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STILL GOING TO THE MOUNTAIN.
Ever'arul anon we are served with the informa
tion, piping hot, that Judge Kenesaw Mountain
Landis, the big chief of organized baseball, is about
to get it where Cora displayed her beads. But be
fore we who have tears to shed are given opportun
ity to shed them, along comes the news that Judge
Landis is still the big chief, with those who would
oppose him again eating out of his hand and purring
with contentment.
A virile and appealing character is Judge Kene
saw Mountain Landis. Born, as his given name
would indicate, at a time when the country was suf
fering the storm and stress of civil warfare, he has
been living the turbulent life. There is nothing of
the pacifist about Judge Landis. It may be that he
is averse to starting a scrap, but once started any
where in his vicinity and offering him any excuse
whatsoever to get into it, he is right in the middle
of the melee and rejoicefully taking a most active
part. As federal juuge he may have been at times
spectacular, but all the time he was showing that he
was on the side of the people. His $29,000,000 fine
assessed against Standard Oil did not stick, but that,
was the fault of neither Judge Landis nor the law
and the evidence upon which he based the penalty.
When organized baseball was in danger of going
to wreck upon the rocks of public suspicion, after
the expose of the Black Sox conspiracy to throw
championship games, it was to Judge Landis that it
■ turned and called upon for help. A devotee of the
game, and knowing it from the inside out, and a
passionate lover of cleanliness and honesty in sports,
Judge Landis accepted a position that practically
made him the czar of the baseball world.
There is no disputing the fact that it was Judge
Landis, because of the confidence the great sport
loving public had in his honesty and fairness and ex
ecutive ability, who restored the game to public
confidence and made organized baseball as strong as
ever in the affections of the people. Naturally there
arose those in the circles of organized baseballdom
who grew jealous of his authority and his popular
ity. But just about the time such as these think
they have perfected the combination that will hum
ble him, they discover that they are grieviously mis
taken. And a mighty good thing for the game that
such is the case. The stench of that gambling con
piracy has not yet ^entirely dissipated, and every
time there comes an effott to humble the man who
aved the game there arises a suspicion in the minds
of the fans who have not yet forgotten. ,
It is-jjpfte true thaflfjgfllpn -UNis draw* a tig
alary for being the court of last resort in the world
of organized baseball. But it is equally true -that he
it,worth evepy dollar of it because he has the con
Idence of the people who make the game profitable.
Judge Landis has had some tough fights on his hands
since he took up the duties of his present position,
but to date he has given ample evidence that he is
the worthy son of the sire who was among the blue
dad soldiers who swept up the sides of the moun
tain for whom that son was named, fought and won
ihe battle among the clouds and set Old Glory float
ing from its summit.
The baseball Mahomet will continue for some
ime to come to go to the Mountain.
JAZZING UP THE BIBLE.
There is no more intent to be sacreligious in writ
ng that caption than there is on the part of those
■vho would rewrite the Bible and give it to us in
•vhat they term modern language. But, after all,
sn’t that just about what it all amounts to, this new
ersion, written in what is termed newspaper style?
There is nothing in these attempts to modernize
he Bible that has any appreciable appeal to those
vho love the old book for its wonderful imagery, its
ublime poetry, its inspired history and its moral
eachings. Every new revision results in the injec
ion of more and more of modern thought and mod
rn ideas of what it should contain, with a resultant
oss in its appealing power. The great scholars who
;ave us the King James translation approached their
ask in humbleness of spirit, and with no other de
ire than to retain as far as possible the original
hought of the inspired writer. The great preachers
.nd priests and teathers who took the King James
■ersion in hand and went forth as leaders in re
gious thought and education wrought a work that
lias not been excelled, probably not equalled, by
heir successors v ho were not content with the King
James version, hut. must have something a little more
n keeping with modern human thought. Certainly
:he new translations have not had the effect of mak
ing any clearer the obscure passages and it is equally
ertain that in many cases the modern translations
i ave merely lowered the sublimity of the original.
Between the progressives and the fundamental
-is, between the liberals and the conservatives, and
irtween this translation and that, is it any wonder
hat controversy in the religious world waxes greater
vhile the impress of religious thought and living
eemingly grows weaker und weaker?
