Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 17, 1915, Page 4

Definite Note on Munitions. The reply of the United Btates to the Aus- trian note on the question of sale and shipment of munitions of war more definitely restates the position adhered to from the first by our gov- orament. The principle Involved has been ex- plained many times, but to give force to its ap- plication, the course of Germany and Austria in the past is cited In {llustration of commercial transactions with warring countries and serves to justify the present attitude of the United Btates. The deeper point at issue fs not touched upon, however, even inferentially, in the note. This is that the principle of non-intercourse between neutrals and belligerents can be made applicable only by international agreement. It may come as & part of the future peace plan, re- quiring that international disputes be left to an international court for determination. Any pation that refuses to so submit its case may then find itself cut off from commerce with the other nations, and at s decided disadvantage. This form of international boycott would be the means of enforcing submission to the decrées of the arbitration courts, and in a measure at least take the place ‘of the resort to arms by which disagreements between nations are now settled. But for this war it 1s out of the question for any one country to change the accepted rules governing belligerents and neutrals. THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, Aimed at Omaha Blatr Tribune: THE OMAHA DAILY BEE "I FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. 34 VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. ' __The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. A. BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. at Omahs postoffice as second-class matter. TERMS OF IUB.C;lPTIONA Through the columns of The In the allowing the contract for the construction of the auditorium of the Kearney Normal to the highest bid- dor has been exposed. The usual custom in letting contrafts of this sort is to award the job to the low- est bidder; not o, however, in this case, for the high- est bidder got the Job. Doesn’t that smack of dirty politics in our state schools. y carrier By mall Seward Blade: Five meat markets in Omaha have paid fines aggregating $90 with cost added, for the offense of using sodium sulphite to preserve ham- burger steak. Tt destroys tell-tale odors and produces & bright red appearance, decelving the purchaser. The rural visitor to the city has a variety of unfit food wished on him—for instance chicken ple composed of aged rabbits REMITTANCE. By draft, express or postal order. Omly two- Perponal checks, ox and eastern alfit The ’ mell fre—14 street. OFFICRS. Building. 8 N e % Fourteents Se. N. W CORRESPONDENCE, [ g TR g el ey AT o L 3 R ———————————————— e e JULY CIROULATION. 53,977 Douglas, ss.: Battle Creek Enterprise: The Omaha Bee has learned why the pepulace was disappointed” with the Automobile races in Omaha a short time age At the Des Moines tournament one driver was kuled and two serjously injured, while Omaha got away without a fatality. Riverton Review (dem.); If Nebraska democracy s Again to be a living, vital force in our state democracy, Hitchcockism has got to go. That fact might just as well be understood first as last. The day has set when Gilbert M. Hitcheock's reign is to ba permitted His uscendancy in democratic ranks has peen but the dissolution of the strength the party was heir to be- fore he was thus elevated. If Hitehoockism is to pre- ot W ase, dnu%-’ ‘manager of The Bee — vall in Nebraska, then count 20,000 democrats out of SoTEn 'tor The ‘manth oC 3y, 1916, was Now for a Demonstration. the party until such time as sobey senses and sober thinki R While it {s hardly to be expected that the | meare . toesrnio that party. Hitchcock's leadership ‘WILLIAMS, Ciroulation “"“fl means & leadership of special Interests; it means a and sworn to jore | president will accept The Bee's Invitation to | leadership of breweries; it means a leadership of Notary Publie. prove democratic devotion to the prineiple of a | standpatism and retrogression; it means anything and erything repulsive to the moral, intelligent and pro- essive citisenship of & great state. That's what Hitchcookism stands for as it is pevsonified in his scts, his deeds and the fellowship that surround him. nonpartisan judiciary by appointing a republican tc the vacancy on the federal bench here, he has a grand opportunity, which he should not pass, to give us a demonstration of the policy of pub- lieity advocated as a democratic principle by a recent member of his cabinet family, For some time the demand of Mr., Bryan bas been that in the selection of judges the people be taken fully into the confidence of the appointing power by waking public all the endorsements filed for every person under consideration, together with tite names of every one in any way urging the claims of any candidate. The purpose, of course, is to expose to open view all the wicked hfls====_-—— influences at work to put creatures in life tenure -mm—mm;‘u"_ B. C. vlaces on the bench, and thus to frustrate every Fremont Tribune: Omaha finds that with its Ereater girth as a result of annexation It must pro- vide an ampler budget. Of course, whem knicker- bockers are discarded for men's sise, the price in- creases accordingly. Kearney Democrat: A portion of the greater city of Omaha fs to be prohibition—saloonless, according to the statement of Commissioner Kugel, who says: “There will be no saloons, or even pool halls in Dun- dee If T can prevent them going there.” Of course, that will not appeal to Mayor “Jeems,” and we are wondering If Mayor “Jeems" is powerless to veto the notions of Commissioner Kugel. 