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THE BEE: OMAHA. FK IDAS', AUGUST 2, 1912. Ting OV.AIIA DAILY BES iXV-rOED ST EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER. KOITOR liEK BUILPIKO. FARXAM AND TH. rr,trd at Omaha Postofflce as second- class matter. TERMS OK SUBSCRIPTION. Sunday Bee, one year - Saturday Bee. one year i ?V Daily Bee (without Sunday) one year MM Daily Bee and Sunday, one year. .....6w DELIVERED BT CARRIIR Evening Bee (with Sunday), per mo..sc Daily Bee (including Sunday), per mo.-c Daily Bee '.without Sunday), per mo -toc Address ail complaints or irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Dept. RBMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express ur PS1J5J3 payable to The Bee Pub lining P" Only 2-eent sumps received In Payment of small accounts. Personal checks, ex cept on Omaha und eastern exchange, no. Accepted. OFFICES. 0V.o-Th Beo building. Kouth Orr.aha-2318 N St. Council BIuffs-?5 Scott SL Lincoln-! Little building. Chicago 1041 Marquette building. Kansas City-Reliance building. New York-S4 West Thirty-third. Waahlngton-725 Fourteenth St.. w. w CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news ana editorial matter ehould be addressed Omaha Bee, Editorial Department JUNE CIRCULATION. 48,945 State of Nebraska, County of Douglas, si. N. P. Fell, business manager of The Bee Publishing company, being duly worn, says that the average dally cir culation for the month o June, 1912, was 48.945. N. P. FEIL, Business Manager. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this sth day of July. 1912. (Seal.) ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public. Subscribers leavlag the city temporarily shoald hae The) Ilea mailed to them. Addreaa wilt be chanced aa often re quested. ' July was a grand prohibition month. ' Good intentions minus will power often go up in smoke. The roan behind the man behind the gun is the one New York must get. The report that Mr. Morgan is growing feeble must refer only to his physical condition. It is in keeping with the , party financed by Steel triret magnates to use steel hammers for gavels. How "Mike" Harrington came to be overlooked in the distribution of the honors calls for explanation. ' A republican convention voting down an endorsement of the repub lican standard bearers is a mis nomer. The very idea or a western girl petitioning congress to change her name in this leap year of grace. 'Un believable1 New York Js a mighty city 'except when it comes to wreBting Itself frpm the fangs of police corruption' arid private graft., ,; r A balloon at Kansas City which started fof Duluth brought up at Manassas, "Va"., which proves the sue cess of, dirigible 'travel. That Cheyenne man who 'branded his wife with a tomahawk probably thought he could handle her if he put the Indian sign on her. , Human sympathy must go out and in leaps' and " bounds to the man making J 100 a month whose divorced wife demands $50 a week alimony. "I do not recognize the American government," says Oroico. Then sooner or later the American" gov ernment, will have to recognize him. The British. Investigators of the Titanic tragedy finally found that Ismay was blameless, but it took them more than three months, to do it. . Like a cork that is too light to be submerged, our old Jrlend, Jasper L. McBrlen, bobs up again to claim another small corner of the lime light. Forty some odd babies have al ready been named after Woodrow Wilson. Think of what they will have to stand for in all the years to come. In reference to "naked theft," the vocabulary of our political reform ers "thieves," "thugs," "liars," "highwaymen," "brigands," "moral assassins" threatens to denude the English language. Freight rates on excelsior ship ments to Omaha have been reduced by decision of the Interstate Com merce commission. This victory should be a cause of Jubilation-to our sprightly weekly society contem porary. Nebraska's new member of the re publican national committee thinks be is playing ostrich with his bead j buried in the sand,. but the posterior . portion of the animal that is visible .looks more like the rear end of a bull moose. For Colonel Yeiser we again pro test that al! the common decencies of politlcc are disregarded It leaving off the Buli Moose delegation to Chi cago the only : original Roosevelt mac, the mar. who put the colonel s name upon the primary ballot in Ne braska anc tbuc started tho whole machinery. fteassertug; the Monro; Doctrint. Senator I.o!gc resolution re asserting our determination to pre vent foreign natione or syndicates obtaining possession of considerable portions cf land on our contiguous territory but emphasizes the princi ple by which thir government has always stood and must