Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 31, 1910, Page 10

) TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1910 A ing it. Business houses should de- | mand a higher test of this attainment on the part of apprentices as a means | of encouraging more studious applica- tion. Bryan, Harmon and Parker. In the last number of his Commoner Mr. Bryan addresses to Governor Hai-| mon personally an editorial apostrophe calling upon him to force the demo submitted thirty-two propositions in three elections, the number growing each successive time. They now in- sist that only through the initiative THE ©OMAHA DALY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. The report made to the comptrolles under date of March 29, 1910, shows VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Tiring L Entered at Omaha postoffico as second- matter, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (incfuding Bunaay), per week.lso ally Bee (without Sunday), per week..10c iy Bes (without Sunday), one year..}.00 ily Bee and Sunday, one Year........ 8% DELIVERED BY CARRIER. 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Siato of Nevraska, Douglas County, s8.: Gedrge B. ‘Uzschuek, treasurer of The Iee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that tho actual number of full and complete coples of The Daliy, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed duriog the month of April, 1910, was us follows 16 17 18 19 crats of Ohio to name a candidate for United States semator, behind whom they should march in the impanding campaign. The article concludes as follows: “This Is a crisls which will show your slzc—are you ready to have your measure taken? If you falter, to stand aside. The democratic party is in no mood to be trified with. It has suffered 80 much from the secret manipulations of the predatory interpsts that it demands daylight methods and honest polities. It 1s up to you, governor, It seems, however, that Governor Harmon declines either to ‘“falter” or| to tand aside.” He comes back promptly and says that Mr. Bryan :s‘. not familiar with conditions in Ohio and does not know what he is talking | about. Governor Harmon, however, seems to miss the purport of Mr.| Bryan's assault altogether. He should know that his offense is not so much | in failing to force the democrats of | Ohio to put up a candidate for United | States senator, an. offense which Mr.| Bryan has committed right here in his own state more than once, but in pre- suming to allow his friends to conjure with his name as a possible presiden- tial candidate. Ed tin preparo let wh wi z we tha to sig na pea f r be r by th ove cau 1 might have deceived a each om kno sclence will the hope my boy friends were not offended be- As to Forgery. Morely by oversight we almost neg- lected to give t! at lgar Howard, the staunch democrat benefit mized by some malevolent ters over frngdnlwnll_v signed names, our innocent friend thout taking the trouble to verify. hich Here is the story from his Columbus Telegram: was ek tho They of two forgeries clever forgeries, much smarter man an this vietim. The two forgerles eame me In the shape of two poetic efforts, touching local affalrs. Each ned by the full name of a boy of good In Columbus. Tho s nres genuine, and I printed the the boys. I take ali the gullibility. And yet my es great as the shame of the shameless vietim were mo ared son who forged the names of the two become The forger may hever He may hide his erime through all ars. That is, he may hide it from public eye, but his own finger of eon- point him to his pwn shamo ry day of his life, and that wiil ho all punishment I shall ask for him. I ise of the publication of the forgeries. \ere give them eve of an ex- planation of how ho was recently ¥ic- | dastard who imposed upon him with two fake printed last and was ap- lotters blame for shame cannot and referendum will the people be able | to make their own laws, and then they | assure us that if the people have this priceless privilege they will not use it A gentleman who was asked to leave | an aristocratic New York hotel cause his wardrobe consisted of a street suit and an out-of-date frock | coat bobs up with a threat to sue the British throne, alleging that he is its rightful heir and King George V an| usurper. Incidentally he took time to sue the New York hotel for $500,000. | This precaution is doubtless intended | to raise the wind to pay his expenses in buying new clothes for his royal| job. be- Just before he shook the sofl of Ne- braska from his feet for another globe- trotting expedition Mr. Bryan publicly esserted that he had not yet given up hope of an extra session of the legis- lature which he was trying to persuade Governor Shallenberger to call. No signs yet, however, of any proclama- tion from the governor’s office. Mr. Bryan was always long on hope. The