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

N 11000 NI AT G S Y A s e 1 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE POUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR EOSEWATER. EDITOR BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR.” TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. netice of chang livery to Omaha Bes, enlation Department. REMITTANCE. Remit by draft, express or postal order, Only2-cent stamps taken m ment of i sceounts, Personal ehecks, onpgnnh- and eastern exchange, tot accepted. OFFICES. Cotneil Bluffs—14 North Main street. Lineoln—326 Little Bufldhfi icago—8! as Byl o ew 286 Fifth avenue. 8t Louis—503 New Bank of Commerce. Washington—725 Fonrteenth street. N.'W. CORRESPONDENCE. to news and editerial Department. AUGUST CIRCULATION Address communications relating matter to Omaha Bee, Editorin! 55,755 Daily—Sunday 51,048 Williams, bo'i‘renl-‘t:n manager of Rn‘ l‘!:: com] WO ays u dmfi‘n‘-:’l::.t:: m 'of 'Amm-ty 1916, was dafly, 1 Sunday, DWIGHT WILLIAM, Circulation Mana to before u":?'fi"a n my presense end svorn rae PROBERT HUNTER, Notary Publie. e e e £ b Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- .&mwmhdnpdudmun«tnd.' w—‘—“ . The automobile smash-up season is apparently except i Omaha-~The Bee Building. South Omsha—23818 N street. | { § | i { | not yet closed. Slow up! Those state house tremors must be symip- tomatic of the November crash. . emm—— _Stitan Mohammed has written a poem on the war, Reverance for his position no doubt palli- ates the crime. ) . | | Slp——— “Woman's hour has struck!” exclaims Mrs. | Catt. Mere man, unheroic as usual, echoes back, | “Is breakfast ready?” The mo;c encouraging development of the war is the noisy repetition by the combatants that they are not ready for peace. 4 ‘Cumu troops are reported moving against ,‘Jlfin once more. In other words, the troops are on the go, but never reach the right spot. Churches speculate in futures one day in the week, the grain pits on six days. The disparity of action measures the volume of business. me—— “The Ak-Sar-Ben 1916 membership roll is com- eted. The eligibles who failed or refused to oin without legitimate excuse ought to be pla- d as undesirable citizens, e—— “The sun of the diamond is setting, while the sun of the gridiron rises with customary glory. ¢ rotation of sports marks the season’s as ly as the weather burcau. 4 —— nsurance Inspector Clayton considerately ab- from “rocking the boat” with navigation the close, but manages to “spill the harmony ' req of the high cost of living. Mullen shows us that he can land ,M » Omaha, in the face of our sena- il to stand up for his own home town, o room for democrats t& question ‘boss.” : hout saying in London that Britain ‘unfair advantage of the censorsfiip Perish the thought. But should an un- reveal new discoveries of gold, ther SE—— ho pulled the populist nomi- out of the primary in this dis- of the race. We will now see raatile democratic con, - that he is still a populist, too. | ewe— starts the fall fimancial campaign with f $1,673,500,000 for the last three months m&flm carry the c\rr debt of the repub- exclusive of an ante-war $6,300,000,000. A load of debt the great sacrifice of life France is the struggle for existence. | e— i 0 ska Political Comment || i U s """&‘ to make Beyan the goat for nings of the mm ldmlnhtrmon is to the Peerless One, but politics sort. -Mr, Bryan has enough THE BEE: OMAHA, TU_!':}S_QA\'._SEPTE.\U}_ER 12, 1916. Hughes as a Campaigner. The whirlwind tour of Maine by Charles Evans Hughes has given gnother view of his ca- pacity as a campaigner, and some of his demo- cratic critics may have to revive their estimates of his ability, fo awaken his auditors, Tremen- dous crowds were out to hear him during the closing days of the Maine campaign, and even the colorless Associated Press reports support the statement that his reception was more than cor- dial, while his addresseg aroused the greatest of enthusiasm. The fact of the matter is, Mr. Hughes has greatly disappointed those democrats who hailed him as a cold and austere man, and who have heen comforting themselves with the thought that he would not be able to reach the heart as well as the understanding of the Amer- ican people. The fact that Mr. Hughes indulges in grandstand plays, that his appearances are marked by no undignified exhibitions, must be taken as proof that he understands fully and quite as well appreciates the honor that has been thrust upon him, and realizes his responsibility as the leader of a great party. Iiie devotion to the principles of that party which has proven the ablest as well as the most sincere exponent of the high mission of the American people in accomplishiug the des- tiny of