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The real battle will open at Lincoln tomorrow.
Save the wheat; eat the substitutes, or eat
less, for we must have wheat to win the war.
Pacifists may now see how readily the Teuton
war lord is turned from his purpose by honeyed
words.
Hurling 9-inch shells 75 miles establishes a
new record, cither for the artillerists or the fic
tion writers.
The British bulldog never showed better than
he does right now, at death grip with the huge
German boar.
Rudyard Kipling named the Russian bear
Adam ?ad, and B. L. T. says the bear now pre
sents Adam Zad spectacle.
Will "King Arthur" be able to hold back the
censure that threatens the senator? That is the
' real question before the house.
Newton D. Baker is now getting some val
uable first hand information as to the effects of
pacifism and delay in face of danger.
Nebraska has 2,568 name on the state pay
roll, and when you add the county and city lists
-o this, it will show that if we are not well gov
erned it is not because we haven't enough bosses.
Through the cloud of litigation it fs neverthe
'css clear that the short cut to "votes-for-women"
n Nebraska is still a submission of a suffrage
tmendment to the state constitution by the Initi
ilive route.
A speeder was let off by one of our sapient
police judges because the arresting officer said
"hell" in telling his story. Here Is t tip to auto-
i;ts: If you must be arrested, have an impulsive
policeman do it. - -
Thousands on .thousands of German soldiers
v, ent down in death's red ruin, charging in the
face of a concentrated fire from modern weapons,
and the kaiser, impiously telegraphs his wife that
"the Lord has gloriously aided." What message
d comfort will he send the homes he has deso
lated to serve his insane ambition?
Control of Street Traffic.
Establishment of the "near side" stop rule
'or street cars in Omaha has occasioned a little
:onfusion, and brought out some objection. It
jives occasion, too, for the discussion of the gen
ial topic of street traffic control, which finally
csts on individual behavior. , Until the individ
sal, whether pedestrian, autoist, truck driver, or
whatever he may be, learns to consider the rights
if others as well as his own, and to so regulate
lis movement on the streets as to occasion least
:onfusion, best results will not be had. Careless
ar thoughtless persons are responsible for traffic
jams and street accidents. Omaha's street traffic
, is steadily growing, and with the increase wilt
; come more rigid regulation of movement. For
the present each person using the street may
. help a littte by being more careful. As far as
the near side stop is concerned, it is nearly the
: jniversal rule in America, and has been found
o be the more convenient and by far the safer
, where heavy traffic is handled. Omahans will
Deecune accustomed to it in time, and will learn
how to get around without getting in one an
other's way. Pedestrians and drivers will come
:o a better understanding, each recognizing that
rights are not exclusive, and by the exercise
Df a" little forebearance will assist in avoiding
jams. And, finally, the straphanger may dangle
nd sway in the knowledge that he is but one of
millions of his fellow countrymen in a similar
nx, because no genius has yet devised a street
:ar that will hold everybody who wants to ride
j;i it during the rush hours. Be patient, and play
.' safety first always.
PROGRESS OF THE GREAT BATTLE.
So far the progress of the great battle now
raging in northern France is disclosed by the
brief telegrams received, two things are made
clear. The German advance has been secured at
a cost that is fairly stupefying, while the British
army is sustaining the brunt of the attack. Be
yond this surmise must take the place of cer
tainty. Mention of American troops in the dis
patches from Berlin is discounted at Washington,
where no information of the engagement of any
of Pershing's forces is given.
A Reuter correspondent estimates the German
losses at 30 to SO per cent of units engaged. This
outlines the price German high command is will
ing to pay for success, and which must carry
with it a heavy penalty in form of broken morale
in event of failure to achieve a distinct victory.
The map shows that on a front of some 21 miles
Hindenburg has pushed his advance over about
half the distance he relinquished in his "strategic"
retreat before Haig.
Hindenburg's ultimate objective is only to be
guessed at; strategists differ in opinion, some
holding Paris to be the point sought, others the
Channel ports. To attain either, he must break
through a strongly held line of defense. Com
petent observers believe this to -be beyond his
power. In the end, these insist, Germany will
have lost the decisive battle of the war through
sheer inability to carry it to a definite conclusion.
