Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 14, 1915, Page 8

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CORRESPONDENCE, w mnn:.nunuml rbd.:mg“ to news and : JULY CIRCULATION. 53,977 Btate of Nebraska, County of Douglas, ss.: t Willlamas, circulation manager of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the circulation for the month or July, 1915, was DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Cireulation Manager, Bubscri in my presence and sworn to before e, this 3d of August, 1915, OBERT HUNTER, Notary Publie. Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. Aungust 14 Thought for the Day When ¢'er a noble deed is wrought When ¢'er is spoke a noble theught Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise. — Longfellow. —_——— e —————— Yes, but how much is it going to cut off our coal bills here in Omaha? SE— Texas is geographically the biggest of all our states, but it is not yet the whole union, i Spe—— ‘With a federal judgeship vacant in Nebraska, the ple counter pressure is remewed. Stand | back, and don't crowd! Sme—— As residuary legatee by purchase of that mill- tary balloon, an Omaha aero club ought to find it easy now to inflate & membership list. — Agitation has been started to keep the San Francisco exposition open another year. Profit by Omaha’s experience, and don’t do it. e— is certaln in October.” We all hope so, and we v It to take the money from the ‘but what else can be done fi.) ‘Ansist on pushing it over the counter? - No car famine alarms going up this season, ~ The grain tonnage will be the biggest ever, but it will not be bunched so as to cause transpor- tation congestion. ;. Deapite wet weather, Nebraska has its prom- ised record-breaking wheat crop, Merchants end actu with goods to sell to farm- ers with money to buy §ill take notice. E—— ‘Where the Epworth league managers at Lin- coln seem to have fallen down is in not adver- ~M pink tights in advance, and thus the full benefit at the box offfce. | —— - Strictly speaking the adverse report of Lieu- A prince has filed a petition In Dbankruptey in New York, acknowledging labili- ties of $36,645.93 and assets of $887.25, the last two reprosenting bis avallable cash. The Inventory averages up to the royal touch, but is by the reach of native —— 's High school principal was lured ] 2 us by Loulsville, and to fill his place ke Oklahoma's High school principal. That @ way in this competitive game. Fortu- however, we have so far escaped having r city tempt our matchless municipal War in the Wheat Pit. At least a skirmish In the wheat pit, being fought by the bulls and the bears, has to do | with the war in Europe. Cancellation of or- | ders placed by the Allles for a considerable quantity of wheat is giving rise to much specu- lation as to the reason for the action. It Is ad- mitted that even should the war be terminated immediately, Europe will still have to eat, and that it must buy largely of this country If it wants wheat, New sources of supply will not fuly account for the move, either, for the road to Russia is not yet open, nor do present condi- tions indicate it soon will be. Russia’s crop is ostimated at 40 per cent over last season's yield, and that of the United Kingdom is placed at 7 per cent increase, and Italy’s at 12 per cent, but these countries together produce but litle more than half as much wheat as does the United States. It is not possible, even with thelr increased production, that they can pro- vide for their domestic needs, let alone care for the armies in the field. The Argentinian sur- plus was long ago requistioned, and ‘the little avallable from Australia and New Zealand will nrot cut much figure in the general situation. Shrewd traders Incline to the bellef that the move of the Allies llfin behalf of the bears, who wre Interested in bringing down the price paid the farmer. The American farmer, generally, is in a commanding position here, for he is not forced to rush his grain to market. Is Carranza “Saving His Face?” Carranza's action in refusing to confer as to peace terms with Villa because of the latter's violation of the rules of warfare is a block in the path of the All-American negotiations, and some little effort may be required to remove it. This excuse is a rather flimsy one, coming from A man who excused the assassination of Benton end others, and who has long been well aware of the character of his late general. In the end it will be rather an awkward proceeding for Carranza to entirely free himself from responsi- bility for Villa’'s many deeds of violence, most of them committed while avowedly a follower and supporter of the “first chief,” who did little or nothing to check the career of his lawless supporter. It may be that Carransza is trying to “save his face,” a practice in which the Mex- fcan politiclan is quite as adept as the Chinese, ond that he will yet be found amenable to the appeal that is to be made to the Mexican people, Pressure from the outside will steadlly increase, and, while only moral suasion i{s to be used for the present, the expediency of joining in a set- tlement that will have the support of all fac- tions may yet appeal even to the peculiar patri- ctism of Carranza. SET—— The City Planning Commission. The municipal authorities are about to in- augurate the city planning commisslon for Omsha provided for by act of the last legisla- ture. Fortunately, positions on the commission do not earry with them any salaries or other per- quisites, so that it should be possible to select the metbers with w sole view to their special