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The Omaha guide., 1933-08-19

March Of Events

Every dog has his day." an old
proverb goes. Well, President Machado
Of Cuba has had his. His regime Of cor
ruption and violence has finally come to
an end. His example is added to others
that teach us that a dictatorship that is
not justified by real public service but
uses its power for exploitation does not
as a rule last long. In the whole matter
the attitude Of the government of the
United States had to be extremely eau
tiOus. On the one hand the enormous fin
ancial stake that citizens Of the United
States have in Cuban Tobacco and Sugar
interests demanded as much protection
IS we could give; on the other hand all
Latin-American Republics were for their
WI pride's sake jealous for the independ-
ence of the Cuban republic and would re-
sent our Officious meddling with the in
tenal affairs Of one of their sister states.
Ambassador Welles counseled the with
drawal Of President Machado. The state
wide enthusiasm that greeted Machado's
request for 'leave of absence" proved
that his advice was in harmony with the
wishes Of the Cuban people.
The Marines of Uncle Sam have
hardly left the shores of Nicaragua when
a new attempt at a revolution is made in
that country Some plotters have blown
up the arsenal in the Capital and Presi-
dent SacaSa has had to declare marital
law.
The economic situation Of a large
part of Russia must be terrible. | have
read recently heartrending letters from
a Wolga District where a large German
agricultural colony has existed for cen
turtles. In many families two thirds have
died of starvation. People will walk a
hundred miles to get two pounds of flour.
The famine district is as large as four or
five American states. The much praised
communistic system is still far from run
ming smoothly. 1t does seem to me that
since we have an o%versupply of bread
stuffs in the United States, 1t would be a
brotherly and at the same time a wise
business like act if we would offer the
Soviet Russian Republic through our
government as much grain as they need
to save these millions, accepting as pay
ment notes signed by the Russian govern
ment. | believe that there would be a
great deal more of a chance that these
notes would be paid than that we will ev-
er be repaid the billions which we lent
the Allies for the purpose of not saving
but destroying life. Russia has utilized
the time, strength and skill of over Co.,
600 common criminals and political pri-
soners to dig a water highway which
connects Leningrad with the Arctic Sea
on the shores of which lies the ice free
port Of Murmansk. We might well copy
some Of the Russian Methods Of handling
prisoners. Instead Of locking them behind
bars and feeding them like animals in a
menagery we could keep them in Gods
open air, under military discipline, and
have them earn their living by carving
out such vast public improvements as are
now constructing with Mr.. Roosevelt's
great Labor Army.
This last weeks Millions of letters
have been sent by the government II
private consumers asking then to enlist
The Omaha guide., 1933-08-19
AFTER THE SALE

There are two very important
factors you consider when buying a mot
or car. First, the car itself-its appear
ance, speed, stamina and a~daptability to
your needs. Second, the reputation of the
manufacturer for backing up his pro-
duct-for providing fast and excellent
service when needed.
That second factor, like the first.
applies with equal force to your comm
unity when it buys a fire engine. That
The Omaha guide., 1933-08-19