humanity, marks him as a man of warm impulse and ready sympathy, and a true cham- pion of right and freedom. His record is unas- sailable, and his character is daily showing more and more of its attractive qualities, Moreover, since their first experience with him, the administration defenders have ceased to call upon him for proof of his statements. They know that he is prepared to substantiate his as- sertions, Hughes is established as a campaigner of power, no Fall of the Quebec Bridge. The disaster at the Quebec, the second of the kind to attend the attempt to span the St. Law- rence river with a railway bridge at that point, may again be set down to the score of mechanical failure. Nine years ago, when the great shore span of the structure collapsed, it was due, as sub- sequently develdped, to a failure to properly cal- culate the strength of material required to sup- port the weight put upon it. This was corrected, and the great shore ends of the giant bridge are safely anchored. The task of elevating the cen- tral span, perhaps the most stupendous of its kind ever attempted, has suddenly established that a miscalculation was made somewhere aleng the line, ' Aside from its importanice as a factor in the trangportation problem of the world, the magni- tude of the undertaking was such as attracted unusual attention, It cannot be said to have failed, for the disaster must carry with it some- thing of instruction to the projectors of the great enferprise, and renewal of the effort may be looked for. The loss of life and property is con- diderable, but no more than may be assumed as part of the risk in auy similar undertaking. If the financial backers of the venture are not dis- couraged, the St. Lawrence will yet be bridged at Quebec. — Both a Difference and a Distinction. The World, like other great newspapers, is operated on an eight-hour. basis in all its me- chanical departments. The men are gnid price and a half for overtime. There is no Interstate Commerce commission to increase newspaper rates if earnings fall off in comparison with op- erating expenses. Yet The World manages to fint along with its men and with its pablic ob- tions. That is one reason why we are una- ble to sob passionately over the wrongs of the railroads, much as we disapprove the arbitrary and autocratic methods of the brotherhoods.— New York World. So far, so good! But The World does not tell the whole story. The Bee is operated on the same eigh!-houry _basis as is The World in all its mechanicg! departments and under collective bar- gaining arrived at in the same way, The Bee's contract, as is likewise The World's, however, provides for the settlement of all matters in dis- pute by conciliation or arbitration. Our Typo- grnphiql union scale, for example, is subject to and part of & general arbjtration contract of which the introductory section reads as follows: In the event of anv difference arising be- tween the parties of this contract which cannot be adjusted by conciliation, such difference shall be submitted to arbitration under the code of procedure provided by the International Ar- bitration Axmqnm. effective May 1, 1912, be- tween the American Newspaper Publishers’ mcui:ticn and the International Typographical union, ; : Another section, gging into greater detail, reads: All differences other than those specified in section S of this agreemedt, including disagree- ments arising in negotiations for a new scale of wages, or for hours of labor, or in renewing or exnnélnl an existing scale, or in respect to 4 contract, which cannot be settled by concilia- tion, shall be referred to a local board of arbi- tration in theqpanner stipulated in the Code of Procedure as set forth in Exhibit “B.” .on Tuesdaé' It will be seen from this wording that disputes affecting hours of labor, as well as those affecting wages, are arbitrable, and that there is absolutely nothing in the way, in union custom or precedent, of adjusting the basic wage day by arbitration any more than of fixing other conditions of em- ployment. In fact, as wet understand it, the train- men’s hours have heretofore been fixed as part of a scale negotiated in exactly that way. Baron Burian's Compliment. The interview with. Baron Burian, Austrian minister of foreign atfairs, holds something of in- terest for Americans, although its general tone is no more or less than might be expected from any high official of eiiher.ol the belligerent countries, Statements as (o.the desire for peace have been had from all, but cach wants peace on its own terms, At least, either side will give an ear to the other's proposals at present, Expressions of friendly regard for America, even though coupled with some renewal of criticism because of the the scapegoat for Wilson's