Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 30, 1915, Page 6

OMAHA DAILY BE et e e T FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEW VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. .__The Bee Puh"sfig (‘omp;;u. Prn‘vrleloh BER BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH {Entered &t Omaba postoffice as second.-class matter TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Mt By carrier By mail per month. per year ly and Sunday veen B0 . 8.0 fly without ] vening and ¢ 6.00 Evening_without Sunday 4.00 Jsunday Bee only... \aRedsss o8 . ‘2w notice of change of address or compl of rregularity in delivery to Omaha Bee, Cireulation Department REMITTANCE 80ltemit by draft, express or postal order. Only two- gepenl stamps fecelved in payment of small ac- Sounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha and castern change, not accepted, ha¢ OF FICES. ing Qmaha—The Bee Building South Omaha—2318 N street Council Bluffe—14 North Main street o6y Lincon—2 Little Bullding Chicago—801_Hearst Bull Ir;! ey¢ New York—Room 1106, 28 Fifth avenue. 8t Louis—58 New Bank of Commerce, th; Washington-7% Fourteenth St., N. W. CORRESPONDENCE ddress communications relating to pews and edi- rial matter to Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. Alt its ma OCTOBER CIRCULATION - 54,744 " hoyBtaie of Nebraska, County of Douglas, ss D-nfm Wiillams, efrculation manager of The Bes uUp Publishing company, duly sworn, says that the the® o Crculation " for 1915, DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. few Subscribed in m, mce and sworn to before me, this id dfloof November, . 19) BERT HUNTER, Notary Public onl Subscribers leaving the city teraporarily fof ghould have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- £ dress will be changed as often as requested. het e month of Octoke Thought for the Day Selected by Edith Haight If you have buile cas'lea in the air, your work need not be lost. Thal ws where they should be now put foundations under them.—Thorear. Time for the early Christmas shopper get busy, to Preparedness for peace, h;“.vur, includes also protection against war. Note that Klfin'x— Cvnuc.ul-llmpr! ring to do business at the old stand as soon as congress reconveneg. King (‘on-u_nrln;'; |]1-i;rpratillon of the hes)- tation waltz puts his competitors in the wall- flower class. 9 The peril ov‘rrnirl';l;n-drmln‘_d.ry s remote. It jthe worst comes water wagons can be employed " pris | OV, e at $150, ought to command the“plck of [ oo 11¢ poultry-yard., = { Wl 10 drancpires that most of those lnvitations un take a sea trip as the guest of Mr, Ford have [ e f'et With busy slgnals, ' Due regaid for law and usage requires that O 0)iticlans wedded to idols should show more the VPressive grounds for divorce than cold feet, n ¥ yege—— & Syracuse had better come across with “the b ~ gcodn.” Otherwise the saving grace of trail hit- abe '™ will not avert the stigma of belng a tight- z"‘# [ The tenacity with which Becretary of State | we 001 clings to a primary petition 1s not very ‘neoun:lng to the professional autograph col- | of lectors. L The la: volume of subscriptions to the French national loan affords little encour “ment for early peace, It evidences national de- #0& termination to continue the war to a satisfactory tinish. tion With ali that wonderful exhibit of earnings Mund surplus, why hold off another over-due s Water-rate 'reductlo Omaha water users are ot SLill paying 33 per cent more than Lincoln we water users. ® Copper I8 not as speedy as munitions and 1 drugs in responding to the stimulus of war, !t is moving upward steadlly, having touched hthe 20-cent nocch, and its unabated strength -choeu and energizes the copper camps of the west. According Lo Hudson Maxim, a forelgn eneuy, either Great Britaln or Germany, ¢ould oceupy New York and Boston in two weeks, Of course they could If we sat still and watched and let them, bul we are not golng to do any such thing. The new 8-cent passenger fare schedule in- #lalled by (he Missour! Pacific Is to apply only {¢ noncompetitive points, How & court can jus- 1~y a road charging 8 cents a mile for between- Jpassengers wio travel from one junction pelunt . 