Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 26, 1915, Page 6

THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1915 _—-—M OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. A ek by | VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. | Ll B bt oirbitdbtlelobint iAo | The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. [ st o U mplaints of &nunlun AXpress t of small S ehcens, aRcent on Omaha and eastern aocepted. OFFICES. The Bep Building fi Omana—B(s N street. m%l: North Main atrest. Efi# e Bt 3 Memit by drafe, cent wounts. ncil CORRESPONDENCE, B R T Ctaane Ben, Haomgl Topuriment APRIL: CTRCULATION, 53,406 i Nebraska, County of Douglas, s».: wight Williams, circulation manager of The Bee Pul y, being duly sworn, nts that the '&T" for the month of April, 1915, was WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. nmgrln ltny presence and sworn to before UHoWBRT HUNTER, Notary Public. | Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as requestod. Of all the relgning monarchs, King Ak-Sar- Ben alone lives up to his peaceful smile. SEmmssw————— Let no loyal subject of King Ak-8ar-Ben walt to be drafted. Step up to the recruiting oifice and volunteer. SEsrm—— “The greatest good for the greatest number” i the vitalizing force of the merger movement. Push it along. —— What the Germans think of the Itallans does not look well in print. But it's a fair guess that it's reciprocal. — The one thing Italy still needs to keep it in the center of the front page is a good old-fash- ioned eruption of Vesuvins. — Come on, Mr. Electric. Lighting Company. 1f you want to do the fair thing by your patrons ‘in Omaha, as you say you do, do it now, b——— Considering the task of translating Moslem s into the common lingo, the Turks great proficiency in drawing the long bow. ot another war bulletin to the ‘campaigning is doomed to become a lost art. Sssep— 5 rule for Ireland will continue “up in The World-Herald has endorsed The Bee's on the electric lighting company for its _ promised rate reduction regardless of the pend- ing litigation in the courts. The fake 6-cent reformer would rather have consumers continue subject to excessive charges in order to furnish munition for public agitation. Spmreme— A genulne pot of public money is involved in the question of the legal residence of the late Alfred G. Vanderbilt, who perished on the Lus- ftania. New York and Rhode Island are rival claimants, Inheritance taxes ranging from $1,600,000 to $8,000,000 constitute a prize that insure a spirited legal battle & distinguished party including Mr. and Mrs. ©. Milles, Mr. and Mrs. Whitelaw Ried, the lattcr Selng Mr. Mills' daughter, on their way to the Pa- cific coast. W, H, 8. Hughes Las been ciected cashler of the entertainment given by the children of St. Pat- #chool on South Thirteenth street, presented oalled, “Lallla,” with the arts assigned to Kennedy, In’:.:uh. Nora McAuliff, Katle Katie Rush, Broderick, Susan Quealey, MeMillan and Willlam Dally. of M, Pattes have been sentelman will make A % | 1 J. that : | il zr receipt w/ a proposition lease the old base ball the city for & mar- it l i Bt. Mary’ -y Himebaugh & trip to E#fope. Clncinnat! to attend St & North and South Am The Pan-American Financial congress, in session at Washington, is one of a series of conferences that have been held during the last three decades, looking to the establishment of closer and better business relations between the countries of the two continents. The purpose of these gatherings is good, and the conferences ought to be productive of beneficial results, but they cap only be fruitful when properly fol- lowed up. The greatest to closer relations between North and South America has been the fact that to a great extent the countries are all engaged In the same trade, that of selling to the world products of farms and ranges. This has prevented a very general interchange of commo- dities between them. The United States has been a good customer of South America, but has not been able to sell much there, practically nothing in proportion to what the trade ought to be, If established on a reciprocal basis. Ina large measure this is due to the lack of such fiscal arrangements as would properly accom- modate the possible commerce, South America, like the United States, has been an extensive borrower in recent years, the industrial development of the several countries down there, calling for the investment of large sums of money. These loans have generally been made in Europe, which has furnished most of the capital for the extension and carrying on of South American enterprise, England and Ger- many being the heaviest investors. Now that the European financiers are no longer able to furnish the continuing supply of capital needed there, the South American field is opening to the United States. It we can find the surplus capital needed, and really have two to three billiong of money available for the purpose of expanding loans, the relations between the countries of South Amer- fca and the United States can easily be made closer. It is not a question of sentiment, but of dollars and cents. If the fiscal factor can be properly developed, it will bind together in closer communion the peoples of the New World, and lead to the fulfiliment of a dream of many an ambitious statesman. Sea——— Welcome the New Recruit! The Bee extends the glad hand of welcome to the