Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 9, 1915, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, FOUNDED BY EDWAR) ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR, The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. BER BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH Entered at Omahs postoffice as second-class ml(t:r: TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By carrier By mail per vear. 4.00 per month ¢ and Sunday.. ! barge of address or complainta of fart lell\-'.ry to Omaha Bee, Circulation anatt, R“I'I'I'AN(;I'. e Onip ¢ Remit raft, axpress or posta er. wo- a cent n?:mw received In payment of small ae- counts. Personal checks, except on Omaha and eastern exchange, not accepted. | OFFICES. | ha~The Bep Building outh Omaha—318 N strect ouncil Bluffs—14 North Maln street. Lincoln—26 Little Buflding. Chica 1 _Hearst Buildin New York—Room 1105, 28 Fifth avenue. Bt Louia-608 New Bank of Commerce. ‘Washington—7% Fourteenth 8t., N CORRESPONDENCE, communications relating to news and odl- | mfluf to Omaha Bee, &nmmx Department. JUNE CIROULATION, 53,646 Btate of Nebraska, County of Douglas, ss Dwight Willlams, circulation manager of The Beo Hbu-hf company, being duly sworn, says that the lmnfircuhllnn for the month of June, 1515, was DWIGHT WILLIAMS, l\li‘frlh:dfl in I;WJ rra-fi?’m and % 1 uly, 1915, o bl R‘bBDER‘I“ ‘IH’NTER, Notary Publle. Cireulation Manager. sworn to before | Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them., Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. July 9 Thought for the Day Selected by Dr. W, O. Henry “Who strong wiuld be, and wise and well, Should safely guard each body cell. All poisions shun in food and drink, Pure, fresh air breathe, right thoughts should think. " . Hats off to the Liberty Bell! The bottom of the rain tank must need a few plugs. Pretty near time to close the open season for tornadoes. “A parrot should be taught to speak only in polysyliables,”” says a contemporary. Also with a polyglot tongue. Help! Oh, but wouldn’t it be too awtully awful if Lincoln democrats should have to come to the senator at Omaha to name a postmaster for them! Er EEmESE—— . ", After that demonstration for Joe Stecher, let no one say there are no exceptions to the ;:lnt a prophet being unhonored in his " _ What they do to food price boosters in Ger- seny fs a caution. A dose of thst medicine heére m!ght be beneficial to the patient once in a while, . Ag suspected all along, the Nebraska ‘re- publican” rewarded by Becretary Bryan on the eve of his retirement with a soft berth in the jmsular. service turns out to be a "deserving er | | ~ Good, hard roads are an unfalling everyday | booster for the city from which they radiate. is fortunate in this respect, and its good fortune applauds the foresight of the author of the Inheritance tax law. —— ; An Omahba policeman thinks he was saved from the knife of an assailant by a bank book 8 his inside pocket, Next thing he knows he be on the carpet to explaln how he hap- to acquire a bank book. s P Ss—— ér'fio Missouri Pacific and the Wabash com- ard about to emerge from financial fogs. promise of clear skies will be welcomed by of transportation systems too long han- by stockjobbing interests. - Fame is a fickle dame and painfully short- lived. Black Diamond, the bison bull whose | head in profile distinguishes the buffalo coln, has been buffaloed in his New York home. Put at auction, he did not bring the value of his raven image. ! ! S——— i And now Mr. Bryan says he did not take up suffrage sooner because he was too busy with other things, and that he usually does not take up questions until they are capable of solution. Perhaps! But his past experience with succes- slve paramount issues indicates that he is a poor guesser. | A glittering array of apecial awards are offered by private firms and individusls for displays at the - fall fair of the Omaha Exposition associat mong Parker, Rotinson & Co., a 330 pha for the $t crazy quilt; Welty & Landrock, side saddle worth i for best amateur rider; A. Polack, a boy's suit At 315 for the best essay on education by & boy 15; Edholm & Erickson, silver water set worth of fine needlework: The High School Principalship. The school board is again confronted with the difficult task of finding the right educator to serve as executive hoad of the Omaha High school. With possibly one exception, this is the most important place in the entire organization | of our public school system, demanding the | very highest grade of educational qualifications | with the added ability to maintain discipline, direct subordinates and meet