The Omaha Bee MORNIN G—E V E nTn G—S UNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING CO. Publisher N. B UPDIKE, President BALLARD DUNN. JOY M HACKLER. Editor In Chief Business Msnsrer MEMBER OF THE" ASSOCIATED PRESS ’ The Associated Press, of whirh The Bee is ■ member, Is exclusive!/ entitled to the uss lor republication of all nows dispat.-hea credited to it or not otherwise eredited in thia paper, and also the local news published herein. All rifhts of repuhlicatinn of our special dispatches sre also reserved. The Omshs Fee Is a member of the Audit Burrau of Circulations, the reeoenired sethorily on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee's circulation ts refulsrly audited by their organizations- _ Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908, at Omaha postoffice under act of March 8. 1879. BEE TELF.PHONF. jho^bst is at its Best FOURTH OF JULY. This is the Fourth of July, the nation's birth day. What does it mean to you? Did you step a little lighter? Hold your head a little higher? Look with pride at the flag of your country? keel just a little more important as you walked along the treet? Or has the day lost its significance for you, anti become just another mark on the calendar? If the latter is true, you need shaking up. Your moral tone is low. Were your physical condition r.i bad, you would be under the care of a doctor. We do not ask that you euddck-.ly develop the con dition of a jingo, a braggart, or make an infernal nuisance of yourself by shouting for the old flag, or anything of that sort. You are only requested to pay a decent tribute to your citizenship by ac knowledging with becoming cratitude that you have the privilege of living under the one great govern ment “of the people, by the people, for the people,” that has endured and will endure as long as the people are true to themselves. And the first sign of weakening of fiber that sustains that govern ment is indifference to the Fourth of July. * * * We do not celebrate the Fourth of July as once it was observed. It would be well if we did. Such observance would offend none but those to whom the very existence of this government is an offense. We have in our land a few misguided mortals who look upon our system as a failure. They can not or will not see what it has done for humanity throughout the 148 years that have passed since the old Liberty Bell rang out its message, literally speaking in response to its motto, “Proclaim Liberty throughout the land, unto all the inhabitant there of.” Such jaundiced souls would be unhappy wher ever they might exist on earth. Healthy minded people feel sorry for them. On the old fashioned Fourth of July a great deal of flapdoodle was uttered, hut it was of a stim ulating variety. The speeches made were inspired by a patriotic desire to uplift the hearts and minds of men to higher and better things, to a fuller enn c'-ption of the blessings and a more complete realiza tion of the responsibilities of American citizenship. What if they did "lon«e Stranprr tonsil*4? that hft'f* not Thro !n awr Sucll boastings ns the Gentiles up** And lr«s»r breeds without iiif 1- w '* * ?.n we not still pray For frantic boast and foolish wml, Thy mercy or Thy people. Lord.'* * * * On that day was brought forth a government, r> Lincoln said, ‘‘dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” For almost a rentory end a half, through war, through adversity and prosperity, that thought has kept alive this nation, ‘‘conceived in 'liberty." Once each year for 14» ye*rs, Americans have paused to celebrate in some fitting fashion the anniversary of the signing of that great Declaration of Independence which sets cut that governments “derive their just powers from ♦he consent of the governed." That is the life, the very heart of heart? of the f ourth of July. From the consent of the soverned ■< r.ot an idle phr.i'e. not a mockery of man's hope?. \M«rri is great, because its government has ex '■'cistd its just power? only in response to 'he wilt of a free people. Is it not fitting, ‘her. the' that peorlc today cele brate itself, its ?trerigth, its authority, its service to ?he human rncc, and it? own hope for the future? Not boastfully, r't with undue pomp, bu: with the dignity of i's might, and 'he humility of its pcv.'ci under God? Old Glory is not ri painted rag. The Fourth of duly is not an empty holiday. Together they are the symbol and the meaning of the greatest event In human history since that sad day on Calvary. And. as the sun of Easter morning shone on thp open. • mpty tomb, betokening the emancipation of thp human aoul from the bondage of denth, ao the sun of July 4th denotes the emancipation of the human soul from the t.hralldom of despotism. Be glad today, then, and rejoince 'hat you are * citizen of the United States. And if you are not. rejoice that the Declaration of Independence was signed, and that the United States exists, for its message is to all the world. THE WORLD IS GROWING SMALLER. The airplane, the railroad, the telephone ami the radio have so contracted the limits of the world that today Omaha and New York, or Now York and London, visit much like our mothers of thp old days visited over the hack fence. The automobile has made neighbors of those who were ton miles away only yesterday. All this ha* resulted in added joys to those who spend their vacation* in automobiling or travpl to some far-off resort. It gives an added zest to life to pull into some tourist camp in the pvening and have some friend or acquaintance give the joyful hail: “Hello there, old top! Where from and whither bound?’