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4-B THK OMAHA SUNDAY HKK: SKITKMIJKIi L'7. 1IM4. THE OMAHA SUNDAY DEE KOINDED HY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER. EDITOR. The Rce Publishing; Company. Proprietor. PEK BUILDING. FA UNA M AND SKVENTFENTH. Entered at Omaha postofflre second-class matter, i TEHM9 OK BCHSCRIPTION. j By carrier Py mall I per month. per year. 1 pally and Pundar . c , Dally without Sunday....' ' J ; Rvenlng and Ptinriay J Evening without Sunday &c J-"o Sunday only VVI" Fend notice of rhange of address or complaints of Irregularity In delivery to Omaha Bee, Circulation Departme nt. REMITTANCE. Remit br draft. express or postal order. Only two rent postage atampa received In payment of small ae rounta Personal checks, except on Omaha and eastern exchange, not accepted. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. Fouth Omaha SIB N street. Council Bluff a H North Main afreet. Lincoln W Little Building. Chicago Ml Hearst Building New York Room II. Fifth avenue. Ft. Ixmls KB New Bank of Commerce. Waahlngton 726 Fourteenth Bt.. N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Addreaa communloatlrne relating to nwa and edi torial matter to Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. AIG18T SUNDAY CIRCULATION. 43,961 State of Nebraska. County of Douglaa. aa. Dwlght Williams, circulation manager of The Bee Publishing company, being duly aworn. aaya that the average Sunday circulation for the month of August, ISM. wan .1. DWKIT WILLIAMS Circulation Manager. Buhacribed In mv presence and aworn to before me. thla d day of Reptemler, 1914 ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public. Subscribers leaving the city temporarily a lion Id have) The lie mailed to them. Ad dress will be changed ai often aa requested. Vera Crus la a very comfortable winter re sort, anyway. Looka ai if the military schottlscue bad the tango on the run. Still, if the colonel's voice gives out, he has proved himself fairly adept at using pen and ink. The New Orleans spot cotton market haa been reopened Just to furnish us another bright pot. Only three national ' banks in Nebraska bawled out by Secretary McAdoo for hoarding money. Wonder if be haa closed his Hat. If Omaha voters do not elect a high-dans School board to manage our public schools it will not be tor lack of good material to choose from. . Judge Sutton has given a loan shark a cur tain lecture that was coming to him. But it will take something stronger than curtain lec tures to finish the Job. : Having weathered without the slightest dif ficulty drouth, tornado, strike and money panic, k-Sar-Ben is not going to be bothered by a lit tle war way off in Europe. ' The chief qualification for a diplomat used to be to know enough to know when to keep quiet. By that test, the diplomatic corps is loaded with a lot of misfits. The German War office has cut a cipher off the number of prisoners previously announced as having been taken by German arms. What's an extra cipher in war times, anyway? Colonel Watterson says he has "extolled Colonel Roosevelt as a personality and lashed him as a politician." According to our recol lection, the performance has been mutual. The high cost of living In this country, con sidering the quality, is not much higher than in the old world, but It Is worth double the cost to live and work) under the 8 tars and Stripes. One by one our cherished illusions are being shot to pieces. The Turcos, said to be the fiercest bunch fighting with the allies, are not meat-eaters at all. They are strict vegetarians. That United Elates senator who proposed a bill reducing salaries of government employes, Including members of congress, is running for a fall without the hope of a cushion to break the force of the "dull thud." The gentle, 'Insinuating touch of the Belgi ans for contributions to their relief funds will doubtless meet with prompt and liberal response from the multitude of Americans who made for tunes out of Belgian hares. A number of women's peace organisations have resolved to refrain from wearing clothes of military eut or trimming. When Johnny comes marching home from Vera Crui or Texas he need not hide his buttons if the girls stick to the resolution. President Wilson does not want New Jersey democrats to endorse him for re-election at this time for fear people may think he is seeking a second term. What's the idea? He must want to seek a second term in such a way as to make it appear that the second term Is seeking him. The bankers of the city have renewed discussion for a clearing houae. y . H. Davla. ca.hler of the Flrat National; H. W. Yatee. pre.ldent of the Ne braska National, and Wllllaui Wallace, raahler of tte Omaha National, have been appointed a committee to draft a constitution and plan out the working. Ed Haney, the septlemanly baggage agent at the t nlon depot. Is laid up with one of Job's comforters on his hand. James Oordon Bennett, proprietor of the New York Herald, and his party pasted through Omaha on hla return, but stopped over In Omaha only half an hour. There have been fifty young men enrolled In the Maine and Logan Military company. Mrs. Jennie Fogg, wife of W. C. Fogg and daughter of W. V. Doolittle. died at her fathers residence. P. M. Hartxon. ZM North Thirteenth, haa lost a booh containing- valuable papers, for whoae return he will pay a reward. Experienced dressmakers ran secure employment at Mra. A, Klce a, 107 North Seventeenth. Freedom of Press Again. The outcome of the futile effort of a candi date for governor to restrain The Ree from pub lishing a letter he himself wrote before he changed his mind, announcing positively that he would not run. merely Illustrates the pitiful plight Into which a judge on the bench falls when he undertakes arbitrarily to set himself up as a newspaper censor. That the restraining order in this instance was admittedly null and void because signed by the learned Judge with out calling for a bond specifically required by law, or that the occasion for seeking the Injunc tion had completely passed, does not alter the fact that a great principle Is Involved whose subversion would menace the freedom of the press. The most pointed comment we ran make Is to reproduce these excerpts from the recent opinion of the supreme court of Montana turn ing on a constitutional guaranty of free speech in substantially the . same phraseology an con tained in the constitution of Nebraska: The langnage here employed seems too clear to admit of doubt or argument. The one fundamental Idea conveyed In thla section la penalty for a viola tion of the privilege, not prevention of Its abuse. It cannot be said that a citizen of Montana la free to publish whatever he will on any subject, when an Injunction prohibiting lilm from publishing a par ticular Item upon a particular subject hangs over ha head like a sword) of Damocles, ready to fall with all the power which can be Invoked In con tempt proceedings. If he does the very thing the section of the constitution says he may do. It la Impossible to conceive the Idea that the Indlvdual has an absolute right to publish what he pleases, subject to the restriction mentioned, and at the same time to entertain the Idea that a court may prevent him from doing so. The two Ideas cannot possibly coexist. The language of the section In not suscep tible of any other meaning than this: That the in dividual citizen of Montana cannot be prevented from speaking, writing or publishing whatever he will on any subject. If, however, what he writes or publishes constitutes a criminal libel, he may be held) responsible for the abuse of the liberty in a criminal prosecution, or If what he speaks, writes or publishes wrongfully Infringes the rights of oth ers, he mey be held responsible for the abuse In a civil action for damages. If this is not the mean ing of the section. It Is berauao the framers em ployed language which la Impotent as a vehicle for conveying their Idea, The guaranty of thla section extends as fully to the poorest as to the wealthiest citizen of the state: and, though the abuse of the liberty ao guaranteed may result in loss for which there cannot be nny adequate compensation, the framers of our constitu tion In preparing It, and" the people In adopting it, (doubtless concluded that It was better that such results be reached In Isolated caaes than that the liberty of speech be subject to the supervision of :i censor. To declare that a court may say that an Individual shall not publish a particular Item Is to say that the court may determine In advance Just what the citizen may or may not speak or write upon a given subject. Is, In fact, to say that such court Is a censor fof speech as well as of the press, t'n der similar constitutional provisions the supremo courts of California and Missouri have reached ths same conclusion. In view of the decisions and the utter ina bility of the champions of judicial prees censor ship to cite a single case to the contrary. It is amazing that any Judge or court, even under In citement of a political contest or the lure of po litical preferment, should override sacred con stitutional guaranties