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THE ' BEE; OMAHA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1912. OMAHA EVENING BEE v XUED BY EDWARD ROSKWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER. EDITOR. The Bee Publishing Company. Proprietor. EVERY AFTERNOON EX. SUNDAY BEE BUILDING. FARNAM AND lTTtt OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CIT1 OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CO UN TV Entered at Omaha pvstoffice aa second class matter. . - orriCES. , Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha 2318 N street. Council Bluffs-14 No. Main street Lincoln- Little Building. Chlcagc 10U Marquette Building. , Kansas City-42i Reliance Building. New York-34 West Thirty-third streei. St Louls-44S Pierce Building. Washlngton-75 Fourteenth St. N. W CORKESFONDENCE. Communications relating to news ant iditorlal matter should be addressed Omaha Bee, Editorial Department DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Daily Bee, without tsundaj per month Daily Bee, Including Sunday, per mo. c Address complaints of Irregularities in delivery to City Circulation Department AUGUST CIRCULATION. 50,229 State of Nebraska. County of Douglas, ss Dwlght Williams, circulation manager of The Bee Publishing company, betnj! duly sworn, aays that the average dailj circulation for the month of August, viu was 60,29. DWliiHT WILHAMB, Circulation Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 2d day of September 1912. ROBERT HUNTER, Seal.) Notary Pubic Strong, but Not Too Strong. No man who countenances the plain fraud by which KooKevelt supporters hope to gain six electors In Nebraska has any license to question the . methods of the New York police force, much less the nomination of Taft by the Chicago con vention. Aurora Republican. That Is putting it pretty strong, but not too strong. No one pretends that the Roosevelt electors in Ne braska can honorably hold " their places on the republican ticket. Each and every one of them is exactly in the position' of the burglar, , who, when discovered and ordered out of the house by the owner, , replies, "This is your house. I don't belong here. But I will not get out or let you in because my house is not as good as yours." jmsDay taOmaliaJ Kept. 24. Thirty Years Ag M!bs Harrlenberg, the elocutionist, and Miss Andrew, the art teacher, have in stituted a novel plan for a historical THE LIMIT OF SCURRILITY Roosevelt's Banning Mate Gives His Own Measure. Louisville Courier-Journal (De.m.). Hiram Johnsonlsm, a brand of Roose veltlsm, Is mere ruffianism. For ex ample, the bull moose candidate for vlcb president made a speech In which he said: Do not for a minute consider Prcsl- I making himself ridiculous in the In terest of the bull moose. President Taft has not proven an ideal executive. He could not have done so and been loyal to the party he repre sents. But he has never forfeited the respect, although he has Mt time awak- dent Taft in this rate. He Is a neg- j ened, and merited, the criticism, of the coterie or club to meet every two weeks ligible quantity. It Is with shame, aa an American people. To speak of him as a , Sabacrtbers leaving the city temporarily shoald fear The Bee mailed to them. Address will be, changed as of tea aa aa qnrntcdi . These are good days to go riding on "shank's mare." No city can be beautiful while It is defaced by ugly billboards. Chicago has started an investiga tion of its police. Jealous of New York again. When Woodrow Wilson comes to Omaha next week he will show us the difference. Europeans, we gather, are not complaining so much at the high price of American meat. , Presumably, we will soon have a chance to see what an expurgated street fair midway is like. The sample is all right, Mr, Weather Man. Just bring on a full consignment for Ak-Sar-Ben week. Wild oats still grow In some west ern mountains. Yes, and a few may be found upon the plains and even in the cities. Prof. Woodrow Wilson need not repine; he will find himself with plenty of company as a member of the Ananiaa club. 1 Prof. Vihjalmah Stafannson, by claiming to have discovered a race of blonde Eskimos, is fixing to get himself called a nature fakir. , The goings-on in this country must make old Zeus feel like descending Mount Olympus to prove again his supremacy among the deities. Still, it is not necessary for a man running for office to become Just a common scold even though he sees himself up against, certain defeat. Our Congressman Lobeck confesses to have spent JM2.E0 for his renoml nation in addition to his filing fee There's an economical man for you. It goes without saying that even now the colonel Is not a candidate for president "in the sense of seek ing the office," but Is still merely willing to take it if "tendered." St. Paul gave James J. Hill an elaborate banquet in spite of his gloomy predictions about the cost of food and the American people's ex travagance. , By a striking coincidence the same fire that destroys a Kansas City ice factory, also wipes out the home of the base ball