Many days may elapse before a decision will be
reached.
Haig's tactics are those of a skillful and pru
dent commander, who has managed his enforced
withdrawal with great tact. ' The force he can
put into his return blow will fix the value of the
whole great operation.
Getting the Short End of It.
What have Douglas county taxpayers to show,
present or prospective, for all the money they
have been paying into the state bridge fund?
This fund was provided for by act of the legis
lature of 1911, to defray half the cost of con
structing bridges across any stream wider than
175 feet (the other half to be paid by the county
or counties in which the bridge is located), the
fund "being replenished through , a percentage
levy upon all the taxable property in Nebraska.
According to the records, the aggregate
amount levied so far for state-aided bridges is
$568,387, of which Douglas county's share was
$56,053, or almost exactly 10 per cent. In a
word, Douglas county taxpayers have been for
seven years putting into this fund without draw
ing a single dollar out or getting any visible di
rect return. .
The one and only place where Douglas county
people could benefit by this fund is through the
construction of a toll-free bridge across the
Platte at some point where it forms the boundary
between this county and Saunders county. If
anything is to be done in this direction within the
next year, application must be made before the
April meeting of the State Board of Irrigation.
Our Automobile club, and automobile owners,
generally, upon whom the tax levied by the toll
bridges falls, ought to take this subject in hand.
At any rate, after paying 10 per cent of the whole
state-aid bridge fund, Douglas county ought to
have some consideration in the expenditure of
the money and not be left to take the short end
of it forever.
American Leaders of Opinion
British Reporter1 s Sketches of National Qelebritus
Colonisation of Courland.
Announcement from Germany that a colony
of 50,000 is to be sent into Courland, to extend
the Gcrmanization of that section, might suggest
to the casual reader that such a process is some
thing in the way of an innovation. The con
trary is true. Courland, Esthonia, Livonia and
other of the Baltic regions have long been under
the influence of German elements. Enterprising
merchants, mechanics, farmers and workmen
have pushed across the border and established
themselves, until a considerable intermixture of
German blood has tinctured the original popula
tion, carrying with it German ideas and to some
extent German ideals. Not so very many years
ago it was said of Riga it was a. much a German
as a Russian port, facial differences between
the Teuton and the Lett, for example, are not so
sharp, nor so irreconcilable, as those between
the Teuton and the Slav or the Czech. In the
latter half of the eighteenth century Catherine II
found it expedient, in the pursuit of her benefi
cent purpose of developing Russia, to invite immi
grants from Germany. One considerable colony
was planted in the Black sea region, where today
the German language at least persists. Proof of
this is found among the Mennonites who have
settled in the Dakotas, whose tongue is German.
Whether these facts are entitled to any especial
weight in the present crisis, they are submitted
as proof that the Germanization of Russia,, was
long ago commenced, and that it has made con
siderable progress in a century and a half.
The German mind seems to work only one
way, a conclusion warranted by the fact that they
are trying- the same sort of propaganda on the
soldiers on the west front that disorganized the
Russians and Italians. They will find the Amer
icans, British and French have quite as much
imagination as any, and far more of reason to
keep on fighting. They have lived in liberty and
know what it is better than any German can
tell them.
Frank Dilnot in London Chronicle.
The highest American type which
evolving itself from a mixed condition of
race reacted upon by traditions, by climate,
by isolation from Europe, and all the vary
ing incidental influences, has a composite
distinctive nature which will afford wide
fields of study for the historian. An Eng
lishman is apt to form hasty judgments
when he comes into contact with some spe
cial strongly marked side of the American
character. To get any kind of just estimate
it is well to draw conclusions from those
who have been selected for positions in
leadership.
I went down to Oyster Bay to see Mr.
Roosevelt, ex-president of the United States,
and one of the national figures. I was a
stranger to him. I drove out from the sta
tion a couple of miles or so to a house of
the bungalow type, in a country district
quite close to the sea. The house looked
rather bare and, like the majority of Ameri
can residences, its ground had no hedges
giving privacy from the road or from ob
servation. I walked up the 100 yards of drive and
knocked at the door. It was opened by a
rather short, heavily-built man in tweed
coat, knickerbockers, grey worsted stockings
and heavy boots, apparently hobnailed. I
knew from the pictures in the paper that it
was Colonel Roosevelt.
