Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 31, 1915, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor, BEE BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. Entered at Omaha postoffice as second-class matter. TERME OF muc:lmnx, Remit by draft, ex) f cent stamps r no- amalt sounts, ax Personal checks, except on Omaha and eastern change, not a ha—The B BOII i o o uilding. mh I)n;.—-.xl N .f:.'l\ ! Council Bluffs—14 North Main street. | Lh:eol.—fi Little Buildl mmerce. Fourtesnth Bt., N. W, —— e —— CORRESPONDENCE, 4 iress communications relat! to news an ::fu -.tur'En un' la.%luflu ann-= APRIL CIRCULATION, 53,406 Bta of Nebrasl County of Douglas, ss. gflfht Willtams, eireclation manager o¢ The Bes Hmva company, being duly sworn, says that the averass circulation for the month of April, 1915, was IGHT WILLIAMS, Ciroulation Manager. In my presence and sworn {o lore 1 . this lst ¢ May, 1916, “' " ‘xo‘i-m’ HUNTER, Notary Public. Subscribers leaving tne city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as requosted. May N m:mfi Thought for the Day Selected by Mrs. W. H. Ruseell How oft we look wpon God as our last and Jeobleat vesource! Wa go to him beoause we have . nowhere else to go and then we learn that the storms of ife liave driven wus—not wpon the rocks, but into ths desired haven. — Wdrds of Faith. w Vote for Greater Omaha tomorrow! Vote early tomorrow and avold the rush. 0ld Sol mli;t_hn .Vt‘n;;;fln. his smiles for the June brides. . Now utunth.;;! And pn—t_(!rener Omaha on the map in big legible letters! | The next wheels to turn will be the wheels of the board of equalization machinery grinding ’*‘L; olit revised tax assessments, LY i £ E i i H H i f jz i automobile of green and gold. E | of sub- to L) the consolidation show that by uo all of the voters mere water- _ carriers for the salary-grabbing office-holders. W Von Reventiow coptinues thundering ' ngalnst Americans and American policies. Why 0 IFous & vocal warrior is absent from the Bas of Flanders is one of the whooping mys- teries of the war. | e . fining, hostilities to the actual armed belliger- ents. The alrship has vindicated itself for scout- Justice lifts the bandage occasionslly and does business with open eyes. An Illinols i court rules that the republican party has an exclusive right to the initialed title, “G. 0. P.” 4 Now, as heretofore, the route to politioal glory { is through the main tent R | You must hand it to Omaha for ultra progressive- | ness. They have just organ'sed an Aero club over there with & list of members as long as a city direc- tory, although it is doubtful if a single member of it ever looked down on anything as high as the roof of a greenhouse.—Lincoin Star. Now, don't get jealous! We have green: Bouses up here in Omaha on the tops of eight- -story buildings. are on foot to organise in Omaha Of the Loyal Leglon. About forty are £or the charter membership, and they Mp an excursion and being installed ..‘ Krugbaum hias been called to Zanasville, O, | th of his father at the good old age of ‘0. h of The Bee, left for the - of the Newsboys' home on Six- shortly to opsm & night ‘with Anatitution. és i2 i of asked, should the/ non-participating countries be | means, and out of that abundance the brothers THE Germany's Answer. ' While the full text of the German reply m' the demands made by the American note, deal- ing with the Lusitania case, is yet to be givea out, the forecast conveys the impression that the kaiser's government is not willing to con- cede all the points raised by Mr. Wilson as essentially necessary to the maintenance of | friendly relations. No answer {s given to the specific demand for essurance that safety of travel at sea would be secured, at least to the extent that passengers and crews of ships to be torpedoed would have time to leave in boats, if not taken off by ths attacking vessels. Nor is any reply made to the other specific demand that the rights of neutral ships to traffic between neutral ports be more scrupulously regarded. Both these points are omitted. Instead the good faith of the United States is indirectly called in question, by the insinuation that the Lusitania was armed, and that it was used to transport soldiers, and that the Americans on board were present merely as a screen for the {llegal operations of Great Britain, If the Lusitania were armed, it wouid have been the duty of the United States to da. tain It in harbor, and it would have been equally a violation of neutrality to have permitted the embarkation of soldlers on a passenger boat. Other questions raised by Germany, such ns that which refers to the diplomatic dealings be- tween the United States and Great Britain, indi- cate the intention at Berlin to prolong the corre- spondence if poseible. helmstrasse