Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 19, 1916, Page 6

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Address communications relating to news ‘and editorial matter to Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION 54,507 Daily—Sunday 50,539 Dwight Williams, circulation manager of The Bee [ Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that th average circulation for the month of September, 1916, THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, “You Can't Repeal a Surrender.” Charles Evans Hughes has made an answer to another of the hecklers’ ques!io‘ns in a way that should smash all but the purblind defenders of the Adamson law. “You can't repeal a sur- render,” is his reply when asked if he would try to secure the repeal of that law. Whatever of harm this law will accomplish will have been worked long before Mr. Hughes can take office if elected. was passed under duress, when the congress and the president surrendered all the power of de- liberate government and enacted a law under the dictation of a small group of men, who were holding a stop-watch and threatening dire con- sequences if their demands were not immediately complied with. Its greatest harm was done when it If one group of men can thus hold up the government of a great nation, what is to prevent | another group from likewise adopting the tactics of the footpad, and how long will our government continue when it is thus placed at the mercy of | groups, each bent on its pwn selfish design, with no regard to the general welfare? repeal a surrender” any more than Appomattox or Sedan can be undone, but you can provide against repetition. “You can't Oh, How Flimsy!. Try Again! Answering the charge of “inattention to busi- ness” laid against Senator Hitchcock and evi- | s ""';Z",‘.‘,‘y,"“#u',{'u.{“E?:;;h..,,_,.. denced by his failure to gespond to nearly half ‘f ey e R B e R the roll calls since he has been serving in the H ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Publie. senate, his Fides Achates who runs his personal i Subscribers leaving the ei(, tempor: newspaper organ for him offers the excuse that § should have The Bee mailed to them. the senator is a member of several important dress will be changed as often' as required. committees, and that “it was impossible for Sen- ) = | ator Hitchcock to attend to his duties on these § Like Banquo’s ghost, the shadowy record of.| committees and, at the same time, be in his seat ¢ our democratic senator follows him around and | on the floor of the senate to answer to roll calls.” . will not down, =~ Y Sy What a crass attemp to impose upon igno- I Apet—— rance! Is Senator Hitchcock the only senator The official suggestion of potato bread de- i serves high rank among the administration's vaunted achievements. aemE——— A new grade, of fossils is reported in Ten- nessee. Nttunlfy the discovery slumped repub- lican hopesrin. that section. S— The spectacle of Art Mullen swinging the party lash enlivens an otherwise somber situa- tion. As a party boss Art b:clu the circus clowr - out of the ring. ~ Sp—— Woe to him who defies the democratic boss in \ Nebraska. His chances of reaching pie counter salvation are as slim as the chances of a repub- lican candidate in Texas. Heckling and rowdyism at political meetings * are the lqst resort of whipped antagonists. Re- publican principles, like truth, are mighty and will prevail over shallow pretense. \ S—— It is not surprising to find the Railway Work- ers’ Nonpartisan association opposed to the ~ Adamson wage-lifting law. The measure works . injustice not alone on three-fourths of railroad | workets,, but squeezes the multitud¢ for the benefit of the few. The suggestion of the federal government ~ guaranteeing irrigation bonds offered at the In- ternational Irrigation congress, can hardly fail tq cinch the irrigation vote. The. congressman ~ or senator who putsover the guarantee can safely . dispense with campaigning in fhe 'wet belt. ' g-f ¢ B e v __ The “drys” are trying o make capital of ‘the alléged discovery in an interior. Nébraska town of “two saloon keepers intending to vofe in fayor of the amendment.” They hold up their hands in holy horror, though, when the “wets” produce - two preachers who are going to vote against the amendment. It funny el ] Another promise is piled on promise of abol- ishing dangerous grade crossings on the Bélt line. The last one fixes next spring as. the time of fulfillment. Six months affords ample time ~ for preparation, also for mental somersauits. ~ The situation lilustrates how easily the offspring of careless officialdom flouts the needs of the community. B “What's the score?” The mute inquiry mussed . up the solémn thoughts of the Episcopal conven- " tion at St Louis and all put upset the afternoon program. Timely announcement of the result of the day’s battle on Ebbets field relieved the ten- sion of worldly affairs and business