Today
A Visit to Mr. Bryan.
He's Well and Happy.
He'll Be a Delegate.
His Castor Oil Story.
^By ARTHUR BRISBANE^
West Palm Beach, Fla., Feb. 20.
--Montesquieu says in his “Spirit
of Laws,” Becond chapter of book
25, “Men who are knaves by retail
are extremely honest in the gross.
They love morality.”
That’s so, and people are very
much excited just now about finan
cial and corporation morality in
connection with oil wells. _ Here
and there among the indignant
wrought few might consent to take
“$100,000 cash,” if it were offered.
A few others, perhaps, would ac
cept a good stock market oil tip if
‘ they thought it safe to “play” it.
But they dislike such things in
others very, very much.
The oil scandal wends its weary
way, to end nobody knows where
today. Instead of looking into the
oil Teapot Dome scandal, you are
invited to look into William Jen
nings Bryan’s comfortable Florida
home on the edge of the water just
south of Miami.
Mr. Bryan never descends to
white flannel trousers, buckskin
shoes or anything fancy. You see
him just as he was in Nebraska,
in Chicago, in St. Louis, and in
Washington.
His hair is about as long as
usual, a little thinner. The tails
of his dark cutaway are long, his
collar is turned down, his necktie
is black. Just as he is he could
walk onto a convention platform,
cut the ground from under some
aspiring candidate, and everybody
would say, “It’s the same old
Bryan.” »
“This pluce of mine is the most
beautiful spot in Florida, and
therefore the most beautiful spot
in the world,” says Mr. Bryan.
Happy the man, content with his
lot, who never goes sighing for
what he has not. His Florida home
is a beautiful place, an old-fash
ioned house that Bryan built, old
fashioned furniture that Mrs.
Bryan brought from Nebraska, an
old-fashioned atmosphere.
To his visitor Mr. Bryan gives
one large cocoanut, much bigger
than his head; one grape fruit, al
most as big as his head; both from
his own trees. He has seven kinds
of fruit on the place, including
oranges and lemons; also alligator
pears and guava.
It is an ideal place, great palm
trees in front of the house, planted
by Mr. Bryan and already reach
ing above the roof—beautiful blue
water at the back of the house,
flowers, sunshine and peace.
But “there’s a cry in the heart,
though the lips may be gay,” and
inside of Mr. Bryan’s heart politics
is boiling and raging like the lava
inside Vesuvius.
It will boil over undoubtedly at
the democratic convention in New
York.
The intelligent, hospitable state
of Florida will surely not fail to
send Mr. Bryan as a delegate.
Florida on three occasions voted
overwhelmingly for Bryan for presi
dent.
Florida thought him good enough
for a $75,000 a year job in the
White House. It surely won’t
neglect the opportunity to include
him among its delegates at the con
vention.
To do so would be an injustice
to the state. Where Mr. Bryan
sits at the democratic convention
is the head of the table. The pass
ing years have not taken that from
him or any of his power, With
him in that convention, the atten
tion of the nation would be con
centrated on Florida, and on its
delegate, W. J. Bryan, who. as
everybody must admit, stands head
and shoulders above every' other
American as a fighter in a conven
tion battlefield.
Mr. Bryan said many things
about politics, that would interest
certain gentlemen who harbor the
foolish hope of being nominated.
They will find a good description
of themselves in the opening words
of Dr. Johnson’s “Rasselas.” They
won't learn here what Mr. Bryan
said of politics, for that was pri
vate. He is saving it for the con
vention.
Candidates and others might
profitably ponder Mr. Bryan's de
scription of the two main classes
in our republic. That was not pri
vate.
“Leaders of thought in this
country,” said Mr. Bryan, “are
divided into democrats and aristo
crats.”
The democrat believes that the
right thing is to build, up pros
perity, comfort and happiness from
the bottom of the social structure.
The excessively prosperous few at
the top will get their full part of
the general prosperity.
The democrat believes that hu
man society should be built from
the bottom on a strong foundation.
