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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1924)
100 Omahans Sign Pledge for Wider Use of Air Mail * m News Reel Showing Ceremony * Will Be Shown Nation ally to Popularize Service. / [ - pniiiha, as nat'~nnl headquarters the air mail service, took the lead yesterday In a nation-wide movement to give the service more liberal pat ronage, when more than 100 business man signed a pledge to mail at least on* letter a day for a year by air mall. Tbe.se men. members of the Con cotd, Rotary, *Llons and Klwanls elqbs, and heads of other civic or sanitation*, gathered nt the Hotel Folitenelle air mail box and while a J’aihe camera man ground out hun drids of feet of film signed a scroll containing the following pledge: ^Believing that Omaha, as head quarters of the air mail service of the VnJted StatcS, should take the lead in .furthering the success of the air mail, we, citizens of Omaha, pledge ourselves to mall at least one letter a day by air mall.” Queen Aids in Ceremony. Miss Emma Hoagland, queen of Al^Har-Ben. took part in the cere mrmv. holding the pledge scroll and smiling sweetly as she dropped a let(er In the box. At the conclusion, after all had signed, a mail truck drqve into the picture and a postman carried two large armfuls of letters rrom the box. posing for a moment wlfh Miss Hoagland. Herbert Spencer Mann, secretary of thai Forest Hawn cemetery, added a novelty to the proceedings by posting in the air mall box a letter bearing staim|is some 26 years old. The stamps were of the type used in Omaha dur ing; the Transmisslssippi exposition here, but were augmented by regular airmail stamps. Among the early signers of the pledge were Mayor Dahlman, John D. Kennedy, Ford Hovey, T. F. Naugh tin) Wllllard D. Hosford, Gould Dietz, Cl^rk Powell. Harley Conant, Frank Ju$son, Mark Martin, C. D. Sturte vant, George W. Johnson and E. C. Bppley. Rathe will distribute thi picture na tionally if It proves photographically worthy, according to word received from Pathe officials by the bureau of publicity of the Chamber of Com merce, which had charge o' arrange mefats for taking the picture. Hop-Off Shewn. Garl F. Egge, general superintend ent of air mall, and D. B. Collyer, superintendent of Omaha air mall fieip, made arrangements for the re tnainder of the air mall new* reel, which Includes tha loading tha mall Plante with the sack* of letter* re ceived for this service in Omaha yes terday and the departure of the plane from Omaha on its speedy trip across that continent. Ih addition to making the news reel tha bureau of publicity has printed an air mail, schedule show ing the time necessary for delivery of (nail by air and rail from Omaha to ISO points In Omaha’s wholesale territory. .These will he sent to 1,000 manufacturers and wholesale men of Omaha with a letter urging them to send at least one letter a day by a li ma!!. Body of Aviator Killed in Crash Reaches Beatrice Beatrice, Dec. 10.—The body of Ue$t. Herbert Schaefer, who was killed In a plane crash at Brookfield, Tex'i, last week, reached Beatrice Weinesday night. HI* parents ar rivefl earlier In the day from Storm I .akb, la., to make final arrange ments for a military funeral. Young Schaefer attended high school here and was a popular member of the high school football team. Memorial to Mrs. Gerrard to Be Placed in Library C&lumbus, Dec. 10.—A bronze memorial tablet to honor the memory of Jtrs. Betty Gerrard, pioneer Colum bu*. woman, who donated the site >f I he .^public library to the city, will he erected In the library building by the hoard of directors. Loa Angeles, Cal., Dec. 9. The king of England opens “his ’ par liament in which he has as little real power as one of the Hopi pa pooses. , He makes a speech written by Baldwin, this time. Had the elec tion gone otherwise, Lloyd George, Asquith or MacDonald would have written it for him. . The words put in the king s mouth tell of England’s determina tion to go ahead with the great naval base at Singapore. The lahor party meant to give that up. The tories reverses the decision. _ This country will welcome Britain’s Singapore base., It means added protection for the white races against Asia. „ The great crime of the Washing ton conference was our agreement not to fortify Guam. As a result of that agreement, we now have certain elements in Japan, impertinently questioning America's right to send her fleet into the Pacific ocean. Britain’s king expresses the Brit ish decision of the recent election, saying he will not ask parliament to consider its treaties with Russia. But “normal intercourse between the two countries shall not be in terrupted.” That’s common sense. “What ever you do, don't interfere with business,” is the motto. Lord Beaverbrook, when here, last time, said: “Trade with Russia? Of course we trade with Russia. We trade with cannibals if they have any thing we want to buy or can buy anything we want to sell.” The British have plenty of senti ment, but