The Omaha morning bee., 1924-10-29

Politics-Last Call.
! 3 to l on California.
! Ford Does Things.
E. Whale, or Shark?
: By ARTHUR BRISBANE

Last week of the campaign, la
dies and gentlemen, of the United
States. One week from today you
vote and say, "Thank heaven, that's
over, let's hope for prosperous,
peaceful times"
"a week from tomorrow or next
day you will know who, if any,
body is elected. 1t is possible to
make one certain prediction. The
votes cast will elect Coolidge, or
they will not elect anybody. Davis
cannot possibly be elected. Nor
can La Toilette. Both of them
know that and every politician
knows it.
If the vote for Coolidge is not
sufficient to elect him, then nobody
will be elected, and the election
will go into the house of represen-
tatives. No candidate has a major
ity there. The senate will elect a
vice president. Then for weeks,
perhaps months, the parties in the
house of representatives will vote,
dicker and try to wear out each
others patience.
How much that process would
help the country, each voter will
decide for himself. 1t wouldn't
help much.
The odds are to 1 that Presi-
dent Coolidge will carry California
change in public sentiment there,
due largely to President Coolidge's
emphatic confirmation of the policy
of sAsiatic exclusion, and his state
ment that the league of nations
will not be allowed to write the
immigration laws Of the United
States.
Californians looking across the
Pacific toward Asia know that for
them the one necessity in the de-
velopment of their magnificent en-
pire is the right to control immi-
grafton.
With freedom from Asiatic i'm
migration, California will be a ma
tion of at least 30,000,000 of white
people. With the immigration laws
broken down it would be land of
50,000,000 Asiatics, and no white
people.
Ford gets things done. He loads
tractors, cars and trucks on his own
ships, at River Rouge, in the heart
of this country, thousand miles
from the ocean. The first boat,
''the Onondaga," will sail in few
days from the Ford plant to Buenos
Aires, South America.
Another Ford ship, "Oneida,"
will carry cargoes from Ford plants
in Detroit to Jacksonville, Fla,
New Orleans, and Houston, Tex.
Ford is to be thanked for showing
the people of this country what
ought to be done and can be done.
The government, which found so
many billions for the wars of other
people in Europe, ought to find a
few dollars for building the canals
that this country needs. One canal
would unite the lakes and the Mis-
sissippi valley with the gulf and
the Pacific via Panama.
Another canal for ships unites
the lake country with the Atlantic
Every big American city sea-
port" should be our motto.
The Rev. DR.. Stratton, firm be-
lever, suggests that a shark, not
whale, may have swallowed
Jonah. The Bible doesn't say "a
whale" it only says "a great fish"
A shark has been known to swallow
deer whole, the deer subsequent
ly being found in the sharks stom-
ach. If a deer, why not Jonah,
asks the Rev. DR.. Stratton.
But what about the sharks gas
trio juice and its effect on Jonah's
skin? In Jonah, chapter /, 18th
verse, it says, "And Jonah was in
the belly of the fish three days and
three nigh ts." There is the real
miracle. Why was he not digested,
or smothered?
There is an answer. 1t says,
Nov, the Lord had prepared a
great fish to swallow up Jonah" 1t
was evidently fish especially pre-
pared" 1t might have had stom-
ach as big as dining room, with
special ventilation arranged
through the fishs gills. DIR. STRAIT
ton is right in his statement that
everything is possible.
The National Security league"
apparently rather timid, shaky,
shivery organization, wanted Uncle
Sam to refuse admittance to
Countess Karolyi, wife of the for
mer president of Hungary. A lit
tie common sense leaked in some
where. The countess was allowed
to land here.
The security" of this country
Of 112,000,000 must be dubious
and uncertain if it can't stand the
arrival of a we'll educated, intelli-
gent woman whose husband sought
to establish in Hungary the kind of
a government that we have here.
A man SO years old runs away
with a girl of ID, his own step
grandchild. That's in Kentucky.
In Chicago a girl of 16 is accused
of leading a band of robbers. In
modern foolishness and crime the
cradle and the grave seem mixed
up.
The Chicago girl is sordid,
imitation young Gree, Turing men
to places where they might be con-
veniently robbed by her band.
Copyright, 1920