Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 4, 1916, Page 6

R E R R R R RO i i SRR e ' | | e e e —— 6 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED nthARD ROSEWATER, VICTOR ROBEWATER, BDITOR. The Beo Publishing Company, P BER_DUILDING, FARNAM AND AV Entored at Omaha postoffice as nurn":llll >mlnr. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, By carrier Iy mail per month. per year. Dally and Sunday b ' .00 Dally without Bunday 4 4.00 Evening end Sunday [ 6.0 Kvening without Bundey Zi 4.0 Evening without Sunday e .00 Hunday Hee only s00 e 2.00 Dally ‘and Bunday Hee, three years in advance . $10.00 Bend notles of change of address or irregularity in delivery to Omaha Fes, Circulation Department REMITTANC Remit by draft, express or posial order. Only twos cont stamps recelved in payment of small accounts, l';vm I checkn, :dnmm on Omaha and castern ex+ OFVICES, [ a="The Fias Bullding. Houth Omaha-—2318 N nirest. Counel) Wuffa- 14 North Muin street. L::;Mln- Au'm’u. llmlldln'. Chicago—iik Peoples G Bullding, Neow York- &mvm 1108, %nfi nvenis, st l‘ndl-“ New Hank of Commercs, Washington 1% Fourteenth strest, N, 'W “TCORREAPONDENCE, Address communications relating to news and torial matier to Omaha Heo, Fditorial Deparime VEBRUARY CIMUULATION, 64,328 Daily—Sunday 50,639 b’r ¢ Willlama, elroulation manager of The I Publishing company, heing duly sworn, says that the averago sirculation (or the mmth of Vebruary, 19l wan B4, y nnd (0,630 Bunda IR A, "o anaer, L r"‘ gy pross and sworn Lo befors me, na bt il MoNrn, Notary Pubite Bubscribers leaving the ity temgporarily should have The e mailed (o thom, Ad- drons will bo changed as often as requested. a5 . 4 4 The rope pulling for a new Unlon depot for Omnaha must not be allowed Lo wag, And the $2,000 charity hang-over from the Associated Retallers’ concert course will come in mighty handy, Another slice of Ching Is In revolt against Yuan, The self-slected prosident In giving & lively Imitation of Benor Huerta in Mexico, Remember that more people are koing to got rich by investing In Omaha real estate in the future than have gotten rich that way in the pest. The same registration requirements apply to the drys as Lo the wets, You must be reg- istered by next Baturday if you want to vote in the primary. Federal probers diligently measuring the gasoline tanks of the country without dis- turbing the uplifting gayety of the figures on the signboards, Rate-making clerks In rallroad offices should exeroclse greater care In manipulating figures, Bome day they will make & mista*e downward and lose & promotion, —— Warring men on land or sen have a fghting chance for life when wounded or In defeat, Kns- cape of the crew of a wounded sirship or aero- plane Is exceptional for ity rarity, —_— Becretary Danlels In putting the finishing touch on the naval preparedness Inquiry, Unless his talent a news-gettey has gone to seed, Josephus ought to produce u striking front pa The story of the Kunsas rate ralse that felled emphasizes the need of continuous vig llance by Omaha's shipp'ng Interests, Kven professed rallroad friendship is no bar to “slip ping one over.” At last the Turks are willing and anxlous for American Red Cross assistance the foodiess thousands of Islam. An empty stom- ach caros little whether cross or creacent brings rellef, so that relief come Official assurances are glven that the coun try Is clear of foot and mouth diseases. The former may be accepted without question, but the latter application, like Brer Habbit, lays Jew on the threshold of w stumping campaign — for The largest part of an order from the Hrit ish government for milllons of one-pound tins o Irish stew went to Philadelphia compounders, No better cholce could be made. Aw 4 wiser of Irish stews the Quaker elty is fn a class by ((self. e — ¢ The vision of the Bhorthorn magnates has the true perspective, The future Kreatness of Omaba as a primary stock market is as cortain A8 ils progress to the present time, Past devel opment warrants the expanding prospects the future holds, —— A sclentist's reported discovery of llmd‘ which renders the human body (ransparent may be of interest to medieal students, but | dees not meet the needs of the hour A po Httenl fluld that will Huminate the Intent bhe hind the campaign promiise would fill the vot Ing world with Joy and radiate smiles in vote less ofreles, | Thirty Years Ago This Day in Omaha Oompliod from Bos Pligg, AL the reatden Mr o Blbe witfernia BAEONE & eerption was tendered (o Mis Wiliems ¥ M, Chiongs, who 18 vising Vivea hes Phe people of the Nurlh Prog AR it | mpraved the interior of thmie o “hn Alerium has boen painted, (he walls frompned and NAR beel wented with ve ’ N e ey, Willisw W Mond . s \NA he Sl aoeept 1he unanimeus call which o5 extended o by Kiien and hie Lreiner " ™ . At he o) Mis WOV Abwae b ’ e Uenstal 0 (0 Heward " Nag e aie-desvamp, | . - o Moy s ' v his prepare TNt ben g . . Hoand M e . - T TR0 BB Adslph Bivan, the g Another Democratic Makeshif Iepresentative Claud Kitebin of the and means committee has reported to the house that the general revenue measiure, soon Lo come ki commitiee, will contaln an “antl in from ' OME one wants to know It the other Auns (stars) Cumping”’ provision, the purpose being to pro- that make un the universe have planets revoly tect American manufactu 4 against ruinous | ing around thesn lke our . 