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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (June 11, 1924)
./ 4 *-■ - - *«! ■ OmalidWhero (heM?st is at i(s Best GOING TO BAT AT CLEVELAND. Word that comes from the convention at Cleve land indicates that the republican party is the hope of the people yet. Preliminaries prove that ex tremists of either side will have to take a back seat. Neither the east nor the west is to control, but the interests of one great, united, harmonious country will rule. Calvin Coolidge is hailed as the true rep resentative of this spirit, and whoever is selected to be the candidate for vice president 'will fairly match with him as a champion of no special interest or sec tion, but a man who can be presented by a party that knows only the good of all the people of the United States. Certain names that have been big in conventions of the party in the past will not be heard so fre quently in this. Here is no sign that the republican party is abandoning its anchorage, merely a proof that the passage of time brings with it changes. New conditions are to be dealt with, and the bringing to the front of new men as leaders is but a recognition of the orderly, evolutionary progress that must mark the course of a responsible political party. Proud as republicans are of their past, they can not live in the days that are gone. Tho party record is pre sented as a guaranty for the future, but the active principles of government move forward. • * * A forecast of the platform is interesting. Its outline does not sustain the predictions that it would be reactionary, or radical, or that it would ignore vital questions. Nor is it conservative solely for the sake of safety. Problems that are paramount in their importance are to be met with a positive declaration of party policy, the intention to deal with them squarely and solve them in a way that will be for the good of the nation. Cost of government is given foremost position, and on this the record of achievement actually made in the way of reducing expenses and lowering taxes is presented as proof of promise redeemed and an earnest of the pledge made to continue the work. The World Court will be approved, but not the League of Nations. To the veterans again the party gives assurance of sympathetic interest and de termination to guard them in all their rights, espe cially those who have suffered in the service of their country. For industry and commerce, the record of the party is clear enough. Extension of export trade, with full protection of the home market, is the plan. Farmers are pledged the fullest possible assist ance from the administration. In this connection the anticipated democratic sneer may be met by pointing to the heroic figure of Key Pittman, stup ing immovable in the path of an appropriation for the benefit of the farmers. He typifies the attitude of the democrats in the last congress when it came to doing anything for agriculture. • • • All the way along the line the republicans have .shown a determination to squarely meet the opposi tion. Instead of a disorganized congeries of groups of disgruntled politicians gathering to wrangle over points of personal or factional difference, the con vention 3hows a united purpose. Counsel will be taken, and will prevail, and it will not be the counsel of expediency. Those who looked for and even pre dicted the break-up of the party at Cleveland will be disappointed. That much is made certain from the first day's session of the convention. WHO FREE TRADE WILL HIT. All through the discussion of agricultural condi tions in the I'nited States the democrats have woven a thread of their traditional policy of free trade. Beginning with the world market, they have worked around until now they are openly attacking the es tablished industries of the home land. They want permission to trade farm products of the United States for factory products of Europe, the transac tion to he carried on through the federal govern ment, and all European articles so traded in to be ad mitted duty free. The admitted effect of this, Indeed, Its avowed purpose, is to force down the selling price of home made wares. Unless this can be clone, there is noth ing to be accomplished by the proposed plan. The idea, then, la to close factories and workshops in the United States that those of Europe may prosper. In order to compete, working conditions In the United States must be brought to a level with those of Europe. One illustration has the picture of trad ing ten bushels of wheat for a suit of clothes in England; An appropriate background for this would be the more than 4,000,000 idle British workmen, who are drawing the dole, or unemployment pay given by the government at the expense of the tax payer. If such a situation he desired in the United States, it may very easily be