Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 26, 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 eworn, says that the average cireulation for the month of September, 1916, was 54,607 hfli’ and 50,639 Sunday. . DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. Bubseribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 3d day of October, 1916. BERT HUNTER, Notary Public. Subscribers leaving the city t:mp;nx‘l{ should have The Bee mailed to them. - dress will be changed as often as required. Diaz is a name to conjure with in Mexico. Are you wet or dry, Mr. Hitchcock? Why don't you answer? Farewell, a long farewell, Carranza! You, too, scared us out of war. “Kept us out of war?” What do you think the boys down on the Mexican border call it? “The drift to Wilson” is unmistakeable, and he'll be buried out of sight when the wave hits him. Attacks on the Americanism of Charles E. Hughes fairly measures the desperate straits of the democratic campaign, | The administration's success in directing pub- lic affairs in San Domingo promises to top its graveyard score in Mexico, - — Bull Moose Leader Cochems is another of the big men in that faction who can see more ~ hope in Hughes than in Wilson. ¥ Sem— Mere man steadily shrinks .in the llpolli[h( of world affairs. Even in a political yellfest his ’d powers in suffrage Colorado are as a tin whistle to a calliope. Sem——— 3 ' Omaha housekeepers who exercise caution in _admitting strangers at the front door have ‘themselves to blame for lapses of vigilance at ?tnm and back doors. ; Omaha: certainly convinced Maestro Campi- ‘and his song-birds that good music is appre- hereabouts. Patronage and applause alike complimentary of the company. — Non-brotherhood railway employes, and some are members of unions, are seeing the appli- m of the Adamson law in a way that isn't mklllt’d to make votes for Wilson, —— ~ Authors of democratic publicity dope are not wholly to blame. The finished product cannot rise above the quality of the raw materials. The chief surprise is how they escape being run in ‘a8 bunco steerers, | 'Official ‘returns from nine express companies show a 400 per cent increase in income during the last fiscal year. The gain over the fiscal _ year 1914-1915 transforms a celebrated line of mm into chortles of joy. JooyY Sm—— . Argentine corn has been competing with ~ American corn on the home market for three years past under democratic free trade. It is “one of several wide-open doors for foreign com- petition with American products. Only the up- set of normal trade by war saves American _ farmers from the disastrous effect of democratic Brandeis Vindicated Springfisld (Mass.), Republican.. Mr, Brandeis, in the year 1910, de- 4 t the rd:flro;dul o& th;a country eould ,000,000 a day by instituting economiesin tion he was r';)c'licu‘lud l‘nd abused l:y ljmnn railroad experts and writers for corporation jour- from z:d to end of the United States. Mr. dels after six years has been vindicated. a recent address on “The Problem of the : " by Ivy L. Lee, former assistant to the ‘ nd‘«n 'of the Pennsylvania railroad and of i one of Mr, Rockefeller's most trusted lieu- * tenants, has this generous confession to make: . “Justice Louis D. Brandeis has been a far better friend of the railroads than either he or 3 ew. Mr. Brandeis, in the rate advance of 1910 and pointed out methods the railroads could, by instituting proper ! ¢ $1,000,000 a day. “That, of course, was a mere graphic estimate. _ But it is an astonishing fact—and more than a coincidence—that the railroad net operating in- come for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1916, was about $308,600,000 more than what it was for the preceding year, or about $1,000,000 in- se for each business day in the year—the year in which the railway -plant has been to capacity since Mr. Brandeis made his te. The railroads have found that their s ity for handling traffic was greater than y had thought and !he{ have found it feasible to institute economies which they had considered Wh. i arvelous improvements are being made in 1 fliciency, especially through the use the super-heater. The Pennsylvania railroad ved over 10 per cent in its coal bill last yea ind_such further improvements are now consid- ered ible that perha per cent of that 's coal bill may be saved within another h a saving on the Pennsylvania e would mean over $5000,000 a per cent on the company’s capital of the supericater referred to by Mr. a8 such a wonderful money-saver?” Was m new about it, when the Pennsyl- introd:‘c:;l it? Or;‘e. rehadl else- undoubtedly true, that this super- A !:s} ,lo:'in Germany a good many use in Canada for ten years he United States.” seems to carry with our richest and