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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.


We seldom know our besetting sins when
we meet them.
The loss Of one flower may be the gift OF
many seeds.
II Is easy to mistake an empty mind for
an open one.
Some seem TO think that the tree OF life
has soft SOAP bark
When sin pirates OF liberty 1t means Free
dom to make slaves OF some.
II may be better to lift up a mans heart
than to take up his load.
Men are never safe so long as they think
only OF saving themselves
Many think they strengthen their hopes
OF heaven by their despair for earth.
Mockery Is the refuge OF the small mind
before that which Il cannot measure.
Better only the temple In the heart than
to so to a temple without your heart
The longing for power to do right ousht
to be more than that for pardon for wrong
When a man climbs up to rob his neigh
bors he often uses a ladder labeled pa
trotism.
Too many battalions are fighting the good
fight Of faith with flags Instead OF fire
arms.
The thing that worries some about heaven
Is that there will be no opportunities for
distinction by means OF millinery. Chi
cago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21
Who's Fault is It3

The habit of disparaging politicians
is common in this country. 1t is a
fashion many men have of discredit-
ing their neighbors the minute they
enter political life and the cry of the
crowd is that politics is degraded by
the character Of men that usually go
In for it. Ask some prominent, pros
porous business man, who takes this
view of things, why he does not run
for once and he will tell you he can
not afford It; not enough In it to pay
him for leaving his business. And
from a purely money consideration he
may be right. But he had just con-
cluded deriding the politician and yet
he himself refuses to lend his dignity
and moral influence to purifying the
politics he accuses the other fellow of
degrading.
Whose fault is 1t in a free country
If the standard of politics and poll
ticians is not as high as 1t should be?
Are there not enough of the better
element" in every community to con-
troll the local affairs, to see that the
Offices are filled by the men best
adapted to their demands? Men fire.
quently say. Il have no interest In
politics, and do not even vote in
local elections" How much are these
men doing to raise the level of politics
and the personnel of politicians in
their communities? Is he the best
citizen who refuses to exercise the
franchise, the first right OF citizenship
or fails to exert his influence toward
getting the best men for public office
In q country where the majority
rule we shall have to continue hold.
ing the majority responsible for the
men elected to ONCE and the observer
will be slow to believe that the ma.
jority of men do not make the aver.
age While it is possible for the will
of the majority sometimes to be de.
footed by the interposition of sinister
ences. and. while this does oc
q sicnally happen, It still furnishes nc
excuse to the better element" fol-
not being as active in politics as the
sinister influence.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21
Canada is Getting Excited.

Many of the strongest Canadian
newspapers are charging that Ameri-
can papers have conspired to dissent
nate the false report that thousands
of land buyers who went from the
United States to Canada are returning
disguised and poorer than they went.
They affirm that a publicity bureau
to promote this campaign of false
hood" exists in Washington and
feeds" papers all over the country.
Then, using the severest sort of terms
in denouncing this plot" and those
newspapers engaged in 1t, the Cana
dian journals say that the American
papers are pretending that many of
these disappointed landseekers re-
turned from Canada are joining thou
sands of others who are going into the
south and southwest to buy homes.
II any such conspiracy exists we are
ignorant of 1t, but the United States
government has counted some 5000
Americans who went to Canada in the
last year returning across the border.
This, of course, is very small and
insignificant number as compared
with those who went to buy Canadian
land, and it ought not give Canada any
warrant for ugly charges. What is
more natural than that American
papers should seek to promote Ameri-
can interests and to develop Ameri
can resources over and above those
of any other country, Canada not ex-
cepted? Why should not the news
papers of the United States urge their
own people, who are looking for farms,
good soil, good climate and the best
prospects to be had, to go west, or
south where land may be bought more
reasonably, all things considered, than
anywhere else. The American press,
therefore, is likely to keep up this
campaign of preaching southern and
western immigration, as against Cana
dian immigration.
But it is not necessary at the same
time to decry Canadian emigration as
having no good in it, especially when
so much benefit to both countries may
come from an intermingling of these
people-Americans and Canadians
Many of these emigrants were born
of Canadian parents and those who
were not, II they stay and establish
homes over the line, will naturally
continue friendly to their native coun-
try, the result being a homogeneous
race separated only by an imaginary
line, which will contribute vastly to
the mutual peace and prosperity Of
the two countries.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21
Training of Children.

