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The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-05

From the New York Times
May the report be true that the
Rev. Edward NJ. McGuffey. rector OF
st. James church, Elmhurst. intends
to give to the New York Public Libra.
ry his collection of the many editions
some of them rare enough TO tempt
the most virtuous bibliomaniac to lar
ceny, of the long famous Eclectic
Series of school books prepared by
his father, William Holmes McGuffey.
We don't know how many hundred
thousands Of these were sold, but their
circulation, especially in the west. was
prodigious; and some of them, the
Readers" In particular. are so well
remembered by the surviving ancient
or elderly men and women who dog
cared, defaced or scurrilously In
scribed them in their school days. that
IL might almost be said that there Is
an Association OF McGuffey Grad
yates.
Looking over our western ex-
changes, almost every week we ind
McGuffeyite after McGuffeyite testi-
fying One letter calls out another.
Sometimes McGuffeyism seems a cult.
Sometimes 1t seems additional eyi.
dence of the curious associative Amer.
lean habit It Is widely diffused.
Rrethren are always turning up In
New York. where the sacred books
were only slightly used. so far as we
know Generations OF new reading
books" follow one another and find
no collective worship. In the sos
George s. HilIard a fine. old fashioned
scholar, corr piled n series of Read
ers" that vSs n model of taste In Sc.
lection and Of compressed information
about the authors represented. Does
any antique Yankee venerate them
DO old codcersL In Pullman smoking
compartments fall on one another $
necks when they discover that both
| lnNoibed their first literature from Hi
! lard? Yet the boring passion OF old
age for "reminiscences. the revival OF
Youthful companionship. the natural
illogic by which we subscribe cheer
| fully for a silver pitcher TO be given
TO an octogenarian schoolmaster
whom when he was In his twenties,
/ we ritually abominated as "old SO
and So." are as present In the one
case as In the other.
Was there some incommunicahle
magic In McGuffey? His First
Reader" was full OF n moral simple.
NV anu uVkHltiit Nllut VI Nni'h AAi'
west II perhaps worthier than the
cast The permanent after.cffect of
Readers" would he hard TO trace.
hut n Ia hardly doubtful that from
them millions Of men and women. at
least In the old days. got their chief
literary cultivation. apart from the
Bible and n few devotional hooks,
The Pilgrims Progress" and robin
son Crusoe." Their poetry. outside
Of watts Hymns" was mostly de.
rived from the tReaders. which con.
talned selections read over and over.
SO. AT least up to generation or so
ago. n study of successive Headers
would give us n fair comparative view
Of porular literary acquirements
William Holmes McGuffev WIS horn
In Pennsylvania IN 1900. In 1925 he
became professor OF ancient Ian
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-05
TRAcEDY's SHADOW OVER MuMMER

In the death of Madame Pasqua at local hos
pital we have reminder of how fine the
line is drawn between tragedy and comedy Madame
Pasqua was singer, possessed of wonderful
voice. She had won high place in the world of art
When she to Omaha few weeks ago. TO ring
at the Orpheum, she had plans laid to soon sail for
Italy. There she would rejoin her husband and take
up again the work of singing in opera. Such plans
now forever adjourned.
While she was away among strangers she was
rot without friends. During her few days of life in
omaha before going to the hospital she came into
contact with number of people, who interested
themselves in all ways possible to administer to her.
'omfort. Big, generous hearts opened to her. She
vas i'll and far away from her people. Her
oassng recalls the fact that such experience is
ever faced by those of her profession. Folks who sit
ut the heater and enjoy the actor the singer give
little heed to the shadow that seems to lurk little
nearer to those who are behind the footghts
Frank Mayo coming back to Omaha to de-
light again with his great character of Pudn head
Wilson The grim messenger called him from his
berth just after the train had left Grand Island
Kyrle Bellew full of life and vgor, charmed us with
his comedy night at the Brandes and three
field gave all his strength and talent to Illuminating
the allegory of "Peer Gynt," at the Boyd theater,
and not so many days afterward had made the great
adventure
So it goes for a long list Part of life that can
not be escaped. Yet the tragic, because it
takes these from their place in a world of make be
'ieve and hurres them through the sorrows of real
;ty to the world beyond.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-05
END OF LENlN'S DREAM.

