TUB BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, AUGUST '28, li14. THE. OMAHA DAILY BEE rorXDED BY KDWARD ROSEWATER. m VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Ho rtihlishlng Company. Proprietor. I?KE BUILDING. FAR NAM AND 8FTV K NTEENTH. Kntered at Omaha postofflce a second-class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By carrier By mail per month. per year ieily and Ptinria wr M T'ally without Sunday. ... ev 4 TO Kventng and Sunday to F.venlng without Sunday o ,, 4. 00 Sunday Bee only c 2. ft) Send notice of change ef address or complaints of Irregularity In delivery to Omaha IW, Circulation Pe pa time r.t. REMITTANCE. Remit by draft, express or postal order. Only two rent stamps received In payment of email ac counts, l'rrsonal checks, except on Omaha and esstern exchange, not accepted. OFFICES. Omaha The Be Building. Fouth Omaha 2nS N street. Council Bluffs 14 North Main street. Lincoln K Utile Building. Chicago 1 Meant Building. New Tort-Room lm, 1W1 rirth avenue. Pt. Ioiil-WH New Bank of Commerce. Wssbinrton 73 Fourteenth Bt., N. W. CORRESPONDENCB. Address communications relating to new and edi torial matter to Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. JULY ClRCtTTIO. 52,328 State c? Nebraska, County of Douglas, sa. Dwlglit Wllllama. circulation manager of The Bea Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that Ihe average dally olrculaUon for the month of July, 114. wan H.m. DWIOHT WILLIAMS. Circulation Manager. Subscribed In my presence and aworn to before me. thla 4th dav of August. 1914. P.OUEUT HL'.N'TEK. Notary Public, Subscriber leaving; the city temporarily ahouJd have The) Be. mailed to them. Ad Areas mill be changed aa of tea as requested. Oot Ui old furnace cleaned out yet? The motion for a short ballot strikes a pop ular chord. Xow wa shall see whether Jul Jltsu will work on the kaiser. Thus far the Pankhurst platoon has been kept in the background. Readers of The Bee get up-to-the-minute war news from the most reliable sources. Wonder how long we will have to wait to nee the military effoct in feminine fashions. Tha Turk still seems to be "dreaming of tbe hour" and is causing a few nightmares by his ominous motions. Suicide is confession of guilt. The perpe trator of the atrocious Schuyler murder .has brought In the verdict himself. Come to check up the returns of our late primary, that pink ballot for pure, patriots did not cut so much figure after all. As soon as the various officials decide whose duty it Is to enforce the speed laws per haps w may have them enforced. Bo far as surface Indications go, those Japs are the most polite and Ceremonious beUlger ents who have gotten Into the game. Some of the reprisals exacted by European warrlora make Dandit Pancho Villa seem like the mildest of modem humantarlans. Note that George Fred Williams has thus far been able to hold his proud Albanians in check, while other powers are Tushing forward. If the Mexican matter has finally been whit tled down to a personal dispute between Villa and Orozco. why not let them choose their weapons and fight It out. If the rule for salary docking la enforced upon absentee congressmen, we may safely count on adjournment, or at least a recess, about a month before election. The Women's Christian Temperance union suggests family prayer to end the war. And tbe Good Book says the fervent, effectual prayer of tbe righteous man availeth much. The German-American alliance insists that the. suffrage movement Is a "feminist fad." If that does not produce a return shot from, bat teries on the other side we miss our guess. , The head of the household will soon beciu td mobilize his financial resources to cope with the old enemy, King Coal, who may now be seen fntrenching himself on the not distant heights. Only fifty-eight crossmarks called for by the primary ballot as against upward of seventy choices to be recorded by each voter in Doug las county at the general election In November. That's the reason. The religious mountebank who first had the end of the world set for October. 