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TAX ISSUE DEFINITELY JOINED.
The tax reduction issue in congress is definitely
drawn by the introduction of the minority substitute
for the Mellon plan.
As expected the substitute provides for larger
cuts on amaller incomes and smaller cuts on larger
Incomes. Naturally the democrats would not con
sent themselves merely with being against the Mellon
plan. They are in a stronger position fighting for
*>. plan of their own.
In truth it is not a' new plan. Rather it is a
shuffling of the rates on incomes, but it has the vir
tue of making the lines between the two ideas of
tax reduction clean cut.
The crux of the difference is in the rates on the
larger incomes. The Mellon plan provides for maxi
mum surtaxes of 25 per cent on incomes above
$200,000, the substitute plan would put these sur
taxes at 40 per cent. Under the present law they
go as high as 50 per cent. Any scientific income tax
must properly put the heavier burden on the larger
incomes. But there is a point beyond which the
gates will defeat the purpose for which they were
desired—the collection of revenue. It is a self-evi
dent fact that the preserfl war-time rates have so
operated as to bring a constantly dwindling return
from these larger incomes.
Capital has been forced by these surtaxes from
productivity into tax-exempt securities. Secretary
Mellon argues that his maximum will bring back
this hidden capital and put it into the channel of
industry—that new enterprises will be Btarted and
old enterprises expanded, that the tax burden which
is now passed down through increased cost of living
will be materially lessened and that the great mass
of the people will be the beneficiaries.
The substitute bill is based upon the opposite
contention, the democratic argument urging the re
tention of higher surtaxes.
It may be that both Secretary Mellon and the
democrats have set more extreme figures than they
expect finally to prevail. The final bill will prob
ably set a maximum rate on higher incomes at some- j
where between 30 and 35 per cent.
In the end the chief credit will be due Secretary
Mellon and the budget officers for having ac
complished the saving in expenditures that makes
tax reduction possible.
NEW WONDERS FOR THE NEW YEAR.
Two stories in the news columns make the old
timers rub their eyes. One tells of how the radio
messages from Pittsburgh reached workers in the
tunnel far below the surface of the Hudson river;
the other gives a circumstantial account of how at
last the phonograph and the camera have been
wedded, and pictures on the screen made to speak
with the voice of the actor.
This will carry us back almost half a century to
the time when Cyrus I). Bell announced that he was
able to transmit the human voice by electric current.
His proposition wa3 so novel that men of science
smiled and turned away. Even aft^r he had proved
that it could be done practical men doubted its
service and declined to provide capital for its ap
plication. Theodore N. Vail, once a railroad mail
clerk in Omaha, was visionary enough as they called
his conduct to invest all his savings and then, his
future prospects in the new device. Billions of in
vestment now stand as the symbol of Bell’s dream,
realized by Vail.
So it may be with one or the other of the present
discoveries. Communication with men entombed in
mines or otherwise by disaster is one of the first
of the new services which may come through the
radio and its uses seem to be on the threshhold of
utility. The speaking picture may revolutionize the
film industry. One thing is certain, its success will
call for real actors, not those who can make faces.
Too many are like the peacock, akje to present a
beautiful appearance, but unable to produce a
beautiful sound. ' '
Imagination may follow these discoveries and in
ventions through a wide realm of possibilities, all
fraught with good for the race. Man is steadily
overcoming limitations set upon him by nature, work
ing wonders with mighty forces the nature of which
still Is hidden, but all of which is bringing him nearer
hie great destiny. ,
PACKED IN COTTON WOOL.
A* might have been expected, the latest Holly
wood sensation and scandal brings to the front -a
proposition for some more prohibitions. Every time
something untoward happens to startle the public,
there arises some one to demand a law against some
thing or other. In this particular case it is proposed
that a law be enacted prohibiting the principals in
this Hollywood sensation from further appearance
on the silver screen. The ides of this is to save the
young girls.
Of course It never strikes these reformers by
legal enactment that parents have some responsi
bility. It never occurs to them thst there should be
such a thing as parental control, or that mere law
enactment will not solve any problem of particular
moment. The first thought is to prohibit something.
