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

A Milestone for The Bee. The Bee today is forty-five years old and, in making another milestone, we feel that we have a right to “point with pride” to the record of progress and achievement. For a wonder-story nothing excels the founding’ of The Bee and its growth from small beginnings in a little frontier town to a leading position in the journalism of a great metropolitan city, but that story has been often told, From the outset, The Bee has been a tireless worker for the upbuilding of city, state and nation and the improvement of the social, material and political welfare of the people, and fias had a forward policy which it has steadfastly pursued and will continue to pursue. By comparison, a forty-fifth anniversary is perhaps not a special red letter event in a news- paper’s career, but it surely justifis this much of personal reference and self-congratulation. — Stop Your Faking. Our amiable democratic contemporary, the World-Herald, seems eager to regain its old prestige as a fake factory. It prints in its con- tribtors’ column a letter dated Omaha over the name “E. G. Berry,” which, among other things, says: ’:'I have always voted the republican ticket and am still a republican, but, like a great many other republicans whom I know, I shall vote for Woodrow Wilson this fall.” Now, we challenge this as a fake, pure and simple. We make bold to assert that whoever wrote that letter is not a republican and that he oaries i cannot name three republicans, much less “a great ithodadls "“".:,..‘;'“ HUNTER, Notary Publie. many other republicans,” who are going to vote - ‘for Woodrow Wilson this fall for any of the rea- Subscribers leaving the city ‘temporarily - | sons he states. We want it known that no such should have the Bee mailed to them. Ad- person as “E. G. Berry of Omaha” is listed in the . dress will be changed as often ss requested. | Omaha city directory, nor is any person regis- o i i e AT wmmss. | tered by that name in the office of the election Those Mexicans seem to be just insisting on | commissioner for the city of Omaha. We venture Wul more trouble. ety to say that the “Berry” who preténds to be a re- . publican going to vote for Wilson is merely an However, Colonel Bryan éan rely on the re- | imaginary “huckleberry” masking one of . the blican party putting the punch in that one-term | World-Herald fakers trying to put one over with- out being called. . 3 A Divided Ireland. A divided Ireland under home rule foreshadows the outcome of the negotiations undertaken by David Lloyd George to effect a temporary settle- ment of the Irish question. Such is the substance of reports submitted by nationalists and Ulster members to their constituents, and tentatively ‘aécepted as a war emergency compromise, In ‘genetal outlipes the plan adheres to the terms of the home rule bill passed September 14, 1914, and suspended from operation until the end of the war. Six Ulster counties, including the cities of Belfast and Londonderty, are excluded from the present home rule plan, as they were in the suspended act, and will be governed by a local council under imperial laws. The rest of Ireland will be governed by a parliament sitting in Dub- fin, Irish representation in the imperial parlia- ment will not be changed at present, obviating an Horth the hard knocks will fall on congress. That | election which all parties dislike in the stress of ‘what congress is there for. war, These terms are regarded the most feasible i | and practical means of ending military rule and No doubt as soon as news of the commission- | disposing of castle government wrecked in the g of three more Nebraska colonels filters be- | April rebellion.” A significant feature of:the pro- the Rio Grande, rambunctious Mexican gen- | posed compromise is the expectation that an im- will come off their high harses’and hike for | perial federation of the British empire will rise chapparal. out of the wreckage, which will inaugyrate home ; s i P A .| ruld-in all divisions of the' United Kingdom and Editor McGlynn's keynote spread'of tén .col- | 1reiand and unite in direct representative govern- rudely shatters professional rules of brev- | 1 ¢ solidArity f [ He doubtless figured on the absence of the :::I'e;tled:.;lfo?urm i ity or(uf i nagin plaadel i AT editor and cut loose with a deluge of 7=ty * The Thirst for Knowledge. The presence of commencement time, when thousands of young folks are being reminded of the end of one and the beginning of another stage of their career, serves to emphasize man’s insati- able desire to know things. No impulse of life is stronger than this, none other has such a com- pléte mastery over man as his inquisitiveness, It has been the spur that has driven him on from one discovery to another, from new invention to greater