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OUR GREATEST NATIONAL ASSET.
Americans are accused of being too headlong,
too precipitate, in all matters. They rush into
things, and out again. In business, in politics, in
religion, in all affairs of life, it is hurry up. A
device that cuts a second off an operation is adopted,
for it means saving as many seconds as the times the
operation is completed during a day. A road con
tractor was enabled to outdo his competitors, until
they discovered he had so speeded up his concrete
mixer that it made ten turns in the time the other
fellow’s made eight.
There is no question about this. We do live ,
fast, hut whether too fast is a mooted question.
Americans have had plenty of opportunity to ob
sqihve the leisurely methods of other peoples, from
the “manana” of Mexico to the “kismet” of the
East, but have never felt impelled to adopt any of
them. Indeed, the quick-serve methods are con
tinually being extended. Not only do we get rich
quick, but we get poor with equal facility. Nowhere
on earth is as much crowded into life as in this
country. I
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However, we have, a safety valve, several of
them, in fact. One is golf, another polo, another
football, and another racing, but. the greatest of t
them all is baseball. Possibly this is due to the j
fact that baseball comes nearer than any of the !
others to typfying the spirit of the people. It is a
hurry up game, full of ginger and go, and only the i
fast-moving can make any headway at it. Our Eng
lish brethren cling to cricket, for 'its fine qualities
of sport. Yet the cricketer lingers long and lovingly
over the “double centuries” W. C. Grace used to
accumulate, while in America the thrill is for the
home run that springs from ‘ Babe” Ruth’s highly ,
educated bat. Probably the feat of Grace involved
more of finesse, of true patience and skill than did
that of Ruth, but no baseball fan can see it in that
light. It is far more of a triumph to lift a swiftly
thrown ball over the heads of the outfielders and i
into the far-off grandstand than it is to patiently test .
the howling, with now and then a shot that scores.
Waterloo may have been won on the cricket
fields at Harrow and Eton, but tb World Series
this year was .settled on the di c d at the na
tion’s capital. As many thou and ■ could crowd
into the park and cleave room for h players wit
nessed the closing game of the great ■ -r. ""t, whil>
the rest of the hundred-odd millions of the nation’
population crowded around tickers, te’evrrnph in
struments, score boards and the like, and waited
fojr the news.
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| A popular victory was that of the Senators.
Starting in June from a lowly place in the standing
the American league, the Washington team
fought its way through to the top, and after a see
saw contest with the New York Yankees landed the
first American league pennant for Washington. Now,
sfte£ a ding-dong contest with the Giants, the Sen
ators emerge triumphant, the champions of the
world. It is a tribute to the game itself that a team
crippled and handicapped in many ways should be
able to win over as fine a machine as the New York
Giants presented. As an exhibition of sheer pluck,
of-indomitable fighting spirit, no finer thing is found
in-history. What a pleasure it is that Walter John
soft, veteran of the game, was permitted to go in
at the last minute, a veritable forlorn hope, and
crown his long and honorable career with a win
over the team that had humbled him twice.
Verily, baseball is our greatest national asset in
the sport line. It affords as nothing else does the
relief from strained nerves. A common meeting
ground for all sorts and conditions of men. The
president of tht United States stood and cheered
alpng with the men in the bleachers. Democracy Is
personified In baseball, as well as t.hs highest of
strategy and the greatest of skill and cool courage.
A nation that has such a aport to fall back on is in
no immediate danger of dissolution.
MARTYRS OF THE AIR.
From time to time a few lines in tbe news col
umns announce that another American aviator has
fost his life. Scant notice is given the fact, be
cause our people are too busy rushing along about
other affairs. Also, In a land where the front pages
o|'the newspapers are spotted all over with items
shout fatal auto crashes and the like, little import
»f»Ce is placed on the death of a single man. And
flit the aviator deserves more consideration.
Those who are attached to the air service of the
United States are public employes. Their business
is to carry on great, experiments, to the end that
exact knowledge of the science may he obtained for
general use. Wise men admit that, In the event of
another war, more than ever we will depend on
our air forces for defense. In this way alone the
work of the aviators Is valuable in the utmost. How
afe they regarded by the public.
