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TIIE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JUNE 2. 1910.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
Etata of Nebraxka, Douglas County, ss!
Oeorge U. Tzxchuck, treasurer of The
See Publishing Company, being duly sworn,
nays that the actual numhir of full and
complete copies of The Dally, Morntn,
Evening and Sunday iiee printed during the
jnonth of May, laid, was as follows:
1 41,300
3 48,450
3 48,880
4 48,810
6 48,680
The Final Decision in the Water Works Case.
ly unanimous verdict of the United States supreme court,
the city of Omaha will have to buy the water works plant at the
appraised value of $0,203,205.49. The most appropriate comment
The lice can make on this not unexpected outcome is to repro
duce two editorials that appeared in these columns when the
plot first began to thicken.
THE. HdWELL RELIEF DILL.
(The Bee, Feb. 8, 1W3.)
The water works purchase bill,
wblcb passed both houses of the legis
lature last week and has now been ap
proved by the governor, at once be
comes a law, as It carries an emer
gency clause. The father of this
measure, Senator Howell, has kindly
volunteered to enlighten the citizens
of Omaha concerning the important
features of the bill,' which are sum
marized as follows:
Under the terms of the measure the gov
ernor will be required to appoint a water
board of six members within thirty days
of the data of attaching his signature to
the. bill. Two members will be appointed
for two years, two for four and two for
six years, all of Whom must be electors of
the city. The bill also provides that one
member for each term must be a repub
lican and one a democrat.
Why representatives of, the people
should show such a distrust of the peo
ple, and especially the taxpayers who
are to assume obligations that may ex
ceed $4,000,000, and should deprive
them of the right to elect their own
water commission, and why they are
to be put on probation under state
6 40,640
7 48,600
8 ,....41,370
9 .....43,160
10 48,660
11 .48,670
12 48,600
18 43,080
14 48,860
15 41,600 .
!.. ....... .43,110
Total
Returned copies ., . ,
Net total
Dally . average. .
...... 10,119V 1
,...43,370 maae responsible to nooody, removable
GEORGE B. TZHCHUCK
Treasurer.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this 81st day of May, 1910.
M. P. WALKER,
Notary Public.
17 43,680
18 43,030
It 48,660
20 43,000
21.. 43,000
22..... 41.400, guardianship for four years, Is not ex-
3 43,740 puined by Mr. Howell. Neither does
X 43,830
25....
26....
87 ...43,4001 by nobody and empowered to appoint
" 3B60 Its own successors In caae nf vnrnnrlps
29 41,300 I . . .y-,i.
SO 43,370 1 ' ' """"
81 44,180 1 Tn provision requiring one-half of
the commission to be democrats and
li3ae,8io Uh.e other half republicans affords no
' safeguard against malfeasance in
1,316,886 office. The purchase and management
48,368 of toe water works Involves no polit
ical Issue. Venal democrats and cor
rupt republicans will combine just aa
reaany lor any ooodie scheme as
would dishonest members of a single
party.
roe next teature or importance, ac
cording to Mr. Howell, is the provision
of the law that requires the city coun
cil to declare by ordinance that it is
necessary for the city to purchase the
water plant and that at the first meet
ing of the council after the approval
of such ordinance the council must
take the first steps in the actual ac
qulsltlon of .the plant. .
The council may proceed under the terms
of the contract between the city and the
Changing one word in the old game, water company, which involves the ap
the Chicago cotton king is Still Play ing pointment of three engineers as appraisers
"P.tt.n winti a ... on by the city, one by. the water com
pany fiiu uurci uy me two appraisers so
named All tfrijk flntinnll mat,. iaaa.4 tt
100one tooseveil ireeaom or acquire the water plant by condemnation
(be City" means the right to say, as proceedings, as provided In the city char-
Snbsrrlbera leaving; the city tem
porarily should have The Dee
mailed to them. Addressee will be
changed aa oftea, m requested. -
"Spitxer has more to Jsay," observes
B headline. Well, spit It out.
