THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27. 1916.
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OCTOBER CIRCULATION
5341S DailySunday 50.252
Dwight Willauia, circulation manager of The Baa
ruoiiening eampany, being duly .worn, eaya taat tne
average circulation for the month of October, Iwla. waa
eMll daily, and SS.ltt Sunday.
DWIGHT WILLIAMS. Circulation Manager.
Subaetibad In my pretence and eworn to before me
tau lia day af November, lilt.
C. W. CAKL80N, Notary Palme.
Subscribe)!? leaving lha city temporarily
haw lei have) Tba Bm esaiued la tham. Ad
draw will k cbaafaat a a flan aa required.
I( not mora careful, some of these egg specu
liters arc soon going to be up egg-sinst it. Help!
Still, the limited profits derived from rcscuiii
autoi from tnudholci hardly excuses rural oppo
sition to good roadi for all kinds of weather.
"And our water board law says that "undue
activity or participation in municipal politics shall
be deemed a juit cause for removal" of any
water board employe.
At the recent election over 35,000 votes were
cast in Greater Omaha. Who wants to hazard
a guess as to how msny will be cast in the com.
ing special election next Tuesday?
If our suffragist friends expect to re-submit
their amendment they will have to start their
petitions soon, for it will require nearly 50,000
signatures this time, which means going some.
Some $5,000,000 in election bets were released
in Key York last week. About the tame time
two national committee deficits were bulletined,
The coincidence did not end there. Both passed
the hat.
A division of the wet belt in Chicago mani
fests irritation because Colonel Bryan flopped
from local option in 1908 to prohibition in 1916,
Ihe wets forget that flopping is the colonel':
long suit.
The young woman who made a new aviation
record In her flight from Chicago to New York
is only 28. Some masculine sky skimmers, how
ever, harbor the delusion that they are the only
nigh fliers. , , 4 , ,
Once more the shoe men view with alarm
the rising cost of short skirts. More scenery,
more leather. The task of matching the prices
to the decorations threatens the normal repose
ol the casb register.
Viewed in its larger aspect the addition of a
chair of gastronomy to the chair collections of
state traiwsmes would materially enhance the
inward Joy of college education. Sparred by the
stress of the H. C.L, no doubt forward-looking
educators wfll welcome the meaty suggestion.
A modern replica of Diogenes, pursuing the
ancient quest, would scarcely dare flash his glim
around toe headquarters of Pennsylvania's coal
mine owners. A state tax of 10 cents t ton was
collected by the operators from the dealers. None
of it reached the state treasury, and state courts
outlawed the tax, but not whisper of a re
fund leaks out of the mine owners' cash box.
A variety of joyous public functions, ranging
from patriotic speeches to sn inaugural ball,
featured the opening of the new Philippine con
gress and government last month. Scarcely had
the festivities ended before the governor laid
before congress a message calling for a sharp
cut in salaries, or increased taxation. The feel
ing aroused by the joy-killing message may be
likened to the throbbing headache of the morn
ing after.
Pyramiding Prosperity
Wall Street Jeurual 1 ' '
There is a process in speculation not con
fined to the stock market, but common enough
in grain, cotton, coffee, leather and even real
estate, which is called "pyramiding" and lays
me luunuetioni tor future panic xne successful
speculator makes money on his first margin tram.
action. . But by those paper profits he adds to
nis commitments, ana as the prices advance in
a boom market he becomes thoroughly extended,
with the consequence that a eollapse finds him
defenseless, slthough on paper he has made large
gains.
There Is danger that our prosperity, due to
the war, has something of the same character.
It is time, in fact, to offer a word of caution lest
it prove that we have been pyramiding prosperity
in the same way. A limited number of people
have made large fortunes, which they are rein
vesting in enterprises likely to benefit by the con
tinuance of the war in Europe. A much larger
number of people have not benefited but, on the
contrary, have been hard hit by the advsnced cost
of living. .
This spplies more particularly to the pro
fessional, class and those In receipt of salaries, as,
for instance, the clerical forces of the banks and
trust companies. These hsve seen their cost of
living advance by leaps and bounds, while there
has been no corresponding incressc in their re
muneration. They are not unionised, nor have
they any friends in the White House or in
congress. A Isrge part of our people find it harder
to make ends meet Even meats and bread are
dearer in New York than they are in London,
' where they are already talking of bread tickets
and s food censor.
