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i} THE OMAHA DAILY BEE| T ——————— "OUNDFD BY EDWARD ROH'F’WA’II"R VICTOR ROSEW ATER, EDITOR SR L AL | _The Bee Publishing Company, Prnnnrtor | M‘E BUILDING, F. ARNAM AND VENTBENTIH, Vnurod at nm.m. _postoffice necond- nnN»r, | TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION | By carrier By mail per month. per year, Dally and Aunday .00 hslly without Bunday 400 Kvening and Sunday 6.00 aning without Bunday 1.0 | Evening without Sunday im | Bunday Feo only 7 Dally and Sunday iee, three years n. advanoe. . $10.00 Bend notice of change of address or irregularity in delivery to Omaha Bes, Clirculation Department RVMITFA NOB, Remit by draft, express or postal order. Only twos cent stamps received In payment of small accounts, Personal checks, except on Omaha and eastern ez~ f'llm not l"/‘ffl'bfl, OVVICHE, fwbw-lrh& Hee Bullding. Bouth Omaha-215 N sirest Clownell Bloffa—14 North Main street. v#::m» 47:]!.11"1- llmllflln o Chicago Pooples (i ullding, Now Fork Joom 1106, 94 W1Fth nvense, Bt 1ou New Bank of Commerce, Ashington T8 Fourteenth strect, N. W, T CORRERPONDENCE, Address communications relating to news and edie torial matter to Omaha Bee, Fditorial Department i) matter TR e —— MAROH CIRCULATION, 56,628 Daily—Sunday 50,628 Dwight Williams, eireulation manager of The Bee Publishing company, belng duly sworn, says that the avarage clreulation tor the month of March, 1916, was B6,628 dnily and 10628 Hundny DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Clroulation Manager bacribed In my presence and aworn Lo before me lhu A day of Apri, 1916 WORERT WUNTER, Notary Publie. Subscribers leaving the city teugorarily should have The ee malled to them, Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. —— s <3 s~ Looks like a republican yewr from what over sogle viewed, —— A Joy ride to the coal dealer in April con stitutes an exhibition of outdoor sport without a springtime rival —— No, Gentle Reader, no one by the name of Kosewater is running for any office at issue In the coming primary ———— Kansas City got its new Unplon Depot by keeping eternally at It and that is the only way Omabs can get It, S—— Bpain has broken Into the quizzing contest on submarine operations, Neutrality nowadays offords no assurance of safety, —_— Incidentally, remember that there are two police judgeships for Omaha to be filled this year Instead of only one as formerly, ——— The Mterary person jailed in New York for uning the mails to defraud achieves the proper mental shade to match the Blue Moon Maga~ Rl ——— The Traftie club rallies a husky bunch of Loosters for the new depot, There Is room for more. The greater the pull the sooner results will come, The 30 per conl uplift in municipal taxes falls to banish the ghost of a deficit, That fearsome shade already haunts the Inflated payrolls. The prosp of restoring poace In Ne- Lraska's democratic family are about as good a4 reconciling the reports of war bulletin editors. The latter is hopeless. ———— For the first time in thirteen years repub- licans swept the municipal field at Tulsa, Okl, HNelther aucient nor modern hoodoos can with- sland republican drives this yoar ——— an and French reports on aeroplane losses are hopelessly conflicting. Belug wide apart in other essentials, agreement on a plane proposition is expecting too much — The celebrated argument of the pot and the | kettle is falrly outclassed by the mud batteries ¢f Nebraska democratic leaders. The alm I8 rood and the execution a mighty smear —_—— Mr. Bryan s fond of Impugning the alncerity of other men. It Is & bad and dangerous practice World-Herald, Then why does the World-Herald constantly | Indulge In this “bad and dangerous practice?” — If Omaha water users had the Cleveland Tate of 6 cents a thousand gallons, lnstead of 18 cents, the saving would be worth reckon Ing; 1t would be something even {f we had the 16-cent rate enjoyed by water users of Lincoln [ ————— A crusade against overwelghted poultry shipped into New York puts the dishonesty by | implication on western shippers, The insinu stion In baseless. The fact that New Yorkers | palnt the gllls of ancient fish to make 1t sale- | able clearly shows that Gothamites require no outalde assistance in sanding a fowl play | Thirty Years Ago This Day in Omaha Womplisd from Bee Pilgy, e My Alfrsd ( Mlow, Unlon Paeifle. has Nan, whers he was i Herahia Argo of tha N nhore . A GOmBlete surprise 10 Bis Al after recavering Mipped 10" and purchassd hin & hassis Tom Mureay's build w Waroer ot e closd of \hie eentory an and & A% AL wark upen he boliding pith WAy b ana by . s At . 