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-— I * r <•' . • a ' k. L * Oraaki Vtefe the^st is at its Best ANOTHER ARMISTICE DAY. The news that comes from London is of the most inspiring nature. Agreement has been reached among the conferees as to details for putting the Dawes plan into effect. Germany has been notified, and representatives from Berlin are invited to at tend sessions early tltfs week, for the purpose of acquainting themselves with the conditions. Little apprehension is felt as to acceptance of the terms by Germany. Greatest of all obstacles in the way of agreement was the position of France, which has happily been cleared up. The French insisted upon being per mitted to act independently in event of default at any point on part of Germany. This would mean a possible repetition of the Ruhr, or some other form of action equally exasperating and futile. MacDon ald was as firm against as Harriot was for the plan, and the deadlock that followed threatened to wreck the entire conference. Last week Herriot presented what he termed France’s last proposal, the irreducible minimum of demands. Examination brought about understanding, and now it is announced that the way is open for the definite and what is regarded as the permanent settlement along the line laid down by the Dawes commission. • • • America’s part in this proceeding is quite as no table as the role played in the war. At no time has it appeared that our government was other than ab solutely neutral. When the Dawes commission was named, its authority was limited because of its un ■ fficial nature, so far as this country is concerned. Acceptance of its report was to be voluntary or not at all on part of the governments affected. In both the French and German elections in May the Dawes plan figured extensively. Its friends triumphed in both countries, so that its acceptance was assured, with the warm approval of Premier Ramsay Mac Donald, the English parliament found endorsement • >asy, while Italy and Belgium followed on readily. Only the working out of details was left open. Considerable perplexity ensued, especially because jf the attitude of France. Reluctant to give over what appeared to be assurance of safety, the French wanted alternative guaranties, some of which could not be given. Germany, too, sought for concessions equally important and as unlikely to be granted. A little game of diplomatic hide and seek was develop ing, when the London conference met. Here again it was American counsel and good sense saved the * day. The final assent of France to submit to arbi tration points she was determined to settle for her *• -elf made agreement absolute. • • • Secretary of State Hughes will counsel with For ■ ign Minister Streseman in Berlin today, and will, it ? believed, point out the desirability of acceptance by Germany of the new terms. Just as Logan’s ad vice was taken by Herriot, so tt is expected that Hughes will influence the Germans. So America has had the deciding vote in the ad justment of relations in Europe, after all. Those who have flouted the administration because of what they deemed “skulking” and “shirking” will have to revise their views, and modify their utterances. definite foreign policy, resting on sincere friend-, 'lip for all nations atid sustained by an earnest de re for lasting peace has brought results. How this will affect the world must be de rmined. Surely only good can come of it. Those ho have watched the developments closely voice the pinion that it means such a revival of industry and ommerce as will tax to the utmost the productive rapacity of all the countries. Such a consummation is possible, for peace means a cessation of huge ex penditures on military establishments, a relaxing of the strain on national resources, and the ex -ansion of private undertakings. America will share in this. To humanity the message goes out, Just as it did n 1921 from the Washington conference, (hat. the United States of America is for a world without war. We have not turned away from the world's troubles, but are willing to help wherever it is pos sible. This new armistice day at London is a tribute to America's genius for peace. WHAT MAN DOES NOT YET KNOW. A train of 126 carload* of red cedar shingle* re cently passed east over the Chicago & Northwestern road. Telling about, the editor of the railroad’s nagazine says: "On# Of nature's prime achievements wss the discovery of the formula for growing red cedar." One of man’s achievements has been to discover nethods for turning that red cedar into shingles. He does this in a very efficient way. The cedar ha* always been a friend of i»an. In Holy Writ it is much referred to, and the Cedars of Lebanon were known to all the nation* around the region of the Mediterranean and Red *ea». In America the red men cut the trees for teepee pole*, and made canoe* of the log*. The cedar* of Lebanon h*Y* about disappeared, and much aentimental mourning