Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 26, 1916, Page 6

FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. ‘The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. BEE BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTBENTH. Entered at Omaha postoffice as second-class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By carrier By mall Per year. 9800 R 6.0 4.00 per month. e Bee, three years in advance. ® : and Sunday of 4 Send notice of change of address or compl E irregularity in delivery to Omaha Bee, Clrou n Department. REMITTANCE. 1 Remit by draft, express or postal order. Only two- cent ips _teceived in payment of small ae- | counts. checks, except on Omaha and eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE: Relief for Jewish War Sufferers. i The proclamation of President Wilson, mak- ing tomorrow a special day for gathering con tributions for the relief of Jewish war sufferers, calls general attention to the urgent needs of ! by far the largest group of war victims because not confined to any one country Heart-touching appeals have been made for the hapless Belgians, for the poverty-stricken Poles, for the exiled Serblans, for the persecuted Armenians, but none present a counterpart of | ,lhe wretched Jews who happened to have in- habited all ¢f the contested war arenas, and who have been rendered homeless and fugitive, women and children and old men, the sick and the helpless, almost all of their belongings gone, dependent upon assistance for clothing and nourishment to sustain life until they can get a foothold for a new start By reason of this exceptional condition, con- tributions for Jewish war relief take on no color gmaer T SR Bouth Omaha—18 N street. P R i " S FornsBoom T, 9 Fiith avenue | & Touls-68 New Bank of Commerce. | rteenth St., N. W. | CORRESPONDENCE | A communications r‘ltlll& to news and edl- matter to Omaha Bee, Dditorial Department. | DECEMBER CIROULATION. 53,534 Bee of sympathy for or against any of the belliger® ent nations. It is an appeal for humanity, for a down-trodden people whose misfortunes are in no way of their own making, but which are more acute because they have been for centuriee down-trodden. What is also to be emphasized is that while Twenty Facts About Jewish War Sufferers The following twenty facts are vouched for by fhe Jewish Colonization association of Petrograd, the Hiltsverein der Deutchen Juden of Berlin, the Israel- itische Alllans su Wein of Vienna and the American Jewish Relief committes of Palestine—organizations, all on the ground, and In a position to get first-hand and accurate information Rusain. 1. Nearly three-quarters of & million men, women and children of Jewish faith are homeless. 2. The expulsions started last May were systemat feally followed up with decrees covering a very much wider territory. 3. The notices to the Jewish residents to leave their homes varies from three to twenty-four hours. 4. In addition to the physical and mental agory caused by these expulsions, a far more serious result was the breaking up of thousands of families, mem- bers of which were lost on the way. 5. Ola men dropped on the road from exhaustion. Women in travail died. Children took fll. 4. The congestion of the refugees In unsanitary quarters In the Jewish cities resulted in the outbreak of infectious and contagious disea. #0 that the in- fant mortality in cities like Lodz and Warsaw mounted | alarmingly. relief work for the Jews has been carried on | since the beginning of the war upon a colossal scale, it has been financed so far wholly by the Jewish people, without calling upon those not Nebraska, Count Do 8 ‘Willlama, a‘r-cu,h}l"n n“l:'l.-.n'm.'. it '&ut A uly sworn, sa; af .m mfl'w - A gy boe-'l'nbaf l&' of Jewish faith, who are now for the first time Circulation Manager. and sworn u.q'f 1916. R, Notary Publie. Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. It is worth poting, too, that in the income tax case, the decision of the court ia unanimous. Fortune favors the brave. An abandance of presidential timber elevates the republican party far beyond:the mecessity of depending on one man. SE———— Colonel Bryan will not trail President Wilson on his fortheoming swing round the circle. Mr. card for him, SE——— date for governor please trot himself out and itselt to a fraszle? ~ meat the spirit of Bryan remains, The Lusi- e e ‘The need of & stimulant in the asbes- they are al capitalizing confidence by sprucing up steamers for the expected rush of Americans abroad “when the cruel war is over.” Salvini's version of Othello, which the great Italian tragedian presented at the Boyd, calls forth extens! summoned time and again before the before the last drop he was treated to ovation never before accorded an actor in this city. accompanied by his son, Alexander Salvini, visitors, and were on that he expected sometime in April to join Booth in Boston for & grand production cf in - wh the Moor. Pacific Telegraph company has erected & new wround its table in the Millard hotel rotunda rator, W. B. Blake, who s handling