Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 4, 1915, Page 4

i 1 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. BEE BUILDING, FARNAM AND BE\'FZNTEENTII Entered at Omahs postoffice as second-class matter. | Rl o ettt bttt TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION By carrier By mall per year. and_ Sunday. " ily without Sun ming and Sunday ... nday Bee only... 0c. 0 Bend hotice Cof change of address or complainta of frregularity in delivery to Omaha Bee, Circulation Department. " RIMH'TAN(‘E‘_ o oy # Remit draft, express or postal order. ly two- cent stamps Fecelved in ‘payment of small ao- counts. Personal checks, except on Omaha and eastern exchange, not accepted. Chics New ork—Room 1106, 3% B8t Louls—-58 New Bank of Commerce. ‘Washington—7% Fourteenth 8t., N. W. CORRESPONDENCH, P ‘Address communications relating to news and e:fll‘. matter to Omaha Bee, torial Department. JUNE OIROULATION. 53,64 State of Nebraska, County of Douglas, #s: ht Willlams, circulation manager Bes hing company, being duly sworn, says that the verage cireulation for the month of Juna, 1915, was 46, DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Cireulation Manager. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before 24 A of J ,_ 1915, ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Publie. Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them, Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. August 4 ey Thought for the Day 1 am as poor as Job, my Lord, but nel one- half .0 patient,— Shakespeare. . For the next move In Mexico, the A, B. C, combination will take on the rest of the alpha- bet. —_— Hardly typical outing weather, but, still, bet- ter than the kind down east that produces heat prostrations. Yes, and Secretary Redfield could retire from the cabinet, and not be missed any more than Secretary Bryan. Now that the office of coroner is to be abol- ished in this county at the end of the present incumbent’s term, the job is just beginning to get good. , EEEe——— Two Women have entered the lists In Kan- sas for the United States senatorship race to be run in 1918, That's the early bird in politics with h vengeance. . Smp——— “Not much old corn held over from last year's crop.” What's the use when it can be so easily colned into the cash that pays off mortgages and buys automobiles? ' .The colonel will continue to enroll himself as & bullmooser, but he wants it distinctly un- derstood that he has no word of blame for those who have re-enlisted under the republican ban- ner because it alo romises real results. —— The state board of assessment is entitled _ try to cover up anything where the loss of a thousand innocent lves is involved? 1If the steamboat inspectors are culpable, let them Proposed Joint Action on Mexico. The proposal for a concerted movement of American governments to restore order in Mexico | ir a renewal of the policy suggested many months ago. Before the landing of American forces at Vera Cruz it had been urged that an expedition- ary force, similar to that which was sent once to Peking, be dispatched to Mexico, a proceeding which undoubtedly would have stabilized condi- | tions there long ago. Developments abroad drew European attention away from Mexican affairs, while “watchful waiting” hesitated to take the responsibility of intervention. If the plan now can have the support of American powers, it will very likely be put into effect. It means that the president’s personal do-nothing attitude is to be abandoned for a more vigorous and do some- thing policy, but the step will be in the inferest of humanity. It has been proved that the ban- dits and outlaws who have ravaged Mexico will not give over their forays because of moral euasion, and that something else is needed. | | { | | | Blockade of Neutral Ports. Great Britain’s latest note in the controversy over the right to use the seas for carrying on neutral commerce is no more responsive to the contention of the United States than has been either of the German notes on the same topic. In some ways it breathes the spirit of “Rule Britannia,” and “not a flag but by permission waves,” though the case is not so bluntly put. Great Britain assumes the right not only to in- terrupt commerce of an enemy, either in or out- bound, but to blockade a neutral port to carry out this policy. That the blockade of enemy ports is permissible can not be gainsald, but the rest of the British contention is open to the objection that it ignores the rights of neutrals at almost every point. | First of all, a blockade to be legal must be effective. This means the presence on station at all times of a sufficient number of ships of war to prevent effectually commerce being carried on with that port. It does not mean a constructive Llockade, or a paper blockade like the proclama- tion of a “war zone” to include the high seas, with warning to neutrals to