Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 18, 1915, Page 8

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE ——————— - FOUNDED BY EDWA . ROBEWATE VICTOR ROSEWATEL., ¢DITOR. The Bee Publishing (‘ompn;y, Prop;iplor.-_ BER BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. Entered at Omahe postoffice as second-class matter. TERMS OF IUBBC'I:"’TION. y carrier By mall per month. Pper year. and Sundav...... 88c...... ] ily without Sunday n onirg and Sunday... 0 Evening_without Bund %0 Bend " notice Cof Chang 4 p of notice of change m‘u in delivery to Omaha Bee, Circulation nt. Remit draft, Apfi‘l order. Omly two- o A A -4 m‘:fivvr:a. Il' payment _of lmJl ae- m‘m‘m checks, except on Omaha and eastern sxchange, not #coepted. o, A u h Omaha—B(8 N street. mefl Bluffs—14 North Maln street. In—2% Little Buflding. Hearst )4 X o § ;H‘r‘m avenue. 5"' ‘ork—Room 1108, 386 Commerce. . Loul New nk of ‘ashington—7% Fourteenth St, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE, Y communications relati to news and P E AR T AUGUSY CIRCULATION, 53,993 State of Nebrasks. County of Douglas. wight Wiiliams, circulation manager of The Beo Publishing company, being duly aworn, says that the ave circulation ' for the month of August, 1915, IGHT WILLIAV, Ctrculation Manager. Subscrited In my 1 *ace and sworn to before me. this 3 day Shicty, ‘HOWTER, Notary Publie. Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. Thought for the Day “‘Miss Helen, I've asked the dear Lerd to make it pleasant (omorrow, and mamma's go- ing to .ask Him, to, and as she knows Him pretty well, 1 think He'l do it for her.” _—_—- --—-——— Every warm September day adds millions to King Corn's erib. SEg—— On.y two weeks now till our Ak-Sar-Ben festivities will be in full blast. rmeee e e e l.et your light shine brightly for ten more days, Oh Sol, and the bakery is yours. + Comparatively speakin, Uncle S8am lives on easy street, but is not an easy member. — e During his Omaha engagement, “'Billy" Sun- day will have to play against the world series We bet on “Billy!" Even if “Billy” Thompeon is too old for the Job, there are other avenues of activity wherein the Osler treatment may be dodged. SEmm—— : Should the British courts persist in locking the safe on the packers’ $15,000,000, the great American consumer may be relled on to make good. Em——— The talent exercised by Rock Island directors in diverting millions from the corporation treas- ury will be put to a far greater test by the Judicial task of restoring the mon: For the Sunday campalgn the first ten days’ collections {n Omaha exceeded the first sixteen days’ collections in Des Moines, and are only $260 less than in Paterson. Not such “tight- wads” as some would believe. New consignments of “‘atrocity” stories are again coming from the Huropean war arena. The whole conflict is such an atrocity that it will take something exceptionally lurid now to make anyone sit up and take special notice. It develops, as suspected, that the fight is not so much to keep the allies from getting the loan, but to keep the flotation profits from be- ing gobbled up by one group of Wall street bankers without letting the others in on a share. Even neutrals will feel a throb of pity for the Fatherland, now that Russia has called mil- lions of territorials to the colors. Germany Iis already feeding a million Russian prisoners, The prospect of doubling the number imperils the home supply of food. ——— In former times Indians were unfortunately 100 eager to imitate the worst habits of the worst white men. Changes for the better are develop- ing steadily. The exhibits at the Thurston county fair are gratifying evidence of progress in agri- culture, industry and the useful domestic arts. The wait this long would indicate that our federal judgeship vacancy is to remain unfilled vutil congress meets in December. Still, the president has been making recess judicial ap- pointments—for example, in Illinois, although presumably only where all the powers-that-be ore agreed on the selection. examiners, composed of John Rush, and Mrs. Sudborough, have been un- s examining Miss Sheldon and several for certificates to teach In the city In the case of Miss Sheldon, they are in. § Misses Ida Ebdebrock and . Miss Ritter of Springfield, City, Miss Maggie Epeneter ethodist Eplscopal church gave Rev. C. W. Savidge, which his old friends during his Methodist Episcopal g% and Miss Maggle Rid- Mr. Willlamson at the Money in the Middle West. The the