Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 11, 1915, Page 4

THE T T AT AR 115 1o TSI A TR s .t Y MR 1 RO A . V00, BEE: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1915, Crops on the First of August. Prosperity’s banner was hung on the outer walls on August 1, when the crops of the coun- try were in such condition as to guarantee, short of inconceivable calamity, the biggest yield ever harvested in any one country in the history of the world. Wheat alone has reached the un- precedented figures of 963,000,000 bushels, and may go to the billion mark. This yleld com- pares with 865,000,000 bushels in 1914, which ® | was also a record crop. now estimated for the year at very close to three billion bushels, or three hundred million more than last year, and other crops are in pro- portion. The only staple that will show a reduc- tion is cotton, which has been purposely short- ened through a reduced acreage. Nebraska's share in this wonderful prosper- ity is notable. The second wheat-producing THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWA7ER, EDITOR. The Bee Publithing Company, Proprietor, BER BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. Entered at Omahs postoffice as second-class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By mrrll: By n mail R ha--The fim. state in the union, Nebraska will market a crop Biu! d',rm,, Main street. of very close to 75,000,000 bushels, and this in r;‘-‘:n?‘n'ffi?«h’ spite of the untoward weather that materially reduced the yleld. The estimate on the state’s Fourteenth 8t., N. W. corn crop is for two million bushels less than last CORRESPONDENCE, communications relati to mnews and m. to Omaha m%uw Dnutnz ————— JULY CIROULATION. 53,977 State of Nebraska, County of Dougl 8. L it Willlams, circulation mi r of The Bee Mg‘lny, being duly sSworn, says that the weather this will be more than overcome by the certain improvement In condition of the crop. Nebraska's oat crop is also off a little in total from last year, but still holds the state as second only to lowa in the point of production. Pota- toes and forage crops are good, and the imme- diate prospect for the final harvest In this state # Publis| a::nc'; cireulation for the month or July, 1915, was | i far and away beyond the doleful predictions made during the rainy days of July. The country generally is sharing in this bountiful harvest, and as prices are holding up well, the prosperity of the country, so far as it depends on tho farmer, is absolutely assured. S—— When Goethals Goes. When General Goethals goes from the office of governor of Panama on November 1 he will leave behind him one of the most stupendous monuments to man's constructive genius ever erected. A dream indulged for more than 400 years has been made a reality through his en- DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Cireulation Manager, Bubscry n my presence and sworn to before 1 it A 1915, me. this 30 Aoy HERT HUNTER, Notary Public. BERT Bubscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them, Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. e .. Angust 11 Thought for the Day In wonder workings or some bush oflame Mer. look for God, and funey Him concealed; But in earth’s common things He stands re- DHI-.: ik . " ergy and skill as a bullder. The lay mind can e grass ars and flowers spe but slightl celv th bl faced, piby . ; By T Subaps ut slightly conceive of the problems he faced the sweep of imagination necessary to concelve and the'high quality of courage called for in the execution of the designs whereby Goethals car- Omaha may excel at mule driving, but those | red out the detalls of this undertaking, so great Lincolnites are some goat riders. and so unique that the world has nothing to et compare with it, Brother Bryan is strong for good roads. Bet- He resigns now as governor of the canal ter roads will also make it easler for folks to go | zone, and not as a general of the army, and will to the chautauquas. return to his profession as a soldler, to awalt —— the further orders of his country. His achleve- As time humps along and notes muitiply, |'ment of one of the greatest triumphs of con- ‘wonder increases why Colonel Bryan retreated | structive engineering in the world’s history is from & war of words. taken by him as'a part of his duty to his people. SEE—— He s part of an army whose tradition s service, P the Nebraska National Guard” is good! How | The Panama canal is in operation, and General . nany companies to a