Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 2, 1915, Page 6

1} : ¥ THE OMAHA DAILY BEE o i - FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor, BER BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. Entered at Omahs postoffice as second-class matter. TERMS OF Il'BSCslPH(Y‘N. y carrfer By mail and Sunday.... without Sunday Ing _wi Bee only. ice month. per year. povs il s 4 [3 not of cf r ml- delivery 'fi’ Omaha Bee, Circulation Remit by draft, express or postal order. Omly two- raft, axpress or postal order. 'byum” rec.il:'-d in payment of lmlrl ae- cent counts, Personal checks, except on Omaha and eastern exshange, not accepted. OFFICES. Omaha—The Buflding. h Omaha—%(8 N street. O ‘n’x‘nen Biuffs—14 North Main street. ea u 3 Nu’v‘ ‘ork: ym 1106, 386 'ann avenus 8t. Louls—-68 New Bank of Com: Washington—7% Fourteenth St., N. W. CORRESPONDENCHE, ress communications relating to Bee, Hattirel” Doparimetit. matter to Omaha MAY CIKCULATION, 53,345 State of Nebraska, counfid a8, 8s: l’ubll;:: bt Wilaria & ID:':«" ays that the compuny, ul . “‘o-’lur . no'ngcl May, l% was o " DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager, lum red in my presemce and sworn to before me, . BO¥rT HUN Notary Publie. Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. Ty 3 Selected by A. W. Jefferis Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice. — Shakespeare. .\—M To auto drivers once more: Slow down, and sive hospital bills. Still there is no objection to Benson and Florence playing in Greater Omaha’s backyard. Some joy riders dodge the_nenlllyA Others fly through the wind shield to the side of the road, Didn’t know there were so many poets in Omaha and vicinity till The Bee started its lim- erick contest. Tiu policy toward Mexico which our govern- ment has substituted for watchful waiting does not so far reveal much difference, This much may be sald without trying the case in the newspapers: Allenists and experts are giving Harry Thaw full value for his money. © An Omaha man insists that he can trace his tamily line back a thousand years. Oh, pshaw! ‘The Garden of Eden flourished several thousand years before that. Promoters of real sport pass up the greatest thriller of the summer in failing to decorate the scoreboard with the daily speed records of Slavs and Teutons. Omaha, South Omaha and Dundee are werged despite appeals pending in the courts. What was it J. Plerpont Morgan once sald about unscrambling eggs? No calculations of national saving due to '_h will be complete without adding a nine-fig- ure lump sum for what globe trotters spend in weeing America first. . The report of mile high fighting between Austrians and Itallans lends picturesque force the written definition of a Tennessee teacher: general direction of the Alps is straight y : One of the newly appointed supreme court oners is & member of the legislature ‘which passed the creating the office. But here again, what's the constitution between friends? CE SETE— second opportunity comes to Mayar n to stop a labor war in Chicago. His success in ending the street rallway troubles in forty-eight hours should go far toward throttling the knockers who refuse arbitration. . —— Keenly appreciative of masterful work for ‘the cause, suffragists have presented a 1916 ‘model limousine to Dr. An Howard Shaw. k would serve all needs until the suffrage bandwagon starts on the home stretch, £ e Fourth of July celebration following gentlemen have been invited to make &t Jetlerson rquare at the con- Boyd, 7 g i 3 H ] { i §f i ] ‘ I i [ : § §§i i% | cers concerned. At the Bottom of the Barrel. Wednesday, June 30, 1915, found the treas- urer of the United States scraping the bottom of the barrel for money to meet the ordinary run- ning expenses of the government. On that day the treasury was empty, and the exact size of the deficit depended on the amount of money that would be brought in by the day’s collec- tions. This can not as yet be told accurately, but the best estimates of the deficit place it at $50,000,000. When it is remembered that two years ago the democrats found a surplus of $87,- 000,000 in the government's strong box, the ef- ficlency with which they attacked the duties of administration can be well understood. Expen- | ditures have been increased in every direction and revenues decreased, and this latter in spite | of the new expedients of an income tax and a | war tax, specially levied in time of peace. These facts need no exposition; they are eloquent of democratic incapacity and fallure. Case of the Armenian. The presence of Americans aboard the ves sel under the British flag alone adds interest to the sinking of the freighter Armenian and its | cargo of mules. As the Armenian was under | charter to the British government, and engaged on admiralty business at the time it was sunk, the affair is one between the British and Ger- man governments alone, and no great concern of the United Btates, Americans who take service with the British government in connection with the war do so at their own risk. Had the Ar- ] fnenlan been sailing as an unarmed merchant- | man, its destruction might have complicated the | question between the United States and Ger- | many. Detailed reports given out in Washing- ton, from British sources, indicate that the cap- tain of the gubmarine regarded very fully all the requirements of law in his attack, summoning the commander of the Armenian to