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HI JOHNSON SOUNDS HIS WAR CRY.
How will the voters of the country react to the
clarion note sounded by Hiram Johnson, in announc
ing his candidacy for the presidential nomination?
The senatoV from California frankly declares that
he stands as a progressive, opposed to the reaction
ary element of the party, and ready to carry on in
"the old, old struggle begipning in the early days
of man’s first achievements, and never ending since."
Senator Johnson’s attitude on foreign policy is
too well known to call for particular explanation.
He has been called an isolationist, but he specifically
disclaims what that term really implies. He says he
wants America to be the leader, to adopt its own for
eign policy, and not be controlled in this regard by
the counsels of other nations whose problems differ
and whose interests run counter to our own. He
would be sympathetically and practically helpful to
all the world, but independent of all the rest when
it comes to deciding on what is good for the United
States. There can be no quarrel among republicans
on this point.
While the senator is not specific in his reference
to the differences over internal policy among the
leaders of the party, it is safe to assume that his
views have not undergone serious modification since
he espoused the platform on which he was a candi
date for vice president, with Theodore Roosbvelt at
the head of the ticket, in 1912. In that was outlined
the program of social justice, some features of which
have since been redeemed, for which the progres
sives then stood. To that appeal millions of voters
, responded, and calculations that do not concede to it
' tindiminished potency are not wise.
There has been a noteworthy tendency among
republican leaders to get away from the stand pat
positions. Some have not been able to come to this
conclusion, but they are not in the majority. It is
unfair to the party to insist that it is dominated by
the reactionary element. Howell and Norris of Ne
braska, Capper of Kunsas, Lenroot of Wisconsin,
McCormick of Illinois, Willis of Ohio, Pepper of
Pennsylvania, Cummins and Brookhart of Iowa,
Johnson and Shortridge of California, just to name
a few, are progressives in the fullest sense of the
term, and certainly counteract the influence of
Lodge of Massachusetts, Moses of New Hampshire
and Brandegee of Connecticut on matters that affect
the welfare and happiness of the people.
Nor are all the standpatters republicans. Reed
of Missouri, Underwood of Alabama, Simmons and
Overman of North Carolina, and Harris of Georgia
may be classified as among the ultra-conservatives
of the senate, whose votls are certaire to be against
measures that look as if they might affect the estab
lished order to which these eminent democrats are
traditionally devoted.
Senator Johnson's appeal will be accepted as the
•sincere utterance of a man who is consecrated to an
ideal. He has proved his fealty to the principles and
-the cause he has espoused. Further elaboration of
his particular plans will doubtless be forthcoming,
and the result will rest with the voters.
HERE IS A LESSON FOR THE DAY.
Over at Clarinda, la., a boy sits In a cell, waiting
ihe outcome of wounds he inflicted on his father
and mother. He is said to be torn with the agony of
remorse, but how will that help?
He is, by his own confession, guilty of the great
est crime that can be committed, having attempted
o murder his parents. He was a smart boy, and
his father and mother were proud of him; they in
lulged him, and he went without great restraint. At
'chool he was popular and active, and crowned his
■areer by eloping with and marrying one of his
schoolmates. They were petted and made a great
leal of by the social circles irt the little town where
hey lived. Finally, he needed a bigger car to cut a
greater spurge, and forged his father's name to a
-.ole to make the purchase.
Then lii.s father pul on the brake, demanding that
ihe son make good the note or take the consequences.
Slipping through the fields after dark, the boy fired
through the window and dangerously wounded his
father and slightly hurt his mother, physically, but,
how deep a wound he made in her love!
Is there need to analyze this tragedy, to trace its
ievelopment from the time that boy was first allow
ed to have his head until he came to the cell he now
occupies? Will not the simple, terrible facts put a
leep and solemn emphasis on the proceedings of
Father and Son week in Omaha?
UNCLE SAM HELPS SANTA CLAUS.
Unde Sam is surdy an attentive relative, looking
carefully after his nephews and nieces and contribut
ing now and then little bits of advice to their general
fund of knowledge. His latest has to do with the
packing of Christmas parcels that are to be sent by
mail.
