The Omaha Bee M O R N 1 N G—E V E N I N G—S U N P A Y 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 Prese, of which The Bee ie a member, fa exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited la this paper, and also the local news published herein. Al] rights of rcpublicatloa of our special dispatches are •Iso reserved. The Omaha Bee ie a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, tbs recognized authority on circulation audita, and The Omaha Bee's circulation fa regularly audited 'by their organizations. Entered as second-class matter May 18, 1(08, at Omaha poztoffice under act of March 8, 1878. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for 1 NVi the Depar^pient or Person Wanted. ^ * lantic IWV OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Chicago—Steger Bldg. Boston—Globe Bldg. Seattle—A. L. 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A device that cuts a second off an operation is adopted, for it means saving as many seconds as the times the operation is completed during a day. A road con tractor was enabled to outdo his competitors, until they discovered he had so speeded up his concrete mixer that it made ten turns in the time the other fellow’s made eight. There is no question about this. We do live , fast, hut whether too fast is a mooted question. Americans have had plenty of opportunity to ob sqihve the leisurely methods of other peoples, from the “manana” of Mexico to the “kismet” of the East, but have never felt impelled to adopt any of them. Indeed, the quick-serve methods are con tinually being extended. Not only do we get rich quick, but we get poor with equal facility. Nowhere on earth is as much crowded into life as in this country. I * * * I However, we have, a safety valve, several of them, in fact. One is golf, another polo, another football, and another racing, but. the greatest of t them all is baseball. Possibly this is due to the j fact that baseball comes nearer than any of the ! others to typfying the spirit of the people. It is a hurry up game, full of ginger and go, and only the i fast-moving can make any headway at it. Our Eng lish brethren cling to cricket, for 'its fine qualities of sport. Yet the cricketer lingers long and lovingly over the “double centuries” W. C. Grace used to accumulate, while in America the thrill is for the home run that springs from ‘ Babe” Ruth’s highly , educated bat. Probably the feat of Grace involved more of finesse, of true patience and skill than did that of Ruth, but no baseball fan can see it in that light. It is far more of a triumph to lift a swiftly thrown ball over the heads of the outfielders and i into the far-off grandstand than it is to patiently test . the howling, with now and then a shot that scores. Waterloo may have been won on the cricket fields at Harrow and Eton, but tb World Series this year was .settled on the di c d at the na tion’s capital. As many thou and ■ could crowd into the park and cleave room for h players wit nessed the closing game of the great ■ -r. ""t, whil> the rest of the hundred-odd millions of the nation’ population crowded around tickers, te’evrrnph in struments, score boards and the like, and waited fojr the news. • * * | A popular victory was that of the Senators. Starting in June from a lowly place in the standing the American league, the Washington team fought its way through to the top, and after a see saw contest with the New York Yankees landed the first American league pennant for Washington. Now, sfte£ a ding-dong contest with the Giants, the Sen ators emerge triumphant, the champions of the world. It is a tribute to the game itself that a team crippled and handicapped in many ways should be able to win over as fine a machine as the New York Giants presented. As an exhibition of sheer pluck, of-indomitable fighting spirit, no finer thing is found in-history. What a pleasure it is that Walter John soft, veteran of the game, was permitted to go in at the last minute, a veritable forlorn hope, and crown his long and honorable career with a win over the team that had humbled him twice. Verily, baseball is our greatest national asset in the sport line. It affords as nothing else does the relief from strained nerves. A common meeting ground for all sorts and conditions of men. The president of tht United States stood and cheered alpng with the men in the bleachers. Democracy Is personified In baseball, as well as t.hs highest of strategy and the greatest of skill and cool courage. A nation that has such a aport to fall back on is in no immediate danger of dissolution. MARTYRS OF THE AIR. From time to time a few lines in tbe news col umns announce that another American aviator has fost his life. Scant notice is given the fact, be cause our people are too busy rushing along about other affairs. Also, In a land where the front pages o|'the newspapers are spotted all over with items shout fatal auto crashes and the like, little import »f»Ce is placed on the death of a single man. And flit the aviator deserves more consideration. Those who are attached to the air service of the United States are public employes. Their business is to carry on great, experiments, to the end that exact knowledge of the science may he obtained