Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 1, 1915, Page 14

14 FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER, VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. BEE BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH o oo i et b S ettt s Bttt Entered at Omaba postoffice as second-class matter. | e ————eee—t SURBSCRIPTION. By carrier month. - By mail per year. . " Potice change of Address or o o larity, tn Aelivery to Omaha Bes, & REM 'ANCR. Remit Mu:p—- or postal order. Onxltwo- cent in payment of smi ao- Sounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha and eastern exchange. L -‘M Thought for the Day Selected by Mre. Wm. Doolittle “O girt of Godl O perfect day! Wherein shall no man work but play, Wherein 48 is enough for me Not to be deing, but to bs." be changed as oftem as roquosted. Remember that knocking. boosting goes further than St —— Cheer up! Political windjammers will be interned in two more days. ) e— Beaten down to brass tacks, the electric 1ight question looks like a choice once more be- tween really reducing ‘m rates or merely buy- ing a lawsuit, y . R a— Down at Lincoln there are five municipal referendum propositions before the voters as ~against Omaha’s thres.” Here's one place where Dbeats us. ¢ ficials than their statements at the outset indi- L OMAHA DAILY BEE ment fore- The first grand shopplng excursion put on by Swmith was pronounced a grand success. A excursion train came on the B. & M. char- Keep It Before the People. Keep it before the people that the city of Omaha is a great business corporation, many and varied activities, for the benefit of its | people, who foot the bills | | | | | | | Keep it before the people that this corpora- tion represents assets of nearly $200,000,000, with annual income and outgo of upward of $1,600,000 Keep it before the people that the active management of this great co-operative business devolves upon a board of directors of seven men chosen to serve for three-year terms. Keep it before the pedple that the choice of stockholders has been limited to the fourteen | men whose names will appeat on the oficial bal- lot, and that seven of these men will be chosen as managing directors at the election next Tues- day. Keep it before the people that the real re- sponsibility is theirs to choose directors for the municipal corporation who will run its business economically and efficlently, and the way the stockholders want it run. England Not Yet for Prohibition. A doubled excise tax on asicoholic beverages will take the place of prohibition in the Britishd kingdom, and the danger point in the war is again passed, Lloyd-George has taken advantage of the agitation to turn a little more revenue ipto the royal exchequer, but the debate shows the cause of prohibition to be hopeless. Kven the clergy declined to take the pledge of total abstinence, even with the example of the king to sustain them. The good archbishop of Canterbury sald he had once tried abstinence and found it did not agree with him, and this view seems to be the more popular. The outcome of the agitation is not surpris- ing. The Bee at the begianing pointed out that the British public was not so amenable to royal command as the Russian, and the national habit of taking a drink was too deeply rooted to be easily eradicated. In making the final an- nouncement of the disposition of the question, Liloyd-George told the House of Commons “I am prepared to take & pledge never to politically touch drink agai His sincerity In this wiil hardly be questioned. It is quite easy to uander- stand that the present chancellor of the exchequer, as well as thd other members of the cabinet, will be very willing to retire when the burden of their present task is lifted from them. Methodists Talk of Union. A councl] of Methodist bishops, sitting at Des Moines, has named a committee to take the pre- inary steps looking to the union of the three branches of the church in the United States. How to approach the task will be for this com- mittee to determine, and, when the clearing away process has gone far enough, the agtual work will be undertaken. This ig not going to be accomplished in a little while, It is one of peculiarities of religion that it only takes a thing to start s schism, but once it is started, it seems all bui impossible to remove it. shades of distinction that separate the are a continual source of wonderment to s feronces are all but lmpassable walls. " 'The step proposed by the Methodists s & wise one. It will not only have the effect of simplifylng the religious practices of the church, but it will make possible a more effective ad- \ministration of its material affairs, by removing such impediments as the dupljcation