Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 28, 1915, Page 4

4 THE BlE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28 1915, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE L R e skl hevdaduy FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. U R AR AL R VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. —— The Bee Publllhmg Complny. Proprh’-mr TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By carrier By mall e per month. per year, il lmml\mdnv a ing_without Sonday.. day Bee only. hotice of change of address or complaints of jarity in delivary to Omaha Bee, Circulation REMITTANCE. Remit by ann. axpress or postal order. Only two- ultm recelved in payment of small aec- n.l ch:f:‘l, except on Omaha and eastern CES. ; Bullding. mell Bluffe-—] Nonr Main street. coln—2 Little Bulldi nl earst Bllll I ork—Room 1106, fth avenue "‘Mn-- New -nk of Coramerce. ~726 Fourteenth 8t., N. W. CORRESPONDENCE, lat t ® and_edi- T n g Ay TR JUNE CIRCULATION, 53 .646 uly sworn, says flmu:.&:‘;"m ‘e ‘month of :..nl 206, was WILLIAMS, Cireulation Manage W g“mm and sworn to bofon HUNTBR, Notary Public. Subscribers leaving the city unnpomlly ‘ should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as reqnatnu. July 28 Thaughe for the Day Selected by Harrist C. Towne | Hark, hark! the lark at heaven’s gate sings. ] And Phoebus ’gins to rise ] His steeds to water at those springs On chalis’d flowers that lies; 1 Z And winking Mary-bude bsgin To ops their golden eyes With everything that pretty (s My lady sweet, arise; Arise, arise! — Shakespeare-—COymbeline, — Travel on excursion steamers will be as safe now as human precaution can make it—for a little while. * The tax assessors found nearly 45,000 auto- wmobiles in Nebraska. And it's a dead cinch they did not find them all! S—— The warden in charge of the Georgia prison farm where the murderous assault on Leo M, Frank was made is officlally exonerated. Of course! " If there is another city in the country whose o library closes Saturday noon till | mma‘#mnn vy g Health Commissioner Connell would make : MM of the equipment of every }ldm rented to & tenant. If he is not careful, / nu himselt u-poyuln with the 2 MP*III Truly its situation is as ’lflfll as Belglum's, ground between the upper and nether millstones of destroying armies. Oom ‘Paul Kruger must have had this war, not his own, in mind as the one which “staggers hu- manity. To go to war with Germany would be like w an insane asylum,” says Mr. Bryan. what he would now call what the United | Siates did in going to war with Spain in 1808, ~ for which Mr. Bryan, himself, raised and headed . Sm——— .n.- without gaylng that ingenfous law- ‘will not let that tempting estate of the Hastings man get away without ex- the full panel of possible clalmants. be a generous split on such a In the o. ‘Winchester arms distributed % per cent. Its speed this yoar & month. The company stock is a One Year of t)u- War. Today completes one year of the European war, twelve months of continuoug conflict, with oll precedents outdone, all prophecies upset, and no indication as to when it will terminate. We bad been told the modern military had made war so terrible in its potentiality for death and destruction that it could not continue long, so costly in itg operation that nations could not afford to maintain hostilities for a great ! length of time, and that any war must soon be over. Three monthe was the time set by many when the troops under Von Kluck began to pour across the Belgian border. But man’s ingen- uity met offense with defense, and under the shelter of trenches armies have withstood the assault of opposing armies. In the air and be- neath the sea foes have grappled, and still the earth trembleg under the shock of the conflict. Twelve months have gone, and millfons of men end billions of treasure have been wasted and no one can say with certainty when it is to he over. The German Press Attitude. The attitude of the German press on the latest American note is certainly not calculated to allay the growing friction between the two countries, The mnewspaper expressions prac- tically set up that Germany was completely | 'Within her rights, and fully justified, in sinking the Lusitania without opportunity to save