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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1924)
OraaliaVhete the^fcst is at its Best PRAY FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY. Governor Bryan, evading direct contact with the federal authorities on Defense day, authorizes state heads of patriotic societies and such other or ganizations as may care to co-operate, to arrange and carry out local programs on September 12. He also directs the adjutant general to assemble units of the National Guard at tjieir armories, without expense to the state, “and to have them participate in such Defense day program as the president of the United States may direct.” Along with this the governor proposes: "I suggest and recommend that patriotic pro grams be arranged at such hour In the afternoon or evening as is convenient In the respective communi ties, and that appropriate ceremonies be held, with special music and patriotic public addresses, to bring to the attention of the people the duties of citizenship in state and nation; to Impress upon them the importance of patriotic devotion to the flag, and that prayer? be said for the continued peace and prosperity of the nation.” * • • Thus the governor falls in line with the spirit and the purpose of Defense day. Any sort of an assemblage where a patriotic address is made and prayers are offered for the continued peace and prosperity of the nation must help some. No truly patriotic address can be made that does not give some thought to the sacrifices by w'hich our liberties were bought. This means that some attention must be given to how those sacrifices were augmented by the fact that every time the United States has been ailed upon to defend itself, it has been found un :ady. * * * From Boston to Valley Forge, the record of , i.- hington’s army is the story of suffering because ,o colonies had made no preparation for the con ;ii.cb they entered. In 1812, this was repeated. In 1361 great hardship was endured because all had to r-et ready after the war commenced. Again in 1898, when “Cuba Libre!” and “Remember the Maine!” rang loudly through the land, McKinley had to wait, because we had no powder to fight with. At El Caney and San Juan Hill, regiments had to be with drawn because they were armed with obsolete weapons and were burning black powder that simply advertised their presence to the Spaniard. Even in the Philippines, the insurrectos had better guns than the boys of the First Nebraska, who fought so valiantly under Stotsenburg. What it cost to pre pare in 1917 need not be recounted. ■ • ■ Defense clay holds no threat against peare. A triotic speech that day must be one that holds up to the people the truth. No more bunk about mil lions springing to arms over night. Just the exact truth as near as it can be stated concerning where we stand, and what we face. And a prayer to God, as fervent as the heart can utter, “for the continued peace and prosperity of the nation.” HONEST DOCTOR TAKES THE STAND. A very refreshing interlude marks the tense I.rocecdings of the interesting murder trial at Chi cago.. A doctor who can qualify as an expert on the functions of the endocrinal glands frankly an swered, “I do not know,” to question after question put td him. He admitted that he had studied these glands for longer than fifteen years, had made thousands of experiments, had watched tests, and read and written many words about them, and yet he admitted that he could not say exactly what the entire function of any one of the glands or Its rela tion to another or the whole might be. This doctor will be a marked man. Not that he N is different from a majority of the doctors. Most of them are quite as frank when they come right down to brass tacks. A few things they know, but, face to face with the fundamentals of life as they are, they admit that all of nature's secrets have not yet been unlocked. Particularly does this apply to the ductless glands. The name, “endocrine,” is so new that it is not found in dictionaries save of the most recent date. For generations the doctors have been trying to determine exactly what the liver does, besides making its possessor mighty sick when it gets out of order. Then the spleen and the pancrens have not been fully examined and set down, while the mystery of the thyroid is almost as dark as it was in the beginning. $omc facts have been discovered concerning each of these. It is known that complete extirpa tion of the thyroid is apt to be followed by much of discomfort, and that derangement of the gland also produces unpleasant effects. The larger glands, liver, spleen, pancreas, all are assigned certain pro cesses in connection with the blood and digestion, when in health. Yet men have lived after the spleen was removed, and some have done fairly well without the pancreas. Stomachs have been re moved, and now and then other seemingly indis pensable parts of the body have been taken awny, and life has gone along. Empirical medicine is making progress. Doctors are learning every day. We are inclined