; Not with indifference, as witness the crowds
t|at thronged to see the globe-girdlers. Or the
•uspense with which the Shenandoah is followed on
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its flight across the continent. Those are outstand
ing features. The work that was being carried on
by Lieutenant Neeley and Dr. Meisinger was not
complete when they lost their lives in a storm in
Illinois last summer. But their contribution to the
science of meteorology is recognized. Generally,
though, they twe already forgotten. Captain Skee
ley lost his life at Dayton last week, because the
plane he undertook to fly was worn out.
These are but two incidents in the many. Men
are hazarding their lives every day in equipment
that is dangerous, because the great government
that employs them is too niggard to provide the
proper material for their use. Congress spent its
time last session listening to political harangues, in
stead of considering public business. We hope the
next session will do better, and either give the' ait
service what it ought to have, or disband it entirely.
The list of martyrs to the cause of poor equipment
is long enough.
WHEN THE WORLD TURNED A CORNER.
On the morning of October 12, 1492, the lookout
on a little ship shouted, “Land ho!” It was the
culmination of one of the most momentous voyages
in history. Probably the most momentous. For out
of it came the greatest results that ever flowed from
a single incident.
For weary weeks three little vessels had tossed
on the waves of the Atlantic. They had been buf
feted by storms, drenched by torrents of rain and
spray. Supplies were getting short, and there had
been mutiny amongst the crews. One man stood
alone, firm in his own conviction, his judgment un
shaken by the doubt around him. Christopher Co
lumbus had set out on a great enterprise, and his
faith and courage were rewarded.
It is certain that others had crossed the ocean,
both from the east and the west, hut the record of
those voyages and discoveries, with the single excep
tion of those of Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky
are lost. Even those of the Norsemen were for
gotten for almost a millenium. Columbus gets the
credit, for out of his voyage came the result.
What America has meant to the world, and yet
means, followed the shout of “Land ho!” on that
cloudy morning 432 years ago. It is well, then, that
we give a thought today to the admiral who knew
what he set about to prove to others. He is in no
wise concerned with the controversies that have
arisen since. Nor even with the jealousies and
rivalries that disturbed nations in his day. Portugal
might have had the honor, or England, or France,
for Columbus offered his services to each before he
approached Isabella and Ferdinand.
It was a great day for mankind when he set out
on his voyage, and the benefits of that day will bless
the race through all the coming ages.
HE MAY LEARN YET.
‘‘Omaha is just a wide place in the road,”
•auntily declares a boy of 20, who has confessed to
it long series of burglaries. “We will he out in eight
or nine years.”
Perhaps even before that. In the meantime, he
will bd kept on a road that has no wide spots, not
even as wide as Omaha. The path down which his
feet will wander during the eight or nine years he
looks forward to will take him from the cell house
to the mess hall, to the workshop and back to his
cell house. It will be “stepping,” but not the sort
he says he spent from $30 to $100 a night on. He
will learn a new step. Instead of the “one-step” it
will he the “four-step”—-from one end of his short
ell to the other, two steps each way, four for the
ound trip.
He was out of a job and had a “disgust.” So
;d his partner, and they stole money to spend on
i lipation. Out of the burglaries they may have re
.rived several hundred dollars each, certainly not as
iueh as $1,000. In the eight years they expect to
pend at. Lincoln, if paid laborer's wages only, they
'.could earn $14,000 each. On the scale of a union
musician, they would earn more than $20,000 each.
Looks like a pretty high price to. pay for a few
gilts of “stepping,” doesn’t it? From 20 to 23,
Hi? glorious years of youth, that should be filled
ith the joys of discovering each day a new delight
l the world, will he spent in prison. Instead of the
■jiiders of new experience with each rising of the
un, there will be the monotonous repetition of a
lull routine. Broom-making, maybe, or something
is inspiring. No wanderlust will he gratified. No
mart "girls,” who think a man should he lavish to
'he point of recklessness with his money will enliven
’heir leisure hours. Rundown will find them "at
home” In a cell, and 4 in the morning will find them
■isleep.
Fight years of regular habits, with no disslpa
i ions, may breed in them a wild desire to "step”
en harder. More likely, though, long before that
ime has elapsed they will realize how hollow and
empty the excitement they sought, and how all out
>f proportion is the price they are paying. For with
goes that which can not he bought, with money, a
good name.
