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Why are yon dodging the question, Senator
Hitchcock? Art you wet or dry?
A few bint of whett or corn radiates ai much
weet content theie days at an equal quantity
of black diamond!.
Shoes are ttill going up. Why not? Winter
It advancing and tkirta shortening. Shoemakers
are a gallant set.
Not even the bad breaks of Secretary Baker
shakes the confidence of Vance McCormick. Con
fidence is his chief stock in trade.
Warring nations are burning up over $50,
, 000,000 a day. Betide it the typical extravagance
of the drunken tailor flicker, si a tallow dip to
a conflagration. '- t-y
Storms damaged the West Indiet to the ex
tent of $2,000,000, reducing their telling value to
that extent The next order of butinett is to tell
it to the Panel. '"' :
A republican congress would have pasted the
needed law to permit the soldiers at the border
to vote. Disfranchisement is exclusively a demo
cratic stock-in-trade.
The industry of printing money in this coun
try for rival revolutionists in Mexico is threat
ened with official disfavor. Watchful wai.ing
glimpses' one revolution at a time. All others and
their currency are spurious. v 's 1
On the score of legal equipment and experi
ence, Jacob L. Fawcett should have been made
chief justice when the supreme court vacancy
' was filled by appomtment two years ago. The
people should mike good that omission now by
voting him into the chief justice's chair at tlte
coming election.
Dry campaigners gain nothing by using the
fake 1890 census figures tolsupport a statement
that Omaha lost population as a result of voting
down prohibition that year. The census bureau
has corrected this padded enumeration and the
officially corrected recorda show for Omaha a
steady population gain each succeeding decen-
The democratic campaign in Massachusetts is
1 in a state of utter collapse. John F. Fitzgerald,
nominated for United States senator against
Henry Cabot Lodge, retired as a concession to
Wilson and efforts to secure an eleventh-hour
martyr are unavailing so far. The outcome in
sures rousing republican majority in the Bay
state.
The only member of the Nebraska State Rail
way commission possessing the experience and
viewpoint of the shipper when he took office is
Henry T. Clarke, jr., who ii up for re-election.
Mr. Clarke is needed on the commission to give
it stability and should have the support of every
voter who wants the Intricate problems going up
to that body dealt with intelligently and with
absolute justice.
Mr. Bryan in Action
. St Leala OWke-DeaMerat ,
Ria-ht when everybody has decided that Mr.
Bryan was an extinct democratic volcano, new
rumblings were heard. He is to make one speech
in Missouri and several in Illinois. Nothing is
said about his Nebraska dates. Perhaps the demo
crats who defeated his aspirations to participate
in the St. Louis convention as a delegate are not
clamoring for his oratory. They may have wearied
of it But if they have feared that he would
stick to his old themes, they have borrowed
trouble. It will be a new Bryan this campaign,
from the very necessity of things. He will not
talk free silver, anti-imperialism, anti-militarism,
guaranty of bank deposits or any of his ancient
paramount!. He will not show any eagerness to
restore the virility of the Sherman act taken from
it by the supreme court decision or demand that
the truat magnates be out in felons' strioes. He
will not urge his old panacea of fixing the exact
percentage of the country's business in a particu
lar line one corporation shall be permitted to
handle.
Mr. Bryan will not be able even to demand a
single term for president, in keeping with the
resolution he introduced in the house over twenty
years ago. He eannot call political, pledge break
ers "embezilers of power," for scarcely a pledge
of the Baltimore platform was carried out. He
cannot discuss the high cost of living or promise
, simplicity and economy in governmental expen
ditures. There is only one division of "the money
' cower" he still safely assail.
But there are matters he can talk about if he
will. He might explain just what he told Dumbs
which caused the Austrian ambassador to , dis
count notes to Germany. He might explain juat
how his resignation kept the president from set
ting into war. . The democrats are too prone to
ignore Mr. - Bryan's - responsibility tor that
achievement He might also expatiate on his re
mark about the tariff commission being intended
to please a certain clement while affording an
excuse "to postpone a change of rates," which he
considers a desideratum. If he wanted to be con'
fidcntial. he might exolain whether he is reallv
trying to promote Mr. Wilson's re-election or
merely getting ready to mount the democratic
aon key again, alter the detcat in November.
Assassination of Austria's Premier.
