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OmalidVhefe the^st is dt its Best
NOT A POVERTY-STRICKEN PEOPLE.
‘‘Fighting Bob” La Follette's combined keynote,
nominating speech and letter of acceptance contains
ome evidence that he no longer thinks as keenly as
once he did. Or, it may be, he clings fondly to
the belief that a certain element of the voters of
the country will accept as true anything he cares
to say. Take your choice. The point is that “Bob”
let himself loose in one paragraph something to this
effect:
“In a land of unfold wealth, dedicated to the
* principles of equal opportunity for all, special
privileges to none, life has become a desperate
struggle for the average man and woman. The mil
lions at work on the farms, In the mines. In trans
portation, In the factories and shops and stores,
with all their Industry and saving, find themselves
poorer at the end of the year than at. the begin
ning.”
“Bob” doesn’t believe that, himself, but. it sounds
•rood for one who is appealing to the man who never
thinks. It lacks the element of novelty, however,
for it has been used before, and gets about th« same
amount of attention one time as another.
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If you want the answer, look down any street in
Omaha, Lincoln, Denver, Kansas City, any town in
the United States, and see the long rows of automo
biles, parked and awaiting their owners’ convenience.
Can these things be in a land where the struggle for
existence has become desperate for the average man
or woman? If “Bob” thinks every owner of an
automobile is an aristocrat -but he knows better.
Ho knows that at the conference to which he ad
dressed his letter the majority of the delegates own
* their cars and drive them.
Workers who are buying homps, paying for life
insurance, laying aside money in savings accounts,
these will all be interested to learn that each year's
end finds them poorer than did its begining. If that
is true, why did Senator La Follette and his fol
lowers so strenuously urge that the income tax b«
lowered to exempt the workers?
In no other country, in no other age, was the
great general wealth so widely distributed and uni
versally enjoyed as in the United States. We have
one John D. Dockefeller, Sr., one Henry Ford, one
Andrew Mellon, but we have millions of happy
homes, owned by their occupants. Poverty does not
enter, because the man and woman who have gone
into partnership are on guard. They are industrious,
frugal, confident in themselves.
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Where do all the radio sets go, the phono
graphs, the vacuum sweepers, the electric irons, and
hair curlers, if you please? Into these homes. Who
buys the electrically-driven washing machine? On
whose floors are laid the rugs that are woven and
old? Who wears the clothes, goes to the movies,
rides on the roller coaster? Those men and women
tor whom “life has become a desperate struggle.”
Certainly something should he done to mitigate
•he conditions under which Americans live, and
Fighting Bob” proposes to do it. He will havp the
'sistance of Victor Berger, who is also of the fight
inga corps from old Wisconsin. So will Morris Ifi 11
cuit enter the lines, he being a famous fighter from
Riverside Drive, up near Grant's Tomb, New fork.
Other illustrious, battle-scarred heroes of many a
-oap-box conflict will join in the fray. They will rid
• he American worker of the dread menace that now
hangs over him, and make him as happy as the Rus
sian mujik In time. Until then, if you lot "Fighting
Hob” tell it,, the situation of the wage slave in this
country is something awful. He only gets three good
meals a day.
A PROBLEM WORTH CONSIDERING.
At the 1020 general election considerable less
than 47 per cent of the qualified voters of the United
States took the trouble to.go to the polls and vote.
Since that time something like 97 per cent of the
qualified voters have seldom lost an opportunity to
complain about something nr other connected with
politics.
The number of people voting at. the 1920 elec
tion is about the same as the number of men and
women in the United States who are communicants
of the various churches. But it Is not conceivable
that the 47 per cent voting was made up entirely of
church communicants. On the contrary, the inevita
ble conclusion is that of those who refused or
neglected to vote a majority were men and women
who at least claim to he church members.
This gives rise to a question that is deserving of
more than casual attention:
“Can a man or woman he a real Christian and
at the same time carelessly or willfully neglect the
duty of exercising the franchise when < pportunity
offers?”