If the law went to limit of Mosaic justice, they
would he required in addition to make whole the
loss of those from whom they stole to get money to
waste In profligate pursuit of disreputable pleasure.
That would make the lesson complete for them.
"LORD’S PRAYER” STILL BEST.
The attorney general of California has nailed his
name to the everlasting record. He has decided that
the Lord’s Praypr is unconstitutional and may not.
he used in California schools. We are unfamiliar
with the constitution of the state of California, but
we are inclined to the opinion that It is the attorney
general and not the law that needs to be amended.
"Our Father, which art In Heaven.” Ever alnce
man first learned to lift bis eyes aloft, that thought
has been In his mind.
"Lo, the poor Indian, whose untutored mind
Bee* Ood tn the clouds end hears him In ths wind,"
adored a Great Father. “Gitche Manltou, the
mighty,” was very real to him. Ro has the Idea been
through all the days since man raroe upon the earth
chief among created things. All races, all tongues,
all creeds, admit this fact.
“Give us this day our daily bread.” Not ttyuch,
hut enough to live on. “Forgive us our trespasses
ns we forgive those who trespass against us.” Just,
be on the square with us, merciful when we are mer
ciful, and withholding mercy when we withhold It.
Who ran honestly expect more? “Lead us not Into
temptation.” Do not try us beyond our strength.
“But deliver us from evil.” An earnest supplication,
devoutly uttered.
“Hallowed he Thy name. Thy kingdom come.
Thy will he done on earth, as It Is in Heaven. . . .
For Thine Is the kingdom, and the power, and the
(lory, forever.” To these things sll meti assent. Yet
"he lawyer out In California says the prayer la un
onstitutlonal.
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A Government of Law
For the Petrie, of the People and by
the People—the American Constitution
i L_By THOMAS \V. BI,A(KBIRN-—---J
| William E. Gladstone, the greet
i Plnglleh premier, said, "The Amer
j lean Constitution Is the most wonder
j ful work ever struck off at a given
' time by the brain and purpose of
I man.”
I George Washington was chosen as
: president of the Convention on the
I :’5th day of May, 17S7, when the dele
, sates met In the old State House In
1 Philadelphia “to form a more perfect
| Union, establish Justice, Insure do
1 mestlc Tranquility, provide for the
| common defense, promote the gen
eral welfare, and secure the Blessings
of Liberty to ourselves and our Pos
terlty.” Four months later they did
“ordain and establish this Constitu
tion of the United States of Amer
ica.”
Article I, Section 1 provides: All
legislative powers herein granted
shall be vested In the Congress of
| the United States.
j Article II, Section 1 provides: The
executive power shall be vested In
the President of the United States of
America.
I Article III, Section 1 provides: The
judicial power of the United States
shall be vested In one Supreme Court
and In such Inferior courts as the
Congress may from time to time or
dain and establish.
Article VI provides: That this Con
stitution and the laws of the United
States which shall be made In pur
! suance thereof; and all Treaties
| made, or which shall be made, under
the authority of the United States
shall be the Supreme Law of the
Land, and the Judges In every state
shall be bound thereby, anything in
the Constitution or laws of sny state
to the contrary notwithstanding.
Thu* was created the government
of the United State*. The three In
dependent branches, legislative, ex
ecutive and Judicial, are set forth In
the strongest possible terms and their
powers are vested In the separate
branches respectively by the express
terms of the Constitution.
It Is a written Instrument and the
first and foremost of written consti
tutions. Mr. Gladstone In the same
sentence in which he commends the
American Constitution says of the
unwritten English Constitution that
It ‘Is the most subtle organism
which has proceeded from progres
slve history ” This Is hla way of
saying that the English Constitution
was and Is an assembling of estab
lished precedents, with which Eng
llsh colonists came to America, snd
were the basis of the state constitu
tions. the Articles of Confederation
and the laws and charters of the Co
lonial days. “Every provision of the
Federal Constitution^’ says Max Far
rand, “can be accounted for In Amer
ican experience," between 1776 when
the Declaration of Independence was
promulgated and 1787 when the
American Constitution was adopted
by the Constitutional Convention.
