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i THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1916. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATEsL VICTOR ROSE WATER, EDITOR. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR.' Entered at Omaha poitofffet aa eeeond-elaee matter. . - . TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By Carrier per month. fHlly and 8onday 6e Dally without Sunday 46c Kvening.arid Sunday 40c Evening without bundey lee. , Sunday In only 200. Br Malt per year ,.... . t oo .... 4 J.0 Daily and Bandar Boa, three yeere In advance. tlt.DO. Send notice of change of addrese or Irregulerity In de livery to Omaha Bea, Circulation Department. REMITTANCE. ' " Remit by draft, expreae or poiUI order. Onlr f-eent stampe taken in payment of amall account, rersonai cnecae, eacept on Omaha and aaatarn ..exchange, not accepted. OFFICES. , Omaha Tha Baa Building. . South Omaha 2318 N street. . Ounell Bluff. ! 4 North Mala street Lincoln 52 Little Building. Chicago alt People'. Gaa Buildlnc. N;w York Room 803, 281 Fifth avenue. St Louia 608 New Bank of Commerce. 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Naturally the discovery stumped repub lican hopes'tn that section. The spectacle of Art Mullen swinging the party lash enlivens an otherwise Somber situa tion. As a party boss Art backs the circus down out of the ring.' Woe to him who defies the democratic boss In Nebraska. His chances "of reaching pie counter salvation are as slim aa the chances of a repub lican candidate in Texas. . . ' Heckling and rowdyism at political meetings are the last resort of whipped antagonists. Re publican principles, like truth, are mighty and will prevail over shallow pretense. .. ' 1 , -v - i - r i "A It Is not surprising to find the Railway 'Work ers' Nonpartisan association opposed to the Adamson wage-lifting law. The measure works injustice not alone on three-fourths Of railroad workers,, but squeezes the multitude for 1 the benefit of the few. y"'.. ; . " ;f ' .' The suggestion of the federal government guaranteeing irrigation bonds offered at the In ternational Irrigation congress, can hardly fail tq cinch the irrigation vote. The congressman or senator who ptits'bver the guarantee can safely dispense with campaigning in th,e,!wet belt.- 1 , . ' ' ' ', ; : . ' , The "drys", are trying to make capital of the alleged discovery. in an interior. .Nebrsslta town of "two saloon keepers intending to vofe in favor of the amendment" They hold up their hands in holy horror, though, when the "wets" produce two preachers who are going to vote against the amendment. It's a funny, game! .,. ! , . .'' Another promise is piled on promise of abol ishing dangerous grade crossings '6ii '(he 'Belt line: The last one fixes next Spring as the time of fulfillment Six months affords. ample time for preparation, also for mental somersaults. The situation Illustrates how easily the offspring of careless officialdom' flouts the needs of the community. "What's the score?" The mute inquiry mussed up the solemn thoughts of the Episcopal conven ' tion at Si. Louis and all but upset the afternoon program. Timely announcement of the result of the day's battle on Ebbets field relieved the ten sion of worldly affairs, and business proceeded without a ripple. The benediction extended byj the Massachusetts delegation aided powerfully in calming, sporting blood. Subsidizing the Doctors . Waaolattea Feet The discussion aroused among the medical fraternity by the suggestion of one of its mem bers that physicians should all 'be paid by the stale for the prevention of disease instead of by individuals for trying to cure it, compels the thought that there exists one disease which their utmost etiorls are anaole to erauicate. From the time Hippocrates propounded the vow of self-abnegatioli to his acoiytes ewy branch of the prolession, chemist, physicist and hygienist, has bent its effort to com Da t (lie ills alllicting mankind. - One- by one the dread dis eases, smallpox, diphtheria, typhoid and others have given way beiore their attacks, and hope is held out that tuberculosis ' and cancer may soon be overcome. Everybody knows how zealously physicians have labored for both the cure and prevention of disease. Few, unfortunately, but have occasion to remember how their own physicians have re sponded to the call ol duty, leaving warm beds to face winter 'snow and winds to minister to suffering; how tenderly they have welcomed new comers into the world, or how sympathetically they have performed the last possible service for tor those who were leaving, 'lite one disease most baffling to their. skill has been an insidious one, hard to diagnose, and gripping the patients oftenest when all danger Kt't'inrd nest. Its avmrtlnma are character,,! by the appearance ot nervousness, an unwilling-' nrss to talk oi tnem to tne physician, and fre quently an aversion even to Ins oresence. Some cases seem to be accompanied, however, by no more serious symptom than acute aphasia. Payanaemia. or stricture of .the ooclif fhodlr is the disease in mind.