Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 5, 1915, Page 28

B e S et 2 g v T S == YR et UNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. BUILDING, FARNAM AND FEVENTEENTH. i @rapple them to thy soul with hosks o7 stesl. L Those friends thow hastand thefr adcption tried | ~Bhakespeare. i Good-bye, Boy-Bd, take care of yourself. Here's wishing the peace missionaries a ful veyage!, Se——— | When all other excuses fail, war effsctively Fnh & price grab. | ——— Ounly & few days more for early Christmas Still fewer nights. That hold-up who raked in only 80 cents his haul has a right to feel insulted. hether Greece and Rou- ud to fight" or dread volun- m\mxm&mmnm typewriter battery could not be ki long. o " that last year 2:&“ your loses ita attractiveness d i S—— According to the scoreboard of the wenator il taucus, navigation for the ship purchase bilt for the season. b . Some ot the taxing plans of the administra- operation, insure a vigorous 4t put om! . :rq at the ballot box. torial stic councils of congress appess fully s chances of an Armenian dying of s are taking the its promise to OMAHA SUNDAY BEE ! sufficient in itself, but frequently lacking in } provement. “pension {s merely a form of adminis | Francisco, careful management in all depart- ‘| day of the week does the newspaper come nearer Make Ali Plans Part of a Whole. Omaha {8 moving rapldly forward in the way of developing its strength and importance as a city, and in some ways finds that it is hampered by mistakes made in the past, due to inability to look far enough ahead to see what haa really happened. These mistakes take on thes form of plecemeal projects for improvement, each elements of harmonious relationship to others, and without a general conception looking to the | growth of the city as a whole. Some ambitious plans for changes are being brought forward at this time, with some show of urgency in their | support, against which may be lodged the objec- | tion that they are In effect fragmentary and not | parts of a well-rounded-out scheme for city im- The desirability of these need not now be debated. The point for consideration is, What relation do they bear to the comprehensive plan | for a Greater Omaha? The City Planning com- mission has before it the task of devising some general systom for the physical improvement of the city, both in public and private undertak- ings. This work should be made paramount, and all plans for changes, no matter by whom originated, should conform to the general idea. The undertaking is a large one, fraught with much of responsibility and of great import so far as the future of the city is concerned. Each day of growth mckes the job that much bigger, and emphasizes the need for definite action along the line suggested. In no way would it be necessary to hamper enterprise to achieve the result. A little speed- ing up on the work of the City Planuing com- mission, and a little patience on part of projec- tors of separate undertakings, might easily result in harmony of action that will be of benefit to all. As to the Mothers’ Pension Law. Ever since the Nebraska Mothers' Pension law became operative there has been an almost continuous controversy over its provisions, par- ticularly as to the amount of the allowance to which applicants may be entitled, and also as to whether the pension is properly payable in store- orders or money. Our county authorities and the various judges who have had supervision have proceeaed on the theory that the mothers’ relief to those who might otherwise become pub- lie charges, and ha' tablished rather strict rules to safeguard against imposition and to pre- vent unlimited drafts on the pension fund. ‘Whether these rules are all necéssary and salu- tary has boen repeatedly challenged, but usually only by disappointed beneficlaries. ‘We note that the same troubles aro besetting the authorities in Lancaster county, where suit has now been brought to compel the commission- ers 1o pay fn money a claim of §35 for a month's pension as decreed by the court, and the prom- ise held out that the issues may be contested and carried to the supreme court for a final construo- tion of the law. We hope this may be done without Involving hardship on the mother and children in the particular case so that not only Lancaster county, but Douglas county as well, may know where it is at. Incidentally we won- der to what extent this mothers' pension law is ‘being avalled of outside of these two big coun- ties of the state? We belleve it would be highly desirable for those who wers instrumental in securing this legislation to check up on its workings and let us know what, if any, changes are needed to remedy the complaint lodged agalost it. Qmaha's Exposition Btill Holds Record. ‘While other expositions have been larger, projected on a grander scale and more magni- ficent in execution, the climax being last struck by the San Francisco effort on which the gates have just closed, Omaha’s exposition still holds fhe record for paying back the money put in Ly the stockholders. San Frameisco had to mort- gage its gate receipts to keep in