Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 24, 1910, Page 6

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Jersonal checks, except on delivery Lo City nge, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebrasks, Douglas County, 88.: George B, Taschuck, treasurer of The e Publishing Company, baing duly sworn, says ihat the actual pumber of full and Daily, Morning, Lvening snd Sunday Bee printed during the month of April, 191%; was as follows: s 17. GLOKGE B, TZSCHUCK, Treusurer. Subseribed In my prés¢nce and swora to berore me this 2d day of May, 1914 M P.W. ‘R, Notary Publle s e ————— ] Subseribers leaving the city t porarily showld have The Bee Addreases will be Now, we may safely class Mr. Hal- ley as a nature fakir. This is house-cleaning and town- cleaning season at Oyster Bay. —— It transpires that aero exhibitions come high, but we must have them., Has anyone in Omaha been buncoed on C. O. D. express packages from Chicago? D, e s But what are they going to give us in the place of the daily story on the Ballinger-Pinchot investigation? Mr. Réckefeller's afsertion that we eat too much sounds like sour grapes, coming from a man with dyspepsia. Ing absent at too many critical junc- tures. Can they explain that away, too? It will be hard, anyway, for Okla- homa to go below its standard in se- lecting a successor to its present gov- ernor. King George V has long been an ardent stamp collector. Probably was early impressed by the Boston harbor stamp 2pisode. Sir Alfred Austin says he does not read what the papers say of his poetry. ‘Which shows the poet laureate more wise than poetic. The new King George begins his reign by pardoning prisoners; very different from the way the last George ended his regime. With the comparative records of March, April and May before it, no wornder congress refused to change the date of inauguration day. 1 this contest for the Panama ex- position drags out much longer war will be inevitable between New Or- leans and San Francisco. It the people can’t rule in Nebraska through a democratic governor and & demoeratic legislature, the thing to do is to go back to a republican governor and & republican legislature. South Omaha is about to put on the market the biggest bond issue it has ever attempted to float, Must be hur- rying to get in ahead of the time when Omaha must sell the §6,500,000 water bonds voted last year. According to Uncle Joe Cannon no one individual could be of special im- portarice among 90,000,000 people. But some indifiduals have made the 90,000,000 believe they were of a great deal of importance. —_— Governor Shallenberger must be trying to square himself with the bankers by advocating a law limiting the number of state banks to be char- tered for the purpose of guaranteeing them against competition. — Guess Gov-rnoF Shallenberger hud better call time on that special legisla- tive session. proposition. But perhaps the governor was only playing foxy in stipulating a condition which he knew eould not be.complied with. Mayor Gaynor E tonsistent, to say the least. He turns from slapping THE BEE Just a Quibble. In his Washington hall speech Mr. Bryan tried to divert attention from his inconsistency in hiring a small sa- Joon hall for a prohibition speech when plenty of other halls equally capacious were available by trying to pick a quarrel with The Bee because it had referred to “county option" as ‘‘county prohibition.” *‘The editor of The Bee has not sense enough,” thundered Mr. Bryan in his rage, ‘‘to say county op- tion, for he does not know the differ- ence between option and prohibition.” As a lawyer by training, although not by practice, Mr. Bryan has a pre- disposition to pettifogging and quib- bling. But it is the substance and not the form that counts. There may be a difference between county option and county prohibition, but the particular kind of one-sided county option which the anti-saloonists in Nebraska are de- manding, and whi¢ch Mr. Bryan is ad- vocating, would work prohibition for the county just the same as a prohibi- tion amendment to the constitution would work state-wide prohibition. Mr. Bryan would have it that county option simply gives the people of the county a chance to vote, and that it takes an afirmative vote to produce county prohibition. It goes without saying, however, that the anti-saloon- ists would not want county option if they did not believe it would give them county prohibition. That the editor of The Bee did not lack so much in common sense is proved by the statement given out by Superintendent Paulson, the paid spokesman of the Nebraska Anti-Sa- loon league, with reference to their proposed county option bill: This is @ measure Intended to provide for the creation by popular vote of anti- saloon territory; it provides for voting the saloons out and not for voting them in. Under the aperation of this bill the county that has within its limits “dry” territory can vote upon the question of becoming anti-saloon territory in order to avail itself of the law-enforcement provisions of this measure without endangering the present “dry” regime, Nebraska has had for nearly thirty years local option with the incorpor- ated city, town and village as the unit. The people of each community now say whether they want to