Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 31, 1915, Page 6

OMAHA DAILY BEE . g POtNCI, A g K K i JUNE OIROULATION. 53,646 :i“lfllll‘ -nu.:r. 11 ,,E‘ %: "tor the month Of June, was WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. in and sworn to before utRrER, Notary Pablle. leaving the city temporarily bave The Bee mailed to them, Ad- will be changed as often as requested. for the Day fallering steps the swect midewmmer the last step of worn July. . . . . . saw one coming with his heated drows, round with wheat-straws; old young - One thing that never stands still—the mov- re business. S—— 24 imés & political puli proves unavailing 5 -4,‘- Becker, the Tammany pet. ——————— only way to have good roads Is to im- m and then keep them good. St pp— in Haitl, the consent of the governed itself simply into refusal to consent. Sm——— se Wheat operators are plainly quite con- the Dardanelles will hold out a little tiled In & Missour( B sokrs s _attention because it contains just words. It took a Missourian to R Vg B RgtE {P; 3 f ifgi i H £ THE Wall Street and the War. Reports coming from Wall street tell such activity as must give joy to the brokers, whose inecomes depend upon the exchange of stocks, Just now the “war” stocks are lead- ing In the wildest known for years, iron and steel companies es- pecially being the central figures in this un healthy activity, This is due to the anxiety of speculators to share in the sudden profit com- ing from the extensive orders placed by the Furopean governments, stimulated by the un- of supported reports of even greater requisitions | to be filled. Experienced critics of the game sseert that a general “trimming"” of the un- wary is in progress and that professional deal- ers are reaping an unexpected harvest more than making up for the time lost last winter, when the exchange was closed. Legitimate orders for iron and steel cdomestic use are reported to be Increasing, United. States Steel having unfilled orders of nearly 450,000 tons more than a month ago, while other companies are enjoying a similar prosperity. Rallroads and other heavy consum- ers of the output of the steel mills are buying needed supplies, and this will support the pres- ent boom to some extent, Another factor is the growing agitation in favor @f getting the United States ready for war, which process will ne- cessitate the purchase of large quantities of munitions, and thus add to the prosperity of the “war” factories, How much of the present agitation for “mili- tury preparednes: is due to pure patriotism, and how much of it is merely to stimulate specu- lation may never be known, but the Wall street murket is a busy place these days. Points to Be Considered. The former treasurer of Dundee, who de- camped on the eve of the Greater Omaha merger without turning over the funds sup- posed to be in his possession, h come back without waiting to be brought back. That much is in his favor, He has also arranged in the interval to talse the money necessary to square his accounts so that the city will not suffer any financial Joss through his steward- ship. That likewise is in his favor. He has a family, too, entitled to our sincere sympathy, vhich we cannot help taking into consideration. « But agide from all that the case should be treated just the same as would be&ny other cus- todian of public funds who might have run sway under similar suspiclous circumstances. Because ‘he has rich relatives or powerful friends, or belongs to a particular church, or hee been active in party politics, should cut vo figure with sworn officers charged with the eanforcement of the law——it is up to them to decide whulgr or not they have a case calling for action—if they have, to act—if not, to say so nnd clear the man from odium Japan Is Making Progress. The cabinet crisis in Japan suggests that in practical polities the empire of the Rising Sun {s making progress, as well as in other ways of western civilization, Bribery in connection with the election of & member of the Japanese Par- lament is the basis for the upheaval, one of the ministers of the government being accused of accepting s handsome bonus for sidetracking the oppopent of a friend. This disclosure was nat- urally attended by something of a popular out- cry, with a demand for the retirement of the offending cablnet officer. Enough of the samu- ral spirit prevails, however, to support Premier Okuma in the idea that what affects one mem- ber of the cabinet affects all, and so he and his. associates lald down their offices in a body. For the present the outcome is undeiermined, but the illustration of how happily the Japanese are blending oriental and occidental methods of po- litieal pmd_un is quite edffying. L e——— Get the Faots First. A dispute between authority of the United States and the city ot Chicago is developing in ‘the proceedings in connection with the Eastland disaster, which can only serve to give color to ‘the suspicion that some effort to gloss over re- sponsibility fs under way. The first effort ought to be to get at the exact facts, In doing this the federal and city government can easily co-oper- ate. Nothing that is