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BEPTEMBER CIRCULATION. 54,663 of N ka, County of Douglas, s8: t Williami, circilation manager of The Bee Pul ing company, being duly sworn, says that the Vel c‘rculnhn for the month of September, 1915, BWIGHT WILLIAMS, Cireutation Manager Subscrived in my prescnce und sworn to befors this 18t day of October, 1915 W HoBERT HUNTLI, Notary Publie [ - g ——————y— Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ade dress will be changed as ofien as requested. Thought for the Day | Selected by Rath Cultra The buds may blow and thé fruit may grow, And the autumn leaves drop crisp and sere; But whether the sun or the rain or the snow, There's sver o song somewhers, my dear. ~James Whitcomb Riley. Uneasy les the head that wears the Berblan crown. A That holdup mun IT altogether too backward in coming forward. | plainclothes men, traffic corps, motorcycle men, ‘With the boom in trail hitters, “Billy"” is entitled to wear a broader smile. Spesm——— It was a cold day in New Jersey, but fash- fonable furs mocked the chilling blasts. ——— The case of General Carranza helps to show that whiskers are not an insuperable obstacle 10 succeas. — To the war proclamations of Italy and Rus- #la, Bulgaria can answer, “We expected this, only sooner.” . Epm—— Incidentally Omaha spends about twice as mugh money for fire protection as it does for police protection. ' i a ! . "h l-'m clear now whether the president's conversion to suffrage wae an asset or a labil- S— Britain's new plan to call the bachelors to the colors ahead of the married men ought to produce more war brides than the other system. S—— summer days and nights flecked out the brilliance of a harvest moon fittingly reflect the peeceful serenity of this land of Sepmihiista— Mankind has solved many mysteries of earth end alr, but the unchanging and irrestible * lure of the public pay-roll remains a mystery that deties solution. Segeye——— Colonel Roosevelt puts out the claim of belng the original “preparedness” man. That is one plattorm where Colonel Bryan will not aceuse " i of stealing his clothes. { E—— There is no mistaking the issue put up to the stay-at-homes in Great Britain. Volunteer- - must provide the men or conscription will |up the needed “‘cannon fodder.” Ql'h has been formally recognized, but ‘Texas winter resorts still hold fast to the mh-n who_belohig up here at Fort Crook. s still “watchful waltin | {l * for their ' —— . _‘Oppertunity waits ‘on enterprise wisely directed. Bumper crops in the middle west in- sure steady currents in the channels of trade and ample rewards for pusbing business, Get a _ hustle on. * _ A billion doliars for defense, $50,000,000 for ‘a merchants’ marine, in addition to the expenses of the government, outlines the remarkable pro- sram of a party which preaches economy to the opposition and turns its pledges into “scraps of g An which would flatter any actor greeted *The Two Johns" at Boyd's. The play has plenty of fun and was vulgar enough to ticklo the gallery. Wmfl hunt of the, gun club has been schel- 'A Pleasant progressive ouchre party. was given by ve o party. was given Mrs, Dr. Coffman at her home on 5t Mary's avenue. " Howard N. Bittinger, formerly with Stecle, Johnson with his wife went to PMlorida about a vear last Saturday. His two boys, Guy and this city. 2 P. Deuel has gone to visit friends in Litmols. * superintendent of the street car com- Louls to attend a meeting of the association. . B. Gratton have the sympathy the death of their Infant child returned with tis wife from Fairfield, C. ¥ Wil Hamilton, THe Omaha’s Police Department. A police department with a maximum strength of one hundred and eighty-two mem- bers, of which only ninety-five are on patrol ¢uty, and of these not more than thirty-nine walking the beat at any one time, tells the whole story of Omaha's situation with respect to police protection. . To put it in another way, nearly one-half of the entire pollce department consists of officers, court and jall sttendants, and morals squad, and less than one-fourth are on patrol at the time the thugs and thieves usually do their prowling. Omaha is spending an amount well up to tke average of other cities of its class on its po- lice department. The police fund has been r:oved up from time to time, but each time the legislature has boosted police salaries almost enough to eat up the increase, so that the actual ndditions to its strength have been scarcely visi- ble. Omaha also has what s called the “three- platoon system,” which makes only about a tnird of its patrolmen available at any one time ~n system that prevails In very few other caties. We are not sure whether the three- platoon scheme is good or bad, but there is no question about its being costly, All things considered, Omaha has a pretty | prood police department, but it can and should be improved, and this improvement must come through better distribution of the men, stricter digeipline, and a more definite police policy. Those phases of the police department we will discuss further, Buffrage Loses in New Jersey. An adverse majority of 50,000 {s New Jer- seoy's auswer to President Wilson's announce- ment of his conversion to suffrage and