Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 24, 1916, Page 8

| | | { 8 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSVE\\rATE‘K: VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. BEE BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. | toffice cond-class matter, Entered at Omaha g TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION. By carrier By mail per month per ‘-u Daily and Sunday Vs sanan D80y o o $.00 Dally without Sunday.. 46e, 400 Kvening and Bunday 400 .00 Evening without Sunday 2be 4.00 sunday Bee only . 20c 2.00 Daily and Sunday Bee, three years in advance $10.00 Send notice of change of address or irregularity in deiivery to Omaha Bee, dl:ll')n l)"pl!lflmfl! REMITTANCE, Remit by draft, exprees or p order. Only two- cent stamps received in paym of amall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha and eastern ex- change, not_ac OFFICES, Omaha—The Bee Building. South Omaha—2315 N street. Councll Bluffs—14 North Maln wtreet. Lincoln—526 Little HulldlnB Chicago—818 Peoples Gas Building. New York—Room 1106, 286 Fifth avenue, 8t Louis—603 New Bank of Commercs, Washington—115 Fourteenth strest, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE, communications relllmll:‘.ll;:p:n:]m::t 01 r Addr torial matter to Omaha Bee, APRIL CIKCULATION. 57,808 Daily—Sunday 52,223 Dwight Willams, circulation manager of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, s that the average circulation for 'he month of Afl, L G008 dally and 5222 sSunday. DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Cireulation Manager, becribed in my presence and sworn to befors me this 3 day of May, M4 KOBERL HUNTER, Notary Publie, tubscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee malled to them, Ad- dress will be changec. as often as requested. The problem of industrial peace is just as im portant, and much nearer home. —— Capital and labor rarely get the makings of a dividend by scowling at each other ———— Mauna Loa shows admirable enterprise in put- ting Honolulu on the “see America firat” circuit. | The next important announcement for the Union Pacific is due to come from the New York end of the line l Even at this stage of the play it is clear that Chicago “put one over” St. Louis in its conven- tion investment | Just the same, it looks Im’h odd that a Chi- cago man should be given the job to paint our Omaha postoffice building. | After a year of study and dri;hera(|nn Austro- Hungarian troops decided that Italian scenery is more enjoyable than the home article | It costs an average of $56.50 for each naval recruit signed up at the Omaha office. Prepared- ness comes high, but the purse is equal to it, Now that the battleship Nebraska has been otdered to proceed to Mexico, no one need lose any more sleep over our troubles to the south | | W 8even lives snuffed out in train collisions with automobiles on Sunday sets up a safety first sig- nal that none but the mentally blind could fail to see, ——— Fashion is about to place the stamp of ap- proval on whiskers. The dictum placates the barber vote by providing for a once-a-week trim. If our pavements are to be again put in good repair, the work might as well be done at the beginning of the season instead of at the end of it, Push it alon In two respects only, so far, has the battle of Verdun been decisive. It has achieved the en- durance record and established the largest grave- yard in all war history —— That is certainly a terrible indictment of Jus tice Hughes by the World-Herald that some of the politicians are for him as well as most of the rank and file the alarmed No wonder democrats are — As a matter of party pride, Nebraska demo erats might ease up the strain of prosperity by rallying to the ratification at St. Louis. Num bers are urgently needed to lend a touch of life to the scenery — he administration is about to administer the “strict accountability’ treatment to Great Britain for interfering with American mails Here is where Colonel Bryan's conversational Joker tickles the lion's funny hone — Every state which has a “favorite son” candi date for president, we are told, will bring from five to ten bands, to nothing of marching ¢lubs and glee clubs, to the Chicago conventior Yes, but where does the state with the “favorite on adidate for vice president come in —— - Thirty Years Ago This Day in Omaha | i J S—CemPIINE Prem Bee Plies, Chiel o fire department has the . A \ . Chie gine fow da . A o A fa aha 0 srma e ba ) ’ - N\ Mpita . Dmaha 10 sart & pa aha . . inyg . . an : : . el N . {., : : A . f W N : . Ratwride; » M LI s Awa . he o . sosta A N »l a0 we | and efficiency ment ‘great grain-raising region of the country are ac | line portion of the community will only dimly comprehend the importance of the issues raised in Omaha just now by an eastern prophetess of the fine art of fixing things to be eaten and the trimmings wherewith they are served or amongst which they are consumed. Man will not | deny, however, the relationship between cookery | and the uplift. His upward course, from the | day of the hero who first ate an oyster to the | gourmand who can select a seven-course dinner THE BEE: The Joker In the