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t Like Banquo'a ghost, the shadowy record of,
our democratic senator follows him around and
will not. down.'" "" ' . ,
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The official suggestion of potato bread de
serves high rank . among the administration's
vaunted achievements.
' A new grade. of fossils is reported in Ten
nessee. 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
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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 ,
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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.
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"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!
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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."
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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-
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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
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"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.
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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.
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