Tod afl Once More, Happy New Year. *That “Moving Finger Environment Shapes Us. The Killer Starts. By ARTHUR BRISBANE^ This is a leap year and you have an extra day. “Again the shadow movetji o’er the dial plate of time." It moves rapidly. Hurry. A New Year to the young is so exciting, they have no time for advice. It bores them. To the old it is a dreary warn ing, reminding them of things at tempted and many failures. But at least it is a new year. Many hours are in the 306 days. An idea bom in the fraction of a minute, worked out with deter mination, might give you a place among the pennle of the earth worth while—if that interests you. Solemn newspapers print pages telling us that business is prosper ous, the new year most promising. As we survey this little, rolling ball, to which we are tied, from • Paris to Pekin, and from Pekin to Rome, we can say with the 147:h psalm: “He hath not dealt so with any nation; and as for His judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the Lord.” But good times will not last forever. Time writes in the sky above you: “This is your chance.” It won’t last. The Persian warn ing, that you know by heart, fits this season. “The moving finger writes; and having writ moves on; nor all your piety nor wit “Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it.” Dr. Baldwin, scientific consult ant of the public schools in Cleve land, tells how much depends on environment. “Darwin and Lin coln were born on the seme day. If the two infants had been ex changed there would have been no Darwin and no Lincoln. What a man can do is determined by his native equipment (what his father and mother gave him at birth). What he does, is determined by the circumstances of his life.” Bora ’ike Lincoln, in a frontier cabin, with a dirt floor, no win dows, no school or library within reach, Darwin with all his genius would have been always a quiet farmer, probably. Born as Darwin was, thorough ly educated in science and litera ture, Lincoln probably would have been unheard of," the great power that enabled him to carry through the civil war with its burdens going to waste, as he lived a quiet life on his modest inherited for tune. An animal in the jungle starts to track and kill another, suc ceeds, and is happy and proud. Frank Madej of Bridgeport started out to track his wife, who had left with another man and his three children. He found her, shot her down with two bullets, fired three more into her as she lay on the ground, felt her pulse to make sure shp was dead. Then he, told the police that he would like to have it put in the papers. He wished all his friends to know that she “didn’t get away with it.” Millions will say, “Ha, he did exactly the right thing,” provid ing that millions are also beasts of the jungle. In the past women probably have rendered service to the hu man race by leaving such men as Madej, the proud killer, going off with some other man a little less murderous and producing another family with less of the killing in stinct in it. Inside, the Tutankhamen tomb looks like a chapel of solid gold. The pharaoh of three thousand years ago is shown offering wine to various Egyptian goddesses. It’s the old idea that still per sists: If you want anything, offer something first. In very earjy days bloody human sacrifices were of fered. More civilized Egypt of fered wine to the goddesses. Now we offer money, but it Is always something. Ignorant hu man creatures imagine that the ruler of the universe is placated with gifts from insects that dwell on this planet. France has given up ull hope of the Dixmude, great dirigible taken from Germany ufter the war. All its men are believed dead, and you read with amazomert that all France is furiously indignant, de manding an explanation of those deaths. Contrast the calmness with which we take such things in this country. “They are dead? Well, then they are dead.” That’s our attitude. (Copyright, 1913) Coolulge Gets Up Too Early for Ofjice Staff New Year's Morn Washington, Jan. 1.—This is how President Coolidge started tho new year: Arose about 6:30 o clock, his usual hour. Took a walk around the White House grounds and then had breakfast. Went to his office to do some work, but found there hnd been no mail delivery because of the holi day and that none of the White House attacks except Edward T. Clarke, hie personal aecretary, had reported. Hlgned some pupera and cleared hie desk, then returned to the exec utive mansion. Begun receiving at J1 o'clock the first of the thousands fit New Year's callers. Liquor Flows in Big Cities on Eve of 1924 Not Since B. P. Days Was N. Y. So Joyous—Chicago's Arms Tired From Lift ing Bowl. By International Krwn Service. New York, Jan. 1.