Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 3, 1916, Page 16

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. » VICTOR RUSEWATER, EDITOR. i YHE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR. Entered at Omaha postoffice as second-class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. 0c rs, in, advance, or irregu '_lrlty in de- REMITTANCE. draft, express or postal order. Only 2-cent stamps payment of small accounts. Personal checki Omaha and eastern excha OFFICES. ‘Omaha—The Bee Building. South Omaha—2318 N street, Council Bluffs—14 North Main street. g;:eoln—«fi“ l’.htlel Blll(l;dtnlé fldtn g People’ ui '3 ’o; 2‘!‘ Fifth avenus CORRESPONDENCE. unications. nhllnfi to news and editorial » Editorial Department. SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION | 54,507 Daily—Sunday 50,539 ' _ | Dwight Williams, circulation manager of The Bee Publishing company, b-l:m duly sworn, says that the jon " gy, DVIGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. T b e =T b ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public. becribers leaving the city temporaril; have The Bes mailed to them. Al will be changed as often as required. !:?m days to election day. Do your hustling — ‘And what's the use, especially when it isn't necessary? P ‘When democratic bedfellows fall out the in- itive voter gets a package of peppery infor- — the tenth time this time: “Are you 'wet’ _Senator Hitchcock? Why * are “you question?” ; — ture'’s artistic handiwork in Indian summer quickly becomes a choking smear under 's wasteful smudge. best pf&crvltlvc of peace for the United y will be notice to other nations that Charles Hgfiu has been elected president. 4 ——— omacy, be assured, will provide an artistic J "sheet for the Marina disaster. As a of disagreeable happenings diplomacy tary of war from Ohio as against Nebraska, senator from Omaha won't ome town. ‘of railroad men for Charles Haute demonstrates that vote of this country cannot itics wufbfltk. ind centers. days. 1f the the .tumult of for tetanus will on by which the senator procured ‘Wilson's punch-less indorsement is of he is handing the voters in trying 'm that he was helping the pres: he was fighting him. _republicans hnffi, good candidates in s E. Foster and Harvey W. Reed for the ponsible.position of police judge for Omaha. jer that there are two of them to be and that you can vote for both.: nd don't forget H. H, Claiborne for justice : peace. He now holds one of the six iceships which have been by law merged ne, which makes it all the more important a tried and trustworthy man on the job. Sr— 3 qlmullthl for the four months of the me offensive total 414,202 men. Add to these te number of French and German losses in ¢ same region and the reader ‘visualizes the mpgni _of the slaughter on an area barely s 3V, SEeeepessmm—e— tiations for another British loan are pro- in' New York. This, like /preceding is qued up by deposits of American se- of greater value, and yields better than gent, Supplies, purchased by the allies in « . call for payments of $10,000,000 a e ! American credit is necessary to pre- nt a slump in exchange rates. e St ——— w':," Union of Trade Forces . matter of foreign exports after the _It‘wm‘be‘llrrly a case of united we stand, d we fall, If our country shall insist upon ting, business into small units, these Il find themselves fearfully handicapped eat trade_war which must come after it war of blood and iron ends. Every pea (Country is being taught by war to iz¢ abd centralize its industrial powers, ex- s it mobilizes and centralizes its m s, Practically every cla: 4“’(& become one big busine an x&; has, become such through the power perial command, There is no more com- among steel mills than between the two tnburg’s atmy. In a lesser degree 4 unm to follow that German gfl,d ess cut-throat competi- but more especially encourage i united efforts W industries will remain te e war ends, The same thing nce, Russia and Germany. In the new and greater trade competition 2 d the moment the last t, the United States cannot i the inauguration of “We need union of We require encouragement h_ alone can be in a finan- Europe's trade war in -an everything we should ho have courage to to conquer outside ! not .scuttlers,. is to count the “Let My Policies Alone.” Woodrow Wilson's plea at Buffalo sounds like the cry of a beaten man. Instead of standing up and manfully defending the course of his adminis- tration in its dealings with foreign governments, he demands that his policies be let alone, that they be not criticised, for to do so is “to drag out for- eign relationships into partisan politics.” “Men who do this,” he said, “I cannot regard as pa- triots.” Well, most of the critics of the present administration will lose little sleep over the esti- mate put on their patriotism by a president whose secretary of war likened Washington’s soldiers to the Mexican banditti. Consider briefly the foreign relationships of the United States at this moment: Great Britain: Notes of protest against in- terference with our commerce