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TRUTH MAY HURT, BUT TELL IT.
The first public utterance of Charles G. Dawes
after his nomination is characteristic of the man. In
stead of its being a partisan political speech, it was
an appeal to the common sense of his bearers and
»f all Americans. He begged them to break away
from the cajolery and comforts of demagoguery and
to courageously face the truth, whether it be pleas
ant or not.
It is good to have a man in high place, a leader
of men, speak frankly. Americans have acquired
an unfortunate habit of shutting their eyes to any
thing that is unpleasant, no matter how inevitable,
and meeting their troubles with little if any prepara
tion. Eight years ago Charles Evans Hughes was
greatly criticized because he told us we were living
in a fool’s paradise. He urged his countrymen to be
courageous enough to fare a storm that was about
to break over the nation. Against Mr. Hughes was
raised the voice of Martin Glynn, sounding the key
note of Ahe St. Louis convention, “Thank God for
Wilson! Hf kept us out of war!” Refuge found
in that majestic hit of verbal magic was not suf
ficient to afford safety sought by so many, who
could not or would not see what was plainly put
before them.
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, Considering this propensity of the people, Mr.
} Dawes has this to say:
“As human beings whatever may bs our party,
we are bound to differ on many subject*, but s*
good citizen* we can unite to demand from thoae
who represent u* In political debate that they
present our difference* honestly and from the
standpoint of truth—not from the standpoint of pas
sion and prejudice. The man who distorts facts—
k th* man who preache* pleasant doctrine* to on*
portion of our peopl* and another pleasant but ab
solutely Inconsistent doetrln* to another portion,
Is a menace to tho safety of our fundamental Insti
tution*. A* good citl*en», irrespective of party, w#
l V must demand from our political leader* a strict ad
) herenee to the truth. Including disagreeable truth."
i To b# free men must stand upright in a world
IS where things are not always ordered just as they
7 ' would have them. Truth hurts at times, but it is
f better to know the truth. A physician can not pre
scribe the remedy until he knows the character of
the disease, where it is located, and how deeply it
is seated. This applies to business, to politics, to
4 every normal activity of human life. With leaders
like Coolidge and Dawes, the republicans go into the
I campaign, confident at least that demagoguery will
1 not rule as long as these men are present.
Making it easy for m’adoo.
1 Out of the dense fog of uncertainty that lowers
I over the approaching democratic national conven
»i tion one gleam of light breaks through. William
Gibb* McAdoo is the center of as bitter a fight as
ever disturbed the councils of the unterrified. Four
years ago, when he approached San Francisco as
I the “heir apparent,” he was generously fought by
those who thought him ineligible. Now that gener
osity seems to have turned to fierce animosity, and
all the tricks known to tho crafty manipulators of
conventions are being employed against the leading
I candidate. That is, he is leader so far as the num
I her of pledged delegates goes.
This will explain the mysterious telegrams coming
out from Ohio, which Chairman Durbin of that state
says are without his knowledge, threatening disclos
l » tires that will wreck the McAdoo hopes in event he
ll should be named. The trick is one of the oldest in
111 the armory of political weapons. It is used to work
11 both ways, generally to produce a sympathetic reae
I jj tion among delegates who are chivalrous enough to
(■ resent the secret approach of a wily ealuminator.
Whatever its purpose, the campaign is significant of
the respect with which Mr. McAdoo’s eminence is
regarded by his opponents.
The alternative also is interesting in Omaha.
Should the-McAdoo men, failing to land him, throw
their strength to Carl Raymond Gray, as it is hinted
I they may do, the program at New York will be beau
I tifully varied. It would be a distinct departure for
■[the democrats to name as candidate for president a
■ man whose capacity has been so thoroughly demon
I strated. Carl Gray has proved his ability, by han
7 dling a great variety of business assignments. He
# (started as a telegraph operator 41 years ago, and by
degrees has come up to one of the most responsible
positions in the transportation world. It scarcely
seems possible that the democrats would select a
man so eminently practical, yet no one can tell, least
of all the democratic bosses, just what the conven
tion will do.
MEXICANS FALL OUT WITH ENGLAND.
■I The little flare-up between England and Mexico
^Rndicates how tender is the balance between na
^■tions. It simply involves the point of national honor,
i mm on which finally all international relations must
W rest. Herbert A. C. Cummins, formerly consul gen
I eral of Great Britain in Mexico, is present there as
■ charge des archives, pending resumption of relations
if between the two governments. England is the only
1 power that has not yet recognized the Obregon gov
9 eminent. Cummins is personally distasteful to the
I Mexican authorities, and has been ordered to with
(draw from the country. He is at present under
JL protection of the Chilean minister.
