Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 21, 1915, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE| e i — FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSKWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. - BN ‘T%& Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor, BER BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEV} NTEENTH. co— whwvie st X 0 B hhnc et o 3 Extered at Omahs postoffice as second-Class matter. TERMS OF 8U IPTION. carrier By maf month. WAl Sonday..... Ry without Sunday ing apd Sunday ‘without Bee only.... Send hotice of chang freeguiarity in delivery to Omaha Bee, Department. REMTTTANCE. Remit by Araft, express or postal order. cert ived I8 payment of counts. OFFICES. The Bep Building. 18 N street CORRESPONDENCHE, w n-m‘!.nlr-mu A to JUNE CIRCULATION, 53,646 B gt e, oo me, Notary Publia Subscribers leaving the city temporarily \ shonld have The Beo malled to them, Ad- dress will be changed as often as reguested. Nhii!:sfl!.fiz the Day In which ¢'ass are you? Are you sasing the load OF overtamed biftevs who ti. down the road? . Or are you a leaner who lats others bear 1l Your position of labor and worry and eare? “Kla Wheeler Wilcon, reductions beat litigation, Serm— ‘clearings ] © When It comes to compromise candidates for :’n} appointive jobs, the democratic woods a full of them. 2 2 m‘hm moro automobiles on the list in Douglas county this year than last. ‘speeding up! orm was (utended 1o give et never had a political bee not particularly early for the poltts begin to boll. Nebraska's primery of war lacks up-to-date | S——— emphasis. ”"R twos m‘ small ace al cNecks, except of Omaha &nd &astern accepted. mll‘da Dongias, s g T o S B8 w iy prosincs SR sworn to batore | Mmay be carried on, while Germany has handled | B e e JExcept with the agitators and the lawyers, . A 27 per cent Increase in a week's bank | be “pure bunk." s proves that Omaha's business belt is | platform was inserted to take advantage of the Pugele: If 1t takes the city comptroller's p three weeks to find out whether there is a @ Dundes treasury, how long will it a little competition can be develeped ardent champlons of the Lincoln and of the O. L. D. route, both roads | nance temptation, but morality is & personal condition that tourist ‘-;-’. Newark, | gemocrats?” Labor’s Part in the War. The “battle of the machine shops” seems to { be extending to the machine tenders, thomselves, In Wales the conl miners have defied the gov- ernment, armed with the terror of the new munitions act and its most unusual and drastie penalties, and have forced a settlement on terms of advantage to the men, men at Bssen threaten to tle up operations of the great Krupp plant, while striking machinlsts may shut down the Remington Arms plant at | Bridgeport, and the Standard Oll men at JPay- onne will check ocean shipments of ofl from (et base through their strike. This state of affairs supports the bellef that human nature i¢ mueh the same, ne atter whether the man is in the tremohes of in the shops, All of this Industrial unrest is eccasioned primarlly by demands of the workmen for a share of the increased profits due to WaAr ae- tivity, the plant owners being unwilling to divide fwith them. It may be aggravated to some de- gree by agitation from outside influences, as has been charged, but this fs not the prineipal factor, A yéar ago it was confidently asserted that war was impossible, beeause the workings men would not join the armies. When War was declared, socialistic organizations fell to pleces, the vaunted “brotherhood of man” was forgot- ten, and the workingmen took their places in the ranks of the fighting forces with litlle or no delay. In Great Britain it has been found neces sary to bring back from the firing line skflled\ workinen in order that needed shop operations the matter with its customary eye to “efficlency.” “ The tact of the matter is, the workingrian in war time, is as willing to fight as any, and quite s eager to fight for a share in the spoils of war, Not Fatended Berionsly. AR & mattor of plaln, commoh faol, that public opinioh which holds that Woodrow Willon 16 in any way barred, or even embarrassed by MNis platform as & candidate for re-slection, 1 practically nesiigivle. - The popular interpretation of the famous piank s hat 1t asuirht o pledae theecandidate to the prinoiple of a constitutional amendment to prohibit a second torm, and that until such an amendment is adopted the fleld s wide 6pen for mecond termess the wame an first termers. —World-Herald. . Why not be perfectly frank about it, and admit that the one-term plank, and partioularly the lakt séntence of it, which reads, “and we vledge the candidate of this eonvention to this prineiple,” is, and was, at