That serves a number of purposes, the chief one be
ing that it enables everybody to shirk individual re
sponsibility and give over to George the task of do
ing it. It is this penchant for legally prohibiting
everything and* anything that happens to meet with
the opposition of a few that has cluttered up our
statute books, made of the United States the most
law ridden country in the world, and created a grow
ing contempt for all law—a species of contempt that
must be first curbed and then cured, or the country
is drawn nearer to the rocks.
The only purpose that will he served by a law
or an oidinunce prohibiting these Hollywood re
velers from again appearing on the silver screen will
be that of allowing a lot of people to shirk their in
dividual responsibility. Girls whoso morals are
likely to suffer from seeing the screen antics of the
principals in the latest Hollywood scandal ars not
too old for parental control, and if their parents are
unable to control them it is a severe indictment of
the parents. The remedy certainly does not lie in
prohibiting the girls from seeing the pictures. It
might lie in compelling parents to do their duty.
If we are to go any further in this matter of
prohibition, why not go, all the way at once? Why
cut off the dog’s tail an inch at a time? Why not
enact a law prohibiting everything in general, and
then put everybody on the public payroll as law
enforcement officers? In short, why not do away
with individual and parental responsibility and let
the government attend to everything?
If the czar of Russia, in the h«^ydey of his ab
solute monarchy, had attempted by ukase to inflict
upon the people one-half the legal restrictions that
have been foisted upon the American people during
the last two decades, he would have .been deposed
and banished without recourse, and the world
would have applauded the Russian people for tlfeir
action.
But we are a most complacent people. Boast
ing of hard won liberty of thought and action and
religion,-we have come to be of all people the most
restricted, the most law governed. Seemingly it is
high time for the American people to pause and take
stock.
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FIREMEN SAVED THE BEE PLANT.
Many times in the past The Omaha Bee has
praised the city’s fire fighters because of the in
trepidity and efficiency, but not in many years have
we had occasion to thank them on our own behalf.
For the thirds time in its history this paper has
undergone the actual test of flames. This time the
disaster might have been infinitely worse had it not
beeen for the cool and skillful management of the
firemen. While the annex in which most of the
mechanical equipment of the establishment is housed
is of the best approved fireproof construction, a cer
tain amount of inflammable material had to be used
in the shape of window and door casings, and other
interior finish. Paper s|ock, photographic material,
and other stores contributed to the feast the flames
had before them, and splendid progress in the way
of destruction was being made when the firemen de
scended.
That the loss was minimized is due entirely to
the efforts of Battalion Chief John Coyle and the
men under him. They kept the blaze confined to
the quarter where it started, and by their care pre
vented the serious damage of much that would have
added materially to the total loss.
Typesetting and other costly machinery naturally
suffered, but it is being restored to use rapidly, and
soon the plant will be running up to the minute as
usual. But the obligation to the firemen is none the
less real, for it is due to them that a much sadder
tale is not here being told.
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' ' ONE WAY OUT OF THE MUDDLE.
Nebraska’s reaction to the Bok peace plan, so
far as it is registered, is generally favorable. Inter
views with leading men and women of the state
show them to regard the proposals as distinctly in
the direction of the goal sought. Marking of ballots
will diclose still further the mind of the people on
the question.
At Washington, as might have been looked for,
sentiment is mixed. Democrats hail the plan as a
“forward step in educating the people,” while re
publicans are reported to disapprove the plan as
propaganda in favor of the league of-nations.
What will impress most people 'is that the sug
gestion appears to be practical and workable. Espe
cially is it notable for its exclusion of Article X and
XVI of the covenant of the league of nations, both
of which rested on the use of force for the carrying
ing out of their purposes.
Unless the American people can devise some
method for the ending of war, where will we look
today for the foundation of peace? Until the whole
world can be brought into line with the ideas that
prevail here, what will avail?
The Bok plan, by whomsoever it was written, of
fers a way out of a labyrinth of trouble, and as
such should have the serious consideration of all
citizens.
PETITIONS AND PETITIONS.
When Gen. Jacob S. Coxey marched his petition
in boots to Washington, 30 years ago, he was told
to keep off the grass.
