Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 9, 1916, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER EDITOR v THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY PROPRIETOR Entered at Omaha postoffice as second-class matter TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By Mail Daily and Sunday... Daily without Sunda: B:Iu and Sunday ing without Sun Sunday only ..20e. Daily and Sunday Bee. three years in advan: 8 Sm! notice of change of address or irregularity in de- livery to Omaha Bee, Circulation it REMITTANCE. A 33 Remit by draft, express or postal order. OnlyZ-cent stamps taken n: :nx‘p of small mecounts, Personal checks, exdept on’ Omaha and eastern exchange, not_sccepted. bttt oy i OFFICES. Orutgn—’rhu Bee Building. South Omaha— 2818 N street. Comen-se Titts Doings o - e Bul 3 Chicago— 814 People's. Gas Butiding. New York—Room 803, 286 Fifth avenue. 3 New Bank of Commerce. 26 Fourteenth street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. & Add: itions relat to news snd toria) ot va " Dmahe Bee, Ealtorial Department. 7 AUGUST CIRCULATION | 55,755 Deily—Sunday 51,048 Dwight Williaras, circulation manager of The E:' Publishing compuny, being duly sworn, s that the average circulation for the month of August. 1916, was 65,765 daily, znd 51,048 Snn‘:{ DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Cireulation Manager. Subseribed in my before me this 3d day of Septem ROBEI l’l‘l‘l’nfl‘l’. Notary Publie. Subscribers leaving the city temporarily , should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be. changed as often as required. e ———m e = resence and sworn to g"i‘l' Still, all things considered, October is some queen. —— Democrats heard from Maine all right, and from New Jersey, too. But disagreeable subjects are barred from present conversation, Omaha fans need not envy the anxiety the world's series puts upon Brooklyn and Boston. The m‘&in of capturing one pennant is a-plenty. ; —— . “The precepts of democracy,” says the oracle, Uprovide for a fighting chance for the little fel- low.” Also for galvanized bank charters, jail feed jobs and other incidentals. The present Mexican regime differs from its predecessors in banking methods. Others were satisfied with the contents of the safes. Car- ranza takes over the whole works — 8o that nary A peso escapes. S——— ~ Some years ago foreigners mocked the Amer- ican dollar as an emblem of gross commrecial- [ Now they are cager to pawn their clothes or any othef acceptable security for a package f golden eagles. y ——— ~ The Kansas fire marshal gives notice that "October is the time to prevent January fires” and there is more truth than poetry in that, Lame furnaces and defective flues start conflagrations when coal is piled on to offset the midwinter cold ¥ ——— “The rarity of extortion practiced on city vis- s makes the offense all the more contemptible. ose who are guilty of it deserve the limit. ?«w public support is assured the authorities | vigorously suppressing this and every class of -ups. Stem—— The government of Sweden displays commend- vigor i resenting British aspersion on its trality. If all neutrals employed equally em- ic words the London critics of neutral mo- might dispense with the mortise as a me- dinm of light. 5 Shngipmay——g— New York City established a municipal garage on the first of the year. As a consequence re- airs and upkeep bills were reduced from $100,655 0 in six months, and the hours of service increased. This showing of economy imitation. | em——— The vastly increased production of. gasoline during 1915, 55 per cent over 1914, supplies a cheery excuse for the enhanced price. The huge ‘output strained the capacity of tanks and refiner- ies‘and multiplied the gray haits of the manag- . Similar causes produce like effects on ice when the winter crop exceeds capacity, The itter neglected to copyright the excuse. ————— economic revolution grips several labor sections of the south, growing out of emigration “of negro laborers to the north. Alabama, Mis- sissippi and Georgia. are taking notice of the movement and manifest serious concern, A short- of colored labor in these sections, where white abor is scarce, may develop a higher respect for essential force in southern development. ~ War Effects On America Bt. Louls Globe Demecrst. attempt to'measure the effect of the war n American business by the actual sales of war munitions is obviously absurd. Not even the ‘exports of fabricated articles begin to tell ‘story. These are enormous, easily surpassing ! history. These exports not only 1o the belligerent countries and to contigu- sus heutral countries—shut off from their nor- mal sources of supplv and with