- It sometimes develops- miu ecauucHiuruoca, tor wnicn mere is no nope vi iuic. a-wi jJdyeiiacuiia mere - IB some nope. Many reasonably honest people defer their nav- -ments of doctors' bills unreasonably because he doesn't press them. Even thougiijie may be. hard ' up for money used to purchase medicines for his patients, he usually manases to worry alone? somehow without disturbing their equanimity by complaint of their negligence, other than mav be implied by mailing occasionally a formal state ment of account While the doctors are threshing out the mat ter ot state subsidization the people can do much to reduce the inroads of this disease by looking a more ciusciy to incur, own nanus. . S . : ') ' 7 1 "You Can't Repeal a Surrender.'' Charles Evans Hughes has made an answer to another of the hecklers' questions in a way that should smash all but (he purblind defenders of the Adamson law. "You can't repeal a sur render," is his reply when asked if he would try to secure the repeal of that law. Whatever of harm this law will accomplish will have been worked long before Mr. Hughes can take office if elected. Its greatest harm" was done when it was passed under duress, when the congress and the president surrendered all the power of de liberate government and enacted a law under the dictation of a small group of men, who were holding a stop-watch and threatening dire con sequences if their demands were not immediately complied with. ' , If one group of men can thus hold up the government of a great nation, what is to prevent another group from likewise adopting the tactics of the footpad, and how long will our government continue when.it is thus placed at the mercy of groups, each bent on its jwn selfish design, with no regard to the general welfare? "You can't repeal a surrender" any more than Appomattox or Sedan can be undone, but you can provide against repetition The Case for Hughes Roland C Ulnar in The New Republic- Oh, How Flimsy). Try Again I Answering the charge of "inattention to busi ness" laid against Senator Hitchcock and evi denced by his failure to respond to nearly half the roll calls since he has been serving in the senate, his Fides Achates who runs-his personal newspaper organ for him offers the excuse that the senator is a member of several important committees, and that "it was impossible for Sen ator Hitchcock to attend to his duties on these committees and, at the same time, be in his seat on tjie floor of the senate to answer to roll calls." What a crass attempt tp Impose upon igno- rancel ' Is Senator Hitchcock. the only senator who is a member of important committees? Why is it that committee work has not prevented col leagues, not so shifty as he is, from going on record when measures have come to a Vote? Other senators less skilled in artful dodging, who spend less time on the golf links and devote more time to their official duties, are free from, this charge of "inattention to business." The . Initiated know further that the senate committee rooms are equipped with electric call bells which ring every time a measure or motion is to be put to a vote, anaV that the regular prac tice is for committees to suspend, sittings long enough to allow the senators to go to their seats and answer te their' names if they wish to. Why didn't .our senator respond when the bells were rung? Be sure that if Senator Hitchcock's "not voting" record is as bad as that, it is wholly of his own making. Trot out another excuse or explanation! . - a School Board Problems Ahead. It is well that public attention is being di rected to the choice at the coming election of eight members of the school board, or two-thirds of the total membership, as required by the pew law. Some goodpeople are proposing a "slate," although ho one seems willing to tell how and why the "slate" was projected. The "slate" can didates seem for the most part to measure up to requirements, although there are also others not on the slate running who are as well, if not bet ter, equipped. What should be emphasized, how ever, is the imperative necessity for' men on the school board-Tifho will not only tring to the posi-' tion intelligence and capacity, but will also give the requisite time. " 1 , 'The school board has 'a pretentious building program under .way, which is yet to be carried to completion, in which many intricate questions are involved. More important still is the con tingency that; by Nebraska going dry, a revenue, of $350,000, now. derived from license money, will be taken away, and either retrenchment must be forced on-a -wholesale scale or other sources of revenue substituted to make up the shortage. - The candidates,' whether running on a "slate" or on no slate, should realize what is ahead, and the taxpaying public should also, in considering the different candidates, gauge them to the test of ability to grapple with these problems. Forty-One Billionf of Moonshine. '.Self-deception is the