Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 30, 1915, Page 4

! | ' terest against England’s 4% rate, FOUNDED BY EDWAR) ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWA7'ER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor, BEE BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTZENTHL Entered at Omahs postoffice as second-class matter, =""""%IERus OF SBUBBCRIPTION. By carrier By mail and Sunday. fly without Sun enirg and Sunc Evening_without Sunday. Bunday Bee only. . ... 200 Send notice of charge of a s of com irregularity In delivery to Omaha Bee, Circulation Department. REMITTANCE. Renilt by draft, express or postal order. ch two- sept stamps fecelved in payment of small ae- ounts, Personal checks, except on Omaha and eastern sxchange, ot #ccepted. OFFICES. The Dep Bullding ith Omaha—318 N street. ineil Biufte—14 North Main street. Aincoln—38 Little Building. Chi Hearst Bul'din lew York—Room 1106 2386 Fifth avenue . Lovis—-8 New Bank of Commerce. ‘afhington—-"3% Fourteenth 8t, N. W, — CORRESPONDENCE, news and edl- Address communications relating to toflfil matter to Omaha Bee, idlw Department. . JULY CIRCULATION. 53,977 State of Nebraska, County of Douglas, ss.: Dwight Williams, circulation manager of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the average chicuiation for the mouth or July, 1915, was .lefl,lf WILLIAMS, Cireulation Manager, .l'l‘-efm in TV Dl’!:’l(‘c and sworn to before me, s ay _of Augul ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Publie. Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee malled to them, Ad- dress will be changed as often as req [ Thousht for the Day | Let revevence uf iaw b: taught in schovle and colieye ; be writen in primers and speliing ’ books; b. pub ish d jr.m pulpits and prociaimed Justice—in shovt, let it be the j.o itical r ligion of the nution. ~J .cob Riss. Quoted yrom Aura- ham Lincoln. i l in ugislative nalls; anl entoreed in courts of Behold the cornfields! They have no drum or screaming horn, yet they boost all the while. So far the A. B. C. kindergarten school has not enrolled enough students to justify the pub- licity. When Colonel Roosevelt and Colonel Bryan alsagree s0 dhfincflcully they must both be wrong. —— Advocates of national preparedness will make greater and quicker progress by cutting out the assumption that they are the only simon- pure patriots. Sm—— Germany reports over 1,000,000 Russian prisoners. The problem of tonsorial sanitation ‘promises to- strain German . efficlency to the breaiiag point. S———— 1t the age limit is to be drawn on candidates for the vacant federal judgeship, any one with balf an eye can see trouble ahead for several ambitious and deserving democrats, Srm—— If our distinguished attorney general of Ne- braska is in doubt as to how popular he is be- coming, let him read the comment of the coun- {ry newspapers on his recent fool opinions, E—— Speedy development ot the Wyoming oll flelds with pipe-line outlet to Omabha would do more to increase the industrial importance of this city than any other one thing we know of. Sg—— Rules and regulations for safety first in the- aters, hotels, at rallway crossings and other dan- ger points can be complied with, It is only & question of the cost, and the cost ought not to count against unnecessary risk to life and Limb. 3 Em——— . The exhaustion of the fund provides an easy Vay to uiioad a bunch of inherited employes in city department. When the resources are re- ed the furloughed men will see whether or not they have the preference for reinstate- meat, S—— Betore the city council figures on erecting a Lullding to house a fire alarm station in Jeffer- S0n square, better lot the law department look up certain court decisions that were rendered on a one-time effort to locate a market house there. —— Germany’s new war loan bears 6 per cent in- In both In- #tances the advance amounts to 2 per cent more than the cost of money In normal times, and Mueasures one side of the load piling up for posterity. — It the dispatches quote his words correctly, Prot. John Metz of Munich showed great strategy in going as far as California to criticise the wilitaristic spirit of German education. LIke _sentiments expressed at home at this time would bring & muzzle warranted to insure silence. - —— ?gz i -3 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE | - | what he designated as the “freak” conditions of ! necetdent policies, such as provide double in- | te | mob murder | ng in the Right Direction. The efforts of Emperor Willlam and his advisers to find a way by which to extricate tLemselves