Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 29, 1915, Page 13

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR, The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. BERE BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEE H. Entered at Omaba postoffice as second-class m-u?_ TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION. By oarrier Ry mall per month. per year. and lu-hy..l 3 $6.00 ing and Sunde; e L Bee only. of change of in delivery to Bevarment. REM 'ANCE. Remit by draft, express or postal order. Only two- cent stamps nu&vfl in payment of 1 ae- counts, Personal checks, except on Omaha and eastern not accepted. address or complaints of Omana Bee, " Cireulation OFFICES. Omaha--The Bullding. South Omaha— N street Councll Biuffe—1{ North Main street Lincoln—! Buils Fotn-—1 Litte ng. B "ll 3 . Louls- 'w Bank of ‘om! o8, Washington—13 Fourteenth St, N. W. e itiaitind CORRESPONDENCE, ddress commaunications relati to new v APRIL CIRCULATION, 53,406 L i th. Cnrg‘l’! of Douglas, - it me, of ation manager of Bes 2o "E""-a.m::mm e mon| DW WILLIAMS, Circulation T, in mylzmon- and sworn to lore SERT HUNTER, Notary Publie. Subscribers leaving the oity temporarily «hiould have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as requosted. Thoupht for the Day Selected by ida Blackmore Noman or woman of the humbiest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure and good without the world’s being better for it, without some one’s being helped and comforted by the very existence o that goodness. — Phillips Breoks. It 16 the verdict of experts that the sofl of Nebraska cannot have too much rein. | Em——— © “Britaunia ‘rules the wives.” She also decorates the Toles in the bottom of the seas. i | p— Moral: l@_nm driyers tempted to speed up take heed 6f The. Bee's repeated warnings, ‘As a factor in ‘war, afr ralds would be ridic- ulous if their killing achievements were not so wtrocious. Rl ppe———— ' The reported capture of a cemetery by tha French supplies the last modern necessity of the war game. LR 2 = = (he Routh Americaa asalyse s the “ The more is out of poll: ays as much in differ- ‘the subject through AR a m;n:mu culprit is quite tracking &b unknown criminal | —— § " German hate has L Fobe by o meeting a: presidec over by Rev. Rev. G. M. Woodby, ‘Thurston, Edward Rosewater s Youns, W. & Wing, C. A. ® party of fishermen Of the Methodist Epis- = o " ‘::::hmh::: i problem that must now be met in some other w Itallans in Amerion. l The final entrance of Italy into the great Buropean war brings the Italian element | of our United States population to the fore- | | ground, and prompts inquiry as to the number | and distribution of our citizens or residents of | Italian birth. According to the census figures for 1910, the number of persons in this country born in Italy was 1,343,125, while according to the classifica- : tion of mother tongue the number was 2,098, | 000, being 6.5 per cent of the total foreign white stock. By this last measurement, the Itallans In this country are only one-fourth as numerous as those of the German mother ! tongue, who constitute 25.7 per cent of the total. It ig Interesting to note, too, that of the large cities of this country the Italian stock ranks first as having the largest representation among the foreign born population only In New Orleans, but is second in New York City, where Russia has the first place. In Nebraska the Italian born population as enumerated in the 1910 census was negligible except in Omahn, credited with 2,361 out of a total for the state of 3,799. | In recent years Italy has been one of the | principal sources of our immigration, last year (1914) actually leading all other countries with 283,738, and the preceding year being out- topped by Russia alone. Applying the obvious | ratio to the 5,058 of these immigrants who gave ebraska as their destination, it is safe to figure at least one thousand of them to have been Italians. The number of Itallan-Americans in this country, and their comparative recent exc- dus from the mother country, foreshadows a specially keen interest among them in the for- tunes of war that may come to Italy, — Legal Quibbling. Frequently efforts made by lawyers to secure the acquittal of men who are accused of high crimes are an affront to common sense, useful only as Indicating the extent to which an “expert” will go in the matter of distorting the law in his “defense” of a criminal. From Wyo- ming, for illustration, an appeal s perfected to the United States supreme court in behalf of & condemned murderer because of an error in the date on the indictment, a