THE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1921
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The Bee's Platform
1. New Union Passenger Statioa.
2. Continued improvement of the Ne
braska Highways, including the pave
ment of Main Thoroughfare leading
into Omaha with Brick Surface.
3. A short, low-rat Waterway from the
Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean.
4. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
;- America First.
Events, of tremendous significance are
transpiring in Washington. The whole trend
of American economic history for a generation
is involved in the pending proposals for refund
ing the debts of foreign nations, for a new tariff
and for advancing international trade. The three
ire inseparably linked and with them is bound
the problem of American foreign political policy,
for politics and business abroad since the day
when an American secretary of state coined the
phrase "dollar diplomacy" "go hand in hand.
;; GeorgeM. Reynolds, a Chicago banker who
had his start in Iowa, is represented as speaking
for unified f western financial interests when he
icclarw- that attention should be paid first to
lomcstic' finance, second to international finance.
Mr. Reynlods points out that only 7 per cent
of our trade is foreign, that 93 per cent is do
mestic. He argues that the national economic
policy should be based on the needs of the 93
ler cent and not the 7 per cent.
The argument has its appeal. Within limits
it is sound. The men in Washington charged
with the responsibility of reorganizing American
governmental finance should consider of course
ihe 93 per cent ahead of the 7 per cent. It may
se, however, that the 7 per cent will exercise an
fifluente on the 93 per cent which they can not
verlook, an influence potent for reasons entirely
lutsido of. anything they may do. For instance,
f the American farmers produce sufficient wheat
0 feed this country and 10 per cent more, the
joreign demand for that 10 per cent surplus will
lave a most direct and important effect upon the
price of the 90 per cent disposed of in this coun
try. Taking care of the interests affected by the
)0 per cent may be accomplished best, and per
Vaps can be accomplished only, by dealing with
he disposal of the 10 per cent.
The problem is not as simple as it may sound.
.It may not be practicable to cast aside the 7 per
:ent which Mr. Reynolds talks about and forget
about it. What he probably meant to suggest
is that the minor fraction should not be viewed
primarily for itself but only as it affects the
larger. In that he is right and public opinion
mpports him. The day of repairing the broken
heart of,;the world is past This country has
problems pf its own, problems so immediate and
so serious" that it can not afford to devote its
major attention to the difficulties of others, even
!f it wished.
; There is such a thing as too much charity.
The Good Book says: "God helps those that
help themselves." The laggard and slothful can
not expect to receive life, prosperity and happi
ness as a gift from those who practice industry,
frugality and thrift., America can not be Lady
Bountiful to all the world if it would. Nor does
it want to. If the verdict last November meant
anythingat meant that the American people want
to consider their own problems first, with only
riecessai'IIy' incidental consideration of the prob
lems of others. America's first consideration today
is to ge'Ctback on its own feet. An automobile
in the mid, without chains, is in no position to
pull another out of the ditch.
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Band Concerts in Summer.
j; In opportunity for recreation the small towns
of Nebraska do not lag behind Omaha. Ne
braska jQ$s not possess any sea beach, or even
many lajafs, but the public-spirited citizens of
many communities. have installed swimming pools
that are if very bit as wet. From a treeless prairie
it has bfecn transformed with wooded parks,
havens or birds and resorts of picnickers. All
this pay dividends in happiness, and is good
businesst.too, for those towns which make them
selves rriost attractive are the ones that will draw
more and more trade and increase in population.
The business men of Table Rock, the news
is, hive raised a fund to provide weekly band
concerts fpr their community. Perhaps the city
treasury) short of funds, as is the case with
Omaha, but the citizens have stepped into the
breach, subscribed money and held entertain
ments to insure a form ol Saturday night di
version other than promenading up and down
the main street Omaha needs band concerts
; "In its- parks, too, and a similar effort to raise
"Ihe means by subscription is being made. Surely
ihe metropolis of Nebraska will not fall short of
'rrsajaller neighbor's generosity and public spirit.
V ',. The Way to "Beat Back."
On the question of the location of the new
state reformatory the position of The Bee has
been made plain; some other community than
. Lincoln ought to be chosen to sever all possible
connection or confusion between those in the
. ,;orrectional institution for first offenders and the
hardened criminals in the state penitentiary.
