Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 28, 1915, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE Joiutvard W S S —— FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROS_IWATEI. | \'I('IOR ROSEWA'TER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing (‘omnny: Propfl@m-.w BEE BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH second-class Entered at Omaha postoffice — TERMB OF SUBSCRIPTION. By carrier By mall per month. per year. | 460 Bend notice of change of mfll"ly in delivery to Omal rtment. it Aaraft, et ‘p’e‘s-ll order. Only two. «n‘.“tl :’uau “nfl lc: payment of small ae- el «xcept on Omaha and eastern OFFICES. ut! aha—. e uncll Blufl.;l.l :lrw Main street. ‘Lincoln—% hion ! ng. earst Bull!l“ ew York—Room 1108, 3¢ avenue. 8t Louin-508 New Bank of Commerce. ‘Washington—72 Fourteenth St, N.. W. (X)IREIPON{)’INC'. ‘Address communications relating ‘to news and fiu matter to Omaha Bee, {manu Dnum* e —————re e et e et MARCH CIRCULATION, 52,092 | 3 )lm Cflllz of Douglas, s 12 iy Prestince and sworns 4o etors Notary Publie. Subscribers leaving the city temporarily &hould have The Bee mafled to them, Ad- dress will be changed as often as requosted. Thought fot the Day Selected by Wm. Pavker , He who helps a child, Aelps humanity with & with an immadiatences which no other halp given to human creatures in any | other stage of their human life cawpossibly give _..-u.—rm;- Brocks. f st s The first game does not win or lose the pen- Btill, every game counts. S—er—— Chicago now has & republicah mayor. Omaha will have one again-some of thede fine davs. K ___JN ‘ It goes without saying that the tax shirker would have to travel fast to get away from an i + 1f a more prolific letter-writer than the col- wver trod this earth, he wust have burned nant. 4 m n. Auditortum u.f'l gD, o » /our German friends sdmit by their itry on earth looks better to s ¢ for internment. bl el waic 2ave prebues ' which have produced eaults. Quality, not quantity, of out- com in the wilds of South America. The dis- is tmportant and timely. Hostile armies are shooting up the original Garden and filling lfe with grave uncertainties. Thus .the new World rises to meet its opportunities and give the Barassed people of the old world fresh proof of its boundless resources. —— Administration officials show pardonable Joy over the prospect of $50,000,000 from income taxes. Last year's returns for three-quarters of the fiscal year was, in round numbers, $28,000,- 000. Inasmuch as the treasury cash balance has shrunk in four months from $68,000,000 to $23,- 000,000 the huge income increase generates as much pleasure as finding money. - ———— of Greater Omaha | the ‘demon rum. 'I'F 1E BE OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, The Three Referendum Propositions At our eity election next week the voter will be called on to register his wishes on three referendum measures, and to do so intelligently he should know what they are about The first is a school bond proposition authorizing the issue of one million dollars of 414 per cent bonds, the proceeds to be used to construct new school buildings in pursuance to the plan adopted and promulgated by board commodations in various parts of the city s urgent, and will be more urgent with the advent The second contemplates purchase of tha Auditorium, for which authority to issue $150.- | 000 of bonds is required. The Auditorinm rep- resents an investment of nearly $800,000, which the city may mow acquire for $150,000, being the amount of the secured and floating indebt odness. No one who concedes that the city | needs an Auditorfum can hesitate to approve | this purchase. The third is the question of Bunday base | ball, this referendum coming uhder the state law providing for local option in Sunday ball playing. There is no more wholesome diversion for amusement-seekers in a large city week days or Bundays than base ball and the people must have harmless amusement for their lelsure hours. Liberal minded people, even though not themselves interested In base hall, will vote “Yes." . The main thing for all is not to overlook the three referendum propositions. so that the re- sult recorded may reflect the real desires of the community. Equality the Only Safe Rule. Regardiess of the-amount of the proposed 1{ght rate cut, the checking of individual bills to ascertain the effect furnishes the strongest sup- port for the demand, which The Bee has voiced from time to time, for a stralght meter-measure- ment schedule in place of the Chinese puzzie estimates on whigh charges here have been based. Comparison of bills discloses that one consumer using precisely the same amount of ecurrent as his neighbor {g being arbitrarily charged more on the flctitious “readiness-to- | serve'” theory because he happens to have more lamp outlets than the other. It would be just as sensiblé to make one householder pay more than his neighbor for the same number of gal lons of water because he has more faucets through which the water flows, The only safe rule for public utility service of this kind {s the same price to all. on the same meter measurement” and no discrimination or personal favoritism, Se—— Fighters and Films and the Law. An effort is to be made to nullify the fed- eral statute that prohibits the importation, chipping or exhibition of prize fight films, This law was passed In some haste, following certain unseemly proceedings at Reno, a few years ago, | when a black bruiser proved himself the physi- .