1914, then postponed It indefinitely, naturally hits upon the present war as a prelude to the finish, snd the "faithful" fall for It at the regular rates At a special mooting of the school board tha va cant princlpalshipa were filled as followi: m.de school, ! McKoon; Leavenworth. Mlaa Wood; Utfce. Mlaa Champion; Caaa. Mlaa Wilbur; llartman Miss McCarthy; Center. Mlaa Eleanor White. These new tea. here were alao elected: AIHe V. Uolin, Emily ItoUnaon, Lydla, 5hallenberger. Clara Maaon. Mary . McCoy. Llixie K. Keedham and Minnie J. Wood. Contractor Murphy says If bad weather does ut revent tha work of paving Farnam street will ba ,'ully completed thla week. R. 8. Hall haa returned from tha tut with Ms bride, where they have been aloe, their marriage. Tha ball nloe from Keokuk did not arrive In time U Play eo tha Union Iwcltlc. amused theniaelvea by playing ' an exercise game. Tha 'room in the high acbool In which Mlaa Htu aa long aerved as Instructor will ba presided over by Mies 8. A. Da via of Dav.i.port, who baa bee flMu a Ilka position in tha schools of that city. Tha marriage of Jrfferaon B. Jones, a compositor on Tha B. and Mlaa Mills Willie waa solemnised y Rev. Mr. fcieaait at the realdenc. of the bride's father, I. N. Wlllla. on South Tenth street. Coil as Contraband. The rlfect of the war on the supply and prlrp of American coal Is becoming a matter of general Interest. Coal haa been rated as con traband of war- That our government Intends to make no exceptions to this embargo may be gathered from the fact that It has even pro hibited shipment of anthracite to Canada for purely domestic purposes. On first thought it would seem this cutting off of outlets abroad might have the effect of lowering prices to the American consumer, but the more likely thing Is that the producer with knowledge that the export market in closed, will reduce the output at the mines. If this Is done, It will, of course, lessen the supply and tend to keep up the market prices. No one will deny the hardship to the coal mine operators of having lucrative foreign mar kets shut off for the time being, but If it gives a little relief to the domestic consumer, it would be a compensating feature. A Short Ballot Detail. The main objection so far urged to The Bee's plan for a short ballot by retaining as elective state officers only the governor, lieu tenant governor and railway commissioners goes to the confirmation of the governor's ap pointments by the state senate. We submit that the matter of confirmation is merely a de tail. Home good reasons are advanced for cen tering responsibility wholly In the appointing power and leaving no opportunity to charge up bad or misfit appointments to the. exactions of an advisory body. On the other hand, there is much to be said in favor of putting a brake tipon purely political appointments In the Inter est of the tax-paying public, and the most feasi ble way of applying that brake Is by requiring confirmation. If we should develop a atate civil service whereby all clerical and technical portions would bo filled on demonstrated ability, and hold during good behavior and efficient per formance of duty, then unrestricted appoint ment of department heads by the governor would be less open to criticism. That sort of civil service, we believe, is bound to com, and will be forced much sooner by the short ballot in fact, a rtart has already been made in all (he state Institutions under the Board of Con trol, yet even here It should be recalled mem bers of the Board of Control, though appointed by and removable by the governor, must be con firmed. In our federal government, too, im portant political appointments of the president still require concurrence of the senate, but not so with civil service appointments and promotions. The Red Cross. Tbe best appeal that can be made in behalf of the Red Cross la its work for the succor and relief of humanity on the battlefield and else where. Nevertheless, the plea made for aid to enable this great organisation to render efficient service to the suffering Europeans gripped in a death struggle. Is Itself compelling: There are already thouaaudi of tick and