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The Bees Platform
1. New Uaioa Paaeaafsr Statioa.
2. Contiau) improvement of tti N
brsska Hifhwajra, isclndinf tho
maat of Main Thoroughfare Uadiaf
' into Omaka wllk a Brick Surface.
3. A short, low-rate Waterway from tka
Cera Bait to the Atlantic Ocean.
4. Homo Rule Charter v for Omaka, witb
City Manager form of GoTaramaat.
"Mother o' Mint."
It is not given to every man to be "hanied
cn a wind-swept bill," nor is such an ending at
all attractive; but if that were the fate in store,
we may be very certain that the mothers of men
would be there to soothe the last moments of
the condemned, to 'weep 0vr his dishonored
head, and to comfort him by all the tender means
that only mothers may command.
And men know this. They accept it as one
of the things in life not to be Questioned, just
as they accept the immortality of the soul, the
existence of God, fundamental supports of their
faith in higher and better things than sordid
life affords, and therefore incentives to the up
ward striving Of the soul. It was motherhood
that gave man bis first inkling of creation and
the Creator; to motherhood in the first place
was ascribed all the wonders that surpassed
man's understanding, and to this may be traced
tbe origin of the symbols now held ihOst sacred
among all religions.
What man is there who dots not honor his
mother? Who has not felt the influence of her
love, reaching out to him through the darkness
of the troubled hour, across the abyss of time,
enfolding him with grace and mercy akin to the
divine? And, as mother recedes into the past,
there remain precious memories of her gentle
patience, her unfailing sympathy, her understand
ing appreciation of the difficulties, the trials, the
dangers of babyhood, childhood, youth and ma
turity; her readiness to help, her anticipatory
sacrifices, ' the abnegation she .uncomplainingly
practiced, her faith, her hope, and her love for
the children she bore; attributes beyond human
ken, the boundless possession of mother.
A day for mother? She is satisfied with a
moment now and then, or content with lest than
that. She toils and loves and sorrows and plans
and finds in thai her compensation. From the
moment nature whispers so softly to-her than
none else can hear the great secret till her tired
hands arc folded in that last long slumber, she
gives all and would give more if she might to
the little one, because she can not do otherwise.
One day to remember mother? Every day
should be devoted to that. Mother ddts not
exact the tribute, but men and women should
joyously pay it. for in honoring mother they are
simply acknowledging that they realize the finest
thing in life. . '
Mother! No other word in the language
means as much, i. No other love is like hers.
There is no substitute for mother. Thank God
for mother!
Next Door to Paradise.
Who 1b the happy warrior? Who I he .
That every man In arms would like to be? '
" Wordsworth' query is given a new answer
by those organizations in Honolulu that are
fostering a plan for an immense home for dis
abled floldiers on one of the Hawaiian islands.
The isles of the blest, the heritage of every
warrior when the fire ,that won victory burns
low, are now definitely charted. , ' ' A
"The nation needs right now a building that
will cost millions, to house the disabled veter
ans," J. H. Pierce, himself a soldier in the Civil
warj said to the Ad club of Honolulu a short
time ago. - "Where should this building be erect
ed? Is the best any too good for Our dear boy
who crushed kaiserism, placed the cross above
the crejcent.iand America first among the na
tions of the world?
. "And, where is the best? Is it not in these
islands with which God furnished the world, the
true Garden of Eden? The isles of the blest,
wheie every brcer.e is laden with the otone of
the sea. where night rivals the day in the revela
tions of beauty and where nature is lavish with
peace and plenty of a land that knows only the
sweetest of summer bowers, fruit and flowers.'
The skeptical mainland may suspect that the
orator lias been reading some of the South sea
fiction that is now so popular, but with his funda
mental thought, that America, having fed the
starving world, nursed the wounded and financed
so many foreign nations, should not leave its
own heroes to suffer without the best of care
and 'comfort. The hospital and rehabilitation
methods of the United States are now being im
proved and recognition has been taken of the
fact that disabled service men have been in more
than a few cases left in dire straits. A home for
veterans on the Pacific islands, however, is some
thing that has never occurred to official minds,
which run more to the practical than the roman
tic. '
Too Much Stunt Flying.
