Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 11, 1916, Page 4

Olney for Exclusive Federal Regulation. The statemenf{ prepared by Richard Olney and placed before the Newlands joint committee on Interstate Commerce, which is investigating the different questions raised by the wage con- troversy, comes out squarely for exclusive fed- eral regulation. Mr. Olney would accomplish that purpose by national incorporation, but the method of exercising the power need not concern us so much as his conclusion, as follows: Nor is it to be doubted—because ample expe- rience has shown—that, in this matter of na- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. _ VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. 2 "THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR. Entered at Omaha postoffice as second-class matter, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By Carrier per month By Mall Daily and Sunday. Daily without Sunday.. H 3 5 ® 4 5 2 = @ € i Sunday Bee only.. A, o ! 1 1 € : i Daily ‘and Bunday Jires years Iln":“;"-_':_f“: fa%e. | tional transportation by railroads, public policy '» fi::gy ‘i‘;“a?..:‘{..‘ Beer Circutation Department. and the public welfare are at one with the law | e o of the country. They imperatively require that 3 REMITTANCE. the subject be dealt with in all its phases by a | Ramit by draft. exproas or m«l:’{&r‘:l:‘: 0""1'!"30;:'1"::;:_"’:" single authority which can be no other than [ Sxcopt ‘on’Omaha_und eastern sxchinge, not accepied. | the nation itself. (iR adicioglove] i OFFICES. the subject now prevailing—the states exercis ing a part, mostly through state charters, and the United States a part, mostly through the commerce power—is thoroughly archaic, orig- inated before the true scope of the commerce power was generally understood, and has re- sulted in a serious waste and inefficiency in railroad operation which is at once a matter of public notoriety and public scandal. In view of the settled law of the land as respects the national commerce power—as by virtue of it the United States practically under- takes to exercise the power for the benefit of Omaha—The Bee Building. South Omaha—2318 N street Council Bluffs—14 North Main street Lincoln—526 Little Building. Chicago—#818 People’s Gas Building. New York—Room £03, 286 Fifth avenue St. Louls—503 New Bank of Commerce. Washington—125 Fourteenth street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Address communications relating to news and editorial matter to Omaha Bee, Editorial Department ¥ NOVEMBER CIRCULATION. P—— 1sfactory to the as well as seriously prejudicial to the national interests—the question is of the remedy for that condition. Now, this reads very like some of The Bee's recent arguments upholding the republican plat- form pronouncement which were so violently combatted at the time by the organs of the oppo- sition party. But Mr. Olney is one of the recog- nized leaders in democratic councils, which may account for the fact that these democratic news- papers had not seen anything in his views against which to make an outcry,’and also that their solici- tude for preserving the right of the states to beset the railroads with forty-eight different kinds of regulations has not survived the campaign. The Bee repeats that we are heading inevitably to exclusive federal regulation of railroads and the only question is whether the country must wait for republican reascepdancy for it or our demo- cratic friends seize upon it and hand it to us without delaying that long. ’ $5,483 dpily, and £0,037 Sunday. DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me i Dec ber, 1916, this 2nd day of Decomber, L3 1 ARLSON, Notary Public. Subscribers ln_vin. the city temporarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as required. % 55,483 Daily—Sunday 50,037. the several states and of all the pqo{)e—and { Dwight Williams, circulation manager of The Bee | as transportation by railroad is within that 3 Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the | power and is today in a condition most unsat- *average circulation for the month of November, 1916, was iivets owiers of iltoads If dental experts make good their promises, i juvenile courts and the maternal swatters are i hopelessly scrapped. It remains to be seen whether the congres- sional plan for reducing the high cost of living, consists in burning costly print paper with hot f' air. l Times without number the “unloaded” gun lfiles protests against thoughtless handling. Un- fortunately the safefy warning too aften is seen through misery, pain and sorrow. ( King Constantine appears fully convinced that <+ 'the entente frying pan is not as dangerous as the . Teutonic fire. One irritates, the other obliterates. 