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YOUTH AND THE REVOLUTION.
A lad of 18, son of the president of an eastern
college, has been suspended from his class in ethics,
because of his pronounced radicalism. He defends
himself:
• An anarchist does not believe in law. Neither
do I. Therefore, I say that law is directly opposed
to any notion of ethics. Law is a system of com*
pulsion and does away with individual decision.
“There can be no real 'moral law.* There are
some men who crave authority. Let them have it.
They have no need of Judgment."
Ho, for the certainty of youth! It is the time
for revolt, for the denial of ethics, and everything
else that is. If everyone is to hold such views as
those expressed here, 18 is about the r.ght age. A
little later on life is too full of the experiences from
which laws flow that it has little room for the sub
lime self-assurance of the anarchist.
Suppose this lad were to withdraw ever so far
from the haunts of men, lose himself entirely from
all society, he would yet find himself pressed by
laws. He would have to eat or starve, dress warmly
or freeze, protect himself from attack or perirji.
If he climbed a tree and a limb broke he would fall,
and if ha jumped into a lake or river he would sink
or swim. All those matters are governed by law,
regardless of any consideration of ethics.
He would learn that out of those simple, funda
mental natural laws has arisen all the law against
which he complains. The law is simply a buffer
that softens the impact of man against man in com
munal life. It is only a tyrant when it runs counter
to one’s whim or desire. Even youth, impulsive and
generous, full of high desires and great ambitions,
must submit to law. Ethics, as a study of practice,
is not so formidable if approached from the right
direction and in the right spirit.
• • •
Individualism is the natural state of man, and
finds its fullest expression where man is freest.
Anomalous as it may appear, that is where man has
made the wisest laws for his own government.
Rules that apply to all. That secure to all the greatest
liberty possible without interfering with the liberty of
others. This is the lesson the college boy will have
to learn. All other freemen have learned it. In
time he will come to know that good morals and
sound ethics find perfect expression in wise laws. Man
is only happy when he learns those habits of obedi
ence to law that arethe outgrowth of self-respect.
For the self-respecting man is invariably a law
abiding man.
A WIDE FIELD FOB SPECULATION.
The Colorado Springs printer who had the court
change his name from Patrick Francis Butler to
Patrick Francis Rameses, because the spirits had
told him ha had been adopted into the family of King
Rameses II, has opened for us a wide field of specula
tion. He says he is a reincarnation of Rameses, who
ruled some 6,000 years ago.
There may be something in this theory of rein
carnation. We are not advised that Patrick Francis
haa shown symptoms of acting as we are informed
those ancient Egyptian kings were wont to act on
occasion. If similarity of action is evidence of the
truth of the reincarnation theory, then it is easy to
believe that there are those about us in every
day life who are the reincarnation of somebody or
something of the long distant past.
Judging by the peculiar political theories ad
vanced of late years by divers and sundry reformers,
we have some foundation for the belief that they are
the reincarnation of squirrels of bygone ages. In
no other way can we account for so many nutty
theories.
Then, again, there are those who seem to be the
reincarnation of the swine of other days, possibly
those of Gadarene that took the high dive. In no
other way can we account for the hoggishness these
people evidence in their anxiety to grab off every
thing in sight.
The pharisee who stood up in the temple and
loudly gave thanks to God that he was not as other
men, seems to have been reincarnated in constantly
multiplying numbers, judging by the great army of
men and women who are wont to announce to the
world that they are too good and pure to take any
interest in politics, and are content to leave it all
to the forces of evil, which same are never back
ward about taking an interest in politics.
In fact, the more we think over the case of the
Colorado Springs printer who is convinced that he is
a reincarnation of Rameses II, the more we are in
clined to believe that there is something in it.
TASTING, A POOR SENSE.
The man who couldn’t tell pepper from salt by
taste has often been smiled at, but he is not such
an oddity as may seem. Some very extensive ex
periments of the sense of taste have recently been
carried on, with a result that indicates how little
the tongue or any other appurtenance of the mouth
la to be relied upon when it comes to making ac
curate distinctions. Indeed, without the aid of the
accompanying sense of smell, not much reliance can
be placed on taste.
