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    The Omaha Bee
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Omaha Vheife fhe^fest is dt its Best
CHALLENGE TO THE TRAINED MIND.
Stoughton Bell of Boston, a lawyer and a politi
cian, writes in the September number of the Har
vard Graduates Magazine very earnestly on the
fopic of Americanization. His central idea is one
The Omaha Bee has frequently urged. It ia not
the foreigner who requires attention so much as it
is the native bom. In the disinclination to vote,
Mr. Bell sees the same danger signal that appears
to all thoughtful Americans. It is the first sign
of weakening of the national fabric. He locates the
;rouhle definitely:
"The greatest menace to American Institutions
is the so-called intelligent citizen with his entire lack
of a realization of his personal responsibilities as a
citizen.”
• * *
Sober thought is focalizing on this point, and the
Indictment is being driven home with force. One
Pi the agencies is the Professional Men’s club, which
Has come into existence within the last year, and
of which more will likely be heard. At the first
International conference of these groups, held at
Des Moines a few weeks ago, Thomas R. Kimball
of Omaha outlined the objects of the organization.
Mr. Kimball served as provisional president during
the formative period, and was elected president by
the delegates at Des Moines. He puts the purpose
of the Professional Men’s club in these sentences:
"To discover how to liberate the professions from
the domination of selfish Interest, both within and
without the professions, to devise ways and means
of better utilizing the professional heritage of
knowledge and skill for the benefit of society, and
to create relations between the professions leading
to this end.”
While the professional men are thus reacting on
:heir class, the greater need is set out by the fur
;her argument of Mr. Bell:
-riut unless and until all such persons come to
a realization that it is their personal influence and
example which really count, the movement as a
movement will amount to little. When they are
willing to place themselves side by side with their
fellow citizens, rubbing shoulder to shoulder In the
solution of common problems, even as their names
are pluced on the voting list side by side, without
title or rank, we can hope for success In what is now
an abortive attempt to teach a definite group of
citizens what citizenship means."
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f Plainly the duty of the trained mind is here
shown, just as it is challenged to the service. Socie
ty has a claim on every professional man. On the
great majority of them because they have benefited
through the public schools maintained at the public
charge. Some return for the cost of this education
other than professional services may rightly be not
only expected but exacted. Indeed, it should be a
pleasure to the professional man who has received
only part of his training in a state-supported school
to discharge a portion of his obligation by trying to
elevate the general standard of citizenship. It is to
the educated to whom the uneducated turns for
leadership. And it is dearly up to the trained men
and women of America to meet the appeal with such
response as will be good for all.
WHEAT FROM OLD RAMESES’ TOMB.
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Farmers who have learned about Bohemian oats,
Siberian wheat, and a host of similar seed swindles,
will smile when they read a story that comes down
from Spokane. It is to the effect that a farmer up
there has just reaped a crop of wheat averaging
48.6 bushels per acre, the seed for which came from
an Egyptian tomb. What tomb is not known.
Perhaps this is true. Scientists say that none
of the wheat found in Egyptian tombs has ever
germinated, although many efforts have been made
to reproduce it by planting. The life of the grain
is dead, its vital spark having fled during the long
years it lay in the tomb. This is not to be wondered
at. It would be marvelous if the germ had retained
any part of its virility during so long n time.
The Spokane story will be accepted at its face
value, but careful inquiry will probably be made be
fore the Egyptian grain displaces the well known
Turkey red, or any of the other varieties that really
do produce^crops when given even slight encourage
ment. Meantime it will do no harm to ponder over
the possibility of eating the same sort of food as
was served in the valley of the Nile when the con
tactors were still putting up the Pyramids.
MARS A CHILLY PROPOSITION.
Have you any notion of migrating to Mars?
flight as well look into what the astronomers are
Ending out about the climate, if you do. The sub
ject baa been one of fascinating poisibilitie* ever
aface the Harvard professor sprung the thought
that Mars might be inhabited. Many a tale has been
spun concerning what manner of creatures exist
there. Imaginations have been strained to visunlize
them. Scientists have taken both side of the ques
tion. Some have argued with vehemence that there
ll no life on the planet. Others with equal ardor
Insist there 1«. A majority decline to commit thrm
■ilves positively on the point.
