The Omaha Bee! MORNIN G—E V E N I N C—S U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Puhluhrr N. B. UPDIKE. rrr-iHrM BALLARD DUNN. JOY M HACKLF.R, Editor in Chief Business Manager ! MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, it exclusively entitled to the use for repuhliration of all new? dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credit'd in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of our special dispatches are also reserved. The Omaha Bee is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognized authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee’s circulation is regularly audited by their organizations. Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908. at Omaha postoffice, under act of March 3. 1879. BEE TELEPHONES PrW.te Branch K«han*a. Ain the fa miliar pharmacopeia. Many drank liberally of the milk, but somehow or other death and disease re mained a common lot of man. Scientists demon strated that the b. h. did possess certain qualities that were efficacious in regulating the course of na 0 ture, even assisting in definitely limited situations. The Metchnikoff hug was not the cure-all, however. Now. Prof. Leo H. Rettger of Yale comes to the front with a successor to Bacillus Bulgaricus. He has been experimenting for ten years with Bacillus Acidophilus, to be administered with milk, and finds that it does many if not all the things worth doing that were claimed for the Bulgarian bacillus, and does not do some of the unpleasant things the for eigner achieved. He does not claim that it will in sure life without end, hut that it will aid in making existence supportable hy removing, many of the causes of old age. Some day the fight will be won. Just as man begins on milk, so he will end. Soured or fermented by the addition of Bulgaricus, Acidophilus, or some other bug with a Latin name, milk will be the sup port and sustenance of declining years. Then we will have cults opposed to the drinking of milk. NOT ALTOGETHER A MYSTERY. One thing is very clear in connection with the measure that was intended to stop the jail feeding graft in Douglas county. The bill lodged in the hands of the senate committee on miscellaneous affairs, from which group it was returned to the senate without recommendation. How it got to that committee may be something of a mystery. Clyde Bernard, veteran clerk of the senate, admits he is a little hit nonplused at the incomplete record. He declines to commit himself as to responsibility for the omissions that conceal the persons who were interested in having the measure sent to the com mittee where it has been located. In the dear old days it was not an uncommon thing to have a measure lost between one house and 'he other, or to disappear from the file, or some thing like that. Modern practice is supposed to safe guard against such mishaps. So the missing meas ure, in which there is considerable public interest, was located in Senator Tom Dysart's rapacious pock et. It has been brought out of there, and before long the senate will be given a chance to deter nine as to its merits. Senator Hoye is interested m the matter, for he offered in the senate a com panion bill to the one passed by the house. He will not let the time slip by without an effort to get ac tion on this measure which means so much. We know that Sheriff Endres is able to muster a considerable array of support, at least outside the senate, for his side of the case. He has his friends. They have already shown their power. Maybe they will he able to defeat this bill, and permit the con tinuance during the remainder of Endres’ term of the jail feeding practice that turns such a tidy net income into the sheriff's pocket each year. If it is to be defeated, however, it ought to eftrne on the floor of the senate and not in the file of one of its committees. SOMETHING TO EAT. When a Chicago poet sang of “Omaha, with a dirty face, getting the world's breakfast," he was on the track of truth. He might have omitted the “dirty face,” for Omaha is fairly clean, physically snd morally. No metropolis smiles.more benignly on •he visitor, none gives its people more of comfort pnd reason for content. But Omaha certainly does contribute to the world's breakfast table. I.ast year the Omaha food factories prepared and sent out for consumption foods valued at $254,083,120. To this must be added food distributed by wholesale houses nere amounting in value to $123,522,725. A total of 81,034,810 worth of food supplied the world