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The Sunday Bee MORNIN G—E V E N I N G—S UNDAY • THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Publisher N. R. UPDIKE. President BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLER, Editor in Chief Business Manager MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, 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 news published herein. All rights of republication of our special dispatches are alfflo reserved. The Omaha Bee is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognized authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee’s circulation is regularly audited by their organizations. Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908, at Omaha postoffice under act of March 3, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for at i • -l aoa the Department or Person Wanted. ^ IIA/U OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Co. Bluffs—15 Scott St. So. Side.N. W. Cor. 24th N. New York—World Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bldg. | St. Louis—Syn. Trust Bldg. Los Angeles—Higgins Bldg. ^San Fran.—Hollrook Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg.^ WONDERS WORKED BY OIL. Oil has been unpleasantly in the minds of every body for many days. For the moment let us think of the service it renders humanity. Oil in its in dustrial application today chiefly concerns the in ternal combustion engine. It has made possible the marvel* of automobiles, airships and submarines. Simple, and how familiar to all of us. No part of the known earth unless it be the, inaccessible poles, awaits the presence of the automobile or the airship. From rone to zope they are driven, carry ing on a .vast and complicated system of communica tion. Communication is immeasurably important to civilized society. Without communication as modern inventions have developed it, the civilization .of today would be impossible. Yet we take it for granted. It is here. It is doing the work. So why worry? • » • It was only yesterday that men talked with won der of the flight of the “999,” at the rate of 102 miles per hour. Just for a moment, but no man had ever moved at a higher rate of speed and lived to tell of it. *?«w many recall that just a little over a year ago a Curtis army racing plane did a little better than 240 miles an hour? Four miles each minute. So much for speeed. An airplane carrying tup ^ien flew across the Atlantic ocean. Another, carrying two men, flew across the American con tient, from Minneola to San Diego, in a single swoop. Altitude records and endurance tests almost surpass ing belief have been achieved by the aviator. Alongside these the auto drivers place also a record of glorious achievement, for speed, for en durance, for capacity of service, and for safety. The steam engine revolutionized the social life of the world in ♦l'0 and Nineteenth cen turies. This, because it made possible the introduc tion of power-driven machinery in industry. The internal combustion engine of the Twentieth cen tury has brought the wijrld into another epoch. We can not see the picture. We are too close. Even now the picture is not complete. Another genera tion will notice. The next after that will appreciate the wonders that are developing under our noses. • P P Langley’s airplane failed because he could not generate power sufficient with the means at his com mand. His engine, the lightest available, weighed' about 15 pounds per horsepower. Engines are used in airships today weighing as little as 1.5 pounds per horsepower. One of these that develops 400 bralte horsepower weighs but 610 pounds without the water* in the radiator. Many models weigh under two pounds per horsepower. A few go as high as four. Eviglheers are still so busy refining this wontler they have not time to consider the marvels they have wrought. • • • One reason for the seemingly slow progress of the steam engine in its race with ciyilization was that man was steadily extending his frontiers. The iron hdrse could not overtake the pioneer. Always, though, as frontier life gave way to settled condi tions, improved methods for communication were urgently demanded. Very early the attention of Americans was turned to good roads. One regards with respect the enterprise that built the turnpikes, floored with planking. They were the pride and boast of communities less than a century ago. How primitive they seem now, with our hard-surfaced roads leading in every direction. The Omaha Bee was alone a few years ago, advocating this form of improvement for Nebraska. The fight is not en tirely won yet, although the opposition is driven to extremity, and soon must succumb. Douglas county has expended so far on hard-surfaced roads, that is highways paved with brick, concrete and bitulithic surface, $2,446,550.52, to which must be added $283,759.98 contributed by the state, making a total of $2,730,310.50 A magnificent investment in good roads in a single county. And