Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 20, 1915, Page 14

[ e e e Pe b, .} THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED _BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROEEWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publithing Company, Proprietor. BER BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTRENTH. Entered at Omaha postoffice as second-class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIO N, By carrier By mall month &80 6.00 . 4,00 2.00 e#® or complaints of change o very ¢ L& Circulation f addre muhnu in delivery to Omah: rtment. REMITTANCE. Remit by draft, express or postal order. Onl cent stamps received in payment of small counts. Personal checks, except on Omaha and eastern exchange, not accepted. ] Omaha—The Bee Bml’;g? hal ng. South ha—28 N street. Tuffa—14 North Main street. Litte Bullaing. Chic Hearst Bulldin B Touta 500 New Bank of Commerss. - L o “om! 7% Fourteenth 86, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE, Adress communications relating to news and edi- (‘m'hl matter to Omaha Bee, Jaxwm Department. OCTOBER CIRCULATION 54,744 State of Nebraska, County of Douglas, s Dwight Williams, circulation manager of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that Srerage Ciroulation “for the month of Octoker, was b, DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation . Subscribed in -wor‘-“gflon presence this 2d ovember, 191 g RoREnT HUNTER, Notary Publie. Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. November 20 Thought for the Day Selected by A. K. Goudy And the entire effect of true sducation is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things—not merely industrious, but to love industry—not merely learned, but to love knowledge. ~John Ruskw. The Panama exposition at San Francisco now has less than a month more to run. Stop off in Omaha! The indications are that Germany may have Turkey by Thanksgiving and regale the allies with a few bones. After that demonstration of fealty to grape- Juice the sympathies of a certaln famous states- 1aan must surely be aroused. Smmpe— The boom in the iron and steel trade renders an elevator a mnecessary means of viewing the ;mun:nd the goods, Going up? e — 4 ‘ The office-seeker does not have to be a *‘carpet-bagger’’ to seize upon every opportunity to tell how much he loves the megro. SY——————— © " A camel can megotiate the eye of the Serip-’ tural needle about as easily as a money-getting sinner can reach a slice of “Billy” Bunday's’ Just the same, while pursuing his divine n.dssion, Rev. “Billy” objects strenuously to di- viding either the limelight or the book-counter business with intruders. a Justice Hughes declines to be drafted by thirty-five 'persons trying to make a noise lke the whole republican party. When the party _#peaks, it will speak louder than that. ey—— The government views with alarm the scar- oty of stock and rising prices in the steel mar- ket. But there are compensations. Another flock of Pittsburgh millionaires is in the making. EEEEN— In all the pleadings made in bebalf of the condemned man in Utah, there is no sympa- thetic mention of the mother and five children Lereft of husband and father by a murderer's PN Sm—— The Chicago doctor who let the deformed idfant die is & bachelor. Chorus ef “I-told-you- s0's!” But he is ralsing two adopted children for hi , 80 he can hardly be accused of lacking the parental instinct, Sp——— A distinct public service is rendered by the Colorado federal court in rejecting the claims of the Lutin patents covering concrete bridge construction. Many states, counties and com- munities have been harassed by such claims and urgent public improvements held up, The ‘Railroads are keenly aware that the Panama canal has been closed by the slides, which means that they will also notice the difference as soon #u the canal is reopened. The only way, how- ever, for the people of the central west to share fully In the benefits of the canal is through water-way development that will give us water - transportation rates alternative to railway rates, “The Willow Copsé™ at the pronounced “such & dramatic treat here only at Infrequent intervals.” Bldney Smith of Omaha was elected one of the direstors of the Western Association of Architects in 8t. Louls. Judge tendered the officers of his court a m, has been his annual custom, at his W on Leavenworth street. THE Midwinter Agrioultural Meetings. Arrangements are now being made for the annual midwinter meetings of the various agri- cultural and allied bodies, the sessions to be held as usual in Lineoln. It is announced that sev- eral speakers of nation-wide prominence are to attend, among them some from the federal de- rartments at Washington. The potential value of these sessions, if conducted along practical lines, is great and though from necessity com- ‘rpnrluvoly few of the large number interested | In agriculture, stock raising, hortieulture, ete., can or will participate in the sessions, this by no means should measure their influence for good. The information obtained during meetings is Gisseminated in various ways until all have at least an opportunity to obtaln it and that more do not utilize the practical things developed is to be deplored. Thinking farmers, however, realize that no longer can they depend solely upon personal observation and experience or the natural fertility of Nebraska's soil to