A few more "primers"
rates are due from the
yellow. . V v
on water
red-headed
tef. In Such caae five appraisers must ba
appointed by tho mayor and (council, .as in
the condemnation of right-of-ways for
streets and alleys. If Ihq-XCrst method Is
adopted nothing will have to be paid for
the unexpired portion of the franchise.
claimed by the -water company; If the sec
Well. What fight has England to Pnd Plan ,s adopted, an allowance for the
unexpired imucniae wiu uc unuuuumuijr
claimed by the, company,
All these proceedings were within
reach without special legislation, and
the fact that the bill passed both
houses without a dissenting vote Indi
cates that the water works company is
not adverse to such procedure.- It cer
tainly could have influenced a few
members of the legislature to antago
nlze the bill at some stage.
But -while Mr. Howell is willing to
enlighten the people about the mode of
procedure to purchase the water works
plant, he studiously omits all reference
to the fact that he has saddled upon
the taxpayers of Omaha a water com
mission which will commence drawing
$800 a month out of the city, treasury
for the salary of its members, and
from $160 to $500 a month for
water commissioner within thirty
days, although it may be thirty months
before the commission will have any
water works to manage or before the
water commissioner - has anytbln
more to do than to draw his salary
And this Is really the milk in the
water bill cocoanut, which properly
should have been labeled "A Bill , to
Provide R. B. Howell with a Lucrative
I Job as Commissioner of Water
Works." '
well 88 do, what one pleases.
One 'vlrthe In the late spring is that
ft saves much of the hardship of the
Bummer outing; also expense.
complain at the colonel's speech? Pld
not London grant him the freedom of
the cltyt.
Mr. Roosevelt has at least discreetly
or mercifully refrained from ex
pressing his opinion of the poet lau
reate's poem.
. Most people in Omaha have long
had the suspicion that R. B. Howell
was a mountebank and a fraud. Now
they are sure of it.
The Ute Indians have just won a
law suit involving $4,000,000, which
suggests that this Poor Lo is not need
ing commiseration.
The Kentucky woman who shot her
husband and her cook has the drop on
a lot of other women who cannot get
either a man or a maid.
St. Louis's long distance weather
cock, the Rer. Irl R. Hicks, disclaims
all responsibility , for the comet epi
sode. You can't lose Hicks.
And now St. Louis Is to have a but
ton day and they will pin buttons on
the people. Three to one they will
not be the kiss-not buttons.
HOW SHALL THE PURCHASE BE
MADE?
(The Bee, February IS, 1903.)
The consensus of opinion among all
lasses of citizens and taxpayers Is in
favor of the municipal ownership or
the water works. We djOtibt very
much, however, whether any conslder-
ble number of taxpayers would favor
the immediate purchase of the water
works unless they can be acquired at
reasonable price. Under the con
tract made with the water company
when its franchise was granted the
city of Omaha has a right to purchase
the works at an appraised value to be
fixed by three engineers, one of these
to be named by the city, one by the
water company and a third to be
chosen by the two. If the appraise
ment Is made by these arbitrators the
city is to pay only for the tangible
property of the company without mak
ing any allowance for the unexpired
franchise. An appraisement made un
der theso conditions can, however, only
be made on or after September, 4,
1903. I
Under the existing charter the city
Omaha is empowered to take the
water works by condemnation under
the right of eminent domain. In tak
ing the works by eminent domain pro
ceedings the city would have the right
to appoint all the appraisers, but the
valuation made by these appraisers
would include not only the tangible
property, but also the value of the un
expired franchise.
The problem which now confront
the city is whether it shall avail itself
of the privilege embodied In the pur
chase clause of its contract with the
water company, namely, to take the
works at the price fixed by the three
appraisers, or whether it shall proceed
under the right of eminent domain.
The ordinance drawn in response to
the resolution of Councilman Hascall
in conformity with the Howell-Gllbert
water works bill contemplates the pur
chase of the works under the three ap
pralsers clause of the contract. This
method of acquiring the water works
is doubtless most advantageous to the
water company and most dangerous to
the -city of Omaha. While the city
and the water, company each have one
representative on the appraisement
board, the chances are one hundred to
one that the water company will con
trol the third man. In other words,
the water company will be able to
place its own value on the water
works. -
Attorneys who rank high at the bar
contend that an acceptance of the pur
chase privilege by the city binds the
city to accept the valuation fixed upon
the works by the arbitration board or
two of the arbitrators, even if the ap
praisement exceeds by two or three
millions the actual value, of the works.