* It may have been an acquaintance made 1,000 mflea away last summer, or the summer befora. It bt » Iriajjd made tjunng a. invention in • 41a tant city a few years ago, or an acquaintance met on the train while traveling back from California. No matter, the joya of the (lay are added to, and the evening passes more quickly and pleasantly. Today our neighbors are not merely those who live juRt across the street, or just around the corner or in the next block. Our neighbors are scattered from Vancouver to Tampa, from Brownville to Bangor. Yes, sir; the world is growing smaller, and be cause we are becoming neighbors and friends, the world ia growing better. It is growing better, despite the plaints of the pessimists and the doleful dol drums of the professional reformers. FLIGHT OF THE AIR MAIL. One swallow, we are told, does not make a summer. One flight across the continent came mighty near establishing a great social service. It was the experimental flight, made months ago, when the air mail pilots carried on both ways between New York and San Francisco. Based on the knowl edge then gained, the regular scheduled flights of the continuous service are now in force. A letter mailed in New York one morning is de livered in Omaha the next, and in San Francisco on the second evening. Grown indifferent in the presence of many marvels, the world does not pause long to heed the flight of the air mail. It is a dif ferent society from that which greeted the Mont golfier experiments with a balloon made buoyant by heated air. Or the the throngs that lined the banks of the Hudson to watch Robert Fulton's “folly” churn its way against the current. Or those who wagged their heads with grave forebodings when Jimmie Stephenson’s “Lion" snorted down the track at the incredible speed of 12 miles per hour. Ninety miles an hour is the running time for the air mail, A new von Zeppelin is again talking of the 67 hour flight between Berlin and New York. This was proposed before the war turned the Zeppelin from the service of commerce to the work of de struction. It can be made use of in peace. The Shenandoah has solved a great many of the prob lems, and other dirigibles have shown much of the way to be fairly easy. Transoceanic flight need not be regarded as a vision. Man is moving from point to point very rapidly nowadays. Stage coaches look well in pictures, and (mack of romance and adventure, but the automo bile. the airplane, and electric locomotive have ush ered in a new era. We must adjust ourselves. THE JEWEL CONSISTENCY. About the only consistent thing about Mr. Bryan is his inconsistency. Those who can remember hi* genesis as a politician will contrast hi* present po sition on prohibition with his pronouncements against sumptuary legislation when he wm a candi date for congress the first time. They will also con trast his championship of equal suffrage with his re fusal to sign a petition for it a few years ago when he was a potential candidate for a third presidential nomination. But Mr. Bryan’s consistent inconsistency was never better shown than in his fight upon John W. Davis and his championship of W. G. McAdoo. Hr opposes Davis because of the Davis connection with Standard Oil and the Morgan interests, and cham pions McAdoo in spite of his connection with Do heny, the Morse coal case and the Big Four of the moving picture industry. He overlook* the fact that Davis has appeared as the lefcal counsel of many of the organizations for which Mr. Bryan professes love and loyalty, surh as the striking West Virginia miners and the American Federation of Labor. So far as known McAdoo never attracted any particular attention as a lawyer until after he had resigned from the cabinet, and then his legal knowledge was less sought after than his personal influence with treasury subordinates of his own appointment. The spectacle of Mr. Bryan hurling jermiads at D«vis with one hand and with the other hand ad justing a halo to the head of McAdoo is one that might incline angels to weep. It certainly does fur nish further evidence that- his consistency is con fined wholly to his inconsistency. Mr. Bryan's opposition to Mr. Davis because the latter has appeared as attorney for Standard Oil and J. P. Morgan reminds us that. Mr. Bryan once appeared in court ns the legal representative of the Missouri Pacific railroad. II. L. Mencken docs no* like the present form of nationsl conventions. The Cleveland meeting was too cold, the New York meeting too hot. A happy highbrow medium seems to he the nerd. Japan