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The Bee's Platform
1. New Union Passenger Station.
2. A Pipe Line from the Wyoming Oil
Fields to Omaha.
3. Continued improvement of the Ne
braska Highway, including the pave
ment of Main Thoroughfare leading
into Omaha with a Brick Surface.
4. A short, low-rate Waterway from the
Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean.
5. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
THE PLOTTING OF KNAVES.
There is nothing less than lese majestie going
on in the democratic political camp. Bosses
Taggart and Murphy, with the acquiescence of
Boss Mack, are planning to grasp control of
the San Francisco convention from President
Wilson and attempt to create issues of their
own in place of the "great solemn referendum"
on the league of nations which the president has
decreed shall be the entire casus belli.
B,ut what shall the new issue be? Beer and
light wine? Perhaps. If that be it, repub
licans of Nebraska at least can face the result
without fear. If not that, then what? The
democratic record of spending billions in place
of millions, of carrying on war expenditures
and the making of war contracts for months
after the end of the war? The wanton waste of
hundreds of millions of war equipment that
might have been turned to uses of peace? The
nullification of the orders of the Department of
Justice for the depctation of undesirable aliens
by the Department cf Labor? The vocal cam
paign of the attorney general to reduce the high
cost of living?
The bosses' job Is not easy. Yet the alter
native is equally disheartening. If the demo
crats accept the direction of the White House
and the challenge of the republican party, the
issue must be the unreserved ratification of the
peace treaty and the league of nations. Yet a
majority of the democratic senators have already
deserted the White House on that vital issue.
'Tis a task for stout hearts and fast footwork.
Senator Harding's Modest Inclination.
Senator Harding's disposition to return to a
former custom of presidential nominees, and re
frain from extensive campaign tours, is more in
keeping with the dignity of the best public life
than that which puts the candidate in the atti
tude of exerting every ounce of his energy in an
effort to win votes.
There have been a number of candidates who
followed the policy of traveling about and mak
ing speeches all over the country to vast throngs
of enthusiastic partisans, who met bitter disap
pointment at the elections. Blaine, the premier
of campaigners until Roosevelt's time, and
Bryan, the "peerless leader" of populistic
democracy, are notable instances of the fact
that effervescent campaigns are no harbinger of
victory.
Senator Harding has never been a man fond
of display. It is not a surprise that he prefers
a program of a few set speeches at his home, to
the excitements of what is known as the "barn
storming" method of impressing the country.
On the whole, we incline to the belief that the
country responds more heartily to the home
front yard talks of a presidential candidate than
to the eager quest of a multitude of appear
ances on the stump.
Problem of Conduct
A policeman in a small city this side of the
Allegheny mountains heard a number of male
voices, some of them somewhat out of tune, and
others gutteral and pectoral, singing these lines
from a song popular fifty years ago, in a back
room of a hotel:
If I had a cow that gave such milk
I'd dress her in the finest silk,
Feed her on the best of hay
And milk her forty times a dayl
The puzzled cop (he was a new man on the
force) wondered if it was his duty to go in and
search the singers, report the suggestive lines
at headquarters, or move on and forget the in
cident. In cities of 200,000 or more there would
be no uncertainty in such a case.
Dr. Butler's Self-Revelation.
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler's astonishing
tirade against the men who financed Major Gen
eral Wood's unfortunate campaign has met a
fitting response from the general. It was no
"motley group" of gamblers who supported the
Wood candidacy with their generous subscrip
tion. Colonel Proctor, who put up the largest
sum for expenses, is a man held in very high
esteem in Ohio, not because of his wealth or his
great genius for business, but because of his
personal character, never before attacked from
any source. We have no doubt he measures
up fully to the highest standards of integrity Dr.
Butler has attained.
The offensive and intemperate outburst of
the Columbia university president is an amazing
revelation of unsuspected mental tendencies to
ward indiscretion such as have so often shocked
ahd confounded the best friends of President
Wilson. Can it be that that academic freedom
breeds such extravagant and ill-considered utter
ances? In any event, the really unimportant
incident will make republicans profoundly
grateful that no college professor is to adorn
their national ticket this year; and General
Wood can well afford to give the splenetic doc
tor no further attention.
