Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 28, 1916, Page 8

THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1916. | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE | FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. | The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. | BERE BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTBENTH. B e ittty Entered at Omaha postoffice as second-class matter. | TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ] By carrier By mall | per moég per year. Tee, (hree years in advance. Sépu fotlcs ¢i chaige of aadress or complaints uf frrequiarity - delivery to Omaha Bee, Circulatiol Uepartiment. T8 i3 if | Only two- | ST | REMITTANCE. Remit by draft, express or al order. cent mps_received {in payment of counts. nal checks, except on Omal exohange. not Accepted. OF FICES. Omaha--The Bee Building. Bouth Omaha—218 N st Council Bluffe—11 North Main street. coln——% Little tn | fth avenue. o Benk of Gt | ngton—T. Fourteerth §t, N. W. CORS‘CPONDENC., Address communications relating to torial matter to Omaha Bee, &lm DECEMBER CIROULATION. 53534 %&. B roen B 0] Notary Publie. a8, 8 Subscribers leaving the city temporarily shonld have The Bee malled to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. | and scattered resources. Wanted—Health Department Consolidation. The trying situation presented by the unu- | sual prevalence of contagious disease in Omaha —~likewise in other cities—emphasizes the need for us to mobilize our sickness-fighting forces by consolidating all our health machinery under one board of strategy and one general. As things now are (and this is not finding fault with anyone on the firing line) we have the conflict and confusion of divided authority Under the health com- missioner’s direction the city is supposed to look | after sanitation, including quarantine and dis- infection and emergency cases. The county, | with its eounty physiclan, and his assistants, Is supposed to take care of the indigent sick and maintain a county hospital for strictly charity patients, but with very limited activities. Still, a third authority, fixed in the school board, has control over health conditions in the public schools. With the best of intentions, it is impossible to have these three branches of the good-health army concentrate thelr fire without duplication and waste of ammunition, and the inevitable tendency is to invite dispute over cases in the “twilight zone,” which might properly belong to each or all of them. The movement should be started at once, and skould not stop until the goal {8 reached, to ef- ftect a complete merger of all the health, hospital and sanitation machinery which our taxpayers support in order to get the full benefit of the coffort exerted and the money spent. Spme— Properly Disciplined. Reprimanding a captain of the artillery who had been found guilty of assaulting a private soldler and beating him oOver the head with a heavy pistol, Major General Wood refers to the aftalr as “‘one of those regrettable ocenrrences which bring discredit upon the service.” The Look, look what's here? The ship purchase |y ... .00 of the commanding general of the army bill with an sutomotic pulmotor. Season and surroundings vt;rl against the Rio Grande as a safety swimming resort. Snegtep— This time the weather man did not fool us, but delivered the goods as per cold-wave flag. Sm—— The reports from the royal sick chamber of Holland would indicate that the mumps is no recpecter of persons. Spp—— The latest exposition of the British blockade carriers to noutrals the defiant note: ““What are you golng to do about it?* St — A Kansas woman announces that she will be # candidate for vice president. Brother Burkett might as. well understand at once what he is going against. ——— If the Nebraska bullmoosers insist on put- " ting up third party state.and local tickets, some of them may have to double-up and run for two Jffices at the sime. Governor Morehead 't stand for remomi- nutlon, but his private tary, whom he ap- : ‘chiet justice, will make a try to be “That séems a falr exchange. 