Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 21, 1915, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY BDWARD ROGEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bes Publiehing (‘;:mnny, Proprietor. BER RUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. Entered at Omahs postoffice as second-class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. vor month. By mail or M-l ulcr (1-3 two- in payment of 1 except on Omaha and th n n I-I- street. Ll!fl. B ll ! M ", “fih -vmu; wmcn w. ME!PON DENCI. uflr-_mmz."“_."'u R BT E B Yall Bt MAY CIROULATION, 53,345 N County of D X lug'gl W liams, = {u?bn 7:;'-‘-:‘.-: of The Bee Pnililh p-ny.flnt or the duly sworn, says that the tion month of May, 1¥ib, was WILLIAMS, C'Wllllflon "Ml“ in my presence and sworn to before B.{R‘l""iL'NTER, Notary Publie. o DWIG) me, this Stibscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee malled to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. nun i Thought for the Day \ Selected by Mrs. Edward Johnson Let me today losk back aeress the span ' M dark and dawn, and tomy conscience say “* Beoause of some guod deed te beast or man, The world is better that I lived today.’’ —zu- Wheeler Wileox. R AR | Sa— The veraclolis chronicler of “hallstones as large as baséballs” made a good start for the Mufhatton pennant. It is Greater Omaha. Everybody boost. SRRStyem— Experience with spring floods emphasizes in pn expensive fashion the need of higher, wider and stropger bridges. —— If there were anything else lying around looss in the South Omaha city hall, it would doubtless require a search. warrant to find it also.. ——— Income tdx expectations have reached the altitude of $88,000,000, The ‘“‘welcome” sign twigkles merrily over a famishing national cash box. 4. &k S s———— ‘lnes of demarcation between Oom th Omaha and also between Omaba All muu Loss u irrevocable, but Bot W —zn_g and water christened the Arizona as it 1nto its element. Here's hoping the dreAdnought will never have a more dangerous chaser. S——— . An electrical expert announces that within tvouty-llvc years pepple will think by wire. In S0mg quarters the fatigue of the present method has been a source of pain for inventive humani- tarians. — ] hr ten years to come the Koreans will re- ulvh.huty secular schooling ‘‘made in Japan.” A m In worldly ways spells the doom of the hat among people who devised it as an e symbol of spiritual repose. from Nebraska national and state & swelling abundance of money in Normal rates prevail and ~favor continuance. The financial “in our surrounding territory is decid- ng to enterprise. cut E— url's Medical society has restored to good standing a doctor who scandalized the by paying out real money for newspaper advertising. Hereafter the penitent practi- tionér must depend on the kindly charity of grateful patients for local f: 4 S —— The greatest opportunity in all history, ac- cording (0 Mr. Bryan, is destined for the United States as the chief peacemaker of & warring wofld. That Mr. Bryan should voluntarily pass up the honor and fame the opportunity implies dsepens the mystery of his resignation. — Life-saving medals in gold and bronze and money prizes were presented to eight New York policemen as rewards for rescuing per- soms from drowalng in the waters around the city. The heroes of peace, as distinguished from the heroes of war, risk life to save life. —— H. Platt of Connecticut r, and C. R. Hall was played by the won by the | in forty-seven That Credit Merger Not a Bryan Idea. About ten days ago The Bee adverted to a plan ascribed to Mr. Bryan for a credit merger of the Pan-American republics whereby the money needed to devolop the resources of the | countries to the south of us might be raised by ‘ an exchange of United States bhonds for their recurities, bearing an interest rate of 1 per cent more than ours, which would sink the principal | ars. In originating this idea, chAracterized as ‘‘not only a daring, but a bril- liant, conception,” the National City Bank cir- cular, which we quoted, had seen the possible | most noteworthy plece of statesmanship con- tributed by Mr. Bryan to our national policy. Evoked by our editorial, we have just re- ceived from former Senator Jonathan Bourne, jr., a pamphlet copy of a plan for federal ald to good roads submitted by him to the joint con- gressional committee on post roads in April, 1913, in which he presents the very same scheme for exchange of United States bonds for bonds issued by our own states in carrying out | the good roads movement. Senator Bourne ad- | vocated a $200,000,000 3 per cent loan to be turned over to the states pro rata for iheir 4 per cent securities, the extra 1 per cent to con- | | stitute a sinking fund which would extinguish | the debt in exactly 46.89 years. All that Mr. Bryan has done, therefore, has been to take the credit merger idea put out by Penator Bourne for the promotion of our domes- tic public improvements and propose to apply it in its minutest detail to the public improvement works of the Pan-American states of Central and South America., Of course, no patent right has been issued to cover the device, and we are not certain that Senator Bourne claims original- ity, but it plainly is not original with