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THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 23. 1921.
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The Bee's Platform
1. New Union Passenger Station.
2. Continued improvement of the Ne
braska Highway, including the pave
ment of Main Thoroughfare leading
into Omaha with a Brick Surface.
3. A ihort, low-rate Waterway from the
Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean.
4. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
Road Improvement in Sarpy County.
A bill now before t lie legislature, probably to
come up for action today, provides for the di
version of a portion of the state paving fund to
be used in the eastern part of Sarpy county. This
measure should become a Jaw, for several rea
sons. Greatest of these is that it will give relief
to a considerable number of progressive tax
payers, who are not in a position to help them
selves, because they are in a minority in the
county. A well improved road across the county
is needed by these, as they arc at present with
out the necessary outlet to market north or south.
Another, and really important reason so far
as the state is concerned, the proposed improve
ment will afford an outlet for the great military
post at Fort Crook. As a considerable part of
the road fund of the state, available for the pur
pose, conies from the federal treasury, some of
it may well be used to provide a highway over
which the army of the United States may pro
ceed to and from its headquarters. Fort Crook
is one of the few important military establish
ments in the United States that is not so cared
for. As headquarters of the Seventh army corps
area it deserves to have some attention.
The City of Omaha and the County of Doug
las long ago ditl their share in the matter of im
proving the road as far as the Sarpy county line
It is out of the question for the metropolis to go
over the line and do the work that is needed to
complete the road to Fort Crook. Moreover,
Douglas county is drawing very lightly on the
state road fund, but is providing most liberally
for the carrying out of the general road improve
ment campaign. It is unfair, therefore, to argue
that the proposed improvement is for the sole
benefit of Omaha, or that Douglas county is
trying to shift a portion of the cost of its general
plan onto the state.
It is unfortunate, perhaps, that the division
of opinion as to the advisability of road improve
ment exists in Sarpy county. It does exist, how
ever, and is sufficiently definite to prevent the
adoption and carrying out of a program. The legis
ture is asked to giv a little relief to one end of
the county, at slight expense and no inconveni
ence to the rest of the state, and will act wisely
if it does so.
The federeal government has requested that
the work be done. Only 4.6 miles of dirt road
is involved. Omaha has provided ten miles of
paving, leading from Fort Omaha to the Sarpy
county line, but under the law can not cross that
line to make improvements. The amount of
money involved is so small when compared to
the benefit that is to be derived by the state in
general, through the continued maintenance and
Increased usefulness of Fort Crook that it hardly
se'ems the legislature can deny the request.
, Consideration for Minorities.
With so much talk these days of the rights
f minorities, it is surprising that interest is not
more widespread in the theory of proportional
teprescntation. As it is now, the party having
the majority often enjoys all the representation,
with minorities kept entirely outside. Although
the difference in strength may be only a few
votes, one party may have the entire representa
tion. " In a few cities of the United States, and in
Denmark, a system is in use which allows
minority groups to take their place in govern
ment. It is a matter of indicating not only first
choice for an office, but second and third as
well. No one then can feel that his vote ;s
thrown away, or be entirely without voice in the
business of running the government.
, The complexities of this system are against
it, btrt it has been used with success for some
years in Ashtabula. O.. and, according to a
speaker who recently appeared in Omaha, is
soon to be put into effect in Sacramento, Cal.
This is one experiment that will bear watching.
Majority rule is right, but it may yet be demon
strated that there is also some practical way to
give minorities proportional consideration in the
administration of public business.
Butter Industry and the Treasury.
It seems that Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue Williams is determined to insist on his rul
ing as to the tax on sour-cream butter. If he
does, an onerous burden is to be laid on a great
industry, whose center is in Omaha. Under the
ruling all butter made from sour cream will be
taxed af the rate of 10 cents per pound, and in
addition must be labeled "adulterated," thus plac
ing it pn a parity with oleomargarine. How this
latter provision will affect the industry is not to
be measured until demonstrated by experience,
hut the tax of 10 cents per pound surely will be
felt from the start.
