Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 15, 1915, Page 6

| | | | A B s P THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWATLS ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATEL, ‘:mR. The Bee Publishing Cornpln»y‘ Proprietor., BED BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. Entered at Omahs postoffice as ..e.,m-.. ‘matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. er By mall per. TTTANCE. Arafy, roas postal order. Only two- .‘.f ne‘vodlq-rvummtofmlw ohecks, except on Omaha an@ eastern OFFICRS The Bullding. utte—14 Eme street. iearst Buiding o Bl s TFourteenth St., fi W. CORRESPONDENCE, P w emu‘:lluflflll m:.lh&’w an: 2 S ———————————————————— SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION, 54,663 braska, County of Douglas, sst oA Wit Sy HE g, T, e helng uly & P rculution Tor the month of September, 1916 n&am WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. Subscribed In ;ru;.n'nunnd sworn to before ¥ ‘fi)?{:wr Huk’r&. Notary Publie. Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. Octobar 15 Thought for the Day Selected by Ella Andress I'pray the prayer of Plato old Lord make me beautiful within And may my eyes the good behold T everyihing save sin. — Whittier. \\ Put up in one package, $400,000,000 is a lot of money. | “America first” is a keynote all political parties may sound. v The world series windfall of $320,000 sheds soothing light on the blue diamonds of the | verdict of “not guilty” for former of Indianapolis the jury gives notice venal yoters just corrupted them- LR ife em— 5 The command of the ploneer elder, ‘“Never d what I do; do as I tell you!™ loses none of subtle suggestiveness as it toboggans down ez along road to s 5;5 ] : i i i g : i § zs-g i : g E The aristocracy is for the empire. e than a war necessity. i hell. That joy-riding 1s more populur even than the tender of the Chinese crown for the present. The Yuan belongs to class. But he desires “the people” to speak Britain’s “no-treat law" is less a temperance The enthuaiasm stay-at-homes for soldlers going to or re- from the front expended itself In. treat- men in uniform, seriously interfering pline at training camps and elsewhere. is designed to stop this custom, and or temperance s an emergency ex- What the Program Means, Now that the president is advancing his plans for the establishment of “adequate” na- tional defenses, the elements of cost and contin- ming expense are also being brought to notice. If Mr. Wilson asks for $400,000,000 for his de- fense program, it means an issue of bonds to provide the funds. The ordinary revenues of the government do not at present meet expenses under democratic administration. The surplus accumulated under the republicans was quickly dissipated by the democrats, and for months the income has been running behind the expendi- tures. For the first quarter of the current fis- cal year the deficit amounts to $43,000,000, or $5,000,000 more than the total defieit for the preceding year. This compares with a surplus of more than $85,000,000 at the close of the last republican administration. In round figures, the Wiison administration has already run be- hind nearly $170,000,000. The administration has already been forced to abandon {ts ultra free trade lideas, to give over free sugar and free wool and to resort to all sorts of extraordinary taxes. Just how it Is proposed to raise the money to meet the presi- dent’s defense plan is not suggested by him, but 1t 1s not llkely he will be able to curtall expendi- tures in other directions sufficiently to make It up of the present revenue. Secretary McAdoo is about to set forth on a cross-continent tour to investigate conditions with aview to cutting ‘off n:any public building projects. This is but one of the curtailments of service to which the dem- ocrats have been driven by their extravagance in handling the country’s business. The president may, or may not, get his army and navy extensions, but the public should un- cerstand what his program will cost. Municipal Problems Alike Everywhere. The city will have a revenues of about $8,000,000 this year. Three million dollars is a lot of money. But what does Kansas City get out of it? Holes in the streots, a poltce vepartment under whioh peoplo have to employ private watchmen to protect their property, gasless gas and a quarrel in the eouncill— Kansas City Star. Please note that this is from the Kansas City Star, which 1s speaking, nmot of Omaha, but of Kansas City. The Bee is not reproducing the item to dis- parage Kansas City, but to call attention of Omaha to the fact that other cities as well have their problems. The municipal budget every- where is growing so fast that it threatens to reach alarming proportions. unless