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THE SPARK AND THE CONFLAGRATION.
Ten years ago a Serbian assassin fired the shots
that started the world war. The victims were an
Austrian grand duke, heir to the Austro-Hungarian
throne, and his wife.
It was a little fire at the start. Austria’s de
mands were so excessive and impudent that the oiv
Ili'.ed world was startled. Russia objected, Germany
aided with Austria against Russia. France, an ally
of Russ'a, became involved—and the World War was
on. The conflagration that followed as the result of
this little blaze came near to consuming civilization.
Today Great Britain makes demands of Egypt
that arc even more excessive than those made by
Austria. 1-ut the world goes on without taking much
notice. Britain’s demands are in keeping with Brit
ish traditions, but that does not help Egypt. A
British army officer officiating in a police capacity is
killed. Immediately Great Britain demands an
apology and the payment of an immense indemnity.
Then, in addition, Great Britain demands that the
Egyptian authorities put a stop to certain Egyptian
propaganda demanding “Egypt for the Egyptians.”
British interests in irrigation in the Sudan are to be
made the beneficiaries of the incident and at the ex
pense of Egyptian interests.
Austria’s demands were characterized as "im
possible.” and the World War resulted. Great Britain
makes demands of Egypt that are more onerous and
excessive than those leveled against Serbia, but the
incident cicates little more than a ripple.
The United States minister to Persia was killed
by a street mob. Apology was demanded and made,
and an indemnity of $100,000 demanded for the
widow. The indemnity is paid and a sum in excess
of the amount is expended in sending a United States
battleship to Persia to bring back the body of the
slain minister. And the incident is closed. Great
Britain has extended dominion around the world by
exercising the iron hand in a velvet glove. The United
States has exercised justice and moderation to an
extent that le-ds many of other nations to believe
that this republic is weak and soft.
But where the United States has exercised jus
tice and mercy it is loved and respected. It has
never seized upon such incidents as mentioned above
to extend dominion or gain concessions. It has
never been the cause of a world war nor engaged in
a war of aggrandizement.
« Egypt will bow to the superior force of Great
Britain because there is nothing else to do.
Diplomacy, backed by the might of battleships and
armies, is usually cfToetive against countries that
have no strong allies. But there is something for
the world to think about in the parallel between tho
‘'impose ble demands” of Austria ten years ago, and
the demands made by Great Britain today.
WHEN IN DOUBT GIVE A BOOK.
The Christmas season approaches, not apace, but
on a gallop. Already men and women are worrying
about gift selections. After the few gifts known
to be acceptable are purchased, there comes doubt
and uncertainty. These last until the final minute,
and thqn comes the undignified scramble. .
Why not solve the doubt by giving a good book?
There is no intimate friend quite so faithful and
true as a good book. If it is a really good book, a
worth while book, it will prove a lasting reminder
of the donor. Excursions into its pages will remind
the reader of pleasant days with the giver, will re
vive fond memories of days gone by, and will arouse
eagerness for further personal communion.
Old friends and old books! What a happy com
bination. The absence of one and the companion
ship of the other—no man or woman need ever be
wholly alone while absent friends are present in
spirit in the pages of a good book given in the true
spirit of Christmas.
When in doubt give a good book.
BIDDY HEN AND HER PROGENY.
Solomon has been called thj wisest man by those
who think that collecting a lot of wise sayings of
other men and passing them off as one’s own is an
evidence of wisdom. Collecting proverbs was a fad
with Solomon, just as solving cross-word puzzles Is
a fad with so many men and women today. And,
wise as he was, Solomon’s foot slipped now and then.
For instance, there is his proverb, “Go to the ant,
thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise."
Now, why the ant? Selfish creature that it Is, It
works only for itself. Why did not Solomon advise
the sluggard to go to the hen? Was it because there
were no domesticated fowl in those days? From all
that is known of Solomon by reading sacred and
profane history, there must have been “chickens” in
those days, but perhaps they were not of the feath
ered variety.
But if there were hens in those days, certainly
Solomon guessed wrong when he held up the ant ns
a model for the sluggard. The hen, Mrs. Biddy Hen
of Nebraska, is a far better model to hold up to the
sluggard and the shiftless. She is a rustler from
Rustlerville. She joys in her work and loves to
boast about the results she achieves. She is wholly
unselfish, for she never enters a protest when her
product is taken from her, hut merely rustles
around a bit harder and produces over again. In pro
portion to the wage she receives, which is merely
board and lodging, and the board rustled for herself,
she produces more wealth than any other agency
around the home.