World-Herald as a new recruit in the campaign for Greater Omaha consolidation. The World-Herald truly says that “the best in- terests of Omaha and the surrounding commu- nities make it desirable that a full vote be polled in the annexation election,’” and that ‘“‘so far as the issue of forcible annexation is con- cerned, it vanished when the legislature of Ne- braska decreed that an annexation vote should be taken, and that the majority should rule.” Remembering how the World-Herald sought to put obstacles in the way of consolidation when the matter was up before the legislature last winter—how it insisted it was fighting for a ‘prineiple,” and that annexation without con- sent was “neither fair nor democratic’—how it denounced the referendum to the people of the entire community “as hardly rising above the level of subterfuge"—Iits conversion is now all cred! obstacle temporary to new i 8o we join and echo the expression of sober second thought: | “Let the annexation' issue, long a troublesome one, be settled once and for all on June 1, to the end that Greater Omaha may move forward unitedly to its deserved place among the great cities of America.” empei—— Drastio, but Deserved. * The Chicago judge who arranged to have the police raid his court room and arrest as vagrants the idlers who congregated there, drawn thither by the lure of prurience, deserves more than thanks. His action was drastic, but the penalty was fully deserved by those on whom it fell. One of the sad features of life is that morbid eurfosity will always draw a crowad to unseemly places, while the promise of anything salacious or meretricious is sure to be the signal for a jam. This tendency to evil is not peculiar to any people or community, but is not the less reprehensible and deplorable because of its prevalence. It may not follow as a result of the action of the Chicago judge that humanity will change its nature in this regard, but the unfor- tunates who are arraigned in the morals court over there will not soon again be called on to face such crowds as have made that court a scandal in the past. S— Proof of American Sincerity. The efforts that are now being made by the big meat packers of the United States to secure the relgase, of meat cargoes that have been in- tercepted and detained by Great Britain is nota- ble evidence of the sincerity of Americans in the matter of neutrality. These cargoes are consigned to dealers in neutral countries, but Great Britain seems inclined to take extra-ju- dicial cognizance of the fact that the shipments will ultimately reach German consumers, and in thi® finds reason for {ts interference. It is this factor of the problem that gives the United States basis for its complaint that Great Britain has without warrant interfered with traffic be- tween neutrals. Berlin Is fully aware of the efforts that have been and are being made to maintain traffic between the United States and Germany. Owing to war conditions, it has been impossible to reach a German port for any purpose, and traf- fic must be carried on through the only neutral countries open, Scandinavia and the Nether- lands, That a considerable trade has passed this way is proven by the great increase in exports from the United States to these countries, espe- clally to Holland. Great Britain is aware of this also, and has pointed out that the supplies sent to the neutrals along the North Sea and the Baltic are far in excess of their requirements, leaving the Inference very plaln that the true destination of the goods is Germany. The United States has acted with marked impartiality in the way of maintaining the strictest of neutrality, and has insisted with equal vigor that the rights of neutrals be re- spected. From Washington comes assurance that no effort will be omitted to preserve the freedom of traffic between neutral ports. SEEm— There are other differences between the United States and Europe at the present time, but the main one s the difference between con- struction and destruction. now | Aimed at Omaha Martington Herald: At that amiable and cheerful convention of dentists held at Omaha, we observe that one great specialisy from Chicago is going to speak on the interesting subject of “pyorrhea and prophy- laxia.’ This is a subject that has often occurred to | us when we were sitting in a dentist's chair, but we have never been able to find just the right words | to express it. Pyorrhea and prophylaxis! Yes, that 18 the right idea, all right. of it before Lincoln €tar: Dundee has made provision to take on much expensive public improvement before Omaha absorbs It, knowing that the amalgamated city must pay the bill. As a rule the June bride's trousseau Is pald for before the nuptials occur. Howells Journal (Dem.): The Nebraska republi- cans did the graceful thing at their get-together meet- ing held at Omaha a few evenings ago when they passed a resolution endorsing President Wilson's po- sition relative to the Furopean situation. It is well to remember that we are all Americans first and that back of our president stands the whole nation as one man. Beatrice Bxpress: The Omaha Auditorfum Is about to be made municipal property and as a result the city fathers are having a hard time explaining to their many friends and election helpers why they can- not all be made managers. Hastings Republican: That Omaha meeting of re- publicans made it quite plain that the leaders of