Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 3, 1915, Page 4

| 3 i i TH FOUNDED BY EDWARD R VICTOR ROSEWATVER, EDITOR The Bee Publlang (‘nmpnny‘ Prnprlnmr BR., Entered at Omahs postolfice as second-class B A ————— TERMS8 OF SUBSCRIPTION. Ry carrier \ per month. eetvenersesBBO #1! and Sunday. fly without Sun: vening A Sund: ing_without Sund only. 4 addresn to Omaha Bee, Ice of L ty in delivery REMITTANCE. M 'y draft, express or postal order. stamps recelved in payment of sm: m Personal chmk except on Omaha and eastern oxchange. not rccel Onl: $ ES. nundlu hl‘!l! N stree uncll Bluffs-14 North Mlln street, ncoln—3% Lmh Rulldlnr e-m Hujld ew York—Room 1 in--508 Kew Rlnk 7% Fourteenth 8t., N. ing Pq"h avenue. af Commerce. w. ———— to news and_odis torial Department. CORRESPONDEN j communicationa relating m« to Omaha Bee, Nai AUGUST CIRCULATION, 53.993 State of Nebraska, County of Douglas, ss: Dwight Williams, circulation manager of The B Publishing company, being duly aworn, says that th average circulation for the month of August, 1915, '»'v"mwr WILLIAMS, Clrculation Manager sun-mbed In my presence and sworn to before me, this 24 day of Septemoer, 1916 ROBERT THC Nl . Notary Public Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. " September 3 - Thought for the Day Selected by Minnie L. Esplin **Be not amazed at life. 'Tis still The mede of God with his e.cct Their hopes exactly to ruifil i In times and ways they least expec!.'” S What's a one-term presidency platform plank between friends, anyway? | Now, more than ever before, the “dollar ot our daddies” is good enough for us. After the Style show no Omaha women will have any excuse not to be “style all the while.’ With the advent of September the oyster is with us again, but he is not as yet shouting very loud. —— All the Nebraska State fair has to do to be a world bedter is to live up to prospectus specifica- tlons. | King Corn 1s coming down the home stretch st & winning pace. Medicine Hat is all but dis- ' The inevitable conelusion, then, must be that it is bath tubs, and not big guns, that account for all those German victories. S——— After listening to Uncle Sam’s warning, the kalser has decided to give warning before tor- pedoing any more passenger ships. Sm———— Labor troubles in eastern munition factories are unique and record-making. Trouble springs from too much work and too little time to en- joy the mouey. The boly man of Turkey, Sheikh ul Islam, has declared a holy war on Italy. This brings the sheikh closer to the line of insult than he gets to the firing line. ‘Holland Is accumulating a fine collection of imperial apologies to adorn art museums along the route of future tourists. Dutch thrift 1s nln to its opportunities. If there are any crumbe of federal patronage still lying about loose, they belong to those Ken- tucky democrats for giving the Wilson second- term wagon its first push. The federal district court o( western Penn- sylvania bas glven a hammer knock to a manu- facturer who sought through the label on his goods to convey the impression that they w imported. In an obscure corner of the label, printed in small letters, were the words, ““Mfd. U. B. A" The court held the intent to deceive was clear and condemned the goods as mis- | branded. Deception spells fraud. Sm———— The pitiful sacrifice of life in the army quar- ters of S8an Francisco is due not so much to the government’s failure to provide less combustible quarters. Frame bulldings are more sought for homes out there than buildings of more durable materials. Their popularity is grounded on the bellef of greater safety in event of a severe earthquake. That bellef has existed for years in past experience, Despite proot it malntains a strong hold on E BE Pounding the State Treasurer. is become almost acute, and bids fair to at- tract a great deal more of attention than some ! of the principal actors may care for. A horde | of democrats, both in and out of office, is clus- tered about the door of the state (reasury, de- native being to glve assent to the illegal pro- ceedings to which the other democratic state officials are approving supporters, While Treasurer and cajolery, the spectacle is as disgraceful as |"were the performances of the legislature which made the mistake that is proving so embar- to proceed legally to correct their blunder, are willing to connive in the treasurer’s violation of the law in preference to facing the penalties of | their own offense which they are unable to con- | ceal. No other incident in the state’s history | has so fully exposed the incompetency of the | democratic party and its leadership for the re- | | | sponsibilities of government. Put Omnhn on the Butter Market. Observing in the Monthly Crop Report, pub- lished by authority of the secretary of agricul- ture, a table of receipts of butter “at seven pri- mary markets' —Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, New York, 8t. Louis and San Fran- clsco-—the editor of The Bee addressed an in- | quiry to the chief of the bureau of crop esti- mates In charge of this publication, calling at- tention to the omission of Omaha from