and our mails haye been answered that Great Britain will not change the policy complained of. Matter rests there. Germany: Lusitania case regarded as set- tled, with each government having its own idea as to terms of settlement. The German govern- ment has not accepted the principle laid down by our government, and has not disavowed the act as demanded. Mexico: Carranza has failed to realize Presi- dent Wilson's hopes, and is unable to establish order; we have an army of 160,000 on the bor- der, and 15,000 in Mexico, waiting. b Santo Domingo: The last word from there was of more men wearing Uncle Sam’s uniform slain in battle; but we are not at war, China: The “open door” has been closed; Mr. Wilson forced American bankers to with- draw from the six-power loan, after it had been negotiated, and left the empire at the mercy of Japan and Russia, Nicaraugua: President Chamorro, whose record makes Huerta’s look white, has just been re-elected president, under the guns of Ameri- can warshl&% receiving 50,000 majority out of a total of 50,000 votes cast. . Costa Rica, Honduras and Guatemala: All disgruntled because Wilson ignored their claims in connection with acquisition of Gulf of Fon- seca naval station, . Colombia: Still waiting for the $25,000,000 indemnity and apology promised by the admin- istration. Japan: Not mollified, even though Presi- dent Wilson did induce senate to modify phraseology of immigration bill, Not a foreign question settled, not a new bond of friendship cemented; an empty Pan-American- ism blazoned forth, but no solidarity behind it. These are the achievements of Wilsonian diplo- macy, which he holds sacred from his critics. Is it any wonder he does not want them talked about? “Villa Under Control.” Pancho Villa has just shown how well founded is the statement from the Carranza headquarters, on which our government relies for information, that he is “under control” by stopping a passen- ger train, murdering the Carranza soldiers on guard and robbing the passengers. This will as- sure the presence of the Nebraska bdys on the Texas border for months yet to come. But the Villa raid will have a still more embatrassing effect. One of the passengers an the train hap- pened to be a German, but an enthusiastic bandit mistook him for an American and struck him over the head with a revolver. This act will necesitate apologies from both Wilson and Car- ranza to the kaiser. Such unfortunate contre- temps might be avoided by requiring Americans to wear distinctive badges when traveling abroad, “80 that othersi will not be subject to indiginities w upposed to endure with: patience k\ecm: of our'mission to the world, ; eomuedme——— Unintentionally Overlooked. From a subscriber residing in an interior town, whd' was forcibly struck with The Bee's enumeration of democratic peace-time war taxes, we have the following calling attention to an- other one unintentionally overlooked: In the items on the first page of The Bee, of the things “We must not forget,” you left out one item. Don't forget, the democrat ad- ministration put a license tax of $5.00, to be paid umi-;bnnull‘l( on every pool table, and then took the boys down to the border and kept them there, regardless of their business at home. No. wonder Wilson wants to hold the (Guards on the border and keep them from vot- ing, for he knows, if they were allowed tb come home, he would be beaten 16 to 1, and he thinks by keeping them there he stands a big show, Surely there are enough relatives and friends (pj‘t e Guards on the border) at home to beat hit lnywnr. But what if they don’t? Then I fear he will keep the boys there just to spend as much of that democratic tax before next March as he possibly can. O, the consistency, to say “you must ‘ra% so much license tax for each pool table” and then ship your boys to the border to serve him, I have three boys in one company of the Fourth Nebraska, and I know how much they think of Wilson and the demo- cratic administration, This tells the story so graphically and so clearly that it needs no further comment from us. Wheat and Cotton “Futures.” Authorities on the big grain ‘exchanges throughout the country are trying to check the speculation in wheat by setting the price for mar-' gins at a prohibitive figure. No such action is needed in the case of cotton. The democrats have well defined the difference between wheat and cotton. Tariff protection was taken off wheat and retained on cotton; not only that, but the price of cotton is stabilized by a law enacted to regulate the dealing in “futures” and prevent gambling in the south's great staple. Wheat is still at the mercy of the speculators, and the same crowd that sent prices skyward can send them down again whenever it is to the gamblers’ ad- vantage. The Nebraska farmer must take his chances, while the Georgia planter pays off his “niggers,” white or black, and lets the federal government look after marketing his crop. That's part of the difference between wheat and cotton. After repeatedly slapping them in the ' face, President Wilson is still trying to