— of dollars’ worth of bonds issued by sister common- wealths. These bonds are the investment of the Will That Convention Yet The Omaha Bee permanent school fund of Nebraska, which fund is Somebody Stampede V_____—-—-' now in excess of $10,000,000. In other words, the morn Fn C—E V E N I N C-S U N D A Y 1 UF permanent school fund of Nebraska represents about SUNNYSIDE nor THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. cJaJce Comfort, foroet PubU»he7 for each child of school in the state. N. 0. UPDIKE. President $50 age / Duit BALLARD DUNN, JOY M. HACKLIER, While we are pointing with pride to the many SUM*J Editor m Chief | Business Manager good things we have in Nebraska, let us pause now MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS this and The Associated and then to with to one we Frank Carey, who makes department frequently, Press, of which The Bee ie a member, point equal pride thing Now who Is always welcome, Is an Inquiring sort of fellow. I* exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all haven’t got—a bonded state debt. news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited he wants to know what has become of— In this paper, and also the local news published herein. If-T”— -■> Sa polio All rights of republication of our special dispatches are WHEN A BOY DIES. NR CHAIRMAN / Pittsburgh Stogies also reserved. Granger Twist The Omaha Bee la a member of the Audit Bureau of When one Battle Ax the recognized on circulation whose days has reached the patriarch’s It) LIKE TO OFFER. I Circulations, authority audits, 99-Cent Stores and The Omaha Bee’s circulation ia regularly audited by allotment moves to his rest, little occasion is noted their organizations. A RESOLUT/OM Free Bus to the Depot. for sorrow. Those he leaves behind will miss him, Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1008, We are unable to Impart the desired Information. Neither at .Omaha postoffice under act of March 8, 1879. but they do not begrudge him the reward that is do we know what has become of— BEE TELEPHONES his at the completion of his task. When a strong Clap pipes Private Branch Ask for Exchange. a t 1.ml' 1 non and lusty man is cut off in his there is Feather ticks the or Person Wanted. At l&TltlC 1UUU vigor, regret, Department ;; Lye hominy for he leaves a task unfinished. And for the OFFICES boy, And the girls who retired to their bedrooms W'hen they Main Office—17th and Farnam who is called just as he is stepping into the open applied powder and a bit of rouge. Co. Bluffs—16 Scott St. So. Side—N. W. Cor. 24th N. is. i door of a 4r life, there is real sorrow, for he leaves New York—World Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bldg. We feel greatly flattered and highly complimented. Yea Chicago—Tribune Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bldg. task uncommenced. His whatever it promise, may we on East Farnam to gaze through a window St. Louis—Syn. Trust Bldg. Los Angeles—Higgins Bldg. terday paused a automobile. A salesman sauntered out and San Fran.—Hollrook Bldg Atlanta—Atlanta TfUst Bldg. have been, is unfulfilled. at 14,000 polite actually endeavored to sell It to us. After several minutes of MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES Every father and mother in the land today is conversation we walked on, elevated In spirit. Incidentally it Daily and Sunday sending to the White House unuttered but tender may be stated that we agreed with the polite salesman as to 1 year $5.00, 6 months $3.00, 8 months $1.76, 1 month 76c but were unable to come to an on terms. Daily Only and effective messages of loving sympathy. The J&B. price, agreement 8 months 1 month 76c ^_/f 1 8 months $1.50, year $4.60, $2.75, sorrow that has fallen upon the and his Sunday Only president "Be careful; death Is so permanent," Is a sign adorning a 1 year $3.00, 6 months $1.76, 3 months $1.00, 1 month 60c wife, and the brother of the boy who has journeyed filling station In North Omaha. Which reminds us that a lot CIT.Y SUBSCRIPTION RATES an on of people who tried to gain a minute actually gained eternity 1 month 1 week 20c ahead is shared by all. Morning and Sunday.. 