license liquor selling or not, and their verdict is final, The proposition to make the county the unit is admittedly one to enable the people outside of the city or town to reverse the verdict inside of the city or town on this question —if that verdict favors license. If there is any difference between county option and county prohibition in re- sults, it is a difference in name only’ Ohio Primaries and Harmon. Observers close at hand agree that the recent Ohio primary election was a severe jolt to the Harmon presi- dential boom. The governor lost some ground he could i1l afford to spare and his loss was the gain of his old party foe, Tom Johnson. In Cleveland, where Johnson served three times as ['mayor and was defeated on the fourth time around, Johnson's defeat of the Harmon crowd was the most crush- ing. In Cincinnati the primary de- throned Lewis G. Bernard, who for more than twenty years had been the titular head of his party in that city and the ifspifation of Harmon's po- litical aspirations. These democrats who, opposing Bryan and his more radi¢dl wing of the party, have been hailing Harmon as the Moses to lead the demoecracy back to power along the path of old- line issues, must find little to comfort them in these primary results. There can be no mistaking or discounting of the issue squarely drawn. Tom John- son had only just returned from Eu- rope and plunged headlang into the fight to whip the governor and his forces. If anyone doubts Johnson's at- titude toward Harmon let him turn to what the Cleveland man said of' Har- mon's nomination for governor two years ago when he declared it to be a trap set by Bryan's enemies to catch Bryan's friends. | These little inside facts from the family ecircle of Ohlo democrats, taken together with the results of the pri- maries, are interesting in connection with Harmon's candidacy and chances of nomination for the presidency. With the tenacious Johnson out to “get him" and another state election intervening before the national cam- paign, Governor Harmon's chances of restoring his party to power in Wash- ington are still purely speculative. Improving the Census. Many cities are expressing fear that their full population will not be shown in the 1910 census and there is quite a strong demand for improvement in the systém of counting noses. Of course it is a little early to get seared, but it may be that our methods of taking the census can be bettered, al- though they are this year an advance of previous census years. On the other hand, it s quite possible that some of these cities making so wmuch fuss now are beginning to realize that no census could bring their population up to the fictitious figures they had been eclaiming. This, and not the knowledge that the count has Ween alarms them. The tendency in most citles, partic- ularly in the west, where the adver- tising agent is getting In his best work, is to overshoot the mark. Omaha has the most palnful realiza- 1890 gud some of these cities—though Omaha is not one this time—are now yellow journalism in the face to deal the yellow theater as effective a blow. These two public perils’ go hand in handj pealing allke to the worst there is in map- 80" protest by premature complaints. No tangible plan for improving the system seems to have been offered, beyond the IWOI made that the radically Meficlent, probably is what tion of this fact in {ts recollection of 1 mail carriers be employed for this work as best knowing the residences and places of business of the people. |Complaint has also been lodged against the short period of time al- lotted to the census, but that, in the light of what some European coun- tries do, seems to be a poorly founded |eriticism. In Germany, for Instance, the census is taken in one day, instead of two weeks, and England devotes very little more time to it and those coun- tries obtain accurate inventories of thelr populations. ' | The advantage of this one-day sys- tem, which, of course, calls for & larger army of enumerators and smaller districts, is that it avolds dn- plications which the long period in- vitees. The tendency must be toward shortening and not lengthening the time in the United States when the work of improvement is undertaken. A correct census depends wholly on a thoroughly systematized organiza- tion and it is not strange that this has not been had in this country where we take the count only once in ten years. It should be remembered, however, that we have never had a census that gave complete satisfaction or whose accuracy wag not uestioned in some particulars. Touring Europe. Seven ocean liners left New York the other day with 2,695 persons aboard for Europe, most of them pleasure-seekers, who will spend the summer across the Atlantie. Steam- ship officers say the tide of tourists to the old world is larger this year than ever and it has been steadily rising for many years. ‘This spectacle, of course, reflects a condition of general prosperity in the United States, but it also denotes a growing interest on the part of Amer- icans for KEurope and HEuropeans. Every year hundreds of thousands of people from various countries in Eu- rope come to the United States to make their homes and in time as they pros- per they return to visit their native lands and they, in fact, form