A more impressive petition has just been re
ceived at the capital. It is said to be the greatest
public petition ever received at Washington. Two
miles in length, it contains the names of 345,516
farmers from many states, and asks simply reduc
tion in taxes and greater economy in government.
Congress will do well to heed this petition, for
it expresses the desire of millions of Americans.
Reduction in taxes is possible, and economy in gov
ernment should be. That is what the people want.
Those striking students at Virginia Military In
stitute have the same erroneous idea cherished by
altogether too many students—that they are con
ferring a favor on the taxpayers by accepting an
education.
Some congressmen and all bootleggers are not
interested in Mellon’s plan of tax reduction, not pay
ing any income tax.
Mr. Hays refuses to talk about the Hollywood
situation. Perhaps he figures that there has already
been too much.
If advice were 3 per cent money the farmers
could finance themselves In very short order.
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One of the needed things in industry is forget
ting to listen for the quitting time whistle.
Already an alarming mortality is visible among
new year resolutions.
Homespun Verse
—By Omaha’s Own Poet—
Robert Worthington Davie
WHEN WARS SHALL CEASE.
In ages past wise men have tried to calm the wrath
of war;
In days gone by wise men have asked what nations
battle for—
Inherent greed or human need or basic truths or right.
Or for the glorious -aftermnth when might Is proven
Might.
As friend forsakes a friend the nations fling their
hatred out,
And banners wave, the strong grow bravs, the weak
and weary shout,
And kindly words and friendly deeds of each to each
ure Inst,
And Hades rings In thoughts and thing* until the goal
la crossed.
When man forbears his arrowed quips, and when re
venge Is dead;
When oaths grow lifeless on the Ups and srr.llrs come
In their stead;
When man I* faithful unto man. then shall the world
abide
By that which sage lias vainly sought ami sect bus
prophesied
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“From State and Nation”
—Editorials from Other Newspapers—
Equality Won't Stay Put.
From ths Waynt (Nob.) llerold.
It wealth were equally divided, the
equality would not last long. Some
who had Inherited silver spoons would
have to scratch gravel for existence.
Some who had Inherited nothing
would, through alert, resourceful and
persevering energy, accumulate abune
dant riches.
Two men starting In business with
equal capitHl may be far apart In ma
terial possessions within a few years.
One works early and late and leaves
no reasonable thing undone to servo
the public and to win confidence and
patronage. lie builds a fortification
of credit and adds Ho his earthly store.
He gains ground steadily and his
growth Is permanent.
The one who began with an equal
nestegg, has made work second to
play. The lure of society appeals
stronger than the voice of business.
He leans sclf-pityingly on the assump
tion that he must have a "little pleas
ure out of life," and so hs loafs and
plays while his business suffers ruin
ous neglect.
Two farmers are living on opposite
sides of the road. One starts with no
money, but Is blessed with invincible
courage and determination. He Is up
and at his task early. No part of his
job Is too small to receive due share
of attention. His faithful wife
marches by his side In turning dairy
and poultry products to advantage.
Credit comes apace, lie owns his
farm, and his assets steadily mount.
In trying to get started the man
across the road spends a small for
tune which he Inherited. He shies
from work. He gives no earnest
thought or painstaking effort to de
tails. He regards milk, butter, chick
ens ami eggs as trifles with which no
one of his capital and comprehensive
intention should fool away time. He
lets his machinery rust In the open,
his hay spoil in the field, and his corn
rot and waste through lack of care.
His horses, cattle and hogs become
mad and sick' and thin over the way
he neglects their rations. He loses his
little fortune, wrecks his credit and
struggles along precariously from
hand to mouth.
It Is not so much lack of capital or
lack of opportunity, but lack of ambi
tion and too great love of leisure that
causes some to fall while others rise.
Foreign Minded "Peers."
Gins Speranza in the World's Work.
No less a careful and judicial body
than the committee on legal education
of the Association of the Bar of the
City of New York, under the chair
manship of the dean of Columbia law
school, has gone on record with this
finding: “Many of these men (foreign
born lawyers) come to the bar with
little knowledge of American Institu
tions and little or no appreciation of
those Ideals and traditions which have
in the past dominated the spirit of our
Anglo-American legal system. . . .