the time, intended to Thik plank of the democratic sentiment that had been worked up against a third term fnvolved in the ambitions of another oandidate, and at the same time so drawn a8 not to commit the néminee to nything. In other words, it was a plank inserted to fool the Pople<<n plank to get in om, but not to stand on. It was a bid for votes In the election to be forgbtten after election, but no more so than weveral othér planks in the sate plattorm, of which the most augaclous of all 1s the dedlara- tion in the coneluding paragraph, which reads: Our platforin 14 the of prineiples which we be- Hove to be essential to our national itare. Our pledies are made to be kept In Office &8 well as rou e e . “ Liimbebmen from the northwest have besn g some luck tales to the federal trade commiiseion at Ohleago, the most interest- irg one of all belng that the sawmill men of Oregon and Washington stand to lose $12,000,- 000 and interest on their investment for the cur- rent year. This I8 largely due to the fact that men who havé purchased the timber on govers- mehit Jand are eutting dnd selling lMmber at a rale thit means & loss to those Who Own And work their owh Mmbef lands, Here 16 & matter ught o have mame immediate attestion. hat these sawmill owners say Is true, the government hias sold off its timber too cheaply, Alid & better price should be obtained. 1f the slories kfe HOt thue, sotite other agency iy re- sponsible for the loss the lumbermen are endur- ing and it should be discovered and the remedy applied. Such an important industry, located do favorably for reaching the markets of the world, should not be in such fangutshing condition. Sre——— Humenity and Immorality. One of the women delegates to the ‘‘purity” conference at San Franeisco has spoken so plainly on her topic that she may startle those who are uninforiitd &8 to actually existing conditions, #he gives no (nformation t6 those who . | Bave made a stlentitic study of the subject. 18 | Frallties of the flesh are hot confined to any Sherman’s particular class, and do not spring from any one calise. Not has it been well established that a large percetitage of either Meh 6r women are perpetually straying along “'the prisiross path of dalliance.” Environment may tend to en- quality, and oftén persists under circumistances that some consider hopeless. Much of silly exaggeration on this quéstion of morals has been heard from “uplifters,” who women have beem gratuitously slandered by theorists over zealous to support what they deem & righteous cause. Careful inguiry, by com- potent research workers, has dlspfoved these #Weoplg actusations. The eonditions outlines by the speaker at S8an Francisco serve only to show what slow progress humanity really makes in this direction-—a slowness due ot to lack of instruction or expostulation; but to the lunate character of the human belng. . . Consolidation binging with it Omaha tuled and regulations is eliminating the free lunches former]y furnjshed by BSouth Omaha thirst quencheries. That's the mest flagrant outrage of all, although it is doubtful whether it will work gréater hardship o the proprietors of on e s * Bulll, the senator ought net to find it neces- sary to indulge in such a lengthly disquisition &bout a desk just to remind folks that Mr. Bryan, while seretary of stite, ‘found places 1wo other relatives.” Aren't they all Dissatisfied work- | THE l 12 the foderal sef¥ice foF & som, & son-ln-luw and allow their imagination to supply the gaps in,' their knowledge. Great classes of men and | OMAHA, BEE: l Progress of Direot Primary e Froderiok M. Davenport (s The Ont100Kcmme. HE DIRBCT PRIMARY has swept the country, and although there ls much eritietem In many #lates of the way It works, fhere’ in not the slightest. chance of its belng given up by the people excopt for a-mething stifi better and more gffectiva. It i well known and appreciated all throhgh the west that it was the direst primary which complelely demolished the entrenched rallway machihe which so long defled political and soclal progress there. The next stép in advance is to work into ithe direct primary the pinciple of responsible leadershin, tor leadershlp demooescy in Ameriea must havd, and Will have, either openly or mecretly, by fait meand or foul. It je fighling the instincts of human naturs to opposs i From John AdAms' diary wé may pers eolve how deeply i the necessity for it rooted in the history of American politica: “Hoston, February, 1763, This day learned that the Caucus elub meets at cess taln thnes In the garret of Thomas Dawes, the adju« tant of the Boston regiment. He has & large house, And he has o movable partition in his garret, which ho takes down and the whole club meets in one roum. There they amoke