4 fl'HK HKK: OMAHA, MOXDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1914 THE. OMAHA DAILY DEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROoKWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATEK, EDITOR. The) Bee Publishing Company. Proprietor. PEB FVILDING. FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. Kntrd at Omaha, poitofflr second-class matter. terms or ernscRimoN. Py rarrW per month. .... .c... ir.... ro.... ..o. Bjr mall rrr ar. fi 0 4 no d.K) 4 00 2 00 lmllf anfl fnndar Ially without Sunday.... EVenlnsT an.l Sunday Evening without Sunday., StnnAsv Rm nnlv fend notlcs of char.es of address or complaints of Irregularity Id delivery to Omaha we, Circulation Iepartnieiit. REMITTANCE. Remit hT draft, eprrss or postal order. Only two rent tamps received In payment of mall ac counts. Personal checke, except on Omaha and etm eichanre. not accepted. OFFICES. Omaha Tha Pee Rullriina Botith Omaha ai N strict. Council Rlufra 14 North Main street. Lincoln 2 Llttla Rulldlna. Phlcsa-o 01 Htarst Bulldlnr. , . New York Room IW, 2 Fifth svsniie. Ft Inuls-fiOI New Rank of Commerce. Wsehlnrton 7 Fourteenth St.. N. W. CORRESPONPENCB. Address enmmunlcatlonii relating to news and edi torial matter to Omaha Bee, Tutorial Department. AUGUST CIRCl IiATIO. 56,554 State of Nebraska. County of TVmglss. . Dwlght William, circulation manager of The Pea Publishing- company, being duly sworn. says that tha average dally circulation for th month of August, 1914. wa M.SM. IiWItaHT WItXIAMB. Circulation Manager. Subscribed In my presence and .worn to before ma. this M day of September, 1914 ROBERT HUNTER, Notarr Public. Bubecribors I caring the city temporarily should haws) Tbe Bee mailed te them. Ad dress) will be chanfrxl as oftea s requested. Marked those Ak-Sar-Ben dates on your calendar? Oh yea, Rheims! That's where the champagne comes from! Nebraska's good old Indian summer time la good enough for the most exacting. Two weekg yet to prepare for the officially designated day for prayers for peace. Tha superiority of The Bee's war news serv ice becomes even more striking as the war proceeds. Colonel Maher wants it distinctly under stood that his typewriter battery is not yet out of commission. Never mind! Next year's chautalkers will tell all about it, and leave nothing shrouded in 'mystery or unexplained. When It comes to "atrocities," neither side a fiercely waged war Is likely to prove a monopoly on the enemy. In Sir Ernest Shakleton Is off again an another expedition to the Antartlc polar region. Dr. Cook please take notice! The Bee's Public School Roll of Honor Is with us again to stimulate the children to do their best In their lessons. Now that Chauncey Depew is back on free American soil, the real unvarnished truth should be quickly forthcoming. It must make those naval officers and tars chafe to sit idly by while the landlubbers do all the fighting and win all the glory. "Twas ever thus." The farmer who held his wheat is not sure but that he should have sold, and the farmer who sold wishes he had held oa a little longer. Judging from the photographs, the track of the tornado In Omaha affords the best com parison we know of for the track of the Invad ing armies through Belgium and France. The stamp tsx section of the new war revenue law Is to be greatly restricted by limit ing the requirements of stamps on checks, notes, etc. That means that the business of stamplicklng will not be as brisk aa expected. . This community bas plenty of good men, and women too for that matter, eminently qualified to serve on the school board to fill all Impending vacancies ten times over. As a rule, however, they are not the sort who go scrambling for the places. Which reminds us again, that a distin guished statesman once went up and down the land proclaiming that farmers would never see dollar wheat again until the brutal single gold standard of value was overthrown, and the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the sacred ratio of 16 to 1 was substituted for it. ' But If both the old parties are as bad as the colonel Is painting them, how does it come that be offered to unite with the republicans in New York on a candidate for United States senator, and bow comes It now that his pro gressives have actually fused with the demo crats In Pennsylvsnia n governor? What U known aa tha Ubsral league assembled at St. Georges hall, tha topic of discussion being the tariff. Thosa who participated In tha debate Included Mr. Potter. General O'Brien. J. J. Points and Messrs Emery, Qulnn and Bartlett. The German Theater company put oa "Die Kohlen Scbursea." with old Mr. Grossman In the title role. H. D. Jonas and wlfa left for Minneapolis on a week's visit to friend a ' J. T. P. Brewster, a prominent banker of Boeton, Is the guest of D. Q. HulL The order of priesthood will be conferred on the deacons of the Episcopal church here by Right Rsv, Poherty of St. Louts neit Wednesday. About SOS people SMambled at tha ball park for a game with tha Union Pacifies and a local nine, wit nessed nothing but scrub fame, the players falling to show ip. Councilman Benrn Is trying to father aa ordinance for one aaaeeaor for tha city Instead of six as now. W. J. WtUhans tffers for sale corner of Eighth and ramam. now occuplej by tha City mllla School Men in Line for Short Ballot Fly recommending that the