keep the state to the front agriculturally, for other states also have fertile soil, and other farmers have Individual experiences which are helpful. The day has passed when intelligent men scoff at the sclentific farmer. If these meetings invite criticism, it is that too many who attend do not take them seriously and that too few attend. Majority for Defense Program. A canvass of the lower house of congress is uald to disclose a majority of twenty-nine for the preparedness program of the president, which it is conceded will have a majority in the senate. This must not be taken, however, to assure the passage of the bill just as Introduced at the in- stance of the administration, but simply that a majority of the house members are committed to a preparedness policy. The detalls of the administration plan are too inchoate so far as public information goes for unequivocal pledges «f support, and in working it out it is a prac- tical certainty that changes will have to be made rot only to meet the views of house members, btut to come within the financial ability of the government to. carry. Advocates of a larger standing army will probably demand some con- cessions, friends of the militia organization, who cppose the continental army idea, will also seek to obtain a larger recognition for that organiza- tion, and the continental army plan is as yet not thoroughly digested. Those who oppose in- crease In the military and naval forces alto- gother are not so likely to gain concessions, but the three elements noted must in a measure be satisfied to hold a majority, and all must bow 1o some extent to the financial difficulties in- velved. The condition of the treasury makes it imperative that additional military or naval out- lays must be met by new or increased taxation, the issue of bonds or a reversal of the entire fiscal policy of the administration. The poll of the house would indicate, however, that some measure of the kind outlined by the president is certaln to pass at the coming session, but it is entirely too early to forecast what its scope ‘and precise provisions will be. Sewe—— Amortising Rea] Estate Loans. Representatives 6f a number of the largest fources of money loanable on real estate security have taken up in a serious way the idea of en- foreed amortization, or payment of & portion of the principal each year, of loans of that class, & custom already applied to eity real estate and now proposed for the farm. As a necessary ad- Junct, the plan alms to make the original loans for longer periods than now, carrylng with it the prineiple of the bullding and loan companies which have proved so great a factor in creating home owners out of renters in the citles. An argument advanced in favor of the amor- tixing scheme is that it would establish at least a falr substitute for the rural credits system of Europe. Its greatest benefits in the purview of its projectors, however, is that it would tend to create more real estate investors and less specu- lative dealing, as it i{s mueh easier to make speculative holdings produce simply the interest on loans than it is to produce both interest and & payment on the principal. ‘That the plan proposed offers advantages to the thrifty renter who wishes to acquire a farm which can ‘be pald for in small installments is evident, but to seek to enforce such conditions upon all farm loans is hardly feasible. A little riore than a year ago it was practically impos- #lblé to obtain money for farm loans, and it was even diffieult to obtain a remewal of existing loans. Today in rural communities every loan agent will tell you that money for farm loans is plentiful, but that there is little demand for the money. Idle funds cannot be held to any such rule where the security offered is good, but the general privilege of borrowing money Under such conditions would doubtless prove beneficlal to meny in the country just as it has in the eity. Sse—— Distance Auto Speeders. A few days ago the mewspapers chronicled the breaking of the time record for an auto trip between Lincoln and Omaha and now comes chapter two of the same story—the speeders bave been fined for exceeding the limit. Chapter two should really be a more valuable lesson than the original installment of the story. If a knowl- edge of just how fast an automobile can run on a publie highway and keep up a sustained speed in any way benefits manufacturers, dealers or owners of machines it is not discernible and the dangers involved are so apparent the practice should not be eéncouraged. The chance of accident to others on the country roads is not %o great as in citles and towns, but speeding tbere involves the same element of danger to those who have an equal right to the highway ond people whose business or pleasure takes them onto public roads have a legal and moral 1ight to protection. Those who boast of these remarkable spurts of speed on public highways should rather be ashamed of the achievement, and the most charitable comment possible is that they do not realize fully what they are doling. S——— It will be recalled that transportation com- panies scooped in several million dollars in ex- cess fares in Missouri through the instrumen- tulity of an injunction granted by Judge Smith McPherson. When the state rates were sus- tained by the highest court a demand was made for refund of the exceas. What did the com- panies do? Why, they gave the victims a life