Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 5, 1915, Page 12

PRI . THE OMAHA DAILY BEE __FO! R VICTOR ROSEWATER, ZDITOR. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. BEE BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. Omaha postoffice as second-class matter. OF SUBSCRIPTION. By carrier per h, TERMS By mail CORREAPONDENCE, matior to" Omana Des. Maitoriel Popariment MAY CIRCULATION, 53,345 State of N ka, County of Douslas, © Williams, a:':-'fi.m manager of The Bee Pul com 5 g duly Sworp, gure that the w jon for the month of May, 1915, was " DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. P ! in mv, e and sworn to before 3 L 3 une, REBERT FIONTER, Notary Public. Subscribers leaving the city temporarily «hould have The Beo mailed to them. Ad- @ress will be changed as often as requosted. Thought for the Day Selected by Mary J. Damont ‘Blessed are the happiness makers; they rep- ressnt the best forces of cimlization. They are 10 the heart and home what the honcysuckle is to the door over which it climbs."” . Now a long, blg pull all togother for Greater Omaha! pp—— Nebraska and adjoining states out of date. silence be- the spirit of Tanner “You Win-—~8hake" the consolidation fight. But the World- was on the same side as “Doc”—"ngin i, { In no other state ting" poliey been so plified. Such loyalty deserves digestible than a double cross. to California. President Magoun will '.-'fm of the Congregational church next Miss Nettie M., Callshan were by Rev. W. J. Harsha. M¢Donough, known as “Little officers of Covert lodge: . 8. Auchmoody, senior BY EDWARD ROSEWATER, | s ] guickly blew up the » A'HE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, A Victory for Big Business. The decision of the United States district court, holding that the United States Steel cor poration is not a trust in restraint of trade within the meaning of the Sherman law is a vic | tory for big business. The court holds that it | is not the size of the concern, but Its power for | harmful monopoly, that makes it amenable to | the law. Here is the meat of the whole matter, | too frequently entirely overlooked by the crities | aton, contributed to Die Umschau by Dr. M. Krause, of “big busine The court says “Mere size or bigness of business is not necessarily « monopoly of business at the expense of all others | engaged In it."” The demands of modern life have been met by a development of industry along lines that have been revolutionary in their effects, and yet but a patural result of evolutionary growth. All the great enterprises of the age have been built on a similar principle, the combination of units for the greater efficiency in production. Disturbance has followed and some harmful effects have flown from these processes, until remedied from within or without. Courts have inferfered, and not always wisely, as, for exam- ple, when the Union Pacific was prevented from purchasing the Central Pacific. That the Sher- man law is ineffectual when It comes to the actual dissolution of big business combinations is shown by the Standard Oil and Tobacco cases. These ‘“‘trusts” were dissolved, yet out of that segregation arose a new arrangement of busi- ness just as strong as before. Although neither of these combinations has been able to get a monopolistic control of its line, neither has the consuming public reaped any material advan- tage from the dissolution The principal effect of the decision in the Steel case, though subject to reversal on appeal, will be to reassure business men thai they are less likely to be hampered in the pursuance of legitimate enterprise, and that business need not suffer merely because it is “big.” International Comity. The departure from New York of a personal messenger from Count Bernstorff to the impe- rial court of Germany, under safe conduct from the other belligerents, is a proof that the na- tlons have not altogether turned savage under the influence of war. Time was when a herald took his life in his hands when he carried a message from his llege to another lord. Here we have a messenger, charged with a secret communication, guaranteed an unmolested pas- sage through the lines of the enemy, in order that he may roach his home government. No finer evidence that !nternational comity is still a vital force could be given. It shows that some vestige of the restraining Influence of civiliza- tion remains, and that when a settlement of difterences is approached arter armed conflict has spent its rage, reason and not brute strength will be a determining factor. The mission of this special messenger is to glve the German chancellory Count Bernstorff’'s personal report on the attitude of the American people, in order that no misapprehension may warp judgment when consideration is given to President Wilson's rejoinder to the note from Von Jagow. This action, following the couver- sation between the president and the German ambassador, 1s significant of the desire of both countries to maintain the