Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 29, 1915, Page 4

e s “3E2ER828 B SR BRRREWY BRSFARERN.. B 4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE ATER. —— FOUNDED BY EDWARD BUILDING, FARNAM AND N Entered at Omaha postoffice as second-class matter. TERMS OF suaacglrrmn. y nrr'!.' By mall ok TTTANCE. 2 or postal o{do;.' on recelved In paymen eh;sllt, except on Omaha not acce N The Bes Buaing Oma 8 N street. %_Nufb—n North Main street. i '3:&"*53 716 s S BENE B e ! E’" .‘."gmfi* °K....'-efi.. Subscribers leaving the ity should have The Bee malled to dress will be changed as often as Dosember 89— Theught fov the Doy Selscted by N. Cropeey nitdon which Kant gives of mor- always so Mw«-u::'u Hear the um’ffln The famous appetite of the condor has noth- ing on the bureau appetite for municipal money. § | — Truly “the world do move.” Observe the Pullman company loosening up to its conductors and porters. . S— The Uid well becomes Juares. the map provided a better fit, No town on The tighter it is of S—— Richmond enters the scare beit and danger. Captain Hobson 48 a trouble maker and scoffs from Europe. There s but salvation—prohibition. the captain sees things, this coun- Omaha’s City Budget. The budget for 1916, now before the eity | council, was apparently prepared by the com- missioners, each with the purpose in mind of making lis figures as high as possible in order that he might eventually retain all he could get for his own department, None of the estimates give evidence of the economy expected by the public. Certain appropriations are necessarily set at the limit, this being due to the expansion | mated that those early of the city through the annexation of suburbs. Rut this alone will not account for the huge ex- cess expenditure proposed. The limit of taxa- tion has been exceeded by almost $400,000, and the budget estimates will perforce be cut to this extent. It should be possible, however, to make still further reductions in proposed expendi- tures. The people of Omaha are not inclined to be niggard in public expenditures, and because of this spirit they are enmtitled to the utmost consideration from the council in the matter of levying taxes. The budget must be carefully scrutinized in every detall and unnecessary ex- penses must be lopped off. This is not only due the taxpayers, but is expected by them, Good service to the city in all its departments may be provided without extravagance, Monroe Doctrine Bearing Fruit. Utterances of Secretary Lansing to the Pan- American scientists in explaining the new “‘Pan- Americanism,” must demand the serious atten- tion of the world. They are expressions indic- ative of the natural growth and development of an ideal. “America for Americans’” has been & political shibboleth from the beginning of republican government in the New World. The though has been ever present, and it was the fnspiration of President Monroe, when he enun- ciated the proposition that has bound the United States firmly to the cause of all its sister republics in either North or South America, 7 his doctrine has brought with it a high responsibil- ity and a grave danger, that at times has amounted to the actual presence of war; yet, at no time has our government deviated in the slightest from its attitude of sincerity in the up- holding of the Monroe doctrine. Now, that the republics of South America have grown materially and politically, until they have reached a point where they may rightfully share in this responsibility, they are found eager to be permitted to come in as equal partners in the work of maintaining “America for Americans,” Hvents of the last two years have brought American governments closer to- gether than ever before, and the showing made of spirit of co-operation and eagerness to be of mutual service and assistance is a splendid attestation of the faith of the peoples ot the several countries in the ideal voiced in the Mon- roe doctrine. Buropean governments are too busily en- gaged in atfairs of their own at present to give the attention they must later concede to this healthier exhibition of unity and confraternity on the part of the Americans. When the Euro- pean war is over and the belligerents take up the work of re-establishing their world rela- tions, they will find themselves confronted by united Americas, in which the Monroe doctrine has brought forward not only its blossom, but its fruit, in a perfect understanding between governments that rest on the solid foundation of freedom. ¢ ep———— King Peter’s Plight. The predicament in which King Peter of Serbia finds himself is not a novelty in the his- tory of kings. He is not the first monarch who has felt his throne crumble beneath him, or has been forced to flee beyomd the confines of his country because of political disturbances at home or the irruption of a forelgn foe. His valor and devotion will not be questioned. He Js merely a victim of the circumstances of war. Nor {8 he the only king who has been driven from his capital and his country as a result of present<day military operations. King Albert of Belgium has been on the firing lihe since