Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 11, 1916, Page 6

6 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR. tered at Omaha postoffice as second-class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By Mail 7 per year Daily and Sunday.. .36.00 Dadly without Sunda; Evening snd Sunday Sunday Bee only... Daily and Sunday Bee, thr Sead notice of change of addre livery to Omaha Bee, Circulation Department. LAY . REMITTANCE. Remit by draft, express or postal order, Only 2-cent stamps taken in payment of small account:. Personal cheeks, except on Omuha snd eastern exchange, not accep ed. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Building. | South Omaha—2318 N street. Council Bluffs—14 North Main street. Lincoln—526 Little Building. Chicago—818 People’s Gas Buildiog, New York—Room 804, 'ifth avenne. St. Louts—503 New Bank of Commerce. | Washington—725 Fourteenth street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Address communications relating to new: matter to Omtha Bee, Editorial Department. OCTOBER CIRCULATION 53,818 Daily—Sunday 50,252 Dwight Williams, circulation manages of The Bee Publishing comoany, being duly sworn, says ‘hat the average circulation for the month of October, 1916, was 83,818 daily, and 50,262 Sunday. DWIGHT WILLIAMS, C'rulation Manager. Subscribed in my presence end sworn to before me this 4th day of Nov 19186, i ! &, CARLSON, Notary Public. and editorial Subscribers lea the city temporarily ¥ should have The mailed to them. Ad- will be often as required. = e ' Friends and' foes alike agree that George Harvey is entitled to another guess. m—— Note that the unll—; publ—;ly thanks every- body individually except the ones who really put him across. } Se— | Viewing the' battle in its larger national pect one fact rises clear of doubt. The preacher's scén can't lose. 4 | That yellow. reprobate, “Hekeptusoutofwar” defied the eight-hour law and worked overtime in; vital spots, 2 Semme— | Just the same, a presidential election that lasts from Tuesday until Friday is more than anyone bargained for. Out of respect for old friends, the annual run of the water wagon will be postponed from January 1 ._lo.}l . day, ‘Wi ’mbf.uh‘ headed for the water wagon, het teduction in meter rates should be soon to;thcmuiu from our Water board. ot Spee— All democrats will now make low obeisance . 'to His Excellency, “Boss” Arthur Mullen, when- ever they come within twenty yards of him, ¢ IWell, now that it is over, and perfectly safe ‘to answer, “Are you ‘wet’ or ‘dry,” Senator Hitch- cock?” No.need longer to dodge the question. ; — £ + All the women suffrage states, except Iilinois Oregon, seem to have slumped into the dem- Ry - % Incidentally, that free bridge across the Mis- river, so far as it depends on the bond issue v vllqu[h county, h lien ieh reach dizzy heights in , Illinois and New York. A more tion of the good things of life de- strategy of political generals. ts to shed for the left and oferlook the bier of the pure e cruel smothering of w six- , deserves a farewell souse, te. lfi tig'own overpowering pop- 4 ahead of his opponent ill distufb, this day-dream until he gets umped. 3 mgfifl pivotal state in this presiden- tial election! the state of Georgia—the state of mob rule and lynchings—for without Georgia's fourteen votes handed to him on a silver platter . Wilson cot be elected. wins “il duly thankful sistency shines brightly in 4 piled up a whooping ma- jasity for the amendment and at the same time " helped to & ‘governor and senator al- . lied with the-wets.” Can you beat that shiner? : e ’ Nebraska returns, uith again makes it clear that afe not hunting for the bird with the olive branch just now. Similar intima- tions come out elin, Both sides are out for iarger game. For'the present the wise dove keeps out of artillery range, .. Premier: the entente’ A local grand jury certifies that Philadelphia “a decent - in which to live.” Coupled with tie repul n majority piled up on Tues- day the certificate materially expands the Quaker chest. A pink boll worm, said to possess a huge te for cotton making forced marches ough Mexico toward the cotton fields of . The Americans on guard on the border ! no assurance of safety. ° " The pet cat of a denti family in Lynn, sports a gold-crowned tooth in its lower Not a whimper cscaped pussy during the tion and it n&)ured to enjoy the subse- quent felicity of licking the cement. . Mrs. Mary Lily Flagler, widow of the Stand- Oil magnate and Florida railroad promoter, is ced to wed judge Robert W. Bingham of . The is set for November 15, will be a union of 2 widow and widower and _Flagler fortune of $70,000,000. Three packages of $10,000 each of sure-enough are hv up in the will of Mrs. Marie r of Naw York for her three granddaughters, e s are theirs at 21, provided they to the satisfaction of a committee of jomen that they can cook an_acceptable meal ¢ fwelve persons. Say, girls, isn’t that an easy e R ¢ nsurping the bauks of England us activities stripped of 4 woman was :gpolnud b of the London