Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 15, 1915, Page 6

{ i ! OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR, The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. MER BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. Entered at Omahp postoffice as second-class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By carrier By mall e T — “mrru Cll. o cent received | of mi'm checks, J«m end not accepted. OFFICES. Building. h Omaha—3I8 street. Council Bluffs—14 North Main street. In-—-26 the Buil Lincol: - ork—| 1108, L New avenue. X o—.;« Bank CORRESPONDENCE, Ry gy Ay matter to Omaba Bee, ——————_ e e e et MAY CIMOULATION, 53,345 N ka, County of Douglas, ss: m-m cln&(lm manager of The Bee company, being duly swi says g‘.n the [ ation for the month of ¥, 1915, was DWIGHT WILLIAMS, C.rculation M Y ted in my presence and sworn to before me, this 3 P HERT HUNTER, Notary Public. Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee malled to them., Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested, June 18 m Thought v the Doy Selected by Gertrude M. Webster i The soul of music slumbers in the sheil, Wil waked and kindled by the master’s spell—and Jeeling hearis—touch them but rightly—pour a thousand melodies wnheard before. —:::nu Rogers. “Bryan Talks,” says a headline. That's his spécialty. Notice that the first letters of the words “‘Greater Omaba’ spell “Go." mm—— President Wilson is not talking back. His actions speak for him when he is silent. empe— ' Submarine reports indicate that fishing in the North Sea has become a dead game sport. SEE—— Those T. P. A'S. can stay with us as long a8 ke without wearing their welcome out. “to put the weather man on t lodk the saxe and patriotie press of the country. S—— ! ; £ | : | i | i 7 i H I E i Es H dher ; : i ! o HE P s i b German Disonssion of Our Cabinet Crisis. As a tribute to the importance of the event, the censors have let the Germans have the news concerning our cabinet crisis and its attendant cireumstances. German editors express quite as much amasement as is felt in America over Mr. Bryan's resignation and account for it on much the same grounds as are ascribed here in explanation of his conduct. The episode is not looked upon as likely to seriously affect th progress of negotiations between the two coun- tries, The president’s nole which was given in full to the German press, is generaily discussed, and, asgide from the few pronounced “‘Jingo’’ papers, is taken as showing & way to the peaceful ad- Jjustment of the existing differences. Surprise is expressed at the temperate language em- ployed, for, prepared by the advance announce- ment of Mr. Bryan's leaving the cabinet because of his unwillingness to sign the note, the Ger- mans were looking for something in the way of an ultimatum, Judging from the sincere tone of the com- ment of influential papers of the empire, it is easy to helleve that the Germans earnestly desire to continue uninterrupted the friendship be- tween the two nations. If this is the case, the language of the president's note probably will have an effect just the opposite to the predic- tions of Mr. Bryan, and, instead of bringing war, will increase the mutual respect and understand- ing between Germany and the United States. SET———— Physioal Fitness of Candidates for Ofiice. Speaking of the serious {liness and long en- forced absence of one of the judges of our su- preme court, the Wahoo Democrat ventures the opinion that only men of vigorous mind and body should be elected to this position. It re- mindes us that in the last judicial campaign one of the two contestants was over 80 years old, and the other, while younger, was physically in- competent and died within a few weeks after entering on his office. The Demoorat concedes the desirability of the superior wisdom popu- larly associated with bald heads and gray hair, but only where mental vision is still clear and physical powers are strong. The common sense of this view will quickly strike most people, yet its application is not con- fined to the bench. In selecting men to per- form responsible and exacting public duties, the people should do just what the enlightened private ployer would do, consider the physical condition and prospects as one of the chief fac- tors of ability to make good. The only differ- ence between judicial and administrative places in this respect is the greater need of maturity and experience for a judge. And this qualifica- tion must be made, too, for the man who has grown old in the public service and whose de- crepitude is the result of long years devoted to for here, with no provision for pen- slon, it § hard for the people to turn out a falthful servant in his old age as it is for a humane private employer. Plainly this is a spot in our machinery of popular government that needs attention. 