It is evident that the forces of evil and corrup
tion never lose an opportunity to vote or to control
party organizations. That they ate able to exerci-e
that control is not due to their numbers, but due
wholly to the fact that men and women who claim
'o he supporters and defenders of the right are too
indifferent, to their duties as citizens and Christians,
tndifrererice, not corruption, is the bane of American
politics. If every man and woman in this republic
who claim to be trying to lead a Christian life would
make good the claim of being good citizens and
taking a loyal citizen's part in public affair*, the
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political corruptionists in all parties would soon be j
forced into retirement. While Christian men and
women hold themselves aloof from public affairs,
leaving politics to the crooks and corruptionists who
profit by professional participation, nothing better
» to be expected. But when these Christian men
«nd women, when when men and women think more
>f right than of wrong, more of justice than injus
tice, more of cleanliness than corruption—when such
men and women become real citizens instead of mere
occupants of space on American soil, we may expect
better things.
DAVIS NAMED AT NEW YORK.
On Tuesday, July 1, William Jennings Bryan said
to delegates from Mississippi at New York: “This
convention must never nominate a Wall street man,
Mr. Davis is the lawyer of J. P. Morgan.”
Amplifying his statement, the Great Commoner,
who was at the moment acting for William Gibbs
McAdoo, further condemned Davis:
*'I know the temper of the northwest, and T offer
as my opinion to this delegation that you are throw
ing democratic chances to the wind In voting for
Davis. His clients and his connections In the east,
make him desirable there, but he can command no
following In the northwest, where the election will
be decided. I tell you that I,a Follette Will take
more votes from Davis than he will from the re
publicans.”
On the 104th ballot, a week later, the conven
tion gave Hon. John W. Davis of West Virginia the
necessary two-thirds majority, and set him forth
as the democratic nominee for the campaign of 1924.
Thus Mr. Davis, condemned in advance as a
Wall street tool by Mr. Bryan, falls heir to all the
acrimony, the dissension, the strife and rancor en
gendered during two weeks of the bitterest political
convention ever assembled in America. Riven and
shattered in every direction, the democratic party
has forgotten what harmony means. Torn by fac
tions and without agreement on any major issue, its
back turned on the great policy of its "revered”
leader, it stands before the world, discredited by
its own bosses.
Who can unsay the bitter invective that swept
over the council of the bosses during the last ten
i days? Who can undo the damage wrought by their
intemperate conduct? Is John W. Davis possessed
of that power of personality that he can unite the
elements that clashed in such discord and lead them
into a campaign against a unified opposition?
John Wr. Davis is a democrat of distinction, a
man of proved ability. He has served in many pub
lic capacities, his most notable position beng that
of ambassador to the Court of St. James, where he
succeeded Walter Hines Tage in December, 191R.
His name was presented long ago among the list of
those eligible for the nomination. In the east and
throughout the country generally, he had a follow
ing among the thoughtful democrats. Overshadowed
hy the noisy McAdoo-Smith-Ralston-Bryan element,
the chance for Mr. Davis appeared remote.
Had he been selected Parly last week, before
conditions reached the point where the stalemated
bosses said. “Oh, let him have it!” his outlook would
be much brighter. Accepted as Hobson’s choice,
named by a convention, tired out and longing to ad
journ. simply as a stop-gap candidate, even the most
optimistic of democrats will not regard his prospect '
especially roseate.
THE MODERN PRODIGAL SON.
The prodigal son in the parable told by the Mas
ter, came home penitent and ashamed. It was dif
ferent with the prodigal son of Seward county.
The father gave to each of his two sons his por
tion of the estate. One remained at home, in
dustrious, frugal and dependable. The other sold
his portion -and wasted the cash proceeds in riotous
living in a far country.
