Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 8, 1916, Page 4

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A AR A Bubscribers leaving the city temporarily 4 should have the Bee mailed to them, Ad- 11, dress will be changed as often as requested. g P ——— 2% Meteorologically speaking, Medicine Hat is 7 /Mso in the Chicago ring. — wwe The Allies and the Teutons have again ex- changed defies, The shell game will now pro- ceed with rencwed vigor, ; ‘ Em—— i; The Omaha school board is doing well to p partisan politics as well as sectarian religion .'t of the public schools. ' s b d;e visiting advertis- men, and that is Nebraska has not taken ad- tage of what it has to advertise, ] Omaha's new Athletic club is showing speed h in promotion, and will be a hummer if it ly keeps on as well as it has started, ; T‘M/old day is good enough to show our re- d for the flag of our country, but that fact be emphasized by the special parade next Wednesday. N "The schedule of liabilities filed would Indicate ¢ petitioner in bankruptcy might better be ibed as a traveling buyer, rather than a ling salesma i L ____J _hvll'l vote on the suffrage amendment, while ppointing to supporters, is not discouraging, closeness of the vote points to equality of rage before many years, ‘f - - Just the same, the legislature of 1915 set aside expended during the biennium $750,000 more jin was appropriated in 1913, and the money ot 1o come from some place, | Now that the grasshiopper has joined the green o the wheat pit boasters ought to find their iness going good, but the late summer will see Official recognition of the sugary talents of oses P. Kinkaid tickles state pride and makes security of congressional fences, The ex- ion ‘of time payments comes to Niobrara set- ”fl like sweetness long drawn out —— “,_The New York piebiter who undertook to . women politicians in Chicago: for criticis- the administration lost his cue when advised y “tell it to the president.” An amateur scold mong the experienced cuts a sorry figure TETET——— b 5]’- Lincoln's contribution to the bond of com- ity between the capital and the metropolis e state, in the way of a pageant to illustra thing of Omaha's | histary, /is quite ap- ted, as much for its spirit as for its artistic llence. b —_— 2% Britain's curbstone critics turn a hurried som- h It and join in the nation's grief over the . Wmgic death of Lord Kitchener, Their sorrow 1 bl that of a much-mated man whose lamenta [ at the grave of No. J prompted spectators 4 offer sympathetic cheen. “Friends,” he ex , “tears will not redfore her, therefore | weep.” ! Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, president emeritus | the suffrage ca is not at all pleased with pushing sisters who launched the woman's at Chicago. She considers the movement ture and injurious to the cause. This s the first time that the cautious counsel of lence failed 1o check the vibrant speed of 5 Thirty Years Ago This Day in Omaha . Complied Fram Boe Filee I M e M Bogis and wile and Lew Mill have A1 & mere nominal value, as their gift 1o stees of Prownell hall, 1o be uaed for the i that institution, dot 5 bloack § 0 8L, Mltuated near the proposed hall whieh is A0 be erected | L] have nearly completed 1he double - il abcane, between Sixteenth and th atrents andd Twentieih, botwaen Web LU MeVirtle, the well known grocer, and S Mutehard, were quietly masried st the Parsonage, Kev ) & Detweiler ol ! KT wew o ht feiends alk anke wnd Whokiny, who bive recantl N ” . Yisimity of Froy e Uy ehregt stieet wp Thiny L) - A e reighton has given the Propecyy, wudelashg | Declaring and Defining the Issue The “keynote” speech, delivered by Temporary Chairman Harding to the republican convention at Chicago yesterday, is a message to the voters of the country. It frankly declares and clearly defines the issues between the republicans and | the democrats, so far as national administration goes. In terms plain and simple, and easy to understand, Senator Harding does away with the craftily fostered notion, set up by the democrats, that no fundamental difference exists between the two parties. Failure of the Wilson adminis- tration to carry out its promises, and to satis- factorily meet and deal with the great events that have arisen since the democrats came into control of the national government is but part of the in- dictment now brought against that party, The republicans add to charges of incompe- tency and neglect the inability of the democrats to initiate and set on foot any great or beneficial constructive legislation. Always a party of nega- tion and reaction, the democrats not only have failed signally in setting forward the mark of the country, but have not been able to hold it where they found it. A fictitious prosperity, in which but certain lines share, and which is directly