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DIVINE IMPULSE TO DO THINGS.
Labor day brings up once more the purpose of
labor. Why does man work?
The first answer that leaps to the mind is that
he must work to live. Impressive as that may be, it
does not fully tell the story. Man lived in the long
buried past, supplying his creature wants for food,
clothing, shelter, through one or another means
open to him. Had he been content with that, prog
ress would have stopped. Something stirred in him
that could be satisfied only by greater achievements.
Men soon learned that only as he could produce
more food than was needed for immediate use could
he have time to do other things. So he first set
about to improve his methods for getting something
to eat. He invented weapons for the chase, and agri
culture, and in time learned how to store and pre
aerve various articles. Step by step he traveled the
road, and as each new turn in it opened a wider
viata, ha found the same impulse stirring him on to
further effort.
God’s work did not end with creation; man is in
apired by the divine within him to imitate the work
of his Creator. So through age on age, civilization
has succeeded civilization; the savage man has strug
gled against this environment, the enlightened to
improve his surroundings. Today man’s thoughts
girdle the globe in the twinkling of an eye; out of
the thin air come messages between persons widely
separated by space; man flies and swims, and runs
on rails; he transports in a day more than once he
could move in ,a lifetime. He brings forth wealth
faster than he can count it.
But he has not satisfied the craving which only
can be stilled by doing something. Even the man
who screws on nut 467 is achieving a useful pur
pose, and in his breast no doubt is the thought that
his obscure and humble effort is of benefit, while his
busy brain plans for greater things.
That is why man works, beeuuse there is much
to do, and only a little time to do it. “In the sweat
of thy face shall thou eat bread, until thou return to
the ground,” was not a curse, nor a penalty, but
states the great purpose of God in giving man a
mind and a will of his own. Labor day ought to
impress this thought upon everyone, for it tells why
man works.
KNOWING HOW TO ENJOY LIFE.
It is not the man who has the most that gets
the greatest enjoyment out of life. It is the man
who knows how' to enjoy to the full what he happens
to have. People who live in the large cities, with
parks and boulevards on every hand, with theaters
and motion picture houses just around the corner,
are often prone to sympathize with those who live
far from all those things. But their sympathy is
wasted. Country folk know how to make the best
of the opportunities they have to enjoy themselves,
and in taking advantage of them they get thrills that
even the most blase city dwelldr would have to
respond to in hearty fashion.
Take the good people out in Banner county, Ne
braska, for instance. There is not a foot of railroad
in the county. Harrisburg, the county seat, is
merely a wide place in the road. There is not a town
in the county of a hundred population, and the ranch
houses are few and far apart. Wright’s Grove is
merely a big ranch, twenty-five miles from the near
est railroad and surrounded by hills that prevent
easy entrance to the valley save over two widely
separated roads.
Yet the good people of Banner county recently
staged a three days’ round-up and rodeo that gave
Cheyenne a close race for real thrills as well as for
attendance. The last day of this annual Banner
county round-up saw more than 700 automobile^
banked around the half-mile track, and nearly ">,000
people saw’ riding and roping and tying that fur
nished as many thrills as Frontier Days ever fur
nished. People danced in the big pavilion, threw
balls at the babies, pitched horseshoes, drank pop
and lemonade, consumed huge piles of “hot dogs”
and hamburgers, munched ice cream cones, ate fried
chicken, watched a real ball game, exchanged recipes
for pies and cakes and bread, exchanged ranching
and farming experiences, recalled pioneer hardships
snd pleasures-- in short, they had a far better time
than is ever enjoyed by their city cousins who ate
so often expressing sympathy with the fatmets and
ranchers because of their isolated and joyless lives.
The suggestion is humbly offered that the next
time the city man or woman feels like sympathizing
with the unfortunate lot of the farmer- and farm
wives who lack so many opportunities for enjoyment,
they pack up and attend the Banner county round
up, or some county fair or farmer picnic.
