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THE OMAHA KUXDAY BEE: DECEMBER 13, 1914. THE OMAHA SUNDAY DEB POUNDED BT EDWARD ROSKWATKR. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bn Publishing Compeny, Proprietor. KEH BUILDING. -FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. Fntervd at Omaha postofflce as second-class matter. ' TERM9 Or SUBSCRIPTION.- Br carrier By mall per month, per year. Dally an Ptinday - ,...o HM 1'slly without Sunday....' ; JJ Wenlng and Punrtay i TO Kvenlng without Sunday Jc F'indar Bee only We V"' . F.nd notice of change of address or cornplalnta or Irregularity in delivery to Omaha Bee, Circulation Depa rtment REMITTANCE. Remit try draft, erjpress or portal order. Only two cent pos'' ptampe received In payment of arhall ac count Personal checks, except on Omaha and eesters exchange, not accepted. - " tiFFICES. Omaha-The Be Building. Bouth Omaha 2JH N street. Council Bluffs 14 North Main stseet I Incoln & Utile Building Chicago 01 llearat Building New Tork Room 11K. f4 Fifth a van u a. Pt. Ioule-KB New Rank of Commerce. Washington 7 Fourteenth St., N. W. CORRESPOND EN CB. " Address communications relating to mwi and edi torial matter to Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. NOVEMBER SUNDAY CIRCULATION. 44,671 State of Nebraska, County of Douglas, aa. Dwlaht Wll lama, circulation manager of Tha Baa Publishing comiieny, being duly aworn, aaya that tha average Sunday circulation for tha month of November, 1914. was 44,471. DWKiHT WiLIJAMS, Circulation Manager. Suhacrlhed In my presence and aworn to before ma, ttla Mb day of December, 1114. ftOUEHT HUNTER, Notary Publlo. Rubacrlbers leaving the city temporarily hontd hare The lie mallexl to them. Ad dress will bo changed ai often aa requested. Tim Is flying In which to ah op early. Cleaning snow off tha walks, like charity, ought to begin at homo. People ran In time get used to almost any thing eren to war tax stamps. - Never contested, Missouri Is kicking again because Its mules are going to war. At that, tbs German nary has succeeded In giving a tolerably good account of Itself, , Just h i reminder to the man who was complaining- for the want of snow, let it be noted that "the next day It snowed." So it appears that while Mr. Bryan la for both equal suffrage and prohibition, he has a time-lock, on his combination. Perhaps the weather man is Just getting Into practice to make cure that he can glre ns a white Christmas If he wants to. ' It seems the president passed up the chance of making a gallery plsy by naming Mr. Harbor surveyor of the port of Kansas City. Now that the administration has promised to "let business alone," let us attend to business and try to make up for lost time. Jnst let the small boy in Omaha try to Im agine himself living in a town so Cat that a sled would not move unless pushed or palled. Does the president's omission of Mexico from his message to congress mean that he no longer considers "watchful waiting" worth, mentioning? Eight more postmastership prlmarte have been ordered by Congressman Dan V. Stephens, And, to add insult to injury, one of them goes to Edgar Howard's home townl The man who sits up nights to Worry oyer Europe's licking us when It gets through with thrashing itself is our Idea of the man who hunts for something to worry about. . Things are not always what they seem) for instance, they tell us the Bine Danube) is not blue, at all, and we know that the Blue Alsa tian mountains" are now white with snow. Men with million-dollar incomes were mighty scarce before the income tax coll act or started out on his rounds, and they will doubt less be scarcer when he again rides the circuit. To start agitation for a barge line on the Missouri Just as the river is getting ready to freeze up looks a trifle incongruous. Would not-the barge proposition find clearer sailing about the time the navigation season reopens? Secretary Bryan is now trying to hedge on his pronouncements in favor of suffrage and prohibition by Qualifying his support of them as state issues, and not as national issues. If Mr. Bryan thinks this wU please either side he is mighty much mistaken. "Met" asks why John C. Wharton," Omaha's republican postmaster, should be supplanted by a democrat when Mr. Wharton has a good dem ocratic record lasting for at least two whole days, which he can establish by reference to "myxoid notebook." 