are adepts in their art, and it is only glving respectful recognition to their in- telligence and ability to say they must have known Gerard would not be satisfactory to Ameriea. The diplomats of Wil- the note sent through Ambassador If these conclusions are correct, they mean that Mr. Wilson will have to meet Germany on its own ground. have not as yet been exhausted, and further correspondence may serve to relieve a situation that just now seems serious. The resources of diplomacy Now for the Greater Omaha Vote. The refusal by the district court of the ap- plication for an order enjoining the holding of the special election clears the decks for action upon Greater Omaha consolidation. According to the terms of the merger law, as enacted by the legislature, the only pre- requisite yet needed to make it effective is the recorded approval by the majority of the voters in the entire areq to be affected who cast thelr ballots. be held tomorrow, in which every qualified voter residing in Omaha, South Omahka and Dundee is entitled to participatd, will determine consolida- . ton. While the avowed opposition has been con- In other words, the special election to tined chiefly to office-holders, public works con- tractors and special privilege favorites, it none. theless bohooves every ome interested in Oma- ba's future growth and prosperity to help sweil the majort room to question that conseolidation Is the real desire of the ty for merger big enough to leave no people as a whole, ————— " What of the )y . " “The mmevitable logic of American note Germany on the Lusitania affair is that un- the activities of the submarine can be kept n & due observance of the established rules , its use will have to be discontinued. The does not make this statement in so many but it practically sets up limits against employment of submarines for operations merchantmen, whose destruction the in- H ternational code permits only after notice, may | ship are in the same cluss, because their serv- iceability as engines of war does not recognize the distinction between the armed enemy and the innocent bystander. In defense of the submarine, it {s urged that it Is merely one of the parts of the war machine, War. | and that the reason it contravenes accepted usage is that the usage antedates the perfection of subsea navigation. It is also pointed out naval | that all the different powers—not only those 30- #evere | gaged in this war, but the neutral nations as well—have equipped their navies with subma- rines, and are building more of them just as they are adding aviation corps to both land and sea forces. If these more modern mechanisms destruction are to be outlawed, why, it is spending so much money for such purposes?® There are at least some interesting ques- tions raised here, but they do not go to the heart of the subject. The development of the war business is supposed to be in the direction of humane treatment of the victims, and cop- ing and communication, and can hold its place without dropping bombs. Whether the subma- rine can prove itself worth while it restricted to the field of naval scouting, and, possibly, at- tacks upon armed battleships, is yet to he demonstrated. Many deadly engines of warfare, however, have been devised from time to time, but still discarded, not because wanting in destructiveness, but because violating the spirit of humanity. As a first step in naval disarma- ment, the limitation, If not the elimination, of the submarine should command the approval of all the civilized people of the world. Amid the strife of war and destruction of | lite it is distinctly heartening to record deeds | conserving human life. For years back the medical world has appleuded the sargieal achievements of the Mayo Brothers of Rochester, Minn. The obscure little town has been, and continues to be, the Mecca of the surgical profes- sion and the hope of countless sufferers. With the fame of their work came an abundance of have placed $2,000,000 at the disposal of the University of Minnesota for medical research work., The gift is a fitting public climax to the private generosity of Rochester's famous sur- | geons, and redounds to the honer of the medical world, —— Blackwashing Omaha helped to defeat candidate for governor last fall. He discovered that he got nowhere by running down his home town. Why should anyone interested in the | progress of Omaha help a local yellow jourmal disseminate lying reports about gur city ealei- | lated only to keep people away® { ’ BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, Recollections of “Ranger” Al Sorenson's Examiner. FEW days ago Uncle Sam, through one of his faithful gray uniformed messengers, delivered to me a message that Colonel J, H, Plerce s alive and kicking fn Oakland, Cal. That harks