Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 30, 1915, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE —_—_— i FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PO S o Kt T S The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. BER BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. Entered at Omahs postoffice as second-class matter, ———— TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By c‘mh..' By m‘:l’l ol Bk 4 4 2 | | | iy ing and Sundav ning_without Sonday. Bes onl notice of change of address or complaints of m;nny in dcllvn'f'y i Omaha Bee, &nuluhfi it ITTANCE, cent stamps fecelved ocounts, Personal checks, except on exchange, not accepted. OFFICES. Olr-'al—'l‘?w Beg Building. uf street Il Blu: 14 North Main street. Lincoln—2% Little Bufldin, U Hearst Bu&l“ New 1208, fth avenus. g, Louis-58 New Bank of Commerce. ‘ashington—72% Fourteenth St., N. W, CORRESPONDENCE, -l communications relating to . A S T e Wt Teperimttt MAY OIROULATION, 53,345 Sta Nebraska, County of Douglas, ss: ililams, circulation manager of The Bee Pul company, being duly aworn, says that the fon for the month of May, 1015, was " DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Man P bed In my nee and sworn to before ‘fl f _June, 1918 oy . ROrEnr HUNTER, Notary Publie. Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee malled to them, Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. = June 30 Thought for the Day Selected by Kathryne Van Nostrand But the great Master said, ‘*I see No beat in kind, but in degree; ! I gave a various gift to each T'o charm, to strengthen and to teach.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. | T Boost for Omaha all the year round! . —— b There is no more practical charity than a free milk and ice fund for midsummer little tots. Our Fourth of July d Fewer grand dukes and more fighting gener- als might improve Russia’s standing at the tiring line. Il th toll is commenc- Lock up your revolvers and shot- | th no use for the article at home, Georgla offers packages of advice on good behavior for export. . It transpires that ¢ g & workhouse law, and buliding & workh W0 separate and distinet propositions: . : Seeme——— uliol to account for pocketing interest money pald on public deposits. Evidently no place “Enw on the fee grab game. SEEme—— 1 & Colonel Bryan's word for it, his peace plans fnsure the salvation of the republic as cer- tainly as did 16-to-1 nineteen years ago. 3 E————— It is a sad commentary on the enterprise of homse patriots that a julcy recreation plum slipped over to Chicago while they slept. * It {s almost two months since that million- ' There {s at least this much to be sald for our county treasurer—most people would be loath to let go of §170,000, even though it did not belong to them. ! Eem—— - By skillful maneuvering, the officials con- i s worth while noting as events crowd ' French- oing the steadiest and most persistent all the allies into the lines of the The war is certain to force a higher of the national temperament of France. S—— A Lincoln newspaper professes to be sorely distreased lest Omaba's jitney regulations may prove & hardship, but had not a word to say when Lincoln's jitneys were regulated com- pletely out of business at one fell swoop. There Is it because there is no EF P f =5 Hi B e bt o g i | per cent of 151,902—would give us A 1920 Two Hundred Thousand Omaha. While folks are estimating the population of Greater Omaha, according to their enthusiasm, all the way from 165,000 to 200,000, let us not try to fool ourselves. The Omaha 124,096 {nhabitants, South Omaba 26,269 and Dundee 1,647, making a 1910 total of 151,902, From 1900 to 1910 the population increase in Omaha had been 2 per cent a year, while South Omaha had been stationary, but ap- plying the same ratio for another ten years to the entire number—in other words, adding 20 about 182,000. There is no good reason, however, why the rate of Greater Omaha population growth from now until the 1920 census should not be much faster than that of the last decade. Where we ndded 20,000 to our population from 1900 to 1910,.by speeding up we ought to be able to add 50,000 from 1910 to 1920. A 200,000 popula- tion in the 1920 census is a very practical possi- hility—better than that, a real probability if we concentrate our energies to that end Whether it is better to form & 1920 200,000 Omaha club on the plan that has been adopted in many other cities, or to unite existing busi- ness and civic organizations in a co-operative movement, is worth careful consideration. A long pull, a strong pull and a pull all together will pull Omaha over the 200,000 popuation mark before the 1920 census-taker begins his rounds, and if we overreach the goal, so much the better. Purse-8tring as Peace Promoter. Before the outbreak of the great European war last year it was the commonly accepted opinion that a handful of international bankers could head oftr any threatened conflict at arms by merely saying the word that would shut off the money supply. No intelligent person be- lleves the financlers caused, or encouraged, or stimulated, the war, aithough they have