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OmahaVhefe the^st is at its Best
ONE COUNTRY, ONE FLAG.
Not a great many ypars before he died, Knute
Nelson, United States senator from Minnesota, took
a group of distinguished friends through bis home.
•He showed them all his treasures, until he came to
a chest which he said contained hia most highly
prized possession. Opening, he disclosed the old
army blouse he had worn when he marched as a
private in Grant’s army. It was carefully preserved,
its buttons were bright, and the old senator gath
ered it lovingly in his arms, as he spoke sentences
that betokened the depth of his emotions.
In this was something typical of the spirit of
the men who wore the uniform in those, days,
whether it was of blue or of gray. It must be re
membered that brave men apd true marched under
either flag, and died for what they thought was right.
Yet Knute Nelson typified something else in his own
person. It was the spirit of forgiveness and mutual
jinderstanding. With the* acerbities of the struggle
mellowed or dissipated by the passing of the years
that had flown. Senator Nelson had for his closest
friend in Washington a Confederate soldier who had
been his bitterest enemy during the four dreadful
vears of fraternal struggle. |
a a a |
Many another reunion of the Blue and the Gray
has taken place on the same basis. Long ago the
Grand Army of the Republic and the United Con
federate Veterans buried the hatchet. They have
exchanged between themselves so many evidences of
fraternal regard and mutual esteem it is difficult for
many of the youngsters of today to comprehend it
pH. But those men know. They tasted the acrid
tang of powder smoke, they saw the devastation
spread by war, and In the severeat school known
to man they learned lessona that took deep root. At
brave man Yespects another equally brave. There is,'
a feeling that thrills “when two strong men stand
lace to face,” that cements the bond that will bold
1hem while life endures.
Political issues that surged so high as to over
whelm the nation with a wave of war have softened
where they have not disappeared. In very truth,
the song bird has builded her nest in the cannon’s
mouth so far as these men are concerned. Now we
hear from Washington that the last vestige of dis
crimination born of interstate strife is about to van
ish. The law that forbade the appointment of a
southern soldier to a soldiers’ home board is to be
repealed. When this is gone th*re will be left no
trace of the conflict, so far as laws go that draw a
■ distinction between men of the North and the South.
What a fine thing it will be if that art of congress
is sealed before Memorial Day dawns this year. Then
indeed can the veterans in solemn ceremony decorate
the graves of comrades who have passed on, thank
ing God that, the last evidence of animosity has gone,
and in the whole land there is one spirit of concorn
and harmony of purpose. A second and a third gen
eration of Americans are coming on since the day
at, Appomattox. Their admiration for the armies
of that day includes both sides. Just as the issues
then considered so big have faded into b past that
takes on a softer hue as the perspective lengthens,
so has the rancor that divided the nation changed
with a clearer understanding.
All honor is for the men who fought to save the
union, with gentle forgiveness for those who were
mistaken in their conception of the right. And the
sooner the last shred of legal disqualification of th^
latter disappears from (he nation’s statute hooks,
the better it will be for every one. Columbia’s sons
and daughters are united and as one family th'ey
salute the flag, and
Home land and far land and half ttie world around.
Old Glory hears the glad salute, and ripples In the
sound."
CAL GOES TO THE CIRCUS.
The pregident of the United States wasn't at
the circus when it showed in Washington the other
day, but C«1 Coolidge was there. Sitting right along
side John Ringling, Cal laughed at the clowns, gasped
■ with amazement when the flying trapeze performers
made their daring leaps, and watched with bated
breath while the snere drummer gave the long roll
thet preceded the daring dive from the top of the
tent to the net apreed far below.
The tent wei bigger, the performance more
elaborate, the Beat a little better end Cal a little
older, otherwise things were about the same as when
on a former occasion Cal sat under the canvas up
in Rutland. Nobody paid any attention to Cal when
he went to tha circus In Rutland, and very little
tnore was paid to Cal when he went to the circue in
Washington with John Ringling. The band played
when the president esme in, end the huge crowd
stood up and cheered him, but when Cal sat down
he was just a plain American citizen bent on renew
ing hie youth by being dazzled by circus doings, just
as he had been dazzled yeare before up in Vermont.