blunder so palpabie that it is of importance only bechuse it affords & technicality on which to base a quibble, In Nebraska the supreme court {s to review the proceedings by which a condemned murderer was convicted, the chief reason assigned being that a member of the State Board of Pardons was permitted to testity during the trial, the accused being a paroled prisoner at the time the murder was committed. During the course of a trial recently had in Douglas county the jury was asked to acquit a man accused of murder because he was held by the police, and because he was also accused of steali from freight cars, the plea being that it was only the polica | and the rallroad companies that wanted his con- vietion. Such efforts as these are not to serve, but to cheat, justice. In neither of these cases is tha innocence of the aceused alleged to prove a mis- carriage of justice; the whole fabric of the de- fense resting on some technical point involving & nonessential fact. Yet courts and law- | yers | in these practices wonder why necepta the lawyer's esti- Again are the generous people of the United States asked to come to tie relief of the suffer- ere from war. This time ft is Mexico that sends out the appeal, President Wilson, as head of ths American Red Cross, being asked to take meas ures for the assistance of starving people .in various parts of the southern republic. Of course, this appeal will meet with a ready and 8 hearty response from this country, and the destitute across the border will be given all heip | in thelr extremity. In no more impreesive or effective way could the mission of the United States be shown than in the provision of relief | for the victims of war. It is the deed that sup- ports the faith of our people in the genius of their institutions, - The United States stands for peacqy for all the world, with full opportunity for the enjoyment of all its privileges, pli- the contributions of its citizens to the mntryllm’mnolw- . ' Starting the Ferment. -~ Every now and then somebody in a commu- ‘nity gets busy with an idea. It may or may not Ue practical, and it may not be espectally popn- Iar, but ity champion never lets up in its advo- eacy. Perhaps he draws a few people to his support, but more than likely he gets himself set down as a pest, if not an actual nuisance. (His projéct.is passed over, while public attention 1w drawn to some newer or more attractive prop- -ositlon, .and the original enterprise is laid awa in the limbo of things undone and its projector ‘goes back 1nto the obscurity of his private life. 'But his effort was not in vain; he may have -falled _to. bring about exactly what he thought ought to ‘be dome, but he did sqmething of iu- finitely niore value. He started the ferment. | Through his earlier agitation he began a move- ment that makes itself felt in all the ramifica- tions of communal life. The mab with a notion is a good thing to have in & community, for he prevents stagnation. — One secure haven of the simple life is placed on the map by the declaration of the Dunkard sect against the use of automobiles by members, A diminishing multitude still clinging to the hope of salvation on foot will joyfully welcome the new recruits to their ranks. ——— i Now comes a Chicago judge deorying the game of golf as a waste of time and money, do- vold of courage and intellectually a screaming farce. The name of the indignant jurist is sup- preased out of respect for the profession much addicted to the game. Se—— 1t is too bad the legislature did not enact the THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, Mexico's Leaders TESSSS=_Casver Whitney in the Outlook. EXICO has now reached the third stage of the M cyele, and unless a powerful friend comes to its rescus a dictator is about due; but it will take a strong man to pull it from the depth of anar- chy into which it has fallen, and, unless it be Fran- cisco Villa, no one in sight appears likely to grow up to the task Oarranza bad his chance, and falled ignominiously Barren of executive abllity, though replete with a nimble pettifogxing spirit, he aroused the scorn and hatred of all Mexico outside of his immediate camp. That he is also stupld was clearly shown by his | patently envious and unreasonable attitude towards Villa, whose fealty he could have retained by fair conduct and unbroken agreement. Carranza could have brought peace to Mexico when first he entered the city in August, 1914, to confer with Carbajal who had been appointed provisional president on the flight of Huerta—had he been aught but an arbitrary vain obstructionist. of been faithful to the principles he continually