We do not know that Uncle Sam ever has ex
perienced the heartache of a child over a broken toy,
and surdy he never knew the disappointment that
follows finding one that has been crushed to bits in
the mail. Yet he scents the tragedy afar, and seeks
to avert it by telling how such parcels should be done
up. Ui the main the instructions just given out by
the Postoffice department tell prospective patrons to
wrap all articles safely and securely in containers
that will not easily or completely give way while
traveling in mail sacks or cars.
The admonition is timely and should he heeded.
Most folks will doll up a Christmas package in all
sorts of tissue paper, red ribbons, fancy labels and
the like, and trustfully consign it to the care of the
mail man. His sense of fitness naturally turns in
the direction of taking the best possible care of such
a package. Hut the mail service calls on him to do
something else than look after insecurely packed
bundles, for cars and trucks have no sentiment, and
rumble and jostle with their Christmas cargoes just
as they do with eveeyday freight.
Therefore, if you would have your message of joy
and good cheer, as embodied in a little remembrance,
reach the loved one for whom it is intended, pack it
carefully and solidly, remembering always that at no
time of the yeur is the parcel* post jammed as it is
during Hu*, rush of Christmas giving
* ONE OF THE HEROES OF PEACE.
The little city of Cozad, Neb., will be in festal at
tire today. It is not holding a fair or a street
carnival. It is not even circus day. But the little
city is in festal array, with flags flying and all busi
ness suspended for a few hours while the citizens and
visiting officers of a great railroad do honor to a
real hero, a hero of peace times.
Lawrence F. Lapp was too young to be a parti
cipant in the world war, so he was not permitted to
win a decoration for heroism on the field of battle.
Like millions of other young fellows he went to work
in a humble capacity as soon as he was out of school
and free to earn a livelihood. But by one act of
heroism, by quick thinking and by quicker action, he
has had his name written upon the nation’s roll of
heroes, and today he is to be presented with a
presidential medal of honor. One of the last acts of
President Harding before leaving on his ill-fated
western trip, was to awrard the medal to young Lapp.
On December 30, 1922, young Lapp, a station
helper for the Union Pacific at Cozad, jumped in
front of an incoming train and pushed an elderly
woman to safety. Perhaps he did not realize that his
own chances to escape mutilation or death were
about one in a hundred. He did not even hesitate to
consider that. He saw a woman about to be ground
to death beneath hte wheels, and he-risked his own
life to save hers. So narrow was the escape that
people on the station platform and the engineer in
the cab thought for a moment that both had been
killed. But both were safe.
Young Lapp did not grow “chesty;” he did not
pose as a hero. He dismissed the matter lightly and
has kept right on pushing trucks and loading mail
sacks. But others refused to let the matter drop.
They took the matter up with the officials of the
railroad and with President Harding. Full investi
gation was made, and President Harding decided that
Lapp was entitled to the medal that is presented to
real heroes.
The presentation is to be made today. Doubtless
young Lapp is greatly embarrassed. No doubt he will
suffer terribly when he is called on to stand up be
fore his fellow citizens while the medal is being
pinned on his breast. Real heroes, like young Lapp,
are usually modest and unassuming. But this after
noon business will be suspended in the little city of
Cozad. The high officials of a great railroad will
lay aside their onerous duties long enough to go to
that city and do honor to the young man. Tonight
young Lapp will be the honor guest at a big banquet
tendered him by the city and the railroad officials.
It is going to require a lot of heroism on his part to
sit and listen while he js being praised for his
splendid act on that December day. But he is en
titled to it; entitled to the medal awarded him by
President Harding; entitled to the words of commen
dation and approval that will be voiced by President
Gray of the great railroad for which Lapp works J
ih a humble capacity, but which he has honored by
his splendid deed.
Cozad and the Union Pacific are honoring them
selves when they pay honor to the station helper.
And the good people of Cozad are to be congratulated
in more ways than one. To be congratulated upon
the public spirit they have shown in arranging this I
deserved tribute to their young fellow townsman, j
and congratulated upon the fact th»t they have such j
a splendid young fellow upon their citizenship rolls. ,
Surely this contains a lesson that can not be mis
taken in any of its significance by a thoughtful father
or a dutiful son. Tragedies like this are not com
mon, hut any of them should blaze like a great beacon
to mark a path to be avoided by both fathers and sons.
Telling the world how much paper it takes to
print the phone directories each year will be no
help to the man who is rooting through the book,
hunting for a number.
Almost anybody who buys bootleg liquor will
agree with the views expressed by an expert investi- |
gator, that all of it is had and some is worse than
the rest.