the list, and asking what, if anything, was still neces- sary to secure recognition for Omaha as “‘a pri- mary butter market?" The reply, just received, contains this advice: For each of the cities mentioned In your letter the figures are furnished by the Board of Trade or othor commercial organization, which in turn collects the information from the different transportation lines of the city. It is regretted that Omaha s not included in the report you refer to, but in the correspondence with Omaha and a few other large cities, no organi- szation was found that could give the Information. However, another effort will be made to get this for Omaha. It strikes us as extraordinary that Omaha should be deprived of the prestige which by rights belong to it as an unrivaled butter- producing and distributing center because of our own Inaction. True, we have not established a butter exchange here which the importance of the industry would fully warrant, but we have commerclal organizations that could easily com- pile the statistics required by the Department of Agriculture to give us a standing as a primary | market. Even if no other advantage could come from it than the listing in the official reports, it is time to put Omaha on the butter map of the country. Speculators and the Money Market, In some respects conditions in Wall street today resemble the situation of eight years ago, when the price of ’monq was sent so high that the clearing house banks, to prevent a paalc, suspended currency payments and lssued cer- tificates to tide over the business of the country until the affairs became settled. The discount- ing of foreign money was not unexpected, heing a natural outcome of the disturbance of trade incident to the war, but the present fluctuations indicate the presence of an active speculative element, and its influence on the market is not wholly encouraging for the healthy progress ot business. This activity is not confined to Wall etreet, but is also noticeable in London and Paris, where American money has risen to a considerable premium, showing that the specu- lators there are taking advantage of the great demand for American exchange generated by the war-time traffic. Danger for all lurks be- hind this manipulation of the market, and while it continues the full measure of legitimate busi- ress cannot be transacted. The actual domestie commerco of the country is not at present endan- gored, but the export business is seriously jeo- pardized by the gambling in foreign exchange. Sanitation in the Trenches. One of the marvels of modern warfare is the provision for sanitation that keeps the fighting man continually in a state of most vigorous health. The Germans have just made a report ol the excellent sanitary eonditions that prevail in the fleld so far as thelr armies are concerned, and similar reports have been made by the Allies. Apprebension expressed during the winter us to what would ensue when the sum- mer sun came upon the battlefields has proven unfounded, because of the excellent service of the medical corps. The Japanese were the plo- ueers in this line of endeavor, and astonished the world by excellent results shown for the | health of their armies in their war with Russia, Other nations were quick to grasp the signifi- and the value of an efficlent med- fcal corps for an army was established. i Nowadays everything about a camp, perma- | ment or temporary, is scrupulously clean, and the word of the medical officer is listened to | by everybody from the commanderin-chief | down. This is necessary to the preservation of | the health of the fighting man. In clvil life the soldier may shift for himself, and live in squalor If he likes, but when the umiform is donned it must cover a clean skin, and the per- sonal habits of the man must conform to & reg- imen as strict and comprehensive as any ever devised for the training of a erack athlete. The servant 6f Mars is cleanly in his way of living, today, It he never was before, — Of all the peutral nations of Europe, Switzer- land appears to be hardest hit by war. Tourist business and travel are at a standstill, an enor- mous annual revenue is lost, and this is topped | with the added cost of malutaining a mobilized army. Thirty-five hundred hotels, employing 43,000 persons, are guestless, most of them closed and their employes idle and dependent. The situation of the mountaln republic illus- trates with pathetic force the perils of the inno- cent bystander. e———— The swell front of the American dollar looks mighty imposing on exchange counters, bat it doesn’t fool home talent by a fraction of & cent. —— Eastern bankers complain of an oversupply always fear the effect of cut-rate trestment. The exceptional situation at the state house Hall is standing out against (hrmln‘ rassing and expensive. These democrats, fearful | of money. The remedy is simple, but financiers The Outlook The cry of “Wolf, wolf!" has been heard so often of late years that nobody pays attention to it, and it has degenerated into a disagreeable form of vocal ex manding that it be unlocked to them. The state | ¢feise. The lateat and most