Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 29, 1915, Page 4

THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JUI THE OMAHA DAILY BEE —— e - - s FOUNDED BY EDWARD Rf_)QEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing (‘nm_nnny Proprietor. BEE BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH Entered at Omahs postoffice as second-class matter, TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION. y nrrl;r By mail per month. per year. 660, 8. 233 Sunday.. aily Stnout Sunda: } vening and Sunday .. 0 ' ening_without Sund: 00 : inday Bee only. . 200........ 00 : notice of change of address or complaints of | {fregularity fa delivery to Omaha Bue, Circulation i partment. REMTIT ) ANCR. Only two- , Memit by draft, express or postal order. cent stamps recelved in payment small ae- oounts Personal checks, except on Omaha and eastern exchange, not accepted. CORRESPONDENCE, communications relating to news and edl- m&n to Omaha Bee, Jammu Department. JUNE OIRCULATION, 53,646 Btate of Nebraska, County of Douglas, sa: Dwight Willjams, circulation manager of The Bee Publish: ng company, being duly sworn, says that the verage circulation for the month of June, 1915, was DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Cireulation Manager, il g | .'.am. o a.h r'l_\v, rn-l-'{l.uo and sworn to before mo, of Jul R})BERT ’anm Notary Public. _—_—mm Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee malied to them, Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. July 29 : Thought foc the Day ! — — ——— We always deafen our conscience and say **Look areund; others are no better than we. "' — Auerbgch. If the weather man is not careful he will be ju danger of showing a permanent precipitation “excess.” — Won't someone please answer our riddle, Why is a surety company bond for a custodian lof public money? Sse— Eastland moving pictures are barred in Chi- cago “as commercializing a calamity.” It's dif- ferent in other cities. —— Up in Alaska folks are suffering from drouth and 100-in-the-shade heat. This old world has surely been turned topsy-turvy. m— Now that Omaha has a larger navy league, we will all have to boost for a fleet of prairie R schooners for the “Big Muddy.” S——— ~ Looks as if those army and navy appropria- tion bills would next time just slide through congress on their 6wn momentum. L) —— 5 . South Omaha does not want to give up fits | ' sub-treasury, which is perfectly ' natural, but . sUll better than in Dundee, where the treasurer did not want to give up the money. S—— - Nothing of the fault whatever lles at the door of the federal officlals, insists Secretary Redfield—but he will at once order an over- ‘hauling of the negligent steamboat inspection, Just to make sure. — For each genuine order for war supplies in this country Wall street works a dozen mythical orders on the stock gambling crowd. The game ‘a8 played by the professionals lends vitality to the Barnum motto, “Get the money, honestly it you can, but get the money." S—— ¥ But if the Omaha water plant is piling up &mmu-mmu‘mnm are far too high. Even at 20 cents a thou- r‘ gallons, Omaha water users are paying - 83 1-8 per cent more than Lincoln water users, ~ ‘who get theirs for 15 cents a thousand gallons. . . Em———— It is gratifying to know that that physical | & vValuation job over n York has been nailed down £ for an Omaba man despite the provision in our children right, and whose remain uncorrected, and perhaps uncor- —— magine If an Omaha city treasurer or a Nebraska state treasurer were found to have de- | faulted and decamped and the authorities sitting § like do-nothings for several weeks while ? That hole in the Dundee treas- - is Behind the British Move? The unusual diplomatic move of rl Grey in withdrawing a note already submitted in connection with the shipping controversy pend- ing between the United States and Great Britain indicates & probable change in attitude of the Fritish government. At any rate, the terms of its argument in support of the order in council will very likely be modified. It has even been suggested, prior to the announcement by Earl Grey that a substitute note was coming, that the Allles might withdraw the order in council, which has given rise to the complications. This might be a crafty strategical move for them, as it was the promulgation of that plan for ex- tending the blockade of German ports to include a constructive blockade of a ““war zone” that all but includes the oceans of the world, that ufforded the pretext for the order of Admiral von Tirpitz, which brought the submarine into action againgt commerce. Certain phrases in the third American note to Germany apply very closely to Great Britain, a fact pointed out clearly by the Manchester Guardian in an editorial dealing with the topic. The difference between the British and the Ger- man offenses in this matter relates merely to the methods employed. The United States has 80 far moved calmly and without passion in the matter, and stands firmly on established and recognized principles, Its contention is not to be befogged by technicalities