Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 2, 1915, Page 18

THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSE“J'ATERS E»Dl'!’()RL The Bee Pnbllnmnl ('«LmD ny, Prcgflo!or. BEE BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. Entered at Omaha postoffice as second TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION. By mrflhn Ry mail per mont! Per year. bo. $6.9%0 and Sunday «3 without Sunday. ing and Sunday { ing without Sun 3 ay Bee only... i @ notice of change of Addr gularity in delivery to Omaba Bee, rtment. 200, . 2.00 or complaints of Aroulation REMITTANCE. dvaft, express or postal order. _Only two- ent of small & and Remit by cont postage stimps received in pa counts. Personal checks, except on Oma exchange, not accepted. OFFICES. ! Omaha—The Bee Building. South Omaha—218 N street. Councfl Bluffs—14 North Main street. Lincoln—2% Little Buflding. Chicago—om Hearst Bullding. ew York—Room 1106, 286 Fifth avenue. Louis—508 New Bank of Comme: Washington—7% Fourteenth Bt., N. W, Address communications rela news and edi- torial matter to Omaha Bum torial Department. APRIL SUNDAY CIRCULATION, 47,089 lu.g of Nebraska, Cmm? fi.m. o bt Willlams, o T, says that the average Sunday 'f.m'flflm“}%.- he mon{n of Avglvgvll‘l W ac- orn 47,089, WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. Subscribed in sworn bef me, this Int day of May. Ior "0 S f ! Almost time to build tht Platte river power canal again, S——— The straw hat makes its bow for a run of four months. e e— Let well enough alone-—except where you can do better, Sphp—e—— It is just as eahy, and often easier, to arbi- trate at the start than at the finish, | Award in the. Railroad Wage Case. . The long hearing before an arbitration board ~ of the case of the enginemen on the western an attempt to dispose of some complaint. For the railroads, changes asked by the men were board. in coctroversy are not fully disposed is shown by the assurance of the arbitra- for both the men and the companies giving that the determination of the main lssue This declaration may concern of the public is 3 case {8 8o involved that it is not easy for out~ It is i “Peace, but There is No Peace The closing scenes of the women's conference at The Hague that a deep sentiment of resentment still is lodged in the breasts of those whose countries are at war. These women are not yet ready to join in A demand for “peace at any price.” They want peace, but they want justice first, and for this they will contend. Might is not right, nor is personal interest or national pride the best of guides for action, but each is a potent factor in the determination of conduet. It would have been a surprising spectacle had the Belgian and British representa- tives at the conference given thelr unprotesting assent to the resolutions as originally proposed. The resolutions as finally adopted sound well, but who is going to determine what is “‘justice,” and, when that has been settled, how 1s it to be peace | maintained against those who refuse to accept it? The problem of restoring peace in Europe is not so simple that it can be disposed of by a short conference of women. Matters far beyond the reach of words are involved in the struggle, fundamentals that must be adjusted even for a temporary truce. Into the crucible of the pres- ent war have been cast age-old grudges, racial differences and national jealousies whose roots 80 back beyond history. It may be these will fuse in the flerce heat of the conflict, and from the fiery purging a new Europe will arise, among whose inhabitants will be found that concord of thought and action essentially necessary for the full good of man. BSome very able men, deep in thought and wise in conclusion, hold that this desirable result will be attained. Whatever we may hope for as the outecome of the war, and its ultimate Influence on the destiny of mankind, the conference just con- cluded at The Hague has only proved that ladies as well as gentlemen “may cry peace, but there 18 no pence.” — Two Men Who Have Made Good. ' Having already commended “two good men' nominated at the primaty to the favor of those who belleve there s room for improvement in the city hall, The Bee takes it upon itself now to commend also ‘“two men who have made good" to the favor of those who believe conscientious and efficlent service should be rewarded with re-election. These two of the present commis- sloners are Joseph B, Hummel and A. C. Kugel. ‘We believe the work of no départment of the city has evoked ag gemeral praise and elicited so little publie complaint as the development and improvement of our system of parks and boule- 'vards under direction of Commissioner Hummel. He has something tangible to show for his ef- forts without any spectacular gillery pldy or special appeal for sensational publicity. Commissioner Kugel's service has been di- vided between two departments, first that of street cleaning, and later that of the police, Of his achlevement as street commissioner there are no two opinions, He ized the work and put it on an efficlency such as we had never had. His administration of the police dopartment has been more trylng-—it is a ‘posi- tion where it is naturally impossible to satisfy mm,u-m-u‘maun&n affalrs are to count, the voters will re- elect Hummel and Kugel. : A ¥ — . Dean