of effort, lack of uniformity and similar defects in man- agement. Hven this is not so easy of accom- plishment, &g the Presbyterians have discovered, ogurse of their movement for consoli- the ocburch in America. - Property inter- have arisen, out of which certain vested rights have developed, and the adjustment of gone the Iowa doctor patiently made his way on foot or horseback over the muddiest roads the sfn ever shone on, his outfit of drugs, medica- ments and instruments in his saddlebags, mov- ing from patient to patient on a never ending round. He dispensed blue mass, calomel, quinine and similar nauseous drugs in such liberality that frequently a sick man got well merely to escape the doctor's attentions. Nowadays, he mounts a swiftly moving flylng machine and outspeeds the wind to the bedside of the suf- fering, ministers to him from the plethora of modern aids to health and leaves him, mind composed and body restful, blessing the inven- tions of the age. The distance traveled by the art of paling between the saddlebags and the era of the flylng machine is not to be measured in the terms of days and months, but in the strides of selence, which have been such that an Omaha doctor recently felt justified in testify- ing in court that a first-year student in a good medical school today sees more than Darwin did in the senith of his fame. e——— "The democratic ideal,” explains a Missouri spokesman, “is a realm with the bosses reduced to the ranks and the people ruling 'through strictly accountable representatives.”” The reality in & realm of elective bosses who, in Missouri, reject presidential nominations because they lack gumshoe endorsements, and in Nebraska fight so fiercely for the spolls that a mouthful rarely comes over the counter to nourish the faithful. r—r— The suddenly developed tender solicitude by | the wntis for the one present commissioner left off the city hall “slate” is indeed inspiring. Not quite inspiring emough, though, for them to adopt the orphan for the ceventh place on their own ticket, which they have left vacant. THE with | SATURDAY, All About the Jitneys || ' Nugh 8. Pullerton ia Amerioan Magasine——' | HB United States is having & transportation revo- T lution. Forty-six cities are already involved. Every day another municipality joins the move- ment led by the jitney bus. The great street car and traction companies are fighting desperately to maintain their claims upen the streets of American cities. In a dozen cities the aid of the courts has been invoked to stop the progress of the jitney bus. Never in the history of the United States has there been o sudden and so unexpected an economic de- velopment. A few months ago, & genius in Los An- geles put into operation an automobile bus charging S-cent fares Today jitney busses are running In almost every large city in the west and central west, and lines are being started everywhere. The latest reports indicate that there are between 8,000 and 9,00 licensed jitneys operating In these cities. The name jitney is interesting in itself. It has been used, especially among negroes and in the south, to mean a G-cent nickel. Various explanations of the origin of the name have been advanced. The most logical one comes from Colonel Willlam H. T. Shade of Lake City, Ia. Mr. SBhade was for many years a theatrical, circus and minstrel business manager and advance agent. He belleves the word cumes from the French “jetton,” meaning a small metal disk, and now applied to telephone slugs in France. It was used, also, to mean the small metal diske used as checks in gambling houses, and the word was in com- mon usage ameng the French and Creoles in Loulsi- ana. Years ago a minstrel troupe playef In Lake Providence, La., and the negroes had mai\ of these Jettons, which passed current as small change. When the cashior of the minstrol troupe checked up after the performance he found himself with a quart or so of jettons, which the nesroes called fitneys. 1t be- came a common ecxpression in minstreldom, When the S-cent fars busses adopted the name Mney they unconsolously found a trademark worth miltions in advertising. The name ‘“stuok.” On December 1, 19, a few Jitney busses were running in Los Angeles. In a week the streets were ilned with them. San Francisce, the Bay Cities, Port- land, Seattle and Spokane, had seized upon the ides, and private cars, sigittseeing busses and even trucks were being tramsformed Into busses and licensed to carry passengers. Denver took it up, Salt Lake, Pueblo—then Kansas City, where it struck hardest. In Kansas City the first bus, operated by H. W. M- ler, carried o passenger a trip on the avédrage for two days. Inside of two weeks from the day he started operating his car