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FARMS, FREIGHTS AMD FAMINE.
Transportation is the key factor in the problem
of distribution, and distribution is just now the
dominant element in the whole system of human
life. It makes or mars the happiness of the race.
The Middle West Foreign Trade conference,
-itting in Omaha, gave its chief attention to the
discussion of transportation. O. E. Bradfute, presi
lent of the American Farm Bureau federation, sum
ned up the case for the farmer fairly well in these
sentences;
"Agriculture In the past has asked freight rate
reduction. It has been answered by the railroads
to the effect that the suggestion was impossible.
If thut is true, the farmer must find other means of
transporting his products to distribution points.
This matter is entirely up to the railroads.”
What has actually taken place in the world
within the last few months? In October, the ground
under the trees of prune orchards along the Co
lumbia river in Washington was blue with fruit that
was allowed to rot, because it could not be sent to
market. Apple growers in the Hoos river and other
orcharding sections of the northwest complained
because they could not get the abundant yield
harvested and marketed, the great obstacle being
freight rates. Similar tales come from California.
One day last week a wagon load of potatoes sold
on the street in Alliance for 10 cents a bushel, and
on the same day potatoes were HO cents a peck in
Omaha.
We do not need to turn to Germany or Russia
to find people who are hungry. Many can be found
l ight here in our happy land. Yet food was allowed
to rot in the fields and orchards where it grew.
Probably the railroads are not altogether to
blame for the state of affairs that exists. Some
thing is wrong, however, and the country needs some
statesman who will present and apply a remedy. It
is absurd that anyone should lack for food in a land
so blessed as ours, yet many do. Dr. Malthus would
laugh if he could see what has come to pass. In
stead of the races of the earth multiplying to point
where a sufficient supply of food can pot be produc
ed, we have reached that remarkable state where
we can not get the food from the fields to the hungry
mouths.
Such an anomaly challenges our civilization. Un
til it is made possible that no one lies down at night
unfed or sets out hungry in the morning to look
for work or to attend school, the report of the De
partment of Agriculture as to the enormous yield
of American farms will be a mockery.
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CHRISTMAS CAROLS.
.'-mong other good things that we have lost sight
of in our haste and bustle is the old custom of sjng
ing Christmas carols. In times past, and not so far
gone that; some yet alive can remember, it was
the custom for bands of singers to wander around
the neighborhood, singing the good old Christmas
songs of peace and good will.’ It has come to pass,
however, that church choirs are expected to do the
Christmas caroling for us, failing which the jazz
record is put on the phonograph and Christmas
ushered in to the tunes of “Sweet Mamma” or “I
Got Some Kind of Blues or Other.” The dying out
of the good old fashion of singing Christmas carols
began about the time that men began commercializ
ing Christmas.
The Christmas cantata is all right in itc place,
but it can never take the place of the old-fashioned
Christmas carols sung by men and women, boys and
girls, their voices ringing out on the frosty in "Holy
Night” or “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear.” Carol
singing makes not only for a better understanding
of what Christmas really means, but it makes for a
more neighborly spirit, and a better community
spirit.
Nothing would serve better to make the coming
Christmas a thing to be remembered with joy than
to have groups of carol singers in every community.
It doesn’t matter whether they arc trained vocalists;
it only matters that they have the spirit of Christ
mas in their hearts and try to give expressions to'
it with their voices.
It is the fellowship, the good will, the charity,
the neighborliness, that makes for Christmas. And
what better way to cultivate it and then give ex
pression to it than by singing the old Christmas
carols more, and relying less upon the trained church
choir?
PLAYING THE GAME SQUARELY.
Dr. Leighton Parks, rector of St. Bartholomew's
Protestant Episcopal church. Now York, is clearly
within hi» individual rights when he insists upon
being free to express his individual opinion about
the virgin birth of Christ, or any other subject.
But has he a right to insist upon the individual
privilege of denouncing one of the tenets of his
(hureh and keep on insisting upon his right to main
tain his priestly connection with his church?
The employe who persists in disobeying the in
structions of his employer need expect nothing hut
dismissal, and he deserves nothing less. To plead
his individual right to do and think as he pleases is
to exhibit his lack of moral prcception. If Dr.