The Bible does not need any more translation.
I is not in need of being modernized. It is in no
oed of being set to popular phraseology. What is
iceded most of all, is more Bible reading and study,
norc willingness on the part of all the people to
u-oflt by its wisdom and its admonitions, more effort
in the part of rations and of individuals to follow
ts precepts and walk in the paths it has surveyed
or the feet of all niuBkinil.
The world has had quite enough of the wrnng
:ng and janglings of theologians, anil an ample suf
ieiency of commentators who insist upon others ac
•epting their ipse dixit as to what this or that pas
age may mean. What the world needs most is to
liscard all these thing* and to take the old hook at
w hat it says, and says so clearly, and start over
again with a firmer determination to live by it and
die by it.
It is not because the Bible is a complex book,
impossible of understanding without, the explana
Iions offered by wart in* theologians, that the world
is stumbling along these days. It is because its won
lerful truths and beautiful teachings have been too
nearly hidden by the smoke screen of translators,
and modernists and controversialists. The sooner
the world gets back to the Bible as it is the sooner
the world will he brought back to God.
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION PLANS.
Two things that came out of the room of the
republican national committee on Wednesday will
interest everybody. Cleveland is to have the repub
lican convention in June, and it will consist of 1,036
delegates, instead of 984, as When Harding was
nominated. Nebraska, under the new apportion
ment, gets 19 instead of 16 delegates.
The purpose of increasing the number of dele
gates is to give to sections where the heavy repub
lican vote is cast a greater proportional representa
tion, and not to decrease the vote from the south,
where the prospect of gaining any republican suc
cess is remote. For many years the subject has been
before the republican national committee. It has
s?emed unfair that votes from a section wherein
the ticket to be named would receive but slight if
any support should have an equnl voice with the
republican states in naming that ticket.
On the other hand, a great reluctance is felt by
republicans when it comes to disfranchising the
thousands of voters in the south who are hopelessly
held down by democratic policies. One hundred
eighty-six electoral votes are practically assured the
democratic nominee in advance. No matter who is
put at the head of ^he ticket, he starts with 186
votes, and must secure by his campaign but 80 ad
ditional votes in order to be elected. The republican
nominee is compelled to go out and contest for 266
electoral votes, failing to secure which he is doomed
to defeat The unfairness of this is not to be denied.
So long as the oligarchy controls the “solid
south,” so long will there be a demand for the direct
election of the president by vote of the people, rather
than oy the electoral college. If the dmocrats are
eager to see the last vestige of state sovereignty
swept away, they will cling to the antiquated system
that permits them to disfranchise the greater part
of the voting population in the southern states,
and at the same time to have full representation
in congress and in the electoral college. Other parts
of the country have long resented this domination
by a group that is traditionally opposed to the
progressive policies of the republican party.
Were elections free and untrammeled in all the
south, the situation would be different. So long as
in Texas, for example, 16 out of 18 congressmen go
to the polls without opposition, and all are demo
cratic selections, there will be discontent through
out the nation because of existing conditions.
PLEASURES OF A POLAR EXCURSION.
A more or less hectic prospectus for the North
Pole expedition, issued by a member of the Geo
graphic society, talks of a “paradise to be found by
the explorers. One of the great advantages will be
plenty of floe ice to alight on, should engine trouble
or anything of the sort develop, with the further
boon of continuous daylight, by which to make re
pairs. After the flora and fauna are located and
described, and this includes whales, seals, polar bears
and a lot of other mammals, the fish will take up
some time. When all the animated life of the re
gion is dealt with, comes the prospect of a great
adventure in real estate. An area three times larger
than Texas is to be looked over. At present no one
knows if this is dry land covered by ice, or just sea
water, mostly frozen over.
The outlook for a pleasant summer’s journey is
bright for the aviators who will talje part, and it is
certain that much of valuable knowledge will result
from the quest. Clearing up the one point as to
whether the top of the world is solid or liquid will
. be worth while.
And, if nothing else happens, to revert to the pros
pect alluded to, the explorers may serve science to
some extent by pulling up a few blades of grass that
grow beneath thousands of feet of ice, so the
agronomists of today will be able to note the tex
ture of what grew before the glacial epoch. Seri
ously, the expedition has much to attract the im
agination, and its discoveries ought to be worth all
the trouble they will incur.