to give praise to the doctor who, under oath, admits that he does not know. Equally, some will be inclined to question the authority of the other doctor, who insists with emphasis that he does know, even when he is dealing with the most secret depths of the human mind and soul. Here, if ever, is a case where one can afford to avoid being dogmatic. X_ BRINGING PEACE NEARER. Germany accepts the Theunis-Harriot terms for the evacuation of the Ruhr. These give Belgium and France a year to get out, provided Germany fulfills her obligations under the Dawes plan. On this basis a deadlock that threatened to overthrow the London conference is terminated. The next thing is to get the approval of the home folks. This will not be so easy. A reviewer cabled to America at the beginning, of the week that neither Marx nor Herriot dared go home and face opposition, bearing in his hands not the fruits of victory but peace. It was apparent that neither could win. One inevitably must be the loser in the battle of wits. Over them both hung the fact that Europe can not go on much longer under existing conditions. Un less the Dawes plan is put into operation, and a loan provided for Germany, chaos will engulf that portion of the land which has so far escaped. It was the imperative need of the loan, without doubt, that enabled Marx and his associates to agree to the terms of the French and Belgian premiers. Ger many needs the money more than she does the im mediate evacuation of the Ruhr. With $200,000, 000 in gold for a nucleus, it will be possible to re store the currency, rebuild industry and give com merce the start that will bring prosperity to the Reich. Foreign control of the Ruhr mines and mills will be removed as fast as the Germans can put them in operation, and the troops will remain only until good faith is established. The outcome Is all that could have been ex pected. A little more, for it carries an official American representative on the reparations com mission. This fact in itself gives support to the sincerity of all that has been said by the president and the secretary of state as to the desire to help out in Europe. It also denies the sneers of the ad vocates of the League of Nations, who still try to •comfort themselves by insisting that the administra tion has abandoned Eur°Pe- In truth, the work of the administration Is bringing peace nearer. FATHER JOHN WILLIAMS. In very truth a prince in Israel has fallen. John Williams, priest of the Ever-Living God, and father in the church to communicants faithful and affec tionate, has gone on to receive his reward. None who ever knew this truly great man but will feel a sincere loss in his going, and rejoice because he went to that certain advancement he so devoutly believed and so earnestly taught. Father John Williams was a strong man in every essential regard. His life was not bound up in the work *of his parish, or in the priestly duties he as sumed. A broader, deeper, stronger bond held him to humanity. Among his fellows he walked, a man interested in all that went on around him. He had been a mechanic, a machinist by trade, and he car ried to the pulpit his sympathy for those who toiled. Many stories might be told of his contact with the workingmen of Omaha, how he counselled them in their troubles, aided them in securing their rights, and rejoiced with them in their victories, and as unhesitatingly and severely condemned them when he felt they were doing wrong. Along with these stories may be recounted unnumbered instances wherein he showed how warm a heart beat under his austere garb. John Williams was austere in appearance, but no ] one could be with him long and not feel the glow that radiated from his Irish heart, that burned so eagerly with love of God and his fellow man. No compromise with wrong or evil entered his mind, but he understood the frailties and weaknesses of mortals, and his sympathy was ever reaching out for the sinner. Such a man could not live so many years in a community and not profoundly affect Its destiny. John Williams left his mark on Omaha’s life, deep and enduring, because it was made by a modest man whose strength lay more in his moral courage and swift sympathy than in his great, gaunt frame where once resided a giant’s power. When, "by reason of strength,’’ his years came to number four score, be was moved to turn the burden of the care of an ever-growing parish over to a younger man. Yet for another decade was he spared tft those who will now fondly mourn because Father Williams will no more greet them. Yet they know that the inspiration of his love and courage will not be lost in a world he did so much to make a better place for all. PASTOR OR PULPITEER? Rev. Robert V. Meigs is pastor of a church at Danville, 111. Or such is his designation, although there may be some doubts about his being a pastor. He will appear to many as merely a pulpiteer. He recently denied Roscoe Arbuckle an opportunity to speak from his pulpit and tell of his own conversion. The clerical gentleman voiced a doubt about the obese comedian’s sincerity, remarking that Ar buckle's reform had "come too late to smack of sincerity.’’ This newspaper holds no brief for Arbuckle. Rut when Rev. Robert V. Meigs demands of the former screen star "written evidence of Christian life and fruitage,’’ he is going just a bit further than the Master whom he pretends to serve and whose teachings he pretends to broadcast. Is Rev. Mr. Meigs commissioned to ask more of penitent sinners than the Master asked of the thief on the cross? Peter preached his first sermon at Jerusalem, and there was no Rev. Mr. Meigs on hand to Insist that Peter go back to the place where Christ found him, and he found Christ, to begin his ministerial career. But there was a Rev. Mr. Meigs on hand to sneoringly advise Roscoe Arbuckle to begin his pul pit career in I.os Angeles, "where the experiences that brought him to God occurred.’’ The reverend gentleman of Danville may have been within his rights when he denied the use of his pulpit to Arbuckle. Hut. when he casts doubts upon the sincerity of Arbuckle’s penitence and ac ceptance of the teachings of the Master, he missed by a long way measuring up to' the proper minis terial standard. "Relievest thou Me?’’ asked the Master. An affirmative answer brought no cross examination, no expression of doubt about sincerity, no demand for written evidence. Rut Rev. Mr. Meigs of Danville Is not that "eney.” He demands to he shown. As before stated, we hold no hrief for Arbuckle, but in the epistolary exchange between the comedian and the pulpiteer it will strike the average man that it wns the self-righteous pulpiteer who got the worst of It. But It Isn’t ths cap that covers the skull; It Is what the skull covers that counts. s | sunny side up I ^ake Comfort, nor forqet 9hat sunrise nei/er failed us yet J_Ceha, 'JKa.tler -—---v Dearly beloved, let us turn this morning to the Book of Books, finding our text in Numbers 14:8-9, reading as follows: "If the Lord delight In us, then He will bring us Into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey. “Only rebel ye not against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us; their de fence is departed from them and the Lord is with us: fear them not." The story of the tvyelve spies sent across Jordan to spy out the land is the story of humanity everywhere. Of the twelve sent forth, ten came back in fear and trembling, lily-livered and spineless, to say that the giants could not be overcome. But two, Caleb and Joshua, men of indomitable soul and sublime faith in the Lord, insisted that it could be done—and it was. It is this lesson of courage and faith that we would im press upon your minds this morning. We have but to look about us today and witness the triumph of that courage and faith. It is to be seen on millions of acres of this great com monwealth; to be seen in hundreds of thriving cities and towns; to be seen in churches and schools; to be seen in the comforts that come as the rewards of courage and faith and toll. What this country needs, dearly beloved; what the church of the living God needs, is more of the courage and faith that Inspired Caleb and Joshua. Country and church need to turn a deaf ear to the puling plaints of pessimistic souls like unto the ten cowardly spifes who returned with lamentations and despairing wails. Caleb and Joshua had heard the promise of God that they were to inhabit the land, and stories of giants and walled cities did not shake their faith In that promise. Why, then, should we of this day despair? What is needed is more reliance on the everlasting promises, more faith, more courage; and with these in sufficient quantity there shall come to us in these latter days even greater victories. It was when Israel turned away from God that Israel’s troubles began, and the farther the turning the greater the troubles. If trouble has come upon us in these latter days is it not because we have turned away from God? Dearly be loved, no nation can Jazz and drink its way to temporal pros perity and everlasting life. God is not to be mpcked by lip service on the Lord's Day and forgetfulness on the secular days of the week. Neither is God to be pleased by cowardly souls that give up in despair because He does not do it all. He demands cour age combined with unfaltering faith. His promises today, as in the days of Caleb and Joshua, are to those who overcome, to those who come up through great tribulation. When the church of the Living God Is recruited from men and women who are doers, not mere sayers, then will it march forth to glorious victory. ___ . Our own Nebraska, land flowing with milk and honey, was not brought to its present high estate by descendants of the cowardly ten. It was subdued by men and women inspired by the courage and faith that inspired courageous Cal-'i and Joshua. They listened not to old wives’ tales of sons c. Anak lurking to subdue. They relied on the promises and want fortfi. armed and equipped with courage and faith, and giants dis appeared. — What we who profess to love God and desire to serve Him need most today is