Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 6, 1915, Page 4

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CORRESPONDENCE, communications relating to news and m&. to Omaha Bee, im.nu Department. ny JULY CIROULATION. 53,977 State of Nebraska, Covnt of Douglas, ss.: ] t Willlame, ‘ion manager of The Bee Publishing company uly sworn, says that the ;;:"MI cireulation nonth of July, 1915, was : " DWIGHT WILL! Circulation Manager. Bubscri in my p nce and sworn to before this 34 day of A 1915, me. (his 3 TRoBRRT WUNTER, Notary Public. Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. Aungust .7=m' Thought for the Day Selected by Robert Drake Who can say Why today Tomorrow will be yesterday? . —Tennyson. To cap the climax, the top-liner of the horse racing events is a mule race! The Postoffice department is establishing aato rural delivery routes, Now you're talking! Only one competitor in the same class as a drawing card with the “Billy” Sunday carnival, E 4 : I; H F) It 1s not too early to throw senatorial hats in the ring, neither can it be rushing the season to bring out 1916 gubernatorial bonnets. smallest in fifteen years, Guess no harm was : é : S——— . Only five of the twelve federal reserve banks ‘bave earned more than expenses, and the Kan- _s4s City bank is not one of the profit-makers, B ‘The twisting of the “natural channels of trade” for the benefit of favored localities evidently did ot strengthen the banking system. Here is a chance for Nebraska suffrage lead- ers to show how strong they are with the “higher k. ups” That automobile pligrimage of 100 B~ petition to congress from San nshington to travel by the 'h H [ -t THE OMAHA DAILY BEE| lowing the sides to be heard. BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, The Fall of Warsaw. By the capture of Warsaw the German allies have achieved another conspicuous gain in their operations against Russia, of the victory cannot at this time be ealculated, for it has many possible bearings, and experts differ ae to its exact relation to the entire cam- paign. It will serve, however, to show the in- tensity with which the Germans have pushed thelr campaign on the eastern front of the war, while holding the French, English and Belgian ermies stationary on the west front. In this way it will have a moral effect that will greatly overtop its immediate military importance, Whether Grand Duke Nicholas has been able to extricate his army from the enveloping move- | ment initiated some weeks ago by the Germans e yet to be developed. For the present, ome side will undertake to minimize and the other tc magnify the achievement, but it will not do to think that either is fooling itself as to ex- actly what has taken place. For Americans the chiefest interest will rest on the fact that now, a8 A year ago, the armies of the kalser are show- ing the greatest initiative, and are pressing their campaigns with the utmost vigor. Meeting the Mexican Situation. While the outcome of the conference at Washington between the representatives of the American powers is as yet ‘‘on the knees of the gods,” the step seems to be one that will lead to the ultimate solution of the Mexican situa- tion. President Wilson's program, as tenta- tively outlined, will place the lion’s share of the responsibility on the United States, but it is not unlikely that the South American conferees may cffer something that will look to a division of the coming task of providing Mexico with a re- sponsible government. other governments are quite as much concerned in the matter as is the United States. All-Ameri- can relations are becoming more and more con- crete, and the future, as it may be presently forecasted, closest understanding between the several gov- ernments of the two countries. expedient, to say the least, that all share alike in the adjustment of the Internal difficulties of any, when the conditions make such interven- In a broad sense, these indicates the desirability of the It is, therefore, tion absolutely essential and necessary, That the several Mexican contestants should be given a full opportunity to present their claims seems just and proper, for a determina- tion of the issue can hardly be had without al- This will mean that several days will elapse before anything definite can come from the conference. S— The Sinking of the Frye. An apparent deadlock has been reached in the negotiations with Germany, arising from the sinking of the American steamer, Willlam P. Frye, by the sea-rover Karlsruhe in the South Pa- cific last winter, The German imperial govern- ment takes the position that a belligerent hag a right to destroy the carrier of contraband it that action be deemed expedient, when encountered on the high sea, In the case of the Frye, the captain of the Karlsruhe held it would take too long to jettison the cargo of wheat, and so sank the vessel. The United States contends the bel- ligerent has only the right to seize such portion of the cargo as may be contraband, and that the sinking of the Frye was an illegal act. The Ger- tans offer damages in