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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22
The Crime of Blind Crednlitu.

The crime of blind credulity is one
of the Oldest offenses in the category
of sin and one of the least excusable
Wise men and ignorant commit it and
it's perpetrators are it's first involun-
tary victims, though society generally
helps pay the penalty. 1t is the stock
in-trade of the mountebank and the
demagogue. 1t thrives on emotion
and impulse, but cannot exist against
sane, sober judgment and deliberate
forethought.
The sensational press is one of the
products of unquestioning credulity.
II came into being at a time when the
country was enjoying unbounded pros
perity and men were drunk with
visions Of big things. INSCRIPTIONS
promoters saw this and, being good
judges of human nature, they saw
how prone men were to exaggeration,
how easy IL would be to make things
bigger, to toy with public confidence.
They contrived a fake newspaper and
panneQ IL OH lOI DOnd hue dTLlCle,
filling it chiefly with ridiculous state
ments of it's own greatness. They
found that Mr. Barnum was right
when he said the people liked to be
humbugged,
Ii is an element of mental and moral
weakness to accept too much on faith.
Thomas the Doubter is a stronger man
for demanding proof Of the nail prints
he had not seen than the impulsive
disciple who leaped to the conclusion
that it was his Lord because someone
told him So The faith of a Didymus
that is founded upon the result OF
honest Inquiry is more enduring than
the spontaneous impulse of a credu-
lous heart.
The crime of blind credulity is one
against which men must always be on
their guard II science and industry are
to progress and the forces of nature
show us the truth. The principle OF
law that presumes every man to be
innocent until proven guilty beyond a
doubt quickly fortines itself by proyid.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22
Fortunate Child of the West.

One of the most serious problems
perplexing the large eastern cities is
how to protect the health of the child.
SO many conditions there initiate
against robust development that even
medical experts and scientists are up
in the air. School authorities in
particular find the task grave one.
In New York City, with its big tene-
ments and squalid quarters the peril
of childhood is grave and calls for
ceaseless vigilance, from medical men
who have given deep thought to the
art of combating conditions besetting
childhood. The simple matter of pure
air, which, of course, children of COM
Portable parents may obtain, is one of
the essentials to good health so diff
cult to get into the lungs of the young
ster who comes from an unsanitary
home, romps only the narrow, busy
lanes of commerce and attends, per-
haps, a school none too we'll adapted
to the exigencies of health.
Here in the west we sometimes
imagine ourselves confronted with
problems in the health of the children
at large, but wherever that is the case
it is simply because somebody has
failed to avail himself of natural con-
ditions amply adapted to the child's
well-being. We are too prone out
here in this broad dominion of Gods
glorious out-of-doors," to discount our
inherent blessings-pure air, plenty OF
green grass and shady trees and room
enough for armies of children. The
child of the west is the child of for
tune and if taught to appreciate and
realize on his extraordinary advan-
tages in this respect, the lesson would
help make him better child and a
more useful citizen in later years.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

Judicial events in Kansas City indicate
that tears shed by jurymen are not a safe
forecast of the verdict.
What Mr. Roosevelt did for Europe Mr..
HALEY did to the rest of mankind. Every
body worth while sat up and took notice.
Had astronomers been familiar with the
rules of the game. they might have con-
nected with Mr.. Halley's curves earlier in
the innings.
"Overwork." says a hygienist, creates
fatigue, stunts growth. invites disease, and
causes individual and social depression"
Moreover, it interferes with going to the
ball game
Four cities are rivals for the appropria-
ton and the honor of the official Panama
exposition of 1915. San Francisco. Denver,
San Diego and New Orleans constitute the
melodious quartet
Practical standpatters, who assert that a
college training doesn't pay, should get next
to the Harvard student who has mastered
the problem Of high thinking by living on
81 a week. and then fade out of sight and
hearing.
Assurances are given out that King
George is "onto his job" as early at in
the morning. A man who pulls down
pay check of S. IS a day has good ex-
cuse for getting to his desk early and stay
ing late
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22
Charm of Buffalo Bill.

