Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 22, 1915, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE ""FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR ———— e~ e, The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. BER BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH Entered at Omahs postoffice as second-class matter. - KR B e L K ritin e ] TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION By carrisr By mall mo) y. Evening and Sunday Evening_without Sunday. Sunday only.. Send notice of cha of add frregularity in delivery to Omaha Bee, Department. REMITTANCE. Remit by draft, express or postal order. Omly two- cent stamps fecelved in payment of small ao- eounts, Personal checks, except on Omaha and eastern | | Alblon Argus: The Argus gives space to an edi- exchange, not accepted. | clomeney was only & last resort torial taken from The Omaha Bee that fairly expresses | OFFICES. | If Frank is an innocent victim of circum- | the sentiments of the partisan republican press of the am::.'-;'rhg (IB"N‘M"I‘ stantial evidence and class hatred, then, of ' country. The Bee is stalwart republican, but it speaks uth Omaha— stre | et vounell Bluffs—14 North Main street. Lincoln—2 Little Building. Chicago—801 Hearst Bujldin, New York—Room 1108, 36 Fifth avenua. St. Louis-508 New Bank of Commerce. Whashington—7% Fourteenth 8t, N. W, CORRESPONDENCE, ress communications relat) to news and C)Orfd-‘turlo Omaha lu.'&llorln Dou(fi e —————————————eeeeeee et MAY CIMOULATION, State of Nebraska, Count Dwight Williams, cireul Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the average cireulation for the month of May, 1915, was ” pwiont WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager, Subscrited In my presence and sworn to before me, this 34 of Jung 1915, BERT fiUNTER. Notary Publie. Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee malled to them. Ad- A dress will be changed as often as requested. P ——— ) Thought for il: Day Se'ected by Alice Pritchard ““The victory belongs to those whom nothing can disharten or diseourage and who persevere to the end.” Fortunately, the nalled down. Sm— Neither Sedan day nor Waterloo centennial, it seems, possessed the charm. southside city hall was And yet there seems to be a question how long Mr, Bryan will stay dead this time. It must have taken some smooth work to do the government out of $27,000,000 of oleo taxes. The irrigation problem can take a thirty- day layoff without endangering its standing in oratorical soclety. Governor Slaton’s real recompense will be | the satisfaction that comes from a consclentious performance of duty. Sp——— - I8 appointing a publi¢ defender who was backing another for the job, the governor surely put him on the defensive. No doubt the honorable court took into ac- count the impossibility of splitting a ceat to glive the railroads half of it. Nebraska's semi-centennial of statehood is scarcely twenty months off. If it is to be prop- erly celebrated, the plans must soon be laid. p— Colonel Bryan could not agree with the president he made. Naturally he disagrees with all the exes who kept him out of the White House. Ninety-cent gas has been decreed in Des Moines and Trenton, N, J. Greater Omaha is becoming a lonely above-the-dollar spot on the gas map. The World-Herald quotes one of its Bouth Omaha friends as saying, “‘1 am surprised that there is still some money left even in the gen- eral fund.” Well, they ought to know. While the allied monarchs hug their palaces Kaiser Willlam is on the job in the fleld all the time. Rulers who share the lot of fighters at the front put pep where it counts most. —— As usual, Mr. Bryan insists that his peace plan is the only blown-in-the-bottle sure-cure remedy for war and that all plans proposed by outhers are bogus and calculated to iIntensify the malady. The city of Omaba under its charter has had the power for many years to acquire its public utilities by condemnation process. There never was aly good reason for resorting to the ap- praiser system. Try to imagine the burst of indignation if our city comissioners should undertake to sell to some favored crony for $100 a comparatively new automobilg, pald for with money out of the vublic treasury. The senate interstate Investigating commitiee s having & pleasant time in Omaha. They listened to & number of witnesses, among them N B, Falcaner, Captain J. H. Btickle of Hebron, Charles F. Good- | man and Edward Rosewater, and afterwards took » | drive about the city in carriages, as arranged for by Senator Manderson. Several hunfived dollars have been put up by Omahs Lusiness men as prizes for the rifle contest of the milBary Separtment sharpshooters. Dr. J. C. Davis left tor Bvanston, Pa., to spend two weeks with his parents, Mre. Rosenthal, whe has been via.tin s her daughte A, Mandelbers, for some time, left for her. home Audrew Bevins has soue to New York, An.kbo- fore returning visit the scenes of his boyhood wround Lake George and Utica, and before returning will deliver the Fourth of July oration at Fort Ti- conderoga. 