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The Morning Bee M O R N I N G—E V E N I N G—5 U N D A Y THE REE PUBLISHING CO.. Publisher. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local new# published herein. All rights of republication of our special dispatches are also reserved. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for the Department Inntle «r Person Wanted. For Night Callt After 10 P. M.: t OOO Editorial Department. AT lantio 1021 or AT. 1042. OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Council Bluffs—16 Scott St. S. Side, N. W. Cor. 24th and N. New York—World Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bldg. St. Louis—Syndi. Trust Bldg, ^os Angeles—Higgins Bldg. San Francisco—Hollrook Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg TWENTY YEARS OF AVIATION. When one hears the roar of the air mail going over the city, or sees the privately owned planes hop ping off on the business of their owners, or reads that in Germany planes are being sold below the cost of the cheapest automobile on the market there, and that thousands of them are in daily use, it is not easy to realize that the heavier-than-air flying ma chine is just twenty years old. Yet that is a fact. Twenty years ago the Wright brothers were down in the secluded sand hills of North Carolina, at Kitty Hawk, experimenting. It was there they first ac complished a successful flight. What has followed reads more like a romance. While the Wrights leaped where Langley had sown, and with the ad vantage of the one thing Langley needed, the light weight power plant, they did make the first success ful application of the principle the great inventor had discovered, and so are honored as pioneers in avia tion. The business of flying still is in its infancy, ajid he will be a bold or thoughtless man who will under take to define its limits. Speed equivalent to four miles a minute has been attained; altitude of over seven miles; flight across the Atlantic accomplished; one great airship flew from New York to San Diego without stop; daily the air mail carries tons of let ters between great cities; mail has been carried from New York to San Francisco in less than the span of a single day, and other marvels have been recorded. Avir.tion is certain to take a much greater part in the affairs of man than is yet understood. On Monday, December 17, the twentieth anni versary of the first successful flight by the Wrights at Kitty Hawk, is to be appropriately commemorated, the National Aeronautic society having arranged for its observance. The public may generally contribute to the day’s notability by giving a moment’s thought to the service of these men. In other lands monu ments have been erected to the Wrights; why not in America, where the greatest possibilities exist, and where the saddest neglect of the opportunity is noticed? BANDITS CONTI E THEIR CARNIVAL. What shall we do with our bandits? Each day brings forth new and startling accounts of their activities, and seldom is there record of many of them being brought to account. In Chicago streets on Friday, according to the press dispatches, bullets flew like rice at a wedding while the police battled with three bandits who escaped with $4,700 they had seized from a bank messenger. About the same lime in St. Louis another band had a little worse of an encounter with the guards of an express truck . that was carrying $1,000,000 consigned to a local • Hank. Guards opened fire, which the robbers replied to and fled. Such incidents are entirely too common. Wil liam McAdoo, presiding magistrate of the New York police courts, makes one suggestion that deserves consideration. For the solution of the New York City problem, he proposes to station at least one po liceman at every intersection in the crowded part of the city, so that there will always be help within , asy call of anyone, and a policeman ready to inter cept the flight of bandits. He calls attention to the thousands of young men throughout the country who are resolutely opposed to doing any sort of honest labor. These live well, dress well, and have no out ward signs of any honest means of support. Judge McAdoo would have the police inspect every pool Hall and similar place of resort each day, carefully question the inmates as to why they are idle, and on what means or by what method they live. Those who do not give satisfactory answers should be treated as vagrants. These suggestions are elementary, and relate to the activity of the police alone. Were Omaha to at tempt to apply either, it would mean the expansion of our local police force, which is admittedly too small in numbers to properly patrol the territory it is expected to protect. Safety from highwaymen, day or night, will cost something, but it may be worth all it