Omahd Vheife the^st is at its Bes(
DEMOCRATS TAKE THE LID OFF.
Pressure became* too Btrong for the democratic
boiler, and the long expected blow-up came on the
floor of the lenate Monday. Heat engendered by
1 he consideration of the Muscle Shoals project sent
the safety valve of party discipline flying, and out
lushed the expressions of pent up feelings that cer
tainly eased the souls of some of the party mem
bers, if it did not help the immediate prospects of
the party. Senator Bruce referred to the party
whose name he wears as a “putrid, dead corpse.”
Senator Harrison referred to Bruce as a skulker,
vho had not helped his colleagues in the senate or
out of it. “Who is this so-called Maryland demo
crat, that he can lecture me?” demanded Harrison.
Bruce also alluded to the conduct of Burton K.
Wheeler, who ran on an independent ticket with La
Lollette, and now claims his place among the demo
crats in the councils of the party.
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✓
We have no desire to prescribe for the ills of
the democratic party. As a whole, the words of Sen
ator Bruce will patly apply. If, on the other hand,
he is wrong as to the party being entirely ready for
final interment, and there is any hope of resuscitat
ing it, the method to be pursued will interest a lot
of folks.
“Pat” Harrison has a right to talk. He was the
ring-tailed whooper-up of the Cox campaign in 1920.
Out of that disaster he emerged with enough of
credit to justify his selection as keynoter at the New
York convention. Those who recall that effort must
admit that as a keynoter the senator from Missis
sippi is in a class by himself. He must find some
chagrin, however, in reflecting that not only the
convention but the public at large pafd no attention
to what he said. He and Carraway, Heflin, Robert
son, and Dial will voice the opinion of the militant
branch of the oligarchy that not only dominates the
“solid south,” but has held the wheel that has steered
the party nationally for generations.
This group of typical Bourbons fails to interpret
the signs of the times, or, interpreting them, will
lully refuses to heed them. They must rule at all
hr.'iards. \
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On the other hand, James Cabell Eruce expresses
\ iew3 held by many democrats of whose loyalty there
can be no question. They are weary of being domi
nated and dragooned by a faction that is entrenched
not by reason of any fundamental soundness of
dogma but by virtue of a tradition that is rapidly
i bowing its threadbare quality. Such men feel that
i here i3 need for a general and a sweeping reform
within the party itself. Perhaps its complete disrup
t'on and reorganization along lines that will corn
mind more of public respect and confidence.
If what is left of the democratic party ever ex
pects to get hack to a commanding position as oppo
sition in national affairs, or hopes to wrest power
from the republican party, it must set about to clear
its own gear. If the party could forget'some of the
things that it treasure*; could divest itself of a lot nf
< utworn ideas, and get in line with the thought of
ihe moment, rather than that of the early part of
the Nineteenth century, it might thrive. So long as
il is content to remain "an organized appetite,” sub
biating on captious opposition to everything pro
posed by truly progressive statesmen,.it will remain
subject to the fits of interparty frenzy as burst forth
<n the senate Monday. Maybe that really i* its
destiny.
YOUTH AND THE PENITENTIARY.
L. C. Oberlies of the state board of control gave
♦he state teachers’ association a shock when he told
of the prisons of the land being filled with young
folks. We hope that when his hearers get their bal
ance again they will do a little research work for
themselves. They will find that this is not » new
condition at all. Unfortunate as It may seem, it is
a natural attribute of youth. Boys and girls alike
transgress the laws of God and man carelessly or un
wittingly. Some of the transgressions nre born of
exuberance of spirit, some from innate cusscdne**,
some from Ignorance due to Inexperience.
These facts have been known to criminologists and
sociologists for many years. Schools are not to blame
for the condition. Nor are the churches, nor the
homes. Close observers are Impressed with the
thought that instead of more fewer are turning to
crime. Because so many sensational and desperate
deeds of wickedness are recorded, a natural suppo
sition for the uninformed Is that crime is rapidly in
creasing. That is not true. Allowing for the newer
forms of offense created by statutes, examination
of the records will disclose that proportionately there
Is less crime today than ever.
By no stretch of the Imagination ran It be made
to appear that social conditions are responsible. The
cause lies deeper. It is Innate, a propensity that,
once gave rise to the dogma that sin Is congenital.
Yet education, training by precept and example. Is
surely eradicating this tendency of human nature.
Young people are not worse, hut certainly are better
today than they were yesterday.