manifold responsi- Lilities. Besides all thie, the ideal high school principal has an Innate knack of dealing sym- pathetically with boys and girls, and of holding I‘ their respect and confidence. It goes without saying that the Importance | | of the position makes it one hazardous to ex- periment with. While Omaha has been on the whole fortunate in the character of the princi- | | pals it has had in charge of its high school, cer- tainly no advantage has been gained by the fre- quent changes, and the prospect of a reasonable length of service, if he makes good, should be | one of the considerations in the selection of the | next incumbent. Here, too, it would seem ad- visable to go slow to make sure of a satisfactory cholce rather than to proceed hastily, and run the risk that always accompanies haste. Soldier Boys in the Harvest Field. The Canadian government proposes trying @ novel experiment in the art of war, that of | setting its recruits to work gathering home the t wheat harvest, now ripening in the fields of the northwest. This is the most seneible proposal | heard recently in connection with the war. No | better use could possibly be made of soldiers | than to give them such employment as will be | of service to the world. The ordinary service | of the soldier is to destroy, his occupation being such that death and desolation follow in m-i path, but here he may be set at the works of | peace and his labors be crowned with a benison of plenty. It may be a little odd to think of Buce- phalus, or even Rosinante, hitched to a self- | binder, but it wouldn't hurt him any, save per- | haps in his pride, and eo it will not hurt the f soldier boys to do a little stunt in the harvest flelds. In fact, they'll be all the better for it, Just as good soldlers as before, and better farm- ers than ever. And at this moment the world is more imminently in need of farmers than of warriors. New Gun for the Navy. Again comes the secretary of the navy to the relief of the nervously anxious people of the country, with the assurance that our new sub- mersibles, beginning with M 1 will be armed with the best three-Inch disappearing gun known | to the world. This is most comforting, for it shows us that we have not lagged so very far be- hind the procession, after all, but have fairly well kept pace in the production of tools for use in the gentle art of warfare. Mr. Hudson Maxim told us a day or two ago that our smokeless powder is the best known, even surpassing the German article, and that the high explosive we use In our armor-plercing shell is beyond com- parison in its desirable qualities of stability and effectiveness. Slowly but surely it is coming out that we are not quite badly off as an oyster without a shell, and maybe the timid will yet be consoled, and able to pursue their several voca- tions in something of security, until that terrible fleet appears off Sandy Hook, or wherever it is to strike the firet blow in the conquest of the United States, Starvation to the South. From Mexico comes trustworthy information that the reports of destitution down there had Leen under rather than overstated. Starvation i+ not only imminent, but actually present, thousands of inhabitants in the interior of the country subsisting on greem fruits for weeks, | with no relief before them, unless the United l States can force & hunger truce on the wrang- | ling leaders, whose ‘‘armies’” have swept the country clean of provender. In the more acces- sibie towns, the Red Cross has given reliet to thousands, but in the hinterland are other thousands of innocent men, women and children, tuffering for want of the food they can not | 1each. While this condition exists, dally grow- | ing worse, “generals’’ and ‘‘first chiefs,” and | other petty personages with resonant titles are oxchanging defis and thwarting by thelr attitude of contumacy any purpose they may have originally had, unless it be to sustain disorder and pamper their personal pride. The United States may not be able te remedy the political disorder that prevails across its southern bor- der, but it ought to no longer tolerate a condi- tion that means actual starvation for the um- fortunate people of Mexico, who are the victims ' of quarrels In which they have little or no part, | —— Novel Plan for Choosing Judges. Whether it be adopted or rejected by that body, a proposed amendment presented to the | New York constitutional convention by former | Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson covering the | selection of judges for the higher courts, chal- lenges thoughtful attention, The Stimson plan would me the two methods of appolntment ' and of popular election by nominations by the governor subject to ratification at the polls, and reads as follows: Whenever a vacancy in the court of appeals or the supreme court is to be filled by election, it sha!l | be the duty of the governor to make a nomination for | such vacancy, and the name of the person %o nomi- | nated shall be indicated on the ballot or other voting device used at the election by the words o mended by the Governor.” The legitlature shall pass | Iaws providing for such rominations and for additiona: | methods of judicial nomination not Inconsistent with | the foregoing, to effectuate the provisions of this sec- tion. No nomination to fill a vacancy in any judicinl office shall be made by any partisan political orgavi. zation. It must be admitted that we are experiment- ing in different states, including Nebraska, with ' various new-fangled methods of selecting judges | designed to avoid obvious evils, although none | has quite fully achieved the object. Would this proposed method accomplish it better? s the question that we would like to see answered by practical application. e—— The spectacle of Tom Taggart and his friends posing as the injured innocents of the Hoosier belt is calculated to brighten the tedium of the Indiana colony at Leavenworth. Smme—— “It's a long I that has no turai On his third try Governor Morehead succeeded in naming & lawyer for public defender, willing and auxious to take the Job. | Her prayer is all for a soldier. THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY Curious War Superstitions s Correspondence of London UPERSTITIONS hover, like birds, In the Paris air. By patient endeavor they may be snared. Of the few that | have caught I think I like best that of the woman who goes every day to the Lady Chapel of t. Sulpice to pray. Her superstitious reverence for St. Sulpice dates back to her early ac- quaintance with Balzac. Lovers of that wonderful short story, ‘“The Athelst's Mass,” will understand Its origin. Tt was to the St. Sulpice Lady Chapel that the atheist went, four times a year, to pray for the oll water-carrier's soul, Reading that, the woman be- lleved that prayer in St. Bulpice must be more effec- tive than prayer anywhere else, and she sald, “Some day I shall go to Paris and I shall pray at 8t. Sulpice.”” She is in Paris now and she prays in St. Sulpice In the beginning thers were subsidiary petions, for other friends, for herseif but as the war frensy grew fiercer and the life of each soldier hung by a slenderer thread, petitions of little import slipped from her rosary, and only the one vital prayer for her soldier remains. The prayer which the atheist confessed was his, she has adopted as hers, “And I say with the faith of goo0d sceptic, “If he ‘e anything to suffer, let me suffer it for him.' " Oh, Lady Chapel of St. Sulpice, you are become a shrine, indeed! I like, too, the superstition of the Moroccan soldlier. He was the biggest, blackest, handsomest Moroccan that I ever saw. And full of adventure. Othello must have been like him. The only trouble with this Othello | was that his Desdemonas could not understand a word he sald, for he would talk in English and they und stood only French. Notwithstanding that disadvantage, they gathered around him in such numbers that a po- liceman came over to clear the pavement butended by foining Othello’s train, though he also lacked the key to his tales The Moroccan’s left arm was bandaged. He relatel | the story of his wounds. Seated with him at the cafe table was another Moroccan of lighter complexion and two French soldiers, one of whom spoke a few words of English. To him Othello addressed his frequent punctuations of “You see?’ “You understand?’ "I see. T understand,” the little Frenchman replied, gravely, but except for those and a few like simple phrases he did not understand. Othello knew that he 414 not and he was immensely pleased to get a listener at last who really did understand. He talked faster than ever. The Frenchman objected. “Tell It in French,” he sald, “You speak French wel! me.’ . you?" I sald to the Morocoan “Well, yes,” he acknowledged, I do. I was brought up on French, but I learned English in Alexandria years ago, and I iike it better. I speak it now on prin- clple. I am superstitious about speaking English. 