News of the assassination of Austria's premier
is too fragmentary as yet to convey any clear
nature of its cause, significance or effect. It
warns us all anew, however, that war conditions
Europe are potential of lightning changes
that although hardly probable in this instance,
the death of one or more of the leading actors
may suddenly transform the whole situation. It
is strangely conicident, too, that the spark that
started the war conflagration was an assassina
tion the assassination of the heir-apparent of
Austria and his wife and suggestive of specula
tion as to how many of those directly or indi
rectly concerned in that fateful tragedy may be
destined to be engulfed in it before the conflict
subsides and peace is finally restored. 1 .
Europe's War Mortgage.
Three of the five leading nationt at war have
voted credits or concluded loam to finance their
campaigns during the last three months of the
year. Germany and France recently closed the
last of their loans for 1916. Last week the British
Parliament voted the thirteenth war credit, which
will carry the financial end of the British cam
paign to the new year. These operations furnish
official figures of the cost of the "war m money
from August, 1914, to January, 1917, twenty-nine
months. Figures of like authority are not avail
able from Russia and Austro-Hungary. Esti
mates of their loans up to August last published
in New York financial papers appear reasonable
compared with the known cost, to Great Britain,
France and Germany. These estimates, together
with the official figures of loans, and the pre-war
debts of the five nations, measure the sise of the
mortgage the old world is executing with the
blood of its sons': ,
Nation. Pre-war Debt. War Loans.
England $3,443,799,000 $21,940,000,000
France 6,346,000,000 12,327,000,000
Germany ...... 1,194,000,000 11,150,000,000
Russia 4.536.939,000 15,000,000,000
I Austria 3,897,894,000 9,000,000,000
Totals ......$19,418,632,000 $69,417,000,000
Grand total.. ' $88,835,632,000
Germany's aggregate debt is the lowest of the
warring nations. Unlike other national debts,
the figures here given are the empire's obliga
tions, exclusive of those of the German states.
Prior to the war the debts of the German states
were three times greater than the empire's debts.
If they incurred separate war debts, the fact ii
not known,
By far the largest part of the war loam, bear
5 per cent, those of Russia 6 per cent. Early in
1915 Great Britain funded its low interest bear
ing consols into war bonds at 4tt. Now the war
loans, by reason of heavy discounts, net 5 per
cent, while short time government paper brings
6 per cent in London, Taking 4 per cent as a,
basil of actual interest cost for Great Britain,
France and Germany, and 5 per cent for Russia
and Austrb-Hungary, the bearing of the interest
charge on the peace revenue of the five nations
it thut thown:
Revenue Interest
Nation. 1913-14. . 1917.
Great .Britain...... $ 964,749,000 $975,351,760
i France ........... 1,001,511,000 746,920,000
German Empire... 879,656,000 493,760,000
Russia . 1,860,988,000 976,846,950'
v Austro-Hungary 1,322,692,000 644,894,700
The debt obligations entered into will on the
first of the year approximate a per capita of $564
in Great Britain and Ireland, $474 in France, $188
in the German empire, $113 in Russia and $258 in
Austro-Hungary. v Posterity escapes the agony,
but must pay the price. r
Why Hughes Should Bi Elected
Only a Lie WeU Stuck To.
That's presuming upon ignorance again when
the Wilsonitei tay that Hughes favors the prin
ciple of an eight-hour day, but opposes the meth
ods employed by which the democrats have se
cured it. They know that neither the democratic
president nor congress has done a single thing
to bring about an eight-hour day and that their
falsely labelled eight-hour law merely raises the
wagei of trainmen belonging to the four brother
hood! without giving anyone an eight-hour day
who hat been working more than eight hours.
In thit the democrati mutt, be again proceeding
on the theory that a lie well ttuck to will stick.
Military Training In Universities. '
Sixteen of the big schooli of the United
States have arranged to come under the pro
visions of the new military law, and to furnish
training in military science to their student
bodies. This does not include merely training in
drill tactics and company maneuvers, ai now af
forded by the cadet organization! that exist at
such Institutions as the University of Nebraska.
but meant the addition to the curriculum of the
univertities and colleges taking up the work of a
course in military aciences sufficiently compre
hensive and thorough to properly fit the student
for duty as a junior officer In the army. It is
estimated by the general staff that a reserve force
of 50,000 trained officer! it needed to take charge
of the volunteer army that mutt be had for na
tional detente, Thit reserve will be acquired by
the work of the great tchoolt of the country, sup
plementing the output of West Point
While this move it in the right direction, and
at far at can be gone under the existing law, it
does not entirely meet the great problem of na
tional defense, which properly-contemplates uni
versal military training. Under any condition,
the educated officer ii an imperative necessity,
and if he can be supplied through the extension
of the work of existing schooli, that phase of
the problem it moved nearer to solution. It in
volves no abandonment of the American ideal of
peace, but it doel mean a better realization of the
difficulty under which peace may be maintained.
