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Omaha'Vhefe foe^fest is at Ms Best
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WORLD IS FULL OF THEM.
A short time ago the Norfolk Press said it knew
a poor woman who was sadly in need of a sewing
machine. With it she could earn a living and keep
her little family together. The next day the Press
tu notified that the sewing machine was ready.
Now the widow is happy, the donor of the machine
is happy and the Press editor is happy. So is every
body else who knows of the pleasing incident.
“What a lot of dandy good folks there are In
Norfolk!” exclaims the Norfolk Press.
Norfolk has a lot of dandy good folks. So has
every other city and town and village. The old
world is full of them. Now and then some confirmed
old grouch comes along with the wail that the world
is going bad and that human love and sympathy and
kindness are disappearing. But it is not so, and
every day thousands of incidents like the one in
Norfolk prove it to be so. The world never was so
full of love and kindness. There never w’as so much
of charity when needed. Miilibns of women and
children in Europe and Asia rescued from starva
tion testify to that fact. Here at home a case of
destitution needs only to be called to attention, and
relief comes quickly and cheerily. Scores of agen
cies, founded on human sympathy and a desire to be
helpful to humanity, are at work day and night to
exemplify that true religion and undefiled so well
defined by James in his epistle as being “To visit
the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and
to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
Good folks everywhere, not only waiting for a
chance to help, but looking for a chance to help.
Good folks who not only hasten to relieve distress,
but are working night and day to remove the causes
that bring about distress. Good folks by the thou
^ sands and tens of thousands who are proving the
falsity of the few but vociferous folks who are try
J ing to spread gloom and doubt and dread.
What appears to some to be a selfish world is
really a world pulsating with love and kindness. It
only needs to know, and then it acts with a unanim
ity unknown when any other cause than charity is
before it. The great heart of America has never
failed to respond when worth while appeal has been
made to it. It responded with a golden flood when
starving Belgium called. It did not waste time ques
tioning good faith when Russia called, but gave re
lief first and questioned afterwards. America’s
charity covered stricken Europe like a blanket. Like
sentinels on outpost men and women are watching
for an opportunity to help, and when opportunity
offers the word goes forth and money and food and
clothing and medicine come immediately and in
such volume ap to testify to the fact that there is “a
dandy lot of good folks” everywhere.
There never was a time in all history when ther
were so many agencies for good, never a time when
ao many men and women were eager to help their
fellows, never a time when the charity that means
love was working so freely and so cheerfully.
So let the pessimists rave and the prophets of
•vil rant. While they are engaged in the task they
love so well and for which they are admittedly fitted
by mentality and temperament, millions of “dandy
good folks” are quietly going about the splendid
work of proving by example that the world is better
today than it ever was before, and fitting itself to
be a far better world tomorrow. The “dandy good
folks” are a vast majority.
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
A whole lot, if you know a thing or two about
the long battle that has been waged over the name of
a mountain in Washington. It has been a bloodless
battle so far, but death-dealing adjectives have been
scattered like grapeshot and shrapnel and friendships
have been wounded to the death. Seattle insists
that Rainier is the proper cognomen, but Tacoma
awears by the great horn spoon that no mountain in
the good old U. S. A. should be known by the name
of a British sea captain so obscure that his name
does not appear in any British history, not even in
the Encyclopedia Brittanica as applied to himself.
So Tacoma is insistent that the big pimple on the
face of Mother Nature be called Tacoma. Tacoiha’s
insistence has become so strenuous and emphatic
that congress will be asked to Fabs a Law about it.
Congress will bs asked to discard the name of
Rainier as applied to the mountain, the national
park and the national forest, and substitute therefor
the name of Tacoma. We are in favor of the change,
although not for the chief reason advanced by the
good people of Tacoma. We are little concerned
about the fact that Rainier was a British sea captain.
We are concerned, and therefore interested, in the
preservation of rythmic Indian names. The Indians
called the mountain Takhoma, since modernised
into Tacoma, and Takhoma, or Tacoma, it should
be, even if the name does somehow or other remind
us of a certain brand of edible crackers.
