Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 15, 1909, Page 6

T ——— THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15 THE OMAHA DALY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER OR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postoffice as second- class matter TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Bee (without Sunday), one y aily Bee and Sunday, one’ year... DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Daily Bee (including Sunday), per week..16¢ Daily Bee (without Sunday),’ per week..l0c Evening Beo (without Sunday), per week 6 Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week.. .10 Surday Hee, ona year. e B Saturduy Bec, one year 1 X Address all ‘complaints of irreguiarities in delivery (o City Circulation Department. OFFICES Omaha—The Bee Bullding. South Omahs—Twenty-fourth and N. Councll Bluffs—15 Seott Street. Einooin—siy thde Bullding, cago—1o4§ Marquette Bullding. New York—Rooms 1101-1102 No. 84 West Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. A Communloations relating to news an 4 torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Departmen REMITTANCES. 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Address will be as often as reguested. =i But the frisky 'Frisco won't alto- gether lose sight of Kat; Mr. Shotwell's letter seems to have stirred up the court to resentment, at least: To be strictly wp to date, the New Year water wagon devotees should speak of it as'the aquaplane. The Council Bluffs city council have decided not to give up their street car passes. Old habits die hard. Now that army officers are forbidden to buy oil of the Standard, that old of- fender may ‘begin to realize that gov- ernment opposition is no light matter. The American ‘millionaire who has been bound in Morocco because of his atrocious practical jokes evidently con- siders himself the edition de luxe of Joe Miller’s jest book. That New York lawyer who pleaded in court that his client was a ‘‘gullible fool” is not the first of the profession to find himself in that fix. He is merely the first to openly admit it. The ‘cashiering of an army officer for. petty robberies of the West Point mess after a distinguishéd career in the service. in the far east indicates that It a man has a yellow streak it is bound to erep out. — The inconmpetence of the local dem- ocratfc administration was never so well exemplified as in the condition of the downtown streets at present. “‘Hosg’" Tom Flynn is surely making a record on how not to do it. 1f the threat to send the price of broom# corn to $1 aplece is fulfilled, the mhnufacturers will find that the breom corn crop is not half so short as_father, and that mother will be lib- orally excused from the sweeping habiti, Th enthuslastic Georglans who were wildly chasing every man with a black skin a day or two ago have sub- sided very noticeably since it was dis- covered that the crime was committed by & white man. Does color make any diftdrence? 'The robber who admits having held up the cashier of a lunck stand and fouf other similar crimes apparently is ‘eager to land In the penitentiary, and the wheels of justice should be greaged a little in order to help him realize his ambition Semator Rayner's impassioned out- burst against Zelaya attests the fact that Joan of Arc was tame compared with our ewn Maryland when that girl gets her fighting blood up. The south evidently would give the Nicaraguan maléfactor short shrift if* he were within her border: Mrs. Margaret Deland argues that the divorce evil is the result of indi- viduals seeking to be happy at the ex- pense of soclety and she denies them the right, In her plea for the perma- nence of the family she has stirred up a discussion which promises for awhile to crowd the suffragettes out of the Nmelight, perhaps, ought to have but the proposition of o reet names on telephone and electric light poles that happen to bg adjacent to the thoroughfare desig- naked seems to bave about reached the Extension of Civil Service President Taft's recent order Includ- ing _the diplomatic .appointments within the province of civil service is a timely exemplification of Dr. Ellot's point in his annual address as presl- dent of the National Civil Service Re- form league, that the extensions of the classified service have proceeded from the executive rather than from con- gre Dr. Elliot makes the significant comment: “It will be an Interesting and some- what unexpected development in the working of the constitution if the pres- ident, elected by the whole people, turns out to be a better Interpreter of ths people’s wishes and purposes in an ethical and economic reform than the members of the two legislative bodles elected by states or by districts.” The reason for this congressional laxity as compared with executive vig- flance s probably traceable to' the fact that generations of congressmen were so long