Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 24, 1915, Page 12

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April 94 Thuught Jor the Day Selected by Mary Louise Adams All thet ds, at all, 4 Lasts ever past recall; Earth chenges. bt thy soul and God stand sure; What entered into thee, That is, and shall be: fluu':.:xul runs back er stops Potter and slay endure. —Eob’t Browning. { If you are still unregistered, don’'t blame anyone but yourselt for keeping you from voting. Everybody seems to be for the proposed school bonds. If anyone is fighting them, he is keeping mighty quiét about it. Sm——— But piling up all that surplus to the credit of the water fund only proves that the rates ex- acted from water users in Omaha are altogether “higher thah ought to be. L% P A | Lincoln High sabool debaters Tave carried 4! the trophy from'otr Omaha High school ora- | Never ‘mind, boys, remember the copy- ‘adage, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, o our amiable contemporary, of its way to conceal the fact. idate’s experfence as an *m mu so-an employe of thut 'm !mmxu with Rome "AmuvaWMolmm- mors. The home wurticle, however, has the ad- vantage of bearing the sign of quality, ‘Made “in the U, 8. E—— { . A visiting Methodist bishop declares that ““no state needs prohibition, more than Ne- " That's & matter of viewpoint. We Whuq.uu,nuumunu«pm- ,Nhlufilfltlll { { Away back in 4100 B, C., hlerogiyphics on show that candidates oftice pledged to work in the interest of the whole _Despite the progress of mankind i modern officeseekérs have not Hfiuflmmmfi. laying down rules of for the newly-arrived ‘‘White hope.” such forward-looking ministers adorn the ‘protession the charge of pulpit backwardness it E——— budget of the empire state for the com- year foots up $66,000,000, exclusive of m appropriations which will run the total 000, , and exceed last year's total .Il.“o 00, m is equal to & per capita of of $8.44. Nebraska's per capita stands at $3.40. Comparatively, in the matter of state expense, the Antelope state Is In the jitney class, SEmp———— The newscomer in Omaha should understand that in order to vote at the impending city elec- ticn he must be registered ten days in advance. 'l:' Mrs. W. A. Paxton has gone to visit her son now u*rul.-n. Wia THE OMAHA DAILY BEE | THE Amerioan Neutrality for Americans. It was hardly to be expected that the en- | thusiasts for war in the countries now engaged in combat would endorse the sentiments ex- pressed by the president in his neutrality speech at New York. He must have had this thought in mind when he gave utterance to his admoni- tion to his countrymen to be Americans first last and all the time. England or Germany think that the United States should espouse its cause? Each claims to be fighting the fight of civilization, of prog- ress against tyranny and for the advancement of humanity. An observer situated as is Uncle Sam must be impressed with the thought that if these belligerents were sincere in their pro- fessions they might have achieved their desires without going to war. To be sure, they have Just now the support of no less an authority than Dr. Lyman Abbott, who says the war is an agency for the uplift of humanity, although he doesn’t go Into detalls and explain how the race is to be benefited by the wholesale butchery of men and wanton waste of property that is now going on. For 139 years the United States has been dedicated to human liberty and to peace. It has engaged in war, but only when driven to it, and when no other recourse was open. Its wars have always been in defense of and to maintain human rights and liberty. It may some day again be fnvolved in war, but it will not be through adopting the quarrel of one friendly na- tion against another. The most satisfactory endorsement the neu- trality poliey of the United States could possibly have is that both sides to the fighting find fault with us for not favoring them The Colonel in Court. Quite aside from its importance as a suit at law between two prominent citizens of a great state, the libel case now on trial at Syracuse has features that command the attention of the pub- lic. In other times the defendant in this case Il xpressed his personal views as to the course of justice in America, and has'suggested some changes he holds would be good for all. Now, as we view him actually in court, we may have a oconcrete {llustration of the application of his theories. Here we see him questioning the law- yers, enlightening the judge, debating law points for the jurors, and now and again joining in the general laughter that follows on his words. He shows heat, indignation, even