Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 3, 1915, Page 4

The Benefit of the Doubt. The rule of the English common law is that | every man accused of crime is presumed to be innocent until adjudged guilty after a fair trial by a jury of his peers, and that he is entitled to the benefit of the doubt if the evidence is in- conelusive. In the case of Leo M. Frank it is no longer a question of whether he has been legally adjudged guilty because the supreme court has beld, although with two dissenting judges, that the proceedings technically conform with the law, and that the verdict must stand. Aside from this, however, in the court of public opin- fon, Frank is still being accorded the benefit of the doubt, not only as to his innocence, but as THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSBEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor, BEP BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. Entered at Omaha postoffice as mecond-class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. y carrier By mall per month. per year .fle Dees 7 More Impertinent Questions. SOUTH OMAHA, May 1.—To the Editor of The Bee: Before the people of South Omaha vote $0,00 bonds for the use of the park board, a long-suffering public would like to see a statement of disburse- ments made by the board of the $15,000 they handled two ye: ago Before any more parks are bought the ones we now have ought to be fixed up in decent shape. The swimming pool in Syndicate park was such a nulsance last year that very few would shed any tears to see it destroyed, instead of building The Politiocal Caldron OBODY is asking for his money back. The po- { litleal show has satisfled the most fastidious | taste. The Innards of the dict:ionary have been torn out In an endeavor to extol virtus and expose vice. It has been a campalgn of enlightenment and heat, to say nothing of the plece de resistance, the new electrio Nght and power rate ordinance. Every phase of history, from George Washington crossing the Dela- ware to Edward Stmon crossing the Douglas street bridge, has been touched upon in this great educa- tional mofres, this political institute, The ramifications of a ofty campaign are as varied #s the winds that blow. The passions of men have been aroused. Men who have been considered desir able citizens In their own neighborhoods have been designated as fourflushets. One eandidate was called . 30e 2.00 Ange of address or complaints of Ilfl?'_ in delivery to Omaha Bee, reulation REM! A R, Remit raft, express 1 order. Only two- by & ox; nrwn-acrm‘h | - 1 f them ¥ cent ps Tecelved in payment 8- | to whether he really had a fair trial, and also 88 | & “devil in his own home town.” Such werds as | ANY more of ¥ mnu,"gnlu checks, except on Omaha and eastern to whether the supreme court should not have | “hypocrite” “llar," “coward,” ‘bunk,” “sexton of 4 So many rumors have heen circulated ¥ . not accepted. graveyard,” “boss-controlled” and “dern” have been | 2POUL the cost of the driveway In Syndi- OFFICES. entertained hig appeal from the ruling denying used with vehemence and frequence cate park, that taxpayers would be . Omaha—The Building. his application in the lower court. The all-most 1t will soon all be over. Politieal history again | Pleased to see an itemized statement 1 4 No Main street. important fact which has been generally over- | will have been written and men will return to thelr | #out “-m"":"‘ park """"'M'::‘ ""; : fidte, BlAing looked, is the declaration of the judge who pre- | Purtuits of pemce. The strident voice of ti political | MOney, em make & showing o what was done with the $15,000 they used two years ago SOUTH OMAHAN, spelibinder will be silenced And the good old world will resume its aplomb and the publlc mind will have to turn to such prosaie things as swatting the fly, slded at the trial refusing another hearing with | pulling dandelions, cutting the lawn, reading the base : this excuse: T have given this question long consideration Stom T ““"“fl‘m. avenue Bin 5°p, ok of Gt CORRESPONDENCE, n Tnslde of Riges mank Case. communications relating to has given me more concern than any other case I | ball seores and riding in jitneys. OMAHA, b, May 1.—To the Editor u mn. to Omaha Bee, 'flmw Wwar ever in, and 1T want to say right here that, al- of The Be The attached paragraph O —— S———————————— | {hough 1 heard the evidence and arguments during If the casual observer might take the campaign APRIL CIRCULATION, 4 53,406 State of Nebranka, County of Douglas, ss. ht Wiiliams, eirculation of The Bee Publiish| g Someay, being duly sworn, says that the v‘&“l clroulation for the month of April, 1915, was DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager Sul Presence and sworn to bef: n my el 0 Mo Vit N TR, Notary Publie. i ‘Subscribers leaving (he city temporarily Ghould have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- @ress will be changed as often as requosted. from The Bee seems to indicate that you have