Lenn sought with deliberate purpose to destroy
wealth. 1t step to the realization of his dream
of world in which there would be neither riches
nor poverty, nor class distinction. The duest would
a plane with the most brilliant Hunger
would vanish, and there would be nakedness. Gov
ernment would allot each his task and apportion his
reward. No would be worked beyond capacity,
and each would get enough to live on, and
All would be happy, for would be envious, be-
there would be nothing to envy.
Now the successors to the government of Lenin
and Trotzky tell Russian secret the world has beep
well apprsed of for a long, long time. Government
control of production and distribution has failed.
Russia is going back to the later Lenn ideal of modi-
fed private capitalism The new economic policy"
is to be restored Private capital especially the for
egn variety is invited to to Russia and go to
work. The invitation will be needed, just to the ex-
tent that the soviet government shows its sincerity.
Russa will be restored but not as swiftly as was
wrecked.
For Lenin it may be said he lived as he taught.
He worked hard, and in every way shared the COM
mon lot of the Russian people. His plan broke down,
just as it has always failed. Human nature has
changed very little since the time Moses established
the jubilee for the Hebrews, and which that people
abandoned when they went to Samuel and said
"Give a king to rule us3' Many Utopias
have been set up, many communistic experiments
have been tried, and all have broken the rock of
individualism.
Men will cooperate in common undertakings, but
will not submit to system that puts industry and
Incidence, thrift and unthrift, common level.
Superior capacity will assert its dominance in
fcror, in spite of 9ny effort to restrict its opera
tions. 1t is right that it should "The survival of
the fttest," always the law, still controls.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-05
ONE AMERICAN ANNIVERSARY.

Come Sunday-week, and we will have the oppor-
tunity of observing the 150th anniversary of great
event April 49, 1775 date of the Battle of Concord
Bridge, of Lexington, whichever you like. 1t was
the first armed clash that made the American Revo-
luton sure, and marked epochs beginning. 1t was
the crucial occasion, when the bridges burned,
the Rubicon crossed and there could be no turning
back. Firm hands had grasped the plowshare, and
until CORVALLIS marched out at Yorktown six years
later, the drive onward.
Major Isaac Sadler chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution, ask that the event be not al
lowed to pass without recognition. No tu-
multuous manifestation, great public demonstra-
ton, but just pause for moment to acknowledge
that the way along which the nation has travelled to
greatness is not forgotten. Chilly, the D. A R.
women ask the ministers of the city to remember
the date, and to make some mention of the day and
its Significance in connection with their sermons
This reasonable request ought to be generously
granted
1t is not much, but history holds few dates more
momentous. Great battles have been singled out
turning points in the affairs of man. No current of
history was more decisvely determined than that
which began its direct course on that day when, as
Emerson wrote
by the rude bridge that arched the flood.
Their flag to Apris breeze unfurled.
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world
The echoes of that shot still are heard. 1t shat
tered ancient privilege, it threw down the mighty
from their high seats and up liberty for the peo
pie instead of divine right for kings Thrones have
topped and despotsms dissolved because of that
shot. Men stand upright and decide their own
affairs, shape their destiny and enjoy the fruits
of their industry, because of that shot. We
hope it reverberates until Freedom is the portion of
every human being who walks the globe, and justice
and equality rule everywhere
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-05

Joy ride but he did tell the young folks to have 1t
with by 10 o'clock.
Ten o'clock went by, and so did II. Had the
swain in the read Tam e'Shanter," he
might have had gmmering of what was going on.
There sat father gathern his broo like ae gatherin
storm, nursin' his wrath to keep it warm When
/ 80 came and the tardy couple returned, they
learned very shortly that 10 o'clock just that
and nothing else in fathers glossary. piece of
scantng substituted for the traditional bed-slat,
and the application was quite successful. Judge
Crawford holds that it justified
Brusque and entirely informal as the proceeding
may have been, it will bear fruit. A few more such
Incidents and the joyride schedule will be modified.
Juvenile court proceedings may fall off, and lot
of other annoyances may disappear. Fathers should
take courage from the affair." and assert themselves
a little more vigorously. No need to turn time back
ward. to block the march of civilization Rather set
The world going ahead on little more orderly course
by restoring vestge of parental authority and
control When moral suasion fails, bed-sat or a
piece of 2x4 is powerful argument. The cause is
always good
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-05
CAUSE GOOD. ARGUMENT POWERFUL

