Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 20, 1915, Page 4

THE Nebraska’s Semi-Centennial, statehood being determined upon, only the carry- ing out of these in detall by the committees re- mains to make the issue the success it should be, The people of Nebraska have sufficlent patriot- fsm and state pride to enter into the spirit, and VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PR .3 % L R 1 T, The Bee Publiéhing Compasy, Proprietor, BED BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. B s Rttt il s 3 ! iEntered at Omaha postoffice as second-class matter, M8 OF SU ";’0""~ By mant | Performance as well, of appropriately observing "mn&h. per (3 this tmportant anniversary, Nebraska has | fi nait b 6o, v played no unimportant part in the affairs of the { ing and "': nation during these fifty years of magnificent Bee oblY. ..o notice of ¢l larity in d rtment. | | ittt p———————— ; Remit by draft, e or‘ order, Only two- | EE e R SRTELE U E ni \ ! progress. It is true that this state has not at~ tracted public attention by its clamorous insist- ence upon some vagarious form of political or soclal activity, nor has it been made notorious through any of the agencies that have sc widely | sdvertised some of its neighbors. But Nebraska lids contributed notably to the statecraft of the fation, through its representatives at Washing- ton. It has participated prominently in national politics and has been an important factor in the life of the nation in all ways. At home its eflizens have much more cause for pride than they readily realize. In fifty years Nebraska has been brought up from the condi- tion 6f almost a wilderness to such a degree of productivity as places it in the very front rank. Its social growth has kept pace with its material progress, till now an enlightened people ration- ally enjoys the unlimited bounty of a state, whose fecundity and range of resourées is be- yond estimation. With these reasons for rejolcing to inspire them, the people of Nebraska will heartily sec- ond the efforts of the committees planning for the semi-centennial and the success of the sev- oral funds now contemplated i{s as nearly as- sured as anything can be thus far fn advance. Sem—— Christmas Gift from Congress. In the haste of the annual holiday rush con- gress has handed the United States a Christmas gift"by comtinuing the so-called “‘war tax" on certain proprietary articles. The excuse for this action 18 the same that warranted the im- position of the tax in the first place. Other democratic measures for ralsing revenue have NOVEMBER CIROULATION. 53,716 of Nm cunation tor in Douglas, s i iy B B e | Definite plans for the proper celebration of ] [t i o S R FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. the semi-centennial of Nebraska's admission to“’ Safety at Road CTOBSIDgs #lfl'fi“fl'c_nnoh&!uh the war beit. Its volce grows in strength as the loan multiplys, S — £ With congress silent for two weeks and the president happily married, hollday joys may cut loose and go the iimit. S— The official apneal for tolerating polygamy in certain sections of the Phillppines, as a peace doubtless inspired the order putting bullfight- ing out of business as a nationsl sport. For the | present the privilege of living is joy enough, i SO of walety first efficiently ap- in need is trained men behind ts up to congress . simple y " The the guns. That pu ton 1n. + ¥ The fallure of Pa Zimmermen's Ohio fortuse Fs 15§ ot ig the concert and ball given of the West lodge No. Miss Notalie Seligsotn Island was ordained i tickets to Los Angeles failed to produce sufficient income to meet the running expenses of the government. The ob- Jections to a war tax In peace times are many, and have been stated many times. It wag a poorly considered makeshift in the beginning, and {s now continued with all its imperfections, despite the criticisms offered since its first en- actment, Its endorsement, even as a temporary cipedient, is an admission of democratic in- capacity to properly handle the administration of our government, For Better Country Sohools. Becretary Lane of the Interior department gets in line with present-day thought in his ad- voeacy of improvement in the rural schools. This is not a novelty in the progressive states of the central west, where great