Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 12, 1915, Page 4

THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, _ THE OMAHA DAILY BEE| _ FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprieto PEE BUILDING, FARNAM AND 8 Entered at Omaha postoffice as sec TRMS8 SUBSCRIPTION. - - By carrier By mafl per ';l'. per month. and Sunday..... without Sunday.. Evening and Sunday Evening_without Sunday. Sunday Bee only............. Send notice of change of A irregularity in delivery to Omi De nt. . it REMITTANCE. B amps. Fecelved in ‘payment of t stamps onnte Fetbonal checks. except on Omaha and evchange, not accepted. OFFICES. ha—The Beg Building. th Omaha—3(8 N Touncil Bluffe—14 North Maln str: incoln—2 Little Building. The Donkey and the Water Cart. As might have been expected, Mr. Bryan's effort to attach the democratic donkey perma- nently to the water wagon has seriously per- | turbed the counsels of his party. Other €emo- eratic leaders have openly sidestepped the pro- hibition question, although it has been pressed very closely to the present administration, but it now looks as if they would have to come out flatfooted, one way or another. This is not the first time the Peerless Leader | has created consternation in his party by insist- | ing that his personal views take precedence. He | has & penchant, not only for meddling in state politics, but for seizing on some salient point in popular discussion, no matter how temable, in order that he may keep the spotlight turned in his own direction. In this instance he may have gone too far, for it is doubtful if the democratic party will nationally espouse the cause of prohi- bition in spite of the position of the southern | 1t seems to be a number to conjure with, wing of the party. Mr. Bryam, however, s not such a poor strategist that he does mot leave a way open for & withdrawal, if necessary. He dearly loves to stir up the demoerats, but he usually knows where he iz going to land when he starts. Svaseregp——— Vocational Training. Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the University of California, is apparently emervated by the eternal sunshine of the golden coast; otherwise he might not indulge such gloomy views for our 0801 Hearst B\lll!ln . New York—Room 1106, 386 Fifth avenue. . Louis~508 New Bank of Commerce. ashington—7% Fourteenth St, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE, ress communications rdulu to wd matter to Omaha Bee, m e —————————————————————— MARCH CIRCULATION, 52,092 for month of g n‘.'“'m ~ m future. “Democracy is disappearihg,” he says, =, e 3 m Notary Publie “and Americans, who rant so much about g democracy, are slipping back into aristocracy.” & Sabderibers leaving the éy temporarily | On the matter of education, he insists that it is ~hould have The Bee malled to them. Ad- the solution of our social difficulties, but he dress will be changed as often as requosted. pronounces against voeational training in the public schools, saying it is “a trick of the aris- tocrats to sidetrack boys.” Dr. Wheeler should take comfort, it he can realize It, in the thought that his distorted views are not generally shared in by his countrymen or hig co-workers in the educational tleld. Voea- tional training d not necessar!ly mean bind- ing & boy to a fixed position in life, nor ia a liberal education a royal avenue to wealth and soclal feminence. Both are means to an end. {7 Thcught for the Doy Selected by Margaret Barr To know what you prefer, instead of humbly “Amen' to what the world telle you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your sow aifve.—R. L. Stevenson. § ? sty | Eapetienta, the Galy safe guide, has shown that K & vast majority of boys and girls are out of ‘ ; | Geod-bye, Mr. Law-Makers. Take keer O | po0i ang thrust into Industrial life at an early i varsiives! R e o - | age. Tt 18 to help these that vocational training I : The polit! ‘mmmmmnm,nmemmmm. The A mining the city hall will soon be under way. dominant {des 15 to give them such training as f will be of service to them in the battle of life, o H ¥ \ where the untrained individual is st an immense disadvantage. The value of a liberal educstion is not to be depreciated, but many bachelors of art may be found driving street cars for 25 to 80 cents an hour, while plum_b.n, bricklayers, carpenters and other skilled mechanics are be- ing paid from 55 to 85 cents an hour. In ‘the long run, individual force i{s the source of success in life. The vigorous and ener- . will feel lonesome when that horde of lobbylsts - move out. ; Sm——— The size of the biennial appropriation bills 5 the hoarse hoot t0 windy promises of legls- i ve economy. y “Don’t rock ) getic man has always been, and will always be, { able to and power. Democ- racy in tain detatls jit B E srent sources. Though discredited Wr'a veto of the bandicap to those who Mght) bill as & nonpar- politics had nothing that somebody is, light, althougn serious defect in the mfll’plnutl-urybo- ginning. The Bee, and its editor, publicly