anger; he is gen- ial, affable, sardonic, elusive, frank, reticent and eager, and always keeps himself just a little bit ahead of the others, as a good general should. Whether the ancient dignity of the court will eurvive the shock, and it probably will, it will have a set of precedents for the hearing and de: termination of personal suits that will be well ‘worth preserving. In every election it is the “outs’ against tha “ims,” but in our present city campalgn there is no speclal reason for making the lssue “admin- istration” or “‘ant{-administratio: As we see it, it is merely a question up to the voters to se- lect out of the fourteen names to go on the offi- cial ballot the candidates who promise to make the best and most efficient public servants, Everybody knows what the present incumbents have done, and may be expected to continue to do, while their competitors must be judged on records in public or private business previously made. y For the primary The Bee commended several commissionership aspirants to the faveér of those who belfeve there is room for improvement in the city hall, and we repeat for the election what we then sald about them: ‘Walter 8. Jardine~Transfer and Merchants' Ex- press; & business man who has made a success of his business, and of ‘demonstrated executive ability. For years an Ak-Sar-Ben governor, never shirking his work nor loafing on the job. Harry B. Zimman—Formerly mayor of Omaha. Started as clerk, now in law office of ‘Weaver & Giller, Student of municipal government, and more femillar with Omaha's civic needs than any other man. ‘The fpot that these two candidates ran high- est of all the sixty-six competitors against the inoumbent seven must attest their comparative strength with the public when standing on their own individual merits. S—— Democratic Prospects in Nebraska. Our Nebraska democratic brethren at the Present writing seem about as happy as they ever can hope to be. More than the usual num- ber of rows are breeding in the camp, and the tollowers of the donkey see a fight in whatevcr way they turn their eyes. Principal of these will be the personally conducted contest be- tween a senator of the United States and the premier of President Wilson's cabinet, The senator is very busily strewing tacks and broken glass along the path over which tho Bryan chariot will be expected to pass at the time of the primaries next spring. The secre- tary of state is preparing softly but surely to go through the anti-Bryan fences just as he did at Baltimore. Followers of Champ Clark and oth- ers on the outside pretend to see occasion for great rejoicing in the bellef that Bryan hag lost hie grip on his home stal They don’t know Bryan, that's all. Both Bryan and Hitcheock appear to pay Governor Morehead the compli- ment of considering him a possibility, by trying to knock holes in any boomlet he may be In- flating. Local leaders of the party are getting ready to g0 one way or'the other, as the golng seems best, and the underfed donkey still mourns be- cause the big Nebraska federal plums are still out of reach. The names of good republicans are still being signed to the payroll in places where loyal domocrats long to write theirs. The prospect for a beautiful fight between the demo- cratio factions in Nebraska was never more luminous. e —— San Francisco is much gratified with tho exposition gate receipts, which have exceedad expenses during the first two months. To the stockholders the showing raises hopes of divi- dends at the finish. Exposition dividends are ly rare, Omaha standing at the wp and almost alone with 90 per cent repaid to stockholders of the Transmissigsippi exposition. Patronfzing home industry should be made & living fact, not @ vocal theory. If it is neces- sary to go to Chicago for auditérs of account books it is up to the Commercial club to fill that vacancy in Omaha's clerical equipment. But why should either | BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY APRIL The Political Caldron BLL, yes, a city campaign 18 now in progreas. is A going comcern. The forty-two.centimeter political popsuns have been placed upon their mount- ings and the opposing forces are lining up for the gymkana. There must be something to fight about, | that ia certain, just as there is in every fight. In this case one coterle of men want to retain their places in the city hall and another group belleve they have a call to administer the public’s busin On May 4 the | public will referee the bout and announce the winners. | 1'p to date the campaign has been & sort of Chesterfieldian affair, but the participants are begin- ning to inject a little tabasco