triumph, and lifted' him from the sodden bestiality of mere animal existence to the plane of intellectual iiportance on which he now moves. Investigators are continually pushing into the mists that surround the great secret man fain wauld attain. Education consists in preparation for: this great work. The training of the mind follows the record of human experience, the ad- ventures of the pioneers being an incentive to those who ‘are toming on to make similar en- deavors, - Posseasion of knowledge is the most priceless of boons. We have no hope that man ‘will ever exhaust the range of things to learn, but this itself is the best encouragement to keep on striving. The boys and girls now coming from school will add to the sum of intelligent citizenship, and help to set the general standard’ higher. 1t is the destiny of the race that it ad- vance, and the thirst for knowledge, born in the Garden of Eden, will never be quenched by mor- tal means. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. i VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. BEB BUILDING, FARNAM AND BEVENTEENTH. Eatered at Omaha Dostoffice as second-class matter, Tn_fll or BUB{;BIPTXOrN. By mall per u:g:th per year. Bee, three years in advance, change of address or y Omaha Circulation Department. imlt by draft, “llflmfi order, Only two- A Y express or pos! A g » received in payment of amall accounts. 1 t:lmg:lckl, except %:: Omaha and eastern ex- not accepted. . W, ey matter o Omana Bes, Bditorial Department H MAY CIRCULATION. my presence and sworn to before me was Chairman ‘McCombs; it is Chairman McCormick. Men change ‘and title ‘shift, but democracy can’t lose the Macs. 3 i It is confidently hoped the notification com- s will bréak the news ‘gently. National | rs should be spared the shock, of surprise. | m— | So long as the president needs Mr. Bryan's . Brother-in-law “Tommy” Allen's uncon- tenure of that federal job is safe though 5. Semapi— coln republicans have beaten us to it for a s ‘and Fairbanks ratification. What's the with a grand republican rally at an early here in Omaha? — “On to Washington!” is the redoubled cry of sts double-crossed at St. Louis. Hence- cal platforms as critics complain, As long as | tional officials restrict the output of gradua- essays, it is up to the politicians to formulate ples and expound the whichness of the Importations of precious stones rose to $5,- ‘ %q.{hfinfiu a total of $50,000,- the fiscal year. As a barometer of pros- nio other imports equal the baubles of per- adornment and provide a shining mark —— It will do no harm to test out those road pav- bonds in the courts before setting about this sat undertaking, but the personal-interests of ‘private landholders, or real estate specula- ), Hoping to profit from the building of the should not enter into it. o hold official seats in the ¢ National convention. Thirteen are. ' delegates and nine alternates. The figures nposing and present an impressive contrast one lone man who had the courage to serve te to the Federation biennial. em—— ctacles come and spectacles go in the kly moving panorama of life. But the school n ent remains the premier spectacle. No touches as joyously the tender chords of ‘and home or more clearly visions today the d and womanhood of tomorrow. D e—— - to Edgar Howard, it is up to 1 Roosevelt to elect either Charles E. or Woodrow Wilson, and “Edgar” ia on the democratic ticket as nominee for nt governor. Well, the colonél has more ce made it known that he has no desire Woodrow Wilson in the White House, Downfall of the Champion Promotion Crook. The recent conviction of Dr. John Grant Lyman in the federal court of New York for using the mails to defraud, removes from promo- tion circles the smoothest, most versatile and nerviest crook in the annals of American crook- dom. Besides him the Wallingford of stage fic- tion is a piker. A product of rural New York and a medic by education, Lyman at the outset of life forsook all the avenues of honest endeavor and proceeded to apply his skill in separating fools fram their money. His success is measured by $2,000000 gathered in and spent in twenty years. 