1 40 B0t (B0 SRERE Yoy oF thy Watn- i the Episcopal church in this counptry ontal funeral procession, falls 0 ton in Omaha for the ,has not even ceme- 0 ded up the night riders, sonding eight deaders to the penitentiary and --j‘ s {0 churches and Sunday wchools. The latter senteuce comes perilously t susl punishment.” ulry 1nto the superior speed supposition that locomotives do s to 0oy, two of the cleverest comedians be- blie, are billed to put on Hoyt's latest Atch,” at the Boyd tomorrow. s hardly sufficlently strong to properly charac- terize the offense. General Wood shows his in- terest by his action in holding up the sentence of the court-martial, which recommended that the offending captain be reduced ten files in his standing, as being totally Inadequate. In an organization such as the army, where the offi- cer has complete power and authority over the private, it would seem that a captain who allowed his temper to lead him into attacking an enlisted man had thereby proved his utter unfit- ness for command. Self-control is the first qual- ification sought in a good leader, and in this case it peems to be entirely lacking. Fortunately few such afficers miny be found in the United States army, but one is too many, Sr———— Interference With Neutral Traffic. Sir Edwin Grey’s speech in Commons on the British policy of dealing with world’s commerce under war conditions eaglly convinces the mem- bers of Parliament, and very likely will appease the country, as the people over there are just at present eagerly pursulng any justification for the course adopted. It {s not likely to suit the people of the United States so well, nor is it probable that the views of ‘the British forelgn minjster will be adopted in this country as finaily dettling the question. Bir Edwin Grey approaches the topic sclely ffom the standpoint of what is better for Great Britain in its position a8 ruler of the seas at peace and a rather per- plexed belligerent ir the prosent war. No complaint has been made from this side that the bl o cuts off enemy trafflc. That is to be . What s really objected to 1s the interference with traffic between neutral ports, The right of neutrals to traffic freely hak never been questioned, and even the Brit- ish cabinet admits it to be tundamental, but ‘o practice has sought to abrogate it. Holding that atriotly neutral traffic is subject to interference 18 a peculiar extenslon of the principle under which the right to visit and search has been estublished. It is not supported by the practice of the United States during the Civil war, al- though that is referred to continually by the British cabinet {n its communications and other oxpressions on the point. No objection will be raised if the Allles blockade a Duteh port or a Scandinavian port that is dealing directly with Germany. What s serinusly objected to is the interception of traf- fie of neulals between neutral ports. To admit the correctness of Minister Grey's present post- tion is to concede the ancient British boast, “no flag but by permission floats." SEEe———————— : Shipping Bill and Politics, - President Wilson indicates his purpose of pressing agaln the .administration shipping bill, which falled at the last session of congress. BSome changes in the measure have been tenta- tively outlined, one being that under the new plan the government will build and own the ships, and lease them to operators. Assistance to builders will also be provided, under condi- tions that will give the federal government the sorvice of the vessel in event of war. In the main the features of the measure that were so objectionable are retained. The urgent necessity for the measure at this time s hardly apparent. American shipyards are all busy, and none will take a contract for delivery short of two years. Therefore, unless the bar against forelgn-built vessels is removed, the president’s pet measure will be of little serv- ice and if it be made possible to buy ships abroad, the money will be spent in foreign shipyards, a course that would not altogether be foreign to democratic administrative practice. As to bujld- iog the merchant ships in the government navy yards, naval vessels authorized two years ago to be constructed in theee yards have not yet been lald down. The shipbuilding ipdustry was never 80 prosperous as at present, pricias were never so high and vessels never sold #o readily, A project recently broached, that our government buy the German ships interned at New York and other American ports, developed the fact that not only do the Germans decline to sell, but that they are busily constructing more ships. The president’s insistence on his program suggests that he is trylug to make political cap- ital vut of & situation brought about by the war. A far more useful program would be to provide for the extension of the goverament navy yards, to increase thelr capacity. e — Despite the extra millions needed to finance preparedness, democratic economists are not passing up & chance