blunders, rask: C{;y Press: Six thousand grocery in New York are striking for fewer hours , more pay and, in tion, a certain nt of 's_receipts of each store, to at store’s clerks. Let them t to Wilson; he'll find a way o o gg:i.' 1 e Watage o he policn ew n| he pol a “pivotal state. Norfolk News: Congressman Dan V. Stephens s at home looking after his own personal politi- al fortune instead of on the job in Washington whe the most serious national crisis of years to°a head in the shape of the threatened d strike last week. \What the Third district ebraska needs is a representative who will nt-—one who will spend less time writing and seeking votes and more time in con- helping - to solve the vital problems of ent as they come up. William P, War- in the state senate and as United ‘marshal under Roosevelt and Taft, is suffi- guaranty that he'd be on the job till the and that the big problems of “welfare rather than his own political in- ts would receive his ¢nergy and attention. ont Tribune: In the republican campai (!,““ the ;z:n of the republi- ongressman Sloan of Nebraska test of this country against the attack by an Aus- trian submarine on an American merchantman. Baron Burian may rest assured that his senti- munitions trade, might be made with better grace if they followed a satisfactory answer to the pro- | ce, in analysis of the relation of the farmer to the tration under the caption “The Tariff and mer.” The Tribune's copy of the book yet come to hand, but it s to say that Ir. § has put over something on democrac h mb‘ad the kn:ndnn;cl'n which gflhe :M- ratio s yan! tection of of the northern farmer and left them products of the southern farmer, and other - of a mlll;::ed“ I&olhifi"l p‘t':’ln mmediately after s oa ed some fic.‘lam eldge cons ee traders who have been doing business hington for the past four years. They ded him as too | :I‘I‘:t":o";‘e'hum ose their tgeodu 'wuult- they are, ments in regard to peace are shared by all in this country, but he should not overlook the fact that a formal note from his office is overdue. It is ong more o fthe bits of unfinished business await- ing attention of the State department, which may later serve to touch off another display of pa- triotic fireworks in connection with the Wilson campaign for re-election. Seme— Thorough preparation before striking accounts for Roumania’s speedy reach for the short ribs of Austria. Under ordinary rules of the fighting game a referee would be obliged to declare a “foul.” But the game started on a foul, and foul it ‘will continue to the end, Cost of the New Wage Law. all Street Journal. Railroad officers are busy attempting to de- cide just what the so-called eight-hour law for trainmen, effective January 1 next, means, They have decided that it clearfy applies to switchmen as among those “actually engaged in any capacity in the operation of trains.” Some are inclined to believe that it also applies to telegraphers and towermen. T The phrase quoted is obviously capable of a very board interpretation, since the whole object of all railroad activity is ‘summed up in the op- eration of trains. Railroad men assume that no such broad meaning could be given it. The law was framed and passed admittedly as an emerg- ency measure to prevent a strike, and it was only the members of the four brotherhoods who threat- ened to strike if the law were not passed. The carriers will, therefore, not act on the theory that it applies to all railroad workers. As railroad officers are not yet clear on the number of men affected, they have not been able to make any exact calculations of the additional operating expense to result from the application of the new law, If the present volume of busi- ness keeps up, the total cost for all 'roads will considerably exceed the cstimate of $52,000,000 put upon the eight-hour wage day for freight and yard men alone, Some rough calculations put the latter cost for a nymber of the larger roads at the fololwing tentative figures: Pennsylvania ....$3,500,000/Atl Comst Lines. .§ 575,000 N. Y. Central. 00,000 Southern Pacific. Balt. & Ohlo..... 1,900,000|Atchison §00,000/8t. Paul 060,000/ Burlington 900,000/North W ,000,000(Rock Tsland . 1,160,000/Great Northern 860000 Northern Pacific A16/000(Unlon Pacific .... 