Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 3, 1916, Page 6

L] THE BF OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1016 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE| FOI NDED BY l-}n\\ARn ROSEWATER, VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. BEB BUILDING, FARNAM A VENTRENTH, Entered at Omaha postolfice as second-class matter, TERMS OF S8UBSCRIPTION. By carrier By mafl Datly and Supday. W k< Dally without Sunday 4.00 Evening and Sunday. Hvening without Sunday 4.00 Evening without Sunday. ‘ Sunday Hee only 2 Dally and Sundayfise, thes 410,00 Send notice of change of address or irregularity in delivery to Omaha Bee, Circulation Department, HI-’MX'I'I'AN('E Remit by draft, express or postal order. Only twoe oent stamps received In pnyn‘gnt ot all accounts. Personal checks, except maha and eastern ox= change, not accepted. OFFICES, Omaha~The Boéfufldinl. Routh Ommaha N & Clounell Pluffs—14 North Main street. Lincoln—626 Little Building. 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Address communications relating to news and ed Omaha Bes, torisl matter to , Editorial I)aplrtmnt, MARCH CIRCULATION, 66628 Daily—Sunday 50,628 Dwight Willlams, ciroulation manager of The Beo Publishl compaay, belnk duly Jwors, saye that the r‘v'lcr reulasion for the month of March, 1916, was 8 dully and 10,28 Bunday b Dl“ldulu'r WILLIAMS, Ciroulation l-n’ s n m 8oncy d sworn 1w bel this 34 day of [ f’l& HuBl:.l(l' HUNTER, Notary Publie, 3 we Subscrivers leaving the ity temporarily shoulu have The Bee malled to them, Ad- dress wili be changed often as requested, Kicking over the party traces Simon-pure democracy still lives Prospective Ak-Sar-Ben members -will well to join early and enjoy the rush, —— e In & close political race you can never surely tell who's who until the official count is in. — In this day of fllllhhing’ .p‘rwel, dandelions by the bushel ought to have a regular market quotation, shows that do ——— Moving day for the Amerfcan army in Mex~ fco means every day while banditry prevalls on the border. B Congress honored Dewey day by refusing to haul down the flag which t.ha admiral flung to the breeze in Manila bay, May 1, 1808, President Wilson utilizeg every occasion fo feature the reawakened patriotic spirit, but his phrasing wholly lacks the heroiec punch, —_— The action of the lower house of congress on the Philippine bill brushes the dust off the old- time editorial salutdtory: “We have come to stay."” The soclalist labor party distances all com- petitors in placing a presidential ticket in the flel In this case, however, the early bird gets only the exercl Now the churches complain of being hard hit by the war, even those beyond the range of artillery, Btill the delusion that war I8 a good thing persists in many places. Eme———— Possibly the war has something to do with April's decreased birth rate, but the unseason- able weathey of tha month should not be over- looked as a contributory cause, It there are any tears to be shed over the passing of the populist party let the deluge be confined to the democratic tent. Privacy befits the grief of the benoficlaries of the party name, —_— Co-operative good will between the School board and the city commisslon grows steadily, Giving the city fivst chance at a dirt cheap bar- gain shows an admirable get-together spirit in public affairs, rErr——— ‘Note that our democratic United senator from Nebraska I8 again zealously sup- porting the president by @pposing the adminis- tratlon naval program calling for an auxiliary of submarines, States The discovery that Willlam Jennings Bryan is entitled to a cortificate of election as alter- pate to the St. Louls convention suggests an inquiry as to who his fellow alternates may he and whether he will be sulted with their com pany, Our amiable democratio contemporary I dreadfully afraid the presidential primary vote in Nebraska may not be taken sufficlently serl ously by the republican convention delegation, But If one or more of the districts have in- structed one way and others a different way, must the delegation remaln forever apart? The World-Herald's real foar is that they may holp nominate the one man, Charles E. Hughes, the demoerats would rathey not see nominated —— Thirty Years Ago This Day in Omaha S——Cemplisd Prom Bed Pllgg —r— rohased 1 snitre Apdrow ok o b * Marne assnable oo Porty uniformed ' ‘ scaiely acon e W Wakeo Funda U T Avacelation Is Nat Prown, the well-Anaw has ranator Gaod 48 a6 wp-t Ihe “Marchania e Al wid Mem M. 3 Posnk e e Walker and the b Abhitaet Myvrs o I ¢ o wp of Vhe plans tup O new oity bail bulkiing by e wiich e o U A bl has been prsenied e soning (e boy Fuinan #d parad o Maniss he Brotion | . » areund Murphy, wha has p autes and [T of s i avee of waha attonding | shinin Mathawe ALl . (RN Wilson's First Decisive Defeat. President Wilson encountered his first de- defeat when the rejected his Philippine Program by broke away from the