re- sponded to the demands for loan flotation, nor does anyone belleve now that they could have stopped it even with redoubled efforts. But the mammoth war debts that have been piling up, and the coloesal burden of taxes to support them that have been saddled upon the people of the battling countfies almost indefinitely, are arous- ing the hope that the point may before long be reached where the pressure of the money market will be a potential factor in expediting peace negotiations. The purse-string has more than once determined the fate of nations, and the tightening of the purse-string may yet call a halt on the fighting. Sp—— 0ld Question in Acute Form. Protest from residents of the northeast part of Omaha against the maintenance of the “dump’’ in East Omaha brings the question of the disposal of garbage before the city council in an acute form. It may be accepted that, under existing conditions, if the nuisance com- plained of be abated so far as the northeast part of the city Is concerned, it will have to be re- established somewhere else. What section of town would like to have the dump? 3 For many years this vital function of mus nieipal housekeeping has been handled in a slip- shod way, one makeshift expedient after another being employed, with the result that the solution of the problem i no nearer at hand than it was in the beginning. Every city of importance In the world has been faced at some time with the question of how to do away with the offal and refuse that must accumulate. Many plans have been adopted, all of them successful in some degree, and most of them adopted because of the special needs of the ecommunity served. Awmong all these one perhaps exists that will fit the requirements of Omaha. If not, sufficlent ingenuity may develop that particular plan which will relleve the city from its present pre- dicament. Having determined the more vital issues of playgrounds and recreations, maybe the com- missioners may now find time to give the gar- bage question a little serious attention. What is Wrong With the Job? The world is just now viewing with some amazement the unusual sight of two men de- clining to take & public office to which a regu- lar salary is attached, and concerning the pay- ment of which there is no doubt. People of Nebraska are mot often entertained by such a spectacle. What is wrong with the job of being public defender In and for Douglas county? The place was made for some brother learned in the law, and at first was sought with much avidity. 'Quite a number of young lawyers, whose office carpet has not yet been worn out by the feet of an ever-shifting throng of clients, looked upon that $1,200 with eyes that gleamed at the pros- pect of a real meal ticket, but now the job has been turned down by the govermor's first and second cholce selections. Have they established a precedent which will control, as precedents always do at | and will the place be left open, with its salary attachment resting undisturbed in the public coffers? Perish the thought! Some intrepld young barrister will yet make the sacrifice, and grab the job. m—— + Law for the Oounty Treasurer. One of the most prolific, in Nebraska at least, sources of litigation is the administration of the office of county treasurer, Another de- clsion of the supreme court in effect has just been reverted by the granting of a rehearing with a modification of the order issued. The records of Nebraska courts tairly bulge with declsions on points that have to do with the detalls of county treasury administration. These should be collated, together with the various laws governing that office, and out of them all worked a comprehensive statute that will plainly mark out the duty of the county treasurer and make it possible for the office to be adminis- tered without continual application to the courts for the determination of technical details. The Importance of the office is such as de- mands the utmost care, and this fact has given rise to the conditions that now ought to be remedied by the codification of all the laws and the decisions rendered under them. Such an arrangement will make it possible for the county treasurers to avold confusion, and the public business thereby will be reasonably and safely expedited, June knows ity business. Its cool stary un- N - s A 1910 census gave | OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, Looking Forward For Eighty Years Wiliam Nayes Ward, N anticipation of my elghtieth birthday, the editor | of The Independent has asked its former editor, | not to look backward elghty years and reminisce, but to look forward as far. This is a very dif- ferent world from that of eighty years ago. It s a new civilization, for civilization depends on Intercourss more than on anything else, and intercourse was slow then, for we traveled on the water with salle and oars, and on land with horses or on foot. Then, had the Panama-Pacific exposition been conceivable, it would have taken a year to make the journey from the Atlantic coast to San Franeisco.s Expurgate the Profanity. OMAHA, June 2.