• If he did not munch peanuts, imbibe red lemon
ade, whoop with delight when aome toy balloon broke
looee, applafld the young lady In outstanding tarlatan
skirts when she turned flip-flops on the back of the
padded horee, end etay for the concert, then we are
mistaken in Cal, that's all.
Tha president of tha United States may go to
tha eircus, all right.; but the minute he gets under
tha big top there i* a sudden shedding of presidential
dignity and thera and then emerges the sound,
wholesome, red-hlooded American hoy. It simply
couldn't happen In any country whose heredi
tary monarch* rule. It just couldn’t happen in any
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other country thin this good old U. S. A. And when
we read about Cal going to the eircuc, every bloom
ing one of us, regardless of politics or partisan bias,
hopes that Cal had as good a time as we have when
we lie to ourselves by saying we only want to see
the animals and then burry out to where the flags
and pennants are waving.
It’s mighty little time we spend under the ani
mal top. We hurry on into the big top, grab tire
I best available seat, get ready to become cross-eyed
so we can watch all three rings at once, and then
become boys and girls again.
It must have been a great day for Cal. It cer
tainly was a great day for all us when the presi
dent of our beloved country could lay aside the cares
and onerous duties of his high office and for an hour
nr two be just plain Cal along with John and Tom
and Dick and Harry and all the rest of the bunch.
DOLLAR A-YEAR "DICKS.’*
We believe the public service will suffer little
because of the action of Attorney General Stone in
abolishing the detective bureau of the Department
of Justice. This does not mean, we take it, that the
department is to be left without proper Yneans of
carrying on investigations. William .1. Burns, whose,
chief service to the United States has been to pro
vide from time to time those gentle little thrills that
George Creel furnished during Wilson’s term, has
been retired to private life. He will continue his de
tective business, as of yore, but his stories in the
future will savor more of service to private patrons
than to the public.
It is not hard to understand why Mr. Bums, as
chief of the secret service, declined to furnish the
names of his “dollar-a-year" detectives to the sen
ate committee. He did not want to humiliate any
of the men who were in the service. Attorney Gen
eral Stone has no such compunctions, nor any rea
son for withholding the list, so he has made public
the names. Several of them are men of great promi
nence, concerning whose character there is no ques
tion. Just why they should be interested in serving
as "operatives” of the Burns bureau is not clear.
While the war was on a great service was per
formed by a volunteer secret service organization.
Its members as a rule were, prudent, well balanced
men, who carried on inquiries without attracting
undue notice from anybody. They served the gov
ernment well, furnishing useful information whereby
some guilty were punished who otherwise might have
escaped, and in several cases saving innocent men
from unjust accusations. In a sense the Burns plan
may be regarded as a continuation of this organiza
tion.
Behind it all, however, was the “red” scare.
Many people were apprehensive of the spread of rad
icalism. "Parlor boleshvism” was a popular thing
for a time, and even yet there are some wealthy per
sons who contribute to support causes and propa
ganda they have not sufficiently investigated. Mainly,
howevgr, the services of the Volunteer detective
must have been to report conversations more or less
private in their character. Such espionage is pe
culiarly distasteful to the United States. In a land
where free speech is the right of all, where no man
is amenable for his opinion, and where the very
safety of all our institutions depends upon open ex
pression of views, spies have no place. A govern
ment that depends upon them is poorly founded.
The attorney general says in the future he will
do his own detecting. Let him stick to this, and se
cure his Information through means that do
not smack of customs popular with despots. In free
America the spy is an unnecessary adjunct to the
federal government.
WHILE TEMPUS FUGITS.
The Lincoln Journal charges that 50 years ago
an Omaha paper was attacking the state university
in furtherance of a scheme then hatching to remove
that institution from Lincoln to Omaha.
The charge is probably true. Those were the
days when the chief aim of one municipality was not
to build some new industry, hut to grab off something
another municipality had secured. Those were the
days of county seat fights, as many old pioneers will
recall.