their internal pro- " n limited by the fact that they had to keep nies ready to protect their neutrality—but to _markets of remote countries. The United has almost a monopoly of trade Y et i"" Wfl; tm“:vorld ;ince the 'l'(‘:r 3 importan our home market ’cu freed from the fierce competition that curtailing production, cblh, mills and fac- and throwing hundreds of thousands out employmen e t in the winter of 1913 and the of 1914, Nobody can con- s more stimulating to American and industrial activity than those war. do not stop there, We are sav- American tourists have been d to spend in Europe every year. It that m liquidation of foreign-owned p has "b nltzdim i.:mr hlvins only $70,000,000 abr n_interest an ds instead of the $160/000,000 before the R rm the of most of the 2 year aliens once sent to relatives It is estimated th ign bonds reach $87.500000, these facts shows how in- of A Ly. mareo or I u:."&“'n chhenl: eir party : There is no even on trade. t con- Make This Street Fair the Last One. For every feature, but one, of the \Vonderfu! Week just past—which has drawn to us the at- tention of the whole country, every loyal citizen of Omaha has felt a justified pride. The single exception, which has called for constant apology and which is mentioned only with shame, is the disgraceful street fair with its side-show mon- strosities and dubious demonstrations which in- stead of being a credit, is a positive discredit to our city. We know that the Ak-Sar-Ben governors, themselves, take no satisfaction in the street-fair because their only excuse for conmtinuing it is that it is a revenue-producing enterprise and that they see no other way of making up the proceeds with as little effort. We think that excuse, which is a humiliation in itself, finds its answer in the fact that as a money-maker the street fair is rapidly losing its potency for, on the face of it, with all the tremendous crowds brought to Omaha by the semi-centennial celebration, the beautiful street pageants and the president’s visit, but a few thousand more admissions are registered at the carnival than were registered last year. It is really gratifying to note that the sort of amuse- ment furnished by the street-fair does not main- tain its popularity nor meet even the test of bok- office requirements. d So The Bee suggests to the Ak-Sar-Ben board: Why not make this street fair the last one? Why not devise some better way to finance legitimate Ak-Sar-Ben activities? Why not call upon pub- lic-spirited business men to make their parade fund contributions big enough to cover requisi- tions for that purpose, without being eked out by hoochie-coochie quarters and paddle-wheel dimes? eem— “Keeping Us Out of War.” Driven from other defenses of the ineffec- tive foreign policy of the present administration, the democrats resort to the cry that the presi- dent has “kept us out of war,” True, but so did every American president for seventy years, save of war” Mr. Wilson has found it necessary to start two little wars, from neither of which can the United States extract any consolation or comfort, and has kept the country continually on the verge of a big war by its vacilliating course. At the Omaha Auditorium he said we would fight, but we must know what we are fighting for. About the only reason the Ameri- can people have ever accepted as cause for war is to redress a wilful invasion of our rights, or to succor an oppressed and otherwise de- fenseless people. This is well understood and no special credit can be claimed by an American executive who holds himself true to these Ameri- can ideals, \ Has Mr. Wilson maintained the dignity of the American nation, and the integrity of Americah citizenship? We know from his record that he has not deemed murder of Americans, violation of American women, destruction of American property, and general defiance of American rights cause for resentment beyond dispatch of notes to offenders, who have given them no heed. We know' that todayl he is being flouted by the bigoted Carranza, while the desperate Villa and Zapata pay no attention to him. What we do not know is what will be his course in the future. side from one Englishman and some Chinese, Americans were the only foreigners to be mur- dered in Mexico. Carranza, however, showed no respect for the property rights of Frenchmen, Germans and other foreigners. These govern- ments are not so deeply engrossed in the Euro- pean war that they can not watch over their citizens aboard. For compensation for dam- ages they have brought their case to Washing- ton, this government, under the Monroe doctrine, having accepted responsibility for the Mexican anarchists. Protests are just now being