THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1917.
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FEBRUARY CIRCULATION
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A little wetnesi now and then it reliihed by
the best of men in the dry belt.
A million-dollar downpour of moisture gives
spring the proper starting signal.
It remains to be teen how the federal supreme
court responds to the stop-watch treatment.
Never mind, Mr. Groundhog, the weather man
will have a reception committee ready for you at
the appointed time.
Because the trainmen's strike-threat worked
on congress It still no conclusive proof that it
will work the tame way on the supreme court.
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Ohio and Indiana are needlessly hasty in
tossing their hats in the cyclone ring. They are
welcome to the year's championship without com
petition. Just a year ago orders flashed from Washing
ton to the Rio Grande: "Get Villa." The date is
recalled solely as a reminder of the utility of
forgeteries.
. Omaha's fire department came in right handy
for Council Bluffs, but we may depend on Coun
cil Bluffs doing at much for Omaha whenever
occasion demands.
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Every legislature it always a great germinator
of political ambitions, but the necessary subse
quent two years' cultivation may be depended on
to thin out the crop.
Omaha people read reports of tornado-wrought
destruction with sympathetic interest For stir
ring up compassion there it nothing like having
been there once yourself. ,
Still, the propriety may be questioned , of
judges consenting to arbitrate a controverty
which, In on form or another, may come up be
fore them for adjudication. ,
Organised labor announcet Itt tupport of the
administration'! warlike policies. Similar assur
ances given out last fall sprung from the notion
that Wilson would "keep us out of war."
- Pacifism scores a notable convert. Eugene
Debs boldly declares against war and will not
recognize a recruiting office on the same side of
the street. If 'Gene were given the management
of a war, things would look different.
-General Smuti of South Africa lines up with
the major divisions of warring powen In oppoi
ing the return of conquered real estate. On that
point the vote is unanimous. The question of
title still depends on ability to hang on.
The struggle for control of the legislative sift
ing committees proceeds from a wholesome fear
of embalming fluid. As the treatment is inevi
table, the struggle simmers down to a question of
dodging the funeral. Members thy on pull might
resort to prsyer.
The latest issue of Viereck's American
Weekly, formerly "The Fatherland," gives to
Senator Stone of Missouri the front-psge pic
torial panegyric which it accorded year ago
to Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska. Why this
"change of heart?"
The press dispatches refer to Mr. Gerard at
"former ambassador to Germany." This is a mis
take, for he it still ambassador to Germany, only
recalled pending interruption of diplomatic rela
tions, and he will continue to be ambassador to
Germany until either dropped from the official
roll or accredited to some other country.
Exiles of . Erin A Study
-BrMklra Easta.-
" The death of Sir John Gavan Duffy at Mel
bourne recalls to the mind a group of three exiles
of Erin, who helped to make the Dublin Nation
between 1842 and 18481 who were active in the
rebellion of the latter year, were tried for treason
felony, and eventually escaped to the United
States or to the British colonies. Sir John was
the son of Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, founder of
the Nation. Even the packed jury scheme did
not succeed in convicting Sir Charles. He emi
grated freely to Australia." His brilliancy made
him a prominent figure at the bar, and he became
premier of Victoria. Hia son had been postmas
ter general, attorney general and chief lands com
missioner. A packed jury did convict John Mitchel, the
grandfather of John Purroy Mitchel, now mayor
of New York. Mitchel was in penal servitude for
a number of years before he got away. In America
he made himself a publicist of high reputation
and was a big figure in the eyes of Irish-Americans.
Thomas D'Arcy McGee tried, but unconvicted,
went to Canada. He first came to New York in
1848, and for nine years was in that city. Then
he settled in Montreal and was soon elected a
member of Parliament. His career in Canada was
as striking as that of Charles Gavan Duffy in
Australia. He was president of council and long
minister of agriculture.
The Irish rebellion of 1848 was a sad fizzle.