| ‘eal superior of & white pugilist. It wasd com- mented upon at that time quite s preventing the exhibition of a degrading spects- cle, good then, ghl not now? The conditions that existed at the time of the ‘prize tight at Rene ere the same.today, with the one factor . ‘Now the white fist-fighter | % the blaek. ' Otherwise, the’ demoralizing and just as in the ring is just as lacking In the essentia! elements of amusement or instruction. 3 . And, whila the bject 18 up, why should the tilm be suppressed, while the man who made it possible iy permitted to go mbeut the country and sbow himpelt dally? If a prize fight is de- grading and unlawful in itself, and & moving pic- ture reproduction . is to be prohibited, _Why should not the prise fightér be suppressed, too? . : . Pence Conference Starts with War. “Before 4t has even begun its offielal exist- ence, the women's peace conference, ealled to gates un- ‘able 15 agrée over the methods of prodedure. ‘This 1s hardly & geod omen for ultimate success, nor does it quite realize the expectations aroused by the project. It seems too bad that such a mpeting should engounter anything even re- miotely resembling a political snag. However, little reason exists for thinking that either of the monarchs engaged in the war will give ear to peace proposals from the outside at this time. Surface indications justify the be- lief that hostilities will be carried on for some timé yet. But it is to \be hoped that for the moral effect, at least, the women will be able to compose thelr differdnces. They have here an opportunity to show mere man an excellent example of harmony and union in effort to do good. E—— “Uncle Joe” Does a Walts, Cheering news comes from California—that 1s, 1t will be cheering to & lot of people, and dis- couraging to some others. It is to the effect that Joseph Gurney Cannonm, former speaker of the house of representatives, has continued his “‘come-back’’ movement, begun last November, by tripping airily around a ball room at the ex- position grounds. . He thereby promise made *tive years ago. his political obsequies have been held, he has been lald away to rest In retirement, followed by sighs of relief from a lot of politicians, and has, as on many another oceasion, ref stay “put.” the young men of the day to Oslerism, “‘Uncle Joe's’ s well as a rebuke mind, too, of lively times ahead for the demoecrats. EE—— are offended by promiscuous displays state steps In and decrees how and where ad- ments may be placed in a scored commerciglism, est in years. bas a free ficld. 4 the | The demand for enlarged school ac- | redeemed a | In the Interim, | d to | His resumption of physical as well | as political activity is & splendid inspiration for | is as | active as his body, and that contains a promise On the complaint of a citizen whose tastes the s telephone rectory. Thus the state lends its might and power to the literary uplift and preserves the social “registers bf communities from under- ' A shortage of tea in this country is threat- ened. The avallable stock Is said to be the low- At the same time a Philadeiphia health sharp puts coffee in the same category of With these Jwo opulent com- | petitors on the taboggan, the bock beer season The Political Caldron somawhere, sometime, said something Sv-\u:m.x-\ to the effect that the evil men do lives after them and that their good deeds are often interred with thai: bones. It has also been remarked by some sage In- | @ividual that chickens wil) return home to roost, that | the law of compensation has no regard for the eight- hour day and that a good political memory is & valua- | ble asset The present city campaign, very much like other city campalgns, is proving to be a time for casting up old | mrievances, harking back to misdeeds and good deeds. Even as bread cast upon the waters of Carter Lake, | Salt creek or the Missour( river, will retum In many days, #o are political bricks huried in the dim Past re- & Just now like boomerangs to smite the thrawer on the face “We told you so." The imprecations, invectives, anathemas, moribund