Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 16, 1915, Page 6

9 FOUNDED BY BDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. BEE BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTZENTH. Entered at Omahs postoffice as second-class matter. TERMS OF !unu‘,g!r‘rmu. y carrier By mall per mont! Per year, .660. 6.0 REMITTANCE. Remit by draft, express or postal order, Only two- cent stamps received in payment of small ae- counts. Personal checks, except on Omaha and exchange, not accepted. OFFICES. Bullding. o2 Few York_Room 115, 3 Fifth avenve. | Louls--58 New Bank ot Comme Washington—7% Fourteenth St., N. W. CORRESPONDENCE, ot communications relating to news and mun to Omaha Bee, Waitorial Department. JUNE CIRCULATION. 53,646 I O ot 1, 0 roulation Tor (e moAth of June. Wif was DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager, ..-'hzcflu ‘-I.I 3':“ 'l-;'l‘l(. and sworn to before TOSRAT HUNTER, Notary Publie. Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. i | Pul July 10 SIONE G e Sy A day ata time is the way to live & happy life. A companion that is cheerful is worth gold— Isaak Walton. . e b A B SIS i L i m “But it was a good season for the lawyers und the professional allenists while it lasted! — Bhippers might relieve their doubts by send- ing the Julla to the Speedway for & trial record. ———— Once more military activity puts Przasynss cn the map. Apparently neither side have guns of sufficlent caliber to shoot it up. R———— Now that Harry Thaw has a certificate of sanity, the country would welcome more than ever his exclusion from publicity’s spotlight. S— It's dollars to doughnuts that if there were no burled treasure, neithor would there be any forty-seven—year-old murder skeletons dug up. t —— The Ban Francisco exposition has revived the Greek festival with dancers in “flimsy nies.”” Well, that's more than the modern i SEp—— Austria did not realize the “moral iniquity” American munitions until Italy closed the Sea gate. Unable to get the goods, the business suddenly sunk in with a A tax gatherer knows only “Get Caeser's due.” It is eharacteristic of American cities to ‘defor pul improvements until asbsolutely .lumum‘mmlua. yule, To widen Twenty-fourth street now would _what it could have been done for five The explanation offered is business is headed toward arena. By deferring the race it should become an inter- th wi flocks of aviators in the different nation- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE | Bernstorf(’s Suggestion. The German ambassador, in an fnterview, suggests the practieability of the United States mediating between Germany and Great Britain | on the question of the freedom of the sea, indi- eating that this is the hope of the imperial gov- ernment as expressed in the closing paragraph of the last note from Berlin. This course would determine the rights of neutrals, and do away with much that is now vexatious because of bel- ligerent disposition to ignore provisions of in- | ternational law. The pressure of the packers’' claims against Great Britain brings the question squarely to the front again. British interference with traf- fic on the high seas has been quite as complete as Germany's, the difference being the cargoes intercepted by the British are now taken into port, to be dealt with by prize courts, The United States has so far omitted noth- ing that would make clear its position as to the rights of neutral traffic. If it can be of service in adjusting the controversy over the sea, it may also eventually open a way for settling the war cn land. In the meantime, the questions are not to be confused, and separate negotiations will be carried on with London and Berlin, until Germany and England can agree to submit their cases for consideration. Still Another Side to It. In the last six months Nebraska has been treated to two object lessons, one lllustrating the slip-shod system that prevalled in the government of a smsil municipality. A village treasurer kept books in which a trial balance was a thing unknown. The village board required no monthly statement. The mayor was known to sign warrants in blank, the treasurer to fill in the name and amount, quite at variance with the apirit of the As a result expert mccountants admit that the exact status of the affalrs may nevar be ascertainable, unless the missing treasurer returns. ~World-Herald. But there is #till another side to it, which, while not in the least excusing or palliating dis- Lonesty in any custodian of public money or contributory negligence of his associates in pub- le office, calls for serious attention. In this case the delinquent treasurer was under bond THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, JULY 16, | Adventures in Shopping T. T. Cook in System, me along; but always, it seems, she has a shop- Suur-;‘rmul she shops alone—this lady—sometimes with a feminine friend, and occasionally she lets ping adventure or two. And how they vary! They're as full of queer twists and turns as the heart of woman itself. They are unpleasant and pleasant, commonplace and