Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 7, 1916, Page 6

e epp— H iy b ©oon January 1, 1916, Surfaced roads are incri AL ] THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY PROPRIETOR Entered st Omaha postoffice as second-class matter Daily D“Jl ing and Sunday. ening without Sunday. Dy and Sundey Bes, thres. yeurs 1 i al ne ree 2 '—,-m!y n.ofice of change of address or frregularit ivery to Omaha Bee, Cireulation Department. REMITTANCE. o e *wmit by draft, express or postal order, Only2-cent stamps n m payment of small accounts. Persomal c 3 “he "on” Omaiw and castern exchange, not sccapted: i OFFICES. OmataThe Bee Bulling. Sout) maha— 5 . Conneil Blaffa—14 North Main street. Lincoin—526 Little Bulding, Chiougo—818 People’s Gus Buflding. New York—Room 03, 286 Fifth avenus. 3t. Lauis—503 New Bank of Commerce. Weshington——725 Fourtaenth street, N. W. et CORRESPONDENCE. ldress munieations relating to news and editorial atter to Bee, Editorial Department. AUGUST CIRCULATION 55,755 Deily—Sunday 51,048 Dwight Williwas, eirculation manager of The Bee *ublishin being duly sworn, that the __,‘er: 0‘:‘11,\';“,':4:;;;: ::'m month of Al 1916, was a7 7.0 Sanday. jon M 3 § HIGHT WILLIAMS, Oireulation Munsger. gy v R o R iy ‘ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Publie. pr BN NN o . oSl soslattctan ikl ™ Subscribers leaving the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed ds often as required. e e All right, Mr. President, come again. ee—— Hail, King Ak-Sar-Ben XXII, and hail the queen! | Well, Art, old top, you did doll up some, after ull, and ride in the flouted limousinc. | "The need of a new Union passenger station for Omaha is again strikingly accentuated. em——— : It may be noted that Jerry O'Leary is not missing any chance to capitalize the publ_icity of the act, \ Smee——— 1t is to be hoped the prize-winning porkers at the swine show appreciated the compliment and felt duly honored. | - Put it down that: Omaha's next red letter day will be Monday, October 16, when Charles E. Hughes pays odr city a visit, | . Eae—— The fortune of the late James J. Hill, scheduled in | Mifinesota, amounts to $52,000,000. The fa- mous “empire builder” exacted a modest ransom for benefits conferred. * § emm——— Now with the, parades off our minds, the pres- idential party safely home and the king and queen on the royal job, the corn belt population is fully prepared for the thrills of the world's cham- plonehip series, + i Ese——— At s lmpuuible/ for all Omaha to extend the glad ‘hand to those who designed and executed the historical and elgotrical parades. | The: spirit is, willing, thone%h %re‘ach is short, Take the will for the'deed,. % & | A3y The high cést of campaigning brought }ho;'ne 1o the democratic national committee with painful force throws on the political screen the grotesque humor of the party's pledge to reduce living cost. 7 Performance mocks the promise. ' Ile rafnbow tints of autumn fade into ob- sanrity. beside the facial colors and gladsome rai- b went 0f Poor Lo and his family on parade. Pale- ‘ace devotees of the powder puff in artistic color work lag far h_chind the' first hmi}iu. e——— | Au extra sheaf of glory is dug the police de: oaggment, The strenuous task of handling record- eaking crowds on two occasions in a satisfac- tory manner attests the efficiency of the force and deserves the gratitude of,:he community, ! Nothing succeeds’ like success! < /8o, it is pleasing to note that' the:compliments to Omaha - on out entertainment.of the president and- the mistress of the White House outnumber by many thousand-fold the complaints and griev- At ST S AN g President Wilson says our Nebraska semi- centennial history pageant proved a revelation to bim. 1t likewise has proved a revel,afion to every- one who witnessed it, including thosé of us who thouglit we were tolerably conversant with Ne- biulq Bistory. g w0 w0 - Growth of Good Roads The improvement of ~public roads in the United Statés is m‘verz_npid. and while an enormous’ amount of work remains to be done, the highway system is no a reproach to tlie country, The office of public roads has issued 4 statement covering the subject, which is full of 3 i Of uc total mileage of roads outside of cities towns, amounting to 2,452,000, about 277,030 _ miles were improved with some sort of surfacing ng at the rate of 16,000 miles a year.. The total ex- penditure for road and bridge work in 1915 was about $5282,000,000, an increase of 250 per cent qver 1904, The states supervised. the expenditure of $80,500,000. ' There is now a highway depart- aient in every state government except those of Indiang, South Carolina and Texas. The cash ex- penditure for roads and bridges in the United .tates averaged $28 a mile in 1904, and it is now (409 g milk, A most significant feature of roau develop- ‘wment is the construction of better surfaces as & resdlt of automobile traffic. The bulletin esti- .aates that there are approximaely 2,500,000 aato- mebiles in use on the roads of the country, or wite car for cvery mile of road. The motor ffic is greater than traffic of all kinds twelve ago, The influence of the automobile upon road improvement is constant and omnipresent, {t reaches the remotest rural regions and tends t bad roads into good and good roa’s v, The use of the automobile by farmers 1as completely changed the rural attitude toward n‘mofln( and tens of thousands of men are mak- ng direct !wofih by catering to the passing n order to attract Lim there must oca road, and thus the lump of rural con- servatism is leavened to a surprising degree. - The aid now rendered by the federal govern- ment fo the states will rapidly increase the pro- X ‘of good trunk roads. This co-operation drpix‘undu way in many states. The sub- ‘of the work of road building into hun- ‘of thousands of hands is completely trans- _the situation and operating with pro- farm life. No other invention autpmobile in the benefit it has life in' America. i THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, Wilson Smashes Another Sacred Democratic Idol. In his Omaha speech, President Wilson again showed his facility for repudiating democratic doctrine and stealing republican thunder. Here is a quotation, slightly condensed, of his exact language: We heard a great deal of talk about big business getting no sympathy—that sas not the troubfi-. Big business had plenty of sym- pathy, but bad business ought not to have had any sympathy. What our law stood in need of was the definition' of what was good and what was bad—a definite expression of the idea that was back of it. That idea was merely this—unfair competition i§ wrong, but, if the compe!i(ion’ is fair, the scale upon which it is carried on is not only no concern of the law- maker, but the bigger the scale, the more sp'en- did the results always have been, Now, we do not take issue with this thought, but we insist that it is not a democratic declara- tion but, on the contrary, it is the Roosevelt preachment. It was Roosevelt and the republi- cans in congress back of him who took the posi- tion that only “bad” business was to be restricted and curtailed and that the mere fact that business was “big” did not make it bad, while the demo- crats were constantly contending directly the opposite. For proof, let us go back to a few unim- peachable democratic witnesses. The democratic national platform of 1908, among other pronounce- ments, declared: We favor a license system which will make it necessary for a manufacturing or trading corporation, engaged in interstate commegce, to take out a federal license before it shall be permitted to control as much as 25 per cent of the product in which it deals, and to prohibit the control by such corporation of more than 50 per cent of the total amount of any product consumed in the United States. Again, the democratic national platform of 1912, being the very platform upon which Wood- row Wilson was elected president, reads: We favor the declaration by law of the con- ditions upon which corporations shall be per- mitted to engage in interstate trade, including, among others, the prevention of the control by any one corporation of so large a proportion of any industry as to make it a menace to com- petitive conditions. True, the democratic platform of 1916 tries to get away from the whole question by pretending that these promises have been fulfilled and by covering them up with a general re-affirmation, but tHe record of the democrats in congress is just as contradictory to the president's present right-about-face, Our own democratic United States senator, for example, now seeking re- election by clinging to the president’s coat tails, championed an amendment to the revenue law which, if adopted, would have put big business completely out of business, He proposed levying a progressive tax on corporations, increasing with the size of the business, the undisguised purpose being to penalize busineds not because it is “pad” but because it is “big.” Senator Hitch- cock's measure would have the government liter- ally confiscate big business to this extent that for a corporation “whose production or sale be one-quarter, and less than one-third, of the total amount of any liné of production” its annual tax “shall be five times the normal tax, to-wit, five per cent,” and if one-third, and lessgthan one-half, of the total amount of ahy line of production its annual tax “shall be ten times the normal