it was the automobile, the creation of the internal combustion engine, it in turn depending on oil, that made this possible. . . . / The end is not yet. More automobiles were built in 1923 than ever in a single year before. More will be built this year. Over 15,000,000 are in daily use in the United States. This number will probably be put up to 18,000,000 by the end of this year. More good^roads also will bo built. Douglas county will spend another million and a half dollars during the coming summer on extension of its system. All over the United States similar work is going on. The story is just begun. Concrete proof of what the automobile builders are doing may be seen at the Auto Show, about to open at the Auditorium. It will be worth your while to go over, long enough to get a definite notion of how oil is now being made to serve mankind. ___ 0 FORD AS A FACTOR IN OMAHA. One of the most impressive sights in connection with the Transmississippi Exposition was the march throughsithe grounds of the Third Nebraska National Guard regiment. Colonel William Jennings Ilryan rode at the head of 1,100 stalwart young Nebras kans, his breast swelling with patriotic pride. And well he might feel proud, for a more splendid btjdy* of men never marched under the American flag. W. A. RusselT, branch manager of the Ford com pany in Omaha, were he so inclined, can any day stage a procession as impressive, and in a way far more important. Eleven hundred employes will go in and out of the Ford plant in Omaha each day; each month they will carry home $145,000 in pay, *11 of which will find its way into local business. Most, of it will go to the neighborhood grocery or meat market. To fuel dealers, and to clothing and dry goods merchants. > The local Fort! plant is to be extended at once, to double Its capacity. Now 160 cars come out from it each day. When the new plans are in operation, 310 cars .will be assembled for each 16-hour shift. This is at the rate of 20 cars per hour. One each three minutes of working time. This is not like the output of the big mother plant, but when you stop to think what it really means, it amounts to some thing. Go to tho corner of Sixteenth and Cuming at 9 o’clock. You see nothing. Go back again at 10 o’clock. There ar^ twenty Ford cars, all ready to run. That will take place sixteen times a day. Six thousand carloads of material will come in and 10,000 carloads of ready-to-drive Ford cars will go out. This aside from the 30,000 or more that will move to their destination under their own power. Each day 65% tons, 111,000 pounds, of shaped steel will go into.and out of the enameling ovens. This is only for new cars, and does not take into account the material used for dealers’ parts, repairs and the like. • In other words, the Ford plant in Omaha has quietly grown into the position of being one of the city’s greatest industrial units. So little fuss and flurry has accompanied it that many citizens are barely aware of its existence. Know Omaha is a godd thinj?. You can not know Omaha well unless you know something about the Ford assembling plant that contributes almost $1,800,000 a year to the pay roll, the final factor of the city’s stability. OLDER THAN OLD KING TUT. Thirty-three hundred years have clipped along the backward path of time since Tut-Ank-Ahmen was laid in what was intended to be his eternal rest ing place. These centuries are as nothing compared to the limitless stretch in either direction implied by eternity. "For 1,000 years in Thy sight are as but yesterday when it is passed'.’’ Just now the dried up, withered remains of that great king are again viewed by mortal eyes. Surrounded by what is said to be the most magni ficent of tombs. Encased in miracles wrought in gold. Studded with precious stones. Wearing the crown of Egypt and its gods. Thus was the king’s body bestowed in &ie tomb, amid ceremonial observation such as we know little of in these days. That alone is enough to awe us. But something else was found that will excite the imagination more than all other things. * Last winter an Omaha poetess read to a group of friends a poem, in which she depicted the meet ing in the inner tomb of the shades of Tut-Ank Ahmen and the Egyptian maiden who was his queen. It was tender, delicate in its fabric, a wortjiy con ception of the love that animated the young couple, terminated so tragically by the early and unexpected death of the youthful monarch. When the sarcophagus was opened, and the body exposed, above the golden crown on the head of the sleeping king was found the remains of a wreath of natural flowers. A chaplet that bore with it more of sincere love and affection than qll the gold and jewels that make up the millions of treasure found in the tomb. Whose hand put it there? Did the queen take her fast leave of the? man she loved, and in the silence of the night, and the poignancy of her grief, lay that floral tribute on the brow of her lost love? Or did some weeping slave slyly pay