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The Morning Bee MORNIN G—E V E N 1 N G—S UNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING CO„ Publisher N. B. 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, la exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all naws dispatches credited to it nr not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All right! of repablication of uur special dispatches are also reserved. The Omaha Bee is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognised authority on circulation audits, and The Omsha Bee's Circulation la regularly audited by their organisations. t __ Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908, at Omaha postoffice under act of March 3, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Braneh Eachange. Ask for iv i CAnfi the Department or Person Wanted. ^ I sGIllIC IWW OFFICES a Alain Office—17th and Kafnam Co. Bluffa—15 Scott St. So. Side. N. W. Cr. 24th N. New York—World Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bldg. St. Louii—Syn. Trust Bldg. Los Angeles—Higgins Bldg. San Fran.—Hollrook Bldg. A;lanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg. _/ NEBRASKA’S FOURTH ESTATE. The recent convention at Grand Island of the Nebraska Press association calls renewed attention to the debt Nebraska owes to the country press of the state. Edited with fine independence, always loyal to home institutions, and never losing an op portunity to tell about the advantages of their communities and their state, these newspapers are 1 exercising it ail times an uplifting influence, i • « * 4 The claim is made, and with ample evidence to Support il, that the Nebraska Press association iS not only the oldest state newspaper association, but is also the beBt organized and the most productive of results to its membership. More than that, the benefits secured by the organization are not con fined to the members who bear the expense o{ main taining the organization. They are shared by still more publishers who have failed to evidence their appreciation of those benefits by sharing in the ex pense. The clean, progressive weekly newspaper is a forceful influence in the business and social life of its community. Its editor, if he measures up to his opportunities, is a most potent factor in his com munity’s upbuilding. Afid Nebraska is fortunate in having so many weekly newspapers, and so many editors, of this kind. • * * The Omiha Bee is proud of its membership in the Nebraska Press association. It is proud of the friendship of its members. It hot only expects to profit by that membership, but it hopes that every newspaper in the state will take membership and thus help along the work. The Omaha Bee further hopes that the invitation borne to the convention by members of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce, to hold the annual social session in Omsk*, will be accepted. Omaha’s desire to entertain the association is not unmixed with selfishness. We cheerfully admit that. But Omaha does take especial delight in entertaining the news paper men and women, wholly apart from the many direct benefits deceived from tho kindly comments the visitors msy make. If thj editorial fraternity of Nebraska decides to hold its summer social session in Omaha, it goes Without saying that Omaha will show its appreciation Of the compliment by leaving nothing undone to make the visit to Omaha pleasant and profitable. MORATORIUM FOR THE GERMANS. Whatever definite conclusion the Dawes commis sion reaches with regard to German rehabilitation must be made known soon. While waiting, a little speculation aS to the possible form of the plan is being indulged. One suggestion was that the Ger man state-owned railroads be made the basis for a 10,000,000,000 mark gold loan. On this the finances would be reformed. Another, presumably a comple ment of the first, is that a moratorium be created for Germany, to give time for the reform to taka place. Germany’s chief trouble at present is due En tirely to the collapse of the finances of the nation. No purpose Will be served by pointing out that this is the inevitable outcome of the course followed by the government. It simply could not produce printed marks fast enough to keep up with the decline in value. What is needed now is a way to get the mark back onto a sound footing. Germany still has resources, at home and abroad, which are immensely valuable, although relatively they have shrunken, enormously because of (the decline in the mark. To restore the money of Ger many to a reasonable standard of value will have the effect of bringing back a considerable part of the lost property value. This, in turn, will increase We tax /paying power of the German people, and, • following the beneficient circle around, will bring them to a point where they can pay their debts. This can not be accomplished