-To the Editor of The Bee: The stock company at the Brandels is certainly a splendid com- pany of players, but there is one big and serlous fault, I believe, with their productions, namely, the profuse use of profanity. What earthly use is there for & aprinkling of swear words. especially which are presented largeiy to of women, girls and children? It certainly does not improve the plays. And I knew that it is one thing which kecpa a mumber of people from going to The one great invention which has made modern clvilization possible is thay of printing, and that in- vention was nearly four centuries old, and the power of steam to make intercourse easy was just being anticipated. Tn the latter half of this period the age of electriofty has almost supplanted the of steant, a9 seen in the telegraph, the telephone, and traction, #0 that it is not easy to conceive what more comforts sclence and invention can add to these which now any eountryman can enjoy Human thought has changed during these elghty years. Soclology was a word unfamiliar at the be- ginning of that lustrum. We had laws commanding and forbidding, but aboug the only service of govern- ment for the eomfort of the people was the postoffice and highways and the district school—no insurance, no free high schools or » universities, no public hos- pitals and trained nurses, no asylums for the blind or insane. A multitude of comforts and conveniences whith we mnow think government must supply abundantly or must supervise were then unknown (r were in thelr beginnings, for socialism had not been heard of. Things which we now think that we must do for ourselves or the government must do for us, such as sanitation, we 44 not then know or think of, or left them to the mercy of God, for God was per- haps nearer to us then than he is now when we have learned more of the laws of nature, and the process of the stars: nearer when we thought more of God | acting directly in ereation or in common life, While now we rest more om evolution and the physical forces which we can ourselves command; even as to the old worshipers of the gods and genii Bt fountains and forests and seas and mountains the superior pres- sence seemed lifted further away when we were taught that there was but one God and He in the heavena' So, I think, with our thought of Tis Intermediary laws, God seems not quite so near, and we trust more In these laws and less in special providences and we Pray less, even if we belle T am no prophet; but when 1 see a train from Kew York moving westward, 1 gather that in time it will reach Chicago and Eeattle. 8o the direction of the | past points to the destination of the coming future. Beyond question there aro forces and laws of nature yet undiscovered and unutilized, and there is no rea- son why the next elghty years may not surprise us as much as have the past eighty; and there are needs yvet in anticlpation. One of the first of these is a new source of heat, as we are approaching the exhausticn of our supplies of wood and coal; and there are poas ble sources of heat in plenty going to waste. The transport of coal 18 bulky and burdensome, and heat can be carrled cheaply by wire as electricity, it we ,see them. Such words are really a shock to all women or girls who are brought up in what we are pleassd to consider the sheliered protaction of our homes. I re- cently took a friend to ome of the piays It was splendidly done, but there were at least twenty times when profanity used. Every time I could see n shock go through my friend. Every time T could feel the shock go through my sell because of the effect on my friend I got to looking forward with dread to the recurrence of these worde. as the plav went on—and 1 am not a '‘goody- £00dy” by any means. | have seen as much of the under side of the world as sny man T know of Let this otherwise excellent stock com- pany consider the question seriously. 1 honestly believe that the elimination of this objectionable feature will yield its results even in dollars and cents. J. M All in_ Due Time. SOUTH SIDE, JOMAHA, June 3.—To the Kditor of The Bee: We who have lived down here for twenty years and more and who largely voted for the con solidation of South Omaha with Omaha, would like to sea you drop the headline of South Omaha for good and call it news from the South Side or some other name that wil| signify that we are a part of Omaka, Since we save voted to become a part of Omaha the name South Omaha has become obmoxious to a great many peo- ple down here and they are very anxious to forget as soon as possible that we were ever a city by ourselves, and for that reason we want you to drop the South Omaha part of your headlines, and call it something more appropriate. There is no more South Omaha and never will ba again hye, and we ask that you keep out of the graveyards of the past in heading the news from this part of Omaha. F. A. AGNEW, Steps Forward. SOUTH OMAHA, June %.