One danger of the training of chill
dren in public institutions which
seems to have impressed itself too
little on the minds of some of the
good people engaged in these chart
ties is the possible subtraction of home
training, or the lack of inspiring this
home training.
Public schools have a part in the
education and development of the
child which cannot be minimized, but
the public school is not primarily the
place to train children and no society
ever organized for the child's uplift
can claim half the right in this great
work that the schools can. The place
for children to get their character
building and their first and last les
sons In how to be real men and wo-
men is the home, and nowhere else,
and the parent or public reformer,
teacher or propaganda, who fails to
inculcate this very important principle
in his work with the child not only
fails of his duty, but does the child.
the parent and the state an irrepara-
BILE wrong.
Parents with the correct view of
life do not need to have such things
brought to their consideration, but If
all parents had the correct view of
education, either as their own duty
or their children's welfare, charitable
or quasi-public institutions for child
culture would have less strenuous
work to do and we would have fewer
of these societies, many of which
really serve no purpose as 1t is, for
the simple reason that too frequently
they are conducted by men and wo-
men whose sense of assumed RESPONSE
bilities are out of all proportion with
such serious work.
Schools must share with parents
the grave responsibility of training
their children, but the parent should
always remember that the school can
do little without the parents help, or
| ~ AoN'' uhSSS 'HN PoiSh' hiSt per
forms his full duty. Children whose
parents give them a distorted sense
of their own rights, who permit them
to run at random with little or nc
restraint. to annoy neighbors with un.
bridled freedom, and go to other un,
reasonable lengths, can never obtain
the proper development. because the
school is not inherently capable Of
making up for the homes deficiency;
the school can do its part of the work
but it cannot do it's part and the
homes part. too.
The child, of course. In such casei
should become the object OF pity anC
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21
RECIPROCITY OF SMILES.
]. M. Foley In Colller,s.

Sometimes ! wonder why they smile 80
pleasantly at me,
And pat my head as they pass by as
friendly as can be;
Sometimes | wonUer way they stop to tell
me How'd do,
And ask m, tneh uow old am and where
I'm going to;
And ask ne ,an spare curl and say they
a little girl TIA, cooked like me. oh. years
and years ago;
And | told mamma how khey smiled and
asked her why they do,
So she said N you ME at folks they
always smile at you.
/ never knew ! smiled at them when they
were going by;
guess il s.,n. - al by Itself and that's the
reason why;
/ just iUrk up irom playing II it's any one
| know
And tii,, most always smile at me and
maybe say Hello;
And can smae at any one not matter who
where.
Because Tia just little girl with lots Of
And mamma said we ought to smile at
folks, and II you do ~
Most Always they ieel better and they smile
right back at you.
And when so many smile at me and ask me
for a curl
1t makes me think most everybody likes .
little girl;
And once When Twas playing and man
was, going by
dust out OF his eye
Because II made II water so, and said no
used to know
A little Girl up in his yard who used to
smile just So
And then i askeu why don't she now ana
then he said You see"
And then he rubbed his. eye again and only
smiled at me.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21
Stretching the Limit.