A writer in an eastern publication characterizes
taste as “the most unreliable of all the senses. He
gives the results of a number of tests, in which even
experts have been befuddled and unable to cor
reetly decide. Without the aid of smelling, persons
were unable to distinguish between cheese and beef
broth, for example. Such persons as are deficient
in the sense of smell are incapable of drawing the
distinctions by taste. They can distinguish between
sweet and sour, salt and bitter, but that is about
>11. For them musk and asafetida produce no taste
sensations. A similar category of strange results
is carried out at considerable length.
Thia may explain why one diner will insist on
having his food highly spiced, using liberally of va
| rious condiments, while another wants his fodder
' plain. Divorce limburger from its odor and it yet
has its distinctive flavor. Among the common run
of cheeses the difference is so small, when left to
taste alone, that no quarrel could be justified. It
is whim, then, rather than a reasoned judgment
guided by a dependable sense, that leads to the va
riations in food and drink. Well developed flavors,
of course, are distinguishable, but the delicate palate
loses some of its glamour when science turns on
the ray of its searchlight. Most folks, however, will
continue to relish their food, even if taste be not
so greatly emphasized.
HYPOCRISY OF THE PARTISAN HOWLERS.
Two republican congressmen have been named
as connected with bribery in the veterans’ bureau
scandal. John Wesley Langley of Kentucky and
Frederick N. Zihlman of Maryland are the men.
These names have been furnished by the Depart
ment of Justice. The exact nature of thejj- offense,
if any, is not stated. Each declares his innocence
and his ability to clear his name on trial.
The information comes in the wake of the pas
sage by the house of a resolution demanding the
names. Although the matter is to be presented to
a grand jury in the District of Columbia, the bouse
members felt they should have the names, that they
might proceed at once. In this manner, Represen
tative Longworth points out, the aspersion that might
rest on the entire group is removed. What the
next move will be is not indicated. Maybe we will
see a house investigation started paralleling that
carried on by the federal courts. Whether this will
serve any good purpose is more than doubtful. It
may have the effect of thwarting the efforts of the
law officers.
What the people want is a full, fair inquiry,
without whitewash for anyone. At the same time,
the political character of the proceedings in the sen
ate is so apparent as to be wearisome almost to the
point of nausea. An eminent democratic editor
writes:
“There is nowhere the slightest disposition to Im
plicate Mr. Coolidge In the Fali-McLean-SInclair
Doheny-Denby scandal.’’
But Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi shrinks
as he considers the dreadful spectacle of the presi
dent of the United States sending a telegram to a
private citizen. He exclaims in virtuous horror that
if the people knew it,
"it would cause them further to shudder, to tremble
and lose confidence—my God—In this government
of ours."
Senator Heflin of Alabama, also a candidate for
re-election, is even more hesitant than Harrison. He
merely recites:
“I said some time ago that we had trailed thla
thing up toward the White House; we had located
it in the back yard, and if they did not mind we
would get it into the White House.”
Senators Walsh of Montana, Caraway, Dial and
McKellar showed equal reluctance in accusing the
president. All they did was to insinuate that Mr.
Coolidge was cognizant of it if not actually a party
to the Fall Doheny fraud.
No, there is nowhere the slightest disposition to
implicate Mr. Coolidge. Such is the protest of the
entire group of leaders of the democratic party.
Actually they are bent on destroying the faith of the
people in the man who is the nation’s chief execu
tive. They dare not do this by direct charge that
can be openly met. They are doing it by the in
sidious method of planting suspicion in the public
mind. Every trick of the Scheming politician is be
ing used. They do not question the explanation
given. No, but they virtuously demand that the
president make it over his own name and not through
his secretary. If that should be done, they would
pick another flaw. They would demand something
else.
Plainly, they are not seeking the truth. They
are merely making political medicine. We stated
weeks ago that the lynchers were not after Albert
B. Fall or Harry M. Daugherty or Edwin Denby,
but were after Calvin Coolidge. Now, the entire
group ia sitting around the White House, yelping
like hungry coyotes at the man who is coolly trying
to steer the government safely through troubled
waters. A week ago this same group sat and lis
tened to an eulogy of a dead president whom they
had traduced while living, and even sneered at when
dead. What will the American people say to such
arrant hypocrisy?
