Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 9, 1915, Page 6

& . ! il i gl 3 ) "-\ THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER, VICTOR ROSEWAI'ER, EDITOR. The Bee Publiehing Company, Proprietor. BE® BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. Bntered at Omaha postoffice as second-class matter. TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION By carrier month. By mall per year. .90 REMITTANCE. by draft, express or portal order. Onx two- stamps recelved in payment of small ae- sounts, Personal checks, except on Omaha and eastern not accepted. OFFICES. z-un—m B' Bullding. uth Omaha—=i8 N street mnr" Bluffs—14 North Main street. earst Bulldin 5.- ‘ork—Room 1108, 286 P‘nn avenue. 13 Louls~508 New Bank of Commerge. ‘ashington—1% Fourteenth 8t., N. W, CORRESPONDENCHE, ecommunications rdnlr&llo news and edi- matter to Omaha Bee, torial Department. MAY CIRCULATION, 53,345 flls of Nebraska, (,'m-mt‘ of ., . 'wight Willia circulation manager of The Hee hm-a company, being duly sworn, says that the uuv&a.- reulation for the month of May, 1915, was DWIGHT WILLIAME, C reulation Manager, becrited in my presence and sworn to bef me, this 30 day of yuno, 01§ BERT HUNTER, Notary Public. Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee malled to them, Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. _—— Thought for the Day Selected by John R. Wabster Higher than the question of our duration is the question of owr deserving. Immortality will r wch as are fit for it, and he who wouid e @ great sowl in the future, must be a great soul now. — Ralph Waldo Emerson. No eight-hour day on any Nebraska farm these days. p— A1 vight, with plenty of “pep,” Omsha will put 1t over all comers, omp————— For a monarch who is entering the twenty- firat year of hig reign, Old King Ak-Sar-Beu is a pretty lusty infant. FERR——— Our School board wisely subseribes to the time-vindicated adage about never borrowing trouble ahead of time. e —— Stil], the court presided over by Judge Kene- saw Mountain Landis {s not the one a well in- tormed person would choose to bump up against. S — Another admiral has been heard from. He does not expect trouble and he is not looking for it. But if he had the equipment that makes for a sure thing, trouble could not escape. Speeeigtm—— The Berlin professor who discusses a revi- sion of international law “after the war” would Smtee— As to the delay in the governor's proclams- tion, our guess is that the machinery is set to roake the Greater Omaha merger effective on or about July 1, so as to start even with a fiscal half- It is charged out in San Francisco that ‘dopesters there have been systematically sup- E ‘plied by drugeists in other cities, Including Omahs. That's & brand of publicity dope we ‘can ‘better do without. - EE——— " The immortal saying of Tim Campbell, "“Ah, s mm tone pervades the of S in warring countries. s confident of a glorious trl- Sympathizers at a distance should take up and smile the while. % 2 SEmem—— “Liquid fire” Is the latest form of ammuni- described in the dispatches as belng used effect in the Huropean war zone. me sort of relation to the “fire that proved so effective in knocking out red man in our warfare on the Indian? Men who have experienced hardships and survived the perils of war are least disposed to it. That is the part of inexperience and A recent poll of American clergymen on question of increasing armaments showed THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, Bryan's Resignation. Despite periodic reports of impending re- | tirement ever since he became a member of the !nnhlna‘ Secretary Bryan’s resignation at thie | | particular time comes almost as a stroke of | lightning out of a elear sky. Both his political friends and his political enemies had predicted varly disagreement with the president, but Mr. Bryan by his and “loyalty” to his chief seemed to be bent on dis- eppointing their expectations by showing that he could serve in a subordinate capacity and “take orders” like a soldier. That the situation should now reach the point where he belleved “loyalty’’ required his own elimination as a discordant factor in the cabinet only strengthens the conviction that the differences have become fundamental on vital points. We do not believe the retirement Bryan will alter the administration, for that has notoriously been Mr. Wilson's all along, but it may have a weak- ening effect on foreign powers as indicating to them an instability in our position; if so, it will be unfortunate. Politically Mr. Bryan's resumption of the estate of private citizen is bound to change the topography of our domestic affairs, more espe- clally in his home state of Nebr: Liberated trom official shackles, he becomes again & free man, free to pursue the path of his own best judgment and to further his own personal ambi- tions. believes that he could it he would, or would if ke could, be content to serve in the ranks. We self-abnegation