Phllln Pane. .
, Winner Philadelphia Laajer S3M Prise.
August 1, 1914, closed an era. Out of the
war's travail is being born a new world for us
as for Europe. The next administration will con
front novel hazards. It must adjust the United
States to grave complications amidst furious com
petitions. We will be able to afford few mistakes
and wide errors might wreck us.
The question therefore is not whether Mr.
Wilson upon hi record deserves re-election as
in an ordinary time, but whether he and his party
are competent to cope with the very perilous
responsibilities certain to crowd the four years
to come. , .
We can be fair to Mr. Wilson. Perplexed
to the extreme by extraordinary events, he has
done as well perhaps as was permitted his aca
demic understanding, and ai the democracy
non-contact with twentieth century reality al
lowed. "He has kept us out of war." Meaning that
like the British army he has managed to muddle
through. But to muddle is not to master, and
Mr. Wilson's negative mccess has as good as
demonstrated his incapacity to grapple the
greater difficulties which looni. , So serious are
the problems promised that they are certain to
confuse a president in any wise weak and to
confound a party that is essentially ignorant.
The war has terribly tried poor Mr. Wilson
Nevertheless, except for the war he would now
be a political bankrupt, his credit gone with the
people. The war furnishes Mr. Wilson his stock-in-trade
and excuses the democratic party their
error.
But for the war's interposition between the
Wilson-Underwood schedules and their inevitable
consequences, the injuned and exasperated voters
would now be awaiting election day to avenge
their nearly three years' endurance of few jobs
and small pay. .
What the war did was to apply instantaneously
the reverse lever to the country's autotruck,
which the first seven months of 1914 under the
democratic tariff saw skidding down the steepen
ing slope of depression into catastrophe. The
saving jerk nearly dislocated our anatomy; but
the miracle, a special dispenaion in our favor,
preserved our financial life. War's spontaneous
huge demands stimulated us to extra production,
and Earopean suspension improvised an effective
substitute for the protection of which our in
dustries had been stripped.
The prosperity resultant, which we have with
us still, ia not a Wilson prosperity. It exists
despite Mr. Wilson, ,in contradiction of his tariff.
Indubitably the prosperity is war prosperity, de
pendent upon war conditions, doomed to lapse
with the war's cessation unless, indeed, the
war's end shall find us reprovlUed with a pro
tection more adequate than Mr. Wilson's, such,
in fact as the democracy have neither the wit
nor the will to devise.
Thus it comes about that by the war's grace
alone Mr. Wilson remains a possible candidate.
But for the war the name of his party would now
be anathema in every man'a mouth. Shall that
man, then, who was singularly prevented from
wrecking the country's prosperity have confided
to his ineptitude and that of his partisans the
reconstruction of our economic defenses a re
construction imperative before Europe's competi
tion shall have revived?, .
: " Nor it theeprotection which the exigency in
vokes, which Mr. Wilson and his democracy are
incompetent to construct confined to economic
defense. Under it is comprehended1 also the
physical security of American soil, the guardian
ship of American lives. Moreover, it postulates
the assertion of American! rights, the vindication
of America's honor. -
It is auch protection as a great nation, not
dispossessed in any of its functions, dispenses in
the interest of its citizens for the welfare of its
people, and enjoins the whole world, every part,
to respect.
' : " It is nationalism, it is Americanism, for lack
of which we are destined to deliquescence,
dessication, disintegration, decline. Unless it
flourishes, no accidental prosperity, howsoever
lush or prolonged, can save us from ultimate
shame and the final despoiler.
Such competent protection no government of
southerners, by southerners, for southerners, can
bestow. Nor of a constitutionally Jeffersonian
president can it be had. For such nationalism
is not consistent with their philosophy, and such
Americanism is either too broad for their sec
tionalism or too narrow for Bryanistic pan-hu-manitarism.