I told him I was a newspaper correspond
ent from Europe. "Come in, he said; "glad
to see you. I nope you are not going to ask
me anything for publication." I told him I
had come only to introduce myself, and to
have a talk with him if he would allow me.
"Come right in and take off your overcoat,"
he said. He helped me to remove it. Then
with a most cordial manner he took me into
his library before a blazing fire, and intro
duced me to a friend of his. He put me in
a comfortable rocking chair, seated himself
in another a couple of yards away, and pro
ceeded with a warmness and friendliness
and confidence which I should never forget.
He talked about national affairs, about
the state of things in Europe. He asked
me many questions about England, and his
comments were a mixture of wisdom, of wit
and boisterousness, salted all the time with
an Americanism as stimulating, as it was
frank. One gets an inadequate idea of Mr.
Roosevelt from his published pictures. There
is in him a strong mixture of suavity and
gentleness. He is filled with the desire to
know other people's point of view He has a
Rift of phrase which makes his conversation
delightful. His complete trust In a compara
tive stranger's discretion was in itself a
tribute to his own sincerity
It might be possible to dislike Mr. Roose
velt's politics, it would be well-nigh impos
sible to dislike the man . himself. He is one
of those rare personalities who would have
gladdened the heart of Robert Louis Steven
son. His glittering teeth, his beetling
brows, his pugnacious jaw, his voice rising
almost to a childish treble, as he gave point
to a joke or a pungent phrase, were but the
expressions of a rich, rare spirit. He swayed
himself to and fro in his, rocking chair and
talked not only about tlye present-day poli
tics and the war, but about the time when he
was president, and he did it in a full flood of
enjoyment and satisfaction which it is impos
sible to reproduce in print. There is a cer
tain boyishness about him which is attractive
in itself. The hour I spent with him was
full of good things. I wondered whether it
would be as easy to get access to the per
sonality of any ex-prime minister of Britain.
I went down to Washington one day and
called at the treasury on Mr. McAdoo,
America's chancellor of the exchequer, one
of the right-hand men of the president and
a man spoken of as a possible successor, to
Mr. Wilson. His secretary, jn an outer of
fice in , the midst of a multitude of corre
spondence, callers and telephone conversa
tions, was as courteous as if he had known
me for vears, He was but a reflection of
his chief.
Mr. McAdoo sent out word that he had
someone with him, but could I wait just a
minute? When I went in I found a tall,
spare man with lean, acute, sharp-featured
face, and bright eyes. He grasped me by
the hand and treated me with a confidence
which was as refreshing from a high official
as it was delightful. In him, one of the po
litical opponents of Mr. Roosevelt, I 'found
the same directness, vigor and. if I may so
express it, simplicity. He is one of the keen
est statesmen, as well as one of the cleverest
business organizers in the United States. He
talked to me like a fellow journalist. In him
again I found that absence of reserve, that
trust in the man facing him, which is one
of the truest indications of a big nature.
Withal, he gave me an impression of power
and of grip which one seeks in vain in
smaller men, in those who so often assume
a mantle of reserve or of artfulness to cover
deficiencies. '
Mr. Elihu Root, ex-secretary of state, is a
great lawyer, moving orator, and by many
regarded as the greatest administrative in
tellect in the country. I talked with him in
his business office down town in New York
just, before America entered into the war.
Mr. Root is a square-faced, grim-looking
man, who might be 50 instead of 70. It is
said that nothing could have kept him from
being president of the United States but the
fact that in his capacity of lawyer "he has
pleaded the case of some of the great cor
porations here.
The capacity and intellectual ruthlessness
of the man is apparent at one glance. He
talks with the clarity of Mr. Asquith and
the incisiveness of the late Mr. Joseph Cham
berlain.' He does not effervesce like Mr.
Roosevelt. And yet tit was a pleasure to lis
ten to his slow words, crystal-clear in
thought and purpose. There can be now
no harm in repeating one of his expressions
as giving an indication of the man.