1 bellcve that it would be black ingratitude to speak anything clse. It was due to an Englishman that 1 got off with only this.” He touched his wounded arm. “Only for him and » command given in English I'a be back in the Argonne to stay.” The Morocean sald that the day when he got his wound was a day of surprise and confusion. Men lost their heads and the instinct of obedience. The Moroce can, though usually a steady fellow, was as bad as the others. He wanted to obey orders, but for the life of him he could not comprehend them. Suddenly, above the endless French uproar there sounded a command in English. “Duck, I say, duck!" That was the first command that had meant anything to the Moroccan all day. He ducked and his arm caught the plece ot shrapnel that would otherwise have strucy his head. “Only for that ‘duck,’ said he, “I should hava been gone, and since 1 am still here to tell it, I should expect to be struck by something more deadly than shrapnel if 1 ever told it in anything but English." Absurd? Narrow-minded? Possibly, but mixed with the absurdity of the narrowness is a strain of loyalty that is very touching. Two Highlanders on the lookout for “‘sights” in the Latin Quarter encountered a superstition whose intensity of expression was somewhat overpowering. They stopped at a cafe! A tumult of voices and a etched hands greeted them. sald the occupant of one sald the occupants of others. “And what you you think the row was all about?* #311 one of the Highlanders, “Luck. That was what | they wanted ua for, good luck. Every, man, woman anu child in Faris has the {dea that to drink wtih a man in kilts will bring him good luck, and they nearly had a free-for-all fight to get at us. For a chap who was always considered an unlucky penny at home that a cheering experience. Maybe they'll think more of me when I get back and tell them about it." The No. 858 superatition has a touch of real humor, It is the confessed weakness of a Canadian soldler, Since his enlistment he has been haunted by No. 883 To start with, that is his regimental number. In Flanders he was bayonetted by a German whose number was also 888 “‘And a jolly good thing for both of us that it was,™ sald the Canadian, “for I am sure that we let each other off eatier than would have done if we had had different numbe: They took him to the base hospital in motor ambu. lance No. 888, In the hospital he harped so constantly on §88 that just to humor him they tagged a nurss with three elghts, and so eased his mind and gave her a chance to pull him through. When convalescence set in he recelved a letter from his wife. The Canadian owns a little general shop back home and his wite mentioned & fow details of the business, among them being the case of a well-to-do townsman, who owed A bill of $8.80, which, apparently, he did not Intend to pay. By that time No. 888 had taken its place in the Canadian's creed. He had firm faith in its infal- libllity, so he wrote back: “‘Send another 8 cents worth of somethi to his house, then make out & bill for be sure to pay up.” The Canadian chuckled. And did he?’ 1 asked. He took a check from his pocket. “Here you are, $888. She was #0 proud of me that she sent me the check all the way over here just for me to look at." Twice Told Tales around He will There Was a Difference. In the lobby of a hotel they were speaking about speed fiends, and Congressman Wyatt Aiken of South Carolina recalled a story about Jones. One afterncon Jones was rambling along the boule- ! vard when he ran across friend Smith. Handshake and then some talk, which included the war, the weather and automobiles. “By the way." sald friend Smith recollectively, that you have been buying ‘es,” proudly admitted Jones home about two weeks ago." “Some 8peed, of course,” returned friend Smith, “How fast can the machine go?’ “Well,” answered Jones with a smile that was half sad, “it depends altogether on who s timing it, myself or & country constable.''—Philadelphia Tele- gram “r he “I brought her Calling Bismarck's Blatf, Bismarok was conferring the Iron Cross on a hero of the ranks, and, being In a humorous mood, he said: “I am authorized to offer you, instead of the cross, a hundréd thalers. What do you say?’ “What is the cross worth?" asked the soldier. “‘About three thalers." “Very well, then, your highness: I'll take the cross and ninety-seven thalers.’'