Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 23, 1916, Page 4

4 THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. P THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR, Entered at Omaha postoffice as second-class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By Mail Daliy " hn”nda"{unu, ‘th I s an ree yoars v ' l-nI notice of change of address or irregularity in de- Jivery to Omaha Bee, Circulation Department. REMITTANCE. Remit by draft, express or postal order. Only 2-cent stamps taken in payment of small mccounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha and eastern exchange, not ac OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Building. South N street, Council Bluffs—14 North Main street. Lincoln—526 Little Building. Chi 0—818 People’s Gas Building. New York-—Room 808, 286 Fifth avenue. 8t. Louis—503 New Bank of Commerce. Washington—125 Fourteenth street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Address communications relating to news matter to Omaha Bee, Editorial Department, SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION 54,507 Daily—Sunday 50,539 Dwight Williams, circulat manager of The Bee being duly? sworn, says that the IV.I" cireulation for the month of September, 1916, was 54,607 daily, and 50,639 Sunday. ‘ DWIGET WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. in my presence and sworn to before me October, 1916, ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Publie. Subscribers leaving the city temporaril, have The Bee mailed to them. dress will be changed as often as required. e S T I i and editorial Subscribed this 3d day of . Why are you dodging the question, Senator Hitchcock? Are you wet or dry? | A few bins of wheat or corn radiates as much sweet content these days as an equal quantity of black diamonds. ,‘ Shoes are still going up. Why not? Winter s advancing and skirts shortening. Shoemakers are a gallant set, ~ Not even the bad breaks of Secretary Baker shakes the confidence of Vance McCormick. Con- fidence is his chief stock in trade. Warring nations are burning up over $50,- g a day. Beside it the typical extravagance of the drunken sailor flickers as a tallow dip to conflagration. — Storms damaged the West Indies to the ex- nt of $2,000,000, reducing their selling value to it extent. The next order of business is to tell to the Danes. g — A tepublican congress would have passed the ed law to permit the soldiers at the border -vote, Disfranchisement is exclusively a demo- | — ‘!z induitry of printing money in this coun- ¢ rival revolutionists in Mexico is threat- ened with official disfavor. Watchful wai'ing glimpsed one revolution at a time, All others and currency are spurious. /| score of legal equipment and experi- L. Fawcett should have been made hen the supreme court vacancy appofntment two years ago. The d make good that omission now by into the chief justice's chair at the e e b P B A PR SN A P | | 1d E e — campaigners gain nothing by using the census figures to \support a statement a lost population as a result of voting prohibition that year. The census bureau ‘corrected this padded enumeration and the ly corrected records show for Omaha a population gain each succeeding decen- H 2 Sep——— The democratic campaign in Massachusetts is in a state of utter eolhgu. John F. Fitzgerald, nominated for United States senator against Cabot Lodge, retired as a concession to and efforts to secure an eleventh-hour are unavailing so far. The outcome in- a rousing republican majority in the Bay p— ~ The only member of the Nebraska State Rail- . commission possessing the experience and it of the shipper when he took office is T. Clarke, jr., who is up for re-election. Clarke is needed on the commigsion to give bility and should have the support of every who wants the intricate problems going up that body dealt with intelligently and with Mr. Bryan in Action 1 St. Louls flm———J ht when everybody has decided that Mr, yan was an extinct democratic volcano, new b rbflus were heard. He is to make one speech “:*rilmri and several in Iilinois. Nothing is about his Nebraska dates. Perhaps the demo- who defeated his aspirations to participate St. Louis convention as a delegate are not for his oratory. They may have wearied . ut if they have feared that he would stick to his old themes, they have borrowed fe. It will be a new Br{;n this campaign, the very necessity of things. He will not i free silver, anti-im) ilitarism, guaranty of bank deron ts or any of his ancient will not show any eagerness to g the ity of the Sherman act taken from it by the supreme court decision or demand that “trust magnates be put in felons’ stripes. He not urge his old panacea of fixing the exact L tage of the country’s business in a “line one corporation shall be permitted to lers of power,” for scarcel tly a pledge ore platform was carrie