Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 1, 1916, Page 8

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Address communications relating to news and editorial matter to Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION 54,507 Daily—Sunday 50,539 Dwight Williams, circulation manager of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the average circulation for the month of September, 1916, was 54,607 dlll{l. and 50,639 Sunday. DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 3d day of October, 1916. ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public. { Subecribers leaving the city «.m,.r.;i‘li— should have The Bee mailed to them. dress will be changed as often as required. B e ] e estr————————— R I P For the eighth time, it is the same interroga- tion: ‘“Are you ‘wet’ or 'dry,’ Senator Hitchcock? Why are you dodging the question?" e e Germany's daily war bill now amounts to $17,- 000,000 against Britain's $25,000,000. The rising cost of living lags far behind the boom in the cost of killing. The mighty massing. of voters around the re- publican leader during his Ohio tour affords con- clusive proof of the temper and purpose of Buck- eye citizens, . s men When a man's life depends on prompt medical treatment, discussing who will pay the bill smacks of inhiumanity. Treatment is the first ‘duty, Argument on the bill can wait, Mr, Bryan does not want to discuss the Lusi- tania notes, hotwithstanding its new phases. That recalls his resignation rather than continge to serve in the cabinet. of a president bent upon war—the same presi en} he is now trying to paint as a peace dove, ‘ m—m——— For a third of a century John L. Kennedy ‘has ‘been identified with every public enterprise for: the upbuilding of Omaha and all his interests are centered here. He will not fail to stand up for his home town when he is sent to represent Nebraska in the United States senate. ; ; 3 Smeme——— | s the cuttle-fish that tries to cover its tracks M copious inky fluid. The dust, raised by Sena- * tor Hitchcock's personal organ about his oppon- _ent “appealing to race prejudice” is the same kind “of a cover for the senator's efforts to line up the German-American vote. for himself on a race prejudice basis. " The Interstate Commerce commission insin- uates that the Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic railroad carries a sufficient supply of water in lh@ ‘to dispense with the last section of the tm& ‘Truly, evil days have fallen upon railroad 'gm.molion when the operation of the water wagon between terminals prbvokes official levity. : E———— The Clinical Congress of Surgeons of North America adopted a resolution denouncing fee splitting as “the buying and selling of sick peo- ple” and forbidding the vicious practice among members. The American College of Surgeons has taken similar action. Both bodies foreshadow a vigorous campaign against drumming up busi- Last spring The Bee commended the candi- dacy of Judge Albert J. Cornish for a place on the state supreme court bench and called particu- Iar attention to what Omaha owes to the Cor- nish’ family, not only as public spirited fellow . citizens, but also for Carter park and its devel- opment which has been brought about by the beneficent interest of his brother, Edward J. Cornish, for years head of our Park board. These things should be again remembered at the coming election. | Remedy for Car Shortage Wall Street Journal, As an intelligent measure to cope with the car h‘m‘l:e. the step taken by the New Orleans board o e ody has addressed a letter to all members of the board, strongly urging them to co-operate with the railroads by unloading all cars received, within twenty-four hours. The committee as- mu}l! points out that by doing so the shippers of New Orleans will not only contribute to the eral welfare of the country, but that they . ves will reap the first and most direct benefits in a more comfortable local supply of telling sign of the times is an order as Utilities commission authorizing a ‘sliding scale of demurrage charges, rising to $5 per car g‘gr day for detention beyond a certa riod. True, we find the New England indus- tries demurage convention protesting against the demurrage rates proposed by the American Railway association, and calling for an “investigation”—the great American weakness the reasons for car detention. Nevertheless, this convention did not omit to admonish the ship pers represented therein of the extreme import- m releasing ic;n mrom tly. en we consider that there are upwards of 2,500,000 freight cars in the country, and that the - shortage last reported was 60,000 cars, or about 2% per cent of the total supply, it lw'eufi nnhnc:ielg:lmduuol luhn supply 8 ities to everyone who Cars waiting on sidings to be un- g used in a way, but not for the for which they are built, cars, . Another of the K. i — ’ The high cost of Wilson