which courts are Insti tuted to uphold and defend. ' The Workhouse Problem. Although declining to approve the scheme to vote $100,000 in bonds to build a new city Jail, the committee representing the different civic, organizations in its Investigation of and report upon this subject did not hesitate to say that our real need Is for a workhouse, and In this It points out the vital defect in our local penal system. It would be difficult to estimate In money how much the want of a workhouse has cost, and is costing, our taxpayers, for Omaha is one of the few cities of its size in the country which practically extends a standing invitation to ho boes and petty offenders to come here and act cept the public hospitality in a beautiful mod ern and sanitary county Jail without doing a stroke of work to earn their board or being sub jected to any special discomfort. The records, we are Informed, disclose that many of the very Identical persons are almost continuous guests in the local bastlles, coming back again and again to enjoy restful seclusion at no coBt to themselves. For years, in season and out of season, The Bee has been advocating a workhouse, but, un fortunately, has been unable to arouse the pub lic, especially the business men, to the urgent need of It and to the view that it would be a profitable investment If It did nothing more than cause undesirable citizens to give us a wide berth. We hope the committee, whose report we have referred to, will follow up this matter, and not let go of It until the solution of the workhouse problem is accomplished. Pan-Germanism, Pan-Slavism, Pan-Islam. Widespread discussion is revolving about a book called "Pan-Germanism," written by Prof. Roland G. Usher of Washington university, In St. Louis. For more than a year the volume lay on the shelves almost unnoticed until the out break of the present European war, when, as now discovered, it is found to contain a com prehensive analysis of the international factors at play between the great monarchs of Europe heading for the conflict, with speculative ex planation of motives, purposes and plans, which seem in large part to be verified by later de velopments. Pan-Germanism, as conceived by Prof. Usher, is the ambition- to make German influ ence, German institutions, German culture and German Industry supreme throughout the world, by force of arms, if necessary. It is sup posed to be the Germanic reincarnation of the schemes of Caesar, of Charlemagne, of Na poleon, and of all the men on horseback who have sought to grip the reins of the universe. In another sense Pan-Germanism is the com bative resistance to the onslaught of other race elements aiming at supremacy. We must re member that the pretext for Austria's ultimatum to Servia was a charge of fomenting a propa ganda for Pan-Slavism. On the other side, it is said the Turkish sultan is trying to make himself the center of a movement for Pan-Islam and the same idea that Is embodied In the term we have sometimes applied to the Japanese when we speak of them as the yellow peril. Pan Germanism, Pan-Slavism. Pan-Islam, all rest on the basic thought that civilization must be under one ruling culture Just as in former centuries men thought and believed there must be one all-dominating religion manifested in a single church. People have become reconciled to the perpetuity of many forms of religion, and all the various dominations within each sepa rate form, and the same logic would Indicate that no one nation and no one race is destined to have world mastery. Pan-Germanism, like Pan-Slavism and Pan-Islam, might be an enno bling conception If shorn of its military aspects, but for the present, and for decades to come, none of them In their completeness can be any thing but an Idea and an ideal. The "Blesing--in-Disgaise" Va&ary. Whenever gorre gres death-spreading catastrophe occurs wondrous wiseacres Invaria bly project themselves with two ready-made ex planations, first, that it is a scourge of God sent to punish man's wickedness, and second, that it Is a blessing in disguise. The punishment theory that requires the sacrifice of Innocent men, women and children, and loads the grew some penalty upon generations yet unborn, is, however, easily championed as compared with the "blessing-ln-dlsgulse" vagary, which is pred icated upon such a peculiar definition of what a blessing consists of. It used to be the custom of certain easy going folks to say that It was a good thing for a child to have the measles or scarlet fever, and that a grown-up was purified by being the vic tim of dread