I told him I heard one of his speeches
and found in it, republican as he was, no
criticism of President Wilson for not enter
ing the war, such as characterized the
speeches of some other leading men. He
told me that he regarded the cause of the
allies as so important and so transcendent
that any question of personality must be sub
merged. (All this was before America de
clared war.) He explained that he thought
it better to express approval of the presi
dent whenever and wherever it was possible
to do so, by reason of the president's line of
thought and action on the side of the allies'
ideal. More good could be done this way
than by any criticism.
The stern idealism of Mr. Root, coldly
expressed, made a deep mark on me. In him,
as in other public men, I found an intensive
conviction of the right and justice of the al
lies' cause, and a sympathetic understanding
in connection with England which would
surprise those who sometimes doubt Amer
ica's knowledge of ourselves.
War Secretary Baker I found at his desk
in the War department in Washington. A
small, genial man, who smokes a big pipe,
and who is as modest in demeanor as a clerk.
His wide vision and his strong grip of a
vast organization has been lately demon
strated by his speech to congress. He, too,
was kindness itself. "Whenever in difficulty
come and see me," he said. I believe he said
it with sincerity.
There is one man in New York to whom
Britain in particular and the allies in gen
eral owe a big debt for his efforts on behalf
of their cause. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler,
president of Columbia university, whose
voice and pen have done continuous service
for the cause of humanity, is at. the head of a
score of activities, and is unwearied in the
promotion of those objects which are upper
most in the minds and hearts of Britain. He
is a man of powerful physique, tall, broad
shouldered, with massive head and a gift of
flowing phrase. There is something Anglo
Saxon in his firm jaw and steady eyes.
I heard him speak the other night at a
banquet to inaugurate an American Phil
Hellenistic society. It was a speech at once
gracious- and compelling. There was some
quality in it which reminded one of the best
in the British House of Commons. He is a
man not only deeply versed in European
history in general, but also in a knowledge
of current affairs and living personalities on
the other side. He told, for instance, on the
occasion in question, an appreciative little
story about Mr. Asquith. There is no more
stalwart American than Dr. Nicholas Murray
Butler. There is probably no stauncher
friend of Britain in America.
Americans As They Are Not
A fancy sketch of American soldiers now
in France has just appeared in all the German
papers and therefore has the imperial sanc
tion. No doubt the kaiser closely examined
the final revision of the article, the object of
which is to impress upon the German mind
a disparaging estimate of the armed Ameri
cans now in France or preparing to join our
fcrces there. This artful piece, of fiction is
based on alleged interviews with the few
American prisoners who have been captured.
The German' siftings from this material wit!
amuse Americans, though they will not fail
to realize its crafty purpose. Our soldiers
are represented to be "laborers" under
French direction, as lacking in enthusiasm,
ignorant of war aims,' and as having been
captured "without much resistance," in a
state of surprise over the violence of the
German attack. We are reported to hate,
but respect, the English, to regard the
French with a protective pity, and to be ab
solutely indifferent toward Germany. "Mili
tary operatiOns .do not interest them in the
slightest," it is added, their general attitude
being that of fatalistic submission to the
French. This camouflaged American, made
in Potsdam, will be accepted as a verity by
the confiding Germans who are always op
portunely provided with junker spectacles.
It is needless to quarrel with such an esti
mate cultivated in the mind of an armed ene
my. The awakening will be rude, and not
long delayed. Never under any circum
stances have our soldiers "submitted easily
to capture" or lacked enthusiasm and endur
ance in any war in which the government has
engaged. The nation has never lost a war.
Our soldiers do not. everlastingly click their
heels together .nor rattle sabers and bayo
nets with an air of frightfulness. But they
will be found, on hand in fighting and to
have qualities in daring fatiative unknown in
the Prussian military machine. It is ad
mitted in the German caricature that the
American soldiers are physically fit. A dis
covery of their superior intelligence and
The kaiser has sized up Americans for
the benefit of his gullible subjects. The jolt
he' has prepared for his dupes will be a stiff
one. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
People and Events
It cost the speculative bankers of In
diana $2,000,000 to get their eyeteeth sharp
ened on the con games of the "Yellow Kid"
gang. Gold bricks are more expensive than
the real article.