Yet this century will be one to com
pel the United States to think not continentally
aa Alexander Hamilton entreated but double
hemiapherically in terms of .world-import. Come
to that we must presently, or drop out of the pro
cession. '
The four years to come are likely to be more
critical for the United States even than for those
nations, who have reoaired their faulta and an
nealed their strengths under the hammer of war;'
Whereas America, inconsistent in policy, divided
In sentiment, economically unarmored and in
preparedness negligent, drifts, a vast hulk, amidst
battleships stripped for action and eager for
prize.
Aa pilot for the ship of state through these
dangerous seas Woodrow Wilson is no more
competent than was James Buchanan whom Lin
coln succeeded by the mercy of God. -
Even that domestic record of which Mr. Wil
son is proud presents but a list of opportunities
that were shrewdly embraced. For some of
them the time, long preparing, was ripe. Others
recommended their own enactment at clever poli
tics. Few in their inception were democratic,
while those peculiarly Wilsonian are of doubtful
utility. Especially vicious ia the president's last
act of egregious opportunism, whereby, himself
coerced by a minatory minority, he in turn
coerced congress to an abdication of their func
tion. .
The nature of the times, their revelation to us
of ourselves, require this nation in a new and
serious sense to be saved again, and our people
to be born afresh into a consciousness of their
spiritual heritage, "their essential unity, their vital
mission. Mr. Hughes, a convinced American, it
at a man consecrated to this task, ordained by
peculiar ability, integrity and strength. The crisis
discards Mr, Wilson, who is not equal to it
. High Cost of Living in Georgia, -
Prosperity hat landed in Georgia with a
whoop; owing to the steady advance in the, cost
of living, the state finds it can no longer afford
to pay for the keep of the insane who have been
confined in its asylums. Therefore, these ad
mitted mental incompetents will be returned to
their relatives, and may or may not be restrained.
The action Is typical of s commonwealth in which
prisoners may be taken from inside the peniten
tiary st night transported half way across the
state and lynched without interference on part of
any officer of the law, and the grand jury after
wards be unable to discover any who it guilty
of complicity in the crime. . Democrat! of Geor
gia rewarded the proiecutor in thit case with a
nomination that meant election to the office of
govern jr. It may not be eaty to determine
where unity begini and enda in Georgia, but
they are enjoying the fruiti of Wilton prosperity,
A Mexican official states thst hit government
hat planned an active campaign against Villa.
Who vouches for the Mexican official?
eananaw May Sanaa all
Thnnirhi Nnrret for the Day.
But evil la wrought by want ot
thought,
Aa well aa by want of heart
. Tnomas fiooa.
One Tear Ago Today in the War.
Italian offensive maintained all
along the line. '
Greece rejected ureal Britain ui
fer of Cyprus.
fiim flanlnil o-nvernment as-
sumed control of food supplies.
Allien neel oomoaraeu ounswrnu
towns on the Aegean Sea.
t ... Print Ailnlhert re
ported topedoed and sunk by British
submarine in me ttainc.
Kennedy for Senator
Ord Quiz: John L. Kennedy is conducting
his campaign on a high, dignified and scholarly
plane and winning friends and votes wherever
he goes. He it just the type of man Nebraska
needs in the United States senate.
Pierce Call: The republican nominee for
United States, senator from Nebraska this fall,
IB a Dig man. nt ia iuu atuarc anu lair in ma
dealing with his fellow men to ever attempt to
punish the men who opposed him politically in
his campaign. John L. Kennedy is one of those
earnest, honest and conscientious men who have
helped to make Nebraska what it is today.
David City Banner: If John L. Kennedy is
sent to the United Ststet tenate thit fall, he will
represent Nebraska, not the southern states. He
will not be found in any secret causes which will
compel! him to apologise to his people, but on
the contrary will be found open and above board
in his acts. John L Kennedy is a man, and that
is what we want to represent us in the senate.
A vote for John L. Kennedy, means a vote for
Nebraska's best interests.
Central City Republican: The strongly con
firmative reports from all over the state indi
cates the certainty that the sane, temperate and
able campaign conducted by John L. Kennedy
It telling all along the line, and that the cause
of republicanism in the state it on the rite. He
it s positive force added to the ticket that
strengthens it in itt entirety, from the highest
candidate to he lowest. He has alradv won
recognition in Washington, and throughout the
nation. He is of a type that places him iji the
front rank, and his faithful devotion to his work
is sure to bring his reward.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
Edholm ft Akin ia the name 01 tne
new firm which succeeda the well
known and popular firm of Edholm ft
Erlckaon.
