The Omaha morning bee., 1924-01-23
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Dangerous Teapot Dome.
She's Back in the Mill.
Ne,u Style Killing.
The Hens Ancestor.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE

stir up something but wise men"
said it didn't seem probable.
McAdoo might make a strong
democratic run, but it probably
wouldn't make much difference.
Now comes the Teapot Dome oil
scandal, with the oil reserves of
the navy sold to private concern,
and a very unpleasant discussion
as to what happened to a certain
lump sum of 100000.
Unless that is thoroughly cleaned
up Immediately and by the re-
publicans themselves not waiting
tor democrats to do it, it may
make a big difference in the cleo
ton of 1924. However, it is not
likely that Mr.. Coolidge will wait
for democrats to do his house.
cleaning.
Yesterdays testimony concern
ing the Teapot Dome, especially
young Mr.. Roosevelt's account of
his resigning from the oil COM
pany, will interest you and the
voters. You will probably hear
from President Coolidge and the
attorney general within AZ hours.
That is not the sort of scandal
that can be allowed to simmer too
long.
Myra Cole, II, went to the mill
at 6 80 in the morning, in the little
Massachusetts village of Hills
Grove, and got away at 5 in the
afternoon. She thought she would
try New York.
She went without eating for
several days, fell in a faint on the
street, and has been sent back to
Hills Grove.
She will start in again at the
mill, go in at $50 n the morning,
and get out at in the afternoon.
But things used to be worse.
More than 80 years ago, the late
Albert Brisbane, who wrote for
the front page of Horace Greeley's
New York Tribune, asked the good
men of New England who advo-
Gated abolition of slavery: "Since
you are so much interested in the
poor black slaves, why don't you
free your own white women that
YOU drive into our mills before
daylight and keep there until
dark"
Albert Brisbane, by the way,
used to nav Horace Greeley cash
for the right to write his opinions
on the Tribune's. first page. His
unworthy son has better imam
cial arrangement.
This telegram is received from
Reno, Nevada:
Two Chinese will be executed
by lethal gas, Carson City, New,
February 8. Fearful that horrors
may attend this untried expert
mental means of execution. AS an
admirer and reader of your ar
ticles largely read daily in this
community, would appreciate any
thing you could editorially say.
Reverend Otis L. Linn, Superin.
tendent, Presbyterian Church of
Nevada"
The Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals kills super
fluous cats and dogs in a lethal
chamber. The animals don't know
what is going to happen, their
death is merciful. What can you
say about civilized human beings
forcing two Cinnamon into an air.
tight "lethal chamber" turning on
deadly gas and killing them? The
constitution of the United States
forbids cruel and unusual punish
ment. This method of killing Is at
least unusual. A good lawyer ought
to be able to postpone that execu-
tion.
Will the men be tied down or
strapped in chairs in the lethal
cell? Will they be killed two at
a time or separately?
Will they be left free to dash
their heads in despair against the
walls of the deathtrap?
Will a Chinese interpreter ex.
plain to them what is going to. hap
pen? Will a clergyman humble
prayers through the walls of the
cell? It's an interesting experiment
in our civilization.
Dinosaurs used to lay eggs. You
knew that. Did you know also that
they had gizzards and that scien-
fists find in skeletons of dinosaurs
large, finely polished pebbles
which, in the dinosaurs gizzard,
ground up food, as the hen now
grinds her food with gravel in
her gizzard?
And did you know that the hen
of today is the direct descendant
of the dinosaur 70 feet long? The
hen would probably object to that
statement while Mr.. Bryan OBJ
jects to Darwin's theory. But. in
both cases the facts are over.
whelming.
A big dinosaur would weigh
100000 pounds. What Burbank
will reverse evolution's process;
and give us chicken of that size
England discusses seriously abol
ishing the gold standard. The
United States having half Of al
the gold available for money, il
wouldn't be bad, from the English
viewpoint to select another stand
ard. But for the present, the thing
can't be done.
Men demand something in thu
way of money that can't be created
artifcially. Silver might do, but
we have that also. Abolish the golc
standard and you abolish gold'i
value.
Curiously enough, Russia, hom,
of the misty rlble, is to go on 1
gold basis in April. They have dis
covered that paper won't do.