Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 24, 1916, Page 6

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Add cno Pz”xolnmnoy o d editorial etier 1o Omana Hos, Biliorial Departmont. = SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION 84,507 Daily—Sunday 50,539 Dwight Williams, mnlzir misnager of Th Publishing an-n‘:. being duly o hat Bee the ireuiation ot the month :.'.:".‘:..3;; '!.f‘?l _:nal 50,65 5.' o 50 1o of Obn R Jud e 1. heere 0 SOBHRY HUNTER, Notaty Publie. Subscribors lea: the city temporaril should have Th"a- ‘dld'lo :\0:-' hl dress will be changed as often as required. - Really, now, in the pressure for votes, the de- funct coronership is not noticeably missed. Yes, but are you “wet” ot “dry” Senator Hitche cock? Why are you still dodging the question? “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown,” Aad also the cabinet head that guides the crown. With Britain paying 6 per cent for American 1oans, the season for shooting silver bullets seems fairly open. Taking chances at grade crossings is an ef- fective way of working up business for hospitals and funeral directors. ' The appearance of John Lind on the stump af- fords more or less cheerful assurance of the restoration of his voice. e The boost in Omaha banking clearings tightens the city’s grip on the fourteenth place. The pace is awift and the footing sure. ¥ ———— | | A general election in Mexico possesses one distinctive merit. It is quite possible to guess in ~ advance how the voters line up. —— The land grab pulled off by France in China has one merit, to say the least. It avoids the reg- ular accompaniment of a graveyard, | Legally the United States is at war with Mexico. Actually it is bluff on one side, watchful waiting on the other. Both sides veil the farce with gauzy pretensions. Put this down as certain: As president, Charles E. Hughes would not be swerved from any action he believed right by the threats or _ blandishments of either labor or capital, | ' By his previous service in the same office, Wile “liam G. Shriver, republican candidate for county assessor, has proved that he is fully equal to the i job and may be depended upon to perform its ~ duties efficiently. ———— Lake Erie's toll of sailor men is unusually - heavy for mid-October. The shallow pond ex- ~ ceeds the upper lakes in ruthlessness when lashed by fall gales, but rarely does it exact its annual roll of victims before November. Meagre forecasts of the harvest reaped by grain speculators foreshadow a crop of dollars rivaling the piles heaped up by war brides. Some Chicago reapers already schedule winnings as robust as a Standard Oil dividend. — Organzied labor is not so pleased with the _establishment, by the Adamson law, of the prin- ciple of legislative wage-fixing which labor has ‘always fought against, and the surrender of the principle of lfl':ltutlou which labor has always - fought for. Smm— Our amiable democratic contemporary seems fearfully distressed lest Roosevelt may exercise some controlling influence over Hughes when he is elected president. It was even more distressed for fear Roosevelt would not exercise controlling influence over Taft when he was elected president. The Helpful Heckler Besten Transcript. _ Mr. Wilson's managers are getting poor re- turns for their money and their pains if' they d the little band of hecklers who have been ing Mr. Hughes from Elue to place in pe that they could check by canned ques offensive drive against the administra- Bowled over by the straightforward an- jer of Mr. Hughes at Louisville regarding the Lusitania, they dropped that subject from their list of questions. In an Iowa town last night, ~ however, when he was asked whether he would repeal the Adamson law if elected president, he ml:d. to the delight of the audience and the ing of his questioner, that “a surrender not be repealed.” As in the case of the ia, Mr. Hughes told exactly what he have done to prevent the tying up of the ys of the country by a strike. He would have exerted the whole moral influence of the ency to compel a resort to arbitration as 4 law and as desired by the public. “If arbitration had been refused,” he .uuf. 1 should have gone right to the American , stated the facts and put the responsi- where it belonged. I should at the same me have secured a commission of inquiry so 1, so fair, as to command'the respect the entire country, and directing public. to that end there is no group of men ‘the United States that would have dared up the instrumentalities of commerce were done. dfllfi differences between the two tes for the presidency is that Mr, Wil- rfo ce never equals his record of Mr.g s discloses the he al 0es better than always means what he jion i responsible for the character. It was that thich caused the late Joseph of the New York World, Mr. s the acceptance of an under his will as a trustee of his . . < s One romises, THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, How Could Such “False Rumors” Originate? In his