for general use. Wise men admit that, In the event of another war, more than ever we will depend on our air forces for defense. In this way alone the work of the aviators Is valuable in the utmost. How afe they regarded by the public. ; Not with indifference, as witness the crowds t|at thronged to see the globe-girdlers. Or the •uspense with which the Shenandoah is followed on 9 its flight across the continent. Those are outstand ing features. The work that was being carried on by Lieutenant Neeley and Dr. Meisinger was not complete when they lost their lives in a storm in Illinois last summer. But their contribution to the science of meteorology is recognized. Generally, though, they twe already forgotten. Captain Skee ley lost his life at Dayton last week, because the plane he undertook to fly was worn out. These are but two incidents in the many. Men are hazarding their lives every day in equipment that is dangerous, because the great government that employs them is too niggard to provide the proper material for their use. Congress spent its time last session listening to political harangues, in stead of considering public business. We hope the next session will do better, and either give the' ait service what it ought to have, or disband it entirely. The list of martyrs to the cause of poor equipment is long enough. WHEN THE WORLD TURNED A CORNER. On the morning of October 12, 1492, the lookout on a little ship shouted, “Land ho!” It was the culmination of one of the most momentous voyages in history. Probably the most momentous. For out of it came the greatest results that ever flowed from a single incident. For weary weeks three little vessels had tossed on the waves of the Atlantic. They had been buf feted by storms, drenched by torrents of rain and spray. Supplies were getting short, and there had been mutiny amongst the crews. One man stood alone, firm in his own conviction, his judgment un shaken by the doubt around him. Christopher Co lumbus had set out on a great enterprise, and his faith and courage were rewarded. It is certain that others had crossed the ocean, both from the east and the west, hut the record of those voyages and discoveries, with the single excep tion of those of Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky are lost. Even those of the Norsemen were for gotten for almost a millenium. Columbus gets the credit, for out of his voyage came the result. What America has meant to the world, and yet means, followed the shout of “Land ho!” on that cloudy morning 432 years ago. It is well, then, that we give a thought today to the admiral who knew what he set about to prove to others. He is in no wise concerned with the controversies that have arisen since. Nor even with the jealousies and rivalries that disturbed nations in his day. Portugal might have had the honor, or England, or France, for Columbus offered his services to each before he approached Isabella and Ferdinand. It was a great day for mankind when he set out on his voyage, and the benefits of that day will bless the race through all the coming ages. HE MAY LEARN YET. ‘‘Omaha is just a wide place in the road,” •auntily declares a boy of 20, who has confessed to it long series of burglaries. “We will he out in eight or nine years.” Perhaps even before that. In the meantime, he will bd kept on a road that has no wide spots, not even as wide as Omaha. The path down which his feet will wander during the eight or nine years he looks forward to will take him from the cell house to the mess hall, to the workshop and back to his cell house. It will be “stepping,” but not the sort he says he spent from $30 to $100 a night on. He will learn a new step. Instead of the “one-step” it will he the “four-step”—-from one end of his short ell to the other, two steps each way, four for the ound trip. He was out of a job and had a “disgust.” So ;d his partner, and they stole money to spend on i lipation. Out of the burglaries they may have re .rived several hundred dollars each, certainly not as iueh as $1,000. In the eight years they expect to pend at. Lincoln, if paid laborer's wages only, they '.could earn $14,000 each. On the scale of a union musician, they would earn more than $20,000 each. Looks like a pretty high price to. pay for a few gilts of “stepping,” doesn’t it? From 20 to 23, Hi? glorious years of youth, that should be filled ith the joys of discovering each day a new delight l the world, will he spent in prison. Instead of the ■jiiders of new experience with each rising of the un, there will be the monotonous repetition of a lull routine. Broom-making, maybe, or something is inspiring. No wanderlust will he gratified. No mart "girls,” who think a man should he lavish to 'he point of recklessness with his money will enliven ’heir leisure hours. Rundown will find them "at home” In a cell, and 4 in the morning will find them ■isleep. Fight years of regular habits, with no disslpa i ions, may breed in them a wild desire to "step” en harder. More likely, though, long before that ime has elapsed they will realize how hollow and empty the excitement they sought, and how all out >f proportion is the price they are paying. For with goes that which can not he bought, with money, a good