Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 30, 1916, Page 6

6 i 4 |"HE OMAHA DAILY BEE j FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. B BUILDING, FARNAM _AND SEVENTEE.\‘EL: tered at Omaba postoffice as second-class matter, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By carrier per month 66c. By mail per year. $6.00 400 6.00 Aly and Sunday. . ily without Sunday.. ening and Sunday...... “rening \M(hullal sunday.. day Bee OnlY............ dsvovas 2 nl( " d Sunday Bee, three years in advance, $10.00, nd notice of change of address or irregularity in ‘livery to Omaha Bee, C ilation Department. REMITTANCE. ymit by draft, express or postal order, Only two- nt stamps received in payment of small accounts, irsonal checks, except on Omaha and eastern ex- ange, not _accepted, e OFFICES, Omaha—The Bee Building. South Omaha—2318 N street Council Bluffe—14 North Main. street. Lincoln—b26 Little Bullding " Chicago—&18 Peopley Gas Butlding. & New York—Room 1106, 288 Fifth avenu = Bt Louis—503 New Bank of Commerce, I ¥ Washington—1725 Fourteenth street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE dress communications relating to news and edis matter to Omaha Bee, Editorial Department, APRIL CIKCULATION. 08 Daily—-Sunday 52,223 Dwight Willlams, circulation manager of the Bee blishing company, being duly sworn, says that the @ circulation for the month of April, 1016, was 08 daily and 62,223 Bunday. DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Ciroulation Ma r. Bubscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this day of May, 1916, ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Publie, 18z > ' - 5 H'l!l,: [ Bubscribers leaving the city temporarily Ubhould have the Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. £\ The Memorial Day spirit is more in evidence nd no one need apprehend its ever waning " Westward the ard the movement of Omaha’s churches! B Whether Villa be dead or alive, he has been ving us a mighty good imitation of “playing sum.” —— Nebraska democrats will two trains the way to St. Louis and avoid the risk of tting their knives crossed. Safety first ¢ occupy 1"« i [} i Just another demonstration that “all the com- Irts of home" cannot be had in these days of Figh cost of living without the wherewithal to Ly for them —— In the days to come, when the federated 4b husband returns to the haunts of home, doubt the smoke clouds of the den will be htened by the moving thriller: “Alone in ew York." —— ; Some of the country papers are inclined to ! rge part of the blame for the Decatur bank lure to loose bank inspection. It is either L or a loose banking law, and both should be hlcn!d up. — [t is the irony of fate that some of the very ben who fought the hardest to keep South naha out of Omaha are now fighting the hard- ; to land that vacant commissionership in the aha city hall, ! Samuel Gompers tells labor men out here they would do much better to help to im- ¢ our Nebraska workmen's compensation than to try to repeal it. Good advice, which ; hope will be accepted —_—— { According to Edgar Howard, the Roosevelt {lowing "“is as spontaneous as the giggling of hool girl.” Perhaps—but frequently a school il giggles only because some bad boy in the 8t behind i5 tickling her —— Now that the latest discovery of gold in Ne- Aska, like all those before it, has been definitely jproved, we can again boast of living in a state At digs countless millions out of its soil every r, but not an ounce of precious metal ——— | Forty young women in Cleveland submitted to skin grafting operation in an attempt to save e life of Mrs. Mayme Bennett, 30, seriously rned by her clothing catching fire from an open ate. Eighteen of the party are nurses and each we up two square inches of cuticle —— Mrs. Thomas A. Edison is of the opinion that me of the accepted present-day styles of fem ne dress have passed “beyond the bounds of bdesty.” Perhaps so, but these dress critics Memorial Day and the Future. This is Memorial day, when the nation pauses for a moment to place a wreath on the tomb of its soldier dead, and to “highly resolve that these dead shall not have Men who were straight and strong, lithe and active, half a century ago now march with faltering steps, but the fire that lit their eyes in '65 is still clear and bright. They are the Grand Army of the Re public, indeed. And the younger veterans, who followed Old Glory into the Cuban brakes and the glades of the Philippines, giving to that flag a new died in vain meaning and a higher mission, are the brothers in arms and patriotism of those older men, and we are all of they wrought. Memorial day has a deeper meaning for us In 1861 and 1898 war came upon the land heritors what now, unsought, and found the people unready. The tale of this unreadiness is found in the toll of death, taken, not on the battlefield, hut in the camp; in the base hospitals, not amidst the crash of cannnon and the rattle of musketry ing charge and fierce grapple, where death for liberty is life's finest hoon, but by disease which might have been prevented and the existence of which is still 4 source of shame. These men died Their lives, wasted