• jirfftiTiurriT area 2 kJLOnO RIALS.. ruhlishxi Every ratuiday at 2‘il8-20 Grant Street, I'mnha. Nebraska Phones W Flatter 1517 or 1518 Eniere.l m See, ml CIpkb Matter March 15, 1927. at the Postoffice at OmariM N«‘b. umteiAct of Congiwa of March 3, 1879. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR Race prejudice must gu. The Fatherhood of God and the Firolher hsH n| Man must prevail. I hese are the only principles which will |in*i«t 'hi- »• id (es( iif good. All News Capy of Churches and all Organizations must be in our offii e not later than 5:00 p. m. Monday for current issue. All Adver * tising Copy or Paid Articles not later than Wednesday noon, preceed ing date of issue, !o 'nsure publication. SURVEYS THAT SAVE LIFE ANI) MONEY Few pi (i|ile know that there is an organization, with head quarters in New \ ork City, that sends its engineers to cities throughout Am lira lor the purjioso of making surveys that save lives and property and jet, does not make a charge for this service. This organization is the National Board of Fire Un derwriters. Kuril one of the engine rs sent out to a city is an acknow ledged expert in that part of the survey in which he engages. These engineers inspect buildings, groups of buildings and 1 wholx* blocks to ascertain the possibility of a sweeping fire, and 1 are thus aide to bring the “ionflagration breeders” to the at tention of til*, authorities. They inspect and test the fire appar atus in all stations and gauge the efficiency of the personnel of Ihe firemen. Also, the supply and pressure of water are in sp3 are against it. While 250 editors believe that hVdleral idee- 1 trie developments are justified as a national necessity, over 900 i think they are unjustified. Contrasted with 891 editors who op posed the wholesale death sentence for holding companies, only 210 approve it. Most important of all, perhaps, only 157 editors believe that government or municipal ownership of the electric industry would give more progressive, efficient and cheaper service—tax es and public subsidies considlered, against 947 who feel other wise. It is very probable that these percentages showing an over whelming opposition to any socialistic trend that would put the i government into business to the injury or destruction of pri- i vate enterprise, represent the general feeling of informed citi- i zens. It was not accidental that in the last election voters turn ed thumbs down on proposed local measures to put various states into business. The American people, for example, realize that the private electric industry, under public regulation, lias been one of the most beneficial and progressive influences in our social and industrial life—and they likewise sense the mani fold dangers that inevitably follow when bureaucrats are given eontrol or management of an essential business. These answers of editors provide an illuminating and val uable commentary on one of the most discussed questions of the time. They are encouraging to thos*e who feel that private en terprise is better than socialism, and that the role of govern ment iu business is properly that of umpire and not, a favored participant. EARNED SOCIAL SECURITY It would seem that, “social security" is destined to be a po litical issue for a long time to come. Within the parties there is considerable internal dissentiou as to what is the proper pro gram to pursue. In the meantime millions of American citizens are quietly and effectively achieving social security for themselves without benefit of government. They are setting up trust funds and saving accounts. They are buying life insurance in unprecedented amounts and more and more of the insurance is sold of the annuity type which pro vides old-age income as well as protection for dependents. This is not an argument against government social security which is believed to be a compelling need of the time. It is, how ever, a tribute to that old type of. American independence which guards against the future through individual thrift, foresight and good hard work. ] ANNOUNCE FEDERAL POLICY The first statement of the president as to the future poli cies d*alt with. the problem of the Federal deficit. Air. Roose velt, in a brief announcement, said that he believed it would soon be possiblt to balance the budget and that he intended to do so at the earliest possible moment. Various commentators, some of them close to the White House, anticipate that the budget will be balanced by the end of the 1937 fiscal year which starts next July. It is doubtful if any act of the President and the Congress would do more to restore confidence in our government's fi nancial structure, or to stimulate industry and investors. Once the budget is balanced- and kept balanced—we will know the Federal debt will grow no larger. And, with a balanced budget, we can apply ourselves to the trcmemluous task of reducing the debt to a more normal level. That, obviously, cannot be done so long as the government spends more than it receives and charg es the difft rence against the future. It has been Mr. Roosevelts opinion that during a time of depression a country should spend far beyond what it receives and, once a reasonable amount of recovery is