.The result is that the bar Is carrying
an almost unsupportable burden of a
large membership unfitted by educa
tion or experience to bear Its respon
.sihiUUg and without the Inclination
which comes naturally from familiar
ity with our institutions, to maintain
its traditions. . . ."
But what shall we say of that other
burden of alienage upon our legal sys
tem—the burden of mental and moral
alienage upon the system of trial by
jury? Let us bear in mind that the
ultimate enforcement of the law rests
upon the jury box; that under the
constitution of every state in the
union, no member of the state can be
deprived of any of the rights or privi
leges secured to citizens "unless by
the law of the land, or the Judgment
of his peers.” It is a serious problem
enough when the "law of the land" Is
becoming subject more *hnd more to
interpretations" by lawyers and
judges culturally alien to our Juridic
life and traditions: but a subtler dan
cer is developing through the cultural
alienage of vast masses of foreign
liorn or foreign minded "peers" who
ioday sit In judgment in the Jury
boxes of American courts. It takes
only 60 months' residence In this coun
try (and that residence may bo In the
non American environment of a for
eign “colony" in our midst), and the
most simple of tesla In the veneer of
' Americanization" to make an Anatnl
Ian shepherd or a Russian mujik *n
titled to sit In Judgment as a "peer"
In an American court. It Is enough
to stnte it to show not merely the ab
surdity but the grave danger of such
a free and easy system. And those
well-intentioned, but thoughtless
Americans who are so anxious to
"naturalize" the newcomers aa quick
ly and in as great numbers as possi
ble, ought to bear In mind that such
crude and surface “citizenship" has
its repercussions not only on our po-,
llttcal institutions but on that great
legal sytem which, through the cen
turies, the Anglo-Saxons have care
fully built up as bulwarks of self gov
ernment of and by the people.
A Year Full of Promlaa.
From t ho York Republican.
Wa are now tn 1924. It stretches
ahead a promising and happy year.
We refuse to believe that the future
holds dark and foreboding things for
those who have faith and trust. Yes,
we know that there are those who
predict the collapse of civilisation but
they are falso prophets. There are
those who eannot see prosperity nnd
well being ahead, but they are pessi
mists without rause. The dark things
of the day, the wars abroad and the
racial and national differences which
keep the people of the earth In tur
moil—these do not presage defeat. Be
fore the calm Is always the fury of
tho storm. Men with soelng eyes and
confident hearts can view the spread
of spiritual things and the growth of
founded faith nnd courage. The sun
of pence nnd prosperity Is always
shining. The clouds which ohscuta It
from the eyes of nil the world may
seem dark nnd heavy now but they
are not blotting out the sun at all.
Happy nnd rich Is the Individual who
refuses to he ruled by the clouds and
the shallows.
The Parachute- In Aviation.
From tho Pittsburgh 8un,
It lias been predicted that In from
10 to 20 years the dirigible will suc
ceed tho big ocean liner In trans At
lantia commerce. Nor will Its useful
ness be confined to oversens trips. A'
cording to these prophets, there will
tie small cheap nlrplnnes na commonly
used on land ns cheap automobiles <«r
today. Then thorn will he fleets of
large dirigibles crossing tho ocean tn
two days nnd voyaging around the
world. In nddltlon there will be thou
sands of heavier than nlr feeder* of
airplane tenders to tinlond nnd load
the dirigibles. A nsire sober view
would place the time needed for such
an Industrial revolution at half a cen
tury at lenst. Whatever aircraft may
accomplish In commerce, a greater
degree of safety must be assured to
attract passenger travel. Gradually,
however, this Is helm! uttalnod. What
the life preserver Is to the oronn pas
senger. the parachute will be to the
aerial passenger. A few days ago a
French girl leaped from a plane trav
eling 1*0 kilometers an hour, opened
■i small parachute and descended gent
ly to (be ground, where her friends
were awaiting to take her to the bos
pltnl. The girl, who bad been a war
nurse and wars tho Croix do Guerre,
demonstrated bv her daring venture
that aerial travel can be made safe
Probably tbs history of alt mode* or
travallng has hut Us imuUri. Ocean
voyages began In too remote a past
to have left any record, but the sail
or's occupation then must have been
a hazardous one compared with the
safety of modern acean travel. The
first test of the locomotive claimed
one victim and aerial travel has al
ready had more thun Its share of dis
asters. For all that, It Is a safe pre
diction that some day It will be as
safe as any mode of travel that it has
succeeded.