intense of Mr, hardly look to a tourth candidacy for the presi- | dency at the next turn—surely not it he has to week the nomination against his former chief— but we would not be at all surprised to see him throw his hat in the ring for the Nebraska senatorship next spring, and it goes without saying that such a contest would be worth go- ing miles. to witness. Regardless of plans for the future, we take it that Mr, Bryan's first step will be to resume his place as a distinguished citizen of this state, and, though continuing to differ with him In polities, we stand ready to greet his home- coming with a cordial welcome. Study of History in High School. Omaha school authorities are again con- fronted by a question that has arisen from time to time for many years, that of the compulsory or merely elective study of American history in the high schools of the city. Some revision in the course of study may be necessary, but the requirements should include a course in Amer- fean history, in civies and economies. The in- struction need not be profound, but should be sufficlently comprehensive to give the student an understanding of the fundamentals of our system of government. Unless our public schools prepare the children for citisenship, they fail in thelir chief object, and this preparation cannot be given without some knowledge of American history, The accepted reason for neglecting Amer- | ican history Is to favor high school students pre- paring for entrance to colleges where this is not an entrance requirement. Such coll should 1eVise their schedules to include American his- tory, for its importance makes its omission seem inexcusable. Though electives suffer, and fads gC by the board, the history of our country and {te institutions should be insisted upon. ——— ' Fighting in the Factories. A striking feature of the tremendous strug- gle in progress in Europe is that the fortunes of war turn on the forces employed fn the fac- tories of the nations engaged. The men on the firing line are merely the distributing agents of those employed at home making machinery for the destruction of life and property. It used to be said an army travels on its stomach, Now it may be sald with even more force, a nation fights in the factories. Carefully drilled, per- fectly organized and appointed to the minute with accoutrements and panoplied in the most deceptive of uniforms, the army might well stay at home unless ready to expend ammunition at a rate inconcelvably extravagant. o Here is another point on which the German geniug for detall gives its armies a noticeable advantage. The splendid Industrial organiza- tion of the German empire aocords its military machine the support it must have to make its presence in the field of effect. Russia has suf- fered more than any of the belligerents because of its lack of industrial development. The frults of a great victory have at least twice been literally snatched from the jaws of the bear be- cause the czar's army was short supplied with shot and shell. Great Britain is appealing to the patriotism of its factory workers to save the ration by extra exertion In turning out what its army most needs—ammunition. S — Title to the Bullet. A case of curious interest is reported to have recently been decided by a German court. A wounded soldier brought suit against the sur- seon who attended him to recover possession of the bullet that had brought him under the doc- tor's care. Clalms on both sides were set out and the court determined the bullet belonged io the soldier. ‘Who will deny that in this decision the court has not followed the rule of common sense as applied to property rights? The title to the bullet originally reeided in the enemy nation. This owner voluntarily relinquished its rights when the bullet was sped upon its flight, and inferentially at least conveyed title in the same to its recipient. The doctor, of course, may set up some show of title under the doectrine of treasure trove, but as the owner of the premises all that it was not intended that title should pass. In this case an action for trespass in favor of foreign policy of the | No one who knows him for a moment | | | (reatest Decade of Invention Scientific American. T achievement was the invention of the steam en- gine Its introduction divided recorded time into two Astinctly defined eras, and it may well be said that the entire history of man's material endeavors counts forward or backward from that comparatively recent event. The jump from manual to power opera- tions, which typifies the two eras, was nothing short of cataclysmic, and profoundly affected and stirred | mankind in all its relations to an exient inconceivably greater than any political change or decision in battle that is ordinarily cited by the historlan to mark the beginning of a new epoch. As woon after this event | as distracted civilization could be released from the | pérjods in the history of invention. *tifling hondage of Incessant warfare, the