780,000 e vyt 1 1,360,000 1,100,000 0,000 1,100,000 1,600,000 Louluv, Norfolk Chesapeake & O, These figures do not include any of the esti- mated cost of the extension of the eight-hour basic day to the passenger train service or to & Nash & West. ., switchmen or signalmen. The effect will not be proportionately so serious in passenger service, as a majority of} trainmen in that branch already make their 100 miles in eight hours or less. But roads which do a great deal of local and com- mutation passénger business will feel it seriously. Thus, President Elliott of the New Haven esti- mates that the total cost to the St. Paul will be around $2,000,000. | Shafts Aimed at Omaha__| Nebraska City Press: Omaha is getting to be a center for newlyweds. Twenty-eight marraige licenses were issued there Wednesday, many of them to young people living .in the state. Omaha —~The Gateway to Matrimony! A new slogan for the Commercial club. Nebraska City Press: “Fainting Bertha” es- caped from the Hastings asylum the other day, but was captured. This recalls Bertha's esca- pade with the Omaha preacher who tried first to reform her and after getting some unpleasant notriety came to the conclusion that some brands are not worth plucking from the burning. Beatrice Express: The Omaha Grain ex- change, in what they say is an effort to eliminate gambling in food products, has issued an order raising the margin on wheat deals to a point where the “piker” speculator cannot get in, The order will no doubt save the loss of a few dol- lars to some who have made a practice of trying to become wealthy over night, but it will not have a tendency to wipe out 'the real evil, the bulls and bears who raise and lower the price on the farm- er's products practically to ‘suit themselves, Nebraska City News: The same society writer for The Omaha Bee who made a fuss be- cause a few of the society dames of Omaha got scarlet fever a few months ago and overlooked the fact that the children of the {oor were dying with it is now ipuhing all over the landscape be- cause some of the society girls ‘of Omaha are learning to play the ukelele, as though that were a wonderfu! accomplishment, simply because so- ciety girls have taken up the fad. Nebraska City grh whose pictures have never been on the maha gociety pages have mastéred the ukelele ages ago, but nobody is snorting about it. Genoa -Leader: If anyone in this neck of the woods dares to proclaim that Omaha is not a hospitable city they will have to fight the editor of this Great Family Necessity. e know bet- ter, because we were dawn there this week, and ‘n company with about 150 other pen pushers from Nebraska and Iowa, enjoyed the time of our life. We went in response to an invitation from the Commercial club of that ci?’. which from an early hour Monday mornin untbthe wee small hours morning showed us a hot time. They entertained us, and amused us, they dined us and wined us (nothing stronger than grape juice, however), and when they had us properly pre- pared they took us out into the country some- where to a den of torture where they g6t busy again, ' They bowled and rolled us, they poked us and soaked us, they lammed us and slammed us until if there was an atom of dignity left in the anatomy df a single editor in the bunch it was because he was knocked senseless at the start and had no realization of what they did to him. But it was great all the same, and we wouldn’t have missed it for 160 acres of Texas land. So here fs three cheers and a tiger for Omaha, she is all right! People and Events A shortage of prures is reported in the north- west, Those who insist on a full measure at Ipr;lkfnt will presently find the bill is no joke, i One of Chicago’s motorcycle squad is under a $10,000 bond to answer a charge of doing the auto bandit act. In Cleveland a prominent 1’uli- ness booster is under arrest for stealing autos as a side line. Next! . _ Fearing the government might experience dif- ficulty in finding suitable sites for the armor plant authorized by congress, five Kentutky -cities voluntter to show Uncle Sam the best five on_the ma% When you see what you want hike for it. or the present year, ending July 31, prison industries netted the state of X{lnnelon - 827. Gross earnings amounted to $2,811,956 and expenses $2,431,129, The income was derived from the manufacture of binding twine and machinery. A New York capitalist intimates in print that the services of soldiers on the Mexican border are not necessary. ' Ample protection can be had by building a wire fence along the line and keq;:n. the wires hot with electricity. His kinship to the wire trust is not stated. “Save mont)s‘. love the Lord,” is the motto handed by Bill Sunday to New Yorkers who are looking Sundayward for salvation. Then the elect ahd Billy mounted limousines to view sites for his tem&ifo and devise ways and means to raise $§1,000, to finance the winter campaign in the metropolis. The problem of the ages yields to the magic touch of genius. A Minneapolis boy of 13 has rigged up a device which automatically :puyJ the sleeping maid, waking her in time to close the windows and shut out the rain. Unbroken slum- ber is thus assured the family and the joy of living boosted a notch, Philadelphia middlemen, like