pas- sengers and crew, and that there is no reason for disavowing the act, nor even for admitting the justice of any eclaim for compensation to the familles of the innocent victims, Had Germany made this bald answer to our first Lusitania note no one could have foreseen the consequences. While the German diplomatic correspondence on the subject, It is true, has so far evaded the question of responsibility on the pretense that the Lusitania was in reality armed, and subject to call as an auxiliary cruiser for the British navy, the kaiser's spokesmen were careful to convey the Impression that they jwanted these questions of fact submitted to further inquiry or arbitration. If German submarines have an undefeasible right to sink without warning merchant vessels carrylng contraband, and regardless of the flag they may be flying, then, of course, there fis nothing whatever to submit to arbitration, and all the interchange of notes must from the first have been an exchange of mere ‘‘scraps of paper.” We do not believe, however, that the attitude of the German press will be the position taken by the German government, What the German newspapers are saying, however, makes it all the more important that we wait with patience for the official response to our note, Where Milton is a Back Number. When John Milton wrote in “Paradise Lost” of the conflict between the loyal hosts of heaven under the command of Michael and the rebelli- ous angels, led by Lucifer, he penned a mag- nificent bit of description. But he suffered junder the limitations of his time. The Baconian compound of brimstone and saltpeter had yet on its swaddling clothes, so to speak, and its poten- tiality for cussedness was beyond even the flight of Milton's - majestic faney. Therefore, the offensive and defensive engines with which he armed the embattled hosts of heaven were scarcely more deadly than the bombards and the petards used in earthly warfare. But what a pleture he might now outline were he to be given the opportunity of revising his stately periods and introducing into their pregnant phrases something of the modern ma- chinery for the elimination of life and the ex- punging of man’'s proudest works! Milton gained immortality as a poet, but, in the light of what is going on today, as an artiMerist he is & back number, Ssmmeee— Steamboat Inspection Service Needs Shaking Up. To accomplish “safety at sea” under the American flag will require something more than the passage of legislation prescribing the num- ber and quality of sailors to be on board of ves- sels. Conditions at Chicago support this asser- tion. Eight separate inquiries into the East- land, horror have been started, which almost Justifies the conclusion that some of these are to conceal rather than reveal facts in connection with the terrible affair, The Bastland was known to be unsafe, but ‘was permitted to continue in business as an ex- oursion boat, and to load to its fullest limit. In the present instance it ls known to have ex- ceeded the limit allowed by the government. All acquainted with lake shipping knew the story of the Bastland's disastrous career, but none interposed objection to its use in a service wherein &oqnnh of lves were carelessly Jeopardized. Now we find the port officials, the inspection officers, the police, the federal grand jury, the Department of Commerce and other agoncles busy on ex post facto inquirfes to de- velop facts they must have been famillar with before the awful disaster of last Saturday, The charge {s made that other vessels on the lakes are equally unsafe, and this should be in- quiringly considered. The owners and officers of the Eastland are to be dealt with by the law, but what is to be done with government officials, charged with the duty of preventing such acci- dents, who permit the continued sailings of a vessel known to be unsafe? The whole service of steamboat inspection evidently needs a shak- ing up. —— Make the Street Numbers Uniform. Commissioner Jardine is on the right track fa moving for & house renumbering in South Omaha that will bring about uniformity with the street numbers in Omaha, and the renaming of streets that are confusing because of their dupli- cation. No doubt the plan will encounter objec- tions and protests, but something of this kind is necessary for the very reason of street-naming and house-numbering. Omabha, itself, had to make this change when wdmflun. 