surrender, and only firing on the vessel when it attempted to elude capture. This supports what was lately set out, that the Germans are showing an in- clination to observe the rules a little closer in their submarine practice. No Honor for Huerta. Secretary Garrison very naturally expresses amazement that any marked courtesy should be shown to Victoriano Huerta by the army officers it El Paso. It is highly improper for one branch of the government service to honor a man who Is held prisoner by another, so, if the stories that have been told of the dinners given the Mexican leader are accurate, the rebuke from the secretary of war is well earned by the offi- It is quite likely the reports | from El Paso have been highly colored. Army | men, as a rule, are well aware of the obligation T'HE resting on them as representatives of the gov- ernment, and are quite strict in the observation of the punctilio of army etiquette. This makes it improbable that any particular attention has been shown to Huerta. The former Mexican dic- tator will be treated as gently as circumstances permit, but will not be lionized in any part of the United States. Georgia to Vindicate the Law. Indictment of members of the mob on charge of rioting suggests that the people of Atlanta disapprove of the unseemly demonstrations made there recently. Mobs, as a rule, are not composed of the responsible elements of society, and_it is hardly probable that the crowds that surrounded the home of Governor Slaton were exceptional in quality. In connection with this, the remarks of the judge in charging the grand jury that indicted the rioters are of interest, as showing in a measure what Georgia has had to support. He said: The people of this county have had much to bear in the last two years, much to arouse their in- dignation and resentment. They have had fake and mountebank detectives imported and efforts made to impeach the verdict of a jury by perjury Our courts have been caricatured by papers outside the state. In Georgia very few Jjournals have raised their volce in defense of the courts. With sne or two notable exceptions, the press of Georgia has re- mained silent, If Georgia has suffered in this matter, the blame first of al! is on its own citizens, whose disorderly action brought disgrace to the state. The courts of Georgia can clear away much of the cause for criticism by dealing sternly with the unruly, and proving to the world that law and order still rule in the state and its several communities. ———— Make Full Use of the Parks. The time to make full use of the parks in the summer months when outdoor life is at its highest and weather conditions most inviting. A city llke Omaha has millions of dollars invested in its parks and playgrounds for the public benefit, on which returns commensurat with the outlay can be had only it utilized by all the people for their intended purposes. In va- riety of attractions and convenlence of location, the parks at the disposal of the people here in Omaha are quite equal to what is offered In other cities, even where they have more parks and larger parks. Our advice for both young and old is: Get the park habit, Enjoy the park beauties while they last at every opportunity. ——— Illinols by law has made marria, per- formed in violation of the laws of other states void, the evil almed at being immediate re-mar- riage after divorce despite the period of prohi- bition. It has also reinforced its law volding marriages In other states in violation of the 1l- linois statutes. One step still to be taken is to refuse to recognise marriages contracted out- | | side of Illinois in violation of the statutes of | other states. Illinols may set the pace, but to make the move thoroughly effective all the states will have to follow, S —— News reports show that France has a war credit for the next three months. Austria- Hungary for ten months and Great Britain for 8 year. Germany's finsncial arrangements are not available, but are ample, doubtiess. These facts afford precious little hope of an early peace. But a war begun suddenly may end suddenly. ——— Scutari breaks into the war map again. Two years ago the town was the pet foundling of Minnesots for & vaca- | Austria, which forced the Montenegrin vietors to back up. Austria is now too busy with larger game to disturb the joy which reoccupancy gives the warriors of the gamey Balkan state. BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1915. British Inspiration of the German Navy === Archibald Hurd's “The German Fleet" = N A VERY special sense the German navy is the I child of the British navy, which is the mother of all the great naval forces of the world today. From the very first it has been no secret that the German fleet was definitely planned on the model furnished by the many centuries’ development of the British navy, and that Emperor Willlam has been one of the principal agencles through which this formative in- fluence has been exerted in more recent years. He came to the throne at a moment when naval senti. ment in Germany was at its lowest point, and he as- sisted In the initial revival, which occurred before Grand Admral von Tirpitz came on the scene. 