in vain, will the rush because of ignorance were the price paid for unreadiness commit the same blunder? When we resolve today that liberty shall have a new birth in this land, why not also resolve that we will make reasonable preparations, so that if we our young men are called again to defend that liberty and the flag that symbolizes it, they will not fall victims to ignorance of the simplest re Memorial day should teach something for the future by recalling the mistakes of the past, —_———— James J. Hill, Empire Builder, James J, Hill will be remembered as a builder He came at a time when an empire was to be opened, and he had the clear vision to see its pos- sibilities. The wonderful resources and limit- less possibilities of the northwest appealed to him at a time when to others less gifted it seemed but a region of waste and cold and barrenness His energy and enthusiasm brought his dream to realization, and added to the wealth of the world an immense storehouse of treasure, unlocked by the railroads he projected His will hardly be measured in dollars and cents. He not only built railroads, but he devised ways for building states and homes. He encouraged set- tlers to go into the wilderness and gave his as- sistance to the beginnings, and lived to see much of his effort take form in prosperous communities, where he found only the wilds. He startled the railroad world a few years ago by his statement that it would require five billions of capital to put the lines of this country into good working condition. His prophecy has been more than ful filled, and the railroads are still working to at- tain the place marked for them by this leader. The Burlington road is an example of his ability as a director. A giant figure has gone from the transportation world, but his example will long inspire his successors quirements of life in camp service Platforms to the Point. A platferm “brief and to the point,” as sug- gested, would be a highly welcome innovation by the impending national conventions. The trouble is that the platform-makers are always beleag- uered by spokesmen for all serts of interests and orginizations backing projects calling for na- tional legislation, all insisting upon the indorse- ment of their particular proposals. The ten- dency has been for years to string out the plat- forms by adding a plank on this subject and a plank on that subject, with a view to attracting votes or preventing defections. Conditions seem favorable to eliminating a lot of these minor declarations, or at least cutting them down to a mere enumeration, At any rate, the day of fancy rhetoric and lengthy recitals of long-ago history is past. If the platform is intended to command mere momentary it must be confined chiefly to the live, throbbing issues that g0 to the core of current life and that must be met within the next few years to smooth the way for national development and insure the future welfare of the people more than notice No Neutrality for Greece. Efforts of the king of Greece and his advisers to keep out of the war are likely to prove una vailing. Occupation of Saloniki by the allies is answered now by the Bulgars of Macedonia, That these forts were the occupation by Greek forts in evacuated by Greeks without resistance may be interpreted as indicating Greeian leaning to the side of the central powers, but the fact that Bm to ignore the fact that the modesty line | only moral objection was made to the occupation anges with the fashions | of Saloniki by the allies may as well be taken as — | evidence of Greek favor for their cause. Thi Democratic harmony in Nebraska deserves | 1 . 3 division of sentime m Greece has heen under couragement. Nature provided all the heat k | stood from the first The king has openly gessary for right living for the next four \ 4 | cspoused the German cause, while his former Puths. As soon as sumr wanes party fac- | \ \ | ) | premier, Venezelos, a popular leader, has been s may cut loose without competition and | n | vigarous fr Ca f allied interests h the certainty of an encouraging audience ¥ \ : bt s . N eithe as b able et the support that feking the grandstand and bleachers [ A b R l pen espon me side or Jl The parking of automobiles in the streets out. | B brought to heat e of the places set apart for that purpose is PEING Ations of war, and the activit Hain becoming flagrant. Tt is not only a ques e 2 BRI B0 e HE B ¢ monopolizing for private purposes part 5o = . B R e , l the public streets intended for the use of al 5 I ) B it is an extra hazardous risk in the event of | ' y Our main thoroughfares should bhe kept ’ . E IS O v D — ar for traffic ar all times Th. as \ AnS Te , irty Years Ago M b ; ' ' " t This Day in Omaha | s pphaboghyaomnd g Compiled Fram Boe Filag e . . . . A arkets are at pres od w . . . at ade » ! ] : h . . . ! Al week M Carrier has . ' \ . through |da vhere ’ . eiting his hea ' N s g barned and 1 e e “ : ] The Jones stre aving wit . . st Wy . e has bee i & ack " J , gurbs are ¢ h [ ave fiting rea g. while the gra % WOrs o Mree " v \ ’ . » As b A a ¢ Fartd and . . . edd by Fdwar o : ' ‘ Laptain Huv “ 8 ™ . ’ Mg Stevens . sk st of Mrw. Colpetee N Mes. T