Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 28, 1916, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE| FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. J The Bee Publishing Company, Pmprletor. BEE BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTREENTH, Entered st Omaha _postoffice as second-class matter, TERMS OF SUBBCRH’TI()N By carrier By mail per mon! r ar, and Sunday..... w880, N y:u Daily without Sunday. S4m | Evening and Sunday.. 6.00 Evening without Sunday .0 !:\valn[ without Sunday e .20 2.00 n-n unl uund-y Hee, three ra in advance. . §10.00 notice of chan, of ad dflln_r_z to Omaha , Circulation Department. Rm‘l“l‘AN T'" n paymen amall a ehe -. '- n '‘esn or |rro|'ulnr|!\ in Omaha and chl CES, ‘The Bee Bnlldll\l street. Bouth Omaha—2318 Mndl Bluffs—14 lrlh )lnlu street. lul;]:! 1 141 en 1a1n, n..;“!"'" Tioe: 8‘1-.’% avenie. 8t New Bank of Commerce, Washington—73% Pomm street, N, W. CORRESPO! INCE. Address communications nudn to pews and edi- torial matter to Omaha Editorial Department, FEBRUARY CIROULATION, | 54,328 Daily—Sunday 50,639 i Iy wlflhm cireulation manager of The Bee i3 t Pnbl ., being dul rn, says that the . :’lor m-’.’nt-: ‘:w f February, i was 8 4 50,839 Sunday. LI : T 8, (flrnuuuon"l‘hnu;ram fr e ~e"‘-v.o-fimfi"'fim Notary Publie. H Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Beo malled to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. Right now the mourning seas justify their moods. It March intends still to be lion-like, it will have to hurry. S As a foot racer, “Our Good Friend Villa” is showing some speed. Es——— Kansas retains the fistic champlonship, but Texas defies all comers for the scare belt. SEpgespens— It seems Omaha looks so bright on the musi- cal map that all of them feel they cannot af- ford to miss it. om— Perhaps the greatest charm of the "“Week of ‘Wondertul Windows" will be the reflections of the outside exhibit. . S—— What about Omaha's city planning commis- sion! Has it adopted a motto of “watehful walting” or is it just & name? i i £ for my lack of of China. Still, 168 in §ood work- of national pride the output of rumor factories iy entitled to pref- ‘over like goods from the Tiber, the the Spree and the Zuder Zee. i e———— A siz-months-after-the-fact inventory of the results of the Billy Sunday campaign in Omaha n membership and church activities { e an interesting and perhaps instructive _ exhibit, The six months are just about up. Y e——— '~ How many horses can a man ride in one 4 the same primary? If he can run for two on the ticket, why not for three or four? for every place on the ticket and then t the best one of all for which he may, eapture the nomination. foe grabs and fes Our'city, county Ased to steal all the inter- i on deposits, but they do not do ‘any more. Pocketing fees that come to the of the district court by virtue of his of- is just as odlous and just as indefensible. Ee— The exclusion of baidheaded men from the army by Chicago recruiting officers is an un- merited reflection on the competency of men bearing the ineradicable hallmark of valor. If the army tolerates the baldheaded loss, so much worse for the army. However, no hoary or rules exclude the victims from the coun- grand army of vocal patriots, S———— Thirty Years Ago This Day in Omaha . Comptied from Bes Plles. The concert given by the sexican Typical orchestra s said to have “enchanted” the audience in attend- Ance. The performance was a surprise, in spite of the high expectations, for a rarer musical treat has sel- dom been enjoyed by the Omaha public. The orchestra . ia composed of talent selected from the musiclans who played at the New Orleans exposition. George Lake left for Ogden, where he will enter on work as mall weigher on the Union Paelfic be- that point and Omaha. 'J. W, Dickerson, manager of the Associated Press at St. Paul, and L. E. Teppan are visitors tn Omaha, formerly employed in the Bure ‘ve union met at the rooms of made final arrangements for ihe they bad planned for April 7. About northwest comer Thirtieth and Mason #ood girl fer general housework a family of two. Ne children, no boar?. | the world press. THE Labor and the World’s Peace. Labor has demonstrated its importance to in time of war; it now proposes to have some share in when it comes to making peace. The govern- ments of the world have been active in mobiliz- tug industry, for the purpose of preparation for war; it is the men of Iabor who look ahead to mobilizing ia the preparation for lasting peace. ® | President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor has just issued a call, authorized by the San Francisco convention, for a labor con- gress to meet at the same time and the same place as the conference that will fix the terms of peace. This will be to secure for labor a share in the negotiations, and a voice in the discussions, that labor may have its part In binding up the wounds of the industrial world, as well as the political. The solidarity of labor has been shaken, but not destroyed by the confilet. The International Secretariat has been instrumental in securing to a very large extent the coalition of the repre- sentative bodies of organized labor throughout the world, and, although its activity has been suspended, it will provide something of the ma- chinery for bringing together the conference