each day of the year from Omaha. Included in this are meats, fruits, crackers, bread, pies, macaroni, ice cream, jellies, sauces, jams, and all sorts of things that satisfy hunger or tempt the appetite. A great stream of provender, going out steadily to meet the requirements of the world, that continually asks for more. The development of this Industry, hardly out of its swaddling clothes, is a romance in itself. It is a tribute to modern ef 'iciency. Omaha is a natural place for such indus tries. It is the center of the world's most fectind area, a region that each year, as regularly as the sea sons roll round, produces and sends to market more food material than any other similar area in the world. It is natural, then, that.much of this raw ma terial should be prepared for use here. More of it will be, as time gaps on. Omaha has come up to be tirst butter market, the second livestock market and the second meat packing renter. Other industries must follow suit, and the day will yet come when this city will send out. every day more foodstuff than any other community in the world. When that day comes it will be fulfilling destiny. Now it. is reported that Vice President Dawes is going to take his rase to the people. But why in dict the people in order to get even with the senate? Japan is buying lumber in America with the great woods of Siberia only a few miles away. Where is the soviet efficiency? - —^ -■ W. E. D. Stokes’ lawyer says his client is "a darned old fool,” but the public reached that con-i elusion long ago. If you intend to indulge that impulse to dig in the dirt, now is the time to get the old spade and rake oiled up. The Pullman company alleges that it loses a half million towels a year. But just look at the sleep we’ve lost! Douglas county resident* are "excused" from service as federal juries. We mint, indeed, be a bad lot. Idea seems td be to make prohibition obnoxious rather than effective. The one sure thing about the McClintock rase is that Billy is dead. However, pocket flasks still come in’sixes smaller than a pint. Gentle spring still is acting rough. r~ . .....— .. .*V Homespun Verse By Omaha's Own Poet— Robert Worthinftton Davie V- -- J SIGNS OF SPRING. rKhe trees are showing signs of Spring; The wind that gently hlowa or Mining Is mingled with the e< lining song t>f some warbler on the wing. The grass In subtle Infancy < n» southern sun struck sJopea appears. And lists attentively and hears The season s glorious prophesy. The creeks are filled with winter's deed, And everywhere along the way Past melting snows hi low spots stray To creeks and rivers far ahead. A leaf of Iasi year swirls along The rushing current: I behold The dawning of a Spring of old, Ami hear another warbler • song. i “The People’s Voice’’ | Editorial* from Rradtn of The Eve ning Bee. Reader* of The Evening Bee are invited to use this column freely for expression on matters of public interest. V-/ Punishment fur Murder. Battle Creek, Mich.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Jn Literary Di gest of March 14, page 38. 1 notice in I Never Mad a Chance," .statements In regard to a Ilf-year-old youth, which-statements 1 would not contra dict. This youth had probably all the • hance that one generally would call a chance. But may I he allowed to make a few remarks? Is not crime fostered in a diseased | or undeveloped body? So we are told continually. Added to this comes heredity, which sometimes makes its appearance in i he third, fourth or even later gener ations. Is the youth altogether to blame for £pd making more or faster progress? May I make a comparison with more intelligent people, men with thinking and reasoning capacities, that are. may T say, addicted or slaves to oigarets. tobacco, nicotine, mor phine or other drugs, or Hie slaves to alcoholic liquors, or to still baser in diligences, of which one scarcely dare mention in public—how easy is It for those to lay aside to what they are thus addicted to? Yet they are will ing and ready to condemn a youth that has made no quicker progress! Again: As the Greek jioets truly have said, that we are the offspring of the Kternal, who liveth forever, and who gave as Mis sentence in re gard to the first recorded murderer, t'aln. that he who slew Cain was to be avenged seven-fold? Me 1* the same today as He was yesterday, and will be the same tomorrow'. And as St. Paul, says: "Jlow be it? The spiritual was not first, but the physical, and afterwards the spirit ual." Man deals with but the physi