Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 23, 1915, Page 5

S Rl A THE OMAHA DAILY BEE ""FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Pubdlishing Comp-ny,_}’;nprhtor;__ TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION By carrier ly and Sundar. ... KA itnout, Sunday FEvening and Sunday . Fvening_without Sunday. Sunday Bes only........ nd notice of change irregularity in delivery Devpartment. REMITTANCE. Remit by draft, express or postal order. cent stamps received in payment of eounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha exchange, not accepted. i T and eastern OFFICES. Omaha~The q Buflding. Bouth N street Vouneil Blu| 4 North Main street. Lincoln—3 Litde Bullding H in, h avenuas irteenth St., N. W. CORRESPONDENCR, o8 ‘Address communications relating to news and edi- MAY CIMCULATION, 53,345 y, being duly sworn, t the l.."n‘l fon for the month of May, 1 s " DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation y bscrited in my presence and sworn to fore Sul me, this 30 day of June, 115 BERT HUNTER, Notary Publie. Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. = 7= June 83 Thought for the Day Selected by Meredith Smith | Blindfolded and alone I stand ’w With unknown thresholds on each hand, l The darkness deepens as I grope, Afraid to fear, afraid to hope; | Yet this one thing I learn to know, Each day more surely as I go, That doors ave opened, ways are made, Burdens are lifted or are laid By some great law unsecn and atill Uniathomed purposes to fulfill **Not as. [ swill,’’ = Helen Hunt Jackson. \r——ee Poor ‘old Grandfather Clause! Las set. His sun ——— I time of pleasant weather, prepare for the liot and sultry days. Do your summer shopping now. Despite alarming reports, a bumper crop of wheat stands up and waves a welcome to the reaper. — What's this story about Bryan still con- trofling the patronage distribution in Nebraska? ‘Engutrage! . s N Greater Omaha population i estimated “all the way from 165,000 to 200,000." Better get closer together. To auto drivers: Don’t forget the law re- ouires a full stop where street cars are loading or unloading passengers. Yes, but where is all the economy and re- trenchment our new business School board was ®olng to inaugurat SEme—— The way to navigate is to navigate. If it can be done on the Missouri with one barge, it can be done regularly with a string of barges. Sp—— As an exhibit of superb neutrality, the re- marks attributed to Pope Benedict XV adds new laurels to the smoothness of Roman diplomacy. The longer the electric lighting company waits to give patrons the rate reductions it olfered to give several months ago, the less eredit it will get. 4 . Ee——— This protect-the-official-bond excuse for Llocking the merger turn-over is all bunk. No bondsman ever lost a penny from his principal doing his duty according to law as he took oath to do when he assumed office. Smm— Those who belleved the courts had drawn the teeth of the Sherman law will observe that the court of last resort has supplied a new set of hand-made molars. As exponents of dental science the court shows masterful proficiency. T— Fire lostes and the expense of fire preven- tion are estimated to cost the United States more each year than the total vi of its pro- duction of gold, silver, copper and petroleum. Thus, while some pursue the road to blazes, others must dig, with the certainty of a steady Job. college commenceniont. was held in the The oratorical program was furnisheq Furay, Henry B. Malone, William F. Frenscr. The prizes were Father Finnegan, president of the Georgia Mob Furnishes the Proof. | The mob demonstrations in Georgia to mani fest popular displeasure over Governor Slaton's | action commuting the Frank death penalty fur- nishes all the proof needed to support the con | ! ciusion of the rest of the country that the orig | less insidious influence all | maintain their hold on the “solid south” they inal verdict was not the result of the fair and tnbiased trial to which every person accused of is entitled. While not for one moment charging the entire community with an reasoning passion for Frank's execution, it plain that a mob element of sufficient numbers and unruliness to warrant the summoning of militia to guard the governor's home against | assault indicates the existence of a spirit of | intimidation and lawlessness that must have | been either actively or latently operating on the | court and the jury when Frank's life was in the | balance. The character and Intensity of this | mob spirit as now disclosed fully supports the bellef that it exerted a deep-down but none-the- the way through the several appeals for a new trial, at least so far as they were presented to courts sitting vithin the area surcharged with this hoetile atmosphere crime un- in The Negro Not to Be Disfranchised. By its decision on the ‘‘grandfather” law cases the supreme court of the United States has put an end to the effort of the southern states to disfranchise the negro by nullifyisg the fif- teenth amendment to the constitution of the United States by state laws. These laws, or constitutional amendments, were ingeniously devised to make applicable to present-day citi- zens conditions that prevailed before the war of the rebellion. The manifest injustice of this attempt to perpetuate conditions the fifteenth amendment was intended to destroy is rebuked