Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 6, 1915, Page 20

A 6B Fleria col b M 'THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE | FOUNDED BY BDWARD ROSEWATER. + VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing Co lnfi;éprla'nr. #EE BUILDING, FARNAM AND EVENTEENTH. | Eptered at Or;fi—;onoflu an second-class matter. e lUB!C'n‘:P:rff)"Hi By mafl per month. PeT YeAr. and Sunday_... teveens 880 nn It hunday. .. Sunday 6. e, 00 address or complaints of South Z18 street. Council Bluffs—14 North Main street. Lincoin—28 Little Hvlldln&. i jarity in delivery to Omaha Bee, Circulation | ! REMITTANCE. ] - Remit draft, expreas o= postal order. Only two- | cent mg:em-h'ed in payment of small ac- | K checks, except on Omaha and eastern | i m not accepted. | |- OF FICES. | =~ 1 Omaha—The Bee Building | { Chl-' earst Buil X New York-! m 1108, 286 'th avenue. 2ul ew Bank of Comi . ‘ashington—72% Fourteenth Bt., \ S —— e e ettt eemt— i Add - C?RSEHP'(?"N&:ENC". " ) ress communications ng to s and edi. | torlal matter to Omaha Bee, Ilorur'bmnlun. Sl rmsinatien MAY BUNDAY OIRCULATION, 46,903 R AR o Sul DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. in lv presence and sworn to before | me, this y of June, 1915, ” 1 ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public. Subscribers loaving the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them, Ad- dress will be changed as oftén as requested. : Selected by J. W. Clark i *Liberty {a the fwilest opportunity for a man to be and do the very best that s possidle for him." —Phillips Bro ks. Ready for Ak-Sar-Ben? All aboard! The 1915 June bride crop Is starting off this call for farm help, no excuse ablebodied panhandler on the ¥ > : ppt— those 500 Omaha inhabitants on consolidation will not brag The supremacy of Dame Fashion will not be until men are brought to copy | i H i T £ ; i bits i i £ The War and the Rainfall. Twenty-live years ago, when the west was overrun by ‘“Rainmaker” Wright and his discl ples, one of the dogmas set up wag that bom- barding the heavens would produce rain. In support of this it was cited that the battles of the civil war were invariably followed by rain- fall, and the greater the battle, the heavier the precipitation. Against this claim the scientists sot up that no bombardment possitle to man would disturb suufficlent atmosphere to produce even a slight rainfdll, and that all storms that followed battles were but coincidental. The con- troversy is now likely to be renewed, for the co- incidence is again visible. It is a far cry from the plains of Galicia to the plains of Nebraska, half way around the globe, but it s a fact that the fall of Przemysl was followed in Nebraska by rain of a torrential nature. Sclence will boo at | the thought of connecting the two events, but the rain fell, just the same, and the bombard- ment of Przemysl was on a scale never before vndertaken. Two hundred thousand shells | exploded in an hour by the attacking side alone, without counting the replying fire from the de- fenders, makes a display of fireworks exceeding all previous experience. That certainly ought to set spome waves of atmosphere in motion, even if it didn’t cause the deluge In central Nebraska. Dancing in the Public Parks. One feature of the program of the new recreation board that deserves attention is the provision for dancing in the public parks. Tt has been debated a little, and opposition has developed In some quarters, although the objec- tions do not seem to be especially well founded or put forth with much seriousness of purpose. Dancing is a pecullar form of enjoyment, uni- versally practiced, and common to all ages and all races. The movements and figures of the dance are expressive of the emotions, an indica- tion of mental exaltation as well as bodily ani- mation. Danecing has been in all times and among all peoples a recognized factor in all sorts of social functions, religious as well as secular, and it stfll has ite part in the religions of some tribes of men. That dancing in itself s inherently harmful has never been estab- lished, but its benefits are easily understood by any who may be Inclined to thoughtfully con- sider the matter. Thousands of Omaha people, old and young, continually seek the pleasure of moving through formal figures, rythmically ad- justed to the measures of pleasing music, as & reasonable and desirable diversion. No good reason appears why dancing, under proper supervision, should not be permitted in publie parks, while much can be said in support of the proposition. . Missouri River Development. A report from the colonel of the United States Army engineering corps, in charge of the work on the Missour! river, adverse to the plan of making a survey of the river between Kansas City and Bloux City, is to be vigorously opposed by the Omaha Commereial club. The reason glven by the army engineer that the $20,000,000 needed for the construction work between Kan- sas City and 8t. Louis