Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 31, 1916, Page 3

% the decoration of the graves of de i parted veterans and others in the cemetery and a parade at the Sol OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 31. 1916 3 eoraska strike at the e i . whe Washington, the day |ing; to them and t alone is | honor, Earl B. N ) L. | observance of Memorial day th e Grar y was reviewed |revealed the power and the supernal | Hackett bat n's G I nd the exercises in the mili high | more ti the 1 \ ed up t 1 Pennsylvania avenue glory.” | tysburg speech, Rev. T. J. Ma \ or ediately afterward {ets, Spanish-Amer War {them for instructior e Tarm v wai: reviewed v dise | -iMemorialiservicas - wete ifchasae | B band; address, Majc A un ices of the Grand ans and Grand Army men made MEMORIAL DAY | Abuse of Word “Militarism.” 1 and went home to plow the of the general committee of patri rge H, Har ymn, | Army of the lic, the United |up the parade, with the postoifice | He spoke of the abuse the word otic societies of the city at the Audi America;" benediction F.| Spa Sons of Vet-|band furnishing music. E. W. John- “militarism,” and reviewed the days| The general closed with a fine|torium. B. F. Flauger, chairman of | Poucher son was marshal of the day OVER NEBRASKA‘“!” who cried agai s0- | tribute to the flag, but declared that |the memorial committee and con Fiftieth Annual Parade. xteenth and Dr._Bell's,Pine-Tar-Honey. callec arism predicted that the | “only those who have served the | mander of George Crook post No.| For the fifticth time since the 1| Capit 2 o'clock. | ™fiomey “osthes the~ irritation, victorious ary vil war | colors, no matter how humble or un-| 262, presides, The program arra war closed the Grand Army n was fol the phiexm, relioves Exercises Generally Largely At-|would sct up a kingdom in America. | warlike the service may have been,|was a follows Overture, Post- | veterans of the civil war, marched or ved de street to Doug- ot 06 g R tended by Patriotic Citizens | ===== — . - - - of State, SERVICES AT SOLDIERS' HOME Grand Island, Neb, May 30.—(Spe cial Telegram,)—Memorial day was duly observed in this city with the usual program, a parade from the | city to Grand Island cemectery for | diers' home from the main building | to the home cemetery for similar ceremonies and the Grand Army ritual at the home cemetery, one-half mile west of the institution. Services were held at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the home, with addresses by Com mandant Walsh and Rev. Mr. Jack son | In the city the veterans and friends were addressed at the Grand Army of | the Republic hall by Attorney Suhr. | Appropriate music was given at both places and the day passed without un- | favorable incident and many partici pated in the ceremonic 0| DRY FEDER‘ATION FORMED IN SCOTTS BLUFF COUNTY Scotts Bluff, Neb. cial)—L. O. Jones, state organizer for the Nebraska Dry Federation, or ganized Scotts Bluff county last week | into Dry Federations, closing his cam paign with a meeting at Scotts Bluff at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon, and a meeting at Gering in the evening at 8 o'clock. The offering at Scotts Bluff amounted to $367, and the Ger- | ing pledges totaled $165, T'he following officers of a county May 30.—(Spe organization were clected at the| scotts Bluff meeting [ T. C. Osbor president, Scott Biufr i’ 0. P. Burrows, vice president ecretary, Scott Mr. A B urer, Gering I'he follow were s¢ lected as presidents of local federa tions ¢ sons sart, Gering. Mitchall Morrill Inatare K, +McGrew. COURT GIVES JUDGMENT FOR ESTATE TO NEBRASKA Hastings, Neb.,, May 30.—(Special Telegram.)—Judge Corcoran in the district court today rendered judg ment giving the state of Nebraska title to the $100,000 estate of John O'VConnor, which has been sought by about 100 professed heirs. The or der 1% subject to the ruling of the state on the appeal of several groups of claimants and also on the appeal of John T. Culavin, who claims the es tate under an alleged will. This is by far the largest estate that has ever escheated to the state GASOLINE PUMP AS RULE GIVIN GGOOD MEASURE (From a Correspondent.) Lincoln, May 30.—(Special.)—Re plying to newspaper criticism that gasoline pumps are not giving full measure, Commissioner Harman, un der whose department the inspection of these pumps comes, declared that the general run of them give good measure. Occasionally one is found giving short measure and is con demned. The inspection of Omaha pumps, the commissioner says, is left the municipal authoritics CHARGED WITH HAVING * UNBORN CALF IN MARKET (From a Staft Corre Lincoln May 30, (Special.) Charged with having an unborn calf at his meat market in Plattsmouth, Sam Oleskir has been arrested and fined $10 and costs, according to Food | Harman. The action | was brought by the State Pure Food | commission | Oleskir claimed he brought the calf | in merely to remove the hide pondent.) Commissioner Governor Talks at Pierre iren and civic largest for years. Governor "IHE ROAD ; ]\ ‘ | Wil ING a paean ‘of American Bigness and Achievement! Here is pre-eminently, incomparably, superlatively the Land of SUCCESS—the richest land—the freest land—the land of BIG OPPORTUNITIES! Think of it! —A hundred million people—the largest and most populous republic in history. —with the highest annual income of any nation in the world. (Not less than 25 or 30 billions of dollars. The mind can’t grasp it.) —More than that of any other two nations, more than Great Britain and Germany combined! The greatest production of GRAIN, COTTON, IRON, STEEL, COPPER, OIL,—and heaps of other things. ~—More railroad lines than all the rest of the world put together. —An internal commerce greater than the whole world’s international trade, —More steel buildings than on all the rest of the globe, —Twice the banking capital of any other nation,—~almost as much as all Europe combined. —More automobiles than all the rest of the world put together. —NMore f: n tractors than on all the rest of the earth. —More motor-boats, more telephones, more magazines and newspapers, more miles of telegraphs, more public libraries, more school houses, more sewing