2 Paplillion Times: Let Omaha hold another booster insidious effort to control the courts. day for the Omaha base ball team and it wil ? only the beginning of the alphabet. But will the president do 1t? Will Mr. | apell last Dlace for that agsresation. Somthing. iy " . : ‘Bryan set the example by himself proclaiming | radically wrong and the owner of the team must feel h‘ side “m‘-.lm‘m'.";“m"-: his own preferred cholce for the federal Judge- | th® PADE of financial stringency caused by having a 9 A ey o tall end team. Papillion fans now never mention or the same. ship? Or is there & difference here, 3 think of attending a Western league game in Omaha 2 DR e tween democratic preaching and practice? while a fow years ago with a winning team scores Carranza Holding Off. General Carranza has announced that he will not interfere with the circulation of the All- ipts all over | American peace note through that portion of the game of | Mexico where ho dominates, but he is negatively lukewarm in his personal attitude towards the plan for pacifying his country and giving it such government as may restore it soon to its be had 0ut | piace among nations, Carransa has been con- of Btate | yigtont in one thing at least. He has nevet evinced any Inclination to eliminate himself attended the games daily. or, at least, a near winner. Beaver City Times-Tribune: Omaha had Harry K. Thaw one day this week and will have Rev. Billy Sunday next month. Not satisfled with these two at- tractions, it s clamoring for the democratlc national convention next summer. There's nothing too good for Omaha. It pays to have a winner Kearney Hub: Nearly every one in Omaha is en- gaged In a Billy Sunday controversy. But Billy will come and Pilly will go. He will besin with a slam and quit with a bang, Some one, indeed several some ones, will be waked up. And when the dust has cleared away Omaha will be a better town by & whole Jot t:n it was before. Methods? It e results that ‘eoun| P ) el i “Hastings Tribune: Mayor Dahiman won a mule race in Omaha the othes Nope, that isn't just exactly it—Mayor Jim drove a mule that won a race. No harm ataliatall. the country. He has been too deeply involved®in the disorder of Mexico to be-a really acceptabie leader under the peace movemént, and yet he ore influence in the Tt is not incon- Nebraska City Press: Omaha seems €5 be well pleased over the announcement that a manufacturing enterprise In that town has received a big order for shrapnel, a suborder from a Pittsburgh concern. Thers are various ways in which to show one's pleasure; ours lles in a different direction. ‘ Twice Told Tales I Had Heard it Before. ‘While engaged In a conversation two prominent po- lice magistrates began telling storles of funny cases that had been brought before them. “Probably the funniest I ever had,”” remarked one, “was an aged colored man, bearing the earmarks of the south, who applied to me for a warrant. The of- fender, it seems, had been blaspheming Rastus before ‘of 23 per cent with | and that he will yet take part in the peace con- ‘wheat would quickly | ference, but just now he rieks forfeiting 'his Discipline at Annapolis. The report of the court of inquiry, sitting at i p _men in .-r H:’:..fihul:“t:‘h-llh'mmlflv:hhh gov- | world. Conditions that gave rise to the ing two weeks ago, but he's ben worse'n evah, sah. might prevail at any school, and likely would | ¥ %4, ttand him no Jongah! . e to me T meet with similar prompt #ctlon on dlscovery. | have heard that name somewhere before.' for | The course of study at the Annapolis academy “ ‘Yes, sah, he answered, with alacrity, “two ‘yoar, an | ir severe, but it has been adopted as the result | Weeks ago, rah.’ “—Philadelphia Press. sume as “officers and gentlemen.” this more than any other tradition of the guilty ones offended. They were of deliberate cheating, and, there- for the service of thelr country, i e 513 i % 1 il | | i i [! AUGUST 17, Omaha Hee the tricking of the State Normal Board | 191 N : \J Dissents Most Emphatienily. OMAHA, Aug. 13.~To the Editor of The Bee: Lucien Stebbins must have read “War Time Warnin or “The Power Behind the Scenes in the Great War," an anti-Catholic pamphlet issued by the Protest Truth soclety of England, and circulated throughout the United States. I would remind Lucien, gently, but firmly, that no Catholic state ever tried" to impose its religion upon & non- Catholic state. Would to God that the same could be sald of the non-Catholic states of Burope. ANNA CARROLL. 