all at once, nor in a hurry. It'was easy enough to go down stream, but it is something of a pull to get to the aUrting point against the current. If a moratorium will as sist, and it seems the one thing short of absolute bankruptcy, steps to set it working should not be long delayed. France has proved that blood ia not to be had fiom a turnip. It might be good for all hands and for both France and Germany in particu . lar, t/> try the moratorium. WHAT rs WHEAT? A Kansas City preacher last Sunday gave his congregation an object lesson. He had a loaf of breid, weighing 130 pounds, baked and brought into church to illustrate his sermon. On the follok Ing day it was distributed among the needy. Whether the presence of this huge loaf aided in making any clearer the exposition of the text, it should have had a little effect on the imagination of the congrega tion. Wheaten bread is such a common thing in the lives of the people that it is taken for granted, just as air, water or sunlight. History docs not record a time when wheat was not known to man. Prehis toric inquiry shows that the grain was in service for igefc of which the only record is tho fossil remains that are excavated. No wild wheat is known, al though some botanists insist that a single-grained 41 variety of plant discovered in Serbia and Hoetia is k wild aort of wheat. This lacks proof, and is ac cepted aa speculative and not as established. Somewhere, though, the uses of wheat were dis covered. far back in the past whose mists sre closfcd to human inquiry, some inquiring housewife learned that the seeds of a wild plant werp edible ind palatable, beyond any other sort. Dawning Intelligence imbibed the value of this knowledge. Somewhere else along the line the possibility of planting and reaping came to be understood. Cen turies ago the field of wheat waved just as it does today. Something else was learned. Wheat, like man, loses something in becoming civilised. The most useful and universal of foods, wheat calls for care in cultivation. It cannot withstand the competition of weeds. Left to itself, it will soon die out. Wise men have improved its quality, but have not been able to greatly increase its stamina. Wheat bread, it is estimated, furnishes about 19 per tent of the food of the average American family. It provides about 27 per cent of the total protein, 6 per cent of the fat and 46 per cent of the carbo hydrates consumed by the family. It is truly the staff of life, and so the emphasis placed on wheat in daily discussion is not without cause. More people than the farmer are interested in wheat, if they only stop to think a little. PRIVATE MILLIONS Ar PUBLIC USES. * All through the ages it has been the custom to hold up to scorn the possessor of great wealth. No matter how the millions have been acquired, nor wfiat use is made of them, the envious have directed their criticism against the wealthy. Just now, the most certain method for coming into unfavorable public opte is to have wealth. Yet every now and again the public gets proof that the men who are fortunate in respect to means are also well balanced enough to make good use of the money at their disposal. The Rockefeller, the Carnegie and the Sage foundations are examples of how private millions can be made to do good for the public. The world is better because these millions ‘ have been set to work in a manner that relieves them entirely from the disturbing influences of poli tical mutations. We have just been given another example of how this can be done. The late J. Pierpont Morgan was an indefatigable collector of old and rare books, manuscripts, en gravings and the like. He was many times derided and denounced as the very head and front of the brigade of offending plutocrats. Through it all he silently pursued the single hobby that engaged his fancy. When he died he had acquired the most valuable private collection of such material in the world. His son has just donated this to the public, as the Pierpont Memorial. He has also provided an endowment of $1,500,000 to support it. Mr. Morgan places a conservative value of $8,600,000 on the col lection. Connoisseurs say this estimate is far too low. There are some who place its value as high as $16,000,000. The real value consists in the service the world will get out of the material thus made available for students and professional inquirers. A great many of the old books that have been hidden away in European libraries, or in the seclusion of Mr. Mor gan s home, are now open to all who know how to make use of such material. The idle curious will not be allowed to molest these precious volumes, which easily may be destroyed by careless thumbing, but there will be something even for them to see. A copy of the first Guttenburg Bible, the earliest book printed from movable type for example, let ters by Washington, and other great men of the