\ Oraahd-Vtei&tlie^st is d| its Best “LAW AND 6rDER SUNDAY.” Thii particular Sunday is devoted to the purpose of pleading for the re-establishment of law and order in the United States. Fifty-two such Sundays in a year may not be enough to win the point. One should not be needed. No matter what the cause, and it would not be easy to pick out which one of many is to blame, Amer ican people have fallen into a loose way of living. We have mountains of law, rivers of law, oceans of law. . We are surrounded on all sides by law. Four riimensional law. It is above, underneath, before us and behind us. Whatever way we turn, we are con fronted by a law. Laws prescribe what we may do, eat, drink, wear, amuse ourselves with. And we eat. drink, dress and play just as we please, with no regard for the law. Unless it be that we complain when the other chap ignores the law. “Let your conscience be your guide,” is the rule. And conscience seemingly is able to condone or justify anything the individual may find it his pleasure to do at the moment. Whim controls. ' Time was when the American people deserved the name law-abiding. Not so many years ago tho public was shocked rather than entertained by atrocious crimes. A minister, discussing this situa tion, says: • "Youth today Is no worse than !n other days. It vats merely discarded the old restraints and motives, and has not yst developed new restraints and motives." . No doubt is possible that youth has discarded old restraints and motives. Evidence in plenty that youth has discarded about everything in the nature of re straint. As to motives, that is not a question of age, and is always open to speculative consideration. What is uppermost now is how to go about to li^lp youth to develop the new restraints the rev crpnd gentlemgn talks about. Our suggestion is the inculcation of discipline. This is not so much a matter of law as of order. Primarily, it is individual, ftVtd grownup people need it as much as do the Jrifruth. AfterTHl, the young learn by example more generally and far more quickly than they do by precept. It is natural, too, that the imitator exag gerates the faults and imperfectioqs of the model that ii being copied. No man need wonder if his son does what his father does. So it is not the youth of the land alone who need new restraints and motives. Every man and woman in the United States has a share in the pub lic morals. If law and order are to be restored, it will be when each one does his or her share to bring about that state of affairs. This may be accom plished easily enough. It only requires the exercise •f constant self-government. KICKING AGAINST THE GOADS. A Texas minister, whose name need not be men tioned because it were better forgotten, is very much peeved because a woman is to act as governor of the state. He does not believe in that sort of thing. He announces that he will don a Mother Hubbard and preach a sermon against it. If his congregation permits that sort of thing it will be because he has that kind of a congregation. The reverend brother bases his opposition to women in authority on a quotation from Paul’s First Letter of the Corinthians, found in the 34th verse of the 14th chapter, reading thusly: “Let your women keep silence In the churches for It Is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also salth the law.’’ Paul, with all of his legal erudition and com manding eloquence, was a crusty old bachelor, much given tO imparting advice he did not himself follow. At timOg he even boasted of the fact that he did not do some things he ndvised others to do. If the reveretid Texas brother has not better authority than Paul to.depend upon for his opposition ao women in plaeOa of authority, he is leaning on a slender reed. As an evangelist Paul is the great exemplar of all, ’time, but what he knew about women amounted to very little. Doubtless the church trf Paul's time was different from the church of today. Then it may have been supported wholly by the men. But the modern church that depended solely upon men for its continued existence and progress would Speedily curl up and die. Paul may have put that sort of thing over in his time. He wouldn't get to first base with it these days. Women have made some steps forward since Paul, the crusty old bachelor, walked nnd taught. That i* one reason why the world today is bptter than it was when Paul walked and taught. If the church is not keeping pace it certainly is not the fault of the women. There is a well-founded sus " picion that it may be because there are so many ministtrs like the reverend brother of Texas who cling tO the old-fogy notion that women should be kept in subjection and remain silent. Perhaps it Is due in some measure to the faet that here 'and there are ministers who, like the Texas brother, prefer topics like the one.he has selected instead of