vigor- uosly renewed at the State department, We may be very sure that none of the European govern- ments will abandon their citizens in Mexico, as ours did. This brings the settlement squarely home to us. Either we must satisfy the claims of the Europeans, or we must abandon the Mon- roe doctrine, and allow England, France, Ger- many and other of the offended powers to deal with Mexico directly. ! This is but one of the embarrassments brought to the United States by the wishywashy methods pursued by the president in his efforts to keep us out of war., Postponing the settlement will not make it easier, for the reckoning must be made up some time. —— Skipping Two Years’ Record. Democratic spellbinders and minnesingers lightly skip over the first two years of Presi- dent 'Wilson's term in office and put the loud pedal on the present-day boom. Jumping from 1912 to 1916, they omit about all that passed between. For example, they do not tell any- body that the 90-cent wheat qf 1912 became 80-cent wheat in. 1913, and 70-cent wheat in 1914, Al they shout over is the $1.50 wheat of today, saying nothing of/the fact that if our democratic senator had had his way, and the embargo he proposed had been placed on war supplies, the price of wheat would now be down to about the point it reached in the good old days when democracy was arguing for free silver in order to restore prosperity that had vanished under its administration of national affairs. The men who stood in the bread lines in 1915 are not likely to forget so easily, and will hardly be bam- confidence men who pledged themselves in 1912 to lower the cost of living, and are now boasting about how they have boosted prices. During the last six months of the fiscal year British war expenses overtopped receipts by $9,000,000,000, more than half of it being newly created debt. The cost of war operations in- creased $5,000,000,000 over the preceding six months. When the accounts are cast up at the finish the debt footings promise to stagger those who live to shoulder the load. — An initial test of class power in politics is planned by the farmers of North Dakota. Farmers, it is claimed, constitute 85 per cent of the popu- lation and assert their right to rule the siate. A state ticket composed of farmers is up for ratifica- tion at the polls next month. If the farmers stick together and vote as they plow,, political farming will become a lively industry in the bad lands and the /good lands. —— Life in Gotham is a merry round of hammer knocks for the jostling multitude, The street car strike barely ceased to worry when war broke out between milk producers and milk distributors. the consumers’ goat interned in the dry belt. THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, OCTO. Lincoln and McKinley. But in “keeping us out boozled again by the promises of the free trade’ While rival organizations indulge in heated de- bates a milk famine stalks about town and gets Effect of Hughes' Decision in Minnesota Rate Case Judge Ira B. Mills Chairman Minnesota Railroad and Warehouse Commission. The service rendered by Charles E. Hughes, republican nominee for president, to those who pay the freight, should not be lost sight of in the present campaign. When he gave up the govern- orship of New York to assume the duties of judge of the United States supreme court, the highest tribunal in the land, there was pending in the lower federal courts, questions involving the val- idity of the rates made by the state commissions and the legislatures of Minnesota, Missouri, Kan- sas, Nebraska and South Dakota. The rates made by the state authorities in each of these states had been attacked by the railroad companies. An in- junction had been obtained by the stockholders of the carriers, in the circuit court of the United States, preventing the enforcement of the state- made rates. The Minnesota rate case was tried in the cire cuit court before Judge Sanborn of the Eighth circuit, and decided April 8, 1911, The freight rates fixed by the commission and the legisla- ture, and the 2-cent per mile passenger fare were permanently enjoined, and shippers from April, 1911, to June, 1913, were permanently de- prived of the legal rates fixed by the state au- thorities. On that date Judge Hughes’ decision, in the favor of the shippers, was handed down; the decision of the circuit court was reversed, and since that time the state rates have been in force. / Judge Hughes' opinion in this case, known as the Minnesota Rate Case, will be found in 230 U. S. Supreme court Report, page 352. It is one of the most able opinions ever written by a justice of the supreme court of the United States, and v&;lillncomparc