excit- ing, in turn. From contented laughs over successful #hopping eplsodes she runa the gamut to stormy tears of Indignation. Perhape the telling of a few of these adventures may mean more than the mere setting down of sprightly conversation. Something tells me it will The first that comes to mind Is that of the alip- pers. They were purchased last summer; the methods in vogue at the two shops entered were 8o extrema a8 to be amasing. It seems impossible that two up- to-date shoe stores, standing almost shoulder to shoul- der, should show such a disparity in salesmanship. Lat the lady tell about it: “Well, I bought my slippers today,” she said one evening, “and such a time! First I went to H's Well! I'll tell you one thing: I'll never go there again. ‘What do you think the woman sald to me? Tt arly in the morni you understand, and she sn't & hit busy. I thought I'd surely get the best of attention. I told her exactly what I wanted. Yes, she had them. She went away for a moment and came back with a rather good looking slipper, but the mo- ment she tried it on I kunew It was much too big. 1 told her so—and I wish you could have seen the look she gave me. ‘Too big? she sald. ‘My dear young lady, 1 wouldn't sell you a smaller shoe.’ slmply couldn’t resist saying, ‘Very well, don’t bother; you couldn’t sell me anything now.’ “Then 1 went over to 8's. They were busier than the other piace, but I didn't have to walt long. A nice, middie-aged woman waited on me, and as soon a8 I told her what 1 wanted she showed signs of be- ing interested. ‘Why certainly,’ she said. ‘I think I have exactly what you want' She was back In moment. And—and—I suppose the price was a dollar or two more than I should have spent—but It was a beauty. “‘But listen, here's the point. 1 asked her if she thought I could wear a shoe like that-it was rather extreme. ‘Extreme? sald. ‘Why, you could wear any shoe In our store. What a difference just a few words make. Flattery? Well, maybe. But it did more good than the other woman's talk. The lady bought that pair of shoes, you may be sure—even though they did given by a surety company in the same way that other treasurers are bonded, the transaction being strictly a matter of business so far as the bonding company is concerned. The public has been led to belleve that these surety company bonds not only promise Indemnification, but provide against a shortage through perfodic check by experts. But the bondsmen for this treasurer for a dozem years never checked any- thing—they took the money pald as premium on the bond, and gave mothing in return, not even the oversight that a personal surety would bave given. Instead they lulled to sleep with A falee sense of security the other officials, who should have been wide awake and alert. If the tonding companies are not careful, the next thing that will confront them will be state legis- Iation for a public indemnity fund through ‘which the taxpayers will themselves insure the honesty of their officials, S—— Arbitration Again Justified. The outcome of the Chicago street railway labor difficulty is another splendid proof of the efficacy of arbitration. y A great strike was called off in its Ineipighcy, the service on the cfty's street car lines was restored, the public was spared great {nconvenlence and all the un- desirable foatures of a labor war were averted by the resort to arbitration. As a further re- suit, the men ga'n a substantial increase in wages, and relief in other directions that will greatly improve their situation, while the com- panies gain in the continuous operation of their lines under peaceful conditions. Neither side to a labor dispute has ever yet been found entirely in the right, while settle- ments achieved by force are not settlements at all, Adjustments attained by calm and judicial consideration of all the elements that enter into the dispute are lasting and widespread in thetr effects, It i this that is lending weight more and more to the trade agreement that provides' for arbitration when conciliation or mutual agreement have falled, The result just an- nounced from Chicago is an encouraging sign that we are coming to substitute reason for force, Sm—— Foreign Trade the War. The vice chalrman the United States Trade commission predicts great wealth for the United States, to be derived from the foreign commerce that will be bullt up as a result of the war. This note has been struck many times of late, the conclusion being so obvious as to tairly obtrude itself. Conquering forelgn flelds in commercial endeavor has been a continual sub- joct of discussion for months, and the latest of plans proposed is one in which the Trade com- mission is taking an active part. It compre- hends the adoption of a system for co-operative selling, by the manufacturers of the United States, along. the lines of the German “kartel.” This touches the whole question of combina- tion in trade. The United States was already well established as an exporter of manufactures before the war broke out 'n BEurope, meeting German, British, French and Belgian