not had the latest news in regard to the Riggs bank case. The Los Angeles Times of a week ago today had an ex- clusive dispatch trom Washington telling of an Interview of Louls D. Brandeis with the president In which it (s told that the president was informed that his son- in-law, McAdoo, and Mr. Willlams had nothing to stand on and that he (Bran- deis) did not wish to g0 on with the case Unless there was more evidence than had been shown to him and that Wilson had taken charge of the Riggs' bank matter. I would suggest that The Bee get that copy of the Times. For re- member that it is that same bunch that has and continues to mistreat Omaha in the Kansas City Reserve bank matter, and which it is evident that they do not Intend to set to righ T. J. H. those thirty days, 1 do not know this morning whether Frank ie innocent or guilty. But I was not the one to be convinced, the jury was convinced, and I feel It to be my duty to overrule the motion. If the judge who heard the case was ip doubt as to Frank's guilt, although the jury was other- wise convinced, surely the doubt entertained by thousands or justice-loving citizens throughout the nation warrants them petitioning the gov- ernor of Georgia for commutation of sentence, which can in no way impair the majesty of the court or the supremacy of the law, ' managers at thelr words, there will be fourteen in- #tead of seven candidates elected tomorrow. IListen ““The big six will be elected,” saye Chairman utton. *“The square seven will be elected,” declares Chair- man Flynn. And éven the political orphan says he expects to be elected. The republican committes main- tains seven republicans will go in. Somebody is mis- taken, that's all. Difference of opinion makes horse rices and political campaigns interesting. It would siso seem to the uninitiated that some bitter estrangements have been made during this cam- paign. It would appear that Mayor Dahiman hates the very ground upon which Chairman Sutton walks. Yat after the eampaign is over the mayor and the Judge will probably meet on the street and, perhape, the mayor will ask the judge for a ¥, or the judge will ask the mayor for a pipe of tobaceo, tor a job in the city legnl department. battle, after all. through lifée all they say about one another. politics, — The Politics of Non-Partisanship. Nonpartisanship i¢ always the slogan by which minority party candidates for office seek preferment or power which they otherwise could not possibly hope to secure, But nonpatrtisane ship in office and nonpartisanship in seeking May 3 * Thought for the Doy Selacted by Mrs. W. R. Matthews “Awh::hmmlhtq.oo‘w" It's The G. A. R. Encampment for Omaha The campaign has developed a crop of orators, just | OMAHA, May 1.—To the Editor of The hh"d? ;nl office are two distinct things. Making local 8p- | 4y predicted. John Riné, for the administration | Bee: It does not appear to be very well Forned grot— plication, and talking about it without dissem- | foroes, gave evidence that he did not go to school in | known that Omaha has a splendid op- The vericst school bling, our ‘‘nonpartisan’ commission plan of | Fremont for riothing. He was one of the best speakers | portunity to securs the encampment of in school at Fremont and during the last few weeks he learned how to pluck the colors from the rainbow and fashion them into alluring word pictures. He talked until he had to quit, but only becausehis throat Eave out on Saturday. the Grand Army of the Republic for 1m6. The Omaha Real Estate exchange at its last meeting appointed a committee con- sisting of W. H. Green, Frank H. Myers of Benson & Myers, George T. Morton of Harrlson & Morton, Georsge Lasbury and George G. Wallace to investigate the wisdom of inviting this great body to meot with us. On investigption this com- mittes has come to the conclusion that the facts set forth by representatives of the Grand Army of the Repbule are all backed by the history of these con- ventions in the past. The committes has recommended to the exchange that the various elvic bodies of the city wet to- gether and present s prompt and hearty invitation for this meeting next year. city government has fn fact given us for the last three years a democratic machine entrenched in the city hall. It has done this by virtue of the fact that a majority of the seven commissioners are nonpartisan democrats, and where the bal- ance of political power lies, lies also the mat spring of political activity. We do not ssy the city hall would be free from partisanship it republicans were in majority, but what lcense have the democrats to dominate and use for partisan advantage the government of a eity like Omaha, among whose voters they are in striking minority? Tnasmuch as one political party or the other is sure to control, The Bee does not hesitate to express the wish that the outeome of the im- OF peace; and yet the fool Contends that God is not— Not God, in gardens, when the eve {s eool? Nay, but I have a sign; " Tis very sure Qod