Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 19, 1915, Page 10

>~ 1 5 g.\‘!nlnl without Sund. z uuy Bn only.. 1.9 Send of change of add or complaints of mnl-fl(y in delivery to Omlh- Bee, Circulation Department. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE [ FoUNDED BY miwuw ROSFV ATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Puhl!-hlnz Company, Proprietor. BEE RUTLDING, EAK\AM AND IE\F\Y'I'FF\'T" Entored_at Omahs postoffice second- ma TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. y carrier By mail per month. per year. and 68c I E:l)" without S Evening and Su ITTANCE. smalt “ua numnl. g 1f14ing. %fi th Omana—dis N streat. {ouncil Bluffe 14 North Main street Lincoln—% Little Buil Chf Hearst Bull New York—Room 1166, 36 Fltth avenue. Bt Louis-58 New Bank of Commerce. | ‘Washington—1% Fourteenth 8t., N. W. CORRESPONDENCE, ‘ o AR g XX, MAY CIRCULATION, 53,345 - Bta it Nebraska, County of Douglas, ss: »u it Wnllu!u. mm"n;lvln :‘:n.nuor of The Bes u says th-l the - a tor tho month of May, 1916, was DWIG wn.unn Circulation Man: Subsert! and sworn to before me, this 34 nnfil ‘3'1“’1!!. Notary Pubile, Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee malled to them. Ad- dress will bo changed as often as requested. June 19 e — Theught for the Day Selected by Margare Tisdale Though we may travel the world over to find the beawtirul, we must carry it with us or we Sind.A¢ wot.— R alph Waldo Emeraon. June must go soms in the last lap to justity {te reputation for rare days. iptitiom—— ““‘Met” says Bryan is out of the democratic party. “Met” must bespermanently out with Bryan, iR B EE—— Never .mind, the butchers and grocers have Leen again' vindicated as rain-mekers par ex- cellence. p e ——— The charm of current war builetins is their evident desire to please’all partisans of the gun- powder debate. S —— “Lsat the people rule” is the slogan for demo- crats everywhere except office-holding demo- cratg in South Omahs, Like other wisely managed industries, the weather bureau centers it research mtlvulu, where raw material 18 fairly abundant, If that Nebraska patronage nIe is really com- ing, it cannot arrive too soon for the hungry, ©ven if it buys an extra fdre ticket and travels all the way on limited fllers. ‘ e— Judging from appearance, the output of Omaha's two high schools are quite up to stand- ard. It remains for the individual graduates to show that they can make good in whatever they undertake next. S——— An audit of the electric light company may dc no harm, providing the promised rate redue- tlon is given to consumers right away. If it s to be merely a factor for delaying the cut ad- mitted overdue, it is unnecessary. S——— Justice and duty ‘alike urge court authorities to sift to the bottom charges of perjury and frame-ups. Hunting down, the perjurers is not enough. Those who plan and procure perjury :fi the real culprits and should be sternly dealt* —— A few montbs ago Maximillian Harden wrote contemptuously of American zeal for dollars. The $2,000,000 which zeslous American friends of Germany contributed for the relief of war fn the Fatherland doubtless will be ex- empt from the Harden condemnation. e — “Billy” Sunday’s chief-of-statf has also re- signed—presumably becatse dissatisfied with his share of the profits on the hymn book side lime. But it will not be long till we are told it | 1s all due to the diabolical machinations of the | wicked mdv-m that “Billy" i pummelling. S— Half a dozen organizations are mow busily engaged with publicity weapons, patriotically striving toprotect the United States from possi- ble enemies. Their plans range from jingoistte militarism to persuasive soft soap. Between the two extremes a multitude of sane counsei discern the road of wisdom and security. has come and iy | weached belng sixteen feet e Inches on Wednesday. No-harm was done excep' bank. Was appoluted to 'the West of Miss loomis' select were attended by many water on | by any news agency in the world. ‘told for the needed new school buildin | wind. The experts at An Anniversay for The Bee. Today marks the completion of forty-four vears for The Bee and the beginning of our forty-fifth year, Founded by Rdward Rose- June 19, 1871, The Bee established Iigelf at once as a permanent institution by re- sponding to the popular demand for a newspa- per thoroughly identified with the interests of Omaha, sane, forceful, free and fearless, and ready to battle against abuses and corruption and