Mr. Bryan, After-the-War Immigration. | Attention of our readers Is specially di- rected by The Bee to the article in our Letter box written by Mark Woods to suggest and em- phasize the urgency of an organized effort to | draw to Nebraska some of the desirable agri- | cultural immigrants sure to seek new homes | at the close of the present European war. The analysis of the forces tending to swell a new | tide of immigration soon coincides with The Bee's view already expressed and Nebraska's need for more people of the thrifty and in- dustrious sort to develop our still unbroken acres and increase the yield of the already cul- tivated land is self-evident. In the earlier periods of settlement, much work was done elong this line with results worth many times the outlay of money and labor. What was | done then to gulde the flow of immigration by the development movement can be done again if undertaken in the right way and by the right people. We do not know whether the Ellle; Board of Agriculture has the authority and re- sources to organize and carry on such a plan a8 Mr. Woods proposes, but the subject is of supreme importance to the state and It is none too early to get the necessary machinery ready. The Yaqui and Civilization. News reports in@icate that in Sonora, Mexico, the Yaqui Indians continue to threaten American settle 80 the presence of American armed forces may be required before order is restored. | The Yaqui Indian has been the subject of much misunderstanding in this country, and has been made the central figure in a great deal of beau- tiful romance. As a matter of fact, the Yaqui | is & full cousin to the Apache, with all the lat- ter's capacity for cussedness, and a great deal ' more of energy In its application. He has the same claim to the land that the aborigines had in this country, and made about the same use of it. | Mexico's dealing with the Yaquis, as with all its Indlan tribes, was originally much more hu- | mane than the United States’ treatment of its redmen. The efforts to educate and clvilize the | Indians were largely wasted, for the turbulent | spirits among the tribe kept the state of Sonora | in a constant turmoil. Massacres were common, | and dangers to settlers were ever present, until | Porfirio Diaz finally removed some of the more | unruly Yaauis to Yucatan. This later unloosed | & flood of ‘‘sob stories” about the “slavery” into whicli these unfortunate Indians had been sold. A halo of romance was properly illuminated and | placed on the Yaqul brow, and many people in the United States have been of the opinion that the tribe to its last man perished in glorious re- sistance to a tyrant, or in the cane fields of Yueatan. Little has ever been told of the savagery practiced by the Yaquis against the settlers in northwestern Mexico, but Diaz knew what he was doing when he tried to pacify the country. The final chapter may have to be written by Uhele Sam, just as it was when Geronimo and his band of were permanently sequestrated. cut-throats The tragic side of continuous banditry is revealed in the bread lines of Mexico City The spectacle of hundreds strugsling for bread and grains of corn with which life may be sustained rivals the horrors of Ireland's famine ye: of 1848-9. Unlike the Irish tragedy the Mexicans are ravaged by internal wars and a productive country devastated by guerillas. Humanity may well hope that the men responsible for the sufferings of the people will eventually pay the full penalty of their infamy. Surpassing opportunities for ‘‘easy money' abound on the Rio Grande border, but pass un- noticed by votaries of the art. A $20 gold coin can be transmuted into $700 of Mexican paper highly decorated and “made in the U, 8. A" The only labor involved is to float the bundle for a square meal. That calls for salesmanship of the first order. — The Army and Navy Journal condemns the practice of emphasizing the “ferrible loss of life” in the present war, and presents figures showing a larger percentage of injurl in peace than in wa The objection would have some force if one system of maiming suspended operations while the other held the field. Six lawyers called as experts in a New York trial testified that a few Scotch highballs to “sharpen a cross-examiner's wit and are “an ald instead of a hindrance” to a law- yer in the performance of duty. An exception may be noted here to the tendency to discredit all expert evidence. ‘THE | casualties would amount | Russian | | | BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY | War Losses and Numbers || New York Evenin~ Post we are enabled to draw some ides of the losses incurred by three of the combatant nations since the beginning of the war. The most definite figuros are the British, contained in statements in the House Fuuu different sources within the last two weeks of Commons. The next definite are the German, being compiled from the Prussian casualty lists, with an | estimate for the other German states. The least | definite are the Russian losses, which may only approximated from the statistics of Russian pri recently published in the German newspapers Austrian and French losses we have no basis even for an approximation, though we know, of course that in both cases they have been extremely evere So