3Ny it supplanted the consecutive mumbering with the so-called decimal system that moves the house numbers up a hundred from one block to the next. This decimal system has so demon- strated its superiority that scarcely a city of any importance still clings to the older method. But the essance of the decimal system of street num- bering Is uniformity throughout the entire area of the eity, because a gap or duplication destroys its usefulness, and that is why no remnant of eradicated city boundaries -nolfld stand in the machinery | | | at North Keeling island by Chronicle of One Year’s Events of the Great European War 1914, June JUNE-JULY. Archduke Francis Ferdinand assas- sinated at Sarajevo, the eapital of Bosnia, the Austrian province annexed from Turkey, Aua trians alleging a Serblan plot. & July Z—Austria sends an ultimatum to Ser- bla July B-—Berbia replies to Austria, granting Austria’s demands save that permitting Austria to try Serblan offenders July 28—Austria declares war against Serbla, July #1—Russia orders general mobilization New York and lLondon Stock exchanges close; others follow, % AUGUST. 1—Germany declares war on Russla—French cabinet orders general mobilization. 2—German forces enter Luxemburg—Ger- many addresses ultimatum to Belglum demand- ing free passage for its troops—Belglum appeals to Bngland. 83—-Germany rejects England's proposal for Belgian neutrality—English moratorfum de- clared. 4-England sends ultimatum to Berlin, de- manding unqualified observance of Belgian neu- trality—Germany rejects ultimatum—Germany declares war on England—Germany declares war on France~France declares war on Germany-— Germans attack Liege forts—France provides a $1,000,000,000 war fund—Italy declares moratorium. bt—England announces existence of state of war with Germany—President Wilson tenders his good offices to the warring natlons—Tord Kitchener made war secretary—England's premier asks for and recelves $500,000,000 war credit. 6—Austria declares war on Russta. 7—Germans enter ldege—French invade southern Alsace. 8—Italy reaffirms neutrality--British troops land in France and Belglum—French occupy Alt- kirch and Muellmusen—Montenegro declares war on Austria. 10~French retire from Mueihausen. 11--Senate passes, without a roll eall, bill admitting foreign ships to American registry— Germans pass Liege forts. 12-England declares war on Austria—Ger- mans advance beyond the Meuse—France de- clares war on Austria. l—Japan sends ultimatum to Germany, de- manding withdrawal of German men-of-war and the surrender of Kiao Chou by August 23.—Aus. trians enter Serbia. 20—Germana enter Brussels—Belgian army re- treats on Antwerp—Russian army invading BEast Prussia checked. 21—Germans begin attack on Namur—Battle of Charlerol begins. 3-Japan declares war on Germany—Ger- mans enter Namur and begin attack on Mons - Austria announces victory over Russians at Krasnik. 24—British begin to retreat from Mons—Zep- pelin drops bombs into Antwerp, 2—Muelhausen evacuated by the French. Z1-Louvain burned by Germans—Japaneso blockade Tsing-tau. 2%—Austria declares war on Belglum—British fleet sinks five German warships off Helgoland. 81—-Name of Russlan capital changed from Bt. Petersburg to Petrograd. SEPTEMBER. 2-German advance penetrates to Crell, about thirty miles from Parls, and swings eastward— French center between Verdun and Rheims driven ‘back—Seat of French government re. moved to Bordeaux. 8—-Russlans occupy Lemberg. fi—Hattle hegins south of the Marne and east of Parls, in which the German right wing 1a pushed back, followed by a general retreat— Allles agree not to treat for peace separately. 7-—Maubeuge taken by the Germans. 13—German retreat halts on the Alsne. . 20—Germans bombard Rheims, injuring the famous cathedral. 2—German submarine sinks the British cruisers Abouktr, Cressy and Hogue In the North Sea. 2%—Germans begin siege of Antwerp. OCTOBER. i 2-End of week's battle at Augustowo, in which the Germans are forced out of Ruassian territory. 6—Belglan government removed from Ant-, werp to Ostend, 7—Hombardment of Antwerp begins—Japa- nese seize Caroline islands. 