for whatever promised the upbuilding of the city and the welfare of its inhabitants. Now the oldest paper in Omaha, continuously under the same ownership and management, the past record is naturally the best assurance of the future, The day-by-day appearance with close same- ness makes people forgetful, unless reminded, of the achlevements of a newspaper. The first demand, of course, {8 for all the news, readable, accurate and prompt, and the present war has given the most severe test ever applied. Be- cause The Bee is a charter member of the Asso- clated Press, receiving its full leased wire serv- ice, our readers are enjoying the most compre- Lensive and reliable war Intelligence collected Not content with that, we have supplemented this service on the big events by an exclusive arrangement for the cable dispatches of the New York World and an unequalled special war photo service wholly unique in character. In addition, our local news reports our dispatches from staff rep- resentatives at state and national capitals, and from our own correspondents in all our nelgh- boring cities and towns, our exclusive special feature, fiction and comic picture services, all up-to-date and resourceful metropolitan dailiés. In recognition of the high standard of the paper, The Bee's average circulation today out- tops that of any previous time. Ag the ploneer in making public exact circulation figures, The Bee bag shown the variations from time to time, and llkewise a steady growth correeponding with the growth of the community. The cur- rent circulation figures at the head of this page are 53,345, Five yearg ago the figures were 42,368, When The Bee entered its thirty-fifth year the circulation was 30,928, and When it entered ita thirtleth year, in 1901, it was 36,865, In a word, the number of Bee subscribers has doubled in the last fifteen years. The magnitude of a newspaper like The Bee merely as a business enterprise may perhaps be better grasped from a few salient facts. The Bee family consists of 216 regular employes, not counting over 100 delivery carriers, nor the numerous newsboys, nor several hundred news pondents who devote part of their time to our service. And the newspaper employes all along the line average far higher wages than any other establishment we know of employing as many men and women, the payroil last year pproximating some $225,000, ally large proportion of them own homes and pay taxes and help carry the burdens of the community. Nearly all this vast sum of money, | too, 18 spent right here In Omaha, where it goes fnto the channels of trade. Furthermore, it 1s worth noting that a considerable part of the money paid out locally by The Bee comes from what is known as foreign advertising, being drawn from out of town, chiefly from the east. What we considér the biggest feather in our cop during the past year is the .ncccnicrownlul our persistent efforts for Greater Omaha con- solidation, The Bee alone of Omaha newspa- pers h city and suburbs, and it is generally conceded that without our aid at the critical turns the movement could not have won out evem now. ‘ At the same time the work of The Bee hak aiso , parks and playgrounds, for saving the Auditorium, for good roads and for beautifying and embél- | utilities in the interest of the people, The “Stop-oft-in-Omaha” campaign, originated and inaugurated by The Bee, is also bringing the city to the front and laying foundations for further growth and development. All the time The Bee is standing for better living conditions and for higher standards in cvery walk of lite, for intelligence and free thought, for true charity, for art and culture, for honesty, for higher ideals, for individual liberty and democracy.” While advocating the principles of the republican party, The Bee is independent of party. Rogues in office, or seek- fug office, have found, and will find, no counte- rance no matter what party pretenses they may make. In the wider fleld of national and in- ternational affairs, The Bee is for peace with honpr, for keeping the United States out of the torrible European war by upholding the presi- dent and making the Stars and Stripes the pro- tecting emblem of all humanity. Rainfall and the Grom Crops. The deluge that has visited Nebraska within the last fortuight has been a genuine Rlessing. The observers at the University farm station report that for the first time in years suffici of moisture for the growing crops is provided. Careful sofl tests