It isn’t what you have that makes life so full of
Joj ; it is the. use you make of what you have.
WHEN THE MOON HIDES THE SUN
Omaha will sec the eclipse of I he sun on Mon
day afternoon of next week; -o rays Ks.thei Rigge of
Creighton, and lie always has handed out straight,
information on there points. It will only be part of
the show, however, for the darkness will be but 57
per cent, nr the effect of a rather cloudy day. How
oyer, even that will he better than being left in the
lurch entirely, as happened last year, when the sun
and moon pul on then little sketch for the southern
hemisphere exclusively The display is timed for the
middle of the afternoon, which means that all will
get a chance to me the greatest performance the
heavens offer.
Astronomers are making great preparation* for
observing the entire phenomena in Cower California,
where the best opportunity i afforded, t his is one
ef the great advantages modern fieiirc ha-. When
Captain Cook we- cut to tlm South Sea Islands to
observe the transit of Venn m IThP, he had to start
almost a year in advance to g"t that- on lime. Now
only a few weeks are required, and this time is
chiefly used in placing instruments in position.
Something else Captain Cook missed is shown in
the action of the Swartlimore group, which has
taken an insurance policy of »10,U00 against weather
condition# on the day of the eclipse If the sky he
eloildy, the a«tronom< i will he paid for their lime
snd trouble by the. insurance company.* dhey are
going to Yerbanix, Mexico.
Eclipse# of the tun are glowing more and more
important as the science of astronomy mnki ad
vance, and none ever was uv . iled with more rff gen
eral interest than that which is to be observed on
Monday of n«xt week.
WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT. |
People who come to Omaha during the Ak-Sar
Ben festival this year will have an opportunity of
witnessing a pageant that is designed to illustrate
the history of the country and renew the patriotic
inspiration in the hearts of the citizens. A very
complete story will be told in a full and comprehen
sive way by the floats and the marching companies, so
that the record of the United States will be easily
visualized by all who behold the display.
For those who would like to go a little more
deeply into the story of the country, we would like
to suggest a course of reading. This does not mean
study. One of the interesting features of good his
tory is that it usually reads much better than ro
mance. The real masters of the wonderful language
of our country have been the historians. Prescott,
Motley, Oarkman, Fiske, Channing, Irving, McMas
ter, all the glorious company who labored amid
musty records in cobwebbed archives, to bring forth
priceless gems of truth, have set those gems in such
a marvelous framing of words as to delight even the
casual reader, who is searching for entertainment
alone. It is no arduous task, then, that we propose
for such as wish to post up on what has taken place
in the United States and on the American continent,'
since 1492.
For the period from Columbus to Washington, we
recommend Parkman and F’iske. They deal with dif
ferent phases of the record, but each is a perfect
complement of the other, and the two flow along
side by side in absolute harmony. They combine the
narrative as well as the philosophy of history in a
charming manner. After these the choice is not so
easy, because of the number of writers who deserve
consideration, John Back McMaster’s monumental
work is perhaps the most dependable, but is not to
be taken lightly. Channing is accurate and enter
taining; George Ticknor Curtis is indisputable; the
Houghton-Mifflin “American Statesmen” series is
beyond price. Benton, Blaine and other statesmen
have given us great stories. There are others, but
these are commended for a starter.
If, as Pope puts it, “the proper study of mankind
is man,” a good citizen can set about in no better
way than to study the men who worked to make
their country great. We do not suggest a course of
study, but one of reading, feeling sure that the mind
will be seized if once the w-ay is opened, and that
any who sincerely looks into the story of the United
States of America will be the better for having
done sp.
WHEN WILL THE LAW ACT?
A challenge that our people can not long ignore
is presented in the various forms of disorder that
disturb society today. A certain amount of turmoil
is indicative of healthy growth; indeed, desirable
progress is not accomplished without something of
noise and bustle, and pulling and hauling at ap
parently cross purposes. This form of disorder,
though, is entirely different from that which has
manifested itself in floggings of citizens by masked
bands in different parts of the country, of mobs
and riots that break up meetings in Ohio, Pennsyl
vania and New Jersey, and other evidences of total
disregard for law and decency found throughout the
land.