We hope that when the next ronventlon of the
teachers meet* In Om*ha It* program will he filled
with speaker* who have only words of hope and en
t
t
couragement. Our public schools are not short cuts
to state's prison, nor wholly immoral in their influ
ence.
SCIENCE GETTING ON SOLID GROUND.
Pilate cynically asked, “What is truth?” The
question had been bandied for thousands of years
between school* of philosophy. Not yet is it an
swered, but modern investigators are pursuing an
earnest search for some traces of it. These received
encouragement from President Coolidge, who
greeted the American Association for the Advance
ment of Science thus;
“It has taken endless agps to creat* In men the
courage that will accept the truth simply because
It is the truth. Ours Is a generation of pioneers in
this new faith. Not many of us are endowed with
the kind of mental equipment that can employ the
scientific method in seeking for the truth. But we
have advanced ao far that we do not fear the re
sults of that process. We ask no recantations
from honesty and candor. We know that we need
truth; and we turn to you men of science and of
faith, eager to give you all encouragement In your
quest for it.”
It is not to be assumed that the president means
{hat truth has been discovered. Rather, he intends
to convey the thought that definite errors have been
located and abandoned because they are error. And
it does take courage to turn the back to what has
Leen cherished as truth and turn anew to the quest
for the absolute. Slowly but surely a mass of un
derstanding knowledge has been dug out from the
chaos of superstitious surmise, all tending to give
man a higher conception of the Creator and the re
lations between God and man. This is the work of
the scientist, who seeks only truth, and whose aim is
not to destroy faith but to strengthen it by giving
it tangible support.
Aside from the moral aspects of the president’s
address to the scientist, he discussed a vei^y practical
one. That is the poor money reward the nation gives
those learned men who spend their lives in the serv
ice of the public. On no branch of the government
does more of the comfort and happiness of the people
depend than on that which deals with research and
discovery, analysis and examination. And, propor
tionately, none is more meagerly compensated. While
respecting and profiting by the work of these men,
people ought to provide ways to reward them in
ratio to the good they do.
UNCLE SAM IS MAKING GOOD.
While the court over at Chicago is grinding away
on the case against Forbes and Thompson, in which
conspiracy to defraud the government through mis
application of funds intended for the relief of dis
abled service men, something else is going on at
Washington. Announcement has just come from
the capital that five more hospitals for the accommo
dation of veterans of the A. E. F. will be erected
at once. These are for tubercular and neuro
psychiatric cases. I vocations have Wen selected to
take care of Connecticut, New York, New Jersey,
Virginia, Minnesota, Montana, North and South Da
kota, Maryland, West Virginia and the District of
Columbia. A new hospital at San Fernando, Cal.,
and extensions of the Walter Reed hospital at Wash
ington and the one at Great Lakes, 111., also are con
tained in the arrangements just completed.
General Hines is making good in carrying out the
work assigned to him. His administration of the
Veterans bureau is in distinct contrast to that of his
predecessor. Liberal appropriations have been made
by congress for the relief of the ailing or disabled
members of the great army, and in good time every
man or woman who suffered in body or mind as a
result of service in the army will get the help that
was promised. It is not the fault of the government
that one man proved faithless, and everything that
can be don* to care for the victims is now being
pushed.
SEERESS GIVES A TIP TO ALL.
The queen of the New York star gazers has
peered into the heavens. She. has oriented the
zodiac, taken the declension of the planets, examined
their houses, their moods, and modes.’ No secret in
fluence remains untested by her charts and psychic
media. Therefore she knows. And, says she, the
motto for all, to he put over the desk where it can
be seen at any lifting of the eyes is:
“Get it—and keep it."
The year 1925 will be a good one, according to
her way of looking at things. The next year, not
ro good. Well, time enough to meet the troubles
of 1926 after we have waded through the days of
1925. They will be full enough of toil and worry,
and he is a glutton for punishment who will let 1926
cast its shadow over 1925 right at the start.
The advice given by the lady is good any time.
It has no particular year. If you expect to succeed
in life, to make your business go over, to finish on
the right side of the ledger, “Get It and keep it!"
A Chicago woman complains that her husband
came home and beat her after twenty-three years’
absence. Maybe he just remembered what it was
he planned to do when he left home.
With lawyers, doctors, judges and school teacher
holding conventions at the same time, Omaha's
"i q.” stood pretty high for a day or two.
