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THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1910. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATEK VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THB BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Aocl.((Hl 1'reai. of whirh Th He. 1. a mwnlw. L .aelutlwly ititld to th. uh (or put'hrUfoa of mil nwi ditpttrhet credited to It of not othenriM erpiliud la tble rir, and alio the loril nnri published Umia. All rlibta of publlcattoa of oat apwal dwatcixa art alto raemtL OFFICESi PMctfi Pmrlrt Oat Building. Ormha fae Bet Bldi. N. Tnr 2M riftB Art. South Onuha MI N it. at. IOui New B I of Commeroa. founrll Bluff. 1 N. Ula Waahlnaloo 1311 0 Bt Lincoln Little Building. DECEMBER CIRCULATION Daily 65,219 Sunday 62,644 Irene circulation for the Bona aubscrtbrd and iwom 10 W t. e. Rnn. circulation Uuwer. Subscriber leaving the city should have Too Bto moiled to thorn. Addreat chond o olton oo requested. The Hun must come clean. Old Boreas wants it understood he has one more good blow. Omaha realtors see only a prosperous season. All right; let's go. The call to arms will again sound if the armistice terms are not observed by the van quished. This is right. Roumania has also concluded to get along without a king. The hereditary monarch v. ill be a lonesome bird in a short time. The United States, senate declines to get xcited over the potash situation, but a little more vigorous prodding might get results. Claude Kitchin promises to reduce the "luxury" tax. Democrats have always looked on necessaries as the proper sources of revenue. Enoch Crowder draws a renominatiott as judge advocate general of the army. This is one case where real service has bean recognized. Wall Street generally sees coming events pretty well ahead, and so present strength of the stock market ought to encourage everybody. The new detective broom has been told to sweep clean. Captain Dunn will make a great record if he does straighten out the tangle in the force. It is a cold day in congress when some hon orable gentleman does not deal the regular army a wallop, and yet that body has only fought the enemies of its country. Again the anarchist agitators have invoked the law they flout, and demand to be permitted to remain in a country they affect to despise. It is no part of their plan to be consistent. The blessed bolsheviki having abolished God, religion, marriage, property, poverty, work, and a few other outworn institutions, might do the world a real service by putting a ban on cold weather. Solomon is reported to have made silver as stones in the streets of Jerusalem, but under. Woodrow it is being shoveled as fuel into the fire. Where, oh, where is the Old Original Paramount? Local historians who insist that 1,000 peo ple constitute the greatest number ever fed at a banquet in Omaha should look up the record of the famous but apparently forgotten Bryan dollar-dinner. John Bull does not propose to scale his bill for damages against the Hun, and the new Ebert government must act accordingly. No "white" peace for Germany is thought of outside the German lines. , New. York gamblers are rubbing it in when they insist their victims wear evening clothes and rubber heels. Such rules may be all right in the sybaritic east, but out in this neck of the woods what the gambler first looks for is the bank roll. Democrats in congress are alarmed over the slow progress made and see an extra session looming, in spite of the fact that the president does not want one. This is an inevitable out come of the talk-fest that has been in progress since last November. The German citizen who is required to for feit his Nebraska farm and go back to Germany is paying a rather high price for his fealty to the kaiser, yet it is only just that he be given full opportunity to enjoy his fatherland to the utmost. Men of his sort are out of place in America. The secretary of the Farmers' National coun cil has served formal notice on congress that the farmers will oppose "unfriendly" members of congress at the next election. This might he construed as meaning the farmers want something they are not likely to get. At least, it is not a tactful way of going about securing a concession. Moonshine and Morals The poetry and romance of moonshine whisky have always come from the, southern mountains. There the people believe that they have exactly the same moral right to distill their corn into whisky that they have to grind it up into meal. Church members in good standing . will run moonshine stills without shame, and without re proach unless some revenue officer happens to nab them and cast them into jail. In that case they will be regarded by their neighbors as the victims of an unjust law. But while the moral vindication of moon shining has been confined to the south, the prac tice has spread all over the country. Revenue oncers uncover stillls in kitchens and flats in various parts of this city with reasonable regu larity. The still found in a cooperage at Valley Stream, where the vats held 50 gallons each and v ere capable of turning out $30,000 worth of illicit whisky in a year, was simply a larger and iv.otc businesslike form of the effort "to beat the law" which is constantly going on in one form or another. Whether that case is a warn insr of the sort of lawlessness which we shall encounter under prohibition is a question which c.Tinot be answered until prohibition comes. Of