014 residents of Portsmouth still remember a boy whom they occasionally saw walking about the doci- yard looking at the ships with admiration and rant attention. s greatest delight seemed to be to watch the great fronclads moving In and out of Spit- head. Sometimes he would find his way on board vessels of the royal navy. This lad was none other than the present German emperor. As a grandson of Queen Victorfa, he was a frequent visitor in als boyhood and early manhood to his grandmother du- ing the summer months when she was in residence nt Osborne, and on one occasion his father and mother, then crown prince and crown princess of Germany, rented Norris castle, on the outskirts of Cowes, and lived there for several months with thelr children. Prince Willlam, who was a great favorite of the lata queen, thus not only became an eager spectator of the naval pageants in the Solent directly under the windows of Osborne house and Norris castlt, but watched with interest the gay assemblage in Cowes roadstead for the regatta from year to vear. At this time the newly created German empire had practically no fleet. During the Franco-Prussian war the few ships which fiew the flag of the North Germaa confederation were 80 weak that they could take no part In the conflict. The memory of these recent events was still fresh in the mind of the future em- peror when he visited England and watched the active ities of the British navy, whose far-flung squadrons performed the triple task of protecting the mother- land from fear of Invasion, safeguarding all its over- #ea posseasions and defending British ocean-borne commerce. He determined that he, too, would have A great fleet when he succeeded to the throne of the German empire. This is no imaginary plcture of the ideas which were taking root in the mind of the ruler of the Ger- man empire today. Years afterward—in fact, in 1901— ada ing King Edward, on the occasion of his maj- esty’s visit to the Kiel regatta, the emperor paid n tribute to the power and traditions of the British navy, with which, ho added, he became acquainted as a youth during visits which he pald to England. He recalled that he 4 had many a sail in the Dolphin and Alberta, old British yachts, and had seen mighty ironclade constructed which had since served their time and disappeared from the navy list. “When 1 came to the throne I attempted to repro- duce on a scale commensurate with the resources and interests of my own country that which had made such a deep impression on my mind when I saw it as a young man in England.” As the British Parliament is the mother of al! popular representative Institutions, so the British navy is the mother of navies If the records of most of the great fleets of the world were searched, it will be found that in greater or less degree they owe their birth to the more or less direct assistance of the British naval offices, ofttimes acting with the direct authority of the British admiralty. In the case of the modern German fleet the British admiralty had little part In its upbuilding, but British naval power fired the admiration of the emperor, and it was a kindly present made years before by King Willlam 1V to the man then king of Prussia which first directed his majesty's thoughts towards the sea. When the present empéror was a boy, one of his favorite recreations was to sail a beautiful model of about twenty tons of a British frigate on the Havel lakes, near Potsdam. This lttle ship, of excellent workmanship, was sent as & present to the then ruler of Prussia early in the last century by our sallor king, and was a never-falling source of pleasure to the present German emperor as a youth. From his earliest years at home and in England the future ruler's aspirations were always towards the sea, and we can now see that his dreams of later years, which have taken such tangible shape, were largely due to these vivid impressions of sen power which he obtained during his visits to Eng- land, and which reached their climax in 1889, when Queen Victoria, on the occasion of his visit to the Cowes regatta, conferred on him, a foreign monarch, the, then, unique ramk of admiral of the fleet. On a subsequent occasion, at Malta, his majesty again visited the British fleet. Arriving at this great naval base, he announced that on the following day he would inspect one of the men-of-war. Accord. ingly, he proceeded on board, and his flag was forth- with holsted. It was thought that his majesty would formally walk around the decks and then take some light refreshments and return to his yacht. This was not the case, however. No sooner did the em- peror reach the quarterdeck, where he was received with naval honors by all the officers, thi he took off his coat and intimated that he was ready to go over the ship. His majesty went everywhere, from the turrets to the engine and boller rooms, and kept the captain fully occupled in answering a multitude of questions as to the design and equipment of the wvessal. With all the impetuosity of his nature he dived Into every hole and corner and saw eve thing, and the captain was kept so busy that he forgot his duty as host and the wines he had laid in for the occasion. At last the inspection was ended. the questions ceased, and his majesty prepared, after complimenting the captain on the smartness of his ship, to go down the companion ladder to his lunch. As he did so, he turiied to this commanding officer and sald: "Yours must be the largest ship in the British navy.” *“I think not, your majesty,"” replied the captain: *it's only 420 feet long.' "Oh, you surely are mistake: added the emperor, and the captain remembered the naval slang as to “lo hips in the navy'—namely, those with long intervals be. tween refreshments. He forthwith apologized pro- fusely for the oversight, and implored the emperor to return to the cabin. His majesty would not, how- ever, do #so, but added: ‘“January 27 is my birthday, and my orders are that on that day you entertain all your brother captains to dinner and drink my health.” He then left, pleased with the result of the incident. When the day arrived, the dinner was duly held. and the guests enjoyed themselves immensely. Dur- ing the evening they dispatched the following mes- sage to the emperor: “The orders of our admiral of the fleet have bLeen carried out, and we have drunk your majesty's good health. But there is one poiut in which we cannot agree with your majesty, and thag is as to the length of H. M, 8 — From this the emperor, who is famillar with the language of the navy, was able consequently to Infer that on that evening there had been no lack of hospitality. After the lapse of many years, during which the progress of the German navy became ever more and more the preoccupation of the British people, it is difficult to realise that when the movement for naval expansion on the other side of the North Sea first began to take shape it was regarded with sym- growing cordiality when tha emperor succeeded his fn 1888, The sbsence of any reference by the emperor in his proclamation either to England caused momentary anxiety, but that y passed away, and in the following H no record of the impressions which the emperor carried home with him from Spit- E was impressed by the great display of men, he was not less impressed by the these resources to the best possible rdvantage. | - The Dees but it is more than probable that, while his | Suggests School for Traffie Men. OMAHA, July 1.—<To the Editor of The Bee: 1 was at Sixteenth and Farnam streets the other afternoon. The regular traffic man—who is a pretty good fellow —wasn't there. A substitute was on the Job, Several automobiles came up Far- nam street. They were fine cars and the people in them were apparently fine people. The cars bore New York licenses. The traffic officer was talking to a man. The automobllists stopped for a moment and finally, as the officer gave no sign for them to proceed, not knowing Omaha regulations, went on scross the street. Then the officer woke up. He yelled at them to halt and then he gave them the worst “bawling out”” I ever heard. It was scandalous. And it gave Omaha a black eye in the minds of those people that won't be easily forgotten. We talk about “boosting for Omaha™ and attracting people here. And our or- ganizations have spent conseiderable money in making things attractive. It is too bad that all this good work must be undone by the ignorance and discourtesy of one of the city's officers. In eastern cities traffic officers main- tain a dignity and calmness befitting their positions. They are instructed not to “baw! out” even to a truck driver, They are polite, but firm, What we need is a school for traffic officers and a gentleman to teach them their duties and the limitations of their duties. In addition to politeness they should be taught to keep the street traffic back of the line where pedestrians cross the street, instead of allowing drivers to stop directly on this line while awalting a sig- nal to oross, Equipping the officers with whistles with which to give signals would be a good idea,' This is done in Philadelphia and other cities 1 know of. The officer gives one blast of his whistle for east and west traffic to proceed and two blasts for north and south traffic to pro- ceed. AUTOIST. " Bigotry, Prejudice, Ignorance. TILDEN, Neb., July 1.—To the Bditor of The Bee: There are some hermits still who wish to live with the tallow drip, and howl to consign Edison to the guillo- tine; such may froth and bellow, but Bell will string telephone lines over their nameless graves llke spiderwebs. Such creatures demonstrated in the days when the Phoeniclans invented letters, and their kind may yet be found, who should date their instruments 1116 rather than 1915. Fellow “Tourist Printer,” in June Letter Box, may not be aware that the German language has come into existence, and bids fair (at the present progress) to remain on the map for a few days; that there are eight compounded consonants, and the three ‘‘umlauted” vowels simply indicate the amalgamation of the vowel “e" with the supersigned vowel, and German printers are not all in the mad- house yet. His pleasantries are smilingly received. ‘‘To save time is to lengthen life,” and modern typography is eliminating un- necessary capitals, and to compute the time lost in inserting the hyphen in the words ‘‘today” and ‘tomorrow” is so great that even this landmark is fast dis- appearing. 1f the trinity of Hindrance (bigotry, prejudice, ignorance) would carefully scrutinize the grotesquencss of English orthography, firregular conjuga- tions and general arbitrary construction of our idiom, d find what it has been defending, its awakened reason would soon call the “dehorner” ta operate on the spelling books well as call in a host of other adjui ment to the idiom. garten and watch them learn the sea of urbitrary words, and later be plunged into the maelstrom of continual excep- tions—the hieroglyphics of Babylon of old were a dream compared to this. But None but the brave dare step aside From custom'’s iron rule, The common mind must follow it, Or be esteemed a ‘‘fool.” POLY GLOT. Not So Easily Fooled in 1916, OMAHA, July 1.