called by the American body. Labor problems vary in detall among the nationg but funda- mentally they are the same everywhere. This will make easy the participation of all the dele- gates to the conference on equal terms. In- dustrially, the gathering will be of vast im- portance, for it will have much to do with the ertablishment of orderly procedure once more in the world's business. Politically, the effect will be of still greater moment, as it {s intended that labor will make demand for a share in the responsibility of di- rection of government greater than that now ac- corded. This revolutionary demand will be made In the name of the workers, and may startle the imperialists of Burope, but it is the voice of Freedom and it will be heard. Can Marshall’s Name Come Off? Dispatches from Washington inform us that Vice President Marshall is averse tc entering the lists for the primary preference vote against the governor of Nebraska in his home state and has asked the senator to secure the withdrawal of Lis name. But can he take his name off at this time? The decision, as we know, rests with Secretary of State Pool, and both the law and practice heretofore have permitted withdrawal even up to the time the ballot has been on the ‘We have a declaration, however, from our Douglas county election commissioner that he does not 8o construe the law and will not honor requests for withdrawals from any source, pre- sumably without exception in favor of either a vice president or a secretary of state. It is noth- ing to us, but it there is a difference of opinion here, it ought to be cleared up by taking the question into the courts it necessary, S—— Yellow Journalism and War. El Paso people smile at the credulity of the Mexican peons, who believe the ridiculous storiesj spread from mouth to mouth, about the triumphs of Pancho Villa. But how much dif- ference is there between these ignorant peo and the educated Americans, who belleve the equally unfounded and almost as absurd reports circulated by irresponsibles on our side of the border? Some tales quite as grotesque as that of Villa taking Washington have been publistied about the progress of the American army in morthern Mexico. All sorts of gossip has been selzed upon and magnified into tremendous flares of sensation, and portions of the public have been gulled thereby. The censor is hold- ing back the facts, but this does not prevent the yellow journals from printing elrcumstantial slories. of the taking of Villa, and of other events that have not as yet oceurred. This has gone on until the president has been com- pelled to appeal to the public to pay no attention to the unauthenticated reports that have been cireulated. EI Paso is the headquarters for most of the fakers now at work, whose wild and unfounded rumors have disturbed the people for many days. The unfortunate fact is that our alleged superiority doesn't lift ug very far above the unenlightened peon when it comes to swallowing fakes about the war. rEm——— Following the Republican Lead. Again 1s the democratic party demonstrating il resemblance to that insect which “stumbles through existence with its headlight on be- hind.” The president has just given his ap- proval to a bill, and it has been presented in the house, for the creation of a permanent tariff cemmission. Such a commission once was pro- vided by the republicans, over the united op- position of democrats in and out of congress, and a tariff was framed on a report made by that commission, after it had made long and patient inquiry into conditions that are sup- posed to govern an industry and on which the protective tariff should be based. This tariff was violently assailed by the democrats, who proposed their boasted horizontal reduction as the only remedy and proceeded to put it into ef- fect on eomlnl into power. The Underwood terift is notable for three things; a “war” tax levied in time of peace; the removal of the tariff from sugar, which had to be replaced, and the abolition of the tariff commission, which is now to be restored. A more complete exposition of the demo- cratic practice of substituting hindsight for foresight could scarcely be asked. ————— The sinister influences which are sald to have tempted Colonel Bryan from the path of duty with & purse of $160,000 should be brought into the glare of publicity, with names, places and scheduled assets. The public conscience throbs for clreumstantial details so there may be no mistake when the finger of scorn impales the enemies of patriotism and reform. Palsied be the hand that puts the dollar above the man. —_—— Evidently the brand of tarantula julce dis- pensed on the Rio Grande border does not {m- prove with the years. Its reputation for serap- piness and conjuring visions mocks the hammers of time. S— Automoblle interests are lining up for a death grapple with the gasoline octopus. When these glants go to the mat for the champlonship the amoke of battle will be something fierce. the affairs of the world | BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, Mystery of the Beginning Garrett P. Serviss. MUET go back to the nebulae to find An an W wer to your question. Gold came out of the original fire mist like all the other elements, whether they appear to us now in the form of metals, rocks, liquids or gases. Let your imagination