'Why, we also ask to know? Perospg Postmaster. Wharton could be per suaded to be. a democrat for two more whole days if "Met" will guarantee him reappointment. CV. A mee ling of taxpayers presided over by H O Clark, appointed a committee to confer with attori neya with a view to contesting the St. VUrya avenue ewer tax. The committee named consists, of B. E. H Kennedy, Warren Bwitaler, C. W. Hamilton. M Halll man. William. I'rt-sUm and Hubert I'urvla. Drtef A Maul have Just completed their flrat year aa a firm, dorm which time they dlipoeed of f.i ooftlna, which, on the average death rate of the city, la about three-fourths of the buelnees la thla line. Axctiltect Charles Y, Driacoll baa gone to Chioege for a week, on bualneaa. Albion W. Tourgee, the author and former editor of the CoBttaect, la In the city. W. 1L ChJlaon of New York stopped ever ea route to fan Franclaco aa the sunt of bis friend, O B Clara of thla city. John J. Cavanagti has opened a plumbing and li establishment at 13 North fcUxteenlh. The Lutheran baxar clewed with a aatlafactory una reaiied. the remaining goods being Sold at aJO- tua. A New Europe in the Making. , Writing in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, on "New Nations Already Rising Out of the War.' using France, with which he is most familiar except England, as an example, Vance Thompson declares that "a new Prance has been born In war palna unspeakable. For fif teen years Prance has been In the bands of the politicians, whereof you know. Came the war." And then he proceeds to show the transform ing effect upon the people. "In a day in an hour war knit together the old energies of the race. And it was a strange thing to see laughter die In Prance; The old energies came bark, and (he old high-born idealism." and further: If thla war were merely a dirty squabble of greed trade-grab here jostling for places In the sun there would be small hope for civilisation. But the men who have watched It es I have coming slowly to an Inane, since 1WT, know It la the Inevi table struggle between the old forces of democracy and armed arlatocracy. And It la already bearing fruit In all the natlona. I know more about that In England and France, but I am sure It la true of the others. Humanity la knit pretty clone In these days. The Bee was warmly congratulated for its editorial, which, under the caption, "The Sur vival of the Fittest," declared that "the net re sults of this hideous humsn slaughter will be a new Europe representing the beet of the old as embodied in those ideals which demand a higher abltrament than that of force." This view is deepened with the progress of events. Even the warring nations, themselves, have begun to re flect it In their changing attitudes and expres sions. ' As Mr. Thompson shows, "In the first anger and surprise of war lots of foolish, bad things were said and written in England and elsewhere. What you hear now is different andWhat you read." He goes on to show that as Lloyd George phrased it, "the nations are shedding themselves of selfishness" and Risking a "new Europe a new world. And the news papers are. dropping the tone of brag and anathema." Incidentally,, here is another reminder for America to continue a national policy of sober minded neutrality. If already, with the war as yet nowhere near Its climax, such .progress has been made toward the only profitable goal to be expected as a result of this awful up heaval, can anyone doubt that "net results will be a new EuropeT" And if the warriors, them selves, have' come thus early to the view, can ws of America afford to lower our vision be neath UT Edison's Greatest Discovery. People almost without number are voicing their 5ov that Thomas a mtinn. - - ' m I9VV1UI UU private laboratory were not destroyed by the fire' vuuauuitg ma nanuiacturing plant. These expressions go to show how widespread is the l4rst in Mr. Edison's personality, and in wrerytlrrnf he does, and this widespread interest is to be, esDlalned by bis remarkable success in making practical aoDlication nr m. t i , - w anew uiow V 131 ICS and Inventions. Edison has failed to work out a lot of prob lems which he has tackled, but his failures are overlooked in the multiplicity and usefulness of his successes. ' Where Edison has scored an wantage over ail other scientists lies in his appreciation of the sractloal. and hi. tlon to limit his efforts strictly to things that A 