Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 19, 1916, Page 4

4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. % VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. BEE BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. Entered gt Omaha postoffice as second-class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By carrier By mail per month per year. ¢ 85c.... 4600 1 3 A o Daily and Sunday. Daily without Sunday. Lvening and Sunday. kvening without Sunday 2 .4 sunday Bee only 20C. .00 ye0. 2.00 Daily and SBunday Bee, three years in advance, $10.00, send notice of change of address or irregularity in uellvery to Omaha Bee, Circulation Department, REMITTANCE., Remit by draft, express or postal order. Only two- cent stamps received in payment of small accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha and castern ex- ‘hange, not accepted. OFFICES, Omaha—The Bee Building. South Omaha—2318 N atreet, Counell Bluffs—14 North Main street Lincoln—026 Little Hu)ldlnfi, Chicago—S18 Peoples Gas Building, New York—Room 1106, 286 Fifth avenue. §t. Louin—503 New Bank of Commerce, Washington—725 Fourteenth street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE, Address communications relating to news and edi- torial matter 52 Omaha Bee, Editorial Department APRIL CIRCULATION. 57,808 Daily—Sunday 52,223 Dwight Willlams, clreulation muna ot The Beo I'ublishing company, being duly sworn, says that the wverage circulation for month of April, 1616, was d 52,223 Sunday, i IGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me ihis 4 day of May, 1916 ROBERT HUNTEK, Notary Publie, t'ubscribers leaving the city temporarily should bave The Bee mailed to them, Ad- dress will be changec as often as requested, K —— i . It looks as if the Hawkeye state were pain- 4 {ully unheroic B — ¢ Preparedness is making progress in congress in spite of persistent head winds, S — The tempest in the Recreation board having subsided, let us all now collect bird pictures, i “Senatorial courtesy” shows no impairment of strength of the message it sends to the pie counfer, The more the political field is surveyed the clearer is the proof that silence beats noise as a delegate-getter, That Waukegan judge should not feel unduly annoyed over citizens dodging jury service. It ; is a popular failing, and is not confined to high i social circles, ] EE—— The senator was dead set _:ninul anything more than 50 per cent increase in the standing regular army, but ends up by voting for 100 per cent incre; Se———— Those Mexican railroad strikers might de- mand canned sunshine as pay. Gold costs real money, and the first chief is not handling that grade of goods. SEE—— - Welll. Welll Well! If “Billy” Sunday should gome back to Omaha now, perhaps the Episcopal churches might become members of the Evan- gelical association. : SE—— Mr. Bryan will not accept the commission alternate delegate to the St. Louis convention tendered by fellow Nebraska democrats. Promo- tion backward has no charms for him, v — ~ Who cares if Italy puts an embargo on the ‘export of macaroni¢ We have a plant here able to respond to all requisitions with made-in- Omaha macaroni that puts it all over the Italian brand. SETE—— > Chicago convention plans contemplate laying noiseless pavement around the convention hall, ‘A wise precaution, enabling the to hear and ‘re-echo the shouts of the Chicago aims to please all classes. And now our local democratic contemporary’ says the republicans will nominate Hughes “if the Colone! will fet 'em.” As Hughes is the one man the democrats fear most as an antagonist to Wil son, that looks metely as if they were reconciling themselves to the inevitable, ———— The Bee gave admonition at the right time of the boost in the tax bills surc to result from the tremendously increased levies made last year which property owners are now waking up to. We have here, however, only another example of silent indifference when protest might count and indignant outery when what has been done can not be undone, | i — | T'he federal circuit court of appeals of New York has released from custody Jared Flagg, a notorions getrich-quick promoter convicted of using the mails to defraud. Conviction tained by the use of documents seized in was ob Jared's olfice without warrant by postoifice inspectors I'he court holds the violation of the constitation and vold, Excessive seizure a the conviction seal or carelessness thus destroys a meritorious New Government for Ireland. Premier Asquith is reported to have said that the present form of government for Ireland has had its day, and that he will devote himself to devise a newer method for administering the af- fairs of the island. This presages a reformation in Irish government that ought to be for the bet- ter. Asquith is known to sympathize keenly with the people of