a renewal of courage and faith. Without them the work will languish; with them the church of the Liv ing God will go forth to victories greater than any that have yet come to pass. - The Church Militant—that is the world's need today. That our souls may be fired with a new zeal and our hearts Inspired by a new courage, let us sing: "Onward, Christian soldier, marching as to war, With the cross of Jesus going on before. Christ our royal master leads against the foe: Forward into battle see His armies go." The fight is on. dearly beloved. Our Great Captain calls I for men and women of dauntless courage and undying faith to carry His work triumphant across a sin-cursed world I, l’.. I When McLaren’s Flight Ended V-J Fearing that the plane might dash against the cliff* of Bering Island, a forced landing was mad*. Both wing lips were shattered and wrenched off and the fahrlo torn off the lower port wing. Major MacLaren said. He con tinued: "My first order was for life belts, which were packed In Lieutenant Broome's Beat In the forward cock-1 pit. I then examined th* hull, but] there was no sign of Its taking water. The fog was so dense that we couldn't see land My watch stopped at 10:65 i m , the time we hit the water on Saturday. "W* saw hundreds of birds flying In two steady streams. We thought they were leaving their nests for the open sea Ashing and would return to feed their young. This tallied with my calculation that land should bn “ast-southeast and fairly close. "The engln# was then started, and we attempted to taxi, but It was a! most Impossible to steer the plane, as the wing tips burled themselves In the water, alternately swerving the plane around. Lieutenant Brooke and I spent two hours running back and forth on the lower wings as the plan seesawed and the weight of the engine threatened to capslse th* ehlp. "We had to stop the engine repeat edly ss the water boiled and sprayed aver th* plane. Th* machine threat ened to dive under fha waves when the tall plunged. The wings then started to break. During our last desperate minute aboard the plane Lieutenant Brooke pointed to the east, where a patch of fog lifted. We could dimly see land. We started the engine with difficulty, as every one was getting exhausted. W* were all cold and wet. I’lenderlelth left the pilot’* seat to help start th* mo tor. We then saw a sandy beach ahead, about two miles off. "Tha engine waa started and we ran close to the breaker*. The *n gin* then failed us snd was useless A sprocket In th* starting magneto was broken. We then dropped anchor, hut a high wind Mowing straight on dragged the plane northwestward. "Kvery one Jumped Into tho rold waters and held th* plan* heading toward th* sea Th* wind and the heavy sea Anally slackened and we beached th* plan* Plenderlelth and myself unloaded the equipment. The fog began to lift and w* rested In the afternoon. It was bright, warm snd dear. "The Island w* saw for a few min nt*a In the fng and which we narrow [y escaped proved to he ‘Beeline Rock.’ 160 feet high and 77 miles northwest of Nikolski. Onr course from West Kamchatka to Bering Is land Intercepted It. I had allowed three degrees to Av* for drift along the route which shows that both navi gallon and steering wet* faultlees Lieutenant Broome then recognized attr position as Buckeye Rock. lie ledared that he remembered the 1o atlon during his trip her* last April, when lie was laving supplv liases for us between Vancouver. B. C , and the Kuril# Islands, Japan. "At length Rungatl Miles a man who lived on th# leland, ran error* its. Ha obtained aid and two boats were manned Th# boats reached the lilatie. which was pulled on to the ihore, out of the water. "The Ruae'un wireless operator on rtehlng island then got In touch with the Canadian trawler Thlepval at F’etropavlovsk The Thlepval anllc.l mmedlately under forced steam and irrlvcd SiaMiday morning They took is aboard, and we sntled for Dutch Harbor. "Major Tannga TJa and Lieutenant "otnmander Tokunngo, .tapaneee of leer*, and Russian officer* of th* Thlepval did commendable work In , salvaging th* plan*. It was Impossi ble to arrange through the Japanese government for passage through Japan, ao w* decided to go on the Thlepval to Dutch Harbor and Van couver, B. C. "The round the world flight, owing to th* conditions, must be abandoned We are sorry, hut It can't be helped under the circumstances." Il t-; ' When the House Elects the President ___' From the New York Sun. If no candidate for president re ceives a majority of the electoral vote on November 4 next the election will then be thrown Into congress end an unfamiliar portion of the constitution resorted to In an efTort to select a chief magistrate. The electors are Instructed by law to meet In their respective states on the first Wednesday In December to cast their votes for president and vice president. They must, after vot ing. draw up three distinct certifi cates showing their votes for presi dent and vice president. Two of these certificates must be forwarded to the president of the United States