s as being be- on. THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, Americanism as An Issue. At no time has the patriotism or loyalty to American institutions of Charles Evans Hughes been questioned. His whole life has been one of unswerving devotion to the highest ideals of citizenship, and intense effort to preserve in all its purity the democracy on which our govern- ment is founded. No better type ol the true American has ever been presented. These ad- mitted facts confront the democrats in their eleventh-hour attempt to inject into the presi- dential campaigfl the so-called “hyphenate” issue. President Wilson deliberately insulted a large number of good Ameritan citizens two years ago, and has persistently repeated the insult, questioning their loyalty and expressing doubts as to their citizenship. Victor Ridder of New York has furnished ample pr8of that while the president was thundering his anathema against the “hyphenate,” Postmaster General Burleson and Senator William J. Stone, chairman of the sepate committee on foreign affairs, were secretly making promises to influential German- Americans in New York, in an effort to secure their support for the democratic party. " This was imitating the action of Mr. Bryan, who gave Baron Dumba assurance the president didn't mean what he said. It is now made clear that before President Wilson denounced Jere- miah O'Leary and his associates as disloyal, Martin Glynn, former governor of New York and keynote sounder at St. Louis, persuaded O'Leary to hold back his action until consulta- tion could be had and pledges secured that would mollify the affronted Irish-Americans When O'Leary and his associates declined to go along with Wilson, the air of Shadow Lawn was rent with thunders against them, No place can be found in a campaign for the election of a president for the alignment of citi- zens as representatives of a particular race, They must taker part as American citizens or not at all. This is plain to every voter of for- eign birth or lineage, and none will resent the democratic efforts to herd them into racial groups more surely and effectively than these citizens hemselves. This latest outburst of Vance McCormick and his coadjutors should recoil against Wilson, who has been the only president since Buchapan to serve a section and undertake to divide 3]: citizenship into groups. Disquieting News From the Border. Little news is coming through from the Mex- ican border, but such as does filter through the censorship is disquieting. From Mexico. come repnr?l of movements that give color to rumcrs current to the effect that Carranza is losing his hold on the faction he domindtes, and is pre- paring to leave the country. No definite word has yet been sent out concerning the election held on Sunday, when delegates to a constitu- tional convention were to be chosen at Car- rahza's behest. This purely political move evi- dently was planned to convey -the impression that order is being restored in Mexico, but the mystery that surrounds the outcome is nqt cal- culated to increase confidence in the capacity of the “first chief” or his ability to control the sit- vation. The movement of large bodies of Mex- ican troops into the state of Chihuahua, osten- sibly to push the suppression of brigandage, take on an ominous cast when coupled with the fact that preparations are being made by our War department to maintain not only the forces on the border, but the forces across the border in Mexico, in their present status. People of the United States, and especially of those states whose troops are on the border, would welcome a little more frankness on the part of the gov- ernment, and certainly would appreciate some definite information as to what is to be done in Mexico. Where the Joker is Joked. Swinging round the circle with his senatorial boss, the pen-picture artist assigned to gather the political dope for newspaper consumption found it impossible to resist the temptation to include the following in his report: J. C. Kiley caused some merriment at Oshkosh by the story he told of faithfulness to the World-Herald subscription list. “I have taken the World-Herald for twenty-six years,” he said. “Twenty-one years ago, dur- ing the hard times, I figured I would have to give it up, but my wife and 1 talked it over and 1 decided to go without tobacco and keep the World-Herald, I cut out tobacco for three months until I could afford both that and the paper, I've never missed since. Had the thoughtless scribe only taken time for computation he would have discovered that going back twenty-one years landed him in the year 1895, right in the middle of the last demo- cratic administration preceding this one. The testimonial to the