Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 26, 1915, Page 6

THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, ‘l'Hh OMAHA' DAILY BEE‘ FOUNDED BY IDWARD ROHEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR e ———— e ey The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. BEE BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. e bt Bt St el Entered at Omahs postoffice as second-class matter. R ——— e TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION y carri or per menth By mail Der year. nln‘ and !un‘u ening _without 8 t o }H.”mm““ .:' fm % aha .&o-&"sl:fln mfin«*n M drafe, uvn- = postal nr«v two- Oni; Bulhnnl onm‘ll Dl\l 1‘ Nofih !d! atreet. e e i) ;nmn 508 New Bank of wm— Folrteenth 8t., N. S ———te e e e e e CORRESPONDENCE, " rmane o Maiaradd Beparimett B Ratier To "Grnana Bem, S ————————— e e JULY CIRCULATION. 53,977 z-nn. County of Douglas, Pubhiotiag compeny. ”"""4“\3" :‘v.o':'.n“:-;: being duly 3 mfl ciroulation for the mouth or July, RWIGHT WILLIAME, Ctrouiation M sul M in my pr‘u!uro me, this 34 RO RAT HUNTER, Notary Publlo. Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Beo mailed to them. Ad- fi-l'mkw-ofln-mm r Thought for the Day | ll Shakespeare was parily wrong— ‘The Bee t the was o “betore This ve admitied by the bard’s detractors; Had William seen svme Hamiets of this age He'd not have cdiled all men upon it actors, ‘ —John Kenurick Bangs. l The world’s a slage, Looks ag if the court had interposed a nega- tive on the camera trust, Spm————— From the list of fire protection ‘“needs’ of Omaha the underwriters clearly do not need a nerve tonic. EE———— All in all, Omaha-made schooi teachers have very generally made good, and need take back seats for none. | Frequent postponements of the jitney game should impress upon city hall sports the need of providing rain checks. Spme—— No more cabinet changes—till the next one. But there will be more of them before the term 61 the present administration runs out. Attorney General Reed is trying hard to take his revised version of the state constitution seri- ousty. But he fa the only one who is dolug so. l Of course, the imminence of the “Billy" Sun- Cay campalgn has nothing whatever to do with the suddenly renewed activity of the Anti- Saloon leaguers. SHEEEnm—— Colonel Bryan shows characteristic caution in urging less speed as a measure of safety for ~mational prohibition. Time is necessary to ac- custom th tional stomach to grape juice, SEm—— _ Bethlehem Steel has advanced the wages of its employes 25 per cent in six months. A con- osrn working on rush orders at fancy prices ws masterly discretion in bidding all the hfly to the feast. S—— 4 mmumnmanl $2,000 to pay the running expenses of the South Omaha _‘mmmlnnnh.mr. Per- Our local democratic contemporary wants to apply the democratic free trade idea to the em- of school teachers. The theory of the tariff is to send abroad to get the goods regardiess of the effect on the i‘ The surrender of oriental trade ‘forelgn shipping emphasizes the historio genlus of the democratic party in knocking American business, H C—— . German thoroughness needs no gublicity agent, and it iy not confined to war. The es tablishment of traln service between Lille and Warsaw, conquered enemy cities, eleven days after the capture of the Pollsh capital, shows elvie 2;_{{’32 i i presented Miss Dempsey vil's Auction” with the pictuse of the Eng- Fiek she 80 successfully takes off in her great I | showing without unnecessary delay. Germany's Request for Time. While it has brought some little relief to a situation #o tense and delicate that it turns al most on trifles, the German request for an op- | portunity to present its version of the Arabic | sinking is not occasion for surprise. Under the | circumstances Germany could not be expected to maintain silence, unless actually seeking rup- | ture with the United States. This contingency | {s remote, and not now worth setious considera- tion. As we sald in our original comment on the case of the Arabic, fairness requires that the German side of the story be heard, provid- ing the reguest for time is not merely a dilatory move, The United States will not take actlon, | whatever its course may be, until it has been finally and fully advised in the matter The German government undoubtedly realizes the gravity of the situation as regards its continued friendly relations with this country, and for this reason is expected at Washington to make its In Jefferson's Footsteps. | Pormer Governor Alva Adams