Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 16, 1916, Page 6

6 HE OMAHA DAILY BEE " FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. < VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. BEE BUILDING, FARNAM AND BEVENTEENTH. 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Bubscribed in my presence and sworn Lo befor this 4 day of May, W16, HOBEKY Fubscribers lenving e vty temporarily should bave fhe Bee muiled W them, Ad- dress will by chisngec us often ne reguested, w. Addres torial HUNTEK, Notary Publie, Rumor factories on the Rio Grande continue working overtime regardless of expense P — Advance of wages secured without a strike nowadays is the finest grade of “'velvet” in the labor world, ——— It 1s quite evident that Nebraska republicans are not the only ones who, want Charles K ughes to head the ticket, It may take Omaha some time to run Balt! more off the map as "The Monumental City," but there Is nothing like a good beginning — As an offset to its adverse vote on organized labor, the Methodist convention declared that unfon is & good thing for church divisions. The reported unwritten understanding re arding operations south of the Rio Grande is not the only thing on the q. ., in Mexico. There s Villa. | Still, If the senator's editorial alter e lieally believed democracy s as strong as all hat, he would hardly use up the bigger part of double-column space to convince himself. er—— 1f President Wilson is alive to the opportuni lu pletured by the Commoner, he will commis- Lilon Colonel Bryan as ambassador extraordinary lo Europe with instructions not to come back without peace, L Bir Bdward Grey, speaking for Great Britain, bind President Poincare for Prance, publiely de- b ry overtures for pea Their statements make [t clear that a neutral peacemaker would re- wive scant attentionp at the present time, ————— Now that it has been proved that big bulld- ng operations can be carried on in Omaha with- but blocking traffic or monopolizing the adj nt streets for storage room for supplies, the quirements should be exacted of all contrae- ors alike, Omaha wants to get along harmonlously {th the rallroads, but that is no reason why he railroads should be permitted to give Omaha he worst of it in their passenger rate-making. f harmony will not get fair treatment, we may have to try discord. Nothing unusual about banks making 50 per ent or over in a year Two federal reserve aks in New York City cleared 62.6 and 71.6 per cent last year, and one of the two distrib- ted a dividend of 50 per cent, But the earn- ngs were actual, not ink made A teacher protests against the intrusion of butside “stunts,” such as dandelion picking, pon the school children, taking time they ought 0 put on their Why, if harvesting the andelion with school room ork, let the schools be closed down, studies crop interferes One by one coremonious nstitutions revered y long usage limp toward the scrap heap. The ord obey in the wmarriage service 's no onger fashionable and has been discarded by veral denominutions I'he Methodist com gleslon on ritual rvevision favors striking out he solemn tormuls With my wordly goods thee endow Modern laws and knowledge the pledge unnecessary and i‘ . e e ;' Thirty Years Ago This Day in Omaha | Compiied Prom Bes Files Border Trouble on Both Sides Not all the border trouble originates In Mex feo. Quite enou of it has its source north of | the Rio Grande, and some of it quite a ways An interested, and in some measure in fomenting north | fluential, circle is the ques | tion of intervention and possible annexation with actively enough of effect to give Mexicans reason doubt any protestations of sincerity on part of | our government, Those who e responsible | | for the agitation may he honest enough in their | effort, but are open to the suspicion of being | actuated by motives not entirely devold of self interest, The restoration of civil government mil In order that many In Mexico is necessary from total This applies equally to the property of other foreigners, which is in jeopardy, Some responsibility for these invest ments will rest on the United Btates finally, If it fngists on the application of the Monroe doctrine in its Mteral meaning All of this is recognized, | and will be met in order, but the adjustment is not hastened by the talk of annexation To re store order and to assure its maintenance is one thing; to take and hold the country, incorpor- ating it Into ours, dividing It into states and ter- ritories and assuming direct responsibility for its people, is quite another, and Is hardly what the Ameriean people look forward to as the solution of the Mexican question, Annexation- {sts on either side of the border are hothersome and thelr activity 1# doing no good wsecured loss Just now, Teaching Journalism in the University In # straight-to-the-point article in the Nor folk News, KEditor calls attention the backwardness of the University of Nebraska In cultivating the field of journalism for which the University of Kansas, the University of Missouri, Huge to the