OUR GREAT NATIONAL SAFETY VALVE.
“Up from the south at break of day,” borne on
the black and white wings of the sporting page,
comes the news that gladdens the hearts of 110,000,
000 and then some of the patriotic people of these
United States. That word "united” goes, in this
connection. However we may be divided on other
issues, we are one when it comes to baseball. Not
exactly one, either, for where is there the man who
has not picked his favorite team, his favorite player,
whose fortunes he follows blindly, and whose prowess
he is strong, even fierce, to protect against'any and
all whomsoever?
Walsh and Heflin may get the front page, but
the truly devoted patriot gives them only cursory
attention, and hurries on to Che inner recesses of the
paper, where he learns what he-wants to know. Babe
Ruth is recovering from the flu. Grover Cleveland
Alexander is shooting ’em over in midseason style.
Walter Johnson again announces his farewell tour.
The rookies are hitting home runs all over the
southern landscape. Umpires are limbering up. Tho
sporting editor soothes a worried world with the an
nouncement that a favorite first baser will not jump
to an outlaw league.
To ba sure, it happens once a year, just as the
wild fowl fly north and the robin* come again. But
it I* an unfailing sign of spring, as reliable as the
almanac itaalf. Politics is important, and buainess
must ba attended to, but neither of these considera
tions will aver be potent to take attention entirely
away from baseball.
Thank the Lord! We have this outlet, this safety
valve, this one certain means of escape. If it were
not for baaeball, the United States might explode.
Sometimes it does seem as if the country were going
to axplode because of baseball. But what sweeter
sound greets the ear than the crack of the bat meet
ing ball? April 16 and the Buffaloes will snort be
here, and Omaha will settle down to n summer of
real Interest, politics or ni* politics.
When candidates "take to the sir" with their
speeches, there will he a very general taking to the
woods.
Are we wrong in the surmise that Mr. McAdoo
probably wlshe* he had clung tight to those liberal
client*.
When igrtorance rule* at the ballot box, Intelli
| genre ha* no right to complain.
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The First Battle for Nationality
It is a matter, both of wonder and regret, that those
who raise so many objections against the new Constitu*
lion, should never call to mind the defects of that which
is to be exchanged for it. No man would refuse to give
brass for silver nr gold, because the latter had some alloy
in it.—James Madison, the Federalist, No. XXXVIII.
XXIX.
f’ZJT 1 HR struggle fnr the ratlflea
I tion of the constitution by
| the states, nine of which
were required to accept it
jlci|i!»l before the government
could he set up, was one of the great
est political contests this country has
seen. The question of ratification
was determined by conventions elected
in the different states, and these elec
tions and the. contests that followed
in the conventions continued from
December, 1787, when Delaware led
off by ratifying, to May, 1790, when
Rhode Island came in. New Hamp
shire turned the scale for the con
stitution, however, when It ratified as
the ninth state, in June, 1788. The
t'nlted States began without either
Rhode Island or North Carolina.
Broadly the contest was one be
tween property nnd commercial Inter
ests on the one hand and those repre
sented by the mass of the people, who
feared the domination of wealth and
what they called aristocracy, on the
other. The constitutionalists or fed
eralists, as they came to be called,
were for the strong central govern
ment, the security of property end the
taxing power the constitution promis
ed. while the anti-federalists, distrust
ful of authority, and feafful of taxes,
were for the loose and feeble order
of the confederation.
. The opposition to the constitution
was strongest in New York. Massa
chusetts, Virginia, North Carolina and
Rhode Island; but everywhere the
farmers, the workers ami the debtor
class were counted against It. The
constitution was denounced as a work
of darkness, an instrument of mon
archy, a gilded chain with which the
rich would shackle the poor. Orators
on both sides stormed towns and vil
lages. A war of pamphlets raged.
The anti-federalists hurled argument,
ridicule, invective, abuse. The new
government. It was charged, would
confiscate every man's property. In
stead of one taxing power there would
now be two. There was no bill of
right* in ths constitution, and the
liberties of America would be
snatched away. A stats church was
to be set up. and what wyts the senate
but the beginning of a new house of
lords? Senators, once chosen, the peo
ple were warned, would keep their of
fices for life.