Parks finds himself out of harmony with his church
he should by all means get out of it. When he took
holy orders he agreed to certain fundamental prin
ciples of his church. The church has not changed,
Out he has, therefore he should have the grace to
gracefully retire, taking advantage of his free
American privilege of giving his reason for the
action. One might easily admire Dr. Parks for his
Independence of thought, but there is nothing about
bis defiance of church authority to admire so long a.
he insists on participating in the councils of the
ehurch whose authority and creed he defies. .lust
how he can pretend to be eligible to continue in good
standing in the priesthood when he sets at. defiance
the authorities of the church he pledged himself to
obey, and strikes at the very fundamental upon
which his church is founded, may be clear to him, hut
not to others. Independence of thought and action
is one thing; endeavoring to partake of the loaves
and fishes in a household he would disrupt, is quite
another, i^ev. Dr. Parks would present a far bet
ter spectacle if he were to resign his rectorship nod
no longer pretend to be what he is not.
"SATURDAY NIGHT IN OUR TOWN.”
Full of interest are the stories printed every
Sunday morning under thafc caption, and appearing
on the editorial page of The Omaha Bee. But their
interest is not the only thing that should arrest your
attention. The purpose of the series is not merely
to interest. The chief purpose is to induce readers
in every Nebraska town and village to look around
them and see if they can not find something really
worth while in their town.
“Get acquainted with your neighbor; you may
like him,” is mighty good advice. There are a lot
of fine people in your town, if you only take the
trouble to locate them. There are a lot of mighty
good points about your town if you look for them,
instead of spending so much time complaining about
the lack of enterprise and entertainment. If enter
tainment features are lacking in your town, perhaps
you are as much to blame as anybody else. If there
is a lack of public spirit it is easily possible that
you are partly to blame. t
As long as you liviHn your town, make it really
your town. If you do not know something good to say
about, take Abe Martin’s advice and think up some
thing. If you can not get up enough energy to
join with others in promoting the general welfare of
your town, for goodness sake have the good taste
to refrain from “knocking.”
Your town is just what you make it—good or
bad, enterprising or mossback, public spirited or old
fogy. It’s your town, and it deserves the best you
have in you. If you think things are going wrong
do not stand off on the sidelines and criticise; get
into the game and help make things go right.
Are you a member of your town’s Community
club? If not, why not? If you have children in
your town’s schools, are you a member of the Par
ent-Teacher association? Are you helping to create
a better musical and literary atmosphere by joining
with others in helping to put across the winter
lyceum course? Are you helping to build for better
business in your town by supporting your home
merchants, or are you sending your money to the
Chicago mail ordert houses?
What The Omaha Bee is trying to do is to foster
public spirit in your town; trying to cause its coun
try town readers to indulge in introspection; trying
to build for better citizenship. There is not a town
or village in Nebraska that is measuring up to its
possibilities, due to the fact that the citizens are
not measuring up to their full duties as citizens.
This is not said in any spirit of criticism, but rather
in a spirit of helpfulness and with the sole desire
of arousing more local pride.
“Saturday night in your town” ought to be a
big night. It ought to be big in a business sense,
in a neighborly sense, and in the sense of public
spirit. As long as you are a citizen of your town
it is your duty to work for its betterment. If you
can and simply will not, then the sooner you get
out of the road and give your betters the right of
way, the quicker your town will forge ahehd.
“Kick” if you must, but'don’t "knock.” The
best citizen in your town is the man who sacrifices
the most for, and works the hardest for, its finan
cial and social betterment.
TWO. DIE FOR MOB'S WHIM.
“Their assailants then fled.”
Four words close the tale of how two men were
assassinated by a mob in an Oklahoma town. Shot
down without an opportunity to defend themselves,
without a chance to expostulate* to explain, or even
to beg for mercy, the victims fell, and then the
cowardly murderers swiftly put out to secure each
safety for himself.
Nothing is more cowardly, nothing more cruel
than a mob. In this case the ostensible reason was
to enforce an “unwritten law” of the community
that excludes negroes from residence. The constitu
tion of the United States, the laws of the country,
mean nothing. Unwritten law, which means the
ipse dixit of a few men, takes place of all other
forms of law, and sooner than allow a negro to re
main peaceably where he was employed, the mob
takes two lives.
