The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-06-28

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of intelligence and social fitness in
the race as a whole must inevitably
decline.
| No "Strikc" Here.
From Cleveland Plaln-Dealer.
Do you as a farmers wife want
your daughter to marry a farmer?
II you are a typical or average
wife Of farmer you do. II you
prefer that she marry one in some
other kind Of work you belong to the
minority among farmers wives.
The question was asked Of the
readers of a western magazine de-
voted to the interests of farm wo-
ulate thoughtfulness in the replies
Seven thousand wives Of farmers
submitted their views. "a per cent Of
whom said that most assuredly they
would advise their daughters to be-
come wives of farmers.
1t is an instructive symposium. II
any one may be supposed to under
stand thoroughly the trials and sat
isfactions inseparable from the ca
reer Of a farmers wife it ought to
be a farmers wife herself. There
is nothing artificial or academic
about her sentiments on that sub
ject The collective opinion of these
1000 women who discuss in relation
to each other two questions very near
to every woman's heart. the welfare
Of their daughters and the condition
Of their own lives. ought to throw
light on a subject vital to Americas
future.
Here are some of the typical rea-
sons urged by the 81 per cent ma
jority:
Baby thrives in the country; grow
Ing children need out-of-door life
and play.
Out-of-door work develops body,
mind and tones nerves.
Farmer and wife are automatically
home and business partners.
Tremendous Joy Of working with
natures creative forces.
Children learn laws Of reproduce
ton naturally and clearly. ~
Children early learn the deep value
Of honest labor.
Real neighbors found In country
and true neighboring develops best
sort Of character.
Farm bred men make better hus-
bands than city bred men. as rule.
If these thousands of American
farm women fairly represent views
that prevail throughout the rural
portions of this country-and there
is no reason to suppose they DO not
one source of uneasiness for the
country's future may be eliminated
at once. The publishers Of the Farm
er's Wife of st. Paul. who invited
and now print the symposium, give
convincing evidence that no strike"
of farm women is impending.
Hamlin GarIand's Border Books.
IONA Gale in Yale Review.
To US of the middle border the
Hamlin Garland books are epic.
Their unashamed provincialism is
their glory. Here Is the projection
Of the willingly provincial-not on
the defensive, not in any challenge,
never by a breath apologetic. But
completely articulate. This Is not
Cork, from some vantage place, tell
ing OF his youth. This is not the.
sophisticated word concerning home.
" days. It Is the LONELINESS ltself
articulate. This is the story OF a
man who has never ceased to be
identified with himself! Therefore
not only to one who knows the lana
and the people. but to any one VINO
finds inestimably worth while an
honest record Of any section Of ma
tional life-of world life--these
border books are almost intolerably
precious. They are the record OF
that rarest of creatures, the provin-
cial who goes into the world and
makes 1t his own without seeking to
"change front"-and then tells the
whole progress with power. A being
universal in fundamental simplicity
and rare in consent to utter it.
How We Acquired the Philippines.
Willis Fletcher johnson in North Ameri-
can Review.
Whenever it is discussed, more
over, it should and doubtless will be
borne in mind that the cutting off
Of the islands from our national do
main would be a performance at
once unique, gratuitous and poten-
TALLY embarrassing. Since our ac-
QUESTION of the Louisiana Territory
we have made several additions to
our domain. but never have we In
any way alienated SO much as a
single acre Of land. Where the flag
has once been raised in token OF
sovereignty 1t has never been hauled
down. It would be gratuitous act,
because we placed ourselves under
no obligation whatever to perform
it-but on the contrary proclaimed
to the world our purpose not to do
it, but to hold the Philippines in
perpetuity. It will not do to cite the
case Of Cuba as analogous. The two
cases are not only unlike. but are
aggressively different from and OPP
posed to each other. In the making
of the peace treaty in 1898 Spain
strove hard to get US to annex Cuba
outright, but we refused. 1t strove
even harder and longer to get us
not to annex the Philippines. but we
refused. So 1t was written in the
treaty and proclaimed to the world
that Spain relinquishes all claim
to sovereignty over and title to
Cuba" and that Spain cedes to the
United States the archipelago known
as the Philippine islands" Precisely
as in the latter case it had long be- |
fore been written and agreed that
1.-The first consul of the French re-
public doth hereby cede to the
United States the said territory" (of
Louisiana). that Ibis catholic ma
iestv cedes to the United States all