continue to stand. We do not have to Invoke the Monroe doctrine to uphold the principle, and yet it forms an ele mental part of that great tradition. To permit a Japanese syndicate to buy 4,000,000 acres of land, as pro posed, off Magdalena bay, in Lower California, would be to violate this principle and lay down a precedent which it would be difficult in the extreme to overthrow fn the future. It would mean that we had gone in the suicidal business of permitting our land approaches to be sold to the best foreign bidder. The conse quences of such a policy would be much more serious than this govern ment has any right to contemplate with a view of making them possible. What Socialism Means? Those who have been raising the question as to the meaning of so cialism as manifested in the spirit of popular unrest will find in Presi dent Taft's speech of acceptance this very pungent definition Socialism Involves the taking away of the motive for acquisition, Having, en ergy and enterprise, and a futile attempt by committees to apportion the rewards due for productive labor. It means stag nation and retrogression. It destroys the mainspring of human action that has carried ' the world on and upward for 2A00 years. .. What .the - people of this country must guard against is that type of radicalism that, lacking definite pur pose in a tangible principle, leads on Inevitably - toward this goal of deadening socialism. The president is courageous' enough to say out loud, what so many others believe, that: ' The truth is, my friends, both those who have left the republican party under the 'Inspiration of their present' leader, and our old opponents, the democrat!, under their candidate, are going In a direction they do not definitely know, to ward an end they cannot definitely de scribe, with but one chief and clear ob ject, and that Is of acquiring power for their party by popular, support through a promise 'of a change for the better. Changes In policies and methods of government are not necessarily wise or good, simply because they happen to be changes and clamor is not always sound because it hap pens to be clamor. Lightning Change. While all sorts of shafts are aimed at the "party bosses" and "machine politicians," the new crop of "party leaders' can give' them cards and spades; fojf fast work. . The, Nebraska delegation to' the forthcoming Bull Moose , convention is headed , by our esteemed fallow citizen, Nathan iMerrlam, the same Nathan Merrlam who was chosen at the republican primary, last April to be a delegate-at-large to the repub lican national convention with In structions "direct from the people" to vote for Roosevelt and Beverldge in that convention. Not only did Mr. Merriam fail to carry out those instructions, but he bolted to the Orchestra hall convention in which he participated in' the formation of a; new party., . Yet on his return home he Joined in a call for a repub lican county - convention, in which he, was elected on a contesting dele gation seeking seats in the repub lican state convention. In the in terval, having been named on the committee to notify President Taft of his renominatlon, Mr. Merrlam resigned with the explanation that he was no longer enough of a repub lican to serve in that capacity. That did not prevent him, however, from presenting himself as a delegate, and participating in. the late so-called republican state convention. To show his versatility again, the very next day he went into the state conven tion of the Bull Moose party, deny ing connection with any other party and had himself elected a delegate to the national convention of that party soon to convene. , "Now you see it and now you don't." "Step up, boys, and tell which shell covers the little black ball." The Milk in the Cocoanut. Work on the water works exten sions, for which contracts have been let by the Water board, Is Inter rupted and the contractors explain the delay by inability to get pipe. That is as good an excuse as any other, particularly if no 6trenuous effort is made to get pipe. But our guess Is that, if the whole truth be known, the work is stopped because extension of existing Bervlce pipes before the second supply main from Florence is completed would only make a bad matter worse. With the present supply main drawn on to its full Capacity," taking on new terri tory and additional consumers, must correspondingly reduce the amount of water now available to house holders who have already paid for more than they are getting. The acute difficulties of the Water board right now would have been easily avoided had the addi tional supply main been ordered be fore any extensions were authorized. Possibly Uncle Sam erred in not allowing Great Britain to bea. part of the expense of