wounded men. Their numbera are growing- dally and any great battle will add It tens of thousands to the number. With all the excruciating agony endured by the men on the fields, thtnkv of the poverty and pain crushing the women and children at home In all the warring countries. Multiply the mis eries of the war by the rigors of winter not far off and we will begin to fathom the awful abyss of this hideous hell sweeping over the lands of our ancestors over the sea. Americans may be counted on without fail, to rally, as they have In tho past, to the colors of this glorious army of relief. A Bellig-erent Pott. It has never been quite clear to the average American why Johnny Bull Insists on maintain ing a poet laureate, and Sir William Watson Is befogging the Issue more and more. He is also abusing hU "poetic license," we fonr, in attempting to cajole good old Uncle Sam into war, as these closing line of his recent sonnet "To the United Slates," suggest: But when a dcapot swollen Willi the Ueaiie Of boundleaa away forbears not to uncase War's wolves on shleldleas youth and ruaidleaa sue, Urtater. O nation, greater then is lie! Doff then thy placid mlcn. unleash thy rase Ant) sear ami blast with thy lips of fire. To the belligerent poet we commend the slogan of a great American newspaper, "Sit tight, and don't rock the boat." Or, as Presi dent Wilson says, "Be calm." Thus runs a couplet In the Letters of Junius: Tha gloomy comparisons of a disturbed Imagina tion, the melancholy madncs of poetry without in spiration. But, anyhow, thai i uo way to talk to a good friend, doing in best to keep the peace. Our is a strictly ueutral position and no "of ficial" rhyiUHter is going to move us from it. All we have to Uy to Johnny Bull Is, better hand 81 William's copy to the war news censor and wot let him "get by" with auy more like that. Irony or Simplicity ! The message cabled from Count Okunu, the premier of Japan, giving the people of the United States reassurance that Japan haa no ulterior motive or desire to secure more terri tory or to deprive, China, or any other people, of anything they now possess, concludes with these words: . My government and my people have slveu their pledge, which will bo as honorably kepi as Japan alwaya keeps promlee. The little brown man axuumes the role of furnishing the world an example of scrupulous observance of treaty pledges and promises. Is it unconscious irony or merely Jspanese simplicity? Someoue thinks the workmen's conipeuba tlon law will reduce litigation to such an ex tent as to make half our district Judges un necessary.. Oh. no! There is a flaw in his logic. The contingent-fee lawyers will find plenty of other ways to keep the dockets full. This Is the voice grlni-visaged war does not heed: "Love your enemies; bless them that curse you, and do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despltefully use you and persecute you.' The first official voters' guide to initiative and referendum measures pending in Nebraska makes u pamphlet of fifty-two pagea. That's a fair start for what promises to be a literary out put of many volumes. rg Brief eeatrtawtloae em ttaaal toploa lartta. TboHeo aaawssaa ae reewoaaSMllt foe a vial awe at eorrenBaawa. AS letters raa Joert to eeateaMtlea ay eeUto. I.laht oa Yacclnatlaa. OMAHA. Aug. ?7. To the Editor of The I lee? It Is well known to the medical profession that the smallpox virus Intro duced Into the tlssuen by inoculation through denuded skin Is an stirs a pre ventlvo of smallpox as any means know n. When used thus the virus takes effect, a pustule Is formed at the site of Inocu lation resembling the amallpox puatule. At the same time frequently other pus tules of the same character are produced, by tho same agency In distant parts of the body. It la known that this same virus pre pared for administration by the mouth will produce the samo pustules and all, as th , usual method by Inoculation. There Is plenty of evldenoe to prove this and It can lie obtained from physicians of national reputation. There is the same evidence In proof of tho atutement that It Is Just as sure as a means of the prevention of smallpox as the customary inoculation of the flesh. The same evi dence can be produced also to prove that in this latter method the chance of dangerous after-effects ni-e almi.nt. If not quite entirely, eliminated. Thla cannot be said of vaccination by inoculation. From the forrroln statements every one may form Ms own conclusions on uny question pertaining to vaccination as e. preventive of sinullpox. E. U ALEXANDER. M. P. For Gersissy, Against Resale. OMAHA. Aug. 27.