City and one of the greatest of British ‘the help are women. Necessity, | __THE WILSON WINS. On has a sufficient margin of electoral votes to as- tire face of the returns, Woodrow Wilson | sure his re-clection as president of the United States, This result has finally emerged from a prolonged confusion and complication of elec- tion figures and only by the narrowest pluralitics in the decermining states. Despite the outcome, the election indicates a popular revolt against the democratic adminis- tration, nmi:;ugh of much greater intensity in the east than in the west. Let it be remembered that except for the electoral votes of the solid south, chained to the democratic party by the race issue and negro disfranchisement, the demo- cratic showing would be pitiful indeed and the triumph of Hughes and the republicans would be overwhelming. In that part of the country where the popular will is permitted to be freely cxpressed, the majority for Hughes is heavily preponderant and he is, in reality and beyond question, the real popular choice. Considering conditions calling for the weld- ing together of party elements widely split apart four years before, and the many other obstacles to be overcome, Mr., Hughes, as the republican standard bearer, has made a wonderful campaign against a resourceful opponent entrenched in power, Conceding that President \Vilson is to re- main in the White House, he certainly must heed the lesson of his narrow escape if he pos- sesses the political wisdom which we all credit him with. em—— In Nebraska, The Wilson wave, lavishly aided and pro- moted by the money put up by the “wets,” has engulfed nearly every place on the state ticket in Nebraska. This means that we have elected a democratic United States senator, a democratic governor and state-house officials (with possible minor exceptions) and a democratic legislature. At the same time we have re-elected our three republican congressmen, as well as the three democratic congressnien. It is plain that while Wilson might have car- ried the state for president, the other democrats on the ticket would have had much harder sled- ding except for their alliance with the “wets,” as witness the majorities: Senator Hitchcock, elected six years ago by some 20,000 majority, is re-elected with his ma- Jorhy, cut in half, In the Third district the democratic majority on congressman of two years ago is cut by more than one-half, and the only notable demotratic gain is in the Fifth district, which is accounted for by the sudden death of the republican can- didate, ex-Congressman Barton, on election day. The majority of Neville for governor will be but a fraction of the majority piled up two years ago for Governor Morehead. So, although there are few crumbs of com- fort just now for Nebraska republicans, we can still say: “It might have been worse,” and there is no good reason why the republican forces in z!fll‘ l‘,“‘fl' any ”““‘f'g“_“? If ‘°~‘ | this state cannot and should not be rallied for a winning fight in the next battle. e it et e Simplified Spelling Once More. An able advocate of simplified spelling has come out from ‘the east to talk to the assembled school teachers of Nebraska, urging them to give support to certain changes proposed in our system of orthography. His presence is endorse- ment of the statement that nothing more clearly illustrates the development of education than our conservatism in the matter of spelling. When Sam Johnson made his dictionary of the English language, he had a virgin field; spelling in those days was more a matter of phonetics than it has been since, and he could arbitrarily fix the rules, which later came to be accepted. Succeeding lexicographers have standardized the spelling book and the dictionary alike, and the people have adopted their arrangements of letters, with all the inconsistencies and perplexities com- plained of by the present day simplifiers. With the custom established, and the form of a word at least fixed, the most modest of re- forms, supported by the most cogent of logic, finds it hard to gain a foothold with the public. 1t is far easier to enrich the language by adding a word or giving an old one a new or expanded meaning than ‘it is to strengthen it by pruning superfluous letters from familiar forms of spelling. But nothing was ever gained by permitting the world to rest in its groove, and we may yet be- come rational in our writing, as we have in our speaking. Another Place for Reform, The Bee ventures, resgectfully, to suggest to Election Commissioner Moorhead that he give us more voting places. At present the average is more than J60 voters to the precinct in Doug- las county. In some the total runs far above the average. The law contemplates not to exceed 300, With the long ballot in vogue, this throws immense labor on ~the election boards. The judges and clerks of election in Douglas county are carefully picked and qualified above the aver- age for their important duties, but it requires a man of high courage and great physical endur- ance to