PROPORTIONALREPRESENTATIONNEARPUREDEMOCRACY I Means End to All Hack Politicians Would Hurt Party Govern ment But Afford Direct Rep resentation ; Real Statesmen Have No Fears of Sygtem. House of200-300 Ample B> H. G. WELLS. Author of "The Outline of Hleterr." London, Way 31.—The politicians of Great Britain under the pressure of various accidental and some funda mental necessities are belnr forced ZJ toward* an honest democracy and ef flclent government. But they resist with great activity and Ingenuity. A bill for what Is called proportional representation, but which la really sane voting, has recently been reject ed by the house of commons by 23S to 144. It had the official support of the liberal party. Previously, the liberal hacks were against It but they have been chastened by the last two elections. The bill went far to wards honest representative govern ment. But when the time comes for its reintroduction it will be necessary to extend it or supplement It by an other, reducing the numbers of the representative assembly. The urgencies of the British situa tion have put Great Britain far In advance of the United States in this majter. There is a, respectable move ment for proportional representation in the United States, but It has still to be realized ns practical politics and a serious need by the American public. In America, every citizen la born either a little republican or a little democrat. It does not matter what the republican or democratle platform ““ V How About a Little Home Art? Nothing nrtistie is worth while unless il comes from the other sidf." By o. o. McIntyre. i I am beginning to wonder if there, 1* really any art in America. Europe for the last few years haa been draw ing the red herring acroes the trail. Nothing artiatic is worth while un ites it comes from the other side. Cer tainly we must have a little home talent. The man who brings most of the so-called artistic things to New York is foreign born. He has millions, lie says his whole purpose in life is to further and support Amerlfan art. As one who knows nothing about art I'm growing wary. There is a man who brought the Cbauve Souris, DiaghilefT's Russian Ballet, Copeau's Theater du Vieux Colombler, Stanislavsky’s Moscow Players and lately Max Reinhardt's ‘Miracle." He has a mild Itch for publicity and I get the idea he is more interested in personal exploitations than art vith a capital A. I have seen much worthier efforts than those of the Moscow Players or Chauvs Souris ex pire for lack of funds. European art for same reason or Other always has a bankroll behind it. Why? It Is a fair question and I think it Is time some of us were seektlng the answer. ‘‘The Miracle," for In stance, is a marvelous spectacle—a stupendous one. Only one with mll Pons could have fostered It despite the whin" of the pseudo producer that he was on his last quarter when the play opens. Now it seems to me “The Miracle" is subtle propaganda ami In many ways also In my opinion it is danger our propaganda. Ko that's that. Entriie and I nfair. For the last 10 years there has been an increasing flair to bring all the heralded art triumphs from Eu rope. It has come to the point where only the good actors, good painters, good musicians and the like are for eign born. That Is not only untrue. It Is unfair. , I cannot help but remember of be ing In Paris when an American singer was roundly hissed for no reason at all. Nor can I forget the boos in a London music hall when an Amer ican actor said "dollars" instead of "pounds." America is always being heralded a* a land of promise for art. In other words we are artistically stupid, hut Europs is going to teach us. I quoie from the speech of one of the foreign born backers of American nrt before the Drama league. He is speaking of the idealism of our art and says: "In some ways It is crude n», yet. home of its manifestation* are tawdry? some irritating, some pnthet |e, but some of them splendid, and, whatever the mode of expression, the thing Itself Is yery deep snd line, very genuine and full of promise."’ In other word* again we are a money grubbing nation chasing the dollar, but we are going to be taught of the beautiful things. Europe has not In the last half i entury produced a playwright that Is anyway comparable to Eugene O'Neill, Zone Gala, George Kelley, Eugene Valter, or a half dozen others I could name. Or have they produced a novelist or writer com parable to Booth Tarklngton. Mere dith Nicholson, George Ade, Sinclair Lewis and a dozen more I could name. In the spectacle side of the theater they have not produced anyone to compare to Zelgftld, George White, and several othters. ^ More Americanism Needed, It Is ft maatake to foeter the Idea that we have not as much of the historically romantic background h» »slats In European countries. True . art Is national