But when the Seward prodigal was on his up
pers, his stomach empty and his whilom friends miss
ing, he did not admit that he had sinned. He did not
return home humble and penitent. He came back
hating his industrious and frugal brother and with
enmity in his heart for the father who had been so
generous. He did not admit that his plight was the
fault of himself. He had enjoyed his fling, but he
was not willing to abide by the results of his own
folly. Instead of buckling dowt\ to work and mak
ing a man of himself, he indulged in seif-pity until
he became obsessed with the idea that his steady
going brother ought to be made to divide up. When
the steady brother refused and insisted upon the
erring brother going to work instead of loafing
around, the modern prodigal foully murdered his
brother in order to get the money he was too lasy
to work for.
Now he is in the penitentiary for life.
Just as there was a great moral to the story of
the prodigal son, told by the Master, just so there
is a moral to the story of this modern prodigal of
Seward county. There is no need to dilate upon it.
Those who can profit by it will readily see it; those
who can not see it would not profit by any explana
tion.
By the way, how would you like to have the rail
roads of the country managed by a hoard of direc
tors made up of delegates that nominated La Fol
lette for president?
Evidently the«Brothers Bryan do not propose to
have any presidential candidates from Nebraska
other than one of themselves,
Dan Stephens also knows how hard it Is for the
democrats to govern themselves.
Tune in on your radio and hear Nebraska corn
growing.
“The sting of ingratitude” is out for another
airing.
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Homespun Verse
•—-By Omaha's Own Poet—
Robert Worthington Davie
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DREAMS AND FRIENDS.
How queer that fate still leads us
Ho wisely on our way.
Amt yet—how fond the rnem'ry
Of one long fleeted dnv. -
Of sunshine, flowers and fervor,
And more than We may hold
In thought. Which Is a flaming
Hyperbole of gold.
And oft we sit n dreaming
of emhlcninl!c. things
Of sweet bouquets and kisses,
And tine engagement rings;
And oft nor hearts are giddy.
Our thoughts dynamic whirl
Across the spare of mem'ry
Wlib some forgotten girl.
And oft we go a souring
I'Ynm drear material things
lYilo the mythic gardens
W here we may dwell like kings,
Alill whrir as Time Is pressing,
• While toll to gloom descends,
The dreams that guide us onward
Arc naught, Indeed, but friends.
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Peace Afar Off.
Omaha.—To the Editor of The Onia
ha liee; Do to others as you would|
have others do to you. I*onk no! !
every man on his own things, hut
♦ very man also on the things of the
other*.
These two precepts, given to the
world nearly J.00,0 years ago by
Christ and Ills chief apostle, should
hav been sufficient to save the world!
and escape the horrors and calamities |
the rate has endured. Blit the nations
did not think it worth while to take!
notice. They preferred military glory
and put their trust in nun killers. In
kings and emperors, and every kind
of leader that had the brass to stand
up and face them.
Truly He (Christ! has ruled th* na
tions with a rod of iron as He said
He would do. That is He has allowed
the nations to rule ca< h other with
a rod of iron, ft is /..< Him to die
pens* peace, but how can He dispense
that which the people do not want '
When the nations will number them
selves and look after each other's In
terest, and the people individuaiy and
collectively look after each other s in
terest, then w fll the pea< e of the
world flew as a river. Then and not
till then. W. T. I, A WHENCE.
IIHter l uck In July.
"No man is perfect," declared th‘
philosopher. •
“That's so. but there's no use tel!
fng that to a June bride—during
June," returned the cynic. — Boston
Transcript.
Abe Martin
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"What’* more emharrassin’ than
walkin’ clear aero** a hotel oflire,
an’ then misatn' the cuspidor?”
raid Lafe Bud t’day. It’* je*t about
pot. *o th' price o' liberty i* a fine
an’ jail *entence unleas ^ou kin
prove you bought it before th' sa
loon* went out.
(Oopyrl*hf. 1»!4 )
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PAID CIRCULATION
for June, 1924, of
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Sunday .76,224
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W It OUIVKY.
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LISTENING IN
On the Nebraska Tress.