far as the English land forces are concerned, the war up to May 31 had lasted a little over forty weeks, beginning with the battle of Mons, last Wednes- day it was announced In the House of Commons that the total casualties on land since the beginning of Rostilities have been %809, or an average of 659 a week. The first general summary of British as compiled from the lists up to September 7 and a half weeks of war, gave total casualties of 1% or an average of a little over 7,000 a week, These first sixteen days Included the disastrous battle of Mons and the hurriea retreat before Von Kluck's over whelming forces, to the heginn'ng of the battle of the Marne. Yet the weekly average it will be noticed, is not much higher than for the entire course of the war. showing that trench fighting, though undramatic and harren of great results, may be as costly as the old- fashioneq fighting 'n the open. In the beginning this would not seem to have been the case, In February, Asquith announced that up to the fourth of that month the casualties wera about 104,000, 1n other words, | during the twenty-one and a half weeks after the be- gluning of the battle of the Marne the weekly average was about 4,000; and these would include the captures around Antwerp and the terrific fighting around Ypres in November. In April, a second officlal state ment gave the losses up to the eleventh of that month as 139,000, or since February 4 a weekly average of something less than 4,000; vet this perfod included the assault at Neuve Chapelle and the furious counter attacks that followed. But the latest figures show an extraordinary In- crease. If the losses on April 11 were 199,000 and on May 31 were 28,000, it would mean that the casualties for seven weeks were nearly 120,000, or a weekly average of 17,000, four times as heavy as during the battles of the Marne, the Alsne and Ypres, two and a half as heavy as during the retreat from Mons. I'ne operations during this period included the capture and | defense of Hill 8, the poiron-gas batties around Ypres and the unsuccessful drive In conjunction with the successful French attacks north of Arras. The figures show plainly that the British have been under heavy pressure in Flanders, and, in the second place, that their losses have been high in the Dardanelles explain the growing unrest about high explosives Without them it (s not only impossible to break through; It is fearfully expensive merely to hold the line. For Gérmany's losses we have the Prussian lists which up to two weeks ago are reported to have run close to 1,400,000 names. For the south German statcs we must add about 30 per cent, so that the total to well over 1,800,000; and with the fairly heavy cost paid for the victory in Galicia, the German debit account is now close to the 2000000 mark. The English figures show that the established ratios still hold, that the loss in officers is about 5 per cent of the loss of men in the ranks-- actually the ratio is as 1 to 23—and that the killed are one-fifth of the total casualties. Applying these ratios to Germany, we find that the German deaths are now about 400,000 and that the kaiser has lost be tween 50,000 and %0.00) officers in killed, wounded and missing. lan prisoners In Germany at the beginuning of May 513,000, according to the German press. In Austria-Hungury there were 302,04 Russian prisoners. Since the beginning of the battles in Galicia the Teuton allies claim to have taken 300,000 prisoners. This would bring the total number of Russians in captivity to 1,115,000, Of other nationalities there were In Germany and Austria on May 20, so- cording to the same authority, French prisoners, 254,000; Belglans, 40,000, Servians, 50,000, 000, or altogether 1,483,000 allies. These are numbers the German press, of which the history of war The number of Ru has never seen the like. This is quite true. But a veiy | falr approximation is supplied by the number Teuton prisoners in allled countries. In April, officially clalmed 616,000 Austrian prisoners. time the number must be close to 700,000, Of Aus- trian prisoners in Serbla there must be easily as many as of Serblan prisoners In Austria, so that the total t By this Austrian losses may be placed at 750,000 For German prisoners we have no figures. but 150,000 is a safe conjecture, the great majority Thus, 1,000,000, 00,000, being taken in the west. the allies are close to Germans the advantage by the prisoners held Ly glving the Austro- Russia’s total losses, argue the German papers. must be enormous, If one takes the number of pris- oners Into consideration; and it is, indeed, probat that the drain on the czar's armies has been move severe than that of any other nation except Austria- Hungary. But there is.the obvious consideration thut | Russia’'s large losses In prisoners must mean a com- tively low loss in killed and wounded. The large captures have been made by enveloping n movements in which resistance has become nd scattered bodies of men have lald down !l of life. This happened twice in Fast Prussia and now in ‘West Galicia, where the swift German advance from the Dunajec took in the rear the Russian armles in the Carpathians. Thus it is likely that the Russian dead and wounded are a xood deal less than the prisoners