Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 4, 1916, Page 4

\{ ) I ——— c"ry Jowa Is FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. BER BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. Entored at Omaha postoffice as second-class matter. T=""""TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. . By carrier By malil rmonth. per year. e ... 80, $6.00 Remit by draft, RWWTAN(;E!' A Only two , ex or postal order. - cent -;::“w"n'a“ fu payment of small ae- counta. 1 checks, except on Omaha and eastern axchange, not accepted. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bullding. Boutn Omaha—s N etrect mefl Blufts—-14 North Main street. Lincoln—3% Little Buflding. Hearst Building. jew York—Room 1106, 286 fiflh avenue. Louls-508 New Bank of Commerce. ‘Washington—72%5 Fourteenth 8t., N. W. CORRESPONDENCH, oul Adress communications relating to news and A matior to Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. NOVEMBER CIRCULATION. 53,716 of Nebraska, County of Douglas, ss: it Willlams, circnlation manager of The Bee company, bel sworn, says that the A"I%l,:i.nnlluo-’ ‘tor the month of November, 1915, DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Ofreulation Manager, Bubseri| in my presence and sworn to ore me. this 20 day of mber 1916 HOBERT HUNTER, Notary Publie. Subscribers leaving the city temaporarily should have The Bee mailed to them, Ad. dress will be changed as often as requested. Jannary 4 TR &-the Doy Selected by Sapt. F. C. Downes Puople abeurdly talk of self-demial. There is no sclf-denial to a person of moral excellonce. The greatest torture te such & soul would bs to run counter to the dictates of conscience. — George Eliot. e Hall, congress! Welcome back to the daily grind. i e— | Let the “Stop-off-at-Omaha” campaign con- tinue without abatement or interruption. With leap year privileges, Mr. Clearance Sale is simply irresistible. January Ce—— 1t is never too late for the autoist to resolve to slow down and drive carefully on the crowded city thoroughfares. The statistics of the bridge toll-gate and car line should tell us before long to what extent ubetlcmlng fo business {h Omaha. Spe—m— . Attention of fire insurance companies Is ywn to Omaha's notably low fire record last As a sign of a ation, rates will com proportionately, of course, ' ¢ — The plentitude in Nebraska of candidates for the republican nomination for governor and the piucity @@)eandidates for the democratic nomi- nption for governor tell a story without words. E—— According to Mr, Bryan the Ford peace mis- slon has proved at lesst a partial success. No question about that, inasmuch as it succeeded ia putting a few small chunks of Mr. Ford's for- tune iato circulation. — The projected publicity bureau for the legal profession affords round for questioning the efficlency of present methods. As long as courts ovide the forum, motions for leave to print are Mt. irrelevant and Immaterial,” Sm— - It is said that the president will waste no time filling the vacancy on the federal supreme takes him as long to make a su- to select our district judge out summer before the place government of even a almost ing, but so peace, our constitutional of free speech and free press cannot e suspended by either presidential edict or con- ape— _ The great and near-great {llumine the new year with hopeful propbesies of what it may Bbring. But the conflict of views shows such diversity that forward-looking people are help- lesely thrown back on the old reliable medical almanac¢. No such word as fallure written there. blocked by gale of the B at all and out. The company had a force of men end four plows at work and hope £ Board of Trade elected the following board directors: Max Meyer, P. E. ller, George C. Ames, Evans, H. G, Clark, Frank Colpetser, J. A. Wake- school board the following: Susie E. Eveleth, Le Wyckotf, Nettie Primrose and Carrie M. The resignation of Miss Villa Cushman as THE OMAHA DAILY BEE | | Timely and to the Point, The Bee rises to endorse and reinforce some editorial remarks made by the Lincoln Star un- ‘ der the caption of “Skinning the Publie,” in which it takes to task in unmistakable terms the organized efforts of our public officers to manipulate legislation to enrich themselves ot the expense of the taxpayers. The occasion for the Star's outburst is a rumpus raised in Lincoln by a dismissal from the fire department “for the good of the service,” but presumably tor pernicious lobbying. “We tolerate with equanimity,” declares the Star, “organizations of county treasurers, of sheriffs, of county clerks and many other public positions, the pur- pose in each instance being the skinning of the public. Until the people wake up to the fact that every such organization of public servants is a sort of conspiracy against the public good, one can not blame a member of