J|5 A commissioner was on the eve of leaving Lon
■ I jjon for Mexico to negotiate a settlement similar to
All fhat reached by the United States with Obregon
A-V^rhen the order to expel Cummins was issued. Ram
■ Mpay MacDonald immediately demanded that the
A Earder of expulsion be recalled, in the meantime de
■ F|ainlng hia commissioner, Obregon refuses to j
recall the order, and diplomatic relation* are en
tirely broken off.
There the matter rests. Each nation insists its
honor is involved, and steps will have to be taken to
adjust the difference. That these will promptly
follow there can be no doubt, for England does not
seek nor can Mexico afford to be engaged long in
such a controversy. The world will get frpm the in
cident a little better understanding of what the
United States put up with for eleven years in deal
ing with the Mexicans. Advanced as the nation is
under Obregon, it has not yet come to fully realize
the responsibility as well as the authority that de
volves upon an independent people.
OLD SOL AND THE WEATHER.
Much of our present day belief rests on the
purely mechanical effects of the sun’s heat on the
terrestrial atmosphere. Back in the dim past, when
civilization was coming to life in the valleys of the
Nile, the Euphrates and the Ganges, man did not
understand these thinss. He did know, however, that
rain and heat and light came from above, and that,
these were necessary for the fructification of the
fields on which he depended for food. Out of this
he builded a simple but. satisfactory system of cos
mogony, all resting on the thought of a higher and
more beneficent power than any known on earth.
Some of that faith still lingers. Man does not
yet know all about the relations of the sun to the
earth, bus he knows lastly more than did those
original worshipers who adored the great orb as the
embodiment of the groat omnipotent God, a living
symbol of His power and goodness. We know now,
for example, that one effect of the sun's rays is to
produce evaporation of surface water. This is
caught up into the air, where it is held as vapor. In
time this vapor condenses, forms clouds, and finally
precipitates. Atmospheric movements are in response
to another effect of the sun’s heat on the earth.
Warm air rises, and cold air comes in to take its
place, and so there is a constant exchange.
After we get away from these fundamental facts,
the developed knowledge of man concerning the sun
and the air begins to spread out rather thin. At the
moment it is suggested the unusual climatic exhibi
tion is due to an enormous crack in the surface of
tile sun. As that orb is 860,000 miles in diameter,
exclusive of its tremendous gaseous envelope, it will
take some crack to materially affect the ordinary in
fluence of the sun on the earth. As to the per
manence of such effect, consider the month of June,
1983, which is comparable to the present, in that the
local rainfall was almost,identical in volume. Forty
one years have elapsed since then, years of seed
time and harvest, of alternate plenty and scarcity.
When thinking of the daily rains, recall the merry
month of May, 1892, when the Methodists assembled
in Omaha were so thoroughly and persistently
drenched.
The argument is that “the wind bloweth whence
it listeth,” just as it always has and always will, to
long as there is wind to blow. And the covenant
made between Jehovah and Noah has stood for many
centuries. The weather is one thing man can not
control, so grumbling at it is effort wasted.
GOVERNOR NOT A SELFSTARTER.
Omaha’s merry little gasoline war, which now in
volves all filling stations, is getting some attention
from abroad. St. Paul and Minneapolis are wonder
ing how we do ^t, and other cities, where the auto
users still pay high prices for power fuel, would like
to know the secret. Just what the process is may
some day be divulged. It is enough for Omaha
drivers to know just now that they are getting 15
cerit gas, and that one station is selling it at 14
cents.
An unlooked for, but none the less welcome, de
velopment is that Governor Charles W. Bryan has
set out to redeem his promise to the Lincoln drivers.
Attorney General Spillman made many trips to
Omaha, held consultations, examined witnesses
under oath, and kept very silent as to what he found
out. He has promised some disclosures, however,
and these will doubtless come in good season. But
the effect of his visits was direct on the governor.
Far away in the southwest corner of Lincoln, re
mote from the busy center of town, the governor has
opened a filling station, where gasoline is dispensed
on the 15-cent basis. The selection of the site is
not so important as the fact that after weeks
and months of talk the governor did set about to
make good. It was belated, but it was the fulfill
ment of a promise made by the executive, and as
such it marks an epoch in his regime.