1o the e Ab the plane and o . " stosel vinduot e A ot - e Sl b ween i s endved wntil in " A B Rmith, Charles 1 Neods Al A Fried wes ' anaeet of Mo llge N Tarned weil pisnsed w AR TBEDAL tovepting »as g Partare W o delesst L A e ol ur premiaent N a " Maphe Bard. Mon bars Mitard § Marne, Jobs ) . . Matenit. Mo Basdy. M i | te amended Object Lesson for Both Sides. From Mexico comes a tale to the effect that the peons have marks- manship of the than customed to the been {mpressed by the Amerfean soldiers in a greater through any other means Ac vague and indefinite expendi after their own fashion, follower of Pancho's for- understand the ac- degree ture of ammunition the wimple-minded tupes finds it difficult to ciracy with which the Yanke Lie bullet to its billet, This, however, is but one of the object lessons that Is being afforded | by the expedition The Mexicans are being tuught the superiority of the well organized, thoroughly trained and disciplined soldiery over the Irregular aggregations or groups that have passed for armies down there during the last five years, and the lesson is certain to have wolutary Also, they are learning that the Gringo is not an Inferior creature, nor an but Is & most romarkably human sort of person, There little lessons will be of great value in the future, when the two countries agaln resume the intimate relations that must be theirs in the very nature of things, On thix side of the border we are finding cut that the Greaser Is not such & wretch as ropular fancy has painted him, He Is subject laws of existence, the result enemy to bhe dreaded, and responsive to the pume as the rest of us, His Ideals are not ex netly our count of hig limitations in other directions, But \deals, perhaps, but this is on ac he has long borne oppression, and ix still far from emancipated entirely His life has been hard, and bis future {8 not especially luminous, yet he follows his cycle with the dumb devo tlon of one who knows nothing better, When our people come to know him well, and under stand how he g eirevmucribed In his aspirations and activities, they will ecertainly look more | kindly upon and deal more patiently with him “The hot trall” may lead to something far botter than the mere extermination of Villa's band, if its object lessons for both sides he not entirely misappliod Just a Pertinent Reminder, A communication from u géntleman who has come to Nebraska from another state to ask us for w primary vote of endorsement for the nomination for vice president on the re prblican tieket, after glving the story of his life and stating his position on several pend Ing Issues, concludes, "If I become president, 1 will not be afrald to act,” That reminds us of pomething we had almost forgotten, towit That in recording a preference for vies presi dent, wo may be In a remote degree helping to make a president, The suggestion of the viece presidentinl welf-starter referred to would In dicate that he has not overlooked this con tingency, but is banking on the fact that the vies presidency s equivalent to an Inuuvun«-r_’ pcliey on the life of the occupant of the White | House, We have often chided nominating con ventions for using the vice presidency as trad ing stock and refusing to take it serfously, but the conclusion I8 unescapable that the in thelr direct primaries take It still less ser! onsly people Has Nebraska Too Much Money! Becrotary Royse of the Btate Banking board sounds & warning to the board and the bankers of the state in connection with a condition that has been the subject of deep thought among bankers for quite a while. The socretary points out that, under the working of the deposit guaranty law, it Is possible for Nebraska to get too mueh money on hand, and that the danger liue Iy near, Conservative bankers are of ‘the opinion that too much money is not a danger In itself, but too much bank eapitaliza tion Is. The present plethora of money in the banks is due in a measure to the fact that the puaranty law makes Nebraska an attractive place for deposits, This fact Secretary Royse rotes, and as a further safeguard he anks that & law be passed that will Himit the benks, It Nebraska is to entirely fate that overtook Oklahoma, where the anty law brought with 1t disaster the uncontrolled operations of banks It Se ary Royse Is justified in his con clusions and recommendations, then the proph ecy made when the guaranty law was under dibate in belng fulfilled. 