Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, November 19, 1916, NEWS SECTION, Page 11, Image 11
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BKK: NOVEMBER 1916 11 A Next Congress Will What Changes Some Veterans Displaced and Unknowns Substituted in the Upper Branch by Voters. By EDGAR C. SNYDER. Washington, Nov. 18. (Special Correspondence.) "The rotary in conclusiveness of American politics," a characterization of our folks made by Sidney Brooks, an Englishman who about a decade ago came over here and made a study of congres sional and presidential campaigns and their results, appears quite amply to be justified by the variant phases of this vear's election. Approximate ly 18,250.000 ballots were cast, of w hich more than 1,500.000 were the i votes of women. The number of men voting in proportion to the pop ulation was about the same as in l')12. Vet this great wide-spread ex ercise of free will, with the suffrage better protected than ever, witnessed no decisive victory for any party. The administration won insofar as con cerns the executive household, but lost as to control of the legislative branch. While the senate remains by a substantail working majority in the hands of the dejnocrats, they have apparently definitely lost organized domination of the house. On the face of the returns they cannot elect a speaker or .rganize the principal standing committees. Partisan Legislation Impossible. With the two houses thus of con trariwise complexion, partisan legis lation is well out of the question. It was for no party a nation-wide vic tory. The administration, in order to carry out cherished policies, in which Mr. Wilson has indulged himself more than any other president we ever had, and with tiesults flattering to his pride of opinion, must consult congressmen in a manner somewhat different and more respectful to them than he has hitherto employed. The senate, ad herent as it is to the administration, must consider and make terms with the house. With party power so near equally divided, wise and sensibly expedient legislators, having a decent regard for public opinion, will keep personal am bition and partisan zeal subjective to earnest endeavor and energetic work for the general good. Only those who are bound by selfish personal inter est, involving a bit of evanescent au thority, are disturbed by this condi tion. The masses of millions who were swayed one way and another by the issues of the campaign are not uncomfortable because of the perils of anybody's political future. What will most interest and commend it self to them will be a united effort on the part of congress aid the pres ident to add to what prosperity we have and diffuse it as far as legisla' tion may throughout the country. Hence, in such a situation, the per sonnel of the houses of the new con gress is of engaging importance. Change in the Senate. Nineteen new senators have been elected, bringing notable changes in -the personnel of the body. Eight democrats and eleven republicans, re placing ten democrats and nine repub- licans, will supply the new faces. The most notable and at the same time the most unexpected exchange of parties made by any state was when Wyoming retired from the sen ate Clarence D. Clark, sending in his place John B. Kendrick, the gov ernor and a democrat. Mr. Clark is now serving his twenty-second year as a senator. His length of serv ice is exceeded by only two others Messrs. Gallinger and Lodge. His career in the senate has been highly honorable. During his entire serv ice he has been a member of the judiciary committee, of which he was chairman in four congresses. He has been almost equally prominent as a member of the finance committee, and has shared in the work of that com mittee on all the tariff measures that have passed since and including the Dingley act of 1897, Able Republican Missing. Little less of a loss to the repub licans, in ability and experience, came with the defeat by William H. King, democrat, of George Sutherland of Utah, who, like Mr. Clark, was a valued member of the judiciary com mittee. Two other surprises were sprung in the election of democrats when Henry F. Lippett of Rhode Isl and was succeeded by Peter Goelet Gerry and Harry A. DuPont was re tired for Joseph O. Wolcott. Moses E. Clapp of Minnesota, now serving his sixteenth year of highly creditable service as an able and conscientious legislator, is to be succeeded by Frank B. Kellogg, a republican. Maine elected on October 11 Fred erick Hale, about 40 years old, a son of