'Various promotion schemes were tried, but none proved as lucrative as bogus gold mines. With these time-worn appeals to human cupidity ‘Lyman trimmed the sucker family from New “|.York to California, from Toronto to Londen, and | slipped through several legal toils and trials with amazing audacity and affected respectability. Even in Wall street he bulked largé and important on | two separate occasions, while Wall street sleuths | were seeking him, and lived for months at the same hotel with the chief of detectives. Giant- like in physique, soft spoken and fluent in con- versation, always well dressed to auit occasion, Lyman invariably disarmed suspicion, and might Jhave remained a minor pillar of Wall street had he kept faith with a woman of shady reputation. The woman scorned proved his undoing. — The first vessel of the Swiss merchant marine recently sailed from New York, flying the nation- al flag, The extraordinary situation of Switzer- land, surroundéd by war and the usual highways [blocked, rendered the step necessary to obtain \easential supplies. France made it possible by loaning the Swiss a small port on the Gulf of Lyons. I L Things to Be Thankful For ‘Springfield Republican There is one feature of the political situation, and a commanding one, that all can rejoice in as the people of the United States enter upon the presidential campaign of 1916. The hatreds and the bitter differences which came out of the re- publican contest of four years ago must pass into the background. An ugly chapter of party history is to be closed. There can be no repetition this year of the battle which followed the refusal of the republican party in 1912 to endorse ex-Presi- dent Roosevelt's repudiation of the man he had picked to succeed him in the White House. We shall hear no vociferous assertion that thieves, burglars, criminals generallif, and crooks with a steam roller, have robbed Mr. Roosevelt of the nomination this time. The strenuous contention of four years ago seems like a chapter of bedlam in the retrospect It failed then to command the sympathetic re- spect of impartial witnesses who were able to compare the proceedings in the republican con- vention of 1912 with the doings of previous na- tional conventions of which Mr. Roosevelt wholly apgroved. That which had seemed right and in order when Roostvelt was the beneficlary'beun;e disorder and wrong when Taft was to gain by it. Men in politics are but children of a larger growth, and angry children lose their perspective and employ intemperate language. Excellent men and women unversed in politics accepted at face value shrill and bitter denunciations long con- tinued. They looked on Colonel Roosevelt as an angel of light and came to regard President Taft as in league with all the forces of evil in Ameri- can politics. Men of emotional temperament reveled .in such attack and imagined themselves filled with light. Happily that period of obscured understanding is to pass, and good sense must have its place this year. It is good to see that no voice is now raised in a;ly tLuarter to impeach the righteousness of the Hughes nomination. None can be outside of an insane asylum. Every body agrees that the convention which nominated this year’s repub- lican candidate was controlled by the' delegates, that the demand for the nomination which was made came from the people of all sections of the country, that the delegates as a whole stood their ground and worked their will despite the favorite sons and the desires of once powerful leaders. More than this, the Hughes tide, that rose from the mass of republicans, submerged the organized and amply financed Roosevelt movement, until the man who sought the nomination in two con- ventions was overwhelmed by those who were for the man who did not want it, and who did every- thing in his power to keep it away. Here we have a remarkable political spectacle, and a very re- assuring one, ! ,The American people are not to be stampeded this year. This has been demonstrated in the midst of the mighty world disturbance calculated to upset the nerves of our people and to make them responsive to the sort of "apreal that was made in behalf of Colonel Roosevelt as the only possible savior for this nation. Not all of us have realized how much of a test of the national tem- per was involved in the contest which culminated in the action of the Chicago convention. The United States is not ready to be rushed into the fray, though we all sec, as we have seen all along, the possibility that this country may be drawn into some phase of it. It has been decreed that whatever the issue of the November election may be this country is to have careful leadership. The shouting and the din of appeal and denunciation had their run and died down, and the result is to show that the type of president desired this {\e’ar is expressed in Charles E. Hughes and oodrow Wilson, The country was besought to express itself in terms of Roosevelt, and it re- fused. . It is fair to draw from this. result the deduc- tion that the people desire to'see our nation kept sane in_this period of amazing international tur- moil. Somewhere there must be a measure of re- straint, coupled with a helpful purpose toward those whp are in the midst of bloody contention and infinite distress. One of the two men is to be elected after a campaign that will be keyed less to hi"ltena than to reason. The result in Chicago has determined the character of the campaign, and that for good.. It is to be a decent political