In New York one day last week a gang leader
was being escorted from a courthouse to prison. Two
police captains, fifteen detectives and ten uniformed
policemen formed the cordon of escort, which had
been warned (that an attempt would be made to kill
the prisoner. A young desperado broke through the
cordon, and executed his private vengeance by shoot
ing the prisoner through the head, also wounding a
policeman and a chauffeur. In writing of the case,
the New York Times publishes a list of crimes
ascribed to the dead man, who had defied courts and
law officers from hoyhood, and had raised himself
from the position of messenger boy to leadership of
a “gang” by his boldness in crimes of violence.
“The death of ‘Kid Dropper’ occasioned no sor
row among east side merchants, on whom he had
preyed for nearly fifteen years,” says the Times.
What about a system that will permit a thug to prey
on merchants for fifteen years. In Omaha the po
lice are holding a burglar, who may or may not be
connected with higher crimes than he is now charged
with. One who may be his pal is wounded, but ef
forts to connect them are unavailing, because of the
silence each maintains.
It is not easy to convict these men, because of
the generous way in which our laws are applied in
criminal courts. Kut the wave of utter disregard
for the law has reached a height where it is no
longer enough to say that it cornea from the laxity
that followed the war. Something deeper is touched,
and the search for the cause will have to go farther.
Not many of the boys who went into the army were
criminal by instinct or practice, and but few of them
<ame out with moral perceptions seriously weakened
by their experience. It will not do to lay the blame
onto the war.
Society owes it*elf a duty. In some ways this
challenge must be met. the unruly must be subdued,
and the criminals made to understand that the law
is potent. The case is not helpless, nor hopeless, but
it does call for action.
MUSIC OF THF NIGHT.
The busy day is done The tasks which pressed
I open you with unending persistence have been p> r
j formed, or have gone to join that ever-increasing
t number to he done tomorrow. And now when you
1 pause to rest for a moment you realise that you
| have missed the beautiful things that you love. You
knew the world around you was lovely, that you
grass and the tree- were green, and the garden full
of flowers; you heard the songs of the btrds, and
promised yourself just a moment in which to enjoy
the wonder of it.
Put the moments slipped by, you found no place
for the promised real, and now the night lies come.
The la*t brilliant color of sunset hod faded from the
sky, the trees and powers are hidden in the night;
the bird songs are hushed, and only an orensional
flutter or sleepy twitter tell* where they deep in tlm
nearby trees.
Then suddenly there comes to your ears the
sound music, and you listen trladlv as it rises and
falls in the still night air. Sometimes it i» all in
unison, as though every hidden player were keeping
time to a leader’.* beat, then it break into varied
Bounds each distinct and in a different I • y : et in
peYfect harmony. Sometimes a deeper note rm ■
above the rest, then falls again, but the never end*
ing chant goes on.
You feel the cares of the day and it di-.ippoinl
merit, slip from you like a garment, and you give
yourself up to the wonder of the night and its music,
no less lovely than the music of the, day
Ho you know what this orchestra of the night h
Ho not the chirping of the crickets nnd kntydid tin*
harsh rasp of the locust, the croaking of the flogs
in some quiet pond, Mid the faint, far cry of (he
screech owl blend into n symphony that ca..
be imitated on the instruments played by man? Co
out some still night and hear it, and learn to love
the mush* of the night, and the little hidden things,
as well as you love the day and its wonders
The Lantern
By DON MARQUIS.
French Without a Struggle.
You'd better go slow oil the roast and
Joint,
Or you'll Increase your embonpoint.
A Fearless Statement, from Miss
Hecklebury.
Sir: Since my friends have Insisted
that I enter the race for the presi
dency 1 feel that it is incumbent upon
me to make a statement with regard
to my policies.