disease, but modern medical sci ence does not believe that the body is strength ened by weakening some part of it. If disease served to build up the body we would welcome disease. Likewise, If war were a blessing In disguise, we would want more wars, and would have no reason to pray for peace. Just put It down that there never was any blessing obtained by war, which would not have been more of a blessing obtained without war. The blessings of peace are obvious and visible without pretense or disguise. If war has any redeeming feature that can be called a blessing it Is only by contrast with something wholly Im aginary that we make ourselves look upon as still worse. ' Remarkable Irish Spectacle. That was a remarkable as well as a rare spectacle witnessed in the capital city of Ire'.and. when the prime minister of Great Britain, Mr. Asqulth, and the Irish nationalist leader, Mr, Redmond, rode through Sackville street, es corted by a regiment of Irish volunteers carry ing genuine guns with real bayonets. Nothing approaching the spectacle has been possible in Dublin or elsewhere In Ireland since the Irish volunteer movement of 1798, which compelled the restoration of the Irish Parliament and checked for a few years the machinations of the unionists. A century and sixteen years bridges the chasm between the volunteers of 1798 and the volunteers pf 1914. The former rose In defense of established parliamentary liberties. The latter sprang Into existence as a force for upholding the Irish Parliament, when estab lished. Fears formerly felt of pitting force agalnBt force on that issue has practically dis appeared, so great. Is the change in British pub lic sentiment wrought by the unity of all classes In prosecuting the war. Home rule is already a fact, but Its establishment is temporarily post poned. Another year Is likely to see self-government in practical operation, bringing to a realization the hopes and aspirations of Ireland's, eons the world over. The Dublin spectacle, In which ail classes were represented. Is a happy augury of the unity that now obtains. An Overlooked Reform. In one place the committee on reform of our Nebraska legislative procedure has left a gap In the chain by falling to include in Its report any recommendation covering the promulgation and publication of emergency laws. Emergency laws were originally supposed to be enacted to meot urgent requirements demanding immediate action and, therefore, were to be effective from the moment of signature by the governor. But all laws have come to be emergency laws that the legislature wants to go into operation with out delay, and the declaration that an emer gency exists Is but a fictitious cover. Yet. while all ordinary legislation taking effect as provided by the constitution three months after adjournment, is to be made accessi ble in the printed session laws at least before the expiration of that time, for emergency laws no provision whatever Is made for Informing the people affected of the contents. In many in stances, as we have more than once pointed out, this emergency legislation defines new offenses and prescribes penalties which may be Inno cently Incurred without warning of the laws' prohibition. What tho legislature should do, while In the business of reforming its own pro cedure, is to provide prompt publicity for all emergency enactments through such agencies as the people are accustomed to look to. This is the practice In many progressive states that lead Nebraska here, as we believe, without any good reason whatever. The sister of Sir John French, commander of the British forces in France, says his two principal hobbles are "fighting and preaching." Readers are pretty well Informed of his fight ing ability, but have heard little of his preach ing power. His laurels as a commander, how ever, scarcely outshine bis power aa a word painter of battle scenes. His latest report, just published, is the most illuminating account of the fighting on the Alsne that has yet come from the front, reflecting a mastery of details, enlivened with incidents of the struggle full of gripping human Interest. For simplicity of style and unaffected candor Sir John French's re ports are of surpassing value. The whirligig of war has produced so far no stranger result than the capture of Sarajevo, Bosnia, by the Servians. In this city the shot was fired which ended the life of the Austrian heir apparent and started the conflagration of war in Europe. That it should fall to the Serv ians shows how sorely pressed are the Austrians by the Russian Invasion. The republicans In