THE BEE: OMAHA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. 1911.
The Omaha daily bee
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CwW. ROBERT HUNTlwv I
abserleera iMTlag the rtr tn.
aornrUr should have The Be
tailed ta then. Address will he
chanced aa oftea aa reeaestea.
remaps Kipling is angling for theIMSiUeil the standby prohibition
poet laureate s joo
Senators Swanson and Martin must
have had a steam roller of their-own.
There is no need of making Sunday 1
either blue or red. Why not strike a '
medium color? '
The Beattle and Astor stories passed
orf the front, page about the same
time. Thanks.
What an outrage that the press dis
patches did not note the Hon. Hack
enschmldt's sailing.
And yet "Boss" Murphy has no
stated salary for running the city and
state of New York.
Perhaps if they divide Texas to
make a new state, Joe Bailey might
have another chance I
Mary McLane "came back" and
wrote a book. Yes, she did, and what
was the name of the book?
A silver-tongued orator . with gold'
filled teeth might easily become a bl-
oetallst, if he were not one already.
Senator Lorimer, after all, seems to
be sticking better than those who
helped to put him over or "keep him I
out. - ' I
property owners of. Htfnnevell,
Kan., have to thank Mayoress .Wilson
ror putting tneir town, on the map, 1
anyway.
If there are any o'ther high spots
our visiting Nasbys have failed' to hit,
it is, not too late yet to make up for
the omission. '
A cat bit nine men In Chicago. If
the feline Infused any of Its lite blood
into Its victims they need not worry
about dying soon.
A Chinaman has made halt a million 1
dollars selling chop suey in Boston,
8howtng the evolution from baked
beans in the Boston appetite.
Omaha for next year. How, much
higher la the price to be boosted?
The Omaha Street Railway company
is going -to equip its cars with fare
boxes. The presumption is that these
will take the place of straps at rush
hours. I
Evidently, it Is as slow a Job getting
election returns from the backwoods
counties in Maine as it is getting them
rrom the sandhill districts of . N
braska.
The mourner, at the funeral of
Myrtle Reed McCullough. it now ap-
peara, stole 1,000 of her valuable
souvenirs. Poor folks, they must navel
been heart-broken.
One would bate to think that a. de-1
crease in American royaltiea on his
books had. anything to do with Rud-hf,
yard Klpllng a attack oa the United
States in his antl-reclproclty outcry.
' Those police commissioners in South
Omaha under fire from Governor Aid-
rich happen to be democrats, and that
la all. that Is needed to induce the
World-rHerald to go good for them.
The day boarder win be pleased ts learn
that the pruna crop looks promising
Omaha Bee.
In benair or tnis mucn mancnea mat
! prunes and did not appear to like prunes
the landlady would quit serving tnam
Chicago Tribune
well, me i -our iiuarurr nu to eai
something in self-defense.
Advocates of tne parcela post insist
that It will help the country merchant.
and that is the experience of other
countries with it, while the opponents
declare it will give the big mall order
catalogue houses a monopoly of trade,
It all depends whether the argument
emanates from someone who desires to
make the postal service useful to Its
full capacity or from retained or vol-
unteer spokesmen fer the express com-
jpanles.
The Straggle in Maine. .
Knowing tbe .obstinacy of return
from the rural berk counties, "foe Bee
refrained from writing an objtuarr on
prohibition la Maine aa did too many
of Its', rash oontemporarlea. But the
returna from - Main forecasting a
4 So '"n' majority against repeal are nooe
too tneless significant of the tremendous
struggle that bad been going on there.
and the colossal change In public
...ii.,., is. ..Mtlnn itfllamtr
traffic regulation. When the constltu-1
r - -
tlon was amended to make prohibition
part of the fundamental law in Maine,
the dm had it by nearly 50,000. so
the extinguishment of this overpower
ing majority by whittling it down to
a few hundred is In Itself noteworthy.