a municipal de- partment from resorting to the lobby to secure a shortening of his hours of labor or better pay for the time he puts in.” The Bee would not condemn these organiza- tions in toto, for we can see that they could, if they would, justify themselves by bending their efforts to improving the service which is their publicly professed purpose. Discussion of ex- periences, adoption of uniform methods and per- fection of system are as desirable in the admin- {stration of public business as of private busi- ness, but the trouble is that when our public officers get together for these ostensible ob- Jects, to which no one can object, they almost invariably inaugurate a conspiracy to reach into the pockets of people who are their employers for raising their own salaries, shortening their hours, increasing the number of jobs under them, grabbing the fees that come into their hands, lengthening their terms, and other more or less stealthy methods of what the Star aptly calls “skinning the public.” The worst part of it is that they do not, even where they have claims that may be meritorious, let them rest there, but resort to the threats and pressure of thelr political influence and official prestige to besiege the lawmakers with a corps of insidious lobbyigts drawing public salaries for time they put in waylaying the public treasury. We submit that the next legislature can and should stop the abuses of these organizations of public officers without impairing their useful- ness along legitimate lines. The Lamar Vacanocy on the Bench. The death of Justice Joseph R, Lamar of the United States supreme court reminds us of the circumstances under which he was called to his exalted position by President Taft. Jus- tice Lamar was & native of Georgla and = member of a distinguished southern family. His cousin, Lucius Quintus Curtis Lamar of Mis- sissippl, was a member of Grover Cleveland's first cabinet and was clevated to the supreme bench by that president. The activities of the Lamar family in the way of politics had been distinctively democratic, but that did not deter President Taft from selecting Judge Lamar for the supreme bench, although it already had a precedent in the case of Justice Lurton, What is of Interest at this moment is whether President | Wilson will emulate his predecessor In making his choice for the vacancy with the same broad vision, e— Shortage of Fertilizer. From department headquarters at Washing- ton comes the disquieting information that the farmers of the United States aYe to feel the ef- fects of a shortage of fertilizer, due to the cut- ting off of the potash supply. This is an inel- dental of the war, but Is in a considerable de- gree chargeable to our national habit of neglect and procrastination. Our dependence on Ger- many for potash has long been known, and not 80 very long ago was the subject for an exchange of notes that almost approached the acri- monious, Germany having proposed to restrict the amount of the mineral sent to the United States. The possible results of a default in the German supply was then pointed out, and much scurrylng around to find suitable deposits in the United States followed, The manufacture of fertilizer through the fixation of atmospheric free nitrogen by electrolysis was demonstrated, but nothing was done to take advantage of this discovery unti] its necessity was forced upon us by the war. Now factories are being started, but at rather a late date. A shortage in the supply of sulphuric acid in also reported, although the output of this ar- ticle was increased by more than 6 per cent dur- ing the year. A recent report from Washington wade the startling statement that 1,800 tons of sulphuric acid dally goes to waste in the smelter frvmes at Butte alone. These examples of na- tienal shiftlessness are not at all creditable, They emphasize the fact that the United States needs to be taught preparation in other wWays than for war, Going of Rev. Adolph Hult. With the departure of Rev. Adolph Hult from an Omaha pulpit to take a professor’s chalr in the college at Rock Island, to which he has been called, we bid adieu to a man who has been of resl service to the community., Quiet, with- out ostentation, conservative and sensible, with a remarkable faculty for saying the right thing at the right time, Dr. Hult has had an unob- trusive but nevertheless powerful influence on the affairs of Omaba. Scholarly, modest but eourageous, he voiced his opinions in a way that commanded attention, while his criticism, prof- fered on proper occasion, was keen but kirdly. He was well known to the readers of The Bee through his contributions to its columns, the most extensive of which were his “Impressions of a First Tripper,” a series of timely articles on Europe, showing his faculty for close obser- vation and his spirit of kindly eritical