However, a few weeks ago Mars just missed col
ling with the Earth, only a trifling matter of some
a, ,000,000 miles separating them. Observers took
•advantage of this neighborly call to pry into aome
of the Martian secrets. A few of these are now
being disclosed. From the observatory at Mount
Wilson we get a weather bulletin that will interest
Mr. Robins. Tests disclose the fact that the tropi
cal heat of Mars runs as high as 42 degrees Fahren
heit, or just above what is considered frost line in
Nebraska. Around the planet’s south pole Stefans
son and his merry crew of blubber eaters would
feel at home, the average temperature there being
minus 95.
Looking over last winter’s coal bills, and facing
the prospect for another similar season, the Ameri
can householder will prefer to keep the ills he has
rather than fly to Mars. As a matter of fact, when
one gets accustomed to the climate and the ways
of the people, this isn’t such a bad old world,
after all.
ADVENTURE NOT A BUSINESS.
Raold Amundsen has just been admitted to the
bankruptcy court at Copenhagen. His affairs are
so hopelessly involved that it is likely when he
emerges from the court he will not only be penni
less, but many creditors will have sustained substan
tial losses. Primarily, his plight is ascribed to the
failure of his Polar expedition last year, and to his
efforts to get the enterprise under way again this
season.
The incident will, serve to show how different
exploring adventures are nowadays from those of
old. Marco Polo ventured into China because his
uncle had found a profit in the eastern trade. Co
lumbus drew a very careful bargain as to what re
ward he was to have if his quest returned a profit.
Spain subsequently derived some billions from the
result, but Columbus got little. Da Gama had a
good contract with Dom Manoel when he started
from Lisbon for Calcutta. Magellan, the Cabots,
and others of the time knew what recompense was i
to be theirs before they set sail.
On the other hand, Raleigh, Drfcke, Frobisher
and their kind went roaming very much "on their
own.” Encounter with a Spanish treasure convoy al
ways was a paying proposition. Since their time, the
great dives into the unknown have almost invari
ably been government-supported and undertaken in
the name of science. No one has thought of mak
ing money out of an exploring expedition, and what
profit has come has been incidental, rather than di
rect. Henry M. Stanley, who went from Omaha to
the Britjsh parliament, moving by way of Central
Africa, is a notable example of how adventure was j
turned into cash. His books still rank among the
best sellers. Yet Stanley set out to find Livingston,
not to make money.
Exploration, whether it be to climb Mount Ever
est, retrieve eggs left by careless dinosaurs, chart
the great Greenland ice cap, circumnavigate the
globe, or find out what lies between Point Barrow
and the pole, is not a business. Great capital is
required, and skill and experience in management,
but dividends are not expected. When Amundsen
,rets ready to go again, he will find backers, because
wen with money are more attracted by the pursuit
low than ever, even when the hope of great gain
simulated the imagination and led to contribution, i
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ETERNAL, HAPPY YOUTH.
Bishop Hughes of the Methodist Episcopal church
has sound judgment on certain matters. At least
the sober thinkers will endorse what he has to say
about the boys and girls of today:
"We criticize their hair, their skin, their stock
ings, their shoes, skirts, cosmetics and manners. I
suppose when you middle aged people were young,
to hear some of you talk, you thought you were
gentle little angels sitting around on sofas with
your hands folded on your laps."
And there you have it. History does not pre
serve the facts, but it is not difficult to imagine what
they were. Finding that grownups are much the
same now as in any period of the past, it is reason
able to conjecture that boys and girls are also
changed only in degree and not in nature. The lit
tle scamps who shouted at that prophet, “Go up,
Baldhead!” would as derisively treat him today, and
without incurring the penalty of being devoured
by bears. Sometimes we think that story was just
put in to scare somebody. It is not impressive, ex
cept as showing the nature of the Hebrew children.
Excavations in Egypt and Assyria have disclosed
playthings that are much like those in vogue today,
at least having similar purposes. Games have come
down from antiquity so remote that their origin is
lost. And so it is. Youth, happy youth, is eternal.
Individuals pass through it, but the stage remains,
unchanged and unchanging. Peter Pan embodies
something that exists in every human being. And
how many times do we realize the poignancy of
Leila McIntyre’s song:
“Toyland, Joyland—Little Clirl and Bo.vland—
Once you’ve passed Its borders, you can ne'er
return again!"
Bishop Hughes is right. Boys and girls today
the just what their fathers and mothers were.