competi- tion ingthe world markets. This was notably tive in the lines that are represented in this country by strong organization, such as agricul- tural machinery, which, by the way, has been hit hardest of all by the war, Some of the bigger domestic combinations, such as the com- panies that control in copper, have very sud- denly developed & marked regard for the anti- trust laws, and ask for permission to unite on Torelgn trade in order to be free from possible prosecution. It seems quite certain congress is to be approached on this tople. In the meantime, natural factors are work- ing in favor of the United States. European manufacturers are sadly handicapped by the war, and will be in even a worse plight when the War is over. Thelr business has been disrupted in all its activities, thelr working forces dis- persed and it will require many months to bring about the readjustment needed for efficlent op- Just for the foolishness of one or two mem- bers of the city council, Omaha electric light consumers have for four months been paying higher rates than there any need of paying, ® present to the pany of not less than $30,000, lighting com- cost §2 more than she wanted to pay. As for the virtues of 8.'s shoes—all you have to do is mention the word, and the lady breaks Into the talk with some- thing like this: “Personally, I like &.'s. I had more satisfaction In buying this last pair their than"—and #0 on. “My, I'm tired," complained the lady late one afternoon, “and I ought to go over to Turner's for bread and sugar. I'd telephone for it, but they’'ll think Tm erasy If I ask them to send over such a small order. I suppose I'll have to go.” Tired as she was, the lady was not too tired to wait fgr Miss Ella, her favorite saleswoman at Tur. ner’s. She gave her order, received the goods, and then sald You know, Miss Ella, I often need ons or two little things and hate to call you up to send them. What do you people consider an order large enough to deliver? Right there Miss Ella made her lasting impression. “Mre. See, any time you want a single thing—a loaf of bread or a lemon, just you call up and ask for me. T'll see that it's sent—and sent promptly, too.” The irony of it is: Miss Ella's health made her leave the big grocery just a few weeks later. But you couldn’t pry the lady loose from dealing there— for her the place has traditions. We needed a soreen, a nice, low mahogany screen —and it didn’'t dare be above a certain helght. The lady said g0. Our friends sald they didn't think they ‘were made like that ond I'd probably have to have it bullt to ordler. There were two furniture houses tu which we usually went before making a purchase. \Ve went to the first and put the question to the man who usually waits on us. He said he was afrald they did not have it. “But let's go upstairs a moment,” he invited. “T'd like to show you what de have.'” It developed that he had in stock a screen of ex- actly the same dimensions and general appearance, but its frame was a rather unattractive ‘mission-finished.” The lady passed me a tiny wink. That meant, let'n try the other place. 8o I apoke up and told him how much we thanked him, but ‘we didn't think we could possibly use that one. Perhaps we would stop in again. We were very welcome, he assured us, but why not let him order one of that size with a ma- hogany frame? I could have It here in two weeks, you know,” he suggested, “and In the meantime I could send this one up to the house and you could use it and then send It back when your own arrives." It sounded so much llke getting something for nothing that neither of us could quite find words to express our appreciation; but after we got home and thought it over, the good business of the deal—the ago? man, I tell you the truth, we had just about half a dozen of them Oxfords in stock and they gone—mostly to old men." , “If you don't have any of “N'York!" he shouted, “N'York! That's my homs, young man. T know all about N'York, Now under- stand me, it's not because I wanta make a sale, but I tell you if you go over to N'York you pay §10 more for the same coat” All the time I was getting more disgusted with his aggressiveness, take-it-whether-you-want-it-or-not style. It was after noon, so It occurred to me that 1t might be possible to escape by calling attention to the fact that we all must eat. “We are just on our way to lunch,” I explained. *“T think we'll not decide until after that—we'll taik it over while we eat.” Just for & moment did that stagger him. Then he came back: “Just a second, please, just wait right here a second, will you? It's not because I wanta force you to buy this coat, y' understand, but T think He went around several counters and tables to where another salesman was lelsurely talking with a ‘man about six sizes larger than myself. They held quite a conversation, entirely whispered. I wonder ¥ we look as if & traneparent lttle trick lke that could fool us™ I asked the lady. Then he of the raven locks returned. Brief contributions on timely topics invited. The Bee assumes no responsibility for opinions of