University of Wisconsin and varlous other progressive Institutions have long since estab lished and maintained successful departments. He emphasizes the urgent need of better trained newspaper men, and also the value of well con ducted newspapers to the locality where pub- lished. “The University of Nebraska owes it to the wstate,” he econcludes, “lo do constructive work In strengthening the stute's newspapers look Ing for ugeful and compensatory occupations, Lo and owes It to the young men of the state glve newspaper trafning the importance which which it other it deserves and is recelving In states,"” ' To all of this dorsement, and while perhaps authorities are not to blame for golng slow In taking on new work, the demand for a depart ment of Journalism (s surely here and the time now ripe to meet it. Lack of this instruction at home {s the cause of many of our young folks, with journalistic ambitions, going to se- ure thelr education In the east or in more nearby prefer to attend The Bee Is glad to add its en the university states, many of whom would thelr own state udiversity If they could obtaln training As a climax argument, we know of no asset uni- desired there that ve department, day by day or week by week mak- Ing the newspapers that reflect and gulde public sentiment of the different communities in the atate. would prove morve profitable to the Ity than to have graduates of ity journalism Poincare’s Peace Proposals The speech of the French president, purport- ing to outline terms on which France will ac- cept peace means nothing at all, aside from the utmost lmit of what might be exacted were the Allles in position to dictate the basis for settle- ment, This outline has been [(requently an- nounced from the councils of the Allies. On the other hand, Chancellor von Bethmann Holweg recently gave notice to the world of the conditions under which the Teutons would glve over the war, suggesting terms that can only be enforced by completely vanquishing the op position Apparently no approach is Dbeing made to the settlement of the strife. What is going on behind the scenes no one may say save the leaders who are in the secret councils It was secret diplomacy that aligned the nations as they are now found, and It will quite likely be secret that will arrange the pre Mminaries if it does n8t definitely fix the terms for peace. The belligerent be tiring of the war, but its immediate end is not fn sight At ‘trading polnts in the public anpnouncements of national diplomacy nations may least, no show ambi to [ [ | Hons of American money fnvested there can be | | Union Pacific Wealth | Wall Street Journal™ trong t nion HILE earnings of the 1 position of t Jones & ( and the cas) Dow ing heay as pointed out by an extra dividend might be de« that of this k learing of for of the considered. lared, in 1 will Heatle now are o actior be Laken at today's meeting yending eign complications and settlement I in matter may be earn about $15 a # the June 40 turnel tockholders aint the will ontr Pacific abor ersy Unfor common stock In 85 of being | in the regular dividend Unlon Pacific has no need to add to n § of unusual sort, in of w are for s year to end only which s over 1o bution 100,000,000 profit and loss surplus that it in a surplus every dollar | turned into cash and distributed witl soundness could readily be out interfering of the in any way with operation or Union Pacific property Union Pacific has not sought or acquired a repu tation as a disborser of extra dividends. More uver, sane rallroad management in this country at this time is not prone to persuade government le- &lons that the land’'s rallroads are burdened with too much favor. The faot is that with the ending of the heavy war traffic the roads may find themselves whortly back on the unpleasant droughty plains they were traversing before the Puropean outbreak. And commissions can commit nelther adminiatrations or the country’s roads to wars to save them from bankruptey. Novertheloss, because of its “other income” Union Pacific, though earning less than 6% for stock from radlrosd operation in poorer years, has heen able to lay asida all the reserve it neods. Commeree commission Unlon Pacific dedide to than regular the Interstate find no text swhould | distribute womething more terly 82 a whare, In view of large earnings, due to war, With other prominent rallway officlals Judge Lovett has given plentiful backing for Presi dent Wilson's call for better treatment of the United Btates rails, by decision over the last seversl that not u dollar could be wikely Invested in Tharefore, would yonrs new rallway development of this country until there I8 wome assurance of treatment fair enough to en able the earning of & fair return. It is this wall of unfavorable conditions shutting off new investment, In fact, which makes it more likely that esrnings Jue to extraordinary conditions will be given to wtockholders Instead of put Iuto extension of the wywtem Moreover, Unlon Pacific need worry lows over ex punulon of ity lines than almost any other road in