But to Victoria it gave a father and son, both
real statesmen; to Canada it gave a thoughtful
and energetic cabinet member, and to the United
States John Purroy Mitchel'a ancestor.
The moral of the study it that Ireland's effer
vescent malcontents of 1848 were more than poets,
more than rebels. Two decades before John
Boyle O'Reilly, who escaped from Australia's
penal colony, they illustrated the proposition that
in a newer and freer land the same elements that
make the revolutionist in Ireland make the good
citizen or subject and the intelligent administrator
ot public affairs.
Exhausting Public Patience.
The sudden renewal by the "Big Four" broth
erhoods of their suspended strike order wilf nat
urally cause the public to sit up and take notice
and ask what it is all about.
It was commonly supposed that the enactment
of the Adamson law, apparently conceding all
the trainmen asked, and the subsequent agree
ment to continue the situation unchanged pending
final adjudication in the courts, had settled the
matter, at least until the decision should come
down. For the brotherhood leaders at this par
ticular time to flash another strike order without
waiting to hear from the supreme court is, in our
judgment, calculated to antagonize public senti
ment even more than they alienated it in their
stop-watch holdup of congress last fall.
Confessedly, neither the railroad men nor the
railroad managers know exactly what the Adam
son law means. An attempt on the part of those
for whose benefit it was passed, therefore, to
forestall its operation, looks altogether too much
like an effort to influence the court by fear of
consequences to favor the contentions of the
trainmen regardless of all other considerations.
From this viewpoint, the present strike order
propounds anew the old question, "Where will
yielding to threat of force end?" If congress
could be compelled to pass the Adamson law post
haste to head off a threatened strike last Sep
tember, what is to prevent resort to the same
methods every time the brotherhoods make a
demand for further concessions? And what is to
prevent resort to strike threats every time a law
suit is pending involving a contention between
the railroads and railroad employes? If the rail
way trainmen can dictate legislation and control
court decisions in this fashion, what is to prevent
other labor unions, or other groups of men, from
pursuing the same tactics?
If we mistake not the temper of the people,
public patience with such dictatorial and dom
ineering labor leadership will soon be exhausted.
In that event, the next grist of labor legislation
will be directed wholly in the public interest to
ward safeguarding the peaceful p'rogress of the
country's industries against just this kind of
high-handed interference.
Nature's Wonderful Routine.
Now comes the season of the year when the
most wonderful phases of nature's marvelous
routine are displayed for man's mystification. It
is the transition from the dull and frozen period
of suspended animation, enforced by winter, to
the harmonious and incessant activity of renewed
life stimulated by spring.
Soft, warm winds from the ocean bear bil
lions of tons of water in cloudy vapors over the
central valleys, where the colder air encountered
forces the precipitation and rain or snow deluges
the earth. Already the sun has loosened the ice
bonds that have fettered pond and lake and river,
and soon these will pour in torrents on the way
back to the great ocean. Rivulets are running
madly through the valleys, flush with the surplus
waters of the spring, while the thirsty land drinks
deep and refreshes itself from the drouth of the
fall and the cold of the winter.
Insensibly the mystery of life is stirring under
the bare, brown surface of the sodden earth and
teedt are swelling with the impulse of growth.
Soon tiny rootlets will be pushing downward to
take a firm hold on the sustaining soil, while
tender shoots will peep forth, and the toft, faint
green of spring's first tint will freshen the land
scape and o'er it all will throw the magic spell
of life renewed and the birth of another cycle
of growth and fruitage. Nor is it alone in the
vegetable kingdom this wondrous change it pro.
greasing. Birds and beasts, fish and reptiles, all
that lives and moves, respond to the stirring
within and throb with the impulse of creation.
. Man, too, responds, for he is not immune to
"honest nature's rule," and "in the spring a young
man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love."
