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OmahaulDhere the IDest is at its Best
GOOD ROADS LAW IS COMING.
Out of the legislature we may expect shortly to
see a law emerge that will move Nebraska a little
nearer the goal of good roads. Great and earnest,
and sometimes heated, has been the discussion of
this bill. Now that it is nearing the end of its jour
ney, the cooler counsel of the legislators is begin
ning to govern. All are not satisfied, perhaps, with
the measure, but all are agreed that a law of some
kind must be enacted. That is, if any progress is
to be made along the lines mapped out. If agree
ment were waited upon, the end might never be
reached.
When the bill passed the house, it contained a |
provision to split, the license fees 60-50 between
the state and the counties. In the senate this has
been changed. An amendment was adopted that
will give the counties VO per cent of all license fees
collected, and turn 30 per cent over to the state.
It is the understanding that the gasoline tax and
the 30 per cent of license money will be used by
the state to match dollars with the federal govern
ment in the construction of the trunk line highways
projected. If the gasoline tax provides a sum in
excess of what is needed to meet the federal con
tribution, it will be apportioned among the counties.
The basis for the provision is one-third on account
of area, one-third on account of the number of cars
registered, and one-third on the length of postroads
in the county.
From the license funds it is estimated Ihe coun
ties will receive $4,500,000. This sum is to he ex
pended in the construction of “market" roads. That
it, improved highways of the line of the trunk roads,
but which will in time be connected with them. Serv
ing the farmers first as providing access to markets,
and then serving through the general network that
in time make up the highway system of the entire |
state.
The encouraging feature of the situation is that
the legislature has felt the impulse that is common
throughout the state. Nebraskans are waking up to
the need of better roads. Also, the understanding
is becoming general that a unified system of high
ways is the only system that will meet requirements.
This cannot be provided by haphazard construction,
nor by wealthy counties looking after their own
and leaving the others to shift as best they may.- It
is only to be secured when the state acts as a whole.
Some part will have to be served first, and some
other last, but in time all will be benefited by the
completion of the program.
QUEER TURN OF THE LAW. ;
Te„\ Rickard, world’s greatest prize fight impres
sario, with four accomplices, has been found guilty
of transporting films of pictures of a prize fight. A
lot of folks will say "Amen!” most fervently to this
belated vindication of the law.
Yet Mr. Rickard might have, and indeed has,
"ransported the fighters and the fights from state to
state, and nothing has been said as to the legality of
rhe proceedings. He has exhibited Mr. Jack Pemp
sey in his great act in Indiana, Montana, New Jer
sey and New York. Ju«t now he is planning for an
exhibition in California. He might, if he would,
make a show in Nebraska. It would be no more of
an offense against the law for the champion of all
champion bruisers to clout an opponent around a
ring in Omaha than it is for local favorites to in
dulge in similar proceedings, which they freely do.
tyhat will cause a grin on the countenance of
any who thinks is the origin of the law that just has
caught Rickard and his coadjutors in its coils. Not
many years ago a large, robust negro, punched an
equally large but not so durable a white man into a
state of coma, out in Nevada. In ofder that the
white race might rest undisturbed in its supremacy,
a bill was hastily prepared and rushed through con
gress, forbidding the passage of prize fight pictures
through interstate commerce. If (he negroes never
saw the pictures, they would not find out that Jack
Johnson had defeated Jim Jeffries. Simple, wasn’t it?
So, now that prize fighting is one of our politest
indoor sports, attended by women as well as men,
indulged freely everywhere, it is vet a crime to shyw
a prize fight picture. Ni. wonder the hrerd of scoff
laws is increasing in the United States,
SOUR MILK AND LONG LIFE.
Many years ago a Chicago druggist introduced a
drink he said was compounded of fermented marp'a
milk. It tyas to nid digestion, forestall disease, and
ward off approaching ago. And it was vesy popular.
Soon there were not enough mares In the land to
provide milk for the making of koumiss. In time
the drink disappeared, along with other wonders of
the kind. Then Prof. Klie Metrhnikoff visited Bul
garia and came back with the tales of the marvel
lous old men he had encountered. Many centenar
ians were vigorous and virile, because they daily
partook in generous quantities of a specially soured
milk.