superintendent of the State In- sane asylum at Lincoln, who was in- stalled to put the jobs there on the Army oand Navy Roegister. The surgeon general of the army wil | early next week make his recommendations | for the a appointed officers to tho regular corps. Theso members of the army medical reserve | | corps have been under instruction at school In this city. O the fifty-three, fifty will be ap appointed, leaving seventy-five vacancie which will probably be increased by th before the end of the year. Tho offi the army medical who I8 at the head of the list of graduates | is First Lieutenant Albert S. Bowen officer who won the Hoff medal of year's class is Lieutenant Henry Beeuwkes. The The army medical officers belleve that the limit has been re vaccintitfon of members personnel. Some 6, taken place, repres all the has been contined demonstration of the protection against typhold will lead to compulsory vaccination. Thers has been a wide diffcrence in the number of volunteers at different posts and this is attributed to the personal efforts of the army surgeons who have had this matter in charge. As has been stated In these col- umns, the War department has refused to compel recruits to be vaccinated, us recom mended by the surgeon gencral, of the military vaceinations \ting in all probability advantages of this ignments to station of the fifty | this 4 in the anti-typhoid | have volunteers to whom the treatment | It is expected that the ultimately | t that this bank has Time Certificates of Deposit $2.034,278.61 %% Interest pald on certificates running f months. T twelve irstNational Bankof Omaha in the [ wisely a cation NEBRASKA PRESS COMMENT. Beatrice Expres says the party ha move he 18 position, no the county attempt to & stand for it Hope blossoms eternal by W. J. Bry 1 excellent opportunity | n 1013—if they only ac ht thing. The qualifi democrat ast n a*president nd do tho r is hard to- dete Ales moesting with t only in ng op- party, but optionists declare it to be an tdotrack the issue and will not What his nest move will be mine. his own it SUNNY GEMS. ¥ apology for print- destroys under the lerdership of My the past seemod incapable Governor Harmon should take a retrospective viéw back to 1904 and recall the performance of Mr. Bryan| hope, for the party Bryan, has in of dolng the | In considering the final order prescribing | regular physical cxercise and an annual physical test for officers of the army, an | 20. 2. 2. ¥ Ing their forged signatures. Edgar has our sincere sympathy. democratie pie counter, insists that he a is doing the best he can. Stiil, that ave you reacl a ver 2. 2. 1 2 L] . L] . 1 1] ’ 10 11 172 il ] I Returned copies Net . toal. . .. 43,470 HUCK, Treasurer. Bubseribed in my presence and sworn to | before me this 24 day of May, 1910. M. P. WALKER, Notary Fublia s Subscripers leaving ¢ rarily shou The B majied to them, Addresses will be chonged as often as requested. oty te; Now, come on with your straw hat and let us see what we can do toward coaxing up Miss June. How can we tell but that Harvard student who says he is living on $1 a week {8 not holding out on us? ——— Does the arrival of Senator Bailey at the silk-hat stage of development mark a new mlleawns, in the progress of Texas? . It Mayor “Jim” had only thought of it in time he, too, might have vel- unteered as a high school \commence- ment orator. ——— Ak-Sar-Ben will soon #et the whesls of his initiative machinery in motion. Prospective novitiates will take to the training table Down in Tennessee the Elks have voted to disband. Too much careless shooting around the jungles of Nash- ville, no doubt. A subscriber wants to know if a man must be & bore to join the gimlet €lub. Ask Senator “Jeff” Davis of Arkansas, who is the president. . Eighty women nurses are preparing to be on the ground when Colonel Rooseyelt returns to render first aid to the'injured. Why stop at eighty? From the rise he has evoked in the World-Herald, it is plain that Presi- dent Woodbury of the water company has gotten full returns from his ad in The ' Bee. Henry Arthur Jones, the English playwright, says women dictate to the " dramatists today. That may be true, but still somebody ought.to do this dictating. Dr. .Eliot's “five-foot shelf” books were among the ‘‘best sellers” up to the time he began to, make public Bpeeches on such subjects as “‘Sulcide and “Labor unions. King George V, President Taft, Col- onel’ . Roosevelt and Booker Washing- ton have been made life members of the World's Sunday School assoclation, Quite cosmopolitan. — Mr. Hobson knows of twenty-five reasons for having a big navy. Out- side of the fact that we need it in our business, the other twenty-four are of secondary importance. The tip has gone out for;a down- ward reyision of cénsus population timates. It's a safe guess, however, that some other cities we know of will be