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t jr. THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, - .M I 1 ' " 1 1 1 1 - ' I I 'THE OMAHA DAILY BEE founded by edward rosewater i victor rosewater. editor ;EE BUILDING. FARNAM AXUHThT i Entered at Omaha Postof flee as necona- ttlass matter. h TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Sunday Bee, one year ' " .Saturday Bee, one year..... ""J'S ..pally Bee (without Sunday) one year.M.W ially Bee and Sunday, one year...... I-W r DELIVERED BT CARRIER Evenins Bee (with Sunday), per mo. .2 pally Bee (including Sunday), per mo.. foe Daily Bee '.without Sunday). Pr m0,:f r Address aU complaint VSsDt n delivery to City Circulation Dept. g KBMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, S to The Bee 'publlahins company Tmlv 2-cent stamps received In pajmem nl.Ull account?. Personal check. -Stept on Omaha and eastern exchange, rot ,ccepted. tt OFFICES. 1 Omaha-The Bee building. Bouth Omaha 2318 N St. Vi Council Bluffs 75 Scott St. 1 Lincoln-26 Little building. t Chlcago-1041 Marquette building. S Kansas City-Reliance building. 3 New Yorlc-S4 West Thirty-third. 2 Wanhlngton-725 Fourteenth bt., w- I CORRESPONDENCE. V Communications relating to newt i and Editorial matter should be addressed abmaha Bee. Editorial Department. I JUNE CIRCULATION. 48,945 iktate of Nebraska. County of Douglas, m. N P Fell, business manager of The fcee' PubUshing company, being duly worn, saya that the average daily clr jculatton for the month of June 1911, u 48 945. N. P. FEIL, vT Ki Business Manager. Subscribed in my presence and sworn o before me this 9th day of July, 1912. 5 (BeaU ROBERT HUNTER, 3 ' Notary Public. t Sabacrlbera leaving the city temporarily shold have The : h Bee mailed to them. Addr 5 will he chae often aa re- qneated. ij " S With both colonels on the trail, Taking the Bight Tack. Chairman Lynch and his associates of the county board are taking the right tack in calling upon the city, business men's and labor organiza tions to co-operate with them in re sisting the increase in Douglas county ' realty assessments threat eened by the State Board of Equalization. The Douglas county county assessment roll has al ready been boosted as high as it should in all fairness go, and addi tional increases by arbitrary action of the state board would be a dis crimination equivalent to a penalty upon this county as compared with other counties for voluntarily mak ing the raise. The people who pay the bulk of the taxes, and this In cludes the small home owner as well as the big business interests, should wake up to the situation and take preventive measures. BookinBackvrard Ihb Day in Omaha COMPILED FROM BEX rib" 1 r I J AUG. 3. Thirty Years Ago A small buff morocco hand satchel containing diamonds and valuable Jew elry, a pocketbook with $17 and other a-- "GOOD PARLIAMENT ABY LAW AND ALSO GOOD MORALS" Article by Victor Rosewater in the Outlook. tides, lost several months ajro bv Mrs. Henry W. Yates wt turned up through J 1ra..g0?',1pfri"lmentlry '.aw 15 The Outlook in its Issue of July 13 printed what purports to be a minority report of the credentials committee which failed to get before the Chicago conven tion, subscribed witn thirteen names, con taining the following statement: At the organization of the convention me cnairman or the national committee, The Law of the Convention. In another column on this page will be found an article from the current issue of The Outlook written by the editor of The Bee, explaining the law and precedent of the repub lican national convention. This statement, we believe, completely answers and refutes the charge by spokesmen of the minority that the rulings under which' the Chicago con convention was organized were "con trary to good parliamentary law and good morals." In the. editorial rejoinder, which the Outlook attaches to the article, the only point sought to be made is that the justification of the law of the convention "is almost wholly &hs fall hunting season promises to technical," and that "'this is not a 3e exciting. f. August is here. It is pretty near 'the time to stop complaining of vwarm weather. w "Thou shalt not bear false wit ness against thy neighbor" belongs -to the same decalogue. time for technical defenses, or even for technical accusations." The Out look professes to believe "that in this ease a legal justification, even if its legality were admitted, is no Justification at all." A plaintiff nonsuited in , court would be In poor position to assert that the law la all wrong if he had 4 Now, which is the real bull moose been previously taking its benefits, I J 1 -S 1 . A A pt that Aldrir.h.Yn apr ennvnn. ana naa even neipea to ensci u. in . . 'tion or Jasper McBrion's? tnia ca8 tne cnarge mat tne conven i tion rulings were "contrary to good P tin il. a i 4 . j . . 