1t was then asserted that the worst effect of the law would be fts oncouragement of wild cat, or reckiess bank ing As it stands, it enforces on responsible number o1 encape the Klar bankers the condition of becoming surety for the Irresponsible, and In this regard it must The best guaranty for a bank is the character and integrity of its management, end this can not be provided by legislative en aetment The prosperity of Nebraska s established, end the enterprise of {ts people In admitted Much of development remains to be done be fore the state fully vealizes on its resources and itn opportunities I'his attracts hither the ad venturous, and gives emphasis 1o the warning of the secretary he banking business of the must be kept on a safe basix — Setting the Clook Ahead sa The ver methodical Germans According to Able report, are planning (o set the clooks ! the empire ahead one hour on May 1. In order 1o galn snother he ot duylight, and * avold the use of ardticial Hght, This mo minendable for severa wid CARO hut 15 0ot at all & novel method decolving one it AN he A iea have used the sehedule, and It was ne Hime proposed tor Omaha, O for husiness ocoupation ha el w ! [ { tarded h o ’ i (L 1 hged 1 ting L and ! the \ inig be the b 1hat houy A § e ! L . pract fead o 1 Ll L . E—— T ' ' i poswid Heo . ds Wesause ) o Rosewate \ Hng when the only ne WO wale ' Ned s e wa soaling wnd \ trooper speeds | house keys, | present time, because of | TURI OMAH Risky Kindness to Robbers Literary Digest, ON'T invite a burglar fnto your house or your I) wpartment when you are absent, and don’t hand our money to a plckpocket on the treet. It would meem that such advice would be hardly neces rary, and yot, mccording to Police Commissione Voods of New York an alarming number of peopls are gullty of just such hardihood every day in New York (Ity, and the inference 1s that they are not less #0 In other communities, The burglar Is looking eagerly for an mccossible abode where he may ply his ndisturbed, Don't sdvertise the fact that you home s the very place for which he i sesking. Of course, you would not do so purposely, but when you leave evidence in plain view showing that no one I at home, or when you leave & window invit Ingly open (hut can be reached by an athletlc crim. inal, or leave your valuables in places where they can ennily be found by even the most casusl student of human nuture, you are in effoct iasuing such an ad and, for sl prasticable purposes, y. might as well insert an ad in the dally papers. Dont dangle your money temptingly In the fuee of a man bent on robbing you, You don't? Consider, If you happen to be one of the gentler smex, the pocketbook You eatry nbout the strests with you every day you #0 whopping or marketing. Doesn’t It hang carelessly from your hand by leuther or cloth streps that one cut of n knife would sever? Then do not be surprised « knife some Ay happens by trade ertiner ) If & man with an Interview with Mr, Woods, gleaned by Anne commissloner places upon the wornen most of the blame for sasisting predatory criminals Ince the Interview was given, he has hecome n Justice, Al Harendesn, tie Probably this s poetic though there seems to he some justice in hia com plaints, He citen u few cases that seem conclusive, beginning with the story of “Mrs, A’ It happened that Mre, A. wanted a dinner dress In & hurey, Ho whe posted off to her favorite depart- ment store, After a fow minutes of looking, she found just what she wanted. Would it need much alteration? Mrs, A, dropped her raincoat and um- brella and pocketbook upon the nearest chuir and tollowed the clerk into the fitting room. That pocket- hook, valued at 86, and containing ¥0, a ring of and four theater tiekats, never was seen married man again, | whall refrain from pointing out the moral of this ad, true story Not long ako the house of an assstant to & prominent New York clargyman was robbed, and the burglars got in through the skylight. The minister