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JUDGING RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT.
A judge of the district court in Iowa explains
that a sentence he recently inflicted upon a culprit
is one that is imposed by law, not by the court. He
makes this explanation in order to satisfy critics
who think he was unnecessarily severe. The youth
had committed a robbery, enforcing his demands by
flourishing a pistol. For such a crime the law pro
vides a sentence of 25 years in prison. The judge
had no choice in the matter.
Examine'the facts calmly. A group of experi
enced men, of sound judgment, calm and dispas
sionate, framed a code for the government of the
citizens of the state of Iowa. Along with this went
the definition and gradation of crimes, with penalties
attached to each. Some of these penalties are se
vere, just as the crimes appear to be heinous. Plac
ing life in jeopardy in carrying out a robbery was
regarded as a serious offense against both person
and property, and was so dealt with.
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In the case at point, the culprit was a youth sud
denly homesick at a holiday season. Penniless, he
conceived the notion of robbery to secure funds to
get home for Thanksgiving. Sentimentalists have
pleaded this in his behalf. His condition and his de
sire combined afford no justification for his action.
Other boys have been away from home on Thanks
giving, and have been as penniless and as homesick
as this one, and have not sought to violently possess
themselves of another’s property in order to relieve
immediate desire.
A Council Bluffs magistrate suspended sentence
on a man who was caught stealing coal. The pris
oner pleaded a freezing family. The judge went
with him after trial, secured for him supplies and
sent him back to his family.
In either of these cases application to the proper
persons would have secured relief, and resort to
crime would not have gotten anyone into trouble. It
is unnecessary in this land for anyone to steal to re
lieve creature needs. Generous hearts are open at
all times to the call of distress, and the unfortunate
need only to ask to get help.
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The generous impulse that would assist one who
Is unfortunate should not be permitted to over
shadow a sense of justice that would punish a crime.
The law is intended to protect society, and not
merely to punish an offender. Its penalties are heavy
just as crimes are odious. When the moral fiber of
the people is strengthened so it will not yield so
readily to sympathy with a criminal, but will balance
his offense against the good and welfare of all, we
may see a recession of the “crime wave.”
A judge is set in a most trying place. He holds
the power of life and death over offenders. When
the law says to him plainly what he must do, he
should be commended for following it faithfully.
Unless we can have something of this sentiment
among the masses, we need not be astonished that
reckless men and women flout the law and laugh at
its impotence. Judge righteous judgment, and do
not condemn a Judge for dealing with a criminal ac-'
cording to the law he is bound to maintain or be
recreant to society. For it is society he is protect
ing, and the courts do not pursue private vengeance.
» FROM OUT THE PAST.
Far ba It from us to Join the doleful chorus of
those who wail that the world la growing worse.
Their lubrications make no appeal to us. The only
effect of their dolorous lamentations is to emphasize
the r rowing goodness all about us. But at this
joyous Christmas season, when we are Somewhat
given to retrospection as well as to introspection, it
might be well to remind ourselves that even if the
world is growing better, it might progress more rap
idly if it were not so prone to forget some of the
good things of yesterday.
Sometimes it appears to us that in our zeal for
efficiency and economy of production we overlook a
thing or two greatly worth while. For? instance,
, speaking of the good old things of yesterday, what
I has become of pork sausage? Not the conglomerate
moss of scrap beef, ham scrapings and pork rem
nants that only too often comes to us disguised as
pork sausage, but the real, genuine, pork sausage,
made from real pork and garnished with sage and
black pepper and thyme and other savory herbs? W#
mean the kind of pork sausage that provided it* own
grease in the frying pan, and whose savory pdors
during the process of cooking permeated the house
hold and started the gastric juices to working in
pleasurable anticipation. No, sir; we do not mean
the conglomeration ground up one minute and put
on. sale the next; but the savory concoction care
fulljF pt^served from hog killing time until it was
properly iw^oned and just the right kind of weather
offered for its consumption. Parked down in melted
lard or hung In festoons from the rafters, carrying
with it the odors of Araby the blest and appealing
alike to smell and taste, it was the kind of food upon
which empires were conquered and cornerstones of
states laid to endure for all time. Real, genuine old
fashioned pork sausage, flanked on one side by a
stack of real buckwheat cakes and on the other by
a pitcher of sorghum. All we hnve to say is that the
efficiency that has made that sort of breakfast pro
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vender unattainable' is not the kind of efficiency
upon which to base a real forward movement for
spiritual, mental or physical uplift.
The world is better than it ever was, and grow
ing steadily better. But it wouldn’t hurt that sort
of progress a little bit to retain a few more of the
good things that stood the test of time jn strenuous
days now gone.