The provision of the law under which the
ruling is made has been inoperative from the
time it was passed, until resurrected by the
present commissioner of internal revenue.
Originally it was intended to protect the cream
ery industry, in its infancy when the Paddock
pure food law was passed more than 30 years
age. Processes now in use were unknown then,
but the effect of the obsolete law is the same.
No charge is made that the butter as now pro
duced is deleterious in any sense, that it lacks
proper food value, or has any clement of danger
to health. When the law was pending in con
gress much opposition was raised against it be
cause of the narrowness of its terms. It was in
tended to stamp out the growing traffic in oleo
margarine or other artificial butter, and to give
special protection to the dairy interests, then
being developed, by putting an excessive tax on
the lower grades of butter. That tax is now in
voked to strike down the very enterprise the
law was enacted to foster.
All this has been presented to the commis
sioner, but he is apparently deaf to the approach
of the creamery men. One hope for them is
noted in the fact that Mr. Williams has tendered
his resignation, and it may be accepted and a
new commissioner named before May 1, when
the order is scheduled to go into effect. If re
lief is not given, the public w ill be mulcted again
through the addition of the impost to the butter
bill.
House Roll No. 1 Again.
Advocates of House Roll No. 1 refuse to ac
cept their defeat with good grace. Though the
legislature decided against them by a vote prac
tically of 2 to 1, they persist in crying aloud
their distress and incidentally in attempting to
besmirch their successful opponents with a fresh
daub of blackwash at every opportunity.
The most recent outcry is based on the al
leged inconsistency of Douglas county legislators
who voted against House Roll No. 1 and yet
favored a referendum on the moving picture cen
sorship bill. "Certainly," it is argued, "if it is
logical that this community should settle the
question of movie censorship for itself, it is also
proper that it should determine for itself whether
or not it wants to go into municipal electric
light ownership."
The argument reflects either the ignorance of
its author or his belief in the ignorance of the
public, perhaps a mixture of both. House Roll
No. 1 did not give the people of Omaha the
right to determine for themselves whether or not
they want to go into municipal electric light
ownership. Neither does the companion senate
file which some now seek to revive. The people
of Omaha already have that right and the legis
lature recognized this fact when it defeated H.
R. No. 1. The implication that they do not have
it is plain deceit.
These bills added nothing to the rights of
the people. They simply transferred from the
city commission to the water board the authority
to submit the question to the people. The city
commissioners are elected for three-year terms
at an election in which a very large majority of
all the voters participate. The water board mem
bers are elected for six-year terms and, by the
peculiar bi-partisan device provided for their
election, in a manner which results in their choice
usually by a mere minority of the total vote. Of
the two, the city commission is, by its very na
ture, the more responsive to the popular will.
Furthermore, the people have the power of in
itiative and referendum over all ordinances passed
by the city commission, but they have no such
power over acts of the water board. If any
thing. House Roll No. 1 and Senate File No. 249
take the question of municipal ownership farther
away from the direct voice of the people rather
than nearer to it.
Municipal ownership and movie censorship
are issues without conceivable direct relation.
But insofar as any analogy can be drawn, the
action of Douglas county legislators Represen
tatives Dyball, Foster, Palmer, Dysart, Hascall,
Randall and Robertson was entirely consistent
on the two propositions. These men opposed
House Roll No. 1, which lessened the people's
control of their own affairs insofar as municipal
electric light ownership was concerned. They
likewise opposed a bill which imposed a narrow
and burdensome censorship upon their amuse
ments. There are other issue involve-! in both
of tliesj questions, which are not pertinent to the
present discussion. The thing to be understood
is that only distorted vision or unfair judgment
can use the vote upon one as a baVis tor attack
upon the motives of those who voted against the
other.
The Municipal Dust Storm.
Rather dry thus far, and destitute of interest,
is the city campaign. It is only dust that is being
thrown now, but after the primaries it may turn
to mud. Of the forty and some candidates al
ready filed for the primaries few have really
aroused friends or foes to positive action. The
prevalent opinion seems to be that if a candi
date is -iot strong enough to pull through the
primaries on his merits, no amount of boosting
for him or knocking his opponents will be of
avail in the final count.
