THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1917.
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The next preparedness muit be for the id
vent of Mr. Groundhog.
What this country needs most urgently is a
League to Suppress Pork in Congress.
The rising cost of living lends effective first
aid to those who contend we" are living too high.
But why should anyone attempt to kill the
king of Spain, the most inoffensive of all the
European royalty?
, Thrift is a good principle to Instill into youth"
fui minds, but hasty action on the poor farm deal
is not needed to carry the lesson to elders.
: Four short weeks to the finish of the emigres
and business piled high. Overtime work without
extra pay presses annoyingly on eight-hour de
fenders. The two Nebraska boys who have made a
canoe trip all the way to New Orleans hare doubt
less had a fine time of it. It will be different pad
dling back I
Not much timber remains on the county poor
farm to shelter a speculative coon, but specula
tive moles burrow beneath the surface and "get
there just the same."
When it comes to regal international courtesy
expense doesn't count. The allied salutes in honor
of the kaiser's birthday far exceeded the regula
tion number of guns.
Time and weariness qf will induced the New
York hunger striker to take some nourishment.
This gives the sob squad a welcome opening for
more sleep and fewer screams. '
Another large allied steamer has gone to the
bottom of the sea off the Irish coast. The score of
war wrecks in that locality promises large busi
ness in treasure salvage in the coming years of
peace."' ' '
With all that money available for improve
ments, it should not be hard for the Union Pa
cific to find the million or two needed to give
Omaha an up-to-date and adequate Union pas
senger depot.
Measured by results and expense, the homeward-bound
"punitive expedition" constitutes a
living exhibition of the "watchful waiting" policy.
Reduced to figures the account stands: Results,
0: expense, $70,000,000.
It it surely tough on Edgar Howard to hava
to choose again between Wilson and Bryan as
his "apostle of peace." Edgar must be saying to
himself: "How happy I could be with either were
t'other dear charmer away!"
While the Omaha police team rolled in the
dust of humiliation at Denver, the police of Coun
cil Bluffs stuck to the home job and won a pack'
age of 336 pints,. The lesson of this it that home
opportunities rarely miss delivering the goods.
The first month of the legislative session has
been unusually tame and peculiarly devoid of
sensations. It is up to somebody to start a fist
fight on the floor or charge a colleague with
crookedness, or at least denounce some poor lob
byist for offensive attentions.
S The corn belt is short more than five inches
' of moisture, as compared with this time a year
' ago, which means that we are due for several
i heavy snows yet and copious spring rains if we
i are to catch up to the mark where we ought to
be. At any rate, keep your rubber shoes handy.
The Gift of Enthusiasm
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A wonderful thing is this quality which we call
enthusiasm. It is too often underrated as so much
surplus and useless display of feeling, lacking in
real substantiality. This is an enormous mistake.
You can't go wrong in applying all the genuine
. enthusiasm that you can stir up within you; for it
is the power that moves the world. There is
nothing comparable to it, in the things which it
can accomplish.
We can cut through the hardest rocks with a
diamond drill and melt steel rails with a flame.
We can tunnel through mountains and make our
way through any sort of physical obstruction. We
can checkmate and divert the very laws of nature,
uy our science.
But there is no power in the world than can
cut through another man's mental opposition, ex
cept persuasion. And persuasion is reason plus
ntnusiasm, witn tne empnasis on enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm is the art of high persuasion.
And did you ever stop to think that your oroi
ress is commensurate with your ability to move
the minds of other neoDle? If vnu are a aaleaman
this is pre-eminently so. t, Even if you are a clerk
it is tne zest which you put into your work that
ciiriiiuicb an appreciation in inc minu 01 your em
plover.
You have a good idea don't think that other
people will recognize it at once. Columbus had
a good idea, but he didn't get "across" with it
'..without much of this high persuasion.
If you would like to be a power among men
cultivate enthusiasm. People will like you better
for it: you will escape the dull routine of a me
chanical existence and you wilt make headway
" wherever you are. it cannot be otherwise, for
this is the law of human life. Put your soul into
uur work and not only will you find it pleasanter
tvrry hour of the day, but people will believe in
you just as they believe in electricity when they
gel into touch with a dynamo.
And remember this there is no secret about
this "gift" of enthusiasm. It is the sure reward of
deep, honest thought and hard, persistent labor,
County Hospital Conditions.