bumped harder than Omaha. Fortunately, no one has yet aseribed the prevalence of measles in Omaha to & contaminated water psupply, but even that is not beyond the possibili- . tles of some lurid imaginations. A Philadelphia paper has raised the Question of “the check book In poli- _tles.” If'it wants any expert testimony as to its baneful influence let it ad- . dfess the editor of a certain demo- cratic weekly who once aspired to con- gress in the Third Nebraska district, Before our county board orders any more roads paved with macadam it might be a good idea to have the roads already macadamized put in a state of w when Judge Parker was heading for the position of democratic standard bearer. Mr. Bryan hired halls in sev- eral large cities to tell about the mid- night methods and dfshonest politics of the New York jurist, and cailing upon him to do various things or step aside. Judge Parker did neither and was none the less nominated. But not even the handout of $15,000 of Wall street money to Brother-in-Law “Tommy’ Allen to get Mr. Bryan again on the hustings gifiiced to undo the damage already wrought. Will Governor Harmon take heed? It may require more than $15,000 to square things through the brother-in-law next time. de: ga an Still in the Aviation Kindergarten. In the faultless achievement of Aviator Curtiss, who flew from Albany ta New York, a distance of 137 miles, in one ahd one-half hours, the world must feel an interest, because it marks the furtherest outpost thus far set up in the science of aerial navigation and brings us one step nearer to the practi- cal solution of this problem. To Amer- icans the feat of the young New Yorker s all the more important be- cause he is one of us and has sur- passed anything yet accomplished in a heavier-than-air craft. = This places the United States ahead of France, or England, or Germany, thus far in a sclence to which those nations gave earlier thought and undoubtedly will react as a healthy and most energetic stimulus to the spirit of conquest abroad as well as in this country, pro- dueing in the end the larger result of greater triumphs toward the ultimate goal of successful aviation. But every one of these marvelous feats of skill and courage serves only to impress thoughtful men with the fact that we are as yet nowhere near practical results.. Thé Farmans, the Paulhans, the Wrights and the Cur- tisses have only begun to get the faint- est ideas of aerlal navigation and whenever they have achieved marked successes it has been under the most favorable conditions. In this case, which is the acme of all attempts thus far, Curtiss admits that all conditions were most propitious. What would the result have been had conditions been a little less than ideal? This view of the subject not only enables one to get a proper perspective of the obstacles yet to be overcome, but it also should convince us that we cannot overestimate the debt we owe to the man who rigks his life for the sdke of science and the truth, in ell on nof The Art of Letter Writing. Letter writing {8 an accomplishment that fs being seriously neglected by mdny people in the hurly*burly pace of the presént' day. The man or woman who can write an Interesting and ele- gant letter is in the minority and the boy or girl who possesses more than the most rudimentary knowledge of the art is almost unique. By some the post card is in part blamed for this rather decadent state of correspondence. It came in to fill, primarily, the want of the traveler, who had neither time or disposition to write letters, but It has been seized upon by everybody for every occasion and made to attempt what only the letter can. do, It carries its photo- graphic message with some little line or two like “You must see it to ap- | preciate it,” an outright confession of a lterary weakness in the sender which s more far-reaching in its harm- ful results than he realizes. It is on a par with that hackneyed phrase of the young reporter who, having ex- hausted his fund of adjectives, throws up his bands and indites this note of despalr, “It simply beggars descrip- tion.” The public schools devote some at- tention to letter writing, but they cannot lay too great stress upon it. It should be taught with as much care and skill as any other branch of study, for rtainly nothing is more essential to a welFrounded education and a fin- ished business or professional eourse than the power of expregsion and the ability to write a graceful letter. And the person who is really accomplished fri passable repalr. Mofiey invested in pavements is money thrown away un- less the pavements are properly main- tained. in this art has an advantage over the one who is not that is sure to recom- pense him for all the time he has de-|thusiasts have a new argument in re- voted to acquiring the skill or exercis- | buttal of the showing that Oregod hus instance