Judge Baldwin contributed very sensibly to the !
festivities by refusing to issue a batch of search war
rants signed in blank.
—
The doctor* keep on digging lead out of Benny
Danbaum, but wo hope the lode is not limitless.
Adam McMullen knows how to keep silent In
several tongues.
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New Year’s Joy was not only unconflned, but
also undiluted.
THERE IS TOO MUCH TO LEARN IN LIFE.
There’*, oh, *o much I do not know
J n this great world in which I dwell!
Ho many treasures come and go,
Aral leave me powerless to tell
Of them, and what they tjioh stood tor,
And why they came aud went,
And why their presence I adore
When they are spent.
There Is too much to learn within
The brief sojourn on earth. -
But may the good and not the eln
Be taught to me,—tho mirth,
And not tho gloom which everywhere
Would dint the brightest spark.
And clothe tho heart in grim despair,
And lea ve H dm It.
There Is too much to learn, but may
I he a scholar true.
And lead my brief and fleeting way
In search fnr something new -
In search of something which I know
Will mellow Into Dream.
And In my waning year* will jln«
As jewels glstm
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But Youth Never Listens
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Letters From Our Readers
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When Credit l» Due.
Omaha.—To the Kdltor of The
Omaha Bee: Credit should be given
to whom credit is due. In your report
Sunday of the Home Lighting Es*ay
Contest, the schools whose pupils won
prizes get no credit whatever, because
you suppressed the name# of the
schools.
This appeared like discrimination
against the parochial schools, whose
pupils took the lead In that contest.
Assuming the omission to Ite uninten
tional, I am confident you will be im
partial enough to give space for the
farts of the case:
The five first prizes were awarded
to pupils of the Ba. red Heart Junior
and Bacred Heart High schools: Inez
.McRoberts won first prize, fil'd;
Rerqlce Ncstlebush, second, tlou;
Mary Fogarty, third, $50: -lorn Pells
grin, fourth, $20, and Judith Iwerson,
fifth. $20.
Besides the first five prizes, the
pupils of the two Sacred Heart
echools, although numbering, only Vi
I«-r cent of the 15,000 contestants,
carried off over 15 per cent of all
prizes awarded, including two $50 silk
flags.
Such a wonderful showing Is a fact
that s|a*aks eloquently for the high
standard of scholarship in these two
schools. It is only just that the
schopls which won in a fair contest
such splendid success should get the
credit that Is their due. other par
ochlul schools nlso carried off a credit
able percentage of the honors award
ed, notably: Mount St. Mary, Bt. Ce
cilia. Bt. John, Bt. Patrick, Assump
tion of the Blessed Virgin, St. Wen
ceslaus.
Tile results of ibis contest, ss well
as of others here and elsewhere,
demonstrate that parochial schools
are doing a great work, not only In
I his city, but all over the country,
and—with very little •ncoUrugeineht
from the country.
The Catholic parochial school gives
a comprehensive course 1 n all the
branches of knowledge which a child
should know. Not i parital Vrio like
the public school. It teaches spiritual
knowledge of the Creator end (he
child's religious duties to Him, to
one's neighbors and to onrself. It
teaches love of country with the edu
cational requirements for civic da
lles. In brief. It educates ihe child
for Oort and country, In religion and
patriotism. This two fold cm rlculum
is what gives pre-eminence to the
parochial over the public --I hook It
con fqra the balance who 1 of poise
and personality on the clima te- of
the youth. It furnishes the compass
of a! good conscience which guides
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Abe Martin
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Th’ dnrln' daylight. robber* o’ th'
little Northfleld, (Miniirsoty,) bank
some year* a (to wu/ di ru «rd nil
over th’ country Or month an'
month;', nn’ folks 11s for awnv h
Vermont barred thur window , an’
some o' th’ bandit* afterward* lec
tured. One of our worst mistake ■
i* helpin' folk* in th' winter who
ley off in th' summer
(Cino "ill*, HS«?
'.omp'attons of life, snd conducts un
erringly to the eternal goal In Heaven.
Thoughtful educators In other
creeds, observing the vicious excesses
of modern youth In many parts of
the country, deplore the lack of Chris
tian training. Yet the one outstand
ing church that has a time-tested sys
tem of religious training combined
with a first-class secular education,
equipping for the highest type of citi
zenship and service, gets for its pains
only discrimination, misrepresenta
tion and hostility Iri certain quarters.