—New York awoke with a splitting headache to day. Not since the pre-Volstead era, according to some authorities, was there anything like last night’s—and this morning’s—celebration. The spirit of revelry was willing, and the bank roll was anything but weak. More than a half million jammed Broad way, its cabarets, cafe's, hotels and dance palaces, and stayed there until the wee small hours, Prohibit'on agents were unable to dam the flood of hooch which flowed over countless tables. A flying squad arrived on the scene early, flitted from place to place and culled It a night, R. A. Merrick, division chief In charge of prohibition enforcement, In sisted today there was comparatively little liquor in evidence. His men gathered in only a few flasks. At the few places M rrick’s men did appear, they met a hostile reception. While the celebration was at its height "l7.7.y'' and "Moe"—the coun try's most widely known prohibition agents—gathered in two trucks of “rat poison,” said to have been con signed to a Broadway cafe. The raid ers insisted it was the worst stuff they ever tasted. Hy Internatloiml Nows Service. Chicago, Jnn. 1.—Chicago’s arms were stiff and sore today from rais ing and lowering them to lift drinks and to hold frozen hands against ears stung by the z ro weather that greet ed the New Year here. Everyone appeared to lie agreed to day that this was the coldest and wettest New Year's day that ever set its valise down in Chicago. At 3 o'clock this morning the ther mometer and zero were married to one another with little hope for a speedy divorce. That was a drop of 37 degrees since 8 a. m. yesterday. The blizzard-like snowstorm that whitened the city abated before mid night, after having spread enough drifts and ice to harass traffic throughout the night and today. For the Great Lakes zone the gov ernment weather forecasters predict ed "fair and colder Tuesday; Wednes day fair and not quite so cold." Revelry continued until long past dawn in Chicago's cabarets, cafes and hotel dining rooms. Only uniformed police instead of the usual citizens' clothes officers visited the places, go ing about their task so leisurely that everyone had a chance to hide his liquor until the unwelcome visit was over with. ' Winnipeg, Manitoba, which with the notorious Medicine Hat, is one of the breeding places of the best be low-zero blizzards, was a little warm er today, the temperature being 20 degrees below. Although the storm had abated, Montana, North Dakota Hnd that part of Canada immediately to the north of those states reported temperatures varying between 15 and 30 degrees be low zero. Ur Associated Tress. Colorado Springs, Jan. 1.—A pyro technic display from the summit of Pikes Peak, put on by the Adaman club of this city, greeted the new year one minute after midnight. It continued for a half hour while 50,000 candle power electric lights, large rockets and specially manufactured red flare* lighted up the crest of the 14,100-foot mountain. The club de rives Its name from the fact that it adds but one man to its membership roil on New Year's eve. All members must be experienced mountain climb era. H» Associated Tress. Pasadena, Cal., Jan. 1.—Blossoms in midwinter profusion, gay banners a pageant gorgeous with rose-decked floats and a footbull game of nation wide interest comprised Pasadena's New Year's greeting to the hundreds of thousands of spectators who viewed its 85th annual tournament of roses today. nr Aiiaorliited PrfM. Snn Francisco, .Inn. 1.—A din in which the barely audible gurgling or •new year beer could be distinguished marked Ran Francisco's acclamation Your Ailing Tooth That Needs Extraction Thi* week teeth will he extracted to demonstrate Improved TOOTII-NIIM method at one-thrrd regular chance — a $3.00 operation for $1.00 each tooth, ( which includes X-ray examination If nece«*ary. No pnin during operation ! or afterward. Clip and present this announcement this week—it’a worth $2.00 to you. Dr. Shipherd, Dentist 610 Securities Bldf. 16th and Farnam Sti. Omaha j| Explorer to Study Panama Indians Dr. Herman L. Fairchild. University of Rochester will send Dr. Herman I.. Fairchild on the expe dition that will sail in January to seek the home of the white Indians in the unexplored lands of Panama, it is announced. 'Richard O. Marsh of Brookport, leader of the expedi tion, is the discoverer of the tribe. of the new year. CheerB, conftftll and iron-throat’d “Irena contributed their share In the celebration. Los Angeles, Jan. 1.—New Year's eve in I.os Angeles was so wet it was almost soggy. Throngs of merry makers were thoroughly soaked, for it rained all over the celebration, made soup of the confetti, put a gurgle in the blaring horns and damp ened everything but the enthusiasm of a populace out for enjoyment. Despite the downpour, theaters soon hung out warnings that their seats wrere all sold. Motorists put up their side curtains and honked their horns at the departing old year; pe destrians hoisted umbrellas and sloshed merrily through the wet. I.ater there came a temporary lull In the pattering rain and the Jubilation grew more boisterous, with the bark ing of blank cartridges punctuating the noise of celebrating. House Vets Press for Bonus Meet IIj AsfloHatfd Washington, Jan. 1.