Thrift in some lines is not all it is
cracked up to be. A Brooklyn man unusually
thrifty in accumulating wives lost one by an
nulment, another by divorce and is now under
arrest for marrying a third in defiance of
court order.
People whose memories hark back say a
year or so may recall the extract of hops,
malt and other mystic elements which fash
ioned a souze. Well, it still does the busi
ness in some distant spots, but is woefully
deficient in quantity. Officially the output
of breweries is cut 30 per cent this year,
which promises to put the collar on the
elevator. Restricted output yields no in
terest locally, of course, but insinuates a
reminiscent touch for summer vacationists to
wet fishing grounds.
I IQDAV
3ne Year Ago Today In the War.
President ordered enlisted strength
of navy raised to S7.000.
German admiralty save out addi
tional list of 27 vessels captured by
raider Moewe.
French continued advance toward
St Quentln despite desperate resist
ance of Germans.
The Day Wo Celebrate.
C itzon Borirlum, the sculptor, born
in Idaho in 1867.
Charles R. Kennedy, Burgeon, born
1882. , ,
Emanuel L. Philipp, governor of
Wisconsin, born in Sauk county, Wis
sonsin, 67 years ago.
- John Lind, former governor of Min
neHota, born in Sweden, (4 years ago.
Or. Simon Flexner, director of the
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re
' search, born at Louisville, Ky4 65
rears ago.
. Yvotte Guilbert, French comedy
c-rtlste, born in Paris, it years ago.
.'i'lils Day In History.
1753 Richard Varick, who was
Benedict Arnold' aide at West Point
ba who did not suspect his chief of
treachery, born at IUckensack, N. J.
Died at Jersey City, July SO, 1831.
lilt Ths great powers formed a
new alliance against Napoleon.
IS 18 "Light Horse Harry" Lee,
famous general of the revolution, died
at Cumberland Island, Oa. Born in
Westmoreland countv. Virginia, Jan
uary Zp, X76e ( , v
Just 30 Years Ago Today
C. T. Taylor has returned home
from a trip to Florida.
Pat Killen has issued a challenge
to meet John L. Sullivan, Charlie
Mitchell, Jake Kllrain, Jem Smith,
Jack Knlfton, or anyone else that
claims to ba a heavyweight, tor $S,000
or 110,000 Stake, and the money is
ready. About half of it at 8t. Paul
and the other half in Omaha.
At a meeting of the law and order
party of South Omaha, D. Anderson
waa appointed chairman and J. B. Er
lort, secretary.
The storm of Saturday worked de
lay and disaster to ths several rail
roads running out of the city. At all
of the depot "trains late" was bulle
tined and travelers were greatly put
out In consequence. A washout on the
Missouri Pacific impeded traffic and
no trains were run,
Whittled to a Poin
Minneapolis Journal: If you can't
remember whether to say the hen sets
or sits, try this: 'The hen seats her
self." Washington Post: When daughter
gets all of her military toggery on,
dad gets some new light respecting a
war finance bill.
St. Louts Globe-Democrat: Only
cowards, idiots and traitors will listen
to peace talk from the saber-rattling
Potsdam gang, pulled up by their
Russian successes.
Kansas City Times: Although the
clock is not to be turned ahead until
the last' of the month there is nothing
to prevent anybody getting up an hour
earlier now by way of practice.
New York World: For a monarch
who is not now working at his trade
of monarehlng, ex-King Tlno of
Greece would seem to be amply paid
with his fioo.000 a year. . .
Minneapolis Tribune: Secretary
Baker's discretion in taking refuge
In a wine cellar when the boches
bombarded Paris will be commended
by everyone, unless Josephus Daniels
protests. Still, the cellar may have
contained grape Juice.
Louisville Courier-Journal: The
selsure of American property in Ger
many follows as a matter of course
the action of America aa to German
property in this cduntry. The Ameri
can owners a&cted can be counted
upon to sympathize wholly with the
purposes of the American govern
ment. The kaiser cannot make Amer
ica sorry she acted.
Round About the State
York is putting over a vigorous
drive for a modern hotel to cost
around $200,000. With this done the
Sun of York will radiate Joy as never
before.
