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i iz . of patriotic martyrdom is pledged by a preacher, as THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY BEDWA , ROSEWATER. VIOTOR ROSEWATEL., (DITOR, The Bee Publishing Company _Proprietor, BER BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. Kntered fi Omahs postoffice as second-claas matter, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. mon! year. sudver Bt i | T oticn ot adlivios or complaints of arty 15 delivery Yo Omana ‘Bee CGireuiation ANCE. or postal order. ved yment d‘fl‘& a0 Tece! 1 1 chee -‘rn’t‘no-u eastern OFFICDS. CORRESPONDENCE, Cog g gy ARy LR e SEPTEMBER CiRCULATION. 54,663 lunlfl‘_ Count olmm:x e s L R A R byod ‘BWIOH‘I‘ WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. -Iu‘lznbud “iozm sworn to before Notary Publie. Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- @ress will be changed as often as requested. Ootober 16 Thought for the Day Selected by S. M. Kelley The world is full of roses, The roses 1ull of dew, The dew is rull of heavenly love That drips, and drips 1or you. —James Wiitoomb Riley. Lumber prices boosted on account of the war. Buy your lumber now while it's at top noteh, The nearer one lives to the coast line, the greater is the fascinatiop of a protecting war- ship in the offing. S ———— Winter is again approaching, dbut no work house yet In sight to warn hoboes away from Omaha. Some day! Some day! epped— But presumably so long as the sky-rotketing wlnotlu-bwlullfinldllmmtol sawdust, salvation will continue to be free. ———— The Associated Retallers of Omaha have an impressive list of committees, To parapharse Captain Cuttle, “If anybody kin, they kin."” —— ¢ Despite the vocal throbs and thrills deliv- ered by orators st Davenport, no enemy fleet has churned the waters of the Mississippi river eanal may now hope to secure attention from folks whose eyes were before riveted on the slides on the diamond. e———— No special “Fathers' day” for Nebraska is the dictum of Govermor Morehead. Coming from an esteemed loys! member of the tribe, this is the cruelest cut of all. enteenth to Tenth street is far outclassed by - the mighty jump from Tenth btreet to about Beven ¢ s : vities are a sufficlent test of patri- more is demanded. If they will eripples and support them, the crown g & specimen of pure masculine unselfishness g; i g D the i : ig I E % & a % Lt i T ; E Mets, Fréd Mots, i¥ death on the retreat from Moscow. A Place for Omaha to Get Busy. Minneapolis Is jubllating through its news- pepers over a new and assu achievement from which great things are e od, being the es- tablishment of “‘a central industrial tract” upon % hich it hopes to bulld up a large manufacturing center. With the last obstacle removed, it ia now possible, we are told, for Minneapolis to provide 100 new Industries with factory sites, ideal in trackage facilities and arrangement and relation to the eity, with terminal service by every one of the nine rallroad systems centering there. At one corner of the tract is to be a joint freight depot where less-than-carioad lots of both “In’* and “out” freight for all these roads 18 to be handled. Consider what this means for the commerce of Minneapolis,” exclaims the Journal, and it tells uo that the three prineipal factors that have brought this admirable project to fruition are “the Industrial association, splendidly officered and with an’investing membership quite rep- resentative of Minneapolis commercial and other interests; a city government, which, through the councll, has made the replatting of the tract possible, and has pushed through the immediate opening and improvement of a center arterial roadway; dnd the nine rallroad systems con- verging in Minneapolis’—each indispensable to the accomplishment. The Bee calls attention to what Minneapolis s doing as an example of municipal and eivie progressivelsm for the purpose of spurring on Omaha to make fuller use of our opportunities. With our exceptional and peculiarly favored natural conditions and abundance of rallroad trackage freely accessible, we are not sure Omaha requires the setting aside of a special manufacturing center, but we do know that a great deal more can be done than has been done for encouraging and building up new Industrial enterprises here, employing labor which In turn circulates the wages earned through the chan- nels of retafl trade. The very fact that Minne- wpolls, Kansas City and other growing western cities are so active along these lines should ad- monish us in Omaha that we, too, must get busy. Making Ready for Winter, Existence along the battle front in Europe may be a ftrifle more precarious than on the crowded streets of a