2 Events sustain his policy of safety first. P Se———— e Once a week three men take a week-end trip ** to Elgin, IIl, go through the forms of buying " butter and fix a price that rules throughout the country. Still, we resent the charge of being easy. Lincoln in the High School. The proposition to teach a year of Lincoln in the high schools of the country in lieu of a year of Latin or Greek is worthy of earnest consid- eration, It is not offered so much because of the’ popularity of Lincoln as a great American, but that the young folks who are receiving their training in the public schools, of the country may be made familiar with profound political and moral truths, expressed in simple, direct language. Lincoln was not. only a thinker whose mental processes were clear and whose decisions were sound and broadly based, but he had a remark- able faculty for giving his thoughts and conclu- sions life in sentences that are unequaled as exam- ples of diction and composition. The Bee has con- sistently (advocated the teaching of American history in the public schools, and as heartily commends the movement to make “Lincoln” a textbook. s Food kings are hard to please. At the be- ~ ++ ginning of the agitation they begged to be let alone. Consumers took them at their word. Now the kings plead for mercy and a cushion tq break the fall. " ¥ et e e Lloyd George has no time to talk for publi- cation, but is doing a powerful lot of concrete plugging. Getting and holding a parliamentary majority calls for a high grade of political cement. § —— It is understood, of course, that Sunday tours in municipal limousines are not in the joy- riding class. The spiritual duties of city dads ‘require inspection tours to insure proper observ- ance of the Sabbath. . | —— { _ Fire losses in the United States and Canada for the last eleven months total $209,000,000, ex- . ceeding last year's record for the same montlu‘ by | $47,000,000, The showing threatens a famine in the January crop of insurance melons. . — N«fioflu least of the perplexities of the admin- istration is to reconcile “he-kept-\n-out-of-wlr'.' wi compulsory military service. Voluntary is an admitted failure. Recruiting barely . supplies the line losses occasioned by term.ex- “pirations. Some form of compulsion is necessary if ‘the army and navy reach the numerical ; 'm“b established by congress. The age of 2 itarism haunts the politicians and the sug- 1%01\ of compulsory service intensifies their ? it. McAdoo's Warning to Congress, In his annual report to congress Sepretary of the Treasury McAdoo solemnly warhs his democratic brethren that the treasury faces a huge deficit for the year 1918, The fact that the secretary of the treasury admits what the daily reports from his department have shown for months is impressively significant. Mr. McAdoo's hope for a balance in the treasury at the close of the 1917 fiscal year on June 30 next rests on the: expectation of enormous returns from income and other special forms of taxation. These esti- mates are dependent/ entirely on the course of the European war and will cease with the first turn favorable to termination of hostilities. /Announce- ment has joyously been made by demogratic dr- gans that the early returns from income tax col- lections indicate final receipts nearly double those, of last year. These will be needed, for the hole in the treasury at present is a little more than twice as deep. The first five months of the cur- rent year show a deficit of $109,804,979, as against $40,792,798 for the same time in the previous year, This is to be paid out of the receipts for De- cember and doubling the revenue from income tax will not meet the bill. In addition to this, the budget submitted on the opening day of con- gress provides for the greatest total of appropria- tions ever recorded, exceeding: those of the last session by hundreds of millions. It is plain the democrats will have something besides the president’s program to occupy their attention if they meet the requirements of a situation they have established in the government's finances. ; &mor Charles of Austria-Hungary in , choosing his reigning title, doubtless had in mind one or' more of the royal Charleys of Cen- tral Europe whose careers are worth while. Under present conditions it is unlikely he gave a thought to the first Charles of England, a i mofarch who got the axe for préaching the “di- ' wvine right of kings.” Though unhonored and unsung as a model ruler, London preserves his . memory in a monument on Trafalgar square, facing Whitehall street. Neither name nor epi- taph mark the pedestal, and the stranger viewing the stunted equestrian figures, grotesque in form and smeared with grime, concludes from the absence of identifying inscription that Chrles suffered enough humiliation in life. Business of Bargaining. One of the weaknesses of human nature, per- haps most often in evidence, is being turned in- side out at the daily sessions of the/federal