'Fall wheat in Butler county," re
ports the Press, "has come through
the winter and this much of the try
ing month of March remarkably
well."
Editor Blnker of the Rosalie Rip
saw monkeyed with the game laws
and had $19.80 ripped off his roll.
Pretty tough pinchfor a scribe who
Is constable of his precinct and police
chief of fair Rosalie.
Alliance Times resents with consid
erable heat the Insinuation that farm
ers are not doing their part in war
activities. Box Butte county farmers,
according to the Times, are up ana
doing their share and better in active
work and financial contributions.
State papers lend little encourage
ment to plana for sending city boys to
the country as farm helpers. Grand
Island Independent and York News
Times profess to know that farmers
do not want-them because they can
not devote the time to jhow the boys
what to do.
Briefly reviewing the situation lo
cally and at large, the Schuyler Sun
is convinced that a firing squad is
more efficacious than fried chicken in
reaching the roots of disloyalty.
"Why." asks the Sun. "should we
treat these vipers as offenders against
civil law? Let's order out the firing
squad I"
Twice Told Tales
Candor.
"I wish to marry your daughter,
sir."
"But, young man, you have no
means of support."
"I know I haven't. That's why I
wish to marry your daughter." Balti
more American.
Ahead of the Season.
The young housewife was complain
ing of the small piece of ice that had
been left in response to her order for
50 pounds.
That the iceman was convinced that
she was young and inexperienced is
evidenced by the nature of his reply:
"But notice, ma'am, the firm and
excellent quality of it. In buying ice
your motto should be not how much,
but how good.' " Insurance World.
Some Speed.
One evening a party named Smith
rushed into a cigar store in his home
toWn. and, in response to a question
as to what made him look so wild
eyed and exefted, he said he had been
held up by footpads.
. "I was coming through that deep,
dark woods down by Johnson's farm,"
he continued, "when I saw the dusky
forms of two men stealthily crawl
ing through the underbrush toward
me. One of them had a pistol in his
hand and the other "
"Gee whls, man!" interrupted one
of the cigar atore crowd. "What did
you do?"
"What did I do?" responded Smith
with some emphasis. "Why, I did
three miles in Just about four
utes.-rrBaltimore American,
tees
Give the Youngsters a Chance.
Omaha, March 22. To the Editor
of The Bee: In reply to Rev. C. W.
Savidge respecting "old men to be
given a fighting chance," I respectful
ly submit that its adoption would be
the same as It is on the farm. The
white-haired pioneer would be doing
the work, whilst the youngsters would
devour the profits and wear out the
automobile.
My remarks are not aplicable to
the gallant troops serving in European
trenches, but to a class similar to
those unearthed by General March of
Washington. Without wishing to be
considered intrusive I would respect
fully suggest lady military or naval
staff clerks he employed for govern
mental and recruiting rendezvous
office work. This would conserve your
fighting material and afford a golden
democratic opportunity to patriots to
"win their spurs."
ED T. G. JOHNSTON.
1617 Dodge Street.
Burden of Taxation.
Omaha, March 23. To thi.' Editor
of The Bee: Last year The Bee opened
up a campaign against assessments
made by the county assessor.
What the assessor did last year
was nothing to what is contemplated
this year. Now there is to be used a
form of tax schedule that will oblige
every householder to enumerate every
article of household convenience from
the kitchen to the bedroom. Every
thing which the average man has
placed in his house for the comfort
of his family is to be itemized on the
schedule and he is to be fined for it,
as though he were a common nui
sance. Then it will go to the farmer and
"soak" him in the same way.
It will go to the business man and
manufacturer and not only make an
"estimate" of his goods, but it will
compel him to furnish the assessor a
copy of his inventory, taken by him as
a basis for credit or insurance and
other business purposes. Upon this
inventory taxes will be levied and he
will not therefore have the chance
to have an obliging Board of Equali
zation to cut down his own figures.
If Hurh a plan is honestly carried
out in this city it will be a black eye
to our commercial interests as Well as
a special wrong against the humblest
citizen. In the latter case the poor
man will be compelled to pay a tax
proportionately greater than will the
rich, as well as suffering from fewer
chances of gaining a livelihood. Oma
ha and Nebraska cannot compete with
surrounding cities and states which
show a wider vision of what consti
tutes justice in taxation.