llhm to perform the duties devolving upon them. - ' The special need here is for men of broad tar-sighted vision who can see the still | , Omaha ahead, and who will refuse to submit to shackles of greed for present personal Advantege as against community benefits, Omaha's original city plan, as we have before cbserved, was laid out on broad-gauge lines, far in advance of its day, and its modification and further development calls for like broad-gauge ideas. Omgha's best citizenship and best talent has never been wanting when drafted for s big Job, and the mayor and council should not fall to constitute the first city planning commission Gut of the ablest and best equipped men in our cltizenship, —— On to Petrograd. The Nova Vremya, which is the newspaper mouthpiece of the czar's government, sees Petro- srad as the objective of the present German sweep, It argues with reason that no compari- #on may be made between the strategy of today and that of Napoleon. While the principle inv volved may be in some degree analogous, the detalls differ so vastly that the similarity is soon lost. And yet the purpose of the campaign, aride from its main object of erushing Russia, may only be conjectured, for the Germans have not as yet taken any of their foes into full con- fidence as to the intent or detail of any, of theit wilitary operations. Reviewers may easily un- derstand the possible effect of what has already been accomplished, but to undertake to deter- wine in advance what the next move of the kais- er'’s military machine will be is simply to in- dulge in guesswork. If the present advance Is directed at Petrograd, it will mean that Russia has set before it a task equal to that of France. e— Deeper in the Hole, The second fiscal year of the government un- der the present democratic administration closed on June 30 with a deficit in the budget of $38,- 000,000. This would be a serious problem un- der any sort of conditions, but it Is made the more portentous by the fact that the third fis- cul year of Wilson's term begins with the prom- ise of an increased deficit, The revenue for the The Question of Munitions The Outlook. LMOST at the same time Inst week correspondence between the United States and Great Britain and & communication from Austria to the United States were made public. The Austrian communica- tion was sent several weeks ago, but its text was not iesued In translation until August 1. The Austrias communication, on the other hand, though nominally addressed to the government of the United States, s obviously Intended to affect American public opinion Tn thus ‘appealing to American public opinion the government of Austria-Hungary shows astuteness. It has wisely ignored both the objects of Germany and Austria and the methods which they have used to attain these objects, and has directed its appeal to American public opinion on a subject which appeals not to the reason but to the feelings. It has selected for its subject the export of munitions of war, Americans have been horrified at the very magnitude of the war and have wished to avold being drawn into it, 50 the Austrian governs ment virtually says to America: If you wish to keep away from all assoclation with this war and maintan your neutrality, prohibit the export of munitions. The Austrian government skillfully refers to the Hague conventions, to which it knows the American people are by their feelings of humanity attached, and says that those conventions would not interfere with tha prohibition of the export of munitions, because, ac- cording to all authorities on International law, “the neutral government is not permitted to allow unhin dered trade in contraband of war If this trade as sumes such character and proportions that the coun- try's neutrality, is thereby impaired.” The Austrian government then goes on to declars that the extent of American trade in munitions ls such as to impait America’s neutrality. The argument thus comes around to the point where it begins: that it America wishes to observe neutrality it should prohibit the export of munitions of war. On a subject of this sort Americans snould base their opinion, not on impulse and sentiment, but on reason and understanding. In order to -reach a sound conclusion on this subject, the American citizen who wants his country to be law-ablding, just and wise, should consider three questions'concerning the export of munitions: 1. Is it lawful? 2. Is it right? 8. Is it expedient? As to the lawfulness of the citisens of a neutral country dealing in munitions in time of peace or war there is absolutely no question. The lawfulness of such commerce has been affirmed agaln and again, and by such American authorities as Jefterson, Hamil- ton, Beward; Bayard, Blaine, Foster, Olney and Hay. In every war belligerents have ordinarily attempted to secure for themselves whatever benefits they could Germany is not, the only country which has sought to prevent its enemies from getting muitions of war, but no belligerent has ever been able to show the unlaw- fulness of trade in such contraband. It would weary our readers fox us to quote here the decislons thai have been rendered in courts and by executive officers a8 to the lawfulness of such commerce. It is fgir to #say that no practice has been more specifically and uniformly upheld by international law. It is an unneutral act for a country to allow its citizens to sell to one belligerent what that country refuses to allow its citizens to sell to another belligerent. But this s not the case at present. Perhaps the tersest expres: sion of the right is to be found in the words of Thomas Jetferson when he was secretary of state. He said, in 1798, in an official communication: *“Our citizens have been always free to make, vend and export arms.