No wonder Abe Martin bills the wheat farmer to
take courage, “For human life a’int worth nothin'
neither.”
The New York police having put their official
“O. K.” on Hamlet, it may now be safely presented
out in the stick#! as having had quite an extended
run in Gotham.
A Missouri exchange desires to know whether it
is pronounced sax-o-phon-ist or sax-oph-o-nist. We
insist upon the latter, with the' extreme accent on
the “oph.”
The Kansas judge who fined his wife for speed
ing probably heard a lot of contempt of court
voiced when he arrived at home for dinner.
Whatever the ultimate issue of the Sunshine Girl
case may be, its hero will still have first claim on
the top hole in damphoolishness.
Some sheep-headed men have been imported
I from Peru, but the old home supply of pig-headed
men has never run short.
The next president of the United States will be
| nominated at Cleveland, O. Thnt’s where n former
j president was nominated.
After Los Angeles is completely renovated,
fumigated ami purified, it will really be a paradise
for real estate men.
Must be something in “the curse of Tutank
hamen.” Look at some of the styles he is responsible
for.
Our Mexican neighbors appear to be enjoying
themselves after the fashion they are accustomed to.
! Homespun Verse
—Hy Omaha'* Own Purl—
Robert IT’ortliinuton Davie
THERE IS A JOURNEY.
There I* .1 Journey dearly fond
Whic h homeward lends, and then h* ' . n l
The daytime cares and discipline
• >f toll when yearnings usher In,
And drift a way, while wheels turti on
Until the* working day is gone.
There Ik a Journey glad and sweet,
There is confusion on the street
As crowd* surge onward, treading to
I inthi ailing, sacred rendexvou*—
When Hun’s half hidden evening gleams
Lead them to quiet and to dream*.
There I* a Journey alway* new.
Aral swed with mcm’ry, leading l«»
True welcoming* which ever hies*
The tired one* with happiness,
A lid leave them sh*!t'*ted hy the aif"
< tf Home s exhilarating < harms.
“The People's
Voice”
Editorials from reader* -of The Morn*
in* Bee. Readers of The Morning
I'.ee are Invited to use this column
freely for expression on matters of
public Interest.
Jazzing Old Faiths.
David City, Neb.—To the Editor of
The Omaha Bee: I have read with
great interest the splendid" editorial
on "Jazzing the Bible," also the letter
of Mrs. Eva Shearer In regard to
same. Mr. Shearer deplores the at
titude of some ministers who, as she
asserts, east doubts into the minds
of their hearers by their open con
fession of disbelief in some of the
teachings of the Good Book. But are
they nut within their rights? • They
are but exercising the right of private
interpretation, a fundamental princi
ple uf reformed Christianity. If the
reason of every individual Christian
Is the supreme and infallible Inter
preter of holy scripture, why
should the ministers lie censured?
It would seem that at times they
go too'far, when they disbelieve and
contradict the plain, literal and ob
vious sense of tfie Bible. For in
stance, 1 have before me an excerpt
of the sermon of a prominent Omaha
preacher on “Heaven and Hell." in
this sermon the preacher told his
audience that he did not believe that
“hell was a lake of tire and brim
stone." That is all very nire and I
am sure we would like to believe the
same thing. But the words of Christ
(if we believe Him to be divine and
therefore Infallible truth Itself, Who
can neither deceive rtor tie deceived),
are too plain. I will give one instance:
"Then He shall say to them also that
shall be on His left hand; depart
from Me, you cursed, into everlasting
Ore which was prepared for the devil
and his angels." Cf. Matt, xxv, 41.
If. according to the preachers, this
is but a flgurp of speech, then God,
trinity, redemption, heaven, hell, hu
man soul, etc., are likewise nothing
more than figures of speech.
It seems difficult to reconcile the
everlasting punishment of hell with
the infinite mercy of God. But we
must bear in mind that though God’s
mercy, Just as His other attributes,
is infinite in extent, It is not infinite
in its application to man. God gives
every human being a sufficient allot
ment of grace whereby he can attain
eternal life, but when that grace is
constantly resisted and rejected, God
abandons the hard-hearted and ob
stinate sinner because he “hath not
known the time of His visitation.”
