Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 12, 1916, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR ma connuv “PROPRIETOR. “Entered at Omaha postoffice av second-class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. IEMITI'ANCE. y draft, express or postal order. Only 2-cent stamps "y.'fi! of small accounts. ersonal cheekns, and eastern exchal OFFICES. Omain—The Bee Building. & Omaha—2818 N street. meil Bluffa—14 North Main street. Lincoln—826 Little Suilding. 9 ll People's Gn Building. 803, 2 Fiflh avenue. % hnh—-l" New fl-nk ul Commerce. 'ashington—126 Fourteenth street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. A“nu eommunieations relating to news and editorial to Omaha Bee, Editoris] %mrhmu. JUNE CIRCULATION 87,957 Daily—Sunday 52,877 0 Williams, circulation manager of The Bee mp-ny being duly um-b says that the w‘-gnh for the month of June, 1916, was M ll 877 Bunday. HT ‘WILLIAMS, Cireulation Manager. presence uam o :’u FERI acme e of July, (OBERT HUNTER, Notary Publie. _ Subseribers leaving the city u-'ouvAlI! should have The Bee mailed to them. g . dyess will be changed as often as requested. . Still that new federal inheritance tax won't touch so many of us. ' — The Deutschland shows the way to make ;;bhchdn running easy. -3 Perhaps while the ve!ermmuu are here, they .tm tell us what ails our South Omaha horse j-lrlut. \ ' Demecracy’s somersault on protection is not _wery surprising in view of the numerous fat jobs sorely in need of protection. ETE————— That prohibition argument has only reached .point of the preacher debaters each calling !hc other a liar. The worst is yet to come! SeEm————— ‘ Necessity is a mighty spur to energy. A (awmi cleanup is on in New York in conse- “quence of the prevalence of infantile paralysis. S——— © The achievement of the German merchant submarine, among other things, sends a choice lot sea power textbooks to the literary boneyard. Y cnp————— These are the days when the temptation to to drivers to speed up is strong and, therefore, t be resisted with all the more determination. / — " | The Nebraska victim of the Gary wire tappers | paid a high price for the experience, The one sure “'road to riches is Nebraska land. The longer one sticks to it the safer it is. ’§ If the report that Villa and his army are '.‘yfllrchhl north, the demobilization of troops or- by the commander of Sonora takes high k as a llh-nvmg measure. — If Germany can submarine a :onugnment of tuffs to the United States, can it take back cargo ‘of war munitions? If so, another of our wordy dnhm may settle itself. —— The solicitude of our democratic friends for the perpetuation of the progressive party organi- zation is really distressing. They know that re. ;r‘lkll reunion means certain democratic defeat. & President Wlllon insists the democratic party i as much the friend of business as is the re- can party. The best of democratic inten- however, have always hlle? far short in that the prohibitionists mll march to the Is to the music of “Oh, How Dry I am.” Gen- e prohibitionists are not built that way. pm——— A record wheat crop is moving to the thresh- and corn ‘responds gloriously to the stimulus of July heat. The combination of right tempera- and Nebraska soil promise a bumper contri- ion of the staff of life to a warring world, : e— i Hwin. frittered away nearly three years and ffill. the democrats in congress are now in a ic hucry to establish a nonpartisan tariff ission on the eve of a presidential election. 'onder if they realize they are {ooling nobody themselves? mrm—— _Ilcm\m of the city commission, county board, board and water board ought to have been ’lllod to put in a term of service at the rer’s office during the rush days to pay tax fore delinquency. They would have heard that would make them go slower in ting the tax levy, ee— Lest the public forget in midsummer that ter will come around on schedule time, the barons have lifted the July price 10 cents, message will not disturb the mercury just 3 . - Its mission is to distribute heat later on. F&Qt line the barons shine. In years gone by Lloyd George was the most pared and hated of British liberals. In the tory d the Welshman appeared a veritable political g, combining the menace of socialistic doc- res with contemptuous disrespect for aristoc- ‘and hereditary privilege. Today the ogre _other days is the man of power in a crisis, j‘dfl of leaders, whose will to dare and do sformed . pohdcll enemies into obedient fol- ‘His career is a notable instance of native ‘overcoming all obstacles to place and Devonshire, who is to succeed the t as {ovmor-nueul of Can- e 'ult mt of c , OWning 00 acres e d and Ire- oum. hu become one d‘ e unf -w.' e bhiond ltndl six f::'t, ‘3‘“ un e wla’: to an lt:l- years ago. THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JULY Problem of the Submarine Merchantman. The Entente Allies are making formal protest against recognition by this government of the submersible merchantman. This natural move- ment is taking for its basis a purely technicaliob- jection, and one that lacks the support of logic. It is argued that a submarine is potentially, if not essentially, a warship; therefore all submersible vessels must be excluded from immunity as mer- chantmen. To carry this out to