desperate effort to tighten his grip on President Wilson's coat tails, Senator Hitchcock has elicited from the president, in answer to the charge that he (the senator) is in disfavor with the democratic administration, a letter declaring: “I do not know how the false rumors to which you refer can have originated.” Well, President Wilson's profession of ignor- ance on this subject does small credit to his in- telligence, Wonder if he ever had his attention called to the article justifying his defiance of the president printed in the Philadelphia Ledger over Senator Hitchcock’s name in which he used these words: If senators and representatives coming to Washington permit the president to instruct them how to vote, representative government -fails, The independence of congress cannot be maintained if individual senators give way un- der presidential influence and surrender their legislative consciences and individual judge- ments into his keeping. The only inference is that President Wilson was asleep, while Senator Hitchcock was fight- ing the administration federal reserve bank bill, while Hitchcock was bolting the caucus; when Hitchcock forced withdrawal of the president's nomination for the federal reserve bank board, when Hitchcock played the holdup on Ne- braska appointments, when Hitchcock helped block the administration shipping bill, when Hitchcock started a back fire on the administra- tion's position on munitions exports—in fact, when Hitehcock was fighting Wilson at nearly every turn of the road. ) It is to be presumed, also, that the president stuffed cotton in his ears when Mr. Bryan, just previous to our primary last April, went up and down Nebraska openly declaiming: ) If you will inspect the senator's record you will find that while he is supporting. the presi- dent in the ptimary now, when he has no op- position .ml’ does not need him, he has op- posed the president at critical times, when he was necdecr; once when he joined Wall street in an attempt to defeat the eurrency bill and once when he joined the shipping combine in defeating the president’s shipping bill. 1 be- lleve that the only reason Senator Hitchcock says he is for the president now is because he desirés with the aid of the liquor interests (o ride into office on the back of the president. Why, indeed, where could such ‘“false rumors” have possibly originated? Laying the ‘Facts Before Labor. Unwarranted assertions by democratic lead- ers, supported by a few interested heads of labor organizations, have been widely disseminated for the purpose of confusing the minds of the work- ingmen as to /the attitude of Charles Evans Hughes towards labor, and also to make them think that Woodrow Wilson is their true and only friend. This bold distortion of truth has resulted in looking up the records and laying be- fore the world truth, as shown by undisputed proof, that Hughes’ record is.one of perform- ance, while Wilson's is one of recent and unre- deemed promise, When ‘Mr. Hughes was governor of New York, he assisted in the passage of more laws in ingerest of labor than are credited to any gov- ernor before or since. When he resigned as gov- ernor, to take a place on the bench of the su- preme court, he did it with an endorsement from organized labor in New York, expressed in these words: “He was the greatest friend of labor laws that ever occupied the governor's chair at Albany. During his two years he signed fifty-six labor laws, including among them the best labor laws ever enacted in this or any other state,” While ‘Governor Hughes was signing these labor laws, Professor Woodrow Wilson, then at Princeton university, was putting him- self on record as a friend of the open shop, oppo- nent of organized labor, and entirely opposed to the shorter workday. His utterances, when he was free from-political restraint, were widely different from his presént day professions. Acéomplishments for which the president and his followers are now claiming credit are not his. The seaman’s law was fought through con- gress by Robert' LaFollette; the phrase in the ‘?tymn act, which says “labor is not a com- odity or article of commerce,” was inserted by Albert B, Cummins of Iowa, and neither of these senators will be claimed as a democrat, nor is either of them -supporting Wilson. The child labor law was forced on the president, and passed by votes of republican senators against the bitter opposition of democrats who are now trying to re-elect Wilson, who took his office pledged to a single term as president. The one bill relat- ing to labor that can be wholly ascribed to the president and his cotery is the Adamson law, which labor recognizes now as a gold brick. The effort of the president to don republican garb in which to masquerade as a friend of labor is being completely expofed by such real labor leaders as John Williams, who was appointed labor commissioner .by Governor Hughes, and who held the office until the Tammany democrats, under “Old Bill" Sulzer, not daring to remove him