7K Hleon and her daughter of Geneva, N suests of Mr, and Mrs. Stephen P. Bangs st Clemency for Frank. Excepting Georgla, where opinion is ad- mittedly divided, the action of Governor Slaton, | saving Leo M. Frank from the death penalty | and making his sentence life imprisonment, un- | Regardless of the facts, though the innocence of Frank seems thoroughly established versal verdict hag been that his conviction was | brought about by the pressure of prejudice and excitement and that he did not have the fair trial to which he was entitled. All that was asked for him in all the legal proceedings con- | | nected with his appeals to higher courts was to | | have another trial ordered, and the petition for | course, life imprisonment is an awful fate. Com- mutation of sentence, however, gives time for the true inwardness to develop, and it goes with- out saying that proof that the murder was com- mitted by another would, whenever produced, open the doors and set Frank free. Those of our readers who joined with The | | Bee in petitioning Governor Slaton in Frank's tehalf must share the satisfaction that, to this extent, the effort has not been unavailing. SE—— The Nebraska Two-Cent Rate Case. In {ts decision on the 2-cent passenger rate case, the supreme court of Nebraska lays down the rule that the power of the State Rallway commission does not extend to nullifying maxi- mum rates specifically fixed by the legislature. In this case the legislature had substituted 2 cents as the maximum for the 3-cent rate estab- | lished and maintained by law for years and tha | court holds that it is without the scope of the commission to raise this rate. The court also | says that where a law has been enacted gov- erning a specific point, and later a general law | passed dealing with the subject, the provi- sions of the special law must apply to its par- ticular point This ruling makes it clear that the legis- lature is the only place to which tne railroads | imay go for permission to Increase intrastate passenger rates. The decision also'more plainly detines the powers of the commission, and thus should enable it to approach its business more confidently. With Whom Would We Go to War? Our militarists are busy again, showing how utready we are for war. Our culpable neglect | in failing to provide for arms and ammunition, and fortresses and the like, is again being re- viewed, and the administration of the nation’s affairs {s seriously eriticized because nowhere in its program for many years has appeared de- talled plans for a large army and a larger navy. the uni- i | | & letter to The All these charges are well founded. The United States is unprepared to engage in war | on the stupendous seale now being exhibited in Europe. We have ten million young men who would make splendid soldiers, and who would die like heroes in the trenches, and elsewhere, but we haven’t the ten million rifles to put into their Hands. Wherefore we should go to mak- ing rifles immediately. Why not determine with which nation we are to go fo war, and then make our plang ac- cordingly. A century of peace with Great Britain may well be followed by another. The traditional friendship with the other Ereat pow- ers is not likely to he broken soon. We Ra' e no really good reason to look for war anywhere, but if we are to get into the war game, let's do ft right. We should plck our foe, or victim, end get ready to conquer that particular nation. With whom will we go to war? S——— Safeguarding the Future, The Travelers' Protective association, which bas just closed a successful annual convention | ! in Omaha, is one of the smaller organizations in | | the assessment insurance field. It is neces- earily so because Its membership s limited to a single occupation regarded as hazardous, yet it has reached a membership of 51,000 in a qual ter of a century. Its growth and widening bene! icence is typieal of the American spirit which finds expression in safeguarding self and de- pendents from the pinch of accidents as well as the uncertainties of life. | No nation In the world comes within hailling distance of the United States in the forehanded- ness of its people In this regard. Life and acci- dent insurance policies in force in this country on the ftirst of the year totaled, in round num- | Lers, $40,000,000,000. Of