ot di the high cost of living or promise licity and economy in wer"” he still safely assail. are matters he can talk abou German ke, ograts are too or ¢ in f 's re-election rticu- . Bryan will not be able even to demand a _term for president, in keeping with the n he introduced in the house over twenty He cannot call political pledge break- out, (] pvernmental expen- s only one division of “the money if he st what he told ba nl?n lain j: m":’A i Biahe cxpleln just : ) e us the ':fileucxrrun get- rone to that te on his re- intend ed while ing an chu,eoln 'whll‘&lu If he wanted to be con- whether he is really ilson or the democratic Assassination of Austria’s Premier. News of the assassination of Austria’s premier is too fragmentary as yet to convey any clear nature of its cause, significance or effect. It warns us all anew, however, that war conditions in Europe are potential of lightning changes— that, although hardly probable in this instance, the death of one or more of the leading actors may suddenly transform the whole situation. It is strangely conicident, too, that the spark that started the war conflagration was an assassina- tion—the assassination of the heir-apparent of Austria and his wife—and suggestive of specula- tion as to how many of those directly or indi- rectly concerned in that fateful tragedy may be destined to be engulfed in it before the conflict subsides and peace is finally restored, / Europe's War Mortgage. Three of the five leading nations at war have voted credits or concluded loans to finance their campaigns during the last three months of the year. Germany and France recently closed the last of their loans for 1916, Last week the British Parliament voted the thirteenth war credit, which will carry the financial end of the British cam- paign to the new year. These operations furnish official figures of the cost of the ‘war in money from August, 1914, to January, 1917, twenty-nine months. Figures of like authority are not avail- able from Russia and Austro-Hungary. Esti- mates of their loans up to August last published in New York financial papers appear reasonable compared with the known cost to Great Britain, France and Germany, These estimates, together with the official figures of loans, and the pre-war debts of the five nations, measure the size of the mortgage the old world is executing with the blood of its sons: Nation. Pre-war Debt. War Loans. England .......$3,443,799,000 $21,940,000,000 France .. 346,000,000 12,327,000,000 Germany 1,194,000,000 11,1 X Russia 4,536,939,000 15,000,000, | Austria .: ,897,804,000 9,000,000,000 Totals ......$19,418,632,000 g:,umoomo Grand total 835,632,000 Gtrmafiy'l aggregate debt is the lowest of the warring nations. Unlike other national debts, the figures here given are the empire’s obliga- tions, exclusive of those of the German states. Prior to the war the debts of the German states were three times greater than the empire’s debts. "1f they incurred separate war debts, the fact is not known, By far the largest part of the war loans bear § per cent, those of Russia 6 per cent. Early in 1915 Great Britain funded its low interest bear- ing consols into war bonds at 4%. Now the war loans, by reason of heavy discounts, net 5 per cent, while short time government paper brings 6 per cent in London. Taking 4 per cent as a basis of actual interest cost for Great Britain, France and Germany, and 5 per cent for Russia and Austro-Hungary, the bearing of the interest charge on the peace revenue of the five nations is thus shown: Revenue ' Interest Nation, 1913-14, 1917, Great .Britain, $ 964,749,000 $975,351,760 { France ........... 1,001,511,000 746,920,000 German Empire... 879,656,000 493,760,000 Russia ........... 1,860,988,000 976,846,950 Austro-Hungary .. 1,322,692,000 644,894,700 The debt obligations entered into will on the first of the year approximate a per capita of $564 in Great Britain and I eland, $474 in France, $188 in the German empire, $113 in Russia and $258 in Austro-Hungary. Posterity escapes the agony, but must pay the price, - " — . Only a Lie Well Stuck To. That's presuming upon ignorance again when the Wilsonites say that Hughes favors the prin- ciple of an eight-hour day, but opposes the meth- ods employed by which the democrats have se- cured it. They know: that neither the democratic president nor congress has done a single thing to bring about an eight-hour day and that their falsely labelled eight-hour law merely raises the wages of trainmen belonging to the four brother- hoods without giving anyone an eight-hour day who has been working more than eight hours. In this the democrats must be again proceeding on the theory that a lie well stuck to will stick. —— Military Training in Universities. Sixteen of the big schools of the United States have arranged to come under the pro- visions of the new military law, and to