To be sure, the city may refuse to rat
ify the purchase by voting down. the
proposition to issue the requisite
amount of bonds. In that case the
water company mignt institute pro
ceedings in the courts and uniftr its
contract secure a judgment for the full
valuation fixed by the appraisers.
Condemnation proceedings under
the right of eminent domain would
not Involve the city in any such risk
In the first place, the city has a right
to appoint all the appraisers, and if
the amount allowed for the works and
the unexpired franchise is excessive
the city would have the right to reject
the appraisement and have the prop'
erty reappraised by a new set of ap
pralsers. If the appraisement Is satis
factory to the city and a sufficient
amount of bonds is voted to cover the
full valuation agreed upon by the ap
praisers the elty would have the right
to take possession of the water works
by depositing the money in the courts
leaving the water company the option
to accept or appeal to the courts for a
final adjudication of the compensation
to which it would be entitled in pay
ment for the property.
increases and their dividends keep
right on growing. Even though the
cost of operation badf doubled, it
would not Justify these rate Increases
so long as the net earnings hold up
aa they are.
Railroad men have represented that
the necessity of making enormous ex
penditures to handle the trade of the
future warrants them In demanding
more revenue now, but that argument
Is evidently not regarded as tenable,
much less conclusive, by the govern
ment.. Outlays for better facilities are
always to be reckoned on and Improve
ments are permanent, but the expendi
tures must go down as investment and
should not be figured up against cur
rent revenue or allowed to control the
matter of rates.
The Department of Justice, with the
attorney general himself directing the
fight, has taken up the Sherman anti
trust law as the cudgel against the
twenty-five railroads accused of com
bining to raise rates simultaneously.
In no other way could the railroads
expect to Bucceed and in this way they
cannot hope to run the gamut of the
court rulings on the anti-trust law. If,
therefore, the shippers, through the
government, , are able to prove their
contention the railroads will have to
desist from what Is plainly an illegal
combination in restraint of trade.
It is to be noticed that our fran-
chised corporations are not particu
larly downcast over a verdict against
tho city for $6,263, 295.49. which they
will have to help to pay. They are
all willing to have municipal owner
ship tried first on the water works at
an inflated appraised price if it gives
them indefinite immunity.
When a man loses a law suit -which
he thinks he ought to win he usually
Is, at least, not happy over it. But
here we have the members of the
Water board already telling how glad
they are that the city has been beaten
in the water works case. It looks a
little as if the job were set up that
way, and that they were in with it.
Ex-Oovernor Pennypacker of Penn
sylvania is still insisting that there
never was any capltol graft in his
state. If the governor only could
have convinced the people and courts
of this some time ago he might have
saved several of his fellow citizens and
official compatriots from going to the
penitentiary.
So Slason Thompson, publicity
agent for the railroads, thinks Presi
dent Taft has not thoroughly studied
the railroad question or the govern
ment's policy" would be less "radical."
Too bad, too bad! Wonder If Mr.
Thompson's view' would be altered any
should be lose his job tomorrow.
Omaha's trade boosters are collect
ing all the publicity notices given them
by local papers in .towns visited on
their recent excursion. Good as far
as it goes, but do not forget that
Omaha papers are boosting all the
year around.
Now it the Water board will only
loosen up that high-priced .lawyer may
yet get hlB annual trip to Europe at I
the expense of Omaha taxpayers.
1 Roosevelt Shocks tho Britons.
The British people needed to hear
some of the things former President
Roosevelt said on the subject of Brit
ish rule in Egypt, but the advice would
doubtless have been better received by
Britons had It come at Bonie other
time and in some other place. It is
So faa aa we have been able to learn not at all surprising that the British
ty careful inquiry, King Oeorge has newspapers generally censure the for
not consented to give up his crown to mer president's action in taking ad-
the New York man who claimed it by (vantage of his position aa the guest of
Is it not about time to quit calling
the Chicago Nationals the Cuba and
begin styling them the Bears? They
must be dearly full grown by now.
prior right of lineage.