preaching the real gospel. The reverend gentleman from Texas should read ' tii* Bible with a clearer understanding. If he wants to profit from Paul he might turn bnck a few pages to Acts 9:5, wherein this same Paul was notified that it was hard to kick against the goads. The Texas divine is kicking against the goads as un availingly as did Saul of Tarsus. Not only that, but he is making a blithering donkey of himself. REPUBLICS AND CATHEDRAL BUILDERS. When an Egyptian monarch conceived the idea of building a pyramid, he signified his desire to his chief of staff. The rest was a matter of detail. If the builders ran out of workmen, another army was sent out to capture more slaves to carry on the work. We imagine the temple of Baal and the Hang ing Gardens at Babylon were built the same way. Coming along down the track of history, we may note the Roman emperQr transforming the Eternal City from brick to jnarble. Or Constantine creating a new Rome and naming it after himself, or Alex ander, before either, setting up a metropolis at the mouth of the Nile. These were splendid examples of what may be accomplished by the exercise of despotic power. Peter the Great brought forth from the swampland on the Neva another world capital, and the last of the czars caused Dalny to be built on the shore of the far away Pacific ocean, to cite two modern examples. But the building of the great temples, even that of Solomon, were co-operative efforts. Into their con struction went the prayers of the church, the wealth of the ruler, and the faith of the people. It was to God their spires reached out, and under groined roofs or vaulted ceilings knelt the devout who hon ored the Almighty in worship that took the form of carved stone and richly decorated altar as much "as in words or genuflection. Bishop Manning of New York is trying to revive something of this spirit in Gotham. He has insti tuted a city-wide drive to raise a fund of $10,000, P00 to complete the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, for which $5,000,000 already has been gathered and mostly spent. It Is to he a religious center for the nation, as the old European cathedrals stood for the community and country around them. In the pro ceedings may be noted something of the change that has come over the religious affairs of man since the days of the Cathedral Builders in Europe. No im portant division in the church of those days. Now it is scattered among numerous creeds. However much they may profess harmony, the hard fact of creed separates them. A thousand years ago Bishop Manning would nave found his job of cathedral building almost as simple as did Cheops when he set up the greatest of the Pyramids. It was but to locate the stone and get the men to move them. Pharaoh could quarry the syenite along the Nile, but the bishop is not finding the mine from which to extract»the dollars quite so handy. C. J. LANE. Everyone who knows him feels a deep sense of personal sorrow at the passing of Charles J. l.ane. It was his talent to make and hold friends. As one of those who really mourn him has expressed it, he loved men and had the faculty of making men love him. As a practical, professional railroad man, he stood high. From an humble position in the service of a pioneer railroad in pioneer days, he grew as the road grew, until he was at the head of one of its great service divisions. His outstanding charac teristics were his industry and his never-failing good humor. One of the secrets of his success was his faculty for serving both his customer and his com pany at the same time. Such a man is an asset not merely to the organ . itation with which he is associated, but to society in "general. The work they do, the example they set, are genuine achievements. ' Charlie Lane will be sorely missed and sincerely mourned by friends all over the land. Because he was a man, did a man's work ,and gave to the world the fullness of service E'nd the richness of a genial nature and a warm heart. JUST A LITTLE SHIVER, EH? Were you among those who got a peep at the eclipse Saturday morning? Wonderful spectacle, wasn’t It? You knew it was coming, even if you are inclined to wonder how th^ astronomers can foretell years ahead the exact minute an eclipse will start, just how long it will last, and where it may he seen. Being wise in your day and generation, you know there is nothing supernatural about an eclipse. You know that it is in accordance with fixed rules. But, honestly now, didn't you feel just a hit creepy when the moon began sliding between you and Old Sol and made him just sort o' wink out, so to speak? Didn't you feel something going through your mind, and kind o’ creeping along your spine, something such as happens to you when you wake up in the still watches of the night and hear a noise you are unable to explain? You knew it was an eclipse, and just