Always on the alert fbr a "thrill, the Ameri
can public is just now giving close attention to
airplane exhibitions. Chances are always much
in favor of an accident, wherein a venturesome
flyer loses his life, or at best is badly crippled.
A few years ago automobile racing afforded
much the same, sort of attraction. Spectators
were reasonably assured in advance that some
of the participants in the contest would Suffer
much and maybe be killed. It Was i gamble
with death, and the morbid crowd is always eager
to watch such a contest Aviation is not yet a
secure occupation, however serviceable it hasl
come to be. Its ordinary hazard is quite enough
to meet requirements, but these have been
greatly enhanced by the stunt flyers, who are
pressing ever closer and closer to the impossible,
and the death of one merely serves to induce
others t6 make the attempt in which the victim
failed. There is no moral to this, any ritore than
there is a moral to the old tales of the Roman
populace, who thronged the amphitheater to
watch the gladiators kill one another in the
arena. The Romans were only looking for a
thrill.
i A Very Reno of Marriage.
In South Dakota is a judge who ties the
matrimonial knot to stay. Of all the couples
who have stood before him and said, "I do," not
one has afterward said, "I won't." This almost
fabulous record ought to make the town , of
Miller, S. D., a place of pilgrimage. , It is not to
be believed that many people marry with the
idea of anything but a permanent union, and
when it gets about that no couple married by
this judge has even engaged in divorce proceed
ings, his town is likely to become even more
popular than Reno. '
So many weddings are only slipknots in
the last 20 years there have been almost 2,000,
000 divorces. Instead of the court being the last
resort in family differences, it now seems to have
became the first, and a certain class of lawyers
make a comfortable living off the business of
separation. There is very efficient machinery for
removing unwanted husbands or wives, but little
provision for attempting conciliation. In some
cases the trifling nature of disputes that lead to
divorce is proved by the fact of remarriage be
tween the two parties.
In Nebraska there is one divorce to every
7.33 weddings. This is not a good showing,
although 20 other states make a worse one.
Nevada, where many estranged persons from
other states go to obtain an easy decree, has
one divorce to every 1.54 weddings, and Oregon
has a divorce for every 2.52 marriages, The rate
of divorce per 100,000 population in Nebraska is
144, which puts our state in 25th place.
Whether it is owing to the worthy influence
of the marrying judge of South Dakota or not,
figures show that in that state nine couples out
of every 10 who marry there do so for keeps. It
is one of the few places where the people can
read one of those old-fashioned novels which
end, "And they lived happily ever after," without
laughing themselves into hysterics at the ri
diculousness of it.
For the eountry as a whole the divorce rate
is said to be increasing three times as fast as
the population. It is time people thought twice
before accepting separation as the only way out
of matrimonial rnisundcrsandings, some of which
are rather slight and might be cured by delay.
But the beginning is a time for deep considera
tion as well. If the seriousness of getting mar
ried were better realized, if young couples would
pause for a moment in the midst of their romance,
many bad matches might be avoided.
Bearing the "White Man's Burden."
Elsewhere on this page will be found a short
account of the efforts of an Omaha man at
establishing civilization among wild people. For
over three centuries the Spaniards had dealt
with the Filipinos and with little or no effect. In
truth, we found the Moros more fanatically in
tractable than theV were when the Spaniards first
went among them. All attempts at spreading
Christian ways among them had failed; they
were pirates by tradition, and scorned the peace
ful ways of the European. In seven years this
Omaha man accomplished what had been deemed
impossible. He induced the sultan of Sulu to
abdicate; he established self-government among
the natives; has brought education and enlight
enment into the land, set up industry, especially
organized agriculture, and has taught Moham
medan and Christian to sit side by side in coun
cil, and Hot cut off one another's heads.
This is part of what Uncle Sam has been do
ing for those islands. It has not been an easy
task. The workers have been interfered with by
politicians, both at home and over there. Steadily
they have plodded on with the wfork of bringing
that backward and savage people up to a stand
ard that will mean political independence, to be
maintained by an enlightened citizenship. In
setting forward the task as far as it has pro
ceeded, the United States has accomplished One
of the greatest jobs yet undertaken by a civil
ized nation. Jus as in Cuba a backward and
Oppressed people was set up on a responsible,
self-governing basis, and with no thought of
reward, other than comes from transforming a
neighborhood source of trouble into a peaceful
community, so have we done in the Philippines,
The more the matter is studied, and some
day the tale will be told in full, the more is it
made certain that the United States has been
Carrying a full share of "the white man's bur
den," and doing its job in a most thorough
manner. ' .,, '- .