then had the skylleht fixed so the burglars could not get in that way again, One night a faw days his wife went out and left the follow Ing note tacked to the door Lanve drepn ot corner drug store for the evening When she came back the house had been care tully looted Ao, however pobody home Agnin, take Mrs, 1. Bhe doesn’'t know Mra. A, or the minister's wife, but they are sisters In rois- fortune, Mrs, B, was fond of dancing, and one even ing last summer ghe jolned a party of friends on an sxcursion to one of the bheaches near New York City After a shore-dinner, she went to the wash room to wash her hands, and lald the two very beautiful rings who was wearing on the marble stand. One was her engagoment ring, valued at 400 In money wnd at how much 1 commissioner cannot venture upon saying. The other was n Kold band met with sixteen wmall diamonds, valued at 830 Poor Mrs, B.! She missed the rings and returned for them wlmost at once, But they were gone, and have not heen found up to the in wpite of the great amount of money and time and patience that has gone into the wearch for them. Can you wonder that when this was re ported 1o headquarters we felt just a little bit But listen to the case of Mrs, C) Mrs., €, In the wifa of successful New York bus- | ness man, and she (s greatly interested in curfous jewelry. In common wiih a surprisingly large num- bor of people, she distrusted safes and safety deposit hoxes, and alept with her jewel collection under her pillow. In the daytime she wore them in a chamols bag around her neck, They were never out of her reach “But one morning she was called from bed by th The messnge she received caused her In the meantime thoe telephone decide to remain up and dros mald made her bed, sending the plllow slip contalning the Jewels to the layndr That Is where fhe police enter upon the scene After n search of many weeks we have succeeded ‘v finding one plece in an up-town pawnshop. And we have hopes of locating the rest, But why While these are not essentially moral tales, Mr Woods appends a few morals that may or may not They constitute shrew’ based apply to the examples given datlons for protection mgainst theft recomme on oxperience galned by the police department from many hundreds of cases that have come before them The n s follows Do not place your rings on the stand when waxl Ing vour hands Do not take & servant without calling up the per won who signs her refarence Do not Inforwy Lray isitors that there In no body else nt home Ask gusmen, telephone rey s ete, to show you thelr badges Do not take & taxi with two men on the hox It vou are attacked, be wure to get a good look at your assallant's face Lock your windows, especially those leading 1 fire encapes Change the lock n the door when ¥y move to a new apartment Do put notice on hall bell or dumb walter tha ou wre Do not hide money or lewelry under carpet, fn VAR 1n bureau drawers. Those are the fieat hed by the thief Do not advartise the fact that you are going out Take & final look matier in how great a hurry windows ar hetore ¥ ave home ce that & doors astened Keon & light burning in your 0 APATTIe Dead, hut Mueh Alive sh oty N ad bowr . Uhilled In & y e etuen " oAb . ared AL Ihe soldier, and finel . . Avien slsewhers M pros o newn (hat the ehack senid RN . . sl office ! the slerk, healtating ) e dead and y we ¥ L neanarinus daker Y, APRIL | s well | number of In smsociation a bachelor police | 1916. The Peed effer A Hoost for Hughes, OMAHMA, April 7.=To the Editor of The Bee: There ls a movement on foot by & ertain element, principally In the eastern part of the United States, the object of which 18 to mecure the nomination of & business man for president on the repu’ lHean ticket, We probably are all agreed that the n man of business ability would not necewsarily by in business, There aregs good many qualifications required of w president other than business ability, He should be A man of marked executive ability; judicious by temperament, versed in matters of who, of courss man engaged he should be and should be well lepinlntion Off all persons mentioned for the noms Ination on the republican ticket, Charles . Hughes more nearly combines all of the essential qualifications for that high offico than any other man. Demoorats s republicans recognize this fact afrald that he wil republican con The