Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 27, 1915, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. BEN BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. Entered at Omahs postoffice as second-class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. or al 3 ” jps Tecelved In payment of 1 ae- except on Omaha and eastern a A OFTFICES. The Building. 8 N street. 14 &mn Maln street. CORRESPONDENCE, w— mt(-:flufion- r-d’:'u%w and = JUNE CIROULATION, 53,646 of Ni County of Douglas, ss: t mhm-..dn manager comi being duly sworn, -.y': that the tion ‘tor the manth of June, 1915, was WILLIAMS, Ciroulation Manager. in and sworn to before wahis 8 Oy e en, Netary Publls Bubseribers leaving the city temporarily. should have The Bee malled to them, Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. eounts. mal chec exehacge, not Thought for the Day ““Don’t be aclam, if you’ve got to be anything e a mud turtle, then you may have some snap o you." Check Up Once More on “Safety First.” The Eastland tragedy reminds us that It is | time to check up once more on safety first in every direction where people may be exposed to undue risk. Perhaps it takes a periodic catas- trophe, like a big fire or wreek or boat-sinking, to bring us back from carelessness and reckless- ness to common-gense precaution, for that is the only possible lesson it ean teach. steapers in Omaha, but we have a lot of extra- | bazard places that should be checked up from time to time. First—The theaters and moving picture houses, which have muitiplied so fast and whose patrong are so largely women and children. Second-—The bathing beaches, the boats and boat landings in our parks and nearby lakes that have already furnished more than their share of accidents, Third—The grandstands at ball parks, speed- ways, race tracks and athletic flelds, which, though used but seldom, must hold large crowds, Fourth—The schools, churches, tabernacles, pavilions and dance halls where people congre- gate and require safe exits. ’ Fifth—Factories, hospitals, hotels and other institutions that house large numbers entitled to a minimum of fire risk. Sixth-—Bridges and viaducts that undergo uvneven strain and are liable to deterioration. ‘What we say here does not mean that any of these places in or about Omaha are unsafe, but that eternal vigilance is the only preventive of mishap, and that the present is the auspiclous moment to make sure there is nothing amiss that can be remedied. Sp——— Red Cross and the European War. From headquarters at Waghington comes word that the American Red Cross hospital units, operating on Buropean battlefields, are to be withdrawn because of lack of supporting funds. This brings agsin to the fore the im- mense amount of humanitarian service this coun- try has performed during the progress of the Ip that Eastland tragedy it is piain that someone blundered. Sm— M that preaching-in-the-parks campaign, ‘l’l neglect to enlist the co-operation of the ‘weather man. ¢ Sppe— Summer at the seaside resorts is losing its standby thrill. Sea serpents fail to come across from the war zohe. Set————— ‘With a different outcome of the battle of Armagoddon in 1912, every copper cable to ‘Europe would have been meited by this time. f S—— Up.to the hour of going to press the senator ‘had not his intention as to acquiescing those persona-non-grata-Bryanite Tt 1s now said that owing to defective book- the exact size of the hole in the Dundee 'Sasury may never be known. Were it not for e consolidation, which ¢he Dundee-ites fought hard, no one would yet know that there was in the treasury, ; Sme—— e ' The motorcyele relay cemonstration, earry- @ message from President Wilson from ocean mmunmmumm :‘l_‘pnh“mumnt}mtut leation most people will continue to use Ruropean war, and presents a much more seri- ous quéstion for the belligerents to face—that of themselves taking care of their own sick and ‘wounded. ! From the beginning America has assumed a large part of the responsibilities that rightly de- volve on the nations engaged in the war, From thix country has been sent out relief in every form to every country in Hurope. In the wake of battle, where the armies were engeged solely in spreading death and terror, Americans have come to bind up the hurts and salve humanity from the wreckage. Belgium, Poland, Serbia, destroyed by the wide-sweeping ravages of war, have recelved from us the rellef otherwise un- obtainable. Part of this work Is to be con- tinued, for special funds have been set apart for it, but the general work of the Red Cross is set to cease on October 1. The hearts and the purses of our people are alike open to the suffering millions of Europe, end it need not be looked on with surprise if means are yet found to continue the Red Cross activities In Burope. Whatever happens, the contrast between the American expenditures for relief and the Huropean extravagance