accomplished. Just restore the democrats to power, let them manipulate the tariff laws as they did under Wilson, or under Cleveland, and the souphouse and the bread line will come hack at once. Men who can remember the 90s, or even 1914. need not he told about this. Yet that is what the democratic lenders arc- work ing for. They have persistently asserted that the world market is closed to the farmer, when a« n matter of fact the agricultural exports from the •United States are in excess of any prewar total. The farmer is called upon to face keener and more diffi cult competition than ever. Canada has a potential wheat production of 400,000,000 bushels more lhan before the war. This wheat is grown in virgin soil, at a cost far below that In the United States. The Nebraska wheat jralaer can not meet the Canadian on even terms in the world market. He has the bene fit of a protective tariff that keeps the Canadian our of Nebraska’s home market. That mueh the gov ernment has done for him under republican protec tive laws. If the democrats get the chance, this pro tection will be withdrawn, and the wheat of the United States will(not only be compelled to meet Canadian wheat in the markets of the world, but right at home. How will it help anyone to pull another down? The republican policy is to build up, the democratic plan is to destroy what the republicans have done. WHO FOR SECOND PLACE? Above all other proposals to come before the Cleveland convention looms the choice of a vice presidential candidate. Mr. Coolidge, to whom the first place on the ticket is now assured, has said that the nominee for vice president must be a man who may assume the duties of president if called upon. One in whom the people will have full con fidence, and whose ability will not be questioned. Many names have been mentioned in connection with the honor, none of the suggested nominees hav ing voiced any especial desire for the job. The office of vice president, however, is given additional sig nificance by a peculiar turn which is getting close attention. If, through the entrance of a third party, the election to be held in November fails to give a majority of the electoral vote to any candidate, then the election will be thrown into the house. As at present constituted, the possibility of an election by the house is remote. Each state has one vote, and a majority of all is needed for election. The political complexion of the house by states is 23 republican, 20 democratic, and 5 evenly divided. Failing in the house, the election will go to the senate, where a vice president can be chosen by a majority of the senate, although the candidates are limited to the two who receive the highest number of votes in the electoral college, and the candidate also must be eligible to the office of president. On his election as vice president by the senate, he becomes president. While the issue may not come to this point, the convention will surely take note of the fact, and give it due weight in all consideration of candidates. Republicans are looking ahead to an unquestioned victory in the fall. Democrats and third party pro moters are planning on throwing the election into congress. This phase of the campaign holds a little more than passing interest, and would be of deep sig nificance if the third party movement showed any outward signs of real strength. As it stands, the situation serves to add dignity to the office of vice president, and may open the way to its development to that place in the machin ery of the government which Washington believed it was designed to fill. A vice president as something more than a presiding officer of the senate was the thought of the fathers, although it has never been carried to its full meaning. A STAKE FOR THE DAYS TO COME. A convention of more than usual importance has just closed at Lincoln. It did not get much space in the news rolums, for it has no spell-binding orators or gifted press agents to trumpet its doings. Despite this modesty, it was one of the most im portant gatherings ever assembled in Nebraska. Several hundred boys and girls met as guests of the college of agriculture of the University of Nebraska. They were winners among the many clubs that are fostered by the agricultural extension bureau. On the merits of their work as producers of livestock, grain, vegetables or fruits they were adjudged deserving of a trip to the State farm, to he shown all that could be explained to them in a few short days. ■ This is the most practical form of assistance to agriculture. When a hoy or a girl takes a pig or a calf, or a brood of chickens, or any other begin ning thing in agriculture, and carries it through all the steps of growth and maturity, and wins a prize in open competition, it is an achievement worth noticing. Prizes won in athletic competitions, in sports or games, for