Deck For a far-seeing political manipulator, com- mend us to Clarence Harman, the head food, drug and oil inspector and captain of democratic politics in the state house. The oily oil inspector his fat job that he wants to that the way of an initiative constitu is so enamored of perpetuate himself and has concluded easiest route is by tional amendment making the position a six-year | office appointed by the governor In support of his neat plan Mr. Harman puts ont some plausible arguments about it taking | two years for a person to familiarize himself with | the exacting duties and the need of permanence civil service and non-partisanship, and all that sort of thing. What he does not tell us is that every one of these changes, so far as desirable, could be readily brought about by mere legislative enactment, or that he has care fully figured it out that to wait for action by the legislature would put it over to a time when he, himself, might be outside the breastworks. He that a constitutional amend- voted and proclaimed by the governor, and that the procla does not say, either hecomes effective as soon us mation the canvass of the vote con ducted in the same manner as the canvass of the vote for presidential electors. This means that Harman amendment, if carried, would be part of the constitution a month before the leg- islature Morehead goes ont of office Mr Harman to gather in the appointment and orna- ment the pay roll for at least six years more It s a beautiful scheme, and a clever one at that, and it remains only to see whether Brother Harmano can successfully put it across Lower Rail Rates On Lumber The Interstate Commerce commission finds that freight rates from eastern Oregon to the central west are too high, and has ordered a re duction in the tariff. This order might well be made to apply to all the lumber shipped this way from the northwest. The central western stat have been deprived of proper access to this great source of supply of building material for years, and have had to pay prices based on exorbitant freight charges. So has been the tariff main- tained by the railroads that billions of feet of second grade lumber has been burned at the mills because it could not be shipped save at a lo This tremendous waste has been charged against the consumer, so that really the farmers of the comes on the meets and bhefore Governor making it a “cinch” for tually paying for the material destroyed. They have been compelled to purchase the highest grade of lumber at the top price for ordinary uses, where the cheaper stuff would serve be- cause of the transportation situation. The pro- posed readjustment of lumber freight rates on a reasonable basis will bring relief to both producer and consumer, and will benefit everybody Democratic Dubiety On the Increase, As convention time approaches, the demo- crats are getting more anxious, and apparently more doubtful, as to their chances for success in the campaign. Their pretense of unconcern is really a mask for deep and increasing dubiety Dismayed by the closing up of republican ranks in formation for a new campaign, the Wilsonites and Bryanites alike are laboring to stir up strife through the fomentation of forgotten differences They seek to copceal the weakness of their pre determined candidate, and the failure of his ad ministration by the ancient device of endeavoring to divide the opposition. No amount of clamor of this sort will serve to obscure the record of the present administration. The issues between the parties are not shaded by a “twilight zone"” this time. The coming campaign will be a clear contest between efficiency and incapacity, and the nearer it approaches the final test the greater the worry of the president and his followers Cookery and the Uplift, Philosophers are not fully agreed as to which man first asserted property rights in—the woman who cooked his food, or the pot in which it was cooked. Whichever it was persisted that time, growth of this intimacy the association has since and a natural out is woman's supremacy as to details, while man concerns himself almost exclusively with results. Therefore, the mascu from a modern menu card and give to each dainty or substantial its proper position in the well ¢ dered march of eatables and drinkables lair written in the records of the cooks. And now tis Omaha’s turn to come into the ful measure of its growth and settle once and for all if to be “souffle potato potato souffle Wi this question is hough, we wi deprived of ou etween pota — Oregon and Nebraska neidenta \ Oregor esidentia X e ba egardless s wishes tions, is exactly the same in wording as ke law . Aty Kewine ead ’ N , o Mg ——————— M | . and his e N —— dlang tha ahes we e . . . . . 