and molsture measurements | ave shown that there is no excess of water in the fields, but the supply is ample and the ben- efit will be noted a little later In the season, when the waving grain responds to sun and the university warn orchardists of danger from the apple scadb, which tinds the cool, damp weather extremely favora- ble to its ravag Immediate spraying of trees | is advised. Aside from this warning, the latest bulletin from the state farm contains only the most encouraging of réports, and supports the news that comes from all quarters of the state, predicting a wonderful yleld of all sorts of crops for the current year. S———— Medals and collegiate degrees are coming | fast to Thomas A. Bdison, the wisard of Menlo park. Within a month he has received the gold medal of mesit from the Franklin stitute of Philadelphia and the degree of Doctor of Sci- ence from Princeton university. Mr. Edison has a record of something over 1,500 patents. Medals and degrees promise to equal the inven- tive score. Moreover, the honors are well won. ————— Two recent court deliverances on the Sher- man law—-Steel trust and cash register cases— do not impair the of the instrument. ‘What they expose is fallure to support allega- tions by evidence An exception- | steadfastly championed the merger of | thing the city, and for sane regulation of pub- | | | pride has ceased to exist. ! THE | the Nebrask. combine to match the best efforts of the most | on i SATURDAY BEE: OMAHA, J UNE 19, 191 Aimed at Omaha Franklin News: At last Omaha has secured its The Pees L eSer desires in gotting the surrounding suburbs joined to | it. making Omaha one of the big cities of the west A South Omaha man has already applied for the job assistant mayor of the combined citles, but was turned down by Maver Jim Dahlnmn, who always did like to be the whole works himself. Beatrice Sun: The Board of Education of Omaha has decided that high school pupils may be excused from studying American history if the principal rec- oniimends that they be given their diplomas without taking thag course of study. This aotion fis in QA with the prevalling tendency in school circles to make the ‘course of study so easy that anybody can get a diploma. The tendency is bad We may relterate what we have sald before, that lowering the stand- ards of education to meet the grade of intelligence of the less capable may result in an injury to he more capable pupils. When easy courses of study are installed for the bemefit of the less able, 8o that Hey can get through and ket an easily-won diploma. the more capable pupils may be diverted from the difficult tasks to the eamy ones, and thereby lose the training and mental discipline which the perform- ance of the more difficult task gives. The schools should not teach thefr pupils that difficult tasks should be evaded. Nothing can be accomplished by that painless method of siiding through either school or lite. Loup City Times-Independent: The Omaha papers are surely trying to give Billy Sunday the black eyo and make him out the worst criminal outside the prison bars, so as to destroy any Influence for good he might exert at the meetings he is going to hold in Omaha this fall. You Omaha editors must te burning under comviction, and fighting Billy Sunday 10 relleve your wrata, The Omaha Bee states that Rallway commission is about to issue an order that may have the effect of determining to what extent It controls the creation of public utility plants, this order to stand agains the esablishment of a second telephons plant in an interior town. The law does not give the commission any such authority, but it seems to be seizing authority wherever it can get away with i, the ultimate aim being control of all public utilities, and in the latter field its powers should never be larger than they are at present. Papillion Times: The Omaha Board of Education has cértainly established a precedent in deciding that the study of American history would be optional in the Omaha school hereafter. The reason siven is that it is too difficuly for the puplly to master and carry their other work. Well, people have so far lost the American ideals tFat perhaps they are Just & little big amed of the history of thelr country, Perhaps it does not meet European ideals. At any rate, things have come to a sorry state when the history of the digcovery of our continent, the birth of a nation baptised in the blood of the patriots whom we have been taught to revere, and