A pair of returned Americans tell of viewing the
Japanese earthquake from an airplane. That is
about the right way to look at such an upheaval.
--y
An Omahff woman, suing for divorce, does not
ask alimony, but wants the court to order him to re
pay her $49.50 she loaned him. Fair enough.
Henry Ford is beginning to show signs of prog
ress. He is reported to be having the finest private
car in existence made for his personal use
One of San Francisco’s convention claims rests
on the statement that out there water never freezes.
But who goes to a convention for water?
Dinosaur eggs, 10,000,000 years old are being
shown in New York, but this is no reason to expect
the market will be flooded with them.
However, Commissioner Dunn is a gallant man,
and if a lady really wapts to be locked up at jail,
he will probably accommodate her.
Is ground getting so scarce thut we must begin
to economize in its use by growing two heads of
cafibage on one stalk?
Father and son meetings such as that at Shenan
doah would never be heard of if the other sort were
begun early enough.
Of course, everybody is boosting the Community
Chest, but the most effective way to do it is with
a check.
Another girl at hospital has developed a phenom
enal temperature. Wonder if the doctors have
searched her for hot water bottles?
Homespun Verse
—By Omaha’* Own Poet—
Robert Worthington Davie
WORDS OF GREAT MEN.
Word* of great men ring, and thrill uh
With Inherent ecstasy.
And the bliss with which they fill ns
Seems to linger constantly.
Only men who think they're gifted
Play the haughty, boisterous role—
Head and shoulder* upward lifted,
Claiming God Almighty's goal.
Men whose words and deeds remind us
Of the noble and the true,
Are but common one* behind us
Teaching 11s our work to do.
And to them the debt we're owing
For the privilege to live
Worthy live* anil hottest, knowing
What to take and when tu gUc.
‘■THE PEOPLE’S VOICE”
Editorial from readers ot The Morning Bee. Readers of The Morning Bee
are Invited to use this column freely for expression
on matters of public Interest.
Disregard of Law.
Albion, Neb.—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: Does it not seem a mis
take for a paper with such immense
influence to reprint the thinly veiled
attack on the lsth amendment by the
Sidney Telegraph.
Years ago on Mount Sinai a law
was written on tallies of stone pro
hibiting murder. Even down to the
present day that law is not strictly
enforced, at least there are still mur
ders committed. Ever since America
has had any laws there has been a
prohibition of arson and "beating up"
officials. These laws have not been
strictly enforced or your court house
would not have be£n burned, your
.mayor beaten and a prisoner mur
dered, Yet who has heard an Oma
han begging to have the laws pro
hibiting these crimes revoked that
they might be done legally? Prohibi
tion of the liquor curse Is new and
cannot be expected to be as well en
forced as the older ordinances. But
it is being enforced to a great extent,
and even with imperfect enforcement
it has proven to be of inestimable
Value to the country.
People who,used to receive charity
every winter in order to live now own
homes of their own and are paying
monthly installments on them with
money that heretofore went Into the
saloon till. Fathers are welcomed
with joy who were greeted with fear.
Institutions for curing inebriates have
gone out of business for want of pa
tients: in fact, every legitimate busi
ness has increased in value, since
now money is spent for the necessar
ies of life for the family that before
the lxth amendment went for booze.
Paul says: "The law is not made
for the righteous man, but for the
lawless and unruly.” So our upright
Americans do not chafe at the law.
They refrain from doing evil for con
science sake, not because they are
compelled to. It is only the lawless
who are crying out against prohibi
tion. those whose pockets were once
lined by the proceeds of the traffic,
and those who are too idle nr stupid
to make an evening in their homes
endurable, even to their own kind,
Without the fictitious wit and hilarity
of that which at last "blteth like a
serpent and stingeth like an adder."
Is this republic too weak to enforce
her laws? Was all her strength ex
pended at the "Boston tea party!"
There are a good ir.«ny loyal souls
who tin* not belt*'ve *<». \\ ho is dis
paraging President Coolidge? Is it
the "wetH” or the “drys?”
With two things in the Telegraph
article we agree: "Let it apply to the
rich as well as the poor;” "It should
la* rigidly enforced.”
If a man repudiates the constitution
and revile it, he Is a traitor. Why
allow him to revile one part moi4
thin all? If he tears away one stat
or one bar from the flag, has he not
torn the flag? “United we stand, di
vided we fall,” might well he written
In the margin of the constitution.
