Omaha daily bee., 1922-05-24
State Olympic Games.

From the surrsy
In North Carolina the old horseshoes have
been taken down from the peg in the barn and
furbished up in preparation for the first annual
North Carolina Olympic games held in Durham
from May to g. One Of the main divisions OF
the contests in which any resident of the state
from to 20 years may compete, is barhyard
golf horseshoes. There are gold medals to
the winners and silver ones to the runners up.
In reviving this old sport, still dear to the heart
of every village and farm, the founders of the
games are trying to give them a folk atmosphere,
England and the bowling on the green of colon
ial days.
The three days Of games include wide va
riety Of sports, such as track events trap shoot
ing and tennis. According to the sponsors, this
is the first time that any state has attempted to
bring together all its athletic activities into one
lima games aim to have upon the governing body
representatives of all the colleges, universities
schools and other athletic agencies. The state
Olympics are planned for each year. one an in
door championship and the other an outdoor.
The citizens of Durham, which Is one Of the
largest mill centers in the country, are financing
| the games.
Trade That Touches All Of Us.
From the Nations Business.
We always look to George E. Roberts Of the
National City bank to put things clearly He
| told the Export Managers club at their recent
meeting in New York what had happened to the
| world and gave pat and pertinent illustration.
Russia, he said, was one of the great tea
| drinking countries Of the world India was one
| OF the great tea producers. The war stopped
Russia from tea drinking and India couldn't sell
| her tea. India is a great cotton wearing coun-
try. but if she couldn't sell her tea she couldn't
| buy cotton, so the mills of Manchester shut
| down. If Engand's mills were not running our
| southern farmers could not sell their cotton and
| they in turn shut down on buying.
| What is true Of tea and cotton is true in
| greater or less degree of the hundreds and thou.
| sands of things that made up our daily life.
| The Australian market for shoes affects the mill
| towns of New England and the fashion in stock
| ings in Argentina is reflected in the payroll of
| Philadelphia worker
I Built by Homcsteaders.
| From the Nebraska Daily Pres.
| The first homestead, according to the reckon
| ing OF Gage county historians. has been divided
! by the widow Of the man who filed on it way
back in 1852 when the land ONCE was at Brown
vile.
The homestead law was responsible for turn
| ing a monotonous prairie country into
| pire. Nebraska doesn't resemble in the least
the land 1t was in S62 when Brownville was the
| capital and the center of business and social
| gagements. Neither is Nebraska the drab and
| uninterseting bit Of country it was in the early
| sos when Robert Louis Stevenson, his way
| to California. and Fanny Orbourne, poked fun
| at It and spoke Of 1t unduating ocean of
| waving grass with here and there an oasis of a
| "soddy." Nebraska is civilized and settled. It
| has long since thrown of the swaddlng clothes
The srstwhils home steader IL king.