tobacco untll you cahhiot see from one end of the garret 16 the otier. Thére they drink Mip, T suppose, and there they choose A moderaior, who puts questions to the vole reguarly; and select. men, assessors, collectors, wardens, fife-wards and representatives are regularly chosen before they are chosen in the town, Unclé Faiffield Story, Ruddock, Adams, Cooper, and & rudis indigestaque tholis of others are members. They sehd corimittees to wall on the Merchahts' club and to propose and join in the cholce bf meh and mesures. Captain Cunhing- ham says they have often solieited him to go to those onucuses, they have assurad hifh benefit i his business, ete”’ For the benefit of any unsophisticated Outlook reader, 1 will say that fudis Indigestaqus tholls, wheh used In a politieal connectioh, means a butieh of roughnecks. The proliminary “‘unofficial” confefeices which are now held under the direct primary from New York to the Pacitio const by all parties ate the direct descendpnts of the gafrel and Subterranean gather- ings 6f Doth the sariier and the later peri’ ds of populnr government In America. And the lhstinct eannot b stifled. It should rather be legalised and made re- sponkible and open: otherwise & weéret cabal, whethet benevolent or mdlevolént, Ia sure to flourish and be A continuing souree of Ifritation in & democracy. Governor Hughes met this problem sguarely while he was the sxecutive In New York. e proposed, as an essential part of the democracy of his direct pri- mary plan, that repfesshtative atate leddors, froaly chosth by volers 1h the local assembly Alstricts, and withsut powek legally to perpatuate themselves, should in the most open manner and with the mest careful lekal restriction, make the initial - kuggestions of #tate cihdidates for office, Mut the final determina- tion upon théseé sugkestiohs and upon all other sug. gestions whieh might likéwise be freely made by petition, should lle with the whole body of enrolled Volers 1h eAoh Party of DHMAry aay. With Ihis oben and responsible and legalized leadership at the top, throligh & popularly elected. committes or a popularty clocted stath convenition, and with the tewn meeting fo-eatabliahéd evetywhere at the bottom, ‘the airect primaty would fulfill the needs of both representative and direet Aemocrdcy far better than It does at present. The direct primary at present drives leader- #hip to eover, and makes no place for those splendid mass gatherings and discussions in the small units of the nation which formerly cleared the alr ana informed ahd tratned the electorate, not only in New England bt (n many other parts of thé country. it 16 from the same standpolnt that the recall, ex- copt within harrow lfnits, is unsound and even VICioUs In principle. Tt 1s & blow &t calm afid del erate and dighified and comtinuous leadership of a kind which demoeracy greatly needs. As conditions are in Amerles, most men of redl ubllity and power shun publie office and a public career as they woula A pestiidncs, 1t You Add to the difficulty of Bringing ch men to the front under o threatening and dead- ening mackine system the further threat of populat .oisinderstanding and dizapproval before they have time to shotw what is in them, we shall never gei. offiejent leadership at all. Before wo begin to talk, much of the reeall in the United States we must make it worth while for men of weight and will even to listen to the call. The recall |s two-edged sword. And It may harm far more thah it Helps, Bven In city goveérntient, those who have Studied the psychology of opposition & Bew AdmifisteAtion knuw that in the course of the ubuil four-yedr term of the wayor, for example, the @btagonism#, both ratiobhl and iFvational, lump themkblves at bout the twosyear perlod, just when the Mecall thder the law I8 usudlly mhde operative. If the mayor of a city is to be recalled at all he should have a six-year term, and the recall should be applied @t the three-year period. [ Sy . Abd to tAlk about the recall of judges is to bégin at the wrong end of a much needed reform. The Judiciary is not well adapted to the prevalling slective thelr nomination and election have frequently been looked after for tnein; that 16, they have been machingsinade or ‘corporation-made, or both. We have got many good judges In this way, but it is a bal of responiaible leadership under eotitfol of the. pesple themaelves. If this does not corfect Gertain of ouf Judiclal system. we shall thefi be ubliged to the peopie more direct final cantrol over judiclal lawmaking itself, or else be driven to the practice of all ggher elvilized nations, of separating entirely the function of judicial law- making from the functon of adjudication s %o summartse the siibstance of our expefience with direct