course, there will be attempts to evade that law as there are to evade other restrictive laws, but it is unlikely that we shall ever encounter here the moral justification for law-breaking which is the distinguishing mark of the south ern moonshiner. An isolated mountaineer may k-ow up into that creed, but no man is likely n a '.opt it after he has grown to manlTood in a cm r.mnity in which law is enforced. Brooklyn AMERICANIZATION. It looks as if the present Nebraska legisla ture is reaching agreement on a sane and rea sonably effective Americanization program. That some far-reaching measures should be enacted along this line is to be expected, for it inevitably follows from the fact that at the same election in which the people chose their lawmakers the people also registered a de cisive majority for a constitutional amendment taking the suffrage away from so-called first paper voters, as well as frorrl keen recollection of some of the difficulties encountered during the war with unassimilated elements of our population. Like The Bee, the people of Nebraska, with few exceptions, are for America first, last and all the time and they want to make sure that America takes precedence unconditionally with all our citizenship of the future. Therefore the odious law for compulsory teaching of German in our public schools has been repealed and the law for publishing legal notices in foreign lan guage newspapers is going the same way. For the same reason, the demand is made for such a control over all the schools in Nebraska as v.ilt insure every child an education in the English language that will really equip him for the duties of American citizenship. ' Apparently the only serious sticking point turtis upon the question how far the state con trol should go. It is understood that all the interests involved concede that these schools should come under the supervision of public authorities, that their teachers, should qualify the same as public school teachers, that their courses of study and text books should be standardized and made equivalent to the cor responding requirements in the public schools, that their subjects should be taught in the English language. The supporters of the pa rochial schools want the program to stop there, for fear that if not permitted to continue religious instruction in the language employed in the church service, the connection of the young people with the church of their parents may be broken altogether. Even those who recognize the eventual necessity of complete Americanization of the church services feel that the bridge can be crossed better by going slowly, and the legislature seems inclined to accord consideration to these obvious difficul ties. What The Bee wants to emphasize is that the progress that will be made in applying the principle of state control over all schools, private as well as public, to the extent now acquiesced in by all concerned, will be a tremendous step forward a step that two years ago looked remotely distant. To make this much progress on a systematic plan of Amer icanization and nail it down as we go, seems to ns far preferable to jeopardizing the whole proposition for the sake of the few points in dispute. Future of the American Army. Debate in congress over the probable strength of the standing army in peace times is tinjred to a considerable degree with pre-war sentment. Chairman Dent of the house military committee is one of the most influential op ponents of the army. His position prior to and during the war has been against military prepar edness. Pacifists now rally around him, and with the National Guard as a pretext, are energetically lambasting the '.regular" army, and generally preparing the wyy for an onslaught against universal training when the army reconstruc tion program fairly comes before the body. These people learn but little from Paris. ( Rejection of the French proposal that an international military force be maintained to enforce the decrees of the League of Nations is ample notice that each nation must be ready to support its own rights. America is prepar ing in every way to extend its commercial ac tivities throughout the world, and thereby in crease its dangers. It is - not very likely that the "watchful waiting" policy adopted with Mexico wiR become the permanent practice of this country. On the other hand, it is quite probable that vigorous life will be given the promises of both the great political parties that Americans will be protected in their rights, no matter where they are located, on land or sea. This necessarily means readiness to defend both the country and its citizens. An army will be needed as well as a navy if this course is to be made effective. While a standing army of 175,000 may be ample for. peace times, and to serve as a nucleus for a greater force in event of war, the costly lessons of 1917 should not be dismissed. One way to make certain that we will not have to go through with a similar experience will be to give all young men intensive training in military science. This contains no vestige of militarism, but is the very essence of sel-defense. Recruit in a Good Cause. The Bee has some pleasure in noting the support given by the local organ of democracy, to the plan of feeding prisoners at the county jail on a cost basis. Only a few years ago that paper took great pleasure in helping upset the plan, which had been established because of The Bee's persistence, but it was a