—Boston Transeript. | People and Events | { A family of four—father, mother, son and daughter | —were wiped out iu an automobile accident near As. | bury Park. N. J. last SBunday. The distressing tragedy | suggests that family autoing parties should leave at ! least one member at home to sign for the Insurance money. Economy Is a sclence difficult to leain when one | falls heir to $4,000,000. Mrs. Olga V. Florman, a New | York woman of 3, admits | $5,000 & year and finds it self, her husband abe warn i | | COhildhood Memories of Liberty Bell, OMAHA, July 8~To the Editor of The Bee: Kindly permit an old subscriber the liberty of the following: The coming of the Liberty bell to Omaha will be to | many a curiosity, to many a symbol of | patriotism, to others simply a relle, but to the writer it will be the coming of & dear old friend whose earllest recollec- tions are associated with it. During my childhood years and up to the years of early manhood there was ecarcely a week I did not hear it ring. Pasing up and down the old ridge road to Ninth, along Ninth to Chestnut, down | Chestnut passing the Continental and | Girard house to the Public Ledger build- | ing. one passed tho state house in the | tower of which hong this bell and all through the day it could be heard tolling off the hours. For twenty-two years a picture of the bell, together with the com- panion picture of Independence hall, familiarly krown to Philadelphians as the state house, hag hung on the walls of my home, and many times in these years I have sat and drank in the Inspiration and often in dreams Have gone up and down The well known streets Of that dear old town and the thought has almost come to that I Was once more hearing the famillar clang of the bell under the shade trees in Independence square. Long after we have passed away the grand sentiment that one will read on ity face (proclaim ye liberty to all the people) will ring up and down cur broad land solidfying Us as a nation, and be carried in the minds and hearts of ecvery lover of human liberty, W. P. DAVIS. 2588 Crown Point Avenue. machine, and the boys just fought for a chance to yet in front of it.—Beston Transcript HONEST GRIEFS. GRINS AND GROANS. Ambitious Applicant—You promised me & fat part in your new uction Maliclous Manager—Afll right, I'm a man of my word. You can look after the grease painte —Baltimore American. Edgar A. Guest in Detroit Free Presa I can stand a fellow's whining 1f he's got a real causs for pining, 1 can stand his dismal wailing If he's really deep in woe: And 1 don't mind homest grumbling 1f his feet werd sore from stumbling And the briars and the brambies Block the way that he must go. Tramp—Please, refugee. Lady—Are you? Mention a town in Bel- mum, I'm a Belgian um, Tramp (cogitating a moment)—T would, mum, but they have all been destroyed. ~8t. Louis Post-Dispatch. But | hate the senseless simper And the woful wail and whimper Of the fellow who starts growling At the firet few drops of rain And 1 cannot stand the brother Who thinks someway or anothec All the fates have turned against him When he feels u touch of pain Life's a blend of joy and trouble Through the cool grass and the stubble Bvery one of us must wander As we journey towards our goal; Every Tom and Dick and Harry Has some burden he must ecarry He who seeks the joy of living Must, in some way, pay the toll He—They say, dear, that people who live together get in time to look exactly | alike, She—Then you must consider my re- |1 . A : fusal final.—New York Sun. Through the darkness each must grope; When real care is assailing o b 8 o | There is some excuse for waliing The air In here seems stale,” re- | But without the slightest reasen marked the stranger, who had poked his | Far too many give up hope. nose into the committee room. | & “No wonder. A bunch of congressmen |Save your tears and save your sighing have been sitting here telling stord: | For the hours that will be trying, Judge. 4 ALAMEERE | Keep on smiling, keep on plodding —_— |Just as far as vou can go, Colonel—80 you lost halt your force by | Whiie the sun of hope is shining a trick of the enemy. { There's no sense in repining, Captain—Yes, sir. They rigged up a It is time enough for wailing cannon to look like a moving picture | When life's honest griefs you know | Both the great man and the humble | Find the honest cause to grumbie, | Each must shed his tears of sorrow, Not the Saving, bat the Way. WISNER, Neb., July S~To the Rditor of The Bee: I have been taking consider- | abie interest in the lettef box and thers have been some fine opinions and some ridiculous ones right along, but the letter signed A. B. Mickle was the limit. T agree with Mr. Westergard there surely ought to he an investigation into the case Either he Is a mighty selfish being or he has got something wrong in the head. 1 wonder what such children f¥el like and the mother. It's a shame some of the old-fashicned methods are not used now- | adays to correct such manners. as he evidentiy has toward his family It isn't that a family cannot sa and only get that smount of wages, for they can, but its the way he states of saving ‘that's the unreascnable part. MRS, IVAR JENSEN. Wooster Says ‘Make Huerta Salute.’ SILVER CREEK, Neb, July 8.