Lincoln auto drivers who can spare the time will
drive to Sixth and South streets, to have their gas
supply renewed, and while not knowing it waji Mr.
Spillman who started it, may bless the governor.
Also they will fervently hope that he pursues his
campaign long enough to get a station opened a
mile or so east of the one he has started.
“Do fish hear?’’ is a question now being discuss
ed by scientists. Of course they do. If you don't be
lieve just look at all the suckers who think they hear
themselves called to save the country.
The slate has just cancelled all mineral leases,
but that doesn’t help the fellows who bought gold
bricks during the heydey of prosperity.
“One Hundred Years of Gas” raptions the New
York Sun. Gracious, is congress threatening to
meet in continuous session?
Perhaps they call them Wall Street Lambs be
cause it is sheer foolishness for them to think they
can beat the game.
The cold and reserved Senator Lodge had plenty
of opportunity for both at Cleveland.
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Homespun Verse
—By Omaha’s Own Poat—
Robert Worthington Davie
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TRANSFORMATION.
I used to roam o'er the fields end dream.
And sit on the bank of a rippling stream,
And measure the azure, and strive to And
The lynit of vision within my mind.
There wasn’t an atom of discontent
In'all tbs world nor the skies of blue;
Nothing disturbed me wherever I went,
No ons kept telling me whnt to do.
The urge to embark fo^ the New grew etrong,
The placid days and thie nights grew long,—
I drifted afar to the busy mart,
I found s home but I lost a heart.
I left, the Aalda and the rippling stream;
I learned tha title I'Ve earned, but still
I haven't forsaken the magle of drrnm,
And don't presume that I ever will.
Hut here I am In the whlrtlng spare—
One of the cog wheels set In place—
Doing my hit mechanically Ane
Kor nothing I may regard ns min*.
I've wakened at last from a foolish trifrne; —
And. measuring time with the earavsn,
I eee and know with e fleeting glance
That X am only a hired man,
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Hanging Abo Murder,
Bhda, Neb.—To the Editor of
The Omaha Bee: When will this
nation, which claims to be Chris
tian and civilized, cease violating the
laws of Qod by taking human life un
der the pretense of legality? Has the
law any right to take from a man that
which it can not give hack? Does
law make the taking of human life
any the less murder? The spectacle
of a man being Induced to confess
to the crime of murder by promises
of leniency, and then being sentenced
to be legally murdered, ought to shock
people Into a realization of the awful
neas of capital punishment. So long
as governments kill legally we may
expect the Influence to be reflected
In wars and personal revenges and
murders. Capital punishment should
be abolished. JOHN A. ARMAD.
Judge Was Right
Benkleman, Neb.—To the Elltok
of The Omaha Bee: No question can
be made that the Judge In Chicago
was right when he sentenced a self
confessed murderer to he hanged
What would become of us if s cul
prit could escape the penalty of his
crime by admitting his guilt? Mawkish
sentimentality wasted on murderers
Is the undoing of a lot of our boasted
civilization. Long before Moses
brought down from Sinai the com
mandment, "Thou Shalt Not Kill."
Jehovah had made a covenant with
all mankind through the patriarch
Noah, part of which says: "Whoso
sheddeth man's blood by man shall
his blood be shed." This was further
exp.eseed by, "An eye for an eye,
and a tooth for a tooth ” A murderer
has forfeited his claims on society
and society is Justified in exacting
from him the full payment of his
life. It 1* not vengeance, but protec
tion for aoelety that executes a mur
derer. H. J. HUNTLEY.
Saving Money.
A man who had paid $« for a couple
of seats at a musical performance was
annoyed because his wife raved over
nothing but ostrich plumes worn by
the various members of the cast.
"What beautiful feathers."
Such was the burden of her song.
"If that Is what you enjoy." d»
dared her husband, "next time I will
take you to a poultry show.—Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
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Abe Martin
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LISTENING IN
On the Nebraska Press.
"Tnu can't go wooing without court
ing trouble,” complains the bachelor
editor of the Hastings Tribune, Adam
Breed*.
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Editor Botkin of th# Gothenburg
Independent da^s that not even the
wisest mother can tell potato stain
from clgaret stain on daughter's
Ungers.
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Speaking the recent conference of
tlie Brothers Bryan at Chicago the
Neligh leader opines that W. J. B
concluded that he had lost enough hate
and was willing to let Charley begin
arrowing his'n into tb* ring.