Christ says to the sinner; "You shall
seek Me and shall not find Me. You
shall seek Me and you shall die in
your Hins." John vll, 34; yiil, 21.
The world is surely far from the
"one Lord, one faith, one baptism"
of St. Paul. And there will not be
one Lord, one faith, one baptism, un
less there Is some Infallible authority
(guided by the Holy Spirit, “who will
teach you all truth and abide with
you forever,") to interpret the scrip
tures for all. The Apostle Peter writes
In his second epistle: "And account
the long suffering of our Lord, sal
vation: ns also our most dear Brother
Paul, according to the wisdom given
him, hath written to you; as also In
all his epistles, speaking to then* of
these things: In which are certain
things hard to be understood, which
the unlearned and unstable wrest, ns
they do also the other r-rtptures. to
their own destruction. You, there
fore, brethren, knowing these things
before, take heed lest being led aside
by the error of the unwise, you fall
from your own steadfastness."
II Peter, 15-17.
How, then, can there he amity of
faith, wfiien In the same denomina
te one minister affirms and another
denies the divinity of Uhl 1st and other
fundamental truths?
A EBERT BAUMAN.
Marriage and Divorce.
Othaha:—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: Since you printed the
K<v. Mr Baltzly'.s view« on mar
riage and divorce I have looked in
vain through your paper for answer
ing comments. Surely, there must
be some minister in town capable of
telling where he is wrong. To my
mind, his views are as antediluvian
ns the doctrine of a literal hell. Of
( ourse he can find statements in the
Bible to support his views, but he
' -in find contrary statements, too. In
fact. It lias been said that even the
devil can quote scripture. The BlblA
1-ing a whole library, anyone can
lind in It practically anything he
wants to,
.Vow, the fact is this: That mar
riage as an institution, came Into be
ing long before the church did. It Is
■ i physical contract, entered into with
high motives by two. people who love
each other. It will last, as long as
love lasts Such a union should, and
does, receive the sanction of church
and state. When love dies, though,
as unfortunately it sometimes does,
then to continue the union is liable
to embitter and spoil two people's
lives. If this results, the ainlon Is
Immoral nnd a divorce would be more
preferable. Wo all make mistakes,
even with the best Intentions in the
world. It hurts terribly to find ttmt
we have, and we put off admitting It,
hut sooner or later we have to face
Daili/ Prayer
l.«t this mind be In you. which wn»
•iIm<> In Christ .l**su.“ Who being in the
form of God. thought It not robbery to
b»» o«jual with God Hut made ll.m^Hf
f no reputation, and took upon Him the
form of a servant, and w »* mad* in tha
likeness of men: A ml being found in
fashion h* a man He humbled Himself,
and became obedient unto death, even
the death of the cross Wherefore God
■•.Iso hath highly exalted lllm and given
Him a name which la above every name
Phil. 2 6 9.
Our prayer to Thee. O Wither, Is In
the name of Thy Son, Who forgave
our aina on the crons. Help us hv
Thy Holy Spirit to separate ourselves
from win Hnd enter Into the Inherit
anc© of Thy redeemed children. May .
wo this day give the world in spirit
ual blessing far more than wo re
eei\e In material gain. May we real
ize that our safety of soul and body
is In Thee, nnd upon Thee we « m do
pend fi»r nil our need. May we have
a genuine love for nil humanity, and
seek the salvation of all people. May
wo he of rent help to someone, and
| may all see In us more of Christ than
they can see of self
Unto God our Father, Christ our
flnvlor, and the Holy Ghost our C m
forter, he all glory. Amen.
nr.v jAMvep h k:.t.
Philadelpnla. Pa
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CIRCULATION
for November, 1923, of
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overs, samples nr papers spoiled In
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sales ot fire clu illation of any kind
B. BREWER, Gen. M«r.
V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. M*?r
Subscribed and sworn to hr for* me
this 6th day of December, 192.1
W If QUIVEY
I t Seel I Notary Public
The Newton News opines that
whether many members of the legisla
ture are returned again depends very
largely upon the length of time the
present session continues.