stress always has been laid on the public schools, and par- YUeularly the public schools in the rural districts, It is a characteristic of these states that the ad- vantages of education are as freely and as liber- Ally provided in the rural districts as in the cities, and continual efforts are made to ad- vance the work by.the adoption of improved -03“1. Unfortunately, among some of the older states this practice does not prevail, and it is encouraging in a high degree that the mat- “ter should be urged upon the attention of con- gross, and thus be brought directly to the pub- “lle. It 1§ not properly a subject for national legislation or regulation, and yet it is possible that pational action may be taken of a nature that will stimulate the laggard states to a more realizing sense of their responsibility to the children of the rural districts. The permanence _of our government rests finally on the genersl intelligence of the citizenship. So any project “for the improvement in methods of their applica- tion to the purpose of spreading enlightenment 18 good for the people as a whole. y ——e “Met” Defines His Attitude, Just as an indipation of how ali-enfolding is the harmony that now exists between the dem- ocratlo brethren in Nebraska, Richard Lee Met- ‘talfe this wesk defines his attitude on the issue of B sm, With no’indirection, he posi- tively ‘re to- consider personal submission to the Bryan dictum as a test fof democracy. It 1§ of some moment he absolves the great commoner from full responsibility for the pro- s/dicament in which the party finds itself in Nebraska. “Brother Charley” is to blame for this, atcording to Metcalfe, and it {8 to ‘“Brother Charley" he retuses to bend the knee. While "Brother Charley” hands out the “dope” for Nebraskans, and the late secretary of state is dove of peacé will have much difficulty finding o permanent roost in the camps of the unter- ritied. ' S — Albania gives promise of becoming & battle- ground between Italy and Austria. For a dozen ¥ears past both nations fought diplomatic bat- tles over that reglom, ereated into a pieayune kingdom aftér the first Balkan war. Austria three years ago. Its controlling position on the east side of the Adriatic makes Albania the Italy, and its possession is bound to be contested as flercely as Gallipoli or Saloniki. —— How sweet are the uses of adversity?. Pro- ducers of crude oll, long subject to the price whims of refimers, have stored enough of théir nmm to_put prices on the jump and produce soreness under the refined belt. The main job is necessartly crude and lacks the artistic refine- ment of the system which slips the added cost end the worry to the consumer. e ——— Americans eager for adventure abroad here- sfter Must be officially tagged at the home dock. New passpor} regulations require three copies wlw'- photograph and an official in- of the holder at the sangplank. Failure to secure the necessary permit, spells a back track to home and comfort : e ——— About the only consolation well-disposed Mexzicans derive from the situation along the | border is that the loolers cannot take the land. Bo thoroughly is the country stripped that a | wuiture negotiating » tour, would be obliged to carry rations, most tempting territorial grab for Austria and | mixing medicine for the party nationally, the | over elgars a BEL: OMAHA, MONDAY, DEOUNMBER 20, 1915. From the Hallway Age Gasette. = IE railroads of the United States, through the American Rallway gasoclation, have undertakes & campalgn for the prevention of aceidents al highway crossings. Presidenit Mudge, on the reconi- mendation of the exeéttive committes, has nted & special committee, conslstitg of seven ralirond offi- cers, representing the raflroads of {He countiy terfl- torially, to consider the entire question. The members of the committee are: Jaines A. McCrea, general man- ager, Long Island, chalrman; J. Q. Van Winkle, as- sistant to the general manager, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louls; C. J. Bardo, general manager, New York, New Haven & Hartford: L. B. Jétfries, general attorney, Southern: Howard Billoit, inspector of transportation, San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake: W. J. Towne, assistant general manager, Chicago & Northwestern, and W. R. Scott, vice president ard