Misrepresentation was so wild In
the opposition camp that a federalist
w riter declared: "If every lie was to
be punished l>y clipping, as In the
case in other forgeries, not an ear
would be left In the whole party."
A North Carolina-candidate for the
convention told the voters of that
state that the new federal city (Wash
jlngtoni was to be wailed in and forti
fied; that the government would rol
led an Immense standing army there;
and that this army, when all was
ready, would march out to slaughter,
disarm and enslave the people. This
inspired orator was eleded.
Patrick Henry, standing In the Vir
ginia convention and waving the con
stitution In his hand, declared he
knew of no document in history better
calculated to make slaves of a people.
And Henry ranked aa a patriot. A
New Kngland editor wrote that the
country could not remain democratic
If consolidated under one government
and said: "You might as well try to
rule hell by prayer."
Sharp political tactics were every
where employed. In Pennsylvania the
legislature was about to adjourn with
out calling a convention. The feder
alist* thereupon seised two anti-fed
eralist inctnbers in their homes,
dragged them to the state house and
forcibly held them In their seats until
a, quorum could he counied. In Massa
chusetts the federalists, to prevail
upon the wavering John Hancock to
lend the weight of his influence by
serving as chairman of the conven
tion, promised him the presidency of
the United States, in case it should
not go to Washington. This prob
ably was the first of American pre
convention political pledges. Perhaps,
too, the first filibuster In American
political history was that attempted
by the anti-federalists in the Pennsyl
vania convention when one member
spoke for nine hours, another for
seven and a third for five: anVl when
five days were taken up In a debate
about the definition of the words ' an
nihilation" and “consolidation."
The anti-federalists raised the cry of
class with great effect. They did not
heaitate to assail the greatest names.
When Washington and Franklin were
quoted as being for the constitution
It was retorted that Washington was
a fool front nature and Franklin a
fool from age. John Adams had em
ployed a phrase about the "wellborn”
In a discussion of the desirability of
a senate to attract ability. "The rich,
the well born and the able," he had
said, would be of service in it. This
phrase was caught up by the anH
federaltsts who had great satisfaction
in calling themselves the low born.
They Inquired what part the low
horn—the men w-ho had fought the
war, puttered at Vallpy Forge and
had been dismissed without their pay
—were going to have in the new- gov
ernment. The senate was reserved for
the well born. The low born were
to pay the taxes to support It.
The early ratification of Delaware.
Pennsylvania and New Jersey, all of
which acted before the close of 1787,
end of Georgia and Connecticut w hich
followed suit In January. 1788, thtew
a panto tnto the anti federalists and
they centered their efforts on Massa
chusetts, which was the next state to
vote. The state was still strongly
tinged with Khays sentiment, and
many Khays followers were in the
convention. Even Adams' "wellborn"
were from political conviction opposed
to giving up the state's ancient
privileges. The people were so sus
picious of the whole proceeding that
Ifi towns had refused to elect any
delegates to the convention. The
Stoutest patriot of all, 8am Adams
himself, was against the constitution
until a delegation of mechanics,
headed by Paul Revere, put Into his
hands a petition from the trades of
Boston, praying him to support It.
"How many of the Boston median-!
Ics are for the constitution, Mr. Re
vere?" asked Mr. Adams.
"More, sir, than there are stars in
the sky,” replied Revere.
Adams was convinced that the peo
ple were for the "new roof." as the,
constitution was popularly called, and
thereafter supported it. But the re
sult was still feared by the federalists,
Rufus King Writing to Madison that
the people were filled with distrust
because the men of property and edu
cation were in favor of the new gov
ernment.
(CopyrUht. Kansas City Star)
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Consider the Undergraduate
From the New York Time*.
"Kverybody,” as Senator Wheeler
would any, goes to college. Male and
female crowd yard and campus. The
distracted dons try In vain In beat off
or hold in check these invasions of the
new barbarians. Unless it be a morbid
manifestation like tarantism or the
procession of the flagellants, this
on-to-college multitudinous march la
Inexplicable. A thousand miscel
laneous moralists and all too many
recently graduated Halxacs, each ap
parently younger than the youngest
freshman, denounce or depict the
Iniquities of undergraduatea. Why
don't parents and guardians take
warning?