senate on or before the second Mon day In January. If the electoral re turns have not reached the president of the senate by the fourth Monday In January, he Is empowered by law to send for them. On February 11 of next year, three months after the election, the senate and house of representatives of the 68th (or present) congress will meet In the hall of the house to take a count of the electoral vote. The pres ident of the renate will preside over the Joint session and will provide four tellers to open and read the certifi cates submitted by the electors of the various states. He will then announce the total. If no Candidate has re ceived a majority of all the electoral votes the joint session will Immedi ately stand adjourned and the house will go Into separate session for the purpose of electing a president. President Coolidge, John W. Davis and Senator Da Follette all may be considered by the house In its ballot ing. The constitution provides, in cage no candidate receives a major ity of the electoral votes, that the house shall proceed to elect a presi dent from among the persons having the highest number of votes, hut lim its the number to be balloted on by the house to three. Balloting for president proceeds Im mediately. The members of the house are seated by state delegations, as the vote Is by states. Each state, whether It Is New Tork, with 43 rep resentatives, or Nevada, with one, casts one vote. How that one vote shall be cast Is determined by a ma jority vote of the delegation. If the delegation Is evenly divided between two candidates then the vote of the state Is lost and the vote is recorded as “divided.” A number of members from two-thirds of the states must be present to make a quorum, and a majority of all the states In the union Is necessary to a choice. Coolidge or Davis, to win, would require the votes of 25 state delegations. The balloting In the house must continue, once It Is begun, without interruption by other business, from February 11 until March 4. In the meantime the senate will be selecting a vice president. Here the procedure is slightly different. The senate Is allowed by the constitution to vote for the two highest candidates for vice president only. Two-thirds of the whole numer of senators consti tute a quorum for this purpose, and a majority of the whole numer of sen ators, or 43, Is necessary to a choice. If by March 4 the house has failed to elect a president and the senate has succeeded In electing a vice pres tdent, then the vice president Is em powered to act as president. If, how ever, both the house and senate have deadlocked and failed to make a choice, as many political prophets predict would be the case If the next election were thrown Into the house, the “If' machinery of the constitu tion has been exhausted. There Is no next step, constitutionally, and the only precedent for action Is the elec tlon of 1S76, when congress, finding no rellet In the constitution for an unprecedented situation, created an electoral commission. In the event of failure by both house and senate to make a choice It Is more likely, however, that the election would be thrown into the court*. Alexander Hamilton, who was no particular advocate or defender of the constitution, said of the articles dealing with the election of a presi dent: "The mode of the appointment of the chief magistrate of the United States is almost the only part of the system of any consequence which has escaped without some censure or which has received the slightest mark of approbation from its opponents." Since that remark was made two presidents have been chosen by the house of representatives, one vice president has been chosen by the sen ate, the machinery of election Itself has been changed, and the outcome of one election has been determined by an extra-constitutional body. There was little support in the con stitutional convention of 1787 for the popular election of presidents. Dis cussion of the executive branch of the government d'ent on Intermittent ly from May to September, 1787, with the final result of the incorporation of article II, section 1, dealing with the executive. It declared that the executive power should be vested in a president of the United States, to serve for four years. It provided that each state should appoint "in such mfenner as the legislature thereof may direct” a number of elector* equal to the whole numer of senators and rep resentatives to which the state was entitled in congress. These electors were authorized to meet In their re spective states and vote for two per sons and to return a list of their votes to the president of the senate. This official was to open and report the vote. The person having the greatest number of votes should be president, provided he had a major ity of the electoral votes, and the person having the next highest num ber should be vice president. If no person had a majority of the electoral votes the house elected a president from the five highest on the list, and the person standing second on the balloting was elected vice