The aristocrat believes that hu
_man society is suspended from the
top.
He is sincerely convinced that
the right government legislates to
enrich the aristocracy suspended
above the heads of the masses. Take
care of us first, the aristocrat says.
Pour wealth and privileges upon us
and you may safely trust us as to
what we nhould allow to leak
through to the common people
below.
Many millions voted for Bryan.
Many other million* respect him
as an absolutely honest and sincere
man, although they may not agree
with him politically, or on the sub
ject of our monkey grandfathers.
It will please all to know that
Mr. Bryan has the old fire in his
eye. ■ Ho can smell the battle afa.r
off, at least twice as far as Job’s
war horse could smell it. And he
enjoys a fight as much as that war
horse did. . ,, ,,
Mr. Bryan speaks of himself as
one “getting old,” but that’s pre
posterous. He is only 04. That
ought to be the beginning of really
mental life.
Every Sunday at Miami Mr.
1
Bryan talks to a Bible cIhss so big
that the class has to meet in the
public square. A man able to talk
in the open air to 5,000 and be
heard by every one of them is not
getting old.
Mr. Bryan says that corporations,
in their dealings with corporation
candidates, remind him of the little
boy that took castor oil.
The corporations raise a gigantic
fund for their kind of a man, and
with it they elect him. Then their
kind of a man, in office, turns
everything over to them, and they
get* back their corporation funds
plus other millions. At the next
election the process Is repeated.
“The small boy,” says Mr. Bryan,
“was taking castor oil.
“ ‘Do you like it?'
“ ‘No, I hate it, but ma gives me
a nickel every time I take it.’
“ ‘What do you do with the
nickels?’
“ ‘I put them in the bank until
I have a dollar.’
“ ‘What do you do with the dol
lar?’
“ ‘Ma sends me to buy another
bottle of castor oil with it’.”
That, says Mr. Bryan, is about
how the powerful corporations
treat the common people, and while
he has life and breath he proposes
to let the world know it.
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Man Laughs Himself
to Death in Theater
v_—s
Reading, Pa., Feb. 21.—A hearty
laugh resulted hi the death of
Emmet Crowell, 64, in a theater
here last night.
With a neighbor, Crowell was en
joying a comedy and laughed up
roariously. Suddenly he slumped in
ids seat. He was taken to a hos
pital where physicians pronounced
him dead.
Banker Dies.
Fremont, Neb., Feb. 21.—Thomas
Lorenzen, 80, pioneer Saunders coun
ty resident, director of the Cedar Bluff
hank and land owner, died at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. W. F.
Thomsen, near Cedar Bluffs.
Vanderlip Says
Welcomes Suit
Hopes Court Proceeding Will
Broadcast News “Great
Papers Didn’t Print.”
By Associated Press.
New York, Feb. 21.—Frank A.
Vanderlip, retired banker. In a re
ply today to the $600,000 libel suit
filed against him yestreday by the
owners of the Marion Star declared
he welcomed the suit and expressed
the hope that it would be the fore
runner of "court proceedings tha;
would make public some of the news
that the great newspaper* did not see
fit to print."
"I am prepared to spend quite as
much as has been asked for in these
court proceedings in an effort to
make public this news,” the state
ment said, adding that "there is noth
ing this country needs so much at
the moment as some court proceed
ings initiated by grand juries and
pressed by incorruptible prosecuting
attorneys."
The statement continued:
"Twenty-two months ago, in April,
1922, the senate, by unanimous reso
lution, called for the facts in the
Teapot Dome leases. That resolution
was so framed that the red flag of
suspicion was run up. For weeks no
answer at all was received and none
was pressed for and thereafter untfl
quite recently the search for the facts
was made without vigor. What were
the newspapers doing for 22 months?
What was Senator Walsh doing? It
looks as if somebody had been asleep
At the switch—or perhaps asphyxiat
ed at the switch. At least, no court
proceedings have yet resulted from
the Teapot Dome situation.
"Matter of Record.”