reserve banks of middle McAdoo's offer place government money with them for the mov ing of the crops, is a fair indication of the gen- eral conditions in this part of the country. The nmanagers of the reserve banks replied to the gecretary of the treasury thag plenty of money is on hand in this region for all purposes. Busi- ness generally is good, and the farmers are so comfortable in their situation that they may sell this season’s crop at thelr lelsure. Forced marketing is no longer in vogue in the great western empire. A steady, regulated movement of crops to market has succeeded the old-time rush, and is bringing Its reward in shape of bet- ter returns to the producer, Harvest time always sffords a new impulse for business, though, and just now all lines are feeling the impetus given by the assurance of another record breaking yleld. The backing of the United States treas- nry is a good thing to have, but the west does not require it. the to answer of west to Secretary What's the Constitution Between Friends? What's the constitution between friends any- way? The democratic guardians of this sacred ark of the covenant down at the state house have each taken a solemn oath to obey and en- force the constitution of Nebraska, but are now- adays busy finding ways to violate it. One sec- tion of the constitution says expressly: No money shall be drawn from the treasury ex- capt in pursuance to a specific appropriation made by law But when the state treasurer refused to honor warrants drawn In favor of the fire war- den for moneys which the legislature had failed to appropriate, the attorney general advised that the requisitions be nonetheless honored because the fire warden's office collected fees in suffi- clency to cover the amount. To overcome the persistency of the treasurer's refusal, leave was finally asked of the supreme gourt to file an application for a writ of mandamus, whereupon the treasurer suddenly discovers that the ap- propriation of fire warden's fees made by the preceding legislature of 1912 is available up to Sfeptember 1 last. Presto, change! The treas- urer reconsiders his ref:sal, the attorney gen- eral withdraws his ms.vemus petition, and the tng-of-war is temporarily postponed. But another section of the state constitution reads: Iach lestslature shall make appropriation for the expenses of the government untll the expiration of the first fiscal quarter after the adjournmert of the next regular session, and all appropriations shall end with such flscal quarter. It usually has been assumed that the appro- priations of each legislature lapsed not later than July of each biennial year. The purpose is to prevent continuing appropriations and make each administration stand financially on its own bottom. If this provision of the consti- tution, therefore, means anything, it is hard to e how the appropriation referred to remains ilable to the first of September without laps- ing, except by stretching the plain letter of the law, Incidence and Coincidence. A somewhat remarkable {llustration of the working of the law of probabilities comes from Washington just now. The fortuitous presence ot the nation’s capital at the same time of the Little Glant and the former spcretary of state niade it possible for them to call together on the attorney general, on whose recommendation primarily rests the filling of a vacancy on the federal bench. It is not to be thought that this meeting and call was prearranged; far be it from such. 1t just happened that Mr. Thomp- son had some business at Washington in connec- tion with an irrigation project that could be put oft no longer; Mr. Bryan remembered that something he had overlooked till then required his attention at the capital, and, most remark- able of all, Mr. Gregory had just ended his little vacation trip. Altagether, it seems a wonderful vorking out of the proposition that everything will happen that ought to, but it isn’t very en- couraging to other aspirants for the ermine, when they reflect on what occurred when Erother-in-Law Tommy Allen shied his hat into the ring. Word from Stefansson. Out of the icy vastness of the north polar region comes a message that will make the world turn from the war for a moment, while it gives its tribute of regard to the personality of a rugged man. The word is from Vilhjalmur Stefansson, and announces his safety and that of his two companions, who were last seen by the party under his leadership, drifting to the north on an ice floe that had