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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1924)
, Today Christmas Eve. The Old Year Is Sick. C. F. Mitchell's Plan. Nature Is a Mixer. By ARTHUR BRISBANE «■ --J This is Christinas eve, a day that only the mothers of the world un derstand. They can understand that night in Bethlehem, centuries ago, when Mary, mother of Jesus, wandered in the streets, seeking shelter and finally gave birth to her glorious son in a stable. Only mothers know the unutter able joy that changed the stable to a fairy place, when Mary held in her arms the beautiful boy, destined to do more for women and children than all others ever born upon the earth. % The old year is a very sick man, soon to be buried. He leaves on the whole an improved, more hope tul world behind him. War on any big scale has not come as yet, and it seems to grow more remote. This most richly blessed of all countries is wondering what to do with its gold. The whole world owes us money, and will send us in hundreds of mil lions every year in interest, to say nothing of principal. Whether it is good for a nation or an individual to get so much money without wo»king for it, time will tell. Anyhow, we are on the crest of the wave just now and the rest of the world is at least doing better. Get your New Year resolutions ready, and if you happen to take any of them seriously begin work on them now. Charles E. Mitchell, president of the National City bank, biggest in America, knows that the important task of the employer is to make work attractive. Stock in the National City bank is worth $410.' Mr. Mitchell will allow the bank's 8,000 employes to buy the stock at $275, paying on the installment plan out of salaries. He explains that this is not char ity, or philanthropy, not a gift or a bonus. It is business common sense. Mitchell wants employes to be interested in the bank’s welfare and in their own welfare at the ————B —(-- — — same time. He knows that men work a great deal better when they work for themselves. A bootblack, getting the entire revenue from his little stand, Ora Whiter, keeping the types he col lects, is often happier and more earnest in his work than some cor poration employe getting $50,000 a year. An element of uncertainty keep ing the business man and the boot black interested is the important element. National City hank workers will feel, as the \^lue of their stock and the dividends increase, that they have been working for themselves, as well as for the bank. Make industry attractive and you solve the industrial problems. New York state's federation of labor officially requests Governor Smith to work for legalization of light wines and beer in New ^ ork, with a modification of the Volstead act to that extent. That is interesting, because Gov ernor Smith is known to believe that prohibition, with its bootleg whisky and bootleg criminals, has proved a failure in New V ork. It is important to many to be lieve that Governor Smith will be nominated by the democrats for president in i928, and that his elec tion on the prohibition question now may easily become part of the national democratic platform four jears hence. Charles W. Eliot, formerly presi dent of Harvard, says there is no “melting pot.” Jews and the Irish, says he, do not lose their racial identity here or become “assimi lated.” lie opposes “racial inter I marriage. And that is as unimportant as it is inaccurate. Dr. Eliot would be much sur prised if an angel of the Lord could appear to dissert out of his brain and blood all the different kinds of human beings of which he is made up. He would find within himself many races, possibly even Mon golian blood. That blood spread through Europe considerably, hun dreds of years ago, when many Mongolian’ slaves were brought back to Venice by travelers in the fast. Many races dwell under each skull. Among civilized peoples there is no absolutely pure racial strain. The old racial characteristics crop out. You may see a British peasant with a head plainly of -----— Basque origin, brought to England a thousand years before William the Conqueror started to conquer England. The father of the late August Belmont was a Jew. His mother was the daughter of Commodore Perry. He became the president of the Jockey club. Isn’t that “as similation?” Nature intends to have, in the long run, only one kind of human being on earth, and the "melting pot” is at work always. Six Tots Loft Motherless 1>\ Death of Mrs. Gunderson Columbus, Dec. 24.