on the jitney basis there were 200 cars in commission carrying vver 25,000 pag- sengers per day, and the number was steadily in- creasing. In New Orleans, where the public long hes com- plained against street car service, the idea became popular in a day. Inside of two weeks the street car company, which had refused to grant any conces- sions, was advertising “‘seats for all.” The jitney re- sponded with 8-cent fares for children and precipl- tated a merry war. In Sait Lake twenty pay-as-you- enter jitney cars are in operation and mors have been ordered, making serious inroads upon the traction re- celpts, There mre more than 100 jits in operation in San Antonio, Tex.; New Orleans reports 120° passenger cars operating, at a profit of § per day per car; Kan- sas City now has 260 cars licensed, clarming to y 45,000 passengers a day. Spokane has ninety b running, and the corporation formed to ope®te them has ordered mew fifteen and thirty-nine-passenger cars; Portland has a $20,000 jitney corporation; Mil- waukee has installed big cars running on ten-minute schedule over a three-mile line; Columbus, Cincinnati, Toledo, Dayton, Akron, Hamilton, Springtield, in Ohio; Peoria, I.; Terre Haute, Evansville,and In- dianapolis, in Indlana; Jackson and Vieksburg, In Missiasippt; Oklahoma City, Tulsa and Lawton, in Oklahoma; Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis, Omaha, Des Moines, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Chicago, Balti- more, Washington, are among the cities that have adopted the jitney bus idea. The jitney has come o suddenly that no one: knows whether it will s6lve the (ra:{ portation | in them. Some i already the main down-town streets and danger to pedestrian and shoppers. A Tt s evident that before the jitneys are received as an established public service factor some lability i | chiefly by persons of small means, and the danger of personal Injury of passengers is to be considered. The street car companies declare the proportion of passengers injured will be larger than in any other form of transportation, and that it will be practically. {mpossible for injured passengers to recover damages.: Already the various jithey corporations are plan- ning & great jitney insurance company, which will suarantee the owners of jitneys against liability for accidents. ‘ Twice Told Tales . Fixed the Boys. An old elrcus man tells this one: ““Phe usual crowd of small boys was gathered about the entrance of the tent in a town in Ilinols. A benevolent looking old gentleman standing uwearby watched them for a few minutes with & beaming eve. Then, walking up to the ticket-taker, he sald, with aa alr of authority: “‘Let all these boys in, and count 'em as they “The gateman, thinking that the benevolent look- ing old gentlemap was indulging in a bit of philan- thropy, did as requested. When the last ind had gone in, he turned and announced: ‘Twenty-four, sir.’ “Good,' sald the benevolent looking old gentle- man, as he walked away, ‘T thought I guessed right.’ " —Phitadelphia Ledger. Definition of Water. Upon the eve of the annual meeting of the Kea- tucky Bducational assoclation another story of the public schools may not come amiss. This one is said to have happened at the Washington school, where part of the original work was definitions of familiar thi hnny Jones, what is water?" asked thé teacher. For the moment Johnny was stumped. Only for the moment, though, for he triumphantly answered: “Water is what turns black when you put your hands in it —Loulgville Times. People and Events A high court decision gives the jitney the right to scout for the nickels in Virginia, without a frenchise. Liberty has a deep root in the Old Dominice. Miss Missourl Hawkins of New York, just over the century mark, recallsthe time she danced with La- fayette, A great hompr surely, but what kind of dance could & girl of 9 do with & man of 677 The divorce mills of Kansas do a tidy domestic business with becoming sobriety. Oune-seventh of the Beven of the 105 counties didn't have & divorce case. Warden Osborne of Sing Sing hasg & chance to put his feform theories 1o the test. | TheDees e Appreciation of Music in Omaha. OMAHA, April 3.