W, H., therefore, is also a re- minder of what has overtaken the country every time we have had a democratic tariff in opera- tion unobstructed by war. It is also a convincing estimonial to the good times enjoyed under the republican administrations, which made it possi- ble later to retain both newspaper and tobacco. Old Subscriber is to be complimented on pos- sessing $o vivid a memory, .but also to be com- miserated on manifesting such poor judgment as to prefer the W. H. to the solace of tobacco. War With San Domingo. Two more American officers and a number of privates have been killed, and several wounded, in the little war we are carrying on in San Do- mingo. This grows out of a commendable effort on the part of the government to restore order in the island, give the Dominicans and Haitians responsible government and to enable them to carry out engagements with European countries for which the United States stands sponsor. This little war has been going on for months, but all the time our president and his party supporters are insisting that he “kept us out of war” Announcing the fact on its front page, the Omaha World-Herald editorially inquires if “American fathers and mothers are willing that their sons be sent into foreign lands to be shot or die of disease” in order that the United States may afford protection to Americans abroad. How much longer will the people listen to this yawping about keeping us out of war? Were not the soldiers killed at Carrazal sons of Amer- ican fathers and mothers? Or those that died at Vera Cruz? And those who have just been killed in San Domingo? Tsn't it time for the American people to realize that instead of keep- ing us out of war, I'resident Wilson has had his country in war ¢ontinually since he sent forces to Vera Cruz in June, 19147 Two earthquake shocks felt in southern Cali- fornia rudely remind San Franciscans that the metropolis is losing its grip. Letters of a &> “Politician to S His Sore Dear Jack: So they are after you now to overawe you with the great stunt put across by President Wil- son when he drove the so-called eight-hour work- day bill through congress to save the country from a disastrous railroad strike? [ rather ex- pected them to parade this wonderful perform- ance before you, though, if your democratic friends gave the matter the least bit of_though(, they would carefully avoid mentioning it, for of all Wilson’s succession of blunders and misrepre- sentations this eight-hour day bill is the quintes- sence. In the first place, it doesn't give anybody an eight-hour day who has been working more than eight hours, as any railroad trainman will tell you, but it merely gives ten hours’ pay for eight hours’ work and overtime pay at the same rate for the hours in excess of eight. It is a wage IIL increase measure and nothing else, and, at that, increases by 25 per cent the wages of the highest paid railroad employes, who need it the least, and, of course, if the extra money goes to them, it can't go to any of the vast army of lesser paid railroad employes, In-the second place, assuming that the wage increase is deserved and right, who is going to foot the bill? Surely not the railroads for any length of time. The roads will recoup by raising rates for their transportation services and it will be shoved along on the dear public. Forcing a rate-raising bill through congress by the stop- watch method would not be so popular with the voter and so is apparently deferred, but the voter who has foresight and intelligence ought to be able to look that far ahead, and, if he does, he will see what is coming, In the third place, the hold-up method of frightening or bulldozing congress into legis- lating money into the pockets of a comé)arl.twely small class, doing it at break-neck speed, without deliberate discussion or even time to investigate and without pretending to be in possession of the facts, is about as dangerous a precedent as could possibly be set. Who was really wielding the powers of our government while the four brother- hood leaders were holding their watches on the president and congress and_ brandishing a strike club ready to fall unless their bill were made into law before the hands revolved to the appointed minute mark? What is to prevent the same four brotherhood leaders usurping executive and legis- lative authority again and again in the same way? Suppose they want another pay increase next winter and issue a strike order to be re- scinded only when the lawmakers come down with the goods? Look here, Jack, you know, and so does every- body else who knows anything, that if ever there is an industrial dispute that ought to be settled by arbitration, it is a demand for higher wage. T’l,n Wilson talk about the number