essential to the full dis- closure of everything connected with the horror should be left under cover, After the facts are established, responsibility may be fixed. On the surface it looks as it there were blame enough for all, but the truth in connection with the cir cumstances of the wreck must be made known before culpability is finally determined. —— Wiping Out the Ward. The re-arrangement of the city into twelve “wards,” taking in the annexed area, reminds us that this redistricting i{s practically meaning- less and almost uunecessary, because with the repeated changes in our machinery of govern- ment the ward has been wiped out so far as serving any purpose useful or otherwise, There was & time when the ward was a dis- tinet area of local government in Omaha as in niost citles—when we had ward councilmen, ward assessors, six justice courts to correspond with the number of wards and later ward repre- sentation in the School board. The importance of the ward was further accentuated by the fact that, before the direct primaries, it was the unit of apportionment for convention delegates and campaign of speculation | for | ] | Budapest, see the sullenly with refugees. The War and the Jews Tsrael Eangwill in the Metropolitan HERE 18 no luck for Israel,” individual Jews are fortunate, says the Talmud frequently shrewd and but as a people Isrnel Is, In his own ex- | pressive 1diom, a Bchlemibl, a hapless ne'er-do-well Twenty centurfes of wandering find him concentrated precisely in the valley of Armageddon. And hefe in & hundred places he must again grasp the Wanderer's staff.” Symbolic is the figure of the chief rabbi of Serbla wandering across Europe to beg for his pititul flock. A workhouse and a hotel at London are con- Kested with Belgian Jews. Forty ravaged towns have poured their Ghettos into Warsaw. Prague, Vienna, A census taken of 4,653 Jews who fled into Alexandria showed subjects of England, France, Russia, S8pain, America, Turkey, Persia, Roumania, Italy, Greece and Serbia, while another thousand had already wandered farther ~to other Egyptian cities, to America, Australia, South Africa, Russia. The only Important section of Jewry that has escaped the war is that which has poured itself into the American melting pot. And not only are ten of the thirteen milllons of Jewry in the Buropean cockpit; nearly 3,000,000 are at the fiercest center of flghting—in Poland. Poland—be It German, Russian or Austrian Po- land—is pre-eminently the home of Jewry, and Poland even more than Belgium has been the heart of hell For two of the powers that combined to dismember it are now fighting the third across its fragmentas, and Jewish populations are at their thickesat along (hose 500 miles of border country through which Russia Invades st Prussian Poland or Galiclan Poland, Germany hacks its way toward Warsaw, or Austria hurls its counter attacks, The accident of a series of peculiarly wise and tolerant monarchs opened Poland to a large volume of Jewish immigration and even gave its Jews a measure of autonomy and dignity. They were the recognized providers of an urban and Industrial population to a mainly agrioultural people. Thus were they collected for the holocaust of today. For, of course, the partition of Poland left them stiil pullulating, whether In Prussian Danzig, Ru Warsaw or Austrian Lemberg. And not only have they duplicated the tragedy of the Poles in having to fight what is prastically a civil war, not only have they suffered almost equally in the ruin of Poland #0 polgnantly described by Paderewski, in the burn- ings, bombardings, pillagings, tramplings, not only haVe they shared In the miseries of towns taken and retaken by the rival armies, but they have been ac. cused hysterically or craftily hefore both belligerents of esplonage or treachery, and even of pols wells, and crucified by both. Hundreds ha ghot, knouted, hanged, imprisoned as hostages; women have been outraged, whole populations have fled, some before the enemy, many hounded out by thelr own military authorities, wandering—but not into the wide world. Into the towns outside the Pale they might not escape—thess were not open even to the wounded soldier. In the long history of the martyr- people there is no ghastlier chapter. » At the outbreak of the war an excited English- woman, hearing that the Cologne Gazette, sald to be run by Jews, was abusing England, wrote to me, foaming at the quill, demanding that the Jews should stop the paper. That the Jews do not exist, or that an English Jew could not possibly interfere with the patriotic journallsm of a German subject, nay, that the abuse in the Cologne Gazette was actually a proof of Jewish loyality, did not occur to the worthy woman. Yet the briefest examination of the faci would have shown her that the Jews merely reflect their envirofiment, if with & stronger tinge of color due to thelr more vivid temperament, their gratitude and attachment to thelr havens and fatherlands, and their anxiety to prove themselves more patriotic than the patriots. It is but rarely that a Jew makes the faintest criticlsm of his country in war-fever, and when he does 50, he is disavowed by