THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 1917
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local news mipA 'U. f f v
Silence reigns Inithe wheat pit,, but business
goes' on just the same.
The gloom of the situation in Russia brightens
slightly on the northern side. King Winter is on
the way ''
i With a stock of eighty barrels of malted kicks
on the premises, who willjruartnfte the safety of
the city bastiU? v ;
It is inferred from the number of labor strikes
threatened and underway that war profiteers will
not get away with all the loot.
Pulling off fake plots may be amusing, but
Uncle Sam is in no mood for practical jokes.
This line of humor needs the soothing influence
of refined repression.
The economic pinch in Austria increases with
the days. In one form or another Retribution
overtakes the guilty authors of world slaughter,
And the worst is yet to come, i '
Denver is making desperate fight to get the
Wyoming business away from Omaha. Same am.
bitious spirit that once tried to take the Union
Pacific headquarters out to the base of the
Rockies. . "' ' . - V
' City corns, complaining of deficits, do little
credit to their business foresight with tht Audi
torium to be had without price. A few stalking
shows could be staged and all the easy money
turned into empty funds.
Government reports of the treatment ot war
prisoners in Germany ihow wider application of
calculated cruelty than Ambassador Gerard ob
served in the camps of British captives. The
records of Libby and Andersonville shrink to
gentleness beside German efficiency in this line.
Bulls and bears alike fatten on Munchausen
rumors. The gamble is not so much to the strong.
Alertness and speed in outjfut of bunk constitute
the chief factors in t shakedown, Tuesday's ram
page in New York stock pits exhibit! tht game
in all its trappings of scarss, fears and deception!,
As a measure of national hilarity congress
might abolish the age limit and conscript into the
ranks not only the knockers and backfirers, but
lso those who think they know how the cam
paign ahould be managed. A little thing like
overage ahould not stop the admission of high
grade curbstone talent
. The published list of promoters of the so-called
People's Peace council meeting at Chicago fairly
reveals the pro-German purpose of the oraginza
U'on. If any doubt on that point remains St is
cleared away by the sonorous cheers of the audi
ence for "Kamerad Bill." Whether meant for
Potsdam or Chicago does not alter the note. ,
Belgium seems doomed to the same ravage
ment which, marks every, foot of France trodden
by the invader. . Stripping Belgian factories Of
equipment is in keeping with the numberless
horrors heaped upon innocent people by mili
tary tyrants. There, as in France, wanton de
struction and pitiless death will ever map the
region.. where passed the Hun. .'
Unshaken confidence in 'ihe success of the
Irish , constitutional convention is expressed by
Sir Horace Plunkett.' As" chairman of that body
he is competent to interpret the patriotic spirit
of the members. While destructive elements mo
nopolize publicity and beat the drums of discon
tent the convention bends it! energies toward
constructive work for all Ireland. The greatest
need of the Emerald isle is mdre practical work
and fewer political dreams. ' ' ,
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Who Started the War?
Seizing on disclosures made by testimony taken
in the trial of M. Soukhomlinoff, Chancellor Mi
chaelis seeks to shift to Russia blame for starting
the war. Adroitly twisting statements made at
the trial, the chancellor argues that Germany had
been forced by Russian activities to prepare
against an invasion and was therefore merely
guarding its own in preparing to counteract the
Russian program. But this clever sophistry can
not be convincing because it cannot be accepted
without due consideration of contradictory
evidence.
It has been developed, however, without chal
lenge that as early as 1908 Russia had been
warned of an impending crisis; this was in con
nection with the movement already under way
for the reformation of the Russian army and navy.
Scandals growing out of the war with Japan had
not been forgotten and at least a pretense was be
ing made to put the czar's military establishment
on a firmer basis. This could hardly have been
interpreted as presaging the invasion of Ger
many. Russia's weakness for the offensive had
been too well demonstrated to warrant any such
conclusion. .