U Hall bas deft tor New York : Saturday, she will sall for G N sniner with her parents and relatives e - Be Joined i six weeks by her sha ¢ Hall, who will spend bl vacation | THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, MAY Two Kinds of Twins Literary Digest. EW persons know that, if present hiological theories are correct, there are two fundamen- tally different kinds of twins. In one kind, where each individual develops from a separate €gg- cell, there is no more intimate connection than between any two children of the same parent. In the other, the twins are really one individual split in two, being products of a single divided egg- cell. Twins of the first type may have little re- semblance and may be of different sexes. Twins of the second type are always of the same sex and are often so much alike that only their clos- est friends can tell them apart. These facts are brought out by a discussion in The Journal of Heredity, in which Dr. C. H. Danforth of the Washington University Medical "h.f'lll' St. Louis, inquires whether or not twinning" runs in families.” He gives on this point the results of investigations in St. Louis “The kind of evidence that one gets as to the lheredity of twinning may be indicated by refer- ence to a group of fifty St. Louis families. The investigator had no knowledge of any of these families until, in each case, the birth of twins was reported to the bureau of vital statistics On looking into the family histories, it was learned that these fifty new-born pairs of twins had 171 elder brothers and sisters born singly, and twenty (ten pairs) who were twins he fre- quency of twins among the brothers and sis- ters of twins then is about 1:18. In the mothers' fraternities (groups of brothers and sisters) there had been 318 single births and ten pairs of twins (1:32), and in the fathers’, 219 single and ecight pairs of twins (1:37). Comparing these figures with the ‘normal incidence’ for St. Louis (1:90.6) one is justified, especially since essentially simi- lar figures are obtained from more extensive data, in concluding that twin-production is fre quently a family peculiarity. “Analyzing the individual families, evidence is found that what seems to be biovular twinning is hereditary in the direct female line. Whether there is any relation at all between the two types is an open question. While some of these fami- lies furnish beautiful charts indicative of a he- reditary tendency for twinning, others are fre quently met with in which, while there may be a record of many individuals in several genera- tions, only one pair of twins appears. In these instances the twins sometimes seem to be biovu- lar, sometimes uniovular, Such family histories may indicate that while twinning is in some way hereditary in most instances, it may nevertheless at times appear sporadically The most prob able inference to be drawn from this fact would seem to be that the ability to produce twins is possibly common to-all strains, and that the fre- quency of twin-birth in different lines is merely relative, It is not likely, on the one hand, that strains will be found in which twins never occur, nor, on the other hand, in which there is nothing but twins. But that such causes as may tend 1 toward twin-production are more constant or react more effectually in 'some lines than in | others seems evident. That one of the factors commonly involved in the case of both uniovular and biocular twinning is hereditary seems to be well established, The obstacles that are met in attempting to solve this problem are found to be of such a nature as to prevent a quick arrival at final conclusions, but they are not such as to discourage the hope that a definite solution of the problem may be obtained.” Nebraska Press Comment Norfolk News: The Omaha Bee has adopted a bigger size of type, such as the w. g. c. d. has been using for thirty years., Welcome to our circle, Bee, Oconto Register: About fifty women from all walks of life applied for the position of “clowness” in answer to the ad. of a circus in Omaha. If any of them were dressed accord- ing to the latest dictates of fashion they were already garbed for the role. Tekamah Herald: The Omaha Bee cer tainly giving sufficient publicity to the wild-cat banking methods practiced by Cashier Elliott of the Farmers' State bank at Decatur, which was recently closed. I1f the state banking law cannot be enforced, the public should know the reason why. is Gering Courier: The World-Herald made a “nonpartisan” appeal for Andy Morrissey for supreme judge, because he is a democrat. There are many republican papers who make a similar appeal for Fawcett, because he is a republican That's a game with two sides, but irrespective of politics, Fawcett the right man Blair Tribune: Decatur's bank failure reads like a tale of frenzied finance and makes one think of Wall street and the bucket shops. The first year after a change was made in the man agement a 50 per cent dividend was declared and the manipulation of the books fooled the State Ranking Board The promoter made things hum, and rumor had it that he owned six different automobiles in the two years' time. But the