tax, to-wit, ten per cent,” and, finally, “if its produc- tion ‘or sale as one-half, or more, of the total amount of any line of production for the whole country, its annual tax shall be twenty times the normal tax, to-wit, twenty per cent of the net income accruing from all sources.” How are democrats' like Senator Hitchcock, whose capital stock has been baiting big busi- ness without distinguishing between good busi- ness and bad business, going to get into the same wagon now with President Wilson for business on a big scale and “the bigger the scale the more splendid the result.” How is President Wil- son now going to take back and exchange all the democratic attacks on Theodore Roosevelt and republicans generally for upholding business, biz and little, when fairly ¢onducted and fighting only lawless business, to punish unfair or dis- honest dealing and stop palpably indefensible abuses. J See———— Financial Preparedness. The readiness and ease with which the country .absorbs all offerings of American securities com- ing from abroad is an outstanding feature of the financial side of war, It constitutes a notable demonstration of the country's financial prepared- ness and its ability to meet extraordinary de- mands without disturbing market conditions, The total amount of the liquidation is not known, but its magnitude may be judged by the turnover of railroad securities, of which statistics are avail- able. L. F. Loree, president of the Delaware & Hudson railroad, gathered data from 105 railroad companies covering three six-month periods, from January 31, 1915, to July 31, 1916, and com- putes the total amount at $1,285,773,801, par value. The par value of railroad securities held abroad at the beginning of 1915 Mr. Loree places at $2,704,402,364, so that close to one-half of the whole has been taken over by home investors. The figures do not include recent pledges of American securities for an Anglo-French loan of $250,000,000. A proportionate volume of industrial and mining stocks found not only a ready but a rising market and a profit for the war stricken owners. Practically all of the securities came from the allied nations, the mail blockade pre- venting German and Austrian holders from un- loading heavily. Many sales are being effected by wireless, however, according to the Financial World, the securities being placed in German bank vaults for delivery after the war, The vast extent of the liquidation, supplement- ing the inflow of foreign gold, computed at $730,- 000,000, greatly augments the country’s financial power and ability to handle emergencies as they arise. — Oregon voters are not running in their usual form this year. Only seventeen referendum laws are on the November ticket, in addition to national, state and local candidates. The slump of 40 per cent in referendums indicate a painful shortage of entrants in the speedway of right- eousness, All who heard Wilson should also come out to hear Hughes when he speaks here in Omaha Monday, October 16, This is a great campaign of education and everyone who wants to vote in- telligently should utilize every opportunity to ‘size up the men between whom he must choose. t will surprise no one to learn that Okla- homh produced nearly one-half the natural gas of thé‘gwmry last year. The showing does not do full ih?\ipe to the state’s wonderful resources in that line. “{he output of Wild Bill Murray, M. C, is omittel from the score ! Forecast of a Veteran. William Pitt Kellog, Governor Kellogz, now living in Washing- ton, was United States judge for Nebraska in territorial days and later Louisiana’s gov- ernor and senator. There seems to be more interest taken in analyzing the vote for president in November than has heretofore been manifested before a presiden- tial -election. I would like to make a forccast of the result of this election. The tariff, the Mexi- can question and the foreign policies of the admin- istratica are, of course, the leading issues. I be- lizve, however, that the next issuz in importance is the so-called Adamson eight-hour law. . This measure, to my mind, is the greatest misiake made by this administration. I have much re- spect for the great ability and sincereity of Presi- dent Vilson as a man, but I fear that he fals to properly estimate the current of public opinion. The president during his several confercaces with the labor representativcs and the railroad managers, acting as a mediator and sincerely desiring to avert the threatened strike, went sery far, especially in pra:tically ascuring the railroad people that he would do whatever he consist- ently could to increase railroad rates, if on investigation it was found that his eight-hour proposition really operated as a