of working hours not being “arbitrable” is bunk. The length of the work day is regularly included in arbitra- tion contracts (I'have made lots of 'em myself) and “arbitration” has been the union slogan all these years the employers were defiantly saying they had “nothing to arbitrate.” In surrendering the principle of arbitration, President Wilson has rulr done the cause of labor not a favor, but an incalculable injury, and has injured not only the cause of labor, but also-the cause of the general public, because betraying the cause of right and justice. I heard one wag refer to our democratic president recently in the slang vernacular as “the gink who put ‘betray’ in ‘ar-betray-shun'” He didn't hit it off bad, did he? I suppose you saw all those quotations of Wil- sonian expressions on labor made before his debut into politics? Where he refused point-blank to endorse the eight-hour movement, givingas his reason that he investigated and considered on its merits—pre- cisely the opposite of his present position; where he denounces labor unions as operating to make their members do as little work for their money as they can get away with; where he advocated the open shop, which labor unions regard as poison; where he brands organized labor as a class of encmies of freedom. These volunteered free-from-duress declarations gain significance when compared with his present somersaulted championship of labor’s demands and they sup- port the conclusion that Wilson either “took the side he most feared” or fell for the temptation of what looked like a big bunch of deliverable votes. Hardly anything for democrats to brag about, though, is it, Jack? Hurriedly, YOUR FATHER. People and Events It is possible occasionally to glimpse a little brightness through the smoke of battle. Some- how war has shot to pieces the demand for hu- man hair formerly a big feature of the export business of Hongkong. Pennsylvania has less beet and eggs in cold storage than a year ago. Reports from seventy- one warehouses show a marked decrease in the supplies of these necessaries, and a corresponding increase in pork, veal and mutton. In the last four months the traffic court of New York City imposed 4,875 fines and collected $62,000 for violation of traffic regulations. The average is not very high, but steady pressure on the pocketbooks of reckless drivers generates caution. The Empire State Bureau of Employment is overwhelmed with jobs seeking jobholders. Oh, no, not political jobs—real working jobs, such as stenographers, office help, laborers and household help. The latter apEruaches a famine, with $6 to 38 and keep a wee! going begging. Uncle Sam’s inheritance tax takes on im- posing chestiness as it views the pelf in the es- tate of Henry Miller, the late cattle baron of California. The fortune ranges from $20,000,000 to $40,000,000 in value, and your uncle looks for a rake-off of from $4,000,000 to $8,000,000. Andrew Uhr, a western cowboy of 21, hopped off at New York with a defy that he could rope any steer in town. In two hours native steerers roped the kid, relieved him of $150 and put him in shape for hospital treatment, Bragging away from home is expensive. Mrs, Fannie Pavilansky of Chicago blew $325 in real money for a husband and found the investment a positive loss in less than three months. Chicago's celebrated divorce courts al- lowed Fannie to cut loose with the firm caution: Don't blow yourself on bargain counter hus- bands. A London lawyer named Upjohn is awarded the endurance championship for an argument ex- tending through forty-five court days. He apolo- flind to the court for the performance and won the court's compliments for unwearying industry, extending through 5000 pages of evidence and 256 exhibits. Pronounced growth of the drug evil in the Em- ire State is reported by the State Association of guuicu and Magistrates. The evil is not con- ned to the underworld as is generally supposed. The association finds the habit spreading among the middle and wealthier classes of society. More restrictive laws and better enforcement are deemed the present hope of checking the traffic. So long as Game Warden Ziegler holds forth in Mississippi the veracious honors of the fish- ing cult are safe. No amateur sport may im- pugn the reputation for truth of the fishing cult, and get nwa{ with it—not if Ziegler gets next. Recently a bush league fisherman boasted of having caught a pet trout with his hands, and exhibited the fish as_visible evidence. But it failed to convince Ziegler, who straightway clanped the imaginative offender in jail. 1916. Thought Nugget for the Day. Life is not so short, but there is always time enough for courtesy— Ralph Waldo Emerson. One Year Ago Today in the War. French stormed La Courtine, rout- ing Germans. Teutons and Bulgarians joined forces and moved south in Serbia. Art works in Venice seriously dam- aged by bombs dropped by Austrian aviators, Sinking of British transport Mar- quette by submarine in Aegean Sea with loss of 100 lives, announced by admiralty. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. A meeting of the former students of Wyman's Commercial college, for the purpose of holding a grand re- union of the same, was held at the elieved each case should be fully” = bt v s e o office of R. M. Patterson. B. J. Scan- nell was elected president, E. E. Zim- merman, secretary, and Gustava Kroeger, treasurer of the assoclation, while the general managing commit- tee consists of R. M. Patterson, E. E. Zimmerman, George Holmes and N. Parsons. A meeting of the Fourth Ward Re- publican club was held at the corner of Twenty-ninth and Farnam and was largely attended. M. 8. Lindsey was elected chairman and A, T. McPher- son, secretary. Calls were made for speeches from Messrs. Blackburn, Simeral, Rosewater, Tzschuck, Heim- rod and Plerce. Onme of the largest boilers that ever passed through this city arrived from Cleveland, O., on its way to the Fow- ler Packing house at South Omaha. It occupied the whole of a platform car and weighed about ten tons. The funeral of the late Thomas Murphy took place from his residence, 1811 California street, the services be- ing conducted by Rev. R. A. Sheffel, 8. J. The pallbearers were John A. Creighton, Thomas Swift, Thomas Fallon, William Gentleman, F. C. Morgan and John G. Lee. The re- mains were interred in Holy Sepul- cher cemetery. Chief Galligan is now placarding in the different engine houses a chart showing the number and location of the fire hydrants in the city. There are now 470 and new ones are being located every week. This Day in History. 1774—The first continental con- gress dissolved, after a fifty-two days' session in Carpenter’s hall, Philadel- phia. 1800-—Count von Moltke, famous German commander in the Franco- Prussian war, born in Mecklenburg- Schwerin, Died April 24, 1891. 1826—Erie canal completed and opened for navigation. 1831—A ‘“high-tariff’ convention met in New York City with delegates present from many of the states. 1862—The rear of the confederate army under General Bragg passed through Cumberland Gap on its re- treat from Kentucky. 1840—Thomas W. Keene, celebrated Shakesperean actor, born in New York City. Died at New Brighton, Staten Island, June 1, 1898. 1850—Northwest passage discov- ered by Captain MacClure. 1871—Thomas Ewing, cabinet offi- ‘cer and United States senator from Ohlo, died at Lancaster, O. Born in Virginia, December 28, 1789, 1904—The earl of Dartmouth laid the cornerstone of a hall at Dart- mouth college. 1909—Prince Ito, Japanese states- man, was assassinated by a Corean at Harbin, Manchuria. 1911—The Turks made a furious attack on the Itallan troops behind Tripoli, Josing 1,000 killed and wounded. The Day We Celebrate, George Victor, vice president of the C. B. Liver company, was born Octo- ber 26, 1858, in Pommerania, Ger- many, coming to this country in 1881, He was in business in New York City for six years and in Omaha since 1887. George B. Eddy, former foreman of The Bee's ad room, is 54. He was born in Towanda, Pa., and is a printer by trade. He was a member of the firm of Chase & Eddy, booksellers and publishers, from 1885 to 1808; has been with The Bee until recently, re- tiring to enter the job printing busi- ness. Edwin Kirschbraun is today cele- brating his twenty-sixth birthday. He is assistant manager for Kirschbraun & Sons, In their creamery business. Andrew Murphy today turns his seventieth year. He is one of the ploneer wagon-makers of Omaha. Rear Admiral Charles F. Pond, commanding the United States naval forces operating in Haiti and S8an Do- mingo, born in Windham county, Connecticut, sixty years ago today. Henry B. Warner, one of the best known of the younger actors of the American stage, born in London forty years ago today. Sydney Rosenfeld, author of a score or more of successful plays, born in Rjchmond, Va., sixty-one years ago today. Willlam (Kld) Gleason, coach of the Chicago White Sox, born at C&r{l- bridge, N. J., fifty years ago today. Timely Jottings and Reminders. A fall festival is to be inaugurated at Leavenworth, Kan,, today, to con- tinue until the end of the week. Stockholders of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rallway will hold their twenty-first annual meeting to- day at Topeka. Alumni of the University of Penn- sylvania will assemble in Pittsburgh today from all over the country, for the fourth annual convention of the Assoclated Pennsylvania Clubs. Mrs. Mary A. Lovejoy, the first