me back to the early davs of The Omaha Bee. Along about 1571 or 1574 John J. Plerce, who was then struggling to earn his bread and butter stencil cutter, came to The Bee and secured more remunerative employment 88 & subscription canvasser and country corre- apondent. alias town writer-up, and a mighty canvasser and writer-up he proved to be. Plerce was somewhat of a genfus—an all-round energetic, versatiis cuss. He was a tight-rope walker. Ome Fourth of July he was the star attraction a tight rope from the third story of Miltdi Rogers' hardware Store to the fifth story of the Paxton, but the rope being at too steep an angle at the Paxton hotel side of the street, ho failed to climb the angle, but walked backward, to the place of beginning, with- out once losing the control of his balance pole or his presence of mind, notwithstanding the yells and jeers of the assembled multitude, may of whom expected to #es him fall to the ground with the proverbial “dull sickening thud." Another adventurous exploit of Plerce wae per- formed in the summer of 1876 or 1877. He was to be the stellar feature in & Fourth of July celebration pro- moted by The Bee. In 1573 a balloon st named Steiner came to Omaha and made an ascension from Eleventh and Farnam streets, and landed over east of Council Bluffs. Fis balloon was brought back to Omaha and put in cold storage until Steiner could pay his bills incurred in the flight which had proved a financlal fizgzle. The balloon was taken out of soak by The Beo with & view of having Pierce make a fl§ht from Omaha to the Black Hills, starting on the Fourth of The attraction wi rtised far and wide and drew a big crowd to Omaha on the aforesaid date But the balloon fafled to go up, and great was the dis- appointment. Andrew Rosewater foll down in fis at- tempt to fill the gas bag with carbonic acid gas out at the race track, now known as Kountse place. His temporary gas plant couldn’t fill the bill, or the bag. A few days later the balloon was brought down town and anchored In Jefferson square, and it was an- nounced that the ascerislon would be pulted oft some day In the near future when the bag would be filled with gas from the city gas works. One morning, abaut # o'clock, Plerce examined the balloon and found it filled with gas, He determined to make the ascension and, getting into the basket, had it cut loose. But the aerial ship wouldn't go aleft. Plerce then unfastened the basket and climbing onto the iron hoop which held the rope he gave the word to let go, and up the balloon went several hundred feet, gently sailing to the north, Plerce lost his nerve and called for help to the astonished spectators on terra firma. The balloon finally descended of its own free will, but being struck v & lively wind was carried across the surface of Flor- ke. Plerce was uninjured, but jarred as to als nerve cemter. Upon feeling in his right-hand vest pocket he discovered o fish about four inches long, Wwhich had been #cooped up by the balloon in its fligh: across the surface of the lake. This adventure led some people to believe that Plerce was somewhat fNighty. The next exploit of Plerce, whose nom de plume was ““Rapger,”” was the publication of the Wastern Maga- sine, which proved a literary success and a financial faflure. He was far ahead of the times in the new ‘which he recently sent At the front iIn Twi “Glad to see you, old boy! Glad to wsee you!" chortled the confidence man, ‘‘How are you, anyhow 1" “All run down!" grimly replied Sandstorm Smith, the well-known oattle baron of Rampage, O, who Is temporarily in our midet. “T don't take no interest in don't care te match dollars with of pore licker, I don’t feel stren| wive it to to get with total strangers who come snout- ing in without an invitation. Jooks sorter llke rain, off to the south'ard, don't itT'—Judge. An Empty Excuse. Corporal Jenkins married, and in due course his wife presented him with & son and heir, His pals all flocked around to tender thelr congratulations, and in- cidentally to taste Bill's bitter beer. / Private Jones was on his way thither when he met Sergeant Brown returning. ‘‘Where are you off too?®" asked the latter. “Oh, I'm just golng to see Bill and wish him luck with that youngster of his,” was the answer. ““Then you're too late,”” sald the sergeant, solemnly. | “Wot!" exclalmed Private Jones. “Surely it hasa't gome and dled?” “No; worse than that. The youngster's all right, but the blessed barrel's empty!" was the grim response.— Pittsburgh Chroniole-Telegraph. The Manlier Jo “Larry,” sald Mr, Greene to a good-natured Irieh- man who was working on a new tell mo once that you had a brother who is a bishop? ‘Yis, sor," replied Larry “And you are a hod-carrier!’ sald Mr. Greene. “Well, the xood things of this life are not equally divided, are they, Larry?” “No, wor," rejoined the Irishman, shouldering his hod and starting up the ladder. “Indade, they is mot, sor. Poop felly! He couldn’t do this to ve his loife, sor!"—Everybody's Magatine People and Events Up to May 21 orders have been placed by Amertcan rallroads for ®.M cars and M locomotives. The wvecord for 1814 was 79,910 cars and %! locometives. The first law regulating jitheys In New York state, Just approved by the governor, puts the power of supervision In the hands of public service com- missions. Antonfo Aloonco, aged M, of Sacramento, Cal, un- able to read or write, was given permission to at- tend day, as well as night, schools and get the real pirit of American education among the youngs One branch of the Wisconsin leguslation passed a | bl making haxing punishable with a ja'l sentence 1f this style of reform goes on, education will be all work and no horse play. Ben Zelthger of Allentown, Pa.. one of ige youny est veterana of the civil war, recently celebrated hi sixty-sixth birthday He was just over 13 when enlisted, July 9 186, in the 167th Pennsylvania regi- ment Under a new law the New York boxing com- m eston of three members draw 35,000 a year each and touch the hox offices for Ti par cent of the recelpta | The spert of supervising syort henceforin ceases to b an honorary job . MAY good | He attempted to walk | 1915, Are Distinet. OMAHA, May 2.—~To the Editor of The Bee: 1 see an article In your paper which says that “At a meeting of the national conference of the Dunkards of the United States and Canada today the denonuna- tional representatives unanimously de- cided that members should not own, au- | tomobiles” This is a mistake, since the annual conference of the Chruch of the Brethren (commonly known as Dunk- ards), will not convene until in June, and they will meet at Hershey, Pa. The con- ference referred to is lkely that of the | Old Order Brethren. Wil you please make the correction? M. R. WEAVER, Pastor, Church of the Brethren, 215 North Twenty-second Street 1 South Omaha Park Bonds. OMAHA, May %.~To the Editor of The | Bee: The people of SBouth Omaha are being asked to vote for $50,00 additionsl park bonda ou next Tuesday. In 186 South Omaha voted $40,000 for park bonds, an¢ in 1511 $15000 more bonds were fs- sued for parks, thus making $5,000 al- ready issued for our parks. In the last five years an additional sum of $31,000 has been expended on the parks, and from the above it would seem that the park system of our city has been pretty well provided for. As our city is resonably sure to be an- nexed to Omaha, that city hee already made arrangements to put our rks in first class condition, the same their present parks, In case of such merger. Omaha has also promised to connect our parks with its boulevard system and make all the parks of the Greater Omaha #sccond to none in the country. As our taxes are already sufficiently high to sult the average taxpayer, it would seem from the ahove that the is- suing of the above bonds at this time is not necessary, and the people of the city should vote ‘“No'* on the bond ques- tion. SOUTH OMAHA ANNEXATION PUBLICITY COMMITTEE, Making Heroes Out of Crooks. 'OMAHA, May 2.—~To the Editor of The Bee: 1 have been a reader of your paper for six years and praise it very highly, but when peopie read such articles like the Daily News prints, I think it's time for Omaha people to take a hand. They make heroes out of crooks and criticize the police without reason, They have hollored about not doing nothing on that murder. I know better for they have done every thing that could he done and the Swedish peopla did not say any such thing as was vrinted in that sheet. It's high time that our business men do some thing with such lying paper, scaring everybody out of this city. It's no credit to our town. Hoping yeu will print this article, MRS, ANDERSON, 1424 North Sixteenth Street. Is This the Way Outt OMAHA, May 20.—To the Bditor of The Bee: It {s reported that the officials of the Omaha Blectrlo Light & Power com. pany have expressed their willingness to submit thelr books for examination by competent public accountants, for 2he purpose of determing the equity of pres- ent rates as between the company and its patrons. It occurs to me this offer should be taken as made in good faith and steps taken to secure such investigation, ¢ Under present conditions, no person outside the offices of (he electric lght company is In posseasion of information upon which a fair and mmpartial opinion can be based as to the present rates, or those proposed under the new rate or- dinance, which is in controveray. It may be fairly stated that such in- formation Is not even in the possession of the ity council. The following sug- gestion 18 submitted: Let a