favorably with those of John Mar- shall, In the circuit court Judge Sapborn practically took away the right of the state to make its local rates, by holding that the state rates were an interference with interstate commeérce, and were prohibited by the Interstate Commerce act; and that the state rates were confiscatory for the rea- son that they would not produce sufficient revenue to render reasonable compensation on the value of the property used by the railroad companies in transacting their Minnesota business. In finding the rates confiscatory it was neces- sary for the court to fix a value upon the railroad property. The value of the country right-of-way of the companies was determined by Judge San- born, by using the market value of similar adja- cent property and multiplying that value by three, so if the market value of a farm adjacent to the right-of-way was $50 per acre, the court allowed the railroad company $150 per acre, and the value of the improvements the railway company had made on the land as if they were new. Nothing was deducted for old or worn-out ties. Some of the depots and other station buildings wete old, nearly worn out, but were all figured as if they were new and had just been buile, while everyone knows that an old building is not worth as much as a new one. A major portion of this right-of-way, which was being valued for the purpose of charging ship- pers rates upon their freight, had been given to the railroad companies either by the state or fed- eral government. Over 13,000,000 acres of govern- ment or state land had been given them in the state of Minnesota alone, 3 The terminal properties of the companies in St. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth—I speak of them collectively—were valued by Judge Sanborn by first ascertaining the normal market value for ordinary business purposes, of the adjoining prop- ert; ._m:ludjnx the improvements thereon, and thén increasing it by about 60 per cent, to find the railroad valuation, and to this was added the value of the improvements, which the railroad com- panies had actually put upon this land, as if they were fiew improvements just constructed. lndge Hughes held against the railroad com- panies on both of their contentions, saying that the Interstate Commerce act expressly exempted state rates from its operation and that such rates could be regulated by the state until congress took away that right by direct enactment. On the question of confiscation, on which Judge Sanborn predicated his extravagant notions c»(B the value of railroad property, Judge Hughes decided that the railroads were only entitled to the actual nor- mal value of their country and terminal proper- ties, measured by the market value of the prop- erty in the vicinity of the railroad, and not to en- hance that value by a supposition of what the railroads might have to pay for it. He allowed the railroads to pgnicifiate in the prosperity of the country by giving them the natural increased value of their land and no more. ° He reversed the decision of Judge Sanborn, and held that the state rates, as to the Northern Pacific and Great Northern companies was not confiscatory. This established the state rates for those com&anies. and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul; Chicago & Northwestern, Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha; Soo Line and Chi- cago, Rock Island & Pacific, for Minnesota. The earnings of the Minneapolis & St. Louis were so small that the company was exempted from the state rates, and the Chicago, Great Western case roads have refunded to Minnesota shippers over is s‘tAiII pendlnlg. ; s a result of the Hughes' decision the rail- $3,000,000 for overcharges/in freight shipments, and passenger fares collected fron! shippers and passengers during the time this Sanborn injunc- tion was in force. People and Events Ellen Stebbins New York, totals Payment of the state inheritance tax 000 and was paid in advance to secure r cent discount. he Minimum Wage commission of Massa- chusetts has approved a wage scale for women worke_rs in clothing factories calling for $8.75 for experienced adult workers, for inexperienced adult workers and $6 for workers under 18 years of age. The figures do not indicate serious symp- toms of heart enlargement, A state building for state officers engaged away from the state capitol is to be California’s contribution to the civic center of San Franciso. The building will provide office space for sev- enteen departments, the space totaling 80,000 square feet. Arichitects are invited to compete with plans and specifications for the honor and fees of the job. Indiana's centennial celebration is movin, through