We are at the most wonderful time of the annual
cycle the end of winter, the birth of spring
and again we witness, in amazement, in reverence,
or indifference, at fit our mood, the great phe
nomena of the preservation and continuance of
life, the fulfillment of the promise of the resur
rection, the vindication of an inscrutable Provi
dence in the culmination of a round of life, of
growth, of death and of rebirth.
Victory for the Contingent Fee Brigade.
The legislature threatens to amend the Ne
braska workmen's compensation law by taking
off the limit put on attorney's feet and making
it easy to transfer injury cases from under the
law to the courts for settlement This would be
a glorious victory for the contingent fee lawyers,
The existing law is admittedly defective in many
respects, but has not failed to abate the practice
-under which the lawyers made a divvy on the
compensation awarded the victim of an industrial
accident after a lawsuit The Norton amendment,
now accepted by the house, is designed to re
establish conditions as they were when the law
went into effect, when the contingent fee lawyers
fattened at the expense of the victim injured in
course of employment This increases the un
certainty of relief for the litigant, but works to
the benefit of the lawyer who is willing to take
a "gambler's chance."
The legislature will make a serious blunder if
it adopts the Norton amendment We repeat that
the law should be framed to give proper protec
tion to the employe, but should not be made a
plaything for either the contingent fee lawyers or
the insurance companies.
New Desks from Old Ties.
Thoughtful persons, who had marveled at the
apparent wastefulness of the railroads in one
direction, will get some comfort from a story
floating up from the Union Pacific headquarters.
Travelers everywhere have noted piles of dis
carded ties burning alongside the tracks; it has
been deemed more expedient to destroy these
used timbers than to gather them for any further
service. Now the Union Pacific people have dis
covered a use to which old ties and bridge tim
bers can be put, and so have installed carpenters
and cabinet makers and will work the formerly
wasted material up into desks and other office
furniture. Wood that supported the tremendous
traffic in its transcontinental flight in the future
will serve the functions of the busy office man
or support hit feet at such leisure time as has
been overlooked by the efficiency experts. "Sweet
are the uses of adversity" when from them a
great railroad company may learn so easy a
lesson in practical economy.'
' Reports of food riots in Russia jolt tourist
assurances of great prosperity in that country.
Something of the kind happened in this country.
Doubtlest the Russians relish Hke freemen the
spice of variety.
Bagdad of the Caliphs
H. Marian Allan, In New York Poet
To the lover of what may be called the senti
ment of history it is not less than distressing to
find a romance of national greatness degenerated
into a state of anomalous mediocrity, but this is,
in fact, what one now sees in the east in general
and in the Bagdad neighborhood in particular.
The visitor to this "City of Peace" recalls that
it was the capital of a domain reaching from Spain
into Africa and from Africa to India, and he
knows that Haroun Al Raschid was once its ruler.
These facts have been indelibly inscribed upon the
tablets of memory through the medium of
"Amini," "Ali Baba," "Sindbad the Sailor," and
others of these delightful Arabian Nights tales,
in which lamps and jars and carpets play mys
tically potent parts. But the Bagdad of today,
though still spoken of in Turkish documents as
"the glorious city," has naught but crumbling
mosques, dilapidated palaces and neglected tombs
to bear testimony to the splendor of the past.
It was Almansor, the second caliph of the
Abbasides dynasty, who removed the capital of
Islam here from Damascus, laying the new city's
foundations in the middle of the eighth century.
When he first saw the spot he was enchanted with
it, although there was then but a single habitation
upon it, the cell of the venerable hermit Dad. The
latter, ignorant of who his dignified visitor was,
not only entered into conversation with him, but
predicted that one Moslos was destined to found
a city where they were standing. "I am that
man," exclaimed the caliph, going on to inform
the hermit how, in his boyhood, he once stole
a bracelet, and his nurse had ever after called
him "Moslos," the name of a thief then well
known. A considerable impression must have
been made upon the mind of Almansor by the old
recluse, for the town was eventually named for
him, "Bag" signifying in the Persian tongue a
garden, and the whole meaning the "Garden of
Dad."