of American Actors. It g indeed special distinction for an audience to have been allowed to play to the seventieth anuiversary birtlday party for Willlam H. Crane, the dean of Amer- and to join with his stage associates in paying tribute to the man. Hale and hearty, full of life and vigor, with a ¢heerful outlook on the world, and the clear vision of unimpaired faculties, his years mt { lightly on Mr. Crane, and he goes about hia daily work with a zest that would be notable in a per- son of half his age. His fifty-two annual seasons on the stage have been full of remarka- ble experiences, and in retrospect present a won- derful panorama. His active life extends over the years that have seen the theater in America advance from its state of acknowledged crudity to a very respectable position in the world of art. It is & genuine testimonial to his intelligence and inspiration that he has advanced with this growth, keeping his own ideals and holding his | place as a leader. while the taste of the public 'was developed and strengthened on matters that pertain to art. Contemporaneous with actors whose memories are fondly revered, he easily made the transition from the “old" to the “new" school of acting, with distinct advantage to him- self as an exponent of the most difficult as well as the most evanescent of all the arts, that of the wetor, Mr, Crane has not only kept pace with the progress of his profession, but with that of the world in general, his life being full and well rounded, because of the catholicity of his inter- est in the affairs of mankind, His private life is as much of an inspiration .as Is his public career, and the tribute given him by Miss Bingham, in her delicate allusion to this quality of the man, is well deserved. Let us wish with her that Mr. Orane be spared to cel- ebrate his full four-acore years andf ten, and he may be assured that Omaha will give him as cor- dial welcome then as it'did on Friday night, when he had just reached threescore and ten. S— Agriculture in the South. The planters of the south are to become farmers, and King Cotton is to share his throne with King Corn, and other representatives of the royal line of the agricultural realm. The pres!- dent of the Cotton congress, speaking to the Bouthern Commerclal congress, gave thanks that the war has taught the south the value of the diversification of crops. This knowledge has been in possession of the southern planter for generatians, but the wisdom of applying it is just dawning.' The war has merely served to empha- size the point so that it will be more full®appre- clated. Other sections of the country had te learn the lesson long ago, and prosperity has followed where it has been put into practice. No reason exists for the south' to abandon cotton as its leading crop, nor will the uses for this staple be materially lessened by reason of the war, but the southern farmer will be bene- fited if he learns from his northern brother the lesson of diversity, which is generally taught by adversity, . shows very piainly | Y CONGRATULATIONS to the United States National bank on occupancy of fta beau- titul new home, which is &t once a mon- ument to that institution and it officers and an ornament to the city. 1 have been through banking houses in which other communities take pride, some of them larger, many of them mose ornate, but none of them more impressive, imposing or more conveni- ently arranged and equipped to accommodate patrons and to transact business. When a city reaches the stantial a structure as was its old home in order to replace It with a more modern bullding, that eity has indeed come to {tself. The new establishment of the United States National bank, with the new buflding of the First National already in prospect across the street and the Omaha National already at Beventeenth, nafls down’ the financiaf center for many years to come within a radius of a block from the Sixteenth and Farnam corner. Omaha s a little over sixty years old, and its first banking center was at Twelfth and Farnam. Thirty years moved it west only one block, and when the Commereial National, since ab. sorbed into the United States Nationat, went to Six- teenth, the present location of the latter, the venture was generally regarded as an extra hasardous pre- ceeding. Stranse how hard ites for people to see any distance Into the future Lestie M. Shaw, who “stopped off" in Omahs a couple of days last week, and talked to the Creigh- ton university graduates and to the Commerecial club, has a wonderful fund of personal experfence to draw on, and an unmatched store of good stories to relate. Hehas a permeating humor which always makea its point, although usually slightly velled so that be pauses and asks, ‘Do you get that?' He Is one of the old-fashioned statesmen, who persists in believ- ing that some of our new-fangled schemes are no better than those they have supplanted, more partion- larly the various devices of ‘‘pure democracy,” such as direct primaries, initiative and referendum, and the recall of judicial decisions. “I4 i brains and capacity,” he declares, “that we need for the management of public business, and 1 don't see that we get any better quality nowadays than we used to."” ‘ As another of his aphorisms, he asserts, “The men who are elected to office, I feei safe