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Fulure at tho Dardanelles. The recall of General 8ir Ian Hamilton from command of the British forces at Gallipoli shows the brilllant soldier of the South African cam- paign to have failed in his undertaking. The bluffs of the Turkish cape are more formidable than those around Ladysmith, as he has proven. Little is known of the operations at Gallipoll, heyond the fact that the Turks have stubboraly resisted and the los of the allles have been dispropertionately heavy, What was first looked upon as a job to be carried through with a rush has come to be understood as one of greatest difficulty. Its importance has also been some- what diminfshed by newer phases of the gen- eral campaign. With the crossing of troops over Greclan territory into Serbla, the allies have pained one of the objects of the assault on the Dardanelles, that of access to the southeastern front of the war. With this purpose achleved, the passage of the straits loses some of {ts relative ‘welght in the general strategy. It is still desir- able, however, as affording a warm water route to Russia, although the activity of Japan has lessened In a considerable degree the urgency for this. Russian grain may remain in Russian warehouses, if only other munitions may be brought in. The case of Turkey may be deferred without menace to the allles, and the service of that country to Germany seems to be all but euded for the time being. The months of des- perate fighting at Gallipoll serve as well any to indicate the character of warfare under mod- ern conditions. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY BDWA'. ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATEL, “DITOR. The Bee Publishing Company, Propriet BER BUILDING, FARNAM AND WEVENTEENTH. Entered at Omahs postoffice as second-claas matter. TERMS OF iummnmn By carrier By m-n p-moml. per ¥ - = sk:nl o e‘.:.«m&mm o t Bee only Dotice of changs of address larity in delivery to i NP' Bank of Commerce. astiington—7% Fourteenth St, N. W. MRPRPONDIN(" Ry kg o 3 RERAOTS e I e SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION. 54,663 3 Count Douglas, ss: %,%w% I, vor e, (b Sip ! HOII"I “““J'Hfih aisise. - GHT wmuuu Oiroulation Manager. — lnhnrlhcd in aworn fore it agy ef O uuk-r = Sultle. National Defense and Its Cost. The president’s program for national de- Bubscribers leaving the city temporarily fense {8 now being gradually unfolded and so have The Bee mafled to them. Ad- far as its details have been divulged, no com- plaint can be made that it {s not comprehensive, "The Bee has on many occasions pointed out that a force for national defense cannot be impro- vised. It is not a question of material, for the ralsing of a sufficient number of men through a call for volunteers is the smallest item in the problem. The proper training of these men in ways of war, in the mechanics of modern weapons, in the care of themselves and others in eamp and on the march, of instilling disci- pline that will bring efficlency, takes time, and, if it must be done, should be done in time of peace. Accumulation of stores of arms and equipment necessary to enter war on the mag- wu&,w.mu« Lat us, then, be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth and the sacred professions of friend~ ship.~H. W. Longfellow. Charity prompts the hope that the Armen- iens are not too proud to fight. Smmm— Omaha's police department payroll oarries 182 names, but only half of the men walk beats. Spread out rather thin. After all, the task of putting off & speech in a public school building is simplicity itself. Join an improvement el nificent scale it has assumed is also a work for peaceful days, as is the construction of forts and fighting ships. The one thing to be determined s how far we want to go and how much we .‘o willing to pay for it. S———— Carson Out of British Cabinet. The resignation of Sir Edward Carson from bis post as attorney general of the British im- perial cabinet is not at all to be marveled at. 7he wonder is that even in the desire to form n ministry that would be fairly representative of all shades of British politics, Mr, Carson way considered, or that he could accept office under & government he had so strenuously opposed. At the time the war broke out he stood as de- flant of the majority in Parliament, refusing to recognize the right of that body to legislate con- trary to his views, and threatening civil war it the government undertook to enforce the Irish home rule bill. He is a splendid representa- tive of the ultra-conservatism of his country, the tory spirit that has stood so solidly against the social and political reforms that have changed England within the last generation. Just as David Lloyd George is the 1dol as well as the ideal of democracy and progress, so Car- son represented the extreme opposition to democracy, and even the exigency of war and the imminent danger of the country is not suf- ficient to harmonize their ideas. Carson will re- turn to his place as a censorious critic of the government and the cabinet {s assured In ad- vance of his most earnest attention. Great britain has its most serious problem of the war on its home soll just now. — Along the Mexican Border. Disorders along the Rio Grande are steadily growing worse, and now a point has been reached