been broken away from the main body by an arctie gale. When Stefansson last came back to civilization from the north, he brought with him the story of a race of blonde Esquimaux, and for months the selentific world was agog over this and other discoveries he had made. What additional in- formation he will have of his adventures and in- vcstigation since he drifted from sight of land in March of last year may not even now be con- Jectured, but it is some gratification to know that this hardy explorer has conquered the ad- versities of that forbidding land, and may yet come back to astonish us with further informa- tion, curious if not useful, of men and beasts under the very top of the world, put it over “Min- neapolis day” at the state fair, the Minneapolis Journal knocks on the whole system of so- called “speclal” days for different cities at such public shows. It calls the awarding of days to cities silly custom’ without any compensat- ing benpefit. We fear, however, Minneapolis would not have discovered how “silly” it all is, had “Minneapolis day" only scored bigger than “8St. Paul day.” It took thirty days to raise the Sunday cam- paign expense money in Paterson, and twenty- #ix days to raise it in Des Moines, where, how- ever, the budget was much smaller than in cither Paterson or Omaha. The impression glven out thot in this respect Omaha is proving o “tight-wad" is entirely unwarranted. The attentions paild by foreigners to Miss Columbia are too precipitate to command cousinly favor. The danger of kidnaping, how- ever, is remote. The great American heiress is sufficiently experienced to wink the other eye aund whisper: “Gentlemen, this is too sudden.” Now for the New Dances New York Times NTIL the other day many persons in New York end other eastern citics were thought to be pretty well posted on the latest dance steps. This created a certaln amount of amateur competition for the dancing masters. The dencing masters of the Second district, which includes a number of eastern states, have just developed a plan of campalgn, how- ever, which they calculate would put the teaching of the very latest steps under thelr control for a few months, and at the end of that period they will meet again to create more new fashions in dancing. This step was taken in an effort to outflank what many of them have termed their greatest ememy, the New York cabaret, which, they say, was creating new dance steps faster than the dancing masters them selves could learn them The flanking movement was decided upon at a yea's Dancing academy following the Congress of American Dancing Masters held last week In this city Am a consequence New York has now at least ten new dances to learn. All were demonstrated by Oscar Duryea, and after looking on awhile the gathered male and female dancing masters from this and other cities, the former in shirtsleeves and the latter look- ing as wilted from the heat as ever did suffering dance pupils In any of their schools, took lessons in the new steps until they felt that they were letter per—foot perfect The names of the new dances as made public in- clude the pericon, the globe trot, the national fox trof, the exposition waltz, the march militalre and the syncopated waltz. The other four new dances ars those ‘‘standardized” by the Dancing Masters' con- grese. The pericon, it Is explained, is intended prin- cipally for exhibition purposes. The globe trot is a rollicking, barn-dancy sort of thing Intended for the youngest of the younger generation. The march mili- taire is a product of the dance psychology produced by the war. The others are new forms of old dances Aocording to Robert C. Campbell, an Albamy dance teacher, who presided, the tendency of dancers is to return to some of the graceful features of the wallz, and the alm of the dancing masters is to invent new and graceful steps to take the place of some of the “horrors” that the cabaret has produced. “We want to purge present day dancing,” he sald. “Variations of the old waltz steps have been Intro- duced In & number of the new dances that are being brought out. Last year was a comparatively poor year for the dancing instructor despite the number of dancing schools that sprang up everywhere, for the war depression seemed to take people’s minds from the art, but we expect a boom in dancing this season. It can be sensed already, and coupled with it will be a return to common-sense ideas in dancing. The hesi- tation steps will not be so popular this year they