had not been appropriated is not sufficlent to warrant utter ignoring of the upper reaches of the river, It may be that no money will ever be set aside to make the im- provements suggested, but that is no reason why the needed preliminary steps should be neg- lected. A comprehensive survey of the Mis- souri should be made and definite and complete pians for its improvement to meet the needs of navigation worked out by the government engi- neers. Whatever system of inland wateryay navigation may eventually be adopted in the United States, the Missouri river must be reck- oned on, and competent authority should deter- mine what must be done to make it serviceable, S———— Taft on National Proparedness. . Between the alarms of militarists and the insistent protests of pacificists there is a vast middie ground on which may stand the multi- tude of Americans who undoubtedly favor reasonable preparation for national defense. This ground iy defined by Willlam Howard Taft in the Saturdey Evening Post, " Mr. Taft {s not an alarmist nor a pacificist, though leaning more to the latter side If inter- national conditions afford promise of world peace. His experience as secrelary of war and later as president give his discussion of ade- quate preparedness the weight of authority. Three lines of defense against invasion Mr. Taft regards as essential-—the navy, coast forti- fications and a mobile army. An adequate navy, constituting the main line of defense, he would baso on the navel program of 1903, which called for the bullding of two first-class battle- ships a year, with the necessary complement of scout ships, destroyers and submarines. Had this program been followed the nation would have forty-elght battleships in 1919. The re- fusal of past congresses to adhere to it leaves the navy at present five battleships behind. This deticit in defensive power, he contends, should be made up as quickly as possible, with such alteration of naval plans as the lessons of the Buropean war teaches. Mr. Taft regards present national fortifica- tions as adequate defense for their fmmediate localities. They are first-class in comstruction and caliber of guns, the latter requiring only changes fn elevation to equal the range of the largest guns of modern navies. The urgent need In this line Is fortiticatioris at all landing ports, and these could be had w'thout Y the national budget if the politieal hm.o‘t congress would permit the abandonment of use- less navy yards. The third line of defense should, in his opinion, consist of a moblle army of 75,000 effective men in the continental United Btates, exclusive of the artillery service, and the reserve system suggested by Secretary Garrisop, these to be supplemented by doubling the capacity of ‘West Point and the establishment of a military school in the middle west. ence of the judges in soothing palpita it an ideal sanitarium 1'HE HILE the achievement of any big thing affords glory enough to go round, we may as well have the history of this Greater Omaha movement straightened out before it gets too badly twisted. South Omaha Omaha was lald out as a townsite by Omaha people who had not the slightest nodon of establishing a separate city except for development purposes, and th #solute necessity of annexation was clearly foreseen years ago. How the consolidation movement took its inspiration and secured its momen tum Is clearly recalled by a letter I have just received from Attorney K. F. Morearty, who has a good mem ory, and who says “Now that the people have voted for annexation by an overwhelming majority, and realising the great benefits that will cccrue by reason of such a de- elsion, it might be well to take a retrospective view of the past that we may be able and willing to give credit to the one, or ones, most deserving of such, for having brought about final nexation. Not wishing to detract from the Commercial club or Mr. Dietz any of the credit due to both, yet I feel that I can frankly and truthfully state that to no higher or greater source can be traced the original and steadfast champion of annexation than to the late Edward Rosewater, founder and e then bditor of The Bee. ““While my personal and political relationship with this greag man were not at all times of the mont friendly nature, yet it was at his urgent request that, twenty-five years as a member of the Omaha oity council, I p ed and introduced a resolution n that body which called for an election in the eity of Omaha for the purpose of annexing the two cit'es, that of Omaha and South Omaha; this resolution, having the unanimous support of the councfl, was passed; following this, Mr. Rosewater and myself proceeded to South Omaha, where we secured like action on the part of the South Omaha. oity council, the election was held, and Omaha voted almost unanimously for the proposition, a majority of the voters of South Omaha voted for it, but tha count of the ballots, and by the free and easy system of handling the ballots