The Omaha morning bee., 1924-02-02

The Unanimous Senate.
A Sensible WIDOW.
Great Is IoiUa.
Wrigley in China.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE

The country is awake, and not one
senator voted against Walsh's reso
luton calling on the president te
cancel the oil leases.
Mr.. Coolidge is an absolutely
honest man, everybody feels it
But he is also the nations execu.
tive and something more than
slow, cautious movement and the
appointment of respectable, aver
age ordinary men as lawyers in the
case is demanded.
As things stand now, the oil
scandal might well make Walsh the
next president, especially when
genial Magnus johnson says:
"Well, | think we have to have
an independent, nonpartisan repub-
lican candidate for president, out
our way now."
"Out our way" the northwest,
and other regions. west of Hoboken
and Harvard do not see the thing
through the eyes of quiet New
England politics.
"Out our way" they know that
if someone had bribed post
master to let him steal 5000 worth
of stamps, that somebody and the
postmaster would have gone to jail
inside of 80 days.
They want some action, and
President Coolidge will do well to
give it to them. Let him ask him.
self, what would Roosevelt have
done?" Roosevelt really was an
able politician.
Lenin's widow wants no statues
or other monuments in honor of
her dead husband. 'If you care to
honor his memory" she says,
''build schools, orphanages, kinder
gartens, nurseries, hospitals, IL
braries."
That will sound surprisingly
scivilized to those who think that
everything Russian has horns and a
forked tail.
Iowa's newspapers start cam
paign of advertising, Dragging
about that fine state. No wonder, for
they have thingsito brag about. The
corn fields of Iowa alone produce
more wealth than all the gold mines
of the United States. The state
knows no illiteracy, or at least, less
than any other state in the union.
It's crops are worth $1,000, 100000
year. The entire population, in
cluding all hired men, grandmoth-
ers and babies, could ride at the
same time in Iowa's automobiles.
It's really a, marvellous state.
California and Florida rejoice say
ing:
s'More power. Get in those cars,
drive here and spend it"
Nothing is more fascinating than
higher mathematics. Consider
Wrigley, who makes chewing gum.
Silent on peak on Catalina island
he looked westward over the Pacific,
toward China, and unused thus:
s"Five hundred million Cinnamon
over there. The average Chinese
has IS sound teeth-that makes
900, 100000 good teeth going to
waste-chewing no gum, contribut-
ing nothing to a great industry .
He hurried back from Catalina,
sent gum missionaries to China. At
the first the Chinese, courteous,
chewed and swallowed the gum.
Wrigley cabled over just one word,
'persevere."
Now he has a big gum business
3 in China, and talks of starting a
s factory there. Imagination, mathe-
natics and perseverance work won-
ders.
Have you little savings bank
account for each child? 1t works
wonders. In 1859, our Benjamin
Franklin, then in London, put 100
pounds into a fund, the interest to
accumulate for $50 years-and
then be used for useful awards.
Yesterday, British trustees of the
fund, distributed 1000 pounds in
three awards, for scientific work.
Thus the interest on $500 carefully
invested and accumulated makes it
possible to have an income OF
$4,000 year. Great is the power
of compound interest. Start your
little account.
Labor members of the new Brit
ish cabinet refuse to buy court
dress, silk knee breeches, buckles,
sword, ETC., for court functions.
One labor minister says that while
ordinary evening dress is permis-
sible he has no such outfit, and will
cd in his ordinary clothes.
aud chnnk
some plain American democrats
that have been sent to the Court of
ST. James.
German labor, asked to work 10
hours a day instead of eight COM
plains, "You want to make the
workers pay the reparations to the
allies"
It's a silly complaint, for no new
plan is being tried.
The regular routine is for men in
high places to make war, and Tor
men in low places to supply the
blood and corpse while war lasts,
and indemnity afterward. That's
the process that, after awhile, per.
haps in 1000 or 10000 years, will
make the men in low places do a
little thinking. But thinking is
painful and won't come in a hurry.
Following the Teapot Dome
scandal, peddlers are already selling
little teapots to be worn as demo-
cratic badges. Politics is child
ish business. Motto for republican
senators, 81 go to cleanse the pots. y
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