club; something of a frost, itself. The greatest woman apostle of peace cannot understand how peace loving women can lend fafor to the man who has done most to obstruct the peace movement That is a puz ile. V. - . The fight to cure the mysterious horse disease seems to have resolved itself into a contest between the hon orable veterinary profession and the ordinary farmer, with the odds In favor of the latter. These figures depicting Nebraska's plethora of automobiles assume that all of the registered numbers out standing represent autos in active commission. This may be correct, but it is not susceptible of proof. Our auto regulation law should be amended to require display of a reg istry label with color changing from year to year. For Cleaner Streets.'; A committee of the Commercial club has been assigned to the task of devising ways and means for cleaner streets for Omaha. The problem of clean streets may be ap proached from two opposite sides. Measures may be adopted to prevent the streets from becoming dirty or efforts may be directed to removing the dirt after it has accumulated Of course, both methods must be pursued, but the more effective the preventive-' measures the less costly will be the work of cleaning up. Preventive .measures, moreover, de volve as much upon the individual business man or householder as upon the department of the city govern tnent charged with supervision of the Btreets. Observance of the rules against using Btreets as dumping grounds, against lumbering them up with building materials, against scat tering on them the contents of pass lng wagons, would do a whole lot, although It might not, do away with the necessity of a follow-up in the form of periodic, systematic and thorough cleaning. , The Cuban Crisis. With a depleted treasury, acute need for funds and an aggravated political situation, Cuba faces the real crisis of Its modified autonomy. If it falls this time to prove its power ot self-government, It is difficult to see how intervention by the United States is - to be avoided, anxious as this nation is to escape that altera atlve. We have racial problems of our own without desiring to borrow new ones from Cuba, But, while the United States has always been sincere in its attitude toward the little island, it is under obligations, which it could not evade if it would, In its responsibility to Cuba. And, on the other hand, Cuba is bound in adivance to intervention by us whenever it . fails to make good on its constitutional contract to maintain "a government adequate for the .protection of life, property and individual liberty:" The question now arises: fCan; Cuba survive the present state of Its finances? Can it hold an honest and successful election for the presidency with a loyal submission of the de feated party to the will of the ma It has never yet permanently suc ceeded in this latter achievement. And Its treasury now is empty, with much of the public Improvement, to be made by the 116,500,000 Speyer loan, left undone. The American people hope Cuba will yet' make good, but their government must not be blamed for taking precautionary steps in anticipation-of possible fail ure. and dividing the time between elocution. art and music The home t John Itoslcky, corner of Mnth and Hickory, came near being de stroyed by fire. A small, boy, a plleot shavings and some matches did it. Alex Swan, a Cheyenne stockman, has purchased the famous , trotting horse, "Maxy Cobb," for $10,000.' A pond of stagnant water at Tenth and Jones streets has become a crying nuis ance. John Lisse, who runs a candy and fruit store on Sixteenth street, has com plained of several boys for stealing watermelon's and bottjes of pop. The steamer "Niobrara" Is coming down from Sioux City to go Into the grain trade at St. Joseph. County Judge A. M. Chad wick haa been given a month's leave of absence. The office of the secretary of the state board of agriculture In the Paxton has been closed and moved back to Platts mouth. General Passenger Agent P. S. Eustis of the Burlington, who has been on the sick list. Is now on the way to recovery The directors' car of the Utah Central came In with Bishop Sharp and party on Doard Twenty Years Ag w. H. Roberson, manager of R, O. Dun in Omaha, reported Omaha's whole sale trade growing at a rapid rate. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bennett were tho guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hunter of Kountze Flace, A burglar called at the residence of uraham Park, a plumber, 2221 Leaven worth street, during the afternoon and not finding anyone at home, took the liberty to llff about 1G worth of Parks' goods and depart Miss Florence M. Frost. 