democracy, there need be no essential antay. onism anywhere between leadership and popular rule, betwedn rejresentative government and direct democ- one another, For prac- considerations, and under the present conditions of our politics, direct democracy *hould lend ftselr to the development and strengthen- ing and the final control of ieadership, and not té confusion and chaos. ~“Pror. Davenport sminee of the York at ‘the fast dection’ party for governor o Neow 1915, ihe Meam in the wye, SOUTH OMAHA; July W—To the Bdi- tor of The Mee: Isa't it funhy how the health inspectors will kiek about prop- erty owners not outling the weeds in their own yards, while the city is leav- Ing the weeds grow along the streets thel are paved and mostly traversed during the whole day long—for instance, Q street, from Twenty-first to Twenty« second street, and others? A BOUTH SIDE PROPEATY OWNER. Appeal to the Jewish Readers. OMAHA, July 20.<To the Baitor of The Bee: Young people whe are interested in tha future of Palestine are now put- ting forth the greatest effort 1o help the Jewish natiohal fuhd by making coliec- tons. When they oomie 1o you think of this It Is the duty of each individual to give all he ean afford. Each cent is going to do work. It is not charity. It ia & busi- fieen proposition,. With this money prac- tical work is being done which' will in the future make us an independent na- tion. No argument Is necessary. You ought to thank that young person for giving you the opportunity to do your duty. And if you remember nothing elss, femember that it 1s far better to give than it Is to receive. . B K.~(A Young Jewish Daughter) Budorsement. ., Julg, 0.<To the Bal- I fead with interest Here's LINCOLN, tor of The Bee! from titme to time the letters slgned by F. A Agnew, dissenting strohgly with most of thein. I give to his letter ad- vocating the abslition of the open season for killing tirtle doves fost unqualified and enthusiastic approval. T remember forty years ag6 flights of passehger Plgeons Ih eastetn Nebraska, & bird now extinet. How much some of us would #ive how fo bring the bird back to lfe! Its surviving cousin, the tuttle dove, will also be extinet within this generation If not prqtected. The hird Is easily shot and easily found. WHY destroy our doves afiyway? Bealtiful in forfi, caress. ing in volce and all too few 1n numbers, the turtle dove deserves a bélter fate in Nelraska than that given to man iIn Burope. A. B. BHELDON. Wooster Stl11 Off the Reservation. BILVER CREBK, Neb,, July 17.<To the Baftor of The Bee: 1t is & false ory that the coufitry s unanimous in ita support of the president in his controversy with the government of Germany. It ls trus that &bout all that (s being sald, as we may gather from thé newspapers, is by Way of sustaining his position; but thie is Iargely, if not chiefly, by reakon of the fallacious Aottrine that patriotism de- thands that ih an lasue of this kind the president, whether right or wrong, should be bustained by all good citizens. ¥For a #imilar reason others who do not a With the president seem to be cowed Ihto sllence. Coufse we would all be with the com- fander-In-chiéf of the army and havy, it as good citizens we ought not to sus- taln M in & eourse that would logloally foree us into an unjustitiable war. Hut in private conversatioh 1 have neves ¥et baen able to find & fian who thought thie president was right, elther as to hin #o-called “‘policy” in Mexico or in Europe. President Wilson's contention that inter- national law which would perinit ue the freedom of the high seas, even in those parts declared ‘‘war zones” by the bel ligerents, and to trade freely with bellig- erent countries in things heretofore con- #ldered noncontraband of war, should be strictly adhered té, Is absurd. Those rules of ifternational law were not made with refefence to conditiofis similat to those now existing; they cafifiot preperly be made to square With présent conditions, and shbuld therefore bé ignored and our ‘ourse determined by the ‘real ethics of the situation as it now presents itself. Takihg that view of it England has a perfect right to statve Germaby # It ¢an, aha Gerfiahy aff equally good Fight to use her submarines to destroy British dommercs ahd isolate Hngland i it can. Our policy thed should be to keep away and let them fight it out. When the lives of great empires are trembling in the balafice it 18 ridisuloits that they should be asked to jeopardize their interests in order that we might make. some dollars in trade, or that one of our millionaires #hould have the pleasure of visiting some Européan Watering place. But it intefnational law is to be in- sisted on, why should England be allowed to ebcape? Migland was the first Ag- rensol, And It 18 