A specially appointed heaven-in-
spired mind reader duly commissioned
by our democratic contemporary to
outline in advance what Colonel
Roosevelt is to say on his forthcom-
ing western tour furnishes some light
midsummer reading which would be
important as we'll as entertaining, If
true. Among other policies which we
are told Colonel Roosevelt will favor
will be the recall to a limited ex-
tent" and we are further told in con-
fidence:
1t is said that Colonel Roosevelt is not
prepared to speak out In support Of the
recall as to all officials, but that he will
endorse 1t as to some officials, and es-
pecially as to federal judges
Colonel Roosevelt has been accused
of a great many things, but he has
never been charged with being quite
as visionary as that. The recall for
federal judges would require not only
an amendment to the federal constitu-
ton, but a complete reversal of the
theory of the judicial department of
our government which is to make the
judges Independent of, rather than
subservient to, the periodic waves of
popular clamor. The federal consti-
tuition provides that federal judges
shall be appointive and not elective;
that they shall hold their terms for
life and be removable only by i'm
parchment We have enacted laws
permitting federal judges to retire on
full pay after sitting on the bench
twenty years and reaching the age OF
"a, but we have never yet undertaken
to compel federal Judge to vacate
his place against his will without
prior trial and conviction for malfeas-
ance or corruption, because the con.
stitution fully protects him from arbi-
trary removal.
1t may be harmless pastime to
guess at what Colonel Roosevelt will
do and say, but to impute to him q
contemplated assault upon the Judi
ciary, whose independence he has al
ways stoutly maintained, is stretching
| the limit.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21

found his richest harvests in the emo
tional heart. Are hearts less emotional
today, or are the people more thought
full? 1t must be the latter. It cannot
be that they are less religious, II our
statistics, which show steady increases
IN church populations, be infallible.
Ministers maintain their people are
more inquiring, more honest In their
thought and therefore more and not
less pious, but the difference between
their piety now and that of yesterday
is that the preachers are appealing
more to their reason than their emo
ton. And this is as It should be. The
new conditions make the local pastor
more important and influential
factor and give greater stability and
permanence to the church and its
agencies.
But with the passing of the modern
circuit rider have come new enter
prises for propagating the faith. They
have assumed various forms and are
more systematic and aggressive, both
as to their character and influence.
The church itself, both pulpit and
pew, is inclined to ask the average
evangelist for references these days,
for the very system that had its
Moodys also had its mountebanks and
against these the church today seeks
to protect itself.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21
Army of School Failures.

Two hundred and fifty thousand
boys and girls about Ia years of age
are graduated every year from the
public schools in the United States.
Another 100000 boys and girls quit
school every year because of failure
to make their grades. These state
ments came from DR.. Luther H. Gu
lick, director of the department Of
child hygiene of the Russell Sage
foundation, who writes an interesting
article in the current Worlds Work.
These 100000 who quit have on an
average only reached, or completed,
the sixth grade work, while there are
eight grades in the public school
course. DR.. Gulick points out that
our education is based on the funda-
mentals of intelligent citizenship. but
as we only begin to teach those basal
subjects in-the seventh grade this
army of 100000 children that drops
out of school every year gets none of
this elementary training in citizenship.
The result is a loss to the state as we'll
as to the home, private business en-
terprise and the child itself.
These four prime causes he cites
as responsible for children leaving
school:
l. Lack of adjustment between length
Of compulsory period and school course.
g. PreventabIe ill-health or removable
physical diseases.
g. Irregular attendance.
A. The fact that the courses are either
too difficult for. or are not adapted to.
the average pupil,
But while he strongly advocates
compulsory attendance upon school
for course of eight years, DR.. Gulick
makes his chief point on the statement
that our public school course is too
hard, or too high for the average pu-
pill, and that it should be modified to
fit his case. He grants that various
physical defects-which should be
cured and for whose cure he provides
are often the cause of delayed
progress, but the fact remains that al
the age of IA. which is the proper age
to complete the eighth grade, the
average boy or girl who is not beyond
the sixth grade becomes discouraged
or embarrassed and drops out and
never goes back to school.
If these figures are correct-and
they can scarcely be questioned-they
are little less than startling. II is un-
fair to the child not to try to remove
the difficulties that prevent him or her
from getting the education available
obtain. These obstacles may possibly
be dealt with by a more thorough sys.
TEN of sanitation and medical atten.
ton. for In the majority of casei
physical defects are easily removable
whether in the child or the schoo
building.
This authority advocates compul
sorry education. a modification of the
course to At the average child. the be
ginning of school age at 6 or 7, which
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21
FREEDOM OF THE AIR.
Activities of the Filters Call for New
Laws.
Boston Herald.