regiment? Goethals, no longer needed there, is entitled to E Ee—— @ rest, but he probably will not get it, for he will v structing. s SEpE—————— ——— " AlL the notables are “stapping off” in Omaha A Two-Party Country. one after fact, they wouldn't be This 18 & two-party country. Many third parties notables If they did not stop off. have come and gone since the early days of the re- s e p::lhfi.m ”‘t’h one third party ever came into power, and that was the republican party under the stress of o The Lincoln :‘:’ :l’":"“""' ‘l(.::::: the single all-dominating moral issue In the midst of the passion which resulted in the civil war. Except by a miracle, no third party movement will have any chance of success In 1916 —Frederick M. Davenport in Goethals is to quit governing the | the Outlook. The significance of this expression is that it room then for Governor “Met" to go back. comes from the nominee for governor of New —_— York on the last progressive party, or bull ‘What's this! Violation of The Hague rules | moose, ticket, and one of the most enthusiastic charged? Paraphrasing s famous exclamation, | and sincere followers of Roosevelt in the 1912 “What's The Hague rules between enemies?” | campalgn two years before. But Prof. Daven- Genéral E ] K it Governor Capper has just given the world a our coroner here will | dreadful shock by asking the attorney general character to all our his official job is 3 SE——— 'Among the proposals before the New York constitutional convention is one to raise the pay the Kansas supreme court pay back a large sum ©f money he took from a corporation while serv- ing as attorney general of the state. Further- more, the governor says there are others, and . Can this be tly Kansas, where springs goodness and virtue is its been tainted with Allen White, and wum,monmmmam public conscience, when this general distribution of corporation tribute was golng on? If the governor is on the right track, somebody has been asleep at the switch in Kansas, and, worse luek, they can't lay it onto Joe Cannon or the Rum Derhon. Maybe this is why some folks down there tried so hard to defeat Capper when he was rapning last fall. STe—————e— An official investigation disposes of many reckless statements the number of United States. Reports from S the anti-drug of vietims of the habit persons. This is a very lation, tar less than ¢’ are t and General Boba A disarmed in an involuntary King Corn's return is | year, but with the continuance of the favorable | 5 | | fly until very closely approached. OMAHA, Bouquet of Bird Stories ird Lore, How the Sapsucker Rears Its Young. During the first three weeks in July of last year T had an exceptionally good opportunity to obse ve the habits of a pair of yellow-bellied sapsuckers and their three young. When my attention was first calied to these birds, the young were barely able to fly. They were feeding on sap from the pits, which the adult birds had made for them on a nearly horizontal branch of a gray birch which overhung the pond. They clung tenaciously to the birch, and would not Just as soon as I retreated, they immediately took up thetr positions on the tree again. They were as persistent in their nurs. Ing as a litter of young pigs, As the young birds grew larger and stronger, the adults made pits for them on trees whose position was more nearly erect. By much urging and the use of some force, the young birds were induced to feed at the new pits and, as these were larger and more numerous than those on the horizontal tree, they ro- mained in the mew position the greater part of the time. This performance was repeated until the young birds were able to take their sustenance from pits made for them on vertical trees. The young birds were persistent feeders, being seen At the pits early in the morning, and at all hours of the day, and until after dusk. It is true that they ap- peared to sleep a part of the time. As the sapsuckers belong to the family of woodpeckers, which feeds principally on Insects, and as the nestlings cannot procure much sap after winter sets in, it soon became necessary for the parents to attempt to wean thelr offspring from their baby food. In this they had as much trouble as we humans do when we try to wean our young from milk One of the most interesting features was the antics of the various animals attracted to the flowing sap. A palr of hummingbirds devoted their whole time to the tipple. They became entirely demoralized and, instead of performing the duties for which nature