trans- port you somé thousand million years into the past when our particular corner of space was apparently an empty gap. It contained nothing but electricity in its primeval form of electrons—indescribable, infinitesimal—and all alike in thelr minuteness and their potentiality. The electrons swirled together and began to gleam and tlash, forming an “electrical vapor.” It was the birth of light, the first of created things What dim, wondrous memory inspired man when in the earliest records of his thoughts, he declared that in the beginning was darkness and that God'a first command was: “Let there be light”? Man had no science when he made that declaration, but, today. when he haa science, it repeats for him the same formula! All of our discoveries concerning the nature of matter lead back to the one conclusion—everything began in a luminous cloud In that cloud the spinning electrons gathered into atoms, and with the birth of atoms what we know as matter came Into existence. At first the apeed of the electrons was so great that no densely packed atoms were formed. The first elements recognizable as such were three or four light gases, two of which, called hydrogen and helium, we are acquainted w:ith upon the earth, while two others, of which we have no experimental knowledge, are to be seen glowing in the nebulae that are still scattered through the depths of space. Back of these elements it is probable theres was st least one that was still lighter with yet simpler atoms. After aeons of time had rolled by & new star was born out of the condensing nebulae. It was the baby sun, and just as ordinary bables have few ideas In thelr heads, so the newborn sun had few elements in its eomposition It consisted mostly of hydrogen. We ses a proof of that when we find that stars which are yet In an early stage of evolution are composed mainly of hydrogen and some of hellum while others contain a still more primitive element, asterium But with continued condensation heavier atoms, con- sisting of larger numbers of electrons, were formed, and these constituted denser elements, When our star the sun, had condensed as far as Sirfus has now done (Sirius younger sun), some of the metallie ele- ments, which when cooled form solids, were born. These increased in number and density as time went on until, as It now is, the sun possesses a large num- ber of the clements known to us upon the earth, such as fron, calcium, silicon, sodium and some thirty others which are recognizable with the spectroscope. But, owing to the high temperature of the sun, these elements are there all in the gaseous or vapor state. Still, thelr atoms have been formed and thus they can be recosnized. 1t 18 probable from 1\ hat we see in the stars, where various stages of evolution are exhibited, that the heavier - elements have all been formed from the llghter ones by the aggregation of greater and greater numbers of electrons into atoms, This evolution con- tinues after a star has cooled and condensed into a planet, like the earth. tven the vapor of gold has not been found in the sun, and it may be that no element 8o dense 14 can be formed under solar conditions of temperature. But gold exists in the earth because here heavier atorus can be formed than is possible in the furnace of the sun. In the earth's interior it may be that ®old is stjll forming from lighter elements, All the gold within our reach has come from the older rocks of the earth, those which cooled first. It is relatively small in quantity, and the same is true of ail the elements composed of very heavy atoms, because these elements have been formed last, when the process of atomic condensation had become very slow, The earller, lighter elements, Jike hydrogen, evidently were formed with comparatively great rapidity. But there is another chapter to the story, which seems to be just beginning, at least on the earth The phenomena of radio-activity indicate that the heavy elements finally decay and go to pleces, their atoms losing their accumulation of electrons until they change into light, gasecus elements, or possibly re- turn, in the end, to the original state of “electrical vapor,” Shakespeare had a wonderful fore-vision when he wrote: ““The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solmen temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all whioch it inherit, shall dissolve And, ke this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind!" Twice Told Tales It Was the First Time. Jones was & pastmaster of the habit of carelessness. He dropped things around in any old place and after- ward never remembered where that place was, One night he rose from bed to get some medicine, and swallowed his collar button In mistake for a cough L ary,” sald he to his wife, when the awful truth dawned upon him, “I have swallowed my collar but- ton." “That's all right,” evident satisfaction. “Nothing (o worry about?' returned father. you——" “That's what T sald,” interrupted little wifey. once in your life you know where you've put it."'