eggs of political hatching and other tokens of wrath and disiike, mentioned & week | ago, are now being thrown from the ramparts of the | contending forces in the local campalgn. | The archives of political memory are being (nvaded | and the sanctity of the past is being trespassed upon | for material Administration speakers are reminding Chairman Button of the antis that once upon a time he coveted the office of the city aftorney, and It is said that in the event of the antis winning the judge will comnect up with the payroll and that Judge Sutton still has a rankiing in his bosom because he was not appointed city attorney, It seems that some of the city hall people made a memorandum of this incident and saved it for campaign purposes. Chairman Fiynn of the ins haa received an apony- mous letter, evidently written by a woman, stating that a certain man who is on the anti committes should “let well enough alone,” or she will tell an episode which happened in this man’'s office and which Included destruction of office accessories by his irate wife. The man's name is mentioned In the letter It may be expected that one of the eandidatas will be charged this week with having tied another candi- date’s shirt into hard knots at the old swimming hole many vears ago in this city. Dfforts are being made to save this exposure for the sake of his family. This man admits that he did tie the shirt of one of his rival candidates many years ago while out awimming together and he comes back with the counter charme that his accuser stole a watermelon from the back of a wagon at Eighteenth and Oasa streets, on the after- noon of @aturday, July 18, 1851. The question fs, will the people of a elect to the high offices of clty commissioners men who in their boyheod days com. mitted such heinous offenses? The vote on the day { of days alone will tell. Aftor having partaken of his noonday nourishment and enjoying himself with a corperation-made cigar with & regular band around the middle, Chairman Cun. vingham of the antis organization committes sat In Becretary Meyers' office at headquarters and descanted upon the certainties and uncertainties of Ife in gen- eral and politics in particular. "I want to tell you, boys, that she is looking mighty good. 1 was talking to & man from Rockford today and he s that we h the best chance we Do you know, the administration fellows angry, that's what they are” mid Colonet Cunningham, Then a newspaper man asked for the intinerafles for the atreet meetings. Mr. Cunningham thought it would be well to announce these street corner loca- tions, but Harry J. Habkett sald it would be unwise, “Are you afrald of interference it you announce. these locations in advance, Mr, Hackett?™ was asked the candidate. ¢ ’ “Oh, no; but it is not best to arm the opposition ‘with Information of what we e going to do,” he replied. Then the secretary received a list of all of the pay “thirtysfive bucks for the type-writtem liet. | Halokett to.wl ‘the new tune, “‘T Didn't to Be & Nincompoop.” citiaen, “Partially so, partially so. But T have a larger thought and it is that we as Omahans are learning to think on broad.gauge lines. We have acquired n grenter vision. We are learning that the alection of seven directors for our corporate institutions is a seri. ous business and is everybody's business and that the man who complains after election has no kick coming it he doesn’t vote and take an intelligent intereet in prospective voter, You may have noticed that the people are taking a keeper interest in thelr local af- fairs, Today we have improvement olubs and other organizations where these matters are discussed. The old idea of carrying a crowd by storm has passed.” “You are quite an optimist. methinks." “Yes, 1 think we are getting batter sl of the time, T have lived here nigh unto fifty years now and my observations have been that Omaha has been improv. ing each year. Ain't perfect yet, but who is lcoking for perfection expect a few—well, | won't mention their names. You can trust the people to do the right thing in the end.” s T rather like your line of argument.’” “So do 1. But what makes me sore {s to hear a ot of self-appointed, heller-than-thou, elaim to be pnointed ones and then go out and tell us that we are all to the bad and that if we doa’t mend our | ways we will fall ltke Sodom and Terra Haute." “You ought to g0 on the chautauqua platform this season. “Quit your kidding. 