Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 7, 1916, Page 4

What of the Nebraska Campaign? Nebraska belongs in the republican column and will be placed there this year if the campaign in this state is waged along republican lines, The voters in Nebraska, as in all the other states, that went democratic solely because of a divided opposition, fully realize their mistake and are ready to turn to the republican party for ge-' lief from democratic incompetency, duplicity and extravagance. A republican campaign appealing for support for a republican ticket running on the republican platform and not made “pig tail” to any side issue will be a sure winner. It must be frankly admitted that the flareback which has brought about the resignation of State Chairman McNish and the necessity of installing a new campaign manager at this stage of the pro- ceedings is unfortunate, but the damage is not irreparable nor is there any use crying over spilled milk. If the incident shall serve to emphasize the need of a campaign along strictly republican lines, with as few entanglements with the pro- hibition side-issue as is possible, it will prove beneficial rather than harmful for the “wets” and the “drys” may be depended upon to fight out their own battle and should be made to do it in- i OMAHA DAILY BEE ‘FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER OR ROSEWATER, EDITOR ' BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR. at Omaha postoffice as second-class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. 3 By Carrier By Mall : JULY CIRCULATION, 57,569 Daily—Sunday 52:?3: 4 e ' tor ‘-"-’a"-t""ufi"u'?c‘" -‘-E-: Clt‘g. 8, : Manager. Wbfl . pomatnes sworn to befor: me of .3 918, BERT HUNTER, Notary Publie. loa the temporari Shouid Rere Tow Bes mited To thoms drass will be changed as often as requested. B e e eSS ' That society for the prevention of unnecessary noises must have succumbed to the heat, S— What Omaha and Council Bluffs really want is a chance to toll the bell for a toll-less bridge. ‘If Denmark doesn’t ratify the sale of the sland to Uncle Sam, it will not be because of the price. y Looks as if $25,000,000 might be the standard price for islands on the international bargain counter. S—— Anyone with a genuine ancient almanack will ‘please send it post haste to the Nebraska Editorial Minstrel troupe en route. \ ~ Don't envy the wheat pit bulls and bears, The easy money they pull down is just as easily lost ly they don't brag so loudly about their Cabinet members too busy to read Mr. ch now may file it away for a short ave plenty of time to read it after next, e but if a “watchful waiting” policy works better to prevent a general railroad strike it did to prevent turbulence and murder in e e o et ‘The redoubteable Heney essays to deliver the ia bull moose to the democrats. Had ty not been so badly beaten in his race for States senator he would be singing a dif- g e us. will not resign, 'a front in if one o th fogoat Sy il on.—~Commercial Club Bulletin, everybody! You mean everybody but ted States senator who has refused to r Omaha, although it is his home town. Steeme—— AT "mt < e ot g o M indeed! 1f find a man on the freight cob him and th a,."m& the hardest the any, the an -This is one of the best arm‘:::f the ney Hub: The Omaha Bee considers the ion of a State Highway commission the lihie foe She s s o ey e for the st sl While this is. doubtless true. fund. 1 native is not especially cheerful i creation of another commission or b:-' to be a hw‘u:.t? itself 11'1::' an appendage o{ governmen er useful nor ornamenta a has had hulullutk with its commissions ireaus in the past, and while it can not very nse with them, mt:;dpwplc are un- in @ critical regarding the of any new ones. a City Press: The Omaha Bee, com- ‘on the number of national banks that state tion: the chi m thinks so much due to the h"ct that m:a b::t: tected by the guarantee of deposit laws as that the present administration has d% for 3 national bank to conduct to the demands of a laws and ns, Be that as it ‘know that many erstwhile ‘in this part of this dear] h have become sudden! morose and ) an erfirlu orm for politics’ tment it is a mean dis- -natured eloved com- dependent of the party contest. The democrats will naturally try to find com- fort in every republican controversy. It is their play to make a mountain out of every republican mole hill, but they have their own family troubles which are of much more serious nature. Let Ne- braska republicans stand shoulder to shoulder and buckle down to business and they will again come into their own. Broadening the Fleld of the National Bank. Amendments to the federal reserve banking law, just passed by the senate, will provide means whereby the banks of the United States may engage in foreign business. If these amend- ments become law they will remove one of the greatest obstacles to the successful entrance of the United States into the world's commerce. One of the serious weaknesses of our situation has been the lack of facilities to properly finance commercial operations abroad. Machinery for carrying on ordinary exchange with the capitals of the world has been