The periodic disclosures of intolerable condi
tions at our county hospital and poor farm are
again being made, but, unfortunately, there is
nothing new in the situation which for years, with
slight variations, has been equally bad. What we
mean to say is that with the accommodations
and the increasing pressure upon them the hos
pital authorities are probably doing the best they
can and that no one else could be expected to do
much better.
The county hospital problem, however, is not
to be solved by mere outcry, but calls for a con
structive policy based on the best modern hospital
and charity experience. The basic defect lies in
the fact that we attempt to do in one institution
and under one management social work that
should be wholly separated and for public wards
calling for entirely different treatment. As The
Bee has more than once said, what Douglas
county needs is segregation of hospital, infirmary
and detention place for insane and, perhaps, still
further differentiation between men and women.
We should, in truth, maintain a home for aged
men and a home for aged women, a general hos
pital for the indigent poor, a lying-in hospital, a
tuberculosis hospital and a detention station for
insane. We already have a detention home for
children, but a distinction there should be made
between children who are merely destitute and
children who are wayward or incorrigible, be
tween mere child unfortunates and the bad boys
and girls who need discipline. No program for
the county will be complete, either, without a
workhouse or workfarm for the petty offenders
now maintained in comfortable idleness at the
countv iail.
This is a pretentious prospectus not to be I
fulfilled in a month or a year, but nothing short
of it will answer requirements for a great, pro
gressive and humane community like ours.
Record Foreign Trade
Naw Yard Jaoraal at Caainira
How to Get Home Rule.
One of the main things that brought about
the adoption of the home rule amendment to the
constitution of Nebraska was the prospect held
out that it would relieve the legislature of its
regular time-wasting performance of charter tink
ering for Omaha and Lincoln yet, here ii the
legislature still at it. If the lawmakers would
imply refuse to do a thing and issue the ultima
tum that these two cities look after their own af
fairs the job would be finished.
Suits Between Sovereign States.
The United States is asked to issue a writ of
mandamus ordering the sovereign state of West
Virginia tp pay a huge judgment held by its sister
state of Virginia. This is an entirely novel pro
ceeding and will be watched with much interest
by all who art interested in our form of govern
ment. It involves the compulsory power of the
nation over a state. This power has been estab
lished in other ways, but never in its suggested
form. Suits between states are not novel, as over
boundary lines, water and other rights, and points
that may be thus adjudicated. Some years ago
South Dakota acted at an agency through which'
to compel the state of Tennessee to settle with
the holder of disputed bonds. This subterfuge was
not retorted to in the tuit between the two Vir
ginias, the issue being a division of the state debt
as it Mood in 1861, when the separation took place.
Old Virginia holdt the judgment of the supreme
court of the United States, but cannot collect, as
the legislature of West Virginia declines to levy
the tax for payment. It may well be doubted if
the supreme court, itself the guardian of constitu
tional liberty, will undertake to order a state to
perform tn act the doing of which it entirely
within the discretion of the state. Such an order
would entirely overturn not only the doctrine of
state rights, but the balance between the three
branches of our government If West Virginia is
willing tp assnme whatever of obloquy attaches to
declining to pay a juagment aeot, mat wouia seem
to be within its choice, and not to be disturbed "by
even he highest court in the land. .
Peace Through the 8 word.
' Emperor William's address to his people on
his birthday, when he laid Germany is seeking
peace through the sword, squares well with Presw
dent Wilson I message, delivered a few days ear
lier. , Peace of the world for the future must de
pend on sufficient force to support the righteous
determinations of the council of nations. Present
day expressions may emanate from different
sources, and for divergent reasons, hut they tend
to the same end. The principle enunciated has
the support of all, but the method of its appli
cation presents many difficulties. Harmony must
be established between two opposed fundamentals
whether the state or the individual is the unit.
This is not impossible, since harmony consists
not in unanimity, but in balance. Adjustment is
a matter of accommodation, details of which must
be carefully considered and thoughtfully worked
out. The peace of the world will be established
and maintained through the sword in proper control.
Trousers Not Yet for Woman.