nor to be obscured by the introduction of extraneous issues, and each of the belligerents will be held strictly to the points involved. The mystery that now surrounds the British position will soon be cleared up, and, if it be as some have surmised, an opening that may lead to the adjustment of sea issues, it will be very welcome, Sunk According to Rules. It now tranepires that the American steamer Leelanaw was sent to the bottom only after the German submarine captain had scrupulously observed the punctilio of visit and search, also that the ship's company was courteously treated by the captors in the matter of removing per- sonal belongings and being conveyed in safety to land. This brings any question as to the dis- posal of the vessel down to the character of ship and cargo. Flax was long ago declared to be absolute contraband by the German government, and at best will fall under the head of material that may be useful in war. For this reason the cargo was condemned. The vessel, although flying a neutral flag, was plying between enemy ports, and carrying contraband, and, therefore, was llable. The one question that remaing is the possibility of taking the ship to a port of, the intercepting power. In the case of the Frye the German government admits llability under an ancient treaty between Prussia and the United States. This point may be raised again to secure compemsation for the Leelanaw, but that ship was sunk according to the rules, S—— Fines, Licenses, Fees and Permits. According to state house advices, Treasurer Hall is undertaking to make a new ruling for the distributions of collections in this provision of the Nebraska constitution, which reads: All fines, penalties and license moneys arising under the general laws of the state shall belong and be paid over to the counties, respectively, where tho #ame may be levied or Imposed * * * (and) shall be appropriated exclusively to the use and support ot the common schools, in the respective subdivisions where the same may accrue. The state treasurer is sald to be now con- strulng this to cover moneys pald for permits issued by varicus departments of the ernment, and to purpose putting this r the temporary school fund, having made with a small item collected by the rallway com- mission for warehouse permits, This raises two very important questions— first, as to whether permits and licenses are the same, and second, if so, whether permit fees belong In the temporary school fund. We p- prehend that the treasurer will discover that all authorities define a license as distinctly differ- .ent from a permit, and that the fee for a permit s much more like the reimbursement of the ©ost of a special service, such, for example, as court foes, sheriff's rees, inspection fees, ete. The question takes on a much wider scope from the omitted part of the constitutional provision quoted, which uses identical language with ref- erence to all fines, penalties and license moneys “arising under the rules, bylaws or ordinances of citles, towns or other subdivisions less than the county. If Treasurer Hall's new departure is correct for the state, then it must apply also to every county, city, town and school distriet in the state, and completely change the accepted practice of forty years. But sholild the state treasurer uphold his position, how can he put this money into the temporary school fund when the constitution says it belongs to the district in which it “may accrue?” 1In the case of the warehouse permit money the fees are collected by the rallway com- mission presumably at Lincoln, but they accrue for permits for warehouses located in different counties. Lancaster county surely has no ex- clusive claim to these revenues, estimated to aggregate several hundred thousand dollars a year, nor can they rightfully be apportioned to all the countles on the same basis as the income from permanent school funds. Our advice is for Treasurer Hall to make sure of where he is likely to land before he goes any furthe: e —— Still in Mexico. President Wilson exemplifies his profound falth in the patience of the American people by again announcing that the policy of “watchfu) walting” in the matter of Mexico may yet safely continue. The president is supposed to be in Ppossession of facts that have not come to public notice, and, therefore, to be able to sift out the truth from the mass of loose information that is given out. However that may be, it {s an- nounced from Washington that a rigorous em- bargo may be laid on the exportation of muni- tions to Mexico, with a view to shortening the conflict by that means. The report of & confer- ence of leaders, with or without Carransa, to determine a basis for peace undoubtedly sup- porte the present attitude of the government at ..fiu\n. In the meantime, the Mexican are without food or money, their fields bave been abandoned and productive effort of every kind has been checked, while the suffer- ors sadly wait for the time when somebody will bring an end to the disorder that has wrecked I Aimed at Omaha Hastings Tribune: Omaha has been selected as the best city in the