correspondents. All letters sub- Jeot to condemsation by editor. Saratogn Springs Are Sprung. SARATOGA SPRINGS, July 13—To the Fditor of The Bee: Here In Saratoga Springs, the only place where one may carry a bottle without being suspicloned of anything worse than appendicitis, the president of the Omaha Commerdal club sends me views of the city. The improve- ments are inspiring. The sixteen-story bufldings, the old city on stilts, are cheer- ingly spectacular. With the power canal you would have more than doubled this showing. Make the rally cry: “The power canal in 1916: Omaha four hundred thou- sand In 1920!" Los Angeles demonstrates how. 1 advertise Omaha to audiences several times a week. Give me a booster like the power canal to lure easterners, and make them your investors. Here Bryan's favorite beverage 1s a mineral spring. This is the Carlsbad of the United States, although Canfleld’s gambling 1s no more. Analysis proves these waters are a remedy for all ills except politics. Now it is a state reser- vation of the springs; watch the appro- priation mania become epidemic, despite the healing virtues of the famous waters, Saratoga 1s a good summer resort clty, but property is cheap. She has fust let out a tuck in her gown, and made her debut as a city. A comfortable place, not far from peerless Lake George, with a whiff of the Adirondack mountains elixir. The change from a water bottling town to a full-fledged city cranks up the machinery. The double use of the cork- screw in pulling corks and salaries in- fuses new life into the municipality. Summer guests are coming In a way that promises a paying season, thanks to the German submarines curbing the exodus to Europe delirfum. The bulldog badges indicate the same perennial leisure class, holding a dog for exercise—of the dog. Ex-Governor Slaton of Georgia has just been here to try the waters as a remedy for pardoning Frank. As usual the Springs falled to help a political ail and he will run for the United States senate. His sprint getting out of Georgia gives him a good start. I doubt if the Saratoga waters have as many peculiar properties as the Omaha city water used to have. Now that the Property is owned by Omaha, no doubt it 1s different. This last settling basin eliminates the worst troubles. Schnectady was a graveyard for ghosts and bats; electric power has made it one of the best known hustlers on the map. 1 could name many others east and west, north and south, and the facts are a d@emonstration, no theory. Engineer Rose- water showed years ago that Omaha has the cheapest hydraulic electric in the United States. Why advertise and beg for investors? Get cheap power and in- vestors will beg for factory sites, crowd for a place in the new Hidorado, and it will no longer be “estimated population,™ but the census figures, “Omaha, 400,000!" So mote 1t be. Here week longer. Hopefully, LU B. CAKE. A Last Pt Reply. SOUTH SIDE, O AHA, July 15~To the Bditor of The Bee: As a final reply to the party who is afrald to sign his Oown name and who seems to prefer to fight In the dark, I will say that the people of the defunct city of South Omaha not only voted to get rid of the city government, but also to get Hd of the old nam> on June 1. The comparison as to counties does not apply to a city in any degree. We do not say or write Omaha, Eastern Nebraska, nor do we write it Beatrice, South Nebraska, noe will there be any necessity of writing it South Omaha In any degree after the north and south numbers are changed. I notice that most of the opposition to calling it the Bouth Side are thoss who voted against annexation. They seem to harbor a faint hope that the annexation act wilj be finally set aside by the courts, but they are indulging in & dream that will never come true. A great many people from down here have always registered as being from Omaha, and that list Includes lots of anti-an. rexationists, Of course they did not have much “eclvio pride,” it that is what you call it. Nor did they think they had much to be proud of. It Omaha was a big city lke Chicage or New York there might be some exs cuse for calling a part of the city one name and another oart ancther name, but when the united population of the two citles Is a good deal less than 200,000 there 18 no excuse in the world for two names and I for one wilj continue to call it the South Side. F. A AGNEW, The Nom de Plumes. SHERIDAN, Wyo., July 18.