proceeded ‘without a ripple. the Massachusetts delegation aided powerfully in calming. sporting blood. Subsidizing the Doctors Washington Post The discussion aroused among the medical fraternity by the suggestion of one of its mem- bers that physicians should all ‘be paid by the state for the prevention of disease instead of by individuals for trying to cure it, compels the thought that there exists one disease which their utmost efforts are unaole to erauicate. From the time Hypocrnel propounded the vow of self-abnegatioh to his acoiytes every branch of the projession, chemist, physicigt and Wenm, has bent its effort to comoat Jxe ills icting mankind. One. by one the dread dis- eases, smallpox, diphtheria, typhoid and others have given way betore their attacks, and hope is held out that tuberculosis and cancer may soon be overcome, Everybody knows how zealously physicians have labored for both the cure and prevention of disease. Few, unfortunately, but have occasion to remember how their own physicians have re- sponded to the call of duty, leaving warm beds 10 face wintér ‘snow and winds to minister to . suffering; how tenderly they have welcomed new- . comers into the world, or how' sympatnetically they have performed the last possible service for for those who were leaving. The one disease most baffling to their skill has been an insidious one, hard to diunoscf and gripping the patients oftenest when all danger seemed past. by the appearance of nervousness, an uhwilling- _ ness to talk of them to the physician, and fre- quently an aversion even to his presence. Some " cases seem to be accompanied, however, by no more serious symptom than acute aphasia. mia, or stricture. of -the pocketbpok, the disease into deadbeatorhoea, for which there is no hope or cure. For flyl-lllmil there is some hope. ‘Many reasonably honest people defer their pay- ‘ments of doctors’ bills unreasonably because he doesn’t press them. Even thouga he may be, hard * up for money used to purchase medicihes for his _he usually manages to worry along i crmy et et s ¥ il their negligence, other than may be bsidization th reduce the inroads of g livsts ‘more cloqe[y h their, own habits. € people can do much The benediction extended by Its symptoms are characterized, in' mind. It sometimes develops- ;}finup disturbing their equanimity by by mailing occasionally a formal state- e ors are threshing out the mat- this discase by looking who is a member of important committees? Why is it that committee work has not prevented col- leagues, not so shifty as he is, ffom going on record when measures have come to a Wote? Other senators less skilled in artful dodging, who spend less time on the golf links and devote more time to their official duties, are free from this charge of inattention to business.” The initiated know further that the senate committee rooms are equipped with electric call bells which ring every time a measure or motion is to be put to a vote, and that the regular prac- tice is for committees to suspend sittings long enough to allow the senators to go to their seats and ‘answer to thejr names if they wish to. Why didn't our senator respond when the bells were rung? Be sure that if Senator Hitchcock's “not- voting” record is as bad as that, it is wholly of his own making. Trot out afiother excuse or explanation! N —e— — 8chool Board Problems Ahead. It is well that public attention is being \di- rected to the choice at the coming election of eight members of the school board, or two-thirds of the total membership, as required by the new law. Some goodfpeople are proposing a “slate,” although no one seems willing to tell how and why, the “slate” was projected. The “slate” can- didates seem for the most part to measure up to requirements, although there are also others not on the slate running who are as weli, if not bet- ter, equipped. What should be emphasized, how- ever, is the imperative necessity for men on the school board-who will not only Rring to the posi- tion intcllipe‘nc ‘and capacity, but will also give the requisite time. The school board has’a pretentious building program under way, which is yet to be carried to completion, in which many intricate questions are involved. More important still is the con- tingéncy that; by Nebraska going dry, a revenue of $350,000, now, derived from license money, will be taken away, and either retrenchment must be forced-on-a:wholesale scale or other sources of revenue substituted to make up the shortage. "The candidates, whether running on a “slate” of on no_slate, should realize what is ahead, and the taxpaying public should also, in considering the different candidates, gauge them to the tést of ability to grapple with these problems. Forty-One Billions of Moonshine. Self-deception is the most pitiable form of delusion; the ‘man who spends his time lying to himself is silly, beyond conception. And that is the predicameént of the democratic