TAKE A LOOK AT THIS.
Bankers attending the session of the American
Bankers’ association at Chicago are told that the cost
tif crime in the United States has reached the re
spectable sum of $3,600,000,000. Half a billion dol
lars more than the president has fixed ns the cost
of running the federal government for the current
year.
Criminologists agree thnt the principal cause of
crime is ignorance. More than hnlf the parents in
the United States have only a sixth-grade educntlon
or less. School statistics show very little prospect
for improvement.
In the year 1919-20, according to the United
States census bureau, a total of $1,166,506,640 was
expended for all purposes on public education in
the United States. More thnn $100,000,000 of this
sum went for debt service, leaving hut $1,036,151,
209 to be spent in support of the schools.
Less than one-third the cost of crime for n sin
gle year. Another fnct that may interest. We spend
twice ns much on schools ns we do on churches. So
the crime bill for a single year was more than six
times as great as the amount spent on religion.
Of the national domestic income, % of 1 per
rent goes to the church; 1*4 per rent goes to educa
tion; 4*4 per cent to government; 8 ti per rent to
crime; 14 per cent to waste, and 22 per cent to
luxuries.
How long can this ratio of expenditure continue
without irreparable damage to our civilization?
A South Dnkota man lighted a match to see If
there was any gns in the lank. When he gets out
of the hospital he may look around for a new car.
“Pat" Harrison has trained his mud gun on the
president again. He has not had much lurk so far.
An earthquake has joggled Maine, hut thnt wifi
not change a vote.
Score in Philadelphia: Butler, first; gang, no
where.
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Liberty Preserved by Law
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By T. W. BLACKBURN
Our government is a system ot
i checks and balances with three dls
I tlnet and Independent departments.
The president represents the execu
tive branch and neither the legisla
tive nor the judicial department can
deprive him of certain powers granted
him by the constitution. He nego
tiates for treaties. He may veto any
measure" passed by congress. He is
commander-in-chief of the army and
the navy. He may pardon any fed
eral convict. The senate may refuse
to confirm a treaty and congress may
override a veto under special pro
visions of the constitution, but the
senate cannot negotiate a treaty or
select a cabinet officer, or compel ex
ecutive action upon any matter within
his constitutional powers.
The two houses of congress consti
tute the legislative department of our
government. They are independent.
No power exists to compel the enact
ment, revision or repeal of any law.
The president may suggest and recom
mend, but congress may and often
does ignore his recommendations.
The judicial department Is the su
preme court of the United States. It
cannot be coerced by either of the
other departments of the government.
It has no authority to suggest, amend
or repeal any law. There is no proc
ess possible out of the supreme court
which can be construed.as a direction
to congress to act or refrain from
acting. Neither congress nor the
president are amenable to any form of
process issuing from the greatest of
all tribunals. They are Independent
of each other and of the court and
the court is likewise independent of
president and congress.
* * •
But all these departments of gov
ernment derive lheir powers and their
authority from the constitution of the
United States. Their limitations are
fixed by that wonderful instrument.
In all the 130 yearB of our history the
rights of these three co-ordinate de
partments have been maintained and
the balance wheel of the governmental
system is the supreme court. It can
not legislate, but It can say to con
gress, "Your proposed act Is null and
void because It violates the constitu
tion.” The supreme court cannot di
rect the president in any manner
whatsoever, but It can Interpret a
treaty which the president has nego
tiated, and it can say to the presi
dent, "You may not direct the ex
penditure of any money from the
treasury unless congress has by a
specific act authorized the expendi
ture.
These are simple illustrations in
tended to show the co ordination and
at the same time the independence of
our three great departments of gov
ernment.
Congress has attempted to enact
laws not authorized and laws pro
hibited by the constitution. The su
preme court has very properly de
clared such laws null and void.
The supreme court has also held
some laws passed by state legislatures
to be void because they were In viola
tion of some provision of the funda
mental law of the nation.
But of 45,000 laws enacted by con
gress in the last 130 years, just 61
have been held unconstitutional.
While in the same period, of the many
thousands of state enactments, only
350 state laws were declared void by
the supreme tribunal.