furnish training in military science to their student Wodies. This does not include merely training in drill tactics and company maneuvers, as now af- forded by the cadet organizations that exist at such institutions as the University of Nebraska, but means the addition to the curriculum of the universities and ¢olleges taking up the work of a course in military sciences sufficiently compre- hensive and thorough to properly fit the student for duty as a junior officer in the army. It is estimated by the general staff that a reserve force of 50,000 trained officers is needed to take charge of the volunteer army that must be had for na- tional defense. This reserve will be acquired by the work of the great schools of the country. sup- plementing the output of West Point. While this move is in the right direction, and as far as can be gone under the existing law, it does not entirely meet the great problem of na- tional defense, which properly.contemplates uni- versal military training. Under any condition, the educated officer is an imperative necessity, and if he can be supplied through the extension of the work of existing schools, that phase of the problem is moved nearer to solution, It in- volves no abandonment of the American ideal of peace, but it does mean a better realization of the difficulty under which peace may be maintained. —_— High Cost of Living in Georgia, Prosperity has landed in Georgia with a whoop; owing to the steady advance in the cost of living, the state finds it can no longer afford to pay for the keep of the insane who have been confined in its asylums, Therefore, these ad- mitted mental incompetents will be returned to their relatives, and may or may not be restrained. ‘The action is typical of a commonwealth in which prisoners may be taken from inside the peniten- tiary at night, transported half way across the state and lynched without interference on part of any officer of the law, and the grand jury after- wards be unable to diskover any who is guilty | of complicity in the crime. Democrats of Geor- gia rewarded the prosecutor in this case with a nomination that means election to the office of governdr. It may not be easy to determine where sanity begins and ends in Georgia, but they are enjoying the fruits of Wilson prosperity. A Méiun official IE(CI that his government has planned an active campaign against Villa. Who vouches for the Mexican official? e e —— e — -] | I W hy Hughes Should Be Elected I Philip Payne, Winner Philadelphia Ledger $300 Prize. August 1, 1914, closed an era. Out of the war's travail is being born a new world—for us as for Europe. The next administration will con- front novel hazards. It must adjust the United States to grave complications amidst furious com- petitions. We will ge able to afford few mistakes and wide errors might wreck us. The question therefore is not whether Mr. Wilson upon his record deserves re-election as in an ordinary time, but whether he and his party are, competent to cope with the very perilous responsibilities certain to crowd the four years to come. We can be fair to Mr. Wilson. Perplexed to the extreme by extraordinary events, he has done as well perhaps as was permitted his aca- demic understanding, and as the demogracy’s non-contact with twentieth century reality al- lowed. A “He has kept us out of war.” Meaning that like the British army he has managed to muddle through. But to muddle is not to master, and Mr. Wilson’s negative success has as good as demonstrated his incapacity to grapple the greater difficulties which loom. So serious are the problems promised that they are certain to confuse a president in any wise vyeak and to confound a party that is essentially ignorant. The war has terribly tried poor Mr. Wilson Nevertheless, except for the war he would now be a political bankrupt, his credit gone with the eople. The war furnishes Mr. Wilson his stock- in-trade and excuses the democratic party their error. But for the war's interposition between the Wilson-Underwood schedules and their inevitable consequences, the injured and exasperated voters would now be awaiting election day to avenge their nearly three years' endurance of few jobs and small pay. What the war did was to apply instantaneously the reverse lever to the country’s autotruck, which the first seven months of 1914 under the democratic tariff saw skidding down the steepen- ing slope of depression into catastrophe. The saving jerk nearly dislocated our anatomy; but the miracle, a special dispension in our favor, reserved our financial life. War's spontaneaus yge demands stimulated us to extra production, and Ewropean suspension improvised an effective substitute for the protection of which our in- dustries had been stripped. > The prosperity resultant, which we have with ill, is not a Wilson prosperity. It exists despite Mr. Wilson, in contradiction