the state in sections, different towns ln§ cities doing the honors in rotation. The finish- ing touch will be put on at India lis, where a week of pageantrv will be staged. The distance from the Indiana line to the Missouri river is about 500 miles, but it took fifty years to span the distance with a sufficient number of settlers to win statehood honors for Nebraska. Detroit's millionaire cop, James Couszens, is on the job as chief of police, tagged with a pro- am of moderate reform. Gambling must go, onditions which encourage crime are booked for a long vacatiop. “I am not a prohibitionist,” says the chief, with reference to the saloon ques- tion. “I’'de not believe in denying another man the privileges you enjoy yourself. There are wealthy men in this city who are working for rohibition, knowing that if it carries they will e able to get their desires just the same. To me that is hypocrisy.” Primary races for nominations take consider- able fatness out of ambitious political purses. It is no news to aspirants that the shakedown is ex- pensive, In Illinois last month the primaries are said to have cost all round $2,000,000. Reports of primary expenses now being published in New Jersey show the vanquished spent as much as the winners and some over. pirants for the governorship and the United States senator- lhlt spent a total of $100,000, and there are more to hear from. Evidently the salaries are not the lure. Honor and power are the magnets, The widow's mite of Mrs, Curtis Jones, deceased, of $28,000,000. ne;ted sl.lOO. a BER 9, 1916, Thought Nugget for the Day. O, many a shaft at random sent Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word at random spoken May soothe, or wound, a heart that's broken. ~—8ir Walter Scott. One Year Ago Today in the War. Belgrade captured by Austro-Ger- man troops. Envoys of the entente powers left Sofla. French captured German earth- works and several trenches east of Tahure. Germans again halted in advance on Dvinsk, but von Hindenburg crossed the Viliya east of Vilna. British casualtics to date reported as 493,294, In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. Duncan McDonald, the Montana champion, has arrived from Salt Lake City, where he recently worsted Slade, the Maori, in the ninth round of a glove contest. A match probably will be made between McDonald and Me- Cormack or McDonald and Clow. The Ransom Comedy company opened at the People's theater in “Vigilantes,” one of the finest pleces of frontier life now on the stage. The 10-year-old son of William McHugh was shot through ‘the hanc by the accidental discharge of a re- volver In the hands of a playmate. Asel Steere, late of the Wisconsin bar, and John E. Sundstrom, a Louis- fana attorney, were admitted to prac- tice in the Nebraska courts and will both locate in Omaha. George B. Tzschuck of The Tee has gone to Iowa on a “ducking” expe- dition. Two farmers have already acquired a number of birds in antici- pation of the coming of the Omaha gunner, so that there is no doubt of his returning with plenty of birds for his friends. At the annual meeting of the Young Men's Christlan association for the election of officers the following were chosen: President, P. C. Himebaugh; vice president, J. L. Kennedy; record- ing secretary, C. E. Reynolds; corre- sponding secretary, George A. Joplin, and treasurer, C. F. Harrison. This Day in History. 1701—Charter for a college at New Haven (Yale college) granted by the general court. 1767—Charles X, the last French king of the family of Bourbon, born at Versailles. Died at Gorz, Austria, November 6, 1836. P 1782—Lewis Cass, secretary of war under Jackson and secretary of state under Buchanan, born at Exater, N. H. Died at Detroit, June 17, 1866. 1811—John Stevens established a steam ferry between Hoboken and New York City. 1818—Congress of sovereigns of Austria, Russia and Prussia, with min- isters from England' and France, signed a convention at Aix-la-Chap- pelle for the withdrawal of the army of occupation from France. 1858—Firast overland mail from California arrived at St. Louis, 24 days 18% hours from San Francisco. 1867—United States took formal possession of Alaska. 