boasts, a provisional government which the United States would cheerfully have recognized and encouaged could then and there have been encouraged The second Carranza occupation of siexico City, beginning in January, 1915, under General Alvaro Obregon, repeats the story of the first with slight variation; there {s the same search for money under cloak of hunting out the “enemies of the cause,’ the same reprisals, the same barbarous disregard of ol pueblo while posing as their champion, the same inithlessness 1o the very principles for which they claim to be fighting, the same arrogance of speech and conduct—ludicrous in its upstart braggadocio to the onlooker, but grievous to the natives who must endure and suffer its insolent and cruely unjust man- dater. Hoth Obregon and his “first chief” hate Mex- lco City and its people, who have gever opened their Arms to either of the two and loathe both of them for the misery endured under the thievery and domineering of the first occupation, Of the paltry creatures that the whirlgig of revo- lution has given temporary prominence from time to time in Mexico, Venustiano Carransa is the most pretentious and the least promising. Mirth-provok- | Ing he is, however, In his roller-chair capital, fulmi- nating dreadful threats nst Villa aa he pushes out of reach, now beckoning the forelgn diplomats Lo follow, anon proclaiming himself all of the law and the prophets, and ever lssuing manifesto after man- ifesto breathing solicitude for the working classes. Hulalio Gutierrez, ex-provisional president, like- wise ex-copper mine carpenter and roustabout, is to be taken no more seriously in pondering Mexico's tuture than was Pablo Gongzales when he broke from Carranza, proclaiming himself president from Pa- chuco, and remaining at that town, his men preying on the shops, h's officers upon the women, until he fled betore Villa tucio Blanco, another of the recent Carranza gen- erals, 18 to be taken even less seriously than Gutier- rez. Originally with Carranza and entrusted with the protection of Mexico City, he fled before the approach. Ing Zapatistas after glowing manifestos to the peo- ple of his unceasing and affectionate loyalty. e wandered around for a time outside the danger zono, and finally deserted Carranza for Villa because Gutlerres promised him' a place in his net—why, knowing the man, it would be hard to Having been offered a share in the new government Gutierrez was planning. Blahco deserted Villa as he had Car- ranza. In his point of loyalty either to principle or chief, . those two are well met; but Gutlerrez is the more dangerous. His first prominence came through tuccesstully blowing up federal trains for the con- stitutionalists, a reward for his bloody record, Carranza mn m governor of San Luis Potosi, whore he was a_dil'gent looter, and was the brute who, having the son of a widow shot because lie happened to be of a family that had once held office, sent the nude bedy to the mother after parading it around the plaza in a cart. When Vila wdt south, driving Carranza before him, Gutierrez deserted to him; and when Villa went north Gutlerrez looted the treasury and jumped the city to set up a government of his own. Na doubt he will find h's. way back again to Carranza, who is not particular and cannot afford . Y Lt = ——" eynyd >t Obregon s the one really strong man among the Carranza generals, and he and Felipl = Angeles, of | Villa's forces, are probably among the military the two strongest. men in Mexico after Villa. Obregon has po respect for his chief, but thers is no room for his ambitions in'the Villa party, while under Capransa he 18 unhampered, Of both Obregon and Angefes we are likely to_hear later, for each has the presidential bee In his bonnet. Angeles is well born and well educated, the only. man on. either side of militars trafning. ' Obregon fs ‘a ranchero who looks more lke an Irishman than & Mexican and undoubtedly has as much of Ireland /n hia blood as in his name. Another With a presidential bee 1a Luls Cabrere, a shrewd lawyer of the city and the poMtical motor of the Carranza party. He is the agitator type of soclalist ho never falls to lay upon foreigners all the responsi- bility for Mexlean revelutions. In contradistinction fs Felicitas Viliareal, who re- sigued as minister of finance under Carranza rather than Indorse one of his flat-money making schemes; was called Jo the same office by Villa; stayed by his post when’Gutlerres decamped; and was arrested by Carransa when Obregon marched into the city on its evacuation by the Zapatistas. It fs not uniikely that Carranza will executé Villareal on some