— Pphiladeiphia Telegraph, Missionary Zeal. Harry Dickson tells of an old negro mammy who waa kept from sturvation by the white women who gave her occasional odd jobs to do. Mre. Dickson, the writer's mother, had found some housework for the old negress, but after working & day or two Mandy sald she must quit, “I done haf to go out collectin' foh de missionary soclety,”” she explained. “But I have work for you to do,” sald Mrs, Dick- son, “and you need all the money you can get. ' “I know,” sald the old mammy, “but I dons hat to collect foh de missionary soclety." “What do you get pald for collecting™ Dickson. “1 don't get paid,” sald Mandy, collects,"—Green Book Magasine. responded his wife, in a tone of ““Theres nothing to worry about.” “Do asked Mrs “T only gets what 1 People and Events ‘The postmaster of Haworth, N. J., received a card addressed to “The Prettiest Girl in Town." Not belng eligible for reappointment the matter of delivery does not worry him. The most astonishing incident that has come ous of New York City for many moons Is the comple- tion of the children’s court bullding for $26.95 less than the approprigtion. Possibly it marks the beginning of a graftiess ers Colonel Thomas Respess of Maysville, Ky, re- cently celebrated his ninetieth birthday anniversary and is sald to be of two living witnesses of a due! fought at Dove: sixty years ago, In which one of the principals was killed. The other witness 1s Colonel W. J. Adams of Dover, then a young boy. The other day & western medic took a fling at auburn-tinted topknots, declaring that redheaded girls, In the race for masculine favor, were not in the running with blondes and brunettes. Now comes Dr. Catherine Blackford, a character analyst of Philadelphia, with the assertion that blondes rule the world, brunettes trail along behind and the reds are lost in the dust, The tint of the doctor's hair is not given, but It presumed she boosts for her own eolor. MARCH: 28, 1916. The oBeeS effer The High Cost of Gasolime. WAYNE, Neb., Magch %.—To the Editor of The Bee: 1 recelve your paper and feel it 1s all I paid for and that I want to thank you for your hard work and effort to produce the goods. ‘There is one thing I would like to ask you in reqard to your fighting against the gasoline business, this being to my | notion the biggest wholesale robbery that to this day has ever existed. The gas now is 21 cents hers, and the quality so poor, it is hardly fit to be considered gasoline. Now you folks are in position to dig in and find out as to this. And what is more you ean do something for us and everyone else. It is wrong to let it pass this way. Every man on farm or in city is burdened with the high cost of gas. HERBERT F. LESSMANN. ent Sh Count. OMAHA, ch 21.—~To the Editor of The Bee: I see a great deal about Hughes' name being written in the ballot by the voters. Now must the voters write his full name, or would it be enough to just write “Hughes."” My opinion is if we hi to write the full name there will be a great many that will not vote for him. Now Mr. Fyditor if you wiil make it plain what we should do I know that you will have the thanks of others as well as myself. I am for Hughes and bave been for years. G. B. SMITH. Answer-The intent of the voter should count, hut to be safe the full name should be written in. The Bee will soon show by faosimile of the ballot just how it should be written in. Nothing in It for the Farmer. MASSENA, Ia., March 2—To the Editor of The Bee: The demoorat bank- ing law and Wilson's “new freedom™ has fixed finances so Canada can borrow money in the United States for war pur- poses at 5 per cent, while Towa farmers pay 8 per cent on the very best farm mortgages, and 7 to 8 per cent on promts- sory notes, that are as good as gold. It would be well to stand up in meeting and ask why the new banking law is worthless to farmers, and feeders who want money to build up the farming states? I think the new banking law a farce except for the use of big business, and those who finance foreign nations. The farmers in this great corn beit are damn fools if they stick to this outfit, that is interested more in the allied war powers than they are to any other Industry, the war makers are financed, while farmers are robbed in iInterest rates. They claim there is more money in the country than ever before, but it is for war, not for the building up of homes. Mr. Wilson's new freedom—what is it? Democrat farmers expected, of course, when a democratic banking law was made, it would lower interest and work benefit to the people. I live in the best county in Yowa—land sells from $150 to 8200 per acre—but to borrow money on this land the very cheapest is 6 per cent. ‘Wilson's new freedom don't reach this far west. There is not a single benefit & farmer can point to. T. 8. FENLON. Tips on Home Topics ‘Washington Star: When it comes right down to the point of willing candidates the supply always exceeds the demand. Indianapolis News: Those fellows on the republican side of the senate had better look out when Senaotr Taggart takes his seat among them. That smile is likely to reform any of them any minute, Houston Post:. It said Bryan s to be one of Nebraska's ‘‘big four" at the St. Louls convention, which recalls the circumatances that Nebraska has perpe- trated the same trick upon the demo- cratio party three times before and there was a devil of a row each time, Brooklyn Eagle: A poor Mexican woman walked fifty miles to restore to its mother the baby Mrs. Maude Hawkes Wright lost when she was captured by Villa. Uneducated and ragged. knew how the mother-heart waa bleeding. Let's not jump too