Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 29, 1915, Page 7

THE Questionable Use of Our Flag. Another very interesting question hag arisen, 1o add to the complexity of the war problem, so | far as the United States is concerned. From P.urls comes word that arrangements bhave been Ree Company, Proprietor. Ihe EYNDANE OUNMpany, SIOprvtor: . | mrde ¥y the Rospitid seevice to have ambulagoss ww_i | that approach near to the firing lin4 carry the Entered at Omaha postoffice as second-class matter. | cyqary ang Stripes as well as the Red Cross em- TERMR OF ll}nacml:l.'lg:_. By matr bLlem. It is not a povel experience for Old Glory month. per year. 1o be under fire while on an errand of mercy, but how will this practice affect the matter of neutrality? seeking protection under the American flag, firet resorted to by a British sea captain, may gpread OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. ly and Sunday o fly without Sun . vening and Sunday caann . ning_without Sunday 3 . Beo only....... ™ . '.“n':a‘.’;mm of charge of address or compiaint jarity in delivery to Omaha Bee, Circulatio Eoariment ) L] ] 00 o of n | carried on under the banner of the | Statea? There are other neutral ‘countries— | why use only our fla The hospital work, REMITTANCE. Only. tere- ecelved in payment small se- hmr:m al rhoc:", .lro:l‘on Omaha and eastern = Bt et well as the general ac- tivities of the Red Cross, {s humane, and neces- sary, and neutral, but the presence of the flag of a neutral nation on the firing line will not OFFICES. haThe Beg Bullding ""'h Tuffa—id North Main street Chicagotet Henrst numfi“, New York— 1108, 36 Fifth avenue. Bt Louls-48 New Bank of Commerce. Washington—18 Fourteenth St., N. W. CORRESPONDENCE, Address communications relating to news and ‘nfld matter to Omaha Bee, Jflllonu Dmn-: MARCH CIRCULATION, 52,092 ot w‘m t Douglas, :::: ’n lnum-.m tlen muau.:t Th e we Siroulation for | dispute between the belligerents, and may pro- duce unpleasant complieations. It is a questiona- | bl tse at present for the American flag. In Fairness to S8imon. Vote-hunting sharpshooters on the political tiring line are expected to use any missile within reach, but in all fairness to former Representa- tive Edward Simon, the public is entitled to know that the assanlt to discredit his sponsor- ship of the mothers’ pension law is oontradicted by the official record. While no member of the legislature of twn yoars ago had any monopoly on the introduction ‘of mothers' pension measures any more than on any other subject, Mr. Simon's bill, House Roll No. 96, was the first to be presented, and in sub- stance the one to be enacted. :Everyone famil- iqr with legislative procedure knows that where biils on the same subject are introduced simul- taneously in both houses the speedy achievement of the desired resul* is expedited by acceptance by one house of the framework of the measure passed by the other, and this {s what happened with the mothers’ pension bill. The senate filn, coming across before the house had. acted upon the house bills, was amended by incorporating the additional features of the bills introduced by Representatives Simon and Jeary, and by an ex- ——— traordinary action recognition was given to the It looks & it Florence were doomed to be a | tWo mothers’ pension champlons in the hotise by municipal orphan, at least for a while. ldpocmully adding thelr names as joint intro- Sapmeee—— b g e y Cleveland also has 6-cent water. Can any-' The record s found on page 797 of the one tell why Omaha has to pay 31 cents? House Journal for 1913 in thg report of the e committee of the whole, which was unanimously Florence and Benson may console them. | adopted, and reads in part as follows: . #elves by watching flm:z,o'u.'. smoke. Amend that part shoWwing the Introducer by ad- ;‘:’\l after the words, “Introduced by Senator J. A. e % bert: of Holt," the rds, resentati The mayor put the ball over the plate, but oy agirin By it et s v the senator muffed it. Anything symbolical o auly_aworn, -g:'é{:tsfi month of M8, Circulstion o R B e me, this 24 » Publte. Subscribers leaving the cfty temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad-, dress will be changed as often as requosted. April 89 Thought for the Day Selected by Mrs..G. L. Richason 1f you wish your neighbors to ste what God is like, you muat let them see what he can make you lke.