reparation, but decline to disavow the sinking. Our government is will- ing to accept the damages offered, but will not permit that act to be construed as a waiver of rights under the Prussian treaty of 1799, Much water has run under the bridge since that treaty was signed, but the great principle therein contained is not subject to change. Both Great Britain and Germany set up the altered circumstances of war in justification of acts that violate the recognized law of nations. This spe- clal pleading can not be permitted to prevail, #ince no clrcumstances can give to one or the other of the nations, whether belligerent or neu- tral, authority to write its own rules to govern traffic on the high seas. If the contentions now advanced to meet the protests of the United Btates were permitted to stand, it would mean continual and general struggle for the control of the seas. In this matter, Great Britain and Germany are on precisely the same footing with the United States. Whether the controversy goes to The Hague or not, it will eventually determine a question that has been up to vex maritime na- tions in every war, ———— The New Jitney Ordinance. The new jitney ordinance adopted by the city council will not ‘meet with the objections encountered by the old erdinance because it elim- inates the drastic exactions which threatened to put the jitney completely out of business. The Mhu‘umlnoulmhmmly nominal, and the bond to secure responsibllity to passengers is certainly not excessive. The Bee objected to the exorbitant license feo in the old ordinance, and it was this that Justified the resort to the referendum upon it. 1t our advice had been folloived, the new ordi- nance would go still further than it does in the competent drivers, who will give the public de- pendable service. The new ordinance, instead of driving the jitney out of business, should make ik i 2fEE I ; E The full importance | THE The Chemists in the War | =———Xugo Schweitzer in Review of Reviews How Germany Is Becoming Self-Sustaining. BRMANY, deprived as it bas been of many Im- ports by the sea-power of England, has been formed in to a self-supporting country by the chemist. This achlevement necessitated a read- long the whole line. Materials had to be red which had hitherto been imported, and substitutes had to be improvised for raw materials cut oft by the English blockade. In no other field has German efficlency proven its superiority more than In that of chemistry. While this was undisputed before the present war, it is no exaggeration to state today that the German chemlist has so far contributed as much, if not more, to the Successes of the eampaign than the strategists of the army and the navy, and that therefore the present holocaust may be justly called “the chemists' war.’ Mobilising the Nation's Food Resources. When the English blockade threatened to starve the women and children of the empire, a careful in- ventory of the natural resources was taken. It was Aascertained that certain plants which had been re- garded as useless weeds possessed considerable food value. Fourteen wild-growing vegetables were found which furnished substitutes for spinach, while five plants supplled excellent materials for sal of still greater significance is the fact t | offered nine varieties of roots rich in starch fording wholesome aliment for man and beast. ‘The United States has exported, in times past, large quantities of ofl as ats to Germany—especially ani. mal fat from our slaughter-house industries and cot tonseed oll. By a treatment with hydrogen the Ger- man chemist transforms cheap grades of ofls and fatty wastes of all kinds, and, most important of all, the fish oils of the Swedish and Norwegian fisheries, into edible fats. As curiosities in the search for foodstuffs, we might further mention th: tempt of the chemist to utilize the fresh blood of ghtered animals, which contains highly nutritious substances, Long before the war, bread made with the addition of fresh blood to the dough was eaten in some parts of Europe, especially in Finland. This tastes like black rye bread, is very nutritious, and very economical. It is interesting to note here that during certain religious festivals a con- fectlon consisting of chocolate and fresh blood is sold in Naples and eaten by the women Fibres Taking the Place of Cotton. The agricultural chemist has also undertaken the task of supplying Germany with a substitute for cot. ton—which can no longer be procured from us. Al though it s realized that there are enormous diffi- cultfes in the way, a great deal has already been ac- complished. Paj spun into threads in special ma- chines serves as a substitute for cotton and jute in the manufacture of bags, etc., which need not stand heavy wear and tear. For the manufacture of guncotton, cellulose is employed which is produced from wood pulp by the various refining processes now in use. It is possible to make in this way a cellulose that for many purposes is superior to cotton fiber. Even in war-time people must think of such frivo- lous things as clothes, and the German