I have noted that most candidates
for high office advertise that they in
tend to give the people what the peo
ple want.
» Let no one support me under the
misapprehension that I promise any
such thing, or that I will perform
any such thing If elected to the presi
dency of this republic.
I shall not give the people what
they want: I shall give them what
they should have, whether they want
it or not. Perhaps after a few years
of this they may learn to want what
they should waut.
If I did not consider myself a bet
ter Judge of what the people should
have than are the majority of the
people themselves. I should not offer
myself for the presidency.
I am not offering rfiyself as an In
ferlor or an equal, but as a superior.
I proceed from and I shall repre
sent the ethical aristocracy of this na
tion, which is a republic and not (nor
was It ever intended to be) a democ
racy.
Superior persons are the logical rul
ers and administrators.
If I am elected I shall enforce all
the good laws there are with the ut
most rigor and f shall use every atom
of influence I possess to have legis
lation passed tending to impose the
highest standards of conduct and
though upon every individual.
The right-minded people <jf America
may be in a minority, but they con
stitute a strong and militant minor
ity, and I look for them to rally to
my aupport and coerce the majorities
into voting for me by every species
of economic, financial, Industrial, ao
'j moral pressure at their com
mand.
ugh of the wicked and the
frivolous can always be frightened Into
a movement for right and Justice to
make that movement successful If
they are worked on by a few of the
righteous who are at once determined
and powerful. For wicked and
frivolous persons have always their
vulnerable sides. It Is these vulner
able private lives In every community
ihat must be studied by my natural
supporters, who must not hesitate to
act relentlessly.
I have tried to be simple anil hon
est and direct In this statement, and
in closing let me say that there has
been heretofore In American politics
too much talk of the will of the peo
ple.
We see where that has landed us!
I shad give the people something a
great dial purer anil better and no
bler than their will; I shall give them
my will and I shall teach them to
like It.
PRCDEN'CE CL AX TON’ HLV'i.E
BL'RY.
statistical.
There are enough prohibition igenta
in A merit a so that they would reach
from Glasgow to New York If they
"ere laid end to end on the bottom of
the Atlantic ocean. Mr. Clem Hawley
says he wishes they were laid that
way.
Try and forglvw Aunt Prudence
Hecklehury . . she tries her best
to be human, but she is a slave to her
good habits.
The psychoanalytic school of fic
tion seems always nnxious to go fur
ther and fare worse.
Almost any form of government. If
it isn't watched carefully, will turn
into a lootocracy.
The man who has a great deal to
say usually says It briefly.
A lot of us playwrights write plays
Just for occupation—so we won't have
to think about things.
Of the Kartli l rban.
Oh, there's quiet and peace and a
sweet re Vase *
From otir burdening cares and our
troubles
In the heart of the hills, and the
worst of our Ills
Must vanish like bursting btihblee
But when night sets in the frogs be
gin,
Along with the owl's hoo hoolng.
While out on the hill the whip poor
will
Is ardent and loud In his wooing.
By half past .1 in the sycamore tree
The chorus of robins Is going.
But most of their sound Is completely
drnw ned
By the barnyard rooster's crowing
Oh. there's quiet and peace and u
iftveet surcease
From lire In the country’s keeping.
But I want to be l«ok by the old I.
track.
Where there’s nothing to bother my
sleeping
George i> Schoonhaven.
Vre 3 «»u afraid of ghosts"
Then If*- scared of yourself: f«*r you ]
a» ** • at rving one around inside *»f von i
all fh® time
*'A half loaf in belter than no!
bread” . unless it lias alum in I
If.
"Vom -in alwa.vs judge a man In thej
u.ty children a*d with him”
for they always like a loafer with
nothing to do but amuse them.
"livery boil Is wmth Jin'*
and sometime* more to the doctor
"Une touch »*f nature malms the
while world kin” and rein
tlon* can fight like the devil,
Ue all admire an honest doubter”
unless he doubts our pet
! dogma.
