
and from the friction of the plate*
'he water is heated in an ineredihly
short time, and by means of steam
nlpe* If is carried groat distances for
' eating purposes. It Is claimed that
the power required Is, In pronort'on
to the results attained. Inconsiderable.
\ compnnv has been formed In Poston
for introducing the system. Farmers
oould use their horses, that are idle
In the winter, to create the power,
'he only expendl'ure being oats,
which are ahtindsntlv produced from
the land. Or, ntill better, utlllre the
wind, that Is so constantly and vlo
'ontly blowing across the prairies
Who knows, snvs the Pioneer Press
blit this mav yet be tbe solution of
•he vexed fuel question?”
Daily Prayer
T love them that love me—Pro*. I-1T
'•Father we thank Thee fnr the night.
Ana for the pleasant morning light;
For r*«t and food and loving eare.
And for nil that makes the day so fair."
Wo at-o gln/t for the privilege of
calling upon Thee. We love Thee be
cause of what Thou art and because
of what Thou hast done. Thou art
the Creator and Preserver of our
Uvea In Thtst we live, and move,
and have our being. We thank Thee
for Thy Son, in Whom we have re
demption, the forgiveness of sins, and
(lie hot*' of eternal life. We thank
Thee for our country, and for our
homes and schools and churches.
Help us to love the right and despise
th» wrong. Prepare us for the du
tles of the tiny. We know not whnt
is Is-fore us, but it is written, "Sttf
Melon! unto the day Is the evil there
of Clive us grace whereby we may
Overcome evil with good
Uloss all ,,,,!- friends and neighbors.
HU *s Thy followers everyw here, l.et
Thy Kingdom come, and Thy will he
done on earth ns it Is In Heaven. In
•lestis" nomo. Amen.
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For Rational Rare Improvement.
From the Chicago pally News.
Ever since the publication of Sir
Francis Galton's studies In heredity,
the inheritance of intellectual ab.lity
and the possibilities of conscious im
provement of the human race the
subject of eugenics has claimed at
tention from moralists, sociologists
and biologists.
Many wild, foolish and fantastic
th.ngs have been proposed in the
name of eugenics, but the scientific
students of the subect have never
encouraged visionary hopes or fa
vored brutal anti inhuman treatment
of the weak and defective. There is
a sane and conservative eugenics
program, and such a program has
been adopted by the newly formed
Eugenics Society of the United
States, of which men of science and
practical reformers are active mem
bers.
Education and research are stress
ed in that program, certain cautious
legislation is to he sought where
public opinion is ripe. For example,
the society favors the fixing of a
minimum age for marriage, tenta
tively suggesting IS years as that
age, and the establishment of farm
colonies for the segregation of cr.m
inal defectives. It also favors
mothers’ pension laws, selective im
migration, the testing of children at
the ages of 10 and 16, the encourage
ment of parenthood on the part of
those who are physically and mental
ly fit to rear families.
Obviously, there is nothing radical
in any feature of the program. It is
desirable that state and local com
mittees be organized to obtain and
digest data bearing on the multipli
cation of mental and moral defectives
and to consider wise and humane
means of improving the human race.
Eugenics properly understood has
no quarrel with religion or with
ethics. It is no foe of natural af
fections and has no sympathy with
the doctrinaires who contemplate
state-dictated marriages. It trusts in
stinct and regards love as the only
right basis for wedlock. It would
merely guide instinct, help normal
and sound men and wpmen to avoid
misery and woe, and protect society
against the menace and burden of
uncontrolled breeding of potential
criminals and idiots.
The Farm In Art.
From the Norfolk News.
It has been objected that artists
and illustrated magazines In general
present always a discouraging and
dreary view of farm life in America.
However much poets may sing of the
charms of rural scenes and activities,
the other view has persisted in pictor
ial art. A member of the United
States Department of Agriculture re
cently spoke his views on this same
subject.
"Artists the world over continue to
make the farmer the man with the
hoe,” he said. "The hoe age in agri
culture is closed. The hoe farmer
may still be found here and there, but!
his day is done. For the past 50
years there has been a titanic struggle
In America to take the hoe out of
farming, to take away the hoe man
ner of living, the hoe school, the hoe
church. Machine farming has re
placed hoe farming. Agricultural
science has transformed farming
from a traditional craft to a creative
process.”