The Anamosa Eureka has some de
cided opinions of its own. Noting
that A. J. Ranks, a candidate fur
governor, recently shucked and
cribbed 120 bushels of corn one day,
the Eureka points out that "it would
be a shame to spoil a good busker to
make a good governor."
Reing in a somewhat pessimistic
frame of mind the Waterloo Courier
Iiredicts that "some bullheaded legis
lator will disregard public opinion and
horn in with an irrelevant measure."
In which event the Courier says that
at the polls next election said legisla
tor "should get it where the turkey
got it the night before Thanksgiv
ing." _
The Marshalltown Times-Republi
can says that "Quiet Cal” and "Hol
lering Hi" are now both in the ring,
and describes it as a "contest be
tween a slugger and a boxer."
The Eagle Grove Eagle, after ad
mitting that Hiram Johnson is a tire
less and inveterate fighter, opines
that lie will go into the discard.
Then the Eagle asserts that the best
guess at this time is Mr. Collidge.
Noting that the White House is de
clared to be unsafe the Waterloo
Tribune says that this condition will
made the radicals all the more anx
ious to occupy it. "They Just dote
on anything that Is unsafe,", de
clares the Tribune.
The Davenport Democrat, noting
that Senator Lodge has again been
delegated to the task of leading the
senate, wants to know where he is
going to lead it.
The Algona Republican notes that
75 cent corn does not emphasize its
qualities as a fuel.
The Carrdil Herald Insists that
thejre is such a thing as being too aw
fully conservative, reasoning there
fore that "there are those who have
a right to la» considered conservative
who would not he sorry to see Hiram
Johnson win the Iowa delegation."
Noting that some of its exchanges
are worrying lest the legislature take
up consideration of a lot of new legis
lation, the Knoxville Express re
marks that all that sort of thing is
its idea of nothing at all to worry
about. "If anything needs fixing, fix
it," demands the Express, looking
right at a lot of useless employes on
the state payroll.
In the opinion of the Atlantic News
Telegraph I'resident Coolidge
strengthened himself Immeasurably in
/own by his recent message.
The Webster City Freeman Journal
has it all figured out that the Rus
sian Issue is dying out of the sena
torial contest in Iowa.
It squarely. Then when we have
done what wP know is right, along
come people like Hr. Iialtzlv and
brand us as ruined. If we find some
one else whom we can really love we
are branded as adulterers.
I have been through this fire and
I know I married with the best of
intentions and with a high regard
for the woman, but somehow the
match was not a success. Wo were
not happy and we did not work to
gether. Hove soon died, and when
wo finally decided on divorce we were
lo th thoroughly disillusioned and mis-I
erable. That was five years ago. I
have npt remarried, but 1 feel sure,
now that I did the right tiling and
my conscience does not hurt me at
all. because I did the best I could. j
I still respect my former wife, ,
though I never see her. She has i
since remarried and I trust she is I
happy. She surely is entitled to hap
plness.
'Dr BaJtzly's statement that such]
as she are living In sin is Just so ,
much rot. We neither of us had j
what h" ■ ills the onlv scriptural ex
cuse for divorce. Nevertheless, It was 1
better for us to he separated.
I honestly feel that it is wrong for
the church to extract a promise froip '
two young people which they may j
afterwards find absolutely impossible
to fulfill. Some few people go Into;
marriage with unworthy motives, hut
the great majority don't, and con
sequently the great majority asking
divorce <jo so with the greatest pain
and reluctance.
Instead of making things harder
for them, ministers should help them.
Also ministers could help some in the
first place my absolutely refusing to
marry eloping couples, and so assist
ing to make a Joke of matrimony.
Marriage la a serious business, and
both parties to the contract should
be always vouched for by relatives
or friends. Many a minister Is guilty
of the sin of marrying an Innocent
young girl to a rotter, and by so do
ing wrecks one life and causes a di
vorce JOHN CAMPION.
Center Shots
It Isn't a bad compliment, however,
vhen a president's critics can't do
•mvthlng worse than cuss his cabinet.