its reasonable conclusion, all vessels are potential warships, therefore none are entitled to be listed as innocent craft. Furthermore, the United States very recently determined a dispute in favor of the right of mer- chantmen to carry arms for defense against at- tack. This principle is capable of easy extension to the submarine, giving it the right to dive to elude pursuit. As to the right of a vessel to change its character at sea, a difference of opin- ion exists that is not easy to settle. Germany claims that right, and exercised it at the beginning of the war, changing a number of passenger boats into commerce-destroyers. Other great powers, including the United States, object to the prac- tice. The Deutschland came peacefully on a peace- ful mission, and is said to be but the first of a considerable fleet to engage in overseas traffic. It is a new note in warfare, for it does, to quote Captain Koenig, “unlock the seas.” A blockade can scarcely be maintained so long as these ves- sels are in service. Therefore, the British are especially concerned in the protest lodged. A more interesting feature will be the cargo to be carried back to Germany. The United States has specifically engaged not to re-export rubber sent us from British possessions. Private firms have similarly agreed not to export nickel brought in from Canada. Germany particularly wants nickel and rubber. If the Deutschland is loaded with these staples, the supply of the United States will be cut off. The greater part of our nickel comes from Canada, and more than 60 per cent of the world's rubber supply is provided by the British plantations around Singapore. S Hot Weather in the City Council. It is too bad that business affairs of the city must be made to suffer because of the climatic conditions now prevailing. Omaha is not respon- sible for the vagarious condyct of the weather man and it's bad enough to have to put up with the meteorological freaks that have been visited on us lately . Our trials are not to end with this, however, for the democratic brethren of the city commission have seized this as the proper mo- ment to stir up things among themselves, With- out regard to the merits of the controversy in any of its angles, dips or spurs. The Bee sug- gests that perhaps Mr. Butler was right when he made the statement that the city ought-to take advice of its corporaion counsel, or get one who can be trusted. And we feel positive that Mr. Butler was right in asking that the appropriation of $70,000 for additional motor equipment for fire department uses be held over for a little while. Omaha is not suffering because of short- age in fire fighting apparatus, although it yet has in service a few horse.drawn hose carts and hook and ladder trucks. As to the “welcome” arch, two opinions no longer exist, the mayor to the contrary notwithstanding. It was a mistake in the beginning, and has degenerated into a joke, a disfigurement, and threatens to become a nui- sance, If the weather were a little less like the sort Kansas City revels in, The Bee would urge Messrs. Dahlman and Butler to keep it up, not only for the good of their souls, but to the end that the people might get interested and some real reforms be accomplished. me—— Thrift, Insurance and Pensions. Some impressive, if not actually startling, statements have been made lately, under condi- tions that bring them to the thoughtful with more ‘than normal conviction. The Carnegie foundation, in announcing a new plan for a com- bination of insurance with its teacher's pension, touches one of the regrettable characteristics of the American nation. A professor, the founda. tion report states, will cling to a place that pays him $1,200 rather than change to one of $1,500 salary because the smaller paid position carries with it the promise of a pension at the end of thirty years’' service. He does not realize that the difference in salary will pay for a support much greater than the pension provides. It is also set out that the increase in pay does not lead to a continuation of the thrift that would make the desired condition possible. At the meeting of the National Educational association in New York a speaker stated that “thirty-five out of every 100 widows find them- selves in absolute want and only eighteen find themselves in circumstances that could be called comfortable.” How accurate these figures are cannot be said, but if they are only approxi- mately correct, they constitute a terrible indict- ment of Americans as a people. It is a result of curelessness, inexcusable because so many ways of avoiding this state are open to the husbands. Compulsory insurance is drastic, but it has its advocates, and it may be questioned if the state, which can compel a man to look after his family while living, may not also compel him to make some provision for the care of wife and children after his death, ' The Carnegie foundation plan amounts to term insurance for prospective beneficiaries of the pension, the cost to be met by centributions from the insured and from the institutions where they are engaged. This may be a step leading to state insurance, but it has the attraction of point- ing a way that will render widowhood less deso- late, Conservation in the Concrete. A veterinarian from