democrats are o the ention Justice nominee of the name will not appear Thers han ngltution seeking to pravall upon republicans to write in his Hughes upon the ballot in Nebruke bean conmlderable name. This may be done by a sufficlent oters, 8o that Justice Hughes would be préferred mbove the candidatss whose names will appenr upon the bal lot; however, It I8 # stupendous under taking, and even 1 Justice Hughes dons not rank highest at the Nebraska pri marfes, It Ix no refutation to the high enteem In which he is held, nor of the growing demand for his nomination ot the republican convention Republioans in this distelct the eandidness of William ¥ of the candidates for Nutiona) through Gurley, one delogate to the Republiean con.sntlon, aley opportunity to indicate thelr profare for Justice Hughes by mersly voting for Mr, Gurley, He has unequivo, cally taken the people into his confidence, and has stated that he s for Hughes and Borah. Mr. Gurley i entitled fo a great denl of credit for mnnouncing his posl thon, Tt would have been much sasler for a man of his wide scquaintance and gront popularity to have merely com peted with the other candidates without committing himself. 1f Mr. Ourley ir slocted an n delegate from this district, it will be a clean-cut indication of the fact that republican voters desire the nomination of Charles 1. Hughes W. (', FRABER, have an w to Vote for Hoghes, OXFORD, Neb,, April 7.-To the Editor of The Bee: | am In full sympathy with your “Write It In think, mating the careless and acoldental vot of 1912, My opinfon is that the Ross vote 18 no guide whatever, s quite a few of his vot mme from thome disgusted with the party quarrel, and the balance from frenks 11ke the candidate, I can’t but belleve that It 18 & greater task than you weem to think for to instruct onr dele- gates for Hughes, but it is not impos e The Fea's campalgn ia certainly bearing frult, and 1 think fta success hingen largely on the response and work of those editors In the state favorable to the nomination of Hughes, If each of those editors will place the name of Charles ¥. Hughes In bold type over a brief reason for his nomination and the impossibility of his refusing It nomi nated, coupled with caution in writing Hughes campaign, | However, you are in error In estl | snd marking the name, a powerful in- terest will be put in working shape. Let them request Intereated voters Lo put out notices and get busy working for votes in ench precinet and results should be obtained at the polly, With best wishes for your succens and pledging my mite, 1 am, respectfully A. C. RANKIN No Fee nft Here, OMAHA, April 7.To the £ditor of The Bee: T wish fo state that If T am elected to merve as county treasurer, I will not only report all fees collected of what sver nature, but wil] give an honest ynd businesslike wdministration Ing as county commissioner the stand 1 took againat the jall feeding fon graft, \s While ser proposition and the Insanit well known and fa & matter of record EMMET G. SOLOMON Thanks, Thanks for the OMAMA, April .~To the Kditor of The Bee: At the regular meeting of the Re tall Publleity Buyers' club, the secre- inatructed to write The Bee. for their assistance In making the “Week of Wonderful Win dows" AUCH A great Buccess tary wan thanking th Fiveryone of our members fully ap preciated the valuable space that you KAVE 10 OUF CAURE RETAIL PUBLICITY BUYERS CLUB Ny JAMES W. METCALIFE Secretar he Inviolable. ) ISLAND, Neb,, April 7.-To the Fhe letter on the o the flag sigued G, 1. 11 % 80 manifestly written in pure lgnoran SNLUTe 10 BuAWer ton 1t Must we nda. The writer asks every plece of oloth or paper to 3 It there (s & flag printed on it betore we throw It Away or burn it up®' | an awer, you, certaln 1t bears the flag flag. Are see nothing it . Niare and Stripea® Are N . hovs And girle in the " Vore mare he writer siwea naly of the Daughters of \ an ! noand a8 1o wha ! s When ene has an old d Nag w goiien M of B ) . foes ot kunow tiag \eacorativn wrada va " auld e Burned W he same care w Warn Wibleg and ’ - whal Do hay b . e What doss (his write P astanily in foderal tarts o ol war wiih (raved staidarae siton writer temls senee of palriotiom a8 an Amerioan N Me speaks of seven for a Dag and ihe mmon 4 " . AR Ameres PRI goand iy 9 N . TR it aid . e " - . . o 1 taehed AR AWBINg “ Cigar