~To the Editor of The Bae: Presidént Wilson Is surely missing a great opportunity.’ | Some one should put him wise to that | fact and why not The Bee? By 80 doing you might possibly, nay even probably, win his everlasting gratitude, and what would be far better than gratitude, he might give you a good fat bag of that 43,000,000 of Mexican money he got while | in possession of Vera Crus. ‘Therefore 1 wish you wouid publish this letter and send a marked copy of The Bee containing it to President Wilson. (Any claim that I might be suppcsed to have as the originator of the idea I hereby freely relinquish in your favor). 1 My point is this: As will ba remembered, iast year, be- cause Huerta would not salute our flag, President Wilson ordered some of our Wwar vessels to attack and capture Vera Crus. It was done and nineteen Ameri- cans and 300 Mexicans were killed. But, sorrowful to relate, we did not get that te. Now that we have Huerta actually in our possession, locked up in a fort some- Where down in Texas, T suggest that President Wilson take him by the nape of the neck, stand him up somewhere on the common and make him doff his combrera and salute the Stars and Stripes in due and ancient form. By doing o the death of all those Americans and Mexicans would be justified; the glory and honor of the flag would be vindicated, and President Wilson's right- eous wrath would be appeased. CHARLES WOOSTER, American Recruits Solicited by British. AUDUBON, Ia., July $—To the Editor of The Bee: In your paper I saw a para- STADh to the effect that a United States federal agent had brought a charge against agents of the English gover ment that they are inducing United States army and navy men %o desert and join the British army. Of course the Eng- lishman denied it, but all the same I can Kive proof that they are doing this in England. I have just returned from a Visit to that country and during my stay there I was approached several times each day by recruiting sergeants, who upon my saying that I was a United States citizen would always answer: “Huh! Tell the major you were born in Canada and you'll get in all right.” I know that several hundred young Americans are now serving in the Eng- lish army, having enlisted as Canadians. L. N. Tips On Home Topics Brooklyn Eagle: Swelling returns from the income tax tickle official Washington. | Our newest aristocracy is growing by leaps and bound prophets predicted when the scheme was younger. Chicago Herald: The unveiling of a lrnemnncnt to Daniel Boone at Comber- | land Gap on Wednesday suggests that this country has not yet forgotten the sort of men who made it-anl witaout | whom it would never have heen rade. Springfield Republican: One of General | Huerta's neighbors at Forest Hills, L. I, | testifies to his generosity to local char- | itles and at least two churches. So long | a5 he stayed at Forest Hills the ex- dictator was in a position to make hime self liked. Huerta at El Paso presents a different problem. ‘Washington Post: Another week of un- exampled activity in the industrial dls- tricts of the country has just closed, and from the transactions reported it was evident that the coming weeks of the summer, the coming months of the sutumn and the winter will witness bust. ness at the highest flood tide that has ever been reached in this republic. Springtield Republican: While it s legitimate for the United States to seek to enlarge its foreign trade, care needs | 10 be taken not to give the hapression | that this country Is desirous, above all | | else, of exploiting the frightful world situation for purely commercial ends. The exient Lo which we are sending relief to the sufferers in Burope should go far THE strikers had grown restless, law- less and riotous, when the militia was called to quell the disorder. The officers, too. caught the fever of strife and might — the might of gunpowder, rifles and a deadly am when brought into play. Peace, then? And yet, how the presence of Celestia, with her earthless mien, acted on all—How the non-combatant, true neutral always affects the combatants! Like an oil on troubled waters, both sides flocked to the banner of “The Goddess” and there was strife no longer. This is a new type of story and picture, don't you think, and one that treats the vital issues of the day with a sense of entertainment supreme. “Join the Army""—Follow . @bbe; e e iagrph™s ol ooy of m. After the game is over you will find a cold bottle of Krug most delicious. It will not cost you any more, then why not insist on a beer of quality. Save Coupons aud get free premium. Phone Doug. 1889, LUXUS MERCANTILE CO., Distributors