chemists ars hard put to it to improvise substitutes for the ordinary cotton fabrics. And they have made marked progress in this respect. The nettle fiber, which was largelsy used in Europe as a textile material prior to the intro- duction of cotton, has again attracted much attention. Most interesting reports are being published and pat- ents are being taken out for the utilization of the best fiber of willow bark. Willow boughs are valued as material for weaving baskets. History may repeat itself, and willow bark and nettle or some other substitute raised on German soll may in the near future threaten the supremacy of King Cotton. The German chemist has a duty to per- form, and with his perseverance and application he does not shrink from any problem, however difficult it might appear to outsiders. Silk, Camphor and Rabber. The rearing of silkworms and the production of silk are also undertaken with great zeal. Mulberry trees, the leaves of which are fed to the caterpillars, thrive very well in South Germany and in the Rhine province. This industry is to be developed not so much to make Germany independent of the importa- tion of raw silk as for the reason that this occupa- tion offers easy and profitable work to war cripples and invallde~work which can be done in about six ‘weeks of the year. The chemist has also succeeded in replacing the product of the camphor tree, which before the war had been obtained from Japan, and is of so great im- portance in medicine and in the manufacture of smoke- less powders. It is now made artificlally in the fac- tory, and it has been found that synthetic camphor not only surpasses the natural in medical deficiency, but that it Is of greater purity, a stronger disinfectaat, and cheap, at least as long as war prices prevail. The German chemist, who has already solved tae problem of manufacturing synthetic rubber, will per- haps also tackle the problem of making Germany in- dependent of rubber imports in another direction. The milkweed plant, which belongs to the Asclepias fam- ily, furnishes a latex which resembles that of the cheaper grades of rubber. Although the amount of rubber is small and the quality poor, yet the chemist need not despair if he remembers that the sugar-beet first used in sugar-making contained only 4 per cent of & not very superior grade of sugar, while today it furnishes 22 to 24 per cent of sugar of such high qual- fty that it cannot be distinguished from the finest cane sugar. Replacing Copper with Irom and Zine. Great ingenuity is displayed by the metallurgical chemist in replacing copper by M-h;r mehll." As : result, the col of copper for war PUrpose and tl'or the ‘er‘bly reduced. With its inexhaustible supply of iron and steel, its wealth of sinc, and its domestic supply of copper amounting to an annual production of 40,000 tons, Germany is in an excellent position to manufacture substitutes for cop- per. Gun and rifie cartridges and the fuse-heads of grenades are made of soft iron with a small per- centage of copper and zinc. Buttons, button-facings for helmets, and belt-buckles which were formerly made of brass, are now made of alloys free from copper. Germany to Feed Her Own Cattle. But the most remarkable results have been achieved in agricultural chemistry, and nothing has been of greater consequence than the method by whicn Germany will render itselt perhaps permanently inde- pendent of imported fodder, for which it was obligad to expend annually $250,000,000. It has been known for some time that in the process of fermentation, that is, the conversion of sugars into alcohol by means of cex- tain lower orders of plants, such as yeast, albuminous substances are generated by the growth of the yeast, which are of value as a food for human beings and as fodder. The only trouble was the small yleld of aldbu- men, which made the process unprofitable. Favorable results, however, were obtained by oarrying out the fermentation in the presence of sulfate of ammonia as & source of mitrogen, which by the metabolism of the yeast is converted from its inorganic into its woul nium, the nutrient of the yeast, could not be prooured at an cost. Nitrogen Fertilizer from the Alr. “But. chemical ingenuity also provided domestio sources for this material which is likewise employed very largely as a nitrogen fertiliser. 1t has always recovered as a by-product in the coking of coal, BRERLELECH i .§§;§ a'gf et i ] m i H i § AUGUST 6, 1915. The Pees effer Complaint and Pralse. SOUTH OMAHA, Aug. 5—To the Editor of The Bee: 1 just want to endorse the straightforward honesty of The Bee edi- torial, “An Answer to an Inquiry.” This school election is just about as falr as the annexation election. How about the extra mills on our school taxes, you fel- lows who were golng to have less taxes | Editorial Siftings Cleveland Plain Dealer: It was a mys- tery how the supply of lamb and veal held out until a government bureau an- nounced that 400000 goats were killed last year for food. Houston Post: “Peerless Leader Wil | Bspouse Prohibition,” announces a Wash- to pay after annexation? I also want to | give credit where credit is due. Law en- forcement (especially in South Omaha) is muech improved since annexation. Our thanks to the officiale. Let the good work go on. J. G. BLESSING. Has Hope in Bsperanto. ington headline. Pomsibly thaler changed the copy. been “heerless leader.” Kansas City Star: A. sealous Inventor Says he Is going to sue the German gov- ernment for $10,000,000 for inventing the war gas. Why doesn’t he threaten to put his claim in the hands of the Russians for collection? Philadelphia Leds: : the Mergen- It must have Hoyt's “A Tem- | perance Town" was no more humorous OMAHA, Aug. 5.