Pitv the meek for the> shall
mb- it i Ins carth
11*11 is paved with good intentions
but no doubt they are nluavs dig
cin« them up to lav new gas mains
and steam pipe*
\ IMspafch From the Old Knuit,
(Npei’lfl1 to the I.anterp )
n*m llawtty
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tbia 4th day of Auguat. 102J
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I f^eal) Notary Public, j
Out of Today's
Sermons
W. F. MacNeill, pastor Grace
Baptist church, will preach today
as follows on “The Church and
the Moral Conquest of Industry.”
Text: Matthew 6:18—Let your light
so shine before men that they may
see your good works and glorify your
Father who is in heaven.
Another date has changed color in
the calendar and stands out in con
spicuous red along with the Fourth
of July and Labor day. It is a date
that marks the beginning of a new
era In what .Secretary of State
Hughes culls the civilization of in
dustry.'' It is a date that every one
whose life Is touched by Industry may
come to revere. That date Is August
13, 1923. On that date the United
States Steel corporation began the
abolition of the 12-hour day by chang
ing to the eight-hour day In Its Gary
mills. That simple statement of fact
ha? a three fold significance.
1. It is an emphatic recognition of
the human values. Progress often
seems to come backwards. We have
overflowing hospitals at the foot of
the cliff before we leafn to put a
fence around the top. The Industrial
revolution with Its emphasis on ma
chine and money Is finally coming
around to emphasize what ought to
have been put first in the very be
ginning. I think it was Henry Ford
who said in reply to a question as to
the product of his factories, "Men are
my product, machines rny by prod
uct." And the Incident above Is but
one Indication of what stems to be
a general movement in business to
make human values of first impor
tance.
2. It demonstrate# the potency of
the educational method of warfare.
One of the cardinal grievances set
forth a# Justifying the great steel
strike four year# ago was the bar
barous 12-hour day. And, although
public sympathy was with the strik
ers. the strike failed. And with the
failure a new principle of combat was
followed. A group of responsible in
vestigators searched out the facts and
fearlessly made them public. This
leaven of fact was spread through
the entire land by the dally and re
ligious papers and other agencies with
the happy result Indicated above.
Conquest by education has now be
come the slogan of the new era.
3. It marks a distinct triumph for
the organized church. Capital and
labor of every shade of opinion has at
some time or other shied a brick at
the church. But before you throw
another one think of the answers to
these simple questions: Who was It
that felt deeply the grievance's of the
steel workers? The church. Who
was It that at a great deal of sacri
fice Investigated these conditions? The
church. Who was It bore all the
heavy expense? The church. Who
wa# It that fearlessly published the
result# when the report put the bur
den of responsibility squarely cm the
shoulders of the leaders of this rich
and powerful corporation? The church.
Who is It that Is helping right now
In a practical way to hring about
better wages, lietter working condi
tions. better living conditions in this
vtrv industry? The church.
Think of these things before you
throw another brick.
"fngratllude” Is the theme of
Rev. Laurence Acker's sermon St
First Lutheran ehttrrh, 51# ^outli
Thirty first street, today, lie will
say fit part:
On His last journey to Jerusalem
the Lord Jesus Christ saw near a vil
lage on a Samnrian frontier 10 men
afflicted’ with that dreaded disease,
leprosy, very much like the cancerous
diseases among us. Lifting up (heir
husky voices they cried as wailing
and insistent as they could: "Jesus,
Master, have mercy upon us.” And
the Lord—merciftii heart that His
was—stood still, looked at the un
sightly people, then He directs them:
"Oo, show yourselves unto the
priests." Like a flash they are off
to the next sanctuary to l>e examined.
And It came to pass that as they went
they were healed. And wha was their
attitude toward Hint who had healed
their Incurable disease. The Lord
has seen them for the last time They
do not return to ofer thanks.
Let us not cast stones upon them.