Biddy Hen is deserving of more recognition than
she receives, and has doubly earned better treatment
than is usually accorded her.
Nebraskans are getting wise to the fact that
Biddy Hen is a wonderful contributor to the up
building of the state. They are also grasping the
great truth that blood will tell in poultry as well as
in dairy cows and beef steers, in hogs and in sheep.
It has taken Biddy Hen a long time to make her
real worth known and appreciated. Now, when she
advertises the fact that she has been busy at her
dailyvtask, we all stop and take notice, and those of
us who are really appreciative take off our hats as
she goes by.
We are reminded at the juncture of a beautiful
poem written of Biddy Hen a great many years ago:
"Said a renowned Brooklyn preacher
To a hen, ‘You’re a beautiful creature.’
And the hen just for that /
Bald an egg in his hat.
And thus did the hen reward Beecher.”
Indeed she is a beautiful creature. The better
we treat her the more she will reward us. We take
issue with Solomon to the extent of advising all to
ignore the ant, and to look to Biddy Hen as a proper
example of industry.
NOTHING LIKE CONSISTENCY.
If consistency is a jewel no one should object to
wearing it. If publicity of income tax returns is de
sirable, why stop there? Why not go the whole
route and have publicity of personal assessments,
and of bank deposits, and of payments made to
grocers and other trades people? Why have any
privacy at all in business? For that matter why any
kind of privacy in these days when everybody’s busi
ness is the business of everybody else?
If John Jones buys Mrs. Jones a new dress,
shouldn’t John be compelled to tell where he got
the money, where he spent it for the dress and why
he gave it to Mrs. Jones instead of to some other
woman? We simply must have more publicity’.
Not everybody has been placed upon the government
payroll as a snooper, although a good start has been
made in that direction. If we only go far enough
in this publicity thing it will require 100 per cent
of us to enforce the laws by sticking our noses into
the business of 100 per cent of us. If John B.
Worker insists on depositing his money in a savings
bank instead of spending it foolishly, why not take
the position that the public, has a right to know
where John got it and why he is saving it instead of
spending it.
We simply must penalize success some way. It
will not do to let brains, and industry, and initiative
thrive at the expense of indolence and thriftlessncss.
Let us have publicity for everything, and be
consistent. ,
HOW OLD WAS METHUSELAH?
There is raging just now a controversy over the
real age of Methuselah. Just why this should be is
not made plain. He seems to have no particular
claim to fame other than the statement of the Bible
that he was Enoch’s son, the father of Lamech, and
lived to be 969 years old. That is all that is known
about him. If he lived all those years he did not ac
complish very much for a man who had such a won
derful opportunity to profit by experience.
A professor in a religious college tried to explain
it by saying that Methuselah lived 969 months in
stead of 969 years. A mathematician knocks that
theory in the head by declaring that if that process
of figuring age in those days is true, then Enoch was
only 5 years old when his son, Methuselah, was born.
It is all very puzzling if you are intent upon
figuring it out. But why worry about it? Methuse
lah has worn the belt for longevity for so many cen
turies that it is hardly worth while trying to deprive
him thereof. Nobody wants to live that long and
accomplish as little as Methuselah is accredited with
accomplishing.
W'hat difference does it make, anyhow? Why
waste time figuring out the exact age of Enoch s son
when there are so many worth while things in the
Good Book to study, to enjoy and to profit by?* If
Methuselah actually lived 969 years he failed to ac
complish in that time what a carpenter accomplished
in three short years. He failed to accomplish in all
those ten centuries a tithe of what another man««f
the Bible accomplished between the time he was
halted on the road to Damascus and the time when
he was finally martyred in Rome.
Life is not to be measured in years, but in deeds. |
According to that standard Methuselah scarcely
lived at all. Why worry about his age?
Speculation is rife about the possibility of an
extra session of congress. Let speculation give way
to the certainty that if President Coolidge does not
want an extra session, then there ain t goin to be
no extra session.
The master of the National Grange tells his or
ganization that, the farm problem is economic, not
political. General acceptance of that statement
would result in putting a lot of politicians out of
business.
Those fake bomb throwers in San Diego have dis
covered that even a fake bomb can hoist its throwers
over the transom.
Sixty-two new members will sit in the next con
gress. They should not fdrgct the chief reasons for
their election.
Russia Is entitled to congratulations. Emma
Goldman is denouncing it.
What this country needs is a sure-fire recipe for
getting a Thanksgiving turkey.
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Homespun Verse
—By Omalu'i Own Poet—
• Robert Worthington Davie
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MAKE ME AS RICH AH TIIK TREES.