dis- trict court in Omaha. It is the unappeasable desire to get something for nothing. No swindler ever $ucceeded in hooking his victim unless he presented the unescapable lure of profit; he must persuade by one means or another the buyer into believing he is getting an unexampled bargain or the deal will not go on, So the unwary is trapped, and suffers in loss of sympathy that might be his, were it not that above all other thingy it appears he felt sure of biting the biter, This should not operate to excuse the sophisti- cated rascal- who deliberately plots to take ad- vantage of the trusting person who is eager to put his talent to work and so accumulate a hundred- fold. Far from it; the windler’' must be punished, both as a warning to his kind, and as a reminder to the men and women of today that Greeks bear- ing gifts are as dangerous nowadays as when Priam ruled in Troy. The Corn Growers ‘Washington Post: One hears at every hand the repeated state- ment that “we must do something” to reduce the high cost of living. It is a theme with which con- {.rhessmtn wrestle and ordinary citizens contend. ey haven't settled it yet, nor is it certain just ‘how they are to go about its definite and satisfac- tory adjustment. But they are all fully assured that “we must do something.” While this argument is in progress there are in our midst about 1,000 ‘bright-eyed boys and girls from Ohio taking in the sights, looking up at the monument, peeking into the capitol, going through the library of congress, making a trip to the tomb of Washington—in fact, having a good time and becoming properly impressed with: the greatness of their country. ' These are the boy and girl “corn growers.” They have answered to the teachings in agricul- ture given by their state and by the federal gov- ernment. That noblest of occupations, the tilling of the soil, is theirs. To it they have given their 1abor, mingled with great enthusiasm and a con- su_ntiy increasing knowledge of how to make two ears of corn grow where only a nubbin grew efore. This is their day off, and they are enjoy- ing it to the utmost. Perhaps no more opportune time could be found for telling them and ourselves that the have been “doing w_methmfi" to reduce the hig cost that far outweights all the talk that could be made in a year on the subject. As their num- ‘bers increase they will do still more. They find the cities attractive, no doubt, and at times may be afflicted with the desire to exchange their pres- ent lot for one in which they experience much that is novel and exciting. But there is really nothing ere which they haven’t better at home, for what hiere they and their kind more than any others aye created. It is just sible that they have of this truth, and that they will carry back em the &'luld conviction that they can ‘us far better than we without them. One of the big problems in criminology re- volves around the motive for crime, Motive determines the legal status of the offense. Ab- sence of motive mystifies courts and often obstructs the ordered routine of justice. A par- tial, if not complete, solytion of motive perplexi- ties is promised by the discovery that bad teeth are potential spurs to crime. Hereafter, should ordinary methods fail, a mold of the culprit's teeth settles his fate, expedites court business and gives dentistry a secure place among exact sciences, Besides contributing mightily to the gayety of the midwest, the wild horse trial illustrates the invisible power which envelopes the federal bench and enables the judge to retain smileless com- posure under trying conditions. THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, Germany’s Victory in England New York Wi The British cabinet crisis is of greater moral value to the German government than the cap- ture of Bucharest. H No German can now believe that Germany is losing the war when a British government is overturned because Great Britain is not winning the war. He might be sceptical as to the actual value of the operations in Roumania as a means of relieving military and economic pressure on the empire, but he cannot be sceptical about a British cabinet crisis precipitated by discontent over the conduct of the war. That there is great disappointment in Great Britain admits of no doubt; otherwise the Tory intrique against the Asquith ministry could have made little progress. But how much of this dis- appointment is grounded in the blunders of the government and how much in ignorance of the nature of the war? British unrest is commonly described as the desire for a superman, but there are no supermen in this conflict and none will be found. The war has become too great for any individual to visual- ize and master. It has practically passed beyond the immediate control of government. Whether Asquith or Bonar Law or Lloyd George or John Doe is prime minister of