A storm of friendly protest greets
Buffalo Bills announcement in the
east that this will be his last year in
the Wild West business. The most
conservative newspapers of New York
and other large cities editorially ex-
press the hope that Colonel Cody may
yet decide to stay with the show as
long as he lives
This is genuine and not feigned ad-
miration for a man who for nearly
thirty years has gone up and down the
land and oyer the sea leading a host
of cowboys and Indians merged in late
years with rough riders from many
nations, exhibiting congress of un-
couth humanity. What is that charm
that has so fascinated the people of
the effete east and makes them reluc-
tant to give up this annual festival?
How is it they have not grown weary
constantly recurring demonstration
that brings such rich financial returns
to its promoters?
The answer is that Colonel Cody.
while perhaps enriching himself and
business associates, has simply pre-
scented to the world picture of life in
the west as it was in the frontier days
when he, himself, rode the plains as
cowboy. 1t is a picture that will
never lose it's charm, nor its hold upon
the human heart There is much in
congruity, of course, between life as it
4 existed on the American desert"
thirty and forty and fifty years ago
and the representation as made in the
Buffalo Bill show, but the essence is
there, the spirit is there and there is
enough of the living realities to con-
serve the charm.
The east is right; Colonel Cody. we
all may feel, should be privileged to
remain with his grand galaxy of rough
riders as long as he can ride with the
grace and ease that now distinguishes
his dashing figure. But whether he
retires at the end of this season or not,
! he has earned the reward of having
always given the public the worth of
it's money and he has earned the
greater reward of having kept alive,
as no other agency has done. a spirit
and tradition well worth preserving
in the archives of our national affec-
ton. The fact that Colonel Cody is a
Nebraskan and started out his show
from Omaha in 1882 gives Nebraskans
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22
Faith Cure for the War Fever.

The nations of the world may advo-
the surest step toward international
peace, but it is plain that they are not
going to cease building strong de-
lenses so long as one nation has a
doubt of the others sincerity. This is
more a matter of faith than it is of
peace after all. When the powers can
thoroughly depend on each others in
tentions to refrain from war and to
carry out an agreement to limit the
munitions of war then and not until
then will they enter into and abide by
such an agreement.
But this faith is an advanced step in
economy of human progress which
has hardly yet been reached, and until
it is reached the Mohonk conferences
and The Hague tribunals must have
patience with those practical men of
affairs who hold to the belief that
large armies and strong nayies are
the surest conservators of world peace
in this day of restless ambition.
Decrying the wisdom of erecting
formidable armament as a means of
amity, we are told that our nation is
in a better position than any other to
test the power of example in leading
the nations into the paths of peace. "
Doubtless true, but regardless of
national prowess, no nation is apt to
go far in such a leadership until it
had absolute knowledge that every
other formidable government would
follow its course. For our nation to
go it alone would be showing of faith
unprecedented.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22
The Third Degree.

In his address as president of the
International Association of Police
Chiefs meeting at Birmingham Major
Richard Sylvester, head of the police
department at Washington, was moved
to enter protest against 1.-The wheel of
volve around the so-called third de-
gree" charging upon the police of most
of our cities a systematic practice of
inhuman torture on prisoners in order
to force confession of crimes from in
nocent and guilty alike. Il am con-
vinced," he declares, that no such
barbaric acts maintain generally, or
even moderately, among the intelligent
protectors of lives and property, who,
on the other hand, have repeatedly in
these assemblages discussed the hui
name handling of prisoners, endeavor-
ing to promote kindness on the part
of the police toward children and to
secure the respect and confidence of
the good citizen for him in whom is
enlTuSteu the CdiS VI lhal NhlOH ID
most valued"
While Major Sylvester is careful not
to assert that the so-called third de-
gree" infamies have never existed, he
evidently wants the public to under
stand that progress is being made in
police organization and police methods
as it is in all our other public activi-
ties and that the inhumane handling
of prisoners is not the rule, but the
exception. Instead OF being a regular
institution resorted to on all possible
occasions by every metropolitan police
force, as people might infer from the
lurid dramas that have been woven
around It, the so-called third degree"
atrocities are outlawed in all modern
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22
The ROYAL Funeral.