machines, more phonographs ! —The first real republic in the widest, freest sense! —The only nation that spends more on education than on armies and navies—nearly 500 millions a year! —And all this from a slender colony of farmers fighting for existence on the shores of the Atlantic less than a century and a half ago! Nothing like it in all the world’s history. How did it come? Because of that act of Massachusetts Colony in 1674 which gave to the world the first example of universal and free education. —And along with all this has gone the other big fact —the United States has bought more BOOKS and paid more for them than any other two nations in history, most work of its kind, in any language—THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA. The astonishing sale of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in the United States— i~ 4 7/ S A Britannica Rout A iy e A “ “ll'“iil"l_lfi N the ears of Dick WiirTiNgTON sang the Bow Bells of old London—calling him ! And in the ears of most every American boy (and many American girls, too) has rung the same call—to achievement, to adventure, to a larger life,—to the American ideal—SUCCESS. It still rings.—It is calling to twenty million boys and girls of fifty states— —eager to carry on the true American tradition:—High pressure, high wages, high deeds, invention, resourcefulness—the bound-to-get-there determination, What has been the mainspring behind this American V/IM? One great factor has been the wide dissemination of education, knowledge, books! Universal education, paid for by all the people is an AMERICAN idea, and America’s GREATEST contribution to civilization; for it was the pioneer idea which led to the foundation of the American Republic. This American idea has now spread all over the world; but America is still far in the lead. . No other nation has ever spent such tremendous sums on education. Nowhere else is the general average of intelligence so high. In no other country on earth have so many books been sold. Of Shakespeare, of Macaulay, of Darwin, of Herbert Spencer, of Dickens, of Lord Bryce —practically every great English writer—five or fen times as many volumes have been sold in America as in all the rest of the world, Still more remarkable has been the unprecedented diffusion of works of universal information—encyclopaedias and the like. Of a single work more copies, with a total of a larger number of volumes have been sold than the combined sale of all other large works of reference in rinted. language on earth, since books began to be Needless to say what work has had this amazing distribution, for there is {only one work like it in all the world— | —THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA. In the 148 years of its existence, the Encyclopaedia Britannica has had a total sale, in volumes, exceeding that of any other book ever published, save the English Bible, and perchance Shakespeare. This total, for the eleven editions since 1768, now reaches the staggering figure of more than a million sets, or rre, S. D, May 30—(Special Tel . 2 ¢ Gt far above 20,000,000 volumes, And the total paid for them exceeds a hundred Weather' -conditions. V'wears —and for one single great work of reference it has paid more than 60 million dollars— million dollars! the carrying out of Me the work that from the days of George Washington to the present time has been the fore- Of the total sale of the Britannica since /768, more than two-thirds has been in the United States alone. And of the new Eleventh Edition, more ade the address of the day the fact that not less than 14 or 15 million volumes of this great work have than three-quarters, to date, have heen sold in this country. to a large audience at the city audi sen sold here cannot have been without a real and decisive influence in aps . : i : toriu | ‘{‘H::lrx:‘:xll(ll]zft".“ canno » Its million schoolhouses, its 1500 colleges and universities, and the wide Dixon Will Vote on Water Bonds It is still more remarkable that for the latest issue, the new Eleventh Edition, distribution of the Britannica and countless other smaller compends of GENERAL HARRIES TALKS T0 VETERANS t a larger sum has already been paid by the people of the United States alone than Il other l¢ ‘ncyclopaedias ever printed in the English language knowledge have made the American people what they are—the most resourceful, the most inventive, the most progressive people on earth. A Wonderful Bargain—Soon Closed v as the new Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopacdia Britannica was to be had only in the expen bridge University issue there was ample excuse why many homes should go without it ed this splendid work ought to be in every wide-awake family in the United State Now s and convinced of the possibilities in a cheaper edition that we arranged with the pub- Britannica to make for us a new issue, absolutely the unabridged, unchanged, e pt for the size ! page and type m for a huge printing, probably harged for the Cambridge University n receipt of a single dollar— ild not believe that we cou ns. There was only make this offe | you may th eep t same as the Camb: And we con the largest single printing order ever given in ridge i offer the o way reall em three Booklet No. 2 A 130-page In order to give a clear idea of what there is to interest bright GU[DE BOOK boys and girls in the En wlwymwlm Britannica the publishers o have prepared a really beautitul book of 72 pages, as big asa FREE! magazine, It contains over 100 half-tone illustrations : A o Tt shows how the Britannica makes school work easier and The publishers of the EN more profitable ; how to make children use their eyes and ears CYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA and eager minds t¢ arpose, and how to find out for what have prepared a richly trained s about some real boys and girls— ome of the interesting things they discover There for themselve The book might almost be called a miniature encyclopaedia, th information, Do not fail to send for Itis g test of their capacity to enjoy the ked w lia Britann ted number printed oebuck and Co Chicage Plrare vend me B saders. 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