Make me as rich ns the trees where love
Lien on the ground In (he barren fall.
And lingers still In the houghs above
Like the spirit slays the pall.
Make me ss true ss the trees, the trees.
Counting nor scoffing the years;
Lyre of the wind nnd Its memories
riaylng Its smiles arid tears.
Make me as strong ss the trees are made,
And ss willing to face the fight
In autumn's *hln« as In summer's shade
In sprlngllme's youth ns In winter's till
Make of my thought a beauty akin
To ths character of the trees.
Oh! who In the human realm may win
Richer treasures than these? ,»
£ Priming It Ought to Start Something_^
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“From State a’nd, Nation”
—Editorials from Other Neicspapers—
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Railroads nnd the Popular Mandate.
From Th» Rocky Mountain News:
If there lb one thing that atands
clear as a result ot the recent Judg
ment of the people In governmental
affairs, it Is this: That paternalists,
panacealsts and extremists In and
out of congress shall move to the
rear for some years to coma or un
til there Is another election. And if
it could have been a command/ to
politician* to keep hands off the
transportation system of the country
and let tho railroad executives alon"
in their undertaking to restore busi
ness and give the public the service
it requires.
A test of the national mind on the
railroad question was taken under
perfect conditions. Senator I.a Fol
lette was the candidate for the presi
dency of- the brotherhood leaders and
all union and shopman hqpd*. much
more than he was of the farming
element. His candidacy was made
the peculiar interest of railroad labor
leaders, whatever action may have
been taken later by the workers
themselves at the polls. More than
McAdoo, even, Lgi Foilett* was the
hope of this class of labor bosses In
the campaign and election. For
years the Wisconsin senator bad
urged in season nnd out of season
radical railroad legislation. lie was
specifically opposed to the present
measure, the Esch-Cummln* law. as
it is called.
Tho election results were s rebuke
to T,a Folletle and his immediate fol
lowing. In states and in political
divisions of states where the railroad
vote Is strong the third party failed
of its purpose, was an open disap
pointment- to the candidates and
leaders of that party. Like the rest
of tho country the railroad labor vote
naked to be let alone, undisturbed
by the professional politicians and
agitators.
Despite the danger signal hoisted
by the people at the ballot boxes
some republican* are talking already
of new railroad legislation and of
trying to get together with T-a Fol
lette on an amendment to the pres
ent law. If the national administra
lion leaders are not Xillnd they will
give short shrift to such a program.
Among other things It is proposed
by the I,a Follette section to abolish
the federal labor board provided In
the present law because the board Is
unsatisfactory to “organized labor ’’
Tlie latter made clear so that all
might read that, while It may be
well organized and rightly so respect
ing lls own affairs. It Is not organ
ized in politics so that It con be sold
and delivered to any boss and by
him to nnv one party. The labor
board Is authorized to Investigate all
disputes between employer and em
ployed nnd compel the presence of
witnesses and evidence: but the
board cannot under the law enforce
lls findings. If the lnw la In need
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Abe Martin
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Artie Small went t* th' internal
revenue office t’day t’ t^ee how much
his wife would irit if her father
lied. Miss Myrtie Purvianee 1r
■ mite a catch. She's a datuly hridKo
nleycr. excels on th' planner an’
\in wear (fray.
(Copjrricbt, 1924 )
of amendment It would be to give
the withheld power to the board and
to make both sides conform to its
decisions. Railroads are public utili
ties; and a railroad strike nowadays
is national, not local. The public
must have tho protection of compul
sory arbitration in such a serious
matter. Put, it is contended, con
gress IS not prepared to go so far.
Very well, If it is not going forward
to work out to its logical conclusion
tho matters as between the railroads
land tho public, let it not go back
ward and undo what little has been
done toward industrial peace—the
settlement of disputes without resort
to force. j /
Senator Cummins of the senate in
terstate commerce committee states
that there are pending before that
committee a hundred measures deal
ing with railroads, new hills and bills
to amend. If ho had his ear to the
ground recently ho will throw most
of them in tho waste basket. He
tween federal government and state
government the railroad systems of
the country have been tn escrow,•
long enough: they are entitled to
their freedom.
Ta'. legislation at the Short Session.
From The Kocky Mountain News;
It Is Intimated that there will be
no effort on the part of the admin
istration to obtain amendments to
the revenue laws at the coming short
and final session of the present con
gress. It would be unreasonable to
expect any radical changes in the
light of the republican party plat
form until there has been time tic
make a further study of the whole
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problem of federal taxation. More
over, the drafting of amendments
can be done more intelligently when
the law enacted at the recent ses
sion has had a working test.