MRS. E. 8. WATSON.
In Meniorlam.
Omaha.—To the Editor of The i
Omaha Bee: When a man like Charles
H. Pickens passes on to the great
beyond, it seems fitting that some
thing be said about his life and
character that would be a tribute to
his memory and also uphold his fine
character f<»r the emulation of the
rising generation. The passing of
such a man should not be ignored by
the thousands who never had the
privilege of a personal acquaintance
with the man.
Charles H Pickens possessed many
fine qualities. In public and private
life be was beyond the thought of
reproach. His forebears were Eng
lish. He made a trip to England
some years ago. Just to see the an
cestral homo and the historic places
in the neighborhood. He took pride
in his English ancestry, from whom
he inherited the rugged, faultless
character which enabled him to build
himself up In Omaha during the last
50 years. Coming here in his boy
hood days, without resources and
without influential friends, he took up
the burden of helping to sustain a
mother, brother and sister, he being
the older child of the family. This
heavy burden he assumed without a
murmur, and as the years sped on he
fought his Way to the front, attaining
a most enviable position In the mer
cantile life of the city. As a business
man he was second to none. This
eminence was attained through capac
ity for hard work and the Influence
of a strong character, together with
a self acquired culture and a kindly
disposition which endeared him to all
those who had business or social rela
tions with him. In q bond sense he
was a splendid example of success in
life. His home life was Ideal.
Among all the successful business
men of Omaha we delight to honor
those who have carved out their own j
fortunes without the help of well
placed friends, relying solely upon
their own power®. The career of
Charles H. Pickens l>elles the assump
tion upon the part of young men that
there is no longer opportunity in busi
ness for a young man to achieve the
higher levels. There Is always room
at the top.
The writer knew the deceased for
over 40 years and well remembers the
day he entered the service of Paxton
St Gallagher when their store was lo
cated at Fifteenth and Farnam. He
was made bill clerk, and from that
day his whole mind was engrossed
with the business in hand and his con
stant effort was to learn all there was
to know about the business and Its
management. It was hard work that
gained for him eminence in his chosen
calling, and the pathway is still open
to other young men willing to en
gage in hard, Incessant work to earn
advancement.
Charles H. Pickens was a useful
member of the community, which l«
the better fop his having lived In it.
The influence of h!s life will live for
many years, lie was a loyal personal
Daily Prayer
Whrrafora laying aalda all malic*, and
all gull*, and hypocrlates, and anvIra, and
all evil apraklnga, a* newborn Imhra. «|«
alre tha aincara milk of tha word, that
ye may grow tharahy—1 P*t*r Md
O Lord our God, wo desire to llmnk
Thro gin rarely fur Thy never falling
love and mercy unto us. For all the
great temporal blessings, and espe
cially for the gift of Jesus f’hrist our
Havior, wo blew and praise Thy Holy
Name.
('leans# our hearts, we beeseech
Thee, from all unrighteouene***, and
forgive wherein wo have failed to do
Thy will. Grant unto us the strength
we need to overcome temptation, and
to he brave and cheerful amid the
trials and sorrows of life. May the
light of Thy truth shine Into our
hearts, dispelling the darkness of fear
and unbelief
Help us. O Lord, to be more gener
ous In our Judgment of others. May
Thy wondrous love fill and flood our
he.ii ts. making ns to be kind and sytn
pgthetle In our treatment of those
whose lives we touch day b.v d«v
Wo pray that Thy blessing may do
spend upon the )>eo|de of all lands
May the day soon mine when the good
news of salvation shall have been
mhde known to nil mankind. Through j
Jesus c'hrlst our Lord Amen
HICV Josrcpll JANF.H. M A..
1 iitfsraull, One . Canada
friend—dependable and sincere. Hon
orable, kind, courteous, industrious,
he combined elements in his makeup
that enabled him readily to command
success In his undertakings. To him
these familiar lines have striking ap
plication:
"The elements were so mixed in
him that one might stand up and say
to all the world: 'This was a man.'”
JAMES B. HAYNES.
Keeping Alive War Spirit.
Omaha.—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: It is deplorable to have
a woman such as Mrs. Anthony
French Merrill revamp the old war
lies which served a purpose during a
war. She knows, or ought to know,
that her statements about the Ger
mans in her lecture were mistaken.