* • •
Toward the close of the civil war
and thereafter, congress passed many
acts penalizing those who followed
the confederate flag. One provided
that no person should practice before
a federal court unless he should first
take oath that he had not aided the
confederate cause. Hon. A. H. Gar
land. afterwards a senator and attor
ney general of the United States, had
been admitted to practice before the
outbreak of the war. lie was a con
federate officer and fought for the
confederacy four years. Subsequently
he received a full pardon from the
president. The act was held uncon
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stltutional because (1) It excluded Mr.
Garland from one of the ordinary vo
cations of life on account of past con
duct In assisting the confederacy and
Imposed a punishment by declaration
of congress and was equivalent to a
bill of attainder, which congress was
prohibited to pass; (2) It deprived him
of the right to practice his profession
as a penalty for aiding the confeder
ate cause, which penalty was not in
force when the act was committed
and, therefore, it was an ex-post facto
law and prohibited by the constitu
tion; (3) The constitution gives the
president power to grant pardons for
offenses against the i'nited States and
he had pardoned General Garland.
The act was, therefore, void in so far
as it attempted to prevent a man
from practicing law on account of an
offense for which he had already been
pardoned by the president. Kx parte
Garland 4 Wall. 333.
For this decision radical republican
reconstructionists assailed the su
preme court bitterly, but the supreme
court stood between many individual
southerners and the violence, malice
and wrath of a partisan majority de
termined to wreak vengeance upon
the defeated people of the states lately
composing the southern confederacy
Most of the decisions holding state
statutes unconstitutional in the ear
lier years were so held because the
states sought to pass laws impairing
the obligations of contracts or at
tempted to infringe upon the exclusive
power of congress over commerce be
tween the states. Other laws violat
ing other provisions of the national
constitution were such as emitting
bill of credit, bill of* attainder, ex
post facto laws, laying duties on ton
nage of imports or exports or failing
to give full faith and credit to public
acts or judicial proceedings of other
states. The fourteenth and fifteenth
j amendments also gave rise to some
! efforts at unconstitutional laws.
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It may be worth while to note In
passing that the courts of the several
states declared more than 300 so
called labor laws unconstitutional—
though the supreme court of the
United States has declared only five
of this class unconstitutional.
• • •
As an illustration of a state statute
declared void because contrary to the
fundamental law of the land, the Ne
braska language law is a striking ex
ample.
This act was an aftermath of the
world war. It was extremely of
fensive to many good citizens of Ne
braska. There was never any good
reason for its enactment. However
If the supreme court of the United
States did not have power to deter
mine the constltunonality of state
and congressional acts, the minority!
in Nebraska and everywhere elsd
would be at the mercy of the ma
jority.
Senator La Follette puts first in his
program the emasculation of the suI
preme court. He would take awal
l from the Judicial department of thfc
United States its Independence and
would make the supreme court sub
servient to congress.
This is dangerous. It is revolu
tionary. It takes away from minori-!
ties the only protection they have. |
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Know nothingism” swept certain ;
communities in the 50s. A. P. A.ism j
was strong in Nebraska and other |
states in the 00s. Ku Klux Klanlsm
has demonstrated strength in a dozen I
states this year. War bitterness is j
responsible for a lot of unseemly con-!
duct and the enactment of a number j
of laws which succeeding generations
will denounce. The supreme courts
of state and nation have saved many j
good people who could not grow en
thusiastic over war and war work. J
The constitution stood between them
and much misery and that same grand
old instrument saved Robert M. La I
Follette and Burton K. Wheeler from
Incarceration for utterances which
many patriotic people are even yet
unwilling to forgive.
I-a Follette descended from French
ancestors and Wheeler, leader of the
I. W. W.s, cannot draw the Ameri
cans of German extraction into their
socialistic and revolutionary party.
Steady minded men came from the
fatherland and they are steady mind j
ed Americans, proud of their adopted
land, in spite of some unhappy Inci
dents d^e to the world war. They \
want no radical changes, they do not
trust radical leaders.
For Navy Day I
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More than a million Americana lo
cated In all parts of the United States
will take part In the third annual
celebration of Navy day. which will
be observed all over the country Mon
day. October 27. Parades and celebra
tions will be held in all of the large
seacoast cities. There will be meet
ings of chapters of the Nevy league
and other organizations In nearly
every city and town throughout the
land. Lectures and speechea dealing
with the navy will be given and local
services held, commemorative of the
deeds of American heroeB of all pe
riods of our country’s history.