• * •
It was and remains a distinctly
American conception of free govern
ment. Since 18-79 "we have been a
federal republic In which the law- is
supreme and applies equally to all,”
not only In theory but In practice.
In the courts of the land the rights
of the Individual are safe, because
they are established by the funda
mental law. A tyrannical executive,
a tyrannical legislature or a tyran
nical majority are all held In check
by the courts which through hwfoeas
“By the Company He Keeps”
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From the Philadelphia Public X^dfer.
In full swing since early spring, La
Follettelem has now attracted to It
self moat of the elements It was hound
to attract. By and large. It Is the
queerest group In political history.
Some strange political driftwood
floats In the current of the La Fol
lette stream. Some streams never
rise above their source, many of the
human springs of the La Follette
stream may Indicate Its nature and
Its alms.
Socialism Is the strongest, color In
La Follettelsm. In the van of the
radical pageant moves Eugene V.
Debs, durable candidate of the so
cialist party. Not so long ago he was
pardoned for wartime offenses against
the safety of the nation. With him1
Is Victor Berger, whose tender re
gard for Potsdam’s feelings may be
remembered. They are flanked by the
Hlllqultts. Hoans, Thomases and
divers others who long to Import Into
the new world the Mantlsra and class
hates of the old.
The list of self-admitted "Intel
lectuals" and the "pale pinks” under
the "pink flag” Is long Norman Hap
good, handy man for*sundrv "for
ward-looking" causes, suns himself In
the La Follette rays. Oswald Oarrl
ron Vlllard, writing dilettante of the
New Dawn, la in the amen corner.
Theodore Dreiser, author of a much
suppressed novel, “Sister Carrie,” has
found a political home Margaret
Sanger, more or less well known edi
tor of Birth Control Review, has a
place In the parade. Sometvhere In
i he column the Rev John Haynes
Holmes, evangel of sensations,
marches behind a band. These are
.imong the prophets of the mlllen
nlum.
There are pilgrims out of th» dead
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Succoth
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By RABBI J. M. CHARI/IP.
Succoth, the great harveat festival
■ f tha Jaw, suggest* by It# name the
time when the children of larael, en
■ amped In the wilderness, d«#lt In
icnte or booths. Later when the
Jewish people dwelt In Palestine It
was a custom among the farmers to
build rude hooths, or succahs. for
themselves out In th# fields where
they might sleep during the harvest
»ason.
The Pilgrim fathers, when they
kept their first Thanksgiving dsy hi
\merlca, no doubt, received the Idea
from their Hebrew Bibles which they
knew so well. .When they eet apart
a dsy on which to thank <?od for his
j harvest, they must have rscalled the
indent pilgrim feasts of th# Jew
lab people, th# three yearly pilgrim
iges made to Jerusalem that the
farmers might ley their offerings
'rum field end tree upon the eltar
■ nd thsnk Ood for His bounties
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Succoth, the time of th# let#
j harvest In Palestine, was a time for
renerat rejoicing. It was Incumbent'
j (nr every male Israelite above the
! ice of 13 to journey to Jerusalem for
j the annual celebration: often the
women and older children, as well
\ as the servants of ths households.
Journeyed with the master to the
iltv of Ttsvld, which was so crowded
with visitors that many dwelt during
their week's stay In hooths outside
of the city’s walls Ths finest of
th# harvest wee laid upon the alter:
prayer# were offered for rain and
d»w: there was a gathering at the
brook Klshon for the feaat of the
water pouring, where water was
poursd upon the ground, symbolic
of th# life clvlng waters of the ratnv
.season, which bcgan soon after Rue
coth. Most picturesque of all were
the processions of happy pilgrims
"arrylng goodly houghs and willows
f th# brook, singing their grateful
| harvest songs
But during the long period of exile
the Jew was not only banished from
Palestine, hut forbidden to hold land
or till the toll In the countries In
which he lived as an alien. Rtlll he
never rorgot the Joyous harvest days
In Palestine; In his squalid ghsttoes
he reared tiny booths and sang
hymns of thanks for a harvest he
had never gathered, offered up
| layers for rein end dew, although
! he no longer tilled the soil.
