Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 3, 1916, Page 4

b 4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR “THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR. "Entered at Omaha postoffice s sacond-class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. » By Carrier By Mail per month per year, h and Sunday +. 88 6.00 s without Sunday. 45 e m{u :1&& Sung-va bhgud o o 20¢. 2.00 day Bee onl X jly and Sunday Bee, three yeprs in advance, $10.00. I notice of G{lnl! of address or irregularity in de- very to Omaha Bee, Circulation Department. i REMITTANCE. i by draft, express or postal order. Only 2-cent stamps L en in payment of small accounts. Personal checks, E—”—‘ on aha and eastern exchange, not accepted. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Building. Bouth Omaha—2818 N street. Bluffs—14 North Main street. —B26 Little Building, 818 People’s Gas Building. New York—Room 803, 286 Fifth avenue, 8t. Louls—5608 New Bank of Commerce. Washington—726 Fourteenth street, N. W. i CORRESPONDENCE. ' Address communications relating to mews and editorial i3 matter to Omsha Bee, Editorial Department. JUNE CIRCULATION. 57,957 Daily—Sunday 52,877 Dwight Willlams, cireulation manager of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the nvm'n cireulation for the month of June, 1916, was 87,967 daily and 52,877 Sund:'y. DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. in my presence and sworn to before me July, 1018, ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Publie. S st e S Subseribers leaving the city temporaril; should bave The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as requested. B e e Mr. Hughes' shots at the Wilson administra- tion all hit vulnerable spots. That's very evident. Subscribed this 3d day of m—— Considering the fiery ordeal just passed through, King Corn is doing tolerably well, thank you. Running railroad trains by wireless is at least something of an advance over the days when they were run by guess. g Now that the “uplifters” have made their posi- tion: known, let the “sob sisters” tell us theirs, and relieve the suspense. - The president stands pat on the suffrage ques- tion, relegating it to, state’s rights. He does nat dare offend the haughty southerners too far, v — ‘Governor Capper of Kansas draws a renomi-- nation without opposition, showing that a good editor can make good almost anywhere you put . Unfortunately, in most cases it is easy to see, | after it has happened, how the “unavoidable” ac- ‘fid t could have been prevented at but little cost ‘or by slight effort. : T e o \ — ./ Why not turn the postoffice department also - ‘aver to state regulation? And the mational banks, e@mr If:we are going to go back to state sov- i gflpq. let's have it all. - - : With a strong breeze blowing for building a ¥ iew free-for-all Missouri river bridge, the folks 1 w . ! wm: ought to be more y listen to reason. { Ot ‘of the ncthlnf cauldron of the late Hot = spell, it is reassuring to know that Yuma, Atiz, has not been eclipsed by any place that does not start its name with the initial “H.” ) ¢ b 1 . This is not the first time eyes have been strained, looking out to sea between the capes at the entrance to Chesapeake bay. That section of our coastline is historic, if none other is, & L ‘flli recrudescence of the infantile paralysis t’ldmh in New York and the appearance of . ‘scattered cases here and there in this secgion of the country admonish extraordinary precautions. When in doubt, call your doctor without delay. £ S — No politics, of course, in the distribution of ~ those land banks, but our democratic national committeeman insists the desire of the democrats to pliyeven for yielding the federal reserve bank _ to Kansas City's political pull will land this one I g ——p———— On the same theory, if Blair and Papillion should put in applications for that land bank, our Congressman Lobeck would also refuse to cham- pion Omaha's claim with the excuse that he could not take sides for his home town as against other parts of his constituency. i Bert Moses in Newspaperdom. Advertising has been running wild on the bases about as long as reason will tolerate. Cer- things are surely coming to pass, and coming ~soon, Let me tell you what they are: Department mm.rom will be the same as the rates to others, ~ and those rates will be as flat as the bosom of Belinda. Space that an advertiser can buy will be in