building the canal, since she hae decided to run it. VOCAL AND EXUBERANT PATRIOTISM Aj. Eciglisliman's Comment Sydney Brooks in Tho Americanism of the Americans Is never so much to the fore as on July the Fourth. Englishmen would feel a sort of diffidence about mounting the stump year after year and chanting through a megaphone their greatness, their prosperity, and the development of their commerce and industries. '"But the Americans have a turn for such displays that is altogether dented to us. Indeed, there are no days whtn an Englishman in America fetls him self to be more certainly among an alien people than on Thanksg'vins Cay and the Fourth of July. The Americans have something In their blood that gives them the emotionalism, the right touch of fervor, the unconsciousnesn and the melodramic sensibilities necessary to a proper carrying out of these celebrations. And what Instinct prompts education has confirmed. Patriotism Is taught as a school subject all over America, and an American boy of 12 knows the words and airs of more national songs than an Englishman hears in a lifetime. I well remembpr once strolling Into on: of the public schools of New York J'it when lessons were about to begin. Tho boys and girls were marshaled 'n the school playground and marched off to their classrooms to the sound of military mulc. In each classroom, above the teacher's desk, hung the Stars and Stripes, and the business of the day began with each youngster stretching out his or her hand toward the flag and repeating this in cantation: "I pledge my allegiance to tlila flag and the country for which It stands, one country. Indivisible, with Jus tice and liberty for all." This sort of thing In a land so over- ETHICS OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION Some Remarks on Doctors' Signs and Their Significance. New York Sun. A recent issue of the Medical Review of Reviews contains tome sensible re flections upon the subject of doctors' signs. The public has long been puzzled by the peculiar methods adopted by physicians In what they are pleased to term medical ethics. We agree with Dr. Voorhees that to the hard-headid, practical, common sense mind of the layman there Is much -reason for amuse ment In the so-called ethics of the medi cal profession. This code was Instituted about a cen tury ago when the family doctor drove or walked to the homes of his patients without undue haste, avoiding every in fringement upon his aplomb and more Intent upon the maintenance of his dig nity than upon his timely arrival at the bedside. He was the arbiter of health and life, and his demeanor be spoke his estimate of the importance of his mission. It was quite natural that the doctors of that day and generation should adopt rules and, regulations for conduct In capes Involving possible rivalry and to inculcate precepts which would secure dignity and esprit de corps. The modern physician recognizes with grateful appreciation the efforts of his predecessors In this direction, but he has neither time nor Inclination for the ver bose precepts of the sode, finding that most of them simply express the ordi nary rules of conduct between gentle men, a breach of which would condemn the violator to ostracism among his peers, be he physician or layman. Biit. "times have changed and we mint change with them.-' The stress ot mod ern life, new modes of travel and mult), plication of patients have Impressed upon the modern doctor different view. KILLING OFF Chicago Convention Story New Tork The Des Molnei Register and Leader calli attention to the apparent demise of an Interesting legend which not long ago prcmlserd to figure conspicuously in the history of the recent republican na tional convention. On the way home from Chicago Colonel Roosevelt and Controller Prendergast were represented as making the following statements to an Inter viewer: "Emissaries from the Taft people cant to me personally," said the controller (Prendergast), "and the asked me to go to Colonel Roosevelt'' and tell him that they would place Washington, California, and Texas on the list if he would only withdraw In favor ot Hadley or Cummins pr La Follette or any other progressive." "By George, I believe they would, have been willing o compromise even on La Follette," Interrupted Colonel Roosevelt. "Of course, they might not have expected to elect him, but they were bent on do ing anything to defeat me." A day or two later at Cedar Rapids, la., Governor Hadley was reported as giving hla assent to the foregoing state ments. He even Intimated that he could have secured the nomination had Colonel Roosevelt released htm from his Instruc tions as a delegate. It was an Interesting story and It naturally spread rapidly over the country. But when