Those, too, were the days when voters elected
| to office the men who could denounce the other fel
lows in the most vituperative terms; when partisan
ship divided families and neighbors; when long
horned rattle roamed the open ranges, and pass
holders were in the majority on all passenger trains.
We do things differently, and in most instances,
better these days. Omaha is just as proud of the
University of Nebraska as Lincoln, or any other part
of the commonwealth. Party ties rest lightly, the
old-time political orator is a forgotten back number,
the white-faced steer has displaced the longhorn,
and the political pass is as dead as the late Julius
Caesar. County seat wars, once waged with rifles
and shotguns and stuffed ballot boxes, are almost
unknown, and when one does bob up It is as quiet
as a summer sea.
A vast amount of history has been made In Ne
braska during the last 50 years. Satisfactory his
tory, too, in the main. The great question before
Nebraskans today is whether we shall profit during
the next 50 years by the experience of the 50 years
just past.
If congress Is going to adjourn June 7, It Is
also going to work a lot more and talk a lot less, or
leave something undone that ought to he done.
A weitern exchange says Jim Reed of Missouri
is no longer a candidate, “having been shown."
Shown; he was shoved.
Now the secret is out. Magnus Johnson used to
be a glassblower. Thus he qualified as a blowhard.
Oscar Underwood backs out of Kentucky in favor
of McAdoo. He must feel his race is about run.
Those Germans did not display any flags at half
staff when Poincare went down, either.
At that we think Rudy Nebb played his partner a
mean trick.
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Homespun Verse
—By Omaha’* Own Poet—
Robert Worthington Davie
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DEAR LITTLE URCHINS.
Dear little nrrlilns with sparkling eyaa,
Mud bespattered and gay;
Clothed In tha rags, of a thousand algha,
Buoyant end free are they.
Treading the atreet In Oi* noonday haat,
Wading In mud and nilr*.
Dancing along with their little feet
Blistered and red aa flra.
Dear little urchins! Money can’t give
Tha jov of their wholesome da vs -
Tha ecstasy of the dreams they live.
Doing Ihelr carefree way*.
Dear lit lie urchins with faces round,
''heck* that are dimpled and sweet
Hall to them with contentment crowned -
JBarefooted kings of the etr«cf.
Why Nicholas! The Idea of Your Driving Right
■■ , Up to the Front Door With It!
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Letters From Our Readers
All lottoro mu*t bo niirnnd. but mm» will b* withhold upon rrquo*t. Commnnf*
ration* of 2H0 word* and loo* will l»o firm proforenr#*.
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Against fhe Crow.
Jansen. Neh—To the Kdltor of The
Omaha Ree; We have carefully read
tour editorial, “Crows end the Cut
Worms.'' It would seem by this artl
He you would almost have tis believe
the crow coming to the farmer's res
cue saves the Nebraska corn crop
from destruction by rut worms.
Any observing farmer will tell you
the crow destroys more corn than the
rut worms he eats would have de
stroyed: and. while the cut worm Is a
pest, the crow Is a much greater
enemy to the fat meg Tha rrow Is
not only "accused" nf destroying other
birds' eggs and killing their young,
byt he has been raught In the art
time and again and proven guilty
beyond a doubt. Quite true, nature
has her own way of preserving the
balance and if left alone will usually
do the right thing. Nature also has
her way of curing disease, and yet.
the timely Interference of a skilled
physician or snregon can assist na
ture wonderfully In "getting results."
The coyote apd rattlesnake form a
part of nature's great plan, still It Is
probably wise and best for man to
keep on fooling with her plans and
do as he has been doing In the past
when he encounters ei'her of the
shove creatures. We hope tha infer
enre is plain.
Certainly, most birds are the
farmer's best fVlends. Py destruction
nf Insect pests they do much more
good than harm; hut the crow Is not
one of these. We are well acquainted
w'ith the crow, hut fail to see where
he conics in for any perceptible part
in thia beneficial economy. We be
lleve that one robin (whose eggs anil
young tho crow will destroy) Is of
more worth to the farmer and horti
culturist than 100 crows. Personally.