whoe progrees in all lines of development eclipse those of any nation, ancleny or modern, 18 of so little imper- tante as to be neglected. No wonder our ocountry is heginning to fatl in its mission of being the great mélting pot of the world. Perhaps the elements have become ®> variéd and complex that national Perhaps we had better pull down the Stars and Etripes as being tog common and perhaps we may as well forget the Fourth of July and other ocossions that remind us of days of past glory. But there are a few of us old-fashioned people who still cling to the ideals of our fore- fathers and who love to read to them and thefr achievements. Then, too, thers are those who belleve the tasks of students {n achools are necessarily dif- fieult. We used to re taught that nothing worth hav- g’ could be achieyed without hard labor. But why the history of our country should be dropped when it 18 mot mearly so difficult as arithmetio, algebra, latin and many other studies. Why not drop them all and ke the school curriculum one of éase and pleasure, wend students their diplom: by parcel post and do away wtih all this needleas work and drudgery, which we were taught developed the best that was In us. By all means make it nice and easy for the weaklings of future generat'ons Twice Told Tales Training bands’ ~~“Some wives’ remarked S8am Rernard the other day have terribly effective methods In training their husbands. “A young man had the habit of returning home from the club occasionally in a state of semi-intoxi- catlon. He married not long ago and, although he docided to turn over a new leaf, the old habits were to6 strong for Him, and one night, while out with the boys, he took on board a trifle too mueh, “Next morning lLe came down to breakfast with the dark-brown taste. There was something on the plate before him which had evidently been cooked and was supposed to be food. “He took It up on his fork and held it up, lookns at it in wonder. “‘What in the world,' he demanded, posed to be, dear?”’ * ‘Well," replied the young woman, with disdain, ‘it looks very much llike your mew soft felt hat, and that is what I thought it was; but you pulled it out of your pocket when you came home last night, and told me it was a nice, juley steak, and that you bought it on the way home, and you wanted it broiled for breakfast. You can have it all. I'm not hungry.’ ™ Green Book Magasine. raska City Press: ‘Is this sup. Held! L Age Well, He had just reached the philosophical stage when he slipped inte & restaurant between bars for a bite to eat. He ordered. Then he sat staring ahead, quietly thoughtful in expression, and waited. Jt is admitted he did some waiting, teo. What happened to his order couldn't be understood outside the peculiar convolutions of a restaurant kitchen, but he spent half an hour sitting there staring ahead of him. At last it came. As the waitress put the order before - him he started . from his deep study, as If he had forgotten he had an order coming. Then, looking up at the fair transporter of edibles, he said: “You don't look a day older!"—Pittsburgh Chron- fcle Telegram. | -~ People and Events A New York judge announces that boosy autolsts convicted fin his court xe to jall without the option of a fine. Seclusion makes for sobriety. General De Wet, the unreconstructed Boer whose rebellion in South Africa was squelched, pleads guilty of “wedition,” but denies “high trezzon ” The differ- ence lies in the length of the term. The great purity sleuth of vew York, Anthony Comstook, has been detached from the federal pay- roll and retired as & postoffice inspector. The reasons are not given. For over forty years Comstock has been a terror to vice panderers and venders of lmv mioral literature. The game commission of Pennaylvania serves notice on all concerned in four languages that two lawe waters of the state. As officlally explaiped the laws ate designed to impress upon newcomers that liberty is not license and to oure a commen penchant for harboring dogs and dynamiting streams for fish. Nut. uralizsed aliens, however, are not restricted as to dogs or tishing. The ethical code of the medical profession is booked for judicial analysis in Louisiana. The question in- Roy Scomts and Militarism. OMAHA, . June 18.