Far be it for us to thrust ourselves into a neigh
borhood quarrel, however. We may, and do, freely
express our opinion, but it is from the sidelines. If
Seattle wants to retain the name Rainier, all right
for Seattle. Small blame to Seattleites, who will
never be satelites, for objecting to what would prove
geed advertising for a rival city. Small blame to
Tacomg for working overtime to secure a bit of fa
vorable publicity. We’re for ’em both. Tacoma
appeals to us as the proper name for that mountain,
and also for the liational park and national forest.
But from the sidelines permit us to suggest a com
promise. Call the mountain Tacoma, the national
park Seattle and the national forest Tacattle. First,
however, let it be made known of all men that Ta
coma is an Indian name, not the name of a biscuit.
DESTROYING OUR ILLUSIONS.
The realists continue to pierce illusions with a
heartlessness that is not at all to .pur liking. Really,
something should be done about it. Perhaps we
should Pass a Law. The latest illusion to go by the
boards concerns Captain Kidd, supposed to he a
pirate bold, sailing the seven .seas with the skull and
crossbones emblazoned conspicuously on a standard
as black as Nero's heart. Investigators finding them
selves with nothing better to do, have thumbed over
faded court volumes of the American colonies and
England, only to find that Kidd was a respectable,
middle-aged sea captain, whose immortal treasure,
taken from an enemy French ship, would not set
up a haberdashery In business today
Long ago the freebooter, Henry Morgan, was dis
covered to have been not a bad egg at all, but a
British skipper knighted by his king for his glorious
deeds against the Spaniards. In due course of time
we will learn that Ali Babi was an honest fish
monger; Tiberius the leader of a Rortan Boy Scout
troop; Catherine de Medici the kindest of mothers
and mothers-in-law; Madame Pompadour a chaste
lady; Sitting Bull a mere blanket maker, and Attila
the secretary of a Bible study class.,
Only in fiction, apparently, will pirates and ty
rants live on. Sabatini has given us Captain Blood,
and Dumas has done his bit with D’Artagnan's “man
of Meung." The Rover Boys have their Daniel Bax
ter, and Sax Rohmer, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Ar
thur B. Reeve, Mary Roberts Rinehart, E. Phillips
Oppenheini and other chroniclers of crime and mys
tery have furnished a commendable quota of villains.
Every American boy goes through the curricu
lum of wishing to be, at various stages of flamboyant
youth, • pirate, a cop, a locomotive engineer, a
cowboy, an Indian hunter, a circus clown and a
seeker after hidden gold.
And because of that, all the realists In the world
will not be able to shake the faith of the youngsters
in Ali Babi and Morgan and Kidd. It is only the
grown-ups, who still cherish piratical visions and
dreams of vagrant days under the hot sun of the
tropics, who are to be pitied. The person who shat
ters a fond illusion, such as the one about Captain
Kidd, ought to be fed on canned cucumbers and
molasses on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas.
WOMEN IN POLITICS.
They are, and to stay. Nothing could be plainer
than that. Not merely as women, however; but as
citizens. Long before full equal suffrage existed in
Nebraska the women had partial suffrage. They
were permitted to vote at school elections under cer
tain conditions, and that carr^d' with it the right
to hold office as school executives. The result was
that within a few years a majority of counties in Ne
braska had women school superintendents. Other
states had similar conditions. Scarcely more than a
decade ago, however, such a thing as a woman mem
ber of congress, or a woman legislator, or a woman
governor, was unthinkable. Now two women are
governors-elect, two women have served in con
gress, one has served as a United States senator, one
is now a congresswoman-elect, the next secretary
of the state of New York will be a woman, and
three women will sit in the next Nebraska legislature.
That’s going some, even for the new woman. Sev
eral states had equal suffrage before it became the
law of the land, but the women did not seem to
profit to it to the extent of seeking high office. When
the suffrage became equal in all the states by consti
tutional amendment, women took instant notice.
They have simply turned the well known couplet
around until it reads something like this:
"When a woman won’t, she won’t, depend on’t.
But when she will, she will, and that’s the end on’t."