—To the Edi- tor of The Bee: The merger of the two cities has brought good results; condi- tiows are improving in Bouth Omahae sinte the saloons have been unmistakably closed here on time for the last week. could only get it on the wire In some convenient way. Tides, winds, the useless heat of summer in the tropi- cal deserts will one of thess days (and why not in the lifetime of the man born today?) be stored up to be used in our winters. Why not learn one of those days to warm up a house with a windmill? Archi- medes set hostile galleys on fire in the harbor of Syra- cuse with a combination of mirrors, and better ways may be found to concentrate ang transport to Europe the superfluous heat of the African deserts. But there may be boundless sources of heat nearer at hand, waiting dlscovery. Kvery chemical combination storce heat which may be releaped by di dissociation, or, as radium has shown us, by the feduction of an ment to one of less complexity by the loss of some of its electrons. It {s not inconceivable that we may learn how with the disintegration of a substance no bigger than a walnut to keep a house warm all winter, Our imprisoned chemical forces might blow up the world. And all this is apart from the sure succession of ordinary discoveries, like the synthetic production of india rubber, and the new applications of eleotrioity which are sure to continue. Other things are likely to develop, which we cannot anticipate, but which are suggested by the fact that at present we have no knowledge and make no use of that long series of the vibration of atoms which iIntervenes between the slower and the most rapld. 1 belleve that the next eighty years will show & great advance in the direction of sociallsm. Absolute and complete soclalism can never come, with all thinge for all men, as whers wedded love was the sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else, but a long step thay way 1s probable. During the present war the nations that most hate socialism have fn extraordinary ways adopted soclalistic measures \n both agriculture and manufactures; and this can hardly fall to develop soclalism in time of peace. Our government will before long own railways and tele- graphs and telephones and mines and probably control those major manufactures such as fron, and direct all other factory labor o as to put an end to quarrels be« tween capital and labor and the consequent strikes. The pension system will be greatly extended, in such & way as to transfer to the government the service of Insurance companies and the multitude or benefit or- &anizations. T do not belleve that in the next eighty years, nor for many years after, private property in land will cease. Within ten years I belleve that war will have ceased to curse the nations: it will have dled of ita own enormity. The nations of the earth, now battiing or now at peace, will have agreed that disputes le- tween nations shall and must be settled without fight- ing, and any nation that dares attack another will be suppressed by main force. Then will follow the de- cades of peace In which the ravaged countries will recover their losses in population and wealth, and find means and energy for new discoveries, new inventions, new devices for the benefit of the people, new vance in arts and lterature, and the creation of a no. bler world. Then all nations will be nelghbors inviting friendship, their border fortresses rusty and rotten. thelr tarift walls forgotten, their limits traversed freely by flight or flood, for travel or commerce, with- out fear or jealousy. Kach continent will be, as )t were, oné nation, and China will no" more harbor sus- picion or revenge againat Russia or Japan. Possibly men elghty yers hence will know lese about Godl than they do mow, but they will believe far more, than they do now |n the supremacy of goodneas. to which they can hardly fail, any more than do we, to annet pérsonality ahd #dd ‘santtions. “The great re. liglons of the world will come closer and closer to gother—we already sec the process—by dropping thelr excrescences and absurdities and interpreting their ex- osllences after the model given by Jesus Christ. In the language of each nation and religion the one God and the one law of duty and love will be the same, taught by & multitude of relf-denying preachers of the purest and best. It will be a better world to live in, yet neither commonplace or tame; but I am glad that T have lived in this period of transition, of struggle agalnst ancient wrong, of victory echieving, not achieved, of the last Agninst reason; that 1 steam and electricity local intereats change to & world. sympathy, and the of commerce bringing the best of to the lowest. The past history my boyheod I heard Dantel | later days T see the sure prophecy of the relgm of peace and the unity and victory of the Christian church. There will come to my successors greater statesmen, more inspired poets, a grander civilization, & world brotherhood; but will they feel the spur and challenge of thess last elghty years? Yes, why mot? for 1 have not scen the end of all berfection, and never ohall they reach it who come after. / If thess improved conditions can be stop- ped by strong efforts made by the vicious Interests it will be only a short time until We are back in the same old mit. In order that permanent good shall en- sue from our political union there must be tireiess and continuous efforts along the lines already begun. Bouth Omaha has