The Omaha Bee
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LIMIT ON NATIONAL GUN-TOTING.
"hen tlie Geneva protocol went into the discard,
because England and the British Dominions declined
to adhere to it,the question of a conference on further
disarmament was practically referred to the United
States. President Coolidge is moving with com
mendable directness to the task of ascertaining the
disposition of other powers toward such a confer
ence. His instructions to Secretary Kellogg arc
direct, and should develop the attitude of the sev
eral powers.
Since the Washington conference, called hv Pres
ident Harding, much change has been experienced.
Naval limitations then agreed upon have hern faith
fully observed. But expansion of air power has
caused a great deal of uneasiness. ,Vt. the moment
England is disturbed to an unusual degree by the
determination of the tory government to so increase
ihe air fighting forces of the nation as to give it
superiority in the air as well as on the water. Japan.
France and Italy have driven steadily ahead in ac
cumulating fighting aircraft, and only the United
States has as yet declined to join in this race, which
exceeds in some ways the feverish competition for
sea power of the days just before the World War.
This phase of the armament question must he.
dealt with. At the Washington conference France
declined to consider the reduction of land forces, in
which the aircraft ara included. On the plea of
Briand, the discussion of this point was adjourned,
and action was restricted to naval armament. Land
armament is now as important, and has apparently
reached a stage as acute, as was the navy then. Not
only does the situation constitute a menace to peace,
but it places an economic burden on nations indulg
ing in the luxury of large land forces they can ill
afford. The patient, patriotic British taxpayer com
plains loudly against the program adopted hy the
Baldwin cabinet, while French, Italian and Japanese
people would welcome anything that will lessen the
load of taxation.
Japan’s recent treaty with soviet, Russia, in ac
cordance with the which the Sinclair concession for
oil in Sakhalin was annulled, stimulates resentment
toward the United States on account of the exclusion
policy. It is hinted that this will be made a factor
in any arms conference. We may dismiss that, for
purely domestic questions will scarcely lake much
time at such a consultation. It, is interesting, too,
that the Mackenzie-King note, transmitting Canada's
refusal to adhere to the Geneva protocol, laid much
stress on the traditional friendship between Canada
end the United States. The Dominion could not,
said the premier, consent to an agreement, one of
the sanctions of which might break if not destroy the
relations that have existed so long.
We believe the conference Mr. Coolidge has in
mind will do as much as did the Harding conference
to clear the way for international understanding.
GOOD FOR LOS ANGELES.
Roscoe Arbuckle, who came in for quite a bit of
publicity a year or so ago, is coming in for a little
more. Recently his wife secured a divorce from him,
over in Paris, so he set about to get married again.
Seemingly he had little trouble in finding a woman
to assume the position of bride, but this was the
least of his trouble*.
In the great city of Los Angeles he could not
find a minister or a magistrate who would perform
•he wedding ceremony. Consequently, his second
honeymoon is postponed. We do not doubt but
somewhere he will find somebody to say the words
that will make him a husband for another stretch.
The thing to be noted is that no properly authorized
person in Los Angeles would he a party to the pro
ceedings.
The outside world will he convinced by this that
a change has come over the spirit of the dream out
there. Marriage and giving in marriage has been a
rather loose sort of proceeding among the motion
picture folks. Sort of a till in between the lot and
something else. Divorce courts in various parts of
the world have been kept busy by them. Many kinds
of scandal have interested casual readers. Some of
it has been publicity, most of it ha* been nauseating.
So it is good to read that ministers and judges have
declined to write at least one additional line to the
unsavory record. The reaction will not hurt the
moving picture industry in the least, nor injure the
honest men and women who are engaged in the
business.
WHERE WAS HIS PHILOSOPHY’
A “well known philosopher” hanged himself it
his home in New York. No reason is assigned in
the new* dispatch. He probably “took up arm*
against a sea of troubles.” Rut. that will not an
swer the question that must, come up in the minds of
everybody who read* the item.