4 Seag——— Rival Claimants Speak Out. Carranza and Villa have each made reply to President Wilson's note of warning, each setting up his claim to recognition and backing it up with claims of accomplishments and outlines of purpose. This was anticipated, for it would have been remarkable had either of the factional leaders relinquished his position in favor of the other, , Villa, by his intimation that if Carranza will withdraw, he will follow, has placed himself in & slightly advantageous position, perhaps, but gives no guaranty as to his sincerity. The notes indicate that the Mexicans realize the earnestness with which they have been ad- dressed, but with true “manana” spirit are averse to coming directly to the point. They will doubtiess spend some time in circumlocu- tion, exchanging in & roundabout way high- sounding but empty phrases, but indications are that they are willing the way to adjustment out to them. Back of their ‘The president has made it very plain that it is not the lutention of the United States to favor either faction. He seeks only the establishment of responsible government for Mexico. This may not be speedily obtained, as measured by standards, but the wheels are under must seem amazing cel- nothing. is done in a This is about three times the output of a common or pormsl legislature, but it shows the effect and advantage of the glorious climate of the Pacific coast, where everything is more fecund and prolitic than elsewhere. Governor Hiram Johnson also makes a record, coming down the stretch with a total of 326 vetoes, ap- California must bave been in & bad way, in- deed, If all this mass of new laws was needed to set things right out there. eEE———— The Impermanence 0f the Abnormal | leeThoo, WM. Price in Commeros and FiRance—.t HE DISPOSITION to assume that whatever is, is permanent, in a weakness of humanity. At the height of a storm, men despair of fine weather and at the end of a drouth they cease to lovk | for rain. When prices are high most people expect them io remain so and when they are low there are not many { who can discern the iIndications of an advance. Few are gifted with the ability to foreses radical | change and fewer still have the cournge to act on the vislon of that unusval foresight. This is one reason why so many sell at the bottom and buy at the top. That each extreme breeds its own corrective and that the abnormal canmot be permanent, are trutha which every one admits and nearly every one falls to apply. They forget that the power of centripetal attrac- tion, which holds the universe together, has never yet failed to show itself supreme and that through the ages the rhythmic succession of night and day, winter and summer, and seedtime and harvest has always been unbroken. They forget' too that man himself is subject to this same law of alternation and reaction; that activity followed by fatigue, enthusiasm by apathy and agerness to fight by willingness to make peace. Just now the tendency to overlook these funda- mental rules of nature and of lifs, and assume that the war in Burope will last indefinitely, is the moro remarkable because it Is evident that the very in- tensity of the struggle is rapidly exhausting the coni- batants. Millfons of men have been killed and bllilons of treasure have been spent in the war already; it is, therefore, argued that it will be prolonged. The German casualty llets show that 3108000 out of a possible total of 6,000,000 trained soldiers have been killed or dissbled thus far. An equal, If not a larger number, have been lost by the allles. The world s now leagued In moral of not military opposi- tion to Germany. Deapite Tord Kitchener, these are facts which make for the ending and not the prolongation of the war. Just how the - g will come it is impossible to fore« #ee but that exh. stion will shortly give the peace- maker his opportunity is a generalization that is justl- ftied by the precedents of history and the laws of physiology, and we have faith to belleve that they are the safest guides upon which human judgment can rely. Tt may be that the correspondence now in progress between the United States and Germany will open the way for a cessation of hostilities. ¥t may be that the kaiser's threatened invasion of Russia will prove his undoing as In case of his great predecessor Napoleon. It may be that the fall of Contantinople will mark the climax of the struggle. Even pathologists do mot understand why or how it is that a fever breaks when the crisis of the disease is past, but experience has taught them that after a given time death is sure to follow If the fever does not subside. That the death of civilizdtion and a reversion to autocracy are impending we refuse to believe. Such & theory would be a denlal of history and an abandonment of faith in the progresp of mankind. The virulence of the war fever has reached, if it has not passed, the climacteric. An early abatement of the struggle is indicated by All the experience of humanity. That we are unable to understand the processes of nature does not shake our confidence in their re- ourrence. ‘We know not how or why the summer's crop will ripen or be gathered, but everything we do and every plan we make assumes that any variation from the normal will be but temporary. By the same analogy, we must believe that peacs cannot much longer be delayed unless we admit that nature has itselt become an anarchist. Twice Told Tales Where Jimmy Balked. Little Jimmy hed reached the /conclusion that everybody in the world had kissed him or wanted to very badly. He could not help being & boy that ail the women wanted to pet and bestow thelr kisses opon. In fact, Jimmy longed for the day When he would have & say so in the mat! One day a famous woman came to mother. Jimmy chanced to enter the parlor and was directed by his mother to come up and see the note] Mres. So and So. Jimmy kpnew what was coming, but he could not prevent the ocotrrence. The visitor took him by the hand and gently gathered him up Into her 1ap, and as she let him down to the floor again she graclously bestowed & kiss upon his pouting lips. Jimmy jumped away from her and began to rub his