walks in mine." Thes. B. Browne. Tomorrow each side wili make the final effort to enlist & following for their respective causes. Get- ting out the vote is just now the chief concern. Tha antls contend that the larger the vote is the better will be thelr chances, but Chairman Tiynn of the square seven declares the antis have no chance at all. The mayor says he s going to throw the antls into the deck on Tuesday. The antis say they will hold & clean-up day festival, == Colon’s perfod of stress is on. A $2,000,000 fire (" & serious setback to a warm community, Voters who fail to do r duty on Tuesday forego ‘every valld excuse for kicking if mu- micipal affairs don't go to suit them. — Clean-up time ia not limited to & men or,to & polli 1 or {0 & dey or & week. It The campalgn has increased the popularity of Strest comer oratory. Men, who a few years ago would have frowned upon the idea of cart-tail speak- ing, jumped into the fray and added to the “tumult and the shouting.” The omoe dignified judge and the i & und, & few handeful of shrapnel, but both are | It asain. Denver has had it twice and i 1 yuns wand, able to be About and the political nurses report their i e e o B S Bt ¥ times. Los wants it although Seen they have had it before, and so with a ‘made this number of otber cities. The meeting is tion.. Our not going a-begging. Fortunately, for bers of soldiers after the civil war lo- cated in this reglon, and we ought to bring the encampment, once at least, £ £ thetr ible. - Fo with transportation peace as- | " ho persistence of the yellow pest is equalied O Sghe 40 008 Shaep 0 vimils . e the year, an that is one factor In the | 1, nature by only one thing, the English spar- sents the most central location. How- row, wkich is even more useless. The fecundity of the Nebraska soil makes the task of eradi- cating the dandellon one of stupendous propor- The eternal application of all known remedies by everybody is the only available solu- tion. The problem is compliosted by the care- | less man, who is willing to let his lawn go to waste, and who allows the weed to bloom and ripen and scatter its seed over his neighbor's plot, thereby nullifying all the effort the careful man has put forth. A '~ The Civic League's Garden club plan for a campalgn against the yellow nuisance is a goofl one; swat the dandelion es well as the fly, but the swatting must be perpetual in order to win. And we always have with us the comforting knowledge that trom the middle of December until the middle of April we have very little trouble with either of these pests. —— try, Des Moines for ome, are asking for this meeting. The cost of such a gathering is in no It will not cost to territory to be an- . ‘may not be permitted in the political game this time, but ds much fun as any of us pay that amount. Neither will the size of the city be a great handicap with our known hospitality and our improved ho- tel facflities. We are in better position to take care of this convention now than Bt. Paul was when she had 300,000, or Denver was at her first’ meeting, or Columbus, or Toledo—much better than Salt Lake or Chattanooga. What other cities of our class have done Omaha should do if we expect to Set the crowds, as we say we do, Let's 80 after it, and let's 3o after it right GEORGE G. WALLACE, e are composed . , full of wisdom," is neatest specimen of political neutrality pro- wed in the campaign. Moreover, the author ' no risk of prosecution under the “anony- cireular act.”” ‘ —— . The end of the war as a sporting proposition 15 quoted by London Lloyds at 17 to 1 to end by August 31, Even money 1s the wager that war will terminate before January 31, 1916. The figures are useful as showing the rout of guess- @rs of an early finish, Abstention d Longevity, OMAHA, May 2.—To the Editor of The Bee: On April IT you published & synop- #ic of an address by Arthur Hunter on “Insurance and Longevity,” delivered by him at the annual meeting of the Asso- clation of Life Insurance Presidents, a ©copy of which I have before me. The address is excecdingly interesting, even though the deductions drawn by Mr. Flunter from his mass of statistics may only bd partly correct, because an ele- ment of uncertainly necessarily enters iote a large per cent of death cases when determining the real causes of death, especially when considered in connection with the statements made by the insured a5 to his general habits, when he applied for insurance, as to the use of liguors in excess, their moderate use and total abstinence. » The extmot from his address says: “Beyond peradventure or doubt abstain- ers live longer than users of alcohol’” New Deal at the Penitentiary. Nebraska is just entering on another experi- ment in connection with the handling of labor at the state penitentiary. Hereafter, the conviets will work for the state, instead of for con- tractors. The new law simply shifts control, and scarcely affeots the comdition of the prisoner, The governor recommended to the legislature that