name. If the law went to limit of Mosaic justice, they would he required in addition to make whole the loss of those from whom they stole to get money to waste In profligate pursuit of disreputable pleasure. That would make the lesson complete for them. "LORD’S PRAYER” STILL BEST. The attorney general of California has nailed his name to the everlasting record. He has decided that the Lord’s Praypr is unconstitutional and may not. he used in California schools. We are unfamiliar with the constitution of the state of California, but we are inclined to the opinion that It is the attorney general and not the law that needs to be amended. "Our Father, which art In Heaven.” Ever alnce man first learned to lift bis eyes aloft, that thought has been In his mind. "Lo, the poor Indian, whose untutored mind Bee* Ood tn the clouds end hears him In ths wind," adored a Great Father. “Gitche Manltou, the mighty,” was very real to him. Ro has the Idea been through all the days since man raroe upon the earth chief among created things. All races, all tongues, all creeds, admit this fact. “Give us this day our daily bread.” Not ttyuch, hut enough to live on. “Forgive us our trespasses ns we forgive those who trespass against us.” Just, be on the square with us, merciful when we are mer ciful, and withholding mercy when we withhold It. Who ran honestly expect more? “Lead us not Into temptation.” Do not try us beyond our strength. “But deliver us from evil.” An earnest supplication, devoutly uttered. “Hallowed he Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will he done on earth, as It Is in Heaven. . . . For Thine Is the kingdom, and the power, and the (lory, forever.” To these things sll meti assent. Yet "he lawyer out In California says the prayer la un onstitutlonal. ------ A Government of Law For the Petrie, of the People and by the People—the American Constitution i L_By THOMAS \V. BI,A(KBIRN-—---J | William E. Gladstone, the greet i Plnglleh premier, said, "The Amer j lean Constitution Is the most wonder j ful work ever struck off at a given ' time by the brain and purpose of I man.” I George Washington was chosen as : president of the Convention on the I :’5th day of May, 17S7, when the dele , sates met In the old State House In 1 Philadelphia “to form a more perfect | Union, establish Justice, Insure do 1 mestlc Tranquility, provide for the | common defense, promote the gen eral welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Pos terlty.” Four months later they did “ordain and establish this Constitu tion of the United States of Amer ica.” Article I, Section 1 provides: All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested In the Congress of | the United States. j Article II, Section 1 provides: The executive power shall be vested In the President of the United States of America. I Article III, Section 1 provides: The judicial power of the United States shall be vested In one Supreme Court and In such Inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time or dain and establish. Article VI provides: That this Con stitution and the laws of the United States which shall be made In pur ! suance thereof; and all Treaties | made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States shall be the Supreme Law of the Land, and the Judges In every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of sny state to the contrary notwithstanding. Thu* was created the government of the United State*. The three In dependent branches, legislative, ex ecutive and Judicial, are set forth In the strongest possible terms and their powers are vested In the separate branches respectively by the express terms of the Constitution. It Is a written Instrument and the first and foremost of written consti tutions. Mr. Gladstone In the same sentence in which he commends the American Constitution says of the unwritten English Constitution that It ‘Is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progres slve history ” This Is hla way of saying that the English Constitution was and Is an assembling of estab lished precedents, with which Eng llsh colonists came to America, snd were the basis of the state constitu tions. the Articles of Confederation and the laws and charters of the Co lonial days. “Every provision of the Federal Constitution^’ says Max Far rand, “can be accounted for In Amer ican experience," between 1776 when the Declaration of Independence was promulgated and 1787 when the American Constitution was adopted by the Constitutional Convention. • * • It was and remains a distinctly American conception of free govern ment. Since 18-79 "we have been a federal republic In which the law- is supreme and applies equally to all,” not only In theory but In practice. In the courts of the land the rights of the Individual are safe, because they are established by the funda mental law. A tyrannical executive, a tyrannical legislature or a tyran nical majority are all held In check by the courts which through hwfoeas “By the Company He Keeps” l! From the Philadelphia Public X^dfer. In full swing since early spring, La Follettelem has now attracted to It self moat of the elements It was hound to attract. By and large. It Is the queerest group In political history. Some strange