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The Morning Bee MORNING—EVENING—SUNDAY __THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Publl»h«r. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Pr«*s. of which Tb* B«e is i member. Is exclusively •lUUed to the use for repubUcsth n of ell news dispetcbes credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper, and alao the local news published nevem. Ail rights of reptihlicatlons of our special dispatches are also resetvcd. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for the Department a T Wmted. For Nlr-ht Calls Aft«r 10 P. M.: A Editorial Department. AT lantic 1021 or 1042. 1000 OFFICES Main Office—17tn and Famam Co. Bluffs 15 Scott St. So. Side, N. W. Cor. 24th and N „ New York—286 Fifth Avenue Washington - 422 Star Bldg. Chicago - - 1720 Stager Bldg. i 1 ' .^ -“ AFTER TOM MAJORS’ SCALP AGAIN. Waves of many a political storm have dashed » their spray over the head of Thomas J. Majors, and yet he stands serene and steadfast by his one great charge, the Normal school at Peru. Again and again have the democrats sought to uproot him; Shallen berger heard the story, and so did Morehead, and Neville, and now it is being told to Bryan, how Majors has domineered and dictated, running the school to suit himself, and allowing no one else to have anything to say about its management. The foundation for this lies in the fact that Majors has been on the normal school board from the beginning of things. He is one of the funda mentals, so far as the training of teachers in Ne braska is concerned. It is also true that he has i been able to win his way against the opposition of various cliques and cabals that have formed from time to time for the purpose of sidetracking him. v Aside from this, he has ever been active in promot ing the interests of the schools generally and of Peru in particular. The standing of the normal schools in Nebraska, their development, and highly satisfac tory results they have attained should be a suf ficient answer to the attack now made on Colonel Majors. Democratic desire for office is the chief animus of the assault. Faithful followers of the donkey can not rest content in view of a republican holding any Bort of a position into which the governor might in sert a democrat. Some of these already have been disappointed because the governor has not over turned the park hoard, composed of republicans, and given at least some of the places to his supporters. Other such instances are coming out daily, and there is no cause for wonder in the fact that Thomas J. Majors is made the object of another crusade. He Has weathered a good many of these squalls, how ever, and may pull safely through this one. SOUTH DAKOTA FIRST TO SHOVE OFF. All manner of speculation, suggestion, kite-fly ing and gues.: work in connection with the 1924 campaign is well under way just now, and in a broad sense one man’s guess is as good as another’s. Most of this will come to a head within the next three months, for South Dakota will lead off in De cember with its "proposal” conventions, at which candidates are named for the selections to be made at the March primaries. “As goes Maine so goes the union,” was an hon ored slogan forty years ago; as goes South Dakota so do the other states with their favored sons and the like get a line on what the possibility of success appears to be. South Dakota’s vote in the conven tion may be negligible, in the sense that except in a very close contest it will not decide one way or the other. But as a starting point, it looks big as a mountain. Four years ago the proposal conventions and the subsequent scramble for votes at the primary held quite as much interest for the experts as did the general election. The struggle between Wood, Lowden and Johnson for the republican delegation brought to the state a host of newspaper corre spondents, expert political advisers, and all the host that takes active part in carrying on political cam paigns. The outcome was not in any way decisive, except to show how the Dakotans voted, and the contestants got very little return for a lavish expen diture of money. We venture to predict that certain phases of the preliminary hunt for votes in South Dakota in the winter of 1919-20 will not be repeated this time. Lastly campaigns were waged there by W'ood and Lowden. What will happen is that the world will be told if, for example, Henry Ford wants the demo cratic nomination, and whoever else may he in line. Republican aspirants will also be disclosed, to the extent that they aspire to securing the endorsement of the first state to choose. In that way the Dakota ldan is helpful. BILLION BACK TO THE FARM A tabulated report just issued by the federal farm loan bank shows that more than a billion dol lars have been loaned to farmers of the United States since that service was organized. Of the total sum our own state of Nebraska has borrowed almost fifty millions. First of all, this will give some notion of the mag i.itude of the farm loan business in the United fitatos. A billion dollars has been added to the fixed (apital employed in producing the food crops of ♦ he United States within the eight years of its