woman in the country to apply for a pension under the new Ashbrook pen- sion law, will celebrate her 100th birthday today at her home at Newark, O . The annual meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missionary soclety of the Methodist Episcopal church, one of the most important missionary gather- ings of the year, will begin its ses- sions today in Minneapolis, President Wilson s scheduled to speak tonight in Cincinnati, Charles E. Hughes in Boston, Willlam H. Taft in St. Louis and Colonel Roosevelt in Chicago. Storyette of the Day. A member of congress, a new man and therefore, not widely known in ‘Washington, found himself one day in the hands of a barber of the pro- verbially talkative sort who was em- ployed in a Washington hostelry. “You have a large head, sir,” ob- served the barber, as he was trim- ming tha locks of the statesman. “It is a pood thing to have a large head, for a large head means a la‘gc hrain, and a large brain is the most useful thing o men can kave, for it nour- ishes the roots of the hair."—Youth's Companton. Rallroad Man's Views. Carroll, Ta., Oct. 24,—To the Editor of The Bee: As I came down the street this morning I saw a big poster in the windows: ‘1,600,000 More Men Working Under Present Administra- tion Than Under Any Other.” Work- ing for what? Making ammunition to kill 1,600,000 more men over in Europe. When the war stops the pos- ters will read, “1,600,000 Out of Em- ployment.” Soup kitchens will be in vogue again all over the country if Wilson is re-elected. I am a union man and belong to the American Fed- eration of Labor.™ Gompers is a nut if he thinks he can threw the labor vote to'Wilson. He has got labor in a hole now that will take a long while to get out of. The Adamson law is a detriment and a disgrace to 3rganlzed labor and the trainmen and engine- men are beginning to realize it more every day and there will be hundreds of them voting for Hughes November 1, as they want a good, strong, firm man to pull them out of the hole that Wilson and his policles has gotten them into. B. G. LYMAN. ‘Wilson and the Workers. Omaha, Oct. 28.—To the Editor of The Bee: Slightly over seven years ago Woodrow Wilson, then president of Princeton university, said the fol- lowing in the course of a bacca- laureate address: “You know what the usual standard of the employe is in our day. It is to glve as little as he may for his wages. Labor is standardized by the trades union, and this is the standard to which It is made to conform. In some trades and handicrafts no one is suf- fered to do more than the least skill- ful of his fellows can do within the hours allowed to a day's labor, and no one can work out of hours at all 4r volunteer anything beyond the mini- mum, “I need not point out how economi- cally disastrous such a regulation of labor is. It 1s so unprofitable to the employer that in some trades it will presently not be worth his while to at- tempt anything at all. He had better stop altogether than to operate at an inevitable and invariable loss. The labor of America is rapidly becoming unprofitable under its present reg- ulation by those who have determined to reduce it to a minimum. Our economic supremacy may be lost be- cause the country grows more and more full of unprofitable servants.” A typical dissertation on ‘‘the closed shop” by a college president! Has Mr. Wilson changed his mind since then? If so, why? I should like to suggest that it be made the basis of a democratic edi- torfal entitled: “Why the Workers Should Be for Woodrow.” Also, that it be pondered on long and deeply by Sammie Gompers and lesser union officials who are trying to steer union labor into the democratic camp. EDMUND R. BRUMBAUGH. Industries for Omaha. Omaha, Oct. 23.—To the Editor of The Bee: As a result of the decisions in a recent popular contest, it might seem that there are fourteen kinds of new industries which would be par- ticularly successful in Omaha. Now it 18 to be hoped that no one has gotten the impression that any other kinds would have less advantage or that these fourteen would have all the ad- vantage accredited them, because that would not be true. And of course we want only those which can and will prove successful, “The would-be “investors ‘and the manufacturers who are seeking a change of location want _pertinent facts. They want the assurance of specific profits rather than the knowl- edge of general opportunity. Their attention may be attracted by the op- portunity, but only essential facts will obtain their interest and favorable de- cision, and these facts may be summed up about as follows: The factories which will most readily succeed in Omaha are those which use hides to tan leather for belting and shoes, and those