Muskogee Phoenix
10 get Itrltaln to agree to the horizon
is the zone limit Springfield News.
The really only safe way would be
"Now. Johnny, didn't your eon
science tell you you had done wrong?"
"No, grandma: 1 knew It already,"—
Hoston Transcript.
The speaker who in a recent talk
expressed the belief'that women were
getting uglier every day should not
be so erltleal. The ill rig stores are
doing the best they can. Waterbnrv
Republican,
Isolation from Kuropean broils per
haps is not so had for America ns
some people seem to think who don't
realize that most young Americans
rail find plenty of amusement here
without going abroad to light.—Bos
ton Transcript.
“From State and Nation”
—Editorials from Other Newspapers—
GIFTS FROM PEKING
Jasamine I ca. Heads, Ear-rings, Chinese
Hangings, Mandarin Coals, Brass—recently
brought from I'elfing by Miss Esther I homas.
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I quued f*u .ry . n . 10 .lax - ■ i * nl here with n r No danger or laving up in
a hospital. t ail m write for particular* l>» Frank H Wray. No NOT North 15th
St., Omaha, Nrb l)ir»cfiona I «V>* a litth or IMh -trert car going north and get
i off at .iftth and f imlnu S*.s Third residence south
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A Wild Goose Chase.
From th« Hloux FhIIb Free*
People In this section ore frankly
nervous shout boasting of exception
ally tine weather in fear that an
abrupt change might annul the boast.
The occasional variations should not,
however. Induce timidity in standing
firm as to the merits of the general
average. This section of the middle
went, month in and month out. of
fers a wonderful climate—including
the invigorating seasonable changes
not enjoyed by some boastful regions.
We ought to gel in the habit of real
izing our tine climate and defending
it against all contenders.
Climatic perfection does not exist in
any region yet discovered. The Cali
fornia boosters, by constant reitera
tion, have created an imaginative pic
ture of tropical grandeur which does
not exist in fact. Arable lands of that
state are limited to a few narrow val
leys, very sandy soil, all underlaid
with alkali which comes to the sur
face under irrigation and destroys
vegetation. These sandy stretches
are In marked contrast with the rose
gardens usually anticipated by people
first going into that state. Neither
roses, vegetables nor fruits can be
produced except through irrigation
and intensive cultivation.
Yet California has Its climate. It
is a poor substitute for many of the
material things of life, but the boost
ers have sold it to the country at
large. The summers are excessively
hot and the winters are excessively
damp, but these little details are
omitted In the boasting. They have
demonstrated that "Keeping everlast
ingly at it brings success.” The sell
ing efforts are continued on tourists
after they reach the state and In keep
ing the home folks in the right state
of mind. Climatic irregularities in
other sections are featured by the Cal
ifornia newspapers—tornadoes, bliz
zards. floods, lightning, etc.
It is fairly common to hear a for
mer South Dakotan in California say
"I alw-ays liked South Dakota and
made all my money there, but I don't
believe that I could stand the winters
now.” The midwest has had severe
winters, to he sure, but they are very
much the exception. What Californ
ian would have suffered discomfort in
the Winter of 1321-22. 1922 23. or dur
ing the normal early winter period of
1323? The damp, chilling winter days
of California surely suffer in com
parison with the balm-v and invigorat
ing November and December days
just gone by. Perhaps it is because
this section has so many other things
to boast about that climate has been
minimized.
Only a few days ago California suf
fered killing frosts from one end to
the other That is not an occasion for
exultation to the middlewest, but does
emphasize that California has its own
climatic troubles. Temperatures in
the interior (warmerl districts ranged
as low as 17 degrees above zero, low
enough for a stiff freeze. An early
frost in the corn belt may damage
one corn < top. A killing frost in the
citrus belt may cause damage taking
rr.-vnv years to repair.
The California stampede of the past
year, savoring of an immense wild
goose . hase will bring Its toll of grief
and disappointment In the Inevitable
reaction. There is no sound basis for
It Men and women have left good
jobs promising business enterprises
and productive farm homes to pursue
a boom bubble, with nothing back of
it. Ere long the bubble will burst and
the climate diet will pall. It is just
ordinary boarding house hash with a
French name, anyhow.