the opening of the conflict, and presents a much more herole figure In his constancy than does Peter of Serbla in his complaints. The contrast is made the more vivid when it is recalled that Berbla afforded the pretext, if not the real canse, for the present war, while Belgium was merely the victim. The war is not ended yet, and Peter and Albert are not the only monarchs whose crowns depend at present on the sword. rE—— Sanctuary for Birds. The National Audubon soclety is pursuing its work in the way of providing for safety and perpotuation of bird lite in America along lines that have so far brought very practical results. Its latest proposal is that the cemeteries and burial grounds throughout the country be desig- would be required. A burisl ground, certainly, any form. sary to the establishment of the fact that action be taken to formally set apart cemeteries as will meet with cordial public approval. It Is not especially creditable to our ecivilization that the Audubon soclety is necessary, but it has been forced, are required to repress the destructive tendency of thoughtiess persons who go abroad with guns in thelr hands. Seven provinces, with Yunnan in the lead, are reported In revolt aga‘nst the restoration of the Chinese momarchy. Due allowance should be made for the distance and the uncertainty of news from China. That a sizable revolt against Yuan Shih Kal-nery is on is fairly certain. Re- sults must be left to time. to tell. Meanwhile, the Chinese of San Francisco undutmously sup- port the republican party and cheer for Yunnan torever. e The alleged conspiracy to injure the Wel- land canal is & reminder of two similar attempts +—one in the Fenian invastion time and another during the progress of the Boer war. In all th cases the disguised enemies of England falled to reach a vulnerable spot. nated as sanctuaries for the birds. It fs hard | to concelve that formal action of this mature | in its very nature should be exempt from any | operation that might be destructive to life in | It is sacred ground, hallowed by | the very presence of the dead, and the pursuit | of wild birds for any purpose in a cemetery is | an act of desecration. However, It it is neces- | zones of safety for birds of the air, such actlon | amply proven that restrictive laws, rigidly en- | THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, , 1915. Why Are National Forests? By W. P. Lawson, in Harper's Weekly. HEN Columbus anticipated present-day advice and saw America first, he was doubtless un- mindful of the fact that the forests of the ter ritory called later the United States contained timber in quantity and variety far beyond that upon any area of similar size In the world. It has been esti- forests covered 860,000,000 acres (over 1,790,000 square miles) and bore a stand of not less than 5,200,000,000,00) feet of merchbantabis timber. No wonder wood seemed to the early settlers inexhaustible and more of a liability, in bulk, than an aswet! Demand, nevertheless, has crept up to and passed supply. The present rate of American cutting 1e three times the annual growth of our forests. And of the five great original forest regions, the eastern. southern, central, Rocky Mountain and Pacific, the eastern and southern are, comparatively speaking, nearing exhaustion, the great pineries of the lake ‘States are coming to the end of their yield, and heavy fnroads have been made upon the supply of commer- clally valuable timber throughout all parts of the | country. Of course there are a fow trees left: approximately 590,000,000 acres of them; they cover about a quarter of the United States. We are dealing in big figures: but the principles of mathematics hold notwithstand- Ing, and 1t is easy to calculate that if three times the amount of wood is cut each year, it will not be an eternity before saws and axes are no longer of any great utility. We take from our for yearly, including waste in logging and in manufacturs, more than 30,000,000 cublo fest of wood, valued at over $1,875,000,000. Among the soft woods in 1913 the production of yellow pine lumber amounted to about 15,000,000,00 feet. Douglas fir of the northwest held second place, with nearly 6,500,000,000 feet; white pine with 2,600,000000 feet ranked third, though less was produced than in the preceding year, Oak was first among hardwoods with 3,200,000,000 feet, and was followed in order by maple, red gum, tullp, poplar, chestnut, birch and beech. In fact, from February 1, 1905, when the forests were transferred from the jurisdiction of the De- partmeant of the Interior to that of the Department of Agriculture, the service has been working overtime on the job of mensuring and classifying the various re- sources of the forests, exploring and mapping their 300,000 square miles of country, and administering them in as fair and businessiike a manner as it could. And in a little over ten years the service (at first under the direction of Gifford Pinchot, later with Henry &. Graves as forester), has performed a task truly herculean. ‘The forest service has in that time worked out a met of scientific forestry principles