Further reduction In taxation is a
republican pledge, but its fulfillment
may properly await the convening of
the congress elected upon it—a con
press less likely to obstruct admin
istration policies than that which is
coming to its finish. >
There is, however, no good reason
why the publicity provision of the
present law should not be repealed
immediately. This nuisance clause
In the act has come under a storm
of denunciation front every section of
the country. The treasury depart
ment has been deluged with com
munications protesting against it and
demanding its repeal. It is obvious
that it serves no useful purpose. The
publicity it permits Is wholly mis
leading and does no more than grati
fy idle curiosity or furnish fuel for
the fires which class agitators de
light in fanning.
The congress which passed it mani
festly without serious consideration
should he convinced by now that It
acted In error and should be willing
to make amends in the only way
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The sight of a roster of the membership of the incoming
legislature as we started to work this morning, brought up a
host of legislative memories. Nebraska has had some Interest
ing sessions of the legislature, but none equal to that of 1891.
There were hair-trigger moments during Its earlier stages when
It wouldn't have been a bit of trouble to bring about bloodshed.
Indeed, there was a little bloodshed at one time, but it happened
to he the blood of an innocent bystander.
Boyd, democrat, had been declared the duly elected gov
ernor, while the same decree said that the other state offices
should be filled by republicans. The Farmers' Alliance had p
Hired a majority of the house and senate, but precedent decreed
that the retiring lieutenant governor, Meiklejohn. republican,
should preside over the Joint session that opened, counted and
declared the returns. Marsh Elder, elected speaker of the house
by the farmer majority, was expected to shove Meiklejohn to
one side and, by refusing to declare the result, pave the way
for a contest that would seat John Powers in the governor s
chair. But Elder lacked the abdominal adequacy to go through
with the program. Boyd was declared elected. Thayer, the re
tiring governor, refused to abdicate, and for a time state militia
men. called out by him, patrolled the corridors of the state
bouse.
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Thayer locked himself in the executive offices, and B d
was compelled to use the office of the railway secretaries Gon
0 n al Victor Vifqualn was made adjutant general of the -tale i
Boyd, and that capable old soldier bluffed the commander of th»
militia Into accepting his orders instead of the adjutant general
who was acting under Thayer. Then the steam was turned off
in the executive offices and Thayer was actually frozen out.
Thayer took his case to the supreme court, alleging that Boyd
was not a citizen, and the court upheld him. But B yd held on
while the legislature was in session. Thayer went bn k in, hut
the United States supreme court declared Boyd a citizen and
he was allowed to finish out his term.
It was during these stirring times that the session of V H
was held. The republicans and democrat! combined and, secur
ed from the state supreme court a mandamus compelling ”
Speaker Elder to open the returns and declare the result. The
alliance majority barricaded the doors of representative hall to
prevant the serving of the writ.. Deputy United States Mar
shal ' Pap” Hastings was charged with the duty of serving the
writ and he and his assistants proceeded to batter in the clo«od
doors. The night before the alliance members had held a cor
ference and resolved to die in the last ditch rather than submit
to the demand of the court, and they flocked around the en
trance, Inside the hall, ready to go through with It. But either
their courage failed or wiser counsel prevailed, for there was
very little opposition to the entrance of the marshal and his
cohorts. It was In the melee that the blood of an innocent r
stander was shed. He was a reporter who was caught between th
contending force* and shoved against a post, his nose acting as
1 buffer.
Elder weakened and declared the result. If he could have,
resisted the diplomacy and parliamentary skill of Meiklejohn
and presided over the joint session, as he had a right to do after
the passage of the joint resolution declaring him the proper
man to preside, things would have been vastly different. But
Meiklejohn outgeneraled him and also bluffed him.
That wa* the warmest session ever held In Nebraska But
aside from enacting the Australian ballot law and passing a
freight rate iaw that Boyd vetoed, it did not accomplish much.
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My Bank
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My Bank is the Custodian of My
^ Valuables.
The Deed and Abstract to My Home—
My Fire and Life Insurance Policies—
These papers are in a Safe Deposit
Vault in MY Bank.
/ have a ferv Bonds, a Mortgage and a I ,
fen> Shares of Stock. I keeP them
I there, too.
$ Then there is my IVill, my great-grand- ||
Lhji father's old n'atch and several other
things. I
All these are right there—in my onm
individual box, to rvhich I alone have
a £ev.
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The strength of M) Bank s great vault
—the diligent care of its guards—in
sure the safety of My property.
The Safe Deposit Vaults are operated
by the Omaha Safe Deposit Company, ^4
a subsidiary of—