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w *—— ■ Biggest July 4 8 in History for Fontenelle Park jjHpaseball Game*, Athletic* of 3V All Sorts, Speaking and We Mammouth Fireworks B Display. Arrangement* for tlip big Fourth j^B ®f July Celebration at Fontenelle I^B' park, the largest in its history, are H rapidly nearing completion and tlirdls from dawn to dusk arc promised. A total of 100 sport events for {■ which adequate prizes will lie award W oil has been csheduled. These events H "HI be staged in the morning as well «■ «s in the afternoon. ■ Three ball games will lie on the pro |H Pram, one at 10:30 a. in. between H church teams, another at 1 p. in. bc ■ tween the Brotherhood nf Hallway S clerks and the Chicago. Burlington H and uincy employes and the third at 3.30 between the Ram Kilns team and the Schneider Electrics. Charles Gardner, seceitnry ..r Ak ^B Rar-Ben will lead community singing ^B In the evening before the van loads ^B of fireworks already received light ^B the skies. ^B At 0:30, Ballard Bunn, editor In H < Irief of Tile Omaha Bee will deliver the patriotic speech of the day. ^B In the morning, a squad from the Rpanish-American War Veteran's post will raise the flag, while in the even H- ing the same squad will lower It with ■ regular military ceremony A carnival H company with varied amusements ori ■ it* hands will lie at the park through the day. BH^HBlcnty of seats arid tables fur m^Wrcheon parties have been obtained and 50 officers have been deputized H to avoid confusion in parking of auto H mobile*. Persons authorized to make H-j collection* will wear badges, thus H avoiding fraud. Free, hot coffee will H be supplied. I NEW YORK VIEWS I STRANGE VESSEL New York, June ?S.—The strangest $B craft that ever cast anchor In ^B Kheepshead bay was piloted In by ^B Capt. Geoage Waard, a huge Ontch H Canadian skipper, who brought his ■ Chinese wife, their 11-year-old son and bizarre tales of adventures dur bH 1ng their 15,000-mile trip from Amoy ■ here via Vancouver, B. ('., and the H l'anaqia canal. ■ The "ship" Is a 53-foot Chinese ■ Junk, built of camphor wood and ■ Chinese fir, and is held together bv ■ bamboo pins. It has an 18-foot beam and draw* four feet of water. Waard plans to keep Ills vessel here H for several months for sightseeing ■ purposes and then sail for Europe. ■ FIGHT KILLING I OF SONG BIRDS B Harrisburg, June 2S,—‘ More Birds B . —Less Bugs'' is the slogan adopter! B 1 y the board of game roinmi»sloners; B In waging a vigorous campaign B against the killing of song and Inscc vorous birds in the state. Hundreds '! ions of Icstne live in ^^^socts are consumed daily by the birds I of Pennsylvania, officials of the hoard assert, and the law provides a tine of $10 for killing protected birds j < i destroying their nests. The eco ' nolnic value of the birds Is expected to appeal to the persons who do not lefrain from killing them because of their beauty and song. > Dynamite Cap Injures I Boy, Who la Paid $7,000 Peoria, III,, June 28.—Seven thous and dollars' damages have been awarded John William Stevens, 11 -year-old schoolboy of l.lmestone township, whose hand was mangled by the explosion of a dynamite cap near the school by a road contractor. The damages were paid by Jansen A Schaefer, contractors of Pekin. The explosion which tnalned the boy took place irr the school build ing during classes. The hoy had found the dynamite cap, which he I though was un exploded shell. In the *■ hoc! yard and had placed It in his desk. It exploded when he pushed a pointed pencil into It. Two Angers, the thumb and part of his left hand had to be amputated. fifteen other caps were recovered from pupils in the school following the explosion. Elimination of Weak Industries Doing On New York, June 28.—The elimina tion of the weak and the unfit from Industry Is now under way on an 'SI extensive scale, according to the Garfield National hank, which says: “There Is no blinking the fact that many industries are geared to a higher speed than the country ran maintain. The elimination of what tha economist terms the marginal producer,' the one who can make a fair profit only when demand Is at the peak and profit maigins the high est, Is under way. In this Is to be < found the explanation of the con tinued high totals In the business mortality columns. We have cleared sway the dehrlse from the 11)21 crash, hut there still are many concerns which cannot make both ends meet under present conditions.” Musical Ambassadors Set Sail for Europe New York. June 28.