have been; the syncopated waltz will continue popular.” | How Doth the Busy bee? Collected by the New York Worl Why the Mule's Ear Waa Sore. C. E. Fdgecross of Hastings Centre, Oswego, county, New York, recently took ome of his mules from the pasture where it had been for several weeks and while hitching it up noticed several bees flying around the animal's head. Fearing that their pre ence would bring an attack of nerves to the mule he shooed them off, but they promptly returned and dis- appeared in the animal's right ear. Mr. Edgecross investigated and says he found the bees had swarmed in the lower part of the ear and had deposited a considerable amount of honey in a The swarm was dislodged, the honey cleaned out and it was found that the Interior of the ear was inflamed from stings. Mr, Edgecross lost a hive of bees a few weeks ago. - ¥ it Off With Water, Wildam Scherm, a farmer, is in the Beaver (Pa.) hospital in a critical condition from a thousand bee stings. Scherm climbed a tree and started to saw off a limb on which the bees had swarmed. The limb broke unexpectedly and the bees attacked Scherm, lterally covering his head. Scherm lost conaciousness from pain and fell to the ground, break- ing three ribs. Rescuers tried to reach the Injured man, but were driven back by the bees. Finally, with a hose, the bees were fought off. Velled Copper Hunts Beea. Wearing ear muffs, a vell and long gloves, Police- man Willlam Simms, on a motorcycle, has been cruis- ing about Weston in a vain hunt for a beehive full of bees and the man whe stole it from the estate of Philip Coburn in Wellesley street. The authorities of all the surrounding Massachu- setts towns, In response to urgent pleas from Weston, are also on the watch, but up to a late hour Tuesday night neither the bees nor the burglar had been traced, Twice Told Tales Too Much ia Too Much. Mary Jane's master 18 a slightly eccentric bachelor He has one most {rritating habit. Instead of telling her what he wants done by word of mouth he leaves on his desk, or on the kitchen table, or anywhere clse where she is likely to see it, a note curtly direct- ing her to “Dust the dining room,” or “Turn out my cupboard,” and so on. The other day he bought some note paper, with the usual die-sunk address imprinted upon it, from the stationer, and ordered it to be sent home, Mary Jane took it in, and the first thing that ocaught her eye was a note attached to the package. Bhe read it open-eyed. “Well,” she sald, “he’'s asked me to do a few things in his blessed note, but this is the limit. 1 won't stand it no longer."” For the note read: “Die inside this package ''—Philadeiphia Ledger. Slight Exception. The lady who sat In the physician's consulting room was certainly stout. Her reason for seeing him was that he might prescribe some course of treatment which would reduce her too solid flesh, and after some consideration the doctor Grew up a dietary for her, ordering her strictly to follow it and report to him In & month. At the end of that time she came back looking stouter tham ever. The physiclan was agh ‘Are you quite sure you ate what I ordered?’ he asked “Everything,” answered the patient. His brow wrinkled in perplexity. ing else?" “Nothing whatever, doctor, except, of course, my regular meals."~Chicago Herald People and Events —_— Life is bound to brighten up In China. Fifty.six automatic planos, each with twenty-five rolls of the kind of music played on Broadway, are on the way from New York to China. The instruments are the Chinese commission's contribution to the gavety of the baby republic. An enterprising farmer near Wilmington, Del., pro- poses to turm his $0-acre farm Into a pasture exclu. sively for goats, use the milk to make S cheese and import Swiss milkmaids to do the work In old country style. The rprise will be a helptul tip for those whose goats are lost, Up on the coast of Maine where the surf caresses the rocks Miss Vietoria C. Bagler of New York, a col- lege professor, was tossed about by a rude pounding sea and stripped of her bathing suit. Twe daring fishermen, with eyelids closed, dashed in and brought Victoria to dry land and clothes A professor in Missouri's university comes to the defense of the toothbrush. So long as the implement is operated by the owner only, the professor says there is no danger, because the germs, if any, are home grown and used to the surroundings. When | foreign germs are introduced then trouble begins. ! ) “And noth- meeting of the Second district masters held in Dur- | Pre OMAHA, Sept rednens. 