The Bacillus Bulgaricus took itn place >in the fa
miliar pharmacopeia. Many drank liberally of the
milk, but somehow or other death and disease re
mained a common lot of man. Scientists demon
strated that the b. h. did possess certain qualities
that were efficacious in regulating the course of na
0
ture, even assisting in definitely limited situations.
The Metchnikoff hug was not the cure-all, however.
Now. Prof. Leo H. Rettger of Yale comes to the
front with a successor to Bacillus Bulgaricus. He
has been experimenting for ten years with Bacillus
Acidophilus, to be administered with milk, and finds
that it does many if not all the things worth doing
that were claimed for the Bulgarian bacillus, and
does not do some of the unpleasant things the for
eigner achieved. He does not claim that it will in
sure life without end, hut that it will aid in making
existence supportable hy removing, many of the
causes of old age.
Some day the fight will be won. Just as man
begins on milk, so he will end. Soured or fermented
by the addition of Bulgaricus, Acidophilus, or some
other bug with a Latin name, milk will be the sup
port and sustenance of declining years. Then we will
have cults opposed to the drinking of milk.
NOT ALTOGETHER A MYSTERY.
One thing is very clear in connection with the
measure that was intended to stop the jail feeding
graft in Douglas county. The bill lodged in the
hands of the senate committee on miscellaneous
affairs, from which group it was returned to the
senate without recommendation. How it got to
that committee may be something of a mystery.
Clyde Bernard, veteran clerk of the senate, admits
he is a little hit nonplused at the incomplete record.
He declines to commit himself as to responsibility
for the omissions that conceal the persons who were
interested in having the measure sent to the com
mittee where it has been located.
In the dear old days it was not an uncommon
thing to have a measure lost between one house and
'he other, or to disappear from the file, or some
thing like that. Modern practice is supposed to safe
guard against such mishaps. So the missing meas
ure, in which there is considerable public interest,
was located in Senator Tom Dysart's rapacious pock
et. It has been brought out of there, and before
long the senate will be given a chance to deter
nine as to its merits. Senator Hoye is interested
m the matter, for he offered in the senate a com
panion bill to the one passed by the house. He will
not let the time slip by without an effort to get ac
tion on this measure which means so much.
We know that Sheriff Endres is able to muster a
considerable array of support, at least outside the
senate, for his side of the case. He has his friends.
They have already shown their power. Maybe they
will he able to defeat this bill, and permit the con
tinuance during the remainder of Endres’ term of
the jail feeding practice that turns such a tidy net
income into the sheriff's pocket each year. If it is
to be defeated, however, it ought to eftrne on the
floor of the senate and not in the file of one of its
committees.
SOMETHING TO EAT.
When a Chicago poet sang of “Omaha, with a
dirty face, getting the world's breakfast," he was
on the track of truth. He might have omitted the
“dirty face,” for Omaha is fairly clean, physically
snd morally. No metropolis smiles.more benignly on
•he visitor, none gives its people more of comfort
pnd reason for content. But Omaha certainly does
contribute to the world's breakfast table. I.ast year
the Omaha food factories prepared and sent out for
consumption foods valued at $254,083,120. To this
must be added food distributed by wholesale houses
nere amounting in value to $123,522,725. A total of
81,034,810 worth of food supplied the world each
day of the year from Omaha.
Included in this are meats, fruits, crackers, bread,
pies, macaroni, ice cream, jellies, sauces, jams, and
all sorts of things that satisfy hunger or tempt the
appetite. A great stream of provender, going out
steadily to meet the requirements of the world, that
continually asks for more. The development of this
Industry, hardly out of its swaddling clothes, is a
romance in itself. It is a tribute to modern ef
'iciency. Omaha is a natural place for such indus
tries. It is the center of the world's most fectind
area, a region that each year, as regularly as the sea
sons roll round, produces and sends to market more
food material than any other similar area in the
world.
It is natural, then, that.much of this raw ma
terial should be prepared for use here. More of it
will be, as time gaps on. Omaha has come up to be
tirst butter market, the second livestock market and
the second meat packing renter. Other industries
must follow suit, and the day will yet come when
this city will send out. every day more foodstuff than
any other community in the world. When that day
comes it will be fulfilling destiny.