What good ran be accomplished now,
live years after tli* war? Here we
talk peace and international good will,
which is badly needed, and then comes
Mrs. Merrill, still keeping up war pas-J
sion and hatreds. Let us dwell again
in peace and harmony as we used to
do and discourage these lecturers
from keeping up strife and dissension
by any means. I will not let this pass
without a protest.
HENRY C. BEHRENS.
(titter at Germany. '
Omaha—To the Editor of The Oma
ha Bee: In business affairs if a per
son or an organization admit they can
not pay their obligations, a receiver
is appointed and the holders of the
notes, loans or obligations are given
an opportunity to see if they cafi get
out of the assets of the embarrassed
concern their equity.
Germany says it cannot pay, but
they are accused of using their funds
in building fine buildings and squan
dering labor in pursuits that will bene
fit them only, and not only that, but
in paying in so-called money which
the laboring men have found to be
worthless while the capitalists have
sent their gold to other countries and
have gotten title to all the best prop
erty In Germany.
Why not the allies send Into Ger
many men that can run that govern
ment until they are paid and run the
schools with text books supplied by
the allies teaching the English and
French languages only and not letting
the German language he used. This
is what Germany did when they won
the Franco Prussian war. They took
over Alsace-Lorraine and made it Ger
man.
Take the kaiser and give him a job
digging ditch and pay him in the
cash value of his own labor. Take
all of his property and that of all his
family and of all other capitalists and
apply on Germany's indebtedness to
the allies. Why not? Why tills dilly
dallying? C. J. COLLINS.
Praise fur The Omaha Bee.
Omaha—To'the Editor of The Oma
ha Bee: I wish to congratulate The
Omaha Bee for the commendable ex
ample set in present day journalism.
Other great dailies of the elty and of
the nation might observe and learn
a lesson. fi:nee Us change of owner
ship The Bee has been free from cir
cumscribing any group or an individ
ual of a group, when mentioned in its
columns as a matter of news. ThW.
to my rr.-lnd. Is as it should be. To
circumscribe an individual with a
group title can only servo as a propa
ganda to "boost," or to "knock " both
the Individual and the group to which
the individual belongs in proportion
as such group title is respecfed or
derided by the public.
It is a pleasure beyond expression,
for one to read a great dally news
paper, such aa The Omaha Bee, and
find the news of the day pointing out j
actors by their names and not by their
group title: especially when the group
to which one happens to belong has
been derided, stigmatized, criticized,
and has been held In contempt from
anti-bell urn days 'till now. It is like
being tr.ansfrred from some dark and
damp mine or subterranean channel
into the beautiful sunlight of a cloud
less day.
Our prayer to God is that those who
head The Omaha Bee may live long
to carry on this well begun work. And
that the public press of the nation
may see the light and come to the
realization that it dies more good for
i he nation, to say things in a manner
that will help every group of people
than it does to say things in a manner
tfyat will hurt even the most despised
group of people. Because of the un
deniable fact that each group of peo
ple forms a link In the great chain
that makes our great nation, and no
chain can be stronger than its weak
est link.
Again I wish to congratulate The
Bee upon its exalted policy nd
genuine spirit of real democracy And
for a fixed standard based upon the
golde-i rule. "Do unto others as you
would have others do unto you."
J. D CRUM
Assistant pastor of Pilgrim Baptist
church.
Center Shots
If we are really short of distance
runners for the Olympic games, why
not try the suburbanite who lives
"only three minutes from a car line?"
—Erie Times,
That visiting Englishman who says
all American business is annoyed by
government doesn't know much about
the bootlegging business—Kenosha
News.
Milwaukee is boiling drinking water,
hut Milwaukee has been liolllng ever
since It was reduced to drinking
water.—Knoxville Sentinel.
if one values his hide, he had not
better sav anything about "fields of
golden grain" to a farmer right now —
Stroudsburg (Fa ) Record.
Every man’s home may continue to
be his castle, hut If an official threat
Is carried out It may no longer be his
brewery.—Buffalo Enquirer.
The American f irmer will never get
rich until he Is able to raise something
to food an automobile —Richmond l>is
patch.