the running, and celebrated a glorious jubilee when it emerged from the woods of debt, but, at that, the best estimates of the finances leave it to the good, about $1,600,000, most, it not all, of which 1s sure to be consumed restoring the grounds and meeting the usual aftermath contingencies, So far as any return of the millions invested in the Panama exposition by the stockholders is concerned, no one holds out very great expecta- tions. Trye, Omaha’s exposition was a little one by comparigon. But though the conditions here were almost equally trying with those that beset San ments, together with generous public support, and judicious cutting of the garment to fit the cloth uced & balance sheet that enabled the Trans-Mississippi Exposition company to return ninety per cent of the stock subscriptions. In this respect Omaba's record was not only vnmateched, but nowhere near approached by any other exposition ever held in this country, and it is a page in our history that must ever shine forth brightly. SE—p— The Sunday Newspaper a Necessity. Now comes the supreme court of Missouri, and gives judiclal support to & fact already ad- that the Sunday edition of necessity. The court goes filling its proper function than on Sunday, It is on that day people have the most leisure time to devote to the perusal of its columns, to enjoy jts manifold attractions, and to assimilate its This has long been known to the editors and publishers of the country, who have for many years bestowed especial pains on the preparation edition, to the end that it may the scrutiny to which it is tertain to be subjected. While the court's decision will bring | THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: little of information to the newspaper offices, it | val in eity finances, challenge be- . omd vdinssisnrs By VIOTOR ROSEWATER. WAS over at Chicago & week ago for the first na- tional convention of the National Security league, which, takem altogether, was attended by a very representative set of men from all parts of the coun- | try, and 1 wus more than surprised at the exceptional interest that has been developed In the subject of pre- paredness. The addresses and debates, it is true, brought out a wide range of opinions as to the degree | of preparedness which the country needs, and as 10 | . CT0 gy york, and he 1s by, no means the details of a possible preparedness program, but perhaps no more so than wbuld any live subject on | which we are short of full information and awaiting expert advice. The meeting disclosed navy enthusiasts and aviation devotees, regular army champions, Swiss #ystem advocates and military defenders, each cock- cure his preferencd is the main key to the solution of the problem, but all agreed that what must now be done 1s to get a good start, headed in the right diree- tion, and work out one move at & time. At the banquet tendered by the Chicago branch of the league, I was seated betwesn Bishop Burke of 8t. Joseph, who invoked the blessing, and General Luke Wright of Tennesses, whose spoech made the chief hit of the evening. Blshop Burke proved to be & benevolent, mild-mannered churchman, who had come from Ireland with his parents to Chicago as & mere lad, and he told of the almost inconcelvable changes he saw when revisiting the eity and recalling his early famillarity with it. He eald, for example, there was but one paved street in Chicago when he arrived and explained the difficulties encountered a little later in choosing a location for a church, now in the heart of the business district, for fear it would be too far out of the way, I understood him to say, also, that Chicago today has.more Cathollo churches than any other city in the world, and that one parish, the center of the Polish population, contains over 0,000 Catholics. Bishop Burke's first episcopacy was a8 bishop of Cheyenne, a place now oceupied by an incumbent furnished by Omaha, Bishop McGoverf, and he inquired personally about Bishop Scannell, the Creightons, John A, MeShane and Thomas C. Byrne among his Omaha friends. For a man almost 7, General Luke E. Wright is a marvel of virility. He divulged some unpleasant truths about the so-called great battles of our civil war; for example, in the first Bull Run, which was nothing but a mob fight, that both sides thought themselves whipped and it was only a question of Which started the foot race first and kept it up long- eat. He pald his compliments particularly to Colonel Bryan's {dea of a nation rising up ever night in a re- #ponse to a call for volunteers to drive off an invader. “It might be possibie and ptobable’ sald he, “that Mr. Bryan could summon 1,000,060 men between sunrise &nd sunset, but we wouldn't have the arms to equip them It he had that much ‘good luck. And they wouldn't know what to @o with their arms and ac- Cautrements if they could be gupplied. Mr. Bryam, indeed, might read to them the Sermon on the Mount and urge them to refer any: difficulty which mignt have called them out to The Hague court, but I doubt even that." ) / Two other Interesting speakers were Colonel Lafe Young of Jowa and ex-Governor Van Sant