Omaha plumbers want more money.
They evidently think that if they are
to be the butt of all those plumbers'
jokes they ought to be entitled to com
pensation for lacerated feelings.
We. note that $50,000 of the con
gressional river Improvement appro
priation la for work around Lake Con
trary. It will be fine it that will put
the lake in a more reasonable mood.
the kingdom to condemn one of Its na
tional policies. The London papers
are a unit in criticizing Mr. Roose
velt for what they regard a violation
of amenities, but divide on sharp party
lines as to his conclusions! the con
servative press approving and the lib
eral disapproving them.
. This speech will stand out really as
the most picturesque phase of tho dis
tinguished American's European visit,
surpassing the Vatican episode in in
terest as much as it does in actual
moment. In passing, It )s, interesting
to consider the possible course oi
events had King Edward survived Col
onel Roosevelt'! visit, which was, prt-
tlon that calls for their best consldora
tlon. The political conditions in Egypt
as reflected in the assassination of
Premier Boutros Pasba are not what
they should be and not what they
would be if Great Britain cared to ex
en us power or correction, it may
be that Theodore Roosevelt, a private
American citizen, is not the proper
person, as one of the London papers
declared, to point out England's duty
in this connection, but the fact re
mains that England, itself, admits
that it has not completely performed
Its duty and, as the former president
suggested, unless it awakes Boon to
the necessity of a more popular system
of government in Egypt it may find
its right to control there some day
challenged by other powers.
Some, Omaha talks who nad inside
Information that prompted them to
buy water works Bonds will make a
lot of money.' Of course, none of the
Water board fcunoh bought any bonds mrily. to confer with the king In the
In their own nm.ea. . . - . interest of world peace. Whether
.'i i ii I such a speech, if made, would have
Mr. Bryan may complain of the gov- impaired bis influence with the Brit
ernment and conditions aa ha will, but, ten throne is in interesting, query even
just the fame, before 1890 he was not I as speculative. '
sailing around the world In luxury or But whatever may be said of the
running over to Edtnbourgh for a lac- timeliness of the speech. It cannot be
ture, and he baa never been president, I denied that It puts up squarely to the
elttaw - i I British crown and ministry a proposl-
The Lincoln police are renewing
efforts to stop the sale of liquor at
club bars, which is the Lincoln way of
evading enforced dryness. It is won
derful how much trouble Lincoln hat
to keep its resolutions to be good.
Union Pacific officials will proceed
to shake hands with themselves. For
once twenty-five western railroads
have been enjoined for advancing
rates, and the Union Pacific is not
party to the suit.
NEBRASKA PRESS COMMENT.
Central City Nonparlel: Had Bryan mani
fested the same Interest In direct legisla
tion during the session of the legislature
as he Is now asserting there might have
been a different story to tell regarding the
Initiative and referendum.
Falrbury Gaaette: The dally papers pub
lished an announcement that the Munroe
county court hours at La Crosse, Wis.,
hnd been sold at tax sale for 30 cents, the
amount being due for special tax for the
removal of weeds on the court house lawn.
At that rate the state house at Lincoln
ought to bring at least half a dollar.
Tekamnh Journal: The ruction that Mr.
Bryan has raised In the Nebraska camp of
democracy Is lamentable. In the big wig
wam at Omaha the braves are all In their
war paint furnished by the brewers. Out
in the state the little fellows the common
herd, If you please, are ready and curious
to follow Mr. Bryan to the bitter end.
What harvest this discord will bring
about is difficult to foresee.
Beaver City Times Trrmine: There la a
good Joke on Congressman Hitchcock, who
wants to make laws for his country In
the United States senate. Although Mr.
Hitchcock has this ambition, he was un
acquainted with the laws of his own state,
and when he went to file Ms nomination
papera ha undertook to pay the fee of M
with the secretary of state, when it must
be paid to the treasurer of his home
county.