of- Colorado touched off a fine bit of fireworks in the gov- ernors’ conference at Boston, when he objected to any reform in state government, looking to | extension of the governor's share In its adminis- | tration, saying such would be a departure from | Jeffersonian and a turning to Hamiltonian prineiples. Nothing seems to act on an old line democrat like the fear of any of Alexander Hamilton’s ideas being incorporated in our political life, and next is his aversion to follow ing any but the footsteps of Thomas Jefferson. A century of test has proven that Jefferson was wrong on some points, and particularly the un- due restriction of the power of the executive, President Wilson, himself, has been one of the most notable of vandals when it comes to pre- | cedent. The government of the United States has lived only because old John Marshall burst | through strict construction of the comstitution, and gave its spirit such vitality as permitted needed expansion of the functions of govern- ment. The present situation is not what it was in Jefferson’s time, and many things tolerable than are no longer expedient or desirable. No fundamental principle of democracy is endan- gered in an effort to make government more serviceable as well as more responsive to the people. War and Wall Street. How sensitive the Wall street stock market is in these unsettled days is shown by the fact that just a note from one of the warring coun- tries to the government of the United States that commits it to nothing, can be made the excuse for a general upshoot in prices. As a symptom, this indicates a more feverish condition than ia really good for the health of business. Throughout the country the business situation in reasonably improving; good crops have fol- lowed the planting, and trade generally is re- sponding to the forward {mpulse. Only in Wall street is uncertainty apparent, and as this fs | entirely of a speculative nature, it might be ig# vored, were It not for the positive {nfluence of Wall street's financial temperature on the rest of the country. 8o far, the establishment of the regional reserve banks has not had the offect of freeing the country entirely from the domina- tion of what has become the world's greatest fmancjal center. Therefore, what interests Wall | street must concern the rest of the country, if | only indirectly, and so long as the stock market is supersensitive to war rumors, must more or less disturbance be felt by industry and com- merce generally. o—— Fire Underwriters Going it a Bit Strong. Agitation for increased fire alarm preven- | tion and fire fighting equipment for Omaha has brought out a detailed statement from the en- gineering authority of the Natlonal Board of | Underwriters, which if fully carried out, in ad- dition to existing facilities, would render Omaha almost a paradise for fire insurance comp It would be next to impossible for a bullding to take fire, and if that phenomenon did exist, it is inconceivable that any serious loss could oceur, Next to stationing a fireman on duty at all times in each bullding within the city limits, the insurance people have asked for about everything else imaginable as the price of ad- vancing Omaba to a classification entitled to a lower rating schedule, It is out of the question that Omaha meet these requirements within a number of years, because of the colossal expense | involved and the large amount of work neces- sary to earry out the physical detatls of the pro- gram. Omaha citizens e steadily sought to Improve the condition of their city as to fire risk. Substantial improvements have been made in water supply, in personnel and equip- ment of the fire department and in other ways to add to the safety from fire risk. Vigllance of inspection has been increased and preventive measures extended and evea now & considerable expenditure for improved ap- paratus for the firemen is contemplated, but to no apparent avall so far as rellef from exorbdi- tant rates are comcermed. Does it not seem reasonable for us to look to the underwriters to show some signs of recognizing what has bheen doune instead of Insisting en hogging it all for — England imitates German industrial methods by taking over the Welsh coal mines and ending the friction between miners and owners. The latter resisted the wage demands of the work- ers, urging them to wait until “the war was over,” The goverument then took control, satis- fied the demands of the workers and will settle with the owners “‘after the war.” The govern- ment thus safeguards