of Minne- #ota, the former depicting in graphic language his per- #onal observations of the Balkan war, and the latter drawing on his experience as a civil war soldler. Governor Van Sant is also a grand old man, confess- ing to 72 years, but with more fire fn him than most people of half that age. Speaking to me, he was solici- tous about his brother and his niede, the Van Sants of Omaha. Still anether e enge he went to Ta college ahd from there to presidenty of Ho university in Washington, from which he has since retired and is now living in New York City. He was at the Chicago meeting with his son, who is enlisted in the local security league. Let me mention, & unique contribution to the tainment by the chorus leader, whose name I did not #6t, who announced during one in the interludes that s had been speclally requested to sing & solo, which he proceeded to do to & familiar classical alr. When We tried to catch the words ws discovered that he Waa reading of the items on the menu card, setting gllll to music as he went, ‘Twice Told Tales ter- A Wondertul Triek, ‘“Now, ladies and gentlemen,” said the conjurer, trying to make husky Volce {mprgssive, “ I will conclude my entortainment with truly a wonderful trick. It is a feat which must be seen to be be- leved." . After a lot of difficulty he borrowed a shabby silk hat from his village audience. Turning it upside down to prove there was nothing inside, ho next placed it brim uppermost on his little table and proceeded to produce twelve eggs from its depths. The audience watched with goggling eyes, and then burst into wild applause. “And now," the magiclan went on, bowing his thanks, “T will show you that, although the hat is empty, there is inside it the hen that lald those eggs.” Putting his hand into the hat he withdrew a flutter- ing, squawking fowl, which he placed on the table, and turned to face the applause. Instead there was w wild yell of laughter. He turned in amazement, which changed to horror when the fowl shrieked: 'Cocka-doodle-do-o!'~Philadelphta Record. — Then They Began Aotion, What the quarrel was about nelther of them knew, but they had been hard at it all the e The lady was the firet to sue for peace, Seating lerself coyly on the arm of her husband’s chalr, she said, coaxingly: “Come, John, d et But John was not in a gracious frame of mind. Al Dlied was: ‘Il kise it, but I don't think it wants a making up."—~Baltmore A h o i kisd my cheek and make it he The funeral of Warren 8. Yates took the Yates residence at Nineteenth apd The remalns were borne from the cathedral by Messrs. Wil Major W. J. Jones, United States army mah, and tamily, are visiting at 311§ Chicago street. Dr. H. L. Ramacclotti has been specting stock surgeon for the Unién Pacific, The show at the Boyd waa ‘“The Prisoner for Life," which, it is sald, “‘sbounds in many thrilling sensations.” in. question, “Had the South Any Right to Secede." Mossrs. Whalen and Town had the negative, againat Messrs. Malone and Tanguey. : Nc.mzmflh‘w t DEOEMBER | which the Lord ordained it e —— SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT. Houston Post: An Arkanshs minister tells his people that if inetead of spend- ing all 6f Saturday night at the movies they would take their bath# they would use Saturday night for the purpose for A volos in the wilderneas. 8t. Joseph News-Press: One of the in- teresting recent pronouncements in favor of equal suffrage ls that of Rt Rev. Aus- tin Dowling, Catholic bishop of Des Molnes, who not only expressed the hope, but made the prediction that fowa next June would grant the ballet t the women. Springfield Republican Rabbi Gross- alone, objects to any classification of public school puplle as Jews, Cathiolios and Protestants, for purposes of religious instruetion or otherwise. So far as the “Gary System” calls for this, diréctly or by implication, there are serious grounds for objection. A warning to make haste slowly is in order. Baltimore American: The mystical movement of religious quest is going on. There never was a time in the history of the world when the Bible was more con- eulted =nd its guiding principles faken mors to heart. Men by the million are searching the Scriptures and the churches are bent upon finding in the Living Word the assurances of peace and salvation that are not discernible upon the skies of human affairs. The bed rock of re- ligion is being reached. This means that an era of orthodox belief, modified, In- deed, by better grasp of the relations of religion to life, will be ushered in. WHITTLED TO A POINT. And the silller some men are the louder they talk. The more company a dollar has the smalier it looks. It there is anything an egotist likes in others it is modesty. It silence is golden, garrulity represents & played out lead mine, The shadow of a trouble is usually blacker than the trouble {tself. Even the chap who defies the law may quall before the mother-in-law. The office spends more time dodging the man than it does in seeking him. The number of poor authors is as great s the number of authors who are poor. Minding one's own businesh is sald to be a good method of developing the ‘brain. It's a popular understanding among chorus girls that bald-headed men always forge to the front. Some people imagine that they have a peck of trouble when in reality it wouldw’t il a pint cup, There s something radically wrong with the girl who refuses to go to tho depot to see a friend depart. When shiftless people can’t think of any other way to annoy their nelghbors they get a dog that howls through the night. X It 1s sometimes better policy to remind & man of something he alréady knows than to tell him something he doesn't know, f a young widow should marry again before ghe late lamented has resided in the ery a yesr the neighbor women don't do & thing to her.