for congressional pork. ‘I The Frost on the Window | mark, meaningless for all but himself. T I8 & beautifub sight to see genius at play. 1 saw I such a sight the other night, and it convinced mé, or would have done #0 if 1 had needed to be con- vinced, that Edison's definition of genius, as nothing but “hard work,, stick-to-it-iveness and commdn sense,” Ia utterly wrong, and can only be regarded a® a modest disclaimer The Incident occurred on a raflroad train. It was A cold night and the frosted windows resembled squares of sparkling white paper. Just ahead of me was a little boy, who might hive been 10 years old though he looked too tiny for 19, notwithstanding the big spectacles that he wore He was facing me, seated with his father and & | younger brother. Tha whitened glass caught his o'~ tention, and a dreamy look came into his eyes, and then, slowly, his right hand was lifted and poised be- fore the pane. One could see an idea shaping itself in his mind Then his forefinger touched the glass and left s Beveral rapd strokes followed, making other marks, all equally unintelligible to onlooker, Sometimes the slender little finger he ed, and remained poised for half a minute, moving this way and that in the air, &s if n measure were being taken mentally. Then it would fall with decision and a sharply defined black lne, or spot, would appear. It was several minutes before a few swift co-or- dinating strol suddenly revealed the plan that had from the begl ng been In the boy's mind, and now everybody around sat up and took notice. On the frosty background stood forth a human face, striking, expressive, true to nature, grinning, humorous—a cericature in which the exaggeration of the lines was only such as an experienced artist would have used, so that the whol, fect warmed the pas. sengers who had been lool on into smiles and nods of appreciation, admiration and astonishment. Whis- pers ran around, delighted chuckles wero heard, necks were craned, people got up to look from across the aisle. In a word, genlus had suddenly proclaimed fts presence in that prosaic place; had, after its manner, applied its magic to the first materfals that came to hand, and tmmediately mediocrity bowed to it on all sides, There were two intelligent-looking Chinamen on the opposite side of the car, and their delight was pleasant to seo, Genlus crosses all race lines and ap- peals to universal human nature. Oud Confucius him- self would have smiled and applauded if he had been there. Meanwhile the boy was unaware of the admiration he was awaking; his attention was absorbed in what he was doing, and he was doing it because he couldn't help it. A spark of divine creative fire that made a Rubens, a Rembrandt, a Raphael, a Tenlers, a Michael Angelo, a Hogarth, was burning in him, and it turned the cold rime Into a picture that made the spectators forget the chill air and drew them together in the cozy warmth of human sympathy, Of course the little artist must have had instruc- tion—the certainty of his strokes attested that; but it ‘was equally clear that tae force operating was born in his own soul, a free gift from nature, and not the result of ‘“‘stick-to-itiveness’” or simple ‘hard work." For genius all work (in its line) s play, and all play Is work, After a while he drew another no less effective picture beside the first one, and for half an hour hé was the same unconscious master in that car, exer clsing a mysterious power over all minde. Then the train stopped at a station, the boy's father helped him on with his little overcoat, and he disappeared from many admiring eyes in the outer darkness, Immediately afterward a slouching young fellow, with a half-burned cigarette hanging from the corner of his mouth and an alr of “up-to-date” impudence and unintelligence, flopped himselt into the seat that the boy had occupled, cast an uncomprehending glance at the drawings on the window, flung his head drunk- enly againat it, and with a swoop of his hat obliterated the creation of genius. It is better that genius should be a gift and not &n acquirements. A world full of nothing but geniuses Wwould be uncomfortable, If not uninhabitable. All men are created equal in their right to life, liberty, and/ the pursult of happiness; but they are mot equally gitted. Yet all have gifts of some kind, and the secret of happiness is to find out what your particular gift is and then develop it to the utmost. You may have talent, If not genius; and talent, Which is pecullarly subject to the benign influence of Hard work, often leads to far greater success (of the kind that is most widely esteemed in this ‘world) than genlus can attain, So when you see genlus don't let it awaken envy in your soul, but take your share in its gift by enjoying its achievements. ) Twice Told Tales Cause of the Collapee. The foreman employed by a big contractor rushed into the office of the boss, wild-eyed and Ppalpitating. “Boss,” sald he, in a greatly agitated voice, “one ©of them new houses of ours fell down in the night?" “What's that? exclaimed the boss, Jumping right Up and heginning to take notice. “What was the matter? How did it happen?