modern cigy, or in the busy workshops of the world, but it is also just a lit- tle bit more comfortable for the soldier than the | humble home he had to provide for himselt out of his meager earnings. It is to continue, ap- parently, for the Itallan government has just placed an order with American firms for a huge supply of lumber, to be used in making com- fortable the trenches its soldiers are to occupy during the coming winter month: Thia action, and the preparations already made by others of the belligerents, presages another winter in the field, where the soldiers will be cared for in the most tender fashion. The luxurious life of the soldier, compared to the inconvenlences the European workingmen must eundure, ought to make the service so attractive as to avold the necessity of conscription in England, It's a long time since Washington spent the winter at Valley Forge, or since Napoleon's men frogze to General January and General February are still in the service, but they are no longer the mighty and declding factors in campaigns. ——— Mark Tapley a Back Number. Mark Tapley must give over his well-worn laurels and stand out of the way of Mr, William MecAdoo as the champlon optimist. While Mr, McAdoo's colleagues in the president’s cabinet, Messrs. Danlels and Garrison, are outlining their plans for a greater army and navy, at the esti- mated expense of several hundred millions, the secretary of the treasury goes airily along his way without any expressed uneasiness. FHi tudget obligations will be more than half a bil- lion dollars greater than the incoming revenue of the government, but this fact doesn't worry him in the least, He sketchily tells of bond Issues and the like to care for the deficit, and suggests that some extraordinary measures may bLe resorted to, but he has no doubt the money will be forthcoming. Thus the proposed expen- diture of more than a hundred millions a month, with an income of less than half that amount, 1s only a trifle to this democratic chancellor of the exchequer, Even Robert Law, were he nlive, would surely admire the sang froid of Mr. MeAdoo, but it's & cheerful outlook for the great American taxpayer if the democrats have their way. eemmeeae— Mr, Bryan and His Party, On the eve of a presidential cam- palgn year, the democratic party finds its future largely shadowed by Willlam Jen- pings Bryan's personal power, The “Great Commoner” still looms large as a domi- nating factor fn the atf of his party. Nation- ally, the president and adherents may not | endorse the Bryan ideals, nor fall in with the Pryan plans, but they hesitate to incur his op- position, and will undertake to placate him at any reasonable cost. In Nebraska, be still holds bis party organisation in his hand, his influence Leing almost decisive on any question of party policy or expediency. Our democratic senator fully realizes this, and, however galling, he is forced to submit with whatever grace he may to the Bryan demands, Mr. Bryan's unique posi- tion gives him power he knows how to wield, ‘and ‘the deémocratio party will make no move The reading world bas been surfeited with stories of atrocities in Belgium and Turkey, in Fussia and Poland. What has gone before will be quickly overshadowed when the Batkan stetes break into the killing business. The Falkans have been the home of atroclties ever since the Macedonian cry broke into the records of the near east. —— Note that “Billy” Sunday's meeting for State university students at Lincoln was held in @ church, and not in one of the university as- sembly halls. In this respect the university is in exactly the same position as our publie schools. The comstitution of Nebraska ex- pressly bars the propagation of denominational religion as any part of the public school system. \, p—— Our city commissioners promise to push the work so the road to in passable condition in. ATURDAY, Collapse of the Montessori Cult Sunset Magasine. R MARIA MONTESSORI has now been on the Pacific coast for almost five months, but'the hest that oan be sald of the visit is that it re- stilted in mutual ddsappointment. It I8 reported that the eminent Italian pedagogue, after she had inves- tigated the situation, exclaimed that she had been misled. Apparently she was astonished to find thal the kindergarten education of children between 3 and 6 was almost universal in America. And It must have grieved both the dottoressa and her managers that the offer of personal instruction by the best ad- vertised educator in the world attracted less than one-half of the maximum number of students that e 1o be accepted. ‘The truth of the whole matter is that Mont and her work were overboomed n order to stimul the sale of her “didactic