elective office of stale superintendent be abolished and an ap pointive commission of education bo given the work that now devolves on the former, the state commission engaged in drafting a revision of our Nebraska school laws puts Itself In line for the short ballot. While their recommenda tion does not go beyond the one office of state superintendent, the schoolmen can be consistent only by supporting the whole 'demand for the conversion of purely administrative offices into appointive rather than elective positions. Ham mered down to bed rock, every argument made for taking the superintendent of our schools out of the list of elective political offices will apply with almost equal force to eliminating from the ballot such offices as attorney general, land commissioner, auditor, secretary of state, and treasurer, and likewise to the county super intendency snd various county administrative offices. Tor the proposed abolition of the state su perintendent as an elective officer, which must be accomplished by amendment to the constitu tion. It will take not less than two years, and If the machinery Is to be set In motion It may as well be comprehensive for the same section of the constitution that provides for the elec tion of a state superintendent of schools pro vides for the election of all the other executive state officers. Pulling for the short ballot will bring about what the schoolmen want and will bring It about more quickly and more surely because It will enlist a lot of help for the pull. War News Here and Abroad. While on the subject of complaint about al leged inadequate or Inaccurate war news sent over the cables to America, that part of the of ficial statement given out in Berlin the other day by Ambassador Gerard should not escape notice. We refer to the part in which he feels called upon to deny a report current there "that the United States is preparing to join the al lies." It goes without saying that our ambassador would aot deem It Incumbent upon him to en ter denial unless the report had become fairly widespread, and was being disseminated' ta a way to Impress people that It came from au thoritative sources. To us over here the very Idea that the Germans In Berlin should be worked up over the possibility of the United States mixing in with their adversaries Is so preposterous that no Intelligent person wonld seriously entertain it, for it is unthinkable that the United States will become involved in this war unless drsgged in. The incident, however, should serve as a re minder that the American newspaper readers, more favored than those in any other country, alone have all the war news available from all sources, and no censor keeping out what is dis pleasing or suppressing publications that give the other side. On the Wrong Tack. Postmaster General Burleson has In mind some little economies by which he thinks he can save $20,000,000 without impairing the service to the public. -The postmaster general's plan, as we gather it, Is to dlscontlnde rural free de livery as now provided, and to have the work done by contract In some fashion more or less similar to the old star route system. The postmaster general Is taking the wrong tack. The people of this country who foot the bills would like very much to save $20,000,000 a year out of the postofflce budget, but they will hardly approve any backward step la the conduct of tbe postal business. We have gotten away as far as possible from star route methods that were so replete with fraud and seared.!, and have proceeded on the theory that the saf est and surest' way to handle, the malls expedi tiously Is-for Uncle Sam to do It himself. If we were to go back to the contract system there would be no good reason for stopping with the rural free delivery when perhaps as much, or more, money might be saved by handing the city free delivery over to contractora. Our Just inaugurated parcels post might also be sublet back to the express companies. No, Mr. Postmaster General, the people will welcome economies effected through stopping leaks or improved efficiency, but they will not stand for the upsetting of the rural free de livery service. The Beaction Toward Business. No wide-awake observer can have failed to see a noticeable reaction of public opinion in this country toward business and Industry aa voiced by the demand for restrictive legislation and punitive prosecutions. Only a little while ago the atmosphere was surcharged with de nunlcalons of trusts and combines, and, arraign ments of unfair or Illegal repression of com petitors. The incitement to this state or public mind moreover came from real evils and abuses, the most flagrant of recent Instances being un covered in the New Haven mess. Yet to date, we have had no important new legislation aimed at big business unless the re serve bank bill be taken as a blow at the money trust, but the acute complaints are plainly sub siding, and the disposition seems to be to give both big and little business a chance without much more Interference unless fresh abuses develop. Even the railroads have had a partial concession to their request for rate Increase, Although by no means freed from accountability to and regulation by the various state and Inter state commissions. Our business ailments" or backwardness right now are ascribed to other causes rather than fear of hostile