problem of applying this mighty agency to the needs of man be gan In earnest—with an energy, capacity, and genius never ceasing and never hefore equaled. Thus was in- | augurated the age of michinery, of Invention, of indus triall m—an oge vitally different frcm all that p ece it and during which the basis f soclety was 1.0re Com- pletely altered and the economic and political struc- | ture more fundamentally revelutionized than in all the preceding centurles of civilization put together. Of the ten decades which may be roughly stated to cover this notable period of development, not one has failed to contribute its quota toward the sum of great in- ventive achievemen Each and every decade has #een the origin of some transcendent act for the ad- vancement of material civilization The ten years most fraught with achievement up to the invention of the telephone, was the 1840-1850 peried, during whieh the reaper, vuleanization of rubber, sew- ing machine, and telegraph were perfectad. These in- ventione, by far the most notable of the decade, wern all American and marked the culmination of Yankee | Ingenuity, and it is safe to assert that no other people in any equal short span of time can point to & record of mccomplishments so marvelous and #o revolution- ally and soclally. The decade beginning #0 notable—the telephone, the dynamo, and the arc lamp appeared and gave the first indica- tions of the coming rart electricity was to play in the affalrs of mankind But the ten years beginning with 1880 saw an out burst of invent've actiyity that dwarfed all similar It seemed that the discoveries in things electrical in the last three or four years of the previous decade was the signal for the pent-up genlus of tho world to let loose. The trolley car, which has changed the face of urban clvilization; incandescent light, with its more powerful and healthier glow and more adaptable use; the automo- bile, the most distinctive feature of our time; the typewriter, the most necessitous instrument in mod- ern business; the skyscraper, the delineator of the new skyline of American business cen! and the cash-register, that ublquitous instrument and first ald to honesty—to pick out the most obvious of the inno- vations that proclaim the age—all of these came into belng or were first whipped iuto shape In the ten pregnant years beginning with 1580, Before 158) electricity was sparingly used—the first central station for aro lighting had just been estab- lished in 1879, Its recogmition as & source of energy for universal lighting, for propulsion, for power, and for heating—for all the large and vital uses it could be put to—was a matter of speculation, and not one of expectedly near realization. No one, even of the wildest imaginings, could have dreamed of the trans- formation so close to hand. But before this census period closed the electric incandescent lamp was in- contestably established, the trolley car was success- fully introduced, the central station for power dls- tribution and the polyphase motor for stationary work began to show its revolutionizing possibilities, and the first electric furnace was put into successful commercial operation. All the big problems that were involved in putting into service in such large ways of this new and m'ghty servant were first confronted and wolved in this particular deeade. In the '80's the generation, transmission, and utilization of current— the dynamo, the transformer and motor—wers all made practical propositions on & large and commercial scale for the first time. The trolley car, which drast- tleally ehanged the nspects of things urban and sub- urban, brought the country to the city and spilled the city into the country, increased land values by tho billions: and the Incandescent lamp, which In- avgurated clean and safe {llumination, introduced the central station power house and inspired the first great innovations in generation and utilisation of electric current; the transformer, that extremely sim- ple but supreme instrument for making serviceable the alternating current—the most easily generated and transmittable form of electrical energy; and the {nduction motor, the eventual driver of most of our machinery—all these peaks in electrical progress were made In the samé decade, The most fundamental of all operations are per- formed in the furnace. The profoundest changes of nature were caused by heat and the basic processes of industry are carried under high temperature condi- tions. Except a new source of energy, it is difficult to concelve a new utility of more potency than a novel type of furnace. For the first time in all his- tory. a high furnace heat was attained through means not involving combustion, when the electric furnace was perfected in the latter part of the decade. With the advent of this util'ty, possibilities of heat appii- cation were opened up that shamed even the dreams of alchemy. There is no burning, no smoke or foul gases—resultants of combustion. The