1o another, remains to be seen. leading religlous denominations of Omaha. The First [god Methodist will erect a new church on the south- east corner of Davenport and Twentieth, which it pur- church has appointed a building committee to work OuL plans for & new church, and the Christian church has recently removed to Twentleth and Capitol avenue an espect for the dead Viee President Hendricks The new Farnam school was formelly opened to day for Miss Truland as principal. Dbullding is & handeome three-story structure with base. ment, and 19,000, station passengers and only 8 cents a mile for | Mueh bullding activity is in prospect among the 1" chased. & short time ago for $4,000. The Congregational The postoffice is decorated In mourning drapery in It will start with nearly 400 puplls, with room for 0. The cost Abbott and her opera company put on “Tie famous “Yum-Yum" kiss before nn As to Lawlessiiess in Omaha slate papers are busy ringing the changes on the terrible condition of lawlessness in Omaha and picturing this city as the scene of a continuance performance of holdupe, roberies and murders The In #o doing these papers are per- haps taking their cue from Omala publications with “yellow streaks” and axes to grind, but the advertisement they are thus giving our city is far from the desirable kind. One paper, printed in Tekamah, suggests that ‘‘a n Omaha or to ship to Omaha in making the city safe; another, issued at Al- bion, advises its readers that “Omaha is a good place for country people to stay away from,"” and still another that comes to us from Columbus, tells of a man getting out hig gun to carry with refusal to buy country people fed upon and it Is what makes the prejudice and antagonism against Omaha out in the state which we find so hard to allay. “Now, no one disputes that we have had a so- called “crime wave” in Omaha, but only part of a wave that has been sweeping all over the coun- try.. All agree that lawlessness and deeds of vio- lence are bad and should be suppressed and the offenders brought to answer. It behooves the po- lice in Omaha, as elsewhere, to redouble their ef- | torts whenever such conditions are present. But | of reports of the same sort of outlawry we have | sutfered. Over In Chicago the newspapers tell of the depredations of a so-called “pepper bandit,” who has been lying In wait for delivery drivers and taking their collections away from them at the point of a gun, at the same time blinding them with pepper and thus making a clear get- away. The “pepper bandit” had achieved a list of a dozen victims in less than three weeks, and at last accounts was still at large and continuing | in the business. But this does not make Chicago any more a nest of criminals now than it was before. In the Ilittle town of Aurora, Neb., usually quiet and orderly, the editor of the lead- ing paper was held up by footpads last week, but this does not make Aurora a hell-hole, In a word, preparedness against criminal out- breaks is necessary all the time, but because every city Is occasionally overrun with “‘crime’ ~—and most of the desperadoes operating here who have been caught have turned out to be out- of-town intruders-—hardly warrants country papers placarding Omaha as a danger spot to be avolded and boycotted | Starting Where They Left Off. The democrats are returning to Washing- ton, apparently to take up their futile round with the adjournment of the Sixty-third con- gress. King Caucus will again rule the devoted tollowers of the donkey, and his edicts will take precedence over public needs at points where the general welfare runs counter to partisan expedi- ency. A call for the senate conclave was issued first thing, and the week is to be given over to outlining the program that will be followed. The president’'s supporters keenly feel the difficulty that confronts them in making prepa- rations for the campaign of next year, and the prospects are that suggested programs will be modified by the sidetracking of some of the plans on which the party has already been de- feated, and the presging forward of more popu- lar measures, such as preparedness. This will scarcely satisfy Mr. McAdoo, who is devoted to his shipping bill, but who has a much more im- mwinent problem in his effort to provide for the existing deficit and for the extraordinary ex- penditures proposed. Other cabinet measures are involved in this, also, and the fact that some- thing must be done adds greatly to the interest in the present week's councils. The caucus rule will not be relaxed, and the party whip will score the back of any recalcitrant democrat who dares oppose the ukase of the secret conclave, Seizure of Wheat in Canada. No very good reason is disclosed as yet for the action of the Canadian government in com- mandeering a large quantity of wheat held in elevators and storehouses in the eastern part of the Dominion. It