. Mere man will feel some glow of gratitude to
the authorities of Munich, who have forbidden
woman to assume male habiliments till necessity
requires. This restores in some measure a right
that has been man's since the days of Moses at
least. To be sure, a twilight zone between the
garb of the sexes has always existed, in which
masculine women and feminine men might, find
opportunity for indulgence of personal taste or
idiosyncracy in dress, but the women generally
have conceded to man the right to wear the
breeches. One of the odd effects of the world
war has been a stimulus to feminism, which, curi
ously enough, hat found expression in the inva
sion of man's dressing room, where the dear ones
have taken over his socks, his pants, his neckties
and other external coverings and decorations, thus
doing much to obliterate outward and visible
signs that distinguish between the sexes. The
order from Munich may not have come in time to
save the loot, but it shows at least one spot in
which man is assured of protection if not respect
in his distinctive garb..
Someone complains that the electric lighting
company charges a higher rate for service to in
habitants of the strip lying between Omaha and
Benson than to the Inhabitants of either of these
incorporated cities. That's easily remedied! Just
come in and be annexed to us and pay city taxes
like the rest of us with the same right to enjoy
the same public utility benefits.
' A federal recall on the mayor of Seattle insures
deeper agitation than the original recall and re
election. An indictment charging bribery and
violation of revenue laws seriously impairs the
usefulness of t promising reformer.
The foreign trade of this country for 1916 rose
far above the record of any preceding year and
there it little probability that it will be exceeded
for some time to come, though the present year
is full of uncertainty. It is a familiar fact that
the large rise in export values was due to the ab
normal condition produced by the war in Europe,
which did not have its full effect upon the trade
of this country before the end of 1915. What are
classed as war exports exceeded $2,500,000,000,
which is more than the entire value of exports in
any year prior to 1915. That value exceeded $2,
000,000,000 for the first time in 1911. It reached
more than $3,550,000,000 in 1915 and last year
amounted to $5,481,000,000. Much of what are
classed as war exports, less than $1,000,000,000
of which consisted of munitions of war in the
strict sense, were such supplies as would probably
have shown some increase under the demands of
peaceful times, consisting of various materials for
machinery, and implements and meaqs of trans
portation available for either war or peace. In
cluded are horses and mules, automobiles, boots
and shoes and certain chemicals. The figures are
also affected by abnormal prices for many articles.
In the last year there was an unexampled in
crease in imports. The value of these reached $1,
000,000,000 for the first time in 1904. The maxi
mum before the war in Europe was $1,800,000,000
in 1912. After this there was a slight falling off
until and including 1915, when the total was $1,
772,000,000. Last year it reached $2,392,000,000.
Even that left a phenomenal balance, or excess of
exports, amounting to $3,000,000,000, or much
more than the total value of the imports. Thit
balance compares with $1,778,000,000 the preceding
year, which was far above any previous excess of
exports, the highest having been $692,000,000 in
1913. The intermediate year of 1914, shortly after
the middle of which the war broke out, this excess
was only a little above $325,000,000. In some
months of that year the balance was on the other
side.
With an excess of over $3,000,000,000 in value
of exports over imports last year there was a net
inward movement of gold amounting to $530,
000,000. This exceeded by more than $100,000,000
that of the preceding year, which was far above all
previous records, and yet it was little more than
one-sixth ot the exports to be paid for in excess
of merchandise imports. The rest of the payment,
to a large but unrecorded extent, came from a re
turn of American securities held abroad, and to
another large extent from foreign borrowing in
this country in government loans and banking
credits, The situation is utterly abnormal and
calls for caution and foresight in commercial and
financial calculation for some time to come. How
long it will last no man can tell, but it is certain
to be followed by a period of reaction which will
have to be dealt with skillfully and cautiously to
avoid trouble.
February as a Bluffer
BalHaaara AmmIibm
February it the prime lackey of winter. It it
the month that ttirs up the clouds to an angry
pitch of blizzardt and of polar temperatures that
race through the days, as the defiance by winter
of advance agents of spring. For there are ad
vance agents seen in the lengthening days and in
an occasional puff of spring air through the
stratas of cold. It falls to February to seek to
distract attention from the shortening of the term
of the grisly monarch. It falls to the month that
is almost at hand to throw out a big blanket of
snow against the sun and to cause the noonday
orb to glow with a chill and forbidding light. It
falls to February to cover up the fields and the
lence rails with the ermine substance and then to
point to its work and claim that the reign of win
ter shall be unchallenged
And it really do appear to be the case some
times during February. So cold does it become
and so desolate and dreary that one has to em
ploy the imagination to its full effect to realize
how a rare day of spring can feet. And there
comes over the spirit the disturbing thought that
perhaps there never will be a thaw and perhaps
winter will wield the wand perpetually and the
snowbird be the last vocalist of the air.