a large proportion sometimes in these num- bers of pleasure-seekers, which is « &ood omen for the future of interna- tlonal comity. As the American tour- ists bring back from the old world ac- curate knowledge of it and its people and the conditions surrounding them, 80 these American-Europeans take to their native countries American knowl- edge, ways and ideas and this inter- course is mutually profitable. In 1907, when the financial strin- gency fell upon the country, 2,000,000 foreigners who had established homes in the United States, or were estab- lishing them, went back to their Eu- ropean homes, where they could make their American earnings go further. One million of them returned, but think of the leavening influence.of the 1,000,000 that remained abroad. They became practical missionaries for the United States, spreading the gospel of American methods at home, in mart and state among their own people, thus sowing seed that must spring up into wholesome harvests of better thought, of a more advanced system of living. ° There is nothing that can take the place of this interchange and inter- course between the old and new world and nothing that will tend to draw the peoples of each. side of the sea into more intelligent and substantial friendship. This is one factor work- ing toward that goal of world peace, about which we hear so much today. A Chance for Autoists. Over in Chicago a call is being made for volunteers to loan automobiles to carry the veterans of the civil war to the cemetery on their memorial mis- sion on Decoration day. The marking of the graves of the soldier dead is the significant feature of the jmpending holiday, and while it has become per- manently established, participation by the fast aging veterans cannot con- | tinue much longer. The youngest old soldler is now in his 60s and the physical fatigue of a march has forced them to dispense with the old-time parade. The veterans are entitled to every consideration, of gratitude and every assistance in keeping the mem- ory of their comrades fresh and fra- grant. If the autoists of Omaha would put their machines at the disposal of the Decoration day committee for a few hours next Monday they would have a lot of big credit marks chalked up opposite their names. By a coup of graceful political con- tortion the Brooklyn Eagle is able to twist the recent Ohio primaries into a victory for the insurgents, with which element it has the hardihood to class Representative Longworth. In the meantime the Chicago Tribune is try- ing to find the answer to the question, What is an insurgent? Mrs. Hyde, wife of the convicted doctor, has filed partition suits in court seeking to land her slice of that $1,600,000, the residuary estate of the late Thomas H. Swope, showing that tears have not entirely blinded her eyes to the main chance. The murder trial is only the prelude to the real fight, The semi-annual state school appor- tionment figures out substantially $1 for every c¢hild of school age in Ne- braska. The endowment of our pub- lie school system at the time Nebraska was admitted as a state was brought about by men who builded better than they knew. paving the way for their “I-told-you- The Bee prints a letter written by Omaha inmate of the Lincoln In- ne asylum, which contains charges nst the masagement of the insti- OMAHA, TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1910 tution that do not read very crazy. The strange thing is that all of these numerous complaints have come up only since the democratic governor un- dertook to make state institutions the spoils of politics, and that prior to that time they seemed to be running with reagonable efficlency and without serious internal disturbance. The New York Evetling Post de- clares negroes are ‘‘exceided from pub- lie bulldings, railroad stations, the ters and ostracised soclally and are free in theory only.' Where, in New York? Certainly not out here. [ — Thosé London physicians who assert that physical exercige is injurious to men of sedentary occupation had bet- ter not come to America during base ball season with that sort of talk. ~ Never mind—the next time Mr. Hal- ley's comet comes around to visit us we will send a reporter up by airship to interview him and get his auto- blography at first hand. B Those Omaha trade boosters are be- ing showered with bouquets all along the line. It is the business of the boosters to make a good fmpression, and they know how. But Will They Reflect? Pittsburg Dispatch. Both the rallroads and the trusts might wisely reflect that the best way to revive business is not to take the last cent the buyer has, and then a little. A Royal Flush. Cleveland Pleain Dealer. Three Danlsh kiogs—George of Greece, Haakon of Norway and Frederick ot Den- mark—attended King Bdwasd's funeral. About all that is required for a quorum of the kings of Europe is to call together the Danes, —_— Prophets Who Should Know. Philadelphia Record. Prophets have always had the sacred privilege of making announcement of evils to come. Somewhat like them, rallroad presidents, who are able to make good their own predictions, prophesy that there will soon be further Increases in rates of transportation. Fortune in the Making. Loulsville Courler-Journal. It s explained that even i Jack Johnson