trumped-up charge or other~that Is the Carransa way; but, if he 18_not murdered, he will be an asset to bankrupt Mexico when the day comes that it can et out upon the rehabilitation of its finances. He is one of the very few trustworthy men in public life in Mexico todey; 'a man in the political life of Mexico and yet honest! Suth is Felicitas Villareal. “Villa ls the man to wi all those outside ‘the factions Yook for a sol: of the present addled condition. It may be that he will not prove cqual to the dual task of fighting and playing politics, and the sequence of events following his triumphant entry into Mexico City in November certalnly indicates that he was not, or la not yet, equipped for the double game. Yet, without being in any degree intellectual, he is & man of resource, great energy and force. He *in a fighter, and a lustful one, who is at his beet when he is in the fleld on the job—mot in the city. He i, too, 1 belleve, more sincere than the others in his expressed wish to bring his country to peace and es- tabiish stable government. He has no personal ambi- tion outside of this, ke told me; and I credit his as- sortion, not because he told me so, but because bis course since he came prominently before the country a8 & national leader in the last two years rather cor- roborates it. Yet, grow as he may, Villa will never approach to within hailing distance of the standard of Mexico's strongest and most beneficent dictators, Benito Juarez and Porfirlo Diaz. He is a brutal specimen of low- born man, of the ranchero type: prone to outbursts of furious, ungoverned temper, and capable of any cru- elty to gain his end. Villa has fewer men than Carransa—who, by the way, is & general by courtesy and does no fighting— bug they are a better trained force, and Generals Felipl Angeles and Raoul Madero, brother of the mur- dered president, are two dependable asslstants. Zapata I8 a consistent but hardly a national figurs in the Mexican question; his is guerrilla waffare, and Morelos state his battle ground, where always he has been & form'dable opponent. His followers are the stmple-minded, sealous Indlans, fighting to regain the land rights which, 'n their case, have been to some extent taken away without justice and without reimbursement. They are difficult to dislodge at home in the brush, but not strong in the open. They are the “bandits” they have been called, because that is the one method of warfare they know. When first they came to Mexico City, they were honest, and even gentle—a strange experience after Carranza. If Villa is equal to curbing detections in his own party and of adding to his supply of ammunition, he will beat Obiegon; if he vanquishes Obregon, he will measure providing retirement pensions for superannusted city employes. Such a law would have furnished the solution of a pressing y. destroy Carransa’s chlef support: and so only may there be hope of peace coming to Mexico The cost of the Barnes-Roosevelt trial is figure! by the Brooklyn Eagle at $8.95. Each litigant pays & counsel fee of $40,000, i MAY Had he the patriotism he vaunts | 29, 1915. Nebraska Editors Editor Tom W. Delegate is installing a press. Record Brothers have sold the Osmond vailly of the Dalton new cylinder Republican to C. R. Christianson of Plainview. The transfer will be made | June 1 Bditor Murray of the Pender Times has puchased a lot and will erect a new home for hie plant. The buflding will be x50 feet, one story with full basement John 1. Long. who has been editor and proprietor of the Nehawka News for the last five wears, has traded his plant and paper to A. B. Rutledge of the Clarks (Neb.) Bnterprise. Mr. Long will take charge of the Enterprise June 1, | ana Glenn Rutledge, son of O. B. Rut- ledao, will become editor of the News. The Custer County Chief of Broken | Bow issued a fino eight-page commence- | ment supplement last week. It was | printed on book paper and was illus- trated with half-tone pictures of mem- | bers of the class, faculty and high school | organizations. One of the most striking features was a group of about forty | nonresident students | W. W. Haskell, who founded the Ord Quiz thirty-four years ago, has sold the paper and plant to a stock company headed by H. D. Leggett, former pro- prietor of the 8t. Paul Republican, and Oscar L. Nay, who has been in charge of the mechanical department of the Quiz for several years. The consideration is $15,00. This I# #aid to be the largest price ever pald for a county seat weekly in Nebraska. Editorial Viewpoint ‘Washington Post: Through some strange fatality, no casualty occurs in the Canal mone without a brace