1 1 1 ., itn .. --.i . J 1 . wuen me umo tuiueo xor ucniiut iiwnauiiuiai; iaw auu guuu uiuiaio wlth Mr. Orozco he cannot truthfully can hardly be upheld when preferred -eay he waa not duly warned. I on behalf of a candidate, who not - i only has heretofore benefited Perhaps Miss Helen Gould has been encouraged none too much by the family experience to venture into matrimony. this ' same convention law actually helped to make it. by but The age of discretion ought to show itself in the kind of hosiery a man wears. Also in tne Kind a woman displays. , I "Split in Bull Moose Meeting," lays a headline. Where there are I one side and For Man and Beast. Humanltarianlsm eloquently man ifests Itself in the modern public drinking fountain, such as those located on the streets of Omaha. timely sentiment attaches to the combination fountain, where man on his faithful servants, so many forked boms there is bound io be some booking.' '.,'.. I ! , I Cole; Younger s pockets were picked of $95. Younger can truth fully say he never stooped to such small tricks as that. . The next progressive refinement of the steel hammer, as the succes sor to the steam roller, will prob ably be a steam trip-hammer. - A free and untrammelled ballot is the fountain head of popular gov ernment and that is what the 0. 0. ' t. always has stood for, and stands for now. , . the horse and the dog, on the other may quench their thirst in the run ning water. And the sanitary pre cautions that have been taken only emphasize the concern a great city has shown for the dumb animal as well as the human being. People are rapidly coming to see that the most Important thing to a community is good health. Bome day cities will see this so clearly as to increase their efforts for con serving and safeguarding the phy steal well being of all. And now the colonel Is going to solve the negro problem at one stroke. If this keeps up there soon will be no problems left for future generations to solve It cannot be repeated . too often that candidates for office nominated as republicans are hugging a dire delusion if they count on being elected by democratic votes. , Omaha furnishes the new presi dent of the American Osteopathic association. Our Nebraska practi tioners of the old schools of medl ine and surgery will take notice Civilizing- Power of Base Ball. We are preaching Americanism to Filipinos, Porto Rlcans and Cubans from the coaching lines of the base ball diamond as well as in the school room. Reports say that base ball has supplanted cock fighting In the Philippines and Is spreading rapidly tn all our Insular possessions. What a fine thing that the United States has a national game so attractive and adaptable to all sorts of peo ples. Japan and even China have been gripped by its irrestible force and it is not too much to hope that Old England may some day succumb to it. But as a matter of fact base ball Is distinctly an American institution Nothing quite so accurately typifies the alertness, the aggressive force an effort to sell one of the rings by a iiohemlan laborer employed in the smelt ing works, whose little girl found the valise shortly after it was lost. The moonlight picnic at Hanscom park was the social event of the day. Among those present were the Misses Mat tie Clark of St. Joseph, Jennie Hardin of Council Bluffs, Kittle Lowe, Llbbie Brady, Elsie Harpster, Lislze Nichols of Laramie, Irene Lowe, Lottie Larson, Julia Smith, Mamie Ambrose, May Wag oner, Edith VanArnen, liazle Caldor- wood. Miss Freeman, Tracy, Mount, Miss E. Sharp, "and Messrs. Caldwell, Hamil ton A. W. Saxe, Luddington, Thayne, Smeaton, Crary, Ben Free, Marvin, Crawle, Luclen Stephens. Gratton, geath. Woodman, Belden, Pogue and Hoyt. Three mors circuses to come this season. The eBe calls this the coolest summer for the last two decades. Andy Monnahan, one of the whitest men that ever waltzed over the working board, has accepted a position with Joe Blake. George Canfleld has presented to Hon. William F. Cody his magnificent road ster. "Mat Patrick," which was shipped to North Platte In charge of Major Frank North. The hook and ladder trusck was taken I to Simpson's carriage factory for repairs. Messrs. Patrick, Duffy and J. D. Rey nolds will open a new sample room at the northwest corner of Bur.t and Sixteenth. The venerabje structure once known aa Jhe "Western Barn" on tne auey i Twenty-third and Cuming streets, Is the latest to disappear. This historical build- was one of the first constructed in Omaha. Twenty Years Ago Renorts received from Kearney howou that C. H. Van Wyck had been nominated for governor by th epopullats and re ports from Lincoln forecasted the aoml natton by the republicans of Lorenzo Crounse "as certain as anything tn life can be." J. A. Tuthtll and his racing horse, Clarence L., collided with a horse and buggy driven by a man and woman, with no more serious results than tne smashing o fthe buggy's running gear. Z. T. Llndsey returned from a visit to Hot Springs, S. D. Mr. and