political driftwood floats In the current of the La Fol lette stream. Some streams never rise above their source, many of the human springs of the La Follette stream may Indicate Its nature and Its alms. Socialism Is the strongest, color In La Follettelsm. In the van of the radical pageant moves Eugene V. Debs, durable candidate of the so cialist party. Not so long ago he was pardoned for wartime offenses against the safety of the nation. With him1 Is Victor Berger, whose tender re gard for Potsdam’s feelings may be remembered. They are flanked by the Hlllqultts. Hoans, Thomases and divers others who long to Import Into the new world the Mantlsra and class hates of the old. The list of self-admitted "Intel lectuals" and the "pale pinks” under the "pink flag” Is long Norman Hap good, handy man for*sundrv "for ward-looking" causes, suns himself In the La Follette rays. Oswald Oarrl ron Vlllard, writing dilettante of the New Dawn, la in the amen corner. Theodore Dreiser, author of a much suppressed novel, “Sister Carrie,” has found a political home Margaret Sanger, more or less well known edi tor of Birth Control Review, has a place In the parade. Sometvhere In i he column the Rev John Haynes Holmes, evangel of sensations, marches behind a band. These are .imong the prophets of the mlllen nlum. There are pilgrims out of th» dead -1 /-\ i Succoth v_/ By RABBI J. M. CHARI/IP. Succoth, the great harveat festival ■ f tha Jaw, suggest* by It# name the time when the children of larael, en ■ amped In the wilderness, d«#lt In icnte or booths. Later when the Jewish people dwelt In Palestine It was a custom among the farmers to build rude hooths, or succahs. for themselves out In th# fields where they might sleep during the harvest »ason. The Pilgrim fathers, when they kept their first Thanksgiving dsy hi \merlca, no doubt, received the Idea from their Hebrew Bibles which they knew so well. .When they eet apart a dsy on which to thank o'clock, he will spenh of the Itrth Flamedresh Hngodol, Nineteenth and Hurt afreets The subject of Ids sec limn will he, ' The prophecy of ’/noli arlsh In Regard to Hie Betterment of the Future World Sure Nig". Ma ha* ps been to th* races?" ' Yes How do you know?" 'Wall, ntv money box won't rat 1*1"—Th# Humorist (London} past. Amos Pinohot marches. an echo from 1912’s Armageddon. Arm In arm with him le a vague and shadowy shape from the long ever ago. "General Jake" Coxey, living on, although hls "Coxey’s army” Is for gotten. Queer, shambling figures that have not seen political daylight since populism and the fine fury of free sil ver years have crawled out Into the sun. On their flank Is the political con tingent. J. A. H. Hopkins, the Forty elghter,” goosesteps there with Perley Parker Christensen, polysyl labled farm-labor hope of 1920. He locks arms with Magnus Johnson and that other Minnesota senator, the duck-hunting dentist, Dr. Rhlpstead. t’omes then Dr. Ladd, Nonpartisan I'ague solon from North Dakota, self isted «s a republican, but supporter "f La Follette, carefully nursing hls senate Job. The Steuben society, resurrected from the unlamented German-Amerl can alliance, claims Its place In the sun. Its boasted goal and that of the new "Kultur league,” that has endorsed La Follette In the west. Is a voting bloc of millions to dictate American policies. They have sworn loyalty to him and set hls foot upon their necks They are hla men, as he was their man. "I p La Follette:" shouts the same George Rylvester Vlereck, editor of the American Week ly, whose The Fatherland was a thorn In America's side In 1917. In New Tork the American Aesocia tlon for the Recognition of the Irish Republic give* La Follette Its bless Ing Most of the groups having a European ax to grind or an old world blade to sharpen have ranged them selves with La Follette. Virtually every element that attempted to hin der American war efforts Is now with him. They march, this swarm of blocs, these professional agitators, these selfish minorities, would-be treasury rslders, limelight eeekers and enemlee of court and constitution, held to gether by the cement of hate. They are led by a candidate driven by re venge and resentment They were given their financial start bv a patent medicine maker. Their stock In trade i* the wahoo hark, the enake oil, the dynamite and crowbar of politic* What I.a Follette feared In hla so ber moments last winter has hap pened. All the profeselonal hvphen ate.*, grudge nursers and eoreheads, moet of the cranks and a vast major ity of the "lunatic fringe" ewarm about him War-time slackers snd peace-time trouble maker* encompass him round about. Every man who thinks th# state eomehow owes him a living ha* a toehold en th* La Fol lette band wagon Th# failure, the broken, the misfit, all who want a shoulder on which to weep, are with him. A man and a party ar* both known by the company they keep. The friend* of Ierty and bedlam threw itself upon hlin. Such hope# ee he had ere being trampled down by e stampede of hy phenates. slackers and denizen* of the pollttcal Jungle*, hy a rush of economic morons, polltlcel meetolrls and self starting cranks. Cuticura Should Be In Every Home P»ily uae of Cuttcur* Soap keep* the pore* active and the akin clear and healthy, while the Ointment heals pimple# and other Irritation*. Cuticura Talcum la a delicately me J Icated antiseptic powder of pleasing fragrance. trn >y Mali ' 0«Mr.r» Lat** .l.rl.. D.