as natural as sunrise and sunset, hut away back in your mind vVasn’t there a little something that made you shiver in spite of all your knowledge? And if you have a spark of devotion in your soul were you not reminded of something when the eclipse dawned on your vision —the majestic Nine teenth Psalm: “The heavens declare the glorv of God; and the firmament sheweth His handiwork. Day unto day uttereth apeerh, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There Is no speech or language where their voice Is riot heard." "The glory of God!” That’s it.' The glory of Him who set the stars in their courses. The more Unite man studies the starry heavens and watches the planets in their courses, the greater is awe of the majesty that rules all. And that is why you, and all of us who watched the eclipse, felt a something we can not describe, even though we pride ourselves upon our knowledge and wisdom. Having made a great Mnancial success of all of his great corporation interests, Mr. Harrop will now give the taxpayers of Omaha the benefit of his ex pert advice in street railway management. A scientist reports that there' are 260,000 soot particles in a cubic inch of London fog. Almost as many soot particles to the inch as there are boot leggers to the square mile in Chicago. A feminine philosopher in Oklahoma gays women go into business in order to he near the men. And men remain in business in order to he able to keep some woman near. The country consumed sixty billions cigarrts dur ing 1924, and without any perreptihle decrease in' the visible supply of tobacco. Chicago resents all efforts lo prevent her from lowering the take level. Anything on the level seems to he offensive to that burg. The nearer wheal approaches the $J mark >he more difficult it becomes for thr third party ,o atch its breath. * % /.. . Dealing With Criminals By L,. F. BROOKING. The man who deliberately, with malice aforethought, reddens his hands with the blood of the innocent, has forfeited all his rights to the sym pathy and consideration of society. His agev unless a child; hi* mental condition? unless insane or feeble minded, should not enter into the question, and be weighed against the interests of society in general. This being beyond reasonable question, It is useless to discuss it. There is only one standpoint from whicli this question can he discussed In a logical manner, and that is from the standpoint of protection for those who have a right to live. At the pre vailing rate many thousands of per sons, who have a right to live, will die at the hand of the assassin in the next 12 months. Unlimited sympathy and protection for these, and none for the criminal, should he our motto. Why has crime increased In leaps and bounds in the laSt decade? It can scarcely be for the reason that the world is growing worse instead of better. With the liquor traffic un der control, and the many institutions for the betterment of mankind, we must conclude that the world is grow ing better, and the reason for the In crease of crime must he sought in some other direction. * * * The love of life and the fear of death is inherent in every human being. The first is the most valuable of all things: the latter is the most dreaded. Upon this fundamental proposition we ran safely base an ar gument for capital punishment. It Is plain as the noonday sun that the in crease of crime Is nor due to the de terloratlon of the race, hut is due to a lack of fear In the criminal. The parasites of the human race have congregated in the large cities, there to live and thrive on the loot they gather by robbery and murder. Protection against them Is the great question. Scientists and would-be hu manitarians may theorize, and the va rious cults may preach against capi tal punishment; alienists may advance their farfetched doctrines: peychia trials may give us vague and myster ious theories, hut reducing ths ques tion to a practical and common sense basis, the only remedy Is to put Into Ihe criminal's heart the fear that has heen taken away. The rontest waged by the great law yer, Mr. Darrow. and the very evident Joy of Leopold and Loeb at their escape from the gallows, is a very forcible example of the fear of death by the criminal. The only concern they manifested was at the noose, and they went to Joliet with smiles on their faces, and ai‘e now buoyed up with the hope of ultimate release, and the hope is born of the knowledge of the pa.