Troubles of a Colyumlst.
Ol® Buck In Harvard Courltr.
Writing smart alec stuff for a news
paper Is ticklish business. It has to
be more or less spicy or no one cares
for it. And the writer must be care
ful to whom he applies the spice or
he may be wearing his left eye in a
sling most of the time. I’ve been
professing to write that 6ort of junk
for a good many years, and during
that time I have worked out certain
rules. One of them is to never roast
anyone but my best friends. Another
Is to never roast anyone that won't
get as much fun out of It aS I do. An
other is, In personal allusion, to al
ways exaggerate them so much that
no one will take them seriously. An
other Is to keep away from personal
habits, peculiarities, etc.
If I know a man Is a regular pa
tron of bootleggers or Is bowlegged
or crosseyed I never mention such
things In connection with him. An
other is that I rarely or never roast
a woman. I roast the women but not
Individuals. Another is to never roast
anyone I don't like for fear I may
let some malice creep In. If I really
want to say something mean about a
man I put It in another part of the
paper and make it so plain he knows
I mean It. And there are other things
I look out for. How well I have suc
ceeded is proven by the fact that only
twice in all my experience has any
one taken serious exceptions to any
thing'I have written that was not
meant seriously.
No doubt others have been tempor
arily out of sorts out they have evi
dently thought that the old grouch
is only trying to be smart and -he is
such a liar that no one be'ieves what
he says anyhow. But, at best, It is
ticklish business to roast people in
print. Things look different and
sound different in cold Y>rint than they
do when spoken. Sometimes I think
I'll change over and write nothing hut
sermons but if I would try that I ex
pect I would get into more serious
trouble than I do now. This is sure
ly a troublesome'old world.
Forest Turned Into Stamps.
From Popular Mechanics.
In a single year more than 50 acres
of spruce trees, the only kind that
produce the quality of pulp desired,
are felled to supply the nation with
postage stamps.
According to the last count, 41,175
of these forest giants, covering 65
acres, were cut down for the year's
postal script, which totaled 1,485,000
pounds, an amount sufficient for an
Issue of 4,150,000 seven-column, 20
page newspapers, or, if turned Into
lumber, building material could have
been provided for 65 bungalows. If
all the stamps used annually were
placed In a single strip, they would
make a ribbon of color 200,000 miles
long and would wrap around the globe
eight times.
Arranged end to end, the usual
sheets of 100 would form a brilliant
sash 20.000 ir.41es long, or. stacked one
above the other, would build a shaft
eight miles high. A single day's Issue,
valued at approximately tl ,000,000, is
50,000,000 and require 3,000 pounds of
paper, 2.200 pounds of Ink, and S 200
pounds of gum. There are 47 dif
ferent varieties In 15 different shades.
Getting at the Truth,
Rrora the Neligh Leader.
The truth about the etate road
funds seems about to come out at
last, though both the Bryan adminis
tration and Its predecessor are likely
to have something to explain. Bryan
has Insisted there was a deficit of from
$250,000 to $500,000 In the state aid
road fund, or rather that the preced
ing administration had not stolen or
squandered the amount but had let
, ntracts for that much more work than
.here was cash to p«y for. As a re
sult contractors who had completed
work were unable to get their money.
One thing Is admitted on both sides,
nnd that Is the federal government
will not put up the cash for Its share
of the work until it is inspected and
approved by federal engineers and
the state has certified It has paid Its
share of the expense. .
The custom has been for the state
to pay contractors In full and reim
burse the state fund when the fed
eral government paid Its portion.
Oblvously this wauld create a deficit
until the federal government paid up.
