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TI1E BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1913. CLEARING UP OK CURRENCY Senators Willing to Help, but (t Not Hurry. JtEASURE LIKELY TO GO OVEB nfeatlmonr of Conntrr Barlkers Sur prise Administration Jennie Propose to Take Its Time. "What effect. If any, will the currency p row of the week hare upon President i Wilson's leadership? Has the president; ijjthe committee or the cause of currency reform suffered through the bout of the tiWhlte House with the senate committee I'bn banking- and currency, as a result of which the committee, with some crowing and flapping of wines, announo that trey shall expect no more dictation from the White House? .The Washington correspondent of the Boston Transcript propounds these Ques tions and answers them, in part, as fol lows: tit will bo recalled that. the president Bft out to hasten the committee In Us work; to suggest.that It should discon tinue Its hearings before October 25, and that congress should pus a banking bill before the end' of tha extra session. It li now an open secret In Washington that both parties In the senate are determined that a banking bill shall not pass at the present session, and that President Wilson expects the measure to go Into the regular session, If not Into 1914. Clash with President Jlrnltnfnl. Dispassionately analyzed, the. clash be tween the president and tljo senators ap pears to havo produced healthful, results t both endaof the avenue. The president has learned that the senate will not be' hurried and, his friends say he. will have fergotte how to bo clever, if he doeaot Jlnd the lesson useful In. his future deal-' irigs with congress. Wlth'tho knowledge that any plan of calling a senate cauqus tb hasten or discharge the committee has been abandoned, senators have melted a' little and -are saying that If the president' will possess his soul in paUerice a while" longer, they wl glv'o him a bill for whlchi they can vote conscientiously. , Vanderllp' Testimony Useful. j A potent Influence upon the senate committee this week, has been trie 'testi mony of 'the bankers, notably the re marks of lYank A, Vanderllp, president ot the National City bank of Now York, and of the several country bankers who have explained to the commltteo why the bill would work adversely to their Interests. Some of the democrats were surprised that Mr. Vanderllp should sea anything good In the bill, and when he went on to point out that it contained a lot of good things they began to under stand that even a New York banker might bo capablo of useful and disinter ested criticism. Through the testimony of Mr. Vanderllp the committee came to see that if they could divest themselves of. some of their prejudice they might learn something of value from men who had spent their lives In tbo banking busi ness. Mr, Vanderllp. .annoujioedjaUs pur pose ty say everything good foritho bill he could, and he was as frarifc in his cpmmefidatlon as in his critlcli, . Conntry Bankers Did VfJI. The country bankers perforates good .service In telling' the commlttc4.the ex act nature of their attltuao.ward the bill. Tho president apparently has1 been dbessedV with .tho idea that -the! country bankers would speak well of the bill if they Wero .not-In fear of the "big bank ra" with whni they keep their reserve deposits. The country financiers showed The Inducements Which Go With DUNDEE SUITS and OVERCOATS is the quality and satisfac tion you get from wearing them. 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It was something of a revelation when the testimony de veloped that the bankers, country and city, were studying the measure like any other business document and weighing its good and bad points as if the whole subject wero not one solely ot political sen timent and were one of Vital' business importance. The consensus ot bankers' testimony so far has been that the pro posed system In its present form offers them little, It anything, worth while, but that with reasonable amendments, cov ering certain features of banking pro cedure, it can be made at least unob jectionable, Tho purposes of the meas- uro wero commended by all the banker witnesses, but practically all were doubt ful whether those purposes could ( be achieved unless the bill were materially amended. Tho not result of the row with the president has been to bring about a Uttle better understanding all around. Tha White IloUse understands that . even the wonaerzui success or mo pre;aeni. hiui the talft latr haa not yet made him- om nipotent, in all riiatters, particularly where the Draetla-e ot the senate is Involved. The senate,. on -the-other, hand and this In cludes many, of the republican members Is how willing, to help work out k good "bill If the.