for de- |'struction will never be less than it is now, So— “Let the Battle Proceed.” With the reputation of never looking for a fight and never dodging one, Colonel John G. Maher has wheeled his typewriter battery into line and fired a salvo, announcing the opening of the expected battle over the Bryan-Hitchcock selections, With the echoes of this salute reverberating across the hills and downs of Ne- braska, we may expect at once a general éngage- ment, and such freedom of firtng as will make the local councils of democracy a combination of Donnybrook and Kilkenny. The long delay in the distribution of the plums allowed-hope to spriag In meny a breast, and in some it took such root as to become almost permanent, It is not easy to uproot such aspirations, secret though they may have been, and the faithful will surely make the welkin ring with their pro- test. ‘We may expect much frank discussion not only of Mr. Bryan's family affairs, but also of the inner circle of the senator's editorial room. But it will take a powerful lot of objection trom the rank and file to secure a revision of the ap- pointments made. ST———— Experiment Worth W 3 The department of animal husbandry of the University ot Nebraska is about to embark on an experiment, the outcome of which will be of much service to the farmers of Nebraska. It bas to do with the feeding of lambs in summer and fall, and will be looked to to settle several very essential points of which the experts at present are not agreed, In other experiments in feeding this department has added much to the useful knowledge of the stock raiser, and this latest research work should be of as much service as any. To determine the best ration, the most successful care, and the spéediest way of bringing stock of any kind to marketable con- dition, and the surest way to profit! for the feeder, has been but & part of the work of the state’s great agMcultural school, but in this it has served the public far beyond Its cost. As a food animal-producing state, Nebraska is fortu- nate in having such an institution, so well equipped and directed. ) S—— v Under Arrest at Bayonne. .The law of New Jersey is to be given a trial at the handling of the disorders in connection with the strike at the Standard Oil works at Bayonne. The sheriff has placed under arrest one of the company's managers and thirty-two of the armed guards employed at the works, _charging them with inciting riot. This action ‘appears to be for the purpose of upholding the law of the state, and to show that it is not neces- sary for private concerns to arm their employes in order to secure proper protection for property, The strike of a number of unorganized workmen at the refineries has been the occasion of a great deal of disorder, and several of the men have been killed by the armed guards. The sheriff kas from the first insisted that he is capable of handling the situation, and has refused to cali for militla. He disarmed the strikers, and his the guards indicates that New Jersey 1is not Colorado, and that the law is able to deal ‘with disorder on both sides. Sm—— “Safety first" is & good slogan for folks on sl Fortunately, we have no mammoth excursion | THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, The Distinetion of Serviece. HBRASKA 15 an agricultural state, as all know who have traveled past its teeming acres or lodged In its hotels. But men do not usvally admire that which ia near to their own lives: the Unusual thing has the better chance for applause. It is cheering, then, to find that Governor Morehead's committee, in search af Nebraska's most distinguished citizen, has honored the ntomologist, Dr. Law- rence Bruner, of the University of Nebraska. When the chinch bug was ravaging wheat fields by the mile he found a parasite which destroyed the pest and de- vised means to apply the sorely needed remedy. Per- haps this was Prof. Brumer's most imporfant and dramatic victory, but pne must note also the steady helpfulneas of his years of work In the small cam- paigns which man Is always waging and must forever ‘Wage against the blind greed of that swarming insect world which is all about us. It is not so much that milifons of dollars were saved, but rather that the victory over nature was won for the men of intelli- gence and care: that earth was made more of a home and less of a gambling place. This Is not the least of the mighty services of science, and Nebraska does well fo be proud of its first citizen. The Speaking Truth, The refined Boston Transcript rises up to remark: “‘Here's to the mouth! It is the grocer's friend, the orator's pride, and the dentist's hope. Yes indeed, say we, and also the politician's base of supplies as well as his first and third line of trenches. For confirmation apply to or listen at Lin- coln, Neb. A Few of Him Wonld Make a Mnekle. A reader dug the following lotter out of Brother Vietor Rosewter's Omaha Bee, and sent it in to us in & recent morning’s mafl: To the Bditor of The Bee: It is & sad thing to see poor, silly people of the twentieth century complaining of the high cost of living and saying that they can't live on salaries of %00 all the way up to g.)