And now they are stealing trolley cars for
joy rides in Chicago. The notion that riding a
Chicago trolley car is provocative of joy is one that
demands the attention of alienists, not of the police.
Mr. Ford called on President Coolidge recently.
It is rumored that Mr. Ford told the president the
history of the Muscle Shoals case. Mr. Ford says
history is bunk. The country agrees, in part.
The president is from Massachusetts, the senate
majority floor leader is from Massachusetts, the
speaker of the house is from Massachusetts—Massa
chusetts, there it stands it needs no—etc., etc.
The Toronto Star believes that the Baltimore
woman who became the mother of quadruplets is
the one who put the “more” in Baltimore. Also the
“Bal” in Baltimore, wc says.
Frank Crane says it is all a mistake to say that if
anyone knows a thing he can tell it. But it isn't
any mistake to say that a lot of fellows who don’t
know it can tell it anyhow.
Nothing startling about the news of the discovery
of lipsticks and rouge in an ancient Egyptian tomb.
But did they find any mustache' dye or breath
killers?
Atchison’s need now is a larger payroll, declares
the Globe. And so many of us can sympathize with
Atchison, too.
As Mr. Ford dropped from sigrht in the South
Dakota primaries, did he hid McAdoo?
Homespun Verse
—By Omaha's Own Poet—
Robert Worthington Davie
NEBRASKA WANTS A SONG.
Nebraska wants a song that l* In words her vale* and
hill*.
In melody the audible refrain* of rippling i His,
In beauty everything she holds devoutly to her breast
In love the fervor of a son whn know* Nebraska heat.
Ami from some hninlet In the state a bird tongued bnrd
will spring
With soulful cadence In his voice and of her virtue*
sing.
Ami rhnni her glory till hla song with pure elation
thrills
Her folk from the Missouri’s bluffs unto the far Sand
llills.
Nor shall the sweet "Mv Maryland ’ surpnss hi* master
piece
Which In Nebraska homes will ring till nil good tiding
cease;
Ami Iowa. Oh, Iowa.” will slumber In repos#
Until another anthem conies from whence the tall corn
grows.
Have faith >o mariner* who runm the realm# without
success.
Some modest haul will write the lines find bring your
happiness,
And there will be rejoicing In th« land that Imh for long
Ihen searching #v«i vainly lor u true fc'cbrubku sung
“The People's
Voice"
L'ditnrial* from reader* of The Morning
ilee Header* of The Morning Hee Rre
.nvitru to u-e thi* eotumn freely for
expression on matters of public
interest.
Twelve-Hour Day.
Council Bluffs, la.—To the Editor
of The Omaha Bee: I note the article
in the "People’s Voice," written by a
t’nion Pacific watchman from Coun
cil Bluffs, who is trying to make light
of Mrs. R. J. Rogers' article written
several days ago, respecting the work
ing of watchmen 12 hours. Regard
less of position, salary, etc., 12 hours
is too long to work even a horse, for
365 days a year, with no relief what
ever
Should like to quote what the sec
retary of labor, Washington, D. C.,
wrote: "It may now be said that we
are within sight of the time when
no workman in the I'nited States will
be forced to labor from sunrise to
sunset, and that wo are within a few
years of the day when we shall have
realized the hope that each man shall
have eight hours for work, eight
hours for play, and eight hours for
sleep.”
I happen to bo a personal friend of
a special agent of one of the other
railroads, and I know that they are
not working their watchmen 12 hours
a day, and even though there are
other roads working their watchmen
12 hours, it’s entirely too long. I
have made inquiry to the position that
this certain watchman holds ami I
find that he Is a yard watchman and
he can go where he wishes to and get
a hot meal, but there are other watch
men in the shops who have to stick
to their posts for 12 hours Hnd eat a
cold lunch from their dinner basket.
1 would like to ask this watchman
where he worked just before coming
to Council Bluffs and taking his pres
ent position, and what kind of work
lie did. There are watchmen who be
lieve in taking care of their families
and like tp be home with them at
least a part of the time; also go to
church. IRA HALL.
So Mention of Tornadoes.
