The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, April 13, 1910, Image 4
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CHANGE IN ADDKESH-Wheu ordering a jhange in the address, subscribers Bhould be sure 'o 4 ive their old as well as their new address. MENACE TO THE PRESS. .Senator Cummins, of Iowa, has in troduced to the senate an apparently innocent bill, nominally to punish of fenders again the postal laws which can become and is likely to become a menace to the press of the country, aa it gives the federal government the right to hale editors to any part of the country to be tried for libel as well as for alleged violation of the postal laws. Senator Cummins was probably in nocent of the menace contained in this statute and believed that he was only protecting the postofiicc. It may be said, in this connection, however, that the post office authorities have all the protection they need, have been given as much power as they ought to have. Many cases of arbitrary and autocratic action on their part have recently been brought io light cases where the ag grieved parties have had no chance or opportunity to secure relief, where an excathedra order from the postoflice department shutting a publication, a newspaper or magazine out of the mails meant ruin, and where the relief from the order is difficult to obtain expensive and slow. Public opinion, we. feel con fident, will not tolerate any further ex tension of this irresponsible power of the postoflice department, even if the Cummins law was what it is claimed to be, and caly authorized the postoflice to take editors to trial in any state or county in the union that suited its con venience. New Orleans Timed Demo crat. THE REFORMING TEMPERA MENT. Andrew Carnegie, who is a good deal of a philosopher in spots, is quoted as the characterizing Gi fiord Pinchot in an interview at Santa Barbara, Cai. "He is well meaning, zealous, self sac reficing a fine type. We need more like him, but he is inclined to walk so straight sometimes as to lean over backward. He does not seem to have much of the give-and-take." In other words, Mr. Pinchot has the faults of his virtues. The intense reformer, bent on achieviug good ends in his own way, too ofien insists that all men shall walk his narrow path, and that those who diverge even slightly as to methods, but are sound on the main issue, are enemies of the cause and to be assailed with all possible vigor as such. The reforming temperament is often the berating one, and thereby in justice comes about, and that with the best intentions in the world. The zea lot who will have no methods of reach ing a given point save his own is a difficult person to work with, day in and day out. He is a great factor in the world's progress, we could not do without him, but as a yoke-fellow he is not the best at all times. When Pres ident Taft pleaded with "My Dear GifTord" not to make his own reten tion in the service impossible, the point was well illustrated. The country has plenty of need for Mr. Pinchot, but he does not seem to have much of the "give-and-take," as Mr. Carnegie puts it. Springfield Republican. INDUSTRIALISM NEEDED AS TEACHER. Industrial education promises better living, and improved chances of earn ing a living, through employment in manufacturing industries mostly, for, although the land turns out raw mate rials from mine, farm and forest, and transportation and commerce relate to both finished and unfinished products, yet complete industrial activity is de pendent upon factories in operation, so that it is really the factory which opens or closes the circuit of modern business. Small, exchangeable traveling ex hibits, with simple descriptive matter, are the elements of a system proposed, such as can be fitted up at light ex pense by specific industries,as required, to show what each kind of factory needs,.and to direct teachers and stu dents alike into locally profitable channels, in accord with fashion, de mand, expediency. Permanent museums and libraries do much for the intellectual life, but the contention herein is that little ex hibits of industrial crude and finished products,which could be passed around from school to school, would do more to fit boys for wage earning, and this is what industrial education proposes to do for boys. No amount of argument can dis prove the facts of evolution which show the dependence of a sound mind upon a sound body, and we have accu mulated statistics enough during fifty years past to prove that healthful, continuous occupation is a means of salvation for young and old, poor or rich. "The world is always tormented with difficulties waiting to be solved," and a list of small improvements and inventions, to say nothing of the great er ones, needed in American factories would serve to humble the jingo pat riot some. Edward Fuller. A GERMAN ARMY OF 4,W,M READY. The peace strength of the German army has risen during the past year to G20.000 men of all ranks and 111,820 horses. The number of reservists call ed out for training during the year has liseu to 4i)('i,o(JH, excluding officers, or an increase of more than 110,000 over the figures for 1000. The German plan is to train each soldier twice for fourteen days while in the reserve and once for fourteen days while in the Laodwehr. The number of reservits recalled during the year for training has risen of late at the rate of 