useful in its line, but when it came to dealing with the smaller countries, or with interior firms, the business had to be car- ried on through London, Paris or Berlin. Es- pecially was this true of South America, where the business was almost exclusively held by England and Germany, because the banks there were English or German institutions. The Brit- ish blacklist is made effective because credit on commercial transactions must be had through British-owned banks, The disadvantage of this to the United States need not be argued. American financiers understand the situation and are willing to enter the field. Already pro- posals have been made for the setting up of a great bank at Buenos Ayres through which busi- ness may be done with the South American countries east of the Andes, and a similar insti- tution for the Pacific coast may be expected to come. Under the permission to be granted by congress it will be possible for the bankers of the United States to establish connections throughout the world that will remove a great disability from our commerce. A greater share of the world’s business for the United States ought to be one result of the war, and this assistance to the banks will ma- terially contribute to bringing this about. S— A Clincher Indictment. In the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly is an artiicle contributed by Meredith Nicholson on “The Second-Rate Man in Politics” to which we have already referred and whtch is full of good things one of which one should not be allowed to pass unnoticed particularly in view of the use that has been made of Mr. Nicholson’s name as endorser for President Wilson. The author is try- ing to explain why the “second-rate men” predomi- nate in congress, especially in the lower house that may be called the most typical of our insti- tutions by citing examples: “Mr. Hay of Virginia, chairman of the com- mittee on military affairs, not only yielded re- luctantly to the public pressure for prepared- ness, but established his unfitness to hold any office bl tacking on the army bill a ‘joker’ esigned to create a place for a personal friend." This must have been written before President Wilson, presumably Mr. Nicholson's ideal in poli- tics, selected Mr. Hay for a life tenure appoint- ment to the court of claims in recognition of “his unfitness to hold any office.” Mr. Hay's direction of legislation affecting military affairs has been a scandal which the president has merely empha- sized and accepted responsibility for by his action, This is a case of honoring not the “second-rate man,” to use the language of Mr. Nicholson, but of the totally unfit man and of honoring him in such a way as must call in question the fitness of the president who puts a premium on'unfitness. — Income, Dividends and Management. On behalf of the railroads a statement is pub- lished that their dividends for 1915 show a de- cline, the rate being but 3.8 per cent on 60.45 per cent of all stock issued. The appearance of this statement at this time is significant, but it de- serves a little explanation. Dividends of 1915 were largely based on earnings during 1914, which held several lean months for the railroads. How- ever, the situation has been bettered in a very large degree, for ninety-three of the large rails roads of the United States report an increase in net revenues for the month of June this year of $190,000,000 as compared with the same month of 1915, Seventy-twb railroads report in detail on their earnings and expenses for the month of May, 1915, to the Railway Age Gazette, and only four show a loss. These four have a combined mileage of 1,616, and include the Kansas City & Orient and the Colorado Midland, the other two being obscure lines in the east. Eight report a de- crease in net income as com| with last year, gha ‘:hiel among these being the Baltimore & Since the lean days of 1914 the railroads have THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 6, 1916. Thought Nugget for the Day. No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true—Nathaniel Hawthorne. One Year Ago Today in the War. ; New allied army landed on Gallipoli peninsula. Germans claimed victory on Narew river north of Warsaw. . Petrograd reported German forces driven back near Riga. 4 Russians held fast to east bank of Vistula and bombarded Warsaw positions, With help of gas clouds Germans took one of Kovno forts, but Russians recovered it. This Day in Omaha Thirty Years Ago. The 100-pound turtle of Ed Maurer has been purchased by A'Ibri’ht and will be served as turtle soup as part of a free lunch for his great action sale of 400 lots in Albright addition to South Omaha, which takes place August 16 and 1?. Free trains leave at 10 o’clock a. m. over the Union Pa- cific railway to convey visitors there and back. I]ohn Zeller has just received a well-earned diploma which certifies that he is the champion single live bird shot of America. John is very proud of his diploma and will entertain a number of his friends to celebrate this important event in his sporting career. g ‘The ladies of the Third Congregational church ave an August social at the home of Mrs. Dr. ryant, 200! Sherman avenue. E. Smith, a genial and gentlemanly conductor on the Union Pacific, has left for Sidney, Ia, where he will be married to Miss Ida I. Mooman of that city. 2 i John D. Creighton, with his wife and three daughters, Clara, Katie and Emma, have left for a trip to Salt Lake. The canning factory has started up, and on the opening day 6,600 cans of tomatoes were put up. The capacity of the factory is such that every day 12,000 cans of corn and 12,000 cans of to- matoes can be put up easily, Today in History. 