lips in a viclous manner. “What, you are not rubbing my kiss off, my little questioned the woman. Jimmy was pussied fow moments, then replied: ; , ma'am, I'm just rubbing it In." and then vanished through the door~Louisville Times. A Marvel of Training. Rose had called on her afternoon out to see her friend, Arabella. Arabella’s mistress had just pur- chased & parrot, and Rose was much interested in the bird. “Birds is shore sensible,” she observed. ‘‘You kin learn them anything. I uster work for & woman that had & bird in a clock, an’' when It was time to teli de fime ob day it uster come out an’ say ‘cuckoo’ jest s times as de time was.” “Go along. Yo' dom't say 80" sald Arabells, in. credulously. “Shore thing,” replied Rose, “and ful part was dat it was only & Harper's Magasine. mos’ wonder- en Bird, too." -~ S A SR oD M RES b (A DA RSN St e R = Aok S St e R R AR el S RS RS A California centenarman solemnly Asserts that he never swore in his life, except in court. An ideal place for tali swearing. As & farewell tribute to a devoted husband a Washington woman wealthy in her own right, willed the grief stricken man & life annuity of §5,000. Per- green sward is thus assured. the War is mighty expensive to John Bull, but | of the coroner and that suicide it has some compensations. He is waking up | of srrest. and getting out of business ruts hitherto as Some means of standardizing the value of puriolned sacred as his mutton, An ides of the widespresd | L l—ihl:.nmnxfi..";‘,.o:-uw« shakeup and shakedown may be had from the | willis, affectionately known as “the bald headed lamb news that banks are abandoning customs and | of love,” was taxed 6,00 by & jury for inducing an- rules s firmly rooted aa Guy Fawkes day, and | sther max's WUS O chani pariners, T8 berelt B reaching out for customers whose resources are all the bald headed lambd could shear off his ia the shilling cless. 1n Teality soy change | Neited fesss. i e o So o, | e ST 2207 S ¥, P o refuse to change pound notes into shillings un- oFer of 300 is required for each vebicle, the license 1ees the applicant is & customer. B R b o e o Rt o servae Professionsl base ng hard + | tined terminals fs required, numbder cars fans wnd too few box office faus. " | ries & penalty up to 519 and revocation of license. 8 ; e D e g | } Importance of Viee Presldency. BOSTON, June 12—To the Editor of | The Bee: It seema to me that this 's a time when editors holding a position of | Influence should emphasize and reiterate | the vital importance of & change of atti- tude among our political leaders with regard to the nomination of a vice presi- | dent. Already the lines are taking form for the work of the neminating conventions of 1916, and probably there has not besn | & time in the history of our country When the peril of our having but a single I'fe between us and political chaos could be more clearly appreciated by the people than right now. To my mind to have Thomas R. Mar- shall as our president in the grave crisis through which we are passing would be of more lasting harm than it was to have to endure President Johnson. G E. Too Big to Be Tied Down. PLATTSMOUTH, Neb., June 14.—To the Editor of The Bee: There are many others who could truthfully say, as did Ernest Haman of Florence: “I cannot help but feel that Willlam J. Bryan has been Srievously wronged by such criticism as some of us have heaped upon him.” We regard Mr. Bryan as one of the greatest men our civilisation has produced—radical as a rule, but radically right. Any man who ean stand up for cleanness and purity and sobriety and peace and Christianity a8 has Mr. Bryan in the face of the bitter campaign of villification directed against him is too big and too valuable & person to have his liberties and silenced his tor submitting to the hampering s attending publie office, even under his most inti- mate and political colleague, Colonel Bryan is too big a man to be tied down. He can accomplish far more as & free lance than when hobbled by the restrictions imposed by policy or diplo- macy. He is one of the greatest factors in our late duy life. As such he should be free in the expression of opinfon. A. W. ATWOOD. ! — | Music in the Parks. OMAHA, June 14.~To the Editor of The Bee: I believe the city commission- ers ought to employ union men to furnish the music for the parks, but I am not in favor of being a party to the violation of the eight-hour day principle. For instance: I venture that two- thirds of the members of the musiclans’ organisation follow other occupations and are musiclans only after their regular hours at other employment, thereby working anywhere from elght to four- teen hours a day, practically holding down two situations, and asking the friends of unions to uphold them in it. The same objection will apply to the postoffice band. What the commissioners should do is to employ musicians who depend entirely upon their profession for a livelthood. CON. SISTENT. Clatms of the North Stde. OMAHA, June 14.