lost. The total Russian casualties do not exceed 2,000,000 and are probably nearer 1,750,000, Actu- slly, the Rusal ) would be less than the German, whieh, as we have secen, by this time, have reached the 2,000,000-mark. But, of course, the German loss must be reckoned on a baals of 5,000,000 men under arms, whereas It is doubtful If Russia has had more than 3,000000 at the front. pa Twice Told Tales Greek Mytholoxy. A school teacher has lately been in pupils in Greclan mythology. It is the plan to have the children read the tales aloud, and the next day recount them in their own language. One lad, 1o whom iven the assignment to render in his own language the story of The Gorgons did so in these terms: ‘The Gorgons were three sisters that lived in the | Islands of the Hesperides, somewhere in the Indiap ocean. They had long snakes for hair, tusks for teeth and claws for nalls, and they looked like women, on'y more horrible, —Lippincott's Magasine. Severe Measures Demanded. A woman went inte & New York police station and begen reading the Bible to the officers in charge, She was arrested promptly and taken to the Bellevue hospital insane ward and subjected to observation. This recalls the story of the man who went into Westminster Abbe. nd knelt in the alsle to pray. Up ran a verg who collared the kneeling man and proceeded to turn him over to the police. erger replied: The man objected, whereupon the “It 1 don't make an example of you, people prayin’ all over th' church!"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mre, Mellen did not wish to offend her new cook “John," she said to the mau servant, “can you find out, without asking the cook, whether the tinned salmon was all eaten last night? You see, I don't wish to ask her, because she may have eaten it, anl then she would feel uncomfortable” added the good soul. * “If you please, ma'am.” replied the man, “the new cook has eaten the tinned salmon, and if you was to say anvthing to her you couldn’t make her feel any more uncomfortable than she is."'—~Christian Register. lossen | for two | They | and Engliah | Russta | IS aE—nrye—— The Pees LeSfer, rt Over In Nebraska. Help Them § LINCOLN, June 19.—~To the Hditor of The Bec: When the European war ends | & mreat tide of immigration will sweep from Burope to America. It will consist of the most virile and ambitious of the who having fought their best for respective countries will feel no resting upon them to shoulder the burden of paying the heavy cost of the war increased taxes. A large per- centage of these immigrants will be from the farms Europe. Ought Ne- braska to organize for the purpose of | metting its share of this immigration? Talking the matter over with some large owners of Nebraska lands the other | day, it was suggested that the work of | reaching out after the desirable and the best of these immigrants ought to be placed in the hands of an organized body like our state board of agriculture. I am writing this letter in the hope that 1 may enlist the powerful aid of The Bee in what I believe to bs a most important | task and one that if properly handled will add many millions to our productive wealth In the various business trips that 1 have made to Europe I have been im- pressed by the wonderful results achieved by farmers in Belgium and France and Germany. Not only have they been forced to learn how to increase yields and to men their duty in not | make every inch of their land productive | by reason of the scarcity of acreage, but they have also been compelled to absorb all of the details of profitable marketing. There will be thousands of the kind of | tarmers who have made agriculture so | profitable in those countrfes that land is | worth $500 and 8600 an acre who will head | for America when the war is over, and | | Nebraska ought to get a goodly per. | | centage of them. them located on Nebraska farms. With the object lessons they could give other farmers in doubling yields and improv- add ing their land, this state would millions of bushels of wheat and other grains to its yearly production in a re- markably short time. increase in Land values would proportion as productivity | grew, and our farms would be selling at | double and treble their present value | within a decade, with the limit removed | There is a much more serious feature than reaching out after these farmers. | Most of them will have Leen impover- | ished by the war, and they will need to have thelr farming operations financed. | How shall this be done? Let me suggest a practicable way. There are dozens of | men in this state who own large tracts ot land, good, tillable land. I am one of them and therefore feel competent to apeak for them. They stand ready to sell a portion of their holdinges to these | immigrants at a price to be determined Ly a state body or commission composed of competent men, on long time and at | low interest, and in addition will finance their first year's operations. They can | afford to do this because of the increased value that success will give to their other ioldings and to the varlous business en- terprises with which most of them are connected. The work of interesting these land own- ers and listing their offerings*and check- | Ing up on the various detalls should be