size. Rates will be higher to offset the tation of space. No advertiser will be per- to give a vulgar exhibition of wealth and uous waste by using more space than is ; to tell the public what he wants it to know. Advertisers will be permitted to freely ex- ‘press their honest opinions about the products _they sell, just as people are permitted to freely ‘express their rehsr:us and political beliefs. It will be recognized that liars kill themselves ¥ quickly than vigilance committees can do ithe job, and thus will such committees fade away tinto the background with Peary and Doc Cook. Simplicity will succeed complexity, sense suc- * ‘ceed sentiment, reason rise superior to sophistry. Business will be encouraged by laws rather than harassed, and it will come to be conceded that men who make laws are not quite so important _to the world as men who make business. Persis- will be taught as the dominating influence in % ing—the one vital thing that gets you to destination. Co-operaion will be given the advertiser in degree he may ask, and the publisher will fltfi the advertiser whatever it costs to give the operation, with possibly a bit added for profit. ertising will pass from the hands of those sell it to th\ou who buy it—that is to say, rtisers themselves' will take control of the hing away from men who are not advertisers. +* Churches are to advertise, and will have to live £o the label Jike the rest of ns if they want adyertising to pay and if they want to avoid complications for false and misleading state- It will be interesting to observe the out- ome on the ‘question of baptism-—whether the 3aptists tell the truth when they advertise immer- or the Presbyterians when they advertise th is being lived a trifie more and talked less, it being now considered somewhat wear a truth label around your neck 0 onesty for bait. Yes, 1:04 reader, from a period of hysteria to an age what I am saying now as a radical conservatism tomorrow. ~ THE BEE, OMAHA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, Here's Another Good One. The first fire drawn by Mr. Hughes' telling arraignment of the democratic administration in his a¢ceptance speech is a broadside of questions prepared at democratic headquarters, but issued as coming from thirty-seven “distinguished Ameri- can writers” in hope of inspiring confidence that the interrogatories spring from an unselfish devo- tion to thérpublic welfare regardless of partisan- ship. Many of the names attached are not in the standard biographical reference books and most of them that are are labelled or known democrats, yet they are made to use this preface in their pronunciamento: The professional writers who signed this letter have small interest in parties but a very deep interest in democracy. It just happens that one of the “distinguished American writers” who is represented as having “small interest in parties,” and whom we happen to know out here very well, has an article dis- cussing a political subject in the current Atlantic Monthly and in this contribution Meredith Nicholson makes this confession for himself: It may not be amiss to say that I am a party man, a democrat; that I voted for Parker in 1904, for Bryan in 1908, and am ‘uflfln‘ enough in local contests to retain my right to vote with a good conscience in primary elec- tions. If the others were as frank as Mr. Nicholson, they would probably have the same story to tell; that instead of having “small interest in parties” they are all deep-dyed enough in democratic par- tisanship to swallow Parker and Bryan with equal complacency and could not be pried loose with a crowbar from Wilson, or from any one else run- ning for president as a democrat, no matter whom the republicans might put up against him. The Railway St Iu_Bl:ufion. The railway trainmen are said to be casting their votes in the wage dispute referendum in overwhelming numbers in favot of a strike. This may be merely the politics of their negotiations with the representatives of the railways as their ethployers or it may reflect a real desire on the part of the trainmen to test their strength by a strike, but the most ardent wish of the vast major- ity of the American people is that the threatened strike be avoided by peaceful settlement regard- less whether any proposed plan of arbitration is more or less acceptable to the railroads or to the railroad men. On the face of it, the claims and counter- ,clli'ml, as