The Omaha morning bee., 1924-05-01
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And sasde ffee ffem neffs The
question was sshal Nili the hlg
steel eumrsn, d concerning -
hir diesdsndse
csntlsmtn that gamble. inftgad
~ investing, would net have Aots
risd 90 much could they have seen
Judge Gary. night before last, IN
robust condition. after a trlr around
South America. proposing The
health Of Young bride and groom.
What was 10 be expected hap
pened. Judge Gary isn't an emo.
sional person. and when he put
steel common on per zen, basis.
some time since. he evidently knew
what he was doing.
Dividend al the rate OF : per
rent was declared yesterday. Prof
its FOR the quarter we're shown TO
be higher than the preceding quar-
ter. Don't gamble and don't sell
the United States Steel short.
Secretary Mellon Of the treasury,
= man who wants rich men 10 pay
their share of income tax, says that
$4,000, 100000 are invested in Sc
curities that pay no taxes.
At per cent. this means that
incomes amounting to 5000 900. 900
Z pay no taxes. Mr.. Mellon says that
1.-The "surtax" drives men to invest
in tax-free securities, incidentally
.discouraging enterprises that would
s : bring prosperity and employ labor.
Clarence o. Barring, accused of
trying TO kill his wife, gives the
poorest married man excuse ever
given.
He admits that he put little ar
senic, and some disease germs in his
wife's food. But did he want to
kill her? No. He was bothered by
another lady and he thought that if
his wife became i'll he could take
her on for 4 trip, and thus have an
excuse for getting rid Of the other
lady.
The authorities are protecting
him from the other lady by locking
him up in Jail, without bail.
Clemenceau, recently "the French
tiger" now a retired old gentle
man in his SD year, has just writ
! ten q play especially for Mile. Sorel.
: There is nothing surprising about
that--in \ Frenchman. The French
don't grow old, at least their brains
/, live on as long as there is any life
! in the body.
Voltaire in his S5th year was at
the height of his glory and power:
!. At the theater his bust was crowned
Nwith laurel. Young Mr.. Astor has
a duplicate of that bust in his Fifth
avenue house now. The crowds
dragged his carriage through the
streets. He died, rs Clemenccau
will die, as much of. a man at 85
as he ever was at 25. M
The cable tells Of bad sleeping
1asickness in Great Britain. Fifty
five cases in February, more in
March, $40 this month, with dis
astrous after effects.
The disease, however, doesn't
seem to have touched the British
labor party, which is surprising old
fashioned Englishmen. Cost of gov
ernment has beeen cut down, i'm
perial finances show 4 surplus of
$4,000, 900 and labor men will
probably drop some of the most Of
fensivs customs duties.
Edward DeNaut, railroad conduc-
tor, retires, having ridden 1,O50,0O0'
miles in 81 years. That is an amaz-
ing distance, equal to AZ trips
around the earth. But everything
is comparative.
The distance that Mr.. DcNaut
travelled in 81 years, light can
travel in less than six seconds.
Going at the same speed, through
space, it would take the traveller
more than $500 years to go from
the earth to the sun.
And that isn't anything, for as
tronomers tell you about the dis
covery of the universe outside our
own, entirely beyond the boundaries
of the Milky Way. It's so far off
that il would take 100000 years
for light to come from those distant
suns to our eyes.
Figure for yourself how far
light travels at the rate of 10000
miles per second in 100000 years.
The soviet government, con-
Y tinuing its futile effort to root up
0religion in Russia, puts another
bishop on trial. At Easter few
hundred atheists paraded the
streets. But for every atheist
parading, thousands were crowding
the churches.
Peter the Great found it hard
enough to make old-fashioned Rus
SLAMS cut off their long boards and
give up the long skirts that the men
wore. He had TO threaten them
with death, and actually execute
many. to introduce his western
ideas. Many of the old Russians
saved the boards they cut Off, to be
put In their collins that they
might not be ridiculous at the
resurrection.
Whoever thinks he can root out
religion doesn't know much about
human beings. Read Bertrand Rus
sells book on "A Freeman's Be-
lief" He doesn't think there is to
be anything left Of us after death.
His book makes you realize how
necessary religion Is. Even false
religion is better than none, for it
soothes the inquiring mind.
Mussolini, having decided to
change from socialist agitator to
= successful national dictator, does
the thing thoroughly. He received
from King Hussein, new caliph Of