called upon the spomsors of the light bill to | amend it by providing that no one be eligible to, -nu.;m)nfl-mmfin board in witle elther water or eleo- tric light plants who should file as a candidate for political office or accept a position upon a i Such the objection to the. measure on the score of bullding up a political machine, and with a further amendment giving the right to condemn as well as to buy or build, would have left the opponents no ground to stand on. But until now neither the World-Herald nor any of the ‘Water boarders could be made to realize that, to brokers. Nowhere outside of the sone have the dogs of war created more than in New York canyon of highbrow The pinnacie of a political paradox is to be vs] are demanding repeal of the non- _partisan judiclary law on the ground that this has proved a dismal failure It is too late to save the light bill, but it is not too late for the Water board to adopt a reselution and spread it on its records, to the effect that any employe going into politics on his own account thereby and forthwith dotaches himself from the payroll for a period of at least a year. Just asfoon s & defender of “mers man” appears on the law-making stage another jumps to the footlights with a bammer. A New Yorker has introduced a bill requiring that mat- rimonial engagements, to gecure standing in court, must be In writing and signed by both parties, At the same moment a Pennsylvanian fathers a bill taxing bachelors for the benefit of mothers' pension funds. It must be apparent to the dethroned lords that they must get to- gother and stand together if they expect to be tolerated in polite society. — Sunny Bill Redfield of the Department of Commerce sees more business sunshine in the Missouri valley than {n any other section of the gountry. As the chief optimist of the adminis- tration, duty forbids & nod of recognition to & cloud anywhere. Seeking sunshing is hig exclu- sive task. His scream of joy on finding the real article in the midwest lends official strength to the chorus which tickles the ears. of the corn belt. S— The new brooms about to be installed in service in Chicago promise to sweep all the erooks out of the ecity. The promise has the merit of not interfering with the census of 1920 Five years is ample time for & come-back. The Political Caldron O will be the seventh man on the city hall slate? It is generally belleved that the six present city commissioners who were within the first division of seven at the primary will Till in their siate with & man whom they belleve will add strength to the siate. *This suggests the mythological, historical and sentimental assoclations of the numeral seven It was re- garded with much interest by the anclents and even in modern times it is used in many special ways. The ancient Hebrews regarded it as the perfect number and it appears in the Bible many times. There is Greek legend regarding the expedition of the seven heroes against Thebes, under Adrastus, to aid Poly- nices. There are the seven hills of Rome, seven cham- pions of Christendon, seven wise men of Greece, seven planets of the anclents, seven virtues, seven deadly sins, seven ages of man, seven bishops of English history and the seven wonders of the world. BSeven shooters were popular in the early days. It is said that the human body changes completely every seven years. The seventh daughter of the seventh daughter 18 sald to have occult powers, There are seven days in the week and an indoor game is known as seven-up. The seventh chord is known in music. Our commission plan of government calls for seven commissioners and the question of the hour Is, who will be the seventh man on the city hall slate? Wi be the seventh #on of the seventh son? Wiil he be a seven-time win- ner? Will he know how to play seven-up? One of the “quiet” slates circulated om primary day bore the names of Ed Howell and Robert Druese- dow. The names were typewritten on small pleces of paper and were handed out to the employes of the city Water department. Voters have three giesses as to who got up this slate. Anonymous answers will not be considered. Ome of the freak ballots of the day wae made out by & Fifth ward voter, who dfew lines through tho names of) seventy-two candidates and placed s cross against the name of Dan B. Butler. It was evident that he wanted to vote for Dan. It fs not altogether true that politics is develd of over town of seventy-three men, all potential nomi- nees for the city election of May 4 On Wednesday the pictures of fifty-nine were as so much waste paper. They were more than waste paper, because they were silent reminders of defeat. galaxy and cherished fond hoh‘l. for the originals. “ Today these pictures seem like ghosts of the past, up here and there to taunt men whose bosoms 1s,”" remarked one of the defeated fifty-nine. “City politics today {s a docile divertisement corn- pared with what it was here thirty years ago, when party lineups, ity conventions, | street orators what were orators,” ety polities,” People and