Is this not s time to go slow, to encourage
investment abroad as a safeguard for the fnevit
able slump after the war, and to check speculation
in all departments down to the safety limit? We
are too prone to spend extravagantly when we
are easily prosperous. What will be our rest
reserve sgainst collapse with the termination of
war and the inevitable slump of war orders, war
prices and war freights?
Stop! Look! Listen!
Not the least anomaly of the recent election
is the vigorous demand now made by the New
York World, the acknowledged leading demo
cratic newspaper organ of the country, for im
mediate action by the president and congress to
make effective the plank in the republican na
tional platform for exclusive federal regulation
of railroads. When we remember the hypocritical
effort of certain democratic candidates to make
political capital here in Nebraska by holding up
the republican solution of the railroad problem
as a "bogie man" to producers and shippers, what
the World is saying today, after the issues of
the election have passed, conies with a grim
irony, for this is what it says:
If it is necessary in the reeulation of rail
road engaged in interstate commerce to
sweep away the, whole fabric of state control,
it should be swept away. There is no issue
of state rights involved in the controversy,
because the states have no rights so far as
interstate commerce is concerned. They never
had any rights. From the day the constitu
tion was adopted the interstate commerce
clause meant just what it means now, and the
failure of congress to exert its full auihnritv
conferred no additional authority upon the
several states.
Congress has proceeded slowlv and cau
tiously in the exercise of its authority over in
terstate commerce, and so far as railroad serv
ice is concerned, the country is the worse off
necause 01 tnis delay and hesitation. The time
has come for another long step forward in the
exercise of these constitutional powers. That
step involves the emancipation of the railroads
from state interference, the emancipation of in
vestors from crooked financiering, the emanci
pation 01 tne public from strikes and lockouts,
and a general reorganization of railroad traffic
under the direction of the Interstate Com
merce commission.
It is a stupendous undertaking, but it ought
to be done now. When the war is ended and
the United States is confronted with the new
industrial problems that must inevitably grow
out of it, the country ought not to be handi
capped by an antiquated system of railroad
.flViiliS", wnich leiv" the transportation of
100,000,000 people subject to the meddling of
forty-eight slate governments and to the re
current anarchy of capital and labor.
The absurdity of multiplex conflicting rail
road jurisdictions and the inevitableness of ex
elusive federal regulation has been pointed out
time and again by The Bee. It would be the
natural presumption that President Wilson's re
election would be a backset' for federaliration,
but, if the World speaks as a democratic oracle,
tne acmocrats will be voicing this demand them
selves and enacting measures leading to its ful.
fillment even before the present administration
yields its control of congress. Where that will
leave the short-sighted defenders of the chaos
of states' rights in railroad regulation remains
to be seen. It will not be long until the alter.
nstlve will be not between the present svatem
of stste control, as against federal control, but
between exclusive federal regulation and the
socialistic clamor for full public ownership of
railroads.
An Englishman's Observations
on New York
i
'Sidney Brooke, in New Yark Tlmea'
never really feel myself in America until
I iQDAV
Xcw York is left behind and I am rid of its at
mosphere of concentrated self-sufficiency. I know
wnen 1 land on Manhattan Island that 1 have left
Europe. Hut I am not conscious of having reached
the United States. The city is a little world of
itself, planted round a backwater, away from the
main streams ot both American and turopean ex
iftence, but in many ways more closely allied
witn London and Tans than with Denver and
Kansas City. I know of no metropolis so intensely
ansorDea in its own attairs. soj coolly disdainlul
of everything in America that is not New York.
What is its place in American life? It sets the
fashions, it is the home of the leisure class, it is
an accepted rendezvous of the "magnates." it is
the seat of the "money power," it struggles hard
to be the arbiter on all points of social usage, it
can stamp with a more effective seal of approval
or disapproval than any other American city can
command an opera, a book, or a play. But, com
mercially, financially and politically its influence
decreases as that of the west increases. New
York, I should say, reached its greatest height
of power in 1896. Since then its importance has
steadily waned, and fifty years hence it will be
like a firm whose branches have outgrown the
main office.
Stage Coach In the Last Ditch.