He urged artists of America to ex
press this modern conception of farm
ing in their symbolical works and in
architecture.
The prosperous farmer riding his
mod»rn power machinery does not at
first glance seem to be so suitable r
subject for the artist s pencil as his
predecessor with the hoe But artists
have already done beautiful things
with more trying subjects such as
factories, shipyards, steel mills and
ore docks. - When they s>e the vision
of the “creative process" farmer they
may do equally beautiful things with
the modern farm for subject.
Shirt Sleeve vs. White Collar.
Frcm the New Tork Tribune.
The shirt sleeve has become the
symbol of prosperity and the white
collar of Indigence. If they consulted
their material welfare alone a great
many thousands of brain workers
would surely be enlisting in the ranks
of manual labor. What rhiefly pre
vents them is prohablv the disdain
of work that they have been taught
to consider of inferior dignity It is
very uncomfortable, envertheless, to
be proud and poor. The happy estate
of bricklayers, plasterers, paper
hangers and nabobs of a dozen other
craft* 1* most alluring to the starve
lings of inkpots and ledgers, manu
scripts, briefs, specifications and ser
mons.
A great migration from the ill-paid,
pol.te and Intellectual callings to the
fat fields of the artisan Is In pros
pect If It Is not already taking place.
"When Adam delved and Eve span,
who then was the gentleman?" The
prejudice against soiling labor Is not
very deep-rooted in America; it goes
back only a few decades. Almost
everybody In the United States has a
great-grandfather who worked with
his hands and wasn’t ashamed of
doing so. How many generations
from shirt sleeve to shirt sleeve?
The old saying will be coming true
with a different significance, mean
ing, instead of return to poverty, an
escape from penury to affuence.
That 20 Per *'e«t Tax Cut.
From the Tekamah Herald.
Why was Governor Bryan absent
from the state board, when the levy
for 1023 was made; was It because he
promised to reduce the state tax 20
per cent If he was elected governor?
'i ne levy last year was 2.20 mills, this
year it is 2 mills. If the $1,000,000
that was provided for soldiers relief
fund last year had to be provided
for this year the levy would have been
more than last year. The people are
often fooled by a candidate making
reckless promises in a campaign to
catch votes.
Governor Bryan should not have
dodged that state board meeting when
the 1923 tax levy had to be made; he
should have faced the music and ex
plain that he was mistaken about re
ducing the tax 20 per cent. He should
also explain why the valuation of
farm lands and other real estate was
raised, eleven million over last year’s
valuation. It Is a repetition of the old
saying, that political promises are
ohly made to fool the voter and get
into office.
How About Sugar Now?
A New York paper which has edi
torially been blaming the tariff for
high sugar prices reports in Its news
column that "under the Influence of
the sharp decline In British refined"
the sugar market is In a depressed
state.
Why, what has Chairman Hull to
say to this? He declares the republi
can tariff boosted the price of sugar
which went 20 times higher than the
tariff Increase.
Now we have the same tariff, but
sugar prices are falling everywhere.
—Dubuque <Ia.) Times.
What Hungry Texa* Wants.
We note the many prophecies of
revolution in this country. Well, we
need one—a revolution that will put
a democrat In every postoffice and send
the republican officeholders to the new
ground and the Iron works.—Houston
Post.
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Abe Martin
These must be dull, uneventful
days fer th’ feller that looks like
Bryan. Manager Gabe Craw o’
Melodeon Hall talks some o’ puttin’
on a gigantic revival o’ "The’ Two
Orphans,” twin’ German marks fer
snow.
(Copyright. 1*21.)
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light than the moon.
At one time sneezing was regarded
as a sign of good luck.
Greenland has produced Its first
novel in the native tongue.
Malta is the most thickly populated
island In the world.
Handkerchiefs were first manufac
tured in Scotland in 1743.
Germany is still making great quan
ta es of Christmas toys. •
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breezes as the wavelet* wash the shores—
these soothing tones produce the voice of
Nature which is calling you, to refresh and
invigorate you during your summer vacation.
The trails to the lakes in Iowa and Minnesota
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