—Charles Kingsley. Not too late yet to paint up. S—— Only four days more before the voting. Edward Simon of Douglas and Edwin Jeary of Lan- caster. If the record is the best evidence this should be conclusive aside from the fact that those try- rn-blowers, thesk latter- | Ing to disparage Mr. Simon’s work have waited faint imitations of the | tWO Years to discover that he had no part in pro- a2 30N ' g curing the passage of a law for which his col- leagues in the legislature themselves at the time n’. ‘him his fgl share of credit. -~ ° . Effeots of the Early Spring. 4 i 4 quurlh or . o Syrac gcdu of the Zodlac presldes over the o Plaintiff, defendant | April, seems to have muddled hin a crimnon colors. - little this time and is furnishing the world with RE i X dogday weather about three nenpu In advance. nelghbory realiss | Anq this unusual heat is having o most unpleds- our equality will light by ot | ant etfect on the temper of folks, for it mus heated controversies in progress in every direc- point of the women peace dele- | 1o public, legislatures are bandying epithets \n A algters.” Yos, | pogt mortem arguments over what did or did not line ar | nappen, notable leaders of thought are pursuing each other in court, and manifestations of « #pirit of strife may be noted in every direction. with | This js lamentable, and if the weather is to OF the | blame, a prayer for a mild cold wave would be manent | justitied under the circumstances. — The Indictment by a federal grand jury In Chicago of & number of individual, officers of lubor unions, contractors and others connected with the building industry will bring to a test of court another feature of the ‘“restraint of trade” function of the anti-trust law. In this insiance the point involves the refusal by tho bwlding trades mechanics, under agreemfent sises of | 'With the contractors, to use materials not pro- cuced in Chicago. Tho effect has been. to close 1=t | the Chicago market, so far as possible, to man- ufacturers from the outside. Whille the aetfon Is referred to as a boycott, it comprehends a much broader application of the laws of trade, and is likely to open up for crnsideration & very general field of commercinl and industrial practice, First of all will come the cnestion of,the virtial monopoly that fs thus established, so far as Chicago is concerned, on certain kinds of bullding material, Then w il come the question of the right of two or mere to agree to concerted action in the doing of a thing that is lawful for either, but which | 1s held to be conspiracy when subject of agree- ment. Other lesser points will no doubt be de- British Parliament regards a goneral A% an inconvenience at this time and an extension of the present term untfl the s over. This system of term extension will appeal with peculiar force to office- and efficacy admirably | with futile arguments poured into un- | veloped, but these main factors in the problei | e | w1 be of utmost importance. 2 Theoretically, free trade is an ideal oondi- Bastor, have et oot eerda or . | tton; In praatics, it Bas been found expedient to Methodist Eplscopal | Make providion against certain phases of unre- stricted competition by protective reguiations. low far these may be applied, fifst by labor vnlons in thelr own behalf, and then by con- trectors and manufacturers with labor unions, for their benefit, is the point to be determined. b As the administration proceeds with the Alaskan rallroad much instructive information may be galned from Canada's experience in bullding the Grand Trunk Pacific. The Do- minion put millfons into the road with a vie to opening up tho porthern wilderness to settle- ment. Settlers have not flocked to the region, the company wiich agreed to operate the road refuses to take it over and the government has the largest of white elephants on its hands. ? fim has recelved two el on Tenth and Wil of & jovial house warming i H Omaha people was that Miss Bva Knapp, whi i i st llstional bank " 2 ] L] P - g ” placing great store for 1o the club of Frank i f #ood wages for s, with thelr city, have gone of the Ladies | . The claim that “music hath charms to soothe by the Misses | the savage breast” is supported by numberiess Minnie | tests, But until-its efficacy s proven by sooth- the turbulent vocal spirit of Omaha cam Is it not lkely that the practice of | | watil we see a large part of the war operations | United | diver's life goes out like & snuffed candle if the air | hose falls. | muterially contribute to the settlement of the | | killed 4 few months ago while posing In BEE: OMAHA, Deeds of Daring in Mo vies Cleveland Moffett in American Magasine | TN THE spring of 1913, while George and BErnest | | I Willlameon were down in the West Indles on