Philosophy is supposed to he the bridge that
helps the mind across the chasms of life. The crutch
I chat sustains in hours of adversity. A true philoso
pher is neither uplifted In prosperity, nor downcast
when hi* fortune* are evil. He has, or should have,
(the balance of mind, the equipoise of manner, the
egen outlook on life that, sec* neither the up* or
riowr.i. If he know* anything, it should he the
I emptiness of human ambitions, the uncertainties of
I human triumphs, the futility of human efforts.
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Philosopher understand how vain are pretenses that
bravely gesture of greatness and duration.
Knowing this, the philosopher should rise above
earthly consideration. For him, if for anybody,
V t |* tong and time is fleeting.
And nttr hearts, though stout nnd hrnve,
Still like muffled drums ate beating
Funeral marches to the grate."
In this knowledge he should gain a courage that
would make him superior to "the slings and arrows
of outrageous fortune," and enable him to wait with
patience for the summons that comes in time to all.
Why did he hasten to meet the unknown, when he
was surrounded on all sides by the unknowable?
Where was his philosophy, when he fame to face
the “great adventure"?
There is one place where faith surpasses wisdom,
"Though He slay nte, yet will I trust Him,” is the
profoundest philosophy ever spoken.
WHAT DOES PARTY MEAN?
In his reply to the information on which hi« oust
ing from the senate is sought, Smith W. Brookhart
brings out an interesting phase of the controversy.
He denies that he abandoned the republican party.
On his own declaration that hp stood on the princi
ples of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, he
presented himself to the voters, and by them was
placed on the republican ticket. No power of the
state committee, he avers, could remove him from the
ticket.
What constitutes a party? Is it an orderly or
ganization of men and women of similar minds, seek
'ng to attain a common purpose through united ac
tion? Or, is it a loose confederation of individuals
and groups, sueh as were the primitive tribes of man?
i Where one chieftain or warrior may, when moved by
<he spirit, carry on his private warfare? Against
his own confederation, if he so elects, and yel when
his own welfare, interests or convenience prompts,
return and enjoy the benefits that flow from the ex
istence of the greater agglomeration of individuals?
The republican convention at Cleveland was re
markable for several things, but particularly be
cause it expressed the will of the greal mass of the
voters of the party. It adopted a platform that in
no way departed from the principles of either Abra
ham Lincoln or Theodore Rooseveelt. Its candidates
were accepted by thp voters as standing squarely on
that platform. Yet, for his own purposes, Smith W.
Brookhart repudiated both nominees and platform.
While he did not, commit the overt act of actually
adopting La Follette as his candidate, he came as
closely to thp edge as he could without going over.
He attacked both Coolidge and Davis, and that left
very little choice.
Senator Brookhart is not the first Hawkeye
statesman to find himself at outs with his party. For
pxample, there was Gen. .lamps B. Weaver. Fifty
years ago that great leader in war and peace found
be rould no longer accept ihe platforms and candi
dates of the republican party. He did not attempt
1o get under thp canvas or through the door by dis
playing the party label. .Tames B. Weaver came
boldly out into Dip open and made vigorous warfare
against what he thought wa« wrong and what he con
sidered to he “right. He was sent to congress as a
preenbacker, not as a republican. Brookhart, ap
parently lack' th| moral courage that distinguished
W caver.
It i» an interesting coincidence that the demo
cratic candidate, who is contesting Brookhart's elec
tion, Daniel F. Steck, is a grandson of James B.
Weaver. He has shown something of his grand
father's quality of courage.
TENNESSEE TAKES UP ‘•TOPSY.”
Evolutionary scirnrp will no longer he taught in
ihe public schools of Tennessee. A law prohibiting
such instruction has just been signed by the gov
ernor. It is rather difficult to understand that in
this age and day of the world such a state of public
mind could exist.
Evolution means growth, the orderly develop
ment or unfolding of related ideas or events. It is
a process, not a fact. It goes on in all aspects of
life. Not merely the tracing of the probable descent
of man; all things in nature are concerned. Lan
guage is improved by a process of evolutionary
growth; the law, literature, art, religion itself all
have come tin to what we know and enjoy through
evolution. In the spiritual a< well as in the physical
world, its manifestations are numerous and un
mistakable.