Kero Is I'r. Albert Parker Fitch,
sometime professor of the history of
religion at Amherst, crying aloud and
sparing not at Chicago, Head tits
character of our wolvish lambs. "They
lead frothy stories." What do mo*t
of the rest of us read? "Thsy are
strong on college games, gossip and
athletics.'’ Ho were ths Orec ks. ' They
regard their professore with s mild
and benevolent Indifference.’’ That is
much too large an assertion, since
most colleges have some professors
muc h rellshe.1 and frequented by con
siderable bodies of students. Kven If
this Indifference be accepted as a fact.
It is an improvement upon the old
attitude*. One doesn’t have to lie pre
Adamite lo n member when aa.v other
than a formal a6d official commerce
between teacher and student made
the latter suspect of sycophancy, or
’’swiping,’’ or "boot-lleking."
"Religion means nothing to them."
Another perilous generality. Religion
means a good deal to soms of them:
and the common undergraduate
measles of Irrellgion or hostility to
religion Indicates an Interest far
preferable In Indifference. Among
the necessary diseases of adolescence
is thinking with great heat and
ferocity other people's thoughts. But
let us follow Mr. Fitch's Indictment
to the end:
They nre dull because (hey won't
ntudy—I hey think they were eent to
college to inn he money or to gel mar
ried. Thev drink because their com
munltlen dlnregnril the Volntead law.
They play earda because they think
It" the eorlnl epic* of tha time*. They
hive no religion. They ate unmoral.
They ewenr like pirate* heeauae their
vncahularlea nre no limited they have
no other mean* of ex preen I on.”
Dr. Fitch's ' thev” |* twin brother
of Senator Wheclcr'e "everybody."
Plenty of college ntudrnta aren't dull.
Plenty of them love to allidy. We
hear of hoy* deep In the tireek tragic
poete or the illamal science A* for
the women "Union! *, Mr. I'll, h for
get* that other erltlca are always
Jabbing them for not getting mar
ried, and we wonder how large n
delegation he would ilnd of atudrnt*
who "think they were sent to college
lo make money." Tha "unmoral” un
dergraduate la always subject to the
public opinion, more forcible than
statutes, nf the college community.
Certain thlnga "aien't done." I'rlnk
Ing—and the wettest American col
lege is Westerville. O., compared with
almost any American college In the
last century—Is pretty rigidly super
vised. restrained, kept out of sight.
Playing cards is not exactly the un
pardonable kin. if any undergrad
uates “swear like pirates." their sul
phurous speech may come from some
thing else than a lack of milder word*."
There Is a legend that some early
New Kngland trans. endentallsts used
to sit at thair front antes when tie
meetln' haouse bell was ringing and
curse horrendously; not that they
were profane swearers, but Just to
exercise thair liberty and show their
rebellion against "Puritanism Those
pirate undergraduates don't look real
to ua. Injudicious and excessive pro
fanity Is one of the things that "aren't
done.”
l,et the undergraduates live. At
least they are amusing, like l)r. Pitch.
And he is never more so than when
he appends this snapper to his whip:
"But at that, they are better than
their parenta.” That ought to he
enough for "the friends of progress;"
and we will leave It to the parents,
guardians and MB payers of our
young "nr, moral" If the old folks
aren't "about aa good as they make
them.”
Defected.
A brass band once visited a small
village and tha people were delighted
with It, but they couldn't make head
or tall of the trnniltone, ao they sent
for old Pcgleg Hoskins, who rlalnted
he understood music.
Well, ttld Peleg watched the per
formance of tha trombone plaver for
pome time Then he »aid. with a sneer:
"Take no notice of him, fellowa
There's a Irlck In It: he don't awallow
It avery time."—Ixis Augeles Times.
Mould Simplify Matters.
•Tod Tunklna aaya life would lie easy
If every man had nothing worse to
worry about concerning his past than
the theory of evolution —Washington
Star.
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A Good, True Friend
The happy confidence of a good true
friend
Is a blessing that’s both rich and
rare.
Sweet friendship's ties that death
alone can rend.
