Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 9, 1915, Page 6

| . without Sunday. LERE S "~owmsER PP smane 5 JE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, \ DECEMBER 9, 1915 " THE OMAHA DAILY BEE| FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor, BEBD BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. ¥ Entered at Omaha postoffice as second-class matter. B e B comatitadn e v TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By carrfer By mail per month. per yea: 650, 0 y and_Sunday.. ming and Sunda: Evening_without 8 8u Bee only. 2.00 Send notice of cl o r of irregularity in delivery to Omaha Bee, Circulation Department REMITTANCE. Remit by draft, express or postal order, Omly two- cent stamps recelved In payment of small ae- counts, Personal checks, except on Omaha and eastern exchange, not accepted. OF FICES. The Bes Bullding. South Omaha—8 N street. Council Bluffs—14 North Main street. Lincoln—2% Little Bufldin, Chie Hearst Building. New York—Room 1105, 286 “m‘ avenue. 8t Louis-58 New Bank of Commerce. Washington—72% Fourteenth St., N. W. CORRESPONDENCE, i m— communications relating to ne edi- matter to Omaha Bee, Editorial NOVEMBER CIROULATION, 53,716 Btate of Nebraska, County of Dou, 3 fi:'fm Wlllhkl.n‘t Siren :(‘:nn m[:l:.-..r-:' e Bee Publishing company, Leing duly sworn, says that the nv’rfi‘mulnum for the month of November, 1915, WIGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager, Bubscr] e BT Wl FH s f <o © Dators i ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public Subscribers leaving the cily teraporarily | should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be,changed as often as requested. December 9 Leghe for e Doy Selected by Margaret McAra How pleasant it is to refieot that one's ship 18 always on the way in, tha! perhaps the very next tide will dring it past ths bar! For, re- member, that the. finest fortune is the coming one; the true argosy is ever at sea. = Van Tgaesel Sutphen. 3 . Bryan is putting on flesh. Peace, plenty and prosperity spell avoirdupols. The mills of. justice grind slowly, but not half so slowly as the mills of federal Judge- making. g | | ublicans winning those mu- How does the prospect of another cent-a- tax | the price of gasoling striky S——— 80 far as we are concerned. St. | Louis is about as close to Omaha as Chicago, but } S——— A tip to Joe Stecher: Don't bother the courts to whether those wrestling matehes are “on the square.” Just chalienge | U‘llllo the tourists caught in the vortex of . War a year ago, Mr. Ford's personally con- ducted peace party. will not be obliged to “holler” to Uncle Sam for the price of the return with the strategle ‘Willlams in the city of Richmond does democratic national E—— time since Hendrik Hudson exchanged necktie for Manbattan Island . bhas Wall itselt as much as today. Not only dollars, chesty and apundant, rolling in, but every foreign coln is undergoing a sweating “process and their lean and hungry appeal for recognition of former greatness rival “war brides” as joymakers. Never before has the street enjoyed such s yellow fiood. - in Massachusetts, Jusf an- | Missouri Shaky. The inference to be drawn from the award of the democratic national convention to 8t Louis is that the party leaders are convimced Missouri is shaky and that they wil; have diffi. culty in holding it in the democratic column, where it has been continuously since the eivil war with the single exception when it gave its electoral vote to Taft in 1908. The strongest plea put up for St. Louls, according to the re- port of the proceedings, was that the convention was needed there to hold old Missour! in line, and we do not doubt it, although it is question- able whether ever. the concession of this prize will accomplish the objeet. What makes Missouri shaky from the dem- ocratic standpoint is easy to see, for the friends of Champ Clark still remember the dublous deal that made Wilson the nominee at Baltimore in- stead of Clark, and the later reward of the man who turned the trick with the best cabinet port- follo. Missouri, too, has a lot of democrats who do not approve the president's handling of our foreign relations, his flirting with woman suf- frage, his sacrifice of American interests in Mexico and the numerous other things “not in the platform.