of his tariff. Indubitably the prosperity is war prosperity, de- pendent upon war conditions, doomed to lapse with the war's cessation—unless, indeed, the war's end shall find us reprovied with a pro- tection more adequate than Mr. Wilson's, such, in fact, as the democracy have neither the wit nor_the will to devise. Thus it comes about that by the war’s grace alone Mr. Wilson remains a possible candidate. But for the war the name of his party would now be anathema in every man’s mouth. Shall that man, then, who was singularly prevented from wrecking the country's prolperitr have confided to his . ineptitude and that of his partisans the reconstruction of our economic defenses—a re- construction imperative before Eusope's competi- tion shall have revived? \ Nor is thegprotection which the exigency in- vokes, which Mr, Wilson and his democracy are incompetent to construct, confined to economic defense, Under it is comprehended' also the physical security of American soil, the guardian- ship of American lives. Moreover, it postulates the assertion of American, rights, the vindication of America's honor. It is such protection as a great nation, not dispossessed in any of its functions, dispenses in the interest of its citizens for the welfare of its people, and enjoins the whole world, every part, to respect, i It is nationalism, it is Americanism, for lack of which we are destined to deliquescence, dessication, disintegration, decline. Unless it howsoever flourishes, no accidental przsperltfy. lush or prolonged, can save us from ultimate shame and the final despoiler. 2 Such competent protection no government of southerners, by southerners, for southerners, can bestow. Nor of a constitutionally Jeffersonian resident can it be had. For such nationalism s not consistent with their ihiloso hy, and such Americanism is either too broad for their sec- tionalism or too narrow for Bryanistic pan-hu- manitarism, Yet this century will be one to com- pel the United States to think—not continentally as Alexander Hamilton entreated—but double- hemispherically in terms of .world-import. Come to that we must presently, or drop out of the pro- cession, - The four years to come are likely to be more critical for the United States even than for those nations. who have repaired their faults and an- nealed their strengths under the hammer of war: Whereas America, inconsistent in policy, divided in sentiment, economically unarmored and in Ercpare@nen negligent, drifts, a vast hulk, amidst attleships stripped for action and eager for prize, As pilot for the ship of state through these dangerous seas Woodrow Wilson is no more competent than was James Buchanan whom Lin- coln succeeded by the mercy of God. . Even that domestic record of which Mr. Wil- son is proud presents but a list of opportunities that were shrewdly embraced. For some of them the time, long preparing, was ripe. Others recommended their own enactment as clever poli- tics, Few in their inception were democratic, while those peculiarly Wilsonian are of doubtful | utility, Especially vicious is the president's last act of egregious opportunism, whereby, himself coerced by a minatory minority, he in turn coerced congress to an abdication of their func- tion, The nature of the times, their revelation to us of ourselves, require this nation in a new and serious sense to be saved again, and our people to_be born afresh into a consciousness or their lp_mgull heritage, "their essential unity, their vital mission. Mr. Hughes, a convinced American, is as a man consecrated to this task, ordained b, peculiar ability, integrity and strength. The crisis discards Mr, Wilson, who is not equal to it. | Kennedy for Senator I Ord Quiz: John L. Kennedy is conducting his campaign on a high, dignified and scholarly Rllne and winning friends and votes wherever e goes. He is just the type of man Nebraska needs in the United States senate. Pierce Call: The republican nominee for United States senator from Nebraska this fall is a big man. He is too square and fair in his dealing with his fellow men to ever attempt to fiunish the men who oligosed him politically in is campaign. John L. Kennedy is one of those earnest, honest and conscientious men who have helped to make Nebraska what it is today. avid City Banner: If John L. Kennedy is sent to the United States senate this fall, he will represent Nebraska, not the southern states. He will not be found in any secret causes which will compell him to apologise to his people, but on the contrary will be found open and above board in his acts. John L. Kennedy is a man, and that is what we want to represent us in the senate. A vote for John L. Kennedy means a vote for Nebraska's best interests. Central City Republican: The strongly con- firmative reports from all over the state indi- cates the certainty that the sane, temperate and able campaign