Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 7, 1915, Page 5

i i | | | ‘THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSHWATHR. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR, The Bee Publithing Company, Proprietor, BEN BUILDING, FARRKAM AND SRVENTEENTH. Entered_at Omaha oo A8 second-Aass Matter. WERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By catrier By mall "m.a:h per ¥ A& The Omaha—318 N Bluffs~14 N n Little Bu P e e R APRIL CIRCULATION, ko (s month ot wes ‘fi) '% o s 0o B ulRren, Notary Public. Subscribers leaving the city should have The Bee mailed to them. A dvess will be changed as often a8 requosted. “0-eall not this & vale of tears, A avorid-of gloom and sorrow, the grief that o'er us comes often borrow, I and ot o e an ww:l‘: s within ourseives, world is what we make " It won't be long before Florence and Benson will wish they bad been ineluded. The-job of jarring 1608e the Nebraska plum tres has been devolved upon McAdoo to do, But what MeAdoo can do is dublotis, pme————— Bullding trades activity is grester in Omahs than in any other Ametean ity of our siss of Jarger. Stop Kiveking and keep a-bovetifig! 18 10 be the watriors in Hufope are ot of FANge of buf comMeficement | otherwise peace would be estiblished tip has gone out te 8,000 Treasury o pay up their debts or seek other jobs. from any angle the tppiig system ls o ovil. { I} f"mflufi;fiflumnh the miulsto furnished by the tederal coutt of New 3 Bven the canners’ comblne blows oft thé id of joy. The success of the peony exhibit sligkests that the city might with advantage put on & flower show Onee O Lwice a year after It takes over the Atditorium, — of neutral shipping proceeds with 'vigor. What German submatities fail to Great Britaln interns in port. Bither o have paid away is does not need & summer 100k pleasant at an involuntary Weddiug. . not so much the secretary of state '* as the benator explains the cause plum crop shortage, but that the presi- ;"»l-m---huh.nnmm state. M i ep— 12 1t 1s the Universal verdict that dentists | advertise, why not also the other profes- that have legitiméite services 10 otfer which possible patrons must otherwise in the 2! ; s going 16 pay the bills for thosé " blow-ups of feutral éhips. At the Ume Bngland dalltes 1n prize courts, con- the goods and kesps mim on reparation. dun for John Bull Is also overdue. Em—— millers have finally found out that the wheat 18 coming down, and have low- the price of flour sccobdingly. Now, it ne will only get word to the baker, the may get some advantage of-the ver | uu-gm-umut . Blackburn the | department, “‘a gentleman peculiarly h‘_m-ullninhvthu-luuul Bryan Propoi Oredit Merger. Has Secretary Bryan hit upon the solvent that may reconeile and unite the interests of all the Pan-Ameriean republicans through a gigantic credit merger?! A proposai in that direction made by him in Connection with the financial conferéfice held in Washington s hafled by the National City Bank citenlar ag “not only a dar- ing but a brilliant conceptioh” and though a move in the realm of finance as of more far reaching statesmanship than anything emanat- ing from him In the fleld of diplomsey. The gist of the Bryan proposal may be found in this qudtation: Hedretary of Stats Bryan presented & proposal look- ing to &n ntekchanks of eredit by the govefntent of the United States with governments within the Pan- American tnjon that might desire to take advantage of the arrafement. The secretary of state was cate- ful to say that he threw out the suggestion hé was about to make quite in a personal and unofficial way, obviously guarding against its being regarded at this time as an administration measure or as representing even the Views of any of his colleagues. His premise was that the dovelopment of séveral of the Eouth American republics wAs greatly hindered by the lack of credit which woilld enable those countries to bor Oow on any reasonable basis. He cited instances of governments paying 8 per cent, and he could, of course, have cited many such instances, and some Wwhere the rate Would have been even higher. He very properly regarded thils lnck of ctedit and consequent Inck of national initiative as a great loss, not alone to the countries ana the people of the nations being tonsidered, but quite as well to the people of the United States, This interchange of credit was to be accomplished by taking from a South American nation its obligation bearing 4 per ceht interest and giving such & country a like amount of United States bonds bearing 8 per cent Interest. Our government, how- ever, instéad of making the 1 per cent difference in interesl rates, would devots