ex istence by the federal land bank. In a sense this investment is permanent, for the loans are all on long time, at a reasonable rate of interest, to be laid off on the installment plan, thus giving the bor ower the use of the money all the while, It being •opresented in permanent improvements on the arms. In Nebraska for example, one-twentieth of the amount has been added to the farm equipment, and more than one-third of this was put down in the last year. The figures indicate a determination on part of the men engaged in agriculture in this state to press forward; for the last two or three years have not been especially encouraging to the farmer, and it takes real grit to go ahead, as they appar ently have, to overcome obstacles, looking to the fu ture for results. The farm loan system of the federal govern ment is a glorified sort of co-operation, although it also provides a most desirable form of investment for idle millions. Nothing before the public is more at tractive than the federal land bank bonds, secured as they are by first mortgage on selected farm lands, and representing not to exceed 50 per cent of a conservative appraisal of value. But the main point is that the farmer has been enabled to get the new capital he needed on long time and under favorable terms, and hrs faith enough in his industry so to invest. Cal Coolidge wasted no time in setting the ma chinery to running at full speed ahead. Whatever else he is, he is not a slacker. "Cussing” the operator is an expensive pastime in California. It should be so everywhere. Whatever other trait the president may exhibit, he will not be known for his loquacity. Part of the milk in the French cocoanut is com ing out. /■ COOLIDGE CHARTS HIS COURSE. A story is told in the navy of how a relief ship was being buffeted by the Arctic waves. Rolling higher and higher, these seemed finally to threaten the safety of the ship, and finally the officer of the watch sent word to the "old man:” "The sea is get ting up, sir.” "Hold your course!” was the word that came back from the cabin. The sea is getting up; waves are breaking high, and a new hand is at the wheel. What word comes from the chart house? The country has been wait ing, and now it is assured that Mr. Coolidge will hold the course along which Warren G. Harding was directing the ship when he was called’home. Mr. Coolidge gives out this'statement of his policies: "To respond to European callR for help, but not to become involved in Europe's private quarrels. . “Approves a selective immigration law. “Is determined that there will be no stoppage of production in the anthracite Melds on September 1, and that country will be supplied with fuel. “All members of the cabinet will remain in deflnltely, general organization remaining same as under President Harding. “Budget system approved by Coolidge as now constituted and administered. "Does not believe extra session of congress would solve problem of farmers, and asks Secretary Wallace to draft relief measures. "Determined that all money owed United States will be collected as rapidly as possible. "Recognition of Mexico practically assured and treaty already drafted." These were not adopted solely because they were Harding policies, but because they are safe; they rest on justice to all, on the independence of the United States, its friendship for all nations and its willing readiness to co-operate with all for the com mon good of humanity, but without meddling with the domestic concerns of any. What the future holds none can say; problems will be dealt with as presented, but those now pend ing will be settled along lines dictated by reason and a due regard for the rights of all. A better program for the administration scarcely could be proposed, and our people will feel more secure because no radi cal change or upheaval is proposed, with its accom panying effect on business. Coolidge will only dis appoint those who want to see fireworks every day at Washington. FOLLOWING ABRAHAM’S FOOTSTEPS. In 1866 four Eisassers came to Omaha; in 1923 on a Sunday afternoon 300 Eisassers held a family picnic in one of the Omaha parks. Not all of the tribe was present, but a sufficient number to illus trate the point which is that if the Eisassers con tinue to increase and multiply during the next 67 years as they have during the last, they will add materially to the population of the city. In fact, Omaha in 1980 will have 600,000 inhabitants if left to the Eisassers alone. The name indicates that the family originally sprung from that land that has been so long in dis pute between the Teuton and the Gaul. “Elsass und Lothringen,” Alsace and Lorraine. Whatever the truth in this regard, it is true that the race is hardy and prolific. It is enterprising, too. Living gener ally in and around Omaha, from its numbers we have men and women in all walks and conditions of life; professional men nnd artisans, farmers and lawyers, state, city and county officials, ail have come from the tribe of Eisassers. Some have been soldiers and some have been barbers, but all have been industrious, thrifty, quiet and orderly. Abraham affords an easy comparison. To him the promise was given: “I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven and as the sands which is upon the seashore.” Abraham’s descendants multiplied by sticking together, and so have the Eisassers, to whom be long life and many more happy family re unions. YES, IT IS NOT A DANDELION. Webster says sumac is » shrub, although the city authorities may decide that it is a weed. In Nebraska it shares with the goldenrod and the pur ple aster the joy of decorating the fall landscape. Roadside and woodland soon will glow with the colors of autumn; then the crimson torch of the sumac will burn through the thicket, a welcome note of brightness, heightening the glory of our Indian summer. When the leaves are falling from the trees, the sumac lights up its bloom, a candle for the fading year. The goldenrod, once designated as our state flower, has since been labeled a weed and a nuisance, yet it will be gathered by those who do not suffer from hay fever, and with the purple aster, also called a weed by some, form many a bouquet of autumn richness. If the Eumac is to be denounced as a weed, it will surprise a lot of people, who have esteemed this hardy perennial shrub as one of the features of fall landscape. Also, some who know it in industry will be surprised to hear that it has no uses. Tanners recognised long ago the tannic content of the sumac, and have for many ages em ployed it in their business of making leather. Whether it is to be regarded as an adornment for city plots, among well kept lawns or otherwise, is to be determined elsewhere. One thing may be said for it, the sumac does not run all over the land scape, after the fashion of the dandelion, and it surely is more ornamental than hazelbrush or a briar patch. Now they are scolding Cuno for not declaring himself a dirtator. It is such talk as that that has caused most of the trouble in Germany and will cause more if persisted in. While the others talked about it, The Omaha Bee stepped out and did it. That is the record of the cut in gasoline rates in Nebraska. Several weeks will elapse before the Nebraska delegation in either convention is delivered to any body. Homespun Verse —By Omaha's Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davit STACKING TIME. They're up with the sun and they’re anxious to "fly;" The harvest" Is over anil stacking is nigh. The wains are a-rumble, the forks clink and clung. The yellow sheaves over the Imy wagon hang, And wave a farewell to the stubble and sky; 'Tis summer, midsummer, and startling Is nigh. Outward and downward the bundles are flung, Jllghward and skyward the bundles are swung. Up till the peak of the stark Is so small That there Is scarce room for a bundle at all; A bidder aeeends and the anchor Is set, "Done!" is the cry of the demon of aw oat. Done Is thu day with the fading light, Dons Is the day with the coming of night: Grateful amt hopeful, though weary, are they— Tillers and millers and lovers of clay. Prickling and tickling and aching.—I know Beards of the barley that dnd used to grow. ROBERT WORTHINGTON DAVID # Many gray heads of today wer§ black or red hack in 1H#0. when the Charles Stuart. Parnell Land league whs getting a great deal of atten tion In the United Staten. Nebraska had a deep Interest In tno movement, for efforts were then under way for colonizing Iri.sh in this state. On Tuesday evening. January 20. 1S SO. The Omaha Pee tarried this story: “IRISH IMMIGRATION." “The Work of the Irish Colonization Society.” “The New Colony In Greeley County.” “Bishop O’Connor has returned from Chicago, where he attended a three-day session of the board of di rectors of the Irish Catholic} Colonize tion society of the United States, of which Bishop Spalding of Peoria is president. It was decided at- this meeting, as we letfrn from Bishop O’Connor, to Issue stock and call In subscriptions. The capital stock Is $1,000,000, divided into shares of $100 each. Bona fide subscriptions to the amount of $113,000 have been re ceived. "The object of the association is to buy lands and found colonies. The subscribers to stock will receive reg ular dividends. The profits will arise from the sale of lands, which will be purchased in large tracts, and which, by being improved, will great ly increase the value of neighboring lands. The sales will be made at railroad prices, either for cash or on long credits, with interest and dis count at railroad rates. "An advance of 36 cents per acre is required, and the money thus col lected is to be used for church and school purposes in the colony. Any profit made by the association must he on the original purchase, and this will be used to help poor colonies no one connected with the society is allowed to make a dollar on the investment. It was decided to pur chase 25,000 acres in Greeley county, Nebraska, and this land has already been obtained. It Is likely that 10,000 acres more will be added to this tract this week. "A frame emigrant house, ready to put up, has been ordered for the col ony, and a frame churrh, 40*so feet, and also a pastoral residence w ill be erected next mont,h. A model house for the settlers has also been ordered. Bids for the construction of these buildings have been solicited !n Chi cago, but if the prices are not cheaper than those of Omaha or Grand Island, then the mechanics of these two latter places will lie given the preference. "The colony lamia will be ready for purchase by settlers on and after February 10. The colony has been named 'The Oreeley County Colony.’ There will be two townsltea laid out. One will tie named ’O'Connor,' after the bishop «.f Nebraska, and the other ’Spalding.’ In honor of the bishop of Peoria. A church is to he located at each place. "The colony I* 47 milee south of Grand Island. Two branch railroads are being built in that direction. One to St. Paul, in Howard county, which will lie finished next summer to a point within 24 miles of the colony, and the other is to he completed this year to Albion, in Boone county, within 20 miles of the eastern boun dary of the county. Both roads will probably be pushed through Greeley county within IS months. "The colonists will come from the eastern and middle states, and the number of applications already re ceived is very large. A pamphlet giving all the necessary information will be Issued soon for distribution In the 1’nited States and Ireland, so that the people, particularly In the latter country, who wish to emigrate to Nebraska can learn all the details of tlie plan of colonization. "It is calculated that 25.050 acres will accommodate 200 families, or about 1,000 souls. Igist summer €.4 families resided there, and purchases have since been marie Increasing the number of residents to 100, exclusive of the new colony. The lands already bought and to be purchased will af ford homes for 1.500 people, giving to each one 100 acres.” i r, > i r. 11 niiuis. Those Moscow communications a<1 dressed to labor are to be marked polsonal.—Washington Post. Don't let jour daughter wem "bumpers" at the dance. Make het eat onions.—New Orleans Times Pica yune. Let the prlnoe of Wales figure Ir news stories while he can. He may lie king some day.— Baltimore Hun. If you Intend to go to work ther* Is no better place than right when you ara; If you do not Intend to go tr work you cannot get along anywhere, Squirming and crawling about from i place to place can do no good.—A bra j ham Lincoln. Hanrj' Ford says be doesn't wani to be president, and be generally geti his way,—Indianapolis News. —.— - | Daily Prayer H*r« »r© they that keep the command mentu of Ood, and the faith of Jfutue.— K«v. Mil. O God, our Heavenly Father, Thou hast l>cen good and gracious to uh In the morning Thou gaveat uh a day, each minute to be used in wrv Ice to Theo and to humanity. I toll us to uae each of ther ' minutes, < L*>fd, to Thy name's honor and glory and to the advancement of Thy cause and kingdom. At the clone of tin day may we return till of the hour* Just ns H/icred and holy ns they were given to uh at early dawn. We thank Thee for Thy love and protection. Thy grnedous love Is so boundless and unlimited that it has overshadowed uh and sheltered us from all harm and danger. Thy heart of lov# Include* uh In Its heatings, and so we are* grateful to Thee Thou art our Friend, O Jehovah of hosts. Thou hast been with uh through thick end thin. When other supposed friends were deserting uh, Thou didst abide with us as a Friend • hat stlckoth closer than a brother We seem to hear Thee speaking to us now. Yes. Thou are no very near and Thou wilt surely keep and pro teat us through the night. Ac•opt these our petitions this hour, we pray In Jesus’ name A men nsv. a THANK 111* ft NS. Clnrlnnatl, O “The People’s Voice’’ . Cdltorltli from r.td.rt of TBS Msrslsi Bit. Rtidert ol Tht Morolog Bn oro lotlttd It hm tttli column IfMllr lot tnproHlon on matter* ol public Intoroot. Ut'i Help the President. Norfolk, Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Tragic as the death of our beloved President Harding was, It may serve to bind the country closer together. Sorrow always draws people closer to one another, and that is what we need to all wofk together for the common good. Did any coun try ever show more homage to their chief executive? Doesn’t this prove we are sound at the core .In spite of reports to the contrary. Let us try and revive the spirit of our fore fathers and think more of our coun try and less of guln for ourselves. Even the humblest can help by Just thinking right. Come! Americans nil, rally around the flag anci let everyone try to make the way easier for our new president. G. F. B. Hr'» Strong for Henry. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Replying to the critic of Henry Ford in the article written by Tom Matthews, "Looking Henry Ford Over,” we are not surprised at the statement made by this walking delegate. If what Henry Ford says about unions is not the truth, why don't the labor unions sue him for slander and then prove their case instead of running off at the mouth? No man will deny the fact that It is all right to defend a living and sav ing wage, but where is there an em ployer of labor in the world who pays his labor a higher wage than Henry Ford, und he has never had a strike for that very reason, and there Is no place for the walking delegate in the Ford Industry because the workmen do not have to organize In order to receive a living and saving wag*. The walking