IfMmf board of control has altered its
originally "rumored intention to locate the re
formatory, in the shadow of the prison, this is
well, bu$ tne P,ea made to !t t0 train reformatory
nmates as farm workers instead of skilled crafts
men is of questionable wisdom.
The practical thing to do with young men
who have fallen into evil ways is to instill in
them not only a spirit of industrybut knowledge
of some productive vocation by which they can
always njake a living. To confine this instruc
tion to work on a farm is not achieving such an
end. To become a farmer one needs capita!,
and itifji any of the class sent to the reforma-
tory will be able to become more than farm
hands upon their discharge. Forjhc most part
such an occupation is only seasonal, and the
drift back to the cities and to idleness would be
inevitable. By no means should the original
plan of training these men for skilled
trades be given up. To have a vocation at which
employment can always be foun will be the
means of saving many who through idleness, lack
of employment or training have fallen into the
first stages of crime.
Poor Time to Raise Rates.
Reports from Lincoln indicate a steady flow
of protests from out-state towns against the pro
posed continuance of the 10 per cent surcharge
on Northwestern Bell Telephone rates, with an
increase on certain long distance tolls. In
Omaha, the city commissioners are up in arms
unanimously against a requested increase in
street railway fares. In both instances, the gen
eral complaint is that the trend of prices is
downward and that, even if the utilities are able
to show a lack of profit on their investment at
present valuations, they should do as many other
industries and discount the forthcoming reduc
tions in both valuations and expenditures.
The argument has weight. It is true that
these two companies are not alone in the public
utility field in theirr attitude, nor is that attitude
confined o public utilities. There are other in
dustries which have postponed the day of re
duced prices. But the number which have made
cuts is the larger and is steadily increasing; on
the other hand, one searches almost in vain for
those which have the hardihood to ask for in
creases at this time. If there are those which
must have an advance in order to live, they are
in serious straits indeed. Public opinion is
against them; the trend of affairs is against
them. It is exceedingly difficult for one to be
lieve that industries which survived the last two
years must enjoy increased rates to live through
the next two.
Stand by the Budget.
It is not enough that the budget plan should
have been adopted and a competent business
man annotated to carry out its provisions.
Charles G. Dawes, the director of the budget,
has announced that he will call on other men of
executive and financial acumen to assist him
without any recompense other than the realiza
tion of having served the nation. But back of
these must stand the public, watching vigilantly,
faithfully abstaining from asking special favors
and frowning on pork barrel legislation even
when it is attractive from a selfish local stand
point. "We must not blink at the fact that a great
many special interests throughout the country
stand to lose heavily through a well-apportioned
budget," is the warning issued by an organiza
tion known as the National Budget committee,
of which ex-President Taft is a member. "The
system of the past has fostered covert extrava
gance. Numerous congressional committees
have made appropriations at haphazard, each
ignorant of what the others were doing. No
one, high or low, in any branch of the govern
ment, has achieved a real perspective of the cost
of running the country. This has encouraged
selfish interests to have special appropriations
railroaded through which, under an efficient and
centralized system, would be promptly and de
cisively eliminated."
It is plain to see that a program of govern
mental economy will have many active and in
siduous enemies. But if the plain taxpayer
stands by Mr. Dawes and his budget, the budget
and Mr. Dawes will stand by him.
"Hello. A1.M
Western college men, in good-natured dis
paragement of those of the east, used to tell the
story of one student who stood on the bank of
the Charles without making any effort to save a
fellow student who was drowning. The point
made in explanation was that they had never
been introduced. If there ever was a man like
that he lost his excessive respect for convention
in service overseas.
American Legion men, according to an
nouncement at the local post, are taking up the
custom of greeting one another, whether previ
ously acquainted or not, by the salutation of
"Hello, Al." As to the origin of the name we
are not informed; it may have been derived from
using the initial letters of the organization's title,
just as some commercial products are named,
or it may have been taken over from the stories
of army life by Ed Streeter, whose "That's Me
All Oyer, Mabel," lightened so many war days.