cunning has been manifested, and that was in the last campaign waged by the in the false The whole sum true sentiment. railroad bill. and New Mexico? redeem a platform promise? ¢ can think just now ot but one other where such conscienceless mocrats of Nebraska rb of nonpartisans. d substance of democratic activity last fall focused in the circulation of a. forged letter viciously attacking two men not candidates for office and bear- ing the fraudulent glgnature, ‘Progres- sive Republican League.” The shame- less person who forged these fictitious names was located not far from the home town where Edgar Howard lives, and there is ample evidence to warrant suspicion that Edgar was cognizant of the plot, if not a participant in it. The forged circulars were prepared at the instigation of the democratic mana- gers, the postage was paid on them out of the democratic campaign fund and thé circulars themselves put into the mails by local democratic. committee- men who were more than once caught The chairman of the dem- ocratic state committee, when charged with abetting the theft of the mame, “Progressive Republican League,’ upholding the perpetrators of the for- gery, lied like a gentleman and Hdgar Howard stood up for him. The apology which Edgar offers the little boys would be a good form to follow for an apology on behalf of the Columbus coterie of democratic hosses responsible for. the campaign f‘rzery last year, the act. The South Invites Taft to Return, Southern newspapers are prompt to resent the insult to the south which certain democratic members of con- gress offered in attacking the presi- dent for exceedng his prescribed trav- Some of these critics were southern members and they put the south in the humiliating attitude of having offered its hospitality to the president, accepting it. But those representatives were not representing the south or reflecting its The south is speak- ing out and instead of objecting to the president spending this travel money to visit that section urges him to “‘come again” and not stop to reckon The Commercial club of Augusta, where the pregident spent his time between election and inaugura- tion, says the latch string is always out to Mr. Taft and offers to foot all the traveling expenses, if congress does Savannah is equally cor- dial in its hospitality. The Savannah Press says the people of Georgia are impatient for the time when the presi- dent will feel free to enter upon an- other visit to their state, adding: ¥or ho has done imore traveling in south than ail the civil whr. ng expenses. then denouncing him the cost. t want to. made very many ends in the south. When the child o an Omaha mil lionaire was kidnaped a few years ago the authorities offered all kinds of rewards for the apprehension and ¢on- vietion ot the culprit. mite outrage s attempted, which, if successful, would probably have blown dogens of inmocent men, women and children to atoms, why do the goody- goodies sit quiet? suspect to whom all the circumstantial evidence points was in the employ of our professional uplift reformers? ———————— An insurgent paper throws a fit over what it terms sional bargain, can regulars are reported to have agreed to pass the statehood bills if the democratg will help them pass the Did not the republican platform pledge statehood for Arizona Is it scandalous to & scandalous congre: because the republi The initiative and referendum en and for the the other presidents wince The people of the south are willing, even anxicus for thig recognition. * The truth of the matter is that the president has persanal * ¢+ After the eor- dial way In which he has been treated in the south, we should dislike to see south- ern representatives examining his travel- ing expenses with a microscope and draw- ing a line between the travel which is al- ready done and that which he may here- after do. It is quite evident that President Taft is far more popular with the peo- ple of Dixie, who are tired of the non- progressive democratic monopoly, than he is with the politicians in congress. ‘When a dyna- Is it because the ign’t claiming much. A Reminder. Indlanapolls New Putting the telephone and telegraph com- panies under the supervision of the Inter- stato Commerce commigsion reminds us that the express companles are there no but what good does it do us? Suspicious Disappearance. Philadelphia Bulletin, The disappearahce of the books and rec- ords of the Sugar trust smacks of the old, ola vanishing tricks of stage performers. Sooner or later somebody will got a law passed making the fallire to produce ac- counts in court a crime, jiist as much as the “doctoring” of accounts is Indictable as perjury. Clatming Too Much. Baltimore American. The late Mr. Platt's posthumous clalm that he “kicked Mr. Roosevelt up stairs” is hardly tenable. Mr. Roosevelt was well on his way upstairs when he