\ct of Heal Kindness.
from The Sidney (Neb.) Tul-arsph
Aleut four weeks ago Henry Ehm
ke of the Bunker Hill vicinity had
the misfortune to receive a fracture
of his leg and everything came to a
stop in his field. But last Monday
28 of bis neighbors with 22 teams
went to Mr. Ehmkes farm, invaded
his corn field and shucked and crib
lied l.t'10 bushels of rorn Mr. Khm
ke was rendered practically helpless
as a result of his injury and thia act
on the part of his neighbors was
very much appreciated by him. and |
they went home feeling much better
for having done a friend a good turn.
Farmers are very busy but they too
are mindful of the golden rule and
always ready and willing to help a
friend indeed. Such kind acts as this
make the world a tietter place in
which to live.
The Fanner is Not Footed.
From the Milwaukee Journal.
If the farmer had swallowed all the
political propaganda about how much
better he Is off financially today than
he waa yesterday, or how much worse
off he might la- than he Is. he would
be psychologically drunk with pros
perlty. But your farmer is a rather i
careful thinker. He mulls things over
thoroughly. And whatever may be
said alanit his relative standing ves
terday and today, he has his eye on
the future Tills Is indicated by the
following resolution adopted at the
annual convention of the American
Farm Bureau federation:
"We urge the immediate adoption
by the American g<>\ crnrr.ept of a I
vigorous foreign policy designed to j
carry out America's obligations re |
suiting from her war alms and the ,
terms of the armistice which ended
the war. and thus to restore |>enoe
and pr<>s|«erity to Europe."
The farmer knows that If he Is to
dispose of his wheat and corn—the
latter on the hoof—Ills best customer
must be aide to buy. He Isn't fooled
by 'Mat More Toast," nr "Have An
other Sparerlh." slogan campaigns j
But we want to note that the federa |
tlon does not put Its resolution on j
that basis alone Speaking for farm
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era throughout the land. It calls on
us to "carry out America * obligations
resulting from her war alms and the
terms of the armistice." Where else
than nmong men who work close to
nature and understand her voice
would you expect to find a deeper
sense of moral obligation and political
honesty?
"But in 1920 the farmers voted
against going through with our obli
gations," we hear someone say. They
did not. Were they not told, along
with the rest of the country, and by
eminent men, that to vote as they
voted was the quickest way to ac
complish these things?
The Bobbed ilair Girl.
From the Kansas City Poet.
It is reported that certain commer
cial concerns In the Interest of what
they are pleased to term the dignities
have no place in their employ for the
girl with bobbed hair. And there are
a grtyit rr/any folk who, unwilling to
go to such lengths of disapprobation,
yet feel, nevertheless, that this as
sault on long tresses is distinctly
revolutionary and hoydenish. In the
name of the prophet, piffle.
There wag a time when public opin
ion was as definitely on the Bide of
long whiskers for men, as well as
long hair for women. But the long
whiskers have made their adieu.
Iconoclasm has done its perfect work.
If a man has a right to cut off his
whiskers, a woman has a right to
cut off her hair.
The dear grandmothers! Yet when
we read that these same grandmoth
ers before they could ever go out to
the theater or some social function
must have seven or eight pounds of
fat and flour worked Into their hair
by the frixeur, we are hardly Inclined
to accept them as the monitresses of
the present hour.
Confessedly, most girls lose In
benuty by such hirsute decapitations,
out then as long tresses have ever
been snares for love, we should be
glad that such temptations are re
moved. Addison, in the Spectator,
commenting on the verse in the sa
cred writ, "the woman ought to have
Abe Martin i
Bryan might give _ .. tin’
job fer an aisle in th' senate, but
he’d never quit th’ road fra seat.
These are dandy times t' alius have
two or three good alib’s handy.
(Copyright, ist’2 )
a covering on her head La cause of th*
angels," says that the word angel la
metaphorically us*-d and that It signi
fies young men. So then, the woman
ought to hav“ hf-r head covered lest
silken hair beguile young rr,-n. Bui
the scissors will do as well as the
covering.
Besides, from what a lot of bai.
poetry should we be saved—no rnoon
ings over the hair that Isn’t.
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