A lot Of parents will say "Amen!' to decision
'endered by Judge Bryce Crawford He held that
1 South Side father was wholly within his rights
xhcn he applied 2x4 to the person of young
Who had kept his daughter out beyond the time limit
We know that 10 o'clock comes very early in the
evening yet that the "X-hour' set by the girls
father. He made no bection to her going out for
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-05

The New York LAWYER who had unofficial
engagement with of the well known Gsh girls is
going to have official engagement with the court.
He will answer disbarment proceedings and charge
of perjury, preferred by the judge who listened to
his testimony.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-05
HOMENARD BOUND.

HOMENARD BOUND.
want to hear the click and elaek
My thoughts are hourly turning back
To be at home where journey
And weary behind.
the sunny SOUTH
Neath chill chill gray s clouds midst heightened drouth
And and fog when day IS done
their cities great and strong.
sprung up oil fields crude and
' Whs" %ST he n sins aaso Seas 9ia Is Omaha song
m coming home with heart elate
To old Nebraska home state.
rs. s sts s 1ss %s @Pf a s @ ssa'';' sss ss sss sss
s TFHm oSs sksi ea to Sss4s.sa sns and most nst es's
She's plenty good enough for
Homeward Bound-eo the turkey all packed and just
back home back the daily grind that
isn't grind back to the old familiar scenes back with the old
by and large scattered family has has once once more been re re
friends made But after all the
best thing about vacation planning it and returning from
We things wish Omaha and Nebraska
n h the folk h hsd 5er Vs 9a5 had % % M n
about with the old home and the old home
having bit the best of it.
these much in praise % Of woAw.
v4ll not Genes head On three occasions while
eheered up homesicE Just
who have
Thank goodness we Nebraskans are a one
In @ er by S Ts4 Sasd s S @ @ @ 6m @
Nebraska % you from Bryans ans state We haven't
been Charley.
a Nebraskan afeld
hear the of Bryan We
In our humble judgment about the best advertising Omaha
Nebraska grab off send special train Of
big advertising convention Houston
We've told these southerners about the Omaha AdSel
MacDarmid his assistants fellow Ad
Sellers III be thoroughly dscredited And
the bunch viii have the
ion I've
he sunny SUMMER than
somebody a joke
when IS there IS In Galveston And IS there is
zero n
wouldn't missed this trip for lot We wouldn't
a o make all
thought getting back work
makes chorte glee. work"
WILL NJ MACP1N
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-05

About "the farmer jocund drives his team
afeld." although most of them using fivvers to
get out in and tractors after they get there
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-05

ment that has been .
marvellous succes> in
thousands OF cases 1t
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ment without pain.
danger or loss OF time.
1 II stbrr the chok-
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~ orce: In many "a
ses the roltre Is nearly
gone at the end OF =
test treatment and
even In cases OF NJ
called pop-eyed roi-
tire that has dehed
a yerVthing. IN f.a-
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-05

The democratic national committees second
thought the great advertising campaign bet
ter than its first The money may yet have to be
spcnt however
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-05

The proposal to give Keck the floor of the old
house chamber not altogether inappropriate.
Very likely he will be heard asking for the floor of
the chamber at the next session.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-05

Kansas City and st. Joe getting lots of spor
out of their big new landing fields. "Air parties
are the rage down that way now.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-05

Considerable sentiment will be required to pre-
Of those old chairs desks from the state
house very long.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-05

The nice thing about the progress made by tn
University Of Omaha fund Is that IL has nearly Al
been raised without undue balyhoong.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-05

Odd, isn't IL, how business keeps up while Wal
street is shivering?
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-05

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without cost or obligation OF any kind.
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-05

"Ncar" beer will get no nearer, under the new
ruling
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-05
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The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-05