Tempting the Devil.
It is not a pleasant thing to think Of, the
story of the finding of a woman of 30 who has
been confined in a darkened room of her moth
er's home for 16 years. Even if her mental state
had been of the best before having been con
fined to her cell, she could not emerge from it
row" without being weakened both physically
and mentally.'
Companionship and the Stimulation that comes
from bodily and mental activity are necessary
to the full development of human beings. Even
though this girl -had been feeble-minded at the
start, she might have developed her power
through finding useful and productive occupa
tion. An idle mind and an idle body, tempt the
devil and all his ills. 1
This movement on the part of the ship own
ers to cut djown the number of sailors required
in each crew might be all right if no accidents
and emergencies ever befell in which passengers
need every protection.
The New Jersey police woman who was. badly
beaten in arresting- a man criminal will perhaps
get a lot of credit when she ought to be given
a few lessons in common sense.
For a place 1,000 miles from nowhere, with
a population of 2,700 and an area of 70 square
miles, Yap is getting more than its share of pub
It begins to appear that the war was lost not
only by the Central powers, but by the whole
world.
In the old romances people used to die for
love, but itow they only kill.
A good place to start disarmament would be
with Senator Borah.
Frank W. Carpenter: Hero
Wonderful Work Omaha Man
Has Accomplshed Among Moros
Omaha shortly will have an opportunity to
entertain a former resident who really has a claim
to distinction, and yet who has so modestly and
unassumingly done his share of a great work
that few have heard of him. Frank W. Carpenter,
who succeeded John J.' Pershing as governor of
Mindanao and Sulu, has just retired and is about
to take a vacation after more than 20 years of
uninterrupted service in the Philippines. That
announcement might wind up the story of Mr.
Carpenter's career, so far as publicity in the
United States generally is concerned, but over
there it is different. Filipino newspapers and
public men tell a different story. For example,
the Mindanao Herald, published at Zamboango,
says:
' Carpenter is the biggest man that has ever
served in the Philippine government, and he if,
without a shadow of a doubt, the best friend
that the Filipino people ever had or may hope
to have, irrespective of race, and including
their own patriots. '
Who is this man, of whom such seemingly
extravagant statements may be- made? It is
pretty hard to tell in a few words. Many years
ago. back in the early 90s, a young man enlisted
in the Second infantry at Fort Omaha, serving
his "hitch" with that regiment, and getting his
first real lessons in business life? Between the
date of his enlistment and now extends a con
tinued record of hard work, 30 years on the gov
ernment pay roll, 20 of them in the Philippines.
What has he done to merit the praise so lavishly
bestowed on him in the islands, where he seems
to be leaving more friends than any American
who ever served there ? C. W. Farwell wrote in
Current History las't October:
In the closing of the term of Frank W.
Carpenter as department governor of Mindanao
and Sulu we have another such record. The
story of Mindanao is more wonderful than that
of Cuba, for it is the story of a wild, uncon
querable people brought at last, by patient
understanding and helpfulness, to submission,
and, paradoxically, to self-government.
; . Carpenter went to the Philippines, with Law
ton, a civilian clerk, having completed his enlist
ment with the Second infantry and entered into
the staff service. After General Lawton's death
Mr. Carpenter was made chief clerk to General
Bates, and through a series of well-earned pro
motions came to. be in J906 executive secretary
to the governor general. While he was thus
working up in the service of the island govern
ment. Captain Pershing was winning his "star"
in Mindanao; followed by General Wood, then
by Bliss, and he in turn by General Pershing, and
the military problem Of Moro pacification was
being worked out. In 1913 Pershing was ordered
to home station and assigned to the Mexican
border, and then it was Frank W. Carpenter
began the real work of setting up the government
of the department. He1 was confronted with the
most stupendous task ever assigned a man. Four
hundred thousand fierce, implacable natives had
to be brought into submission; the sultan of Sulu
had to be induced to abdicate his arbitrary rule,
the "juramentado" custom had to be broken up;
in general, the lives of these fanatic Moham
medans were lo be turned into a new channel.