as obtained at that time, the ballot box had been manipulated by a few disreputable ward heslers and the reiurns wers made to show that the proposition was defeited by less than 100 votes. ? “Yet undiscouraged and undaunted, the paper which he established, incessantly in season and out of season, and at times without ald or assistance from any souree, persisted in the fight, until victory finally perohed where iy justly belongs, in the edi- torial sanctum of The Bee.' As here Intimated, it was plain all the time that consolidation was eventually inevitable as a step in the upbullding of Greater Omaha, and that the longer It was deferred the more costly it would be to all con- cernedwhich will goon be more fully realized by many people, who will then wonder why they did not wake up to the fact and help put it over long before. Members of the Rotary club were not long ago usked for opinions as to what that organization could and should do to supplement its activities and make itself more useful to the community. It had already Joined in promoting the garden contest, and had held out a helping hand to local charitable institutions. I' gave President Weller a suggestion for a more cor centrated effort for beautifying the city. We have a initiative in what {s known as “The Prettiest Mile"’ out on the north boulevard, and I belleve that with properly directed energy an equally magnificent showing could be made by taking & stretch of the Lincoln Highway going through the residence districts of Omaha and out through the suburbs, and providing for its uniform treatment from the standpoint of landscape gardening. This would have to bo brought about by associating for the pur- pose the owners of the abutting property with a measurs of assistance from the city authorities and interested civic bodies. The merchants of the *500" block inaugurated an enterprise of this kind along business lines by contributing a common fund for ornamental illumination and street cleaning, and in the same way nwich better results could be secured for embellishing yards, putting in flowers and shrub- bery, matching up shade trees in parkways and keep- ing lawns in trim, by having the work done under a single supervisor directing a orew of gardeners than by each person looking after his own premises in nis own way and at his own time. ‘The chief obstacles always met with here in Omaha in any plan of city beautifying have ocome from. the vacant lots, and from the ocoasional moss- bagk who will not do anything himself nor help any- one else do it. In any such scheme, therefore, it must be expected that some who ought to do their shares will either wantonly refuse or have perhaps some legitimate exouse for Jholding back. This is where the public authorities and outside assistance would be necessary to oarry the project through. The city could fumnish’ the superintendence, and the improve- ment clubs or business leagues could pay the assess- ments for the vacant lots; the Rotary elub could put in a flower bed wheel, the Elks a B. P. O. B. clock, Ak-SBar<Ben a replica of ita current years' insignia, etc., at the conspiouous points; and being on the ma'n pression which our city makes on the stranger, must take advantage of the wonderful opportunities supplied to us by the natural beauty of Omaha's topography. The latest ®ld-timer to although in length of ti inally to ment ever lald twaen Thirtesnth H those two or three most popular pleasure 1ast few years John Grent day annually by giving & OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 6, 1915. TABIOIDS OF SCIENCE. | Oval water pipes are less liable to | burst when fromen tham round ones. There is potash enough for the United States in the kelp beds of the Pacific coasts of Alaska and the coast states. According to an English oculist, diges- tive troubles have an important effect on diseases of the eye, while eye weak- nesses have but little effect upon diges- | tion. | Standard clocks in the Parls observa- tory are kept ninety feet under ground, where the variation in temperature has been | than one degree In several years, Bclentists have established the age of | & pine tree in New Zealand at 1,300 years. The farther the waters of the oceans get from the equator the less salt they | contain, According to a French authority per- fect linoleum has twice the wearing qual- itles of tiling and moro than four times those of hardwood floors. . Leading chemists belleve that the war may shift the drug manufacturing center to this country. The raw materials are plentiful, but synthetic skill is sall to be lacking. Vanlllin Is the active principle which makes vanilla lce cream so popular occurs in the roots of oats &nd tho le and roots of a number of plants. IL has been found to be poisorous to clover, wheat, cowpeas and other plants. OUT OF THE ORDINARY. Hindoos venerate the common marigold and frequently adorn their idols with ‘wreaths of its golden flowers. The United States Hay Fever associa- tion