caucus trol and voted with the republicans not only to reject the Hitchcock bill, but passed the Jones bill as a substitute, Moreover, the house also voted instructions to its conferees to accept no proposition fixing a time at which the United States Is to withdraw from the Philippine Isl- ciglve house democrats ands, This action, taken on the anniversary of Admiral Dewey’s brilliant victory In Manila bay, 18 eignificant for several reasons. First of all, it shows there is a limit beyond which even the president cannot drive his party, The Hitcheock bfll, with the Clarke amendment, as it passed the senate, was a dis- grace, and had it been enacted into law would have been a national shame. The advocacy of our retirement from the islands and leaving the people there to thelr fate, s the one bit of Bryanism to which the senator has been de- voted, To abandon the Philippines at this time g not to establish the people there in self-gov- erning independence, but to leave them helpless tor Japan, Germany, Fngland, Russia or some other colonizing power to geize for the purpose of exploitation, and no one better understands this than those who sponsored the Hitcheock bill, The Jones bill, passed by the house, tende the privileges and responsibilitieg of the {slanders, giving them a still greater measure of participation in thelr government, but pre gerves to them the protection of the United Btates, which 18 absolutsly needed if the na- tives are ever going to be made self-governing, If Manuel Quezon la right in his assertion that Japan does not intend to seize the islands, the likelihood of having to defend them becomes re- mote, and the principal argument for with- drawal disappeal The vote in the house can only he Inter preted as noties to the president that he must ex- | revige his program and secure a readjustment of his relations with the congress If he Is go- ing to be suceessful in his further plans, Firmness With Mexico at Last} Instructions to Generals Sfott and Funston relative to thelr dealings with General Obregon concerning our army In Mexico Indicate the purpose of the president finally to face firmly the gituation that has developed under “‘watch- fnl waiting.” The Mextcans must be brought to understand the importance of early restora- tion of order in thelr country. Our government {4 not desirous of holding any portion of the torritory occupled, being solely concerned in Carranza gecuring the safety of its citizens. s filled with strange notions, fostered by the niserable Intrigue that brought him to the fore, ‘The interference by President Wilson In Mex- fean politics was the first of a serles of bivn- ders that have proved very embarrassing, but the relations between the countries may yet be stralghtened out, at least to a point where the border will be safe for American cltizens, SpREe——— Primary Law Defects and Remedies, Kditor H, H, Pease of The Beemer Times, who has been nominated for the legislature and whom we would Iike to see commissioned to help make the laws, calls attention to certain defects of our primary which he would rem- ody. '“The primary works out very nicely In theory,” he says, “but is absolutely ‘bum’ in practice,” and he illustrates this by citing the fact that in Beemer precinet there were only twenty-elght republican votes cast ont of a nor- mal of elghty-flve because many republicans asked for democratic ballots in order to make gure of & wet candidate for governor or to take sides In a local county treasurer “serap.’ While opposing the open primary which we once experimented with so disastrously, Brother Pease thinks the remedy is to divide the party tickets into three sections—national, state and county. “I could then,” he says, “ask for a re republican national ticket, a republican state ticket and a democratic county ticket or, if T was a democrat, I could ask for a democratie national ticket, republican state ticket and demoeratic county ticket, and thus comnn nearer niy cholce than I could possibly come In & stralght ticket clear through.' This plan, would only bal matter worse, for it would be the old open pri only for groups of offices In It soems hard to Is a ete., we fear, make a mary over agaln, stead of for one office at a time make people see that a primary strictly party pleblscite to determine the nom- inees to go on the party ticket and that no one has a right to a voloe In the party councils who {s not a member of that party. The primary, it should be remembered, s deslgned meorely to en able the rank and file of the party to participate in the selection of candidates by marking thelr ballots in thelr respective voting districts instead of, aa tormerly, attending In person a caucus or convention in which the cholee for each place would be put by motion to viva-voce vote, No one would propose that one and the same convention should nominate candidates for more than one politieal party, or that thé same convention or caucus should