I,*w Shellev of the Kairburv Xewsj
is all puffed up. and with reason, be
cause he has just installed a new
duplex perfecting press in his office
to take rare of his rapidly increasing
circulation.
The Fcottsbluff Star Herald has
absorbed the Daily Tribune of that
city and will continue It as the Hailv
Star Herald. With Harry Wisner and
t'harley < roes in charge the people
of that section are assured of a daily
newspaper of parts.
After studying the platform of that
Min neaped is convention Kditor t'nrh
son of the Aurora Republican gathers
that it means that all successful
business should be turned over to
those who never made a success of
anything.
Kditor Kroh of the Ogallals Xe^s
Insists that what this country needs
is more peopl** who are tired at night
instead of in the morning.
Kditor Huse ..f she Wayne Herald
wants too much. He plaintively ap
peals for noiseless chewing gum and
odorless cigareta.
Kletrh Merwin "f the Beaver City
Tribune advises his readers not to
worry when he makes mistakes about
them, “.lust think what might hap
pen If 1 told the truth," remarks
Fletch.
The Sutton Register says hospital
windows snd windshields aie made
out of the same kind of glass, but
the view is different.
Ain RitntRMr.M*.
Stiff Joints Now
Limbered Up By
NewOilFormula
Remarkable New Discovery
Gives Quick, Soothing Relief
For Creaky, Swollen,
Painful Joints
German chemistry that has jrlven
tn the world aspirin for headache pain
and novar'aine for painless dentistry
hna now come forward with another
discovery that makes enlarged, swol
len, pain tacked joints a thins of the
past. A combination of certain oils,
known ns lUihler Oil, has been dis
covered, which is simply rubbed on
and disappears in n few seconds,
showing liow quickly It penetrates
fnd is absorb'd by the tissues. Kv»n
in the most severe ami stubborn cases,
almost instant relief has been oh-,
tallied.
Swollen pslnfut and disinred stiff Joint*,
whether It b* In the enkle. I.nc thigh,
shoulder, nsek. wrist, elbow nr fins- m of
'••iir hand, *r« due to some inf**»thm
which hwg In \ olvrd ths tissu* lining of
th* Joint* This, In most inatan-•*-. mn
h«* tinted to Internal poisons, am h a* n
Mind pus pocket In * tooth h dressed
tonsil giving off poisons which an> mi 1
fled In tho hleod to the Joint* ihereby I
Rotting Mp rii Infe-ilon of th»* delnnte.
nieinhfgne lining Hi'' Joints and t nosing
ths loints to U< « oiue tot in t g ed, swollen,
i n dliv sod «• \11 »mn*»|> pnlnful Muhler (JM.
when applied hi I la •» nlfetled in mil*., is
readily abaorlied by the iIraiirr m»t pens
listen iiuh kl> to Mi'* *> htnic iuini. neutisl
(King Hi»» i*«!n «. URing ih-h*>mi* in much
the same WAV NR Milk nf Mugnt'da liell
Irslirnr* Alt M III UtOCOAth, gixtng IIIAlRtU
i e 11 •• f.
Mel n hot lie of Kohler I'd todsv gnd
ir> it feu s pplli A t Ions In one e\ening
ll gives qtlh k results be- au*e it Ir in
stnntlv absorbed and ronl.ilttR « S|»r* <mI
Ingfvlient which si on» e pen*! rn t(« to
the poison Infen*«d membrane in the pain
i nosing swollen Joint. > out dmggiAi h»*
II Mild hi guetanlea |l to In-Ip you Ot
II • osl* a on not bins
Solti hv Mhermso .1 M-i’onnell I'rttg
l'o Kenton I'rag *'•’ , Meirttt 1'tug < *'
Mm ne* Imr i" It rug *'•» 1'ntii I' •• Us*
I'tug t'o Smstogn I'rug t'o., Pop* Drug
C*»., Haloes in tig C*.