Now it. is reported that Vice President Dawes is
going to take his rase to the people. But why in
dict the people in order to get even with the senate?
Japan is buying lumber in America with the
great woods of Siberia only a few miles away.
Where is the soviet efficiency?
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W. E. D. Stokes’ lawyer says his client is "a
darned old fool,” but the public reached that con-i
elusion long ago.
If you intend to indulge that impulse to dig in
the dirt, now is the time to get the old spade and
rake oiled up.
The Pullman company alleges that it loses a half
million towels a year. But just look at the sleep
we’ve lost!
Douglas county resident* are "excused" from
service as federal juries. We mint, indeed, be a bad
lot.
Idea seems td be to make prohibition obnoxious
rather than effective.
The one sure thing about the McClintock rase is
that Billy is dead.
However, pocket flasks still come in’sixes smaller
than a pint.
Gentle spring still is acting rough.
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Homespun Verse
By Omaha's Own Poet—
Robert Worthinftton Davie
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SIGNS OF SPRING.
rKhe trees are showing signs of Spring;
The wind that gently hlowa or Mining
Is mingled with the e< lining song
t>f some warbler on the wing.
The grass In subtle Infancy
< n» southern sun struck sJopea appears.
And lists attentively and hears
The season s glorious prophesy.
The creeks are filled with winter's deed,
And everywhere along the way
Past melting snows hi low spots stray
To creeks and rivers far ahead.
A leaf of Iasi year swirls along
The rushing current: I behold
The dawning of a Spring of old,
Ami hear another warbler • song.
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“The People’s Voice’’
| Editorial* from Rradtn of The Eve
ning Bee. Reader* of The Evening Bee
are invited to use this column freely
for expression on matters of public
interest.
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Punishment fur Murder.
Battle Creek, Mich.—To the Editor
of The Omaha Bee: Jn Literary Di
gest of March 14, page 38. 1 notice in
I Never Mad a Chance," .statements
In regard to a Ilf-year-old youth,
which-statements 1 would not contra
dict. This youth had probably all the
• hance that one generally would call
a chance.
But may I he allowed to make a
few remarks?
Is not crime fostered in a diseased
| or undeveloped body? So we are told
continually.
Added to this comes heredity, which
sometimes makes its appearance in
i he third, fourth or even later gener
ations. Is the youth altogether to
blame for £pd making more or faster
progress?
May I make a comparison with
more intelligent people, men with
thinking and reasoning capacities,
that are. may T say, addicted or slaves
to oigarets. tobacco, nicotine, mor
phine or other drugs, or Hie slaves to
alcoholic liquors, or to still baser in
diligences, of which one scarcely dare
mention in public—how easy is It
for those to lay aside to what they are
thus addicted to? Yet they are will
ing and ready to condemn a youth
that has made no quicker progress!
Again: As the Greek jioets truly
have said, that we are the offspring
of the Kternal, who liveth forever,
and who gave as Mis sentence in re
gard to the first recorded murderer,
t'aln. that he who slew Cain was to
be avenged seven-fold? Me 1* the
same today as He was yesterday, and
will be the same tomorrow'.
And as St. Paul, says: "Jlow be it?
The spiritual was not first, but the
physical, and afterwards the spirit
ual." Man deals with but the physi
cal, the outward shell, but the Eternal
with the spiritual or the real man.
As the great Master of l.flOO years
ago said: "Ye know that it has been
said: Eye for eye; tooth for tooth; hut
it shall not he so among you."
The meting out of the seven-fold
punishment by the Eternal will be
meted out by Him in the spiritual
• late that follows after dissolution of
this physical, and which state no hu
man being that ever lived will be able
to escape.
Life imprisonment, that means w hat
it says, would he by far most ap
propriate punishment, giving the vic
tim sufficient time to eradicate the
poison out of his system and prepare
for a spiritual life that is to follow,
and would relieve judge and juror
from a sentence which thev do not
desire to he placed against them, that
is the seven fold punishment.
A. C. MEYER.
Solves One Problem.
Omaha.—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: The auto parking prob
lem and the street car company's
problem would seem to have a common
solution without special need of even
furnishing the suggestion.
The Standard Oil company does a
very large business and would not
miss or begrudge the money to keep
7-cent fares on Omaha street carp.