that party are doing their best to unite the varlous fac- tions to, If possible, bring about a stronger party or- ganization in this state. It was noticesble that some leaders took every occasion to suggest that ““there was room enough in the republican party for both Roose- velt and Taft.”” This all indicates that the trend is toward a meneral compromise to permit Rooseévelt to again take a leading hand in directing the affairs of the party. Just to what extent all these efforts will succeed remains to be seen. It is pretty safe to assume that the Nebraska republicans will do thelr ry best to line up the party for an offensive cam paign. Tincoln Journal: The recent gathering of republi- can chieftains In Omaha had its inspiration in an effort started at Washington by former Senator Bourne and others to reunite the party for the next presidential campaisn. As a preliminary a publicity bureau has been started at Washington, and J. B. Haynes, who is an Omaha professional at the pub- licity business, seized upon the opportunity to line up Nebraska with the national organization. Most of those present were members of the Taft wing of the party, and it Included some gentlemen who do not resent being called standpatters because that ex- presses their position in politics. While the Roosevelt supporters were not very numerous at the meeting. there were enough of them to give it the appearance of a harmony gathering. Democrats were particularly Interested, because they have reason to fear a united republican party in Nebraske, especially with th democracy dlvided as It Is now. The democra frankly admit that the only time they have a first class chance to gain a sweeping victory in the state is when they catch the republicans fighting among themselves. Therefore, If the republicans can again unite, the hopes of a number of ambitious democrats will suffer certain eclipse. Omaha politiclans view the gathering from varying angles. One spoke of it as “an honest, sarnest effort on the part of republicans who have won their spurs as leaders to cement the party by & conference between those who have lately been fighting each other instead of the de: cratic organisation.’”” Another referred to it as “an effort of men who have lost their grip in politics to gain control of the organization again and dictate policies that are at veriance with the predominant sentiment of the party In the state.” " ‘'Twioce Told Tales One from Mother. A Chicago matron of great beauty called one day upon & friend, bringing with her her I10-year-old davghter, who promises to be as handsome as her mother, . ocallers were shown into a room where the friend had been recelving a milllner and many h wero scattered about. During the conversation the 10-year-0ld amused herself by these on. She was particularly pleased by the effect of the last one. Turning to her mother she said: “‘Mother, I look just like you now, don't T?* “Sh!" cautioned the mother, with uplifted finger. “Don't be vain, dear."—~New York Times. More Preclious Than Life. One American with the legion was telling me a Zouave battalion that was fighting In the same part of the line with him, and at a charge of the Zouaves the commandant suddenly cried out, “Lie down," as & hall of German shells came over them. They all dropped but one. < “Nom de Dieu, lle down!" the lieutenant calone! called out, furiously, to the one man. This Zouave tapped his large pocket and called back to his chief: “Mon Heutenant, I can't; I've got a quart bottle full of wine In here and it hasn't any cork in it."— Boston Journal. His Good Advice. Some time ago Smith was rambling downtown when he met Jones. Jones was deeply buried in thought and seemed to be oarrying a load of care. Naturally Smith wanted to know why. “It is this way," explained Jones. “I can marry & wealthy widow for whom 1 do mot eare, or a poor young girl whom 1 love dearly, For the life of me 1 can't decide what to do.” “It strikes me,” handsomely advised Smith, “that in A case of that kind you ought to follow the dicta of your heart. Obviously it is your duty to marry the poor young girl" “You are right! 1 know you are right!” happily exclaimed Jones with a relieved expression. *T shall marry the poor young girl." “Fine!” commented Smith. “Now, thenm, if you have no objeotion, I would like you to give me the address of the wealthy widow."—Philadelphia Tele- graph. People and Events New York's street traffic fog-day signal consists of tall officers togged in white raincoats. White can be seen farther in a fog than any other color, Very properly the first American to be awarded the Franklin institute gold medal was Thomas Alva BEdison. The medal was bestowed in Philadelphia last week. A New Orleans girl who claims to have six millionaires “on the string’ vouchsafes the opinion that they all talk foolishly. Possibly the golden pros- pect prevents her seeing the josh. The master bakers of Illinols announce the coming of & new appetising joy—a combination of canned eggs and three weeks old bread freshened up to look and taste as though just from the griddle. If perform- ance comes up to the advance notice, scoffers will have no reason to flout the edibility of bread from Ramises’ tomb. The Galveston Daily News carries its readers back to the so-called “sood old days” by lasuing & fac- simile of the elghth number of volume |. printed April 18, 1842 It is & novel souvenir of anclent newspaper days In Texas—a mere handbill of four pages, each #x12 News and comment occupy less than & page, enlivened by & Yankee poem extolling the iInternal raptures of baked beans. Editorially the anclent ews comments on the strained relations of the United tates and Great Britain over the freedom of the sea. “In the present crisis of affairs,” says the writer, “Uncle Sam has but one course to pursue, and that is to fight. John Bull is eager for it, for he has al- ready forgotten the drubbing he received some twenty odd years ago for attempting the same tricks that he is now trying to play, and which he will continue at until he gets another thumping.' Strange we never thought | The Pees effer A Jerry Moward Bulletin, OMAHA, May 24.