-White House wlll'meet'them half way In good faith. In tact, from tha .Oh.eott.ul .talk heard about tho corridors today It would oven be posbidio to gnna out a bonking bill which the republicans of tho .committee would support ltmen like Chairman Owen ore ready to drop their nartlsan foolishness And their ab ject "surrender- to" administration Influ ences and tree torother with the rest upon a, measure' which' will stand the test of scientific banking analysts. -Inrtlnlilp J.esa Active. Amdng senators outside the banking and currency committee the effect of the rumpus has been wholesome. Ilbko Smith's recent interview and subsequent statements by him and other leaders has made It possible to say almost unquali fiedly that tho banking bill will not bo treated as a party measure in tho senate. and that If too extreme procedure Is at tempted a good many conservative dem ocrats will vole with the republicans rather than be placed In the position ot being ignoramuses upon tho currency question. Gentlemen of this class havo been much embarrassed by the efforts or men liko Chairman Glass bo far unro buked by tho administration to represent tha American Bankers association as the organized enemy of the country and to discredit In every possible manner tho adverse testimony of bankor-witnesses relative to the Glass-Owen bill. The doc trine that no honest criticism of a bonk ing measure can come from a banker Is- not liked by senators whoso states are full of honest and capablo bankers who wont currency reform as much as the ad ministration does but prefer that It shall bo Intelligent 'and' not disastrous. President's Tactical Blander. Part -of , the irritation displayed In the senato over tho nttomptcd dictation on tho currency mil is quo u me ineximu- abla refusal of the president to permit congress to adjourn for a month or more, and thus enable the members to rest and attend to affairs at home. Tho sen ate bankjng and currency committee, at least, has Known tor some lime mat no legislations was, possible- at this session,' but no one has been able to knock that fact Into the head ot the president, with the result that ho has kept several hun dred' sullen men Imprisoned In Washing ton for no useful purpose. Now, the bill cannot be reported out. until late In No vember, and the senate will take its own time in passing It. Thomas Kelly Was at Berlin When Airship Buckled Thomas J. Kelly, prominent Omahan, who recently returned from an extended trip In Europe, spent considerable time In Germany and relates a queer coinci dence connected with the explosion of the Zeppelin airship LII. While Kelly was stopping In Berlin with Bigmund Landsberg, another Omaha musician, he visited the airship sheds at Potsdam with several German acquaintances, who were loud In their praise of the safety of the German airships. While at Potsdam the Germans carefully explained why the airships did not havo accidents, but dur ing the same half hour Kelly and Lands berg were at Potsdam the airship buckled In midair and fifteen people were In stantly killed. Mr. Kelly also saw the LI I while at Berlin. He saw several other ot tho pas senger airships, including the Hansa, the Sachsen and the Victoria Louise. He was urged to take a trip in one ot them, but he preferred to remain on the solid ground, so that ho did not experience the thrills that are said to accompany a trip in one ot the big carriers. The price charged to ride in one ot the pas senger balloons Js 200 marks for a two hour trip. The equivalent of 209 marks In American money la K0, Mr. Kelly was much surprised to learn that the LI I had exploded and killed twenty-six people, because he considered the balloons relatively safe, although the accident did happen to the LI at the time he was at Potsdam. The German bal loons had never had a serious accident before the LI fatality, and the German people could hardly believe that such an accident could happen. All of the L lino of balloons are Ger man military airships and no passengers are carried in them. FLAB IS PRESENTED TO THE MILLER PARK SCHOOL The Miller Park school was presented a beautiful American flag Thursday aft ernoon by the Grant corps of the Wom en's Relief corps. The flag" Is to be draped In the main hall of the school. The fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades ot the school and the members of the Miller Parle Mother's circle attended tho cere mony, Mrs. Belle Dlffenbacher, patriotic in structor of tho corps, made the presenta tion speech and tho flag was accepted by Miss Luis, Hunt, principal of the school. Miss Lillian Preston, daughter of 0. W. Preston, gave two patriotic recitations. while the children ang patriotic songs and closed with Lincoln's Gettysburg ad dress, given In concert. Men's 50c NECKWEAR, 25c CDCr'Talf Men's Silk Four-lnHand kJl JLiViMU: Tiofl. In a big assortment ot new patterns and colorings. Regular 60c values, 25c i Men50c HOSE, 25c CDETIAl! "Men's Half Hoso. In' tan, Ui JUvlrJLi. black, bluonnd gray. Tha regular 50c quality, strictly firsts; nolo price, at, per pair 25c Men, You Can Save $5.00 to $10.00 on Your SUIT and OVERCOAT Here in This Sale Saturday I. J 'Tl I I A in n. 