T1IE BEE: OMAIIA, THURSDAY JANUARY 22, 1914.
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Dr. Parkhurst's Article
Her First Proposal
$- By Nell Brinkley
Copyright. !(, lntfrmittenat Nwi Fmlt
ON
Purging New York of Criminals
How Fine if Such a Policy Could Be Nationalized Dr.
Eliot's Creed; Harvard's Ex-President Forgets Every
Man Has Some Form of Faith
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By DR. C. II. rAKKHUllST
lt.ls already evident that tho negative
policy of police administration, latterly
in vogue in this city. Is going to bo re
placed by a policy that la positive and
that law g going
to bo treated as a
substantial fact
and not as a whim
to be respected or
Ignored, according
to executive cap
rice The same holds
In the law as in
business that peo
ple want to know
whnl can bo
counted on. Peo.
pi that would not
utherwlso be crim
inals become such
because the atti
tude of the govern
ment Is so unpro-
uounced as to leave
It uncertain whero the line lies between
what is crime and what Isn't
The edict has gone forth that profes
sional criminals will have to sleep and
take their meals somewhere outside of
Now York. That is as far as our own
local government can go, and it is going
a great way, and is evidently appreciated
by the law-abiding element of the town.
It is no argument against what has
been already achieved that it simply ex
pels an undesirable class nnd does not
regenerate It or destroy it. When our
Lord, cost out tho unclean sp'rlts and
sent them into a herd of swine which
.ran down a steep place into the sea and
wero drowned, wo infer that that was
the end both of the swine and the un
clean spirits.
Now, it is neither constitutional nor
humanitarian to treat In exactly the
same way the unclean eplrlts with which
we are locally infected, and to send them
out In scows and dump them in tho bay.
They will simply rnove on are moving
on going to Philadelphia, Chicago and
St. ' Louis. "What Is our gain is some
other cities' loss. Wo are better off, but
If dlscaso is transferred from the sto
mach to tho liver, tho body considered
as a.' corporate whole, is as much In
valided as .it was before.
It, would bo a "wonderful 'achievement If
the -.policy which our local administration
haa''Jjut In "force" could T riatfonallxed,"
and, '.If tho largo cities throughout the
country, whero tlio vicious experts, who'
liavo just bidden us a. hasty goodbye, are
now continuing their operations, would
join' us in tho chase and pursue them till
thoywere compelled cither to Jump Into
tho Pacific or to adopt habits of respecta
ble living and of honest Industry.
Ex-President Eliot of Harvard univer
sity' ;has again pronounced himself on
questions of religious faith. This is a
frequent habit of his.
His ambition seems to bo to Induce
people to believe as little as possible. He
has a passion for pulling down, but no
genius for building up, and will hardly
be likely to create a large following
among either Jews, Catholics or Protest
ants. Differently brought up, he might have
Issued as a gunman or n dynamiter. Ac
cording to tho account furnished by the
press, he has eliminated theology and
dogma, from the twentieth century. His
destructive criticism has gone even to the
extreme of exterminating cieed, but he
so far forgets hlmtelf as Immediately to
proceed to the formulation of a creed of
his own.
The creed which ho exterminates was
not one of his making. The 6no which he
claims Is henceforth going to prevail Is
one of his fathering. Like other manu
facturers, he Is enamored of the excel
lence of hln own goods and Interested to
have them usurp tho market.
The creed which ho proposes1 docs not
contain a great deal, hut lie thinks Just
as much of It as other people do of
theirs, and that Is the reason why ho
keeps talking and writing about It.
In decrying forms of faith, the wall
against which the learned ex-presldent
butts his head Is that every man has
some form of faith, and has to have It
he Is going to be any kind of force in
the world.
In every department in which one would
be anything more than a -nonentity, one
must have a creed, a creed of his own;
not one,- perhaps, that has ever been put
down In black and white by one's self or
by anyone else, but a set of convictions
that give shape to whatever one says
or does.
That .holds In the matter of politics, of
morals, of business, of Journalism equally
as in affairs of religion.
One's significance In any department
of life depends on the beliefs that are
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cherished relevant to that department
and upon the Intensity with which they
mo cherished.
Without such Inward assurance n man
becomes like a balloon which Is ablo to
float because It Is so empty, but no one
ran tell in what direction it will float,
and consequently so unsubstantlaras to
bo unable to draw anything after It.
It is cry much to be deplored that the
Influcuco over young men which Mr.
Eliot lias acquired by virtue of his brain
lncss ho prostitutes to tho end of foster
ing among them a state of negatlveness
and Incertitude that saps vitality nnd un
dermines cfflcency.
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What a Dollar
Represents
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By ADA PATTERSON.