The purpose of government is to maintain
justice and to provide for the general welfare.
While that should be the standard by which can
didates are measured, there is always a tempta
tion to base support or opposition on more per
sonal considerations.
For some life holds no more pleasure than
when an enemy is running for office. Setting
aside all recognition of the fact that the funda
mental question is his ability and intention of
maintaining the peace and administering justice,
the candidacy is made an occasion for making a
public issue of a private quarrel. If in a casual
conversation he has remarked upon some indi
vidual's faults and peculiarities, justly or un
justly, as the case may be, and adequate reply
can not be made direct, the grudge may sleep
for a time, but let the critic become a candidate,
and the opportunity to get back is irresistible.
He has spoken unkindly of some one, and that
man, while he may pitch his opposition on a
high plane of pretension, in the back of his mind
has only his personal spite.
Year after year campaigns are embittered by
such feuds. Although men who run for office are
like any others, for the purposes of the election
they are depicted either as devils or as angels,
but never as merely human. The public gradually
is wearying of being thrown into a rage of sus
picion or a fever of hero worship, and, as in the
present contest, is likely to take matters more
calmlv.
No man can live up to the reputation Herbert
Hoover now enjoys, and, expecting too much,
the public lays itself open to disappointment.
Only sixteen people to the mile in Nebraska,
but the state is otherwise fairly well accounted
for by its agricultural products.
Justice is not always as fleet of foot as crime,
hut in the case of Carl Wanderer, at least, did
not run second.
New York yet is able to show even Okla
homa something in the way of tangled matri
monial messes.
The citizens of Upper Silesia apparently
know their own minds.
Spring certainly did stage a comeback.
Getting at Bottom Facts
How Boston's Mayor Went After
Knowledge
From the New York Times.
It is not unlikely that when Mayor Andrew
James Fetcrs of Boston spent a night as a hobo
in the Wayfarers' Lodge some of his bedfellows
were reds who had threatened in pen and ink
to have his life's blood. "You will be shot Fri
day night at 12." wrote one of the avengers.
Peters made brave war upon the bolsheviki, silk
stockinged and stockingless. Yet he seems to
have slept like a babe, though' there were ene
mies of society snoring around him as well as
good Americans down on their luck. Was it
Peters of Harvard or Peters of the slums who
took the compulsory shower bath and gave his
clothes over for fumigation as No. 69? Did not
the blatant Curlev. rejected as mayor, assail
Peters as the candidate of "Harvard college and
the slums?" If Curley ever slept at a hobo lodg
ing house and chopped wood for his breakfast,
it is not of common report. Peters is different,
more of a doer than a talker, a getter of informa
tion at first hand. Not soon will his friends stop
chaffing him about the adventure to see for him
self how the "down-and-outers" were treated at
the "institution" known as the Wayfarers' Lodge.
Simple is his relation of the morning after:
At an earlv hour this morning, when it was
still dark, a bell rang. I was told it was 5
o'clock, but, as I had no watch. I could not
tell. We all went downstairs, put our night
shirts in a pile, presented our tags, and re
ceived our clothes back. Then I went out with
the others to split wood.
At 48 a man who has spent six years in con
gress and three as mayor of Boston docs not
make the chips fly briskly. It was hard chopping
for the mayor until a husky youth, who had come
to Boston in a box car, sympathetically offered
to do a double job. but the' mayor drew upon his
reserve strength and plied the ax until he had
earned his breakfast of oatmeal, bread and cof
fee. To his new friend A. J. Peters would find
friends anywhere he said casually, walking away
in his hobo disguise: "Go to the city hall today
and inquire for Mayor Peters. I've got a pull
at city hall and may get you a lift." And so it
proved, the young lumberjack getting a job be
fore night. A delightful incident it was when the
masquerading hobo surprised his young friend
by receiving him in state at the city hall and
unlocking the door of opportunity to him. Mayor
of Boston he may be himself some day.