30,000 a year and will continue to rise until the plan until is in full operation. Thus there are and hereafter will be more than a million men under arms at one time or another each year. The year 1907 is the last for which complete statistics of recruiting have been published. The recruits examin ed numbered 1,189,845, among whom there were 532,000 of the age of 20 who were examined for the first time. In all 435,933 were incorporated in the armed forces, including 212,001 in the active army and 10,374 in the navy. About one-half of the army recruits were 20 aud the remainder 21 or 22. There were only two one-huudredthsof 1 per cent of illiterates. Voluntary engagements numbered 53,900 for the army ami 3,839 for the navy. "Germany leads the world in aeron autics," says a writer, "and the last year has only confirmed her supremacy iu the air. Her aerial fleet consists of twelve dirigibles, systems Zeppelin, Parsevel and Gross, while there me fifteen other dirigibles in private bauds susceptible of being requisitioned. The German plan is to act by methods of registration and subsidy; to prepare, as for the navy, the establishments and the means for rapid construction and to aim in particular at increased speed so as to obtain relative independence of the weather. The successful trial of the Gross III, which made over 37 miles an hour on her trip on Dec. 31, is a case iu point. In many other directions there has been steady progress in preparing the army for war. The officers at the war school have been increased from 400 to 480. A census of motor carriages has shown that there are 41,727 of all classes available for requisition, aud during the maneuvers of last year great use was made of them and also also of motor cyclists, who will proba bly be formed into special corps. Mo bile field kitchens have given good re sults and will soon be in general use. Wireless stations are being erected at various places. The latest census of horses shows that Germany possesses 4,345,000 horses of all sorts, including 3,500,000 four-year-olds and upward. "It will be with young and highly trained men, aged from 21 to 27. that the first great blow will lie struck in case of war, and all attention has been concentrated upon making the first echelon of the arm as perfect as hu man effort can compass. The record of the last year shows that from almost every point of view the German army continues to receive constant acces sions of material and moral strength." The Union. GOOD HORSES PAY. No better illustration of the truth in the statement recently made by the Gazette to the effect that this is iu no sense a horseless age could lie made than the demonstration at the weekly horse sales on the South St. Joseph market. Last Friday one team of dapple grays sold for 82,025. The horses weighed over 2,000 pounds each and were well matched. They were bred by a Kansas farmer and were purchased by Crouch & Son of LaFayette, Ind., who will use them this fall for show purposes. One breeder consigned two car loads to the sale last Friday and the entire lot went at high prices and were snapped up quickly. They averaged $270 a head. There was a good crowd of buyers at the sale and the bidding was spirited, demonstrating that there is an active demand for good draft horses. The idea that seems to prevail among some that this is a horseless age is shown to be an erroneous one every time a horse sale is held. There is a constantly growing demand for heavy ,draft horses, and the breeder who gives attention to the quality of his stock is certain to command high prices. The local live stock interests have given considerable attention to the matter of building up a horse market here and are beginning to see their reward. Every Friday brings better horses and a larger number of buyers. Mr. Louis Swift takes a great personal interest in the horse market and wants to make it one of the features of South St. Joseph. Such prices as were paid Friday ought to stimulate the farmers in this section of the country to join hands with him in building up here the best horse market on the Missouri river. St Joseph Gazette. "SOCIALIST" MILWAUKEE. Something else has of a sudden made Milwaukee famous. It may be doubt ed if the year brings forth a more inter esting political event than yesterday's dispatches record, the election of a socialist mayor of Milwaukee by the largest plurality ever given a mayor. But that feat has been equalled. John C. Chase was once elected socialist mayor of Haverhill, Massachusetts. But in Milwaukee the hide goes with the head. The council is socialist also, giving the city full into socialist hands. That is new. Pity the poor gentlemen whom the thought, to say nothing of the fact, of socialism suffices to throw into a fit. About him crumble the foundations of society. AH is lost. It will be well, while we are about it, to pity also his antipodes, the Marxian leaping with joy at the thought that Milwaukee and all America have slid to socialism. The joy of the one is as ill-founded as the other's grief. The truth seems to be that the elec tion is a victory for socialists, not socialism. The fact that the three platforms, republican, democratic and socialist read about alike Hints as much. And why the victory of social ists? That is an interesting story. Most of us remember that some half dozen years ago Milwaukee had a graft scan dal similar