Today
Skyrockets for 1925.
Too Good for Uncle Snm.
1.600,000.000 Years.
Clothes S900 a Month.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
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Wall Street buys and sells 2,000,
000 shares a day now and nobody
notices it. We quickly get used to
prosperity. Brokers would con
sider a “million-share-day” an in
sult. But call money with which
lambs gamble went to 514 per cent
yesterday. A few days ago it was
214. Wall Street does notice that
it’s rather sad to pay for gambling
money as high an interest rate as
merchants and manufacturers have
to pay for legitimate business
loans.
The real stock gambling will be
gin after the new year. Then look
out for skyrocketing, to be followed
by some falls that will make the
speculators know just how ilumpty
Dunipty felt.
Senator Underwood, and others
whose pure, innocent souls are
above mere profit, might like to
know something alwut the value of
power shares and what it would
mean to the General Electric com
pany if kind Mr. Underwood should
make the General Electric the
private owner of Uncle Sam’s plant
at Muscle Shoals.
Take one little light and power
investment made by the far-seeing
B. F. His wife asked him to in
vest for her $10,000. He paid
$9,300 for $10,000 par value of
power bonds. They carried the
e right of exchange for common
stock at par. He exchanged the
$1Q,000 bonds for 100 shares of
common stock. The company is
sued 10 shares of stock for one.
The $10,000 investment could be
sold yesterday fop $09,500. You’ll
admit that properties going up like
that are really too good for Uncle
Sam to keep.
On New Year’s eve, the old Lib
erty Bell in Independence Hall,
Philadelphia, will ring 148 times,
once for each year in the life of
this nation. And the radio will
carry the sound of the bell all over
the land, and across the water. That
would interest intensely two men
that signed the Declaration, Jeffer
son and Franklin, both interested
in science. Both had genius, but
neither could have imagined the
radio, except as a random guess.
Even genius cannot think very far
ahead of its own period.
Scientists by modern methods
prove that the earth’s solid crust is
at least 1,600,000,000 years old.
That adds considerably to the old
idea of a world created 6,000 years
ago. Feeble human imagination
cannot grasp a period as 1,600,
000,000 years. Only 12,000 years
ago we were in the stone age.
But the earth’s great age encour
ages us to believe that this planet
and human beings on it will exist
fbr several hundred millions of
years more, at least, as science pre
dicts. A great deal can be done in
that time. Even 1,000,000 years
should show considerable improve
ment, when you consider what men
accomplished in 12,000 years.
It appears that four gentlemen
have been representing the Philip
pine government in the United
States, with an expense account. It
also appears that, by a gentleman’s
agreement, evidently each one of
them charge exactly $9<kl every
month for clothing. This teaches
hot only that Filipinos are hard on
their clothes, but also that they
have not mixed with American
politicians for nothing, and are
now about ready to govern them
selvas. '
Trinity university in North Caro
lina has changed its name to Duke
university, thereby acquiring many
millions, generously given by James
B. Duke. The university ,gets $6,
000,000 at once, for buildings, and
ultimately will have as endowment
the income from $25,000,000 more.
“What’s in a name,” is answered
by Mr. Duke effectively. That uni
versity by any other name would
not have got $31,000,000. Who
can estimate the future value of
such gifts to education. What a
blessing that men now give vast
fortunes to help others, instead of
spending the money as of old in an
effort to buy special divine favors
for their own unimportant souls.
James P. Van Zandt of the army
air service, having traveled 6,000
miles on various European air lines,
reports that flying is past the ex
perimental stage and under con
servative conditions, as safe as
travel on land.
Since the war commercial planes
have traveled more than 26,000,000
miles. On a purely business and
nonexperimental basis, within 25
years any long distance journey
by train will be confined to old
fashioned, conservative people. In
50 years, for long distances, trains
will be used as little as stage
coaches are now. For some it is’
hard to imagine that. But many
find it hard to imagine anything.
(Copyright, 1924.)
Poor indeed is an invalid million
nlre.