17.-=To the Editor of The Bee: It ‘was a pleasure to read you editorial of yesterday, entitled, “Setting Nebraska Right.” In it you say, “Ne- braska will support a sane and sensible preparedness policy—one that for adequate military and naval equip- ment." cte. There is no doubt that will meet with a throughout the state. Expressions of popular sentiment coming to me from friends ir various parts of our state, con- | vince me that Nebraskans stand for a | poliey ot adequate naval defense During my absence on summer vaca- tion, wome of my friends took It upon themselves to elect me to the office of presidert of the Nebraska section of the | Navy League of the United States, and | upon my return, they urged me to ac- | cept the office. This 1 have done be- cause of the conviction held that Uncle Sam must maintain a strong navy for national defense, and to promote ¢ commerce throughout the world. M convictions along this line have been more than confirmed by the utterances of some of the best men of the nation, and the Navy League of the United States has issued a number of pamphlets on the subject, which throw a strong light upon the nation's condition of un- preparedness. These I have read carc- fully, and wish, with your permission, to commend them to the attention of all thoughtful Nebraskans who wish to re- celve full information on the subject. The | league has provided be with a supply, | and 1 will mall copies to any one who may request them of me. ARTHUR C, President your favorable opinion SMITH, Nebraska Section. Nebraska's Total Vote, PILGER, Neb., Sept. 17.—To the Editor of the Pee: To settle an argument Please answer in The Bee how many votes were cast In Nebraska at the las: presidential election and what was the largest vote ever polled in the state. W. C. MONTGOMERY. Note: Total number of votes in Ne- braska in 1912, was 256,124, Back to the Dark Ages. NORTH PLATTE, Sept. 17.—~To the Editor of The Bee: I have been a sub- scriber to The Bee for the last year and I am always intensely interested in the column headed ‘“The Bee's Letter Box." Of late, however, there have appeared & number of articles from one Lucien | Stebbins, and from his attacks on the | Christlan religion a right thinking man ia forced to belleve him a product of the “dark ages.” { 1 say, If this religion is so obnoxious | to Mr. Stebbins, perhaps the civilized world would not miss him greatly should he betake himself to some pagan country where the religion would better fit his ideas, The church of Jesus Christ is the most broadening and cathollo organization among men, since its vision Is to the ends of the world whither the gospel is belng carrled and since its citizenship is in heaven as well as in the earth. 1 earnestly request that Mr. Stebbins not meke us blush with shame again by such unmanly utterances. I live in the same town, CHARLES 0. TROY, A Satlor, Not a Soldfier. HEADQUARTERS, Neb,, Sept. 17.-To the Editor of The Bee: Is a man who belongs to the United States navy a sol- . dle'ri' A. C. THOMPSON. Note: No. He's a sallor or a marine or a naval officer. Boost and Don’t Knock. WISNER, Neb,, Sept. 17.—To the Editor of The Bee: As a Methodist church-goer myself and my family, I wish to put this up especially to John W. Henderson “Judge not, less you be judged,” in ref- erence to “Billy" Sunday, as a traveling blasphemer. Do you think God on his | throne would have allowed Mr. Bunday to have lived this long if he were that? don’t think so. I have never heard Mr. Sunday, but 1 fully believe he is doing a great work An uncle, the Rev. Fletcher Homan, now | Methodist minister of First church of Brie, Pa., but formerly president of the Methodist Willamette university at Salem, Ore, said he had had grave doubts until he heard him himself and | had met him face to face; then he stated, although he did not care to use his methods in preaching, yvet he (Mr, Sunday) reached people the ministers Wwould never reach in the churches, | we can not be y B s boosters, let's donnl If we can not say a good word, let's | keep silent about this campaign. l | | | | | x| MRS. IVAR C. JENSEN, P. 8.~As to the party writing the “Soclalism’s Dissent,” he must be poor financially or he would not be a social- Ist. We are, but we are not a socialist I consider them quitters, for as a usual rule they sit on dry goods boxes howling about the government. Of course, there are a few exceptions, but they are few. | Peace and Polities. OMAHA, Sept. 11.