leadgrs just now,. or they are deliberately trying to deceiye the people by their persistent assertion that the wealth of the United States has been increased forty-one billions of dollars during the three yéars of Woollrdw Wilson's term. Any increase in the general wéalth of the United States must hdve come within the last fifteen months, for during the first.year and a half of MA Wilson's term values were going down instead of up. Dhring forty years of the steadiest and great- est growth and development the world ever wit- nessed the material wealth of the United States increased at the rate of approximately two and one-half billions of dollars annually. To accept the present democratic estimate, our wealth has been growing at the rate of more than two and ‘one-half billions monthly, or twelve times the average rate of increase during a period of con- struction and extension of enterprise unequalled in the world’s history. This is the veriest moon- shine, and recalls the days of Law's “Mississippi Bubble” in France, or the tulip craze in Holland, and may end in the same sort of crash, unless prudence supplants the madness of folly into which the democratic inflationists would lead the country, Prices have gone up, and are going higher every day, but the inflated figures, due to the abnormal and uncertain demand of the European war, do not constitute wealth, Democratic lead- ers are making the parade to divert attention from their neglected promise to decrease the cost of living. The wage worker knows how much his wealth has increased under Wilson, and it will be pretty hard to convince him he has been so tremendously benefited in the material things of life. — * Ol reliable ‘signs fall down shamelessly in presidential battles. The fact that an orator “wets his whistle” during the argument does not make him a wet champion. Even a “dry” argu- ment may provoke a souse as readily as wet elo- quence leads to a pledge. Out of the confusion there is but one sure road and one reliable sign: “Vote the republican. ticket straight.” \ N Registration in all b-oroughs-of Greater New York total 738,812, an increase of 33,000 over the registration of 1912, and a drop of 40,000 from local expectations. Party leaders consider the figures satisfactory, but both sides are guessing. -The Case for Hughes Roland G. Usher in The New Republic.. I am glad to attempt to state the reasons which I find responsible for my decided prefer- ence for Mr. Hughes, even though others may feel them primarily the result of my professional training and interests. I have been constantly struck by the apparent unwillingness of educated and intelligent men to apply the admitted results of the study of political science to practical poli- tics. . Though discouraging to me at other times volubly and with emphatic approval of the re- sults attained by Bryce and Ostrogorski, these same gentlemen almost invariably treat the presi- dential campaign from the point of view of the misconceptions about American government which they themselves as students long ago re- nounced. Is it not in very fact true that we vote.not for the president, but for his party; that the party leaders really direct the administration and the legislation; and that the candidate’s election promises are of importance only because through him the party leaders pledge themselves? More- over, he is himself selected for his availability, for his supposed usefulness, not as an admi trator.and legislator, but as a vote-getter; so far as I can see for his re-election qualities and not for himself. I am therefore concerned primarily with the fact that if I vote for Mr. Hughes I am merely putting a ballot in the box for government by the republican leaders, and, if I vote for Mr. Wilson, I am expressing my preference for government by the democratic leagers, both bodies of men being already determined to dictate to the president in -every possible way, to allow his judgment and policies scope only when they coincide with their own. If, now, I allow myself to be led by the carrot dangled by the leaders before my nose—by the personal qualifications, speeches and promises of the candidages, by his smooth cliin, by his resis dence in New York or New Jersey, by his sup- posed personal belief in peace or in a high tariff— I am falling into the trap laid for me and forget- ting to pass judgment as best I can on the real problem itself: which of the two groups of lead- ers is the abler, more intelligent, more upright, more likely to grapple successfully with the country’s problems. I am also in the second place honestly con- vinced that the republican leaders are man for man abler, incomparably more experienced in affairs, and at least as disinterested as their rivals. We know that both parties will appoint to the atiministrative offices good party men. The re- publican leaders have a much wider range of men to select from than have the democrats; after all