THE OMAHA 6UIDE
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Entered as Second Class Matter March 16, 1927,
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EDITORIALS
PEACE—THE FIRST OF GLORIES .
Memorial Day, instituted in the
teeming times of the reconstruction, to
honor the brave men who died in the
Civil War, has come to be a day of tri
bute to the dead of all wars, and, in ad
dition, serves to center public interest
more intently upon the little band of
aged men who survive as the final
human links between the present day
and a trigic, but heroic, past.
Few who fought at Appomatox, at
Gettysburg, te Wilderness or Bull Run
are now alive. Few indeed, are now
alive who have any personal recollec
tion of those years. It will not be long
before all of the survivors of that tra
gic era are gone — soldiers of the
North, soldiers of the South,, ‘Copper
heads*” politicians, army contractors,
camp followers, stay at homes, and all.
And in time, all who remember the
Spanish War will go, and those who
remember the World War will follow.
Death finally comes to heal all wounds
and the cowardlly, the fighters and the
peacemakers, the victorious and tho
defeated.
Meanwhile, there is inspiration to
be gained from the sacrifices of the
past and there are lessons to be learned
from the futility of these sacrifices.
While honoring the men who died
three quarters of a ce»tury a^o on the
soil of our own land and whose blood
soaked the earth of France more than
a score of years ago, we will profit by
keeping in mind the words of the vic
torious Wellington:
“Take my word for it, if you had
seen but one day of war, you would
pray to Almighty God that you would
never see such a thing again.” And
from the lips of the vanquished Napo
leon came his final judgment: “Peace
is the first of necessities and the first
of glories.”
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WEDDING CELEBRATORS
Weddings are supposed to present
a stately and beautiful picture. Taste
and refinement and culture make them
lovely. The more elaborate ones become
brilliant spectacles, which would draw
hearty applause on the stage of thea
ters. U ' 1
The bride and her attendants are
dressed with all the fashion and taste
that costume artists can devise. Flow
ers create a b?/ckgr*uwd of colorful
beauty. The masterpieces of the
world’s music library lead their Couch
of (‘motion and romance. The move
ments of the bridal party ar-e so prac
ticed as to add the suggestion ef drama
and every motion is significant toward
the general effect. Even a very quiet
and simple home wedding has its own
distinct charm.
But what say some hilarious
friends of such wedding pairs? They
are sometimes not so much concerned
whether this or that detail is perfect,
as to whether the bride and groom aro
given the proper hazing.
The right kind to them may be
comparable to the initiations once im
posed on the supposedly fresh college
students. Some couples are subjected
to all the embarrassments and difficul
ties that inventive wits can devise.
A certain amount of mild horse
play may be tolerated, but if the bride
gets a grain of rice in her eye, and has
to go to an oculist the first day of her
honeymoon, it is an unfortunate anti
climax. If the pursuers tear through
the streets too fast, an accident may
happen, with tragic results.
The celebrators had better go a
little slow. A wedding should not be
turned into a roughhouse.
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ONE AND A HALF MILLIONS .
With high schools and colleges of
the nation graduating 1,500,000 stu
dents this year, the great majority of
this mighty £^rmy are or have been
looking for work. With 10,000,000
Americans still unable bo find jobs, the
prospect for these anxious young folk
does not look as good as it ought to be.
A considerable portion of these
young people keep on in some school
or college, because they see no other
way to occupy their time. That at least
is better than sitting around and
knocking the world because it giyes
them nothing to do.
A good part of the 1,500,000 have
already found work. Some of them
probably had influential friends who
gave them a lift. Many attracted notice
by the earnest work they have done
on their studies, indicating that they
stick to their tasks and are not afraid
of work. Such traits are refreshing in
a world where many are trying to get
something for nothing.
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N0T-S0-6000 OLD DAYS
Summer wind and electric storms
are the best known cure for the back
wardlookitis. The most chronic case of
wishing for the good old times seldom
survives one good blow or bolt that
lays the wires low or gets the light
and power on the two party line.
An appetite for old fashioned ways
and customs finds little to feed upon in
the up to date world, which explains
the unkind comparisons between pre
sent an)d past with the past getting
the worst of it
One can easily get all sentimental
and sobby reminiscing about the good
old candle light days when the family
gathered around the open fireplace in
stead of scattering among the beer
joints. But let the electric light go out
for one night at the behest of that
boisterous fellow, Thor, and these
reveries about the soft glow of the
candle flame are forgotten in the heat
of indignant conversations with the
light company.
Failure of the electric service for
a few hours is a major disaster in the
modern home. So seldom does it occur
thafe few homes prepare for the emer
gency. Nor can they meet it com
pletely. * «•!
There are no candles or oil lamps
to replace the darkened bulbs. The old
fashioned flatiron went for junk
years ago. Cooking, heating, and re
frigeration all depend upon electricity
in countless homes. Even toasts and
eOffee are dependent on poles, wires
and generators in most households.
Yes, the good old days and the
good old fashioned ways would be nice
again if we could have them with all
moden improvements.
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THE GIRL WITH BRAINS
The educated girl of former years
was pictured as a bespectacled miss,
whose thoughts had been so concen
trated on the acquisition of learning,
that she neglected her personal ap
pearance. The boys were supposed to
be more likely to marry some red
cheeked peach.
Many boys are plain and practical
interested in spoils and money making
but they don’t know much about books.