-To the Editor of The Boe: tee:: Of all the foolish loiters re garding the terrible European conflict tlis letter of Hans Nielsen Is the most foolish. lie wantu to know what Ger many wants her lnnre artpy for? To whip her naughty neighbors, of course Here la hoping that Germany wins; siio certainly Is making a brave fight of it and deserves the admiration of all ribt thinking people. If she should lose the Rusa will surely swallow Denmark and the Danes some dsy and they then will have ample time to reflect about their foolish notions. j. About the War Philadelphia Record: Perhaps It la be cause the pn Is mightier that the sword doesn't want it arouhd. letrolt Free Press: Tho chlof trouble of the telegraph editors nowadays Is to pick out the warohlp sunk from the warship bunk. fiprlnjrfleld Republican: The thing that most astonishes some people Is that w!ti tho stock markets closed the country still lives. Boston Transcript: Judging by the bath Ink pictures we have seen we really ran not blame the Germans for going to Ostend. Chicago Post: Baron Constant is going to give his Nobel peace prise money to the lied Cross. He may feel that ho didn't earn IL Washington flar: That large, putient person, "John Chinaman," may jet grow sufficiently irritated to arise and manage his own affairs. Kansas City Journal: Tha Panama canal Is not doing much business so far, but It doesn't seem so utterly idle and useless as The Hague peace palace. St. Louis Times: Great generals are not making their appearance In the European war. The labor-saving machine seems to have Invaded the battlefield, too. Minneapolis Journal: The Iowa State university reports twenty-five of Its pro fessors stranded In Europe and may not oprtt on the dale set. The boys can help on the tall plowing. Stories in Figures Greece has 17S.S18 lemon trees. Ostriches la California are valued at J;00 each. Ireland in 11 1 produced sll.X pounds et honey. California will Una fall ahlp l,Gu tone et walnuts United Mates in 112 produced 30,000,000 tons of steel. Pennsylvania reports I'.OOO.Qno eggs in old storage. There are over fifty lace mills In the United States. Peru last year produced CJJ44I3W quin tals of cotton. Adolph.is Bus. h 8t. Louis estate is vat U'l at lAftiO.ooO. Chile this year spends for new railroad bridges. United States In 1913 produc-d 30,M.toQ tons of pic iron. Of the S.ia0.ai workers In Pennsylvania :.:X.24t are mates. There are over fcOOO practicing osteo paths in the United Mate. Unltad States yearly consumes twenty gallons of beer per capita. Turla. Italy, now has 44o,sm peoplo and seventy-sis motion picture theaters. Australia last year received 140.261 new settlers. Of these 13.443 were British. Over yO.SOO Kansas women refuse to register and may lose voting privileges. Shantung province, Chln. area .t.WM square miles, haa a population uf &,,. persona. Soaring Sugar Indianapolis News: If the price of sugar keeps on going vp, the process of taking candy from a baby will become more complicated. Philadelphia Ledger: lVjbably one reason why the price of sugar haa gone us Is that Cuba will be obliged to market practically her entire crop In the United Stale. Philadelphia Ledger: Although the re ports from Cuba Indicate that one of the biggest augar crops m history will be harvesUd, the refiners here do not seem to hesitate to put up the prloe. Brooklyn Eagle: Sugar speculation ts imposing a grave tax on America. It should get ftr attention from the prube (District Attorney Whitman la using oa the bull movement In foods. War doean't make anyone eat more sugar, but ratheV leu. The infantry doesn't feed on candy. Strength of the Warring Nations in Our Population 1 a Wed States aa Whole. Total 19H census population .91,9T3.'