s certuin that no exigency of the military situation is so urgent to justify the drastic aetion, while the Immediate future holds no portent of an emergency that might be served by the course now taken. The remote possibllity of German sympathizers on this side of the border buying up the crop to prevent its export might be suggested as a possible pretext. This would require the investment of a very large sum of money, considerably more than even the most enthusiastic might care to have tled up in such a venture. That the Canadian govern- ment intends to fill export orders for wheat that otherwise would h come to the United States looks n less like the reason, if any there be, for the seizure. ‘Whether it was Intended to stiffen prices may be equally doubted, for the effect on the Ameri- can market was almost nothing, efforts to turn the news to speculative value losing force at the very outset. With more than a billion of bushels of wheat in the United States, and a total of 160,000,000 in Canada above local requirements, the removal of a matter of 20,000,000 bushel from the total available for export cannot have much influence on general trade, Some cause for the Dominion government's act may later be divulged, but for the present it will stand among | the list of things ‘that no fellow can find out.” Only a man with a large bank roll can afford | to Indulge his eccentricities in the direction of political libel. Former Governor Foss of M sachusetts during the primary campaign ‘‘cut loose” on one of hig political enemies at an ex- pense of $4,000, settled out of court. Mr. Foss i# a rich and amiable also-ran. A satisfactory settlement of the produce ped- | dling issue as it affects railroads is shown to be entirely feasible by co-operation of the inter- ested parties. The incident also shows how | readily disputes can be adjusted by bringing disputants together on common ground. | SyepE—————— - | and benefactions, Andrew Carnegie is today a man of only moderate fortune. Still, he will Just the same, if he hopes to die poor. public prints. might soon result | him on a visit to Omaha and suggests he would | be safer not to go. This is the kind of stuff which | rival towns and business competitors like to see | pick wp & paper from any large city and itis full | Just where it was abandoned a short time ago, | Assurance is given that because of his gifts have to keep busy during his remaining years, Other states besides Nebraska have similar presidential primary laws, but they evideatly do rot have so many cheap notoriety-scekers trying 1o use these laws to project thewmselves into the | Marriage an Opportunity 814 in the American Magasin IME people don't understand marriage. The bn.mx before tackling It anyway-that (t is natural institution Their idea is that & man by nature first loves, and then marries | Now the love part is natural, but the marriage | part is an artificial scheme worked out by soclety | to prevent too frequent changes In the organization. | | Soclety finds a couple of youngsters who have a | natural attraction for each other, and it says h-l them: “Now, ian't this nice! You two think a lot | of each other, don't you? And you don't want to | lose each other, of course! lsn't it a shame you | can't see each other except when Ma or Aunt Hen rietta I8 home? 1 wonder If there fsn't something we can do about it. 8ay, how would this little plan | | of mine do—marriage”? All you have to do is to agr | to it, and sign a lttle document. Then you cay | live together. Yes? You like it? All right—just put | | your names down here. There now. That's finc! | Just the thing!" | | Then the young folks learn for themselves he | difterence between love and marriage, They learn | that while love may turn out to be the short haul, | marriage is the long haul. TLove may get tired | and want to quit before the plano needs tuning, but | marriage runs right on through the World's Fair, Roosevelt's administration and the opening of the | Panama canal It becomes the one permanent job | of life—a job hard to resign from and difficult to | wet fired from. Some people get so disgusted they can't stand it any longer and give up In a hulf. | But there stand society, pointing the finger of | | shame at them, and calling them welchers and quit- | | ters. Others work at the job indifferently, never win success, never quite fall, and go from year tu | year afraid to give up, but dazed and mystified unti) | the end of their days. Bome glare at ~ach other like meat axes. Others hate each other in