most pitiable form of delusion; the 'man who spends his time lying to himself, is silly,' beyond conception. And .that is the predicament of the democratic leaders just now.vOf th.ey,'. are j deliberately trying to deceive the people by. their persistent assertion that the wealth of the. United States has been increased forty-one billions, of. dollars during the three years of Woodrow 'Wilson's term. Any increase in the general wealth of the United States must hive corned within the last fifteen months, for during the , firs't. year and a half of MrV Wilson's term values Were going down instead of up. ' Daring forty years of the steadiest and great est growth and development the world ever wit nessed the material wealth of the United States increased at the rate of approximately two and one-half billions of dollars annually. To accept the present democratic estimate, our wealth has been growing at the rate of more than two and 'one-half billions monthly, or twelve times the average rate of increase during a period of con struction and extension of enterprise unequalled in the world's history. This is the veriest moon shine, and recalls the days of Law's "Mississippi Bubble" in France, or the tulip craze in Holland, and may end in the same sort of crash, unless prudence supplants the madness of folly into which the democratic inflationists would lead the country. ' Prices have gone up, and are going higher every day, but the inflated figures, due to the abnormal and uncertain demand of the European war, do not constitute wealth. Democratic lead ers are making the parade to divert -attention from their neglected promise to decrease the cost of living. The wage worker knows how much his wealth has increased under Wilson, and it will be pretty hard to convince him he has been so tremendously benefited in the material things of life. " ' Old reliable "signs 'all down shamelessly in presidential battles. . The fact that an orator "wets his' whistle" during the argument does not make him a wet champion. Even a "dry" argu ment may provoke a souse as readily as wet elo quence leads to a pledge. Out of the confusion there is but one sure road and one reliable sign: "Vote .the republican- ticket straight." N . 'J 1 v Registration in all boroughs of Greater New York total 738,812, an increase of 33,000 over the registration of 191, And a drop of 40,000 from local expectations. Party leaders consider the p figures satisfactory, but both sides are guessing. I am glad to attempt to state the reasons which I find responsible for my decided prefer ence for Mr. Hughes, even though others may feel them primarily the result of my professional training and interests. I have been constantly struck by the apparent unwillingness of educated and intelligent men to apply the admitted results of the study of political science to practical poli tics. . Though discouraging to me at other times volubly and with emphatic approval of the re sults attained by Bryce and Ostrogorski, these same gentlemen almost invariably treat the presi dential campaign from the point of view of the misconceptions about American government which they themselves as students long ago re nounced. Is it not in very fact true that we yotenot for the president, but for his party; that the party leaders really direct the administration and the legislation; and that the candidate's election promises are of importance only because through him the party leaders pledge themselves? More over, he is himself selected for his availability, for his supposed usefulness, not as an adminis trator and legislator, but as a vote-getter; so far as I can see for his re-election qualities and not for himself. I am thereore concerned primarily with the fact that if I vote for Mr. Hughes I am merely putting a ballot in the box for government by the republican leaders, and, if I vote for Mr. Wilson, I am expressing my preference for government by the democratic leaders, both bodies of men being already determined to dictate to the president in every possible way, to allow his judgment and policies scope only when they coincide with their own. If, now, I allow myself to be led by ,the carrot dangled by the leaders before my nose by the personal qualifications, speeches and promises of the candidates, by his smooth chin, by his resi dence in New York or New Jersey, by his sup posed personal belief in peace or in a high tariff I am falling into the trap laid for me and forget ting to pass judgment as best I can on the real problem itself: which of the two groups of lead ers is the abler, more intelligent, more upright, more likely to grapple successfully with the country's problems. I am also in the second place honestly con vinced that the republican leaders are man for man abler, incomparably more experienced in affairs, and at least as disinterested as their rivals. We know that both parties will appoint to the administrative offices good party men. The re publican leaders have a much wider range of men to select from than have the