when the United States government must give serious attention to the situation. The recognition of Carranza as the head of the de facto Mexican government puts on him respon- sibility for the maintenance of order, and espe- clally for the security of those who are his near reighbors. He Is especially liable in this regard, In the 'ardl ol “the Mnl- sung in the Mikado, the street fair part of the Ak-Sar-Ben fostivitios “never would be missed.” A train holdup in New York and another The profession is distinctly cosmopoll- ts stickup thrills. tice of raiding across t! be compelled to exert himseélf in a way that will Ve decidedly unpleasant. Co-operation between the military forces of the two governments ought to be entirely feasible under the present conditions, and might be effective In ending & condition of the outlawry that is intolerable. Fixing the Federal Banking Law. Now It transpires that that wonderful plece of legislation, the Owen-Glass law, establishing the® tederal reserve banks, will require several alterations from the coming session of congress. Especially has it proved unresponsive to the ex- pressed wish of the president and the secretary of the treasury, who are anxious for the estab- lishment of branch banks in South America. ‘The reserve board considered the recommenda- tion from Mr. Wilson and Mr, McAdoo, advo- cating the establishment of such banks, and gave & very proper negative. The plan Is attractive, Lut not permissible under the law, The neces- Aity of better banking accommodations for the South American trade has been apparent for years, and the proposition of United States banks to unite in joint ownership of branches in the trade centers of the southern republies is feasible, but cannot at present be undertaken along the lines suggested by the secretary of the treasury after the Pan-American financial con- forence. This is only one of the weak spots that have been developed by its operation. A mecting of the board is to be held at Minneap- olis this week to consider amendments, and an- cther has been called for November 4, to formu- late recommendations to cougresds for changes fn what the democrats ard still boasting of as & pertect plece of legislation. ———— Datlas, one of the five cities seeking to enter- win the Domocratic National wnmaon. Jumps to the front with a cash tickler of $100,000. Will Omcha domocrats raise the limit or lay and prompts beliet in the prevalemce of a wave. Examination of newspapers from r cities quickly dispels the notion that is in a special crime class. Aderin ber coanlatal 2 i ip 9 Enh wurs th m; mu nmv, s follows; BB ML Clark, Wit John A, 'I'H'F' BEE. OMAHA WE'D\IESDAY ('K'IT)BFR m 1015 Wew York Times. RESIDENT WILSON, whose engagement to Mra. Norman Galt has lately been announced, will be the third president of the United States to be married during his term of office. Grover Cleveland was the second, whose marriage thirty years ago in the White House, on June 2, 188, to Frances Folsom, now Mrs. Thoma# J, Preston, took place during his second term. The firat was John Tyler, famous in the spirited campaign song of “Tippecance and Tyler, t00," who became president on April 4, 1841, on the death of General Willlam Henry Harrison, who had been inaugurated just ome month before. It was the first time in the history of the country that a vice president had succeeded to the office of chief ex- ecutive, due to the death of the one -Iec(od to that place. Tyler's threes years and eleven months of office were filled with political turmofl and trouble. Within & few months, all of his cabinet members resigned, with the exception of two, of whom Daniel Webster, secretary of state, was one. The great Webster was weverely citicised by his party, the whig, for remain- ing, but In the end it was much to his credit, as well as that of the much maligned administration, that he did so, for he carried to a successful termination that memorable eement with Emgland known as the Ashburton treaty, which removed many long-standing disputes regarding our Canadian boundary. Soon after the treaty was signed, in 184, Webster left the cabinet. But amid his stormy presidential career, in Wwhich public vituperation went so far as to bring forth audible muttering of threatened impeachment, John Tyler achieved the happy distinction of escorfing his bride direct from the wedding to the White House. Yot the marriage was preceded, and, indeed, was indirectly caused, by one of the most appalling dis- asters which has over occurred to the American navy during times of peace. The steam frigate Princeton, the newest and finest type of steam warship then in the navy, had recently been put in commission. On February 25, 1844, the president and secretary of the navy invited a large party of guests to make a trip of inspection on the war vessel down the Potomac Its ohfef armament consisted of two great guns of an improved pattern, capable of hurling a 2%-pound shot a distance of three miles. One of the guns, at its third discharge, when opposite Alexandria, exploded, killing six persons and injufing many others. Among the dead were two recently appointed members of the cabinet, Abel P. Upshur, seoretary of state, and Thomas W. Gilmer, secretary of the navy, and also Commander Beverly Kenyon of the United States navy, David Gardiner, a