make numinations for a repub election fean pational ticket, a democratio state ticket and & republican county tieket, The very sug gostion earvios Il own refutation and proves | that the remedy must be something different The situation described as sotually occurring at Boemer could not develop In Omaba because who I8 not registersd nor here no ohe way vol socure u ballot different from hiy avowed party it 'Y A rded not leas than ten days belore he P M \ \ or party enrollmen rements wors enforeed everywhere, ta (he abry distriots and small towns as well s In the big cities, this sing over between the partien sould not take pia We have made & siart on enrolime law which directs the ¢ wiate | every qualitied voter | aid send N . py of % N rolduin paing and this | vas eted (nlo & Kyete t alate-wide regist tlon sueh as prevalle tn wany pia e had ¢ ahie dent whal w A hapy \ N . 1 ¥ b v ad He & “ ! ) . a vote on which thirty | con- | || Nebraska Wants Hughes Aurora Advocate: To write the name of Charles K, Hughes in the primary ballot was no idle dream. It proves the quick response an Intelligent citizen ship to a_newspaper suggestion worth while, When about fifty Nebraska editora set about glving publicit to the thought that it would be possible for Hughes adyocates 1o make thelr cholce clear by slmply writ- ing his name on the ballot the response was over- whelming., Just think of it! The highest vote cust in Nebraska for any presidential candidate Wwhose name was printed on the ballot and whose friend had by advertising in newspapers, by personal let by wpeechies everywhers and personal appeal to party leaders, was 26,000 votes; yet there were more than half that number of voters actually went into their the name of thelr choice, It comprehend the vastness of Juptice Hughes' name been printed on the ballots, he would have been the abso- lute choice of Nebraska republicans for president. It means more than an ordinary Interest in a man when 10,000 men file Into the voting places and go to the paing to write in the name of an en we must not forget that this friendship for Judge Hughes went on down the line and crystalized in the election of delegates to go to the national convention in Chi- cago in June who had expressed personal perference for that candidate, booths and wrote in means to he who ¢an the undertaking that had man. When It 1s Hastings Tribunet taken into eons slderation that the nams of Charles . H to he “written in”" on the ballots the result of fhe primary election ghould be entirely satisfactory to the Hughen supportars hers. [/nder the eircumstances i could hardly be expected that Flughes would secure the most votes. While on the other hand with suci & splendid showing made for him one would Jook to the delegates melected to the republican nutlonal co vention to ascertain the true sentiment—and when that is done you will tind that the majority of them are Hughes delegates, That tells the whole story. Toekamah Journal: It is highly amusing to rea: of the desperats efforts of the Omaha World-Hernld to deprecats the demand of republicans of Ne braska that Justice 1{ughes be the candidate of the republioans of the United States, Thers Is hardly & democrat of prominence who seeks the re-election of President Wilson who 18 not opposed to the nomination of the justice. From a political point of view thoy look with alarm upon the attitude of the people of the United Btates in making & demand that Justice Hughes become a candidate for president the Neligh Lenader: The Hughes vote in Nebraska is fully s large as his friends expected it would be, It not larger. It 15 & hopeless task to undertake to gat a man's name written in on a ticket over the state enough to give him & plurality. It in & foregone con- cluston that no man whose name was printed on the tioket could have changed places with Hughes and polled a8 many votes as Hughes Aid Kearney ITubi Nebraska gave answer at the recent primagy for the entire west on the matter of militariem and the wap epirit. The vote cast for Henry Ford s taken just that one thing, both by Benator Cummins and other eandidates for president. 1t is also intended to serve as a notlos to President Wilson that the newly acquired war polioy 18 not In favor, and that If he wants to cast the fortunes of politics on a war issue he will not get to first base, Nor is thin to be taken to mean that the peopls are serlously for Ford for president, his vote being rather by way of protest against the recently developing tendency at Washington, Interpreted in this connection, the Ford vote in Michigan and Ne- braska is very significant, Jqually significant in Ne- braska is the vote cast for Charles 1. Hughes, who was not a candldate and would not permit his name to be printed on the ballot. His vote In the state, with his name written In, is reported as approximately one-half of the vote gast for Ford and Cumming, whose names were printed on the ballot, and several