in- tended them, they went on one long and extended spree. I expected to see these little tyrants drive the sapsuckers away, but they did not do so, fearing, per- haps, to “kill the goose which laid the golden egg.” The antics of the male rubythroat were wonderful and marvelous. At times he would swing back and forth through the air in an arc of nearly half a circle with a diameter of thirty feet, for some twenty to thirty times in succession. He dia this with incredible swift- ness and, when he made the turn at each end of the arc, he would puff out his ruby patch until it looked like flame. The etfect of the tipple on a gray squirrel was exactly the reverse. It made him so loggy and stupid that I could almost touch him with my paddle before he would move. He merely slouched up the tree and went to sleep In a crotch above. Some of the red squirrels acted similarly, and some of them were un- duly quarrelsome. In the early evening, large hawk moths darted from one Set of pits to another, and neglected the multitude of flowers below. About the Baltimore Oriole. One morning, while seated on a fence near a maple tree, 1 heard a very beautiful song. While I sat look- ing up into the tree, I saw a beautiful streak of orange and black fly over my head. It was an oriole; I knew this at once. Later in the day, going out of the back entrance of the school, T saw the Baltimore oriole perched In the top of a big cottonwood tree, singing with all his might. He was orange and black, a fully matured bird; T knew this because the bird does not get these colors until the third year. Before this the orange on the wings is yellow. In the evening on leaving school, T went and sat down under the cottonwood tree, and watched the bird. Then, after a time, as [ watched him closely, I saw him fly to a slender branch in the top of a tree. At this 1 was greatly surprised, for on the d of the limb I saw the nest of the oriole, resembling very e, black ball, hanging there. Since then #gone and sat under the tree. I am afraid to climb it, as it is s0 high, to look at the eggs or young. Next year I am gofng to watch and see if the oricles come back, and If they bring their young to live in the big cottonwood tree. Nest of the Bluebird. One day, as I was walking down the road with my teacher, she asked me If I would like to see a bluebird's nest. I sald I would, for I had never seen one before, so we walked down the road till we came to a post on one side of the road My teacher said* “Do you see that hole In the post? Look in there and you will see » nest with four little eggs In it."” Every time I went by there the mother bird was near the nest. A short time after I had first seen the nest, she aakeu me if I did not want to come with her and take @ picture of the mother bird going Into the nest. When We wers near the nest, we saw the mother bird: near the post where her nest was, but as soon as she saw Us she flew away. We looked into the nest and there were four little bluebirds in it, so we sat down about elght feet from the nest when, all at once, we saw the male coming with a worm in its mouth. The Launching the Little Loons. A pair of loohs bullt thelr nest on a muskrat lake near our home, and laid two eggs about & BooSe egg. They were an olive-green, #pots on them. When my father went to the female on the nest. H 2 ! + : ' i i ¢ £ f : H L 1 H 2 g H 2 £ -4 El 3 3 < K 3 i £ 2 3 3 = ° 3 g H = § - 7 H £ : i E H 2 =tid E; s 5 fi H £ i i 13 5 i £ T § 5 i § § 0 e i is H § f : i it H FREf i Fg H - g 3 i P i H : i i f it £ 1 ] bty HitH i H i is l : z a ; H i gt # i i 1 :ig e 31 H i T ;5;!5 ‘{:h? "l i i P H Bryan the Sleep-Maker. NORTH PLATTE, Neb, Aug. 10-To the Editor of The Bee: W. J. Bryan de- livered his lecture on “‘Peave and War™ at the chautauqua grounds here Sunday. For any ordinary lecturer to deliver a lecture would be a matter of ordinary moment, but when a “great commoner,” who poses as a worldwide edugator in matters of political, social and religious thought, delivers a lecture, he ia entitied to some consideration, not only from him- self and the uncommon people, but from common people as well. Mr. Bryan divided his lecture into three parts: First, the ravages of the war in Europe and its possibilities In this coun- try; second, its financial consequence, in- ternational and otherwise; and third, he declared that the war was pot a rell- glous war, and that neither the govern- ments nor the people knew what they were fighting about. The greatest misfortune that can