closely related to the spoils system, a system which, Dr. Eliot re- ports, now ls covertly manipulated by the bosses, the machine politicians and their tools. The successful operation of eivil service In many governmental depart- ments has enormously advanced faith in the republic among thinking people. As Dr. Eliot remarks, the public now thinks of government service, “‘not as a charity, or as affording a livelihood for incompetents, or as a means of pay- ing and feeding the henchmen of politi- cal leaders, but as a great business or- ganization for doing efficiently and honestly large pleces of business which | the people want to have well done.” Extension. of the service is now pos- sible through executive order, in na- tional affairs, but Dr. Eliot and his as- sociates would carry it further, to in- clude municipal matters. Particularly strong is his feeling that a merit sys- tem is necessary to ‘‘reform the ex- traordinarily unjust and ineffectual methods of taxation,” which he con- siders “injurious to the national in- dustries.” He would have assessors and other officials concerned with tax- ation selected and retained for their knowledge of productive tax adminis- tration. The same {dea he would carry _|Into all municipal matters, in order to put American city governments on a business basis. ‘It is only in this way,” he argues, “that the civil serv- ice in American communities can be brought to the condition of a life ca- reer which well-qualified young men can enter with the intention of devot- ing themselves to it for life.” This turning of the league from na- tional to municipal agairs manifests a determination to conquer more worlds, and while cities will not be ready to welcome the interference of Dr. Eliot that there is life in the old league yet, and that civil service reform is not content to rest on its record of achieve- ment. 4 \ Being a Good Neighbor. While Central American jingoes are seeking to make aggressive capital against the United States out of our attitude towards Zelaya, let the peo- ple of those republics be not deceived, but instead turn to the evidence of how excellent a neighhor we are to any well-intentioned country in need of our good offices, as given in the report of the Dominican customs receivership. Under the beueficent administration of the United States bureau of insular affairs, the Dominican revenues have been put on a business basis, the pay- ing of Installments upon the debt to this country has been regularly accom- plished without any burden to the peo- plp and for two years the affairs of that country have known . unaccus- tomed stability and prosperity. So gratifying s the American ad- ministration to the Dominicans that the receivership has been solicited to revise the entire fiscal and tariff sys- tem of the republic, and under United States guidance a measure has been perfected that promises to remove op- pressive features of existing laws, while at the same time providing ade- quate revenues. Central American observers are invited to study the re- sults in the marked increase of trade and higher standard of living designed by this neighborly national recelver- ship. A Menace Within the Navy. Whatever, of sectionalism still lives in this country is customarily mani- tested by the enst against the west, and in view of the facts of the case the westerner cannot but conclude that the recent criticisms against the battle- ship Nebraska are inspired by eastern animus. On the Atlantic the vessel has been consistently regarded as an intruder, because, forsooth, it is not the product of the jealous eastern | yards, Its record was a clean cne in | Pacific waters, where it exceeded its | contract speed despite the fact that it | had interior fuel instead of the picked | coal used in Atlantic tests. It was a prize winner in maneuvers and target work and won admiration all along the | 1ine in its trip around the world. Sea- | soned officers said they mnever had | knowp a finer vessel, or more thor- oughly enjoyed life or witnessed more | harmonious and effective discipline than on this model product of the Puget sound. / " Yet what happens when the Ne- braska is asstgned to the Atlantic fleet. It fell, strangely, from high to low grade in the matter of target prac- {tice, and Lieutenant Macy, ordnance officer, openly accused officials of put- ting up a job. Macy was court- lmit of absurdity. If street signs are really necessary the eity ought to pro-|lowed up; instead he was tramsferredthat the barbarities of steerage vide for them in the proper way. martialed and acquitted, In justice his charges should then have been fol- to recraiting work inland and appar- and his fellow advisers, it is manifest’ ently no effort was made to improve the order of things aboard the war- ship. Now the same naval officlals who sidetracked the man who dared to speak up are In control of the investi- gation of the collision