A girl of 20 who Is engaged to marry
a young man "worth" according to his
father's bequeathed fortuno $100,000,000
caused a smilo to ripple across tho Amer
ican continent by
refusing to pay 75
cents for a Christ
mas treo. Sho de
clined to pay TG
oents for It be
cause, she said, it
was worth' but 60
cents. What caused
tho contlnont-wido
smile to broaden
was that she got
the tree for half a
dollar and drove
away In triumph In
her hundrcd-mll-llon-dollar
fiancee's
sleigh, with her
hundred million-
dollar fiance beside her.
This is a caso In which first thoughts
are not best. Your first thought was
that the girl who wilt marry the richest
man In America is mean. You applied
Mhat scorching word, "stingy," to "hef,
didn't you? Tho second thought was
that if the tree was of S0-ent size nnd
quality, tho girl would havo boen foolish
to pay more for It. Tho fact that n
quarter of a dollar Is an Infinitesimal
amount compared with her prospective
share of an tlOO.000.000 -had nothlne fo iln
with it. Tho green grocer who sold her the
Christmas tree wns doubtless not nn ob
ject of charity. If he had needed that
extra quarter of a dollar for a bottle of
medicine for a sick child no one doubts
that the future mistress of mllllnnn
would have gladly given It to him. It
was not the 23 cents that was tho
stumbling block In their transaction.
helpful, everyday common sense rebelled
at paying more than anything was worth.
unaniy sno was willing to bestow, for
she does It every day with lavish imn,i
and overflowing heart and kindly eyes,
out cnanty in tbe guise of nn excessive
charge for a purchase she denied.
When milliners, dressmakers nnd shoe
makers say to you. "nich
those who haggle most over a fuw cents,"
look hard at them and do some thinking.
Are they telling you the exact truth?
Is It not, rather, that the men and
women of fortunes, especially thou whn
havo themselves earned their fortunes,
and, next In degree of experlonce, thoio
who have learned to preserve tho for
tunes they have Inhorlted, have fortunei
because they know the worth of 100 cents
that comprise each of their dolIarsT Not
one of these persons but Is chnrifnhln
you will nnd, If you take the trouble to
investigate, and some of them are un
ostentatiously charitable. It In
of a narrow, miserly trend of character
mat they count the outgoing dollars as
carefully as the Incoming ones.
The comer stone of every competence
Is tho knowledge of what a dollar twnrn.
sents. "It's ot.ly a dollar" pleaded a
salesmen anxiously to mako his sale.
"Only a dollar," but in tho apportion
ment of values what docs that dollar rep
resent? The continuous hard labor of a
JM-dollar bill for a year and ht In nn.
of the few states In which 15 Is the legal
rate or Interest paid by savings banks or
for mortgages. In muny states It Is less.
"Uniy a dollar." yea I know IIMl
pale-faced girls who work half a' week
for that sum What will a dollar fin?
It will buy two or three irond. nlnln r,nr
Ishlng meals for a medium-sized family.
u win Duy me material for slater' hour
muslin dress next summer anri h ..
learn to make It herself.
Whenever you are temnterl in
money for what you do not need paint
a hasty picture of what someone has
done to earn or has done without to save
that money. - Form that habit and money
will never leave your hands without vnn.
receiving Its equivalent.
The smile that beenn in m-i- ....
future multlmllllonalreas should end In
commendation of the girl who has a truo
sense of values. I don't know the crest
of the family Into which she will marry,
but I hope she will graft upon It that
which began In war, but should be ap-
pnea to trade, "Millions for defense, but
not one cent for tribute."
One of the chlof differences between
people who make a goodly showing or
their lives and those who allow them to
slip as waste sand through their fingers
is that the first have cultivated their
sense of values. They know what Is
worth much, what is worth little and
what Is worth nothing. Not only what
a dollar la wortn, but what time Is worth,
how little beauty may be worth, how
much character Is worth, what la th
value of manhood and the worth of
romanhood, how fine Ideals are nbov
d'amonds and usefulness beyond rubles.
Her first it is, too. So you see, with that. It Is on
titled to come In tho list of "torrlblo minutes!" It
might bo 'that It will be thoir last, but when Youth Is
this young two, round-cheoked things with fratornlty
pins on thoir-chests, his hair with the convict cut, horu
clinched at tho nape of tho nock with a black velvet bow
that butterflies out above her brows and rippling still
down her back when Youth is this young It likely
f
The Virtue of
By DOROTHY DIX.
The most over-estimated weupon In tho
world Is the hammer. It isn't ono mil
lionth part as effective as the salvo pot,
though the great majority of people Bo
through lite without finding It out.
The average Indi
vidual's Ideal of the
way to reform
things Is by perpet
ual knocking, which
perhaps o x p lalns
why so few abuses
are ever changed
for the better. Theo
retically you can
smash anything by
lamming it hard
enough and long
enough, but In ac
tual practice this
does not work out
successfully, espe
cially when It is
applied to the faults
and foibles of hu
man nature.