presented to the public by the spokes- men for both sides, are contradictory and tech- nical and their justice and fairness would not be established one way or the other by the out- come of a strike, An impartial decision, however, could and would no doubt be had by submittting the issues to the investigation and judgment of a body like the Interstate Commerce commission, conversant from all angles with conditions under ‘which'the railroads are operated. . The trainmen used to condemn the railroads in unmeasured terms when they assumed the high and mighty attitude of having “nothing to arbi- trate.” For the trainmen, themselyes, now to manifest a like unyielding disregard of the rights of the public, to say nothing of the rights of their employers, would put them in the attitude of playing fast and loose with public sympathy and support, which none can afford to lose. Adigu 'to the Deutschland. When Captain Koenig and his crew said “Aufwiedersehn!” to ' the United States, and started on their return voyage, they took with | them the unfeigned interest of the entire nation. No matter what the prejudice or bias of the citi- zen may be, he is open in his expression of ad- miration for this gallant seadog. The sailing of the subsea merchantman was attended by unusual circumstances, chiefly the precautions that would ensure a safe passage for the boat so long as it is in.American waters. Uncle Sam has done his best to keep the Deutschland safe, while under his jurisdiction, and the rest is up to the captain. His seamanship is able, and the next news from him will undoubtedly come from his home port, after he has completed his round trip, and placed his name forever in the annals of the sea as the first to make the voyage with an undersea cargo car- rier, the more remarkable because accomplished in the presence of war. Funston and the Correspondents. General Funston characterizes the majority of writers for newspapers who have sent back stories from the concentration camps along the border as “shameless and conscienceless liars,” and threat- ens to send them away from the presence of the army. The general's indignation is perhaps justi- fied, in a measure at least, for experience has proved that men will exaggerate or invent, while some newspapers- persistently seek that sort of matter for publication. In good time the truth will come out. The last experience of the Ameri- can people with war developed that much that was wrong was covered up by army officers until exposed in print by the newspapers. “Official” re- ports from Europe are such as would almost con- vince one that all the liars are not in the news- paper business, General Funston himself was brought to the front by a newspaper story that was afterwards shown to be mostly fiction. It is not on record that the general ever seriously resented that publication, The irresponsible cor- respondent and the unreliable newspaper are not to be disposed of by executive order. New Jersey's ex-post facto activity in arrest- ing the managers of big transportation companies responsible for the storage of large quantities of explosives contrary to law would ring more nearly true if some of the peace officers who per- mitted the violation of law were included in the warrants. All the responsibility does not rest on the transportation people. e s If those Wilson partisans want specific com- plaints against the federal reserve law, they might address themselves to our democratic senator from Nebraska who bolted his party caucus to voice his objections against many of its provi- sions, though in the end he permitted himself to be whipped into line to vote for it. General Funston should keep in mind that sometimes the best of men dissemble. For ex- ample, we were officially told Funston was sent to Vera Cruz to make Huerta salute the flag, when it now appears the real reason was to keep a Ger- man ship from landing a consignment of ammuni- —————— % If J. Pierpont Morgan, despite his efforts to die poor, had to leave an estate of $78,000,000, it looks rather hopeless for Andrew Carnagie to meet the expectations. he has set for himself. ‘ODAY Thought Nugget for the Day. Kind words, kind looks, kind acts and warm handshakes—these are the means of grace when men in trouble are fighting their unseen battles. —John Hall. One Year Ago Today in the War. Germans claimed gains north of Warsaw and west of Ivangorod, 3 Paris reported failure of German