4 1 A - M . v ... noia promise of serviceability to the mass of the people Instead of to the very few If Edison had put in all his time Inventing huri glar-proof safes for nultlmlllosalres, or bomb proof armorplate for big battleships, or tele acoplo cameras for astronomers, he might have ucceeded every time and still fallen short of filing the place he occupies In the popular mind and in the people's hearts. ' Edison's greatest discoverey was the discov ery that he could do most for world betterment by devoting his talents V the perfection of oom ffion everyday things, or bringing exceptional things down to the common everyday plane. The Promised Rest for Business. Business certainly welcomes the rest which the president promises in his mesage to con fess, in which he says: :. Our program of legislation with' regard to ho regulauon of bu.inea. now vtrtually complete. The road at last lies clear and firm before bu.fn.. UrrUnTent ,Ch.U tIwl.-,Mt'' Let congress fall in with this and 'the whole country will breathe easier. -Let us also cease to make the false distinction between big and little business in this connection, bearing In mind that their interests are mutual when it comes to the program which the president says is about complete. Not only the "capital class " but the wage earning class, every class 6f men dependent upon their Incomes for liveli hood and that Includes all Is affected. The president told us not so long ago that there was nothing the matter with business. Itself, but that the trouble lay with the evil spirit In business like the man of the Gada renes, who was all right as soon as purged of the demon within him. Naturally business, too. resented correction of certain of its wrongs, which was begun, however, before President Wilson took office. Now if that purifying pro cess hss been completed, and' neJd fear no further dsturbance from hostile legislation, business may go on its way rejoicing, for It re quires all the elbow room compatible with safety in order to- recover lost ground. On Hoarding. In a remarkable illustration of the extent and Influence of hoarding money, Albert W At wood la the Saturday Evening Post, cites this among many typical cases that came to. light during the recent scare following the declaration of war In Europe; . Intl' "'TL "-kno" bualnee. man walked Into the office of the present of M cf New Tork-. treat banks and opened a email aatchcL Thla jnna had Important connection. In four or five Urge west ern cities, with bank accounts In all of them. He opened the satchel and took out HoO.txe in sold certlM cetea. 'I want you to put this In a safe piaoe for me " be said, -I don't Want to take any chances. J drew all my money out of the banka." "1 never knew you were an aaa." replied the banker, "but I know It now. I won't touch your gold." 'Do you mean ou won't take lir aaked the startled man. "What ah ail I do with it?" "Take it away from here, shouted the banker. The writer declares that many similar with drawals took place In 1107 and for that reason, more than any other,' the country suffered so severe a depression. To a limited extent the save practice was repeated last August and later following the outbreak of the European war, and, as Mr. At wood shows, it probably would have reached widespread proportions. with most disastrous results, but for the swift action of bankers In checking what they foresaw. If It be true, as It hss been said for years, that fully 1500,000,000 Is annually hoarded l this country, It Is easy to realize that the evil Is not confined to periods of stringency, but exists as a constant obstacle to larger business expan sion. Money Is hoarded for two reasons. Ignor ance and fear, neither of which is excusable. Both, we think, might be lessened by a campaign of education bringing the facts to the attention of those apt to indulge In this useless and culpa ble practice. No Matter Abont Credit. . Collier's Weekly gives credit for the Chrlatmsi hip idea to Mr. Jamea Keeley "of the Chicago Trib une!" Oh, wlrra, wlrra, what will Mr. Jamea Keeley of the Chicago Herald think about that? Kanaaa City Mar. And yet. Just to keep the record straight, James Keeley of the Chicago Herald gives credit for the idea to a woman Lillian Bell, the au thoress, who suggested It to the Herald In a let ter, as The Bee, quoting a Herald editorial, pre viously pointed out. But why bother about the credit