material” at #60 a wet. Some of her warmest admirers now admit that she has been overexploited. It is hardly necessary to say that Dr. Montessori herself had no part in and probably was entirely ignorant of the publicity campalgn launched in the United States to exploit her system commercially. In one of the best California kindergartens and kindergarten training schools a dozen small children ranging In age from 2% to 5 years had the cholce between the Montessori and the usual kindergarten material. , After the first two da. they positively declined to handle the Montessori material. The apparatus designed to educate the senses of baci- ward, feeble-minded children bored these normal youngsters after they had mastered its uses in an hour. And in almost every American Montessor! school most of the material is elther not used at all the book. The Montessori method is designed primarily to educate the senses and through this sense education bring out the personality of the individual child. Un- fortunately the ego or personality of the average | American child is overdeveloped. Its Individuality does not need additional stimulation; rather it needs to be guided Into the interwoven paths of soclal ac- tivity and social discipline. The gradual recognition of this fact marks the ena of the Montessori cult without, however, diminishing the usefulness of many parts of the system, particularly as it applies to the training of defectives. Still If the Montessorl bhoom had accomplished nothing except to demonstrate the widespread, intense interest in educational affairs on the part of the American parents, it would have beep worth the money. Twice Told Tales Always Too Sides. It used to be said of the late United States Senator Allison of Jowa that in conversation he was the moat conservative man in the United 3tates. To get him to say plain “Yes” or plain “No" to any proposition until he had gone thoroughly into the matter, was next to impossible, If he waen't sure, he qualified the statement. Bven if he was sure, he was likely to qualify it In order to be safe. Once—so the tale runs—he was making a campalgn- ing tour through the state of Nebraska. The tralp upon which ‘e rode, with a party of other prominent republicans, passed a great pasturo where thousands upon thousands of sheep, so newly and so neatly sheared that the pink hides showed through tho cropped wool ends, were nibbling at the herbage, ail with their heads pointed in the same general direction. One of the group turned to two of his companions. “I've got Allison now.” he confided. *“I'm going to make him commit himself for once. Listen!" He dropped back two seats to where the senator from Iowa sat, and slipped into the vacant place alongside him. . “Senator,” he began, with a flirt of his thumb to- ward the browsing flocks, “that's quite a lot of sheep out yonder In that pasture, eh?" Allison stared through the window as though ap- pm:l::!dy to compute the number, “‘Ahem.” he sald; “‘there do seem to be a consl: able number of sheep there.” 10l “Did you ever see more sheep than that at one time In your whole 1ife?" pressed the conspirator. “I may have,” responded Senator Allison after due reflection, “and then again I may not.” “‘Well,” sald the other desperately, anyhow to admit that they've been m‘nmnd. aren't you?” e sénator took another look before answering. “Well," he admitted, “they appear to have b Sheared—on this side.”—Saturday Evening Pon‘:‘ e “you're willing pretty closely A Fable. The llon was telling the leopard why he roared In the jus when golng about hunting. “Doing busi- ness openly and with plenty of advertising,” the lion sald, “ls what has made my reputation. I got my characterization as king of the beasts by blowing my born. Always let the other fellows know you are around and they will respect you and fear you." A rabbit hiding and shivering in a clump of pampas grass overheard this conversation, and all the next day he pondered upon it. He decided it was better to have the other animals fear him than to live himself in constant terror. So the rabbit filled his lungs with a great breath and tried to roar like a llon. A coyote, learning of the rabbit's whereabouts by his roar, hopped onto the rabbit and’ ate him up, If you haven't got the goods, there is no use to advertise. 