Mrs. William Balrd leit ror Rntnn. New York and otner easieru points. Rus McKelvey, his wife and two aaugn ters left for a visit with friends at Le- roy. Kan. John M. Thurston and family returnee. from Salt Lake City. Assistant General Manager Dickinson of the Union Pacific denied the requests of the Union Pacific telegraphers, and the telegraphers, through their big chief, D. G. Ramsay, said they would defer any action looking toward a strike until after they had seen General Manager S. H. H. Clark. Former Mayor R. C. Gushing and Silas Cobb, a lawyer, left ror caurorma io close up contracts for a $500,000 Irrigation scheme by which Cushlng proposed to reclaim 88,000 acres of land. Most college professors are said to be theoretical free traders. When and resourcefulness of the American Ihey get out In the world they re- character as the game Americans jiounce It, evidently, judging from play most. It just grew into our na jtbe case of a prominent Princeton tional life as a part of It so natur professor. . , ally and . quietly that we scarcely t ' 1 realize it has not always been there, Hoot mon," the Minneapolis cltyjN0W t comes to serve us la spread council. Just to prove that It Is not jng higher civilization among peo- arrald of getting stung on tainted money, has decided to accept $125,- f00 from Uncle Andy for library purposes. Ten Years Ago Mrs. Catherine Mcuuirc, w, aiea ai uw - iniA home of her sister. Mrs. uyman, iw South Fifteenth Street The body was to lie In state until August 5, to be taken to Davenport, la., for burial. Thfe question uppermost In railroad clroles was "Has the rock jsiana oougni. the 'Frisco road?" A prominent rail road official, who forbade the use of hli name, told a reporter for The Bee that it had in his Judgment, which Judg ment later proved correct. Lysle I. Abbot returned from a busi ness trip to Manitoba. John E. Phillips and A. M. Johnson, capitalists and mine owners of Denver, were In the city awaiting the return of G. W. Holdrege, general manager of the B. & M., with whom they had business. Hon. John Jenkins, consul general to Ban Salvador, returned from a buKinesB errand to San Francisco and said he would hasten back there upon completing matters in Omaha, to take the first Pa cific mall steamer for his post of duty. Rev. II. G. Hill of the First Christian church said he would leave on a tour of the south and eatit during the week to promote the interests of th forthcoming national convention of the Disciples of Christ to be hell In Omaha. Rev. J. M. Wilson, D. D., of Boulder, Colo., occupied his old pulpit at Caatel lar Presbyterian church, where his for mer people greeted him cordially. rooa morals, Insisted on countlnar th votes of these contested delegates on the preliminary roll call which elected the temporary chairman. As chairman of the national committee calling the republican convention to gether, I made but two rulings, and I contend that they are not "contrary to good parliamentary law and good mor als," but, quite the reverse, conform ab solutely with the precedents of similar bodies which must be accepted as good parliamentary law, and therefore as good morals. In the first tuling I held the only business properly before the convention at that stage of the proceedings to be to perfect a temporary organisation by selecting a temporary chairman. The sec ond ruling was involved In my direction to the secretary to call the individual names upon the temporary roll as made up and certified by the national committee. my position on tnese questions was not taken arbitrarily, but after repeated conferences with the leaders for the principal opposing candidates for nom ination and the parliamentarians of the convention. I believe I violate no confl dence in recalling an interview with Colo nel Roosevelt for the purpose of agree ing on some plan of orderly procedure, at which Governor Hadley was presented as his spokesman and floor manager, with a request that he be recognized In his representative capacity. Notice was given to me by Governor Hadley that he wished to challenge cer tain names upon the temporary roll in advance of the selection of a temporary chairman. In support of this proposal. Governor Hadley cited two instances in which the temporary roll had been modi fled or added to by the convention in 1864 and In 1880 without sending the question to the credentials committee, but the action was taken both times, not before, but after temporary organiza tion. I suggested that it would be Just as easy and effective and at the same time relieve me for him to offer his motion after the temporary chairman had taken charge, when it would be In order and fully within the province of the con vention to proceed to make up the per manent roll with or without a credentials committee as it might see fit; that the cases of 1864 and 1880 were not directly in point as precedents for what was now proposed. "Perhaps not." said