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The Omaha Daily Bee Use the telephone for Bee Want Ads. Tyler 1000 Seven trunk lines. Intelligent ad-takers. One Cent Per Word. PART TWO EDITORIAL PAGES 11 TO 18. VOL. XLVI. NO. 144. OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 2, 1916. On Trtlni, it Hatali. Ntwi SUNs, ft,, be. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. CHINESE WELCOME YANKEEDOLLARS American Capitalists Hailed as Princes of Good Will and China's Friends. DOCTRINE OF OPEN DOOR I,$J.yuw iui tue lium run ami oueu mup r (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) Peking, Oct. 13. Chinese news papers are unanimous in welcoming American capital into (hina to build railroads. The announcement of the conclusion of the agreement whereby Siems and Carey, financed by the American International Corporation, are granted a contract for over 2,000 miles of railway, costing approxi mately $100,000,000 gold, has been re ceived with great enthusiasm. Neither the Chinese public nor the Chinese press has any fear that the United States has any ulterior motives. "Since the death of President Yuan Shi-kai, the most important single fact in the history of China has beep the signature of the Siems and Carey railway agreement," says the Peking Daily News. "It reintroduces into practical politics a principle that was in danger of being forgotten. Ameri cans do not seek political power, in fluence or sphere. They seek trade and trade only, and they have now as sumed that other nations seek noth ing more and really mean what they say when they pledge themselves to the maintenance of the open door and equal opportunity for all in China. Not "Lip Service." "All the powers interested have expressed their adhesion to the prin ciple of the open door, but in spite of the lip service rendered to this doctrine there has been sneaking de sire to evade its real consequences. Great Britain, when more than once once non-British schemes appeared to have rami6cations that reached the Yang-tse valley, has been obviously uneasy; as witness the French port of Pukow scheme and the Japanese Hankow development project. Japan lias almost openly repudiated the open door doctrine. The Japanese ve toes on the Chinchow-Aigun railway, on the Hsinmintun-Fakumen project, and on Mr. Knox's Manchurian rail way neutralization proposals, all go to show that Japan has in its heart repudiated the open door dogma long agu. lac Japanese uciuanus ui ia&l year, and the corollary to them to be found in the side issues raised in con nection with the Chengchiatun ne gotiations, only confirm them. Rus sian diplomacy for several years, and its latest public displays of it the treaty with Japan and the protest against the presence of members for Outer Mongolia in the Chinese par liamentcan only be interpreted in the light of a virtual repudiation of the doctrine of the open door. The Germans nearly did the same thing in Shantung previous to the outbreak of the war. "Had the Department of State in Washington set itself to devise a vtest for the sincerity of the powers that have declared their adhesion to the doctrine of the open door and equal opportunity in China, it could not have devised one better than the pres ent contract." Practically all the Peking papers and the important Chinese papers in other large centers, expres satisfac tion at the decision of American capi tal to look for an outlet in China. For several years but little American capital has come to China. This fact has been discouraging to Chinese who are interested in development pro jects, but the railway agreement has given them new hope. ureignton oiuaenis . Celebrate Victory Inspired by the victory of their alma mater over the gridiron war riors of South Dakota, 400 Creighton students made merry downtown last night, parading the streets and cheer ing themselves hoarse. They entered nearly all the down town theaters, cheering, and after ex hausting their repertoire of college yells, left in an orderly manner. In all of the theaters, the audiences re sponded to each yell with loud ap plause. Testimonial of a Guest Delighted at First Sight An interesting letter that speaks for itself, was turned over to the New Kaiserhof Hotel of Chicago a few days ago. "Dear Mrs. Smith," it says, "At last I have solved