Endorsed by the president and the
secretary of the navy, Navy day has
obtained the support and active co
operation of a very large number of
social, business and patriotic bodies
which form so large a part of Amdl
can life. In addition to the Navy
league, the American Legion, the Vet
erans of Foreign Wars, many Cham
bers of Commerce, Rotary, Kiwanls
and other groups have promised all
possible aid, while among the wo
men's societies, the Daughters of the
American Revolution and the Daugh
ters of 1812 will take an active part
in observing the celebration.
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The observance of Navy day orlgl
tutted In 1922, when It was decided
that a day should be set apart for the
' nmnicmoratlon of the deeds of Amer
ican sailors In ths World War and In
our country's other struggles, and also
for bringing hefors the attention of
the public the value of the navy to
the nation In peace and In war. Sup
ported by the Navy league and other
patriotic societies, and aided by the
cooperation and assistance of the
Navy department and the, officers and
men of the navy, the celebration
proved successful from the start and
has become a recognized event In the
calendar year.
In addition to parades and memnr
tal ceremonies, every effort is made
on Navy day to familiarize the public
throughout the rountry with the ships
nd men of the navy. The battle
fleets on both coasts are divided
among the principal seaports and
' ther naval vessels ere distributed as
widely as possible so that every sea
port is visited by one or more ships
During the day "open house" is held
at which the navy officers and men
act as hosts to all who care to visit
the ships and explain In detail the
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The Banqueting
House
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(Th* following v*r***, *n Interpretation
>‘t what th* church *ny* of t’hrl*t, *r
cordfnif to Solomon * ftonff of Song*, w** (
mad by th* »uthor, Alt* Wranwlrk !
lirown < Mr* Walter Brown i *t th* da- |
votionai »*rvlc* of th* woman * m**tlng
on .September 26 of the South was* *rn
I aptlat hmoi latloa, Flr*t Baptist church.
Shenandoah, la.)
To the banqueting house He brings
me,
'Neath HI* banner of boundless
love.
Where HI* pear* wait* the war worn
pilgrim
Aa home-cote wait* the *torm spent
dove.
From the Flagon of T.lfe He quencher
All my flerlly burning thirst
As. of apples of comfort eating,
My soul Is In feast Immersed,
lie sits with me at His table:
Mv nard fumes devoutly atlr,
Piercing our house beam's cedar,
Reaching II* rafter's flr.
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For the winter 1* done. Kxultant,
Sun Inspired Is the song of bird.
And fair flowers emit Joy's savor,
And the turtle* glad voice is
heard.
My Divine Ho»t'* anointed Person
Cast In grace of th* fleet young
roe—
Pear* ttie radiant banquet garment I
Of roseate dayspring'* glow.
Ills linen la Kgvpt a byssua—
Idk# softest caress Its fold—
Delicate fineness—fabric
Worth twice It a weight In gold
Rows of Jewels HI* cheeks emblazon
Chins of gold- round Ills nerk en
twined—
Match the border* with studs of silver
A* twin e.\es match our love com
bined.
0 an amaranth 'mid the thorn hedgi
I* His love mid th# ones like me!
With chaste kisses, and 111* arc
sweeter
Than new wine of Galilee,
We |x»rt, and I then behold Him—
Rnrnpt, how my bosom thrills'
1 raping upon the mountains,
Skipping upon the hills!
When aside by rnmpsnlnns turning.
From the Holy of Holies' spell.
From the flg iree that put* forth
green flg*.
And the tender grnpe vine's good
smell;
When no longer among the lilies
He regale* me, do foxes come
To desisdl my fnretnste of Heaven
My spirit's Klyalttm?
No! Foxes, the little foxes,
Such glory can never dim:
Fot In Ills secret Presence
Col I hsve dined with Him!
•-Alt* Wren wrick Brown.
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working of machinery and gun* with
which they are equipped. This fea
ture has proved of the greatest In
terest In past years, and in many In
stances visitors have come from hun
dreds of miles Inland to Improve the
opportunity to be guests of the navy
on Navy day.
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In anticipation of the present year's
celebration, committees have been
formed by the Navy league and other
patriotic organizations for carrying on
the work throughout tlje United
States. Governors of slates, members
of the senate and house of repre
sentatives and leaders In both the
business and social world of the na
tion have accepted memhershlp on
the national committee In general
charge of the work. The chairman of
this committee snd In charge of the
general plans of the Navy day cele
brations Is Commander Marlon Epp
ley, United States naval reserve force.