A triumph for his honor all round! The
Wayfarers' Lodge potentate did not recognize
him, gave him the "cold eye," indeed, when he
essayed conversation : nor did a policeman on
duty at city hall know him in the morning. As
one result of the mayor's adventure, the Lodge is
to have more "showers' 'and better accommoda
tions for the "down-and-outers." The Peters
way of roughing it facilitates the winning of
appropriations. There is no refusing a man
who shares the lot of the jobless and the
homelesj. A virile chap, the Harvard-slum
mayor.
Legal Death by Gas
Possibly as a result of the experiences in war,
the state of Nevada has decided to change the
manner of executing persons condemned to
death by law. A bill has passed the legislature
and been submitted to the governor providing
for the use of lethal gas, to be administered in
a special room to be constructed at the state
penitentiary. This method, it is claimed, is even
more merciful than electrocution, which has been
adopted by many states in substitution for hang
ing. Even the electric chair, it is felt, inflicts
an agony upon the condemned and presents a
most revolting sight. A legal death by gas will
probably be speedy, painless and certain. If the
state is to continue to tafce life as a punishment
it should surely take it in the most merciful man
ner. Time was when an execution for crime was
deliberately made shocking as a deterrent. But
it has long since been recognized that the death
penalty is not assuredly a preventive through
force of example. Crime has continued even
though the extreme penalty has been adminis
tered, save in a few states. The present tendency
in the courts is toward the moderation of sen
tences and fewer capital punishments are admin
istered. Still the law stands that death penalty
may be imposed for certain offenses. It has
recently been inflicted in this District for mur
der, and several others are under sentence of
death. The District has retained the old method
of execution by the rope, though recommendation
has repeatedly been made for the substitution
of electricity. If capital punishment is to con
tinue perhaps the Nevada method is to be
preferred. If the governor approves the enact
ment and the gas chamber takes the place of
the electric chair, or the rope, in that state the
practical application of this mode should be
carefully observed. Washington Star.
France and Russia
France and her Robespierre, the directing
brains of the movement, who thought and
planned for years for the day when the power of
iife and death should rest in his hands. Lenine
plotted long in Germany and Switzerland for
the denouement that came four years ago today.
The Declaration of Rights, with but few verbal
changes, might be substituted for the proclama
tion of the Soviets by which the proletariat her
alded the new era. Louis XVI was brought to
the bar to answer for his crimes of misgovern
ment, and after two trials he was sent to the
block in the Place de la Revolution. The bol
shevists showed more brutality when they or
dered officials to murder the czar and every
member of his family and his entourage on whom
their agents could lay hands. Both kings were
weak and both may be said to owe their end to
the underhand machinations of their consorts
with their country's enemies. France in the later
days of its revolution had its Yandee and its
Boncamps and La Rochejacquelin; Russia had its
Ukraine and its Crimea, its Denckine and its
Wrangel.
France found the man of destiny to shake off
he fetters of the tyranny that was choking her.
The hour for such a man has arrived in Russia
today. Montreal Star.
Are Artists Above Ethics ?
A curious ethical problem is raised by the
public exhibition of certain portrait busts of the
leaders of the bolshevik tyranny by a young
woman who disclaims all intention of propa
ganda in exploiting their lineaments and excuses
her seeming ignorance of or indifference to the
real horrors of Russia under bolshevism by a
naive plea that is akin to saying that artists, if
not art, need not be moved by questions of moral
right or wrong. There are those, of course, who
send flowers to convicted murderers and whose
sympathies are seemingly aroused in direct ratio
to the hideous nature of the crime. In the case
of Russia we have a group of men setting up a
blood-stained tyranny who have been so success
ful in assassinating a state that the Czechoslo
vak labor delegation, reporting on . Russia, says
existence there "is not life, but a cemetery."