keep out, The United States has decl'ned to recognize the legality of eny constructive blockade, and has specifically refused to consider the North Sea closed to neu- tral commerce, Great Britain has not under- taken to establish a de facto blockade of the Dutch or Scandinavian ports, but has been con- tent to intercept on the high seas vessels ply- ing between such ports and the United States, It is against this practice the United States gov- crnment most earnestly protests, both for itself and for all neutrals. Special pleading in support of the policy that is being followed under the order In council is not likely to change the position of the United States, which rests squarely on accepted princi- ples of international law, Pretext or Necessity? Is the suddenly developed demand that Omaha expend a large sum of money for in- stalling & “modern” fire alarm system a pretext to justify high insurance rates, or a real neces- sity In the general matter of fire protection? Has it been shown that any serious fire loss here is traceable to delay in notifying the fire department of its outbreak? For many years fire insurance ‘‘experts” have pointed out one deficlency after another in Omaha's equipment for preveniing or combatting fire. Money has been spent to improve water service, to equip and maintain a larger fire fighting force, and for other purposes, and each time one alleged defect has been remedied, something else has been demanded. Omaha has patiently tried to meet all reasonable requirements in hope that its fire risk would be placed somewhere below the present basis for charging exorbitant pre- miums, but sometimes the property-holders are inclined to wonder if the end will ever be reached, If we put in the new alarm system, will we geot lower fire rats ———— Live Stock and Quarantine Rules. The conference of state sanitary officers and live stock men in Omaha is one of the most im- portant in the history of the live stock industry. It opens the way for an efficient central control of sanitary conditions, which will be of untold value in preventing as well as combatting disease. The farmers are the ones most directly oon- cerned in this movement, which has the sup- port of the officials of the four greatest cattle snd hog producing states of the union. Hitherto, the spread of contagious disease among animals has been unchecked in a very large degree be- cause of lack of properly co-ordinated authority to meet the situation. When the states can act ‘with the federal government in concerted effort to uproot the various plagues that affect the farm animals as well as the larger herds or droves, the effect will be more immediately felt and the benefit to the growers will be the more direct. Prevention of the spread of the foot and mouth disease last winter shows what intelligent co-operation hetween the authorities ecan do, while the prevalence of hog cholera Is an ex- ample of the result of individual or state effort at checking disease. State rights may well be subordinate to federal control here. — The Nebraska National Guard. If, as outlined by the president and his ad- visers, we are to embark on a comprehensive scheme of preparation for national defense, it % essential that our young men be trained in the routine of military service. The United States army offers the best known means for this training, for it is admitted that the American soldier excels any in the world. But we are not mutomunm.bumunsmy. As an alternative to enlistment in the regular army, the National Guard must be developed. In Nebraska this branch of the public service has languished, because of indifference of the legis- lators to its needs, but it has really accomplished creditable results within its limited resources. The National Guard is more than ever a school for tralning young men in the things that @re necessary to know if they have to go to war, and its work is done so as to interfere very little with the usual vocation of its members. Ne- braska bas a war record to be proud of, and should it ever be calied upon, will be found ready to justify the words of General Hale, uttered when he saw the gallant Stotsenburg lead bis regiment on the charge from which he uever returned. We do not seek war, but if we must be prepared for war, in no better way can this be done than by fostering the National Guard. kd ) £ <ialive SARS SIS TS i Aimed at Omaha Sidney Telegraph: “Greater Omaha,’ a title now roalized as the result of years of effort by progressive citizens of the state's metropolls, appears to have in spired a desire for advancement which if persisted in cannot fail to have good results. There are sound reu- #ons why Omaha should make more rapid progress than it has in the past. There is a rich agricuRural region tributary to it, its rallroad facilities are ample, and it is a desirable residence city, having every re- quirement for the convenience