+ = =
There is a black spot in the indus
trial outlook-retail trade, which is still
IN an extremely depressed state. Best
fact Of all is that the upturn has been in
progress for four months without a set
back. The most stable barometers-car
loadings, electric power, steel output
indicate continued Improvement. During
June there was an Is per cent increase in
man-hours worked in manufacturing
plants, as compared with May. Wage tot
ais showed a 10 per cent jump, While cost
OF living went up less than one per cent.
SO far, purchasing power is advancing
much more rapidly than prices. Welfare
agencies in most cities report that re-
quests for relief are we'll below former
levels. A remarkable feature of recovery
IS that improvement has been largely
apparent in heavy industries. According
to the Federal Reserve Board, this is the
first time that a pickup has not been
almost wholly confined to industries pro
ducing nondurable goods.
The Administration has one major
worry noW-the poor results Of the farm
bill. The mortgage situation is more tense
than it was, and it is apparent that pres
ent legislation is either misdirected or in
adequate. All observers forecast that the
act will be given a thorough o%verhauling
when Congress meets again.
a few months ago the most talk
ed-about subject of them all was initiation.
Then it practically dropped out Of the
days news. The President had been given
the powers he wanted, and nothing dras-
tic happened. 1t looked as if they would
Mt be used after all.
Now initiation is preparing to take
its place in the headlines again. The Adj
ministration's desire for a managed dol
lar" has not abated; it was simply shelved
for a time while other and more pressing
matters were being handled. A managed
dollar is one which, in terms Of buying
power, does not deviate in value; it will
buy as many eggs, automobiles, suits Of
clothes and What-not one veal as the
next. Our present kind of dollar is con-
stantly deviating. Where it's buying
power, on the basis of a fixed normal, was
sixty or sevety cents at the height of the
boom, it rose to $1.50 at the low in COM
i1OO1Ly pIlOCO VIC IOdCuCU ldSJ SUIIlIl6T
and fall.
The President has two courses
open in initiating the currency. Most OBJ
vious course is to lower the gold content
Of each dollar. Then by varying it from
time to time, the dollar will theoretically
posses a constant value, and will be i'm
mune to important variations. Another
course is to order the Federal Reserve to
buy large blocks Of government securities
in the open market, thus expanding the
Federal credit. This would not create a
stable dollar; it would, however, be trem-
~endously helpful in providing a market
for new Treausry securities.
Opponents of initiation say that the
managed dollar is a golden dream which
is impossible of realization, and point to
the disastrous effects Of extreme in
flation in Germany and elsewhere. Adj
ministration spokesman say that miscar-
riage of a plan doesn't necessarily mean
the plan is wrong. The public, confused by
technicalities, is simply in a waiting
mood.
OPPORTUNITY &c n
The Omaha guide., 1933-08-19
THIS WEEKS

LAAAo ~ 1AL1OLD
During the coming week a CHASTITY
tragedy will occur.
Two hundred or more lives will be
destroyed. Property valued at about So
100000 will be reduced to ashes. Because
Of it, businesses will close, men will lose
their jobs, taxes will increase.
You won't hear much about it
because it won't happen all at once. It
will be divided among a thousand comm
u%nities, a thousand different kinds Of
property. The destruction of a great fac
tory or a portable garage will all contri-
butte to it.
The world remembers the great
fires-the Irquois theatre, the Cleveland
hospital, the little school at Collinsville.
What the world does not realize is that
these fires are no worse than those that
take place every week in this so-called
civilized world, and which, by cumulative
action, even exceed these single disasters
in loss of life and property. Many years
can pass without the occurrence Of a fire
as horrible as that in the Iriquois thea
tre-but each year witnesses the de-
struction of ten thousand lives and half a
billion dollars in property values.
If we look on fire in the mass. we
will come close to gaining some idea of
the unnecessary menace it is. Billions of
dollars have been spent in seeking to pre-
vent it - and while these efforts have
borne good fruit, public indifference has
prevented the success that should be
achieved. 1t is time for a Fire Prevention
Year."
The Omaha guide., 1933-08-19
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The Omaha guide., 1933-08-19

engine must be fit and ready at all times.
Ii anything goes wrong, it must be fixed
in the fewest possible number of hours
and the local garage doesn't carry the
highly specialized parts that control the
'innards" Of a fire fighter.
Recently a standard fire engine Of
one Of the pioneer makes was badly
wrecked IN an accident. Local mechanics
we're not equipped to repair it. The max
er's office was called long distance. With
in a few hours the company's service
engineer arrived with the needed parts.
And within 5 hours the engine was back
in service. The concerns extraordinary
service facilities had taken the machine
out of the repair shop in less than a day
when otherwise it might have been
there a week or so, and thousands Of dol
lars Of fire damage might have been the
result.
This concern advertises that there
is mo quitting time until the parts are
on their way" That is a distinguishing
characteristic of the standard fire engine
makers = that is one of the things that
gave them their jealously guarded re
putations. No wonder the wise comm
unity demands standard apprenticeship
nothing else but standard apparatus.
The Omaha guide., 1933-08-19