some provision be made for th employment of prisoners on roads or other outside construe- tion work, but this was ignored by the law- makers, and the prisoners will be utilized in in- | dustrial operations carried on within the prison walls. The principal change is that the state will have to sell or itself use the output of its prison workshops, The Board of Control should “Hnay, triend.” sald the other. “Take all the time you want. Cast your eye over this bill of fare and Il phone the superintendent to hold the train a while." “Hold the train while I eat?" —— Congressman Gardner's attack of invasionitis does not respond to the treatment of improved Cap.Cod weather. His latest bulletin shows in- Creased irritation of the vocal membrane, The phantom Spanish fleets of seventeen years ago threw such a scare into Bay Staters that some Fattied nerves defy the healing fouch of time. e —— i carefully investigate the problem, and recom- PP 59 She Siane Sunduin 3 Caltfortie 1o the Ba0e { w0y ot M. Munter anle s oF foi of a mammoth, which sclentists say has been buried mend some comprehensive plan for MARAUDE | tnere for TR years. A sea serpent i the only thing | "o “In my judgment it has also been | eanviet labor to the next legislature. B Sy Py e Pu s ol gl that total abstinence from alcohol is of value to humanity. It is certain that Kk of incomparable Semeeppe——— Rallroad bullding in Alaska promises tq be the Kansas City Star that ‘ JOFR Sieuias fhen haline Phte Ben | b B e e e s 1 o e WHLMATS | Lonioses live Jestar ThAb. peraies Who as section bands in the west. A promising ...:.m_‘.t._uwn Leavenworth | Use alcoholic beverages. The low mor- R e oo, - o et 4 “strike” will stampede a copstruction gang as | accept the Inconvenience with patriotio fortitude, :;"..": '-_w M;::':; vl :: :‘: ook o \ kine.” | quickly as & five alarm rallies a erowd. Unlike A% & result of an undertaker's cut rate war at [ "0 2 Prgrige Beenbud . A. Paxton returned home from the west | 1D WeStern roads, the government cangot re- | B Centro, N. “-mh"l'fl dead will bo decently w"'“"w.._ physical well being." rugged and sunbrowned. erult its forces from Chinese and Japanese, The | 'tlerred for the m RS .5 Sea cant mest It would seem that conveys a some- what differest meaning from the ab- breviation published by you. At the same tme there are eminent authorities who would challenge Mr. Hunter's conclu- sions that abstainers lve longer than persons who use alcoholic beverages which the county promises to pay. The undertaker @oes not care for the money, but needs the exercise. Old-time fiddler contests are enliventug life in Texas. Challenges carrying the big defi are putting rosin. and pep Into the sporting extrms of the Lone Star State. If the fiddlers wield the bow as vigor- ously a» they talk for publication, nothing short of & llee is 1o be special traveling agent for the & M. with headquarters in Omaha famous Nebrasks bandit, was @t 4 o'clock for the east. Guards have rented Williams' the public Mbrary, as a yellow race (s a searce article in Alasks. ——— In welghing the words of forelgn oritics of American neutrality allowance must be made for the irritation of disappointed hopes. Results thus far have not come up to the expectations of he to concrete bridge will hold the catgut moderately. e oot o e, ageht are ex- | either wide, sad the pen wielders, unable 10 1ab | * Oppartunity 1d not have to peah {he button o sec. | MNP Hunter himself, a little further on, A e} Mowance mcrs | the enemy, ease the preasure by swatting the | end time At the office of the lats Joha Cudehy of Gnp. | #4Y%: "It s probabie that amons (hess . It h ago. Tt is more likely opportunity was met half way The men are complatning sno :""”l! "‘:::‘l'l 18 & harmiees diversion | A5 Tt i iy oy 2t ey | for unbalan; the speculative dadh, whiich does successful team work Aoyl R with foresight. One year he was & six-times million- | Immoderately; but among those who took ] Japan is charged with a desire tor “‘a place in | ajre, the next year the fortune was out and he [ more than & slass of whisky or .te the sun." Nipponese ambition is not 30 bound. | was $1.,500,000 in debt. Then Cudahy down and less. For the present the role of stepmother for | PM3 off .":' “"I .