face the mountain of tedious effort in- volved in collecting and counting the votes in Omaha these days. Until the ballot is shortened, the number of voters to the precinct should be reduced to not more than 200, This will reduce the work, facilitate counting. lessen the likeli- hood of blundering and give earlier returns— advantages all around. Just a coincidence that the suit to contest the validity of the Adamson law is started by the Union Pacific, whase presiding genius, Robert S. Lovett, was so careful to proclaim in advance his fealty to Wilson, It looks much better to have the law attacked by someone in the house of its supposed friends rather than by some road | like the Atchison, with a president like Mr, Ripley, who knows that he js a person non grata to the powers that be. None of the bidders for the tonstruction of four superdreadnoughts will agree to deliver one | Francisco I, ready for equipment in less than lhirly-lix[ months, British yards have filled similar con. tracts in hali the time, and German yards, before the war, turned out completed battleships in twenty-four months. American preparedness is imposing in talk, but limps painfully in practice. BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER_11,_1916. Mezxico’s Four Sorrow Queens Philadelphia Record Mexico has a record for unhappy rulers’ wives. As they are named in the account they include: First, tHe mad Carlotta, empress of Mexico; then Carmen Romero Rubio de Diaz, the widow of the “lron Man” of Mexico; Mrs. Madero, the widow of the “little dreamer,” widowed by assassination, is the third, and the last of the quartet, Senora Emilia Aguila Huerta, widow of General Victoriano Huerta, the *old Indian” dictator, ~who died & priscner in this country and left his widow an exile here. Probably it would be diffi- cult to say which of Mexico's four queens of sorrow is the most miserable. In the case of the poor Carlotta, insanity kindly cast a curtain over her mind. She, at least, may not be able to realize just how full is her cup of sorrow. For more than fifty years now the mad Empress Carlotta has sat upon her throne of make-believe in the Chateau de Bou- chard, a remote and forest-hidden palace near Brussels, where she was left unharmed when the Germans swept through Belgium, The second member of the quartet of the queens of sorrow is Senora Carmen Romero Rubio de Diaz, the widow of Porfirio Diaz, dic- tator of Mexico for more than thirty years, and who died an exile in Paris last July. Today Senora Diaz is without a country. She is the former “Carmelita,” beloved of all Mexico, and in whose honor the organization known as the “Daughters of Carmelita” was named. The aged Diaz, yielding before the forces of Madera, put Victoriano Huerta, his trusted gen- cral, in charge of his military escort on the tran tual took him to Vera Cruz. When this train was attacked the old “Iron Man” and his general fought side by side. Huerta finally saw Diaz safe on board the ship which carried him and his “Carmelita” into exile. A few years before the Diaz government was overthrown a very close friend of General Por- firio Diaz, who calls himself “a soldier of the old guard,” wrote the biography of me former Mexi- can dictator, in which he paid the following trib- ute to Senora Diaz: “During the afternoons a well set-up and dis- tinguished-looking gentleman, accompanied by a stately and noble lady, may often be scen walking together, alone in the shady avenues which surround the castle of Chapultepec. Both are dressed simply. “The ' correct attire and neatness in every detail show the former to be a soldier and a commander of the army in civilian's clothes. A glance at his companion is sufficient to indicate that she is in every respect a grande dame, and her irreproachable” good taste is evident in the most trivial detail of dress and manner. Were it not for the noble aspect of the gentleman and the distinguished appearance of his companion, it would be hard to realize that here, before one’s eyes, were one of the grandest and most powerful men of the times and his worthy consort. “Madame Diaz rules in the hearts of the Mex- ican people, who love and admire her for the noble example she has set and for her many quiet and unostentatious acts of real charity.” Assassination made Senora, Sara Perey Ma- dero the third member of the queens of sorrow quartet. She is now an exile in New York. She is the woman who has been called the Mexican Joan of Arc. She sold her own jewels to pay the soldiers who rose against Porfi"rio Diaz. ghe followed her husband tirelessly from camp to camp through the long campaigns, nursing the wounded, solacing the dying, hofding up the hope of freedom to the fighters who were left. Then came the decena tragica (tragic ten days) in February, 1913, when'thousands were slain in the streets of the City of Mexico. Ma- dero gave his defense into Huerta's hands. After frightful bloodshed, Huerta turned traitor, and Madero was imprisoned in the National palace. Within a few days Madero, while his frail