At all events this pleasing informality demon
strates that the comradeship bred on the field of
battle is not a casualty of peace. The cool
aloofness of civilian life can not break up the
memory of the dangers and burdens borne in
common, and respect for the pluck and big
heartednes3 of the average man is one of the
valuable survivals of the war.
When the Harvest Is In.
Nebraska is a manufacturing state whose
main industry does not know what it. is to be
closed down on account of slack business. Every
farm, and there are more than 126,000 of them,
is a food factory, working overtime now even
though elsewhere in the nation plants may be
going part time.
Corn is to be the banner crop this year, ac
cording to the federal bureau of crop estimates
in Lincoln. But corn is not all that Nebraska
has to rely . on. Year after year it has stood
third as a corn producing state, but second for
winter wheat, third in all wheat and fifth in
oats production. As a producer of milk, butter,
beef and pork, it also ranks high.
The Nebraska farmers, in face of many diffi
culties and discouragements, have kept on with
their labor, and blessed by a favorable season,
are able to promise the world a considerable
part of its daily bread and meat. When the
crops come in this will be a great stabilizer for
business, righting conditions, it is confidently ex
pected, that have been badly out of balance.
Washington Vanderlip, back with more con
cessions from Soviet Russia, predicts that con
flict between Japan and America is unavoidable,
which idea may have influenced the Russians to
give him title to lands in the danger zone.
Aviators required 16 minutes and 12 bombs
to sink a former German submarine, while a
destroyer used 39 shells and took' more than an
hour to sink another U-boat; the flyers appear to
have the best of it so far.
Modern styles in women's skirts have been a
blessing, a clergyman declares. That's the sort
of blessing most people like, too a short one.
Laughter Next to Love
One Is Poor Indeed Who
Can Not Enter Into Fun.
Max Beerbohra In North American Review,
As to what is most precious among the ac
cessories to the world we live in, different men
hold different opinions. There are people whom
the sea depresses, whom mountains exhilarate.
Personally, I want the sea always some not
populous edge of it for choice; and with it sun
shine, and wine, and a little music. My friend on
the mountain yonder is of tougher fiber and
sterner outlook, disapproves of the sea's laxity and
instability, has no ear for music and no palate
for the grape and regards the sun as a rather
enervating institution, like central heating in a
house. What he likes is a gray day and the
wind in his face; crags at a great altitude; and a
flask of whisky
Yet I think that even he, if we were trying to
determine from what inner sources mankind de
rives the greatest pleasure in life, would agree
with me that only the emotion of love takes
higher rank than the emotion of laughter. Both
these emotions are partly mental, partly physical
in origin. They are not the less ethereal for that.
The physical sensat ons of laughter, on the other
hand, are reached by a process whose starting
point is in the mind. They are not the less
"gloriously of our clay." There is laughter that
goes so far as to lose all touch with its motive,
and to exist only, grossly, in itself. This is
laughter at its best. A man to whom such laugh
ter has often been granted may happen to die in
a workhouse. No matter, I will not admit that
he has failed in life. Another, who has never
laughed thus, may be buried in Westminster Ab
bey, leaving more than a million pounds over
head. What then? I regard him as a failure.
Nor does it seem to me to matter one jot
how much laughter is achieved. Humor may
rollick on high planes of fantasy or in depths of
silliness. To many people it appeals only from
those depths. If it appeals to them irresistibly,
they are more enviable than those who are sen
sitive only to the finer kind of joke and not so
sensitive as to be mastered and dissolved by it.
Laughter is a thing to be rated according to its
own intensity.
Many years ago I wrote an essay in which
I poured scorn on the fun purveyed by the music
halls, and on the great public for which that fun
was quite good enough. I take that callow scorn
back. I fancy that the fun itself was better than
it seemed to me and might not have displeased
me if it had been wafted to me in orivate.
in the presence of a few friends. A public crowd, J
utvuusc ui a mm ui uruau impersonal Humanity
in me, rather insulates than absorbs me. Amidst
the guffaws of a thousand strangers I become
unnaturally grave. If these people were the en
tertainment, and I the audience, I should be
sympahetic enough. But to be one of them is
a position that drives me spiritually aloof. Also,
there is to me something rather dreary in the
notion of going anywhere for the specific pur
pose of being amused. I prefer that daughter
shall take me unawares. Only so can it master
and dissolve me. And in this respect, at any
rate, I am not peculiar. In music halls and such
places you may hear loud laughter, but not see
silent laughter, not see strong men weak, help
less, suffering, . gradually convalescent, danger
ously relapsing. Laughter at its greatest and
best is not there.