their | hearts, but for the sake of children or for other | | reasons live in a state of armed peace under a flag | of truce. Tn cases of this kind hoth usually derive enormous elf-satisfaction out of the fortitude and | | selt control which they dlaplay. Many work capably, | | unselfishly and energetically at the fob and make a great oess of 1t. To much as do the job well the rewards are greater than any to be obtained | olsewhere in the world | In busin it you make a great success, there may come a time when people begin to suggest that you ought to get out and give others a chance Not so with marriage. If you win out in matrimony nobody wants you to quit. You are never superan- | nuated or put out on a pension. If yvou make a suc- | cess everybody wants you to keep right on, stay | In the neighborhood, and come around for the even- ing. Marriage furnishes every man a chance to be & great man, In the married relation a young man | can be as wise as Washington, as entertaining as | Lincoln, and as diplomatic as Bismarck. No married man ever has the right to stand up before the world and clalm that he hasn’'t had opportunities. | Twice Told Tales Not Far Apart. Becretary Josephus Danlels was discussing a courte- ous retort. “‘One may be excused,” sald he, 'for feeling a littie | Joy when the man who goes out of his way to make & rude remark simply to show his wit receives a re- buke that is a8 courteous as it is effective. “A learned sclentist was attending a dinner, and as clgars were being indulged in one of the guests began ride philosophy. He went on rudely to express the opinion that philosopher was but another way of spelling fool, ‘ ‘What s your opinion, professor? he asked, smil- \OVEMBER 30, 1915, The Pees effer Still Holding Out for Thompson. MADISON, Neb, Nov. M~To the | Editor of The Bee: In fairness to Hon orable William H .Thompson, who s a candidate for appoinitment to the posi tion of judge of the [United States dis trict court to fill the vaeancy caused by the death of the late Honorable Willlam H. Munger, 1 desire to correct the state- ment, which, as I am Infurmed, has been and is being made by Mr. Sprague, that | Mr. Thompson (s eliminated by reason of age. 1 spenk ex-cathedra when I say the statement is incorrect. A recent personal interview with those high in authority in Washington has convinced me that Mr, Thompson is seriously con sidered for the appointment, and Mr | Sprague has no inside ‘Information that 1 1o not possess, and I hope The Bec will make this letter prominent to the end that Mr. Thompson's friends may understand the situation and not be mis: led by Mr. Sprague’s statements or let- ters. Mr. Thompson's friends should not relax their efforts In his behalf WILLIAM V. ALLEN If %0, Why Should She? LINCOLN, Nov. 27.-To the Editor of The Bee: W should a woman get married, anyway Why should she give herself to a life which is a recognized state of rervitude? Why should she forsake an untram- melled state of maidenhood, in which she Is under responsibility to none but her maker and herself? The woman who earn $10 or $12 a week can take very good care of herself and take time to rest, to attend theaters, clubs, ete. Usually a nice woman has many escorts and many invitations to these, which cost her nothing. She can think what she pleases and speak her convictions without imperilling her hus- band's business Then why must she say yes to some man who says: “Will you be my wife? I will take life's burdens from your back.” when he really means (I give him credit for not knowing it ually): “WIIl you be my housekeeper ($§)? Wil you be my nurse If T am sick ($26)? Will you be my tallor, to press, clean and mend my clothes (§7 per)? Will you at- tend my children, teach them, train them (5 per)? Will you be my book- keeper, stenographer, 1t T require It ($10)? Yes? For these offices I will allow you $15 a week. From this you must buy our food, all tha clothes you and the children need, and if any remains | you can save it; we will probably need it later, vou would read the paper. informed companion.” When a woman is free she can come and go as she pleases, can use her money and time as suits her best. No sick children to worry her nor husband to in- quire, “What did you do with that $2 T gave you last week?' A WIFB If yon have any time left, I wish 1 want a well- Better Use For the Surkey FREMONT, Neb, Nov. 20.