music, art, literature, or any other of the many forms of endeavor that engender competition, are all sources of pride for they stand for achievement. But above these should be set the prize that is won in the eminently practical, but no less skillful competition in the way of producing fqod. The boy >or girl who wins a prize in such com petition is an asset to a state which depends on agriculture. Processes of farming are progressive, and it is through such comparisons that they are advanced. Each of the successful ones who were at Lincoln deserves the honors so well won and so Worthily borne. They are indeed a stake for days to come in Nebraska. It took four of Omaha's biggest churches to hold the graduating high school students for the regular commencement sermons. That ought to give you an idea of what is going on in the way of education. Canada is now interested in a machine to de stroy grasshoppers. Such a device might have found ready sale in Nebraska half a century ago. The independence of the American co-ed arouses the admiration of a visiting professor from England. He hasn't seen nothing yet. When W. J. B. arises to address the convention he will be listened to by a very synthetic audience. Secretary Wilbur of the Navy department may he a sea dog, but he takes to aviation like a bird. Elmer Thomas having twice as much money may reasonably be expected to do twice as good work. South ftakota delegates ara conscientious, if nothing else. A1 Smith believes in tha Volstead act with reser vations. -\ Homespun Verse —By Omaha'* Own Po«t— Robert Worthington Davie >-—— REALLY! But glrlB, the paint won't get you A man. Not on your life! Where la I he man w lin'd let you Become hla lovely wife? Today I grant, dear plater*. True thrift la In Ita prime; The hand* of men wear blleteia From toiling all the time. And men are looking, kiddle*, For maiden*, plain and neat, And thinking oft of widow* Whop* pa at has proved them aw*» t. Ungainly paint and pollah t'auae men to ponder deep:— Him h thing* they would abnliah, Such thought* perturb their Bleep. Be prudent, I beaeeeh you; Me n* Ood made you then, How pwiftjy Time will teach you Tht mundiuda Bought by intu ---•> Letters From Our Readers All Ifllem must be signed, hot name w ill he withheld npon reqneat. Comanol rations of 200 words «nd less will be given preference. V. Due to the Devil. found! Bluffs.—To the Editor of The Omaha Hee: Jn a recent editorial concerning the two young men in Chi cago nnd their appalling crimes, you confessed hew ilderment and entire lack of ability or basis on which to ac count for such actions, and In eub atance admitted that you were In an absolute mental and moral blind alley. There need be no such mystery whatever relative thereto If we will return to the truth, from which the present generation has so utterly nnd terribly erred, snd which fact and condition so generally prevailing is no doubt to a large degree responsi ble for the whole fearful record of evil and tragedy. The devil—the evil one—la the source, Inspiration and cause for the acts of these young men. Present day thought and teaching ha« sought to ignore and deny the existence of satan. and this doctrine and belief, with all the consequent and attendant error and blindness, intensified In this rase by wealth and Idleness, completely misled them, and what they did is only the specially enriched fruitage and the natural product of all such conditions. They had come It may be to that degraded atate wherein they believed themselves to hold kinship with and descent from the monkey or the jack ass, and therefore a developing and improving species, but utter strangers to tha truth, which is now clearly enough manifest, that they are mem hers of a lost, ruined and degraded creation, marred, blighted and d« formed by sot, which In greater or less degree Is the natural state of all mankind. 1'nbelief Is therefore the condition --x Abe Martin ^.. . _ .... / from which their conduct emanated not in the immediate actor* alone en tirely, but in the general etate of mind and heart amortg people with whom they came in close contact. The atheiatic teaching* of the coilegee and universities where their studies were pursued are entitled to a very large part of (lie responsibility, and are in fact i ynlly guilty with the young men, i n account of their* ungodly doctrines and theories. The Word of Hod dearly Informs us that tile *- vil as a roaring lion goeth about seeking whom he may devour. Jesus Christ warned and commanded that we should not fear those who kill the body, and after that have not more that they can do, but rather that we should fear him, (the devil), who after he has killed has power to cast into hell. "Yea, r sav unto you, fear him." A principal work and purpose in the life of Jesus Christ was In casting out evil spirit*, which he found