quickly to the conclusion of ‘“Bird-o'~Freedom Sawin" that the Mexicans are not human beings, ‘‘an orang-outang nation.”” There is as much good human nature in some folks us there s In others, if not more, mildly to para- phrase the philosophy of David Harum. \ Bryan and Bryanism 8t. Louis Globe-Democrat (rep.): Mr. Bryan is determined to get into the St Louls convention, no matter what his in- structions, He has some platform suz- gestions he fain would offer. Loulsville Courler-Journal «(dem.): Mr. Bryan says that 1,000 years from now his name will be in history. Very likely. The historians at that time will be decorating him with the order of merit because he resisned as sec etary of state and went back to his knittig. Chicago Tritune (rep.) Mr. Brysn, who has been extraordinarily puccessful in calling his cpponents children of ini- quity, liars, sons of Anak, corruptionists, men of dariness, thieves, limbs of Satan, and va i us other things, has been sib- | jected in his own home town to the in- dignity of being called a stranger to the truth. And Mr. Bryan was offended. A man aceustoming the lips but not the ears to hard words is a natural pacifist. If the pacifista’ be perfnitted to give all the affronts there will be no wars. But that is the essential condition of pacifism, Philadelphia Record (dem.): Just what does My, Willlams Jennings Bryan mean by saying, in connection with his own can fdacy for delegate-at-large to the na. tiona! convention: “If any of my friends who have suddenly become friends of Woodrow Wilson can serve him better than myself, lot them send someone slse to the convention?* It is inferred that Mr. Bryan would go to the convention in the interest of the president; but what is that about his friends who have sud- denly become friends of Woodrow Wil- Won? Haven't all of Mr. Bryan's friends beon friends of the president? If some B! them have very suddenly become friends of the president, what was the occasion of their change? We suggest that only perfectly well known supporters of Mr. Wilson be sent to the comvention The renomination is & foregone ocon- ciusion, but for that very reason none should be sent to the convention except men who can join in the action heartily and without reservations CHEERY CHAFT. bobs_up with measurements that wend the Venuva do Milo to the discard.’ Loulsville Courfer Journal “Them same people wants board for mext summer, tossel ‘Well, we won't !lkn am " replied her husband. “1 body that kin tell some new jol plny some new tunes on the plano.”—Washington Star. to engage | said Mrs. Corn- Go out in the garden, Maud, Like animated flutes— Also your rubber boots. Irulhfnl Donuld ~Boston Transcript l-' Nd little “’(ull hy—er—-'hy my bo{ same thing as prevails in this famil sald Mr. Blithers. “You may have notl. ced y‘:&t whatever your mother says goes.''— ge. You'd need y o Ana ‘coat of thickest woo P “what is the unit it's about the And Also take the garden hoe To plant the early peas. ‘She gets plent 1( Invitations to hou Ge out lfl\rtlu‘-"nd I:M A se in the garden, Maud, ‘Yes. and she is so homely that every £irl who soes her wants her to come and lll?::‘l a week or two.'~Baltimore Amer- And watch the tull And see the hall an Iom OUT IN THE GARDEN, MAUD h.‘;n» 1 don't know. The times ain't so Judge. “How now? Go out in the garden, Maud, “About once a week some college girl Go out and get the air; Perchance the sun is shining, Perchance the sky is fair, Or else the raln I8 pouring, Or snowflakes dropping there! ) And look for tender shoots: Perchance the birds aro trilling But you'd better take your skates, “Well, Donald,” sald the long-winded Go out in the garden, Maud, Scotch minlater, “how do you like my | And wear your thinnest tulle, | Anll‘mvnl | But take along your ear-laps small_dores,” returned the And keep your mittens full; your fan and lunlehlde Go out in the garden, Maud, try your brand new skis; You'd better take your rubbers, And _creepers, lest it freezs, And feel the cold blasts blow, And breathe the balmy breezes, ETOW, sunshine, And rain and mud and snow! - p There is a Real Difference Cream of tartar, derived from grapes, is used in Royal Baking Powder because it is the best and most healthful ingredient known for the purpose. Phosphate and alum, which are de- rived from mineral sources, are used in some baking powders, instead of cream of tartar, because they are cheaper. If you have been induced to use baking powders made from alum or phosphate, use Royal Baking Powder instead. You will be pleased with the results and the difference in the quality of the food. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO. New York Week of Wonderful Windows On Thursday Evening, March 30th, at 7:30 o'clock, will begin the Week of Wonderful Window display in the retail district. The . merchants are sparing no effort or expense to make this show really worth while. There will be free band concerts on the streets, and we believe that spectators will be well repaid for an evening trip to the shopping district during the week. < Street car service will be ample. Omaha angl Council Bluffs Save Money Going West Settlers or Colonist Fares inclusive to maiu line points in:~— North Pacific Coast - - - $32.50 Canadian Nonhwan - .- 1.156 27.50 ¥ Chicago 5=~ 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.