This is all part of the stage play of winter, the
grandiloquent, the lusty and louty braggart, the
spoiler and the splurger. Winter delights in noth
ing so much as in terrorism. Terror is the stock
in trade of February. It carries with it a full list
of the ills that man is heir to; it carries with it the
full outfit -of weather horrors; it carries along
with it a calendar that shortens the month to
twenty-eight days aa if in mockery, for fact is
that February is the longest of the months in ex
perience. Yet, it is alt a blind; February is a bluff. Win
ter perpetuates its fraud during the month of
February. For close following the old fighter
against all that is lovely and mild and pleasing
is found March, with its broom to brush the snow
of February from the portals of spring. But this
is advancing too far. The only purpose at present
being to serve notice in advance that nv matter
how fierce may be the manifestations of winter in
February, it is but the last big effort of the king
to hold to his icicle throne.
People and Events
' Richard Wagner accomplished more after the
age of fifty than before. "Parsifal" was written
when he was 64 years old.
The English city of Bradford now derives a
revenue of $300,000 a year from what was for
merly the unutilized refuse of the city sewers.
A rope of 258 large pearls, formerly worn by
Queen Victoria and bequeathed . by her to the
duchess of Albany, was sold in London recently
for $13,500. .
It hat been computed that the average indi
vidual in the civilized world uses eight matches
a day. I hree millions of them are struck every
minute of the year.
An Oregon judge, evidently a live member
of the gas wagon host, advocates a return to the
whipping post for automobile thieves. Why not
revive the methods by which the pioneers dis
couraged horse-thieving?
Ocean traffic yields handsome profits these
stirring times. A Philadelphia schooner bought
for $35,000 a year ago and engaged in the Bra
zillian trade already has netted its owners $68,000
ana is now valued at J,ouo.
A phantom taxi and a phantom chauffeur, to
gether dipped into Chicago's treasury for $104 ii
payment of phantom rides certified by a city em
ploye. The incident is considered a live example
ot malting tne gnost walk.
Less than a year ago Philadelohia voted SI 14.
500,000 for public improvements. The bonds re
ceived a great popular majority, which induced
the administration to extend the improvement
plan, necessitating more bonds. A special elec
tion is called tor April to vote $9,000,000 more.
louncnmen are waist high in clover.
The dry lawmakers of Tennessee plan to show
'em all how to hammer the wets good and nlentv.
Last week four new laws were enacted dealing
with wholesalers and bootleggers, prohibiting
locker clubs, making bootlegging a felony and
forbidding soliciting whisky orders. A "bone drv"
bill is booked to go through the chute this week.
I he laurels ot Kansas are in danger.
Billy Sunday is now billed ahead for eighteen
months. The salvation of Buffalo has just begun
and will continue eight weeks, and New York
gets in the Sunday whirl beginning April 7. The
invasion of Chicago starts September 24, and
Washington, December 31. St. Louis and Los
Angeles are the big sinners booked for successive
ounches during: the first half of 1918. Rnatnn'a
farewell collection netted $53,000, passing Phila
delphia by $1,000 and setting a hot pace for subse
quent sinnoids.
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Health Hint For the Day.
Do not allow the temperature of
the room In which you are working
to rite higher than sixty-live or sev
enty degrees Fahrenheit, as more heat
lessens the comfort ana emciency in
work.
One Tear Aago Today in the Wtr.
United States note asking specific
disavowal of sinking of Lusitania
reached Berlin.
Official recort rave twenty-tnree
killed and twenty-nine Injured at re
sult of two Zeppelin raids on Paris.
Turks aald to have fled from Er
zerum, which city was now surrounded
by Russians.
Berlin reported Germans had Tt
tained all ground gained In their drive
near Neuvllle and south of the Somme.
In Omaha Thirty Yrars Ago.
The Omaha Odd Fellows' trustees
held a meeting and elected officers
for the ensuing year at followa: Henry
Jackson, president; P. Olson, secre
tary; F. B. Bryant, treasurer. W. A.
Kelley, the retiring secretary, on the
conclusion of the meeting, entertained
the newly elected gentlemen at an ex
cellent oyster and wine tupper, gotten
up In Hlggin't best style.