hardship to them, as to which there seems to be little question. Had he stopped there, having done all he could as a mediator between the contending parties, leaving them to appeal to congress if they de- sired, but himself resting upon his record so far made, it is possible that a strike of more or less magnitude might have resulted. I do not be- lieve, however, that the threatened strike would have been so widespread or so disastrous as was predicted. The railroads had evidently improved the delay during the negotiations between the parties, enabling them to largely deal with and minimize the effect of the strike. Again, it is doubtful if a majority even of the 400,000 employes the brotherhoods claimed to represent would have joined in the strike, for it is well know that many of these employes were openly opposed to the contemplated strike. Had the president firmly and in no uncertain way de- clared that if the strike occurred as threatened he would exhaust every resource in his power to deal effectively- with it, as Cleveland or Roosevelt. would have done, it is doubtful if a strike would have occurred, and the country would have been spared the spectacle of a subservient congress, yielding to menace and establishing a prece- dent wuhout&arallcl in the annals of American legislation. itness the practical failure of the strike in New York as the result of theé firm stand taken by the local authorities, supplemented by the effect of public sentiment. But assuming that the strike Kad eventuated, the administration would have stood in a more advantageous posi- tion than it now does. The brotherhoods would naturally have felt that the president had en- deavored to serve them. The railroad people would have felt that the president had done whatever he personally could to avert the threat- ened strike. But the president went to con- gress and made a personal and persistent fight, which resulted in the passage of a measure which I believe will prove to be a far-reach- ing and most disastrous blow to the success of the democratic party in November, It is the effect and the result of this meas- ure that T have taken into account in making an estimate of the coming election, 1 pass by the question of the merits or de- merits of the measure from a legal standpoint. This being and will continue to be discussed be- fore the public. The president, by intimating that in a con- tingency the question of increasing railroad rates to offset the loss to the rajlroads, invoked in the public mind a question which is vital to the inter- ests of the farmers and the consumers. The pro- ducers and the general public, upon whose should- ers the burden must ultimately rest, Eight hours as a day's worl? is' popular and now generally acceptéd by employers. To term this Adamson measure an eight-hour work-day law is a misnomer. It is not a measure provid- ing for an eight-hour work-day, but a law mak- ing a chln’e and largely increasing an existing schedule of wages heretofore paid by the rail- roads to a comparatively small body of men, alréady better paid than most of the other em- ployes of the railroads. This measure originated at the behest and discriminated in favor of an organization designated as brotherhoods, sys- tematically organized and represented by so- called chiefs, having, among other things, de- liberately accumulated a large fund to enable them to enforce their demands. These representa- tives came in an attitude of menace to congress, encouraged by the administration, and said in effect, “Unless this measure is enacted we will precipitate a disastrous railroad strike.” After passing the house this act was forced through the senate, the most deliberative legislative bosy on earth, durlng the last hours of the session, under whip and spur. The chiefs of the brother- hoods, who witnessed its passage from the gale leries, being assured that the measure would be app{ovcd by the president, hastened to call off the strike, The much-exploited four pens which were used to perfect the measure, if I do not greatly mis- take the sentiment of the country, will in the near future he regarded as having served in a conspicuous degree to insure the defeat of the democratic party. It is said by many of the advocates of this measure that it will serve to secure to the ad- ministration the sympathy and support of the la- borers of the country, The ;reat mass of the laborers - of this country is composed of intelligent and thinking' men, /ho know that zs a rule labor is fairly well remunerated and their interests have been greatly conserved by the re: publican party, They know that any widespread effort to secure an advance in wages by assuming an attitude of menace and the engendering of strikes