bubble burst and the promoters were brought | back to mother earth with a bump that took all of the wind out of their sails. Moral: You must do something bigger than to break a country | bank if you would get away with it Kehrney Hub: For something real nasty and offensively partisan it is not necessary to look farther than the following paragraph from the World-Herald: “While republican leaders keep howling for preparedness, and while mammot! parades are arranged and pulled off to demor strate that the country is clamoring for it, t democratic administration is providing it" T) is cquivalent to the charge that republ | planned the New Y paredness der . e and are pla R rope { der tra new the « ) | L t U 1 Twice Told Tales s o = el A Talented Father at GQeorge Did v 30, 1916. High Taxes. Omaha, May 20.—To the Editor of The Bee: Your editorial regarding the high and unnecessary tax was timely and to the point and an investigation should be made by some competent and honest men. There is something wrong, probably a political machine being bullt up, “jobs" created, etc The high tax this year is an outrage and works a hardship especially on those pay- ing on homes. This In connection with the rising prices on the commodities of life is getting too much for the ordinary man to bear. Am glad, and thousands of others, that you have taken the matter up. We are with you, Mr. Editor. The commission- ers promised economy. Are we getting it? M. M. Aljpreciation. May 27.-~To the Bee : It in impossible for adequately my mppreciation of your cour- tesy regarding our concert of last night. Your great kindness in giving the group plcture of the young people was an inspira- tion to them, as it surely was to me in striving for any eivic benefit possible at our hands. I may only hope and trust that your thoughtfulness of this cause was justi- fled by the results musical. Ever at the service of Omaha. HENRY C Editor of The me to express Omaha, Indulging Speculation. Grand Island, Neb., May 29.—To the Ed- itor of The Bee: Wil Justice Hughes ac- copt the nomination for president and would he be able to fully satisfy the demands of ex-Jresident Roosevelt? ~ These are two questions that are as yet only in the realm of guess. What will happen at Chicago is certainly an unknown quantity, but the defeat of both Roosevelt and Hughes may be quite possible has been his p The strength of Hughes t record, and the man him- self, and it Il he interesting to observe his strength, Though I should like to see him nominated 1 do not think he would ac- cept If more than four or five ballots are necessarry to choose, or Roosevelt puts in a veto, As for the colonel, with Hughes out of the race his stock may go up, but here is n prediction that ex-Senator Root will develop remarkable strength. His opposition to the vacillating polley of Wilson is Jjust as strong, his devotion to Americanism and prepuredness as marked and his ability and standing as unquestioned. Yes if Root s nominated republicans can be congratulated, The fecling that we must have a president able to care for the exlgencies that may arive in the further course of this war and qual- itled to take part in any peace conference if called upon demands that the republican party select its strongest representative, Whether the delegates think this is Roose velt, Hughes or Root is in doubt, but it is almost certain to be one of them. CLARENCE W. KELSO, Editorial Snapshots Boston Transeript Puragraphers disap pointed in learning that there is no such place as Two Beers, Tex, will have to be content with Brandy, Va, or Bourbon, Ky., but we advise them to stick to Pump, N, C. Pittsburg Dispateh: With all the ad- vance-the-clock campaigns, there will con- tinue to be a number of people endorsing the poet's maxim that “The best of all WAYS to lengthen our days is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear.” Chicago Herald: Mr, Bryan's intimation that & prohibition plank might fit nicely into the national democratic platform shows that although he eannot be a delegate he can still throw a eold chill or two into the gentle- men who are, Indianapolis News: That increase in the country's revenue receipts is very gratify. Ing, and especiully o to the congressional pork packers who know just exactly what should be done with the money to do them the most good in their districts, Philadelphis Ledger: The refusal of the militia in the three states on the Mexican border to respond to the call of the presi- dent for wervice with the regular troops is a poor augury for the federalized militia pro- vided for in the army bill just sent to the president. New York World: Huge beyond all pre- cedent as have heen the surplus bank serves of the country, business prosperity re- is s0 much more huge beyond all precedent | that at last its demand slightly felt in the fact remains, however, are beginning to be money market. The that checks upon further industrial expansion are less to be | from that quarter than of labor, expected from the searcity Springfield Republican: The opal general conference in indorsing n suffrage with only six dissenting votes, takes a logical position following it stand