The military had overawed, but had not subdued
them. After a little more than seven years Gov
ernor Carpenter leaves his post with the loving
respect of natives who have learned to appreciate
his kindly interest, his unfailing patience, and his
persistence for justice and the right. It was he
who persuaded the sultan to accept the "Bates
treaty," to give up his rule, and it was he also
who showed the natives a better way of, doing
things; who did not disturb their religion, but
did turn their lives from idleness to comparative
industry, who made the byways free and (safe,
set ,up schools, established regard for property,
and made law the rule rather than the jest of the
islands under his sway, and made it possible for
the Manila Free Press to write of him:
. The brightest page in Governor Carpenter's
career, his magnum opus, his supreme achieve
ment, is found written in the records of the
Department of Mindanao and Sulu. For years
it had been recognized that the greatest inter
nal problem of the Philippines, the chief in
herent obstacle to political independence, was
the so-called Moro problem, the winning of the
400.000 more or less hostile and reputedly ir
reconcilable Mohammedan population of Min
danao and Sulu, to the full acknowledgement
of United States sovereignty, to the abandon
ment of warlike customs, and the acceptance
of a reign of peace, to the introduction of a
civil government in which they themselves
should take part, and to relations of amity and
harmony and fraternity with their Filipino
brethren who religiously own the sway of the
Cross instead of the Crescent. .
When then Executive Secretary Carpenter
was asked to undertake such a. mission, he was
warned by his friends that failure awaited him;
that all his past record would be blotted out
in inglorious disaster; that peace between the
fierce warriors . of the south and their more
civilized brothers of the north was an "ire
descent dfeam," and that the end thereof would
be ignominy and discredit and disgrace. His
answer to all such dire forebodings might be
found surrtmed up in the motto on the crest of
the Prince of Wales: "Ich dien!" (I serve).
As a soldier he had learned to do his duty, to
obey, and, from the beginning, such has been
his creed of service; his "not to reason why,"
his "not to make reply." And such was the
spirit in which he accepted the task he was
called npon to perform, . ;
How the. "patently impossible and vain"
has been accomplished; how the miracle has
been wrought; how "in Uie teeth of all the
schools," the skepticism of the army, the scoff
ings of old associates in the government, the
jeremiads of his friendshow in the face of all
and in spite of all, the foolish dream has been
realized is now a matter of recorded history; ,
Today, behold the Moro and his Christian
brother mingling in harmony and associating
in council; behold the "kmapilong" and the
"barong" and the "kris" replaced by the plow
and other implements of industry; behold the
schoolhouses dotting the land; behold perma
nent plantings of six and seven and eight-year
fruition, which, better than anything else, give
pacific pledge, scattered throughout that vast
area of 36.000 square miles.
Now, having wrought, and "weary and old
.with service," Governor Carpenter startds at
the parting of the ways. He lays down the
burden of the cares of state, borne, lo. these
many years. In it there is both joy and sad
ness. In it there is something of the sugges
tion of that scene many years ago, when a
former governor, addressing his bureau chiefs
on the eve of his departure, quoted from Kip
ling's "Galley Slave": ;
But today I leave the- galley, and another '
takes my place;
. There'a my name Upon the deckbeam let
It stand a little space.
I am free to watch my messmates beating
out to open main; ,.
Free of all that life ean offer save to handle
sweep again.
It is interesting to read of how Governor
Carpenter accomplished b'p miracle; how he pa
tiently wore down an obdurate sultan, conquered
his ambitious and unreconciled mother; how he
induced the suspicious Moros to become trustful,
and how he introduced into the islands the arts
and ways of peace to supplant those of war.