held down by rigid economies and converted into administra- tive efficiency of full value returns. Perhaps Omaba can teach Kansas City lessons as well as draw lessons from Kansag City. Bank Guaranty Law’s Working. When the democrats were pressing for the passage of a deposit guaranty law for Nebraska thelr most frequently repeated promise was that it would not interfere with the legitimate opera- tions of any bank, but would be an encourage- meént and help to its growth. It was especially designed to induce people to deposit thelr money in state banks, that they might be built up to a point where they could compete in service with the national banks, the influenee and activity ot Wwhich had become such an important factor in the business of the commonwealth, Now comes an objection from the State Banking board to the establishment of a strong state bank in Omaha, for the reason that its accumulated de- posits are so large as to overshadow and possi- bly menace the guaranty fund. The bank in question has deposits of more than $2,000,000, while the guaranty fund has yet but a million. It the guaranty law be administered according to Secretary Royse's implied views it means that Lanks chartered by the state can expect to at- tain to only a limited growth, and consequently a limited usefulness. Without disputing the conclusions of the secretary, The Bee respect- fully submits that if this law is to be of full ben- efit to the banking business it will have to be’ made sufficlently elastic to permit of reasonable development along lines that are sound. Deloasse’s Resignation, Ordinarily, the resignation of & Freénch' cab- inet minister, or an entire ministry, doesn't in- .dicate u crisis In the affairs of that nation, but the withdrawal from the cabinet of Foreign Min- tster Delcasse portends a disagreeuient that may be serious. Premier Vivianl virtually admits that lack of accord in Balkan negotiations Is at the bottom of the movement, but does not give Delcasse’s reasons bepond this bare statement. Paris as well as London teels that somewhere & sorry blunder was made in the Balkan affalr, and the sllence at Rome is more than significant of a lack of perfect concord among the Quadru- ple Entente allles. We may never know the whole story, but the inference 1s not to be avoided that, however united the Allies may be on military policy, thelr political movements have not been harmonious, and differences of moment still remain to be adjusted. In time these may be reduced to a frictionless basis, but their present relations are in strong contrast to those of thelr Germanic opponents, who proceed as one. Vivianl's address to the Chamber of Deputies on the Balkan affairs and the particl- pation of France in the defense of Serbla was strongly endorsed, and there is no real minis- terial crisis, but the withdrawal of Delcasse shows that French sentiment on the point is not knanimous, S—— Minnesota's capitol bullding, completed years ago, is already packed with officeholders, and additional rooms are needed to accommo- date the rush of business. This is the distine- tive charm of capitols, city halls, court houses and similar depots of political industry. They are not obliged to hang out the “Come-on™ slgn. Business troops in to the limit of the ap- propriations and some over. A deficlency claim is often fully justified in some department of government confronted with But laying the foundation for a deficiency appropriation fs entfrély separate and distinct from lawlessly spending public money collections without legislative authority, even though Governor Morehead may not be able to grasp the difference. Smeee——— ‘The stress of war in Austria has reached the stage where the people are urged to sacrifice their jewelry, gold and silver plate on the altar of the moloch of war. Evidently the dual mon- archy is scraping the bottom of the financial can, and the war is yet young, FRIDAY, OCTOBER Reunion—Victory Ormaby McNarg, in the Hamiltonian, ~ BADING the life of Linecoln recently I was tm- pressed with a paragraph in an address delivered R by him at Chicago In Deeember, 156 It is clearly applicable to present political conditions. Lin- coln made this statement soon after the election in that year which resulted in Buchanan—the friend of slavery—becoming minority president, through a division of the opponents of slavery. Pleading for harmony, Lincoln sald “All of us who did not vote for Mr. Buchanan, taken together, are a majority of 40,000, But in the late contest we were divided between Fremont and Fillmore. Can we not come together for the future? Let every one who really belleves and 18 re- wsolved that free soclety is mot and shall not be a fallure, and who can consclentiously declare that in