~To the Bditor of The Bee: Now that annexation has taken place the south high school probably will De able to take care of the pupils in the southern part of the city and the pupils from Dundee will be taken into the Cen- tral High. During the Jast five years the northern part of the city has grown rapidly and ‘s still growing very fast. The opening of the new telephone station will have an influence in the same direction. There are many puplls living north of Lake street and morth and west from Ames avenue who attend the high school. To some the matter of car fare is an important item, especially so when there are two pupils from the same family. (Whatever changes are made, a high school on the north side should have due consideration. A READER. Tips on Home Topics Cleveland Plain Dealer: It was pretty close to fifty years ago that the guileless Ah Sin cleaned out the boys at poker, and now a Chinese-American bank has been formed with 35,000,000 capital, Indiandpolis News: At the Ohio spell- ing contest, in desperation for a word that would stump & little girl champion they discharged “Gnadsnhutten” at her. But that's contrary to Marquis of Queensberry rules. . New York World: If American ship- bullders who are working at capacity and arrangtug for extensive additions to their plants do not lvok out, they will upset all the arguments of fifty years, financial and otherwise, in favor of subsidies. Pittsburgh Dispatch: With govern- ment pensions, Carnegie pensions, state pensions, police pensions, teachers’ pen- #lons and a few other ¥Finds of pensions, anybody left in the country unpensioned should not hesitate to speak up, so that equal and exact justice may Qe done to all Philadelphia Ledger: So numerous are the elements of uncertainty that predic- tions are hazardous; but those who think that the close of the war is golng to be followed by & wholesale migration to America to escape the burdens of tax- ation leave out of account the certalnty that the mnations of the old world will omit no effort to prevent a further loss of population. Boston Transcript: The Russians, hav- Ing taken a tip from the late Confederate General Forrest, never retreat mow, but always “advence backwarde.' War s leveling many social projec- tions and obstructions. Perhaps it will teach new lessons in the easentially oqual humanity of men and women. Editorial Biftings || BREEZY TRIFLES. Newlywed—Don't you ever think seri- ously about marriage? Singleton—My dear fellow, no man ever thinks seriously about marriage until he has been married awhile.~Boston Tran- acript ‘“There's one o' them dern new styles,” sald Sllas. i 17" asked Mandy, lowering hgr ayes. ‘Why, that there sign says, ‘Shoes shined Inside.’ "' —Judge. “You are saved!" cried the rescuers as m:y dragged the gasping miser from the w he weakly replied, “I'm not I'm spent.” he making 7 e sure is. s going he'll soon be the best pick. rorkn in the business.” replied the rainer of criminals proudly.—~Indianap- olls Star, ‘Why, she heard that helped to ind_wheat up last week." ‘And did he” ‘Yes; he works in a grain elevator.”— New York Times. “Where do we find the most miserable of men?' exclaimed the exhorter fervently, ‘“You don't have to find him,” the man in the fourth row, center, “he hunts you up and tells you all about it."” ~Boston Transcript. “I believe,” .said the impatient man as he put aside the telephone, “that I'Il §o fishing." “Didn’t know you cared for fishing." “I don't ordinarily. But it's the only ohance I have of finding myself at the end of a line that ien't busy.”—Washing- ton Btar. AT!\!—WMAI‘ you like to look at this lovaly set of Dickens? Umson—No; I never have a bit of luck Agent—Whaddye mean, luck? Umson—I bot it a set of doctor books last year, and T haven't been sick a day since.—Judge. A small boy was taken to see the pign. he keeps on the way| * his mother replied. |, S Well,” remarked the boy, “1 should {have thought He'd have made something | & little pleasanter."~—New York Times | The Boy—~Can 1 get off this afternoon to go to a funeral? The Boss—Whose funeral is it? The Boy—] guess Itll be the home team's.~ Yonkers Statesman HIGHLAND MARY. Robert Burna, Ye banks and braecs, and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Gm'a be your woods, and falr your owers, Your waters mever drumlie! | There simmer first unfauld her robes, O my sweet Highland M How sweetly bloom'd the ‘IL green birk, A:‘la" rich the hawthorn's bl m, underneath their fragrant shade, ('Illr'fl her to my 1 e golden hours, on angel wings, Flew o'er me and my dearie; Fw dear to me as lfim and life ‘as my sweet Fighland Mary! W&muy a vow, and lock'd embrace, r parting was fu’ tender: And, pledging aft to meet again, ‘We tore oursels asunder: 3% oh, fell death’s untimely frost, at nipp'd my flower sae early! Now green's the sod and cauld's the clay, wrapse my Highland Mary! | Oh, pale, e now those rosp lips 1 aft h-P-.lnu‘d sae fondly! il\g_tg‘ closed for aye the sparking glance at dweit on me sae kindly! LAnd muldfiflng n1w in silent dusg, That hoart that lo'ed me dearly; But still within my bosom's core ] Shall Mive my Highland Mary! ! —_— MY HEART'S DESIRE. San Francisco Argonaut ;(y V;;I:l'l rlilo:lln 'I.h';?l:hl"r'h'tr"" 'ay s little eight-by-ei O‘Lln in the Northern woods ere 1 can wallow in my moods And wade around in solitudes And_ rubber boots; Free from excitement, nolse and dudes Yes, that just suits! ing much; My heart's desire is nof suc A _little venison, and Sweet trout y own peculiar wi Simplicities that ever please And never pall mind, as in the birchen trees thrushes call My heart's desire is nothing large: The open sky, the river marge The soundiess woods, the empty shore; Pine needles on the parior floor, And hary lazy hours of life Just breathing air; One couldn’t ask much less—no strife, Peace everywhere. baking powder in guished from the while to ask the Then decide. ‘And when once sion. is worth reading Will You Read This Twice? 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