thousand morse than were cast for Fstabrook, exploite) s the “native Nebraskan'' A considerable effort was put forth in the state for Cumming and Estabrook but the response must be very disappointing to bhoth The Fremont Tribune is proud of the Hughes vote in Dodge county, which was 443, with 87 each for Word and Cummins. b also recelved twenty-eight demo oratio votes, The Tribune states that some voters wrote in Hughes' name without making the cross in front, thess votes not belng cougted, while in other voting prectnets the election boards did not return the names at all. Bumming up the Tribune says: “This all shows how strongly the voters want Hughos, Dodge county s only a falr example of all the coun- ties. Hughes' nomination would sweep Nebraska into the republican column the moment it was made.” The Omaha Bee roaches this conclusion: “The primary furnishes conclusive evidence that Charles B. Hughes 18 the real cholce of Nebraska republicans for presi. dent and cinchey it by the election of convention dele- gates who have likewise announced Hughes to be thelr personal preference.” Golng outside of Nebraska, a current statement by Governor Whitman of Nesr Yorl 1s of interest. Governor Whitman can see 1o hut Hughes in the approaching republican national cons vention and the election this fall. He asserts his be et that Hughes s the overwhelming cholce of New York and the gountry at large to mean Twice Told Tales The Little Patriot, All this talk of hyphenated citizenship has ev dently had its effect upon & San Frane ungste American-horn, who recently rebelled flercely when his Italian father whipped him for some misdemenno But, Tommaso, your father has a right to whip you when you are bad,” some one of the family said, Tommnso's eyes flashed. “I am a oltisen of the United State he declared. “Do you think I am golng to let any forelgner lck me?'—San Pranclaco Argonaut Expected Noble aspirations fired her soul. 1litherto she had been & pretty but useless lttle water color painting rocket-working, plano-pounding sort of girl; now she WaAs & farm w moment there were slgns of & ko And sho waa Kiving the farner a | v mind No.' sho sald ' ' mind 'y & the wate . 0 anything rea » reoming I draw the I gl ha fintshed with & maldeniy blush have 1 mbed & nowy life ndon Answ A Miis ared 1 ton e wl . ' . ard from the t 1o . y for the N \ . wit \ N geh & ot Bk . ring ¢ . e aad # o [ . ” . wayer 9 : N N ' . An ) . wing - o e wakea (han beae o N aster ) N . | The Pees LS er Attitude of the Recreation Board. OMAMA, May 2-To the Editor of The Bee: Our attention has been challenged « communication appearing in your the signatures of two gen- tlemen, slgning officers of what is styled “Omaha Playground Assoolation,” and in which these gentlemen generously eriticise the action of the Board of Pub- lic Recreation for what appears to them wrong In principle,” We are not advised as to just what this organization iy or just what it has paper over as done toward Advancing the playground work in Omaha. We fall to find in the records where these gentlemen have oon- tributed either In money, time or sugges- tions to the playgrounds of Omaha, but we are conacious of the easy freedom with which can eriticise who does not bear the responaibility incldent to the service owed by one In public posi- tion Lest there be misunderstanding from the more or less fnaccurate Intimations in"the communication from these gentle- one men, let ua'state briefly that no ap- pointments have yet been made to the position of playground supervisors, al- though one might readily infer from their statement that such has been done What the hoard has done in the matter 15 this: Fifteen persons have been nomi~ nated; these nominees will be required to take ay examination for the purpose of nsoertalning thelr qualifications with a view 1o selecting from their number xo many of those found to be qualifed as may be required The board is not of the opinlon that written examination 18 the sole test of fitness for a position such as this, It 18 bell d that one might be an exoel lent penman, n good mathematicfan, and even ab to read Greek and Latin, if ou pleane, and still be woefully short in other qualifications that would be easential in this line of work Nor do we entirely agree with the suggestion in the communieation In which it is said The action of the board is a rebuff to more than a hundred ecarnest workers who are interested In taking up play- ground supervision as & profession’ We believe that the playgrounds were instituted and are maintained for the welfare of the children, and that the em ployment of supervisors is incldental to this work; not that the playgrounds were fnstituted ax n means of affording a pro fession or professional position for those who would take up such work, even though they be earnest workers. Bxperi ance has taught us that when appoint ments were made, or were supposed to have been made, solely on the basis