The democrats of Louisiana, in legislature
assembled, not only voted down the federal
suffrage resolution, but turned around im
mediately after and passed a resolution express
ing flat opposition of woman suffrage, by a
vote of 60 to 39. The list of democratic legis
latures which have opposed the women ii long.
Where Responsibility Rests.
"Our government stands discredited and
friendless among the nations of the world,"
declares the republican party in its national
platform. This is true, tragically true, and the
whole moral and political responsibility rests
upon a republican senate. New York World.
No so. The responsibility rests directly on
Woodrow Wilson, who deliberately deceived
the nations of the world. He asked a mandate
from his country in the 1918 congress elections,
and got flat, undeniable repudiation. Then he
went to Europe, from which he kept American
news by a tight censorship, told the allied na
tions he was commissioned by the people to put
through his League of Nations, took to himseli
the attributes of an idol, and attempted the im
possible. Not until his League got into the senate did
it dawn on Europe that the president had been
playing a huge confidence game. It is not
America but Wilson that "stands discredited and
friendless among the nations." And his stand
ing in his own country is no better than it is
abrnd. For further particulars, await the No
vember election.
Ex-Justice Hughes at Commencement
Mr. Charles E. Hughes, in his address at
the Wellesley college commencement, struck a
note or two that will have a generally favorable
response. His reference to "a spurious patriot
ism that is linked to the triumph of any creed
or class," is both timely and happy. Spurious
patriotism there is a deal of it masquerading
around in various disguises.
Nobody will misunderstand, either, what he
means when he mentions the tendency "to crave
and assert arbitrary power," and to use it ruth
lessly. He hits also at placing large dis
cretionary powers at the disposal of officers.
That is a menace to liberty, whether invested in
a president or a policeman, and it is true that the
readiness to suppress individual freedom by
administrative departments of a supposed free
government is "nothing short of a reign of
terror."
When Mr. Hughes talks he says something.
In the slang of the day, his last utterance is an
ear-full.
Ingenious correspondents in Chicago have
discovered the existence of a "secret wire"
connecting Senator Penrose's sick room in
Philadelphia with Chicago. Of course, it
wouldn't be in accord with moving picture
traditions for a politician of Mr. Penrose's
mysterious potency to use a plain, ordinary
telegraph wire. But the correspondents
would give us a real piece of news if they
should discover a "secret wire" connecting
the White House with Senator Lodge's hotel
apartment. New York Tribune.
In other words, it's easy to make the public
believe a dog bit a man, but when one tries to
put over a story that a man bit a dog, doubt
arises.
Caruso's light-hearted promise to replace his
wife's jewels, valued at half a million, seems to
have been fully justified because he carried a
million dollars' burglary insurance on his entire
outfit of jewelry. One might be even gay in
such circumstances.
Our democratic friends wanted the repub
licans to have a rip-snorting, tumultuous con
vention like those in whicli Bryan was nomi
nated, to be followed with the same result on
election day.
The nomination of Senator Harding has
probably put the finishing touch on, the candi
dacy of Governor Cox of Ohio for the demo
cratic nomination. He might get the consola
tion prize, however, and be the tail of the Crown
Prince kite.
Among the casualties at Chicago the student
of the times should not overlook Mayor Thompson.
Dead as a Door Nail.
John Barleycorn is dead, John,
As dead as Caesar's ghost;
There was a feeble hope for him,
But even that is lost.
When that amendment rose in might
And smote him, it was not
A blow which simply dazed or felled
It was a fatal swat.
John Barleycorn lies low, now,
Poor John is very dead:
The cypress leaves have oft replaced
The vine wreaths round his head;
His hands which held the foaming stein,
Which raised the vinous glass,
Lie empty by his silent sides,
Brought to untimely pass.