for such' an enterprise, when, In the words of a great sea captain, "there is honor enough for all" for Lillian Bell and James Keeley and the Herald original sponsors who with The Bee and a hundred other newspapers over the land, the railroads, the government, the ship, and last, but not least, the people who responded with their gifts, made possible what has been done. No one sought "credit," bujt all sought results. Does City life Produce Insanity T Does city life produce Insanity more than life in the country? The insanity statistics compiled, by the census bureau apparently give an affirma tive answer to this question. The census investigators have found that the total number of insane people reported in insti tutions has increased 25 per cent In six years as against a population increase of only 12 per cent, and that the Increase in asylums, and asylum accommodations,' has not been proportionate, with the result of over-crowded Institutions and the necessity of turning patients away. Part of the increase, however, may be explainable by the great Improvement in the agencies for discover ing cases of insanity, and the more ready means of bringing the patients into regular institutions. Aside from this, it is noted that, of the Insane asylum population, the number per thousand coming from cities, towns an 4 villages is more than twice the number coming from strictly rural communities, contradicting the popular impression that the loneliness of country life Is more calculated to cause Insanity than the strain of competition, the congestion of vice, and the depression of city life. Everywhere we are told "the ratio of admissions to Insane asylums Is higher, and usually much higher, from urban than from rural communities." The flaw in this analysis is the assumption that because an insane person is sent to an institution from the city, the incitement to in sanity was operative in the city, when residence in the city may in fact have been only a way station to the insane asylum for a patient prop erly classed as rural. As is common knowledge, the great majority of those living In the city have come from the country town or country, and the real question is whether the tendency to insanity was brought along to the city or was acquired or stimulated after arrival. Manifestly, statistics showing only the last locstlon of the Insane patient before confinement in an asylum cannot possibly be conclusive as to whether city life or country, life contains mere lnsaoity produclng factors. How it This for Wheat! The Nebraska farmer, indeed, the farmer throughout the middle west wheat belt. Is once more wearing the smile that won't come off be cause of this made-to-order winter wheat weather. , Go find the chronic trouble-borrower, who was bemoaning the fear that wheat might go into the winter under ground dry-frosen and ask him what he thinks of himself now. A week or so ago we had several days of qneer little rains that brought lots of moisture and then followed abundant snows. The re sult is the ground is well covered before the hard freese, which makes Just about an ideal condition for winter wheat. Even those sec tions further west that suffered slightly from the continued dry period subsequent to the sow ing will derive their share of this benefit suffi cient, it is said, to counteract any injury done by the previous condition. From now on there need be no apprehension about not getting snow enough, so that so far as wheat is concerned we of this section ought to rest Tery easy until spring, though, of course, no one can tell exactly what is in store for us in the next few months. . Experience proves, how ever, that the wheat grower generally has little cause for complaint it his grain goes into the winter well. "There is no invention about building a big gun, anybody can do that," retorted General Crosier to congressmen aroused by the genius that produced the slxteen-inch Howitxers for Germany. It recalls the late Charles A. Dana's reply to an ambitious southern editor, who had proudly sent a special 100-page edition of his laper to the great New York Sun editor for his opinion. Mr. Dana wrote: "It's a big thing, but could be produced by anybody with enough ink and paper." . The Bee's suggestion that an invitation be extended 'to. President Wilson to make Omaha a stopping point on bis return trip from the San Francisco exposition has been acted upon