due to the European war and will certainly disappear with the coming of peace, is relied upon by the administration to support its claims to continu- ance, Only vague and indefinite promises for the future are made, makeshifts to meet temporary conditions; the one permanent plan suggested by Mr. Wilson or any of his advisers being the investment of $50,000,000 in vessels at the highest market price, to be sold or leased to private owners, On the other hand, the republicans promise definitely to give the country relief from present conditions, to restore stability to the industry and commerce of the country by proper legislation, and create and foster enterprise that will further develop our resources and insure the prosperity of all, Americans will be protected at home and abroad, and the flag of the United States will be restored to a place of respectability among the great nations of the world, The people are weary of the vacillation that has marked the last three years of our history, and the republicans are pledged to bring relief, e _________ | Republican Harmony in Sight. The progress of the Chicago convention so far has held nothing that consoles the democral In spite of the most determined efforts of the Wil- sonites and the Bryanites, and the other wings and divisions of the party of incompetence, to perpetuate the split in the republican ranks, the delegates at Chica representing the voters at home, are coming closer to the reunion that means the end of the present democratic admin- istration, The gathering at Chicago simulta- neously of the representatives of the republicans and the progressives did not result in the violent clash the democrats had hoped for. On the con- trary, these delegates immediately began earn- estly to seck a common ground on which they could meet, to the end that division of the repub- lican party he brought to an end. Nothing spec- tacular marked the proceedings, the delegates and party leaders réalizing they were at Chicago with a definite mission, and that their business could better be transacted without especial accompani- ment of nofke and futile display, It has been this aspect of the proceedings that has most discon- certed the democrats, Reunion in the republican party seems to be in sight SEp———— Why Omaha Will March. On Wednesday of next week Omaha will sus- pend business for half a day, and generally par- ticipate in a popular demonstration of respect for the flag of the United States. That sentiment must not be mistaken for any partisan expression, for the endorsement of any scheme of military preparedness, or for anything but the patriotic impulse of the citizens, shown by their presence in the marching column or among the cheering crowds on the sidewalk. Nor must this feeling be confounded with any attitude of unwillingness to take part at any time in defense of the flag, Omaha folks are not eager for war, nor given over to devotion to military glory. But tiiey are now and always have been ready to do their part in upholding the United States and all that such duty implies will be cheerfully fulfilled, Pre- paredness has its proper part in the thought of our people, and they are not inclined to shirk re- sponsibility, but the flag day parade ought not to be confused with any plan for preparing for defense, Outlook for Peace Is Dimmer, Only one thing séems decided for the present regardp the European war, and that is the like- lihood of Lord Kitchener's prophecy that it would be a long war, enduring for at least three years. The speech of Chancellor von Bethmann-Holl- weg to the Reichstag, and its reception by the members, may be taken as fairly exhibiting the feeling in Germamy, Sir Edward Grey recently spoke for the Allies in similar strain, and in neither of these utterances is there to be found any sign of willingness to settle at the point reached Neither of the combatants is inclined to make concessions, and each boasts of prepara tion and determination to go on with the fighting So far nothing decisive has marked the progress of the war. Until one side the other has achieved something like a victory, peace is highly improbable. Less than two months remain of the second year of the war, but with all the t rible energy displayed in destruction, the (ssue is about where it was in August, 1914 e e Receiverships of Anane stitutions . tute the juieiest plums in the judicial ore New York One o ship waually means o the Lnion bank of Brook well adva watd completion, has absorbed $211.208 4% penses. Meanwhile the depositors hapefully the sack, cheered with the proapect ¥ M back § cents o0 e e During the week following New York's pre paradasss parade, In whieh 0 warehed, sistydour seseptable were he losal swprelting ofees. The o Patments hardly Justifies the volume of sound emitted i thay herois quaries The foteign wadi balanes of shows & lendency (o madesty, o rul articles coming 1o off ouige of war materialy Hade oquality makes for sational satet O ———— An Orsgon judge holds 1hat & moter car, un dor oartain conditions, is & “deadly weapon.