intention to cast his ballot for the state comstitution that was to clothe woman with the vote, To be sure, the president qualified his announcement with the statement that he was speaking as a private citizen, and not as president of the United States. By his own suggestion it would have been highly improper for him to exert hig of- ficlal capacity to influence his fellow citizens in [theh vote on a purely state matter, but no doubt can be held as to the purpose of his public statement. It was to put behind the suffrage fight whatever of personal influence the presi- dent carries in his home state. If so, the con- lusion is inevitable that the action of the voters is a correct measure of that influence. In no #late has Mr. Wilson more bitterly disappointed his party than in New. Jersey. The public will uow wonder If the vote taken there on Tuesday is significant of the difference in His standing throughout the country today as compared with three years ago, when he was chosen to be chief nagistrate. Carranza Now Has His Chance. Formal recognition by the United States of Venustiano Carranza as de facto president of Mexico has been carried out with all officlal punctilio, and the “first chief” is now estab- lished as far as outside Influence may achieve. | Vested with all the power that attaches to his office, his future must be molded by himself. 8o far his career has been entirely negative; he s recogniged for what he is yet to do, and his conduct from this time must be positive. Unless his actions as head of Mexico’s affairs measure up to a proper standard, he will disappear as have the others who have aspired to fill the seat of Porfirfo Diaz. It he can tranquilize his country, restore its activity along peaceful pur- suits, bufld up its agriculture and its industry, | give his people security in person amd property, end ppen the road to progress to them, he will niake for himself a place in Mexican history of true greatness. 3 That he s to have the active support of the United States, at least to start om, is shown by the order from the president, putting an em- bargo on all shipments of arms or munitions of war to Mexico, save such as are consigned to Carranza authoriti: This is a first friendly sorvice from our government to the new Mexican government, which will be multiplied many times, it Carranza shows himself worthy. Lord Derby’s Difficult Task. Lord Derby has just been '‘assigned to the difficult task of making military enlistment so popular that the United Kingdom will not have to resort to conscription. His undertaking will require that he induce men to enter the army | voluntarily, and to this end he has set about in a spirit of enthusiasm. Opposition to army serv- fce is much more general in Great Britain than is well understood on the outside, and the re- crulting offices have not of late been crowded. “he natural aversion of the Briton to involun- tary servitude of any kind is notorious, and the talk of conscription is nowhere quietly listened (to, That it is heard at all is due entirely to the rititude assumed by “the better classes,” and it is their persistence In the belief that the “masses’ are in duty bound to battie for British institutions that has aroused the present threat ‘of a storm. Soclalists have seized the oppor- tunity thus afforded, and have spread their prop- aganda with more than usual zeal, not that | they are especially averse to fighting. no matter what their professions, as witness their presence on the firing line, but because the condition in Pingland gives them a splendid chance to thwart the “masters.’ Democracy is making a tremendous thrust against torylsm in Great Britaln at this time, ond it -does not appear likely that the traditions ef all the past will now be overthrown that an army of conscripts may be raised. Lord Derby will meet with much of opposition, but more of success as the prerogatives of the privileged siowly disappear beneath the rising tide of the Joople’s power. The constitution-makers thought they had fixed it 850 no Nebraska legislature could be con- trolled by appointing its members to offices created by themselves for themselves to fill Unfortunately, the constitution-makers did not figure on a governor who would have no more regard for that sacred document than for was:2 roper. S o———— We wonder if anyone connected with the “Billy” Sunday organization imagined that a delegation of school children, or of grown-ups, for that matter, could “stampede” Mr. Cowell n‘euv: by County Clerk | as presiding officer of the School board. If so, they didn’t know Mr. Cowell and his record as a chairman. . 