past, and similar articles will be on display. Most of all, the Service will come through the storehouse of knowledge that is thus unlocked to the student. Research may be carried on to great advantage, and more intimate touch with the thought of old ages will be available. It is well to listen at times to the sages of other days, and the Morgan, collection brings these within reach. Thus great wealth does another service to the rare that might be asked in vain from the public coffers. Next / Ugust the planet Mars will be 2n,00n,000 miles nearer the earth than usual. If the scientists declare that Mars is inhabited the next congress will doubtless fool away a lot of time fixing up a law regulating immigration from that new territory. A Russian explorer reports the discovery of a primitive tribe inhabiting the Vaghina river territory near the Pacific ocean. It is to be hoped that these primitive people will not report oil in their terri tory. The senate's lynching bee is beginning to develop th* reaction, and it seems likely now that the recoil will be much more serious than the enthusiastic democratic shouters looked for. It Is a question whether it is not preferable to he shot by a prohibition enforcement officer’s re volver than by a bootlegger’s wares. That deep silence you notice is the reception at the state house of the announcement that Charley Graff ia running for governor. However, the movie cowboy candidate is going to be given a full and unlimited opportunity to tell all he knows under oath. Nebraska progressives who plan to stick to the middle of the road will find a well beaten path. The bushes are alongside. . A'*0’ j* now appears that Eddie McLean also fibbed a little when he was telling about the Fall loan. Spain 1* displeased because the league of nations will not let it build a big navy. They had one, once. Major Haynes says the dry law needs more teeth. It has so many now they overlap, and allow the cul prits to escape. King Tgt seems to he the only one in Kgvpt wholly unconcerned about, the matter. Mr. McAdoo’s yell might have sounded truer, had he loosened it while in Washington. Word comes that the Mexican rebellion is at an end. Whieh end is not stated. Mr. Cox has thrown his hat into the ring, prob ably for Mt. Bryan to jump on. Mr. McAdoo imitated the parrot too closely. The gun toter ought to he expunged. fT—---^ Homespun Verse —By Omaha'* Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie - ---/ IF A MORTAL IS KINDLY. If s mortal Is kindly his chances Sr* good. Me M manage his problems ns rightly he should, And slowly ascend as the years come and fad* On faith of the friends he has constantly made. tl* II masler I he things thst Incessantly rise— Murceai Will be truly an hnnnat surprise. And through the old world to hla credit he'll go. And conquer because he Is living to know, The praise of his nelghhots will not be denied, rhev II look on his deeds with enjoymtknt end pride, 'I hey || honor his plainness, and ever extend the cheer that has mail* him a wonderful friend Hell win on the merit nf commonness true, And cllmh to the piste lhat so few nf us do, His glory will he the mementoes thst stay "hen he hsx gone silently gliding sway By EDWIN (I. P1NKHAM. <• The Declaration of Independence We hold these institutions to ho transmitted as well as enjoyed.—Daniel Webster. XVIII. HU FIN Washington went _to Cambridge in July. 17'7B. and took command of the army a state of affairs ex isted probably unparalleled In the history of war and govern ment. • . . _ . There waa no United Stales, and legally no government at all of a central character. The colonics were at war with the king, but sti.ll acknowledged his authority, at least they had not formally thrown it off. There was a congress at Philadelphia, but, as John Adums said of it. It was “not a legislative assembly, nor a representative assembly, but only a diplomatic assembly.” It was, in fai t, nothing but a vol untary gathering of colonial notables —some of them not particularly no table—come together to confer on a common danger. They had no legal standing as a. government, no man date from the- colonies, no power to legislate or execute. The most they could do was to recommend common measures to their provinces, but these were binding on none. As the old charter constitu tions were now gone and nothing had taken their place—not until the next year did the states begin to adopt constitutions—the word that most ex actly describes the colonial society over which congress presided Is an archy. John Adams relates an In cident that well illustrates this de plorable condition. He met an old client of his, a horse trader of litigi ous disposition frequently on the wrong side of the law, and who now hailed Adams with a joyful eounte nance and'warm congratulations. "You have done great things for us, Mr. Adams!" he cried. “There are no courts