the question which troubled me the most regarding my visits to Chicago. "Vmi Until limii T AreiAcA in ctnn at the various hotels. It seemed as though I never would find one that I could call home, but a friend of mine suggested, that the next time that I was in Chicago I should stop at the New Kaiserhof Hotel. "I took her advice on this trip and I never was more agreeably surprised with anything in all my life. The mo ment I stepped in the lobby I was de lighted with the air of quiet and re finement so lacking in many of Chica go's hotels. I felt at home immedi ately, felt that at last my problem was solved. The service from the bell boy up to the manager is one of cour tesy and desire to please. The rooms are cool and light with piety of cozy comfort about them to make you for get that you are at a hotel. "The meals served in one of the prettiest grills I have ever been in are delicious. I really do not sec how they can afford to serve such whole some, well cooked fdod for the rea sonable prices charged. I tell you, I am so well pleased and delighted with the home-like surroundings and the comfort I have enjoyed at the New Kaiserhof, that I scarcely know how to express myself. If ever you visit Chicago, be sure to stop at the New Kaiserhof, you will never regret your visit. And you will find the easy cozy comfort without equal anywhere in America. I know for I have traveled all over the country." M. S. GROCER MOST PAY HUNDMFOR HOG Judge Crawford Decides This is the Price Cooper Must Pay for Indiscretion. SUIT WAS FOR A THOUSAND "Just a little hug a little " (busi ness of humming strains of a one time popular ballad). A tolerably expensive luxury, one would say, at $100 the hug? Th tale of the corner groceryman who is alleged to have "gotten fresh" with one of his customers was spun in CQujity court, Judge .Crawford pre siding. It was some tale and when the plaintiff and defendant and their respective attorneys and witnesses had participated in the verbal spinning bee for several hours Judge Crawford handed down a verdict that the hug was worth a century note and the costs of the case. Mrs. Julia Linde, 1520 North Twen tieth street, brought suit against J. Copper, a grocer in the neighborhood, for $1,000 damages, alleging that he became too attentive one day while he was delivering potatoes and kero sene. The plaintiff testified that she re pulsed his advances, told her husband, Otto Linde. of the incident and then onfronted the grocer with the accusa tion, only to have him deny absolutely the allegation. The hugging party was staged on the morning of October 11, according lo the charges of Mrs. Linde. While Cooper was hugging her, Mrs. Linde added, he "playfully" pinched her on the arms. Continue Warnings Against Submarines Boston, Dec. 1. Shipping circles reported tonight that radio messages warning entente allied shipping to avoid the regular steamship lanes be cause of the reported presence of Ger man submarines on this side of the Atlantic, has been sent out today, at least once every twenty-four hours. The warnings are believed to have come from allied cruisers patrrolling the coast, and the British government stations at Halifax and Bermuda and were similar to those which have been sent broadcast for the last few weeks. Foreign shipping, according to re ports received again today avoided the regular lane off the Nantucket Shoals Lightship, where the U-53 operated October 8. Krupps Declare Twelve Per Cent Dividend Again Berlin (Via , London), Dec. 1. The Krupp company has declared a dividend of 12 per cent, the same amount as last year. The company, however, will withhold 6 per cent as a ten-year loan, explaining that the war tax and extensive additions to the plant in filling war orders necessi tates this. Special Parisian Ivory Sale at Beaton's Saturday Parisian Ivory Genuine Imported Parisian Ivory, beautiful and dainty, the most popular and practical material for brushes, mirrors, powder boxes and other toilet requisites. Mirrors, from $1.50 to $11 Hair Brushes, from...