this to the amortization of the South Americah bonds, which by fnvesting the sinking fund at 3 per cent would be accomplished in forty-seven years. Paradoxically Becretary Bryan, despite the revolution he once sought to lead against a gold bandage, would cha‘n the republics of the two American continents together with links of the same yellow metal or rather with a credit union secured by our gold. The idea, of eourse, should it appeal to our meighbors to the south of us, would take time for frultion and require first the development of many complicated detalls, but it wollld be remarkable if it proved to be the one lasting eontribution of national policy to be credited to Mr. Bryan. An Adjustable “Gateway.” How the advantage of A hatdral trade route forces recognition ahd dominates actual traffic 18 now being shown in a striking way. A few months ago the purchase of the Central Pacltic by the Union Pacific was ptevented by Attorney QGetteral McReynolds, the remson givem being that it was to avold setting up control at Ogden of traffic to the west. Whatever of dispute might have arisen over this point has beén wet- tled by the natural foute for travel. Roads run- ving out from Chicago have afranged to turn over their business to the Union Pacifie at Omaha, and the Ogden “gateway’’ Has st last lost ite significance, Four other transcontinental lines in the United States and two in Canade owh thelr eontihuous rails to the Paeific coast, but this was denled the Union Paeifie. But neither ‘“regulation” nor rivairy overtome the advantage of geography and location, and Omaha is now the gateway in fact as well as in name for the gréat current of transcontinental trattic, ! A —————r—— ' Education by hl:i;llfin _fiuw One of the most widespread of efroneous bellets is that which attaches to “be it enacted” potency that stops just short of omnipoience. Popular faith in the ability of the leglslature to bring to pasd Almost anything that is desired or désirable has never been more contidently éx- hibited than when the lawmakers are dealing with educationsl lnstitutions and methods. Here the trust of the voter seets to be as implicit as ihe faith of the martyrs. Nebrasks had a most filuminative exhibit of this pecullar quality of mind during the late sessioh of the legislature, When a metiber very nearly had his way in deal- ing with the University of Nebraska, over the protest of the chancellor, the faculty, the regents and everybody else Wiho 1 In & position to really know of its needs, fts eapabilities, its purposeés and its aspirations. Missour! is just now getting an illustration of the besuty of the legislature’s conception of its Bwh abllity to deal with any and all ques- tions, The last session down there enacted a law that requires the University of Missour! to grant certain degrees at a school of technology tor whieh it 1s not equipped to prepare students It seems 16 HAY® been the notion of the law- makers that if the leglelature orders these de- grees conferred, all the turators of the univer- sity have to do Is to fill out the sheepskin, and the reciplent is thereby duly qualified. The mere matler of mental preparation and qualifi- catlon for the dighlty and dlstinction of the title conferred cuts no figure under the Missouri law. ‘The curators propose to test the question in the courts. Possession of a diploma from a college or university is usually a credit to the holder, but it 1s ot an infallible proof of intellectual emi- nence or usefulness. Muany very able and influ- entlal men have achieved greatness against the handicap of lack of university training, while mahy formally permitted to write sections of the alphabet after thelr names have falled to fmeet expectations. Experience has pretty well demonstrated that the domain of intellectunlity is not to be attained by fixed rules. This being true, legislativi actment may well be kept for other ures, While the direction of the great state schools 1s left to the wisdom of those with estab- lished qualifications for the work. — Movements for hunian betterment find their greatest obstacles in the dollars involved. In ohe New York institution for the cdre of un- fortunates, efforts to cure them of the drug habit are well-nigh useless, made so by the ac- tivitles of presumably respectable bootleggers. ‘The resident physiclan, a nurse, two keepers and an orderly, caught with the goods, have been ar- rested fur smuggling dope to the inmates, This comes close t0 the limit of human greed. — War alarmists are wofully behind the time. They imagine much and know so little. General Cleveland Motfett has already pulled off & hot air invasion and lald the heavy hand ‘Speedy typewriter All of which goes to OMAH T MOXDAY, JUNE 7, 1915, (tas as a Weapon Literary m—_‘l HAT i the nature of the deadly gas launched against the allies by their Gerthan foes? A contributor to the Sclentific Amerfean thinks that the evidenée points t6 chiérin, and he furnishés some Interesting facts regarding the probable method of producing the gas on the battlefield atid of insuring that it shall reach the ememy In a stfficiéht degree of concentration to do damage. A fofmidable attack of this sort on May M §& described in Sir John French's report: ‘'SBome positions in our line eat of Ypres lokt yester- day during An enemy gas attatk have not yet been recofered. The amouinit of kas used was grédter than ot any previous occaBlon; extehding over a front of five miles. The gas wad émitted from cylinders dur- Ing a perlod of four and a Halt hours. At the same time ouf line was bombarded by ashyxiating gas- shells until the gas eloud rose at plases to & height of fifly fept from the ground. ““Portions of the line remained Intatt throughout tho ordéal, and our men demonstrated that with due pre- cautions this fofm of attack can be Succeksfully met ana defeated.” We are reminded by the writer that in the evolution of warfare there has beeri an increasing use of forces further and further from the direct use of muscular power, This tendency, of course, 18 also shown in in- dustrial development. We see eVérywhere increased use of machines, the applications of physical forces b8 they become known through scientific study, and In general the gradual substitution of HatiFal forcss controlled by mind for the muscular exertion of earller times. He goes on to say: “The methods of destrietion also call upon knowl- edge from most of the arts and sclences, and each #tep in their evolition is & further appllchtion 6f ci- entiffc knowledge. “In the present Buropean war the appliéation of such knowledge seems to be reaching the utmost limit of ingenuity. Tt may almost be called a chémist and physicist war, with its application of physics in herial havigation and its ubé of submarines, of telephones, Wireless telegraphy, searchif§hts and range finders, and the application of chemistry in the manufacture the manufacture of hydrogen ting bombs and flares, and, latest of all, in the manufacture of polsonous gases to be used for tactieal purposes, “The reports which haVe been received seem to #how that the gas so far used is chlorin, The green- ish-yellow color, the strong smell, the great density of the gas causing it to flow along the ground are indications of cholrin. The symptoms shown by the victims are those exhibited by persons who have been polsoned by chlorin in industrial accidents; that ls, great irritation of the mucous membranes, bronchitls and sudden death by a narcotic action in the most sevetre cases. It chlorin is the gas which was used, it mush have reached the trenches In a concentrated form to cause dedth, unileas the death was due in part to psyohology- feal effects, for to produce death rapidly it is neces- sary that the air breathed shall contain at least one paft of chlorin in 1,000 or air. Long exposure to air cofitainifig one part of chlorin per 100,000 is dangerous, and even smaller amounts are troublesome, ‘4t 18 of some Interest to knew how much chlorin I8 needed to be effective. On the supposition that there 1s a brédze of four miles per hour and that it takes two Minutes to empty the ocontainers holding the ohlorin, the drift of air during that time would be nbout 700 feet; to charge the lower three feet of this alr current with chlorin to & concentration of one to 1,000 woula require about six cublc feet, or one pound for each yard, or something like one ton per mile of battle front. Chlorin can be obtalned com~ mercially compressed into Hquid form in cylinders for 6 to 8 cénts & pound, and As a by-profvict in the elec- trolytie manufacture of hydrogen for balloonk 1t may well be of less value,” Utider proper conaitions, the writer conctudes, it is duite feasible to use this Inexpensive and powerful offénsive Weapoh. But the conditions must be right. T6o st¥ong & breeze would ditfuse the gas; & variable wind of eal would injure the user, gas could hardly be used unieds the battle line were straight Of conivex toward the enemy, #ince otheriise the fumes wolld be apt to dFift 1h part over the users' Wil lines, as, in fact, it has done Sometimes, the dls- patches say. We read further: “And theh undoubtedly effective preventive o6F antidotal measures can be used. A pOREe or towel Wet with water or bettér, with some bailo stibstance like cooking soda 6r bofax kept ready to put over the face might