Please pass the sausage—the real old-fashioned
sausage of other days!
INAUGURAL BALL—MAYBE.
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President Coolidge, it is given out, has ap
proved plans for his inauguration in March along
the lines that attended the ceremony for Warren
G. Harding in 1921. Ceremonies will be simple,
will be open to the public, and the appropriation for
expenses will not exceed $35,000.
This does not meet the approval of Washing
ton hotel keepers and some others, who regard the
inauguration of a president as a quadrennial dis
pensation in their favor. If windows along Penn
sylvania avenue can not be renter! for the day at
a sum almost equal to the cost of the building the
event is not a success.
Mr. Coolidge, however, is of the opinion that
the inauguration of a president is an affair in which
all the people of the United States are concerned.
It should not be made the occasion of turning some
easy profits Into the pockets of the innkeepers or
retailers of the Capital City. He does not, however,
extend his views beyond the actual official events
of the day. What anyone wishes to do unofficially
is all right with him.
For this reason he says he has no objection to
a ball being given on the evening of the day, but
he will not attend, either as president or as Calvin
Coolidge. So any other sideshows may be set up,
but they will not be^part of the great public cere
mony. Whether promoters will care to venture the
uncertainty of a successful ball without the pres
ence of the president is not certain. It is certain,
though, that the president’s determination to keep
the ceremonies simple, and to avoid lavish outlay of
public funds will be approved. Americans love dis
play, but they also like a man who has the courage
to say "no” when it is proposed to make him the
central feature of a Roman holiday that does not
harmonize with the spirit of American institutions.
EITHER VERTICAL OR HORIZONTAL.
A new standard of prosperity is suggested. Here
tofore we have been accustomed to gauge material
well being by certain specified commodities. The
visible supply of wheat, for example, represented
so many millions of bushels, valued at so many dol
lars. That was tangible. So many million bales
of cotton ginned, exported, or sent into storage by
the spinners. So many millions of tons of unfilled
orders on file with the steel mills. Bank reported
surplus dollars available for loaning. Railroad re
turned earlot loadings and movements between ter
minals. To the careful analyst these told a story
of how business in general was going in the land.
Now we may adopt another test. Dictionary
makers report that they are many months behind
with their orders. All sorts are in requisition, and
it will be long before every ambitious citizen can
have his own private compendium of words and defi
nitions, to refer to constantly. Even in the public
libraries, rules have been enfo.rced, limiting the
number of moments any one patron may have pos
session of the dictionary.
Everybody knows the reason. Stimulated by
the crossword puzzle, the great American public is
in pursuit of words of four, five or six letters, mean
ing- something, they do not care a hang what, so
long as it permits the horizontal to match and pro
duce the vertical. And the tragedy of it all is that
no sooner has one word been found than search
must commence for another.
It is a fascpating amusement. At any rate, it
holds its victims as have few other forms of Indoor
entertainment What it will lead to goodness only
knows, but it certainly has boomed the dictionary
business,
James Griffin, convicted of manslaughter in con
nection with the murder of Henry McArdle, asks for
a new trtal on the ground that The Omaha Bee
printed furl accounts of his trial. The Omaha Bee
pleads guilty to the charge of being a newspaper.
Parson Weems’ story of George and the cherry
tree may have been without foundation, but we’re
going to cling to the story that George swore like
a pirate at the battle of Princeton. Now let the
iconoclasts do their worst.
The Omaha criminal who barricaded himself in
his domicile and battled with the notice until he
died, is one criminal who will not be pardoned or
paroled, or even garlanded with flowers from the
Sob Squad.
After struggling against it for a long time we
finally succumb to the temptation to remark that
organized baseball seems to have put the Ban on
Johnson.
If it is true that a white Christmas means a
green graveyard, Nebraska is destined to enjoy un
usually good health during the coming year.
Millleent Rogers has lost her count, Ludwig Balm
von Hoogstraeten. Losing a husband with a name
like that is almost as bad as losing one’s bass drum.
If this coffee situation keeps up much longer
the coffee bootlegger will.be greatly in evidence.
Nebraska continues white on the business map,
and also white for Christmas.
Good morning! Have you sent your Christmas
basket where it will do the most good?
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Homespun Verse
—By Omaha's Own Poet—
Robert Worthington Davie
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PLUCGIN' AWAY.
When they smile and they frown,
And they loiter sroun'
Just like they were snoopin', he goes
As he ever has gono
To the dfty’s end and on.
Concerned with the faith that he know*
When they whisper end grin,
And they whisper sgln.
And their laugh Is a kind of a lay,—
lie notices not
That they're tickled a lot
For he's always Juat pluggln' nwsy.