blew off quite a hit of steam to denote the coming of July 1, and prabahly lowered the pressure under the danger point. The immigration law went into effect just, the same. Nebraska delegates at Ne.w York may he scatter ing just now, hut, you watrh them land in the hand wagon when it comes along. Talk about tragedy a want ad a»ks information I concerning a lost pillow rase which contained three hats and a man’s wig. j Baltimore was all set to have the second section , of the convention transferred there, but New York j cooled off in time. .So far *s history records no great grandfather lin- ever been elected president of this republic. Consistency is a jewel never yet seen scintillat I ing on the heaving bosom of W. J. B. The favorite song of the Nebraska farmers right ■ now is “In This Wheat By and By.’’ - —— -.. — Delegates must be impatient when they will not listen to Mr. Bryan. J -\ Homespun Verse —By Omaha’s Own Po*t— Robert Worthington Davie V__ ■ -/ TRUE KINGLINESS. I'm filled with lore of anverelgnv and aolona giant and wl**\ My thought* are growing weary with the aatellltee of Tima. The gin.*-* of y third monument* l* blinding fo my ayaa. I'm Main t hing for ;i gllmpae of that which prurient « mould* auhllma. Within tha modest cot I peer at avertible vlow A tired llttla woman, smiling aweetlv aa aha *lng* And gently rock a n baby ** devoted mothera do. While leaving for a moment other pretalng household thing*. A down tha lane romath carrying hi* luncheon pall— One who t* more familiar with the hummer than the tome, Whoaa day* at* glarilv given that *ach morrow will gvail Tha f&ithfulne** of thoea who make hi* humble hotiae a home. Thl* I* to m* true kinghnea* he jeweled and divine; Thla la to me symbolical of prngre** day by day, And whan the lamp* around thl* h*arth at night lima brightly ahlne. Their mallow rave Illuminate the dark, dark. Far- | owgy, j e f Stuck Between Floors and Can’t Move Up or Down 1 i f——---'I “From State and Nation” —Editorials from Other Newspapers— ____—-' Fruitful Middlew eat. josi'h Jl»rx»r»h*linrr in MrNsufht'a, If I were young. If I could begin again and select the place of liegin ntng, the middlewest would l*a my choice. I'd write in the language of the people, a language rich with local Idiom, and absolutely provincial; a prose, 1 hope, as sweet with the scent of dried hay a» it »»" brilliant with early wheat and bit ter with death. One form of existence may well he no more interesting or lmportatd than another: but life Itself, Io\e and birth and the getting of food and dying, ha* a magic which the so phistication of life and habit misses And when such essential being Is actually set in the snll of Its susten ance, a part of the round of the *e« son. when If is all one from the seed Ing to stored barns, woven and Inter woven, then its beauty if supreme. Talk Sense. Prom the Milwaukee SMiMttrl. The country la In for il* quadren nial upheaval. For the next few months the air will resound with the echoes of campaign oratory. The spellbinder will he busy and eln quence of one qualify or another will fill the national ear. There are evident algo" that the people have grown weary of politir.il buncombe. Despite the earnest ef forts of opposition leader* to db credit the republican convention, the business-like atmosphere and the se lection of candidates who are known definitely to stand for stralghtfor wnrd dealing hat' made a strong popular appeal which It will bs d.ffi cult to effac e. But to sustain that Impreaslon campaign oratory should be of the same stamp. Thera should Ice an elimination of the yarns promise of a millennium. There should he no telling this group or that group that It I* pos-lblo to give Them prosperity by government flat or that they can be hoisted to affluence at the expense of some other part of the population. There ate clear, clean rut Issues •o be discussed. Mr. Coolidge Is known to stand decisively and cour ageously for common sense govern ment. His associate. General Hawes, has put himself emphatically on rec ord as purposing to discuss these Is sues honestly and to draw from the facts the common sense conclusions which they warrant " It l» along those tinea that the ap proaching campaign will ha waged by the intelligent campaign orator. Vnd the platfuiin worker who seeka to participate In the exercises of the next few months should have that fact Impressed on him. “No Wage Culling, Now.” Krccm che Brooklyn Kegie It 1“ not Samuel Gompers. but Wil liam ,M. Wood, president of the Abler lean Woolen Company, who makes this statement: "N'n true American, at this time. ,would wish to see any reduction In the general purchasing consumption power of this country. We do not think this 1s the proper time to con elder a reduction In wages.” To this extent and degree the Ideas of the textile magnate and of the labor magnate may be said to run along parallel lines Only Mr. Hood seems by Implication to hint that there may be a “proper time' for wage reduotion. whlrh Mr. Gompers would emphatically d»nv. Also the captain of Industry adds, not