the Iowa republi can state convention was In session In De Moines two weeks ago a handbill was circulated among the delegates con taining the following telegram from Col onel Roosevelt: "As a matter of fact, no offer was made POLITICAL SNAPSHOTS. New Tork World: The unusual quiet of Goven or Stubbs of Kansas Is at last explained. He has been arranging a theft of the republican name for the Roosevelt electors, which is properly quiet work. ' Washington Star: Next to the philos opher's stone, a tariff system that would provide' a general downward revision without hurting any protected industry is the most valuable discovery that hu man Ingenuity can attempt. Pittsburgh Dispatch: Ex-Senator Bev erldge announces that he "has quit, the republican party." It is not a wholly unusual Illustration of the relations of cause and effect, that when a party qui to a senator by falllnp; to re-elect him, the man quits the party on thi first subsequent excuse. Brooklyn Eagle. Here Is one passage from Lincoln'c address that Roosevelt never quote: "I suggest to him (Judge Douglas) that it will not avail him at all that he swells himself up. takes on dig nity, and callt people liars. If yoa have ever studied geometry, yo- re member that by a course of reasoning on Oui Tourth of J'Jly. Pall Mai: Gasett. run with European undesirables, may be necessary. Indeed, nobo6;' who knows the country and its people wi!i deny that the American schools are a tre mendous instrument cf Americaniza tion. But when you start teaching pa triotism as zealously as you teach writ ing and reading, when you cultivate and Americans dc cultivate every boy's and girl's capacity for self-expression, for debate, for public recitation and speaking; when you place the national flag before their eyes as soon as they can see, and in their hands aa soon as they can walk; when you assiduously celebrate every anniversary of every great national event Independence day, Washington's birthday, Thanksgiving uay, and so on you naturally create an atmosphere In which patriotism is liable to run to bombast. Rudyard Kipling, a few years ago. stumbled upon a Fourth of July cele bration in the Yosemlte valley. "What amused me," he wrote, "was the calm with which these folks gathered to gether and commenced to belaud their noble selves, their country and their 'In stitutions.' and everything else that was theirs. The language was to these be wildered ears wild advertisement, gas, bunkum, blow, anything you please be yond the bounds of common sense. An archangel, selling townlots on the Glassy sea, would have blushed to the tips of hi wings to describe his property in slmlllar terms." But to this aspect of the mat ter Americans are not only Indifferent, they do not even suspect that It exists. Their environment, their history and that "something in the blood" combine tu make their patriotism, above all things, vocal and exuberant. While he fully appreciates and still prac tices correct rules of conduct toward his patients and colleagues, there are new conditions which press for solution The specialist has come to stay, a revolution at which the old time doctor would have stood aghast. The announcement of a special mode of practice was regarded as a crime. The anathema was directed n gainst new medical sects, like the homeopaths. The language was so guarded, however, as to. be absolutely fair. It was forbidden to adopt any prac tice not based upon anatomy, physiology and chemistry. For many decades this clause was unfairly applied to the homeo paths, and It Is within the memory of many now living that a schism arose on the question whether physicians should consult with homeopaths, until some, prominent doctors, among them Alfred Loomls, Fordyce Barker and the happily still living Abram Jacobl, pointed out that such a course would be cruel to the patient and unfair to the physician. Today the differences have been ad justed under the reign of common sense. There still lingers In the medical mind, however, an antipathy to permitting . the specialist to announce his specialty. Dr. Voorhees characterizes this as ridiculous. It is fairly possible, he writes, to read the character of the man. behind the -window by the kind ef sign he uses; ranging from one containing letters six Inches high to others which are little larger than a visiting card. Tie also refers to a few $100,000 specialists who attract patients by making it difficult to find them, having no signs at all. In Germany, the country of common sens-, every doctor announces his special work and his office hours. Why not do so hero.? A LEGEND Exploded Completedly. Tribune. to me or any one authorized to speak for the Taft people on behalf of any third candidate. Various propositions were in formally