Baltimore American.
How and Why It Happened.
Good shoes are selling in London for $3.50
a pair, and the best patent leather shoes with
kid uppers for $7.32. Fifteen dollars will buy
a serviceable all-wool suit of clothes correctly
fitted. A glass tumbler which lately cost 33
cents, now sells for 16 cents.
We know of no other country whose govern
ment has so completely broken down since the
armistice as our government.
While Mr. Wilson's great mind was almost
exclusively absorbed in creating a scheme for
the government of other countries, his adminis
tration ceased to function at home, neglected its
most important duties and dissolved into dis
cordant elements.
War legislation and war handicaps that im
peded the freedom of American commerce and
American enterprise were kept in full force to
create the senate to ratify a hateful peace treaty.
But the price regulations of the government,
which protected the public, were all abandoned
on th ground that the war was over. Chicago
Herald and Examiner.
A Line 0 Type or Two
Haw to the Llae. let th aulii fall whan they nay.
Harding a Healthy Partisan.
The greatest charge against Senator Harding
is that he always has been a republican. In
the senate he voted for the peace treaty and
covenant with the Lodge reservations. He voted
with the republican party on everything. He
believes in having a party and having it well or
ganized. He always has published a partisan
republican newspaper. He has voted for woman
suffrage in every stage of its progress. He has
been in the past a strong supporter of the pro
tective tariff, a doctrine the republicans have re
vived by the Chicago platform to be put into
service when the time shall arrive for it. Des
Moines Capital.
The coolness using a mild word that has
arisen and now exists between Colonel House
and the president has been as much discussed
and as little understood abroad as here at home.
Many surmises as to the cause have appeared in
print hut not one from anybody "in the know."
Both the president and the colonel have been un
communicative on the subject.
Next to the president, Colonel House is the
best known American abroad, and especially in
connection with the peace treaty and the league
of nations. He was second only to the presi
dent among the Americans who participated in
the Paris conference. Up to a certain time they
wera supposed to be in complete accord. But
something happened the public is not advised
as to particulars and since then the two men
have not met Washington Stat
HAILING the owner of a prominent Repub
lican newspaper, who was on his way to the
Northwestern train that was to bear him home,
we inquired wittingly: "Well, what do you
think of the ticket?" Said he: "I have just
wired my chief of staff to begin writing enthus
iastic editorials in its support." "Yes, yes," said
we, "one naturally would. But our question was,
What do you think of the ticket?" "Oh!" said
he, smiling. ... "I am quite of your
opinion."
"SPEAKING in a lighter vein my thoughts
turn to the Shakespearean quotation and lead
me to say: 'Alas, poor Harding.'" Secretary
Colby.
Mr. Colby is irresistible in his lighter vein.
May we not hope that he will drop it from time
to time?
OTHER Democrats seek to be sarcastic at
the expense of the Republican nominee. But
Mr. Harding beat them all to it when he likened
his good fortune to the filling of a pair of eights.
VOCHADES CHICAGOESQl'ES.
I. La Gehenne.
Quand je passe sur Cottage Grove,
L'affreaux me suit de ses remparts.
Je me sens en une alcove
Aux murs notrcis de cauchemars.
Horreur! horreur! de toutes parts:
St Je revasse a quelques vers,
Tout s'offre a mot par le revers.
Mes papillons sont des cafards.
II. A la maniere de G. Courbet.
Qu'll se purge en prenant rhubarbe
Ou d'ellebore un double grain
I.e doux reveur de Perceval!
Oar son vase du Saint-Graal,
Alnsi que l'armet de Membrin,
Peut bien n'etre qu'un plat a barbe.
III. Clalr-obscur.
Rien ne vaut, pour se rincer l'oell,
Que de voir falre un coloris
Par la houppe a poudre de rlz
Dans dea doigts aux ongles en deuil.
H. D.
FOR this statesman and that the claim is
made that he is "100 per cent American." This
is precisely the claim made for their product
by the manufacturers of near-beer.