into the menu. During the primary campalgn the worst words used were ‘capitalistic cockroach,” but the final contest promises now t6 overshadow the preliminaries. Mayor Dahlman, the other evening, conferred the Aegrees of “‘green guys,” upon the six “people’s candi- dates,” as they are now known, being otherwise designated as the “antlg”” or “outs.”” The mayor sald & mouthful when he called his opponents green guys To be a green guy means quite a lot. Green is quite a popular shade, much in vogue In the springtime. To be a plain everyday guy would be au indefinite description, because thers are “good guys,” and “bad guys" just ordinary “guys.” But to be a green guy-— my word—that s the something which makes the populace sit up and take notice. The people’s candi- dates are smarting under this classification of the mayor's, however, and they threaten o search Web- ster's book of words for some orthografic concoction which will make the mayor and his crew take to the booby hatch. This makes us ask, are we going to have a cam- palgn of mud-slinging and back-biting. Gentlemen! Are we to hear a 16t of recriminations, maledictions, invectives, expletives, imprecations, anathemas, persi- flage, folderol and badinage? Are our senses of hear- ing to be assaulted by incendlary aspersions? Are the combatant eandidates golng to engage in a forensic tree-for-all? It seemns that some certain candidates are in danger of having their hands tied by some unscrupulous buccaneer or pirate who stalks abroad looking for un- suspecting officials. It must be so, because several candidates have promised that if elected they will not permit thelr hands to be tied by anybody. They will repulse icily anybody who would attempt to enmesn their hands in an way. The painful spectacle of view- Ing a city commissioner going to work with his hands tied will not be necessary longer and the base churl who has been tieing the hands of our city officials had better beat it right away. The campalgn 18 bringing out a new crop of orators and one of these exponents of public speaking is Ed- ward S8imon. When Mr. Simon appeared a few even- ings ago before the customary political audience, he made a decided hit. He ran the gamut from the gay to the grave and he used with fine effect all of the arts of the forum. He 1eferred to the mother's pension law which he put through the legislature and he con- jured up touching word plctures of the tired mother and her little ones saved from separation by the op- eration of his new law. He surprised and overwhelmed even the mayor who is an old hand at the speaking business. Talking of public talkers again, there is Harry Zimman, who takes after Bob La Follette in that he likes to cite to the records as the best evidence. He will hark back to counciimanic doings of years gone by and pour out municipal statisti physical valuu- tions and other refreshing aqueous and electrical fluids. Zimman started speaking pleces wnen he worked In a Douglas street grocery store years ago. He learned self-confidence by meeting the public as customers from day to day and spoke his first dec. lamation at a Sunday school pienic. Now he is classed a8 one of the foremost political orators in the arena. The people’'s candidates have a few other worth- hearing speakers, too—more or less worth-hearing— such as M. O. Cunningham, D. C. Patterson, W. i Baxter, Willlam Clancy, C. F. Harrison and I J. Dunn, not candidates, but just oratorical volunteers. On the other or administration side the aeronauts are H. B. Fleharty, L. J. Piatt, L. J. TePoel, J. A. Rine and ‘Tom Flynn: Before the battle of the ballots on May 4 we are promised a battle of the bottle, according to the ‘mayor's latest pronouncement. He avers that he will make the antis draw cards in the game of wet and dry whether they will or not. He says he is captain of the ship and adds that he is some captain. He is now learning a lot of nautical terms which he will use as the campaign progresse Which reminds us, no one has yet promised to go gunning for the gunmen of which It was so Imperative to rid Omaha, last fall when the pelitical big guns were shooting at the governorship target. Who first? The slate-makers are already busy and all kinds of “'slates” are coming out of their hiding places. The number of combinations of seven or less than seven that can be formed out of fourteen is within the pos- sibilities of exact mathematical calculation. That is the number of ates”” that will be out before the polis close on the last vote deposited in the box. Twice Told Tales A Bit of Comcelt. “My brather in the trenches,” said a French chef of Milwaukee, “writes me a little