contest, one more of argument than of mere denunciation, such as leaves room for the g}:j of thought and good sense. For this every- ly who loves his country has reason to be grateful. It opens the way to the manner of campaigning that befits the seriousness of the times, Twice Told Tales Both Had Jobs. Mayor Curley of Boston was joked about the pre-eminence of Irishmen in public life. “That's perfctly true; we always get to the top,” answered Mr. Curley. “An example of this came to my attention a few years ago, when I was making a trip through Minnesota. I came to a small town in the northern part of the state. One _llnc_e at the signs on the stores showed that Scan inavians predominated. Johnson, Nelson, Gustavson, Hillberg, Olson and like names were all that I could see. “Any vlmh\_[;. “‘There ban none,’ he said. “‘Any Italians? i No, he answered. 4 ‘And no Irishmen, either, I suppose?’ I added. ‘O yaas, there ban two Irishers in town,’ came the l:erly. ‘One he ban mayor and the other he ban chief of police.' "—San Francisco Star. .. A Family Secret. In explaining the sources of food supplies and the refining processes preceding their appearance on the table, the teacher asked how coffee was prepared. The youngster to whom she put the question said he couldn't tell. “Not after all this talk?” she said. “I am sur- pflted at you. Aqd you a grocer’s son, too!” wr M you please.” said the boy in self-vindication, T do know, but I mustn’t tell. 1t's a trade secret, !rqd father would whip me if T told."—New York imes, . No Difficulty on That Score. An old negro mammy who was addicted to the pipe was being lectured on the habit by a Sun- dly“lchool teacher, Finally the latter said: Do you expect to go to heaven?” Bt the Bible s “But the Bible says nothing unclean shall there. Now the breath of thg smoker is uncfi::;r What do you say to that?” ' ‘:Wdell,"l reck&n III;lve ma bref behin' when I enter dar,” was the old mammy’s re ? . ton Transcript. i by i _—'Bos A Good Campaign. They are telling a story about Representative Gardner and his fervent preparedness campaign. It n:m: that a beggin tramp‘ aj proacge?ul group of congressmen, and one of them poi out iqr-}?lrd:el; :nhd i W e “Nothing doing here, Weary; but that gentle- man there ¥n very chur}nble, and if you ‘uc'llfe him %ou'll be apt to make a haul." “T'anks, boss,” said the tramp, huskily, and he hurried to Mr, Gardner, while the others looked on with interest. The tramp and the statesmen were seen to 3“‘ earnestly together for some timd. Then eir hands met—a piece of money plainly passed between them—and the tramp stepped Jauntly " Well, did you tand him? ell, you lan o “kzg‘u:.:hnmp. im a congressman 0," the tramp answered, cheerfully, *“No; I gave him a quarter towards his |plenydid }::: tional preparedness campaign.”—Washington ’ Germans here?’ I asked the man I was. i iy , S AR, HE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1916. Mare About Road Bonds. Omaha, June 18.—To the Editor of The Bee: In The Bee's Letter Box about & month ago was published under the caption of “Those Road Paving Bonds” a very interest- ing letter from C. E. Walsh, Reference was made to the recent election, when the propo- sition to issue bonds in the sum of $1,500,- 000 was carried by a majority of but 313 in the 26,317 votes cast on the proposition, according to the county official notice, duly published. Mz, Walsh cited the county at- torney's opinion that a majority of the votes cast is sufficient, although a common im- pression is that & two-thirds vote is neces- sary to carry a bond proposition. He also lamented the custom of all voters being eligible, for bond elections and suggests means of relief. In The Bee's Letter Box on June 12, C. L. Nethaway of Florence, writing under the heading of “Good Roads Bonds,” regrets that the Real Estate exchange intends to | contest the issuing of the bonds, and sug- gests that instead a committee be appointed (presumably by the Real Estate exchange) to watch the county board lest it combine with the paving contractors for inferior con- struction, and he appears content that the fear of injunction will insure “the good rosds which the people have voted for and are entitled to.” It is the hope of many good citizens that the movement by the Real Estate exchange to stop the issuing of. the bonds will be sue- cessful. This bond scheme, which at the outset had only the half-hearted support of many organizations and improvement clubs, was on the eve of election repudiated by the most of them, who reversed their position and openly opposed the bonds. This action, accounts in a measure for the unusually small vote for the bonds, it being 50 3-5 (.508) per cent, or a gain of but one in eighty-four votes. The Real Estate exchange will probably contend that the bond proposition was not carrled