Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 21, 1915, Page 6

IO P RS e % i | i I LIF o AT ASS THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. BUL FARNAM AND FEVENTEENTH. Enterdd #8 Omaha postoffice as second-class matter. TERMS OF m'nscslmm' y éarrier By mail per year. E per month. ., plainis of , Clreulation EMTITTANCE, L or postal order. m\m in payment of sm &xcept on Omaha and eastern two. a0 not d. OFFICES. h—m Bujlding. Oma S N street. 1 Bluffe~4 North Main street Little m“dn‘r Hearst Bujldin, 1195, %6 Fifth avenue B aari 38 ot Hank of Commerce Washington—7% Fourteenth St, N. W. 8 K XTR T RTE. CORRESPONDENCE, m Femmunieations relating to A matter to Omana Bee, Py K ool BB e o e et e~ MARCH CIRCULATION, 52,092 Dougl .. b WILLIAMS, Circulation M > " ll‘ Dresence aworn to e A Bk HUNFER, Notary Publie Subscribers leaving the ity témporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often &s requosted. e e —————— Thought for the Day Selected by Clara E. Waterhouse Nothing winks s0 gently and deep nto men’s minds as examplé. — Locke. - h nel Lincoln—% Ch No dearth of campaign promises the days betore. The forgetery works overtime the days after. St ———— That water rate reduction must be on the theory of small favors thankfully received when larger ones are not reachable. L No more Chifiese puzzle electric lighting bills. That's a big gain for the consumer re- gardless of the cut in the rate. r—————— It you believe Leo M. Frank has been con- démned to death without a fair trial, write the govérnor of Georgla and tell him so. political gatety ifi an off year t the market by thé Péhnsyivania Rail- of the week. It emphasizes the op- 15 the surest winner in sight, ussia’s m ministér {s correct in say- will be the prosperity of the people. ‘of this official pronouncement, guesses on ‘We should say so! islating an extra term to all the and J. B. Southard for eity elerk, child e order for $20,000,000 worth of supplies features the busineéss snd indus- , which preparés today for the business their motives at face value, international war is making the nation prosperous, it that the lobger the war goes on (he E tion of the war should be recalléa for 1o g0 quite & way with the khort fot all the way to five.—Worla- | dirt and a spreadér of disease. A little cara Even to the polit of leg- ineumbent counly officeholders, which performance, if re- peated by each succeeding legislature so as to W‘h in Ihdefinitely, would shorten ‘he Mew city councll organized with W. F. Bechel mfiw his business headquarters removed about May to where it will Ge¢tipy the second | the United States establisy a war fleet on the Creighton is confined to his house by siek- the Pation barver 4 Wtk pleadiite visit 1o | Sam, however, manages very well to maintain they sometimes "_-' ‘:‘ ol overiooked. The Governor's Fears Are Unfounded. According to advices from the staté house Governor Morehead has been delaying action toward Greater Omaha consolidation because of | alleged defects in an entirely different law ex bodying our charter amendments, which he ha | been led to fear might prove troublesome in the | administration of the greater city. Why the governor should let himself be both- ered by our purely local problems, or assume a responsibility for them which in no way de- volves tpon him, is not ¢lear to us. Somebody | has apparently made the governor belleve that the charter changes are vital to consolidation, | when, had the charter amendments failed alto- gether, no serious difficulty would have been presented. | Let us call the attention of the governor to the fact that Omaha has it wholly within e power to maké shy necessary charter changes | by simply calling another home rule charter | convention and adopting a new home-made char- ter, which in #11 probability will be done, any- way. Let the governor earry ont his part of the intent and spirit of the consolidation act and ft will be up to the people of the Greater Omaha to do the rest themselves. S— | The New Electric Light Rate Schedule. The new electric light rate schedule about to be established by ordindnce, with assured ac- qliléscence of tha lghting company, is 4 real concession to eonsumers, and a vast improve- ment 6n the old schedule which 1t displaces. That much must be admitted even though we are not in sympathy with the company's attl- tude on other matters. The reduction im the charge per kilowatt from 11 cents to 8 cents is more than a 20 per cent reduction, this highest rate beifig the one that concerns the small user, and a 20 per cent redtiction should be appre- tiable. What is t6 be heralded as a still greater vie- tory for the people, however, complying with the demand voiced by The Ree, is the abandonment of the delusive lamp-capacity estimate, and ths establishment of a straight meter-measurement charge. Under the new light rate schedule elec- trie eurrent will be sold in Omaha at specified prices per kilowatt hour