The Omaha morning bee., 1924-08-02
CopyriRht. 1924.

the train, divided into two sections,
made up of hundreds of cars.
If Mr.. Coolidge could have stood
beside the track, figuring up how
much the farmer would get, he
wouldn't have found it in the least
bit tiresome. Agriculture, as Mr..
Curtis truly says, is $1,000,000,000
better off than it was a few weeks
ago.
One thing is going to hurt both
Mr.. Coolidge and Mr.. Davis in
this campaign, if they keep it
up, and that is the absence of fight
ling. Americans think they are en-
titled to a good political fight at
least once in four years.
If Davis and Coolidge adopt an
"after you, Alphonse" method,
"they will turn many red-blooded
he-men" in the direction of La
Toilette.
The price of wheat started travel
ing upward again yesterday. Patten,
the wheat king of Chicago, predicts
"wheat at So bushel." Disinter-
ested judges think it will go to
$1.50, perhaps higher. Every lit
tie penny added to the price of
wheat has a meaning of its own,
for the republican candidates.
The Georgia legislature is dis
cussing evolution. One statesman
calls the theory of evolution "rot-
ten stuff" Another, Mr.. McCrory,
says if he was descended from a
monkey, he is ashamed of it.
Darwin, as it happens, didn't
think he was descended from a
monkey either.
The Georgia statesmen conclude
that the young murderers, Loeb and
Leopold, wouldn't have killed any
body if they hadn't been taught to
believe in evolution. If that's so,
it's very important. However, some
have committed murders that
couldn't read and never heard of
evolution-Cain, who killed his
brother, Abel, for instance. Where
did he get that killing impulse, only
once removed from the first man?
Perhaps the serpent taught him?
Poor little Miss Peggy Hopkins
Joyce, five times married, says:
Madame De Sevgne was 100 per
cent right when she said, The
more see of dogs, the less l think
of men,"
1t is hard to find a perfect man,
no matter how you try.
Miss Joyce has tried patiently,
marrying five of them, four with
money, but no title, one with a
title but no money. The one with
out the money lasted the shortest
time of all.
Women, superior beings, '1ead-
ing us upward" as Goethe truly
says, must reconcile themselves to
civilizing men through the future
ages, as they have done since the
age of the cave. 1t can't be done
in any one deliriously happy matri-
monial whirl.
Henry Ford, 81 on Wednesday,
hid to escape birthday congratula-
tions. 1t is announced that a re-
cent physical examination proves
that he can be insured in any com
pany.
He was not nervous about the
examination, having, it is said, al
ready provided for his family.
Prosperous parents do make a
difference. Hess Connors, %:
Fred Hale, 10, haven't rich parents.
Colored men, of Cairo, ILL.,, they
pleaded guilty to murder in the
first degree. Now, a few days
later, Connors is sentenced to hang
and Hale to 80 years at hard labor
in the Illinois penitentiary.
1t isn't that money is used for
bribery, but that money interests
lawyers with real power. The
lack of it doesn't interest them
Lawyers with real power know how
to slow down the march to the gal
lows to a pace that makes a snail
look like race horse.
Copyright. 1924