Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 30, 1916, Page 18

THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE i diiebtidomd e Bttt S FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Proprietor. ¢ SUBSCRIPTION, 4 i e ='; carrior By mall per mog::h ing and Sunda vening without Sunda Bunday Bee only......... - Uaily and Sunday Bee, three years in advance e of change of sddress or complaints of in delivery to Omaha Bee, Clrculation REMITTANCE. Remit by draft, express or postal order. Only tw: ment of small a aha and eastern sounts, Personal ¢ exchange, not accepted. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Buflding. South Omaha—2%18 N street Council Bluffs—14 North Main street. Lincoln—% Little Rulldln: | Chicago—#01_Hearst Buildin, New York—Room 1106, 286 Fifth avenue. 8t. Louis-508 New Bank of Commeroce. Washington—7% Fourteenth 8., N. W. s CORRESPOND! X Address communications relating to news and edi. torial matter to Omaha Bee, itorial Department. PECEMBER SUNDAY (IRCULATION, 47,874 State of Nebraska, Coupty of Douglas, ss. Dwight Williams, circulation manager, says that the average Sunday culation for the month of De- cember, 1815, was 47,874, | , | | ance by the lay trustees or financial sponsors of | checked by definite disciplinary action.” Upholding Professional Standards. The exhaustive report of the Committee on Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure, which has gone into its subject with care and thor- | oushness for the American Association of Uni- versity Professors, sets up a strong case against | the conmtrol of professional teaching and utter- our colleges and universities. The committee, however, makes it plain that academic freedom | does not mean academic l'cense, nor that indi- vidual teachers should be free from all restraint | as to their speech and conduct either within or without the university. “‘There may, undoubt- edly, arise occasional cases,” it says, “‘in which the aberrations of individuals may require to be But it insists “‘such action cannot with safety be taken by bodies not composed of members of the academic profession.” It we understand the report correctly, there is no dissent from the proposition that certain standards must be upheld for university and college teachers, but that the responsibility for upholding them belongs primarily on the teach- ers themselves. This is very well so far as if goes, and applies equally to other professions. There must be standards of conduct and practice for lawyers, for doctors, for engineers, for archi- tects, for specialists and experts of all kinds, but they themselves ought to see to their en- forcement by self-discipline. Unfortunately, DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation M or. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to 1 me this 4th da J y, 1816, should have dress will be changed as often »s Political keynotes in midwinter foreshadow summer platforms and bot fall winds, Mobilized health resourcss insure efficlency and greater results for the money expended. When the groundhog casts his bhoroscope will be time enough to fix the open season for straw hats, S —— The road to Bagdad exhibits much of the cemetery repose of the Dardanelles route to Constantinople. S—— Howaever, the colonel’s trip to the West Indies will not alter his plane for exploring the River of Doubt. ‘ It other patriots fail them, Nebraska demo- crats might comseript Doc Cook as a guberna- torial “white hope.” e ——— Big events oot lend a dash of galety to moving ultmu 586 is running for congress in Georgia. ! R emamae Maybe those frequent changes of mind at ite House explains why the judicial plum and barpacles on commerce, But the lecturer was right. The retailer performs a distinet and valuable service to soclety, and his function is as emsential to well-balanced existence as any other factor in distribution. One of the pet fllustrations of amateur ecopomists is to map the course of any article from producer to consumer, showing how many hands take profit from it as it passes along, stendily growing in price, until it is enhanced several times beyond what the maker or grower received. This is convincing until the listener &ives a little analytical thought to the proposi- tion, and then the real uses of the retailer be come apparent. The “middleman” of todsy is an evolutionary product of the *‘storekeeper” of other days, one of the products of a soclety that, if it is mo more complex, is at