Ireland in their'aspirations fér con- trol of their local affairs and has hitherto given support to measures intended to ameliorate their condition, The problem of government there is perplexing in the extreme, because of bitter local antagonisms, A home rule bill, all but passed through Parliament, has the determined opposi- tion of a large clement, who go evén to the length of armed rebellion against the purpose of the im- perial government in is but ohe of the difficulties that must be reconciled be fore entire harmony can bé established in Ireland. Americans are unable to fully appreciate the sentiments of the Irish on either side. Extreme devotion to traditions and apparently irreconcil- able division on issues that have lost their reality in all the world elsewhere, fail to appeal to the world outside, but it is a trait of the Irish charac ter which must be reckoned with. Idealism has a much stronger hold on the people of the Em- erald Isle than realism, and they are poetic rather than practical. Ireland in a material way is more prosperous today than ever, and a new form of government may bring a better feeling to its people, and perhaps do something to heal a breach that has gaped for centuries Asquith’s further announcement of his plans awaited interest, the keen sympathy Americans have for the Irish in their home problems resentment, This will be with because of If Bryan's Figures Are Correct. As an aftermath of our recent primary, Will- iam J. Bryan is indulging a bent for political mathematics for the evident purpose of making a favorable showing for the “dry” amendment. He computes the “wet” majority on the democratic side to be 13,640, arrived at by subtracting from the vote polled for Neville that polled by “Brother Charlie” to defeat whom, he says, “many ‘wet’ republicans voted in the democrat primary.” . If Mr. Bryan has here the explanation of his brother's defeat, then at least 13,000 republicans must have crossed over into the democratic side, whereas no one knows of any appreciable number of democrats voting in the republican primary. The total vote in that primary is officially re- corded as 86,889 for the democrats, against 102, 755 for the republicans. Transferring 13,000 from the democratic column back to the republican column would make the latter 115,000 and reduce the other to 73,000, measuring the disparity be- tween the two parties at 42,000. If Nebraska re- publicans really have a lead of more than 40,000 over the democrats, it is all over but the shouting, provided only the republican elements are firmly united behind a satisfactory presidential standard- bearer, Disclaimer from Berlin. The announcement from Washington that Germany has finally put in a disclaimer of the unlawfi® acts of German subjects or German sympathizers in the United States, affecting American neutrality, is worthy of attention, as indicating that the imperial government is not unmindful of matters that might lead to compli- cations. Ambassador Bernstorff, through the State department, is addressing subjects of the kaiser domiciled in the United States, warning them to refrain from any illegal conduct, and to observe closely the laws of the country in all their actions. This can scarcely affect the sym- pathizers with Germany who are not subjects of the emperor, but it does put the onus of their conduct on them. Germany's foreign office is beginning to show something of the quality of astuteness for which it was given credit prior to the war, but which has been obscured in a con- siderable degree since the beginning of hostilities. An 01 Story Retold. The Décatur bank failure has no element of novelty in it. It has been repeated many times, world without end. Get-rich-quick schemes usually are founded on air, and almost invariably come to the same end. The business of banking has a stable foundation, and it must be managed along fundamentally in order to endure. The man who undertakes to accomplish wonders juggling with money be- longing to others sooner or later will lose his balance or miss his grip, and then comes the smash For Nebraskans the experience carries some thing of a warning When the bank guaranty act was under discussion, this very sound lines contingency | was pointed' out, and the necessity of making | I'hen as now personal probity, business experience and provision against it was strongly urged unremitting industry were the requisites for suc- cess in banking as in any line of commercial en deavor The guaranty law undertook to add to these the additional safeguard of making all the bankers sponsors for the integrity of each other That it has failed to create honesty is not cause for wonder Secretary Royse of the State Banking board recently sounded & warning to the bankers and the public alike against conditions possible un prosecution ler the present