The governor, however, has Insisted
there would be a defllclt even though
the federal government paid up. and
there has been a divergence between
the government's ilgurest and those
of the governor as to the amount due
the stute. An Inquiry at the treas
ury In Washington develops there Is
$2S4,000 cash on hand In the federal
treasury that belongs to the state and
can he had as soon ns the state for
wards the vouchers from the state
oad department and government engi
neers have approved that amount of
work.
The governor now ndmtts there 1s
that much earned and due. hut Insists
the vouchers have been sent ill but
action Is being held tip In the federal
road department, which officials in the
department deny. People who know
federal department customs are In
ellnsd to believe there Is something
to this statement of the governor, for
It takes time to unwind department
red tape, but on the other hand all
who knojr Governor Bryan's pen
chant for telling a half truth to make
hla own political point are Inclined
to think ho is concealing something
and the d«sr public would like to
have the light turned on the whole
transaction.
Meant It.
"I "aven’t seen yer 'uabanri about
lately. Mrs. 'Iggina. I 'ppe 'cs quite
well?"
"Didn't you 'ear—> fell off a train
an' got conclusion of the brain?"
"You mean 'concuMton, Mr*. '1g
gin*." •
"I mean 'conclusion.' Mr*, 'iggln*—
'e died "—Melbourne Punch.
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NET AVERAGE
PAID CIRCULATION
for beccmbrr, 1923, of
THE OMAHA BEE
Daily .75,107
Sunday .80,795 |
Does not include returns, left- ,
overs, samples or papers •poilsd in I
printing and Includes no special
salas or Ires circulation of any bind. , |
V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mfr.
Subscribed and sworn fa befora me
this 7th day of January, 1924.
W H QUIVF.Y,
(Seal) Notary Public
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“The People’s
Voice”
Editorials f-om reader* of Ttaa Morn
ing Bee. Readers of The Morning
Bee are Invited to use thla column
freely for expression cn matters of
public interest.
Retards to Control Streams.
Omaha—To the Editor of The Oma
ha Bee: It is often asked, "What is
a retard?” About 40 years ago I
read Jn my school geography a de
scription of the Missouri river where
it was pictured as a muddy, treacher
ous stream. It told how its turgid
current contrasted with the clear
sparkling waters of the Mississippi,
w-here they joined and also how a
snag might, over night, deflect the
current thus making navigation very
hazardous. So the original retard in
the Missouri was a snag stuck in the
mud or some other anchored ob
struction. Go up or down the Mis
souri and you will often see a snag,
an uid tree perhaps, sticking up high
and dry and below it a bar. Such Is
a retard by accident, but the tor be
low it Is a natural accompaniment
and always means more or less of a
deflection of the current.
There have been retards in the Mis
souri since the beginning of time. It
is astonishing how some of them
stick while man’s efforts to get an
anchorage have so often failed Man
finally learns some of the lessons
nature so plainly putB before his very
eyes. So the retard in an engineer
ing sense for the control of the cur
rent of the river is a pattern from
the snag stuck in the mud; but placed
in a definite place for a given pur
pose, another example of mans con
quest over natural obstacles.
A retard consists of some sort of
an anchorage to which is fastened
something, usually a bunch of trees
or brush, that will slow down (retard)
the current. This deflects the current
and a bar is formed Just below the
retard. One widely advertised retard
has a concrete pile weighing several
tons sunk to bedrock, hereabouts
some 80 or 90 feet, to this anchorage
Is attached strong cables and to the
cables several bundles of large trees.
Holla of woven wire could be substi
tuted for the tree*. Such retards
properly placed are permanent and
will control the current of the river
and can he installed at comparatively
small expense.
If you want to sea the principle
of the retard in operation take a walk
or drive out along the roads or fields
as soon as it warms up a little and
notice the snowdrifts on the lee side
of some meadow or plow ed field w here
the weeds along the fence row or the
uncut grass along the meadow caught
and held’ the snow. The weeds or
grass or corn stalks or brush retarded
the wind and it dropped the snow
forming a drift. Then notice how dif
ferent the snow acts here than it
does where the wind strikes a solid
tody like a building or a haystack,
there it swirls and eddys and re
bounds and cuts up all sorts of capers.