least more closely interwoven in the relations of its several parts. And the retaller who p. more of conveni- ence and is of greater to the comfort of his customers is the one who gets the trade. This, also, is e part of our modern life, a natural they do not always do this, it being common knowledge that shyster lawyers, quack doectors, fake engineers and incompetent architects, as well as false teachers, are countenanced and allowed to go their way without interference of their professional ussociates, despite the dis- credit they bring upon their calling. Sometimes the members of a profession do not agree upon what the standard should be, but more ususlly their (naction is merely the result of inertia and @ desire to avoid unpleasantness. Reputable members of all professions should understand that just so far as they prescribe high standards and maintain them will the profession be ac- corded a standing in the popular mind, and just 80 far will it command the recognition that is due from the public. Nebraska Needs & New State House, . The Bee has several times in recent years suggested the necessity of a new buliding for the accommodation of the several departments of its government at our Nebrasks state capital. Plans for the new state house have now and then been tentatively considered, but definite action has so far been postponed.. Developments, or rather decay, has proceeded to a point where it will soon be imperative that something be done to provide the bullding that is so sadly needed. The it structure is more and more showing the effects of time, It was not well planned in the beginning, and its present dilapidation Is a reproach to a wealthy and progressive state. Our capitol bullding cannot compare in any par- ticular with the Douglas county court house, ‘While many other Nebraska counties have better bulldings for their officers than has the state. The time is propitious for the presentation of a definite project for a new state house to the people, just as a business proposition. Snemer—— Our National Pastime. Oune pastime in particular is pecullarly Amer- ican, and is never out of season. Several varie- ties of games of chance or skill, outdoor and {n- door sports, have been denominated the ‘‘na- tlonal” pastime, but each of these is more or less sectional in its nature, or exclusive in its devotees, so that it falls just a little short of, being truly national. One diversion does exist in which all take part, which knows no east, no Wwest, no north, no south, against which neither winter cold nor summer heat prevails, and to which no elght-hour schedule has ever been attached, It {s the game of talking about our public affairs. d We have but one thing in common—the pro- pensity of boasting of our devotion to our coun- try and its unparalieled greatness. On this we are agreed, on everything olse we are divided into almost as many separate entities’ as we number individuals, Now apd agaln two or three may seem to approach agreement on some tople of public concern, but It soon develops the unity of purpose is more apparent than real. It i the one grand tribute to our institutions and their efficacy that free speech and freedom of thought is thus universally manifest. This great national pastime was never more splendidly followed than it is just now, when the really serious question of practical means for defense of the country agalnst possible attack is presented for considerstion. But our devotion to the sport cf talking has one redeem- ing feature, Out of all the confusion comes in time action, and comfort is found in the thought that in good season something will be done. Grand Opera and the People. Do the people want music of the higher grades, such as grand opera? Two answers to this question are immediately presented. In Chicago the ten weeks’' season of grand opera as conducted there, has just terminated with a deticit of $100,000, which is cheerfully made up by subscriptions from wealthy music lovers, In Omaha & three-day season has just ended, with no deficit, and with a well pleaged company of promoters and patrons, who hope to see the ven- ture repeated again next season. Three days in Omaha is not quite equal to sixty days in Chi- cago, nor were tha operas presented here with the same lavishness as characterized the produec- tions in the larger city. Nor did the singers who were listened to at the Auditorium here take rank in public estimation with the high. priced song birds who warbled for the