this last devoir? Who can say? Those flowers, dust now after so many centuries, give us newer proof that men and women have changed little in all these long years. Hearts beat then as now. Romance had its little day. Love and life and death ran in circles then as now, one follow ing the other. Crossing and recrossing. The web of life then as now wa* embroidered and beautified by the sentiments that animate the human breast and give to man the reflection of those imagqs he sees imperfectly beckoning him on to higher and better things. . ' * King Tut was a boy and his bride a girl. The story of their love is the story of the love of a boy and a girl for each other, then, now, and ever will be, world without end. DEMAGOGUES AND TYRANTS. "A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of real for tb« rights of the peo ple than under thf fqgblddlng flppeartmoe of read for *he firmness and efficiency of gewornment. ‘•History will teach us that the former has been found a much more certain road to the Introduction of despotism than the latter, and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the 'greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.” It would be well for the American people to pause and give consideration to the great truth contained in the above quotation. Great problems are not solved by clamorous demagogues. They are not solved by men who pose as the only ones who can save the people from themselves. Right now, while the people are thoroughly aroused over the revelations of corruption in high place, is the psychological moment for those wno “wear the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people” to mount the rostrum and demand that they be given an opportunity to manage public affairs. But it is of much more vital concern to the people that they be not stampeded from following a lefcal and orderly course. It is of more concern to the people that they do not permit themselves to be misled, nor permit the demagogues to lead* into mrtrieA paths. Seldom haq it happened in the history of the republic that there was greater need for the people to keep cool. To consider thoughtfully. To move cautiously. Not only is it Imperative that justice he done. It is equally imperative that injustice he not done. Now is a good time for the people to hold fast to the ancient moorings. In this way alone can they save thcmsqlves from being east loose by irrepsonsi blc hands, *• Tt would ha well for all of us to pause nnd rend and reread the above warning from one of the men foremost in building the foundations of this republic —Alexander Hamilton. By tha wuy, did hfr. Doheny, in making out his income tax return, include that satrhelful of money in the taxable column or put it over in the excnui tions department? "The east is dependent upon the farms,” declares President Coolidge. And if the east doesn’t believe it, perhaps a farmers’ strike would curry conviction. Hiram Johnson is to talk to the Ad-Sell league next Monday ni^ht. 11c may succeed doing the first half, hut will he ho able to Accomplish the last half? Old King Tut isn’t so much. Some pretty old bones are being excavated down Washington way these days. Omaha will he a better place in which to live ■pvhen j.A is made a hard place for Aruntoters to live. It is barely possible that Mr. Vandertip let the last syllable of his name run away with him. _ --— \ New York will not cnll him “Silent Tnl" again for quite awhile. I \ / ' By EDWIN G. PINKHAM. / The Growing Conflict Between Governors and Governed A government is not free to do as it pleases . . the law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as well as •others.—John Locke. The true wisdorp of nations is experience.—Napo leon. The laws of England. I know, are sufficient to make me as great a king as l could wish to be.—James II. VIII. WI1TII so many colonial parlia ments functioning; with _ royal governors and proprie tary governors adminlster - - — lng executive authority; and with some colonies—as Rhode Island and Connecticut—claiming to be absolutely self-governing under their charters, and others admitting dependence on English authority, It, Is not remarkable that con fusion early arose over the constitu tional status of the different communi ties. Rhode Island and Connecticut undoubtedly had charters entitling them to home government. If that should mean anything: Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware had. proprietors whose rights seemed above question. Penn had bought Pennsylvania outright for £16,000, surrendering a valid and recognized claim against the English government for that amount, which he had In herited from his father. Lord Balti more had only to pay the king an annual tribute of two arrowheads for Maryland. Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire, Virginia, New Jer sey, Oenrgla and the Carolinns acknowledged their origin as royal colonies, but gradually came to have their own Ideas as to just what that meant. Moreover there had been a revolu tion In England In 16S9. The royal house that had granted the American charters was driven out and a new house, with which the English people made much better terms for them selves than they had enjoyed under the Stuarts, came In. The new meas ure of civil liberty that had come to Englishmen at home should extend to Englishmen In America, the colon ists argued. By the middle of the lkth century the public agitation of questions that concerned their government and Its relation to the crown, had become marked among the colonists, particu larly among the New Englanders. A French traveler said of them: “They are all politicians down to the housemaids, and read two news papers a day.” It Is recorded that when Black stone's commentaries came out In 175k there was a tremendous demand for the book In the colonies. Every body seemed Interested In questions of law and government. A Virginian traveling In New England remarked in his letters on the extreme Inquisi tiveness and talkativeness of the northern people. If he stopped at an Inn he was immediately surrounded and questioned as to his Identity, his business, and as to what news he brought. A people thus politically minded was not likely to sleep on Its rights. The colonists had. In fact, enjoyed so much liberty that the slightest ap parent restrictions on them at once roused their apprehension. The Eng lish colonial policy had for Jong pe riods been one described as wise neglect; the colonists had been left alone to tax themselves and .quarrel with their royal governors, but this comfortable course was Interrupted at times by fits of meddling by king, minister or parliament, and on these occasions the colonels never failed to show quick alarm. Thus when Governor Andros sought to forfeit the charter of Connecticut he met wdth the stoutest resistance. All New England fought the tyranni cal governor until they brought about his fall. Massachusetts, as early ss 1652, denied the right of parliament to change Its charter, and, Puritan though It was, refused to proclaim Cromwell nnd his sun Richard. Massa chusetts even asserted the right to coin its own money. In Virginia the assembly refused to submit Its records to the examination of Culpepper, the royal governor, and under him and rnariV succeeding gov ernors continued to wage a contest, mure or less successful, for larger rights of self government. In Pennsylvania a continuous Struggle went on between the assem bly and the deputies commissioned by Penn to govern for him. Even when the colony was taken over hy ft royal governor, during Penn's trou bles with the English government, the assembly refused to contribute money for the wnr In which King William was engaged with France. New York's history was still more turbulent. It was Dutch until lfi64. and Dutch lignin for a short period a few years later. But Its permanent occupation hy the British was soon followed by civil war, when a faction of the . olonist*. led hy Jacob Twister relzed the government nnd refused to submit to the royal authority. Gov ernor Sloiighter, to whom I^lsler finally surrendered, hanged him nnd some of his followers. But the colony was not purified, nnd under the rule of successive governors continued n prey lo contesting-factions for many y en rn. All Mils history, and It was of like character throughout the colonies, * ends to one conclusion. Government* good or bad—and In the main it was had—bestowed from Kngland was everywhere corulng to tie regarded as an Invasion of colonial liberties. The c 1'alien wanted to govern themselves each colony wanted to govern Itself Independently < of the others. They wanted, each for Itself, to concentrate all government In the locally elected a eiernhllos. Above all they recognised no taxing power hut that of the hm sembly. The people regarded them selves as Kngllsh sublet Is, but en t If Ir»fl to thf* kind «*f kovert)inevit tbfejr situation demanded. They hadearvfd out their eolnnlen from the wilder ness and the fruits of (heir w.-rk were their own. Too often the royal gov ernors were mere ndventurei s, ruined •■'t the gaming t a Idea of l.omlon. and theso rapacious i ulera 'were held to he little better than public enemies. Kngland'* wise neglect when inter rupted hv unwl-e Interference, was rapidly alienating a |nj .111 that, al bent, was little , a leu In t ed I» withstand the time and distance that separate,I the colonists from the land and the political system of their forefathers The bonds that held them to the mother country had been stretched f*nly wise sl.ilesninnshlp In Kngland euuM keep them from snap ping. The circumstance to which the colonies owed lllelr huge freedom of action during the 1TtIi century Is one hot always understood. II was dur ing that century that Kngtnnd1* Stuart kings wers attempting to fasten absolutism on that country. Tha Stuarts were the enemies of Eng lish liberty, but by one of the strange paradoxes of history were the unwit ting friends of colonial liberty. 