Of course, everyone, except those who
wilfully shut their eyes-to the truth,
has known that prohibition never pro
hibited In Maine, and that more Intoxi
cating liquor was drunk there during
thin before the prohibition regime.
Prohibition had far greater influ
ence in turning Maine democratic . last
year than all the national Issues, the
democrats riding into office; da a
promise to submit . the question of
repeal. It would not be surprising
r , . .
In fact, it may be expected that
turned Main demo-
cratlo for the purpose of prying off the
- . . .
11a may nexx ume turn u dock again
to the republicans seeing that their
hopes have been disappointed. iTtie
close contest, however, would ordinar
Uy be taken as certain to stimulate
continued effort on the - part of '.the
weta .to deprive Maine of its unique
state. While Maine evidently has not
gone wet, the decision is hardly to be
accepted as final any more than- It
would be were it the other way by
1116 same close margin.:
' . ... ,,
The Machinists a Conservative Force.
The refusal of the International of-
fleers of machinists' union to sanction
& strike in. the Illinois Central shops
Indicate that here la a conservative
force in the present railroad disorders,
whose influence for the best interests
of all may be far felt. Evidently the
international officers, after 'taking a
etrefttl ,urvey 01 Ua ltutlon have
concluded that there is nothing in it
demanding or Justifying hostilities.
"Evidently they have determined that
no condition against which. te men
have protested is serious enough to
menace the men's rights, or they would
not withhold their sanction of a strike.
Evidently an exhaustive comparison
of claims and counterclaims hat con
vlnced them that a strike would ' do
more harm than good. .Therefore, their
blocking of a labor war to" this extent
and for these reasons, cannot but con)'
mend the International "beads of the
union machinists a fair-minded and
fearless men, for they must know that
with some of Che most rabid of their
number, their conservatism, ia not
popular.
. n is' no time, .though, for, men on
eitier side to stand upon so narrow a
proposition as . popularity where such
large interests affecting one and all
are at stake. It is to. be hoped that the
effect of the machinists' action with
reference to the Illinois Central, may
spread and unite with other elements
in allaying feelings and working out
a solution of the difficulties by some
peaceable .method. , Undoubtedly the
unions have rights that are Just as
considerable as their, employers, so
that all the conceding cannot be done
0n one side. It is not a good idea
either, for one or the other aide to go
too strong on ultimatums and declare
th.B nBu.. term are . accented by a
orta1n A t a nAtrriHft tlAm tvrjh nff TYi
ferera in a , strike, , will , be perfectly
willing to have the debate prolonged
If it helps to, avert the trouble. -
' The South and Certain Sefonns
.The south's general attitude toward
the initiative and' referendum and the
recall as stated by Governor O'Neal of
Alabama in his retort at the governors
conference to Woodrow Wilson is that
they constitute "an insidious popular
vagary." On this very preposition may
rest the pivot of 'the south's 'prefer
ence- for presidential nominees next
B declaration of the Alabama
governor., therefore, is significant and
lt significance appears, not to have
"
The New Jersey executive is a native
I of the south, yet en, advocate -of all
these political in novation a Governor
Harmon is lees favorable to them.
in fact, at all r so. and , he ia at
present Dr. Wilson's most formidable
I rivai for the democratic nomination.
The south will have a large voice in
naming the democratic candidate, next
year. It ia apt to seek a man not
committed to these newer theories of
popular government and. Indeed, there
are reasons why the south would pre-
fer a northern democrat in sympathy
I wjt jt opposition to a southern demo-
I .., mmmlltnil in thm
Tha fart la aimnlv thla. that the
south regards any method that prom
llaes to .bring .government closer to
I the mass of the neonle aa ia claimed
for these propositions as dangerous
to Ha. unbroken white 'man 'a rule. In
other words, it tears that with the ini
tiative and referendum and recall In
b". lo souin -
1-ouUumberlng the white men in some
states ana sure in ume to requemy
aa a voter might get things In his
1 hands and overturn present conditions.