general manager, Southern Pacific. This committee will present recommendations, after a4 thorough li- vostigation, for action to bring about a reduttion of one of the most numerous classes of rallway easuaities, and one which is rapidly Increasing in spite of the many millions that have been expended by the rail- roads for the elimination of grade crossings. The impoertance of thé problem is indicated by the fact that in the last ten years for Which the statistios are avallable the Interstate Commerce commission has reported a total of 5,07 persons killed and M7 injured by being strick or run over by cars or loco- motives at highway crossings. The figures show an increass fairly consistent with the development of rallway traffic, although the increase in the number of persons ‘killed is less in proportion than the growth of the rallway business, but since 1900 there has been & steady increase, un. affected by the falling off in traffic in 1914. THIs i» doubtless largely due to the increase in the use cf automobiles, especially in rural distriots, and this phase of the situation will nécessarily sssume- an im- portant place in the committee’s investigation, The stahdard remeédy of the public authorities for crossing accidents is elevation or depression of the tracks—if the rallroa N be made to stand the ex- pense. If there is a change that the community may be required to share the cost of an improvement made for its benefit, the seal of the publfe officials for grade separation frequently wanes. The separation of grades as rapidly as practicable {s much to be desired, but at an average cost of probably $0,000 per crossing even the most affluent railroad asrporation can afford to eliminate only a small part of its grade crossings. Complete separation of grades wolild oost rest roads more than they are worth, and In many places the expense is so great as to ralse the question whether the same amount of money wbuld not bring about a greater reduction of accidents it exponded in other ways, ’ Mr. McCrea, the chalrman of the American Rall- way association committee, i especially qualified for the position by reason of experience gained by him in prosecuting a vigorous campaigh to instill safety-first ideas Into the motorista of Long Island. The commit- tee can undoubtedly accomplish' some resuits - well worth while by working along the lines followed by the Long Island and some other ronds that have made special efforts tb reduce crossings accidents. To what a large extent highway crossing accidents are due to oarelessness Ts demonstrated by observa- tions made by the Southern Pacific of the actiona of the drivers of 17,021 motor vebicles on approaching railroad crossings in & number of widely separated localities. Of the total, 11,8% drivers, or 60% per cent. looked neither to right nor left before crossing the tracks; 27 per cent looked only one way, and only 21.8 per cent looked In.both directions, while 3,301, 6t per cent, ran over the crossing at & reckless rate of speed, and only thirty-five stopped befare crossini. Of 4,8% drivers of teams, 8.4 per cont looked in nelther direction, 8.6 per cent logked only one way, and only 62 per cent looked in both directions. Similar observa- tions taken a year later at the same pinces, after the road had given a great deal of jublicity to its ettorts to reduce thia kind of aecidents and had appealed for the co-operation of local Authoritles and automobile clubs, showed o considerable improvement. As the countty develops it will be necessary for the rallways to continue to eliminate grade crossinge as rapidly as they can, and the increases of popula. tion and Industry that make sich expenditires neces- sary should naturally lend to so Increase earnings as to enable the roads to meet them, but meanwhile a great deal can be ccompliehed to make conditfons safer If the roads can secuivé the interest and co- opération of the public and its representatives. Twice Told Tales: The Fitrt, Three bachelors, fat and bald and ugly, - jeered nighteap at the girt who flirts. . “A flirt," spld the fivat bachelor, unbuttonlng the bottom button of his walstcoat to give his stomach more room, “a flirt 18 & girl who wants all fove's roses without any of its thorns. She ends with nothing to show but scratches.” 