We are Just as bad a« they are. la»t
us cite severs! examples from every
day life A person ts eerlotisiy sick.
The doctor looks grave, a crisis Is on.
Then after days of dire suspense it
passes over. The sufferer recovers.
Listen to whst he attributes his re
newed vigor and health! He say s: ”1!
was my strong constitution th.it car
rled me through. It was the skillful
treatment given me hy the phy.
aiclnn." *
Hut he* never ut'rra one word of
thanks- to the Supreme Being in
whose hands rest the outcome of life
and death Another person Sits down
at his table to eat a good meal, he
sleeps on a romfnrtabh couch and
dwells under a s.ifc roof lie takes
all this as a matter of course, as
something he deserves because he has
worked for It hy the sweat of his brow
N'ever does he speak a word of thanks
to the Almighty Ciovernor and Pro
eider. Me are no better than the
lepers
Edwin Marl .fenUs. pastor of
first Prewbyterlan rhtirrh. will
•eke Id* text this morning from
Mirali 6:3. \ «| not at loft from hi*
sermon follow*:
nellgion Is for every day living. If
M i > i not boar tha foot ©f life t baa
no value. The eagle must trv his
wing, the soldier his we.Tpon, the ar
tisan tils tool, to prove it if it works
It is good. Just so religion. If Is
to help men to live better, enjov more,
nnd extend farther a service to otb
ers So f take this comprehensive
text "He hath shown thee, oh man.
what Is good: and what doth the
fiord require of thee but to do justly
and to love mercy, and to walk hum
blv with thy Ond "
Justice, mercy fcith. are three dy
namlc words There is not much
creed In them hut are Inclusive of
all creeds
Liberty Is the great coal of human
progress, hut Ilhtrty without Justice is
unthinkable. Other men's rights lie
parallel with our own Hence there
must be Justice to guard them, and
the conceding of justice pr liberty be
come* license, and civilisation goes to
wreck "The world la asking not for
pltv. hut for iustice, * was the state
nient t'f one of our great presidents
Justice Is the very foundation of
the ultimate rule Jesus gave to hu*
inanity Whatsoever ye would that
men should do to you, do ve even so
to them fnr this t* the law and tin
pronhets "
Mercy calls f»»r largeness of heart
and Infinite clmrlty To stand not
wholly upon our rights to consider
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The Reminiscences of a Sucker
---By WILL M. MALTIN'. ;
One of the cherished ambitions of
myself and the missus, ever since 1
was legging it as a reporter or hold
ing down a desk on a daily news
paper was to own a bit of acreage
near a good little town, build a com
fortable bungalow thereon, and raise
chickens and pigs and garden truck,
milk a couple of good cows and have
our own cream and butter and milk.
Well, we have all those things now,
only we cannot see them.
• • •
Standing out in front of the family
domicile, rented, by the way, stands
our bit of acreage, our bungalow and
our poultry and live stock. Ves. 1
am one of the 10,000,009 suckers of
America who have no more use for an
alitomoblle than a canoe has for
wheels, but who succumbed to the
temptation and the prevailing style.
Under the hood of that automobile we
have cached our acreage, our bunga
low and our live stock, and I fear me
that Is where they Will remain. If
you don’t believe It, I will give you
the approximate figures.
• • •
The auto was purchased in the
spring of 1919. at the peak of high
prices, and cost, driven up to our
door, $1,595. Of course I could buy
one just like It today for $1,150. There
is the five acres of land we had in
mind when we first came out to this
upper erfd of the North Platte valley
of Nebraska. If you looked under the
hood of the old bus you wouldn’t see
the five acres, but they are there, just
the same. The thingumajtg that reg
isters the mileage shows that the old
bus has gone a bit more than 40,090
miles. It's a gas eater for fatr. and
1 doubt If It averages 10 miles to the
gallon of ga». Sometimes I have
thought the average was right around
three miles, and several times X have
believed that the blamed thing' con
sumed gas voraciously while It was
standing still and the engine motion
less. But call it 10 miles to the gallon
—there’s the first payment on a neat
little seven-room bungalow, with full
cement basement, hot water heat and
a tiled bath room.