attacks in the Argonne and the Vosges. British won crest of ridge near western shore of Gallipoli peninsula. : British government charged American meat packers with fraud in their claims before prize court. This Day in Omaha Thirty Years Ago. The Board of Trade committee, consisting of Messrs. Max Meyer, J. A. Wakefield, John Evans, Peter Iler and G. W. Nattinger, met at the board rooms in the exposition building to discuss the reception to be given the Nebraska editors. E. J. Edwards, late clerk of the general de- livery ‘window in the postoffice, has accepted a position in Martin’s Installment store. The cedar block paving on Farnam as far out as Twenty-eighth has been completed and that thoroughfare is now open to the public. Brownell hall and site on South Sixteenth has been sold to W. F. Lorenzen for $24,000 and the trustees have decided to build the new Brownell hall building at once. Arthur Rothery received from a friend in New THERE HE 13 ¢ Al the way from K.Y York a Chinese terrier which is the smallest matured dog in the west. 4 Frank Buncher has sold his interest in the real estate agency at 1516 Dodge to Frank H. Mitchell, and the business will hereafter be carried on un- der the name of Stockdale & Mitchell. Mrs. N. B. Falconer has left on a three weeks’ trip to visit her mother, who resides in Denver, while Mr. Falconer leaves for the east on a short business trip. Charles A. Pattergon of the Nebraska & Iowa Insurance company has returned from Canada with his bride. W. H, Bisbee, carpet buyer for S. P. Morse & Co., has left for Philadelphia and New York to make fall purchases for his department. Today in History. 1780—Command in the highlands of the Hud- son, with the works at West Point, was. given to General Benedict Arnold. $ 3 1816—General John Eugene Smith, a dis- tinguished union commander in the civil war, born in Berne, Switzerland. Died in Chicago, January 29, 1897. 1831—War between Belgium and the Nether- lands began. ., 1859—Eugene Sue, noted French author of melodramatic fiction, died in Savoy. Born in Paris, December 10, 1804, 1866—Democrats of Maine nominated Eben F. Pittsbury for governor. 1872—-The Cuban privateer “Pioneer” was seized by the United States marshal at Newport, R. I, for violation of the ncutralitz laws. 1878—Lord Beaconsfield and Lord Salisbury were presented with the freedom of the city of London. 1891—Rt. Rev. Kilian Flasch, second Catholic bishop of La Crosse, died at La Crosse, Wis. Born in Bavarig, July 16, 1837. A 8 1892—Fourth centenary of the sailing of Co- Jumbus from Palos, near Huelva, celebrated at Huelva, * § 1907-Standard Oil company was fined $29,- 240,000 in United States district court at Chicago for accepting rebates. 1911—Admiral Togo, of the Japanese navy, ar- rived at New York on a visit to the United States. 1915—Twenty-five lives were lost in a flood resulting from a cloudburst at Erie, Pa. This Is the Day We Celebrate. 0. W. Dunn, secretary of C. N. Dietz Lumber company, is celebrating his forty-sixth- birthday today. He was born in Lyons, Ia., and has been in the lumber business since 1886. King Haakon VII, the present ruler of Nor- way, born in Denmark forty-four years a$o today. King Constantine, the present ruler of Greece, born in Athens forty-eight years ago today. Earl of Aberdeen, former governor-general of Canada, born sixty-nine years ago today. Alfred Deakin, former prime minister of Aus- tralia, born in Melbourne sixty years ago today. Baron Hersey, famous English jurist who con- ducted the official investigations into the sinking of the steamships Titanic, Empress of Ireland and Lusitania, bbrn seventy-six years ago today. Dr. Augustus H. Strong, president emeritus of Rochester Theological seminary, born at Roch- ester, N. Y., eighty years ago today. Gustavus Getz, utility infielder of the Brooklyn National league base bafi team, born in Pittsburgh twenty-seven years ago today. Where They All Are Now. Harry Furay, an old Omaha boy, is manager of a press association in San Francisco. Elmer Turner went from Omaha to Valparai- s0, Chile, where he is general secretary of the Val paraiso Young Men's Christian association, Howard Bittinger, another Omaha boy, is in the furniture business with his uncle in Philadelphia. Dr. Harry Swartzlander is now a practicing physician in Alberta, Canada. A. Hoyle, who was one of Omaha’s foremost cricket and soccer. foot ball players, is “some- where in