now, and I hope thdre ne^r will be again. Adams becomes reflective at this. "Is this." he sets down In his diary, “the object for which I have been con tending? Are these the sentiments of such people?" The Idea of Independence had not yet taken hold on the people, and the idea of a central government was still more distant from their minds. Until Independence was declared there coulfl be no united action and cer tainly no help from abroad. But con gress hung back. In the preceding year the first continental congress had told the king that the report the colonies wanted independence waa a calumny. Washington himself had supported that address. Franklin had told Ix>rd Chatham that, In the course of his extensive travels in the colonies, he never had heard an ex presaion from any person, whether drunk or sober, to the effect that ih dependence was desirable. The see ond congress feared public opinion on that subject, and so temporized Of this situation Charles T,ce wrote: “The pulse of rongress Is low. There Is a poorness of spirit, and a langor. In the late proceedings . . . that I confess frightens me so much that at times I regret having em barked. . . ." The eame uncertainty hung over many, dividing society, dividing fam Hies. John Dickinson, though not an extremist, had to hear from his moth er the constant prediction, "Johnny, you will he hanged.” f'ongress worked busily with both hands, but not letting its right knowi what its left was doing. With one it dispatched ita petition to the king and with the other created a Secret commission to buy powder, field pieces and muskets. Washington proceeded with his organisation of the army and W'lth his plans to assault Howe or drive him by tactical means, to with, draw his forces from Boston. So suc cessful were these latter that with no more urging than a bombardment of limited duration—for Washington had small store of ordnance—the Brit ish general embarked his force- and sailed away in March. 1771. Thus the compulsion orevenfa was stronger than all parties. in an anomalous situation one thing at least was real—a state of war ex isted; armies and fleets were marrhing and sailing to compass the colonies about; they had raised an army to defend themselves; battles had been fought and the military situation was such, at the moment, as to give high hopes. But the time must come when the people would have to be agreed as to what they were fighting for; and ao. at last, under the leadership of Washington's own state, the pa triot party In congress was invited in adopt the Virginia resolutions de claring that the colonies ought to he free and independent. / * Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jeffer son, John Adams, rtnhert Livingston and Roger Sherman were appointed S committee to draw up a declaration ♦n that effect, but for the momeht the Virginia resolutions were accepted only in principle. F'or one thing time w-as wanted to hear what the people of the provinces thought about ihem. Hut in the meantime the committee went ahead with its work; Jefferson wsa selected to write the document and ho produced it, it la said, without consulting a single reference. Prob ably It had been In hi* head for sorhe time. The aentltnents and even the language It contained had been the ---v Abe Martin t Tipi on Bud talkn nomr o' movin' t’ th' Pity where he kin keep a non. [♦ don't gif, you nothin' t' ank »ome buddy if they’ve been kirk when they hain't. tceprmtit lui.t common currency of thought and speech among the patriot leaders ever since Lexington. The committee approved Jefferson's work with scarcely a change, and it was presented to congress on June 28, 1776. That body had not then adopted the Virginia resolutions, but it now did so. and followed this action on July 4 with the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. .The in terval was taken up with a revision of Jefferson’s text, a process which Franklin tells us the Virginian did not much relish. To console the author Franklin told him the story of John Thompson's sign. John set up a hat ter's shop in Philadelphia and his first care was to compose an effective sign. After much thought he pro duced one thnt read: “John Thomp son, hatter, makes and sells hats for ready money.” This he submitted to hin friends for their approval. The first objected that the word "hatter” was unnecessary as being repetitious. It was struck out. The next critic ad vised that the word "makes” be omitted, as Johh'a customers would not care who made the hats if they were good. This advice was followed. The third adviser could aee no reason to include the words “tor ready money,” pointing out that all business transactions in Philadelphia were for cash anyway. They were struck out. ''Why sells?” asked the last friend to be consulted; "your customers will not expect you to give your hats away.” The word was dispensed with, and