I entirely. That is the one common
dread that keeps the "solid south,"
In the democratic column. It weighs
every' new political project or device
I by that balance. So, it would seem.
since he has come out so stoutly for
aril ' these so-called "vagaries." that
Governor M'oodrow Wilton might not
have a walkaway with the southern
rote In the democratic convention.
Another Miking Game.
' Two men, one of whom has been
arrested, are charged with having made
11,500,000 by gold brick schemes,
chief of which was pretending to make
and sell counterfeit ' money. The
mou operandi wae a cunning one
and well fortified. The crooks adver
tised to certain credulous persons that
they had obtained coinage dies from
the mint and were making money that
would pass for genuine. They found
it easy to get good money out of many
people for consignments of the coun
terfeit and the customers, being
themselves! in on a game to swindle
the government, were, not in a posi
tion ' to say a word when their con
signment failed to reach them and
they lost the remittance they had sent.
The principle Involved Is not very
unlike that in the Mabray cases, only
of course, the dupes In the latter were
not out to "beat" the government and
therefore their offense, from a legal
standpoint, ' was not so serious. But
lh. any event they ajl went into a
'skin", game and got skinned. The
gentleman who put up the game and
got the money, especially in this coun
terfeiting fraud, and those who put
up the cash and failed to get the re
ward, are not very far apart when it
comes to the matter of law. If they
were some ' of the victims would be
coming to the front with their com
plaints.
. Public sympathy. In such cases, al
ways finds lt hard to stir itself in be
half of this class of "victims," either
In the Mabray swindles or the one Just
brought to light. Should the captured
counterfeiter in Chicago decide to
"squeal" on his customers, he might
have a lot of fun and some company
when he ."goes over."
Under the Mask.
It is almost laughable, this demo
cratic fear of machine rule if the demo
cratic nominees tor sheriff and police
Judge are not elected this year. Who
nominated the "democratic candidate
for sheriff except the Dablman ma
chine, buttressed and fortified by a
majority of democratic Judges and
clerks In every polling place in' Omaha,
but two, personally named by the ma
chine street boss, himself a candidate
for clerk of the district court? And
no 'different influence made the demo
cratic candidate for police Judge, who,
though a well known employe of a
paving contractor, is now on the pay
roll as clerk of the police court as an
appointee of VMayor" Jim. The most
odious democratic machine that ever
got hold of the city hall and court
house is bending every energy to
strengthen its . slipping . grip on the
Booils of office, and that is all there
is to it. ' ' '. '
The. Increasing number of students
from Omaha at the University of Ne
braska is gratifying, but the propor
tlon is still fax below what it should
be. Omaha and Douglas county pay
approximately one-eighth, to one-ninth
of the taxes that go to support the uni'
versity, and Its students there are not
to be regarded aa deadheads.
j It' goes without saying that if re
peal of constitutional prohibition in
Maine carries, the victory of the wets
is to be ascribed to political frauds
and the corrupt use of brewer's boodle.
But If the repeal Is beaten, it will be a
gTeat and glorious manifestation of
conscientious and Intelligent citizen
ship.
A smooth swindler has, been arrested
In' Chicago, credited with having
cleaned up 91,500,000 in gold brick
and green goods operations. On be
half of Council Bluffs we object to
this unfair effort to snatch the laurels
from "Friend" Mabray and his race
track game..
The governor of Alabama, reports
say. after attempting to cry down the
initiative and referendum and recall
vagary in the governors' conference,
walked through a-window to a piazza
overlooking the deep, blue sea, and ex
claimed. "What's the use "
Ex-Governor Shallenberger reiter
ates that he is going to stand or fall
on his record. Inaamuch as the record
is unchanged since the last time he tell
on it, the ex-governor cannot De put
ting his expectations too high.
Esnlhlttair a Sore Spot.
; -' Chicago Record-Herald.-Rudyard
Klplwg h& written to a Mon
treal paper advising the Canadian people to
shun reciprocity and saying soma very
uncomplimentary things about the United
States. It -may be that Mr. Kipling's
American publishers are not forwarding
such royalties as he desires.