France.” C. J. Best, for years on The Bee editorial staff, is now running the Neligh, Neb., Leader. Carl Reiter, formerly manager of the Orpheum, is circuit manager at Portland. Jake Rosenthal, who box-officed several Omaha show houses, is in the theatrical business at Dubuque, la. Timely Jottings and Reminders. ' Today is the second anniversary of the Ger- man invasion of Belgium. Alvey A. Adee today completes thirty years of service in the important position of second assis- tant secretary of state at Washington. College presidents who are in favor of military training have been invited to meet in conference today at the Plattsburgh training camp. The annual meeting of the gouthern Confer- ence of Seventh Day Adventists is to open at Nashville today and will continue until August 13, Parliamentary candidates are to be nominated in British Columbia today, preliminary to the provincial election which is scheduled for Sep- tember 14, The Massachusetts minimum wage commission will hold a public hearing today on its proposal to establish a minimum wage schedule for women employed in women's clothing factories in Massa- chusetts, A special election is to be held in Tennessee tod:" to give the people an opportunity to vote on the question of revising the present constitu- tion of the state. 3 Story-ette of the Day. Mrs. Simpson had taken her little girl out to tea at a friend’s house, and all went well till the close of the meal. Then she was horrified to see little Elsie try- ing to smuggle a slice of thin bread and butter into her pocket. “Oh, Elsie, what are you doing?” she asked, in sad surprise. “That's all right, mother,” her small daughter reassured her. “I just thought I'd take a piece back to nurse as a pattern.”—Philadelphia Ledger. 1916 ThePees LeHer Idle Rich as Well as Idle Poor. Omaha, Aug. 1.—To the Editor of The Bee: I want to express my appreciation of the fair and dignified way you handled the Industrial Workers of the World question in today’s paper. The recent growing senti- ment, which considers every Industrial Worker of the World an outlaw and every idle poor man subject to arrest for vagrancy, is & snd commentary on the intelligence and manhood of those who encourage it. 1 have heard respectable (7) men indulging in it whose business notoriously has slways been that of getting their living without earn- ing it. A government that kowtows to the idle multi-millionaire, fails to protect the earning rights of its wage workers, and then brands them as criminals when they fail, is not one especially qualified to teach civilisa- tion to warring and benighted nations. WILLIS HUDSPETH. An Explanation from Wilsen. Stromsburg, Neb., Aug. 2.—To the Editor of The Bee: Replying to Commissioner Clarke’s criticism of my charges of mal- administration in the Lincoln telephone case, it is strange, to say the least, that neither the secretary of the commi the clerk in charge of the reports of carriers, mor the other two clerks of the sccounting depart- ment, all present when I visited the com- mission’s offices, knew of a study having been made of the Lincoln company’s reports only “two monthé before,” and which “con- sumed three weeks of the accounting de- partment's time.” And it is significant that it such a study had been made, the results were not given to the people of Lincoln in some form or other. Looks like & post hac study to me, and Mr. Clarke's account of it deserves considerable examination—more, in fact, than one can ask the press to publish. Mr. Clarke says my comparisons are un- fair. Without braving his ire and going to his offices to examine the detailed reports, I venture the statement that the Lincoln company, with its valuation of $101.20 per | telephone, has no greater proportion of “ex- pensive cable and underground construction™ than the Nebraska company property in this state, with its valuation of $77.60 per tefe- phone. And why does he say that ver. age for the entire system in either the Ne- brasks or Lincoln companies is materially than the average for Omaha or Lin- one, when, according to the commis- annual report for 1013, the averdge valuation by the commission of the entire Lincoln system is $119.32 per telephone? Mr. Clarke also seizes upon the “repro- duction new” tion of the Lincoln com- y for his defense of its extortion, a con- ion of the weakness of his position. Everybody knows such valuations are tainted with much guesswork, and mnot