1903—Beginning of floods at Pater- son, N, J., which damaged property to the amount of $3,000,000. The Day We Celebrate. Charles W. Hamilton, banker, is celebrating his fifty-seventh birthday today. He is a native son of Omaha, and was active in the United States National bank until compeiled by ill health to go into semi-retirement. Emile A. Bessire, who has a silk shop in the new Rose bullding, is Just 50 years old today. He was born in Perry, Switzerland, and before opening his shop was a department manager for the Brandeis stores. ‘Willilam Maler, building inspector, was born October 9, 1858, at Wald- hausen, Wurtemburg, Germany, com- ing to this country in 1883. He lo- cated first at Marysville, Kan, and is one of the old-time buflders of Omaha. Louis Beindorff, popular city ticket agent of the Unlon Pacific, is just 48 years old. He {s an Omaha-born boy who has worked his way up. Jay D. Foster, now head of the Foster-Barker company, is celebrating his, fifty-fifth birthday. He Is now one of the pioneer class in the insur- ance business in Omaha. Casper E, Yost today turns his sev- enty-fifth milestone. Mr. Yost is a Yankee, was once proprietor of the old Omaha “Republican,” and also held down the postmastership of Omaha in the early days. He went into the telephone business when it was in its infancy and is now rne of the big men in the Bell system and preeident of several of its aux- iliary state coroprations. Henry G. von Windhelm, manager of the Nebraska Seed company, Is 45 years old today. He comes of a German family of nobility, his father being one of the Omaha pioneers and he himself being born here in Omaha. Major General Leonard Wood, com- manding the Eastern department of the army, born at Winchester, N. H,, fifty-six years ago today. Myron T. Herrick, former American ambassador to France and now the republican nominee for senator from Ohio, born at Huntington, O., sixty- one years ago today. Rt. Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, Episcopal bishop of Bethlehem, Pa., born at Fayette, Mo, sixty-eight years ago today Henry L. Myers, recently renomi- nated for United States senator from Montana, born in Cooper county, Mo., fifty-four years ago today. Miner Lee Bates, president of Hiram college, born at Fairfield, Mich,, forty- seven years ago today. (& Timely Jottings and Reminders. Thanksgiving day will be observed in Canada today. ‘ Today has been fixed for the an- nual observande of Fire and Accident Prevention day throughout the ~United States and Canada. The Massachusetts Forestry asso- ciation is to Inaugurate a campal today to free the trees and other ob- Jects within the public highways of all signs and ‘illegally posted adver- tising matter. Utah's new state capitol In Salt Lake City is to be formally dedicated today with addresses by Governor Spry, President Joseph Smith of the jormon church and others. Charles E. Hughes, republican nomi. nee for president, s scheduled to speak tonight at a republican mass meeting in Philadelphia. Conventions opening today: New- ark, N. J., American Society of Mu- nicipal Improvements, National e of Compulsory Education Of- ficials; Atlanta, Ga., National Asso- clation of Stationers and Mahufac- turers; Atlantic City, N. J., American Raillway association, American Elec- tric Rallway Accountants’ association; Cincinnati, O., National Association of Laundrymen; Providence, R. I, Na- tional ~ Housing conference; Des Moines, Ia., national convention of Disciples of Christ. .ter from “A member of the with 2 Dakotas. They are now living Eibo- remnant of the Mandans at Nebraska belonged family group and appear ' | migrated to the | the east. There Is have Missouri valley from much evidence that all these Siouan tribes were com- to Their re living ‘Would Widen Harney Street. | paratively recent mr‘lrlvala traditions state that they we! at an early period near the famous Pipestone quarry in southeast Min- nesota. They then moved to lhe‘ Big Sioux and built a village near Sioux Falls. They then moved to the Mis- souri, crossing it in South Dakota and then came down the west bank of the river into Nebraska. In this group of migrants were the Ponkas, Omahas, Otoes and Towas. The Ponkas halted and built a village near the Niobrara's mouth, in which locality they con- tinued to live until most of them were removed to Indian territory after 1870 The Omahas moved farther south and occupied the country south of the present Sioux City, in Dixon and Dakota counties, Nebraska. They seem to have been here as early at least as 1680, but their village ‘ls not definitcly mentioned by the French until after 1720. That the Towas ever lived in Nebraska is not generally known, but the fact is well estab- lished, both by Indian tradition and the statements of the early French and American explorers and traders. Their first village in our state seems to have been in Dixon county, near Sfoux City, on a small creek now called Agoway creek, but still known to the Omahas as the stream ‘“where the Iowas farmed.” The Iowas did not live long in our state. About the year 1700 the Otoes had a village very near where our city now stands, and their friends, the Iowas, were llving In a f'village