—Republican former service men In the house to day pressed forward their prepara tions to bring about a party confer ence next we<}k to discuss the soldiers’ bonus, despite the opinion expressed by Representative Longi&urth of Ohio, the republican loader, that the advisability of such a meeting was doubtful and that "some affirmative action on tax reduction" should be taken. Members of the group advocating the conference said they were sure of enough signatures to petitions to in sure Its call, and expressed confidence that the republican membership of the house would go on record as favoring the program. They are seeking a re port on a bonus bill by the ways and meanp committee by January 21, and a vote by the house by February 1. Representative Treadway of Massa chusetts, a republican member of the committee and opponent of the bill, said yesterday that be was convinced the bonus bill was favored by a ma jority of tile house members, although he believes, as the result of a poll of the voters of his district "that a majority of the public prefers tax re duction to a soldiers’ bonus.” | Your Credit IS GOOD HERE! GCH )I> CUIIHES Men. Women. Children* QUALITY DIAMONDS Elgin Watchea. 1847 and Ctn j munitv Silverware. Advance Style! In EVERY Dept ii» Bii* Sforaa (neat* m *el* .nininv rht mone^i l)p«® »oo. ■< ratal | rovnrroa ot wHt» *rw Fra# Catalne. J HMTtjsGOAR’! 507 0 511 SOUTH IBB! SI We Have \ Your \ Favorite \ 1 Typewriter! \ I And at about 50% lews than you are used | l to paying. Any make with a guarantee I \ of service and satisfaction. Cash or / \ convenient terms. Remember our rental / \ rates are the lowest in the city. / \ All Makes Typewriter Co. / SOI South 18th y 'V Phouo AT lautie 2414 y' A Queer World Joe Martin Becomes Too Irritable for Movies— Sold to Circus Man. Bad Disposition. l,os Angeles, Jan. 1.—Joe Martin, monkey moxie star and probably the best known animal in the films, has lieen sold to AI (>. Dames, circus owner. Joe’s sale followed a report by Ills keepers that a sudden change in the animal’s disposition had made him too dangerous and intractable fur further work before the camera. • * • In England Too. New York, Jan. 1.—Modern young English women, like their Amer ican sistera, are indulging In a period of wildness and destroying to a certain extent the young Englishman's respect for woman hood, said MaJ. Ian Hay Beith, British author and playwright, who arrived yesterday on tho Adriatic. He bvid he was convinced that young Englishmen and Americans could cure their young women friends and return them to their former pedestal of respect by re fusing to take them to night clubs and by confining them to one cock tail. • • • Most Christian City. Seattle, Jan. 1.—Mayor E. ,1. Brown n tills city in a New Year's mes sage published today declared that Seattle is IV most Christian city of its size in the world. » • • San Francisco, Jan. I.—When B. I. Marroguis was asked why he should not go to Jail for possessing liquor he mentioned 23 reasons. All the reasons were children. "And” ho added. “I’m expecting the 24th soon." Sentence was suspended. “Asia For Asiatics.” Poona, British India, Jan. 1.—The Indian national liberal congress aftei a lively debate by a vote of "75 to 205, accepted subject to reference to a committee, the Indian national pact calling for a federation of the Asiatic peoples “for the emancipation of Asia.” No Unity in Fight on Mellon Tax Bill UontiniK-il From Pane One.* Increase the Inheritance taxes on the theory, among others, that it is bet ter to lift the hurden of income taxes on these fortunes while the owner is alive and making then;-, and increase the tax on them at death. Counter to Former Theory. This will run counter to a former theory that inheritance taxes should be spared by the federal government and left to the states, but that theory does not rest very heavily on the op ponents of the Mellon tux proposals. Rightly or wrongly, this fundamental question of the uttitude of govern ment toward large fortunes is just below the surface. The outcome just suggested, or any outcome, is many months away. That there will be great delay is the most certain fact about the tax situation. Within a Bhort time after congress reassembles, attention will be shift ed to a fight by Insurgent republicans and many democrats for changing the rules. Inasmuch as the regular leadership of the republicans has twice yielded to Its opponents on similar questions, they may be expected to yield on tho rules. The changes proposed are in the direction of greater freedom of amendment and debate, and greater control by the body of thd house over its officials and committees. Regardless