Chicago- ese. And, by that same token, the ticket prices were not so high, either, The Omaha test is probably the fairer, for it was made under conditions that more truly rep resented the aspirations of the public for the high class musie, The operas were well pre sented, the music was beautifully displayed and the appeal to the intellect as weii as the senser was direct and potent. It was at prices the people could meet, and, therefore, was a suceess, And no musical critie in his right mind will say in price was fully represented in B the of the singers. | ASTE tor and appreciation of art is something that has to be cultivated, and the only way to produce art-lovers is to give people plenty of oppo:- tunities to see and study real works of art. Few realize what has been accomplished in developing the artistic taste right here in Omaha by such art ex- hibitions as those that are promoted by the Soclety of Fine Arts, which pursues jts object with persistency and with comparatively little ostentation, To develop an art center takes time and must have something to bujld on and, fortunately for Omaba, the beginnings of our art eulture were lald long ago. The first art exhibition iu Omaha that I remember was what wes called “The Art Loan,’ conducted a3 & benefit for some church or charity, and held in the ©0ld Christian church, & brick structure with large as- sembly room, located on Seventeenth street betwsn Dodge and Capitol avenue. All the homes of Omaha's best families were ransacked for art treasures, which were borrowed and assembled and spread out to an ad- miring public. It was in truth an eye-opener even to our own people to discover, by this partial inventory, how many art possessions we had accumulated with- out realizing it. The paintings and other pletures were rather heterogeneous, and 1 have no doubt the hang- ing committes had its troubles, such as are en- countersd by all hanging committees, only many fold increased by the necessity of considering the feelings and social prestige of the owners of the borrowed articles as well ans their intrinsic merit. The exhibition howaever, was not confined to pictures, but included bricsa-brac, bronse, china, antiques, and heirlcoms of varfous kinds. My recollection leaves me uncertaln whether or not a department was left for patch-work quilts and fancy needlework, but nothing that aspired to be known as art was intentionally neglected. One of the features of “The Art Loan" as I reeall, was a game of chess, played with living chessmen on & chess board chalked out on the floor, over which two sets of living figures, posed by boys and girle in costume, ‘were moved about from square to square untii retired out of play, to correspond with the moves of the fvory pleces in a regular chess game played by two of the most skiliful amateurs, Despite Ma crudeness and entertainment features ‘“The Art Loan’ gave a notice- able impetus at the time to the art activities of the community. The art exhibition that gave Omaha greatest publicity as am art center, perhaps I should say notoriety, was the one that culminated in the mutiia- tion of one of Bouguereau’'s best canvases by a mortals- craged fanatie hurling & chair through it. The poor fellow was possessed with the idea that the artist's portrayal of the nude was altogether too realistic. 1 WAS away frem home at the time so that my knowl- edge of the affair is wholly from hearssy and from the accounts in the papers, which everywhere put Omaha on the art map with serlous or satirical dis- cussions of this startling manifestation of apprecia- tion of a great painting. “The Return of Spring," sor such was the title, was patched up and returned in the spring to the owner, but not without entafling a law suit over disputed résponsibllity for the damages. This art exhibit was held In the store bullding at Thirteenth and Harney, previously been occupled by & wholesale grocery house that had shortly before removed to larger quarters, Omaba art lovers have many creditable pictures in their collections which outsiders seldom ses, referred not long ago to the contents of the old Col- lins housé, gathered together from the nooks and corners uf Burope, The Lininger collection, as every- one who has seen it knows, includes not & fow real and several noteworthy canvesses hung on the walls of Happy Hollow when the Patricks lived there, We have, furthermore a tolerably good start of a munieipal art gallery in our public library building, dating back to