the completed sign stood: "John Thompson. Hats.” Tho changes in the Declaration of Independence were not great, how ever. Jefferson had Included In his indictment against the king a strong count against his support of the slave trade. Some southern members objected to this and H was stricken out. So also the charge thet the king had withdrawn the royal governors, thus leaving the colonies without the protection of law. Congress, which was appealing to a candid world, thought this was not an accurate statements of the facts, tho gov ernors having fled for thetr lives, and one, a little tardy in getting away, being at that moment In Jail. One paragraph, tooy that Included the British people In the Indictment against the'king, was softened some what. The Declaration was then adopted and signed. John Hancock making his signature as conspicuous "as though it were written between Orion and Plea ides,” and Franklin grimly In formed congress of what it had done by saving pith’iy: "Now we must hang together or we shall hang separately'." (Copyright, "Kansu Chty Star.) "The People’s Voice” fcditnria!* from readers of Th© Morning B©©. R©ad©ra of Th© Morning B©© ar© invlt©d to n§« thi» ©o!umn fr©©!y for ©gnr^flflion on matters of public kHIrtit. A Farmer on Tip*. Humboldt, Neb.—To th* Editor of The Omaha Hee: I hare known the meaning of th* word "tip" for SO years hut as It haa coma tnto use Internationally sine* th* Wall street magician* sent *o many and such successful ones across th* world to a young sporty' army officer over In the Philippines, I Just thought I would see what Webster said about It* def. Inltlon. I find that h* gives It sev eral meaning*; on* of them I* "give to," the other la "th* little end." As "hlg bustn*** has gathered In all the big end* in thla after war read Justment, and really feels sorry for th# farmer who ha* the tip according to the second meaning definition, big buiiness has heen offering us the other meaning by giving us advice from every angle. Not only hlg business, hut lawyer*, doctor^, ministers, educators. In fact thousands of people who never held a plow handle or packed A pall of swill. Even some editor* have told us to advertise more and we will gnln suicese, the wit her* hav* told u* to produce more at leas coat, produce less at any cost, to practice collective buying and selling, when ther* are 10,000,000 of us to get together ana agree when a few hundred congrbes men down In Washington never do agree and never expert to. If SOD or ®00 hand picked Americana can not agree on general policies, how can you expect 10.000,000 of ua to agree or understand Just what should he dope' lately I have heard »nmi mlghtv good thinker* say that, after all, it I* up to the Individual farmer to make hi* own business successful But with about one fifth the farms of the country mortgaged beyond re demptlon and a still larger per cent holding on only by th* grace of the credit or. It look* as If a class condi tion must he remedied. Sapiro say* If we will g|ye him * salary large enough to Interest him, he will pull ns outj Eugene Mevers says if we listen when he tells whst to do. we will have plenty of cssh. In every paper, farm ancT otherwise, even religious journals, we get the tip. A lot of them say diversify. I live In a section where diversification wa* on tap when our covered wagon came When in Omaha Hotel Gonant NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION far January, 1924, af THE OMAHA BEE Daily .74,669 Sunday .80,166 ! Do*a not fntliid* raturna, taft ov#ra, aamplta «r paper* spoiled »n j printing and Include# an special anlau or fra# circulation of any hind. V. A. BRIDGE, Clr. M|tr. I Sub*. Mhnd and a worn to hafora «ua J tbU Nth day of Fabrttary, 1934 W. H. QUIVEY, I (Sool) Notary Public up over the Missouri bluffs 44 years ago. They were raising wheat, corn, hogs, cattle, apples, poultry, dairy products and other things as well. Those Old settlers turned every thing to account that would bring in a dollar. I can see the smoke raising from a, farm home from which the mother has taken her basket of eggs sod bolter and walked six mites to town and back with a few groceries in return, while the teams were em ployed in tending the farm crops. T helped tny mother riiase the turkeys, water the dugk», hunt the guinea eggs and feed the fiocto. 