made to me under circum stances that did not convince me that those making them were acting in good faith or had the power to carry out their promises, and generally wtlh assurances that if I would accept them I would my self be nominated." That ought to lay to rest the fiction that th Taft managers at Chicago ever contemplated taking up a compromise candidate. Being certain from the minute the convention was organized that they had enough votes to renominate the presi dent and having based their whole can vass on the contention that Mr. Taft thoroughly deserved a renominatlon and would be the strongest possible candidate whom the party could put into the field, they would have stultified themselves by abandoning the only leader who had a sure majority and taking up a "dark horse" who might easily have been pock eted In the confusion following a sudden and necessarily demoralizing change of plans. It Is easy to believe that no offer was made to Colonel Roosevelt "by anyone authorized to speak for the Taft people on behalf of any third candidate." It Is fortunate that the compromise legend has been exploded completely and promptly. Otherwise It would have been figuring some years hence as one of the Indis putable facts In the inside history of the 1912 campaign. Euclid proves that all the ancles In a triangle are equal to (wo right anales. Euclid has shown you how to work It out. Now. if you undertake to disprove that proposition and to show that It is erroneous would you prove It to be false by calling Euclid a liar?" Chicago News: With the kind Dewwits- slon of Senator Dixon of Montana, voters of Illinois will keep up the fight here at hope on th jackpot and the bath room boys. New York Tribune: Less than a year age the city of Trenton, N. ., with a great flourish of hopeful trumpets, adopted that particular form cf com mission government which Dr. Woodrow Wilson prescribes as an Infallible panacea for municipal mulligrubs. The record of the months has been one of Increased expenditures, decreased efficiency and unfulfilled promises. Now. sadly con fessing that the pretty doll Is found to be stuffed with particularly cheap saw dust, the. people see): relief by a resort to the recal'. Thus one nostrum Is made to serve as a palliative to the bad ef fects o; another, while an Increasing multitude wonders If the clv'c body would not be ar. well off without any of them. ' ooWBacWrd TkD$ InOmahaJ COMPILED rHOM DE.E r Thirt," Years Ago Two elerant. arterial rar arrived in Omaha with a distinguished party aboard, consisting of Lieutenant Phil hhendan, InsDector General Sackett. Colonel M. V. Sheridan. General Anson Stager of the Western Union, Colonel Strong and Cap tain Rhoadea. two Chicago railroad men. Captain W. P. Clark of the Second cav alry. Army Surgeon Farrard, John Mc-! Cullousrh. the actor, and Joseph Mc- Cullagh, managing editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. They were met by the officers of the Department Of the Din f a r A rlnltian by the west-bound train at noon tor Yel lowstone park. ' ' ! The reoort of City Phyilclan Liesennng for July shows a totav or seventy-nine deaths and sixty-seven births, among them one pair of twins. Th board of managers of the state fair met at the Millard, going over plans for the coming exposition at Omana. Chrls Hartman reported an offer of $2,500 cash for the exclusive privilege or seiung beer on the grounds, and another member an offer of I3.C00 for the wheel of fortune, but both were refused. E. W. Simeral has removed his law of fice Into the Barker block. The Rosette society celebrated Emanci pation day with a grand ball In Standard hall. r r?. Cable, vice president and general monor nf the Rock Island, and his family went west in the special car "Co lumbia." Hon. James K. McCammeron. assistant attorney general of the United States, was in Omaha on his way from Washing ton to San Francisco. it t n,M ooiio the return of a ship ping book in a leather case with reward to finder who will return u w las street Twenty Years Ago- . Judge Scott ana t. n. o- from Beatrice where they made arrange- . . w- mrnini to Omaha of Gov- ernor McKinley of Ohio, who had spoken In Beatrice. rtr hn came down from Honey Creek lake, where he was search ing for the body of Judge car... . u.... h anneal that all friends of the "late" Judge turn out and help hunt for his body. Mr. Simeral saion- iiin at ni1P and redouble his etiorts to compell the silent waters to glv up their victim, o -ar T.VmH of Lincoln was in the city looking after the interests ot his World's fair hotel to bo openea up iu Jackson park, Chicago. Mr. anfl Mrs. M.. J. Dowiing ru,., . . nia.ant visit in the Black Hills. Hum t" . . ... They reported 145 Omaha people at the