the last contest he has done only what he thought best—let every such one have charity to belleve that every other one can say as much. Thus let bygones be bygones; lot past differences as nothing be; and with steady eye on the real issue let us relnaugurate the gopd old ‘central idea’ of the re- public. We can do it.” No better or more appreprinte message can now be borne to the republicans and progressives of this cotntry. During the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858, Douglas stated: “There can be but two great political parties in this country.” Linocoln never questioned the soundness of this doctrine. The last three years have proved it The Lesson of 1864, In 1864 the life of the republican party was en- dangered by opposftion to the renomination of Abra- ham Idncoln. A split occurred, and Fremont was nominated by a faction of the party to oppose Ldn- coln. An effort had to be made to preserve the party. Znchariah Chandler, Michigan's great senator, al- though he had steadfastly opposed many of Lincoln's policies, stepped into the breach, and entirely inde- pendent of party machinery, made the fight which resulted in the withdrawal of Fremont. Thus, the republican party was preserved, and Lincoln saved the nation. A similar sitvation arose in 1712, The differences were caused by party practices. All were agreed upon the essential party principles. The split finally came on & choloe of a candidal Had there been a Zachariah Chandler in the party this country would not be in its present condition. Republicanism is not a “fixed belief.” Republican~ Ism is a dootrine, and it will, when conslstently fol- lowed, revive the constitution of the United States and make it a lving foroe. Demoeratio Party Not a National Party. The democrafic party is not, from the very nature of its principles, a national party. Whenever en- trusted with national control its leaders defy well know economic laws. This is well fllustrated in Ita attempt to execute its promise for greater economy in government by amending the taritf laws, which they hay represented to the country as producing revenues greatly n'excess of the public needs. This economio experiment failing, the administration re- morted to emergency legislation to provide for de- ficlericles. ' Their campaign pledge of ‘‘economy” was followed by their congress making larger aggregato apprapriations than any previous oongress in our his- tory. The democratic party promised an immediate re- duction In cost, Without impairing the American standard of lMving. Instead, it has accomplished the reverse. ‘The democrats recetved a full treasury from the republican party and within the brief period of two years faced the alternative of a bond issue or new tax levies. They chose what they are pleased to call a “war” tax, but the act itwelf 1s a “aeficlency” tax. Is this not practicing a decelt upon the country? ‘War Issue a False Issue. The country is protesting ugninst the efforts of this administration to create a false issue, by claiming credit for keeping us out of the Puropean war. It ls hoped that thereby public attention will be diverted from closed factories, bread lines, bankxrupt railroads and armies of unemployed. Nothing but the most stupld blundering could, by any possibility, plunge us into that war, This administration should heed George Washington's admonition to avold involving the nation in Muropean politics, Protective Tariff, In order to overcome the disadvantages at which the present administration has placed the country, the republican party must legislate to restore a protective tariff. At no time in the history of the country has & proteotive tariff been so necessary as it will be at the close of the present comflict in Europe. Tt i conceded that the Buropean countries will flood us wtih cheap manufactures, made at war wages, in their efforts to recoup for the tremendous outlay of the war. b The so-called “war” tax should be promptly re- pealed, as such extraordinay measures for rn’uln‘ ::::nuol are unnecessary under republican adminis- o We should repeal the laws which provide for the oreation and operation of the many meddlesome com- missions which are roving about the land seekin devour what 1s left of American business. s National Defense. ‘The republican party should devise a comprehen- sive plan for adequate national defense. This eonu;- platés a large navy with merchant ships as auxiliaries, ‘This is real defense, History records no instance where & navy has ever subverted the country which owned it. Provision should be made for a standing army largo enough to supply the framework for a war force. This can be padded out in time of need by a well or- Banized and disciplined militia which the government should