1 have hoed garden and cart-led cabbage to town, 1 have picked 300 bushels of potatoes and found them only worth 25 cents at digging time and then after hoi' g them up in an improvised cellar in the field, found them worth 15 cents in the spring and no one to buy them at that. Ho we harrowed over the pile of potatoes and sowed oats that grew so rank it fell down and rotted. That was 38 years ago. 1, just last fall a year ago, climbed two big pear trees 30 feet high and picked big pears that were only worth 50 cents a bushel, risking life and limb. O yes, I have helped do all this diversification. We have sold cream or butter from this farm for 44 years and It makes me smile when those chamber of commerce fellows discover a now source of Income and labor for the farmer. We sold corn at 16 cents and decided It was better to diversify and so we grew hogs and sold them at 52.60 a 100 pounds and hauled them 14 miles to get that. Then when we had a good sized bunch of hogs corn went up and we still had to go on feeding low priced hogs. Then we put out alfalfa and clover to broaden our diversification. The alfalfa made three big cropR and the clover two. and five times that year we mada hay and often when the sun shone hot and sometimes when we wished It would. Along with corn, wheat, oats and livestock we thought we had diversification. We put a few swarms of bees in our diversified lot and have kept them ever sirtce and could you hear all a boy says wten he is called in from arrosg the farm while plowing corn, to hive a swarm that is 23 feet from the ground on the tip of an evergreen tree in the front yard, you would be satisfied diversification could be carried too far. There are a lot more tips T am thinking of, but thia letter is tipping toward the waste basket already, so I will send It to the tipsy public, for any public could not help being tipsy In this whirling dervish dance of the readjustment age. J. O. PHROYER. Jerry Howard on Politics. Omaha—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Jt la generally admitted that our government today is not a democracy, but that most of our state and national legislation is carried on by sn organized minority. I am familiar with the maneuvers at Lincoln, and I am frank to say that the laws are made by the lobby ists at the dictation of their masters. To prove my assertion. let me call the attention of the astute workers, to the passage of the anti picketing bill, etc. The late legislature was the same as previous sessions etrept in one respect—that the speaker of the house and the governor hoodwinked the people by carrying on a continu ous game of politics throughout t« • entire session. Good or bad government romes from good or bad citizenship. Water does not rise higher than its source. I am of the opinion that the noblest people anywhere are to be found in Nebraska. Especially is this true of the men and women of Omaha. I therefore appeal to my fellow citizens in the name of good citizenship to go i to the polls on April 5. Please do not leave the selection of our servants to the political machines, j There are too many subservient tools of the Invisible government in office. JERRY HOWARD. SUNNY Site UP • 0&* C^ort,nor fbmt jhat ounrin nevtr failtdusyet “ THU DAY’S WORK. The way that you tytlsh your dally task Depends on the way you begin It. Did you start it olt with a scowl and jerk. Or cheerfully put your heart In It? Did you start with the wilt to do yotir best, Or just merely to plug on through it? The fellow who tackles his Work with zest Is the one most likely to do It. Did sou tackle the job with face alight, And a Joy in your heart impelling? Or did you start It with a mental blight As much as flat failure foretelling? Did you start with a smile and words "I will!” Or a grouch while you acted sourly? The fellow who gets from his work 4 thrill Is the one who enjoys It hourly. The Final Judge all His verdicts will make On the score of your best endeavor. It will not count when you make a mistake If you are tfcang J'our best forever. 'Tis only by putting the best you can In the work that is yours for doing That measures you up as a four square man The path of his duty pursuing. We denounce as a base slander the report that Chamber of Commerce of ficials are not worrying about the theft of those ivory billiard balls, hav ing a large supply of Ivory on hand In the shape of delinquent mem bers. Ivory is resilient. Our own opinion of the adjusted Compensation question Is very posi tive. The country having made a pos itive and definite promise to the boys, we are op posed to all pleas of abate ment. It illy becomes those who profited, financially and spiritually, by the services of the soldiers to now come into court with pleas of confes sion and avoidance. Having jiggled the contraption that sifts out the sugar In our favorite eatery, finally getting enough sweet ness for the matutinal coffee, we ex pressed In forceful language our opin ion thereof. Whereupon ths proprie tor spake thusly; "Time was when ws put great bowls of loaf sugar on a central table, but It kept one man busy replenishing the bowl, it was too easy to grab up a handful or two for use else where. The average number of lumps per cup of coffee was 2.4. The actual consumption per customer was about 115 lumps. We had to sbandon that system In sheer self-defense. Those dilatory sifters you complain about have reduced our sugar etpense