to that now disgracing Pittsburg. This was a symptom of a chronic ailment, tor a government Milwaukee had a choice between two machines. There was the democratic machine, headed by Mayor Rose the mayor is shortly coming to Lincoln, by the way, to instruct us in city gov ernment there was a republican machine of the same make but of diff erent label. When one machine be came intolerable, the people could put in the other shift their burden, as it were, from one shoulder to the other. Milwaukee is a German city, and many Germaus are socialists. Long ago the Milwaukee socialist candidates began to get votes from democrats and republicans, disgusted with their re spective party machines. At length these disgust votes were enough to elect a socialist councilman or two. These socialist officials owed nothing to machines or interests. Their party was organized on democratic lines, its campaign expenses paid by the rank and file. There's the secret The record of these untrammeled officials was in such happy contrast to that of the boss owned statesmen that the honest people of Milwaukee have seen in them the avenue of public control of their city government. That's all there is to the "socialist" landslide iu Milwaukee. It is the result of the recreancy of the other parlies due to the seductions of busi ness interests. Here as everywhere socialism, the foe of property rights, thrives in proportion as there are property wrongs. Will our scared property owners and politicians never see the point? State Journal. ONE MAN AND ANOTHER. The Roosevelt idolaters are prepar ing to use the expresidentasthe Bryan idol at es have long used the gentleman from Nebraska. They want him to run for all the offices. They expect him to make all the speeches. He must write all the platforms and make all the issues. He must be the prin cipal guest at all banquets. There must be no other leader before him. This sort of thing may do something to equalize political strength and op portunity. For many years now de mocracy has suffered on account of the Bryan adoration. Mr. Bryan could not be elected himself, and his friends were formidable enough to prevent the elect ioii of anybody else. With part ies, as with individuals, intense admira tion is sometimes accompanied by sel fishness, and selfishness leads to jeal ousy, just as jealousy results in re venge. Pursuing the one man idea, the de mocracy lost its voice in public affairs in most of the Northern states. If republicanism is to follow its example it will not be long before the two great parties will meet on more equal terms than has been the case of late. A million adherents of Mr. Roosevelt, lauding him and denouncing everybody else, voting only for him, and opposing all others, may presently reduce his party to that delightful throat-cutting level on which the Corsican brothers of democracy now find themselves. This is a big country, and the per sonal followers of any one man are al ways going to have difficulty in run ning things. Mr. Roosevelt is like Mr. Bryan, and the devotees of the two resemble each other, in everything but their political labels. Is a man a republican? He must be for Roose velt for president, for congress, for em peror of China, for prime minister of Japan, for chief orator, for chief wri ter, for the head of the table or else he is a suspicious character and pro bably a public enemy. Is a man a democrat? Perish the thought un less he can show a Bryan record for fourteen years without a blotch. Counter-irritants are useful in some afflictions. Perhaps a Roosevelt mus tard plaster will have a soothing effect upon the Bryan disorder. New York World. RICHES SOON TAKE WINGS. That the piled up wealth of the great captains of finance will in time become so huge that all the rest of the coun try's population will one day be de pendent upon a few money kings, is a cry often raised by demagogues and others, but the actual facts show that these vast accumulations soon become widely distributed and lose practically all of their power with the second gen eration. E. H. Harriman left a for tune of approximately 100 million dollars. Under his will the bulk of it will be divided among his five children and his widow, with considerable sums going to other relatives. H. H. Rog ers, who died last spring, left also approximately 200 million dollars, and under his will it goes to four chil dren and his widow. Already there are nine grandchildren to share in a further division. Russell Sage, who died July 22, 190G,was the only great financier of recent years to die child less. He left 806,753,000 and of this his widow inherited 863,778,000. Since his death Mrs. Sage has spent immense sums for philanthropic purposes and the bulk of what she leaves will, on her death, go into the same channels Cornelius Vanderbilt left an estate of 72 millions aud 09 A million dollars was divided in different proportions among his five children. Jay G.ould left 72 million dollars and it was divi ded among six children. George, the eldest son, received the largest share, and the other five children equal shares. All of them, with the excep tion of Miss Helen Gould, married, and of the five who married all have children except Howard. Thus of these five captains of finance who left 411 million dollars, this great sum has passed, or will pass, to twenty children, without counting the widows. Bel grade