heat is clean, controllable, and extremely high, with the result that it is revolutionising high temperature oparations in muititudinous directions, and the changes In steel and alloy making and in electro-chemical processes are already profound. The steam turbine, which is sup- planting the reciprocating engine: the #ascline engine, which made possible the motorboat, automobile and aeroplane: the automoblle itself; the Mergenthaler typesetter and caster; the cyanide prooess, which vies in importance with the Bessemer method of making steel and the vuleanization of rubber; and electrie welding—all of thess truly epoch-making inventions first saw the light of day in this census period. The Harvey process for hardening armor plate was in- vented In 1988; smokeless powder a few years earlier; the wax phonograph record, which made the phone- praph & practical propesition, came out about the same time; Westinghouse's quick-acting brake, which only failed to be considered a ploneer invention of the first order by a five to four vote of the suprema court, was another notable addition to the decade. the transparent film, which foreshadowed the moving picture; and the paeumatic tire, which nelped to pop- ularize the boycle and automobile, were prominent contributions .of these pregnant ten years. The half- tone process, the most notable advance in the repro- ductive arts since lithography was established: the Janney type car-coupler, the greatest life-saver over fnvented: and t' e ce trifugal creamer, which has s1ved the farmers of the civilised world hundres of m'llions of Gollars, were all cammercially established during this periodr People and Events Americanized French by way of New Orleans tags the fitney driver as & “Jitouer." It ls short and its antecedents are retpectable. The prizo winner of Jefferson Medical college. Philadelphia, 1 “Jim" Keith, a orippled student with marvelous will power. In spite of a broken back, the loss of one lex and part'al parslysis in another, he won the doctor's degree The estate of former Senator Nelson W. Aldrich to educate & boy along that line, just that soom you are laying the foundation for a class 2 JUNE 9, HE most significant event in the annals of human | 1915. 7 Put the Panhandier Uut. OMAHA, June §-To the Editor of The | Bee: In my line of business I visit the leading cities of the United States, and | Omaha is one in which I am particu- | larly Interested for several reasons, al- though not a resident, but want to see | fts interests advanced in every way. There is one thing | cannot under- stand-namely, why the authorities al- low the many professional panhandlers and beggars to solicit and persistently annoy the public on your streets Omaha has & very unenviable reputa- | tion in this respect and it is a subject | of frequent comment among the travel- fraternity, and all agree that it | stands practically alone as a city where | this plague exists | While seated in front of the Rome ao- | tel yesterday I was approached and so- licited by three besgars In the short space of about thirty minutes, and in €0ing to the Millard hotel a short time after was accosted by four more. Some of thess were cripples, but all were ap- parently professionals, and likewise in a drunken condition. One of these stopped me on my returd the second time.’ He, however, may have been an amateur. This 1s poor advertising throughout the country, and the streets should be cleared of thess pests in short order. CHARLES R. BIGNALL Order, Symmetry, Harmony, TILDEN, Neb.,, June §—To the Editor of The Bee: Environments have much to do with systematic development; for & poet to sit in the nave of a cathedral would be more inapiring than in the | midst of a pandemonium of wreckage; therefore Dame Nature draws the | stronger, for from the depths of the in- finite variety breathes order, symmetry and harmony. According to Audlung, there are in the world 8,064 languages and well defined dialects, divided into the following classes: Monosyllabic, Semite, Indo-Buropean, Polyneslan. African, Polysynthetic; from the highest civ- ilisation of the Caucasion to the Caffir— but the springs of affections are the same, their love for the sun, and the fear of the earthquake is just the same, and” yet there are thousands of ways to express the same thought. Leoguage evolvés abnormally, and cus- tom has approved its grotesqueness, for in ome language will have several con- Jugations, or declensions, several groups of irregular verbs and a sea of total ir- regularities, so that even the acquire- meat of the native language is a life's task, and few have little time to at- tempt & second. Again these groesque irregularities obstruct the flow of order, symmetry and harmony in life's ave- | nues, and, as language is the vehicle of thought, the more it is systematized the more fluent will be the flow of thought. The thinking philologist will plead for an analytio system that will meet the re- quirements, that each