Holidays are
Kodak Days
Pictures of your
New Year’s fun, for
example, make a
priceless page foryour
Kodak album.
Kodak, Brownie s
and Graflex cameras
of every style and
equipment always in
stock.
Dtvt/tping, printing and tn
larging *f the snptritr kind.
Eastman Kodak Co*
The Robert Dempster Co.)
1813 Famam St.
Branch Store t
308 South 15th St.
U. S. Airmen, Unable to Borrow
Coats From Naval Officers, Driven
From Cafe in French In Jo-China
Tolil by LOWELL THOMAS
"We spent our first night In Saigon
on board the United State* destroyer
Noah, which had been sent on ahead
of us. In view ol
the grief we hud
so often had In tuk
Ing off from inland
rivers, we serviced
up with only a light
load of fuel. This
meant that wo
must stop some
where between Sat
^ gon and Bangkok.
Vso another destroy
bieut bowed r>r was sent on
Jfaliead and we re
in life ‘Paris
of the east' for an
extra day, to allow
the destroyer
enough time to get
into position.
"We lmrrowed clothes from some
of our naval friends and sallied forth
to see the sights of Saigon,” remark
ed Leigh Wade. “But this was the one
and only place on the entire
flight, that we have reason to re
member because of an unpleasant
incident. All decked out In the im
maculate white shirts and trousers
that had been so generously lent to
us by the hoys on the destroyers,
we jumpted into rickshahs and started
to ‘do’ Saigon.
Can't Eat Without Coat.
"Tile first feature of life in this
‘Paris of the east' that appealed to
us was the sidewalk cafe. To some
of us they brought hack happy mem
ories of Paris days and nights during
the war. The first one we came look
ed so alluring that we stopped for re
freshments. But after sitting there
for a while at the little tables we be
came conscious of the fact that the
waiters were taking care of every
body else hut us. Moreover they were
scowling at us in none too friendly
way.
"Calling the head waiter, we start
ed to tell him what we wanted, hut
he interrupted and said that they
could not serve us and that wc
would have to leave. When we asked
the reason for this, he said that, no
one without a coat could he served
at the cafe. We fully appreciated
that it was uncommon for Europeans
to he without coats, hut we tried to
explain who we were and that as
air service officers we could put on
our naval colleagues' trousers and
shirts and thus see the sights of Sai
gon, but that tt was Impossible for
us to wear tunics and masquerade
as members of another branch of the
United States government service.
“All he said to this was that he
knew all about who we were, hut
that It made no difference. We must
beat it.
"This inhospitality and frosty re
ception hardly Increased our enthusl
asm for Saigon and we voted the
city a ‘washout.’ In fact, several of
the boys had difficulty restraining
themselves. To make the affair all
the more unpleasant, the Frenchmen
sttting around at the tables apparent
ly relished our embarrassment and
sided with the cafe management.
Strange Shopping Trip.
"Despite the fart that we had lost
our enthusiasm for Saigon and would
have preferred to return to the de
stroyer, we were all In need of linen.
So we started out to do a hit of shop
ping. ’Les.’ entered a tailor shop
found a suit that fit him perfectly,
and Immediately wanted to buy It
But I he tailor refused. Strange city,
this Saigon! So ’Les' put down a $10
hill, which he knew by that time was
more than white suits of that sort
were worth, picked up the suit,
and walked off down the street with
it under his arm. For a block the
tailor ran along behind him shriek
ing and howling. But he vanished in
a hurry when 'I>es' informed him
that if he didn't hurry !>ack to his
tailor shop lie wouldn't be able to.
“Our shopping tour proved to be
an interesting adventure. It was our
dickering With the orientals. We dis
covered that when a merchant
quotes you a price you should di
vide it by five. For instance, we drop
ped into a curio shop. There was one
object that none of us wanted, but
we didn't mind arguing about it
just for amusement. The price quoted
was $9, and it was a necklace of
oriental stones. We finally said we
would give a dollar for it, and when
we started to walk out the door the
Chinese merchant ran after us and
said that the necklace was ours for
n.