86c, of time. The auto driver who boasts to us that he drove 200 and month 66c, 1 week 15c Evening Sunday.1 How wide is the door through which the spirit miles In six hours merely advertises that he Is anxious to wake Sunday Only .1 month 20c, 1 week 6c even a on the other side. We announce our Independent ___—- may escape, at time when it seems most care- up hereby candidacy for the legislature, our purpose being to Pass a fully guarded, was never better shown. A little Law offering a bounty of 12,500 per scalp of all auto drivers thing, so insignificant and such a common experience who travel faster than 40 miles an hour on public roads. among active, energetic boys and girls, opened the Vhefe is at its Best We easily recall the time when the Police Gazette was Oraate the^fesl way. All that medical science or skill could do was ♦ found mostly In barber shops and saloons, and was considered » not enough to' the “He cometh forth as Good to be to be Shunned and Its a stop gap. by Truly People something devotees But a flower, and is cut down.” Prayed For. the Pink ’Un was a Great Family ^ WHAT DO YOU MEAN, “CHAOS”? Journal compared to scores of flashy, trashy, sex-arousing and Calvin had his on a Coolidge, Jr., modeled life virtue-flouting periodicals lavishly displayed on practically mine had written a book," “Oh, that adversary splendid example. One of the pictures that have every news stand. A free press Is one thing; a licentious press midst Is quite another exclaimed the sorely smitten patriarch, in the become familiar to Americans is that of Calvin Cool- thing. of hot contention. Had he lived today he might have idge, Sr., and his boys. Again and again are they Horace Davis says the height of impudence Is for man have re- made it “platform” instead of “book,” and shown together, and the fact is but attributable to seated In a crowded street car to try to flirt with a woman hanging to a strap. We can match that. Being somew-hat old- joiced. the intimate bond that held them close. A com- fashioned we recently arose from our seat in a crowded street the resonant Stimulated and uplifted by ringing, munity between father and sons sacred and full of car to make room for a frail, gray-haired lady, but before she and the stern could bow her thanks and take the seat a of keynote emitted by "Pat” Harrison meaning. One has dropped out of the picture, here painted flapper about 17 slid Into It with a pert giggle. Then and there we and sarcasm of Chairman Walsh, the on earth. The corroding bond will be the stronger now. determined to become more active in the organization ef democratic platform writers approached their task branches of the Bedslat Club. hi a state of mental exaltation. How good they A CANDIDATE AT LAST. Most denunciations of "big business" fall from the lips of felt: “Fighting Bob” La Follette is finally a candi- men who give personal testimony to their poor business. 'flt to ; “Long boastful that It was the only party date for President of the United States. “Bob” has • they said, “the republican party has Twenty-eight years ago Mr. Bryan Insisted that mankind f govern,'" been to be a candidate for itching years. In fact should not be crucified a cross of And now the proved Its inability to govern even itself. ^ upon gold. it has sole democratic bosses In New York are that to This nation can not afford to entrust its welfare to beenfthe ambition of the Wisconsin sen- doing very thing a lot of short-pursed delegates from the outlving states a organization that can not master Itself. ator since long before Roosevelt took the ; political Progres- WILL M. MAUPIN. for Is a vote for chaos!'' .... A vote Coolldge sive nomination for himself in 1912. “Bob” had it * • v all lined up in 1912 in fact, but Roosevelt slipped » Jl What a luminous, edifying example of self-gov- around him and made off with the prize. ernment the democratic now presents. Ten So “Bob” has been trying to up issues ever party whip It’s l'p to Your Hat. angle and droop, can be made to take after that boasted was we find since in the of another on aa mood* aa the t^ys plank adopted, hope developing great de- Of all the articles that a man wears many varying face underneath. A hat may look weary delegates, embittered, divided, led or mand for himself as a