To such laughter nothing is more propitious
than an occasion which demands gravity. To
have good reason for not laughing is one of the
surest aids. Laughter rejoices in bonds. If
music halls were school rooms for us, and the
comedians were our schoolmasters, how much
talent would be needed for giving us how much
more joy! Even in private and accidental inter
course, few are the men whose humor can re
duce us. be we never so susceptible, to paroxysms
of mirth. I will wager that nine-tenths of the
world's best laughter is laughter at, not with.
And it is the people set in authority over us that
touch most surely our sense of the ridiculous.
Freedom is a good thing, but we lose through it
golden moments. The schoolmaster to his pu
pils, the monarch to his courtiers, the editor to
his staff how priceless they arel
Reverence is a good thing and part of its
value is that the more we revere a man, the
more sharply we are struck by anything in him
(and there is always much) that is incongruous
with his greatness. Reverence, like subjection, is
a rich source of laughter. And herein lies one
of the reasons why as we grow older we laugh
less. The men we esteemed so great are gath
ered to their fathers. Some of our coevals may,
for aught we know, be very great, but good
heavens! we can't esteem them so.
Minding Our Own Affairs
Samuel G. Orth in the Yale Review.
There has been a great deal of noise raised
over foreign affairs. We have been told by va
rious propagandists, variously endowed, that we
have come to a turning point in our foreign re
lations. If this means that we shall be asked
to aid needy nations, to succor the weak and
champion the right, more frequently than we
have in the past, it is probably true. But if it
means that the American people have abandoned
their traditional policy of minding their own busi
ness, and wanting every other nation to do the
same, it is not true. The League of Nations was
conceived and fostered as a political issue. If
the league had been American in spirit and mech
anism, and had not presented merely the old
and discredited European balance of power re
arranged in a somewhat less odious form, Mr.
Wilson might have succeeded in launching it.
But it was a European league, founded on
European precedents, imbued with the European
spirit of intrigue and counter-alliance, and in
tended to do the work of Europe's great powers
screened behind the opulence and naivette of
America; and the American people saw
through it.
Mr. Harding has a plain mandate to stick to
the traditional American policy of an unqualified
independence in foreign -affairs, with friendliness
and alertness towards all, hatred and jealousy to
wards none. This does not signify that the Amer
ican people seek isolation. That word has been
tossed about freely since the election by
European paragraphers, who are fairly ignorant
of America and American history. It is simple
nonsense to talk about an isolated America. We
Were not isolated when we subdued the Barbary
nirates; or when we sent Commodore Perry to
Japan; or when Caleb Cushing opened the doors
of China. We have not been isolated in political
momentum. The American Constitution has in
fluenced virtually every government in the world.
And after what has happened in France, and in
a thousand starving villages of Europe, we could
not achieve isolation even if we desired.
The American people are willing to go more
than half way towards any plan of international
disarmament and international comity which ap
pears to them to be free from greater dangers
than those that are being avoided. But they
simply will not put their heads into a noose.
They have been fairly free from foreign political
influences, and they expect to remain so. They
are generous, peaceful, kind-hearted; but they
are wholly devoted to their freedom.
Poor Abraham Lincoln.
Eight-year-old Josephine was - studying the
life of Abraham Lincoln at school and was im
pressed by what she had learned.
One everting she was engrossed in a story of
his boyhood days, which she had found at home,
when suddenly she exclaimed in a pitying voice:
"Oh, mammal Just think! Poor Abraham Lin
coln had to wear wooden clothes." Her mother
said, "Oh, no! that cannot be true," but Josephine
pointed to the sentence: "Abraham Lincoln split
rail for clothing."; Indianapolis News,
west
Irish IiulfitenttriHi.
Omaha, June 23. To the Editor
of The Bee: I thought a few words
pertaining to the letter by "(Irish)
American" which appeared Juno 20
would not be amiss. The fact is that
it is a letter which should not go un
answered this splurge of a man
who ridicules the land of his birth
and blows so blatantly about the
great Bull of Adrian IV.