In saying, will compare favorably with those, who run for office against them and are defeated.” Incidentally the information was vouchsafed that it cost Leslie M. Shaw just §260 to secure his first nomi- nation for governor of Towa, & nomination which no one could hope to obtain by direct primary now without spending many times that amount. The subtle character of the Shaw humor may be gathered from the following story, told by way of exouse for calling for cream for his after-dinner coftee: “1 know it is the helght of impropriety to put milk or cream In a small cup of coffee, but I do it Just the same. I was the guest once at a dinner in ‘Washington presided over by a‘lady of high soclal preténtions, to whom 1 apologised for asking for cream as a remnant of my country-bred manners, and she said: i : i the do- a -getting. n%t: question as to whether it is ‘professional' for & dentist to advertise strikes me as & remnant of the dark ages without rhyme or reason. Why should not the public know that he is what way he can serve merchant or the manu- H resort to the movies and lantern slides for boosting the candidates in our local campaign, while comparatively new here, has been tried in other places, where the possibilities have been Though too late to make use ; priate for the Twice Told Tales- She Was Flabbergasted, Dr, Charles H, Parkhurst in his witty war on cosmetics, sald In a recent lecture in New York: “A girl and & man sat under a palm in & rose garden on a Boft h evening at St. Augustine. * 8 your love true? the girl asked softly, ' ‘As true,’ the man answered in low, passionate tones, ‘as the delicate flush on your cheeks.' * ‘Oh—er—ah,' the girl stammere@ hurriedly, ‘lan't the—er—don't the roses smell sweet? "—Philadelphia Ledger. ‘The Platt Deutscher Vereln gave a May festival et Germania hall, largely attended, and with & num- ber of guests present from Council Bluffs. The af- fair was under the direction of the president, J. P. Land, and amon gthe distinguished visitors was J. H. Jaspar, the national president of the Vereln “The monthly weather report for April shows & range of temperature between 77 maxtmum degrees and 3 minimum, and that there were frosts on three different days, the last one being as late as the th. E. L. Stone and wife have retursed from a six weeks' trip to the south. Morris Greenburg of the Misfit Clothing pariers, went to Kansas City. Miss Ada Denban, a charming young lady from Clyde, O., is the guest of Mra, A. D. Davenport. Mr. B P. Browster of Grand Island, who has been visiting Louls Littlefleld, returned to his home. Cherries have made their appearance in the Omaha market, but they are asking 5 cents a quart for them. A new superintendent of the Omaha Gas works is Thomas L. Willams, who comes from Newark, N. J. point where a bank is forced by its enlarging bus'- | .They find, for 2, 191 SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT. Washington Post: Since Prof. Coburn has substantiated the biblical stories, it behooves the other side to get busy and dig up some anclent agnostic papyri Minneapolis Journal: Rev. Billy Sun day, the Unitarians and the anarchists are all going It at Paterson. Free speech 18 & great safety valve. Some mothers keep the baby quiet by allowing it to pound on a tin pan with a poker. Springfield Republican: A Methodist high chureh, or rather high church bufld- ing, is proposed by Rev. F. B. Upham to be erected next year on the site of “OMd John, Street church” in New York i ostebratBia of the 10th asniverdary of Methodism in the United States. An ar- tistic sketch has already been drawn by the architeots showing a thirty-story office bullding of Gothic style. Cincinnati Enquirer. ‘it is humiliating to me to confess that 200 ministers in Greater Cincinnatl must stand with hands down and walt for ‘Billy’ Sunday to come along and persuads God to take a hand in saving tho city. ‘Take $5,000 and epend it in your dafly papers in three weeks of advertising, and you wiil have a greater revival than ‘Billy’ Sun- day ever knew.' This was the point of the address of the Rev. T. W. Barker of the Old Taylor Street Methodist Epls- copal church of Newport, Ky., before the Methodist Ministers’ assoclation at Wiley chapel. Indianapolis BStar: The Rev. Julius Pteitfer, who has charge of the Patricks- burg circuit in the Northwest Indiana Methodist Episcopal conference, is mak- Ing good. Pteiffer {s using & brush and liberal quantities of paint. He has adver- tised himself all over thq, circuit. One of his familiar phrases §s: “T am on the job to stay: must see the thing through. If you want that soft, taffy kind of preacfiing, 1 am not the ran to give it to you. Ap long as I am here I am going to talk about a big God who has a broad, humanitarian platform, and who really makes folks do something.” % AROUND THE CITIES. New York authorities last year restored 1712 lost chfldren to parents. Kansas City's police départment dumped into the Missourl river $1,00 worth of cocaine dope. Spring school enrollment in Wichita totals 9,547 puplls, of whom 1,478 are en- rolled in the high school. Fort Worth, Tex., is bullding a mu- nicipal reservolr to cover 8,500 acres of land and hold 40,000,000,000 gallons of water, Bmporia, Kan., talks of declaring dandelions a public nusiance and penaliz- ing home owners