Still, when a man doesn't like his wife's
housekeeping, or thinks she spends too
much money blng! ho begins lambast
ing her cooking and extravagance. And
she goes on burning tho roast, and mak
ing dish water coffee, and buying Imported
llngcrlo and French hats.
If a woman objects to her husband's
belonging to a club, or smoking, sno
keeps busy, day In and day out, pegging
away with her little hammer knock-knock-knock,
and still ho puts on his
hat and makes a break for freedom tne
minute dinner Is over, and he smokes like
a furnace.
If Johnnie Is awkward and spills things
at the table, and hates school, tho wholo
family organizes Itself Into an anvil
chorus, and .It's blng, bang, blng! from
morning till night until Johnnie grows
surly, and hates home and books, and
spends all the time lie can with" ac
quaintances ho picks up on the street.
If an employer wants to speed up his
employes and got more work and better
service out of them, he goes for them
with a trip hammer, and abuses them
for loafers and Incompetents, and shirks,
and tho employes say to each other that
the old man Is a grouch who never ap
preciates good work, anyway, so what's
the use In giving it to htm? And they
don't.
Fault finding and blamo never yet re
formed anything, but praise Is the lever
of Archimedes with which you can move
the world of humanity. And the reason
of this is plain enough. Praise touches
us In our weakest spot, our vanity,
whereas blame wounds us In our most
vulnerable point, our self esteem, and
there Is a natural Inclination to revenge
our hurt pride by persisting In doing the
thing we were censured for doing
' II lilt I
Praise A Talk
Of course If wo wero the grand, noble
creatures we should be, bent on our high
est self-development, when our atten
tion was called to our faults we would
dovote our energies to building up and
strengthening the weak spots in our char
acters. That would be the logical thing
to do, but alas, which of us la logical,
when It comes down to brass tacks with
us?
Surely this alone should furnish a tip
to tlip knockers that It would bo better
to throw away their hammers and get
busy spreading the salvo if they 'want
results. As a matter of fact, everybody
knows that all you've got to do to make a
woman break her nock la to dangle a
llttlo flattery before her. She will go
for It every time, and so I advise tho
husband who bemoans his wife's bills to
try praising her economy a little. Iet
him dlscourso before company upon her
thrift and what a help sho Is, and, my
word for It, she will put a Yalo lock on
her pocketbook that It will tako a pro
fessional safe cracker to undo,
Ltkcwlso any woman can bo turned Into
a good housekeeper by a husband who
Judiciously prulses a good dish and sor
rowfully remarks over a bad one that It
Isn't quite up to her usual exalted cull
nary standard.
Positively the only thing that will nail
a man to his own hearthstone and make
him a generous, attentive and interested
lover as well as a husband, Is to find
In his own home a brand of flattery so
much more potent, so much higher spiced
and so much more inexhaustible than any
to be had abroad that it puts all other
women Into tho amateur hot air class
besido his wife.
As for employes, isn't it Invariably the
man who knows he is most trusted who
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Babotto Is tho prottlest girl In school, and she woars
hor hair In puffs over her oars and her ankles aro slim
llttlo affairs sheathed In clk stockings. Billy Is a
blondo chap with his vests cut extremely high, and hla
collars deeply pointed, and his coat plnchod in tho
smartest way across the shoulders, and ho wears his
pipe-like trousers turned up short so short that It
to "Knockers"
is most trustworthy, the one who knows
tho boss dopends on him who Is most
dependable, the crackerjack salesman who
works ten times as hard to sell as tho
man who knows that not much Is ex
pected of him?
Oh, It's praleo, and not blamo, that
makes the world go around. We give
the best of us to thoso who expect the
best of us, and who appreciate that
best. Throw away the hammer, and try
spreading the snivel
Road Funds
and Posterity
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Pennsylvania is preparing to issuo
bonds for DO,000,00O for' road construction,
and if tho plan goes through the people
of that stato In tho next generation will
bo paying for roads which have long
since been worn out and replaced with
new ones. Tho Keystone state should
profit by the costly experience In New
York, where $50,000,000 lias been expended
already nnd $50,000,000 more Is to bo
sp'ent in tho same extravagant manner.
In New York state the bonds are to
run for fifty years. This will mean that
the people of tho next generation will be
paying for roads which they never used.
The ordinary life of Such roads as aro b.
lng constructed In New York Is little
more than four or five years. Tho roads
will have to be replaced many times be
fore the people have finished paying for
the original work.
In Massachusetts the bonds run tor
only fifteen years. This Is a much fairer
proposition, If slipshod roads must be
built The people who use the roads pay
for them. The next generation Is thus
left at liberty to provide Its own improve
ments in Its own way.