It is a surprise to know that a
writer who professes to have such
a knowledge of thnt country should
b a decade behind the times on the
question of Ireland and the much
talked-of papal bull sent out by
Adrian. It is now an undlsputable
fact that the bull was a forgery, if
it ever really existed, and poor old
Adrian was not to blame for the
crimes of his country. The writer
should be advised strongly to read
the "History of England by Lecky
or any other history of the country
ne can get.
"Ireland is incapable of self-gov-
etnment." Another argument that
leads nowhere. Why not give it a
chance as was given the Jugo-Slavs
and Hedjazites and all those other
tribes who never inhabitated any
definite country? How did it hap
pen that before England came. Ire
land was a nation governed better
than most of its neighbors at the
time? When England was a land of
unsettled tribes Ireland had Its
own government, laws, culture and
literature. It was then the shrine
of learning for western Europe and
the ruins of its schools can be yet
seen, bitter landmarks of a better
day., England put the blackness
over that day and tried to trample
the ideals of Its people in murder
and blood.
England has failed thus far and
England will fail, because it has
never learned the truth that even
its frightfulness by fire and sword
cannot crush the aspirations of a
people for liberty. Ireland is older
than England, has greater traditions
behind it than England and Is
therefore stronger than England.
The gallant fight of seven centuries
of a brave little nation against a
brute oppressor will not be in vain,
and Ireland shall come to its heri
tage. England hai no moral or
legal right to hold its people in
subjection when they do not sub
mit to it. To speak of England be
ing compelled to hold the country
because of "strategic purposes" is to
laud unjust might and make a mock
cry of right and Justice.
England has tried to crush ire-
land and has not lessened its efforts
in that line up to date. England has
created the Ulster question and roars
to the world about it, so that credu
lous ears may believe. Eighty-five
per cent of 'the Irish people voted
for independence and that is suffi
cient for any country to get what it
wants. Nine of the 13 colonies suf
ficed to make this great republic.
AMERICAN (IRISH).
How to Keep Well
By DR. W. A. EVANS
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diseases. Address letters in car of
The Bee.
Copyright, 1921, by Dr. W. A. Evans.
The Garbage Question.
Omaha, June 20. To the Editor
of The Bee: I note again with a
great interest our city dads are
somewhat at sea to know what to
do with the garbage. At the out
set of this letter I wish to call your
attention to plank No. 7 in my plat
form for city commissioner wnicn
reads as follows:
"Seventh. I am in favor of the
municipal farm where we can real
ize a profit on our garbage Instead
of paying out $45,000 a year for its
hauling, this farm to be stocked
with milch cows, feeders and hogs,
labor to be performed by city pris
oners; killing establishments to be
erected and products from said farm
including meat, eggs, chickens, but
ter, cream, milk, etc., to be sold in
our municipal markets. (Municipal
competition will curb any profiteer
ing.)" In my opinion this municipal
farm has a reduction or incinerator
plant beat a mile. What Is the use
of burning up golden dollars with
starving Cubans all around us? A
few years ago I wrote a letter to our
city dads telling them of 640 acres
farm with trackage facilities, etc.,
could have been purchased at that
time for $85 per acre and now this
same land Is being platted and sold
as high as $500 per acre. It is the
duty of our city fathers to purchase
a farm at once, including steel-covered
trucks and take the garbage
and make pork out of it, raise corn
and alfalfa, fatten cattle, establish
large dairy, erect slaughter houses
and open up a municipal market In
Omaha where the people can go
and purchase products right from
the city at cost which will give re
lief to suffering public and prove to
all how the dear people have
been robbed in the last few years
by the ugly profiteers who cleaned
up $20,000,000 to' $40,000,000 in a
year, even robbing the government
to a queen's taste. Municipal com
petition is the only competition that
levels prices no otner way Known.
C. ti. NETHAWAY.
New England Wit
From the Boston Transcript
She Do you really think I shall
ever succeed in making, an Impres
sion with my voice?
He Undoubtedly, If you sing Into
a phonograph.
"How many servants does Mrs.
Blank keep?"
"None. Her record for the year,
so far, Is 14 she didn't keep."