9—Antwerp occupled by the Germéns, 13-Belgian government transferred from Ostend to Havre. 14—Allles occupy Yypres—Battle begins on the Vistula. 16—The British crulser Hawke man submarine, 17~Ostend occupled by the Germans—Japa- nese crujser Takachiho sunk by torpedo in Kiao Chou bay. 24—Ten-day battle before Warsaw ends In check of Germans. 25—German cruiser Emden enters harbor of Penang and torpedoes Russian crulser and French destroyer. . NOVEMBER. 1-Five German cruisers, Including tha Gnelsenau and Scharnhorst, defeated a British squadron off Coronel, on the coast of Chili— Turks bombard Sevastopol $~German squadron makes a raid on British coast near Yarmouth. 6—England and France declare war on Tur- key—Dardanelles forts bombarded. 6~Tsing-tau surrenders to the Japanese. 10-The Emden defeated and forced ashore the Sustrallan nk by Ger- crulser Sydney. 11—Germans capture Dixmude—German sub- marine ainks British gunboat Niger off Deal, 12~Russians occupy Johannisburg in FEast Prussia. 16—~The Shelkh-ul-Islam at Constantinople proclalms a holy war against the Allles—British House of Commons votes a war loan of $1,1%, - 000,000 18—-Naval battle in Black Eea, In which Turks and Russians both claim victory. 19-French detachment trapped at Chauvon- court, near St. Mfhiel—British House of Com- mons votes & new army of 1,000,000 men. Twice Told Tales %-—The British Lattleship Bulwark destroyed by explosion in Medway river—Germans break through Russian circle near Lodz. | DECEMBER. \ 1-German Reichstag votes new credit of | $1,200 0~King George Inspects the army in Flanders 2—Austriane take Pelgrade by storm-—General De Wet ptured. f—Germans occupy Lods. 8-The German squadron under Rear Ad- miral von Spree is attacked off the Falkiand islands by a British fleet under Admiral Sturdee. | and the crulsers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Lelp- #1g and Nurnberg are sunk. 9—French government returnes to Parls. | 12—New York Stock exchange reopens, | 14~The Breelau bombards Sevastopol | 15—-Austrians evacuate Belgrade. | 2—French Chamber votes war credit of | $1,700,000,000. %-British naval and aerial rald against Cux- | haven—Itallan marines occupy Avlona—German offensive in Central Poland halted.. 2%-—French occupy 8t. George, near Nleuport 1915, JANUARY. 1-British battleship Formidable sunk in the channel, 3—-French capture Steinbach—Russiana win over Turke in the Caucasus—Russians overran Bukowina. 4—London Stock exchange reopens under re- strictions. 13—Turks occupy Tabriz. 14-—French driven back across Aisne river, east of Solssons, after a week's battle, 24—-Naval tattle in North Rea, the German armored cruiser Bluecher sunk. %-Russians occupy Tabriz—German sub- marine sinks five British merchantmen !n the Irish Sea. FEBRUARY. 4—~Germany declares closed war zone shipping on British coast and blockade French coast—Austrians evacuate Tarnow. 10-Russlans victorious in Carpathians, de teated in Bast Prussia, retreat across frontier— nited States protests German war zone order, and also sends note to Great Britain, 15—Germans occupy Plock and Blelsk {n Po- tand. 18—Austrlans occupy Czernowitz—England suspends traffice with continent—German sub- marine ‘“blockade” of Great Britain begins. 24—Russians driven from Bukowina. 25—Allled fleets sllence outer Dardanelles forts. for of MAROCH. 1~Fngland places embargo destined for Germany. 14-The Dresden sunk near island of Juan Fernandesz. 18—Three allied battleships sunk in heavy bombardment of Dardanelles. 22—Przemys| surrenders to the Russians, 2%—German submarine sinks the passenger steamship Falaba, with loss of lite, 31—Ruesians penetrate Dukla Pass and enter Hungary. on supplles APRIL. 14—Russians at Satropko, twenty miles in- side Hungary—Allled troops land in Turkey. 17—British victory at Hill ®. 18—Russians evacuate Tarnow. 2%—Allied forces landed on both shores of Dardanelles. 30—Germans shell Dunkirk. American tank ship Guiflight torpedoed off Scilly islands, MAY, 4—Triple alllance treaty denounced by Ttalv. 7—The Lusitania sunk with loss of nearly 1,200 lves. 13—President Wilson sends Lusitania protest to Germany. 19-—-Asquith announces reorganization of Brit- ish cabinet. 