Great Britain at this time is relatively a small matter as affecting the outcome. An{ statesman, whatever his abilities, is at best only a cog in the machine which is driven by the vital power of the nation. The British will find nobody who can buy them a cheap and easy victory, for the simple rea- son that no such victory is possible. Indeed, it is probable that no decisive victory can be won by either side, whatever pricc is paid. In the meantime it cannot be said that the British people have made sacrifices that warrant a voluminous expression of political discontent. Their losses are not one-tMird of the French losses, which France has taken without a mur- mur, British taxes are high, confortable ways of life: have been disarranged, British pride has not been excessively exalted by British achieve- ments in the field, but no Englishman has any- thing to be ashamed of. There is at least one dis- astrous German blunder for every corresponding British blunder, and the German general staff was supposed to be the last word of scientific warfare. In all criticism of the Asquith government there has been no unanimity of opinion as to what the government ought to have done that it feft undone, or how it could have better mobil- ized the resources of the empire to produce greater military results on the eastern and west- ern fronts. Nothing is so easy in time of war as criticism. Armchair strategists are as common as archair diplomatists, and quite as useless. Unless the opposition to the Asquith ministry has a plan of campaign that will produce results where the other failed, the British people will discover that the more they change their govern- ment in this war the more it remains the same thing. The oftener they change it the more aid and comfort they give to their highly resourceful enemy. The question that all of the belligerents must soon face is whether anybody can win, and whether the war has not reached a deadlock at which all further sacrifices are wanton waste of life and treasure. That questfon is really at the bottom of all political discontent in Europe. In Nebraska Politics. . Grand Island Independent: The Mullen fac- tion of Nebraska's democracy is said to have wielded the snickersnee on an appointee of the Bryan faction so deftly that Ceci&J Matthews fell off the federal payroll all in a heap. Fairbury News: A grapevine dispatch says that the World-Herald is shortly to come out strongly for prohibition. It is a little late at this time for such an innovation, but it cah certainly do no harm if it does no good. Shelton Clipper: Edgar Howard, lieutenant governor-elect, has let it be known that he is allied with the Bryan wing of, the democratic party. And Boss Mullen jor anyone else who at- tempts to dittate to the Columbus editor will have a big job on his hands. sFairbury News: Up in Omaha the voter had tofmark seventy-six places on his ballot, while the voters out over the state had about forty laces to mark—that is, provided they voted a ull ticket in an intelligent manner. This country needs a ballot reform, and needs lit badly. Kearney Hub: The Omaha Bee does not see why State Superintendent Thomas should be com- miserated for his Tecent defeat, and surmises that it may be a Godsend in relieving him from obliga- tion to fill a $2,000-a-year job when his talents can earn much more. That is very true. Dr. ;rhomn is not the loser. It is the people who ose. Ord Quiz: That row of telephone poles that the state authorities are having set in the repre- sentative hall are ostensibly to support the roof of representative hall. But I cannot help thinking what a nice boost those roles will be to the idea of having a new capitol building put up right away. Those unsightly poles will be a constant object lesson to the legislators and doubtless they will be pointed to by many a Lincoln man and to those representatives: who are on friendly terms with prospective bidders. Maybe the need for the poles is more to promote building than to avert danger, Fremont Tribune: Deputy Collector Matthews has just fallen a victim to the democratic’ heads- man’s axe. * Matthews had headquarters at Hast- ings and was appointed by Collector Loomis be- cause he was a supporter of the Bryan wing of democracy. He was formerly editor of a news- paper at Riverton and had a good deal to say about the Hitchcock wing, none of which could be reasonably construed as complimentary. Na- tional Committeeman Mullen and Senator Hitch- cock made it known that when Mr. Loomis’ ap- pointment came up for confirmation it would be necessary to drop Matthews and he has been precipitated into the consomme. It has always appeared that there was a good deal of blather ncou( Mr. Matthews and whether he is or is not in the government service will probably not make any visible difference to the party. And $25 a week salary won’t mean