This caliph, by the by, was quite the Rocke
feller of his time, for he possessed the tidy sum
of $150,000,000. The wily financier did not, how
ever, unduly invest his wealth in Bagdad real
estate, for he and his sons left it a small town,
confined to the western bank of the Tigris. More
over, they economized in building materials, using
fragments plundered from the ancient Persian
capital, Ctesiphon, its near neighbor, Silencia,
and from Babylon.
Bagdad's streets, on a sunlit day, furnished a
striking sight. The buildings, constructed of
bricks and tiles of a gold-red tint, offered a rich
background for the gorgeous purples, greens and
browns in the raiment of the two million and
more who lived and moved and had their Oriental
being there. Of such a truly magnificent riot of
color and wealth the essentially Arab city of
today, reduced mainly to the east bank, gives a
sadly faded impression. There are only 150,000
cheaply, even slovenly, garbed souls there now.
If there be left one tattered remnant of the old
and the picturesque, it lies in the pilgrims of var
ious nationalities Turks, Jews, Persians, Arme
nians, Hindus, Syrians, Kurds and Arabs who
from time to time wend their way with reverential
mien to the old tombs and mosques of the Sun
nites and Shiahs.
The demoralized aspect of both the eastern
and western parts of the town, connected by two
pontoon bridges, is emphasized by the decayed
condition of the ancient brick walls. These were
originally surmounted by large round towers at
the principal angles, smaller towers intervening
at shorter distances, and were pierced by seven
gates, one of which in the eastern wall, called
"Gate of the Talisman," from an Arabic inscrip
tion, bearing date of 1220, has remained closed
since Murad IV, in 1638, conquered the city and
brought it under the permanent control of the
Turk.
In this barred portal one who chooses may
see a mute witness against a nation which is like
the locust which eats bare every country it en
ters, taking alt and giving nothing back. Tall,
gaunt, and alone, the gate towers amid desola
tion, for, as far as the eye can reach on either
side, the walls have either fallen through decay,
been torn away to make room for parks and
esplanades, which have not yet been built and in
all probability never will be.
It is no easy matter to come and go in modern
Bagdad; really to know the place is an achieve
ment which only long and intimate first-hand ex
perience can compass. The form of the town,
both in its eastern and western sections, is that
of an almost shapeless oblong (if the Irishism be
permitted), fori it has been built without the
slightest regard to regularity. The unpaved
streets are even more intricate and winding' than
those in oldest Boston, and are' so narrow that
two horsemen can scarce pass each other. The
houses resemble mausoleums in an American
cemetery, for there are no windows facing the
street and the small doors appear a very part of
the wall; one hardly knows them as doors, in
deed, until they are opened.
The roofs are flat, with parapets of consider
able height, and here, in summer, the people sleep,
tt well they might, for thermometer in June, July
and August registers 119 degrees at noon, 122
degrees at 2 o'clock, declining at sunset to 114
degrees. The native, who hates the governing
Pasha and hit Turkish associates as he does sin
(and rather more), would like to curse them for
the heat as he does for to many other things, but
he thinks better of it and goes to work for the
(relatively) cooler part of each hot day, in the
picturesque garden in almost every case attached
to the house. Here he raises pomegranates and
figs, oranges, lemons and date palms, products
which are in part consumed by the family, in part
are sold to the well-stocked bazars.