W'oman in politics is neither a fad nor an experi
ment. She is a fact—rand facts are stubborn things.
BLAME IT ON'THE RADIO.
Dwindling attendance at the theaters and mo
tion picture houses is blamed upon the radio.
Dwindling church attendance is blamed upon the
radio.
That is far easier than making efforts to provide
better attractions at theaters and motion picture
houses. Easier than making church services more
interesting and more spiritually uplifting. In fact,
blaming the radio is the easiest thing to do. But
that does not mean that the radio is blamable. “The
poor workman blames his tools.” So' rifns the old
adage. That is subject to many changes to make
it applicable to other conditions, and men.
The radio will not have a deterrent effect upon
dramas that are worth while, nor upon motion pic
tures that are worth while. Nor will it ever be able
to supplant the minister who has a message, plus
personality. Listening in to another congregation,
hundreds of miles away, singing the old songs of
Zion, will never satisfy souls that are hungry for
spiritual food. It may entertain, but there is no up
lift about it to be compared with the uplift that
comes from joining in the singing of those old songs.
But it is much easier to blame the radio than it
is to provide something better. So it is becoming a
sort of stock excuse. The radio may be blessed in
the end for accomplishing something, it was not, at
first expected to accomplish; it may improve both
the theater and the sermons.
Speaking of “The Mule, 19‘24 Model," as has
been done by a democratic exchange, it will be ob
served that it started out with the sHnie old ob
stinacy, kicked all four ways as usual, brayed as
meaninglessly and, as always, wound up in a condi
tion that defies the skill of the most expert veterin
arian.
Uncle Sum never lost anything by-being prepared
for a war for the simple reason that he was never
prepared. That is why he has lost so much by find
ing himself unprepared when war did come.
Henry Ford says he is going to make synthetic
milk. He is late. We've eHten butter made from it
on numerous occasions, nor had all the chemical
taste been strained out.
Despite all claims to the contrary, the weather
is saving the coal buyers of the state more money
than any governor ever inaugurated.
It is said that single women prefer fiction more
than married women do. They’ll got, a-plenty after
they are married.
Notwithstanding the fact that Manager Leisen
is softening the city water a few old 'uns will find It
hard to drink.
Why worry about how old Methuselah really
was? He lived long, hut he didn't live much.
The gun-toters should ho heavily loaded and fired
into the nearest penitentiaries.
Boy, pat* Mr. Hoyl* and get * n*w r*d deckl
t
“From State and Nation”
—Editorials from Other Newspapers—
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Hope Springe Eternal.
From th# Scottsbluff (Neb.) fitsr-Htrslf.
AA'e suppose that the legislature of
Nebraska for 1925 will lie in no re
spects particularly different front
most of the legislature* that have
come and gone in this great common
wealth, save when some very funda
mental proposal has arisen, such as
the passage of the anti-pass law and
the enactment of tlie primary law, as
in the 1907 session. But where there
are no .outstanding features to he
dealt with the session resolves itself
into a matter of the* introduction of
more laws and still more laws, when
the real necessities of a long-suffer
ing populace demand that about half
of the useless dead wood now on the
statute books be repealed out and
out, and half of what is left so
amended and revised that it be made
to lit with present day conditions.
Instead of tinkering with the pri
mary and school and other laws which
are alive and working, we wonder
why the soions do not take some
of the antiquated statutes passed
back in the early ’70s and bring them
up to date, or a£ least make them fit
with the needs of the people as they
exist today.
Truth to tell, there has been, en
tirely too much of attempt to legis
late good into folks in the past few
years. True, there should be atten
tion given to our criminal code, with
the purpose in view to ke.ep it up to
the requirements that are arising in
this day of reckless driving of ear*
and the other danger? brought about
by the workings of progress, but when
it comes to what Is considered '‘good"
and what is considered "had" there is
a wide divergence of opinion, and
much time wasted that should be
given In matters of more practical
need. The legislature of the state of
Nebraska should be considered in a
more important light than that of a
wet nurse, a policeman, a reformer,
and the like, when such, matter*
should be part of the training in
every home.