~Chicago News. —— 0UT OF THE 0RDINARY. Fifty years ago tea was too dear to be an ordinary beverage in the average household, Bight olive trees on the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, are known to be more than 800 years old. The sehool ‘children of the single-tax colony at Arden, Del, go and come to achool as they desire, and do the work that pleases them. Davia Scott of Btanford, Ky,, voted re- cently for the fifty-fifth time. He has never voted anywhere else, never missed an election, and has always voted the democratie ticket. Spencer, Mase., & manufacturing town, will have no evening school because there is only o6ne illiterate person under the age of 2 In the town. The law demands & night achool only when there are ten. A Japanese, telling of his own marvel- ous economy, explained that his family used a fan for several gemersiions. ‘“We open the fan,” he eald, but we don't ‘wear it out by waving it. Oh, no! We hold it still, Ijke this, under our nose and wave our face. A Kensas woman has developed the novel industry of catching grasshoppers, & busingss which last year netted her $3,000 profit after the nimble insects had been duly rounded up and transformed by natural processes into lucious chicken meat, dark and light. Chinese women, says a Russian writer, have the most beautiful hands in the world; next come those of the Spanish women, then those of the Russiahs, French and Italians, while the American woman has hands that are fine in ap- pearance but hard In texture. SIGNPOSTS OF PROGRESS. The first American linotype machine in Tripoll recently was iristalled by an Ital- ian newspaper. Financially the United States Is stronger than any other country on the face of the earth. The Northern Pacific raliroad has or- dered 2,000 cars, especially for handling fruit. Cost. $4,600,000. There were 763,18 men embloyed in the coal mines of the United States last year, the greatest number in the history of the industry. For retall dealers there hae been in- vented a machine that will take coal from a plle and pour it into for handling at & rate of twenty-five tons an hous, In twenty-five states in the United States, mothers' pension laws have been enacted, and $10,000,00 will be paid out this year for that purpose, There 18 more gold in the United States than in any Other country in the world. The latest treasury figures show that on August 2, there Was 360633988 in gold cash and bullion. Pittsburgh’'s steel mills are réported to be paying §1,00,000 a day In wages. Steel s now belng made at a rete which s tar ahead of any previous year in the industry’s history. There are twice as many people insthe United States as in 1850, three times as many &s at the outbreak of the civil war and five times as many as in ‘4 The increase between 1910 and 1915 s sald to have been equal to the entire population at the time of the revolution. The total wealth of the United States, according to the last published figures, is more than one-fourth of the aggregate of all the nations, and it is rapidly in- creasing, and there ls every indication it will long remain the leading na- financlally, commercially and in- that tion, 2 People and Events With characteristic modesty Chicago phits out the suggestion that it could not #land for the feminine skirt abbreviated at the knee. Anything above the ankles might interfere with traffic regulations. A volunteer force of 300 persons coming out of a nearby church at Stevens Point, Wis., turned in and squeiched a fire In a barn with snowballs. It was some blaze, | t6o, but the snowballs were thicker than Y i “It 18 all off with the "widows' tag| day” in Chicage. The wholesale touch | vag officially booked for December 14, | but as soon as the councl sobered up to the possibilities of the scheme the memt berw backed down and apologized. A fetching series of sermons on “Love Etorles From the Bible,” projected by a New York church is given a theatricall touch by means of & highly-colored poster suggestive of the moonshine ramble of a | spooning pair. Wonder if the old<timers | had the habit? A subscription of $2,000 to the Congres- sioval unlon woman suffrage fund by Mre. O. H: P, Belmont s divided in two vqual parts—§1.00 to “convert” President Wilson and 1,000 to rally the southern states to the support of & federal amend- ment. The split makes the south look cheap. Captain J. Pederson, a salt sea rover, hitched his craft to a