The raffle of the well-known bay
gelding Clark 8., owned by Kinney
Brothers, took place at Thompson ft
Little's saloon. The hicky number
waa 61 and was held by John Boyd,
superintendent of the Union atock
yards. .
Mr. F. A. Nash, in trying to ride his
small niece's pony, waa made very un
comfortable by a series of queer
antics indulged In by the animal, who
wound up by making a leap into the
air, throwing its rider by the road
side. Hereafter, Mr. Nash will allow
the little lady to do the horseback rid
ing for the family and he will attend
to the railroad business.
Work ia progressing favorably on
the building to be used by the God
man Packing company at the corner
of Eleventh and Grace streets. The
company will do an exclusive meat
curing business, purchasing their meat
from the packing houses in South
Omaha.
The engagement has been an
nounced of H. J. Devlne and Miss Ida
Brennan, daughter of William Bren
nan of Omaha.
Tha county commissioners have de
cided to submit the plans tor the pro
posed county hospital to nine physi
cians for their selection.
P. J. Karbach, who owns the
building on the southeast corner of
Fifteenth and Douglas streets, has no
tified the occupants of the structure
to move out by spring. He will erect
a six-story building on the aite of
the present structure.
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This Day In History.
' 1824 Charles Fechter, one of the
famous actors of the American stage,
born in London. Died at Rockland
Center, Fa., August 6, 1879.
1821 Opening of the Thalia
theater on the Bowery, New York
City, the first theater In the world
to be lighted by gaa.
1864 Confederate' under General
Price began an invasion of Kansas.
1886 General Grant and Admiral
Farragut attended the Inauguration
of a great fair in Philadelphia for the
benefit of a soldiers' and sailors' home.
1872 The German emperor, ar
bitrator In the San Juan difficulty,
awarded the islands to . the United
States.
1881 Bl-centennlal of the landing
of William Perm celebrated in Philadelphia.
18 statue or General jonn stark.
revolutionary hero, unveiled at Con
cord, N. H.
1899 Charles F. Crisp, former
speaker of the United States house of
representatives, died at Atlanta. Bjrn
at Sheffield, England, January 29,
1846.
1916 More than 26,000 women took
part in a suffrage demonstration and
street parade in New York City.
The Day We Celebrate.
James W. Akin, contractor, was
born October 23, 1861, in Lawrence
county, Pennsylvania. He started out
in the contracting business in 1880 in
Greenfield, la. '
Edwin S. Jewell, manager City
National bank building, is today cele
brating his forty-ninth birthday.'
Jay B, Katz of the Katz Construc
tion company is 84 years old today.
He was raised and educated here In
Omaha.
Jesse Merritf, another of the Mer
ritt drug store boys, is 89 years old
today. He is Omaha-born and has
been for years In the drug business.
Sarah Bernhardt, the famous
French tragedienne, now touring
America, born in Paris, 72 years ago
today.
Herbert Quick, director ot the new
Farm Loan board of the United States,
born in Grundy county, Iowa, fifty
five years ago today. He used to live
In Omaha.
Rt Rev. Frederick F. Reese, Epis
copal bishop of Savannah, born in
Baltimore, 62, years ago today.
George A. Carlson, candidate for
re-election to the governorship of
Colorado, born at Alma, la., forty
years ago today.
Henry D. Estabrook, now a New
York lawyer, but really an Omaha
man, was born at Alden, N. Y., sixty
two years ago today.
Bishop William Burt of the Metho
dist Episcopal church born In Corn
wall, England, sixty-four years ago
today.
Hugh C. Bedlent former pitcher of
the Boston Red Sox, now with the To
ledo American Association team, born
at Gerry. N. H twenty-seven years
ago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders. ,
James W. Gerard, American am
bassador to Germany, is to confer with
President Wilson at Shadow Lawn.
Colonel Roosevelt is scheduled to
apeak at Albuquerque, N. M tonight
in behalf of the Hughes and Fair
banks ticket.
The Interstate Commerce commis
sion is to conduct a hearing in Wash
ington today on the petition of the
express companies, for authorization to
maintain rates on the basis of the
declared value of ahipsnenta.
The large party of Arkansas farm
ers and business men touring the east
with an exhibition train of Arkansas
products will be given a reception to
night by the Chamber of Commerce
of Washington, D. C.