between the Ne- braska and the Georgia. Advance judgment in the east fastened the blame upon the Nebraska, and 1t was proclaimed as a ‘“hoodoo’” ship. The Nebraska represents an Investment of millions of the people's money. It was accepted by the government after the most rigid tests, more severe, indeed, than are customarily applied to the products of the Atlantic seaboard. It has demonstrated its capabilities in the Pacific. The campaign against it in othér waters looks very like discrim- ination and {s worthy of the attention of the head of the Navy department. It 1s high time to rid the service of any such antagonism. A fleet divided against Itself {s In peril from a foe more insidious than foreign guns. Street Railway Service, The report of the city gouncil com- mittee indefinitely postponing the ordi- nance to reduce fares in Omaha will not be a serious disappointment to the public. It is probably true that some reformation in local street rallway service {s required, but at present the more urgent needs of the public are not summed up with the demand for cheaper rides. The Omaha Street Railway company gives rides of much longer length for 5 cents than any steam road would possibly do, and with the transfer system in vogue this feature of its service is not to be seri- ously complained of. It is true that a few other citles furnish street rail- way transportation at a lower cost to the public than does Omaha, but it will be found upon inquiry that conditions in those cities are very much different from those prevailing here. The ele- ments that enter Into the problem there are all in favor of the lower fare proposition. In Omaha a great many things in connection with the street railway service might be improved be- fore the fare is reduced. The needed improvements can only be had through the company's prosperity, and to cur- tail its gross income by the reduction of fare is certain to postpone the bet- terments. If the city council will de- vote its control over the street railway service to the matter of securing more trains on the lines, especially at the rush hours, so that the public will not be subjected to the terrific packing that now prevails, add some similar reforms, it will accomplish much bet- ter results than by wasting its time on the reduced fare proposition. Personal Rights in Photography. The elmination of President Taft from a moving picture would not be a matter of comment if the public had not become so accustomed to the mod- ern habit of photography, a habit which has become so general as to de- generate into a nuisance. Newspapers are in a measure to blame for this, for the indiscriminating ones miss no op- portunity to smother their pages with nauseating repetitions = of familiar faces. Thus, when the president comes to town, we have pictures of the presi- dent getting off the car, into his car- {riage, bowing from the carriage, tak- ing his hat off, putting it on, smiling, émiling more, looking at the mayor, looking away from the mayor, speak- ing, keeping still and so on through all the delsarte attitudes for repose, remorse, happiness, grlef, anguish, laughter and sublimity. Truly, we have all gotten into the way of surfeit- ing ourselves with films, till we are in danger of blunting our fine sense of the niceties. Secretary Wilson’s order can in no- wise be construed as a censorship. Rather It is the assertion of a personal right and an official propriety. Mr. Taft’s friends were within the preroga- tives In preventing a moving picture from being exploited about his per- sonality, and made the subject for familiar comment, if 'not for jest, in a mixed assemblage. We should all re- member that there is a dignity and even a sacredness attaching to the office of president of the United States; the cancellation of the presidential photograph was a proper tribute to that high functionary. In other countries royalty goes fur- ther and commands with a high hand. In England a short time ago some- one snapped King Edward in a group into which a notorious actress had ob- truded. From the negative the figure of the actress at once was blacked out, so that the shop windows were filled with prints showing a mysterious |shadow, distinct, but unrecognizable. iFrnm this incident has grown a sin- gular fad, and now the country Is flooded with all sorts of group photo- graphs of notables with one individual dimmed into a ghost. Thus a regal whim has been cultivated into a pecu- liar pastime, and out of it has grown a substitution for the word photograph of the slang nomenclature, “‘Guess Who?" When Robert Louls Stevenson de- scribed the conditions of life in the steerage between Europe' and America, people of this country viewed his dis- closures as containing the bias of a Britisher and the exaggeration of a writer of romance. But what shall they say to the revelations of the ofi- cial agents of the government who have filed