Speak Pidgin French
“Another Interesting thing about
Saigon is that the natives, instead
of speaking pidgin Kngllsh, speak
pidgin French. It is a colorful city
with French looking buildings, an im
pressive cathedral, many French in
habitants, and the dense verdure of
the tropics. Incidentally, it has a
sticky climate and the heat was so
intense that we anxious to get into
our planes and fly on to a more sa
lubrious clime.
“On the morning of Juna 13 we
were up at 3 and as we climbed into
the cockpits shortly after 4 we saw
the loveliest tropical sunrise we had
ever beheld. It was too gorgeous to
describe. The colors In the sky, com
bined with the luxuriant foliage, the
leaning palms, the thatched native
huts, and picturesque fishing craft,
made it seem unreal. Next to a sun
set over the ice-capped mountains
of Alaska, it was more beautiful than
anything we had ever seen, so far as
color was concerned.
< oimtry Itensely Populated
“Laaving Saigon, river, w« flew
over a densely-populated equatorial
region of canals. Jungle, paddy fields,
and cocoanut plantations. We also
passed countless pagodas, herds of
water buffalo, and several fairly
large towns with paved streets. Im
mediately after the cathedrlal spire
and pagodas of Saigon dropped out
of sight we reached the delta of one
of the world's greatest rivers, the
Mekong, which rises up on the pla
teaus of central Asia.
"Some stretches of It are famous for
the number of crocodiles which He In
wait to devour a succulent native if
he ventures Into the water. Some sec
tions of the jungle along its shores
are the haunts of the rhinoceros. But
from where we looked down upon It
the Mekong was merely a streak of
muddy water much like the Missis
sippi in lower Louisiana, about a mile
wide, and fringed with p«1ms and
banyan*. Instead of stern wheelers
and Mississippi barges there were
scores of sampans and here and there
a Chinese junk with it* crazy patch
work sat!.
“Midway to Bangkok we landed
along side the destroyer sent out
with gas and oil. Then at 4 p. m. we
came down in the muddy river on
which the capital of the Siamese is
built. Owing to tlie huge tree trunks,
brush of all kinds, dead dogs and pigs,
and derbris of every description, that
came floating down, It was all we
could do to reach our moorings with
out crashing. Fortunately the offi
cials of tlie Siamese government had
stopped all traffic, because next toj
Shanghai there are more Junks and
steamers in the river at Bangkok
than anywhere that we stopped in the
far east. When we stepped ashore
here we were in tlie land of the white
elephant, one of the most fascinating
spots we were to visit on our trip
around the globe.”
Read tlie next installment of the
thrilling story of the round-the-world
flight in The Omaha Bee.
LAW’FRATERNITY
HEARS HASTINGS
The iVnly way to govern a free man
Is to educate him, the only way to
educate a man Is to get him to think,
said Judge William G. Hastings In a
talk before the meeting of Phi Delta
Pht honorary law fraternity Tuesday
noon at the Hotel Fontenelle. More
than 100 men gathered at the
meeting.
“The final safety of our Institu
tions lies In the sound opinions of the
people," said Judge Hastings who Is
a former dean of the law school at
the University of Nebraska. “To
make the institutions safe In the
hands of the people it is necessary to
make the opinions of the people
sound by education.”
The judge’s special advice to the
attorneys present was that they must
nssume the task of education In gov
ernmental matters. The overruling
answer of the lflth century is why
should not the toilers think, said the
judge.
SUSPECT IS HELD
IN TRAM HOLDUP
Albert Murray, colored, 1216 Tenth
avenue, Council Bluffs, was arrested
in Omaha Tuesday by Detectives
Donahue and Janda on suspicion thnt
tie was the bandit who held up a
street car on the Fifth avenue line
In Council Bluffs Monday evening
and robbed the conductor and pas
sengers of $25.
Murray Is said to answer the de
scription of the bandit furnished to
police by one of the passengers. The
holdup occurred at Twenty-first
street and Fifth avenue at 10 p. m.
All School Life
Centered Around
Students’ Health
Lotlirop Principal Pleads for
Training Every Child in
Right Living
Habits.