Officials of the Agricultural depart
ment will oonduct a hearing at Kan
sas City today on a tentative draft of
regulations or administration of the
new federal grain standards act
Storeyette of the Day.
"Did you see that?" yelled the ex
cited man In the Panama hat "That
robber ot an umpire calls Gllllgan out
at third and RaRerty never come
within a foot of touchln' him."
"It looked that way to me, too,"
admitted the man beside him. "Still,
I dare say the umpire could see the
play better from wire re he waa than
we could get from up here."
"Ah, go on home!" retorted the
other, savagely. "You ain't got no
business goln' to a ball game. You're
one of these blamed parintsts, that's
what you are." New York Times.
Teamwork by Ford and Wilson.
Omaha, Oct 22. To the Editor of
The Bee: When, about a year
ago, Henry Ford gathered up by tele
graph a bunch of school boys and
professors and sailed post-haste for
Europe with the solemnly avowed
purpose of "calling the boys out of
the trenches," people with ordinarily
imaginative minds thought the apex
of absurdity had been reached, but
when President Wilson intimated
that the success of the republican
party In November would mean war,
he mounted to a height that made
Ford's apex look like a mole hill. In
Mr. Ford's case, however, the poll of
the press seemed to indicate that the
general opinion waa .that he had no
personal ends to gain and that he
should be given credit for "good In
tentions," B. A. E. A VOTER.
of his life in the American merchant
marine service and thus used to
rough treatment he still Is at a loss
to explain why coming ashore dic
abled he should be singled out set
upon by the American kings of the
universe and their subjects to be kept
down as a criminal and penalized to
remain In the United States for life.
H. MELL.
70S South Eighteenth street
Tickling the Germans.
Omaha, Oct. 22. To the Editor of
The Bee: After Senator Hitchcock
made his speech in the United States
senate on the ammunition embargo
bill, he Is reported to have said, "That
ought to tickle the Germans."
President Wilson sat down upon hta
ammunition bill, yet Senator Hitch
cock Is asking for votes because he
stood by Wilson. Did he introduce
the bill Just to tickle the Germans?
When Hitchcock had offices to
give out did he tickle the Germans?
Let's look at the list: McCarty, post
master at Ogalalla; McVey, post
misater at North Platte; Charley Fan
ning postmaster, at Omaha; Tom
Flynn, United States Marshal; Mc
Cune, collector of customs. It was
not necessary to give a German an
office because Hitchcock had tickled
them and now wants their votea -LACHEND.
' That Poor Little Vineyard.
Omaha, Oct 22. To the Editor of
The Bee:
"Hush, little vineyard, don't you cry,
You'll make grape juice, by and by."
The amendment In this state that
Is expected to work this miracle In
the face of natural laws, ia this:
"Article XVII. On and after May
1, 1917, the manufacture, the sale,
the keeping for sale or barter, the
sale or barter under any pretext! of
malt spirituous, vinous or any other
Intoxicating liquors, are forever pro
hibited in this state, except for medi
cinal, mechanical, scientific or sacra
mental purposes."
That completely stops the farmer
from making either grape Juice or
wine for his own personal use without
running the risk of being arrested.
He cannot barrel his grape Juice, for
it will not stay grape Juice but will
become wine or vinegar. If he boils
the grape Juice and bottles It he not
only spoils the flavor the grape, but
he runs the same risk, for in time
it will also more likely than not fer
ment and become claret wine if no
sugar added.
What excuse have these so-called
lovers of grape juice got if that sort
is found In their cellars after this
amendment takes effect should the
state go dry?
The reading of the amended amend
ment above may or may not be per
fectly constitutional, but it would
seem better for its safety before a
court if that comma were left out
after "manufacture" and it read
"manufacture for sale." The way tt
is, it sets aside and defies a law of
nature and is liable to make a crim
inal even unwittingly of a prohibi
tionist and even in hta own ho.use.
That surely would.be a calamity.
, If the supreme court should have
an opportunity to review this amend'
ment as a law later we believe it will
hesitate in sanctioning it for wine is
natural, and man has no power over
grape juice when put aside to keep.
It won't stay put If he wants grape
Juice he had better eat grapes or he
will run the risk of going to jail in
this state next year. If he wants cider
that has been kept a while, be had
better eat apples, for this is an inex
orable law of nature.
GEORGE P. WILKINSON.
Kurlosity Propounds a Kwestton.