wife was_pleading on her knees for her husband's life, was Bhot “while trying to escape,” all of which was' according to the Mexican ley fuga, or law of flight. Senora Madero is small and slight in stature. She does not look strong, and has a strained, startled look of questioning misery in her eyes. Upon the death of Madero, Huerta seized the Mexican presidency, but after a stormy career of less than two years he was forced to flee the country. He and all the members of his family managed to escape from Mexico to Spain, from ;;}rsch country they came to New York in May, Huerta then purchased a home at Forest Hills, Long Island, but last July decided to establish his home in El Paso. Last June he was arrested on the Texas horder on the charge of being in- volved in a conspiracy to violate the United States neutrality laws by planning a revolution in Mexico. Huerta was imprisoned in Fort Bliss, near El Paso, and his wife hastened to his side. It was said that as a result of his arrest, Huerta aged twenty years within a few days, and his iron con- stitution began to break. A fatal malady de- veloped, and after a number of operations, he died last January, a prisoner in an alien country. General Huerta's wife held his hand to the last. The windows of the death-chamber opened toward Mexico, and in his last moments of con- sciousness, Senora Huerta held her dying hus- band’s head in her arms and turned his face so he could look off to the Mexican mountains and the land of his birth, where he so recently ruled As the end came, the life companion of the “Old Indian” sat quietly. She shed no tears, for long ago her well of tears had gone dry. I Pajamas or Nightshirts? l e3¢, Louis Globe-Democrat: - Pessimists who argue from the European war that the world is on the point of reverting to more primitive conditions can find other and stronger evidence. What appears to be a grow- ing movement toward the recrudescence of the old-fashioned nightshirt, is said to be sweeping the land. The ?resump(ion must be that the great majority of men who do not go to bed m_their underclothes 'u:in$ now well stocked with pajamas, the dealers, for their own profit, are now turning back to. the nightshirt as a means of forcing sales in masculine mightclothes. The arguments used not many years ago to displace, the nightshirt with the pajama are the identical arguments now being used to displace the pajama with the nightshirt. But what's the odds? No argument whatever will be necessary, in some circles, once the change is approved by Lord Dedbroke, in exchange for what is called a honorarium. After that, the gilded .youth of the New York four hundred will at once make the shift, and Gallipolis, Ohio, which may yet remem- ber the “nightie ith pleasure, will not long consent to remain “out of style” And as goes (i,llipolm. Ohio, so goes Mishawaka, Indiana. Yet there will remain here, as always, a group of gentlemen of the old school, who, after mak- ing close comparison of the pajama’s merits with those of nightshirts when the change was first roposed, with a degree of prejudice against the innovation, and who, having discovered its many points of sug.eriori(y. will not mow consent to abandon it. The dealers did a fine thing in offer- ing it as a substitute for the old-fashioned gown which involved difficulties, night and morn, in getting it over the head, and, wiinh its unbroken front, from neck to heel, raised a number of other difficulties -too numerous to mention. If they are to bring the abomination back, let them at least embody in it some of the facilities the pajama affords for the convenience .of wearers, Otherwise men of the world and gentlemen of the ‘old school will pass them by on the other side, nor even come in at the last, when other men have made the custom stale, to put on the thing that others are putting off. If the makers can make nightgowns embodyng some of the pajama's points of convenience, we are willing to look at their wares, If they are proposing to bring a renaissance of the old thing unrelieved, we shall be too busy to talk to them. Thought Nugget for the Day. Whatever is in any way beautiful | hath its source of beauty in itself and is complete In itself; pralse forms no part of it.. 8o it is none the worse nor the better for being praised. : «-Marecus Aurelius. One Year Ago Today in the War. Itallans made another great attack on_Gorizia. Bulgarian attacks on French posi- tions south of Veles repulsed. British government closed the Suez canal to merchant ships for military reasons. Germans, who were attacked by land and sea west of Riga, retreated because of flood, according to Ber- lin. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. Bishop Quimtard of Tennessee, founder of the Sewanee college, was the guest of Lieutenant Powell and preached at Trinity on Sunday. ™o natral wnecn §8 to be kent (erealler in tne Jefferson Square sta- bles. 4 Mrs. Adolph Meyer entertained the Ladies' Coffee club with a very ele- gant lunch at the Milldrd hotel. Those present were Mesdames Hellman, Hel- ler, Newman, Max Meyer, Moritz Meyer, Oberfelder, Rehfeld, Polack, Goldsmith, Heyn and Adler. The home of Mr., and Mrs. Albert Cahn on Farnam street was the scene of a vefy pleasant card party, at which recitations were rendered by Mr. Baer and Mr. Schiff. An unobjec- tionable break in the pleasant even- ing was the fine supper which was served. Mrs. Mary A. Trowbridge and Mrs. J. R. Anderson of Kalamazoo, Mich,, are visiting their sisters, Mrs. A. L. Wolcott and Mrs. 8. D. Bangs, in this city, and Mrs. A. H. Harris of Council Bluffs, it being a family reunion for the five sisters, daughters of the late Hon. Richard Smith of Batavia, N. Y. The Imperial club, a dancing club, with headquarters at Imperial hall, elected the following officers: Louis Littlefield, president; Emmet Solo- mon, secretary and treasurer; D. H. Christie, vice president; J. D. Rustin, floor director; Andrew Argo and Wil- llam Hair, aids. A number of sporting men in the city are planning to be present at the match which has been arranged be- tween Jack Hanley and a party un- known to him. This Day in History. 1828—Andrew Jackson of Tennes- see was elected president of the United States. 1836—Thomas Bailey Aldrich, fa- mous poet, editor and writer, born at Portsmouth, N. H. Died in Boston March 19, 1907, 1857—Willlam Walker made his third filibustering expedition to Nic- aragua from New Orleans. 1864—Norway and Sweden cele- brated the fittieth anniversary of their fanion. 1866—Lieutenant General Sherman and Mr, Campbell left New York for Vera Crus with an offer of the serv- ices of the United States to ald Jua- rez in restoring order in Mexico after the collapse of the Maximillan em- pire. 1880—Lucretia Mott, a famous pi- | oneer in the equal suffrage and other reform movements, died near Phila- delphia. Born on Nantucket Island January 3, 1793. 1887—Execution of the Chicago an- archists, Spies, Fischer, Engel hnd Parsons. 1889—Washington, the forty-third state in order, was admitted into the union by proclamation of the presi- dent. 1903—The Cuban naval station at Guantanamo was transferred to the United States. 1911—King George and Queen Mary sailed for India to attend the Delhl Durbar. The Day We Celebrate. Ernest A. Hoel, buyer for Carpen- ter Paper company, was born Novem- ber 11, 1873, right here in Omaha. He was for ten years with the Morse & Cuw shoe company and for the last ten years with his present firm. King Victor Immanuel III, whose armies are reported to be making headway against the Austrians, born forty-seven years ago today. Maude Adams, one of the most pop- ular actresses of the American stage, born in Salt Lake City forty-four years ago today. Anna Katharine Green Rohlfs, author of “The Leavenworth Case" and other mystery stories, born in Brooklyn seventy years ago today. Hazel Dawn, noted actress and mo- tion picture star, born at Ogden, Utah, twenty-four years ago today. George Larkin, well-known photo- play actor, born in New York City twenty-eight years ago today. Rt. Rev. Theodore DuBose Bratton, Episcopal bishop of Mississippi, born at Winnsboro, B. C, fifty-four years ago today. Dr. Willlam L. Bryan, president of Indiana university, born near Bloom- ington, Ind., fifty-six years ago today. J. Ogden Armour, noted Chicago packer aud capitalist, born in Mil- waukee fifty-three years ago today. alter J. (“Rabbit") Maranville, shortstop of the Boston National league base ball team, born at Spring- field, Mass.,” twenty-four years ago. Timely Jottings and Reminders. The National farm and Live Stock show, opening in New Orleans today, promises to be the most notable ex- hibition of its kind ever held in the south. The Illinois Soclety for the Preven- tion of Blindness will hold its first an- nual meeting in Chicago today, with Miss Helen Keller as the principal speaker A joint meeting of the New Ingland Association of Chemistry Teachers and the Eastern Association of Phys- ics Teachers is to be held today at the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 0gY. Bix hundred delegates are expected in New York City today for the open- ing of the annual national convention of the Lord's Day Alliance of the United States. Storyette of the Day. A lawyer who for many yefirs had shocked a large number of his friends by his rather liberal views on religion recently died. A friend of the deceased, who cut short a trip to hurry back to town for the purpose of attending the last rites of his colleague, entered the late law- yer's home some minutes after the be- ginning of the service. “What part of the service is this?" he inquired in a whisper of another legal friend standing in the crowded hallway. i \y 4 just come myself,” said the other, “but I believe they have opened for the defense. ' —Everybody's Maga- THE STORE OF THE TOWN Browning, King Company You take the risk when you buy a suit of clothes on the price basis alone. When you buy on a Guarantee of Quality, all wool, fast color, ete., its a question of good faith. 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