Aurora Bun (dem.): Those who are so
actively pushing tho candidacy of Mr.
Hitchcock for the senate should remember
that thera la a large element In the demo
cratic party that would not vote for the
World-Herald man. And If Mr. Bryan rea
lised this feature to the fullest extent, we
believe he would not refuse to make the
race for the senate himself. He would poll I
many more votes than ' would Mr.
Hitchcock.
Grand Inland Independent: Not a few Ne
braska newspapers still cling to the idea
that the proposed efforts to secure a vote
of the people of the state on the question
of relocating the capital at some more cen
tral point are born of displeasure because
the people of Lincoln decided to keep the
saloon out of that city. However, it Is
noticeable that nearly all of them are pub
lished in cities in close proximity to Lan
caster county or southeast of that city.
Wllber Democrat: Except to chronicle
the death of a loved friend no more un
pleasant duty can fall to the lot of a news
paper man than to have to record the fact
that "another good man has gone wrong."
But truth is mighty and must prevail.
When W. J. Bryan started out on his po
litical career, professing to be a democrat,
he had a voice and a vocabulary that would
charm the birds off the trees. On the
strength of the reputation thereby gained
he got what is called the big-head, and
thereby came his political ruination. He had
inordinate ambition, and when he met his
first serious opposition and came to the
crossing of the roads in 1890 tie broadly
hinted to his opponents that under certain
circumstances he oould "serve the people
under another name." And he has been and
gpne and went and done it; first aa an
aasistat populist, and since he has found
that little racket does not pan out, be Is
starting in as an assistant prohibitionist.
He was a ficzle as a lawyer, could not even
make a will giving himself 150,000 that would
etlck. He has been a fizzle aa a politician,
being repudiated three times by the Amer
ican people for president on "paramount
Issues" of his own choosing, simply because
they did not think him safe; and with his
wobbly ideas, and a new "paramount issue"
every succeeding campaign many of them
are 'beginning to doubt whether he -ia even
sane. Tet with his monumental conceit he
still sets himself up as a wholesale and
retail manufacturer of "paramount issues"
for the democratic party, contrary to its
ancient beliefs, articles of faith and the
traditions of the eldera of the party. Ho
can discourse glibly about caars, potentates,
dictators and autocrats, and yet he is the
biggest humbug of the bunch on record,
only recently trying to bulldoze the gov
ernor and legislators of this great state to
his will. "Who made you a ruler over us?"
the fellows who refuse to bow down to the
toppling demigod are asking, and they are
further asking what has he ever done for
the people, except to play a political game
that has filled his own pockets to overflow
ing. He has been sowing wind and he is
going to reap the whirlwind. He intimates
that he is going to fight to the bitter end.
It will ba his own bitter end, and it is not
going to foe long in coming.
illii ill . Ii
I paid on certificates running for twelve H II Oil1 J--IH i f
flP Pill ' it
it
The report made to tho comptroller
aoder data of March !, 1910. shows
that this bank baa
Time Certificates of
nopngir $2,034,278.61
3V3 Interest
PERSONAL NOTES.
A Chinese who desired to protest against
a foreign loan cut off a finger and wrote
with blood. He might have kept the finger
on and used It Just es effectually to point
with scorn. t
Andre d'Fouquicres, announced as
France's model of correctness In fashions,
Is to honor this country with a visit, as
entemrlslnff merchants in need of a dummy
miv be interested to know. ' si
Homer Folks, secretory of the New Tork
State Charities Aid association, sucoeeds
Jane Addams of Hull House as president
of the National Conference of Charities and
Correction. Mr. Folks was commissioner
of public charities of New York City when
Sth Low was mayor.
Oeorge H. Chase of Roxbury, Mass.,
kr.own as "Old Seth," one of the most fa
mous sharpshooters of the civil war, is
dead. He was 76 years old He ' was a
member of Berdan's sharpshooters and is
believed to have killed more confederates
than any other man in the war.