AA'e often wonder how th* parents
used to get along when they were
held responsible for the raiflng and
morals of their own children and be
fore they had an opportunity to pass
> the huek to the schools, state legis
latures and the national congress.
That they did a fair Job of it is evi
denced by the fact of the nation full
of men and women of middle age and
past, who seem to realize to the full
their obligations to their church, their
state, their families and their fellow
men, even though their early lives
were prescribed by no laws save that
given and enforced by good common
sense parents who believed that the
raising of a family was a responsibil
ity and not a mere Incident, and en
deavored to inculcate sound principles
of right and wrong in the minds of
their ct^Wren.
Movie censorship, press censorship,
censoring music, censoring drama,
censoring this and censoring that:
tilling the statute books with a bunch
of stii(T that is entirely th* province
of the home and of home training and
is useless, after all. For th* truth re
mains that no matter how heavily the
"law" is overloaded, the respect for
the laws is something that cannot he
taught save by precept and example
In the homes. If the law goes to
such foolish extremes as to cause a
loss of respect and a feeling of dis
gust on the part of the parents, then
conditions are worse than they were
before and we have legislated our
seltes Into moral chaos.
The Nebraska legislature Is repub
lican, Bet it then take the slogan of
their republican president—that of
"common sense" in legislation, end
throwing the freak and useless pro
posals into the discard, devote its at
tention to substantial, worth-while
and needful work.
I-essnn of the Election.
From the Toledo Blade.
During the period when congress
was most energetically cars^'lng on
its guerilla warfare against the ad
ministration, a private citizen visit
ing In AVashlngton expressed his Irri
tation over the clatter and hang and
twaddle and folly of the affair. "That
shows how little you know about
politics." explained a AATaahlngton
press correspondent. “Congress is
doing all this because It know* It 1*
the popular thing to do."
There Is no doubt that congress
thought it was heaping up great
stores of beneficent and profitable
popularity by the simple process of
Imitating a boiler factory. There I*
no more douht that great numbers
of people In the national capital were
under the delusion that the more
antics congress cut. the more Indian
whoops it let out, the more pot shots
it took at the occupant of the AVhlfe
House, then the more strength the
senators and representative# were
gathering out in the provinces.
AA'ashington has this effect upon peo
ple who go I Here to serve as the peo
tile's agents. They get to thinking
that the capital is the whole I’nited
States. They acquire the belief that
what is whispered there Is inside In
formation as to the state of opinion
in the country.
The truth is that a man In Wash
ington may become as isolated from
hia fellow countrymen as a patient In
the infection ward of a hospital. If
congressmen did not learn the fact
during th* campaign they have been
taught by the election that th* main
tenance of an open shouting season
against President Coolldg# w'as not
iwipular. More sympathy was created
for him than enmity was manufac
tured against him by republican In
surgency and democratio unreason
nlileness. A resumption of anll-ad
minlstrntlon tactics in congress in
December will mean that congress
men Itav# failed utterly to learn the
leeson of the election. It will be plain
notice to the country that a number
of Its senators and representatives
should tie called home for a spanking.
The Ballot Slacker*.
From fh* Kmrh*y (N*b) Hub,
Analysis of ©lection return* by the
National Olvlc Federation show* that
lee* than 50 per cent of th© voter* of
the United State* cant a ballot at the
recent national election) th* percent
age of gain being only 3\ pet cent
over the totals of 1920, in Greater
New York, where th* vote w«» con
cent rated and th© greatest effort wa*
made to get men and women to th©
polls.
Th© League of Women Voter* mad©
a nation-wide effort to get out the
vote nod other national orgnnizatIon©
did the Mattie, while th© newspaper*
and magazine* gave the subject great
©r ©pace than ever before, >©t the ©f
furl was negligible a© th© result allow*.
Apparently one half of the citizens of
this country will not exarct** this ail
preme function of citizenship, uni©'*
driven to th* poll* at the point of th©
bayonet.
In 1920 there wet*© 52,000.000 voter*
and 27,000,000 vote* wet© cast, or
a ©hade over 50 per cant. In 1924 the
estimated number of voter* wa* «0.