™ The wise political prophet will keep an eye cn the mysterious stranger from Missouri, who Is more than Ilkely to pick republican company next year. Good Job Well Done. The announcement from the Belgian relief committee that urgent need for food no longer exists in that country is welcomc news for Americans. Not that our people are weary of glving, but because they are glad to know that conditions in the little kingdom of grief have been so greatly improved. Restoration of in- dustry and the normal activities of social life there had been such as to remove the danger of privation from lack of food. The generous response from America last winter to the call for aid for Belgium saved miilions from suffer- ing, and grateful acknowledgement Has been made of this service. Our people have ever been ready to share their bounty with the needy, but this was the biggest job of its kind in recent years. It was tackled in a spirit of con- fidence, and the work was carried through with ardor to success, and America is ready now for the next call. Pan-Americanism Not a Novelty. While the\democrats have raised a joyous clamor over the president’s Pan-American ut- terances, as though Mr, Wilson had entered on an entirely new phase of American statecraft, as a matter of fact, this policy is not a new one, and only the present straits of the majority party at this time lead it to pretending that a discovery has been made. From the time of James Monroe down the attitude of the United Btates towards the other American governments has been the same, always helpful, never ag- gressive, and patient to the last degree, It is true that some of the urgency of self-interest that might have fostered the policy in the be- ginning no longer exists, but it is not slto- gether divested of the protective quality that first recommended its adoption and practice, © For fifty years republicin presidents ‘sought ‘to cultivate better and closer relations with the several peoples of America; even Grover Cleveland surpassed Mr. Wilson in his ad- vocacy of an All-American unfon, while he pressed to the actual verge of war with England on account of Ven 8. When Roosevelt and Taft sent misslons to the South snd Central American countries, democrats seneered at their etforts as “dollar doplomiaéy.” Now's single con- ference, dealing with but one phase of the complicated relations developing out of the in- creasing intercourse between the United States and fits American nelghbors, transforms the president into the Paladin of Pan-American unity and harmony. ‘While shouting thus, the party clacquera are simply trying to divert public attention from the weakness of the administration in other directions, but the trick is too thin to fool any- one who doesn't want to be fooled. Se———— One Point for the Straphanger. g Slowly but surely are human rights being established above the ring of the cash register, The latest victory in the direction of amelior- ating modern man's unbappy condition comes from Washington, but not from congress or the cabinet. A judge there decided that a strap- hanger has some rights that even a motorman or conductor is bound to respect, and one of these rights is to hang on to the strap of his cholee, regardiess of the raucous command to “step forward in the car.' Passengers are not pawns, says the court, and are not to_be shifted at the will of the trolley car comman; . This is & belated recognition by the court ¢f a right that every seatiess rider on a street csr has felt to be his, but has hesitated to " But it will yet lack something of comfort-for the indi- vidual who rides many weary miles, swinging cn a strap and wondering if none of his fellow passel s have homes. It does show, however, that the condition of the straphanger is not ab- solutely abject. Over in Illinols & special session of the leg- islature has just concluded its work, having been called together to re-enact failed and overlooked appropriations. Here in Nebraska, instead ot calling on the legislature to authorize drafts 'on the treasury according to the conmstitution, we simply g0 to the supreme court and have the counstitution suspended by judicial comstruction. Why should the democrats go to all the trouble and expense now of holding a big presi- dent-nominating convention when Colonel Maher and Governor Morehead have dome the whole Job by filing that autograph collection with Sec- Tetary of State Pool? With the president's name on the Nebraska primary ballot, every- thing else becomes surplusage. tney which ed out of the west a and spréad nervous prostration in circles from coast to coast, Succeeded in rusking down one victim. The Atlantic City & Bbore trolley (s in a receiver's hospital, suffer- from an overdose of jitueys traction people have taken m'mwr number. Elsewhere the Aimed at Omaha Ord Quis: Pussy is “in bad” in Omaha and the Health department has advised the killing of all cats in the city, considering them a menace to the public health, It is & safe bet that If all the old