Dr. Oalbraith, the Union Pacific
urgeon, who was Injured at Valley a
few daya ago. It a Die to ot arouna on
crutches and It la expected that he
will be able to attend to business In
a few days,
A number of the members or tne
Loyal Legion, -among whom were
Meaira. Becbel, ewooe, wyman ana
Curtis, left on the B. and M. train to
attend the monthly meeting of the or
der at Lincoln.
Augustus Konntse. head of the
great banking firm of Kountte Broth
ers, New York, and the founder of the
First National bank at Omaha, It in
the city on a brief visit.
It It becoming well known that
Armour to me time ago made all hit
arrangements for building immense
packing houtet in South Omaha the
coming season.
Burglars broke into the house of F.
W. Wettels, of the Omaha Bavings
bank, on North Twenty-second.
The Omaha Barbed Wire company
hat prospered in such a manner In (he
last year, that the stockholders have
decided to Increase their plant and
working capacity by Increasing the
capital stock to il 00,000.
This Day In History.
1(41 King Charles I ot England
was beheaded at Whitehall.
1754 John Lansing, chancellor of
New York, who opposed the Federal
Constitution, born at Albany. Died In
New York City, December 12, 1829.
1797 John Fairfield, governor of
Maine during the celebrated Aroo
ttook dltturbance, born at Saco, Me.
Died In Washington, D. C, December
14, 1847.
181 Nathaniel P. Banks, civil war
commander, governor of Massachus
etts and speaker of the national house,
born at Waltham, Matt. Died there,
September 1, 1894.
IMS Attempted assassination of
President Jackson at the Capitol by
Richard Lawrence.
1147 The earl of Ebrttr took oath
at governor-general ot Canada.
1867 The Evangelical Alliance ot
the United Statet waa organised In
New York City.
1889 Crown Prince Rudolph of
Austria-Hungary, died under myster
ious circumstances at Meyerltng.
1894 The United Btatee flag waa
fired on In the harbor of Rio de
Janeiro, by the inaurgenta engaged In
the Brazilian war.
1S00 William Ooebel waa thot by an
assassin at .Frankfort, Ky.: legislative
boards declared him elected governor.
1801 Representative! of the royal
houses of Europe arrived in England
to attend the funeral ot Queen Vic
toria. 1905 Warsaw, Poland, was re
ported under mob rule.
1901 King Frederick VIII, acceded
to the throne of Denmark.
The Day We Celebrate.
Right Rev. Arthur L. Williams,
Episcopal bishop of Nebraska, born
at Owen Sound, Ontario, tizty-one
years ago today.
Most Rev. William J. Walsh, Catho
lic archbishop of Dublin and Primate
of Ireland, born In Dublin, seventy
years ago today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, anrtstanj
secretary of the United Statet navy,
born at Hyde Park, N. T., thirty-five
years ago today.
General J. Warren Keifer, former
speaker of the national house of rep
resentatives, born in Clark county,
Ohio, eighty-one years ago today.
Very Rev. Daniel Gordon, who re
cently resigned aa principal of Queens
university, Kingston, Ontario, born at
Pictou, N, S seventy-two years ago
today.
Jacob M. Dickinson, former secre
tary of war of the United States, born
at Columbus, Mist., tixty-tlx years ago
today.
Walter J. Damrotch, celebrated
musical composer and conductor, born
at Breslau, Prussia, fifty-five years ago
today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
The annual convention of the In
ternational Welfare association, com
monly known as the hoboes' conven
tion, it scheduled to meet today at
Buffalo.
A meeting of the executive council
of the Chamber of Commerce of the
United Statet it to be held in Wash
ington today, preliminary to the open
ing ot the general convention of the
organisation In that city tomorrow.
A notable Shorthorn tale, to In
clude a dispersion ot the famous herd
from the farm of the late James J.
Hill at Northcote, Minn., it to begin
in Chicago today and will continue
over tomorrow.
The adoption of the daylight saving
plan by setting the clock forward one
hour in' the United Statet, through
publio concurrence, from May 1 to
September SO, will be considered by
the National Daylight Saving conven
tion, which begtna its session today at
the Hotel Attor, in New York City.
Storyette of the Day.
A golfer who waa very anxious to
tail everybody what fine score he
had made met another member of
the club whom he knew only casually
and told him of hit fine round.
"Do you know," I said, "I have ac
complished an eighty-five today, tome
thing I never hoped to do."