4 The second bachelor, patting his bald epot reflec- | tively, sald: 5 v “A flirt 1s & girl who has the hobby of luring mes :o«%muumumumm over." ' ) “A filrt," 3ald the third bathelor, ringing for an- other drink, “is & species of human carrot that has an Irresistible fascination for two-logged donkeys.''—New York Times. Neutral Spirit. B Is there something mallclous about even the fairest and kindest of neutrala?’ sald Booth Tatrkington in Indianapolis. 3§ “‘Doss & neutral, in the very nature of thi in- cline to rejoiee a little over & warting sister s misfortune? I hope not "I hope not, and yet, In thinking of heitrals, t can’t help thinking of two boys who atobd: the other day and watched an enormous safe being ralsed up | to the twenty-sixth atory of a skyscraper, “The boys watched the safe rise slowly, dansling | at the end of ita wire rope, and when it reached the | twentieth story the older 1ad turned away in diagust. prevented its absorption by the Balkan states | | ** ‘Come on, Joe,' he sald. “We might as well move on. They ain't a-goin' to lét her drop.’ "'~ Washington Star. Uked to It The man had been haled before the magistrate on some trival charge. ‘Lot me see,” sald the Judgh. “I know you. Are ! not the man who was marted in a osge of man- lions ™ your honor.,” veplied the culprit, “I am the Exciting, wasn't {?" continued the justice. Well,"” sald the man judiclously, ‘it was then; it wouldn't be now."—Laliles’ Home Journal, A Chicago woman of 3 wants a nioe, tender, eld- erly. well-to-do woman to adopt her and mother her as she has never been mothered before. Bmphasis on the “well-to-do," The story of a western judge, indefinitely located, who proposes t Any means of brightening thé scare belt is welcome back yonder. Henry C. Priok, the coking magnate of Pennsyl- \-l-m:. observes that signs of prosperity are visible in the distance and increase as the ter ad Since Mr. Frick ato the Steel trust his horison took on conservative ) Angeles miniater, obeying the command of shot out his dukes #0. suddenty snd ef- that the highwayman ocouldu’t see to shour, his legs carried bhitm out Ministe: the A Los & holdup, E | ThedDees ' 7 SOMEWHERE, Dec. 16.-To the Editor of The Bee: 1 have remained allent a long time. The present Buropean war has causéd much discussion. 1 have read much in your columns and elsewhere from correspondents who are ready to teat™ out the eyes of one or the other of the combatants. 1 am striotly neutral. If nations receive thelr punishment In this world, a# the orthodox believe men do In the next, it is not hard to find some- thing chargeable to each of the Buropean combatants, save France and Montenegro. To England may be charged the Oplum War with China, hWer outrageous con- | quest of the T.ansvaal Republic, the bombardment of Alexandria, the robbety of the Danish fleet in the Napeleonic wars, the impressment of Ametican sea- men, and other things too numerous to | mention. To Serbla may be charged the | murder of her king. To Belgiumn the out. | rages committed In the Congo. Tne | major part of Belglum's wealth came from the Africa rubber trade. 1 hope we have not fergotten the cutting off of the hands of negro children, it they faflea to do tifeir stint. The sing of the Rus. slans, Tirks ahd Germans have been commented on by everybody. It is net Neécessary for the present writer to say more than that most, if not all, of the charges are true. Curses on Franz Jodet and the whole house of Hapsburg, ex- Pt Maria Theresia. The lechérous old seoundrel has followed: the trade of being an emperor for sixty-seven years. He cunning as a fox and hypocritical as a Pharisee Ferdinand of Bulgaria, the great grand. son of Lewis Phillip of France, is the unhanged scoundrel of Hurope., It is amusing to hear pro-German Catholich say any good of that fellow. He was the murderer of Stambuloff. Have those pro- German _ Catholles, who love him 8o now, forgotteh the conversion of Prince Borls, and. the violatlon of the solemn treaty made with-the duke of Parma? I have always considered the result of this wa uncertain. The kalser, in his offensive tactics, has followed Na- péleon, with less success, howeéver. He tried to break into Paris, and failed. Then he tried to smash into Engiand, and failed. Then he turned on Russiai and the werld forgot the two fallures in what