On the other hand, the czar's government was
repeatedly warned of hostile German plans; prep
arations by the kaiser's army were carried on
under such conditions that all the world was
apprised of some intent beyond possible "defense
of the .empire"; and nafuratly Germany's neigh
bors were apprehensive. Since the Russian revo
lution proof has been adduced to confirm what
was suspected, that the German war board was
fully informed as to the weakness of the Russian
army. This was well known and given its full
value by the shrewd manipulators, who could
not have felt Germany to be in any danger from
the north. If no other proof were present, the
fact that as soon as Germany was ready to strike
the blow was launched against France must con
vince any that the czar's forces had little terror
for the kaiser, who realized his first move must
be in another direction. -
, Who started the war 'is not for the present of
paramount importance, for most of us are con
cerned about who is to ei?d it. But when history
is written nbt much time will be wasted over
considering the present German assertion that
Russia is responsible, unless the very weakness
of the country may be accepted as a contributing
cause. ' - .
Shipping Grain by Southern Routes.
Eastern commission men and shipping agents
present the principal objections to the plan of
the food administration board to deflect to south
ern ports the course of outbound western grain
shipments.. This was to have been expected.
Firms and organizations that iave long con
trolled the export grain movement are not willing
to give up their grip on the trade just ndw. Prin
cipal of the points on which objection rests is the
lack of facilities for handling shipments at the
southern ports. The same may be laid against
the Atlantic harbors, as evidenced by the experi
ence of the last two years, when millions of tons
of freight have been unloaded on the ground
miles from the water because of the blockade of
docks and switch yards by outgoing goods. It
was to relieve this condition the control board
proposed to route ,watern grain designed for1 ex
port by way of gulf oorts'and with no intention
to destroy the prestige of the eastern, harbors.
Shippers should have the benefit of all available
means, for the question, iavolved is one of trans
portation and not the supremacy of any single
section. In the end the. question between land pr
water service for ,the long haul will easily be
answered in favor of the cheaper and therefore
more effective method. '.'
Labor's Attitude Towards the, War, .
The gathering at Minneapolis of a body of
men under the name of the American Alliance for
Labor and Democracy.' no matter from what
source it may draw its authbrity, at least hit the
sanction of leaders of organized labor throughout
the country. Samuel Gompera is present as. an ac
tive participant and among -others are such well
known former socialists as John Scargo, A. M. Si
mon, J. Stitt Wilson, Rose Pastor Stokes and her
husband, who left the party because of the at
titude the socialists took under control of Victor
Bergep and Adolph Germer. This quality of the
convention will give it a standing it might not
have had otherwise. Its influence is expected to
counteract the efforts of the anti-war party pre
tending to speak for the working class.
To some this may seem to be unnecessary, for
the great bodies of union men holding conven
tions throughout the United State!, fairly repre
sentative of the American, labor movement,' have'
all adopted patriotic resolutions, pledging their
members to the support of the government. .The
loyalty of labor as iwhole has not been ques
tioned, despite effort! to make it appear to the
contrary." Group action on the war issue stili is
open to question as to expediency or desirability,
but if labor must be heard from it is well that it
should speak through such an assemblage as that
row meeting in Minneapolis, rather than to be
misrepresented by such a group as was dispersed
in Chicago by the stat authorities. ""
That the MacMillan party that has been ex
ploring in the; Arctics snce the summer of 1913 is
safe and isound and back again is a good thing
from the purely human viewpoint of the public
that has had to keep agonized from year to year
over the problem as to whether these explorers
were alive or dead. . But thii expedition, which in
many ways has repeated the fatuitiei ot so many
Arctic and Antarctic expeditions, apparently is
still under the glamor of the north and MacMillan
is "to do it again," but this time in airplanes. Well,
let the airplanes be used, if they are in being, but
it is to be hoped that American men of science
some time will get over talking so much nonsense
about the scientific value of the various Arctic
expeditions and will settle down to some common
sense estimate of the things actually accomplished
in the far north, allowing for the overweening
glamor that we all have agreed to throw over
anyone who dares the dangers of the frozen poles,
be he foolhardly or not The existence or non
existence of Crocker Land has been much over
done for one thing, and, as all astronomers and
meteorologists and physicists know, the alleged
scientific value of the far northern discoveries, save
as occasions for the display of human endurance
and intrepidity, purely physical and psychological
phenomena, have been much exaggerated, so why
not a pause in Arctic adventures, save on the prin
ciple that those who go must be sufficient unto
themselves and neither ask nor expect relief?