offensive recent outcrv + 18 that which comes from some people In Georgia, who treasurer is now anonymously threatened With | ,ro shouting at the top of their voices that the in- prosecution that amounts to blackmail, his alter- | dignant protests of the newspapers against the revolt- { and might be ignored if the unanimity of the news- papers in denouncing the outbreak of savagery were not the one hopeful aspect of the national disgrace. The heat and vigor of that condemnation show that the nation is sensitive to such an offense, and quick | to resent it as a blow to its honor. The (lerman press and many so-called German- Americans have been quick to explain the sbund and outspoken expression of American indignation at Ger- man crimes against humanity on land and sea as the utterance of a press subsidized by Great Britain. It these Germans had any knowledge of American opin- | fon or any sense of humor, they would have been saved from this egregious blunder: twisting the lion's tall has been so long the habit of many American | Mewspapers that nothing less than a great and | passionate feeling of indignation could have broken | the habit. Some newspapers -have been and some probably still are venal: but it is unfortunate to wasto the force of public opinion by making accusations so obviously preposterous that they fall to the ground by sheer welght of stupidity. And the cry of “interests” has been heard so often that it no longer receives attention. A few years ago it meant something; there were real wolves, and the country needed the warning. Thera are still wolves prowling about, but they have been driven into the back country. The habit, however, of crying “Wolf, wolf!" has become 8o strong with some public men that it has taken the place of all other forms of speech. If a measure Is strongly urged by one group, the cry that the “Interests’ are behind it immediately re- sounds from ocean to ocean; If it is vigorously op- posed, the cry that the “Interests” oppose it fills the alr. if legislation fails of the beneficlal results pre- dicted by its sponsors, the faflure is due, not to its unwisdom, but to the organization of the “‘interests™ to defeat it. If one were to pay attention to the charges which too often take the place of facts or arguments, he would be driven to the conclusion that nothing js ever decided on its merits in this country and that there are no disinterested Americans, | This viclous habit of accusing the “interests’ indis- criminately involves a waste of force which the coun- try cannot afford. There are still corrupt or tyranni- cal “Interests’” which must be fought, but all “inter- ests”’ are not evil In spirit and practice, and even the evil “Interests” are not omnipresent. The cry of the “Interests” has become the stock in trade of so many cheap politiclans and self-seeking agitators that the country Is fast coming to think of it a voice and nothing elee,”” an easy substitute for brains and conviction. All charges against public men or organi- zations ought to react on the accusers unless the evi- dence s forthcoming. The air has become murky with accusations and denunciations; they have become a kind of hysteria. Twice Told Tales Still Ahead. Aman: the passengers on a train on a one-track road in the middle west was ,a talkative jeweiry drummer. Presently the train stopped to take on water, and the conductor neglected to send back a flagman. An express came along and, before it could be stopped, bumped the rear end of the first train. The drummer was litted from his seat and pitched head first into the seat ahead. His silk hat was jammed clear down over his ears. He picked himself up and settled back in his seat. No bones had been broken, He drew a long breath, straightened up, and said: “Well, they didn't get by us, anyway.' Times. '~New York Tip for Sore Thumbsa. They were as loving as any couple could be, even i they have been married more than five years, but one day last week Friend Husband made what he con- sidered a bright remark, which his wife resented, and up to the present time things are entirely #mooth. It happened during house cleaning. During the day the wife had been rearranging the pictures on the wall, and in driving a nail the hammer slipped and struck her finger. When the husbend came home that evening she told him of the accident. He sympathized with her and even kissed the bruised finger. “Harry,” she sald, “how can I keep from pounding my fingers. I'll have more pictures to hang tomorrow?" “‘Hold the hammer with both hands,” replied.—Columbus Dispatch. Sounds of Nature. The inhabitants of a frog pond close at hand awakened two little girls who were spending thelr first night in the country. First came the high, “peeper.” “What's that?"’ whispered Winnle. “I think it's a bird,” ventured Susan. Just then a basso profundo frog sung one of his lowest tones. “What's that?' came another startled whisper. “I ain't quite sure,” came the answer, ‘‘but I think it is either a cow or an automobile.’