THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1916. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD KOSEWATE. VICTOR BOSEWATES, EDITOR. THE BEE PUBLISH 1WQ COMPANY. FKOfBtETOE, Bntand at Omaha poatoftla aa mara-alaaa mtfr. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Br Carrier par month .. ., . ,.4lo...., ..40. ..Si It. Br Hall parraar ...lt.it ,.. 4.M ,.. tt ,.. 4.H ... Ml ftath and Sunday....... Dally wltboat Sunday... loeaiag ana Sunday.... Eooatn without Sunday, Stmaav Baa mniw Dally and Bandar Baa, tkraa years In advance, 11 Band aotlaa of ahanaa of addiw or Irrorolarity la da llrair to Omaha Baa, Circulation Dapartaiaat. . - REMITTANCE. ' ' BataH or draft, noma r eeatal ardor. Onlr l-aoa lUmpa takoa la eeymcnt of anall aeoouate. Panonal aheek;, aaeaai on Omaha and aaatara axchanaa. not aaoaHoS, OFFICES. Bmaha Tha Bo Building. loot Omaha 1IU N itroat OouarU Blaffa U North Mala traofc ilaoole ill Little Building. Culeago 111 Faopla'a Caa Building. ' Now Tork Room Ml, tit Fifth arairaa. ' It. Law III Now Bank of Commaraa. . Waaalnstae Til FoBrtaanth itroat. N. W. - CORRESPONDENCE. , , address oommanloaUona relating to nawa and editorial atattar t Omaha Boa, Editorial Daaortmant. OCTOBER CIRCULATION 1 53,818 Daily Sunday 50,282 Dwifht William, (Irealatlon manaftr of Th Fahllahint aomoany, barns duly iwora, aara that th arms ctraulattoa for th moath at Oataaar, lilt, wa Mil dallr. and it.2tl Sunday. DWIOHT WILLIAMS. Circulation Manager. Baeeerlbad in my aroaane and woni t balora ata tai 4th day of Naranhar, lilt. " . , . C. W. CAMJOH, MoUsy Fahll. Subscribers leaving th city temporarily thnM have Th Baa auilad to thesa. Ad- she will be aaantam aa ! ariulrl None loo toon to commence your early Christ mi shopping, f .,. . Stilt, it il hard to understand why any bandit should pick out Missouri Pacific train for hn holdup operations. . ' - - some consolation anyway 11. braska election return, flow aa they are, do not hold th alow record. , .': ' The war laurel of wheat and corn are In danger. King Cotton ihowi amazing apetd in the race for big money. , . , Credit the author of the "poor food amend ment" with the. wise discretion of refraining from offering hii 'explanation." AH tht railroada aeeta to he. coming in on the anti-Adamaon law litigation. Muit be another "gentleman' agreement!" ; , ' ' Champ Clark' hurried daih to Waihington failed to avt frankfurter. The hound dog it in dinger of being canned. - t f h cJnW(dlffrencet between last week' tlecj tion reporttand current war bulletin il hat thi former reached a quick finiih. : A price uplift in the tobacco market il prom lied by the manufactureri. . What' the aniwer? Smoke tea or hand Lady Nicotine the mitten, ' Count Apponyi, the Hungarian iutemin, pre dict! an early end of the war. Here' hoping he' a true prophetl But still we art ill from Mil Otirl. ' ' i f " ' , .. ; ( The latest ipurt 'in submarine tinkinn indi cate purpose to advance the freedom of the eaa by giving object lenoni on the peril of navigation, -, "When in doubt," y prominent (urgeon, "use the Vnife and open up the Interior.' The ad vice limplifie the work of thoie who delight in political eutopiy. " . Railroad banker are ruled out of the clan entitled to railroad paisei by the Interstate Com merce commission. As a joy-killer the federal body thows aggravating speed. . ;-, : tit a word, Mayor Jim' plan .to celebrate the advent of the New Year ii to take the lid off be fore I o'clock Saturday night and keep it off un ' tit after X o'clock Monday morning. 5 . A glow of hope ringa the proipect of an early settlement of the Belt line grade crossing dis pute. The chief difference between the present and paat glow of hope i that the last glow it usually the belt. ' If the democratic national committee it really in the bole $300,000, the problem of railing the money (nay be solved quickly by a 3 per cent riktoff on the betting pot. Flush democrat! can afford to peel their rolls. So Chairman Vance McCorniick lends con gratulation! on "the splendid vindication of your enetorial count by re-election." Vindication of fighting the preiident while Bryan was in the . cabinet? Or vindication of coat-tail-hanging after Bryan made hii exit?. Which? . Must Relocate Reserve Banks -Cantata Journal (dam.)