conducted by Joi’m L. Kennedy "is telling all along the line, and that the cause of republicanism in the state is on the rise. He is a positive force added to the ticket that strengthens it in its entirety, from the highest candidate to the lowest. He has alrady won recognition in Washington, and throughout the nation. He is of a !yie that places him in the front rank, and his faithful devotion to his work is sure to bring his reward. A 1916. Thought Nugget for the Day. But evil is wrought by want of thought, As well as by want of heart. —Thomas Hood. One Year Ago Today in the War. Italian offensive maintained along the line. Greece rejected Great Britain's of- fer of Cyprus. German central government sumed control of food supplies. Allfed fleet bombarded Bulgarian towns on the Aegean Sea. German cruiser Prinz Adalbert re- ported topedoed and sunk by British submarine in the Baltic. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. Edholm & Akin is the name of the new firm which succeeds the well- known and popular firm of Edholm & Erickson. The raffle of the well-known bay gelding Clark 8., owned by Kinney Brothers, took place at Thompson & Little's saloon. The lucky number was 56 and was held by John Boyd, all as- superintendent of the Union stock yards. . Mr. F. A, Nash, in trying to ride his small niece's pony, was made very un- comfortable by a series of queer antics indulged in by the animal, who wound up by making a leap into the air, throwing its rider by the road- side. Hereafter, Mr. Nash will allow the little lady to do the horseback rid- ing for the family and he will attend to the railroad business. Work is progressing favorably on the building to be used by the God- man Packing company at the -corner of Eleventh and Grace streets. The company will do an exclusive meat curing business, purchasing their meat from the packing houses in South Omaha, The engagement has been an- nounced of H. J. Devine and Miss Ida Brennan, daughter of William Bren- nan of Omaha. The, county commissioners have de- cided to submit the plans for the pro- posed county hospital to nine physi- cians for their selection. . J. Karbach, who owns the bullding on the southeast corner of Fifteenth and Douglas streets, has no- tified the occupants of the structure to move out by spring. He will erect a six-story building on the site of the present structure. This Day in History. 1824—Charles Fechter, one of the famous actors of the American stage, born in London. Died at Rockland Center, Pa., August 6, 1879. 1826 — Opening of ' the Thalia theater on the Bowery, New York Cit{. the first theater in the world to be lighted by gas. 1864—Confederates under General Price began an invasion of Kansas. 1866—General Grant apd Admiral Farragut attended the inauguration of a great fair in Philadelphia for the benefit of a soldiers’ and sallors’ home. 1872—The German emperor, ar- bitrator in the ‘San Juan difficulty, awarded the islands to the United States. 1883—Bi-centennial of the landing of William Penn celebrated in Phila- delphia. 1890—Statue of General John Stark, revoiutionary hero, unveiled at Con- cord, N. H. 1896—Charles F. Crisp, former speaker of the United States house of representatives, died at Atlanta. Born ;;fishemeld. England, January 29, 1916—More than 25,000 women took part in a suffrage demonstration and street parade in New York City. The Day We Celebrate. = James W. Akin, contractor, was born October 23, 18561, in Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, He started out in the contracting business in 1880 in Greenfield, Ia. Edwin 8. Jewell, manager City National bank building, is today cele- brating his forty-ninth birthday. Jay B. Katz of the Katz Construc- tion company is 84 years old today. He was raised and educated here in Omaha. Jesse. Merritt, another of the Mer- ritt drug store boys, is 39 years old today. He is Omaha-born and has been for years in the drug business. Sarah Bernhardt, the famous French tragedienne, now touring America, born in Paris, 72 years ago today. Herbert Quick, director of the new Farm Loan board of the United States, born in Grundy county, Iowa, fifty- five years ago today. He used to live in Omaha. Rt. Rev. Frederick F. Reese, Epis- copal bishop of Savannah, born in Baltimore, 62 years ago today. George A. Carlson, candidate for re-election to the govérnorship of Colorado, born at Alma, Ia., forty years ago today. Henry D. Estabrook, now a New York lawyer, but really an Omaha man, was born at Alden, N. Y., sixty- two years ago today. Bishop William Burt of the Metho- dist BEpiscopal church born in Corn- wall, England, sixty-four years ago today. Hugh C. Bedient, former pitcher of the Boston Red Sox, now with the To- ledo American Association team, born at Gerry, N. H, twenty-seven years ago today. Timely Jottings and Reminders. James W. Gerard, American am- bassador