* “It was the fault of the workmen, boss,” answered the foreman. “They made the mistake of taking down the scaffolding before they put on the wall paper.’— Philadelphia Telograph, The Deferved Anawer. At the rate of 100 yards in elghteen seconds Jobson Waas running for a train. The reason he wasn't run- ning faster was, that was as fast as he could runm. Or, as the children say, all the faster that he could run. Blogson, on the sidewalk, was making no speed 4t all. The reason was he was standing still. e wasn't catching trains that morning, Suddenly Blogson calied: ‘J‘H:.);.n.)nhlou! Jobson! Hey!" ol turned without slacking his s n, than he could help, for he knew ln:.l.: :-’d’l’:fl‘:‘: ulcht n;n t::‘ll it would go without him, and Job- ®on ‘took nothing in life more bisal g <., serious than he did "Goin' somewhere?" Blogsop called. Two days later Blogson's telephone bell rang at 8 o'clock In the morning. Blogson answered it with one hand while he rubbed the sleep out of his eyes with the other. Jobson's voice: “This you, Blogson? Y 1 soing & train. G'by! '—loullvlll.:m'.. N People and Events. Unusual courage or an unyielding temper enabled & patient in & Pinkney, Mich., hospital to commit suicide by holding her breath. Pulmotores were used to no avall. A Pbiladelphia bridegroom committed suicide when his bride asked him to wipe the dishes. Probably he realized a bridegroom had to do sometbing to get his picture in the papers. What's the good of working when one must #ive as alimony two-thirds of the pay check? An Atlantic City man s In jall meditating on the qQuestion, Meanwhile he is not bothering about his Loard bill and the ex-wife is not getting her divvy. The Hon “Cyclone” Davis, congressman from Texas, explains that his collarless neckfront fash- fon is a reéal beaith promoter, Years ago his brothor nearly strangled himself, while delivering a speech, with & stiff collar around his neck. Then and there Oyclone resolved that tyramt feshion would mever got & chance to vrestrict the free play of his vocal pipea. The new collars donned at Washington readily expand under air pressure, The Pees The Prescription SUPERIOR, Neb, Bditor of The Bee of late mbotit preparednass. 1 have a seheme which I am sure will work to per- fection—it has never failed yet when tried -and that is to put the good old Atraight tepublichn party in power for the next fifty years, and then no nation on earth will dare to attck us, for they know that | the G. 0. P. will fight, and knows how to fight, and knows that if ahy of them start anything, we will not on'y lick them, but will take their little old territory away from them. They Also know that the democrats can't fight and are ab- solutely opposed to annexation of any more territory, Now as to candidates, I want to say that 1 postively will not vate for any republican who straddles and announces himself as a candidate on the republican and progressive ticket. Haa a bulimoose any right to vote in a republican caucus? for Jan. Preparcdnces. N-To the Answer. W, L. HILYARD. Backs the Nurse to the Limit. OMAHA, Jan. 27.~To the Editor of The Bee: I want olce my sentiment in the statement of the nurse who had spunk and principle enough to’tell of conditions at the City hospital. I have no doubt she will be lied down, but she should not be. Patients and parents should stand by her until there 18 a change In the management of the hospital. I know one parent who feels sure they lost their baby letting him be taken to the City hospital. Anyone who starts anything with a city official has my sympathy. They can’t win, because the clique is too strong. They do things exactly to suit themselves. All the taxpayers can do is to pay for it. Mrs. Joslyn can get the poor dumb brutes taken care of; praise her name, But an ordinary citizen can fnot get a poor little stepchild taken care of. “Billy” Sunday never sald any- thing truer than when he said Omaha would be a good place to live it a lot