- i ; Omaha and th Reierve Bank. ' All who believe a seriou mistake was made when the Federal Reserve bank for this district was located in Kansas City, instead of in Omaha, will find interesting reading in the article we reprint on thia page from the Chicago Journal, which is a staunch democratic paper and cannot be charged with partisan prejudice in denouncing the distribution of the reserve banks as "unfair." The Journal says without equivocation that the Kansas City bank could be moved to Omaha. True, it couples this declaration with its advocacy of a plan to add three more reserve banks to the total number to make fifteen in alt but that does not condition its conclusion thai the bank in Kamai City doei not belong there and should by rights be in Omaha. Although all the effort originally put forth to assert our claim failed at the time, subsequent events have plainly justified our contention. Jt is clear now that the reserve banks are not prop erly distributed in their present locations to answer the purpose. To keep two banks in the one tte of Missouri is inexcusable. If the num ber is not to be increased, the banks should be re-distributed. Jf more are to be, added, Omaha sorely should come in for one of them. If the number were to be reduced, then Omaha should at least have a branch bank under the jurisdic tion of Chicago instead of Kansas City. The Journal calls upon congress to begin at once the task of perfecting the federal reserve act. If congress tackles the job. Omaha must seek consideration there. , British Blacklist to Stand. ' The language of the note from Viscount Grey, conveying the reply of the British cabinet to the protest sent from Washington some month ago, leave little reason for thinking any change will be made in the British blacklist policy or that the nameKof any American firm will be expunged from the lit because of objection from Wash ington to the principle. Great Britain very frankly say that control of the seas will be administered according to the view of the British ministry. ,The blacklist is put out a weapon of war, and a luch will be uicd. Polite expreuion do not conceal the purpose. ; ,. The principle involved may be municipal as is set up, by the British note, but the effect of its application reaches , far beyond the British citi zens who are thus commanded, and through them takes hold on the people of the world, 1 It is there- t I . . n T - .a l.i f lure m inicrcai 10 an. an cuing inc action OI Lord Russell at the time of the civil war-m the United States, Viscount Grey, is begging the question. The analogy (ought doe not exist Lord Russell asked hi countrymen to refrain from a trade that, wa specific in Its nature and did not suggest to them th desirability of with drawing from "relations with representatiy of the southern confederacy, wherever found, or re fusal to trade with their sympathisers In any country. The British blacklist Is world-wide in It aobtication. and bv adootina th orinclole of nationally rather than domicile to diitinguiih ene mies, the London cabinet will Include within it proscription a very large number of American who muit feel the result of the boycott in their buiiness. . , V, Thii note bringi home to the United State just a little more directly condition! Germany found Irksome, and which led tp the demand for "i ieat. itthe lun." It must finally be aettled if the commerce of the word is to be subject to British dictation, even if the latter be supported by a pledge that control will be administered in the interest of humanity, or if humanity is to have something to say about conditions of life and intercourse between peoples. v . , Modesty 1 Hi Motto. - , " From the senator' own persons! newspaper organ and inspired political champion we take the following post-election outburst! "The only conclusion to be drawn i that throughout the west large numbers of pro gressives supported Wilson, but voted for few other democratic candidates. The president was stronger than his party. , Nebraska i apparently an exception to this rule. But in nearly all other atatea it wa th president's personal strength that carried the day." In other words, the blushing senstor modestly admits that in Nebraska it was not President Wit son who saved the day for the democrats, but it was the popularity and atrength of Senator Hitch cock that saved th president The fact that the senator's majority of six years ago was cut nearly iu half and that he rod astride "the wet bar'!," of course has nothing to do with the case, any more than the fact that Wilson ha polled some 20,000 more votes in Nebraska thi year than he did four years ago. According to the Hitchcock or gan, Nebraska is the exception to the rule and, were it not for Hitchcock, Wilson would have been in this state in the alao-ran class. . Great is our senator and modesty is his motto. The War's Cost in Money 1 Utararr Dl , If the European war lasts a full three years, until next August, as seems to some experts not unlikely, it will have cost three times as much as the Napoleonic war, the American civil war, the Franco-Prussian war, the Boer war and the Russo-Japanese war combined. At least such is the estimate of the Mechanics and Metals Na tional bank of New York in its recentbooklet