of native policemen figuring among the dead, wounded or misaing. Loulsville Courier-Journal: Bukowina has a4 poetic sound even when it Is un- translated, and “Beech Land” does not make it less so. The silvery rivers of Bukowina are stained with blood. The beaches are shattered by cannon. Brooklyn Eagle: Mayor Mitchel saw a bear out in Wyoming, but didn't kill it. Maybe the bear saw him first. Bruin can always tell a mighty hunter from an amateur gunman, He knows when to escape with expedition. Brooklyn Eagle: Various states regu- late the sale of carbolic acld, for fear it may be used for seif-slaughter by some individual. Now that it is most in de- mand, for exploaives to do killing on a large’ scale, the price has gone up 1,800 per cent, and only the wealthy could af- ford that sort of sulcide. Baltimore American: Switzerland has recelved formal guarantees that its neu- trality will not be violated, and has taken strong measures to safeguard its fron- tlers. ‘The lesson of Belglum's guaran- teed neutrality has not been lost on other neutral nations, and while accepting the guarantees, they are keeping thelr pow- der dry. Cleveland Platn Dealer: Coldnel Roose- | velt has an article in a June magazine telling what we ought to do to Germany. One's apprehension as to what would happen to this country were the colomel president just now is somewhat lessenod by the thought that he probably would not be half so fierce 'if he were really Ppresident. 3 Springfleld Republican: ‘““Treatien are like sausages,”" says General Horace Porter. “The more you know about how they're made, the less you like them.” The general assisted in the making of several treaties at the second- Hague con- ference and has seen them become scraps of paper, ho says. Perhaps he will tel]l us | about the details of manufacture which | displeased him or was he only making an eplgram? Springfield Republican: It neceseity is the mother of invention, imagination is the father. Dr. Alexander Graham Bell passes a problem along to the next gen- eration with this bit of assurance: “‘Men can do nearly everything else by elec- tricity already, and I can imagine them with colls of wire about their heads coming together for communication of thought by induction.” This s the | product of a practical inventor's imagina- tion. Wireless telepathy is an old story on the borderland of science. New York World.: 1If a single ship- | buflding concern In tals country can com- | plete ten submarines in five months for | a forelgn government, it should help to | allay the anxiety of those persons who | day and night tremble at the thought of the defenseless condition of the Unied States. In emergency the government ooNld, and no doubt would take over these boats and set about bullding many more, not in one ship-yard, but in a dozen. But the fact that submarines can | Dbe bullt hers in a small fraction of the time usually allowed ls comforting In any circumstance MY OLD DIVAN. 1 love to slip away alone When evening darkness 8, And watch the firelight shadows dance upon my cottage walls, And from the old divan's soft depths, with pipe alight 1 see Vistons of thi that are, and were, and some I hope may be, The old divan has oeen with us a hun. | dred years or more; Tradition has it that it served & cen- tury . | One brave ancestor left the old word | customs that he knew, To found a home amid the fabled wond- | of the mew, “Prought with him his household goods, from Langness' lale of Man. | Among them none more cherished than the 'oid rosewood divan. i And It has all the outward symbols of a rare ntiquity; [ts mansive Torm is scarred and worn by hard utllity. { Though connolsseurs have offered prices | fabulous to gain | Possesgion of the old heirloom, it would | be much the same As selling one's own flesh and blood, if heart could be so cold, As to allow the old divan to be ex- changed for gold. Chila forms have curled in its embrace softly dropped asleep. Within its sheltering arms, with tears yet wet upon the check, And wiked with mone Lut happy recol- lections. It has heard The vows of youth's devotion, and has never breat word Bereavement's sorrows it has soothed, | and hearts from ish freed: There's comfort in | “TSNl Who comfort. need. T lové It for it tendency to indolent | delights, For comfort of the body allows freer | for flights 8n snukgle down into its Of fatey. dapths, the while The smoke wreaths from my xood old pire the fioeting s bewuile. The snirit or the old divan my every | sense enwraps, | e “n flaati== A dpeame. Pipe dreams? Weil. Per- haps. DAVID. Omaha. : Did Alice take the right spirit? Oh, script Opportunity is at ier husband's failure in yes. Just as soon as she knew he was golng under she went out and bought | ber entire summer outfit."