hammers him into a state of innocuous desuetude In the first round Mr, Jeffries will get about $158,00. And if Mr. Jeffries renders his black antagonist hors du com- bat & handsome fortune will recompense the gladlator for the humillation of taking the count. As compared with speculating at poker, Investing in futures at the races or gambling In stocks, prize fighting offers indisputable advantag — DEMOCRACY WITH FRILLS. Analysis of Bryan an of Smother- ing “Sm. Units.” New York World, Mr, Bryan may not be an advocate of national prohibition, but it is difficult to draw a different conclusfon from his ad- dress before the Catholic Total Abstinence union at Chicago, in. which he said: “I would not fayay. lggislation forbidding use of liquor at apy time or under any clrcumstances. I would consider this an uninecessary limitation upon the liberty of the individual, but I am In favor of such restriction as may seem necessary for the protection of soclety, “There fs a great deal of discussion at this time over the unit. That is,"as to whether the power~to regulate the liquor tratfic shall be vested in the town, in the precinct, in the county, In the state or in the natfon. “I hold that -every unit ought to have authority to act on this subject, except as it is restrained by a larger unit. That is, that the block, the ward, the city, the pre- clnct, the county, the state and the nation should have the undisputed right to.ex- clude the sale of liquor within its limits, or fix such restrictions upon the sale of liggor as the people of the unit may deem y for their protection and welfare, e also that the larger unit has a right to control the smaller one on this as on other subjects.” This may be popular doctrine as apply- ing to the manufacture and sale of liquor, but {t does not represent the theory of government upon which this nation fs founded. If “the larger unit has a right to con- trol the smaller unit,” the states ought to be abolished, for the nation is a larger unit than the state. If “the larger unit has a right to control the smaller unit,” the courts should stop upholding the right of the people to local self-government, for the state is & larger unit than the town- ship, the ety or the county, Mr, Bryan is reversing democratic insti- tutions. He is pleading for the right of the nation to rule the state and for the right of the state to rule the county and the city in matters which belong pri- marily to the 'individual. 1t this doctrine is to be applied to the sale of liquor it might as consistently be applied to everything. Our Birthday Book May 24, 1910, Queen Vietorla was born May 24, 181p. She succeeded to the throne in 1837, and celébrated her jubllee in 1887, continuing her relgn until 1901, when she was suceeded by her son, the late Edward VII. Colonel Michael V. Sheridan, United States army, is celebrating his seventieth birthday, He is the youngest brother of General Pbil Sheridan, and is well known in Omaha, where he was stationed as ad- jutant general of this military department. Gould Dietz, Ak-Sar-Ben governor, head of the Dietz Lumber company and a lot of other concerns, is celebrating his birth- day today in his happy family of llamas, monkeys, parrots, dogs and cats, which he has collected on his various globe-girdling Journe; Dr. A. B. Somers, practicing physiclan, was born May 24, 1847. He graduated in medicine from Columbia, and has been ac- tive in the various state and local medical socletles, which he has served as officer, and has &lso been city health commissioner. Charles C. Rosewater, in charge of the business department of The Bee, was born May M, 1874, in Omaha. He recelved his education at Cornell untversity and Colum- bla university. He has besn actively with The Bee In various capacitfes since 1586, J. L. Adams, sales manager for Lininger Implement company, i forty-nine today. He is & native of Indiana, and has been in the carriage and implement business all his life, and in his present position since 18%. William G. Shriver, county assessor and real estate dealer, is 63 years old today. He was born in Jollytown, Pa., and has been engaged exclusively in real estate, loan and finsurance business in Omaha since 1881 National Policies Prosident Taft Discusses Various Folicies of the Administration and the Eoonomies Inaugurated. An extended review and discussion of the policles of the national administration is made by President Taft in an article in the June number of McClure's Magasine. It is in the form of an unbroken interview or serles of conversations had with the writer, George Kiblle Turner, who explains in a foreword that—'“This statement is neces- sarily mot a verbatim reproduction, but it gives substantially what he sald." With characteristio frankness the presi- dent discusses the Payne-Aldrich tariff law along the lines familiar to readers of the president's speeches, emplasizing his con- vietion that the schedules were not all that he wished for in the line of reduction, but the best he could get from congress. “I did not secure all the reductions thet I be- lleved should be made,” the president is quoted as saying. “The woolen schedule should have been lowered; it was not, be- |cause a combination of representatives from {the manufacturing and wool-growing sec- tions