candidate for President. his hat alone fully, freely and flexibly tjje aristocratic or vulgar, serious or hu- “Bob” Interprets his personality. Y’our suit driven from candidate to candidate, unable to agree has been lurid enough, more lurid than or la buttoned on. your collar la fastened morous, gloomy cheerful, digitized After two weeks of ever in but somehow or radical or conservative, oft any choice for nominee. fact, he couldn’t whip up TO A FRIEND'S WIFE. on, your scarf la tied on. your hosiery flippant, rakish or righteous, fresh or wilted, and threat- much enthusiasm. must be done Center Shots Is drawn on. your glove Is squeezed Unremitting effort, bickering, quarreling Something about alive or dead.—John David In Tha Letters From I stood up with you when you were on. your shoe Is laced on, but your even democratic newspapers begin to shed it, however. He must be a candidate. “Bob” I A merican Hatter. ening, just We think we have discovered the wed. hat Is put on. tears, and see but little hope. One of the most is getting along in years. He finally determined real reason for the lengthening of And you, beautiful and fair, mumbled Your hat. by Its pniss and pitch Oar Readers skirts. It was to the waist- "love and a “boss.” A that the prevent obey," ardent supporters sighs for year 1924 must see the or he hut name newspaper great adventure, All letters must signed, line from falling below the hem.— But nowj—by his own hand he lies never. will lie withheld upon reouest. Com- “boss,” it recites, might— munication* of 200 words and less Punch. dead. the convention function more efficiently The will he given preference. And you, his \\lfe, are wiping the m “have made opportunity came in the serious illness of V___/ It may be true that we are what we tears away. C100 $22 Kodaks and more satisfactorily to the rank and file of the Eugene V. Debs, many times candidate of the So- but we don't know of Voire for McAdoo. think, many alone all the am the party than a thousand free and Independent indi- I. of world, only- 100 Scouts cialist “Gene” who are what they think they are.— for Boy f- able to do for themselves.” Party. couldn’t run. The Social- Omaha—To the Editor of The one vidualists have been Cleveland and Commercial. Bee: I note In an Times Who knows friend has book- ists needed a candidate—and the bargain was made. Omaha editorial why my New camera, new The trouble with the democratic convention is left this today that you again take a whack of the most In vale, new in- In order to make it look as if there was a One pathetic sights new accessory, not a lack of are with them. great at McAdoo. and also a whack at W, I know who made him this world let, bosses—they plagued the political world Is a lame duck can demand from the “peeppl,” that “Bob” sacrifice J. Bryan because he has been sup shun— formation— whatever Surely no one will deny that Tammany is a boss— counting his chickens before they are porting Mr. McAdoo. I have noted Why do you tremble and grow be called "the late* himself, there was staged a "progressive” conven- hatched.—Dallas Tlmes-Herald. properly nor “Peg-Leg” George Brennan—nor Tom Taggart, for some time that The Omaha Bee pale? tion in Cleveland on 4. Those who has thingphotographic/’ishere whose at French Lick July read the been continually throwing bricks The coming out parties of the girls You slew the artist's soul within him, “privileges” Springs require of course. of that at McAdoo. Luckily Mr. McAdoo is are about the same as ever, only they With sneers at his art—he tried to ; as a matter of the law. And who would the proceedings gathering, however, remember Disc Wheels tbe winking deny so well and popularly known that the come out a little further.—Norfolk do—- the the names of the steering committee: Morris Hill- Now “the late*” i* “boss” to who kicked out the bricks thrown by an Omaha paper Ledger-Dispatch. In those few moments he tftie Hearst, League could spare con- Nickeled Radiator quit, Victor Jacob are not felt. big Eastman picture Nations and turned the back of the democratic Berger, Judge Pauken, William —So dim of The question comes to my mind, Neither will chance a wet The H. Johnson—and several other Socialist party Was your vision—he tried so hard test for Boy Scouts. Nickeled Headlights its own saint, Woodrow Wilson. Party that If The Omaha Bee has so much It’s the farmer vote are pjirty upon patron plank. they for you. are one h ndred $22 leaders. stuff on McAdoo In the way of cor- after—not the hie vote.