014 Rufe Choate, Judge Parry, in a recent article on “Rufus Choate, Advocate,” says on occasion Choate would meet with his Sam Weller. Defending a prisoner for theft of money from a ship, & witness was called who had turned state’'s evidence and whose testimony went to prove that Choate's client had instigated the theft. ‘"Well,” asked Choate, “what did he say? Tell us how and what he spoke to you." “Why," sald the witness, “he told us there was a man in Boston n&med Choate and he'd get us out if they caught us with the money in our boots."” | People and Events Owing to the absence of a working majority of practical politiclans from the New York state con- stitutional convention, the apprceriation of $:00,000 for expenses was not wholly absorbed. slipped back into the treasury, James Whitcomb Riley cheered Chicago school children with this birthday message: “‘May you al- ways keep young In spirit and in health. May your lives be as full as mine has been made by the grace of God and the good will of my fellowmen." Nearly $0,000 n wbandoned shrine of wm,m. Members are hitting the trail toward West Fifty- seventh street, where the site of a former Presb,- terian church has been chosen for Tammany's new temple. ’ St. Louls authorities have decided to permanently unite the county falr with the annual festivities of the Velled Prophet. The alm of both is instruction and entertainment. By uniting and co-operating for a common end, better results can be achieved for leas expenditure of energy. d Things are happening in and to Philadelphia these days. A nervy thief broke into a city magistrate's desk and made off with all the treasure found therein. A visitor, probably from Boston, dubbed & cabman's vehicle “a relic of Noah's ark.” “You need an am- bulance,” responded cabby as he proceeded to put the oritie in condition for the ride. It cost the cabby §25 but upholding the honor of the town was worth the price. The astonishing charge is made by the head of the Bureau of Welghts and Measures of Manhattan that the gasoline pump which autpists love so deariy is a decelver. It I not a weasure, but a pump with Here is the way it is worked, ac- the officlal: “You ask for five gallond of Out comes the merchant with his pump, but If you are not paying close sttention he works the pump’handle four times instead of five times. You ‘with five gallons of ofl and get four ga!- pump should have an indicator showing unt of oll delivered. street is virtually g OCTOBE | all tributary territory or else employed In a manner strictly forblidden by | | the Bdltor of The Bee: | Iady who worked so hard to win the $20 | traffie, | ter tastes, | habits or to inaugurate Tammany Hall's famous wigwam on Fourteenth | 16, 1915. The Hees 7 Good Work-——Keep It Up, OMAHA, Oct. 15.—To the Editor of The Bee: Permit me to congratulate The Bee upon the atand you have taken AgAInSt the street fair and carnival. For years 1 have lifted up my volce against this cheap form of amusement. 1 have always felt that it was undignified and belittling for a city like Omaha to allow such a form of amusement on its stroets. Many of the smaller towns and citie . ruled them out. This is not saying any- thing about the fmmoral and viclous in- fluences of such an amusement What will take its place as an attrac- tion to draw people from outside the city and to ralse money necessary? T have no goubt that now that the city owns the Auditorfum, that a serfes of popular concerts and lectures and enter- tainments of various sorts, given by sing- ers, speakers and entertainers of national repute, would draw fully as well and would be uplifting and helpful. A fee no larger than is paid to enter the carnival grounds would pay the expenses and more. There are a number of men like myself who could be persuaded to put up our $10, or even more, that in the past have not been doing so because we did not wish to be conaidered patrons of such 6 disgusting affair as the carnival has been for years. This can all be worked out, I am wsure, to the profit and welfare of the Ak-Sar-Ben and to the city and Hoping you will keep up the good fight, I am, GRORGE G. WALLACE, War Cost in Cripples. AVOCA, IA., Oct. 15.—~To the Editor of The Bee: A gentleman has just returned from Furope to New York with the startling figures that there two 2,000,000 cripples as a result of the war. Two mil. llon men intermingled with nations, the large majority of whom have heard of a great plan of salvation, “Doing the other fellow firy Two million men must now be provided with means to earn a livelihood and who is to blame. All agroe the great American general, who des- cribed war in shocking language, was right. Bvangelists and the ministry, with plctures of eternal torment on the one hand and golden harps and pavements on the other, seem powerless to assist with 2,000,000 men crippled for lite, and’ mil- lions of unmarked graves of the best blood of the land as toll exacted and the end is not yet. If the pen is mightier than the sword let those who know Its power get busy. T. J. H. Who's Hand Did She Shake? | NORTH PLATTE, Nel Oct, 15.