for more than forty years has held an annual meeting at Bethlehem, N. ¥, in August, Bethiehem being out of the sneeze zone. Hick Colgan, the famous wolf catcher ‘who lives near Atchison, Kan., has oap- tured a total of 720 wolves. Ile receives & bounty of # for gray wolves and §1 for coyotes. Since the first of this year he has captured thirty-nine. A house at Stretford, Conn., is prob- ably to be demolished because of the noises made by alleged ghostly visitants. The house dates back to revolutionary times. Cannon balls rolling downstairs are heard and also the swish of skirts and click of military heels. A meteor which fell a few days ago in front of the home of Charles Solmon, who lives near Prescott, Mich.,, went to an unknown depth and water came up to the surface in the hole it .made, although Solmon had been unable to strike water at a depth of eighty feet. The close connection between Cupid and the culinary art was illustrated by three marital suits lately in New Jersey, one woman leaving her hushand because he refused to give her turkey at New Year's, a husband accusing his wife of monetony in the menu of kidney stew, while still another complained that his wife cooked his pork chops In soap. Dr. lvory Lowe of Canaan, Me., the oldest physiolan in Somerset county, is using & wagon which has been in use continuously for forty-five years. Dr. Lowe says the wagon has made on an average of twenty miles each day for forty-tive years, thus making the wagon's total trip wbout 83,000 miles. It still has its original wheels and its original tires. e SIGNPOSTS OF PROGRESS. Montreal has the largest flour mill in the British empire; it turns out §,000 bary rels a day. The war has been responsible for the establishment of the first successful barfum industry in the United States. fhe first factory in the United States for the manutacture of bensol from coal will be estallished in Pennsylvania. Salt for commercial purposes is beini extracted from sea water on an exten- sive scale by a plant in southern Call~ fornia. It has been estimated that nearly 300 000,000 fest, o1 more than 55,000 miles, of film are used up yearly to satisfy the world's demand for moving pictures. In the twelve months ended April , there were §77 merchant vessels bullt and officially numibered in the United States. The gross tonnage of these ships was 1,460, Up to May 1, 142 forelgn bullt vesssls of 500,706 gross tons, valued at $33,000,000, with ol or gasoline fuel. t is estimated that 50 per cent of the 1,760,000 automobiles in use in the United friende—stag of uding publio officlals, —— Grand Army of the Republic comrades, personal ‘Topeka threatens to seize the local post- friends and Masonic brothers, unique as an elaborate | office for taxes. Rocking the boat? feast, and for the scintillating humor and goodfellow- Kansas City reports nine mysterious ship John Grant was alwaye boosting other people | gisappearances of women since April 1 into office. ¥e never held any office himself except to fill a vacancy in the eounty commissionership, for aceepting which he was profuse in his apologies. lssloner county comm! he rendered iog, although even then he was beginning feeble. undertakers that advertising their “‘wear- ing apparel” as “fashionable dress suits'™ is & grave breach of profgssional pro- priety, St. Louls has lost in the the annusl meeting of the Vassar alumnae. of value, is unchanged, while the popula~ Dr. G. M. Crowell is back from a trip to Philadel- | tion has grown 142 per cent and its death phia. rate dropped from 22.17 to 13.5 per 1,000 SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT. Detroit Free Press clergyman who died recently at the age of 82 had married 1,084 couples. but that #hould not be held against him. Brooklyn Eagle: Dr. Charles H. Park- hurst, censured by the Presbyterian gen- oral assembly for an anti-prohibition fet- fer to a friend in California, can sym- pathige with Union seminary. Ministerial liberty and academic liberty have much in common. Springfield Republican: A touch of in- humanity makes the rest of the world kin. The American Jewish committee notes that the persecution of the Jews has entirely ceased in Palestine and that the great sufferera there at present are the Roman Catholic religlous orders. The Turks, however, have long been more friendly to the Jews than to the various sects of Christians. St. Louls Republic: Ths revival of the cld fashion of street preaching, accom- plished by the Church Federation of St Louls, will head off a great deal of more or less aimless and hopeleas talk about the weakness of the modern church In “reaching’’ men. The way to reach men 1s simpligity itselt; it is to go where they That's the way any other sort of animal is reached. Boston Transcript: With forceful unity of decision the Unitarians, now in ocon- vention in Boston, have determined to stand by their time-honored name. They have known that the liberal spirit could not be harmed by a word