Some day he may tell them, a bit more fully
than they are set out in official reports, and with
more of .real st than they are given in news
paper reports. For the present ,it must suffice
that this man, who began in Omaha 30 years ago
as a private soldier, comes back to his native land
a conqueror as full of honors as though he had
won on field of battle the victories he accom
plished in the quiet of au executive office
How to Keep Well
By DR. W. A. EVANS
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tion and prevention of disease, tub
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. closed. Dr. Evans will not nsho
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diseases. Address letters ia cars of
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Copyright. 1921. by Dr. W. A. Evans.
ABOUT SNAKE POISON.
A correspondent invites me to read
an account of a study of the poison
ous Qualities of -certain serpents and
other animals written by members
of the Phtsalix family. As translated
and abstracted this account appears
in several American periodicals. I
thought the letter had a ha ha ring
and the title of the article, "All Ser
pents Are Venomous." confirmed the
impression.
As a scientific contribution the
I'hlsallx study was all right, but it
did not change my position at all.
I hold that the common wild fear of
snakes is unjustified: that there are
very few snakes of any American
speclps which carry a deadly dose
of poison.
The French study showed that 15
minims of blood serum of a common
wild grass snake injected into the
veins will. kill a frog, a sparrow, or
a guinea pig. That a)l lower verte
brates are more or less poisonous.
This includes fish, eels and frogs.
The poison was extracted from these
animals and injected hypodermically
into certain test animals, killing
them when the dose was sufficiently
large. In all Instances the poison
ous animals did not poison when
taken ns food. To get the poison
ous effect it was necessary to . get
around the liver by injecting the
poison into the tissues or into the
blood.
So endeth the story. Am I con
verted? No. Shall our people re
fuse to walk forth for fear of the
deadly rattle unless equipped with a
gallon of wild red eye? Again, no!
The trouble about the French sci
entists is that they did not go far
enough. They did not prove a third
of what everybody knows or what
has been proved many times before.
Mosquito saliva is poisonous when
hypodermirally injected. So is the
saliva of ants, wasps, bees and so
on. The most harmless substances
of eertain kinds are poiaonous in a
certain sense when injected under
thfi skin or into the blood.
Dr. "V. C. Vaughan, dean of the
University of Michigan, wrote a largo
volume on this subject several years
ago. The injection of different pro
teins and often of harmless vaccines
is in common .use as a means of
causing a fever and generally stir
ring up an indifferent system and
making it fight back on the same
principle that setons and blisters
were used in the olden times.
Btit what has all this to do with
the danger of life from a snake bite?
Nothing? This is a good place to
thank the kind friends who send me
newspaper clippings about cases of
fatal snake bite. I have received
more than twenty clippings, taken
from more than ten different papers,
reporting the same fatality.
I have come to the conclusion that
there are two or three fatalities due
to-rattlesnake bite in Texas each
year. There are one or two occur
ring yearly in the far northwest, prin
cipally Oregon and Washington, and'
somewhere about one more on the
average in" other portions of the
west: There are 100,000,000 people
here, and the number dying each
year is about 1,500,000. Of these
1,500,000 deaths, let-us say five are
due to snake bite.
The only snake havingf a large ,
doss of poison in his bag is the rat- l
tier, very few rattlers carry a fata"
dose. There should be a specific for
rattlesnake bite,: but manufacturing
houses to which' I have written, say
it would not pay to make it, as the
demand is too small. I think the
state health, department of Texas
should make it as a public service
for the citizens of that state.
, Perhaps the same opinion holds
as to- Washington, Oregon, and a
few other states. It would not rt
quire much of research work to de
vise such a remedy, in the mean
time there are- ordinary preventives,
but they are of little use. I imagine
most of them depend on the virtues
of permanganate of potash. This
drug has a little virtue, perhaps, it
used freely and promptly.
Difficult to Diagnose.
McD. writes: "In your article,
'For Nervous Women, you mention
nerve syphilis as an important fac
tor in nervous breakdown.
"1. To' what extent, if any Is it
hereditary?
"2. What are its symptoms?
"3. Is it generally recognized by
physicians or is it probable that a
doctor might overlook It ire his diag
nosis? "4. Is it curable? If so, how?
"6. Is it widespread?"
REPLY.
1. To a moderate but not great
extent. ' Even approximate valuation
is manifestly impossible.
2. The symptoms of nerve syphi
lis vary. The two outstanding forms
sre paresis and locqmotor ataxia.