congress are taunting Che democrats with copying the Spanish war tax, which the democrats opposed when formulated and enacted by the republicans. It's- different when the democrats, as the party in control In every branch of the government, have the re sponsibility inbtead of constituting merely a vicious minority HAMMER TAPS. The old-fashioned fool who didn't know anything now haa a son who knowa it all. Sometimes we wish thnt the men who are always gabbing about the war were ever in Holland with the rest ot the windmills. One thing we like about the American farmer is that no one ran call him a peasant and get by with It. You may have noticed that the man who starts something Is usually willing to let someone else finish It. It all depends. You never heard a con demned man holler for an eight-hour day. And you will never see a strike for an Inc rease In the wages of sin. You ran tell from the looks of a glrl'a hair that she washes It twice a week. Hut from the looka of her elbows aw, go ahead and finish this one yourself. The big dogs have almost everything else on their automobiles, and some of these days we expect to see a touring car with an orchestrion built Into the tonneau. When the baby Is particularly red and ugly a man la sometimes tempted to deny the parentage after about 800 of his friends assure him that It is the living Image of Its father. When a collector calls at the houae next door and the woman next door lets on that she is out and doesn't answer the bell. It Is all the neighbor women can do to keep from screaming at the collector and putting him wise. The woman who played a Joke on her husband and took her picture out of the back of hla watch case and replaced It with a picture of the colored cook, was somewhat surprised when her husband wrote her after he had been out of town for a week and told her that he Visaed her picture every day. Cincinnati Enquirer. IN OTHER CITIES. Galveston now has an electric street sprinkler. Philadelphia poatofflce force has been reorganised. Philadelphia Magyara are raising Red Cross funds. Batllmore may require closed containers for garbage. Atlantic City permits dances on school playgrounds. Los Angeles police are to start aero plane service. Johnstown, Pa., la to have a city plan ning commission. Canton. O., may build model tenements for worklngmen. Denver Jewish carpenters have a sep arate labor union. Salem, Ore., forbids building auto gar ages in public parks. Baltimore Elks have begun erection of a temple to cost $250,000. New York is asked to pay Si,924,057 for 1915 city government expenses. Seattle for July recorded 78 per cent Increase In building operations. Boston's tax rate for 1915 has been fixed at $17. M), an advanoe of 30 centa. New Orleans will reclaim swamp lands near suburbs of Gretna and Algiers. Norristown, Pa., reformers have failed In attempts to enforce Sunday laws. Washington Is to have a new Y'oung Women's Christian association building, to coat $350,000. Providence, It. I., by supreme court de cision, ks given full privileges to regulate or abolish billboards. TABLOIDS OP SCIENCE. Only twelve men In 100 have dark eyes, as compared with twenty women In 100. At 1,000 feet above the surface of the earth the atmosphere Is free from germs. A new air rifle of high power is equip ped with a safety device to prevent the trigger being pulled until Its user wishes to do so ' An Illinois man has patented clamps to hold paint brushes on the ends of poles at any angle to rave painters the need of ladders. . A recently patented parachute launch ing device for aeroplanes shoots a para chute clear of entanglements by gas or compressed air. An attachment haa been Invented for telephone receivers to enable stenog raphers to take both sides of conversa tions over wires. Aspon wood Is used almost exclusively In making matches In Sweden aa It la easily cut and porous enough to be readily impregnated with sulphur or paraffin. , For cutting grass on terraces and slopes there haa been patented an extension handle for lawn mowers permitting a man to stand on level ground and operate them. A new Belgian wood preservative against moisture and heat is composed of a solution of copper and zinc In am monia with the addition of a amall pro portion of bensol. THREE OF A KIND. War Time Kronnmy. General W. L. Alexander waa discussing the European war. "This war," he said, "will affect even us. We must econo mize to weather It. And our economy must be general, too. "We mustn't be like Gayboy, whom a friend asked over a bottle of champagne on a roof garden: " 'Well, apropos