In the discharge of this sacred
duty. we. Catholics, are handicapped
by the meagerness of our funds The
i time has come w hen the Catholic body
should organize and agitate for this
fundamental objective: Catholic taxes
for Catholic schools, such as you have
in certain provinces of Canada. There
is no sense, reason, logic or justice In
Catholics taxing themselves first to
build, equip and maintain their owr.
schools. A law should be passed re
nuirfVig school taxpayers to declare to
which school—public or parochial—
they desire their taxes to go and such
taxes assigned to the purpose to de
dared.
Oh but you say, such a proposition
will be like a red flag to a bull for
the blind bigots. They will rage and
rave. Well, let them rage. They are
raging now because they know no
better. Hut the American people are
fundamentally fair-minded, and when
the Justice of a deserving cause is
brought homo to them they stand for
justice and right.
Every one. not mentally blind, must
^drnlt that Catholics should not be
persecuted In this great, free country
espei tally, for educating their children
up to a high standard of religion and
patriotism. To compel them to pay
double taxes Is persecution for con
en e's snke. By the tenet* of c«th
olio faith, religious and secular edu
atton must go hiyjd In band. It Is
an essential part «f our religion. To
i-tierce Catholic children out of the
education of a Catholic school Is
just ns much, If not more, religious
persecution us to coerce Catholic
adults out of preaching and nia1* In
a -jthollc church.
'nils being so, snd whereas, the
parochial schools Imparts a secular
education not Inferior to th* public
school, as th* result* of this contest
amply prove, Ca'hollc tares should go
to th* former Instead of th# latter.
That such * law has not been passed
long ago is, In m.v humble opinion,
mt owing to any lack of Juetlce of
the American people, but to * lack of
united organized effort on the pert of
the catholic body themselves. They
have not yet energetically and with
ties e full force of th*!r number*
brought home to th# American people
(he manifest justice of their cause.
nEV. r j. .irrxiK.
Pastor snd Director Sacred Heart
Schools.
Evils of Child 1 ahor.
Omaha To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: The child labor amend
ment Is occasioning mtteh discussion.
... of 1920. taken when the
“Pape’s Cold Compound"
Breaks a Cold Right Up
Take two tab
lets every three
hours unlit three
doers ere taken.
The first dose al
ways gives relief.
The eecond end
third doses com
pletely break UP
the cold. Pleasant
lend safe to lake.
! Contains no qui
nine or opiates
Millions use
"Pape'e Cold
Compound." Price, thirty five cents
Druggists guarantee it.
federal child labor tax law waa In ef
fect, showed that of 12,500,000 chil
dren In the United States between
the ages of 10 and 15, over 1,000,000
were engaged in gainful occupations.
The same census showed nearly
5,000,000 Illiterates over 10 years.
The evils of child labor are physi
cal as well as mental. Of 2.50O chil
dren recently examined In certain beet
fields of Colorado and Michigan, 70
per cent had deformities and malposi
tions due to tho natura^of the work
they are required to do. In and about
the mines of a district in Pennsyl
vania, of the 978 boys from IS to 16
there employed, 178 had suffered ac
cidents. In Massachusetts, In one
year, more than 1,600 children were
victims of industrial injuries, while In
diana, for the same period, reports 993.
and New York. 19*3.
The above figures were taken at
random from statistics which as a
whole form a complete and horrible
answer to those who make the plea
that child labor gives the children a
refuge from Idleness.
It will be admitted that not all
child work Is harmful. The distinc
tion lies between suitable work. Chil
dren must he regarded not as grist for
the mills of industry, but as ths stuff
of which nations are made. Child la
bor means that the national stream Is
being polluted at It# source, when the
employment of children Is left to the
unrestricted greed of child exploiters.
There is positive need of legislation
On the subject of child labor. How
ever, the demand for more child
labor laws br those defined and fas
tidious societies Is the height of In
consistency while they complacently
stand by and silently witness the vio
lations of the labor law already on
the statutes for the protection of
women and children .
•TERRY HOWARD.
Another Dig at the Doctor.
Omaha—To the Editor of The
Omaha Hce: With all due regard to
I>r. Pinto, would suggest he reverse
has feeble fluttering# and preach
tlther "birth control ' or against the
growing tendency of our schools—
elsewhere to assume the responsibility
of the "home." and then turn the
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scheme over to the public to finance
Aside from the really deserving, under
these conditions Is It surprising that
many parents thrust aside all pride
end become more and more willing ts
turn over the entire responsibility to
the ever outstretched arms of the
public. To prove my statement, would
kindly call Dr. Pinto's attention to
the Increasing demand for homes to
house these helpless children thus d*
priverl of their natural source ol
supply. OLiDT IMKR.