lookead like supreme success. The kaiser had learned a lesson from Charles the Twelfth and Bonaparte. He stoppe¢ in thne, and turned his attention to Setbia, the baby brother. The fact s that Germany has had every advantage %0 far in the war, She is a compact body with ‘the most splendid military machine the world has cver seén. She can move her troops from one end of the doniinion to the other with her spién- dia means of transportation, while he¢ ehemlea have to travel round Robin Hood's barn. The kalser is. undoubtedly the best soldier living. Bonaparte was the greatest offensive soldler that. ever lived, Frederfck the Great w the greatest defensive soldier that ever lived. But the Kaiser is not Bonaparte and hé is not Frederick, Yet I would not by surprised to see another Europedn was Uke the Napoléonie period, from Trafal« gar to Waterloo. But I am nelther a prophet nor the son of a prophet. &in- cerely, DER HEIDE, X Farmers and Rural CI';II;.. NORTH PLATTE, Deé. 13—To the Bditor of The Bee: Of the several farm- | ore’ conferences recently held, most of | them by political. appointment; ' there #oema to be, nside from politics, two pare | amount considerations. First, to/ avold | the expense of middle men. in producing and marketing, concerning which .thert hits been much declamation and yery | little remody. Second, as to yural gredits. It s clalmed that the democratic fed- | €ral vesérve act furnishes to blg business | unlimited means for securing easy money | for speculative purposes; bit to amall business, laborers and farmers, fot a dollar; feaving the latter at the mercy of bg business. To Alleviate this injug- ties on- the éve of an approaching n,» tlonal eledtion, it is proposed to orgni ize a “rural fredit system for farm This rutdl eredit’ system providey that ’ sections of farm land can be organ'zed 0 districts, and bonds lssued -of the | district, such bonds to be deposited ‘In | the federdl resetve system, which wHi { i | | | draw upon them- government notes to 1oan to the debtors for interest; suoh loans to be subject to d'seounts and com-. missions top the bank making the. deal. ot the farmers are suppored ‘to .I.pofl the administration that organises | the rural credit aystem. Bear in. inind, that this Uttle ruthl credits cirele operdtes lnside the great federal reserve octopus, to which the farmers wmust first pay tribute in the various forms of trensportatfon, com- | misslons, dlscounrits and general profits, after which what little there 18 left for them I whit they can cheat themselves out of. Thé federal reserve system, the lemal culmiination of past predatory ap- tioh, now established by law, grinds up | tic economle despotism ever establ on this eafth. To the crédit of the farm- ers who have composed appro: one-fifth g‘m number of thess con- ferences, y have %olted the whole acheme. They were 1iké the fellow who came out of a fit, he didn’t know Whete he was going to, Another featuré of the Chicago conven- tion was, the 1ahd sharks, both forelgn 4hd domestic, who had gobbled up by foreclosure & quantity of land, propased to set it in small tracts for small pay- ments down and the balance on rural eredits, long time, with conditions that would make the farnfer an agrarian serf for the next forty years, and probably for lfe. , taritf, income tax and other bunk having gone out of date, rural credits is next goat to ride inte office on. But farmers are gotting wise. They are demanding the money of Jofter- son_and Lincoln, with no disqualifying LUCIAN STEBBINE Labor and Liguor. HASTINGS, Neb., Dee. 13-To the Editor of The Bee: Those interesied in the continuation of the liquor traffic would bave it appear that, In the event of national prohibition, millions of people would be M-Lu: of work, thus indl- cating that the ufacture and sale of lquor ls & relatively tmportant commers ¢lal enterprise. The United States bureau of the census makes the following com- ment upon the comparative sise of the brewing and distiling Industries to other well known industries: “The laws. Tips on Home Topios Chicago Herald: The painful thing about Congressman Mann's declaration that every community is mobe or less Infeoted with the “pork” idea is that it i3 abso- lutsly true. Indianapolis News: The énd of the war, which was to have oocufred Ih October. has