mere . A& China has returned to the monarcl form of government. But nyson would prob ot 1 wiuppose they way In_ which they could. zet i) A in the world.” presidency should be filled by | Kawler-Did you ever go t) one Blunderby-No; but my dn ightor IKnte I Just erasy to have her periec pe Boston presime yoi thoroughlv? Thoroughly it won't run there is something the mat with it,’ Hustness Caller This 18 a pletufle of Mra 1 wuppose? Peckington—-Yes Knowledge and Practice of Cor- | rect Daily Habit the Constipation i n conditlon affecting al tly relleved only habits of regularity The most natural time for the elimin ative proc muscular and nervous systems are doen not come rendily, plan to take a mild laxative at hedtime, Cathartics and purgatives, that by the violence of thelr quick aetion shock and offective Inxative remody (hat dependable, and &ripe or otherwise disturb the organs In , I8 found In w combination of sim ple laxative herbs known as Dr. Cald woll's Byrup Pepsin that can be bought | eating ot the drug store for fifty cents a bottle. & €. C, Allen, 216 Poam Bt., New Pepsin and keep it in the house to use A trinl bottle, free of charge, can be obtained by writing to | win just what was needed for constipn- | r. W. B, Caldwell, 44 Washington 8t., and Aistress of the stomach after Monterey, Calif, that she “found Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pep |15 —er—getting her picture taken | delphin Press SUNNY GEMS. jea Yo Ten- | girl I'm engaged to a nice, bly not say t an she make acherry ple™ ra_of Europe than n |the other facetiously ~Judge I don't know about that. But, fng of cherries, she can mix fifty Catha ponsessod those vulgar newly- | cocktall.'—Louisville Courfer~Journa rich people in your neighborhood to iy alruhip? Wau her father violent found out It was (I | qaied him for her hand? Great guna! hand off. AIN'T IT QUEER? Toake' 1) Clate “lvv Judws. Bay, on the level, ain't it queer Baltimore American P gt I never met a girl In spring Through all the year I never loved n single one Who didn't menn Yet lamp this fact Brings thoughtz of gifts to churl, Tteliglounly 1 have to reck Or acattering of groen or ‘Kold Where guuda are sold Madge, Prue, antrologers” Grace, RN Inquire understand an auto der Oh, o the ways of womankind That s, I know when With snucy scowl or fussy frown TH Christmas comea? “Why at photograph) mind Peckinglon, | My rupture kind? There's greator mystery than Detroit Free Pross Jookin that's her when she Permanent Relief for Chronic Constipation | Great Essential, of all people and can be per by mequiring % I8 In the morning when both Ly wleep and rest. When relief it in an excellent the system, should not be em In which does not MRS, C . ALLEN, It should be in e t & bottle of Dr wrote 1o Dr, Cnldw when occasl nrises Monticello, 111 Colonist Excursions To California Tickets on sale daily via Rock Island Lines, March 25th to April 14th, 1916. Only $32.50 from Omaha Similar reductions to North Pacific Coast points, Goin a Rock Island tourist car— big, roomy, comfortable, and at- tached to fast limited through trains. Dining car service, iy o Choice of routes—through the historic Southwest—the direct route of lowest altitudes — or through scenic Colorado. Aatomatic Block Signals Finest Modarn All- Steel Equipment Superb Dining Car Service Let me help outline you a trip. J. S. McNally, D.P.A. 14th and Farnam—W. O, W, Bldg,, Omaha, Neb. The National Health Food Everybody everywhere likes Fauat Spaghetti. And it is perfeetly natural, because there are few foods which can be served in w0 many tasty dishes and appe tizing combinations Yot it is the most nourishing of all foods A ten-cent pachage contains more dry nutri« ment than » dollar's worth of mest. Faust Spaghettiis made of Durum wheat, rich in gluten the strength and tissue bullder. Tosist on hav ing it At your grocer's. Write for free recipe be MAULL BROS., 8t Lowis, U 8 A 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, when 1 thought he'd Town Toplea he way a feller's luck will run? Whowse praise all summer | would sing, Whose love 1 held exceding dear T fiirt for fun~ When Christmas eold The writing out of some sized cheque An't T your little girl?" Will some one some day make me wiss? Why should a malden tirn me down Heneath the wurface of her cyes! ery household.” Caldwell's Byrup