=~To the Editor of The | o vy g | ter, which only goes to prove that when Bee: In your Letter Box recently I mo- ticed a short letter by Charles P. Lang concerning the international language, Esperanto. Mr. Bditor, I am a native of Yucatan, although since childhood it has been my good fortune to be able to call tho United States my home. But during my life I have also traveled by various meana In various countries of South America and Europe and Africa. Whils in these countries I have studied the populace, from peasant, peon and slave up to royal and imperial masters. Among all classes I find there exists a desire for a better and greater knowledge both of themselves and their nelghbors in other countries, and other tongues. Sociability is the natural trait of man- kind all over the earth, but this trait is seldom seen by the average foreigner. Why? Bocause where two persons of different tongues come together thers exists a lack of understanding. The case iIn plain words is, you perhaps are German, I am perhaps English or French. You cannot understand me and I cannot understand you. The result is embarrassment and lack of cordlality hetween us ensues, als s 1 have learned to my sorrow in several South American experiences, a clash often is the ultimate end. As con- cerns commerce, it is very plain that where no cordiality exists business cannot progress. If only some language, prac- tical and harmontous, could be invented to merve the needs of busy and misun- derstanding humanity as an auxiliary tongue, peoples of widely different and ditficult tongues, I truly think suffering humanity would lose half of its economic burden. Various attempts have been made to establish the use of an existing language as an auxillary, but these attempts have all falled, partially because the promoters of the idea were not able to convince the world that any one national language was better suited to serve this purpose than the rest. But the greater reason has been the complexity and difficulty of learing any one national existing lan- guage. The business man Is too bumy, the laborer too poor and too busy. Latin was considered by many for an International purpose on the grounds that as a dead language it favored no onc nation. It is used by many of the priest- hood and scholars, but for the average man it has the old objections of being difficult to learn, requiring also much time and some money; also it has been found too anclent for modern needs. 1 often have heard of Esperanto as the language of hope, being easy to acquire, requiring very little time and the ex- penditure of little money. Shall we now then turn our attention to this language of hope in an effort to solve the problem of better understanding? D. C. CORIOS, (One who knows what it is to be unable to understand his fellow beings.) The Latin Bugaboo. TILDEN, Neb., Aug. 4—To the Bditor of The Bee: The opening of the school year is at hand and with it comes the “Latin bugaboo” affrighting the high school student, with his mind already made up only to just acquire enough to keep out cf trouble with the school authorities; while the most common com- plaint among teachers is, that language study is attempted before grammatical constructions are comprehended. Fancy the hopelessness of -teaching Latin, or a modern tongue, to a student who does not understand the demonstrative, and relative pronouns and the Instructor seoks to {llustrate the ‘‘qui, quae, quod” | with an English sentence as “I say that that that, that you said, was not that that, that you said that, that that was.” At which many a teacher will be cast into & confused mass of questionable homo- nyms, herself; whose offices are widely dissimilar and yet all wear the same uniform; for here are demonstratives, relatives, nouns and other constructions wrapped in the same garb. The Latin fabric is & necessity to comprehend Eng- lish, even though its grammar is com- plex, yet it furnishes a series of small problems to be solved by the dictionary, | and contrasts with mathematics, which deals in other proportions; therefore language study s & valued source of development and can only be mastered by the equivalent language study to facilitate logical comstruction, which the arbitrary forms of many modern tongues fail to render. Therefore, It the student would study a type language that would correspond in the linguist hlerarchy with Buclid, or the first rules of arithmetic in the mathe- matical