When they meet him end smile
In a wiseacre style,—
lie secs hut he speaks not a word;
. And ho plods ever on
To tha dusk from the dawn— ,
He's seen but he's seldnmly hoard!
Ms will rise and sttaln
Ills allowable gain—
Me will get to the summit some day.
And lho reason will ho
Uses use don't you see*—
lie is always Just pluggln' away.
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There Are Only a Few Days Left for You to Catch Up With Those
Things You Said You Were Going to Do This Year
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“From State and Nation”
—Editorials from Other Newspapers—
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Boys of Other Days.
From the Fslrbury (Neb ) News.
Older FaJrbury residents will sjrre*
with us that a boy didn't cost much
in ths days gone by. A patr of cordu
roys, a cotton waist, and a 10-cent
pair of suspenders made a wardrobe
that came to less than a dollar. If
he at# a great deal he didn't run up a
doctor bill. A stonebrulse or a bad
ease of sunburn were ailments that
never cost his father a cent. He
didn't have to have a dollar s worth
or salve and sterilized bandages every
time he wejit out and stubbed his foe
He was of some help about ths place,
too, from the time he was 7 years old.
and when a father leaned across the
checkered table cloth at supper time
the evening before the circus day and,
putting a quarter In his son's hand,
gave a few words of advice about
staying out of trouble tomorrow, he
knew that while he would probably
not see his son again for S6 hours
the honor of the family would be
maintained. He knew he wouldn’t
have to stop his work to get ths boy
out of Jail for speeding or becoming
too friendly with a bootlegger. There
were no Boy Scouts and fresh air
f-amps In those days, and no gym.
naslums. But the fellow who has
never stood barefooted In pasture or
orchard grass, or burled his toes in
the cooling dust of a country road,
with the rising sun bringing another
bunch of freckles to distribute over
his face, ha# missed something out
of boyhood he can never put back.
Today the world give# a lot of boy
hood, but when we think of the boy#
of yesterday and then compare their
joys with those of the boys of today
we can’t help feeling that at the same
time the world Is giving them much
It Is withholding more.
Radio’s Divining Rod.
From the Denver Newe,
Radio, tha omnipresent, he* pane
trated geological fields. It has be
come a handmaiden to metallurgist
and prospector for oil, gas, water or
"pay ora." as the case may be. It lets
man "hear" Into the heart of the
earth, and discerning from the sound,
he can tell what Is In there. W# have
been told by one Inventor of a ma
chine which he plants In the earth
and listens to vertical waves'that hr
has penetrated 25,000 feet deep and
heard the crackling and rumbling of
a volcano In the bowels of the earth.
If temperatures are required at dif
ferent degrees of depth they can he
Indicated by applying ‘‘radio'' to the
earth waves. He relates other strange
things which ha has heard "down
there" by means of his delicate In
strument. Ha hears and tells w'hnt
la to be found In tha different earth
layers from tha sound. Another In
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strument Is so delicately attuned that
It responds to tha metals under
ground.
Tha "douse-stlck," as divining rod,
came to be known In the old country.
Is giving place to an Intricate elec
trical apparatus. The "douser," hold
er of the twig that told him where
water might be found under feet, or
perhaps mineral, Is upheld and cerl
fed by radio. He was no faker: his
twig had no "magic" In It: he was
responses to the earth or ether waves,
Tha human responded, as the machine
now does, to the elements underneath
him: but the marhfne can Indicate a
good deal more than the human and
Is more accurate because It Is devoid
of “personal equations.” ‘'Wildcat
ting" should becopie less hazardous.
We cannot see into the earth, but by
using the other sense can w e do about
as w ell.
Great Men's Vain Desire*.
From ths Manchester Guardian.
In the history of letters there are
precedents enough for Sir Arthur
Conam Doyles lament that tha public
has preferred Sherlock Holmes as
against his own preference for "The
White Company” and Us successor, j
Sir Nigel." Over and over again
It has happened that tha public ap
preclation of an author s work has not
been quite on the lines of the author s
own desire*.
Browming believed In himself ** a
dramatist In spite of public neglect,
saying to a friend st the very end <>f
his life: "Shall I whisper to you my
ambition end my hope? It Is to write
Abe Martin
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C. H i Horn Slrmp bii' Clem
Shaver wuzn' In th' limelight long
enough f I ell ^ 'em apart. "Hu
went t,’ th’ library early thia morn
in' t* look fer a fur bearin' animal
o’ three letters peculiar t’ Tibet,
but I expert him any minute," said
Dr. Mopin' other girl when th’ Bent
ley family tried t’ git him lust night. !
fCupyrtfhl, 19.1 t
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Thackeray might be considered hap
py when Trollope could write at his
death that all the world agreed that
"Vanity Fair," "Esmond" and "Pen
(lennis" were masterpieces, the gen
eral public preferring "Vanity Fair,'
the critics "Esmond," and the per
sonal friends "Pendennis;" but
Thackeray was not content, for his
gres- ambition was to write a suc
cessful play and he never achieved it.