maids of the city could vote those hard-hearted officials would lose thelr Jobs in short order. Beatrice Express: John O. Yelser, Frank Harrison and a few other Nebraska would-be president makers will never forgive The Omaha Bee for the following: “Other states besides Nebraska have similar presi- dential primary laws, but they evidently do not have #0 many cheap notoriety-seekers trying to use these laws to project themselves into the publie prints.” York News-Times: If the Omaha police force will come over we will show them the best method of dealing with footpads. Over there the footpads usu- ally get the victim. Over heré we make the footpad the victim, Beatrice Fxpress: Omaha's new grain exchange will have no thirst parior, and those who desire to quench their thirst after a hard day's work will have to walk two whole blocks for their liquid refresh- ments, which fact is referred to by an Omaha paper as quite a hardship indeed. Ulysses Dispatch: Nebraska is certainly becom- ing famous. In Stecher it has the champlon grappler, and in John O. Yeliser, the champlon political acrobat. John first a republican, then a free sllver republi- can, later a demoecratic, and still later an unconsol- able bullmooser. We often wonder where the next Jump will land him, Prohibitionists and soclalists had better erect bombproof entrenchments and barbed wire entanglements around their territory or they will yet find Johno gamboling on their reservations. Valparaiso Visitor: While riding on a street car in Omaha on Tuesday of last week, Miss Mollle Polak, daughterof County Treasurer Polak of Wahoo, dis- covered a large snake and two small ones colled up near the stove pipe, where it passes through the roof of the The attention of the conductor was called, the car stopped, the passengers alighted and the snakes were killed. it was a fortunate discovery for the reptiles would have doubtiess dropped to the floor of the car later In the day and one or more passengers been bitten or else frigthtened out of their wits. Lincoln Journal: The contest having narrowed down to Chicago, 8t. Louls and Dallas, all our efforts to secure the democratic national canvention at Omaha #eem to have been thrown away. Beatrice Express: The intimation of the leader of the farmers' congress recently held at Omaha that the farm demonstrator idea {s promoted only by city folks is erromecus. In Gage county the membership of the Gage County Crop Improvement association is fully four-fifths farmers, real tillers of the soil. Twice Told Tales The Story of Oreatiomt Willlam Dean Howells, the well known American author and critic, tells a Shakespeare story. “In Stratford,” he says, “during one of the Shake- speare jubllees, an American tourist approached an aged villager in a smock and said: “ ‘Who s this chap, Shakespeare, anyway? ' '‘He were a writer, sir,’ ' ‘Oh, but there are lots of writers, Why do you make such an Infernal fuss over this one, then ‘Wherever 1 turn I see Shakespeare hotels, Shakespea. cakes, Shakespeare chocolates, What the deuce did he write—magasine- stories, tacks on the government, shady novels? “'No, sir; oh, no, sir,' said the understand he Writ for the Bible, sir. Tedger. villager. ‘I Philadelphla Rather Disappointing. The conversation having turned to keen disappoint- ments, Charles M. Mellen, former head of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, recalled an incident along that line. Some time ago an elderly woman heard that a frispd who lived in a distant city was very Ill, and decided that it was her duty to go and see her. The next day she made the trip and was met at the door by the invalid, \ “Well, Mary,"” grested the visitor, entering the house and removing her wraps. ‘“‘How are you gotting along?" “Very well, indeed, Martha,” anawered the other. “In faet, I am nearly well now.” “Nearly welll” ex: laimed the caller in a disap- pointed volce. “And after me coming all this long WAy to see you, too!"~Philadelphia Telegraph. The Optimist. Gliman Hall, makazine editor of New York, safd of the war: "It Goesn't pay to be opt'mistic in comsidering this horrid war. Yes, it's & pretty rotten world that will stand for a war like this, ek “‘Optimists, anyway, come to & bad end. A preacher in & poor house sald as he buried an optimist the other day: * ‘Ah, what an optimist the world loses in deceased! Once he fafled in business, but thanked heaven he had his health. Another time he falled In health, but thanked heaven he had his business. Then, just tered here, he fafled in health and busi- ness simultaneously and said: ’ “‘Oh, well, what good is the one without the other™ "~ Washington Star, People and Events