$l to $5 Trays, from 50c to $3 Clothes Brushes $3 to $4.25 Hand Brushes . . .65c-75c-85c-$l Manicure Sets, from $1.25 to $10 Combs 40c-65c-75c$l-$1.25, Hairpin Boxes $1.7S-$3.50 Soap Boxes 25c-35c-50c-$l Powder Boxes, from 60c to $3.50 Jewel Boxes $3.50 nd $4.50 Picture Frames $1.25-$1.50-$3.50 Buffers 85c-$1.25-$1.75 Hat Brushes, $1.25-$2.25-$3.50 Button Hooks 50e-$l-$2 Infants' Hair Brushes, 50c-75c Tooth Brush Holders, 25c-50-$l Talcum Powder Boxes, 75c-$l Glove Stretchers $1.50 Baby Rattles 25c-35c-60c Cuticle Knives; 40c to $1.25 Files 50c to $1.25 Clocks $2.50 to $4 Single letters engraved in blue or black done FREE till Xmas. Perfumes $2.25 Houbigant's Ideal Ex tract, per oz $1.59 $2.50 Mary Garden Extract, per oz $1.59 Drug Specials 50c Dewitt's Kidney Pills. . .29c 50e Stuart's Dyspepsia Tab lets 33c 10c Solid Alcohol v 7c 1 gallon Denatured Alcohol.. 85c 10c Wash Cloths 7c $1.50 Fountain Pens, guaranteed two years, for 98c $1.50 Pocket Knives 65c $1.00 S. S. S 67c Beaton Cold Cream, in tubes and jars, for 25c and 50c Peroxide, 25c size for 10c $3.75 Horlick's Hospital Malted Milk for $2.70 25c Mentholatum for 16c $1.25 Goutorbie Powder .... 85c 35c Castoria for 21c 25c Sal Hepatica 17C 2 dozen Aspirin Tablets 35c $1.00 Listerinc for 59c Beaton's Imported Olive Oil, pint bottle for 50c 25c Packer's Tar Soap 15c Candy Place your Xmas orders now. Leave us your cards and we will deliver Xmas eve to any place in the United States. We are agents for Hurler's, Original Al legritti, Lowney'i, O'Briens', Johnston's, Voegele t Dinnings' and Woodward's. All in Xmas Boxes, from 10c to $6 Our Chocolates are received daily. 1 SPECIALS SATURDAY 60c Jordon Almonds, per lb., 39c 60c Melba Chocolate Creams per lb 39c 60c Chocolate Chips, per lb. ,39c Beaton Drug Co. 15th and Far nam Streets JAPANESE SCHOLAR DECRIES U.S. STAND . i Dr. Minakuohi Tells University Club Japan Does Not Want the Philippines. CAN'T AFFORD IT, HE SATS "The Japanese do not want to an nex Hawaii or the Philippines," said Dr. Yutaka Minakuchi, native Japan ese, in his talk at the University club at noon. "Annexing Hawaii or the Philippines would mean an increase of coast line and an increase of coast line means an increase in navy. We do not want an increase in the navy now, for we are heavily indebted. I thank God that today not the mikado, not the cabinet-, but the people rule Japan." The speaker pointed out that just before the Russo-Japanese war the national indebtedness was $325,000,000 and that immediately after the war it was $1,220,000,000. "Japan has no money to spend on navies now," he continued. "If Japan lias any money to spare it will use it in the development of-Manchuria and Korea." Despairing Sight. He touched on the Japanese ex clusion laws of the United States and said: "One of the most despairing sights to me is to see the people of fifty nations flooding into the United States every year by the tens of thou sands and all merged into one na tionality, while that nation still ex cludes certain people on account of race." He declared that Japanese labor is not necessarily cheaper than Euro pean or American labor. "Japanese labor is really better than most la bor," he said. "And in many cases instead of working cheaper the Japan ese is skilled and is able to command even higher wages than the Ameri can in his position." Pig, Cranberries And All Fixin's Will Wait a Week Although kind friends had donated a pig, cranberries and the other fixin's that go with a Thanksgiving dinner, such an event failed to conic off at the City Mission yesterday afternoon. Instead it will be given a week from Thanksgiving, and the 200 mothers and children invited will not be any the loser by the delay. Miss Magee of the City Mission says that it takes about a week to prepare for the big annual event, and that she has already started making preparations for Thursday. A quiet dinner for the help and. the girls who make the Mis sion their home w.as held yesterday noon. About twenty were present. Savants to Discuss 'American Language' New York, Dec. f The Amcr can language," as distinguished from ''British-Knglish," will be discussed at the annua! convention of the National Council of Teachers of Knglish, which opened here today with educators from all parts of the country in attendance. (ienulmt NurprU. Ths trandliin boasted thai nature wan his only teacher. "That expression of nurprlne that you RMturuo in the wconil act of your latent play in thai copied from nalurp, loo?" an admirer asked. "It in," aid fh tmitPdian. "Rut I hud no end of trouble in jfi'UIng