Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 16, 1915, Page 8

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. BEB BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. 'w at Omaha postoffice as second-class matter. Evening and Sunday ning_without Sunday. nday Bee only. . . J hotloe of change of addre or._col larity in dellvery to Omaha Bee, Circulation rtment. REMITTANCE, Remit by draft, express or postal order. Only twos cent stamps received in paymént of small ae- counts. Personal checks, except on Omaha and eastern exchange, not accepted. OF FICPS. ut aha—! o Council Biuffs—14 North Main street. In- Lit Bullding. %:ltfl.:nmdfi Fourteenth CORRESPONDENCE, communications relaf ) to news and 2 { Bee, i NOVEMBER CIRCULATION, { { 53,716 ate of Nebraska, County of Douglas, ms: ‘ "m ht Williams, cl n:‘ztlon manager of The aflu matter to Omal Boe ing company, uly sworn, says that the -nn? circulation for the month of November, 1915, | was 53.716. chlgln WILLIAMS, Clrvuldlllon My nager n m rese: sworn to me. this :3‘5‘%“« *hicember, 1916, ERT HUNTER, Notary Public. Bubscribers leaving the .city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad. dress will be changed as often as requested. lore December 16 Thought for the Day Selscted by Arthar M. Dow Director Fine Arts. - T will fear no evil.— Twenty-third Psalm. Postmaster General Burleson has got the habit. The war caused the postoffice deficit, One of the painful tasks of the holiday sea- son is to smother the pretense that the country possesses an e'astic currency. It 1s painfully evident from the one-sidedness of the Rio Grande war reports that Pancho Villa’s press agents are not on the job. Turkey puts on the chesty front and hangs the Yildez Klosk the famous apartment house “Deliver peace packages at the back It is up to those who insist on clamping the ~ 1id on New Year's to show that the water wagon supplies all the deficiencies in scenery and con- There is yot time and some hope of having presidential primary ticket. Nebraskan's can- " not safely forego the felicity of habit. The official valuation of Nebraska's crops of 1015 totals $514,000,000. Last year's output of gold and silvér in the United States amounted to $184,000,000. . As a safe and sure route to independence farming Is a cinch to a gamble. Benator Chamberlain does not expect his compulsory military measures will get beyond the debate stage. Evidently he fears congress will run short of conversational topics and give the Record an emaciated look. E——— The barometer of bank clearings steadily ‘points to fair business weather and rising pros- pects, Last week's tabulation of bank transac- tions presented the rare showing of only one B eity marring the whiteness of the decrease Ep—— An lllinois patriarchess who celebrated her 3d birthday anniversary by hitting the tobacco pipe 18 pletured as an exponent of the simple life | who never wore a corset or rode on a railroad - train. The simple life may be worth the price, 4 _Ult makes no appeal to live ones. Eo SE— It proof were needed of national self- . _restraint and unshaken neutrality, Washington ‘gupplies it in sbundance. Suffrage and antl- suffrage conventions met at the national capital at the same time and concluded the business on hand without uttering a war cry above a lady- ‘ltke whisper. In spite of the thunderings of war and the demand for men to fill the gaps at the front, Ireland reports an excess of 9,698 births over ~ deaths for the quarter ending September 30. This ‘does not signify a gain in population, Ireland’s contribution of “cannon fodder” is excluded THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1915 Hold Open Conncil Meetings. The Omaha ecity council has just tried the experiment of sitting in the open as &n exclse board. Its members profess to be so well satis- fied with the result that they propose to con- | tinue the practice. No good reason can be ad- vanced for the transaction of any public busi- ness by a public body behind closed doors. All sessions of the city council should be open to the public at all times, and especlally those ses- glons which have to do with the granting of saloon licenses. Closed doors and secrecy are always suggestive of a desire to cover up some- thing. No suspicion should be permitted to at- tach to the transaction of public business at any time. The city commissioners know this, and for their own protection should never sit in secret. Remodeling the Commission. Experience has demonstrated that the Inter- state Commerce commission as at present con- stituted is not properly adjusted to meet the re- quirements of its purpose. Growth of the trans- portation industry in the United States