The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-18
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30 and Pomertul.
I Genuine Miracle.
He Read Darlcin-
Our Comic .frmada.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE.

He Read Dmmin-
Our Comic 1rmada.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE.
Stanislaus Zbyszko, Polish wres-
tier, wins match against Big"
wayne Mum in two straight falls.
And Zbyszko is Sc years old.
His power helps you to under
stand how .'the old man" in the
cave days could drive the young
men away from the valley and over
the mountains to seek their for
tunes and their wives, keeping the
young women for himself and thus
preventing too much inbreeding. If
men today led a sane life, they
would be stronger at so than at
any earlier age, physically as we'll
as mentally.
Whatever you think of old-fash-
ioned miracles. you can't dispute
the miracles of science. A doctor
consulted by patient a thousand
miles away, ordered an X-ray of
the patients hand. In seven min
utes the X-ray photograph of the
hand, showing the bones, cartilages,
ETC., was sent over the telephone
wire from the patient in New York
to the doctor in Chicago.
Suppose anybody had predicted
that so years ago. And 200 years
ago, if the thing had been done,
everybody concerned would have
been locked up, accused of witch
craft.
Russell Scott, very young man,
would have been executed in Chi
1cago Thursday except for post
ponement. While waiting to be ex-
ecuted Scott was working at a
crossword puzzle and working the
dials of radio machine, smoking
cigarets to soothe himself.
A stock and bond salesman. be-
fore he took to robbery and murder
as a short cut to weath-this man
puzzles reporters. He refuses re-
ligious consolation, telling Sisters
of Charity that call upon him, you
know, sisters, | am afraid | have
read too much. If | have any re-
ligion, it is that of Darwinism."
A Mohammedan would urge this
young man to turn to Allah, as his
glorious prophet. A primitive Pata-
eonian would advise him to make
his peace with Setebas. And a
man from Thibet would tell him to
rely on the Dalai Llama and a
good prayer MILL
Many good men will say, "Ah,
Darwinism, there you have the Sc
cret of the young mans downfall .
Darwin, however, never commit
ted robbery or murder and didn't
recommend either. The trouble
with this young man is not too
much reading or knowing too much,
but too little reading and knowing
too little.
Our great fleet of battleships,
cruisers, etc., are carrying on
mimic warfare" in the Pacific
ocean. The theory is that every
body is trying to take the Hawaiian
Islands from us and we are trying
to prevent it.
=, Theoretically our great battle
ships that cost $50, ,000,0 200 or $780,
100000 apiece, and become almost
Immediately obsolete, are winning
wonderful victories over the
imaginary enemy.
II we really had a war in the
Pacific, some well-equipped Asiatic
power saying, "You won't let us
have slice of California. so we
take Hawaii what would really
happen?
The imaginary Asiatic power,
possessing common sense and mod
ern flying machines, both of which
our army and navy. lack. would
send over flying machines, sink our
glorious S50,000.000 battleships,
cruisers and other floating Junk.
Then, under protecting "barrage'
from the sky, they would send
troops and more fiers and planes in
big freight ships and ask. what
are you going to do about it?''
The Chicago Public Library seeks
to discourage the reading of trash,
and that is useful, if you define
correctly the word trash Young
minds, like young stomachs, need
food easily absorbed. You don't
feed tough beefsteak to a six-month-
old babv or give "hard books" to a
12-year-old child.
Many parents, Understanding
the intelligence of children and 9TH
ers, don't realize that what child
reads and hears between 7 and 15
years of age, does more than all
else, except heredity, to decide the
child's future success and value.
A boy or girl of 10 will take more
interest in old English ballads, tell
ing about Robin Hood or the battle
of Chevy Chase, than in some trash
STORY" A 10-year-old girl will
read the story of Oliver Twist,
Ivanhoe, or the good old-fashioned
Little Women" And such books
will make her better woman and
a better mother.
Literary trash is the curse of the
young mind today, as food trash is
the curse of the stomach.
Doctors announce that prohibit
ton is causing insanity.
"Wid bootleg drinking parties