Better Before baa After.
Philadelphia Record.
How aertouely the late strikes !n Great
Britain have affected trade is shown by
August reports of a falling off in imports
during the month of $7.o.570. and a de
crease of I12.780.91S In exports, v After all
this frightful loss due to stoppage of work
on the docks and rails ths matters of dif
ference are to be arbitrated. It would
have been better to arbitral before going
to war.
laaonatar of the roosla.
New York 6un.
Uncle Joe Cannon is rapidly losing the
reputation of a "sport" which was created
tor him In ' their hours of leisure by the
Washington correspondents. His fiasco at
golf was fearful, and now ha is reported
aa clinging to the side of aa automobile
as it was driven round ths Indianapolis
speedway, and escaping from it as soon
as he could .wjth the exclamation: '"I'm
glad I came, and I'm blamed glad I'm
through " Uncle Jos must have felt Just
Ilka the qld lady who on her first railroad
Journey cried out when the train reached
the other side of a high viaduct. "Thank
God. we've U.'"
Qjookip Backward
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Thirty Years Ag
The great Charlotte Thompson at the
Academy tonight.
The third day of the state fair waa well
attended. About 10 o'clock-a wind atorm
made Ita appearanoe. In one of the worst j
gusta the big tent put up to cover the
county exhibits col!apred. and the display
waa moved to safer quarters In the f oral
and mercantile ha.!s. The races again took
the crowd. As soon as It waa light the
electric light flashed up from the center
mast and ail the lamps blazed brilliantly.
Suddenly. Just as the crowd began to
gather, the lights went out. and all was
as black as the Inflda of a cow for a mo
ment, and then the light fashed back
again. ' Investigation proved that an
Inebriated Individual had been fooling
about the machine and had pulled the con
necting wire from its place. One of the
incidents at the fair today waa a wholesale
strike on the part of the employes of D. T.
Mount's dining hall just aa the supper bell
rang. Mr. Mount met the strikers half
way, who advanced In a body, and gave
them the chance of keeping at work at the
price he had been paying or quitting im
mediately. Seven of them had the brass
to brazen It out. and they were paid off
and put out ot the grounds and everything
went on serenely aa usual. Two or three
fights occurred on the grounds today, but
were quickly quieted.
Miss Carson, who Uvea seven miles west
of Omaha, while mounting a horse to come
to the fair, ran a shawl pin Into her breast
three Inches. The head broke, so that the
breast had to be cut to extract the pin.
Her visit was made to Dr. Grossman la
stead of to the fair.
The Land league met In Clark's hall with
a large attendance. John P.ush delivered
an essay reviewing . the Lend league. Its
reason, purpose and aim.
Mrs. Herman Kountie la again advertis
ing for a first-class cook wanted for pri
vate family at the residence, on South
Tenth street.
Twenty Years Ago
As showing how Omaha was growing as
a market for Black Hills ore. General
Manager Horace O. Burt of the FJkhorn
railroad, stated that twenty cars of that
ore were about to leave Chadron for this
city.
Bert Whlttleton, 23 years of age. died at
his home, TOO South Seventeenth street, of
peritonitis.
T. C. Parkins, a letter carrier, found
wallet on the street and took it to the
police station, where It was held by Chief
Seavey for the owner, who, from papers
In it, seems to be Ed Maher.
Mra E. O. Mayfleld of South Omaha was
reported dangerously ill.
William Culbey, whose arms were filled
with shot by his father-in-law. Mike Mc
Carthy, lay critical ill, with the prospect
of losing one arm. If not his life.
The Commercial Avenues beat the Flor
ence Stars at the Omaha ball park by a
score of 6 to 2.
Ten Years Ago
The news of the death of President Me-
Klnley plunges the city into deep mourn
tag. Again The Bee put over all others in
giving the news of this important -event.