The depth of Bagdad's fall is best marked by
the political, legal and commercial corruption
everywhere obvious. Here is the straw which
showt how the winds of history are blowing. In
this traditional site of the Garden of Eden, nation
after nation has, through the centuries, been put
beyond the gates for eating of the fruit of corrupt
rule. Babylonian, Mede and Assyrian have thus
disappeared and today sees the fate of the Turk
the same. For him there can never be a reawak
ening of the pageantry of olden days. If there
are vast possibilities of development here, of
value not only to the inhabitants, but to the
world at large, they can be realized only as the
plains of Mesopotamia shall open a pathway to
the European, whereby they shall enter and re
claim this garden spot of so many dead civiliza
tions that "now are one with Nineveh and
Tyre." i
People and Events
For the first time in years a Chicago jury
convicted a woman of a crime. How it happened
is a mystery. She it young that is, under 30
quite good looking, a nurse by profession and was
found guilty of assisting in holding up a woman.
Possibly, had the held up a man, the jury would
have sent her on her way rejoicing.
Missouri lawmakers stage for next year an ex
tra pull on the purses of the auto crowd. A new
law fixes state license rates on the basis of horse
power, ranging from $4 per annum for twelve
horse power to $24 for seventy-horse power.
Cities are at liberty to exact license fees, but not
to exceed one-half the state rate. To make sure
that the money arrives at the state treasury a
supervisor of auto registration is provided for)
with a pie counter pull of $2,000 a year to start
with.
People out this way who indulge in the luxury
of hard coal at $13.25 a ton have a grievance
against the anthracite baront less acute than the
grievances of Scranton, Pa. Coal mining reared
the town and now threatens to destroy it. Many
parts of the surface are sinking into abandoned
coal shafts. Business buildings, private residences
and school buildings have collapsed, and water
and gas mains wrecked. The community it warm
all over and determined to make the coal digger!
pay, but hat not yet found a way.
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Health Hint for the Day.
Light Is & powerful germicide and
sunlight does Infinitely more good to
the persona living In a house than It
does harm to their carpets, wall
papers and pictures.
One Year Ago Today In tho War.
German crown prince carried the
French positions near Le Mort
Homme hill.
Italians made heavy Infantry at
tacks all along the Isonzo river front
and claimed capture of two strongly
fortified positions.
Grand Admiral von Tirpltz forced to
resign on account of Germany's con
troversy with the United States In re
gard to submarine warfare, the prin
ciples of which he conceived.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
The members of St Philips chapel
met for the purpose of organizing a
guild and the following officers were
elected: Cyrus Bell, president; Mrs.
W. R. Gamble, vice president; Miss
Mary Williams, recording secretary;
Miss Comfort Baker, corresponding
secretary, and J. Reed, treasurer.
Employes of S. P. Morse & Co. have
entered the field with a base ball club.
Challenges may be addressed to John
Kuhn.
"The Only Eek," accompanied by
his trainer, Steve Carlyle, and Frank
Dlngman, left for Minneapolis.
The wholesale and retail liquor
dealers In the city number 177.
At a benefit concert at Boyd's opera
house for F. M. Stelnhauser, the fol
lowing were on the program: Miss
Bertha Stelnhauser, Otto Beindorff, M.
P. Barnes, A. Blalfuss.
Peter Condon was Issued a permit
by Superintendent Whitlock to build
two one-story frame cottages on Thir
tieth near Hamilton at a cost of 1,000.
Assistant General Manager Cum
mings has taken charge of his duties
as acting general manager of the
Union Pacific General Manager Cal
laway has removed to the director's
room and will devote himself to the
duties of the vice president.
This Day in History
174S First town meeting held in
Faneutl hall, Boston.
1780 Mobile taken by Don Bern
ardo de Qalvez, Spariish governor of
Louisiana.
1782 Thomas H. Benton, first
United States senator from Missouri,
born in North Carolina. Died in
Washington, D. C, April 10, 1858.
1798 Interstate traffic In slaves for
bidden by the legislature ot New Jer
sey. 1840 David B. Henderson, speaker
of the national house ot representa
tives, 1899-1902, born In Scotland.
Died at Dubuque, la., February 26,
1906.
1863 Admiral Farragut passed
Fort Hudson on the Mississippi river.
