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Omaha-lDhere the UJest is at its Best
AMERICA’S FINEST MANHOOD.
A face that shine3 with clearer glory as the pass
ing years dispel the mists will greet Americans
today with majesty and calm strength. Abraham
Lincoln, born 115 years ago, in humble situation hut
to a high destiny, is cherished as the finest product
of American manhood. The first truly great son of
the soil of the young republic, his name is forever
fixed among the really noble of the world’s history.
An anonymous English writer, relating a contem
porary anecdote, says that Lincoln was not a great
man. He was one of honesty of purpose and good
common sense. Even that estimate of him sets him
above many who have but a single claim to fame,
that of the high place that was theirs by right of
birth alone.
It is good to look at Lincoln today. Not merely
to consider the story of his rise from obscurity to
everlasting fame. Not to examine into any particu
lar act or part of his life. Just to consider him as
a man, walking among men. Sharing the perplexi
ties and tribulations of those about him. Studious,
serious, sympathetic. Not regarding himself as
especially chosen for the doing of any great deed.
Simply moving each day to the accomplishment of
the day’s task, but ever striving to do it so it would
lead to something bigger and better for the morrow.
A steadily widening sphere of activity found him
prepared for new duties and new trials, because he
was as courageous as he was honest. t And he was
honest with himself as with others, so that he did not
fail where others might because of self-deception.
His final trial brought him triumph. Not because
of any transcendent genius, but because he did have
both courage and common sense.
His love of liberty, his devotion to the rights of
man, have been the theme of many an orator or
poet. But no tribute paid him in words, spoken or
written, equals that evoked in every heart when the
name of Lincoln is mentioned. As Washington was
the Father oi His Country, so Lincoln was the Son.
PAROLE LAW SHOULD BE PRESERVED.
W> congratulate the house at Lincoln for having
laid to rest the measure designed to repeal the par
don and parole law. Familiar with the abuses that
“’fraVe been practiced under the Inw, and frequently
as exasperated as any by these miscarriages, we yet
feel the law is good.
Unless there is some method for extending
clemency under proper circumstances, the object of
all law against crime is defeated. Many times it
has been stated that the purpose of the law is dual.
To punish law and protect society is its first object.
Reformation of the culprit is secondary, and yet it
is also an end to be accomplished through proper
treatment. Modern penology regards both these ob
jects. Some authorities go so far as to put the re
formatory function first.
To make a law absolutely rigid, assessing definite
penalties with no regard for the factors that should
be considered, would defeat the aim of the county
attorneys who backed the bill to repeal the parole
system. Instead of the pardon board, juries would
exercise clemency, and in many cases there would
he no punishment at all because of reluctance to in
■flipt the penalty prescribed in all its severity. Some
.(ajitude must be observed in order to preserve the
system under which crime can be punished at all.
If judges and pardon boards are too lenient, that
is not the fault of the law. A stronger moral fiber
will be encouraged, not by making the law more ter
rible, but by making it more certain. Human law,
finally, reflects human weakness. Errors of judg
ment, when made on the side of mercy, are not al
ways popular, but seldom are as dangerous as sen
tences that are vindictive rather than punitive.
CHEER UP; IT ISN'T SO!
Adam Breede, who is seemingly afraid to assume
the responsibility, because he has never married, de
clares that “a man marries because he is not afraid
to assume the responsibility of raising a family, and
then he hands the job over to his wife.”
Adam, like all the rest of us, knows a great many
things that aren’t so. Likewise, and also like the
rest of us, he does not know a great mnny things
that are so. Firstly, men seldom consider the re
sponsibility of a family when they marry. It is a
responsibility thrust upon them later, and plory be,
most men accept it willingly and gladly. And they
very properly accept the assistance of the wife and
mother, toiling rheerfully, sacrificing willingly, that
mother and children may have all possible comforts
anti a goodly share of the luxuries.
' Men who accept the responsibility of raising
families are the men who have made this country
wist it is, by and with the help of the good women
wfco have accepted equal responaihility. Without
lh*m the country would never have been developed;
without them it would in time revert hack to the
original wilderness.
The great trouble with Editor Breede's assertion
is that it isn’t so. It is only now and thon that men
shirk responsibility for the families that have been
given into their ear*. If now and then they delegate
the moral training to the mothers it is because the
mothers are best fitted for it and the fathers best
fltted for the industrial battle.
Raising a family la a partnership enterprise,
Adam. There is equal responsibility liist is very
generally cheerfully assumed. Were Adam to enter
upon such a partnership and in time be charged with
family responsibility, he doubtless would look upon
life differently. We admit, however, that the view
taken by his partner is wholly conjectural.
LEGISLATION BY CONFERENCE.
Out of the welter of confusion that attends the
goings on in congress two little gleams shine. Postal
employes may get their raise in pay, and the Muscle
Shoals 'matter may be settled.
