The Omaha morning bee., 1924-05-27
Today
6 More Days Haze Gone.
Little Ne,Us, Little
Change.
Napoleon's Wisdom.
American Business Has
IL.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE

The world, another day closer to
the day of Judgment or "the cos
mic cataclysm, or whatever it is
that will wind up mans earthly ca
reer, finds the news about as usual.
The Methodist church urges all
churches to unite "in a war against
war; but the church would not
vote never to fight in future wars.
When the next war comes, clergy
men will be helping the sale of
bonds as usual and going them
selves under fire.
The socialists, now in charge of
the French government, are seek
ing a road to permanent peace, and
some solution of their national prob
lens. They will still be seeking,
next week and later.
Exclusive clubs in New York de-
eide to suspend their visitors list
during the democratic convention.
This is presumably to oblige mem
bers that occasionally dream politi-
cal dreams, on their own account,
but would not like to push the thing
so far as to "invite those political
chaps to ones own club, don't you
know" We really have an Ameri-
can aristocracy, poor thing, but
our own.
Mrs. Atkinson, who married two
husbands, says a triangle is no
geometrical figure for lady desir-
ing peace. The second husband
pleases her, but he wants to leave,
using No. | as an excuse.
The lady is referred to chapter
20, page 107 of the third fat vol
ume of Westermark's history of
human marriage. It's the chapter
on polyandry, a word taken from
the Greek meaning several men,"
If Mrs. Atkinson will go to Thlbet,
she will find one wife married to
several bothers, or cousins, all con-
tented. II the lady rejects Thibet,
where the movie theaters and soda
water fountains are scarce and In
ferior, she has her choice of hun
dred places where polyandry is
legal.
II she favors one husband in her
collection, she might try residence
among the Kaniagmiut, where two
or even three men sometimes live
with one wife without suspicion or
jealousy" but the second husband,
land presumably the third also),
was only a deputy who acted as
husband and master of the house
during tho absence Of the true
lord. and on the latter's return not
only yielded to him his place, but
became in the meantime his sery-
ant
II one set of laws do not please
you, you can always find region
where the laws are different. Be-
fore many years European capital
lists will be coming to this country,
destined to become the great nation
.~of conservatism, and homeland OF
entrenched capital. Live another
hundred years and you'll see it.
A young person described as
general Dawes assistant" says
we have too much gold in America.
Il is our curse, and we should at
once modify the curse by lending
plenty of our money to Europe.
That's interesting, but let the "as-
sistant" ask General Dawes what ne
would do.
Dawes has gold. much Of it, a
few millions anyhow, in his private
fortune. What would he reply II
the assistant said:
General, your trouble is too
much money | know some bank
rupts that owe you money now,
have no idea of ever paying you,
but would like to borrow more.
Lend them a lot and relieve the
pressure on your pocketbook."
Would not General Dawes IA
vorite "Hell and Maria" figure In
his answer? Why do financiers,
sloppy sentimentalists and others
forever advise Uncle Sam to do
what they would not do themselves!
We ought to learn national wis
dom from that wise republic,
France. Consider what happened
to the Vanderbilt boys, William X.
and Harold, when they sold their
IhLUeT y IdClue otdDic III L idiSV'
They got big price for the sta
BILE, one Of the finest in the world,
but they were told by the French
government: "Sell your stable,
but don't forget that the money you
get for II must stay In France.
You must invest all that money in
French enterprises, French bonds
or stock, what you will, but 1t must
be French. We intend that capi-
tai, once in France, shall stay in
France, to employ French labor and
build up French industry"
And the Vanderbilt boys did leave
the money in France, for the
French government knows how to
regulate such things. 1t even col
Iects full income tax from rich
men, although 1t fears to tax little
men too heavily.
With US, It's the other way
around. We tax small business
men, doctors or lawyers, wearing
out their life and the bodily ma
chine that earns his living, with no
allowance for depletion, or for doc
tors bills, to keep the machine