We may guess that Thomas Hardy
would put "The Dynasts" far above
"Tess," but the public has decided
otherwise, just as the public cared
little for Meredith's verse. Words
worth's "Peter Bell" was the very
essence of his creed of simplicity of
subject in poetry, but even the Words
worthlans could not stomach "Peter
Bell."
Would Dickens be happy tn the
thought that his "crusades" are for
gotten in the grand humanity of his
novels? When Wilkie Collins wrote
"Min and Wife" he thought that he
was striking r crushing blow nt ath
leticism. Who reads or cares for the
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It Is still mads. What we mean Is peppermint candy. The
morning after Christmas found upon our battered and always
untidy desk a bag of 'em, accompanied by tha following soul
ful verse:
"A few days ago in your ‘Sunny Slda Up’
Ynti were sighing for Just a few licks
At the candy we had when Heck was a pup,
So here are some peppermint sticks."
And there they were, big. fat, striped sticks, with the old
time flavor. Charles U. Graves of Union, Neb., talks our lan
. guage.
We don't know Just how it struck others, but to our mind
the biggest thing about Christmas this year was the wonderful
spirit of helpfulness shown by everybody. It seemed that all
that was needed to Insure help for the needy was t0
make the need known. We’ve seen a whole procession of Christ
mas days come and go, but the last one seemed to be the great
est of all in Its exhibition of the real Christmas spirit.
<M. B. M .” Omaha: Your comments upon what you call
our "system of theology" have been read. They would have
been more intereating and more pertinent had they not been
founded upon a false premise. We have no system of theology.
We know nothing about theology. We have never had the time
nor the inclination to study theology. We study the Book, in
terpret It for ourself, make no attack on any man's faith, re
fuse to indulge in religious argument, resent any effort to
weakon our own faith, and care nothing about what another
man's religion is Just so he has some and makes at least some
effort to live It. What little religion we have suits us fine, and
If It doesn't eult you, that's that.
With ail loyal Nebraskan* we will rejoice when the new
raplto! is completed and occupied, but we doubt not that we
will have plenty of company when we bid goodby with regret ,.
to the old convict-built stone building that has so long served
in that capacity. When we first knew It only the two 'wings
were completed and a temporary runway of lumber connected
them. We can remember when the old capitol’s third story
was unoccupied, and have seen the state grow and expand
until even the basement was utilized for offices, and even the
space under the rafters occupied. The old building has been
witness to wonderful history made In Nebraska. Rejoicing
over its demolition to make way for a magnificent new caplto!
will be tinged with regret.
We are now engaged in getting ready to Pass a Law limit
ing the activities of the Sob Squads and the Maudlin Many.
In spite of our efforts to be kindly of heart and charitable to
wards the failings of others—having so many of our own—we
are becoming unutterably weary of seeing murderers and gun
men turned loose after a few years of coddling and pretended
conversion to All that Is Pure and Holy. We are hereafter
going to reserve the major portion of our sympathy for men
who manage at the expenditure of great effort and sacrifice to
remain law-abiding. While we are making big talk about our
prisons being reformatories, let us not overlook the fact that
they are primarily for the protection of society. Sob Squadders
and the Maudlin Many are warned that we are ag’in ’em from
now on.
We are prepared to qualify as an expert in apples, and also
to defend to the death the statement, made without mental
reservations, that Nebraska produces the best in the world.
We have seen them growing on the trees, watched them picked,
sorted, grsded and barreled, and have compared them with
the boasted product of other sections. The man who tells you
that Nebraska apples are not superior in color, texture and flavor
to all other apples convicts himself, in our mind, of colossal
pomological Inexactitude. And until we are convinced other
wise, by oracular and edible demonstration, we will insist tbat
the apples grown in the Weaver orchards at Falls City are the
be*t of all. Three fine exhibits thereof are slowly disappearing
leaving not only a lingering flavor that greatly delights, but
happv thoughts of Arthur J. Weaver.
WILL M. MAUPIN.
book now? Tennyson w»< another
lyric poet who believed himself a
dramatist. To Addison "Cato" was
much more than the "Spectator" pa
pers. Congreve gave up writing when
the public did not take "The Way of
the World" at his valuation. Prior
would rather have been knttwn as
writer of state papers than a.« a poet:
Ruhelieu provides an opposite case.
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