As a leverage in economic conserva
tion, patronizing this branch of pub
lic service, should l*car fruit in mutual
benefits. A READER.
'“listening in'
On the Nebraska Press
v__/
Noting that a New York legislator
proposes a law prohibiting rros* word
puzzles, Kdltor Curran of the Hreeley
citizen throws up his hands in despair
and asks. “For goodness sake, ain’t
they popular enough without a law
prohibiting them?”
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The Crete Yidette has just cele
bra ted its r» 41 h anniversary. 1'nder
the editorial management of tieorge
Wright the old Yidette is going strong.
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The Sidney Knterprise so vs the
hanks of tiiat city ha v withdrawn all
ud vertisements from Sidney news
papers and retired from membership
In the Business Men's association.
This withdra\va 1 business sometimes
proves to have two shies.
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Mrs. Selma J. Israel has taken lip
the editorial work laid down by her
deceased husband. Will C. Israel, and
will chi rv on as editor and publisher
of the Havelock Post. Always the
I al and helpmate of her husband
Mrs. Israel is equipped for the work,
and the profession will rejoice at
* very evidence of her success.
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"It s about time for the road mak
log authorities to begin planning the
season s detours.” sighs Allan May In
his Interesting department of the Au
burn Herald.
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Fred Howard of the Clay Center
Sun admits that he prefers the In
felligence w hich prompts people to j
scratch when they itch to the refine
rnent which makes them suffer In
silence.
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Kathleen Norris savs "the flapper
i« passing." and Charley Cross of the
ScottsblulT St#r Herald says he
thought so ftecause there were so
manv young cake eaters lined tip
along the curb.
(•nod Fishing.
Davis—How's flie fishing In this;
la ke**
Kober—The best possible. T never
say anyone anywhere else In tin
world do as much fishing as they dm
here. In proportion to the fish the\
iatch. Wilson Kvery Kvening.
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Abe Martin
A feller's usefulness frei|iiently
ends when lee gi'ts an assistant.
We'll never lake’ mu eh interest in
surgery 'till they kin reinforce hark
hones,
rl|lit.
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Fellow Artists Side With
Ex-Omaha Artist on Stand
Over Confederate Memorial
G lit/on Borglum. noted sculptor,
who recently defied the commission
that retained him to carve the fa
mous Stone Mountain confederate me
inorial, is put under the x-ray l>y
his feilownipn of art in the current
issue of the Literary Digest.
The artists, as reported bv the
Digest, view the squabble from var
ious angles, but in the whole there
is hii apparent leaning to the side of
Mr. Borglum, who once lived in
Omaha. Mr. Borglum'* brother and
sister, August M. Borgluin, 2fJ6!
Douglas street, and Mrs. Alfred Dar
low. .107** Mason street, live here.
August Borglum said the only di
rect communication either he or his
sister have had concerning the dis
agreement came from Mrs. Borglum.
This letter he declined to discuss. So,
let the story come from The Digest:
Putting out of count such questions
as the law may administer in respect
to the continuation of the creation of
the confederate memorial with or
without Mr. Borglum’s help, we have
sought opinions from his fellow ar
tists and sculptors and their answers
shed much interesting light on the
question of I lie artist's relation to his
work. The answers we receive to
our telegraphic Inquiry for the most
part tend toward sympathy with the
sculptor.
In some instances there is pleaded
i lack of sufficient data for judgment,
but even in such eases our reply from
i he painter, John Sloan, president of
the “Independent Artists,” furnishes
an example of the “inclination to fa
vor the artist s side of the argument
until I find that he is in the wrong.’’
Anther painter, William (Darkens, is
disposed to the view that the question
is a purely legal one—“about a broken
contract, each side accusing the other
of being delinquent.” The ordinary
processes of the Jaw, think* Mr.
(Slacken*, should decide "whether Mr.
i Borglum had any right to destroy the
models and plans.’’ Mr. darken*’
implication is that this should not
present a difficulty, since, In his view.
■ the whole proper! seems to he a
huge building operation and not at all
gigantic in an esthetic sense." Among
the sculptors who ha\e replied, Mr.