legislation, and when these troubles clear up, as they must inevitably before long, the way should be opened for renewed Industrial and commercial activity at once aggressive and progressive, and as vigorous In expansive powers as ever. A versatile gentleman has been unearthed ho writes letters for publication with great cre to make them suit the newspaper which he addresses. He writes one letter to the Lincoln Journal damning Hitchcock and Hltchcockism, and another letter to the World-Herald prais ing Senator Hitchcock a'nd. telling him how proud he is of him. We regret to say that the fake letter-writer Is one of the banes of the ed itorial existence, and It takes real discrimina tion to Identify the bogus. That la why The Dee tries hard to safeguard Its letter box, al though the impostor Is bound occasionally to circumvent the strictest watchfulness. Brief eoatifkrMea ew timely toploa la rlted. Tfce S)ee a reepoaelMllty tarn astaloae ef eorreapoadente. Ail latter safc Jeet to eeaeaaeetlo) y sett. Take "Mill" Away. OMAHA, Ptpt. 19 -To the Editor of The Pee: I read with much Interest your shirt editorial In today's Bee on the lack of taste shown In placing "Maud" In front of our handsome court house. We all enjoy Ak-Ssr-Hen and appreciate the arduous work of Its promoters, but I think the majority of us do not cara to see the handsome court house desecrated. . 'OOOD TASTE." DM t.lncala Bar Itt SOt'TH OMAHA. Sept 2D.-To the Kdltor of Tha Bee: In the "Arguments In Favor of Woman Suffrage Amend ment" Issued by the Nebraska Woman Suffrage association a statement Is made that Abraham Lincoln made a speech in which ha practically advocated giving the right of suffrage to all, Including women. I do not believe Abraham Lincoln ever made such a statement at all. A well known man of considerable prominence who has a great many of the speeches, letters, papers and many sayings of Un coln In his possession wrote me that In a careful search he falls to find that Lincoln aver made any statement that could possibly be twisted Into the form quoted. Woman suffrage was only thought of as a Joke during the times of Lincoln, for far more momentous questions faced tha American people In the conflict that In volved tha life of our nation. If anybody ran how from some strictly authentic sourrs that Abraham Lincoln aver made the statement attributed to him, I will believe It, but wo do not want quotations from cyclopedias gotten up forty years after the death of Lincoln, nor from other sources not strictly reliable. The only reliable source I know of would be the works of John Hay. ona of Lincoln's private secretaries, who edited tha one authentic Ufa of Lincoln. I would Ilka to see someone prove by .he writings of John Hay that Abraham Lin coln aver made the statement I have mentioned. The quotation sounds too much Ilka the "Seven Financial Con spiracies" that we heard so much of dur ing the times of populism. T. A. AONBW. Watehfat Waiting;. YORK, Neb., Sept. .-To the Editor of Tha Bee: - I see our soldier boys have been called home (where they belong) from Vera Crux. Much praise Is given the watchful waiting policy of the ad ministration for keeping us out of war with Mexico. Right here is the place to say that such profession and the per formance In this case do not fit at all. For wa quit the waiting and began the fighting when we fired on and took 'Vera Crui, from where the war would have spread over the country until we today would be at war with Mexico but for the offers of the South American nations to try and settle It for us. I am more than glad to say I give the president full credit for his willingness to let them do It If they cu. For wa war In bad In that muss. And' I believe the president sin cere when he says he la for peace. But there Is Just about as much harm done by blunders as by malic. And I think It was a bad blunder that Mr. Fletcher made when he took Vera Crui, and also a worse ona when Mr. Wilson gave his full endorsement of the act T. POPE. Dlrlae Right aad Civilisation. OMAHA, Sept . To the Editor of Tha Bee: Mr. Meyer Is determined to keep "England" In Its proper place, but ha charges It with too much. It and the allies, he says, want to crush Germany because, among other things, 'it ean Justly be proud of a superior civilisation." Why waste space telling us of German civilisation? Wa all know that country has done splendidly In many ways, but owing to tha "dlvlna right" theory, humbly accepted by all Germans except the so cialists. It Is two centuries behind the United Kingdom, which In Its turn Is lagging behind France and Swttierland. We have a theory bar that a high civil isation and the divine right claim cannot exist together. As to the blame for the horrible war, It all appears to be a ease of the pot calling tha kettle black. And why do German-Americans so Jar forget themselves as always to bring up 1776 T They are supposed to be well read. As tha present war may last for time. It may be as well to save them future references of this kind by setting down here a few facta. There Is a document In the British mu seum signed In 1216. It ts tha Great Char ter forced by 8tephen de Langton and the barons from King John, who screamed, "By God's teeth I wilt not grant thera liberties that will make m a slave." But he had to do It. One of the provisions of this charter was that no money