There are other achievements that await the intre
pid that will mean more for the world than the re
. counting of one ice mass, more or less, or tht
faming of new glacier , ,-. ,4,
PatriotUm and Cold Feet
Two events of interest to Irish-Americans and
the public at large were staged in the east a few
days ago. They are notable chiefly for present
ing opposing sides of the Irish spirit developed
by the war. The old side and the right side shone
forth in the departure of the famous Sixty-ninth
regiment for its camp to train for tctivt service.
Official New York feasted the troopers and mul
titudes wildly cheered them along the marching
route. It .was the third response to the .call to
the color! the first as a unit of the Irish brigade
in 1861, again in 1898, and the present time. Its
history abounds with deeds of daring end valor
worthy of the "ould iod" from which it! mem-
bers sprang. All through the "Battle of the See-
tions," from'Bull Run to Richmond," the Sixty-
ninth fought for the union, winning laurels at
Malvern Hill, Antietam and Fredericksburg, los
ing two-thirds of its members in twenty minutes
charging the stone wall on Marye'a heights. .
Contrast this1 inspiring record of "the fighting
race with appeals for exemption for Irish aliens
of Boston from service under the Stars ' and
Stripes. Taking their cue from German propa
gandists crying "Friends of Irish Freedom," ap
peal to President Wilson for relief. The claim ii
made . that ,. Irish-born : aliens, seeking politics
asylum in this country ahould enjoy the same
immunity from compulsory military service they
enjoyed at home.
Comment on the claim is "not needed to em
phasize the surprising character of the contrast
It is sufficient to point out readiness for serv
ice, on one side and the gratifying rarity of Ire
land's Jot$ resisting service under the American
The Child Labor Law
By Frederic J. Haskin
Washington. Sept. 3. On September 1 the
child labor law went into effect The United
States government has constituted itself the
guardian of all children under 14 years of age and
some children under 16 years of age, depending
on certain circumstances. It will not permit any
child under 14 to work in a cannery, workshop
or cotton mill and it forbids any . child under
16 to work m a mine or quarry.
Many parents who for years have enjoyed a
comfortable income by the hire of their progeny,
as well as many employers, who have enjoyed an
even more comfortable iucome by the same cir
cumstance, are indignant. In many places par
ents are constructing clever plans for evading it,
and in North Carolina the matter has already
been taken to court on the grounds that the law
is unconstitutional.
A visit to the United States children's bureau,
which has been charged with the execution of the
law, might prove enlightening to the North Caro
lina agitators and save rebellious parents a great
deal of useless thinking. The' children's -.bureau
has added a whole new department to its organiza
tion for the sole purpose of seeing that the child
labor law is enforced. There are professional
investigators, detectives, lawyers, doctors arid
sociologists in this department, all trained spe
cialists in child welfare work.
The chief is a Chicago woman. Miss Grace
Abbot, who was associated with Jane Addams at
Hull 'House for several years. "I am very glad
the matter has been taken to court she asserted
when asked what she thought ot the North Caro
lina action. "The sooner it if fought through the
courts the sooner we will get a decision." Obvi
ously, Miss Abbot is not kept awake nights wor
rying about an adverse decision.
Miss Julia Lathroo, heid of th. children s
bureau, deserves great credit for the law. She
has long been investigating the question of infant
mortality in various parts of the country with an
idea 10 improving, u possioic, some 01 me a lar ra
ng conditions that impair child life.
In this investigation Miss Lathrop soon dis
covered that the great secret of infant mortality
was economic conditions. She found hundreds of
homes where fathers made auch lowvages that
mothers were compelled to work, too. The babies
were left at home alone all day and fed at infre
quent intervals; the homes themselves were nat
urally unkempt, the ventilation inadequate and the
flies prolific. Consequently many babies die,
which is fortunate, for those who remain are
escorted to the industrial market at the earliest
age at which they can be smuggled in usually
under 12 and are forced to become a part of the
industrial routine. In some states this means
or meant up to September I working ten hours
a day or ten hours a night according to the shift.