under the bluffs, about op- posite the Otoes and not far from the present city of Council Bluffs. The Otoes moved down to the Platte be- fore 1760 and built a village on its south bank, near the mouth of the Elkhorn. They continued to live in that locality for over 100 years, and were here joined by a remnant of the Missouri tribe whith had been almost destroyed by a confederacy of hostile tribes. In western Nebraska the Indians were all wandering hunters, living in skin tipis. The one fact that stands out clearly in the early history of western Nebraska is that there was a regular current of Indian migration passing from ' the Black Hills of Dakota south acrbss the Platte and Arkansas to the plains of western Oklahoma and eastern New . Mexico. The first people to pass along this line of migration through western Ne- braska were the Comanches, although there is some reason to believe that 3 the Apaches followed the same line ‘g Omaha, Oct. 8.—To the Editor of The Bee: The congestion of traffic on Harney street during the busy hours proves that the street from Twentieth street west should be widened to 100 feet. The ugly jog at Twentieth street destroys the beauty of our city. The property holders on the street are willing to have this done and the majority of them wave damages. Why not do this rather than build boule- vards on the outskirts of town. Har- ney street today is the finest in the city, being almost level and having the most substantial buildings thereon. PROGRESS. Thanks for Irish Revolutionists. Omaha, Oct. 8.—To the Editor of The Bee: Our report of Tag day for the Irish revolutionists is somewhat belated on account of various things, among them the moving of our head- quarters, the moving of the secretary to his new home, the Ak-Sar-Ben celebration, etc. We report a total contribution from the people of Omaha for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the Irish revolution- ists of $107.10. ¥ ‘We wish to thank the people of this city for their liberality in donating thus. We wish to thank the four volunteers who sold the tags, also the press, L. J. Quinby and the Ralph Printing company for donating the tags. JESSE T. BIELLHART, Secretary Local, Omaha. A The Barber—Salesman or Grafter? Omaha, Oct. 7.—To the Editor of The Bee: Last Saturday one of our local barbers was fined $15 and costs before Judge Foster on the plea of a customer that he was overcharged. It seems the customer visited the shop and the barber, with the consent of the customer, worked on him until he had accumulated a bill for something over a dollar. When the bill was presented the customer objected and called a policeman to arrest the bar- ber. It was a question of veracity, the word of the customer against that of the barber. In this instance the com- plaint was lodged by a vaudeville per- former playing in a five-cent show; a stranger of whose reputation nothing was known. On the other hand the barber is a resident of Omaha and 2 respected citizen. This appears to be a clear case of miscarriage of justice: no - doubt aggravated through pre- judice and, should it be allowed to stand, will eventually discriminate against the barber to such an extent as to leave him at the mercy of every tightwad, sponger and bum who has nerve enough to threaten the barber with a policeman’s club. The majority of barber shops have thelr bill of prices plainly marked and within gight of every patron. It is just the same as visiting any kind of a business establishment. You may go into a store to buy a collar; the smart clerk will ask if there is any- thing else and perhaps show you some shirts, neckties, hose, etc, and try to persuade you to buy. If you do make additional purchases he is considered a smart salesman. On the othcr hand, if you go to a barber shop for a shave and the barber suggests a haircut, shampoo, massage, etc, the wares he has to sell, and you give your consent, then the barber, according to Judge Foster, 18 not a salesman, but a grafter. The barber is a business man rendering a necessary service to the community. Many barbers have homes and families, respected by their neighbors, and are good boosters and upbuilders of Omaha. They pay taxes. spend their money here and perforin a us%tulbfunc::]un in our com:n!unllv. The barber will average up with any| ... v LN why this discrimination on the part!turned from the wedding. of the police court: J. BECKER. “Her little brother,” replied the daughter; “he stood up in the middle of the ceremony and yelled, ‘Hurrah, Blanche, you've got Nebraska’s Aboriginal Inhabitants. |him at last!"—New York Times. Omaha, Oct. 8.