exposition days when the exposition company bought several of the prise-winning exhibits in the art section and donated them to the city. It ‘e only & question of time when we will have a municipal art gallery worthy of the mame, which in due time will be the residuary legatee of whatever of artistic worth has been centered here. It is reassuring to be told that I hit the target at least once in & while as in the following from the Western Laborer: “Victor Rosewater threw out a hint last Sunday for a reply from readers of his ‘Views and Interviews' woolumn in The Bee. I prefer that column to any one in the paper. There is a something about it that is different—he writes llke he talks in that column and it is a lot more human. His few words after the death of Jack Bonmner, for instance. 1t The Bee, cut out the editorials.’ Small and large favors are always gratefull; celved. Thanks, Brother Kennedy. yhotde L The coasting carnival was & grand success, sur- Passing the most sanguine expectations. An immense throng gathered on Dodge street, lining the track from Fifteenth to Twentieth, watching the sleds glide by, Strings of Chinese lanterns and electric lights, wupplemented by the glare from flluminated resi- : i !: 3 £ i £ : ;gi! i i3 and more sleds, including many that were brought from Councll Bluffs. The accidents were few and i man. William ¥, Cody, better known as “Butfalo Bil" writes to George Canfleld of this city that he has #old & quarter interest in his show to an Englishman for §85,000. Cody and his company will be here in & fow weeks, D. . Goodrich, supsrintendent of the water works, has returned home after a three weeks' visit to the east, much improved in health, The blockade on the Missouri Pacific has at last been raised and the Omaha pecple detained at Weep- ing Water since Wednesday, are regaling their friends with accounts of their experiences. They got to. #ether and adopted resolutions of thanks to Conductor M. J, Donavan for his courtesy to them during their confinement. A young son was born into the family of R, U, Patterson At the anuual meeting of the German assoclation 8t Germania hall, these directors were elected: Henry Haubens, Philip Andres, G, ¥. Spetman, J. I Frue- haut, John Baumer and C. B. Burmester Twioce Told Tales Hearing Good. At & British recruiting meeting recently the speaker, having got his audience in & high state of enthusiesm by telling them of the many brave deeds performed by our soldiers in France, suddenly espied & big, strongly built man at the back of the hall, My man." he cried, “how is it that you are not at the tront™ “Oh, 1t 1a all right,” replied the burly yokel; "1 can hear every word you say from here."—London TH Bits E. W. Howe's Monthly: I find amuse- ment in reading church announcements in the Saturdey papers; titles of sermons | are nearly always funny. { Bt Louls Globe-Democrat: A Cleve- land minister says heaven and hell are conditions of the mind. Christian Sel- entiats rather beat the Cleveland pastor to doctrines of that sort Brookiyn Eagle: A woman mission worker says: “When our girls go to universities they are robbed of the funda mentals of religion.” If that good old brewer, Matthew Vassar, could have heard this he would have reflected with complacence that Vassar is still a “ecol- lege."” Baltimore American: At the finleh of the “Billy” Sunday activities in Trenton on last Sunday, which ineluded a morn- ing, afternoon and evening delivery of “hot eakes off the griddle,” the apostle to the trail hitters had drawn upon his vital forces to such an extent that when he started to leave the platform after the night meeting he could, apparently, only keep from falling by clinging to the ralling. But Trenton, which lstened un- moved during the first week of the Sun- day excoriations, pleadings and warn- ings, has warmed up and Is “bitting the trall.” The score of trail hitters is now well up into the thousands. BRIEF BITS OF SCIENCE. New Yorkers are developing a serum for treating pneumonta, The electrie sand sifter will outwork ten men, is portable and takes up fittle room. Prof, B. B. Boltwood of Yale has set the duration of radium's activity at about 1,660 years, A self-governing feature recently patented makes the windmill avaflable for the generation of electricity, A goas engine taken iInto the moun- tains loses about 1 per cent of its indi- cated horse power for every 1,000 feet of elevation. The slanting instead of the vertical system of handwriting bas