—Norfolk Vir- prizes § * • * The darkest fate I will hope for you. infor- On ruption, etc., why don't they present ginian-Pilot. Kodaks. Complete • Sunday, July 6, these same men moved over Is that you mate with one of your Now It to the American Bar association coun- regrular equip- Dan Stephens of Fremont, chairman of the Ne- to the kind; mation at our Kodak regular Socialist Party convention, joined or the courts. knows that "Hogs," says the market report, ! Everyone I not at the has it we pray for vengeance—I pity you. ter—of courae. on braska delegation convention, right. up with socialist mayor of Daniel the charges regarding oil made "are little changed." So observe ment Durant Cars Milwaukee, Hoan, His face will always be In wout whe against McAdoo all fell flat In the In- hourly every time we go out.—Ameri- He sees the issue. He may differ from those and laid — and en- the foundation for a Socialist “endorse- can Lumberman. H f, Ottstt Developing, printing vestigation, but still The Omaha Bee _mind. _ The most still discern the rosy tints of dawn hovering over the sort. powerful ment” of “Fighting Bob.” keeps harping and harping on the larging of superior Madison but he knows. He is there America spends over a billion a Square Garden, The net result of La Follette’s life subject. Whether this harping Is 4-cylinder car built. ambition— > Kodak Co. because The Omaha Bee Is a year for candy. That Is nothing t Eastman in the middle of it. He is a blunt man, Dan Steph- simply to be a candidate for w hat a president—finds him taking republican newspaper and McAdoo Is the political plums cost her.— (The Robert Dempster Co.) and he’ believes in the truth. And here Seattle ens, telling “Gene” Debs’ place as the candidate of the Socialist a democrat, or for some other reason, Argus. 1813 Famin St. j is the way he tells it: Party. nobody seems to know. The fart re- Branch Slora mains that there is of real oil The honeymoon Is over when she “The at issue before this convention plenty question The at breakfast with her fact of the matter Is that Victor Berger, so- dope on the republican leaders with- appears regular iis whether the ‘bosses' or the people's delegates are face.—Baltimore Sun. ^JS08SoutM5t^t^^^ cialist congressman from the out singling out one lone democrat to name the candidate. Milwaukee district; and trying to establish a case. man Is boss of his own home "Up »e the present time the bosses have suc- Mayor Daniel Hoan, socialist mayor of Milwaukee, I lived In Washington, D. C., for Every —when the family is away.—Kalama- WEDNESDAY EVE SPECIAL re 'ded in throwing enough sops to the f vorite sons and the Socialist four years, and I know that McAdoo Party organization throughout *oo Gazette. 'rom various states to divide the vote of the was, next to Wilson, the most popular people Wisconsin, have for been the FRIED HAM years mainstay of man there during that time He 1* so that the people are unable to make a nomination. On the Other Hand. Here 54 Years La Follette’s in still he has and It ill “On one side McAdoo and the favorite sons are strength Wisconsin. popular; ability, STEAK, behooves any Omaha newspaper to Housewife—Fancy a big. strapping dividing the vote of the people. On the other side La Follette has always run as a Republican. But Gravy—Currant keep pecking away at the man. I-et's fellow like you asking for money. Docs not dc- Country Jelly are the bosses, reactionaries and bootleggers, back- his main backing has been the socialist leaders. He have more news and less fault-find- You should be ashamed of yourself. Press the heart, French Fried Potatoes Andrew & Son ing A1 Smith and the other wet candidates repre- am a Tramp—I am. madam. But once I has been edging over closer nnd closer to Berger ing. I republican, but I don't like Aspirin, Murphy senting eastern states which seldom if ever go approve of such tactlca on tb* part cot 13 months for taking It without 14th and Jackson Sts. and Hoan, until he,has come out Hotel Rome Cafeteria democratic. finally under his of any party paper—democrat or re i'-klng.