This will be brought about by the expedient of
conference. Already, in the Muscle Shoals case,
the conferees are reported to have agreed. Har
monizing the bill passed by the house, which was to
accept the Ford proposal, since withdrawn, and the
Underwood bill, passed by the senate, was some job,
but it is said to have been done. In general, the
provisions of the Underwod bill were adopted. The
time for the government to offer the plant for lease
is extended to December 1. If not let on satisfac
tory terms by that date, the War department will
operate the plant.
In the house the Kelly postal rate increase bill
was passed and sent over to the senate on Tuesday.
It contains provisions for increasing postal revenues
by $61,000,000, with additional pay provisions
amounting to $68,000,000. President Coolidge has
given approval of the measure as being fairly satis
factory. It will go to the senate as a substitute for
the senate’s measure, which the house refused to
consider. Conference will very likely be asked, and
an agreement reached before the end of the session.
Most of the important legislation is now done in
conference committees at Washington. Senators
and representatives might harmonize their views in
some other way, but. this appears to offer a satisfac
tory way out of tight places. So it is generally
adopted. Postal clerks and farmers may have cause
to bless the practice, even if it be not the good old
fashioned way of passing laws. As long as it pro
vides for getting around the fixed determination of
individual members, it is helpful to public interests.
GOING TO THE AUTO SHOW?
Next week the Omaha Automobile show will open
its doors again. If past experience is repeated, six
hectic days and nights are ahead of the dealers.
Omaha is as much of a wonder city when it comes
(o the automobile as any in the land. More than
most of them. Everybody who owns a car wants to
see the season's styles. Everybody who does not
cwn a car wants to own one, and most of them ex
pect to. So the entire population is interested in
the show, and nearly all will try to attend at least
one session of the exhibit.
To these must be added the visitors who will
come in from all the country around. In the early
days of the industry a local dealer frequently got a
shock. Some man dressed in overalls or the equiva
lent would look over a high-priced car, fitted out
with all the appurtenances and fancy doodads, and
casually inquire the cost. On learning the figure, he
would produce a bulky roll of bills, count out the
sum, get into the car and drive away. This is an
old story now. Once an Omaha dealer had the re
markable experience of selling every car he had in
stock to these cash customers, so he had none to
exhibit.
The automobile is as much a part of American
life as any of its other commopplaces. Even so, the
dealers like to put on the show, to display their wares i
in a proper setting. And folks to whom an auto is '
no longer a marvel in any sense like to see the show. 1
So we may confidently look forward to a really busy
week at the Auditorium, where the newest and
brightest of cars and accessories will shine for all
beholders from Monday morning to Saturday night.
The chief clerk of the house of representatives
returns to the treasury of the United States $63,
t0fi.]9, unexpended balance of the legislative ap
propriation for last year. Who says the members
were not too busy playing politics to attend to busi
ness?
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If taxpayers would pay a» much attention to the
way their money is spent as they do to complaining
about the amount they pay, they might secure needed
relief.
James Joyce is now regaling ua with a discussion
of "the ineluctable modality of the invisible.” He
must be referring to the Monday morning remnant
of our Saturday pay check.
A San Francisco judge has held that a husband
is responsible if his wife breaks the law. Something
like a decision made back in the Garden of Eden.
Appropriation of $400,000 for the Omaha In
dians is described as a “Godsend” to the tribe. Even
Henry Ford would not ignore the item.
Senate will start working night* Monday. If the
senators had begun working days back in December,
the job would be over by now.
The boom of dynamite along the Platte river is
just an indication that the Union Pacific is trying to
anticipate the spring break-up.
Heat in the council chamber over the tramway
will not help. That is a business deal and should be
calmly considered.
Eighty millions in bonds were sold in 30 minutes
by the city of New York. It will take much longer
to redeem them.
The house did not need to pass the “pint" bill.
In Omaha for a long time the limit ha* been but half
a pint.
Another missing link skull has been found in
Africa? But why go that far?
Everybody who uses the roads ought to be wili
ng to pay for them.
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Homespun Verse
By Omaha's Own Poet—■
Robert Worthington Davie
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MOTHER AND GRANDMA TOO.
She used to sign her letlers—
“From Mother"—long sg«;
They were eurh kindly mlesives,—
So cheerful, and aglow
With sentiment authentic,
With tidings rich and fine—
There was a Jewel gleaming
From every written line.
Bong year* have psaeed her letters
fume frequently today;
The home to which they Journey
lias changed, I'm glad 1o any,—
Ami there ere children playing
About Incessantly—
Thev. loo, her letters welcome
With honest ecstasy.
Her words are Just as genial,
Her thoughts are Just a* kind
As when nf yore "from Mother”
tier tncasagee were elgned;—
Hut. now ehe adds a little—
A a ehe seems fain lo do
Her letter* rloee: "From Mother,
Anu jouf Granting to*”
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Got the Whole Family Stumped
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Chilli Ijilior.