If the fair graduate should begin talk
ing about evolution or Tennyson, they
wouldn’t know what to say. Hence, it
has often been said that the educated
girl must carefully conceal the fact
that she knows something , if she
wishes masculine attention.
But the pictures of the scenes
about the schools and colleges, the
photographs of the girl graduates, do
not suggest that education and beauty
are necessarily opposed to each other.
In fact, the looks of these diploma win
ners would be hard to beat. It would
appear their minds have not been ex
clusively fixed upon the lines of the
poets, nor on the theorems of geome
try. Apparently they have paid their
share of visits to the beauty shop.
Some boys had better give their
sluggish minds a bit of a prod, and
find out about the things going on in
the w'orld. Then they will not be ab
solutely speechless w'hen they find a
girl who knows somethng. Such a girl
will make a better showing when you
step out writh her into a quizzical
world.
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SIMPLE FARE .
The White House menu for the
dinner the Roosevelts will serve the
King and Queen of England was made
up after a study of typical royal bills
of fare served them in England. It was
found the King and Queen prefer
rather simple foods. So the main
course will consist of such standard
American groceries as fried chicken,
sliced tomatoes, peas, beets and sweet
potatoes.
It sounds like a good enough menu
for next Sundhy and we doubt not
that, suitable appoached, the little
woman might manage it.
What we like about those royal
visits is to find that, on Sundays any
way, we live like kings. We live better,
because the White House chicken will
be boned in honor of their majesties,
which means there will be no drum
stick.
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WE ARE OFF
With the Memorial Day automobile
casualty lists almost all in and more
and more drownings, appearing in the
public prints as the sun gets hotter
and hotter, we’re off! Good old sum
mer is here, regardless of what the
calendar says, and while some 50,000
will no(t live through its thrills, the
vacation season will be enjoyed by all
while they last.
Americans are a fatalistic lot and
many of them meet a violent, but
withal more pleasant, end than Euro
peans who give up their lives, volun
tarily or otherwise, for wKacky man
iacs like Mussolini and Hitler.
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It takes two to make life misera
ble; One to have a sense of duty, and
the other to impose upon it.
If you don’t tell the doctor about
a sore place, it is stupid neglect. If you
do, you’re a neurotic.
Manufacturers should advertise
regularly. It’s such a comfort to read
every week that the dne we have is
the best.
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EXPERTS RUIN A GAME .
Now that horseshoe pitching has
been taken from the alley and the
barnyard to a position second only to
golf among the sports patronized by
all men, and summer resort hotels with
access to golf courses also possess
horseshoe pitches, or whatever they
are called, a great wrong is being done
this fine pastime. As it was in golf, so
it is it in the gaw of ringers and
leaners—the amateur is being discour
aged.
The federal census does not record
how many Sunday golfers have broken
or given away their clubs and retired
from the game with a lifetime average
of 112 because they have read too much
about the feats of Bobby Jones or
Lawson Little. It would make an in
teresting investigation.
Now the occassional pitcher of
horseshoes is treated to the perfor
mances of Ted Allen, of Alhambra,
Calif., world champion. Mr. Allen, who
uses a one and a quarter turn, allows
a man to sit on the stake, and without
disturbing him, proceeds to throw one
ringer after another. He stands a
man with a paper bag on his head in
front of the stage and pitches a shoe
which removes the bag and pins it to
the peg. He allows two men to inter
pose a blanket between himself and the
stake and tosses an infallible succes
sion of ringers over it.
Since reading about Mr. Allen, we
have for sworn horseshoes.
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HAPPINESS m WEALTH
In all societies man feeds more up
on abstractions than upon facts. He is
most content who finds his kingdom
in his mind. Sucn was the teaching of
the days when the right to the pursuit
of happiness was written into the De
claration of Independence, and the doc
trine is not yet dead. Yet the tangible
and negotiable things are what appeal
to most people in this age of utility
and comfort.
There are any number of men and
women both young and old, in whom
is happily blended theoretical and
practical factors in the securing of
happiness.
The right to happiness can well be
viewed through the bestowments
which have come through an era of
prosperity and progress. The ratio of
happiness may not be higher than
when the dictum of the Declaration
was written, but it is certainly just as
high in some people.
Not all Americans find happiness
in the accumulation of money, in in
creasing their business profits or ini
acquiring material possession. It is
not uncommon for young men and
women of this severely criticized and
depreciated age to choose that path in
life which gives them the most mental
satisfaction though less opportunity toi
amass a fortune. They are the truu
creators.
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THE EXPENSE OF SPEED ■ . ‘ I
One of the interesting discoveries
with regard to automobile motors is
that when you step on the gasoline
your gasoline expenditure mounts
with your speed. Thirteen makes of
automobiles were tested to find out if
it applied to them all. The result was
uniform, disclosing that oil as well as
gasoline consumption mounts. The
following is the tabulation of tests an
nounced by the American Automobile
association1
30 miles an hour, 18 miles per gal.
60 miles an hoi*-, 12.6 miles per gal.
80 miles an hour, 8.6 miles per gal.
This iS, wTe suppose no concern of
a person who starts out on a trip at
eighty miles or more per hour. Doubt
less he never worries about the bill—
his widow can take care of ft out of
tho insurance money.
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Even in the fish W'orld it isn’t pro
bable that the best swimmers have the
best figures.
Backward region: Any place where
the people on relief were equally hard
up when times wrere good. :