One by one the few remaining ties linking the
twentieth-century west with ' the pioneer davs
snap under the stress of modern speed and retire
to the haunts of has-beens. Long ago the fa
mous and most picturesque of eioneer vehicle.
the stage coach, retired from the highways of
me west and gradually receded from the by
ways. Railroad expansion in every direction
sounded the knell of doom. Yellowstone park
remained one of the very few districts where the
stsge coach maintained its old-time importance
and dignity. Necessity made it so. There the
government at the entrance drew deadlines
against the railroads and permitted the stage
coach to flourish and radiate more or less joy
among sightseeing tourists. But while the rail
roads were balked in the chase the motor car mul
titude pressed for admission. Concession, have
been made officially and next summer will wit
ness sn invasion of gasoline power, which spells
the finish of the stage coach and its prancing
teams. Eventuslly the ballyhoo gas wagon will
wake the echoes of mountain glens, and the
coach, doomed to idleness snd rust, become a
romantic memory.
Sex In Words.
The United States government has solemnlv
decided that an aviator is an sviator, regardless
of sex. This decision is in line with modern us
age, which is finally the controlling. Influence In
writing and speaking. Generally for years the
tendency has been to drop the distinguishing suf
fix from words that may rightly be emoloved to
designate either sex, and thus the language both
written and spoken, is being freed from awkward
eflorts, the origin of which lay deep in man's gal
lantry, but which have lost most, if not all, of
ineir significance under modern custom. Woman
herself has aided In this. Her entrance into all
avenues of human activity or occupation has
given her at least a right to share in the full
meaning of the word that denotes her position.
ano not to be set off In a separate class by the
addition of a "trlx" or an "ess," Intended to show
that ft Is the "female of the species" who is ores
ent In the case of the aviator, when arrayed
for duty it is Impossible for the cssual observer
to distinguish between man and woman. The
same condition holds good in many other ways,
and the change in the words is but a tribute to
woman's increasing sphere. With the vanishing
of sex from the language, we may renew the
quest for the impersonal pronoun.
Everything in and around New York has
changed since I first visited it twenty years ago,
but not New York itself. As I look over it at this
moment, from the fifteenth floor of my hotel, I
get the same impression that 1 received in 1896
of a city as violently antithetical to London as
anything could be.
The differences are everywhere in the crys
talline brightness of the atmosphere, a brightness
heightened rather than broken by the gay white
whiffs of steam from apartment house, skyscraper
and factory; in the glimmering panorama of
speckless. towering edifices; in the stabbing sharp
ness of the noises from the street; in a vision of
a city built, one would say, by the Titans, planned
by huclid, and furnished by Edison.a chessboard
affair of right angles and squares and parallelo
grams; in tne prodigality ot electric light that at
night makes each street a niilkv wav and each
building a palace in fairyland; In the ascending
sense, as one looks down a hundred and fifty lect
to the asphalt below, of a movement, a iovous
ness, an exhilaration quicker and sharper edged
man anytning we in London ever knew.
London has grown; we are only just beg
ning to make it. or rather to make it over. But
in New York one feels one's self in a metropolis
that has somehow been hit off at a stroke and
dumped down upon Manhattan Island by con
tract. '
Thought Nugget for the Day.
The barrlera are not yet erected
which shall say to aspiring talent.
"Thim far and no farther." Bee
thoven.
One Year Ago Today In the War.
Italians made breach in Gorilla's
defenses.
Herbian government and the diplo
matic corps arrived at Scutari.
Turks captured a considerable sec
tlon of allied trenches on Galllpoli.
Main Serbian army driven across
into Albania, abandoning heavy ar
tillery.
Canadian government seized all
high grade wheat In elevators from
rort William to Atlantic coast.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
Miss Ella Armstrong gave a delight.
ful dancing party to a few of her
friends, Prof. Dworzak furnishing the
music. An excellent supper was
served during the evening to which
the following silt down; Misses Grace
Heffley, UonTe Polaik. Bedford. Lynn
Curtis, Lllllanx stadelman, Messrs.
Herbert Cook, Drake o'Keilly. c. T.
Heed, G. A. Rathbun, Harry Mc
cormick, Howard Clark and Harry
Mooree.
.Max Meyer Is trying to negotiate
with Patti for a concert at the Ex
position building sometime in Decem
ber. It is the hope of all Omaha peo
ple that he may be successful.
The commissioners awarded a con
tract to 8. P. .Morse & Co. for the
iZ
The waywardness, the sunrises, the lianhaz-
ard nooks and irregularities, the cacsural pauses,
the deep, quiet half-forgotten pools of silence and
isolation, the enormous sense of a background
and a past, the sheer, delightful jumble of it all
everything, in short, that makes one love Lon
don and hate it with equal fervor finds here no
counterpart at all.