thelir reports in Washington de- scribing shameful conditions as they experjenced them while traveling in the guise of emigrants? It is manifest that some of the transatlantic lines are still ‘treating not only men but also helpless women a8 so many cattle and lite are in some respects verily unspeaka- ble. Imasmuch it 1s apparent that the oftending lines will not reform ex- cept under compulsion, it I8 high time that we enacted legislation forcing the recalditrants to bring thelr steerage accommodations for and treatment of emigrapts up to a standard of cleanli- ness and decency. —_— The two extremes of personal and soclal endeavor met in New York when the president, devoted to ideals In ad- ministering the duties of the highest office in the land, met and talked with | the habitues of a Bowery mlission, where the lowliest had gathered to mdnifest their sincere desire toward uplifting themselves and neighbors from discouraging conditions. ‘The president's simple, stralghtforward homily must have stirred all the man- hood in the breasts of his listeners to a renewed sense of their obligations in life. It was the heartfelt speech of « man talking on the level to his fellow beings. —_— The public may consider itself ju iflable in promptly \wanting to know how a rear-end collision is possible on a rallroad pretending to be flrs!—clnnsl and operating under a block signal system. Is the wreck of a New York fiyer another case of deliberately run- ning past signals to maintain schedule? American railroads have yet to learn well the lessons of safety first and speed afterward. —_— The Interstate Commerce commis- slon has made an order concerning the fare between Omaha and Council Bluffs which will stop what has generally been considered an imposition. After February it will be possible to ride from any point in Omaha to any point in Council Bluffs for one fare plus the 5 cents bridge toll. Now, if the bridge toll could be wiped out! —— Prof. Parker of Harvard, who evolves the thedry that woman is less gensitive than man, and that the dainti- est woman has no more emotional sense, in the purely sclentific view, than her pet cat or dog, can count on having stirred up the liveliest animal, not in the whole menagerie, but in man’s menage, e e— Professors? Sure! Charleston News and Courfer. A Nebraska court has decided that “barbers are not common laborers,” but are professional men. Of. course, every one of them has a chair. Joy of the Mixup, Chicago Tribune. “The question promptly arises,” says the Omaha Bee, “what is the knead for a bankers' combine?’ The answer suggests itself with equal promptness: “‘Dough.” phoiardiuth sttt Goed Conduct. Abroad. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Good Americans abroad should so con- duct themselves that they can at anv moment rely “upon Uncle Sam’s prompt interference ffi' thelr behalf when troyble clouds the horigon. T Consolation for Pessimist , Washington Herald. Cheer up!, What If breakfast bacon is five times as high In price as it was ten years ago? Does not the accemmodating and kind-hearted grocer throw in the rind nowadays at exactly the same price as the meat? it Who Sprung’ the Rivets? New York Sun. It is sald that the effect of the collision forty miles off the south Atlantic coast be- tween the battlesiips Georgla and Ne- braska “was not serious, only a few rivets being sprung.’’ It was serfous enough, however, to warrant a thorough investiga- tion to determine in whose seamanship some rivets were sprung. There s plenty of room In the south Atlantie. COMING INTO FAVOR, Spread of the Taxation Policies of Henry George. Springfield Republican. 1t Is a pity Henry George could not have lived to see this day of rapidly widening recognition of the soundhess of his land taxation views. That the land monoplist shonld at least share the unearned Incre- ment with the community which creates it is a proposition' now coming into general acceptance Tff Germany and Great Brit- ain and Into a large degree of favorable recognition in the United States. Thus at a conservation conference recently held at St. Paul “Yquog Jim" HUl of the Great Northern raflroad urged the higher taxa- tion of lands held out of use as a whole- some measure. The Great Northern com- pany possesses such lands which it will gell to bona fide settlers on almost any terms, but to speculators on no terms. Still he advised tax discriminations against idle | lands. The Chicago Public, an advoeate of the George doctrines, regards this as Iittle short of sensatioral, considering its source. PERSONAL NOTES. A Chinaman has won the Ten FEyck Junior prize at Yale. Yellow and blue is the color scheme of a starry_night, with yellow for the stars. The subscriptions for the portrait of Grover Cleveland, to be placed In the executive chamber at Albany have jow reached the sufficient amount of £1,200, A. 8. Collington of Westwcod, N. Y, took an