openly, legislated him out of office by a “ripper” bill. Workingmen who read should not allow themselves to be deceived by democratic pretense. oEmme——— Significance of Primary Figures. Close analysis of the figures from primaries in northern states justifies the confidence placed upon them by Chairman Willcox as significant of republican victory in November. Primary ma- jorities are not always duplicated at the polls, but the preponderance of republicans wherever a vote has been registered shows the deep interest of republicans and the indifference or apathy of democrats. It is enthusiasm that wins victories. The republican party is united and enthusiastic, and full of the vim that is earily translated into victory., Under the leadership of Charles Evans Hughes the party is experiencing a revival such as carried it to sweeping triumph behind William McKinley, The country is tired of the wobbly, hali-hearted efforts at government exhibited by the Wilsonites, and is looking for another period ‘of definite policies vigorously carried out. This is shown by the figures of the primary clections. Kansas courts follow the Nebraska precedent in cutting down oil inspection fees to the level of a faded grease spot. The Kansas judicial limit of 1 cent per brand reduces the inspection de- rtment from a proud perquisite to a picayune job. - However, the oil worrying. companies are not Even Missouri shows a distinct desire to kick over the democratic traces. There the drift to Hughes takes on the pressure of a Mississippi flood. Nothing short of a political miracle will keep the show-mes from joining in the glad, sweet song of republican triumph in November, ¢ Letters of a Politician to His Sony g My Dear Jack: You know I just hadn't realized until I got your letter that you are now old enough to vote and already face to face with the puzzle of de- ciding under which banner you shall march, Per- haps I ought to have thought of it when we packed you off to college, but I didn’t, and that's all there is to it. So when you write me that the other hoys are boosting favored wesidcnlinl can- didates and are jumping on you to tell which side of the lot you are going to play on, it strikes me a little sudden, as 1 say, even though I know I ought to be prepared for it. ou ask me to tell you what I want you to do as if it were up to me, as your father, to paste a label on you and deliver you like a package all wrapped and seated upon one or the other of the political bargain counters. Well, I'll do noth- ing of the kind, for that whole idea goes against the grain with me. 1 don't take it to be any ele- ment of the parental duty I owe you to make up your mind for you as to what is right and wrong and this question is for you nothing but deciding what is right and best for you and, therefore, best for everybody and for the country as a whole. No, my son, you'll have to reach your own conclusion, with your dwn brains, as to whether you are going to be a republican or a democrat, or neither, and whether you are going to vote this time for Hughes or for Wilson. Note that [ say “this time," because your decision is really for more than once. Hitching up to a political arty is to a certain extent like choosing a col- ege—once you're in, yours has the others all beat a mile, ahd you're going to stick to it through thick and thin and you're not going to drop your crowd and join the other bunch except for some mighty good reason. Of course, people do change sometimes from one college to another, and they perhaps more frequently change from one party to another, or slip around between them, but, just the same, in pnfiti as in college, the chances are 100 to 1 in favor of holding the fellow who joins early and gets the spirit of it in him. But, Jack, please don’t misunderstand me when I say 1 won't tell you how I want you to vote as meaning that I have no interest in the matter. I have—a whole lot—but 1 am more interested in having you decide for yourself so you will feel sure of your ground and not linger under the impression that you are voting just to please me or because that is the way your father votes. You are entitled to have my advice if you want it, or rather the benefit of my experi- ence all these years, as you know I have seen the country ruled by republicans and then by democrats, back and forth, and have seen the results tested out. It is likely that I have ob- served more carefully than /you have the steps leading up to the conditions surrounding us and see a little clearer what is ahead, and if I can help you unravel the tangles in your mind, all you have to do is to call on “Dear.old dad.” Just listen to what the boys are saying when they talk politics and you'll find that where there are two sides it's not so hard to tell which is wrong and which is right, and then when you're sure you're r' you can hoist your colors and go ahead v.it' . clear conscience. In haste, FATHER. i Nebraska Political Comment l Tekamah Herald: That was a great reception Nebraska