• • •
To the best of my recollection I
have bought seven new tires at an
average cost of $35, and patching
them, and getting new tubes and
patching them, etc., has, I know',
brought that Item of tire expense up to
$300. Storage In the garage hasveost
me an average of $00 a year for four
years, and that's 1240. The sum of
$300 and $240 Is $540—and there's the
second annual payment on the bun
galow. And the expense of journeys
we have taken when I should have
been at home attending to business,
plus oil and spark plugs, more than
finishes up the final payment on ths
bungalow. And the bungalow is snug
ly hidden under the hood of the old
bus. although you never could find it
with a high-powered microscope.
• • •
Two Jersey cows, a couple of good
brood sows and their Increase and a
flock of chickens that would feed a
world's congress of preachers are con
' realed under that same hood. But.
after four years’ experience. I know
better than to look for them there.
• • •
The annual tax. amounting to about
flOO all told, represent* the picture*
on the walls of the bungalow. I know
the pictures are there, although I
have never seen them. And so. after
four years of hard work and consider
mtsfortune, and weakness, and be
tolerant toward the erring, this is an
essential element of religion. This is
"the attribute of God Himself," as the
poet puts it. The mercy seat was al- j
ways above the tables of law. And
law and mercy were ever shadowed
by the cherubim, io Jesus in His
parable answering the question.
"What Is religion?" told the story of
the good hamaritan and asked:
"Which wa* nt:ghbor to him who fell
among thieves?" and the answer was
approved. "He that showed mercy."
And then faith. We must have faith
In God and in our fellow men. Men
are often better than they seem. They
do not often deserve the harsh cen
sure that Is passed upon them. It is
better to believe that God's working
out through us imperfect mortals a
great purpose, and so walk humbly in
faith of Him and our fellows.
This evening's sermon by C. A.
Negerwtrvm, pastor First Swedish
Baptist church. Thirty-fourth and
Burt streets, will lie entitled "Till
He Come*.” Following is an ex
cerpt:
In order to please God we must
show Him abaolute obedience. His
plans must be followed or condemna
tion will come. Among other thing*
commanded by the I/vrd is to meet
in remembrance of Hint al His table.
Only Hi* true followers are included.
We are. however, told thus to meet
"till He comes Naturally, when He
comes all that love Him will see Him
and be with Him, hence no need j
longer of anything to remember Him
by. While we wait we must live by
faith and act In faith We should
ever remember that His words and
promises are true. He is ever present ,
though we cannot see Him we "walk
by faith not by sight, till Ho comes " i
This will mean a steady walk and I
not by Jerk* and excitement as some
practice
"Till He come" we should trust Him
He says now. “Fear not. little flock.**]
This reverential trust will create a
hatred of evil He only can care for j
us ns individuals and we can also j
trust Him to settle a restless world ;
with his word: Peace, be still His
presence when He come* will bring!
order out of Chios. .Testis f* certainly j
the only solution of all the worlds]
problems of today.
Now that He his declared *o often j
in the Holy Hrrlpftir®* that He will j
come let us look for this "blessed j
hope.*' "Behoild," He says. "I com®
quickly md my reward Is with Me," j
Re\. 2rt 12. \ crown of righteous ,
ness'* will he given to all “that love]
His tpnearlnsr " 2 Tim. 4 s
The question for the Individual re ,
mains to he answered: T>o 1 believe
that fie fa coming* If so. am I tr\ \
Ing to please Him In fI*e at'senee*
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able sacrifice, the missus an<l I nave
the satisfaction of knowing that every
time we get in the old bus and I step
on the starter and go. we are lugging
around with us a neat little bungalow,
five acres of irrigated soil, a couple of
Jersey cows, toms pigs and a big
flock of chickens. I don’t know what
has become of the $1,500 J have paid
for house rent in the meantime, but 1
do know that all I have to show for
It is a stack of rent receipts.