~Youngs- town Telegram. he promptly piping voice of a little The Wrong View. Billy Sunday told a San Francisco reporter a story about repentance. ‘“Too many of us' he sald, “look at repentance in the wrong way. They look at it ke the little girl “‘Now, my lttle girl, tell me' sald a Sunday school superintendent, ‘which you would rather be— beautiful or good? *I think,' the little girl answered thoughtfully, ‘that I'd rather be beautiful—and repent.’ " People and Events Members of the New York constitutional comven- tion already have poured out 1,960,000 words, and the stream shows mo signs of “that tired feeling.' C. J. Beck of Hastings, Mich., ciaims to have out- Waltoned Izask Walton by catching two fish with | the same bait. Hastings is a city of romance and Fisherman Beck is its official interpreter. ‘Way down In Muskogee, Okl, stronghanded jus- tice handed to a boosing squaw a ninety-nine-year sentence and a fine of $100,000. The judge doesn't want the money, but longs for & rest from & weekly visitor. A moment after W. J. Bryan, at Winona Lake, Ind., finished his exordium on peace by arbitra- tion, the organist struck the keys and the singers cut loose with “The Army and Navy Forever,” bring- ing the audience with cheers and waving handker- chiefs, to its feet. The solentist who wanted to warm up the North Pole by spending $200,000000 to deflect the Guif stream off Newfoundland is in trouble in Brooklya over a printing bill of $1,500 and an empty purse. ‘Twas | ovor thus, The flights of genius too often are re- tarded by the price of publicity oil. Four young clerks in the Ford establishment at Detroit have been arrested for stealing profit checks intended for outside members of the ocom- | pany. The povices imagined they could divert $150,00 | from the golden stream without it belng missed, but | 'M-u.mm fooled them before they could cash iu. Another story of war novelties comes from the western firing line. Eric Fisher Wood tells of the Germans' attaching cowbells to thelr barb wire en- tanglements. When the enemy tackle the wire the i P | ; i i : Freachmen aye said to counter om the throwing lariats over the entanglements, Joyment out of the nightly scare. H i ing erime of the mob which hanged Frdnk is the | utterance of a press “subsidized” by money from | I"rank’s friends. The charge is, of course, puerile, warning and then the shooting begins. | An Opinion on the Training School. OMAHA, Sept. 2~To the Editor of The | Bee. With reference to the teachers training school, let me call attention to | the following cutting I have saved | . Superintendent Graff in discussing the Training School,” pald a rare compli- ment to Omaha, her inatitutions, and the product of the training school, which includes among its alumni more than one-aixth of all the teachers below the high school grades in Omaba. He char- acterized the training school as one of the mo: important phases of the Omaha public school system. tirmly of the belief that the girls, the products of the Omaha public achools, and the train- | Ing school cannot be matched or sur- passed by ln( girls from any institu- tion,” he said in conclusion. This was In The Bee of Jume 1, 1913, and doubtiess expresses an unbiased opinion. AN OMAHA TEACHER. Nebraska as the Crow Flies. OMAHA, Sept. 2.—To the Editor of The Bee: Please tell me in your paper the distance across Nebraska both ways as the crow flles in ita longest parts and oblige, A READER. Note: Best available figures for ex- treme measurements of Nebraska are: Length, 420 miles; width, 28 miles. What Makes Progress in Schoolat? OMAHA, Sept. 2—~To the Editor of The Bee: I can not understand the continued attacks on the policy of our Board of Bducation. We now have an ideal board, composed of the best men of our city, and when their clection was agitated from the standpoint of the good-men view- point, it was surmised that our troubles were over. To be serious, we have as good a Board of Rducation from the standpoint of success in business, brains and honesty as any In the United States, but modern methods of education call for directors whe are in sympathy with prog- ress, and you cannot select men for that purpose because they fill all of the re- quirements as enunciated above. On the contrary, we must elect men who belleve and will see that those bellefs are car- ried out In better working conditions for our teachers, better pay and more schools, simpler methods of instruction, abolition of militarism from the high sehool (cadets), a complete revision of our his- tories based absolutely upon truth, the opening of our schoole after school hours to discussion of political and scientific questions as a part of a larger and broader education for us big boys and girls who did not get enougn of it in our youth because of economic pressure. A progressive school board must do these things or fall in its purpose, JESSE T. BRILLHART, %16 Farmam. Woman's Activities " The 100th birthday of Elizabeth Cady Stanton will come in October, and Johns- town, N. Y., her birthplace, is prompt in announcing its purpose duly to celebrate the anniversary. ‘Women in Canada no longer have the right to veto the enlisting of their hus- bands or sons under 18. The right to for- bid the men folks to go