placate the German-Americans, the latest card being a pro- posed collection' under official sanction, ‘for the relief of German war victims, to be distributed through the American ambassador at Berlin. But unless we are badly mistaken, our voters of Ger- man ancestry are too intelligent to fail to see through this gauzy game. While most congressmen silently heeded the promptings of interested opponents of postal sav- ings banks, John L, Kennedy championed the measure in congress and blazed the way to its eventual success. As a senator his support of beneficial public measures is guaranteed by his record. Wild with tantrums of impending democratic defeat, the Lincoln Star projects a fantastic pic- ture of “Our Earl of Lauderdate” We could casily match it with the ancestral story of “Our Ueber-Herzog von Hitchcoek,” but we would have to dig up too many dark-closet skeletons, A . BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, Charles Evans Hughes Says: “We want fair wages, reasonable hours, safe conditions of work, opportunities for edu- cation and recreation. We want a sentiment of fellow workmanship in this country, a senti- ment of co-operation. Let us get rid of class antagonisms by the spirit of justice. There is no hope for America if class is divided against class.” A Progressive Tells Why E. Nilsson How [ shall vote next Tuesday: For Hughes, because I consider it a great pleas- | ure to have the opportunity to advance an able and clean man from one high office into a higher one and I consider it no d all a chief justice or any other justice of the United States supreme court to accept the office of pres- ident of the United States and that by common | sense of justice as well as constitutional author- | ity any man, an American-born citizen, from the humblest railroad laborer to the chief jus- tice of our country, has the inalienable right to aspire to the presidency. For Hughes, because of great problems, domestic and foreign, confronting us during the ensuing four years and which require care and decision by a man of legal attainments. For Hughes, because he has proven himself thor- ough in his investigation of corporations and in laying bare their rottenness. For Hughes, because he is capable and able to handle questions of international character, so that, when our brothers across the Atlantic have had enough of crime, hatred, violence and mur- der and when called upon to determine the right or wrong of questions involving our coun- try internationally, past as well as future, he will be able to decide such questions without the in- terference of designing and incapable advisors, | such as has been the cases with some of our later | residents. ' ‘or Hughes, because the working man and farmer need a fair and capable man to represent them | at Washington, to give them laws that will stand constitutional tests when assailed and laws that will give them such opportunities as to make them feel that life is worth living. For Hughes, because I desire to see and feel gen- eral prolperlt‘y and not spotted or speculators’ rosperity only. ‘or Hughes, because if I owned tne United States I would employ him on the spot, as the best is the cheapest and, figuring on a salary basis only, I would get the best cheap, For Hughes, because we want a man like Hughes “eventually, why not pow?” Not for Wilson, because he has given us a four- | year course of a most erratic administration. ot for Wilson, because I consider him a poor substitute for the man I had expected much from, jas I have admired and followed Mr. Bryan for a long time, only to find that by lan- guage and otherwise he has apparently been ‘knocked into a cocked hat.” Not for Wilson, because he has seen fit to ram through congress a makeshift, unjust and un- equal-in-its-application law, favoring a few as aguinst the many, a clear case of class legisla- tion, Not for Wilson, because in the dark of a night, he stood on the. border of dreamland and, with- out the consént of congress, ordered our sol- diers to Vera Cruz, Not for Wilson, because of his recognition of Car- ranza as against other chieftains, thereby caus- ing jealousy and revenge. Not for Wilson, because of his/ party's cry for peace, peace, and with thousands of our men away down on the border, catching fitful slum- bers over their loaded guns, ready to be called into action on a momeMt's notice, there is noth- ing but doubtful peace. A Not for Wilson, because of his party’s ascend- €ncy on its false claim of republican extrava- gance, his own party making a fast record of extravagance unparalleled in the history of the country during so-called peace times. Not for Wilson, because of his party's attempts to permanently land the progresstves in the dem- ocratic party—bag, baggige and all. As the managers of the democratic party have so generously invited the progressives into their camp, I as one of them, registered as well as in fact a progressive, decline, at this time, to enter their camp, as I feel that the state of our country and feeling the pinch from the high cost of living, daily mounting higher and higher, requires that my vote should go to Charles Evans Hughes for pregident. 