the brethren of other large cities, anticipated the railroad brother- hood strike by laying in large stocks of provisions and marking up the price. The strike did not come off, nor the middlemen. Provision prices stick to the strike figures, and local papers are :r(lyénng samples of public resentment over the oldup. Another section of the social failure of New York is threatened with an official bleaching of linen calculated to disturh the peace of highl respectable families, A recent raid of the morals squad on afiuiet retreat near Carnegie hall is said by officials to have netted documentary evi- dence of numerous surgical operations on the Mann act, which leaves the operators in a more debiliated condition than the law. ‘in New York City. Born at Thought Nugget for the Day. Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.—Shakespeare. One year Ago Today in the War. Austria rushed reinforcements to the Itallan front. Paris reported last flve days quiet at the Dardanelles. " Continuation of heavy canonading all along the westérn front. Bofia dispatches reported prepara- tions for a mopilization of the Bul- garian army. ' Russian forces at Vilna threatened with envelopment by the Germans un- der General von Hindenburg. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. Henry Yingling, the well known north Thirteenth street cigar dealer, TODAY. was married to Miss Mary Galla- gher. H. W. Finch, representing T. J. Lister & Co. in stocks and bonds, has just started in business here with headquarters in room 19, Paxton House. Charles Geyer of the celebrated Geyer family of German acrobats, ie in the city and will appear with the Steens at the exposition building. Mr. Geyer 18 known to the professional world as the human serpent and doe- tors of Philadelphia have offered $10,- 000 for his body after death. Mrs. 8. A. Patch of Boston is visit- ing her son, Charles H. Patch of this city. She is accompanied by Mrs. D. D. Foster, George Canfield of the Canficld house is at the Capital City taking in the state fair. License to marry was granted Fred- erick Dahlberry and Emma Larson, both born in Sweden, but now of Omaha. Friends of the Rev. and Mrs. E. G. Fowler gave them a reception at which they were presented with a beautiful and expensive easy chalr. Rev. Mr. Wright made the prescmn-1 tion speech. ' This Day in History. 1712—Captain Richard Derby, emi- | nent Salem merchant, one of whose | vessels took the first news of Lexipg- | ton and Concord to London, born at ?fie’m, Mass. Died there, November 9, 1816—A Mexican force occupied Galveston Island and organized a gov- ernment with Don Luis Aury a.u‘gov-_[ ernor of Texas and Galyeston island. 1861—Cornerstone laid for the new court house and city hall in Chicago. 1866—Dedication and opening of the Univeérsity of Kansas at Law- rence. 1873—Assassination bf General E. 8, McCook by P. P. Wintermate, at Yankton, Dak.' 1899—Cornelius Vanderbilt, mil- lionaire and railroad magnate, died New Drop, 8. I, November 27, 1843. 1900—President Kruger abandoned the Transvaal territory. 1901—The sessions of the Admiral Schley court of Inquiry were begun in Washington. . TR The Day We Celcbrate. Carl J. Ernst, assistant treasurer of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy was born September 13, 1884, at Goer- litz, Prussia. He has served one term a8 regent of the University of Ne- braska and is now president of the Omaha school board. T. F. Stroud is 62 years old today. He was born in Atlanta, Ill, and be- gan his present business of wagon- making here in 1894, Rt. Hon. H. H. Asquith, prime min- ister of Great Britain, born in York- shire sixty-four years ago today. 8ir George H. Perely, acting high commissioner for Canada in London, born at Lebanon, N. H., fifty-nine years ago today. Dr. Francis E. Clark, founder and head of the United States Society of Christian Endeavor, born at Aylmer, | Quebec, sixty-five years ago today. Most Rev. John Joseph Keane, arch- bishop of Ciana, and formerly of Du- buque, born in County Donegal, Ire- land, seventy-seven years ago today. Florence Kelley, general secretary of the tional Consumers’ league,. born in Philadelphia, fifty-seven years ago todgy. Prof. Arthur Schuster, secretary of the Royal Society and one of the most distinguished physicists of Eng- land, born in Germany, sixty-five years ago today. Timely Jottings and Reminders. Galveston, Tex., celebrated its cen- tennial today. The University of Kansas at Law- rence, begins its fiftieth year today, Maryland celebrates “Old Defend- ers' Day” today, in honor of the an- niversary of the succeSsful defense of Baltimore against the British in 1814. The cornerstone of the new Patlia- ment buildings at Ottawa, to replace the structure destroyed by fire