—Edinburg Weekly Scotsman. 25 fa box true _ • “George Brennan, the Illinoi* boss, throws a few colors. publican. Let's cut It out now and 24 Hours forever. H. R. SHANLEY. ■ Open Eveiy Day ! votes to our favorite son, th' ^ ivernor, to the gov- As the substitute candidate of the Socialist Party ernor of Kansas, a senator f m Arkansas and to N he may as votes poll many socialist as the high water H INK HT ATF.M K\T candidates from other states, as a sop to keep them BANK mTf.Mf.NT mark for “Gene” in 'in the field. Debs, 914,000 1920. Many of Charter No. 2770 Braerva Diauiet Na. 10 the Abe Martin “These candidates in no way represent him or “comrades,” however, are sticklers for RFPORT OF CONDITION OF THE party reg- \— -i are in sympathy with his views, with this and yet sup ularity “Fighting Bob” doesn’t carry a mem- MERCHANTS NATIONAL he is able to hold these favorite sons In the field BANK bership card, as "Gene” Debs does. and thereby defeat the nomination of McAdoo, who AT OMAHA, IN THE STATE OF NEBRASKA. AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESf However that Build comfort into your home. Use has received votes from 43 states and has solid may be—“Boh” is a candidate for ON JUNE SO. 1924. Celotex m ■ insulation,sheathing, delegations from some 23 states. President. He ought to he happy. plas- RESOURCES ter base. It insures comiort all year “These states that are voting for McAdoo con- Loans ar,d discounts, including rediscounts 19,170,295.51 — I ? 5*0 295.51 trol 257 votes In the electoral and round. Cuts fuel bills one-third. Overdrafts, unsecured 1£.095.94 college yet the Filipino soldiers who turned bolshevik and mu- U. S. Government securities owned: bosses have been able, through the Influence of the tinied later thank may whatever God thev worship Deposited to secure circulation (U. S. bor.ds par value) 50,900.50 favorite sons, to the to up present time, defeat the they were not serving under Trotzky when they All other United States Government securities (includ- nomination of the .. popular candidate. pulled their stuff. They would have found out what UPDIKE LUMBER & COAL CO ing premiums, if any' ... 425.516.5?— 4T1.916.5S Other J “McAdoo has a clear majority In the conven- a blank wall is for. bonds, stocks, securities, etc.i... 196 920 41 house If the votes could be Hanking 106.006 04 tlon, got to him, and he Is en- Real estate owned other than banking housa .. 145,762.17 titled to the nomination. But unless t^ie people at We hope Charlie Salter’s new automobile gives lawful reserve with Federal Reserve bank.. 746.479 14 home take a hand and see that they are no longer him as much joy as it did the and that he Items with Federal Reserve hank in process of collection 225.965 "l donors, Cash in vault and amount due from national banks ... 1,555.619.03 ; misrepresented by their delegates, they are likely be spared for a long time to ride in it. Amount due from State banks, hankers, and trust com- to get A1 Smith as their nominee or JP——mwmmmm—i somebody panies in the United States (other than included in equally disappointing." If the democrats really want to end the three preceding items) 926.165 6# • • • Exchanges for clearing house .. 2T5.2&6.44 deadlock, we suggest they get together on Jiggs nnd Barney Google. Checks on other banks in the same city or town as No equivocation about Dan Stephens. “Brother Notice of of reporting bank (other thgn above it am).. 94.499 64 Fare Total of five Change preceding items 2,914.666.49 Gharlie,” too, it seems, has been a tool of the bosses Fighting Bob La Follette now has a chance to do Miscellaneous cash items... 5 5.265 66_ 15 264 44 his Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and due from on to his votes in the that stuff. He will never get away with another bluff. -^-hanging paltry hope U. S. Treasurer ... 2 5 64 64 might strike him. Ijtehtning Even New Total York will not be sorry when the ... *11.925 949.94 I The answer at Madison Square is to be democrats go home. LIABILITIES found in the clash of petty personal ambitions. Capital stock paid in $ 1.666 666 64 one The Free Ice Gharlie Bryan is of the answers and Nebraska and Milk Fund is 100 per cent serv- Surplus fund ... 