comment. Dr. Hult will be missed from a community in which he has been genuinely useful. The lure of the wild horses of New Mexice endangers the safety of domesticated horses te such an extent that state-wide preventive meas: ures are necessary. Nevada was similarly threatened by bands of wild horses some years g0, and the war of extermination undertaken not unlikely swelled the native colony to the south. In the romance of the chase no feat of horsemanship surpasses the hunt and capture of & wild horse alive, THE BEE OMAHA, TUESDAY, Why Army Costs So Much By Major General Nugh L, Soott. The chief of staff of the United States army, Major General Hugh L. Scott, has weitten the fol- lowing letter to a citizen of New Yok, Joseph L. Delafield, under date of December 7, explaining the high cost of the military establishment as compared with the establishments of European countries: Sir: Replying to your letter dated November ), 1915, wherein you request to be furnished whatever printed matter there may be showing how the present appropriations for national defense have beem ap- plied and why it is that other nations have been able to do so much more on smaller appropriations, I am directed by the secretary of war to inform you thst there is no printed matter of an official character which discusses our appropriation from the point of view you mention, From time to time statements have appeared in current publications showing the large appropriation necessary for the support of the military establish- ment of the United States and the relative small cost of the German army. By dividing each of these amounts by the total strength of each military estab- lishment an effort Is made to compare the high cost of one of our soldlers with the cost of a German soldier, which is very much lower than ours. No in- telligent .comparison can be made between the cost of the German and American military establishments without having first a clear understanding of the differences In the military systems of these two countries. The German pays his military obligations to ihe state in personal service, while we go into the labor market, where we are forced to compete with other employers of labor in order to secure our soldiers. In addition, there is a small class of volunteers in the German army, who, In exchange for certain privi- leges as to service, maintain themselves and supply their own uniforms and equipment. Again, the nor- mal wages In our labor market, where we obtain our recruits, are much higher than In Germany. The comparative cost of these two soldiers in dollars and ocents, therefore, means little except to emphasize the cost to our government, and indirectly to the citizen, of maintaining a mflitary establishment on the volun- tary principle. If we wish, then, to compare the cost of our army with the cost of those of other nations, we must limit our comparison to those nations which employ the same general system as ourselves. We will find that only one other nation in the world does so—Great Britain, In sixteen trades and callings, data for Wwhich ‘were obtainable In both the United States and Great Britain for 1912, we find that the average wage was 150 per cent higher In this country than in Great Britain. But the difficulty does not end here, for the price we pay to induce our soldiers to enlist and to maintain them thereafter is affected by the standard of luxury and the cost of living in the two countries under oonsideration. Agaln, taking British figures (which are well known to be higher than the Ger- man), we find that the cost of the food consumed by the average workingman in this country was 66 per cent higher than in Great Britain, the cost of fuel 21 per cent higher, and the cost of rent 91 per cent higher, In addition, there are many other factors which enter into the necessarily high cost of our army under present conditions, only a limited number of which can be mentioned here. One of the many items of expense in this country is that of tramsportation, both of men and supplies. In this country the gov. ernment must pay in cash at the commercial rate for all transportation, while in Germany the railways are state owned. Everything which we buy in this coun- try for the maintenance of the army is higher than corresponding articles in Germany, and after pur- chase must be transported over vastly greater distances. ‘The above are only a few of the items which make our army more costly than that of Germany, All of them are due to the system we employ to maintain our military forces, There are, of course, & number of {tems which render the cost of tne army unduly high, which are really imposed on the country as a result of political considerations. One of these is maintenance of the large number of park-llke army posts scattered all over our vast country. Another Is the proviso of law, which