Although New York has been spend,
lng such vast sums, an Insufficient
amount Is being laid aside for the pur
pose of maintaining the roads. Hut
even thou ah the fund wero larger nnd
strict attention were paid to mainte
nance, the roads could not possibly last
fifty years, and yet the people fifty years
from now will be paying for them.
Bconomlsts who have studied the proh.
cms Involved in the financing of roads
agree that the serial bond Issue Is the
better plan If bonds are to be Issued
Thus bonds will expire periodically, and
the people who enjoy the Improvement
will pay for It.
There Is an excellent opportunity here
for tho conservationists who are anxious
to protect posterity. We have a right
to saddle posterity with debt when we
are leaving Improvements which may
reasonably be expected to be permanent,
but we have no right to spend posterity's
money when we are leavlnr nothing to
show for It, Washington Post.
civos him tho look of a young heron gono a-wading.
Well, It's a torrlblo minute. There's a. miserable
silence, and evon her bird and her dog Bquaro them
selves around and, looking him steadfastly in the eye,
floom to wonder when ho will begin. And he wonders
if sho has any notion of tho thing that's on his mind.
If she has, sho manages her faco pretty well. "But
girls aro deep," ruminates Billiam. "You never can
tell what's in their Head!"
Seeking a
By CONSTANCY CLARICE.
Dr. Hammond proposed that night. Just
think, Peggy, you might have been en
gaged today, nnd things might have been
altogether different, but as it Is, hern
you are, Jus the samo Peggy, and I think
you're Just as happy, although I suppose
you really can't tell unless you've really
been In love.
I wore my darling white lace gown
when he came. Of course, I didn't ex
pect him to do anything foolish, and, to
tell tho truth, I had lost all tho funny
Illusions I had about him long ago. I
remember how I felt tho rainy day I
learnod to make tarts. Hut ho has the
most adorable hair. ' Even last night I
wanted to rumple- It up.
Ho was different when he came. I
went to tho door, and he brought in that
dear, funny medicine smell with him. I
sniffed and wrinkled up my nose, and
ho Just looked at me, and I waa afraid.
I was afraid he was going to touch, tne
before he said anything, and I didn't
know what to do. So I slipped into the
library, and called back, "Wo have somo
new record."
Then ho camo in, and was really quite
senslblo and friendly while I munched
marrons nnd sorted out records. I never
stopped to think boforo what a help a
Vlctrola Is In tlmo of trouble How couill
anyono propose to a-ragtime tune?
"Peggy," ho said suddenly, "every time
I think of my first impression- of you, I
smile to myself. Didn't I say you wero
a mixture of frivolity and serlousnoss
that was enough to puzzle anyono?"
"Yes, fair hero," I said, dropping him
a mock courtesy, "and you said I didn't
have enough sense to bo a nurse."
"Hardly that."
"Well, at least you said I waa in love
with the Idea."
"And now you aenr't even In love with
tho Idea."
"No, you see, I have taken your advice
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Husband
to heart. That ought to flattor you, any
way.'.'
"It does. But. Pffecv. vnu wntilif ionic
nlco In uniform." And then ho laughed
snoruy, and I, with the bulk of the Vlc
trola safely between us, said tantaliz
ing)'. "Much a nice liuirh. hut whv and
why do you havo such very nlco rumply
nairr- Ana tnon I Knew that I really
shouldn't havo said It. fapciuutn. rt.r nil
the Vlotrola wasn't a very safe barricade,
una ne camo around so very determlndly.
"Well, you have," I said lamely, back
ing away, and then he crushed me up
against him and I didn't like It, because
I wasn't In lovo with him a bit. I could
hear his heart beat Just as plainly, but
all I could think of was that I wanted to
get away.
"1 don't llko your hair at all,' I said,
with my faco all muffled against his
shoulder. "I take back everything I said.
Please, please let me go." And thetv
"Don't you dare to kiss me. I hate being
kissed."
"Dear," he whispered, In such a funny
voice, 'T lovo you, I love you, you'll never
know hoy much till you fait In lovo
yourself somo day, Some day when you
won't hato being kissed." And then ho
kissed me on my throat, under my chin,
and I let him go without saying goodby.
Oh, why do friendships always have to
end In such a horrid way? "Some day
when you won't hato being kissed," he
had said. Why do kisses always make
such a difference? And then I ran out
into tho hall after him. I wanted to say,
"Aren't wo going to bo friends still?" Hut
ho had gone, and I had such a queer little
acho In my throat, and I put my fingers
up to the place whero ho hud kissed roe.
I wasn't going to see him nnv mnra .....
big, udorablo boy doctor, lie might have
said goodby. nut I'm not In love with,
him, and ho really shouldn't have kissed
mo, eron on tho throat. But I'm golns
to miss him, and, anottiat part about
kissing. I wonder what he meant? Oh,
Peggy, what a lot you have to learn
about life.
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