The pageantry of King Edwards
funeral not only suggests the costli-
ness of burying British ruler, but
also the thought that it will require
several years more of democratic SOW
ereignty to wean England away from
the ceremonies of it's ancient courts.
Here is the most popular king Great
Britain has had, the most progressive
and informal, at whose obsequies every
form and custom of royal dynasties
are invoked in the expression of ma
tional homage in solemn reminder of
the tenacity of tradition.
Edward VII has been referred to as
"England's first diplomat" but
whether that be true or not, he was
potent factor in advancing Britain's
cause abroad, in promoting the princi-
pie of constitutional government and
establishing world peace, and but for
his wise conservatism in the closing
months of his reign he would undoubt-
eddy have left the throne on trial, but
instead he had done more than any
other monarch to vindicate the system
of limited monarchial government and
stay the tide of public sentiment drift
ing toward it's overthrow. And yet
not even such life, nor the example
and influence of such a man, could
suffice to set aside the panoply of royal
mi nj nd AG
great as had been his predisposition
toward democracy, even greater was
the indulgence of his people in the hol-
low forms of the past.
Yet the ultimate lesson is a whole
some one. Edwards funeral, while
most imperialistic in outward aspects,
was at the same time the most popular
demonstration of the kind that was
ever made in historic London, and re-
fleets the love the people felt for their
king. Following the gilded carriages
of crowned heads from other nations
and representatives of republics, one
ex-president of the United States, came
the people, the proletariat, as it were,
bowed in a grief as genuine as that of
the nobility This, together with the
deeper significance of the entire dem
onstration-a reverence for constitu-
ted authority-is a lesson the world
may study with profit; the lesson that
underneath the ostentation of royal
habit is the seed of true democracy
which the lamented king sowed in the
hearts of his people.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.

He has no true faith in his god who has
none in himself.
The life of goodness leads to faith in the
goodness of life.
The kingdom waits for every day kind
ness and justice.
crooked man is most likely to have
smooth way with him.
The congregation is the best commentary
on the creed of a church.
It's better being one small blast furnace
than dozen prairie fires.
1t is no use looking for wisdom on trees
without roots In experience.
The best preparation for a home in
heaven is making homes heavenly.
1t is easy to prove your god by logic and
still be an atheist in your life.
man is always most likely to get lost
when he is immersed in himself
II you preach without thinking you will
find plenty to listen without doing.
The world knows the church by the kind
OF people on whom she puts her O. X.
Faith as to what may be Is more i'm
portant than conviction as to what is.
The leaders are those who work hardest
when they do not have to work at all.
No man can love the oppressed weak
who does not hate the strong oppressor.
Some men never make any steam save
by throwing cold water on others fires.
Teach child to die in the hymns on
Sunday and the temptations of the weak
VIII take care of the rest.-Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22
The Confidential stenographer.

The breach of trust committed by
a stenographer in the office Of the sec
rotary of the interior in peddling out
information given him in confidence
has failed to strike a responsive chord,
Notwithstanding his explanation that
he had been made to believe himself a
confidential clerk to the government
rather than to his superior officer. 1t
is only on the theory that the end
justifies the means that such treachery
to the American sense of fair dealing
that even those who have no sympathy
for the victim have displayed no enthu-
siasm over the recreant stenographer
who will probably have trouble in COM
handing the confidence of new en-
ployer to the extent of being entrusted
with any information that he would
not want published to the world.
The cold reception accorded the
coup of the faithless stenographer is,
we submit, a good sign, and still more
reassuring Is the extreme rareness of
the occurrence in which a stenographer
betrays confidence. There are proba-
bly, in this country hundreds of thou
sands of stenographers and personal
secretaries holding the most intimate
relations with the business of their
employers and entrusted with informa
ton whose betrayal might mean finan-
cial ruin or disgrace, and yet it is sell
dom, indeed, that perfidy is uncov-
cred in such places. Although the
stenographer as a new member of the
industrial household has not been edu-
Gated up to the high code of profess
sional morals supposed to surround
the relations of lawyer and client,
physician and patient, priest and
parishoner, a high sense of honor and
fdelitytis as much in evidence among
the ranks of the stenographers as a
whole as among the representatives of
these professional classes. 1t goes al
most without saying that inviolable re-
spect of confidence is the prime es-
sence of the stenographer's work, and
that there are so few mercenary
traitors and spiesin this militant army
deserves appropriate tribute.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22
Our Birthday Book
May az. 1910.