Missouri, speaking to the convention in session here, says that if Ne- braska had had a county veterinarian in every county last year he could have saved swine growers $900,000. Whether the doctor's figures are accurate or not, his statement is significant of the economic waste ever present under our ex- isting system, or rather lack of system, and against which we make little or no effort. Con- servation, expressed in simple terms, means to safeguard against not only loss by reason of swine pluue, but from any preventable source. Gath- erings of learned men are continually preaching to ug of the need of Better ways, but we are very slow to adopt them. It is not because we lack intelligence, but for some reason, difficult td de- fine,' we' do' not heed lessons so plain as that taught the farmer in his experience with disease among his animals. Unwillingness to adopt bet- ter ways of doing things ought not to subject us to the tremendous economic logs involved, but what Moses is to lead us into the improvement? ODAY Thought Nu, (et for the Day. Wisdom wells in blue skles and broad sun- shine and the wide hills and the infinite waters; in peace of mind, freedom, ownership of the earth, He is povert stricken who is so absorbed in the one little enc{osure that he loses his grasp on the bending universe which is his most splen- did possession.—Gail Hamilton. One Year Ago Today in the War, French and British advanced in Gallipoli. Italians drove Austrians out of entrenchments in Carnia. Severe artillery combats repnned throughout the western war arena, Russians repulsed Teutonic assaults near Kho- line, 130 miles southeast of Warsaw. This Day in Omaha Thirty Years Ago. Prof. J. L. Worley, who has been in the em- loy of the Omaha Commercial college for the Fst three years, has been re-employed for a term of three years longer. W. J."Burnham was called home from New York, where he was on legal business, by the illness of his small son, Horace. F. N. Warner, salesman for J. Oberfelder & Co., has left for Louisville for a month's vacation. The best creamery butter is advertised at 20 cents a pound, while fresh eggs bring 10 cents a dozen. George Armstrong and family, Mr. G. Hor- ton, secretary to the general freight agent of the B. & M., and Stockton Heath have gone to Spirit Lake. Rev. J. W. Harris, pastor of the Baptist church, has left for his summer vacation in Rochester, N. Y. In the land office department of the Union Pacific, Kennedy and Bandollet have retired and three new men, Dr. J. M. Woodburn, C. E. Want- land and R. C. McClure, have stepped in to fill vacancies. Today in History. 1806—League of Germanic states formed by Napoleon, 1831—Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg ac- cepted the Belgian crown. 1859—The emperors of Austria and France met at Villa Franca and agreed upon prelimin- um of peace. 1864—The confederates under General Jubal Early, attacked Fort Stevens, six miles north of Washington, 1867—Sultan of Turkey arrived in England on a visit to Queen Victoria. 1870—Admiral John A. Dahlgren, who in- vented a system of ordnance that still bears his name, died in Washington. Born in Philadel- phia, November 13, 1 1892—Cyrus W. Fleld projector of the ocean telegraph, died at Ardsley. N. Y. Born at Stock- bridge, Mass., November 30, 1819. 2—England welcomed "Lord Kitchener on his return. from South Africa. 1912—The national prohibition convention in session at Atlantic City nominated Eugene W. Chafin of Illinois for president. This Is the Day We Celebrate, John J. Kaspar of the Kaspar Realty com- pany, was born July 12, 1855, He is an active son of Omaha and served in the First Nebraska, He studied at the University of Nebraska and did his first work as structural engineer for the Cambria Steel company of Johnston, Pa. David D. M:ller was born July 12, 1852, at Lansingburg, N. He was with the Omaha Carpet company for fifteen years and president and treasurer of the Miller,” Stewart & Beaton company, afterwards becoming vice president of the Home Furnitute company of South Omaha. L. A. Ellis, ;;nh the Lee-Coit-Andreesen Hardware company, is celebrating his sixty-sixth birthday today. He entered the hardware busi- ness in Cipcinnati in 1870, coming to Omaha in 1884, and has been with his present employers (hlny one years, Ray Gould, who is the son in the firm of F. P, Gould & Son, building contractors, is an Omaha boy 34 years old today. Major General Sir John G, Maxwell com- manding the British forces in Ireland, born fifty- seven years ago today. Sir William Osler, formerly of Johns Hopkins university, now professor of medicine in Oxford, university, born at Bond Head, Canada, sixty- seven years ago todA{ Newell Sanders, former United States sena- tor from Tennessee, born in Owen county, In- diana, sixty-six years ago today. Jeter C. Pritchard, former senator from North Carolina, now a judge of the United States cir- euit court, born at Jonesboro, Tenn,, fifty-nine years ago today. George Eastman, millionaire inventor and maufacturer of the kodak camera, born at Water- ville, N. Y., sixty-two years ago today. Lee Meadows, pitcher for the St. Louis Na- tional league base ball club, born at Oxford, N. C,, twenty-two years ago today. Where They All Are Now. H. L. (Bert) Fowler, formerly an Omaha