of the essential merit of these proposed changes, their cer tain result will be time consuming Further than this, It is clear that some republican leaders of the senate are not heartily sympathetic to pass lng tax legislation, or much of any other legislation at the present ses sion. As for the democrats, they have no great Impulse to help the repub licans pass a popular tax bill just be fore a presidential election. For justi fication, they cite the tactics prac ticed by the republicans in 1919, when .the democrats were in control and tried to pass a postw’ar program of tax revision of th< It* own. As for the insurgent republicans. W’ho held the balance of power, they will help the delay by opposing to the end any tax reduction whatever except their own radical proposals. That democrat leader, who has ex ■ ' ---- ■ ! " - You’ve often heard how ageing in wood im proves fine wines. Now listen to this: The best Kentucky Burley Tobacco (the same as fine wines) loses every bit of its harshness and rawness when it is aged in wood. Velvet Tobacco is Kentucky's best Burley, aged in wood. * \ ' s I ■ Lloorrr A Mr«ne Tobacco Ca In California there is no winter. Right now the flowers are bloom ing, the oranges golden and every day is a June day. Only 55 hours from Omaha straight through without change. Travel on the de luxe, all-Pullman JgsAngeles limited or any one of 4 other trains direct to California Two daily trains to Denver with con nections for California. See Salt Lake City on the way. Writ* You c«n upend the winter very eoonont fot f-ttt icilly in Southern Colinunia. !>•« u« send Booklet* you iiev illuitreted bookleliind hotel liati. For Information, ask— A K. Curts. City Paaa. Agent, U P System 1410 Dodge St.. Omaha. Phone Jack eon SWI Consolidated Ticket Other Union Station 1416 Dodge St , Phone Atlantic 9214 10th and Marcy Streets Union Pacific t mo i press<>d public doubt whether there will be "any tax reduction the com ing year." has the probabilities on Ids side. Bonus Hag Majority. As regards the bonus, if tile ad vocates of it want an early decision, they can get it, for they have a clear majority in both houses. But one thing can be expected: Certainly, the senate will ho required to vote dear ly on the bonus standing alone, un complicated by tax riders or any thing else. The opponents of the bonus are determined that the issue shall be kept clear, and they are able men, sufficiently numerous to carry out their determination. It is less certain, but In the present writ er's judgment very probable, that when the president vetoes the bonus Ills veto will be sustained by the nec essary one-third in the senate. Although there is more nearly uni versa! agreement on the desirability of withdrawing the tax exemption from bonds Issued by states and mu nicipalitles than on any other aspect of taxation, nevertheless there is less talk about this and less activity to ward its accomplishment than about the other aspects of flic subject. It is generally held that this is the chief cause of two admitted conditions, namely, the flight of large fortunes out of business Into the protection of tax exempt securities, and the stlmu lation of the excessive use of bonds by states and municipalities, followed by increase of loesl state and city taxes. But the writer knows of no leader or group In Washington that is attempting any step-i toward tak ing the tax exemption away from this kind of secu -ities. Liner Ashore. London, Jan, 1,—The Hamburg American steamer Minnesota, from Mew York for Wilhehnshaven via the Azores, is reported ashore on Min sener island, in Jade bay, off W1I helmshaven, says a dispatch to Lloyd’s shipping agency. A tub has been sent to Its assistance. The American steamer West Krrcl, from Havre for Antwerp, which went ashore yesterday on the Haan bank near Flushing, Holland, wai floated today without assistance, .... Two Men Escape in Prison Auto 1 » w - % Reno, Nev., Jan. 1.—Two prison,^ Edward Cole and Jimmy Clarkgp taped from the Nevada state p* > ; Monday afternoon In a prison mobile. Cole said he Was an aut, mobile rate driver and that he hit* driven in the Indianapolis Hpeedwa: races was at the wheel of the car in which the men left the prison. A posse is pursuing the men in another machine. The escape of the two men Is the second within two weeks. Two weeks ago two oth* r prisoners made their escape which w s follow* i hy the resignation of the warden, T. J. Salter. He was succeeded by ^ Denver S. Dickerson, under whose regime the men escaped , idaj. Want a room? Read the Classified ad*. __ Decided Reductions - -at Thompson-B eldens Where Lower Prices Do Not Mean Inferior Qualities Sale of Linens Commencing January 2 Our January Linen Sale is one of the outstanding events of the entire yeaj. It is a sale that has won for us an enviable reputation. 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