Is like the answrer to an earnest
prayer.
When Joyous souls in true friendship
can agree,
And unite in bonds of truth and
love,
And friendly hearts beat In perfect
unity.
All petty faults they rise above.
When friendship pure, binds closer
day by day.
And souls unite in perfect barmonv,
There's roses scattered all along the
way,
For virtues only, do the eyes of
friendship see.
A steadfast friend, Just like the ria
lug sun,
Will never fall, but ever staunch
and true,
With a loving purpose deeds will be
well done.
In darkest hours will be there to
buoy you.
Xo rarer gift can life have to offer
you,
Xo hrlghter are God's stars that
shine,
Than the steady, glowing ties of a
true
Sweet friendship—the tics that
stoutly bind.
—Carolyn Belle Adams.
LINES.
I can recall your face,
Your baby fingers,
Your laughing eyes of blue,
Your rosy toes.
All through the years I've felt
That you were near me;
Perhaps you are, eweet one—
Perhaps—who knows?
H’hat Is this mlet that lies
’Tween earth and heaven?
What Is this presence which
I often feel?
Is it a soul that calls
While a soul answers?
Is It the key to all?
Is It the seal?
Fo, like a tender flower,
My baby brother,
When summer waned you drooped
And toon were gone;
The winter snows caress
And tuck you closely—
Your summer lullaby
Is some bird's song
In morning's rudv glow,
In evening's shadows.
I feel that you are near
To comfort me.
There i" no death beyond—
Xo time nor limits
When those we love are near—
So. let it be.
—Catherine Elizabeth HanBon.
MARCH.
Much like a woman art thou—
Changing—changing like the wind;
One moment the nun ahlning bright.
Next moment, anow put* the sun out
of sight.
One moment rain, next the Meet,
Covering the ground with a white
sheet.
One moment milling—a ki»» on your
lipa;
Next a frown, a bitter draught to him
who sips:
On* moment crying, on* moment
aighlng.
Next a smile and care**:
Oh! much like a las* are you—
Our month of March.
— If. r. Oilbert.
Cured After Death.
Visitor—So you really think Tar
mouth is a healthy place?
Native—Healthy ! Why. we cure
herring* here after they're dead!—
Pathfinder.
Sunny Side up
’%ke Comfort, nor forget
Jhat Sunrise
THE CALL.
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For men who will w'ork the old world
is now calling.
For men who will tackle the job.
And hammer away without whining
or atalllng.
Or sit down and dolefully sob.
It wants honest men who will will
ingly labor.
Not merely for men with a scheme.
For men who will tote fair with each
friend and neighbor,
And really be what they seem.
For men who will toil in the vine
yard with smiling,
And give to the work their full
best;
Who won't tie deceived by false proph
ets beguiling,
Nor swallow false promise with
zest.
It wants thinking men who will Joy
in endeavor
While working away with a will—
The honest-to-God sort of men who’ll
forever
Bid schemers and shirkers be still.
The world calls for men who’ve no
time for complaining;
Too busy with tasks of today.
Who serve for the Joy that their tasks
are containing,
And sing while they're working
away.
It's weary’ and w-orn with the puling
and pining
Of slackers and shirkers and siobs.
It calls for true men who’ll not lay
down In whining,
But proudfully stick to their Jobs.
Dearly beloved, we take our text
this glorious lord's day morning
from Ecclesiastic*. Sth chapter and
10th verse, wherein It is written:
“Whatsoever thy hand findeth
to do, do It with thy might; for
there is no work, nor device, nor
knowledge, nor wisdom, in the
grave, whither thou goest."
The crying need of the world today
is workers—genuine, honest, earnest
workers, in all walks of life. Of
counsellors and prophets, of sooth
sayer* and those claiming the power
of divination, the world has a sur
feit. It needs workers who, seeing
things that are not right, will work
to make them right instead of indulg
ing in abdominal convulsions and
much vociferation.
To get right down to fundamentals,
the world needs to discharge a large
proportion of Its while-collared work
ers and draft them Into the ranks of
the jeans brigade and the overall sec
tion.
There Is a crying need for a read
justment of our standards, and espe
cially of our social standard*. We
have come to look upon success from
the wrong angle, to measure it by ac
cumulations instead of by service.