Working under the guidance of the
rational committee are state commit
tees, each of Which In turn hag the
supervision of local committees In
towns snd cities. Heads of the state
committees are;
California—Capt. Trank H. Alns
worth, San Francisco.
Colorado—Morton M. David, Den
ver.
Delaware—Dare O. Hopkins. Wil
mington.
Florida—Lieut. Col. Harry C. Cul
breath, Tampa.
(Georgia — Langdon Thomas, Au
gusta.
Illinois—George M. Welchelt, Chi
cago.
Iowa—N. M. Hubbard. Des Moines.
Kansas—Frank E. Samuel, Topeka
I-oulslana — Benjamin T. Waldo,
New Orleans.
Maryland—Gan. Charles F. Mackltn.
Minnesota—yon. George E. Leach,
mayor of Minneapolis.
Montana—Eugene Carroll, Butte
Nebraska—Col. John G. Maher.
Lincoln.
Nevada—Hon. Charles B. Hender
son.
North Carolina—Stewart M. Cram
(r. Cramerton.
New Jersey—W. Parker Runyon,
Perth Amboy.
New York—Rear Admiral Trouts M.
Josephthal, New York City.
Oklahoma — Gen. Roy Hoffman.
Oklahoma City.
Oregon—Judge Wallace McCam
ant, Portland.
Pennsylvania — Hon. William C.
Sproul, Philadelphia.
South Carolina—Hon. H. S. McEI
wee. Charleston.
South Dakota—Lewis W. Blcknell.
Texas—Dr. W. E. Hubhert, Dallas.
Utah—if.n. Charles R. Mabey, Salt
Lake City.
Virginia—Homer L. Ferguson, New
port News.
West Virginia—David C. Howard,
Charleston.
Wisconsin — James H. McGlllan,
Green Bay.
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In the celebration of 195.1 more than
1,200 localities arranged Navy day
programs and the present celebration
promises to exceed this. Preparations
are l>etng made for exercises of spe
cial significance tn Washington. New
York city, Boston, Philadelphia,
I’hsrleston <S. C.l, Galveston. Little
Rock. Chicago, San Francisco. Igrs
Angeles, Portland, Seattle and San
Diego,
A feature of the Navy day celehrs
tlon will be the broadcasting of ad
dresses, In which all the large and
important organizations have ngreed
to take part. Last year It was esti
mated that more than 9,000,000 peo
pie listened In on this feature of the
program and It Is expected that a
much larger number will he reached
this year,
NAVY LEAGUE OF THE V. K.
Ml for Them.
Blinks Our fathers didn’t have It so
hard after all
Jinks—No, they didn't have to re
member Which were one way atreete,
where there were no left turns, al
ways to atop when arriving at an
arterial highway or guess whether
lho traffic cop meant for them to go
ahead or atay hack -Cincinnati En
qutrer.
NET AVERAGE
PAID CIRCULATION
for Sopl., 1924, of
THE OMAHA BEE
Daily .73,340
Sunday .73,865
|)o«i not Include returns, left
overs. lampUi Or papers spoiled In
pi Inline and Include* no special
sales or free circulation of any kind
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this 4tb day of October, 11*24.
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On the Whig In Wisconsin, Oct. Wisconsin politics Is a !
funny thing Everybody up here admits that I*a Follette will
carry the state, but so far as we have been able to ascertain
nobody is going to vote for him. At least we haven t
a sTngle m?n of woman who will admit it. and we have talked
to scores of them.
If Milwaukee Is dry then Rhode Island I" the ,ar«rMt state
in the Union. Inquiry revealed the fact thattWe are at least
a thousand places where one may get anything from beer to
whisky, aged in the wood, at a slight advance over preAolstead
prices. We have made no personal Investigation, but on an
sides the information Is proffered, and several times by men
who gave visible evidence that they knew what they were
talking about.
Nebraska overlooked a bet by not having an-agricultural
exhibit here. Only three or four states have exhibits, ana
Idaho easily takes the lead. This exhibit was collected and
displace* by Louis Vonier of the Union Pacific agricultural de
partment. Omaha. Louis has been doing this kind of work tor
years and he Is an artist. He is responsible for the collection
and arrangement of the great exhibit in the headquarters build
. lng at Omaha.