statute. The laws of Nebraska | | should be further amended 50 as to absolutely | | eliminate the wildcat banker | Thirty Y A | | | I y ears 0 | Does Anyone Want Warl | s s | body politic, William Allen White, oracle of th = Oumplied Prem Boe Filen ~—mmeed | yolifters, declares in his Emporia Gasette A ey of land, V8 fee ¥ U2 feet. at the south | he trmt s} " t At this m ent i rae o £ Tenth and Farsam stresls, was soht e for Lm0 1o & company of capitaliets represented . ( MR Ratimne G A Jeiye of thls oty | ¢ Hu A ngs AY g \ Capiain Murah has associatod with bimseif Measse “a . ' ake 1k el's N Bedier of Council Blutts, Fleming and » . | vita By sl il tham inlends 1o the Dougies | Bt does any . wa N } f Uwumiy Vatiensl baak The vapit f Whe bank wi { B sheet SR \aae . sk ‘Eu.. y vitable en |l o W . il na ! 1 T T TR — APge saperionts . - & . B and oy and euconastul practioe, haa leeated “‘[M s AVE ARy § ala L maha, W Nerth Shaleeaih sirved mated at such & N A Kast, tesmarly sne of (he mast pepuiar hatd | ————— § tepetasniaiivey tn s ¢ hae besa promated from A Apaney vang t » (B e positioe af sibetitute biter carvier (e ARaL of vae 3 ;.......u, saanand. Mis reute e I UM SR westare TRt o Whe sy and he seoveede M N N gt g Chile BPat, wormios maker, had mlurmed v Suopy, whare b wey o S M cemirerta and sopeiatending (e wabiated b © B Nhiws amplored o wateh naler a0 Moper & Bea's 8 the bappy fathor ® WAlF pend boy. WHE MoMitlan has peturned b Omaha be remaln and .‘b ateucinted with Hiseba & Mol oy, ek May £ & ihirteen and tude an i heen everted Competit aniher addition | i those University of Nebraska stude | anything white in Omaha that they cannet reach from a second story window for help. Her carnestness was rewarded. The bitten burglar got five years, For violating the Sunday closing law by selling 10 cents worth of tea to an inspector, a Brooklyn grocer was fined $10 and sent to jail | for five days. The statue of liberty is visible from Brooklyn New York courts have decided that the THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, | Chromatic Surgery Literary Digest. ILL you have your appendicitis operation ‘M done in pink, or nile green, this year? Pink would be a more cheerful tone, encouraging optimism, but green induces tranquility, and doubtless has a sufficiently Lethean quality, when dominating walls and ceiling of the operat- ing room, to enable you to forget the bill that awaits your recovery. The point is that physi- cians and surgeons are beginning to believe the psychologists, who say that color affects our moods, and also that our moods determine to some extent the success or failure of medical and surgical experiments with our interior econ- omy. This The Medical Review explains more fully as follows “A saffron tie makes us languorous, while a purple one inspires us to noble deeds Green | produces a state of tranquility, while blue de- | presses us. And so on. But now the chro- | matic scheme of things entire has invaded the operating room, that hitherto domain of the strictly practical. Last September Dr. Berkeley Moynihan wrote to The Lancet stating that for two and a half years he had been using green sheets and towels instead of white ones in the operating room, as they were more restful to the eye; he had also painted his walls green and covered the floor with green material. This suggestion was copied by some American jour nals. “In the next number of The Lancet Dr. Mil- ligan expressed himself as being in favor of such a scheme, but Dr. Whiteford 1s much more en thusiastic His operating room he has done tastefully in light French blue, the surgeons are dressed in white, the nurses in blue, and the on- lookers in red. In the next issue a Dr. Jeans states that he is doing his operating rooms in blue this year And so the chromatic chirur- geons contribute their impressionistic ideas of operating rooms. In time, let us hope, we have the perfect polychromatous physician; he will bewilder us with some sych display as this: The anesthetic room will be in rainbow colors, signi- fying hope, the operating room will be in red, meaning danger, the new assistant will be green, the patient's relatives will look blue, and the future will appear black Seriously, however, it is time that some such restful shade to the eyes as light green should supplant the glaring white of many hospitals, the dazzling operating room, the cheerless corridors and the monoton- ous patients’ rooms. Omaha and the Students ' Linocoln Star, It must prove a good thing for all concerned to have 750 university students visit Omaha in a body, as it is proposed that they shall do Friday. It will be good for the students and good for Omaha. That many students have expressed a desire to go, and it is a cinch that Omaha wants them to visit the metropolis. Unfortunately the students who live in other portions of the state seldom hear anything good of Omaha, just as they seldom hear much that is gratifying to their vanity in regard to themselves. Both have been scolded and maligned a great deal during the last few years. From much that is said concerning them by a portion of the Lincoln press Omaha must have reached the conclusion that rough-neckism is regarded among the youny MAY 19, There | no question but that every cent of lows in this case will be made good by the stato guaranty law, and the thought came to me as to why you gave such little notice to thowe of Sutton and Superior. A Iarge number of our people are ke myselt, very much in the dark s to our banking system. 