realm; being clear, consistent selt evident and of universal applica- tion the bugaboo of ancient as well as modern language study would disappear. The above cited ““That" sentence wow.. CHARLES P. LANG. TIPS ON HOME TOPICS. St. Iouls Globe-Democrat: ‘While the ’ii i city by the sea can’'t be beaten. than Atlantic City as a prohibition cen- it comes to breadth of view the peeriess It s easily first. Pittshurgh Dispatch: If true that Gen- eral Carranza is very anxious the United States should view his presidential claims with a friendly eye, it marks a wondrous transformation from his captious spirit | to be considered in effecting & war sel- | tiement. Carransa has shown himself to [ he lttle more of a statesman or general | than Villa or Zapata —_— SMILING LINES. A New England woman, probably of Irish extraction, who felt greatly die- turbed because the cemetery in her com munity had not been properly cared for by those in charge, indignantly remarked to her husband: '1'll mever be burled in that cemetery as long as I live!"—Chris- tian Advocate. Flubdub—Running Into debt must be most_annoying. Borrowell-Not half so annoying as the fact that a fellow Is constantly running into his creditors.—Judge. “No news is news,” remarked the logopher. " “replied the ordinary person, ‘‘was invented before the art of censorahip reached perfection.’ —Wash- ington Star. THE WRECK. Willlam Lightfoot Visscher. Out of day and the peaceful slesp Of calm on the blue and vasty deep, A gallant steamer rode| Into the dark of a stormy night: Into the ocean's rage and might, That howling tempest's goad. On with the winas and pitiiess waves; Dashed on the rocks where the mad sea ! raves, The noble vessel's lost, of months ago, when he regarded the) And through the storm and darkness wishes of this country with a euriously unfavorable disposition, as though our natural interests were not in any sente wild. The In=! volce heard was the wall of a chifa, On the crest of a billow tossed. Summer Foods As Cause of Dyspepsia Effect on Digestive Organs Responsible For Many lils ! Summer should be the season of moet Iperfect health but impure water and milk, unripe fruit and a tendency to over-indulge in acld foods and foed Mrinks result in a contrary coundition in pmany people. The effect of the average summer dlet ls to constipate even normally regular ibowels, and disturb the digestion. This lcondition can best be corrected by the luse of & mild laxative that has combined Iwith it the elements of a digestive tonic. {The combination of simple laxative herbs with pepsin that is sold in drug stores under the name of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup [Pepsin is gentle, yet positive In its ac- tion and brings relief in an easy, natural |manner, without griping or other dis- jcomfort. | A dose of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin lon retiring each night will regulate the digestive organs and insure healthy ac- tivity, irrespective of one’'s dlet. A bot- tle of this splendid remedy should be in every household. It is not expensive and ean be purchasel for only fifty cents in drug stores everywhere. A free trial bottle can be obtainel by writing to Dr, ™ M Caldwell, 43 Washington St., Monticello, Tll.—Advertisement. Making a Go of It By James O’Hara Day F opportunities were valued at $100 Each, nearly every man’s losses would run into the thousands. The last thing the average man sees is a real opportunity. And an unseen opportunity*is lost money. The Health Officer of my city issued a statement to the newspapers the other day describing the most wholesome kinds of food for hot weather. Not a groceryman in the town followed this up with an advertisement telling the public that he had for sale the hial]:eet qual- ities of foodstuffs mentioned in the Health Officer’s report. All of them failed to realize that the American citizen looks to his government officials for reliable advice as to what to do. At the same time, the Health Officer of another city put out a statement describing the coolest, most comfortable, and most healthy dress goods for women’s wear in Summer. Not a dry goods house took advantage of this golden epportunity to display before the public snm in the public press the fact that he had on hand every article recom- mended by the Health Officer. In both cities I made inquiries to deter- mine why these chances had been overlooked. Uniformly, the reply was this: ‘‘There is not much business in the summertime. It doesn’t pay to advertise now.” What do you think of that reply? If it pays to advertise Winter thin, W inter, it pays to advertise Summer in Summer. There is only one way to do business— that is to make business. And the man who n{:itun‘tbedonein Summer is the man who laye down on his jod. -l in He is the man who is blind to opportumi- ties, He is the man who, if an opportunity is worth $100, must figure thowsands into his losses. Thlo‘he ublic buys what Rmm S_\mm&r.. thing necessary convince &l‘bllo of what it needs and then to meet The public thinks as much in Summer as it dees in Winter.