.'S Foreign birth and foreign iwrentage 32,343,383 Austrian born and parentage 2,fl.r."9 German born and parentage .. g,:2,si$ Hungarian born and parentage TOn,2i'7 Total Germans 10,9M.44 Belgian horn and parrntane Kt,2'M British born and pnrentuttc 10,490.027 Krench born and parentage Husslan hot n and parentago 2,7M.b75 Servian born ami parentage 22,tS Total allies 13.647,040 la Nebraska. Nebraska 1910 census population , Foreign born and foreign parentage THE GERMANS. THE ALLIES.. ..1.192.214 .. K3.21S ....133,511 AUSTRIA Born In One parent.... Both parents. ..M.y.i ..29. XI .. 9. 1'. HBUill'M- Bom in 491 One purent 191 Both parents 173 Total. I.Sltf gi:riia.t- Born in One parent Both parents... Total 301,713 Total FRANCE Born In One parent Both parents... .. 639 a lHu .. 112 HUNGARY Born In One parent..., Both parents. ...l.il ... fc.n) ... 10B '.,u: Total 2,37 GREAT BRITAIN AND IRKLAND Born In 36.56 One parent 27.349 Both parents 43,416 Total 105.3S7 RCS3IA Born In 13.020 One parent 10,316 Both parents 1,54 Total M,m In Omaha. Omnha 1M' census population 124,008 Foreign born and foreign parentage 6,tj63 THE GERMANS 23,073 AUSTRIA Born In 3.414 One pnront 3,139 Both parents 629 Total 7.181 OK RM A NY Born In One parent... Both parents. 4, Sol 6.SS0 . 2.021 Total 14.S32 HUNGARY Born in One parent.... Both parents. Tola! ...661 ...295 ... 17 . . .ASS THE ALLIES 21,508 BELGIUM Born in 5g One parent t Both parents.-. & Total 2 FRANCE Born In is One parent s4 Both parents 157 Total 37 UREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND Born In 5.034 One parent 6.642 Both parents 6,164 Total 16,860 RUSSIA Born In 2,692 One parent 1,509 Both parents 103 Total 4,210 Twice Told Tales Maklasr It Cert.lw. An old miser st Athens, Oa.. hatea oo part with money, and to the physician who was Just bcinalog him around from a long Illness, he said one day, "Ah, doctor, we hare known eaoh other such a Ion- time I don't lutend to insult you by settling your aooount In cash, but T have put you down for a handsome legacy In my will." , The doctor looked thouifhtful. "Allow me." he said, "to look at that prescription again. I wlah to make a slight alteration In It." Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch. (ieaeroas Llptoa. It requires a lot of courage and charity to be Philanthropic," aald Pir Thomas IV.pton. "I remem-. ber when I was Just starting in business. I was very poor anil making every sacrifice to enlaiwe my little shop. My only assistant was a boy of 14, fsith ful, willing and honent. One day I hoard him com plaining, aad wtlh Justice, thst his clothes weie se sbsbby that lie was ashamed to go to any place of worship on Sunday. 'There's no chance of my get ting a new su,t this year,' he told me. Dad's out of work, and It takes all my wages to pay tha rent.' "I thought the matter over and then took a sover. atgn from my c-erefuIVy hoarded aartags aad bougDt the boy a stout, warm ault of blue olotlu He was so grateful that I felt repaid for tny sacrifice. But the Best day he didn't come to work. 1 met his mother In the street and asked her the reason. 'Why. Mr. Upton,' she said, curtsying. 'Jlnuste looks so respectable, thanks to you, sir, that I thought I would send him round town today to see If he couldn't get a better Job. " Aa Oscrstle Treat. Jones remblid Into a cafe in a metropolitan city and found his friend Johnson seated alone at a table. There was a sound like ordering something and then came the question us to where Johnson had been. "Thought I wvnuld give myself a treat." answered Johnson, "and went to the opera." "The deuce you did!" was the Interested reJoUider or Jones. "What did you hear?" "I heard," relumed Johnson, "that the Bright Browns are about to get a dlvoroe; that the Bnyder Khsos are going- to separate, and that the Benton riweets Intend spending a season In FJuiope." Phila delphia Telegraph. People and Events William Ousgenhelm of New York has donated t5,0. to the German Red Cross society. Secretary Bryaa has