their position is a great deal more solid
than it was even a month or two 9
Evening star., 1933-05-07

whatever good, bad Or striking qualities o(
achievements they may have. and even a6ect-
ing strange clothes, habits and customs when
they have no natural outstanding qnlity d
character With which to win attention.
Thus beauties who have nothing much to
commend them are usually to be found among
those who follow what we might call the body
exhibiting pursuits beauty contests, nude dane
ing. posing. etc.
Not, Of course, that Ill such contributors to
the beauties Of the current scene are dumb. On
the contrary many are blessed with good intel
heence like the Empress Theodore and are i'm
PEELED to body exhibition by other factors.
These factors are such things IS homely
face, an abnormal interest in sex, an Unborn and
ahnormally developed dislike Of bodily restraint
which results in . practical revolt against
clothes incidentally, We are all born with this.
but most Of us curb and lessen ~, or even An
artistic sense which in the particular individual
can find no other means Of expression save
through the exhibition Of the undeniably real
beauty Of the human form.
But II this sort Of thing Is probably the most
striking type Of exhibitionism. observe the same
general force operating even among those who
are forever condemning critcising and verbally
castigating the neAr-naked beauties OF stage.
night club and screen.
There can be no doubt. according to sound
scientific dicta, that countless reformess and
public speaking vice crusaders are driven TO
their public actions and speeches BY the same
basic human need that actuates most beauttfu
skin beareFs-the need Of attention.
Some are quite frank about IT, - was one Of
my students, who, doubling Christianity ana
stiu going into the ministry, explained 70 me
that his real reason was because he liked to
preach In front Of crowd and did It well and
because be had . good platform presence.
And another test is the way many . lime
light hunter takes his loss Of such opportunities.
For example, one-time internationally-k known
prohibitionist robbed through personal failure
and changing times Of his former WORLDWIDE
attention, recently resorted to the joke Of send
ing the Democratic National Committee . con-
tributicn IN the form Of . worthless 500 Con-
federate hin, and telling the press an about Il.
The fellow just had to have his publicity.
About, famous aphilanthroplstR smillionaiEs
empire buildess collectors, library builders. and
Evening star., 1933-05-07
Population Limit Seen

THE question Of land utilization Is one which
] requires long-term study for the problems
to be considered must be based on future
rather than present populations of the United
States. Those who expect . steadily increas-
ing population with no definite limit in signs
are going against the forecast Of economic ex-
perts in the Department Of Agriculture.
DR.. o. e. Baker, for instance, predicts that
the peak population Of the United States Will
be reached about 1860 and at that time it will
reach about 15000o000 people. That pre-
dictton, Of course Is based on . continuation
Of the present birth rate and the continued
limitation Of immigration. Should the immi-
grafton bars be let down, or should the birth
rate tend higher, that figure and that peak
date would hardly stand.
Dr. Baker does not believe that the present
economic problem before the farmers Is due
to lack Of sufhcient population to consume the
food produced, but the allowing birth rate is
. factor Of sufncient Importance to require
considerable study for the future.
For the next IS years, DR.. Baker predicts
. steady increase In population until the $780,
600 900 figure ID reached.
Prospect for population growth In the Ma
tion rs . whole can be accepted with con-
siderable assurance, but there = less assur.
anoe Is to population growth In Cities" Dr..
Baker says. whereas In the last 10 years
there was an increase Of nearly 5ooo. 900 per-
sons IN the populaoou of the cdt1eS out OF tno
100000 gain IN the entire Nation, in the
next 10 years the increase In cities may NOS
be half q large, and even should It be hak
Is large, more than hall Of the increase VIII
BE- effected through migration from FARMS
During 1884. the migration from farms -
cities was greatly reduced and the migration
from the cities to rural areas increased, there
was Httle. II any. increase In the population
Of the cities.
Ten years ago." he continues, there were
about enough children IN the large cities 4
maintain the population Il those cities pr
manently stationary without accessions"
Evening star., 1933-05-07
Scientists find that this
trait Of s,,|I;ib;t;onism is not
. bad thing necessarily but
produces good results Just
about as often as Il does
the less desirable ones