anecdote about General Joffre, the generallssimo, you know. “Our brave Joffre was examining a map while under fire. The map was held by a young subaltern, a boy of 16 from the military school of 8t. Cyr. Bang! ER went the marmites and Jack Johnsons and whistling Willles—for so they call those shells, you know—and the boy could not help starting and trem- | bling as he held the map, and this lost our brave Jotfre his place. ““rho generalissimo Inl vexed when he lost his place three or four times, and he said to the boy soldier: “*Volla, you are too conceited, dodging the shells like that! Do you suppose the Boches aim thoss ex- pensive shells at you? You are only a little boy sol- dier. Do you take yourself for a cathedral? “—Mil- waukee Sentinel A Feeler, Pete, the hired man, was known for his prodigious appetite. One morning he had eaten a normal break- | tast of oatmeal, buckwheat cakes, toast, fried potatoes, ham, eggs. doughnuts, coffes, and the usual trimmings. and gone to a neighbor's to help with extra work. Pete arrived before the family had risen from the morning meal “Well, Pete.” hospitably inquired the farmer, “had breakfast yet? “Aw,” drawled Pete in & wheedling tone, “kinda.” —~Everybody's Magasine People and Events Colorado lady senator says it took her two years to learmn how to keep still. Wise girl. The gum-shoe method comers the goods while the nolsemaker is admiring his voice. Kastern papers carry an account of the discovery of *the oldest inhabitant of Nebraska." It must e & fable. No absentees from the Douglas County Pio- neers' room have been reported. Satety first will go the limit in Coney Island during the season. Hot dog, esteemed as the favorite dish of 1the seashore, will be handed out in sealed cartons | for the edification of eploures With the price of electrieity cut to § cents a kflowatt hour In New York, cooking by electricity is growing | steadily and promises to give 8-cent gas a lively run for the mastery of the kitchens. California base tall managers are putting new | thrills into the game, hoping to fatten the box office As the circus clown pulls a eircus rube from the audience to ride the trick mule, the Californians fake attacks on the umpire, who thrashes the disturber, bows to the grandstand, puts on his muzzle and screams, “Play ball! | it The Hees e/er: Brief contributions on timely topics invited. The Bee assumes no responsibility for opinions of Suffragists Like Suffrage Photo r SOUTH OMAHA, April 2.~To the Editor of The Bee: | was a member of the convention of Douglas county suf- fragiéts in Omaha when that body of- ficlally endorsed the play, ‘‘Your Girl ‘and Mine” 1 wish through your columns to express appreciation of this photo drama and its motive, which is to educate the public This photo play was recently shown in South Omaha, and In all the twenty-eight vears 1 have resided here 1 can testify that there hLas never been a program given that so touched the hearts of an eudience. Points brought out vividly in the pictures are the selfish contentment of the young heiress until she suffered cruel wrongs herself; unjust laws govern- ing property rights of women; the double standard of morals; the crime of child labor, and the lack of equal guardianehip for mothers with fathers of thelr children T heartily endorse this great play and it motive MRS, B B. TOWL. Ignorance. OMAHA, April 22.—To the Editor of The Bee My daughter, poor thing, is an ignorant girl, and she never could learn how to dance; she don't even know how to roll a spit-curl, or to melt a man's heart with a glance. She can’t under- stand how important it s to learn how to ogle her eyes, and while talking to mutter “Great Scott'” and “Gee Whis" and to call men ‘“rubes, bone-heads and gy She's nearly through echool, and has mever yet read that novel called .‘Only a Skirt she cannot drink wine for it goes to her head, and she's too dull and stupid to flirt. My daughter, I fear, i= an ignorant child, and can never be brought up to date; with joyrides and beer she is never beguiled, for she can't learn to swallow the bait. She's timid and bashful and never has kissed any men but her brothers and dad, she's too self-conceiteq ed, and with her, prudish pride is a fad. Yet, nevertheless, she has learned a few tricks that perhaps will come handy some day; she can bulld a hot fire with a very few sticks, and boll tea without any de- lay. She turms a flap-jack In the wink of an eye, her bread takes d prize at the fair, she cooks a hot meal with soup, salad and ple, while I'm washing, and dressing my hair. She's too dumbd to learn how to play at bridge whist, or to spread the white paint