New York seems almost at times to be less
a city than a system, an amazing and triumphant
essay in the art of saving time and space. Every
thing in and about it is sacrificed, and has had to
be sacrificed, to the necessity of enabling ten peo
ple to live, ana sDove all to move, in an area
where three would be a crowd.
Method, mechanics, the draftsman's ruler, the
engineer s daring and ingenuity have never
achieved anything more wonderful than in mak
ing a metropolis on Manhattan Island nnacihl
They have solved the problem with steel and mar
ble; with offices, stores, apartment houses and
furnishing of fifty blankets for the
county Jail.
Judge and Mrs. MeC lloch spent
Thanksgiving day In Charlton, la., the
guests of Rev. and Mrs. Albert Gor
don.
Dr. Pinkerton, a clever physician
from Bellevue hospital, Is coming to
locate in wmana-
Curtis Doud, a brother of Deputy
Revenue Collector Doud, has arrived
in Omaha and will embark In the in
surance business.
Building permit was granted to the
Board of Education for the construc
tion of one-story frame school house
at tne corner or Eighteenth and Lake
streets ta cost (600.
This Day hi History.
1747 Robert R. Livingston, who
administered the oath to Washington
as first president born In New York
City. Died at Clermont, N. Y., Feb
ruary 26, 1813.
177 A British exneilltlnn arainar
Georgia sailed from New York.
1 1 so Henry wneaton, whoso work
i International law wuh trunalataH
Into the Chinese language, born at
Providence, R. L Died at Dorchester,
Mass., March 11, IMS.
1909 Fannv KSmbie. rlt,hraHA
actress, born in London. Died there,
January ta, isss.
1812 A larae narr nt KT. .
hotels that dwarf the hishest church ateenlr- with army waa destroved bv the Kimaiin,
curveiess streets slashed by electric car lines, ' "mp'ng a passage of the
overarcnen nv eievaren raiirnanc ami tiniH k i -.
a fnnr.trarl, . ,!,,.,.. ;.. . a w.. a iielwln Forrest made his final
7i.: . .1 :u "VT " " "f uc,"-c debut asn actor at the Walnut Str.,t
iui iau aiiiiiiiiiaic instance ano neiav. i di.ii.
But ill SO solving it. in thus scalina? evrrvthino- 187(1 Th. ,i-... a.. -
clown to the dull prose of business and dispatch, von Manteufrel defeated the French
ucauiig new lora as primarily a nuzzle in " i mo norm, near Amiens.
transportation and communications, a Birantir
counter to facilitate buying and selling, they have
maae it a city oi an tne material conveniences and
few or none of the emotional satisfactions.
Behind the whirr and radiance and etimnlne
of the whole vast machine there Is little to make
any permanent appeal. New York has had a his
tory, but it is overlaid and obliterated by the rau
cous and insistent nresent. Extent for a email
tangle of streets "down town" there is hardly any-
uniig iu rccaii tne past, uutcn new York, ring.
lsn mew iorn, are as tnougn they had never been.
1873 ComDletlon nf th HnnaBH
tunnel.
1886 Alexandre Dumas ffll.v f.
rnous French dramatist and novelist,
died. Born July 29. i2e.
1898 Dr. Lvman Ahhnt,
the pastorate of Plymouth church.
Brooklyn.
mil The secret consistnrv at th
Vatican created nineteen new cardi
nals, three Americans being among
No Illegal Voting in Oniab.
Omaha, Nov. 25. To the Editor of
The Bee: I will be obliged to you for
giving; space to this open letter ad
drettser to the Editor of the Kearney
Hub:
My attention has just been called to
an editorial published by you in a re
cent issue of your newspaper, in which
you alietre that 5,000 iileg-al votes were
cast in Douglas county at the election
of November 7. This is a very sweep
ing charge agaJnst the conduct of elec
tions in Douglas county and against
me as election commissioner, upon
whom is placed the duty of intercept
ing fraud. In order to make such a
sweeping statement, It seems to me
that you must have, or ought to have, ,
some specific information on which to ;
base your assertion. I will welcome I
sny information that you have which i
will go to prove that 5,000 or any part
of 5,000 voters cast Illegal votes at the
recent election. I can assure you that
I will do everything in my power to
make a case against and to prosecute
illegal voters.