—A group of “musical ambassadors" have sailed for Naples, in charge of Pietro Yon, honorary organist of the Vatican. The small group of American musicians and composers are off on n real dlplo * matic mission, with recognition from Washington, according to Mr. Yon. "We will he musical ambassadors,” Mr. Yon said, "authorized by the Department of Htate, In Washington, to promote friendliness and respect fur American talent In Italian and French music circles. Our tour, as originally planned, was to provide u master coiirso of study In orgun play jpi and composition. But this pur I » • nose tins since acquired a new im ' ^/gb'iortance.” Went Point ^ onth Drowned. West Point, Neb., June 28.—Clar ence Greckel, 12. son of Mr. and Mrs. William Greckel, was drowned Friday afternoon In a lake at the City Park when he slipped off one of the motor boats Into the mud end wate.« I i What Kind o/ Husbands Do the “Jimmies” Make? Hnw about the sons and daughters of the rich? Those whose engage ments and marriages are this day announced on society pages the coun. try over. What kind of a success will they make of marriage and what eort of Ideals are they capable of passing on to their children. Consider: The door captain at the Mont Mt hiel restaurant approaches Eddie, the head waiter, with a, distraught ex pression in his eyes. “Young Mr. Jimmy Worthington is outside," ho Buys. "Drunk?" asks Eddie. "He can hardly stand up. "la he dressed,' Eddie does not mean: Is he In hiB underwear?— though this would not surprise him a great deal. He means: Does he have on a dinner coat? " Ves.' "All right,” says Kddle, "Show him ln.‘ Jimmy* Idea About I,He. Andllnto the Mont Mihiel cafe reels that peerless aristocrat, that fine flower of American civilization, .voting Mr. Jimmy Worthington. His father made a fortune hoarding food during the war, but the son sconil commerce and has gone In for aris tocracy on a large scale. I have often talked to Jimmy and fried to find out his ideas about life. It is an enlightening if somewhat alarming experience, for Jimmy's conversation is chiefly a history of his more recent dissipations. He has heard his father make remarks about ‘ these dangerous radicals." so Jimmy thinks of all the policemen and sol diers in Ameriea as a sort of body guard to protect his person from the "lower classes." He thinks that when he is arrested for running his car 60 miles an hour lie can always get out of trouble by handing hlfl captor a large enough (j bill—and he knows tiiat even if he has the bad lurk to run over some one when he's drunk, his father will buy off the family and keep him out of jail. This is a complete summary of Jimmy’s attitude toward the gov ernment under which ho lives. Fashions in Behavior. It has been the fashion for the last five years to blame rich girls for the "wildness" of the younger genera tion. Women, however, nre always just what men make them. In 1X40 women were required to faint to show their delicacy—in 1024 women are re quired to dissipate to show their sportsmanship. Occasionally the re vulsion from some orgy throw* Jim my in a panic Into the arm* of a girl of character. Hut, a* a rule, he mar ries someone like himself. Jimmy and Mrs. Jimmy have a year of dissipation together. Mrs. Jimmy is "a good sport”—she ha* to he; If she ceased being one Jimmy would find another lady to be a good sport In her stead. Perhaps at the end of a year or two, there is a single rhild—not particularly wanted nor particularly unwanted: not the center of the household, apparently, nor the result of any scheme of life—simply a child which exists through Its in fancy In a sort of vacuum; not un loved but, somehow, an incongruity Inasmuch a* its parents, though they may have three houses, have not yet succeeded In establishing anything In the nature of a home. On the contrary, they are already drifting apart. Their bonds were nev er x ery dose, for in the world of con tinual stimulation in which they moved they never really regarded marriage as a perminent thing. Jimmy’s Children. The psychological effect of the child on Mrs. Jimmy begins a new era In their marriage. Something is wrong and she knows it. She is torn be tween her natural love, for the child and the idea that she's got to keep up xvith Jimmy. But the problem Is solved for her by Jimmy, who has learned to amuse himself without her. To all Intents and puiqsjses their mar riage is over. Bet us suppose though that Jim my and Mrs. Jimmy remain together nfte>- a fashion nnd have a series of three children over an interval of 10 years. Is Jimmy In any position to supervise Iheir education? Not he. He hasn't even the wisdom to leave them intelligently alone. lie knows by this time that there is something wrong with his life and his