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Tills year Ruoroth will atari on
Sunday evening the 15th of Tlshrl
corresponding to October 12. and will
continue until rwesdav evening, Or
loher 14 Retvlra* will he held In all
the synagogues of Omaha both days
Rabbi J. M. Charlop will speak the
flrat day, Monday, 1ft a. rn at the
final Israel synagogue. Klghheenth
and Chicago etreets His subject will
he "What Lesson Ikies th# Ruccali
Teach !Ta at the Present Time." The
second dny, Tuesday morning about
1l> o'clock, he will spenh of the Itrth
Flamedresh Hngodol, Nineteenth and
Hurt afreets The subject of Ids sec
limn will he, ' The prophecy of ’/noli
arlsh In Regard to Hie Betterment of
the Future World
Sure Nig".
Ma ha* ps been to th* races?"
' Yes How do you know?"
'Wall, ntv money box won't rat
1*1"—Th# Humorist (London}
past. Amos Pinohot marches. an
echo from 1912’s Armageddon. Arm
In arm with him le a vague and
shadowy shape from the long ever
ago. "General Jake" Coxey, living on,
although hls "Coxey’s army” Is for
gotten. Queer, shambling figures that
have not seen political daylight since
populism and the fine fury of free sil
ver years have crawled out Into the
sun.
On their flank Is the political con
tingent. J. A. H. Hopkins, the
Forty elghter,” goosesteps there with
Perley Parker Christensen, polysyl
labled farm-labor hope of 1920. He
locks arms with Magnus Johnson and
that other Minnesota senator, the
duck-hunting dentist, Dr. Rhlpstead.
t’omes then Dr. Ladd, Nonpartisan
I'ague solon from North Dakota, self
isted «s a republican, but supporter
"f La Follette, carefully nursing hls
senate Job.
The Steuben society, resurrected
from the unlamented German-Amerl
can alliance, claims Its place In the
sun. Its boasted goal and that of
the new "Kultur league,” that has
endorsed La Follette In the west. Is
a voting bloc of millions to dictate
American policies. They have sworn
loyalty to him and set hls foot upon
their necks They are hla men, as
he was their man. "I p La Follette:"
shouts the same George Rylvester
Vlereck, editor of the American Week
ly, whose The Fatherland was a thorn
In America's side In 1917.
In New Tork the American Aesocia
tlon for the Recognition of the Irish
Republic give* La Follette Its bless
Ing Most of the groups having a
European ax to grind or an old world
blade to sharpen have ranged them
selves with La Follette. Virtually
every element that attempted to hin
der American war efforts Is now with
him.
They march, this swarm of blocs,
these professional agitators, these
selfish minorities, would-be treasury
rslders, limelight eeekers and enemlee
of court and constitution, held to
gether by the cement of hate. They
are led by a candidate driven by re
venge and resentment They were
given their financial start bv a patent
medicine maker. Their stock In trade
i* the wahoo hark, the enake oil, the
dynamite and crowbar of politic*
What I.a Follette feared In hla so
ber moments last winter has hap
pened. All the profeselonal hvphen
ate.*, grudge nursers and eoreheads,
moet of the cranks and a vast major
ity of the "lunatic fringe" ewarm
about him War-time slackers snd
peace-time trouble maker* encompass
him round about. Every man who
thinks th# state eomehow owes him
a living ha* a toehold en th* La Fol
lette band wagon Th# failure, the
broken, the misfit, all who want a
shoulder on which to weep, are with
him.
A man and a party ar* both known
by the company they keep. The
friend* of I<a Follettelem, all the lit
tle men and women who live by pet
ty revolts, have revealed themselves
Tf ever a man had right and reason
to he delivered from hls friend*.
Follette Is that man He prayed for
a i>erty and bedlam threw itself upon
hlin. Such hope# ee he had ere being
trampled down by e stampede of hy
phenates. slackers and denizen* of
the pollttcal Jungle*, hy a rush of
economic morons, polltlcel meetolrls
and self starting cranks.
Cuticura Should Be
In Every Home
P»ily uae of Cuttcur* Soap keep*
the pore* active and the akin clear
and healthy, while the Ointment
heals pimple# and other Irritation*.
Cuticura Talcum la a delicately me J
Icated antiseptic powder of pleasing
fragrance.