Omaha—To tho Kdltor of The Oma
ha J!ee: Why tho Japanese earth
quake? Was the hand of God visible
in this, one of the greatest disasters
to over befall a nation?
Was God's hand visible in the flood
When all were lost but Noah and his
family? Why was this great disas
ter brought upon the people of that
day, and what does the Bible tell us
about It?
What do we rend about the great
cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, cities
that sunk to tho lowest plane of gin
and licentiousness?
What about the city of Babylon, a
place which had become the center
of vice and corruption and wan taken
from King Belshazzar in a night of
one of the most licentious debauches
recorded in ancient history?
Also the destruction of that great
city of Pompeii, destroyed by one of
the most horrible disasters ever vis
ited upon a city; destroyed at a time
in its history of most licentious con
duct. Kecent uncoverings of the
ruins of this city disclose paintings
and statuary that were licentious be
yond words to describe.
Then, what shout the city of St.
Pierre, on the Island of Martinique,
that was so completely destroyed that
it seems a matter of history thnt
only otic man- escaped? At the tiino
of its destruction, St. Pierre was
known to be a veritable sink of vice
and depravity. Before the disaster
that came upon this city, nil Brot
cslant missionaries were driven cut
of the city and in derision of Jesus
Christ a pig was crucified in their
midst in public scorn and derision
of the word of God. It Is a recorded
fact thnt 60 per cent of tho Inhabi
tants of thnt city were born out of
wedlock.
Bet us come closer home for an
other instance where the hand of
Cod is believed to have appeared.
Only recently In our own gr-.it city
of San Frnnclscn the most destruc
tive disaster ever visited upon an
\merlc,an city shook the very foun
datlons of the city and visibly demon
strated that the wrath of God was
there in evidence. Can there be any
significance In the fact1 thnt at the
time of this disaster thnt there was
in existence, and had been for year*,
in what was known ns Chinese head
quarters or Chinatown, one of the
sections of most damnable wicked
ness ever allowed to exist. In any
country, anti that right here In our
Cnlted States, supposed to be the
most enlightened nation on earth,
and this situation allowed to exist
by those In command of the laws of
this country against vice and. cor
ruption, and when an Incarnate devil
seemed to be allowed to go hither
and yon at will and not a hand of
the law effectually raised against
his reign?
And now romes the great Japanese
disaster. There seems to he a fenr,
a suppression of known facts readily
nccessahle, and no doubt known to
our dally press, but seemingly cov
ered up, or at least not made known
to the public, aqtual facts that would
be of far more Intere.W to the people
at large than some of the news of
the day appearing In the press, thnt
might shed light on things that
should be more generally known. It
Is a fact well known to those who
have had occasion to bo well in
formed and well known to official
dom of Japan, that at the time of
tho destruction of Its mighty cities
that miles of Its cities were set apart
is segregated districts, where thou
sands of Its most beautiful and at
tractive girls were forced Into sin
and shame only to fill tho coffers of
the vilest men In all humanity, bent
upon the most unscrupulous de
hanchory for the gain of the almighty
dollar, as they consider the dollar.
At the time of this disaster there
Was no place |n the known world of
such vice and corruption as then ex
Isted In Toklo.
Considering these well known facts,
enn It he doubted that while Hod Is
Infinitely good, yet His hand of warn
ing Is visibly shown In llis wrath
at the vileness of man'*
If Hod's wrath In not visibly shown
In Instances ns related above, then
why the disastrous destruction when
these cities were In the lowest stages
of sin and debauchery, vet were not
destroyed until they had reached
such a stage of corruptness that If
Hod Is Ond. Indeed. Ho could no long
er withhold His wrathful d« strut*
tion
OHonor H UAWKTN*.
2HJ0 Ames Avenue.
Keeping Pace With Dante Fashion.
Next spring, skirts and coats are
to he shorter ng'tln. the National Man
ufaeturera* association announces.
The truly thrifty woman will have
her skirts equipped with r«cf points,
like those on n mainsail. Then, reefs
may he taken In or shaken out, in
accordance with fashion's fickle
hreese.—New Y«ik Tribune
Why i'lrk Don’t Marry.
Klght million employed American
women receive subtile* cf $2,000 or
more and spend more for « h»t In * than
wives of $10,000 n year men. This an
suers why the girls can not afford to
marry Pittsburgh flasett* Time*
\ Difference.