committee of three competent citizens be selected: one member of the United Impfovement clubs, one by the executive committee of the Omaha Com- mercial club and the third by the two thus chosen. This committee to under- take negotiations as between the electric light company and the city council look- g to the making of the proposed inves- tigation and the arrangement for pay- ing the expense of the same. This committee should be further em- powered by mutual agreement to seleot the accountants and make a final re- port to the city council, the eleetric light company and to the publie, FRANK G. ODELL. The “Antl" Argument. SOUTH OMAHA, May 20-To the Bditor of The Bee: The great flourish made about annexation would be amusing if it were not for that element of prejudice engrafted into the arguments evidently put t to convince the convincible that all antis ave either foollsh or dishonest in thelr purpose. 1 don't know how much worse South Omaha Js than other places simflarly sit- uated, dbut I am convinced there is mot another that gets as much unfavorable notoriety and as little boost from agencles that stand In the same relationship as @o the Omaha papers to South Omaha. No one can find fault with the publicity glven facts, the more the better. The people of South Omaha as a whole don't want to hamper the publicity, the prose- cution or the chastisement of crime and they should not be put in that light of publicity, through these great agencies. “The Omaha papers” (which we help support to the very best of our ability) should carry South Omaha's virtues, ad- ntages, and prospective greatness out- e the city limits, once In & while any- way. Asking South Omaha people to vote yes on annexation is a good deal like asking | a man to write the sentence that would cause his own hanging or asking the ‘Wodest maiden who would marry to go over into her intended's home and say, “You must have me." We foresee the wesult with appre- hension. We know Omaha people, seeing & groat victory and a groat soquisti lose track of the little people on their south. They don't see the great losses we sustain in the removal of a twenty- four thousand-a-month-city-payroll. The removal of our city government which now comnels A vae W come here to pay tax ete.. what 't mcars 1o e & municipality of importance to & suburb, to make it necegsary for South Omahs examine titles, people to visit Omaha for all matters per- | taining to city government, political mat- ters, etc. If the same thing was happen- ing to Omaha and Omaha mercantile in- terests the noise that would go up would reverberate from oceon-to-ovean. 8o allow { Ve to cast one last vote as a city as in | dicated by our Interests. JOHN FLYNN SMILING LINES. Noah beheld the flood “'And not a blessed place to Intern, he eried.—Philadelphia Tedger. “DM you see where a man accused his wife of pouring oll over him and then setting fire to him ™ “Maybe she wanted a change in WAy of seelng him it uvp.'— the “I hear they hav in the basement ment store clerk “Yes,” responded the other, “‘you might you In graniteware il the first depart say I'm down to hardpan. How about you?" “Ob, I'm oh velvet. ‘—Loulsville Courier- Journal Him—You're tne only girl I ever loved Her—That's interesting, but immaterial What 1 want to know is, am I the only £irl you're ever going to love?—Life. ‘‘What do you think of thi plants have feelings?" 4. Spasty. s ‘T ocan't belleve it. If it were true T don’t belleve radishvs and lettuce would consent to live in the same garden with & 1ot of onions.”—Washington Star. Willle—Paw, !lr;,.nce? 'AW—A man who can spend more money than his wife can spond, my son. Maw—Willie, you go take a nice long walk.—Milwaukee Sentinel, what is a captain of Young Walter had 1 slon “untold wealth, lieard the expres- snd was consid- | ¥ t erably puzzied as to it ning. Tha evening when his father came home, how ever, hes became enlightened as (o the definition Father,” said he, “what fis untold wealth? keep from the in- The property yo b Harper s Maga | come tax 1ist, my son | zine. Early to bed and early to rise, yo know,” said the ready-rhade philosopher “Yes," replled Mr. Grump. “But 1 dont observe that this rule gives the man who drives a milk wagon any' pa ticular Washington Star SONG OF THE SUBMARINE advantage. New York Herald |1 nose atong with decks awash— All hid by flylug soray; And carefully | gearch the sea For ships on which to prey. | For nene may know just when T come, | Ana none know when I go; As quick as breath, as sure as death, I send therh all below |Into her side my missle goes. | To nd her sore, ang then | Litke frightened sheep, into the deep, Drop cursing, praying men Sing ho! for ships I've met and sunk Sing ho! my hearties, ho! 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