|>1 ll» Maia.aM.HMO Md .«rr lir Cuticura Pruducta Ara Rababla. tin i ii i im tir.vr! RHEUMATISM White In Franc* with the American Army I ote tamed from a noted French physician * pre rcription for the treatment of Itheumatiam amt Neuritis. I have given thta to thouaanda with wondafful results. The i«re«<-riptmn coat m« nothing. I ask nothing for It. I will mail It if von wilt send ma your addreaa, A postal will bring It. Writ* today. rAUi4 rAsr,. bo* m. H13h Brockton. Mam. corpus can take from the custody of any executive the person of any man unlawfully detained; through appeal to the courts an act of any legislative body In violation of rights guaran teed any Individual may be made null and void and the will of a ma jority of all the people held for naught when contrary to this great charter of human rights. For example: No state may pass a bill of attainder, expost facto law or law impairing the obligation of con tracts, and citizens of each state shall be entitled to all, the privileges and Immunities of citizens In the sev eral states. The first amendment adopted with the Constitution In 17S9 prohibits Congress from making any law re specting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise there of; of abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; or the right of peaceahle assembly of the people; or the right to petition the govern ment for a redress of grievances. The fourth amendment provides that the right of the people to be se cure In their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated. Under the fifth amendment no per son can twice be put In Jeopardy for the same offense and no accused per son can be compelled In a criminal rase to be a witness against himself or be deprived of life, liberty or prop erty without due process of law, and private property cannot he taken for public use without Just compensa tion. Under the thirteenth amendment, human slavery I* prohibited and the fourteenth amendment makes all persons born or naturalized citizens of the United States and the states wherein they reside and prohibits the states from denying to any person within Its Jurisdiction the equal pro tection of the law • • • Now, how are these Inalienable rights to be enforced? Congress has several times sought to enact laws violating some of these rights, not ably the enactment of a recent law under which unreasonable searches and seizures were being made. The courts In this very city have held such acts by federal officers In viola tion of the Constitution. Many In stances can be found In the books where attempts to take private prop erty without due process of law’ have been restrained and forbidden by the courts. The Supreme Court and the Inferior courts have times without number checked abuses by officials and legislatures, which officials and legislatures w’lthout the Intervention of the courts would have carried through. Early In the history of the court an attempt was made to retry a case In Federal Court which had already been tried In a state court under an act making provision for such re trial. but the Supreme Court held the act void In another case an act provided for the condemnation of a lock and dam in Pennsylvania for public use. but expressly prohibited any payment on account of the owner’s right to col lect tolls. The Supreme Court held the act void because the fifth amend ment prohibited taking private prop erty for public uae without due proc ess of law and wltholit Just compen sation Since national prohibition, an act Imposing a tax In the form of a fine) for Illegal manufacture and sale of liquor providing for summary collec tion of the tax, was held unconstitu tional because It violated the const! I tutlonal right of every person to a I trial by jury before conviction for a criminal offense If the I,a Follett" Idea ehall be | adopted and Congress may r» enact any law held unconstitutional by the I Supreme Court, notwithstanding, the j majority can deprive cltizena of all | the rights called Inalienable or epe clally protected In the Constitution, e e e Charles <1. Dawei la right In his J statement that the attack upon the| federal Judiciary proposed In the Ea Follette platform Is the paramount issue of the campaign Everything la relatively unlmpor tant. An assault upon the Jurladlc tlon and Integrity of the courts Is an assault upon the American govern ment. a repudiation of our form of freedom and a demand that mob ocracy be substituted for democracy. If these were no other objection to the La Follette platform, his purpose to take from the Supreme Court lta chief distinction and opportunity for service, and destroy our system of checks and balances through the three branches of our government, would be sufficient to drive patriotic Americans away from him. The announced platform of La Fol lette and Wheeler has no distinctive, original plank which thoughtful Americans can approve. It la the way to destruction; the course which history show* leads to anarchy, the usual plea of the self seeking dema gogue who would subvert the funds mentals