George Grey Barnard point* out that
"sculptors are only interested in the
[art, that is. the creative value of the
clay or plaster models. The enlarge
ment of these models to so vast a
size belongs to the machine, the
pointer, the engineer. The scale con
templated necessitates large sums of
money ” Mr. Barnard s brief tele
gram may he enlarged by a quotation
from an interview he gave to the New
York Herald Tribune._Jn which he a I
l**ge« that “lack of appreciation of art
and ignorance of the needs of artists
are the reasons for the treatment ac
corded to Borglum.’* He goes fur
t her:
"It i* obvious that Mr. Borglum Is
[the only sculptor competent and will
ing to build the memorial. He de
voted months of preliminary study to
the task. He had two objects in view
—first, to overcome the tremendous
physical difficulties in carving the me.
inorial out of ihe granite mountain,
and. second, to create an artistic work
that would s\ mhnlize the spirit of the
[south by portraying in stone the hero !
| ism of the confederate soldier*. It
was a thing hitherto unheard of for]
a victor to recognize and perpetuate
the committee lays itself open to the
Inevitable disappointment that is at
tend.ml on stressing; quality Instead
of quality.
‘ It is plain, that what the commit
tee wants is not so much the best pos
sible example of an artist's work, as
a representation of their favorite
southern heron* on a grandiose scale,
and they will scaicely find any sculp
tor of standing who would he willing
to step in and complete the remain
ing acreage at any price, and, for a
work of art, measured by the square
foot, it hasn't been so extravagantly
paid for after all!'*
We have a larger ntimber of re
plies from painters than from sculp
tors; though it Is only fair tn say
that some who answered preferred to
express no opinion on a ait nation that
undoubtedly offers opportunities for
misinterpretation. Turning to the
painters we begin with the veteran,
Mr. Will If. Low. who sees the larger
Implications involved:
“One may disregard all the various
accusations on both sides, may con
ceive, as shown by his past contro
versies, that Mr. Korglum is difficult
to get along with, and may smile at
the self Important committee that
thinks it can hire and dismiss an ar
tist as they would a lackey, but the
question is not there You may in ef
fect hire an artist to do a definite
piece of work, but. the contract once
made, you are committed to that par
ticular artist for* the completion of
the work in which he has inherent
rights of conception that govern and
control his execution in a manner
that, should he himself wish it, lie
could not transfer to another. In this
wav the artist is bound to his task
as firmly as those who employ him
are bound to permit him to carry it
on and Inish it. So that the an
nounced intention of the Stone Moun
tain association to employ another
sculptor is not only silly but futile, it
simply could not be done, even if any
reputable sculptor could be found who
would undertake it. Likewise the in
tent! »n of the association to ask the
finance commission to c hoose another
sculptor to go on and complete Mr.
Korglum'* work is equally absurd, as
f venture to say, knowing that the
distinguished artists and architects
forming the finance commission would
simply dec line such a proposal. The
quarrel a.* It stands Is evidently be
tween a body ignorant of the first
principle on which a work of art is
based and a sculptor at outs with
them, but well aware tint If the*
Stone mountain has relief is ever fin
ished according to his conception and
designs, he and no other will do it.
Otherwise it never will he done. So
perhaps it is ** well to let them and
the newspapers fight it out.”
Mr. Charies \V. Hawthorne, another
painter, is in virtual agreement with
some things in Mr. Low's telegram,
and he also points out that so large
a principle is here involved that the
legal profession as well as the artist
cannot help hut he interested:
"It >eems to me that this question
will have m do with perhaps the sen
timental question of the artist s right
in his work, Irrespective of the con
tracts. moneys received, or other
business arrangement. When Whis
llej said of an Impatient patron. The
fools, just because they pav for them,
they think they own them.' perhaps
he wns not sn much being funny as
enunc iating a gr$at truth. "
me heroism or me vanquished.
“Now. what an artist need* when
he begin* a work of that kind is to l*e
freed from care*. Up should he given
leisure to dream his dream and plenty
of money to pay workmen to carry out
his dreams. What was done at At
lanta? As T understand it lie whk
given $50,000. which was a mere pit
tance for an undertaking of that kind,
lie should have been provided with 10
times that amount.