just as water is sold by tNe thousand gallons, and gas by the thou- safid cublc feet. Heretofore a meter reading meant nothing understandable to the user, while by the mew rate schedule the face of the meter will diselose exactly what the charge is to be without any Chinese pugzie computations. The main thing is that the new stralght Mmetef measiifement rate will let us know where we are at, and will give us the comparisons ab- solutely needed for demanding further redue- tions from time to time as they may be war ranted, S — Will They Learn the Lesson? Something of & sermon might be preached with the Terre Haute crooked election gang as & tople. The leaders In this Inlquity do not seem to appreciate the encemity of their offense, élse they are cloaking their feelings with an ex- of bravado that very illy becomes them. y thelr fellow eitizens as officers to most shamelessly betrayed ing themselves somewhat in the HEght of heroes? | The seddest comment that could be written on our form of government would be t6 have these meén come out of prison of thé sime mind as when they wefit i, It is not for the purpose of taking vengeance on them that they were sentenced, but that the majesty of the isw might not be moeked. Their crime wah the geater becalise it was not against person or property, but against the sanctity of the ballot. If this is not brought home to them during the time they are imprisoned, then the otfort of the law will have been in vain. —— “Swat the Fly.” * of the most important features of the clean-up campaigh should not be oveplooked. Houséwivés and others must keep the fly i mind and net permit him to get a start. Past campaignd have been dome wonders in way of reducing the pest, but they atée past, and the campaign of the cOmifig summier is the one to have attemtion mow, The warfare against the fly must Bé just as relentless and just ag vigor- ous as if it had ounly béén commenced. Prentises should be carefully tlestised and évery précau- tion taken to prevent the breediug of insect pests, and especially the house fly, a product of right now Will phevent & 1ot of trouble later on, for u fly Killed {n thé spring removes the danger of billions later in the season, Swat the fly, and escape annoyance and danger. e————— Another War Cloud Gosie Up in Smoke. Alarming stories from the Pacific const oon- derning the operation of & Japanese fleét In Turtle Bay, LoWer California, have burdened the wires for several days, wnd visions of the invasion of Ameética by the little brown men of Nippon have disturbed the dreams of the timor- ous. Now, the danger has proved imaginary, the war clouds being dissipated by the reports of naval officérs of the United States, who cer- (ify that the Japanese are occupled solely with o save the oruiser Osama, which went the rocks some time ago. No Japanese naval belng established there, nor has the mikado a foree of fighting ships assembled in that vicinity. It is now up to the Pacific coast experts to iavent some other excuse for demanding that wesldrn ocean. This, perbaps, will not be difn- ult, for wars and rumors of wafs are the com- monest of daily occurremnces (hése days. Unele his serenity, but he doesn’t relax his watentul ness. Our fellow citizens on the Pacilic coast ate not so détached from the general country as imagine, nor is their weltare at THE triendship. lips, OMAHA BEE: WEDNESDAY, Henry Watterson on the Death of Lincoln From the Courler.Jonrnal. O THORE who are old enough clearly to femeni- ber the morning of the 16th of April, 18%, it seems only yesterday that they awoke 16 stand aghast be fore the message that mét them At the door—‘Lincoln was Assassinated last night.” Up and down, through town and country, through the very powder-clouda still hovering over récent bat tiaflelds, the tidings swept enward trom one end of the 1and to the other, awe-inspiring alike to the vio- tors and the vanquished, their full portent coneefved by none; at the north horror and execration un- bounded, at the south a dased feeling of wonder not unmixed, bt happily only here and there, with those ebulitions of unthinking cruelty, which, eveén ds tears tell ua we are men, tell us AlSO that we ard sa~age The probléms of Nife and death who shall dare at- tempt to solve them? God moves in A mysteriovs way. That He has not stayed the hand of ths Aésassin can only imply that underneath there lay some all-wise pirpose. Yeot, weirdest and saddest, the subjocts and victims of these murderous freaks have not been the hated among men, the monsters and despots of histery; but the noble and the useful, the amiable and the gentle: quite all the way from Julius Caosar to Willlam McKinley, from Henri Quatre to the Empréss Mizabsth—Lincoln in the foreground-— the Christ ohild of Aestiny—the curtain which ross upon tragedy in the wild woods of Kentucky and In- dinna, falling upon tragedy In Washingion, the na- tion's eapital. Yes, and in am actual playhouse—be- neath its proscetiftm arch—in front of ita footlights— the leading part played by an actor. 