• • •
Of course we have had a lot of pleas
ure along with the trouble of building
that bungalow and watching the in
crease of our herds and flocks. Hut,
believe you me. if X had it all to do
ovet- again, knowing what I know
now, we'd be living In the bungalow
instead of lugging it around under
the hood of an automobile that Is sad
ly near the Junk heap. The missus,
leaning over my shoulder as I write,
remarks: "Huh, if you had it all to do
over aguin, you’d probably pay $2,500
for a car.”
• • •
Times are awfully hard, money is
scarce and the outlook is gloomy. I
gather this from what I hear all the
way from the Wyoming state line to
the Missouri and back again. It must
be true, for the other night I listened
to a band concert in my home town of
Qering, and I honestlv believe there
wasn't more than $250,000 worth of
automobiles parked within hearing
distance. I d)d not make a personal
investigation, of course, but I am sat
isfied that hot more than 02 out of
every 100 women, young and old, who
listened to the music were able to af
ford sik stockings. And between the
musical numbers I heard men talking
In such lugubrious strains that I
knew from the smell of the cigar
smoke that filled the air that they
were compelled to smoke two for-a
quarter ropes instead of the 35
straight they were accustomed to
smoke when times were really good.
• • •
A few days before this concert the
banks of the valley had opened up
their hearts and their strong boxes
and loaned a lot of money to pay oft
the labor in the beet fields, and so
pinching are the times, and so dire
the necessities of the people, that two
days later there wasn't a new flivver
to be purchased from a dealer in the
valley. They were all relieving the dis
tress of the people.
• • •
A fellow newspaper man in Nebras
ka told me the other day that he had
a few delinquent subscribers because
they had to make choice between pav
ing up or curtailing their visit to Yel
lowstone park, and the park won. And
I know from personal experience that
a lot of people cannot pay cash for
both gasoline and groceries, and gaso
line is cash.
Challenge to
Home Grown
Pjwts
h ho Has 1 d Rollicking i
State Song?
Here's something new, folks. R. I •
Van Do Venter of Omaha started -
Nothing less than a contest of horn
grown poems about Nebraska. ir
idea is to get a slangy, iiopular l.i.
of patter somewhat resent! di- tb
Iowa corn song. Not too serious :
still with a substratum of common
sense. The only rule about this c •
test is that no poem will be printed
that ia not typewritten.
Turn on the jazz professor Rattle
the cow bells, let the bugle shr:ek
and the oboe roar. Mr. Van De Venter
alnga;
Please don't frown on Nebraska,
mister. i
I've been living here quite a spell.
Long years now since we had
twister.
I’m sure right glad to be able toted
No more of that wild and woolly stub.
We're in the middle western states
now;
Some years ago It was a little rough.
But it’s different now. we'd have
you know.
CHOREE.
Then, what's the matter with Ne
braska—
Rich, happy, healthy and fulla
mirth—
Isn't that right now I want a
askya.
Ain't we the Jolileat people on
earth?
No hand at figgers, but I gotta say.
With pork, beef, corn, wheat, oats,
rye,
The sandhillers now ftlrnish the hay.
Cellars Jammed for sweet bye and
bye.
Our state is gittin' purty dry now.
We ain't got much taste for licker—
So many care, you can easy see hovr
Saloons might make us all sicker.
Most every county has fairs fall time:
Omaha stages ole King Ak Sar-Ben
hisseif—
Don't ever git home with over a dime;
Plenty to eat tho', right on the shelf.
Taxes and most everything is higher.
We don’t seem able to lay up a cent;
Well insured, though, in case of a fire, <
We re breakin' even if we pay the
rent.
R. F. VAN DE VENTER.
Mum Mr. Mellon.
Secretary Mellon isn't talking as
much about conditions in Europe as
the returning senators, presumably
because he has learned a lot more.—
Syracuse Post Standard.
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