encountered Mr. Platt. As a matter of fact, there was al- ways room at the top for Mr Roosevelt. It attracted him as the magnet does iron— past the power of any obstacle to stop. Grab of the Middlem: Irdiapapolls News. A New York coffes importer told a house committes the other day that the middle- man's profit on coffee In this country is approximately 15 ecents a pound agalnst Germany's 7 cents profit. He sald that during a period of many years the price of coffee lald down at New York has averaged 7% cents, and the cost of roasting and preparing it 2 to 2% cents, but the consumer pays for his 25 cents a pound and upward. Which s more interesting light on the cost of high living. PERSONAL NOTES. Even though Washington resents the fre- quent absénces of President Taft, the fact should be remembered that he stopped there long enough for the census man to count him. Hannah ~ Huglll, a 15-year-old girl of | Yorkshire, England, has received a medal for her bravery in saving her mother from an Infuriated bull. Th8 girl kept the mad animai at bay by prodding it with a pitch- fork. 3 Miss Sadle American, president of the New York Council of Jewish Women, was one of the speakers at the Jewish Inter- national conference which was recently held | in London. She explained the work of the | Jewish council in protecting and assisting | Jewish girls in this country. Captain John Pembroke Jones, the oldest living graduate of the United States naval academy at Annapolls a veteran of the Mexican and civil wars, and the executive ofticer of the Merrimac In its fight with the Monitor, died of the effects of old age in Los Angeles. He was § years old. Have you ever been in Evanston? Lies| north of Chicago, rubbing elbows with the | plebian mob, but Inhaling and exhaling alrs of superiority. For the benefit of those who do not know what distingulshes Evanston from Hammond, Gary and other Chicago suburbs, & retiring minister puts this explanatory label on the gatepost: ‘Evanston, Yor its population, has fewer old clothes and more old bottles than any other city or town in the United States.” Our Birthday Book May 81, 1910. Bx-Goyernor George L. Shéldon was born May 31, 1670 at Nehawka, Neb. He was the tirst native Nebraskan to become governcr of the state, and had previously raised a company for the Spanish-American war, and served two terms In the state senate. Since his retirement from the executive mansion he has been looking after his in- terests in some cotton lands in Mississippl. Wiiliam Rockefeller, brother of the fami- ous John D., and also of Standard Ofl fame, fs 69 years old today. He was born at Richford, N. Y., and has money to burn John C. Stubbs, traffic director of the Unton Paecific and righthand man of Mr Harriman, was born May 31, 1847, at Ash- land, O. He entered the railway service in 1389, and has since then held about every raliroad position on the rallroad map. Bolon L. Wiley, oivil engincer and pro- moter and one time connected With the Omaha Water Works and later with the Electric Light company, is 7 years old today. He was born at Cambridgeport, Va., &nd at last accounts was developing irrigation construction in Colorade. James D. Reed, the grocer at Twenty- third and Leavenworth, is celebrating his thirty-fifth birthqay. He was born right here in Omaha and educatod at Crelghton university. He was with the Omaha Mer- chants' express company until 1%, when he went futo the grocery business. Walter Wills, doing a real estate business, with offices in The Bee building, was born May 81, 1803 at Cornwall, BEngland. He came to this country In 1584, and was for elght years employed &s &n secountant {n the county treasurer's office. Guy H. Pratt, commerolal superintendent for the Nebraska Telephone company, Is just 8. He was born In Lorraine Til, and studied at Chaddock college in that state, dating his work as & telephone man from 1895, Origen Willlams, employed States National bank, was 186, at Oshkosh, Wis. He Carpenter Paper company up bis present work. ! | in the United born May 1 was with the before taking important aspect of the question has b presented in a report of the surgeon genery of the army. It has been suggested that «ome consideration must be made for Iack of time on the part of some offic to engage in daily physical exercise, with- out which the annual test would be under- taken at considerable danger. In that con- nection it has also been maintained that officers should be regarded as competent to declde what exercise they should take outside of that imposed on them by the performance of their dutles. It is also important to make very liberal concessions in behalf of officers who are stationed in the tropics, under which conditions the heart muscles are weakened and any de- mand made upon them may easily result in permanent physical harm. The army medical officers and the sub- sistence officers