The Omaha morning bee., 1924-03-15
Today
Sin, Gin, and Gunplay.
around the World Talk.
Dollars Are Soldiers.
Hideous Slruiudl.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
By ARTHUR BRISBANE


that Amos Cummins might have
put on a Chicago news story. The
woman in the case knows that "gin,
sin and gun" make a bad combina.
tion. The man doesn't know it,
he's dead.
He took the lady "for a round
of the cabarets." She tells the po-
lice who found the man, w. r. Law,
dead at the wheel, 81 was so drunk
don't remember very much" Her
impression is that there was some
discussion as to which was the best
shot, and she proved her claim by
shooting the gentleman.
In Chicago it is customary to
acquit ladies that shoot gentlemen,
and almost any excuse will do 1t
should be hard to convict this lady.
If a man filled a monkey up with
gin you wouldn't punish the monkey
for biting the man. Any gentleman
that takes his lady friend to a gin.
selling cabaret, mustn't complain
if she decides to shoot him.
Thursday night England tried to
send radio messages entirely around
the world; a talk by Marconi was
included in the program. Millions
of eager Americans undoubtedly
listened. All the stations in this
country should have been silent, to
give England full chance at the
ether.
Eventually every part of this
world will talk to every other part
through the air. The great ques-
ton is, will this planet be able to
talk through the ether to othef
planets? Shall we learn from Mars,
4O,000,000 years older than earth,
all that it has learned, as children
learn from full-grown teachers?
Let's hope so. That will be a
short cut to information.
Imagine this, in strange, inter-
planetary code:
PLANET Mars calling. Lecture
for younger planets on simple meth
cd of releasing and harnessing pent-
up forces of atomic construction" "
Morgan & Co. are greatly inter-
ested in stabilizing the French
franc. They have sold tensof mil
lions of French bonds to their
American customers and don't want
to see France bankrupt. There is
no danger of that.
But there is every reason why
Americans should be cautious, to
put it mildly, about buying Euro
pean bonds.
Religion produces strange results
in human beings of certain kind
One man killed his father and
mother to atone for the unpardon
able sin committed in early youth.
He didn't say what the sin was.
From Florida comes the extraor-
binary story Of a girl 1S years old
and her mother, killing the girls
father and the woman's husband
"by stamping him to death as a
thank offering to the Lord"
They had gone to a religious
gathering, taking along the father,
paralytic. He was SO much bene-
fitted that the wife and daughter,
amazed, made the thank offer
ing"
This is interesting as a survival
of ancient days, when the most ad-
vanced races sacrificed living hu-
man beings to please various pagan
deities. Even in our own religious
records Abraham undoubtedly
would have sacrificed his own son,
as an offering, had not the ram
miraculously appeared to save the
situation.
It is sign of improvement when
the thing which formerly was uni
versally accepted as part of true re-
ligion survives only in the half
crazy brains of religious fanatics.
Secretary Mellon takes seriously
Europe's debt to the United States.
These debts, he tells the senate
finance committee, must be collect
ed to pay off bonds issued in this
country to make possible loans to
Europe.
According to Mr.. Mellon, this
country will be able to retire, its
debt of s20,000,000,0 900 in about
35 years.
1t is to be hoped that successors
to Mr.. Mellon--who cannot be ex-
pected to work for the people in
definitely-will prove as able as he
in reducing the public debt.
Rabbi Joseph Silberman, pleading
for greater interest in Palestine,
says valuable minerals and oil have
bpan discoUerad tboro c+,oJorJ
Oil is now prospecting near the Red
sea, and in the Dead sea there is
enough potash to supply the world
for 400 years. Copper and gold
have been found also.
That's news to arouse interest in
any country.
Another sign of progress. James
Brown used to be coal miner and
married mill girl. Now the Brit.
ish labor government makes him
lord high commissioner to the gen
eral assembly of the Church of
Scotland. For two and one-half
centuries only members of the Scot
ish nobility have held that job. This
event, shocking to the nobility, is
tribute to the extraordinary adapta-
bility Of the British people and the
British constitution. The govern
ment they now have in England
couldn't exist in the United States
without ripping our constitution to
pieces. Copyright. 1e2I
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Stilman Loses