to war was given to the women of Canada by General Sam Hughes, who is now in Hngland. Those who succeeded him have changed the ruling. Miss Alva Bennell, a 15-year-old girl ot Avondale, Cal, is sald to hold the record of her age, having 1% loaves to her credit for the amount of bread baked by a girl in four months. There is a girls’ baking club in Avondale that inspires its mem- bers to be experts in housekeeping. They say it does not make any differ- ence whether women vote or not, but the teachers of California are pointing to the fact that Governor Johnson vetoed the bill for teachers’ pensions the first time it came up, but the second time women were voters and he signed it. Plans have been made for a woman's Jail in New York City that is to cost $365,000. It is to be sixteen stories high and fireproof, with two elevators. There Wwiil be open loglas on each floor, from the sixth to the fifteenth. The kitchen and hospital wards are to be on the six- teenth floor. Mrs. Mary 8. Lockwood, founder of the Daughters of the American Revolution, writing in support of the woman's section of the Navy league, says: “I would boy- cott any man who refused to serve his country when it needed him. Let the men try any anti-enlistment business in this country and the women will show them.” In England the women are “showing them' by offering to enlist themselves and doing it as nearly aw _possible. [| Here and There Quite & number of New York police- men are taking menta) exercises in for- eign languages—German, French, Itallan and Spanish. New regulations require cops to become famillar with ruch words of each language as are needful in giv- ing information to visitors Cedar Grove, N. J., 1a clerically branded | a8 & community of gossips and knock- ers, pullbacks and cheap dance vatrons. A retiring Congregational ininister ap- plied the brand from the pulpit in his farewell sermon and the roasted congre- gation didn't talk back. | 'The dassling force of & wedding cere- | mony on the participants is difficult to | measure without actual experience. Some | Wdea of the grip may be had from the Case of a Washington bridegroom who |h¢hhmmm."nh‘m‘!hn great event. He went through the cere- mony without the bride noticing that his lamp was out. ‘When the 3. 8, strulghtened up after an examination of the machinery he looked down the barrel of & short-arm gun and was persuaded to give up «ll the treas- ure on his person. The rohbers then mounted their car and made a clean getaway. The incident the milk of human kindness af E iz i el i z £ ¢ amissioned him as sccond lieutenant retirement removes the last link regular army to the mighty unteers of the eivil war. § ¥ Cleveland Plain Dealer ever before, Philadelphia Ledger uses of adversity! The dates. mobile because she had lowed it to be sold for taxes. Her friends have given her a new is not merely a feminist, ness woman. Pittsburgh Dispatch: has declared a holy war against Italy. If any more holler than ‘twill be worth seeing. All the other na- tional shelks also began the row with to holiness, after which they let it go at that. Chicago Herald: The cool detrimental in the world of barter have ‘brought health and comfort and happi- ness to infants. The “first summer,” that period of old-time terror, easy season to this year's bables. They have not felt the wilting eftects of terri- loud promouncements ble hot blasts from the average summer. The happler bables is by far “1 can't be congenial as a pictured ‘as , trying to get in, his own kind."—Judge. ‘How did you come erty?” tentiary. oy nlnt lost it what he sees in the the nelgnbor. ‘Xes, trouble on my account. rellef to have hun postoffice walting to get somethin’ I get-rich-quick ciroul leu-m ‘‘Senator, 1 vllh you would give me & Job as your wlvnu secretary.’ el responded the oily sen- ator, "“l t la! mixed up with ernment service. Nothing to it. young man. Besides, I that position to my son." Journal. Clinton Scollard, in Judge. { I wooed uer in the wintertime, won her, 50 1 thought, forever; | she was 1ona of rhyme, And She vowed ANG GOWU UL LY ACEC Her eyes were of She was not a Sometimos before the sea-coal fire Ciose mue by side our toes we toasted; Sometimes we braved the north wind's ire. And skated glee! And once, when She treasured ‘Thro And st A tendtr Haht 80 love's tide flowed ‘What time the it, or so 1 d dreams of Editorial Viewpoint ligerents has ordered half a million sheep skins to clothe her soldiers, But this is no justification for acting like wolves Detroit Free Preas: The American dol- lar s worth more in foreign money than but as luek will have it, you've got to stay home to spend it. has emboldened New York office seek- ers to come out as “American” Louisville Courier-Journal Shaw declined to pay taxes on her auto- have not had to pit their puny strength against the death-dealing heat of the have experienced new joy in a year which has seemed especially planned for their needs. In truth it has been a peach of a year for bables. And that is encugh to compensate for a host of llls when you come to think of it! 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