democrats; after all deductions and allowances have been made, the republican party, and not the democratic, repre sents the manufacturing, scientific, professional elements in the country. Edison and Ford may vole for Wilson, but the vast majority of the me4i from whose ranks the requisite skill must come to make preparedness a reality belong in the re publican camp. I will vote for Mr. Hughes be cause t want to see the new administrators, in the greatest administrative crisis the country has known, chosen from the larger technical and pro fessional body and not from the smaller. I want to see this difficult-work performed by men whose hearts and brains have long bcetn in it rather than by a body of men whose leaders are openly op- fiosed to it and have- espoused it only as a po iticat necessity, ' , I find myself giving great weight to the atti tude of Mr. Hughes and the republican leaders upon the second 'great issue of the coming four years foreign relations. Mr. Wilson's challenge to Mr. Hughes to declare the foreign policy of the republican party puts his rival in an awkward position. His own foreign policy has been care fully directed at the preconceptions of the Ameri can public and not at the European problems os- ccnsiDiy concerned ao unucrsiuuu in .urupc. ms notes were literally meant for home consumption. Politically this was the only safe thing for him to do. He must at all odds do what the people would approve, whatever they thought of it and him in Europe. The Europeans would not vote in November, 1916, and the Americans would. Moreover, the deadlock in Europe was so great that Mr. Wilson and the democratic leaders saw no danger ii making political capital out of for eighv events. Germany could not get at us, if she would, and, while the allies were getting the worst of it on all fronts, they would do nothing. It was therefore easy to "defend" American rights by 'bold statements and resounding threats.-ttnd it was also easy to keep us out of a war which they knew perfectly well none of the European pow ers had the least intention of declaring and which none of thetrucduld under the circumstances pos sibly wage. The democratic leaders therefore in sisted on playing the international cards with a view to making votes for the campaign of 1916, and consistently forced the president to proclaim a policy which pleased the American people with out regard to the national ability to execute it, and indeed without any probable intention to pro ceed to such extremities! as we constantly in- Y I - , r- . t, ,j t ,, iqrmcu uermany anu ureal oratam wouia louow the least abatement of our most extreme demands. If the power addressed did not too openly re sent the belligerent tone of his notee, Mr. Wilson could then plume himself on having shown Eu rope what was what. .And the people would like it I When, however, the power in question re turned a sharp reproof, Mr. Wilson could turn the other cheek and explain to the approving popu lace that he swallowed the( insult because of his ardent desire to keep the peace. It was a good game; heads I win, tails you lose. It cost noth ing; ran no real risks, and made votes whatever happened. But it was not statecraft. It has brought upon us the scorn of Europe and has made difficult the palh of future diplomacy. And Mr. Hughes and the republican leaders know it well. Before we can srlay any real part in the diplomatic discussions which will follow the war, we must reinstate ourselves in the world's respect and must regain our own. Mr., Wilson knows that it is impossible for Mr. Hughes to make this palatable and comprehensible to the man who reads nothing but the newspapers, but he ought to know that educated men can and do see it. , There is a very simple alternative and it is the policy I believe Mr. Hughes and the republican leaders mean to follow. It is clear, honorable, di rect. Far from involving danger, it will indeed avoid the constant danger of war to which Mr. Wilson's diplomacy would have exposed usi if war with us had at any time been for the European powers even a thinkable proposition. This policy will deal with the international situation as it is, not as the American people believe it to be. It will insist that our notes apply to the foreign sit uation they ostensibly concern instead of to po litical exigencies in this country; that our notes shall be couched in language which will say what we have in mind to the European diplomats who are to read them, rather than in the language of Kokomo and Popham Corners. It will promise no dire vengeance which we are entirely incapable of executing, and will demand no concessions which we can obtain only at the point of the sword. The courageous determination of Mr. Hughes and the republican leaders to curry no favor with the electorate by the manipulation of foreign affairs is one of the strongest positive facts in the Hughes case. The qualifications really needed by a president Mr. Hughes possesses, and, so long as 4jie has them, I cannot see why any educated