compels us to shift indi- viduals of our oversea garrisons once in two years. Another is the detached service law which makes it necessary to shift officers all over the country at trequent intervals. Condition of this nature are susceptible of cor- rection by legislation and really affect only a frac- tion of the increased cost of our army. The great cost of our army is due to the system we employ, and just so long as we continue to rely on a volun- tary military system, we will have to continue to pay an excessive amount for natlonal preparedness. Tak- ing into consideration the handicaps under which the government has to work in maintaining our army under the present system, it will be found that it is administered as economically as that of Germany or any other country, I hope the above may, In part, at least, answer your questions. There is really nothing in print on this subject which Is at all authentic. As stated above, & number of comparisons of the cost of our army and forelgn armies have been made at different times, but the bases of comparison were even more faulty than the data used, and sound conclusions cannot be drawn from amy such discussions. Twice Told Tales What of the Fishes. When Auditer of State Vic Donahey and six of his ten children had returned from Sunday school he tried the children out on the lesson, which had been about Noah and the ark. He tmpressed on their minds that of all the inhabitants of the earth, human, creeping and otherwise, all save those which had taken refuge on the ark had perished In the flood There was nothing living at all except what was on the ark, he told the children. The waters had drowned out all life, ay, dad,” Inquired one of the youngsters, who is especially precocious, “did the fishes in the water dle, too?" This was a poser for the auditor. He told the lad that he would answer the question later, Answer. ing questions right off the bat is one of the accom- plishments of the auditor, but the one the boy asked stumped him.—Columbus Dispatch. People and Events Some women in New Jersey are showing mere men a thing or two. Ome arrested for seizing the stak at a saloon where her husband was gambling, w | acquitted, and the husband of another, who had pre- sented her with an automobile and then sold it, was ordered to refund her the money. All In a # that voted against the cause. Hundreds of kiddies and scores of elders lving on Washington Helghts, New York City, on Fridav evening marched to the nearby Trinity cemetery and placed & wreath on the grave of Clement C. Moore, author of the famous Christmas poem, “'Twas the Night Before Christmas” The poem was recited and | several Christmas carols wuns. The married multitude and others note witn arched eyebrows the novel social departure intro- duced by a Chicago man transplanted In New York, J, Frank Aldrich, former congressman, gave & musi: cal and tea in honor of Mme. Mariska Aldrich, prima donna of the Metropolitan Opera company. Mme Mariska divorced J. Frank some two months ago. without seriously diminishing their friendship. More. over thelr two chidren shared wth mother, the hos- pitality of thelr father, and the affair was just as Jolly as though the diverce gulf was a myth, JANUARY 4, 1916. & Recora for 1015, TUSKEGER, Ala., Jan. 3—To the Pdi- tor of The Bee: As hewd of the division of records and research of the Tuskegee institute, T cosoperated with the late Dr. Booker T. Washington, principal, in keep- ing an annual record of all lynchings in the United States, which record was sent by him from time to time to the public press. According to this record there have been, during the year just closed, sixty-nine Iynchings. Of those lynched fifty-five were negroes and fourteen | were whites. This is six more negroes and eleven more whites than were put to death by mobs in 1914, when the record | was forty-nine negroes and three whites. Included in the record are three women. | In at least four instances it later de- veloped that the persons put to death were innocent of the offenses charged Eighteen, or more than one-fourth of the total lynchings, occurred in the state of Georgila. Only eleven, ten negroes and one white, of those put to death, or 15 per cent of the total, were charged with rape. Other offenses and number lynched for were: Murder, seventeen, five white and twelve negroes; killing officers of the law, nine, three whites and six negroes; wounding officers of the law, three; clubbing of- ficer of the law, a fainily of four, father, son and two daughters; polsoning mules, three; stealing hegs, two, white; disre- garding warnings of night riders, two, white; Insulting women, three; entering women's rooms, two; wounding a man, two; stealing meat, one; burglary, two; robbery, one; looting, one: stealing cot- ton, one; charged with stealing cow, one; furnishing