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No Religious Hate.
Unnecessary Effort.
Japan's New Boat.
Those “Ordinary Peo
ple
^By ARTHUR BRISBANE^
Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant
secretary of the navy, under
Woodrow Wilson, and cousin of the
late Theodore Roosevelt, will man
age A1 Smith's presidential cam
paign. The progress of Governor
* Smith’s boom up to date shows lit
tle of religious prejudice, so hateful
in a republic of prominent men that
have endorsed Governor Smith’s
candidacy. A majority are
Protestants.
Governor Smith’s state and city
of New York certainly displays no
animosity to the Catholic religion.
The return of Cardinal Hayes from
Rome with his honors lately bestowed
was made the occasion of as strik
ing a demonstration as has been
seen in New York City for years.
Traffic was shut out from Fifth
avenue as the cardinal proceeded
to the cathedral attired in his robes,
magnificent, wearing the red hat
of his rank as a prince of the
church. On his arrival, Governor
A1 Smith, chief official of New York
state, greeted him, respectfully
kissing the herald ring worn upon
his finger.
It is safe to say that so far as his
own state is concerned at least, A1
Smith as a presidential candidate
Will be judged by his own record,
not by his religion. It will be re
w membered that he carried New
York state less than two years ago
- by the biggest majority ever
recorded for any governor.
“Conservative” democrats, which
means democrats who think that
party power should work for their
corporations, would like to nominate
John W. Davis, now general counsel
for J, Pierpont Morgan, formerly
ambassador to England. The fact
that Mr. Davis has just succeeded
in getting a 10 per cent increase in
in telephone rates for the big com
pany in New York, will make him
a better conservative candidate
than ever. But it will not make his
election any more probable.
Frank Urbain of Cresson, Pa.,
tired of life, did these unnecessary
things:
He burned up all his money,
$2,000. Drank a pint of furniture
polish, ate a can of wall cleaner,
and soon was dead.
That was all wasted effort. Time
would have ended his life, his heirs
wrould have burned his money,
Japan has bought from Germany
the plans for a giant submersible
cruiser. It's a great battleship that
can sink below water, carrying its
great guns and reappear at the
right spot to wreck any city or hold
it to ransom.
The Japanese are not building
that undersea battle ship for the
mikado to study deep sea fish. Such
a submersible ship could rise to the
surface, inside the harbor of Seattle, j
. , San Francisco or New York, an-1
nounce a declaration of war, and
start, it immediately.
This country is not provided with
adequate submarines or flying ma
chines. That fact should interf^t
Mr. < oolidge more than anything
happening in Europe.
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Heine W. Taff, able lawyer and
powL citizen, worries about news
paper headlines. The fact that
newspapers print all the news they
can get, without consulting any
lawyer about it worries him, also
he thinks it has a bad effect on the
public mind, creates false impres
sipigj.iahd false standards.
Ask Mr. Taft “do those headlines
anil that news affect your mind?”
hp will answer “dear me, no, not
n^y mind. I was referring to the
ordinary mind.”
i That’s a common attitude in
America. Time will correct it, and
toach even eminent lawyers that
tliere is something real in democ
racy, and that the ordinary mind’is
not so very ordinary.
A sociological congress at Rome
s4ys Latin must be revived as nn
international, World language, be
cause the world will not agree on
any living language. The interna
tional language will gradually es
tablish itself. Languages grow,
like trees and men, they can’t be
miffiilfactured. Latin would not do.
It? is weak, compared with several
living languages, and men are un
'N able to agree on a satisfactory pro
nunciation of it.
The world will not be ready for
a Universal language for several
thousand years, perhaps 100.000
years. By that time a language
will be spoken which no one now
living could understand. The radio
will make universal language neces
sary. For when a really great man
adfears all the world will want to
hear him.
Russia is shocked because certain
individuals, posing as religious
tchejiejs, rob the poor peasants
through their superstitions. One
told a young couple about to be
matfied that if they didn’t give him
money the demons would injure
them. They refused, and on their
way to the wedding, their horse
shSfed tit a large pig and they were
thrown.
When the plb barred the road,
granting terribly, the girl decided
that demons inhabited the pig and
wanted to placate the demon with
money, but the intelligent young
m^n killed the pig. An intelligent
way of settling the trouble. The
pig belonged to the sorcerer, who
W4nts damages. There is a great
scandal, hut there’s no CRUse for it,
Hliman beings get the religion they
w4nt, one suited to their intelli
gence. They Rhould be willing to
pair fot the kind they want.
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flpjpe dear young sisters of the
Y.l W. C. A. seem to lack humor.
Thoy reply with loud cries of “no,
noj’A* to Ihe suggestion that all
A ri mi cans be admitted to the Y.
A., regardless of their re
ligious belief, and they eagerly pro
1esj against shutting Japanese out
of | ttM# United States. They may
exclude, it seems, but Uncle Sam
may not.
; (CoD/rlibt, 1»J«)
Adele Garrison
“My Husband’s Love”
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The Hurry-l'p Call leila Gave Kath
erine and Madge.
I had not been mistaken. Kath
erine wm worried about aomething
connected with her nursing of Mr#.
Durkee.
I had felt It peychlcally when T flrat
saw her, although nothing Ir her
calm face or her unruffled demeanor
had betrayed any uneasiness of ipirit.
So intensely relieved was I to find
her concern was not caused by any
dread of the return of Mrs. Durkee’s
malady that I answered her lightly.
"Nothing else matters, so long as
that possibility is discounted."