>>.. • * * What are the mental processes of the criminally inclined? It is reason able and logical to assume that he has in mind the easy mode of escape by way of the automobile; the slow ness and laxity of the courts; the dexterity of the criminal lawyer; the law, which sometimes seems to he constructed more for the benefit of the criminal than for his conviction; the furlough, parole and pardon: the modern prison that prison reformers insist upon, and the sentimental atti tude of some iveople against severe punishment. All these things are matters of general knowledge among the criminals, and the fear of death Is hardly taken into consideration. They take a chance on detection; a chance of conviction; the chance of escaping through legal technicalities tlwt abound in our legal procedure: the chance of a parole or pardon, and when it is all computed, the danger is small and the crime committed. Can any man contend that the standard of civilization Is higher In England than Irt America? Have they a higher standard of morals and behavior? I believe the contrary to be fine. It has repeatedly been af firmed, and not denied, that the mur ders in any large American city ex ceed those of all England. Why? There can l>e but one answer by those who believe our country to he at least the equal of Kngland. The an swer must he—thewure. swift punish ment that Is'meted out to the man lri Kngland who takes the life of his fellow. The criminal In England has been taught the fear of the law; he has lacked that education In America. If the people who are in charge of the administration of justice will ignore the scientific analysis of the alienist and the psychiatrist, the maudlin sentimentalist, the religions fanatic, and any element that will show sympathy for the man who has forfeited all sympathy and considers tlon. and administer justice In favor of the people who have a right to live, by giving the death penalty to highway robbers and murderers, mak ing the punishments swift and sure, the fear of death will be in the hearts of this class- of criminals, and these crimes would at once drop to the minimum. Society has a right to enact laws for their own protection, and since the present laws and the administration seems entirely inadtv <4pate, we should demand a revision of the criminal code and do away with the parole system, and making a par don provisional with the developing of evidence showing the prisoner in nocent. * * * > If increasing thp punishment will not lessen crime, it follows that les sening the punishment will not in crease crime, and drawing this to a logical conclusion, our criminal courts could Is? alsdlshed. Theie is no logic iiv tills conclusion. 'I’lie logical con clusion is: we punish criminals, not out of pure vengeance, but as a de terrent to crime. This being true, the logical remedy is to increase the punishment until he fears to commit the crime. This is the solution to the problem, and until it Is admitted and acted upon, crime will not diminish, but be ever on the increase. AAhen our law makers and guardians of the law begin to listen to the appeal of common sense and logic, and pease to be influenced by educated ignoramus es. scientific theorists and maudlin humanitarians, then the people can begin to expect the protection they are entitled to from footpads and murderers. The penitentiaries will cease to be crowded to the limit, necessitating paroles and pardons, to make room for an ever-increasing procession of criminals. AVhen an atrocious crime is com mitted in many communities it taxes the ingenuity of the officers to save the prisoner from the mob. AA'hj? For the reason that almost every man favors capital punishment when the crime is committed in his own habitation, or that of his neighbor. There is an abundance of sentiment among the people towards a reform in the direction of the Knglish sys tem of dealing with criminals a,nd all that is needed is for this sentiment to find voice and expression and thus he crystallized into law. Funk. Neb. • r —.. .n I Call to Churchmen \__/ David City, Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: I read with great interest the articles, "What ts the Matter With the Church" and "The Church Yesterday and Today,” which appeared In your columns. Many may doubt the statements which the writ era expressed and consider them a pessimistic view into world affairs, but the fact is that our country Is Christian in opportunity hut tragically unchristian in its obligations. If xve may trust to figures given out, this is the condition of affairs. Over 70,000,000 have no definite church re lation or loyally, and of the remain ing millions who are affiliated with some definite church. It is safe to as sume that only about one third are real vital forces and power for Chris tian ideals. 