deductions and allowances have been made, the republican party, and not the democratic, repre- sents the manufacturing, scientific, professional elements in the country. Edison and Ford may vote for Wilson, but the vast majority of the men from whose ranks the requisite skill must come to make preparedness a reality belong in the re- publican camp. 1 will vote for Mr. Hughes be- cause { want to see the new administrators, in the greatest administrative érisis the country has known, chosen from the larger technical and pro- fessional body and not from the smaller. I want to see this difficult work performed by men whose hearts and brains have long been in it rather than by a body of men whose leaders are openly op- osed to it and have espoused it only as a po- itical necessity., ) 1 find myself giving great weight to the atti- tude of Mr. Hughes ang the republican leaders upon the second ‘great issue of the coming four years—foreign relations. Mr, Wilson’s challenge to Mr. Hughes to declare the foreign policy of the republican party puts his rival in an awkward position, His own foreign policy has been care- fully directed at the preconceptions of the Ameri- can public and not at the European problems os- tensibly concerned as understood in Europe. His notes were literally meant for home consumption. Politically this was the only safe thing for him to do. He must at all odds do what the peaple would approve, whatever they thougkt of it and him.in Europe. The Europeans would not vote in Nayember, 1916, and the Americans would. Moreover, the deadlock in Europe was so great that Mr. Wilson and the democratic leaders saw no danger in making political capital out of for- eighevents. Germany could not get at us, if she would, and, while the allies were getting the worst of it on all fronts, they would do nothing. It was therefore easy to “defend” American rights by‘%old statéments and resounding threats;~and it was also easy to keep us out of a war which they knew perfectly well none of the European pow- ers had the least intention of declaring and which none of themwcduld under the circumstances pos- sibly wage. The democratic leaders therefore in- sisted on playing the international cards with a view to making votes for the campaign of 1916, and consistently forced the president to proclaim a policy which pleased the American people with- out regard to the national ability to execute it, and indeed without any probable intention to pro- , ceed to such extremities as we constantly in- formed Germany and Great Bratain would follow the least abatement of our most extreme demands. If the power addressed did not too openly re- sent the belligerent tone of his notes, Mr. Wilson could then plume himself on having shown Eu- rope what was what. And the people would like it! When, however, the power in question re- turned a sharp reproof, Mr. Wilson could turn the other cheek and explain to the approving popu- lace that he swallowed the, insult because of his ardent desire to keep the peace. It was a good game; heads I win, tails you lose. It cost noth- ang; ran no real risks, and made votes whatever happened. But it was not statécraft. It has brought upon us the scorn of Europe and has made difficult the pa‘h of future diplomacy. And Mr. Hughes and th€ republican leaders know it well. Before we can play any real part in the diplomatic discussions which will follow the war, we must reinstate ourselves in the world’s respect and must regain our own. Mr., Wilson knows that it is impossible for Mr. Hughes to make this palatable and comprehensible to the man who reads nothing but the newspapers, but he ought to know that educated men can and do sce it. There is a very simple alternative and it is the policy I believe Mr. Hughes and the republican eaders mean to follow. It is clear, honorable, di- rect. Far from involving danger, it will indeed avoid the constant danger of war to which Mr. Wilson's diplomacy would have exposed us, if war with us had at any time been for the European powers even a thinkable proposition. This policy will deal with the international situation as it is, not as the American people believe it to be. It will insist that our notes apply to the foreign sit- ‘uation they ostensibly concern instead of to po- litical exigencies in this country; that our notes shall be couched in language which will say what we have in mind to the European diplomats who are to read them, rather than in the language of Kokomo and Popham Corners. It will promise no dire vengeance which we are entirely incapable of executing, and will demand no concessions which we can obtain only at the point of the sword. The courageous determination of Mr. Hughes and the republican leaders to curry no favor with the electorate by the manipulation of foreign affairs is one of the strongest positive facts in the Hughes case. The qualifications really needed by a president Mr. Hughes possesses, and, so