gave Mr. Hughes all along his route, he virtually set the prairies afire with his candid presentation of\facts. All who heard him are convinced that he will make an ideal president for this great country, the land of the free and the home of the brave. Chadron Journal: Senator Hitchcock tells the eople that Wilson needs him in the senate. If ilson should be re-elected, he might appreciate a democratic senator from Nebraska, but not Hitchcock, who opposed him on most of his big issues. Wilson would be far better off with Kennedy, who will do his duty as he sees it, than with Hitchcock. Blair Enterprise: When Senator Hitchcock intruded his presence upon the 400 delegates at the Lutheran synod at Brown Creek church, seeking votes and talking politics, the dele- ates resented his attempt to eulogize President (Vilson, and manifested their displeasure so plainly that the senator was constrained to “back up.” It was an impertinence on the part of the senator in intrude himself upon @ religious assem- blage of this character for the purpose of pro- curing votes, Kearney Hub: Senator Hitchcock has had much to say in commendation of the federal bank reserve act, constructed by a democratic congress on the substantial foundation built upon a rock by republican predecessors, He has not, however, attempted ‘to explain why Missouri should have two of those banks and Nebraska and the great trans-Missouri states have not one. If Hitchcock had been big enough for his job when it came to a real test in which his state was vitally con- cerned he should have at least been able to pre- vent that rank discrimination. Nelson Gazette: The Bryan democrats are not falling over themselves to support Hitch- cock this fall, no matter how hard the machine at Omaha cracks the whip. The treatment that Hitcheock has given them in the pfn is still re- membered, and the disclosure of the undelivered message from President Wilson does not' make them feel any better towards Hitchcock. At the time of the primary, Wilson sent word to Ne- braska democrats through Senator Hitchcock that he wanted to see Bryan sent to St. Louis, but the senator forgot (?) to deliver the message and thus Bryan went down to defeat as a delegate to the national convention. This added to former harsh treatment accorded Bryan and his follow- ers by the Hitchcock wing of democracy is not making votes for the senator in his effort to de- feat John L. Kennedy this fall. People and Events The largest and oiliest of recent alimony awards falls to Mrs. Marie M. Harkness, daugh- ter-in-law of the late L. V. Harkness, Standard Oil magnate. Young Harkness 1s ordered by a New York court to hand over $30,000 a year in monthly installments to the deserted ‘wife. He is a good sport in motor racing, aviation and in other lines, and having inherited a Standard for- tune the alimony pull won't shrivel his pile. “Nobody loves a fat man!" Go to! Philadel- phians are bestowing tears and flowers and eulo- gies on the bier of Frank J. Margwarth, hero and victim of a fire in his home. Margwarth, who weiihed 300 pounds, remained in the building until satisfied that his wife, child, pet monkey and canary were safe, and then became wedged in the second-story window and suffocated. In fires as well as in footraces copious fronts are inconvenient. Laws fashioned on the uplift plan often work injury to those they are intended to benefit. The other day a New York judge refused to pass sen- tence on a woman convicted of stealing bread to kce‘) herself and six children from starving. Her husband, a victim of tuberculosis, is out of work because the Board of Health forced his discharge from a job. The judge reasoned that the state should not punish a violation of law for which the state is responsible, z A 1916. Thought Nugget for the Day. That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.— Thomas B. Macaulay. One Year Ago Today in the War. Austrian airmen dropped hombs on Venice. Germans drove back Russians north- west of Dvinsk. Rugsian ehips shelled Baltic coast to aid Riga. British submarine sank Turkish transport Carmen in Sea of Marmora. French troops effected junction with Serbian- army and proceeded toward Strumitza, the Bulgarian stronghold. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. Will L. Vigscher appeared at Boyd's Opera house in his humorous lecture entitled “Sixty Minutes in the War," and his Kentucky vocalists will form a feature of the entertainment. A meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was held at the house of Judge Savage. Colonel Chase was elected temporary chairman and Mrs. Savage acted as secretary. Talks were given by George L. Miller and General 8. E. Smith, and the following officers were elected: Colonel Champin 8. Chase, president; J. W. Savage, Judge Howard B. Smith and General J. E. Smith, vice prest= dents; Fred Millard, treasurer, and Mrs. J. W. Savage, corresponding sec- retary, Henry Griesedelick, one of the mem- bers of the Excelsior Gun club of St. Louls, Mo, is in the city visiting Will- iam Krug and with him will start” on a duck hunt of several days into the interior of Nebraska. Miss Julia Feil, sister of N. P. Feil of The Bee, is visiting at the residence of Mr. Edward Rosewater. Dr. Waldo Fisher of Alton, 111, is in the city prospecting with a view to settling in Omaha. Like everyone else who comes to the city, he is astonished and pleased at the growth of this com- ing metropolis. Postal Inspector Woodbury of Den- ver has informed Dr. Mercer that he would recommend the establishment of a postoffice at Walnut Hill. This recommendation will doubtless be acted upon, but it will require proh- ably two months in which to engineer the matter through the Postal depart- ment. This Day in History. 