Dr. Frederick Rusttn and Mr. . Luther
Kountie gave a stag dinner in the evening
In honor of Henry T. Clarke, Jr., about to
wed Miss Grace Allen.
Miss Mabel Welch entertained for her
friends about to leave for college. Those
present were Misses Evans, Harris, Ball,
Comstock. Carey, Jordan, Cooper, Allison,
Baldwin, Dellecker, Towne and Welch.
The populist county convention was held
These eminent patriots were appointed to
the platform co-nmlttee: J. B. Jonea,
John O. Yelser, Elmer E. Thomas, H.
Cohen, Gus Williams, J. J. Points and
Laurie J. Qulnby. E. I. Morrow presided
and John W. Barnett acted as secretary.
he platform declared, among other things:
"We affirm the declaration of the late
republican state convention, penned by 5.
Itoeewater, calling upon the state and
county treasurers for statements of " the
whereabouts of public funds."
Governor Savage came up from Lincoln
and spent the evening mingling with
friends.
A. D. Touxailn resigned aa treasurer ot
the local lodge of Elks and his place waa
taken by Charles L. Saunders.
People Talked About
. A woman aviator has made an ascent of
L000 feet, thereby, It Is claimed, establish
ing a record for her sex. Thia is disput
able, however, for other women have been
up tn the air higher than that
At a recent base ball game between the
Odd Fellows and Masons at Warner, N. H..
William W. Austin of Webster, who Is M
years, went to bat for the Masons in one
lr.nlng and made a safe hit to the infield.
Vice President 6herman announces that
he Is gonsg to challenge "Undo Joe" Can
non to a game of golf. The veteran took a
chance at the game at Boston the other day
and made the announcement that he was
"a plain republican without adjectives."
Jesse Langford, a farmer of Grant, Kan.,
last week Bold a load of alfalfa seed for
H006, thought to be the highest price ever
paid In that state for a load of grain of any
kind. There - was a little more than 134
bushels of seed In the load.
A Bt. Louis man reports that ho has cured
his hay fever by remaining for half an
hour a day in the cooling room of a brew,
ery. It may be that he succeeded while in
the brewery in getting into such a condi
tion that he was unable to recognize a case
of hay fever.
To Insure his boarders a reaeonabla
share of the comforts of civilization, the
warden of the Nevada state penitentiary
permits the prisoners to blow their "prison
money" in roulette, faro and other games.
These diversions are supposed to check the
desire for "a getaway.' '
Frank L. Stanton of the AUantle Con
stitution wrote-a poem, "They've Hanged
B1U Jones," and is so affected Governor
West of Oregon that he commuted the
death sentence of Jesse Webb to one of
life imprisonment. The only thing likely
to disturb the agreeable situation la the
prisoner's threat to write another poem.
Handing One to Joa Bailey.
Philadelphia Record.
The announced determination of United
States Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey of
Texas, to forsake ths business ot law
making at the end of his term in 1918 and
to commence Instead the practice of law
in New Tork City will be hailed with
gratification throughout tha country. Mr.
Bailey has undeniable talents, coupled with
ungovernable temper. No pretty shrew in
petticoats ever made worse wreck of her
comeliness and 'her opportunities than Jo
seph Weldon has done in the arena of poli
tics. It Is declare, that bis determination
not to stand for re-election to the senate is
Irrevocable It will be a fortunate thing
for the democratic party and for the coun
try at large IX be shall not change his
resolution, ,
r
Around New York
Blpplea oa the Carreat of Xdfe
as eea la the Oreat A me rice a
Metropolis from- Day to Pay.
Pace of ArocHcaa Workatea.
How an English official regards the
American workman is shown in a report
Just made to the British Board of Trade
by. Courtnay Bennett. British consul at
New Tork. He says:
"The American worker puts more energy
into his work than deee the luropean.
Speeding Is pa tly responsible for this.
The reserve of energy Is no greater in
America than In European stock and Amer
ican energy is consequently exhausted more
rapidly- Betwten the agea of 0 and 60.
when the European workman Is at his best,
the American frequently breaks down.