Events Last yedr the country spent $9,000,000 for saleries and expenses of boards commissioned to regulate loose cogwheels in the machinery of American life. Bach participant in the spoll regulated the money to the proper destination, Looking over, under and around the Chicago prompts the Herald to remark j ] to make the honorable members put it “A Martyr to Civic Duty” is the epitaph citisens would chisel on the monument of the late Charles Richmond Henderson, dead at the age of 6. A professor in Chicago university, he devoted' his sentiment, romance or poetry. Bemeath the skin of the most hardemed politictans—if politiclans do get hardened-—here lies & humaen touch, a well-spring of human emotions and feelings. Yesterday, meaning in the broad sense the days previous to last Tuesday, there were pictures all APRLL 12, \& \ 1910, P i S K S ART RS ——ty, e Qualifies the Statement. RED WING, Minn, April 8.—To the Editor of The Bee: Owen R. Lovejoy, the general msecretary of the national child labor committee, whose exhibit was | shown in Omaha recently under my charge, calls attention to a statement credited to me in one of your jssues dur- ing the week, of the exhibit, that children were compelled to work so young that they are carried to work by their fathers. 1 recall the interview with your re- porter. Hé looked for “‘locul color’’ and 1 told him, among other items of interest that came from those who had viewed the exhibit that morning, that one visitor said he had seen oyster and shrimp can- nery children on the gulf coast, especially little girls, carried to work by their fathers in the very early morning hours, becauke they were so drunken with sleep they could not walk. The national committee itself has not had record of any such case so far as I know, and T mentioned it only in connec- tion with the information suppiied by your own people In Omaba. Our commit- tee finds it very necessary to distinguish between facts of its own finding and those brought to it from other sources. I am sure you will be glad to asslst the cause for which we are fighting by pub- lishing this correction, JOSEPHINE J. ESCHENBRENNER, Meémbership Secretary. Setting the K. of L. Right. LEXINGTON, Neb, April 10—~To the Editor of The Bee: Your special from Lexington headed ‘‘Knights of Luther Elect Two Men," with the article that follows, is one of the most distorted re- ports from a special correspondeat T have ever known to be sent out. No special fight was put up by the Knights of Luther (as stated by your cor- respondent) to secure ocontrol of the city council, and that was not the principal {ssue. The council, as it was, and now is, 18 entirely satisfactory to the Knights of Luther, as their interests are well cared for. The principal issue In Lexington was, Should the,town have saloons or no saloona? -And as the Knights of Lu- ther stand for clean, tempeérate govérn- ment of national, state and city affairs, they are proud of the fact that Lexing- ton went dry, and now wp want to see the mayor enforce the law, and the Knights of Luther will always aid him in doing so0. I trust you will find space in your paper for this letter. PATRON SCRIBE. Likes and Dislikes, CODY, Neb, April 10.~To the Edifor of The Bee: ' 1 am a traveling man and have been buying & copy of your valu. able paper every day for many years, I feel just like F. J. Your space is too valuable to waste on Wooster. I doubt that Jesus Christ could please him. I enjoy A. L. Meyer's letters. They contain the truth and good information. He is telling the facts in regards to West Virginia. My nephew travels in that state, and since it went dry and the stats on the verge of bankruptey his sales have fallen off 50 per cent. All the merchants are complaining and many traveling men are belng luid off. 1 ; As far as I am concern®, 1 seldom take & deink and can get along without it, but when I look over my salés records I find 8 per cent more business in wet townd than in dry towns, and that s why 1 am for licensed bars and prosperity, as against prohibition and bankruptcy, and 80 are nine out of ten traveling men in Nebraska. AN OLD TRAVELING MAN, Patented Oil Processes. NORTH LOUP, Neb., April 0.—~To the Edjtor of The Bee: The people of Ne- braska dnd the nation are mow very much interested in a so-called discovery of a process for making gasoline by Dr. Rittman, an employe of the Interior de~ partment. In the Christian Solence Sen- tinel appears the foliowing: Two discoveries, both of geat Tt to Ame industries, ul‘mw an- nounced by Lane of the In- Lane, Secretary Lane Is trying to make it appear that’ the Standard Ofl company now has an enormous advantage in the making of gasoline and that the Rittman discovery will give the independents an equal advantage. Nothing could be farther from the fact. Last fall I ye- celved a letter from an independent re- finery, saying that they understood that the Standard people had a process by ‘which about all petroleum could be made into gasoline, but not “patented.” In the application which