000,000, ©f whom 20.000,000 went lo
th* poll* Th© percentage I* there
fore slightly 1©** In 1921 than for 1920
Th© only Increase, and that very
©light, was allown In Greater New
York, where a political battle of on
usual magnitude was waning. hot
even In New York the woman vole
wa* !©«* than in 1920. These figure©
Ml© well worth pondering ©\*r
I Before seeking a solu^on of the
problem a further analysis is needed
to show where the slackers were lo
cated, who they were, and what their
environment. Were the slackers in
city, town or country? A survey
should indicate the reason for this In
difference. Conference should seek
to find the way to cure this great na
tional defect. Refusal or willful
neglect to vote should be construed
as akin to felony or to disloyalty, it
may be that compulsory voting will
become as important as compulsory
school attendance.
Roll fall of the Old Una.
From the Nation's Business.
Age has its victories no lees re
nowned than youth. Three score
and ten of this day is up and doing.
He is no slippered pantaloon to make
a fireside grandsire. And at 70 doesn’t
a man Just begin to get the full flavor
of life; to get an inkling of how to
get on with his fellows; to know some
thing of the great business of living
and doing, so that at 80, 90 and 100
ha draws a sort of compound interest
on the faith and good work? of ear
lier years?
To make a case would be easy, but
a friend makes il easier by sending a
roster of names in point.
In the 70s—mere younglings^—are
Andrew Mellon, Senator Albert B.
Cummins, John G. Shedd, Samuel
Gompers, Frederick H. Gillet, Elthu
Root, Leslie M. Shaw and Thomas A.
Edison.
In the 80s—middle aged, so to say
—are Oliver Wendell Holmes. Senator
Francis E. Warren, Joseph McKenna,
‘Andrew J. Fame and Lyman J. Gage.
In the 90s—“still achieving, still
pursuing"—are Charles W. Eliot,
Chauncey M. Depew and George
Shlras.
And that conspicuous centenarian,
John A. Stewart, chairman of the
board of the United States Trust com
pany.
Three score and ten the end of life
or Its usefulness? Pish, posh! Like
as not, a man keeps going Just as
long as he keeps Interested In the
world and its work.
We’re Getting Wiser.
From th* Falrbury (Nab.) News.
There Is one thing this country ha?
learned within the past century or
so, and that is that no matter who Is
elected president the nation isn't go
ing to the dogs, property is not going
to be used for bonfires and anarchy
is not going to leave its bloody foot
print? on our doorsteps. In fact, the
wise old gentlemen who laid the
foundation for this country did such
a good Job of it that It would con
tinue to function and be a great coun
try even of Charlie Chaplin should
be elected president.
We have also learned that "getting
oil het up" over the outcome of an
election doesn't get us anywhere, and
doesn’t make us richer, either in
money or friends. The recent presi
dential election did not go to suit
everyone, and yet that Is no reason
why the ones on the losing side should
lose still more by moping over some
thing they cannot control. We've
lived under presidents of both of the
old line parties, and we've seen the
country keep right on growing great
er and better. And so it is going to
b# in this case.
The one thing that Is doing more
to promote prosperity In this country
than anything else is the refusal of
a vast majority of our people to take
politics too seriously. It is now hard
to find one of those old hide-bound
citizens who once thought that every
thing was going to smash if his party
wasn't in power. By refusing to take
politics too seriously they are making
prosperity as they go along. Just as
we hope they will continue to do.
Will Tax Billboard*.
From the Good Hoads Magaslns.
Massachusetts will hereafter put a
tax on the highway sign even though
erected on private property. The con
tention is that the value of the sign
i» derived from the public highway,
not from the private property on
which it is located, and that the first
obligation is to the public who earns
the highway and gives the s!gn an
advertising value. Permission from
the land owners is a secondary mat
ter. It would be well for other legis
latures to establish the Massachusetts
Idea and give the highway authorities
some control over nil signs erected on
private property that in any way de
rive their value from their location
a* regards a public highway. This Is
the only way that the highway of
ficials can keep any control over the
sign and bill board nuisance along t
the public highways.