4 N . ' tha o L & Candidy 5 OMAHA, WEDNESDAY | B ot Sndineranrs By Victor Rosewater. _________J} HAVE just come from the funeral of John | will Drexel which was really a remarkable out including all classes, business men, The at wide the happy representative character high and low, wage earners and politicians, neighbors and old settlers tendance on the funeral attested the quaintance of Mr. Drexel had faculty during all his life of making friends every day and seldom creating an enemy Aside from seeing Mr. Drexel on official busi ness in the City Hall, I think | have met him of late more often at funerals than at any other place, and it just happened that on four or five such recent occasions | rode back with him in his car, the last time when we were together at the obsequies of “Bill” Kent Drexel were coroners years ago, in fact Kent was one of the few taking that job away from the undertakers and I am not sure whether he came in officially before ac who or after Drexel or his partner, “Mike” Maul, when | undertakers and funeral | it was “Drexel & Maul directors,” one democrat and one republican, en abling them to pass the coronership back and forth between them, | could not but help won der, more than once, whether the incumbency of the coroner’s office had anything to do with start- ing Mr. Drexel's steady atfendance at funerals, It is certain he had no expectation of having his friends so soon pay their last tribute to him be- two weeks since, he Commissioner Jar cause, scarcely ten days or was joking with his colleague dine, about wearing a bandage around his head where he had been kicked by a horse, but only temporarily incapacitated One remark made by Rev. Baltzly, in his eu logy of Mr. Drexel, should not pass unnoticed for he spoke of “the commendable pursuit of public office” when, as we all know, the usual at- titude of mind is that the pursuit of public office is anything but commendable. 1 agree with Mr. Baltzly, however, that the pursuit of office is, or | should be, commendable, conditioned only on that it be honorably sought without" making false pre tense and with fair assurance of making good, if the pursuit proves successful As this column is this time in the nature of an obituary chronicle, let me note that the Rotary club is making its session a memorial meeting for two Rotarians, well known and highly esteemed Omaha business men, who died almost at the same time, | sat at the lunch table with George Rogers at last week's meeting of the Rotary club, along with Edgar Howard and Tom O’Brien and several others, all of us joking back and forth, and the next morning was shocked beyond meas- ure to hear Roger's sudden death announced I had known him for fifteen years or more, hark- ing back to the time when he was on the road as a traveling cigar salesman, in which capacity he gave play to the traits of geniality that made him s0 likeable and won him many friends. The other member whom the Rotary club mourns is E. S, Parker, active in the management of the Baker Bros. engraving establishment, who was keen and bright and gave promise of being one of the com- ing men in the business life of the city which will now miss him T'he death of William H. Michael, which was chronicled from Washington this last week, would have attracted much more attention had it oc- curred a few years ago. Captain Michael, who served in the war in an Jowa regiment and later in the navy, was an influential newspaper man in Nebraska in the '70s and '80s. Senator Mander- son took him from the paper he was editing at Grand Island to Washington as his clerk, and he did some correspondence for a while for The Bee When General Manderson became chairman of the joint printing committee, Michael succeeded Ben Perley Poor as the clerk of that committee, upon whom devolved the compilation of the Con gressional Directory and which, under Michael's experienced supervision, was wonderfully im proved in makeup and contents, becoming more than ever a standard reference book. Afterwards he was transferred to the State department, where he served as chief clerk from 1897 until 1905, a position which made him the repository of all the confidential reports and delicate in formation involving our relations with other cour tries. He was selected for the “goat” in an effort to stir up a scandal at the time the secretaryship was changed. While he was sent as consul gen | eral to Calcutta, a searching congressional inquiry was made into his conduct, but failed to develop anything reflecting upon him and he stayed in the service until relieved by the advent of a demo ratic administration. He was very helpful to Omaha in many ways in connection with our Transmississippi exposition, for which he served the State depar t People and Events | | entists, pouring of pepole both in point of numbers and | MAY 24, 1916. Bits of Science A flowering plant, according to sci abstracts from the soil 200 times its own weight in water during e The its coast survey measurements United States make accurate across Florida to determine whether the Gulf of Mexico is higher or lower than the Atlantic ocean Mushrooms, on account of the amount of nitrogen they contain, ap | proach nearer to animal food than any other vegetable product An analysis made by Prof. Attwood shows that mushrooms contain 3.5 per cent proteids After an exhaustive series of tests | F Both Kent and | [ believe | a group of Chicago engineers decided that proper fenders on automobiles will reduce the number of persons run over when struck to 2 per cent, and | the number of seriously injured to 25 per cent I'he Smithsonian Institution an nounces that it has made an