should be levied by way of tea on tha commons of England without their consent previously expressed by their own representatives. That doctrine stood In the time of George III and stands today. King George, honest and bull-headed, attempted to set the doctrine aside, and we know what happened. Tha colonists were simply standing upon a right guar anteed more than five centuries before they were born. Tbey did net want ta separata from England; but fortunately they did so and when the Germans of today separate from their kaiser taste. of "hochlng" for him they will be nearer civilisation. English people had smashed divine right further In less and elected a man to th throne who by the usual hereditary course was not entitled to It. but tha lesson was lost on George. He and his aristocrats determined to reverse tha decision ef Utf and !M and why Mr. Meyer or the German-American alliance should blame tha people for what was done by a few Is hard to see, especially when we remem ber that In Wit the German and Russian millions of soldiers are moved at the will of two mea. The kaiser la the grandson of George's niece, and seems to be a chip of the old block. Bismarck and ha aad their aristocrats have dlvlna right oa the brain. Acre ef print are bow run through the press tbout thla war. It all must com to disarmament or hell ea earth In a few years again. Thla for the European na tions, for our own. and for Japan and China. Thousands of splendid young fel lows of alt countries ar being mowed down to keep up the damnable lie that the beat way to have peace Is to prepare tor war. WILLIAM ARTHUR. Dawn Oar lea. Miss Gusher (at tha summer resort)- Isn't it Just like heaven? Miss Grout Yes; the proportion of men here and in heaven, I imagine, will h Just about the same. Boston Transcript. "Silent" Johnnie French His full name and title Is Field Marshal Sir John Plngstoae French, commander-in-chief of the British expeditionary forces In France. But the British army from Tommy Atkins up knows him simply as "Silent Johnny French." The Boers In South Africa gave him a still shorter name; they called him "Devil" and they had good reason. The Germans before the war used to call hlni Frglsnd's greatest tactician ami Europe's greatest cavalry leader. What manner of man he la every reader ef the Bee who read the other day' his report of the "glorious stand of the British troops' between August 3 and August can Judge. Sir John French is the personification of English coolness and coursge. The dispatches from the front have painted little vignettes of him in the field walk ing among his men quietly smoking. That Is charac teristic of the man. It la said of the man that he went through some of the hardest fighting of the Boer war. without once raising his vole or hasten ing hla step. Out there the Tommies used to say of him: "Old French don't bark much, but. Lord, don't he hioomln' well bite." It was his bite that made the Boers call him "Dulvel." French was ubiquitous on the veldt. And he never got frightened or rattled. The tighter the place he found hlmrelf In the cooler was French. Once when dining with Oeneral Ian Hamilton during the progress of one of his famous raids the Boers topped and shelled the camp. They got the range of headquarters down to an inch and an orderly rushed Into the tent where French and Ian Hamilton were dining to announce that shells were falling all about It. "Silent" French said, "Thank you," and or dered another chop.- That's tha manner of man England has sent Into the field to command Its armies. What might have happened to the British forces between Mons and Comptegne If "8ilent" French had not been In con trol of the situation makes grim speculation. He ts really a most extraordinary man. That he t in the army at all Is an, accident. Hla family's ambition was to make him a clergyman, but that was never realised, and he drifted Into the navy. ' He spent four years In the English navy and ever since the English navy has taunted the English army with the claim that the best soldier it has is a sailor. Like so many other good soldiers. Field Marshal French Is an Irishman, though ha was born In the English county of Kent, sixty-two years ago. His People were not rich nor Influential; that ts why young French was designed for the ministry. Boy and man he has been noted for the mildness of his manners, for economy of speech and for tha coldly persistent and cautious way he went about thlnga He left, the English navy because It was a dull life and got Into the cavalry branch of the army because he liked horses. But though he has been a cavalry man now for forty years he has never learned to ride a horse with distinction. ' When he was 22 ha was gasetted to the Eighth Hussars, and a few weeks later to tha Nineteenth. It was In 18S4 that he first saw service when the Hllo expedition was sent to rescue Gordon. In December of that year 1.100 of the flower of the British army. French among them, led by Sir Herbert Stewart, com menced their march across the Bagoda desert, and at Abu Klea fought the most savage and bloody bat tle England ever engaged in In Egypt After this battle French, Impeded with stores and wounded, marched twenty-seven miles across the desert, to Me temneh on the Nile. French saw some desperate fighting In that forlorn dash across the desert When the machine gun Jammed In