—To the Editor of The Bee: Omahs is ragtime crazy. Is it not a positive proof of this when such or sanisations as the Mendelssohn cholr of Omaha and the Chicago Symphomy or- chestra come together in joint program &nd recelve such small audiences as they have for several years? Should not the business men of our city back up the Mendelssohn cholr to the extent of at Jeast appearing at their concerts? If a ragtime band were to appear in this city they would have no troubie in &etting a crowd stand up the entire evening to hear such music; to hear the men with their blasted cornets or to hear the trombones blare out an. ear-plercing blam! blam! Is it not a shame that a eity the size of Omaha with such a country to draw from cannot fill the Auditorium for two evenings, but can jam a huchey-kuchey ahow at the carnival and keep on pouring in it from the time it starts in the after- noon until it closes, and repeat this day after day untll the carnival festival is over? ‘There are business men In this town who would have it understood ,that they are well educated, but would rather go to some burlesque show and see a chorus of painted beauties swing their legs in the air than to hear the grandest musio ever written by the masters of the art. Omaha has a choir of which it should bu proud, so let us not only say we are proud of #t, but show that we are help- ing to make their next concerts one grand big success. A MUSIC LOVER., That Kick on Late Bowling. OMAHA, April ®.—To the Editor of The Bee. In answer to a “kick on all night bowling." Not being able to have a personal inter- view as I should like to with the party Wwho asked you to publish the above com- plaint rom the fact that his full name and address are not in evidence, 1 take the only means of answering avalilable, but with full name and address attached thereto. As every one who enters my place of buginess knows I have been very careful about stopping play on all alleys at 12 o'clock, they must know it is not with my consent or favor that anything like 4 o'clock In the morning ‘‘bowling” should have been in evidence at all. Now as I myself enjoy sleeping and go home to sieep with the assurance that my place of business is quiet from 12 o'clock until morning, 1 would consider it a favor to be told personally about an occurrence of this kind so that I can cor- réct same without giving the general public the impression that I am running all night, which as they all should know is far from being the existing state of affairs. As to the other disturbances mentioned in connection with this same complaint I do not know anything of them, but will adjust at once what seems to have occurred during my absence here Tuesday night. Assuring the author of the above com- Editorial Snapshots ‘Washington Post: Senator Poindexter's reasons for returning to the fold age In- teresting, but none was really needed. Washington Star: Peace sessions at The Hague are almost as crowded as the Wednesday night prayer meeting when the circus is in town. Indianapelis News: The discovery that the Jape in Turtle bay are really doing what they spy they are doing must be a great disappointment to former Repre- scntative Hobson. Philadelphla Ledger: Once again Jersey justice wins. Holding a careless water company responsible in & typhoid case is fixing responsibliity and educating the | public at one and the same time, New York Post: Was thewe any pre- meditation in President Wigon's selec- tion of @ D. A R. conventien as the place at which to commend to his coun- trymen the virtue of selif-res §aint? Wall Street Journal: If you come into ‘| Wall street for a “clean-up,* you usu- ally get it. Buppose you content yourself ‘with profits which would amply satisty the people who really know what they are dolng? 8t. Louls Republic: President Wilson's reference to the great silent body of American’s In his recent neutrality speech will remind ,many people of the faot that the most of the noise is coming from a very few men. Indianapolis News: It's all well enough for the Noordam, with the women's peace conference delegates, to fly a white flag with the word ‘‘Peace” in blue letters on it, but suppose some of those submarines can't read English? Pittsburgh Despatch: Kitchener, Lioyd George says, is very gratified at the re- sult of recruiting and the government does not belleve conseription could do any better. Some of the American mili- tarists may ponder that expert testimony with profit, Philadelphia Ledger: Last week sev- enteén years ago our war with Spain was declared. It lasted scarcely three months and & half. To October 1, 1888, the total deaths reached 2,910, of whom 3,00 died from disease, and the war ex- penditures to that date amounted to about §40,000,000. Compare these figures with those of the Buropeah confliot and they seem a mere skirmish. And yet at the time they seemed very serious. Philadelphla Ledger: America's strength is to be found in its 1,700,000 business con- corns. What they want is freedom of opportunity and the unfettered use of their time. It costs them money to fll out intricate inquiry blanks from Wash- ington and attend benevolent investiga- tions. They do their best work when let alone. And the kind of government that People would gladly | | | frets and