That word "service" has become
hackneyed, yet the thing Itself is fall
ing into what a former president of
the I'nlted States called innocuous
desuetude.
It has come about in our modern
life that hs who sees something wrong
in our social and political life, im
mediately becomes an apostle of dis
content. weeping and wailing over the
woes of the people and too busy on
the job to undertake to work out so
lution. What the world needs is men
who will teach more by example and
less b> oratory.
Criticism Is all right provided al
ways that he who criticises has some
thing to offer better than the thing
criticised. Right now we have »
plentttude of critics, but a scarcity
of the breed that can offer something
better than the things they so fiercely
denounce. __
Time was, and not so very long
ago, when men sought to retrieve
their own fortunes by hard work and
diligent application to the job in
hand, Instead of listening to the siren
voices of would-be political eavior*
and rushing off to find relief in legie
lative enactment. The legislature has
never been elected that could legis
late brains Into an empty head, leg
islatures were never Intended to re
compense men for their own fool mis
takes.
In the Phllllppian Letter, 2.12. it is
written: "Wherefore, my beloved, as
ye have always obeyed, not as in
my presence only, but now much
more in my absence, work out your
own saivstion with fear and trem
bling."
There you have it. Work out your
own aalvation. Put the emphasis on
the work. Legislative enactment can
not save you. Political buncombe
will not bring permanent success.
Work! The Job that Is given you to
do ia your job. Sitting around and
whining will not help you. You are
either a worker, a shirker, or a
Jerker. Classify yourself.
A few years ago a certain Nebraska
man was selected by a corporation to
put into effect a campaign that he
hail mapped out. Filled with en
thusiasm he went to the head of the
corporation and began outlining his
plans for the future. The president
listened patiently but without com- <
ment. After the appointee had fin
ished and had waited for lome com
ment. he asked:
"Well, what do you think of it?"
"I'm not thinking about it. That's
your Job." was the reply.
Are you doing your Job, or are you
laying down on it? Are you working
out your own salvation, mental, phy
sical, financial and moral, with fear
and trembling and to the best of
whatever ability you may possess? Or
are you waiting for some lawmaker to
come along and do it by waving the
magic wand of legislative enactment?
Dearly beloved, the call is for work
ers; for men who will buckle in and
do their best; for men who will shake
their fists In the faediof fate and say
with Henley:
"Jt matters not how straight the
gate,
How charged with punishment
the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul."
Our invitation song this morning is
again “Work, for the Night Is Com
ing,” and as we sing let those who
are willing to enlist in the army of
those who work because it is man *
reward, not hia punishment; who are
willing to serve, although It is but
given to them to stand and wait—if
there be such among you. come for
ward while we sing.
And let us stand and sing with
spirit and understanding.
WILL M MAl'PIN
When in Omaha
Hotel Conant
“The Same Kindly Care
Afterward That You
• Gave Before’’
RIVACY as inviolable as that of your own home is
one of the outstanding features of Hoffmann
Service.
When all that is mortal of ioved ones is committed
to our care, they may not be seen, without permission, by
others than immediate members of the family.
The embalming room is on the second floor—not in the
basement or at the rear of the main floor. It is inaccessible
to anyone excepting the skilled attendant in charge. This
room is spotless as human care can make it.
The reposing rooms, also on the second floor, are as private
as the preparation room: and here member* of the family
and intimate friends may, if desired, gather to pay their last
tributes before the formal service.
To insure the same kindly care afterward that you gave
before, the Hoffmann Funeral Home w'as carefully planned
and especially built for its specific purpose. The conven
iences mentioned above, with many others, were incorpo
rated in it after the most careful consideration—-that hu
manity might be better served in time of greatest need.
The Hoffmann Funeral Home is one of the very few in tha
central west which was thus built for its particular use.
Hoffmann Service is replete with refinement* such as men
tionod—unknown. perhaps, to the public, but keenly appre
ciated by *hose who have become acquainted with them.
Hoffmann Service may be commanded for adult funerals,
complete, from $100 and up-—and what it shall cost it is
your privilege to say, without suggestion (unless requested)
by anyone in this institution.
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