Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-07
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The New Era.

Council Bluffs, Ia, June 21.-To
the Editor Of The Bee: The stage
coach has gone. Modern times de-
manC more rapid sort of transport
tatlon, and so the auto. The dream
or Darius Green has come true The
alrplane Jumps from oceans coast to
coast. The hOur-glass has long
since gone into the discard and the
street urchin now sports watch.
BARRIERS are no longer the surgeons
and blood lettings" has ceased to be
panacea for all the ills flesh is
heir to. The husbandman no longer
cultivates his acres with the wooden
pillow. A tractor now drags eight or
ten bottoms and the soil is turned
like magic. The world do move" is
fact, not a theory.
There was a time in our nations
history when Uncle Sam and
mantha' had a place in our ma
tional life, but that time has gone
with the stage coach, the hour glass
and the wooden pillow.
Our forefathers were a simple
common domestic people. They
chose one of their number as chief
executive of the country and he
journeyed to the seat Of government
in the oldfashioned way. He occu-
pied the White House as he would
occupy his own home. Perhaps his
good wife prepared the meals and
made the beds and busted the fur
niture. The president sat on the
front porch, visited with passers-
by or had some old croney spend
the evening with him. But that is
fashioned and must also go into
the discard
The old-fashioned president sort
of figgered" that his job consisted
largely in taking care of his coun-
try's business. Not so any more.
Our president has grown to be a
world figure. He no longer "bothers
his head" so much over home af-
fairs as world affairs. He no
longer resides in Washington, but in
Paris. He doesn't sit on the front
porch and "gab" with old-time
friends. He "hob-nobs" with kings
and queens, and princes and prin-
cesses, popes and other dignitaries.
He and his consort are no longer
provincial. They are cosmopolitan.
They no longer plod along the high
ways and byways as do the COM
moners; when they go about they
move in regal splendor. When
they go visiting" their objective is
royal palaces. Perhaps the metamor-
phosis is for the better. We don't
know
But the changed condition is here
and let us prepare for it.
IN tn This Tina nur ayoo,,tivo nd
his spouse have been CARRIED
the same as other well-to-do citi-
zens. In the throng their identity is
lost This is all wrong. We should
provide our president with crown
and his consort with a diadem. And
they should be no mean affairs,
either. The world should be ran,
sacked for jewels of the finest
water for these articles of head
gear They should contain dia-
monds and rubies and emeralds and
sapphires as large as goose eggs.
And their robes should be gems of
the worlds art. Chamberains and
ladies in waiting and masters of the
motor, etc, etcs should be at hand
at all times. = We do not want our
president to have the appearance of
a turnkey when doing the courts
of the world. 'Tis beneath our
dignity. And the throne. Make it
the throne of the world Build it
of platinum and gold and stud it
with the rarest gems the world
knows, the size of an ostrich egg.
This can be done and should be
done. We have grown up to it. The
times demand it. A sixth loan could
easily be f1oated for the billion dol
lars if the people were given to I'M
derstand its purpose. We can't af-
ford to send our chief executive and
his consort about the world looking
life a pair of ordinary mortals. NO
air-e-Rob." Let's fix 'em out as
their position demands. Congress
will be lax in its duties if it fails to
ac; in this matter. J. H. BLACK.