Herald. WHERE THE INNOCENT SUFFER The real hardships of crime fall heaviest in nine cases out often upon the innocent Wives and children suffer equally in disgrace and far more in actual privation through the delinquencies of the actual criminal. He may go to jail or to the work house or to the penitentiary and the state puts him at enforced labor, from which it reaps a financial return, but it also feeds and warms and clothes him, while the members of his family are left in dire straits and dependent upon charity. They must look to sympathizing friends for aid and support, often at the sacrifice of their own pride and self-respect The fathers eat sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge. It should not be so. Every dollar of earning capacity of the men in prison should be devoted to the maintenance of the family he has left helpless outside the walls. The law punishes a man for "non support" of his dependent ones by shutting him up and appropriating the proceeds of his labor, when the merest justice demands that those proceeds should go into the home he has left. But the policy of our punitive sys tem seems to be to inflict far greater penalties upon the innocent than upon the guilty. Winfield (Kan.) Courier. Mall CaiiMs Meenahine. Authors and artists who bave be come well known by means of making the moon dance In the wrong bouses of heaven are numerous, but we never expected Hall Calne to join the group. Yet In "The Scapegoat" chapter 23, on Israel's return from prison after evenfall. we find that "with a wave of bis band be was gone Into the dark ness. It was a wonderful night The moon, which was in its first quarter, was still low In tbe east" It was indeed a wonderful night On no other night since the creation has tbe moon In Its first quarter ever been seen low ia tbe east London Star. Nne of ffconTis tfce or eff ectf vcbcss. so Irrt. V?rbH A CURIOUS WILL k Force a Happy Family Under Pe culiar Conditions. An extraordinary will has been left by an elderly unmarried lady who died In Vienna. Her property, amounting to about 50,000, Is appointed to be di vided between ber three nephews, now aged twenty-four, twenty-seven and twenty-nine, and ber three nieces, aged nineteen, twenty-one and twenty-two, In equal parts on the following condi tions: The six nephews and nieces must ail live in the house formerly Inhabited by their aunt with the executor, a law yer, whose business it will be to see that the conditions of the will are strictly observed. None of the neph ews is to marry before reaching bis fortieth year or tbe nieces before their thirtieth, under tbe penalty that tbe share of tbe one so marrying will be divided among tbe others. Further, the six legatees are admon ished never to quarrel among them selves. If one should do so persistent ly the executor is empowered to turn bim or her out of tbe house and divide the share as in tbe case of marrkige. The executor is himself forbidden to marry or to reside elsewhere than In the house with tbe legatees as long as he holds his office, to which a hand some remuneration Is attached. The old maid is said to have made this peculiar will because her nephews and nieces continually worried her during ber life by asking her to give them money to enable them to marry, requests she always refused. London Express. OLD MAN HARE. The Actor's Meeting With Gladstone Outside the Theater. John Hare, the eminent English actor-manager, said that the most de lightful compliment be ever received was from Mr. Gladstone. It was a double ended coulprtiSCuw lacnever way you took it It was satisfactory. Mr. Hare earned fame playing old men's parts, bis character as Mr. Gold by in "A Pair of Spectacles" being a good example. Added to this was a horror of having bis picture taken. Mr. Gladstone bad never seen a pic ture of the actor, but be knew him well behind tbe scenes as well as be fore tbe footlights. Tbe premier's fa vorite play was "A Pair of Specta cles," and be always went behind the scenes to chat awhile with the actor. Tbe really old man and the made up eld man would sit there and talk in tbe most delightful way for an hour after the show. One day the Earl of Rosebery had Mr. Gladstone to dinner, and he also Invited his friend John Hare. The actor came in smooth shaved, looking about thirty-five. He was presented to Mr. Gladstone, and tbe prime min ister shook bis band most cordially and said: "My dear sir, I am. very, very glad to meet you. I know your father very, very well. Splendid actor! Fine old man!' It took the whole evening for the earl and Mr. Hare to convince bim that this son was really the father. After All His Trouble. Two men were hurrying along Park row when tbe wind seemed to be blow ing from all directions to the peril of umbrellas and anything not firmly an chored. One of them noticed tbe ban die of a wrecked umbrella which bad been thrown into tbe street aloe;; with many others and, stopping to pick It up, remarked to his companion that it was too good to pass. As be stooped a gust of wind captured bis bat and It went spinning along toward St Paul's chapel, be after it He ran into a man. slipped, fell in tbe mud and arose in time to see his hat run over by a truck. At a nearby restau rant where be was drying his clothes, be said: "I lost a five dollar hat and spoiled a suit of clothes for the handle of a thirty cent umbrella. That would not