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. -■- > 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 EDWARD REYNOLDS CO. 1613 Farnam Street A Delightful New Showing of Spring Coats *29 And what beauties they are. Rich n fabric, and graceful in line. All the newer Spring shades are gen erously represented. in fabric, and graceful in line. All ues quite exceptional. The as sortment is broad. Of course, there are scores of other Spring Coats priced upwards to $160. /j Gibson Banjos Mandolins and Guitars Lead the World Gibson instruments are used by the world's greatest artists. Their beauty of tone and excellence of finish is not excelled at any price. We are exclusive distributors for Gibson instruments, and offer a complete selection for your ap proval. Don’t be satisfied with an “ordinary” instrument. Buy a GIB SON and know you have the world’s best make. Sold on Easy Terms Your Old Instrument Accepted as Part Payment Out-of-town dealers writa at once for attractive dealer proposition. SduiK>lkr&fIto^ftgioQt UM-K-t8-Dod4e St. - - Omaha I 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. 1 . * Woman, 29, Youngest Grandmother in West \ ' 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. 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