All the election officials charged
with the duty of challenging voters and
conducting the election are capable,
trustworthy men. Your sweeping
charge is a reflection upon their abil
ity and integrity, as well as upon my
self and my deputy. An hour's investi
gation on your part of the situa
tion In Douglas county, would prove
to you the absurdity of your state
ment. I think you owe it to the elec
tion officials of this county to make
such an investigation and to retract
your charge of wholesale fraud. i
l he better element of voters in
Omaha, have from time to time, ex
pressed their approval of the man
agement of Douglas county elections
under the present system, and thev. as
well as I, would resent the implication
In your article that gross fraud was
committed in this county on Novem
ber 7.
HARLKT MOR1CHKAD,
Election Commissioner.
ance of this contract by the company,
shall not be considered and allowed
as an item having any value to the
company. It is further agreed that
this contract shall be and remain In
full force and effect for a period of
five years from the date of the execu
tion and delivery thereof."
From the foregoing, It Is quite clear
that since 1905 the city of Omaha
could have taken steps to have pur
chased the present light plant or con
structed another.
Mr. Howell could have taken steps
to have brought this about at any
time since 1905, placed the matter be
fore tl)e people with the same degree
of alacrity he exhibited in the present
referendum.
It would appear that while the city
had the power to condemn and take
over the present plant and has had
that power for more than ten years,
Mr. Howell being a resident of Omaha
during all that period, that it is not
a question of the right of the city to
condemn, but In Mr. Howell's mind,
whi' h department of the city govern
ment shall handle the situation. Were
he in favor of the city council, he
would favor the contract, but, desir
ing that the water board shall be in
control, naturally he would be against
any other method, as the water com
pany itself has not the right to en
gage in the lighting business at this
time. I favor the present contract be
cause, under it, we will haveWnstalled
the uniform lighting system, giving
practically twice as much light, sup
plying practically twice as much terri
tory and accommodating twice as
many people as are now. supplied, so
far as street lighting is concerned.
Also it means a present saving be
ginning with the first of January to
the consumers of some $8,000 to
$9,000 per month, and this, while a
new plant is being prepared.
M. O. CUNNINGHAM.
1912 Adrlanon.fi war (- n ku
aeroplane bombs.
One might as well write sonnets to a team
radiator as attempt to grow historically or acs
thetically sentimental over New York. Thi first
and last note of the city is that of hard, brilliant
The Day We Celebrate.
Clinton Bromf wm hrn
27, 1884, at Norfolk. He graduated In
law from Creighton university and
relentless mechanism. I feel as though I were ha!ivevVAd ah ftMJ8ta'nt cit attorney.
. rThnnH e "7 f' i" ln ? state at Wash-
a - f . ".stun, worn at Astoria, N. r.. seventy.
) of a universal exoress eomnanv. Anrl ve four mm ... ,a... 'ovenijr
wiui an me symmetry oi us design, its enforced mug-ene waiter, author of "Paid In
and rigid adhesion to plan, one gets a curious FuU" and other successful plays, born
sense of impermanence, as though the city were L clevelai', forty-two years ago to
still in the experimental, camping-out stage, as n
though even now it were ratner a lr ,.,:! C- 1:uIL. representative
vanserai than a settled community.
Deficit Still Piling Up.
While Mr. Common People is worrying over
is own little problem of how to make his in.
come meet his expenses, Uncle Sam is calmly
watching his Outgo exceed his income by con
sidersble above a million dollars a dar. For th.
first twelve business days of November the ex
cess of expenditures above receipts for the fed
eral government was $18,334,012.18, and for the
fiscal year, 1917, from Jnly 1 to November 14
the total deficit is $104,800,625.42. For the same
period last year the deficit was $48,157,329.91. In
other words, in this year of "unexampled pros
perity, the hole into which the government is
plunged is more than twice as deep as it was
last year. At this rate the deficit will be such by
the end of December that the half-vearlv a
of special revenue will be more than swallowed
in the abyss that has been created by democratic
mismansgement. The moral doesn't need a headlight.
Montana's favorite daughter pulled throuuh
er successful campaign for congress at an ex
pense of $687.70 a bargain figure beside the de
ficits of the alsorans.
Obstacles That Block Direct
Popular Election of President
"St. Louia Gleb Democrat "
In congress of the Sixteenth Ohio dls-
t.iui, uuiu ai iMuiiersnnre. o thi..
six years a(to today.