566 664 6# ice. Get in. Undivided profits less current expenses, interest, and owes a debt of gratitude to Dan for hav- on Stephens Effective July 10,1924, fares the taxes paid 291.954 91 ing pointed it out. /-v count o’ ther pull never seem t’ line Circulating notes outstanding .. 50.966 60 between N Street and Amount due to national bank* .. 656 bT4 54 "this nation can tumble. Wouldn’t this bo c dandy operating Verily, not afford to trust its Amount due to State barks, bankers, and trust com- world if we could nil stand dtscour- Fort as panies in the United States and foreign eountr.es welfare to a political organization that can not mas- Verse Crook will be follows: Homespun asrement like a reformer? tother than above item)... 1,545.744.74 ter itself.” The democratic is that —By Omaha*! Own Poet— 1924 ) checks party organiza- _(Copyright, Certified outstanding ... 14 646 25 Cashier's checks outstanding .. 170.555.lt tion it so accurately describes and rightfully con- Robert Tn each of the fare Worthinaton Davie existing zones, Total of four preceding items. .. 52 444,749 64 demns. v__/ NET AVERAGE Demand deposit* (other than bank deposits) subject to the cash fare will be 7 cents. Tickets Reserve ideposit* payable u thin 50 days' Look at the record made at New view UPRIGHT UFRIGHTUS. York, the PAID CIRCULATION Individual deposits subject to check. 7.919.214.44 and then will be sold the conductor at the Certificates of deposit due in lets than 90 days (other proceedings day by day, ask the platform Rnv* tny friend, Upright Ufrlghtus,— by than for money borrowed) 127.496 *1 “What do you mean, ‘chaoB’?” "Finding will never right us, for June, 1924, of builders, wrong rate of 4 for 25 cents, said tickets be- Dividends unpaid ... 9 155 64 Nor will grumbling east our fault* nnd flaw* awny. Total of demand deposit* (other than bank deposits) subjects (.> Ro?«rr\e. three items. This complaining makes rue nervous; THE OMAHA BEE ing good for a ride in any one zone. preceding 9,055 *56 17 SPEAKING OF NEBRASKA. Time deposits subject to Reservo pa v able after 90 What wo need the most Is Service day*, or subject to *0 days or more notice, and ; Nebraskans are to be pardoned if now and then To upbuild our faith nnd keep us from decay. Daily .74,616 postal sax ings ) ; Certificates of deposit (other than for money borrowed) 969,9*1 5% their task of in delightful a "Time Is for ardent ... tjiey pause building ripe fighting; Sunday .76,224 Postal sax mg* deposits .... 96 4*6 24 Total of time greater and a better state to boast of what Ne- Purdy foolish Is reciting deposits subject to Rr«cr\e, two pre- Day by day the shallow messnges sod vsln. Does not Include returns, left- ceding items ...... 426.41151 braska has. But there are some things worth boast- or in Now has dawned the day to rally overs. samples papers spoiled and includes no Total about that Nebraska has not. printing special ..... tT2.921.94Mt ing Round Integrity, and aally or free sales circulation of any kind. State of Nebraska. Courty of Douglas, *s: one of two states that Forth to honest and For instance, Nebraska is goodllneea godly gnln." 1. 8. 8. Kent. Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnlv #w#ar that tha a aboxe statement I* trua to the be*t of my knowledge and belief does not owe a dollar of state bonded indebtedness But I ask V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. Omaha & Southern Interurban Upright Ufrlghtus,— 5 8 KENT. Cashier. While I with bronchitis,— Wisconsin being the other one. differ Subscribed and sworn to before me Corm \(te*t it? How we'll hope to make our honest efforts win this 0th day of July, 1924 Co. FKFD V HAMILTON, That is really something to boast about, isn’t Railway C \\ Till we cleanse both cot nnd palace. W H. QUIVfcY. HAMILTON. Not is Nebraska free from bonded state debt, (Seal) Notary Public G. SAM ROGERS. Direct ore only And let gravity from chalice Subscribed and sxxorn to before me this 7th dav of July. 1924. but it is the owner and possessor of several millions Drain the last atomic quantities of sin. ‘SSAU i CHARI.KS II. riX.A, NoUrr