1 belleve tha foreign competition after (he war The idea | hey do, but my bellef 1s not based on direct visusl evidence i# un matter of Inference and of u high is all right, but with true democratie incompe vider I matter of Inference and of " Mr. | degren of probability. If on s summer night 1 wes tence, Mr. Kitehin prepures his protective meas & swarm of insects circling around an eleatrls Hght ure in makeshift form, He proposes that only | and down the street 1 perceiue other elactrie )ight such goods as are offered for sale in this coun- | I feel justified in concluding that they, too, are prot try at loss than the market price at home shall | #V1Y surrounded by fasciuated insects, aithough, Kocount of the distan the fnsocts may not be ) be sub y G b subject to the '”‘”‘"rv“""" duties pre ihle Ko, when we |cok Into the aky, we ke« Temots scribed, and the fmpost whall only be suffielont | yune diminished to starry points by distance, wnl | to bring the American selling price to a parity with that prevailing in the country of origin The total Inadequacy of this will be appar ent at a glance, If the home market Is to he kept for home industry, it can only be by such provislon as makos the cost of production at home the basis for the selling price, The ecost of producthon must nec onwarily inelude all the ciements of production, which means, first of all, the wage neale of the United Btates, and the standurd of living estublished thereon open the gales Lo the flood of goods produced wbroad witer the war, onty requiring that they be not offered here for less than they are wold for at home, Is to malotain the demoeratic froe trade folly, to the necossary reduction of Amer! can standards, What In actually awaiting may bo understood from a report from Germany, which In to the offect that more than a billlon and a half dollars’ worth of cheap goods, made by women and children, are vow held in stock, und being wteadlly added to, ready to throw on To the world's markets, once the commerce of Germany In restored It the American manufactirers are to be frotected It will be by some more effoctive means than are provided by the makeshift messure pro- powed by Mr. Kitehin and Lisn democratle eol- leaguon, ————— Where & Saving May Bo Practiced, A wostern rallrond In just now boasting of the electrifiention of a wection of {is line which travorses & mountaln region, where water rower I eanily avallablo, The feat is notable, perhaps, but it really emphasizes a situation that is not only serfous but highly discred itable to our civillzation, It improssively calls attention to a waste in which all American in dustry shares—In fact, one that Is world-wide in Its extravagance, The waste of fuel, in the process of producing enorgy for industrial pur- pones, 18 a scandal, and the more a shame to ur becaune It has been known for many years, hag bheen the subject of deep Iinquiry and re- wsearch, with wsome notable progress towards solution of the problem involved, Devices that will permit the utilization of at least one-third of the theoretical energy of cosl are avallable, but we cling to the use of those that waste from 906 to OR per cent of the possible value of the fuel, Much has been sald and written on this polint, to the end that engineers thoroughly understand the question, but it has as yet had little recognition in practice, We are ultra-conservative on the point, and rail- roads are not the only offenders in the matter f wasting fuel, It In possible, however, that the stirring up the old things of the world are kotting Just now may result i such changes in our methods that the day will be hastened when the rallroad that is not electrifieq will be the novelty rather than the standard, — Too Much of a Load, Veo-grafter "Bob” Bmith Is using every blandishment Lo persuade other candidal tor nomination to hiteh up with him on & “slate” by which he hopes to wave himmelf from Ig- nominous defeat In the primary, But “Bob" with his rotten record, s too much of a load for any other candidate, or wet of candidates, to carry and those who are wise to their own in- torosts will avold entangling alllances that can only bring them grief, for “Bob" may explain himeel! red (n the face assuring people that his pocketing of the fees coming across the counter of the district clerk’s office is not prohibited by law, but he cannot make them belleve It i an honest rulfilment of hix promise to be con- tent with