based upon experience. The commission fixed the ‘“re- production new” value at $1,785,907, or $135.76 per telephone, and authorized the company to use a sum equal to 9 per cent of this for maintenance and depreciation, or $160,781.70 annually. And notwithstanding the property is of the age wherein the de- preciation is above the normal, the actual amount used to maintain the property during the last three years averaged less than $05,- 000 per annum, according to the company’s reports. Valuations are the crux of every rate controversy. The problem is, as Zapp said to Birsky: “How much is labor and ma- terial, and how mueh is pinochle. There is & prejudice amongst consumers against pay- g for pingehle overheads, Jinner overheads, etc.” Twenty-one and seven-tenth per cent of the Lincoln valuation was for overhead charges for which the company submitted no foundation—no statement of cost in detal. And at the risk of again being charged with making unfair ‘comparisons, I give the aver- age cost of a few telephone plants in this state wherein the stockholders are too nu- merous to admit of the working of fraudu- lent schemes. The Nuckolls county company, with 408 stockholders, reports an average cost of $30 per telephone; the Monroe company of Platte and Madison counties, with 952 stockholders, an average cost of $38; the Hamilton county company, with 1,326 stockholders, an aver- age cost of $35, and the Glenwood company of Webster county, with 1,497 stockholders, an average cost of only $21.40. And the average cost of construction of all of the telephones in the state outside the L. T. & T. and Nebraska companies, is but $48. It seems to me that the commission’s valua- tions, like Lincoln’s famous rathole, will bear looking into, and I'm going to keep on look- ing notwithstanding Keeper Clarke's asper- sions on the morality of tne thing. I am told I had no right to include in the revenues of the Lincoln company $7,000 in rentals for buildings. Perhaps not, but I would have needed a microscope to see that amount in over $450,000 of annual gross revenues, And he says nothing about the expenses of the buildings properly deducible from the rentals. I considered nothing but | the net revenues in computing the rate of return. And he says that I have improperly included all the toll receipts. Yes, in gross revenues, but I do not think that I did, in the net. 1 assumed the company had obeyed the law requiring it to divide these receipts with connedting lines, and I believe that it has done 80, though 1 may be in error. I don't | see how it could have “gotten by” with the whole cheese. And I also assumed that the fon had enforced its order of three requiring full monthly reports of and disbursements. Again I say only the net revenues as shown by the company's reports in computing the return upon the valuation. It seems to me that Mr. Clarke must either plead guilty to not having enforced the commission’s order, or to not having reduced the rates to sub- scribers. VICTOR E. WILSON. EDITORIAL SNAPSHOTS. New York Sun: Napoleon went to Elba. The grand duke was shipped to the Cau- casus. Mathewson is going to Cineinnati. Boston Transcript: When Secretary Dan- fels hears about that naval dance at New- port he'll be ordering the sale at auction of every phonograph on the fleet. Chicago News: In order to get hardened for the campaign, Candidate Hughes is play- ing golf. He might also do something to thicken his epidermis. New York World: Does Carransa’s recall of General Trevino include also the Car- ranza order in Gemeral Trevino's pocket to shoot down American soldiers moving in any but & retreating direction? That is the im- portant question. Baltimore American: President Wilson is now unqualifiedly for preparedness; but inas- much-as some months ago he was opposed to it, there is reason to suspect that he finds preparedness the popular side of the fence, and hence th jump. Nw York Sun: Forty-eight persons killed in New York City's streets in June! The present great death toll from infantile par- alysis makes the motor car's deadly work seem insignificant. But the plague of paraly- sis is occasional whereas the traffic slaughter goes on forever, And the work of poliom- yelitis is obscure while that of the reckless motor car driver should be readily con- trollable. Culls From the Wire Some elghty motor trucks laden with sup- plies for the Pershing expedition, are mired down between