not'd, reduce out go and return to a business foundation. The current condition indicates that the time is here when business ought to make emergency spending unnecessary. PRESIDENT TO SOUTH AMERICA At this writing President Roosevelt is on the way to the Inter-Aineriean peace conference at Buenos Aires, where he will make a speech the first day and then return. He was pre ceded south by an imposing American delegation headed by Secretary of State Hull—implacable fighter for better commer cial and diplomatic relations between countries. There has been considerable discussion concerning the value or the futility of the futility of the conference. Some point out with truth, that there is no danger of a war arising in North or South America, that Europe and the East are the danger spots. However, it is the President’s belief—which is shared by many—that if nations of the Western Hemisphere show Europe that a round-table discussion can lead to friendly settlements md agreements, some progress toward world peace will be made. \nd it is likewise believed that if the President takes a forth right, and aggressive stand for peace and throws his prestige igainst armed conflict, powers which are now elose to war may think again before giving the command to open hostilities. 'Pile President’s trip to Buenos Aires is in the nature of a •esture in a world which was never nearer to armed chaos. As a natter of fact, in recent months there have been occurrences nore contributory to war than there were in 1912 and 1913. Everyone hopes that the gesture will be productive of good, n the meantime, it seems that every seasoned commentator and •■very old-time war correspondent, is certain that war in Asia, md Europe is inevitable—one of the leading co ns ■spoil dents re cently stated, on departing for Europe, that lie was going to •over the next war. The ItaLo-German recognition of Spanish rebels has fur her widened the cleavage between these powers and France and tussin. The greatest force existing today in both Europe and Vsia is hatred. The old bogey, “The cost of living’’ is again in the head ines. Some industries are considering plans whereby the cost of iving index will he used as a basis for wage increase or cut. An idvanee in the index is forecast for the near future. ____ ’ —- — < PROVERBS ! AND ! PARABLES | By A. B Mann Perhaps people do not realize vhat they are saying when they use j ho expression “He is a chip off ,ho old block.’’ This has reference o heredity and means that it is is natural for the offspring to bo ike the parent ns it is for the chip o bo like the block from which it las been cut. Recognition of this fact should ^in tolerance for those who are of jnfortunate vicious heredity. In all such cases justice demands sym pathy and tolerance in judging guilt and in fixing moral responsi bility. More than this and in ad vance of it, the matter suggests necessity for caution in selecting the block from which the human chip is to come. drink and degradation By R. A. Adams (For the Literary Service ureau) The degradation to which drink will drag °ne down and its influence in and on crime have been brought to us again in the murder of the lawyer Dickon by Ferris in Detriot, Michigan. This man came from one of the best families in America, but drink ruined him. He offered t/> buy drinks fo strangers. He took these strangers to his own hotel room to drink with him. I)ring changed these women into female demons and made them capable of this terrible crime. Drink caused the man to seek asso ciation with these dissolute charact ers. Drink made him forgeful and earless on that fatal ride, and drink dehumanized the murders and made their terrible deed possible. At the door of this demon may be laid thousands of such crimes, and' yet the people of this nation voted to unleash his terrible thing. And this is only a small part of the peanalty to pe paid for their folly. Trapping Season Is Here Mill. t mwi *«tth »--t-t > > »■ • n r t"** ALTA VESTA A GIRL’S PROBLEMS By Videtta Ish Dear Alta Vesta: In your last letter you mentioned a matter of great concern, and this afford- me the opportunity to say some of the things which long I have desired to say. All work of reaching people, in erer.ting them in Christianity and persuading them to accept it as the rule of their lives is evangelism, and every worker thus engaged is an evangel, or messenger. What we now call an evangel istic campaign was, in earlier days, called a “revival” and the evangel ist of those other days wa- called a “revivalist.” This has been the method of spreading Christianity and winning men to Jesus Christ. It is estimated that three-fourths of all persons who have become Chrisians have been reached and won by means of these revivals and revivalists I have an engagement now, and must close. Will tell you more about t in my next letter. Love to you and Aunt Cornelia. Your loving Father ^TieWiLLER WRITES | (For the Literary Service Bureau) (For advice, write to Maxie Mil ler, care of Literary Service Bur eau, 516 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kans. For personal reply send self-addressed stamped en velope.) Maxie Miller: I am a boy twenty years old and I love a girl twenty