—~Boston Tran- | our door. more new medicines being invented every year,"—Washington Star. Woman—What is that over there? Man—Fertilizer, ma'am Woman—For the land’s sake! Man—Yes, ma'am.—Ohio State Journal, hubby ? you hear Is there & war in Europe Yos, my dear. How did | about 1t7 Vhile cleaning house I happened to What s it? red the pessimistic citizen. “Opport to subscribe to | glance at some old newspaper | was puit- come worthy cause, or a chance to in- | ting on the pantry shelves.''—Louisville vest? '—~Chicago Post Courler-Journal “My husband won glory on the tented sald the first woman.’ . “I didn't know he worked with a cir- “1 fleld,” w, my dear, you must positively active war on flies baven't the heart to kill the poor mak; ous,” suggested the second, and thus be- | et f gan u thirty years’ war.—Philadelphia | ““Thngi's all right. You needn't swat Ledger. em. Let ‘em Intern in this nice wire - | cage.”Loutsville Courfer-Journal ‘They say Mayme married the mean- est man in town.” ter? “It ought to be," worries about his health “Do you think the world is getting bet- | s replied the man who | 1 should think so. Why, where do you | think he took her for a wedding tour?" “Where?* » | _“On a round trin in a jitney 'bus’'— | Baltimore American . “Are the fish biting now?" asked the | stranger ? | “Yes,” repliel the boy. “But you ain't allowed to catch ‘em. “Do you mean to say you don't fish?" ‘1 don’t exactly fish. But if a fish eomes along and bites at me I do my best to defend myself.” —Washington Star. “Why did you tell your mother when I tried to kiss you?" I—I—1_didn’t think she was in the ““There are | house "—Birmingham Age-Herald. Nourishing Food for Children IVE meat to your children in moderation. A study of food values will convince you of the remarkable nutritive qualities of macaroni. It is rich in gluten—the muscle and tissue builder— easy of digestion, easy to prepare, and makes fine eating. Serve this nourishing, economical £60d often to the youngsters. MAULL BROS., St. Louis, U. S. A % HOUSEWIVES Against Substitutes - B Tako cnm e HORLICK'S Round Package THE ORIGINAL MALTED MILK Made In th st, best: i and mry Maited ‘Wedo not make ‘milk products”— .Skim Milk, Condensed Milk, eto. But oty HORLICK'S THE ORIGINAL ual.m .-ill': malted | :‘ and the extract of Used for over a Quarter Century | Yon iy oet’s Substitaien - a Package Home Changes and Improvements ~ In Passenger Service Effective May 30th, 1915 * TRAIN NO. 1: “*Ohicago-Omaha-Denver Limited’’ will leave Chicago 5:30 p. m., arriving Omaha at 7:00 a. m. and leave at 7:10 a. m. for the West. This is the famous Sun-parler lounge car train, and its 6:30 p. m. departure from Chicago 5, ¢ makes it a still more desirable Chicago-Omaha service, No, Ohicago-Omaha-Nebraska Limited,”’ the lounge car train, will continue to leave Chicago at 6:00 p. m., arriving Omaha at 8:00 a. m. G ' NEW TRAIN NO. 10: ‘‘The Atlantic with No. 44 from the Northwest, Omaha, arriving Omaha at 1:10 a. a. m. for the East. ton's West and Northwest main lines to aand Omaba, TRAIN NO.3: ' from Denver, will be operated through m. and leaving at 1:20 This is new service from the Burling- throug! For Denver and the Pacific Ooast, will leave Omaha at 4:30 p. m., instead of 4:10 p. m., arriving Den- ver at 7:20 a. m., as heretofore. This is he Scenie-Colo- rado-by-daylight service, with through equipment for Los Angeles and San Franeisco. TRAIN NO. 41: ‘“The Burlington-Northern Pacific Ex. press,”’ will leave Omaha at 4:15 p. m., instead of 4:10 . m., for the Black Hills, Yellowstone Park, Montana, Wash- ington, Oregon; passengers for Beatrice and ‘ymore branch, should take this train from Omaha (not No. 3 at 4:30), in order to make the connection in Lineoln, NEW TRAIN NO. 42: ‘‘The Burlington-Northern Pacific Ex- press,”’ from the Northwest, will leave Lincoln at 1:15 P- m. and arrive Omaha at 2:55 p. m. TRAIN NO. 23: Evening Train for Lincoln, will leave Omaha at 7:50 p. m., instead of 7:25 p. m. TRAIN NO. 28: From Kansas City will arrive in Omaha at 6:40 a. m., instead of 6:50 a. m, 12:15 A. M.: Glacier Park, Montana, Washington sleeper ready 10:00 p. m.) TRAIN NO. 9: For Denver and the Pacific Ooast, will leave Omaha at 12:15 a. m. (Omaha sleeper ready at 10:00 p. m.); this is the new through train service to Los Angeles and San Franciseo via Denver and the Union Paeifie system. ‘‘The Burlington-Great Northern Express'' for (Omaha-Northwest Oity Ticket Office: Farnam & 16th Sts. Phones: D-1238, D.3580