—To the Ed- ftor of The Bee: I read in a recent edi- tion of your paper where Arthur Hauser, accused of the murder of Smith and for a moment, then with a polite bow, responded: * ‘Sometimes only the width of a table.' "—Pitts- burgh Chronicle Telegraph. An Eye-Opemner. An actor who recently returned from a successful season in Burope tells a story of a very old Irishman who one day astonished a friend by announcing that he waas about to get married. “Married!" exclaimed his friend you?r" ““Well, you see,”" the old man exclaimed, t's just because I'm getting an old boy now. It's a fine thing to have a wife near you to close your eyes when you | have come to the end.” { Ah, don't be s0 foolish!” exclalmed his friend “What do you know about it? Close your eyes, In- deed! I've had a couple of them, and, faith, both of them opened mine."—Baltimore American, “An old man K% Had to Give it Up. A colored man from the city applied for a job on & farm, and on assuring Uncle Josh that he was right there with the egricultural education, he was given a pail and a three-legged stool and told to milk the cow. “Say, boss,” dejectedly remarked Rastus, returning to the house a half hour later, “‘I guess dat I'll have to give up de job ob milkin' dat cow.” What's the matter”' queried Uncle Josh, knowing the cow to have a gentle disposition. “You didn't try to olub her, did you?* No, sah! No sah!" was the quick rejoinder of the colored party. “She jes' wouldn't mind. Coaxed all 1 know how, but she wouldn't set down on dat little stool."~Philadelphia Telegraph. Changed Mer Mind, “L think they're an excellent thing,” sald a well- known church woman, in speaking of base ball pools. Her remark fairly took several persons with whom she talking off their feet, and it was several sec- onds before the others had recovered from their sur- prise sufficlently to answer. Finally one of them asked her If she knew that the pools were practically nothing more than the old lotteries that were suppressed year ago. “‘Oh,” she #ald, flushing. “is that what they are? I thought they were something like swimming pools."'~Philadelphia Ledger | People and Events The San Diego exposition goes over another year Reports from southern California show that a voleano and an earthquake has been added to the attractions. “Widows' tag day" s the lateat holdup ofticlally sanetioned in Chicago for December 14. It is estimated there are over 30,00 widows in the city, an equally large number of grass widows and near widows. If all get busy on tag day, mere man must dig up or dig in By a vote of 3 to § the New York Board of Edu- cation adopted a rule permitting promotion of married women teachers who have had fifteen years' experi- ence, of which ten years shall have been in New York schools. Until two years the board considered a mar- rlage ocertificate equivalent to dismissal, Four holdups tackied a suburban cafe in San Francisco, lined half & hundred dancers along the wall and gathered in $20 cash and much jewelry. “On with the dance and dr stop for fifteen minutes’ waa the robbers’ parting salute. This relegates Omaha card party holdups to the piker class Horseplay stunts at secret order initiations scores another victim, this time at Dubois, Pa. The victim, Thomas L. Reed, a husky six-footer of 3 years, w given a shakeup in & blanket and bumped his hea against a fixture, fracturing his neck, from which he died two days later. Safety first signs are needed In horseplay lodge rooms. o It 1s & rare day In any wnonth of the year when an Astor turns In more tax money than the law clampes on. Colonel Delancy Astor Kane, decesnsed last April was supposed to have a $10,000.(00 estate, which was expected to yield a juicy transfer tax. Instesd the bureau got a shock. Colonel ne distributed the | type should take courage. many crimes too revolting to print, had been given a fine dinner, consisting of turkey, mashed potatoes, three pleces of ple and other delicacies, at the county jail the other day. It seems to me that the same dinner could have found a rest- ing place in the home of some poor worthy who does not go out in the eve- ning and terrorize people into parting with thelr personal belongings and being submitted to -outrages. JACK DUNN. R I Editorial Snapshots Louisville Courier-Journal: In the days of old when knights were bold a jlited maiden drowned herselt, But nowadays it is the crage Lo sue the jliter for his pelf. Boston Transcript: Maybe the members of the British Parllament gave up their quills because” they came from white feathers. Beatrice Sun; The Nebraska City Press announces, In the motto cartied at the masthead, that the “Press covers Otoe county like the dew.” You guessed