delegate doe» not tell the truth, and I challenge his state ments that amongst labor unions Henry Ford's supporters are getting fewer. The only men in labor or ganizations who are against Henry Ford are the officers who are now on the pay roll, and that could be ex pected. If other employers of labor paid their employes not less than $6 per day as does Henry Ford for com mon labor, there would not be any use for these so called labor leaders who get the men to strike and then for some untold reason the strike Is lost and the workmen are left poverty stricken, workmen realize that they are paying too much money to labor leaders to protect their rights, which they fall to do in time of strikes. If Tom Matthews or any other walking deb-gute understood the first principle of economics he could see just where and why Henry Ford at tacks the Jewish International bank ers. They are the gang that forces labor to accept wages and working conditions which every workingman complains of. through their control of money and credit the world over. This Is the thing Henry Ford objects to, and why shouldn't he?—and that is one of the reasons that I ns a la boring man am for Henry Ford for president. This country is now going through a financial crisis caused by the Federal Reserve bank's deflation, and Henry Ford is the only man we as laboring men can trust to save the nation from a communist uprising and the making of another Russia of the Enlted States. VICTOR SKINNER. 203 South Twenty-fifth Street. 1A Book of Today 1 •THROUGH THE SHADOWS WITH O HKNRY,'’ by AI Jinntnm. Th# H. K H!y fompiliF, New York. AI Jennings, whose chief activity some years ago was to obtain money from hanks and railroad trains with out even giving a receipt, has writ ten a book which in large measure refers to his associations with O. Henry; while they were fugitives in Moniuraw and Mexico, during their penal servitude In the Ohio penlten tlary, and after they had gained free dom. In the main the book refers to Its Author and the famous short story Arlter, but there are various digressions, some being grim ac counts of characters Itj the penlten t lary. The book has been carefully writ ten and contains many thrills. O, Henry is referred to as Bill Porter. Ms real name having been William Sydney Porter, who waa a druggist and later a bank olerk before his prison experience and his fame ns a story writer ns "O. Henry.” Jen nings insists that O. Henry was inno cent «.f the charge of misappropria tion of funds of an Austin bank. Jennings writes of Porter while at the penitentiary: "Bill look no notes. Once In a while he would Jot down a word or two on a scrap of paper. He pre ferred to work his unfailing memory. It was years before he made Pick Price Immortal In his story of Jim my Valentine." Pick Price, according to Jennings, was the original of Jimmy Valentine and while they were In the peniten tiary together, Jennings accompanied Price to a Columbus newspaper of fice where the latter opened a safe in lit seconds. The author states that Price cut his linger nails to the quick and opened the safe through the sense of touch. "He l.ked men: he loathed their shama," Jennings writes of Porter "The freemasonry of honest worth was the only carle blanche to his friendship. He could not abide snob bery or Insincerity." Porter is quoted as having said "When I get out 1 will bury the trimc of Bill I’orler In the depths of obllv Ion. No one shall ever know that the Ohio penitentiary ever furnished me with bread and board. 1 won’t be under nn obligation to anyone when I get out from here. PH stand free and bold. No one shall hold the club of a convict over me.” Blood Will Tell. The embattled farmers who flrei the sliot lo aril round the world wer< the ancestors of the present-day eni bittered farmers who are taking poi shots at the politicians.—Louisvilli Courier-Journal. Man Miist KIlv. It is not so much the living wsgf ns the fllvvlng wage, that men de man I nowadays.— Winston Sentinel I NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for July, 1923, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .72,472 Sunday .75,703 Dots not Inrluda return*, loft over*. HMmple* or paper* applied Ir piloting ami include* nr special laifa. B. BREWER, Gen. Mgr. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. Subscribed and sworn to hsfora m« this 4th d*y of August, 1923. W It QUIVEY, (Seal) Notary Public “From State and Nation” —Editorials from Other Newspapers— The President. From the Clncinnitl Tlme»-8tar. Calvin Coolidge made an admirable vice presdent. A reticent man, he never perturbed the administration of Warren G. Harding by his garrul ity. He did not even drink butter milk or smoke 6-cent cigars, bo that some trivial characteristic might stand out in relief against the po litical bulk of the man. Calvin Cool idge wrapped the robes of office about him and sat virtually in silence. Sphinx-like, he presided over the sen ate, where mountings gave his silence the dignity of contrast. The months passed, and the reticences of Calvin Coolidge acquired a kind of cumulative eloquence. Here was a vice president occupying an office that Is entirely ornamental, and he refused to adorn. Of