* when secrelary of state, said, in almost as terse language: *Neutrals In thelr own country may sell to beljigerents whatever belligerents choose to buy.” And by more than one authority, including Mr. Seward, Lincoln's secretary of state, it is pointed out into what tangle of law and practice the prohibition on commerce in arms would involve such a ,wtr-l Country as the United States. ‘ What Austria asks of us, therefore, is mot to ob- #orve law already made, but on our own initiative and by our own independent action to make a special International law for its benefit. But, though the export of arms may be lawful, the question remains whether it is right, There are some things that the law allows which are wrong. 18 this one of them? Those who hold that the making or export of arms in time of war is wrong must base their bellef on the assumption that war itself la neces sarily wrong, for it it ie ever right to make war it e also right to make the instruments by which war 15 waged. We do not belleve that American citizens who celebrate with pride the Fourth of July or Memorial day will take the position that war is necessurily always wrong. If 1t"®as right to make war against the British redcoats in 171, If it was right to make war in defense of the unfon in 1861, it was right to make the muskets for the continentals and the rifles for the Army of the Potomac. And it it was right to make those arms, it was right for us to buy them from others and for others to sell them to us. The only ground on which an American whe remembera the history of his country with pride can believe that it is wrong to export arms is that the particular belligerent to which those arms are sold is engaged in an unholy war. This position an individual can take, but he cannot ask his country to take that position without asking his country to become un. neutral. So long, therefore, as an American citizen wishes his country to remain neutral, he must hold that it is in accordance with good morals as well as in accordance with law for fellow countrymen of his to sell arms to a belligerent. What s both lawful and right, however, may be Inexpedient. Is it expedient for the United States to allow its citizens to sell arms to foreign nations at war? The United States cannot advocate in this mat- ter a rule which cannot bo universally applied. To oppose the selling of arms to other nations means to advocate the rule that no nation shell use any arms except those that it manufactures itself. This would mean that Switserland, a little country, surrounded by great nations, would have to tax itself for the man- tenance of great arms factories If it were golng to defend itself against enemies; it would mean that so long as the possibility of war and the consequent necessity of defensive war exist every country wou'd have to adopt the militariam of Germany and estah lish for itself its Krupp works; that every country, no matter how devoted to peace it was, woull have to keep armed to the teeth; it would mean specifically that the United States would hive to deny itsel? the right to buy arms from other nations in time of war, and therefore would have to prepare at once grec. ammunition The very statement of this fact shows that a rule against the export of arms would be highly lnex- The Antidote for the Hates. OGALALLA, Neb, Aug. 12~To the Editor of The Bee: Let those would-be beligerents who want to help the kalser und Gott “strafe” England, or help to Joffre Germany off the map, let them take a slant at the Mutt and Jeff pio- tures in the Sunday Bee, August 8 they are a good antidote for the hates. EDWIN M, SEARLE. Reorganize American Illustrators. OMAHA, Aug. 12—To the Editor of The Bee: When Edwin H. Blashfield was in Omaha some two years ago to lec- ture before the Soclety of Fine Arts, he said, in conversation, that If anyone came to him from abroad and would wish to see American art he would point first to our illustrators. In scanning over Omaha's art acquisi- tions we notice the lack of this, one of America’s foremost branches of art. One should be aware that the average citizen is not necessarily deeply lmmersed in the study of ofl paintings. The illustrators of current books and magazines have their admirers. a suggestion to that they recognize the need of an auxillary collection to thelr anticipated purchases. Omaha should have In its municipal collection an original of such artists as A. B. Frost, Leyendecker, Franklin Booth, Gruger, Castigne, Gibson, Fisher, Flags, Foster, Wenzel, A. L Keller, Maxfield Parrish, Howard Pyle, Orson Lowell, Reutardahl or others, These artists have their de- vout admirers and rightly so. Surely a public organization could procure through the publishers specimens of the artist's works at a very nominal cost in com- parison to the high prices asked for oil paintings. They would exhibit a wide range of technic and would never lose value as an asset to any collection. DOANE POWELL, Not a Religious War, OMAHA, Aug. 13.