—To the Bditor of The Bee: Plense glve space in your great paper—that has done so much for & greater Omaha—for the subjoined 1 want to appeal to my South Omaha friends tc make good u promise or declar- ation made by at Lincoln that two | out of every three of South Omaba's citizens were for consolidation. There- fore it is my most earnest desire that you go to the polls and do your duty, thereby proving by your action that my faith in you proved true. You are to have a change of officinls, consequently | 1 wish to call your attention to the caliber of the men who are to govern | you. By way ot fllustration 1 shall cite one commissioner to prove my point— particularly to the working class Two decades ago there was a great strike on. a gattling gun was placed on lower N street and inartial law was declared. The then chief magistrate of your city along with other nobobs of the town now opposing annexation, sneaked up to Omaha and slded by the packers scullions insisted that the militia should come to #hoot the strikers down. Commiseioner John C. Drexel was then sheriff and he protested against bringing the militia, but his protest was all In vain, for the powers were too great to overcome. Posaibly all the commissioners do not look good to the laboring class, but if such g the case who is to blame but the laboring man for not being on the alert? However, it is & notorfous fact that ever since the foundation of South Omaha to the present the officlals there were only | bell hops to the corporations and I know whereof 1 speak. 1 most earnestly appeal to the old guard, those who stood the slege of the gattling gun, the shotgun and the pleck bandle brigade during the great strikes of 150 and 194 to do their duty as in days of yore, thereby making it possible to get rid of the servile tools of the cor- porations for ever and for ever. JERRY HOWARD, Good Work—Push it Along. COLUMBUS, Neb, May %.-—To the Editor of The Bee: 1 read with much interest your editorial regarding forestry work in Nebraska and noticed that you have not recelved a copy of the report of the MNebraska commission on foresta- tion. To supply the deficlency I have sent you under separate cover a copy of the report. It 1s certainly very sratifying to the commission ang will help our work im- mensely to have your influential paper advocate a forestry policy similar to the one outlined In our report. We may hope now, after your great paper has shown the way, that the country press will also take up the work and will in course of time educate public opinion sufficlently to cause the next legislature to take initial steps for the beginning of this important work in Nebraska. CARL ROHDE, Chairman Etato Forestration Commission. me Memorial Day, SOUTH OMAHA, May %.—To the Pdl- tor of The Bee: It is strange to me that when the thirtieth day of May falis on Sunday that the Memorial day cere- monies are not carried out on that day, 1 feel that Governor Morehead made a mistake In calling it a holiday. It is a day set aside as a memorial to the heroic men who battled for the life of this great republic when it was assaulted at the hands of traitors and who saved its life through deeds of valor performed on many a battlefield. The day set aside to their memory by General John A. Logan should be called a8 it was meant to be from the first, a memorial day instead of a holiday. When I was a small boy just after the close of the war, one time the thirtieth day of May fell on Sunday and the memorial ceremonies were carried out on that day and were attended by countless numbers of people. Many of the greatest battles of history have been fought on Sunday, including many that have been fought by the troops of this country and 1 should think it would be in keeping with the meaning of the day to decorate the graves of the soldier dead on the day set aside for that purpose, whether it occurs on Sunday or any other day of the week. A It is different from Sundays when Christmas, New Year's and the Fourth of July occur, for those days are holl- days In the true sense of the word, but & day dedicated to the memory of the heroes of the republic cannot be and should not be considered a holiday. My hope s that this will .be considered by those In power and that when another Memorial day occyrs on. Sunday, that the memorial ceremonies will be held on that day and that no governor will ever again refer to the most sacred day In the life of this republic as a holiday, for it tends to cheapen the day in the eyes of those who do not know personally of the sacrifices and sufferings of the dead defenders of the life of this republic. F. A. AGNEW. Feela Himaself Needlessly Belittied. OMAHA, May 