itself and hands the mine owners the medicine prescribed for the workers, —— “Coming events cast their shadows before,” A foretaste of what is coming with nationwide suffrage is supplied by the politics of the Na- tional Educational association. The annual con- | test for the presidency, man against woman, develops political scheming and buttonholing rivaling the best efforts of national party con- | ventions. EE——— One of the few war reports from Turkey | worthy of instant eredence comes from Con- stantinople. It announces a grave situation in the Gallipoli peninsula. The grave business is too brisk to admit of funeral services, ¥ AUGUST Tolstoy's Prophetic Vision e IRtOEVieW tess Nastasia Tolstoy, in the aatuma of 1910. This startling interview was fitet printed in The Bes in 1913 and again in August of last year, and now OnOe more after a year of the great war. CPPYHIS is a revelation of events of a universa T character which must shortly come to pass. Thelr apiritual outlines are now before my eyes. 1 mee floating upon the surface of the mea of human fate the huge silhoustte of a nude woman, She s~ with her beauty, her polse, her smile, her Jewels—a super-Venus. Nations rush madly after her, each of them eager to attract her cspeclally. But she, Iike An eternal courtesan, flirts with all. In her hair ornament of diamonds and rubles is engraved her name, ‘Commerclalism.’ As ailuring and bewitching as she seems, much destruction and agony follows in her wake. Her breath, reeking of sordid transactions, her volce of metallic character like gold and her look of greed are so much polson to the nations who fall victima to her charms, “And behold, she has three gigantic arms, with three torches of universal corruption in her hand. The first torch represents the flame of war that the beautiful courtesan carries from clty to city and country to country. Patriotism answers with flashes of honest | flame, but the end Is the roar of guns and musketry “The second torch bears the flames of bigotry and hypocrisy. It lights the lamps only in temples and on the altars of sacred institutions. It carries the seed of falsity and fanaticlsm. It kindles the minds that ure st'll in cradles and follows them to their graves ““The third toroh 1s that of the law, that dangeroua foundation of unauthentic traditions, which first does its fatal work in the family, then sweeps through the Inrger worlds of ilterature, art and statesmanship. “The great conflagration will start about 1912, set by the torch of the first arm In the countries of south- castern Europe, It will develop into a destructivo calemity in 1913, In that year I see all Burope in flames and bleeding, I hear the lamentations of huge hattlefields. But about the year 1915 a strange figure from the north—a new Napoleon—enters the stage of the bloody drama. He is a man of little militaristic training, a writer or a journalist, but in his grip most | of Europe will romain until 1925, The end of the great calamity will mark a new political era for the O World. There will be left no empires and kingdoms, but the world will form a federation of the United States of Nations. There will remain only four great glants—the Anglo-Saxons, the Latins, the Slavs and the Mongolians “After the year 125 I see a change in religious sentiments. The second torch of the courtesan has brought about the fall of the church.: The ethical fdea has almost vanished. Humanity s without the moral feeling. But then, a great reformer arises. He will clear the world of the relice of monothelsm and lay the cornecrstone of pantheism. God, soul, #plit and immortality will be molten in a new furnace, and I see the penceful beginning of an ethical era. The man determined to this mission s a Mongolian-8lav. He Is already walking the earth—a man of active affairs, He himself does not now realize the mission assigned to him by a superior power. “‘And behold the flame of the third torch, which hes already begun to destroy our family relations, our standards of art and morals, The relations between woman and man Is accepted & prosalc partnership of the sexes. Art has become realistic degeneracy. Political and religlous disturbances have shaken the spivitual foundations of all nations., Only small spots hers and there have remained untouched by thowe three destructive flames. The anti-national wars in Europe, the class war of America and the race wars of Asla have stranled progress for half a cen- tury. But then, in the middle of history, I see a hero of literature and art