as it had not a majority of the votes polled at the election, there having been more not voting on the proposition than the majority voting for it. There is a general belief that all citizens are entitled to vote on any question and that there shall be no restrictions to property, in- come or education, and there is as well among & great many the conviction that it is a wise provision which makes & two-thirds vote necessary to carry a bond proposition. It the law is that bond propositions to carry require but s majority of either all . votes of the election or votes on the propo- sition, it would seem that an election is idle, for what scheme to spend money would not earry on that basis in Douglas county, with its large preponderence of non-tax-paying voters 1 The careless ignorance of most voters is clearly proven by this bond .election and should the issue be stopped and the proposi- tion submitted again, it is to be hoped that the press and our political leaders will do their plain duty to the people by instructing the voters on the question. There is a disposition amongst taxpayers that we have good roads everywhere and splendid roads on the main thoroughfares, but there is along with v the wish that we have them at the minimum of cost, and, as well, & distrust that the recent bond proposi- tion would not insure those conditions, nor would the assistance of Mr. Nethaway's committee bring them. Whether or not this bonds proposition was a mistake is not ques- tioned in this communication. The present need is to stop the issue of the bonds and the warrant for such protest is that the true will of the people was not expressed in the election, T. B. E. The Unidentified Donot. Omahs, June 17.—To the Editor of The Bee: Among the pages of paid advertising in the 1916 annual of Commerce, the pub- lication of the High School of Commerce, there is in one page, paid for by some buei- s i lank the words, “Best Re- That may mean very~ who. are not acquainted with itude of the Retail Merchants’ g in achool pub- who are. acquainted lications; but to the with it, it means much. Few people realize the amount of thank- less work necessary to solicit enough adver- tising to practically finance a monthly pub- lication, even though it is “school work.” The Board of Education, although encour- aging to a certain extent the issuing of a monthly paper representative of the school, its activities and its students, does not, un- less a change in rules has been made very recently, subscribe any money for the work. The few students elected to the business department of the paper are required to go out and meet business men..of experience, convince them of the merits of their paper (and there are merits, such as returns from advertising, though perhaps not quite so good as from other mans of advertising, as the business man knows) and “get an ad." The average business man, so engrossed in “financial matching for gain,” can see noth- ing but the “returns” side of the proposi- tion. (I do mot want to be thought of as saying that advertising returns in a school paper are of a high per cent, but there are *returns, big returns for some classes of ad- vertisers.) Yet these few students must meet the great opposition of experience and & certain amount of prejudice to the extent of getting on an average of $75 to $100 a month in advertising to cover the costs of printing, ete., alone. That is why I say that this litte incident means much.. It shows that somewhere in Omaha is & ‘man who is a little broader minded, & little kinder hearted than a num. ber of business men; it means that there is one man in business who can see the human side of life to the extent of donating about $8 to a cause meriting his little sacrifice. Without faintest ides as to the iden- tity of the gentleman who so kindly donated the blank nd asked not even the credit of his name, let me call attention to his little act. MELVERN L. LYCKHOLM, Editor Commercs, 1913-14. TIPS ON HOME TOPICS. Detroit Free Press: The republican party has now begun the business of making that one-term plank in the democratic platform of four years ago mean something. Boston Transcript: Senator Stone's ides of winning a democratic victory is to have the conatitution amended prohibiting repub- licans from becoming president. Indisnapolis News: It is easy enough to see how United States diplomats abroad need more money to meet the increasing cost of living. So do lots of other people. Cleveland Plain Dealer: A lady member of the Ford peace party has just been granted a divorce and big alimony. Friend husband, who did not contest, appears to be a peace party also. Indianapolls News: Those historians who are asserting that Mr. Fairbanks is the first man who has been renominated for vice president a second time since Hendricks ap- pear to have forgotten all