which direct for- est management, has reduced the fire danger on gov- ernment areas to a minimum, has opened up hun- dreds of thousands of acres of wild and formerly in- accessible mountain country through the conmstruction of roads, trails and telephone lines, and has sold and leased timber, range water power aites and other forest uses as thess were applied for, until during the fiscal year of 1013 the sum of 32,600,000 was paid in for benefits recelved. It has also (and this 1s for many reasons no unimportant matter) secured and trained a body of public servants, for the most part young men, which will compare very, very favorably with the personnel of any organization, public or private, in the world. “The spirit of the forest service,” a fa- miliar slogan to all forest officers, expresses some. thing fine and unselfish and full of the bettter sort of efficlency. It is a spirit instinct with loyaity and the wish for honorable service. Tn 1913 over 486,000000 feet of national forest tim- ber, worth more than §1,07,000, was cut under sale by different purchasers. Contracts were closed with and 1400 stores and other busines bullding were operating on the forests under permit. One thousand seven hundred mew mining cleims were patented within the forests, where the total mining population was more than 24000, Twenty thousand permanent settlers occupled farms within the forest boundaries. One and @ half million campers, hunters and other pleasure seekers usod the forests as recreation grounds. Two thousand four hundred and seventy-two fires were extinguished during the year by forest officers, Four thousand six hundred and elghty-six predatory animals, including mountain lons, coyotes, and wolves were killed to protect stock grazing on the forests. More than 350 miles of road, 276 miles of fire line, 3,800 miles of telephone line, and 2,600 miles ot trail were bullt. Thirty thousand acres of burnei- over land were sown or planted to young trees. In the conduct of its business the service lays continual stress upon the principles which underlte and inform its various activities. “"You will see to 1t," runs the letter from the secretary of agriculture to the forester—the letter defining policy, “that the ‘water, wood and forage of the reserves are conserved and wisely used for the benefit of the home bullder first of all, upon whom depends the best permanent use of Jand end resources allke. The continued pros- perity of the agricultural, lumbering, mining and live stock interests is directly dependent upon a per- manent and accessible supply of water, wood and forage, as well as upon the present and future uss of these resources under businesslike regulations en- forced with promptness, effectiveness and common sense. In the management of each reserve local questions will be decided upon local grounds; the dominant industry will be considered first, but with as little restriction to minor industries as may de possible; sudden changes In Industrial conditions will be avolded by sradual adjustment after due notice, and when conflicting iInterests must be reconciled the question will always be decided from the standpoint of the greatest good to the greatest number in the long run.” People and Events Charles G. Heness of Feru, Ind, s & Hooster all right. He wouldn't give up the simple life in “doar old Peru” and live with his wife in luxury in New York. Mrs. Heness is sulng for divorce, though she likes Charley, but being & singer, is obliged to seeir engagements where voeal art brings the price Dr, Jerry B. MoNellle, & New York dentist, ex- tracted & wisdom tooth and §1 from Willlam B. Peck The dentist held on to the dollar, but the tooth dreypea down Peck's throat. Peck spent the greater part of a year In a sanitarium &s & result and eventually coughed up the tooth. A court and jury ordered the dentist to cough up $,000 damages to Peck. Students in social card etiquet are taking motice of the cards announcing the marriage of President Wii- son and Mrs. Galt, which refer to the bride as “Mrs Norman Galt, nee Edith Bolling." “An American president,” says the Springficid Republican,” is not the arbiter of social fashion that the prince of Wales used to be, but neither 18 anyone else in America. Mra. Edith Boling Galt,' or, possibly, ‘Mrs. Norman ' would doubticss have been chosen by clubman, was described by his wife in these stinging words: “He is & tyrant, & cheat, a llar, and, If T have to say it, your honor, the meanest man God ever gave to" 5 Nebraska Politics Albian Argus: The commends favorably on the candidacy of Chris Gruenther of Columuus for con- gress, to take Dan Stephens' place. There are few democratic papers in the district that care to become franuc over Mr. Stephens, on the grounds that he is a democratic representative, but they ail recignize that he is a ciean fellow and & man of good habits. He has not sought to establish his position & democrat, but rather as a neutral or non-parusan and has succeeded in getting a big re- publican following. 