the generous §4,000 salary he has been drawing for nine years, nor will his suggestion that he might have tried to take more make lin offense look less venlal, Buch a load on the ticket would call for explunations and cusen continually through the campaign up to the day of voling November and put his assoclates on the defensive with him un lews they repudiated his actions and let him go it a'one The time to unload Is now unload s to withhold a4 renomination from the false public offieer o very in and the way to State Control of Standards The supreme court of the United States has handed down & South Da reaffirming the power of the state to In this just decislon In hota case fix standards of wolghts and measures the verned, contents of container” s con principle of the that oan of lard must contain a pound of lard stale having o law A pound The packing companions resistod the law to the final the d the Fixiog n an sovereignty sion In court, losing ond of standards Welghts and messures wery perhaps was finally sttribite once determined by or by local customs, but unl established pat's a chance, formity by royal ediet and around hasie sines then & pound the world ougerned (o know and ARtiquarisns are of cUrrent as 1o how W hat that the our standard WaRY curieus tales are they orlgin flaed were wlly Ihe oltisen at large wants (o Know i when he biys & pound of any thing he pAChaRe In wetting The A pound, and not merely o arelons ot buyer has besn (he excune for & systes werchandising that is INFOUREN the Dak now helng overhauled ehactment . B olawa an that of Bouth i Package and Wity riaht ot (L) il o sold the an Bt goods will still e Ivantage | the ponsumer, bhut fiy standards be Al reasen S e e dependable triends of Wilson AW & democratie patriol 1o N triel observancs of the rule olim aton both the peeriess and (he senior senator ways | Ihe stale o | THIE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, Billions of Worlds in the 8ky Garrett P. Serviss. sines our wun s known to have attendunt planets held in thelr orbits by the sun's attraction, It 1s res sonable to wuppose that those other suns slso similarly enelrelod are This reasoning Is bused upon the known facts that the stars and the wimilar In thelr composi ton, that the sturs possess the same gravitational attraction that characterizes our wun, that they ra Aimte lght and heat and other forma of energy Jiunt d that they all appear to have general law of evolution N ure A8 our sun doe arlginatod according to one differing only in details Whether wdopt the old Laplacenn the origin of solar systets, or the Iater plunetesting| the result fn virtually the same, for in hoth (n win) i formad with ubsl wn theary of theory onmes o contral hody diury hodien revolving around it the comparison of insects circling around Hights must not pushed too far ‘T'he in their origin, Independent of the Iikhts, by an altraction different e wocts are, wnd are deawn to them from gravitation, while the planets wre aprong fv the aame originel rotating or swirling muss that gave birth to thelr partioular win In the process of condensation that formed the sun the materials of which the planets consist were left from thix und similar competition, ! Hmited | | outalde the contral condensation, and they condenned Into wmuller bodies which continiie to sweep around the wun without falling Into I, because, during the formation of the wystem, they mcquired motions not direoted radinlly toward the eommon eentor. It 1w concelvable that thers may be stars that have no planets beosuse, owing to specinl elrcumatan: Al the material outside the contral condensation wis guthored Into It Just so there mikht he electric Mghts that hud no inwects flylng around them be omuse, owing to local conditions, there were no 'n woots in the nelghborhood Mut, n keneral, It (0 et to asstime that the stars are the centers of planetary systems, Among the excoptions may bo the 1arge number of wtars which are known to he double muns, cireling around thelr common contor, ke two dancers holding one another AL mrms length, In much & system the contending attractions would probably draw all planets, or il the muterinls from which plansts might have been formed, Into one or the otner of the twinned suns Our sun 1s & small one, There are others hundredn of times greater, Thess gigantic suns may have sy toma of planets vastly grander than ours, We aro inhabtants of a thatehed cottage In a mere hamlet of spnce; the holngs who 1ive In those more glorious solnr systems dwell in the palaces of & mighty capital But there Is another fact about the stars which should always be kept in minu, and that s that none of them stands fast. The whole universe In nilve with motlon. Al the stars are spinning throukh apace 1ike a throng of racing lcsbonts, kliding hither and thither over the frozen expanse of u lake The gleam of white salls, the glitter of steal run the flash of