their l submarine shark-killing expedition for the movies, a8 already related, they made some motion picture studies of & diver In a diver's sult, working at the bottom of the ocean, and George Willlamsen posed quite often for these pictures before a motion pieture camera under the water. In the manner of a professional, he put on the helmet and ponderous costume and descended to a | | convenlent wreck while two natives pumped air to him down the hose—and had thelr own motion ple- tures taken at the same time. Unfortynately, the natives became so much interested in this picture taking that at one moment they quite forgot to pump | | thus leaving George Willlamson fifty feet below the | surface with no air to breathe. Had not Ernest seen the danger and leaped to the rescue it is likely that George's tareer would have ended suddenly, for a Another caso was related to me by Harry Benham, a star of the Thanho Without Fear,” a thrifling melodrama, In the course of which he was imprisoned by anarchists in the cabin of a coal barge, a real barge that lay at New Rochelle being used. Having burst his bonds, Harry ocrept albng the deck over piles of coal and finally, seeing no bther way of escape, leaped upon a great steam coal shovel that was just swinging its black load toward the shore; whereupon a Swede who was operat- ing the derrick and holsting machine, and who had been watching the pursuing bandits with bulging eyes, #o far lost his self-possession that he pullgd the re. leasing lever at the wrong moment, and suddenly, Benham, at the top of his flight, felt the coal falling away beneath him and found himselt dropping down with the load through the opened shovel scoops. Fra- tically he clung to the timbers above him and yellel to the Swede, who now, in his agitation, closed the scoops #0 violently that the actor's wriggling le ety election | be responsible in some measure for the, super-. " | tion. Candidates are calling each. other names" just missed being sheared off 'by the massive jaws Many other motion picture artists have had ex- citing experfences at Niagara Falls, but the film taken on July 2, 1911, by Walter Arthur, veteran camera maa of the Vitagraph company, easily ranks as a record .of dare-devil achlevement here, mnce it shows the actual passage over the falls of Bobby Leach, the only man who ever performed this feat and Hved to describe his sensations. And Bobby's deseription is rather vague, sinoe he was unconscious in his barrel during most of the trip, Tor years before this t adventure Leach had followed an adventurous &:‘»: as A showman and acrobat. He had made manmy balloon aspensions and had dropped often in a parachute, once from the height of two miles. He had dived from the great Suspensfon bridge, 28 feet high, that spans Niagara river, and four times he had gone safely in a wpeclally cou- structed barrel through the whirlpool rapids, where Captain Webb lost Lis life. Finally, after years of hesitation, he made up his mind that it was possible for & man to go over the great cataract in a barrel and live, and, if so, he, Bobby Leach, was the man to do #t. Tn vain his friends and his wife (she ran a little restaurani near the falls, on the Canadian side) tried | to dissuade him, The thipg could be done, he declared, | and he was going to do it. At this time Leach was a white-haired man well over fifty. There were two things he could do to help his chances: he could provide the best kind of a barrel to carry him over the falls and he could select an ad- vantageaus point for launching tiis barrel. For weeks he experimented with kegs, beer barrels and hogs- heads, setting these adrift from various pofnts in the river above the falls, from the American side. from the Canadian side, from this or that island, and then following thelr tumultuous courpes and drawing what Gonclusions he could from them.® In some cages he placed animals in the barrels,—a cat, a dog, or o Blue Grass Outgrows Dandelio PALMER, Neb., April 27.—~To the Edito; of The Bee: Bluegrass, If properly cared { for. will make an end of the danielion This grase lovea lots of water ahd a rich #cil and scanty clipping. Close mowing cripples it and seems to take the life out of its very roots. It should be heav- Hly watered and not mowed at all for a year if the dandelion is well seeded. The graes thus resseds the ground and be- comes so thrifty that it will choke out the dandelion and about evervthing else that grows in the same ground with it, including alfalfa and fruit troes, as the farmer well knows to his cost. The first thing is rich soll. The second is a wet woll and the third i= very high and infre quent mowing, *but the main thing water. Keep the sod sonked. My Jawn when first started became a beautiful mat of dandellons. 