—To the Editor of The Bee: According to your paper the | Lutheran church refuses to join other denominations in an appeal for peace to | the governments of Europe on the ground that it is a political move. The report says It Is not the policy of the Lutheran | church to participate In politics or ing of governments. I can see nothing political about any church trying to bring | about peace The Lutheran church fin America has been trying to influence the | government to place an embargo on arms and ammunition to the allles. At nearly every church council or meeting through- | out the United States they have sent pro- | tests to President Wilson In regard to ore of a political move? B. P this. Which s Just Jealousy OMAHA, Sept. the Editor of The Bee: Since the Christians of the city are all too busy working for God and enjoying the feast of their lives to pay any attention to what the sinners are saying against this religious move- | ment I will venture a word. If this “bunch” would only use their emergy against the vices of our land as strongly as they are using that ener against one who is out tooth and nail for the Bible, they might accomplish something. | If Mr. Sunday delivered a speech with- out hitting the vices you'd never hear a | word out of these knockers. FHit & cur | and he always yelps. A man doesn't set | up a howl. I've pald more to churches | and preachers than I will give to “‘Billy™ ; Sunday. 1 won't have to, because “Billy" Sunday s reaching out and getting every- | body Interested. Most preachers have no ' interest in you unless you belong to their | church or have the mobey. In the churches the expenses all fall on a few, 4nd that's why we each pay more to provides | editorial | preachers than any of us do to “Billy” Sunday. He gets only a little from each. Too many preachers have such a cold, formal way of shaking hands that they repel people from the church Any belief is all right for some people. There's a bunch that's always sick or always imagine they are insulted. Such & bunch needs Christian Sclence, because It's the only science on earth that can find anything the matter with them, and it finds it and sends them on their way rejoicing. In any reform it Is a fact that just as quick as one fellow forges ahead of the rest and accomplishes things extraordi- nary, then half the ‘bunch jumps onto him and they would kill him if they could. It is all jealousy born of the devil and nothing else. The ‘likes of you" cannot hurt “Billy” Sunday, and it only does people good to know he hit you MRS, A F. W, Address Wanted. Will the party who signed a communi- cation to The Bee “U. B. Janes" kindly send address SUNNY GEMS. Mrs. Peck—I suppose if we should have war you'd remain at home like a coward Peck—No one who knows you, my love. would call me a coward if I remained at your side.—Boston Transcript “Why was Gladys making inquirfes as to which of the young men she was go- ing to meet owned automobiles?" 1 suppose she indorses this new sci- ence of preparedness.’—Baltimore Ameri- can There is one thing you cannot deny t is_crooked about the medical pro- 8¢ fon. And what might that be?" When it comes to a_skin game yo doctors are grafters.’'—Baltimore Amer fean “Who's the man with no raiticoat, um brella or rubbers? Ibat's Snooks, the celebrated writer on preparedness. New York Mall Your daughter seems to be an dccom plished musician “Yes, Indeed; she can olay any sort of a one-step her friends want to dance. Detroit Free Press. “Things are gettin' awful dull around here,” growled the first native. 1 should say so,” agreed the second. ain't been anybody hit by an nce in a week or more.”—Buffalo “There His Wife—Never mind if you have lost everything. You still have me. Mr. Bustup—But you're not an asset. You're a running expense —Judge. Eminent South Hoston Judge—And the court hereby adjudges that you be fineu 375, Dilapidated-Looking Prisoner — Stvinty. foive %ndpl‘ What d'ye think Of am- Belgium *—Boston Advertiser. WINCHESTER i i Repeating Rifles In choosing a rifle for any purpose, its reliability and accuracy should be carefully considered. Winchester rifles enjoy the highest reputation the world over for reliability, accuracy, strong shooting qualities and finish. They are made in all desirable cal- ibers from .22 to .50, and in eleven different models. From these a Winchester can be selected that will meet any shooting requirement. 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