i* indulged over them. The eedars that one* grow in along the Pine Ridge in Nebraska are gone. And as trainload after 1 rainload of red cedar shingles leave the mill* along the coast of British Columbia th* noble trees stand ing there are becoming fewer and fewer. Some of these were growing when the Children of Israel were moving from Babylon to Jerusalem at the end of the Second Captivity. Some are known even to have been growing there while the Tribes under Joshua were entering Canaan. Nature’s formula for growing red cedar is sim ple enough, but it takes a lot of time. Just plant the seed and give it plenty of water and air for 2,000 years or such a matter, and the tree will be ten feet in diameter and 300 feet high. What is really needed is an understanding of the fact that before many years man will have to be content with red cedar trees that are not more than 25 to 50 years old, and from ten to fifteen inches in diame ter. Nature's formula will be better appreciated then, perhaps, but the big trees will be gone. "SENATOR”. SORENSON TO REST. When Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicked over the lamp and burned Chicago, back in 1871, something started for Omaha. Alfred Sorenson, freshly graduated from Harvard university, thought he was beginning to practice law in Chicago. The conflagration burned away all his prospects there, and he started west. No bridge spanned the river at Omaha then, but he got across, as did many another. Edward Rosewater was then doing all the work needed to print The Omaha Bee, a lusty youngster of some six months growth, and he needed help. Sorenson took up the business of writing the local news for the paper. For the next fifteen years Sorenson made the local columns of the paper fairly snap. He was the entire city staff, and it might be worth whle for some of the bright young men of today to look over the files of that time and see how much ground the local editor had to cover, and how much matter he had to prepare each day. That is beside the point, however. Sorenson chronicled more Omaha history than any other man, living or dead. Next to him, probably, is Sands F. Woodbridge, the veteran who only a few years ago retired from the staff of the World-Herald. Associated with them in the early day efforts was I. W. Minor, who also enjoys the passing days of honorable retirement. Now Sorenson announces the suspension of his paper, the Examiner, which he has published weekly for the last twenty-four years. Fifty-three years of active newspaper work entitles him to a rest, and he says he is going to rest. Omaha will find it rather hard to get used to not seeing A1 Sorenson hustling around for a newspaper, but his friends are glad that he will be able to get a little rest before he moves on. PROMISE OF PLEASANT INTERLUDE. C. P. Greneker, who battles under the Shubert banner, sends us word of an interesting event. In early fall Firmin Gemier and the entire Odeon com pany will come to America for a tour of six weeks. This is a return of courtesy. In 1921 the French government invited Mr. James K. Hackett to play Othello at the Odeon, the French state theater, and at the time President Harding exchanged messages with the president of France, expressing the hope that the incident would lead to closer relations be tween the countries, through a frequent exchange of artists at the theater and otherwise. Now Gemier, who is the leader of the French theater, will come at invitation of the State depart ment, to lead a troupe of 25 French artists to show such Americans as are fortunate enough to see them the methods of the French stage. The time is all too short to hold out hope of the company visiting many cities. New York and probably Washington will about comprise the itinerary. America is too big to be visited in six weeks by anybody. Six months would give but slight notion. So Omaha’s interest will be but academic in the matter, our pleasure in the presence of the great French actor as vicarious as if he had remained in Paris. Once these great stars really were strolling players. Omaha had Bernhardt and Coquelin, not once but several times. The great Salvinin, and he was great, came at the very height and plenitude of his powers. The Willards, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, Johnson Forbes-Robertson—the list grows too long—all have given us of their best. Gemier may discover the immensity of the country, and be animated by a desire to explore its fastnesses beyond the confines of Hoboken. In that event he may in time penetrate as far as Omaha. He will be grati fied by the proof of culture he will find out this way, not to speak of the many unrefined dollars that will roll into his purse if he comes. YES, THERE WILL BE NO WAR. Not a cannon will he corked In Nebraska on Sep tember 12. Nor will the ‘‘Defense Day" program be marred by any misunderstanding between the governor of this great state and the president of the United