is becoming stag- § gering. Ask any housewife. } Rightly viewed, the calliope of Colonel Bryan 0% is neither loud nor soft. It strikes a higher note. | { & It's a scream. ! ¥ S—— ’i What's a little thing like electing a president, £ anyway, when the question of a “wet” or “dry” z § Nebraska is at stake? [ § —_— Where the Minority Controls. One of the admitted facts in the present, as in all presidential campaigns for longer than half a century, is that thirteen southern states, with 149 yotes in the electoral college, are morally certain to give their votes to Whodrow Wilson. If this were 4 fair and free selection of a majority of the voters of those states, honestly registered, no objection could possibly lic against the result. Another fact, just as completely established, is that the popular vote is suppressed in many of those states, and that the result is the choice of an oligarchy and not of the people. Some comparisons of figures taken from the records of 1912 may be of interest. In that year six candidates for president were presented. Here is what the returns for that election show: State. Electoral Total Popu- Vote. w lar Vote. South Carolina . 9 50,350 Montana .. 4 79,796 Nebraska 8 249,481 Georgia . 14 121,423 Mississippi 10 64,528 Indiana 15 654,474 In other words, for each vote South Carolina cast for Wopdrow Wilson in the electoral col- lege, only 5,594 citizens voted at the polls; for each of Nebraska's eight, 31,185 citizens voted. From ‘Georgia Wilson got fourteen electoral votes, each representing 8,673 votes cast at the polls; in Indiana, each vote in the electoral col- lege represented 43,632 in the ballot box; Mis- sissippi's citizens counted at the ratio of one to 6,452, while in Montana it was at the rate of one to 19994, In Mississippi and South Caro- lina combined, 105,584 democrats took the trouble to vote for Wilson, and from them he got nine- teen votes in the eléctoral college. In our own proud state of Nebraska, 109,008 democrats were required to deliver eight electoral votes .to the demoorats, thus showing the superiority of the southern brand of democracy over that of the plodding north. The .present administration is not only sec- tional, but it is in office by virtue of a very small handful of votesscast in the section it represents. HUGHES A MAN OF THE PEOPLE. Whatever may be charged, the record proves that Charles Evans Hughes is a man of the peo- ple. It was for the widows and the orphans of the army of policy holders that he undertook the job of exposing the insurance scandals and put- ting the life insurance companies on a safe and sound basis, It was in’ defiance of the “bosses” that he drove the race track gamblers otit of busi- ness. It was as a true friend of labor that he se- cured legislation in New York for the protection of the wage earner and it is as labor’s friend that he now denounces the perversion of lawmaking by force regardless of in whose favor it is done. Mr. Hughes has cenfidence in the people and the people have confid in Mr, Hughes. — Denials That Do Not Deny. Democrats have so far met with evasive re- plies the allegation.made by Henry Cabot Lodge that a postscript was prepared to the second Lusi- tania note, telling the German government that it must not take too seriously the language ‘of the note. Their denials do not Aleny anything that Senator Lodge has charged. Assistant Sec- retary Breckinridge Lodge is a “liar” and his action “contemptible,” but he did not say the specific allegation is untrue. Mr. Bryan says he relies on Mr, Drecklnrldie’ atement. Mr. Wil- son emphatically denies that he wrote the post- script, but carefully avoids denying that the post- script was written, Other members ‘of the cabi- net, past and present, are discreetly silent. In- stead of meeting the situation openly, the presi- dent and his associates are evasive and elusive, taking refuge behind phrases that might deceive the careless, but which have no meaning when scrutinized. The belief was general at the time and still persists that some mysterious ‘proceedipgs were had in the cabinet when Mr. Bryan so suddenly resigned his portfolio as premier, and so unsat- isfactorily accounted for his surprising action, What these proceedings were may come out some day. It is known that Mr, Bryan gave to Dr. Dumba the assurance sought to be conveyed to Berlin through the postscript, and that the news readily was transferred from Vienna to the Ger- man foreign office. The present squirming pnd dodging of the president and his official family can not alter that fact. The whole proceeding is typical of Wilsonian diplomacy, and forms but a paragraph in a shameful chapter of American his- tory. HERE'S WHERE WE REMONSTRATE., “I was called at St. Louis,” Mr. Bryan is quoted as saying, “from the press gallery to ad- dress the convention, which never knew that there were any ‘wet’ democrats there from Nebraska.” Oh, now, we most emphatically remonstrate! Why such invidious allusions? Wasn't Arthur Mullen there to receive his commission as mem- ber of the democratic national committee, seal- ing his authority to be the new democratic boss of Nebraska? Just because Mr. Bryan does not like “Boss” Mullen is no good reason why he should thus slight him. Appealing to Class Prejudice.