“1 feel, like many other sculptors,
that Mr. Borglum has not been fairly
dealt with. If he does not complete
the confederate memorial, It never
will be completed.’*
Mr. F. \V. Huekahil!, who has ere
ated considerable memoiiat sculpt me
the confederate monument at Haiti
more being one. offers a definite pro
gram that will he read with Interest:
“Whatever irritating peculiarities
Borglum may have displayed while
making the Slone Mountain <’onfed
crate memorial, here is what should
be done: First, force Belgium back
on the job: make him supreme *« to
carrying out his original design, and
frive him to make complete small
working models so they can be ear
ned nut in rase of his death. Second,
have a new honorary committee of
the governors of all the sotithein
states: have h paid subcommittee of
three to watch over the carrying out
of the original contract; give Borglum
every assistance to a quick termina
tion of the work. Third, as this
memorial n n have no reason for
existing except as a national homage
to the valor, self sacrifice, and endur*
.m<e of I^*e. .lacksun, Davis, and the
southern army and people during and
lifter the civil war. and which UhImv
honors all America, lei all our people
subscribe their mite towards this
memorial so p* to make It a na
tionally unifying force. and when fin
ished let the president, his cabin**!,
and the governors of all the slates,
honor the sooth by being present st
the unveiling.**
A very vivacious telejrram comes
from another sculptor. Miss Ahss
tenia St. I,. Kberle, who hold* the
scales fairly for both sides, hut sees
the prills of o'er leaping Olv mpus:
In engaging to supply an by the
square void, nr acre rather, it Is
scar* efv surprising; that Mr. Hm glum
should fail to fill successfully the
various roles that in- undertook. In
ventor of the Idea, promoter, fund
i alsrr. ovei **er of works, as well as
artist who could give satisfaction lit
so man \ capacities’ (tn the ol in i
hand, In Irving to huv art bv the acre
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SOLONS MUST TAKE
INCREASE IN PAY
Washington. March 2 Comptroller
(•eheral McCarl. w hom* ruling* *o |
often hav* tightened government
pur*e strings, now b\ another rigid
construction of law has decided that
inenil>ers uf congress must accept the
recent boost |>i n pa> they voted. In
i tie same ruling, however, the comp
(roller held there was nothing to pre
clude representatlx es and senators
from returning any part of their sal
ary as acquittance to the government
if the' did not wish to retain it.
Mu ’m i s opinion in the mutter was
sought by J. (I. Rodger*, sergeant at
ftrrns of the house, who asked what
lie should do *w hen a member declined
to accept the Increase. The comp
troller advised that the rate of pay
fixed by law must he accepted and
that only one check could he Issued
each "pay day" otherwise, he said,
heirs or representatives of jfciv mem
her thus declining a part of hi* pay
could at any time make a claim for it.
Several memltera of the house have
taken the position, Rodger* informed
the comptroller, that they should he
paid at the former rate of $7.500 a
veor. and asked for checks on that
instead of the new $10,000 !>asi*. One
member, he said, had declined to sign
the |m> lull because the increase was
inctud ed.
'I'll irt«***n Killed in
Fast Train Collision
New Orleans. March 22 Thirteen
I persons h»st then* h\*x in a wreck
eirlx todav when two fust mail train*
• >f the Southern Pacific collided during
a fug st Rlcohoc, 1 m . between Frank
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I do not want a fortune great?
1 do not seek the cares of Mate
With all their glitter and their glare
And wic ked schemes afloat In air.
I do not yearn for |>o\ver or pl.o •
Nor would l take part in the race
For gold—I only ask that I
May how' good will while passing by.
And that when I am laid below
The cool, green sod where daises grow,
Some one will pause a bit. and thru
Declare: "He helped his fellowmen. ’
I do not covet mansions - •ud.
Nor acres broad on every hand.
I do not yearn for jewels b it ht
To dazzle my poor neighboraV -•'»?.
| 1 do not yearn to take command
And order men on ev’i y hand -
And order men on ev'iy hand—
J only ask that I may go
Along a roaji where flowers blow.
And dying, have men pause and . v.
"lie scattered sunshine all the way."
Let others dig and delve for gold;
\ J.et others place and i.ovvn hold:
Let others with a. lord I v air
Stand forth within the limelight glare
Let others trade on hopes and f* i!~.