more than 50 per cent." All of which may be true, but just the same we are preparing our filing for office, for which we will make A vigorous campaign on a platform of the (j|»en Sugar Bowl. We are op posed to being forced to begin each day with a grouch caused by ths re fusal of one of those sifters to Give Down Freely. We have about reached the point of despair in our urge to become the owner of an automobile. Although we announced during the sutontoblle show that we were ft very live pros pect, to date not a single salesman has appeared on the scene to talk with ns relative to our Frge. Wt sought to make it plain that we are not one to dicker about price, be: eg much more concerned about tern,*. Again we announce that if terms can be agreed upon the price’will not even be considered. Of course the advent of each re curring spring must bring with it some bitter sobs and wall# about the unfortunate children In the Nebraska beet fields. But the sob squad must have something to worry and wri' about, and we presume the beet field children will serve the purpose. The fact that the death rate among those beet field children is away below the average; the fact that they are health ler and hardier than the average of their age, and the added fact that more than the average proportion of them become land owners, will me serve to lessen the sobs and walla of the professional welfarers. The aver age breaker boy or the average tex tile mill boy or girl would think then selves in heaven if enabled to work as those beet field children work. It was our pleasure, as well s' a great honor, to have had some part In the enactment of Nebraska's child labor law. But as one who has given considerable Atudy to the child labor question, we are prepared to say, and quite willing to gay it, that there ha* been more bunk broadcasted on that question than on almost any other question. The child labor law w;is never Intended to make loafers out of the children. Its intent ws- to prevent the exploitation of child lais.r and to assure the children a ehv e for education and happy childhood -. Have you not been impressed, we have, by the recurriffg presence f the word "Miss'' in front of the nam of those who are constantly proffer ing advice as to how we should rear our children? More and more are we coming 4o doubt the efficacy of our boasted civ ilization. And we are/beginning t<> be haunted by grave doubts about Omaha being such a friendly city. Yegterday we slipped and fell in a sluAhy puddle. »o the accompanying laughter of a few less than 3,333 un feeling spectators. Being peaceably inclined and a! ways desirous of playing the part of peacemaker when there is no danger of personal Injury, we hasten to proffer our services as arbitrator in the raging controversy between those two great reformers, Elmer Thomas and "Dad" Rohrer. A continuance of their exchange of verbal bombs ami brickbats is very discouraging to those of us who have bo long been re forming things divers and sundry. The bishop of Manitoba has banned knickers for the young women of his diocese. The bravery of the bishop is undisputed, but hla discretion is open to grave question. If the feminine heart pants for knickers, no mere bishop can still the palpitations. We know an Omaha man who declar 'd that if his wife bobbed her hair h» would throw the house out doors Now be spends an hour a day curling hit wife's abbreviated hirsute adorn ment. will m. mauplv A Century of Tested Service i • TN FEBRUARY, one hundred .rears ago, the first trust company came into being. Before that, when a man made hia will, he would name a relative, or a friend, or a business associate, to carry out his wishes. That method had serious defeets. *The individual may die before a will becomes effective, or in the most critical period of the settlement of an estate. The individual may become incapacitated. Tie may prove untrue to his trust and lacking in financial responsibility. The trust company came Into be ing to fill the need fhr a system of trusteeship that would be above these limitations one that would have the qualifications that the in dividual lacked. The trust company has it* birth in America, end here it haft reached it* greatest development Today there are more than 8,300 trust com piniea in the United State*, with hanking resources exceeding twelva billion dollars, and administering estates aggregating in value many billlohs of dollars. The man who is making a will today can name a trust company as his executor and trustee, assur ing sound and responsible manag** ment of his eatats and protection t« his beneficiaries. Of what importance la this een. tnry-old service to yout Read th# booklet entitled "Safeguarding Tour Family's Future." which you can obtain free by calling upon or writ ing anyone of the undersigned trust companies. 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