is likely to result in arousing public sen- timent to such a degree that in the end they might be ground between the upper and the nether millstones of the great producing interests of the country and the general public. The theory recently advanced that there is any grave question in dispute between warring interests directly involving the public welfare, which is not a fair subject of arbitration, seems repugnant to every fair-minded citizen, I stated at the outset of this communication that there seemed o be more than usual interest taken in the making of estimates upon the result of the forthcoming election, 1 believe the fol- lowing-named states will give republican ma- jorities: Maine, New Hampshire, Massachugetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, M. ..1igan, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Utah, Oregon, California, Wyoming, North and South Dakota, Colorado, West Vir- ginia, New Mexico and Idaho, ‘ People and Events A roundup of New York City millionaires away back in 1855 showed a total of twenty- seven, Now the city has over 2,000, exclusive of the war baby buds, The city sealer of weights and measures of Chicago is pressing the enactment of a city ordi- nance fixing the weight of bread loaves at one pound. He maintains the city can fix a definite weight, but not the price. As baking goes now the bakers run up the price and run down the weight, catching the consumer “a-coming and a-going.” A “I would die to prove the truth of the Bible," exclaimed the Rev. Thomas J. Needham, in the pulpit of the Bethlehem Baptist church at Phila- delphia last Sunday. His aged face was aglow wn\: the glory of his faith, The hushed congre- ation bowed as the minister outstretched his ands, invoked the benediction. A moment later he sank "back exhausted in the pulpit, and his soul took flight ere the congregation realized that the minister was dead ) OCTOBER 1, 1916. | Thought Nugget for ihe Duy. The sublime and the ridicuious are often so nearly related that it is diffi- cult to clase them separat step above the, sublime rediculous and one step above ridiculous makes the subiime again. —Thomas Paine, One Year Ago in the War, Russians turned on Germans and stopped drive toward Dvinsk. M. Zaimis succeeded M. Venizelos as premier of Greece. Russian cruisers bombarded Dul- garian port of Varna. Greece’s protest to entente powers against landing at Salonika made public. Bulgaria rejected Russian demancs and sent ultimatum to Serbia demand- ing immediate settlement of Macedo- nian controversy. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. The members of the B8t' Mary's Avenue Congregational church at their last meeting elected the follow- ing officers: Ralph Gaylord, presi- dent; W. R, Jarvis, secretary; W. N. McCandlish, clerk, and Messrs. F. W Gray and Dr, A. 8. Billings as trustees. Hanging up in one of the show windows of Max Meyer & Bros. jew- elry store is a beautiful testimonial presented to Senator Charles F. Manderson, chairman 'of the senate committee on printing, by the em- ployes of the public printers’ depart- ment, it being a formal expression of thanks from the printers for Senator Manderson’s successful efforts to se- cure them a fifteen-day leave of ab-* sence per year. Mrs, Balbach has painted a dozen soup bowls, no two alike in either form or design. Messrs. Schall & Refregler have established a stone quarry at Nicho- las and Sixteenth. Mrs.; M. A. Lane of Chicago has arrived and will be head trimmer for Mrs. 8, D. Rogers’ millinary establish- ment, The following people -avé progres- sive euchre parties during the week: Mrs, Dr. Jones, Mrs. Dietz and Mrs. Joseph Barker. Mrs. John D. Creighton gave a party at her residence, Twentieth and Cuss, in honor of Mrs. McCormick of Salt Lake City. This Day in History. 1691—Province of Maine united with the royal province of Massachu- setts Bay. 1765—Delegates from nine Anglo- American colonies met at New York and adopted a declaration of rights. 1816—~Edmund Hammond Har- graves, discoverer of the great gold flelds of western Australia, born in England. Died at Sydney, N. 8. W,, October 29, 1891, 1840—Abdication of the king of Holland in favor of his son, the prince of Orange, who ascended the throne as William II, 1862—Louis Napoleon was pro- claimed emperor of the French under the title of Napoleon IIL 1864=United States war vessel ‘Wachusett selzed the confederate war vessel Florida in-the port of Bahia, Braazil, After remonStrancé the United States government disavowed the act. 1866—The se:ond national council of the Roman Catholic church in the United States convened in Baltimore. 1891—An equestrian statue of Gen- eral Grant was unveiled in Chicago. 