of the war, old man. did you give your wife that lecture on economy?" " 'Yes, I did," Gayboy answered, 'and she went right out and bought me a safety raior.' " ilttsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. Mm Omlnoaa Selection. A Baltimore man tella a story of a minister who, rising to addreaa hla con gregation, announced that the subject of his discourse would he "A Man's Wife." "And now," he added, "we will first sing the hymn beginning " 'From every stormy wind that blows. Prom every swelling tide of woes. There Is a calm, a sure retreat 'Tla found beneath the mercy seat.' " And he couldn't Imagine why the wives of the congregation present all looked daggers at him. Baltimore American. A nasi for the Money, A traveler bought a ticket and then, going out on the platform, said: "How aoon does the train atart?" "Why. there she goes now." said a por ter. "You've Just missed her." The traveler kept on the line and set out in pursuit ot the train with all hla might. But In two or three minutes he came trudging back. A laughing crowd had gathered, and the porter said: "Well, did you catch her?" "No," said the traveler, "but, by jingo, I made her puff." SAID IN FUN. "W are going to give up having Johnny get an education " "For what reason?" "Well, we can't get him sterilised every morning in time to go to school." Judpe. "Why, Johnny " said his mother. "1 do believe you're teaching that parrot to sweat !" "No, I'm not. mother," the boy replied. "I'm .lust telling it what It mustn't say." Ladles Home Journal. "Dl.l you kill the moths with the moth balls I recommended?' asked the drug gist. "No, I didn't," said the rnstomer trucu lently. "I est up all night and didn't hit a single moth." Current Opinion. "I hear that Rogers has met with re verses since his marriage." "One reverse, anyway. He married his stenographer and now Instead of h s dic tating to her. she dictates to him." Bos ton Transcript. "Bllggins takes himself very seriously, doesn't he?" "No. His wife and children think he's one of he greatest men alive, and he's too good-hearted not to pose around and try to keep them from getting his real measure." Washtngtn Star1. "You seem to feel right at home when you are In the ring," we remarked to the prize fighter. "I do." relied the prise fighter. "I am a married man." Cincinnati Enquirer. A palatial touring car had attracted the attention of a visitor to Boston and he asked .his friend: "Who is the man seated In this large car?" The Boetnnlnn glanced In the direction Indicated and replied: "That la the poet laureate of a well known biscuit factory." Everybody's Magazine. "I understand that you called to ask for my daughter's hand?" "Oh, no, nothing like that." "Then " "She and I settled all that. What I have called for Is to find out what part of the hi'MM' vmi are no ng to turn over to us when we arc nun Tied.' Houston Post. Stern Parent I Ire.scll ly You can't hsjii? up vmir hat In this nous-, young man. SultiT ulmMIyi No sir; you're sitting on It. limit more American, A VETERAN SOLDIER'S PRAYER (Dedlcat. d to ll m. W ashington Gardner, past commandcr-:n-i hlrf of the Grand Army of the Republic.! Almighty Exalted Commnnder-ln-Chlef, We nsic Thee as comrades, the Blue and the Gray. Two rml united, the last grand relief. For peace universal: God hasten the day! God peed the peace movement when all wars shall cease. When all the earth'a rulers and crowned heads must see Gran t glorious rentiment. "Let Us Have resce," Refusing the sword of the glorious Lee. God hasten the day when In song and In atory, The nations of earth with this motto will thrill. "Let us have peace, like the land of Old Glory, Love, lovaltv, charity, peace and good will. I.et brave little Belgium be crowned as the martyr. And hero of war, when all fighting shall cease, Preferring to fight and to die than to . barter. We hall her, the mascot of nations of peace. , And we who survive of our armies vic torious. Would ask Thee for peace 'universal, ere wo Are mustered again In that army more glorious With Washington, Lincoln, Grant, Bher ,nan and Lee. Keep selfishness out of reace universal. Let co-operation and harmony reign. Let comrades and brothers all Join In re hearsal. Before the frond Tableau of Peace lx)rd, Amen. CAPTAIN JACK CRAWFORD. Late Chief of Scouts t'nited States army. MADE IN AMERICA Many American buyers of foreign cars have been in fluenced largely by habit. But invariably their first pur chase of a Packard has shown them the superior worth of the American'made car. 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