‘: five years and died & rich man. the Son of Heaven will appease the brown men. ever, other cities In this part of the coun- immoderate extent.” Yet in the dedus- tions from his statistics thess would be classed with the very moderate users, 1. e, the results of the immoderate use would be charged up to the moderate use. That certainly prod@ces an plement of uncertainty. The object of Mr. Hunter's address be- fore the life insurance presidents ap- pears on the title page of his published speech, and reads as follows: “‘Effect of alcoholic beverages, overeating, eating, social diseases and occupation upon length of life as disclosed from scle entific investigation of 3,000,000 insured lives.” Therefore, he classes overeating with excessive' use of lquors. There 15 another serious defect in de- ductions based on such statistics, and that is the temptation of the averags ap- plicant for insurance to misrepresent in answering the questions propounded to him as to his personal habits. Thus an applicant who may use liquors exc fvely may speak of himsel! as a moder- ate drink @8 otherwise he might be declined as a poor risk. The result fs that statistios referring te moderate drinkers are often gathered from men who use llquor to excess, but who con- ceal that fact It is, reversely, ltke men answering for a crime who try to minimize their pun- ishment by clalming that they were drunk, although the probabilities are that they were entirely sober. Mr. Hunter's conclusions do mot coin- cidé with the findings of other investi- gators along those lines. While all agree that the excessive use is injurious and shorten life, there are many eminent authorities who insist that moderate us- ers are better insurance risks than total | abstainers. The Coliective Investigating Committee of the British Medical Asso- clation shows by elaborate tabular rat- ings and comparisons that the average ago of strictly temperate drinkers is 62.13 years; while that of total abstainers is only 61.22 years. The report explains, however, that the difference may be partly due to the fict that most total abstainers are men of low vitallty in the first place. Dr. Arnold Lorand, the famous Aus- trian physician, of Cerlsbad, Bohemia, does not recommend total abstinence. He tells us that care, worry, grief and sor- TOW cause more premature old age than all other agencies. He speaks of meeting & robust boatman on the Island of Capri | fy. (taking wine probably twice a day reg- ularly)-a man in the $0's—who aston- ished him, so vigorously did he handle the oars. Asked how he managed to keep s0 young., the boatnian replied “‘Sempre allegro” (I am always merry), That {s the secret of the fountain of youth divuiged by the sclentists. .\Total abatainers are scldom of the merry kind FREDERICK A, SEDLACEK, M D. under- || MIRTHFUL REMARKS. | — [, “1 aheink from the ordeal” she satd, |but there was triumph in her volce = | The lady was m«nn.hnnn -Iun:nfln A reduce her flesh, and the scales ha shown that she had sloughed off thirty | pounds.—Judge. Randall—Delanay is very gloomy-sars he doesn't care how soon he dies Rogers—Then he ought to consult a specialist.—TAfe. | “How many peopte were at the meeting t might?’ asked the wife ourteen, replied the man in the case, What kind of mesting was it, dear? “Ob, & mass-meeting. —Philadelphia Ledger. “That's why we can't afford it.*~fous. |ton Post | worth Tiving until somebody has evolved the boneléss shad.”—Baltimore Amerfean. MOVING PICTURES. On Farnam strest, where Sixteenthh joins, one dl{ I idly watched the masses on their And as one waking, slowly comprel . 1 k?e'l dthns for my life-long, well-trled riends, Wh3, from the world of fiction strayed away, (Efcaping from the printed page, that with resemblances 1 did not dare to speak, A.ndfl acarce belleved so many years had 0 wh, For Dickens, Scott and Hawthorne must have known These self-same folk. They were all here, d_more: es, and Pickwicks by the core; Good Don Quizote, without lance or shie Rough Robert Burns and gentle Eugene eld With all their characters. Then ‘nng Tim And Jenny Wren cume by with Sunny im; |'Then Scrooge and David Harum with a Priest; est; Then Mr.'Opp and Beauty and the ' Perlmutter and Abe Potash, come to Hifo; And then v\or Mr. Caudle with his wife; Anddenn al Jean with Cossette by his side; Then Bdwin dear, and Angeline, his bride; And Sary fl-mg‘ d Betsy Prigg In tears; And‘ Marys, arthas, Clara Vere de ey erea; Shy Minnehaha, too, and Susan And surely that was Ary, Joe and T: Gay :le.llnmord and Blackie Daw, his pard; And Elolse without her Abelard. ere were they all, our friends, the saints and crooks, To make the characters of future books. From every walk of life they came, to meet On equalizing plane, the public street, whr;rzlv‘ ‘an‘ch. engrossed in his own sel- fish lot, To Jjostling stranger gave no second thought Though ‘twould bring smiles and tears if thew had seen These self-same pictures on a movie ~JAVID. me - BUSINESS ‘‘LOOKING UP” The heart beats of ing stronger daily. of your trade by’ business are grow- Hasten the revival WESTERN UNION Telegraph and Cable Service. It stimulates sales, accelerates the decision of customers and hastens the flow of merchandise. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO. last year in the —we have increased cated by buil into }9!5 new toughening process wear-resisting quality. This process also means Vacuum Cups, thus Though thi t avernge was rolled up on heavy cars in ¢ mo‘i:i-lAuwIka Club of America test of strictly stock Penasylvania Oilproof VACUUM CUP'TIRES the mileage assurance indi- far greater wear in the heavy y sbility to elminate skidding on wet or greasy pavements. 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