It, To secure that expression I aakd an Ititimalo friend to lnd me $L&. Ho refuatnl. That caunt'd un no tiurprtHP. I tried several othr frlenda. They refused. Still I was not nurprised. Finally I asked on who waa wilting lo oblige me and aa he handfd me the monoy 1 ntudled In a glaan the eKprewsdon of my own fuco, I saw surprise there, hut It wun not what I wanted; it waa alloyed with the ausplrlon that the money mltrht be counterfeit, 1 wn (n decpalr. Whore should I find (ronuinc but prtaf ?" "Well,' aatd his admirer, "whnro did you got 117" "Then an Idea slrurk mp," (he tragedian said, "I reaolvfd upon a dcrprrate coure. I returned the to my friend the next dti and on his astonished rountenanoe I Haw th expression I was in anarch of," -New York Times. FARM CONGRESS TO OPPOSEMBARGO Proposed Embargo On Grain Will Be Main Topic at the Coming Convention. ALSO CONSIDER FARM BANK The proposed embargo on grain will again be discussed and likely very strenuously opposed week after next in Omaha, when the Nebraska farm congress meets here. Embargo is one of the principal subjects to be dis cussed at the meeting. The dates are December 12, 13 and 14. , The attendance at this convention promises to be a large one. Secretary J. 13. Grinnell of Papillion has sent out many letters and credentials to delegates, and' has already received a large volume of replies from dele gates who are coming. The federal farm loan bank act will occupy a large place on the program. Now that this has become a law, and the hanks are soon to be established, the farmers want to be enlightened of ficially as to just what the provisions of the act arc. There will be speakers at the convention who will interpret the act and make it plain as to just how loans can be obtained and other important provisions. The proposition of a possible new capitol building will also likely be taken up, and endorsed or opposed, as the case may be. Good roads will receive its share of discussion and anything pertaining to legislation in, which the farmers are interested will be taken up. Refused Good-Bye Kiss, Wyley Ester Kills Self Because his wife, with whotn he had quarreled, refused to kiss him good-bye when he prepared for a visit to his mother in Missouri, Wvlev Ester, colored, of 1401 North Twenty first street, last night sent a bullet into hu brain, his wife said. He was dead when the police came. Mrs. Ester is being detained at headquarters for investigation. Ester was shot in the back of the head, the bullet barely penetrating the skull. He had been employed by the Sun derland Coal company as a laborer. Mrs. Ester said they had been mar ried seven vcars. The quarrel started because he had been drinking heavily of late, she told Deputy Loroner Jones. Rich Italian Slain On a Frisco Street In Pitched Battle Turgrassio, a wealthy manufacturer, was shot dead on one ot tne main thoroughfares of San Francisco's I aim unartpr Hnrinff nttrhed battle with three assailants, said by the po- i: I I f .... It-itU 1ILC IU UC IIICI11UC13 Ul all lioiiau society. Joe redone and nts two nepnews, Antone and Jose Fedone, were ar rested tonight and the police are in- ,V.-,.lB,.n ....... o,.,... - with threatening letters said recently 10 nave Dccn- reccivcu ny lurgraaaiu. wounded from the two revolvers with which Turgrassio defended himself. Poison Draught Solace Of Girl on Thanksgiving For May Ellis, 20 years old, life held nothing worth while, she thought, so while the world was celebrating a day of thanksgiving she ended her life in a room at 1402 Howard street by swallowing a glassful of power- ful poison. The landlady, Mrs. Da vid Hill, found her and notified Chief of Detectives Maloney. t The Ellis girl had been living at the Hill place for several weeks and was apparently satisfied with life. The Thanksgiving spirit, however,' made her despondent, it -is thought, and prompted her to the act. Her mother, Mrs. E. Kephart, is a widow, and lives at 1620 South Elev enth street. Council Bluffs. One Minute Store Talk There never was a time that put a store to the test as much as now. We want you to know that our stand ard of quality is not chang ed. The Greater Nebraska's first choice in the world's markets is of more vital im portance to you today than ever before. 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