of government by the peo ple. for the people and of the people. That form of government wee first established by the American Consti tution and under lte beneficent in fluence America became and la tfc<= greatest, the freest, the best govern ment on the earth. We Were First • When a hearse meant the wildest dream of the de signer’s art in fanciful decoration we startled all Omaha with the simplicity of the Automobile Hearse, now in vogue as the best taste in mortuary automotive equipment • As we were first in presenting and pointing the way to a higher standard of sendee in days past, so today are we first in every facility and comfort known to modem mortuary service. It is only natural that you should choose Stack Sendee in your hour of need as the highest exponent of Mor tuary Sendee. Yet this service, with all its wonderful development, may be chosen at a price as moderate as $85 complete. Day and Xight Cadillac Ambulance Service Stack Funeral Home 3224 Fnrnnm Street HA mey 0064 nSUNNYOTEW Hake Comfort.nor forget Qhat Sunrise ne\/erfailed uS^etr^ _ J _____-_—-A This glorious Lord's Day Is baing spent by us and a bunch of cheerful companion. In rs.tln* up after a . rsnuoua«r#rir These special trip, are not all "beer and aUttle# by » ‘on* shot TTp at 7 or before every morning, chasing around a Say grinding out copy In time for the 1. even the letter then to bed before 10. And welcome Indeed Is even the narrow and stuffy confines of a Pullman berth. Ae we write this little Lord’s Day contribution, the lowing of the*content!*? cows and th. bawling of the virile bul a In the cars .head, somehow or other reminds us ofa Bible iitory. Prenatal Influence and heredity are not new dlscoverteSn At , least one of the old patriarchs was wise to that plaved It to his own financial advantage. Jacob tolled ee e vears for Rachel and then had a gold brick handed to hira bf Rachel's father. Colonel Laban. Leah was In the dusk of the wedding day. And Jacob, who had Laban seven years for Rachel's hand, was sorely dlsappo nted. Rut he had one advantage over men of this day, la that If_hiIs first wife didn't suit he could take another without the for™a ity of divorce. .So he proposed to Laban that he serve seven years more and get Rachel. Laban consented, as that was the game he played from the start. At the end of the second seven years Jacob got the girl of his choice, and then proposed a partnership with his father in law Laban was the greatest I flockmaster of history, but he didn't know a- much a* his son in law. So when Jacob agreed to manage the business and take as his pay all the striped, ring straked and streaked calve# as his pay, Laban jumped at it. You ee#, the klne of that day ran to solid colors. The story Is too long to tell here, so you Just turn to the Good Book and read all about the Joke Jacob played on Laban. Jacob fixed things so that most of the calv eg were born striped, rlngstraked and streaked, and his method is Interesting. It has something of a bearing on the cattle and hors# business even to this day. Sunday should be a day of Introspection. Too often It Is nothing of the kind We hold that It should be a day of devo tion, although freely accord to every man the right to spend It as he pleases, provided that In eo doing he does not infringe upon the rights of others. But we also hold that the growing practice of making It merely a day of pleasure is a growing menace to the perpetuity of this republic. History will bear out the assertion that the nation that forgets God is soon for gotten of God, and when that comes to pass nations dfsappesr. It Is only as men and nations adhere to the Christian vir tues that they prosper. When they lose sight of those virtues and Indulge in selfieh pleasures or devote themselves to worldly gain, they degenerate. That Is history, and this nation can not expect to prove the exception to the rule. We point with pride to the fact that our country Is 150 years old, but that is only a day as compared with Rome. Yet Rome, flourishing for a thousand years, went down In ruin because It forgot tfce homely virtues and degenerated Into a nation of profligates WILL M. MALTIX. >V - -T=J ..... To the Pilots of the Night Air Mail. With the stars for companions, his lone vigil keeping, He skims the high air while a world lies a sleeping. A dreaming perchance; no thought gives to him, who Braves danger and death as he flies the dark night through. Unfamed as a hero of song or of story. Sail gloriously onward; your courage your glory. To the Power which gives you such valor, I do pray, To guide your frail craft o’er its uncharted air-way; Who, in wisdom, the universe holds in unseen hand*, His spirit be with you, pioneers of the cloud-lands. MABEL MILLS SON’GER, I . . j When in Omaha Hotel Conant 250 Rooms—250 B«tha—Rates $2 to $3 NET AVE RAGE PAID CIRCULATION for Sept., 1924, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily . . ..73,340 Sunday .73,865 Does wet include returns, left f^Pkrs. samples or papers spoiled to printing and includes no special sales or free circulation of any kind. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. Subscribed and sworn te before Be this 4th day sf October, 1924. W. H. QUIVEY. (SeeH Notary Public ,