his community and its press. For the Jew his country can do no ‘wrong. ‘Wherever we turm, therefore, we find the Jew prominently patriotio. In England the late Lord Rothschild presided over the Red Cross fund, and the lord chief justice is understood to have saved the financial situation not only for England, but for al ite allles. In Germany Herr Ballin, the Jew who ra- fused the baptismal path to preferment, the creator of the mercantile marine, and now the organizer of the national food-supply, stands as the kalser's friend, interpreter and henchman, while Maximillan Harden bragenly volces the gospel of Prussianism, and Ernst Lissauer—a Jew converted to the religion of love— sings “The Song of Hate' In France, Dreyfus—a more Christian Jew albeit unbaptized—his charge of a battery to the north of Paris, while General Hey- mann, grand officer of the Legion of Homor, com- mands an army corps, In Turkey, the raclally Jewisn Enver Bey is the ruling spirit, having defeated the Jewish Djavid Bey, who was for alllance with France, while Italy, on the contrary, has joined the allles through the Influence of Baren Sonnino, the son of Jew. The military hospitals of Turkey are all under the direction of the Austrian Jew, Hecker. In Hun. gary it is the Jews who, with the Magyars, are the brains of the nation. Belglum has sent seversl thou. sa wa to the colors and at & moment when Bel- glum's fate hangs vpon England, has entrusted its interests at the Court of 8t. James to a Jewish mini. ster, Mr, Hymans. Twenty thousand Jewa are fight- ing for the British empire, 60,000 for the German, a 170,000 for the Austro-Hungarian, and 30000 for the Russian. Two thousand five hundred Jews fight for Serbla. Wven from Morocco and Tripoll come Jewish troops—they number 20 per cent of the Zouaves. From Australla, New Zealand, from Canada, Bouth Africa, from every possession and dependency, stream Jewish soldiers or sallors. Even the little contingent from Rhodesia had Jews and the first British sol dler to fall In German southwest Afriea was Ben Rabinson, a famous athlete. In Buluwayo half a company of reserves is composed of Jews. - ‘When Joseph Ch@mberlain offered the Zionists a plateau in East Africa, the half-dozen local Britons held a “mass meeting' of protest. Yet today, though the offer was rejected of the Zionists, fifty Jewish volunteers—among them Captain Blumenthal, of the artillery, and Ileutenant Eckstein, of the Mounted Rifles—are serving in the defemse force enlisted at Nairobl. Letters from British Jews published in a single number of the Jewish World, taken at random, reveal the writers as with the Australian fighting force In Egypt, with the Japanese at the taking of Tsaing-Tau, with the grand fleet in the North Sea, while the killed and wounded in the same iasue range over almost every British regiment. from the historic Black Watch, Grenadier Guards or King's Own Scoteh Borderers down to the latest Middlesex and Man- chester creations. One distingulshed family alone— the Splelmanns—boasts thirty-five members with the forces. A letter of thanks from the king has pub. lished the fact that an obscure Jew in a Londun suburb has flve sons at the front. “The Jewish bravery astonished us all.’’ said the vice governor of Kovno, and, indeed, the hercism of the Russian Jew has become a household word. More than 30 privates—they cannot be officers—have been accorded the Order of St Geor§e. Omne Jew, brought down a German aeroplane, was awarded all four degrees of the order at once. In Easland Lieute - nant de Pass won the Victoria Cross ror carryiog s wounded whan out of heavy fire, and perished a fo: BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1915. | The Hees 7 Kind of Paper that Helps Omaha. BAR HARBOR, Me., July 21.—To tha Editor of The Bee: Please send to me st my summer address a copy of The Omaha Bee dally—as long as the enclosed sub- scription will carry it 1 read your paper recently on & west- ern trip and found it full of the right epirit and far more interesting by far than any of the westorn papers. R. A. Why Not Consult the Artistat OMAHA, July 3.—To the Editor of The Bee. The object of the “Friends of Art” fs most commendable. We hope that it will be productive of good results, but what one of thess men in their various lines knows intimately the subject: they are fackling? If any of these estimable gentlemen desired to purchase a plano would they take implicitly the word of the plano dealer, of woulq they rather rely bn the word of some musitian? In other words, it seems to me that the whole trouble in art affairs in this city is that the artiets are not consulted. The average individual rélies on his own likes and disiikes. He cAn not séé that the artist, who is“making a life study of painting, is & far better judge of the lasting quality of paint and can tell the difterence between good and bad art, and is perhaps Letter able to pass upon pos- sibla purchases, Take for example & painting that has a rough, porous sur- face—as an investment it would be poor, because of the Impossibllity of cleansing or restoring it. It's value would be lost and In years to come the purchase would be nothing Lut dinginesa Then, too, the average arl dealer knows practically nothing about painting except names and commercil values—also commissions. fhe suggestion I would make is—and 1 make it feeling that every Omaha citi- 2en . should have the welfars of public purchases at heart—is that the “Friends of Art” eppoint an advisory! board of artists, Let these artists map out what artists it would be advisable to have paintings of, deal direct with the artist and save the urt deAler's commission. ) DOANE POWELL. Wherein Would We Gain? OMAHA, July 9.