~To the Editor of The Bee: Owing to the fact that certain Omaha citizens have misjudged the aim of ths Boy Scout movement, our troop has appointed us to set forth some of the principal / features of this organization, Some seem to have the impression | that we are of a military character. We do not stand for militarlem, but we do stand for the military virtues, such as honor, lovalty, obedience and patriotism The uniform, the troop, the patrol the drfll are not for military tactics, they are for the unity, harmony and rhythm of the apirit that boys learn in scouting. In order to become a first-class scout a boy must first have a general knowl- edge of ‘first aid to the injured, signal- ing, cooking, woodcratt snd camp craft. Ho miust also earn and deposit a bank account and practice the points of the scout law in his dadly life Wopdrow Wilson, who of all octhers stands for peace, is honorary president of the organization of the Boy Scouts of America. On February 11, in the East room of the White House, in an address to onr national council, he said “I am glad of the opportunity to express my very aincere interest, not only in the organization of tl.e Boy Scouts, but in the cbjects for which it stands. From all that I know of it, and have Yeen able to ob- serve personally, It is an admirable or- ganization, devoted to the objects in which 1 myself thoroughly believe.” Does the boy scout movement need any further recommendation to those favoring peace? At the public library there are coples of the scout handbook. It i a little taxt, but contains a vast amount of useful, interesting information. Every- one interested In boys should read it. WILLIAM HAMILTON, HOWARD OLIV For Troop No. 1, Boy Scouts of America. Woonter Heard from at SILVER CREEK, Neb., June 17.—To the Editor of The Bee: Mr. A. Atwood expresses the opinion that W. J. Bryan has been grievously wronged by critie- isms heaped upon him, and that “any man who can stand up for cleanliness Christianity as Mr. Bryan has done” is 100 big and good a man to be tied down in public office. To be of any value to a thinking person Mr. Atwood's defense of Mr. Bryan should have been specific, at least as to | & few of the alleged unjust eriticisms, showing wherein Mr. Bryan was wronged by them, but that he does not do. With | your permission I will here restate a fow | of these criticisms and defy Mr. Atwood or anyone else to show that any one of them wrongs Mr. Bryan in any particu- lar. If some of them read like ancient history they none the Jless show character and style of the man. 1. In face of the fact that he iad al- ways preached the rule of the people through the instruction of delegaies. Mr. Eryan at 'Grand Island, in 1910, spoke for three hours in & vain attempt to get delegates to the democratic state con- vention to violate' their instructions. 2. At Baitimore he violated his own in- structions given him by the democrats of Nebraska—not at a convention, but at a primary election: 3. As a candidate for Gelegate-at-large to Baltimore Mr. Bryvan took oath in the office of the secretary of state at Lin- coln that %e would abide by the result of the eleé'ion, and then he violated that oath in deserting Champ Clark and golng to Wilson. 4 Mr. Brvan has said that a man who embezzies power is worse than a man who embeszles monev. But he, himself, at Baltimore embozsled the power placed in his hands by the demacrats of Ne- braska by turning it to a purpose other than that for which it was given him G In the face of all his preaching of peace, Mr. Bryan violated the spirit of all his much vaunted peace treatics by remaining in President Wilson's cabinet while he made war in Mexico in the wanton attack on Vera Cruz, with the result that nineteen Americans and about 300 Mexicans were killed. Mr. Brvan thus acqulesced in the slaughter and made himself a party to it. 6. Mr. Bryan as aecretiry of state, took an oath to support the constitution of the United States and vet in violation of that oath he used his power, official and personal, to help President Wilson force certain so-called ‘“administration meas- ures” through an unwilling congress. Undoubtedly Mr. Bryan has his virtues, but the virtue of consistency is mot one of them. CHARLES WOOSTER. Humanity Above Country. OMAHA, June 15.