'Tw./ strange, ‘twis passing strange! 'Twas pitiful, ‘twas wondrous pitiful! What might have happened had Lincoln lived? He was the oné friend of the stricken south having power. In A& thousand ways he had shown this Not eme prosctiptive word fell from his 'with malice toward none—with charity for ail,” Godiike wolds, the inspifed cue and keéynote of his mifid and heart. Two shoft months before those awful seenés in Ford's theater, he fiad #ald at Fortress Monfoe 16 his old friend, Btéphens—thé now vice président of the confedéracy, but still to Lincoln the loved whig col- league of other days—Stephens, let me write ‘union’ at the top of this page, and you mdy write below it whatover ele you pleass.’ ! #o poised was his sense of equity, so acute his hatred of injustice, that, unwilling to visit the offense of the south militant upon the south Innocent—im- poverished widows and orphane, and babes in their cradles when war was declaréd and waged—he of- fered payment for the Alaves, along with the complets rehabilitation of the seceded states sn the union, for the immedidte cessation of hostilities. Nothifig séems harder to reconcile both with reason and existing conditions, with the actual and obvious state of the eontending parties, than the rejection of this offer. It seems a part of the fatality that pur. #uéd the south from first to Jast. 1t was the will of Heaven that the confederacy should be destroyed, root and branch; that there should be no possible equivo- cation ad to the result; and, a4 it the south hada not been feténtly punished, Lincoln—a son of the soil wtanding ready with his hand uplifted and outstretched to protect his kindred people—was struck down, ten additional years of travail ensuing as dire consequence of the causeless murder. Half a century has intervened to separate us from these dread times. Two genérdtions that knew them not have cofiéd upon thé atage—the generation that sutfored and endured mostly gome fo it account—its few survivors but s the misty figures of a dream, Iingerihg & momént upoti the oter edfies of the seene, presently to pA#s béyond and to be Séefi no more. They saw the hand of Deity upon the battlefield ana 16ng Ao Accepted the verdict. To them at least “the of the Lofd afe tiie and righteous alto- ' The wouth léarned its lesson, too. It learned that slavery was not a divine institution. Cotton was fievet King. The unién was best. God Rnew where the weak #Pot was and smote us there; and, lo, we are one people agein; still tfue to the reason of our being, the faith of our fathers, & world power, yet a nation Of fréemén; known, respected, fonored to the ofids of the eatth, How much of this do we not owe t6 Abraham Lincoln? 1t is meet that Kentucky should Be first to acknowledge the country's obligution to his deeds ahd i #hotild recall the example he set and left behind hint; should see the light that shines above his tonib and be cheered and invigorated; the first truly typlcal American, a Kentuckian and Kentucky's best histéric M' T 1 Thus it is that we are teaching our children in the schools this day. Thus it 18 that the flage are at haif- mast. Gbd bléss the flag! God keep the mémory of Abrahaii Lincoln gféen forever. Twice Told Tales Dying te Bury Them?t Mr. Deal, the undertaker, was never at a loss for an answer when anyone attempted to poke fun at him or his professioh. One day a would-be wit, meeting him, rentarked: “Yours must be a gruesome buainess, Mr. Deal. I suppose you undertakers never look at a man withoit wishing Him dedd?" You dre mistaken,” replied the undertakef. I know sérhe people whom 1 would be perfectly willing to bury all “«Philadelphia Ledger. She Spoke the Trath. Two ladies, whose husbands are membérs of (he faculty of Oberlin college, went to call n the new professor's wiféd. They were shown into & room where the small daughter of the house was playing. While walting the appearance of their hostess one of the ladies remarked to her friend, at the same timé nod- ding towArd the little girl, “Not very pe-tet-y. i she?" spélling the word so, that the chiid should not understand. Instantly, béfore there was time for the friend to reply, came thé answer from the little girl, "‘No, not very pétie-t-t-y, but awfully s-m-a-r-t."