has been #0 rapid, and it has developed in s0 many unex- pected ways, each presenting its own peculiar ser- fes of problems, that the complications conse- quent have far outstripped the scope of the Inter- state Commerce commission. This fact is rec- ognized by the commission itself, and the report now before congress asking for an enlargement of the body does not come altogether as a sur- prise. Students of the transportation problem were agreed that the country should be subdivided into districts, wherein the conditions were so nearly similar as to make uniformity of control comparatively easy, This plan is suggested by the commission iteelf. It does not comprehend any recession from the theory under which the commission was formed, or the principle upon which it has operated. By the setting up of qualified tribunals within properly defined dis- tricts, the questions arising within these districts may be much more readily adjusted than is at present possible. There need be no more con- flict between these tribunals than there is at present between the several federal district and circuit courts, While final review may be left to the general commission at Washington, local matters will be adjusted within their own dis- trict. This plan should be eventually so carried cut that possible conflict between national and state laws governing rights and conditions for the Industry may be harmonized to a point where friction will vanish, Only on some such basis can the transporta- tion industry of the country be given the proper protection without in any degree abandoning the control which the public should have over it. . E—— History Repeating Itself. Our one war with France grew out of a sit- uation exactly similar to that which now con- fronts the two nations. In the earliest years of the United States’ existence, the French under- took to assert a right to overhaul and search American vessels and to impress seamen found thereon, to remove passengers, and to otherwise outrage American rights, This was promptly and properly resented, and a war of short dura- tion resulted, followed by a peace which restored the friendship that has since continually sub- sisted between the two nations, It is surprising that at this time the French would again undertake a practice that they must know will be vigorously resented by this government. Our history is full of incidents in which the United States has gone to the limit in asserting its right to protect any who may properly bé under its flag. In thus asserting its own right, it as cheerfully recognized the same right in other nations. The Trent affair is cited again as an {llustration of this. Without knowledge of the text of the note dispatched by BSecretary Lansing to Paris, it may be assumed that it firmly states the posi- tion of the United States on this question. It is due to our standing as the foremost among neutral nations to insist that this neutrality be respected by all, and no exception ¢an be made in the case of France. Ten Billions in Crops. Figures just made public by the Department of Agriculture place the farm value of the principal crops for the year at more than $6,250,000,000. To this must be added the value of the minor ylelds and the live stock output, which brings the total up to more than $10,000,000,000. This enormous sum is four times the total amount of the foreign trade of the United States, concerning which so great a fuss is made. The total is the most eloquent tribute that could possibly be pald to the agri- cultural industry of the country, It is so em- phatic In its nature that it seems to impress even the democrats, who have hitherto shown a determination to treat the farmer as a negligi- ble factor in the affairs of the nation. Some new records have been made, the value of corn, wheat, oats and hay exceeding that of any previous year, while cotton failed to establish a new record. It has a value of more than $765,000,000 above last year's crop, King Cotton, however, has been set back to fourth place, corn, wheat and hay, all coming shead of the southern staple in the order of value. Even winter wheat alone is priced at figures 420,000,000 above the cotton yleld for the year. Nebraska's share in this tremendous total i such as not only establishes the importance of this state as an agricultural producer, but means the continued prosperity of its people. It has indeed been a bumper year for crops, and the future for the farmer is consequently cor- respondingly bright. — Striking evidence of British war temper s furnished by the parliamentary election for & successor to the late Kier Hardy, Both candl- datos were laborites and supporters of the gov- ernment. One