apparently narrow in what it denotes yet truly, broad in what actual practice has made it to signify. Retaining all the values which past assoclation and tradition have bullt round the name, the Unitartans have surely mnot lessened its worth for the tuture. “MADE IN U. 8, A" Washington Post: When Henry Slen- kiewicz refers to this country as the “conscience of the world,” it's enough to make us shell out in a new and better wey: Pittsburgh Dispatch: The presidunt ad- vises his countrymen in these troublous war times to sit tight, and think hard, and not talk. Marked copies, please, to our distinguished fellow citizens, the con- queror at Syracuse and the spelibinder A Pennsylvania & DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. “My daughter is having her volcs * sald Mr. Cumrox * rano or a contraito? 4" diinno. T suppose she'll decide to be whichever costs the most.” —4Vashing- ton Star hat mateh was the union of naturel . § wouldn't marry the best man living. He—No? Well, at any rate, you will have the satisfaction of knowing that he offered himself.—Boston Globe. ““That stupld assistant of mine lost me L) T‘k\d customer.’ ow wag that?™ “He saw by the papers that she was recelving yesterday, so he took that op el ll{flm deliver a couple of cuses of —Loutsvil B of the Chautauqua platform. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Rather dis- concerting truth has come out that'the eulogy of the kalser In his youth which appears in the speller used in the puble schools of Chicago was written by Mrs. Ella Flagge Young herself, though some years ago before the present war was thought of; the kaiser iz the only in- dividual singled out for praise. Now f{t stirs Bohemian, Polish, Serbian, French and Itallan parents to protests. Isn't this neutrality business a caution? Washington Post: The money ¢f the world will flow by hundreds of millions of dollars this year into the pockets of the farmers of the United States, and with our great manufacturing plants and this assured huge foreign demand the billion-dollar balance of trade ‘o be shown at the close of the fiscal yeer, June 90, 1915, should have another bililon pdded to it by the close of the next year. Never in the history of the United States were there in evidence such convincing proofa of record-breaking business along all lmes. ie Courler-Journ: “When water becomes Ice,” asked tle teachar, “what is the great chauge that takes place?” . ‘“The greatest chango, ma'am,” said the little har ‘ls _the ange in price."— Ladies’ Home Journal. i"latbush—I was out sho) wife yesterday and 1 loi erowd. Bensonhurst—You were lucky. “No, 1 waen't. She found me, —Yonk« ers Statesman ing with moy ‘:‘ her in the 4 a most enjoyable time at the den- hig afternoon Enjoyable? “Yes When I went in. another dsatie: was filling my dentist’s teeth"—Balti- mcre Amerizan, “This eclentist undertakes to prove that Helen of Troy had a flat nose.’ “And_1 hope he proves it. Folks yap about Helen of Troy Iike there hasm't ;een a pretty woman since.—=Chicago ost. Mother—What kind of a shew @id papa take you to se while You were in t city ¥ Hobble—It was a dandy show, mamma, with ladies dressed in stockings clean up to thelr necks—Puck. WHAT PA DOESN'T KNOW, Bdgar A, Guest, in Detroit Free Press. Sometimes when folks come in to ecall on Ma an' Pa's away, b An' I'm supposed to ba where I can't hear a word they say, 4 Ma starts to tell 'em all about Pa's fine an’ splendld ways, i An' just how d an' kind he is, an all the jokes he plays; An’ how he uever gives her any reason for complaint, ¥ Until_she has the women folks beltevin' P a sajnt. o B Pa’'s just an ordinary man—he tells us 80 himeelf, He has to work all dey to get his littie bit of pelf. He isn't one that's known to fame, he ean't do clever things, He isn't one that makes a speech, or out in public sings, But Ma just makes him cut to be a man the world would cheer If it could know the worth of him—when he's not there to hear. When Pa's away Ma tells hee friends how much of him she thinks, An' just how good it is to have that never drinks. She dwells upon his thoughtful ways, his patience an' his worth, An' boasts that she Js married to the finest man on earth. But If Pa jsn't home on thwme, an’ sup- per has to wait Bhe gives it to him, wood an' strong, for gettin’ in ®o late. lunv:.l.—n‘“when Ma is scolding Pa, an' 't say & word, I feel like (euln"him the things that Ma don't know T've heard . 1 feel like crawlin’ in bis lap, an’ whis- n', “Never minl," . her heart Ma really thinks you're that's. geod an' kind. She thinks that you're the finest man there le on earth, ! Because most every nfternoon she tells the meighbors so.” man Deep in Pail _—————————————> lllinois Ce Phone Douglas 264. 407 $78.90 inch double records) your selection. hogany '$78.90 Yours is them. fu and gelect it. your Excursion Fares East via Choice of circuitous and direct routes to New York and Boston. 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