the fierce fight at Abu Klea, and tho British square was rushed by howling dervishes, the killing Included the hero of tha "Bide to Khiva," Colonel Bumaby, who was struck down at French's side by a poisonous Javelin. It was during thfs campaign that French made that impression on General Butler which resulted later In his South African experiences. After his work In Egypt French spent soma years on the staff of the Inspector general of cavalry In India. It was here that he made the study of cavalry which has made him the greatest leader of cavalry alive. From India he was transferred to Aldershot in England, where he attempted to put some of hla own original Ideas about cavalry In operation. Every new cavalry tactic he displayed, however, was frowned upon. His superior officers considered the young enthusiast a little Wt demented on the subject of cavalry and finally he was recommended for retirement That meant dismissal from tha service, and at that time England came perilously near losing forever the man who saved Its army from annihilation the other day. It was General Buller who saved French. When Buller waa sent out to Africa to take charge of the campaign he Invited young French to Join his staff. That waa the first great opportunity that had come to French and he made It make him. General Buller gave him command of the cavalry division In Natal with the rank of major general. His first Wow to the Boers waa the victory of Eland slaghte, which desperate fight the Tommies dubbed " 'Ell and Slaughter." French was' In Klmberley when the Boera first Invested the town. Sir George White, who knew how valuable French would be In the field, sent him away from Klmberley on the last train that got out A shell passed through tha car riage In which French was traveling, but when It did he waa lying under a seat smoking a c'jir. When Lord Roberts arrived on the scene he called on French to help lum In the relief of Klmberley. With 8,000 men French commenced a wild ride tu assist the beleaguered town. Ha crossed two rivers, over parched, waterless veldt, and then had the crowning Joy of a straight, uninterrupted run Into Klmberley and knowing It was saved. Immediately oat arrival, however, came the news of Cronje's flight Kvry man who waa fit to ride waa asraln In tha sad dle, and they set off on a long night gallop to close one unprotected rift and head off the Boer command. The result was the surrender at Paardeberg, which covered French with glory. But there was more of It In store for him, for he commanded the cavalry di vision at the capture of Blomfonteln and Pretoria, as well winning many other brilliant actions during tha remainder of the war. H was mentioned In dis patches many tlmea and received the.K.C.B. and K.C.M.G. On returning to England he waa given command at Aldershot becoming In turn lieutenant general m 1901 and full general at the age of H. In 1IU he be came chief of the Imperial staff and first military member of tbe army council, being made a field mar shal In 1913. In March ef last J ear when the Ulster trouble be came acute. General French resigned from the staff rather than be involved In any conflict with bis own countrymen. And Tommy Atkins, who Idolised French, stood with the man who has led thera out of a many tight places. Twice Told Tales r ef Rerorrf , An Alaska pioneer waa telling how crowded a cer tain ship was during the gold rush. One day a man came up to the captain and said: "Tou will Just have to give me some place to aleep." "Where have you been sleeping?" "Well," the passenger replied, "I have been sleep ing on a sick man. but he's getting better now, and be won't stand it" Exchange. Llaaaastaa ar t.aeatllaef "Bob" Burma n. record-holder lo motor car racing, tells the following story: Recently I waa talking with a woman whose hus band had acquired considerable wealth suddenly, and who waa quite new to the social world and Its cus toms. She was particularly anxious to appear as It accustomed to all the luxuries of Ufa She began a conversation with m on motoring. "Have you purchased your new car this season?"' I asked. "No. Mr. Burmaa, not- yet" aha said. T can't make up my mind just which make of car to buy. Maybe you will help me." "What Is It that you car. not decide about them?" I asked. "Why. I can't decide whether I should get a gaso line car or a limousine car. Tell ma. does limousine smell as bad as gasoline?" Everybody's. SUNNY SMILES. "Iid the doctor limit you to any particu lar diet? ' "No. but his bill dlil." Birmingham Age-Herald. "Are you working for the uplift?" "Well. I d like to. Hut everybody I try to uplift tells roe to mind my own busi ness." Seattle Post- Intelligencer. The Vicar For shame, my lad! What have those poor little fish done to be Im prisoned upon the day of rest? Tommv That-that's what thy get for chasing worms on a Sunday John Bull. I.ady Yes, they are very nice goose berries, but aren't they dirty? Street Vender Dirty! Think I can wash em and part thlr 'air rtahn the center for tuppence a pound In these ere war times? Uinrlon Opinion. "How menv popl sre there here. Pat?'" retried the Kngllshmsn of an Irishman In Monreal. "Oh shout a hundred fousend. "Why. I thought there were over half a million?'' "Well. hld 1st, "there is-lf you count th-i French." t'nalian Courier. 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