on "War Loans and War Finance"; by careful cal culation it figures that $75,000,000,000 will be spent for direct military purposes during the three full years. This, by the way, may be compared with the recent estimate of Count von Roedern, sec retary of the imperial German treasury, putting the total cost of the war to date, for all belliger ents, at $59,500,000,000. The New York banking authority gets his three-year cost by adding to the cost of $17,500,000,000 for the first year snd $28, 000,000,000 for the second, an estimated $30,000, 000,000 for the third. . The total, w; are reminded, "will represent a sum twice as large as Jh total indebtedness of every nation in the world, ss that debt stood in 1914. . It will represent an amount seven times greater than the combined deposits of all the 7,600 national banks in the United States, and also seven' times greater than the world'a supply of minted gold. Jt will represent an amount suffi cient to have built and equipped railroads equal to five times the number now operating in the United Statea. It will represent an amount that would have paid for 200 such projects as the Panama canal; that would have extended railway and steamship tines into every corner of the earth; that would have provided schools and teachers for every child living today; that would have eliminated savagery; that would have en dowed science to the devotion of its efforts to im prove the living conditions of all mankind. "And yet the military cost is not all.- There is- to be considered the outright destruction, speaking in terms of tangible wealth, of cities, railways, ships,, factories, warehouses, bridges, roads and agricultural values destruction that for given months would require figures of further thousands of millions, were such destruction read ily calculable. There is the loss of that percent age of Europe's manhood maimed and destroyed.' There is the loss of production in occupied terri tories, the decrease in stocks of food, metal' and other materials, the derangement of the machin ery of distribution. : v ' "There is the outright loss of property which 25,000,000 soldieri and many other millions of people would have created had they not been en listed to fight or otherwise to contribute their skill and energy to the pursuit of war. There is the loss represented by the devoting of people' savings to the buying of guns, shells and the vast paraphernalia of war's equipment; saving that otherwise would have found a way to the con struction of permanent things. There is th very real economic loss on account of the aggregation of suffering and misery of whole bodies of peo ple, like those of Belgium, Poland and Servia, made at timea to wander homeless through de vastated' lands. There is the eventual cost of pensions." . , , The direct military cost of the war Is distri buted as follows in "War Loans and War Fi nance. Britain ......... Frano Ruaaia ....... i . Italy Roumaaia Balcian A larhla Dallr Coat Isi.ooe.sto U.000,000 14,900,001) 7,000,100 1,000,100 t.000.000 One of the tasks for the next session of con gress is a revision of the federal reserve act, to secure better reserve facilities for some districts now slighted and a fairer distribution of these banking centers. The present arrangement was admittedly a compromise, and never a satisfactory one. Now that the general features of the act have psoved so splendid, l is time to smooth out such taults as were unavoidable at the beginning. A glance at the map will show how unfair is the oresent dstributton. rive reserve cities. Boston New York, Philadelphia, Richmondxand Atlanta, are located on the Atlantic seaboard. West of Atlanta, you must go to Dallas, Tex., before you find another reserve bank. Cleveland, Chicago, and Minneapolis each has a bank, but two of the reserve cities located in the Mississippi valley are in one. mate St., Louis and Kansas City, Mis souri. The 'ftserve district of the latter towns includes Kansas, Nebraska, parti of Oklahoma and Missouri and all of Colorado. The whole vast region west of the Missouri river haa .only one reserve bank, that at San Francisco. There is nd such bank in the great Puget Sound district. There is none in the busy mountain west. There is none at the mouth of the Mississippi. ' , This condition is too unfair to be maintained indefinitely, and the best time to right an injus tice is now: There should be a reserve bank at Seattle to handle the northwest coast, and another at Denver, to take care of the mountain' region. New Orleans should by all meana be the center of a reserve district including Louisiana, Missis sippi and Arkansas, ant the Kansas City bank should be moved to Omaha. This would give the country three more banks than it now has, increase the serviceability