pler at New Orleans | the other day, strode down the gang-| plank and extendéd a merry hand to a customs officer, The tip of a feather on | the captain's wrist aroused suspicion and | search followed. The sea rover had feath-| €re all over his frame and & string of 30| algrettes in just the right place to tickle | Pit back. At the suggestion of the fed- cral authorities the captain’s stay on land wil: be indefinite, AROUND THE CITIES, Philadelphia is hapr- . and breathes naturally once .more.. The Liberty bell is back in Independence hall uninjured by the joyride to the coast. Topeka put out $17,600 for war stamps the last eleven months. Purchasery call It the “Infernal revenue tax,” but they 81ve up the money just the same. No fewer than 1% butchers were ar- rested in. New Yopk City the day before Thanksgiving for welling short welght. Besldes, they took 8 cents for a shaved pound of turkey, Arrangements have been completed In Denver which insure union men burial in coffind bearing the union label. Two undertakers carried the cheering news | to the Trades and Labor assembly, but, owing to the pressure of live business, the messengers didn't book an order. St. Louis sorrowfully admits that the | Keokuk Power company put one over the city In contracts for electricity for lght and power purposes. The expectation of getting water power current cheaper than coal-made current ends In disappotntment. Experts report that the Keokuk rate fs @ shade higher than the cost of producing current by steam power. "THE PEOPLE Is this not evidence that dence of the people? J. T. YATES, Bec’y. Tel. Doug, 1117, WA/ oopuen 6'.., YV orip We received 1468 more applications during November, 1915, than during the same month in 1914, Total Applications for Nov., 1915. .. Total Applications for Nov., 1914. . . . DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. Friend (meaning to be complimentary) ~That's a fine, wide-awake looking baby of_your, Jims. Young Fatheg (Rioomily)~If you think 80 now, you olight to see him nights.— Baltimore American. “Snoring, my , I8 the sign of an el-la" consaclencs “Hubby, there are times when I wish you weren't so contented with your past career.”—Detroit Free Press. Granpa was mending the bureau and he sent little Risie to ask the janitor for one or two screws. Wh Isie found the janitor she had forg the word rerews, #0 #he gald Grandpa wants some balls with ruffics on."—Boston Transeript Stude (trying to plek her up)—The fellows bet me_a dollar 1 didn't Speak to you. You don't mind, do ? Beautiful Girl-Not at all. Hun along now and get your dollar.—The Widow. N KA DEAR M. KABIBBLE, WHAY IS THE' BEST wAY T0 VLT °A FELIOW? e A "JO0LT "FROM FATHER Member of the touring company—My fOM lady, the last place I stayed ly( the andlady wept when I left. Landlady—Oh, did she? Well, I ain't 8oing to. ‘I wants my money in advance. —Chicago Herald. “So you have taken to carrying ground ‘a monkey? This is going too L, you never go anywhere with me."” was his wife's somewhat ambj uous retort. ittaburgh Post, < John—Your father and mother quare reled last night, dldn't they? Edith—A perfectly -wful)one John—Whose side did you take? Faith—Well, papa nromised me n plane phia’ Ledger. — TOMORROW. Annle O'Connor, In New York Times. What holdest thou In dower? Today, in its last hour, Shall soon, a withered flower, Drop from the stem of time, And, dead and eurled, blow afmless Uron «ome. current name' Forgotten, faded, fameless, Whilst thou art in thy prime! What holdest thou in treasure? £hall sorrow relgm, or pleasure— Or each in equal measure Hold for a space full sway? Shall we have power to chiange thee, Or to our wills arrance thee, Till Timé itselt estranve thee, And thou he yesterday? Have all ovr days, now ended, To thy upbullding tended? Hast thou on us depen’ed For what thou art to be? Or from Time's far bez'nning Hast thou thy way been winning With changeless meecd of sinning, Of pain and ecstasy? Thou seemest vast, Tomorrow, And from the past of sorrow We come at last to borrow Some solace from thy scope. For when, from Eden faring, The lost ones walked des-airing, God saw all; woe, and, caring, Bestowed the boon of hope. 'HAVE FAITH s 10750 ... 9,201 1,466 the Society holds the confi- W A. FRASER, President. STEEL TRAIN. Rates to Principal Jacksonville .......$60.68 St. Augustine ......$52.98 St. Petersburg . .....$62.28 Tickets to all other points at HOMESEEKERS' tickets on each month. FLORIDA ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD Route of the SEMINOLE LIMITED—THE ALL- Round Trip Winter Tourist Tickets on sale: daily, limited to return June 1st, 1916, ( Tickets via Washington, D. C., in one direction, returning via any direct line, at slightly higher rates. For detalled information and descriptive literature, call at CITY TICKET OFFICE, or write 8. North, District. Passenger Agent, 407 South 16th St., Omaha, Nebraska. Phone Douglas 264. Points as foliows: Palm Beach.........$60,18 8t. Cloud . .$60.18 Fort Myers .... ...$67.38 Key West ...... ..$83.78 HAVAUA, CUBA.. $87.18 same proportional rates. sale first and third Tuesdays of W [}