Tlisy've Had Their Lesson.
From th* Detroit Fr** Pren.
The report that the outcome of the
national election has given the plan
of certain American Federation of
1 -abor leaders to fountt a labor party
In the United States Is a had setback.
Is quite credible. The lesson these
stratsglsta hate received Is both sharp
and painful. They went out on a
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NET AVERAGE
PAID CIRCULATION
for S*pt., 1924, of
THE OMAHA BEE
| Daily ..73,340
Sunday .73,865
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THE NIGHT WATCHMAN.
While you are secure and happy.
With your wife and children dear.
The night watchman Is silently guard
ing
The wealth of our city here.
His days, how shall he count them?
He scarcely knows when they come,
For Ids work is Just beginning
When the glorious day is done.
Watching, silently watching;
Plenty of time to pray.
Watching, silently watching,
Nigkt is his darksome day.
The Irours are slowly passing
For those who have this care:
For many are silently guarding
The wealth of our city fair.
—»A Night Watchman's AVife.
MY MATH.
We passed on the street—just a
glance—
But my heart is not the same.
Did you or cupid throw a lance—
1 do not eveu know your name.
•>ut every day I walk the street,^
Reason says “No," but my heart
says "Wait,"
Hoping against hope that we will
meet.
For what is life but fate?
For in that passing glanre t read,
As plain as if a printed page, A
“I am your mate,” it clearly said.
“Copie, loose my heart from out its
cage."
My heart and soul that were so cold.
Are burning now with love's sweet
glow. .
Dove and desire have made me bold—
My mate, my fate, where didst thou
go?—H. F. Gilbert.
very small Hnib In espousing the
cause of Mr. l.ut Follette, and when
the limb broke they found themselves
a long way from the ground, and
their prestige as a political power
has been pretty badly smashed up.
The labor party Idea never did have
the support of the wiser and better
balanced trades union heads, and It Is
a really pitiful thing that Samuel P
Oompet* should have been persuaded
Into espousing the scheme In the clos
ing years of his career after a long
lifetime of opposition to apy such de
parture. That is one chapter In his
history over which charity should
throw a mantle.
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A Woman's Viewpoint.
From the Seward Independent-Democrat.
The Omaha Bee says It Is up to Ma
Ferguson and Mis. Roes, the first
women to be elected to the high office
of governor, to make good on the job
for "they will he cited as witnesses
either for or against the ability of
women to occupy high political
place." In the case of Ma Ferguson
she will have not much trouble to
surpass the record of Pa Ferguson,
who preceded her in office and was
Impeached because of some Irregulari
ties which he was unable to explain.
As for Mrs. Ross, she has already
publicly stated that it Is her Inten
tion to follow the policies of her illus
trious hus'leind, who died while In
office So there Is really no occasion
to view with alarm the election of
two women as governors. They will
no doubt measure up to the standards
as set by the masculine of the species.
Bad Advertising,
From the Nebraska City Pres*.
"Furdermore, for the last three or
four years they have been knocking
their own state by showing everybody
how Impossible It is for a farmer fo
make a living for himself without he
should have maybe a -still on his
place and cook up a littw white mule
for his ne ghbors. They sold every
body the idea that their state is on
the bum. It ain't so good for credit
out here that they should talk the
way they have done.”
In those words a New Turk ‘'drum
mer" explains the psychology of Ne
braska business to his pul. In the cur
rent Issue of Collier's.
Every Nebraskan knows how much
truth theie is In ^ this cosveraatlon
which smacks of Potash and Peruuut
ter. It is true that it isn’t necessary
to go outside the state*to prove it.
We have had nifn—many of them
engaged In financial undertakings—
knocking the state to outsiders for
months. In our own community we
have been "blessed" with the same
sort of men, deeming It advisable, ac
cording to their own misguided no
tions of patriotism, to preach the gos
pel of unrest and then, when the
words have sunk home, to stand
I
I
I.OOK FOR THE ROUES.
Don’t Spend all your time In looking
For a chance to sit in woe.