T made In 194 for process for making gasoline, among the references of possible infringements the Standard people were not included, end that was efficlal. Wil Secretary Lane kindly give the number of the patent of Btandard’s process? I certainly would Uke to see it ‘When an fuvention is held secretly the inventor has no right under the law, and its use must become general before an invention loses fits patentabllity. But the worst aspect in the whole matter is that Secretary lane has the manage- ment of the patent office and he {s dab- bling in patent rights; and I must ap- peal my case to Mr. Lane for a hearing. I my application holds good ,the Stand- ard people camnot, very likely, use any socrét process they may have, because the principal factor in any process will more than lkely depend on the super- heating of the oll vapors. There is where they seem to be stuck and they over- looked the legal side of that matter. All of this talk for the independents is rot. ‘The object is to give the process to more powerful companies. ! WIIl President Wilson please appoint a set of en who are not financially inter- ested in patent right controversies, espe- clally where those men are made judges by the federal statute? I do not belleve Loutsville Courler-Journal: “Comfort- ably rich” means to be able to drive » $398 automobile without fecling you have | to lush for it Pittsburgh Dispatch: The killing of Amerfoans in Mexico i bound to stop before long. There will be no more Americans left to kill. Cleveland Plain Dealer: The United States soldiers who insist on attempting to thrash the republic of Panama with bare knuckles always learn the valuable lesson that a gun can shoot, even If it is in the hands of a-little brown “spiggotty.” Indlanapolis News: The condition of | our mational financés may not be all that | could be desired, and our diplomacy may | have some co spots in it to distress us, but it is a real’ pleasure to watch the iIndustry and efficlency with which the winter wheat crop is working its job. New York World: Dr. Irving Fisher | tells the Century club ot Boston that Huropean sclence has added seventeen years per century to man's term of life. This is three years more than the Ameri- can figures show. Still, the war of the pn‘vwarl is rapidly taking care of the mar-| sin. Buffalo Express: The San Franclsco millionaire, who, after serving sixteen months in the Atlanta penitentiary, de- clared that he “had a bully time in prison,” might tell his experfence to some of hie fellows who seem to be in danger of missing such a pleasant experience by appeals to higher courts. SMILING REMARKS. “Sir, does Romey your boy call . i why do you ask that™' his dox “‘Oh, merely that I moticed h to like to 4 - altimore make it howl"- b5 W oW Baltimore Bill-They s: a criminal always re- turns to the scene of his crime. JUl-What's the good !f he gets all the :n'-:n‘ the first time.--Yonkers States- | man." What's the matter with uncle?" ‘Baby thinks his bald head is a big Easter exg.” “Wen?” “'Yet he won't let me touch it up a ljttl with dye just to please the = childe— Loulsville Courier Journal. ‘‘Really, Kate,” said the young man, in considerable tation, “T z.m v'e sorry I lost my h and kissed you. Tdidn'l think what T was doing. It is a sort of temporary inganity in our family.” eli y," replled the young woman, wUncle s 'a mean more such attacks you bad better come right e your infirmity I8 known, and we will take care of you''—=New York | Times \ “S6 you think all putlic entertain- ments should he censored.” “Yes. Apd I'd liké 10 be cne of the censors. What for?” “30 a8 to be sure of not missing any- thing."—Washington Star. it was in a country town end the traveling company was playing ‘‘Richard 1 Ry rformance seenied to dreg terribly antl the audience became very tired. A horse, & horse; my kingdom for a horsel” roared the actor, “If yo quit now ye'll be able to ketch the ten-thutty .trolley,” shouted a tired voice. PRESENT DAY FASHIONS. St. Louls Post-Dispatch A flash of color on the city street; A stir of humor up and down the row: A dainty tit-tat-too of pretty feet: A short gray skirt iwith snow-white hose below. A quick alertness in the human flow, A_sudden ripple of Infectious smiles, And here we have it—it is spring, you 7 know— $ Alpretty lady in the latest styles Say if the war In Burope caused a dearth Ot dressy fabrics that the playful by reeze Describes an angel walking on the earth. And does its best to indicate her knees? Or is it fashion in her stern decrees Demands economy in silks and lislea?” Be as it may, in one or baoth of these A lady passes in the latest! styles! 1 Alas! for those days when & woman's ace, Demure and winning, challenged Paghy ing eyes! We are attracted by a mlm‘lnr 3 And join our fellows in a mild surprise Could human footwear be so wee a size? We had not guessed it till these human aisles pace, Admit the first of summer's butterflies— A lady passes In the latest styles! ENVOY. 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