much to him in these days of h. c. of L, but it all goes to show that there are still some cracks in the Nebraska brand of democratic harmony. But maybe these can be cemented when Mr. Bryan and Senator Hitch- cock get to working together for national prohi- bition, A Nation of Spenders ' Indianapolis Star ———— o __ The American Society for Thrift is sounding a warning that should not go unheeded in these days of war prosperity. The statistics it has gath- ered indicate how reckless we are with our money, and how little we lay up for a rainy day. We are pre-egfinently a nation of spenders, who believe in living while we live. Statistics_show that ninety-five of every 100 Americans who reach the age of 60 years, are de- ndent upon their daily earnings, or on others, or support. The total, of course, includes wives, mothers and daughters, who had not tried nor expected to accumulate a competency. But after they have been elimated the percentage of work- ers who have a nest egg at 60 years, is very small, ‘en if that is generally considered too young for retirement. That showing might tend to make all of us think, and prompt us to begin putting aside some of our surplus as we go along. Then there is an- other side of the picture presented by the Thrifty society’s statistics, It has been demonstrated that of the comparatively few who are able to retire on a competency, not one in thirty is able to re- tain that competency to the close of life. Maybe the poor luck of those who do save up is what prompts so many of us to have a good time as we go along and trust to luck for the fu- ture. But it is a poor system. Almost every one can save something, and should. 1916. TODAY| Thought Nugget For the Day. And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. —Coleridge. One Year Ago Today in the War. British enlistment said to passed 4,000,000 mark. French battered down German trenches on Heights of the Meuse. Austrians reported to have retreated from Lemberg, Galicia, to straighten line for winter. British with heavy artillery rein- forcements stopped Bulgarians in all day battle south of Strumitza. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. Mrs. A. B. Hunt had a delightful musical afternoon at her home on North Seventeenth street. Those pres- ent were the Misses Needham, Wit- man, Ulen, Dilirance, Howe; Messrs. Finn, Hall, White, Conrad ,k and Ebersol. Mr. Jacobsen is a recent acquisition from New York to Omaha journalis- have tic and musical circles. He has taken an editorial position on the Swedish Post and his fine basso was heard in the Kountze Memorial choir last Sunday. ° Miss Lowe has completed an aesthe- tic looking sachet bag of silver colored satin, decorated with rushes and lined and finished with pistachio green. Mr. and Mrs. Kountze gave a recep- tion in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Kellar. E. Rosewater has moved from Har- ney street to his new residence on Douglas above Seventeenth. Mr. and Mrs. John Howard have returned from their wedding tour and are at home at 124 South Twenty -fourth street. == Mrs. Nye received her lady friends from 3 to 6 at her ropm, 624 South Twentieth street. She was assisted by Mesdames Coffman, Peck, Bradford, Estabrook, Lander, Knight, Ijams and McCormick. ! ‘Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Falconer are mourning the lost of their infant son. This Day in History. 1774—Town committee of Ports- mouth, N, H.,, hearing of the king's order prohibiting the exportation of gunpowder to America, seized the gar- rison at Fort William and Mary, and carried away 100 barrels of powder. 1777—Washington’s army went into winter quarters at Valley Forge. 1803—Hector Berlioz, celebrated composer, born near Lyons, France. Died in Paris, March 8, 1869. 1839—Members of the house of rep- resentatives indulged for the first time in' the practice of “pairing off.” 1860—State union convention at Trenton, N. J., resolved in favor of a compromise between the northern and southern states. . 1862—First day of the battle of Fredericksburg. 1864—Florence was decreed the capital of Italy until the acquisition of Rome, 1866—Last of the French troops de- parted from Rome. 1869—The body of George-H. Pea- body, who died in London, November 4, was placed on board the British steamship Monarch, for transporta- tion to the United States. 1892—First street railway mail car in the world put into operation in St. Louis. 