1894—Oliver Wendell Holmes, the poet, died in Boston. Born in Cam- bridge, Mass., August 29, 1809, 1908—Austria formally annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Day We Celebrate. Dr. Millard Langfeld, physician, was born October 7, 1872, at Glasgow, Mo. He graduated in medicine at Johps Hopkins university and hag béen, p:....cing here in Omaha since 1898. He holds the position of bac- teriologlst of the city of Omaha and also professor of medicine at Creigh- ton Medical college. Leon J. Millard, president and treasurer of the Independent Lumber company, is 35. He was born in West Union, la., and worked his way up in the lumber business from a start as clerk in kreeport, Ill, to the posi- tion of salesman, salesmanager and manager. Dr, H, C. Parker, dentist in the Ne- ville block, was born October 7, 1884, at Salem, Mass. He graduated with the degree of D. D. 8. from the Omaha Dental college in 1805, Anthony Leermakers, better known as “Tony,” with Remington & Kessler, tailors, was born October 7, 1871, at Cincinnati, O, He began work as a tailor in 1884, coming to Omaha eight years later and holding his present position as cutter since 1896, He is also secretary of the Custom Cutter's Association of Omaha. King Nicholas, the exiled sovereign of Montenegro, born in the village of Niegush seventy-five years ago today. Frederick Hale, United States sena- tor-elect from Maine, born in Detroit, Mich., forty-two years ago today. Father Viadimir Ledochowskl, the ago today. senator from Louisiana, born at Alex- andria, La., fifty-eight years ago to- day. George P. McLean, recently renom- inated for United States senator from Connecticut, born at Simsbury, Conn,, fifty-nine years ago today. Wallace G. Nye, the present mayor of Minneapolis, born at Hortonville, Wis., fifty-seven years ago today. Timely Jottings and Reminders. | Died twenty-five years ago today Charles Stewart Parnell, ‘“the un- crowned king of Ireland.” Nicholas of Montenegro, one of the three kinge forced from their throne by the war, passed his seventy-fifth birthday today in his place of exile in_France. The annual ~~nference of the Amer- jean Prison association is to have its formal opening tonight in Buffalo. A military parade and impressive ceremonies are to accompany the dedi- cation of the General Philip H. Sheri- dan monument today in Capital park, Albany, N. Y. John M. Parker, progressive nomi- nee for vice president, is to open his speech-making campaign tonight in Cleveland. Governor Ralston of Indiana has designated today for the general ob- gervance of Riley day in memory « the late James Whitcomb Riley, the oet. ¥ Five balloons are expected to start today from Muskogee, OKL, in the an- nual trophy race under the aucpices of the National Balloon association. Vice President Marshall, in his tour of the west, is scheduled to speak to- day at Ottumwa and Chariton, Ia. Republicans and demqcrats ot Mass- achusetts are to hold their platform conventions today, the republicans meeting in Boston and the democrats in Springfield. Une, head of the Jesuit order throughout | the world, born in Poland fifty years | Joseph E. Ransdell, United States | Eduentional Standards for Ostcopaths. | _Omaha, Neb, Oct. 6.—To the Editor of The bee: It is astonishing ‘hnw many people go through this | world blind and deaf. | says there is no educational require- ment for osteopaths. Mr. Field, will you please read the laws of your state | before you discuss them? i There are over 6,000 osteopaths practicing in the United Sates and each of these are licensed under laws as stringent with reference to college entrance, graduation and state board examination as the laws for medical doctors in the same state at the same time. ¢ For more than fifteen years no os- teopathic céllege has heen recognized { by law which has during that time months, and now all such colleges dgmnnd a four-year course, with pre- vious course of four years in high &chool or its equivalent. There are seven chartered schools of osteopathy in the United States, each equipped with a hospital successfully handling every variety of surgery and eye, ear, nose and throat specialties. In Ma- con, Mo., there is a large, distinctly osteopathic sanatorium devoted en- tirely to the treatment of nervous and mental diseases. In Chicago the pro- fession is supporting a research insti- tute, which is to our profession what the Ro.kefeller inst’!:'2is to the :n - i 21 profession. Sinc: the first few years of osteopathic notoriety the peo- ple generally at:racted t. it have been of the intelligent class, a large percen- tage of the osteopaths graduated in the last few years having colleze or university degrees. If the training in osteopathic schools is not good, how