Omaha, Oct. 22. To the Editor of
The Bee: What has become of our
Kultured Kongressman, the Hon,
Carl Otto Lobeck? Why is he not
out on the trail with Colonel Hitch
cock, working eighteen hours a day
for four more years of Wilson and
woozlness? Is the Hon. Carl Otto so
convinced that he has the voters
particularly the German and Irish
voters in his pocket, that he need
not- waste his breath in making
speeches? Or is he afraid to say a
word, having fought on both sides
during the recent unpleasantness
over submarines and Amerloans who
Insist on being torpedoed
DEK HAMMER.
What's the Answer?
Omaha, Oct 22. To the Editor of
The Bee: Would the publlo pause a
moment In their ravings abouUAmer-
icanlsm, prosperity, etc., to answer
the following question?
Why is the writer of this note, who
has no intention of Becoming a citi
zen of the United States, actually pre
vented from leaving the country?
Having slaved away the best part
And What About the Grades?
Omaha, Oct 22. To the Editor of
The Bee: It is gratifying to note
that a substantial Increase in the sal
aries of supervisors and teachers of
Omaha high schools nas Deen recom
mended to the Board of Education,
and that the board is seriously consid
ering the matter. We feel assured
that $6,000 expended for this purpose ,
will be a stood investment When we
are handing out more coin every day
to bakers and caterers lor pun paste,
frothed gelatine, whipped cream and
other frilled unsubstantiallties dear
and essential to a cultured palate,
not scatter a few bones among the
artists who cater to the interests of
the higher education and supply us
with food for thought by frilling the
Intellects of our children with mer- ,
ingues and marshmallow frosting in
the Shane of dead languages, re
cherche English, the higher mathe
matics, etc.? Its the frosting ana
not the filling that make the pie. It
is the veneer that counts In interior
decorative art and not the grain and
quality of the wood. What is a snoe
without polish?
To divide that 16,000 and distribute
half of it among the teachers In the
grades would be to establish a ridicu
lous and dangerous precedent. Of
course, the grade teachers have their
place in the scheme of education, but
we must consider that after all, they
only build the pie from the foundation
crust and couldn't frost it artistically
to save their necks. They are useful
to chisel and smooth and plane and
bring out the grain of the wood, but
they haven't an Idea how to smear
it over with varnish afterward.
My friends, a grade teacher la
merely a human machine built to
stuff the plastic brain of the child
with the "three R's" and tamp them
down with the simple rudiments of
orthography, language, geography
and history, so that the high school
teacher can add the finishing touches
with a fine Italian hand, and pocket
the glory along with the hard cash.
O, dazzling bliss that never fades!
To be a teacher In the grades!
i ELSIE ROBERTSON.
1160 South Thicty-third street
Narrow Lirolta-of Humanity.
New York, Oct 19. To the Editor
of The Bee: A protest is going up
from the 80 per cent of railway em
ployes to whom the recent aanotion-of-society
wage Increase did not ex
tend. Let them not weep. It is worth
millions to the cause of truth In this
republic to have the 80 per cent real
ize how unfair the United States aa
employer and as Investigator can be.
I hope it Is a nail in the coffin of gov
ernment ownership.
That super-pious body, the Federal
Industrial commission, held 164 meet
ings and spent 1600,000, yet could not
spare even fifteen minutes to men,
wage earners under Uncle Sam, to
whom the government owes some
$2,000,000 In wages.
The secretary of labor, when a
member of congress, deplored the de
pravity of the naughty republicans
for falling to pay these wages to the .
navy yard men. But three years In
the cabinet ot the president of hu
manity seem to have stilled his zeal
for these wage earners. They worked
under Uncle Sam's very own eight
hour law. '
A widow writes me: "I would like
to hear from you, as my husband waa
working overtime when the overtime
was not given, and has since died.
And I have two children under the .
age of It which I have to go out
every day and work for. Hoping that
I won't be forgotten." '
Oh, 80 per cent weep not You can
send someone to Jail if he cheats you
out ot your wages
GEORGE HIRAM MANN
SUNNY GEMS.
"There were aome thlnga In your speech
that 1 didn't quite underatand."
"Probably," replied Senator 8orshnm.
"Thoae ware probably tha topioa I referred
to In a confident, offhand way, 10 aa to
avoid dlacloalna that I don't underatand
'em either." Waahlnfton Star.
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Are tha cook.
Knlcker It la ao oloae to election that .
the prealdent aaya we ahall have to rrant
her demande and arbitrate afterward.
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