The will' of Miss Rebecca Coxe, vfilch
was filed at Wlikea-Barre the other day
bequeaths more than $100,000 to charita
ble institutions I Among the beneficiaries
is the St. James Industrial School and
Mission of Philadelphia, which gets $10,-
000. Besides these gifts to charity all th
servants of Miss Coxa are to receive pen
sions?
Whltber We Are Drifting.
Chicago News,
Paupers are to have access to the' highest
federal courts without cost if a bill passes
which Is now before congress. Then only
the very rich and the very poor can afford
to go to law.
Evldeace o' BkiTT.
Washington Herald.
As vindicative of his position that peace
is a mere matter of taming people, the col
onel might cite triumphantly the present
mee'k and lowly status of the nature fakers
and race sulclders in this country.
No Baricalns Possible.
Baltimore American.
The United States will have a laundry
for its notes to keep them free from noxi
ous germs. But by providing laundered
money the government does not In any
way intend to encourage wash sales.
MIRTHFUL REMARKS,
"Pop. when la a man a pin head?"
" w uen btiaiyer toiks, my won, uce him to
Keep tne point irom kotiig any turiuer.
totuaniure American.
Legal Adviser As I understand you. your
famuy la In much reduced Circumstances
tnat nothing Is iett of your ancestral ebtate
now but a ruined chateau.
count rtoyton de JttakKovlsnek Zat ees
gone, too, sare. 1 myself am se sole ruin.
Chicago xribune.
The Court You will swear that the pris
oner stole your umDreuar
The Platntitr Your honor, I will swear
that he stole the umbrella was carrying.
Cleveland leader.
"I noticed that they put Teddy in the
eighth carriage at King Kdward's funeral,"
said a Kansas man to Ed Howe the other
day. "X don't think that was right." 1
Eight timea better," replied Howe, "than
riding in the first; the hearse." Kansas
City Journal.
"How could Maud descend to marrying
a mere circus contortionist?"
"rihe wanted a man she could twist
around her finger." Boston Transcript.
"Don't you think that novelist who tries
so hard to depict various diameters In his
people, Is a good ileal oi. a mechanical
writer?"
"Well, you know ho clal... to be a type
writer." Baltimore Aincin....!.
Benedict Arnold had agreed to deliver
West Point into the hands of the British.
"It's the only way 1 can put a stop to the
hazing," he said.
Mortified beyond measure at the failure
of the experiment, he went abroad for his
hearth." Chicago Tribune.
"In those old Arabian Nights stories It
war quite easy for a man to tieoome In
visible." "Yes," replied Miss Cayenne. "Now the
nly oocaslon on which a man is practically
Star.
Oh.
JUNE.
frost benumbed' rhortal,' 'tis time to
revive;
Oh, comet-struck souls, "cut out" all that
vawnlnsr:
For the robin announces' tho glad days
Go, bury your pains and your aches for
a whllfl:
Oo, take off that long, long face, you- loon;
Uo meet with a stnllo the . sup's glad
smile
Don't you know It's Juno?
There's a scent on the brcczothat we
cannot mistake
For comet-tail gas 'tis1 the breath of the
And the thrush keeps telling' liow happy
ne is
Yes over and over: "
And the sweet-faced bride Is tryln' on tows
f or the great event that s coming oil
'soon:
And the man In tha case is on needles and
pins, ... ... .. , .
For he knows It Is June. . .
The robin looks wise aa he struts on the
lawn; ,
Could he utter his thoughts he would
truly astound-ust
And the voice of the graduate thrills thro'
the land;
Ppreadlnir awe all around us;
The masculine senior doth sternly orata.
Rehearsing his wisdom at night to the
moon;
But that stately orb' with forbearance
smiles down -
the knows It Is June.
The catbird has a secret art rare'
He'd tell but 'tis part of his wisdom to
doubt us;
And the oriole's notes from tho elm, sift
ing down,
Scatter Jny all about us;
The bumble bees .buss where tlia clovers
are white
They're awaiting- the first bare foot let
'em sting it; . - ,
For It adds to the joy of the genuine boy.
In Junetlme ding ft t
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BAYOLti NE TRELE.