gracefully from the threatened rup- ture with the United States is the best assur- ance that the most perilous point of the crisis Las been passed. It would seem that the Ger- man government has finally come to realize the value of continuing on friendly terms with this country, the leading neutral nation of the world, | even though satisfied that nothing more would ensue than the iInterruption of diplomatic In- tarcourse. Up to this time the attitude of the Germans Las ostensibly been to place military necessity sbove the rights of non-combatants as well as combatants. That is the explanation of the Lusitania affair, and also of the case of the Arabic, if it was purposely sunk. If Germany, therefore, now either offers a disavowal or ad- mits liability for reparation with guaranties egainst repetition, and without conditions that tie a string to the adjustment, the principle ‘we have been contending for will have been main- tained, and the rest may be a proper subject for negotiation. 1f this paves the way for more general peace negotiations so much the better. Patriotic Americans, who want this country keep out of foreign entanglements and hope for cessation of the war before long, have rea- =on to feel reassured by the direction the latest moves are taking. Accident Insurance Efficiency. Addressing the insurance men gathered at Detroit last week, Vice President Faxon of the Aetna company said the policies as at present issued are unscientific, and need to be thor- oughly overhanled. He laid special stress on demnity in certain cases, and the like, These he would eliminate entirely, his argument being that no good reason exists why death by light- ning stroke should create an estate of $10,000, while death resulting from a broken neck from a fall downstairs should bring but $5,000. 1In elther event, so far as the insured is concerned, the taking off is as effective. To remedy this, Mr. Faxon suggests the expediency of cancelling all freak provisions and putting accident insur- ance on a simple basis for a term of five years, that the companies may compile experience sta- tistics on which the rates may properly rest. Accldent insurance differs from life insur- ance in that it must turn on the element of chance. In life Insurance the hazard s abso- lute, for death Is inevitable, but the danger of accldent, while ever prosent, is more or less be- | yond control, except through the exercise of or dinary prudence. ‘‘Experience tables” would help standardize the risks beyond the fact that from time to time accidents do happen and the probability of them Is stronger when persons are gathered together under unusual conditions, But this increased hazard is also offset in a very large moasure by the improved conditions that surround the individual in his daily life and his increasing knowledge how to avold danger and obviate mishap. Efficlency experts can serve the public as well as the insurance companies by devising still further protective measures, to the end that ae- cidents will be fewer and less serious. In the | meantime, however, no sign of any company :;vh.‘ov-r its business in this llne has been discerned. — Governors “Seeing Things.” When the governors of the several states assembled at Boston for their annual conference lust week the entire National Guard of the state | Of Massachusetts was paraded to welcome them. The Boston Transcript, at the time, expressed some pardonable curiosity as to why the mili- tary display was made in time of peace. A lit- tle later on the governors were given the pleas- ure of witnessing a “war’ demonstration by the North Atlantie fleet of the American navy, and were greatly edified by the exhibition. Now we have the answer, in the parting declaration of the conference that the United States is prone and defenseless before a hostile world, and would be “easy picking” for an invading host. The stage was well set at Boston, and . the effects nicely timed to arouse the governors to & point where they would give countenance to the agitation that has been carefully developed within the last few months by the Wilson ad- ministration. It is part of the campaign of the democrats to push “preparedness'’ as their chief cry, and to pose before the public as saviors of the country. They have made Mr. Wilson's firmness in a serious International crisis an excuse, and are now pushing their military prop- oganda with utmost vigor. The situation {is somewhat perplexing for Secretaries Garrison and Danfels, who must of necessity defend the army and navy, but they are playing well the roles assigned them. The governors may on reflection