of the system, and clear up the present inequitable arrangement, There arc few, if any, more Important jobs be fate congress than the perfection of the fed eral reserve act, Let the task be begun at once. Wireles Around th World. The opening of wireles communication be tween the United State and Japan is but the ex tension of man's feeble grip on the forces of na ture. A very few years ago the cable waa laid under control of the United States which com pleted the circuit of the world by covering the Pacific, and now we find that service supple mented by the Marconi invention, which wilt loon be extended till it, too. wilt girdle the globe. To all iuteti'.s it does now. TttTvalue has been doubly demonstrated by the European war, and that its service will expand with peace is quite easy to believe. All of these things reduce the siie of the world, by bringing the separated members of (lie human family into closer physical rela tions, snd thus facilitate the process of uniting them in better social relations. The wireless is but one' of a number of agencies working to the great end of spreading the softening influences of civilization and the consequent establishment of peace for all tfce world. ." , ; Intonto Allio... 170,000,000 Germany ....... f 11,000.000 Avatria 11.000.000 Turkar Bnlsaria 1,000,000 ! ' ' Control AHIm. ThrTar. tlMOO.000.tOt . 14,000,000,000 11,750.000.000 1,900.000,0(0 410.000.00 1,400,000.000 141,100,000.000 lilt. I! t t Ft. Oa HM.To 150.00 67.10 10. IS. 10 111.40 $14,100,000,000 1,150.000,000 1,000,000,000 1141. 174. TS.iO 146,040.000 127,760,100.040 I1IS.1S Alt BaUll.nnU. ,1104.000,001 I76.95O.0OO.0O0 llll.lt " The belligerent are obtaining- about half, of theae huge tuma by direct loam from their own fieople, from allied governments or peoples, or rom the people of neutral nation. Since the beginning of the war, it is noted, the United States has loaned more than $1,500,000,000 to th warring nations, , ;..-v. v :,. ;-. The New Mother Hubbard ' Old Mother Hubbard Went to her unitary, all-enamel, washabl ice-box To get' her impoveriihed canine an ossicle (bonelet), But when she arrived there " For miles you could hear her (wear ' She found that the sanitary ice-box contained but a vacuum, ' s And ao her prize-winning, blue-ribbon canine wa compelled, much against his wish, to subsist on a diet consisting of a gaseous mixture composed of one part oxygen and four part nitrogen, and hi own imagination. : (LMVa Bartend V.mloa.) Cause of Car Shortage ! Now York Journal at Cammoroa.- - With the beginning of the year, Omaha will be wholly without representation in the membership of the supreme court, the State Railway com mission and equally unrepresented in the elective offices in the state house. Not an Omaha runner in thia last election landed a single job at Lin coln. ; ; . - One Wilson organ thinks the president's re election is a triumph over a conspiracy of railway president. Note an exception, however, for Lov ett of the Union Pacific and Underwood of the Erie and several others. Trust the railroads al ways, to have representatives in both places. And now we are told a party by the name of Stone, heir of the house of Gumshoe Bill, has hit measure taken for the vacant judgeship at St. Louis. , Some, lively sprinting is needed to beat Missouri to the judicial pie counter. - In these times of high costs and high price, which are beginning to be seriously felt by that targe part of the people who are not profiting by them, one of the many incidents aggravating the situation is delay; in the distribution of things over the railroads. Thia is attributed in some measure to a scarcity of cars for carrying the large volume of goods, while so many of them are employed in feeding that abnormal part of the foreign trade which is stimulated by the war in Europe, But some of the leading railroad managers are admitting that the trouble is not 10 much in a general shortage of cars as a bad distribution of those belonging to different rail road companies. - i The superintendent of transportation of a leading western road, at a hearing before Inter state. Commerce Commissioner McChord at Louisville the other day. said that the "apparent shortage" was quite Small, only about 60,000 in a total of 2.600,000 on all the lines, and that it resulted mainly from shippers asking for more ears than thev needed in order to make sure that they get all they want Some of them habitually get more than tney need, thereby depriving others of what they call for. Whatever the cause, the shortage could be fully met by a more effi cient distribution of the car supply. Many tie idle in one place while they are needed some where else. This superintendent, Mr. W. L. Barnes of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, said