man should attach importance to policies he cannot as presi dent enforce or an ability at political posturing no president should employ. We know him to be able, honest, upright, pure in life, conscientious, acutely intelligent, well informed, with an open mind and a readiness to take advice. That he will exert as beneficial a modifying influence upon the party leaders as any recent candidate I hon estly believe, and I cannot believe that any exi gencies whatever would induce him to accept a second Josephus Daniels (if such can exist) or censent to the sort of jobbery that went on in I 'or to Rico. He cannot in many things easily do less or worse than Mr. Wilson, and he may in a good many matters without displaying unusual in telligence or rectitude doja great deal better. UQUAYJ Thought Nugget for IhC Day. Truth crushed to earth shall arise again - The eternal years of God are' hers; But Error, wounded writhes with pain, And dies among his worshlpera. William Cullen Bryant One Year Ago Today In the War. Anglo-French army advanced Into Serbia by forced marches. Italy declared war against Bulgaria and an Italian fleet sailed for the Aegean. Germans launched attack on Artois to recapture lost ground, but failed. Von Hlndenburg's army drove Rus sians back In fighting about Jacob stadt and pressure against Dvinsk in creased. V In Omaha Thirty Years Ago Today. A petition has been filed with the county commissioners asking for the incorporation of Park Vale, which vil lage comprises the section lying south of the city limits and jiorth of the stock yards, being a part of school district No. 37. The citizens of Wal inut Hill also have been holding meetings to take steps looking toward the incorporation of Walnut 'Hill as a village. I In response to a call from Messrs. Heimrod, Baumer and Spetman, com mittee on behalf of the German American school, about fifty German ladles attended a meeting at Uer manla hall for the purpose of mak ing arrangements for a fair to be giv en for the benefit of the school men tioned. Jack Morrison's son was the suc cessful competitor for the dog cart offered as a prize at the Catholic fair. He received S.300 votes, a majority of 800 over his heaviest competitor, a son of J. Murphy. The following took part In an en tertainment given by the young folks of the First Methodist Episcopal church: Misses Kittell, Milestone, Edith Davis, Edith Jones, Mabel Fonda, Mamie Fetch and Messrs. Wal ter and Lewis Dale, Clyde Weston and Frank- Brown. Tompson-Houston Electric Light company has secured possession of the poles, wire and local license of the late Sperry company and Intends to 'incorporate them into ita system. It will put In place shortly a mam moth Corliss engine which will enable a greater number of lamps to be sup plied and at the same time permit the introduction of a number o( ln candescents. At a meeting of the stockholders of the H. F. Clarke Drug company it was decided to purchase several lots in the heart of the city and build thereon a large business house. This Day In History, . 1770 James Kilbourne, the pioneer with whom originated the proposition to grant lands in the Northwest Ter ritory to actual .settlers, born at New Britain, Conn.- Died at Worthington, O.Aprll , 1860. 1842 Walhalla, temple designed to perpetuate memory of Illustrious Germans, opened at Ratlsbon by king of Bavaria. 1864 The " confederates under General Early were defeated by the federals under General Sheridan at battle of Cedar Creek, Va. 1869 Dr. Charles W. Eliot was In augurated president of Harvard uni versity. i 1875 Sir Charles -Wheatstone, In troducer of the electric telegraph, died In Paris. Born in England In 1802.' 1897 George ,H. "Pullman, presi dent of the Pullman Palace Car com pany, died In Chicago. Born in Chautauqua county. New York, March 3, 131. 1904 The president directed Sec retary Taft to go to Panama to reas sure' the people of the pacific inten tions of the United States. 1912 The siege or Adrianople by the allied Balkan armies began. 1915 The United States recognized General Carranza in Mexico. The Day We Celebrate., Charles H. Brown, secretary-treasurer of the Brown Realty company, was born October 19, 1876, right here in Omaha. He studied at Phillips academy and Harvard and Is asso ciated as stockholder and director with a number ot local banks and financial institutions. Dr. William A. Hostetter, practic ing physician, is fifty years old today. 