long as he has them, I cannot see why any educated man should attach importance to policies he cannot as presi- dent enforce or an abifily at political posturing no president should employ. We know him to be able, honest, upright, pure in life, conscientious, acutely intelligent, \\'c{l informed, with an open mind \and a readiness to take advice. That he will exert as beneficial a modifying influence upon the party leaders as any r€cent candidate I hon- estly helieve, and I cannot believe that any exi- gencies whatever would induce him to accept a second Josephus Daniels (if such can exist) or censent to the sort of jobbery that went on in Porto Rico. He cannot in many things easily do less or worse than Mr. Wilson, and he may in a good many matters without displaying whusual in- i telligence or rectitude do/a great deal better. . - OCTOBER 19, 1916. Thought Nugget for the¢ Day. Truth crushed to earth shall again— The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshipers. —Willlam Cullen Bryant. arise T X One Year Ago Today in the War. Anglo-French army advanced' into Serbia by forced marches. Italy declared war against Bulgaria and an Italian fleet sailed for the Aegean. Germans launched attack on Artois to recapture lost ground, but failed. Von Hindenburg’'s army drove Rus- | sians back in fighting about Jacob- stadt and pressure against Dvinsk in- creased. \ In Omaha Thirty Years Ago Today. A petition has been filed with the county commissioners asking for the incorporation of Park Vale, which vil- lage comprises the section lying south of the city limits and north of the stock yards, being a part of school district No. 37. The citizens of Wal- nut Hill also have been holding meetings to take steps looking toward the incorporation of Walnut/Hill as a village. In response to a call from Messrs. Heimrod, Baumer and Spetman, com- mittee on behalf of the German- American school, about fifty German ladies attended a meeting at Ger- mania hall for the purpose of mak- ing arrangements for a fair to be giv- en for the benefit of the school men- tioned. Jack Morrison's son was the suc- cessful competitor for the dog cart offered as a prize at the Catholic fair. He recelved 3,300 votes, a majority of 800 over his heaviest competitor, a son of J. Murphy. The following took part in an en- tertainment given by the young folks of the First church: Misses Kittell, Milestone, Edith Davis, Edith Jones, Mabel Fonda, Mamie Fetch and Messrs. Wal- ter and Lewis Dale, Clyde Weston and Frank Brown, Tompson-Houston Electric Light company has secured possession of the poles, wire and local license of the late Sperry company and intends to *incorporate them into its system. It will put in place shortly a mam- moth Corliss engine which will enable a greater number of lamps to be sup- plied and at the same time permit the introduction of a number of in- candescents. N At a meeting of the ptockholders of the H. F. Clarke Drug company it was decided to purchase several lofs in the heart of the city and build thereon a large business house. Methodist Episcopal This Day in History. 1770—James Kilbourne, the pioneer with whom originated the proposition to grant lands in the Northwest Ter- ritory to actual settlers, born at New Britain, Conn.. Died at Worthington, O.f April 9, 1850, . 1842—Wallhalla, temple designed to perpetuate memory of illustrious Germans, opened at Ratisbon by king of Bavaria. 1864—The confederates under General Early were defeated by the federdls under Géneral Sheridan at battle of Cedar Creek, Va. 1869—Dr. Charles W. Eliot was'in- augurated president of Harvard uni- versity. 1875—Sir Charles “Wheatstone, n- troducer of the electric telegraph, died in Paris. Born in England in 1802, 3 1897—George R.‘Pullman, presi- dent of the Pullman Palace Car com- pany, died in Chicago. Born in Chautauqua county, New York, March 8, 1031, 1904—The president directed Sec- retary Taft to go to Panama to reas- sure the people of the pacific inten- tions of the United States. 1912—The slege of Adrianople by the allied Balkan armies began. 1915—The United States recognized General Carranza in Mexico. The Day We Celebrate. Charles H. Brown, secretary-treas- urer of the Brown Realty company, was born October 19, 1875, right here in Omaha. He studied at Phillips academy and Harvard and is asso- ciated as stockholder and director with a number of local banks and financial institutions. Dr. Willlam A. Hostetter, practic- ing physician, is fifty years old today. H: was born in Morris, Grundy county, 1llinois, graduated from the Omaha Medical college in 1894 and has been devoted to his practice ever since. Robert A. MacFarlane, president of the Robert Dempster company, was borg in Ottumwa, Canada, October 19, 1873. He was In the photo sup- ply business in' Minneapolis and St. Paul for ten years, coming to Omaha in 1904, C. Fred Bradford, chief clerk of | ion Pacifi¢, was bporn October 19, 