burnished rafls, the awift, curve ing paths, thrown into ovals, circles, el holan—all these animated scenes are repeatéd by the atars in the heavens, but only for the eye of a hoink to whom a thousand years are as the tick of a ond. To us the stars seem motionless n #phores, un the speeding lcoboats seem motionless 1o the photographic plate Instantansously expomed, bui when we link up the observations of centuries w find that the constellations are dissolving and re torming like clouds, All those millons of suns wilh thelr hundreds of milllons of planets are Ko many dancing motes In the sunshine of eternity parn. Hometimes (though rarely), we have reason to be lleve one star crosses another's path, bringing them %0 near together that, If an actual collision does not ocour, thelr planets are sent flying Into new orbits and It (8 possible that in such clrocumatances a world revolving on the outskirts of ita system may be snatched away to become n member of another solar tamily, or the turmoll in the two aystems may groat that many planets ure sent crashing tog or hurled into the flames of thelr own sun Twice Told Tales Irish Repartee, Sir Robert Finlay, M. P, the famous lawyer. has heen speaking vigorously in the House of Common., on the advisability of making food contraband as well as an far an Gormany Is conoerned was once In lreland when he met an with & number of cattle going along A articles of war Hir Robert Irish drover country road “Where are you going to? he inquired of the son aof Brin To Waterford Falr, your honer Indeed? And how mich do you expect to get (he animals? waked o Kobort dure, wn' 161 get wight pounds each, 1 shall not 4 badly,” anawered Pat Ah, that's & sample of v ountry ! mald # Robert Now, If you would take them to Englan you would average 14 pounds each The Trishman ould knowing full well that he afford the ey to England, and feeling « 1 hurt at the fmplied poverty of his native land | Indignant for & moment, but suddenly his face bii ened 1o take the Lakes of Killarney to purkatory ves w kol a gUinea & drop them. "~ London Answers AJ People and Events he embarge cotlon makes Ceorgia » w ] . nhow calered o D , e Mambhall Py Aa it hande the st with Basam N . \ A | ' [ ahirts and another welghing ™ . the beard APRIL 4, 1916, " The Pees effer | | "'”nh" In Coumht with the ¢ nin, | OMAHA pr To the Fditor of The Boe: 1 saw that April Fool Letter’” of Bob Bmit regarding the Increass in | dintrict court and withholding in | manity and other fee and | am frank to ndinit | admire the nerve of the man | in trying to bluff it off. For the present | I will disregard the increnss in fees, as | | por the revised fes bill, However, he says ['T] Insanit foen There 1 er WAs 1 | doltar patd nie that 1 did not report and pay to the county treasurer msooner than the law roquired This 18 not true and JBob knows it in not true, Mobort @mith filed with the county bonrd his first clajm for insanity {«..,. on Heptomber 11, 100K, for $463,35 | Tho county board twsued w warrant in | payment on Ootober 1008, for B248,25 [ deducting 9010 for overcharges. Whon | the bourd dasusd the warrant the clalm win pald to ali intenta and purp | DId “Hob’ report thews foes in 1007 No! In 1007 No! Nor In 1010, 1911, 1912 nor 1914, But on Webruary 4, 1915, h thought better of It und reported insan Iy foen of $2.2% carried by him in 108 and collected by him in 1908 Lot us wee how he collectod thess fees. o wot hin warrant for $28.2 on Janu | nr 1900, wnd kopt this warcunt until | Wabrunry 4, 1915, when he presented it st | | the trewsurer's office and recelved the | onsh, or threo dayn after he roported the | | foen in his 1016 report wisn his wecond clalm for insanity foas, which he filed with the county hourd on Decombor 25, 10K, for §19.40 The honrd Imsued o warrant in payment, W40 for overcharges. When the county board {ssied this warrant the clatin wan adjudicnted, DId Bob report? 0, Intag he reported thers foen 4, 101, and he cnwhod the warrant for $904.9, which was tumied in 1008, on Vehruary 0, 1915, ao cording to the trensurer’s records. ‘Hooner thun the luw required” i not wubstantinted by the facts Of course, after the wecond claim, the bonrd wndd that all those Insanity cases ware in court nnd they refused to allow any more, conwequently none were filed for wevornl yours and none pald and re ported until the cuse was finally wettiod, VOTER deducting von yoars on Pehruary uwr Notlons of Selence, KIEARNRY, Nob,, April 8--To the Id ftor of The Bee: An artlcle In The Hee wald thin world was made from nothing Have you ever seon anybody muke any thing from nothing? This world Nature made from water, minerals and microbes Wator, minerals and microbes nre the materinls in our bodles, alwo In all vege- tation In the world, Nature went about It the same as in making a ball of yarn The planets are all made that way, Thiy plunet heen enlarging for 125,000,000 yours at