The sew federal law establishes eight hours as
the "maximum working day.
While the parents are primarily responsible,
however, it is only through the employers that
the government can control the exploitation of
children. Parents even in the face of a law to the
contrary would doubtless invent and connive ways
of working their children. But when employers
are subject to fine and imprisonment every time
they employ a child under 14 years old it is prac
tically certain that they are not going to take any
cnances. inus me cnua laoor jaw piaces tne re
sponsibility upon the employers. It reads: '
'That no producer, manufacturer or dealer
shall ship or deliver for shipment in interstate or
foreign commerce any article or commodity the
product of any mine or quarry situated in the
United States in which within thirty days prior
to the time of removal of such product therefrom
Children under the age of 16 have been employed
or permitted to work; or any article or commodity
the product of any mill, cannery, workshop, fac
tory or manufacturing establishment situated in
the united states, etc."
But in' enforcing this law Miss Lathrop and
Miss Abbot of the children's bureau intend to
leave no loophole uncovered. They are going to
Investigate the registration of children by parents
as well as their;, employment. Birth certificates
or other absolute evidence must be produced by
parents to show that their children are of em
ployment age, and these will be closely scrutinized
by public inspectors.
The need for such a restriction as the present
child labor law has been felt for many years. One
by one itates themselves took the matter into
their own bands and prohibited the employment
of children under 14 in various occupations, and
in some state! even greater restrictions have been
placed upon the employment of children than
are contained in the new federal law. California,
for example, has an age limit of 10 years for boys
and 18 years for girjs engaged in any street occu
pation; of IS years for both if employed by a
mercantile, manufacturing or mechanical estab
lishment, : workship, office, ' laundry, place of
amusement, hotel, apartment house, errand deliv
ery and messenger service, and of 16 years if
engaged in any dangerous occupation. Moreover,
the eight-hour day, forty-eight-hour week, is sus
tained by law. '
On the other hand. North Carolina sets the
age limit for employment in mines at 12 years; at
I J years for employment in factories, and sus
tains an eleven-hour day, or a sixty-hour, week.
The state objected to tne federal law on the
ground that the work of children was necessary
to the support of their families, yet an investiga
tion made of one mill district disclosed the fact
that the average family income was $25.50 a week.
In one family, where the father was a-roving
hauler, the mother staved at home and four girls
and one boy worked in the mill, the weekly in
come was 47.y. -
Which goes to show that child labor is not an
economic necessity in most cases, and where it is,
it is up to the Associated Chanties to lend a hand.
For from now on the children's bureau is pledged
to keep every child under 14 in' school and give
him his chance, no matter what may be the ideas
of his parents. 1
Duty of Irishmen
Waahinftoa Foot-
With traditional valor Irishmen are now fight
ing in the ranki of the British, French and Ca
nadian armies.' In numbers equally as great the
representatives of Ireland are to be found in the
American armies now in France or soon to enter
the cantonments of the United States., r There
haye been some Irishmen in America who still
denounce England and to these T. P. O'Connor.
the enlightened Irish leader, addressed his recent
warning; . .
"You cannot hurt America without,, hurting
England; you cannot hurt Engtaijd witfiput, at
the same time, hurting America; you cannot hurt
America without hurting Belgium, Poland,?France,
Italy and the Christian subjects of the Turk.
Evervbodv who attacks the allies of America
hurts not only the honor and security of America,
but does hi! best to prevent the. liberation of bel
flrd.M PAlan nrf A1ftar.T irr!n
"Even if I thought it ooisible I know it
would not be possible to purchase Irish liberty
by selling the hopes of Belgium, Alsace-Lorraine,
found, Italy or Armenia, 1 wouia retuse to ac
cept a liberty bought at so ignoble a sacrifice
of the libertiea of other!."
The real spirit of Ireland is revealed in the
patriotic words of the Irish editor and statesman.
While the free peoples of the world fight against
autocracy domestic issues must be subordinated.
The war in which the democracies of the world
. . .1 1 a r j -
are engaged nas sircngincnca uic cause 01 uc
mocracv even in its abiding places. The stand
ard has been raised not merely for those against
whom democracy is fighting, but for democracy
itself.