ald In maintaining, as it is, in practically all instances, used for national purposes, Republican Party to He a Reunfted Party, There 18 an honest and well-defined effort on the part of a large majority of those who broke awny from the republican party in 1912, to arrange a basts for o reunion. Persistent cfforts on the part of personally ambitious individuals have been and now are being made to keep the breach open. The republican party has profited by the experience gained in 1913, The stato and congressional elections of 1914 clearly dem- onstrate that former republicans are getting together under the old party name. It is apparent that a con- tinuing division will only operate to perpetuate a po- litical regime opposed to the bell: the o lefs of a majority of Aimed at Omaha Beatrice Bxpress: A Bloomington pastor was robbea of §35 while attending the Methodist conference at Omaha last week. Most pastors will wonder where he secured that much money in real cash, Bdgar Post: Last Sunday's Omana Bee was a hummer, It contained sections for South Omaba, au- tomobiles, music, art and jewelry. It contained eighty paxes. Central City Republican: Efficlency in the art of advertising 1s evidenced by the characver of the Ak- Sar-Ben festivities attracting thousands to Omaha from all seotions of the state, and the publicity at- tached to the big tabernacle meetings of *Billy” Sunday. Ord Journal: The Omaba papers are writing re- Nglous editorials, “Billy" Sunday is gettng in more effective work than we had imagined he could. Papillion Times: Ak-Sar-Ben festivities in Omaba are attracting & large number of people from Papil- lion and vicinity, While there is not quite so much ex- citement as formerly, yet the affair never palis and who have attended regularly for years are among the most keen to witness it even now. The at- tractions this year are up to the usual high standard, parades beautiful and unique and Omaba need no apologies for the entertalnment furnished to thousands of visitors. i i Lexington Ploneer: Omaha wants the national dem- convention to meet in that city, and wants it will as Senator Hitchcock de- olares, 150,000 to land it. And there's the rub; the money cannot be raised In Omaha, and as & result be no national convention held in Omaha § Street Falr an Abomination. OMAHA, Oct. 14—To the Editor of The Bee: 1 wish to heartily commend the stand you have taken on the eltmination of the stroet fair, or carnival, as it has been called, from the program of fall festivities in Omaha. This abomination never has been a credit to the people of Omaha, and this yoar It was little short of a carnival of shame and crime. If any theater In Omaha had dared to put on shows ef a character similar to some of the “‘shows in the street fair this year the proprie- tors would have been arrested, and yet the children of Omaha were invited to attend at half price. BSome of the board of governors, I no- tice, say they must have ths money, and this is the only excuse for continuing this outrage on decency. )moha cannot afford to corrupt its young boys and | girls and degrade the manhood and womanhood of the clty at any price. There are other and better ways to raise the necessary mbney for the parades. Other cities do not find it necessary to resort to a vile street fair to ralse money for their parades, and Omaha should and must take a stand for & better and cleaner way. J. M. GILLAN. Some Disappointments in Men. OMAHA, Oct. 14.—To the Editor of The Beo: Garfleld took up Blaine's fight on Conkling and it cost him his life, MoKinley wae right when he did not want Roosevelt on the ticket, but he al- lowed his friends to prevail. Taft made a mistake when he took the presidency in order that Roosevelt might return and run in 192, Roosevelt made a fatal error when he did not stick to his message the night he was elected in 19%4. He increased this mistake when he came home and again entered politics and did not keep to his pen. Bryan disappointed his friends when he falled to measure up to the men who had preceded him in office of secretary of state, Wilson accepted the presidenby on & one-term platform. Wil he disappoint his friends? He may aleo have to change the plank on sugar. . Thomas R. Marshall was an accient, 8o i not a disappoint- ment. Rev. W. A. Sunday disappointed many when he threw “American beauties” at Jim Dahlman, who owes all he is to the opposition to Sunday in Omaha. Sunday ought to win, and I hape he doea, for Omaha needs Sunday much more than Sunday needs Omaba's money, which he no doubt will get. It will not ocome from those who should hear him, but will be kept away by the interests that have kept Omaba dow for years. C. 8. HAMMOND, Wilson's Winning Ways. BEATRICE, Neb, Oct. 14—To the