1721—New England Courant started in Boston, with James Franklin, brother of Benjamin Frank- lin, as editor, : 1790—William Blount was appointed first gov- ernor of the territory southwest of the Ohio river —the Southwestern territory. 1807—Robert Fulton’s steamboat, the “Cler- mont,” made its first trip from New York to Al- bany, at an average speed of five miles an hour. IyBlS——Napolcon was transferred from the “Bellerophon” to the “Northumberland,” prepara- tory to being sent to St. Helena. 1830—Duke of Orleans accepted the crown of, France as Louis Philippe I. 1858—Ottawa, formerlfr Bytown, named as capital of the Dominion of Canada. 1866—The Freedmen's Aid society of the Methodist Episcopal church was organized at Cincinnati. 1870—State of siege proclaimed at Paris after the defeat of MacMahon at Woerth. 1874—One thousandth anniversary of the col- onization of Iceland was celebrated at Rikiavik. 1889—Review of 25,000 British troops at Alder- shot before the German emperor. This Is the Day We Celebrate. Harry A Tukei‘. real estate man, was born August ;. 1877, at Mankato, Minn, He was edu- cated in the Omaha public schools and the Uni- versity of Nebraska, and is one of Omaha's hust- ling real estate men. ’lmu N. Fitzgerald is celebrating his forty- second birthday today. He was born in Chicago, educated at Creighton university and the Univer- sity of Michigan, and has been practicing law in Omaha since 1906. Dwight H. Beck was born August 7, 1877, at York, Neb. He was manager of the Herzog Tailoring company for five years and later wit Maloney, McElvin & Beck and in the tailoring business for himself since 1909, § Dr. J. B. Fickes, the dentist, is d\m 39 years old.. He first saw light of day in Orrstown, Pa. W. A. (Pa) Rourke, who fathers the Omaha base ball team, was born in Columbus, O., in 1864, and is, therefore, celebrating his fifty-second birthday; and he says he can still play ball. W. {i Yohe, president of the Updike Milling compm{... 46 years old today, comes from Allen- town, Bfllie Burke, one of the most of the American stage, born in thirty-one rnrl ago todnY. )Iin Ellen Fitz Pendleton, president of Wel- lesley college, born at Westerly, R. I, fifty-two years a| todw. Stanley J. Weyman, celebrated English novel- ist, bz:"n in Shropshire, England, sixty-one years ago today. ” Baron Gustav Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach, husband of Bertha Krupp and head of the great Krupp Gun works, born at The Hague, forty-six years ago today. Alfred Sutro, author of “The Walls of Jericho” and other successful plays, born’in London, fifty- three (enn toda‘y. Bri gldier'anen Richard L. Hoxie, U. S. A, retired, born in New York, seventy-two years ago lar actresses ashington, D. C,, today. C);mles R. Crane, retired millionaire manu- h;turer, born in Chicago, fifty-eight years ago today. Timely Jottings and Reminders. . The International Tysomphicll union begins its annual convention today at Baltimore. Fremont, Neb., is to have a farm tractor show during the four days beginning today, Oklahoma City is to be the meeting place to- day of the annual convention of the International Sheriffs’ association. ; Because of the increased cost of paper the Milwaukee Free Press will today advance its price from 1 to 2 cents a copy for street sales, The annual convention of the United Master Butchers of America will meet in Omaha today and continue in session until Thursday. The National Association of Food, Dairy and Drug Officials is to meet at Detroit today ?‘;r its annual convention. Exercises are to be held at Green Bay, Wis., today in observance of the 100th anniversary of the first rajsing of the United States flag in the Northwest ter tor(!m The American uild of Fiano Tuners, with a membership extending throughout the United States and Canada, will meet in Detroit today for its aunu:ll' m“?:l oln. ne thousand delegates are expected in Cleve- land today for the opening of the annual conven- tion of the American Poultry association, “Ten-Cent Bread and Why" is to be the lead- hf subject of discussion at the annual convention of the National Association of Master Bakers, opening today at Salt Lake. h';l‘he agille race t'nclr nwinonou, ous as the scene o ircuit meet- ings in the past, is wmmp:mn::i:n Y. Story-ette of the Day. Some things must be taken the th meant, oréh:{c:ll apt to be trouble. '.:’Bd mo on Sunday were astonished ¢ & prominent instirution for the insane see over the main entrance the hospitable, though uue!lu!t! m«fi%fipfiofl: fi:flh. Wel- to a disgruntled Elkc that it merely was meant to convey: “We are just crazy about you."