and comfort of its p ple, together with a healthful climate. Greater Oms ought to have a steady and substantinl growth from now on and will have if its people show the right en- terprise Beatrice Express: A number of the residents of Omaha have commenced injunction proceedings to pre- vent the building of the “Billy’’ Sunday tabernacle at Fourteenth street and Capitol avenue, alleging that it will be a nulsance and a fire menace. This action on the part of the aforesald residents of Jim Dahiman's town will undoubtedly lead the ex-base player (o change his previous opinion that Omaha is not the wickedest city in the Uniteq States. To brand the buflding as a nulsance is bad enough, but to allege that it will be a fire menace will be taken by the evangelist as a direct charge that he is endeavoring to send Omahans to a hotter place than Nebraska rather than to save them from the terrors of that place supposed to be Inhabited by enemies of the money loving evangelist. Kearney Times: Following the drowning of a number of people In Chicago and an unfortunate case of the loss of a boy in Omaha, the whole country is up in arms over the lack of adequate means of pro- tecting people at the public bathing pools. City of- ficinls are apt to be lax In matters of this kind, and it i no less than indirect murder to allow conditions which tend to make a public place dangerous. A coroner's jury in Omaha has taken a hot shot at the city officlals and they got powerfully busy and shut up some of the places. Unfortunately this actvity came after the drowning of a boy. Others will be saved, but it 1s hard to think of the fact that the lad who Is gone cannot be restored to his sorrowing parents, even though the whole commission “get busy.” Grand Tsiand Independent: An Omaha woman dis- located her shoul@er swatting a fly. While the dear ladies never were good base ball players, we.can still score one in the “‘sacrifice” column. Kearney Hub: Some Omaha people who are buck« ing the proposed Billy Sunday meetings in that city compare them with a street carnival. Well, even a street carnival, operated on revivalistic principles, might serve to bring a certain class of people to the mourners’ tent. Kearney Democrat: Omaha is now a real burg. Its gentlemen thugs are now compelling respectable citizens to strip off their clothing on the principal thoroughfares in broad daylight to the delight of the thrifty newsboys who sell “extras.’ Franklin News: Omaha bit off a bigger bite than it figured on when it annexed South Omaha and Dun- dee. It seems also that it also contracted its share of the debts of these places, and will now have tha pleasure of helping pay them. The joke is on Omaha. Stockville Faber: Certain property owners in Omaha are invoking the ald of the law in restraining the bullding of the big tabernacle for the use of Rev. Billy Sunday, alleging that it would be a serious fire menace. If they fear the fire hereafter as much as they do the present day conflagrations, all will be well. Fremont Tribune: The tough elements of Omaha are showing more and more perturbation as the date for the coming of Billy Sunday approaches. They very properly view the Incident with alarm. Other people may differ as they please and do about the efficacy of his work and the ethicsa of his manners, but the jointists, both male and female; the grafters, the gamblers, (he liquor iInterests, have but one opinion of him. Their judgment {s the correct one. ‘They agree his campalgn for righteousness bodes no Kood for them. That Is the universal testimony of their ilk elsewhere. He has reduced their number and left every city he has touched in a better con- dition than he found it. It is by that standard that we are to judge him. If this is not true of him then all of the furer he has created has been worse than useless, Lincoln Journal: It costs money to hold a big convention. Nothing less than a guaranty of $100,000 will secure the national convention of the democratic party for Omaha. The figures loom large to one who is working for §2 a day and boarding himself. He will not be asked to contribute. His moral support is all that will be expected of him. Bvery loyal Nebraskan can make that sacrifice and never feel it. Richard Metcalfe, through his Weekly Nebraskan, is calling upon the faithful to come across with kopeks and do it now. He prints a blank pledge to be filled out and mafled to his office, the cash to be sent tu the committee on demand. We bespeak for the en- terprise a generous response. A dime, ten cents, from every man, woman and child in Nebraska would yleld the amount required and $25,000 surplus, Twice Told Tales From Prayer to Publicity. ‘The small daughter of a Little Rock family had been praylng each evening at bedtime for a bany slster. The other morning her mother, reading the paper, | exclaimed: "I see Mrs. Smith has a little daughter.” “How do you know that?’ asked the child. “I read It in the paper,” answered the mother. “Read it to me,” said the daughter. The mother read: “Born, on March — to Mr. and Mrs. —— Smith, a daughter.” The child thought a moment, then sald: ‘T know what I am going to do. I am going to quit praying and begin advertising.''