rising from the ranks of tho latine and purging the world of the tedlous stuff of the obvious. Tt is the light of symbolism. In place of the poly y and monogamy of today there wil come poetrogamy—a rel~tion of the sexes based funda- mentally upon poetic conceptions of life “And I soe the nations growing wiser and realising that the alluring woman of thelr destinies s, after all, nothing but an illusion. There will be time whea the world will have no use for armies, hypocritical religlons and degencrate art. Life is evolution, and evolution is development from the simple to the more complicated forms of the mind and body. I see the pass'ng show of the world-drama fn its present form, how it fades like the glow of evening upon the mountains. One motion of the hand of Commerciallsm and a new history begine." Aimed at Omaha Nebraska City Press: The Omaha Bee reporters call the Press' attention to the fact that the Julia did not pass down the river a few days ago as this news- paper Intimated, and insinuated, The Press is glad (o make the pioper correction. We are glad to know the Julia 18 still floating and untorpedoed, and that Omaha newspapers have not been deprived of thelf one best bet in the way of news Inspiration, Tlastings Tribune: Tl Omaha printers who hired a colored band for their plenic added plenty of tone and color to the affair. Kearney Hub: The Omaha Bee speaka of the futile efforts of the bullmoose to shake off Porge W Perkins. Well, why should he be shaken off, whea he really owns the ciitter and should be able to do what he pleases with it? Beatrice Sun: It Is no secret that Senator Hiten. eock has taken a very pro-German attitude in tho matter of shipment of ammunition to belligerent countrie: It is very uniikely that there was anything in the nature of a conspiracy about hs actions, but there are many who suspect that he was fishing for votes when he started the ugitation for a policy favor- able to Germany. Hartington Herald: There will probably be some- thing doing when Billy Sunday comes to Omaha. Tt may not be quite as sensational as if “Christ came to Chicago,” but it will be Interesting enough to make mighty good reading, Stromsburg News. Only three weeks ind Rev. William Sunday, D, D., will be on his job at Omaha and some people In Stromsburg who have not been ohurch for so long that the preacher has forgotten what they look like will probably go down to hear him, thinking they are golng to & monkey show. Well, there is a big surprise in store for them. They will listen to a man more tremendously in earnest than any man they ever listened to in all their lives and possibly they may discover two or three things about themselves that they will wonder if other people have known about them. Liair Democrat: We notice in Sunday's paper where the Omaha ball team played a game of bail the other day at Rourke park at which the gate showed the magnificent number of sixty-four pald adinissions. Seems funny out in the country there is no kick on the attendance. It might be that these semi-pros are putting up & better article of base ball than the league. People usually go where they can get the most for their money. Valley Enterprise: The bulldng of thé big tadb- ernacle and cther detalls for the great Billy Sunday meetng in Omaha le progressing nicely. While the evil Influences of that wicked city dre fortitying and cursing the consecrated, Christian peopie are praying and working for the success of that great effort. May September 1 be the beginning of & great reforma- tion In the Nebreska metropolis.™ Sample of Jersey Justice, Jerser justice responds to soothing treatment, com- lnl from the rivht source. An ex-postmaster of ths town of Haworth, convicted of a bestial erime last May, was lowed freedom on a $2000 bond and his sentence de‘erred on five successive occasions. When calied for sentence on August 17, the prisoner did not respond and is supposed to have strotohed his free- dom beyond reach. In the interim Jersey just'cs Jumped all over & man who sold & chunk of ice on Sunday end sent bim to the bastile for ninety days. with his great.niece, Ooune e I a telegram to Governor Harris 26, 1915, MAHA, Aug. 5.~To lhfl.l‘/“lnr of The Bee: 1 want to commend your article on preference for our Omaha girls for teach- ers in our Omaha schools, If we do not glve them a chance to become teachers. where will they get a chanoe—surely not In other cities that let their own grad tates have the first call. I say, as you do, give the Omaha girls a square deal. EX-TEACHER Dilapldated-Looking Autos. OMAHA, Aug. %.