1894—Benjamin R. Tillman was elected United States senator from South Carolina. The Day We Celebrate. Guy Liggett, president and manager of the Pantorium, is 41 years old to- day. He was born in Conway, Ia., studied one year at the Towa state col- lege and came to Omaha in 1898, as an employe of the Pantorium, buying a half interest ¥ it during the same year and a year later assuming the management with wonderful success. Calvin C. Valentine, court reporter, was born December 11, 1854, at Keosauqua, Ja. He was the first of- ficial court reporter in Dakota and is now the pioneer court reporter in Ne- braska. Leonard C. Kohn, in charge of the automobile supplies for the Lee Coit Andreeson company, is celebrating his thirty-seventh birthday. He was born in Savannah, Ga. and used to be one of the owners of the Western Auto Supply company. Elizabeth, the exiled queen of the Belgians, born in Bavaria, forty-one years ago today. B. Marvin Underwood, assistant at- torney general, who is directing the défense in the suits brought to test the Adamson law, born in Douglas county, Georgla, thirty-nine years dgo today. Most Rev. Henry Moeller, Catholic archbishop of Cincinnati, born in Cin- cinnati, sixty-seven years ago today. Adolph Alexander Weinman, sculp- tor, and designer of the new dime just put into circulation, born in Baden, Germany, forty-six years ago today. Frank P. Woods, representative in congress of the Tenth Iowa district, born in Walworth county, Wisconsin, forty-eight years ago today. John F. Moakley, veteran athletic coach of Cornell university, born in Boston, fifty-three years ago today. Frederick Toney, pitcher of the Cin- cinnati National league base ball team, born at Atlanta, Ga., twenty-seven years ago today. Timely Jottings and Reminders. Greetings to the state of Indiana, 100 years old today. Prominent clergy and laity of New York city are to geather for luncheon at the Hotel Astor today to hear “Rilly” Sunday's plans for his coming evangelistic campaign in the me- tropolis. The annual observance of Mothers' and Fathers' week at the University of Kansas will begin today. The Engineers' society of western Pennsylvania, at its annual banquet in Pittsburgh tonight, will have Major General George W. Goethals, former governor of the canal zone, as the guest of honor and principal speaker. Large sections of Alabama, Arkan- sas, Georgia, Mississippi and Texas will be released from the cattle fever tick quarantine today by order of the secretary of agriculture. The effect of the European war on the United States, along economic, agricultural, military, governmental, financial and commercial lines, is the big subject to be handled by many of the leading men of the nation, who are to assemble today at Norfolk, Va., for the opening of the eighth annual Southern Commercial congress. Storyette of the Day. There recently rushed into a police station a youngster very much out of breath, who gasped out to an officer: “You're—wanted-—down-—down in —in our street—an’ bring an ambu- lance!" “What's the trouble?” demanded the policeman, “and why bring an am- bulance?"” “Because,” the kiddie explained, when he had recovered his breath, *“mother’s found the lady that pinched our doormat!”—New York Times. The Pees Lefer, Abraham Lincoln in High Schools. Omaha, Dec. 8.—To ‘the Editor of The Bee: Of this important subject, Judge R. M. Wannemaker of the su- preme court of Ohio, says: “Let American high school teach at least one year of Lincoln in place of Ceaser, Cicero or Virgil, which nine high school pupils out of ten blunder through and forget within a few years.” What a wonderful contribu- tion is this idea of Judge Wanne- marker to the public schools of this country. Abraham Lincoln left a heritage to| his people greater then that of any other man. His life and public serv- ices are the marvel of the world today; American freedom and independence received their true interpretation from Lincoln, when he took for his plat- form that noble sentiment called forth by the signers of the Declaration of Independence, namely: “All men are created free and equal, -they are en- dowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights,” etc. He gave a new impetus to American manhood and freedom, such as kindled the fires of patriotism anew and made our country free in fact as well as in name. Abraham Lincoln was unlike other great men; he was born from no for- elgn mould, he :was pre-eminently American. He talked as Americans; talk, he acted as Americans act, he thought only of America. His great Gettsyburg oration had its abiding place in his soul and ndthing since | Christ's sermon on the mount, has given to mankind so choice a produc- tion. And next to the words of Our Savior it stands in the hearts of our people. Scholars of today who are labor- ing to place the lives of other great | men before us, will soon be replaced | by a higher modern classic and it will | not be the translation of Demonthenes against King Phillip, Cicero against Cattline, nor the orations of Burke, Fox, Gladstone or Bright. But it will be the translation of Lincoln's Gettys- burg speech into the language of every nation in the world, and not many years hence the Chinese will be trans- lating it in his mother tongue. Lincoln is living with us today just as distinctly as in the stirring days of the sixties. It is my hope that every professor'in our schools and colleges, shall adopt the suggestion of, Judge Wannemaker and that our congress and state legislature's may put it into the form of inexorable law that one year of our high school training’ shall be given to the study of the life and public services of Abraham Lincoln. C. E. ADAMS. How the Women Voted. Omaha, Dec. 7.