one Idea is that his children shall he unlike himself. And of all the In tolerant, mean, and unjust parents In the world an ex-libettlne is the xvorst. He looks with horror on the mildest escapade, ‘•The l-ittle Brother of the Rich.” While at no period in the xvorld's history', perhaps, has a larger pro portion of the family income been spent upon display, an even worse phenomenon is observable in those who come Into direct contract with the Irresponsible rich. Every wealthy set In the big cities hns many couple* who. from their inability to pay the heavy financial cost of post prohibi tion entortalning, have become noth ing more than sponges and parasites. I know dozens of boys who have never been able to live down ex pensive educations—who have come into contact with the rich, wasting class at the big prep schools and uni versities nnd never real lied that what young Midas wastes today wns once paid for by old Midas. Ills grandfatli er, end that what he himself wastes is going to be sweated out of hi* parents’ Inadequate bank book, lie see# young Midas reel through life like Jimmy, or. If he wants to work, become h director In six companies on his 25th birthday. So the poor but lazv young man gets n confused. Jealous and distorted picture of the world, A Teat of Aristocracy, Is .Timmy, lasting a month in Wall street, to blame for Ids failure to hold a Job? What possible attrac tlon can Wnll street hold for him? Joy In the work? lie hales the work —he Is too dull nnd slow for II. Money? He knows lliero’s plenty of money nl home and his for the ask ing. I'rlde? But he need feel no shame In being a parasite since half the rich young men he knows are just ns lazy and useless as himself. Responsibility ? Here we come tn something that sets the American "leisure rlsst" off from the leisure class of all other nations and make* it probably the F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Great Grand-nephew of Francis Scott Key, Who Wrote “The Star-Span gled Banner,” and Author of "The Beautiful and Damned,” “Thia Side of Paradise,” “Flappers and Philosophers.” "Tales of the .Ian Age,” "The Vegetable,” Etc. s. ___-_ - s most shallow, most hollow, most pernicious leisure class in the world. It has frequently no consciousness that leisure is a privilege, not a right, and that a privilege always Implies a responsibility. Look for a minute at the so-called English aristocracy, a favorite butt of American comics. Mention It, and you bring up before the small town eye a picture of an anaemic, weak chinned Individual with a small coronet on the side of his head. This picture is, of course, about as life like as the antiquated British Idea that Americans were engaged in a permanent buffalo hunt. Sons of the Newly Rich. In the first place, the young Englishman of wealth heretofore ha* made an honest attempt to go into politics and run his government. He may not have been brilliant at It. hut he was rich and he didn't need brlhes and stock presents and tip* on the market—and that s why the British government has been incom parably the cleanest government In the world. Compared to It, recent developments would make the Amer ican government appear to be a barn yard of scandal and corruption. Can you imagine the Teapot Dome oil dis closures or wounded veteran graft having happened in the British lab'’ There is, of course, the Jimmy In England too, but he is in a minority there. Here, since the war. at least, Jimmy has become a majority of the rich boys of the land. lie occurs most frequently among the newly rich. The older families oft»n have some tradition of responsibility. Their hoys go Into politics if th-y can af ford It or into the law or one of the arts. They are sent to carefully chosen schools—schools which realize that the rich boy must tie broken into habits of work and discipline when he Im young. And they are given no such allowance* as the Jimmie* are given. There was a ooy In rnv class at Princeton who was the son of one of tiie oldest and wealthiest families in the middle weal. During his freshman year he kept an account tsiok with a record of every dollar he spent. 