Members of the school health sec
tion of the state teachers heard Miss
Margaret IC. O’Toole, principal of
Lothrop school, discuss Tuesday af
ternoon the subject. "Every Child
Should be Educated and Trained In
Richt Habits."
"The public schools are doing a
wonderful piece of work In health
education today," was the speaker's
forewa rd.
“Our eyes have been opened to the
need of Intensive health programs If
we are to bring our children up to
higher standards of health. We have
learned that man’s greatest asset Is
V°od health, which means a better
and happier citlzpnry. We know that
poor health is due to lack of care
and ignornnee of nature's laws, and
that efficiency Is the result of a
sound mind In a sound body.
Eurlv Habits Valuable.
“Early attention to right living
habits play a valuable part Ip health,
happiness and contentment In later
life. Our future citizens should de
velon the right mental attitude toward
health habits. It then becomes our
duty to start right habits and thus
lav the foundation from the kinder
garten through the grades.
Education leaders have agreed that
we must have 'live' health programs
if we are to turn out children fully
ahle to do th» world's work in the
long run nf life.
"Teach moderation In all things.
We should not exploit a rhild at the
expense of his nervous system, by
fancy dancing exhibits, with late
hours at movies. Advocate ‘More
sleep camnalens.'
Ilnllding Citizens.
"Health should smile out from all
departments of school. We should
always remember that we are build
ing citizens. Habits of cleanliness are
Important and essential. The child
should carefully wash face, hands
and neck and comb hair before going
to school.
"Our object should he to make our
teaching so vital and so interesting
that children will maintain their
phvsi-’al standard and those who are
below the standard will l.e brought
up to normal. We find that city chil
dren. where health and hygiene are
taught, are superior In health to rural
children where the curriculum doe*
not Include this Instruction.
"The health subject Is important
because It touches every part of the
school. In teaching this subject we
must Impart enough scientific knowl
edge so that the child understands
the basic principles of health. Teach
hhn that he should choAse to live right
because disease and death follow
wrong living habits.
“Looking forward, we have an
(ptlmlstlc view of a raae of superior
men and woYnen if children have
been educated and trained In right
living habits of health and hygiene.
These habits wll lliecome fixed and
will contribute to the physical and
moral health and cleanliness of the
race. This influence should carry
oxer Into future generations that will
show this training in a people that
are physically, morally and mentally
able to do the world’s work.”
Avoid Routine.
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Plea of Teacher
School Room Studies (Jan Be
as Interesting as
Puzzles.
Estaline Wilson, assistant superin
tendent of schools at Toledo. <)., ad
dressed the junior high school sec
tio'n and the elementary and primary
sections of the state teachers Tues
day afternoon.
The development of enthusiasm
among pupils for their studies is the
special line along which this educator
has prepared herself, and because of
this particular talent, she is In de
mand on programs of teachers’
meetings.
"It is possible to make the school
room studies as interesting as cross
word puzzles for the children," she
said. "When the teacher can adapt
the work to the Individual capacity
of the pupil, then the pupil will suc
ceed and you know that success
brings enthusiasm.
“The teacher should endeavor to
Inspire the pupils to work independ
ently beyond their routine school as
slgnments. There is much waste in
Die ' drill work in the elementary
schools, too much time required for
the amount of learning- My men
page is to develop enthusiasm In
study. W# know that we ean learn
more about geography through trav
el than through books, and by the
•ame token It is possible for us to
develop In the school room this en
ihuslasm of which will speak."
Miss Wilson contends that theie is
something more in the work of the
teacher than to merely outline a cer
tain qay's work for the pupil and
then to see that so much work Is
done.
A Dividend of
6%
Per Annum
Wag declared October 1st to our
members. Another one will be
declared on January 1st.
For 36 years money
LEFT WITH US has
never earned leso than
the above rate.
If you do not share in these
earnings, why not begin saving
with us now?