1 OMALRLA, THU.. Blor: Is Fatness Just Laziness? Dr, Wm, Brady in The Illustrated Worlde HE MOST common type of obesity is merely a matter of excessive intake of fuel coupled wita plain laziness, Let us hasten to add that lazi- s means, in this indictment, lack of real exercise; as a rule, the unfortunate doesn’t know how to play. As 1ong as & fat man (or woman) Is still ready to play, even If he feels that he ls making a monkey of himself, there is hops. When he reaches the polnt where he hesitates to get down and roll, to tun somersaults, or at least try valiantly to aot the part of undignity, he is & fat man for keeps, diet or no diet, Some obese individuals are anemlie, short of blood, while others are plethoric, damned with too muech blood. Anemic obesity develops, frequently, during perfods of enforced rest, as after operations, typhoil fover, fractures, or other confining disability. Vie- tims of Inciplent tuberculosls sometimes develop ane- mio obesity from rest and forced feeding carried to extremes. In plethorie obesity the subject Is generally over % years of age, and, for a time, rather proud of lis hearty good health. Somehow we plutocratic Amer- icans Imagine a small “bay window” and a couple of chins go very well with the florid cheeks of plethoris obesity, the minute, dilated blood-vessels of the face that should serve as a warning signal of approaching arteriosclerosis (arterial hardening) Lifo insurance companies, unromantic corporations as they are, rather smile upon 10 to 20 per cent over- wolght in young persons, but coldly do they receive an applicant over 3 who boasts of more tissue than he ought to be carrying around Muscular exercise fs the natural draft for the oxi- dation process, the physiological accelerator of the vital fire which must be kept burning freely in order to prevent or remove piled-up fuel. For the average individual four miles a day-—rain, shine, roast or shiver—should be the rule. I there s any heart- trouble the walks must be carefully graduated by the medical attendant, according to the heart's effielency. Room gymnasties are more particularly adapted to the reduction of excessive fat deposits about the hips, back and abdomen Another very efficacipus measure is fasting. After all, & three or four-day fast is no great strain upon the fat man, for he is literally stuffed with nour- ishment which will tide him over safely. e main thing is to get away from that fool notion that it is dangerous to skip a meal or several meals how and then. The human stomach, like most other usefl pleces of machinery, is none the worse for a rest on:o in & while; in fact, the whole metabolism gets a better grip on duty after a brief fast. Of course this is a mattey for medical supervision, too. g Since cold water Increases the secretion of gastric Julce when taken at meal-time, the obese with an ab- normal appetite should deny himself this boon of the dyspeptic; a small drink of hot water half an hour | before the meal is preferable, If fluld must be taken. Anemic obesity is certainly made worse by much water drinking; plethoric obesity may be improved by water drinking. One good scheme of reducing welght is to eat but one kind of food at a meal, although this is not ad- visable for anemics, nor for any one in poor health By taking a little fat food it is easier to get along with a minimum of h nd sugars. Crisp bacon is one of the most digest satisfying forms of fat to eat. Fresh green vegetables which grow above grodnd, excepting beans, peas and lentils, are necessary in the diet, and bread, too, with very little butter. Lean meat may be taken once or twice a day when other items are limited, especially by the anemic obese. Twice Told Tales Nothing Coming. The toplo having turned to mathematical problems, Congressman Jacob A. Canter of New York told of an incident that happened in a puble schoel, The teacher was instructing a junior class in arithmetic, when she started to give the youngsters some mental exercises. " “Johnny," seid she, turning to a youngster of 0, it you went to the grocery store and bought 10 cents' worth sugar, § cents worth cf soap, 25 cents worth of coffee and 10 cents worth of crackers and gave the propristor a dollar bill in payment for these articles, how much change would you get?" “I wouldn't get any ehnn‘.:;“llbl:l Mary,” was the rather surprising response o 5 “You :uuun't get any o‘h“u\n "udumnl the cher. “How do you figure that out?” "‘"ltonkuw wouldn't give up,” answered Johnny, “He would freeze on to it for the old bill."—Phila- delphla Telegraph. p J— Live Learn, With a sleepy yawn the guest who had arrived at the hotel on the previous night limped into the room for breakfast. d"‘l":: Aid his best with the bacon and tomatoes, but gave In at last and went to sleep on & sofa In &, corner of the room. When he awoke he found the hotel proprietor standing near, looking at him curls ously. e “Didn't you get enough sleep last night? “Didn’t l’l’ll enough sleep!” repeated the °“'".: site ting up suddenly as thoush galvanized into life, '“Tell me one thing—what on earth do you stuff your mat- resses within this place™" vStuff ‘em with? Why, the very best lrtzl' it is possible to get in the, whole of this country! “Ah, now I understand!’ “Understand what?" “Why, where that straw came the camel's back."—Chicago Herald. Trained Flies. SR i esman who had been working a 3 m‘t::‘n wished to catch a train which passed through it about half an hour before noon, and uhohuu vll: lage landlord to serve him before the regular “‘dinner” hour, Soon he was admitted to the dining room, where a fairly good meal was spread before him. But flies were so numerous that the landiord had to stand behind his chair and shoo them with a napkin. from that broke “Great Scott!" exclaimed the salesman. “I never many flles!” “"'l'.:lu.’" 4 retorted the landlord, acornfully. “Shucks! This ain't nothin.' If you want to see fliea just wait tiit 1 ving the bell for dinner. They're all out In the stable mow.'