It g'vcs us far more pleasure to act
one robin (though he he eating a few
f
Abe Martin
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Of all th’ foolish questions, askin'
ft>r William Jennin's Bryan's per
manent address is th’ limit. Oppo
sition makes th’ mare go.
(I’opyrlght, mi )
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of our cherries, to which he is always
welcome) than the above number of
crows. Anri when in the field we
would ra'her listen to the song of one
meadow lark than the discordant caw
ing of a whole flock of crows. Just
because the crow' may destroy a Jew
cut worms, must we preserve him to
prey upon the nests ard young of bur
song ami game birds (not to mention
our domestic fowl) when almost any
bird in the Hat would destroy more
Insects In a season than a dozen
crows ?
We hope this will be understood and
the watchword of both farmer snd
sportsman should be: "Swat the
Crow.” R. M. Ml HR AY.
Meat and Dally Diet.
Chicago.—To the Kditor of The
Omaha Bee: Your issue of May .1
t arried a report of a lecture by Dr.
Turner given at the exhibition held
tinder the auspices of your paper and
the Brandeis store.
Dr. Turner make* the statement
that the time will come when red meat
will not la* used, for it poisons the
nerves quicker than any other food
We must take exception to this state
Dodge
Brothers
Four
Passenger
Coupe
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TO-NIGHT
Yomorrow Alright
KEEPING WELL-An ff? Tablet
l a vegetable aperient) taken at j
night will help keep you welt, by
toning end strengthening your 41*
gaetion and elimination.
Uttdfororor
lOWar*
Gel •
aVBox
Chipioff ilw Old Block
W» JUNIORS-Litll* Nto
On* third the regular dr»a*. Mad#
of the earn* ingredient*, then candy I
coated. For children and adulta.
— •OLD BY YOUR DRUQOIBTmJ
ment. Modern science end medicine
has shown that the old distinction he
twecn red meat and other mra’s no
longer holds.
According to Dr. P. R. Hawk, s
recognized authority: "An accurate
chemical analysis of the various meats
fails to show any material difference
in the extractives which are present
in the meats of differen' hues." Dr.
Hawk was a professor of phystolngj
cal chemistry at the Jefferson Medi
cal college In Philadelphia. Similar
quotations might he made from other
authorities to bear out what I have
snid.
Meat used in a mixed liet contain
ing green vegetables, fruits and other
good foods is conducive to good health
and need not be feared by any one,
because of the Action that red meat
should be shunned, which some phy
sicians still cling to.
May we have room In your paper for
our letter?
Bl'RKAU OK NUTRITION,
C. Robert Mouiion, Director.
_ t*
t In making
^BALANCE
that
COUNTS
• Sulphur, zinc, lead and other ingredient* •
compounded with raw, gum rubber deter
mine a tire'* wearing qualities. In gaso
line. properly balanced proportions of low
and higher boiling point fractions govern
its worth as motor fuel. >
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RED CROWN is made by the most modern
and accurate processes of refining, to rigid
specifications which insure uniform gasoline per
fectly suited to modern motors.
It contains an abundance of low boiling point
fractions to assure quick starts, and plenty of
higher boiling point fraction* for power to the
end of the stroke and big mileage per gallon.
So well balanced is Red Crown that altering it in
any way gives a less thoroughly satisfactory year
nround fuel.
To get the most out of your car, drive up to any
Red Crown Service Station. You will be promptly
and courteously served with full measure of
^ - balanced gasoline which will operate your motor
REO CROWN on a lean, clean-burning economical mixture.
Road Map Buy Polarine motor oil there and give your motor
protective lubrication.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF NEBRASKA
Crown
cIhe Balanced Gasoline
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[sunny Side up
clake Comfort, nor forget _
Hhat sunrise nei/er failed us yet n
J Ctha IkiLtltr
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Tt'RNINO' T1M15 BACK.