® An averwhelming array of procedenta trom hospital and martality eords supposts 1he conclusions of the qouit s couniry w0 s of lauriomn Wi the The \endency § ad | 'HE BE OMAHA, THURSDAY, Cost of a Campaign New York Herald, IFTY MILLION DOLLARS, at lowest es- timate, will be spent in 1916 on our quad- rennial political jag, It is a moderate es- timate, for, by being a little far-fetched, it could be doubled, It may, indeed, amount to a cool hundred million, % But a total expenditure of fifty millions means an expense of $3.50 per voter and 50 cents per capita for the entire population, It can be de- fended on the Tom Reed theory that this is a fifty-mollion-dollar country, {lw- of recent years enacted by congress and most of the states reqhiring rhr‘hhng'nl sworn statements of the origin and disposition of campalgn funds haye lately, for the first time in the history of the nation, made available fairly accurate data on the high cost of politics in this country, ; l‘ul{llcl comes highest in presidential election years, not only because of the large expenditures of the national committees, but because three- fourths of the 100,000 and more elective officers— national, state, county and municipal—are filled at or about the same time. Indeed, scarcely more than 5 per cent of the total cost of politics for the country ns a whole this year will be borne by the big party committees, Some 200,000 individuals are now, or soon will De, seeking offices in the United States, All will spend some money, and money will be spent by others for a great many of them, There will be several thousand “campaign committees” of va- rious kinds and quality, The taxpayers directly will have to take care of the largest single item of expense, that for the election machinery, In New York state alone the cost of registering the voters and conduct- ing the November election will be about §2,500, 000, For all the states it will amount to not less than $25,000,000, Several hold their state elec- tions on dates other than for ulecdn( a frr-i- dent; one, Maine, has a different day for choos- ing representatives in congress. This makes the election machinery almost doubly costly in those states, Most of the town and city elections, which will take place in *hree-fourths of all the municipalities this year, will be on other dates, { you were to add to the direct expenses the indirect losses caused by “election year,” such as the depressing effect on business and the loss from industry of the time of the thousands who will give several months of their time to politics alone, not omitting the celebration of election night—a half million dollar item in New York City alone—in other words, if you were to figure the “cost” as many figure that of the European war, the expense of our leap-year political ex- ercises would reach a total of more than $500,- Some of the election reform legislation of late years has tended to lower the high cost of olitics, while other legislation has increased it. he necessity for filing statements of expendi- tures, now almost universal, makes candidates and committees more circumspect in soliciting and disposing of funds, In quite a number of instances expenditures are limited by law, and to exceed the legal maximum disqualifies' the uilty candidate and makes committeemen sub- cht to indictment, The extension of the pri- mary election idea has increased the expense be- cause it necessitates an extra election and forces many candidates to make two popular campaigns where one sufficed before. About half as much money i8 spent in the pre-convention as in the post-convention contests, The expenses of the national committees of the two big parties rarely fall below $2,000,000, and frequently go beyond $5,000,000 in a presi- dential year. It is generally admitted that the republican national committee of 1896, under the leade of ‘Mark Hanna, first made “the roof the limit in spending money, The funds used to elect Mcl&nlcy have been estimated at from $3,000,000 to $7,000,000, They probably were nearest the last figures. However, memoranda left by Cor- nelius N. Bliss, who was treasurer of the com- mittee, indicate that the funds passing officially through the committee’s hands aggregated only $3,500,000, According to the same data the fund employed to re-elect McKinley in 1900 was a “trifle below” $3,000,000, The republican national committee usually disposes of the most funds. But some demo- cratic national committees have been superb spenders. In 1892 not less than $2,000,000, per- haps a great deal more, was used in electing Cleveland, all of