befall any country Is to have spineless states- men and educators who trim their sails to catch popular sentiment or serve a master. The world knows that the Euro- Pean war was brought on by the Roman Catholle state of Austria imposing its re- liglon upon the Greek Catholic state of Serbla, whereupon a Greek Catholic shot a Roman Catholic prince. Russia would not see her Greek Catholic protege im- posed upon, and began to mobilize. Ger- many, being constantly mobilized, started across the border to overcome KFrance, which was nonreligious, and England, a representative democracy, Protestant Episcopalian, was compelled to come to the relief of France. Here we have four of the principal countries of Burope, whose sovereigns, representing four dif- ferent religions, are fighting for their re- liglon, power and plunder. There is not an ordinary reader of the current press who does not know that the above state- ment Is true, yet Mr. Bryan tells us that there is no religion in the war and the people do not know what they are fight- ing about. The common people may not know, but the uncommon people do. If Mr, Bryan does not know, he had better Bo out of the commoner business and into a kindergarten school. Mr. Bryan is a man of some poise. Easy people are entertained by the sound of his voice, but few remember what he is talking about, for he is adept at putting people to sleep. The most dangerous man in this country is the man that can put the most of the people to sleep. The in- terests, of which there is so much criti- cism, are of foreign origin which get into this country by putting people to sleep, and can only remain here by keeping them asleep. Consequently, sleepmakers are in demand—which most statesmen are —and for great commoners there is a greater demand. These are some of the phases of the question that should wake up the republican self-government before it is eternally too late. LUCIEN STEBBINS. Eager to Accommodate. OMAHA, Aug. 10.—To the Editor of The Bee: If 8. R. of Plattsmouth, who wants an anti-German paper, will give his full name. and address in The Bee, authentic reports of German atrocities will be mailed to him without delay. Would advise to subscribe for the Irish World. ANGLOMANIAC. Says Moneglott Beats Esperanto. OMAHA, Aug. 10-~To the Bditor of 1 see by your Letter Box re- newed attention is being given to Esper- anto. Mr. Corios is not the first man to be discommoded by lack of language, when traveling, nor will he be the last. Nothing makes a man feel more lone- some and helpless in a crowd than to be unable to ask or answer a question. Nothing delays assimilation of foreign- s 80 much as inability to talk with na- tives. Lack of a common. language makes natives jealous and suspiclous of each other. Tt prevents social intercourse as prohibitory tarifs and embargoes prevent commerce. A common language is almost as effective a bond of union as a common religion and ought to be cultivated more than it is The world owes Mr. Zameneff a debt of gratitude for his Ingenious attempt to supply this long felt need, but it is yet in a crude state and possesses some fun- damental defects which greatly hinder its usefulness. These defects are as fol- lows: . 1. It does mot have a sufficient vo- cabulary. 2. It does not have moods and tenses enough to express action or being with accuracy. 8. It is too Slavic in construction to be acceptable to the literary nations of the ‘world. 4 It is made up of too many lan- Kuages, requiring one to be quite a lingulst or be slavishly dependent on a lexicon. It would make this article too long to give illustrations. These defects may all be avoided by taking as the foundation Monoglott, an ancient language with which all literary nations are more or less familiar. Of 3,000 words selected from the Latin lexi- con, 3,000 have been worked their way into England in some form or other. Nearly the same number can be found in German, and even more in French and Spanish, lineal descendents of ancient Latin. Taking this ancient language and grammar, as far as possible, would make the acquirement of the new language quite easy, because two-thirds of the vocabulary would be already understood, and All national jealousy would be avolded. I am now trying to prepare a Mono- glott grammar free from all superfluities and yet contalning ali things necessary to perspicuity. I would be glad to con- SOUTH OMAHA, Aug. 10.—To the Bdi- Country Is in Sympathy. ‘The country will heartily sympathize with the peace projects of Miss Jane | specting a asion of brollers in the BREEZY TRIFLES. shopping distriot."