H The Burns' soclety celebrated the 127th anniversary Burns' birth with & ball in Light Guard hall, pre- addresses and musical numbers. The speai- Anderson, John L. Kennedy, and the - musical aumbers rendered by Miss Ida L. Gibson, Miss © Maggle Meldrum, Miss Belle Gwinner and W. O. o and Messrs. Robertaon, Shand, H. W. Dunn. ‘Thurston is recovering from his recent severs asked to help in this worthy cause, growing out Germany's Latest Concession. A note now in the hands of the secretary of state at Washington is sald to contain Ger- many's ultimate answer to American represen- tations in the Lusitania case. It concedes practically everything but the main point. On this the German government seems to be ob- durate, declining to admit that the sinking of the passenger boat without warning was not a proper form of reprisal. The modification of the German admiralty's orders to its submarine commanders, since the incident, does not change the principle. This is the point on which the president has lald greatest stress in all his communications Bryan will not let any one make out his route | OR the subject. If Germany declines to go furs ther than is at present signified, then an im passe has been reached, so far as this issue is Won't that “dark horse” democratic candi- | concerned. The importance of the point is es- banced by reason of the fact that it is involved identity himself before popular curiosity frays | in the controversy with Austria, and the addi- tional fact that Turkey is coming to the front as an offender in a similar way by claiming credit E——— Deéspite his retirement from the Stale depart- | for the sinking of the Persia, The most serious phase of the submarine tania eonversation promises to reach the year | situation has not yet been passed, despite optim- istic reports from Washington. The president’s next move will be of deep interest to his coun- E——— muunmumu"uau- trymen. —— When Superior Advantages Don't Count. Omeha is pronounced an ideal location for outs | ® Sovernment munitions plant and the assem- bling and storage of war supplies of all kinds. From the standpoint of accessibility and traps- portation facilities, no one can successfully con- trovert this proposition, nor can any other city middle west claim superior advantages. what are we to expect when we recall that apply to other government pply warehouse, and its army quarter- depot has been maintained as a name only. What are we to expect whea we remem- ber the shabby way Omahe was euchered out of Giving Up the Philippines. The president and his advisers are standing at the fork of the road on the Philippine ques- tion, and are about determined to take the one leading to a definite promise of independence for the islands within a fixed time. Probable effects of the proposed policy are readily discernible. The adoption of the Clarke amendment to the administration bill will be notice to the powers to prepare for the grand scramble, to see which can grab the islands first. Whether England, Germany, Japan or any of the others, it may be easily understood that the process of exploitation will be smoothly resumed, and the Filipino will soon be back where we found him. It is admitted that the Filipino is no, ready yet for self-government, nor is he likely to be- come 80 within a reasonable length of time. The United States has done more for the people of the islands in the last fifteen years than Spaln did in four centuries. We have set up industries, established schools, divorced church and state, provided for stable government, much of the executive and administrative authority and power belng in the hands of the natives; espe- ¢lally is this true of the law-making and admin- istrative machinery, and have secured for the people a greater measure of individual freedom and security than they ever knew. But we have not finished our work there. BEven with self-government, the islands will be too weak to maintain independence, and the likelihood that Japan will immediately seize the archipelago is strong. Efforts of our government in the islands have been continually hampered by the Bryanites with their vague and indefinite promises, Withdrawal with the task unfinished means the abandonment of the natives to their former submerged condition. It will relieve us of some expense, but what about our responsi- bility and moral obligation under the duty we assumed in 1898? While he was at the White House, “at the request of the president,” to discuss the Philip- pine measure, wonder if the senator managed to get in a word on the side to let the president know where to get off on the Omaha postmas- tership and on the Nebraska federal judgeship vacancy? We shall soon see what we shall see, emp—— Japan’s superior knowjedge of crown fash- fons appears to be responsible for deferring the crowning event in China. As a regulator of fash- jons in the orient Japan has all competitors ‘backed off the Chinese wall. 7. In May of this year, and after the first expul- sion had been put into effect, the following number of refugees were reported by the Jewish Colonization association: Warsaw, 75,000 people; Viina, 12,000; Ra- dom, 2000, Kielce, 3,000; Konsk, 4,000; Minsk, 200; Prassnysh, 1500; Guasiatin, 1,200, Shaki (Suvalkl), 1,600; Lomsha, 5000, Khmeinik, Province Kielce, 1,600, Since that time these numbers have increased almost temfold. No accurate figures can be given of the num- ber of refugees because hundreds of thousands are eating up their little savings, and have not registered At any relief agency. These are rapidly reaching the end of thelr resources and will soon have to fall on philanthropy The commercial life in the Russian Pale 1s lying waste. The merchants, great and small, are ruined, and unemployment is universal. 