"Where were you born, Willie?"
"In Boston."
"What part?"
"All of me 'cept my teeth; they
were born in Magnolia."
Tom This Is an excellent picture
of you. Miss Betty. (Sentimentally)
I wish I owned the original.
Betty You may have the nega
tive. "Mother, why did you marry
father?"
"So you've begun to wonder, too,
have you?"
During the filming of a moving
picture In England, the director said
to the leading man, "Mr. Blank, I
have borrowed a real lion for this
scene and It will pursue you for 500
feet."
"For 500 feet?" said the actor.
"Yes," replied the director. "No
.more than that. Understand?"
The hero nodded dubiously. "Yes,
I understand, but does the lion?"
"If I should attempt to kiss you
what would you do?"
"I never meet an emergency until
It 8.iS6S '
"But if it should arise?"
"I'd meet it face to face."
Having laid down the principle
that "the only way to abolish di
vorce it to abolish marriage," Ber
nard Shaw can now go on with the
noble work of abolishing death by
arranging that nobody shall be born.
"What Is faith?" asks a St. Paul
preacher. It is, for one thing, that
which is exhibited by the chap who
can't swim when he sets forth in the
canoe he doesn't know how to
manage.
Has the closing of a skate factory
In Worcester any connection with
the fact that fewer people put on
skates In these prohibition days than
iu the bibulous times ol yore J
AND SO, TO THE OFFICE
Starting out on a three-mile walk
to the otflce, I enter the park at
Shakespeare's statue. Yesterday was
his birthday, and I find the statue
covered with flowers. Why waste
(lowers on Shakespeare? He had
been dead and turned to clay these
centuries agone. Flowers mean
nothing to Shakespeare. The bronze
statue knows nothing of the gifts,
perchance sacrifices. There are
plenty of flowers growing round
about. Then why? The custom
elevates the standards and ideals of
the living those who place them
and those who see them.
By the time this has been thought
cut I am passing along a stretch of
brilliantly colored flower beds. Then
an edge of the zoo. A swan driven
by a seasonably recurring but now
unusued, instinct is building a use
loss nest. Why this Instinctive act?
Before the thought is exhausted I
have reached a pond in which three
wild ducks have recently settled. To
what species do they belong? How
different their constantly on guard,
nervous behavior from that of the
placid, thoroughly city broke though
theoretically wild mallards.
In the park the attention Is re
peatedly drawn to newly-arrived
migrating birds. Some are well
known, some pique curiosity because
they are unknown, some attract be
cause of unusual behavior, some be
cause they have lost an apprehen
sion and fear.
A squirrel quits the lap of a wom
an who had been feeding him and
hops along, parallel with my course
for half a mile. I do not know
whether he walks pigeon-toed or
slew footed, but I can see that he
loops along well within his reserve
and is not becoming short-winded
from the exertion.
Now the end of the park has been
reached and there is nothing to
watch but folks. But folks can be
as interesting as ducks and flowers.
Here goes a queer bird. Though I
am walking at a rate of slightly
more than four miles an hour, he
sweeps by me like a pay car passing
a tramp, as C. P. I. Mooney would
say. His body is thrown well for
ward and his arms are swinging like
the forelegs of a trotting horse. In
fact, had he dropped his shoulders
a few inches he would easily have
passed for a trotting horse in, say,
the 10-minute class.
I wondered if that was a good
way to walk. For one thing, he was
getting a lot of exercise out of it
Being a man, he had on more clothes
than the average citizen (counting
the women) now carries, and I could
not see all of his muscles, but as
well as I could guess he was making
use of most of those he had. His
feet were driving him forward by
pushing the ground and his hands
were serving the same purpose by
pushing the air. I think he was
bending too far forward for the
highest efficiency.
Of course we save by walking tn
a falling forward attitude, but his
body was so far forward that he
must have fatigued his back mus
cles. A runner never throws his
body far forward after ho gets un
der way, and surely he knows how
to get the most out of his trunk
muscles. I thought our Ooldsmltli
Maid handled his feet very well,
though he would have done better
had ho trained himself in youth td
walk a little more nearly pigeon
toed. But I Hin now at the end of my
journey. The three miles have taken
only 40 minutes.
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