A man used to get Into trouble by
sowing wild outs. Now be gets thore
by sowing wheat.—Southern Lumber
man,
NET AVERAGE
CIRCULATION
for October, 1923, of
THE OMAHA BEE
I Daily .72,205
Sunday.70,005
Poes not include returns, left
over*, samples or papers spoiled It
printing and includes nr speria
sales.
B. BREWER, Gen. Mgr
V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr
Subscribed and sworn to helore me
this Sth day of November. 1921.
W H QUIVEY,
(Seal) Notary Public
LIS'I hlNINO IN
On (lie Nebraska Press
Asa B. Wood, after carefully diag
nosing the political situation, uses his
Gering Courier to remark that as
matw's now stand, Coolidge is virtu
ally nominated for president.
Noting how a clerk in a department
snubbed a United States senator who
was seeking information, Kdgar How
ard informs the people through the
Columbus Telegram that he is fearful
of what the clerks will do to a mere
congressman.
The Gering Midwest insists that
prohibition on the statute books is
not enough; it must be put into the
hearts of the people.
Pell Barrows sneaks one in on his
boss, Cass Barnes of the Madison
Star-Mail, and yells for Edgar How
ard to come bark, because there are
signs of a row in democratic ranks,
and Kilgar being a great pacifier, is
sadly needed. Pell is growing sar
castic.
Knowing ibe innermost thoughts of
the people who read the Nebraska
City Press, Editor Sweet informs a
waiting world that if Lady Oodiva,
who had such beautiful hair, were to
ride through the streets of Nebraska
City these days a lot of folks would
probably remark that It was a darned
good horse she was riding.
The D/?catur Herald evidently does
not think much of the shooting ability
of Omaha duck hunters. It says that
two auto loads of Omaha sports, ac
companied by two truck loads of am
munition and decoys, camped a week
on the old Missoo near Decatur and
never got a duck. But, according to
the Herald, local nimrods were out
and got a lot of the birds. Now it
might Ire possible that the ammuni
tion in the Omaha trucks was not for
ducks, but for an entirely different
kind of ‘•birds.”
Ole Buck of the Harvard Courier
warns the people that the Ha Follette
plan of doing away with five to-four
decisions of the supreme court Is a
remedy worse than the disease
Adam Breedc of the Hastings Tri
bune opines that the fellow winr held
up a peanut stand in Omaha must (
have been a nut. No. Adam, he was j
merely working a shell game.
The president may not Ire a talker,
but he is pretty foxy.'' sagely ob
serves Cass Barnes of the Madison
Star-Mail.
Will f’rarab of the Fairburv Journal
and Mrs. Marie Weekes of the Nor
folk Press are exhibiting signs of
being peeved at some recent actions,
or should w» say appointments, of
the governor This being the first
signs of their being off'n the reserva
tion, It may Ire taken as Something
Very Significant.
The people.*' says the Aurora Sun
In a mournful tone of voice, “are
hoping that the next congress will
do some things which we are afraid
it will not.’’
A Havelock minister having invited
children to Bible school, "the only
place where young folk? receive re
ligious instruction and do regular Bi
ble study." Will Israel stops the press
long enough to insert in the Post an
explanation that the minister did not
mean to say that young people no
longer receive religious Instruction in
the home After careful investigation
we are convinced that if the minister
did not mean it ?hnt we should have
meant it just that way.
Still Popular.
It would take a good sized inicro
seope to direct any evidence In the ;
November immigrant rush that the
I’nlted States is unpopular abroad —
Boston Transeript
“From State and
Nation”
—Editorials from Other
Newspaper*—
A Hint From Washington.
From Th<- New York Hun and Globe,
Clearly inspired dispatches from
Washington intimate official dislike of
M. Poincare's persistent attempt* to
belittle and limit the proposed repara
tions conference. Presumably the
State department has more informa
tion on the subject than is afforded
by the Never* and Sampigny speeches
In which the French premier has
sought to reassure his fellow country
men against any suggestion of conces
sions made on their behalf.
In his New Haven address, which is
the'basis of the whole proceeding, Mr.
Hughes made clear the purpose of the
American government to do nothing
that was not asked for by all the
parties concerned and to do no more
than join in Sin Inquiry into and re
port on the fact* of the situation,
namely. Germany's ability to pay and
the most practicable method of doing
so. The former comnvittee on which
Mr. .1. P. Morgan served adjourned
without# action, because of the politi
cal entanglements thrust upon it.