Not Implying Anything.
Two girls met on Tremont street
"Come over tonight and see my new
hat." said one. "My friends say that
I look well In it."
"I'll be over sure,” returned the
rther. "It must be a wonderful hat.
—Boston Transcript.
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He Wants to Kno*.
"John," asked Bluebelle coyly, “are
von a candidate for my hand? '
"Well, I don’t know,” answered
..
; Coming!
: Berg’s Big Sale
I Watch for It
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Are we becoming a thin-skinned people’ Fifteen below
zero seems to have put us all on the blink. Thirty or fort*
years ago men wouldn't have paid any attention to It. Me
had real cold weather In those days. When Mayor Jim was
riding range in Dawes county one winter was so cold that he
couldn’t shoot a coyote because the atmosphere fro** solid and
wouldn’t let the bullet out of his rifle. In January of 1*84. Os
Gardner, homesteading In what is now Scotts Bluff county,
rigged up a horsepower and attached it to his ffrtndirtone. By ■
revolving that grindstone at top speed he was enabled to light
a friction match by holding it against a stone for an hour or
two. Homesteaders came tor miles around to light '“e11
matches. In the same month of 1881, according to Joe Oher*
felder, barrels of whisky sitting by red-hot stoves in Sidney
saloons froze solid, and half the men In town wore their front
teeth down to the gums eating whisky Instead of drinking it.
In epite of all the scientific sharps say to the contrary, our
Nebraska climate is growing milder all the time.
It Is not generally known that Edson Rich, who helps un
tangle legal knots for the Union Pacific, was formerly a news- <
paper man. As a boy he learned to set type in the office of
the Auburn Granger. At the ago of 17 he bought the Peru
Pointer, and for seven weeks he was a full-fledged editor and
publisher. T^en he ran out of money and couldn’t get his
patent insides out of the express office, so he retired from the
newspaper game and took up the study of law. Thus do little I
things change human destinies.. Had it not been for a hard- 4
hearted publisher of patent Insides, Edson might now he writ- I
lng editorial paragraphs and three-line news items for a coun- I
try paper, instead of being one of the really great railroad at- A
torneys of the country. Doubtless he has made more money M
as a lawyer than he would have made as a country publisher, |§
but just think of the fun he has missed. ■
Speaking of railroad attorneys, it may surprise a lot of jg
people to know that ‘William J. Bryan once belonged to that ■
class. The law firm of Talbot & Bryan looked after the Mis- ( 1
souri Pacific's legal business in Lincoln for a time, if memory M
is not at fault. Mr. Bryan appeared in district court once to A
defend a damage suit brought against the Missouri Pacific, and
lost the case. That may explain why he went into politics and
Mr. Talbot into the fraternal insurance business. ^
i \ tram car conductor who can and does enunciate plainly
the names of the streets Is a Great Prize. Such, however, are
a rarity. Much as we like the boys and will stand by them,
candor compels the statement that most of them pronounce
street names as if they had their mouths full of small change.
Speaking of Joke Laws, there Is the one requiring people
who desire to confer with legislators about pending legislation
to register as lobbyists. Owing to lack of space we are unable
to print a list of Fool Laws now upon the statute books. But,
in addition to the registered lobbyist law, we would call atten
tion to the corrupt practice ac^ as now framed.
While every Nebraskan will thrill with pride at sight of
the new capitol building, many an old-timer will feel pangs of |
regret at the passing of the old one. In Its time It was really
a mighty pretentious building. That was when Nebraska was
young and things didn’t have to be big to be Impressive. But i
the old gray stone building that convicts erected under the
supervision of Boss Stout was a credit to the then young state.
It has housed some big men In its time, and in the house cham
ber some big men have been elected to the United States senate.
The greatest battle In Nebraska's political history was
fought around the candidacy of Col. Tom Majors. In 1*94
Majors won the republican nomination for governor over Jack (
McCoil of Lexington by the narrow margin of one-half a vole.
Edward Rosewater, the editor of The Omaha Bee. bolted
Majors’ nomination and espoused the candidacy of Silas A
Holcomb of Custer, who had been nominated by the people's
independent party and endorsed by the democrats after a party
aplit In convention. _
WILL M. MAUPIN.
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