'Phis means that only about one third are Christian in this un christian America. There may be a little more if we include the Incon sistent '‘Christians/’ the pious frauds and hypocrites. The preachers are asking In tones of despair how to win people hack to the church. Some have stooped so low as to convert the sa« red edifice into a circus aretgi In order to draw' the crowd. Of course, a loud squawk la raised that the church has failed. But surely it ts not the institution that has failed. Tt •is individuals in the church who ht\e failed. The question is asked. "Why don’t the people go to church?” The primary reason is that the preachers have disgusted serious minded and earnest men with the « hurch and with religion. They (the preachers! have become as sounding brass and tinkling cymbals They preach on every subject under the sun except the Gospel, which alone has the power to transform snd ele vate and ennoble men and to save souls. They have prostituted their calling, forgetting that minister of God must prenrh Christ and Him ■ ruclfied. otherwise he becomes s mere hireling. They forget the words of that mode! of preachers the Apo# tie St Paul, who an\s: "God forbid that T should glory save In the cross of our fjord Jesus Christ." And again he says: “Woe to me. if T preach not the Gospel.” But to many of our modern preachers Christ crucified f* Just as much a scandal and a stum bling block as He was to those smooth, sleek, corn-fed Scribes snd Pharisees over 1,900 years ago. • • • The preachers are filled, not with the spirit of Christ, but with the false wisdom of this world. Hence they have become blind leaders of the blind, and none are so blind as those who do not want to see. I do not say that sli preachers era hire* lings. There are some who still l»e* lieve that faith comes by hearing the Gospel—not a windy discourse on pro tuition. There are some who still l*elleve that "not by bread alone doth man live, but by every word that pro reedet h from the mouth of God.” There are some who still believe, "Going therefore, teach ye all na tlons; teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you.” But these. T repest, are rare. The great majority contnadlct and deny WHJAlM "fundamental" truth* HOW ran any man believe snd accept re. llgion when a Christian minister, speaking from a Christian pulpit In a Christian church to a Christian eon gregatiou, dates anyone present, who believes In the Apostles’ Creed, to slattd Up! And all those moral cow ards, who pretend to l*» Christians and witnesses for Christ, fear to stand up for fear some alienist may he snooping around, who might hale them before* a sanity commission for adhering to such an Insane atfsurdltv ns the Apostles’ Creed. Or they may be Afraid I hat they will not measure up to their preacher's “Intellectual” standard, if their ethics conform to the first, or second century of the Christian era. I could lengthen this indictment of the modern preachers, but It would require too much space. In the fare of all these facts, who can wonder that over 70,00n.000 do not belong to any church? llow can any one be astonished that the church le losing Its bold on the people. The preachers by their bad example ami disbelief have done practically all (he mischief Thev have failed tin* church hall pot failed. • • • We are now facing .« great crime wave all over the country and. of course, each one offers a remedy bill the right one Even the reined> sug Tested bv lbs represent tat l\■'* of the church might seem like a presrrlp lion written by n quack dnrt.ni But It Is mu iIih mere opinion of long fared religionists. bill the rnnrlii-Inu of fai sighted leadei s of government and financial power tl^t if America Is to be saved the church must do the work. It is their Arm conviction that the priest and the preacher, as teach ers of the law, are more important than the policeman and judge who merely execute the law. What our country needs and must have is a moral conscience, and this is given in the home and at the altars of her churches, not at a Judge’s bench or in a prison cell. The busi ness of the nation is to build churches to teach and save men, not the con struction of prisons to punish them; that the education In the law is far greater power for good than the ex ecution of it. Taw must be enforced at the Judgment seat of God. ^et up in the heart of every man. woman and child, rather than in a sordid, stuffed courtroom of mankind. A man or woman must be made and kept a law abiding citizen, protected and sustained by the power of the cross rattier than by the policeman's club. And if the preachers will help to do this, there will be no more com plaints about frreligton or empty pews. ALBERT F. BAUMAN. / - s Crime and Its Causes v J f)maha—To the Editor of The Oma ha Ree: We have been informed by our county attorney that crime in Douglas county has increased about 300 per cent, if reports are correct. We ought to take general statements like this wjth a grain of «alt. Statis tics often tell the truth, but just as often mislead the unthinking. An Increase in criminal cases on the court docket may or may nor be caus ed bv increased criminality on the part of the population. If. for Instance, the administration of the police is carried on in a lax and slothful man ner. it will be natural that there may be very