about the late James Schooleraft Sherman: Louisville Courier-Journal: Henry Ford wisely declares that he will have nothing tc do with & third ticket presidential campaign. He may have been taking counsel with | George W. Perkins, who would say feelingly |- that a steam yacht is a ot chaper and al- most as exciting. Baltimore American: The democratic rainbow chasers are laboring under diffi- culties just now about slogans, explanations, theories that have not already been busted and a few other campaign outfittings that ! are urgently needful. They are even trying | to work out a scheme whereby wartime | prosperity may be put over as a resuitant of the demoeratic tariff. - ¢ Springfield Republican: “It was wot, by accident,” says President Wilson, “that the present great war eame in Europe. That may seem to pro-Germans ‘like an acensa. | tion of the kaiser, but sgain the president gives “one blow on the hoop and one on the cask,” as pope says. “Every ele. ment,” he says, there, and the conteit That seems once more to put it, if mot into the cate- gory of sccidents, at least with the “irre. sponsible conflicts” for which nobody can | be held to blame. LINES TO A LAUGH. “Women like to return stuff.” “Some of them do,” said the preacher. “Only the other day a lady I married two years ago brought her husband back and sald he didn't oult."—Louisville Courler- Journal. X “I don't think I deserve zero on this ex- amination,” said the pupil, as he took his geometry papers. “No, T do not either, John, but that the lowest I could give you,” said th teacher.—Christian Herald. “So you think women ought to take an active part in politica?” “Yes,” replied Mr. Meekton. “If anything goes wrong with the country I dow’t want Henrfetta to be in & position to blame me for it."—Washington Star. = GIRYEH CoNen ) »aw HELL YHINK YOURE KIDDING HIM ! “My cook can't bear to have anybody in ;ha kitchen with her when she is making read.” “That's odd. You'd suppose she'd like to have some one with her In her hour of knead.”—Baltimore American. The judge looked over at the prisomer and sald: “You are privileged to challenge any member of. the jury now being impaneled.” Hogan brightened. “Well, thin,” he said, “yer Honor, Of'll foight the shmall mon wid wan eye, in the corner there fornist ye."— Life. “Did you know there was a sudden rise the other day in gas and real estate?” “No; how was that?" “A gas pipe hlew up and took part of the street with it."—Baltimore American. ine agent rang the bell. isy and viclous-looking The sewing bulldog assisted in opening the door. The dog stood his ground. The agent retreated slightly. “Will that dog bite?" he asked. “We don't quite know yet,” the lady said. “We have only just got him. But wa are trying him on strangers. Won't you come in?"—New York Times. Bess—Jack fairly takes my breath away sometimes! Tess—Yes, he used to kiss me that way once.—Judge. Sne—Now that you've got a raise of sixty a month, Tom, we can afford & more ex- pensive flat. He—But we're very comfortable here. How would it do it. I ask the landlord to raise our rent?—Boston Transcript. WEATHER OF THE SOUL. Bliss Carmen. There is & world of being ‘Wae range from pole to pole, Through seasons of the spirit And weather of the soul. - It has'its new-born Aprils, With gladness in the air, Its golden Junes of rapture, Its winters of despair. And in its tranquil autumns We halt to re-enforce Our tattered scarlet pennons With valor and resource. From undiscovered regions Only the angels know, Great winds of aspiration Perpetually blow. To_{free the sap of impulse From torpor of distrust, And into flowers of joyance Quicken the sentient dust. >m nowhere of a sudden m sudden clouds of fault, With thunders of oppression And lightnings of revolt. ‘With hush of apprehension And quaking of the heart, There breed the storms of anger, And floods of sorrow start. And thera shall fall—how gentlyle= To make them fertile yet, The rain of absolution. On acres of regret. ‘Till snows of mercy cover The dream that shall come trus, ‘When time makes all things wondrous, And life makes all things new. Clark Near Jackson Boulevard The Hotel Success of Chicago YOU'R busy day in Chicago can best be ed from the New Kaiserhof. The hotel’s excellent service, its convenience for the quick transaction of business, its proximi to theatres, shops and public buildings make it the &C&l head fora crowded day. 450 Rooms $1.50 up With : Bath $2.00 up Earlier Arrival in Chicago of “Pacific Limited” Effective Sunday, June 18th, *The Pacific Limited,” leaving Omaha at 7:50 p. m., will arrive Chicago at 8:50 a. me Two Other Daily Trains to Chicago No. 6, leaving Omaha at 6:05 p. m,, arriving Chicago at 8:10 a. m. No. 12, leaving Omaha at 7:10 a.m., arriving Chicago at 9:05 p. m. 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