Physical exhaustion, dyspepsia or nervous
prostration followa. and the man's life as
a worker is done. His place is taken by a
younger man. ,
So long aa there Is an abundant sup
ply of labor through foreign Immigration
the vacant places can easily be filled. If
the stream stops there will not be so much
heard of the superiority of American
working men, for America would then have
to depend upon her own children, whose
stock of vitality Is npt greater than that
of their parents, whether American or for
eign." Daresay Clock Story.
Once in so often the story Is revived.
that the hands on the dummy clocks In
front of lewelere' stores are painted to
point te 8:30 because that was. the hour
at which Lincoln was shot. This has been
one of the most- persistent of modern
yarns. It first started on its rounds in a
New T6rk Sunday newspaper In August,
1S31, aa Is now told In a letter to the New
Tork Times from a correspondent who de
scribes how at the time named he was
delving Into old Manhattan records for
historical material, to the disgust ot a
friend of small scruples, who suggested
that It would be easier to "fake'' the
whole thing and that no one would ever
"know the difference." By way cf illus
tration, the friend pointed to a Jeweler's
dummy and called attention to the fact
that the hands were at 8.20, saying that
he didn't know why they were ao, but
that while it would take twenty years to
find out according to historical method,
a story (at everybody would believe could
be Invented in twenty seconds. To this he
added the suggestion of an admirer of
Lincoln standing beside the dummy clock
maker when news came of the assassina
tion, and saying to him "Have the hands
point to the hour of the shot." On the
second Sunday after this conversation a
New Tork paper printed the story which
this inventive but unprincipled Individual
bad connected, and It waa Illustrated with
a cut of a Jeweler's clock. The account is
so circumstantial as to date, etc., that it
can apparently be accepted as giving the
true origin of this famous yarn.
Ministerial Colors.
"A minister has got to be alive and re
sourceful today, said a deacon of a big
metropolitan ' church, quoted by the Kew
York Sun. "Our s finds he can't speak well
extemporaneously and he reads from a
typewritten copy. I never knew how he
managed to preach so effectively until one
day I happened to see . his manuscript.
Half -of It" was . underlined In different
colors. It looked -so curious that I asked
him, about it.
" 'A little scheme of mine,' he said
laughingly. 'I found I was delivering what
I had written In the same tone. So now,
early on Sunday morning, I go over the
copy I carry into the pulpit. I keep crayon
pencils of six different colors on my desk.
Red means one tone, green yet another,
yellow and blue yet others. As I turn
each page I see at a glance Just how I am'
to speak."
Pensioned by Carnegrle.
"Mother" Kennedy, well-known char
acter at the Coney Island beaches, where
for fifty years she has sold pail and shovels
to thousands of children, has - been pen
sioned by Andrew Carnegie. When her
lifetime's savings were wiped out In the
Dreamland fire a few months ago she re
called her , late husband's friendship with
Andrew Carnegie, who had been an em
ploye of the Pittsburg division of the
Pennsylvania railroad when her husband
was a popular conductor. So she sat down
and wrote to- Mr. Carnegie This week an
answer came from Sklbo castle, notifying
her that hereafter she would receive a
pension of IX each month.
National Air ta Order.
The organist was not -lacking Is patriot
ism, yet he rebelled when requested to
play "The star spangled Banner" at a
wedding.
"It is not appropriate." he said.
"Ain t it?" said the bride s father. "For
this wedding it is the most appropriate
thing you can play. Cut all the rest of the
program if you like, but stick to that. I
had the hardest kirid of a fight to keep
Belle's mother from marrying her off to
a foreigner. Between Belle and me we
won out for an American and if thia isn't
the time for the 'Star Spangled Banner
I'd like to know what la."
Bide Signs at Coney.