QUERY: WHAT WAS THE COW WORTH?
(From the Madelia, Minn., News.)
Ed Jaeger sold his cow to Adolph Sucker
Saturday for the sum of one hundred dol
lars. ONE would like to have Sherlock Holmes'
opinion of the Elwell murder mystery. Possibly
he would first look for the queen of hearts.
Ills Week In Chicago.
Sir: Met a warm admirer of Big Bill last
evening. He was warmer when I left him. He
said: "I drove from Michigan Boulevard with
the Mayor yesterday amid the plaudits of the
citizens." I remarked that doubtless there were
other streets in the Foist where Hizzoner had
even more admirers than on Boul Mich. "My
boy," said the General (who by the way was
on the reception committee that met Fernando
Jones at the Chicago wharf), "Mayor Thompson
Is a popular Idol in Chicago. In the good old
days his admirers would have taken his horses
from his carriage and drawn the equipage
down the thoroughfare." "And, no doubt, re
tained the horses as a souvenir," I suggested,
and added: "I trust that in this case they did
not remove his spare tires as a modern adapta
tion of the idea."
I notice that Caruso Is having his diamonds
stolen and being paged by bomb throwers. Can
It be that he Is losing voice? J. U. H.
MR. COOLIDGE, we read, "is noted for the
brevity of his political speeches." And all
other speeches, it should be added. Compared
with the gentleman from Massachusetts, a clam
is a loquacious mollusc.
THE WORLD'S GREATEST CONSTITUTION.
(From the Raritan Reporter.)
Lawyer I. N. Bassett of Aledo, who Is
known to many Reporter readers, is 05
years old. That he Is possessed of a wonder
ful constitution none will deny when It is
learned he has been a reader of The Chi
cago Tribune for 68 years.
"IN an intricate civilization like ours no man
can have entire personal liberty," says Vox Pop.
And what is it that makes civilization so in
tricate if not the habit of people of minding
everybody's business except their own?
BORAH.
Man of the flowing mane and bold.
From the great state of Idaho,
Within your mighty grasp you hold
Our destiny for weal or woe!
May you our frailties forget!
Don't ditch us yet don't ditch us yet!
Far-called, to guide us on our way.
We have no thought save your desire;
Tour pomp is all there is today
To us what's Nineveh or Tyre?
We plead our weakness to forget
Don't ditch us yet don't ditch us yet!
In you and Hearst we put our trust;
You've fought our battles long and hard.
Without your aid we build on dust;
And guarding, call not you to guard!
Our frantic party fears the worst
Have mercy on us, Borah-Hearst! D. W. A.
"BIRTH Record for Month Shows Ladies
Are Handicapped." Rock Island Argus.
The reader who sent us that headline re
tained the story beneath it. Perhaps it was
something we ought not to read.
A HOT TIME IN THE OLD' TOWN.
(From the Galva News.)
An infernal dancing party is to be given
by Kewanee Lodge No. 724, B. P. O. Elks, at
Wlndmont Park pavilion Wednesday.
THAT report of the assassination of Trotzky
emanated from the Asahi Shimpen. Mischievous
critters, the Shimpenzees.
EVER PLAY A SPAGHETTI ON A
LIGHT TACKLE?
Sir: On West Madison street a "sea food
restaurant" announces In enameled letters on
the window, "Spaghetti a specialty." WAG.
UNTIL we learned that his middle name was
Gamaliel we harbored the notion that there was
an 'o' in his name. The 'o' does not seem to be
in it this year. Mr. McAdoo please note.
SONG.
I have no view of seashore,
Nor landscape dark with trees,
But just a line of little clothes
That dances In the breeze.
I hear the song the mother sings
Each time she hangs them there.
Oh, meadow larks are sweet enough,
But she's beyond compare! M. W.
THE prize sign displayed during the conven
tion was over a ninth-rate tailor shop: "Open
evenings for the convenience of visiting dele
gates." DARN IT! WE NEVER THOUGHT OF IT!