mid It Is not rioted to any particular soil. It does not strike me that It Is furthering 'Amerl cert art to bring these Europea# achievements over here with a loud sounding of trumpets. It is dis couraging to the American artist. It has always been a mystery to me why so few American singers have achieved the Metropolitan opera. Those that do. have to yield themselves to European teachers for many years—so much so that they return almost de nationalized. I am getting to the point where I pine for a little more American ism in everything from opera to my menus. I refuse to believe America Is just groping after higher things and cannot find them. Also I am a little weary of men who have come to America from Europe and grown into millionaires continually neglecting our American artists and furthering the cause of the Europeans. I wish the European artists well, hut between the two I'm for the American artist every time. Let's give him a chance. The idea that unless it is Imported It is no good is gaining too much headway among those who do not think. It is bad for American ideals. It strikes at the very root of our most valuable asset—love of country. Europe should not be the arbiter of American art. We have developed our own and it is just ns good if not better than what wo are being sent every month or so. We are beginning to view our American artistic efforts with a sort of martyred expression. 1'. S. Plays Superior. Never in the history of the New York theater has there been such a conspicuous season as the one just past. There were more than 35 sure fire hits on Broadway. They ran the range—comedy, drama and tragedy. They were American made and done by Americans and there wasn't a one that didn't surpass every European importation, from “The Miracle” to "Cliauve Souris"—up or down as you please. I’m also tired of hearing America referred to as the “land of the al mighty dollar.” It isn't true now and it never was true. America in the past century has conquered a contl ABYKRTIUKMEIT. • Mrs. C. A. l'AYNE. Health Brings Beauty Manchester, Jown.—‘I am glad to hove the opportunity to tell of the great benefit T have received by tak ing Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and Dnlden Medical Discovery. They are the two finest medicines I have ever used. Have taken lots of otherd but never got any relief until I started taking these remedies. I had been troubled for about four years with feminine weakness and my feet would swell until T would have to take off my shoes, but since taking Dr. Pierce's medlclnel feel much better—sleep better, sud am beginning to feel more Ilka myself. I j will always praise Dr. Pierce's medl tines." Mra. C. A. Payns, 600 E. Butler Street. tiet Dr. Pierce's remsdles st any i drug slots, In tablets or liquid. Write Dr. Pisces, President invalids' Hotel In Buffalo, N. V., for fre» nodical sdvlce 1 Is or what tort of man Is put up for him In his division, he has to vote for his party. There is nothing else for him to do. America’s Youth Advantage. The United States is young, pros perous and at a great advantage to the rest of the world; It may be able to afford its present travesty of democracy for a long time yet. Britain cannot. The party system has alwaya been more rigidly organized in America than in England. In Britain on the left side, counting liberal, labor and communist to gether, there are eight or 10 distinct sohools of political thought and inten tion; on the right side there are five or six. The British voter grows more erratic and the results of gen •ral election* more silly and Incalcul able. The Idea of proportional representa tion ia now- nearly a century old. It 1b due to a clear headed man named Hare. He proposed that a number of candidates should stand for the whole country as one constituency. The voter would vote for the man he liked and trusted best. If that man was ao widely liked and trusted that he got more votes than is needed to return him, he takes as large a frac tion of every vote as he needs and if the voter has Indicated a second choice on his paper, the rest of each vote goes to the candidate next on the lint. Direct Representation Assured Whatever happens some or all of the voter's support goes to the man he has chosen. That man Is his man par excellence. There could be no direct relatlonahlp between voter and representative. But if that man It a desirable man, the voter may also congratulate himself on the partial posaesslon of a second or even a third, more personal representative. There are people who profess to find great difficulty In understanding pro' portional representation; mostly this Is a purely wilful and subjective be fuddlement. The filling up of the vot ing papers Is perfectly simple and the counting and fractionation of the votes offers no difficulty to any properly Instructed