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lir Cuticura Pruducta Ara Rababla.
tin i ii i im tir.vr!
RHEUMATISM
White In Franc* with the American Army I ote
tamed from a noted French physician * pre
rcription for the treatment of
Itheumatiam amt Neuritis.
I have given thta to thouaanda
with wondafful results. The
i«re«<-riptmn coat m« nothing.
I ask nothing for It. I will
mail It if von wilt send ma
your addreaa, A postal will
bring It. Writ* today.
rAUi4 rAsr,. bo* m.
H13h Brockton. Mam.
corpus can take from the custody of
any executive the person of any man
unlawfully detained; through appeal
to the courts an act of any legislative
body In violation of rights guaran
teed any Individual may be made
null and void and the will of a ma
jority of all the people held for
naught when contrary to this great
charter of human rights.
For example: No state may pass a
bill of attainder, expost facto law or
law impairing the obligation of con
tracts, and citizens of each state
shall be entitled to all, the privileges
and Immunities of citizens In the sev
eral states.
The first amendment adopted with
the Constitution In 17S9 prohibits
Congress from making any law re
specting an establishment of religion
or prohibiting the free exercise there
of; of abridging the freedom of
speech or of the press; or the right
of peaceahle assembly of the people;
or the right to petition the govern
ment for a redress of grievances.
The fourth amendment provides
that the right of the people to be se
cure In their persons, houses, papers
and effects against unreasonable
searches and seizures shall not be
violated.
Under the fifth amendment no per
son can twice be put In Jeopardy for
the same offense and no accused per
son can be compelled In a criminal
rase to be a witness against himself
or be deprived of life, liberty or prop
erty without due process of law, and
private property cannot he taken for
public use without Just compensa
tion.
Under the thirteenth amendment,
human slavery I* prohibited and the
fourteenth amendment makes all
persons born or naturalized citizens
of the United States and the states
wherein they reside and prohibits the
states from denying to any person
within Its Jurisdiction the equal pro
tection of the law
• • •
Now, how are these Inalienable
rights to be enforced? Congress has
several times sought to enact laws
violating some of these rights, not
ably the enactment of a recent law
under which unreasonable searches
and seizures were being made. The
courts In this very city have held
such acts by federal officers In viola
tion of the Constitution. Many In
stances can be found In the books
where attempts to take private prop
erty without due process of law’ have
been restrained and forbidden by the
courts. The Supreme Court and the
Inferior courts have times without
number checked abuses by officials
and legislatures, which officials and
legislatures w’lthout the Intervention
of the courts would have carried
through.
Early In the history of the court
an attempt was made to retry a case
In Federal Court which had already
been tried In a state court under an
act making provision for such re
trial. but the Supreme Court held the
act void
In another case an act provided for
the condemnation of a lock and dam
in Pennsylvania for public use. but
expressly prohibited any payment on
account of the owner’s right to col
lect tolls. The Supreme Court held
the act void because the fifth amend
ment prohibited taking private prop
erty for public uae without due proc
ess of law and wltholit Just compen
sation
Since national prohibition, an act
Imposing a tax In the form of a fine)
for Illegal manufacture and sale of
liquor providing for summary collec
tion of the tax, was held unconstitu
tional because It violated the const! I
tutlonal right of every person to a I
trial by jury before conviction for a
criminal offense
If the I,a Follett" Idea ehall be |
adopted and Congress may r» enact
any law held unconstitutional by the I
Supreme Court, notwithstanding, the j
majority can deprive cltizena of all |
the rights called Inalienable or epe
clally protected In the Constitution,
e e e
Charles <1. Dawei la right In his J
statement that the attack upon the|
federal Judiciary proposed In the Ea
Follette platform Is the paramount
issue of the campaign
Everything la relatively unlmpor
tant. An assault upon the Jurladlc
tlon and Integrity of the courts Is an
assault upon the American govern
ment. a repudiation of our form of
freedom and a demand that mob
ocracy be substituted for democracy.
If these were no other objection to
the La Follette platform, his purpose
to take from the Supreme Court lta
chief distinction and opportunity for
service, and destroy our system of
checks and balances through the
three branches of our government,
would be sufficient to drive patriotic
Americans away from him.