%m, For ffteen years m n&ed from $30 to $%, and I have a g« in the bank, a wife and six children. 1 manage things on a common sense basis. No foolish ness. Nickels spent on moving pictures and candy and Ice n.r:nm are wasted Money spent on fihery is wasted. In my family we have nothing in the way of luxuries—fust the plain everyday food. 1 do the buying myself. ‘Cereais, oatmeal, and similar foods form the bulk of our dief. We buy one pound of steak a week. have a plece of it every day because I need sustain my strength for my work. The rest mily do not need meat—in fact, are better off it e only luxury we buy Is tobacco, and the cost of that comes to only 40 cents a week. We salary has ri sum of mot save much on buying bread that is a day &Ig, thus in- creasing the buying power of our money ped- cent. Cheese 1 find a substitute for butter andl more nutritious, as well costing only half as much. It is a very simple thing to raise a family on a small salary if n has common sense and ‘doesn't leave the h‘ur“ ujauhu wife, and sees to it that trades- men give him a dollar's worth for every dollar he . 1 have only been in Omaha » year, but 1 Necessary. [ Wi Our stenographer passed this on to us with the following comment: \ People read this sort of thing and then wonder why some of us prefer to remain old maids! ‘Well, there's a great deal to be sald on that. In f our stehographer were Mrs, Mickle, mething sudden and surprising wouid happen in the Mickle family. In the second place, a home and six children, even with Mr. Mickle thrown in, are better than being an old maid. Finally, we want to know more about Mickle. Maybe he Wrote the lefter in frony. Maybe he doesn't exist. Maybe oné of The Bee's bright young men invented him to add to the sayety of mations, Won't Brother Rose. water be kind enough, at our request, to send one of his reporters out to see Mr. Mickle and tell the world about him? If he is a real human being, there are a lot of things we should like to say about him, and «mnot all of them to his discredit. Fis ideas are not all bad. When he eats all the meat in the family he is doing the rest of the family a real service. The main point in which he is all wrong is his distrust of hi wife in the matter of buying. His case may be an exception, but in nine cases out of ten the wife is a better buyer than the husband. After all is said and done, the outstanding fact about Mickle is that he went and did it. He did marry and he did raise a family. For that achievement, compared to bim, all the whining young men who complaln they can't af- ford it are merely objects of varying degrees of con- tempt. An Important Subject. We will take more interest in that fine old silly season question, Is marriage a fallure?” when we meat a few bachelors past 30 who are not afraid of being by themselves over a holiday. For those Whe know something about life as it is the above question but one answer, and that obvious. Twice Told Tales His Honey. A San Francisco man tells of a flower, growing abundantly near Santa Barbara, which is pecullarly attractive to bees. Now, says he, “there was a young Californlan, particularly fond of honey, who used to visit a certain Banta Barbara hostelry because such a superior sort of this nectar was to be had there, “This young man married in due course, and the trip included Santa Barbara, so that the bride might taste this supreme honey. But to his dismay no honey appeared on the breakfast table the firet morning of their stay. The groom fréwned. Ho called the old famillar walter over to him. “Where's my honey? he demanded. “The waiter hesitated, looked awkwardly at the bride, and then bent toward the young man's ear and in & hoarse whisper stammered, ‘Why, Marie don't work here any more, sir.'''—~Harper's Weekly. Way Out of Sight. Private Doherty wes six feet four in his socks; the wergeant was much shorter. The sergeant looked walong the line. “Head up, there, Doherty!"” he cried. Doherty ratsed his head. “Up higher," sald the lfttls sergeant. ‘‘There, that's better. Don't let me ses your head down again.” “Am T to be alwaye like this?' asked Doherty, staring away above the little sergeant’s head. “You are.” “Then I'll say goo@bye to ye, sergeant, for I'll never see yesz agah.’