2 —To the Editor of The Bee: An article in Sunday's Bee en- titled, “Omaha Ttallans Are Not Going to Join Home Folks in the War" in which your roporter states that I was reading the sporting page of your paper and offering to bet a fellow worker that Omaha would win the championship this year, has been called to my attention and I desire to sav that the same is absolutely untrue. It is true that a re- porter called at my place of business and asked if any of the barbers engaged in that shop (three in mumber) were goinz to war and was simply answered that they were not. T do not believe this in- formation justified him making the com- ments upon the country of my birth which follow his report of his visit. The war is not a subject of jest from my viewpoint and should not be used by nowspapers to belittle the large and growing colony of Italians In this city FRANK VACIRCA, 416 North Sixteenth Street EDITORIAL SIFTINGS. Boston Transcript: The spectacle of Mies Jane Addams in Berlin trying to in- duce the kaiser to stop the war goes a long way toward confirmating the theory that woman has no sense of humor. Pittsburgh Dispateh: John D. Rocke- feller, jr., is again testifying at an in- vestigation. What was that Solomon sald about wisdom and grief? It would seem more appropriate in these days to say that in much money there are many sub- poenas. - Loulsville Courter-Journal: The Ameri- can volers select their ruler, and dis- charge him if he proves unsatisfactory. Buropeans, with a few exceptions, have to accept any homicidal maniae who in- herits the throne, and must help him at his murdess. SUNNY GEMS. AMERICA. ; — - The Father—I shall ablde by whatever Conrad Alken, in the Outlook. daughter decides We lay and smiled, to see our sky Buitor—Fine! She says she'll marry | 8o biue, so luminous with sun: me If you'll supply the necessary money' | Lo, far off, walled an ominous crv; Philadelphia Ledger We heard a thunder of footsteps run pe i | A | Under a darkness settiing there, ‘Our engagement was most romantic g . il ' 1 was treveling with her party st the | Some huge and sinister winge ecfipse oke d east; & baleful glare time, and 1 proposed to her in the far [Smoke fouled the east: | mml‘medl“” Lightened beneath west on the edge of a_mountain gorge ‘Oh, suppose she had thrown ¥ou|m,qu yp that ery, while darkness stirred over!"’—Baitimore American And heaved, and like a wounded thing - T | Bied, by the utterance of one word “The other peoble on the block are | “\yjich pade a myriad war-swords sing. sore on me,” sighed the tallor. “‘Say 1 have killed business on this side of the | what murderous shadows trouble so street. It {sn't my fault, though | Our summer dream? . The sun- vhat's wrong?' | ‘8o many men owe me who cross over to the other side when they come to my block." —Louisville Courler-Journal. o Brother to slay his brother rose, patriotic citizen ten | The shambles fell and from that gloom declaimed the orator | Came the hoarse-herded cry of those Who blindly massed to fight for room. light ceased A _sick and fetid wind came slow From the stale tenements of the east. ‘We owe this thousand thanka, of the legislature. ‘All right,” interposed the joker of the august body that many. “I move we appropriate Give us air! ‘~Judge. Room! The sunlight and the land for all Each lifted up a stifled face, A breathing nw«l First Villager—Hello, Aaron; hear And battered door, and beat at wall you've got married. What kind of match dld _you make? And surged against resurgent horde Second Villager—Well, neighbor, 1| For epace to sow his little seed. didn't do as well as | expected—but to| Lo, they would plow the earth with tell the truth, I don't think she aid sword, elther.—ldfe. Strew dead on earth that earth might — feed “With all this agitation, are you not afrald of the proletariat?”’ he asked. ‘No," replied the man who had made his pile in the war flurry, "“we drink only filtered water.'—Philadeiphia Ledger. And we—where now our summer bliss From the stale tenements of the east Stole fear lest we should come to this, And prove us brother to the beast. ROSS™OUTAW EAT MORE x M;Qg’\ SPAGHETTI What to Eat In Hot Weather EATS, heavy and greasy foods, should be eaten very sparingly during hot weather. They heat the system and tax the digestion. Faust Spaghetti ought to be indulged in during summer not only because it does not heat and is very easy to digest, but because it is also ex- tremely nutritious. It contains the rich gluten of Durum wheat, which is a blood enricher and muscle builder. There is practically no end to the ways that Faust Spaghetti can be pre- pared to make relishable eating. Write for free recipe book. MAULL BROS. A good follow-up for pipe-en q If you are one of those men who smoke a pipe daytimes and reserve cigars for the even- ings, go slow on heavy all-Havanas. They are too rich for steady diet. q Instead, smoke a few Tom Moores whose “modulated” Havana flavors are a safe wind- up for the day's smoking. Try the experiment and see Lrrris Tore 5¢ if we are not giving good advice. p ot ““They always come 5""7'..":.'.&:./..11“?: back for Moore"® Yes, It’s a Fact! Something is going to happen in Omaha. So, if you are a Booster for this city, don’t fail to read this space for the next few days, and, no matter who or what you are, it will be to your advantage and may mean your first step to prosperity. Don’t forget tomorrow! g