1872, at Elgin, 1ll. He has been with the Union Pacific for twenty-two years. Frank J. Norton, the well kpown abstractor, is today celebrating his fory-sixth birthday. By birth he is a native of the Badger state. Dr. Wililam L. Pickard, president of Mercer university, bornin Upson county, Georgia, fifty-five years ago today, Dr. John H. Finley, commissioner of education of the state of York, born at Grand Ridge, Ill, fifty- three years ago today. Dr. John C. Breckenridge, president of Winona (Ind.) College of Agricul- ture, born fifty-eight years ago today. ‘William J. Burns, who has an in- ternational reputation as a detective, born in Baltimore fifty-five years ago today. the stuum}ery department of the Un- continuously Mordecal Brown, pitcher of the Chicago National league base ball team, born at Nyesville, Ind.,, forty years ago today( Timely Jottings and Reminders. Trafalgar day, the 111th anniver- sary of Nelsom's famous victory, will be celebrated today throughout the British empire. Both Hughes and Fairbanks are scheduled to speak at a republican meeting to be held tonight at Youngs- town, O. rormer President Willlam H. Taft is to speak in Baitimore tonight in behalf of the republican national and state tickets. President Wilson is to visit Chicage today to deliver an address under nonpartisan auspices. Prof Alexander Graham Bell, Theo- dore N. Vail and other notables are expected at Atlanta today for the an- nual reunion of the Telephone Pio- | neers of America. The anual convention of the Amer- jcan Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality is to | meet in Milwaukee today for a three- | day session. New Warning of a Mother. Omaha, Oct. 18.—To the Editor of The Bee: As I read in your letter de- partment so many articles on saloon: it sends my mind back to my little giri For our sons' and daughters' sakes you men who vote and you mothers use your influence with_your boys and , men that vote and hdVe them work | against this political work called pro- | hibition. You mothers with daughters | 1 | home before election, and I feel that a who have seen women from the red light district move next door or in the same house after they had been run out of there by what a few called law and you fathers and mothers who have had your heartache over your little girl as I have through the same ‘prohibi- tion" of vice. These people were and al- ways will be to the end of time, but since the red-light district was voted out there have been more young girls and married women misled by that law in one year than there were in ten be- | fore, as they are just like the boot-| legging places will be under ‘“prohi- bition of liquors,” in houses, up alleys, in pool rooms and, maybe, right next door to mé and you, as was the case under ‘“prohibition of vice.” Just the same as thousands of our sons pass the saloons and are good, | fine young men and, maybe, stop-in and think nothing of it, but let those same places be closed up and forbid- | den and these same young men and | boys will be sneaking up the alleys| and in these places, possibly thinking | it smart for a while, but, heaven only knows where they will end. Now, Mr. Editor, 1t you will only print this for me and I can help to save some other mothers’ heart- aches for her boy as mine aches for | my little girl. I may be knowing that I have helped some mothers, maybe, thousands, help to mend my aching and broken heart. A BROKEN-HEARTED MOTHER. As to Introductory Remarks. Omaha, Oct. 18.—To the Editor of The Bee: I was at the Hughes meet- ing at Kansas City, September 1, and when the chairman arose to introduce the speaker, he said, “Ladies and gen- tlemen, the next president of the United States, Mr. Hughes.” Mr. Hughes arose and said, “A brief introduction, but sufficiently explicit.” The great audience applauded heart- ily. JONATHAN EDWARDS. Against Compulsory Medical Inspection. Omaha, Oct. 17.—To the Editor of The Bee: Yesterday's paper contained the report of the death of a little child on the operating table in the office of a local physician, following the administration qof an anaesthetic and the removal of the boy's tonsils. This tragedy, which one of the phy- sicians involved s quoted as saying was “simply one of the certain per- centage of fatalities under anaesthetic which can neither be explained nor avoided,” should be a lesson to the citizens of Omaha. During the last year there has béen considerable activity on the part of the medical profession to secure com- pulsory medical inspection of school children. Quite frequently we hear it hinted that a law should be enacted giving local health boards more au- thority along those lines. Compulsory medical inspection is only the first step. In places where the medioal profession has been suc- cessful in putting the system into ef- fect the next step has been compul- sory compliance with the recommen- dations of the medical Inspector. In one eastern city the Board of Health sued the parents of a child because they refused to obey the order to have his tonsils removed, and the court ordered them to have the operation performed. Patents of Omaha, do you want to risk having a child “one of the cer- tain percentage of fatalities,” because some young school dogtor orders an operation? At least 40 per cent of the | petrated by the democrats | deny the Guard the right to vote at people of Omaha do not resort to medicine or surgery when they are 1_!!. Is it fair to them to place their chil- dren under, the domination of a med- jcal man through the guise of com- pulsory "medical” inspection of public school children? ,C. P. DAVIS. 