cal, the outward shell, but the Eternal with the spiritual or the real man. As the great Master of l.flOO years ago said: "Ye know that it has been said: Eye for eye; tooth for tooth; hut it shall not he so among you." The meting out of the seven-fold punishment by the Eternal will be meted out by Him in the spiritual • late that follows after dissolution of this physical, and which state no hu man being that ever lived will be able to escape. Life imprisonment, that means w hat it says, would he by far most ap propriate punishment, giving the vic tim sufficient time to eradicate the poison out of his system and prepare for a spiritual life that is to follow, and would relieve judge and juror from a sentence which thev do not desire to he placed against them, that is the seven fold punishment. A. C. MEYER. Solves One Problem. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: The auto parking prob lem and the street car company's problem would seem to have a common solution without special need of even furnishing the suggestion. The Standard Oil company does a very large business and would not miss or begrudge the money to keep 7-cent fares on Omaha street carp. As a leverage in economic conserva tion, patronizing this branch of pub lic service, should l*car fruit in mutual benefits. A READER. '“listening in' On the Nebraska Press v__/ Noting that a New York legislator proposes a law prohibiting rros* word puzzles, Kdltor Curran of the Hreeley citizen throws up his hands in despair and asks. “For goodness sake, ain’t they popular enough without a law prohibiting them?” • • • The Crete Yidette has just cele bra ted its r» 41 h anniversary. 1'nder the editorial management of tieorge Wright the old Yidette is going strong. • • • The Sidney Knterprise so vs the hanks of tiiat city ha v withdrawn all ud vertisements from Sidney news papers and retired from membership In the Business Men's association. This withdra\va 1 business sometimes proves to have two shies. • • • Mrs. Selma J. Israel has taken lip the editorial work laid down by her deceased husband. Will C. Israel, and will chi rv on as editor and publisher of the Havelock Post. Always the I al and helpmate of her husband Mrs. Israel is equipped for the work, and the profession will rejoice at * very evidence of her success. • • • "It s about time for the road mak log authorities to begin planning the season s detours.” sighs Allan May In his Interesting department of the Au burn Herald. 0 0 0 Fred Howard of the Clay Center Sun admits that he prefers the In felligence w hich prompts people to j scratch when they itch to the refine rnent which makes them suffer In silence. • • • Kathleen Norris savs "the flapper i« passing." and Charley Cross of the ScottsblulT St#r Herald says he thought so ftecause there were so manv young cake eaters lined tip along the curb. (•nod Fishing. Davis—How's flie fishing In this; la ke** Kober—The best possible. T never say anyone anywhere else In tin world do as much fishing as they dm here. In proportion to the fish the\ iatch. Wilson Kvery Kvening. /-— --- —”S 1 Abe Martin A feller's usefulness frei|iiently ends when lee gi'ts an assistant. We'll never lake’ mu eh interest in surgery 'till they kin reinforce hark hones, rl|lit. r Fellow Artists Side With Ex-Omaha Artist on Stand Over Confederate Memorial G lit/on Borglum. noted sculptor, who recently defied the commission that retained him to carve the fa mous Stone Mountain confederate me inorial, is put under the x-ray l>y his feilownipn of art in the current issue of the Literary Digest. The artists, as reported bv the Digest, view the squabble from var ious angles, but in the whole there is hii apparent leaning to the side of Mr. Borglum, who once lived in Omaha. Mr. Borglum'* brother and sister, August M. Borgluin, 2fJ6! Douglas street, and Mrs. Alfred Dar low. .107** Mason street, live here. August Borglum said the only di rect communication either he or his sister have had concerning the dis agreement came from Mrs. Borglum. This letter he declined to discuss. So, let the story come from The Digest: Putting out of count such questions as the law may administer in respect to the continuation of the creation of the confederate memorial with or without Mr. Borglum’s help, we have sought opinions from his fellow ar tists and sculptors and their answers shed much interesting light on the question of I lie artist's relation to his work. The answers we receive to our telegraphic Inquiry for the most part tend toward sympathy with the sculptor. In some instances there is pleaded i lack of sufficient data for judgment, but even in such eases our reply from i he painter, John Sloan, president of the “Independent Artists,” furnishes an example of the “inclination to fa vor the artist s side of the argument until I find that he is in the wrong.’’ Anther painter, William (Darkens, is disposed to the view that the question is a purely legal one—“about a broken contract, each side accusing the other of being delinquent.” The ordinary processes of the Jaw, think* Mr. (Slacken*, should decide "whether Mr. i Borglum had any right to destroy the models and plans.’’ Mr. darken*’ implication is that this should not present a difficulty, since, In his view. ■ the whole proper! seems to he a huge building operation and not at all gigantic in an esthetic sense." Among the sculptors who ha\e replied, Mr. George Grey Barnard point* out that "sculptors are only interested in the [art, that is. the creative value of the clay or plaster models. The enlarge ment of these models to so vast a size belongs to the machine, the pointer, the engineer. The scale con templated necessitates large sums of money ” Mr. Barnard s brief tele gram may he enlarged by a quotation from an interview he gave to the New York Herald Tribune._Jn which he a I l**ge« that “lack of appreciation of art and ignorance of the needs of artists are the reasons for the treatment ac corded to Borglum.’* He goes fur t her: "It i* obvious that Mr. Borglum Is [the only sculptor competent and will ing to build the memorial. He de voted months of preliminary study to the task. He had two objects in view —first, to overcome the tremendous physical difficulties in carving the me. inorial out of ihe granite mountain, and. second, to create an artistic work that would s\ mhnlize the spirit of the [south by portraying in stone the hero ! | ism of the confederate soldier*. It was a thing hitherto unheard of for] a victor to recognize and perpetuate the committee lays itself open to the Inevitable disappointment that is at tend.ml on stressing; quality Instead of quality. ‘ It is plain, that what the commit tee wants is not so much the best pos sible example of an artist's work, as a representation of their favorite southern heron* on a grandiose scale, and they will scaicely find any sculp tor of standing who would he willing to step in and complete the remain ing acreage at any price, and, for a work of art, measured by the square foot, it hasn't been so extravagantly paid for after all!'* We have a larger ntimber of re plies from painters than from sculp tors; though it Is only fair tn say that some who answered preferred to express no opinion on a ait nation that undoubtedly offers opportunities for misinterpretation. Turning to the painters we begin with the veteran, Mr. Will If. Low. who sees the larger Implications involved: “One may disregard all the various accusations on both sides, may con ceive, as shown by his past contro versies, that Mr. Korglum is difficult to get along with, and may smile at the self Important committee that thinks it can hire and dismiss an ar tist as they would a lackey, but the question is not there You may in ef fect hire an artist to do a definite piece of work, but. the contract once made, you are committed to that par ticular artist for* the completion of the work in which he has inherent rights of conception that govern and control his execution in a manner that, should he himself wish it, lie could not transfer to another. In this wav the artist is bound to his task as firmly as those who employ him are bound to permit him to carry it on and Inish it. So that the an nounced intention of the Stone Moun tain association to employ another sculptor is not only silly but futile, it simply could not be done, even if any reputable sculptor could be found who would undertake it. Likewise the in tent! »n of the association to ask the finance commission to c hoose another sculptor to go on and complete Mr. Korglum'* work is equally absurd, as f venture to say, knowing that the distinguished artists and architects forming the finance commission would simply dec line such a proposal. The quarrel a.