been recom- mended for the schools of France by the teaching section of a sclentific soclety in that country. Experts in the employ of the govern- ment of Brasil belleve that country ean utilise its, own coal by using gas pro- ducers in connection with stationary en- Elnes and briquetting it for locomotives. Prof. Ulrie ‘Dahlgren of Princeton uni- versity predicts that the time will come when the luciferous substance of chem- fcal composition, carried by fireflies, cer- tain fish and other animals will be used for llluminating hauses, ete, A new material for insulation has been brought out in Germany recently made of wood charcoal mixed with paper pulp and pitch or tar, It is made In the form of plates and it is ssld to be just as efficlent as the material which has been heretofore used, made of cork and much more goonomical, OUT OF THE ORDINARY. More than 600 women are serving In the Russian army. " _Aldea by a favorable wind, which blew persistently for several days, the cot- ton boll weevil In Georgla made an ad- vance of 100 miles In & few weeks. whereas its progress under normal con- ditions has been fifty miles in a year. Spokane, which 17 ia Washington, which in turn is ome of the newly pro- hibition states, now delights itseit with & beverage called ‘“carbonated fiszs.” C. T. looks and tastes like beer, but fs free from alcohol, Also the barrels re- quire mo government propristary stamp. Tea drinking among the allles has shown an enormous increase since the war began, and in the last year the consumption in England alone has in- creased over §,000,000 pounds, while France is drinking ten times as much aa it dia before the war. Policewomen are now employed in twenty-six cities. Chicago, has 21; Bal- timore, Los Angeles and Seattle, 5 each; Pittsburgh, 4; San Franeisco, Portland, Ore., and St. Paul, 3 each, and Dayton, 0., Topeka, Kan, and Minneapolis, Minn., 2 each. Fifteen other cities have one each. There are many earlier records of hu- man affairs, but the first historian now vecognized as such was Herodotus, the great Greek, who wrote in the fifth cen~ tury, B, C. The Old Testament and the Book of Kings are also, of course, among the most anclent of historical works How the money came to be burled or when or why Is unknown. According to some accounts there was about $600 and to others about §2,600. e AROUND THE CITIES. 8t. Louls and New York are hot rivals for supremacy s# the world's fur market, Salt Lake City operstes a munioipal cemetery and the chief sexton wants $3,. 819 to run it this year. St. Joseph, which is in Missouri, sol- emnly foi barbering on Sundays. It coats & e judicial lecture for each offense. Philadelphians pay taxes on personal property valued at $536,000,000. "l'lu 'A“lh- thgny J. Drexel estate tops the lat N;El,flt Des Moines Strest Rallway company last week Inaugurated six-for-a-quarter fares, in return for an extension of its franchise. Sloux City sends out a midwinter call for more laborers for spring and sum- mer work in the buflding line. About 500,000 worth of bulldings is already an- nounced. Twin Falls, a thriving modern city in People and Events A New Yorker of 22, out of a job, painted his wants on a sandwich sign and paraded with 1t on Park Row. Three offers of jobs rewarded his enterprise and originality. Barney Oldfield is setting a hot pace for speeders on & new line. At Kaneas City a phone gifl who fixed up a long distanes call for him was tipped with & tenner, besides Barney paying $54.96 for the talk. Some pedple think the good die youne Mrs. Mean Bear, a Ponea squaw, under- scored her name by living to the age of 105, Most of the 700 members of her im- mediate family attended her funeral at Ponca City, Okl. “Big Tim" Sullivan of New York, who died mysteriously in 1913, possessed an extraordinary memory. The receiver re- ports his estate {s worth $1,001,277, all of which was accumulated without ke ning books, vouchers or records of any kind. “Big Tim" relied entirely on his m u.or,. | Another ‘“‘Honest John" has come to grief, though not a politiclan. A bank- ruptey court at Yonkers, N. Y., is search- ing “Honest John" Courtney, furniture dealer, for $1%0,000 of assets which disap- peared a few days before his creditors were invited to take the remains of his stock. A legislative eommittes which Investi- gated the Public Service commission of New York City has had its bills (nvesti- #ated in turn, with anything but pleasant results. One of the discoveries, an item of $170 