of the military establish- ment are discussing the advisability of in- creasing the commutation of rations for the sick. The surgeons who are on duty at hospitals have been appealing for an in- crease in the ration from 30 to 40 cents a day. If there is final approval of this request, it will be necessary to increase the estimate for mext year's appropriation on this item. It is pointed out in the reports recelved by the surgeon general of the army that the allowance of 30 cents a day for sick ration is entirely inadequate in view of the fact that the articles of food required by the sick come under the head of delicacles and represent the best and more expensive classes of food, the price of which has Increased at the local markets in greater proportion than the components of the regular army rations. In 1808 the allowance for rations for the sick was 60 cents. The next year this was cut down to 40 cents, since which time it has been twice reduced to 38 cents and 30 cents, which is the current price. The recommendations of the infantry equipment board are belng considered by the quartermaster general, commissary general, surgeon general and chiet of ord- | nance with a view to obtaining from those heads of bureaus criticisms and suggestions | on such features of the new equipment as pertain to those respective supply branches. When these reports have been received they will be taken up by the special committee of Infantry officers connected with the general staff, of which committee Colonel J. W. Duncan, Sixth infantry, acting chief of infantry, is chalrman. In the meantime the arrangements have been made for the manufacture under the ordinance depart- ment of the equipment, aside from the articles of clothing, with a view to the is- sue of the outfl. to Infantry troops for practical trial during the joint army and militia maneuvers at the various encamp- ments during the summer. At the conclu- sion of the additional experience gained in the field for a sufficient period and under the observation of experts, final action will be taken. The expectation is that the equipment will be adopted practically as it has been recommended. There may be a | few minor changes necessary, Conslderable interest attaches to a device which has been described as adopted by some friends of the enlisted men of the army to overcome the dire effects of anti- canteen legislation. It appears that at several military posts the soldiers are being induced to establish, outsidé of the mili- tary reservations, soldiers' clubs, where may be obtalned, under regulation of pur- chase, beer, light wines, and other harm- less beverages. There is every reason why such a proceeding should be encouraged, it it becomes a question of any action In the matter on the part of the military authorities. The canteen feature of the post exchange was driven out of the army by an unwise law enacted by congress, hurried into o frenzy of terror by the total abstinence people, who maintain in Wash- ington what they are pleased to call a “Christian lobby,” under the leadership of & gentleman who rejolces in the title of Christian lobbylst.” The direct result of this leglslation is well known throughout the military estabéshment. The worst sort of dens and resorts thrive in the neigh- borhcod of military gartisons, and it will be well if such an institution as a soldiers’ ¢lub could occupy that vantage ground as a decent rival of these degrading and de- moralizsing places. —_— Cherished Traditions Bunished. Boston Transcript. One by one some of our most cherished traditions are sent a-glimmering. Wash ington's ‘fine feat in crossing the Dcla- ware and winning & victory over the Hes sians has had its place fixed In American minds by Leutze's famous painting, in which the commander ls standing In the bow of the boat with the stars and stripes floating behind him and his offieers seated about. John H. Fow, & Pennsylvania law- yer and historlan, nw writing a history of that state, relates that in crossing the streasm Washington sat in the stern of an ordinary and quite il rowboat. The only other occupants were General Knox and the oarsman. Moreover, his investi- gations have served to determine that the first flag was not made until six months atterward. “Histor says Mr. Fow, “should free ftselt from the meshes of I gends and fables. Tradition should never be used to prove & fact; rather should facts be used to prove the tradiflon.’ cclies Unexplained. Pittsburg Dispatch Testimony that in twelve yenrs only eight representatives In congress were seriously addicted to wtrong liquor leaves & good many speeches utterly without explanation, right thing at the right | Central City Republi |takes care he is go ;\'n(l ted. He s butting into the state fight preity strongly, and it the democrats turn him down right here at home his position as a leader will not be worth much & J in Nebraska. It looks like Bryan was gel- | ting rather rockiess of his prestige, hook- ing up in a local fight with Shallenberger, Hitcheock and Dahlman. It looks like a come-down for a man who was for fourteea years the undisputed democratic national leader. Lexington Ploneer: Omaha speech that he proposed to have a plenk In the democratic platform In favor of the enforcement of the law that we have to* prevent brewers from owning saloons under other names. Why such a plank In the platform? Why not a complaint against some violator of the law to secure its en- forcement? Platform declarations do not help in the matter of law observance ot enforcement. They Mmay serve a political purpose by making a temporary impression on the minds of unthinking people who do not see through the trick of the dema- gogue. Humphrey Democrat: In his speech at Nebraska City Monday night Mr. Bryan said: "It Is not certain yet whether a spe- clal sesslon of the legislature will be called, but if it is not called, it Is because the liquor interests are opposed to the Initiative and referendum.” According to this, we take It that Mr.-Bryan belleves that all the good democrats in the state who are opposed to a speclal session are Influericed entirely by the liquor interests, and this belng 5o, Mr. Bryan does these democrats an injustice that will be hard to amend, and, further, it is a pretty hard thing to say of democrats who have been standing fafthfully by him for many years. \Auréra Republican: As a side-stepper, Codlonel Bryan is certainly entitied to the champlonship belt. He is a great “now you seo it, now you don't" artist. During the_delfberations” of the democratic legl latuiPe winter before last, the coloned was invited to address the houso and senate In joint session regarding the legislative program and what the people needed most. Many county optionists were present and listened long and patiently for an ex- pression from the pecrless leader favorable to their cause; but he spoke not a word of comfort or encouragement. Just before he went to South America Iast fall, he saw a new light and penned an editorial, in which he came out strongly for county option, and left it with his brother, Charley, to spring upon the long suffer- ing demooratic party through the Com- moner when the author was far away and out of hearing of the storm of protests from the bourbans. When he returned home and found he had started something which might bring about unfavorable con- ditions if let alone, Bryan conceived the idea of calling an extra sesslon of the legls- lature for the purpose of passing an Initia- tive and referendum law in order to at- tempt the removal of the liquor question from the state campaign this fall. In this time. The first question, which every ad- vertiser should ask, 18, “What am I trying to accomplish?’® Most business men would 'say, that the nbvious an- swer is, that they are trying to get more business. That is true, as fer es the present is concerned. But, If advertising were measured only by what it can do for the one year, it would be, in many cases, & poor investment. What you are really trying to wceomplish, is to make the essential facts, with regard to your business, a part of the ordi- nary fund of knowledge of every one in the community, state, or the whole country, as the case may be, from which you expect to draw trade. Your advertising should make your business go favorable known, that when the time comes to buy something you sell, the average person in your community will think of you first and fe:l thet he would prefer to buy it of roun. This can only be done by continuous and persistent advertising. In this sense, circy- lars are not advertising. A catalogue is not advertising. Even personal solicitation, however effective, {3 not advertising.. Neither {s a card in a newspaper onco in & while, In this sense advertising. If a young man walks in one door of & coliege and walks out of the other, hé has not re- ceived & college education. Neither does the sending out & few olrculars, or an occasional newspaper advertisement, con- stitute an advertising campalgn A young man learns Greek by going to his Greek class from three to five times & week. Looking at & Greek book once In a while, does not teach him Greek. Con- [tinved and regular repetition s the method employed In college. Advertising depends on exaetly the same foundation. The public will becoma most thoroughly fequainted with your business by seeing itw advertisement In & vewspaper day after day. Don't expect too much from your first few months' advertising, any more than you expeet thres months of college to give high school boy a complete education There i no less certalnty in the results Bryan declared in his tween us, your honor, we'vle reached (wo verdicts, nnd want insiructions as (o how to play off the tie."