Governor Hadley, "but every precedent must have a be ginning." (I quote in substance, hot literally.) "That means, then," said I, "that there are no precedents for such a ruling, or, rather, that all precedents are against it." "We ask you to make the precedent," said Governor Hadley. In order to avoid all possibility of mis understanding, I wrote out in brief what wns proposed on behalf of the Roosevelt forces, and Governor Hadley and I both Initialed this memorandum as follows: That immediately upon the adoption of this resolution the list of delegates placed in the hands of the secretary be con sidered and be subject to amendment. Two hours to a side to debate the ques tion, then the previous question to oe voted on by the persons now on the tem porary roll as made up by the national committee. In other words, all parties concerned conceded that the motion to consider the roll as subject to amendment would have to be voted on by all the persons whose names appeared on the temporary roll of the convention, and, properly so. for If not by these delegates by whom would the motion be voted on? It should be borne In mind that the temporary roll as made up by the national committee a function which it has been performing unchallenged for more than forty years in itself discloses no evidence that any delegates are contested; every name is there exactly the same as every other name with no distinguishing marks. In preceding conventions, as In this one, too, ma,ny contests made before the national committee are dropped without being car ried up to the convention credentials com mittee. If all delegates against whom notice of contest is lodged were thereby to forfeit their right to participate in the preliminary organization of the conven tion, it would be easy for opposing fac tions to Institute contests, or protests. against all the delegates, and thus block the convention altogether. So. if Governor Hadley. as the repre sentative of the Roosevelt forces, agreed I posing compulsory miUtary service for with me rightly, as ne uia, mm w Turkish warship built in Philadelphia on its delivery at Constantinople and entered the Turkish navy at the urgent request of the late Sultan Abdul Hamld, is still in the service with little chance to dis tinguish himself a commander of Inferior naval junk. The roster Is by no means complete. Wherever live ones are needed In the effete east, Americans have the first call. Army Service for Women. A group of advanced women of Dus seldorf, Germany, started a lively dis cussion on feminine patriotism by pro- ples dependent upon us for guidance. ; A .Missouri paper complains be cause at the Baltimore meet Bill Stone "traded and sold the Missouri delegates like they were a bunch of calves." And the delegates bawled like It, too. s A Bull Moose mass meeting with less than a hundred participants has undertaken to elect' delegates to represent Nebraska In the forthcom ing Bull Moose national convention, and to proclaim a platform which incidentally demands direct pri maries for everything. In the mean - The late Edwin Hawley leaves an time, Nebraska has on Its statute estate valued at only $5,000,000. He books a primary law which provides -was a bachelor. : Just think what that all delegates to national con yith his opportunities he might ventions be elected by direct noDular Lave accumulated with a frugal wife I vote. It Is the Irony of fate that the to help him. I Bull Moosers should at the very out set have to defy, and violate, tha -' Surely our democratic senator prjmary ,aw whlch they want t0 Mt from Neorasa is not going to let nD a. thelr fetlch. I .. that great panacea for trust evils in I the form of a graduated tax on out- yut drop out of sight as suddenly as that. If Governor Aldrich can find any letters written by the editor of The Bee to postmasters, or to any one else which are "censurable," he Is How could burglars Intelligent anouga to ply their trade pick out I at liberty to publish them; otherwise Acting Mayor Butler's house for he should publicly admit that in his their operations so soon after an ex-1 reference to them, he has jsst been pensive municipal campaign? We drawing on his imagination, and oa Uwi formation u a trust t New ask to know. . (talking through his hat. iBnataod shoe manufacturers. People Talked About motion he proposed must be voted upon by the persona whose names were on the temporary roll as made up by tne na-, tional committee, I submit that Governor Hadley's motion, being out of order, and the selection of a temporary chairman being the only thing in order, the vote on temporary chairman must likewise, to accord with good parliamentary law and good morals, be taken by the same persons whose names appear on the tem porary roll as would vote on the question whether the temporary roll should be open to amendment. As to the order for an individual roll call, the precedent and authority Is found in