1784—S8ir Moses Montefiore, known as one of the greatest of Jewish philanthropists, born in Leghorn, Italy. Died at Ramsgate, England, July 28, 1885. 1789-—President Washington was enthusiastically received in Boston. 1852—Daniel Webster, the famous statesman and orator, died at Marsh- fleld, Mass. Born at Salisbury, N. H., January 18, 1782, 1860-—Peace signed between Great Britain and China. 1873—Johann Sebastian Welhaven, a celebrated Norwegian poet, died, Born at Bergen in 1807. 1894—Japanese army crossed Yalu river and began an invasion of China. 1896—Charles H. Van Wyck, former United States senator from Nebraska, died In Washington, D. C. Born at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., May 10, 1824, 1897—An express train on the Hud- son River railroad ran into the water near Garrisons, N. Y., and twenty-one persons were killed. 1898—Supreme court of TUnited States decided the Joint Traffic asso- clation case in favor of the govern- ment and against the rdilroads. 1911—Dr. Frederick A. Cook was hooted from a hall in Copenhagen when he attempted in a lecture to vindicate himself as discoverer of the North Pole. The Day We Celebrate, H. K. Burket, funeral director, is just 60. He was born in Grand Detour, I, and started out in business in Creston, Ia., In 1876, removing to Oma- ha in 1883. ~ 8. P. Mason, assistant treasurer *of the Nye-Schneider-Fowler company, was born October 24, 1874, He was for several years with the Central CGranarjes company at Lincoln, com- ing to Omaha in 1908, Rev. Charles W. Savidge, the “mar- rying parson,” is celebrating his sixty- fifth birthday. He was born in New Vienna, O., and was educated in the University of Minensota. He has been a minister for thirty-nine years, and is at present at the head of the Peo- ple’s church, which he founded. Frank J. Burkley, president of the Burkley Printing company, was born October 24, 1857, right here in Omaha, his parents being among the pioneer settlers. He started out as a telegraph operator and was a member of the city council from 1894 to 1903. Edward Black, Bee reporter, is 43 today. He was born In Glasgow and came across the water in 1878, em- barking in the journalistic field on The Bee in 1903 after spending thir- teen years with the Burlington rail- road. Queen Victoria of Spain (formerly Princess Ena of Battenberg), born in England twenty-nine years ago today. Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, twice a candidate for president of the United States, and now a supporter of Presi- dent Wilson, born at Royalton, N. Y., eighty-six years ago today. Congressman James A. Frear of Wisconsin, ‘‘courageous and pertina- clous enemy of the pork barrel,” born at Hudson, Wis,, fifty-five years ago today. Rt. Hon. Sir Horace Plunkett, who has done more than any other one man to aid the agricultural develop- ment of Ireland, born sixty-two years ago today. He owns property in Omaha. George W. Clarke, the present gov- ernor of Towa, born in Shelby county, Indiana, sixty-four years ago today. E. K. Perryman, former New York- St. Louis pitcher, now with the Bir- mingham Southern league base ball team, born at Everett Springs, Ga., twenty-eight years ago today. Timely Jottings and Reminders. King and queen of Italy celebrate their twentieth wedding aniversary. Founder's day at Mount Holyoke college, originally scheduled for today, has been postponed because of the in- fantile paralysis epidemic. Many prominent medical men and public health officials arg to meet in Cincinnati today for the annual con- vention of the American Public Health association. A clvic music celebration, designed to stimulate a greater public interest in the musical arts, is to be held in Milwaukee during the four days be- ginning today. The annual convention of the Ameri- can Board of Commissioners for For- elgn Missions, one of the most im- portant missionary gatherings of the year, will begin its sessions today in Toledo. What a Hughes Vote Means. Auburn, Neb,, Oct. 23.—To the Edi- tor of The Bee. A vote for Hughes, a vote to get us out of war. A vote for Hughes is a vote to annul a $1,000,000 a# day war expense in “democratic times of peace.” CITiZEN. Should Congressmen Pay Their Debts? North Bend, Neb., Oct. 23.