—Balti- more American. s?g; The Pees LeSfer Unsafe Only for Reckless Drivers. Omahs, Aug. 65.—To the Editor of The Bee: In your issue ‘of August 4, mention is made of complaint to the police depart- ment by s woman who refused to give her name, regarding an alleged unsafe condition in the construction of Carter boulevard ap- proach to Florence Boulevard between Six- teenth and'Nineteenth streets. Any street in the city of Omahs, or any other city, is unsafe to the person who drives recklessly without regard to the other fellow. The curves on the boulevard drive in yues- tlon are not sharp and the roadway is suf- ficiently wide to enable automobiles to pass each other without any interference. The curves in each case are elevated so as to prevent any sliding over the embankment. A driver who is so reckless in his driving as to run the chances of rolling down the em- bankments on this drive, is just as likely te have his brains beaten out tn colliding with any stone walls that might be constructed on the embankment side of this drive. / JOHN A. BRUCE, City Engineer. Point on Politics. Omaha, Aug. 6.—To the Editor of The Bee: Protectionists regardless of former political allisnces have now united and mext November will cast a protective ballot and that will be for candidates of the reunited republican party whose members all believe in protection for all our people and our in- dustries. For the first time in three years I am now an out and out optimist for what the future will bring forth, for I now feel and believe that at the November election the protection element will win and control con- gress, and the executive after March 4, 1917, and soon thereafter the present tariff will be replaced by a strong protective tariff on articles our people can ywoduce, and labor immigration will be restricted. About 10, 000,000 male labor immigrants are now among us and all their earnings except from 5 to 10 cents per day are sent abroad to support their families. These millions will remain (the war in Europe is no inducement for them to return) and will welecome stop- ping of labor immigration which will stop further overproduction of labor and advance all low wages which wift permit them to seind for their families as soon as peace is declared und ships provided to bring the families to our United States of America. I believe in upholding any administration in preparing against invasion from a for- eign foe and to quell unlawful disturbances among our people, but believe the people should criticise any administration for un- Justifiable acts and not smooth them over as many are now doing in praising the! president for not invading| Mexico when he called out the navy to bombard Vera Crus and then called General Funston to eapture with our army Vera Cruz and the adjacent territory under the guns of our battle ships and if that was not invasion then our gov- ernment did not invade Mexico during the Mexican war.. Hundreds of our brave sol- diers were killed and wounded on this in- vasion and several thousand Mexicans, Gen- eral Pershing and others were ordered to enter the interior of Mexico with our army. After invading Mexico at Vera Crus this raised the ire of all Mexicans and they favored that all Americans in Mexico should be robbed of all their property and risk their lives by remaining. Our government the last three years has not been honestly neu- tral to any nation engaged in the greatest war of all time and the most inhuman by all combatants. To be honestly neutral in times of war among foreign nations, our government should not permit any foodstuff, arms, ammunition or any article of necessity to continue and extend war to go to com- batants engaged in war or to countries will- ing to furnish combatants, for our govern- ment should let the nations engaged in war fight their battles on their own resources. H. N. JEWETT. SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. Minneapolis Journal: A Texass preacher writes to the Houston Post that stealing a watermelon is & sin. Great ethieal changes have been making their way slewly but steadily in Texas ever since the civil war. Washington Post: Folks who eomplain because their pastors leave their flocks for the seashore every summer probably are un- aware of the opportunities for a pastor at the seashore. Chicago Post: A Cleveland pastor says that Darwin is responsible for the big war. Well, he's safe; the dead can't come back. Milwaukee Sentinel: “It ls strange that Billy Sunday refers to every town he visits as & “hell hole."