cotirse, all this time Calvin Cool idge was thinking. He had refused the conventional lines that are al lotted to vice presidents, and thought wus all that was left to him. He had a seat in the cabinet councils, and knew the deliberations of the con claves with President Harding at the head of the table. He had come in contact with the proceedings of the senate. One might say that he was an official spectator, with the best re served seat that the constitution pro vides. And now Calvin Coolidge suddenly has been called from the audience to take the place of the principal actor. His reading of the lines becomes a matter of great moment. How will he recite the pieces fate will assign to him? What new meanings will he read Into his part? What Improvisa tions will be Introduced? Politically the United States of America Is going to be an Interesting country the next year. And the most Interesting place in the United States will be the White House. Of course, President Cool idge has announced that he will “car ry on" the policies of Warren G. Harding. The policies may be the same, but there will be another man back of them. The first act of Theo dore Roosevelt as president was to announce that he would continue the policies of William McKinley, and yet the three and a half years of Colonel Roosevelt's first term were far dif ferent from what those three years would have been had William Mc Kinley lived. The presidency of the United States is the. most powerful office In the world, and, being greatly powerful. It Is Intensely pergonal. Warren G. Harding definitely has passed into American history. Calvin Coolidge definitely is passing into American history. Clio has ended a chapter, and has begun another. As the winds of time turn the leaves a very different and very interesting story will be revealed. Freedom to Wed. From the Ntw York Herald. A young woman who hitherto has been a prominent part of the beauty assembled to«ttract the wary to one of New York's most intellectual the atrical designers has gamed attention by refusing to sign a new contrart with her manager because by its terms she would have been pledged not to marry during the continuance of her dramatic engagement. She balked. “Not that I have any immediate intention of getting mar ried.” she is reported to have said, “but I do not want anyone to tei! me that I cannot marry if I wish to.” This is an entirely feminine obser vation to be taken at its face value, even though the young woman has gone to the movies, doubtless for value received. Marriage does complicate the professional activities > f women and yet celibacy is a large price to exact. Young women are transients in most of the occupations and profes sions upon which they enter, and this chletly so because of marriage. What ever her philosophy may be, the mother of small children o.mmoniy decides that her place is the home, and bo, temporarily at least. &l>an dons outside employment. This is the hazard against which theatrical managers have attempted to protect themselves by their anti-marriage | contracts. Rut It was easier to per suade the girls of Rome to become vestal virgins than it is to induce modern young Americans seriously to forswear marriage. The trouble is that the theater em ploys the very young women for whom wedding bells ring mwit loudly. The stage calls for beauty and youth ful vigor and the zest of living. So too does romance. Young women who are not distinctly marriageable would not lure throngs to the thea ter. The thAter Is a business in which romance is peculiarly costly, but girls will be wives for all that. Ho while those who may shed a tear for the bereft manager whose stage beauties are snatched away from him by young men Intending matrimony, the sympa thy of the world will be with the girls. After all, the freedom to marry must be preserved. Karh Day. From th«? Albuquerque Journal. Death, to be sure, is not a hnppy theme. But it plays an Important part in life. Today 3,800 Americans die That is the average number that dally go to Join the billions who have passed into eternity. This year nearly 1,400.000 Americans will die. If they all met death at the same time and In the same community— by earthquake or battle, for instance —the catastrophe would shock the world snd would be talked about for centuries. But they slip away gradually, one here, one there. So there is no gen eral excitement about their departure. Of the 3,800 who die today. 27 are murdered and 41 commit suicide. A gruesome record for each 24 hours The rest are plucked from the tree of life by disease, old ag'- and acci dents. No matter what the manner of their departure, the last thought of most of them is: "Bite's journey is ended. 1 wonder whence I came and whither I go." A vast organization is humanity. 23,000,000 dying and 4 .000,000 being born each year. One who can grasp these figures is not apt to become conceited al>out his individual im portance. Abe Martin “It seems like I haint done now in’ all my life hut wait fer my wife t’ dress,” said Tipton Eud, t’day. Th’ roastin’ car season is on, an’ th’ little do-dad mustaches jest look too cute movin’ with traffic. 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