the land, Outside of it rich Kansas field Union Pacitic in w bridge connecting the uvenues of vastest traffic in the east and the west, To load Its ralls it does not have to do one-tenth of the woliciting of roads, Hurriman picked the national high- His successor management may say without that thelr line will receive a large share of land's traffie, whether they bulld more feed- ing lines or not. More than that, the double track- Ing was done before dictated by clrcumstances. Unlon Pacific is prepared now (o four or flve times the present volume of Lusiness over iy double-track line. othey way doubt the handle Why Union Pacifie thinks it wiser Lo keep on hund any large part of its $100,000,000 surplus is not obvious, wave for one fact: the Central Pucific may be on the market when the supreme court he- wpeaks ity Judgment in the government guit against Bouthern Pacitic. Then Union Pacific, without s wuing a bond, could, if it desired, buy ite steel ave- nue right through to the Pacifie, When that poy wibllity Is out of the way It Is decidedly probable that Union Pacifie will cease to be the banker, and for the muke of foreing from the land a falr trewt ment of the vital business of transportation, will divorce Itself of all but its raflroad property, If Central Pacific s not bought and no better rallrou) conditions are bogotten than exist today to gncourage wdditional outlay, it will probubly mean another substuntiul distribution to sbareholders to clean the Unlon Pacific treasury of all but its rallroad prop- erty and assets for actua! operation, Awlde from some $30,000,000 cush working cupl tul in sight by June 30, Unlon Pacific, In adaition to 870,000,000 par value of stock In other railrgads, lims about $26,000,000 Invested in equipment trusts and notes of other companies and some $85,000,000 in other companios’ bonds, all commanding a fairly ready market. Unlon Pacific's “other income” from thewe investments In outside compantes in the yeur ending June 30, 1015, was $13,303,181, Union Pa oific's fixed charges on its funded debt the same year were §10,508,0 Therefore, Unlon Pacific can pay Is fixed charges with Its “other income” and have its net railrond earnings free to glve to stock holders. The only bonds of the system maturing in the 16Xt ten years are $14,931,000 Oregon Short Line 6 lue February 1, 1 Union Pucific already has 570 all steel passer gor-train cars out of a total of 1,224, and of |is 1" 2 frelght-train cars 7,867 are all steel and 28,639 steol underframe. Incidentally, Union Pacific oWns coal lands in Wyoming which are of great value to a big railroad of Its 4,508 miles of main line 59 % is lald with rinety-pound rall and with elghty-pound rail Hecause it {s in such location and such condition and state of advance preparation Unlon Pacific has for rs heen operated with expenditure of smaller reentage of gross earnings than any of the other tions. vu trunk lines. Location is involved because I8 due partly the company's ability to find A Study in Exports, | 8ood load for its traina eastbound and westbound The tide of exports from the United States, | "‘“.‘.‘""“""I"k\'l"‘”tm“ ”f”fr“f» though running at thg flood for months PASL | yiiiary glints at ome of the "mm‘"‘”; mm ; sub continues rising beyond all former records nd systems, which ranks with the m..lu“‘ vy ~-‘I“‘ For the nine months of the fiscal year ending '\\v;, ‘«r ength and abllity of rallvoad management with March the value of exports reached the | [ N°Uer Su¢h a roud, with an annual income we unprecedented total of $2,995, 875,282, nearly ; ' st M"LW\.” :"l 10 stockholders, and u ban & billlon more than the record of the same | e \ OCKA: Into the class of | period of the previous fiscal year, and nearly | ® 1w o | double the value of imports The greater part " arket we t templ | of the incroase (s accounted for by war muni " " view of ar's big { tions, steel manufactures, automobiles, rall rond cars, copper, brass, zine and chemicals | On the other hand, exports of foodstulfs are | docreasing as well as the exports of horses and iles and cotton. The figures show an enor | mous trade balance in faver of this country, | Now Jors v gold, a volume of American se ities held | p - . y v { and local loans to effect weit at. | p ateed Anive = P ' business on home prices . ahe i d the advance In export | we plled by New York City Natioaal \ . el billets advanced sinee the hegin MAEeE S0me . nt te b A .. . \ L ela anufact s n J sina . [ BAr AD por oo .ie - ) A 4 N sine . [ tited hundred 4 v -5 2 N " ; g " . wa . * : Sach Pare e advariiee A WA W . Editorial Snapshots Home congressmen opu’s needs that an radium Washington Fost are so alert to the Investigation of the ordered at high cost of may be any moment Courler-Journal: Secretary Morrison of the Federation of ays countless men will be on the middle of May, mostly for working Undoubtedly a man does begin to feel belligerent about his working hours when he gets beyond May day and is bound for the good old summer time Loulsville Amerfean Labor strike by shorter hours, A New