L. J. QUINBY.
State Music Teachers' Association.
Omaha, March 23. To the Editor
of The Bee: A subject which at the
present time is being discussed with
much interest by the students and
music teachers of Omaha is the Ne
braska State Music Teachers' asso
ciation, which will convene at the
Fontenelle hotel April 1, 2, 3. There
are In the city of Omaha today several
hundred boys, girls and adults en
gaged in the study of voice, violin,
piano and other Instruments. There
are glee and choral clubs, bands, or
chestras and music study clubs. The
small town as well as the large city
offers the music loving public con
certs by the most celebrated artists;
even the farmer may have the choic
est selections rendered on the vlctrola
and phonograph. ,
Music Is no longer regarded as a
luxury. It has become a necessary
factor of education in the homes of
the poor as well as the rich. It is one
mental, moral and physical discipline.
The child who studies music acquires
regularity and endurance, self-control,
power of concentration, accuracy
and neatness,, alertness and repose.
Music offers compensation for the
inevitable drudgery and toil which are
ever present In the workaday world.
It leads to the most agreeable social
Intercourse and it provides employ
ment for leisure which might other
wise be viciously spent. .
It is the great mission of the music
teacher of today to foster high ideals
in the minds of the public, especially
the young students. The good the
music teacher does rarely stands in
relation to his income. His real com
pensatlon lies in the fact that he con
tributes much to make this world a
better and finer place to live in.
Where shall the music teacher go to
obtain the inspiration which he must
possess in order to upbuild the na
tional music life? To the State Mnsic
Teachers' association, the object or
which is to bring together the man
and woman of broad musical training
and experience and the young teacher
and student whose career is yet before
him.
There must be kindly co-operation,
interchange of ideas, the standard
of teaching and studying must be ele
vated and the enthusiasm and appre
ciation of teacher and student alike
must become more vital and inspiring
through his attendance at the concerts
and lectures held under the auspices'
of the association.
HELEN MACKIN.
Wants State to Soil Homes.
Lincoln, Neb.. March 21. To th
Editor of The Bee: It always seemed
most strange to me that a man is
compelled to go to a real estate dealer
and pay him a commission to get a
home. The foundation of society, the
state, the nation and our civilization
should be the home. If that were
true our civilization would be built on
rock and forever stand. But instead,
commercialism has been so ingrained
into our social and political life that
profit and not the home is the foun
dation of our civilization and that
foundation is sand, and when the
hungry, homeless hordes begin to beat
against its walls great will be the fall
thereof.
Why could not the city clerk of
Omaha have a plat of the city, show
ing every house and lot for sale, so a
buyer could choose for himself and
buy from the owner direct? It is
hard enough for a laboring man to
pay the exorbitant prices for furniture
and furnishings without being com
pelled to 'pay a commission for the
blessed privilege of buying a home.
JESSE S. KINDER.
MIRTHFUL REMARKS
"So there's a new baby at ytfur house,
Elsie."
"No, ma'am, 'taint new, a-tall. It's all
red and creased, and I b'lievo it's second
hand.'' Baltimore American.
"Is Mllllonbucka dolns his hit?"
"Certainly, he ha 'Eat Leaa Bread'
poatera on all hla automobiles. '' Judge.
'Don't ba too rough wif do forgetful man.'1
aald Uncle Eben; "mebbe what he waa busy
remembering' waa more important dan what
he forgot." Christian Register.
"There's a man who will not let ths lit
tle troubles of life worry him over md h."
"Why do you say that?"
"I notice ho wears his hat on tne side
of his head." Louisville Courier-Jourr.a I
'There Is one thing I would lllte n ex
pert eleftrlclan to explain to me."
"What is that?"
"Why a decided negative Is always so
positive." Baltimore American.
Lady (to tramp) You say that you wfre
formerly an army aviator. Did they vnake
you take long flights?
Tramp Madam, 1 was once sent op for
30 days. Judge.
"My butler left mo without any warn
ing." "There are worse things that that. Mine
left mo without any spoons." Houston Vost.
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