former Senator Eugene Hale, who is a lawyer, and was admitted to the bar in 1901. He served thirteen weeks in the state legislature; is a bachelor and inherits a fortune, and is known as Colonel Hale through appointment on the staff of the governor of the state. Colonel Hale is a man of pleasing address, and, while not re garded as an overvealous student, is credited with possessing much of his distinguished father's facile diplo macy of manner. He made a few speeches in the recent campaign, con fining himself mainly to the tariff and declaring that while he favored a tariff commission, being for a pro tective tariff, he was opposed to a nun-partisan tariff. His remarkable frankness will be long remembered. Colonel Hale succeeded Charles F. Johnson, democrat, whose popularity was such as makes his defeat one of the surprises of the year. Former Governor Bert M. Fernald, who succeeded Edwin C. Burleigh, de ceased, is described as a substantial business man, who has been success fully engaged in the canning indus try, making a specialty of preserving sweet corn. He is 58 years old. He makes a goo dspeech. it is said for him, and will prove a useful member of the senate as a worker. Little Rhody's Swith. One other change took place in New England's membership of the senate. I'eter Goelet Gerry, who succeeded Henry F. Lippitt as senator from Rhode Island, is known to Washing ton as having been a member of the house in the Sixty-third congress. He is a lawyer and a graduate of Har vard. He was defeated for re-election to the Sixty-fourth congress. In his campaign against Senator Lippitt he showed himself a "growing man." Mr. Be Bipartisan; Portena in Senate Goelet married Miss Mathilde Town send of this city six years ago. Senator O'Gorman. democrat, of New York, voluntarily retired, not seeking re-election, the nomination of his party going to William F. Mc Combs. former chairman of the dem ocratic national committee, who was defeated by William M. Calder, re publican, most agreeably remembered in Washington as a member of the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth and Sixty-first congresses. An old-time New Jersey senatorial name reappears with the election of Joseph F. Frelinghuysen. who suc ceeds James E. Martine. Mr. Freling huysen appears not to have devoted as much time to study of statecraft as his forebears, having been contin uously engaged in fire insurance un derwriting, except for a time when he was a member of the state senate. He is 47 years old. The man he de feated, Mr. Martine, will often be re called here on account of the fervent ly solemn elocution with which he addressed himself to all public ques Younster From Delaware. What is ascribed to a quarrel in the du Pont family defeated the ven erable senator of that name, the prize being awarded to a young man, a lawyer, receiving a modest salary as attorney general of Delaware. loseDh Oliver Wolcott. He will be one of the youngest members of the senate, being now but 39 years old. Maryland, having to choose a sena tor, showed it didn't like one of the democratic-socialistic brand, as the candidate of the democrats,. David J. Lewis, now a member of the house, wis regarded. "Joseph I. France, the successful candidate, and a republican, is a physician and denoted by those who know him as "a fine gentleman." Old line democrats of Baltimore ap pear to have enjoyed the defeat of Lewis as at the same time they re turned a victory for the national dem ocratic ticket. West Virginia proved herself de pendable for the republicans bv de feating Senator William E. Chilton by electing Howard Sutherland, now serving as congressman at large from the state. Mr. Chilton has been a popular member of the senate and one of the ablest supporters of the admin istration. Knox Back in Senate. Pennsylvania, upon the voluntary retirement of George T. Oliver, a use- tul member and a staunch nartv man, turned to Philander K. Knox, a states man who is so well known and ad mired here that he will be assured a hearty welcome. None of the newly-elected senators has had so dis tinguished a career. He became first best known as attorney general in the McKlnley administration and held the same ofhee in the Roosevelt regime. He was appointed to the senate in 1904 upon the death of Matthew S. Quay -and elected afterward, but re signed to be secretary of state, serv ing as such in the four years of the latt administration. While in the senate Mr. Knox was a conspicuous member of the judiciary committee. The republicans will need