that that system had been forced in self defense to hold "foreign cars" that came upon its lines and would have to do so until there was some better assurance of a return of its own from other lines. While it had about 32.000 on its system belonging to other lines, 37,000 of its own were detained on "foreign lines." ; " Evidence of a like state of things on other lines was adduced before the commissioner. The difficulty is not a lack of freight equipment, but a bad distribution of it. a lack x( efficiency in the methods intended to keep it moving so far aa practicable where it la wanted, borne shippers, especially those having exceptionally profitable use for cars, are holding all that come their way or that 'tney can reach until they are ready to use them. A similar result comes from a slow process of unloading as from keeping empty cars idle until shippers are ready to load, and having a surplus always oi hand while others are short. The only" remedy seems to be an increase in demurrage charges to shippers and receivers of goods and of per diem charges to the roads for holding cars idle which come under their control. That is a matter which comes within the author ity of the Interstate Commerce commission, and it concerns a great deal of business besides that directly involved in particular shipments and de lays. All kinds of "costs" are aggravated by lack ol etnciency in tranaportation service. i rnnAVi Thought Niigget for the Day. Cheorfulneat and content are great beautlfler and are famous preserver of youthful looks, depend upon It Dlckena. One Tear Ago Today In the War. Buurarlan advanced within aix mile of Prtlep. Reported that Oreece would ask the alllea to quit Greek toll. Premier Aaqultn, accompanied ny four members of hi cabinet, arrived In Parla. United State called on Austria Hungary to explain linking of An cona. . In Omaha Thirty Xear Ago. .Articles of Incorporation were filed of the Omaha Baae Ball aaaoclation with a capital of 11,000. The asso ciation will maintain a team for th playing- of exhibition and champion ship game of base ball. The young ladle of Browntl! hall presented the drama "Eameralda." Hong Jung, the Chinaman who wa fined by Judge Stenburg tor disturb ing the peace, 1 the first Chinaman who has been oontlned In the county jail during Jailer Miller' term of office, covering aevan yearn. smu Brandel of Brandon Bon has returned from New York City. At a maetlna- of the nastor It waa determined to hold union thanksgiv ing atrvlcet In th exposition building and th Rav. Bam Jona wa re Quoattd to praach th sermon. xna nasi or tn union Pacinc, the government building, B. at M. head quarter, -postoffic and a number of otner leading nruoture in town floated at half mast In respect to the memory of the late ex-President Arthur. At a aaerad concert for th benefit of the Charleston sufferers, the Musi cal union furnished the muaio. as sisted by the following: Mrs, Martin Cahn, Mr. H. Lota and Mr. Conrad Bcbmlt. Th Spenosr Bottling works of Ue Moines ar to b removed to Omaha and will b permanently located here In th iprlng. i Till Day In History. 1T0I -Lord Cornbury wa appointed governor of New York and New Jer sey by Queen Anne. . 1TI4 Return J. Meigs, governor of Ohio during th war of lilt and post master general under Presidents Madison and Monroe, born at Middle town, Conn. Died at Marietta, O., Mareh SO, '1824. . 1 77 e Fort Washington on the Hudsod captured by the British with 1,000 prisoner and artillery. . 11 Th flrat session of th first Diet of the Germanic confederation began at Frankfort 184 Th independence of Cracow was extinguished and It 'was seised and Incorporated by Austria. 1S70 mix or Aosta elected king of Bpein, with title of Amadeo I. 188a Loul Rial, leader of the re bellion in the Canadian northwest, wa executed at Regina. 1881 Revolution broke out In Braxll. resulting In the deposition of th mpror and proclamation of a republic 1 , lata -samue F. smith, author of 'Amnio, " died In Bolton.- Born there October II, 1808. 1807 President McKlnlev alraad th treaty adopted, by the Universal Postal eongraa 1111 President-elect Woodrow Wil son and family embarked for Ber muda lor a month's rest , The Day We Celebrate. . , Robert L. Carter, manager of the Carter Sheet Metal works, is II years old today. He wa born at Sparta, 111., and haa been In the sheet metal business tn Omaha since 1817. William P. Klrby, the new United States senator from Arkansas, born in Millar oounty, Ark., forty-nine year ago today. John H. Klrby, Texas lumber king, who offered to raise and equip a regi ment of Texaa riflemen at the time of the Vera Crux Incident born in Tyler county, Texas, flfty-six year ago to day. ., Rt Rev. Joseph P. Lynch, Catholic bishop of Dallas, born at St