costs in the long run. ANOTHER WORTHY NEGRO POET. Steady progress of the American negro in art and literature, as well as in industry and the applied sciences, is given support by the fact that a negro has just won a prize in poetry contest. Countee P. Cullen has been awarded second prize in the Witter Bynner undergraduate poetry contest, in which fiOO representatives of universities and colleges took part. One of the three judges is reported to have voted to award first place to Cullen, who is a student at New York university. The winner of the first prize is Maurice Leseraan of the University of Chi cago. Cullen’s topic was "The Ballad of the Brown Girl,” and his poem contains 200 lines, its theme being presented in these verses: Oh, lovers never barter love For gold or fertile lands. For love is meat and love Is drink. Arid love heeds love's commands, A*nd love is shelter from the rain And scowling stormy skies; Who casts off love must break his heart And rue It till he dies. Cullen, who is the son of h Methodist minister, .ias shown much aptitude for writing us he has prog ressed through school, although he says it is not his ambition to shine as a poet. He plans on a teaching career, when he has finished his education. A deep sense of race consciousness oppresses him at times, he snys, and he then writes to relieve it. We wonder if he will repeat the unfortunate experi ence of the hero of "Birthright.” or if he will be permitted to give those of his race the benefit, of his talent and not be broken aguinst the solid wail of prejudice against which were shattered the hopes i.nd dreams of Stribling’s unhappy mulatto? Whatever his future may be, young Cullen is proving his r ight to a place in the sun and a full share of the benefits and blessings of a cultured civilization. * a FIRST FAMILIES OF SOUTHWEST. Archaeology is one of the most attractive of sciences, for, with ethnology for a companion, it traces man back to the earliest starting point. Care fully, persistently, and ruthlessly, archaeology brushes away the dust of forgotten centuries, and brings out the life that is buried under the debris of ages. Homes and habits of men are reconstucted from the potsherds and fragments found in the ex cavations of tumuli formed from ruins of once happy homes, and the religion, politics, industry and social customs of the vanished races are reconstructed with mathematical accuracy, because of the story laid bare by the bits of bone, shell, flint, obsidian and poorly baked pottery brought to light. And these discoveries ar^ deadly to tradition. Many a beautiful legend has vanished like a morn ing’s mist before the light science sheds on its origin. One of the latest of these to undergo the demolition by archaeology will interest Nebraskans, for it has to do with the “Seven Cities of Cibola." The proud title of King Ak-Sar-Ben will have to be diminished by omitting that of Duke of Cibola, unless it be the purpose to extend his domain far beyond the limits of Quivera. A commission from the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution is just now excavating in two of the cities of Cibola, in Mew Mexico, and so far their inquiries have fully justified the contempt exhibited by Coronado, when he dis covered what their treasure really was. Hawikuh, first viwed by a European when Fra Marcos di Niza, the intrepid Spanish priest, gazed upon its walls in 1539, is the first of these cities, and Kechipauau is the other. What has so far been discovered merely confirms the belief that they were Zuni pueblos, and had not been occupied longer than two or possibly three centuries prior to the coming of the Spaniards. As the Zunis had no metals, and knew nothing of them before the Europeans came, Coronado found no such booty as Cortez took in Mexico or Pizzaro in Peru, while the turquoise gems, sacred to the Zunis, w’ere beneath his consideration. Something more worth while did come out of the venture. Coronado had no thought of returning to make repqrt to Men doza of the wild goose chase he had been sent on, and so pushed his expedition farther into tne new land. He penetrated far into what is now Nebraska, discovered nothing of which the Spaniards availed themselves, but he did leave what proved a benefit to the tribes he encountered. That was the horse. His were the first the Indians of the western plains had ever seen, although the fossil beds of Nebraska are rich with remains of the progenitor of the horse of today. Thus archaeology completes its circle, and draws together two ends of the fabric of science that in its truth is more engrossing in its interest than any romance ever spun. We can survive without the Seven Cities of Cibola, for we have the record of Coronado’s splendid adventure, and we have the mag nificent horse of the