—National Monthly, Johm Findlay of “The Only Girl" fame admits that he is the latest victim of & standing joke at a well known motor club, “See that man in the corner? asked his com- panion, “That's White, a new member. He's not very popular here.'' “Why not? Mr. Findl is popular, so he can't understand why everybody lsn't. “Oh, he's always trying to start something.’ “I see. Quarrelsome disposition, eh™' *“No, not et all. He owns a motorcycle."—Young's A Vatn Ambition. George Shima, “the potato king.” is a Japanese resident of Lodi, Cal. Mr. Shima pralsed the other day the governmental Department of Agrioulture, to whose help he attributes muech of California’s success. *“Phe American departmgnt 1s too g0od,” he sald, “to be hit by the story of ambitious farm boy. “‘Pa,’ sald a farm boy, ‘why can't 1 rise in the world like Washington or Franklin? Why, for In- stance, can't I become secretary of agriculture some “‘Alas, my som, too late; too late, the father ‘You know too much about farming.' *'—St. Louls Globe-Democrat. i A Snake Story, Weeta Is & lttle girl who lives In that part ot ulsville at once and comprehensively denominated Her real name, of course, is Rita; but too much for her playmates and their version has taken by her and thelr elders until they have to stop and think who is meant when is used, her communication, If not yes, yea, 18 as acceptable in the sight of good of any 6-year-old; but last week an ocourred which startled her out of her accus- She had been taken to the country accompanied one of the men to the in the course of his labors, he blacksnake that had hidden under § i E?:n i I jit i : it had been dispatched and the excitement was all over, Wyeta, viewing the remains, ejuculated: “Gosh, whal & worm!" —Loutsville Times. L eSer The Motoreyele Built for Two. SOUTH OMAMA, Aug, 3~To the Bdi- tor of The Bee: If you can give space 1 would like to make a statement in de- fense of the motorcycle carrying two per- sons that the juvenile officers so bitterly condemn as the reason for the downfall of working girls I've ridden a motor for a number of | years, earrying ‘‘tandem T don't know of & more enjoyable, stimulating exercise |in the world than sweeping along the highways on a two-wheeler, and from my experience 1 cannot see where the mode of conveyance has any relation to the soclal cvil. There were thousands of wayward girls before the motorcycle was ever invented, but our forefathers didn't see fit to stop horseback riding for two, or horse and buggies for two. pecullar that reformers are always ready to declare a nulsance anything that s in reach of the working class as a pleasure or a convenience. JAMES G 213 J Street, GARRETT, South Omaha. Two Stories—Sense and Nonsense. OMAHA, Aug. 3~To the Editor of The Bee: Life must be a humbug, for once we were told that at the ends of the rainbow lie bokes of gold. Then we started to hunt for the gold one day—we belleved what they told us; we were taught that way. Well, we hunted and hunted for years and years, but never did find it, so we wept bitter tears and at last concluded that life was no use. Now this is the story as told to the goose. Life is all gladness; just look at the birds; they like it and sing it in all kinds of words; they sing in the rain and sing in the sun; forver and ever praise to the one God of Peace, not God of wur; the Prince of Peace shown by the star, that shines in the east, as we were told. Now the song the children and birds do tell; is God with us and all is well. B. R V. Brrea's Worst Mistake. PLAINVIEW, Neb., Aug. 3—To the Editor of The Bee: Allow me to con- gratulate Charles Wooster for his noble expression through The Bee of July 31 The majority of the people of the United States agree with him, that Mr. Wilson is no impartial statesman and not neutral in this terrible war. Mr. Wilson don't consider the danger that an intervention would cause the worst mixup between the different nationalities in the United States we have ever seen. The big ma- Jjority of the people of the United States are for peace and very decent in their arguments concerning the European con- flict. 8o if we should get entangled it would be the fault of Mr. Wilson and his advisers. Mr. Wilson in his last reply to Germany showed to the world that he has not the safety of the traveling public of his coun- try at heart as much as the desire to help England to stop the submarine blockade; the German government made & noble proposition, allowing the United States to fly their flag on any four big ocean liners, even from England, and they would guarantee their safety, providing these ships were free from contraband of wa Mr. Bryan made the worst mistake in his life by nominating Mr. Wilson at the Baltimore convention: he himself' would filled the bill a whole lot better. Let us take the matter in our own hands and work for peace. H. 8.