"Good," said the listener, "I am
awfully glad to hear that. You know
who I am, don't you? I am the new
member of the handicap committee."
"Oh, you are?" said the player with
the wonderful score. "You know whom
I am, don't you T Well, I am the big
gest liar In tha world." Oolfert' Mag-aaina
Stop BcTK-rae to 8etl Poor Farm.
Omaha, Jan. 29. To the Editor of
The Bee: Douglas county needt and
thould have a new hospital building of
aufUclent tlze and modern equipment
to humanely care for all indigents and
Insane who are compelled to seek its
shelter, but to provide the funde for
Its erection by telling the "county
farm" would be a grievous mistake.
This land (160 acres), If held an
other generation will be in the heart
of a city of 600,000 people and It could
be made to produce income sufficient
to support every public dependent In
the county.
One reason given for asking the
legislature to past a special act au
thorizing the county commissioners to
sell the land without submitting the
proposition to a vote of the people It
not a sincere one, namely, the cost of
holding a special election. The real
reason Is that the people would never
vote to make the sale. Experience
shows that seldom, if ever, the people
vote to tell public land owned by a
city or county, and, at usual, the peo
ple are right. They can hold it tree
from all taxes and its increase In value
benefits all,
Vote bonds to build the hospital,
either on the present site or, It best,
buy another more suitable, but keep
the land. Let ua bequeath tomething
of value to the next generation In re
turn for the "bonded indebtedness
which they will Inherit.
C. F. M'GREW.
Why Not Omaha for the Capital.
Omaha, Jan. 29. To the Editor of
The Bee: The question of erecting a
new state capitol la again being agi
tated and thould receive the serious
consideration of the people of the
state.
The capital of a state, unlike a
county seat where people go to pay
taxes, etc., need not necessarily be
anywhere near the center ot the state,
but Its location thould be near the
main arterial of the state, sightly, ele
vated, commanding and where the nat
ural surroundings, scenery and acces.
sibllity are of the best the state can
afford. While Lincoln is a nice, quiet
city and very suitable for many of the
state institutions now located there, It
does not possess any natural features
typical of the west, except the open
prairie. It has neither lake, bluff or
river, It miles away from one of the
createst railways in the world, which
runs through the entire length of the
state, and thousands of people pass
through Nebraska every year who
never tee itt capital.
The new buildlnir should be located
in Omaha, or near It, on one of the
solendid bluffs or elevations command
lng a view of America's greatest river,
the Missouri, with Its wonderful isl
ands, bars, bluffs, lakes and foliage,
scenery unsurpassed In the world.
Minnesota placed Its capitol on'the
bluffs of the Mississippi, Massachu
setts, Maryland and many other of the
statet placed thelra on the shores of
the ocean or close to a magnificent
stream and why should not Nebraska
have Its capital at Omaha, the indus
trial wonder of the great west.
J. J. B.
Appreciative of Omaha Art.
Omaha, Jan. 27. To the Editor of
The Bee: I note with pleasure the
space given to the pictures on exhibi
tion by the Omaha Art Gild, an organ
ization ot which this city may well be
proud, for Its growth since itt very In
ception hat been steadily upward. The
hard-working members deserve from
us the most generous praise, the high
est appreciation, the warmest encour
agement and loyal support for thelc
splendid efforts In our behalf. The
artists ot the Gild have made good.
The four fine reproductions in The
Bee prove this fact But why, in com
mon fairness, should not the honors
be divided? Why give prominence
only to the efforts of the men. As I
understand It the Omaha Art Gild is
not exclusively a man's organization
or a "stag" coterie. There are some
women connected with It and they
know how to paint In fact after an
Impartial survey ot the pictures In the
gallery I fail to see that in any respect
the feminine members have fallen be
low the men in conforming to the
standard Mr. Wallace sets.
I have no wish to decry the work of
those special artists whom The Bee has
delighted to honor. Mr. Wallace cer
tainly deserves first place, for all his
portraits are full of power, expression
and life, and in my opinion "Pensive
Awhile She Dreams Awake!" is the
loveliest thing in the collection. But
In whkt essential attribute, quality or
attraction is Doane Powell's "Jocelyn"
or Charles M. Fuchs' "Portrait of My
Sister" superior to the picture entitled
"Reverie" by Cordelia Johnson? Not
In faithfulness of outline, harmony of
pose, trueness of coloring and expres
sion, surety and most emphatically
not in strength or In atmosphere.