with nu* significance "The outlook for business nuts! steadily Iroprnva as ths political sit nation for a business administration advances,” And In the letter proposition he Is far mors likely to have the approval and applause of his fellow textile magnate, William M Butler of New Bedford, than that of Mr. Qompera We can only wonder If the working people of the f:tc lories will be shie ld Interpret for tliemeelves t lie . crele meaning of a business admin laimtloii" as Mr. Hood understands it. _ Too Kind Hearted. Foreman no slow moving workman! -'Ere. now, you’re too kind 'earted for this Joti afraid of 'itting a nail 'aid for fc:ir of urtlng It! larndon Mull. Th’ real test o' th' woman in politic* i* Roin' t' come when th’ newspaper artist* bcRin’ t’ carica ture her. One Rood thinR a con gressman can’t live on hi* salary. <<'npyrt|ht, 112 4 ) NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for Muy, 1924, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily. 73,980 Sunday.,. . . 76,373 Dfiti nnt Inrliid# raturna, l#ft nvm, MtnpUl nr papai a tpnilrd in printing and Inc ludra nn aprrial ag|a« nr liar r initiation nf any kind V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mir. iubsrrlbad and sworn to haforo ms this Sth day si Juna, 1924 W. H. QUIVEY, (■sal) Notary Public V'W'tom.I i Powder With Cuticura Talcum After Bathing After a hath with Cvitlcttra Soap and * »rm water Cuticura Talcum duated oter the aim la soothing, cooling and refreshing. If the ailn la rough or Irritated, anoint with Cuticura Ointment to aootht and haal. 5a2r£r »>«•■ a«.a, di.MMtaueaaa. t»'o—*. WT Ter mm »«» >ha»laa itlei. / Letters From Our Readers All letters must be signed, but name will lie withheld ilium request, t i.m munleattiiHs of 10« sordi and less will be given preference. V._J Worker*' View of Convention. Omaha—To ihe Editor of The Omaha Her: I happened to meet with a gang of workmen at the lunch hour. I presume they were Seventh Day Adventists, but they denied it. and aald they could not Tiave any religion because th* y worked seven days every week, and some t me* eight or ten They were not discussing the N'ew York convention. In plain English, they were cussing it, and for no sc and oratory the said New York c*m* venflon had nothing on them, even If it was the Hahhath day The most pugnacious one was verv emphatic that the platform commit tee were not mechanics or builders at all. They were just a few spare men from the 1'nited State* Wrecking company. The amen*'' hanllv died out before he was called down with "What can you expectT They had to have enough lumber to make it broad and tore down the O'. O. 1*. platform to get It. Nearly all they had themselves was dead stuff, and dhl not work In good, and the plank (that was new was sawed out of a green tree, warped and twisted, and the longer they worked the worse It got, until It rolled up like a hoop snake and tumhted right out on to the floor of the convention, and scared them Into hysterics." Then they had an old fashioned "wake" over the dead Issue of the league of na'lons. and how could they stand It without taking off their shoes and thev r|aim they didn't And the gentleman from the south got his for trying to put m his grand idads plank that kil'ed the Know nothing party, for if It d:d It must have kicked hack for th" democratic party had to wait until their grand children got the vole before thev were able to elect another president, i Th* republicans were solemnly warned If thev sawed off the cle phant's tall with l.a Eollette sitting on It they were committing suicide. Hut When in Omaha Hotel Conant 250 Rooms—250 llaths— Rates $2 to $5 Stop that Eczema/ AMAZING results have been produced by S. S. S. in casea of eczema, pimples, blackhead* *nd other skin eruptions. If you have been troubled with eczema, and you have used skin ap plications without num ber, make a test yourself, on yourself with a bottle of S. S. S , one of the most powerful blood cleans er* known. S. 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The two Chicago boys who thought murder a thrilling adventure are fel ting the thrills now.—Dallas Ness France i* now menaced by the Ameri -an potato bug America should send over some Pans green.—Tacoma News Tribune. AA'e wonder at the moderation of Will Hays. He could dean up by running Doug Fairbanks for tha presidency and Charlie Chaplin for vice - Columbia Record. MMKKThKMKNT. \nVEETIMtMR>T. MRS. WOODWARD GIVES FACTS TO THE PUBLIC Omaha Lady Says 4 Bot tles of Tanlac Brought Relief. "Tallin* .s Ihe beet medicine I ever heard of, end I know something along this line, too, for I was reared in a doctor s family and studied nursing for a while," recently declared Mrs. June Woodward, 521 South 25th Ave., Omaha, Neh. "I have never felt better In my life than 1 do since taking Tanlac, and 1 just can't praise it enough. Tet, a few weeks ago 1 never felt so worn out and bad. I hadn t a bit of strength and energy, and would be a* worn out in the mormngs *a et the finish of the day. 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