* It stands Is evidently be tween a body ignorant of the first principle on which a work of art is based and a sculptor at outs with them, but well aware tint If the* Stone mountain has relief is ever fin ished according to his conception and designs, he and no other will do it. Otherwise it never will he done. So perhaps it is ** well to let them and the newspapers fight it out.” Mr. Charies \V. Hawthorne, another painter, is in virtual agreement with some things in Mr. Low's telegram, and he also points out that so large a principle is here involved that the legal profession as well as the artist cannot help hut he interested: "It >eems to me that this question will have m do with perhaps the sen timental question of the artist s right in his work, Irrespective of the con tracts. moneys received, or other business arrangement. When Whis llej said of an Impatient patron. The fools, just because they pav for them, they think they own them.' perhaps he wns not sn much being funny as enunc iating a gr$at truth. " me heroism or me vanquished. “Now. what an artist need* when he begin* a work of that kind is to l*e freed from care*. Up should he given leisure to dream his dream and plenty of money to pay workmen to carry out his dreams. What was done at At lanta? As T understand it lie whk given $50,000. which was a mere pit tance for an undertaking of that kind, lie should have been provided with 10 times that amount. “1 feel, like many other sculptors, that Mr. Borglum has not been fairly dealt with. If he does not complete the confederate memorial, It never will be completed.’* Mr. F. \V. Huekahil!, who has ere ated considerable memoiiat sculpt me the confederate monument at Haiti more being one. offers a definite pro gram that will he read with Interest: “Whatever irritating peculiarities Borglum may have displayed while making the Slone Mountain <’onfed crate memorial, here is what should be done: First, force Belgium back on the job: make him supreme *« to carrying out his original design, and frive him to make complete small working models so they can be ear ned nut in rase of his death. Second, have a new honorary committee of the governors of all the sotithein states: have h paid subcommittee of three to watch over the carrying out of the original contract; give Borglum every assistance to a quick termina tion of the work. Third, as this memorial n n have no reason for existing except as a national homage to the valor, self sacrifice, and endur* .mers uf congress must accept the recent boost |>i n pa> they voted. In i tie same ruling, however, the comp (roller held there was nothing to pre clude representatlx es and senators from returning any part of their sal ary as acquittance to the government if the' did not wish to retain it. Mu ’m i s opinion in the mutter was sought by J. (I. Rodger*, sergeant at ftrrns of the house, who asked what lie should do *w hen a member declined to accept the Increase. The comp troller advised that the rate of pay fixed by law must he accepted and that only one check could he Issued each "pay day" otherwise, he said, heirs or representatives of jfciv mem her thus declining a part of hi* pay could at any time make a claim for it. Several memltera of the house have taken the position, Rodger* informed the comptroller, that they should he paid at the former rate of $7.500 a veor. and asked for checks on that instead of the new $10,000 !>asi*. One member, he said, had declined to sign the |m> lull because the increase was inctud ed. 'I'll irt«***n Killed in Fast Train Collision New Orleans. March 22 Thirteen I persons h»st then* h\*x in a wreck eirlx todav when two fust mail train* • >f the Southern Pacific collided during a fug st Rlcohoc, 1 m . between Frank Shave In Comfort With Cuticura Shaving Stick This delicately medicated anti septic Shaving Stnk produces s cieamy lasting Isthei enabling ten iler-taced men to ahave without any irritation, even twice dally. It leaves the skin smooth snd freah and tnskes shaving s plsasure. Cuticura Talcum is an idaal altei-shaving powder IWr 1S# OtatfnaM a **4 |A* Til 'in f« **14 • tfitalitt* •*r,h (r** I T\f\ IT Ma)4*«. M»m SHF" ( uliri'ra 5lia*in| 5l»ck IS# i --—1- 1 1 9 Fsunnysideup . MV WWTS. I do not want a fortune great? 1 do not seek the cares of Mate With all their glitter and their glare And wic ked schemes afloat In air. I do not yearn for |>o\ver or pl.o • Nor would l take part in the race For gold—I only ask that I May how' good will while passing by. And that when I am laid below The cool, green sod where daises grow, Some one will pause a bit. and thru Declare: "He helped his fellowmen. ’ I do not covet mansions - •ud. Nor acres broad on every hand. I do not yearn for jewels b it ht To dazzle my poor neighboraV -•'»?. | 1 do not yearn to take command And order men on ev’i y hand - And order men on ev'iy hand— J only ask that I may go Along a roaji where flowers blow. And dying, have men pause and . v. "lie scattered sunshine all the way." Let others dig and delve for gold; \ J.et others place and i.ovvn hold: Let others with a. lord I v air Stand forth within the limelight glare Let others trade on hopes and f* i!