of the people who had it by the throat would die or move away. If I can do anything to help avenge the mothers who have had their bables mistreated, T'll be there, ff it is money or muscle. I am sure it would be mus- cle back of a good club if it were my child. MRS. H. LOHRMAN, 2217 Ogden Avenue. e of Georgia. ~To the Editor of The Bee: In Georgia the genuine Yan- kee state—not in Mexico—five American ciyisens were murdered by so-called re- spectable Georgla cltizena, whose parents have probably landed in this country from the Mayflower. Has any one of our senators or representatives in Washington who, so vehemently de- mand Intervention in Mexico also de- manded of the federal government to intervene—and once and for all to put a stop to the furdering by the mob in Georgia? What happeried in Mexico? Nineteen American citizens were murdered by a band of armed outlaws, over which the de facto govérnment of Mexico has not As yet any oontrol. In Georgia, how- ever, something worse happened. In Georgia the past year there was no revo- lution, there was no battle fought be- twéen contending armich. Georgla has & responsible government, and yet in the last yer seventeen American citi- #éhs entitled to the protection of the government have been murdered. There 18 no revolution in Georgia now, and yét within the last month flve Amer- féan cltizens were lynched by a mob. It s true the five were negroes, whose Itves are not greatly valued In America, particularly so In the south, but wheén it comes to lynching the Georgla citizens are not so particular. They lynch white men as well as black. Georgla is not Mexico: Georgla is a proud, free state. It i8 proud of its his- tory and its laws, yet in the last faw years more American citizens were mur- dered in clvilized Georgla than in the barbarous Mexico, where there has been a.bloody revolution and no government. In the last five years over forty Amef- ican citigens were murdered by a Georgla mob and not a volce heard demanding the Intervéntion of the Washington gov- ernment. The Mexican bandits will eventually be punished as soon as the present Mexican government will establish itselt more se- cure; it will not take very long until American oitigens will be safe in Mex- ico, WIll American citizens also be safe in Georgla? H. A Light on Scarlet Fever Situation. OMAHA, Jan. #1.—To the Editor of The Bee: I am in full accord and harmony with the health office and heartily en- dorse the views of the medical profes- sion that all precautionary measures should be taken to check the spread of scariet fever in the city and svery means at thelr disposal should be applied to stamp out the disease, which at present seems to be prevalent in Omaha, but it seems to me that the figures as given out by the health office either meed revision or an explanation s due to the public. According to the “officlal" statement when the commissioners met with twen- ty-five invited physicians to discuss the scariet fever situation in Omaha, the fol- lowing figures were given out by the health department: One hundred and elghty-two houses are Uty dwo "patients are housed in the Emergenc pital on lower Douglas street twenty-four are convalescent in the temporary hospital on Lake street and 2700 chiidren are at home and not attending school. Now let us analyze the figures. One hundred and elghty-two houses are quar- antined. Allowing four persops to a house and presuming that all four are afflicted with scarlet fever, which is by no means the case, we wpuld have 73 cases of scarlet fever in the homes. Fifty-two additional cases are in the Emergency hospital on lower Douglas and twenty-four are convalescent at the Lake street station, whicth would give us the sum total of 84 cases of scarlet fever in Omaha. . The health office makes an additional Statement that 3700 children are kept away from school and are at home. The office of the superintendent of instruc- tion, who keeps a strict account of all edses of scarlet fever, as reported from the health department, reports, however, only ninety-four cases of scarlet fever among school children from January 1 until January 3. It can readily be seen that out of the 3,700 for one cause or an- other kept away from school, only ninety- four have scarlet fever; the balance, or nedrly the balance are afflicted with “searitis’ —scared to attend school (where they would be safer than roaming in the streets, atebding moving picture shows ete.). The whole mass of figures given out by the health department is a terrible confusion, conflicting with each