The Omaha morning bee., 1923-10-10

A Moro girl, pretty, self-willed,
eloped with some one her father
did not like. A blood feud started,
several men have cen killed, five
are in Jail. 1t is Helen of Troy,
over again, but there is no Homer.
The poet-historian makes history,
by making it interesting.
Rev. Percy Stickney Grant
mourns, as follows: "If 85 per
cent of young men enter college
believing in Christianity, and
nearly all of them have lost their
faith, on leaving college, we are
teaching Christianity in the wrong
way"
Very likely, hard facts Of
science are taught in a way that
crowds out belief in miracles. 1t
must be remembered, that boys in
their teens do not exactly believe
anything. They only take for
granted what has been told them.
1t takes long mental medicine
to plant religious belief in a young
mind, beyond all possibility of up
roofing. A man, known all over
the country, said at the recent
Lloyd George luncheon, "only the
Catholic church stands between
property and red radical confisca-
ton. The Protestant church lost
it's power when it stopped teach
ing that there is an actual blazing
hell. Men need to be frightened"
The gentleman is a good Pro-
testant and goes through all the
usual motions, but he is discour-
aged. If it's true that fear of
hell fire alone will keep men
honest, that's sad. But is it so?
The American Federation of
Labor, which Is non-sectarian,
comes out strongly and officially
against communism, confiscation
of property and other extreme
radicalism. High wages enable
men to acquire property. And
when a man owns something, he
at once objects to any plan for
dividing evenly. Capital will learn,
perhaps, that its safety lies in max
ing the little man little property
owner, a house paid for, and
savings bank account will inspire
more conservatism than any fear
of hell.
The bolshevik government pays
a substantial subsidy on every
yard of cotton goods exported to
Persia. The idea is to build up
Russian industry, and take world
markets from England. Russia
may not be as dreamy and imprac-
tical as it pleases US to imagine
it. Even our sublime selves,
always letting growers do their
own worrying" might learn some
thing from despised bolsheyism.
Birmingham, Ala, tells the
world her laws are made to be
enforced. Last Sunday no one
was allowed to play cards, domi-
noes, croquet or golf. The golf
players, important citizens, de-
cided that it has gone beyond a
Joke, and will test the matter in
court. The way to improve laws
is to enforce them. How long do
you suppose the Volstead law
would last, If it were not only
possible, but extremely easy for
the "better class" to get what they
want?
Mussolini, having made the
league of nations ridiculous,
much obliged to you for that"
says Uncle Sam, proceeds to prove
himself a good new broom. He
will devote money and labor to
reclaiming the bad lands of Italy,
increasing productive acreage.
Nine hundred and eight thousand
acres of land, hitherto wasted,
have already been put under culti-
vation. An example for the
United States, with its disease
bree ling, climate-destroying
swamps and deserts.
When old Germany finishes
building the big Zeppelin, ordered
by this country, the great Zeppelin
plant must be dismantled and de-
stroyed. Such are the orders of
France. A plant that the world
needs, for its progress, is to be
made a junk pile, because it might
make machines for war. It's
natural for France to maintain
her dictatorship in Europe and
protect herself against numbers,
while she can. But could not
France herself run that factory,
or sell the plant to be transported
to this country? All nations share
the burden of such wilful waste.
Our learned congressman, Fred
A. Britten of Illinois, finds to his
horror that food on the American
ship Leviathan is labeled with
French names. He asks why cha
chic de volatile" is not called plain
hash. Answer: 1t Is not hash. A
normal human being can digest it.
In the second place, real cooking
is a French art, and entitled to
French menus, as approprite in
cooking as Latin in botany.
A young COW in the barnyard is
calf. It's veal, a French word,
when it comes on the table. Its
uncle, called COX" when living, be-
comes beef, another French word,
when cooked.
Cooking is a science and an art,
Mr.. Britten. The French alone,
among the nations, understand it.
Go teach the orphan boy to
read, teach the orphan girl to sew,