now been postponed until February~ doubtiess because of circumstances over which nobody appears to Nave any con- trol, Cleveland Plain Dealer; A West Virginia fce man “hit the saw dust'trail, he 18 rebating the money he gained by short welghting his customers. There are | other classes among whom it might be profitable to organise & revival. Boston Transoript: We are glad to see that our old friend Dr. Karl Liebknecht is bick in the Reichstag. When last heard from he was holding down an end seat on the extreme left of the first row of ofchestra trenches, and> we had no ldes the Russlans were such poor marksmen. Loulsville Courler Journal: "Single men first,” the e British army. ‘'omen and children first” when a ship sinks. Wall, “married men first,” will ring from the eyes of St. Peter when the meek and the lowly are to be lot into the Kingdom of Heaven to get their everlasting reward. MIRTHFUL REMARKS. ““That girl you see fust passing us has & lot of fellows crasy about her.” “Why, she's very unattractive.. Who i o 7" “One of the nurses in an inaane hos- pital ward."—Baltimore American, ~This smile of the Motia Lica v sald | smll- knows the to be inscrutable. She seems to ing inwardly, but nobody cauge.” “‘Probably wot sometHing on her him- band that the ~'d man doasn't know about as yet."—Chicage Post. Belle—He said he was a_ millionaire won, and 1 find he is working for a_week, Tda—That looks suspicloust A milllon- aire's son couldn't get over $5.—Phila« delphia Bulletin. “Henry,"-said the superstitious hostess to her husband, “you sjmply must find another gluest.” and now | { ¢ of the recrulters of the | | vited and exactly thirteen didn’t | Boston Transcript “There's a crying need. “For what?" For some musiclan to compose an opera ealling for a heroine who welghs ut 30 pounds.” —Pittsburgh Fost The famous detective gasped as he ar- rived at the sceme of the crime. ‘Heavens,” sald he. as he looked at the window through which the thief had escaped, “this is more serious than I had expected! It's broken on both sides!’— Plifladelphia Ledger. THE HOUSE OF MY FATHERS. Clarence Ausley in Houston Post This is the house of my fathers, And 1 am my father's son, As ye are to be who abide here, f 8o we be many in one. Wide are the portals and open To all who come hither or go, But the rule of the house I insist on, And who disobeys is my foe tlings were got of much loving gt l.rl: on mountain and veldt, Of Saxon -ns Slay, Jew and Gentile, Of Teuton and Latin and Celt. But_though we be kin I disown you 1f still ye your motker prefer, For she let you go unregretting, A burden and hindrance to her. v eltered and coddled and fed you— Ve A eaed of my lions ye have been: Ye ‘sit_in the seats of my children, And needs of my favor may win, {For_ye had abjured all allegiance 0 _potentate, power or t On the sword and the faith of & soldier You swore unto me—me alone Let_grieve for the grieving of kindred [ Tn Motherlands whelping of war; | Ot prayers and loving and giving nd solace anear and afar. The call of the blood is beseeming, And “eemnf becometh a son, But_the oath of a man s his honor Till ever his race is run. 80 here is the rule—I command it: Nor Teuton nor Saxon be ye. But_all who abide in_this houshold The sons of this Fatherlund be. For, here is but one lord and master, everything b it mill of the mokt g'gan-" | “What's s sked. ne country, one flag and one name, “There are t’i‘lrt‘?&'{"k‘ okt domit - | And ‘they hall' be alien ang hated “I know; but there wére forty-three in- Who fail of its weal or its fame. " Enjoy ‘the Southlahd's bdu.ly climate during this coming that makes for a summer in winter in mn;msi;verymn‘ Tickets on sale daily to April 30th with vetarn limit of June Ist, 1916 gnly $50.68 for the round trip to Jr..cdbm,vme. !::h , $87.18 z Qb:'g::h “elmndm( uctions to other points . Liberal Stopover Privileges Connecting service via Rock Island Line Automatic Block Sitmlc Finest Modern Afl-s«.l quipment Absolate Safety Superb Dining Car Service Write, ne or call at Rock Island Travel B 32 hn’u':osuu«. for tickets, reunmonn:: nl:r:u:: J. 8. McNALLY, Division Passenger Agent Phone Douglas 428 ) — The main things to consider when you select an office are location, safety, service and comfort. 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