11 was because their hands were full at home that they did not lay them on the colonies. James I, who had granted the first colonial char ters, died before the colonies had taken root. Charles 1 came to the throne and began a contest with his people that occupied all his attention. His policy cpme to be expressed In the single word, ‘'Thorough.” the word of his able and ambitious minister, Thomas Wentworth, carl of Strafford, who paid with his head for Inventing It. If “Thorough” had been success ful In Englanff Charles would have applied the system to America, but after a contest of a quarter of a century, during which the- colonies had no place In the minds of strug gling king or parliament, Charles, too, (pald with his head. The commonwealth succeeded and gave new strength to the civil and religious liberties , of Englishmen st home and In America. Two more Stuarts were to follow, one more con cerned with affaire of the heart than with affairs of state, and one who tried to revive absolutism and loat his throne in the attempt. Charles II, who was chasing a moth about the room with a lady’s slipper while the Hutch were burning shipping In the Thames, was not likely to bother his head about what Englishmen were doing In Massachusetts and Virginia. James II, last of the Stuarts, had only one Idea in his somewhat thick head, and that was to place the authority of the crown above the laws of Eng land, In his pursuit of that object jit took him just three years to alienate parliament, aristocracy, church and nation. Alt arose against him and he fled to France, throwing the great seal into the Thames as he went. These brothers. Charles and James, "Belial and Moloch.’* and their father, Charles I. misgoverned England for a half century, but England ke.pt them so busy doing it that the English colonists during that time virtually governed themselves. By the begin ning of the 1.1th century the political Institutions of the colonies had grown strong enough to hear the strain of the royal governors whom Anne and the Georges sent over, the Comburys, the Androses, the Fletchers, the Cul pepers—that run of court favorites that Sam Adams called “haughty bashaws," which seems to have been the way he spelled pashas In his haste. ' The political history of the colonies during the first three quarters of the Hth century Is the history of the at tempt of these royal governors to suppress the provincial assemblies by limiting their activities to the passing of supply hills. It was the history of the English kings and their parlia ments over again. The governors al ternately begged and threatened. They dismissed assemblies, they called them back. They got money for public pur poses and put it in their pockets. "Their office." says Franklin, "makes them Insolent; their insolence makes them odious; and, being conscious that they are hated, they become malicious. Their malice urges them jto continual abuse of the Inhabitants In letters (to fhe ministry), misrepre senting them as disniTected and re bellious. and as weak, divided, timid and cowardly. Government bellevea all: thinks It necessary to support and countenance its officers. Their quar reling with the people Is deemed a mark and consequence of their fldel Ity. They are therefore more highly rewarded, and this makes their con duct still ^iore Insolent and provok ing." Rome of them tried biandiahments, th« failure of which remlnda of James II s attempt to win the rebel Aylnffe, caught In Monmouth’s upris ing. "Ton had better be frank with me, Mr. Ayloffo," said the king when the captive was brought before him, "you know it is In my power to pardon you.” “If may be In your power.” replied Aylnffe, “but It Is not In your na ture ” The colonial assemblies had learned It was not In the nature of the Eng llsh n.-ishas to give good government (fopyrlsht. ih* Kan.i. City Star ) FKBKl'AKY’8 FA881NQ. O perfect February day, thou'rt draw ing to a close; The sun, a crimson disc of flame. Is sinking to rci>ose Tn n feathery bed of gray blue clouds that hank the western sky. Foretelling us of snow to fall In gen erous supply. O day, fair February day, thy beauty needs tnnst fade Into the twilight's gentle glow, a change none may evade. Hut how serene the twilight seems* were loath to let go— As soothing sweet toy spirit dream* dear scenes of long ago. And, ns i g ize. the night arrives to claim thee, perfect day— She draws thee to her Jeweled breast and hears thy soul away. Oh. when toy day on earth Is done and twilight turns to night. • May lie be there my baud to take and lead mo Into light, ' I race Putter Pea tile. Golf and Temperament From th« N«w Tork Trlbun*. Appended to a recent work on the rules of golf 1* a list of •’don’t*” for those who Imperfectly understand the delicate etiquet of the game. It may lie judged by these maxim* that the golfer is somewhat supersensl tive to distractions. If a golf bag ll**s within the range of his vision while he is making a putt, if he does not know