23—Italy declares war upon Austria. %—Ttalian army moves against Trieste and Trent—The steamship Nebraskan damaged off Irish coast—The British battleship Triumph tor- pedoed in the Dardanelles. 0—German reply to American note on the Lusitania recelved. 81-Zeppelins drop bombs in London. JUNE, —Austro-Germans reoccupy Przemysl, 7~-W. J. Bryan, secretary of state, resigns owing to differences with president on note to Germany. { S—Austrians capture Stanislau—Italians oc. cupy Monfalcone. 11—Second Lusitania note to Germany maae public. 13—General Mackensen breaks Russian line east of Przemysl. 1—British House of Commons votes war credit of $1,250,000,000, making a total of $4- 110,000,000, 19—Germans capture Rawa Ruska, in Galicia. 2—Austrians enter Lemberg—General Do Wet sentenced to six years for high treason. JULY, 7—An Itallan armored cruiser is sunk in the Adriatic by an Austrian submarine. 8—Last German forces in South Africa sur- render to General Botha—Russians surprise Austrians under Archduke Joseph Ferdinand and take 16,000 prisoners—The German reply to the second Lusitania note is handed to the American ambassador In Berlin. #—United Btates government takes charge of Sayville wireless plant. Second German an- swer to Lusitania note, signed and transmitted by Von Jagow. 13—Subscription to new British war loan ag~ Bregates $3,000,000,000. lé~Germans advance In Argonne. 15—Germany apologizes for submarine attack on American steamer Nebraskan. 17—Cunard liner Orduna arriving at New York reports attempting torpedoing by German submarine on July 9. 19—-Italian crulser Guiseppe Garibaldl sunk | by Austrian submarine in Adriatic. H 23—Third American note on Lusitania ond | submarine warfare transmitted to Germany. 24-Investment of Warsaw by the Germlnl| In progress, | | Editorial Siftings [ | some sand In my Little Willle was sitting on the front porch of the happy home one Saturday afternoon, when reference was made to the Bunday dinner owlay. “I was thinking about chicken,” remarked mother, and then, turning to little Willle, queried: Do you think you could eat some chioken tomorrow, Willie?" “Could 17" responded Willle, with a great yearning expression. “You just bet a hundred on It!"” “All right, then,” smiled mother. ‘“We'll make it chicken. What would you Hke it stuffed with?" “Another chicken,” was the prompt rejoinder of Uttle Willie.—Philadelphia Telegraph. A Farewell Tip. Just as tve Trishmen were In the middle of a large field, acco.uing to Judge Kavanagh, one of them turned and saw an angry bull making for them he passed his anxious friend for the third time, he shouted: “Tell my missus my Insurance policy in wmy bottom drawer. This is my Jast tide round."—Phile. delphia Ledger. . Boston Transcriot: Bryan doubtless would have been & financisl success as & preacher or an actor, but after all, aren't the church and stage getting slammed hard enough as it is? Now York Post: With the coining of the word jitneur” to denominate the driver of the jitney bus, there should no longer be any curbing the demand that this vehicle must go. Washington Post: “Undoubtedly the War is breeding a great many mental abnormaities,” writes Dr. Britton D. Springfield Republican: Three attempts within a year to blow up public bulldings In New York City and four bomb out- rages besides are counted up by the po- Mee. It is rather remarkable that com- paratively little damage was done by all the attempts put together. The taurder- Ous crank iy after all a rather rare in- dividual |lend me a_hundred dollars on my face, MIRTHFUL REMARKS. would you? Certainly,” said_the cashier, with a pleasant smile Delighted if you will ‘What made you distrust that Italian| refu 1 thought he told a straight| stor and let me lock it the rest of our cols leave your face here up in the safe with It sounded so, but when I questioned | Iateral.”"—New York Times. him as to his home and occupation, he| por ) sald he was a street cleaner in Venice.” ‘Bee here, Mr. Jorkine, you dog has Just_bitten me.” “Very kind of you to tell me, Mr. Spriges, I'll send for the doctor at once.” Baltimore American The Widow—Weil, why don't you kiss me? lvtnc;‘mr 1 gon't want the doetor; 1 ashful Youth—I would, o want damuge: Bashtul Youth—1 would, nly 1 have| WADL Gemuges. | i Sorisgs. 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