entrusted to a body that has the author- { ity of the state benind it, mot oniy to create confidence in the plan, but to as- sure a square deal for the immigrants. I suggest the State Board of Agriculture because it s already organized, becanuse it is splendidly manned, because its pur- poses are to develop agriculture and be- cause its very name will create the neces sary confidence in the enterprise. It has all of the machinery for going out and | getting the kind of immigrants we want and also in placing them where they should be put. These European farmers have lcarned lessons that our farmers, tlling a virgin #oil and many acres, have not had to learn the productive areas of the state would work wonders in increasing yields and land values. The result to the people of the state would be marvelous. The Bee was founded by a man who came to this country an immigrant, pos sibly no better equipped than thousands of these men 1 refer to. What his energy and his intelligence wrought is written in the history of Nebraska. What he did for the state can, fn a way, be done by hundreds of others from acrogs the sea from whence he came, and I feel sure that his sons, to whom I address this letter, will be glad to aid in some such project 1 have outlined. MARK W, ‘WOODS. Tips On Home Topics Chicago Herald: Judging from his last statement, Mr. Bryan has reversed his previous decision and granted himself a new trial with instructions to the court which point to an entirely different ver- dict. Brooklyn KEagle: mighty good argument diplomacy. We shouted aloud for “Fifty- four, Forty or Fight;” we got neither, nd we were well enough satistied with | & compromise, Indlanapolis News: The plan of the general staff of the army to provide rifle instruction for every boy in the count: is likely to be popular among the boys, for rifle shooting is some fun, as you History offers one for open-faced the time when you had more hair and less girth. Brooklyn Eagle: The Minnesota, olg- gest of all freight carriers under the American flag, is starting on its last voy an American ship, from San ran; o Viadivostok. It is to take English registry. La Folletteism was too much for it. It meant $13,000 a year ex- tra cost in paying and providing for the crew. Baltimore American: Many new indus- tries have arisen during the war to the Kreater prosperity of the country, but ome decisively to be discouraged and put out of business as speedily as possible is that of false affidavit making in matters international. Diplomacy just now needs the plain unadulterated truth as it never needed it before, and any deliberate clog- ging of the situation is simply criminal. New York Post: The story of the young lowa tenant who in six years pald out $8000 upon a quarter section of land, meanwhile accumulating 3,7 worth of stock and machinery, is cited by the Na- tional City bank as an example of how resolute industry may )ift the agricul- turist to success. What John Busch did, thousands may do. He had in his faver strength, credit, adequate farm training. and the choice of land of extraordinary fertility—and these things the average youns farmer may command Enough of them scattered through | will recall if your memory runs back to | GRINS AND GROANS. | found one yet” . Certainly not. What I'm trying to do is to impress the fact that the article i® as well Haven't you that_the people may ~Washington Star. 80 scarce turn to me he had n andfather.—Philadel- okia Record | — The One With the Eyexinss—1 went into It you will allow us to take you In|a restaurant and said: “What have you hand,”” said the greatly anced nation, | for dinner we will civilise ¥ in a very few Everything.” said the walte | YRt g It in Yes," roplied the primitive man, “but order of ha clled the waiter. | how do I know that myself and family \ | will be among the survivors? —Washing ton Star The Parson—To whom am I indebted for this visit The ’\rh|~lrm-m To Mamie's wother abe thought 1'a been courting her long | enough and she sald so.~ Philadelphia | Record : 80 you are still looking for an i mest | man? ‘Ot course,” replied Diogenes. | | “Which one of the ten commandments 4id Adam break when he ate the apple? asked the Sunday school teacher. He didn't break any,” replied one for hlllr‘ fellow. “Why not?" queried the teacher, “‘Cause there wasn't any then, cago News Wigg—Blooblud is a great stickler ancestry, isn't he? Waggs—Yes, when he gets to heaven he will probably snub poor old Adam be e Chi- This Summer? That is the absorbing question in every well con- ducted housgehold, where vacations are regarded annual necessities. It is a deep question, too, to figure out just what sort of vacation will please the entire family. The Great Western Office is Travel and Vacation Headquarters in Omaha We have made a study of just the things which puzzle average traveler. We Kkn the country, the railways resorts, and can give you literature on & moment's notice, descriptive of thousands of vacation spots throughout the country. All you need to do is to give us a general idea of where you want to go, what you want to do, or what you want to spend and let us make Suggestions. We will do thin without cost or obligation on your part. 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