The old fashioned girl kl*°*'d to
make up; the n*idetn mu makes up
tu kiss, rassaic Herald.
“From State arid Nation”
—Editorials from Other Newspapers—
Two-Way Interpretations.
Front lh» Sioux Falls Press.
There Is no chance for confusion
or misunderstanding about President
Coolidge's rejection of the league of
nations, but argument already Is un
der way as to the president’s exact
tmsitlon on a world court. Some of
the republican leaders, formerly at
variance on this subject, now profess
to find their contending positions sus
tained in the president’s statement.
This seeming confusion may ap
pear strange, to some extent, but it
is a logical sequence of the presi
dent’s discussion of that subject. He
did not commit himself to any par
ticular type of world court. He sug
gested ’’favorable consideration” for
the proposal pending before the sen
ate for a permanent court of inter
national Justice, "with the proposed
reservations clearly Indicating our
refusal to adhere to the league of
nations.”
To what does the suggestion lead?
Certainly no further than to an al
leged court without responsible back
ing from the various governments.
Apply the same idea to domestic af
fairs and analyze its effects. What
would be the foreo of effect of state
court edicts or federal court edicts
If l>ased upon the understanding that
people could use their own pleasure
about accepting or obeying the ver
dicts?
Those who have not taken time- to
read all of the president’s message
should at least take time to digest
the following extract on the world
court question:
“Pending before the senate Is
.a proposal that this government
give Us support to the permanent
court of international justice,
which is a new and somewhat dif
ferent plan. This is not a partisan
question. It should not assume an
artificial importance. The court
is merely a convenient instrument
of adjustment to which w-e could
go, but to which wo could not be
brought. It should be discussed
with entire candor, not by a poli
tical, but by a Judicial method,
without pressure and without pre
judice. Partisanship has not place
in our foreign relations. As I
wish to see a court established,
and as the proposal presents the
only practical plan on which many
nations have ever agreed, though
it may not meet every desire, I
therefore commend It to the fav
orable consideration of the senate,
with the proposed reservations
clearly Indicating our refusal to
adhere to the league of nations."
Tty organize an alleged world court
and at the same time refuse inter
national support for such a tribunal
involves no progress in world affairs.
An arrangement of that kind, at best,
would be no more effective than The
Hague tribunal, which w-as In exist
ence at the outbreak of the world
war, and which did not even have
erfough power to deal with thp inci
pient stages—the Austria-Serhlan dis
pute.
Those of opposing views who wish
to adhere to President Coolldge may
he able to satisfy themselves with
the guarded utterance on the world
court proposal, but if so, It is because
they are deliberately In the mood to
tie easily satisfied. Mild as the pro
posed participation In world affairs
nuiy be, It i* too much for the Un
compromising isolationists and cer
tainly not enough for those who will
continue to hope for vigorous and
unapologetic participation by the
1 inited States in practical measures
for world peace.
Magnus Johnson's Peace Plan.
From th# Minneapolis Trlhun#.
Senator Magnua Johnson's world
peace plan, outlined in a joint reso
lution introduced in the senate, is
simple enough in what it proposes,
but it requires a faith that Is child
llkn and bland to believe that the
purpose expressed ran le carried out
while the nations are in the present
frame of mind, one toawrd another.
The plan is an extension of the ar
bitration jsillcy put forward by,Wil
liam Jennings Bryan when he was
at the head of the State department
under Mr. Wilson. Mr. Bryan con
cluded treaties with 31 other na
tions, binding the t.'nlted States and
these signatories to submit to tin ar
bitration commission all disputes that
could not be s* ttled in the ordinary
diplomatic pn eases. The contract
ing parties agree not to declare war
or begin hostilities until after the
commission shall have had time to
investigate the matters in controver
sy and euhmit tts finding*. Neither
party to the contract is bound to
respect the report and abide by the
findings. One of the main objects
Sir Bryan had in mind was to In
sure a cooling-off period. during
which the nations Involved In the
dispute might do socne soher think
Daily Prayer |
Pray no* unto tho I.ord our Gog —
J*r. 37 3.