the convention of 1884, which was the only previous republican national con vention in which the national commit tee's recommendation of a temporary chairman was challenged. When another nomination was made, the chairman of the national committee, Dwight M. Sabin, gave similar directions. A delegate moved to proceed with the call by states, but the chairman ruled the motion out of order, and In the incidental discussion a delegate from New York, Theodore Roosevelt, said: Now one word more. I trust that the vote will be taken by Individual mem bers, and not by states. Let each man stand accountable to those whom he rep resents for his vote. Let no man be able to shelter himself behind the shield of his state. What we say Is, that one of the cardinal doctrines of the American political government is the accountability of each man to his people; and let each man stand up here and cast bis vote, and then go home and abide by what he has done. The individual roll call was calculated to, and doubtless did, enable every dele gate, whether contested or not, to cast his own vote, and effectually prevented casting them en bloc as was attempted by California. But In view of the author ity I have quoted, I contend that it was good parliamentary law and good morals. The proceedings of this convention of 1884 seem to me particularly corroborative of my position. A report of the ereden tials committee, read by J. Franklin Fort, shows that the seats of forty-five delegates were In contest before that committee, and the sitting delegates In a.l of these cases are recorded as vot ing for temporary chairman. The chair man recommended by the national com mittee lost out by a shortage of forty votes. If all contest delegates had been excluded this shortage would have been reduced to fifteen, and might have been wiped out altogether, as in all probabil ity a still larger number of contests had been provisionally adjudicated by the national committee. It seems fair to as sume that with these distinguished dele gates In that convention from New York and from New Jersey, with other dis tinguished delegates present in the per son of William McKinley, Benjamin Har rison, George F. Hoar, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jonathan Bourne, George William Curtis and Andrew D. White, no, pro ceeding could have been had contrary to good parliamentary law and good morals without some of them at least protesting against it. Let me close by saying that in arguing the point of order raised against his mo tion. Governor Hadley commended the spirit of fairness manifested in accord ing him ample opportunity to present his reasons. Let me give a sentence also from a letter which I feel free to quote written by Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart: "I want to express my sense of your courtesy in facilitating my few remarks today, and in genaral I think the feeling of the conventlon-both sides-was that you presided with conspicuous dignity, good temper and fairness." Is it not natural that I should take pride in having such testimony to con tradict the unfounded charge made In overheated partisanship by a few mem bers of the credentials committee? all German women. It Is not proposed that women do the fighting, but rather and nupsing and succ6ring of the vic tims of war in field and hospital. The novelty of the proposal is that It pro vides that the duty should be imposed by law on all German women, who are to be divided into four categories for the purpose. These are female assistants for transport and refreshment service, nurses for the sick and wounded, as sistants for cooking service and assist ants for the service of clothing. Women in the first category would not have to serve in the field, but would carry out their duties in their home lo calities, and the same would apply to those in the last category. The idea, in short, is to have an army of female assistants ready for an emergency In addition to the regularly trained mem. bers in the various Red Cross societies. German newspapers applaud the spirit of the proposal, but pronounce it im practicable. in.ii rinm-li in Switzerland. , Switzerland's legislative bodies, the Bundesrat and the Standerat. have de creed a separation of military officers from civic duties. Under the military or ganization law of 1907 favored officers have occupied special administrative positions in addition to their army as signments, drawing pay for both Jobs, thereby creating a public demand for eliminating colonels from politics. While the system had several strong champions In the Standerat, the unanimity of the Bunderat In stripping parliamentary col onels of their civic emoluments prevailed. Henceforth division and corps command ers will be restricted to their military duties. Beating- Congress to It Boston Herald. The income ax amendment, for which the support of only two more states is necessary, will be ratified just about the time that it ceases to be of any impor tance, through congress's accomplishing the same purpose in another way. It is ever thus. And perhaps this may also be the case with the amendment for the popular election of United States sen ators. I THESE GISIS OF OURS. You seem very severe with your chil dren." ... it "Oh sir, I am tne Kinaesi mumcr uu earth. 