26 years of .. daughter of S. G. Frost, and , sister of mrs. ueorge W. Holbrook and A. C. Frost, passed away. Ton of Ui leading merchant tailors of the city signed an agreement to close their places of business at 6:30 In the evening, beginning September 28. A certified copy of the will of Sidney Dillon, once president of the Union Pa cific, waa filed in the Douglas county probate court. The estate was valued at $5,010,000, the $5,000,000 being railroad stock and bonds and the $10,000 real estate In Douglas county and Nebraska. Ten Years Ago Ak-Sar-Ben festivities opened on fime t noon, the Midway being visited by a goodly number. In spite of disappoint ment xeit over the fall down nn Pr.i. dent Roosevelt, tho board of governors decided to go through with the electric pageant and all other parts of the pro gram as laid out. Mrs. Robert joore of Cleveland vu the guest of , her sister, . Mrs. Robert Cowell. Joseph B. Southard of Denver, a for. mer city clerk of Omaha, with Mrs. Southard, was the guest over the carni val season of his brother, Charles P Southard. . .ihtuf tr (Detectives t Henry W. Dunn lost his infant Son. four days old. ..fetor Christiansen. 82 years nM n.i for thirty-five years a resident of Omaha, uiu oi paralysis at his home. Thirty first and Ohio streets. - Thomas J. Kelly perfected the oreil. satlon of a "study club" for the nurr of working on neW music to be used by a large choir being organized for a May uie coming year. American citizen, that I say that today the most humiliating character In all American history Is the president." This outburst causes theTphiladttlphla. Public Ledger to . call, Illram Johnson humiliating character" will not hurt th object of aseallment as much as It hurts, by, exposure, the assailant. The more speeches that are made by Hinam Johnson the more the people of the United EUtes learn about his size. a lying hypocrite and an assassin -of , He Is Just about the right size to be charcater." This Is merely magnifying j the candidate for vie president upon the Hiram Johnson. . . . , '.. .(hlrd-term ticket, a vaudeville feature ot President Taft's character cannot be 'l American politics, which ought to be un asaasslnated by the popgun oratory of j der the direction of B.JV., Keith instead an, individual of the Johnson caliber, who0f Frank Munsey and George Perkins. SOME REAL HIGH PLYING Record-Making: Flight of French Aviator. Springfield Republican.. Predictions that; the height limit In aviation had been reached because of the tenuity of the atmosphere have been so regularly .made that they are no Ibngr taken seriously, and It need not be sup posed that the top has even yet beer, reached In the' spleridld flight of George Legagneux, who at Villacaublay, Franca. j reached the . prodigious height of 18,372 eei. mis ingnt is a,532 reet over three miles, and only 108 feet less than three and one-half miles. It surpasses the light of Garros, made September 7, by 1,972 feet. It rose 2,951 feet above the summit of Mt. Blanc, and was but 1,918 feet below tha highest peak of Mt. McKlnley, which Prof. Parker gave up, as unscalable. We may assume that the aeroplane will eventually be able to carry man to tho summit of most peaks, and It would be rash to say that even the altitude of Mt. Everest may not Borne day be attained. But aviators have shown little disposi tion to go in for mountain climbing, save for the crossing of the Alps by Chaves, whose tragic end Illustrated the danger; among the mountains It Is usually gusty, and landing offers special perils. So we are not likely to see the high peaks' pro faned by cheap trippers, as some have feared, but the records will probably con tinue to be broken In pure emulation. It was thought a wonderful thing in IMS when Wilbur Wright flew to the height of 400 feet only four years ago! The next year there was hot debate as to whether 1,000 feet could be managed, but Latham left the record at 1,640 feet. In 1910 Legag neux, who has Just regained the lead, as tonished the world with a flight of 10,746 feet, and then It could be said as it can be said again now, that there was no use In going higher. For all practical pur poses of war or peace two (miles Is aa good as ten, but It Is easy to understand the fascination of the sport, and for tunately these high climbs do not seem to be specially dangerous. PLAYING THE TELEPHONE GAME American Ideas Secnre a Foothold Abroad. Indianapolis News. , GRINS AND GROANS. "I suppose you carried out your original Intention when you went abroad, Mrs. Leeder, and visited Rome, Venice. Genoa, Vienna, and " "Oh, dear, no! We visited Roma. Va. netseah, Jennowaugh, Veen, Veertem balrg, and ever so many more of those ancient capitals. You must have misun derstood me. Mrs. Jipes." Chicago Trib une. "I must admit that my fiancee can't cook." "That can be remedied. What's her attitude about not knowing how to cook? Does she brag about It, or does ehe talk like she would make an effort to learn?" -Washington Hera'd. i . "I wonder how the Venus de Milo lost her arms," murmured the young wife. "My guess is that she wore 'em off writing beauty articles," growled the old grouch. .:. . - ' r u- '. And then, silence gathered quickly. Baltimore American, . "And this bull moose?" Inquired the visitor from foreign shores. "Have your people called on him to lead?" "It Isn't that exactly," exclaimed the American! "He ia called on the-people to follow..' Detroit Free Tress. '"I understand that some of these de tectives are dlsguIMng themselves as farm hands and working hard In order not to be discovered." - "Great Scott!" exclaimed Farmer Corn tosnel; "can't somebody discover a crime in the neighborhood and lure them onto the placer-Washington Star. ... "TaHor You have inherited a lot of money; why don't you settle my bill? Owens My dear man. I wouldn' have it ' said for anything that my newly acquired wealth1 caused any departure from my simple habits.