be so bad. but 1 see the handle la broken." New York Tribune. His Good Work. Tbe director of a prison received an order after many years' service. He bad all the prisoners called together and made tbe following speech to them: "As you see. 1 have been decorated, by royal grace, with an order. But I willingly acknowledge that this bas been attained not alone by my own merits, but by tbe co-operation of all of us. 1 can also declare, with pleas ure, that since 1 bave occupied this office the number of prisoners bas in creased from 400 to 700 a fact of which .both you and 1 may be Justly proudV-Loodon Tit-Bits. The Makings In Church. "I never knew." said the nervous man, "what an inveterate smoker I am until recently In church, my first visit for a long while. I found myself mechanically rolling a cigarette. In fact I bad It rolled and was reaching for a match when I suddenly came to. Suppose J hadn't waked up? Ratbet awful, wbat'r"-New York Press. for Royal. Ih cofjBjpositioa isone jh2 cco- sor will sacfc ftee Baking Powder Ak9 Mtmiy Pmrm Royal is the oaly Balcteg Powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar T Art of Papermaking. In the uiatter of making aud using paper we are not in Hue with the Chi nese and other Asiatics, who uot ouly make the liuest paper in the world, but apply it to all sorts of uses, making window panes, fans, umbrellas, san dals aud even cloaks and other gar ments of it. The art of making paper from mulberry bast is said to bave been invented iu China in tbe sec ond century B. C. Afterward bamboo shoots, straw, grass aud other materi als were also used. Tbe manufacture spread to thi adjacent countries. The Arabs learned it in Samerkand. and their learned men carefully kept se cret the process by which they made paper for their own use. Tbe crusades made Europe acquainted with tbe art and the first paper mill in Germany dates from the twelfth century. Hoaxing the Latin ists. Perhaps one of the best of the nu merous class of sham Latin inscrip-J tions was that which appeared some time ago in a Dublin paper. It was in antique "Latin," as follows: I sabylle haeres ago. fortlbus ea In aro. Noblle Thisbe forte trux. se vatlclnem pes an dux. This purported to have been found near the site of a church dedicated to "the saint known to the old chron iclers as Uncatus Ambulanus." The "Latin" inscription was in reali ty an absurd rhyme: I say, Billy, here's a go! Forty buses -in a row. No. Billy; this be forty trucks. Sec vot Is In 'em peas and ducks. t-L-; 7?c4SJSs1nnnlnVBnnnnnnnnnnnannBt--X'.'1' ---wSKniBSBaBaBaBBnBBnBBnBBnBBSsaOf? .lfBAmmmmmmmmmEsniilannnM mpSammmmmmlmmmmmmmmtnmS ypi3r'!mmnHBttmmmmmml mw0i: jmk m n-nMamwasnmmnmmBannmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmi 3nnB?HbnHBnnnnnnnnlrnaBanBnV PLAN EARLY FOR YOUR SUMMER TOUR PACIFIC COAST: From June 1st, low round trip excur sion rates to the Pacific Coast, July, still LOWER COAST EXCURSION RATES. YELLOWSTONE PARK: All indications point to a lar ger number of Park Tourists during the summer of 1910 than ever before. The tour rates are very low, and include attrac tive diverse routes through Colorado and Salt Lake City. TO THE EAST: Special rates will be in effect to eastern cities and resorts. Definite announcements should be made within the next thirty days. ROCKY MOUNTAIN TOURS: Tourist rates during the summer to Denver, Estes Park and Colorado resorts, Hot Springs, S. D., Sheridan and Ranchester, Wyo., for the Big: Horn region, Cody (gateway for Holm's personally conducted camping parties through the park), Thermopolis, Wyo., the coming wonderful Hot Springs resort (railway completed July 1st. HOMESEEKERS' RATES: First and third Tuesdays for investors nnd landseekers through weal. Get in touch with tbe nearest ticket agent, or with me, and let us tell you what you want to know. L. W. WAXELEY, Graeral Paaeeacar Agent 1004 Faraaaa Street. Omaka, Net. Magazine Binding I Old Books I I Rebound I I In fact, for anything in tbe book E I binding line bring your work to I I Ufe I I Journal Office I I Phone 184 I m&i x. food. Kt'-j ;&& :j 542. -A' Needed an Explanation. A little boy was often whipped by bis father for lying. He usually took It us a matter f eourse. but mi mie oe casiou It seemed to excite liiui to re lief! imi. After il was all over he stood before his father iu a thoughtful way. which attracted that worthy's atteu tiou. My sou. said the father, "what are you tbinkiug about V" "Father," said the son. "when you was a little boy. did you use to tell lies':" "Xo. my son. When 1 was a little boy 1 did uot tell lies." "Father." returned tbe son. "when mother was a little girl, did she use to tell lies':" "Xo. uiy sou." replied the father "When your mother was a little giil she did not tell lies. But why do you ask me these quest Ions 5" "Well." said the little fellow, draw ing a long sigh, "it is the most mys terious thing in the world to me that a father who never told lies when lie was a little boy and a mother who never told lies when she was a little girl could have a boy that tells as many as I do." Generous. Stranger Did you ever reveal your fisblug hole to a friend? Angier Once I did to a friend on his death bed. Brooklyn Life. Tbe man who Ls too proud to ask for favors doesn't get many. Chicago Record-Herald. and on special dates April to the newly developing sections of the A i r y A- V t I f t .