day, as well as the bones of Eohippus and even some of his ancestors, back as far as the Pliocene. Incidentally, the investigators at the abandoned Zuni pueblos are firmly convinced that they have discovered evidence of a race that preceded the Zunis. It is certain that the Zuni of 500 years ago was far above his descendants in a social way, and probably the race he succeeded was above him. These are the things the archaeologist and ethnologist are finding out for us. President Obregon now has a little rebellion on his hands. He might compromise it along the lines of a recent congressional compromise—promising the rebels that if they will lay down he will give them what they want in case he decides that he wants to give them what they want. If the movie magnates do move their studios from Los Angels it may mean a rush of enforcement officers across the continent to head off the removal of what has at times seemed the chief equipment of some of the fillum artists. Our Pacific coast neighbors are again boasting of the length of life in their happy land. Which brings up irresistibly the old answer to the stage conundrum. “They don’t live longer—it just seems longer.” “I want to go out in the woodlands green, and stand 'neath the mighty trees,” warbles Dorothy Parker. It's all right with us, Dorothy, dear, but we would advise you to wrap up carefully and put on your goloshes. Plutarco Calles has shown his patriotism by giving up his candidacy for the office of president to assist Obregon in putting down the De la Huerta rebellion. It may prove a good stroke of politics at that. Shooting the diners in a Chicago restaurant may hive been after all, more merciful than killing them by the shock following the presentation of the din ner bill. Henry Kord’s railroad objects to being consoli dated. As it was in no danger before Henry got it, it probably still is immune. The British labor party is now up to where it will have to make good. And put up or shut up is usually the acid test. If the movies do leave Hollywood, Los Angeles will still have the Iowa colony to fall back upon. To the North Pole by air will not be such a nota ble feat. That's the way Doc Cook got there. Alvaro Obregon has but one hand, hut he says the j-ebels will think it is made of iron. __ When Silent Cal spoke everybody listened, and nearly everybody agreed. The purade of bootleggers is not postponed, how ever. These bo the days when father Rets hia’n. Homespun Verse —By Omahn’fi Own Pnfl— Robert Worthington Davie THE LOVER SAID: fgist night we stood Where maples meet And whisper softly o'er the street I asked her for her love Hhe said. Too soon will summer time |*> sited I gist night I told her of my plan. And asked tier Ideal of a man Hh* said, "How wonderful and hrlglil The stars are glistening tonight." I,list night my hopes began to bln■ I somehow lost my faltli In her, / Ami fell, perhaps, as many do / That dialog are often hard to woo “The People's ' Voice" KditoriHla from reader* of The Morn* In* Bee. Readers of The Morning Bee are Invited to use this column freely for expression on matters of public Interest. licensing Motorists. Omaha—To the Kdilor of the Oma ha Bee: I have been much Interest ed in your proposed ordinance and efforts to bring about some plan to stop careless rdiving and spr ling by motorists. You are certain,y to tie commended for your action in this matter hut you seem to be placing all the blame on the man at the wheel. I believe you should take into con sideration the responsibility that also rests with the pedestrian and espec ially In the downtown district (I being one of this class). Very few people seem to take into account the fact that a person driving a car has a powerful engine and other equipment to manage at all times and even if going 10 or 12 miles per hour li is not possible to stop Instantly. You no doubt know from actual experience that people pay very little attention to a traffic officer or the general movement of traffic but crowd out In the street just as close to both sides of an automobile as possible giving a driver no chance whatever in case of skidding or striking a bad place or If he makes a slight turh to avoid hitting someone, he is apt to strike some person on the other side and in my opinion, the only way to overcome the dpwntown accidents is to make the pedestrians and motorists equally re sponsible. I believe also it is wrong to put any further taxes on the automobiles such as you propose charging for a license unless it would be a small charge of 25 or 50 cents as the purpose of this is certainly not to raise more money but to put a stop to careless and reckless driving; therefore another tax Is unnecessary and unwise; would also suggest that the limit between Cum ing street and l,eavenworth and be tween Tenth and Twentieth be 15 miles per hour, the limit now being, I believe. 