officially statej that the Panama-Pacific exposition In 1916 will be held as an nounced. The term of the duke of Connaught aa governor general of Canada, which should exptre on October 22. haa been extended Indefinitely. Stephen F. Russo of PeekskllL N. Y.. gave a pint of his blood to save the life of Jerome Baidwln. a, stronger, in a transfusion operation. Tunis J. Powell, president of the American Dls trlct Telephone company of New York, died in his home in Brooklyn. He was M years old. Ralph Emerson, philanthropist, manufacturer. In ventor and oousla of Ralph Waldo Emerson, died reoently in his home at Rock ford. 111., at the ae of S3 years. He waa bora In Andover. Mass. "Bert" Cutting of Indlanajwlls, 1 years old. who has been totally blind for years, baa won distinction for himself by reproducing ta shorthand a speech made by Governor lUlston. He uses a mechanical device Instead of taking tha usual shorthand notes. I'eter F. P-ailey. the actor, who died In Chicago on May 3. 1WS, left a total estate of IW.5K. having a net value of lS,i Mr. DaJley left no will. His estate was divided ei, ally among Robert L TOalley, brother! Lorctta Duller slater . ;K"sbe. nephew. SAID TO BE FUHTTT. "There nes the editor of a popular nasazln " "tinpnMlhle: There Isn't any such thlng.'-Llfe. "I like the way thnt man looks." I'Why. he s positively ugly:" "Yes: but he s looking at me." I.cndun Opinion Kind Idr to Htreet Resjar Bjt yes terday you were blind ies. nut I was married today and It 1 opened my eyes." lx Rlre. i "f worde- why sle alnys plays the! lest composition of Weber?" I "Perhaps It is because Weber is nut able to protest." jh Sourlre. j Hj.T'1" piBnt e'ong to the begonia fsm-j -uMh!u"nd yo" "r" tlf'ng care of U i h,le they are away."-B,,ston Trans r;pt. ; mv"earW'n,ld r6U marn' Pendthr1ft. j Mar.lorie-It wouldn't be ,o bad If he' vi ere Just stnrtlng out on his career An-! swers. your daughter has""1 "tanners Mrs H!ler proudly-Yes. You see, she has been an ay from home so much. hniort ,et. IDLE RUMORS. An and as and In Agitated fltoekholder-Why haven't you declared the regular qunrterly dividend? Director We couldn't borrow the moneyl-Chlcago News. Ted (at summer hotel) Those pretty waitresses look awfully fetching Ned-After you ve been here a while you 11 find they fetch nothing -Judce. Tonimy-T want another box of those I , .. - .. . uiuintT iresier- day. Druggist Did your mother say they Tommy No, but they just fit my air gun. Ixndon Opinion. j llle rumor floated like a thist'.e In the air. From whence It came i.obody knew, and no one semi-d to care. Lightly on the u'nmer air It rose, so bright and free: 'Twas hnrmlfsa as a butterfly, henuttfiil To e. A wsn.lrrlna srpliyr csuslit It. fluttering H fell Upon tho lTad tiaxa of a great resort , noiei. Where were rows and rows of rockers, idly smlnglng to and fro. Occupied by Idle nomers, firebrands, lacking but t'le tow. Early morning found them rocking, ground t"S-ether, not alone. Night s dark shailows found thrni talk ing In unceas na monotone. In ecet.'iry they seised upon and held as lar. ful prey This harmless. Kile rumor that came floating by their way. They tossed It llgh.ly. gently on their tlulnty finger tips: They piwiwd It und caressed it with their rosy tongues and Hps: Thoy padded It until It grew to twice its former size: They patted .t and molded it till 'twas hsid to recognize. With its added strength and vipor. It no no longer floated 1 'gh. But cowered loiv, a menace to every passerby. When tirn of the pastime, those Idle roomers threw Away the oth- idle rumor, and strong snd strait S It flew. No longer harmless, but a beast, faro clous, cruel, w'ld. Whose slightest touch polluted, whose. reeking breath defiled; Fur t'irouKh those Idle roomers at the great resort nntel It had grown to uh a magnitude it stirred tho depths of hell. -DAVID. OA. nr mmiwm In Leidi88: that not ojj llcs Vvnow. what yn40rf jSt they SI1-4-" I-w people -einto grocer pes. the heads n. Sick. brea. deal of n.T a are -P'SSol an absolutely advocating tr ;ouB -p ti0n 8ale, 0";! 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