~To the Editor of The Bee: Pubiie attention is constantly called to things that detract from the good ap- pearance of the city and the impression it makes on strangers. I am not much of a kicker, but the untidy looks of a large part of the autos seen on our streets cannot help our reputation. I rode down in a jitney yesterday that was positively disreputable and it was no worse dilap- idated than a lot of machines we passed driven by their owners. If a windshield breaks it has to be replaced, and why not right away? Why, so many torn tops and unpainted bodies? Why not keep an auto looking half way respectable? C. I L. The Nes de Stopping. OMAHA, Aug, #.—~To the Editor of The Bee: Of all the fool legislation ever enacted or ever introduced into a law- making body, the one now in force pro- viding for the near side stopping of our #treet cars, takes not only the cake, but the entire bakery. The wildest eyed popullsts in their paimiest days from '68 to '06, either in the KKansas or Nebraska legislature, never dreamed of saddling on the public such a legislative monstrosity; it was uncalled for, unnecessary and serves no earthly purpose. Ffom the title of the ordinance to the signature of the mayor there is not a redeeming feature in it; a legislative enactment providing for the return to the old horse car system, would have far more popular. It is more unpopular than the devil himself, for it is sald of him that were he to dle, there would be some one found who would preach his funeral sermon, yet I doudbt, judging from the un- popularity of this ordinance; that the originator of it would have that dying consolation. If a recall was had on this ordinance it would have more enthusi- astio supporters, than a petition to the Lord for dry weather d sunshine. If this fool law has any admirers or advocates in this city I would advise them for the good of their health and the prospects of a long life, to keep it under their hat, and hold no laudation meetings using a light no greater in power than that of a candle dip. Mayor Jim will you please put a stick of dynamite under this mountain of discontent, and let the passengers give vent to their feelings in their usual tone. ED F. MOREARTY. Tips on Home Topics ! Pitteburgh Dispatch: A cafe in Mata- moras, Mexico, says the wire news, served the other day for 16 cents, American money, the following grub layout: Small porterhouse steak, one pork chop, pota- toes, beans, coffee, bread, cake and one- halt quafl, Tf this is Mexican starvation, lead us to it. Philadelphla Record: What sort of people can these Georglans be who sent asking him to pardon the cowardly convict who, with two or three murders marked against him, attempted still another by attacking Leo M. Frank in prison? Ap- parently they are first cousins in spirit to those persons nearer home who seek to llonize the notorious paranofac just given his freedom. Such incidents throw an unpleasant light upon certain phases of American life. NeW% York World: The United States army officer who sounds a note of alarm over the exportation of horses and mules must belong to the cavalry. In one year we have shipped to Europe 249,357 horses and 62572 mules. It is his opinion that if we want to prepare for defense, the outgo of these useful animals should be stopped at once. Yet the bureau of statistics recently reported that in 1914 we had 20,962,000 horses and 4,449,000 mules. Unless the demand Increases very rapidly, the war will have to last a long time to make serlous inroads upon a supply start- ing from such a basis. | Around the Cities | Cleveland boasts of a $700 advertising masterplecs ‘The Fisherman's Return,’ painted on 5000 square feet of brick wall. Buffalo is having two new railroad stations built—the Lackawanna at the foot of Main street and the New York Central on Exchange and Michigan streets, In five days of the past week traffic | cops of Minneapolis pulled in sixty-six automobile drivers for various {ractures of the regulations. The wood work still continues Agitation for applying blue street oars, reataurants and ice cream pariors operating on Sunday in Des Molnes has Leen squélched by a decision holding these enterprises to be works of necessity. Leeds, Kan, maintains a municipal farm for the treatment of drag and liquor addicts. A two days' Jourse of medical treatment s followed by tlree weeky' of hard work in the fields. Two thou- sand persons have heen thus treated laws to Nebraska Editors B. J. Quinley, who has