peace that has so long subsisted between them, and encourages the be- Hef that the tension will be relieved when the facts are fully understood on both sides. S — The Public Utilities Service Problem. Chicago has a municipal ownership partner- ehip with its traction service by which the city Rgets 55 per cent of the profits after deduction of operating expenses, and certain other stipu- lated charges, which arrangement when made was regarded as the ideallstic solution of a pus- sling problem. The experience of the partner- ship has not brought as much money into the city treasury as was originally expected, & al- though it has doubtless put the city in better position to meet the public's demands. Just now, however, a new complication is presented in the pressure of the conductors and motormen for wage increases, which in the aggregate would amount to several million dollars, and whose grant the private partners insist would reduce their share below the point of reasonable returns. But whether the city's 55 per cent be much or little seems to cut no figure, for the rroposal is made that the city voluntarily stand three-fourths of the wage increases on condi- tion that the private partners agree to have one- fourth charged up to them. It is fair to assume that, despite threats of a strike, all controversies will be threshed out in some way by negotiation or arbitration, and the situalion is ecited merely to show that the problem of dealing with the public service utili- ties does not beset any one city alone. This problem has been solved over and over again in various ways in different cities, but just will not stay solved; in other words, each city has to solve it for itself every little while as its local conditions chan S— Object Lesson in Democratic Methods. Nebraska firms who are now paying the war tax, with the penalty for neglect added, a t- ting a fine {llustration of the ‘‘beneficent effect” of democratic methods of government. War tax must be paid in time of peace is a most unpleasant reminder that the party in power has falled to make proper provision to insure reve- nue sufficient to run the government, On top of this fallure, the democrats indulged in a ver- itable orgy of extravagance, increasing the ex- penditures of the government to a total never before known, exceeding even its own estab- lished record for recklessness. This combina- tion of reduced revenue and increased expenses has had the very natural effect of wiping out the treasury surplus and reducing the balance to a deficit. The payment of penalty for fallure to discharge the taxes is the fault of the taxpayer who neglected to make settlement in time, but the tax itself is the fruit of democratic incompe- tency and fallure to make proper provision for weeting the expenses of the government. Se—— The moving finger of suspicion pointed to one of the Smith family as the probable author of the Puget BSound explosion. Mr. Smith icion by showing that | he sprang from genuine first families—from ; Swith on bis father's side and a Delaware In- | dian princess on the other, both great-grand- parents ante-dating the flag. The record goes far to prove that the plain Smiths are great people. That a | | Y DEAR WATSON: Is it possible that you do not recognize at once that one of the men is a confectioner and the other a glase blower; while | the girl with them is a dressmaker? Look at their teeth!” This suggestion for an additional Sher lock-Holmes story is the result of perusing a discus- on the effect of different trades and occupations on the teeth. match industry, this is a phase of occupational dis- eases of ‘which we hear comparatively little, Not only do the teeth become decayed or otherwise dis- eased, or changed in shape, but Dr, Kranse tells us that they even ars worrn or dissolved away to such an extent thag only stumps remain. Our qudtations are from an abstract in The Bclentific American Sup- plement, where we read: “A good example of the first mentioned case is furnished by confectioners or candy-makers, whose front teeth, particularly, are prone to decay, fol- lowed by subsequent discoloration of the expdwed dentin, due to the constant breathing In of sugar dust. ““With workmen in chemical factories, where acids are manufuctured or used In large amounts, ‘the process of destruction is not in any respect like the ordinary tooth decay, but is a decompusition of the inorganic constituents and a devitalization of the organic constituents of the teeth.’ “In describing the effects of acids the author, who relies to a considerable extent on what is told to him, tells us that ‘the subjective sensation is alleged to be, above all, a feeling of dullness in the affected teeth; these become so sensitive to change of tem- perature and to contact with sour, sweet and salty foods that every partaking of nourishment becomes almost a torture. This sensitiveness disappears when the process of destruction has assumed sreater pro- portions. “ “The front testh, on account of their location and arrangement, are the first to suffer, since they are earliest exposed to the injurious influences.” “It is observed that In metal workers who are neglectful of the care of mouth and teeth half of the exposed surfaces of the teeth, from the gums up- ward, are covered with green coating. The workmen belleve they have ‘verdigris’ on their teeth. “Dr. Krause was repeatedly able to convinve him- self that ‘as this coating may still be detected after a change of occupation of some duration, it may be designated and utllized as an important characteristic indication of occupation.’ ““This deposit is caused by the ‘unavoldable metal dust which arires during the work and settles with the tartar coating of the neglected teeth.' “The wearing away or roughening of the edges of the tecth is well Illustrated by shoemakers, who continuously use nails and brads of aifferent sizes, which they usually hold in the mouth and which thus serves as a handy container. ‘When a nail or wire brad iy required the tongue pushes it between the biting surfaces of the incisor teeth. There it is held fast until required for use.’ “This results in the formation of coarsely jagged edges on the ineisor teeth. “‘Only when the nails are continually pushed be- tween the middle incisor teeth will semi-circular erosions sooner or later result, which are similarly found in upholsterer: “As to the effect of thelr trade on their teeth, we quote the following in regard to glass blowers: ‘In order to form the glass mass Into a desired shape, glass blowers make use of a long fron tube, sometimes provided with a brass mouthplece. This is the so- called “glass blower’s pipe'’ which is held between the lips and teeth and is turned during blowing. From this, worn concave surfaces result on the middle in- cisor {eeth, which, when closed, show a rhombic or dlamond-like opening characteristic of glass blowers.’ “All those whose occupations compel them to use the sewing needle, that is, tallors, modistes, corset- makers, ete., show ‘slit-shaped grooves on the cutting edges of the inclsors, and according as the possessor is right or left-handed, running from right to left or vice versa, either slanting or in the cenwr of the cut- male and female, bite or tear off the thread with the incisor teeth before threading their needles. ‘' “If they have the habit of firmly holding pencils batween their teeth, occupational indications are also evident on the front teeth of teachers and draftsmen thus causing concave substance erosion.’ “It has been proved that the habit of placing nalls in the mouth and replacing those not used in a box In common use has been the cause of the transmission of disease. The same has likewise been reported among glass-blowers. For this reason shoemakers, upholsterers and glass-blowers should be cautioned as to the danger of their manipulations, and the aboll- tion of these abuses vigorously demanded. “The article concludes with this excellent advice: ‘As experience in other ocoupations has shown that notices and posted regulations do not receive the de- served attention, we need not expect much result from this method in workshops, The lever for enlighten- ment and education should already be applied to the apprentices while at the trade-schools. It is there that we should, by means of words and pictures, em- phasize the great danger to life and health of such customary abuses.'’’ Twice Told Tales Useless Neutrality, “You knew we had a French mald ant German butler?” “Yea" “Well, wea've been worrfed over them ever since the war broke out. We took the greatest pains to set them an example of neutrality. We were afraid all the time that it would be impossible to keep them from flying st each other. Of course, we were carec- ful not to discuss the war before them. In short, we've been taking a whole lot of trouble for months to help them keep the peace, I ean't begin to tell you how careful we were, And what do you suppose hap- pened yesterday?" “Why, a pitched tle." “Nothing of the It seems the two were en- ®aged long before the war broke out, and yesterday they were married. ’—Philadelphia Ledger. The cub reporter saw a hearse start away ‘rom a house at the head of a funeral procession. “Who's dead?" he inquired of the corner store keeper, who was watching from his door. “Chon Bchmidt."” “John Smith!" exclaimed the cub. “You don't mean to say John Smith is dead?” “'Vell, by golly,” sald the grocer, “vot you dink dey doing mit him—bractising?'