lenst, The sun Is a planet the wume an the rest, and the heat and lght exiuts In the upace betwesn all the plan- otn, The sun travels so fast that It euts the heat and lght from the atmosphere, the mame an when we make a light with a mateh; there 18 no fire in the mateh, but the fire comes from the mateh, When we mtrike It 1t brings the light from the atmosphere, When the sun meets another planet the frictlon makes the heat and lght J. i, CARLSON s An Lo the Ntevens Wi, OMAHA, April 3 To the Edl or of The Hew I wish to eall to vour attention the misunderstunding which seems to exist In the minds of the consuming publf that the passage of the Htevens bill will create monopolies and aubject the con wsumer to other forma of Smposition Fectlon A mays that a manufacturer shall not of the the same ntrol articles belonging to general class of merchandise have mny manopoly or market for nor whall a manufacturer b uoparty Any agresment, combination or under standing with any ec regnrd to the price which the shall he sold elther to dealers at wholesale or re mpetitor n tail or to the publie The questions invelved are moral as well as economic. They are, whether the public Iy to he decoyed hy cut-price balt” ~whether the small retafler s to b runhe and the Independent small manufacturer 8 to be deprived of a | market for hiw honest ware The Kreat beneflt to the consumer will | acorue from competition in excellonce be | tweer irers who are now | | clinad to cut quality In meating ecom | pettion in pr Every oltizen ought to | take an interest in this legisintion and | » that his congressman supports the ‘l Ntevens hill for the welfure of his coms [ munity I L. COMBS | — | The Twentleth Annual Child Welfare | conterence will held In Nashville | Ter April 4 to 0 Bvery state i | ttled to wend three state delogates o | | fare conference incl the | | Natlonal Congress of Mothers 1 the | | Parent-Toachers' aasociations | e por Mackensle Han Fra who could net vote he Calitor ore on that & . aa her husband Peter Gordan Mackensie, has filed apphi- | .y ¥o Amendiner the sta " g Ime Ao In New Yor y HO0 wan rabsed for (the caus ' . ' . . A . & Adopied & waman's and . Mo has b vlas . . . [ e . ' ane inventing new | ashingion BLar. SMILING LINE! | ki : « trapeze performer who missed his How now?" : hold and ame down performed & para olentists state that & man can 'qu. al acton. nlong with a vooalary of 0 word at wa e P ‘Krnw 0 '\ grouches dont need tha Though he lnnded on his h l',(flll "‘l‘ many. They conterse in grunt Lot | wnme time he fell down on h's feat."- ille. Courler-Journal Baltimo: . American % ferchunt-What we want s & nig, Khe (pointing o a noted blood «pe- | qijet hoy who doesn't use bad lankugke clalint)—~Who i that distinguished-looking | wioke clgareites, whistle aromd the of« man? fica or ket into mischief. He—Oh, that's only a circulation man Applicant (disguntediy)=You don't want ager.~Cornell Widow no boy, you want m girl.—~Boston Trans _J o neript ) Nounette—This is my newest dress; how do_you lke it7 Do you remember the old copyb Cinbrielle—1t's beautiful; 1 had one ex-|In which you used to write ‘Hones wotly like It last your. - Puck the Bost Policy "' Yen, " replied Kenator Borghum; "'I'm | atruiid ‘wome of the boys had to write that motto over und over o ofteii that they got a little tired of it and tried to forget I~ Wanhington Htar THE OLD LOVE S0NG. Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telograph Pluy it wly, wing it lowly, Old tamflinr Lune! Ones 16 ran in dance and dimple, IAke n brook in June; Now It acha nlong the measures, Vith n sound of tears Doar ol voleen echo through Vanished with the years Play It wlowlysst is holy w'.«un. What! You want another fur A nnevening hymn ‘ jouich, {wo fnslde of a yenr? Why, || Morning slndness ‘hushed to sadness haven't been home gnee fnow year and a “1iln it to the brim half, Memorien come within the musie, Tommy Atkins=That's all tight for you “tenling through the bars wiri but me and my iniwsus ain't (hat | Thoughts within its quiet spaces Kind.~Hoston "T'ranscript 1tre und sot liko stars ftipple, ripple, koen the love song ™ * | hesar you are golng to give a hig T, In wlowing time, d Alnner dance,” chirped the koclety re Vnrly wwoetnews grown completencss porter | Floods fta every thymn I don't know wheth I am or not Who togeth lenrn the muse wnfd Mra. 1Flubdith hody wseemnn to Lito and death unfoid, want to come, the cook threatens to Know that love s but beginning making | Louluville leavn If | do, and my husband | bud talk about the experme Until love s old Courter-Jovrnnl | Hinging, winging, through the roses —— Went our | r ‘wain What brings you here?' asked the | Wan there ever such o rose time, Could there be augnin? tonch you to lead u peace they tell us "I"ive-and-twenty ihed the missior ines we've meen tiem blow; to. your hont. 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