Unless mems hearts lose their, lust for innocent
blood: unless powder. shot and machine lose their
present joyous freedom in killing unless the
oeadly automobile be curbed in its pursuit of game,
unless editors lawmakers and the people don't
shoot awake, and do about hundred times
than they doing, ever have done, then we may
the
The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-05

In our humble judgment about the best
and Nebraska can grab off now Is to send
good fellows to the big advertising convent
MAY. We've told these southerners about I
Club. and IL Doc MacDiarmid and his assists
Sellers don't make good, I'll be thorough,
even the bunch will have to go some 10 meas
tation I've given the club.
The Winslow mail., 1925-12-04
w. N. HOBSON is
LOCAL AGENT FOR
JEWETT & PAIGE

One of the most difficult tasks
in the world is to keep a news
paper free from errors. Publishers
are generally satisfied if the more
serious errors can be eliminated,
but once in a while one occurs that
is humiliating to the publishers,
readers and patrons. Such a one
occurs in this issue of The Mail.
On page six appears an advertise
ment of Jewett automobiles with
the signature of P H. Brooks as
agent Mr.. Brooks is agent of Hud-
son, Essex and Chevrolet cars and
is a consistent advertiser in this
paper. Mr. w. N. Hobson, of the
Swastika Service station, is agent
for Paige and JeWett autos, and he
too, is an advertiser whose account
and good will are worth a great
deal. The signature of such ads
are kept standing" and lifted
from one paper to another. In this
case the wrong one was lifted 1t
was not noticed until page six had
been printed and the type distribut-
ed. Pages two, three, six and nine
were printed Thursday morning.
Pages seven and eight early this
morning, and pages one, four, five
and ten later today. A corrected
ad for Jewett appears on page ten.
The Winslow mail., 1925-12-04
Trust Companies
Of Arizona Have
II Million Assets

Arizona trust companies have re-
sources totaling more than $11,-
100000 according to "Trust Com
panies of the United States," just
published by the United States
Mortgage and Trust company OF
New York. This figure represents
a gain of more than $1,000,000 over
last year.
The 2707 reporting companies of
the United States had total assets
of $18,145, ,673,477, an increase of
$2,12O,171,230 over last year. De-
posits were in excess of SIS 100000
an increase of $1,SO0,000,O0O over
last year.
President John w. Platten of the
United States Mortgage & Trust
company, in analyzing the figures
for 1925 says:
"The position of the trust COM
panies, measured in terms of
growth and prosperity, is an ac-
curate index of the standing which
they have won through constantly
increasing usefulness and more
highly specialized service to their
hosts of patrons.
Current conditions and present
favoring auspices justify most OPP
timistic outlook for this powerful
branch of our nations banking
structure"
The Winslow mail., 1925-12-04
BrOtherhOOds Ask
Return Of $190,000
In Hospital Funds

The four railway brotherhoods
on the California system of the
Santa Fe this week demanded
through the State Industrial Acct
dent commission that the railway
return $190,000 of hospital funds
alleged to have been used in treat
ing injured employees whom the
brotherhood declare should have
been treated free under the state
compensation law.
The employees organizations as
sert that the $190,000 should be re-
placed in the company's hospital
funds and used only for the treat
ment of sick employees and not the
injured
The representative charge that
the railroad exacts slips from each
employe monthly for the mainten-
arce of d hospital and that en-
ployes injured in line of duty re-
ce:ve treatment for that sIlh but,
trey declare, the injured should
first be given the benefit of the
state law, which demands free
treatment from the railroad, Com
missioner John w. Carrigan ex-
planned, leaving The hospital furd
to care for the sick.
The Winslow mail., 1925-12-04
States Get More Than
Five Million Dollars
From National Forests