automobile trip In his $1500 mas chine and after he had collided with a truck sold the outfit for $10 because he needed corfare. A Gotham policeman knocked a man's jaw Into place by clubing his chin. Ae there are many other Jaws out of order, this newly discovercd chin treatment seems timely and advisable. The Clarkson family of Potsdam, N. Y. has solved the servant girl problem at least once. Mary Ann Tees. who dled the other day at the are of %, had been scrvant {n the famlily for sixty-four years and had saved $10,000 from her wagos. Dr. Koch. the bacteriologist, has reported the successful experiments made with eats for the eradication of rats in plaguo-in- fected and plague-menaced harbors of China. In Hongkong orders have been ls- sued providing for the maintenance of one rat in every house. In handing to the kaiser, in person, the gold medal of the Hudson-Fulton ocelebra- tion, General Stewart L. Woodford of New York, will extend to hix majesty the as- surances of our most distinguished con- sideration and Incldentally demonstrate that he himself i1 only 74 years young and qualified for & great variety of ceremonial missions. Around New York of Tife as Metropolls from y to Day. An impressive vindieation of Governor Hughes' course in striving to reform the Insurance department of the state comes | from the scandalous looting of the Phoenix | Insurance company of Brooklyn. During | his first term Governor Hughes sought to | remove Superintendent Kelsey from the department. Kelsey was shown to be in- competent and In suspiciously high power with the insurance companies. The state sonate rejected the governor's recommen- dations and Kelsey held on. The removal of the 1ld from the Phoenix mess shows that Kelsey's deputy superintendent, Bob- ert H. Hunter, borrowed $80,000 from the Brooklyn concern, repaying all But $18,000 of the loan. Another subordinate borrowed $61,000 and pald back all but $9,000, which vas charged off as “legal services.” Other officers dipped into the Phoenix pot for less sums. The revelations confound the political enemles of the governor, and ex- torts from the New York Sun & scorching roast for the blockheads of the state re- publican machine. BEugene Higgins has leased the southeast corner of Broadway and NWety-fifth street to Max Marx for 999 years. To pre- serve the lease In its exact form his law yers had It transferred to a lithographic stone. These stones are about three Inches thick. They do not shrink and if rubbed up occasionally by an experfenced transfer man the picture may be preserved indefi- nitely. It is a revival of the old idea of Moses when he had the Ten Command- ments engraved unshrinkable stone guaranteed against the weather and changes in temperature. The lease 18 prob- ably the first Instance of an out-and-out agreement to rent a plece of real estate In this city for so long a time, and while no figures are at hand as to what rent Mr. Higgins will recelve annually, Leopold Well the broken who negotlated the deal, sald the rental for the 99 years would ap- proximate between $25,000,000 and. $3:,000,000. Unlike ieases for similar terms, this one has no provisions whereby Mr. Higgins will be enabled at a glven period to step in and buy whatever improvement may be made upon the plot at the appraised value. Mr. Marx, during his lifetime, will have sole control of anything he may put upon the land, and his heirs, or whomever he may deslgnate, will have the same privilege. By the terms of the lease there is to be a re- appralsement every twenty years, and with every adjustment the amount of the rent to be pald will be determined between the principals. A Wall street commuter who was con- versing with a friend suddenly looked go through his pockets, “What's the matter? asked his friend. The other, with a sigh of rellef, pulled out a slip of paper. “I'm all right, now," he said, “but was afraid T had lost it. It is Order of the Day, No. 1" he further explained. “Issued from headquarters of the commanding general each morning just after breakfast” He showed It to his triend. “Quart of apple butter; -chicken, five pounds, and not an old hen; celery, if not over 10 cents a bunch; telephone to furrier about my coat; one bottle of Roach's em- brocation; socks for yourself; price the eggs in Washington marke! “Errand boy or pack horse,” mused his unmarried friend as he moved thoughtfully away. Watch pinched?” In the days of Hobson and Dewey, said Webber to Fields, “But he's a hero!” “Vell,” sald Fields, “he vunt be a hero The small boys on the East Side who are thirsting to be heroes, are not enter- taining fears as to future eclipse. The things they are after are permanent emolu- ments, and honor from their urchin people, | Not an automobile passes along the crowded thoroughfares without its ac- | companiment of eager-eyed small boys, | who hope to see some one run over, so that they may assist at detection