—~(An Old Democrat.) Tips on Home Topics Philadelphia Ledger: The single term lssue may be a live one by the time the next presidential campaign is on, but it Is going to be difficult to get up much Interest in it now, 8t. Louis Republic: One class of American manufacturers who need have no comscientious scruples about war orders are the producers of hospital sup- ples and artificlal legs. Cleveland Plain Dealer: In spite of what we hear about race prejudice on | the western coast, Japanese exhibits have been awarded 1,511 prizes at the San Fran- cisco exposition. Banzal for the honor~ able Californian. New York World: The Georgla legis- Iature ‘has adopted a standing rule pro- viding that no member shall be admitted In an Intoxicated condition. The necessity of the rule seems to be due to the fact that Georgia is a prohibition state. Baltimore American: An Towa man urges the selection of old and homely | wives, as young and pretty ones are apt | to be spoiled. With the usual perversity of human nature, however, those to whom he addresses this wise advice will keep on preferring them spolled. Louisville Courfer-Journal: Miss Helen | Moller, society bare-legged dancer, says | dancing requires no great amount of in- | tellect, but a great deal of imagination. : Requires very little imagination on part of the audience when stripped for action. Indianapolis News: Commissioner Cami- nett!’s notion that there will be no “over- head charges’” comnected with that new farm loan scheme seems rather idealistic, The government doesn't ordinarily sue- ceed In gejting any additional work done | without paying & mighty good price for it the dancer s Around the Cities Philadelphia’s eminence as a city of homes is shadowed by an official report showing a large number of unwholesome and unsanitary human habitatious, A eneral overhauling is coming. There is something doing in Wichita, Kan, all the time. Just now some of the people are trying to recall the mayor while the chief of police has been forci- bly recalled for selling confiscated beer. A snooping committee going through the municipal books of Kansas City, Mo., mre puzzled to find several political chairwarmers who managed to get in elght days a week on the payroll. Eco- nomic efficlency defies the calendar. The state census gives New York city & population of 5,246,812 a galn of 75,729 in five years. The gain in Manhattan is trifilng, but the annexed boroughs gain from 10 to 40 per cent. Brooklyn now has & population of 188191 A Des Moines doctor who indulged in advertising lterature and claimed ability to cure ills the profession comsiders in- curable has been called down and re- formed by the state board of heaith. A local account says the doctor “looks | ke W. J. Bryan and has some of his eharacteristics” It is very | pl 1e of the women LAUGHING GAS. knows _to st the same as s —— does.” ~Warhington Star Why on earth do you suppose Miss t Y p ¢ Tom Totro: Old Lady—Officer, could Attergold jilted young Tommie Gotrox | O Tads OIS to elope with old Bill Pennypacker's Officer 696—Sure boy ticer u sight as any man on the force.—Prince- “1 don't know unless she thought she | SIEht needed & change of heir.’—New York | ton Tiger. & B s She (bitterly)—Our married life has been , you are going to defend that de-|one long series of battles, beginning with fauiter who got away with $10,0007 | our wedding day Yep. He~Yes, and there was an engagement “Bad case, isn't it” | before that.—Boston Transcript. Awful! He didn't save 1-nm|l:h olnt"?(‘ - it to pay a respectable fee —~Loulsville Courler~Journal THE FIELDS OF CORN. Ted—What do you do when a man tries | J. Hazard Hartzell. O'er many roods of rest blades The sunburnt farmer . {And there till day's refulgence fades He plows among the rows to_kiss you? ¥ Marjorle—Oh, that's something you'll have to find out for yourself.—Life. Stella—Does she dissolve in tears? Bella—Yes, but <ho watches her hus- | band through a periscope.—Chicago Post. | From purple eve to crimson morn The furrows smile and grow; ‘Do you really feel that vou have ele- The moon hangs out her silver horn vated the stage, Mr. Dulipate?’ asked | And pours her light below. | % X | PO cajd the dramatist, “It tooks | The wind stirs with the rosy dawn, that way. Every manager who has pro-| And_ stri the dewy plain; And, flylng swifter than the fawn, duced one of my plays has gone up.’—|And. fiving switter, Chel o New York Times. | q don't see why men Insist on going|The tassels spread 'neath cheering rays, rar, Jated the tho %1 And plume the kingly form: [ AL VSR SHNEE . 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