1 always calorotorm my cnnnrcn before spanking tnem. t. j-ui rv.-Dispatch. Nell Why does she always dress In black? Belle She's in training. Nell-Tralntng for what? Belle Well, you see, she married an octogenarian. Philadelphia Record. He Why do you women haunt the bar gain counters trying to get something for almost nothing? She Why do you men keep going to the poker clubs for the same thing? Boston Transcript "Prehistoric man did not have half a chance," said the campaign manager. "Why not?" , . "No party could make a popular lm nresslon that had to select its emblem from such animals as glyptodons ana pterodactyls." Washington etar. Myrtle What made you nervous when Harry started to propose? Ethel I wasn't sure that was his ln-tention.-PhiladelphlB Bulletin. "I know I keep late hours, mommer," confessed the repentant young man, "but you've told me many a time that I was the 'star' of your existence, and so "Not now, Percival," interrupted the austere old lady, looking at him over her spectacles; "you're my midnight son. Chicago Tribune. "What would you call that girl's coun tenance who is constantly changing her expression?" "That is the mobile face. "And the one with the fixed, expres sionless stare'.'" . ,, ,. "That's the automobile face. Balti more American. WILLIE BROKE A WINDOW, Newark, (N. J.) News "Willie broke a window'.". You can hear it in the street, Hear the children marvel at the most prodigious feat. "Willie broke a window pane? they shout the news along. And Willie is the hero of a large ad miring throng. Didn't go to do it, but the stone it kind of slipped. Kind of sailed out crookedlike and through the pane it zipped, And all the little girls and boys, they raised a mighty yell. "Willie's broke a window-light! Dont anybody tell." Willie broke the window, and he hol lered good and loud When mother took and strapped him, but he's feeling pretty proud; And father, while his language was a little bit profane, Father's kind of proud hlmsef that. Willie broke the pane. Just a baby yesterday, creeping on the . floor, Staying close to mother's side or play ing around the door, Now he's broke a window, and his moth er's heart is sore;. Growing up to boyhood, he's her little babe no more. NOTE: I want to clean up every suit in my stock and I am going to sacrifice all profits to do so. IN OTHER LANDS THAN OURS Some Old World Events of General Interest. Claiming the world's pedestrian cham pionship, W. H. Chapman, 64 years old, ranchman of Wyoming, arrived In New Orleans, concluding what be asserts was a U648-mtle walk. Lieutenant John Dawnsy of Chicago has resigned from the police force to be come a banker. During his twenty-three years' service In the department he has accumulated a fortune of more than 1100,000 by investments in real estate. Mlts EL O. Qulmby, a cousin of Harriet Qulmby, who lost her life when she fell from hor monoplane at Boston, has started sfor Rio de Janeiro, where she will become the bride of John D. Harvey. Miss Qulmby, like her cousin, was Inter ested in flying, and was soon te have tried for her pilot's llcens. The fate of her cousin mads her abandon the idea. George B. Rowan of Ban Bernardino, Cal., gasped in astonishment 8aturday morning, when he read on his laundry Mil a charge for the washing and iron ing of four banknotes. He looked through his laundry and found four $30 bills neatly starched and Ironed. Then hs remem bered that he had forgotten to remove them from the clothing which he had sent away to be washed. The estate of Edwin Hawley, the noted railroad promoter, did not reach the high value level of fortune estimators, shrink ing from 89,00O,W to ft,,0OO, according to the appraisers. The postfiblHty of another shattered Idol breaks Into the uplift camp with the rtewa that Lou la Brandete. tha noted re former of Massmebuaetts, Is a member of the law Orm which Is gtvlas legal ad- Deelinlna- Birth Rate While Great Brltan and Germany are scraping the bottoms of the national tills to meet extraordinary demands for great er ships of war, no direct draft is made upon either national treasury to remedy the causes making tor decreased birth rate in both countries. The zeal in ths one and the indifference in the other sug gests the Question, "What ultimate val ue is a great navy If progressive decrease In birthrate continues unohecked?" A few years oga both Britain and Germany launched hurdles of criticisms at France, whose population had reached a station ary stag. Now the critics are silenced by conditions at home which, in their view, made France a decadent