—To the Editor of The Bee: In a letter published re- cently in your paper 8. E. Smith states that 2,248 women voted for the school board last month and that 3,000 voted two years ago. I am advised by the election commissioner that the correct figures for this year are 2,288, and that no figures for two years ago have ben preserved, but it is his opinion that fewer women voted in that election than in that of Novem- ber 7, last. The statement has been made at the office of the Board of Education that the total of the school census is 30,000 names. This lists in- cludes parents as well as children, so that there are not 30,000 children in the public schools of Omaha, thus further reducing the number of wom- en having the school franchise. Furthermore, there are hundreds of inetlligent, conscientious women who want to vote for the school board, but cannot, because they have no chi)- dren, er because their children are past school age, or because they have no taxable property. If 8. E. Smith could hear the indignant protests of mothers who have voted in the past of *“double suffrage being forced om an unwilling majority.” 1t s true that even the very limited number of wom- = en having the school franchise do nog fully avail themselves of it, but this neglect generally occurs where wome! have only partial suffrage and it is fact that when their right to full suf< frage is recognized they exercise it quite as generally as do men. It would take too much space to quote in full the figures giving the pruppr- tion of women who voted in the last election in the twelve suffrage states, but they show that women voters cast this year a percentage of the total vote which compares very favorably with their percentage of the adul§ population. S. E. Smith is quiet correct in say=- ing that the women's vote did not elect the school hoard. No one can deny, however, that the “citizen's ticket” would have been defeated but for the work of women voters, who were able to approach the men, whose assist« ance was so necessary, as fellow Vot ers, not as suppliants for favors in a matter in which they themselves had no personal rights. It should be ree membered that we had none of the aroused public sentiment over a ree cent scandal to help us this year, with its consequent newspaper publicity, and that the men were so preoccupied with the presidential clection and an inordinately long ballot, that without the reminders of the women they might very well have forgotten the schools, which, to most of them, are a minor issue. S. E. Smith is of course arguing against general woman suffrage from the antiquated pleas of “When all the women want it,”‘and “When all the women use It.”” These argumen have nothing to do with the funda- mental question, which is: Women's political freedom is right and just. How soon will all of them be pers mitted to exercise it?—MELIORA! WOOLWORTH FAIRFIELD. MIRTHFUL REMARKS The hostess had been coaxing a young lady to sing, but to no purpose. ‘“What do you think of a girl who can sing and " she asked a bachelor guest. replied he, “that's she's worth a dozen girls who can't sing but will sing.’” ~—Boston Transcript. “It's that horrid Mrs. Bore again, #hd T know she wants to sell me tickets. / Didn't you tell, her, Jane, that I was not at home?™ “Yes, ma'am, but she tols me to come back and ask you when you would be in.* —Baltimore American. “Why have you locked up your barber shop?” asked the monkey of the parrot. “I notice the bald eagle coming.’ ““What of {t?" “I sold him some feathers restorer res cently.” “Well?” “I see he's still bald."—Loulsville Couriers Journal. LOVING MOTHER. Buffalo News. Mind when I'se a little chap Jist about a chair arm high, * Used t' cltmb in mother's lap Every evenin’ mighty nigh Allus called me her “best beaun,” Mother did, an’ laughed, an' dad Used t' frown an' fluster so 'P'tendin’ like he's awful mad! Used t' like t' stroke her head Like a youngun allus dpes— “Lovin' her” I allus said— ‘“Puppy love,” she said it was; Jist the same, there's many & tear Quivered on her lips when she Heered me whisper in her ear, “She's the sweetest girl for me.” Sweetest girl of all, I swan Mebbe now it's out o’ place, One of my years takin’ on Showin’ sich a childish trace— Clingin’ to her mem'ry yet— Longin’, for her love again— Mebbe better jist forget Things I said to mother then. But I can't. 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