—Bverybody's Maga- #ine. People and Events Theodore L. De Vinne, New York's famous master printer, left an estate valued at $1.436.000. The highor “the art preservative of all arts,” the greater the reward Quite an army of Larvesters are about to storm the | wheat fields of Okluhom: Fair open fighting, uo trench dixging. Bvery private will be decorated with sliver dollars, $2 per and chuck New York landlords are working out a plan for PaRsing to the tenants a bunch of 519,000,000 state taxes. Very little publicity will be given the asopted plan, as ouch schemes operate best on gumshoes. There is no music in “Home, Sweet Home" for Richmond, C. Lee of Washington, Ind. He had so many homes he prefers to forget ‘em. In a pettion for divorce he says hig wife is batty on homes, and in four years has forced the family to move forty-twe times. Now it is Richmond's move, Benuett Brittin of Plainfield, N. J., & centenarian and two over, has decided 10 retire from business. He JUNE It we except phosphorus polsoning in the | 1915. The Pees L eI e End of the Last Chapter. OMAHA, June 4—To the Editor of The | Bee: Readers who followed, in this column, the story of the Bradford family who were evictea by law from the Epnet | cottage at 1621 Ohio street, two weeks ago, will be glad to know that for Mrs. | Bradford herself, the last chapter has | physieian, closed and the angel of death has writ- ten “finis” at the bottom of the page. " | Her earthly sufferings ended at 12:40 p. | m. Wednesday, and funeral services were | at 2| conducted yesterday o’alock. | After all, the outrage perpetuated on | afternoon May 18, by the Epnets and their sup- | porters of the law only shortened this | poor mother's life about two weeks, and | no doubt they can quite justly claim to | | be the direct Instruments of a merciful Providerce on this very accouat. The brutal handling of that pain-racked frame, the jamming of the diseased jreast against the door, undoubtedly caused the terrible spider cancer, whose deadly tentacles had spread far down into the liver and stomach, and up into | the lunge, to break a little soonmer that nature might have planned. It is true | that Dr. Fitzgibbon, who had charge of Mrs, Bradford's case, refused to ad- | minister a hypodermic to quiet her ago'# during the last twenty-four hours, be. cause her heart was so weak, the end might thereby be hastened. It seems that physicians are not permitted to do any- thing, however merciful it might be, that can shorten the span of a human life by even one brief moment. Representatives of Nebraska law, how- ever, are fully privileged In this respect. We envy them the calm polse and un- ruffied equanimity that enables them to “do their quty” In the very face of human anguish, suffering and death. They are “used to scenes like these.” The fact that Mre. Bradford leaves a husband and eight children, to whom she was the dearest thing in life, and who were forced to endure the sight of her sufferings until one and all are completely prostrated and heart-broken, “cuts no ice” with the sheriff’s department of Douglas county. “Elessed are the dead that the rain falls on!” The neighbors, passing up and down that 1600 block on Ohfo street thank God with full hearts today that the poor sufferer is at rest. But they sedulously avoid so much as a glance to- ward the double house over whose roof- tree the shadow of the tragedy will linger forever. Time will blot out from human memory that pitiful scene, staged “In the name of the law.” But the record lives beyond the silence. ELSIE ROBERTSON, “Docking’” the Serubwomen. OMAHA, June 4.~To The Editor of The Bee: The press, the watchdog of clviliza- tion, was never so truly examplified as it was iIn yesterday morning’s issue of your great paper, wherein you exposed to the world the tyrannical and Inhuman ‘treatment accorded the charwomen and Janitors at the federal building, whereby the government is endeavoring to save money at the expense of the serubwomen, ote. The economy - wiseacres of the ad- ministration, whether in the president's cabinet ~or: ‘elsewhere, ought to be ashamed to “dock™ 4,673 of the poorest paid employes in the government ser- vice elght days' pay—economy with a Vengeance, similar to the late retrench- ment legislature at Lincoln, that had for its motto, no concession for the working class. I desire to call the attention of the 8004 women of the suffrage propaganda %o the “docking’ of the scrubwomen and Janitors. Neither of the political parties ~-political trimmers— will take any ac- ftion to redress the great wrong Inflicted on this class of poorly paid government employes. I would be delighted to see the patriotic ‘women and girls of Greater Omaha take the initiative in this benevolent move and come to the assistance of the desti- tute and oppressed, thereby setting an example for the good women in other citles throughout the mation. 1 belleve that it would be a good ldea for the women to notify McAdoo, or his subordinate, Newton, that they are to come to the rescue of the scrubwomen. Possibly, or probably, it might be bet- ter to write to the president about the injustice done this poorly pald and op- pressed class, the charwoman and Janitors JERRY HOWARD, Harvest Hands, AHA, June 2.—~To the Editor of The Bee: 1 was talking with old Simon Spen- Cer last night at Emerson. 