“Oh, doesn’t It?" Katherine sank
down on the bed, clasped her handn
over her crossed knees and began to
rock slightly backward and forward,
sure sign of a controversial moor!
with her. "You ought to know by
this time that you can be stung to
death by ants or mosquitoes Just as
surely as by cobras, If you stay long
enough where they can got at you.”
T turned a startled face toward her.
"AVhat do you mean?” I asked.
' ”1 don’t know what to do," she
returned elowly. "A* far as artual
nursing goes, Mrs. Durkee won't
need me after this week. Leila ran
help her dress and undress. and
there Is nothing else she will require.
She ought to go up and down stairs
to her meals, and take light exercise.
And I don't need to tel] you that all
this has meant horrible expense to
Alfred.
"Of course, Alfred has a fine sal
ary," she went on, "but that lets him
out, and I’ve Been little things which
make me thtnk he’s rather up against
It. It’s a crime for me to stay longer
than the week, but I don't dare leave
under the present circumstances. I'd
offer to stay for nothing, only I know
what Alfred-"
"Of course," 1 assented hastily as
she paused, and then with a sudden
remembrance of Leila's confidence,
I added: "I suppose it's the question
of the maid."
"Did 1/eila Tell You?’’
“Oh, did Leila tell you?"
"She said that you had kept Mrs.
Durkee from contact with the mil
ton goddess of the kitchen, and that
If Her Fluffiness would consent to
keep away from the housework, the
maid could be dismissed and Leila
could take the helm."
“That's the situation exactly,"
Katherine returned. "Housework Is
Just the think for Leila—now—”
she gave nie a significant glance.
“But—worry—isn't. If her mother
in-law would keep out of it. Leila
could have a wonderful time—there
are plenty of charwomen to be had
for the heavy work. But—you know
Tier Fluffiness well enough to know
what will happen the minute the
maid leaves."
"I know what will happen if she
slays." I returned gloomily. “Mrs.
Durkee will never stand her imper
tinence.”
"I know." Katherine returned.
“That'a why I'm staying on, to keep
off the climax as long as I can. If
only Leila were well, the problem
would solve itself. She could stand
the strain of keeping her mother-in
law from the work. But she isn't
—she’s extremely likely to have
another nervous breakdown If she
isn’t watched. If only thefe were
some other relative, strong minded
and strong armed to step In.
The Issue Joined!
"Mrs. Durkee haen’t even an ’In
law’ that I know of,” I said.
“And you know howr long an ‘in
law’ would last running Mrs. Dur
kee’s house, don’t you? Leila could
manage if she were well, for her
mother-inlaw is extremely fond of
her, hut just because of that devo
tion she is anxious about Leila, now
and she would visualize herself as
leaving things for Leila to do, and
then she would begin running
around In circles. No there ■ noth
ing for me to do but stick on until
my patient is stronger. 1 could help
with the housework If the maid
leaves, something I expect at any
minute—and she was the last one
out of captivity, so the agencies as
sured us.”
"X can see on# thing clearly,” I
said, smiling. "This is not time for
unexpected guests to stay to lunch
eon.”
“No, It isn’t,” Katherine admit
ted frankly. "But you know Mrs.
Durkee will Insist upon it, so you
mustn't thwart her."
"I'm sorry we came,” I said re
gretfully.
"You needn't be,” she assured me.
"Mrs. Durkee has been asking for
you, and she's simply wild to talk
over the children getting away, as
we all are—Alfred told ua about the
close-ups of the scenario—and as far
as the maid goes, it might as well
be one issue as another. She's im
possible In her sulkiness.”
"But I wish we weren't the issue,"
I began, but my sentence was cut
short by a knock at the door, and
In response to Katherines "come
in.” Leila's pretty flushed face ap
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You’re Invited
to the Radio Birthday Party
of the Electric Railway Industry
of the United States
Monday Evening, May 5th
7:30 to 9
ON May 4, 1888—just thirty-six
years ago—a new industry was
born in Richmond, Virginia.
On that date the first electric railway car in the
country was successfully operated.
From that inauspicious beginning has grown one of the
largest and most important utilities in the country. The
electric railway industry has been responsible for the
remarkable growth of our cities and towns. It is the ad
vance agent of every real e state boom. It has proven it
self to be the indispensable means of transporting the
masses.
Monday evening, May 5, between 7:30 and 9:00 o’clock,
Radio Station WHO, The Bankers Life Insurance Com
pany of Des Moines, will broadcast a brief history of
the Electric Railway Industry in recognition of this an
niversary date.
The Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway Company
is anxious that all its patron s who are radio fang listen in
on this talk. It will give you an idea of the importance
of one of your best servants.
Station WHO is operated on a 526 meter wave length.
It is a powerful station and easy to tune in on.
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Come to Our Party
Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway Co.
poured in the doorway.
"I wish you’d comp, both of you,”
she said. “Alother Durkee, of course,
wants a special luncheon served and
she'* Insisting upon seeing I-ucy her
self end giving the orders for It.”
Safety First
I f we are going to protect the
lives of children on the streets, we’ve
got to educate them in the art of being careful.
Youth is heedless, but youth can always be taught. But
it’s a funny thing that people of more mature years, who
know the value of care, are just as thoughtless on the
streets as children are, and they do such things as make
tlie angels weep. As soon as some men get at the wheel
of a <*ar, they get the idea that the eyes of the populace
are on them and they cut capers in the traffic. And some
pedestrians think they bear charmed lives and deliber
ately step into the street where scores of mad automobiles
are prancing. When every individual in this city uses the
sense God gave him, we’ll stop a lot of these accidents.
Pride goeth before a fall
In an automobile Pride is a Fool.
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April 27 to May 3 ^
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