Council RIutTs, la.—To the Fdltor
of The Omaha Bee: Mrs. William
Brown Meioney, editor of the lielliiea
tor, Hays in furtherance of the pro
posed child labor amendment that in
the rice fields of the south rhildreri of
tender age work knee deep In water,
■deprived of necessary schooling snd
protected surroundings. She also
| states that In the sugar heet fields of
the northwest little children, 7 years
old, work eight hours a day, and con
cludes by saving: "Refs pass the
proposed child labor amendment to
the end that we make this a land of
free children as well as a land of free
men."
You will observe that the advocates
of the proposed child labor amend
ment refrain from stating where these
evils exist, nor do thev produce any
evidence in support of their claims.
The writer as a hoy had experience
In the heet fields of Nebraska, as well
as In the rice fields and cotton fields
of the south, and can say from ex
lierience that no such conditions exist
as-la claimed by the advocates of the
child labor amendment.
The sugar beet growers and the rice
growers of the T'nlted States are on
trial before the court of putilic opin
ion. and it Is up to the advocates of
the child latior amendment to slate
where the alleged evils exist, snd sup
port their statements by witnesses
who have the cheerful haldt of living ,
In this world, or else stand committed
as falsifier*.
tVTLctlAM N. WAT.TKR. 1
Suggestion lo legislature.
Oetavln, Neb.—To tha Kdltnr of The
Omaha Bee: There la nothing that we I
aa a state are more dependent on
than transportation, whlrh Is In the
htyids or reach of the railroad*, ex-1
cept the weather. And nnxv, with the I
present prosperity that the road* noxv j
enjoy, and likely to, will enjoy, would !
It not he well for our legislature to ;
ask our representative men from the
entire state, with the aid of the gov
ernor. to ask a reduction in frejjcht
rates In a friendly way, and now,
without any political excitement,
would likely he listened to and come
to a better understanding. And there
are the passenger rates. See If thev
will grant n» a 2-cent mileage, that
would finally save u* from purchasing
thousands of autos, snd that amount
of money would finally go to th# Im
provement of real estate.
There are poor men with families
who cannot purchase a ill os and think
that 3 cent* l« loo much. Remember
It Is (lie poor man that made the
country, and 111 time of war saves the
country.
Then If mir leg Mature could In
aome way encourage tree planting,
whlrh la ao necaaaary all o\er the
state, especially In tha western part i
- r i
Abe Martin
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It’* hard enough t’ *ta,v awake in
any conference, but how an.vbuddy
kin keep from dozin’ off at an
opium parley i* mora’n we kin tell.
We no aooner git t' Wonderin’ how
*nme folk* kin own a car till we
read where they've gone t' Miami.
(Cepz>i«bi, 113k >
of the state. It Is not all together the
want of rain that the crops fall short,
but the hot winds; there is nothing
that will moisten the air like trees;
so, if possible, encourage tree plant
ing. SKTH VANDERKOLK.
Ton Many liiwn.
Stanton, Neb—To the Kditor of The
Omaha J?ee: I vote no. Our taxes
now are almost unbearable. And that
condition has been brought about in
the last 20 years through new laws.
It has created an endless and useless
lot of offices and salaries, and the
people are not benefited any. hut are
more restless and discontented on ac
count of this avalanche of “isms’* that
have been put on our statutes. If I
were a legislator and should receive
a petition containing less than 51 t»er
cent of the bonafide voters of ray state
I should throw it into the waste
basket. If it Is something worth
while to all the people there should
not he any trouble to get at least 51
per cent of the voters to sign it. What
we need is a legislature that will re
peal about 55 per cent of the laws
that have accumulated In the last 20
years, vote themselves a big fat sal
ary and adjourn for 2U years, and let
the people .one® more get acquainted
with the real American government
of Washington, Jefferson ami Lincoln.
Yours for sane things once more.
O. G. ItKVIKS.
Modern Miracles.
Valentine, Neb.—To the Kditor of
Tlie Omaha Bee: The Texas minister i
whom you mention In last Sunday's
editorial evidently needs a mental
shampoo. Have pity on the poor man,
he may have heard “the call of the
wild." If he wants to wear a "Moth
er Hubbard" in his pulpit and deny
his manhood, that is his business. If
his congregation will stand for such
buffoonery, that is their business. If
the people of tile state of Texas want
a woman governor, that Is their busi
ness. What the editor of The Omaha
Bee thinks about the Apostle Paul
being a rrusty old bachelor, is no
body's business. And w hat the Texas *
minister thinks about women in of-1
ficial places is beside the question con-1
reining women lwdng preachers. The!
am astral lines must have converged,
blended and become coaiescent in this
latest Texas product. Some say that
it took God a million years to make a
man of a monkey Behold the mod
ern wonder—a man who made an sss
of himself in one minute.
11 T. CLARK. I
Art Kxhibit.
"Have you seen the Hungarian
prints?"
"No: where is he? I didn't know
there was to be any royalty at this
affair."—latuisvllie Courier Journal.
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