Obviously Mr. Hughes, when he said
America would he willing to take part
In the way Indicated, contemplated ef
fective action, possibly only in view
of freedom from such entanglements
and among delegates of nations dis
posed to arrive at a common under
standing.
If Mr. Hughes now perceives in M.
Poincare's public speeches and private
messages a spirit discordant with that
purpose or a design to render abortive
any serious effort to find the solution
of a difficult problem of adjustment— j
in the light of such suspicions our j
secretary of state could hardly pre- ,
serve an attitude of unrrdxed gntisfac-;
tion with the progress of events The
means used to express dissatisfaction ;
are well understood at the Qitai d'Or
say ;.nd may suffli e to clear the air.
either by discarding the conference
or hy exposing the hollowness of the
obst! eles the French government has
put in ,ts way.
Th? World Grows Smaller.
From th- Postal Supervisor.
Upon the front cover of the United
States Official Postal Guide for Sep
tember are reproduce ! two pest marks.
Have you seen them? Look at them
One rends: * San Francisco. Cal.. Aug.
24. 6 a. in . 1^23 " the other. “New
York. N. Y.. Rec’d. Aug. 25, 2 p. m.”
In the words on the cover under them,
thesp two post marks tell “the whole
story—these two cancellations were
on an envelope shot across the con
tinent by air mail.”
Not even night deterred the cour
iecs of the sky fr m then appointed
course Like the Indian’s arrow* of
fire they carried the signals of thought
from the Pacific to the Atlantic, 3.000
miles away almost from one sunrise
to the rex* The parth itself, turning
still with fierce primeval energy, goes
only eight t:n*» faster.
The thing is stupendous: it amares
us. thrills us: our time-serving minds
repel 'lknniprehens.<»n of «it: Einstein
appears to have received a new form
of corroboration time and place have
!>een bent to man's will and gravity
defied
And the postoffice did it: the post
office man s best earthly friend, the
postoffice which 45 years ago showed
all the earth how to form a league of
peace, a business league, the Interna
tional Postal Union, now show** all
the ♦ 11h how to bring all nations to
gether through the pathway of the
skies. And it will he a bringing to
gether in peace and for peace. To
talk to one another is to understand
one another, and to understand ^n«
another is to agree with one another
Two great new agenrie** for peace
are the airship and the radiophone.
'Hie radiophone ill bring humanity
Abe Martin
So runaway wife wuz ever' worth
th’ shoe leather it took t’ chase her.
Loud talkers alius know jest what
ought t’ be done, but they're alius
poof detail men.
(Copyright. 1922.)
a common language; commercial ne
cessity will establish that. With the
ends of the earth thus brought to
gether—and the bringing thus to
gether is more than on the~'threshold
—the barriers between nations must
crumble; it is the will of God.
President Coolidge Is. Right.
j From the Washington Star
Announcement at the White House
! that President Coolidge will refuse to
I set aside the executive order of Pres
ident Harding enforcing prohibition
!'-n American ships outside the three
I mile limit is conforming to the spirit
1 of the law. To be sure, his refusal “
permit the opening of tars . ,n Amer
ican ships, once they are beyond ter
j ritorial waters, w ill place our pas
! si nger carrying ships at a disadvan
tage with British ships which are to
l/e given the privilege of carrying
liquor fur use outside the limit, to be
sealed while the ships are in port.
But the presideitt is intent upon en
forcing the law t/Oth in letter and
spirit. It is not quite a seemly spec
tacle. the sight of an American ship
at Jock obeying the law with no visi
ble sign of liquor aboard, and then,
on signal, flashing up a completely
stocked bar of liquors banned on
shore by the law. Nor for a home
ward-bound vessel, which had been
sell.ng liquor all the way across, upon
nearing shore to conceal all evidences
and creep into port snugly as if noth
ing had ever happened.
The supreme court, construing the
rigid terms of the Volstead act, has
ruled that foreign vessels could not
have liquor aboard their ships in
American ports, even though they
were under seal and to be used only
at sea. This ruling will be superseded
by a treaty, which is superior to an
act of congress, permitting the Brit
ish ships to keep liquor aboard, under
seal In return for this Great Britain
will help the United States to put
down smuggling by granting the right
of search up to 12 miles from shore.
This treaty will operate to aid en
f’.-cement and should be ratified by
th* senate.
A Handy Place to E«t
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*
Fa mam at 16th