1 could wet only part of it. This wet part is free of the pest. The dry part still breeds dande- lions. After the pest s cleared out of the ground by the wet treatment the same condition must continue, as the dandelion will start again. I believe no lawn should be mowed after July 15, #0 as to let the &rass get a good fall growth and make & good mat on the ground. Set the mower very high iIf you Mke and cut off the weeds above the grass, but let the grass grow in the fall. C. 8. MINNICH, M. D. Music an Asset to a City. OMAHA, April 28.=To the Editor of The Bee: 1 was pleased to read your excellent writeup yesterday on the opening con- cert by the Mendelssohn choir and the “Chicago Symphony orchestra. This rec- ognition of the efforts of Thomas Kelly to bulld up a musical atmosphere in this city is better than getting up a parade to follow his hearse after he is dead. Mr. Kelly deserves much credit, He has worked hard and the people should sup- port his efforts to give Omaha a worthy singing organization, He is not asking for any particular credit or sympathy, for he is a practical man. He made a five-year contract with the- Chicago or- chestra and this contract has just expired. I am told by a member of the choir, a friend of mine, that the recent series of concerts Just pald out, That should not be the case. Mr. Kelly should not have to feel any uncertainty as to the financial success of such a musical enterprise as thls. I believe Omaha is just a little bit tardy in its support of those who are giving their lives to the musical culture of the eity. Music is just as much a part of the city's life reet cars, automobiles or other material considerations. Mr. Kelly is a producer, taking this in a strict economic sense. He Is a producer in the sense that good music makes for better citizenship and better citizenship makes for better Omaha. I am glad that you ve Mr. Kelly the praise he deserves as & leader and, of course, this praise is ex- tended to the members of his choir as well. 1 was told the other day by a man whom I believe knows, that Kelly is the best choir leader this side of Chicago, I haven't met Mr, Kelly for several weeks, #0 it cannot be charged that anything 1. say here is “inspired.” 1 do not want to be understood that Omaha is not musical—quite the contrary ~but 1 do maintain that now is the time chicked,— to see if living creatures could go through they never did. us, or whatever of the'| ‘Bobby coul m'n -L’n:&o alr #f he found himself suffocating. As & matter of fact he never touched this cork dur- g the awift journey becsuse he fainted away when the birrel took its great plunge. Another camers artist who has had many adven- tures in motion picture work is Carl Gregory, veteran camera man of the Thanhouser company. of the first blg motion picture stunts I re- iinber,” he said, “was when we sent a White steam | automobile at full speed over the steepest part of the Palisades and let it smash down) with a wicked noble- man inside (played by a dummy), a scoundrel who had ¢hoked and beatgh his young and beautiful Ameri- can wife, and had fiercely purqued her when she was rescued by & gallant American lover In his automoblle. There were five operators with cameras ready wait ing for the smash-up, one man at the top of the Palisades 1o get the precipice, and four of us down at the bottom on the shore of the Hudson fiver with our machines potnted up at various steep angles. When we heard the director shout, we began turning our machines, and each one of us got a section of the fall. ‘We had filled up the steamer's tank with gasoline in the hope that it would in the alr as It turned over and, sure enough, it 1 got & picture showing the automobile shooting straight out frem the rock wall, then turning a clean somersault, then with & smash of black smoke, blowing ftselt into a thousand pleces. One of thess, a heavy ohunk of steel, whizzed by my hesd and buried itself in.the ground. We gave the wreck to a policeman, ‘who wold It for M0 Women artists, well as the men, show courage in facing dangerous motion pitture situations when- ever the director assigns them to some harardous role. That, by the way, is an fateresting element in the motion picture business, the desire of the tist to please the director. If & young woman with the real motion pieture zeal in her is asked to appear in & photo-play as a snake charmer, with