The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-06-29

after be less inclined to set the dogs
on every stray vagabond who
chances to drop or at the water
tank.
From hoboes to heroes and back
again In one short night: there's a
spicy variety Of life!
Getters and Givers.
From tho wichita Eagle.
The American magazine asked III.
G. Wells to namei the six greatest
men in history. The answer of Mr..
Wells is worth reading.
Who are the six greatest men of
history? Opinions will differ as to
the inclusion or exclusion OF certain
important names. Opinions will vary
as to the rule by which one may pick
the six greatest men or the million
greatest men Of history, sacred, pro-
fame, ancient or contemporary. But
Mr.. Wells has his ideas, and Mr..
Wells is a man Of keen insight and
possessing a marvellous store of
knowledge.
Here are his six greatest:
Jesus Christ,
Buddah,
Aristotle,
Asoka,
| Roger Bacon.
| Abraham Lincoln.
| Two great religious teachers. one
philosopher, one king. one scientist,
/ one president of a republic. One
from Judea, two from India. one
from Greece, one from England, one
from America. Most Of them lived
a long time ago, according to the
customary way of computing time.
Only two of the six spoke the English
language. Only one was born since
the discovery Of America.
Not a military hero among them
all. Not fighter in the list. The
pages Of history are lurid with the
endless procession Of the conQuerors,
but not one Of them lands in this list
Of selected great men. Nor, by the
same method of judging greatness
would one of them land in any such
list. be it ever so long.
For Mr.. Wells says, very reason
ably as it seems, that the men who
have really impressed their PERSONAL
| tiles upon the world, the men who
have changed humanity's ways of
thinking and Of living, have not been
getters, but givers.
Napoleon? Alexander? Croesus?
| Rockefeller? Amenophis? Their
! names have been written In the
| blood and sweat of multitudes. But
that will not do. The judge sends
| them out Of court with a wave OF
the hands. For they were getters
They got things for themselves.
In the list made by Mr.. Wells
there is but one rich man, who also
is the only king in the list-Asoka::
He is little known to the world OF
our day and place, Tpd his right to
a place in such a select list will be
questioned more severely than that
Of any of the other five. He was
king Of Magadha an Indian state OF
great extent, and died about 22S
years before the birth OF Christ.
Wells is a great admirer OF him. tie
points out that ,Asoka Is the only
war king who had sense enough to
stop fighting when he had put down
! opposition and made peace IN ms
realm. Among millions in the Orient
he still is venerated as great edu-
Gator. civilizer, humanitarian. Per-
| haps if we knew as much about
| Asoka as Mr.. Wells does we should
be inclined to agree with him in this
selection. But, not being thus ad-
yantaged. we would venture to sug-
gest the name Christopher Column
but, a great giver whose gifts to the
world have changed profoundly the
ways of life and thinking OF count
less millions of beings.
In prisons, in Hastings, in trlbula-
ton Of the spirit. they gave to US
what makes us rich soul ana nina.
They asked in return nothing that
this world can give. They lived sue
cessful lives. -
Judges Agreed.
From the Cleveland News.
Strangely enough, the decision
given by Chief Justice Taft in the
name of the United States supreme
court, holding that labor unions
may be sued for damages resulting
from strikes and their strike funds
may be levied upon to pay such
damages, was a unanimous decision.
That seems a fortunate circum-
stance, whether the judgment is
considered great victory for the
United Mine Workers of America,
as claimed by counsel for that or
! ganization, or whether the doctrine
! of financial responsibility extending
to unions Is deemed staggering
blow to organized labor's tenets.
Apparently the decision was fully
concurred in, not only by associate
| justices of conservative or repub-
lican history, such as Messrs. NC
Kenna, Holmes, Day, Van Devanter
and Pitney. but as we'll by Messrs.
McReynolds, Clarke and Brandels,
appointees of democratic admins
trations, and perhaps considered by
some, as to some Of them. excep-
tionally liberal, progressive or radi-
cal in their legal views. The un-
usual unanimity gives the ruling
strength, as a self-evident PROPOSE
ton admitting Of no doubt even
where differences Of opinion is COM
mon, and removes it from the ar
senal Of politics.
Political opponents Of President
Harding's administration have been
calling 1t the friend Of big bust.
ness" a "rich mans government"
and all that sort Of thing. The ef-
fort to discredit the party in power
by process Of vague insinuation will
doubtless be intensified with the
coming campaign. The supreme
court decision that labor unions
have no special immunity from re-
sponsibility for their acts would have
come in very handily, could 1t be
! called the work of the republican
! administration. As it stands. 1t Is
bipartisan. legal, logical, business
like. anything but political.