nation. The shock experienced in Great Brltan when the census of 1911 showed a sharp decline In birthrate comes with great force to Germany which hitherto has shown marked gains In population dus to race fertility. The latest official sta tistics, show a tall in the birthrate from 38.3 per thousand in 10 to 30.7 in 1910. In the last three years, 1907-10, the de cline amounted to one per thousand per annum. It it proceeds at this pace, In twelve years the G re man birthrate will have sunk to the level of the French, which Is between nineteen and twenty per thousand. That the limitation of families is intuntlonal Is iudlcated by the fact that the decline is confined to the cities where tha stress of industrial de velopment and the increasing cost of liv ing is most manifest. Novel Strike. The strike of British doctors against the government's schedule of pay for medical attendance upon workmen in sured by the nation carries none of the thrills of the dock men' s demands for higher wages, but is infinitely more an no wing to th government's ministers. Under the law the government proposes to pay tha doctors 11.44 a policy-holder per annum for medical attendance. The British Medical association has insisted upon a minimum rate of S2-M. railing to ascore oonoewions from Use governraeut, the members of the association, who rep resent virtually tha ontiro profession, re fuse to accept state payment of doctors for services to policy-holder. If work men Insured on the government plan most pay their own doctors' bills the whole system of national insurance breaks down at the very start. Almost from the day Mr. Lloyd-George launched his insurance project in the house of commons the doctors fought it. They protested that it would drive thousands of them out of business. The Medical association held monster meetings, organised for resist ance, sent delegations to the government and carried on a bitter campaign in the press and through political channels. Aided by a few women who have figured as special guardians of the domestic ser vants as a class, the doctors have been ths backbone of the opposition to the na tional insurance system. At last accounts both sides had reached an uncompromis ing stage. Americana in Foreign Posts. The enforced retirement last year of W. Morgan Shuster from the poet of financial manager of Persia has not checked the demand for Americans with American ideas to assume posts of re sponslbillty and honor in the older world. Prof. Jeremiah W. Jenks. formerly of Cornell university, has Just been drafted into tha service of the new Chinese republic. Prof. Jenks is well known to the leaders of the republic and Is familiar with conditions there, having served on a commission to reorgsnlse Chinese finances In 1903. Nor Is he the first American In ths Chines service. jonn w. rorguson has long been a -figure In th Industrial counsels of the nation, and former Secretary of Stato John W. Foster has on occasion given the empire the fruits of his dlpknnatlo experience. In other sections of the orient Americans are working out prob lems of government for various rulers. Prof. Jens I. Westengard, formerly of Harvard, succeed the late Prof. Edward Henry Strobel as tha right-hand man of the king of nam. Ralph Cahoon White nack. a Vermonter and a graduate of Brown, Is general manager of the vast estates and finance of his highness the Maharajah Oaekwsr of Baroda, an In dian prince of much renown and Imposing regal protrusions. Henry W. Denlsoti has achieved dietlnctJem as legs! aartser of tite department ef foreign affairs of Japan and has beltt the eonfulettce of the ministers Utrocgh many chansee during; (he past twenty years. Bodtaam Pswha, an American skipper who commanded the Final Clearance! Any Suit 11 W My twice yearly stock clear' ance before the season's close At the $19.50 price you have the selection of remaining stock of the highest quality suits that are priced up to $35, but owing to a slight difference in style, IT IS AGAINST OUR POLICY TO CARRY OVER TO NEXT SEA SON. Every size from 33 to 50; stouts, slims, shorts and regulars. MANY HEAVY ENOUGH for Fall wear. ANY SUIT, values up to $27.50, extraordinary values to close, sizes to 50 $15 n Blues and Blacks included at this Price. $1.18 11.3s, Sto. oRa Anil UrWDTTTEg. uu MANHATTAN SHIRT SALE WZZll Any Straw Hat in the House, to $4.00 value, at $1.25 Corner 16th and Harney Streets 5i 35c Wash Ties at 15c Get tho mfKLL-KNOWM SSI" WQ OR MIUC I McftMOwSlv . M MALTED MV Original -Genuine Pore full-cream milk and the ex- . tract of selected malted grain, I reduced to powder form. Dolicious, Invigorating 1 nourishing Dest Food-drink for all ages. Superior to tea, coffee, ooooa .r' Ask for Horilck's at ail Fountains. A quick lunch digested by the weakest stomach; prepared in a moment by briskly stirring the powder in hot or cold water. Keep at home or when traveling. Ash for HORLICirS Ottwrs Aro imitations