wrong, In Mexico there grows a tree called the “tree of little bandits,” 1t 1s thus ealied owing to the fact that its five peculiarly curved antlers look like the fingers of a child. Wall Street Journal: MoKenna esti- mates England's ocapitalization at $130,- 000,000,000, which works out something over seventeen years to bankruptcy at the present rate Springfield Republican: A company in- corporated to educate the public in re- gard to “twilight sleep” methods has gone into bankruptty with labilities of $14,238 and assets, pArtly nominal, of $504. The cult itself wag of doubtful value and the method of introducing it also doubtful. Indianapolis News: Now that Justice Hughes has succeeded in having his name removed from the presidential pri- mary ballot in Nebraska, other states- men of the.not-in-any-sense-a-candidate They may be able to vold conscription. New York World: The president of the Carnegie foundation in Pittsburgh having publicly stated that Andrew Carnegie had given away “almost. $400,000,000" Mr. Carnegie's secretary in New York an- nounces that the exact sum s $33¢,699,000. We suppose that by the time Henry Ford gets the boys out of the trenches in Eu- rope his benefactions will make both of the ums look like small change. New York World: The statement that 2,00 women sre now employed on the railroads of France gives a striking il- lustration of the war's effect in installing women in men's work. Whether or not they will generally retain these positions after the war, It is conceivable that their experience, along with the shortage of male labor due to losses on the battle- field, will result in the permanent em- | ployment of women in many occupations once monopolized by men. Detroit Free Press: Michael Cudahy, at 2 years of age, succeeds his veteran father in charge of the great Cudahy meat packing business in Omaha. The elder Cudahy will devote much of his remaining time on earth to recreation in the mild and sunny elimate of the Pa- cific coast. Young Mr. Cudahy has for several years been in training to succeed his father. Out of this experience he offers this bit of advice to young men, which is so comprehensive as to require no explanatory comment: “A man can't tange all night, six nights in the week, | and expect to compete with the braing of the fellows who hit the feathers from estate before his death and didn't leave enough in New York to tip the asscagor. » to Paste that in your hat, young LAUGHING GAS THE SLUGGARD Yes," growled the mail carrier 1 lsaac Watts A man of letters - R rushard; ‘3 Do | ust the chep I'm looking for.” said | ‘Tis the veice of u 4 the stamp clerk ‘Lend me n You have wahed me too soon; 1 must next week, will you? --Indisnapoifs Star e . t e door on it: hinces, so he on his Hullo, Tom! What's this T hear about bed your having some lahor-saving deviee? Turns |is sides and his shoulders and his 1t's (rue, all richt. I'm going to marry Teavy head an heiress."—Boston Transcript _ A li‘'tle more leey and a little more slumber Thus he wastes half Mis cays. and hi hours without number And when he gets up, he sits folding his hands Or walks about saunt'ring, or triflling he DEAR MR . KABIBBLE, 15 stands INTRODICE MY 1 passed by his gardens Y PROPER TO and saw the wild ? FIANCE YO ALL MY GRL FRIENDS! FIS% g the thistis grow: roniee The thorn ar the t tle gr roa ~LILLIE RARTMAN and higher B el The clothes that hung on him are turning | to rags, s PER TO ASKk A And h's money still wastes till he starves mfi?g T FIND You || | 7" or e bege Aw R FE ' mad- h'm a vi*{ st'll hoping to find That he took better care for improving “Willi ' #aid the te ind clas what (s the te h's dreams, talked of eating . It used to make nking we know a lot more than w o» scarce reads his Bible ani never repl'ed the bright younester.—Ch loves thinking aartohy | Satd 1 then to my heart, “Here's a lesson e or me; 1 didn't know you had a sister, Jear. | That man s but a picture of what 1 might And what a stout, hearty girl she {s.' b Yes, we had tc v her at grand- | I'ut thanks to my friencs for their ecare ma’s place In the ¢ountry all those years | in my breeding, when hips were out of style.” <Louisville | Who taug'' m betimes to love working Courier-Journal Made from Cream of Tartar ard reading.” BAKING POWDER Absolutely Pure No Alum—No Phosphate Persistence is the cardinal vir- tue in advertising; no matter how good advertising may be in other respects, it must be run frequently and constant- ly to be really succcessful. 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