—To the Editor of The Bee: I do not agree with Lucien Steb- bins that the European war is a religious war. Austria did not Impose its religion on Berbla, as this writer states. Catholio Austria declared war on Serbla. It can- not be called a Catholic war unless Aus- tria was ordered by the pope to declare war, which is outside of his jurisdiction. Bimply because the emperor of Austria s a Catholic does not make it a religious war, nor President Poincaire of France being an infidel make it an infidel war. No power In Europe has worked more for peace than the pope. If we call the present struggle a religious war it would be Protestant war and not Catholie, for Emperor Willlam of Germany is the head of the Lutheran church, King George the head of the Anglivan and the czar the head of the Russian church. Here are the heads of the three largest communions in Europe outside of the Catholie fighting eaoh other. And only one, as head of a church, that tried to prevent and is trying to bring the war to an end is the head of the Cathollc church, But it Is not right to blame the Protes- tant churches for this war. When Em- peror Willlam ‘declared war on the allies, he did not do it as head of the church, but as the emperor of Germany. The same with the king and the czar. The main cause of this conflict is the struggle for commercial supremacy, A CATHOLIC. Goodbye, Dear Goddess. OMAHA, Aug. 18.—To the Editor of The Bee: As the Goddess of Liberty on the clty hall is about to be removed, allow me to address her, figuratively speaking, and 1n this style: “Dear Goddess of Liberty: When a member of the city council of Omaha I did on the 10th day of June, 1891, assist in placing you on .your high pedestal and from those majestic and lofty heights you e had ample opportunity to ob- serve events and affaire during that quar- ter of a century. You were then a blush- ing maiden in the heyday of your youth, surrounded by men in which you had the utmost confidence, who Installed you in & new palace, one that was completed without the breath of scandal a living monument of economy and strict com- pliance to its plans and specifications. You had scarcely been installed when an attempt was made by mandamus and other proceedings against that council to force them to mccept & bid of $40,000 in place of one of §27,000 for the furniture now in that palace, but the Goddess of Justice on the court house came to the rescue and a §13,000 attempted steal was averted and you were spared your precious tears. However, dear, goddess, it was not your lot to remain in happiness and contentment, for you In your blissful ignorance and Innocence were soon intro- duced to a gay world, when in 1882 you found yourselt in company with men whose conduct you did not approve and whose presence was so odlous to you, and for nearly five years you suffered the suffering of the meek and humble in the Garden of Olivets. In your infancy .you beheld a beterogeneous community, but soon saw it turned into a community of demons, & discordant and diversified mass of people. You soon found our con- stitutional provision of liberty of con- sclence but a mockery and the “Goddess of Bigotry and Fanaticlsm' about to be installed in your prace and stead. You, dear, Goddess of Liberty, for a period of five years, or nearly so, saw the people's taxes ruthlessly squandered against the earnest protest of a helpless minority, and you wept. Again you wept when, dur- ing that regime you beheld our treasury looted of thousands of dollars, the fruits and legacy of thelr predecessors’ econ- omy, and this all taking place under the and I assure you that had you remained during the balance of this administration, you would have had no occasion for sob bing or sighing. 8o, goodbye, dear lady." ED F. MOREARTY THE QUIET LIFE. Canton (Ohio) Reposiary.) I do not want to be a king Or potentate or anything Like that. I do not want to fight; 1 want to get my sleep at night 1 would not trade my cot For any castle they have got Who go forth girdled for the fray, To, burn and loot, outrage and slay. 1 éan go home and sit at ease Aud hold my kid npon my knees And look out at my garden plot And be contented with my lot. 1 can take in a picture show And not be mervous when I go Or fear some titled enemy Wil drop a lyddite bomb on me. Lt o diplomatic note Which stirs me up and gets my goat No murder is upon my soul, For world dominion’s not my goal I'm happy as a common lob, Who's got a_home, also a job. I would not trade my state of mind With any one of royal kind. No blood of Infants stains my hands; I have invaded no one's lands 1 would not trade my old felt hat For all the caps and helmets that Are worn in any crazy realm That soeks to siay and overwhelm. Gold braids and clanking sabers punk To me are merely useless junk. LINES TO A SMILE. The Caller—Your husband is wedded is he not? K Yot much. He seems to d to it.—Puck | Jones—1 don't see your husband at the elub of late, Mrs. Brown. Mrs. Brown—No, he stays at home now and enjoys life in his own way s I want him to.—Houston Chronicle. “There's mnot much petticoat rule nowa- days, in spite of yotes for women,” was “‘!‘ri\'n," smiled McFee; “there’s not much petticoat.” —Judge. “Blinks says that when he was young he was the architect of his own fortune.” “Didn’t they have any bullding in- spectors In those days?"—Philadelphia Ledger. : uWhat In Hot Weather EATS, heavy should be eaten very sparingly during hot weather. EAT MORE SPAGHETTI to Eat and greasy foods, They heat the system and tax the digestion. Faust Spaghetti ought to be indulged in during summer not only because it does not heat and is very easy ‘to digest, but because it is also ex- tremely nutritious. It contains the rich gluten of Durum wheat, which is a blood enricher and muscle builder. There is practically no end to the ways that Faust Spaghetti can be pre- pared to make relishable eating. Write for free recipe book. MAULL BROS. 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