size picture of a small boy doing the plecola act with his right thumb resting on his nose. S——— Rubler shares are the latest bounders in the speculative The helght of the bound Wuess, the return o sure thing. BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1915. Academic Fresdom I Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler. NOT inconsiderabls part of the occupations of the president s to reply to letters addressed to him in criticism of some reported utterance by & meme ber of the teaching staff, and in making such repiy to point out what Is the precise status and responsi- bility of an academic teacher, and what is the uni- versity’s share of responsibility for his utterances. The number of such criticlsms made on the part of the public has notably increased In recent years, and during the last year, probably on account of the Buro. pean war, these criticisms have been even more numer- ous than heretofore. In most cases they are base® on incorrect or garbled reports of what the person in auestion really said. In other cases they reflect merely narrowness of view and stupidity, or a desire to use the university as an agent for some particular propa- sanda which the critics hold dear. One thing these criticisms have In common; they almost Invariably conclude by demanding the instant removal of the offending professor from the #olls of the university. During the Iast year one amiable correspondent tacked a university officer under the caption of nake at Large.” The fact that the gentleman In question was not a snake but a professor and that he was not at large but in retirement, had no weight in the eyes of the writer of the letter. It appears that in this case the offense was the expression in public of a favorable opinion as to the nutritive qualities of beer. The effect of this reported utterance on the mind of the objector was to deprive him of any modicum of reason that he may have hitherto pos- sessed. He was ana still is very much offended that the officer In question was not subjected to some pub- lic humiliation and rebuke. Tn another case a clergyman wrote to object to the reported utterances in the class room—incorrectly re- rorted, it turned out—of a professor who was described a8 endeavoring to destroy whatever of faith in Chris- tlanity there was in the members of one of his classes, This particular complainant did not ask for the dls- missal of the professor In question, but his letter left no doubt that such action would be entirely accept- able to him. All this would be amusing were it not sad. It {llustrates once more how much the public at large has still to learn as to the significance and purpose of unjversities. The notion which Is sedulously culti- vated in some quarters that there are powerful in- terests, financlal, economic and soclal which wish to curb the proper frésdom of speech of university pro- feasors in America, probably has little or no justifica- tion anywhere. That there are large elements in the population which do desire to curb the proper freedom of speech of university professors is, however, indis- putable. BEvidence for this is to be found not only in such correspondence as has just been referred to, but In letters addressed to the public press, and even in editorial utterances on the part of supposedly repu- table newspapers. The fact is that people generally have a great deal to learn as to the significance and functions of a university. The last thing that many Persons want is freedom either of speech or of any- thing else unless its exercise happens to accord with thelr somewhat violent and passionate predilections. It must be sald, on the other hand, that professors of blished reputation, sound judgment and good sense rarely If ever find themselves under seriovs criticlsm from any source. Buch men and women may hold What opinjons they please, since they are in the habit of expressing them with disoretion, moderation, good taste and good sense. It is the violation of one or another of these canons which produces the occasional disturbance that is so widely advertised as an asser- tion of or attack upon academic freedom. Genuine cases of the invasion of academio freedom are so rare as to be almost fonexistent. Tt may be doubted Wwhether more than two such cases have occurred in the United States In the last forty years. It is a mis- nomer to apply the high and splendid term “academic freedom” to exhibitions of bad taste and bad man- ners, A university owes it to itself to defend members of its teaching staff from unjust and improper attacks maGe upon them, when in sincerely seeking truth they arrive at results which are either novel in them- selves or in opposition to some prevailing opinion. Here again the question is much more largely one of manner than of matter. The serious, scholarly and responsible investigator is not a demagogue, and dema- gogues should not be permitted to take his name in vain. A well-organized group of American youth such as s to be found at any college or university of con- siderable size offers almost irresistible temptation to the propagundist. It seems to the ardent supporter of Some new movement the most matural thing in the world that he should be permitted, in sehson and out of season, to harangue college and university students on the subject around which he feels that the whole world revolves. Any attempt to protect the students or the reputation