=To the Editor of The Bee: In re The Bee's Let- ter Bo#, will you please allow me to again enter my protest against the writers using it who are unwilling to sizn their real names? A nom de plume's opinion is seldom worth noticing and their emana- tions should not be placed before the public. T succeeded in bringing “E. 0. M.” out and my published objection to “Cured in Five Days” has brought me a hatful of letters asking me to publish a states ment in your paper retracting my letter and allow that proprietary medicine firm to continue using your Letter Box to ad- vertise thelr preparation. They admit your publishing the lady's two-thirds col- umn letter brought them several patients who pald ‘well for their treatment. And the same lady used the World-Herald to publish “Flowers of Hope" for the same purpose, and in which appeared this beau- tiful, meaningless, unintelligible verse of impossibilities: Amtnonoo-llsuuwl hear it grow— ‘The lily bulb in dark n.:mn -m&mmmu woe; x.nur:uma.yd-mmmm o Wl: quenched to the utmost spark. Oh dear! dear! To think of hearing & lily bulb grow in the dark! And then for its green sheath to scatter flowers of woe until all its orimson glow was quenched to the utmost spark! And yet the lady who wrote it wrote me that it brought patients to the tirm. It makes me wonder if wour worthy United BStates senator ; - from Tilden, Neb, “Poly Glot.” whose | BREEZY TRIFLES, communications are unintelligible to the | | writer, and one cannot but wonder what | : |“Why do_you sign your name J. John be s trying ts accomplish. |B, B. B. Bronson™ " asked Hawkins Your editorial reply to my original let- | "“Because it it my name,” sald Bron- ter on this subject tried to justify the use |50n. "1 was christened by a minister who of the flom de plume, becauss “the sig. | *tUttered "—Youth's Companion. nature would add no weight or might tend to provoke personal controversy,” and that is just what such letters are doing. There would be more welght and leas controversy it all correspondents signed their names. HURACE P. HOLMES, M. D, Nebraska Editors “What do you think about esting so much meat in summer, Mrs, Comeup?” Since the awful things the doctors have sald about it, we'll all become vale- tudinarians.”—Baltimore American. ‘The Fort Calhoun Chronicle, Frank C. | Adame, editor and .publisher, appearance last week. H. B. Willis, formerly of Omaha, Is the new editor and manager of the Loup City Times-Independent i ‘The New Era is the name of a new paper edited and published by P, J. George and C. F. George at Hebron. B. A. Walrath, proprietor of the Os- ceola Democrat. has been appointed com- missioner of printing by Governor More- head. J. Herbert Riggs has sucoeeded his late father, James H. Riggs, as manager of the Waterloo Gasette, Elkhorn Bx- change and Millard Courier. The senior Mr. Riggs, who has been connected with & number of Nebraska papers in the last thirty years, died suddenly in bis office a few days ago. Editor George Miller of the Papillion Times, and Miss Ethel Eepey, daughter of Mr. and Mre. A. F. Bapey, of South Papillion, were married a few days ago. They are spending their honeymoon In the west and will be at home at Papil- lion after August 1. Mr. Miller, who was formerly superintendent of schools of Barpy county, is also the Papillion post- master. The Republican Valley Editorial asso- ciation at its annual meeting at McCook July 9 elected these officers’ President, J. W. Hammond, Cambridge Clarion; vice president, A. L. Taylor, Trenton Republican-Leader; secretary-treasurer, Karl L. Spence, Franklin News. The nevt meeting will be held at Trenton. made its | | .Ladies,’ announced the pres'dent of on afternoon bridge club, “ladies, It has besn moved and reconded that there shall be no conversation at the card tables. What shall we do with the motion?" x said a sorightly little gest that we discuss it Philadelphia Ledger, ALTOGETHER DIFFERENT. (Philander Johnson in Washington Star, They bid us laugh at trouble and to chase dull care away, For trouble will grow greater if you nurse it day by day. But I couldn't laugh at trouble and I __couldn’t banish care When fate turned out a grievance ag my own esrehl share. T've smiled at the material for custom- ary glee: The cook who burned the biscuit seemed a mirthful sprite to me. The small boy with a stomach ache—how he has made me grin; How I've chuckled at the teacfier who #at down upon a pin. But when the biscuit that was burned at breakfast met my gaze, My feelings sought expression in a dozen aifferent ways. The small boy with the pain, when once 1. T mat Wiin face to face, | Evoked my svmpathy and left of laugh- wr not a trace. Of joy the situation showed a most con- vine! ack When I sustained a puncture by a pin or by a tack. That smiles will banish sorrow all phi- losophy has shown; But it's hard to laugh at troulfe if the trouble is your own. m‘HNAE; .and FIFTY NINTH ST. The coolest hotel in New York. Overlooking Central Park. Within easy distance of all theatres and shops. Your address known the world over while you stop at The Plaza. OUTDOOR TERRACE AND SUMMER GARDEN Special Dancing Features Single Rooms with Bath, $3.50 up Double Rooms with Bath, $5.00 up - reserve rooms or to secure further information ddrens FRED STERRY, Managind Director I think, now that I have seen “The Goddess” I know why Joan of Arc had that mysterious angelic color in her i of it—the realization of the under- ing that was her burden—the nation that was ing with her to save it— was reflected in her life and expression. And I think that it is precisely these As a woman from Heaven her mission is to save the world. And in her costume and is nearer to the attitude of the inspired Join the army—follow - -