—To the Editor of The Bee: As you no doubt know, both the state and national laws offer to office holders some ad- vantages denied to ordinary citizens, notable among these being exemption from paying their bills. You cannot garnishee or attach the salary of a city, state or national official. The spirit of the law may be correct, but its action is certainly unfair, and it of- fers a shield to many men who are not slow to take advantage of it.| Witness the case of Congressman Charles O. Lobeck. There are on file in the district court of Douglas county the follow- ing judgments againet him: Elbert T. Duke against Charles O. Lobeck, $2,469.50 and costs. Execu- tion issued May 9, 1894. I. R. Andrews against C. O. Lobeck, $56 and costs and interest. Judgment rendered May 7, 1895. M. E. Curtis against C. O. Lobeck, | $936.80 and costs and interest.- Judg- ment rendered December 18,.1903. Ervilla L. Earl against C. O. Lobeck, $524 and costs. ment $275, Gunner A. Lindquist against C. O. Lobeck, $2,260.10 and costs and in- terest. .Judgment rendered Septem- ber 26, 1911, Sarah 8. Markham against C. O. Lobeck, $3,206 and costs and interest. Judgment rendered October 16, 1914. Gunner A. Lindquist against C. O, Lobeck, $2,727.11 and costs and inter- est. Judgment rendered September 24, 1915. Execution issued October b, 1915. Totaled, with interest amounting to over $18,000. During the last fifteen years Mr. Lobeck has drawn as city comptroller of Omaha some $15,000 and as con- gressman he has drawn $32,000 from the national government, yet his just creditors cannot lay their hands upon a penny of that amount. A congressman has three ways of drawing his salary—First, a warrant on the treasury; second, the money may be paid to any bank or individual he may designate, and, third, or may be left on deposit with the sergeant- at-arms. During his incumbency Mr, Lobeck, I am 'told, has never drawn his salary, but has left it on deposit safe from his creditors in the keeping of Uncle Sam. When-called into court last year on a writ of execution he claimed that all he had was three shares of stock in the Swedish Auditorium worth $10 per share. During the last fifteen years he has drawn over $40,000 from the public purse, yet his creditors cannot get a cent out of him by force of law. Now for an individual example: ‘When my mother, Mrs. 8. 8. Mark- ham, was left a widow thirteen years ago, all we had to face the world with was a small stock of goods located in North Bend, worth perhaps $500, and some doubtful ‘claims, among them being three of Mr. Lobeck’s notes for $700 each. Needing the money, and added, needing it badly, my mother offered | to settle with Mr. Lobeck for about half of their face value, but was met with the excuse of no money and put ‘off from time to time with promises to pay when this, that and the other thing “turned up,” or “after election,” My mother, a woman of 66 years, went to work behind the counter and when she passed away in June of this year her claim against Mr. Lobeck amounted to $3,670, and we never suc- ceeded in getting a payment out of Mr.. Lobeck. The World-Herald of October 22, 1915, recorded the fact that Mr. Lobeck was among those who “hit the trail” at the “Billy” Sunday meetings, and my mother wrote him the follow- ing letter: North Bend, Neb., Oct. 23, 4915. —Mr. C. O. Lobeck, Omaha, Neb. Dear 8ir: I note in this morn- ing's World-Herald that you are numbered among the trail-hitters at the Sunday tabernacle. I take it that this is a public confession of Christianity and is sincere. You, no doubt, recall that “Billy” Sunday included among the Christian virtues honesty and strict payment of debts, and I hope that you are going to put | your Christidnity into practice by | making a substantial payment on | your debt to me. Very truly Yours, MRS 8. 8. MARKHAM. | Mr. Lobeck’s reply was: 1 Omaha, Neb., October 28, 1915. —Mrs. Sarah 8. Markham, North Bend, Neb. Dear Madam: Your | letter of the 23d received. I | have no apology to make for go- ing down the trail. Under simi- lar circumstances would do so again. Yours respectfully, C. 0. LOBECK. Mr. Lobeck's reference to doing so again ‘“‘under similar circumstances” ! may seem a little vague, but when it is understood that when Mr. Lobeck's | “wet” friends upbraided him for doing | so he intimated that such action Paid on this judg- | FA @ragon fly went by with a shimmer of would be very popular with the “drys,” it may be a little plainer. The above is an absolutely correct statement, based on facts and written in moderation. But does it not seem as though there should be some way to force public officials to pay their honest debts or some provision in the law denying the right to hold office to men of Mr. Lobeck's stripe? C. L. MARKHAM. e Thanks, Friends, Just the Same. Omaha, Oct. 22.