The Omaha morning bee., 1924-09-13

other entertainment could possibly
have persuaded 10000 to pay from
SO to 500 seat to watch white
man fight black man with padded
fists.
That gathering is encouraging,
because a race as able as our hu-
man race, in spite of SO surviving
brutality must surely accomplish
wonderful things, when the interest
of the average man switches from
the power in a negro's gloved fist
Ito the problems of science and civ
ilization.
Young men that went to the big
fight, read about the fight, argued
about the fight, thought and
dreamed about the fight, please
concentrate a minutes thought on
one spectator at the fight.
You won't find it hard, for that
spectator was Jack Dempsey. OBJ
serve that he travels across the
continent, from California, to see
that one fight. Notice also that
he was attending to his principal
business, as it may be necessary for
nights fight.
He was there, not to amusa him
self, but to watch the fighters
methods.
If all other people In the United
States paid as much attention to
their business as does Jack Demp-
sey, there wouldn't have been such
big crowd at the fight. He is
champion in his line, because he at
tends to his line.
Above the base at Quantico, Va,
flying machines are practicing, and
on the ground our honest United
States marines, in deep amazement,
observed that a flock of buzzards,
after watching the aviators,
initiated all their flying tricks in
the air."
You remember the gentleman
with his house on fire, who gath
cred in his arms all the furniture
he could carry, finally picking up
the baby with his teeth fastened in
the little dress.
AS he lifted up the baby he saw
a cat walking across the floor hold
ing a kitten in her mouth, and
said
Look at the wonderful imitation
of that catl"
The Rev. Mr.. Chase tried to have
Firpo deported. Failing that, many
clergymen agreed to pray all Thurs
day afternoon for rain on Thurs
day night to spoil the prize fight,
held in the open air. As this is
written just before sundown, the
sky is bright, no sign of rain.
IF the storm should come up sud
denly, before the gong rings for
round one, it would be interesting
and convincing.
If not, many will conclude that
the rainfall is governed in our day
by the law of nature.
1t would have been more dra-
matte remembering how the light
ming came down from heaven to
start the fire, had the clergyman
prayed for lightning, at the begin
ming of round one, to smite the
guilty Firpo, who brought a young
lady to the United States with him,
and spare the virtuous colored
American, Wills.
Bishop Fan S. Noli, premier of
Albania, spelling the sweet spirit
that floats over the league of ma
tions at Geneva, speaks of the
Dawes reparations scheme as tor
tuous, complicated, diabolical, in
fernal combination of bubbles"
and "the most colossal super-bub-
BILE modern history has yet pro-
duced."
Nevertheless, the scheme is to be
tried. History will tell whether
General Dawes, or the premier of
Albania, was the wiser.
Loeb and Leopold go to the
penitentiary in an iron cage, pro-
tected by armed deputies. The
young men are we'll cared for.
After sentence had been passed
upon them, they ordered "steak
two inches thick, and with all the
side dishes that go with it,"
Imprisonment for life for mur-
der, plus SO years for kidnapping,
had not destroyed their appetite.
David Lawrence says President
Coolidge will keep foreign affairs
out of this campaign, being con-
vinced that "you cannot get voters
excited over European politics"
You can't unless, as in 1920, you
get them excited about a sugges-
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league of nations and make itself
paymaster and errand boy for
other countries.
The voters get excited about
that, as Mr.. Cox discovered, when
President Harding went in with
100000 votes to spare.
Copyright. 1924)
napne,tore of nafo, DBL