~To 1 read In The Bee of Mr. Sunday's sermon about the cut glass prize and as she was beaten by only two points she was so disappointed that she went to bed and was Il for two days. Then her son went to the gambling house and won the money and gave it to his mother and told her to buy the cut glass dish, etc. When Mr, Sunday came to that town this lady attended the services and, tak- Tips on Home Topics Post: probably remembers with regret the dear boyhood days when he could find nothing in bis pocket but a hole. Washington Jimmy Archibald Baltimore American ship-navy, which the Naval board urged years ago, was the right proposition when first suggested. Having been given ita object lesson, perhaps the present con- | gress will grasp the significance of the | proposition. Kansas City Times: The news from Washington is that James I'. J. Archi- bald, the war correspondent, is to be ar- rested on his return to the United States and prosecuted. The report is probably true. As Archibald is an American eiti- sen the American government will feel perfectly safe in being severe with him. New York World: After $20,000,000 or so In gold s brought from over the sea, 550,000 to divide among the states seems small. But when it comes from federal forests preserved for productive use, not devoted to destruction, it means a ne- tional resource that will grow with the years. Philadelphia Ledger: Major General Sam Hughes wants Henry Ford to tell him honestly whether he intends to | withdraw his money from any bank participating in the Franco-British loan. The implication is that unless Henry behaves he wi'l lose the support of more Alas, Canada and be unable to sell than a million cars next year. poor Henry! | Nebraska Editors The McCook Republican has added a multiple linotype to its office equipment. The paper is one of the oldest and most prosperous in southwest Nebraska. In observance of its twenty-seventh an- niversary the Minden Courer last week came out with a twenty-page edition filled with advertising and news matter. The Orleans Issue has changed from a six-column folio to pamphlet form. The 4-year-old daughter of Lditor Mil- ler of the Osmond Republican dled in an Omaha hospital as a result of blood poisoning. 8he was nere several wecks for treatment, The Emerson Enterprise is out with what Editor Taylor terms a harvest edi- tion. It contains twenty-four pages, well | filled with advertisements and news, Tt is printed on a fine quality of book'paper and 1is profusely illustrated with half- [ A forty-battle. GRINS AND GROANS. ‘“The young widow seems to béar up well assurance ™' “Well, partly that: but matnly, I to her Iate husband's comforting ance."—Boston Transcript ess, ur- A_man showld always think before he replied Miss Cayenne. “But it's a mistake to think so long as %o create the impression that you are com- posing fiction.'—Washington Star, “PIi be pretty busy on this trip," he began "‘X‘knov." interrupted his wife. “Here are forty or fifty love letters you wrote me when we were engaged. e them along and mail me one every day.'— Kansas City Journal. KABIBBLE “How dare you come home st this hour in such & condition? ou are | sir—disgracefully drunk!™ | n a bat, M but on Y batsh good to kill of mushkeet- ers."~Baltimore American. Nurse—Tommy, it is naughty to play soldiers on_Sunday. mmy—Oh, this is all right. It's the To! y Salvation army.—Chicago News. Foggs—I wonder what makes my eyes 80_weak? don't know—unless it's be- cause they are in a weak place~In- dianapolis Star. “Is there any way of stopping these cyclones?’ asked the man from the east. “‘Oh, no,” replied the westerner. ‘“The ‘best way is to go right along with ‘em.” —Yonkers Statesman. “'We expelled the deacon for mixin' religion and politics.” itics T** “Mixin' religion and “Yes, he'd go to a political meetin’ an’ ho'd fall asieep in the middle of & speech, b'gosh, mon." ~Puck. AN INVETERATE TRAIL-HITTER Whurx: Rrasey banks are strewn with eaves; When in the wood the wild wind grieves, When blackbirds con, te in flocks, When corn is cut and piled in shocks, When country roads we motor thro Are lined with sprays of asters blue: When bluejays scream and fly o'erhead; blage with Jest like it was a ser- When border; ivias red; Wken squirrels are so bulI they Forget to pass the time of i When the robin, silent, seeks his food wn stands in speculative mood; ‘e may feel sure that without fafl tones. 8Soon ole man winter'l hit the trail. Omaha. BAYOLL NE TRELE. ing her stand for Christ, told Mr. Sun- day she would never play cards again. Now I may be more fortunate than those who listened to Mr. Sunday Tues- day afternoon, because } heard two re- vivals. Three or four months ago we bad a revival in North Platte, conducted by Lowry and Moody, and Mr. Lowry told us about the same lady that Mr, Sunday had the experience with, men- tioned above, but Mr. sowry sald that she shook his hand and promised him never to play cards again. 