educated person. Hare System Modified For trivial reasons Hare's voting method, which would give us# an al most pur# representatatlve democ ABE MARTIN On the Circus | ___/ A Veteran O’Many Continental Tour*. Well, th' season fer th’ sawdust scented, much frequented, circus tented has rolled around agin. Tear after year these slupedous aggrega tions with arenlc celebrities gathered ffom th' capitals o' th’ wrorld, rare exotic beasts an' birds, an’ trained seals, take th' road an’ thrill th' same ole countless thousan's, an' hun dreds no’ new babies. But th’ circus has Its fans jest th’ same as the atrical stock comppanies, burnt cork minstrelsy, an other time honored In stltutlons, an' their alius downtown early on ''show day” t’ see th’ same ole "magnificent, new free street demonstration—a solid mile o' glit terin' oriental splender rlvalln’ th' Me day pageantry o' ancient- Rome, etc.” We haven't missed but one circus In forty years, an' It dldn' show. We alius count th’ cages, but ther's never BO as advertised, an’ we've never yet caught an’ Abys sinian wart hog awake an' on Its feet. He's alius gone t' th' hay. We learned t' swear watchln' 'em unload a circus. We've seen th’ same black Sumatra rhinoceros with th’ same circus since he wuz a calf. Th’ last time we saw him they'd sawed his horns off so he'd fit th’ cage. Ring lln’s have th’ only circus giraffes. They die so easy that other circuses seem t' git tired buryln’ 'em all th’ time, so they don't have 'em. We guess Ringlln's 1s like th' feller that nent, physically and industrially. If we have been seeking the dollar even in our most materialistic days It was for better country. I have failed to find an Edward H. llarriman in Europe in the past decade. Or a James J. Hill or a lot more I couW name. Harriman was not only » great Industrial leader he was a poet. He rhymed In rails. Now the big point Is this. If Eu rope wants to send us her art let s welcome it. We don't want to hiss anil boo as I have seen It done over there. But let's not grow so hysteri cal. Lets look around the corner, or next door. The chaVices are we will find something just as good. In the past five years America has developed more novelists who have written marvelous pieces of work than the rest of the world combined. I know very little of painting and sculp ture but a man who knows tells me that in these two arts America has mad* more progress in recent years than anyaither country. So It Is up to most of us to cheer a little for ourselves and at the same time we can appreciate what Europe ■ Is doing and give her a cheer now and then. But we ought to AUDUBON CALF CLUB WILL TOUR Spec let hhpilrh to The Omaha Boo. Audubon, la.. May 31.—The Audu bon county calf club tour will be made next Thursday. A picnic din ner will be held on the E. B. Thomas farm, north of town, at which place a number of calves will be judged by Frank Duvall, official Judge of the tour. Another group of calves win ba Judged on the Willie Esbeck farm In Oalcfieid township later In the day. The local I.lons club Is co-operating with the county farm bureau to keep up the Interest of the farm boys and girls In club work. There ere 24 boys enrolled In the calf club this yea r. got married so many times, that said he'd bury ’em as fait as th' good I.ord took 'em. Some o' the ole. flat back ring horaea that come around have been In th’ business for 40 years, an' th' pearl o’ th' arena Is jest as safe on their backs as she'd be walkin’ around Milroy, Indianny. Unlika non professional horses, they go slower instead o' faster when they’re whipped. 'Bout th’ only dif ference In circuses Is th’ number o’ elephants, which ranges from three t' 30. But they all do th’ same things. When an elephant gits tired o’ th' show business, they shoot him. Th’ only new thing we've seen with a circus fer years, we seen last year —a bony sebra. If ther s anything In th' world that's found an' plump, Its a rebra. They're easy kept an' git no exercise. Th' ole feller stood In th' cage with his head down an' his eyes half closed jest like an’ ole fergotten hack horse In front of a soft drink parlor. We'll bet If ha could have talked, he would have asked about George June on' the' ole Gilmore Zoo. Th’ same circus had onother novely—th’ trained seals wux brought In th’ ring In a wheelbarrow in stead of a push car. Tree SURGERY r«n not be executed by everyone. It is dangerous to attempt this un less you aro an expert. We attend to tree* when and where they need i* in order to improve their ap pearance and prolong their life. In veatigate thi* erviee. 