whose races were engineered by men who were adepts in raising and generous in contributing political funds. There are no authoritive data on democratic expenditures except for the campaigns of 1908 and 1912, when the expenses of the committee approximated $1,000,000 for each year. George B. Cortelyou, who was chairman, is authority for the statement that the republican national committee disposed of a little more than $2,000,000 to elect Roosevelt in 1904, The elec- tion of President Taft in 1908 cost nearly as much, There are good data on all the campaigns of 1912 both before and following the conventions, Those who sought the democratic nomination that year did so at a total cost, in round figures, of $450,000, divided as follows Woodrow Wilson. . .$202,0000scar Underwood. Champ Clark 50,000Judson Harmon 148, The campaigns of Taft and Roosevelt for the republican nomination cost $100,000 or more, and the sum was divided about equally between them, Statements filed by all the committees of par- ties running presidential candidates in 1912 show receipts and expenditures as follows Disburse- Recolpta Republican 107630101 D o LISv 4400 MeaTe M LINLLN 1) National politics so fur this year have been rather liminaries of 1912 [ tween $1.000,000 and $4,000 000, great deal more, will be disposed of in aiding the inexpensive as compared with the pre It is 1aie to predict that be and possibly a free and untrammelled vo magistrate ters 1o select a chief Twice Told Tales Lines Be Bothered frape nd o and Arker L 1ent the amateur st owas reading hand : arity Her A . ’ are going | . h & A N .4 \ i wey smaring!” gasped the ¢ 1] g | . t . e ¢ e WH avl \e i ™ M wealing ehaage & w 1w Moo Riaka o weeks ap fge Equivecal Diagnosin N aApaper man tells s diagnosia sician Triend whi ght bave ‘ot ad not the Jowraalist besn dis five the madival man the benciin A wiul doul He had had aos " & head and the physician i the pplication of the Xy What seema 10 be the matier with head, doatt 1™ he ankedd O, thera's nothing In 0" prampily answernd the doster — Baltgnore American N Brooklyn Eagle: The Canadian troops in Belglum and France should do well under their new commander, if there is anything in & name. General Byng sounds like what is needed on the western front. Buffalo Expre The war sends $50,000,. 000 worth of gems into this eountry this year. Jowels, the greatest luxury of peace, in time of war are the quickest assets. Why not more talk of wearing dismond a part of our preparedness program? Philadelphis Ledger: The feeble wits who planned the Roosevelt “assassination fake” at Kansas City ought to feel the full scorn of the Publie, if not the penslty of law. With all kinds of eranks loose, this is not the time to be staging possible attacks on presi- dentia] eandidates for the “movies” or for general notoriety. The real ery of “wolf” may some time come too late, Boston Transeript: The great convention of the Federsted Women's Clubs in New York City, resulting in the election of Mrs. Josiah Evans Cowles as its new president, darity of women in the United § by year there fs an enlarging women's elubs, nd their Joint assembly grows more interesting and more impres- sive. 4 Baltimore American: When girls devote themselves to fushion, fudge and flirtation they are denounced as festherheads. When they give up all three and more substantial things besMes, and go voluntarily into hard training and submit to strict discipline in order to At themselves to be of service to their country, if the need comes, they are as energetically denounced as faddists, What can they do to please the eritics? Springfield Republican: Willlam Penn did very well in dealing with the Indians with- out the employment of military prepared. ness. Unfortunately for the value of the lasson for today s modern civilized nation with & trespassing ahbition or a resl gr fancled grievance s a stiffer propositidn than the savage red man, even of Penn's day. The Quakers and other pacifists who won't help are lucky in sharing the protec- tlon ‘of those who will, e AR RRL YT SIGNPOSTS OF PROGRESS. A portable, but powerful hydraulic press has been invented for bending large pipes to any desired curve without injury ‘The outlet pipe of & new bubbling foun. tain can be raised so a tall person will not have to lean over to get a drink of water, Bacramento, Cal., recontly adopted through its commission, » city plan, which provides that industri plants shall be permitted only in designated districts, Beven hundred and fifty thousand acres of land have been opened for homestead purposes in southern Californis. The gov- ernment has also opened 1,600,000 acres in Bouth Dakota. A novelty in pistols has been perfected for use by the United States signal corps for the purpose of communicating at night. Cartridges firing spurts of flame of