ammunition to man resisting arrest, two; beating a wife and child, one, white; charged with being accessory to the burning of a barn, one. Lynchings occurred in the following states: Alabama, nine; Arkansas, five Florida, five; Georgia, eighteen; Illinols, wne; Kentucky, five; Louisiana, two; Mis- sissippl, nine; Missouri, two; Ohio, one; Oklahoma, three; South Carolina, ons Tennessee, two; Texas, five; Virginia, one, MONROB N. WORK, Division of Records and Research. Indignation Well Expressed. OMAHA, Jan, 8~To the Bditor of The Bee: Can you explain to your patrons why it is that on entering a street car in Omaha, women or men alike have to rub up against a gang of loafers who are standing in the passageway smoking stinking doped clgarettes? I call them loafers, for no gentleman will stand in the passageway and puff the smoke in passengers’ faces as they have to pass into the c Cannot this be stopped in some way? You will every day see & gang of loafers at Sixteenth and Far- nam streets whose mothers are taking in washing for a living, to furnish the gang with cigarettes, who are to lazy to work, but can stand on the corner smoking and making remarks about women as they pass. This gang should be photographed and their plcture shown In your paper. 8. R. RUSSELL. Walls of a Mere Husband, OMAHA, Jan. 3.-To the Editor ot The Bee: 1 have frequently wondered why, if there may be “Confessions of a W why mot “Walls of a Mere Husband? ¥or surely all the woes of marriage are not borns by women. When wives who go daffy reading the former recitals of plain gossip; when they so absorb their meaning that they are disposed to desig- nate their husbands by the names of the u frable samples presented in the “confessions,” why have mnot husbands the obligation resting upon them to ‘‘come back” with their side of the domestic problems? This disposition has long resided in me, and if you are disposed to lend your col- umns to some tales, I hope I may relate some in future stories that will at least express what thousands of husbands feel and are helpless in thelr desires to es- cape. Since the other stories come from the dark, I trust I will be pardoned it 1. too, conceal my identity. For a man cannot, if he would, discard altogether considerations for his family, even if the members of that family league them- selves against him and attempt by in- numerable schemes to drill him into a groove. So, out of consideration for my wife and daughters (my son can take care of himselD), I prefer to remain “in- cog." Men are heipless in the presence of women. Sometimes I believe this is be- cause of thelr innate consideration for the feminine character. Sometimes I be- lieve it is because they are plain cowards. Men's clubs flourish mainly because of this fact. Thelr clubs afford them some- what of a means of escape and somewhat as a phalanx against feminine onslaughts. At least this is the general sentiment among the men who congregate at the clubs where I congregate, whether it be the Elks or Moose or the Omaha club. We would not so much object to soclal affairs were it not that the feminine ele- ment of them attempts enforcement of conditions repugnant to what we con- ceive to be our individual rights. Agreed that the masculine and feminine sexes do mot perfectly amalgamate, Le- cause both of them are so constituted mentally that they cagrot get a clear perspective of the viewpoint of the oppo- site sex. Man througn many ages has been the master, and this, perhaps, has given him a distorted view of his pos- tion. Whether this view be abnormal or not, the fact remains that no man who is truly a man will long retain rega~d for & woman who attempts to master him. 1f she is diplomatic, 1 grant, she may be able to bring him to her wishes, but she will never retain his love for her by enforced commands. 1 know of few cases, however, where women attempt the mastery of their husbands except In social matters. In these, men, at least scores of them with whom 1 have spoken, protest against the unnatural restrictions and demands upa: them by the feminine side of the house. Sometimes they “fall for them" because they are willing to jom thelr wives in attempts to find suitable matches for their daughters, but they always submit ungracefully and ungraciously. The es- travagance to which these functions lead has to my personal knowledge in some icstances, and in many of which I have heard, sent men to the penitentiary. Any genuine man will hesitate about denying anything to the women of his household Above everything else he fears to con- fess his poverty. If the demands exceed his abllity to pay, he schemes out new ways in which to raise the cash. These schemes sometimes go wrong. 1 will make & confession of my own actions of the past, which would Fave landed me where others have landed had my actions been discovered. 