Ko does a solid dam in the river. A
retard in the river does not stop the
water- but only slows it down and the
sand and mud in the water is dropped
in a tor Just as the control of the
current of the river is a simple and
comparatively inexpensive matter.
S. J. WOODRUFF.
Critic of Bok Plan.
Hartington, Neb_To the Editor of
The Omaha Bee: In your leading
editorial of this nv rnlng you stand
for the* policy of the . world court.
You say: "As the most powerful of
all nations of the world, prosperous,
wealthy growing, it would tie ridicu
las should this country decline to
take on any part of the burden of
the rest of humanity."
8u many times I have heard that
subtle, misleading statement made to
play upon the generous sympathies
of our people. As though to oppose
the league of nation, or the world
court were to withhold any part in
the burden of the world.
The American people are willing,
ready, and anxious to support any
policy that stands foy world peace, or
the settlement of international prob
lems by justice and reason. But we
are not ready to support a policy
that will encourage European na
tions In the policy of government by
force.
We were lured Into war once by the
slogan. "Make the world poaaible for
democracy." We will examine a lit
tle closer before we are misled by
Old and New
I like to see a new year com*
Though I have loved the old;
I like to waken to new days
And the blessings they unfold;
I like to watch new sunsets
Cast a glow o’er the aged hills.
As each new day of the bright new
year
Some hope of the old fulfills.
I like to see new friends annexed
To the old ones tried and true;
Like blossoms on an orange trea
Where the ripened fruit is too;
For those newly-blossomed friend
ships
Will, as the years proceed.
Be ripened into good old friends
That in future years I'll need.
! like to bring new strength to bear
On the tasks that, the old year
brought:
To bring new courage and efTort and
seal
To the battles that must be fought;
For the new year brings new view
points
From which we may behold
In a broader scope that shall give us
hope
For the problems of the old.
BAYOLL NE TRELE.
the slogan, "Make the world possible
for peace."
In my judgment, the foreign
solicitation for our part in the world
court, arises out of a hope that we
may be drawn into a European war
of conquest.
To have an interest, or a part in
the burden of world humanity, does
not mean that we should be hung
for their crimes, or our men slaugh
tered in their unholv wars.
DR. W. M. WARD.
Center Shots
1
On one steamship, the Andania, *,000
singing canaries came Into the port
of New York. American breeders of
"Harts mountains imported'’ birds
have thus a concrete argument
in favor of tariff protection—Brook
lyn Eagle.
A Pennsylvania man cracked a nut
with the butt of a loaded revolver,
but he won t eat It until after the
operation. And even then It will look
like cannibalism.—Cleveland Plain
Healer.
Counterfeit *10 bills bearing the
portrait of Andrew Jackson are being
circulated in Chicago. Woldn't that
make Old Hickory mad!—Providence
Journal.
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes’
declaration that drinking is confined
to New York’s elite confirms the
theory that the numbers of the fa
mous "400" have been enormously in
creased.—New York Tribune.
—
Nations that have reached the no
| compromise stage in th^ir internal
Abe Martin
If President Coolidge does git th’
presidential nomination, he ought
t’ git th’ silent vote. We’ve got t’
be prepared fer th’ worst t’ really
appreciate th’ best.
Copyright, 1»J4
politics would better stop, look and
listen The T.'nited States was there
in 1861 and Kurope reached It in the
summer of 1916. Recovery is slow
and sometimes doubtful.—Chicago
News.
There Is no assurance that unfor
seen natural disasters such as Japan
suffered do not awa.t In any land.
The Japanese are reminding the
world that it is less important to build
navies than to be equipped for re
building cities.—Washington Star.
When an American statesman looks
like a 10-minute egg to us. we are to
remember that he is acting the tradi
tional role of the American Depart
ment of State and thinking of Amer
ica and America only, first, last and
all the time.—Davenport Democrat.
It would seem as if the Poatoffiee
department were the victim of un
necessary roughness when, in addi
tion to the regular Christmas rush,
the Congressional Record comes pil
ing on, too.-^Kansas City Star.
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