3932 South Twenty-eighth Street. Farmers and Free Trade St. Louis Globe-Democrat: One may well believe that the Canadian farm- ers are feeling gloomy over the prospects of Hughes' election and jthe repeal of the Under- wood tariff. We recently showed what an ad- | vantage the Underwood tariff had been to the manufacturers of Canada. But the Canadian farmers have profited as much. The removal of the duties on cattle, swine, sheep, lambs, rye, eggs, buckwheat, corn, cream, bacon, ham, pre- served meats, lard, cornmeal and other agricul- tural products was a great boon to them. They got all this without being compelled to make any concessions to American products, as they would have been forced to do under the proposed reci- procity treaty. The figures on ‘€xports of living animafn are eloquent, In 1912 the total value of exports of animals from Canada to the United States was only $1,697,061, while in 1915 it had jumped to $14,052,578, The farmers along the northern tier of states have been naturally hit the first and the hardest. They will bear it in{ mind when they vote next week. But farmers elsewhere are realizing what democratic free trade means to them. H. M. Pope of Fort Worth, Tex., president of the Association of State Farmers' Union Presidents, is sending out a pamphlet setting out just what the Under- wood tariff means, He shows that when ship- loads of corn began arriving at Galveston from South America, after the Underwood tariff went into effect, the price of corn fell 5 cents a bushel. He calls attention to the fact that in South Amer- ica three crops of corn are raised in fourteen months, on cheap, but productive land. The wages paid farm labor are also far below that American farmers must pay. Transportation, except from points‘at considerable distance from water, costs very little. Just now there is an abnormal demand for farm products, due to the great war. But this demand will slacken at the coming of peace. The American farmer is just as interested in the res- toration of a republican protective tariff as the American manufacturer and the army of wage earners in the factories, People and Events Marriage speed in Chicago stili outpoints di- vorce. The latest marriage score is tginy sec- onds, credited to a thirsty magistrate, who achieved the record while the bridegroom mixed his appetizer, a malted egg chocolate. Tax ferrets of New York anticipate a juicy squeeze out of the fortune of the late Hetty Green, the world's richest woman. Just what pagg of the fortune is liable to the state tax is to be determined by a special commissioner. Meanwhile the ferrets consider $4,000,000 about the -limit of the squeeze. War's tragedies reach far beyond the firing lines. = The makers of the kaiser's cigars at Ha- vana is said to have committed suicide because his job was destroyed by the blockade. He re- ceived a Cuban dollar for every cigar specially built for the kaiser. Pride of station forbade rolling smokers for the common herd and idle- ness rendered life not worth the living. egradation to call on | | north from Saloniki. 1916. TODAY/ Thought Nugget for the Day. In valn we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will budge, And stealing will continue stealing. —James Russell Lowell. not One Year Ago Today in the War, Serbia pushed the Bulgarians back from Nish. M. Zalmis defeated in the Greek chamber by Venizelists. Germans captured capital of Uzice province in Serbia, but Serbian army | escaped. Russia threatened Persia with in- vasion if that country joined Ger- many and Turkey. British cavalry advanced into Ser- bia and new allied forces were rushed In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. While other citizens are having the bottom knocked out of their booms Council Bluffs is having a boom knocked out of its bottoms. Bottom Jand has alrendy made a jump, and if half the improvements contemplat- ed are ever actually made, bottom property will more than double in price, Mrs. Higginson does not find art in- compatible with a butter bowl. She is decorating one with a stormy marine scene and a tossing ship, to be mount- ed in plush, Miss Minnie B. Carter has returned to Omaha.to spend the winter with her sister and brother-in-law, Dr. and Mrs. Merriam, on Eighteenth street. Mrs. | General Manderson enter- tained the Ladies’| Afternoon club at the Millard in elegant style. The wo- men {n attendance were Mesdames J. N, H. Patrick, J. M. Watson, Dor- rance, Lacy, Joseph Barker, Hanscom, Pritchett, Dandy, Wakeley, Cowin, L. M. Bennett, Herman Kountze and J. J. Brown. A party was given at the residence of Alexander Benham in honor of Mrs. Benham's birthday. A distin- guished guest present was a, relative of Mrs. Benham, Sir Charles Eaton, member of Parliament for Bath, Eng- land. Miss Nellle Gunnell, well known here, was married to Mr. Joseph Chil- derg. Rev. A, Rosherrlll tied the knot in the presence ‘of a large number of guests. At a women’s musicale held in the tabernacle Mrs. Squires, Mrs. Hsta- brook, Mr. Wilkins and Mr. Estabrook @d good solo, duet and quartet work. Miss Iler entertained a few friends and fine music was a feature of the evening, Mr. Butler's playing being especially admired. [} This Day in History. 