1 don’t know whether my eye teoth are out yet or not, but anyhow I | was one of the unfortunates who fell in the Superfor crash It was my misfortune to ship a car of corn to a customer at Superior, drawing | through our bank for the proceeds and they in turn through the Buperfor bank. It seems thin wonderful “National” bank went out and collected the draft, and as they ded the money they kept it, and our men of the big Nebraska institution as a scholarly attainment, although those of us who are permit- ted to mingle with them know that there is noth- ing to it. On the other hand, much that the stu- dents read concerning Omaha must awaken a fear that it is unsafe for a decorous person to visit that city and that contamination lies in wait for the unwary there. Contact between Omaha and the students, then, must prove beneficial to both. Omaha will do handsomely by the students in showing: them a good time. It is a city worth seeing. Every Nebraskan should know it and comprehend its greatness, On the other hand Omaha will find the university bunch a clean and capable crowd of enthusiasts, however noisy they may be. It has sometimes seemed as if there were po- tentialities in Omaha who were not over-friendly toward the university. It has been from that di- rection that opposition has often come to fulfilling the financial needs of this big and growing insti- tution. Perhaps these gettings together of Omaha and representatives of the student body may quicken Omaha interest in the university and deter the wealthy Omahan from sending hia sons and daughters to distant schools for equip- ment. T'he 750 student excursion might well be swelled to twice the number, for Omaha prom- ises a treat for them and will make that prom- ise good. People and Events A Philadelphia woman bit the finger of a burglar who tried to choke her and then jumped 000,000 from ey r woman who refused a bequest of $2, her uncle because it was tainted w pt the fortune, Satisfactory arrangements for ust a \igation have been made All the grownups and youngsters of a Cleve- | land suburb searched for hali a day and all | night for & lost 4-year-old boy, but all passed by | the garage next door to his home, Here the kid was found asleep next morning, having been locked in by a playmat A remarkable instance of life saving by seli surgery Iy reported at Redwood City, Cal | H | Kk, a edg Anager, got s foot caught | 0 oA cha a being unable 1o ex . amputated that partion of the Wb wit AvVing n being draw the bandaged the wed me . was taken o 8 Twice Told Tales Mer Last Hitan " . st A and & »oma N - viote o ' ¢l . . l f Wy Wheaigh oy peassssion Ab L N wi: | pove g tertared § soreamed in 1he " . \ w Abal Y pw—-wiil | | . . 1916, The Pees LeHer Prefers State to National Bank. 8t. Edward, Neb., May 18.—To the Ed tor of The Bee: I note that you have mad mention of the failure of the De- catur State bank. It is surely right for you | to give this prominent publicity, for the | plitering of a bank is one of the very worst | kindy of stealing that ever happéhed special \ptroller of the currency has declded that as they kept the money, it made us simply depositors I at once mought after light, and to my complote murprise found that of all the fakes ever pulled on an unsuspecting pub. Me none was ever greater than the word “national” In the name of the numerous banks I have often In my innocence gazed on thesa beautiful gilt bank signs with the “national” In them, and a feeling of con- fdence und pride would come over me when 1 thought how wplendid it was to have in stitutions backed up by our national govern ment, and I can now realize how Mark Twaln felt when he went to Palestine to wea some of the bunches of grapes his mother used to tell him about that the sples got In the promised land Your correspondent says the stockholders arn worrying, as they are liabla for twice thelr capital stock. T would suggest to them that they advise with the Suporior bank stockholders, for I don't think they are worrying much, This doubls liability is just another one of the fokers these institutions pull off, for It is written you must first catch your rabbit. Then after you find out who owns the capital stock you can start sult, and 1t in the meantime they haven't turned thelr property over to thelr wite, you may be able to collect your judgment, lens lawyer's fees and costs One thing that the Decatur peopls can be thankful for, and that is that their bank 18 & mtate bank instead of one of thess in stitutions whone prineipal stock in trade in the word “national.”” 