1864 General Sherman succeeded
to the command of the military divi
sion of the Mississippi.
1883 Dr. Carl Marx, famous Ger
man socialist died In London. Born
at Treves, Prussia, May 6, 1818.
1892 Steamship Missouri sailed
from New York with supplies for the
starving peasants in Russia,
1900 President McKinley signed
the gold standard currency bill.
1910 Theodore Roosevelt arrived
at Khartoum on his return from his
African hunt.
1912 An attempt to assassinate the
king of? Italy was made by an anar
chist. 1916 House of representatives
adopted an emergency resolution to
Increase the army to its full strength.
The Day We Celebrate.
Morris Levy was born March 14,
1844,' In Germany. He went into busi
ness first In Olean, N. Y., in 1867, and
established the Nebraska Clothing
company in Omaha In 1886. Mr. Levy
has also served on the school board.
Dr. A. F. Tyler, physician, was born
March 14, 1881. He is a graduate of
Nebraska Wesleyan and Crelghton
Medical college.
Thomas R. Marshall, who has just
entered upon hit second term as vice
president of the United States, born
at North Manchester, Ind., sixty-three
years ago today.
William Graves Sharp, United States
minister to France, born at Mt Gilead,
O., fifty-eight years ago today.
Gaylord H. Saltzgaber, United States
commissioner of pensions, born at
Shelby, O., seventy-one years ago to
day. Charles Evans Hughes III, grand
son of the late ''republican candidate
for the presidency, born in.New York,
City, two years ago today.
Maxim Gorky, famous Russian nov
elist and reformer, born at Nljnt Nov
gorod, forty-nine years ago today.
William N. Seller, one ot the noted
pioneers of the motion picture indus
try in the United States, born in Chi
cago, fifty-three years ago today.
Charles F. Curry, representative in
congress of the Third California dis
trict born in Napervllle, 111., fifty
nine years ago today..
Storiette of the Day.
At the farmers' conference in the
country store the talk drifted to the
work done by the various wives of
the commitee present
"Wal," contributed Uncle Es, "my
wife is one in a million. She gets up
In the mornin', milks seventeen cows,
gete breakfast for ten hard-working
men before o'clock, by heck."
"She must be a very robust woman,"
volunteered the commercial traveler
who happened to be present
"No, stranger, she ain't what you'd
call so strong; she's more pale and
dellcatellke. Gosh!" with a burst of
enthusiasm "if that woman was only
strong, I don't know the work she
couldn't do!"
NEBRASKA EDITORS.
W. S. Alvia, editor of the Morrill Mall,
has contracted for eylindar Praia.
Tho Indianols Raportar. H. M. Woolman.
editor, has been enlarged to a six-eohrmn
quarto.
Hants' Hnektna. editor of tho Lincoln
Herald, Is a candidate for eocamlaatoner at
the capital city.
W. N. Hnnter, editor of the Syracuse
Democrat, has been nominated for poit.
master of hie town.
The Blab- Pilot cloaed Ita forty-Bit year
kef week. The present editor, Don C. Van
Dneen, has been at the helm for nearly ten
years.
John A. Barker, former owner of the
franklin Prtvreae, has started a new
paper at Keneaaw. The first leave of the
Keoeeaw Proarees made Its appearance , a
taw days aao.
T. W. Shanneeaey, who has beea con
nected with a aewapapor at Albion, Waah.,
has leaaed the Stelnaaer Star from C. W.
Peckham. The chance became effeetWe
bat week.
Carina Courier r The eld dare when oar
esteemed ubecribers brought in few eecka
of potatoee on anbecrrpttoa would be happy
nee shoals they coma arat tarn leering
the price to which spade hare aaotuted.
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Anti-Suffragists Recall an Episode.
Omaha, March 13. To the Editor
of The Bee: A press dispatch from
Seattle, Wash., declares that Mayor
Hiram Gill, the famous "reformed"
candidate; Chief of Police Charles L.