of the east and west thad am ajority In congress which was overwhelming. Not only would it have been uscless to try to beat it, but a reopening of the old fight between the growers and the manufactur- ers settled by the present schedule would h unfastened a Pandora's box that might have defeated the whole bill, The democratic south, with the northern lumbering states, prevented free lumber; another combination of the same section made impossible the lowering of the much criticized cotton schedules. As has always been the case In making tariffs in this country, certain combinations of sectional interests in congress—formed {rrespective of partles, upon purely industrial lines— had majorities, which were a matter of tact and must be recognized as such. The clause in the tarlft law authorixing the appointment of persons “to secure in- formation to assist the president in the @ischarge of the duties imposed on him" by the maximum and minimum sections, is regarded as a long step in the direction of a sclentitic tariff. “When I signed the bill,” he says, “I announced that I held this paragraph to give the president the right to secure the statistics covering the prices and costs of production of goods at home and abroad, upon which sclentific tariffs must be bullt. In September I ap- pointed u tarift board, headed by Prof. H. C. Bmery, the Yale economist, to take up this work. At my instruction, they pre- pared an estimate of thas cost of a eom- prehensive investigation of the kind 1 wanted. I have now asked congress for an appropriation of $260,000 for this investiga- tion. I certainly hope it will grant it. “A thorough investigation of this kind will take between two and three vears. It is not unlikely that, in the light of aceur- ate statistics, we may find that certaln schedules in our tariff aro too high. It we do, T shall at that time not hesitate Im- mediately to recommend their revision.” Supervision of corporations, the railroad regulation policles embraced in the Wick- ersham bill, conservation of national re- sources, postal savings banks, reform of land laws and the Ballinger-Pinchot con- troversy discussed with marked candor. These policles are now being whipped into forms of law by congress and naturally command more attention than the measures of administrative economy which department officers are gradually putfing into effect. These measures do not attract the press megaphones at Washington be- cause they are not toples of congressjonal debate, yet they are of first importance in view of the great increase in national expenses. Regarding the plans for insti- tuting business methods in the executive departments, the resulta achieved and an- ticlpated, the president is quoted: During the last ten years the ordinary disbursements for running the federal gov- ernment have increased $200,000,000, an ayer- age of $20,000,000 a year. The appropriations for the year ending June 30, 1910, were al- ready made when 1 took office. My cabi- net, however, immediately began making their estimates, at my request, for tho year ending June 30, 181l. By concentrat- Ing their attention on this, and beginning six months. earlier than had been custom- ary, they presented to congress this winter estimates that were §34,000,000 lower than those for the year before. With the ex- penditures on the Panama canal excluded— as they should be to make any comparison of value—these estimates showed a $5,000,- 000 decrease below the appropriation of the year before, To make cuts of this kind, it was nec- essary to make a thorough study of the government's whole system of doing busi- ness. It was found to be a very singular one, full of antiquated survivals, reaching back, in some cases, as far as the elgh- teenth century. Government business is conducted by bureaus; it has grown, when- ever new work has been taken up, by add- ing one bureau to another; and there has been no thorough attempt—as there must be—to take up this aggregation and examine it as a whole. But, during the past year, two or three of the department heads have made cross-sections of their own systems that are illuminating. The overhauling of the, various bureaus of the Navy department, relics of 1840, and the abolitlan and consolidation of dlvisions of the Treasury department are instanced to show what may be done to jncrease ef- ficlency and decrease expenses. In the lat- ter department a cut .of $2,000,000 in annual expenses has been effeoted. In conclusion the president says: “There has been loss to the government by dishonesty, as was shown last year in exposing the spectacu- lar customs frauds at New York; there has been loss by incapacity of public em- ployes; but the greatest loss has come from the lack of proper modern business organ- ization and methods—£0 far as they can be applied to government work. To show how Httle of this there has been, it is only necessary to say that In all the industrial operations of the government—involving the expenditure of ter.s of millions of dollars cvery year—there was found Mot one mod- ern system of cost-accounting that would give the cost of the articles produced. “The United States now has an expendi- ture, all told, of over $1000,000,000 a year. The savings that have been reported as possible by the different departments