Cumin B. Spats of Boyerstown, Pa., recently fell heir to $100,000 Dozens of women are anxious to show him how ta spend It and annex Spats. Sarah Lincoln's grave, near Gentryville, Ind be suitably marked by s people. She sister of Abraham Lincoln and died in 183, A Bt Louls man with $30,000.life insurance killed himself so his debts could be pald. Another Missotrian left 8 to pay for & treat for his pailbearers. S thoughtfulness lends to funerals the deft touch of a Joy ride. A merry newspaper man and a bachelor discussed “preparedness’’ before the girls of Radclitfe college and ended his peroration in this style: “If you've got & book in ose hand have & baby in the other.” He es- caped by the rear exit. Poatoffice inspectors and detectives of New York City have traced almost to the doors of the state - sane asylum the authorship of “poison pen" letters malled to young women about to be married. The letters were coliched in obscens terms and were sent to persons whose warriage announcements appeared in soclety columns. Twenty-eight letters, almost aliks, are In the hands of the authorities. The Rev, F. L. Streéter, pastor of the Armourdals Baptist chureh, Kanses City, Kan, has invited all of _,___.___..____.______*,,______ £ i £ 3 to - P R E———_———————— TheDees 7 14 Protect Its ¢ Neb,, Dec, 7.—To the of The Bee: I would like to express my opinion in regard to the actions of our socretary of state in regard to the mot guaranteeing safety and protection to the Henry Ford peace mission. He says that this government cannot guarantee pro- tection to any person or persons within the war sone unless such person or per- #ons go there on necessary business. What in his opinion would be necessary busiriess? This nation ready to go to war on account of the sinking of the Lusitania because some Americans lost their lives. How many were there among those that were there on necessary business? Prob- ably none. If some ammunition manu- facturer were to go there to close a deal for the furhishing of materiai for the slaugtering of humanity, or the closing of & great financial deal, or If some millionaire were go for the benefit of his health, he would consider it a neces sity and promise him or them protec- tion.’ The war munition manufacturers have spent a vast amount of money in perfecting their plants and naturally want to prolong the war for profit and are opposed to any one Interfering with the arrangements and must be protected. But this government cannot afford to protect a peace mission because It does not deem it & necessity. Christ came on eirth on a peace mis- slan to adveocate peace on earth, good will to men. Henry Ford goes to Kurope on a similar mission, but our present secretary Of state does not seem to con- sider such a mission necessary. But if it is & business in which dollars are con: cerned this government is in honor bound to pledge its protection. 1 as a humblé American citizen cannot agree with Mr. ng as to’ what constitutes a neces- sity. " If 1 understand Mr. Lansing's position and ldeas rightly, he would sacrifice the youth of this nation on the battlefield to avenge any wrong done to one who went to make dollars, but if & person went on an errand of mercy, in the interest of suffering humanity, and & wrong befell him, he would not favor paylng any at- tention to him or to the affair and simply say “the d—m fool had no business to g0 there.” H. SCHUMANN. Amerien Sh Consent of the Boss Pre-Requisite. HOLDREGE, Neb, Dec. 7.—~To the Editor of The Bee: Who ls this man, ¥. P. Shields, editor of the Orleans Isser? I see by the papers that he wants to be elected governor. What has he ever done that he is entitled to such high recogni- tion at the hands of democrats? And whatt does Willlam Jennings Bryan think about the matter? It also strikes me that Art Mullen ought to have something to say about it. What's ths good of hav- ing political bosses if they don't boss? A. P. RILFIRST. Kind Words for the Hobo. GREELEY, Neb., Dec. 8.