"Reverie" Is a living canvass worthy
of Mr. Wallace himself.
And wherefore eliminate the land
scapes, many of which, painted though
they are by mere women, are deserv
ing of a place in the very best Omaha
collection that has been painstakingly
and expensively acquired by either the
indefatigable "Frienda of Art" or the
exclusively up-to-date ' Society of Fine
Arts." "The Sunlit Path," by Augusta
Knight for example, breathes of
poetry and Inspiration; "Evening" is
an exquisite little study. And there
are many others, such aa Jennie Lich
novsky's "Sketch Near Bellevue,"
"Sand Dunes," by Gertrude M. Young;
"Golden October," by Pamela Sylves
ter; "The Beach," by Rosa Harris, all
charming and full of merit. In the
distribution ot honors they should not
be forgotten.
Oh, well, what in the name of all the
old masters does the art editor of The
Bee know about true art anyway? If
I had Fortunatus' purse I'd buy every
picture in that exhibit at prices that
would float every artist among them
full sail on the sea of prosperity and
fame, and then I'd present them to
Omaha at a nucleus for the splendid
collection we mean to have one of
these days when we build our own are
gallery and become a real "art cen-
. . . . ti 1 1 tyi herns
ler. Anu m mo -
wlehlng the Gild all the prosper ty, a
the satisfaction In ambitious work, well
achieved, all tne joy in man
ment that can possibly be crowded
into one brief year for 191J-
2150 South Thirty-third Street
Democracy Founded on Religious
Freedotn.
. aa Tn tha VMitor of
The Bee: I congratulate Archbishop
Harty on tne aeciurnuuu i v.k...
so pleasing and fundamental, an
opinion ordinary in conception, but
most extraordinary in declaration.
Bishop Harty on a recent occasion
declared tor Christian democracy, a
principle so altruistic and fundamental
to the very life of the nation.
kh nn vesterdav. con
tinues today and will endure on tomor
row, because itt political democracy
is made possiDie Dy mufi
. it ... Mi A,miftA.nc to the
Bianup nan . ,
truest Americanism and the principle
most elemental to human life and the
destiny of a nation. Because the po
litical capacity and all the other ele
ments of human progress of nations
will be, at in the past history of the
human race, in exact proportion to the
wisdom and grandeur of their concep
tion Ol Aimigniy uuu
n, . t r .ukMHrni aa an in-
terpretatlve formula, reveals the evo
lutionary cause of the formation of the
great American republic to be the ref
ormation. I hope I have expressed
underatanaingiy my .
Tst.hnn TTnrtv'a declaration of individ
ual religious freedom.
SAID IN FUN.
"Too claim to !. lM& nl lot.M
"Yet you go around with a perpetual grin
on your face. When you have loved and lost
deference to the lady makes It proper not
to appear to be too cheerful a loaer. '
LouiivUle Courier-Journal,
Teacher, Jim Brown It tlcain hli feet
aoroiti the floor, and he'a chewing gum."
"Jim, you disobedient boy, take that
nasty stuff oat of your mouth and pat your
feet In."- Baltimore American.
The Wife Playing bridge.
"Did you win?"
"No. I loat."
"You ought to be aahamed of youmelf.
Tou should have been at home looking after
your children." Tonkers Statesman.
l&VY WW
MILUOVtMREd ABE
'Tou girls are all alike," he said.
"What do you mean?" she asked.
"Oh, you're all like Eve."
"How so?"
"Why, Eve took the first man that cam
along, didn't she ?" Tonkers Statesman.
".Sharper was a vlctfm of the eard-lndec
scheme."
"How's that?"
"He was caught marking the deck in
a little mining town out west. M Puck.
"Tour boy licked my Johnny. Tou should
lecture him for hitting a boy smaller than
himself."
"Is that so! Well, you just go hack and
lecture your kid on the imprudence of
talking easay to a boy bigger than he is."
-Boston Transcript.
Mra. Blgby (relating her experience with a
burglar) I heard a sort of noise and saw a
pair of feet sticking out from under the bed.
Caller Gracious I Burglar's?
Mrs. Blgby No, my husband's. He had
heard the noise, too. Judge. "
"Do you think the word 'obey' ought to
be dropped from the marriage ceremonial ?"
"No. Let It stay. It doesn't make any
more difference in the actual result than
the eleotoral college." Washington Star.
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