Beckingham and former Sheriff Rob
ert T. Hodge were indicted by the fed
eral grand Jury for violation of the
liquor laws. Similar Indictments were
also returned against four city detec
tives and a former policeman. There
are thirteen defendants in all, charged
Jointly with conspiracy.
Mayor Gill has had a lurid political
career. He was elected mayor of Seat
tle in March, 1910. His administra
tion was assailed for alleged toleration
ot vice and he was called the open
champion of the saloon and disorderly
house. In the spring of 1911, Gill was
removed from office by recall. This
event was heralded throughout the
country as a concrete demonstration
of the power of woman's vote! George
Creel wrote a wonderful story about
it in the Century magazine: Oddly
enough, before the atory was on the
news stands. Hiram Gill was re
elected mayor In 1914, by an enormous
majority, carrying every ward but one,
Including the residence precincts. He
was re-elected mayor again in March,
1916. It was alleged by the
suffragists that Mayor Gill had "re
formed" after his first "wide open"
administration. We await with inter
est the explanation of the recent in
dictments. "Better candidates when
women vote," 1b an old suffrage slo
gan. Hiram Gill is a sample of "how
it works."
NEBRASKA ASSN., OPPOSED TO
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
The Railway Mail Service.
Omaha, March 13. To the Editor
of The Bee: Having spent some six
years in the railway mail service I
speak with some knowledge, and I
can candidly say that conditions are
getting worse as the days go by. Judg
ing from the reports that come to me
about the service.
It is simply a case of misleading,
false economy. The men in charga
are taking advantage of the stress ot
important international affairs to "slip
one over on the public" and to create
a "fake" surplus by driving the clerks.
The methods are relics of monarchlal
oppression and tyranny. If everything
is square and business like about the
conduct of this branch of the Postof
flce department why is It necessary
to have a "gag rule" prohibiting
clerks, at the peril of losing their Jobs,
from talking to the public or giving
any information concerning this serv
ice? Why Is It necessary to make
these changes the minute congress ad
journs, when the clerks have no other
body to protest to? Why is It neces
sary to issue orders that reports of
malls delayed and carried by its des
tination shall be made orally and not
reduced to writing? Why Is It neces
sary to create the impression among
the clerks that to affiliate with a union
and the American Federation of Labor
might mean the loss of their Jobs for
"insubordination" or "for the good of
the service?" Why are the clerks told
that to strike is to conspire to delay
the mails and a violation of the fed
eral statutes? There can be but one
answer. The public must be kept in
Ignorance.
The contemplated changes will af
fect nearly every clerk running but of
Omaha, as well as hundreds of others
in this division. Many men will be
taken off the road and forced to move
away from the city or take a reduc
tion in salary or quit their Jobs. Mall
that has heretofore been worked on
the trains will be worked in terminals
as It was when the railway mall serv
ice was first organized years ago. It
means that clerks who have given the
best years of their lives to the service
will be forced to submit because there
is no other railway mail service to
which they can apply for a job and
use the knowledge they have acquired
and by which they have become ex
perts along this line of work.
The clerks, the men who know, are
unanimous in the opinion that the
changes will greatly decrease the ef
ficiency of the service and effect but
little saving, but even that saving
must come from the pockets of the
clerks themselves.
I know of no occuption which ex
acts from its men a greater physical
and mental strain, or subjects them to
such nervous strain, as does the rail
way mall service. .Every hour of a
clerk's time is at the disposal of the
department day or night Clerks are
subject to call for extra duty at any
time without extra compensation. The
eight-hour law does not apply to these
government employes. Laws are made
by the government to protect other
workers from their employers, but the
government neglects its own employes
In this respect. Beside road work, these
clerks are required to memorize thou
sands and thousands ot postoffices, to
keep at their finger tips every change
in train schedules and to learn the
shortest and quickest dispatch for any
piece of mail matter which might
come into their hands. After several
years in the service a clerk will have
memorised the postoffices In from ten
to fifteen states. There is no other
line of business where this informa
tion would be of value to them, or aid
them to make a living, consequently
clerks who have given the best years
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of their lives to the service must put
up with the conditions, for they cannot
afford to quit.