- Here comes the “Woodrow Wilson Adver- tisers' leagne,” headed by Charles H. Ingersoll as president, with arappeal to retailers that they vote for Woodrow Wilson, because the name of Julius Rosenwald appears in the list of the na- tional council of the Hughes Alliance. This ap- peal can “have but one purpose, and that is to arouse antagonism and strife between “big” and “little” business. While this appeal was being put into the mail, President Wilson was speaking at Cincinnati, repeating portions of the address de- livered in Omaha, and giving assurance that his administgation had “clarified the business atmos- phere,” that “business had been relieved from a nervous apprehension of the courts,” and in other ways striving to create the impression that the Wilsonian doctrine is especially favorable to the progress and growth of “big” business it the United States, ” What will he say whea he dis- covers, if he ever does, that one branch of his sadly-divided supports is urging retailers to vote for Wilson because one big business man is listed as supporting Hughes. A more deliberate appeal to class prejudice has not been made, even in this campaign, (n\ which the democrats base their sole hope of winning on arraying one class of citizens against another. ‘em———— The pleasure of hearing the last political gasp of the demiocratic administration is vouchsafed New Yorkers. President Wilson's farewell tour covers much of the state. “Ye who have tears to shed prepare to shed them now.” THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, | — | Question of Constitutional Government F. G. Winston in Minneapolis Journal. No man who gives the subject serious con- sideration can escape the conclusion that for some ears past we have given little consideration and {ittle support to those who would preserve for ourselves and those who come after us in its integrity the government handed down to us by our fathers. Significantly I note that in recent years the people are looking with admiration to the exercise on the part of the head of the nation of what mighg be called “personal government,, which on final analysis means its_substitution in the place of constitutional government. I have read a-good many times over with great interest a little volume entitled, “The President of the United States,” published by Harper & Brothers last August, giving the views held by President Wilson in 1908, at a time when he had no reason to expect that he would be called upon to preside over the destinies of the nation. In this little book Mr. Wilson is quoted as saying, among other things, that “the attempt on the part of the president to overbear congress by arbitrary acts which ignore the laws, or virtually override them, is destructive of the fundamental under- standings of constitutional government and there- for of constitutional government itself.” In other words duress imposed upon congress is de- structive. In the Adamson bill did he or did he not add the great power and influence of his office to the duress imposed on congress by the methods of the brotherhoods? No man can question, however, the fact that congress was acting under duress in the passage of this bill and not as the free represen- tatives of the people, and that surrender should warn us that forces are at work tending to the sundermining of and eventually to the destruction of constitutional government. hey were given a limited time in which to act; they were told not to dot an “i” or cross a “t;” the president was told to gign this bill on Sunday, and the thing was done in a manner which tells us that, if we would preserve to ourselves and to future genera- tions orderly government, we must rebuke those who have been guilty of an ignominious surrender and a violation of the obligations that they as- sumed on taking office, which obligation imposes on them under oath the duty of defending the constitution of the United States. It is significant also that the president should have rewarded those responsible, by the presenta- tion of each head of each brotherhood concerned, as a souvenir of the-occasion, a pen used in the signing of his name to a piece of legislation the enactment of which at the time and in the manner in which it was done brings a blush of shame to the cheek of every man who loves his government. Further, this leads us regretfully to conclude that the transaction met with the full approval of the head of our nation, thus encouraging a repetion on the part of those who would choose to do like- wise in the