—Philadel- phla Ledger. Head Walte Have you orde Despairing Patrcn—y 1 porterhousc steak half an'hour ago, and I Wish to apologize for my rudeness. With your permission I will withdraw it as an order and renew It as a suggestion.—Chis cago Tribune. (aign d, sir led and pompous)— ordered: & | “Golng_to earry er Chimmy 7" “Nix. De elép see de eirous, suds fer do Herald. fer de clephanty hant can't lemme ifi to I'm going to git a scuttle of doortender.”—Washington Rich Father—When 1 was & young m of your age 1 was compelled to keep am accurate expense account and wasn't ale lowed to be out at night later o'clock, Son and Helr—Sorry to hear it, govern: your father couldn't trust you as safd a8 you can trust me.—Chicago Tribune. than Houston—How Ao you suppose the Hj tians managed 0 get the pyramids Whe they are? Mulberry—Oh, their congressmen probe aby tranked them.—Fuck “A great crisls alw great man to meet it. “Yes," replied Senator Sorghum; “but the trouble with some of us great men Is that we ket impatient and excitable and ry to manufacture our crises as we Ko along."—\\ ashington Star brings forward a what are the ay, Bob, away for? “Why, you see, that's Professor Pastem, the great gem expert. He knows a bogus dlamond as soon as sces it, and he says 80." ' —Judge, ladies hurry- “I met Mr. Jaypee trust magnate, just now, walking to_see an alrship ascension. He s interested In aviation, and said he walked instead of motoring to the place, as he wanted the exercise,” “I see. He has got the earth and 18 now golng to take the air’’—Baltimore Amers ican. FOUR LETTERS IN VERSE. 8. E. Kiser In Record-Herald. FROM HIM Dearest, may 1 thus address you?—am L* not forgiven yet’ ¢ I was cruel to distress you; all T saia'Wen 1 regret; Tell me that I am forgiven; sadly, humbly, I repent; To despair 1 shall be driven if you do nog 800N relent. FROM HER. r: I've recelved your letter and 1've thought the matter o'er, But 1 think it may be better if weé correse pond no more; I forgive you very gladly; let this, phere fore; be the end; Think not that I treat you badly—TI shall still_remain your friend. FROM HIM. Dear Friend: I'm indebted to you for] kinduese you have shown; When_anothér comes to woo you and te claim you for his own Let your gladness be unblighted by regrey concerning me; By another I'm delighted since your lettes sets me free. FROM HDR. It's an old, old story—it's an anclent gag, indeed: Helen doubtless’ deemed it hoary when young Paris came to plead; Every lover has employed it since Eve found out how to sin; Merger, the great ) Dear the Dear Jack: Talks for peoplé who sell things But long use has not destroyed it; come and get me, dear—you win, L from newspaper advertlsing than the res sults of mending a student to college, Ti uncertainty fs not in the college, but in tl young man and the regularity of his tendance. The uncertainty of na“p advertising is not in a certain newspape but in the copy and the regularity with which it appears. Results come by exactly the samo process, which is a psychologicab process, in both cases. Omaba Could Do It Too. Advertising playéd a very important pa in making 8t. Louls the great shoe city 3 the country. Isaac H. Sawyer, a director of the Brown Shoe company, told the St. Louls Advertising Men's leagu “Advertising had as much to do with it as anything,” Mr. Sawyer admitted St. Loufs manufacturers of shocs sth out with the idea that they must » 80ood shoes if they wanted to hold the t and they have always done so-—-made last- Ing wearing shoes of quality and honest values, but they might have gone on mak- ing good shoes without eelling any tro- mendous quantity of them and without at- tracting the attention of the world and creasing the volume of the output to enor- mous proportions, If they had not early rocognized the necessity of advertising. “The St, Louls shoemen dv and have done more advertising than those of any! other section producing shoes. They w double pages, pages, half pages and qual ter pages In dally newspapers, trade jour nals and national publications, -gnd they put out larger and befter catalogucs and more oxensive and extensive printed mat- ter than &ny shoe people in tho United States The effect of this policy wersisten' fol- lowed 18 shown in the fact that we' have now practically reached the point whero everybody in the country knows that St Louis s foremost in shoe sales. “The manufacturers of shoes in 5t Louls are entitled to credit for having also per- sistently kept the name of #t. Louls on their output. Many shoes are manufactured in other sections which do not ,vu-wr\"m‘ name of the place where they are made. Mr. Bawyer said that another reason for the success of Bt. louis shoo gnanufac¥ turers was that they co- --ruu‘-l'l)uluul being in combination. They were ¢¥mbined t. Louls on.—8t only on the one paint of kecy to the front and making §wed Louls Times.