1794—William Cullen Bryant, the poet, born at Cummington, Mass.; died in New York City June 12, 1878, 1804—Northern Illinois and south- ern Wisconsin were purchased from the Indians by a treaty concluded at St. Louls between Governor Willia, Henry Harrison and the Sacs and Foxes, ' 1866—General Ortega was arrested by United States troops as he was about to crogs the Rio Grande to head a revolutionary movement in Mexico. 1867—Garibaldians defeated by Pa- pal and French troops at Mentana. 1870—Belfort, a strongly fortified town in Alsace, was invested by the Germans. 1877—Dennis Kearney, “the sand- lot orator,” arrested in San Francisco and imprisoned for making incend- fary speeches and threats. 1894—Prince Kung acknowledged the defeat of China in the war with Japan, and requested forelgn inter- vention. 19083—The Republic of Panama was proclaimed. 1909—Commander Peary's polar | records were approved by the Na- tional Geographic society. 1912—Turkey appealed to the pow- ers to intervene in the war with the Balkan allies. The Day We Celebrate. David A. Baum of the.Baum' Iron company is 53 years old. He has been prominent in Commercial club circles and was vice president of the City Natlonal bank. Edward D. White, chief justice of the supreme court of the United States, born in the parish of La- fourche, Louisiana, seventy-one years ago today. Hohammed V, the present sultan of Turkey and ally of the German emperor, born seventy-two years ago today. Charles Dick, former United States genator from Ohlo, born at Akron, O., fitty-elght years ago today. Charles J. Vopicka, the American minister to Roumania, Serbia and Bul- garlia, born in Bohemia fifty-nine years ago today. D. J. Traill, traveling passenger agent of the Union Pacific railroad at Cincinnati, O., was born at Spencer, Mass., forty-two years ago today. Mr. Traill was raised “and educated in Omaha and moved east about nine Years ago. 4 Timely Jottings and Reminders. The Republic of Panama celebrates its thirteenth anniversary today. Today is the centennial anniversary of the birth of General Jubal A. Early, soldfer of the Florida and Mexican wars, and one of the most picturesque commanders of the confederate states army. Leaving Albany this morning Can- didate Hughes is scheduled to speak in several leading cities of the Hud- son valley, arriving at New York City tonight. The annual convention of the Lou- jslana Good Roads association will meet at Shreveport today and con- tinue in session over tomorrow. The American Toad Bullders' asso- clation, the oldest organization in the country devotcd to the improvement of roads and streets, is to hold its annual meeting today in New York City. An informal conference on the na- tion-wide car shortage is to be con- ducted at Louisville today and tomor- row by Interstate Commerce Com- missioner McCherd. Storyette of the Day. Lincoln Springfield, London editor, was talking to an American corre- spondent. “I know a regiment," he sald, “where the subalterns are so young that not one of them is able to raise the mustache required by etiquette. “A handful of privates from this regiment swaggered back to quarters late one night singing the popular ditty, ‘Another little drink won't do us any harm.’ “As they passed the.officers’ billet the guard on duty growled at them: * ‘Shut up, you noisy fools, or you'll wake the war babies!’ "—Philadelphia Ledger. ‘Why Handicap Omaha? Omaha, Nov. 2—To the Editor of The Bee: I think it strange attention has not been called more pointedly to the relation of the wet and dry contest to the relative commercial position of Omaha in competition with wet cities like St. Paul and Minneapolis to the north and Kansas City and St. Jo- seph to the south. There is territory which constitutes a trade zone from which Omaha now. draws business which can easily’' be turned to its competitors. If it were national pro- hibition which was at issue, so that all would go wet or dry together, it might make little difference, but to put a dry Omaha up against a wet Kansas City and a wet Minneapolis strikes me as putting this city at a disad- vantage. If national prohibition is the ultimate goal the prohibitionists aim at, we will be merely handicapping Omaha needlessly to vote this city dry before the others must go dry too. | D. L. BUSINESSMAN; No One-Man Government. Omaha, Nov. 2.