last year, is to be laid by the Duke of | Connaught. : i The Connecticut legislature meets | in special session today to make pro- vision for taking the vote of Con- :ectlcut soldiers.on the Mexican bor- er. Primaries are to be held in Louls- {ana today for the nomination of con- gressmen, judges of the state court of appeals and railroad commissioner. Candidates for United States sena- tor, representatives in ‘' congress and complete state tickets are to be chosen in the Arizona primaries today. The democratic state campaign in Missouri is to be opened at Joplin to- day with a meeting at which Vice President Marshall and Senator Reed are scheduled as the chief speakers. In the Colorado primaries today | Governor George A. Carlson is op- d for renomination on the repub- ! ican ticket by Samuel D. Nicholson | of Leadville. Julius C. Gunter, form- | er supreme court justice, is slated for Lhe democratic gubernational nomina- | on. The participation of women candi- dates for United States senator, rep- resentatives in congress and other offices has given an added interest to the spirited campaign in the state of ‘Washington, to be concluded with the state-wide primaries today. Storyette of the Day. | He was fond of playing jokes onl his wife, and this time he thought he had a winner. > “My dear,” he said, as they sat at supper, “I just heard such a sad story of a young girl today. They thought she was going blind, and so a surgeon operated on her, and found"'— “Yes?"' gasped the wife breath- lessly. “That shé'd got a young man in her eye!" ended the husband, with a chuckle. For a moment there was silence. Then the lady remarked slowly: “Well, it would all depend on what sort of a man it was, Some of them she could have seen through | easily enough.”——Pittshurgh Chronicle Telegraph. . l \ Ttk Why Pinchot is for Hughes. Philadelphia, Sept. 9—To.the Edi- tor of The Bee: It is the duty of ev- ery American citizen to make and support openly his choice among the candidates for the presidency. That duty is especially solemn this year because great events and great deci- sions are certain to confront us dur- ing the next administration. I am writing to give you my reasons for my own choice. I am neither a democrat nor a re- publican, but a progressive. Yet, there being no progressive nominee, unless I choose to support a candi- date who can not be elected, I must vote for either Wilson or Hughes. For many months after his inaugu- ration, I though well of President ‘Wilson. In many respects 1 liked what he said about what he was go- ing to do. a good impression. ¥ was only when I began to check up what he said by what he did that'I was forced to change my view. ', In the end I came to see that Pres- ident Wilson has a greater power than any other man in public life to say one thing, but do another, and get away with it. The facts which justify this state- ment are common knowledge. We have all heard him tell Ger- many publicly that it would he held to strict accountability, and have learned afterward that he had actu- ally let it know secretly at the time, by the magith of his secretary of state through the Austrian ambassador, that what he said he did not mean. We have all seen him prove that he did not mean it by his total failure to exact reparation, apology or even dis- avowal for the murder of Americans on the Lusitania. I do not say that Wilson should have thrust us into war. There was no need of war. But there was need of courage to give us peace with self- respect. If Wilson had shown cour- age this country would not have skid- ded from one crisis to the next, again and again narrowly escaping disaster. We have all heard him declare against intervention in Mexico, while actually intervening to dictate who should and who should not hold of- fice there, and denounce war against Mexico while actually engaged in war. For more than a year after the . world-war began, Wilson did not raise a finger to put us in a condition of de- fense. Only the proverbial good luck of America has kept us from paying the bitterest price for his unforgivable y neglect. We have all heard him ridicule the idea of a greater navy, then declare for incomparably the greatest navy in the world, and then go back on that. We have all heard him declare for exempting our coast-wise trade from tolls in the Panama canal, and have seen_him show ‘our own people and the English that e did not mean it. We- have seen him elected on a platform which pledged him to a sin- gle term as president, and then be- come a candidate for another term. We have all heard him announce himself as president of all the people and have seen him, as the most par- tisan president of his generation, flout and oppose the progressives, whom now, because he needs