I am a democrat and a supporter of
the administration, but I cannot for
a single moment sanction this action.
Every democrat as well as republican,
every business man and public spirited
citizen has an Interest in this public
enterprise known as the Postofflce de
partment, and they should make ac
tive their protest against such depri
vation of the service and enslavement
of the workers. ALBERT E. MAY
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SMILING LINES.
8ncrlng- Cynic I luppoia ha Is all the
world to you.
8a tinned Lover Not xactly; she It til
I want of It twenty acres and a manalon
at Newport. Boston Transcript.
"I see that Lake Superior Is larger than
the state of Maine," said the New Yorker.
"Yes, but not so dry," replied the southern
colonel who had been there. Yonkera
Statesman.
"I've had a bit of luck. I picked up $100
day before yesterday, and learning this
morn In that It belonged to that old miser,
Marx, I returned It to htm."
"I see; and he gave you a reward."
"Oh, no; but he didn't charge me any
Interest for the two days I bad tt." Boston
Transcript.
"You claim to be an expert In scientific
research," eneered his wife.
"What of It, woman?"
"And yet every day I have to find your
spectacles for you." Pittsburgh Post.
"I say, old man, do you happen to have
a five you are not using?"
"Why, yes, here you are."
"Thanks! But, I say, this looks like a
counterfeit'
"It Is. That's why I'm not using It."
Louisville Courier-Journal.
WoVi CM I BREAK MV
l&t OWE ON HIM 1
"A loaf of bread a Jug of wine" began
the young man who quotes poetry.
"Are you aware," interrupted Miss Cay
enne, "that bread Is becoming more expen
sive -every day, and that this Is a prohibition
community, anyhow?" Washington Star.
The naval captain had granted a private
Interview with the cadet whose father had
been his boyhood friend.
"Well, youngster," he said Jovially, 1he
old story, I suppose tha fool of the family
sent to sea."
"Oh, i.o, sir." replied the bo : '"that has
all been altered since your day."' New
York Times.
"See here, Jibbs, didn't you telt me you
could marry Miss Fluff any time you wanted
to?"
"Well, yes. In a way, I had the refusal
of her hand." Baltimore American.
"What shall I call my theater?'
"The Oayety would be a good name. Or
you might call It the Frivolity."
"Out upon you. In these days of medical
plays? I'll Just call it the Pathological."
Louisville Courier-Journal.
STORY LAND.
Edger A. Ouest In Detroit Free Press.
When comes the night and all the tasks
The day has brought are done,
'Tls then the little fellow asks
For tales of battles won,
'Tls then he climbs upon my knee
And begs me to relate
Some story of the ships at sea
And all their precious freight.
We live with kings and princes then
And generals brave and bold;
We wander frtm the hauls of men
Where hearts are stern and cold.
And all is splendid where we stray.
And all the skies are bright.
The troubles that have lined the day
' Have all come out all right.
We chum with fine folk, he and I, "
The good, the kind, the wise;
The evil giants we defy
And mock their strength and size.
The goblins and the fairies, too,
Are loyal friends of ours,
And If perchance they've work to da
We help them paint the flowers.
We hoist our salts of shimmering gold
And put away to sea;
With gingerbread we pack the hold
As full as tt can be.
And out toward the setting sun
Wa glide until we find
The port of Happiness and Fun.
Where care Is left behind.
When comes the night the sorrows fly.
And all the cares depart.
I put the long day's burdens by
And rest my weary heart.
By train, by fairy coach or ship,
Whichever pleases best,
To story land we take a trip
And there awhile we rest.
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