hold off the danger, and more respirators eharfed with Basle substances of With re- ducing agenits like oxalates or sodhim hyposulfite filkht enable the attacked force to tide over the worst of the attack, “Probably sulphur dioxide and biominé might e wsed In a similay way to chlorin, as théy are eéx- tremely irritatifig, det at onté, andl aré heavy. But they could both be absorbed by respiratord similar to those erfective for éhlorin. “While the use of polsonous gases has beeh spoken of dx in the line of evolution of warfare, since it is an application of advanced knowledge, the thoukht comes that in view of the apparent cruelty Invelved it can be ured only wheh it I8 shown to be of great military vilue. It has been apparently of some military value temporarily, and ls used against military forces and net against non-combatants, pnd in that sense 18 perhaps more allowible than the m ‘bombs in citiés or the bombarament of towns, but the Weapons which seem most In line with this use of gased IR war Are the saw-toothed knife, the jagwed spear and the dumdum bullet. With the perfection of preventivé measures the tactlcal advantages may be removed &nd this baFbarsus application of sclentific knowleligé may not tempt the leaders of armles so-called enlightened nations.” Twice Told Tales Not Plaving in Luek, They Were speaking about playing in luck and Congredéman Bugene E. Reed of New Hampshire told of an ineldent that happened in the west. A traveling salesman landed in one of the burgs along hils route and was surprised to fina the whole population marching to the musie of brass bands, “Say, old mah," he wonderingly asked an esteemed citizen standing along the sidewalk, “what is the eause of all this excitement ™' “We are celebrating the birthday of cur oldest in- habitant” answered the other. “She is 101 years old t t was her in first automobile" “You don't mean | returned the salesman, glancing up the street. ‘ho was the sad looklag gink sitting by her side?™ “Distant relative,” was the grinful rejoinder of the native. “He has been k Up the payments on her life insurance policy for the last thirty years.''—Phila. delphia Teiegraph. Seemed Probable. A young business man, who has been married but @& short thime, was greeted by his wife one evening just before dinner with the joyful ahnouncement that she had that very afternoon recelved her diploms from the cooking school at which she had been an assiduous student for some tifie. “And I've preparéd the whole dinner tonight!” she added, gayly. When they were seated at the table, and the young man was endeavoring to masticate a parti- ularly tough plece of one of the new dishes, his wite suddenly sald: “1 took special pains with the dish you are eating. Guess what it Is." “Well, T really don't know," he relied, uncertainly. “ls it the diploma?'—Philadelphia Ledger. File Sanity Bstablisbhed. At & political convention Jn one of the western sates two rival delegates got into & serious personal dispute. TheDees, 7 Patent Office Practice, NORTH LOUP; Neb., May 31.—To the Bditor of The Bee: The truth is some- timeb a difficult thing to find. Readers of The Bee know of the objeetions raiséd to the Interior and Agriculturel departments by this writer. One of those objections was with respect to the man- agement of the patent office which is in charge of the Intefior departiment, and with respect to the Rittman claims on a gasoline process. The present methods of selectifig the patent office examiners leaves the patent practice emtirely opent 10 the #ples of blg business, especially thé ol and gas trusts. A féw Weeks ago I rdised the objection to the practice, but had heard nothing of the fhtter un- til wefy fecently, ahd that came in &h accidental way. Big blsiness selscts a few men and places them in line for patent office ex- antiners, and they take the oath the sAmé as any applicant for those posi- tions. When an applieation for ietters patent Somes in, If it is a matter that big busitiéss doss not want patented, the lettars patént is denled on wome sort of Pprevious claims. HSifice raising the ob- Jjections to the manipulations of the In- terior department in making gasoline and taking out patents in the name of the Bovernment, I have recélved the fol- lowing: “May 3, 1915. Mr. ‘W, J.