Stead of crying, keep on trying
To make roses bloom and blow.
Don't spend all your time in groaning,
V But take time to sing and smile.
Love o’ living, true lpve giving.
Beats the groaning more’n a mile.
Don’t waste time in vain repining
For the yesterdays you lost.
All your sighing, moaning, crying.
Never were worth what they cost.
’Stead of looking for excuses
For mistakes of yesterday.
I\"ep on smiling, hours beguiling,
As you plod along your way.
Don’t spend all your time in searching
For the noxious weeds that grow.
Life's made sweeter and completer
Watching roses bloom and blow.
'Stead of grouching over failures.
Buckle <1<jwn and wear a smile. ■
Love and laughter ever after I
Beats repining more'n a mile.
Our text this morning, dearly beloved, is found in Proverbs
17:22, reading thusly:
"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but
a broken spirit drieth the bones.’’
or the Man of Gallliee we read that “He went about doing
good.” We are not one who would point to the Christ as a
man of sorrows. Sorrows He had. to be sure, as al’ of us have.
But our idea of the Christ is a Christ who went about with s
sunny srnlle, with a face beaming with love for humankind,
with a heart tuned to the heart beats of humanity. He
taught no relig.on of glumness nor of sorrow. On the con
trary He preached a religion of happiness and good cheer; a
religion of good works and of helpfulness. +
You never in all your life jaw a grouch, a pessimist, a
mental dyspeptic, going about doing good. It simply isn't in
them. Tou never in all your life saw the teacher of a sorry
and despondent gospel going about with a merry heart that
cheered on to good works. Whenever you see a man or woman
going about doing good, you see a man or woman w*ith merry
heart that doeth good like a medicine, not only to It* owner,
but to all $vith whom the owner comes In contact.
We believe, dearly beloved, that the world has too long
been taught of a Christ so idealistic that men and women are
prone to forget His manly side. For Jesus Christ, whether He
he priest or prophet, was a man. If that is not true then He
did not suffer upon the tree and the story of the aionement is
without foundation. We believe, dearly beloved, that it is time
to emphasize the manly side of the Carpenter of Nazareth, He
whom men call the Christ.
Away with this idea that Christ taught a religion of gloom
from a heart that knew nothing but sorrow: He look note of
the children playing in the market places end knew their
games. He called them about His knee. He knew humanity
in all its phases, and He went about do ng good, with face
alight with love and heart filled with zeal to be helpful.
What is better calculated to make a merry heart than
just going about doing good? Who has a better right to smile v
with Joy then he who goes about with merry heart, distribute
ing light and love and laughter to take the place of gloom and
hatreds and repinings?
In conclusion let us sing, with loyalty unbounded and a
zeal that can hot be suppressed, that good old song, "Antioch.’*
Let us stand and sing:
"Joy to the world, the Lord is come;
Let earth receive her King.
Let ev'ry Heart prepare Him room.
And heaven and nature sing."
And. after singing, let each of us go. forth to perform our
proper share of “doing good.'* WILL M. AIAUPLN.
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amazed because they have grown a
crop from the seeds of distrust they
planted.
There Is nothing the matter with
Nebraska, except that Nebraska has
refused to sell Nebraska to herself.
A few newspapers have spent their
money spreading the gospel of trufh.
but much of their work has been un
done by the disloyal, unpatriotic
folks, in every community, who have
sung the song of Jeremiah, by si>oken
word and in their correspondence. No
wonder the Atlantic seaboard is will
ing to believe anything It hears about
Nebraska credit'
Party Responsibility.
From the Tcrtland Oregonian,
Restoration of party responsibility
can be accomplished only by a renewal
of party discipline, and this will be
possible only when each party is able
to iist those who are true member*.
>
to exclude ail who have no right to
use its name, to nominate it* candi
dates. to ho’d them responsible to it
and to be responsible for them to the
people. Then the number of voter?
res stered a* republicans will be i
fairly close Indication of the numbe
of republicans, so also with the den.'
cratSs and it will not be possible fo
any man to run for president as t
third party candidate and at the sanv
time to pretend that he is a membe
of some other party.
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