Joseph, Mich., forty-four year ago today. Major General William W. Wether spooh, U. S. A retired, former chief-of-ttaS of the army and now commis sioner of publlo works of New Tork tat, , born In Washington lxty-lx year ttgo today. Rolll H. Zalder, lnflelder of the Chloago National league baa ball team, born at Auburn, Ind., twenty nine year ago today. James H. Starrett known aa "th father of American swimming," born In Philadelphia, sixty year ago today. George H. Gouldlng, world's cham pion walker, born In Hull, England, thirty-three year ago today. Timely Jottings and Remlndera. At a hearing at Houston today 'the elelma of that city to the location of one of the proposed federal farm loan bank will be presented to the Farm Loan board. Notable speakers ar to be heard at a dinner to be given tonight at the Hotel Astor, New Tork. in celebration of th tenth anniversary- of the lay man's mleslonary movement Cardinal Gibbon la to preside to day at th ceremonies of dedication of the new house of studies of the Oblate clergy at the Cathollo univer sity In Washington, D. C. 1 The joint annual meeting of the American Academy and National In etitute of Fine Arts and Letter la to begin It Sfaalona today In New Tork City with William Dean Howells pre siding. Conditions at horn and abroad after th war ar to b discussed at an open conference of th Efficiency society, meeting In New Tork City today for a three-day session. iA dinner tn memory of the late Dr. oatah Strong Is to be given tonight at the Hotel Astor, New York, following the annual meeting of the American Institute of Social Service, which he founded. Storyette of the Day. Little Gerald wa Initiated into the beauties of grand opera. He listened for soma time In silence, but when the celebrated soprano waa in th middle of her loudest solo Gerald concluded that something ought to be don to the eonductor of the orchestra. He said to hi mother: ' "Why doee that mast hit at th woman with a stick 7" "Keep quiet," hi mother replied. "H Is not hitting at ner. Juat then the soprano gave another desrtalrtns ahrlek. "Well, than, if he Isn't hitting at her what I ah hollering bo fort" said Gerald New York Times. ( , What Circle Cross Doe. Grant, Neb., Nov. 16. To the Edi tor of Th Be: Will you please settle the following disputed Question: - If a man places an (x) in the ring and votes a straight ticket all tn way through, la it legal for him to cross over to another party ticket and vote for soma one on that ticket? How can this be done legally; he can't vote for two for the came office, he has already voted for one. I am not ques tioning the fact that In Nebraska pre cincts the Judges give a man oredlt for his intentions, but I want to know the legality of such a proceeding, in Iowa and elsewhere they have taken the rings off the ballot because It caused irregularities like the above, and if a man voted aa above, that la. scratched for another party on an other ticket after voting it atraignt it wa held illegal and the vote were thrown out as they should be, or counted straight only. The ring should be discarded also In Nebraska; it's a nuisance. Please advise me soon aa to th ltgaUty of the above question. I am on your list and hope that even yet error may show that Hughes haa WOn. U. A. StiUTBK, Note by Editor: Law counts circle cross for all party candidates except where individual cross in square inai oate a different choice. gome Tips from a Veteran. ' Omaha. Nov. 14. To the Editor of The Bee: The Manchester Guardian attributes Wilson' success to the in terest that Roosevelt took. That 1 a mistake; It was th pope. He thought that If Hughe wa elected he would appoint Rooeevelt secretary of war and If he did It would be goodby Mexico. The Catholic could not boas Hughes as they have and will do with Wilson. About 75 per cent of Wilson appoint ment have been Catholics or sym pathisers. I wrote you two or three weeks ago that a vote for Wilson would be a vote for Tumulty, and If you will nee your Judgment yon will find that I was rlgnt Another tnmg: The saloon people claim they are pay ing to the school some 3&u,uuu per year and they claim that the tax levy will be raised. Not If churches and church holding are assessed as they ought to be. It Is likely that an amend ment to the constitution would have to be made. G. B. SMITH, ji Woostor Words of Protest, i Silver Creek, Neb., Nov. 15. To the Editor pf The Bee: From the very meager newspaper reports of the work of the State Teachers' associa tion In Omaha, It would seem that about the only tnmg tney aid deserv ing public attention was to reoom mend by unanimous vote the use of simplified spelling In the schools as adopted Dy the national uaucation association, the words of whloh partic ularly specified are, In their