Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 30, 1915, Page 7

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE [ FOUNDED BY EDWA;, ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATE! The Bee Publishing Com BUILDING, FARNAM A ——— — Entered at Omahs postoffice as second-class matter. f et Al atria bt tbetitodtibemmaniiit TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION. A s T A > .«—vm ————— R By carrer By mail per month. per year. vevee.860, 186,00 L4000 6.0 o .40 Bee lte 843 526 PR i, 10 change of address or complaints o Jarity. 18 delivery %o Omaha Bee, "Cireulation TTTANCE. ", or postal order. Only two- ps_received in payment of small no- nal checks, except on Omaha and eastern not socepted. The it i Ing. Oma N street. Il ufip—l:‘th Main street. o Batidi légf'n"fu. ‘e Fiteh avenue. - N Bank of Commerce. -!l':'our.tnunth Bt, N. W, | CORRI'-.PONDINC'D_ ol ith ") w- oomw‘:llaueu rolaf nn 0 r X 2 e —————— e AUGUSY CIRCULATION, 53,993 %w C&lllrc of Douglas, ss: it ams, tion manager of The Bee N duly sworn, says that the BEhA o i -as month of August, 19 (GHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. Bul bed In presence and sworn to before b x"‘r'"fififi#}fi, Notary Publie. Subseribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as oftén as requested. .‘; ‘September 30 finfig\’ Thought for the Day The making of friends, who are real friends, ie the best token we have of a man’s success in . lire.— Edward Everett Hale. e " This is where Ak-Ser-Ben attains his ma- fgority. Twenty-one is old enough to vote. —— Bach and every one of you are now on the rueeption committee for Ak-Sar-Ben visitors, S— Before “Biily” finishes, of course, he will tell us what he thinks about municipal dances. — But it Uncle Sam will not protect his own American citizens in forelgn lands, who will? ) Se— } War shares are aviating higher and higher snto the clouds. The return to earth promises & new speed record. emp——— The report that the Russian bear lost all its ‘ claws in the Mazurian lake reglon turns out to | be' slightly exaggerated. Farmers are advised to organize their work can do a steady all-the-year-round busi- ——— Should | _ fellows persist in pushing m:-' ':fi the front as a “horrible ex- ! of 2-cent fares, they may have them- to bléme for the boomerang effect of atrocities, Slp— unfortunate moment has been chosen legal aspersions on the purity of Omaba's nah ped water, A public charge of im- ! - though unproven, indicts the water seats. SEm——— General Kuropatkin, the Russian com- Mmhltl in the war with Japan, is re- E coming out of eclipse and heading for Ten years of retired meditation ought developed a substitute for his famous : f Lincoln's watchdogs of reform is mak- d nolse over the expenditure of $800 rchase of an automobile. He ought up to Omaha and permitted to re- of our city, county, school district district-owned autos. Smm—— government has invited the American at Munich to forward his resignation. American woman, just landed in New York, t a ticket-of-leave from Italy. Both are of war partisanship, In both instances first pointed to home as the proper place minus & wental stabilizer. g¢ k) g 5 i! i i :!? 1 o 1k Bld.: OMARA, LHURSLAY, Sk | Fifty Years After, Twenty thousand veterans of the army of Grant marched in review before the president at Washington yesterday, trudging along with tot- | | tering steps over the route their young feet had covered with springy stride in the morning of their sturdy yonth. When President Johnson reviewed the veterans, 160,000 men, sunburned, tanned, lusty and vigorous, filled Pennsylvania avenue with such a stream of virile life as it | never had seen and may never again see 1t | was the Grand Army of the Republic, just fin- fshed with itg fighting on the field of battle, and ready to take up the conquest of life, Some of tuem looked back on campaigns from Bull Run | to Appomatox, from '61 to '65, tull of the action that brought a nation out of the depths of war, | und looking forward with clear eyes to a future great beyond the dreams of any. They dropped the muskets after that march down Pennsylvanla | avenue, and took up the tools of peace. States have been erected, cities built, civilization in all | its wondrous progress has been establighed since then, and these men have had their full share | in the magnificent work. Only 20,000 of them marched up Pennsylvania avenue in this review, while all that are left of the men who fought under Old Glory in those dark years scarcely number more than marched before President | Johnson, but these few are the grand Army of the Republic, and will so remain while this gov- ernment and its institutions endure. Just What it Was All About, Now we know what all thig fuss and flurry over the floating of the Anglo-French $500,000,- 000 loan was about. The terms upon which the bonds are to be offered to the syndicate and underwriters and to the public make it so plain that any school boy can figure it. The bankers who are in on the deal are 1o have the bonds at 96, and to offer them at 98—In other words, they are to have two per cent commission for | flotation. The particular