him again there, having lost Messrs. Clark of Wyoming and Sutherland xf Utah. Twelve years ago when Missouri joined for a moment the republican electoral column, the state was car tooned as the mvstenous stranger. There are several of that ilk this year m tne democratic column ot winners, the most notorious of which is Ohio. For the common judgment was that Myron T. Herrick, the republican can didate, would be elected over the democratic incumbent, Atleet Pome rene. But Mr. Pomerene is not a new member. Indiana Also Changes. Indiana presents a pair of new sen ators with familiar names. Harry Stewart flsew, wno succeeds the vet eran democrat and chairman of the democratic caucus, John W. Kern, has beerr active in politics and as a news paper man in Indiana since his youth, having for a long time published the Indianapolis Journal. The defeat of Thomas Taggart, the popular junior senator, by James Eli Watson, was something of a surprise. Mr. Watson is recalled as a member of the house for several terms before the democratic revival that won the Sixty-second congress house. He was his party's whip in the house, and was famously effective. The next change is the election in Minnesota of Frank B. Kellog, first crowned with distinction by President Roosevelt as his "chief trust buster." Mr. Kellogg will bring to the senate an exceptional reputation as a suc cessful lawyer. He will be 60 years old December 22. Veteran Republicans Lost. John B. Kendrick, democrat, who who has been an eminently successful business man, and is reputed the owner of one of the biggest range ranches in the west. William H. King, who defeated that other veteran republican senator, George Sutherland of Utah, is a fromer member of the house. He was elected when Brigham Roberts, the Mormon member, was ousted in the Fifty-fifth congress. It appears by his election that the democratic end of the Mormon church, of which Mr. King is a member, is now geting the better of the Smoot-Republican branch. The new senator has been holding some kind of office ever since he was grown some twenty-five years. California, in contributing a new figure, has in Hiram W. Johnson, who; although never a member of congress, has achieved national repu tation by exceptional force of charac ter and vigor of assertion, especially as one of the founders and leaders of the progressive party. He is serving his second term as governor of his state. That element of the progres sive wing of the republican party, who are still suspicious of the "reac tionaries," look upon him as without an equal as a fearless leader. Some Additional Democrats. Andriacus Aristicus modestly oth erwise designated as A. A. Jones is the new democratic senator from New Mexico, replacing Thomas B. Catron, republican. Mr. Jones, who is a na tive of Tennessee, a lawyer and banker, is not unknown to this city, having been in official life here since 1913 as assistant secretary of the in terior. He was voted for but defeated when New Mexico chose its first sena tors in 1912. In the southern tier of states only three new senators are forthcoming. One is William Fosgate Kirby, suc cessor to the late James P. Clarke as LEARNING TO MANIPULATE TYPEWRITER TO MUSIC Girls at the Omaha Commer cial High school beat the keys to tune on Victrola. Front row, left to right, Hazel Larson, Ellen Stilling; second row, Florence Jensen, Gladys Larson. There are indications that Miss Typewriter Lady will be transcribing her notes oh her machine to the latest waltz, one-step, march and fox trot tunes. The trend is in that direction. At the High School of Commerce the victrola has been introduced into the typewriting department. The click of the typewriters is accom panied by lively airs from a victrola One might drop into a classroom and hear "In Lilac Time." "Too Much Mustard," "Old Comrade," "Over the Waves," "Perfect Day," "Universal senator from Arkansas. Mr. Clarke had been elected for the term expiring in 1921. Mr. Kirby has achieved dis tinction in his state as a lawyer, hav ing been attorney general of the state and associate justice of the supreme court, and being the author of a much consulted digest of Arkansas laws. He was tendered appointment as senator on the death of Jeff Davis, but de clined. Tennessee has elected Kenneth D. McKellar, a young democrat from the house, who supplants Luke Lea, fa mous as the youngest member of the senate. Mr. McKellar is serving his thjrd term as a member of the house. He last year defeated Mr. Lea and former Governor Malcolm R. Patter