this enormous total 600 assessment companies and orders, with a ! membership of 9,000,000, had outstanding $10,- | 000,000,000; reserve life Insurance companies, | $20,664,009,000, and the balance in accident, | health and yorkmen's liability insurance. During the past year the various life insur- | ance organizations, old line and assessment, dis- | tributed ir the United States and Canada $686,- 700,000 in claims and benefits, an Increase of §40,100,000 over the disbursements of 1913. | The puvments were nearly equal to the total | disbursements, exclusive of the Postoffice de- partment, by the United States government dur- | ing the fiscal year of 1814 for the civil, war and | | nivy establishments, Indian service and interest ! |won the public debt. | Great Britain, France and Germany barely cqual one-third of the life insurance in force in the United States, and these nations with the rest of the world added carry less than one-half | the North American total. Aimed at Omaha Beatrice Express: The announcement that Omalia ; | is shortly to become the chief station of the weather questionadly commands popular approval | bureau service was followed by cloudbursts through throughout the country, which has been | ;i ne state. If this is to be one of the results of st'rred by few criminal cases as it has by this, | the change, the quicker the bureau s returned to Fort Weather, Virginia be to the people of Nebraska. Hastings Tribune attempt to play cowboy easterners haven't What, can It be that these heard of Mayor Jim? Why boy stunts that are necessary to entertain the peopls of Omaha words of wisdom and loyalty to our government. It | sentiments of ex-President Taft and Apparently ex-President Roosevelt and some other thoughtless agitators would argue the expresses the other great men case first, and support the president afterward They make the hard task of the president still harder and are doing much the same kind of work that the rebel sympathizers did during the civil war to embarrass that while we strenuously disagree about domestia adminis- ic policies, loval Americans hasten President Lincoln. It 1s comforting to know tration and dome to offer themselves upon the altar of their country and sacrifice their personal ambitions, personal wishes, personal theorfes, their property and even their Iives In so doing they for the good of their beloved country obey the doctrine of the lowly Neszarine who sald, “It I8 more blessed to give than to receive.” Norfolk News: doing nothing more than shoot up all the prominent hotels in town. Gosh, but Omaha is getting fussy Kearney HMub: Tae newspapers are giving Omaha Board of Education some well deserved pub. lieity in connection with its orders relative to the teaching of American history. The course of study provide 1t—~"‘unless excused by the principal of the high scheol Commenting on this absurdity a citizens of Omaha in Bee says: My children are not yet of high school age, but I certainly will have them take American history and shall deem it a disgrace if they do not have brains and patriotism enough to at least obtain a passing mark. This age is becoming we shambling, hywashy and unpatriotic. What need on the school board is strenuous patriotic men, who will consider the study of their own country one of the most important a student can take.” throughout the country generally to ascertain how many schools are neglecting the most important study in the curriculum Beatrice Express. ports of robberies in the city of Omaha in which valu« able diamonds are given as among articles missing, the Douglas county assessor asserts that the reporters have evidently made some error, the schedules re- turned by the parties mentioned in the robberies show that they were not the possessors of diamonds or any other articles of jewelry. The Douglas county official is entirely too discerning to hold office long in Nebraska's metropolis. Norfolk Press: The Omaha Board of Education, finding the study of American history too d!fficult for some of the mollycoddles taking the high school course, “kindly’’ dropped the same from the curriculum, out still insfst on military drills. Twice Told Tales Properly Named, Not ‘all of the good negro storles come from the south. For Instance, thére is the one told by John Poucher, jr., now of Omaha, though formerly of these parts, who has been viaiting his brother-in-law, ‘‘Heathen”” Wood, in Loulsville recently. John was a newspaper man once, but he is preaching now. He says there is an old darky in Omaha who, strange as it may seem to that latitude, never was a slave. ‘The old man does odd jobs of hauling, for which purpose he uses a gigantic mule of tremendous strength and equal deliberation and determination, One day John asked the old man, the mule's nam “Dat mule am name Co'poration,” was the wWOr, “What on earth ever made you give it such a name as that?’ John asked “Jes' caure dat am de nachel nam’ fo' ‘Im,” said the old man. “Dat ar mule it kin stan’ mo' 'bu an’ go right ahald havin' its own way dan any w'ite pusson yo' eber see.''—Loulsville Times. Seemed Probable. A young business man, who has been married but a short timé, was greeted by his wife one evening just betfore dinner with the joyful announcement that she had that very afternoon received her diploma from the cooking school at which she had been an assiduous student for some time. ‘And 1've prepared the whole dinner tonight!"” ndded gayly When they were seated at the table, and the young man was endeavoring to masticate a particularly tough plece of one of the new dishes, his wife suddenly sald “I took special palns with the dish vou are eating Guess what it is?" “Well, 1 really don't tainly. 1t the diplom she know,”" he replied unce-. —Pittsburgh Chronicle Sharpening Himself, When the train stopped at the little southern sta- tion the tourist from the north sauntered out and | gazed curiously at a lean animal with scraggy bristles which was rubbing itself against a scrub oak. “What do you call that?’ he asked curiously a native “Razorback hawg, sah.’ ““What is it doing rubbing itself against that tree!" “He's stropping hisself, sah, jes’ stroppin’ hisself, - Ladies’ Home Journal. of People and Events Butte, Mont,, a ing money to bring back from | wanted for the crime of murder. Fitting action to name scores again. George Pihl has graduated from a pharmacy school in Chicago- Pittaburgh ls fuclined to do like Boyd county, Ne- braska, saye the money apd put justice on short grasa. The Smoky City authoritiés are wrangling over spend- One of the ostriches of the New York zoo s on a strike. All sorts of persuasion by keepers failed to induce the striker to resume her job of hatching ostrich eggs. Shades of Robert Bonner! A penitentiary ia rising on the site of his famous race track at White Plains, the more satisfactory it will The Omaha Bee warns eastern millionaires not to come to Nebraska's metropolls and we | thought everybody knew him—he can do all the cow- | person may secure on a swimmer. They arrested a man in Omaha tor the for It, ana the student is required to study The mat- ter Is well worth looking Into in the public schools Commenting on newspaper re- | seeming natural law. { law, American Sadie Henry, daughter of Colonel Henry, St. Agnes’ school, Alboy+ The immensity of the buriness is more than | a tribute to the thriftiness of the insured. Fortifying the future with two score billions is » monument to American foresight and business sagacity. False reports do not get very far when they | The fabrication | regarding the identity of the German ambassa- dor's messenger to Berlin was a mischievous invention designed to complicate a delicate situ- affect the honor of nations. etion. Refutation was necessary as it WS | ies tn fromt of the latest Ford Motor company prompt and complets. dividend. A stock dividend of $65,000000 and redates SEs——— of ¥15000000 cash to purchasers of this vear's ears While lamentations are heard In various | constitute a “melon” of uncommen julciness. quarters regarding the hardships imposed on | a Follette seaman’s | rushed with Over | is | fifty steamers are now on the ways in Atlantic | coast buud].u yards. Americhn shipping by the ship yards are orders for freight and passenger craft, N. Y. where the noted literary sport secured relaxa tion from the palpitating thrille of the New York Ledger A want ad husband scquired in 1811 by a lonely to divorce him. It should be noted that the want ad | some business to the court. General Huerta Informed & he was in busineas as a sui Broadway, New York eape from the Mexican muss. She robbed and escaped suspicion for six months found at her home. Police court, tears, sobbios, | sympathy, etey ‘ woman of Chadron, O, Is now fight!’4 an attempt did the business for the lonely woman and brought | s enumerator that yor with offices at 61 It will be recalled that about this time last year he was surveying the route of es- All oM favorite expressions for riches Become volos- A girl of 19, the poet and ali-round faverite of the sraduating class of the New Hrighton (Staten Isiand) High school, turned out to be an industrius ‘Raffles.™ in a thoughtiess moment she wore a stolen hat which her classmates recoguized. Bundies of plunder were The Pees 72 Expert Swimmers for Life Guards. OMAHA, June 21.