other and 1 heat so much said | contradicting one another. The long- sought information, the persistent clamor of the public for the true condition of facts, the real status of the scarlet fever | situstion in Omaha are, after all, & terra | Incognita and the public is in the dark | today as to the true condition of the so- | called “epidemic” as it was before the “official” figures were given out. DR. B. HOLOVTCHINER. | | | I Editorial Snapshots ; St. Louis Globe-Democrat: (‘nlen| aymy posts and useless navy yards will | probably never disappear until the idea of city manager has spread to the na- tional government Boston Transcript: Diplomats whose countries are not at war have been in- | vited to both the state dinners at the | White House. The only case of historical | record where it pays to be neutral, | Washington Star: England has been | turning American recurities back into | this country more rapidly than was ex- pected. Baron Astor has mot, however, been called on to throw any United States | Properties into the market. | New York World: Five negroes, all Americans, were taken from the Worth | county jail at Sylvester and lyncHed, but no United States senator has introduced a resolution calling for ntervention in Georgla by the United States. The ne-| groes were hanged totthe limb of a tree and their bodies riddled with bullets, but | congress in its wrath is not clamoring | for the instant invasion of Georgla by | federal forces to vindicate the righta of American citizens, GRINS AND GROANS. ‘“The cave-dweller man by home," would seize a wo- the hair and drag her to his commeated the best man at the " replied Miss Cayenne. ‘‘In those hair was more natural and furnished | da a reliable grip.”"—~Washington Star. Safe Home Match will light all four burners. The stick is large and strong. The flame ‘‘takes hold."” We do not exaggerate when we say.that you can get as much real service from three Safe Home Matches as from five ordinary matches, They are non-poisonous, too. For thatreason alone they should be in every home in America. Sc. All grocers. Ask for them by name. The Diamond Match Company Mrs, Gramercy—You really must sign the peace petition we're getting up, Mrs. Park—] think it's just lovely, my dear, and I'll sign it as soon as my hus- band gets rid of his war stocks.—Puck. DEAR MR, KABIBBLE, MY HUSBAND HAS LEFY M. HOW WOULD You Go ABouY HUNYING FOR HiM? AR WITH A CLUB! - ‘“Now, children. I want to see how much you remember of your lesson. Miss Hunter—Weren't you surprised when you heard about my horse running away with me? Mr. Jolller—~Not very. I'? do the sam thing myself if 1 got the chance.—Phila- deiphia Evening Ledger. ‘'‘SBay, old chap, are you fond of mov- ing pictures?” “1 should say mso.” ‘'Then come round to our house next Tuesday, and glve a hand. We're moving that day.”—Chicago Herald. IN A RUT. E. A. Guest, in Detroit Free Press, Same faces every day I see, The same old tasks to do. I know tomarrow's going to be The gollard.{ I knew, Though other fellows higher elimb And prosper, 1 remain A settled fixture all the And not a mile I gain, Bometimes I feel that I am tied And bound by circumstance, That in a feld of labor wide I've never had a chance, Only the narrow roads of life Mi; feet have ever trod: Without a thrill I face the strife, A souliess human clod. time And long ago I ceased to dream Of splendors that might be, My eyes gave up the '{orlnlll Kleam Of future victory. I used to wonder now and then What time might bave in store For me and all my fellow-men, But I do that no more. Each day is like its yesterday, lach year a year of grind; Along my narrow, dreary wa: There's nothing new to_fin I see my neighbors proudly claim ‘New pleasures as they go, But all my joys remain the same And not a thriil I know, Do such thoughts ever come to you? Do you rebel at night Against the tasks you have to do, And dread the morning light? Then rouse ?'oumlt and break away, No door o you s shut, Your trouble is that day by day You're sticking in a rut. A home product, bre A TIMELY SUGGESTION Let your home beer during 1916 be materias. Save Coupons and Get Free Premium Phone Douglas 1889 and have a case sent home, LUXUS MERCANTILE CO. NUXATED IRON 100" delicate, nervous, run-down people 200 per cent in ten days in many instances $100 forfeit if it fails as per full ex- planation in large article soon ap- pear in this paper. Ask _your doctor or fruggisc about it. Sherman & McUvnnell Orug Stores always carry it in stock. 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