—To the Editor of The Bee: In view of the fact that the main stumbling block in the way of voting for Hughes comes from those who are afraid the influence of Theo- dore Roosevelt will be so strong with the new administration that there will be serious danger of war, it seems to me that the point has not been brought out with sufficient emphasis that the danger of war comes from A man who will send an ultimatum without con- sulting the people's representatives in congress. As congress has the sole right to declare war it should he con- sulted as to whether or uot an ulti- matum should be sent, becouse an ultimatum is equivalent to a declara- tion of war. It is high time that some candidate should go before the people with the promise that he would not usurp the legislative business of congress. The responsibility of war or peace is too great to center in the authority of any one man. It seems to me that Mr. Hughes would gain hundreds of thousands of votes if he wou!d come out squarely even at this late dey und state that he will not issuc uitima- tums to any forelgn country without the approval of the people's repre- sentatives in congress. He could in this \one statement nullify Wilson's strongest claim that “he kept us out of war” and, what is of more impor- tance, it would protect us against a one-man action in the future. We know that if the ultimatum to Eng- land on the submarine matter had been voted on in congress an over- whelming majority would have voted that the issue was not one upon which the American na..on would embark in war. It was a betrayal of the peo- ple's wishes and usurpation of the power of declaring war when the president sent that ultimatum. F. Importance of the School Board. Omaha, Nov. 2.—To the Editor of The Bee: Most of us take small in- terest in our school board. The word, the institution is more or less of an empty name to us. A man is élected to the board; we do not know what he does, what he can do, what he ought to do. He bears a title, he ap- pears in newspaper columns as be- ing on certain committees, voting in certain ways, but we feel that he means nothing really vital to the city —except that he does sometimes in- crease our taxes. To tell the truth, we usually skip the articles about the school board meetings. Consequently it does not make much difference to us whose names are on the ballot, who are finally elected; one man is just about as good as another—for that place. If this is true generally, how much more is it apt to be the case in the year of a presidential elec- tion, when big issues are at stake and exciting questions are taking our time and attention and effort. Yet, whether we elect Hughes or Wilson, Hitchcock or Kennedy, this duty to Omaha of today and tomorrow is urgent, para- mount, that we elect a good school board. Is the school board member an empty, trivial title, or has it real meaning? What does this man, this group of men, do? They care for the housing of Oma- ha's children in safe, healthful build- ings; they spend large sums of money on public buildings which shall adorn or disgrace our city. Time and intel- ligent thought must be spent on this, for school architecture is advancing in leaps and bounds. The plan and struc- ture and equipment of our school buildings is the foundation of our school system; up-to-date, safe, artis- tic beautiful physical surroundings are essentlal to the successful modern school. Not only does this group of men care for the physical, material side of our school business, they also deter- mine the direction of that system in- tellectually. They choose superin- tendents, principals, teachets; in their hands lies the appoinment of all those who are to train and guide our chil- dren. Wise cholce in such a matter is a serfous and exceedingly difficult task. They decide on many points connected with the course of study— whether American history is to be a required subject; they provide text books, old or modern, in generous or meager supply; they grant or refuse the new laboratory, the new, labora- tory apparatus; they adopt new cours- es—domestic art, domestic science, debating, arts and crafts, carpentry, printing. They determine our school policies—whether there shall be med- feal inspection, military drill, uni- forms for girls, athletics, dancing, ex- aminations. But they have a far greater and more difficult and delicate duty, that of recognizing and fostering a right and a noble spirit. The school board may or may mot uphold high ideals, courage, hard work, truthfulness, jus- tice, honesty. As they deal with the numerous complaints of parents, pu- pils, teachers, principals, they are to discriminate between the true and the false, the right and the wrong, the Just and the unjust. They must have themselves noble enough standards that they wish. for Omaha schools the very highest, the best ideald, Is the school board an empty form? Does it make no difference what men are elected? The man who will serve Omaha well as member of the school board must be public spirited and self-sac- rificing; he serves without pay and he gives much time, much thought, much strength. He must be honest; he must be shrewd financially, yet he must combine the love of "economy with the determination to have what makes for efficiency. He must have some degree of education, that he may work well in education; he must be intelligent, for the problems involved are far from easy. He must be im- partial and open-minded, for the ques- tions have many sides; a narrow, prejudiced mind has no place here. He must be patient, willing to investi- gate, to weigh. He must have deter- mination, firmness and great courage —his path may lead him in opposition to friends, to business interests, to po- litical affiliations. And—he should be an idealist, enough of a dreamer to see before him a vision of an Omaha greater, nobler, more splendid than the one of today. Find that man, vote for him, elect him—for Omaha. SCHOOL PATRON. Holovtchiner's Appeal to Fairness. Omaha, Nov. 2.