11 j was born in Morris, Grundy county, Illinois, graduated from the Omaha Medical college in 1894 and has been devoted to his practice ever since. . v -' Robert A. MacFarlane, president of the Robert Dempster company, was born in Ottumwo, Canada, October 19, 1873-. He was In the photo sup ply business in ' Minneapolis and St. Paul for ten years, coming to Omaha In 1904. C. Fred Bradford, chief clerk of the stationery -.department of the Un ion Pacini, was Dorn October 19, 1872, at Elgin, 111. He has been with the Union Pacific continuously for twenty-two years. - Frank J. Norton, the well known abstractor, is today celebrating his forty-sixth birthday. By birth he is a. native of the Badger state.' Dr. William L. Pickard, president of Mercer university, born in Upson county, Georgia, fifty-five years ago! today. Dr. John H. Finley, commissioner of education of the state of NewJ York, born at Grand Ridge, III., fifty three years ago today. Dr. John C. Breckenrldge, president of Winona (Ind.) College of Agricul ture, born fifty-eight years ago today. William J., Burns, who has an in ternational reputation as a detective, born in Baltimore tlfty-flve years ago today. , ivtordecal Brown,' pitcher of the Chicago National league base ball team, born at Nyesvllle, Ind., forty years ago todayc Tlmcly Jottings and Reminders. Trafalgar day, the 111th anniver sary of Neisoa's famous victory, will be celebrated today throughout the British empire. Both Hughes and Fairbanks are scheduled to speak at a republican meeting to be held tonight at Youngs town, O. tormer President William H. Taft is to speak In Baltimore tonight in behalf of the republican national and state tickets. President Wilson is to visit Chlcaga today to deliver an address under nonpartisan auspices. Prof Alexander Graham Bell, Theo dore N. Val) and other notables are expected at Atlanta today for the an nual reunion of the Telephone Pio neers of America. The anuai convention of tete Amer ican Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality is to meet In Milwaukee today for a three day session. Warning of a Mother. Omaha, Oct. 18. To the' Editor of The Bee: As I read In your letter de partment so many articles on saloons It sends my mind back to my little gin. For our sons' and daughters' sakes you men who vote and you mothers use your Influence with your boys and men that vote and ha've them work against this political work called pro hibition. You mothers with daughters who have seen women from the red light district move next door or in the Bame house after they had been run out ot there by what a few called law. and you fathers and mothers who have had your heartache over your little girl, as I have through the same "prohibi tion" of vice. These people were and al ways will be to the end of time, but since the red-light district was voted out there have been more young girls and married women misled by that law in one year than these were in ten be fore, as they are Just like the boot legging places will be under "prohi bition of liquors," In houses, up alleys, in pool roouSs and, maybe, right next door to me and you, us was the case under "prohibition of vice." Just the same as thousands of our sons pass the saloons and are good, fine young men and, maybe, stop in and think nothing of it but let those same places be closed up and forbid den and these same young men and boys will be sneaking up the alleys and in these places, poBsibly thinking It smart for a while, but, heaven only knows where they will end. Now, Mr. Editor, ir you will only print this for me and I can help to save some other mothers' heart uches for her boy as mine aches for my little girl. It, may be knowing that I have helped some mothers, maybe, thousands, help to mend my aching and broken heart. A BROKEN-HEARTED MOTHER. As to Introductory Remarks. Omaha, Oct 18. To the Editor of The Bee: I was at the Hughes meet ing at Kansas City, September 1, and when the chairman arose to introduce the speaker, he said, "Ladles and gen tlemen, the next president of, the United States, Mr. Hughes." Mr. Hughes arose and said, "A brief introduction, but sufficiently explicit." The great audience applauded heart ily. JONATHAN EDWARDS. Against Compulsory Medical Inspection. Omaha, Oct. 17. To the Editor of The Bee: Yesterday's paper contained the report of the death of a little child on the operating table In the office of a local physician, following the administration if an anaesthetic and the removal of the boy's tonsils. This tragedy, which one of the phy sicians Involved -Is quoted as saying was "simply one of the" certain per centage of fatalities under anaesthetic which can neither be explained nor avoided," should be a lesson to the citizens of Omaha. During the last year there has been considerable activity on the part of the medical profession to secure com pulsory medical inspection of school children. Quite frequently we hear It hinted that a law should be enacted giving local health boards more au thority along those lines. Compulsory medical inspection If only the first step. In places where the medioal profession has been suc cessful in putting the system into ef fect the next step has been compul sory compliance with the recommen dations of the medical Inspector. In one eastern city the Board of Health sued the parents of a child because they refused to obey tne order to nave his tonsils removed, and the court ordered them to have the operation performed. Parents of Omaha, do you want to risk having a child "one of the cer tain percentage of fatalities," because some young school doctor, orders an operation? At least 40 per cent of the people of Omaha do not resort to medicine or surgery when they are 111. ,n i, ,n the, tr, ninp their chil dren under. the domination of a med ical man through the guise oi com pulsory "medical" inspection of public school children? .C. P. DAVIS. 