—To the Editor of The Bee: Now that one life already has been unnecessarily snuffed out at Carter lake by drowning, 1 would like to offer a few suggestions The city now has one lawsuit in the courts on account of & boy being drowned at one of the city parke, and there will be many more such lawsuits if the city commissioners do not hire expert life guards to protect the bathers at the beaches. I am a swimming instructor and have taught life saving to a very great extent both here and in Chicago, and T am posi- tive that the last drowning at Carter lake | could have been averted had the life guard been an expert, as he should be. Any person familiar with the swimming game knows that it is a very easy mat- ter to break any hold that a drowning 1 have liad experience in the Missouri river with drowning people, and I know how & drowning person acts. It s not a very | difficult matter for an experienced man to rescue the most excited strong people from drowning. The city commissioners should not hire a man for this life guard work unless he can pass an examination which shows him to be competenf. Such an examina- tion is required in all large cities. This test should Include®that applicant be re- quired to show breaks for at least three holds in the water, five holds on land, show methods for towing a man both struggling and unconsclous, demonstrate methods of resuscitation, and he should be able to swim at least one mile 1 hope the city commissioners will act on my suggestions. G. P. W. Knowing Too Mueh. OMAHA, June 20.—To the Editor of The Bee: Elbert Hubbard used to say, “Better not know so much as to know S0 much that ain't #0.”" I wish to extend this with this: “Better for your ma- terial wellbeing not to know so much when you are disposed to allow others the economic benefit of your knowledge.” Your moral wellbeing is another question. I am in a certain manufacturing busi- ness. A prospective customer came with & fob of work to be done, asking if I could do it. T sald, “Yes, I cam, but U don't want to do it Asked he, “Why not?’ Sald I, “Because I know a way in which you can get that for nothing.” ‘Then I told him what I knew. He thanked me very cordially and got it. Plainly, by knowing too much about the business, like the parrot, I got it in the neck. Now, according to ‘‘business ethics" should T have done this? Well, If thers is such a thing as business ethics, as distinct from any other ethics, I should have done it. For ethics is ethics what- ever the qualifying adjective. However, |1t is hardly the business practice. In business practice, so far as immedi- ate economic benefits go, if one has too strict a conception of fair play, it is not well for him to know too much, even about his own business. Yet for him to remain deliberately ignorant of these facts, on account of the economie effect upon himself, he also violates his con- science. The fact is that all disseminators of knowledge recelve the least returns if indeed they do mnot actually lose what they have. Some years ago the funny papers ran a good series entitled, “‘Pro- fessor Nix'" Why they discontinued, 1 give up, for they were really olever. I recall that one day he was wandering alons and saw some boys trying te roll a heavy barrel toward a slide into a base- ment. He sald, “Ah, my Mlttle friends, let me W you vot it iss ven it lss a sclentific.”” S0 he took & lever and pla- cing a fulcrum under one end, showed them how easy it was to pry under the barrel and roll it with little effort. He sent it spinning down the chute to the great delight of the boys, who took to flight. Last scene of all, however, was when the workmen, who had just toil- somely succeeded in getting the heavy barrel to the sidewalk, were using “Prof. Nix"” as a street mop. “Ain't it the truth” that a little knowledge is a dan- gerous thing? It is the same if you have ideals. All | 1aeats are a disturbance to those who seek to profit by things as they are. ‘Those who are profiting do not like to have their profits disturbed. So resentful are they of those who introduce ideals into social or private life that they wiil not hesitate utterly to ruin the business of those who dare to disturb them. Tt is for this reason that the old idea had it that those who have least of earth have mrost of skies. This was the spir- itual consolation for doing one's duty— give up here that you might hold on these I make no complaint against this T belleve I can understand it. Nature's God gives us whatever we desire, but there i= a price that we must pay for it. We cannot gain even moral growth without earning that achlevement. We need not, how- ever, imagine that the satisfaction is postponed to the “life in the skies.” The reward is here and now. The peace that comes from day to d in the knowledge that one has done his best to be true is compensation quite enough. No material gain can take its place. 