real snakes colled about her, the chances are that she will atep forward and do the thing, as Migmon Anderson did when her director cast har for “The Star of the Side Show." Mignon s 22 years old and weighs ninety-seven pounds, but she handled s rock python and a black snake from the Bronx Park Zoo like & veteran. These hideous squirming creatures could easfly have erushed her frafl body with their great constricting muscles. At another time, In a sporting photo-play, Miss Anderfon rodé a horée oyt from a burning barn after sitting on his back for & minute or so With the flames all about her (they wers real flames of a real bain that was burned for the occasion), before she could make the frightened animal leave his stall. Then he ran as if all the devils In the country wure after him, while Mignon clung to his mane, and the camera man, grinding outside, ot the thrilling film that he wanted. Again, 88 a herolpe saving her dying father, Mignon raced a fast train in an automoblle, speeding it up to fifty miles an hour, although she had only & week to loarn how to @6 the think. “Weren't you afrald?" I ssked. “I had no time to be afraid.” she laughed, “I was too busy changing gears. You see, I had to let that traln beat me first and then beat the train. It was & neck and neck race. “A real race?” “Sure.” “Didn't the people on the traln know about it In advance™’ “Not a thing. | just waited where there was a streteh of road paraliel with the track’.and when the regular tast passenger train came slong 1 started the car and the camers man started his machine.” Tt should be sald in this instance that the man- agement suggested to Miss Anderson that &n expept | chauffeur be allowed to.impersonate her in driving e car. which would have been easy. thanks to cap and gomgles but Misron's sporting pride required she rage the train heraelf, and race it she did. to make some signs which will be under- stood by Mr. Kelly and those working with him thet Omaha appreciated the series of spring concerts he gave during the laat five yeara and that stronger sup port will be assured if these concerts wil be continued for another period of five years. B. B Deapollers of Nature, ! OMAHA, Apri] 28.~To the Editor of The Bee: 1 was very glad to see the article on “Wildflowers and Picnickers” by M. L." in Sunday's Bee and only wish that it might had even more prominent space #0 that “‘all might see.” L, too, am keenly interested in the virgin ‘woodland about.us and as I have not the privilege. of possessing any of it myself 1 cannot possibly be criticized for mer- cenary motives. Therefore L feel free to discuss the criticlam in thet leiter whiich was as just as the invitation was gen- erous. 1 do not know so much about the region north of Florence because my ‘‘Haunts': are for the most part along the Missour, down toward Bellevue—that most de- lightful Childs' Point region, amongst the hills and dales and virgin fofest, which I do not doubt those aplendid men composing the Fontepelle Forest assocla- tion contempiate some Hay acquiring and preserving for the public. Time and againh have I strolied along the paths to and from that region, so magnificiently and luxuriously favored by Dame Nature, only to have the pleas- ure and joy of the scene blotted by the frequent sight of immense bunches of Withered wild flowers which & few hoyrs earlier had been ruthlessly. and greedily | plucked by thoughtlees youth of spend- thrift maturity, and as quitkly tired of and tarown by the wayside, T'do not, and hardly think that M. L, would, object to the bona fide plucking of & spray for a buttonshole bouquet or qven, when they are plentiful, to the careful digging up of' a root for ‘trans. planting at home; but the ruthless, sel fish mania for wholesale plunder is most emphatically to be discountenanced. The prodigality -of nature is a source of in- apiration when ‘cbhtemplated “In place™; s s0ou as severed It quickly becomes dross. And, in passing; it may very ap- proprintely be stated that the birds are &3 much a fixture in the landscape as the flowers, and when ruthlesly killed are but “food for worms” and thence- forth some “life" ls .inexplicably absent from the canvas. 80 it Is regrettable that in this, as in other miatters. people cannof practise femperunce but must needs have total prohibition forced upon them, s is the | case in overy tourist region where even the plucking of a twig 1s penalized. 