~Loulsville Courier | Journal, 1 want two pounds of sugar and a loaf of bread. How much is that?’ ‘Twenty dollars,” said the clerk, Um-—isn't $20 a trifle high?" “Excuse me. centa.” ‘A narrow tomer as he making a kick. Rankin—You can't beat the foibles of | the newly rich. Phyle—Now, what's the matter?" “Remember Freddy Ford?" Cfie inherited & big fortuns last week " ‘He inherited a ortune last week, P o e S o fnd now he is trying to have his mame . | legally changed to Limousine.”—Youngs- REpn T e | town Telegram. 1 should have said lij “1 understand he let you in on a get- rich-quick scheme.' “No. Do you suppose I would be an- 8Ty at him for that™' “Thén what was it?"” “He made me think it wa quick scheme, but it wasn't. Post. WHAT FANNY GOT. Chicago News. Our Fanny's happy as a lark! She sings and sings from dawn till derk, Because, you_know, she's married Roy, Whom she proclaimis “the dearest boy, And there's no limit to her joy, In truth, he's very common clay; 1 see such men in droves each day He's pale, his legs are far from straight, But he looks perfect to his mate For Fanny feels—it does seem odd— That she is wedded to a god! ge‘u taken little thought of life; i @'s proud that he has “Have you ma the betterment ““We've made some progress with refer- ence to statuary. All the woeden In- dians have disappeared from in front of the cigar stores.” —Washington Star. First shave.)—But any progress toward municipal art?" Motorist after why all haven't damaged you. an action_against “us, Second Motorist— I can't, sir; very know I know I can’'t ;that's just my pfllnl—l this fuss? You can't bring narrow We wonder, now, what he will do When he is forced to think for two! I've found it labor, for my part, But Fanny says, “ s awful smart!™ Punch, ‘‘Where do you ing, He"inghe asked Mra. Binks of her husband. “'Probably some Englishman first sa'd it.”” replied Mr. Binks. “He was doubte less trying to set a national falling in a favorable light.” —You we got the say- }ldo not know what wage he gets; .!”" 9w | He spends a lot for cigarettes, D hakns 1857 | But“when the bills come he witl groan And buy a pipe or roll his own. 8till, Fanny worries not a bit; She says, “Roy’s promised me he’ll quit!"” I would not mar their hlvrlnen— Once 1 was io\l and foolish, yes, My good wife often tells me so— As green as Roy: but this I know: My legs aren't fashioned like a bow! Companion. "I don't see th women fear old age. Old_age is honorable and dignified.” !'Yes, and it seems beautiful after in- AVENUB and FIFTY NINTH ST. The coolest hotel in New York. Overlooking Central Park. Within easy distance of all theatres and shops. Your address known the world over while you stop at The Plaza. OUTDOOR TERRACE AND SUMMER GARDEN Special Dancing Features Single Rooms with Bath, $3.50 up Double Rooms with Bath, $5.00 up To reserve rooms or to secure further information sddress FRED STERRY, Managing Director The Voice of Authority By James O’Hara Day HE most successful merchant of %aa uaintance has a great 7 .oi.nd.ltflmt, it is not new. Most great ideas are old ideas. The trouble is that few people know how to apply them.. This great idea was what Demosthenes realized — what Napoleon demonstrated — what Lincoln appreciated with great so- lemnity. It is that the public can be tanght. And people who can be taught can be led —can be commanded. ‘““People,”” said this genius in salesman- ship, “lke to be told things. They like to be taught what to do. The average citizen is waiting every day for the voice of authority. “‘I have taught thousands u of people in this city to do their shopping in my store during the hot weather. ‘I realized that for every degree the ther- mometer registered lower in my establish- ment than it was on tk> street I could figure thousands in profits. I installed a ventilat- ing and cold-air plant. ““Then I advertised that store was the coolest place downtown. N more was necessary. ‘“They came once—and they*ve been com- ing ever since.”” The of this man’s phenomenal suo- cess during what is generally ealled the *‘dull season”’ points a beautiful moral. He taught h‘;ouldo:ndfiphhofflkbbe deliv a cat. How, then, ean simism boost the profits ¥ il Show the people where they can be cool, where they can projit can find bodp':rfinhonm They want to be led. want to be commanded. Anputi'tll‘:ywmpm the results. | By the way, how cool is it in your store today 1 ) where they market. }