9. In Polana alone there are nearly 30 towns that have suffered materially from the war. 10. Over 3,000,000 townspeople are destitute, 11. Destitution Is so widesp:cad that no one province can be selected typical of the want. Especially miserable are the residents of the provinces of Kovno and Grodno, the provinces of Bessarabla, Podolls and Volynia. Galicla, » 12 A commission of the Jewish Colonization nsso- clation traveled through sections of Galicla, and they reported that the economic waste and ruin in those #ections were even greater than in the Russlan prov- inces. 13. Bven In normal times Galicla Is a poverty- stricken country, and now that thousands of towns have been razed and destroyed, hundreds of thousands of Jewish people are thrown on the mercy of the gov- ernment, which gives M cents a day to each refugee, and on the private philanthropies, like the Israelitische Alllans ‘Wein, which are so limited in their resources that they continually have to plead to the Jews of Americe. for rellef funds. 15 In Vienna alone there are over 300,000 Galiclan refugees. . « 16. These refugees are huddled in tmprovised lodg- ing houses, in stabl, nd basements, and in the ruins of former buildings. 17. The soup kitchens are mobbed every day, and ‘while they give ald to a few hundred, needy thousands &re on line clamoring for the elementary needs of ex- istence. 18 The situation of the Hungarian Jews in those counties bordering on Galicla is deplorable, Palestine. Lk 2. The misery of Palestine is an old story. Cut oft from communication with Europe, upon whose capital it lives, its crops wasted, its tields fallow, and the plague destroying the orange crop, the Inhabitants of Palestine have Indeed been in a sorry plight. Mr. Louis H. Levin, who recently made a personal trip with a commission through that section, reported un- equivocally that the immediate want of the inhabitants there Is for food. i Something drastic—immediately effective—something that will arouse more than superficial interest—must be done. Twice Told Tales How it Looked to Him, “Ah, do tell me something about the play last night. They say that climax at the close of the third act was simply grand,” she said “Yes, I am inclined to think it was very good,” he replied, without any marked degree of enthusiaswm, “Can’'t you describe it to me?’' she continued, beaming radiantly. “Why," explajned he, “the heroipe came stealthily on the stage and knelt, dagger in h& behind a clump of blue ribbons. The hero emerged from a large bunch of lilacs and as soon as she perceived him she fell upon, stabbed him twice and sank, half-consclous, into & very handsome algret. This may sound a trifie queer, but the woman in front of me came in late for the performance and became so intensely interested that she forgot to remove her hat, and that's how it looked to me."’—Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph, Tale of the Ortent. President Wilson's favorite limerick 1s brought to mind by the following tale from the orfent. Timur lenk, the Tartar invader, was very ugly and catching & glimpse of himself in a mirror he burst into tears. The court jester began weeping also and kept it up long after his master had stopped. Timur looked at him in astonishment. “I wept with reason” he sald, “at beholding my own ugliness—1 the lord of so many lands. But I do not understand why you should thus despair.” “It you, my lord,” veplicd the jester, “‘wept for two hours after seelng yourself in the mirror for an inatant, is it not matural that I who see you all day long should weep longer than you?'—Boston Traa- soript. People and Events. A large amount of interior joy pervades the boyland sections of San Francisco. War, has stripped the market of castor oil and it's all off on the oid reliable spring dope The feap year bachelor rarely foresees Whenoce the hook comes, In Cleveland a woman to whom & Wan gave a seat in the street car married him, All he expected was, “Thank you." For thirty-five years Uncle Jimmie Haigler of Cariton, Okl., has shunned shoes and shoe leather and trod his native heath with bare feet. Now at 76 he hasn't a corn or bunion or a shadow of fear of cqid feet. Some men 8re wise in their day, others buy shoes. A thrifty wife of & Jerseyman in & stretch of thirty-five years saved $30,000 out of the household in- come. She then tried to doublecross the “old man" right to an equal share of the savings, which amounts 1o a domestic square deal. it's all off with Charley Livingstone, OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1916, Cal Commission Flan Best. OMAHA, Jan. 5-To the BMitor of The Bee: Some time ago a ocertain writer wrote that the ofty council is better than & commission form of government. He stated that 60,000 citizsens of the South Side do not receive their share . But of we consider the question we shall see why commission form of government is the better. First of all, the members of the city council are chosen by districts or wards and usually one member from each ward; these, of course, wish to get all they can for thelr respective districts. The commission form does away with these evils of the ward system by electing men from the city at large, In Chicago the ward system led to inequality of repre- sentation. A small body of men is better fitted to govern a ecity than a large council, composed of members who consider them- selves the special representatives of the petty districts from which they were chosen. The affairs of a city are neces- sarily complex and often technical Jn na- ture, and require for their special man- agement skill and efficlency. City gov- ernment is often and Is, In fact, compared to the management of a business enter- prise like a bank or a manufacturing concern, which, as experience has shown, can be better conducted by a small board of directors than by the whole body of stockholders. Finally the concentration of the powers of the city in a small body of men tends to secure a more ef- fective responsibility than can be secured under a system in which the responsi- bility is divided between the mayor and ED CHAPMA Prohibition. LINCOLN, Jan. 2.—To the Editor of The Bee: I have had my attention called to a circular that is being sent out to busi- ness men, especlally bankers in Nebraska, on “Cost of Prohibition in the South.” It purports to give ‘‘some official facts and figdres” from ‘“Finance, a Com- mercial Journal,” published at Cleveland, O. ' These so-called facts are a reprint- from the Banking World. This matter was furnished these papers by an adver- tising agency of New York City and nas lately appeared in a number of alleged financial publications. The article is ad- Ye! vertising matter, pure and simple. our wet friends are sending it to bui men to Influence them. “Finance” is owned by the Britton Publishing company, which is controlled by C. A. Otls, a broker who deals largely in brewery stock and bonds, and who was un active member of the wet campalgn committee of Cuyahoga county during the recent prohibition campaign in Ohio. As to the reliabllity of the facts, we wish to merely give one or two illustr tions. “Finance” says, “for lack of funds Georgia has been compelled to hold up the salaries of school teachers, and re- cently has had to place an additional $3,600,000 bond issue on the market.” In reply to this statement, the governor of Georgia has written, ““The salaries of #school teachers in Georgla have been paid as promptly since the prohibition laws went into effect as they have been pald in the last twenty years. The $3,500,000 bond issue was to retire $3,500,00 bonds issued thirty years ago." “Finance,” says, “there were 179 illicit distilleries selzed and destroyed in 1906; in 1914 the number had risen to 308" in Ala- bama. That is true, and in both of these years Alabama was a wet state and not lunder prohibition. Alabama's large debt s also twenty years old, as is also the debt of Tennessee, of which “Finance” seems to make so much. It is also true that Maine, Kansas and North Dakota are all dry states, and not a single fllicit still was reported in the last four years, nor wasan illicit gallon of whisky selzed in any of them. Its complaint with relation to Virginia is certainly wide of the mark, for Vir- ginja's prohibitory law has not yet gone into effect. The deficit in West Virginia was $4%0,000 in June, and yet it was wet at that time. ‘While it was discussing the deficits of these so-called dry states, “Finance" might well have called attention to the fact that land is just now experi- encing the test ditficulty with ita finances it has ever had, and that Louisiana, which is certalnly wet enough, is the worst debt.ridden state of the south, If the liquor interests hope to win the Nebraska campaign with such slush as this, they are certainly doomed to disap- pointment. * H. F. CARSON, Publicity Department Dry Federation. Voting on an Amended Mot HUMPHREY, Neb, Jan. %.