~. And profit hy the sobs and tears of those thev wreck. I onlv as!; The strength to do each daiL ta.-k: Then homeward go with In ert elite And greet mv loved one* it the r e. ; Then, dying, have men pause a while And say: "He gave the World a smile. We feel perfectly safe in offering cb venteen thousand dol lars reward for the identification of the senator or emigres"- ^li man who voted for the salary grab bill. We have watched the papers carefully and to date every member of congress in terviewed has declared his undying opposition to the increase. They did not want It: they d’d not vote for it: it make® them angry to think of being forced to accept an additional $2,500 a year. But what can they do about It? If the house and sen ate page* conspired with the doorkeepers and janitors to force this increased salary on the poor members of congress, they j acted in a nmet reprehensible manner, and they should be severely chided. We've heard of the men who was so od he had to sleep in a houndhou«e, and of a not ho man who w •« so crooked he could walk straight up i al st.iirv. iy. The Kansas City Star tells of a man who Is so crooked that when he dug a well he fell out of it. In the new ' Shorter Bible ’ all reference to wine has been deleted save In tho**> cases wherein a warning is issued j against the abuse of it. We make no objections to thi*. Rut | we are contemplating taking up the task of writing a shorter Bible in which all reference to dancing will be changed to “promenading.” We have p.« ~*ed the age when dancing ap peals to us. In our shorter Bible there will be no refe nre to Uideon or Moses or Joshua a* warriors, because we are past middle age. Inclined to obaeitv and short of wind, hense not Interested in war or fighting. By the time all the«e Pro fessional 1'plifters and Habitual Reformers get through w h revising the Book of Books there won t be enough left to keep the covers apart. By the way. have you ever been caught In the position where \oii had to doll up In a hurry and found that the only razor blade in sight was one that had already been used twice? N K B R A SKA LI M K RIF K. A man out in Superior Had pains in his interior. II*» thought 'twin* flu So drank home brn That made him feel inferior. A community can make no faster progress than i;* b ! ers. hut the followers ran crowd the heels -»f those who I. The man who worries about his yesterday* Is the man _ who puts off until tomorrow the task* that should be done ^ today. WILL M. MAFPIN. lin and Patterson. Four of the dead were white men. the others negro p;»-singer*1. Five were seriously in jured. A* cording to an official report. Number 12. eastbotind, ran by a si*: nal in a fog and clashed into Num ber 199, westbound, ab about 3 a. m The dead included Frank Stafford, newsbutcher: K. I>. Fonery, engineer, and Frank Xebily, fireman of Num ber 109: August Aupmat, luggage master of Number 12. and nine negro passengers. Others tiding on the trains were shaken up. The Inniies of the dead were tiiar|> karlli Tremor* \re Recorded for I liree Hour* Chicago, March 22.—Sharp earth tremors, lasting msire than three home, were recorded on the seismo graph at the University of Chicago early today. Knited States weather bureau officials announced. The slis turbanoe. at a distance of about S.T'.u miles of Chios go, was reco: -e-1 at 2:aT a in. and continued until 6:41 i In., they said. -"h Goldberg’s Cartoons For Bee Readers \Ve take pleasure in announcing that the famous cartoons of R. L. Goldberg will ap pear daily m i he Omaha Bee begin ning April 6. Mr. Goldberg has been one of the highest paid of all newspaper artists for ten years, and we believe that our readers will be highly entertained by his cleverness a n d originality. His work is unique. He has never borrowed an idea from any -tuner cartoonist and his style is altogether his own. Mr. Goldberg has originated manv fam ous series, including Foolish Questions Father Was Right. They All Uok Good’ \\ hen They’re Far Away and the Tuesday Ladies l lub. Among his present-day suc cesses are Life’s Little Jokes, Think of 1 his Guy, and Radio Ravings. * Look for the cartoons beginning April 6 . r