—Cleveland Leader. A Joker the WiIL. The ldwyer Was drawing up old Furrow's will “I héfeby bequeath all my property to my wife,” dictated the soh of the soll. “Got that? “Yed,'' answéred the lawyer. “On donditioh that she marries again within a year." The leghl light sat back puzsled. “Hut why?' he asked The aged fafmer smiled “Bedause,” Wwas the reply be morry 1 dled. “I want somebody to New York Tiues. People and Events A Chicago bride of three weéks s asking for & divorce oh the ground that her husband is unsuiteld fof married 1116, This 14 afelher way of saving that her seal got away with her judgment. A Bavannah, Ga., couple has just been married on & license issued twenty-one years ago. As a trial test of patience and loyalty, the record deserves a place off the métrimonial scoreboard. A few houré after winning a layoff for punching a rule, J. P. Downs, a street rallway motorman of St. Louls, got word that he had fallen heir to a fortune of §15,000. Wil Downs come back? Not if the ward turfis inte cash. For beventy:-ihree years O. J. '‘Stough of San Diego has been an animated joke on the prophetic talent of California doctors. They told him he was all w with cofsumption, but he refused to believe them. He is now 1, and #till enjoys the joke om the medics, Progréssive churchmen 18 Kefosha, Wi, aré prescribing generous doses of printers’ Ink mem- bership Booster. The Firet Baptist church set the pace with full page ade. As the publicity plan W backed by busifiess méh other churched uré likély to follow, “ APRIL 21 } | | titlea, | tain object, 1915 The Dee’s fe. Brief comtributions om timely topics invited. The Bee assumes no respomsibility for opinions of cofrespondents. Al letters sub. jeor to condensation by editor. How Many manthas OMAKA, April 19-To the Editor ot The Bee: 1 note the paragraph in your paper stating that the German steamer Wilnelm” sunk (he Norweglan sailing ship “Samarthe,” which must be an rrov, as there are only tWo sMips of this name, one a steamer and the other a four-masted soiling ship, both belonging to John R. Haws & Co., Liverpool. Eng- lund, being part of the estate of the late P. C. Hawe shipowner of Liverpool, and as ore of the holrs of this estate 1 know nothing of this ship ever hoing sold. HORACE HAWSR, A Detense—tut Too Late. OMAHA, Aptil 2.~To the Editor of The Bee: It seems from your editorial en- Tho light Rata Puzsle Card.” that the présent systém of eleetrie light- ing rates in Omaha s not understood. This syster of rates consists of an in- itial rate for the first thirty hours use of the confiacted load or the equivalent, 1. e, sixty hours use of one-half the con- nected load, etc,, in the case of residances only 6 per cent of the total: comnected 10ad is used, snd a lower rate for all the excess surrent consumed. It must be rémembersd that ohe whe ueey electricity for lght or power does not buy & commodity such a4 water or &as, but uctuslly buys energy which must be genefatéd ut the power plant at the same instant that it is being used by the consumer. In spite of Mr. Fowell's pot analogy of pumping electricity like water, one may with safety assert that it is not pomsible to economically store up électrical energy In a form to be sue- cesstully dieteibuted in large quantities over a large area. Suppose the case of two users of elec- tric lights; one has a large house con- taining say 100 Highte totaling 5,000 watts, which would require about six and oné- half mechanical horsepower to supply. The other has a small house contathing say fifteen lights totaling 75 watts and requiring one méchanical horsepower to supply. It is quite possible that both would eomsume the same amount of elece tricity in the course of & yéar. The see- ond can not at any time reauire more than 750 watls, but the first may oéca- sionally turn on all his lights anda his demand on the power plant would be about six times heavier than the other's could possibly be. The lighting company must be in readi- ness {0 meet this demand at any time. 1t must have génerators And boilers large enough And it féed wires and distribut- ing apparatus must be heavy enough. Ths man with the smaller housé may actually cohsume more eléctricity than tha other, bt he can be supplled with only a fraction of the investment re- quired for the other. This system of rates autematically places a highér “readinéss to serve" charge on the consumér who I8 réspon- siblé for the gréater overhead expénse (o the lighting company, and it 1s only by placing the proper share of the overhead charges on those who should pay them that rafes for the actual energy con- sufmed can he koot low. . The public service commissions of Wis- consin, New York and other states have uphold this system of rates. At léast bofore further condémnation an effort should be nade to comprehend. H.O H, Demand 1 vl 3 OMATEA, TABFT S0 Now that Omaha has become a live metropolitan oity and 14 progréssing nobly along many lisies, why not make another move n the right direction and close the retail stores at & P M. Saturdays ad other cities do? Wé have been classed with the smaller towns and villages long enough with re- #pect to thin Saturday night work. Let the Assoclated Retallets get busy #nd close up shop st § p. m. JOHN H. Editorial Snapshots Washington Post: Untfl the foréign nations have settled their difficulties, China will have to undé¥ge the prolonged suspense of not knoWing which it really belonge to. Washington Star: A submarine crew has so many dangérs to face that threats Of hanging in the évent or capture are too remote to be véry sériously consid- ered. Cleveland Plaln Dealer: of Tan: coli's former law partners has dfed again. It appears that there were More lawyors than laymen in Tliinols I Lincoln's time and that all of them wotked in the same Ittle office. Brookiyn Eagle: Aud is ausgesplélt, captured by Hngland, lost to Germany. Aus is a tradinig station th German East Afrien. 