—~To the Editor of The Beé: I cannot agres with Mayor Dahl- man in his determination to send Dundee Treasurer B, H. Westerfleld ‘“over the road.’ Whereln would the city of Omaha, or even the general principles of honor profit by such proceedings? I fall to wee. Grant everything. For the sake of the question, grant that Mr. Westerfield's original intention was criminal. Grant that he stole the money with criminal in- tent, and that he deliberately tried to cover up his tracks. I am not inclined to believe that, but let us grant, and still what satisfaction would there be to any man or to this community in sending him to the penitentiary, were that even possible? I believe that would be making a mighty poor use of a man who, it rightly treated, ocould prove a/ good citigen. 1 have a philosophy which makes me feel that whenever,a man treads his weary way to vruof there is a sense in ‘which we all go with him. None shall bear his punishment or his griefs alone. All of mankind is involved. That is why all the world, and every citizen of the world, is a sufferer through the European ‘War. No. When Mr. Westerfield pays over the money, let us wipe the slate clean. Then forget it L. J. QUINBY. How Often Would We y Belglh T OMAHA, July %.—To the Editor of The Bee: Wouldn't you think a man big enough to run & business ltke Wana- makers would have a little common sense? Or at least have friends who would prevent his making an ass of him- selt in public. Now, Germany doesn't own Belgium t, and probably never will. But the idea :: us paying Germany $100,000,000 for Bel- glum and then turning the country back to Belglum! Who would prevent the Germans from taking it again? THOMAS MATHEWSON. Wooster Talks Out in Meeting. SILVER CREEK, Neb, July %.-To the Editor of The Bee: Instéad of at- tempting to reply in a general way to my letters wherein I undertook to show that President Wilson was all wrong in his controversy with Germany or o any essen- tial part of it, Mr. John ‘Rutherford de- nles that England had “paralysed Amer- ichn' Garamerce,” as I'stated in effect, and indulges in invidious personal reflections, whieh, in my opinion, have no business whatever in a newspaper disoussion of publi¢ questions. This thing of abusing an opporient one feels himself unable to re- fute 1s a vory old trick and a very un- worthy thing to do, I am a private citi- zen, not seeking public preféerment and whether T possess the qualities of states- manship is none of the public's concern. But we have a perfect right to criticise the acts of our public officials and to coriider thelr persomal qualifications for thee offices they may hold. And so I haye been free in the expresslon of my opinion that Wilson In any proper sense is not a statesman, and I think I have given very substantial reasors therefor. He 18 not only not himself a first class man, but has not the good sense to sur- wihd himselt with such, not now having abd never having had a first class man in pls cabinet. But that makes little dif- ference, since he is his own prime min- ister—his own sole counsellor, replenish- ing his store of wisdom and 'fortifying his judgment from games of goif, with the’ result that in our boasted free Amer- ica we now have a more despotic gov- ernment than that of any othér civilized country. Whether or not American ‘commerce has been actually paralysed by the Brit- ish 'obders-in-council, is hot pertinent to t discussion. The fact is that those in-council were directed against ree, either difectly or imdirect with Germany and Austria. - While fn this war my sympathies are whally with and heg -allies, 1 believe in giving Germany and her allies & strietly square deal, This Wilson is T F Fs ! ing he himself ofdered an attack on Vera | lines, next year I am going to proposs Crus, with the result that nineteen Amer- fcans and 30 Mexicans were killed? While posing as an apostle of peace, Wilson, both as to Mexico and Europe, Is needlessly doing the very things to drive us into war and is n now planning the bullding up of & great war establishment, the legitimate effect of which would be to keep us under the heel of militarism and more than ever under the heel of capitalism for generations to come. Tt is high time that the great common people took matters into their own hands and refused to let a false sense of patriotism blind their eves to the fact that a self-constituted “leader” is even now under speclous pretenses leading them into the broad road to destruction. CHARLES WOOSTER. School Congestion Then OMAHA, July 80,—To the K Bee: Our, new school board of business men are certainly