hinders them hampers produc- | tion and hurts the general good. Springfield Republican: The passage of the widowed mothers' pension bill by the New York assembly by the over- whelming vote of 12 to 7, following the passage of the bill by the senate several days before, is striking evidence of the popularity which such legislation has ac- Quired in the few years since it was fivst tried. This form of rellef has reached fits first important development in this country and is likely to remain for some time America’s most important contribu- | tion to the modern problem of soctal in- | surance which, in its several divisions, has recelved very much meive sttention in Eurape than here. pl L be impossible. Here and There |"""™" “There's & good deal in this southers ftality.” that so? es; they gimme eight montha fer vagrancy in New Orleans. 1 never got more than sixty days in the north."— Loulaville Courier-Journal. TO MY HAT. A foxy gardener at Stevens' Point, Wia,, dlsliking & wordy row with a fleishbor whose chickens ‘trespassed in his yard, | tled written cards to scattered grain and | let the raiding chickens carry home in their bills the evidence of thelr guilt. | One of the cards read: “I am a thief. | My owner does notsfeed me enough. I | Yes thou nur.ll_\' art a stunner, have to visit the nelghbors.” The owner | pom. MY hat! acoepted the evidence In good humor and penned the raiders. ; To keep secret a secret process for making artificial leather is puzzling Phil- | Oh, my hat! adelphia lawyers and at least one Quaker City court. The plaintift obtained a tom- | " On" s harl *nd *lide aad josule, porary injunction forbidding an em- | In the wind thou wigele-wogste. Vloye revealing the process. The atter |nvvhat of that? offered to prove by experts that the |1 sure made a bit with ) process was mot a secret, but the court |And saith thou didet the job, would not permit the showing, as that | OR. m¥ hat Broceeding would annul the injunction. | Thou hast caused me quarta’of tears, With /Solomonesque wisdom the court . my hai continved the injunction and granted an | “Gqngs and falls for twenty years appeal. Hast made wrinkles in my face . And brought on a ‘-W casa, But to shun thes, were disgrace, Oh, my bhat! ' ‘For # 1 will foretell your fortune | Mgl of 1ash, month's wages bought thee, Are you a genuine soothsayer?’ Thirty “afternoons I sought thee, 1 _am. Blessed hat' T have seen this summes, Th. r:y th.ftl. tips and bo ast flowers, And thou strikest on ?h o Him who dares to come too LAUGHING GAS. “Then wou ought to know, that 1 g ; baven't Kot $2."—iansas City JOurnal. |1 i weas they &,fl:{hfi'flfi‘,,'."‘” Kumme—1s your wife saving? ARDSY QIR YUes Bl v De Backe—Very; when she sees any loose tobscco under my writing table she sweeps 1t up carefilly In a dustpan and uts it back in the fobacco jar.—Brook- lyn Cltizen. Lincoln. HELEN CARRAHER —_———— Do You Know The Real Foed How are the springs on this car?" Simply wonderful! You don't notice a child, and even when you run over a grown man, it's no discomfort at all!"— "I“ .'_I g it Life. » | When you talk about buying ten cents ior one dollar's worth of any foodstuff | what do you mean by “worth?’ The only measure of genulne worth in the pur- chase of eatables must be nutrition. But | @0 you keep nutrition in m‘nd len you bufi the mllumvinm t us see eat Is prol ly your biggest item. Yet no less an -uthor‘y zm‘fl.'mmfi'- ison, the dletitian, says that meai is a dear food. Why? Because we pay far too much for the amount of nutrition that We secure, Meat contains 75 per oomh;‘- ter—think of that when sirloin s chalk- ed up at 35¢c a Ib.—three-quarters water! Now, take Faust 8 ettl, o from Durum wheat, & chh. glutinous ce- real. Of spaghetti and its .lllfid nrod- ucts, the same authority savs that they contain only 10 per cent water, and these their m- “Why,"" asked the little girl, “do angels have wings?" “Maybe,” answered the little boy, “it's to prevent them from getting the golden streets all mussed up with their muddy feet."~Washington Star, | foods ar lor%.od almost in {oats-2te 5 maake bibod. mugele and sue, Faust Spaghett| costs 10c a package—nearly all worth. MAULL BROS. St. Louis, U. B. A “How did you get your clothes torn ;“tdh your face bruised?" asked the boy's - - ather, “My condition,” was the cautious re- H y y 'HORLICK’S cly s the result of a slide to second .“'Qul“l thought you were unmmpiring the _The Original MALTED MILK ' p game? Y1 was. 1 said the boy who slid didn't Uniess you say you may get a make it."”"—Washington Star. “l want you," ssid the fair soclety leader, “to give me a plain opinion about my plcture.” adame,” sald the gallant cavalier. 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