-—-To the Editor of The Bee: During my absence from the city on a vacation, a number of my friends circulated a petition to. place my name on the ballot as a candidate for member of the Board of Education, and obtained the neces- sary number of names and filed it with the election commissioner with- out any solicitation on my part. 1 have just notified the election commissioner that I have withdrawn from the race because for many rea- sons 1 believe this would be an inop- portune time to place my name before the voting public as a candidate for the above office. Accordingly, I take this means of notifying my friends of my with- | drawal and to thank them for their kind interest and offer of support on this occasion. ARTHUR ROSENBLUM. Personal Experience With Prohibition. Omaha, Oct. 23.—To the Editor of The Bee: I am as much opposed to the so-called prohibition program from a Christian standpoint, as I be- | lieve others are that favor it. I have { no quarrel with sincerity, but I have with narrow-mindedness. As a boy in prohibition Evanston, 111, I early learned its folly and un- workableness, | I could go on Indefinitely and recite many reasons, but it is sufficient for | the present to state just a few. Self | restraint and the téemperance teach- | ings of the church and home are, In my humble opinion, more to be looked to than legislative enactment. Shall I admit the church a failure, and that our lawmakers are the only {refuge to keep our boys straight? S God forbid! Had the drunkard better wait for prohibition and the statutes, or has he not a better example in the reformed man who sought by the grace of God and his own will power this reforma- tion rather than drift and fill a drunk- ard's grave? We are told that we are “‘free moral agents.” Then shall we try by pro- hibition to shift this responsibility from the individual to the state? ‘Weaknesses of the flesh, early train- ing, environment and economics all g0 to make us what we are, and the f laws can only provide penalties for transgressions and excesses. Had Nebraska better throw up its hands and admit as a state that it is powerless to regulate the liquor traf- fic, andthen attempt to prohibit what it cannot regulate? That is the main issue from a governmental standpoint. But because many of us belleve sin- cerely that regulation is more practi- cal than prohibition is no excuse for the outrageous statement that we are advocating an evil. 8. ARION LEWIS. MIRTHFUL REMARKS. “You know I told you not to take any- thing from that young man, Ella." “I really don't, md. I have returned everything he gave me, even his kisses."— Baltimore American. DEAR MR.KABIBBLE, IR LOVE IS BLIND, WHAY 15 MARRIAGE —REUBEN SaMUELS S, THE BVE OPENER® = "My daughter is a wonder at the piano,” said the proud father. “That's so, for wonders never cease,” id the man who occupled the adjoining at.—Boston Transcript. “Do you think the election will go your way?" “Can’t say as to that,” replied Senator Sorghum. “I'm going to do my best to g0 Its wa, -Washington Star. —— \ AN AUTUMN MORNING. Clinton Scollard in New York Sun. I made haste to be abroad fn the glowing, flowing morn, ‘When a littls rimpling wind in the heart of the west was born That stirred the alfalfa bloom and the tassels upon the corn. gauzy wings; A swallow mounted the sky with its graces ful spiralings, And I heard the cheery word that the min- strel cricket sings. I saw the pumpkin's gold and the ore of the goldenrod; And the down of the milkweed danced like & white sprite over the sod; And the blue of the aster's eyes was a lure where’er I trod. i And all of the orchard boughs cried out to me In glee, And the brimming barns and byres showed me thelr treasury, And 1 knew the mirth of earth, its autumn ecatacy. “And this,” to myself I sald, “is the helght whereto we climb; strive, as the valiant should, through the scason’s heat and rime, A harvest shall be ours from the open hand of time!" It we people of Omaha, will ‘We urge every republican voter to ask If not, do so, at once. To be a voter earri Chairman When the blood (the body) is properly nourished, your b radiates signs of glowing h 0 easy to neglec variabl But it L d blood disesse’s of like Rheumatism, Catarrh, fulous poisons and skin diseases tak before we are aware—the result gence. Keep your blood (power fluid] pure by the nourishing qualities of ish these undesirable tenants from Qot the Gonulne $.8.8. from of Rat ice and Used the World The O1d R THE RECOG Senator Beveridge, of 'Imliana\. On October 27th, Senator Beveridge of Indiana, who needs no introduction to the speak in the Auditorium. October 27 is the last day for registration. If you do not register before that time you cannot vote. If you have not already registered go to the Election Com- missioner's office in the Douglas County Courthouse any day and do so. moved since you registered you must register again. ought to be cheerfully borne by all citisens who are interested in government. £0° STANDAR If you have himself this question: “Have I registered " ies with it a slight burden, but one which F. 8. HOWELL, Republican County Central Committec. power fluid} t its impog malignant [alaris Solls) 5 c. At Drugaists ID SUBSTITUTES