former New York state sen- ator, and Virgil Maxcy, late charge d'affaires at Belgium. Among the large party of ladies on board were the two daughters of David Gardiner, friends of the president, and who were in Washington on a visit from Now York. The body of their father was taken temporarily to the White House, and as a result of the close assoclation of the president with the bereavad daughters, he fell in love with the elder, Julia Gar- diner, and in a little Jess than four months they were married. The bride was 24 years of age, and & member of one of the socially prominent familles of New York. 8he was born on Gardiner's Island, which became the manorial poosession of the doughty Lion Gardiner, the founder of the family on this side of the Atlantic, about 1640 This extensive island, standing well out into the ocean east of Long Island, has never passed from the family ownership, The wedding took place In New York City at the Church of the Ascension, then, as now, at Fifth ave- nue and Tenth street, on Wednesday, June 26, 1844 The newspapers of the day, however, gave less notice to the nuptials of the president of the United States than was accorded to many a local political happening. This was due to two reasons. First, because both the president and his bride had kept their secret securely from the public, so that few persons, even of the newspaper editors In New York, knew what was going on until apprised of the fact on the departure of the president and his wife by the salutes of the warships in the hurbor. The second reason was that in view of the recent bereavement in the Gardiner family the ceremonies had been arranged on a very simple scals, and the newspapers were asked to treat the affair in an equally straple manner. This request was so generally observed that one may pore over the files of the newspapers of the day in vain to discover anything like a comprehensive ac- count of the first wedding in which a president of the United States was married during his term of office. In connection With thm wedding of John Tyler 4nd the approaching nuptiale of President Wilson there are certain coincidences of interest. Miss Gardiner was President Tyler's second wife. His first wife, Letitia Christian, to whom he was married in 1813, dled 'n September 9, 1842, one year, five months and five days after the inauguration of her husband as president. The late Mrs. Wilson was mistress of the White House for almost identically the same time, her death on August 6, 1914, being one year, five months and two days from the inauguration of Mr. Wilson. Presi- dent Tyler was married again in a little over one months after the death of his first wife, At muuumcwlr-mmmm was 5 old, After his retiremient from the apent his remaining years with his wife estate, Sherwood Forest, on the banks ames river, near Richmond. He died in 1362 Mre, lulh Gardiner Tyler lived until Juiy 10, 1889, She on her way north after visiting usr Mm Tyler, president of Willlam " college, Willismsburg, Va., a position he She had four children, three sons and ona Aimed at Omaha rnal: Omaha had a big job on its n taking care of the Ak-Sar-Ben and “Billy” Sunday, too, But was equal to the emer- gency in every particular, Central City Republican: Willilam Sunday is ‘a good investment for the laying up of treasures, both above and on earth. The multitudes of visitors who come to hear his message, bring large revenue to the rallroads and to Omaba in payment for their enter- tainment. The bulk of his reward comes later, and his per cent of the financlal returns is but a pittance in proportion to his earning power. Hastings Tribune: The Ak-Sar-Ben festivities at Omaha were fully up to expectations, and were at- tended by large crowds from every corner of the state. The Ak-Sar-Ben is doing for Omaha exactly what it created for, it is helping the secial and the bus- Interests of Nebraska's metropolls, and is doing more in that line every year. Tecumseh Chieftain: Ho, ho! And now comes wicked Omaha, with the reputation to stand for almost anything in the amusement line that is any- where near toleration, and declares against the street camival. The Omaha Bee says it is high time the managers of the fall festivities In the state's me- tropolls get within the trend of the times and cut out the street carnival. The idea of the best business streets of only inviting In every amusement enterprise, Back the County Fair. , South Side, Oct. 19.—To the Editor of The Bee: I see that you have been writing of the bum street fair that was held in Omaha during Ak-Sar-Ben carnival. T have been doing that in The Bee for the last two or three years. I saw in your paper last Saturday the statement that the Priests of Pallas of St. Louls are going to have their affair in conjunction with the county fair of that city and county. Why not bave the county fair once more as a part of the street fair and shut out the bum shows and gambling devices and skin games. The county fair of this year has been said to have been rather unsuccessful, and If that statement is true, I think the Ak-Sar-Ben board of managers ought to make up with the county fair management, then have a good falr next year and other decently attractive shows, and I am sure that it will be a financial success. It was an unwise policy to drive the county fair away in the first place, for it drew thousands of people to the street fairs. Get rid of the fakirs and unsavory shows and get something decent, along with the county fair and it ought to be & success. F. A. AGNEW, Independence of Union Laber. BENSON, Neb.,, Oct. 19.