Jacob Gould Schurman, president of Cor
nell university. was born May %. 1854, at
Prince Edwards island. lie was professor
Of philosophy before being promoted to
the headship OF this great institution. Dr.
Schurman has been entertained in Omaha
by the Cornell alumni and has made sever al
public addresses, always well received.
Paul Morton, president OF the Equitable
Life Assurance company and formerly Sec
rotary Of the navy under President Roose-
welt, is 90 today. Although his parents had
located in Nebraska City, Paul Morton
was born in Detroit, and with his brothers
maintains the old homestead as an arbora-
tum in memory of their father.
Thomas II. Tibbles, now homesteader,
after running for vice president on the
populist ticket, is celebrating his 10th birth
day. lie is a native Of Ohio and most Of his
career has been as a journalist advancing
all the isms on the calendar.
Emil G. Hirsch, the noted Jewish rabbi
OF Chicago, was born May p, 1852 in Ger
many. He is particularly outspoken In his
preachings and has lectured more than
once in Omaha.
George w. Wolfe, manager OF the acct
dent department OF the Fidelity & Casu-
atty company is % He was born I'm Cincin-
natl, and has been I'm the casualty insur-
ance business for nine years. first with the
American Accident Insurance company OF
Chicago. and since 1907 with the Fidelity
& Casualty company Of Omaha
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT.

New York World; The clergyman who
declared in, Atlantic City that girls smoke
more cigarettes than boys might be en-
barrassed if any one asked him for proof
Because there is no proof.
Washington Herald: People are just as
honest nowadays as they ever we're" says
Cleveland minister. Still, 1t does no
harm to hope they will be even honester
in the future-assuming that there are de-
grees of honesty
Leslie's Weekly: A religious happening of
some interest has been the controversy
raised in Germany, by Prof. Drews, as to
whether Jesus ever really lived or not
Germany is looked upon as a hotbed of
rationalism, but when on recent Sunday
the leading Protestant organizations ar
ranged a great mass meeting to protest
against the heretical views OF Prof
Drews, hours before the time appointed the
place of meeting, the Winter Circus, was
stormed by a crowd of 90 900. only a fourth
of whom could gain admittance.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22
DOMESTIC PLEAsANTRIES.

Marjorie Didn't you see the mouse?
Madge-Why dear l just couldn't see It.
l had my old stockings on.-Judge.
II see that some pastor says churches
should have press agents"
well, II they want to compete with the
other press agents they'll have to engage
some mighty clever photographers to make
the publicity portraits OF the ladies of the
choir"-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
why do you insist on my going with
you when you ask father for my hand
again?" asked Ethelinda.
Because" answered Claude II don't
want to. give him any more opportunities
to presume because there are no ladies'
present Washington Star,
MY husband laughed at me this morn
ing till | got as mad as a hornet"
"Why?"
Just because I heard him talking Of
wash sales and asked him to get me a
tub suit at once"-Baltimore American.
81 cannot give you favorable answer
until you have talked with my father"
Tho young man seized his hat.
What's your hurry?"
II take no chances" replied the youth.
l am going to see your father before you
can get to him."
And be hustled from the room.-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
Rankn-How did you manage to get the
i'll will OF ScragglesT"
Fyle-You know he's been borrowing
small sums OF me from time to time for
the last ten years? Well, few weeks ago
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22

police departments, and are more
likely to break out among the amateur
police of small towns than among the
trained crime hunters of the big cities.
The so-called third degree lends
itself, however, so readily to sensa-
tional treatment that we may expect to
continue to hear about IT right along,
but Major Sylvester's remonstranee
against the unfair imputation of sys-
tematic police barbarism should have
hearing.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22

Whatever may be said OF the Inter-
ior department stenosrapher's verac-
ity, his sense of duty is peculiar. Thus
far what he revealed does not appear
to serve any great public good, nor
does II seem that its concealment
could have ever become a public in
jury. The fact is violation of this sort
Of trust stamps a man below the
standard of honor required in men of
such confidential position.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22
WHY CONTEST THOUH
Stephen Chalmers.