is it that state examining boards, both osteopathic and medical, have fre- quenly given higher gra< s to osteo- pathic ..pplicants th:.. to medical? I am an osteopath and am in no way associated with Christian Science massage or chiropractic, but their low educational standards ig our only bone of contention. Mr. Field evidently docs not know that the customary means of express- ing the sentiment of a large convention regarding world problems, such as prohibition and woman’'s suffrage, is by resolutions, and not in general pro- grams., It is quite noticeable that medical doctors consider it worth while to go on record concerning the use and maufacture of alcohol. The ,noted Woods Hutchinson when in Omaha said that although alcohol might be a food in a very small de- gree, the deleterious effects of even this small amount' so far exceeded the good effects. that the onmly safety lay in letting it alone. I would be glad to give further in- formation to any one desiring it. 1 would not stay in a profession whose leaders did not demand the highest educational standards and encourage research in every line. I myself have a B. 8. degree, have had ten years' experience as a teacher in public schools and colleges, am grauu...e ¢f a three-year course in osteopathy, am licensed to practice in Nebraska and Iowa, the Iowa certificate being grant- ed after passing (xamination by the Iowa ITedical board. JENNIE 8. LAIRD, B. 8, D. 0, D, Sc. O. Why Not Elect a Capable Man? itor of The Bee: There is at present great eZort made to create discord among the people of the United States for a vpolitical party’s sake, namely, between the English and the German- Born citizens - of the United States. Some try to:make it appear as if Pres- ident Wilson has kept us out of war against Gern any, had he been presi- dent. But the German-born United States citizens are too weil read to be misled that way. -How could Presi- dent Wilson get-us into, war any more than he did without our people want- ing war? OQur factories were going at James Field | offered a course of less than twenty | Bruning, Neb, Oct. 4.—To the Ed-| with' Germany, and as if Roosevelt! would have long ago declared war | 11l s, . lu make war material for | England, and England had her own | pleasure of molesting our merchan- dise in transit to neutral countries to aid herself in war. She also had her own pleasure of searching our mails to aid her to undermine our United States commerce with the world. In |addition to that, she blacklisted our j commercial corporations and individ- |uals, and what does Wilson say to | that? That our people don’t want war can plainly be seen by the fact that we | cannot get what few volunteers we {are getting at Mexico, and it is plain that we could not have gotten into war for the further reason that we | conld not manufacture war material, any more than England needed, to ;equlp our few men on the Mexican | border. But the talk that Wilson kept us out of war is a mere political excuse. | As to the Lusitania affair, Theodore Roosevelt, in a speech in Michigan a few days ago, said that it was the greatest murder ever on record, but he added that Wilson knew what the Lusitania was loaded with, and Wil- son knew what was coming, but he gave no warning to our innocent citi- | zens to keep off. Had either Hughes | or Roosevelt been president instead of Wilson, then the millions of dol- lars deficiency to run the government which we individuals had to pay in the form of revenue stamps could have been saved us, and the Mexican trouble would have not developed into what it is n.w, and the FEuropean bloodshed would have been stopped over a year ago. From a humane and a business standpoint should not we United States citizens consider this enough and elect a man who is capable of handling our United States business? J. DUIS. SUNNY GEMS. “When vou'rc whipped,” said Mr, Dolan, “you ought to say you've had enough.” “If I've strength left to say had enough,” replied Mr. Rafferty, "I'm ngt whipped yet."—Wazhington Star, He—Very few women have any brains anyhow. She—Perhaps lot; that is why so imany of them can be persuaded by men to marry them.—Baltimore American. ! “ux don't like the self-reliant, self-support- ing type of woman, 1 prefer the clinging vine type."” “You won't, sonny, when you find how persistingly that type can cling to all of | your weekly salary and what you can ralise jon your credit."—Pittsburgh Press, Hub (with frritation)—why is that you ‘women insist upon having the last word? | Wife (calmly)—We don’t. The only reason we get it is because we always have n dozen arguments left when you etupid men are all run out.—Boston Transcript. 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