it’s in their books of po etry. They don’t let it interfere with the growth of the British em pire. One dispatch tells that James B. Duke, who has made millions in many enterprises, is giving an en ormous fortune to education and charity, tens of millions. Another dispatch tells you that Mr. Eastman of Rochester, follow ing other generous gifts, r.pw gives fifteen millions more for education. He gives away priceless stock in his great enterprise, and says he will enjoy managing the concern all the more, knowing that while he works for the kodak company the money that it earns is working for other people. That “wholesale” altruism, for tunately for this nation, increases here every day. The man that once would have used his fortune in a foolish effort to bribe Divine Provi dence, now dedicates a fortune to the service of others, thinking more about the welfare of millions of his fellowmen than about his own un important little soul. The pioneers that struggled across this continent, seeking out paths over the mountains, fighting for life, as they came, thought they were coming here to find gold for themselves. They were opening the w-ay for millions destined to find health and happiness in a high er civilization on this coast. Old frontiersmen in the east, of Daniel .Boone's type, cutting down trees, fighting Indians, shooting bears, thought they were merely es tablishing homesteads for their children. They were units of energy, help ing to create the United States. Those tiny creatures that worked under the waters of the Pacific ocean, building up tiny coral reefs, building each a little place for it self, by combined effort building the beautiful islands of the Pacific. As they worked, so do we work, al ways for the future. If the moon thinks at all, as she sails in silver majesty through this dark blue sky of evening, she prob ably thinks that she travels around the world for her own delight. But Divine Wisdom through the power FOR. “BAYER ASPIRIN "-genuine you see the “Bayer Cross” on tablets you are getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe millions and prescribed by physicians 24 years for Headache Pain Neuralgia 1I [Toothache Lumbago U / Neuritis Rheumatism j ' Accept only “Bayer" package riwhich contains proven directions. # Handy “B»y»r" box** of 12 tablot*. “ Al*o bottle* of 24 and 100—DruKjfikt*. A*vuia 1* Um trad* mark of H*j«r Manufacture of MouoaooUcaclikatar of HallcjMcacld of gravitation, has harnessed her to the oceans of the earth. And as she travels, without know ing it, she creates tides that pre vent the ocean from becoming a sfngnant, disease breeding pond, and that in time will supply power for men everywhere on earth. Powerful men that give money in millions, tens of millions, even hundreds of millions, Eastman, Duke, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Baker, perhaps don’t realize that when they 'give money they make the least important gifts to the people. The value of their own work far excel* that of all the money they leave or give away. Their money is an unimportant by-product of their lives. When John D. Rockefeller estab lished the fact that competition is wasteful, and that organization on a big scale means economy and ef ficiency, he rendered a greater service to the people than in giving all his hundreds of millions. When Mr. Eastman educated the traveling world to keep a record of things seen, and made it easy and inexpensive for mothers to keep a record of their children’s growth, at the same time employing well paid thousands, and building lip a great city, he rendered his real service. So with Mr. Duke. When he built his scores of water plants in the south, harnessing energy going to waste, providing work at homo for thousands, and building up the southern states to which he is at tached hy deep affection, he was doing more than merely giving away forty-odd millions at one time. It’s a world of contrasts. You not the record of generous gifts and unselfish planning. You read that our two dirigibles, Los Angeles and Shenandoah, are to be used by astronomers, studying eclipse's and other cosmic phenomena, and you say, “We are gradually becoming a civilized race.’’ Next you read from William Ockert, 29 years old, his brief com plete statement, “My own brother tried to take my wire away from me, so I got a shotgun and let him have both barrels." This reminds you that civiliza tion thus far appears only in spots. But you know that it is growing, that in time changes all over the earth will be as great as the change of the last few years in this mar velous region, where a great, beau tiful city replaces what only yester- fl day was a sandy domain of the | horned toad. (Copyright, 1*24.) OeWitt—Revival meetings started Sunday at the M- E. church and will continue for two weeks. Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION (__[3sScy 6 Bcll-ans Hot water Sure Relief ELL-ANS 25t mnd 75< Packages Everywhere P Baggage! 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