urged a Peace compromise, the other & fight to a conclusive finigh, The latter won by & majority of 4,000, — The Germans have an adage applylng to the oian who felgns anger, “He rollg his fist in his pocket.” That is the senator's attitude toward the Bryanites who have gathered in Nebraska’ fattest federal jobs, and whose appointments will be confirmed in due course with senatorial ac- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn The Outhook. weeks ago, under the title “Free Speech In The Outlook told the story of the second expulsion from Paterson, without any legal proceed- ing, of Elizabeth Gurley Fiynn. Later she was put on trial on a charge of exciting riot and lawlessness by a speech made long ago. She was acquitted, and her followers, and many also who do not at all ‘agres with the propaganda of the Industrial Workers of the World, of which she is an exponent, regarded her acquittal as a victory for free speech Three Pat n What fs she—this Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, who was tried again in Paterson last week and quickly acquitted? A strange sort of womai so hated that a city's lawful authorities frankly break the law 1o keep her out, so champloned that soclety women, factory girls, teachers, writers, lawyers, poor students, and folks who never saw her “chipped in" to raise her a defense fund—what is she? To silk-mill owners and capitalists generally she Is “that Flynn woman, loud-mouthed agitator, grafter, seditious criminal, who ought to be run out of towa or hanged.” All they know is that when she comes their factories fall idle and empty and their workers, thronging about a woman, swear they won't go back until the woman tells them to. So the factory own. ers refuse to talk over the strike with this woman, and soon she is arrested and tried, sometimes for ona thing, sometimes another. She's a little woman, 18 Gurley Flynn, and Irish all over. The Celt is in her gray-blue eyes and almost bladk halr, in the way she clenches her small hands into fists when she’s speaking. On her mother's side her great-grandfather Ryan was killed in battle with the English, and her grandfather Fiynn fled to America with a price on his head for sabotage against the British government. “Sabotage in Fenlan days?" one asks, and Miss Flynn smiles as she ex- plnine that when férbidden their immemorial right of fishing In certaln rivers he and his assoclates pols- oned {! streams, saying, “If we can't have our own, neither shall the English.” Sixty years later Miss Fiynn finds the wrongs of the proletariat more moving than the cause of Irish nationaltsm, but her antagonism to constituted authority seems inbred. She was reared without a girlhood, with almost no childhood, for at 15 she made her first speech as a “materialistic soclalist” befors her father's club. At 17 she and he were urrested for cart-tail speaking in New York City. Here is her own curt schedule from that time: “T have been arrested once in New York, once in Missoula, Mont., once in Spokane, Wash., twice In Philadelphia, twice in Paterson—never convicted.” Elizabeth Flynn in the last four years has led three big strikes: the struggle of the textile workers in the mills of Lawrence, Mass.; then a short but bitter walters' strike In New York City; and in 1913, elght months of war between the silk-mill owners and thelr employes in Patterson, N. J. Tn gach struggle, she says, she has made herself hated and feared by those she calls “masters,” while those she derides as ‘ex- ploited” love and trust her. Tn Lawrence they trusted her even with their little ones. Like the Pled Piper, she left the city followed by the childrn of the workers, whom she carried off to New York to be fed and cared for until the strike was won. “Labor's Joan of Arc” they call her, and one, an Italian, sald of her: omen and children, and any man that lika mother and sister, llka Miss Flynn and listen.” Tn Paterson she has left the authorities stil) afraid. Since the strike “Gurley” has been forbidden to speak to the working people. When she persisted, an old indictment was revived against her. Although the judge before whom she was trled was the same who watched the police bar her from a meeting, and these same police were witnesses against her, a jury from another county promptly acquitted her Her defense had been undertaken by a committee of women, none of whom was jdentified with industrial disputes. Thelr support could not be explained only by their bellef in the sincerity of their labor leader whom they called friend. Now that she is free they seek an injunction to make the legal authorities of Paterson obey th law. Wallops at Omaha Beatrice Express: Omaha's police department, tired