through Congressman Lobeck. If the president accepts, he may feel assured of a hearty greet ing and a cordial reception. Here Is another on old Demon Rum Billy Sunday says he thinks, though he is not yet sure, that the hoof and mouth disease was caused by cattle eating the refuse food at dis tilleries. He promises to run down the story and verify It, if possible. A fleet of 100 submarines would be an extravagance, says Secretary of the Navy Dan iels. Ittertaloly would be it they kept going down, like McGlaty, to the bottom of the sea as fast as those European submarines have been going. People and Events The proof of man's tlckativeneaa may be ahown In the copious use of Red Croea seals on Chruitmae packages. . Paces adorned with wh led ere are be coming a rarity In the financial district of New Tork. A smooth face la moat be coming to a smooth business. , It Is Inferred from remarks mega phoned from Washington that while the nation cannot lick everything,-it can do a pretty fair Job with war stamp. A "gentleman's agreement" among the kid escorts of lonely maids In New Tork calls for an overhead charge of 10 cents, coupled with this admonition: "An de guy wot cuts hla prloe gits his block tipped." The first annual taten?ent" of the Rockefeller foundation, Just published le New Tork, shows a total of $103.9.10,817 i the fund The income for the year amounted to about 15,500,000 and the ap propriations W,500,oon. Nobody loves a fat man? A cruel .asper sion on the jolltest of mankind. A Mla sourlsn traveled from Alton to St Louis to return to a man weighing 306 pounds a suit of clothes taken by mistake. What greater proof of love could be given? The esteemed Charlea W. Morse, whose health waa restored by a pardon. Is be coming a big factor In the promoting world of New Tork. His lateat venture Is a steamship line to Bermuda under the American flag. Charley is a smooth one aa well aa a live wire. It waa at a soiree muaioaie of the me chanical variety. "My Old Kentucky Home" waa turned out with soul-searching tones. In a remote comer of the room a guest was weeping copiously. The hostess went to him and Inquired sympa thetically: "Are you a Kentucklan?" Between sobs came the answer. "No, madam, I am a musician." Admiration for the nerve of the anthra cite coal barons grows apace In Pennsyl aranla. Two years ago the state Imposed a tax on each ton of coal mined, and warned the barons ajralqst passing It down to the customer. The barons passed It down all right, but Instead of passing the money up to the state they chucked It Into thfir Jeans, where it will remain until the courts pass on the constitu tionality of the law. Already the pile amounts to 1600,00s. KUITLED KNOCKS. Blessings may come in disguise. But trouble never bothers about putting oa any makeup. . A man hasn't a very good religion when he regards 8unday as the longest and dreariest day In the week. Most men can't understand a bank statement, but you can't fool them when It comes to a boa score. A man buvs a new hat because the old one la greasy or shabby. A woman, buys a new hat because the style has changed. It may be embarrassing to a girl to have you look her over. But she would rather have you look her over than over look her. Borne of the gray stockings you see the girls wearing look as though they might have been white when they were first donned. There are a lot of conflicting descrip tions of heaven. But our idea of heaven Is a place where there Is a fish for every flshworm. In the game of life a man likes to see hla hits and runs printed In big type, but he hollers murder every time one of his errors la recorded. When a wise old crow of 10 snares a lad of 21 Into marrying her, part of the performance is to have the bride's mother sob around the house on the day of the wedding because her daughter Is being "robbed of her girlhood." A man never brags much about the prises he won at Sunday school when he -was a boy. But he doesn't mind letting you know that he led his own gang and stole apples and whipped aU the kids in town. And he usually adds, with a grin, that he waa a devil among the girls. Father can always see where with a little economy the family could get along with one pint of milk a day Instead of three. But if mother suggests that they also use economy and get along on one case of beer a week Instead of four, father wants a divorce. Cincinnati -Enquirer. TABLOIDS OF SCIENCE. A