—To the Editor of The Bee: In this momentous and critical moment in the history of our country, I view with patriotic concern the absence of Mr, Bryan from the immediate coun- cils of the nation. I, however, rejoloe in the pleasing convietion that as he leaves those ocouncils: anchored in the hope of our noble president, he enters the larger councils of the nations of the world to plead in righteous wisdom for universal freedom and to protest against the atrocious crime of war. Let us then merge the act of resigna- tion Inte ineignificancy and forgeiful- ness, and with a larger and truer vision behold the grandeur of so exalted a pur- pose. With the belief in the prophecy that the evolutionary epoch is near for the collapse of political and theocratic tyran- ny, reared upon the usurpation of divine and human rights by kings and bishops, tormentors of the human race, and per- petuated by a senseless reverence for tra- dition. Not that Mr. Bryan loves his country less, but humanity more, most exalted conception of true American- ism. Now that he, imapelled through its potentiglity, consecrates his life to human rights and liberty, let no man ralse & volce of Drotest. For he who enly sees in the resignation from a cabinet portfolio by Mr. Bryan an Influence satisfying to his hatred for other nations and seeks to express in the venom of that hatred American patriot- ism, is a malefactor to thls republic and tumanity. J. BRAXTON GARLAND. TIPS ON HOME TOPICS. Boston Transcript: A college education is & wonderful thing, but It hasn't wholly eradicated the one-inch brim and the four- inch red hatband. Houston Post: While Mr. Bryan was addressing his German-American fellow cltizsens, why didn’'t he ask them to use their influence with their congressmen to do something for mational prohibition? Pittsburgh Dispatch: Arguments these days from belligerents on the other side of the ‘water about “the gemeral prin- ciples of international law” read very much like foolishness in the light of re- cent history. -~ and | of this year, | and_ purity and sobriety and peace and | the which is the | ¥ whout TART TRIFLES hetter name idn; a 1 think man ought to have somett Bvery e City Journal tion Your legal department must be very Chicago News. “Dick declared to me that \ Aunt Mary (visiting in the city)—1 want to hear at least one of your famous grand opera singers and then see some of your leading actors. Nephew (to ffice boy)—Jimmy, get us some tickets for'the vaudeville ana mov- " —Life | At a “does Daughter—What old-fashioned mean? Mother—Anything that I think is right,| you don’t dear.—Philadelphia “My dear, 1 knnl The says a great many “Well, maybe it is,” said the girl, “but it sounds good. I'd rather llsten to that sort of talk than literary conversation or opiniona about the length of the war.'— Louisville Courler-Journal Husband—I dreamed -last ni had insured my home for $100,00 it was burning down. ht that 1 and that Ledger “Why do they call ‘em fountain pens? ny HERErOTF fountain throws fountain d the party Designing Widow_ don't know. Songifimes 1 think it would be cheaper to o the law."—| without it.—Bosten Transcript Miss Yellowleaf he could | looking for a husband. most of my time looking for him They are hintin Yoy are squintin’ arty new: | Prohib- War-must-cease one And its Fven though » tr contatms M em aonnd prog part N pen is tl of the s New York Times | o keep nim occupled. Has Womba e T rane dack elght times before | , he has one that keeps him occu- | Y508l ,“'\"‘,,,r:l'\'<.v change your mind? | pled. His hobby is getting a r.-'wnl‘ 1 didn't 1 merely wished to ses | from a corporation that overchareed him | (% dldnt L erer, SO ehand was on something or other in 1897 —Kansas | »VStIer OF BOL o o and detormina Boston Transcript “Speakmg of conun expensive. drums, can you tell me why the letier ‘It is,” sighed .the trust magnate. " 1 like the marriage service ‘Btill, I"suppose you have to maiutain Njowboy—I'm no good at conundrums 1" Why? “Well, 1 Widow—Bocause “we’ can't be “wed I frankly admit | am not endure the frivolous girls, and see| Mrs. Guzzler—So am I, . hn‘ he dangles after any wax doll!"” Miss \ullnwln\nffifiut T thought you he professed to like the cereous | had one klnd didn’t he?"—Baltimore American. | Mrs. Guzsler—80 I have, and [ spend Judge VALE. Ella A, Fenning, in New York Times \(mnr Bryan, ou tryin s to rock Men are savin' Your thought's strayin’ Toward a future vote! the boat? eace one leader—you! No complainin’ Gainst campeignin’, Next year, Rut yo | Leave us sad, With g0 much at stake' do we make, Tads, air, sir, Your resignin’ Won't cause pinin’ Tears no eves wiil blind At your goin’ Grief's not showin': We, too, are resigned! One you're leavin® thi e a k 1s not rievin’ I Solld backin' n is mere Hl!"n He's not lackin’, lackin'~you! 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