by the court in vigorous language. That the decision was given by Chief Justice White, him- self a southern man, adds significance to its weight The “grandfather” law was a tricky subter- fuge, adopted in democratic commonwealths to prevent a large proportion of the voters from exercising their privilege as such. It operated to make secure democratic control of thuy politi- cal situation in these states, and, as was exhib- ited in the last congress, domination of national legislation when the democratic party happens to come into power. If the democrats are to will have to resort to other methods. It is likely that for the final solution of the “race’ problem more stress will be laid on the educa- tion of the voter, and less on mere “domination” by the whites. ‘No Monopoly on Misdoings. Expressions of Pope Benedlet, in a published Interview, fairly state the case for the neutrals, so0 far as stories of outrage and crime in con- nection with the war are concerned. Neither side has been gullty of all the wrongdoing, and no monopoly on misdeeds exists. At this time it is impossible to investigate all the reports, or to definitely fix the responsibility for the viola- | tions of rules of war. It is very natural for in- | dividuals to let prejudice or personal inclination lead to the champlonship of one side or the cther, but justice will eventually distribute the blame, in which all the belligerents will have come share. It is well to keep in mind in this connection, | too, that not all the lying is being done on one side, but that truth is being handled as best THE | 1980, suits the exigency or convenience of the com- batant who happens to be making the report. e e e Lackawanna Loses Its Mines. In ordering a divorce between the Delaware & Lackawanna Rallroad company and the Dela- ware & Lackawanna Coal company, owned by the same set of stockholders and largely officered by the same men, the supreme court has added to the effective vitality of the Sher- man law and the Hepburn rate law. The court does not object to the formation of the coal | company as its stands, but it does object to the business relations between the two, which were 0 as to flout the law and the orders made under it, providing for the separation of the railroad from its mining induetry. In reaching the de- cision the court gives consideration to the righes | of minority stockholders and others that might be affected by the contract complained of. This | decision, following so clorely on the decision in : i the case of United States Steel, indicates that the court has clearly in view a plain road for the conduct of ““big" business. It may not very ! seriously affect the situation so far as the | | i mining of anthracite coal is concerned, but it establishes a precedent that will doubtless be of value in the future industrial development of the country. Meeting Amerioan Requirements. { Shifting scenes in Mexico apparently presage a rearrangement of groups to conform to the terms presented by the president, when | he offered to moraily support the combination that promises better for governmental stability. Villa seems to be vanquished for the time, and deserted by his chief lieutenant, Angeles, but he | is not entirely disposed of. Return to his early vocation of petty brigandage will be easy, and | he will require a lot of “‘crushing.” (‘lrmu! is finally a vietim of hiz own vacillation and in- capacity. A year ago he had the game In his own hands, but was not stréng enough to make his vietory complete. Abandoned now by Obre- l | gon, the military master of the moment, Car- ranza will follow his predecessors to obseurity, These turns make possible the coalition that is essential to & solution of the Mexican troubles, and the elements seems to be working to that end. S——————— The newly appointed state insurance com- missioner may be just as good a fellow as the commissioner he supplants was when he was | appolnted, but nelther of them can pose as in- | surance experts. In a word, the change is made | simply to reward political service. Some d‘y’ we'll have an insurance commissioner in Ne- | braska who knows something about lnlumml before he takes the job Indianapelis follows Terre Haute in umul dietinguished politicians into court to explain their manipulation of election machinery. | Should the second haul follow the first to the | " | €nd of the road, the bankers’ colony at Leaven- | T worth will be submerged by the Hooslers. ' | disposing BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, Mission of the Business Man lihn Moot to the Union League, Philadelphia.l HAD been thinking, as | came over in the train I this afternoon, of my associations with Philadel- phia, and 1 found, stiangely enough, that of all | the dear friends | have knwn here, my mind went hack constantly to McKinley. 1 recall how. eighteen vears ago, T came here upon a telegram to meet him. | to talk about the condition of things in Spain. 