—Pittsbérgh Chronicle. Mixed Voleces. A lanky youth entered the crossroads general store to order some groceries. He was 17 years old and was passing through that stage of adolence dur- ing which & boy seems all hands and feet, and his vooal organs, rapidly developing, are wont to under- ®o sudden and involuntary changes from high treble to low bass In an authoritative, rumbling bass voice he manded of the busy clerk, “Give me a can of corn’ (then his volce suddenly changing to a shrill falsetto, he continued) “and a sack of flour." *“Well, don't be in & hurry, I can’'t wait on both of you at once,” snapped the clerk —Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. ‘People and Ihenfi A shortage of Turkish tobacco sultable for cighrets is predicted by a tobaceo promoter. The cabbage orop is equal to all demands, so why worry? Rather than maerry as her parents insisted Miss Camille Cushaw, 15, ran away from her home at Germantown, Pa., and sought refuge among friends Pittsburgh. Culls from Collier's | ’ JULY 27, | 1015, The Hees effer That P. 0. BEtfick ey Board. OMAHA, July 2.~To the Editor of | Bach (1885) also a German, found out by The Bee: I am onie of the many in the Omaha postoffice whose opinfon can only bo safely given in & nameless contribu- tion to the public press, otherwise thé inner circle would soon find some excuse for exchanging him for a new “serf.” The expected has happened. The no- torfous efficlency committee has re- turned. It was expected after their hi- bernation in these quarters a few months past that the Omaha postoffice was to undergo another inspection within a short time to see If the office had teached that beatific state of perfection 80 sought after by the committes. And now, to show the long-eared sagacity of the present administration, the same men have been ordered to return and check thelr own work. The complaints of the Omaha business men are set at naught and the committee whose recom- mendations brought down vigerous pro- test, not only from common citizens, but from the postmaster and the senator and the congressman from this distriot, is suppbsed to go over their own work and advise the department of thelr own er- rors, and if will be safe to carry through their original scheme, hatched last winter In certain well known lodge rooms behind closed doors. Q. No Time for Race Prejudice, OGALARLA, Neb., July 24.~To the Edi- tor of The Bee: I was much interested in your report of the speech of Hexamer, head of the German-American ‘alllance, which he deilvered at the banquet given in his honor at the Fontenelle ,Friday evening. He started with a strong denunciation of the American press, I presume for the reason they are backing our presi- dent in his efforts to protect the lives and property of American citizens. Ho ever, the American press needs no de- fense at my hands. Ho next attacked the public school ays- tem, of which every true American is so Justly proud It i» & wrong principle to try to array one class of Americans against another, and whoever attempts it 1s in my judg- ment making a great mistake. He lays streas upon the fact that large numbers of Germans enlisted in the civil war, and "helped put down the rebellion. T grant you that is true. Probably not one regiment went to the front without its German contingent. There were several Gorman boys in my eompany; they were true blue and brave, always ready when duty called. We must give them honor and credit. But let us not forget we are all citizens of a common country, either by birth or adoption, and it was just as incumbent upon ome as the other to rally to the de- | fense of the flag whenever and ‘wher- ever it might be assalled. He furthor sald, The time is ripe for German- Americans to stand up and assert thelr rights.” May T ask of what rights they have been deprived? They have been honored in the highest places in the halld of congress, they have helped to make oup laws: In the exeoutive branch, as governors and judges, they have helped execute the laws, in fact, they are today holding places of trust and authority in all the states. This kind of talk a{ this critical time fo try to place oue class above another, may cause trouble. At ‘any other time it would be simply lu- dicrous, EDWIN M, SEARLE. “And AN r . OMAHA, July 2%5.—To the Bee: The splendid team work of 1,000 male voices (Maennerchor) of the cities making up the Northwestern Saengerfest, on the stage of the Auditorium last week, speaks for itself of the history of S0t to this the first part of the twentleth century. Few realize what a struggle the art of song had fn past ages to bulld music to Its present position—first through melody and then harmony and then symphony. The first scale of record in Nistory 1s one of three notes, made by the datural inflections of. the tomes of the voice in musical spéech downward like the Greeks sang their eplc poetry. Thua: say hello naturally to the telephone girl and your voice will fall in tone on the low to the musica! Interval of & fourth. If she does not answer, you say it again, but this time your voice does not fall so far quite, but to the interval of a major third and thus we have the scale, say down from middle C to C, A flat, G. Next we have the scale of Sappho (619 