Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 5, 1909, Page 41

PI' T SEVEN comnsiow | THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. |[oxiizzee .\H')R'I\V'l&‘(;', JCEMB R .‘._' 1909, VOL. XXXIX-NO. OMAHA SUNDA} Nflvfl;fl S R S Scepter of a Cereal Corn is King and has been since Pharaoh ruled in Egypt. In his unbroken dynasty, grim and despotic, he has played his part in the drama of the World’s progress. Famine fell on the Land of Canaan and the Children of Israel fled to Egypt for corn. Rome, harghty in the heyday of her supremacy, was menaced by the strife of varied elements amalgamated by the ' mbitious Caear. But the apportionment of corn among the People allayed dismay and established peace. England wrote her Corn laws upon the Statute books of Edward III to become the token of a World Power. The Indian maize was a pioneer of Civiliza- tion out on the Borderland of the New World to which the bold Columbus ventured. Stronger and better each Scion of the House has come to the throne and mightier and greater the Kingdom has grown. Today King Corn rears his golden-tasseled crown above Monarchies, Empires and Republics alike. Before his Throne bow the rich and poor, the high and low, learned and illiterate, praising the majesty of his might. And as the simple worshipers of old wended their way to the Mecca of their faith at Jerusalem, so the people today come annually to the National Feast of Scientific Knowledge in the Gate City of the West.