We thank Thee, our Heavenly Fath
er, for Thy care over u* through the
past night. We thank Thee for the
Bible. Help u* to understand It. tol>e
lleve It, to obey It and to love It, We
thank Thee, Blessed Savior, that
Thou didst come from heaven to earth
that we might go from earth to heav
en: that Thou didst die that we might
live. We thank Thee that Thou didst
rise from the dead, ascend up on
high, and dost ever live to Intercede
for us. Wo thnnk Thee that Thou
didst say. "Come unto me all ye lhat
labor and are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest." We cotno to Thee.
Have mercy on us. We have done
wrong. Forgive us. We want to do
right: help us We are ainners: be
Thou our Savior. Fill us with Thy
Spirit: consecrate us to Thy service.
Comfort the troubled: guide the per
plexed: strengthen the weak: succor
the tempted. Bless our country.
Bless Thy church everywhere, and
bless all Christian workers. Fill the
whole earth with Thy glory. Wo ask
all In the name of our t-ord Christ
Jesus, and for His sake We pray,
' Hod Mo** «ur going out.
Nor lea* "ur turning In,
And in tk«* them sure
find Me** our dally bread.
And Mem vthale'erw* do whgte'er endure
May rt**th unto Ilia peace awake ua.
And heir* unto Ilia mlvfttlon make ua '*
Amin
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NET AVERAGE
CIRCULATION
for November, 1923, of
THE OMAHA BEE
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W II QUIVEV.
(Seal) Notaiy Public
ing on the relative merits of force
and reason In composing differences
and reaching agreements.
Senator Johnson proposes that the
president be authorized to call a con
ference of all nations, at which poll
tical and moral suasion would be
brought to bear to have each na
tion sign an arbitration treaty with
every other nation. If 50 nations
signed such treaties with one an
oliter, the whole number of treaties
would he 2,450. If t»0 nations had
mutual agreements. the number
would amount to 3,540. That is a lot
of treaties, and it looks very much
at this time as If it would be a big
job to garner them from such seed
as might be sown at the conference
proposed.
The following nations signed with
the United States the Bryan arbitra
tion treaties: Great Britain, Spain,
Russia. Equador. France, Greece,
Norway, Denmark, Italy, Switzer
land. Salvador. Guatemala. Panama,
Hondura, Nicaragua, the Nether
lands. Argentina. Brazil. Bolivia, Per
sia, Portugal, Costa Rica, Dominican
Republic, Venezuela. Uruguay, Para
guay, Chile, China and Peru. Ger
many and Jujum did not sign up.
The United States government cer
tainly would not object if all these
nations were to enter Into mutual
agreements with one another to re
sort to war only as a last recourse,
but the government ought to he care
ful about starting something which
It would be up to others to finish.
It Is a question whether the futile
conferences in Europe in the last two
or three years did not do more harm
than good. Following the example
of his illustrious predecessor, Presi
dent Coolidge doubtless would shrink
from calling the conference proposed
by Senator Johnson unless he were
well assured in advance that some
thing amply worth while would come
out of It.
Girls vs. Jobs.
From the Kansas City Post.
Rich girls need jobs and It is a
grave mistake to oppose them, says
Jean Hamilton, dean of worneit at
the University of Michigan. ‘ Nine
tenths of the daughters of wealthy
parents are living in a vacuum.” she
maintains. “If they are too young
to marry, their parents should find
jobs for them to keep them out of
mischief.”
Miss Hamilton claims that the
pampered girl, who is brought up In
luxury, becomes a wife who is a mere
spendthrift, and not a partner. Fur
thermore. she nays, it is strange, hut,
true, that hosts of mothers of rich
family girls, who want to go to work,
oppose them, apologize for daughter s
whim and do their utmost to have
the daughters go stale at country
clubs end inane pink tea life the
fathers’ incomes afford.
This seriously vicious idea works
great harm to the girls, thinks the
Worcester tO.) Post. The mere fact
that a girl has money does not assure
, her brains or the knowledge of ap
plying them. Brains must be de
veloped. and riches take wings. The
girl of the work and business world
has infinitely greeter advantages
than the girl who stays at horn ■ and
1< lls In luxury, idle and really being
merely another woman.
Many Miles of l ii<leme» t able.