newspaper man, is with the Chicago Journal, Ernest James is now with the Chicago Post. He will be remembered as a successful advertis- ing man here, who went to the town by the lakes to show Chicagoans a few things about the advertising game. H. J. Gonden, city editor of The Bee in days one by, is editor and publisher of “Public ervice,” at Chicago. “Bob” Peattie, another old-time Omaha news- paper man, i with the Chicago Tribune. Thomas J. Kelly and Mrs. Kelly are living at the Virginia in Chicago. They have a studio in the Fine Arts building. The Kellys were recently foremost in the advancement of music in Omaha, Timely Jottings and Reminders. Today is Orangemen’s day, the anniversary of the battle of the Boyne. Democrats of Iowa hold their state conven- tion today at Des Moines. The nineteenth annual national optometrical congress will begin its sessions today at Provi- dence, R, I. United States Senator Harding and former Governor Herrick of Ohio are scheduled to ad- dness the convention of the National Hay asso- ciation today at Cedar Point, O. Delegates from all parts of the United States and Canada will assemble today at Halifax for the annual convention of the North American division of the Sons of Temperance. Three-fourths of the area embraced in the Dixie national forest in Arizona is to become sub- ject to homestead settlement today by proclama- tion of the president, The ninth annual encampment of the United Spanish War Veterans, department of Kansas, is to be entertained at Emporia during the three days begmmn1 today. he annual state convention of the Rural Lener Carriers' -association of Iowa is to open at Cedar Rapids tod Ii / An old home week reunion and banquet are to be held at Montpelier today in commemmora- tion of the one hundred and twenty-fifth anni- versary of Vermont's admission to the union, The so-called conservative republicans of Wisconsin are to meet at Madison today to name a state ticket and endorse the national ticket. Simultancously the democrats are to held their mte convention at Milwaukee. A training camp for medical men is to be established at Plattsburg today for the instruc- tion of physicians and surgeons in camp sanita- tion, military hygiene and first-aid worl “r 1916. Position of the Street Railway Company. Omaha, July 11.—To the Editor of The Bee: Perhaps & plain statement of the facts may be in order in connection with the recent action of the city council grant- ing to the Omaha and Council Blufts Street Railway company a permit to construct street car tracks on North Twenty-fourth street along the east side of Miller park and through the Minnelusa addition. The building of this extension will not in any manner increase the earnings of the street railway company. Like all new extensions which have been made by this company during the last ten years, this will cost a large sum and will add to the expense of operation, but will produce no additional in- come. From a selfish’ standpoint the street railway company would be much better off if they did not make this or other exten- sions of their lines. The company gets the business now, the benefit in new exten- sions accrues entirely to the property own- ers along the way. They add value to the real estate and bring transportation facilities to the doors of those who now are obliged to walk several blocks. The people living in the north end of the city petitioned to have the North Twen- ty-fourth street line extended. The street railway eompany, recognizing its obligation to the city, and regardless of its financial | interests, decided to build the extension and asked for a permit to open the street in the same manner as other permits have been requested for extensions that have been built for the last twenty years or more, but the city attorney came forward with the sug- gestion that in granting this particlar permit the street railway company should be ebliged to practically admit and acknowledge by ac- cepting it that they had no franchise rights on the streets of the city of Omaha. The first preamble of the resolution drawn by him reads as follows: ‘“Whereas there is some question as to the extent of the right of the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway company to occupy the streets of the city or to extend its road for that pur- pose, ete.” The attorney for the street railway com- pany advised the officers not to accept this permit. The matter became involved in legal discussions, and those desiring the exten- sion were about to lose it, on account of these hair-splitting technicalities. railway attorney and its geneyal manager were instructed to accept any solution of the matter that would not waive or imperil any of the present rights of the street railway company, at the same time to ask nothing from the city that would in any manner affect its rights regarding the street railway company's franchises. The solutio s final. ly reached by the resolution pa by the city council on July 6, in which, ny fair- minded man will read carefully, he cannot help but see that the rights of the city have been in every manner fully protected. This resolution reads as follows: ‘‘Whereas, Omaha and Council Bluffs Strest Rallway company has requested a permit to extend its double track of said rallway from thelr