son in a spectacular contest in the democratic primaries, and this year was elected over one of the ablest re publicans in Tennessee, former Gov ernor Ben W. Hooper. Nathan P. Bryan is another com paratively young democrat who must give way to another young democrat as senator for Florida. The new mem ber is Park Trammell, serving as gov ernor of the state for the term, 1913 1917. He has been a member of both branches of the legislature and at torney general. His Florida admirers advance the claim that he will be the handsomest man in the senate. What Changes Portend. Thus it is to be observed that the political kaleidoscope is evolving in teresting phases of character to the view. The democrats have lost griev ously in the death of Benjamin F. Shively and James P. Clarke. The lat ter was chairman pro tempore of the senate. John W. Kern of Indiana, defeated tor re-election, was chairman of the democratic caucus. Mr. Clarke was also chairman of the 'committee on commerce. Mr. Kern was chair man of the committee on priviliges and elections. Mr. Chilton, also de feated for re-election, was chairman of the census committee, and was an active member of the judiciary com mittee. Mr. O'Gorman was chairman of the committee on interoceanic canals. As far as democracy is concerned in the senate, the star of empire is beam mg westward. Pomerene of Ohio, Lewis of Illinois, Husing of Wiscon sin, Reed and Stone of Missouri, Thomas of Colorado, Johnson of South Dakota, Hitchcock of Nebraska, Kendrick of Wyoming. Walsh and Myers of Montana, Newlands and Pittman of Nevada, Lane and Cham berlain of Oregon, Phelan of Califor nia, King of Utah, Smith and Ashurst of Arizona, Jones of New Mexico, Owen and Gore of Oklahoma. Counting the senators from Arkan sas and Texas as more likely to share the western-influence sentiment as against the effeteful east, herein is likely to lodge in these twenty-six sen ators from the states named the mas tery of the democratic party in the next congress's senate. Outside of the old south and these named, there are only three democrats in the senate east and north Smith of Maryland, Hughes of New Jersey and Hollis of New Hampshire. Then there is a strong savor of progressive flesh and muscle and nerve still animating the body politic in the west as affects the republican party. In any event the prospect is pregnant with opportuni ties for the imagination. Hot Lunches for School Children Get Attention Washington, Nov. 1. Many schools throughout the country arc supply ing a regular hot luncheon to school children, or are providing a single hot dish with which children coming from a distance can supplement the cold food in their lunch baskets. To assist schools undertaking this activity, either through teachers or groups of co-operating mothers, the home economics specialists of the De partment of Agriculture has prepared a report, which has just been pub lished and is being distributed to peo ple asking for it, on economical and easily prepared bills of fare for the school lunch. Her Flint Rid on Train. Miu Amanda Bonn asp, 20 year old. of Butternut, wan Homwhat exrttPd during her flril rtdr on h annengflr train from Butter nut to Anhlark. Hh rum (o the rlt.v to vtift hr irlBir-tn-law. Mm. Charlm Hnrinfw, who wan being treated at the fit. Joneph hoflptta I. Mix Bonnenn II van with her rn renin on a farm about three, mtUn from Butternut, and the firat opportunity bf h had to ride on a train came to hr the otlur day when ho dwdred to vLjrft with her nistfr in-law. Shfl enjoyed the Irlfi. hut itdtiillted that while ih wan rurtouft to pepr out of thf car window, he did not do bo, tearing some thing might happen. Milwaukee Sentinel. i J... t v Fox Trot," "Very Good, Eddie," or any of a hundred selections. These musical exercises are merely for practice and it is not intended that they shall he continued in practical typewriting. The students get up a speed of 100 words a minute to the accompaniment of music. "The musical accompaniment has the value of removing monotony of practice drills. We know that men on the, march will go farther with less fatigue if they step to the tune of a march," explained Principal Adams of the school. GARDEN OF EDEN NO PARADISE NOW Sand Flies Beset Travelers and Fierce Heat Makes Night Hideous. TEMPT WITHOUT SERPENTS It is the oldest country in the world, but you will find little or noth ing that is old in it within 350 miles of the sea, writes Edmund Candler in the London Times. On the Euphrates side, Ur. of the Chaldeans, has left