appro priation to further experiments in who ever sncceeded in | | | the dissipation of fog by electricity, and that the investigations will carried out unc the general direc- | tion of Dr. F, G. Cottrell, who has al- ready done much toward the prac- tical precipitation of dust, smoke and chemical fumes in large industrial es- tablishments The Mount Wilson solar observa tory has completed a catalogue of the magnitudes and colors of more than 1,000 stars in the globular cluster Messier 13, Nearly 11 per cent of these stars have negative color in- dices, suggesting that in this direc- tion there 1s no marked absorption of light in space. Of the 400 brightest stars, 70 per cent are redder than a normal solar type star; of the 400 faintest, 85 per cent are bluer than the normal solar type star. By sta- tistical methods the parallax of the cluster has been found to be less than 0.0001 secon of arc. Five new varia bles have been discovered in this cluster, making a total of seven Signs of Progress to purposes about Electricity has been forty-eight different 4 household Competition of American linoleum factories is every year decreasing Scotland’s export to this country Strong and practically fireproof arllhciarundnmnr has been made in the Philippines from beach sand and volcanic tufa, Growers in the Philippines are being encouraged by the government to give more attention to the pro duction of hemp. Telephone poles of glass molded over a heavy wire net are being made in Europe. These poles are rarely broken, will neither rot nor rust, and are impregnable to insects After forty-four years of wedded lifo Gottlieb F. Phisterer of Bt. Louls re- fuses to recognize the new day of fem inism and persists on bossing the fam- lly. Because Mrs. Phisterer insists on seeing the bright lights on off evenings Gottlieb has applied for a divoree. Both are 66 and still going. adapted That the “back-to-the-farm” move- ment is led by city boys is shown by statistics at the agricultural school of the Pennsylvania State college. To- day the three large cities of Pennsyl- vania have more than 200 young men in the school. Some of these have never seen a farm, except at a dis- tance It is learned from government statistics that the United States navy constitutes the most thoroughly American body of men in the world. Of the 52,561 men aboard American warships or serving on shore, 45664 were born within the continental limits of the United States, and of the remainder 1,900 were born in the overseas possessions of this country Nebraska Editors Harry E. Phelps has sold the How- clls Journal to Ovardka Bros Editor McGaffin of the Polk Prog ress has been appointed postmaster of his home I Editor M. C. Warrington of the Mason City ‘Lranscript was nomi nated for register of the land office at Broken Bow by President Wilson Bloomfield Journal: Adam Breede editor of the Hastings Daily Tribune has started on a hike for Hot Springs S. D. It's A-dam long ways from Hastings to Hot Springs, Adam, a ‘uu( ways to walk James H. Reed, who has been pub ishing the Elk Creek Citizen for the Salem and will start a paper there Around the Cities . > be | The Beoess Lelor B Paint South Omaha Postoffice, Too. South Omaha, May 33.—~To the Editor of the Bee: The writer notes in today's Bee that the Omaha postoffice is to be painted (by outside painters). It s strange that this city has no painters able to compete in price and quality. The writer believes there would be it proper publicity wers givan This notice in The Bee has caused the writer 0 put Into expression his wish that the au thorities also ask for bids to paint the South Omaha postoffice, The government erected a fine poatoffice in the Magic City but the writer has observed for the last year it has large and dirty streaks all over the buliding caused probably by smoke. This bullding being opposite the I. 0. O. F. hall, the writer has noted the remarks of 0dd Fellows, “What a shame such a niece buliding all begrimed with smoke’ and How much it would improve itx looks to be painted The writer hopes that our | superintendent of the South Omaha postof. fice will got busy and strike while the iron is hot J. G. BLEBSSING. Perilous Propagands. Plattsmouth, Neb, May 2§.—To the Editor of The Bes: During his speech In Detroit, Teddy wisely sald: “One of the great German newspapers of this coun try has been engaged in active propaganda In hehalf of both German militaryism und American pacifism. The men who take such a powition are preaching moral trea son On this topic, all loyal and Intelligent oitizens will agree. Citizens or sesidents of the United States who support Kkalserism againet Americanism are guilty of moral treason, and in mowt countries they would be subject to the legal penalties of trem won That speech shows how. idle and how Infinitely false are the ories of hyphenated oditors that President Wilson has been hos Mr. Roosevelt would have @lven his ultimatum once for all, when the German government announced its subma rine policy, and If that witimat had not been hesded immediately thers would have besn war The vast majority of German-born izens are loyal. 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