<Dedr Bir: Mr. H. M., efaminer in the Unitéd States patent office for the last eight vears, Has resigned his position and joined the P. P. Mr. M. had charge of patent classes, ihcluding carburetors, Alr and &8s mixers, gas producets, and treatment of mineral ofls and is therefore in posi- tion especially fitted for preparing and prosecuting applications for patents of this character. This, with Mr. M.’ 1- farity with patent office procedure a patent law practice, makes him a valuable addition to the firm and increases our facilities for rendering expert services on behalf of our clients.” Mr. M. aid not know that this writer was working in those matters except he obtained the same from the patent of- fice records, which he has no right to distlose under the patent laws. It would #oem that the department saw fit to re- fndve Mr. M. for cause, and gave him & ehance to resign and enter the patent fight practice. But how does that im- Prove the patent office practice and how does 1t remedy the mattet of the In- terior department in going into the pat- ent right business ahd at the same time Mt in judgment on the issue of patent righta? What we are insisting on Is that the patent office &nd the Interior depart- meénit be elearéd up in & proper way. Mr. M. whs the mah who covered the ap- plisation of this writer for a &asoline proceds, and to dn Averige man a pat- eht granted 1n 1890 would hardly antiel- pate a superheating process which was not demanded untll the last five years. There are other matters connécted with the Interior deépartment that do not look good. One of those ls the matter of the Ostge ofl flelds of Oklahoma, where the oll trust waiits in. Mr. President, you #hould get busy. They seem to have let some matters out that was not Intended. Patet attorneys should insist on clear- 1hg up thé department. WALTER JOHNSON. — Démocratic Economy. OMAHA, June 3.—To the Bditor of The Bes: Some time a yedr ago last winter & committee sit A & room in the capitol at Washington and etonsidered cutting down appropriations. Senator Sorghum's hrnhual rake-off for his constituency of half a milllon dollars to deepen the Squeewec river couldn't be cut. Dozens of other clamorous patrons of the plé countér and diggers in the pork bar']l clung to their ple and pork. But the appropfiation had to bs cut down. somehow. Ah, here {s the nioney for paying the janitors and charwomen of the public buildings. They get 35 abd $25 @ month, respectively. Cut that They woh't kiek. They can't complain. They are poor and hunible and have no influential friends. They'll have to bear it in sllehce Oft went $85,000 from the appropriation to phy the meagre salaries of these poor employes. Bach lost eight days’ pay afid If any i sick quring May and June this year he or she loiys His or her pay for that time. Two are Hiek 1 Omaha at present. Oné is & widow Wwith childrén and she has Just gone the hospital with smallpox. One Jani has been compelled to bor- roW 5 from o 10An shark, paying 27 for ten monthe' interest. It will take him Just halt o month to earn the Interest alone, . The cut affects 4,2 of the government's hardest working and poorest pald em- ployes thrdughout the country and the misery and hardship that it has caused 1s incalculable. Meanwkile supernumeraries put in time at thelr sinecures, useless ‘“rivers” are dredged and In & hundred ways the gov- ernment’s moneys aie wasted, A. R. G Present Leather Medals. BOUTH OMAHA, June §—To the Eiitor of The Bes: If the South Oamha offi- g : i i H ; 5%55’552 i g el L o Lover Very ground your Father (srimly worth - - i O — 4 “1 see town councll has p g8 e iy VALY, Jooat ok | new doaricnoh o the. town, Ball ahd ““"w—‘ h e huid Seiectman Hopud Kpoee 1 mish you, “You," but DermM Souiin oL ocaon el gwed it to Flunkvills to slick” 1 [ sty Do v “Woméh do fot seem really to want |mer, lot of U be to leasn anything." embricn " cost P2 ouibvite ‘Well, when a LINES T0 A LAUGH, HE Ran J0s Rlune to give her some new wrini " Wash- loul d:. It's a froft fML—Tmm'i\’ ington Star. I!‘.lo\ndlhel\l h “‘Well, it néce. constantly #fi “Our suburban neighbor, r, told me yeste who is “What's_his speciall acters?'—Baltimore Américhn. — one #if of ther. “I wis out an_gutemobile.” > hasn' dianapolls News. woman s trying her | Journal. Schlitz in Brown Bottles The Effects Good Beer on your digestion. Heavymeals mean more or less in- difiestible food. Schlitz is a great 1d to digestion. tart drinking it with your meals. You'll notice from your first glass an added enjoyment of your food, and you'll feel imme- diately Beneficial Schlitz in Brown Bottles is all healthfulness, it is pure and whole- some. The Brown Bottle protects Schlitz purity from the damaging ef- fects of light from the brewery to your glass. 4 Suppose Anxious —— My face 1s my fortune,” said the con- for you to be ssary “‘5\-‘:‘: roll,” “remarked the male cyhio. lay with prid: o o quite an expert at whitewashing.' “Where wefé you It night?’ asked ing with father In his But I didi't know your father had 't; he is & motofman.’—In-