1 remember how he said, “There is danger of war: theie must not be wa, with Spain; there shall not be war with Spatn. It must be and it shall be prevented at all hazards.” Then 1 thoughy of how little any one man do. The tendencles of the mighty 80,000,000 of people moved on along the path of their destiny, and even that great and wkillful man with all the power of his high office apuld not prevent it. And I remember how, a couple of years after, one of my first Journeys as a member of his cabinet was to come here to this club to be with him in one of those great receptions for which you are 8o famous. And that led to reflection, not upon specific differences between President McKinley and this administration, between the legislation or the policies of that time and this, but to reflection upon what in the retrospect can be seen to have been a great mation-wide movement along the path of the nation’s unconscious purpose. When we elected MuaKinley in 18% and again in it was the businems men of the United States who controlled the election. It was the general, the almost universa! awakeming of judgment on the part of men who oarried on the great production and com merce and transportation and finance in the business of this mighty and prosperous country, which elected McKinley and maintatoed the policies of his adminis- tration. How great has been the change. The scepter has passed from the business man. The distinguishing ‘haracteristic of recent years has been the conduct of the government of the country by men who have but little concern with the business of the country, by men who distrust the man of business, who suspect the man of business. Measures relating to the great business and the small and multitu®inous business of the country have beem framed and put into effect under infloences which have rejected the volce of those whom they most tmmediately affect. The rail- road man's testimony of what legislation there should be affecting raifroads has been rejected. because he was a party in juterest. The banker's testimony about finance has been rejectsd becatire he was a party In interest. The manufacturer's testimony about manu- factur has been rejected because he was a party in Interest. The merchant’s testimony about cbmmerce has been rejected because he was a party in Interest. The ship-owner's testimony about the merchart marine has been rejected because he was a party In Interest. Knowledge of the business affairs of ths country has disqualified men from taking any part in the conduct of the increasing participation of the government in the control and direction of business affairs Now, this has not been accidental. It is not a matter of individuals. It has had several causes. It has been partly because of the old hatred of wealth, ‘Those parts of the country in which all of the people have bheen of comparatively small means have been filled with men who came to hate the rich in the great industrial communities In the north and east ofr course [ need not tell you this hatred of wealth s more than half mers vulgar worship of wealth. God knows that too much money does no man any good; too much money is more apt than mot to ruin his children and invite for him kidney disease or harden- Ing of the arteries. But to the poor farmer on the prairfes of the west or the cotton fields of the south, it seems as if the rich men of the eastern cities were living in heaven at his expense. Another element of this change has beea an entire or am almost fallure of understanding of the pro- cesses, the conditions, the requirements and the re- sults of the vast and complicated business by which the wealth of the country Is created and maintained. Under simple eondition we all understood each other. Every man of the community understood in general about the life, the business and affairs of the other men in the same community. But life is so com- plicated now, the affairs of this great country are so involved, that there is very little real understanding by one community of the affairs of another. How can the man who raises & crop of wheat in Dakota really understand the ecomplicated machinery by which his wheat goes onto the breakfast table in Burope, and the price comes back to him? So. through a feeling of envy of the greater wealth of the east and north, of these industrial communities of which this city is & comspicuous example, and through misunderstandings, there has come about a feeling of adverse interest instead of the feeling of common interest that is so essential to the prosperity and perpetuity of & country. Y I say the seepter has passed. The control has changed, and it is impossble to resist the conclusion that there lles the reason for the stagnation, the hesitation, the timidity, the unwillingness of American enterprise today. You cannot say it was the tariff alone. You cannot eay it is the restrictions upon the trusts, the suits against the trusts or the great cor- porations which are called the trusts, alone. You | cannet say it is the Clayton law or the trade commis: sion law alone. But the men who are controlling the government of our country today are men who have been fighting the tartff so many years, have been tighting t! trusts, or what they thought were the trusts—the great corporations—so long: have been ftighting the rallroad companies, the express companics and the telegraph companies so long; have been fight. ing the banks and the bankers so long, that when thay come to administer the government of the United States they can't rid themselves of an underlying hostility to American enterprise. And the reason why business does not start is because way down in the | heart of Americans there is a doubt as to what s | going to happen at the hands of a hostile government. Now, what is golng to be dame about it° Tt is not something to