A cottage need not be large to bear a
name On a narrow boardwalk at Coney
Island leading down from Surf avenue to
a small hotel and bathing house, you pass
two tiny "bungalows" about nine by seven
teen feet ' each. The owner have their
troubles when called te the door to explain
several times a day that the bathing house
office is not there The neatly lettered name
of the first cottage la, "This Isn't It." The
second ia named "Neither Is This."
BREEZY TRIFLES.
"You refuse to allow your son to study
spelling and grammar," said the usacner.
"Absolutely, replied Mr. Groucher. "I
want turn to try nis uum ai current, liter
ature, and I don't propose to spoil his dia
lect and slang." Washington fctar.
King Richard III had offered his king
dom for a horse.
"Ha"' exclaimed Richmond. "I'll have
to co and nac him a little!"
Grasping a property sword, be rushed to
the fray. Chicago irioune. .
"My position." remarked the eminent
physician, "ia one requiring the greatest
tact and diplomacy."
"What is the trouble?"
. "I feel conscientiously obliged to tell sev
eral of my most wealthy and Influential
patients that they overeat." Washington
Star.
-First Passenger That Is Conductor
Punch em. He is one of the most experi
enced men on the road-"
Second Passenger I knew It before you
told me.
- First Passenger How so?
Second Passenger Because he alama the
door at the precise Instant that he calls
the station s name Judge a Library.
"Don't you sympathize with the laboring
man?
"Yes." replied Mr. Churrins. "But eiers
ought te be some reciprocity. When J have
to stop miles from home to put on a few
new tires I don't see any laboring man
knocking off work to sympathize with me"
Washington Star.
The young girl friend of the art student
stood In ths art gallery gazing at the
famous classic statues.
"It Is all very well te talk about ths
Venus of Milo'a being a model of womanly
perfection." she said, eyeing the armless
goddeer critically, "but ahe . never could
button & one-piece dress down the beck."
The BeeS Lcller Box
Aa Omaha Yell.
OMAHA. Sept. U-To the Editor of The
Bee: The numerous conventions that have
and will meet here suggest the slogan:
Rah' Rah'! Rah!'!
O-rrta-he'
The biggest and the beet
In the whole blamed west!
Omaha wants you for its guest.
WhenT When?
Now or anytime and at the Ak-P.tr-Prn.
A. BOOKLOVER.
Weed of ladvstrlal Tralaloc.
OMAHA. Sept U.-To the Editor of The
Bee: The members of the Board of Eudca
tion have listened patiently for several
nights to the discussions of the same little
group of men and women who are persist
ently demanding that the school houses be
opened to them for purposes other thin
educating the children.
As directors of our public schools, elected
by all the people, the board has other mat
ters of great Importance to consider, mat
ters pertaining to the welfare of cur 30.000
children who are entrusted to Its care.
Every Intelligent man Is undoubtedly famil
iar with the general complaint that Is com
ing from every corner of the globe that the
tendency of our modern methods of educa
tion Is to overeducate our youth and that
our colleges, universities snd other In
stitutions of learning are being over
crowded; that America as well as Europe
Is overfilled with professionals to the detri
ment of mechanical, technical or Industrial
training.
The educators of this country aa well as
Europe are viewing with alarm the present
conditions of our educational system and
are trying to stem the classical tide of
education and divert the youth In char.ncls
of technical, meehan al or Industrial train
ing and for that purpose. In several cities
of this country. Industrial high schools
were instituted where boys alnd girls are
taught various trades so as to enable them
to make a prosperous livelihood rather
than to be starving professional and the
time for such industrial schools Is ripe. The
demand Is great.
When the board Inaugurated a com-
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expected a handful of p-ijais but what wee
the result? Two hundred pupils ImmedJh
"n?elv availed themselves of the opportune
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commercial course so thst they might be.
come stenographers or book keepers vnt ths
expiration of two years. Had the board
the means and finances to establish aa In.
dustrlal high school In Omaha I am sure
thousands of children would have flocked
to that Institution at once and what a
blessing that would have been to the vest
majority of our children who cannot afford
to take a four-year course In the hlg?
school In order to prepare themselves fo
college or university.
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