to Germany, is to confer with President Wilson at Shadow Lawn. Colonel Roosevelt is scheduled to speak at Albuquerque, N. M., tonight in behalf of the Hughes and Fair- banks ticket. The Interstate Commerce commis- || sion is to conduct & hearing in Wash- ington today on the petition of the express companies for authorization to maintain rates on the basis of the declared value of shipments. The large party of Arkansas farm- ers and business men touring the east with an exhibition train of Arkansas products will be given a reception to- night by the Chamber of Commerce of Washington, D. C. Officials of the Agricultural depart- ment will conduct a hearing at Kan- sas City today on a tentative draft of regulations for administration of the new federal grain standards act. Storeyette of the Day. “Did you see that?” yelled the ex- cited man in the Panama hat. “That robber of an umpire calls Gilligan out at third and Rafferty never come within a foot of touchin’ him.” “It looked that way to me, too,” admitted the man beside him. “Still, I dare say the umpire could see the play better from wlhere he was than we could get from up here.” “Ah, go on home!" retorted the other, savagely. “You ain't got no business goin' to a ball game. You're one of thesg blamed pacifiists, that's what you are.”—New York Times. Teamwork by Ford and Wilson. Omaha, Oct. 22.—To the Editor of The Bee When, about a year ago, Henry Ford gathered up by tele- graph a bunch of school boys and professors and sailed post-haste for Europe with the solemnly avowed purpose of “calling the boys out of the trenches,” people with ordinarily imaginative minds thought the apex of absurdity had been reached, but when President Wilson intimated that the success of the republican party in November would mean war, he mounted to a height that made Ford’'s apex look like a mole hill. In Mr. Ford's case, however, the poll of the press seemed to indicate that the general opinion was that he had no personal ends to gain and that he should be given credit for “good in- tentions,” B. A. E—A VOTER. Tickling the Germans. Omaha, Oct. 22.—To the Editor of The Bee: After Senator Hitchcock made his speech in the United States senate on the ammunition embargo bill, he is reported to have said, ‘‘That ought to tickle the Germans.” President Wilson sat down upon hig ammunition bill, yet Senator Hitch- cock is asking for votes because he stood by Wilson. Dig he introduce the bill just to tickle the Germans? When Hitchcock had offices to give out, did he tickle the Germans? Let's look at the list: McCarty, post- master at Ogalalla; McVey, post magster at North Platte; Charley Fan- ning postmaster, at Omaha; Tom Flynn, United States Marshal; Me- It was an an ckled Cune, collector of customs. not necessary to give a Ger! office because Hitchcock had them and now wants their votes. LACHEND. AT That Poor Little Vineyard. Omaha, Oct. 22.—To the Editor of The Bee: “‘Hush, little vineyard, don’t you cry, You'll make grapé juice, by and by.” The amendment in this state that Is expected to work this miracle in the face of natural laws, is this: “Article XVIL. On and after May 1, 1917, the manufacture, the sale, the keeping for sale or barter, the sale or barter under any pretexfl‘o( malt, spirituous, vinous or any other intoxicating liquors, are forever pro- hibited in this state, except for medi- cinal, mechanical, scientific or sacra- mental purposes.” That completely stops the farmer from making either grape juice or wine for his own personal use without running the risk of being arrested. He cannot barrel his grape juice, for it will not stay grape juice but will become wine or vinegar. If he boils the grape juice and bottles it he not only spoils the flavor the grape, but he runs the same risk, for in time it will also more likely than not fer- ment and become claret wine if no sugar added. ‘What excuse have these so-called lovers of grape juice got if that sort is found in their cellars after this amendment takes effect, should the state go dry? The reading of the amended amend- ment above may or may not be per- fectly constitutional, but it would seem better for its safety before a court if that comma were left out after ‘“manufacture” and it read ‘“manufacture for sale.” The way it is, it sets aside and defles a law of nature and is liable to make a crim- inal even unwittingly of a prohibi- tionist and even in his own house. That surely would be a calamity. If the supreme court should have an opportunity to review this amend- ment as a law later we belleve it will hesitate in sanctioning it, for wine is natural, and man has no power over grape juice when put aside to keep. It won't stay put. If he wants grape Juice he had better eat grapes or he will run the risk of going to jail in this state next year. If he wants cider that has been kept a while, he had better eat apples, for this is an inex- orable law of nature. GEORGE P. WILKINSON. Kuriosity Propounds a Kwestion. Omaha, Oct. 22.