democratic sheriff who benefited. The legislature has a good chance now to end a source of annoyance by putting the prisoner feeding business on a proper basis. Aliens Within Our Borders. A deputy commissioner of naturalization re ports that more than ten million unnaturalized aliens are now resident within our borders. This is almost 1 in 10 of our total citizenship. Here is cause for serious reflection. The condition was brought out sharply when the country took up the business of going to war, and much de bate has been heard about the need for efforts to induce these people to become citizens, and to thoroughly Americanize them. How care less we have been is shown by the startling total just announced. Immediate danger is seen in the possible spread of bolshevism or similar social lunacy. The commissioner of im migration says that no wholesale deportation is planned, but that the dangerous agitators will be sent away. What is more to the purpose is the plan for reaching these strangers and teach ing them the advantages of citizenship. They have not had the opportunity to learn the first lessons of Americanization, and the effort now being made to bring them into better relations with the country and its institutions is one of our most important jobs. While Wilson Is Away Philadelphia Public Ledger. Yesterday, while President Wilson was talk ing of endless peace at Paris, Secretary Daniels talked at Annapolis of a dominant navy. Before anyone can tell whether we are drifting into times of enduring quietude or to years of over whelming armaments and new mighty enmi ties, the house committee on military affairs is placidly approving plans for a standing army of 500,000. Postmaster General Burleson, at play amid the telegraph wires, is getting deeper into his muddle. He seems happier for it. There is hardly a day when Senator Borah and Senator Lodge do not arise to let it be known that after the world has made up its mind and arranged its peace they will ,have something terrible to say. Indeed, it is impossible to look toward Washington in these times without experienc ing a sense of loose and flying ends of thought, oj fogs and uncertainty, of an absence of ideas and convictions and working knowledge. Congress is about the only remaining corner of civilization in which it is difficult to find a general and whole-hearted sympathy for Mr. Wilson and his purposes. There are too many senators and representatives who know what they would not do. But they do not know what they would do at Paris. It would be pos sible more greatly to admire Mr. Lodge and Mr. Borah, for example, if when they arose to talk they would suggest a better method than that which Mr. Wilson and the other Americans are applying at the peace conference. There is one serious fault to be found with most of the criticism aimed at the Wilsonian policies. It is suited only to old times. And everybody knows that old times never return. It is commonly said in Washington that the president is to blame because he didn't take the country or its senators and representatives into his confidence before he went abroad. Does the skipper of a ship tell his owners just how he is to make his course daily and hourly upon strange seas? Mr. Wilson appears to have known before he started for Europe what everyone who reads has since been able to perceive that he was to be opposed by forces as formless and as dan gerous as a tempest and as difficult to grapple with. It is apparent that he has had to steer, as any good navigator steers, not in accordance with previously determined forms and formu las, but according to the drift of tides and wind and weather. Of course, Washington is distressed and mystified. The whole world is distressed and mystified. To listen to Mr. Lodge and Mr. Borah, to study the reactions of Mr. Daniels and Mr. Burleson and the other cabinet mem bers who grope in circles is to be acutely aware of the mental vacuum that now afflicts most of official Washington. Those who are actually interested in Amer ica will do well to remember in these days that talk is easy and achievement difficult. The critic has no responsibilities. Those whom he criticizes have great and heavy ones. Washing ton is killing time. A part Of it is getting into mischief for the want of better things to do. Mr. urleson, with his wires, and Secretary Wilson of the Department of Labor, when he talks of the bolshevists in America, are running rather wild. They show the absence of a guid ing hand. They, too, are symptoms of a gen eral affliction. Washington 'is like a man in an empty house, who feels suddenly anxious and forlorn and wishes the family were home, with out knowing what to do meanwhile. Definite criticism, definite plans, schemes for the future will be impossible until the presi dent returns and makes his report to the na tion. We shall have to know the nature of the future world before we can know the terms upon which we can deal with it. For the present the world is iti flux. There is no precedent to guide America, nothing in history which might guide a man in dealing with the situation which confronts the (Amer ican delegates at Paris. We shall have to trust for the present in the astuteness and devotion of the president. But there are men in Wash ington with reputations for sagacity to main tain and others who haven't outlived the pleas ure which they derive from seeing their names in print, if only in the Record. When we know how far the