-Boston Transcript. ' Binks Which is the most dangerous, the automobile or the aeroplane? Jinks Well, the aeroplane runs over more people than the automobile Kansas City journal. Baker Who's that gfrl who plays golf all day and bridge all night? , , Barker- Oh, that's Manning's daughter. She's up here with a nurse taking a rest cure. Life. "This .speeding is something awful. No wonder such dreadful accidents happen from their going so fast." ' "It's not the going fast that makes ac cidents, ma; it's Hie stopping quick." Baltimore American. , , A WISE N0NADVERUSER. W. J. Lampton In Judge. There was a man in our town Aud he .was-wondrous wise; He opened many places, yet He wouldn't advertise. He thought It foolish to announce HiH business as some think They ought to do, and said he had v No need of printer's ink. Promotion of publicity. He raid, was something which The more he had of, that much less His chance of getting rich. He said he'd studied it and knew That advertising would. Beyond the shadow of a doubt, Do more harm than good. Indeed,, this man in our town Wan truly wondrous wise; He was a burglar, which is why He didn't advertise. THIMOS UNDONE DV TAFT Fifteen Th American states have long since experienced with the telephones what London now seems to be considering. An official rubric just Issued by the postmaster-general In charge of the Lon don telephone service, comes to local notice through the , London press. For the telephone game Is one of the most subtle and hardly played of all our na tional pastimes. The London officials advise wire patrons that "telephonic transmission blurs the distinctive sounds of consonants and tends to make words containing the same vowels sound alike. In passing numbers, therefore, it Is neces sary to speak mora distinctly than in ordinary conversation. There Is great risk of confusion between five and nine, and much difficulty In distinguishing be tween two and three. In London each figure Is pronounced separately, with the exception of doubles which are so given. One provision. in the British phone serv ice will appeal especially to those of us who quarrel spasmodically with the operator. "It is the duty of the. operator to re peat every number passed by the sub scriber in order ..to give, tha, subscriber an opportunity, of, correcting, any mis apprehension. If in any case the repeti tion is not clear, the operator's attention should be Called to the fact If the rape- t tlon i Is incorrect the right number should be repeated very distinctly, with emphasis on the figures misunderstood, If the operator Is not sure she has taken a number correctly It is her duty to ask the subscriber to repeat the particulars, Prompt compliance with the request Is nf great assistance to the service." Telephoning through some exchanges Is a sort of fteurastenlc novelty. It gives revelation to more varieties of tempera ments than can be found In the divorce records of a hundred courts. The psy chology of telephone manners has been the subject of much speculation and flip pancy. We can appreciate the repetition order in the London rules book, having still freshly -In thought the memory of that time when the stating of a double number, as, for Instance, three, four, double five was acceptable. Who can not recall the frosty correction from cen tral of three, four, five, five? Many of our telephone worries would be dissi pated were attention given to the clause Just quoted. One telephone company Is sued an order not many months ago which served as oil on the troubled waters of conversation. The addition t the one word "please" to central's re quest for the number has disarmed more than one unkind and impatient tongue, to FIRE J 3 THE sy a i Gives Your Stoves a Jet-Like Shine! Done in a minute Lasts a season E-Z Stove Polish Never smokes never nmella ha ' friend of the whole family in all v "ffijfj ma, o WHjr. 