president. Under this system the first four elections were held. It met its first real test in the election of 1800. The fathers had not anticipated that any two candidates would ever receive an equal number of votes, but in the election of 1S00 Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr each received 73 electoral votes, and the election was thrown into the house Balloting began on February 11, 1801. On 35 ballots taken between then and February 17 Jefferson received the votes of fight atates, Burr those of six states, and two states were recorded as divided. There was accordingly no choice. On the 3Sth ballot Jefferson received the votes of 10 states and was declared elected president. Burr was declared elected vice president. The result of the 1*00 election led to the adoption of the 12th amend ment in 18"4. This provided that the electors should vote separately for president and vice president. And it further provided that if candidates! for the two offices failed to receive a majority of the electoral votes the house should elect a president and the senate a vice president. In 1S24 the election was again thrown Into the house. The federal ist party had disappeared, and there was no rival to the democratic party Four candidate* for president, all professing the same political views, were placed in nomination, on# of them by congressional caucus, and three by state legislatures. They were Andrew Jackson. John Quincy Adams, William H. Crawford and Henry Clay. Jackson received the largest popular and electoral vote, mt failed by a wide margin of a ma “God of Hope” y (Roman* 16:13.) Sweet message, Hope—I send yoi$ Upon His mission forth As He sent lowly fishermen East, West and South and North! "God of Hope.” O govern My wee word's faring forth! "Hope!" Blessed name, dear Fathe^ Hope! Min# of gold for me! Hope beckons on to future joy, Hope brightens hours that be, “God of Hope" sent Jesus To die on Calvary. Hope, soul in satan’s bondage, Hope, slnfullest of men! Hope to receive Eternal Life, Hope liberty to ken; “God of Hope" has stated; "Ye must be born again!" Hope, worldly minded Christian, Hope, soul ne’er met by care! Hope not that life Is ever bright, Hope not 'tls ever fair; "God of Hope" has told us Each must his burden bear! Hope' O despondent Christian, Hope’s heart is ne'er downcast; Hope op and overcome the world— Hope wears a crown, at last! "God of Hope" would caution; "Hold fast that which thou hast!” Hope, heavy laden toller! Hope, weary one depressed! Hope till your burdens roll away, Hope through this lifetime's test; "God of Hope" Is calling: "Come! I will give you rest!" Hope, broken h<>arted mourner. Hope God’s lambs safe are kept; Hope that your lost ones sleep hj Him— Hope! Jesus, too, has slept. "God of Hope” stnj.»#^ yt-u— Remember “Jesuywept!" —Alta WrenWlrk Brown. Jorlty of the electoral college. Th! election was thrown Into the house, and John Quincy Adams was elected president on the first ballot. In 1876 an entirely different situa tion arose On the day after election the democrats claimed that Samuel I. Tilden. their candidate for presi* dent, had received 2^3 of the 389 electoral votes. The republican* claimed that Rutherford B Hayef had been elected by a majority of on* electoral vote. There were two set! of returns from Louisiana. Florida* South Carolina and Oregon. Congres! was divided Its senate was repub* Hear, its house democratic. In orde# to end the uncertainty which wni rapidly leading to chaos, congres* passed the electoral commission of 1877. This electoral commission was composed of five senators, fiv* representatives and five members ot the supreme • court. It was given power to make the count of the elec toral vote. It was made up of three republican and two democratic senar tors, three democratic and two reput> lean representatives, two republican and two democratic supreme court Justices, and a fifth member chosen hy the other four justices This 15th member of the commission was Jo seph P. Bradley, a republican, and It was by a strictly partisan 8 to 7 vote that all controverted matters war* settled In favor of the republicans. Bright Idea. My mother took my little brothel iver to see our neighbor's new bafc^ He looked at the baby for a few mlh| utee. but had nothing to say. Ratura Ing home a little later. Freddy ask*4| "Doea the doctor bring ail the b** hies, mamma?" "Why, of course," she told him. "Well, I'm going to be a doctJ when I grow big," he earnestly saifl "And why do you want to be ■ loctor, eon’" the mother asked h!nj "Because when I get married I c*a sick out the prettiest babies and keen them for ourselves."—Everybody’4 dagarine. ' '==1 Hello Folks! It’s Fair Time! NEBRASKA'S FIFTY-SIXTH State Fair and Exposition At LINCOLN August 31 to September 5 Inclusive ! || A FIVE MILLION DOLLAR EXPOSITION Gathered From the Four Corners of the Continent A Program of Education and Entertainment Unequalled AUTO RACES HORSE RACES BANDS SHOWS AND RIDING DEVICES 1 Nebraska's Show Window » A Vacation Week for All Citizens of the State L___A