on her nose, but whenever a dollar escapes from her fist, she can tell you where every cent goes. She's a poor, simple thing, yet her mother declares she's the very best girl in the jand; always eager to help with .the household affairs, and on wash day to lend her a hand; and she furthermore says that this old-fashioned girl never gives any cause for alarm, that while others are joining the wild midnight whirl, her daughter stands clear of the storm. And so while T know she's not forward notr smart, and avolds the world's glitter and glare, yet this happy assurance brings joy to my heart; in our home there is no wvacant . chair. E. O. M'INTOSH. Misalssippi River Levee Project. MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 21.—To the Editor of The Bee: There has been so much misunderstanding about the flood problem on the lower Mississippl river that the Mississippl River Levee associ- atlon, representing the geople of the ter- ritory affected, has compiled a few brief facts regarding the whole situation. First of all the people of this section are not asking for reclamation at the hands of the national government. They are simply asking for protection from water that is sent down upon them from all parts of that great region between the Rockles and the Alleghanies as far north as Canada. They would not ask for this under normal conditions, but the abnor- mal condition that has been created by the rapid development and drainage of the upper country, throws a burden upon them that they are not able to bear without the ald of the national govern- ment. Furthermore all the great en- gineers who have studied this question are unanimous that the simplest and qQuickest way to deal with the problem is to complete the levee system now under way. The damage which occurs when these levees break is more than twice as great as the estimated total cost of completing the’ system, and from the table of floods given one will see that these great floods are much more frequent than is generally believed. I believe that there is a general im- pression abroad that the national govern- ment has been doing the work of curbing these floods im its entirety, while the truth i that in all the history of govern- ment expenditures for this river levee, as far back as 1510, while $30,000,000 has been spent in & spasmodic and desultory man- ner by the government, 375,000,000 has been expended by the localities them- solves since the civil war. The people of this stricken region are #oing to make an effort to get a definite and comprehensive project authorized at the hext session of congress, independent of the river and harbor bill, =0 that the whole work may be completed in a short time just as was done in the case of the “nama JOHN A. FOX. Here and There Mrs. Veronica Meyer of Newark, N. J., is the mother of twenty-five children, all living, and has two foster children to help fill up the house. A man in Washington, D. C., is so fat that he was unable to kill himself with three shots of & revolver. He weighs 450 pounds. The three bullets falled to hit & vital part E. J. Tanner of McKinney, Ky., gets his name misspelied so often that he has had printed the following card: My name i mot E. J. Farmer, nor C. J. Tanner, nor E. J. Hanna, nor D, J. Turner, nor E. J, McKinney, nor P. J. Darper, nor F. M. Dare, but E. J. Tanner. My adress is not McKinley, nor McHenry, nor McKensle, mor McKenna, but McKinney. Absentee voting is made possible at fu- ture elections in Iowa by the passage of & bll by the state legislature. By the terms of the bill a voter expecting to be absent on élection day may make affi- davit to that effect to the county auditor, secure A ballot and mark it. The marked ballot is placed in & sealed envelope and | the election ballot | is to be deposited box. 1f the bill is approved by the gov- ernor the system of absentee voting wil' dispense with swearing in votes. Editorial Viewpoint Pittsburgh Dispatch: The twentieth century is original in one point. It de velops an abrupt departure from the course of all its predecessors in effecting a decided separation batween these an- cient cronies, Mars and Bacchus. Pittsburgh Dispatch: Captain Their- felder of the Kron Prinz Wilhelm save that he wants to go to sea again a lit- tle more emphatically than his predeces- sor of the Eitel Freidrich. Both probably have an ample force of marines to or for whom they can talk Boston Transeript: The announcement that a burglar etole a joker outfit from the office of A& southern congressman in the housa office bullding will probably be followed by a flood of requests for some of thoes free chips and playing cards