—Six little chil dren were left motherless when Mrs. Irene K. Gunderson of Dell wood (lied at the Columbus fiospltttl. She was 31 years old, ami formerly resided at Kansas City, where sU<* married Mr. (iunderson. Beside* her husband and six children, she leaves two brothers. Funeral services were conducts® #>J" Kev. Mr. Case at the Method* I', church In' Bell wood. Purebred* Vverage $104 at (loliimbus (iallle Sale Columbus. tree. 24.—Fifty-seven head of purebred shorthorn and polled shorthorn bulls, cows and heifer* ! brought an average of ? 104 each at the Columbus stock sale pavillion In the eighth annual purebred cattle consignment sale here by H. C. Me- j Kelvle of I.lncoln. Wymore.—Fire at the Harry Mai pies farm, about three miles south east of Wymore. did *2W> damage to a smokehouse in the yard. The Wy more fire department made the run with ttie chemical truck and saved other buildings. Our Entire First Floor Devoted to Pre-Inven tory Clearance of Dresses. 91-■ Compare... This sweeping, never before equalled, *** wrecking of prices with the most out standing values you can encounter today. ■-D * Conant Motel Building Starting Friday, December 26th, Our Annual A Daring; Drastic, Price-Shattering Disposal of Every Coat and Dress in the House at Our Entire Second Floor Devoted to Pre Inventory Clearance of \ Coats. M-P Shop Early... Come direct to this extraordinary sale share to the limit of your needs for months to come in this amaz ing garment sacrifice. A Mere Fraction of Their Real Worth! k Thousands of Garments at Unheard of Low Prices f fk “r/rvvAe t' t:/ m] selling that Omaha has witnessed ui gears. Great- Irt7/l fuH confidence that her every Apparel Dollar er this season than ever before because of the ^,7/ mor<> than double in its buying power. Don't enormous stocks due to a backward season, and hesitate. Don't wait. Be here Friday morning with W the immediate need for this store to unload. out fail. HI COATS Beautiful Fur Trimmed Coats. More than one thousand from which to choose. Coats in every fabric that is in favor, every color, every trimming. Coats that over shadow any offering of which Omaha might boast. ' Coats Worth to $19.50 Fur collared and self-trimmed warm winter coats, well made, lined and some are interlined. Blocked Chinchillas Polaire Novelties Bolivia Coats Worth to $45.00 Fur-trimmed coats in styles of the hour —a wonderful offering. Values that overshadow all competition. Truvonette Buckskin Brytonia Armandale Sport Coatings Fur Fabrics Coats Worth to $65.00 Coat prices cut to the quick. These beau tiful fur-trimmed garments will cause a stampede of buying. New Collar and Sleeve Effect, Flounce Bottoms, Straightline Coals, Embroidered Coats, Button Trimmed Coats, Panel and Border Trimmed Coats Coats Worth to $89.50 Magnificent coats, with gorgeous fur collars, cuffs and bandings. Every new color. All richly lined. Y'iatka Squirrel Mandel Opossum Manchurian Wolf Moufflon Beaverette French Seal ( Dyed Coney ) . Every selection must prove up to the customer's entire satisfac lion or we shall cheerfully make exchange nr refund. DRESSES ” Hundreds of beautiful Dresses. An array so broad in variety of styles, in colors, and fabrics, that your every whim is certain to be satisfied. All sizes, from 14 to 52. Silks and wools. Dresses for every occasion. Dresses Worth to $ 12.50 More than 300 dresses in this lot and every one a clever style. A variety of wanted colors, sizes 14 to 44. Buy two or three at this price. Crepe de Chines Prunellas Flannels Twills Novelties Dresses Worti* to $24.75 Neat, well made Dresses, in styles you’ll greatly admire. A very wide selection. Canton Crepes , Bengal He Poiret Twills Serges Novelty Mixtures Dresses Worth to $35.00 Wonder values in dresses, hundreds from which to choose; every new color, every delightful style. Canton Crepes Georgettes Satins Flat Crepes Jacquards Poiret Twills French Flannels v Presses Worth to $44.50 Scores of our finest Dresses. Exclusive models for Party, Afternoon, Dinner and Street wear. The very richest of fabrics, many fur trimmed, every pleasing color and color combination. Fxtra salesladies, extra alteration to Ip, extra m appers, have turn provided to render a pleasing, efficient service. '