various hues are ed for smmuniti the color of the arrying a definite saage to the distant lookout. Repid filters at Fargo, N. D., reduce the number of bacterla in a cubic centimeter in the Red River of the North 98 to 09.6 per cent. In the raw water the ecounts range from 700 to 20,000. The hardness, which varles from 200 to 400 parts to the million of ecarbonates, is reduced about one half, making an estimated saving of $7,000 In the cost of soap. of petroleum as locomotive fuel in- 18 per cent last year, according to ited Btates geological survey. . in produetion 0il fuel is used on forty Tnited Statel udo ofl rellroads in th TIPS ON HOME TOPICS. Indianapolls News: Old swimmin' hole never imposed any bothersome regulations sbout bathing suits. 1t would be Just like to suggest “Onward, Christian rallylng song of the League of Boston Transcript: However painstak- ing the Chicago convention may be, we foel sure that it will fail to meet the ap- proval of the democratic party. Washington Star: Now that history shows that a pig's squeal eclected Old Hickory, what member of the unterrified will say snother word against pork? Indianapolis News A $2,000,000,000 trade balance for the year sounds mighty prosperous, but badn't we better stop to consider what we are going to do with all the money that is piling up on us? Baltimore American: More of the de- grading influence ‘of the movies. It has been found that base ball players on the road are attending picture shows in their spare time after the games and neglecting the great American institution of draw poker. Loulsville Courfer Journal A man who said he had a plan to fill boarding houses and keep them full has been arrested for using the mails to defraud. Wise board. Ing house keepers know that the only way {s to fill boarders and keep them full EDITORIAL SIFTINGS, Transeript: The administration holds that Carransa's ultimatum is not an ultimatum, and it » be admitted that it knows one when It sees it Chioago Merald: eral Joethals is back with the announcemant the . the eanal work is finlshed at Panama, bui we have & snask- ing stepielon that Culebra hasn't yet shot ita laat slide. lphis Ledger: When #ling alliances, t break up the ¢ why dossn't the In declding on thelr leanup movement the uld remember that when home from his vecation and ase of vyphald, everybody of his sequaintance delights in kooeking the e he aiayed Brooklyn Bagle: ¥ nd pute Americen bathitube on the lat Probinied mean as lusuries. Luchily the ban is Nhely 1o be asin I8 London, an dwarfied weshboiler Aineal follp Babit are Defore the & " w ' ringlield Nep " . £ e g an diaeas e supreme he y & Jew, bt | " . ' . Fhibadeivhia ) you dan'y ke Al Justios M , w York e 6 Mg arneis and Ny " hagpens ol b . wntey whare - wonld hot hevs baen w gl while age. I Nwariean fa an be Inauit & Aot besaisn he Ama an posnie have & geent deal of patienge she alben wehe Bah sven ORINS AND GROANY ! ' * . | . ra 1t | It comes to Amerioans with the | Brandels 1o | | W hat George?" are the “The umpire called him safe. great slide!” “TI'm w0 giad Free Press, “Here's o highbrow with a new theory,” “What it wconting “Always Courter-Journal. DEAR MR KABIBBLE M FIANCE AND £ DIFFER OVER “THE WEDDING MARCH To BE PLAYED AT VR WEDDING - WHAT SHOULD BE PLAYED ? su crowds When I saw him tumble 1 thought surely he'd be hurt”—Detroit wo can perfume the ills of 1ife." e working in that direction, I ‘rouble."—Loulsville ANY GOO® BATYLE Pessimist—Waell, how's married Iife? cheering for, pari The marshal is cavorting, as also Is his alde: The bands they are strike their gate Hustle Into line you fellows, not a minute oan we walt; As Englishmen and Fremhhmen, Hungar- 1 and Bootch, Itallans and Germans and Irishmen and Duteh, It was a ~tooting, the lldle-/ Bwedes and Norweglans from above, and Bwitzers from below; The whole bunch for preparedness, with Americans we 0. We want submarines and battleships and aeroplanes galors, Ot dreadnaughts and ‘torpedo boats, half & hundred mors, To guard our wide possessions in what- ever clime they be; We insist that Uncle Bamuel shall be ruler tull and Frenchmen, Hungar fans and BScotch, Italianss and Germans and D Irishmen and and Norweglans from above, witzers from below, The whole bunch for preparedness, Americans we go. with We have a corking army, no better can oxist, But we should give the boys u chance who are anxious to enlist; We want threo hundred thousand of good Optimist—Oh, not so good. My mother- | in with my wife, | men trained to fight, With ‘no thought of aggression, but to o ainid maintain peace by right. Willle Willis—~What's a patriot, Papa Willis—Generally & man who did | gw some great deod wo long ago that people | have forgotten the selfish motive that really prompted it.—Life. 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