A SIDEWALK
FULL OiR PIANOS
Bennett Co. Is Taxed to Care
for Constantly Arriving
Exhibition Instru
ments. -
Talks for people who sell things
Do People Read Newspaper Adver
tlaementsf
The answer to this question Is
dawned on Mr. Berry that the bottom had
dropped out of the statement ho had made
a few minutes before, that he never was
C'aase and Effect.
Brooklyn Eagle.
If Bryan doesn't stop badgering Judson
Harmon, a nomination for the presidency
by acclamation or on first ballot la as
sured for the Ohloan. Thousands of demo
crats love Harmon, for the enemies he has
meda. i
Hsacblnsr for "Higher I'ps."
Baltimore American.
The usual order has been reversed In
the case of the sugar trust now on trial.
The little fish have been permitted to
escape, the - efforts of the law being
turned toward catching the big ones In
the net. This policy in dealing with the
bad trusts will reach the seat of the
trouble, the ones really responsible being
no longer able to escape by offering up
the sacrlflciary goat
No Rate Raising Yet.
The' vigor and promptness with
which the government has taken hold
with the shippers to prevent a general
Increase la freight rates should give
as much concern to me railroads as
It doei encouragement to the people.
The common carriers have argued In
vain that the high cost of living with
Its reflex action .In greater wages and
cost of operation has cut down their
earning power belov a reasonable
point and made larger freight rates
Imperative. The one exhibit that de
feats all this Is that, though railroads
have had to raise wages and pay more
for rolling stock and equipment, their
net earnings continue to show heavy
Our Birthday Book
Jane a. 110.
John O. Sate, the American humorist,
who sang of Omaha "Where rolls the deep
Missouri down," was born June t, 1816, and
died In 1887. Ha was a newspaper man, who
visited this city (n the early days and put
hla impressions Into poetry.
pr. Ewlng Brown, practicing physician
In tha Brand Is building, is 62 years old
today. He was born at Monmouth, III., and
educated at Monmouth college, studying
medicine later at Jefferson college and
Johns Hopkins, He Is now emeritus pro
fessor of gynecology In the medical depart
ment of the University of Nebraska.
Arnold 8. Uorglum of the Darlow Ad
vertising agency ia Tha Bee building, in
Just 41. He was employed for some lime
wtth the Union Pacific, and is now secre
tary ttt his present firm.
obvious. It would be impossible to l b advertising
" ' " ' j . "You cah see for yourself," said Mr. liord,
publish the newspaper of today and after the laugh had died away, "that with
sell it for less than 5 cents per copy even as busy a man as you, who probably
If the average newspaper reader did bolt J'0"' newspaper the same as you do
. ..., i..i your breakfast, that advertising has given
not read the advertisements regularly you ft kaowMgt ot wnat t0 bujr ftnd ;he
and were he not influenced in his pur- to buy, although you are not conscious
chases, by the advertising. Merchants of it. You have never bought a can of
do not advertise as a charity to the "l" but tha first time you do,
ri.k i the fact develops that you ean't think ol
newspapers. With them, advertising ny other brM(J, thM the t4rttad
is a business proposition, and whether brands and that you have been uncon-
it Davs. or not, is not guess work. sciously convinced that these are also the
Everv now and then we meet a be8t ,n Juty-"
!Uima thuf ho .tno. nn Mr. Berry started successful ad-
read newspaper advertisements. vertislng campaign. But that, as Kip-
Mr. Lord, at the time be was head D8 would ay, is another story,
of the Lord & Thomas advertising "Yes," says the skeptical business
agency, had a caller one day, who in- man, "this may be true enough, but
troduced himself as the senior partner the question that interest me is, will
of a large . manufacturing concern, people read my advertisement if I put
stating that his partners were very it in the newspapers?"