—To the Editor of | The Bee: You printed recently a let- ate His- torical soclety’” who is rather doubtful as to the historical accuracy of some of the floats in the historical parace, and particularly the Mandan float. He does not think the Mandans ever lived in Nebraska, but has the idea they were in Wyoming when Lewis and Clark’ came up the Missouri in 1804. y As I understood it, the WMandan float in the parade was not intended to show an early Nebraska tribe, but simply the type of “earth-lodge,” often called ‘“Mandan lodge,” which was used by all of the agricultural tribes of the upper Missouri, including four Nebraska tribes. Modern archaeologists are pretty well agreed that the Mandans never were in Ne- braska. They appear to have come from the east, reaching the Missouri at a still earlier date. The Comanches (“Padoucas”) were still in western Nebraska 'and west Kansas until almost the year 1800, some lingerihg rear-guard, that is; the main body had gone south long before. The . Kiowas and Prairie-Apaches mext passed south, driving the last of the Comanches before them; then came the Cheyennes and Arapahoes, ‘driv- ing out the Kiowas, and finally the Sioux arrived. Porcupine Bull (a very old Cheyenne) says he was just a little boy when the Cheyennes and Arapa- hoes first moved into western Ne- braska “to live,” that is, not merely to' hunt. He fixes the date 1828 and is apparently right. He says the Sioux did not move south to the Platte until after 1830, except Lone Horn's band which sometimes came down from the Black Hills to visit the Cheyennes and hunt with them. GEORGE E. HYDE. SUNNY GEMS. *Do you think you will ear “Why not? The controlling stances are bound to meet.” “What do you mean?" “Autos keep goming down and I keep saving up.”—Loljsville Courler-Journal. ever own a circum- ““When that bad boy threw stones at you why dldn't you come and tell me instead of throwing back at him?” sald the good lMttle boy's plous mother. “Tell you?” sald the good little boy. “Why, you couldn’t hit a barn door.”— Philadelphia Ledger. Dealer In Antiques—Here is something in- teresting, sir—a brace of revolvers that were carried by Christopher Columbus, Customer—What! Revolvers weren't fn- vented In Columbus' time. Dealer—I know. That's what makes them #0 rare.—Boston Transeript. “And where are you from?” “America.” “Is It true In your country every man has a chance to be president?” “Well, wo can hardly say that. But al- most every family can own & motor car. —Runwas City Journal, f *You look all worried and fagged out.” “It's that current history class I fonlishly somewhere in northern South Dakota| .gistory is belng made faster than wo can and moving slowly up the river, build- | stuay it."—Chicago P ing villages here nm:ivthere‘i lntlT:l; the French explorer Verendrye foun “ this tribe living in several large vil CAMPAXGNIS?”NAG'; MADE IN lages (some say seven and some min2) | mear the present site of Bismarck, | N. D. They remained in that vicinity until after the great smallpox (about 1780) and were then forced by the Sioux to move higher up and bnild new villages on the Missouri near the mouth of Knife River, N, D. The early tribes of eastern Nebrasia were all agricultural and all lived in F. J. Lowe In Charles City Press. I A million men sought freedom in the war of " Aad milllons more pralsed Lincoln for the work well done; It was a hard fought battle, but he was in the right. He could not help but win it; he was not too proud to fight. earth-lodge villages. 'It‘)t;e :avtvneva; CHORUS: were almost certainly the rst of | v, another Lincol A Nurhe these tribes to reach Nebraska. They o h';.:: :H‘,’m-" s el oy came from the southwest or south and belonged to the Caddoan family of tribes, their closest kinsmen being the Wichitas who are generally admitted to have been the Quiviras whom Coronado visited in 1541 The Pawnees were therefore probably liv- ing in this region, if not actually in Nebraska at that date. The Arikaras were living with the Pawnees, in fact, were a part of the A Watchful Walting Wilson cannot be the same. And when he is in the White House, how happy we will be, He will not send notes to fighting folks In lands ll:rn!lll the sea, We want another Lincoln for president to- day To watch out for the Interests<of the good old U. 8. A With malice in his heart toward none, with charity for all tribe; but sometime before 1700 the|our Charles Evans Hughes, you bet, is a Arikaras left the Pawnees and moved Lincoln afier all. up the Missouri river into the (Chorus.) s - — e We strive for full publicity regarding our work. We believe the people have a right to know what we are doing and why we are doing it—to know how much money we take in and how we spend it. NEERASEA TELEPHONE (O. -