Tennessee may be following Mr. Bryan in his
warfare against Darwin. If the Great Commoner
were as profound in biology as he is in Florida real
estate, for example, he would not have fallen into his
error. The so-called "Darwinian theory” was only
put forward in a tentative wav hv the great, natural
ist. Not a law, just an hypothesis, and science has
demonstrated with a fair degree of accuracy that
Charles Darwin was as far wrong one way as William
.lertnings Bryan probably is the other.
"The heavens declare the glory of God: ate! the
Armament showettt Itis handiwork: dav unto rtav
iiltereih speech, and night unto night eheweth
knowledge."
And in the firmament men read the processes
through which all the universe is passing. Bead it
to the glory of God, and in reverence to His handi
work ascribe unto Him dominion over all. Science
will not be diminished, by this anv more than it was
when the geocentric conception of the universe hail
to give wav to ^he heliocentric. Tennessee may go
rlong with Topsy, who insisted that she ‘‘just
grower!,'* and so be unique and lonesome. Progress
can not be stayed by man-made laws or creeds, for
it is the Divine order.
Homespun Verse
By Omaha's Own Poet —
Hubert W'orthinRton Dnvie
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PLAYING SAFE.
ftomellme*. I think, 'twill matter none
I low much of won I 1 chare
\\ hen day and toil and atrlfe are dona.
And far away 1* care;
And i usually I reck lea* yet,
And spend Imprudently,
KorK*ttlnR to perceive, and fi *•»
About ne« easily.
Home day. I know I will not need
These dollars I he v vv«M» t do
A single bit of good, I plead,
When life and work mi f Ihroiiuh;
They will avail me nothing then.
And in am It mood I vow
To live the life of many men.
\nd spend my curl wheel* now
Hot wlae old warning creep* ahum
I ft I line in save t ho da \ .
And !e||* tiie tlmt I'm doinii wiouk
Tn let them glide itvvny.
They w ill of course. he tieeb •« tv hen
The i all a rrlv on in *o
Tn Oalllee ll hope*, but then,
Tinti data 1 do not know.
“Fore” 1
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Norriii in I lie Sena I e.
York, Neb.—To tft* Kditor of The
Omaha lire: I do not wish to add to
1 he* propaganda, hut wish to rite Mr.
Norris a thing or two that he does
not seem to have heard from the radio
of events in the recent past, lie may
make light of the jolt the vie# presi
ilent gave the senate and < all reproofs
"propaganda.'’ arid snap his finger a’
his supporter s in a manner as to .-ay.
I am elected now and will do as 1
please, as niv vote of confidence gave
rue mandate to do." If that is what
he thinks, he has at least one more
think corning. His vote was not in
any sense an endorsement of his op
position to the president, but in spite
of that. We will give a litllg proof
of that statement.
Hilling the campaign last year I
saw a knot of men in town in quite
an animated propaganda ' mood, so
l just sidled around into hearing dis
lance And one **f the first things I
caught was from ,« prominent Herman
republican. He 'aid. I don't like
Norris vet v well for the wav ha mis
tn «ts his own i*arty, but ha whs op
posed to our enraging tire war. and
then he Is opposed to the I.eHgtia of
Nations, so I try to stand tire rest on
that account. Then the leader of
the democratic, hunch said ' I don't
like him or iris politics, nor for Ins
opposition to our entering the wai
I think he was wrong there bur he i*
against the league, and that a the
point with me. If our party had put
i p h no league man we could l»ea*
Him easy. Hut four years ago and two
v ea t s ago does not seem to warn our
par tv enough for it to even get a
hint.''
1 could prolong thi" "propaganda.