1f the democrats de- sire to be represented by a really strong man who has a natlonal reputation, and is withall @ democrat, they will compel ex-Senator W. V. Allen of Madison to come out. There is & man big enough to rise above peanut politics. Sena.or Alien is not @ floating democrat or & molly- coddle, but just a plain democrat who has bullt on the rock of Jefferson and Jackson and not on the fleeting sands of modern bifurcated politics. What he is today he will probably be tomorrow and maybe next day. Senator Allen couldn’t trim if he was given a buzsaw work with and there are fewer people In the Third district who prefer tnmmers than some politicians imagine. Fairbury News: While this postoffice row is purely & democratc pleasantry and no concern of ours; yet it occurs to us that it has been handled in about as bungling & manner from a democratic standpoint as it is possible to conceive of. First the administration blundered in its attempt to withhold from & duly elected senator from Nebraska the rights, privileges and perquisiies that were due a senator under all the timehonored rules of the political game; and second, it made a greater blunder when it atiempted to pacify W. J. Bryan after ue had turned traitor to it. For these blunders the party in Falrbury is now suffering the embarrassments that an enforced rectification entail. In the meaatime re- publicans are not sending out any peace envoys to pour oll on the troubled water, but are serenely watching the turmoil in the arena from preferred seats in tho grandstand. Tekamah Journal: If there is any one plece of Nebraska legisiaiion that is & joke to every person in America at all interested in politics, it is the state's fool presidential preference law. As it is any twenty-five citizens of the state may ask the secretary of state to place the name of some one on the primary ballot s the candidate of some one of. the political parties. It is posaible to have a presidential candidates in every precinct in the state and one that represents every other state in the union. It is nothing but a joke. it should be repealed by the mext legislature, Bloomington Advocate: Dr. M. W. Baxter, superintendent of the insane hospital at Hastings, has presented his resignation to the board. He admits re- sponaiblility for substituting inferior goods on supplies. The board is inclined to put on the soft pedal and allow him to say that the illness bof his wife caused the vesignation. Dr. Baxter had troubles when he was formerly at the head of this institution. No choice has been made as yet for his successor. Hastings Tribune: Edward Howard's friends appear to be in too much of a hurry about getting him lined up to make the race for the democratic gubernatorial nomination. At Edgar says they are pushing him § a little too much to sult his fancy, and therefore asks: “Why the hurry?” Bditor Howard - generally takes him time to whatever he under- takes. He does things In a careful and deliberate manner—and he usually knows whers he's going when he's on his way. Nebraska City Press: M. P. Kinkald will be a candidate for re-election this coming fall, and it is mot necessary to state that his majority will be greater than ever before. In fact, the democrats of the district have no hopes of deafeat- ing him, even if they wanted to. The fact is that even the democrats who have had dealings with him since he has been at ‘Washington, are about the strongest sup- porters he has, not because he is a re- publican, but because he'ls always on the job for anything to help northwest Ne- braska, and a democrat can get his help for & good measure as quick as & re- publican. Stockville Faber: The Limcoln corres- pondent of The Omaha Bee takes a nasty fling in the dark when he closed & para- sraph mentioning the filing of the In- dianola petition for G. W, Norris for president, by saying, “Senator Cordeal, who offices with Mr. Norris, did not slgn the petition.” As the petition was circulated in Indiancla only and Sen- ator Cordeal, who lives in McCook, was probably not awgre of its-existence untll it was filed, the omission is not strange. The reporter's conclusion is amilar to one arrived at by a local justice of the peace several years ago. A man was charged with theft and arrested. The prosecution had three good and reliable witnesses who swore they saw the de- fendant steal the goods, but the defense produced twenty equally as good and re- liable witnesss who did not see him sieal the goods. A preponderance of evidence being in favor of the defendant the court discharged him. Nebraska Editors | Howelis Journal | tenderea a quarter for a drink in Juarez Editor L. J. Cooper of the Central City Nonparell has added an Intertype to the equipment of his office. G. W. Fike, editor of the Western Wave, celebrated the twentieth anni- versary of his connection with the paper last week. B. C. Krewson, founder of the Bik Creek Beacon, has repurchased the paper, which he sold two years ago to Georse Keenan. Beatrice Express: Editor Cramb of the Fairbury Journal, who has served as postmuster at that place for the last few months, having recelved a recess ap- pointment, has now been turned down in | favor of Dan Kavanaugh, a Hitchcoek supporter. Thus