York pus strike 1 Philadelphia Ledger tor has had the courage to names from his church membership roll This action is not to he viewad ax excommunicative—no doubt if any of the members who have dropped can prove that their zesl has waned they will be readmitted, But thia minister acts upon his realization of the fact that In all enterprises there are men whose welght ie & mere paper- welght; they may have subscribed their mere signatures toward a good cause in u fitful blaze of enthusiasm, but when it comes to steadfast underpinning of performance they are found wanting, and it summoned to an accounting they beg to be excused of mome 2,000 heen Signs of Progress The annusl product of the American chicken yard s estimated at $50,000,000, More than 12000 students are taking courses in agriculture in the colleges of the United Btates The per capita wealth of our country, ways one of the unquestionable statistis clane, was $008 in 1860, and is now 81,045 Btatistics show that the number of au tomobile accidents Is decreasing stoadily an compared with the number of ma- chines in use, For smalier cities and towns a recently devised fire alarm employs an enlarged and more than usually powerful automo. bile horn, electrically operated, to wound signaly To display posters in inacoessible places # gun has heen invented that shoots » nall carrying a rolled poster, which un olls when the nall Is shot Into a surface that will hold it America heads the list with 86,662 post. offices, Germany Is mecond, with 40,48; then follows England, with 38,738, Russia, with 15,000, France, with 13,000, and Italy and Austria, each with 9,600, Antimony ore production i the United States in 1916 is estimated at about 6,000 tons, containing 2,000 tons of antimony, valued at about $535,000,000. The largest previous domestic output was 160 tons of metul and 80 tons of ore carrying b per cent of antimony in 1502, Ten wacks of hubnerite, ore, taken recently from a Colorado mlie, proved so rich in that much desired min- eral that they brought $500, un average of about 8 cents a pound, which goes to ward explaining why tungsten has be come 50 maglc a word in that mountain and mining commonwealth or tunsten Tips on Home Topios Cleveland Pla'n Dealer: Seven of Villa's bandits are to be hanged in New Mexico in May. There may be hick In odd num bere, but it would save a lot of expense and trouble if Villa could be there to even it up. Springfield Republican: A congressional Investigation of who financed the 0,00 “‘peace’’ telegrams to congressmen would not be worth the candle. There Is no law against sending telegrams to con- gressmen; nor (o compel congressmen to read them. With the greatest Philadelphia Ledger war in history piling up anguish every day, they are brave souls who are anticl pating the great “industrial wars yet to come” and are already shivering appre hensively as to the possibilities of a com petition ruthless and world-wide, with no quarter and the devil after the hindmost Indianapolis News: Now that the com mittee of the anthracite miners and operators have agreed, and that there is a good prospect for thelr agreement to be ratified by their principals, it an if something ought to be done so that n our regular summer supply looks we can lay and thus be prepared against the times when the weather bureau breaks into th error column, as It did so often last summer Wall Street Journal: Union Pacifi promises to show surplus for commo stock of approximately 15 per cent the year to end June 30, 1916, This would compare with 10.98 per cent in the previ ous year. The gain in net for nir months ended March wis 36,701,853, or %, per cent. There ix every prospect that this rate of increase will ba at least tained over the final three months of the year OUT OF THE ORDINARY 0,000 gl ' e ant na 'R wo » \ . . \ " ¥ o . » you think Bacc Herbert 8, German in Within the wood behind the hill The moon got tangled And thrilled the breese The satyrs in the grotto bent It Is a %od in banishment ‘That stirs the night.” Brought sperides, It I8 a cyclops' glaring eye ' A Titan's cup of (vory n wrote the Shake A YA temple dome from Babylon, in the trees, Her splendor made the branches thril LINES TO A SMILE bejstod, T eyl e S e B, id the parishe t callow out k as e re 1 sent to world depended on hi o of ir hou nd the bread to yours.'-— Vell s salad da it natural | New York Times. | tor & man to be particu about 1 dressing.~Baltimore Americar Old Grump—Why doeén't Ethel marry Rib-Lodk Reve: Mary. it was onby inst ”r‘;\ ng diot? T'm n.‘-m]x blame tired and here s and v)‘w o k’“A 11,“ ; His Wife~T belleve 1'd prefer to have Wife—~Well, dear, doesn’'t that show that him come here--if e marries him he'll I am beginning to spend less Boston tay her Boston Tranacript Transcript v Py g Marjorie—Do you belleve in eugenics? The telephone rang and the new maid [ Petrucia—1 don't know. Rut if T eould answered it once get married, I wouldn't care what Hello!" "came from the receiver appened to me,~Judge. 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