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JOC MEN'S $3.50 UNION SUITS $1.98 Mon's AH Wpol Union 8ults, with a range ot valuos to $3.50, ealo prlco, gurmont MEN'S UNDERWEAR 98c Mon'o two-pleco Wool Underwear, shirts and drawers, exceptional quality at, qq garment . . JOC $1.98 MEN'S $1.50 SWEATERS 08c JPi7PIAIf Men's Swoater 01lJVmj. coats, wool and cotton mlzod, regular $1.50 values, Saturday 98c ;Orkin Bros. 16th and Harney.: sOrldn Bros.lGth and Harnoy.s Needs of Omaha Schools . Are Explained by Dr. Holovtchiner OMAHA, Oct. 18. To the Editor of Tho Bee: I havo read J. B. Haynes letters which havo appeared from tlmo to time In our dally press with a great deal of amusement and also with amazement. Because his letters have been left un answered Mr. Haynea must not think that he "got away with the stuff and that the people really believe what he had to say In recard to our high school of commerce and other schools. Know ing as I do that he Is the paid press agent for certain commercial college!, I do not blame him for attacking the school, because when you hit a man's pocket you Invariably hit his heart. I was amused, however, at his flimsy arguments and unjust criticism of our high school of commerce, calling It a clery factory for boys In knee breeches and girls with braids hanging down their backs, orgottlng or overlooking the fact that the commercial colleges are dili gently and persistently scouring the country over for pupils, regardless of age or preparation, to manufacture clerks, stenographers, etc., of Immatur age and without preliminary prepara tion. In six months, while the high school of commerce Is giving our grad uates from the graded schools two and four-year courses. His attacks on our high school' of commerce, which ranks among the highest In the country, accord ing to reports in our leading educational periodicals and according to opinions of educators of tha highest type who have vlsted the school, is truly amusing, but wrTen Mr. Ilaynes attacks the need of a new building for our high school of com merce, he dlsblaya such dense Ignorance of educational conditions In Omaha that I wonder that bis bosses have not stopped hi pay and dismissed htm from his job. When he stated that in order to re lieve the admitted congestion In our high school of commerce, all that Is needed Is tov'put the high school of commerce students In the Central high school, he speaks ot conditions that he knows ab solutely nothing about. Had Mr. Haynes taken pains or time to walk up to the Central high school and examine the building he would have seen at a glance that our Central high school accommo dates at the most 1.S0O pupils, that the prssent enrollment in our Central high school is over 1,600 and that the enroll ment In the high school of commerce Is close to 800; he would figure out at a glance that you cannot put 2,300 children in a building that will hold only 1,600 and that a separate building for our high school of commerce Is necessary. Mr. Haynes, judging from the wild and rash statements In his letters, evidently has never visited our Central high school since it was completed and consequently does not know what he Is talking about. When be suggested that the Cass school be converted Into a technical high school he shows that he has never seen a tech nical high school In full operation with shops, laboratories, machines, eto. Now he comes out with another tlrado In an article, "No Additional Schools Needed," In which he displays still greater Ignorance and which at a glance shows that ho Is wholly, unfamiliar with our schools. It Is quite evident that he does not know where the Comenlua school Is located nor whore the Saratoga school stands. If he did he certainly could not have suggested that In order to relievo congestion, for Instance in the Baratog'a school, all that Is necessary is to trans, fer the overflow from that school to tho Comenlus, which has three vacant rooms; or, In order to remedy the deplorable condition In Uie Park school, all that Is needed Is to transfer the pupils from that school to the Edward Rosewater school, which has four vacant rooms. And such absurdities with which his