Boston Herald.
Germany which is leading In the de-
velopment of aviation law. proposes to add
to it's initial code, which restricted the
privilege of flying to competent avlators,
law making filters responsible for dam
ages caused by alighung. There will
naturally arise the question whether such
damages are to be confined TO actual In
jury to properly, or may be assessed for
unwelcome intrusion on the privacy of a
landowners grounds. Saturday an aviator
dropped In" on Mr.. Rockefeller. He was
welcomed because Of the novelty of his
arrival, When filters become more common
they will be less welcome in such grounds
but ordinary guards will not be sufficient
to keep them off. Must they communicate
with the owner and ask his leave when
about to alight; shall the assessment OF
damages be left to jurors. or shall we have
a compensation" law, which shall estab-
lish fixed rate for such intrusion? With
the promotion OF aviation meets this may
become as serious question here as IL
now is in Germany.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21

The death Of Florence Nightingale
has called forth deserved tributes 70
her work to humanity as a nurse in
the Crimean war. II should be re-
membered. however, that there have
been self-sacrincing women who have
gone to the front as nurses to succor
and relieve the wounded in every war
since then. The nurse on the battle
field and in the army hospital is enti-
tied to full measure OF praise. whether
conspicuous or obscure.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

Glenn Curtiss fixes upon 5000 a day as
the proper amount to make his wings flop
A patent smoke consumer comes into the
market in time to catch the early campaign
cigar.
Modern conveniences are so we'll adjusted
to the needs of the population that no man
needs go above the ground floor to take a
tumble.
Eastern astronomers say that the newly
discovered Metcalfs comet has a tall two
minutes long. But that was before Gilbert
tied a can to IT,.
II investigation proves that base ball IL
played in heaven, the golden paving bricks
viii aid the fans in passing the customary.
compliments to the umpire.
Chlcago's new directory, showing the
numerical supremacy OF the Johnsons over
the Smiths, affords one explanation for the
increased turmoil In the Windy City The
Smiths usually have a mortgage on first
base.
Fashion may play all kinds of capers with
feminine garments and keep on the sunny
side Of the sex, but when 1t proposes TO
Danish the padding on the shoulders of
mems coats II will get all the trouble II Is
looking for.
In the primaries as well as on the
diamond the man who makes home run
gets the. cosy corner on the score board
An Ohio court, the third this year. affirms
the principles OF the status quo anteup'
by holding that 1t is not a crime for a
wife to investigate her husbands pockets.
New Orleans is distributing fetching pic
torial literature and diagrams showing the
city's superior advantages for the Panama
exposition. San Diego voted bonds for the
same purpose and San Francisco passed up
prize fight; to prove that 1t could be good.
The problem now turns on which of the
three win land on Uncle Sans purse.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21

the parent the object OF scorn. for it
is not until later in life that the child
discovers his mistake. or is entirely
accountable, while the. parent should
be accountable for his or her mistake
before 1t is made. This lack of pa
rental authority and control is not so
much a matter Of don't know" as
II is matter Of don't care" II is
too often case of the easiest way
out is the best, a delusion entailing
fearful consequences.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21
GOOD MIXERS IN PULPIT.
Need of Close sympathy Between
Pastors and People.