west for the location of a Ford plant, where parts of the car are to be recelved and set up for distribution. How did it happen that Ford over- looked Hastings? Lincoln Journal Desk”" Senator Hitchcock's: Omaha paper prints a satirical attack on Mr. Bryan which has for its bas's his alleged carrying off of the desk which he occupled secretary of state. According to the World-Herald this was the desk used by secretaries of state for nearly fifty vears, beginning with Feward. Incl- dentally flings are taken at Mr. Bryan's willingness to find places in the federal service for “a son, a son ‘n-law and two other relatives.” Throughout the ar- ticle runs marcastic references to the money loss suf- fered by Mr. Bryan while serving his country. It Mr, Bryan did carry off for his private use such a desk as the World-Herald says he did, the act will need explaining. The chief Interest of the article lles, however, in the conspicuous thinness of the vell of bitterness against Bryan. Senator Hitchcock is evi- dently about ready, now that Bryan fs out of office to declare open war on Bryan in place of the dis- gulsed fighting of the last threo years, Kearney Times: We never could understand why the country press, and In fact most of its readers, have had it In for Omaha. It seems to us we should all be proud of the growth and importance of our biggest eity and should give credit for the enterprising and pushing epirit that has made it what it is. From an economical standpoint we should all realize that increased values for our products are made with every Jump of Omaha In the world of trade. The same feel- ing of pride and boost should back our relations with Lincoln. It 1s hoped some near day will find our western legislators not so narrowly lined up as to oppose every move desired by the leaders from our two big cities, Lincoln Star: A boy got drowned in a pool in an Omaha park the other day, and the incident awakened #0 much eriticlam that the commissioner closed the pools to boy bathers. The other boys in town will deltver the eulogy on thelr dead companion Shelton Clipper: TIf the Omaha Commercial club and the Omaha Auto club act wisely they will advise transcontinental tourists to keep on the Lincoln High- way Instead of detouring over the O-L-D route across Nebraska, The ILincoln Highway is getting more than three-fourths of the eastern traffic, but it has been learned that a strenuous effort is being made at Omaha to divert part of this travel over the Omaha- TLincoln-Denver route. The ILincoln Highway is not only the shortest and best road, but it is the only logical route for eastern tourists who wish to make good time across the state. A large numiber of autoists who were advised at Omaha to take the south route found, before going many miles, that they were not on the Lincoln Highway, and many of them encoun- tered impassable roads when they attempted to come north and get back on the Platte valley road. The citles and towns along the route whose organizations attempt to mislead the tourlsts for financial gain are getting themselves in bad with the cross-country tourists. The advertising that they recelve at the hands of autolsts from the KEast will be detrimental to the municipality that allows such work to go on. Rules for the Bathers Force at a Chicago Publio Beach, — “Don’ts’ for Men; % Don't “duck’ strange women. Don’t throw mud and sand. Don't be rough or bolsterous. See that your bathing suit is properly adjusted. Don't try to get acquainted with women who flash the “stony stare.” Be as courteous and conventional as you would be on the streets or in your own home. Don't splash water into the faces of women you don't know or who would object if you were acquainted. Don't be a “sand bather,” which means don't re- main on the beach and pose for the edification of the falr sex, and don't fifrt. “Don'ts” for Women: Don't fall to be a lady. Don't pose on the beach. Don't do anything to the men they are forbidden to do to you. Don't smile at a strange man and then expect him to be entirely conventional Don't call a life guard every time your glance meets that of a strange man. Some men are better than others. Don't get mad if a little water splashes on your hair. The best thing 18 to put your tresses under a cap. Remember you are to be judged by your own con. duct and every time you make a spectacle of yourselt it stores up trouble, Twice Told Tales Did Not Know, Himself. “What did you learn at the school?" the boss asked the fair applicant for the stenographer’'s job, I learned,” she replied, “that spelling is essentlal to @ stenographer.” The boss chuckled. “Good. Now let me hear you spell essentia The fair girl hesitated for the fraction of a second. ‘“There are three ways," she replied. “Which do you pi e And she got the job.~Cleveland Plain Dealer, Fodder tor Lions. A menagerie stopped in a little country village. Ome urchin, with more cheek than cash, thought he would like to see the animals, so he quietly pushed his head through a gap In the canvas and had a look. But the manager saw him and hauled him out. “Here, Agrippa,” he yelled to a helper, “throw this lad into the lion's cage!" R If he thought he had alarmed the youngster he was mistaken. The boy sald calmly: “Walt, mister! If ye'll let me see the show for nothing I'll get all the fattest boys in the villagé to craw! under the canvas tomorrow night!'