nations of Europe are willing to go to avoid the sickening menace of future wars and the almost equally ruinous burden of arma ments we shall be able to make plans and talk intelligently of the future. ' And we shall know, too, whether the presi dent has succeeded or1 failed. Washington means well enough. It will be its old self when it has something tangible to think about. Meanwhile we can bear its little idiosyncrasies. And it is worth remembering that there are men in Washington who under stand the immensity of our present and future problems. But they are waiting. They rarely talk. They are the silent ones. People You Ask About Information About Folks In the Public Eye W ill Be Given In This Column in Answer to Readers' Questions. Your Kame Will Not Be Printed. Let The Bee Tell You. cMte fcMs' Qom&r f? 1 Higher Railroad Rates It seems to be a condition of railroad finances and not a theory of future railroad control which the more immediately confronts the country. The condition is that the railroads are still running behind in their net earnings and that meantime traffic is declining in volume under the return of peace conditions. It is that, as things are now going, the current year of 1919 will yield no surplus tinder the government's contracts with the roads, but a deficit of $25, 000,000. It is that, if this deficit is not over come in some way, the government must make it up from taxpayers. How shall that deficit be overcome? Only one way apears to be available and that is by another large increase in rates. The deficit cannot be overcome by general railroad economies, for these have been crowded about to the limit under government direction of the f oads. As the deficit is being caused by the enormous increase in railroad wages, amounting to around 80 per cent within a few years, it could be easily overcome by some mod eration of expenditures along this line. But railroad employes are demanding still further wage increases and are in no mood to submit to reductions We must evidently prepare for rates still higher and already so. high as perceptibly to affect the general cost of living. And if these should start another merry-go-round of wage increases to meet the new increase in cost of living? And if these should reduce rail traffic by as much as they increase rail revenue? New York World. ITQDAY The Day We Celebrate. John A. McKenzie, attorney, born 1878. , Rudolph Dietz, grocer, born 1884. George A. Roberts, grain dealer, born 1884. Prof. Andrew C. McLaughlin, head of the history department of the University of Chi cago, born at Beardstown, 111., 58 years ago. Florence Roberts, a celebrated actress of the American stage, born in New York City 48 years ago. Israel Zarigwill, famous as an author and playwright, born in London 55 years ago. William Shaw, general secretary of the Christian Endeavor, societies, born at Ballard ale, Mass., 59 years ago. In Omaha 30 Years Ago. The Pennsylvania society assembled around the banquet board, with R. C. Peterson as toastmaster and a big galaxy of speakers. R. R. Cable, president of the Rock Island road, went through Omaha on his way to Benver. G. P. TDietz, 1602 North Twenty-eighth street, was one of a party of 11 Omaha people in the Sutherland hotel when it burned in Flor ida. Saddest - of all was the loss of all their fine clothes by the women in the excursion, among them Mrs. C T. Taylor and Miss Tay lor, Mrs. E. F. Smythe, Mrs. Jesse Lowe and the Misses Kittie and Irene Lowe. The marriage of Mr. M. L. Roeder and Miss Pauline Goldsmith took place at the bride's residence at Twentieth and Dodge. B. F. McC. Prof. Scott Nearlnpr. now on trial in the federal court of New York for violation of the es pionage act, came into public notice before the war as a member of the teaching staff of the University of Pennsylvania. His radical views be came obnoxious to the trustees of tho university and his dismissal pro voked an outcry atrainst the "sup pression of academic freedom." Later on the professor occupied a chair of sooial science In the Toledo Collepe of Arts and Science, where his radicalism was his undoing. In thr past two years he has been chair man of the "People's Council of America," a mythical organization serving as a screen for anti-war ac tivities. Nearing is a Pennsylvanian by birth, born August 6, 1S83J M. P. R. Current biographies of Rosa Luxemburg, reported shot by a Berlin mob, do not even guess at her ape. That was one of the secrets the red terror kept to herself. A Russian by birth she reached womanhood amid surroundings that bred an archy. She was a vivid speaker, a vocal flame thrower, and'could talk equally well in Russian, German or French. It is said she wanted her end to be a violent one and the fates granted her wish. V. J. McAdoo's salary as counsel for the California princes of the mcvie world Is said to be eight times that of secretary of the treasury. That is an important asset for an elderly man with a young family. Even more important is the show down of force of habit. His shift ing of jobs was simply a leap from one pile of money to another. The marrying parson of the "Gretna Green" of Maryland, Rev. John McElmoyle, D. I.by his busi ness activities has split the Presby terians of Elkton into two factions, called the "cream" and "skimmed milk" crowds. Recently the presby tery ruled that the parson should marry no couples whom he had not known for at least sixty days. He defied the elders and took an