banks to share in the underwriting group are to have their Invita- tions from the head of the house of Morgan, although it s not disclosed whether or not a #pecial additional commission 1s to be paid for that service. On the $500,000,000 the two per cent amounts to $10,000,000, which is some- thing worth fighting for, and for which the fight would have been just as keen whether theemoney was to be loaned to the allies or to the Teutons. What Will Rockefeller Do? The full significance of the visit of John D, Kockefeller, jr,, to Colorado can not be deter- mined until his final judgment is pronounced and his action taken. Mr. Rockefeller 1s now en- gaged In summing up his experience and obser- vations, and hag promised he will see what can Le done for the improvement of industrial con- Citions out there. His visit has been variously interpreted, some of his critics flippantly com- paring it to the tour of a feudal lord to receive and enjoy the homage of his vassals and bond serfs, Why not give him the benefit of any doubt that may exist and concede that he is sin- cere In hig professions of desire to be of service? He has it in his own hands to do much good, and, with first hand knowledge of the situation, he may find means to bring about changes that ‘will be of great'value to those directly affected. He hasn’'t gone deeply into things in his short visit, and has been and still is in the hands of men who represent the Rockefeller interests ‘there, but he has in other ways shown a ten- dency to practical methods in his philanthropic efforts, consequently it is not unreasonable to look for some genuine good to come from this inguiry. Mr. Rockefeller has now a great op- portunity, and will shortly let the world know if he intends to work any considerable change in existing conditions. —— Mudge and the Rock Island. The resignation of Henry ¥. Mudge as joint recelver with Judge Dickerson for the Rock Inland system clears the way for the suits that are to be brought by the receivers against the directors of the defaulting company. While Mr. Mudge is not responsible for the conditions that necessitate the suits, being a director in the one company that is not involved In the stock manipulations complained of, he felt a natural delicacy as to his position when called upon to appear as plaintiff against his former assoclates. His resignation therefore removes any embarrassment the government might have met in this respect. Mr, Mudge may be retalned As operating executive of the system, although rumor connects his name with the place of presi- dent of another great and successful raflroad. He has high rank among railroad men and his ac- tion In this affair indicates the high quality of his honesty, which has been proven in other ‘ways, along with his executive ability, The etraightening out of the tangled affairs of the Rock Island is proceeding apace, and the own- €rs of the road may yet have back thelr property in serviceable condition, —— The first and most difficult lesson taught in five days to the 462 men comprising the volun- teer army In training at Camp Sheridan was ‘Obedience to military rules and orders.” The ditficulty of learning it proved more imaginary than real. Obedience in the military sense i ineans system, unity, co-operation in workaday life and the addition of one to the other makes for greater efficiency in life’'s battle. Why not be frank about it Sending food to the belligerent countries, loaning them money, selling them war munitions, furnishing them hospitals and hospital supplies, or helping to re- lleve homeless war victims—each is only one way by which we share the burden of the fight to the extent we take it off of the countries at war, and thus enable them to keep up the fight longer. That American schemers are responsible for some of the trouble on the Mexican border is a matter of common knowledge. Several persons at Los Angeles and San Diego are under indict- ment for conspiring against the peace of Mexico, back of these movements, usually well covered, |-th.donuum«muuumw which the schemers might profit through owner- ship of Mexican property. S——— “War obtruded upon us by criminal sur- prise,” says the kaiser in a congratulatory d's- patch to his finance minister. Despite the vast amount of serious business on hand, the kaiser Breserves a Uvely:sense of umor. * g l A Boarding House Keeper |' S, WM. Gleason in Marper's Weekly. HE 18 an elderly gentlewoman with soft gray hair Q and a face where much suffering has not avalled to leave one line of bitterness. Only from an in ner kindliness can the tone of the volce and the aerv- fco of the hands come which bring a comfort to a houseful of stran a. Out of a dull, brown dwelling on a city street and a group of lonely men and women “Infinitely repellant particles,’ she has made a home She achieves it by a long patience, a habit of thinking the best of faulty human nature, and a quiet but per sistent oversight upon every detall of the establish- ment, from the coal fire in the guests desserts made by her own hand One key to her success, that enables her to bind rooms to th lodgers to her with hoops of steel, is