future, I have been all my life'a friend of the work- ingman, because I have felt that all men should feel friendly and act considerately to those who earn their living by the sweat of the brow. I have been a democrat because I felt that the constitutional government under which we life was conceived in the brain of an unselfish man who desired to throw around the helpless the thantle of protection. Such ?overnment must be preserved in the interest of a working people themselves; but in order that it may be preserved, the government must be entrusted to those who will resist any attempt on the part of any portion of society to invade the legislative hall and wring from government under duress the gassage of laws without due consideration. This bill, passed as it was, comes under Mr. Wilson's definition as destructive, and warns us that we owe a duty as citizens to come to governmental pro- tection, 1 Whether or not a promise was given or im- plied, to the democratic leaders, that they should receive at the polls in November, as a reward, votes on the part of the brotherhood, Novem- ber 7 will suggeft an answer. That the brother- hoods fell that payment is due for services ren- dered is evidenced by the fact that they are advis- ing their members of their obligation thus to repay those who they claim have conferred on them benefits by legislation. This carrying out of an implied agreement comes clearly under the definition by Mr. Wilson of the things that should not be done, because of their being destructive. I cannot permit my sympathy for labor (evidenced by my treatment of lghor through many years) to close my eyes to my duty to my government. I am justified in my mind in feeling that I am right in doing what I can on November 7 to transfer our government to other hands. Feeling as I do that our party and its head have been weighed in the bdlance and found wanting as de- fenders of 'constitutional liberties, I shall cast my vote for Mr. Hughes. It is with regret that I have come to the con- clusion that the great democratic party, the de- fenders in the past of constitutional liberties, are today destructive agencies, and that they are op- portunists. These things would not have happened under Washington or Lincoln as the head of our nation, They would not have happened under any previous administration. They are happening to- day because party leaders feel that the people have lost interest in the thing which should con- cern us the most. 1 see my duty and propose to perform it. I owe an obligation and propose to live up to it. Nebraska. Political Comment Herald: ago Senator Holstein Hitchcock’s Omaha organ daily nagged Senator Burkett with garbled extracts from the Con- gressional Record, This year the senator’s organ directs attention away from the record. The rea- son is the senator's record is as unsavory as his Omaha organ—and that's saying a-plenty. Six years Havelock Post: In his attempt to corral the German vote of Nebraska Senator Hitchcock is sending letters to the Germans, calling attention to the fact that he once introduced a measure, which had for its ebject the prohibition of the export of munitions of war and that this measure was oEpuud by the president. He also lets the facts be known that his campaign manager has been a bitter opponent of Wilson. Why does he do this with the German voters? Simply because he knows they are for Mughes and if he tells them that he favors Wilson, he might not get their votes. When he is't talking in a German community he lauds Wilson and says hothing about his previous opposition to the president. Trying to ride two horses at once is dangerous and the senator is treading on very thin ice in his efforts to defeat Kennedy. Ainsworth Star-Journal: Kennedy is going good, while Hitchcock is having his troubles in the senatorial fight in Nebraska at the present time. Despite all manner of effort being made by the democratic press tosshow that Hitchcock is sincere in his support of the president, the voters -are refusing to take any stock in such yarns, and want to know if Hitchcock is sincere now, why he so bitterly opposed the president at a time when he was not seeking votes. If Hitchcock is sincere in his support of Wilson, why should he hire as his political manager, one Chris Gruenther, editor of the Platte Center Signad, a politician and editor who has bitterl assailed the Wilson administration? Hitchcocl also has the active support of the Mullen ma- chine, which is controlled absolutely by Arthur Mullen. In fact, the Mullen machine is devoting its entire efforts to elect Hitchcock, and permit- ting the balance of the candidates to shift for themselves. The close association of Hitchcock to Mullen and Gruenther in this campaign places him in a compromising position with the Bryan wing of democracy, and proves to the voters that his endorsement of Wilson is not sincere.s (OVEMBER 1. 