Columbus, N. M., and Colonia Dublan, as & result of two cloudbursts. Five hundred cooks, cooks’ helpers, waiters and waltresses struck for an elght-hour day for the men and increased wages for women eterias in San Francisco. dopted Senator Underwood's ppropriate $540,000 for reltet sufferers in Alabama, Florida, Georgls, Missiesippl and North and South Carolina. The Louislana state progressive convention endorsed the nomination of John M. Parker for vice president, but falled to ratify the national committee’'s endorsement of Charles E. Hughes, republican nominee for president. John H. Clark of Cleveldnd, O., took the oath as assoclate justice of the supreme court ‘of the United States in the presence of Chief Justice White and officers of the | court. The new justice formally will take l employed In his seat when the court reconvenes in Oc- tober. moved and my husband has, been laying the carpets.’—Topeka Journal TOLD IN FUN. Nurse—Oh dear ma'am, the baby has just swallowed that whole paper of tacks. Mrs. Surface—How unfortunate! Now 1 will be obiiged to put up all those suffrage posters with glue.—Puck. > - “Miserly offered the man who saved his Iife a half a dollar.” “Did the man accept Itf" “Yes. but he handed Miserly 20 cents change."—Christain Register. Pukoleiin tina il e STORY OF MERCHANT PRINCE. Chicago Hearthstone There was an old geezer and he had a lot ‘of sense; He started up s business on a dollar-eighty - “If a man called me a liar," asserted & gart, “I'd sail in and lick him, if he welghed 300 pounds.’” ““Well, you big bl was tired of listenin, and now. “You're a liar.” “Bluft yourselt,” came back the artist, without & minute's hesitation. ‘You don't welgh more than 150, and you know what 1 sald.”—Tit-Bits. i answered one who call you that here cents, The do‘l;’lr for stock and the eighty for Bmu';? t‘nlm three lovely dollars In a day, by dad! Well/ he bought more goods and a little more_space . And he played that system with a smile on his face. The customers flocked to his two-by-four And soon he had to hustle for & regular store Up on the square, where the people pass. He gobbled up a corner that was all plate lass. He llx‘.fl up the windows with the best that he had And he told ‘em all about it In a half-page d. ad. P He soon had ‘em coming and he never, never quit, Apd he wouldn't cut down on his ads ene it Well, he's kept things humming in the town ever since ‘Teacher—To 3 11 “‘fur?” = . T e And everybody calls him the Merchant Prince. Thomas—TYes, sir. F-U-R. Teacher—That's right. tell me what fur is? Thomas—Yes, sir. Fur {s an awful long way.—Cornell Widow. Now can you Some say It's luck, but that'sallbunk— Why, he was doing business when the times were punk. People have to purchase and the geezer was wise— “Do you know the nature of an oath, madam?” For he knew the way to get 'em was to “Well I ought to, sir. d We've Just advertise. AT TR ., ‘! 621 Residents of Nebraska registered at Hotel Astor during the past yeat. = 1000 Rooms. 700 with Bath, A cuisine which has made ; the Astor New York’s leading Banqueting place. Single Rooms, without beth, $2.00 to §3.00 Diectds BT G e Single Rooms, with beth, 3.00 to G.00 Double .+ - . 4ooto 708 Parloe, Bedrooem and bath, $10.00 88 §14.00 At Broadway, 44th t0 45th Stzests—the centee of New York's social and business activities, hd&pldniqbdln:l'mytm‘ninds. Low Vacation Fares w n East The Great Lakes and AtlanticCoastRegion has innumerable attractions to offer the vacationist. LOW FARES IN EFFECT June | to Sept. 30 via the CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN RY. to Chicago and choice of routes therefrom to all important points east. Round Trip from Omaha Detroit, Mich. $35.10 Boston, Mass. 69.10 New York, N. Y. 69.10 Niagara Falls, N. Y. Toronto, Ont. Montreal, Que. Atlantic City, N. J. Portiand, Me. 52.90 to Buftalo, N. Y. 4245 to Return limit 60 days, not to exceed October 31, 1916. Favorable stop-over privileges. Direct connections with fast trains on all lines east, $54.60 to 65.80 to 42.45 to 40.10 to 45.20 to Por particulare call on CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN RY. JOHN MELLEN, G. A 14011403 Farnam Street, Omaha, Neb, (Tel, Douglas 2740) “In a Clase by Itsol” Brewed and Bottled by Jetter Brewing Co., Ltd. OMAHA, NEB. Fumily Trade Supplied by W Jetter. 2000 W Styest. Fhone Douglas 4831. 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 be really successful.