8. W. LIGHTNER Neope of Standard Price Bill, Omaha, May 18.—To tha Editor of The Bee: In newspapers lately 1 have noticed & common misapprehension that the Stephens' ntandard price bl will apply to wll merchandise. The truth i only a amall part of a retailer's stock will be af fected, as the legislation covers only stan dard trade-marked Koods Another mistaken conception Is that such # system of merchandising would be im- practical for perishable goods, Supporters of this notlon forgst the bill is permissive and not mandatory. No producer need come under ite provislons unless ha desires to do wo. Undoubtedly much confusion of thought fs caused by fatlure to bear in mind all the time that the bill is only expected to specifically cover standard articles of na- tional reputation used as “bait” to demor- alize trade—such articles as & rule have a steady volume of sale. L e 8 MBS, A Cur-sory View of Preparedness. Omaha, May 17.—To the Editor of The Bee: 1 observe that the pacifists are still writing to you about the beauties of trust- {ng in the brotherhood of all men and being unprepared. Do not belleye them. 1 trisd pacitism for two years and it was a great disappointment to me. That was when I was & youns dog and had not been disll- lusioned. 1 went about wagging my fool- ish tall, trusting in the brotherhood of dogs and the protection of & simpls heart. The result was that [ was assaulted every time I left my own yard, and in all the nelghborhood was no dog so lewly that he might sspire to sample the quality of my upholstery, Even that ugly little lapdog across the street who looks Itke & cream- Puft ran yapping at my hesls, trying to bite with what had been supplied him as & sub- stitute for testh! Since thoss unhappy days I have given up being & pacifist and have learned to fight. 1 am prepared, and they all know it by the way 1 walk on my toes and sniff the alr. No longer do they come boldly Into my yard to steal my best bones hidden under the Miae bush, and if T wish to go for a quiet walk I may now do so without running the risk of being assassinated by the first bold coyote that comes along hunting for his place in the sun It the pacifists in thess parts wish to make a practical test of their theories I should advise them to abolish the police force and put their trust in the brotherhood and kindly feelings of the lecal fraternities of criminals and rough-necks. If they do not believe In preparedness why do they not discharge the night watchman and take the locks oft their doors? Thess are my views—the opinions of a hound-dog who has been through the mill and had experiencce BROWNIE EDITORIAL SIFTINGS, The administ HYDE Pittaburgh Dispateh tion now proposes & (ax on export munitions, and with the spesd 1t has displayed with r measures, the tax should be effective 4t the (ima of the next great war eveland Plain Dealsr: Giva the Turks redit for unexpectsd humanity. They have permitted the British to send to Kut.El Amara for their sick and wounded. In the . sdjective & misnomer Lowlsvi arter-Journal: Npring, st ast, 18 here. The feol whe lighis the Kitehan fire with kerossns and Is burned alive eaded by the foal tries 1o changs seals In & canoe | \ | . | | whsid . N gresama . - ' (T wrean auihoriaed N . — . A . " Pt AN N s Vhak Wil Be apw "ot ' A e ARt T an SUNNY GEMS. can't marry unt ought not to say that, dad H some good points that you have B e No chance. I mopped up the floor with e s e him just mow and he didn't even make | mre your heritake e wasted,” sald the a §00d mop. —Loulaville Courler-Journal. |Br® YOUT, herltake be awnoted - ot me of my heart tuke counsel “What funny nicknames the girls in B B P ol g your have for one another. Why do| who shall stay and reap the harvest they call that girl from Chicago ‘Ser When 'the autumn days shall come?: ator But the drum Because she always acts as If she didn't 4 R care n rap what the folks back home want | peath shall reap the b habvagt® Skt her to do."—Puck the solemn sounding drum. “How I8 it you know so much about the But when won the coming battle nelghbora’ affuirs as you tell at the club?” | What of profit springs theref ‘Oh, my wifen maid picks It up from [ whai® it conquest, subjugation, the other servanta and then my wife will| Even greater flls become? faiat on repeating it wil to me. You know | But the drum how women will gousip.” Baltimore | A ared Come! 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