The Omaha morning bee., 1923-11-03
Today,
Rabelais Sheep.
4 Real Radiogran.
To Hang for an Idea.
Deer Liring, Wolves
Dead.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
By ARTHUR BRISBANE

Wall street gentlemen should
read again the interesting sea
voyage described by Rabelais, and
the story of the sheep merchant,
on board. One sheep being thrown
overheard, all the other sheep
jumped after it, and the sheep man
was ruined. That's what happens,
where our brightest financial
minds, with deep intelligence eco
nomic, weigh causes and effects
and then jump overheard. They
got a lesson from Judge Gary's
little dividend tilt, on Wednesday.
And they got another lesson yes
terday ''It does not pay to sell the
United States short" That was
we'll said.
II you are a radio enthusiast,
and understand such things, you
will be interested in yesterdays
announcement. A message, re-
ceiving its only impulse on this
side of the ocean, made the trip
of 5000 miles to Warsaw and
back 20 times, total distance of
100000 miles. That is almost
twice as far as light and electricity
travel in one second. 1t amazes
us now, we see it, and work it, and
know nothing about it. Some day
we'll send messages to outside
suns, ending with "please answer"
knowing that at 10000 miles a
second the answer will not be back
in time for our grandchildren to
read it.
Eugene v. Debs says prison
didn't frighten him. Right now
he would chang for an idea"
That's noble, once in awhile, al
though you must first be sure that
your idea is sound. For one man
hanged for a good idea, 10000
have been hanged for ideas
thoroughly bad.
Il you have a sound idea, don't
hang for it, publish it, repeat it,
persuade others to accept it. Vol
taire opposed torture of witnesses,
breaking every miserable judge
in one famous case, after fight
of many years, he defied Frederick
the Great, greater powers, and
finally died peacefully in his bed
nearly 85 years old, rich in money,
adored by the people that drew his
carriage through the streets. he
showed the right way to deal with
an idea. That was better than
poor John Brown of Harpers
. Ferry, never living to see any
thing accomplished.
1t takes one kind Of ability to
chang" for an idea, and it takes
= high kind to convert or hang
those that oppose the idea when
1t is right.
A five-ton truck, stuck In Long
Island mud, loaded with cauli-
flower, is attacked by deer, while
tho driver goes for help and
the caulilower eaten. In that
same place, 200 or 800 years ago,
wolves would have soon appeared
to eat the deer within few miles
of the worlds biggest city.
Why are there no wolves, but
plenty of deer? Because deer help
and warn each other. AS so deer
Craze or browse, each deer has 100
eyes watching, 100 ears listening
to protect him. The wolves be-
traye6 and fought each other, and
they vanished. Read Kropotkin's
Mutual Aid, as Factor in Evo-
luton" and learn that the sur
vival Of the loyal and true is as
definite as the survival Of the fit
test.
Inasmuch as ye have done It
unto one Of the least of these my
brethren, We have done it unto Me.
Thus Christ spake through His
servant, Matthew. julius Rosen-
wald, although he Is not Chris
tian, takes the hint and gives
100000 to feed Germany's starv-
ing children. What 100 per cent
Christian will follow that example?
Young J. Warner Bellah Of Co
lumbia won the Knopp prize, with
a book written in 10 hours. The
world admires the ease with which
he writes. II Boileau were alive
he would tell Mr.. Bellah that he
wrote to Racine, then about Bel
lah's age: "You tell me that you
write with great ease. l hope to
teach you to write with great dif-
ficulty."
After he began writing with diff
ficulty. Racine amounted to some
thing. Beware of deadly facility.
Nothing worth while was ever done
easily. II you find it easy, make
1t hard by doing it better and
doing it over.
Another lady, she is from 1lli-
nois, will raise few spirits, just
to prove that she can do it, and
get a reward Of $4,000 offered in
New York for genuine spirit rails
ing. The last lady that tried got
the spirits to write for her nicely,
just by putting pretty flowers be-
tween the blank cards. Only, it
turned out, that other cards had
been substituted for the blank
cards. The Illinois lady, Mrs.
Thompson, will make spirits clad
in snow white garments, come out
of cabinet"
The amusing feature of the per-
formance is the spectacle that SO
called scientists make of them
selves investigating these alleged
phenomena. 1t simply means en-
couraging folly and weakness.
Also, that the scientists are by no