long ago for and re sponsible participation church affairs. Methodist woman's active in There are still & good many people left who times your do not realize that since Paul said, “Let silence in the church have changed women keep New York P dent Wilson says he 1 disguise himself Well, there are those hat after the At \ i CaARUC \n A side g th ) NEBRASKA. i Thy depths no baubles hold; Thou art not seamed with gold that A down my Greater virtues hast thou in store. Nebraska: Fairest of the plains pina “Why didn’t you interfers when the cook hased the waiter with a cleaver and the walitress yelled murder?” thought it was an ordinary —Kansas Clty Journal )yed not with the conqueror's gore; ed not with murderous lore; Greater virtues hast thou in store Nebraska: Fairest of the plains. 3 feature cabaret Thou has purling brooks and woodland rews A DANE. Wind-swept vales and sand-swept hills THE BURIAL OF And the autumn's forest that always thetlle Henry Howard Brownell Nebraska: Fairest of the plains. Blue guif all around us, Blue sky overhead— Muster all on the quarter We must bury the dead! Fertile land: Thou cannot boast A rugged, bold and rocky coast; But to the world thou art a host. [t e s Nebrask Paires t {a & Danish salor, aaka: Fairest of She piatne Rugged of front and form common son of the forecastle, For stout hearts and willing hands; A sammn | A ata Freeman's Jife and smiling lands, Cisac wisimiuaRg) siorm ' Here greeting and beckoning stands, His name, and the strand he hailed from Nebraska: Fairest of the plains We know, and there's nothing morel But perhaps his mother fs waiting Welcoming with outstretched arn In the lonely Island of Fohr. | To thy citles and to thy farms; | . The world offers no greater charms SHIL_ss he Iy there dying, Nebraska: Falrest of the plains Redson dritting swreok, . h plain | Tis my watch,” he would mutter, D. H “1 must go upon deck SUNNY GEMS Aye, on dack, by the foremast! b But watch and lookout are done; | e The Union Jack Iaid o'er him \ She—Would you leave your home for How qulet he lies in the sun i e Slow the ponderous engine, HeeI'd loave a4 base ball game in the Stay lhl hurrying shaft; ninth inning with the acore a tie.—~Lifs. | Lt the roll of the ocean Violot—Adelo fs such an economical little Cradls our glant craft b Gather around the grating, La Roso—Ah, yes! She'll trudge for Carry your mossmate afi! miles from one law office to another fo| save $10 on a divorcel—Boston Globe Stand in ¢ and listen To holiest page of prayer! | L ty foot be quiet Fvery head be bare— DEAR MR. KABIBBLE, | The sott trade wind in lifting A hundred locks of hair A YouNg LAY, WHOM 1. LOVE DEERLY, SAYS' SHE WILL ONLY MARRY A GENERAL~ WHAY Our captain reads the wervice (A little wpray In his cheeks) The grand old words of burial, And the trust a true heart seoks— SHALL X bop “We therefore commit his body ey To the deop'-—and, as he speaks, Launched from the weather rafling, Swift as the eye can mark, The ghastly, shotted hammock Plunges, away from the shark, Down a thousand fathoms, Down Into the dark! JOIN ‘THE ARMY AND WORK YOUR WAY UP! A thousand summers and winters The stormy gulf shall roll High o'er his canvas coffin "‘Are you looking forward to the Aummnr‘ with pleanant anticipations?” asked the op- | But. silence to doubt and 'dole— timistic citizen. Thore's & quiet harbor somewhore Yos, indeed,” replied the pessimistic per- | For the poor weary soiil \ won, A great many people I'm tired of | - looking at will go out of town for the | ETee the fettered ensine summer,”—Birmingham Age-Herald i dordbrineN s el LATRAE o | The breeze is fafr abaft “Mr. Smith, T wish you would maks that horrid dog of yours stop howling whenever | Blue sea all around us 1 ning.’ Blue sky bright o'erlead— Abh, my dear madam, don't blame the| Bvery man to his duty, poor dog. 1t Is the only way he has of | Wo have buried our dead | THE OLD RELIABLE | ROYAL | BAKING POWDER Absolutely Pure MADE FROM CREAM OF TARTAR Leadi The March o Railroad Progress “Milwaukee Road” Achievements in the railroad world have been manifold and splendid. In this great work “The Milwaukee" since its incep- tion has been a leader. It is particularly fitting, therefore, that this railway should sccomplish the first extensive main line electrification in the world—the electrify= ing of its line from Harlowton, Montana, to Avery, Idaho, a distance of 440 miles across the Great Continental Divide. Again to the Fore This colossal undertaking has claimed the attention of the world. The giant electric locomotives, fed with the limitiess energy of the mountain streams—the Increased efficlency and economy of operation, and the notable increase of travel delights— appeal alike to engineers, scientists and the traveling public. cessmENSsaRsaREnen . On your next trip Northwest take * The Olympian" or ** The Columbian'' and enjoy the combination of luxurious service, electric travel and some of the most beautiful mountain scenery in America. Literature at address below 1317 Farnam Street, Omaha EUGENE DUVAL, General Agent Chicago, Milwaukee & St PaulFy | 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 b really successful,