modity to some degree the feeling of apprehension experi- enced when they adjourned at Boston, but what this country most needs Is Preparation for peace rather than war, The educational advantages of barber col- leges are in danger of belng eclipsed by the nerve tonics they dispense. The faculty of a Minneapolis college, resisting an attachment for €ebt, nervily Informed the court that its equip- nent is “part of the library and philosophical apparatus belonging to and used for the instruc- tion of youth,” and therefore not liable to at- tachment under the constitution of Minnesota. The elaim for educational immunity so dazed the court that the session abruptly ended while the execution went on. — Fall guides to New York apartment house tyles afford ample proof that the high cost of shelter supports the label. An ordinary piker can obtain suitable accommodation for from $4,000 to .6.0'00, while a real plute can dispose of his family in eleven rooms for $7,000 a year, Omaha plutes eager to leap into the metropolitan swim ¢an gather from the figures the size of the life preserver necessary to keep afloat. S — Our side-stepping hyphenated contemporary seeks to take the sting out of the eriticisms of the Frank lynching by recalling that a negro was once lynched in Omaha twenty-five years 480. Yes, but no ome-——not even the hyphen- ated-—dared openly to defend and justify that | THE | carry out BEE: OMAHA, On Walking James F. Rogers in St. Nicholas. ALKING is the most common form of muscular exercise-one whicn each of us wio ls so for tunate as to po-sess a normal body cariles out, or can to A gre.ter or l sser extent each day. All deg.ees of exercls. are to be obtained by walk- Ing. One may have the slzht but sure slow shamb.e on the ievel, or the greater effects ol the ascent of a mountain or the climb of a flight of stepa; one may wulk ACTOSS A FLOM OF ACross & county. Every step we take may be of Lenefit—if we have not already taken enough steps; and if the walker had no brain, the length of walk most conducive to #00d could be measured In strides. Mince he v possossed of a brain, however, and usually an active one, the company he keeps, both within and without, and the sights and syund (yes, often the smells) which | greet his senses aie as important to the walker as the distance traveled or the elevation cilmbed Leaving for the moment everything but the mere mechanism of walking, this, Lke any other bod ly exielse, brines Into Increased activity not only the voluntary machinery that moves us along, but, nt the same time, there is an eq ivalent stirring up of all the involuntary activities. Th~rs Is a quickening of the elrc:l:tory and respiratory or-ans, the fiol- preparing functions are helped. and surplus food s p- plles within the body are drawn upon. The greater the speed of the walker and the steeper the ascent, the more height ned the Internal effects Benjamin Franklin adopted ctalr ¢'im' ing, Instead of walking on the level, when he wshed his exercise bolled down Though concentrated effect and economy of time are this obtained, ft does not fcllow that the results of vigorous exercise for a brief time milder movement: and more sustained effort. On the other hand, a walk may be too | isurely to produce the best effeots. Nelther the pace of the hare nor that of the tortolse produces the best results in o normal person; each must determine for himself the galt which is most beneficial ‘The feeling of mila fatigue will show us ‘when we | have walked far enough; and the time lim't, the time, that 1s, in which fatigue asse:te itself, depends on the speed we make and the elevation to which we have lifted our hod'es. Theorstically, a man who does little physical labor needs, for health, exercise equivalent to a walk on the level of about six to elght miles at & galt of three miles per hour, or four to six miles per hour. This estimate is for the average well de- veloped man, and a great many men and women will need much less to keep them in good condition, espe- clally If they do not over-eat. Boys and girls always need plenty of exercise, but thelr capacity for long | walks is much less, even In proportion to their age, than adults. Their energles must be used for growth as well as for muscular exercise. The long, weari- mome ‘“‘hikes” taken by young reople are more likely to be injurfous than helpful. It does harm rather than good to walk after real fatigue has begun, The problem of the Cistance we can or should walk is greatly complicated by the fact that we carry self around with us, and self alone 18 apt to prove a bur- den which will quickly