1 asked him it he had enough rain, and what the prospect was for & big wheat harvest. “I'N tell you,” he said; “the wheat will be all right, but I dread to start in has- vesting. In n couple of weecks or so you will see me every night searching the box cars and empty sheds, trying to find harvest hands. The American hobo is the most trifling, good-for-nothing ani- mal in the world. When there is nothing to do on the farm, five or six will apply every day at the back door for cold victuals, and rehearse a tale of grief that would melt the heart of & stone statue; but when harvest days begin, | you couldn't wail one of them to his hiding place with a bloodhound. I counted thirty-five hobos put off one train here tonight, and out of the whole muad, I'll bet & dollar to nothing, you couldn't find five men that would work | three days in ccession If you offered them $0 for doing it. “When harvest begins I go to & hobe and offer him 2 a day; he sayw he can get $250 in Minnesota. I make it $3.60, and he then says that the water in Ne- braska 1§ not as pure and wholesome as it is in North Dakota. And when I | offer 1o bave & barrel of mineral water shipped in from Excelsior Springs for his private use, he snickers and walks away, “Before 1 start & hobo to work, I try to find out whether he is a long-staker or a short-staker. The loug-stake man | will usually work until the harvest is | ended, go to town, spend the 30 in two | days, and then return and help me with haying. But the short-staker is treach- erous, and may work three davs or only twenty minutes—just long enough to in- #pect the amokehouse and notice whether the chickens roost in the trees or mot. For about three weeks in every year I am almost compelled to get on my knees and pray to these hobos In order to get | ® little assistance in the wheat field. | “But during the winter I often go to | Omaha and watch these half-nake | homeless wretches marking time on the { bread line. And when I mee one that I | | know I puli out & roll of bills that would | | ehoke & rock crusher and ask Lim if he will kindly assist me next year in the | | harvest field it I will lend him 3 cem | to buy & plate of soup. And then I bui ton up my bearskin overcoat., laugh = little, and walk away.” E O M, As near as T can me , d the your wife seems to have ex perienced a sudden shock of some kind “T guess that's right,” replied the hus- | band. 1 got home before 12 o'clock last night."~Indianapolis Star | Mandy~8arah, has yo' son gone ter| work yet? Sarah—Land, He's in an under taker's shop. to have a re dead —Yale Yo' know, that boy ular gift for handling ecord seems the “Will you tell me one thing, teacher®* 'What is it, Tommy?" ‘Do cat-tajls belong to the same fam- ily as pussy willows? —Baltimore Ameri- can. “Pa. with all his money, will never lot take our rightful place in soclety.” hy, he's most indulgent, He has yught the family a magnificent au ju tome Y time take rides nal sn we watch him all the resiat the temptation to paying passengers as he Toutsville Courler-Jour but un he on a few around eiei——— HOW IT IS DONE. Cleveland Plain Dealer | This high-brow stuff I could not white before, Hecause of yore I aid not Lrdw the way to dope it out, But now I know; You just begin ' Any old highfalutin' thing, Putting in, here and there, Ar.ywhere, Some mysterious, subtle, insoluble senti+ ment | From ancient literature, in which a half truth is .Wrr:;)g:d Or & whole truth bent, Or at least the meaning is in doubt; And then be sure to use some highfiown tommyrot, No n.m.,v’?‘f\..m,.r it makes any particu- lar sense or not, Q"r:" \'l lln'm. 3 o rhyme, You happen o e word that gibes quite fair With one you used before— Well, put the accent there. Then ramble on, although the thing may nothing mean at all, For things they cannot understand do all the people fall B And thus you'll know how to approach— well, plenty close encugh, This highbrow stuff! ' LA 6 I3 Qi e, ,~ HIS nation is slowly but surely awak- ening to the remarkable food value of Macaroni. When we consider the splendid physique of Southern Europeans, who make Macaroni their main staple, we can well afford to give this econom- ical food a large space in FAUST ~ MACARONI is made from Durum wheat, a cereal ex- tremely rich in gluten. NATIONAL NGTH o DISH l our daily menu. Gluten is the food element that goes to build up firm tissue and rich blood. You can make no end of relishable dishes with Faust Macaroni, It is easy to digest, too. Write for free recipe book. MAULL BROS., St. Louis, U. S. A. Five Bee every too, See and bring day, June or girls th: fore 4 P, Free This Week for the five boys that bring us the most pictures of the stilts before 4 P. M., Sat. urday, June 5. 'This picture of the stilts will be in The Cut them all out and ask your friends to save the pictures in their paper for you The stilts will be given Free to the boys More Pairs day this week. how many pictures you can get them to The Bee Office, Satur- 5. at send us the most pictures be- M., Saturday, June 6. Helps you over GASOLINE Polarine reduces repair bills, STANDARD O1L COMPANY GEBRASKA) the high spots. OMAHA