so on. the same thing Is true. Many
q time have I observed with amuse-
ment the comments Of such persons
on the antics Of such attention grab
bers Is pole sitters, sword swallowers,
bizarre freaks and fakirs.
THEY have shaken their heads In
] wonder at the so-called vulgar dis
plays Of these lesser folks. never
thinking that they are. 10 times IN
20, actuated BY the same human need
when they give millions to help the
poor, or build great institutes Of pub
lie service which are forever to bear
their names, or endow libraries, or
strive nightly to gain control Of en-.
tire industries and create vast indus.
trial empires.
Thus does exhibitionism crop up
everywhere among Us. We md the
genial columnist, Haywood Broun, ad.
hitting that exhibitionism prompted
him one night to get - from . speak
easy proprietor and thus set out to DO
his bit toward aiding the homeless,
6kl0 t1ICu IVOAAOxy o&OS LIZ WIZ cAAAee ~
tailored, wise-cracking. hatl-fellow-
Well-met exhibitionism Of former
Mayor Walker.
We ind millionaires riding in i'm
ported limosines With Nveried chauf-
feurs and thus plainly INDUCING In
show-of impulses, yet looking with
scorn at the girl or boy satisfying the
same human desire for attention BY
driving . rattletrap divver at break
neck speed along the highway.
We find teachers who are forever
struggling to exhibit their intellectual
prowess by the use Of big words.
esoteric quotations and fine-spun the
cries and yet without . shadow OF
sympathy or understanding for such
juveniles as bicycle-riding wellesley
College girls who delight to show on
by whixing past sedate professors e
close Is possible without collision.
Indeed, few odd and peculiar char
acters and actions cannot be traced
In part to this wistful desire Of human
, 10 v,o&deed urniSed and admired.
Evening star., 1933-05-07

cal shows, bathing beauty contests and scanty
evening gowns.
Another famous beauty who gets . lot Of
credit she probably never has deserved-and for
something Of the same reasons our Old friend,
Cleopatra, queen of Egypt.
It has been generally supposed that the famed
Egyptian queen 50 frequently posed in the nude
nately ambitious for power and used her un-
doubted charms only to ensnare such political
fish as Caesar, Anthony, Octavius. etc. Indeed.
the famous artists who have depicted her have
without exception given her an intelligent,
subtly calculating type Of cosntenance.
Yet the fact of science is that Cleo almost
beyond doubt was only undetermined SEN
sualist whose greatest satisfaction In life was
In those moments when she showed her bare
body to men. the greater the better. In those
moments, artists to the contrary. Cleo was not
was reveling In the rich and satisfying satisfac-
ton of the show-on.
Nor was Cleo alone among queens, to say
nothing Of lesser women, who love to show on
their madorned bodily beauty. Even more
direct and frank about It than she was the
famed Empress Theodore, the Byzantine prin-
cess and later wife Of Justinian, Roman Em-
peror, whose only claim to fame was her addic-
ton to going before crowds and dancing In her
birthday suit.
Indeed, % far - history tells. that vas about
tho only real pleasure the small, slender, grace
full, hg-eyed and-cmiously-Q quite Intelligent
princess could ind
And there Is the story Of the English queen
who gck great kick out Of posing naked before
aritists and who. when asked BY modest maiden,
II she was not uncomfortable posing thus. replied
dmpay ..lso. there was stove in the room"
h low, this desire to show Oh the body Il.
~ perhaps. the simplest form Of -show-
oGnshness," o., - science books have 1t. exhi-
bitaouism. Indeed, It h called ''infanttle exhi-
bitionism," and. as might be expected, b very
much mare common among women than among
man.
Like an ahow-o6 tendencies, It springs basic-
any from desire for attention. applause and
APPRECIATION from othw humane Thus. log
icai1 enough. We md individuals exhibiting
Evening star., 1933-05-07