8o I thought maybe you would be able to satisfy my curlosity as to whose hand the lady really did shake, for it does not seem probably to me that they could both) have had so identical an ex- perience, W. G. FLEISHMAN, Where Organized Labor Stands. 'o the Editor of The Referring to a special from Lincoln appearing in your columns a short time ago, to the effect that the plumbers’' and steam fitters’ union of Lincoln had adopted a resolution protesting against the action of the recent convention of the Nebraska State Federation of Labor in opposition to prohibition. I beg to call attention to a reply made by Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor to Congresgman Hobson, which reply read as follows and explains itself: WASHINGTON, D, C., Sept. 3, 1914.— My Dear Mr. Hobson: Your favor of August Zlst reached my office during my absence on officlal business, and this is the first opg:nlln".)' I have had to reply thereto. I beg to ussure you that I ap- preciate the honor of your selecting me as a member of the National Constitu- tional Prohibition committee on co-op- eration, but I must ask you to excuse me from accepting or serving upon the com- mittee. I am frank enough to say to you that 1 am out of harmony with the prohibition movement by constitutionsl provision or statute enactment. 1 know of & better way ogher than by legalized Yrohlbltlon to secure temperance and emperate habits, not only in the liquor but in any of the personal activities of men. There 18 no movement in all the country 80 potent to make the people temperate as is the much misunderstood and mis- represented organized labor movement of the country. "Increasing wages, estab- lishing & shorter work-day, affording the opportunities for the cuitivation of bet- better mspirations, higher \deals, which the better standard of liv- ing and freedom of burdensome. long hours of toil will bring, the opportunity for better homes and surroundings and better working conditions, all of these I repeat have been more potent and will prove to be more potent in establishing temperance and temperate habits than any attempt to regulate the bersonal prohibition by As you Will observe. I am not in har- mony with the purpose of your move- ment, and hence cannot consistently ac. ©cept ‘an appolntment upon the eommit- t 1. therefore, again respectfully re- ¥ou to remove my name from the national constitutional committee on co- oneration, SAMUEL GOMPERS, "Pfrll b:,m_ American Federation of Labor.” Mr, Gomper'~ letter completely answers every objection raised to the resolution of the state labor convention held in Omaha lgst month, and his opinion should be final as to any further action on this subject. MAX DEZETTEL. QUAINT BITS OF LIFE, The first bequest in the will of Russell Greene of Chicago was a fund of $5,00 for the care of his dog, Nellie. Of com you pay 76c ily of six, showing a clear uvmfi' of 85c in favor of macaroni—for 1 me: 81bs. of sirloin steak at 35ca Ib. $1.05 Bread and butter, say . . .10 §1.15 One pkg. Faust Macaroni One can of tomatoes s 7y Bread and butter, as "bove . mparative nutritive values, Dr. Hutchison, the famous dietitian, says that meat contains practically 756% water, macaroni only 10%. In other words, when you And it's so_easy to digest and so easy to prepare Faust Macaroni. Besides serving it ag the whole meal, you should serve it often as a side dish, MAULL BROS., St. Louis, U. 8. A Cost of this Dish to an Expensive Meat Dinner Here is a fair comparative cost of a meat and a Faust Macaroni dinner for a fam- only: . $0.10 10 .10 .30 $0.85 y $1.00 for meat, that $1.00 for water. J. E. Reeves of Fond du Lac, Wis, has & muskrat farm. Not eotirely satisfied with the resuits of that euterprise, he re- cently planted 2000000 frog eggs in his ponds. Physiclans of Crane, Mo., are pussled by an afiment which strikes W. H. Hilton dumb when he attempts to address per- sons near him, but permits him to speak plainly when addressing persons at a distance, or when talking to animals. SayB‘;CEDAR BROOK, Toum-:r:.'w-m;’:lung to :y if you want to be cer @ high-| or one “ that is always right. Atall ) lers, Clubs tnu and Hotels, you'll i rgest selling brand of high-grade Kent wi in the world. Because it r:.l' maintained t“:-k’ g superior quality since 1847, Dealers, Clubs, Bars, Restau- CEDAR BROOK in the lead. in her affliction. I st her Somposure Ie §us o her pastors dhrnest e e

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