been business | manager of the Springfield Monitor, has resigned to acoept a position as depuly United States marshal. H. D Leggett is the new business man- ager and local editor of the Ord Weekly | Journal. Editor Davis has @iscovered that | his dutios as postmaster take nearly all his time. Editor F. A. Scherzinger of the Nelson Gasette, who has returned from a visit to the San Francisco exposition via the Panama canal and New York, is printing an interesting series of articles descrip- tive of his trip. The Dixon County Advocate is the pame of & new paper to be launched by the business men of Ponca. Miss Anna Hunt \s to be editor. She was formerly editor of the Kennard Enterprise, and worked for several years on papers at Aurora. been | CakeR UP! Have you ever stopped to ponder What greut fools we mortals be Who search for sin and soirow In & world so full of glee? Have yvou ever stopred to wonder Why what p s you the least Would to optimistic natures Prove a veritable feast? And have you ever pondered Why we grieve and pine and fret Vith the friends of our dear childhood True and loyal to us yet? Look around you and then wonder Jve Cungenial work Whilo so many faly suffer Who no menial job would shirk Look around you and then ponder Why the Good One up on high Should bless you with more wisdom Than the imbecile close by Swing around, my dear Complainer, Swing And fc You around and face the sun every ounce of sadness Il find a pound of fun ' nt von make it If you nurse complaints, they grow s ivate contentment veup Just what vou wow TO8., SIGMUND. SUNNY GEMS. Creditor—~Can't you pay account of that bill you owe me? You will Debtor (grouchily)~How much do \nu; want Creditor bring suit for the balance.- seript KABARET MINSK~ HERE'S WISHING FOR You WHAT You ARE WISHING FOR ME! PINSK~ ARE You STARTING To COMMENCE' AGAIN? R \n,.“her—\\ hy do you think you will have any troubie keeping the engagement | I had to tell the girl, didn't 1? ngerly. ~Puck “Which claret or some champ; “I think I prefer c pngna George. And, besides, we real y ought to do all we can for France."—Life. “Why do you give the waiter so large a tip? "Bm‘luu. a position of extraorinary trust and responsibility rightfully com- noml!hlng on Well, enough to fee a lnwyer to Boston Tran- do ynn prefer, my dear, a little | ds unusual compensation. He f the custodian of a genuine, full-sised sirloin sk. —Washington Star The hen is at once a model and a re buke to human beings of overweening ambitions.” How so?" | “Althoigh the rival of the American { eagle himself as a great national institu- j tion, her highest ambition Is te keep on scratching for a living.'~Baltimore | American. “Our town is considered the Venice of ;.\‘n ush county." | own on a prairie? Why. you have to hawt your drinking water to this al- kall burg." That may be true." “Then where does your resemblance to Venice come in?" ‘We have a large floating population.” ~Loulsville Courfer-Journal { | [ | Conmlmommls With CuicuraSoap Assisted wh ecessary by Cutioura Oint~ men‘t T’l;u;nk:ep the skin fresh and clean Samples Free by Mall leurs sad Otntment sold m" Address post-oard “Cutioura,” Dept. 60, m 5 4 Low Suml.nar Excursion Bmt Outing Region f Minnesota and Northern Wisconsin Ashland, Wis. Bayfield, Wi Birchwood, Wis. Cable, Wis. Daul n. Eagle River, W 25 Gogebic Lake, Mich. 24.33 ‘Three trains daily via St. Omabha 7:45 a. m., 6:45 p.m. Numerous fast trains daily Wi Woodruff,Wis.. .. Paul and Minneapoli-.' and 9:05 p. m. to Chicago connecting with the 24.50 Lv. Fisherman’s Special Lv. Chicago 6:05 p. m. daily for the finest fishing country in the World. For full information call or address JOHN MELLEN, General Agent CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN RY. 1401-3 Farnam Street, Omaha, Neb. (Tel. Douglas 2740) Excursion Fares to New York Boston and Jersey Coast Resorts via Washington Long return limits, Liberal stop- overs. Circle Tours—wide choice of routes, including both rail and water, Tickets on sale until September 30, The Best of Service over the famous Scenic Route of Eastern America. Four Modern El Steel Trains—Leave Chicago Grand Central Station, Chicago, 8 a. m., 1045 . m., 545 p. m., 9:30 p. m., via Pittsburgh, Phihddphh. Washington, Baltimore and nl.u 'a)d-u of the wu‘r{d Baltlmore &hl “Our Passengers Are Our Guests" Persistence is the cardinal vir- tue in advertising; no matter how good advertising may be in other respects, it must be run frequently and constant~- ly to be really succcessful. - B e e S~ ————