12 miles. It is a well konwrt fact that traffic officers compel driv ers to go over 12 miles so as not to congest traffic. I also wonder after all the efforts you have put forth, what the result will be. We have all kinds of good laws dealing with this matter but with no results except a disregard of the law; as an Instance, the parade which was called off. Why? For the same reason the above referred to ordinance, will not be enforced. It would seem you could do nothing bet ter than start a campaign against officers and judges who fall to en force the laws. No law will accom plish its purpose unless those elect ed to enforce them, do their duty. Ff. H. M. Nela-aska Farm Reluma. Elm Creek, Neb.,.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Nebraska land la still In demand and making earnings when It is handled right. Buffalo county farmers are not down and out with the largest acreage of alfalfa of any county In the state. Traveling along the Lincoln high way to an alfalfa farm two miles east of Elm Creek, Neb., known as the Thomas (lass place and fanned by M F. Gideon, Is an alfalfa field lo cated on the south side of the road In Section 36 of exactly 65 acres of Buffalo county prise alfalfa that has attracted the attention of tourists all summer because of the fine even stand and the velvety smoothness of the field. This 65 acres Is the balance left of an 80-acre tract after deducting the right-of-way of the Union Pacific railroad on the south side of the field and shows exactly 65 acres of land left for this field north of the rail road. This alfalfa was cut four times In 1923 and produced over the scale in Elm Creek Just a little over 323 tons of hay, or Just five tons of hay per acre for the season. This alfalfa was purchased by Bes sie Hav company of Kearney, Neb., and under date of December 6 their check was given to Mr. Gass for his half of the hay (the owner s share rental) of . t 2303.16 The renter sold at the farm some damaged hay rent share .. 18 •>» Total received by land owner 1,321.31 Owner wild out for balling and delivery . 480.00 Balance net to owner. ...11.841.21 Figuring this 65-aere tract as It now stands with net returns of $1,841.21 it makes the rental received for the 1923 crop Just $28.32 per acre. Buffalo county has a numl>er of alfalfa farms that will yield returns for 1923 nlmost euual to the Gass farm and this Industry is hero to stay and is attracting attention of land buyers and farmers familiar with the alfalfa Industry. CLARENCE G. BLISS. Pity for the Germans. Omaha—To the Kdltor of The Oma ha Bee: I observe In surprise and amazement a recent communication by one Hell McCain, relative to Ger many s reparations payment*. i!*>w any sane tnan ian wlah for Germany any more desperate plight than the one she ts now III Is beyond ms. He writes aa though Germany had paid nothing I wonder If he knows that a couple of montha ago the repat ■ atlons commission made putdlo a re port giving Germany credit for the payment of *.213.870,000 gold mark*, the equivalent of 2,000.000,800 gold dollars, an amount twice the^total of the French Indemnity of 1*71. In reality, they have paid more than three time* this amount, u* shown by the Independent Investigation* of Moulton nnd Maguire (see their hook. • Germany's Capa. Ity to Pay I of the Tnutitut* of Kronomlo* «»f Wanning t »n n. C Economl*t» tel! us that a nation cannot pay reparations unless it Is aide to muster an excess of ex porta of goods and services over Im ports of goods and services, and yet since the war Germany has had In stead Of « surplus, s cumulative deb lolt of approximately 18,888.808.000 gold marks. The fact of the matter Is as c\.-r\ well informed tmin. 1 think, knows, that Germany has paid until she has Impoverished herself and has rendered further payments for the present nl least Impossible. The plight of the German people Is desperate, almost Myorul description. In the cities the masses are starving or living precariously on one inrnl a day furnished by the government, whl. h Will not even te side to furnish this much longer than perhaps a few weeks. Thousands of ehlldten an* dy ing ,.f starvation and multitudes .f older people all over Germany me eommlltlng suicide becaus. of ho k or sustenance If anv considerable mint l*>r of German people survive the coin lug Winter. It will he only l*o*use they have lienn suceored hy charity front this emintiy. Aa the l-ingllsh writer. II tl Wells, stated In an article In The Omaha lire .If October 7. 