some perceptible undulations in the mud. Up the Tigris the Arch of Ctcsiphon is the only monument of antiquity that stands. Ezra's tomb is not really Ez ra's tomb and the Garden of Eden, if there is any truth in legend, is changed beyond recognition. Five of us a padre, a doctor, a regimental officer, a supply and transport man and myself ought to know, for we were motored to the Tree of Knowl edge of Good and Evil for the greater part of the last week in June. We were all bound for Nasiriyeh, on the Euphrates, and waited, at first ex pectantly, afterward with little hope, for a problematical general in whose existence we had ceased to believe. Qurnall, Ktirna, or Gornah, as it is variously called, the reputed Su-, merian paradise, lies at the junction of the Tigris and the old channel of the Euphrates. The new channel flows into the Shatt-al-Arab at Gar mat Ali, a few miles above Basra, but it is the old channel that serves for our line of communication with the Euphrates force. The water is clear and sluggish as a Norfolk river; there seems to be no current at all. The palm tree and the lig leaf were the only paradisical things we found in Eden. Even the serpent was invisi ble, though his works remain and the knowledge of evil thrives preposter ously. Man is still chastised in this spot, and we had reason to be thank ful that the longest day was followed by the shortest night. Our pyjamas began to sweat before we put them on. They were wet, not with the dew, but wtih the perspiration of the night, the exudations of the palm groves. We neither slept, nor were we thor oughly awake. We flung open our mosquito curtains and threw off our pyjama jackets, for the air seemed too heavy for insects. But the hour of the sandfly was only postponed. They came toward midnight and perished in our sweat like flies in marmalade. Praying for a Breeze. We pulled down our nets and prayed for a breeze.. At 5 the sun came licking over the horizon again to recharge the atmosphere that had lost nothing of its retained heat dur ing the night. A message came early in the morning that the general had not left Ali Gharbi. We could not start that day, and it was very im probable that we should go away the next. The great argument for Providence is that there is always a term to un provoked evils, when the menacing hand is removed, and we remember that it is God's- will that wc should he chastened, but not utterly destroyed. At 10 o'clock a breeze sprang up, and our interest in things revived. Three Sikhs slid down the burning side of A Real, Live Business For Sale I am contemplating leaving the city at one and will sell my busi ness, located in the heart of Omaha for $2,000. Requires '$1,200 cash needs but one good man to operate will net the owner $100 monthly sal ary and 40 interest on his in vestment. Now is your chance to get into business for yourself. Don't put it off a minute. This ia a live, up-to-date running business and has always made money. Call and Bee the owner at 32fi Rose Blag., or phone Doug. 1669 for ap pointment at once. Sunday phone, Harney 4205. Advertisement. I The music also has the effect of keeping all of the students "up with the procession" in practice exercises. Omaha is one of three cities of the country where this feature is being used in commercial schools. Victrola music for writing exercises was in augurated at this school a year ago. During the recent state teachers' convention four young women of the typewriting department gave a dem onstration at the school for the com mercial section of the visiting teach ers. the ship on the rope fenders, and hung there with their heads iust out of the water for hours, still as mug doctor and the padre were busy bury ing or restoring the victims of the night. Two more graves were being dug in the British cemetery across the Euphrates. I heard a man in a gunboat hard by bellowing like a heifer. He was unconscious and they were wrapping him in ice. We would have given days of our life, lumps of our pay, for one long, bubbly iced drink. The padre told me that three times during the night he had en tirely evaporated, but that toward dawn the humid atoms had collected themselves by some miracle of attrac tion. Thus he had survived to min ister to minds and bodies in greater peril of dissolution. Confused Traditions. Any movement of the air is re storative. Now that a tiny breeze had sprung up it was not too hot to dispute the identity of the Biblical tree. The S. and T. man said that it was the trunk to which our paddle steamer