years old, too. My folks do not rank up with her folks and I ain’t educated like she is. But we love one another and want to get mar ried. I cap marry the girl anyhow, but hate to make her folks mad that way. I don’t want to hurt her folks, but love is love, I say, and we love a whole lots, too. Answer, please. Sammy. Sammy: Prom your letter I can see hat it would be very unfortun ate if you’d “tie up’’ with a girl who is well educated. More, Sammy, I think if folks did not want me in their family I’d be too proud to beg myself in. Then, Sammy, un less you go to school and improve your education you can never make an educated woman happy and that means unhappiness to you. My ad vice is that you get into school somewhere, as soon as possible, and that for the present, at least, you aneel this matter of marriage.— Maxie Miller. SERMONETTE By Arthur B. Rhinow THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THE! SEEM An old aneedote, not voueed for by documentary evidence or even reliable witnesses, tells of a man who had been under a severe ner vous strain until his mind was af fected and he had to be sent to a anitarium. Careful treatment, how ever, and kind nursing soon effected encouragement' improvement, so that after a few months the doctor cngraulated the patient and told him he would be able to leave the institution in a week or two. The patient was, of course, very happy to hear this, and he decided to send the good news to his fam ily. lie wrote the letter, perfectly coherent, and enclosed it in an en velope. When he wetted the stamp, however, it slipped out of his fin gers and fluttered to the floor, where it landed, the printed side up, on he back of a roving roach, completely covering the insect, which was frightened and fled. The man bent over to pick up the lost article, but could not find it. As he looked up, however, he beheld the stamp slowly though irregularly ascending the wall. He was puz zled, then alarmed and horrified. He was “seeing things” again. With digust and despair he tore up the letter, exclaiming, “What’s the use! I’ll never get out of here.’ A little investigation would have shown that his alarm was unfound ed. Instead of the phantasm of dis eased mind, the queer would have turned out to be just an unsual coincidence, something to laugh at instead of worrying over. Things are not always what they seem, including our anxieties and fears. Examine them, before or af ter the event, and we often find that our misgiving were groundless. Pace life fairly and squarely, with open mind and honest heart, and much that appeared to be wrong side up will prove to be right side up. And remember when all seems turmoil, there still is God. MRS. SCHUYLER SAYS By Mrs, Josephine Schuyle: FOR THE CALVIN SERVICE Where Was Man First Civilized? The historians have long and solemnly assured us that the fi s' civilization appeared in the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates in Mes opotamia. The Aryans (therre is really no such thing as an Aryan race, but since some Europeans in . ist i>n calling themselves this, we will humor them) painstakingly t aced their ancestry back to these first urbanites of the Uear Sast. One historian recently suggested that it was just possible that civili zation began in Africa—but, of course, he added it was of Semitric origin. That linked it, however va guely, with Europe and European history. But now, lo and behold! our Ame dean scientists are mak ing undreamed of discoveries of ancient cities in the Americas. Up till now, as you may recall, the Americas have been referred to as the “New World.” The In dians that the g"ld-hungry, blood thirsty Spaniards found in Mexico, Central America and Pen were not at first rated civilized. For had thay been how could the Spaniards have civilized them. The theory was hat they were savage Mongolians who had crossed oerr the Aleutian Islands only a few centuries before the European got here. That left these two immense, fertile contin ?nts without human life for mil lions of years previous to this. A Preposterous idea but accepted in ;he best circles as truth. Now, some of our bright young (dentists are uncovering all sorts pf conflicting data. In Nebraska (where no one ever dreamed there BE GAME By R. A. Adams (For the Literary Service ureau) [f you have been unwise in dealing, However sad you may be feeling, Since your own folly was to blame, lust chuck your losses and be game. Whatever might have been your losses, Whatever fate, or fortune tosses, Forbear excuses now to frame, But chuck your losses and be game. What e’er may be your situation, And whatever your inclination, Be not a coward, to your shame, But ‘face the music,” and be game. EDITORIAL BACKS DAVIS FOR A. U. PREXY New York, Dec 2 (C)—The lead ing editorial in The New York Age last week was headed “A New President For Atlanta University.” rhe edieorial closed with this para graph : “We feel hat the Trustees of Atlanta university would be hon oring themselves and their school by the selection of Dr. W. Davis as its next president.” BISHOP OXMAN SPEAKS ON GAMMON DAY Atlanta, Ga„ Dec. 2 (C)—Dr Willis J. King, president of Gam mon Theological Seminary, announ ces December 15th as