show-o6 tendency. t-,<..
Prot. W. Moede, the distinguished German
psychologist, studied boys up to IA years o.
ace. and found that when other boys were look-
ing on, any average boy would stand the ~.
Of . much heavier electric shock before yeldns
Enough" than when he was alone.
Many other researchers have studied comph-
Gated tasks and even serious learning; almost
without exception the findings show that all
Of us will try to excel ourselves when we nave
IN audience: in other words. we show on.
All of this seems in the favor OF the ten
dency to show of. But It does not show US all
there Is to this amazing tendency.
In the spotlight Of modern science and its
discoveries about the show-oh in all Of us. many
pious and heroic old legends and historic tales
about famous beauties take on entirely new ana
not altogether dattering aspects One Of the best
examples of this interesting business has to do
with no less an appealing figure than Lady
0odiva.
The way the story Is told-and the way it Is
still presented In pageants- -Godiva rode
through the streets Of Coventry in order to
force her husband, Leofric, Lord Of Coventry
and Earl Of Mercia. to lessen the taxes he was
levying and which were causing no end OF SUI
fering among the people.
Godiva had begged him to tighten the tax
burden and he had said sarcasticaHy, hrst, that
she had much better attend to her knitting ana
let MIN run the Sse1es ana tne1, aHpaIenHV
thinking to sttu her continued pleas. that 10
would do as she wished when she rode nude
through the town.
The beauteous lady did just that. clad IN
nothing else but her generous blond hair. This,
We have been led to suppose, caused her AZ
kinds Of anguish and was sreat sacrifice, hut.
- science now believes. 0odiva Vas no such
saint but rather ths greatest show-o6 q Al
women in history.
THERE y no doubt that she secretly enjoyed
the opportunity. 10 show her charm, h
IN approved cause-and. Ike an show-oKs.
ece . great, secret, kick out Of IT, Jase -
many Of her similarly minded sisters have nsen
doing II ev8 since IN paeeaats, buriesque. mud.
Evening star., 1933-05-07

1t least In part to this wistful desire Of humal
beings to be noticed, praised and admired.
Evening star., 1933-05-07
BY DONALD n. LAIRD,
Ph. d.,
Director Colgate University
Psychological Laboratory.

wv very often do We hear
some one roundly con-
demned as . "show-on"?
Usually, the human thus
tagged u y fellow who
goes In for hashy clothes.
busters o. In general
Evening star., 1933-05-07


hrags and blusters o. In ger
openly and without m ap-
parent sense of shame courts
the limelight.
Yet the curious psychologi-
cal fact Is that with very
few exceptions we are all
'tshow-of1s," and the only
difference between most OF
US and the loud style fancder
Il the way in which our par
ticular show-onishness, 50 to
speak. finds an outlet.
But that Is even more sur
.prising, perhaps. Is the now
generally accepted fact that
our "show-ofY" tendency Is
not ct all . bad thing, but
:. IN most ingenious and amax-
ing ways produces about as
many good results as 1t does
had.
q. Recently tracking down
.little-recognized "show-on"
tendencies has engaged the
attention Of any number OF
psychologists in various uni
versities. Likewise, numerous
experiments conducted by
such noted scientists IS Drs.
Floyd H. Airport, L. z. Travis.
Paul r. FArnsworth and
Horace B. English have
proved beyond q doubt that say
for q very few exceptions all {
US work better-that Is, take nor
trouble and pains to produce 9
near perfect results as possible
when we have an audience tina
when we have not.
\A/E achieve mere when we ea
wv pect others are going to Sc
what we do than when We thin
nobody but ourselves and perhaE
q few friends and fam1liars who's
good opinion we think We ca
hold whatever we do are going
get . peek at our handiwork.
Typical Of these highly intel
esting and Informative research
ers was that of DR.. p. J. Green
berg, in Vienna, who noted II
attitudes Of children while at wor
q while playing together.
Childish phrases such as Loo
q mei", isn't mine pretter
were found to increase stead1l
with the age Of small childrel
until the 7-year-oks wel
nhod -hon IN Nor cent d
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-10-25

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