of the wave of crime which has resulted in a murder or two dally for some time, now propol a general shakeup on the police force. What appears to be needed In the Nebraska metropolls is more po- lice and a general cleaning up of the criminal classes that are making that city their headquarters. Newman Grove Reporter: Omaha police authorities #say the parole law is responsible for lots of crime. Nowadays a man hardly gets settled down In thd penitentiary until he is paroled and turned loose to fix up & freah batch of cusbedness. No one wants a man confined in the pen any longer than is absolutely necessary, but it does look like the parole officlals could get along without being in quite such a big hurry. At least, the prisoners ought to be held until they show substantial evidence of being worthy of their liberty. Beatrice Express: A recent report by the Omana Water board emphatically disputes the stereotyped clalm that municipal ownership is & failure. The re- port shows, according to The Omaha Bee, that for the three years of municipal ownership ending June 80, 1915, patrons pald $669,000 less for water, in addition to having to their credit a fund of nearly $1,000,000 set aside for depreciation, sinking fund and surplus. Figures of that kind seems to be conclusive evidence of the ability of a municipality to run a water plant, . York News-Times: If the Omaha newspapers be- come finicky about criticism from the outside press, they had better head a movement for a cleaning up of thelr eity so that these criticlsms are not justified. Omaha is & big clty and it requires a great deal of supervision to keep it straight. It cannot be con- ducted on the same lines that a village 1s, but it can be made a safe place for any one to go and transact business in without constant fear of being held up and robbed. It can detect & few of these criminals and meet out proper punishment to them. When a disposition of this kind is shown they can rest assured that the outside press is with them and will not be looking for an opportunity to criticise them for do- ing it People and Events Oscar 8. Straus of New York City has been ap- pointed chalrman of the Public Service commission, in place of Edward E. McCull, removed, An English correspondent of London papers de. scribes New York as “blind, stsggering drunk with money. Must have caughi the scenery during the honeymoon with “war brides.” An epldemic of the grip grips St. Paul and Minne. apolis. Snuffies and kerchoos fill the air, and liquid eyes and red nosegays Eive a touch of realism to the melancholy days in the Twin Citles. Miguel A. Gonsales, & wealthy cattieman of New Mexico, saw the photo of a Pennsylvania girl at a friend’s home at Chama and was attacked with heart palpitation. The original of the photo was apprised of the trouble and became sufficlently interested per- sonally to inspect Miguel and his range. The wedding clinched the cure. The lste Andrew Freedman, New York millionare, wes & sporting peliticlan In his day, once owner of the Glants and & chum of Dick Oroker. Most of hiv fortune goes to found a home for the aged poor who were once well-to-do. The broad spirit of the man is shown in & lst of twenty-four persons of various vaces and religions named to supervise the home and prevent discrimination. The Deed efer Jerry Howard on Labor. OMAHA, Dee. 14.—To the Editor of The Bee: I percelve where the captains of Industry on the ninth of this month left their headquarters in this city to make a Ing houses. Possibly it was a coincidence that twenty-one of Mr. intendents, under the command of the beef trust's political field marshal, John O'Hern, was there to receive them. These emminent men gave timely notice through the press and otherwise of their prear- ranged visit, probably to forewarn the management to have everything in order 80 that an elaborate report could be made to spread broadcast to a credulous public, notwithstanding that the report was more than likely written before the tour was undertaken. What was the object of these nabobs’ mission ?—selfishness and commercialism. Commerciallsm Is as rulnous to America as militarism is to Burope. I cannot per- celve nor comprehend wherein society was benefited by these noted men lending the dignity of their presence at the stock yards and packing houses. The Industrial unrest, not commercial- fsm, is the greatest problem that con- fronts the nation nowadays, notwith- standing that the president and his Kkitchen cabinet, the politiclans and the munition manufacturers say prepared- ness and the hyphenated Americans is the lssue, Every friend of freedom knows that the labor question is the paramount issue and the captairs of iIndustry and their servile tools whether located in the city hall or elsewhere, cannot evade the question . Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the Fed- eral Commission on Industrial Relations, and Commissioners John B. Lennon, James O'Connell and Austin B. Garret- #son, as a result of their two-year inves- tigation into the subject say low wages was found to be the fundamental cause of industrial unrest. ‘The shame of West Virginia, the horror of Colorado, the outrages of Michigan, the war in Europe and the massacre at Homestead 1s insignificant in comparison to the ‘“serfdom” of the oppressed and persecuted employes in the institutions that the benevolent nabobs of our city visited last Thursday. T wonder did any one of these highly dfstinguished visitors inquire or question the management of the establishments about the rate of ‘wages they were paying their unfortunate employes? There are men and women working, ay, slaving in these degrading industries whose pay does not average $ per week, and I know whereof I speak. If there is any person who doubts my statement, let him procure a copy of the House Journal of the 1913 session of the legislature, and read the horrible report of the Loucey Investigation. What 18 soclety doing towards the up- 1ift of the producers of the wealth of the nation who are through compulsory and oppressive methods, both legal and il- legal, denled the full product of their toil. The Four Hundred of swelldom will give charity balls and enjoy themselves danc- ing in the name of sweet Christian char- ity. Likewise the Woman's club will give a play written by Oscar Wilde to raise money for soup. The labor class are opposed to charity in any shape or form. They belleve if, their hired men, the government, can ap- propriate money to increase the army and navy, why not appropriate money to re- claim the idle lands, thereby giving em- ployment to the unemployed. The only salvation of the labor class s through education, agitation, organi- zation and an upright intelligent use of that great weapon, the ballot. The news- paper publishers, the school teachers, the labor unions and the woman's suffrage movement has advanced the labor cause vonsiderably. JERRY HOWARD. How to Abolish W ST. MARY, Neb, Dec. 11 Editor of The Bee: Preparedne: and war being the topic of the day, various opinions are expressed, but all agree on one thing and that ls that the laboring and producing class (those whose bones are supposed to be left to bleach on the battlefield) are all tired and disgusted with the destruction and suffering caused by war, and that only those who are profiting in dollars or hoping thereby to gain notoriety and fame and who never expect to get within smelling dis- tance of gunpowder are in favor of war. This being the sentiment of the people, why not abolish war? But you are im- mediately asked: How are we going to do 1t? 1 would suggest to let the people say ‘whether or not to engage in ressive war: There must be an aggressive be- fore there can possibly be a defensive. If it were left to a vote of the people now I doubt that 10 per cent would be in favor of an aggressive war on any nation, and yet we are in daily fear that war will be declared against some for- elgn nation. Why? Because we have delegated the war-making power to & few, a handful of congressmen, a power we should have retained ourselves. The people being in favor of peace, why not make other nations a fair proposition for peace, It is certalnly worth the effort. Many say they would be in favor of disarmament, which would jnsure peace, but that they are afraid of the other fellows lest they attack us It they saw a favorable chance. How do we know that those other fellows don't feel just as we do, and are in favor of preparedness for the same reason. We have not asked them, have we? This government is in & position now to make the proposition for universal peace. Suppose we were to say to the other nations, “We are ready to extend to you our hand of brotherly love and fellowship; we will gradually reduce our army and navy and warring efficiency if you will do the same.” How do we know they would not hall the offer with de- light and be ever thankful to us for having glven them the opportunity to show their good will toward us. Why not make the proposal? If they refuse to accept our offer to beat the swords into plow-shares and spears Into pruning hooks, there will yet be ample time for us to take care of ourselves. One thing s sufficlent: there will never be lasting peace so long as there is preparation for war. So as we sow, so shall we reap. Fleld Marshal General von Hindenberg recently said: “The German people are tired of war and