, Ireland's best interest lies m a successful con
elusion of the present war and those who would
delay this result by insidious arguments designed
to destroy the harmonious association of the na-
tions fighting against the German government
renacr poor service w mc yiiui iiiamiicii nnu,
as privates and as officers, are demonstrating their
loyalty to the cause of freedont
One Year Ago Today In the War.
Bulgar-German Invaders took 20,000
Roumanian prisoners.
French continued their attack along
the Somme, capturing several Ger
man trenches.
In OnmhA Thirty Years .Ago.
Miss Maud McClure, the bright lit
tle daughter of E. McClure, the
genial railway representative, has left
for Richmond, IrnJ., to attend Earlhara
college.
Dr. Charles Kuhlman has left for
the east to attend medicine lectures,
and will be absent one year. '
While John Kellett was attempting
to remove the eagle which Ed Rothery
had captured at Cut-Off lake from one
cage to another, the bird escaped and
attacked Rothery's bulldog, "Pete."
After a fierce fight, during which the
bird tried to gouge out Pete's eyes,
the. dog made a sideward ' movement
and catching the bird's neck soon had
Its head in his mouth the result be
ing a deail eagle.
Little-Charlie Thacker of Fifth and
Center was run down by a fiery span
of horses, fracturing one of his legs.
He was cared for by City Physician
Rr-lph.
The Omaha wheelmen, reinforced by
the Council Bluffs Bamblers and a
delegation from Flattsmouth, gave a
big parade, in which Messrs. Coombs
and Jolllffe rode the Humber tandem
decorated with Japanese hangings.
Little Ida Cahlll, while riding a re
volving wooden horse at the fair, be
came suddenly sick and fainted in
the arms of her little 6-year-old
brother, who rode on the next horse.
The following students made a neat
and artistic display of woodwork and
drawing at the fair: F. Stockdale,
Frank Kenhedy, Arthur Shields, Ed
W. Thomas, W. a Rogers.' W. W.
Smith, J. B. Moore, M Nelson, Helen
Copeland, Allan Marsh, Roy Arnold,
Bert Goodman, H. T. Copeland. O. W.
Auchmoedy, Oscar Nast, Eunice Bteb
bins, M. Schwartz, Robert Allen and
J. Btephenson.
This Day in History.
1767 Marquis de Lafayette., the
famous friend of America in the revo
lution, born in Auvergne. Died in
Paris May 20, 1834.
1781 New London, Conn., was
plundered and burned by Benedict
Arnold.
1814 General Macomb retired m-ith
the Array of the North, from Pitts
burgh to the south bank of the Sara
nae river.
1817 Alexander T. Gait famous
Canadian statesman, bora in Chelsea,
England. Died la Montreal Septem-
oer is, 1883.
1821 General AlvJn P. Hovey, civil
war commander and governor of Indi
ana, born in Posey county, Indiana.
Died at Indianapolis November i,
1881. ...
1862 A large body of confederates
under General Henry Heth, apeared on
tne Kentucky side or tne Ohio river
opposite Cincinnati. I
186! Pierre Aflolph Host, wno Was
confederate commissioner to Spain in
the civil war, died in New Orleans.
Born in France about 1797.
1875 A con,ventioa. met at Mont
gomery to frame a new constitution
for Alabama.
1914 First phase of the German in
vasion of France terminated with the
battle of the Marne.
The Day We Celebrate,
Patrick J. Doran, clerk at the Union
Pacific shops, was born September 6,
1882, He is a native son of Omaha
and has worked at different times for
the Cudahy and Armour packing com
panies and the Omaha street department.
Howard E. Coffin, head of the muni
tions and manufacturing committee
of the National Council Of Defense,
born at West Milton, O., forty-four
years ago today.
Rowland K. Froth ero, president or
the board. of agriculture in the Brit
ish cabinet born sixty-five years ago
today.
Sir Joseph P. Maclay, shipping con
troller of Great Britain, born sixty
years ago today.
M. Yves Guyot, one of the greatest
living economists, born at Dlnan,
France, seventy-four years ago today.