—Exchange. Not at all. That is his “line of goods.” The strange thing {s that he can make it pay like the sugar trust, while many & worthy clergyman of real plety and learning preaches the gospel in decent English to half-empty pews. Well, well, another case of supply and demand. Chicago Post: The village of Pleasant Plain, O., gave & splendid example of pras- tieal church union the other day when the Methodists, Baptists, Lutherans and Pres- byterians, all of whom had been trying to support separate churches, got together and organized one congregation, That means concentration of effort and finances, the elimination of sectarian rivalries and frietion, better equipment, better preaching and big- ger results, What the Christians of Pleas- ant Plain have done might be done with ad- vantage in thousands of towns and villages throughout the country. EDITORIAL SNAPSHOTS. Indianapolis News: Consider, too, the feelings, at such & time as this, of those polar bears that have a job in a cireus. Pittsburgh Dispatch: Some of the soldiers on the border are learning that a little more preparedness would have done no harm. Atlants Constitution: As to the “hard row to hoe” on the border, General Funton's observation {s that “that’s the intention of it Baltimore American: James Whitcomb Riley left an estate of §200,000, so there is money after all in writing poetry. But not all who try it write it. Cleveland Plajn Dealer: Japan is about to build four super-dreadnaughts. At the same time, the champion Japanese tennis players have just been defeated. Boston Transcript: Optimism is what makes Kansas farmers send their buxom daughters east for the summer and then expect to recruit an army of college-boy farm hands in the east. Washington Star: Flat feet may keep men out of the militia, but in the game of polities they are not counted as a serious defect, Kansas City Journal: It is true, as Vice President Marshall remarked, that the Hughes speech of scceptance “had all the length and tone of & dissenting opinion.” But he omitted to add that the dissenting opinion thus expressed s that of the Ameri. can people. " WHO CARES? J. M. Lewls in Houston Post, When bables have grown up, Grown sweet and tall, 3 And never scamper glad Along the hall, And never rush to you Glad as can be, With little arms held up To climb your kunee, ot ‘When they've grown tall— You're getting on In years, 0Old man, t's all. You're getting on in years; . Your youth s gone, - ‘When the with you HITS OF THE HUMORISTS. your children much of & help and | our ‘shipments’ arrived signaled us by wire- Tt The Marketer—aAren't you wasting a good deal of that steak in trimming f{t? The Butcher—No, ma'am; 1 weighed It first—Toledo Blade, “Why,” asks a Missouri paper, “does Mis- sour! stand at the head in raising mules?" “Because,”” sald another paper, “that Is the only safe place to stand.”—Christian Jeannette—Oh, dad, how can he when he has promised to do nothing but think of me all the time?—Puck. ust fired four shells at a bride more !’Mn fourteen miles away. Four times the aviation officer who was watching where less the simple word, ‘Bridge.’ "—New York I can always depend on | Times. them to tell me where the best moving pictures are to be found."—Washington Willle—1 was Bump's trial today. Gillis—Bump arrested? Tell me the ac- c“:‘;llllloi:'—lh was accused of — what do you call it where a fellow lies for money ? Gillis—Politics, diplomacy, Or War-corres- ponding ?—Life. Husband—I wonder why all the 'misers Manager of Bus Company—And 80 YOU | o 'reng ghout'are old bachelors? Wit le—Oh, married misers are so common Conductorette—Not If you will put me on | they are not worth mentioning.—Indlan- service 17. I'm tired of being asked if I'm, apolis Star. 46!—London Opinlon. Mrs. \Exe—You always have such won- derful success in getting people to come to_your parties. Mrs. Wye—Yes, I always tell the men that it's mot to be a dress-up affair, and the women that it is.—Boston Transcript. In a certaln home recently visited by First Stoker (weary)—I'd like to find the of inquiring mind merchant ‘o tivented boller. g e oriva) Becond Stoker (also weary)—Bollers be | o 1oimaa. blowed! I'm lookin' for the blighter 'oo found out that coal would burn.—London When he first saw the new arrival he ex- “It hasn't any teeth! It hasn't any hair!" Then, observing that his criticlsm had no eftect upen the family, he added in disgust “Somebody has done us! It's an old Daddy—Jeannette, it I allow young Simp- | baby!"—New York Times. son to become my son-in-law, do you sup- posy he will be willing to work and support “I torgot myself and spoke angrily to my_ wife,” remarked Mr, Meekton. “Did she resent it?" “For a moment. But Henrfetta is a fair-minded woman. After she thought it over she shook hands with me and con- “Objects almed at are smashed with re- | gratulated me on my bravery.”"—Kansas markable precision. For example, we have | City Star. Clark Near Jackson Boulevard The Hotel Success of Chicago O X W= ed from the New Kaiserhof. - The hotel’s excellent service, its convenience for the quick transaction of business, its roximity to theatres, shops and public buildings make it the 1deal headquarters for » crowded day. 450 Rooms $1.50 up : . With Bath $2.00 up Yo inhoee. ORK BOSTON IREBESTWAANDAY PENNSYLVANIA NES viAa ~ PHILADEIPHIA JAlso to Resorts of ATLANTIC COAST NEW ENCLAND ==5 CANADA __Direct Route or Via WASHINGTON Heat Wave Broken Remember that the recent heat-wave was broken by cooling winds from Minnesota’s Lake Region Average Summer temperature in Minnesota is As you go North the thermome- only 67 degrees. ter goes down. . Land of Hiawatha Let us suggest a point to go to, quote the round trip fare and give an idea of what tg do while there and what it will cost. . -~ - e i~ Chicago $= Great Western P.F. mgm“s C.P.&T.A. Phone Doul:: 260,