much in favor of advertising their The newspaper reader, when he
product, but that he could not see the looks over a paper, must read
matter in the same light that they did. whether he wishes to or not, any line
"I have come to you. Mr. Lord," he said, th.t ta nrinted so that the eye catches
"because you probably have had as much lanna It Is solf-evldent that
sxperience In the advertising business as " anoa' " .f6"' 1 ,
any man in Chicago. Of course, while I he cannot help reading It If the line is
don't believe in avertlsing. I am not at one which the eye reads involuntarily
all pig-headed ahout It and haven't any d the m,nd graBps without effort,
prejudices. If a man can state the case
strong enough, I am willing to be convinced. That much of an advertisement, the
Personally, i never read any advertising. I newspaper reader must read whether
am not in the least Influenced by advertis- ne or n0 If there i a picture
TuXZl "nLToi SI connected with it the picture also ,on
I simply buy what, in my own judgment, I veys an Idea to the reader mind, re
think U t?t. Naturally, I believe that gardless whether this act is voluntary,
everybody else is the same way, and I can- or jnvoluntary, on the . part of the
not see what good an advertising campaign d
will do for us, anyway." reaaer.
Mr. lrd very adroitly turned the subject People do not shun reading news
to more personal matters and in the course pBper advertising. They do not have
.lrur. fooled into reading advertise
a common bond of sympathy in the fact, ments. They do so because they are
that at home, there was a "strike In the as much interested in this feature Of a
kitchen" and Mr. Berry, particularly com- day newBpapr anything else ia
Dialnea eooui nsvins ' iiirms. ,. , .... . .
?Lthln. he had never don. before In all " columns. What can be more Inter
his ufe. eating to men and women than how
"You must have a nlc time buying meat tney can get the most good out of the
and groceries." said Mr Lord. "I don't tfa have worke(, hard t
hi. ava vaii knnv him from baa. con. Wnv.
if vour wife ssked you to buy a can of People work not for dollars but
tmking powder, you wouldn't know what what the dollar can be turned into.
kind ts asg ror. Nothing Interests people more than
flip Riivsi or iir. Priced." stretching dollars, or knowing where
A smile spread ever Mr. Lord's face; it and for what to change those, dollars
PROM RICHMOND, VA.
A sidewalk full of pianos! '
. A barrier of brightly illuminated,
label bedecked piano boxes, each laden 1
with eome melody producing instru
ment! That was tM sight that today
confronted passers by at The Bennett
Co.'s establishment at Sixteenth and
Harpey streets,
And the boxes bore. ( huge posters
upon which were printed la scarlet let
ters, the mystio' symbol: N. A. P. p.
of A- Richmond, Va,
To the initiated this means: "Na
tional Association of Piano Dealers'
Convention, Richmond," Va.." -the
solo means of identifying' pianos tha'ij
were last month exhibited at this
famed southern city, by manufactur
er who take a pride in their pro-.
ductions.
The Bennett Co. waj particularly
fortunate in securing a number of
these instruments from the exhibitors
at a considerable reduction in price,
and on Saturday las this concern in
augurated a special gelling of "ex
hibit" pianos that will go down into
loeal music lovers' history as en event
of importance,
The Bennett Co. was also fortu
nately able to secure a second and
larger shipment of thos -'exhibit"
pianos bought them Jub as advant
ageously as the first lot and will re
tail the instruments at still greater
reductions it that Is poiolbla.
Cases that are marvels of the cabi
net maker's art actions that embrace
uo newest thoughts of mechanical ex
perts tonal capacity that the born
musical artist will rave over such ore
the features that lift these "exhibi
tion'' Instruments above the ordinary
taken-from-stock pianos,
Many of today's arrivals were prlso
winners. at various national and inter
national expositions and "Blue Ribbons"-
are promiscuous in the piano
display windows and on the third
floor of The Bennett Co.'s establish
ment, wherein is situated the depart
ment devoted to the selling of this
line.
If you must have a piano why cot
have a prise winning "Blue JUbbon"
plauo if It costs no moro even less
than the other kind.
Of course, it will be a mere matter,
of days before all of these exhibition
pianos from Richmond are disposed
of. It behooves one well to hasten hU
selection if one desires to gt!U!
benefit of the reduction offereti.w
At any rate if you love teauJ'.n
the form of pianos see tho "BUm
Rlbboners."