08 North Eighteenth Street. * Taxpayer Asks Pointed Que OMAHA, Aug. ¥—To the Editor Bee: From newspaper reports 1 see that the city of Omaha s going to ask the people of Dundee to pay the regular city levy for 1916, and in addition pay on a levy of 42 miles, which was adopted by the village board for the fiscal year, 1915-1916, before consolidation became a fact. It appears to me that Dundee prop- erty owners will be hit right hard if this goes through, and for two reasons: ¥irst, they compel that community to pay for two fiscal periods in one year. Second, they are taxing them twice for the period of Januaty 1 to April 30, 1916, which period is covered by both levies. Again, South Omaha property is taxed by the city commissioners to the amount of $122,000 to cover the period of differ- ent flscal years. But instead of taxing this difference to South Omaha property, as In the case of Dundee, the city coun- cil asks that the entire property of Greater Omaha pay for it and this, of course, Includes Dundee, I think one of the fundamentals of taxation must be uniformity, therefore it ia highly im- probable that the above outlined methods will stand the test of courts. TAXPAYER, Prevention Preferable to “Goats.” OMAHA, Aug. 13~To the Editor of The Bee: Hver the contest goes on be- tween expense, or saving money, arrayed against the value of a human life! Over a thousand persons were killed in the Iroquols theater holocaust before rigld exit laws were demanded. Nearly forty lives were given up as a sacrifice to & weak and rotten girder iIn the municipal auditorium at Long Beach, Cal. Rallroads murdered thousands of people for years before safety devices and pro- tection were offered. Sickness, disease and death was the vanguard of our pure food laws, Adulterators of foodstuffs would ruin the health of a nation for a few paltry cents of profit. The 1N~ fated Titanic was allowed to leave port with only enough lifeboats for a third of the passengers. Think of the fire in | the Triangle bullding in New Ygrk, where 150 girls were hurned to death and killed Just because the only thought of the factory owner was money! Greed and craze of gold was the power which al- lowed two old rattle-traps—the Slocumb and the Eastland—to _ply their trade. | Always after a terrible catastrophe the | great American public arises to demand | an investigation after the damage is done. This is needless expense. The money should be expended on investiga- tions before accidents. What we need is & report on all buildings, factories, boats, in fact, everything used by or for the Dpublic. Sflence has given consent too long al- ready to the sacrifice of life for accumu- lation of wealth. Now is the appointed time for concentrated action making the Ereatest thing on earth the preservation of a human life! Give us rigld inspection and there will be no “accidents’” nor ‘“‘goats.” C, E. WALSH. Starvation a Financler's Excuse. NORTH LOUP, Neb, Aug. 16.—~To the Editor of The Bee: The people of the United States should keep an eye open to the present movements in Mexico, The dealings of the administration with Carranss do not seem to be fair. That is saying a good deal, but we know that Nebraska had a manin the cabinet who could see nothing In Mexico exvept Villa, and, every favor was shown Villa by that member of the cabinét. When the fact i known that th¢ administra- tion has been permitting franchises in the natural resources of this country, to a coterle of high fimanclers, why should we be swrprised In seeing the same ad- ministration showing favors to those financiers in Mexican affairs, where they have natural resources umexcelled? My aasertion, by many people, may be ques- tioned; but I am ready, at any time, to show the exact franchises disclosing the purported facts. Carranga has said “no" to those high financlers of Wall street, and they have set out to get Carranza out of that country. The people down is the only honorable means to peace. WALTER JOHNSON. Monoglot vs. Esperanto. TILDEN, Neb., Aug. 14.—To the Bditor of The Bee: The scholarly and compli- mentary recognition of D. C. John of [ etomologists of the world, representing ail the progressive nations. “L 'That it has not a sufficient vocabu- lary,” Being Romance-Teutonic, from the Argan tree, and If & root is found n The heretofore numerous forms of the Hebrew verb, that are in- expressible in any other language, with- out & redundant circumlocution, find logi- cal expression in analytical forms. Par- mmnwulflo‘m-m‘mmi Washington Star. wish Percival the student to be a linguist, he finds ™ himself by this means on the approach to comprehend the related idioms, and able to scan them as he progresses. “a. That one must be slavishiy depends ent on the lexicon.” The word bullding is the most ingenious part of Heperan- tism, for the word parts, with the ays- tematically framed, affixes and correla- tives, make the expressions leap up and clothe the idea. b. The average monolingulst has 70 per cent of the roots, and if he has Latin or the elements of another language, he will add thereto. For a means of the analytic of belng used In scores and scores of words, with all shades of flexibility as well as opposites, by means of fixed affixes. CHARLES P, LANG. Rloudine—1 et Brunetta—Why ? point into my ear.