her work that has par- alysed Ameriean commercs. Why does #ob Wilken bring England 0 book ! But Wilsoh h&s put his hand to the plow &hd hé cahifiot now turn back. Lot Aim How sehd ah vitimatom to Germany. Gertaany will again turn him down, and thah it will be i1 order for him to con- velis congfess and order congress to de- clare War agalnst Germany. Congress will turn hith down again, even though it woukl put ¥s In a ridiculous position before (he world, and we shall have ouf rewoard (or one of them) for putting &n impractical theorigt in the executive chair, 4, ARLES WOOSTER. d Erat Demonstration ! OMAHA, July 16~To the Editor of The Bee: Greatly as I admire Lettie F. Bartlett's intrepid courage in venturing to defend the great solence of palmistry, it 15 nevertheless obvidus to me that she has Jiinped into & veritable hornets' nest. Bhe quite forgot when she replied to Dr. Holmes' profoundly erudite article that she is merely & weak, feminine creatute 1 hobe | know my oWh huinble position, 5 & iere Worih, Bettef than to antag: onize a learned theorist from the wilde of Sheridan, Wyo.,, who BAS read as far as the life line in one of Cheiro's works, ahd now to have “iilantered the art of paimistry” and proved te “my éwn satisfaction, ahd that of all intelligent that there s fielther tFuth noe 3 j I ‘ ! : : i f i gi | i 7T i%i 1 : i £ T ilii 2£1 sg{i 7 H igsii i i i EfEs the § i i it i il ; i 3 “iF i g i i t i % 1t we Were actually at war of | 1o master the art. I purchased s primes or “Epitome of Homeopathy,” which now lies before me. I learned that the word homeopathy is of Groek derivation, and means ‘similar soffering.” The great prificiple of the selence |4 that likes cure likes” Foeling that 1 had thoroughly mastered the essentials, I still dould not be aatisfied until 1 had proved the truth or falsity of the “Indi cated remedy” idea. An opportunity seon presented iteelf, whem a neighbor's aog accldenially ate rat polsoni of which the main ihgredient was stryehnine, Hasten- Ing to the scene of the tragle ooour- rénde, carrying the “indicated remedy” In the form of & bottle of sugary strychnia pellets, 1 atthoritatively waved Aslde (he melted iard, mustard and water, and othér émetios which officlous friends Were recommending, and prying open the sufferet’s Jaws, 1 poured the pellots down his throat. Requiseat in pace! At least 1 hope so. Anyway, he's desu~and the sat polson got all the blame, Not & #oul suspeots to this day what was the basic principle of my “indlcated rems< edy.” Having thus proved to my own Aatls- faction thit there (s no truth of remson In the theory that “iikes cure itkes,' 1 belfeve I have & perfect right to declare that there 18 no tFuth in any of the other 1 think I am brinciplés of homeopathy. Guite safe in assertiig that 1 am the Onhly persoh who ever made this invests ghtion and gave it to the publis in the columng of The Bee. As proof eomelu- | i, Sive, I can show you the empty bottle and the dog’s grave. BLSIA ROBERTSON, ®I7 North Bighteanth Street. CHEERY OHAFY. i ‘“He's 4 ?nmmo;‘nun # the fellow with thy net {0 the Tiat above me.” TWhat's { o A8 A ¥ to Mtart some. . Y ble hing)Judge. o T hiful attorn he great: "t of 'finm‘m« W spent Th ah endesvor 10 vx'wu pusy and prosperoue, went out fon & whila, eaving on his door & nest pla- card Wil be back In an hour" Upon his return he found aaross the hall had ln-*i 7 New York at & lawyor underneath “What for es. A6~ “Why do you declige manded s & my_plet" he editor's wife. “‘I"M’r ple 1 poem." “No_doubt,” sald the éditor. “‘And my, d!l‘llnlrl it dosa not ne rily imply ol lack of merit."<Loulsville Courfer. Jour« nal, A SUMMER SOPHISTRY. —— Dorothy De Jagers in Judge. Falr su ’'s here! I know it not By ctifying garden M?t Nor by the lengthening of day, Nor bargain lingerie alaplay; Nor by heat lightning in the sky, Nor window thrim ol filpv:.nt fly; Not yet by orohards bowed with frait, | Nor starved mesquito’s barbed salute. 1 know it not beSausé I ses Pileniekers dotting mead and lea, or by 'ho harvester who wields His sicklé through appointed flelds. Not even by the erowl which potes, ' Exultant, over Base ball scores; | Not by the advertised rellefs | Of prickly heat and sunburn rellefs. 1 ktiow It not by tourist uru On cheaply planned vaecation trips, Nor by thermometer's report Of heat too fleree for work or aport. h, ho! not by these have ‘I read weet sumemr's certitude; Instéad, 1 _know it's hefe, beyoud dispute, ‘Clun“‘ dad has donned his Palm Beach suft, The est hotel in New Pk Wl i ithin easy distance Single Rooms with Beth, $3.50 up ZePLAZA HOTEL N B X ORK o known the i Pl OUTDOOR TERRACE AND SUMMER GARDEN Special Dascing Features Sirees FRED STERRY York. 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