are the falthful workers rewarded, espectally where they happen to be editors of newspapers with opinions of thelr own, C. F. Smith, for the last fifteen yoars oditor of the Elwood Bulletin, dled at his home at Eiwood, December 2, after an Editorial Siftings Washington Post: A practical Nlfl‘l! is one who stands for retrenchment on a large scale, provided his own little pork bill goes through, §t. Louis Globe-Democrat: The paar*01 workers In belligerent countries appear to be almost as popular as copperheads were during our eivil war, Boston Transcript: The discovery that Villa must live in the United States in- stead of next door to Cip Castro in Paris writes his revolution down as one of ths few conspicuous Latin American fail- ures. Houston Post: The Bryan plan of ‘“Love Me and the World Is Mine” is no solu- tion for international disputes. It is an entirely different proposition from his old, old song of “Hear Me and the Coin Is Mine.” Pittsburg Dispatch: The republican na- tional committee rejected St. Louls as a convention city, yet in five modern con- ventions held there, McKinley was the only nominee elected. For four demo- | erats it was a bloomin' hoodoo. Boston Transcript: When an American the other day and received in change $3,000 in Mexican money, General Villa decided it was about time to call the revolution on account of darkness. Cleveland Plain Dealer: “What is all this talk about a car famine?' asks a reflway Wagnate. Why, it was probably started by somebody who attempted to have a second meal on a Pullman diner after he falled to tip the waiter for his first, LINES TO A LAUGH. Excited Lady—Why don't you Interfere to_stop that dog i ht? ’un a-goin’ to mum’, but you kin calm y'r fears now. My dog is on top at last, mum.—Buffalo Courfer. ““Begorry. thim sthory writ quarest cratures in the world. “An' phwy so?"’ “Shure, an’ don't their tales come out av their heade ‘Boston Transcript. he sneered. ; that's the reason I'm wasting she retorted.—Detroit “Talk is cheap, “How did Jack come to break with Miss gold has . KABIBBLE LONG SHOULD T WAIT A FELLER ? == CORNER OR MARRIAGE ? D24 A few days after a farmer had sold he chanced to pass boy_sitting watching its 2 plg to a neighbor, his place and saw his I on the edge of the pig pen i new occupant “How d'ye do, Johnny sald he “How's your pig today? “Oh, pretty well, thank you,” “How's all your folks?'—Harp A PSALM OF LIFE. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today. Art s lon, And our Still, Uke muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. and Time is fleeting, In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not ltke dumb, driven’ cattle! Be a hero In the strife! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act—act in the living Present! Heart within, and God o’erhead! Lives of great men all remind us ‘We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time— Foc!?rlnu. that perhaps another, Sailirig o'er life’s solemn main, A _fcrlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. Florida and uba via Washington, D. C. ‘Washington is the center of interest this year. See that your through tickets read via Baltimore & Ohio, and take advantage of liberal Washington Low in both directions, or one way via Wi returning via Cincinpatl. Florida tickets expire June 1, 1916, Cuba tickets expire 6 months from date of sale. Circle tours to Mobile and New Orleans, rail and water via New York in one direction. Special-Leaves Chicago at 1045 a. m. Arrives The Interstate Washington 8.45 a m. The New York Limited—Leaves at 545 p.m. Arrives ‘Washington 445 p. m. Daylight ride through the mountains. The Washington-New York Express—Leaves Chicago at 825 s.m. Arrives Washington 7.10 a. m. The New York Express—Leaves Chicago at 9.00 p. m. Arrives ‘Washington 10:30 p. m. All trains leave Grand Sy fl.-hc-"l'“ Station, Chicago, and leave H. C, STRO) 912-14 Woodmen of the ‘L-u Passenger Afl“‘* Baltimore & Ohio FLORENCE is to be given next and believe me she is a very pretty dolly. She has such sweet winning ways that we would like to have her go to some little girl that didn’t get a doll for Xmas. She would make that little girl so happy. Put on your thinking caps little Busy Bees, and see if you cannot re- member some such little girl, and try to make her happy by collecting a few pictures to help her win Florence, Florence will be given free to the little girl un- der 12 years of age that brings or mails us the largest number of dolls’ pictures cut out of the Daily and Sunday Bee before 4 p. m., Friday, December 31. Remember, you must send your pictures in ONE DAY EARLIER of Saturday. Florence pictures will be in The Bee every day this this week, because Saturday CONTEST WILL CLOSE AT 4 P. M. FRIDAY, instead is New Year's Day, so the that she was o's got mequainted "~ Loulsville replied earts, though stout and brave. week. Cut them out and ask your friends to save the pictures in their paper for you too. See how many pie- tures of Florence you can get, and be sure to turn them in to The Bee office before 4 p. m. Friday, December 31. You Can See Florence at The Bee Office