19211. the th-runitl I.pin -surrendered on promise* held out h* I hem hv the 14 points of I’rcaUlent W llson and by the llrttlsh pro|> igamln , f ire we House We promised the German people that if they would 1 * pel the kaiser slid nlsillsh militarism that they would he treated With bu inanity and Justice. They expelled the kelser nnd stripped themselves of arms, making It Impossible for them to resume resistarto . and received term* of punishment so violent and \ Inflictive that the I cat liunde III the LISTENING IN On the Nebraska Press The Neligh Leader has It all doped out that if Norris does not run for senator again he will run for gover nor. "Norris is one of the practical class of refosrrters," observes the Leader. "Jle does not promise won ders, but can be depended upon. If governor, to give the state an eco nomlr al business administration of the best type without claiming credit for good crops or things over which he has no contral." \ . "Prohibition has brought sunshine Into many homes,” asserts W. J. Bryan. "And moonshine into many others," chortles Fletch Merwin of the Beaver City Tlmes-Tribune. s • * • Noting that Governor Bryan has senatorial ambitions. Charley Cass of the Ravenna News is wondering Just how enthusiastically the governor's senatorial ambitions will be received by ex Senator Hitchcock and his sup porters. • • * “The News as a republican organ naturally has a choice for the presi dency." says Lew Shelley of the Falr bury News, "but It refuses to believe that the salvation of this nation rests on the shoulders of one man.” And Lew was looking straight at Hiram Johnson when he said it. • • • "Don't worry about Cal's silence," Is the advice Fred Howard hands out In tl;e Clay Center Sun. "Cal demon strated In Boston that when he talked he said something." The York Republican, noting the discussion about the two most won derful things in the world, solves the whole thing by proposing Nebraska's governor for both of them. • * • A Nebraska City scientist announces that about 400 insects live through the hardest winter, and John Sweet says one of the breed Is the fellow who always leaves the Dally Press of fice door open. • • • Hugh McGaffln of the Polk Progress asserts that Nebraska voters owe nothing to Senator Norris, having paid his way for the past 25 or JO years. “And what has he given In return?’’ asks Hugh. This excites wonder as to how many times Hugh has voted for Norris. • • • The McCook Tribune says that Ger many is now the only country In the world that has money to burn. The chief drawback, observes the Tribune, is that it takes too much of the money to buy the match needed to start the fire. • • • After carefully noting for a couple of weeks what was going on. the Kearney Hub decides that nothing worth while has happened as a result of Hiram tossing his chapeau into the presidential ring. . . . Noting that Wrlgley is to be Hiram Johnson’s principal backer, the York Democrat says It leaves no excuse whatever for chewing the rag during the campaign. • • • Ole Buck of the Harvard Courier will not believe that Governor Bryan is a wizard at price changing until he exercises his wizardry and hoists the prices of some things the farmers have to sell. • • • John Kearnes of the Beatrice Ex press says It may be all right to admit an Immigrant on parole, but he Insists that his baggage he searched for lec tures. • • • Adam Breede still occupies spare In his Hastings Tribune to talk about what he calls “Nebraska’s fool mar riage law.'' And Adam, you have per haps noted, never took advantage of Nebraska a marriage laws at any time. • • • Allan May, who contributes n de partment of versa and other things to the Auburn Herald, says he has studied the subject a great deal, but to date has found nothing to bolster up the claim made by some men that tobacco stimulates thought, calms the nerves and makes them think more ■ lesrly. Allan doesn’t smoke, which may account for the fact that he has become so riled up over the subject. countries of their late opponents pro tested against It. The bill for dam agt-a assessed against them was so1 utterly beyond their capacity to pay and the Germans signed the peace treaty only after the most strenuous protest and simply because they were powerless to do anything else. The treaty. In tha language of Mr. Well*, "was not s bargain to which they agreed: It waa a monstrous. Impossible obligation, crammed down their throw ta.” Mr. Wells states that this over charge was made with the dell!>erate Intention on the part of France of henceforth keeping Germany In ar rears. In the wrong, so that at snv sign of political revival. It could at once tie claimed against and stricken down, and throughout the years fol lowing the treaty France has been quietly, steadfastly strangling Ger many In the name of Its debt. Lloyd George, In his recent tour of this country, putting out a plea for fairness to Germany, pointed out that the English, when they get nn oppo nent down and helpless, quit kicking and Jumping on hint. 1 w as under the Impression that brave men generallv bold to this code. However. 