who maintain the yel- low peril. - ‘Warren, TIL, & town of 1,500 people, has & woman mayor who walks to and from her office and disdalns a municipal limousine. Memphis is about to tackle sandbars in the river, and regards the much more difttenlt and expensive than banishing saloon bars. Jitney owners in Des Molnes offer a new one In protective bonds. to pay $100 each a year into a fund from which Hability damages shall be paid. Denver's first native born white m Thomas M. Skerritt, is dead at the of 55. He was a veterinary surgeon by profession, a bachelor, and lived all his years on the ranch where he was born. ns are moving for a 5-cent &us rate. The city owns the plant, which is operated under lease. The lease 1is about to expire and the present rate of $1 must come down before & new lease s secured. Des Moines merchants are considering ways and means ‘to dispense with the practice of delivering goods on approval. example, that party dresses are worn two or three times and then returned; that fine furniture serves for & gala occasion and comes back, and that full grown citizens tryout dress suits at banquéts and send them back to the shop without as much as a jitney for the use. T The mayor of Xenla, O, prohibited rolier skating in the streets. A councll- man and the secretary of the Business Men's club resolved to give the order a practical test. They did so, were ar- rested, found there was no drdinance be- hind the mayor and were released at once. The word spread so rapidly that in less than fifteen minutes the streets of the place were packed with skaters busily proving that theirs was the land of liberty, i SIGNPOSTS OF PROGRESS. Bweden will buy 120,00 tons of wheat s & food reserve. Desplte an, increase in the use of elec- trlolty, twenty-five factories in the United States are kept busy making in- candescent gas mantles. During the last two years United States forest officers have killed nearly 9,000 predatory animals, more than three- fourths of which were coyotes. ‘What will be the highest concrete struc- ture of the kind in the world is a rail- road viaduct being built in Pennsylvania, M2 feet above a stream and 2,30 feet long. More than $5,000,000 that would have gone in steamship fares will*be kept at home this year, and this is only an in- dication of the many millions Americans would spend In Burope if there were no war. It is so much added to our rail- roads. steamboats, summer resorts and stores. Bolivia should profit immensely by the British embargo on un. In that South American mountain republic are tin mines of a remarkable richness, and rail- road connection with the Argentire re- public. has recently been completed. These same mines Were producing for- tunes in sllver before the first Pilgrim landed in New England, Louls Follet, general manager, an- nounced that the Standard Tin Plate company of Washingten, Pa., had com- pleted arrangements for an addition to the company’s plant at Canonsburg, near here, which would double the capacity and give employment to 1,000 additionsl men. The exténsion will mean an in- crease in capitalization from $500,00 to $1,000000. It s hoped to complete ihe improvement within six months, Inquiry made by The Philadelphia Public Ledger among presidents of lead- ing rellroad “companies throughout the United shows that many of them are about to follow the lead of the Pennsylvania railroad, which has an- mounced that it will spend $38,000,000 in new equipment for its lines, east and west. Returns show that, including the Pennsylvania's appropriation, about $50,- 00,000 will be expended for betterment, yenewals and new equipments in this year on purchases already authorized, and that other railroads are watching for an upward trend before commitiing themselves, They agree | People and Events A St. Louls man has a bed of dan- dellons in his garden with blossoms as big as a silver dollar, but he gives them the highbrow name of ‘“Taraxacums,” which makes a big difference. The new president of the Swiss con- federation, M. Guiseppe Motta, will draw the munificent salary of $270 a year, a | salary of the mayor of Omaha. The antidope law has had the effect | ot crowding the asylums of Massachusetts and filling a waiting list. In most In- | stances inabiiity to secure the drug de- | veloped what the doctors call “deferred mental diseases.” The motor clubs of Bt. Joseph, Mo. have nalled these signs to highway posts | “SBafety First. Good Roads. Read the | Road Signs. Sane Motoring.” Good stuff, if heeded. Unfortunately those who speed & stout club, Seumas McManus, the soothering story teller of Donegal, says the Irish language contains 365 terms of endearment for Augaring sweethearts. To become pro- ficlent in handling the terms it is neces- #asy to make three pligrimages to the Blarney stone and five to the vales of Donegal, making sure to dodge Bally- hooly on the way. The Order of Sparta, a beneficlary so- ciety operating In and around Philadel- phia, presents a pathetic tragedy In localized assessment insurance. It was organized in 1870 and now has 2,100 mem- bers. To make up deficits and losses the monthly assessment has been raised to $12.38, which older members regard ae prohibitive. The worst feature of the management is the disappearance of a permanent fund intended to protect the insurance of