everywhere possessing mankind, and which condition we now clearly *ee still prevails, ss proven by • p« Chicago trugedy. Probably not one, but seven, or a legion of devils h id entered Into and taken control of the eldest of those young men, and therefrom came the suggestion, source and plan of the things done by both of them. When we all return to this vital truth, understanding that men are possessed of evil until they are born anew, we will clearly se« the cause of the failure nf mankind and their awful mistakes and un*t>eak able sins. Infidelity, atheism, unbelief, the more or less wholesale rejection of God's Word everywhere, Is the cause I of all our crime and wickedness, the work of the devil In each Instance. The foolish Imaginings of men substi tuted for the sure word of truth and prophesy, the belief In the monumen tal stupidity and ridiculous absurdity called "evolution," ranks very high among the chief causes for present dr generacy and crime. li e have all contributed to this con ditlon and result In proportion as we have listened to.the foolishness of men and the oppositions of science, falsely so railed. These young men In Chi cago are special samples of tha effect of our work, and they have a host of partners if the fruits of our unbe lief i-ould he fully known, estimated and determined. L. H. MONROE. A Straight Tip. A young sport who answered sn ad vertisement offering to send some tips on the horses, received for his dollar a card with tills advice on it: Horses to follow—Hearse horses. Horses to track—Hobby horses. Horses to put something on—Saw horses. Horses to let alone—Race horses — Western Christian Advocate. Naming the Baby, ' I suppose, old man. you're going to name the baby, 'John,' after your self." "No; ws've derided to name him ‘Thomas' after a prolonged family row."- Boston Transcript. -> Of Course, It Will Hardly Be Possible to Season It so That They All Will Like It l- - - - - - -----------> _ AMBITION. I do not want a fortune great; 1 do not aeek the care* of state. With all their glitter and their glare. And wily schemes afloat In air. 1 do not ypurn for power or place; I Nor would I take part In the race Knr gold—I only ask that I .May sow good will while passing by; And that when I ant laid below The cool, green sod where daisies blow, Home one will pause a bit. and then He. late; "it* helped big fellowmen." I do not covet mansions grand. Nor acres broad on every hand. I do not yearn for jewels bright To dazzle some poor neighbor s sight. I do not yearn to take command And order men on every hand— I only ask that I may go Along the road where roses grow, And dying, have men pause and say: lie scattered sunshine all the wa>." T,et others dig and delve for gold; l.et others place of power hold. J,et others with a lordly air Stand forth within the limelight's glare, l-et others trade on hopes and fears And profit by the sobs ami tears Of those they wreck. I only ask The strength to do each daily task. Then homeward go with heart elate And greet my loved ones at the gate. When dead, to have men pause a while And say: “He gave the world a smile.’’ There may not be much excitement at Cleveland this wee' but the delegates from Nebraska will be spared one sad ex perience that was ours at a certain national convention in Chi ■ ago. We are still sore, mentally and physially. On that par ticular occasion we paid for the privilege of rolling our coat up for a pillow and sleeping five hours on a billiard table. i - i! m # can not forbear pulling the snclent wheeze about the gentleman who does not know what kind of summers we have In Omaha, owing to the fact that he has been here only a little mote than eleven months. We are In receipt of a "complimentary ropv" of a new campaign song. The most strllklng thing about it Is the fact that It Is copyrighted. We are still wondering why. Just let a baby's picture appear upon the screen, and every body chuckles at It. and you feel a wave of sympathy and de light sweep over the audience. But just let a baby In arm* I' down front give voice to a wail or two, and the wave that speedily spreads over that audlenre is neither sympathy nor delight. And usually the most violent protest against the wail ing baby is voiced by the fellow just behind us who persists In _reading the titles aloud. WILL M. MALTIN'- J Another thing that kin he laid directly t’ th’ emancipation o' wo men is that four or five downtown ratin’ places now thrive where one worried along before. One o’ th’ costliest errors is havin' too much confidence in our own judgment. (('opyiiirht, 1924.) ■ "'VT--7 When in Omaha Hotel Conant 250 Room*— 250 Rath*—Ratos $2 to $5 j A Challenge We defy any one to prove,that the Star au tomobile is not the highest grade standard unit built car in the world in its price class. 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