Edi- tor of The Bee: And so Woodrow Wil- son 1s going to be married. I for one enter my protest and my reason for o doing s a good one. Woodrow Wilson is president of the nation and it is his duty to consider the needs of the people. The people do not need a mistress of the White House, but they do need a president that would be concerned in thelr material welfare. ‘We do not like to see the government mansion: turned Into a matrimonial es- tablishment. If Woodrow Wilson thinks that he will please the people by opening up the ‘White House to festivity he is mistaken. "Tis sald that Mrs. Galt Is a suffragist and that she will influence the president in behalf of woman. Well, if a president doesn’t know what is right without be- ing influenced, then he ought not to be president, » If Mrs. Galt will grasp the reins of government and drive it into feminine power she will accomplish more than all the presidents that have ever lived. If this ts her aim, her object, we will not criticize her if marriage was the only ‘way to victory. However, she will be disappointed, for after marriage he will most likely be like old Grover Cleveland who, before marriage felt so well dls- posed towards women that he granted most every request made by them, but ‘when he marrifed it wasn't six weeks un- til he growled at every woman who came within ten feot of him. Now, if Mrs. Galt ia after position only, then let us put her and old Woodrow back on the civillan hearth rug and let them purr and flicker out their days. ALYS HALE. Dance Not Harmfud—Ouly Its Abuse OMAHA, Oct. 13—To the Editor of The Bee: The man who can see only the evil in things and never the good is to be pitied. As one irreverent young person #aid, “To the pure all things are rotten."” It is the abuse of dancing, the abuse of card playling, the abuse of going to the theater and the moving picture show that are harmful, just as it is the abuse .of eating and drinking or things that are &ood In themselves that is harmful, “Billy” Sunday's conceit permits him to add to the Ten Commandments. What amusements does “Billy” aprove of for the young people? Old fashioned kissing games, drop the handkerchief? Or does he expect the young people to stand around the plano singing such musical rot as “Brighten the Corner Where You Are?™ “Billy" is degenerating into a common scold that everybody laughs at and a cheap vaudeville performer. “Billy” Sunday says, “Why don't men dance with men and women with women.” My father tellsa me that when he was in California in "4 and '60 there were no women In the camp and the men held Friday night dances and danced until morning, the men dancing together. Anybody who knows anything at all knows that the girls dance together at boarding schools and they dance with each other. The dance is a natural ex- pression of happiness and “Billy” can foam at the mouth about dancing as long as he wants to. LUCY WAKEFIELD, Indifference to Patriotic Alrs. OMAHA, Oct. 14.~To the Editor of The Bee: Belng a visitor fn Omaha from our metropolitan city, New York, the center and pulse of events, and where the ma- jority are always ready to prove thelr appreciation for thefr country and flag, 1 could not help being amased when at one of Omaha's theaters a play with a deep American Interest was depicted, our national airs, “America” and “The Star Spangled Banner,” were renderel by the orchestra, and our atatue of ltberty brought into prominence, not a soul arose tn that large audience. I cannot believe that the people of the west are indiffer- ent to our country. I cannot believe they lack patriotic feeling. If there ever was & time in the history of our country to show appreciation and patriotism it is now, when the other half of the world 15 at variance, and. as quoted in The Hee, and all the time, s the only sentiment for all real Americans, B B B Woman's Activities A woman has applied for membership tn the St. Louis Bar association. It is now in fact, though not, apparently by its constitution or by-laws, a ‘“‘stag” or- gantzation. A New Jersey woman recently cele- brated the completion of twenty-five years of success in business. Her hus- bend fafled, but when she took told of his affairs they prospered, and have continued to do so. She has reared five children in the meantime. The Chicago teachers who are mem- bers of the Teachers' federation, recently put under the ban by the Board of Bdu- cation, have begun injunction proceed- ings. All persons eonnected with the | disbursement of school funds are in- cluded In the bill asking the injunction. Dr. von Lennep of Philadelphia says that the athletic girl should not wear corsets, as the activities in which she indulges harden the abdominal muscles | and, in consequence, trouble s likely to | be