The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-09
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900 Good Books Hardly.
The "No-Man" Husband.
The 1pes Remember.
Coolidge Common Sense.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE.

The League of Nations will pub
lish A list of the 500 best books
produced in each year. What fine
world this would be if it could pro-
duce 600 books really worth keep
ing OF all books written you
might destroy all but 600. and still
have left everything really i'm
portant.
The Caliph Omar destroyed the
magnificent library at Alexandria,
saying that if the books agreed
with the Koran they were superfu-
Gus, and if they opposed it they were
vicious and should be destroyed for
that reason.
That was too drastic. but if the
League of Nations could find six
books every year of permanent
value that would be good many.
Miss Nora Bayes' experience
commands respectful attention. Re-
turning with her fifth husband, she
says she is on her first real honey
moon because this husband is a
Norman"
The experienced lady divides hus-
bands into the weak "Yes-man"
and the powerful, manly Norman"
The Norman" as you guess,
harks back to the cave and knows
how to say NO A woman likes
to be bossed, says Miss Bayes, and
soon gets tired of "Yes-man."
An interesting definition of hus-
bands, but there is such thing as
saying no too often. Who knows
but No. 6 may be another "Yes-
man?'
Prof. Wolfgang Koehler of Ber-
lin. tells Columbia university how
the great apes resemble man. They
vary in intelligence as men do, but
have better memories than men.
They know enough to break a
branch from a tree, to reach out
for fruit beyond the reach of
their hands.
Prof. Koehler annoys those who
are sure that Darwin didn't know
what he was talking about.
How would the learned professor
explain intelligence of insects far
surprising that of any ape.
How does the mud wasp perform
surgical operation on caterpil-
lar, paralyzing and keeping it alive
all winter, to be eaten by young
wasps when they hatch?
Who taught the ant to organize
cities, establish nobility of para
sites, and take care, like the bees,
of queen, because she means the
perpetuation of the tribe?
Who taught working bees to let
the male drones live until the queen
has made her choice and then kill
the survivors?
He who denies the Importance of
evolutiorNis, of course. an ignora-
mus. He who would use evolution
to explain everything is equally
foolish.
President Coolidge talked good
scommon sense on ygiving prefer
ence to home industry and Ameri-
can workmen." Newspapers say
he defended" such preference.
But there is no need for defence.
The duty of nation, its govern
ment and its chief executives is to
work for that nation and for the
working people that have created.
The British are not bashful about
giving the preference to the British
worker. In every advertisement
you read British made" or Brit
ish built" Too many Americans
brag about the fact that what they
offer is imported from England" "
AS though there were nothing fit
to. produce or use in this country
IL you make your money in Amer
lea spend it in America.
Mrs. Georgia Hackett Ruggles OF
Los Angeles left the bulk of her for
tune of 100000 to the Christian
Science church. The church can
not get the money because the will
was made only 26 days before the
lady died.
Under California law no church
can inherit unless the will was made
80 days before death.
The theory is that, on the edge
of the grave rich individual is apt
to be too much interested in his
own immediate celestial future. not
enough interested in his relatives
earthly future.
If the French socialist prime
minister, Herriot, is forced to call
an election, as seems probable, the
result will be interesting to
high finance.
French peasants, like other
human beings, don't like taxes
Other Frenchmen dislike them,
also.
But il the average Frenchman
hates the idea of paying heavy in
come tax, he hates even more bit
terly the we'll known fact that the
very rich escape taxation.
If Herriot goes before the coun-
try in 4 fight to hold his place, sta
biljze the franc and pay the ma
tional debt, he will say to the little
Frenchman (little financially ::
Support me and | will make the
big fortunes pay their share, which
they are not paying now" The
result may not suit the big for
tunes.
United States fnanciers ask Mex
ico's permission to establish Ia pas
senger airplane routes above Mexi-
can territory.
1t would be pleasant if some
other United States 6nanciers