which make shoes; thoss which use wool to weave cloth, and those which make this cloth into clothing; those which use wheat and corn for flour and food produets; and bakeries which use flour and lard; those which can the fruits and vegetables which we raise; those which make farm implements and general hardware; foundrys to supply castings for these factories and for general use; and any other kind of factories which will utilize the local raw materials, or whose finished pro- duct is bulky and heavy, and whose market is naturally in this locality. These factories will succeed here because of the following industrial advantages: Bullding sites are available, with as good or better railroad facilities as are found In the most successful indus- trial localities, and taxes are as rea- sonable. Power can be made as cheaply here with steam as in most other industrial localities, and it can be made cheaper with Diesel engines than in those places. Water of good quality can be ob- tained here in sufficlent quantity and at reasonable cost. The labor supply will follow the de- mand, because it always has, and it cannot be expected to precede it. The raw materials are all here with the exception of pig iron and it is much cheaper to smp than finished castings. The consumption and demand are here, and the present supplies come principally from points which aver- ’ age 1,600 miles east. 'The raw materials are now shipped { east to the factories and the freight is paid, and then the finished products are shipped back here and the freight is paid again. And, finally, these goods must be sold, in some way, from the distant factory to the local con- sumers, Thus, for comparative purposes, we may say that now the selling prices are made us as follows: Plants, in- vestment, taxes, power, water, raw materials, freight on raw materials, labor, freijght from factory to con- sumer, selling cost, and profit. But when these factories are located in Omaha, the freight on the raw ma- terials and the freight on the finished products, east of Omaha, and a por- tion of the selling costs will be saved, while all the other costs will remain practically the same. Therefore the selling prices of the local factories may be that much less than thelr eastern competitors; and besides, Omaha's strategic advantage of location assures her .factories a practical monopoly of all the business for a large territory to the west and northwest, These are definite advantages and they are comparatively greater than can ordinarily be offered to the manu- facturer. If they are properly utilized 4 they will divert a large portion of the business which the ‘“mall order houses” now enjoy in_this territory; and Omaha will rapidly increase in prestige, population and prosperity. Very truly yours, A. C. AREND. / BITS OF JOY. “I hear, doctor, that last operation was Id brilliant success.” “Yes, no one had ever tried anything like 1t before, and I would have been quite sat- isfled with the results if the widow of the patient hadn't made such a row about it.” ~—Baltimore American. ““She sits out on the front porch a good g;:;."but she always has her nose in « “8he knows her biz. In addition to getting & reputation.for being literary, she shows off ntage that wa; Her hair is her good feature, not her nose.”—Baltimore American. - — LU R BRI TR HTHEI B R BB BB GHE 621 Residents of Nebraska A At Broadway, the Astor New York’s leading Single Rooms, without bath, §2.00 to §3.00 Double wjie Single Rooms, with bath, Double . . Parjor, Bedroom and bath, §10.00 8 §14.00 , 44th 0 ¢5th Streets—the center of New York's social and business activities. In close proximity to all railway terminals. %), ORI NNk registered at Hotel Astor 7' during the past year. 1000 Rooms, 700 with Bath, cuisine which has made Banqueting place. - 3.00 0 4.08 300 t0 6.00 .« 400te Yoo On October 27th, time you cannot vote. If not, do so, at once. Senator Beveridge, of Indiana mator Beveridge of Indians, who needs no introduction to the people of Omaha, will speak in the Auditorium. October 27 is the last day for registration. If you have not already missioner’s office in the Douglas County Courthou moved sifice you registered you must register again. We urge every republican voter to ask himself this question: “Have I'registered " To be a voter carries with it a slight burden, but one which ought to be cheerfully borne by all eitizens who are interested in government. Chairman Republican County Central Committee. ou do not register before that gistered go to the Election Com- any day and do so. If you have F. 8. HOWELL, Most Modern and Sanitary Family Trade Supplied by WM. JETTER, Distributor, 2502 N. St. Telephone Douglas 4231. South 8€3 or 368 . Brewery in the West.