be disposed of by conquest. It is not something which we ought to be satisfied with of by mere votes. Merely electing a republican president in 1916 ought not to be enough, The country can't live and prosper with such misun. derstandings. The people who are doing these things are honest and good Americans, but they misunder- and a great part of the country. I say that this ought not to be permitted to continue. We cannot live with that kind of misunderstanding between the peo- ple of one section and the people of other sections. The first thing which s plain is that the business men of America, the honest, reliable, good fair citizens who are doing the greatest business of our country, should be come vocal and take pains to see to it that they are no longer misrepfesented or misunderstood. What does an honest and fair man do when he finds that somebody whose good opinion he respects, mis understands him? He does not try to shoot the other fellow or injure him: he tries to remove the misun. derstanding, and that is what we ought to do. The businebs men of America should wake up—get out of the condition of mind which they have been in for some time past, in which they have taken all sorts of misrepresentations and espersions, lying down Thoy should assert themselves: they should put upon foot & campaign of education and Instruction for a clearing of the air, %o that all over our broad land every American may come to respecy every other American n whatever business he may be engaged, so that American citisenship shall be forever for the Amerl- can citizen a title of respect and regard and brotherly affection. We ought to put an end to the condition n which & number of the people in our country feel no regret at the disasters of the people parts of the country. It is not an easy task, this ls & tremendous country, Bug if the men who elected MoKinley will arise to the same standard of courage and determination that prevalled in 139 and 190, the task can be accomplished. We have had missfonaries of reform, missionaries of new theorles, missionaries of every kind and character, except mirsionaries of §ood understanding. business men of America should undertake their mission to make themselves understood by the people of America | timber | { | | | { | i | ters' Home MILFOKD, Neb., June 2.—To the Ed of The Ree: The second rald on the of the beautiful natural park of Soldiers’ Home has been made. In the year 190 the commander of the Sol- diers’ Home, Sir Manuel Fowler, ordered the an indiscriminate siaughter of many unique and interesting trees, large and beautiful grape vines, that formed a curtain along the river bank near Calla- way. A cluster of maple tree, known as the Bunyon trees, as great vines had crawied the trunks of the trees and out on the branches in every direction to the uttermost points of the limbs, from which they drooped down, took root, and threw out additional vines that reached vy and caught other limbs, forming beautiful arbors. These fell victims to the destroyer. Now comes another com- mander, under the same party manage- ment, imagining that a soldlers’ home is built for farming, raising food, horses, pigs, etc. Plows up the the green sward, cuts away magnificent groups of oaks and hickory, that border the hillside, and a wide-spreading elm, that was the pride of the old velerans as they looked out on the lawn at its shapely form, or rested under the shade of its foliage, sym- metrical in form, having withstood the storms of over fifty years, protected in early days Ly the Indians, standing as & sentinel guarding “Shogo Point,” ad- mired by all who had passed that way, grubbed out, to wive place to a few hills of corn. With tear-dimmed eyes, the sick and afflicted veteran looks out on the beautiful lawn, saw it swaying in the | sunlight, and then fell, maimed and crushed to the ground, mever more to de- light the eye or afford sheiter from the heat of the day, as the old veterans had gathercd under its ample folds to relate their experience in camp, battlefield and march. Why did they not complain? They knew it would only add to their af- fliction, for the hand that had ordered the destruction of their forest compan- lons had the power of making It dis- agreeable for them, as the same de- structive disposition could be manifested in both fnstances. J. H. CULVER, Why No Public Summer Sehoolt OMAHA, June 2. —To the Editor of The Bee: The schools are ciosed for the summer, but where is the vacation school 80 cuccesstully conducted two years ago? Why did the Board of BEducation aban- don the summer school when it proved to be of such a benefit to the boys and &irls in the grades and in the high schoo, who for reasons unforeseen and una- voidable failed in their studies during the year? Two years ago two of my children were stricken down with scarlet fever and were compelled to stay away from the schools for more than two months. Naturally, they failed to catch up with | their work and did not pass, but the Vacation school gave them an oppor- tunity to make up the loss and pass to higher grades. Scores of other ochildren were in like circumstances and attended the vacation school for the same reason and with like results. Why, then, is this #plendid institution discontinued? For a poor man who looks forward to | the time when his children will get through with their schooling and lend a nelping hand in