biing premature fatizue. Self needs something outside to lean upon. It is like a trolley, which, applied to the wrong object, may prove a hindrance to prcgress, but, apri'ed to its appro- priate wire, not only relleves the body of its dead weight, but helps to carry it beyond its supposed capacity for exertion. Where it is impoasible for the pedestrian to fix his attent'on happily on outward thinen, it i* often much better for him to take some sodentary recreation im which he can do so. It seems avainst all physical laws that a maa | should travel farther with a ten-pound gun than with- out any load whatever, but the rel'ef obtained by the drafting of the mental energles through the gun Into other channels far more than compensates for tho extra muscu'ar exercice entalled by carrying it alonz. The mind is carried beyond the body, and, throurn the keen amticiprtion of a sposs'ble exhibition of skill, the wear and tear of walking are reduced to the phys'ological minimum. But a gun 1s not necessary; a fishing rod—and certainly a golf stick—answers am well for some perrons and even a cane serves {o smuse the wielder and ke-ps the relf from hamvering the legvworking machinery. Still Fetter than these is the companfonship of a dow or a leash of dogs’ We know a prominent physic’an who urged all his patients suffering from Insufficlent exercise to buy a dox Human soclety may or mav not add to the pleasure and profits of walking!—it depends on the persons whe ‘walk. Walking in the city has its advocates, as has the country strcil. There may be more in the metropolita thorovghfare to d's‘ract the companion'ess pedestrain, but it depends on the city and the thoroughfare as ‘well as on the pedestrian. Companionship of a dog or | man is more fully enjoyed In wanderinz over fields ur following country roads. The unylelding hardness of the city pavement (relleved to s me extent by the In- tervention of rubbep lecls) is disastrous to the arch of the foot, while the kincly give of the soil invites the rural rambler, For walking one must be properly shod. The high and peg-shap‘d heel and the narrow toe help to d a'w the sand of self-consciousness into the machinery that otherwise enjoys its own exhibition of power and endurance. In pedestrfanism we need plenty of spring, and all the base of support possible. The ex- ercise of walkirg, if the foot coverings allow, preserves and strengthens the foot. There are good walkers, and poor walkers; walkers that walk with ease and walkers that labor along. We are not all bullt al'ke and could not all walk allks if we tried. For purposes of exercise, it does not matter greatly how we walk so that we stand fairly erect and do not jar the body too much by keeping the knees too straight and planting the heel too firmly. Walking is a continuous falling forward, and s'multaneous moving forward of the underpinning to prevent the fall. We can asalst the falllng by tipping the whole body forward without stooping the head and shoulders, and we can prevent the fall without Jarring the body unnecrasarily. It is of chicf moment that we walk, and that, in walking, the mind finds the absorbing adventures of its own so that it keeps the body joyful, and not depressing, company, ———————————————————————————————————————— Twioe Told Tales | A Musictan's Sally, Victor Herbert te.ls this story of two famous musi- clans: *“De Pachmann and Coldmark once met in front of the latter's Vienna home. Goldmark was a most esti- mable old chap and as everybody kmows, a writer of exceptionally brilliant and melo'lous music, but his one great fault was his overwhelming conceit. As De Pachman and Goldmark walked awny from the com- poser's house the planist pointed backward and raid: “ “That modest little edifice wil be signally dis- tinguished some day after you are dead.’ * ‘Indeed!’ sald Goldmark, “ ‘Yes,' continued De Pachmann, ‘they will decorate it with a tablet.’ “‘And what do you suppose they will say on the tablet? asked the composer, eagerly. ““To Let,” regflied De Pachmann'—New York Times. Why They Wept. Two Irishmen entered a restaurant and ordered Olnners. Th ked the waitress the price of every- thing she bro“ght in. and on br'nving in some tobasco sauce she ‘nformed them it was gratis. Miok took a large spoonful, brinving tears to h's eyes. ““What are you o'ying for?" says Pat. “Oh,"” says Mick, “it's just twelve months today since they hvng me poor ould father. Bhortly afterwards Pat tcok a spronful of tho tobasco, whi‘h produced t'e s me effect as on Miok “And what ave you cry'ng for, Pat? ssked M'ck “Oh" repli~d Prt, “I'm cryving to thik they didn't hang you along wid your father."