its destruction and would be glad to return to their homes,” Can theré be any doubt that the people of the other belligerent nations don't feel just as the Germans do? I see no veason for doubt. And yet they canmnot bhave peace. In short they all want peace, yet they all must fight. Why? Because they have delegated the war- making power to a few crowned heads and officlals. What the few say the many must do, and the welfare of the people and the nation is not taken into consideration. The immeortal Liscoln said: “Leave it pligrimage to the stock yards and pack- | ciant Armour's super- | 1o the people, for the people are always right Thomas amc Jefferson sald: “I am mot those that fear the people, for depends the stability of the H. SCHUMANN LINES TO A LAUGH. ng upon them nation rotted The corpse: Sla'n in fler: And here an “Willle, you haven't maid whether you thanked Mr. Carr for taking you out for a ride. Yes, And lo, from mother, 1 thanked him, but I tell Yo because he said, ‘Don't menti ' M"—Bos 1 mention it oston Transcript b 13) “My dear child, you should not spend 80 much time in vain indulgence at your mirror.” “Why, ma, how can you say s0? 1 a sure it {s time spent in serious reflection.” The brook ~Baltimore American spread “Why thig long line of men at the ex- 8 office?" hey are apostles of preparedness.’ What do you mean?" ‘These men are walting to get thelr Christmas_supply of liquor. —Birming- ham Age Herald. “How did you know that man is mar- ried?”" asked one woman. “‘Because,” replied the other, "as soon as he came into the room he shied at the rubber tree.”"—Washington Star. gloom (Btticlency in Wi A bog, & cedar-swamp there was, A waste of land that ne'er Wherein fire-blackened ghos! Stood guard o'er graves where long had NATURE'S PARADOX. te.) as_plotted, of trees fellows brave, s with the gale stunted fir f thel batt there That had survived to tell the tale. out this wilderness, Where revelled waste and sad decay All silently a little brook Through gloomy shadows found its way: s little brook had seeped and seeped ‘Neath mossy logs that long had rotted And at last emerged on a sun-lit shore With its banks all blue-for-get-me-notted m | Back in the bog whence it emerged had spread and spread and No well defined bed its course— It followed where its fancy led; But wheresoe'er its springs had welled There blossomed orchids wondrous fair And baby-evergreens and ferns Thrived in profuse abundance there. Men marvelled at jts beauty then Such beauty elsewhere never seen Unaightly stumps all rich festooned With partridge vine and wintergreen; And many a fast decaying log Upholstered in green velvet moss, Or. sodden in the silent stream All_shimmering with sun-dew gloss. And this sluggish brook that seemed inert That seemed to refuse to concentrate Was the one that nature had employed Her rarest beautics to create; And I marvelled long at these wonders here, Tl the bappy thought came to me That what seems weste in our lives after al May prove to be real efficiency. And we may struggle thro' doubt and And waste and decay may ever flout us But it may be some spark divine within May cause rare flowers to blossom about us— | And tho’ our aim be obscured for a time “You told me before we were married vou dian't like young men.” “And you told me you Kad heart fail-| Omaha. ure.'—Life, He was reading Handy Helpmates, “You can get some nice presents from discarded boxes and old tin cans, honey.” ol and you can get some nicer ones from a $20 bill," she retorted. This with a firmness that discouraged him from continuing the conversation.—Louleville Courler-Journal. e “Home Hints for | Cholly—I think I'll pick out a good sen- sible woman and get married. Miss Keen—If you pick out a good sen- sible woman you'll get snubbed.—Boston Transcript. “Does boy believe Claus?" “I'm not s your in Santa whether he does or not. Sometimes 1 suspect he thinks I believe In Santy and he hates to undeceive me." ~Washington Star. He—Mustn't it have been terrible {imes ‘when candles furnished the only ght? She (wearily)~I don't know. Candles do know enough when to go out.—Balti- more American. | Freddle—How fs It you're not going to have any Ghristmas tree this year? Willle—Mamma_says there is hardly | room to dance it is.—Judge. | conveniently situated hotel in New York Thirty-third Street Subway WALTON H. MARSHALL And ignoble the part to us allotted We too may emerge on a sun-lit shore With our days all blue for-get-me notted BAYOLL NE TRELE THE ‘ Vinoersir HoreL | THIRTY FOURTH STREET AT PARK AVENUE NEWYORK The most At the Ahoy! All ye eaters of whipped cream-—in cakes, on cakes, or around cakes. 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