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' la denouncing by name those whom he charges with, having been Instrumental In preventing him from capturing the Chicago convention through his fake and fraudulent con testa,' Colonel Roosevelt is carefully omitting the name of Senator Root Why this tender solicitude for Mr. Root? Is he not going to accord Mr. Root an opportunity to say whether he is "boss," or merely a "tool" of the bosses? y, v,. Or has Senator Root been given an immunity bath for some reason that would not look well for the colonel in print? ' X It is said that the controversy at Lincoln over the right of the school board to exceed the amount of the bonds voted for erecting a new high school building may be adjusted without settling the point at Issue. We hope not, because the court de cision defining the limit, if the board is limited at all, would be equally valuable to us here in Omaha. Undermining the Empire. The perturbation of the good duke of Sutherland about American fann ers' invasion of Canada "undermin ing the empire,", is rich 'with' humor. The duke, one of Britain's wealth iest noblemen; the duchess, London's social peacemaker, and their two noble children, have Just, concluded tour of the Dominion in the Inter est of the mother country aa well as Canada. The duke soems to think heroic action is needed to stem the tide of American immigration in Canada. His remedy Is to induce Scots and Britons to hasten there forthwith in such numbers, as will counterbalance the baleful Yankee Influence, and save the. precious heri tage of royalty to the north of ua. : Americans, too,, no. doubt,, would like to see more of the sturdy tons of Great Britain take up their places in this land of promise," but" if they continue to overlook their opportuni ties Americans will- not. .How an empire could be undermined by the invasion of a distant province need ing development by blue-bloodied Americans Is an anomaly. Of course, if his grace means undermining the principle of imperialism, he-- may have found something to worry about. But it does not seem to be bothering Canada much- a Wall street tainted to ni Hemlntlers of the Kooaeveltlan Era. Baltimore Sun (Dem.l. He- never tried to muzzle the press. jie never organised an Ananiaa club. He never compared himself to Uncoln, He never advocated the recall of ludmw He never tried to dictate terms to the Vatican. He never had money backer. He never told Great Britain how govern Egypt. , He never humiliated an admiral after a nriiiiant victory. He never aroused the enthusiasm of the narveeter trust. , He never questioned, ,the authority of the supreme' court; r - ' He never said; "If they want the sword mey shall have It'' He never was accused of appropriating to himself ldeas launched by 'Bryan.' , He never marched up to a national con vention and then marched down again. He never thought that association ;Wlth himself would ' turn a cgrrupt political "bossy into a party "leader." He never Hrled to fool 'all the people eome of the t'me. nor some of the people an tno time, nor all the people all th. time. People Talked About By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory. me rugiuve siave law was passed by the United States congress sixty two year ago-September 1, ISoO-and thereby hangs. a tale, a tale of woe as was not dreamed of by any one at the time the law waa carried tlfrough the national legislature. , Henry Clay, that rock-ribbed Ameri can and prince of patriots, thinking to pour oil upon the troubled waters that threatened the safety of the ship of state, formulated . the famous "Omnibus bill," so-called from the fact that it waa sup posed to carry through all the meas ures that the troubled state of the coun try seemed to demand. ;! 'Among the other things comprehended by the Omnibus bill' waa the law which, It was hoped, would put an end to the operation of the "Underground Hall way," a term that was applied to the growing custom among Abolitionist of aiding runaway slaves In escaping from their masters. . : As Clay felt, about it;' It was) wrong to do thii,' lnaamuoh ' as negro slavery was recognised by the constitution and 'the laws, made in pursuance thereof. The great Kentuckla'n hated .slavery and longed for its abolition, but he main tained that,; the constitution being what It was, the underground railway. was il legal. Hence his advocacy of the fugitive stave law.' which Imposed a fine "of J1.000 and s'x months' . imprisonment on any one barboring fugitive slaves or aiding in their escape. ; . . . . "s,- ' Mr. Clay's- intentions- were, of course. the best in the world, as were also the intentions of the many northern mem bers who voted for the bill. The desire with them all waa to allay the ugly sec tlonal feeling which had been engendered by the unconstitutional action of the abolitionists, and to promote between the north and south the feeling of peace and goodwill. But Instead of acting as it was hoped It would, ,it acted the very opposite. It proved to be the very worst thing that could possibly have been resorted to. Acting like oil upon flames It only in tensified the opposition to slavery con stitution or no constitution. It maddened the abolitionists and raised up for them the friends and co-workers they would never have found without It. The feeling that It was wrong to punish a man for trying to help another man to freedom sprang up everywhere and raged Uke a prairie fire throughout the north. , In the meantime Mrs. Stowe published her "Uncle Tom's Cabin" that most won derful of Ol the sophistries that was ever palmed off on the world as truth- Land a sentiment was awakened against the "peculiar institution" akin in in tensity to that which Peter the Hermit aroused against the Moslem occupants of the Holy Land. The constitution waa forgotten, the laws maae in pursuance tnereor" were thrown out of the window, and It was clearly as good as settled, ten years be fore the dread tocsin sounded, that the black man was to split the country wide open, and become the Innocent cause of the greatest wars of all time. 1 One hundred years ago last iMtufdav the Russians started the greatest fire of a century, the burning of Moscow. Ex perts In conflagrations assert the Moscow biase outclassed that kicked up by Mrs. O'Leary, cow and carried much less In surance. - ' ; The designs have .