Stephen Chalmers.
Stranger with fiery name,
Flame eyes and tewel'd train,
Out of the suns domain,
Why contest thou2
Waving a blazing brand,
High in thy far-flung handi
Thy hair a yellow strand,
Swept from thy brow!
Like, to come bird OF prey
ABlotting the suns ray,
Circling and circllng aye
Whence? Whittier? Whyf
What be thy name and Wilt
Com'st thou for good or ill2
Soaring athwart the hill,
BroOding on high.
Art thou some fiendish star,
Leaving calm fields affair."
Seeking fresh worlds to marf
Or, blown astray-
Striving to find a spot,
Ancient and half-forgot,
There, in some ordered lot
Thy head to lay?
Stranger with fiery name,
Flame eyes and jeweld train,
out of the suns domain
Why contest thou?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22
Never Had an ImItntor.

OtHIUIy MdBdHIIIV'
1t is a tribute to Mark Twain's original
ity and spontaneity that he has never had
an imitator. During a career reaching
back almost to the second series of the
"Biglow Papers" he has held the primacy
as master of both gentle and ironic wit.
Other humorists have come and gone, but
he has remained a standard. national and,
with all the flavor of the soil, unprcvincial.
He was in his way as truly American as
Abraham Lincoln.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22

"Uncontaminated soul, illustrious
leader. peerless philosopher, pure
minded advocate of the people, that
is what they called MIR, Bryan in New
York and he stood for it all until John
Temple Graves got up and said,
From the tip of his eloquent tongue
he has plucked three presidential
nominations" Then he protested.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22
Occupation aud Longevity.

The deaths are recorded of a shipmaster,
aged "a; a retired rived steamboat owner
and Board of Trade operator of the same
age, and a former locomotive engineer who
was 49, The relation of occupation to
longevity is one of the things science is
slow in finding out
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22

1t is all right to say that pleasure
has taken its toll of Jim Jeffries in the
intervening years, but to talk about
Delilah having shorn Samson of his
locks is little strong, since jeff never
wore whiskers.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22

Having got his, j. Pierpont Morgan
says the day for accumulating colos-
sal fortunes has passed, Now is the
time, then to begin passing the for
tunes
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22

If those Californians succeed in
catching the comet by the tail, they
should summon Jack Johnson to come
and jump aboard, Maybe that would
satisfy his craze for speed.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22

ing careful system of Jurisprudence
to verify or disprove this presumption.
When appearances may be deceptive
it may be we'll not TO be over cred
ulOus
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22
Puncturing an Argument
Pittsburg Dispatch

The argument that the income tax fosters
perjury, and therefore should not be en-
acted, seems to have a klck-back in IT
when we read of the arrest of eminent
citizens for swearing to false declarations
about goods they bring home from abroad.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22

Can anybody imagine that the most
distinguished American in the funeral
procession OF King Edward did not
feel uncomfortable with those humble
flunkies stumbling along beside his
carriage with their powdered wigs and
ailk knickerbockers2
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22

Although j. Warren Keifer shook
his fist in the face of fate and pro-
claimed that the new tariff was not
high enough, even at that, they could
not defeat him for denomination.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22

Still our anti-war senators probably
will admit that 1t may be better to
'lose our heads in building up a great
navy than to lose them because some
other nation has a greater navy. y
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22

Two St. Louisans are fighting in the
courts over a coop of game cocks. A good
chance for a young lawyer to win his
spurs,-ISt. Louis Times.
Yes, and become the cock of the
walk