of a competitive examination, several of the supervisors were persons imported from other states. We have in mind that as rocent aa last year, under that method, two persons from Illinols and one from lowa wore appointed to these positions persons who were not residents of our olty—who had not helped to make Omaha the thriving eity that it is, and whose interest In it was Induced by the salary that it paid, We do not wish to be un- derstood as saying that a person of su perior qualifications from without the eity limits should be barred, but, all things being equal, we bellove that those who have cast their lot in this city are more apt to have a heartfelt interest in the work than one prompted only by salary pald, Perhaps the gentlemen who -criticise with so much deference and dignity would find better methods for selectng playground supervisors than that adopted by the Board of Recreation, but In view of their statement that “no criticlam fs directed at the Individuals whom the board has selected” we feel constrained to think that perhaps form rather than substance is what they desire. If this be their objeotive point, we respectfully differ and submit that in our humble opinion results on the playgrounds are more to be desired than dervile adhor- ence to any rule-of-thumb method in or- der that selection might be made from a so-styled “institute,” which was not oveated by or under the direction of the board and which has no existence undor state law or city ondinance. We submit this plain statement of facts for the falir consideration of n andid publie, DR. JAMES P, CONNOLLY, Member Recreation Board. Work of the Navy League. OMAHA, May 2-To the Fditor of The Hee: The Navy Leagus of the TUnited States is not satisfied with the defense program in congress. It will take too under its terms to produce an ade- " navy. This was the sense of the entlon of the league held at Wash a few daye ago. The proceedings svident the fact that the peo. long wton #0 mad ple of the United States have not been permitted to know the truth about the inadequacy of our navy, and it was de terminied at the convention to continue the campalgn of education in order that the peopls may be informed. The convention was largely attended, there heing representatives from nearly | overy state. Some of the best knawn men of the nation addreased the con ventlon Mr. Wil Hamilton of this eity reglstered wigh me as a represontative of | our section, and many other Nebraskans ; sant thelr regrets, The procesdings wers enlivened by a showing of the baselessness of charges that the leagio had been subsidized b tion makers. ThA league has ralsed | enough money to pay its debls, and we a fow hundred dollars to spare, ¥ anm was ereated hy the astion of the loago Tribune, which publishied & who! ane ad tisement fo Henry Pord 1 anee of his poa ropaganda, for W he pald nearly 0. This ameunt s AND A ¥ oly 1t wouM | inen was ade, 3 adopted & 1o send & telegram . ARTH SMITH ¥ sk M Navy Loag tuternational Pulice . s the Wl A% sirife Belwesn na s e . » aln le sconomia, while . - feghting among | Al t of MmARY, an N " B . o prevanting e : P . fore as gun ioting fer it de P ow Birles of mined popuia . wriad Intereete preparedases paoplh Motk of o Pessevell Al the Gumpers 1y e froas " R \ NS, . | . at , A hae, whe fa - ae H——— —_— e unique in his practical achlevements |[the appearance hereafter of not more iti*'a record of an unuun capacity [than two greatest Ame novels per for getting things done™) lling us there | week is no difficulty in the way of the organi- | Philadelphia Ledger There |s one tatal zation of such a forca nor any reason for |flaw in the decision of the Chicago Judge doubting its power to uphold peace. that Shakespeare did not write his own With the object iesson of a world [plays. It utterly ignored the onvincing aflame as a sequence of imperiailsm and |testimon of one unimpeachable witness, national armaments to continue wallow- | Ben Jonson, that he did ing in the bloody ruts of the past. in- | poiumo.. American: Following a de-’ stead of turning to the high path of prog- ress by adopting civilized methods to en- force international justice, seems to any one not burdened by political aspirations a most criminal blunder. cislon by a Chicago § ge that Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays, an alderman there wants an avenue and a police sta- tion named after the immortal bard to 1t . [have thelr names changed in accord with our vaunted national consclence 18 |y, gecision, But, even it this is done. up to pretensions, our moral courage |, . T ok will probably o on Brutus-like, why waste time by USING | iino the credit to Shakespeare all the Fablan, tactics instead of selzing the| oo present opportunity to strike home by | modern weapons at the menacing des-i potism of the sword? H, MELL. THE HOME POETS. 2017 Leavenworth Street. Lines to Ye Ont. 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