1 was just remarking that the people are thinking and when the people think, it is time to take note of the public pulse. T was about to add that we are going to begin a Greater Omaha ora of commercial prosperity and politicdl presclence, We are golug to be some eity, | Just watch we grow. some city. Them's my sentiments, too." Never Pass Up the Colm. In a recent criticism of American neutrality So- licitor General Meigkan of Canada taunted us with being more anxious for dollars and cents tham for the principles involved in the war. The dollar and ® calculated to give the unimitiated the tmspression | that Buropeans regard for dollars transiated into pounds, francs, marke and liras, as tainted things. An American tourist who feared the forelsn reach for the dollar would not equal the service rendered contrived various ways of slipping it over witheut | the risk of giving offense. The illusion soon venished and this is the way it happened: “When my wife and I were on our honeymeon we were advised to visit a ‘certain ruined castle, the oustodian of which was a pelative of the mnoble owner. Having viewed the giorlous old pile, T was st & loss how and In what way to offer & gratuity, bearing in mind the ‘blue blood’ of our guide The *‘We thank you far your cotrtesy and would #lad to give a small sum to any causs It you have bax for that purpose. 3 : 3 U Sir’ was the reply, ‘we have such & box.’ | v Then may I wee it? 1 asked. ‘ ‘Sl wilh a pleasant smile and & bow; ‘I am the box ' LR be - APRIL 28, 1915, The Hees 1 fdual Etfielency. SIOUX CITY, Ia., April #i.—To the Fattor of The Bee: More officlent people ore In evidence today than in any other historical perfod. Competition was never stronger. Many capable men and women ere still at the bottom of the ladder. Sometimes they mount s few steps, but in the fierce battly for place they are pushed down again, At the bottom the competition is greatest; the higher we go the more albow room we got. In justice to themseélves those at the bettom of the ladder should endeavor to make less strentous thé competition. A “fairly good start” in life comes to no man until he s victor of those economic forces that baftle against his unhindered development. Tt ia true that everything tending for individual efficiency makes more strenuous life's battle, but wa have concentrated our powers too n.uch upon the ambition of wealth, fame or influence, and not enough upen individual content- ment. Priest and sinner alike have verily canonined materjalistic goals, while the better imstinots of men have been aya- fcally derided as “‘impracticable.” Individual efficiency, accompanied by individual contentment, should be the real goal of our busineas men, and the Lord knows that business men today are our rulers. This is sald in no disparagement of business men, for wise men of busi- ness are indeed wise rulers, But it is the unwise man of business, the chap with petty vision, who is such an anneying cog In the modern social machinery. ‘A project for eity plannifig could never win his aupport. He i» materialistic enough fo oppose municipalisation of parks, #treets, theaters, dance halls and social centers. It is algo this chap who is horri- fied by the street corner apparition which fs ghostily shouting sgainst evils of the Aay. CECIL MONTAGUB. America First ‘Washington Star: Mr. Wilson's speach was a eareful restatement of his general position with regard to the war, which the people have alresdy approved and which they will be the more inclined than ever to approve after a reading of his words. v ringfield Wepublican: Judgments of right and wrong there must bs and ought to be, in public &8 in private affairs, dut in such a world erisis ag this only the narrowest conceit can fancy a final judg- ment to be now possible. The president glves a needed call for modesty and tem- perance in judgment and in speech. Chicago Tribune: We are being ex- horted by emissaries and sympathizers 1o take sides. There is one side for ua to take, and only one, the side of Anurica Burope is shaken to the foundations by the storm of almost universal war. If there is one duty clear before us it is to keop our feet tn the shock, to keep our heads cléar and to conserve our re- solirces, not only our material, but our ‘meral respurces. . New York World: The loftiest ideal of American citisenship at this time cannot be described better than in the president's “n": “mot the talkative manm, not the Pal n not the man who remem- bers first he is a republican or a our duty to our own lund: Here he takes & statesmanliike view worthy of his posi- ticn. Here he lays down the valld doc- trine of neutrality. Whatsver oriticlam | his policy has aroused in some of its aspects, he has unquestiongbly followed it with & sincerity woethy of the high ld‘“ll he bids his countrymen contem- plate. Signs of Progress Coffing are being made of paper in France, cheapness and lightness being thelr advantage. 