And profit hy the sobs and tears
of those thev wreck. I onlv as!;
The strength to do each daiL ta.-k:
Then homeward go with In ert elite
And greet mv loved one* it the r e. ;
Then, dying, have men pause a while
And say: "He gave the World a smile.
We feel perfectly safe in offering cb venteen thousand dol
lars reward for the identification of the senator or emigres"- ^li
man who voted for the salary grab bill. We have watched
the papers carefully and to date every member of congress in
terviewed has declared his undying opposition to the increase.
They did not want It: they d’d not vote for it: it make® them
angry to think of being forced to accept an additional $2,500 a
year. But what can they do about It? If the house and sen
ate page* conspired with the doorkeepers and janitors to force
this increased salary on the poor members of congress, they
j acted in a nmet reprehensible manner, and they should be
severely chided.
We've heard of the men who was so od he had to
sleep in a houndhou«e, and of a not ho man who w •« so
crooked he could walk straight up i al st.iirv. iy. The
Kansas City Star tells of a man who Is so crooked that
when he dug a well he fell out of it.
In the new ' Shorter Bible ’ all reference to wine has been
deleted save In tho**> cases wherein a warning is issued
j against the abuse of it. We make no objections to thi*. Rut
| we are contemplating taking up the task of writing a shorter
Bible in which all reference to dancing will be changed to
“promenading.” We have p.« ~*ed the age when dancing ap
peals to us. In our shorter Bible there will be no refe nre
to Uideon or Moses or Joshua a* warriors, because we are
past middle age. Inclined to obaeitv and short of wind, hense
not Interested in war or fighting. By the time all the«e Pro
fessional 1'plifters and Habitual Reformers get through w h
revising the Book of Books there won t be enough left to keep
the covers apart.
By the way. have you ever been caught In the position
where \oii had to doll up In a hurry and found that the only
razor blade in sight was one that had already been used twice?
N K B R A SKA LI M K RIF K.
A man out in Superior
Had pains in his interior.
II*» thought 'twin* flu
So drank home brn
That made him feel inferior.
A community can make no faster progress than i;* b !
ers. hut the followers ran crowd the heels -»f those who I.
The man who worries about his yesterday* Is the man _
who puts off until tomorrow the task* that should be done ^
today. WILL M. MAFPIN.
lin and Patterson. Four of the dead
were white men. the others negro
p;»-singer*1. Five were seriously in
jured.
A* cording to an official report.
Number 12. eastbotind, ran by a si*:
nal in a fog and clashed into Num
ber 199, westbound, ab about 3 a. m
The dead included Frank Stafford,
newsbutcher: K. I>. Fonery, engineer,
and Frank Xebily, fireman of Num
ber 109: August Aupmat, luggage
master of Number 12. and nine negro
passengers.
Others tiding on the trains were
shaken up.
The Inniies of the dead were t<ken
to Kranklin, where an inquee- vs -
conducted late today. The injured
sseie taken to Pattereon.
>iiar|> karlli Tremor* \re
Recorded for I liree Hour*
Chicago, March 22.—Sharp earth
tremors, lasting msire than three
home, were recorded on the seismo
graph at the University of Chicago
early today. Knited States weather
bureau officials announced. The slis
turbanoe. at a distance of about S.T'.u
miles of Chios go, was reco: -e-1
at 2:aT a in. and continued until 6:41
i In., they said.
-"h
Goldberg’s Cartoons
For Bee Readers
\Ve take pleasure in announcing that the
famous cartoons of R. L. Goldberg will ap
pear daily m i he
Omaha Bee begin
ning April 6.
Mr. Goldberg has
been one of the
highest paid of all
newspaper artists
for ten years, and
we believe that our
readers will be
highly entertained
by his cleverness
a n d originality.
His work is
unique. He has
never borrowed an
idea from any
-tuner cartoonist
and his style is altogether his own.
Mr. Goldberg has originated manv fam
ous series, including Foolish Questions
Father Was Right. They All Uok Good’
\\ hen They’re Far Away and the Tuesday
Ladies l lub. Among his present-day suc
cesses are Life’s Little Jokes, Think of
1 his Guy, and Radio Ravings. *
Look for the cartoons beginning
April 6
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