Sir: Did you ever, when riding a-top a bus,
push the signal button to stop, In order to light
a cigar? GLYMPIL
GET Conrad's latest book, says Elia Peattie
slyly, and you will find yourself at sea.
A WISCONSIN ORGY.
(From the Bloomington Record.)
The Royal Neighbors picnicked near the
water trough south of town Thursday eve
ning. They enjoyed a hearty supper.
"BORAH and Johnson Silent." Headline.
And yet some people say the convention did
not accomplish anything 1 B. L. T.
Small Pay for a Microbe.
One of the tellers in a Columbus bank says
he has a customer, a teacher, who is the wittiest
thing yet.
"We make it a practice to give out new bills
whenever we are able to send the old ones back
to the government," said the teller, "and once
when the customer appeared I apologized that
I was unable to give her new bills, and asked
her if she had any fear of microbes."
"I don't really think there are any on this
money," said the teacher; "no microbe would at
tempt to live on my salary." Columbus Dispatch
How to Keep Well
By Dr. W. A. EVANS
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tatiun and prevention of dUeaae, anb
mltted to Dr. Evane by read em of Th
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Copyright, 1930. by Dr. W. A. Evan.
several years Is not apt to improve.
Massage of the facial must les and
exercise of them patiently persisted
in may help. There is no short cut.
VIRTUES OF WRATH.
A close reader of this column dif
fers with a statement j'lade in a re
cent article. Incidentally during the
discussion of emotionalism the equa
nimity of Jesus Christ was suggested
as a model. Our critic informs us
that Christ was not always even tem
pered, but that when he drove the
money chancers from the temple he
indulged in healthy anger.
There can be no question but that
his outstanding characteristic is set
forth in two sentences of the Ser
mon on the Mount: "That ye resist
not evil; but whosoever sh-jli smite
thee on thy right cheek turn to him
the other also," and "forgive our
debts as we forgive our debtors."
Several large groups of people
would be greatly benefited in physi
cal and mental health as well as in
spiritual well-being by cultivating
this Christ quality. A Chicago mil
lionaire well along in years went to
St. Joseph, Mich., and on the streets
of that city ho found his pointer dog
in possession of the man who had
stolen him. The millionaire became
violently angry, fell over with an at
tack of apoplexy, and died. Probably
he suffered from high blood pres
sure. Those who are subject to apo
plexy, those who have high blood
pressure, heart disease. Brig tit's dis
ease, thoso who worry, those who
suffer from insomnia, the thin dys
peptics all thesa groups will do
well to cultivate equanimity.
Matt, xxl, 12, reads: "And Jesus
went into the temple of God and cast
out all them that sold and bought
in the temple and overthrew the ta
bles of the money changers and the
seats of them that sold dove!." Mark
xi, 17, in his account, adds: "My
house shall be called of all nations
tho house of prayer, but ye have
made it a den of thieves."
Our critic has made out a pretty
good case, though the account says
that immediately after reviling the
money changers, driving them out
and throwing over their tables and
scats, Christ preached and healed.
A capacity for healthy anger may
be said to have been one of Christ's
qualities.
Are there any groups of people
who would be benefited by exhibi
tions of anger? The answer is in
the affirmative. People who suffer
from low blood pressure will do well
to cultivate anger and all other vio
lent exalting emotions. For them the
anger cure is better than anybody's
medicine out of a bottle. They live
on a low physical and mental plane.
Emotionalism lifts them. Perhaps
some day there will be courses of
training in emotionalism for the
benefit of the sufferers from low
blcod pressure.
Brief Cure Improbable.
G. P. writes: "Do you know If
there is any cure for paralysis of the
face resulting from a mastoid oper
ation, and if so, what? Mv mother
has tried different doctors with only
slight results. The operation was
performed when I was about 4 years
old, but the paralysis is very notice
able. I am at an age now where I
think of such things more, besides
which I have always been very sen
sitive about it."
REPLY.
Paralysis which has persisted for
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