present terminus on North Twenty-fourth street from Kansas avenus to Ida street, therefore, Be It Resolved by the City Council of the City of Omaha: That said permit be granted subject to the condition that the granting of sald per- mit shall be without prejudice to the rights of or work as an estoppel against the city of Omaha to hereafter question' the franchise of the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Rallway company to extend or operate its street raflway lines upon that part of the street named in sald permit.” The insinustion of some of the agitators who have been stirring up this subject, that the street railway company has sought or is in any manner seeking to fortify its rights or take any undue advantage of the city by the building of this extension, is so pre- posterous and false that it meeds no com- ment, ‘The officers of the street railway company have tried in every way to be patient during the almost continual attacks by irrespon- sible agitators for years past. Recently these attacks have been the cause of great finan. 1 The street they have stopped the sale of street railway securities and have materislly impaired the credit of the company. While there is not the least foundation for the statement that the city is about to take away from the company a large part of its property, yet this statement, given credence by news- papers and official acts, has been sufficient to alarm security holders to such an extent that the stocks and bonds have depreciated in value No good and much harm can be accomplished by the continual agitation of this subject. The agitators cannot construct a sf foot of street car tracks in this city; they may be able to prevent the street car company from constructing any tracks for many years to come. G. W. WATTLES. EDITORIAL SIFTINGS. Pittsburgh Dispatch: The Prohibitionists have adopted the camel as their party em- blem. May they never forget it, but have they found out how much a camel drinks afte his eight days of thirst? : The bit of “pork” to is threatened. amendment to the agricultural appropriation bill striking out the provision for free seeds. popular thought that the news comes as a shock. Chicago Herald: For the first time in the twenty-three years of its history, the Anti- Saloon League of America has declared for woman's suffrage, according to a dispatch from Indianapolis. Naturally, Everybody's doing it. Now that the two great parties have indorsed the principle and set the band wagon going at full speed, the efforts to get in it will no doubt grow more and more animated. Philadelphia Ledger: Lest we forget that there are millions in Mexico who have no heart or hand in the militant resentment of the gringo's pres: u. the dispatches come parts of the ummy describing the starving women and children as pleading for hand- fuls of corn to make tortillas, the little cakes which are the chief subsistence of many of the natives. When the -soldiers beat them back with such violence that they have to be sent to the hospital, no doubt they consider themselves fortunate, for there they get something to eat. Brooklyn Eagle: Instead of th ing the job, the job now is the man, and the jobs far men. There are few periods in the history of the gountry when labor was in such de- mand. “Unskilled workers command fancy wages, while the pay of skilled labor is soar- ing. The man who performs the most or- dinary task how receives not so long ago would ha workman, This is a pr by every token business be bad; but, instead, it is generally good, and prices are going sky high. \ A CAUTIOUS REPLY. Philander Johnson In Washington Star. Dac Bnu‘-‘y kep' 80 quiet fur so long a space o time We natchelly decided he was thinkia' thoughts sublime. An' we waited fur the day vhou his con- clusions would be hea: He seomed right glad to see lu. "but be never sald a word. Our feell; grew impatient as the time kep' driftin’ past. His mind seemed ltke an egg which surely ought to hatch at last. 8o, umuy wc broke right in upon his peace An' 3 Do be YOII lhlnlln?" An' he id, “I hope I a says doc, "the human mind ain't your good right arm That is subject altogether to your -lll fur good and harm. It's got to keep a workin'—aven dreamin' through the night: But thought depends upon it's workin' ab- eolutely right. The mind that moves ts language at a pace that can't bs slowed Is Uke a motor, racin’, not hitched up to | any load. You musy not regard my sllence as In- difference or rest, 1t you ask we if lm thinkin'—I'm a-doin’ of my best. OMAHAS LARGECASH FURNITURE STORE s (513-1515 HOWARD ST, === Will Save YouMencey —— There$ A Reasen: § Our l’Everyday Low Prices on Dining Room urniture Are Especially Attractive This Week. The wdmugu awaiting every one needing a dining room § suite or any pieces for the dmmg room are greater right now than at any time since our opening. A heavy car of Buffets, Tables and Chairs is today being placed on our floors, from the Big Storage House Purchase. Every piece of this shipment is of the best style, finish and construction. BUFFETS Big heavy colonial styles, Quartered Oak, $16.75, $17.25 $21.75 and These Buffets are from the best makers. Every detail of construction and finish is of the highest class. 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