the exact position of every othar member of a foursome while he Is driving, the shot Is missed, and. In all probability, the match is lost. Not even opera Singers are so completely possessed by tempera ment as golfers. Unlooked-for sights, unexpected sounds, throw them off their game’ 'and plunge them Into fury or despair. Not even the sav age and voluble berating of a caddy cun adequately relieve the awful nerve strain that is caused by the shuffling of an opponent’s feet or the swish of his partner’s practice stroke. Nevertheless there are many peo ple who play very good golf indeed even in the midst of alarm*. Among these, are the professionals who make a btftiness of the game and who have learned to concentrate so thoroughly on what they are doing that their minds are not to be dis tracted by anything short of a pistol shot Immediately behind them. And there la really too explainable reason Vhy the golfer should be any more temperamental than those who play any other game which requires co ordination. When golf becomes, as It is cer tain to, so popular that it will be fol lowed by ’’galleries” comparable In numbers and character with baseball audiences, the golfer will discover that what he has deemed the absolute necessity for silence and order is largely Imaginary. The time mfry ar rive when amateurs and professional* alike will be greeted with hoots and catcalls when they go up to tee off, that they will have to keep their eyes out for flying pop bottles and their ears open for cries of "Take him out!” or “Watch him dub it!” When that comes to pass they will discover that they can atlll play the game and while playing It remain as oblivious to, the jibes and jeera of a hostile throng as are the athletes whose metier Is base ball. _ CENTER SHOTS. It’s a mistake to suppose all ac tresses are on the stage—Philadelphia Record. Maw says a big family Is like a bunch of pawn tickets. They will cost you a nice sum before you re deem or get rid of 'em, but you did It yourself.—Petersburg Progress-Index. Another reason why husbands are not uniformly courteous to their wives Is because few women could survive the shock—Vancouver Sun. More houses and fewer noses hsve been painted since the eighteenth amendment was added to the consti tution.—Toledo Blade. Far "too much of the money that burrs holes in pockets goes for the stuff that burns holes in innards.— Arkansas Gazette. A headliner speaks of •'alleged" moonshine whisky. That must be awful stuff.—Milwaukee Journal. If girls are nice enough to use flavored lipsticks, men should quit eat ing onions.—Columbus Record. A German prince and a German general have become Franciscan monks. That is not exactly beating spears Into plowshares, but somewhat In that nature.—Rochester Democrat Chronicle. Nearly IS.OOO.OOB.OhO In new life In surance was written in this country last year. That would Indicate that the average American takes a pretty good squint at the future, after all.— I.Q8 Angeles Times.^ SUNNY SIDE UP ' Comfort, nor forget ■ JhatSunrin never faded^yet' A PRAYER. God. for the gladness of this day. Grateful I come to Thee; Singing Thy praise along the way For comforts given me. For health and strength, for friend ships dear. For gifts from Plenty’s horn, I thank Thee while I’m drawing near This holy Lord’s day morn! God, for Thy tender, watchful care I lift my voice in praise; For burdens that Tbou helped me bear My thanks to Thee I raise. On bended knee I greet the dawn Of Thy most holy day; Thy helping arm I lean upon Along the rough highway. Teach me, dear God. Thy ways to keep, .Guide me In paths aright. In desert place, through tempets deep, My hand In Thine hold tight. Grant, Father, purity of heart. And courage for the fray. Give me the gift of cheer a part To smile my doubts away. And when I lay me down to sleep Be Thou near to my side. O'er those I love Thy watch care keep, Their friend whate'er betide. And may I waken calm and strong To dally burdens l>ear; To walk with Thee, Thy ways along — Hear, God, my humble prayer. If ever there was a time when men should hold fast to faith, when men should take strength of courage to fight for the right, that time Is right now. There is a call for men of Gideon to light the candles of their faith anew and go forth In full confi dence once mrfre to smite the seem ingly overwhelming forces of wrong and Injustice, What the religious world needs to day la fewer men to apologize for the seeming failure of the church, and more men to arise and give reason for the faith that Is within them. It needs more Calvins and . Cartrlghts and Wesley* and Campbells In the pulpits, and fewer lecturer* and sermonette makers. Men in all walks of life, noting the rising tide of corruption, are coming to realize that finite laws and man made rules are impotent to stem the tide, and that they must look to power not within themselves, but Infinitely above them. In short, the greatest need of the world today Is to get back to God. ■With due