1 make no comment on the value of thla particular practice, but It shows how necessary it seemed ot this boy'* father that he *hould have a pense of responsibility—If not to the country, at least to the fortune he was some day to control. Probably the most encouraging thing about the Jimmies Is that they don't survive—survive, I mean, as rich men. The largest purse has a bottom, and. though Jimmy never works while he can fluff and sponge and borrow his way along, his chil dren will have to take what scraps remain and start again in ihe middle da ss. Since I was 7 years old. Just 20 years ago, I have in my own experience the break tip of five eix able fortunes. Out In St. Paul, where I was born, a dozen houses still stand that were once inhabited by one gen eration "aristocrats." The "aristo crats" are dead now and their for tunes have melted away; their chil dren. who had no sense of responsl billty. even toward tlielr father's money, are bad examples around the streets or. at best, starting life over again with nothing hut their own tAlents and a pioneer name. This phenomenon, remember, is pe culiarly American. Kngllsh families seldom If ever decay with »uch rapid Ity, because they are founded not on , sand hut on aristocracy. And real aristoi racy, w hatever lie faults, is willing to undego a discipline of Its own. A Pretentious Mockery. The leisure class of Kngland sre ! soft. They have their scandals, their j wastrels, their roues—but in London j one never gets the impression thst , one does sometimes In New York. , that all society is a silly, pretentious, | vicious mockery of a defunct feudal regime. Let the American rich have their summer and winter places which tow er over our suburban bungalows; let them keep 12 suits and servants to our one. The founder of a great fami ly has been shrew-d and successful and bought his descendants soft, fine things that no relativ# has seen fit to provide for us. Theoretically, at least, we have the same chance for a marble mausoleum a* all the Astors In Kngland snd America. It is not so much what the rich do as what they don't do that becomes more snd more deplorable i each year. They grow softer andj softei and Jlmmy> father Is now’ just as soft as Jimmy l«rt two doz en workmen mee* behind a hnrn and 1 h» bursts out In » cold sweat, casts aside eight centuries of justice and tries to get half a dozen bewildered foreigners sent to I^ea van worth for 10 years. He Stocks his cellar with liquor and then votes righteously for prohibition "for the good of the masses." And Jimmy's father after a hard office day looks for his Ideals—to his wife. Tlie effect of this on the children of the rich ha* been enormous. Women are not public spirited and they are not natural idealists—they are too “practical" to be concerned with any thing that Is not their own. When they make standards they are In clined to make violently selfish snd unchlvalric standard*. Can you imagine the usual very rich woman urging her son to go into politics for the good of the country— if. say. lie were making a big suc cess in business" The thing is incon ceivable. Women do have vast dreams for their children, hut when it come* down to ih»« their desire Is that their children shall take no chances and, »t all costs, keep out of trouble. The Source of Jimmy's Ideals. American rich boys of this genera tion get what ideals they have from their mothers. The boy watches his mother's almost insane strivings to ward a social position commensurate with her money. He sees her change her accent, her clothes, her friends, her very bouI. as she pushes her way up in life pulling her busy husband with her. Jimmy's idea of politics became* the remembrance of some preposterous women's club that met at his mother's hous* one da' Poli tics, he think*, is a thing whet* uglv ! women read long (lull papers made up out of the month's newspaper edi. torials. By the time he 1« 21 Jimmy 1“ about as public spirited as a rattlesnake. He is not told that his father grew rhh because America is the richest country in the world and his father Was somewhat shrewder and more In dustrious thin other men. He is told that his father is an unselfish Indi vidual who "helped develop the coun try," He is told that because hla father has done this noble work he can now look down on everyone less rich than he. This privilege, the bov gathers from his mother, is the high est inspiration of which a cltixen i* capable. So. a* It turns out. our rich hoy grows tip in one of two wav*. Rithor he learns a set of intensly soft, in tensely selfish Ideals at his mother's knee and s|>ends his life busily adding to the fortune that his father made. Or, he learns no ideals at all and assuming that aristocracy is s sort of drunken reel tietween two long lines if bribed policemen, spends his life and money in .» not of extrava gance and petty vice. What a waste' Think of the hun dreds of firstmte men who have come out of the British leisure class —Statesmen, poets, painter*, archi tects. soldiers, scientists, physicians, philosophers, empire builders—men who have made life easier and more beautiful by having lived. And then look at the American