in various branches of the work run from 5 to 40 per cent. Men who have been active in the sAministration’s efforts for economy in the departments estimate that, it congress will co-operate in the employ- ment of rts, probably $100,000,000 a year can be oft from public expenditures, simply by doing the same amount of work that we now accomplish by better busi- ness methods. This means that the cost of government can be reduced by more than the entire cost of the federal govern- ment in any year before the civil war., As an annual saving this is an immense prize, and s worthy of the concentrated efforts of the entire administration. “In order to make permanent reforms of business methods and savings in expendi- tures, 1 have requested. congress to co- operate with me by establishing a con- gressional committee, which will employ experts to Investigate the general bure system of the government, point out where that this bank has months., Pittsburg proposes to erect a monument to Carnegle differing in architectural style from those erected to him by himself. Mr. Roosevelt f{s spending whatever leisure time he can get preparing the book he is to write for the Scribners on his African travels, Dr. Willlam Colby Rucker of the United States Public Health and Marine Hospital service has received leave of absence for a year to accept the post of health com- missfoner of Milwaulkee. When Afghan husbands become jealous of thelr wives they cut off thelr noses. Some of the better class of wives who have become well-to-do widows are in the market for artificlal noses. James H. Eckles' country home on Lake La Belle, Illinols, valued at $%0,000, was s0ld at an administrator's sale to the Re- demptorist Fathers of St. Louls for 833, 000. The property comprises twenty-nine acres of land and & handsome residence. It will be used for a Catholic theological seminary, Work has begun at Columbla university on a tablet in memory of the late Charles Follett McKim. The tablet will be placed in South Court, directly in front of the Alma Mater statue in front of the library, It is expected that the work will be far enough advanced by commencement day for the unvelling. Randolph county, North Carolina, boasts of a family which for length of life Is said to surpass any other family in the coun- try. To W. M. Lowdermilk and Youthy Cole, who were married in the early part of the nineteenth century, were born six- teen children. One died in infancy, two in young manhood and thirteen reached ages of from 67 to % years, as follows: Stephen, 78; Allle, 80; Annle, 79; Adeline, 70; Reuben, 72; Israel, 72; Wincy, 81, Emsley, %; Kisey, 8; Alfred, &; Ransom, 84; Z. H, 72, and Malvina, 67. POLITICS IN NEBRASKA, Critical Observations of a Lome Star Seer, Houston (Texas) Post (dem.). The Omaha Bee says that at the repub- lican hanquet held last week in Omaha participated in by representatives from all sections of the state, the sentiment ex- pressed was to the effeot that Nebraska republicans will settle any differences they may have within party lines, and when the time comes present a solid front to the democratie opposition, In support of what it claims to be the loyal attitude of republicans of that state toward the party, it says: ““The democratic leadership and program in Nebraska holds out absolutely nothing to republicans.” While as a partisan newspaper, The Bee In its zeal for the cause it supports pos- sibly misjudges the measure of unity pre- valling among republicans of that state, still it can hardly be contended that the course of democratic politics in the state has been such as to strongly attract re- cruits from the opposition party, even though dissatistaction should exist In the ranks of the latter. The emocratie party of Nebraska all along has shown too ready a disposition to fuse with any element that offered fusion in order to share the spolls of office, tb attract that character of sup- port which stays with parties in defeat as well as in victory. The democratic party has in the ultimate in both state and national politics under- mined its own strength whenever it has turned aside from its true mission ang pushed into the background the fundamen- tal principles of government it was founded to uphold, that it might gain favor tem- porarily with elements in nowise in sym- pathy with its great aims, Let the party uphold the banner of pure democracy, turning neither to the right nor to the left, and there is always In this country an intelligent independent vote which will come to Its support in sufficient numbers to insure it a victory. ‘ —_— A Fast, Not' News. Washington Herald. The Pullman company will fight the ef- fort to force a reduction of its upper berth rates. We tender the information merely as a matter of fact, and not as something in the nature of news, of course. Sometimes even bad advertisements pay, which shows what a force adver- tising is. The better the copy, the better the results, of course. Good copy for one class of trade might be very poor copy for another. But there are a few broad general principles which are always true, Your advertising should be attrac- tive enough to catch the eye. Size doesn't do this. A two-inch single column card may be made to attract more notice than an announcement as big a sheet