of a given college or university for sobriety and sanity of judgment is forthwith attacked As a movement toward the suppression of free speech. A portion of the newspaper press and not a few of their more constant correspondents are aroused to action, and pretty soon there s a full-fledged agita- tion in progress, directed against those responsible for the administration and good order of the college or university in question. In particular, the agitation in favor of woman suffrage, and those in favor of what is called prohibition or what is called soclalism, are most active and determined in seeking to use col- leges and universities as agencies and instruments of propaganda. It may properly be pointed out that in each of theso cases, and In others that are similar, there is not and cannot be Involved any question of free apeech in the proper sense of that term. There is no good reason why the youth who are committed to the care of a college or university should be turned over by that college or university to any agitators or propangandists who may present themsel\®s. On the other hand, there is every reason why the college or university should protect its studemts from outside influences of this sort. The sound and proper policy appears to be for a college or university to see to it that its students receive information and instruction on all of these subjects, and on similar matters that interest large groups of people, from its own re- sponsible officers of instruction or from scholarly experts selected by them because of their competence and good sense. For many years it has been the rule at Columbia university, established in 1831 by President Low, that any bona fide organization of students Interested ina political or soclal movement and wishing to organize & club or assoclation in support thereof might hold one meeting for organization in the university build- ini but thai, so far as clubs and assoclations inter- ested in political or highly contemtious subjects were concerned, all subsequent meetings must be held out. #ide of the university precincts. This plan has worked well for nearly twenty-five years. The university has been most hospitable to clube ana organizations of every sort, provided they were organized in &ood faith by duly registered students. Under the Operation of this rule, no serious abuses have arisen and no charge has been made, or could justly be made, that freedom of speech Wpe In any way interfered with or limited, People and Events An enthusiastic ward worker at Harrisburg, Pa, on election day roasted a rival worker with cuss words six times repeated. The exercise cost the fm- pressario §l4 duly assessed in court. Thirty-five school bulldings in New York Oity have been reported as dangerous, having wooden staire, but the reports were pigeonholed because money to bylld fireproof staire was not prowided. Foresight makes little progress when hindsight blocks the way. Victor Murdoek, chairman of the national com- mittee of the bull moose party, 18 progressing toward Europe, having sailed from New York last Saturday, He proposes to look into the Huropean war 300, where the eagles, the bear and the lion are spilling gore, and #ive the Wichita Eagle a first-hand view of the com- motion. Winter politics i1s too cold to hold him at home. He is out for hot stuff. | | | thereby he shows that he shya at the | truth. The Peed effer Just a Rejoinder in Kind. CHADRON, Neb, Nov. 18—~To the Bditor of The Bee: Mr. Bradshaw cer- tainly i right when he sald that the re- cent article written by Mr. Rosicky is too nonsensica] to be debatable. This Ingersoll proselyte don't like the idea of having the Bible In the schools; Ingersoll was a great speaker, and he was right on the saloon question and on politics, but when he spoke on religion he was all wrong, and his lectures on religion belong in the sewer, the same as does Mr. Rosicky's writings. Ingersoll was like the foolish man that bullt his house on the sand, while Sunday is like the wise man that built his house on the solld rock. Mr. F. M. Simonds says he wants more reason and less fire, but I cannot detect any reason in his writing, while Mr. Bradshaw showed that he can distinguish between the truth and humbug. F. B A More About Red Cross Seals. OMAHA, Nov, 10.—To the Editor of The Bee: We are very glad to see the request of P. B. Reynolds in The Bee eLtter Box for information regarding Red Crose seals and deeply grateful to The Bee for answering the same with accutacy and Justice to the work. In addition we would ltke to further make plain our position among welfare workers. As our name implies we exist primarily for the purpose of studying tuberculosis problems with the aim in view of preventing this unnecessary and costly disease from ever gaining the foothold In Nebraska which it has other wheres. The tools which we use are publicity and education and the actual relief work which we do is merely in- cidental for the reason that thers are relief agencies at work such as Visiting Nurse associat'on, Free Dispensaries and a state hospital for tuberculosis, With all of these we co-operate heartily while belleving that a decided Ifne should be drawn between our work and theirs and not at all desirous of encroach- ing on thelr legitimate fleld which is relief. Then, too, our funds which amount to about $3,000 per annum have never been adequate for rellef, and have therefore