1916, TODAY] Thought Nugget for the Day. To be 70 years young is some- times far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. —Oliver Wendell Holmes. One Year Ago Today in the War. German gained in new effort twenty miles west of Riga. Germans captured Kraguyevatz, Serbla's main arsenal town. Rome reported further gain of ground by italians northwest of Col di Lana. French artillery fire stopped Ger- man attempts at assaults in Flanders and Champagne. In Omaha Tl:lny Years Ago. Jack Moynihan has accepted the position of advance agent for the Sul- livan combination during the rest of the season. Two sea lions captured in the Pa- cific off the coast of Alaska were oc- cupants of the express office at the Union depot, taking a rest in their i | journey to New York. They are kept cool by huge chunks of ice in their cage while on their way to fill a “long-felt want in a traveling museum, A handsome crazy quilt ‘worked in all colors of the rainbow hangs in a store window at 1417 Farnam. The Omaha lodge of Elks held their annual meeting and elected the fol- lowing officers: Willlam Babcock, exalted leader; A. B. Davenport, es- teemed leading knight; J. E. Smith, esteemed loyal knight; C. C. Hulett, esteemed lecture knight; Martin Kel- ly, tiler; D. W. Haynes, secertary; E. E. Whitmore, treasurer; T. G. Ma- grane, I. W. Miner and W. F. Bechel, trustees, At a meeting f the chemical cir- cle of Creighton college lectures were delivered by the following: Charles Frenzer, Patrick Burke and William Doran. Larman P. Pruyn, who has pur- «chased the beautiful plece of ground lying just south of Hon. A. J. Pop- pleton’s residence, fronting on eight- eenth and Sixteenth, better known as Sherman avenue, has platted it into sixteen full-sized lots and named it Smith’s park. i Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Estabrook have moved from Chicago street to Twenty-eighth and Decatur. [ This Day in History. 1766—The stamp act, one of the principal causes leading to the Amer- fcan revolution, came into effect. 1808—John Taylor, the successor of Brigham Young as president of the Mérmon church, born in England. Died July 25, 1887, 1837—The Winnebagoes ceded all their lands east of the Mississipp! river to the government. 1841—The sixth congress of the re- public of Texas assembled at Austin, 1863—Russia declared war against Turkey. 1864—Postal money order system went into operation in the United Btates, 1876—A canal connecting Amster- dam with the North Sea was opened. 1881—First complete train passed through the St. Gotthard tunnel. 1894—Emperor Alexander IIT of Russia dled and was succeeded by Nicholas II, the present emperor, 1898—The captured Spanish cruis- er Infanta Maria Theresa, while being convoyed to the United Btates, was :bandoned in a gale off San Salva- or. The Day We Celebrate. Nels H. Nelson, commission mer- chant, is 53 years old today. He was born in Norway, coming to this coun- try at the age of 6 years and has been in the commission business in Omaha since 1887. Dr. A. D. Dunn, one of Omaha's leading physiclans, is 43 years old to- day. He was born at Meadwitt, Pa., nnld is on the staft of several hospi- tals. William R. Watson, managing edi- tor of the World-Herald, is celebrat- ing his 46 birthday. He first saw the light of day at Dalavon, Wis, and came to Omaha by way of Kansas. Captain John D.' McDonald, com- mander of the new superdreadnought Arizona, born in Maine fifty-three years ago today. Chester H. Rowell, California jour- nalist and publicist and former pro- gre-lvapnrty leader, born at Bloom- lanmon. 11, forty-nine years ago to- ay. William L. Saunders, noted miging engineer and member of the naval ad- visory board, born at Columbus, Ga., sixty years ago today. Eugene W. Chafin, twice the candi- date of the prohibitionists for presi- dent, born at East Troy, Wis., sixty- four years ago today. Rt. Rev. M. HEdward Fawcett, Eplscopal bishop of Quiney, Ill., born at New Hartford, Ia., fifty-one years ago today. Boies Penrose, United States sena- tor from Pennsylvania, born in Phila- delphia fifty-six years ago today. ‘Willlam Hodge, well-known actor, born at Albion, N. Y., forty-two yeats ago today. Timely Jottings and Reminders. All Saints' day. Candidate Hughes swings aecross southern Indiana today, concluding with a speech at Tere Haute tonight. Bide will be opened by the Navy department at Washington today for four thirty-five-knot scout cruisers and twenty submarines. President Wilson has named today as a day for the people of this coun- try to contribute to the relief of the | With their fellow citizens at home? If war sufferers of Lithuania. The so-called standard basket law enacted by congress at its recent ses- sion is to come into operation today. Beginning today the most of the railroads will be paid for carrying the mails on a “space basis” instead of according to weight as heretofore. Trades and