States. We have great pleasure in announcing this for the benefit of all and sundry. President Coolidge and Governor Bryan have exchanged notes and find themselves in substantial accord. The governor used up about 2,000 words to tell the president, and the president used up about 300 to tell the gov ernor, and lo, it turns out that there was nothing in dispute between them. The governor, however, has made it very clear that any time the general commanding the Seventh Army corps area sends words down to the state house, concerning any sort of military demonstra tion, he must be very definite and specific. No con fusion should exist as to where the one begins and the other leaves off. The civil still is abovp the mili tary In Nebraska, as well as elsewhpre in the United States. However, it appears that the governor went off somewhere around half-cock when he read the letter from General Duncan. The commanding of ficer of the corps area did not intend to order out, or request thp governor to order out, any civilian for any purpose. It merely requested that persons be designated to participate In whatever of parades or otherwise might be arranged. The arranging of these parades to be entirely voluntary. With this understanding a truce Is arranged, an armistice signed, and peace prevails once more. De fense Day will be observed in Nebraska. A doctor in the witness chair at Chicago Is re ported to have held one pose four and one-half hours while the lawyers argued. He will very likely an swer “No!” when the time does come. Senator Carraway of Arkansas also swings a mean fist. He and Robinson might make a good team for Tex Rickard when Firpo and Dempsey foozle. Even the • democrats rejoice in the good crop prospects, but the Adullamites see no joy In the mar ket reports. A vacant seat, on the municipal court bench still waits for Brother Charlie to make up his mind whom to appoint. However, a lot of democrats do favor the plan 1 of the government for observing Defense Day. A a——I — ^ f--—1 Dearly beloved, once more we turn to David the Psalmist for our text, finding it In the second verse of his 122d song: “I was glad when they said unto me, Ijet ns go Into the house of the I/ord.” Not your house; not the house pointed to with pride by sect or denomination, but the House of the Lord. It may be a great edifice, with stained glass windows, and mellow chimes, and pealing organ, and cushioned pews and carpeted aisles, and * yet not be so nearly a house of the Lord as the humble little chapel In the slum section. - - • Wherever men and women of humble and contrite hearts kneel to ask His blessing, whether it be beneath vaulted arches or lowly ceilings, or whether it be in humble chamber or be neath the swaying boughs of trees, there is the house of the Lord. Edifices of worship are not butlded alone to provide places of worship; they are builded in order that God’s children may gather together, each there to gather one from the other the fellowship, the inspiration and the comradeship that makes for batter citizenship. There those of faltering courage or failing hope may gather new faith and strength and courage. There may be those among you who hug to your eouls I he belief that you can get along without the help of your fel lows; that you do not need the companionship of kindred souls; that you can serve God in your own way. Be not deceived; God is not mocked. In His holy word He has made plain His ' plan of salvation, and it is His plan, not your plan, that suf flceth to save. It is related of a veteran of the Civil War, color bearer of his regiment, that he was desperately wounded, yet he kept his feet and" held aloft the colors. "How came it that you, desperately wounded, did not fall?" asked a friend. “O, my comrades stood so closely by me that I couldn't fall!” exclaimed the veteran. There, dearly beloved, is the reason why each of us should rejoice and be glad when they say uijto us, “Let us go Into the house of the Lord;" there the reason for our going. There we may find the Christian comradeship, the comrades who will stand so closely by our sides that we may not fall, no matter how sorely wounded in spirit or how weak our failing faith. Going up into the house of the Lord is not so much a duty you owe the Lord as It is a duty you owe to yourself. The Lord is in His holy place whether you are there or not. It Is His pleasure to strengthen and sustain you; It Is your duty to seek His strength and His sustenance. Nor is the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, the Lord's Day. the only day upo« which it is your duty to attend. Perhaps not in per son, but at least in humbleness of spirit. Religion Is not a cloak to be donned on Sunday and doffed on Monday for the remaineder of the week. It is something to he lived every hour of every day. It is for the counting room as well as for the church room; for the private as well as the public life. Tour own home, if you afe the