Leslie J. Bush, pitcher of the Phila
delphia American league base ball
team, born at Brainerd, Minn., twen-ty-four
years ago today.
Martin J. O'Toole, former National
league base ball niavar i... ... ....
I1?8 m,tha w8tern '"ague team, born
at William Penn. Pa. twi..iK.
Merits of Street Lighting Contract.
Omaha, Nov. !6. To the Editor of
The Bee: Permit a few words from
one of the original Improvement club
members, who first advocated a re
duction of electric light rates in
Omaha.
I attended the buttermilk banquet
at the Auditorium and listened to our
good rriend Howell dissertate on the
electric light question . wherein he
stated that, one arm of the city gov
ernment, meaning the "water hoard,"
was tied behind Its back, and was
powerless to engage in the lighting
business: that the proposed contract
would defeat an attempt at municipal
ownership either by way of purchase
or the establishing of a new plant for
n period of five years, and third, that
the city of Omaha could not, under
the present law establish a new plant
or purchase the plant of the present
company.
In the llrst place, while addressing
several hundred people at Fifteenth
and Douglas streets, during the last
city campaign, the lighting question
being a live subject at that time, I
was asked the question, "Suppose
you are successful and your set of
candidates are elected, what rate do
you propose to charge?" I Immedi
ately replied, that if the men whose
candidacy I advocated were elected,
we would pass an ordinance reducing
the light rate to S cents. Two of our
candidates were elected. The present
city council not only adopted our label,
out tne goods as wen. and since thev
nave snown tneir good intention and
are now advocating what I then be
lieved, 1 reel It my duty to give them
my hearty support at this time.
in the flrst olace Section 4329 of
the Compiled Statutes of Nebraska
for the year 1913 provides, as follows:
"The mayor and city counci shall
have power to appropriate private
property for the use of the city
for streets, alleys, avenues, parks,
parkways, boulevards, sewers, public
squares, market places, gas works,
power plants, electric light plants or
water works, etc. The right and power
to appropriate private property for
such purpose shall extend for a dis
tance of seventy-five miles from the
corporate limits of the city."
The contract in question provides as
follows:
"It is further agreed that if the
city should, at any time during the
life of this contract acquire all of the
property of the company then future
profits, If any, which otherwise may
have been realized from the perform-
Lcttrr Box Inspiration
Omaha, Nov. 25. To the Editor of
The Bee: There is getting to be some
class to Nebraska, to judge by th
Letter Itox, and a man would have to
go some to keep up wilh the van
guard. Kirst, there Is Dr. Merrlam, who
speaks learnedly of "right living" and
"wrong living" and "poisoned blood
streams" and a lot of other meaning
less thines, and to this he charges all
our diseases and Ills, and speaks of
the "germ theory" of disease, which
last is in the twentieth century
about as sensible as speaking of the
seed "theory" of raising grain.
The doctor failB to explain why no
amount of "wrong living" or "poiBoned
blood stream" will give yellow fever
to a resident of Nebraska or to any
one eise who stays away from the
habitat of the stigamya mosquito, or
the sleeping sickness to anyone not
exposed to the bite of the one fly who
carries It: or why "wrong living" and
"poisoned blood stream" will not give
a second attack of such contagious
diseases as mumps, measles, small
pox, typhoid fever, etc.; in fact, prac
tically the whole list of contagious
diseases.
He is also the same doctor who can
cure scarlet fever in two or three days
and typhoid In a week, and who bobs
up serenely on every occasion and dis
seminates a bunch of hot air that
means nothing, hut does harm, be
cause a lot of ignorant people are
misled by it.
jLately a new star has risen above
the horizon, but as star In the west
this time, an embryo scientist who
has made the wonderful discovery
that the sun is cold and that its enor
mous radiated heat comes from noth
ing through the medium of "elec
tricity," regardless of the fact that -like
motion electricity Is not heat and
neither of them even produce heat.
He also fails to explain where the
energy originates that produces the
electricity and does not even seem to
know that it requires as much power
to generate electricity as heat.
I do not know what action tha
scientific bodies of the world will take
on this "discovery," but one of the,
class of this, which has escaped th
notice of all the astronomers sinee tbo
dawn of history, should merit soma)
now one A. B. Miekle, who
Is by his own showing about the
meanest man on the western hemis
phere, who claims that his family
"lives" on $1.96 per week. He is in
error here, they do not live, they only
stay.