~To the Bditor of The Bee: The Bee of December 1 con- tained a poem fresh from the factory of an Omaha poet (so fresh, in fact, that cne could almost smell the paint and things) in ridicule of the hobo. As I in- variably take the side of the under dok n the fight, and as said hobo has few friends and 18 the énly gentleman of lelsurg 1 know, I send the enclésed, dos- gerel as a mild protest against the treat- ment accorded him in said poem: Oh, blame not the bard who in moments ot in, From Dl?n eon-lumln[ fires of a high- pressure brain, When lnhmnn of themes for his wit and hie me, Jum|p- ;n’;.u the hobo, poor outcast of time, Bug his jibe ls so cutting, his wit is so oen, ‘ truly wonder a hobo is seen. g:lnlt. wbyz. mtle poet, Oh, why, wing ur da; To ’oonnrwflh #o lowly, so humble a part? The great ones of earth are as fair game as Thelr fa soe. There's Bryan and Ford, and—but perhaps ‘twere a fault Tuénelntinn the names of the loved Mrs. t. All h‘nvc ambitions and notions quite odd, And has an mon the gallery god. To taunt the defendeless, to jeer at the poor, Is as old as the race and not new to the T 'Tis the way of the world, howsoe'er we may frown, Push down the weakling and kick him when down. Oh, :Il.d: poor old Pegasus—ride it you 1 . good themes aplenty, but al- be Just. n to the muses whenever they call, lo.l'r\n to thelr promptings whatever But be sparing, dear fellow. of your das- sling wit; ‘When my. O(!l first beheld it they shrank to & sl MICHABL O'CONNOR. A Nebraska Daniel nd thelr foibles no harder to Wew York Times. Nebraska has, or had « little while g0, more automobiles ‘‘per capity,”’ as the Farmers' Alllance economists, popu- Hsts, and Bryanites used to say, than any other state. lowa may have sur- passed it temporarily. The race is close. But nowhere is the chariot of swiftness ‘more immediate to the business and bosom than in Mr. Bryan's “home state,” prosperous in the teeth of his thedries. The district court of Douglas county has just made a decision vital to the happi- ness of the married women of Nebraska and encouraging to their sisters else- where. Ae decision In consonance with the modern commandment, “Husbands, obey your wivesa" The learned judge held, and will be upheld In holding by all save unprogressive and curmudgeonly married men, that a wife who compels her husband to buy an automobile is not sulity of crueity. How was a different rullng possible? The war proves that folks can do without meat, milk, butter. These, then, are but automobile iy & gusoline horse or another color. It is & primary, imperiots, indis- pensable necessary. The full text of the opinion has mot reached the east. but. its clear corollary Father-in-law—~The young rascal! Ha ought to be ashamed of himself. It isn't every married man that has the chance. ~Boston Transcript. GRINS AND GROANS. “I tell you,” sald Pat, “the old friends | are the best after all, and, what's more, | I ean prove it | “How are you goin' to prove it?" | “Whe They stood at the pyramids. - “Forty Nmurlt-nmlook down upon you, announced the guide “Let ‘em look," responded Pa Wombat. #That seems mild after runnln' the gamut of Jurope's head waiters.”—Cin- cinnati Enquirer, THE FORTUNATE ISLES, will you find a new frind that ud by ve as long as ‘the ould ones | ~Loulsville Courfer-Journal ! “My bride is disappointed about house- keping. “What's the trouble?" “She can't got & maid who will curtsey like they do in_the musical comedies she | g0es {0 see. —Ka City Journal. Joaquin Miller. You sall and you seek for the Fortunate sles, The old Greek Isles of the yellow bird's song? Then steer straight on through the wa- tery miles, x Straight on, straight on, and you can't &0 wrong. Nay, not to the left; nay, not to the right; But on, straight on, and the leles are in “I suppose your daughter will start her scholastic career with some special rudimentary studies? “No, indeed. There ain't going to be nothin’ ruc it it. She’s goin' to take only polite litertoor.” —Baltimore Ameri- can. sight, The Fortunate Isles, where the yellow birds sing And life lles girt with a golden ring. These Fortunate Isles, they are not far; They lle within reach of the jowliest loor, You can see them gleam by the twilight star, Ydu can hear them sing by the moon'a white shore, Nay, never look back! Those leveled gravestones They were landing steps; steps_unto thrones Of glory for souls that have sailed be- re 01 nd have set white feet on the fortu- nate shore. they were Stranger—Have you a good hair tonie you can recommend? Druggist (prohibition town)—Here is something that is spoken of very favor. ably by the people who have drunk it.— ‘Topeka Journal. And what are the names of the For- tunate Isles? Why, Duty and Love and a large Con- tent. Lo! lhltl‘w are the isles of the watery miles That God let down from the firmament. Lo! Duty and Love, and a true man's trust; Your forehead to God and your feet in ust; and Love, and a sweet babe's smifes, And there, Oh, friend, are the For- tunate Tsles. Discontented Wife—Several of the men whom I refused when I married you are richer than you are now. Husband—That's why.—Boston Tran- pt. Father-in-Law—So you are beginning to fine at married life has its troubles. Daughter-in-Law—Well, Jack some! yes. es simply won't listen to reason. 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