Hot Springs. Thomaa D. Crane and Edgar Aiim ,h frnm their fishing and hunting trip at Lake Chelan, Wash., where they spent three weeks In company wun n. J. Hulscamp of Chicago and J- H. Best of Qulncy. -Grand Chief D. G. Ramsay of the Or r Railroad Telegraphers took part in a conference between telegraphers and Assistant General . Manager uicainson snn.rintendent of Telegraph Korty of the Union Pacific In an effort to reach a conclusion without a strike of the telegraphers. Details of the summary ejectment of John O. Yeiser from the people's party invention of Douglas county were leak ing out and with them came affidavits by John Jeffcoat and E. Stoddard to tne ffct that Frank Hibbard ot union township, manager here for C. H. Van Wyck, had promised that all delegates pledged to the gubernatorial nomination 6f Van Wyck, would be supplied with fres transportation to the state conven tinn at Kearney and return. And Yeiser had a good deal to do with making this expose on Van Wyck, to whom ne re ferred as "the great anti-monopoly pre tender." Ten Years Agrj Assurance came from Oyster Bay tnat President Roosevelt would visit Omaha In September. The Associated Press dis patch from that famous summer resort stated, in addition to this news: "Senator Millard presented to the president John L. Webster, who was one ot the can didates for the seat In the senate oc cupied by Mr. Millard's colleague. Sena tor Dietrich, and asked that he be ap pointed to some good place. The presi dent promised to take the matter unaer consideration." Governor Savage came up from Lin coln, but had nothing to say on the police board matter. He was the guest of a party of friends at Manawa in the evening, headed by two members of his official staff, Colonels J. W. Thomas of Omaha and James Martin of South Omaha. J. J. McCarthy of Ponca, republican nominee for congress in the Third dis trict, was in the city. Miss Florence Lowe Wright, daughter of George M. Wright, 2336 Farnam street, wai Seriously ill with typhoid fever. W, R. Cahill. paasenger conductor on the Union Pacific, was promoted to be trainmaster with headquarters here. He resided in Omaha and had a fine record as a trainman and his appointment was hailed as very popular among his fellow workers. H. W. Holler was found dead In his chair at the City hotel at 8 p. m. Heat was the cause. Conrad H. Young became the local tennis championship when he beat R. E. Sunderland, F. J. Hill and C. G. Sherwood, with whom he was tied the day before at the Field club. Hill come out of the match runner-up and close, at that. People Talked About Miss Annie Nearly, an amateur theos phist of New York, tried to reincar nate her brother by doping him with car bolic acid while he slept, The liquid fire brought a scream from brother Neary and a policeman, who translated Miss Annie to he padded ward of Bellevue hospital. For the edification of the host of south era colonels these quoted words . from Governor Cole Blease ot South Carolina deserve a circlet of lncandescents: "Colonel Bamberg, whom I have the honor to have on my staff, is the one colonel that I never have seen full." Mka Helen Gould did not rush to the defense of old maids assailed by a hermit preacher because old male" a need no defense. r I J POUJTED PLEASANTRIES. "What do you think? Miss Oldgirl says she is thinking of going on the stage." "H m! It must be the stage of utter hopelessness then." Baltimore American. Splitstraw (tragically) So you tell me to go. Ant yet I have been your slave. Muriel (serenely) And iBn't it only right to free a slave? Satire. vVtgg Hello! old man. I never saw you looking so well. Wagg-Yes, I dc feel in pretty good fhape. You see I've been too busv this summer to go away for a rest. Phila delphia Record. "Ma. what is meant bv tha Drna-rossive party?" The progressive party, my dear? Why? that's where all the partners change after every game."-Detroit Free Press. "Doesn't your choir sina at the prison any more?" 'No, several of the prisoners obleeted on the ground that It wasn't Included in tneir sentence. "-Chicago Tribune. 'What hannna whan win nut th& i4a11i before the, man?" bawled the candidate. "The man goes after It," answered an old farmer In the crowd. Louisville Cour ier journal. Howell Does he taka hin nhiln. sophically? Powell Yes. but he ritlMtn't rrt mrWh them nl,llnnnhleallv Wn.-. u. , r-... j . u,uaii o uuxut. Companion. Wliat food to delectable as a dish or Faust Spaghetti? Its savory aroma tempts appetite and Kelps digestion. It feeds the body welL AT YOUR GROCER S In sealed packages 5c and 10c MAUIL BROS.. St. Louis. Me. IMA TEA Iced or Hot Quenches Thirstand Refreshes Body and Mind ONE TEASPOONFUL MAKES TWO CUPS. 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