—To the Editor ol The Bee: I have great faith in the fairness of the American people and know that American men and women believe in fair play and a square deal. I also know that the American people appreciate work well done and duties: conscientiously performed and are willing to continue a man in service if he 8o desires as a reward and as a mark of appreciation for honest work and devotion to duty. I have served the people of Omaha for nine years without compensation and it is universally admitted that I have performed my duties well, that my record as a public servant is clean and beyond reproach and that I have accomplished something for the wel- fare of our children and the public school. In nine years I have never missed a board meeting nor a com- mittee meeting, and the imprint of my constructive service and work are visible in the city of Omaha and will stay long after I am gone and laid away. Why, then, was I eliminated from the so-called citizen's ticket for the Board of Education, and why was there any need or necessity for a so- called citizens' ticket? Is there any issue which would call for a public uprising or upheaval to create a cit- izens' committee for the purpose of selecting a citizens' ticket? Why all this agitation and fuss in pushing the candidacy of six inexperienced men and ignoring experienced, faithful and honest men, such as W. A. Foster, R. F. Williams and your humble servant, who have served you well and who are idealistic and euthusiastic enough to want to continue their work for the welfare of the public schools and the children. It is to the injustice of the procedure that I am objecting and to fair play and a square deal that I am appealing, and I am sure that the Omaha men and women will not ignore my appeal and will reward long and faithful service to the peo- ple and to the public schools by re- alecmng me to the Board of Educa- on. 1 detest asking for votes, but the people of Omaha owe me that much recognition for long, faithful and effiy cient service, and in doing that you will also resent the presumption of a few to select a ticket for you and give it the much-abused name of citizens' ticket. DR. E. HOLOVTCHINER. Open Letter to Hitchcock From a Democrat. Omaha, Nov.'2—To the Editor of The Bee: Senator Hitcheock, it has been published from time to time, without your denial, that President Wilson made you the bearer of a mes- sage to the people of Nebraska, and that you, animated by most ignoble of motives, deliberately suppressed that message. President Wilson, actu- ated by the noblest of motives for his ex-secretary of state and Nebraska's most distinguished citizen, personally requested you to tell the people of Nebraska that he earnestly desired that Mr. Bryan be sent as a delegate to the democratic national convention. I am going to presume that the presi- dent did deliver such a message to you and that you betrayed the confi- dence of the president, as well as the people of Nebraska. Can you, sir, in the presence of such pronounced, arrogant and bold duplicity continue to ask that the people of Nebraska place confidence in you in so exalted a position as United States senator? Here we behold in illuminating con- trast two of the world’s most domi- nating personalities seeking to influ- ence the nation’s affairs by great moral and intellectual forces to the ultimate welfare and happiness of its people deliberately betrayed by a political Judas—now seeking re-election. Sena- tor Hitchcock, as a lifelong democrat, devoted to the ideals and teachings of national democracy, I cannot con- sistently support you and at the same time preserve my self-respect and ad- miration and devotion to my \country. Because I firmly believe this incident aptly and most forcibly typifies your entire senatorial opposition to the’ president. And that today you stand as the exponent of the unholy and un-American designs of men in deter- mined oppostiion to the great masses of the American people. I note with pleasing concern the growing opposi- tion to you, which only means the ulti- mate triumph of Americanism over demagogism. ED JOHNSTON, Former Mayor of South Omaha. LINES TO A LAUGH. “I want to apologize, Blakely, for my rudeness last evening. I assure you I didn't , for the love of Mike, mean it next T hate to see a_man's actions and his intentions harmonize so poorly.”"—Judge. Sentimental Daughter—He was overcome with emotion, pa. Every feature in his face was working when he asked me to marry him Practical Pa—That's all right, but I want to uee his hands do some of the working.— Baltimore American. « The inspector B3 15 Back Of