~To the Editor of The Bee: A letter appeared in a re- cent issue of this paper signed by Max Dezettel quoting President” Gompers on the question of prohibition. Mr. Dezettel is mistaken, however, when he says that this “‘completely answers every objection to the resolution of the state labor con- vention held in Omaha last month and should be final as to any further action on this subject.” It is not even an attempt to answer these objectiong to the resolution. Mr. Gompers' letter ls merely a personal opin- fon and is given as such. It does not pledge any member of the American Fed- eration of Labor to either support or oppose prohibition. The resolution passed at the state convention virtually pledges every organization connected with the Btate Federation of Labor, as organiza- tions, against the prohibition movement in this state. This the various unions will refuse to do regardless of the resolu- tion. Members of these organizations will follow their own inclinations on this qnes- tion and representatives of organized labor will undoubtedly be found on either side. LUTHER G. MUSK. Omaha Local No. 4 International Photo Engravers’ Tnlon. Another Volce for Union Labor. OMAHA, Oct, 18.—To the Editor of the Bee: I have read with muen interest an article in your “Letter Box" by Max Dezettel, editor Omaha Unionist, with reference to the plumbers of Lincoln, protesting against the action taken by the Nebraska State Federation of Labor in opposition to prohibition at their con- vention held recently in this oity, Mr, Dezettel misconstrues the meaning of the Lincoln plumbers’ protest, no dougt, elther intentionauy or otherwise. Their protest does rot mean that they as an organization are in favor of pro- hibition, but that the Nebraska Federa- tion of Labor used poor judgment when it jeopardized the opinion of trade union- ists of this state by taking the action it dia. The writer had the plcasure of spend- ing an evening during the convention with Mr. Bert Riemers, delegate from Lincoln Plumbers' union. We attended the entertainment given the visiting dele- gates by the Omaha Central Labor union. Mr. Riemer was not in favor of prohi- bition, but was opposed to the convention taking any action on the question, Mr. Dezettel uses President Gompers’ letter in which he refused to act as a member of the Natlonal Constitutional Prohibition committee on co-operation In his article. when any person with an ordinary amount of common sense can readily see that President Gompers simply used good judgment and it is the opinion ot the writer that had President Gompers been asked to serve on a like committee against prohibition he would have like- ‘wise refused, thus being neutral on this question, which the president of such an organization as the American Federation of Labor in which so many different nationalities, religions and political be- lefs are to be found, should be. The Omaha Unionist recleved the in- dorsement of the Omaha Central Labor unfon Friday evening by a very small margin, after an all summer campaign. And anyone who is at all acquainted with the labor movement in this city can readily see the object of Mr. Dezettel rushing into the spotlight as the cham- plon of labor, when as a matter of fact he has been In the city scarcely long enough to vote, A fine paper to be the' officlal organ of organized labor in Omaha with almost 50 per cent of its members opposed to it. In conclusion I wish to say that I am opposed to prohibition in this state. I have studied this question, space will not permit me glving my many good reasons, but 1 do not propose to take ad- vautage of the prestige of any organi- sation to further my own interests, as Mr, Deszettel is attempting to do. FRANK J. LYNCH, Secretary Plumbers Unlon No. 16, Is the President Playing Politics? NOARTH LOUP, Neb, Oect. 18—To the Editor of The Bee: If the people of the United States will take another look at the demands for appropriating $248,000,000 by which to increase the navy, they may &eot their eyes opened to a gigantic scheme by which to re-elect President Wilson and maintain democracy. The recent proposal by the president to main- tain & on sugar indicates a mo- tive to aspire again to the presidency. ‘The southern states are democratic; but when democracy got In its real work down there, in the annihllation of the sugar industry, the south is in no mood to support the president; hence, the change to protection on sugar, I have never thought of a politiclan as being sacred. When we read history, anclent and modern, we read with sur- prise the treachery, trickery and trifling methods of men in public life. Politiclans want to be considered sincere; but that word does not fit more than 10 per cent of them. How are we in any ilmmediate danger of war? BEurope is spending its wealth and blood in such a way that the danger of war in this country becomes more re- miote. And If we want to prout in im- proved war equipment, by the experience in the recent wars of Kurope, we must await the close of those wars, and then #ive the matter a