3560 Woolworth AVenue. Disfranchising the Militia Boys. Omaha, Oct. 18. To the Editor of The Bee: I would like to Inquire why iJie republican state papers do not make campaign -material from the fact that the democratic administra tion turned down the proposed bill to xllow our soldiers on the border to vote by mall. It is very evident that our National Guard are not to return home before election, and I feel that a greater injustice has not been per petrated by the democrats than to deny the Guard the right to vote at the coming election. I am a woman greatly Interested in a big republican victory and one whose father was a soldier. X. - Who Cut the Wires South Side, Omaha, Oct 18. To tha Editor of The Bee: In reading your account of the great Hughes meeting last night, 1 noted that you said the electric wires that fell onto me and ohers broke loose' and fell. Two different men said they saw some boys cutting the wires and a good many think it was the trie of some one to put out the lights and break up the meeting In that way. Such tricks have been resorted to be fore and it seems to me that it is a pretty low-down trick. The wires when they fell cut my, forehead and nose, and I suppose I am the only man in Omaha who can say he has shed blood in the cause of our next president, Hughes. Putting out the lights in the convention hall of the republican national convention at Cincinnati in 1876 caused the defeat of our illustrious chieftain, James Gr Blaine for the nomination to the presidency and changed the history of the nation greatly. It was a trick of the enemies of James G. Blaine, and is held in contempt even today by the old-time supporters of one of the greatest men our country and the repulbican party have pro duced. It might be well to investi gate to find out what caused those heavy wires to fall just aa Governor Hughes began his address. FRANK A. AGNEW. LAUGHING GAS. "X hope tha farmers wilt never get to be flnanclera." "Why riot?'' "Because they will naturally want ta water their stock." Baltimore American. "Sncceaa in life la a relaUve term," the philosopher aald. "No doubt," the man of easy habKa re plied. "But when a person who naa reached middle age still depends on an alarm clock to help him hold his job. I consider that hla , life la a failure." Birmingham Are-Herald. Caller (waiting for an invitation) Two o'clock! I fear I am keeping you from your dinner. Hostess No, no; but I fear we are keep ing you from yours. Boston Transcript rcta Mfi.kABIBBlE OUft IAMVjD IS'TrEHANKOWESrj MAN I Hrw BIER 6EB SHOULD I StBANMTWrJOTOtl? ROSE AlgEKO UXK FIRST- MWBE TO PROHIBIT) IN N0UR UfcX&E "My word!" exclaimed the Briton, lndlt nantly. "You Americans are always calling us slow. Just cite an example, will you?" "Certainly," chuckled the New Yorker. "An Englishman can 'stand for' Parliament and be elected. An American who wants a congressional seat has to 'run' for it" New York Times. "Here last year Bob Bullft was declaring all speeders ought to be sent to Jail without exception, and now he thinks pedestrians have entirely too many rights in the streets. I wonder why he was so bitter against speeders, then?" "Oh, that was before he found he could, afford to buy a machine." Baltimore American. inilliHII!!IllI!H!lii!niHI!mHIUiiHI!!!HmiI!IlHIljm!m!SnnnBil 621 Residents of Nebraska TIMES SQUARE registeredat Hotel Astor during the past year. - a . 1000 Rooms. 700 with Bath. A cuisine which has made the Astot New York's leading Banqueting place. Single Room, without bath, fuoo to tl Double ) to 4x0 ' Single Rooma, with bath, ).oo to 6-oe) Double 4.00 ta 7-oe Parlor, Bedroom and bath, $iom aa 1 14.0a) At Broadway, 44th to 45th Street the of New York's soda! and bvuinesi activittet. In dote proximity to all railway terminal, miHimmiimiuiiimiHniinmHmifHiiiiiiniiiiSH.tmini Senator Beveridge, of Indiana On October 27th, Senator Bevarldie of Indiana, who neediyio Introduction to the people of Omaha, will apeak in the Auditorium. October 27 Is the last day for ralstratlon. If you do not register before that' time you cannot vote. If you have not already refUtered bo to the Election Com missioner's office in the Doug-laa County Courthouse any day and do-ao. If you have moved ainoe you registered you must regieter again. We urge every republican voter to ask himself this question: "Have I registered t" If not, do so, at once. To be a voter carries with it a slight burden, but one which ought to be cheerfully borne by all citiiena who are interested in government. F. S. HOWELL, Chairman Republican County Central Committee. 1 JTJjOrz German $tyu double Beer "InaClmMtBjItmtr Brewed and Bottled by Jetter Brewing Co., Ltd. am a Ilea. OMAHA, NEB. rmmOW ! atuppllea ftr Waa. a Xtvnglaej 4M1.