—Judge. in breadstuffs? ‘Somet! speculation and often it veast.” —Baltimore American. like to have something around She—Oh, anything— Gargoyle. EVENSONG. An Old Hymn With Variations. OMAHA, Aug. 16~To the Editor of The Bee: A few days ago The Bee pub- Iished the famous, or otherwise, poem declaring ;the hate of the Germans for Engiand. I remembered reading some weeks ago & description of that poem, for the supposed writing of which the supposed author had been decorated with the iron cross by the German emperor. I looked up the article I read it in and in the Literary Digest of June 26, page 1588, I find a correspondent of the Lon- don Morning Post who say “The famous ‘Hymn of Hate' is noth- ing but a bold plagiarism. "George Herwegh, the stubborn Ger- man revolutionary of seventy years ago, was the author of this ‘Hymn of Hate' and addressed it to Prussia (whence he was expelled) and the Prussian tyranny of 1Ml In its original form it read: ‘We all have only one common foe— 18 at its endin ing to be free. row's fresh intending. home to me. Far ) beyond the canyons of the street. eager wi and fleet. but never love like this— its deepest and its best ever in our dreaming? to me. | easlly, and really instead of requiring |aloug and persuades me to take s drink.” wouldn v wear a fountain pen in his breast pock- Biondine—] am continually running the ‘What do you suppose causes the rise Ames It is strikes, sometimes the failure of the wheat crop, sometimes is just piain She—Oh, Charies, It 18 80 cold.. I would He—~What would yvou care to have? And he brought a shawl—Michigan Winifred Wells in the Independent Lay aside your tools of labor, for the day Mind and Soul And body all are elamor- Put away today's misfortune and tomor- Turn your footsteps through the city noisome pavements where the lights gleam gold and _gay, Like swollen bubbles bobbing down the I await your weary spirit as it wings ita "y On the pinions of your longing strong There my arms that ache with tender- ness shall hold you to my breast— 0Old loves have been, new loves may be, There the heart of me shall keep you for And your griefs shall be forgotten in my Kiss. Shall it matter if the trysts we hold are Shall we yearn in vain for things we know can never, never be? Sweeter far than worlds that are, secret world of only seeming, When at dusk I feel you coming home the a2 Prussia.’ = it “Ernst Lissauer, who several months ago published in Jugend the 'Hymn of Hate,” which has at present such. a vogue In Germany, simply substituted England for Prussia in Herwegh's earlier lucubration. “Sie Historia nascitur.” I do mot know what the Latin words mean, but I think they ought to mean “Be sure to get your history on straight.” JONATHAN EDWARDS, LINES TO A SMILE. “Papa, what do you call a man who runs an auto?” ‘It depends on how near he comes Lo hitting me.”—Houston Post. “Can’t I persuade you to sign the pledge ™ “I s'pose s0," replied Uncle Bill Bot- tletop. ‘“The only trouble is that I'm gettin' 80 easy persuaded that every time 1 sign the pledge sume fell)w comes Uniess you say Safe Nk Infants end Invalids HORLICK'S '‘HORLIOKX: you raay got a substitute. MALTED MILK mo Food-Drink for all m.m ilk, malted grain, in For afuntarvalbde i proing children Pure nutrition, upbuilding the whole body. Invigorates nursing mothers ad the aged. More healthful than tea or coffee. Get the Punch! By J-;- O’Hara Day HE punch is the deeciding thing in'a lot of other places besides the prize ring. Jess Willard is not the only man who has stepped into fame and fortune by having the right punch at the right time. Ifa pla’v‘iuceeeds, it does 8o because it has the punch—because, at the psychological moment, it springs the line that makes the audience sit up and take notice. The place where the right punch can make most money is in advertising. I have labored through advertisements that were harder to read than Plutarch’s Lives. But I have seen others that held the gfinfion as tightly as the greatest piece of on. There is today a man drawing $25,000 a year from a big corporation because he can uggodtheidmthatwfllmkcthepublio do Why 1 : It is because he has in his brain the punch. With a or a certain line of type he ean the attention of the reader. Doegthonght;ndizagimtionmnmo- in scwlpture, poelry and painting. Imagination is the essential of e Y success. Fortune was never built ?:ymbg thing but originality. And imagination and originality are the things that produce the pwnch. Thefublicwxntstobeh’tbotmnthe eyes. It likes to have a semsation. And everybody who can get a thrill out of a news- paper advertisement becomes interested im- mediately in the establishment which put out that advertisement. The stronger the punch, the bigger the mflc. The more gripping the sensation, more continuous is crowd that comes to you. Get away from the cut-and-dried “69% a M"Bugdwmethingmlmdit.Adomif. If you have sense enough to do business, you have brains enough to talk abowt it in commanding style. 4 Imgmeho‘ lthOngmm‘ i faometl»‘ug! Make our house synon; or good reading i tie Sivatiing tabases. i — /|