articles are overfilled aredlshdd out to the public as facts or remedies for conditions which prevail. Any man who has even a faint Idea of the conditions In our schools and knows the location of them will gasp In amazement at the Ignorance dlspluyed by Mr. Haynes arid I am surprised that good money Is wasted on such publicity. Mr. Haynes Is a good writer If familiar with the sub jeot In hand. The Board of Education certainly k.nows the condition of our schools and Is ask ing for a bond Issue because it knows the want of school accommodations and is laying the bare facts before the publlo to justify the call for bonds. Mr. Haynes, in his last article, gives a lot of fig urea in fractions and percentage, but ho overlooks the fact that In 1S90 the pop ulation ot Omaha was padded and that the school -census was also unmercifully padded In the years 1S90 to 1900. Of course, we all know that "figures do not He, but liars will figure." Be It far from me to even Insinuate that Mr. Haynes has wilfully distorted the truth and thrown dust In the eye of the pub lic I think that he Is Ignorant ot the facta pertaining to our publlo schools, has never been inside ot one ot them, and does not know where our schools are located. Otherwise he would not or could' not have written articles which only distort the true facts and give out the Impression that there is something wrong with our school system. I would have Ignored his writings were It not that the publlo might think be cause his Utters were left unanswered there was truth In them. I take this means to show how inaccurate hla ar ticles are and to point out to the fair minded publlo that he Is only the paid press agent tor certain Interests and therefore little credence should 1e given his writings about our schools or school system. DR. B. HOLOVTCHINER, President Board' ot Education. MRS. SMITH WELL KNOWN FOR CHILDREN' STORIES Mrs. Elisabeth O'LInn Smith, new pres- Ident of the State Library association, Is librarian of Chadron publlo library. She has become known throughout the state for "children's stories" told while In charge of the children's department of the library. Mrs. Smith was a kindergarten teacher before ber marriage. So successful was she with the children's department that tho membership soon became so large that the capacity of the library building was 'outgrown. Mrs. Smith Is superintendent of Grace Episcopal Sunday school of Chadron. A Horrible Death may result from diseased' lungs. Cure coughs and weak sore lungs with Dr. King's New Discovery, Wo and 11.00, For sale by your druggists-Advertisement. Key to the Situation-Bee Advertising. COMPWINIJFWIMINrlTIOH South-Sidcra Aoouie Commissioners of Slighting: That Section. SAY N0ETH SIDE IS FAVORED Want More Improvements, as They Bay tha Other Srotlons of ' Omaha Are GrMintr Mora Than Their Hhnrc. nivcrvlew Tark Improvement club ac cuses the city commission of discriminat ing against the southern section of the city in spending money derived from tax ation from Improvements. "We are not receiving our share of improvements; Improvements by tho the Dreser.t admtnUtratlnn linvn li.nn made In the north and northwest portions of the city, where property Is owned to a great extent by speculators and non residents," says a communication from the Hlvoryltw club to tho city commis sion. v II. J. Peterson, a contractor, president of the olub, and M. F, Huettolmalcr, sec retary, have forwarded to tho commis sion a resolution passed by the River view Pnrk Improvement club, In which the following Improvements aro askedt Repair rJouth Sixteenth street from Trederlo kto city limits. South Seventeenth from Center to Oak street. South Fifteenth from Central boulevard south. Deer Park boulevard, Fifteenth to Sev enteenth streect. These streets are said to be "danger ous" and In need of "Immediate re pairs." Several sidewalks are also needed, according to the communication, and lights should be installed on the boulevard City commissioners will consider the communication aV the meeting of the commltteo ot the whole Monday morning. A. C. BUSK BUYS BIG FARM SOUTH OF COUNCIL BLUFFS Andrew C. Rusk of Omaha has bought from John Lingo of Essex, la., for J 15,000 a farm of 4(3 acres on tha Qtenwood road eight miles south of Council Bluffs. He deeded as part payment a farm ot 200 acres near Ashland In Saunders county, Mr. Husk, whose health has not been good for some time, will use the Iowa farm for a summer home. It Is only forty minutes by auto from his office. Tho sale was made through J. H. Dumont & Co. Key to tho BttuatlonBte Advertising!: Your Overcoat Ovorcoata worth $18.00... Overcoats wortli $20.00. . . 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