machine has been devised for imi tating the noise of an aeroplane engine, with the bject of alarming hostile troops.' In the location of Newcastle, England, there la aald to be coal enough to last tha world 800 years that la, 6,000,000,000 tons. By crossing certain fiber plants In the Philippines an excellent grade of arti ficial silk of much strength has been pro duced. A European violin Instructor has in vented a diagram printed on paper to be pasted on the neok of an Instrument to show a pupil where to place his fingers to produce desired notes. , For removing and sifting ashes at the same time there baa been Invented a sooop with a double screen In the bottom, one portion of which la agitated by an attachment on the handle. French cotton aplnners hSve estab lished a laboratory for determining the percentage of moisture or any abnormal dryness In cotton, that which la too dry being regarded as detective. Prof. Otto Lummer of Breslaa has melted carbon. He Inclosed a large era light, formed of two carbon rods, in a heavy glass container and exhanseted the air. By ualng a powerful electrlo cur rent he placed such a heat that drops formed at the tips of the carbons. EDITORIAL SHEAPNEL. Cleveland Plain Dealer: Time is tha great equaliser. A European stamp tax led to an American war, and now a Euro pean war leada to an Americas stamp tax. Chicago Herald: We may not have as many long-range torpedoes as we should, but when It comes to loner-range military strategists the country is almost over stocked. , Indianapolis News: Dr. Bernard Pe re burg, former German secretary ef state for the colonies, la dead risht la one Shins', anyhow, and that la when he ears that the war Is "stupid, unnecessary and un called for." Houston Poat: The exchanges are bringing an interesting batch of Thanks giving doing throughout the country. And we infer from the Nebraska's papers that old Jim Dahlman was thankful that be had nearly completed the year without somebody he trusted as friend give fcim a political stab In the back. SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT. rittsbursh Dispatch: Those Berlin clergymen who pretested against their exemption from military service as an lnrult do not seem to be ambitious to preach the Christmas sermon on pace on earth to the Oerman public. Houston Post: A Baltimore preacher eye It Is not Important that man should leave a fortune, but only a good name. Rubbish! A man ought to loave a good name, an attractive, and comfortably provided for widow and at least eleven children. , Baltimore American: "A missionary In West Africa tried to blow up a warship. Hie explanation waa that he was a sol dier first ani a missionary afte'rw-ard. Corlaeauently, he was denlt with ss n soldier first and his missionary labors are lost to the Cause. Brooklyn Katie: The Rev. Addison Ballard, rongregatlonallst. died In Puts ficld the other day at W. The Rev. A. E. Ballard. Methodist, la living and In good health at 94 in Ocean Grove. Per haps sounj seasoned timber lasta longest In the pulpit. At least the coincidence Is Impressive. New Tork World: At a baptism last Sunday In the church of the Social Revo lution., "before the child was permitted to receive the pleasing his parents were required to swear that they believed the existing social order o be evil and In need of radical readjustment The first words of the service called upon the parents to teach the child well In the ways of the social revolution." Has not Infancy troubles enough as It Is with out the additional burdens Imposed on It by professors of every kind of IsraT MUSINGS OP A CYNIC. Have a little sense and the dollars will take care of themselves. Many a man expects even hie own con science to Jolly him along. Touth must have Its fling, but no fel low likes to be thrown over. Seeing Is believing, but even the blind man may be convinced he Is "right. It's ne fun for a woman to tell a secret to anyone she thinks will keep It. Many a fallow Is left hanied who still feels that he does everything right. A dog's bark may be worse than his bite, but we prefer his .bark, at that. All that glitters Isn't gold, but some people are perfectly satisfied with glitter. Even the big game hunter may oc casionally Indulge In the sport of killing time. Where some people are concerned, rub bing It In will "keep you on the outs with them. , Nine-tenths of all the flattery in the world Is expended on either women or tombstones Any man la apt to take water when he finds himself between. the devil and the deep sea Musio. hath charms, but at the same time it Isn't the song birds that make the best pojtplea Look not upon the wine when It Is red. It Is apt to make you color blind, and the first thing you know you are order ing champagne. New Tork Times. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. Clerk Mr. Ooldbug. aa I am rolng ts mairv. I would llk more salary. Huns-How much do you wantr V I I K I 11 U".1 " 1 " J ilosn-Uir gracious! How many women are 'tt going to marry? Chicago ruewe. First O rl I do hats a slow man. Fecurwl (ilrlSo do 1. )M Sat bes'.df I me In the Car this morning reading a novel, and he was never reaoy o urn the page when K ss. it was aggravating! Bost.n Transrrii't "In rome courts stolen kisses are held ' t be worth mote and In others lesa. ; How can there le a standard to assess , ihem." , "Only. I suppose, by their face value. Baltimore Amer:can. 1 Customer Here, waiter. Where are th ollvia' rioll n. Brlnt Me half a melon (ird am cracked Ire. The X alt r I iud v) I 'c.niduins, hall a 'bomtshed nnd a bowl of shi apncl. Cleve land leader. f lmrrs You're a poor sort of a club neirer. very seldom see you around the rliibbovM". Tirr mi Why. I got around once or twice wk. ., . . ! Pimm Well, lok at me I m there ! eve- v rig!'. Tlmms Te., but you re married and I m ' single. New York Timea. j "We are going to give up having Johnny get an education." "For whrtt reason?" "Well, we can t get him sterilised every morning In time to go to school.' Puck. I "Quick, quick, my dear everybody else 'is in the lifeboat. The ship Is sinking! "Wii m mm.nt 1 cannot be seen like this. The lifebelt makes my coat pucker." The bystander. " THE CHILDREN'S ARMY. Kllaa Lleberman, In New Tork Sub No tune of tootling fife. No beat of the rolling drum. And yet with the thrill of life Th. hnnlo. rtt children come. i Freckled and chubby and lean. Indifferent, good and baa. Iledrs cried ami dirty and clean, Rlrhly and poorly clad, They comr on toddling feet To the schoolhouse door ahead; The neighboring alley and street Resound to the Infant tread. Children of those who came To the land of the . promising west. Foreign of face ftnd name. Are shoulder to ehouHer pressed With the youth of the native land In the quest for truth and light. As the valorous little band Trudges to left and right. Creed and color and race 1'nlto from the ends of the earth, Blending each noble trace In the pride of a glorious birth. Race and hate and the past Fuse In a melting heat As the little hearts beat fast To the stir of a common beat. A fresher brawn and brain For the stock which the fates destroy Belong to the cosmic strain Of American girl ani boy. WHAT CITIES ARE DOING. Chicago has one homicide a month for every 110,000 of its population. In Los Angeles, Cel., 64 per cent of the laundry workers earn less than f a Week. San Francisco has arranged for a giant Christmas tree, which will be loaded with good things for the kiddles. Philadelphia proposes to build a stadium which will seat 100,000 people, surpassing the Tale oval by 30,000 seats. Salt Lake City business men and nearby farmers are co-operating In raising funds for the establishment of a beet sugar factory, An epidemic of robbery prevails in See Francisco. ' Burglaries, holdups, pocket picklng and short changing average twenty a day.' Laramie boosters are tightening their STlp on a glass fadlory. The Chamber of Commerce . guarantees $15,000 to pur chase a site fqr the plant Despite its reputation for piety, Phila delphia la. about to receive a month of roasting from Billy Sunday. Failure to win the world's series calls for additional mortification .of the spirit Expert accountants have been put to work on- the books of the New Tork City Telephone company by s legislative com mittee, which seeks Information oa whioh a revision of rates may be based. Phone service In the big city Is on the meas ured basts and is very high. The com pany values its property at lS7.Ka,Ot4, which Includes "special franchises," t3. 000,000, and. "going concern value," tit,. 400,000. The company's set earnings for the current year are placed at t!0.S4,9aa Em a Trip on This I'Jinter The ILLINOIS CENTRAL OFFERS . INTERESTING BATES FOR WETTER TRIPS JC TO ;T,C NEW ORLEAirS, La. 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