"Nor havs there been, so far as I
am aware, any court proceedings ini
tiated as a result of the criminal
mismanagement of the veterans’
bureau. The wholesale dishonesty
there Is not a matter of rumor; it
is a matter of official record in the
committee proceedings and the pro
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ceedlngs of congress und Mr. Forbes
and his friends have as yet encoun
tered no court proceedings.
"There have been no proceedings
nor even a thorough Investigation of
alien property administration. There
are other directions In which court
proceedings would be admirable.
"Congress today Is spending"1 Its
time solemnly and psrtlsanly debating
an Income tax measure. It is like
discussing the size of a faucet you
would put In a barrel leaking between
half the staves. If we can have
honest administration of the taxes
that are collected, the rate of Income
tax will take care of Itself.
“If this country were Invaded by
an alien foe and I were a young man,
I believe I would offer myself for its
defense. It has been attacked by
something more dangerous than a
military invasion by a foreign foe.
Corruption has attacked the govern
ment at its heart. I believe I am a
patriotic citizen and I propose to of
fer the same service In fighting this
danger that a young nmn should offer
In fighting a military Invasion. I am
really enlisted In this matter because
of profound conviction.
"My attitude hides no motives of
partisanship. I have been a life-long
republican. I believe that the facts
are not fully presented to the country
and even when presented are not
being acted on."
Man Is Robbed.
George Davis, 2407 N street, report
ed to police he was held up by two
men and robbed of 88 at Twenty-sixth
tond N streets Wednesday night at 10.
Rest Big Factor
in Fighting T. B.
Relaxation Allows Patient’s
Own Forces to Overcome
Disease, Doctor Says.
By Associated Pn*i.
St. Louis, Feb. 21.—That rest Is one
of the greatest factors to be observed
In combatting tuberculosis was the
thesis advanced by Pr. F. M. Potten
ger of Monrovia, Cab. in an address
before members of the American Con
gress of Internal Medicine in session
l-.ere today. Rest, he explained, in
creases the patient’s body resistance
to such an extent that his own de
fensive forces will overcome the dis
ease.
‘‘The explanation of this is a
physiologic one," said Dr. Pottenger.
"At rest man breathes in from 25 to
30 liters of air. and on extreme exer
tions. such as a hundred-yard dash,
as much as 150 liters per minute may
be required.’’
"The demands upon the circulatory
system likewise show the importance
of rest.” he continued. ’’When at
rest the work done by the heart is
equivalent to pumping seven and one
half tons of blood through the body
per day, or raising of a tons of
blood 120 feet. On exercise this is
greatly increased. AVhcn we realize
all the blood must pass through the
lungs the same as through the other
tissues, wo can,see what extra exer
tion means to the pulmonary tissues."
Dr. Pottenger explained that under
exercise the cells are penetrated more
readily by enzymes, toxins and other
substances Injurious and advised phy
sicians to give careful instructions to
patients on how to rest. He added,
however, that when the active dis
ease had ceased exercise is just as
valuable as rest during the active
period.
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Woman, 29, Youngest
Grandmother in West \
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Quincy, !U„ Fgb. 31.—The “young
est grandmother” contest took on
new Interest today when Mra. Mar
tin, 38, Joined the ranks. Mrs. Wil
liam Van Busklrk, her 13-year-old
daughter, became the mother of a
baby girl. Mrs. Martin was married
when she was 15 years old and her
daughter when she was 13.
Mrs. Margin claims to he the
youngest grandmother In the cen
tral west.
Woman, %, Dies
on Visit Here
Mrs. Eveline Child, 96, resident of
Blair, Neb., died Wednesday while
visiting at the home of her daughter.
Mrs. W. A. Beatty, «11 South Twen
ty-third .street.
She is survived by two sons, O. B.
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Child of Omaha and O. E. Child of
Moline, 111., and three daughters, Mrs.
Beatty, Mrs. II. C. Burnham and Mrs.
Emily Chenoweth of Blair.
Funeral services will be held Fri
day morning at 10 at the Hoffman
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Laurel Hill cemetery. _
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