It Is said that there are about 500,
oon miles of coble lh .ill at the bottom
of the sea, representing JSQU.OoO 000,
each line costing more than $1,004 a
mile to make and lay. The average
useful life of a cable nowadays Is
anything between 30 and 40 years,
according to circumstances. About
10,000,000 messages are conveyed by
the world's cables throughout the
year, the working speed being up to
100 words a minute under the present
conditions. About SO per cent of
these are sent In code or cipher.—
Washington Star.
Able to (let "Inside .stuff."
Old-fashioned gentlemen, still pat
rons of a Chinese laundry for their
weekly shirting and collaring, of a
sudden have found themselves so
cially eligible. They are In a stra
tegic- position to get the inside "low
down on how to play mahjong.—
New York Tribune.
LISTENING IN
On tho Nebraska Pres*
Harry Winner of the Scottsbluff
Star-Herald heaved a great nigh of
tellef when he learned that 4b per
cent of the turkey crop prepared for
Thanksgiving markets remains un
sold. He thinks the ehanres of hav
ing one presented to him for Christ
mas purposes are pretty fair.
• • •
Hay Wisner of the Bayard Trans
cript, at the risk of ruining a reputa
tion for truthfulness acquired after
many years of repression, asserts
that in his town there are tomato
vines growing and the fruit thereon
about to ripen, "and not in a hot
house, either.”
• * • •
The Gordon Journal believes in
sticking up for its home town. It
asserts that if ever former Gordonites
now in Florida ever hear about the
fine climate in Gordon they'll ite try
ing to sell the local city park for id-a]
winter resort cottages.
• * *
The Oakland Independent admits
that the views of some of the .so
called progressive senators are too
radical to suit its taste, but admits
that their fight against gag rule suits
it to a nicety.
. • .
S. W. Kelley of the Atkinson
Graphic knows what he wants He
wants the blocs, bumps and radicals
to lay off and let common sense have
a chance.
• • •
Fred Toung of the Genoa Leader
presented him with a turkey for
Thanksgiving, and the evening before
Thanksgiving, ond the evening before
another friend had filled him up on
roast goose. Fred admits that both
were "lickin’ good.”
• • •
Speaking out of personal experience
Dyo Davis of the SHver Creek Sand
declares that "another good endur
ance test is to suffer:a mosquito bite
under circumstance* th it do not leave
you free to scratch.’' But how about
chiggers, Dyo?
• • •
Editor Stone of the Hartington
Herald surmises that Governor
Bryans political future depends
largely on how that cheap coal burns
tiiis winter.
• • •
Gene Westervelt of the Scottsbluff
Republican insists that A. J- Weaver
announce his candidacy for the repub
lican senatorial nomination. "When
Weaver Bays a thing, he means it,
and what he says he’ll do, he’ll do,"
asserts Gene,
• • •
’The critics are hard to please,”
declares the York News Times. "They
howled because President Coolidge
kept quiet, and now they are howling
because he made his position plain.
• • •
John Rhoades of the Blair Enter
prise is hereby nominated for the po
sition of Chief Optimist of Political
dotn. "Congress convened last Tues
Abe Martin
Th’ automobile is a big help t*th’
bandit in more ways than one. Fcr
instance, when he shoots a cashier
ever’buddy thinks it’s a tire. It
seems like th’ only way t' reach a
ripe an’ peaceful ole age is jest t’
be downright an’ everlastin’ly
worthless.
(Copyright, 1*2*.»
day," he remarks, "and ere Iona we
expect to hear of great things hap
pening and great and weighty ques
tions being solved." On seeor 3
thought, maybe John was speaking
sarkastik. •
• • •
George Purr of the Aurora Register
says he is tired of reading about
murders, so he skips them when he
picks up the daily papers. He admits
that by so d< ing he misses a consider
able portion of the news.
* • * M.
The Christian * hurt h at Heaver Cit>
wan destroyed by fire recently, and
Mrs. Merwin, who edits a spicy de
p.-s rtrnefit in the Tim**-Tribune, says
she shudders to think of how many
pies and cakes will be made and sup
i served by her sisters before a
| new church Is erected.
• • •
“A willintrne.es to srn to work." ob
serves the Fairbury News, “would fro
| a long ways towards solving the un
employment problem.
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