Why, when the whole world is coming to a
moral judgment on the evils of bolshevism, art
should be represented as indifferent to the shame
of the thing is something that has not yet been
explained by the artist who has represented her
self as wanting to see a revolution because life
was "so dull" in Moscow, and who is quite un
concerned as to what her subjects were or stood
for so long as she could get them to sit for her.lt
is a most curious kind of casuistry that has justi
fied this rushing into Russia in order to parade
before the world the visages of those whose evil
indifference to all standards of humanity has
had such hideously grim results. Indeed, the
most subtle form of propaganda is that which
invests those who serve the devil with the livery
of heaven; in this case the glamor thrown over
the unspeakable reads by invaking the fine arts
in tfceir behalf. For, after all, people are not
compelled to send flowers to murderers, nor is
art forced to limn the "heroes" in murderer's row,
or to debase its talent at the feet of those from
whom the world shrinks in unfeigned orror.
PhiJadelnhia Public Ledger.
How to Keep Well
By DR. W. A. EVANS
Queetion toncerninf hygiene, eanitation and prevention of dleeaee, submitted
to Dr. Evan by readers of The Bee. will be anewered personally, subject to
proper limitation, where a stamped addressed envclcpe is enclosed. Dr Evsns
will not make diagnosis or prescribe for individual dlea. Addrsss letters
in care of The Bee.
Copyright. 1921, by Dr. W. A. Evan
BREAST-FED BABIES
HEALTHIER.
The death rate among the bottle
fed babies is six times that of babies
who are breast fed. This f;ict alone
is enough to make mothers breast
feed their babies. The difference in
the trouble rate is represented by 6
to 1.
Most of the sickness is among the
bottle fed babies. They are most
.subject to diarrhoea, and a baby
with a bad diarrhoea is a source of
great trouble. They have most of
the contagion. Hables at the breast
have almost no measles, whooping
cough, scarlet fever, or diphtheria.
They seem almost incapable of catch
ing these diseases.
Now that mothers know so much
better how to care for their babies
in hot weather and the diarrhoea
death rate is falling so rapidly, the
importance of ' colds, coughs, and
pneumonia among babies is coming
to be recognized. It is said by some
thar the death rate of babies from
pneumonia, bronchitis, and( colds in
the spring of 1920 was higher than
that due to diarrhoea in the mild
summer that followed. Breast fed
babies are not very liable to catch
cold. Breast fed babies are more
subject to colic and colic is a trouble
maker. But of all treatments for
colic, weaning is at the bottom of the
list. To wean a baby In order to cure
him of colic is jumping from the
frying pan into the Tire.
In Minneapolis they reduced the
baby death rate 22 per 'cent in 10
years by a campaign, a prominent
part of which was to persuade wom
en to breast feed their babies. Prac
tically every mother can breast feed.
To do so she must see that the
breasts are emptied completely and
thoroughly and at regular intervals.
If the baby cannot empty the breast
completely, the job must be complet
ed by a borrowed baby or a breast
pump.
The mother must get plenty of
sleep. She must rest enough to
overcome fatigue. She must not
worry. She must not overeat. Some
mothers have too littli; milk because
they do not eat enough, but the theo
ry that mothers must "eat for two"
is responsible for far too much bot
tle feeding.
In the Minneapolis plan the babies
are registered at the health depart
ment promptly, as the law requires.
Before the baby is 3 weeks old a
nurse visits the mother to discuss
breast feeding. If the mother is
having trouble in getting enough
milk for her breast fed baby the
nurso shows her how to overcome
the trouble or sees that she consults
her doctor about it. When the baby
is 6 weeks old it is revisited. It is
then revisited thereafter at inter
vals until 9 months old.
Should Quit Job.
Mrs. J. L. writes: "I am in an
advanced stage of t. b., both lungs
being affected. I tire easily, and the
bones in my legs ache a great deal.
However, I hold up to do my work
(I am cook in a small hotel), and
the people do not suspect there is
anything the matter with me. I
have very little opportunity to be in
the sun, but keep all the fresh air
possible in the kitchen and in my
bedroom and also air my bedclothes
almost every day. There is not a
physician within 50 miles that I can
consult. I am poor."
REPLY.