Over one million dollars of the
$5,O00,000 net receipts from all ma
tional forests, received during the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1925,
will go directly to the states for
the public schools and road funds
of the counties within which such
forests are located. New Mexico's
share is $6S,00O and Arizona's $11O,-
600, states Albert Morris, district
fiscal agent, of Albuquerque.
The states share of net forest
receipts, continued Mr.. Morris, is
provided for under various acts of
congress. twenty-five per cent OF
the gross receipts goes directly to
the counties within which the for
ests are located for schools and
road projects. Ten per cent addi-
tional is deducted for use by the
forest service within the forests in
construction of minor roads and
trails. furthermore, in Arizona and
New Mexico the federal act of June
20, 1910, provides that New Mexico
receive approximately 7 per cent
and Arizona approximately II per
cent of the gross proceeds of. all
national forest receipts in these
states in return for the school sec
tions within the national forests.
This amounts to $1,299 in New Mex
leo and $27,022 in Arizona.
New Mexico receives 80 pei. cent
of the net forest receipts directly
and 10 per cent indirectly, while
Arizona receives 80 per cent di-
rectly and 10 per cent indirectly
or a total of 40 per cent and ~
per cent of the net receipts of the
national forests, making 4 grand
total of $178,000 for both states
The remainder of the receipts go
into the general fund of the United
States treasury.
The Winslow mail., 1925-12-04
Captain L. Hathaway
Heads Reserve Officers

At regular meeting of Navajo
Chapter, Reserve Officers associa-
ton of the United States, held last
night at the offices of Captain Chas.
L. Hathaway, Medical Reserve, U.
S. Army, the following officers were
elected to serve for the coming
year.
Captain Chas. l.. Hathaway of the
Medical Reserve U. S. Army, was
elected to the office of president
by acclamation. Captain Hatha-
ways activities in behalf of eX-
service men since the world war
has earned for him the admiration
and support of his many friends
among the veterans His election
to the office comes after a very
busy year as vice-president of Nav
ajo Chapter,
During the war he was commits
stoned to the grade of captain and
served as consulting surgeon on
many of the highest medical staffs
of the army.
Lieutenant Dewey McCauley, of
the Infantry Reserves was elected
president He is a graduate of
the military school of the Univer-
sity of Arizona, and during the
world war served as infantry in
structor at Dallas, Texas.
Lieutenant Chas. J. McQuillan, a
former officer of the Air Service,
was elected secretary. He is a
graduate of the u S. School of
Military Aeronautics at Austin,
Texas, and during the world war
served as engineer officer at Kelly
Field, Texas.
Letters of commentator were
read from the commanding general
of the Eighth Corps Area at Ft.
Sam Houston, commenting on the
progress made, the Winslow sector
leading the other towns in the
Eighth Corps Area as to the num-
ber- of officers in proportion to
population. There are twenty-five
officers in this sector, all of whom
are actively engaged in the welfare
of the eX-service man.
New members voted on and ac-
cepted for admittance to the chap
ter are Lieutenant Hugo r. Len
decke, Engineer Reserve; Lieuten-
ant Delos Bundy, Quartermaster
Reserve; Lieutenant Paul Bruce,
Quartermaster Reserve, and Lieu
tenant Desmond Jay Mahoney, En-
gineer (Ry) Reserve.
The Winslow mail., 1925-12-04
j. w. HefIin M a de
Head OF Grievance
Committee B. of r. T

Several changes were made in
the personnel of the local lodge of
the Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men as result of the annual cleo
tion of officers held at Community
Hall Sunday, November 30th
j. w. Hefiin, who had BEEN ap-
pointed to fill the unexpired term
as representative and as chairman
of the grievance committee, Great
ed by the resignation of w. w.
Stanley, was reelected by accla-
nation and will officiate in that ca
pacity for the next two years. j..
A. Jarman was reelected as the
third member, and Ora Stewart, a
former officer of Winslow lodge,
B. of R. T., was elected secretary
of the grievance committee.
T. G.. Garret, delegate to the
last convention of the Brotherhood
at Cleveland, was elected president.
Mr.. Garrett is a past president of
Winslow lodge, and made an envi-
able record due to his unfailing eff
| forts in behalf OF the tralnmen.
Mr.. F. E. Brown, who has been
a staunch supporter of the last
president.
Vernon F. Foy, former commit
teeman from the parent lines of
the Santa Fe was elected secretary.
Mr.. Foy has been acting as the
third member of the grievance COM
mittee for the past year and due to
his untiring efforts has made a
host of friends among the train
men.
The position of general chairman
of the general committee is being
voted for over the entire coast lines
system, but inasmuch as this posi-
tion is created by referendum, the
results will not be known until
after December Is.