« ting*other cases for his benefit. Hut
W'hat Is tire use ’ He 1« joined to his
idols. If be had been elected for
six months instead of six veais we
would soon be done with him. Now.
there is another point 1 wish to ha mi
him. He rnav have overlooked the
fact that President Hoolldge was nonil
nated and elected hv the treopte of
tills country, and the only logical Idea
P carries hi connection with his own
is a mandate to run along with i *ool
idge Now a strong kick about the
kicking against the demoting of nr
rulv men In the senate, and I will
test my rase with the readers of The
Omaha Bee
Those outlaw* (political) and some
papers corning to their defense have
overlooked the viral point in this con
troversy. It Is not that t hev ran nr
rannnt vote with or again** the
i epiihlicu ns. It Is a law or rule
of the senate that the chair
manshlp of a committee. In case
of death or failure of re elec lion of
the i halrma n, the honor ami crown
fells to his net! older brother on the
committee, and under the rules he'
ha* so much power over the work of '
tile senate that the party elected o
■ eitain promises or platform Is t here
fore tesponalbl# to the people to put
[that through, and to let the opposi
tion have control of the works would
I»e like I’ershinff giving our box s' guns
and supplies to Germany. Would that
bunch think that right? No* So savs
KICK HU.
Grateful for Assistance.
Omaha To the Kditon of the
Omaha Bee I send this open letter
to you to try io thank you and the
t;ieat kind Bee family for the hon
♦•si effort you have given me and inv
loved ones, although I have not as
vet .secured steady work.
We are still trusting that some kind
person will give me a job.
While we wish especially to thank
I he Omaha. Hee fur its kindness, w *»
Tmist not neglect to publtcl.v thank
i hat kind man or woman who sent us
i he $5 check. It «.*anie at a time when
fir lent was due and our landlady
was verv worried for her rent. How
ever. she is now paid for one more j
week and we trust by that time some1
light work will cotne our wav
Since our first letter was sent you |
our oldest hoy has taken a h«o ksel
*ud i* under the doctors care and1
that of the nurse.
The doctor. Mr. TVlerson a ltd the
kind nurse. Mis. Brenenstall. will
gladly verify this The city hull em
plo\men! office has got rue two small;
job. sikI with ih. »lil of \nur klml1
1 paper we have managed to live. And
wp are in hope# that Me «an soon find
steady work.
A X »•: X i •() X VI * T A XI) FA M 11 A' OF
FI \ K.
I'rop \\ anted.
The negro janitor of a i li v ■ It iti
St. Louis had a violent temper. He
M^# converted, 1 ut sometime# his
i trmpel would get the best «»f hi.# good
le.solutions On on** o. ca#ion when
was repenting of one *-f h^- lapses,
he made thl^ prayer after he had
asked the laud to forgive* him: * <»
Lord, prop rue up on the leaning side.
- < 4hri*t .a n Wit ness
( autious.
Westerner—You s i v you found a
; rattlesnake in bed with von this morn
ing* Why didn't you kill it?
Faster nei I didn't pas much atten
tion to It. I thought 1 was just see
ing it' i.egion Weekly.
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I' lie bothered with h home after
he ({jt* dolled up. Th‘ (Treat, out
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Below Kurt Wurth, Tfi The Missouri, Kansas * Texas
niHv lie » rood railroad. Ihu well never ride It aaaln if *e 'i»
avoid It. For the first time In our Mfe we were lold we conldn t
nae a typewriter In our sleeper. It was after 10 a. m . too. It
would discommode others, we were told. There are three pas
settee is In the car. n woman who Is at the front end of the cat.
i man from Boston, and yours truly. Maybe It's the Pullman
company’s fault. We ll have to look Into the matter. If it I*.
well Pass a Kaw outline Pullman rales In half. If it is the
fa tilt of the M„ K. & T„ we'll broadcast a warning. Was going
to write some xood words about it, hut since we use a type
writer, how'n thunder could we?
If il were not for the red dav anil and acrul* oak grove*
a ride across Texas would be very much like a ride across Ne
braska. Same rolling prairies, same illimitable distances, same
far-off sky line. Texas is big. but it is only in size that Texas
excels Nebraska. Our agricultural output is greater than that
of Texas. But thev do produce a lot of oil down here, and they
have hundreds of miles of paved highways. One such has
been practically paralleling our track for the past three hours. j
Must lie getting clown Into the cotton belt. CJreat Adds
show the young cotton plants peeping above ground. We've
never raised cotton, but we do know a tiling or two about rais- j
ing tobacco. If there Is any harder work than raising and
curing a tobacco crop we never discovered It. Bosh, we can see
and hear those big green worms even yet.
