The Omaha morning bee., 1925-01-07
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A White House Break.
fast.
Hotu to Stop Crime.
Popes and Kings.
Jaipur's Girl Sacrifice.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
By ARTHUR BRISBANE


ton in the world, and John D.
Rockefeller, representing what is
probably still the biggest fortune
in the world, and incidentally one
of the most useful, will have break
fast with President Coolidge at the
White House. They will discuss
law enforcement, and the findings
of citizens committee of one
thousand.
Those three men will make an
interesting breakfast combination.
Gary became head of the great
steel concern when he was past 30;
Rockefeller, jr., bocn to own and
manage the worlds greatest for
tune, is removed by only one gen.
acration from little farm in the
hills along the Hudson, and Calvin
Coolidge in one generation is pro-
NOTED from a farm in Vermont to
the White House.
Apparently Careers are still
open to talent, as Napoleon put it,
here in America.
The president will entertain in
Gary and Rockefeller two men that
might do more than any others to
solve the crime problem.
You can diminish crime in two
ways, first by making it costly and
painful to the criminal with severe,
prompt and inevitable punishment.
Second, since crime is always
Improbable, it can be reduced by
increasing facilities in obtaining
employment.
The law should be able to say to
every man: 'If you need food,
and your wife and children need
food. | will show you where you
can work any day in the year and
earn enough to feed yourself and
your family.
81 you prefer crime to work
shall show you another place, where
you will work inside prison walls
and earn nothing for yourself.
shall use your earnings in that other
place to see that your wife and
family don't starve."
Rockefeller and Gary might offer
interesting suggestions for legisla-
ton that would supply constant
employment. This country is big
enough and needs enough work to
keep everybody busy.
In England they pay hard cash
allowance to idle men and they
have done it since the war, in the
British unemployment allowance,
thus avoiding the crime waves we
have here. To put men to work
is better than to make beggars of
them.
Changes come rapidly. In 1875,
when Pope Leo opened the holy
door in Rome, he sent gold medals
in honor of the event to the Aus
trian emperor, Francis Joseph, then
ruling part of Poland.
Now Pope Plus, so years later,
again opens the holy door, and
sends one gold medal to President
Wocjechowski, president Of the re-
public of Poland, and one to his
wife, Madame Wocjeehowski.
Little could the old emperor have
imagined what was to happen be-
fore the holy door should next be
opened.
KINGS and emperors come and
go, rise and fall, the popes go on.
One reason is found in the fact
that cardinals select for pope the
ablest man among them, whereas
emperors and kings are selected by
the accident of birth.
One of 10000 rumors says the
Russian government will stir up
revolution in Cairo and attempt,
via Epvpt. to "set India in flames"
This won't worry the British
lion. He knows water drinking,
vegetable eating Asiatics do not
take fire so easily. And when they
do, they usually attack and burn
some neighboring religions that
don't please them.
To realize how closely the Ash
atics, including inhabitants of India,
are to fashioned religious no.
tions, remember that as recently
as 1851, when Lincoln was prepar-
ing for his great task, an Indian
rajah, to bring good fortune upon
himself and his reign, offered at
.Jaipur a living sacrifice Of young
& girl.
1t takes more than one century
to change from that type to the
Lincoln type understanding free
dom.
p. s. To save any Swami or
other the trouble of writing for
further information those inter-
ested are referred to Wester-
marck's big book on the "origin of
moral ideas" The Jaipur incident
will be found somewhere near page
500. This is written on the train,
the book is not at hand.
The test of Mussolini's strength
comes now, and he handles Italy's
problems and his own, without hesi-
tation or weakness. He doesn't
intend to be any Rienzi, glorying
for awhile in his own greatness, in
toxicated with his own Importance,
and finally stabbed in the stomach
by a patriotic butcher.
Florence and other rebellious
towns in Italy will learn that times
have changed since Savonarola :.
Flying machines will visit rebellious
cities, and talk for Mussoiini from
the air. Railroads carry fascist
police to any part Of Italy in "A
few hours.
And Mussolini, trained for years
as follower and leader in the hard
school Of Italian socialism, knows
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