-Kansas City Star. People and Events rellable signs the luckiest man in by old o S He has picked up Jowa is J. B. Bader of Monticello. 500 four-leat clovers in three weeks. Lambertsville, N. J., the boyhood town of James W. Marshall, discoverer of gold in California, proposes to honor him with a memorial tablet One automobile concern says it has orders for twelve and & half times as many machines as it can supply. 'The old world and the new seems to be a jumble of whirring wheels. An estate valued at §1,600,000 constitutes thé life ac- cumulations of Joseph A. Flannery, a decoased lawyer of New York, who was disbarr~d from the courts.in 1912 because of his great reach for dough. He consid- ered a fifty-fifty split meagre compensation for real talent. ; Hoboken's crown of industrial glory was shot to pleces by the war. Its secondary industry is belng bombarded by New York divorce courts. The latter are knocking runaway matrimonial ventures and wrecking the Gretna Green business which emriched the squires and preachers of the Jersey burg. New York and New Jersey asscssors ‘regret to yeport” their inability to locate the permanent reai- dence of Mrs, Hetty Green. She has & residence ad- dress in New York City and one in Hoboken, but by some species of telepathy Mra Green Is pever at home when the officlals call on urgent personal tax busineas. J Commerelal mineral potash is one of the new re. sources of the United States, which depended on Ger- many for the product. Secretary Lane reports the discovery of a mine of potash in Plute county, Utah. The vein is ten feet wide, and has been traced 3,500 feet, but its depth Is unknown. This is pleasing news for the country at large, and especlally joyous for the Alabama importers of potash, who were scaked $12.00 ot Hamburg two years ago. The Dees 72 New Use for Regular Army. FREMONT, Neb, Oct. ¥-sTo the Ed- ftor of The Bee: We are living in a time when every man should have a thought for his country’s weal. That we must put our house in order and be prepared for invasion is dally growing more evi- dent. We are stacking up reasons every day for why Wwe may expect trouble from abroad when this war in Burope comes to a close, or rather when that breathing spell comes, In 191718, when that ten kingdom confederacy is formed, every ad- ditional million of credit extended to Eu- rope is another g0ood reason for trouble. Those big millions of gold that are ac- cumulating here will look very big and tempting. How easy it will be for the allies to start something. Japan has & sore spot. Then the others with their billlons of debt, how natural for them to conclude that the easiest way for them to square the account and at the same time get those millions of gold, is Jjust come over and clean up the country. This is what I would like to see: Bvery city of the United States of upwards of 100,000 population with soldiers of the reg- ular army for police duty. This would maintain quite an army and an army disciplined and ready for service. These troops would be under pay by the United States, and each city pay its expense to the government. This would be a big saving to the city and put an end to po- litical police and other bad features that would not be tolerated by officers of the army, It this plan were adopted each city eould double its force and then save money. This would doubtless give the country 100,000 men that could be assem- bled in short order. P. H. WINTERSTEEN. Wide Fraternity, TILDEN, Neb., Oct. 18.—To the Editor of The Bee: The ‘‘Citizens-of-the- World" movement is rapidly extending its work into the belligerent as well as the wemi-neutral nations; for it is the con- sclence of the individual that needs the awakening; for far too long have nations d raclal groups been isolated and their governments have systematically schooled them to “hate” all others, and in this atmosphere of blind, prejudiced patriot- ism, their poor serfs are taught to think that all others are heathen, and that an “unreserved devotion’-to this, their gov- ernment (the only on éarth), is the duty of every Individual. By such means prodi- &al courts are maintained in splendor and vain extravagance, while the gullible plebelan gives his service and life to per- petuate such vanities. ‘ There is an international justice, as well as each government deigns to main- tain a judicial department, and to defend & nation, “right or wrong,” is a blind patriotism, and cannot survive, for jus- tice is of the same essence whether ad- ministered In a local or national court or In the court of universal conscience, for the Turk may appreciate the spirit of Justice as well as the Briton. Governments thut are honey-combed with selfishness and maintained by se- cret diplomacy can only exist by being able to the bridle of prejudice upon hitch these martyrs to their Juggernauts, maintaining their positions by the bloog of blina devotion, arg a travesty on justice; being elevated on a throne of skulls; but as soon as the in- dividual awakens to look beyond the na- tional and racial confines with which he has been encompassed, he will cease be- ing an abject slave, and find his place as a “citisen of the world,” while the tyrants and usurpers who lave drained the noblest blood to satisty thelr own voluptuousness continuing their reigns by pitting nation against nation, will be re- duced to the ranks and forced to dis- gorge what they have glutted—the rights of humanity—and learn that promofTon must be because of ability and justice and not chance or birth—a “World-Wide Fra- ternity,” attaining to the degree of “Ye are brethren” ana “In honor preferring one another, CHARLES P. LANG. Wants a Worl What is & World’y Champion? OMAHA, Oct. 20.