1 have always been far behind merely because I have not had the manhood and determination to call & halt upon ex- travagant demands. And these demands must have been made upon me because my family desire to shine in a soc! way equal to others whose incomes are far greater. Sometimes, though, 1 won- der if the men of these other house- holds are not about In the same position that 1 am in. I wonder how many of them could bear an inspection of their actual assets? CINNICUS. | Editorial Snapshots Detroit Free Press: Somebody has pro- posed & tax on golf balls. As if the fel. low who loses one to you doesn't howl long and loud enough as it is. Springfield Republican: Bird sanctuar- fes of all of the cemeteries of the coun- try, covering more than a million acres of land, are proposed by the National Association of Audubon socleties. The campalen is directed not only to the prevention of the use of firearms in cemeteries, but the exclusion of cats, the growing of berries and protecting shrub- bery and the supplying of food in other | ways and of nest-building material. The suggestion is excellent. St. Louls Giobe-Democrat: The atti- tude of the United States toward the subject of defense is the one taken by President Jackson in his first inaugural. Although himeelf a man of blood and fron, he opposed a large standing army, while favoring enlargement of the navy. Secretary Garrison In his annual report argued that universal mlilitary service is an impoesibility, however desirable ex- perts might find it. It is hard to beliove that the deliberate conclusions of his officlal report have been so speedily overturned. When he hears from the country he will return to his previous stand. Varlous socleties are beating tomtoms for preparedness, but if they hope to turn the United States into an armed camp they have failed to reckon with the spirit of Americans. New York World: To Major Robert R. Moton of Hampton, as successor to the late Booker T. Washington at the head of Tuskegee institute, come great re- sponsibilities and great opportunities. The place of Tuskeges In the education of the negro is firmly fixed. To extend and develop its work with the growing resources with it is hoped may soon be availatle wil; call for mpecial gifts of leadership. The trustees of Tuskegee, who have long known Major Moton, speak of him & nother forceful personality.” He was a close frienq of Brooker T. Washington, a firm bellever In his methods, and equipped by experience and character to carry on the work at Tuskegee in the same broad and practical apirit. SUNNY GEMS. ‘‘So Katherine married her reform him. Did she succeed? Completely! She’ extravagant that he can't afford even the smallest of his former vices."—Boston Transcript. husband to Postmaster—No, not much doin' in town. Did ye hear erbout Lem Huggins gettin' a telegram? Farmer—Not Lem? Postmaster—Yes, Lem. Farmer—By cracky! It beats all, ther way the young fellers are forgin' ter the front.—Chicago News. remarked the professor, “the general’ function of the heads of several learned members of this class is ot keep thelr neckties from slipping off.” ‘Harvard Lampoon. said_the visitor; ts a ‘Choral soclety, 'sald the nati “‘Gentlemen," “this village understand.” 'we never boast posaible! I've tried to several times, but you invariably look upon the amount as a gift."—Boston Transcript. ““The highest compliment a girl can re- celve is for & man to ask her to marry im. “Well, 1 don't know. Most s 't two or three of those eompllmerfl:. g;l how y girls are asked to permit their features to appear upon a soap cal " ~—Pittsburgh Post. . e FORWARD! Alfred Noyeu. A thousand creeds and battle cries, A thousand warring social schemes, A thousand new moralties, And twenty thousand dreams. Each on his own anarchiac way From the old order breaking Our ruined world desires, you s: License, once more, not Liberty. Bt ah, beneath the struggling foam, When storm and change are on the deep, How quietly the tides come home, And how the depths of sea-shine sleep; And we who march toward a goal, roying only to fulfill The law, the law of that great soul Which moves beneath your allen will; We, that like foemen meet the past use we bring the future, know We only fight to achieve at last A great reunion with our foe; Reunion lllil the truths that stand en all our wars are ] Reunion of the heart and nand """ And of the prayers wherewith we pray; Reunion in the common nseds, e common H Reunion of our warrig cepeds” 04! In the one God that dwells behind. * * * Forward!—~what use in idle Forward, O warriors of the seulr ‘There will be breaking up of swords When that n - Weg ew morning makes the e FOR A BAD COUGH Here is a fine old-fashioned re- cipe for coughs, colds or catarrh trouble that has been used for many years with great success. 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