labor representatives of Towa are to meet in conference with the state superintendent of public in- struction at Des Moines today to con- sider the promotion of vocational ed- ucation in the Iowa public schools. The Pacific Coast Bteamship com- pany and the Pacific Alaska Naviga- tion company, controlling the Pacific coastwise trade from San Diego to Alaska, to be merged today under the of the Pacific Steamship company. Storyette of the Day. “I can,” said the bashful young man to the director of the film company, “Swim, dive, run an auto, fly an aero- plane, fence, box, shoot, ride a horse, run a moton-boat, play golf, fight, make love, fall off cliffs, rescue hero- ines, play foot ball, die naturally and kiss a girl" “But,"” lmerrup(ed_ the famous di- ‘Alas!’” muttered the would-be screen hero, “I never thought of that.” “Engaged,” growled the director, and another screen star was born.— | Life. Information as Asked. Gracle, Neb., Oct. 29.—To the Ed- itor of The Bee: Kindly tell, through the Letter Box department, when and where “Bob" Burman, the automobile racer, was killed, and oblige, B. L. M.—A Subscriber. Note: Corona, Cal, during 300-mile race there last February. As to Bavaria's Mad King. Omaha, Oct. 31.—To the Editor of The Bee: I read an article in The Bee from The Brooklyn Eagle, “Tragedy of a Mad King.” I want to correct you, If you please. King Ludwig 1 of Bavaria had to abdicate | in 1848. He was the father of Maxi/ millan II and grandfather of Lud- wig and Otto. Ludwig I spent money freely on beautiful buildings, as the! Valhalla by Regensburg, the Befrei- ungshalle by Kelheim, this name means to be free from French in- vaders, and other costly buildings, and then, Lola Montez, the Spanish danc- er, on whom he spent a fortune, and the people would not stand for it, so the king had to abdicate in favor of his son, Maximilian. Maximilian II and his queen, Mary, were beloved by p everybody. In the year 1866 King Maximilian got sick with pneumonia and died. The princes, Ludwig and Otto, were lovely children and happy. It was a happy family until death came and took their father away. They were well educated, smart and kindheart- ed and in possession of all their fac- ulties, not one insane. In time, Lud- wig, now King Ludwig II, became en- gaged to Princess Sophie of Bavaria. Every day he drove in state to her palace to bring her flowers and in- quive after her health. 'He was pure minded and believed in it. All at once the engagement was broken off. ‘Why? Rumor had it the princess was in correspondence with & well-known photbgrapher in Munich. It was a sad awakening for King Ludwig. Prince Otto was happy, innocent and full of fun, He did like to play a joke on his brother once in a while and he was as healthy as any young person. . When he was 18 years old he got his own suite, his gentlemen in waiting and so on, and decided to travel. He was gone several months, his last stay being in Madrid, Spain. When he came back he was sick and no one was allowed to see him—he was not to be seen any more. On dit: Prince Otto contracted a disease while he was in Spain, Some said he was poisoned while he was away; his mind was un- balanced from then on. It was a ter- rible blow to his mother, the queen, and to his brother. King Ludwig II was an idealist, He loved beautiful things in nature, in art, in music, but his love to mankind was shattered. Can one blame him? No, He found consolation in music. Richard Wag- ner found the way to his hungry soul with his inspiring operas and music, If finally the king's mind got unbal- anced brooding over his brother's misfortune, living only by himself and not having any intercourse with other people, because he had lost confldence in everybody, is it any wonder? ‘MRS, K, LEMLEY. Must Pay for Them by Tax Levy. Omaha, Oct. 31.—To. the Bditor of The Bee: My attention has been called to the fact that the liquor in- terests have spread reports that the adoption of the prohibition amend- ment would put an end to free text books in our schools, e furnishing of free text books is, under our Nebraska statutes, com- pulsory, and is not a matter resting in the discration of the Board of Ed- ucation. The adoption of the prohib tion amendment will not in the slight- est degree affect our free school text book law or practice, CHARLES G. M'DONALD. ‘Where Does the Money Go? Omaha, Oct. 27.