that she buys tha | best foods which the market offers. highest prices vegetables. She pays the and obtains fresh meats and worthy unusual value in her table. One of her lodgers, a critical, even ‘cranky,” battered, dlsappointed man, has been with her for twenty years. The “help” en Joys the same quality of food as the star boarde:s Tt Is Just at the point where the element of cale tion s passed by, that she galhs her distinction cares for her guests as iIf they were her family. ) missionary to South Sea islands, nor worker in slum districts gives more service to his community thun this silent, active woman of 60 years, who preters her calling to the bleak, unrelated life of retirement It 18 a trying life—that of pleasing tired, fault- finding homeleas people—because it deals in innumer able little things: The cleaning of rooms, the prepara- tlon of food, the jangle of the telephone bell, the care- lessness of hired workers. The hostess of transient lodgers must comsult a jumble of personal tastes, whims, prejudices. The leisured worlding who slee,s Iate and breakfasts in bed, the student who rises early, the invalld of delicate appetite. She has to calm a Babel of volces, each one of which i insistent to de- clare his own dislike of other medes of thought, and allen brands of religlon and politics. She performs a ministry of reconciliation hetween exasperated persons n the drawing room and fretted workers in the kitchen. Her own personality must be as persuasive s an oquable climate, unrecognized but effectual Such aa the boarding house keeper. Aimed at Omaha Shelton Clipper: It Billy Sunday Goes not succeed in converting the sinners of Omaha it will not be the fault of the newspapers in the Nebraska metropolis. They are giving the acrobatic evangelist every assist- ance possible to his sermons and ‘hot shots.” Culhertson Banner: There are slight hopes for the Omaha papers. It anything they give Sunday Bily a little more space than they used to devote to Canada Bill, Frank and Jgsse James. Kearney Hub: The Omaha Bee deciares that the “short ballot” is ripening very fast. It sure is. As a matter of fact it 1s just a little overripe. Of course, we will not offend delicate sensibilities by declaring that it is really rotten. Bloomington Advocate: The Omaha papers are to be commended for the excellent manner In which they are handling this feature. Silver Croek Sand: It s to be hoped that within the next couple of weeks the Omaha papers will be worth reading. “Billy" Sunday's rot is disgusting and people who pay their money in advance for the papers are entitled to a financlal rebate. Columbua Telegram: Nebraska's two best preach- ers are Ak-Sar-Ben and the State Fair. - Ak-Sar-Ben, belng a purely commerclal jnstitution, cannot, of course, be favored with an appropriation of money from the state treasury, but Ak-Sar-Ben should re- celve & very large appropriation from the people’s treasury of good will and personal patronage, becauso of the fact that it always so splendidly advertises this agricultural commonwealth to the mation and to the world. The Telegram hopes and belleves that in due time Ak-Sar-Ben's annual fall festival will be to Omaha and Nebraska what the mardi-gras festivities are to New Orleans. It can be done. The spirit of Omaha, as breathed through the men of Ak - can accomplish anything. By Twice Told Tales A Salesman’s Slip, There was a young fountain pen salesman who, to his great joy, was succeeding on his st trip in persuading a stationer to order 100 pens, But all of a #udden the stationer's manner changed to the young man. “T countermand that ord he barked ,and hur. urlefl into his private office, slamming the door behind . Later in the tioner: “May 1 k, alr, why you so sudden): . 3 y counter- manded your order for those fountain pens?” “The young salesman,” explained the statione “booked my order In lead pencil.” 9 day yhll bookkeeper said to the sta- A Reason * Advance. There is & young author in Baltimore who is de- termined to achieve fame in the writing line if it takes his whole life. Accordingly, he s even will'ng to defray the cost of putting on the market the numere Ous noveld,he writes from year to year, On the occasion of his last Visit to his publisi however, he was somewhat vexed, a rather unusual thing for him. “Why," asked he, “do you charge me more this time than before? * “"Well," sald the publisher, with the utmost frank. ness, “the compositors were constantly falling asleep over your last novel."—Harper's Magazine When (ne TTAYer Before Dattie. hen the British ships under Lord Dearing down to attack the combined flest et e falger, the firet lieutenant of the Revenge, on going round to see that all hands were at qul’.rur- ob- served one of them devoutly kneeling at the mide of his gun. So very unusual an attitude in an Bngiisn sallor exciting hs surprise and curlosity, he went ana asked the man If he was afraid “Atrald!" answered the honest t Bance expreasive of the utmost disduin, net e nt) only praying that the enemy’s shot may be dtstribure; in the same proportion as the prize money—the Sreat. st part among the officers.”—Joe Miller. 