them, he seeks to_conciliate and enlist. These facts,.and many others like them, have forced me to see that what Mr. Wilson says is no sign of what he has done, or of what he will do. The one thing his record shows is that what he stands for now he is not likely to stand for long. I do not care what his platform or his compaign declarations may be, because the com- mon experience of us all has taught us that to him they are simply ‘‘mo- lasses to catch flies."” % Hughes, on the other hand, is a man of his word. His record as gov- ernor of New York proves that. It ‘shows him to be honest, fearléss and free from the. domination of special interests and corfupt politicians. So far as the conservation policies are concerned, both what he sald and what he did could hardly have been He talked well and made |. | congress gave the American people otter. I am confident that under him ?!:csc policies will be safe. He is a strong man who Will dodge no moral issues, and he will give us an honest and an efficient administration. As a progressive I believe in nation- alism. So does Hughes. Iam certain that under Hughes the progressive policies will fare better than under Wilson, and that the safety, honor and welfare of the c:un:.’ry will be in rably surer hands. ‘mlngfxunot ’vote for Wilson because I can not trust him. He does not do what he says. Huzhes does. There- fore my cholle l;l Hfihes. and I shall V' or m. pok vmalFFORD PINCHOT The String to That Law. Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 11.—To the Editor of The Bee: There appears to be considerable comment just at the present time over the passage of the Adamson bill by congress fer the purpose of giving the trainmen who threatened to strike the relief they demanded and which President Wil- son appeared to be willing to give them. The bill, as 1 understand it, gives the trainmen what they demanded, but contains a provision that at the end of six months a commission shall report upon the workings of the law. Now it appears to me that if the president and congress were sincero in wanting to give the trainmen what they wanted, they should have passed a law with no strings attached. If this law was a good one and one which they believed in passing would stand, why did they put it on trial for a period of time which would car- ry it past the election in November? Did the democratic congress at the demand of the president pull off a po- pitical deal to secure the trainmen’'s votes and then after the election was over the copmission would find the bill not a workable affair. I do not blame the trainmen tor wanting to better their condtion. If I could get congress to make the hours of a newspaper man less and cut them down from eighteen hours a day to seventeen and a half, T would do so, but I should want the law one that would stand on its own meritus and not be passed on a politi- cal basis. To me it looks like a political deal pure and simple, for if congress had faith in the bill why did it not make the bill a law right from ‘the start and not hitch a string to it which might be pulled after the election was over. Perhaps I ought to bhe more charitable and call it merely another instance of the inability of the demo- cratic party to meet an emergency and solve it effectually. P. A. BARROWS ‘Why They Wouldn’t Arbitrate. Omaha, Sebt. 11.—To the Editor of The Bee: Too much criticism {8 be- ing heaped upon President Wilson and the trainmen by the “press,” men in “public life” and even ministers of the “gospel.”” Why criticize the pres- ident when he was left absolutely no alternative to ward off the calamity which threatened the whole country. The trainmen offered to arbitrate all their demands except the eight- hour day. They knew that the eight- hour day would not receive as much consideration from an ‘arbitration board” before it was put into practi- cal use as it will from the “Interstate Commerce commission” after it has recelved a tryout. The eight-hour law will not stand if it is unjust to either side, but President Wilson and a chance to compare the report which will be made by the commission and the prejudiced statements made by the railroads./ It is always easy to condemn others when the excitement is on, but the question is, ' “What would you have done, with vour deli- cate state of mind on the question be- tween capital and ‘“labor?” ' You would perhaps have said 'Strike,” 'to your everlasting regret. The audacr ity of the trainmen and their power so stunned 'you that you “lost your head.” Throw away the hammer and come back to “watchful waiting.” | trust that when ‘“Uncle Sam” takes control of the “Sante Fe"‘'after the 18t of January he will find a place for Mr. Ripley. J. 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