for theater tickets, hidden in a hotel bill, arouses a storm of jeers, New York scorns petty political skates. A stirring appeal has reached Washing- ton from Albany, La., a town on the edge of the swamp land and snake briars, "Doctors cannot cure snake bite.” says the doleful message. ‘‘Nothing but whisky will do it. Where we can get whisky takes two or three days—up to that time the victim dies of snake bite. If you send along a saloon would be obliged. Bend some gin, too.” WHITTLED TO A POINT. Nature leaves & lot of work for the dressmaker to finish. Judge a man by what he does and a woman by what she doesn’t say, ‘The absence of soft water is some men's excuse for drinking hard. Most men would be content with their lot—if it were a lot of money. Age may not be garrulous, but it is sure to tell on a woman sooner or later, ‘When it comes to making angels of men the minister isn't in it with the doctor. ‘The patches that decorate the trousers of & calamity howler are mot on the knees. Next to the elephant, the white rhinoceros of Africa is the largest animal known. To make friends of men show them how | to make money; to make friends of ‘women show them how to become beauti- ful.—Chicago News. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. 1 don’t want you to marry that youns | man | ‘Why, father, he's rich.” Yos, but he's running through his | tortune.” “Well, it must be delighttul to help man run through a fortune. And, instead of a trousseau you may arrange for a divoros asuit later.”—Louisville Courier Journal. “She wears too much Jowelry." “Think o7 “1 do. Ne fun to hold a hand lke that t the same sensation by hold- andful of curtain rings and a wrist “~Baltimore American. | “Did_that allenist prove that you were crazy ' N0, replied the defendant, “but he admitted that he was nearly so befors | the lawyer got through with him.*—Dal- las News. “When 1 was your age 1 didn't dance till 1 or 2 o'clock In the morning. “Well, paw,” replled the young man PRl Ay X ad, u wouldn” ol h7tlime, and money now taking qancing lessons.” —~Washington Star. Pl RS THE FAREWELL PLACE. F. L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution. It's the same old world, in shine and shade, That God in the first, sweet mornima made; e; Same sweet stars in the sky above, V('l!h‘ light like the light in the eyes you ove; 8ame old round o’ the rosy r-n‘ Same old sorrows you see through tears: Same old road, and same old ra. To run with a dream of the Place. ce Farewell O the wraith-folk rise and dare the skies To n’;fi(th their {ire where the lightning o8 And you hear the loud war-thunders beat Tl ktlhn hake the graves at a war- n feet; And the paths of human life are crossed Where the Rachels weep for their chil- dren lost; e old road where the burdened race lklP:olrl and dreams to the Farewell ace, ) And with right and wrong we press along From night to the dream of a morning song; Bame sad of sorrows old; Bame -wu'?l;gn that the heart would hola; And th: wounded breast still sighs for rest— And rest comes sweet when God thinks o And ;u glimpse the light of the morning's ace At the shining gates of the Farewell Place. ADVERTISING GARNER & EVANS Ciy) NotIBldg. Dougles 3208 MULTIGRAPH DEPT. Thousands of Are today What about your loved ones LET US AS J. T, YATES, Becretary. and ORPHANS enjoying a warm fireside owing to the foresight of the husband and father protecting their loved ones in the WOODMEN of the WORLD home for them after you are gone? WIDOWS | ? Are you sure of a comfortable SURE YOU “TELL" DOUGLAS 1117, W. A. FRASER, President. NEW ORLEANS and the MARDI GRAS The Ideal Way to See Them Under the Auspices of the ILLINOIS CENTRAL Third Annual Mid-Winter Vacation Party to the Southern Metropolis will leave Omaha Friday, March 3d, and Chicago Saturday, M arch 4th, 1916, Includes several days’ visit in New Orleans and visit to the Vicksburg National Military Park on the return, The cost is moderate and includes all expenses from Chicago except meals in New Orleans. Send for a beautifully Illustrated Booklet entitled ‘‘New Orleans for the Tourist’’, and also Mardi Gras literature. For tickets, sleeping car reservations and further in- formation address the undersigned. 8. NORTH, District Passenger Agent. 407 South 16th Street, Omaha. Phone Douglas 264, Persistence is the cardinal vir- tue in advertising: no matter how good advertising may be in other respects, it must be run frequently and constant- ly to be really succcessful.