—Wash- ington Star. Ravages. Captain Turner of the ill-fated Lusitania had a story about the ravages of seasickness that he often told of in the saloon. “A passenger,” he would begin, “approached an- other passenger and sald: " ‘We're getting up a tug-of-war between a team of married men and a team of single men. You're married, aren't you? *‘No,' the other answered. what makes me look like this. ‘T'm seasick. That's Washington Star. The Deadly 1ree. Once a man went raging into the office of an electric light company and declared that one of the comipany’s wires had killed a pet tree on his premises. “That tree,” said he, “has been standing there for twenty vears, and we regarded it as one of the family. My children played under it when they were babies, and It is assoclated with some of the pleasantest memories of my life. When it began to die we all mourned, and we could not imagine what alled it until yesterday, when I noticed that a wire was lylng right @cross a branch. My tree has been killed, and I feel a8 it murder had beén done in my house." 1/ e of iy | y Réer the title of “Mr. Bryan's | iorium by the city, et mb sugkest that | Wanted—More Comfortable Seatw. OMAHA, July 26.-To the Editor of | The Bee: With my experience at the ‘\Amnfl"rfnu concerts fresh in mind, and In view of the purchase of the Audi- fomething be done for the comfort of the audiences. The first thing the new management should do is to install some seats that are not so much like strait- fackets. Planks set across boxes would serve the purposs just as well as the so- called “chairs” in the main part of the hall. A person cannot enjoy music or anything else when distracted by such discomforts. B. 8 The Most Famous. OMAHA, July 27.~To the Editor of The Bee: Please let me contribute these verses to the discussion Not he who left the helm of state For prowees on the stump; bug-wise Bruner who pursues nall insects on the jump; Ole Brer Welsh who pulled the plug From out Jupe's water barrel, Forgettin' where he put it, ' The zrain_crops were in peril; Not P. M. Wharton, who Is first aid In tinding long lost kin; Not the author of the limerick That did the first prize win; Not the W.-H. pet senator Who keeps the home-wiros busy, 1s_the man of greatest fams we boast— Oh, no! Can't you guess who he Is "Tis that finencler who can run lis house For a week on ane small nickel And invest the remaining dimes and cents In luxuries for A. B. Mickle DOLORES. San Diego’s Kick on Los Angeles. OMAHA, July ZI.—To the Editar of The Bee: An ol friend residing at San Diego writes me as follows: “We have done fairly well with our at- tendance, but we are working against tremendous odds, as Los Angeles Is doing everything in its power to prevent any one from coming to San Diego, and if they do come, their one suggestion is to come without baggage, as our fair can be seen in two hours. It s astonishing the number of people that belleve them, as train after train come in here with people without baggage, and most of them seem to go away very indignant at the bum steer they recelved in the morth, “We have a beautiful fair, and I do not belleve it can be seen in any two hours, or two days, and we have made quite a number of friends. Our at- tendance last week was better than 80,000 people. We will clear probably $50,000 to $75,000 this month. There has been no month since the falr opened, January 1, that it has not made some money, rang- ing from $4,000 to $2,000." It would seem from this statement that the hotels, or perhaps other interests in Los Angeles, are taking the attitude of the dog in the manger with reference to the San Diego exposition. If this be true, 1 think the fact ought to be made known in order that the offenders may be scotched. J. B. HAYNES. Pal atry Proof and Disproof. SHELBY, Ia., July 28.--To the Editor of The Bee: My attention was called to the letter in The Bee written by Horace P. Holmes on palmistry and 1 should like to answer it. If he will study more closely the larger volume of “‘Cheiro’s Language of the Hand,” he will discover that that author does not claim that the “life line” alone governs life. A study of the head line and lines of health in conjunction with the “line of life” will determine date of death. I was not eriginally a bellever In palm- istry, but have not so far been able to disprove its clalms, for every hand I have examined bears testimony. INEZ CHESTNUT. Peace or Wart HASTINGS, Neb, July 2%.