Spice of Life
The cagdldate is drawing near,
J.ife takes a kindlier twist:
And each, as future plane we hear,
Becomes an optimist.
—Washington Star.
We really do fed sorry for
The flapper, for. gosh ding!
When tlie old weather does get hot,
She just can't shed a thing.
- —Cincinnati Enquirer.
T.ltfle Bobby came crying Into the
house, rubbing the places where he
had been hutted by a pet sheep.
Hut what did you do. his mother
demanded, when the sheep knocked
yon down?
"I didn't do nothin'," Bobby de
clared protestingly. T was gettin'
tip *11 the time "—Onward.
Mr. Oreene came home from churl'll
ringing wet.
"Anie a," he informed ids wife,
"will lie a nobler land to live in when
not every American thinks he ran
When in Omaha
Hotel Conant
250 Rooms—250 Rsihs—Ritrs )2 to $5
THIRD
Largest in the World
is now the position of
Durant Motor Co. at
compared w’ith other
manufacturers of cart.
Hrre 64 Years'
Durant
and
Star
Automobiles
Andrew Murphy &son
14th and Jackson Streets
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SUNNY SIDE UP j
„ c)ake Comfort, nor focoet
ALL'S WELL! if
I'll face the future, com* what may, jl
(Ireat joya or bitter sorrow; 1
The sun may hide its face today, ia
But it will shine tomorrow. jj
And if the road seems rough and long. 1
I'll make It etnoother, brighter, W
By trudging on with smile and Song J|
To make my burden lighter. m
• I'll face the music, come what may; f
My heart with hope ia throbbing.
The work that faces me each day
< an not he done while gobbing. :
Each daily stunt I’ll do my best.
My efforts best recording.
Content that Cod will do the rest
And care for the rewarding.
We utter a violent protest. If no Jesuits *if obtained we
■diall jesort to violent measures Yesterday morning's paper
contained a story of an automobile holdup, and one of the vie- I1 1
lims, age 64. ia twice referred to as "the aged man." To youth h
just beginning to feel the pull of a razor, 60 seems a lifetime, ,
while 60 seems an undue prolongation of existence. But It is
not so. We are not yet 64, but so near It we can see it Just
around the corner, and resent the imputation that we sre aged
snd decrepit. Respect for gray hairs has saved numerous
young fellows from a sound walloping.
For two score years we have been a humbl# member ef
the newspaper profession, and while hope often languishes we
•tilt believe that we shall live to see the day when some female
bootlegger or dope peddler will be arrested and prosecuted with
out being referred to as a queen " Indeed, so strong is our ,
faith that we are certain that some day we shall read In the
public prints that an attested female thief is not “beautiful."
Referring to politics, which we have been Instructed not
to do In this department, we Insist that there Is no pressing
need at this stage of the game for a resurrection of the H>r
tnony Clubs that provided such sweet democratic music Juit
two short yeais ago. If Wednesday reports of a meeting of
the Nebraska delegation ate true, there is entirely too much
bass and not enough second tenor.
Far be it from us to take sides in the dog controversy, but
we are impelled to remark that in our opinion the man or
woman who has never loved a dog. or possessed the love of a
dog, has missed something very much worth while.
Chief of Police Nagel of Fremont has received an
anonymous letter charging that a majority of Fremontera vio
late the liquor laws, and that exery one living on a certain
Fremont street is selling liquor. The chief says he Is trying
to ascertain the identity of the writer in the hope of securing
some valuable Information. He is wasting his time The writers
of anonymous letters are S> per cent liars and the balance
selfish prevaricators.
Speaking of retributive Justice, xeas it when the scales fell
from the counter snd fractured Its owner's foot’’
WIT,L M MAVPIN.
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k»ep hi* religion and eomebodv “!**'*
umbrella.”—Popular Magazine.
Mr. Perk—What a wonderful view !
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Uri. Perk—Tou keep your oyeo on
the road. Henry! Tou can get tha4
view on a post rard for * cento.—*
Judge.
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