the support of the family Which is large (the poor man is always blessed with a large family) a loss of a year or more is quite s disappointment to his anticipation of the coming help | and works hardship. That the summer achool is a good thing is shown Ly the fact that a great many citles in the United States are conduct. ing them, and even here in Omaha, as | gather from the newspapers, the Univer. ®ity of Omaha opened its doors for a summer school for high school boys and girls, by that acknowledging that a sum- mer school is needed. The Young Men's Christian association and Young Women' Christian assoclation have likewise profited by the fact that the public school las discontinued its vacation school, and each immediately announced in the news- papers that they will open school during the summer for boys and girls of the grades. Now, if the University of Omaha and the Y's. deem it right and profitable for the children to establish vameation schools, why not for our public school It is true the summer school invel an expenditure, but does it mot cost the | parents to send their children to the private institutions for the summer: I venture to say that the cost of the up- keep of the vacation school . our publie schools is so insignificant to the tax- payers compared with the fees charged by the university and the Y's. for the same work and which comes out of the pockets of the taxpayers after all. B C Autos in Thelr Place. OMAHA, TYune To the Fditcr of The Bee: Sunday a week ago was flag “Jay with cyercises at Hanscom park. The program was ostensibly for the pur- pose of teaching us lessons of the flag and to bring more forcibly home tu all the things we should be thankful for In the land over which the grand old flag floats Every apeaker had something intended | for all to hear, but only now and then could a person catch & word on account of the ing up and down the driveways nuisan-es Such ought to be prohibited at a public gathering. 1f th- ridars have not enough patriotism te listen (o such a grand exercise they shculd it least have the common courtesy to let others enjoy the treat When addresses are given in publie pai they ure for the public~the vast public who must either walk or rice om Street cars-to enjoy, and interruptions oy rattie-trap autemobiles should be considered & misdemasanor, punishatle by heavy fines. It auto owners Jdo not care to listen cnee In a while ‘o something else but the pup-pop of their cars thers are plenty of other places for them to drive beside public parks. During dave of exercises cars should be made to stay away from the vicinity of the speakers and the music. w. EDITORIAL VIEWPOINT. Wall Street Journal: *“No sign of peace” in Europe should not discourage our optimists. No sign of the present war two weeks before 1L started. Philadelphia Ledger: France has just destroyed a hundred toms of wermwood. Without the war, this would have gone iato absinthe and polsoned the people. Give war its dues. Pittsburgh Dispatch: Admiral Win- slow’'s charge that promotion in the navy sometimes goes by grace of society, re- calls Admiral Sampson's refusal of pro- motion to & gunner's mate because he lacked the social graces. constant chug-chug of autos pa“s- | SMILING REMARKS. | \ Littie Girl-My father says he has often | ing him a all_ through his bueine hours.—Louisville Courier-Journal A man walked right in front of o seen you act fimousine yesterday and was quite badl Pleased Actress—What did he say he|hurt i St #aw me in. dear? Still, don't you think the pedestria Little Girl—In the seventies—Puck clase is lens se nsitive to pain . — are’ —lAfe Papa, what do you call a man who | to2" runs an to Noah looked over (he | | | I'dnn'l have to pay water | It depends upop how near hitting me."—Houston Post he comes w a number of blondes at the base 1 , ball game on the grandstand "Wy should it surprise you to see them there don't ou think it would be a mare ‘Oh, well,” he remark 1. r'nm';'wru):- ! lace for blondes on the 4 bleachers 7' —Baltimore American. Which goes far to prove that even In | bubiadioiy | those dave men read Joe Miller's Joke Book.—Philadeiphia Ledger. to “How's the story vou are writing get- long, Bobbie? 3 | ‘Fine! Just now there's a nawful storm, and everyone aboard Is afraid the boat'li go to the top." You mean to the bottom.” ‘No, 1 don't; this boat's a submarine.’ ~Boston Transeript ‘The base ball player ought to be able manage his business. ‘As to why in particular? He has several thousand people hand- | VISION OF YOUTH. J. A. Waldron in Leslie's Weekiy In meadows sweet where my bage feet Once twinkled on the clover, And bloom and bee delighted me E'er 1 became a rover, Bearded and gray 1 stray today, ! “And from them to the wildwood, Again to seck—again to_speak The happiness of childhood. Coo'ed by the breeze neath whisv'ring trees, { 1 lie, and look, and listen | Till nature’s truth and dreams of youthg In all thelr glory glisten In_changing skies my happy eyes | Find castles great and steepled. | That yeurs ago full well, I know, I built and owned and peopled Ili-fortune, tears, mistakes that years Have added to life's sorrow I thrust behind—keep out of mind— Forget until tomorrow. Nor cloud nor storm could now trans form This vision of my pleasure: F'en after rain Y'd try again To find the rainbow’s treasure. 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