It is not fair to the people at the
hotel or to yourself for you to con
tinue to cook there. Jf you will go
to a hospital you will get good care,
sunlight, and a chance to rest, which
means a chance for your life. A
tuberculosis hospital or sanitarium
would be better still. There are
many good sanitaria in your state
and several have frco beds for
worthy people like you.
You Are Still In Danger.
R. C. W. writes: "1. Sputum
shows tubercle bacilli, but I weigh
more than at any other time, having
gained 15 pounds in the last 60 days.
Cough in the morning upon arising,
but only occasionally during- the day.
Do not run temperature regularly,
but when the weather is warm it
usually goes to 98. S. I have noticed
this temperature only two or three
days since December 1. 1 have, had
this trouble for two years and at the
beginning ran temperature every
afternoon from 99 to 99.6. Am I cor
rect in believing the disease is at a
standstill now or am I in a good way
of overcoming It entirely by increas-
Making Officeholders
Work
(From the New York Herald.)
One immediate concrete result of
the Harding accession to power is the
opening of an era of real work in the
public offices at Washington. There
is a long-held theory among tho of
ficeholders down there that "it is
foolish to work too hard when Uncle
Sam is the employer." Jt appears
that the new department heads do
not believe in it all. Secretary
Hughes has been turning up at the
State department at 9 a. m.. and the
Postmaster-General, the Attorney
General and the Secretary of War
have been equally early. The Presi
dent appears at bis desk at 8:30.
Now, what is this poor job-holder
to do when his boss chooses to ap
pear at the office "in the middle of
the night" but get there too. It is
hard, but safety first is a maxim no
body dares Ignore at the beginning
of a new administration. Getting to
work, however, is not the worst of it.
Work itself seems to be expected, a
whole day's work every day, and the
day lasting on to regular closing
time.
Nor is there much hope of a let-up
when the newness wears off. There
is a sad feeling through the corri
dors of the Department building
that this is a business regime, though
the cynical speak of new brooms and
dream of easier times.
So the whole army of federal of
ficeholders are peparing themselves
for busy times. It may take some of
the joy out of life, but most of them
had rather forfeit their leisure than
their salaries. As for the man
in the street, he really cannot repress
his chuckles. To have the indolence
of public office jarred into activity
is fun enough in itself. It is also the
first step to economy, to saving the
public money and cutting down the
taxes. If every employe can be made
to do a fair day's work the payrolls
may be reduced perhaps as much as
50 per cent.
There is another and broader
phase besides, to the awakening of
departmental zeal and activity. It
is a much-needed example, a practi
cal lesson to a large number of the
people who think this is the time to
loaf on bloated pay. It is nothing
of the sort. The thing tho country
needs above everything else is full
value in output for the salaries and
wages paid in evfry industry. The
stimulation of the nation's employes
will have a serious suggestion for
everybody, after the first laugh. It
will help impress the idea that the
duty of every man and woman who
draws pay for any service is to give
full value for the money he draws.
Ing my weight and taking cars of
myself?
"2. Are any Texas coast points
beneficial to a tubercular patient?
Which ones, if any?
"9. What distance from the coast
is Los Angeles? Is not the climate
there considered beneficial for tuber
culosis?" REPLY.
1. You are far from being out of
the woods if you have tubercle bacilli
in the Bputum.
2. I do not think so.
3. Los Angeles is a very large city.
It extends from the coast to a point
many miles back In the hills. The
heart of the city is about 20 miles
from the ocean. The Los Angeles
climate is a very good one, but not an
ideal one for tuberculosis.
Dancing; Good Exorcise.
S. T. writes: "Is dancing harmful
for a young girl? Many people say
dancing is the best exercise."
REPLY.
No. It is a good exercise.
Drink lints of Water.
Mrs. J. ,C. M. writes: "I am a
woman of 6S years. My tongue is
always heavily coated and feels thick.
I have taken physics, but they do no
good. Every day my tongue is
furred thick. Please tell me if I
ought to be examined for stomach
trouble?"
REPLY.
Constipation is the principal cause
of coated tongue. Live largely on
bran, vegetables, fruit, and sour milk.