-been, completed for the memorial bridge which the city of Augusta, Ua.. Is to erect tn honor of Ma jor Achlbald W. Butt,' who perlghed in the Titanic disaster, and work will begin in a few weeks. It will be a handsome reinforced concrete structure In three arches, spanning the Augusta canal, which Is 160 feet wide. Germany's oldest poet. Herr Heinrlch Zelse. has celebrated his nlnety-seventh hlrthday In Altona. Although he has be come deaf and blind, Zeiae'a poetical gifts have not been seriously Impaired, and he still dictates. lengthy poems to hU arandchildren. On his birthday he die. tated an ode dedicated to the kaiser, who as usual sent him a message of con-' pratulatlon. The honor of telng the youngest theatet manager In the country la claimed by Shelley B. Jonea. 13; years' old of Mar. quette. Mich. HU father purchased the theater recently and, turned over to his son the full management of tt. Young Jones la In thelghth "grade of fhe gram mar school, and? he Intends to give a matinee every day at 4 o'clook so the school cMldren ot tins city can attend. OMAHA ODES AXD ENDS. Spencer Advocate: An editor has to read everything these days. Here Is what someone wrote In the "Daffydll" column of The Omaha Bee: "If Champ Clark took Taft, Bryan and Teddy across the Delaware whd Woodrow 'yilson?" Aw gwan you boob, Wilson's got a motor boat.- .; : Fremont Herald: , If Omaha and Lin coln keep on getting together as they are now doing, a - monument ought to be erected to Will Maupln, the "go-between." At least, ho is to be complimented for everlastingly boosting those cities, the state ot Nebraska, and creating a better understanding among the men of Omaha and Uncoln. , Central City Nonpareil:- We were In clined to doubt the sincerity of the Omaha and Lincoln get-together booster! until Omaha made the suggestion that a new state capltol building ought to be erected at Lincoln- That Is evidence conclusive that the two metropolitan cities of the state have burled ' the hatchet and pro pose' to dwell together hereafter In peace and harmony. It will be better for both 6f them. Kearney Hub: It has been proposed by, 'a member of . tlte Omaha Ministerial union, to- perform- no .marriages after January i 1514 Without the marriage li cense be accompanied by . a health cer tificate. nhe "everyChe "recognises "the sound , princiijfe 'involved it ' is doubtful If the suggestion Is followed. " In the . first place the minister will force " the appli cants into civil wedlock, an action that will not prevent such marriages from being performed and at the same time deprive them of performing a minister ial, and In many cases a sacramental service, as well as much needed fees. Let the legislature act ; with the ministers and there can be no question of the suc cess of the undertaking. . , v .., 1 evumsen Jourruu-Tr'-Dune: Just to show their friendliness to Lincoln the Commercial olub of Omaha recenti passed a resolution to the effect that Ne braska needs a new eapltol building, and pledging the assistance of Omaha and her legislative delegation to be elected tills tail te support a measure with that ob Ject In view. It is pleasing to the rest of the state to note that this feeling of amity between the metropolis and state capita and the suggesion will no doubt meet , with the approval of many Ne braskans. : Wayne Herald: Omaha authorities have. Issued an order that no unescorted girl under the age of shall be scan on the downtown streets of the city after o'clock at night. How can an Officer tell whether a girl is under 19 or not? To make, the order sweeping and effect ive It should have Included glrla over 19. Aurora Republican: With Omaha boosting for a new capital buldtng at Lincoln there really seglns to be a pros pect of the dilapidated and unsanltarv old rookery which has so long discredited u neing. replaced by an edifice In keeping wtta the general condition of the people whom Its occupants are sup posed to represent Surely aa era of cood feeling'nath arrived. ' The Cosiest Corner WITH a G. E. Luminous Ra diator you can have the co siest corner in any room in the house. Just place the radiator wherever you desire, attach the plug to any lamp socket, and the cosiest corner will be right there filled with the warmth of glowing electric fires. I Try one during autumn evenings. these chilly Omaha Electric Light & Power Co. H-ST Ajr if Rr iWhy J AutomobileV I'JM fy Lubrication ' ' frott and Carbon Proof Standard Oil Company Webraaka Omaha