1 should never have felt sfied to take my customer's money for a service which T knew he could get for nothing. Though he did not know it. I 4id, and that was quite sufficient. Though it may cost money to hold to ideals, I would not part with those poor ones T have, “No, not for Venice."” or the cost, stick to your NAMELESS. OUT OF THE ORDINARY. China's national hymn is sald to be so long that it requires about half a day to sing It An Syear-old boy was recently sent | by parcel post from Sait Lake City to San Diego. The postage was #0 cents. The latest thing in the way of suffrage propaganda is to wear vells into which are woven the words, “Votes for Women." A blind man at Westbrook, Me., has bullt an ell to his house, laid the hard- wood floora and installed & hot water landlord come and MIRTHFUL REMARKS. Wife—Henry, you really must have the see for himseif the orking of Worry- time to envy_the ~Washington Star Rip Van Winkle rubbed his eves What year In this? he aski damage the rain did to our cefling. N forty-three, = responded an Hub—1 can't without letting him see | BInetegon ooy the damage the children have done to What's new? queried the sleeper the rest of the house.—Boston Transcript. | «Rryan has just issued a new state men—"_began one DAd you hear about the big movement there I8 on foot in Chicago? “'No, Indeed. Tell me about it*" “It's _the public’s movement walkin home on account of the street car strike.” ~Baltimore American ye th \cMaster—Norah scems quite gone on that L KA ette- ove Mistress—Gone! Why, she actually | Shiape over malils a vostcard to herself every night, #0 he'll be sure to call at the house next morning.—Boston Transcript glven me up “You certainly put your foot in it when you told Mrs. Flirty that the fact you were arguing was as plain as the nose on her face.' ‘Why did 1 put my foot in it?” ‘Bécause she is considered to have a pretty nose.”’—Baltimore American. trying | | and | Eclipse mas strengt | Forever 1 And above | Beyond the | There are ‘‘Here. have this put up. It will cost ut 5 cents.' a n “Doetor, will you lend me the 50 cents?® Fogarty (a Rooshians are beginnin’ 1 (warmly)=Don't ye lose any it. Mar-rk ur-n they Il retake it ag'in before long!—=Puck. She—1f 1'd rejocted you would you ha He—Not much! to win you down a hundred times. She—Ah, what & Boston Transcript. il LI THE LOCAL POETS. g matlcs Lo mathelit ‘and changeless, visibie. [ The fragrant flowers proelaim’ Thy com- mon love triendliness There was & My world was all Ana Rip, more tired than ever, turnea overGnd soon snored the sieep of the just. —Philadelphia Ledger. moderate drinker)=T'1l bet feel th’ me wur-ruds have kept right on le ';-‘ona turned me Jot of fun I missed.— N To the Allin-All Within the granite hills, lergth whose breadih handiwork, is found Thy 1s Thy principle, stars Tre endless { lized truth radiate, [T " the Finite mind_to calculate. 10 secrets in Thine open whole} | Thy benefits vxr‘l‘\g?n no longing soul LLIS HUDSPETH. Ashes of Rowes. time some weary moons aga suftused with golden i o | beams— Let me have the prescription. There, | ol " n my jou can have it tilled now for & quarter. ‘ Then happincss pursued me 1! o OIS T s U, Pes ToF TV | gl - siing! 1. sabetal ' ENRSIE DING ‘Gee, could know, £ And 1, all wonderment that it was so; that secret society must pull o’ door-way ) From heaven's wide open door-wa "’-‘-’%5;.?"'.‘5,"~-""" in degree work gladness streamed, [ see, among other officers, that they | MY have an eminent worthy custodian of the liniment."=Louisv{ll Courfer-Journal “Do you feel that your work is of any real benefit®" “Yes,” replied the censor. “‘While we cannot’ prevent war from belng terrible, we are at least doing everything possi- ble to render it uninteresting.”’~Washing- di ton Star. “1 hope there will never be any hard times, d Mrs. Cumrox. “That 1s & very selfish wish.' “Not entirely. When times are hard futire all schemes With Love's flerce fires my sky was all aglow. complex with radian§ But now, aids! there is no rosy sky, It's brightness faded all too soon, toa soon— When David's pipe went out, the flame a_dle Th.ll kindled it, and now again ‘tis une; And lo, I nurse my fractured heart and sigh Reproschfu] sonnets to the sullen moon, DOLORES Safety First! “Safety First” to the housewife means safeguarding the family’s home-baked food. Always use Royal Baking Powder which insures delicious and healthful Food. Royal Baking Powder is made from Cream of tartar—derived from grapes. ? Mbey always come back tor MOORE Northern Pacific and Minnesota & International Rys