1 suppose, however, that it is idle to dwell upon the subject. It seems that there always have Deen. and. probably will continue to be. some peaple to whom the lovo of ““Personal Liberty” and the winning of a race in feverish commer- claligm is the acme of true satisfaction A. W. ANDERSON. Coll Quotes the Record. OMAHA, April 3.—To the Editor of The Bee: I see some would-be wise boy is try- ing to take away from Ed Simon the credit dve him for the passage of the mothers' pension law. Stmon introduced that law, worked for It. fought for it and boosted for It all through its devious Passage through the committee and mip to and including the governor's signature. On page T7 of the house record on the forty-seventh day of the 1513 session B Simon's name was specifically amended to that law, I that does not constitute being the father of a law, ! would like to know what does. | served with Ed ‘Stmon, tn the’ legisiature and will say s | e —————————————— that*he was fearless, efficient and aoctive and represented his constituents well What more could be asked of a repre- sentative of the people? DR. HARRY A. FOSTER GRINS AND GROANS. “How's the rye orop In your section, farmer?’ asked a pert town youth with intent to chaff the bucolic one. “‘Dead faflure. “For lack of rain? “Naw, fer lack of distilleries. Giddap, you mules’ Loutsville Courfer-Journal I notice the road agenis who held up the train worked with different methods.™ “In what way?" “\While one was rifling the Joad, the | other was loading the rifle.” —Baltimore American Customer—Have you an alarm Block that will wake the help without waking up_the whole house? Clerk—No, madam; but 1 can give you one that will wake up the whole house withaut waking the help.—Boston Tran- seript “I could have done better than to | marry you." “‘A common cry among wives, my dear You women shouldn't-blame us men for lack of business acumen. To assure yourselyes that you have married as well as possible you should invite sealed pro- posals,” - Loulsville Courler-Journal . Phatpurrs—Percy Bargoolt mar. Taken In by a designing parlor How shocking! Mra. Stufdro!—Deserves it, | say. Ought to have looked up her references before he hired her.—Judge Manager—I say, can we get anything | like a real doctor in this jay town to at- tend a sick actor? Village Inhabitant—Sure. Just go to that corner grocery. Youw'll find man | there who's all right at coring hams.— Baltimore American. “Father,” sald the small boy, “what is the fourth dimension?' “I can't be bothered about that jusc mow, my son." ‘Why ? Is that a foolish question?" “1 guess the question is all right. T must say T never heard' an answer it that ‘struck me as very sensible.’ Washington Star. “Men are slow to embrace an oppor tunity,” remarked the sage. “‘But they are always looking .for a | added thl' | chance to hug a delusion," fool.—Cincinnat! Enquirer. ““What's vour hired man your front yard for, Blinks® “My daughter has a new camera, and the Ingtruction says to break up the fore- ground before takine a ploture, and T couldn't very well let her do that hard work.”"—~Philadelphia Ledger. .plofl'lnl up But THE LITTLE WORN SHOES. Uncormplathing ruifill ymmandments stiil shoes life t Poor, tired little They give their The orders and calls und Of feet that never are They tramp o'er the hills and the mead- | g oy { dellght And mpud is_their chief dellg | They were triin and shining this morning, | Now they are a woéful sight nd dingy: for breath r them death They are scuffed and mu Their tongues hang pant | For the littie feet that wea Have run them almost to And while they are busy adktroying, | _I'm busy finding a way {To buy new shoes on the morrow, To replace the ones of today. For new. shoes, prized as a treasufe | Today: tomorrow are old | But at sight of innocent faces, 1 have not the heart to scold Though each year they'fe a bit larger, And ‘cost Just a trifle more And each year they wear a bit faster Than they did the year before; For the little feet in the future Wil Jose their desire for play And soberly walk in the highwa With no longing or wish to stray 8o I turn te my work with new purpose, And new courage for the fight And through blinding tears, as I view them. Those shoes are a beautifu) sight Then 1 gather them up with rapture, And thank the Lord with a will, For the rough little shoes, worn shabby And the Omaha and ¥, feet that never are. stiil DAVID. YOUR APPETITE i Your digestion, your gen- eral health will all be greatly benefited by the timely use of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. It is com- | pounded from absolutely | pure ingredients and those i best known as real aids to the . 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