The first is a form of insanity. . The
last is a disease of the spinal cord
which starts with ; sharp shooting
pains. i
3. The existence of nerve syphilis
is often overlooked for .a. consider
able time.
4. To a very limited extent.
- 5. Yes. ' ' '
Deportment at the
Play
GO'kI for Light Cases. ,
Interested writes: "I km inclos
ing an old prescription for ring
worm. ' It also is fine for itch. It
was tried on a stubborn case with
wonderful results. If applied as soon
is a spot appears that's the last' of
t. Here it is: Salicylic acid,. 80
grains; alcohol, 1 ounce."
. REPLY. Y ' '
' This will cure many simple cases.
It will fall to cure the difficult ones.
Thanks,
From tlio New York Times.
Audiences come in for a scolding
in a recent Issue of the London
Times. Mr. A. B. Walkley, whose
veteran service as a . flrst-nlghter
would would have. cHse-hardcned a
less sensitive spirit, finds that they
applaud too much, and most Inop
portunely. "If you think of It,
"striking one palm against another
with a resounding smack is a queer
way of expressing your deltght. It
suggests the monkey tricks of prime
val man." It is onrt of the worst
"nuisances of the theater." The Joy
of the playhouse is that it casts a
"spell of illusion," creates for the
time "an imaginary world." Yet the
friends of this and that actor ap
plaud his entrance, applaud each
telling moment, applaud his exit and
positively clamor that he come on
again to acknowledge their applause.
The spell of illusion collapses in dull
reality, in a mess of insistent per
sonalities. "The true artist." says
Mr. Walkley. "would be disconcerted
by what is a sign that his imagina
tive hold on the spectator has mo
mentarily broken down." The de
portment of audiences, in short, "is
one of the failures of our civilisa
tion." Would the true artist be discon
certed, or rather Is he? The failure
of civilisation, alas, is more wide
spread and devastating than Mr.
Walkley seems to know. So dear
to the heart is this resounding
smack, this monkey trick even to
the hearts of great actors that life
on the stage would be inconceivable
without it. The histrionic devices
for enforcing applause are countless,
and the only complaint is that so
many of them fall to work upon mod
ern audiences. Time was when Lady
Gay Spanker, in "London Assur
ance," could step right out of the
picture, lean over the footlights, de
liver her description of the chase
at the very noses of the audience
and reap a whirlwind of applause.
Time was and time has been. The
brazen head cl Friar Bacon and
Friar Bungay spo!?e no more fate
fully than the audiences of our real
istic theater, to which such appeals
are taboo. When Shaw wrote "Ma
jor Barbara"- he intended that the
Cannon Maker should employ this
trick with his long speech in the last
act. But 'that, as it proved, was be
yond even Shaw's audacity. When
the play was produced here, Louis
Calvert repeating his performance
as the Cannon Maker, the idea was
again discussed. At the thought of
such an opportunity the actor's eye
glistened; but his courage faltered
8nd he remained "in the picture."
Elsewhere as in London, assurance
for this sort of thing is now lacking.
Another and more subtle device
is well known to all Shakespearean
actors of the good old school. AVhen
any showy speech was to be deliv
ered, such as the monologue of
Jaques on the seven ages of man,
the actor "took the center" as far
down stage as he could and still be
in the picture, rpoke as fully as he
dared to the audience and with the
last line "took the corner." That Is
to say, as he rolled upon his tongue !
Sins teeth, suns eyes, sans taste, sans
every thing
bis gestures became rhythmic,
floating, and he wafted himself to a
leg of the proscenium arch with
something like a waltz step. Having
thus' considerately made way for
another to "come center" and take
up the dialogue, he stood with head
bowed in pretended modesty. Such
splendid eloquence married to such
self- effacement The audience never
failed to rise in a tempest of re
sounding smacks that quite "killed"
the entrance of the hero. Orlando,
bearing - the faithful Adam. The
luckless twain stood foolishly by "up
center," gritting their teeth with
rage, while the house resounded in
acclaim of the melancholy modesty
of Jaques down by the footlights
happy, perfidious Jaques! But all
that is nO more. Your cold-blooded
modern audience still reward the
'sleight with a monkey trick or so;
but In their hearts they are instinc
tively against an actor , who takes
the corner. Year by year a grimmer
fnte encompasses the artist whose
life breetf is p.pplauee.