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J. H. Walsh, for many years editor
of th« Crete Vidette, announces his
retirement therefrom. But he- will be
represented in its future publication,
just the same. His daughter, Lucille
has just been married to George
Th' hardest thing is t’ pay too
much for somethin’ like we didn’
care. Housework an’ frefch air used
t’ turn out some purty good lookin’,
natural finish gals.
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ciaice Comfort, nor forget
rA WORLD TRAVELER.
Throughout the long and busy honre of day
I have to read of rnen and politic*.
I have to listen to the things men say
I'ntil I hear the whistle blow at 6.
And then I heave a sigh of great content.
Slap on the cover of my old machine,
Don hat and coat, and footsteps gladly bent |j
For home, start out with appetite so keen.
With supper o'er I wander 'round the world,
From torrid clime to far-off Arctic cold,
I sail the main with pirate ftng unfurled,
Or fight Alaskan cold for yellow gold.
I ride the ranges of the boundless west.
And fight the schemes of crooks in busy mart—
Then politics forget, lie down to rest.
And sink to dreamless sleep, content at heart.
Throughout the day the politicians cry,
And traffic roars and rushes through the street.
I try to play my part while day goes by.
Add like a man my ev'ry duty meet.
But at the elose of day I doff my years,
Shut out the wrorld and scheming, busy men:
Start out with Hiick and Tom writh rousing cheers.
And for a tfme I'm just a boy again.
We boast of a private library that has few equals In this
section of the country. It has been In process of accumulation
for three-quarters of a century or more, having been started by
a preacher father who did not incline wholly to books on
theology. It Includes hooks on science, art, sociology, eco
nomics, philosophy, history and psychology, and plenty ©C
good, red-blooded fiction. But there are four volumes therein
that show an unusual amount of wear and tear. Their pages
are well thumbed, the binding soiled and a bit ragged, and
many of the leaves loosened by much handling. We read each
of them at least once a year, and have for many years.
When we reach the age that we can not chuckle while ad
venturing with Huckleberry Finn, laugh while companioning
with Tom Sawyer, Indulge in delightfully terrorizing shudders
at Long John Silver's actions and Captain Flint's shrieks of
"Pieces of Eight." or revive our own boyhood memories by re
reading the life of that bad boy, Tom Bailey, who wasn t eo
bad. after all, then we are ready to close our own volume and j '
be laid upon the shelf.
Edson Hleh confesses that he has a weakness for stories
of the South Seas, and Judge Sullivan admits when pressed
that he dotes on detective stories of the “Old Sleuth" brand.
Few Omahans know that Gurdon W. Wattlefc loves poetry .or
that he has written some versee that are worthy of the best
magazines, but which will never see the light of day.
Freedom will shriek when Pat Harrison yells.
We now Insist they Pass a Law
To nab the cuss contrary
Who shuts the door he always left
Ajar last January. WILL M. MAUPIN.
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Wright. Mr. and Mrs. Wright, both
printers and both capable newspaper
publishers, will hereafter publish the
Vldetta, which is one of the oldest
weeklies in eastern Nebraska. They
will be Joyfully welcomed to the fold
by the brethren and the sisters.
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R. P. O'Connor, editor of the Deni
son (la.) Review, visited in Alliance.
Neb., recently, to look over 7,000
acres of land he owns In Pox Butte
county. And Editor Brewster of the
Alliance News wonder where'n thun
der O'Conner got it.
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Allan D. May in Auburn Herald
Some of the small boys who wonder
about town with nigger shooters, kill
ing song birds in violation of the law
may grow up to be "super-intellect
uals" and kill a boy Just for the thrill
they can get out of It. Then their par
ents will be the last to blame them
selves.
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The Clarks Enterprise man opines
that the plea of the slayers of thei
Franks boy should be total depravity i
Instead of Insanity.
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The Pierce Call opines that If any!
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good comes from Attorney General
Spillman's attack on the gaaoline
trust. Governor Bryan will bo right
there to claim all the credit.
NET AVERAGE
PAID CIRCULATION
for May, 1924, of
THE OMAHA BEE
Daily__ 73,980
Sunday - 76,373
Does not include returns, left
overs, samples or papers spoiled in
printing end includes no specie!
sales or free circulation of any kind.
V. A. BRIDGE, CIr. M*r.
Subscribed end sworn to before me ,
this 5th day of June, 1924.
W. H. QUIVEY.
(Saal) Notary Public j
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But Red Crown is so accurately balanced to give quick
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