—To the Editor of The Bee: What has become of our Kultured Kongressman, the Hon. Carl Otto Lobeck? Why is he not out on the trail with Colonel Hitch- cock, working eighteen hours a day for four more years of Wilson and wooziness? Is the Hon. Carl Otto so convinced that he has the voters— partieularly the German and Irish voters—in his pocket, that he need not: waste his breath in making speeches? Or is he afraid to say a word, having fought on both sides during the recent unpleasantness over submarines and Amerioans who insist on being torpedoed DER HAMMER. ‘What's the Answer? Omaha, Oct. 22.—To the Editor of The Bee: Would the public pause a moment In their ravings abouts Amer- icanism, prosperity, etc., to answer the following question? Why is the writer of this note, who has no intention of becoming a citi- zen of the United States, actually pre- vented from leaving the country? Having slaved away the best part /| of his life in the American merchant marine service and thus used to rough treatment, he still is at a loss to explain why—coming ashore dis- abled—he should be singled out, set upoh by the American kings of the universe and their subjects to be kept down as a criminal and penalized to remain in the United States for life. . H. MELL. 706 South Eighteenth street. And What About the Grades? Omaha, Oct. 22.—To the Editor of The Bee: It is gratifying to note that a substantial increase in the sal- aries of supervisors and teachers of Omaha high schools has been recom- mended to the Board of Educatign, and that the board is seriously consid- ering the matter. We feel assured that $6,000 expended for this purpose will be a good investment. When we are handing out more coin every day to bakers and caterers for puff paste, frothed gelatine, whipped cream and other frilled unsubstantialities dear and essential to a cultured palate, not scatter a few bones among the artists who cater to the interests of the higher education and supply us with food for thought by frilling the intellects of our children with mer- ingues and marshmallow frosting in the shape of dead languages, re- cherche English, the higher mathe- matics, etc.? It's the frosting and not the filling that make the ple. It is the veneer that counts in interior decorative art, and not the grain and quality of the wood. What is a shoe without polish? To divide that $6,000 and distribute half of it among the teachers in the grades would be to establish a ridicu- lous and dangerous precedent. Vf course, the grade teachers have their place in the scheme of education, but we must consider that, after all, they only build the pie from the foundation crust, and couldn't frost it artistically to save their necks. They are useful to chisel and smooth and plane and bring out the grain of the wood, but they haven't an idea how to smear it over with varnish afterward. My friends, a grade teacher is merely a human machine built to stuff the plastic brain of the child with the “three R's” and tamp them down with the simple rudiments of orthography, language, geography and history, so that the high school teacher can add the finishing touches with a fine Itallan hand, and pocket the glory along with the hard cash, 0, dazzling bliss that never fades! To be a teacher in the grades! ELSIE ROBERTSON. 2150 South Thirty-third street. Narrow Limits‘of Humanity. New York, Oct. 19.—To the Editor of The Bee: A protest is going up from the 8% per cent of railway em- ployes to whom the recent sanction- of-society wage increase did not ex- tend. Let them not weep. It is worth millions to the cause of truth in this republic to have the 80 per cent real- ize how unfair the United States aa employer and as investigator can be. I hope it is a nail in the coffin of gov- ernment ownership. That super-plous body, the Federal Industrial commission, held 154 meet- ings and spent $500,000, yet could not spare even fifteen minutes to men, wage earners under Uncle Sam, to whom the government owes some $2,000,000 in wages. The secretary of labor, when a member of congress, deplored the de- pravity of the naughty republicans for falling to pay these wages to the navy yard men. But three years in the cabinet of the président of hu- manity seem to have stilled his zeal for these wage earners. They worked under Uncle Sam’s very own eight- hour law. i A widow writes me: “I would like to hear from you, as my husband was working overtime when the overtime was not given, and has since died. And T have two children under the age of 16 which I have to go out every day and work for. Hopipg that I won't be forgotten.” 1 Oh, 80 per cent, weep not. You can send someone to jail if he cheats you out of your wages, GEORGE HIRAM MANN. 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