—Pittsburgh Chron- lele-Telegraph. Wanted the Best Terma, At & certin co'lege in Jowa the male students are not permi‘ted to visit the rest lent female boarders. One day & male student was caught in the act of do ng %0, and was brought before the president, who said: “Well, Mr. Jones, the penalty for the first offense s 50 cents; for the second 75 cents: for the third, §, and so on, rising to $6." In solemn tones the trespasser sald: “How much !ould & season ticket cost? —New | York Times AUGUST 30, results of a | are as good as | 19 The Pees eflerf A Reason for Near Side Stop. OMAHA, Aug. 29.~To the Bdtor of The Bea: What on earth is all this fuss about the near side stopring? 1 have followed up the articles and really it s quite amusing to note how peeved some people can become, just because they are requited to use thelr brans difference can it make which side of the strect a car stops at? 1 am a visitor from New York City and accustomed to the rule, but it did not occur to me to set up a fuss when I eame to Omaha | when I found a differeit one. I approve of the near side stopping and for this reason: A few years be- fore 1t came into vogue In New York I was standing nearby and witnessed a dreadful accident. A mother with a child upon her arm alighted from a car and stepped in front of a machine and was instantly kilied. The vehicle came from the opposite s.de of the street, 80 wus | not visitle to those alighting from the car, Had that car stopped on the near #ide of the sireet, I believe that mother and chid would both be iving today. I also think it shows such poor judg- ment to elect a man to an office such as the mayor and then knock him after- ward. If you do not admire the man, at least respect the office, E. E. E. High Cost of Experience. NORTH LOUP, Neb, Aug. 2-~To the Editor of The Bee: If we are real studious, at the age of thirty, we begin looking backward to discover to our surprise that other people have been doing our thinking for us at very | high prices for their experience. I have had that rubbed In several times myself. So far as this writer is concerned he is inclined to think the people of Nebraska have been paying high commissions for a few people to handle their school sys- tem and do their thinking. i have been trying to think out what would be a proper platform with respect to education by which to run for office. 1 have reached the conclusion that every boy and girl should have equal oppor- tunities, and, ¥ thelr parents are not able to clothe them, that the state should | see to it and provide a liberal compulsory education. Therefore I am oppcsed to the policy of educating the professional classes on publie money. I am in favor of higher education, but think the pro- fessional classes should not be educated on the labor of the boy and girl who quit school at twelve and -fourteen years of age with a faint remembrance of matheratics and wpelling. Let the pro- fessional classes pay their own fiddler.— WALTER JOHNSON. North n South. DE SMET, 8. D.,, Aug. 28.—To the Ed- itor of The Bee: The writer, a southern man, wrote one of the many thousand personal letteras to Governor Slaton, ask- ing him to commute Frank's sentence to life imprisonment. IHe was utterly shocked at the cruel attack on the pris- oner at the state farm and humiliated beyond words at the dreadful lynch ng. ‘The northern press should, it seems to | us, postess its soul In patience, however, It Is not wise to hastily condemn a te, & section or a race for the act of a few, or even for the act of a small com- munity, About eighteen years ago, in an old shack about a block south of the Omaha court house, the unnamable crime was kirl choked to death. Coroner M. O. Maul was ordered to close the morgue at 10 o'clock the next morning, as the peo- ple were becoming so angry that a lynch- ing was feured. It took the courts nearly two years to hang that man, and then he came very near to escaping the rope. Would not mobbing have been prefer- able to final escape? ‘That Boston firm that refused to Jdeal with tho city of Atlanta, that corre- spondent in the Letter Box who hinted at federal Interference, need ice on their heads even in this cool summer, and the correspondent who referrd to the origin of the Georgla people as being Ogle- thorp's jail birls is witty, and J do not blame him for making the hit, it came in so well, but at the same time it Is foolish. We all descended from jall birds and worse. ‘“Those Norman barons used to thieve.” Monkeys we were, and monkeys we are, some of us, and others Just further removed, that is all. The