apologies to the Ad Sell league, we arise to take violent ex ceptions to the language used in its announcement of J. Adam Bede * ap pearance at the meeting Monday night. The announcement says "He arose step by step from an obscure country editor to the national con gress.” We would have the genial and enterprising members of the Ad Sell league to understand that there is no higher position than that of a country editor. Men do not rise from that position to congress—they go the other way. Otherwise all that the Ad-Sell league says of J. Adam Bede meets with our bearty approba tion. Another member of the I Knew Him When club. Please move over and make room for him on the benrh. He Is again connected with the Iten Biscuit company, as he waa when we were occupying the position of state labor commissioner and re quired to make occasional inspections of the big plant. We are going to drop In on him some of these da>s. hoping to be able to walk around and sample the various confections as liberally as in days of yore. May be, too, we will be handed a package or two to take home, as happened frequently In those same old days. Another oil scandal, this time right here In Omaha. W. D, Stelk offered a coupon book calling for »10 worth of gasoline as a prize In the Ad-Kell league’s membership drive. The prize was won by K. Kirby of the Sinclair Oil company. Boys, pag4 some United States senators! This is a Matter That Must Be Attended to Promptly. If President Coolidge is looking for a real lawyer, and the names now before the senate are not confirmed, w-e suggest the name of one who has demonstrated his ability to bring home the bacon. He is tbe man who put ol' Doc Cook In a position to play checkers wtih his nose. What's the matter with Sylvester Rush? And there is Fred Wright, also of this good city. We could name many others, but these two would carry on to the entire satisfaction of the t-wnn try. _ Nehraska^Jmerlck. There was a young man in Dundee Who held his sweetheart on his knee. One night the chair broke And her father awoke. A pretty bad fix, you’ll agree. Again we have with us in multi tudinous number the patriotic gentle man who is quite willing to make a great sacrifice of his personal affairs in order to serve the dear people in high place, where the salary Is con siderably more than he has averaged. Lives of some men all remind us That just when we’ve got a cinch, Some up slips right up behind u» And proceeds to make a pinch. From some reason or other, prob ably because of our own unerring in stinct ofr getting the worst of it, we have never yet succeeded in securing a dinner that tasted as good as it menu card. looked when printed in French on the Among other fragrant memories re called by Opie Reid was that of the mint bed that crew in the shade of the old Sentinel office in Oregon. Mo., dose to Foster's ice house, and just scross the alley from the refreshment Lazar conducted by Nyra Kvger. We happen to know that the old Sentinel still lingers among the living, and it may be that the old ice house is still existent. But Nym's bazar is extinct, and the old mint bed. If still blending its fragrance with the air, is wholly tautological and redundant. Its fragrance would be remind us of old time delights now ban,shed by the iconoclastic hand of reform. But that is no reason why you should not attend divine services this morning, or this evening, or both. You can go to the theater any other night of the week, you know. WILL M. MAUPIN. When in Omaha Hotel Conant 9 Mothers Wilt Appreciate This Refinement of Moffmann Service r LIMOUSINE glides silently through the streets, perhaps at the midnight hour. In it si* a woman —bound on one of the saddest missions a woman can undertake. She mu3t shortly enter a home where Death has touched the tiny body of a new-born infant—a little one whose mother, perhaps, is still in the Valley of the Shadow herself. Alone she enters the room of suffering and sorrow. With infinite sympathy and understanding she comforts those who mourn. Then she tenderly wraps the still form in a silk shawl, and in her arms it rests until the mortuary is*reached. The customary padded basket would do as well—per haps. But Hoffmann Service is unusual; and so the basket , gives way for the arms of this understanding woman who protects the little form from every jar of the*machine, as • tenderly as though Life’s spark still burned. At the mortuary she dresses the little one—dresses it in the special “baby room”—and then places it in the little white crib, where it rests, just as it would do at home, until the time comes to lay it in its last resting place. That is the Hoffmann Service way of caring for “infant cases.” And Hoffmann's charge for a complete funeral, con sisting of casket, outside case and complete service, will be any sum from $20 up, as the family may wish. T~0 SERVE HUMANITY BETTER * . HOFFMANN FUNERAL HOME 24 - «nd Dod^e Street* Ambulant* S*rvic* Phont J*ck*o«\ 3901 OMAHA I Copyright Applied fort