5 Bhare line property has increaspd In value 35,000,000 since the war on mosqui- toes, according to Dr. Thomas J. Headles, of the New Jersey oxperiment station. Memberahips in the New York Stock exohange sre now selling at higher Prices than since 1912 and the last three weeks have raised the prices of these #oats from $40.000 to MMM, In October last the price was but $34,000, More than §200,000.000 has besn spent by the varions states on 31,000 miles of state Nghways About 11,00 miles have been bufit within the last two ydars, Only Seven states have nc form of state high- way department Tn the state of Michigan the wages of | more then 1% miners have heen or- dered inereased 10 per cent, the increass to take effoct May |, and this can be ac cepted as evidence of higher wage scales tn all of the mining states. Reports from the industrial @istricts of the great sentral section east of the Mis. sissippd river, including Pennsylvania West Virginia, are that the great m ity of the manufacturing plants Proaching 10 per cemt o Some. busy upon war orders are running night and day. In a recent ruce between a locomotive and an automebile the latter made the remarkahle record of one mile in 5.2 sec onds, or LN miles an hour, which is a Httle better than the best preceding rec- ord and is yndoubtedly the highest speet ever attained by a man on the face of the earth. The race was at Salduro, Utah. 112 miles west of Salt Lake City, | the automoblls traversing a crystalized salt bed sixty-five miles loug and elght miles wide. Minneapolis moums the PASSING PLEASANTRIES. VIt 1 was ap Indian fighter 1 wouldn't 0 fo fikht the Crow Tndjane. ' Because the ‘white | ean, | how oan A feather ' ~Baltimore Ameri- “She's an old mald. That proves that she douldn’t get a husband.' “Not at all. It may indieate that she was more particular than some. 1 never exhibiting _your husband Kansas City Journal husband s such a cold, sorved man I It _she reaily loves her.” ielle has no doubts on ked her the other day if @ to have some more Itinors American. “It ways here that the longest sentence in the Eng.ish langusge contains 40 re- score. He e wouldn't words the old fogy. - wrong,” replied the grouch. ‘“The longest sentence contains only one “What 1s that?' asked the old fogy “‘Life,” replied the grouch.—IKansas City WMM'NM' A KETTH THE DOUBLE JOKE? AND FOR YHIS THEY PAY ME MONER WITH HONEST MEN'ROWND s J\iis Ll Yankee—If someone were so ill-advised | & to ml‘ you a 1l colonel, in what it 'o:d Ew re| the act? olonel—) ould rd it & form of suicide, sah.—Dallas They had disagreed, -n.g had disagreed ahcut her cooking. He had sprung’ the bromide about her “Why not the Crow Indians especially ** | Crow ever show | wonder how she can tell | small, insignificant man—about your size, | vour honor.—Boston rranscripl he Was young wn forfae bullatg in Phiadelphia | “Blinks says that when he was the Architect of Lis “Didn‘t spectors in | Ledger they have those any days you think it pays to keep Do | ohteken | “Ye replied Farmer Corntossel: “a |few chickens are a good advertiser They keep the summer boarders up, thinkin' mebbe the first thing they know thev'll see couple of ‘em on t dinner table.’—Washington Star. Bix—By the way, who is, or rather Was, the god of war? Dix—1've forgotten the duffers mame, but 1 think it was Ananias.—Indlanapolis Journal “L saw in the papers today where a man had just died who in his lifetime had magried 80 women. “Oh, the Mormon " “Not at _all; just a very popular minister.” —Baltimore American BE CAREFUL. Milwaukee Sentinel When chatting with a native of any war- ring state Be careful to say nothing that possibly would grate Upan bis tender feelings, or give his nerves a wrench; For Instance, do not say '‘Bon jour,” of try to alr your French When ‘greeting any person who is ob- viously German: Wit Try not to sing_“God Save the King” to Hetnrieh, Hans or Herman Oh! read not the Staats Zeitung to any British chap, Nor dine a Herr Professor if your butler be ap, Detain ’*»utfmk‘ callers a moment at the oor While yon make sure there are no scraps of paper_on the floor. Beg not the Ruesian ‘cell(st to play “Die | Wacht am Rhein,"” And stop to think before you drink to Joffre in a stein’ Don't offer English sparrows the lengthy not bel: M‘nble t0 cpok even asx bis mother wienerwnrst, breakfust tea to Whereupon she agked him "if that be iy ‘k:"lfi"‘e -m" ‘:a’::ndrl‘.!hl;:v . ®0, how is it that you.haven't chronic | A yittle tuct when visiting may eft pre- aysppesia, as lvour dtlnher had? vent a fuss— iereupon they disagreed more thor- | Don't sa 'm fond of pretsels,” If your oughly than ever.—Philadelphia ledger. hany should be a Rupll. S— Nor gtl( the “little’ German band” with Judge—~You say you éaught sight of the elglan paving blocks, mpsatiant. Describe him. > And by ne mée hail sons of France ‘Withess—4Sure, your honor, he was a wnh three resounding “‘Hochs . The Nation's Health Dish . 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