of note paper. If your advertisement isn’t seen it isn’'t read and If it len't read no matter if it has 10,000,000 circulation it isn't worth a postage stamp. You are not investing in circulflon, but in readers of advertisements. The next point 18 to make your ad- vertisement readable. As a rule the copy easiest to read s printed in fairly large type; one kind of type with a display heading or two and the read- ing matter divided into easy para- graphs. Most advertisers think that it s wrong and present modern and eco- nomical systems to take their place.” by crowding the space to its utmost they are getting bigger value for their The report made to the comptroller under date of March 29, 1910, shows Time Certificates of Deposit $2:034,278.61 3% % Interest paid on certificates running for twelve A man in a mellow condition went into a barber shop and seated himself in one of the chairs: “What's your pleasure sir?”. asked the polite barber. ‘Oh, er—give me a halr cut—and have one yourself.'—Everybody's Magasine. “I have a canary bird that will eat out of my hand," sald the caller. “That's nothing,” replied the woman who_will not be outdone, “Last summer we had any number of mosquitoes that would eat off our necks.'—Washington Star. \Dinguss—1 did a foolish thing the other day. Jigger—What was it? Dinguss—I didn’t know just what might happen when we wenj through the tail of a comet, and I-er—went around and squared up all my debts. “What makes the trust magoate look 50 worried?" “He has just read that the American farmer is very prosperous and he feels that he must have overlooked something." —Houston Post. “Does that volatile and flirtatious young man_reaily prefer blondes or brunettes?'' NWell, Jim."” sald Bingleton, as he proudly showed' off his first-b b think of that for a kid? “He's some Kid, all rf turned Jim, Weekly. “what do you ht, all right," re. unemotionally.—Harpe! “There's one good thing about a comet scare,” sald Uncle Allen Parks. “It's the only scare that will start some people to trying to square their accounts on the books of the recording angel, ' —Chicago Tribune. Uncle Hiram (at the theater)—Well, Mi- randy, 1 guess we'll be goin' How. Mirandy—But there’s another act. Uncle Hiram—I know there be, but it says on the program act IV same as act II, and I vum I don't keer to see it twice over. —Boston Transeript. “That is hard to tell; he is so lllogical about it." ow i3 that?"’ It he prefers a hlonde, he keeps it a dark secret, and when he is accused of flirting with a brunette he makes light of it.’—~Baltimore American. “Your country calls sald earnest citizen, “'1 hope,” replied Senator Sorghum, *‘that my country isn't really calling me some of the names 1 hear mentioned in opposi- tlon speeches.”—~Washington Sta: ;iglou mve the Mght.of my life,’ he eried wildly. Convinced of what she had heard of his remarks about her the night before that he had reference to the moth and the flame, she went out.—St. Louls Star. you!"” the “Some rich men," moralized Uncle Allen Sparks, ‘remind me of a boy fishing for German carp. The more of ‘em he lands the worse off he is,"—Chicago Tribune. THE COMET'S COMMENTS. W. J. Lampton in New York World, Gee whyayey! As a high old skzygy, Didn't I throw a scare Into everybody everywhere? And didn't I Make more people look toward the sky Than anything that has come thelr way In many a day? Well, 1 should say 1 did? And didn't I kid The bunch On the punch 1 promised to hand the earth All round its girth? By gum! They got to thinking some And they had the scare, ut they couldn’t go anywhere For rolief, and so I had The bunch In bad. They had to stay: They simply couldn't get away, And then When hey were getting ready to pray, And turning pale o, At thought of my fatal tal), 1 swished by With never a mark on the sky Or a visible sign Along the whole starry line— Not even a smell Of gas to tell That I Was anywhere in the sky, By gosh! 1 handed them the josh All right Wednesday night, And when I come again This bunch will all be gone And 1 roll on And in as before And scare the whole world some more Oh, say, When a comet can play A joke like that and get it across It ‘shows that man lIsn't the blg boss He is bluffing to be. Take It from me, Bee? i ‘ Talks for people who sell things Within reasonable limits_the Ten words read 10,000 words money. very opposite is true are worth more than passed by. But the secret of copy s perscual- ity; red hot bustling life. Like breeds like. If your shop 1s a hustling go- ahead concern and this spirit is re- flected in your advertising, the econ- tagion will spread. The first hundred customers are the hardest to get; the second hundred come in about half time; the third hundred are nurul'm by the crowd. The full page announcements of department stores overshadow ;£ small dealer; but there is opening up a great fleld if Omaha for the attrac- tive advertising of the smaller shop. This advertising must be done in & new way; It must be pleasing, sincere, convineing; it must appeal to the in- dividual who loves truth rather than noise; the very antithesis of the broad- slde bargain advertising so common in every newspaper. Don't do mergly what the other fellow is doing; \ your own story that you wou u customer when you are umfl face to face L 3