few arrests, if the police are energetic and conscientious, the num ber of arrests may treble; vet a* a matter of fart there may be los« crime and disorder when the police are real Iv on their Job. although the increas ed criminal docket seems to tell of such an Increase. Rut granted that Mr. Beal’s asser tion is true, it Is In m.v judgment er roneous to lay the blame to the pro hibitlon of alcohol. The (losing of the saloons is not the real reason of an increase in crime, if there is mich. The best evidence for my claim la the fact that crime has increased in the same proportion or worse in conn tries like Germany, France. Switzer land, where tlvr saloons are wide ( pea. From Journals which I receive from across the ocean there come the same hue and cry about Increased lawlessness. There are several causes that ran he named with much more plausibil ity for the increase of arrests than the suppression of the saloon and of alcoholic drinks. One of these la the rebellious spirit and the disregard for authority which any long war period fosters. There has never been a long period of war In the world but what has for a time demoralised the social order. The Roman republic experienced that after the Punic warn. Greece after the Peloponnesian war. Ger many after the 30 years* war. our own south after the Civil war War la a violent disease which like scarlet fever leaves the body politic weak fop quite a while. During this weak ness the social conscience does not exert the usual firm control over the conduct of the Individuals of the state. War Is a debauch followed by s moral Katzen Jammer Another ceitaln cause of the In crease of arrests is the rapidly' grow tug Intricacy and complication of modern life; at n time when two thirds of our American* were fanner*, there wan little temptation or occasion to interfere with the rights of other*: but now we are living a more com plicated life, where we are mutually dependent upon each other and where we have to consider, a dozen times the need* and demands of others where formerly we had to regard them once. Where our path was for merly crossed by 1ft it i* now crossed by 100 and our will and social con science cannot keep step with this rapid increase of need for the con sfderation of other*. No rinuttf the suppression of the liquor traffic adds its quota to the increase of arrests, since this mea sure also means an increase of regard for the welfare of other individuals; there would he le«=s business for the police courts If the policy was re slimed again of looking at drunken ness as a little private Indiscretion which the private citizen should he allowed to enjoy if he so cared. But we have come to the conclusion that the general use of alcohol leads to too many social disturbances and to too much hardship />n the part of innocent parties to he further allow ed. That the enforcement of this reg illation encounter* insubordination on the part of many'is ot be exue< ted: 1 ut this fact no more prove* the fool ishness of prohibition than the disre gard of traffic laws hv speeders proves the unreasonableness of our traffic ordinances. But the most serious and fundamen tal cause for so much or'me is the lack of reverence for God and for the laws which he has engraved in the human breast. Folks do not 1 Hither about God; that is the fundamental reason why they disregard th« feel ings and rights of their feljovvmen. For you will always find that the de cline in real, fundamental piety is followed hv a decline in that sym pathy for men which make* happy borne* and orderly cities and nates. ALBERT KTHV. Tastor of Bethany Presbyterian church. \ New Net. * T suppose." said Nexdore. "an an lotnohlle help* one to forget one's troubles " "Tea.'* replied Xa.vbor. "one* other trouble*."— Boston Trsnscript. Adaptable. "W hat do you do when your wife grabs the *in>rting page'”’ "Oh. 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In the midst of life we are In death, and so we take our text this morning from John 11:25, reading thus!} . "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life, he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall lie* live. Anil whosoever llveth and believeth In j shall never die. Believest fliou this?" And so il is this morniiiK that we would speak of life anu death and the resurrection, and especially of life. There are those among us who are foolishly preparing for death. It is to such that we appeal to uult that foolishness j and spend their time preparing for life. Every one of ua has j at one time or another been called upon to hid farewell to a loved one who has gone on before—not dead but passing oil into that greater ami fuller l.fe. If there is anything in th# religion of our fathers, what we call death Is not an affliction, but a blessing. Then why should we mourn as those without comfort when our loved ones