In a few days we expert to he down in old Missouri, a
component part of the flood Will Excursion of the Omaha
Chamber of Commerce. When the spee.al train strike* Tarkio
we will he in our element, for then we strike Rnokport, Fair
fax, Corning, Craig, Bigelow, Mound City, Maitland and Skid
more, with every one of w-hlrh we w ere once as familtar as
we are with the palm of our hand. The only regret we shall I
feel on the trip is that we will not he permitted to parade at
■he head of Han Deadlines' band through the streets of Oregon,
ths county scat of Holt.
It was In Oregon that we finished what little public school
lng we had and became 'devil” in the oftlre of the old Holt
• 'ounty Sentinel. Tom Curry and Deacon Dobyns owned and
published the Sentinel when we started In as an apprentice.
And Tom and the Deacon are still publishing the old sheet. We
remember that, they called David Porter Dobyns ’ Deacon” be
cause he locked the part and acted anything but. If we can
sneak away from the train at Maitland we are going to Jump
to Oregon and say “Hello” to the old bunch. j
,
We shall he greatly disappointed if at Oregon we are not
permitted to meet John Marshall Nicholas Welton Dobyns
furry Croley, the muscular gentleman of color who swung the
lever of the old Washington press while we manipulated the
inking roller. And at Maitland we hope to meet up with Elliott,
the long and attenuated city marshal who once arrested us
for shooting within tho city limits*. The victim of our marks
manship on that particular occasion was a cat that disturbed
our slumbers, we at that time being foreman, pressman, make
up man. job printer, ad man and janitor of the Maitland Mes
senger, Will C. Charles, editor and publisher.
The visit to Rockport will be tinged with regret, for Dad
Turney will not be there. Dad was the sheriff who escorted us
lo jail one day because we Were In contempt of rourt for rs
fusing to answer a question Boss Miles put to us while we were
upon the witness stand. Boss was the county attorney, and
Judge Kelley was on the bench. Then, too, Uncle John end
Aunt Hanna AVrighf, with whom we boarded while printing on
th* old Atchison County Mail, will not be there.
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At Fairfax we hope to see the upstairs room In which w»
printed the Fairfax Comet, and at Craig we hope to meet up
with some old-timer who remembers the flood of IASI, when
we helped to print the Craig Meteor on wall paper because the
ready print couldn't reach us over the wild expanse of Mis
souri river water.
And If so he we meet up with a lot of gray hatred men and
women with whom we danced and sung more ye*--* ago than we
like to recall, then our Joy will he complete AVe are going to
insist that Dan Deadlines allow ns to play drum major for his
dusky musician* while parading through the old Missouri home
towns.
Incidentally, If any of the old-timers m»»t the train at th#
various points named wo are trusting to them not to t»II *11
ih.y know about the old days. AA'e have managed to live down
quite a few thing* during the 40 year* or more since we ca
vorted around In thn*« part*. AVICI, M. MAUPIN'.
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Spice of Life
"Our party would have been a
great success." said the temperance
leader, “it only our leading speaker
had not forgotten himself '
"Why, what did he do?”
"Well, before he drank the glass of
water he tried to blow the foam off
the top.-'—City' College Mercury.
A cat may look at a king, they sav.
An old-time proverb whieh never
fails.
But the cat must blush If he knows
today
What a horse can do to the prince
of Wales. —Detroit Free Press.
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"You look so pleased, old rr.sn. the
fortune teller must have predicted
something good. *
"You bet! She predicted that 1
would have a financial reverse
*i don't see anything Joyoua In
that."
"You would If yoq know anything1
about my finances. I tell you that if
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they don't reverse pretty quick I’ll be
busted.'—Boston Transcript.
' Somebody says be is never alone
who is accompanied by noble
thoughts. '*
‘ Or an umbrella."—Louiavlll# Cou*
rler-Journal.
I hired a car and I bought some
seats
Where the violins were whining.
I bought «ome orchids and enme eat*
Where wealthy folks were dining.
I got In return a good night kiss,
Just a tiny little caress. O!
And the question I ask m' *e!f !« thie
Was it worth all that? I gesso.
—Louisville Courier-Journal.
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