simplified forma, the following: "Tho, altho, thru, thruout thoro, thorofare, thoroly, catalog, decalog, oedagoc. program, prolog. If those teachers could think of nothing better than this to do, they might much better have stayed at home attending to their schools where. In my opinion, they should have been In any case. It Is all right for th teacher to have their state meeting If they wish to; ' but they should be held, If at all, during the summer vacation when It will not be necessary, as la now the case, to deprive practically all the children In the state of a week'a study and work. - i This simplified ' spelling is an abomination; but) that very fact la a sufficient reason why teachers more ' particularly - "educators" who are always straining after some thing different, should take it up. Simplified spelling, carried to It log ical conclusion, mean purely pho netic spelling, or a separate and dis tinct character for each elementary sound. Theoretically that la logical. but In practice impracticable. The fact that for a hundred years more the form of printed word has been fixed, and that we have hun dreds of million of printed book I reason enough why there should be no change in the spelling of words. To begin such changing which, from th nature of the case, could never end, ought not to be thought of or tolerated for a mo ment To teach our children these new forms would be to make all books now In our libraries seem strange and out of the way to them and disturb and confua their minds; while to run up against one of them creates In the mind or an older per son a feeling of hatred and Intense disgust But what right have teachers to Introduce or encourage such an inno vation? None at all; and school board should put a atop to such work whenever It crop out as they have full , power to do. And profes sors, too, in the University of Ne braska have no more rights In this matter than have the teachers In our public schools; and our board of re gents should put a stop to their ac tivities along that line. It will be recalled : that when Theodore Roosevelt wa president he once ordered that this simplified spelling should be used In the public printing office at wasnington in ine printing of all publlo -documents, but that when congress convened they made short work of htm and went back to the regular spelling. And ao In a similar way should our Incom ing legislature by resolution, or formal act put an end to all thie simplified spelling Idiocy Insofar as all official publications and our school from 'the university down ar con cerned. CHARLES WOOSTER. ,. , Emotional Voting. Omaha, Nov. 15. To the Editor oi The Bee: When I expressed opposi tion to woman suffrage two years ago and said they were too emotional to ba candid 'voter I wa called down for saying that by some of th suffrag ists, both publicly and by anonymous letters, but the election of November 7 suatain the view. The result in th suffrage states shows that th women voter had their fears and emotions worked upon by the "he kept us out of war" cry and they voted for Wilson, not be cause they preferred him, but through their fear and emotions It haa been aid that women voter are many of them more Intelligent than the aver age of men voters. That I probably nearly true, but men generally vote acoordlng to principle and not by emo tions, as a general thing. Had it not been for the emotional women voters In the mountain states It 1 more than likely that Hughes would have carried every on of them. The suppression of republican vote in the southern states and the hysten, cai voting or women is wnat elected Wilson. In th two state of Wes Virginia and South Dakota, where woman sunrage was oeaien, me men voters strongly voted for Hughes. I think we have had enough hysterical voting In thia country already without adding million of women who will be hysterically controlled by their whims and scares and emotion. A my wife expresses It women can do lots of good without mixing up In political affairs, and In fact more good to humanity. Suffrage has been beaten In every state that has voted on It In the last four year and will continue to be beaten right along. Better work for the light of every republican In Mis sissippi and South Carolina to cast their votes aa freely as democrats cast their vote tn Iowa and Nebraska be fore extending 'the right of suffrage to women. The Intolerable condition. In the south must end. FRANK A. AONEW; i ,r SMILING LINES. Samoal Do yn think your rather wnld objoot to my marrying rout .1 Sally I couldn't aar, Bammy. If ha'S an rt hint nka ma, h woola. Pock. "Re dtod boosns of hla wrong tbouflita. "No! How's that!" , "Why, ho thought ho eonld paddlo a oanoo," Nebraska Awgwao. 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