have, aw we believe and know, merely left us to enjoy the infinite? | Men may formulate system* of theology or evolve creeds and dogmas."but Hie simple words of the Man of Nazareth. I am the resurrection and the lire, . . . whosoever llveth and believeth in me shall never .lie." tells more to mankind • than theologians ever dreamed, more than . reed makers ever thought, more than creators of dogma ever devised, in those few words is summed up the hope of human kind. Those who go through the world with stooped shoulders and downcast eyes, fearful of being contaminated by associa tion with their fellows, and setting themselves apart that they may be tilted for death, have no conception, not the least grasp, of what the Savior meant when He spake those words. His philosophy of life was not a philosophy of separation, not a philosophy of isolation. He went about doing good He lived the very fullness of life. He gave tis the true meaning of tha ! word service, a word that has been fearfully abused of late years. \\1iy then, when we gaze upon the cold clay of our loved one. should we mourn as those without hope? Ate have but gone with them to the portal of a fuller existence, the door Vs, • temporarily dosed in our faces, in good time to open for us if we shall have prepared to live instead of foolishly wasting our time In preparation for death. "There is no death. AVhat seems so is transition. V This life of mortal breath - Is but a suburb of the life Klysiait, ( AVhose portals we call death." We hut discount our professed faith when we mourn as one without hope. We exhibit our lack of faith when we fail to get the best out of life in our anxiety to make the awful „ mistake of preparing for death. Kaeh one of us is a part and parcel of God's infinite plan. In eaeli one of us is the spirit of divinity and infinity, ours to grasp or to ignore; ours to profit by or to discard. And only as we accept an.1 perform our part shall we inherit eternal life. That part is not to go about with faces long enough to eat oats out of a church; not to stand apart from our fellows; not arrogate to ourselves a superior virtue. It is ours to go about doing good as best we can. lot us then, beloved, set ourselves to the glorious and joy ful task of living—living and loving and serving, striving ever to make g<*«d in our part of the infinite plan. AVe will sing es our concluding number that song of faith and hope. “I Know > ThSt My rteedeeiner IJveth." and, singing, may we take firmer hold on faith, determined to make the most of life here below ! in order to be prepared for the greater life beyond. ],et us stand and sing, singing with spirit and under standing. So ertdeth the lesson. AA II-T, M MAI. PIN. - " Parent* \Mi» Alxlimte. From the Chicago x Goshen. Ind.. is not the only Amer ican community that has l»een op pressed of late by evidence of promis cuous drinking and other misconduct on the part of children of high school age. Educator* and moralist** in many places have been discussing ways and mean* of enforcing proper standards of conduct among the young and pre venting lapses into ser.ous delinrpien iv. But the Elkhart county grand jury, in a presentment on the subject • .f juvenile laxity sets a tisefOl ex ample to other communities in its pointed remarks on the responsibility of parents for that laxity. The grand jury says, with obvious truth, that parents too often know little and care little a!>out the associa tion:* of their children after school hours, or even late in the evening. It also points out that many dances are arranged by children and adolescents without supervision, and that on *u«"b occasions some young jiersons dis pense intoxicants and boast of their daring and cleverness in clrcumvertt law and authority. It is idle for parents to complain of juvenile manners • »f moral* while they lhe:n«el\es do nothing to regulate, within reason, the conduct of their - . —.— u ..... - children. Parents who fear to ba i ailed old fashioned, and who abdicate or shirk their plain duties, assume moral responsibility for the truancy , delinquency and lawbreakina which they complain of in their children. Knliihtened discipline is as necessary in the home today as it ever was. It always will tie necessary, and official reminders of that fact are pertinent. NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for the SIX MONTHS Ending Sept. 30, 1924 THE OMAHA BEE Daily .73,790 Sunday .75,631 Dors not include returns, left* overs, samples or papers spoiled in printing and includes no special •ales or free circulation of any kind. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. Subscribed and sworn to before nse this 4th day of October. 1924. W. H QUIVEY. (Seal) Notary Public A Sure Way Jo Prosperity Buy one of our guaranteed Typewriters or Adding Machines. 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