form of the verb will have & significantly relative form; that nouns will have a specific ending, plurals regular, agreement of adjectives Wwith nouns, and an accusative ending; prepositions with specific meanings. and A general arrangement that will permit the order of words to be arranged for oemphasis. It is for this that the world is reaching in the way of an interna- tional language. Each nation or race has yet its language, but humanity must have its International language. Note how helpful to find nouns end in o, ad Jectives in a, adverbs e, verbs s, u or i; plurals, of, pronounced oy, and accusat- ives n. The participle sign is t, followed by the final ietter, o (for noun) e, (for adverd) a, (for adjective) preceded by n, if active and before this, (or it passive), is the tense vowel, a, present; I, anto” one who sees, aliminate the ‘‘ViMdato,” one who Is seen. being seen, 1, wn, “Vidate,” on for a, having been seen, etc. Thus a child can master the partici- ple with ease in all its forms. POLLY GLOT. Rejoinder of a Prohibitiontat. PLATTSMOUTH, Neb, June 8—To the Bditor of The Bee: I notice an article in The Bee by A. L. Meyer, on “Settli | Some Statistics.” I shall not try to settle them, but I heartily agree with the article in the Modern Woodman referred to. I think that if more of our papers would take a stand against the greatest curse of our country (the saloons) what & force for good they might become. How any sane man can see the ruin and poverty and trouble caused by drink and then get up and defend it is more than 1 can understand. There have been at least two and I belleve three murders in this county in the last few years caused by drink. One of them ocost the county about $1,500, Nearly all of the arrests made in Platts- mouth are caused by drink, according to our local paper, and it Is not a temper- ance sheet, either. I have been in Platts- mouth when it wasn't fit for ladies to Pass by some of the saloons. T would like to wee & bill passed in this State barring papers that carry liquor ade. C. B. RABBITT. Editorial Siftings Boston Transcript: If Senator Cum- mins takes his presidential boom for an airing around the country this summer he will probably hear something from the travelling public Pittsburgh Dispateh: Gutzon Borglum, the soulptor, has just completed a mask of Bryan's face. Speaking of masks, the Nebraskan must occasionally feel the need of one to cioak his emotions, Detroit Free Press: Somebody in Wis- consin sent a draft for 33,70 to the con- sclence fund of the United States treas- urer recently, thus disproving the theory that & man with so much money has no conacienve. Springfield Republican: 1f the British cabinet should meet the labor situation by putting workmen under military law it would have a new hornet's nest over n way of the trousseau makers. But at the ond there's & smile and & kiss and the wedding Mrs, | that terible noise for, | rel with one’s wife over the telephone? | You ca she'll make much of a beauty show at the, sltar. CHEERY CHAFF. I am in politics for my health,” sald the Boss. L selected. —Boston Transcript. “But, you seem pretty well fixed finan- | The founl&r- of the republic atarted olally,” “expostulated the mere voter. & Sront e T namy “Trise; but my health requires a certain | *cEed Nonor to Jts PRUSR.. Loy very amount’ of physical comfort and enjoy- | o BUt [ShSL JSERIOR 3 Soir cann, ment."~Philadelphia Ledger too” —Baitimore American. Bacon—What 1s the goat making THE RECKONING. W. 8. Smith In New York Times What will the reckoning be When the fortress falls, And the last dreadnaught of the sea | _Looma silent by shot-seared walla® | When the lust long line of men have | faced the guns an 3 " beautitul death-winged bird is thed | When the lust for blood and the maw of | greed lles satisfied, | What will the reckoning be? Mr. Bacon—Oh, he swallowed one of the phonograph records this morning.— Yonkers Statement. last | © aranmer, you with the lowered head | © mother, there beside your cherished dend: | 0 trooper, iong by bloody butchers led What will the reckoning be? What will the reckoning be? Baubles to one— | To other, statues there beside the sew To butchery well done, Crawford—Do you think it right to quar- Crabshaw—That's the only time to do it. ut her off before she can get tage hearth, And mivery and want and woe where — once was mirth, Aunt—Your bride, my dear boy, is |The awful aftermath of war upon thi wealthy anhd all that, but 1 don't think carth, in the last word.—Judge. ' fosisiicovadd At e s ] 1ZAO0T WEATHER "3 Faust Spaghetti is an ideal hot weather food because while it is highly nutritious, it is non-heating and very easy to digest. Besides, it is easy to pre- pare. Don't spend half your time work- ing over a hot range these summer days, A whole Faust : Spaghetti meal, for ~ 10c, prepared in twenty minutes. ULL BROS,, St. Louis, U.S.A. “The Cup that cheers every home H. 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