1 oh serve that many Americans who np p.irently did m>t te*ln fl*ht!n* until after the war was over find It hard to stop, especially when they find their opponents helpless. A« for th« propaganda to which Mr. MoOUn refers. I find that almos* nny mendacious and cruel screed of French orlirln or Inspiration can pet a prominent place In the news columns ..f the dally press whereas one Is forced to (TO to the liberal weekly pub lications like The Nation, the New Republic, or The Freeman for nny news as to the real situation In Eu rope. Millie t’lemenceau'a speeches were widely published In the west. Llovd fleorce a message did not reach US at all In Nebraska unless ho said somethin* that could Is* made ap pear as detrimental to Oermanv And yet Mr McCain asks why these people do not pay up. la II possthla for malice limormics and Injustice to reach lower levels than tills'’ MV NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for Novpmhnr, 1923, of THE OMAHA BEE I Daily.73.950 Sunday.79,266 |)i<m not Inrluda raturna, laft nvata. tamplaa or popart apoilad In printing and inrluda* no apt* »al m'i>i oi fra#'circulation of any kind B. BREWER, Gen. Mgr. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. !9ulrac t tltad and aworn to tralora ma thi* tlth day of BnamHar, 1» J ' W M QUIVFV. tStall NotnaT Pukll© “From State and Nation” —Editorials from Olhrr ISews/tafters— More Poets Korn Than Insurance Agents. W itter Bynnsr. In The New Republic. Catch your poets young. Not too many of them. Knock the nonsense out of them—the affectations, the self deceptions, the guesses toward what will seem poetry to others, the catches at vogue. Release them from the dead hand of English literature. Disabuse them of fear, disabuse them of “modestavanitas,” as Lamb called false modesty. Lead them to dis tinguish between self-importance and self-confidence, between push and poise, between patter and poetry, be tween pretense and truth, Send them outdoors. Encourage them to write In the open; to give terms of them selves to the sky and, as far as pos sible, those same terms to their neigh bor. whether or no tha neighbor like it. Show them that there is neither shame nor distinction but just human ness in their being as ridiculously nat ural ns they ara prompted to be. I>et them laugh. last them smoke. Let them say or write anything which genuinely Impels them, discovering among one another that honesty is the best poetry. And. above all. after you have made sure that they under stand your general and particular judgments, let them, without pride or prejudice, bejieve their own differ ing judgments to be as good a* yours —or better. “Can the writing of poetry be taught?” 1 answer, "To poets, yes; to others, no.” And 1 might add in conclusion, for the unobservant, that the are more poets born than insur ance agents. War’s Glamor and Its Aftermath. From the Christian Hcl*nc® Monitor. There Is a well authenticated story that, just prior to America's entry Into the world war. In the course of a conversation between two respecta ble ladies concerning the prospects, one of them said to the other: Oh, I hope we get into It. because if we do. brother will make so much money.” Nor were these two Indi viduals by any means unique, because this very same perverted belief of things appeared to enter Into the men tal fabric of thousands of other per fectly estimable people, who seemed to be caught in the glamor of the war thought, and to forge', as a result, everything except the mercenary ad vantages which were likely to accrue to them or theirs through the war time activities Moreover, an ex traordinary feature of the situation was the utterly Inexcusable reckless ness which apparently possessed many of those responsible for the disburse ment of government funds, so that it has since been discovered that mil lions of dollars were deliberately wasted In needless fields of endeavor. Recently, In connection with the disposal of some of the buildings, etc., at Camp Devens, It has been charged that a score or so of men have en riched themselves by actual stealing and similar methods to the extent of many thousands of dollars. This aft ermath is but another aspect cf the same distorted sense of things What all of this indicates is the fact, which must be apparent to any who will consider the mat’er for a few moments, that one of the seem Ingly inevitable consequences of war is a peculiar dulling of the moral sense. This is not surprising when It is remembered how crude a mani festation of the carnal nvlnd war, as a matter of fact. is. What, therefor*, is really surprising is that there is i Daily Prayer I am the living broad whit h - am* down from mun f any man *at f ihU broad, ha ahall live for «t«r—John « 61. We render Thee grateful thanks. Thou source of every blessing, for the rest of the past night under the mighty shadow of Thy wings, for the dally bread of Thy providing, and for new opportunities of welcome service, each In our appointed calling M e thank Thee for Thy revelation in Jesus Christ and for "the bread of life" so abundantly provided In Thy Holy Word for our spiritual susten an re O make us truly mindful of all Thy many blessings, and let our liv es show forth Thy praise We pray Thee for grace to employ the hours of this day nright. Give us strength of body, mind and soul to perform our tasks acceptably In Thy sight. Shield us from harm and give us vic tory In the hour of temptation. Sanc tify our home* and make them nur series of Thy kingdom May Thy Spirit rest upon all institutions of learning. Remember In mercy the la borers In ths harvest fields abroad I^et Thy name be hallowed and Thy will tie done In our homeland. Breathe Thy quickening Spirit upon Thy church. Grant each of us grace to bear faithful testimony In word and deed to the saving power of the cross. And when we have finished our allotted task here below, receive us Into that perfect world above with Thee and the Innumerable multitude of those who have come out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white In the blood of the lamb We ask It all In the name of our blessed Redeemer Amen f* J AM P. D , * Mlnnf poln, Minn ever found associated with It anything that even savors of true morality. The very nature of war practically de termines the character of those asso ciated practices which from time Im memorial have lieen inextricably Inter blended with it. The explanation of the Camp Devens lootings and all such war Incidents is, therefore, to he found in the essential immorality of war In and of itself. The Mark Twain Park. From the Kaneus City Star. At Florida. Mo., land is to he pur chased for a Mark Twain memorial park. The Mark Twain association has about 400 acres under option, ex tending about three-quarters of a mile on both lianks of the Salt river. The land was appraised before It was plac ed under option. The lowest price fix ed for the upland was $42.50 an acre. The highest price asked is $100 an acre for about 30 acres of bottom land along the river. The Mark Twain as soda lion desires to buy at least 125 acres. Mr Violette has agreed to give the association the two-room cabin, the birthplace of Mark Twain, fitted with antlqute furniture and relics.— Kansas City Star. No More White House l>oes. From the Washington Star. President Coolldge In effect closes the doors to further gifts of dogs. He so told a caller the other day who intimated that he would like to add to the canine collection. There are now three dogs In the White House kennels, an Airedale, a wire-haired terrier and a collie. That Is a good combination, representing a wide range of canine pulchritude and at tractiveness. So far as known, they are good friends. Well bred dogs who are well kept are not quarrelsome, and the White House dogs are of the highest breed and have the best of attention. t'ndoubtedly the American people like to know there is a dog in the White House grounds. An American home always seems more corr/plete with a dog or so on the premises, and the White House is. with all Its official restrictions and responsibilities, a true American home. Our presidents have made It a veritable residence, a place of family assemblage. It Is a "house" and not a "palace.” During the ad ministration of President Harding lad die Boy became a national Institution. Abe Martin Ther's an' excuse fer most ever - thing 'cept bein’ lured t’ a lonely spot. Where’s all th’ empty store rooms an’ all th’ empty jails we wuz goin’ t’ have on account o’ prohibition? (Copyright, I -3 > His successors under Mr. Coolidgc ■ administration are already well know n to the people and there is no pleas anter sight than these three animals romping about the lawn or lying, with the dignity that a dog, whatever his nature, can always maintain, watch ing the passing show. sir. Coolldge likes dogs, hut n>-t to excess. Three are enough. And so, with the word passing that the ken nels are full, there will probably l.e no more arrivals, and Paul Pry. Peter Pan and Oshkosh will remain the s- !e guardians of the place. A Handy Place to Eat Hotel Conant iktb and Harney —Omaha The Center of Convenience Money to Loan on Omaha Real Estate ^Conservative savings & loan association / ^/ <^ ff o r n e y Money! Stocks! Bonds! But—has she been trained to look after such securities—to prevent loss—to safeguard in come? Your estate is sufficient to care for your family —if' wisely administered. Don't burden your wife with an unfair responsibility. 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