Christian man or woman you pretend to be, and should really be, is as much the house of the Lord as yon stately edifice whose spire pierces the heavens. But why not take an hour or two on each returning Lord's Day to gather in the house of the Lord common to all the people'7 Why not there to make outward manifestation of your inward spirits; why not there to seek the sustaining com radeship of your fellows enlisted upon the Lord's side? Let each one of you answer that question in his own heart. And now, in conclusion, let us turn to the song announced— “Come thou almighty King, Help us Thy name to sing, Help us to praise. Father all glorious. O’er all victorious, Come and reign over us. Ancient of days!" And. after singing with spirit and understanding, let us go j forth from His house, rejoicing for the fellowship of kindred minds and better fitted for the tasks that are before us. WILL M. MAITPIN. I I___ Jl f"-- N Labor and Parties y -> From the New York Tlmee A conference of executives of the American Federation of Labor at At lantic City this coming week will deal with the subject of a formal endorse ment of the candidacy of Robert La Follette. The beat information la that the conference will continue favor the historic Gompera policy of nonpartisanship. Confirmatory of this forecast la an article on "Labor In American Politics" by Cheater M Wright In the August number of Cur rent History. Aa director of public ity for the American Federation of I,abor, he may be assumed to apeak with ample knowledge of the trend of thought in federation circles. It is hla contention that American organ Ired labor has learned to lay much greater atreae on "industrial" action than on political action. If American labor nevertheleas manages to show Intereat In polltlca, the reason la that it regards polltlca aa one means to a highly desirable end. That end Is to "keep the indutrial road open,” to permit the freest play of economic forces in a fair field. Only when the highways of industrial action are threatened with congestion does polltlca Intervene In the role of traf nc policeman. The Oompera policy of ‘ partlean ahlp to principle." Inatead of to par tlea, will probably be found to have a reaaon In expediency aa well In euch phlloaophlcal ultimate* aa Mr. Wright laya down. If the American Federn tlon of Labor haa hitherto avoided affiliation with one of the great politi cal partlea, the obvloua reaaon la that organized labor cannot b# awung aa a unit; any attempt In that direction would only reault In the dlaruptlon of the union*. The eame explanation would hold for the federation'* an tlclpated refuaal to throw In Its for tune* with a third party. It la a cau tion that would be more than Justified by what Mr. Wright haa to say. In another connection, of the laat preal dentlal campaign: "The record* of the candidate* were then analysed. The Information thus compiled waa furnished to the trade* union# throughout the country. Aa labor compiled the record, one candi date and ona record stood far above i he other In the matter of meeting labor# requirement*. There never waa a clear recommendation In favor of ona candidal*, however, though, aa th# campaign wnr* on. the super lorlty of one candidate and one plat form over the other* In the matter of meeting labor'* requirement* waa emphaalzed more and more." It la not difficult to gueae who wa* the candidate ao favored hv latior In 1920. Aa between Harding unit Cox It waa the latter'* peraonai and party record that ahould have made much the atronger appeal to Inhor. Hut what happened to Governor Cox In 1920 la a pretty nomplete answer to the claim of labor domlnanee In the popular vote, or to the rlalm that labor moves In an orbit separate from that of tha American people aa a whole. Tim* ha# had It* frollo with theories on labor and polltle* The ao elallat party, to which el,*#* struggle and Induatrlal action were thing* much more fundamental than politi cal battle lines, haa discarded the elaa* struggle and entered Into an al llance with tho*e whom It wa* wont to deacrlbe a# the petty bonrgeolae. Hi# farmer* and email merchant* and “Independent manufacturer! and hankers." On the other hand there la th# American Federation of Labor, which socialist# were accustomed to manhandle for lta fnndneea for petty political pursuit* That federation I* now emphasizing "Industrial action." At the Portland convention of the American Federation of Labor laat year there wa* adopted a piogram vlalon of Iduatiiat development that draw largely upon the Induatrlal tin I lonlsm and the one big union Idea of th# antl-Gompera radical* of a few years ago. That Portland platform, to he sure, may have been shaped In part hy a desire to conciliate these very radi cals But where are these radicals now? For the greater part they are lined up behind l.a Follette. leaving it to Mr. Gompera to reaffirm the skeptical doctrine against the efficacy of political action. This mutual ex