and ar- rest, and enter the hero class. A scond case of this sort, and the pre- sentation of a gold medzl by the National Highway Protective association, bids fair| to Increase the lobors of the truant offi- cers. The boys are inclined to cut school, and go out after medals. Still, one must award pralse to little Arthur Lewis. When | the machine ran down @& man and started away at full speed, the men and women on the sidewalk began to dance and yell. Arthur whipped out his pencil and on the margin of a newspaper he was carrying, Jotted down the number of the'machine, “Why d1d you do it?" asked an admiring friend ' “Me forf de medal,” sald Arthur with a n. Attorney General O'Malley of New York state has moved against the so-called milk trust In New York City and Albany, and the supreme court has appointed a referee to Investigate the charges. The inquiry is designed to determine the causes for an | apparent wide discrepancy between the |price pald to the producer and that paid by the consumer. Officers of the consolidated milk exchange of New York City and several other large milk companies will be required to appear for examination with their records and books. The charge is that the prices paid | the producer and charged the consumer cre | “arbitrarily fixed” ond that twe action of | | the members and stockholders in raising | the price of bottled milk from 8 cents to 9 cents “‘was a conspiracy to unlawtully and tliegally advance the price,” made possible | | by their alleged monopoly af the supply. ate Checks the Merger, Philadelphia Record. The telephone and telegraph merger has encountered an obstacle. It is a Michigan 1lu\« which the supreme court of the state | declines to suspend, or than & quarter of a century,” eays the court, “the | {legislature has seen fit to keep separate | these two lines of activity." and it affirms the poliey “on the part of the state to af- |ford its people a cholce of two services of independent ownership. 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His wife always makes him put down the carpets, so he knows how to floor ais opponent and keep him nailed down."—Baltimore American. “The artists’ models in Paris have #ruck for higher wage: “1 don't blame ‘em,” answercd Mrs. Mo- Gudley. “The pictures prove that the poor things aren’t paid enough (o buy elothes.” —Hrookiyn Eagl Wareham Long—What'd you say ef kefeller wuz to give a million doliars? Tuffold Knutt—Tanks!—Chicago Tribune. Redd—Did his aeroplane Green—Four weeks in Yonkers Statesman. cost him much? the hospital.— The peasant was overjoyed when he dis- covered that his goose was laying golden eggs. For it was winter. T can paint them up and sell them for he exclaimed, visions of un: told wealth rising rosily before him.—Puck “1 want a little legal information.” ahead.” “1f an automobile runs over 4 man wha fault is it, the pedestrian’s or the d “One moment. Were you in the mobile or in the Herald. auto- This is a very exciting scene. with dispatches has just from a war bulloon.” “What fs that fleecy ing off?" g “Bits of cloud."- That or- dropped stuff he's brush Kansas City Journal. stry be n your anc when my grandfa s cashler of a county signed bank street?"—Washimgton | they traced him as far as China, but he got away.—Pittsburg Observer. Wigwag—Henpeckke says he doesn't often drink, but when he dpes he always has to h 1 chaser. ler—Meaning Philadelphia Record. his wife, 1 suppose.— “He Is suffering terribly. locked up tightly.” “Heavens, |s it lockjaw?"" “No, they're In a sufe and he can't eat anything untll he gets them out.”—St, Louls Star. THE WELL BELOVED ENEMY. Blakeney Gray in New York Sun. I know a chap who's used me il Almost since I was born. He's put my name to many a bill And trouble most forlorn. In school he's cost me endiess woe, Too many here to tell, And yet in spite of all, d’ye know, T love him mighty well? His teeth are Ho had me spanked when I was ten For something that he did. As 1 look back upon him then He was a fearful kid Hg sald mean things about my dad, The little fidél, And yet there was no other lad 1 cared for quite as well, In college he on mischief bent On me put all the blame, No matter where that villain went, or men 'twas quite the same, He had the fun, 1 got the hook, In all things that befell, And yet by some quees mental crook I loved that fellow well, The girl 1 loved he went, and wooed, And wed her, and today Is father of a lovely brood Of kiddies bilthe and gay His are the glances of her eye, His is the blissful spell. Yet spite of all I can’t deny T love him just as well T know full well his weaknesses, The strange twists of his mind, And yet there’s something in me says He's not a half bad kind, And though he's been an enemy Beyond all parallel, The time has never ceased to be When I have Joved him well Who Is 1 whisper I fear his name v 1e? 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