50th a ad Ihjdge C. E. Baldwin. Mgr AT. 0174 or HA. 3500 North Side—liable Flower Shop Him N. tith ■BaBBaaaaman, — ■■■■■ ■ ■ ■■■ ■■ - Real Estate Doesn’t Go Broke . * When an Investor has his money in Real Estate, he doesn’t spend any time worrying about the Safety of his Investment. He knows it won’t fail. He knows it won’t get away from him. He knows his Invest ment is absolutely Safe, Secure and Firm. Omaha Real Estate, since the very first in corporation of this city, has had a habit of increasing in value. Consistent Investors in Omaha Real Estate j have made themselves financially independ- j ent. They are free from all financial worry. Any kind of Omaha Real Estate, Vacant S Property, represent the highest form of In- I vestment. ; When money goes into such investments, the : Investor is one step nearer financial inde pendence. The same is true of those than invest in Ne braska or Iowa farms, or in mortgages se cured by those farms. j Realtors are the best informed on these Invest ! ments. They will give you the best advice and counsel. They are reliable. ! _ OMAHA REAL ESTATE BOARD Consult a Realtor ! L : :"-.: '' racy, haa been modified In all the practlal proposals made by the di vision of the country Into large con stltuencies Instead of leaving It one whole, and the assignation of a limited but still large number of members to each. But Its virtue of comparative veracity In representation still to a large extent remains. Kendall's recent bill proposes con stituencies returning not less than three and not more than seven mem bers. This Is much too small for a real representation of British opinion but It was as much as the paxty wirepullers would allow. When the question Is reopened this maximum should be Increased. The objections to the measure were mostly trivial or based on misconcep tions. Ths question was Indeed not discussed. Most of the opponents from the labor side contented them selves with twitting the liberal poli ticians with change of heart upon the question. Most of the big men in all parties are for proportional rep resentation because they know they are outstanding enough to survive Its establishment. Party Hack Doomed. The party hack knows ha lives through end by hie party; the voter doee not choose him but suffers him, and at the flrat clear opportunity the voter will push him out of the way and choose a more Interesting nonparty man. About 70 labor men who have at on# time or another pro fessed approval of proportional rep resentation did not vote. The struggle against proportional representation is really the life strug gle of the professional party politl 7 I c--- ' ' - clan. Under proportional reprasenta tlon the legislative assembly Instead of being selected by a small majority or even a minority of the voters In the country will be representative of nearly the whole country. In a constituency electing 10 mem here, for instance, there will prob ably be less than a tenth of that con stituency not actually represented by members returned. This will All the assembly, with free members, respons ible only to the voters who have re turned them and practically Independ ant of organized party support. They will necessarily be various In their opinions. Reduce Size of Bodies, it Is not yet sufficiently realized e\en by the supporters of proportion al representation that a country which returns men because they are distinctive and significant to Its leeis lature—and that Is what the adoption of proportional representation means —will need an assembly of a different size and type from the present clumsy crowd of notables and nobodles at Westminster. There ere too many members of parliament at Westminster for effici ency Just aa thara are too many congressmen at Washington. Thay loaf about. They do mischief In ob acurltjr. They are to publlo affairs what excessive fat la to the body of a man. These big legislative bodies date from a time when group psy chology was not thought of. It Is even possible that a big legislative body elected by proportional represen tation, would be a worse evil even than the party house. Released from the party ties that control them, bunched Into fluctuat ing groups, the scores and hundred s of unnecessary members would ob struct and confuse every legislative proposal. Proportional representation must mean not only the suppression of the hack politician but also the suppression of the commonplace mem ber. Kor efficient government we want a legislature no larger than Is fairly representative of the broad varieties of public opinion. At the largest we need only from 200 to 300 members, a grand committee of the nation, ap pointing ministers severally, assign ing tasks to subcommittees and ex pressing the general Ideas of the country. We shall certainly be able to dispense with the rotation of the ' :rs and outs” and possibly with the or ganized cabinet in such a legislature. The adoption of proportional repre sentation will be a much profounder and more revolutionary change than s mere change In voting procedure. 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