I have looked In vain for a rejoinder
from A. B. to the letters of some of his
critics, hut he is evidently too busy di
viding the cheese and herding weevils
to spend the necessary time to writn:
or, perhaps, he has not been able to
moocn a copy or The Bee and does not
know what others think of him.
DEACON SMITH.
Timely Jottings tad Beminders.
i unner rosimaster General and
James A. Oarv are to mi.hm.
i
Mrs.
There are reasons why the agitation of the yearS t0 t01,,y
ciccnon oi a president oy a direct popular vote
will meet with sturdy opposition. Since the de
velopment ot parties the electoral college is an
anachronism. Four years ago there was much
confusion, owing to diverse state laws. In Cali
fornia, for example, the only way anybody could
vote for Taft was by writing in the names of
thirteen electors. In Oklahoma there waa one
set of republican electors, and nobody knew for ",C,J uture at a dinner to be given to
a certainty whether, if elected, thev would sun- at City club In Boston.
port Taft or Roosevelt. In most states a voter Op. comianv iPVVk rrnd
cannot support one party', state ticket and an- cKand ffiurgh S'cinS
other's national ticket without laboriously writ- are co-operating 2 1 to". Ha Trt
mg in the names of all the electors. There is "ason tonight with a performance In
j - u.it vt uiviucu voic in close ararce
The will of the people is often defeated through
the untimely death of a candidate for elector or
through some legal disqualification of a candidate
their sixtieth wedding anniversary to
day at their home in u.i,,m
William J. Bryan, former secretary
of state, has Intimated that he mav
maae some comments" on his Doll-
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M .llL.I'Aet.tl ' SSS I LI
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Attornevs am to ..nf., i. m .
, . . " anuuia
... V w plan of Procedure
relative to the settlement of the cen-
receiving the sreateit numher nf -rul". : .SI'...... !"i"Q"7. ""I"1" between
also the possibility of some cornmt or'-,h .;-.i monV"' ""w n" "d Ver
elector violating his instructions in a close con- t Te r" of the regulations adopted
test. Abolishment of the electorsl college, as now by tne British Board of Trade to con
const tuted wnnM .m t K. . . :ki.' .i " serve the food suoolv win . 1...
...c una is auggcsica mat tne protests arise. The
south opposes s general federal election law for
it would interfere with the disfranchisement of
negroes. It would also force uniformity of suf
frage qualifications. The south has 132 votes iu
the electoral college, which
pal asset of the democratic party. They insure its
longevity. The promptness with which President
Wilson dropped his proposal of a federal primary
law revealed how warmly and how unanimously
the south resents any plan looking to federal con
trol. A constitutional reduction of southern rep
resentation would have given Mr. Hughes the
presidency.
But the oprjosition would nor he nni;n.j
the south. The states which have a small popu
lation would vigorously oppose such a change.
There are ninety-six electoral votes based on sen
atorial representation. Each of sixteen states
with only two such electors each, has as much or
more than the combined population of nine states
with eighteen such electors. Mi
proximately as much population as the combined
population of eleven states with twenty-two such
electors. New York has almost three times the
population of the same eleven states. It would
require the approval of three-fourths of all the
states to make the constitutional rhm m
state will be eager to surrender any of its riehts
or power.
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BLOW IT.
lLsVOII ha Vet Virtue.. ...1 .
Upon th mtnd of foiki around yog;
TVhlch quite, to 111 th truth, aitound you.
If you've . hunch that Httl you
Are great; tho' low thar t thsvi fen. ,
ion I hide your irlft Id an oyur caa
mow it.
If Von have Wlsuinm i At
Al Harvard or soma loeaer college -
If yuu've attained that happy state
Where your mind l oventocked with knowL
Don't suffer from hnin.nM
The flooduie of your mind, wide throw it
iu oilier worm. If you know a heap
IF you're demcendnrf tttnaivhi .
Prom Carter tn or Montmoreno.es;
If your ancestor epent their day
In talking deer and taking feneea;
If you've a high bridge to your note
It won't jttiv to mutely show It
If ou would advertise the fact
wow it.
If you wear clot hen that eoat m h..n
And eat the bent that's In the market:
tf you've a car that look tiiai smsii
Beside the others when you park 11;
u you spenu ireeiy as you go
Don't be guff and fall to crow It
You'll die "uaaunored" and unsung on
teaj you '
Blow (t
Omaha. BATOUs KB TRELK.
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