2 People and Events The man who set the bl of New York required th und tell how it happened. The prettiest young member of ths sufizase In upper New York pcsed in a procession as the “New Woman,” dressed in white and held In chains Presenting prejulice, or- ance and vice. An imposing guard of sisters ::—..J with brooms surrounded the chalned maiden, and no man dared make an attempt at rescue, Jitneys legislated out of business in Philadelphia are back on the job, not as jitneys, but as “club e:-s : ast that blew up the streets ree days to compose himsel? A heroic monument to the American cowboy is pro- Jected by ploneer settiers and cattlemen of Oklahoma. The general idea (s a granite and bronze memorial to be reared on some commanding eminence similar to the one dedicated to the Américan Indian at Oregon, IIL At present the cowboy is without s monument though he was a ploneer of ploneers and maiched his valor with that of soldiers in Incian wartare, A Georgla court deftly sidesteps a direct answer to question, “What 18 & drunk?’ According to the court of appeals the fact that & man recklessly on & street on Sunday, botsterously, brandished a whip and scared , 18 not sufficlent evidence of ving driven his horse through & a garden, justified the lower court ' MUk su She makes less money, because she gives | 1Wilv. Growing Wetter or Worse ! AVOCA, Ia., Sept. 20.—To the Editor of The Bee Just now the gospel trumpet 18 being sounded in the city of Omaha | with & vim and vigor that s apparently shaking the civilized world. Just what is accomplished from this source on the | #piritual side of life goes unmeasured be | cause the field is too large. There are | too many “its,” “ands’ and “isms” to | et the real meat of the nut here. The | ospel assists in building spiritually, | while human laws are made to help out | In the material world It was In police court in the big city the other day when the writer saw the law vindicated The first case called was parking an auto against ordinance, time limit being violated. This amounted to little more than a fractured ordinance. The next case consisted of drunken- | ness and fighting: civilization lacking here. | The light-fingered wretch known as the | shoplifter appeared next, pleading gulity, | ana was given twenty-five days in which | to repent. Another case was that of a young girl, whose blue eyes and fair features were perhaps & mother's joy, gullty of va- grancy. Two young men were with her on the same charge, all thelr ages were given as 19, traveling the road of frre- sponsibil together, and who was to blame? Fingers yellowed by cigarette smoking were strongly in eence in this case. The dope fiend appears next, who passed as a fortune teller in an effort to extract money other than by means of the sweat of brow. If there was a human soul within the specimen of humanity before the bar of justice the countenance falled to reveal it. Two young men lined up next classed as “bums,” as their violation. The kindly judge told them to “hit the pike,” go west and grow up with the country as a penalty for their wrong-doing. Another specimen of humanity ap- peared next whose head was white with the frosts of many winters, charged with being drunk, and whose declaration was that he had only had two glasses of beer. He was tenderly given thirty days. The wife beater appeared in the arena and recelved sixty days. Two descendants of Ham, sisters, were lined up next charged with fighting. The green-cyed monster, jealousy over hus- bands, was the cause. The man sitting in judgment told them shame. Go build an unsurmountable wall, each brighten- ing their own little corner and sinning no more Now comes two kleptomaniacs, who had been accused of stealing wire, and were convicted. Reformation was hoped for by twenty-five days In jail. Thus the big world moves, formation on the one hand that it ls growing better, while on the other ob- servation leads us to belleve it is srowing worse, with the gospel and human law as the main rule and gulde to assist tn improving conditions in human life, but who of us has the ability to deal out the proper doses? TEE J. AITCH. Eebo of the Water Wagon. OMAHA, Sept. 20.—To the Editor of The Bee: The Lettor Box of The Bee seems to be popular, a la “Billy” Sun- day, pro and con. I went to hear Mr. Sunday the other night and stood on the fringe of the crowd at the outer edge. 1 failed to notice any slang or stone age nonsense that has shocked so many of his Letter Box critlcs. Yes, 1 stood out there on the outside, a traveling salesman, 46 years old. Years ago I fortified myselt with the *Mistakes of Moses,” and journeyed into a wise career, daring my chickens to come home and roost. In the heyday of my follow- ing after false gods I returned unexpected to find a broken home. I was ‘“infal- lible,” and burned all the bridges. It was hard to give up my home and bables, #0 I turned to John Barleycorn to fill the gap, and. find now 1it's too late to give it up. In my Nebraska territory I do want to thank the good people for such dry towns as Wayne, Wakefield, Blair and the numerous others, and when I strike Bloomfield or Grand Island I am yet thankful that the law of our state closes the thirst parlors at § p. m. I-and thousands ltke me are praying for the day that all the country will be dry., and then, and then only, will our bables be better clothed and better fed, G. W. H. An Outsider. Ushers in Cadet Unlform. OMAHA, Sept. 2.