Running into mid spr ing weather. The porter is opening
the window's and putting in the screens, 'frees in full leaf,
most of them. But there is something wrong. Haven’t seen *
single steer or row grazing, although there Is ample pasture
land. Couldn’t ride this far in Nebraska without seeing thou
j sands. Nobody in the car to ask about it. and if there was I’d j
be afraid to ask. There might be some rule against it. There
is the rule against using typewriters. They do ***em to have
peculiar ways down her#*. Am going to ask Mrs. Ma Fergu
son about it. Sh#» .« govettior. you know, if she !* responsible
for that typewriter rule were agin woman suffrage from
now on.
We did hope to talk 10 a few Texans on the car this morn
lug. hein? eager* to learn something about Texas politics, and
crop conditions, and prohibition enforcement. But nary a ,
Texan on hoard except the porter, and he's from Missouri. The
Pullman conductor is from St. Louis. Haven’t asked the sole
female jKrssenger where «he hails from. Kind o' glad there s
nobody to talk to, however. Am so mad about that typewriter
we d be pretty apt to swear if we started talking.
Texas must >>e short on Child Savers and Moral Fplifter*
For several hours we have been running through a cotton heir.
If we could see a river off to one side we might think we were
riding up the North Platte valley. The cotton fields look very
much like beet fields, and one see th»* shacks In which the cot
ton workers live. These shacks do not average up so well a«
the beer workers’ shacks, but each one houses more children.
But down heie the shark families are all negroes and each one
looks like a county picnic. But we look and listen in vain to see
or hear any professional uplifters weeping over the woe* of
the«e negro children. Doubtless the negro children would re
sent any interference. They are a ragged, happy looking and
anuarenflv well fed lot «• f kiddies.
Asked our fellow-passenger, the Boston man about prohibi
tion down east. Me said the only difference between now and
i then was that now the liquor was newer and more expensive,
otherwise things were about the same
“In the Heart of Texas is th* mono of Waco. After
listening e» erv night to the War© radio sration w# are Jn
. lined to believe 'haf the heart of Texas is darned close to Its
lungs. WILL M. MAFPIN.
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Flu Leaves Omaha Man
So Weak And Rundown
Couldn’t Do His Work
Morton Trie* Now Medi
cine, Karnak, And Now
Feel* Better And Strong
er Than In 12 Year*.
I
Tkouiaiid* upon (houmutd* who
have eia'flpal the fatal conaequeiu e e
• •f Influent have nevertheless found
thentaelvee broken in health, their
• 'Metn* depleted, atienglh ei haunted,
.•nd their endmntne gone
In an uphill fight foi renewed
health. anoiea have (ratified to hex
Hi* found the erlehra te I new toed
h Inr Karnak, the Meal restorative
for overturning this dreadful condl
tie Mi 1 K Morton, well known
piano builder, of 11T S uth St .,
ihnalt* **>•*
I ran! he too emphatic in mx
^nd.u.-emrnt of Karnak f«r 1 don t be
lt* x a this new medicine lias an equal
< xwhete Uefoie 1 gut Karnak l
" is Miffetinjg from the aftrt effect*
f the flu which had left me in vnch
a weakened condition, window n » «n
rt*U»n l itiiiMn l ooik in addition
hri K tri nrnoua ami »a»k
1 also auffrrrd from S«» on m'
alomai h. imllgratlon. blllouanra*
hoadachra. and l frit ao mlarrabl* 1
us! couldn't rot or slrrp. 1 frli »o
• hokrd up and wornout tha 1 hr*.*
to think mv ilmr waa about uu
"rll air a *,*^1 frirnd put me t
to Karnak and l could trll It *«'
helping tur from thr fust doar 1
hair takrit thirr Inntlra now and
frrl hcttri than I hair for Ihr hi'
iwclir ir.tr* Th* MrdW'tn*
srcmrd to hair horn madr rapr, a ll
for tin mar and It haa crilatnlv dour
thr \ioik for ma 1 frrl to* a u*
Hainan’ that It la thr htldsr that tv «
carrlrd mr aafrly oirr, and 1 hoi'r
thai nil statemrnt will hrlp to p
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