—To the Editor of The Bee: That is a very beautiful belt that wee purchased for Joe Stecher by his Nebraska friends. Nebraska is justly proud of Stecher, but I fear that we bave no right to call him a world's champion ‘when the real world's champlion has never been defeated. It some onme would chloroform Frank Gotch and Farmer Burns we could claim the champlonsnip for our native son, but s long as they are living they will re- main two strong reasons why BStecher is not the world's champion. The writer is an ardent admirer of Joe Stecher, but cannot see how Stecher can claim the title until he throws Gotch, and that job is about as easy to accomplish as to push the sun from its course. E. M. WAYMORE. Woman's Activities | Nearly 11,00 women have enrolled as famale police In Italy and they will un- dergo special physical training and wear uniforms. Hundreds of women are now at work on lathes, drilling machines and stamping out machines in the Russian factories where they make high explosive shells. Miss Alice P. Adams, who has just come from the Japan schools at Oka- yama, says that there is no objection to religious teaching after or before school hours, but net during the school session. The Japanese are a religious people, she says. Mrs. Elizabeth Brown Davis of Wash- ington is sald to be the greatest authority of her sex upon astronomical mathe- matics in this country and possibly in the world. She has been making compu- tations for the National Almanac, puby lished annually by the United States Naval Observatory at Washington. Mrs. Alice Carey Risley, recently elected president of the Army Nurees of the Civil War, at the Washington meeting, waa born in New Orleans. As a girl she helped her mother give ald to all who were In sympathy with the Union. Dur- ing the war conditions were such that her family moved from New Orleans by steamboat to St. Louls. She became an army nurse. She now lives in Jefferson City, Mo, Twelve of the New York schools have adopted the Gary plan, which requires the teachers to give six hours of work each day, but no teacher teaches any study except what she wants to, pupils, #oing to one room for arithmetic, to an- other for grammar, and so on. Each teacher uses her own methods and is only b1 by the ults she gets. The de- partmental ides Is not necessary for the wew method of teaching. Started in Gary. Ind., this new method has attracted » great deal of atteation SMIBING LINES. 1s your neighbor a man for peace? “On’ the contrary, I have reason & think that he believes in the mall hand. " “What reason is th “He's & postman.’ tean. “Father, 1 had a fight with Percy Raymond today.” “I know you did." "X"‘d the father soberly. “Mr. Raymond came to see me about it." “Well,” sald the son, “T hope you came out as well as I did."—~Ladies’ Home Journal. Baltimore Amer- DEAR MR. KABIBBLE, DO You BELIEVE IN TG VES —T WISH SOMEBODY WouLd RUN AWRY WITH MY WIFE Mabel=You and Harold seem insepara- ble. Gertrude—We are together a good deal. You see, Mabel, I take a peculiar inter- est in him. Mabel—Oh, do you? Gertrude—Yes. I was e to him at one time, and in love with him at another.—Judge. THE HAUNTED PORCH. ‘Washington Star. The rocking chairs keep rocking As the breeze comes wandering by, Though empty is the summertime hotel. The little birds are flocking From the chilly autumn sky Quite undisturbed around the porch to dwell, And an influence all ghostly Seems to_gather 'round the pot As.you recollect the gossip and the game That were mild and harmless, mostly. They are faded and forgot, But the rocking chairs keep rocking, just the same. There's a trace of youthful sighing in the tremor of the breeze As it _hovers, now unwelcomed, through the place. There are voices harsh and trying; There are murmurs ill at ease, Though of human presence there {s not a tray ce. With the flowers they have vanished. With the flowers they'll return, Those summer throngs that met with glad acclaim, The music has been banished, And the lights no longer burn, But the rocking chairs keep rocking, just the same. ANDERBILT FOURTH STRE AT PARK AVENUE NEWYORK | The most conveniently situated bt in New York At the Thirty-third Street Subd WALTON H. MARSHAL{ Manager HORLIC}H MALTED M The Food-drink for All A BUY IT IN OM. This means. Butonly one of Quaker Oatsisyours, if you ask for it, with- out any extra price. And it means luscious flakes, made of queen grains only. This perfect Cooker is yours to retain the flavor, and to cook in the idealway. See our offersin each package. 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