The announced platform of La Fol
lette and Wheeler has no distinctive,
original plank which thoughtful
Americans can approve. It la the
way to destruction; the course which
history show* leads to anarchy, the
usual plea of the self seeking dema
gogue who would subvert the funds
mentals of government by the peo
ple. for the people and of the people.
That form of government wee first
established by the American Consti
tution and under lte beneficent in
fluence America became and la tfc<=
greatest, the freest, the best govern
ment on the earth.
We Were First
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Omaha with the simplicity of the Automobile Hearse,
now in vogue as the best taste in mortuary automotive
equipment
• As we were first in presenting and pointing the way
to a higher standard of sendee in days past, so today
are we first in every facility and comfort known to
modem mortuary service.
It is only natural that you should choose Stack Sendee
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This glorious Lord's Day Is baing spent by us and a bunch
of cheerful companion. In rs.tln* up after a . rsnuoua«r#rir
These special trip, are not all "beer and aUttle# by » ‘on*
shot TTp at 7 or before every morning, chasing around a
Say grinding out copy In time for the 1. even the
letter then to bed before 10. And welcome Indeed Is even the
narrow and stuffy confines of a Pullman berth.
Ae we write this little Lord’s Day contribution, the lowing
of the*content!*? cows and th. bawling of the virile bul a In the
cars .head, somehow or other reminds us ofa Bible iitory.
Prenatal Influence and heredity are not new dlscoverteSn At
, least one of the old patriarchs was wise to that
plaved It to his own financial advantage. Jacob tolled ee e
vears for Rachel and then had a gold brick handed to hira bf
Rachel's father. Colonel Laban. Leah was
In the dusk of the wedding day. And Jacob, who had
Laban seven years for Rachel's hand, was sorely dlsappo nted.
Rut he had one advantage over men of this day, la that If_hiIs
first wife didn't suit he could take another without the for™a
ity of divorce. .So he proposed to Laban that he serve seven
years more and get Rachel. Laban consented, as that was the
game he played from the start. At the end of the second seven
years Jacob got the girl of his choice, and then proposed a
partnership with his father in law Laban was the greatest
I flockmaster of history, but he didn't know a- much a* his son
in law. So when Jacob agreed to manage the business and
take as his pay all the striped, ring straked and streaked calve#
as his pay, Laban jumped at it. You ee#, the klne of that day
ran to solid colors.
The story Is too long to tell here, so you Just turn to the
Good Book and read all about the Joke Jacob played on Laban.
Jacob fixed things so that most of the calv eg were born striped,
rlngstraked and streaked, and his method is Interesting. It
has something of a bearing on the cattle and hors# business
even to this day.
Sunday should be a day of Introspection. Too often It Is
nothing of the kind We hold that It should be a day of devo
tion, although freely accord to every man the right to spend It
as he pleases, provided that In eo doing he does not infringe
upon the rights of others. But we also hold that the growing
practice of making It merely a day of pleasure is a growing
menace to the perpetuity of this republic. History will bear
out the assertion that the nation that forgets God is soon for
gotten of God, and when that comes to pass nations dfsappesr.
It Is only as men and nations adhere to the Christian vir
tues that they prosper. When they lose sight of those virtues
and Indulge in selfieh pleasures or devote themselves to worldly
gain, they degenerate. That Is history, and this nation can not
expect to prove the exception to the rule. We point with pride
to the fact that our country Is 150 years old, but that is only
a day as compared with Rome. Yet Rome, flourishing for a
thousand years, went down In ruin because It forgot tfce
homely virtues and degenerated Into a nation of profligates
WILL M. MALTIX.
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To the Pilots of the Night Air Mail.
With the stars for companions, his lone vigil keeping,
He skims the high air while a world lies a sleeping.
A dreaming perchance; no thought gives to him, who
Braves danger and death as he flies the dark night through.
Unfamed as a hero of song or of story.
Sail gloriously onward; your courage your glory.
To the Power which gives you such valor, I do pray,
To guide your frail craft o’er its uncharted air-way;
Who, in wisdom, the universe holds in unseen hand*,
His spirit be with you, pioneers of the cloud-lands.
MABEL MILLS SON’GER,
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