J Change in Council Bluffs Street Car Fares Effective Sunday, August 3, 1924, the following rates of fare will be in effect on the Council Bluffs Division: Local fare in Council Bluffs 7 cents cash or four tokens for 25 cents; children between 5 and 12 years of age, ten tokens for 30 cents; school chil dren’s tickets ten for 50 cents. Fare between Council Bluffs and Omaha 10 cents cash; 30-ride commutation ticket $2.00. Fare to Iowa School for Deaf remains unchanged. In accordance with the decree of the United States Court, Southern District of Iowa, Western Division, receipts will be issued to passen gers when they pay a 7 cent cash fare and when they purchase tick ets at increased rates. These receipts contain an agreement to re turn to the bearer any part thereof which shall be in excess of the fare as finally determined by said court. Omaha Council Bluffs Street Railway Company V t ---- f National Defense Is Not Jingoism _ 4 From tha Philadelphia Public Ledger. Since the War department an nouncement months ago that the present system of defensive military preparedness should be demonstrated September 12 various societies have made vigorous protests. Many of these have been grossly unfair. Some of the groups, particularly the Na tional Council for the Prevention of War, has .gone so far In their pro tests that President Coolldg# has been forced to condemn in language un usually vigorous these efforts to nullify a part of the national defense act of 1920. This act reorganized the miltary services and outlined a general sys tem of defensive preparedness into which are fitted the little American army, the reduced American navy. National Ouard units and the Organ ized Reserve. As a part of this gen eral plan, the law authorized that it be given a yearly lest. This was to be on a "national de fense day." For three years that day has not been observed. This year Secretary of War Weeks very properly decided there should be such a day. Orders went out to that ef fect. Committees of civilians asked to help are now at work over the country arranging for Its observance. On that day the patriotic American civilian Is asked to "go through the motions" of registering himself as a part of the nation’s defensive strength. He is merely asked to do so. There Is no compulsion what ever about It. Units of the army and the National Ouard will bw mobilized as they would for any national emer gency. Reservists, men and officers, will be at the regular headquarters Of their “skeleton” units. Civilians will march with the military in pa rades. A report of the "defense day" showing will go to the War depart ment on the evening of September 12. On April 31 two religious groups urged Secretary Weeks to stop all these plans and continue to Ignore the law as set forth In the national defense act. He refused, and said that a similar test should be held yearly so long as that act is in effect. Protests have continued, and in the last month there have been Indica tions that "peace" might be made a politico-religious Issue and that this Issue may be twisted to the advantage of one political group in the 1924 campaign. In blunt words President Coolidge sets the protesters right. They have misrepresented this as a "militaristic move,” tending to incite "war spirit;" as "bad psychology” and as a "re stricted loea of patriotism.” They have made much of the name "Mo bilization day," carelessly given it more for the sake of brevity than anything else. It is not, of course, a ’’mobilization day," and Is no more than a day of reminder to the na tion of what It has and what It may lack In the way of defense. Remind ing ourselves of this hardly spells a "militaristic move," and the charge change of creed has been dictated by something more tran tactical consld eratlons within the labor movement In this country. Mr. Wright prop erly cites one such determinant fac tor: Boleshevlsm. The Russian ' ex periment” has been taken diversely to heart. Those who regard the seiz ure of power in Russia by the com munists as a triumph for labor now look for similar victories for American labor through political party action Those, on the other hand, who recog nize the disasters brought up on the Russian worker by the "great ex periment," the Industrial collapse, the impoverishment of the masses, the break up of the Russian labor move ment as a labor movement, have no belief in the promise of a labor triumph through the "conquest” of political power. of "bad psychology" t» respectfully referred to the dream doctors. Con cerning "restricted patriotism," the president might have told the critics that the ancient and honorable test of a man's patriotism has been his willingness to flgbt for, or at least serve, his country in a time of peril. The vast majority of Americans, like President Coolldge, are opposed to war, but they want protection. In his sensible and*commendable letter to a chief protester he sums up the situation when he says of “defense day”: "I wish crime might be abolished, but I would not therefore abolish courts and police protection. 