-To the Bditor of The Bee: Please answer in The Bee letter box the following ques- tion: At a regular meeting of an or- ganisation & motion was made and sec- onded that & committee of three be ap- pointed to write and invite a newcomer to join the organisation, an amendment was made that the comnittee should go and see him personally; andther amend- ment was made that the chairman be one of the committee. Both amendments were seconded, voted on and' carried, then the motion, or the main question ‘was asked for to be voted on. Here the chatrman ruled that the amendment took place of the motion,, or the main ques- tion, and voting on the original, or main question, was not necessary. Is he right? Should not the motion be voted on? organization adopted Roberts’ Did the chairman rule Note—Technically the original motion should be put again as amended, but as a short cut this is often omitted, the presumption being, unless challenged, that all who voted for the amendment are still of the same mind, and for the motion as amended. ¥ Editorial Snapshots ‘Washington Post: The innate bravery { Nebraska Editors may bite off more than we can chew, and we are merely getting our munitions of chaw Into shape for the emergency New York Times T don't see Sim Flubdub any more at the 'rowr{ lyceum.” Sim sorter lost caste on a cracker barrel wasn't worth living. ‘Well 7 “Sim was the fi ville Courfer-Jo W. J. Herbes has sold the Cedar Rapids Outlook to R. L. MoDonald. He was setting arguing that_life L. W. Enyart, who grew up on the A lamp exploded.” Hayes Center Republican, has again as- sumed charge of the paper. Arthur Kimberling, editor of the Alma Record, and Mrs. Jessle R. Conklin of Alma were married at Lincoln last week Ross Hammond's Fremont Tribune of last Friday bhad an interesting twenty- elght column article coatributed by one of Fremont's enterprising mechants. Horace M. Davis, president of the Ne- braska Press assoclation, has called a meeting of the executive committee at Hastings Saturday evening to arrange for the next annual convention Frank P, Shields, who wants the demo- | cratio nomination for governor, is offer- ing his paper, the Orieans Isser for sale He says he wants to conduct his cam- paign without any handicap or artificial alds. Edward Varner, editor of the Adams Globe, is the champion trapshot of Ne- braska, according to the official aver- ages of the Inter-State Trap Shooting association recently issued. His average for the 2,60 targets shot at during the year was 92 per cent. Osceola Record: A few reports have filtered in as to what was sald at the famous democratic editorial love feast at Lincoln, but the democratic press hasn't sald anything about the Dahlman speech, and even the Polk County Demo- crat falls to mention it The first annual meeting of the North- east Nebraska Press assoclation will be man out."—Louls- “Waldo, 1 wish you would put that fitth nocturne on the planola.” “Eight in the morning is a trifle early for_music, my dear.” “I know, but the length of time it takes to piay is just right for bolling an egg.'—Louisville "Courfer-Journal, Fred Ends Dry, Hoarse or Painful Coughs Quickly ple, Home-Made Remedy, mexpensive but Umequaled. The by eough syrup h more homes than any other remedy. held at Wayne Friday and Saturday. flvn almost instant relief and will usual- rompt and positive resulfs given thls "plensant "tasting. home mads caused it to be used l‘: Judge James Britton will be toastmaster | g’“x'mG the average cough in 24 at the banquet Friday evening. Addresses | "“coy'o1. ouncey Pinex (5 ex (50 cent will be made by W, D. Redmond, EUgene | from any. dron stons mour it tero w ik O. Mayfield, M. A. Phillips, N. A. Huse, | bottle and fllfihe bottle with plain granu- M. M. Warner, Victor Rosewater and |lated nu;ar syrup. This makes a full Rev. W. L. Gaston. | pint—a family 'ugnlv—ol the most ef- ective cough remedy af ¢ A. V. Wortinan, whe 1eosntly purchased [osata on g, Son Lot Sost of oty 54 the Hebron Champion from Henry Allen You couldn’t buy as much ready-made cough medicine for $2.50. Brainard, hias bought the Hebron Register from John Loetterle and will consolidate Easily prepared and never spoils. ~Full the two properties, February 1. Everett directions with Pinex. H. Kendall, who has been city editor of | The promptness, certainty and ease with which this Pinex Syrup overcomes the North Platte Telegraph for several years, will be associated with Mr. Wort- a bad Bollfl!. chest or throat cold is truly mnrhh . It quickly loosens a dry, rh':a or h’f‘\‘n‘l cough lndh hclll“ln}{ S soothes a painful cough in a hurry. With man {n the new venture. a persistent loose co:{h it stops the for- mation of phl in the throat and bron- MIRTHFUL REMARKS. hi.ll tubes, thus ending the annoying “}n'ilnhl ure'oneenmud ‘eomt- e A Fiels in gualacol and 3s famous the worl over for its splendid effect in bronchitis, whooping cough, bronchial asthma an “‘Father,” sald the small boy, “what's an_optimist?’ “An optimist, my son, is a man who tries so hard to be. cheerful that you feel sorry to see him overworking him- | W3 Selt. "—Washington Star. winter eonfih-. 4 To avoid disappointment in making He—There are two periods this, ask your di st for “214 ounces life when he never understan: of Pinex” and don’t She—Indeed! And when are they? He—Before and after marriage.—Phila- delphia Ledger. t & else. A guarantee of rbwluce satis tion, or money promptly refunded, with _this preparation. " The Pinex Co,, “When I took Mrs. Gaddy out for gn Ft. 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