leisure class and not# that if lias produced—well, two presidents, out of 271 The great est Americans have come almost in variably from the very poorest class —lJneoln, Kdison. Whitman, ford, Mark Twain I have a list at hand r.f our BOO richest families 1 run down the list. Here is a Jimmy, a typical Jimmy and another, and another, without variation. Here is a row of Jimmies, you <an see them every night in certain cafes of New York. Here is a family which has produced noth ing but Jimmies for three generations and yet its wealth for some mysterious reason doubles and multiplies. All that leisure—for nothing' All that wealth—it has begotten waste and destruction and dissipation and snobbery: nothing more. Three gener ation* of cboru* girl* and rare track louts and one generation of bootleg gers ha\e profited from it—that is ail. ffoovrSf hf. IStt.i 1 Ifise Ants Use Gravity to Aid Them in Building “Mansions” in Tree Trunk; Carry Sawdust to Ledge, Dump It Over Insects l sc “Hoads" Instead of Tiring Legs by Long Haul to Bottom of Tree. Herr is a picture of flip tree mi which unusually intelligent ants are operating. The cross (x) marks the Imle from which the nuts emerge with their sawdust and drop it to the earth in the course of the dotted line. Insert is an enlarged snapshot of an ant as lie emerged from the hole with tils lilt of sawdust. Hir Isaac Newton gets all the credit for discovering the law of gravity, but out In West Omaha there are tree nnts that have not only dis covered the effect of gravity, blit are making use of It every day, according to observers. These remarkable ants have chosen I 9S their domicile a maple tree on the south side of California street between Fiftieth and Fifty-first streets. A crack in the tree has been filled in with cement, but above it the ants are digging out reception halls, kitch ens, bedrooms and what not. The cement furnishes a projecting ledge just below the scene of activity, and the intelligent Insects. Instead of carrying the hits of wood from their excavations several feet down the trunk of the tree, merely drop It from the ledge to the ground below. John O. Yeiser, who first discovered these ants using gravity for a practi cal purpose, declares that heretofore he has always found that the ants carry the waste sawdust to the bot tom of the tree and distribute It evenly over several feet of ground. "It seems, however, that labor sav ing is in order among the ants,” uuoth Yeiser. "There Is no doubt that these ants have held consultations and agreed that it is much better to use gravity rather than their legs. "With a bit of sawdust In their mouths, the ants march in line to the little ledge, and cast it over. To watch them is to marvel at their in telligence. There are several sizes of the insects at work. Pome of them are grandpurents, perhaps. “They are larger than th* others, and it may he due to their intelli gence, enhanced by their experience, that Is making it possible for the younger generations to save millions of footsteps every day. "Wasn't there a line in the Bible advising us to study the snts and learn from them?" Elks to Initiate Candidates at Special Meetinjr Plans Complete for Trip to National Convention at Boston July 7 to 12. A special initiation tor Klks will b* i held at 3 Sup lay afternoon at the new club house. eighteenth and Dodge streets. The regular initiation date was Fri day, June 27. The special initiation this afternoon Is to make those who could not attend the Friday night ritefl eligible to attend the national convention at Boston, July 7 to 12. A total of 300 new members hss been secured. John A. ftenileman, chairman of tlie national convention entertainmet committee, ins announced that ar rangements have been made for a special train from Omaha to the Bos ton convention. The train will leave Union station at 6 Wednesday morn ing, arriving at Boston on the morn ing of July 7. The schedule has treen arranged «> that Klks will hare from 7:26 Thurs day morning until 8:47 the following morning in Chicago: from 3:15 Kri day afternoon until 11:55 that evening In Detroit: from 7:15 Saturday morn ing until 11:43 tire name morning at Niagara Falls. The delegates will ar rive at Toronto at 2:45 Saturday aft ernoon. At Toronto they will board a boat for a trip down St. Lawrence river to Montreal. They will leave Mon treal at » Sunday evening, arriving In Boston the next morning. The train will consist of four 12-section one drawing room sleeping cars, dining car, a 6-comparament observation sleeping car, and baggage car operat ing through from Omaha to Boston. 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