fine, generous south is much su- north is very much ahead of the south in others. The south is a little ahead In the Iynching industry, but not so very much, though the conditions are much against them. G. P. NETHERLY. Signs of Progress Practically inexhaustible deposits of asphalt discovered in. the Phillipines two years ago will be developed commer- clally. The register in the street car may be shelved. An electrie device has just been patented by which the passengers enter- ing & car are recorded automatically The Department of Agriculture recently announced that it had been demonstrated that riber flax equal to the best European can be successfully grown in the United States. There are twenty-six museums of safety snd institutes for the study of industrial hygiene in the world—twenty-two in Eu- rope, three in the United States and one in Canada. The foreign trade of the Philippines for the calendar year 1914 shows a slight Increase over 1313, the total being 345~ 0,00, Exports of hemp show & decrease of over 5,00 tons, while exports of sugar show a considerable increase, the total being 283,000 tons. Granting that the average consumption of tires Dy motor cars Is elght tires a car & year, which includes all types of vehicles, there will be required during 106 not less than 20,000,000 tires, valued at from $300,000,000 to $400,000,000—{iguring the average price of tires at 315, The new subway cars in New York City are equipped with seats aspeclally de- signed to sustain the body in a romfort able and healthful sitting posture. The seat has the additonal advantage, for feminine users, that “the head can be held upright in moderate sized hats, and is not thrust forward when one leans back in the seat." A former member of the New York leg- Islature, Peter A. Porter, fathers an en- gineering plan for developing 30:0,00 electrical horse power below Niagara Falls, at an estimated cost of $100,000,000. ‘The plan contemplates & dam bLelow the whirlpool rapids high emough tv equal the descent of the river below the falls end thus dispose of the rapids and har- ness the water forces now going to waste. The scentc grandeur of the falls would not be disturbed by the projeet committed and a beautiful 12-year-old | What | perior to the north in some things. The | SUNNY GEMS. “Maud seems to consider her alimony An_impr.vement over her husband.” “Why shou dn't she? It comes in regu- lariy_and doesn't drink or swear.'—Bos- ton Transcript “Fortune smiled a1d bade the poet write BMs name upon the scroll of fame.' I'll aletate It to my stenogravher.” haughtily replled the poet, for he was A poet of today.—Puck. KKABIBBLE KABARET DEAR MISTER \CABIBBLE, MY FIANCE ALWAYS TAKES ME TO THE GALLERY. WHAY SHALL X DO ? (= Re) “Do wan know {hat door didn’t go away tor the summer?" the woman nest Yer o ah wa that | ddn't. So I don’t think there wil] be any gossip a‘ong ‘(hon lines.”—Loutsville Courler- Journal. seem certain ¢ou'll be able to “Tre only sour ellent san ““Yes,” replied the lawyer. witics es th other side has are pro fessional alienists “—1.ife. “Your wife's i parties are al ways beautifuy affntre” “Yee™ repl'ed Mr. Cumrox. “At fire pecp'e ddn’t seem to want to come to of ‘em 1 guess mebbe high_cost liv.ng Is nak.ng a differonce.”—Washing | ton Star. “Actors have a queer way of handling | the langaage.” How's that?" “When & show comes to a good stand they call it a run."=Raltimsrs American “My husband is so literary!” exclaimed Mrs. Nurich | “Read ?° | ‘Yes: he's always ca'ling up hie broker to get quotations.”—Rufialo Exp.ess. | BEYOND Td4E CiTIES. [ - | Baltimore Sun. | Atter the eities have he.d you, After their giamour st gleam | Have pailed you ana spoled you and spel.ed you, It is then for the country dream— | The faith of the good green country, Its peace and power to sustain, When the shops and the temples bavée falien And the lure of the lights is vain, After the cities hava worn you, After the.r thunder and strife Have crushed you and rent you and torn you, Oh,” thén for the country life! The ‘green of the_qiier meadows, The feace of (% mighty hlls | The voice of the birds 'mid the shadows, | The runes of the ripp.ng r.ls. | After the citics have fed you On passion and fury and pride; After the dreams of thelr splen ar Huve sickencd your spirit a.d died— Tt_is then for the beauiiful vaicys, he far-fling summits, the glen, That heal us of hovels and alleys With the beauty God fash oned for men. PROTECT YOUR MOTOR Y using oil that stands up under both ex- tremes of temperature. practically no carbon. 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