B. C), not a myth or a muse, but'a real little woman, with black hair and a sweet voice, * At the time of the Greek philosopher, Pythagoras, (532 B, C.) all of the seven primary notes were in and a few of the chromatic notes also. This was the seven-note or diatonic scale in which the volce struggled for some elghteen cen- turies to make song In melody and all through the dark and middle ages to the time of the Itallan renaissance. Then instrumental music came to the rescue of cantata music, by the madrigals or songs of the trdubadours and menne- singers accompanied by thelr stringed Instraments. . Like them, to0o, Martin Luther broke away from the drouing, sing-song chants and liturgies of the church, still singing ke the Greeks in fourths and thus started music in the melody of thirds with some snap to it and & tuned instru- ment to check the voice up to, and thus ‘was modern harmony born. The five-note scales of the Asiatics, where the voice went up'to the fifth in- stead of down to the fourth, has for some reason never developed harmony and is very walling to us, like Chinese and Japanese music, or the hoot-che koot-che of the streets of Cairo. The trouble dur- ing all these centuries was the ‘“terrible” tri-tone in the scale, called in the middle ages “the devil In muasic.” They did not realize that the octave was the natural division of the scale, but they tried to divide In the middle of the octave, but there was the tri-tone of three full notes (from F to B). To avold this they made two scales in the octave and the true Greek pentachords start on E to F, G, A, below, and the one above, B, C. D, B These were simple scales of fourths ahd but very tame music. They knew that to pluck half of the string made the octave above the whole string, to pluck three-fourths of stiing and you get the interval of the made this saengerfest possible, for it is the volce of the average man. Before his time the Itallans made some of the male volces take the scprano part along with tenors and bassos. Remember the | tone of the whole string, as on it Is founded not only fundamental bass, but the keys of music which John Sebastian lis ear alone and afterwards proved by | Helmholtz (also a German who died In 1904, whose mother was English) by the physics of sound as matbematically cor- rect GREORGE P. WILKINSON. TOLD IN FUN. Ella--Miss Antiqug says she wishes she | could step to the Phone and call up her happy collexe dnys. lella—HN she d!d she'd have to employ | the long distance phone.—Florida Times- Unlon. | She—When we were married a year ago I never expeoted to see you coming home at 2 in the morning, He-Well, you wouldn't now, if youx'd only go to bed and to sleep.—Bosion Transcript. ‘Widow—But 1 have nine children. He—~Wgetched deceiver! Widow—They are all working, He—Dearest one!—Michigan . Gargoyle. | Aye, more A DREAM. Once, while I sat to medidate, Upon a drizsly, chiliv night. A vision rose around the light Of fading embers In the grate I heard weird volces of the dead Come from the wizard's cabinet— Their living thoughts are with me yet— And heard distinctly what they said The actions of all moving thinge Upon hoth hemispheres were seem In reproduction on the screen Around invention's fairy wings Hfilm:-! the surface of the ses Sped shipe, defying hurricane And piratés’ guns upon the main, In comfort and security. Jove, in his savageness and might. Was captured with a peaceful ease And made to serve humanity's Desire for useful power and light. 1 heard men talking 'round the world, And saw them flying in the skies, As the material paradise Kalidoscoplely unfurled. they, by the wireless kind, Their thoughts projected through the ir, men and women ev'rywhere [ And mind. Read one another's daily Bewitching beauty, high and low— In woods, on mountain, plain and lea, By stream and green-hued lake—was free To ev'ry heart that had a woe. It_seemed a real enchanted land— So many wondrous things to see— Such marvelous machinery To save the labor of the hand. A startling rag-time melody, calted Thviybody's Dotnt te. Came dancing from the cabinet And brought to end my reverie. The fireplace loge had burned away; 1 heard the cricket's dismal peep, And, turning, No, 'ftwas a t Omaha. Now Are the Days Children Need Care Summer Heat Dangerous to Little Ones if Bowels "Are Neglected A mother cannot do better for her child than to train it from early infancy to regular habits, not only as a preventive ‘against much of the iliness to which chii- sren are more or less subject, but also to \nsure their health in later life. | Normal activity of the bowels is the basis of sound health. This is especlally true with children in hot weather. Do not neglect any tendency they may show fto constipation, but promptly administer gentle laxative, that will carry off the congested waste without shocking the |oystem. 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