—To the Editor of The Bee: One of the leather-lunged Anti-Saloon league street orators a few nights ago shouted to his street au- dience the remarkable assertion that there were $16,000,000 spent in Ne- braska for liquors, and that it would be better to throw that money into the streets, have it scooped up with shov- els and thrown into the sewer. If it is true that $15,000,000 are spent in Nebraska for liquors, al- thqugh there is no evidence to prove it, then what becomes of that money? The manufacture and sale of such beverages involves the employment of not less than 2,600 men engaged in that business, earning not less than $2,600,000, with an average of not less than three dependents for every man, making at the least calculation 10,000 inhabitants in this state directly de- pendent on that business for their livelihood. - But besides those there are perhaps an equal number of de- pendents in the allied trades earning a similar sum. What do these people do with the wages paid to, or the money earned by them? Do they take the money along with them when they die, or do they spend it for the neces- sitles, comforts and luxuries of life? Is it not a fact that practically every dollar of that money goes to the property owners, merchants, trades- men, mechanics and professionals of Nebraska for rent, groceries, meats, shoes and clothipg, for amusements and doctor bills, and many other things too numerous to mention, but all. spent at home? Now are those millions wasted, and would it be Let- ter to shovel that money into the sew- ers. The same applies to the money spent by those industries foryraw material, such as grain, fuel and hundreds of other necessities, not to forget local taxes and the $352,000 license money, Is not every dollar of it disbursed in Nebraska? What do the men engaged in this business do with their profits? ~ Do they hoard them, or send them out of the state, or do they spend them a man engaged in that industry builds 1to return, and might, a house, who does the money go to? To the contractor amd mechanics building it. Every dollar is kept i4. circulation just the same as every dol- lar spent for cigars, for chewing gum, for candy, moving picture shows, or for any other luxury. . It is strange indeed that a crowd of men will listen with gaping mouths to such trash without protest. Fabulous assertions of that kind, cut out of whole cloth, prove two things: 1. That the prohibitionists aré~in desperate straits for arguments to bolster up their cause. And 2. That they credit their audiences with a very low degree of intelligence. In prohibition states just as much money is spent for liquors, but is prac- tically all sent out of the state never therefore, as well “be scooped up and shoveled into the sewer” for all the good it will do the business prosperity of such states, and without solving the drink prob- lem therein. DAVID COUTTS, Member Stonecutters’ Union. Basis of Boy Scout Movement. Omaha, Oct. 31.—To the Editor of The Bee: Referring to an Associated Press dispatch given prominence in your paper yesterday concerning a resolution adopted by the Massachu- setts state branch of the American Federation of Labor directed at the Boy Scout organization on accaunt of a “report” of the action of one scout officlal, who, if he took the action named, certainly exceeded his scout authority. The details are meager, but nevertheless misleading as to the true aims of the Boy Scouts of Amer- ica organization, as boys are educated along very liberal instead of narrow _ lines, the whole scout program be - directed towards broadening a b, vision, developing his initiative resourcefulness, and making of hir thoroughly patriotic and reliable c! zen. The movement is absolutely n(! political, and a recent resolution t the executive board states that th ideals, uniforms, badges, flags and the name Boy Scouts of America must be at all times jeld sacred and inviolate from commercial, racial, religious, po- litical, militaristic, partisan or other faetional partiality. It is contrary to national council regulations for any scout, scout coun- cil or official to take any official ac tion that might be capable of inte pretation of indicating sympathy wit or support of any political or any other factional issue or struggle, and no scout official living up to regula- tions can make any possible use of the Boy Scout movement for promoting the interests of one faction as against another, C. W. HINZIE, JR., Sooutmaster Troop Two. _ FUNNYGRAMS. ‘'You asked her fatl pleasant frame of mind, “Yes, it cost me $5 that state, but after it was accomplished was willing to give me the whole fam- {ly."—New York Times. “It i very odd that baldheaded men always want to sit in the front at the theater."” ‘'Yes, one would think they'd want t further away from the flies. -Ball more American. when he was in a B hls mind in MY FIANCEE LOVES ME o PEARLY, BUY WONY GO OUr WK ME ~ \NHAT AN YHE RERSONBE Y ~)PE WEINSTEN b OULL FIND YOUR ANSWER N ANY FULL 12D MIRROR ! T As It was: Thrice Is he armed who hath his quarrel just. ‘The latest version: Thrice just Is he who armed before the quarrel—Life. Patience—Women seem to be doing every- thing that men do nowadays. Patrico—Nonsense! _You never saw a man powdering his nose fifty times a day, did you?—Yonkers Statesman. | REMARKABLE STATEMENT Mrs.Sheldon Spent $1900 for Treatment Without Bene- fit. 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