Something ought really to he done
about it. Acting is the most per
sonal of the arts, more personal
even than dancing, for it employs as
its executive instrument not only the
body but the face, the voice the
Very mind itself, which kindles to
every word, every mood of the dra
matist. No idea is moro absurdly
overworked than that it Is the busi
ness of the actor to merge his per
sonality In each successive part One
actor of the present generation does
this Consummately, the Hollander
de Vries and how many In the wide
world ever heard of him? But who
can ever forget the outstanding, in
variable personalities of Irving and
Terry, of Bernhardt, Duse, Forbes
Robertson, Mansfield? If. they
created a variety of characters, it
was with their minds. But it was
their physical selves, the radiant en
ergy of blood, nerve and sinew, that
filled the playhouse and made it rise
to them. If that failed to register
m an instinctive acclaim, their little
hour, was done.
In the theater personality and il
lusion interpenetrate and blend.
Now, as among the ancients,- the
word dearest ip th heart of the
ector is plaudit. Even in the time
of Plautus monkey tricks were a
tradition.
Follow your ancient custom and applaud!
Ultimata in Sinecures.
It would bo Interesting to know
what, the 363 employes of the league
of nations at the headquarters in
Geneva, Switzerland, find to do, aside
from admiring the scenery. Spring
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Around Washington seethes and
swirls a score of little groups bent
and determined upon disbanding the
army, scrapping the navy, melting
American guns into medals to hang
upon themselves and forging the
sword of America into gilded halos
to place upon their own misguided
brows. These are the limelight hunt
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Of such are many of the most vocif
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These would go tripping forth
wfth sweet words Jn their mouths
and palms in their hands to argue
matters of national life and death
with an enemy armed to the teeth.
We may recall that it was this ilk
that busied itself with honeyed mes
sages of goodwill, what time the Hun
w-ns ramping on iron hoofs through
Belgium.
They have their own little patter
as to the causes of wars, gleaned
from the arch-pacifists of the ages.
It merely pains and bores them to
recall the great surges of humanity
that have run through the centuries,
the urges that have sent whole races
moving as the salmon move to the
soa. They believe that the long
courses of ages, of time and of his
tory can be changed by a resolution.
It seems to be their hope ' that
somehow America can be prevailed
upon to stand up with naked hands
and bared breast In the midst of a
world that is now armed as never
the world was armed before. They
would hold aggressive ambitions in
cheek by an appeal to the better na
tures of a whole people that be
lieves in its destiny and that destiny
Is not a pacifist destiny. They would
stop the Red armies of Sovietdom by
the gesture, palm outward, f "Peace
be with you. Peace be unto you!"
Such folk follow their wishes and
hopes and sentiments rather than
reason and experience. They ignore
the fact that there is a slow, steady,
grinding movement of people against
people, of race against race, that
has a habit of ending In war.
Ostrich-like, they stick their heads
in the sands of their Illusions and
what they wish to believe becomes
what they do believe. '
Norman Angell and many another
moved that war could not come.
' . - nr.a
jjuttno great war came. iivn,
rocking in the ground swell from
the terrible storm, we are told that
all storms are over; that skies of all
the world will brood peacefully over
humanity throughout the untroubled
centuries If we will only disarm. ;
If and when other nations dis
arm so will we. The president 1i
making that plain. The sane frlendi
of disarmament know that the pro
cess must be gradual; that it must
come, slowly if it is to come at all.
Time must, pass, and the slow spread
of the idea must be taken into ac
count. ...
The genuine friends of disarma
ment know that a congressional
resolution will not change the heart
of mnn; that it will not take out of
him his hatreds, envies, greeds, pas
sions and the urge of growth and of
change. Here is a' place to make
haste with exceeding great slowness.
The world is the world, and men
are men after all. Also men wanted
swords and forged them before they
used them.
Where Einstein' Is Lacking. '
One reason why Professor Ein
stein's theory appears so opaque. to
the average American la because ho
does not use the same sort of lan
guage employed by Colonel House.-
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