been turned toward the cause rather than the effect. In this con- nection it may be noted that we stand for school lunches, open air rooms, health inspection and every means proposed as the result of selentific in- Ivestigation into the cause of tuber. culosts, which will prevent the children of today from being public charges a generation hence. In Omaba a part of our funds have gone to establish school lunches. In another Nebraska ocity the Req Cross seal will be the means of furnishing clean, warm extra clothing for children in an open- air clase room. If public baths could be established in Omaha or anywhere in Nebraska (our territory), the Red Oross seal would ohdp in becatse soap, water and clean towels constitute one way of doing away with diseass, which, after all, is only flith in an aggravated form. MRS. K. R. J. EDHOLM, Executive Secretary, Nebraska Asso- clation for Prevention of Tuberculosis. An Ydea About Water Power. OMAHA, Nov. 19.—To the editor of The Bee: I saw a plece in yesterday's Bee (of which I am a regular reader) about Wwater power. That is something I have thought about a good deal, but being an ©old Grand Army of the Republic man, gh can't do anything but think. My oughts are about a submerged, wheel, without any dam, and If the water is deep enough it can be placed below the freezing point. I have no book learn- ing, which you know. Now, if I could see and talk with some man who is interested in this subject, I think I could convince him that I have the bull by the horns.. I am a citizen of Omaha, and very much interested in anything that will heip. G. B. 8MITH, 832 South Twenty-fourth street. Around the Cities Brooklyn is building a public school on & site once used by the Hesslans as a camping ground. Some of Philadelphia’s schools are classed as fire traps and sanitary pests. A committee of the Board of Bdueation, headed by John Wannamaker, reports that $3,000,000 are needed to put the bulld- ings in proper shape. The big feature of Cleveland's flower show is a ohrysanthemum plant meas- uring fifteen feet across its umbrella formation and bearing 1,200 blossoms. The plant came from greenhouses near Dobb's Ferry, N. Y., and wae personally con- ducted by train to Cleveland. A welrd tale of mental suggestion comes from Cape Girardeau, Mo., buttressed with melancholy reality. It began twn years ago among four men, all under 4. “You fellows can beat me at cards” sald a member of the party, rising from the table, “but you can't beat me to the cemetery.” Ploking up a card, the nine of spades, he wrote on the back: ‘“We four men will be in our graves within two years,” and tossed it to the players. Bach of the four died In the order he named, the last one going in October. AFTER THE WAR. Richard Le Gallienne in Puck. After the war—I hear men ask—what then? As though this rock-ribbed world, sculp- tured with fire, And bastioned deep in the ethereal plan, Can never be its morning self again Because of this brief madness, man witi | man; As Xhou.h the laughing elements should tire, The very seasons in their order reel, As Lhollllh indeed you ghostly golden whee! Of stars should cease from turning or the moon Befriend the night no more, or the wiid rose Forget the world, and June be no more June. 1 ' How many wars and long-forgotton woes Unnumbered, nameless, made a like do- i how many suns | On burning cities blackening the air~ | Yet dawn came dreaming back, her lashes wet With dew, and daisies In her Innocent hatr. | Nor shall, for this, the squl's ascension Not the ‘sure evolution of the laws | That out of foulness lift the flower to | sun, And olit of fury forge the evening star. o Deem not Love's bullding of the world | undone— ! Far Love's Ing was, her end is far; By ;-n;. of and blood her feet must Secking a loveliness she scarcely knows, | Whose meaning s beyond mo{euhotl GRINS AND GROANS. “What are you going to say about thlt, “Here this author begins his story, attack on your offl political record ™™ | “The wagon groaned as it crept up the ‘‘Nothing," replied Senator Sorghum. |hill' " y / .The others are it publicity | "Now, that's strange enough, without my It."—~Washington Etar. b Gibbe—Bilson expressed a good deal of {{mpathy for poor Blank bim for a contribution? | Dibbe—No, I know Bilson; he's like the Did you try | fl\lnl elping to advertise | “What's strange?’ |lan with a family."—~Baltimore Ameri- can. About the wagon's protest. It has a tongue, but vet it was the wheel spoke.” | =Baltimore American ‘T'm afraid that youngster of mine was der. letter “p”—Hrst in pity and last in help. |POrn with the instincts of & roun »Boaln: m:‘.mr;n_" atbis P | The graphophone must play and the nurse dance or he won't eat his oat- meal.” Wite—John, what ls the difference be- tween direct taxation and indirect tax-| ation? Hubby—Why, the difference between your asking me for money and going through my pockets while I'm asleep.— Chicago News. or a F DO YOU BELIEVE IN LOVE AT FIRSY SIGHT ? YES-AMD YOULL SPEND “THE Judge—What's your charge against the | Louisville Couries excitable girl she was. “Is 1 possible?” ‘Yes; think of a mere infant insisting cabaret features with his meals. Journal. o you think Katherine made a very suitable match?" & ¢ ; you know_what & nervous, Atable gieh aba. ‘Well, she married composer." —Tid-Bits. ood Facts For The Workingman's Wife To Study. 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