making good their pre-election reputation of being ocon- servative. This characteristic is somé- times 8o well developed that nothing is accomplished, If there was great need of additional school facilities, such as to endanger the lives of puplls and teachets, #ix months ago, we would like to inquire what our board of conservative business men have done to relleve the situation? There seems to be nothing visible to the naked eye and the opening day of the school year is only six weeks away. Is the need any less than six months ago? ! Do the new board members hesitate on ac- count of the price of sites which have been offered or of te= price of building material and labor? Surely real estate values will not go down, nor is there any prospect of decrease in the value of labor and material. Caution is commend- able, but with expedition and progress is more appreciated. If the task is too burdensome, o the responsiblity too great for our new Board, perchance they might be encourageq ‘‘to get a move" by con- ferring with the former members of the board, who at least had the reputation of doing things, The people who voted the $1,000,000 In bonds wowld like to be taken into confidence, at least. BOND VOTER. Liberty Not a Mere Symbol. OMAHA, July 30.—To the Rditor of The Bee: The transcontinental passage of the Liberty Bell in thess troublous times should incite a more comprehensive and defensive temper in our countrymen in the political development of modern libery. And, as we rejoice in the liberty We now possess, let us not be unmindful of those enemies of the republic within its ry domalin, eager to grasp the bell that jtolls the death knell of all human freedom. Let us then seek to purge the nation of every political, re- ligious and economic dogma which is com- trary to the teachings of its established freedom, and hold in odious ostracism he who dares to prociaim them. The Lib- erty Bell is the emblem of how omnip- potent 18 a people’s power when deter- mined to bq free. To Americank it should be the sacred symbol of the political ana religious freedom of yesterday, today and tomorrow of the nation. A freedom ways to be guarded in the passion of its inherent historic utterance, “Give me liberty or give me death.” To the stranger coming from other lands to receive the bl ngs it represents, it should cause American freedom to shine the brightest in contrast with the in- tolerable conditions of the down-trodden of those lands. To the world it should be e most potential vindication of the religion, morality and political and soclal order of the great Anmerican republic. Because the significance of the great- ness of the American republic, the i~ luminating testimony of history and con- temporaneous opinion all attest how logical and natural is the course of events in natural life when a people are let along to work out a trimphant destiny. J. BRAXTON GARLAND, LINES TO A SMILE. “Johnny, how 64d you hurt your hand? I mope you haven't been fighting again.” “Willie Jones called me a !lar, mother, an' then he hit me on the fist with his teeth.”—J dfe. “I have great influence with the femi- nine contingent, and as they are not conducting their campaign on proper | to the women—" “You don't have to. Ohicago Post 1U's leap year.~— you get tired of having nothing to do!" echoed Mr. Cumrox ! had & real rest since 1 was doin' regular work. What I want is an elght-hour law to regulate this round of mother and the girls have got me Washington Star. Alice (Just engaged)—What do you think Jack said to me last night? That If he had to choose either me or $10,000, he wouldn't look at the money. "ell?hfiillih loyal | fellow! * Wouldn't & to risi e temptation, I suppose.— Boston Transcript 3 A BYWAY. Margaret L. Ashley, in Harper's Magasine. The highway marches sturdily to market- town and mill, But I woul: 'X‘"d u little road that loiters up a A little vagrant, woodland road, gray-rib- honed through the green, - Where berry brambles bar the way and orchard elders lean. The highway is the world's way, but I would drop hehind To follow little luring paths that only lag- gards find: The challenge of the bandit weeds, the tiit with startied bees— What can the dusty highway give for tourneyings like these? The highway is the sun's way, and fol- lows east to west, But there are yellow, vagrant beams that love my road the best— That_linger down the weedy ways whers lady's-lace Is epread, Or slant through shady orchard paths and tint the tree trunks red. The highway, the highway!—you follow where it calls; I watch you through a leafy screen from crumbling orchard walls— . I wait and smile among the greem and know that by and by We'll ‘lure you back through dust and dew—my littlo road and I! CHILD ITCHED AND SCRATCHED Until Scale Came Off Eruption On lhplu. Gone in Two Weeks. HEALED BY CUTICURA SOAP AND OINTMENT ““The first T noticed of the trouble was & few small pimples that came out on my What About Your Future? WHY NOT ENGAGH IN AN HONORABLE AND LUCRATIVE PROFES- SION AND ONB OF HELPFULNESS? 1t mankind 1" Thirdly, th Is the question of availabiiity or accensibility. 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