1f the Russians capture Auspits in Moravia that will bé even more suspi- eloug for the alles. Philadelphia Ledger: Happy day! We have reached that stage of automoblle evolution when the man who owns a really good one never brags about It. The | result Is a tremendous improvement in the interest and value of conversation Cleveland Plain Dealer: The various presidents of Mexico have little in com- Mo exe#pl that their portraits usually | look liké samples from the rogues’ gal- lery. 18 éxtreme ugliness of phy#lognomy a prime reauisite for highest political honors in the fractured republie? #t. Louls Globe-Democrat: Hens are growing shrewder; it has been necessary to invent a nest egg which consists of | the natural shell filled with plaster to take the place of the old-fashioned porce- which satisfied the hens of the carly colotilal and pré-new thought periods. Baltimore American: One of the most important victories yet recorded is that of an American physician in Persia who, by displaying the Stars and Stripes, saved 3000 Assyrians from massacre. Such a victory is of far more importance to hu. manity than one which destroys an army, Boston Transcript The Copenhagen report that the United United States have ehtered into a defemsive treaty of alliance with Holland was doubtiéss writ- tw by the reportér whoe gnee interviewed «id Doc Cook. Whenevér we do dectide W forget Washington's Injunction we won't proceed to get ourselvés in Duteh. Cleveland Plain Dealer: According to an eastern statistical wizard European Stience has added seventeen years Por contury 16 the averaié human term of Wre. Incldentally, Eufopean stience— more especially in gunnery and harbor mining and submarine efficlency—has knocked the average term of life galley- west. | SUNNY GEMS “John,” sald the milllonaire to hix Butler at the bungalow, “serve the champagne in tin_cups.’ s it '{t’\ rich friends like to rough it when n the country. —Philade/phia Ledger “I'm sorry to see by your report card my boy, that you received unsatisfactory in geography. Why don't you study harder” What's the use of studyin’' geography now? The war's going to change it all anyhow. “~Detroit Free Press Why does a poet begin %0 many of his sentences with ‘0% ' said the polith clan. “Thete's no answer,” replied Mr. Pen- wiggle. “Why does a_ speech-maker bo- €/n 80 many of his sentences with ‘17 Star Washington The class was discussing cruelty to animals and the humane soclety. “Now children, who can think of one thing the society has done to make the life of dumb brutes easier”’, the teacher asked. 1 know," ‘1 heard papa say people couldn’'t run biind tigers any more. Margazine. “So Maude ha, front as n Hed Cr - indeed. come back from the She sald it she did all 5 o saf she did al the horrid things they wanted her to do, she would have been a perfect sight whenevet the phn(ngcr:phirl or _ the papers came around. shé quit. Balti- more American, Madge—Papa says that timid on account of the capital is very Wi Marjorie—~Nobody knows that better #poke out a I10-year-old girl. | ‘—Everybody's | I've flirted hulf-a-dozen rich | than I do. {%ung men since the war broke out, and haven't had a single proposal.—Judge “You women ain't the only ones to bave itary styles Us men will also 1 have o " [rl b . that 1 see in silk hats, for instance, that I ean have my choles of & turret or a periscope.” —Louisville Courler Journal Crawford—1s that book of the war writ- tenn by an eye-withess? ;‘n.'h-lmw -No: by a war correspondent. ~Judge Herbert Randall, in Boston Transcript. There's & broad highway with an open ds far out from the swales e with the old, And it's on with the new. in the land of sky and the wide slaa air Oh, It's up and away to the rolling hills, 1f ia up and away to the tumbling sea. And It's off with the old And ft's on with the new. In 'mr spreading shade of the old eim ree. | ‘Th—rv"l a friendly kiss in the tossing | oam, ‘ There are bells a-chime on the witch- 8 de: So it's up and away On the blue, blue bay, In our race for life up its rocky steep. ) There's a dream in the heart of the | winey woods, And never a thought of ags 1s there, S0 it's off with the old, | And (s on with the new, With a thousand years and a day to spare, There s peace of love in the c hour. With ll\;lrtllny and the sun .fl“flu wing- | ing A 80 it's off with the old, And It's oA with the new, | Where the trumpeting’ call to lfe ia heard. | Oh, it's up and away where the monn'- tains dwell. By the broad highroad of the sky and air, And it's off with the old. 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