NeeW OF yLAouc sympathy netWeem
Pastors and People.
ST. Paul Pioneer Press.
The trustees OF Holyrood' church in New
York seek new pastor. advancing the
charge that their present minister is not
PASTORAL enough In his work. what we
need At HoEyrood Is a good mixer" declares
one Of the trustees.
II the idea Is new in its expression, It is
not new in Its basic truth. and It is an idea
worth serious consideration.
Why should a preacher Of the gospel be a
recluse shut off from the touch of his tel
low man, cloistered among books and inno-
cent Of the problems OF his timer
The church is rapidly coming to feel that
he should not be such.
Perhaps no complaint has been 80 general
among those who eriticise the modern
church as the charge that the preacher 10
not in close sympathy with the needs Of his
parish, that the church Is not alive to the
immediate problems that vex the human
hearts Of men struggling for existence in
the midst of discouraging surroundings.
1t is true that more and more the church
is coming to desire preachers who are
good mixers" who get out among men,
meeting tnem IN tHelT tOlt anu tesh' SENSING
their problems at first hand, and eager to
help them In practical ways as well as In
the purely religious ways
In little city not far from here young
preacher organized a foot ball team and
coached It himself. He was criticised for a
time, but he got results far beyond the re-
suits OF the gridiron battles.
In another city not far from here a
preacher became mayor of town and pro-
ceeded to inaugurste a system OF street
building which gave the city its first per-
manent roadways.
No preacher has ever mixed actively with
men without making his church a more
vital institution and his work a more per-
manent Influence. However, the burdens
should not all be placed on the shoulders
of the minister. The men and women Of
his congregation have a duty and respon-
sibility in the matter. II the minister takes
full advantage OF his opportunities 20 min
gle with men and women. learn their
thoughts and aspirations, and then fails,
the responsibility is not his alone, but must
be shared by those for whose benefit he
works.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21

The report is being circulated that
republican leaders look with favor
upon the aspirations of Congressman
Walter l. Smith OF Council Bluffs as
successor to Speaker Cannon II the re-
publicans retain control of the next
house of representatives. That would
be about as near to Omaha as the
speakership could possibly be brought
under the circumstances.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21
The shame of Criminal Law.

1t is interesting to find from the report
of committee OF investigators that we
are century behind the English criminal
courts in our delays and technicalitles, but
this humiliation ought to be a spur to the
correction Of the evils Of our own system.
English criminal law has its own defects,
but it moves with promptness and a sure
ness of justice which at least insures for
1t wholesome respect, nor are It's opera
lions hampered, by the false sentiment
which needs correction on this side.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21

weather you'd rather have them right off
the ice."-Chicago Tribune.
John" exclaimed the shocked woman,
you are eating with your knifel"
II know IT, I'm economizing. When YOU
eat with your knife you have to learn TO
balance your food, You eat less and II
takes longer. 't--WashinRton star.
"John" asks the wife. have you got
your umbrella Govern
Sure" answers tho capable husband.
see. I've got II on the thing"
Crazy! Look what you've done. You've
almost ruined my new hobble skirt"-Life.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21

Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
has conferred knighthood upon
former state treasurer OF Illinois in
recognition OF his work for the well
fare OF immigrants from Austria to
this country. Philanthropic service
of that kind seems to be much more
highly appreciated abroad than 1t is
at home
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21
DOMESTIC PLEAsANTR1Es.

Miss Prye-Mrs. Jones your daughter
Just called me a nosey old gossip.
Mrs Jones-I shall tend to her at once.
I've told her over and over again not to
speak the truth when it's liable to hurt
peoples acknowledgements.
First -Erudite Profossor-I note that re-
cent excavations show that the Phoenician
women wore hobble skirts.
Second Erudite Profe5sor-But they did
not wear them until dressed for the
mummy chamber,-Cieveland Plain Dealer.
The Bride-Did you tell the clergyman
that I'd prefer not to be kissed by him
after the ceremony? 4-
The Groom-Yes,' dear, it's all right He
said in that case he'd charge only half the
usual fee.--Baltimore American.
"Sir, / want to marry your daughter!
Take her, my boy! and let me be
happy.'-cleYeiand Leader.
Il hope you Will accept my condolences"
began Mr. Somber.
Thank YOU" replied the widow of Mr..
Yes" continued Mr.. .somber. I'VE must
remember that we must all go that way
scme day, and that"
"Oh, my" exclaimed the widow, Il hope
not Catholic Standard and Times.
"Oh, yes / go to church, but in this kind
OF weather like my sermons boiled down.
Il should think that In this kind OF