—~To the Editor of The Bee: Much has been sald of W. J. Bryan. Let the poor man rest! Being dumped off by a mule three times is no soft stunt. His next stunt is worse yet, as drum major of a prohibition band, leading an army of women crying “Votes for ‘Women,” ‘“White House or Bust” “On to Washington.”” As laborer sees it, 1 can only see his finish. Jobs are scarce, and I hope to live to see better times, and the old republican party in power again 80 jobs won’t be so hard to find. It is tough to have to beg even for a Job, but the working people are coming to life and will not be so easily fooled in 1916. They can't make us drink grape juice or take away our rights; neither do we hide behind a tree and holler “Sick ‘em,” to the other fellow when there is trouble. We are with Uncle Sam all the time, J. LARSEN, A Kunock on the Kuocker. OMAHA, July L—To the Editor of The Bee: Publicity has been given to a com- munication signed “F. A. High. Superin- tendent of the Omaha Anti-Saloon League,” criticising Superintendent Kugel of the police department in the manage- ment of his official affalre. Out of a total of about 200 saloons operating in Omaha Mr. High, who is the paid serv ant of the Anti-Saloon league, complains of but two instances of what he terms “a violation of the law,” and he does not in those two instances point out wherein the has been violated. .Such com- municatiops are detrimental to the best interests of the citizens of Omaha and reflect arrogance and ignorance upon the writer. It is a direct “knock” against Omaha and the citizens of Omaha who re-elected Mr. Kugel. We see no mention made by Mr. High of the many good things Mr. Kugel has done to stop violations of the law in Omaha, and for the benefit of citisens and for the taxpayers. They are more important and deserving of .mention than the two Instances that may have escaped, if there are such instances. If Mr. High cannot find a better occupation than that of “knocking” and attempting to retard a progressive and moralising city, there are other communities that he can work in where he might be able to accomplish more good. If Mr. High knows of a single instance where the law is violated and can produce the evidence of it, there are plenty of officers in Douglas county who will prosecute such cases, and he knows it LOUIS V. GUYE., A Semi-Centennlal Pawesut. LINCOLN, June 3.-To the Editor of The Bee: With reference to celebrating Nebraska's statehood semi-centennial, it is taken for granted here that one fea- ture will be an historical pageant pro- duced by the state university along lnes similar to the exceptionally successful limit, and the resources of the university | to sit down and make faces at executing Whatever : be decided on are not sur- Whether such an exhi- bition can be made under midwinter con- ditions usually prevailing in March is not for planning and theme may passed any where. each other Fine!" said Blithers, joyously. “What a field that will open up for the Rreat face-makers of the two nationa! 1'll back Teddy against the whole Potsdam fam- | fly."=Chicago Herald #0 certain. If not, it will be one argument | in favor of postponing (be popular part THE BELGIAN. of the celebration to a more favorable -— date C AL (Published in England Over the Signa- | ture “An Australlan.” GRINS AND GROANS. “You are in favor of votes for women? “I think it's due the men to let the women vote on their own account instead of scolding elections “Yes," replied Miss Cayvenne. their husbands about the way go."—Washington Star ““Your husband is rather stout.”” “Weighs over 30 pounds. in summertime. “How so?" “Takes him too long to get through a screen door.'—Kansas City Journal “Is that car of yours the latest model He's a pest | In that Valhalla where the heroes go, A careful sentinel paced to and fro | Before the gate, burned black with bats tle smoke, Whose echoes to the tread of armed men woke; Where up the fiery stairs, whose steps are ‘spears, Came the pale stained years heroes of the blood- There were le#in Caesars from the gory elds With heart that only to a sword thrust | yields; | And there were generals decked in pride of rank, Red scabbard swinging from the weary flank; And slender youths who were the sons of kings, And barons with their sixteen quarter< ings. And while the nobles went with haughty air, courteous sentinel quéstioned, “Wha, goes there™’ as each came, full lustily he cried string of titles ere he passed insides | The | Ana | His | And presently there was a little man, A silent mover in the regal van. His hand still grasped his rifle, and his eyes | Seemed blinded with the light from Paradise. | His was a humble guise, a modest air— Pillbeck ? | The sentinel halled him sharply, “Whe “Yes. It's a 1912." | goes there?”’ “Pshaw! This is 1915." “I know it, but the people who made | There were no gauds tacked to that my car went out of business in 1912."— simple name, Birmingham Age-Herald. But every naked blade leaped out like ——- ame, “In case of war with Germanv.” said | And every blue blooded warrior bowed Dobbleigh, ““there couldn't be any real his h — fighting. About all we could d6 would be | *I am s he a Belgian;” this was all he said Park. at The Plaza. 5-PLAZA HOTEL: NEW YOR FIFTH AVENUB and FIFTY NINTH ST. 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