produced by the pressure. He traces | all sorts of diseases to the wearing of the corset. The National American Woman Suf- frage association will meet in Washing- ton December 14, just in time to greet the congressmen. This convention will present the resolutions favoring woman suffrage which have been adopted in the various states. All over the country there will be conventions on November 16 to remind the congressmen who are still at home of the desires of the women. These conventions will be held in 212 congressional districts and will also reach forty-six senators. Here agd There Merchants in China often leave their places of business unguarded for more than half an hour. If customers arrive in the meantime they find the prices of goods plainly marked, select what they ‘want and leave the money. A hood of tin which fits over a rooster's head and neck in such a way as to pre- vent chanticleer’s heralding the dawn has been invented. That's what the bird got for erowing near a police station, where men have time to think of such trifles. Fyvery morning 10-year-old June Ellis of Phillips, Me., drives to school, then turns her horse Maude around and sends her back. Sometimes Mr. Hilis telephones to the tavern for something and tells them that he will send Maude for it. In a short time Maude arrives, walts until the desired articles are put into the wagon, and when told that she may go, heads directly for home. LINES TO A LAUGH. “Skinner boasts that he never 16ts any- body ahead of him—that he takes no- body's dust v Skinner's a falsifier; he takes every- | body’s duet he can lay his hands on.''— Boston Transcript “How,” asked the captain of the train robbers, “‘dld you manage to go through 80 many passengers alone?" “I had only,” rejoined the ordinary brigand, “to carry a whisk broom in my hand and they suspected nothing.”—Puck. “A woman Is worth a lot more than & man “How can you prove 1t?" “Why, 1an't a miss as good as & mile? And look at all the men It takes to make a league."—Baltimore American. ‘“Well, Rastus,” sald the colonel, as the ©old man shoveled the coal into the cellar, “how do you stand on the great question of the hour. Are you for unpreparedness or defense ™’ “Why, Kunnel,” sald Rastus, “Ah haim't glb it much cornsideration, 8o Ah guess,’ suh, Ah'm on de-fence.” — New York Times. “Your proposal for my hand was a won- derful expression of sentiment,” said the critical girl S “Yes,” answered the absent-minded uth. I put a whole lot of sentiment nto that question—and some courage.— Washington Star, “I think I'll take out that life insurance. It will come in very handy for my wife at this time." “Well, insurance is a fine thing, buf you're good for forty years yet. “1 don't know. I have a foreboding wee that the agent is (golnx to talk me to - death."—Loulsville Courfer-Journal. “You claim that Colonel Carter's auto- mobile ran into you, Rastus?’ sald the presiding justice, “Yassuh—she sure did give me some bump, jedge,” replied Rastus. “And where did it hit you?' queried the Judge. “In the toyms ob de automobile itse't, Jedge,” sald the old man, “right squar in de tonneau, suh.,”—~New York Times OUT FOR A WALK. & Indlanavolis Star, I mea to the wife, ses I, “Glue love,” (I call her “Glue™ Because she always sticks to ft That she is right in everythi; “Glue, petty,” sez 1, “lel For a walk,” "All right, She, and so we got Into our Model 1888 automobile and, sure Enough, it busted down about Ten miles out and we walked in tter in my Guess it's because I'm walking 80 much these days.” And I “Yes, but it would be cheaper | 'o go to a sanitarium,” and the» I handed a guy a ten-spot for Going out after car. But ‘When he got there the car was Gone. Ome of our friends Smfpg:owd put éz in his Chest an ught it me For us Yep, it's that kind a car. But when to return our t The guy t he sez, sex he: “No I on't give it back ‘cause ‘When 1 didn't find your car 1 thought maybe it had rolled Off the road into the ditch, ‘Which was full of water, And I spent an hour poking In fl;le I?:." 'a'lh a stick Trying to fins & e've (go!un much pleasure from our Car—with the coln we sold it fon THAT YOU CAN | " SEE THRU IT Ten are Free This ad is_good for this perfect Quaker Cooker. many more. Cut this ad out and keep it. - Then buy a ackage of Quaker Sata and see our offer in it. But only one of these ads can apply on a Cooker. This Cooker is for Quaker Oats users, It is to help them brin out all tge flavor an aroma of these extra- luscious flakes. Many rocersin this city now fiave it on display. only. v Quaker Oats is made of queen grains Two-thirds of the oats as they come to us are discarded in this brand. The result is rare richness and flavor. 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