1 wish war might be made impossible, but mearjwhlle I would not leave my coun try unprotected. The defense test seems to me a means to assure the fullest efficiency to the extremely modest defense force our country maintains." There are sincere men and yvomen who hold other and mistaken views. However, the American opinion that deals not with dreams but with reali ties will concur with the president. If there is anything in "defense day" genuinely inconsistent with the Amer ican effort to limit armaments and end wars, it is buried so deeply that only the professional bogey-hunters can find it. What they have done by these pro tests is to stir a general interest in that day. They have aroused mil lions of Americans who feel about it as President Coolldge feels and who will think about it as President Cool idge thinks. A Word Spoken in Season v/ From tb« 8t Paul Dilpttch. The northwest owes something of gratitude to Bernard J. Mahoney, bishop of South Dakota, for the stir ring defense made of his state and, naturally of the northwest, in an In terview at Philadelphia, this week. The bishop had been delivering a commencement address at Mount St. Mary college, Emmetsburg, Md., and spoke to Philadelphia newspaper men in this forthright way: "In the east they talk about South Dakota as 'radical.' That isn't so. South Dakota people are not radical. Instead of sympathizing with South Dakota for its war wounds, its people are being reproached unjustly. The prosperous east ought to find a way to help South Dakota in its time of need. "But in the emergencies and prob lems of today, South Dakota deserves the sympathy and aid of the rest of the United States and not unfounded accusations that it Is a land of 'radl callsra.' " He is telling the truth. Neither South Dakota nor any state in the northwest is "radical" as the east un derstands the terms. The discontent and unrest that does exist is not political but economic. It has been used by cunning politicians for po litical advantage, but there is no more conservative people in the coun try today than the farmers of the northwest. That they should be charged with radicalism merely be cause they show signs of anger over an unfair deal is almost as bad as the lack of sympathy shown them by the people of the east. The cause of this lack of sympathy .« lack of understanding of the situa ,'ion In the northwest, and when men like Bishop Mahoney step aside a lit tle from the usual course of their religious duties to speak plainly and make clear to the east, when the op portunity offers, the facta in the case, ft goes a long way to clear up the misunderstanding and set us right In the eyes of those who look upon our attitude as causeless. — [ Hugo Was Prolific From ttao Manchester OuerdUn. In 1926 will fall the 40th annlver. «ary of the death of Victor Hugo, but the publication of the definite edition of hit work*, which ha« been under taken In accordance with the terms of hit will, cannot be completed until l®28- * . , . The extraordinary amount of labor involved In thii publication la de scribed In the Temps by M. Ouatave Simon, a eon of Jules Simon, who In 1906 succeeded Hugo'* odtogenarian friend. Paul Meurice, as trustee un der the will and editor of the new edition, Hugo was an amazingly prolific writer, with an unparalleled capacity, as Emile Fagues said of him, for winning brilliant success in any type or school of work to which he put his hand; but among the many prolific writers of the 19 th century there can have been none who published so much and at the same time left be hind him such a vast mass of unpub lishea manuscripts. After Hugo's death M. Simon saw these at Paul Meurice's house sto^d In cupboards and large Iron boxes. Some of these manuscript* were of complete works, but the majority were fragments. Some were Intended as additions to other revisions of books already issued. In any case, whatever the manuscripts contained was to find a place In this definite edition, with which the French Im prlmerie Natlonale is still occupied. For years Its editors have been en gaged in the onerous task of making the best use of the enormous mass of material left on their hands. The ex istence of these fragments I* explain ed. Mr. Simons says, by Hugo’s meth ods of work. He wrote perpetually whenever a moment was available for writing—on the Imperial of a dili gence. In a railway train, In his early days when he was In his place In the * French house of peers. During the exile In Guernsey he wrote enormously— souvenirs, philo sophical reflections, epigrams, verse-, and often he wrote them on scraps of paper, on tom newspaper wrap pers, on the margins of prospectuses. From this confusin M. Simon con tinues with pious care to build up the cosmos of the definitive edition. Coming to Omaha? 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