Drink plenty of water.
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For Relief of Ireland.
Omaha, March 21, To The Edi
tor of The Bee: The American com
mittee for relief in Ireland is this
week engaged in gathering a fund
to care for the homeless and desti
tute "over there." Mr. John Rush Is
chairman of the local organization.
With him are associated Messrs. Ar
thur F. Mullen, D. P. Hogan, T. B.
Coleman, and the undersigned. Mr.
O. T. Eastman is the local treasurer.
The fund will be expended by Ameri
can Quakers who are already at
work in every part of the island.
More than 100 Omaha ladies vol
unteered to sell shamrocks on St.
Patrick's day for this charity. They
deserved and received the courteous
and generous treatment which Oma
ha people always give to an appeal
for humanity. The sales total
amounted to $3,450. The committee
sincerely thanks everyone who con
tributed to this success.
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(Reprinted Editorial of March 1 6th by
Courtesy of Chicago Journal of Commerce)
Ford and the Jews
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No intelligent reader of Henry Ford's personal publicity organ,
the Dearborn Independent, can doubt the malign purpose of
his series of attacks on the Jewish race as a whole. Nor can there
be a doubt as to the use to which these vicious articles will be put
wherever enemies of the Jews exist. They seek to incite distrust,
hatred, persecution and ostracism of a great people wherever lo
cated which means unjust discrimination against the J ewa every
where, political action against them in some countries, religious
persecution in others, business hostility in others, and massacre
and butchery in yet others.
Who can doubt that translations of Ford's stuff in some parts of
Europe and Asia will be accepted and acted upon as American
authority for the extermination of Jews? The protestations
' against any desire to do injustice to this people which appear so
frequently in the articles in the Independent betray consciousness
of the hideous use of them, which will be made in certain parts of
the world, and are in effect a mere defense before tne act, against
what is likely to happen.
In this connection it must be remembered that Ford is known the
world over. His "peace ship" during the war, and the general use of
his cars in every civilized country, give him an importance abroad
which he has not at home, where his pitiful limitations of judg
; ment, of sense, of, knowledge and vision have long humiliated his
friends. In his campaign against the Jews are marshalled a mean
disposition, a narrow intellect, a staff of hired hatred and
mendacity, plus enormous money power all turned to a con
temptible and cruel purpose.
There is nothing Ford has said about the Jews through his editors
which might not be said with equal truth of individual members of
other races that have gained a foothold in this land of promise for
the oppressed of all nations and climes, except that he recognizes
the genius for business organization, for thrift, and for unflagging
industry, and powerful influence in finance, of those he hates. His
attacks upon the Jews are offensive, immoral, and contrary to the
spirit of American political and social institutions exactly what
might be expected of a man who exerted all the power of his
wealth to deprive his son of opportunity to make an honorable
record as a soldier of the nation; who, by that one act, showed his
lack of patriotism when Jews were meeting their obligations to the
Republic in numerous regiments the country over. If the nation
at large had been composed of Henry Fords and their sons we
would have cut a sorry figure instead of a glorious one on the bat
tlefields of Europe.
The use of a personal press for mischievous purposes has not been
confined to Ford's organ. Another notable instance of efforts to
incite hatred of a people has England for its target. It is all bad
business, whether the people be Jewish, English, Irish, French, or
of any other nationality. It is entirely proper to publish justifiable
criticism of governmental conduct anywhere, of wrongs commit
ted by individuals of any race, but the attempted indictment of all
American citizens of the Jewish race is, in our opinion, a gross in
fringement on their rights, and a wicked perversion of the legiti
mate functions of a free press. The time will come, we have no
doubt, when Henry Ford will be appalled by the consequences of
his misconduct not in this country, where intelligence condemns
him, but abroad, where his sinister utterances will be acted upon
in a horrible way. Racial hatreds, once aroused, are the most im
placable and ineradicable of all evil passions.
DOES FORD KNOW IT?
ident.
L. V. NICHOLAS OIL CO.
"Business Is Good, Than1( You."
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