never been corrupt and contenteq with that form of govern- ment. Let us hope the start on higher plains of civic and municipal improve- ments may prevail throughout our politi- cal system. R. N. KING. Here's a Kinkald Booster, OMAMHA, June 28-To the Editor of The Bee: The attached clipping Is from the Gordon Journal and represents tho sentiment of the people in the eixth dis- trict. The homestead law, known the Kinkaid law, has brought thousands of settlers into western Nebraska, who, in- stead of owning the usual 160-acre tract, Possess (40 acres of hay and farm land. Shotlqg M. P. Kincald receive the nomi- [pation for United States senator he would recelve the aimost solid support of the voters irrespective of party lines,. It for no other reason than that he has been & great factor in building up the empire of Nebraska. WINIFRED HUDSPETH. Protest from a Printer, LOS ANGELES, Cal., June 27.—To the Bditor of the Bee: When will this dance of madness cease? The European war, the Mexican turmoll, Bryan's recurring spasms, dehorned spelling, etc.—are they not enough for one generation? Now comes one Mr. Polyglot of Til- den, Neb, threatening to drive printers all over this country into a siate of im- becility; roofreaders are beyond all hope with sawerkraut ‘‘pi." His letter to The Bee looks like an old-time hellbox. Can't the International Typographical union or the Tilden local paper or the law squelch him or kill him? Anything to blot him out! TOURIST PRINTBR. J Tips On Home Topios Houston Post: In time people will be- come intelligent enough to understand that the Lord blessed them with big mouths to enable them to do the right thing by the watermelon crop, mot to destroy people's nervous asystems with thelr incessant chin mus N York World: The evolution of a torpedo-proof battleship is a consum- mation greatly to be desired if we are to continue to aspend $15,000,000 aplece on superdreadnoughts. When a submarine, costing 3600000, with a crew of twenty- five men, can send to the bottom in ten minutes & 30,000-ton battleship and 1,000 mén, naval sclence has a task shead to Justity its past theorl Brooklyn Eagle: That was distinctly English to cut down the stokers force of the Lusitania to save money because traffic had fallen off while the North Sea wes bubbling with German submarines. The only way to get anything into an Engllshman’s head was to take an auger, but he hates so to be bored it had not occurred to anybody in this instance. We know these English. We carry such pos- sibilities in our blood, too. Nebraska Editors | Bditor Warrington of the Mason City Transcript moved his plant iuto its new home last week. The summer meating of the Republican Valley Baitorisl assoclation will be held al MsCook July s Bruce Wileox, formerly of Allla has purchased the Bridgeport Ni de from J. M. Lynch. The transfer was made last week. Editor C. B. Nevin of the Laurel advo- cate, accompanied by his w to Los Angeles to attend the comvention of the National Editorial assoclation. Mr. will has gone | SUNNY GEMS. “How do you suppose her business ad mirer proposed to Katherine ™" “How?" “He wrote to her asking if she would give him the refusal of her hand.”—Bal- timore Amerfcan. I'll give you a new one on Bill— the phonog:aph. TuF-Who s that making the nojse? That's the Lightning Quartet « “Bound like thunder.—Vonkers States man ow First Criminal (In Jjail)~1 and _ambitious once. "1 h: footprinta on the sands of . lecond Criminal—Same hers, and all | we'te leavin' is finger printa’ at police | headquarters.—Boston Transcrip | was young | “The new idea of fre working “well in the i N Yes, indeed. ‘The inmates are just | crazy about it''—Balaimaore American. | alr games is ane uy!um.i ped to leave | ime {1 FUN UNDER DIFFICULTIES. J. M. Lewis in Houstdn Post. The girl next flmnl ast me to coms uf he natitorium e e immin’ with some friends o her'n: An’ when the June sun siarts to burn I'm always ready for a swim 1 hang my clothes up on a imd By the old creek a mile AWwAy And go a-swimmin' every day. all of us A4, ‘s the Iitle kid it him an’ An' so we went And Dubby, hes & cross the roa AR o girls. There was Marjorte And Jessamine, and Ruth, and there Was the girl with the golden hair, And Genevieve and Ma:garet And Georgia, and we got wet The water was almost too thin, 1 like it to come to m¢ chin And it just come about to where Our knees was. but we didn't care! 1 could not dive nor swim at all, And we could just lay down and crawl Along the bottom, but we done That way and had a heap of fun. And then the whole six girls and us Played that I was a fitney bus And they would sit on me and ride Across the tank from side to side | But Dubby went and rocked the boat, And 1 got water down my throat And up my nose and in my eves— wish that Dubby was my size! A feller can't show off at all When all that he can do is crawi, So they don't know how I can swim: And Dubby—when 1 think of him, And how he laughed when he done thal, I don’t know where I'm standin’ at! But 1 was with her and 1 had Her with me, 8o that made me glad Your address known the at The Plaza. 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