—To the Editor of The Bee: I am glad to hear that the officers of the High School cadets did not wel- come the offer which the Omaha Audi- torfum extended to them, It secms that they were wanted as ushers at the Au- ditorlum. If they accepted this offer they would be obliged to wear their cadet uniforms. These uniforms are not cool. They are made of heavy cloth and they are hot. The boys are always glad when they can take thelr uniforms off just because they fit so snug and are so hot. 1 was an usher at the Auditorium over two years and it is not easy work. People usually think ushers are inhu- man and very often treat them as such. Ushering s not easy when you have be- tween forty-five and fifty rows to watch Last year there was a a very fine group of boys that ushered at the Auditorium. They were mostly Omaha high school boys of good standing. We got along just fine last year without wearing uni- forms, and 1 know we could this year, too with in. AN AUDITORIUM USHER A Gar for Sunday. AURORA, Neb., Sept. 2.—To the Editor of The Bee: In your issue of September 24, Mr. J. Braxton Garland gave forth expressions of admiration for Evangel- ist Sunday. The preponderance of the personal pronoun ‘I categorized the statements as expressions of egolsm. Mr. Sunday deserves sympathy in his her- oulean task of cleansing the pulpit of Darwiniam, Cioeronian etr:.a, higher criticlam and soclal cant. Tuese are of the themes that locked hell und flung the key away. If in unravelling the Saviouwr from mythology and bringing Him alive among His own, placing Him on his proper pedestal, Mr. Sunday has used forceful language the chronle ills of his Patients induced chiefly by religious quackery justify him, Mr. Garland bestows more admiration because neither creed nor doctrine, as expounded by Mr. Sunday ‘“conflicts with the soverelgnty of the state.” If he means the state in its own sphere is soverelgn, then he expresses a trulsm. If he means révelation is subject and secondary to the state, then he con- flicts with Christ, who comunands that things that are Caesar's be given him, but to God the things that are God's. If the state be absolutely supreme the martyrs who planted the banner of civili- sation on the ramparts of paganism were diftoyal and unpatriotio. They wore. rep- rehensible for wresting from the state rights for prisoners, hope for slaves, lberty for debtors, fostering caie for sickness and infirmity, for proclaiming | the universal brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God. E. H. | Nebraska Editors Colonel Willlam O. Todd, former editor | of the Thedford Herald, is the new pro- prietor of the Dunbar Review. W. W. Moore, a printer, who has been in the employ of the Schuyler Messenger, has leased the Schuyler Sun. H. R. Fair- child, who has been in charge of the Su will go to Wyoming, where he will take up & homestead. The Record 1§ the name of a new paper at Bdison. H. M. Call is editor and pro- prietor, Editor Stone of the Hartington Herald, has been appointed probation officer for Cedar coumy. The Neligh Semi-Weekly News made its appearance this week. The name of E. 8 Schofield appears at the masthead | as publisher. Mr. Schofield was proprietor of the Neligh Register up to a fow months | ago. 1 The Neligh Leader, Best Bros., pro- prietors, appears this week ss a sem- | weekly, The Sidney Telegraph will celebrate its forty-second anniversary October 2 by | changing its publication day from Satur-| day to Friday. . W. Enyeart, who has been manager of the Hayes City Times-Republican for nineteen years, retired last week to as- #ume his dutfes as postmaster. A. C. Ready, who has been one of the owners of the paper, has taken over the active management. The Seward County Tribune, which was started as a semi-weekly a few months ako, last week changed over to a weekly ba. tor, last week completed the installa- tion of a linotype machine. i S This Coupon pac! kage of Quaker Oats, see our offe The Bertrand Herald, L. E. Brown ed-| ' “You're doin' what you can to improve this institution,” said the inmate of the penitentiary, “but there's one thing you ought to do at the start.” “What's that?" asked the warden “When you bring a man here you ought to_rig up the handcuffs as wrist watches \Washington Star ’ HOW LONG SHOULD A GiRL WAIT FoR A FELLOW? ha== o= =) BE MORE SPECIFIC. —THEATRE LOBBY OR MARRIAGE 7 % e Bil o of Jill—Sure thing “And 1 suppose that is the reason the English spell it humour.”~Yonkers States man Do you helleve brevity s the wit? LIFE'S SONG. Baltimore Sun 1 think of thee— When kindly night is falling, When star to star is calling, When moon and sky in quiet hours de- scend . When o'er my head the azure heavems bend In dusk omdawn, in travail or in strife, In all the golden interludes of life— 1 think of thee. 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