close, sclentific study. There is another reason for the preasing demands to spend §245,000,000 on the navy by the next session of congre: That cret reason is for the re-election of the president. I The great ship-bullding plants are lo- cated on the east and west coasts. To tax the country an extra 545,000,000 places such large sums of money at the disposal of the administration that the border states, eakt and west, are vir tually in control of the administration in the presidential election of 1916. What does 1t mean? It means that the ship bullding-armor plate trust will be able! to turn hundreds of thousands of voters to the democratic party because of an abundance of currency in the ultra east and west. The central states will still remain in democratic hard times, casting thelr electoral votes to the republicans. But what does our paramount-peace- poliey-poppycock politicians care for that if they can remain in power? WALTER JOHNSON. | Nebraska Editors The Crete Vidette has added a linotype to the equipment of its office. The Fairbury News is now publishing | a sixteen-page paper, all printed at home. The Table Rock Argus closes its thirty- | third year and comes out for prohibition in Nebraska. The Madison Star-Mall starts in on the twenty-fourth gear of its existence feeling bigger and better than ever before. The Stanton Register, starting in on its thirty-ninth year, has added two pages of home print. Since the death of Al Pont some months ago the Register has been published by the Pont Publishing company. The Chadron Journal has just passed its thirty-first birthday and Editor Snow | asserts that in the future the paper will continue to be a stronger and more vig- orous advocate of northwest Nebraska than ever before. He points to the pros- | perity that has come by successive years of bountiful crops. ! MIRTHFUL REMARKS. “I thought you told me you were going around to that china decorator’s to look for a job?" did. But there was a sign outside. ‘Firing daily’."—Judge. Mr, Jolly—l know what sort of a tree your family tree would be, Miss Polly, Miss Polly 1'!900““[ him to say, “a peach tree')—Tee hee! What sort of a tree, Mr. Jolly 7 Mr., Jolly—A nut tree. Ha! Ha'—Judge. "w‘hn are your daughters studying "holhlnl.“ replied Mr, Cumrox. “They" ve learnt all about music, paint- In‘ an’ literature. All they've t left is not to bother people with lhe Wl.lhllll(on Star. BN'I‘I—DM I l..v. an umbrella here yesterday' Bnrher—whlt kind of an umbrella? Brown—Oh, any kind at all. I'm not fussy.—Boston Globe. { ez T THINK HE'S FLIRTING on “A magistrate has unusual domestic advantaged over other men whose wives .“d Iways giving them a plece of their m ‘What advantage has he?" ““Whe she starts in to give it he can bind het ovlr 'n keep the piece."—~Balti- more Amerl i Luclle, whn -n u going to make?” .‘Bol:.“ h: h g ught t UI “But why have you bro out the fashion Dlates s well as the cook boo ' ‘Well, I'm a llma green at this. Do you make Discult trom a recipe or &’ pat- | tern?’—Judge. ! Friend—So "ii' is one of your jokes, is it? Ha! Ha! | Humorist (testily)~Well, what are you | laughing at, anyhow? Isn't it a good | one,—Passing Show He—Do you remember Horatius at the bridge? She—I don't think I ever met him. You know we invite so few men.—Judge. “I wish to tell you perseverance wins | in the long run. Now my barber has been trying to sell me a bottle of hair tonic for the last ten ytsrl “But he hasn't succeeded, ‘o4 “No; but 1 think he eventullly will."— Pittsburgh Post. “Yeu say this picture is worth $5,000 ln yet you are offering it for ten.” "lometh wrong here,” declared the policeman, “T'll have to take you in." "No'.hlnl ‘wrong, officer,” interposed the o! tobucco. {helps put yo “P u in good- dealer. “He's ‘~Loulsville Courier-Journal LIFE'S TENDER TIME. the artist.’ (Judd M. Lawia, in Houston Post) She had played very hard, you know how they play; ‘rom morning till night, romping hard ail the day She had called, and she hal been called upon, 100, And she had played house. There {s som: thing to do For a glad little girl from the time when the sun First wakes her from slumber tll dayligh is done; And then in my arms, with her shoes put aside, She curled up and snuggled and cuddied and cried. | Yes, she aid! She just cried! She was weary and worn, Her shoes were all dusty, her garments were torn, Her dolls were all scattered, her ribbons untied, And that's why she snuggled up to me and cried; You know how it is, you've a girl, T sup pose, | Ana, mnm: a girl, you know just how it And, lIm\lnl her weary and sobbing, you What a mother Is worth, and & sweet by-o-lo. Women Can Save $5 in an Hour Says gasolice dry cleans dresses, coats, silks, gloves, draperies. You will never again pay enormous prices for dry cleaning after trying this Any woman can clean and renew the appearance of yokes, ribbons, satins, laces, silks, furs, shirtwaists, Swiss, lawn, organdie and chiffon dresses, kid gloves and shoes, neckties, children's clothes, suits, caps, woolen garments, fancy vests, draperies, rugs, in fact, any and everything that would be ruined with soap and water, A Get two ounces of solvite at any drug store and put it in two gallons of gaso- line, where it quickly dissolves. Then put in the goods to be cleaned. 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