To tell the plain and honest truth, Nebraska excursionists
are going to feel better when they get on the Burlington rails
at Chicago. They have been having a wonderful time, but they
are tired. And when they get on the Burlington rails they will
feel like they are almost home. And Isn’t that a grand and
glorious feeling after one has been roaming around until weary
and homesick?
One of the greatest delights we have had on this trip is to
listen in while some stranger is expatiating on the wonderful
resources of his state, and then horn In on the conversation
and quote him a few statistics about Nebraska. If Nebraskans
only knew it, they have the greatest state in the union agri
culturally. Outside of the dairy development. Wisconsin Isn't
in the same class with Nebraska. Why. these Wisconsin dairy
men have to get about one-half their alfalfa from our state,
and the eorn they raise here Isn’t a marker to ours. But there
te on# striking difference. In 'Wisconsin they utilize all of the
corn, while !■ Nebraska we burn the etalks. We are of those
who are enthusiastic about the development of the dairy In
I dustry in Nebraska, but for energy expended the average Ne
braska farmer gets more returns than the Wisconsin farmer
or dairyman.
Without dairying Wisconsin would be out of the running.
With dairying they have replenished a worn-ont soil, and it is
that work of maintaining and replenishing soil fertility that
Nebraska needs, and dairy development will do It.
Old Nebraska Is going to look mighty good to all of us.
* And every one of the 10* Nebraskans on the trip are now
enthusiastic for dairy development. Without exception they
say that the trip was worth more than it cost, many times over.
WILL M. MAUPIN.
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Super-Literary
Malady
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From th« St. Louts Post-D!sp»tcb
To a person of average culture, one
of the advantages of living In a city
such as St. Loula is the absence of
what may he described as a super
literary set. So far as we have been
able to ascertain through travel and
reading. New York and Chicago are
the only American cities so afflicted.
Kach of these unfortunate places has
a self selected circle of males and fe
males of the species who arrogate to
themselves a superior Intellectuality.
An acute obeerver recognizes the
symptoms quite readily. These symp
toms are indicated in this brief ex
'erpt from an article by a Londoner
n the current number of The Book
man, and it is evident that London
Jlso suffers:
i have seen great numbers of high
browed, small-nosed women, who
•peak as if they had piums in their
mouths, who have all given me the
Impresssion of being rather conceited
about their Intellects. They insist
upon talking in a sort of esthetic jar
gon about ‘art’ and 'fawm’ and Wal
ter de !a Mare. . . and they dis
tress me more by their assurance
than by their limitation. I know
there are men who also talk about
art’ and fawm.' and I regret equally
>he existence of these men. who are
» menace to any person who really
ires about either art or form—and
who therefore speak reluctantly about
Either."
Super llteraryism is a disease due
chiefly to mental lopsidedness Its
victims lack the happy rotundity of
-1 --
intellect which includes, as necessary
rounding-out ingredients, common
sense and a sense of humor. This
being the diagnosis, what then la the
prognosis? Alas! common senge and
the sense of humor are born, r.' t
made. The "art" and "fawm” folk
are chronic cases They themselves
cannot be cured, but those who come
In contact with them can avoid in
haling the infection by exhaling a
hearty laughter.
Garden Centuries Old.
A little tract of 1 and In one of th*
crowded sections of the city of Lon
don Is thought to have been in con
tlnuous cultivation longer than any
other In the world, although it is
possible that there are small fields or
gardens In China with even longer
records
In this London garden, vegetables
and fruits are grown with good re
sults. The spot has never been built
over, nor had pipes laid beneath It. t ‘
It has been a garden for at least 1,50 )
years. The gardener still occasional
ly dig* up bit* of Roman pct'ery and
bricks and relics of even earlier age'.
Agriculture Review.
Going Some.
Friend—What’s the big box on the
front of your machine?
Automobilist—That s a camera for
taking moving pictures. You see. I
go so fast, I don't have time to look
at the ecenery. and »o I photograph
h as I go along.—LYTlustration, Paris.
The Ananias Club.
"I wish,” said the father, “you
children would not pore over yo..t
r.ig<! work the way you do. but woulc
occasionally go out to a movie or
dance for a little recreation.—Cincia
nat! Enquirer._
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