Gammon Day, with Bishop Oxnam as the principal speaker, and a special memorial service in honor of the late Bishop Thirkield, Gammon founder. CLARENCE WILLIAMS HAS NEW PROTEGEE New York, Dec. 2 C)—William Cooley, who recently came to New York from a CCC camp in Georgia, is fast coming to the top, according to announcement by Clarence Will iams, Broadway song publisher who s sponsoring the young man. Cooley has a marvelous baritone voice, and has won every contest in which he has engaged over the radio, sing ing a work song especially written for him by Mr. Williams called “Song of the Extra Gang.” Recent ly Cooley sang for Postmaster General Farley’s beefsteak dinner to the President at the Biltmore hotel. One of the steaks was serv ed to Cooley right in the Biltmore by the white waiters. SEEK CHURCH AID FOR SHARECROPPERS Philadelphia, Dec. 2 (C)—The Methodist Episcopal Board of Home Missions and Church Extension is being urged to give “material and spiriitual aid” tip tjie southern sharecroppers. had been cities till the cowboys built them) they have been digging up one ancient layer of civiliza tion after another. In New Mex ico the same story. In New York State and North Carrolina and Georgia new and disconcerting1 dis covt ies are popping up. And in Yucatan, the Maya tombs are giv ing up more and more evidence of astronomy, art and literature as enjoyed by Indians there thousands of years before the United Fruit Company decided to civilize them (by overwork and underpay on ban ana plantations). Ag iculture Basis of Civilization \\ ithout well-developed agricul ture, no civilization is possible. A very high form of ‘culture’ is pos sible but civilization, which mere ly mean the living together of large numbers of people in communities, depends upon a staple foor supply. Grain and vegetables must be rais ed in large quantities to provide enough food for a city of people. Meat is fa* too perishable and dif ficult to obtain (before the refiger ated era especially for great num bers of people ever to have lived on it entirely. This does not mean that grain is superior to meat as a food. It is by all scientific exxperinvent, definitely inferior* to both meat and vegetables. Civilization, because i» depends by necessity upon a less ‘vital’ protecting source of food, has always bred disease which hunting folk never contracts. But the fact remains, hose folk who first cultivated, first built cities (May I disgress here o say that cities are probably the world's greatest blight. They have given us Arts and Sciences but they and their grain-raising supporters have already made great parts of the eerth sterile. The grain-raisers of our Middle-West have in one century destroyed the fertility of one-third of the United States.) American Plants Oldest Dr. E. D. Merrill, professor of Botany at Harvard university, has made a study of original American plants. He finds that com, “Irish” potato, all varieties of beans, tom ato, pepper, sunflower “Jerusa lem” artichoke, squash, pumpkin, a Towroot, peanuts, tobacco, pine apple, avocado, and a score more of tropical fruits all originated in the Americas and were never known elsewhere until after the so-called “discovery” of America by Columbus. The Irish potato is really the “Inca” potato and was aken from Peru by the Spaniards to Ireland where it was so well like that it became the staple food of the Isle and was named for it The most amazing thing about all this is that corn, tobacco and beans are “botanical orphans.” They cannot be found anywhere in a wild, uncultivated state. This means that they’ve been cultivated for so many millenmiums that all trace of their wild ancestors has disappeared. To have developed them into the' size and quality which the Spaniards found on land ing here, required, we now find, many more housands of years than we had thought Indian Civilization had lasted.. The irony of this is that wheat, barley and rice which he other “older” continents cultivat ed can be found in a wild state still and their evolution reveals that hu man cultivation of them is not as old as that of the American plants. So our scientists conclude that ci vilization first started in America which leaves traditional European history high anl dry. First American; Not an Indian The finding of a human skeleton in New Mexico beside that of a mammoth which had been wounded with an arrowpoint, upsets the theory of the first American being Mongolian. The mammoth lived here before the Ice Age and the shape of the human skull found indicates an indigenous American. Mongolians probably came here later and mixed with this original stock. Probably also, Africans crossed to South America (note how close they are and recall the daring, sea-faring West Coast Krus). Africa^! never crossed to Brazil in great numbers because there was no need to. There was plenty of room at home, Europe’s situation in 1492, when Columbus sailed West, was different. It was over-populated and starving. J What one objects to In the Eu ropean conquest is the cant and hypocrisy of the books written about it. The making up of the “racial superiority” theory to just ify a Christian Civiliza*ion’s cruel and bloody enslavement of Indian and African. >