Miss Jane Addams, noted sociologist,
born at Cedatville, 111,, 'fifty-seven
years ago today.
James K. llackett, noted actor and
manager, born at Wolfe Island, Ont,
forty-eight years ago today. ,
Urban C. Faber, pitcher of the Chi
cago American league base ball team,
born at Cascade, la., twentyflve years
ago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
France Is to hold a national celebra
tion today in honor of the double anni
versary of the birth of Lafayette and
the battle of the Marne.
A feature of the Lafayette day cele
bration in Paris will be the raising on
the Hotel de Ville of a handsomely
embroidered American flag presented
to the French capital by the city of
Philadelphia.
In celebration of the Marne battle
anniversary, Marshal Joffre is to be
presented today with the solid gold
emblem designed to commemorate the
recent visit of the famous soldier to
New York City. 1
The Lafayette day national commit
tee has sent a letter of mayors of cities
throughout the United States urging
a widespread observance today of the
anniversary of thS birth of Lafayette,
the friend of America in the revolu
tion. New York City's contribution to the
Lafayette day celebratton will consist
of exercises in, the city hall this after
noon, the program to Include an ora
tion by Dr. . Henry Van Dyke and the
reading of a poem written for the
occasion by -Dr. John:H. Finly.
The annual meeting of the Amer
ican Bar association at Saratoga is
to be concluded this evening with a
dinner, at which the principal address
will be delivered by Maitre Gaston de
Leval, the eminent "Bruwells lawyer
who defended Edith CJavell.
Jesse Pomeroy. long known as the
most famous prisoner in the United
States, today enters upon his forty
second year as an Inmate Of the state
prison at Charlestown, Mass. It will
be the first anniversary the prisoner
has spent outside the solitude of his
cell. After more than forty years
spent ' in solitary confinement Pome
roy has recently been permitted to
mingle with his fellow convicts by
order of the governor.
Storyette of the Day.
An American editor had a notice
stuck up above his desk that read:
"Accuracy! Accuracy! Accuracy!" And
this notice he always pointed out to
new reporters.
One day the youngest member of
the staff came in with his report of
a public meeting. The editor read
it through and came to the. sentence:
"Three thousand nine hundred and
ninety-nine eyes were fixed upon the
speaker."
"What do you mean by making a
silly blunder like that?" he de
mandsd, wrathfully. , '
"But It's not a blunder." protested
the youngster. "There was a one-eyed
man in the audience!" London TU
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Question of Toleration. ,J
Omaha. Sept. 4. To the Editor of
The Bee: A communication signed
"American" and published in the sev
eral Omaha papers pleads for the:
Americans to be more tolerant towaro
people of German nationality In this
country. Fact is we have been too tol
erant tolerant to a fault. If we had
sternly suppressed the German propa
ganda in this country and if the Ger
mans had supported this country be
fore war with the same energy that
they used in traducing it and if the
Germans had not Tooled the German
empire into believing that they could
keep us from defending ourselves
there would have been no war by us.
German-Amertcan loyalty to Germany
and German-American disloyalty to
our own country encoftraged Germany
to make war against us. Let them
reap their whirlwind. Some Germans
are very loyal to us.
We haw to keep soldiers stationed
about bridges, elevators, factories and
other places to keep German enemies
from destroying them. Even then ar
son is rampant, German societies sing
songs of disloyalty and in German
neighborhoods ' they refuse to help
American neighbors thresh their grain.
Tolerance will soon cense to be a vir
tue, for disloyal persons will take it
to be a weakness or cowardice. Yours
truly, AMERIKA.
"Culinary Science."
Fremont, Sept 8. To' the Editor of
The Bee: I want to thank you for
the editorial publicity given the idea
of the establishment of the chair of
culinary science in the Nebraska uni
versity. I have had this idea in my
mind for more than two years, but
have never let go of It because I was
not in a position to give it the proper
send-off; but I do not believe it is any
more of a craxy idea than some of tha
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Campbell, Pugsley, Condra and other
pioneers, and I believe it will get at
the root of conservation in our food
supply. R. D. . M'FADDAN.
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