members who pafd a higher monthly rate to secure a full-paid policy at the end of twenty-five years. These members have asked the oourts to insti- tute a search for the money. TABLOIDS OF SCIENCE. Artificial wood for matches is being made from straw by an inventive Frenchman. A Seattle inventor's life preserver re- sembles a diving suit In thag it completely envelopes a wearer and is| waterproof. United States naval cfficers have de- veloped a colored glass that render vis- ible the fumes from smokeless powder. Sugar exists not only in the ocane, the beet-root and maple, but also in the sap of about 190 other plants and trees, Dr. Pearl, poultry authority of Maine, says that a hen's egz is similar to the human skull with regard to variations in size and shape, The rarest plant in the world is the silversword, a epecies of cactus which grows only on the most inaccesible slopes of Hawalian voleanoes. A telescope with two parallel barrels, to permit two persons to ses the same object at the same time, has been in- vented by a Swiss opticlan. To guard against tree repalr fakers; or quick tree surgeohs, the Massachusetts |Forestry association will - Inspect the shade trees belonging to its members free of charge. . Powdered borax sprinkled around ma- nure piles at the rats of a teacupful to four bushels of manure will keep flies' eggs from hatching. For best results apply the borax with a flour sifter and then sprinkle liberally with water. fraction less than 5 per cent of the| don't read, and require the application of | CYNICAL MUSINGS. The widow's might may be the result ‘ |ot 1ong experience. Oceasionally & woman plays a practical | Joke on & man by marryving him. When it comes ts drawing conclusions, all women are natural born artists, Imagination is the sugar that swesten: life and wisdom the salt that preserves it | Perhaps the best hund a man can hold {in the game of life is the hand of m good woman, If you want anything done well, do | yourself. That is why most people laugt at their own jokes. It requires long years of practice te enable a man to fall in love and light on his feet It 18 no pleasure for A man to do as hq ploases until after he gets married— ’And then he can't | A man argues with a woman not be cause it does any particular good, but | because of the pleasure it atfords her. Probably the worst thing about rich | relations is the way they look down on | You because you are not rich enough to look down on them.—Pittsburgh Chroni- cle-Telegraph. - DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. “How did you stand your trip abroad™ “Oh, so-s0! Gained five pounds on the wiay to Naples, two pounds en rouite to Holland, broke even in Parls, and dropped £4 in London." il “Slow up a bit, my dear’” sald Mr. O'Beese to his slender young wife, who was walking too rapidly for him. “Re- member the proverb: ‘The more walst, the less speed.’ "—Boston Transoript. Mother (to son who has overslept)— You need a self-starter to get you up in_the morning. Son (sotto volcer~Not when I have a crank like you to get me going.—Judge. “You and your wife are always jawing when you are out.” ep. “But you become very loving when you draw near home. 1 suppose that is for_the benefit of us neighbors.' “Yep. allowed within a three-block limit uisville Courler- Journal. “You Insist on having everything you use made in America?’ “Ye answered the intensely patriotic citizen; “even most of my WAT news.'— Washington Star. Mr. Gotham—If you don't hurry up, dear, we'll be late for the theater. Mrs, Gotham—Why, you're not going to drive the automoblle down yourself, are you?—Yonkers Statesman. 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. Did you tackle the trouble that came our way, ‘With & resolute heart and cheefful, Or hide your face from the lmt of day With a oraven soul and fearful, Oh, trouble, a ten of trouble’s an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it. And it isn’t the fact of your hurt that counts, But only how did you take it? You are beaten to earth, Well, well, what's that; Come up with a smiling face, u'nflnotmns against you to fall down lat. to lie there, that's the disgra ® er you're thrown, the you'll bounce, Be proud of your blackened eye, It isn't the fact you're licked that But ce, The higher counts, - It's how did you fight, and why? And tho' you be done to &ulh. ‘what n, : If you battled your part in the world of “men Why, the eritic will call that d, Death comes with a crawl, or w‘-?gl with L, & pounce, . . But whether he's slow or spfy, Tt isn't the fact you're dead that counts, But only, how did you die? A Mason & Hamlin Piano Is the “Par Excellence” of Music in the Home Beautiful Both Grand and Upright—Price $550 and up. We sell the last word in Player Planos. We have the Kimball Player Plano $650 and up. The Hospe Player a The Hinze Player, $450 and and $10 per month, .m.“?as The Apollo: price $750 and up. Also the Boudolr Player A. HOSPE CO., 1513 Douglas t. The most modern In Detroit. ping district and within of all the theaters. attention. Hotel Griswold DETROIT and homellke Located in the center of the shop- Come where YOU will be properly taken care of at Reasonable Rates $1.50 and up. Furopean, Finest Musical program in the city; every evening. YOU will have MY personal hostelry short walking distance dancing