-To the Editor of The Bee: You will confer a great favor upon a sixty-years' resident and citizen of Nebraska If you can find space for this ‘“plece of my mind.” Looking over the headlines of any paper, which I may take up now-a-days, it strikes me that the Britons wave the rules, but no longer rule the waves. They selze vessels of the United States, of SBouth American republics, of Sweden, Denmark or any other neutral country, when loaded with cotton, copper, meat, grain, in short anything and everything they may from day to day need, or need- lessly place on their list of contraband articles; take the vessels, thelr crews, their passengers, if any, to some Eng- lish harbor, discharge the freight at some warehouse at their pleasure, keep the passengers and crews captive or lib- erate them, regardiess of the etfect upon the physical and mental condition of their victims, caused by such outrageous Violation of all international law; they promise to pay for some gr all of the goods, thus piratically taken—when? Yes, when they or their courts get ready and then—then they complain of the outrages committed by their enemies, who seem to annoy their proceedings by some submarines or Zeppelins or some other device new and unwelcome to them, late masters of the seas. If two or more men have a quarrel on the streets of any city and go to using firearms, sensible men and women will keep out of harm's way; innocent by- standers hunt cover and stay away at & respectful distance. If any get hurt, they can only blame themselves. If a man gets injured within city limits by hailstones, he cannot sue the city for Gamages; he ought to have stayed at home. Uncle Sam just now has work enough nearer home to protect the lives of American citizens, who peacefully pur- sued their legitimate business as for years past and now are robbed, starved or murdered by outlaws almost within hearing of our military officers on our own borders. Let alone such citizens who venture across the Atlantic, where eleven nations are fighting. I say “Keep away!" When the inhuman passions burm, the Peaceful are the strong. The sons and daughters of our republic will not and shall not pull the chestnuts out of the fire for the “British; we would rather, if necessary, elect another and a truly neutral president, for a “hypocrite is he that hideth to show him such as he fs and showing him to seem such as he is not." F. R, 8r. SIGNS OF PROGRESS, At the first of the year, acconding to & government estimate, there were 198. m.-h:-umnhm“-lh\lltu—. & gain in & year of about 7,922,000, “Is your daughter going to study the science of pyrograph “Taint necessary can teach her all the ple science she needs at home. —Baltimore American ‘I never thought he would be popular girls, edly saved up and ~Pittsburgh Post h She—Dancing is fine for people, don't you think? He—Yes. it exhausted Smith's wife so | that she's gone into a sanatorium for a year.—Life At an examination in a school in Cin- cinnati the teachier was so plemsed with his class that he said they could ask him any question they liked Some queries were put and unswered. Seeing one little boy in deep thought, the teacher asked for a question. The boy, with a very grave face, put this| one “If you was in a soft mud-heap up to PROPINQUITY. I'd love to be sweet sleep. dream T'a gladly cream; I'd wish to be an oak, were vou & vine Were you a lemon, 1 would be the rind: Dark sorrow would 1 be, were you a sigh Were you the ointment, then me for the fly; I'd be a waiter if you were the tips; Were you a kiss, then mine should be the were you a be the milk. were you the lips; Were you the ocean, 1 would be ita roar; T'd be an apple, if you were the core; Were you a pen, 1 then would be the Ink: I'd be a parching thirst, were you a drink; Were you a needle, 1 would be the thread: 1'd be the butter if you were the bread; | Me Simple Simon, if you were the ple; Were you a diamond, I would be the dye: Or 1 would be a muff, were you the fur; Were you a chestnut, I would be the burr; If you were Wall street, T would be New York; I'd turn into a knife, were you a fork; Were you the sunshine, 1 would be a flower; H 2 O for mine, were you a shower; Were you a drummer, I would be the drum And so it goes ad Infinitum, So all through life we'd never need to part, But journey hand in hand, and heart to heart, finu{xh of all varled forms we find in e, life, I'd rather be myself, were you my wife, ~DAVID. A $1925 Car at $1550 Chalmers Six-48 Seven - Passenger Touring Car We introduced this car at $1925. Over 10,000 of them are in active use. Without cuttlrglsthe value one iota car at $1550. The plant is working on a production we now offer four times greater than ever bef ore. Consequently we are now able to sell A Quality Car at a Quantity Price This is the best value we have ever offered and the sales for the past week the wise motor car buyers in borhood realize it. rove that is neigh- Stop in and see the car they ave all talking aboud, Stewart-Toozer Motor Co. 2048-52 Farnam St. Phone Doug. 138. - We are closing our territory now, and want good, ilve agents. Write us for particulars. CHALMERS MOTOR COMPANY, DETROIT, U. S. A, Summer Fares East! The Wabash is the short direct line from Chicago to the leasure places of the East. Take advantage of the ow summer fares via Wabash: — Round trip fares from Chicago (30 day limit) 18.35 18.35 Buffalo Niagara Falls Toronto New London, Ct. 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