was moored, and such was the general opinion. But this tree was a "Siris" with yellow bean pods, and I learned, too, that a gnarled and thorny bush down stream was a kind 1 Dont Put Your Car In Cold Storage RAIN, sleet and snow lurk at the horizon. Any morn ing as you drive down town in your motor car, your wheels may flounder along a pavement slippery with mud and slush. Treacherous steering for a nervous driver, not sure of what is under him. But don't banish the good old car to the garage loft yet. Consider that the difference between safe and hazardous motoring is not cars but tires. And turn to those tires of triple treaded safety Goodrich Black Safety Tread Tires. Note the design of the tread five straight fingers and the cross-tie. Its simple, common sense argument tells in a look how it grips through mud or slush. Rain or shine, it puts fair weather under your car. Don't deny yourself the joy of summer motoring because it is win ter. Make your car an all-the-year car by equipping it with Goodrich Black Safety Tread Tires The B.F. Goodrich CompanykvnOiio. o( prickly plum, with a telegraph pole in it. Thin, I argued, bore sonic ij"li oi fruit, (ar from seductive, it rj ''('' hut it niiRlit have dcteroriated. f.i deully IMen is not what il was. Wc inquired oi the people, hut found loviil tradition eoninscd or indifferent. We explored the streets up lo Rib road tve walk leads into ciiariug t ros. and Serpent's alley, of course, into Temptation mu;::i a small inset n the houses by the quay where hall a dozen benches are protected from the sun by matting on reed supports. Temptation ior the Arabs takes the formed ol tinned pineapples, lulen cigarettes, canned salmon, and the like, union repeal Ihe unhealthy pro cess oi sophistication thai was so dis astrous to our first parents The little market was almost deserted. Barely a shadow cut the white earth. The folk in the cafe sprawled listlessly. There comes a season when it is too sultry even for the Arab to squat, when one adhesive member abjuring the other, he sits on high with his feet dangling apathetically apart in the air. Demand for Female Labor Increasing (riiriMond.i of Tnt Abniii'Im IimI Pr.Kli.l Berlin. Nov. I. --The demand for female labor is constantly on the increase, according to reports from agencies that supply help. This in creased demand is accompanied by increased demands for pay on the part of tile women, so that many of (hem now insist on at least 50 pfen nigs an hour (something under (en cents, according lo present rates of exchange). The greatest demand for unskilled female labor has come from the leather and metal trades, that already employ thousands if not hundreds of thousands of men whose presence in the army is more and more desired. Corresponding to the increased de mand for women in the trades, there has been a falling oft' in the demand for domestic servants, indicating an iuceasing simplicity in living stand ards. Persistence Is the Cardinal Virtue in Advertising. FLORIDA VIA ILLINOIS CENTRAL It. R. Th. SEMINOLE LIMITED Train, contutinf of Exquisite Sun Parlor ObMrralion and up-to-daU Stool Pullman Can, ruaa daily throughout Iho yr. Diroct tonrlco to tho south and aoutb.oa.tt. TickoU on lo daily on and aftor Octobor IStb, food rotur inf until Juno lit, 1917. RATES TO PRINCIPAL Jacksonville $54.56 Tampa $66.16 Daytona $61.26 St Petersburg $66.16 Tickoto to other point, at tamo proportional ratoa. For doicriptivo litoroturo, tickoti, otc, coll mt City Tickot Of ficoa or writo, . , S. District 407 S. 16th St. 'Best in the Long Run LOCAL ADDRESS, 2034 FARNAM ST. Phone Douglas 3308. Commercial Club To Now Boost for Interurban Lines The Commercial club will now seek to arrange for the introduction in the coming session of the legisla ture of an interurban bill. For vari ous reasons it was considered inad visable to draft such a bill before elec tion. The committee on interurban and pipe lines will hold a meeting next week to arrange for providing an interurban bill. iiiiltiiiltiliili:iiiiili'li'liiliiliiliiliiiilililiirillnr'i : TRY THE : : TELEPHONE WAY J Our ntore i near to ynu your m m telephone. Our service ia Jimt an . m good by the telephone route an if you - rim personally to our tore. We make a special endeavor o furniah the bent our carefully selected stock af- for dp. h Our drugs, and drug store sun- i dries nre the result of exceptionally m painstaking purchasing. May we serve vou The Telephone Way? - 16th and Howard Sit. . 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