instead of garden seeds. St. Louls Globe-Democrat: The old- fashioned populists have derived much satisfaction from the triumph of some of their once ridiculous theories. Now comes a New Jersey man and vindicates Jere. miah Simpson by announcing that he has never had cold feet since he abandoned the use of socks Philadeiphia Ledger: A new estimate is that eightean months of the war will cost $40,000,000000. This s within a few billions of the whole valuation of Ameri- can farms. It shows that in less than two years the folly of man can wreck the work of centuries which man in his wisdom has sieadily achieved New York World: President E. B. Thomas of the Lehigh Valley raiflroad manifests a disposition to get onto the band wagon. Indeed, his letter to Preal- dent Wilson ndicates that he is already aboard and well up to the front with a megaphone, roaring forth a purpose to epend $1,000000 right away on improve- mente. With the rest of our rallroad presidents similarly placed and equipped, there will no Jonger be any question about the effect of a '‘state of mind” on the country's business. Philadelphia Recom Wheat may be getting as the Chicago bulls imagine, but lt is just as well to remem- ber that in four weeks ending April 10 Argentina exported over 21,000,000 bushels, and must have 50,000,000 or 60,000,000 bushels left to export, even at a low com- putation of its surplus; that next month Indian wheat will be on the market, and the Indian acreage is greater than ever before, and that in less than two months our own wheat will begin to reach mar- ket. And, then, there is the possibility of getting through the Dardanelles and into the Russian granaries. LINES TO A SMILE. | | “®ir" reported the adjutant | put the war correspondent om the rack, but he refuses to disciose our plans In that event,’' responded the great general, “we must wait until the first edition of his paper 18 run off.”—~Philadel- phia Ledger. did Jndul Caesar refuse a crown 'h.n it was off to him?' asked the English teac hn : Cause he didn't need the money, replied the British boy.—Yonkers States- man. He—I never ses & woman smoking & cigarette but I remind her that she i driving anether nall in her coffin She—I thought you men claimed that a woman ocouldn't drive a nail.—Boston Transcript m!'\mz Figure—Are you a pillar of the Second Figure—No, I'm a flying but- tress—I support it from the outside.~Yale Record. 'n:ngolvhqh that Buxton's new girl Eylvester—Oh, no; that's old ones painted over.—Ju: ‘These pampered doge of the rich are ulher listiess, it seems to me. ‘‘Yes; you never see one of them bury- ing a marshmallow or worrying a choco- ust one of his Baltimore American. Where is the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath sald, “When I have worked for nul!l a while, And saved me up a little pile, I'll fly from rows of city streets To one of thoss fresh green retreats, And buy a little country place, To raise of chickens quite a race. “I'll got my food straight from the sofl, And make the chickens pay my toil. ‘Tis easy task, 1 understand, To bring up chickens well by hand, For all who tire of business strife, Look forward to this sort of life, And see the end of work's In buying a five-acre tarm. “And as for kitchen n.rdom. why It really is no harm to try, For all you do is put mdl in The soll; they grow, and then you win, So why do people laugh at me When I a farmer wish to be, And pass in ease my quiet days With naught to do but chicken- Taise? you?”’ “Well?” “If you boughtit b still want heavy s ‘“Yes. “Then heav digestable is a ge ““You buy steak by the pound, don’t I'd get more nourishment. More heat units for my money.”’ steak provided it's tter bargain?”’ the you’ ,wouldn’tyou? ““Yes, of course. What's that got to do with guolme?' “Yes, but—"" ““And heavy ga nourishment, mor: miles per lon aia s ) ‘““‘But my car can’t oline!”’ digestibility of ally speaking, to insist upon?”’ “Yes, or an easier gallon for when you “Red Crown, eh? llon it’ romnt reasons onl." NEWMAN WA PAINTS--STAIN Corner 15th and Howard Sts. Red Crown Gasoline. can digest it—Red Crown is quick starting always, in any weather. And “‘Gasoline is fuel isn’tit?"’ “Yes, motor-fuel.” ““Just as steak is body-fuel.” soline has more ¢ heat units, more than light gas- digest heavy gas- “Not too heavy, of course. But the dgnolme:, automlogic- pends primarily on its ignition point, not its gmvxty » ““Then low ignition point is the thing way is to ask for Your engine a better b.rgun gure miles per gallon.” “Ycl and for different though equally you should uk for rine too—when you buy your LL PAPER} S--VARNISHES Phone D, 43| “wa have { e ——————