3560 Woolworth Avenue. Disfranchising the Militia Boys. Omaha, Oct. 18.—To the Editor of The Bee: I would like to inquire why e republican state papers do not make campaign .material from the ‘act that the democratic administra- tion turned down the proposed bill to allow our soldiers on the border to vote by mail. It is very evident that our National Guard are not to return greater injustice has not been per- than to the coming jelection. I am a woman | greatly interested in a big republican | victory and one whose father was a soldier. X, — = Who Cut the Wires. South Side, Omaha, Oct. 18.—To the Editor of The Bee: In reading your account of the great Hughes meeting last night, I noted that you said the electric wires that fell onto me and ohers broke loose afd fell. Two different men said they saw some boys cutting the wires and a good many think it was the trict of some one to put out the lights and break up the meeting in that way. Snch tricks have been resorted to be- fore and it seems to me that it is a pretty low-down trick. The wires when they fell cut my forehead and nose, and I suppose I am the only man in Omaha who can say he has shed blood in the cause of our next president, Hughes. Putting out the lights in the convention hall of the republican national convention at Cincinnati in 1876 caused the defeat of our illustrious chieftain, James G. Blaine for the nomination to the presidency and changed the history of the nation greatly. It was a trick of the enemies of James G. Blaine, and is held in contempt even today by the old-time supporters of one of the greatest men our country and the repulbican party have pro- duced. It might be well to investi- gate to find out what caused those heavy wires to fall just as Governor Hughes began his address. FRANK A. AGNEW. LAUGHING GAS. “I hope the farmers will never get to be financlers.’” “Why not?" “Because they will naturally want to watcr thelr stock.”—Baltimore American. “Success in life is a relative term,” the philosopher safd. “No doubt,” the man of easy habifs re- plied. “But when a person who has reached middle age stlil depends on an alarm clock to help him hold his job, I consider that his life is @ fallure.”—Birmingham Age-Herald. Caller (waiting for an invitation)—Two® o'clock! I fear I am keeping you from your dinner. Hostess—No, no; but T fear we are keep- ing you from yours.—Boston Transcript. “My word!” exclaimed the Briton, indig. nantly, “You Americans are always calling us slow. Just cite an example, will you?"” “Certainly,” chuckled the New Yorker. “An Englishman can ‘stand for' Parllament and be elected. An American who wants a congressional seat has to ‘run’ for It New York Times. “Here last year Bob Bullit was declaring all gpeeders ought to be sent to jail without exceptlon, and now he thinksy pedestrians have entirely too many rights in the streets. I wonder why he was go bitter against speeders, then?" “Oh, that was before he found he could rl(ord to buy a machine."—Beltimore Amer- can. mntinm T U TR B 621 Residents of Nebraska TIMES SQUARE registeredat Hotel Astor during the past year, ¢ [=] A 1000 Rooms. 700 with Bath, A cuisine which has made the Astor New York’s leading Banqueting place. Single Rooms, without bath, §2.00 to §3.08 300 to 4.00 300 to 6.00 400 7.00 Parlor, Bedroom u‘:dhdn,fim-llw At Broadway, 44th to 45th Streets—the center of New York’s social and business activities. In close proximity to all railway terminals. time you cannot vote. If not, do so, dt once. Senator Beveridge, of Indiana On October 27th, Senator Beveridge of Indiana, who needs sio introduction to the people of Omaha, will speak in the Auditorium. October 27 is the Jast day for registration. If If you have not already regi missioner’s office in the Douglas County Courthouse any day and do-so. moved since you registered you must register again. We urge eyery republican voter to ask himself this question: “Have I registered 1" To be a voter carries with it a slight burden, but one which ought to be cheerfully horne by all citizens who are interested in government. Chairman Republican County Central Committee. ou do not register before that tered go ¢o the Election Com- If you have F. S. 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