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Covvgst Prices Quick5ervjce 1
M-Q03Sout Ma^CaBluffs
Choice Fresh Killed Fancy Prime Choice
Rib Boiling Young Fresh Pork Rolled Beef Beef Chuck
Beef Chickens Loins Rib Roast Roast
6c 26c 14c 16c 11c
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| Our markets will have their usual supply of fancy fresh killed
No. 1 dry picked turkeys, ducks and geese — at lowest prices.
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PORK CUTS
V Choice Fresh Spareribs .12!4C
V Choice Pork Shoulders .14’iC
Choice Boston Butts .17C
Fresh Leaf Lard .IOC
| Fresh Neck Bones, 5 lbs.25C
A Fresh Pig Hearts, 3 lbs.25C
• Fresh Pork Liver'.5C
Fresh Beef Brains .IOC
j Fresh Pig’s Feet .Qf
Fresh Pig Tails.12'1'C
! New Sauer Kraut, qt.IOC
Pure Pork Sausage.*15C
VEAL CUTS
Choicest Veal Roast .12’iiC
I Choicest Veal Chops .17C
J Choicest Veal Stew.IOC
Choice Beef Pot Roast.9C
Choice Corned Beef .IOC
■f Choicest Cut Round Steak.12’^C
Choicest Cut Sirloin Steak.1 *jC
Fresh Hamburg Steak.IOC
Strictly Fresh Oysters, quart.75C
! Fancy Cream Cheese .2«>C
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SMOKED MEATS f
Sugar-Cured Picnic Hams.:---140 n
Sugar-Cured Skinned Hams..180 '1
Sugar-Cured Bacon Backs.200 B
Sugar-Cured Breakfast Bacon.240
Armour's Star Hams. 250
Armour’s Star Bacon.300
BUTTERINE AND CANNED GOODS
Lucky Buy Oieo . -200
Liberty Nut Oleo .220
5-lb. carton.- 81.05 0
Evergood Oleo, 2-lb. carton.500 0
5-lb. carton .$1.20 1
Danish Pioneer Creamery Butter. . . 420 S
Evaporated Milk, 3 cans.250 ■
Fancy Sweet Corn, 2 cans.250 n
Fancy Early June Peas, 3 cans. . . -250 S
Fancy Pork and Beans, 3 cans.25f fj
Fancy Stringless Beane, 3 cans . . , . 40f I
Fancy Red Salmon 1-lb., tall.250
Blatz Malt and Hops .580
Fancy Selected Eggs, dozen . .400 I
Choice Mince Meat, lb.150
Fancy Summer Sausage.200
EXPRESS AND MAIL ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY |
Winter-time is Play-time at
ill png Beach.
California! What *» MoHnui Place:
Imperially on a mild bay of the Pacific
where a great *rowln* * ity of IIO.^OA people
arises from the water's ed*e. Lovers of
sports—bafhin*. boa tin* ya*~htlr* *olf— \
flo' k to this famous waterin* place. 22
miles from Los Arise es; 2* miles from
Hollywood. Visit the famous •Pike.” walk
of a thousand lights. Reasonable rates a*
fine hotels, apartmen s and California bun- ;
*alow*. For Literature Address Dept. J-4.
Lon* Beach Cham'ur of Commerce,
Lon* Beach. Caltfcrnia. y
BATHING YACHTING BOATING FISHING GOLF
(The Brandeis Store
Year-End Clearance of ||
Sport and Dress Coats
I Several hundred of these coats of finest quality, suitable especially for
sport and dress wear. All of excellent styling and superb tailoring
All are tailored of the approved Winter materials in
rVdorinQ’S_- bright and subdued plaids, stripes and novelty mix
o tares. All are lined. They are the most suitable
Blue Gray Tan coats to purchase at this time of year, for while heavy
Brown Navy enough to give the necessary warmth, they are without
Shutter Green fur an(* ma>T be worn throughout the entire Spring.
Henna Downy Wool—Belham Plaids—Hyglo
__ Brimtex—Polaire—English Kingsley
charaePurcha*. Chinchilla—DeLaines
made in the Sale
ZJSt Values up to 29.95 I
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