appeal to the Baltimore synod. Meanwhile other ministers are getting the busi ness and the doctor losing the jing ling fruits of years of matrimonial publicity. The highest salaried woman In the United States is said to be Henrietta V. H. Reid, general manager of the Bush Terminal, Brooklyn, N. Y. The exact sum is a secret to all but the income tax collectors, but is somewhere between $25,000 and $50,000 a year. DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY. (Peggy and Billy Belgium seek to save Red Spot, a bull, from death lo a Mexican bull-tight.) CHAPTER V. Tli Matador Is Surprised. '"M'OW is the time." cried Peggy, A throwing open the arena 'gates. Out marched Circus Mike, Nanny Goat and Boston Bull, all on their hind legs. And after them, swaggering along, came Billy Bel gium dressed as a clown matador. Peggy was managing the show, and she didn't appear as yet. Neither did Countess Alice, who waited until Peggy gave her the word. The funny parade caused a roar of laughter from the crowd. The Mexicans couldn't understand what it meant, but It amused them great ly. As for the bull-flghtera and at tendants, they were so surprised they didn't know what to do. Out to the THIS QUESTION AND ANSWER COLUMN Sunday Advice As, to Health. Monday Questions About People. Tuesday Friend of the Soldier. Wednesday Free Legal Aid. Thursday Friend of the Soldier. Friday Questions About People. Saturday Friend of the Soldier. Ask Our HelpWatch for Replies - AIMED AT -OMAHA. Fairbury News: The Omaha min ister who advertised a "Heart to Heart Talk on Sexology," last Sun day night knew how ,to draw ft crowd. Harvard Courier: With its cus tomary enterprise the Omaha Bee is first in the field with a column of market qu'otatlons on bootleg whis key. It should also give curbstone quotations on stolen automobiles. Fairbury News: It has finally come. Airplane dealers have struck Nebraska. An Omaha firm an nounced in last Sunday's Bee that it had the agency for a biplane anr r.ow has one on exhibition on its show room floor. York News-Times: During the month of January 21,480 hogs were hauled to the South Omaha market in trucks. This shos that the mo tor truck is going to be a great fac tor in the freight -situation eventu ally. If the Omaha people would put in a bridge so farmers in Iowa, on tho southeast could get across the river without going north to the city and paying toll there would be many more loads of hogs brought directly to the South Omaha mar ket. With good roads it is no un common. thing for a farmer to haul hoars 50 miles to market these days. Last summer a York county farmer hauled hogs to South Omaha ana says he saved on freight. EDITORIAL SNAPSHOTS. Baltimore American: When the cpuntry becomes dry, what a race of inventors we are going to be come! Kansas -Citv Star: The army or occupation has received its Ameri can machine guns in excellent time for the Rhine duck shooting season. Minneapolis Tribune: There's a reason. for the adoption cf the auctioneer's flag by the socialists. That's the place where you some times get the snide jewelry. St. Louis Globe Democrat: There is an abysmal ' difference between colonies and possessions. Colonies are settlements populated by people who go out from the mother country to make" their homes there. Posses sions are merely foreign lands own ed by a conquering race. r i DAILY CARTOONETTE One of the bull-flglitcrs waved a red flag in his face. center of the ring marched Circus Mike, Nanny Goat and Boston Bull, saluting as the others had done while the Mexicans cheered in glee. Then Circus Mike pretended to be a bull and Billy acted like a mata dor. He had a wooden sword which he brandished at Circus Mike while the mule boxed with his front feet. Finally Circus Mike kicked out with his hind feet so lively that Billy couldn't get near him. Billy at last succeeded in giving Circus Mike a crack with the flat of the wooden sword and Circu Mike rolled over as if dead. The big crowd how led with laugh ter. They thought It a lot of fun But the bull-fighters didn't like it bit. and Senor Matador gave the signal for the real bull-fight to be gin. A door swung open and out into the bright light trotted Red Spot, looking big, powerful, fero. cious. Red Spot stood blinking for a mo ment and pawed the ground. One of the bullfighters darted in front of him, waving a red flag in his face. With a roar Red Snot started for that red flag, driving the man helter skelter through a narrow safety door in the wall of the arena. "Keep cool:" shrieked Teggy to him, and King Bird and the other birds sang their song of the waiting herd. Now four horsemen bearing spears and riding blindfolded horses started for Red Spot But they didn't get to him. Nanny Goat butted straight into the legs of one of the horses, and down it went with its rider. Boston Bull grabbed the tall of an other horse, and it kicked up so suddenly that it sent its rider sprawl ing over its head. Circus Mike, with mouth wide open, went for the third horseman, grabbing him by the belt and tearing him off his horse. King Bird, who couldn't keep out of the fray, attacked the fourth horseman about the head so viciously that the Mexican banged around with his spear and didn't notice where he was going. His horse stumbled over Nanny Goat and the rider went fly ing through the air. ! Thus as quick as a wink all four horsemen were put out of business. The crowd roared with mirth. This aroused Senor Matador to a fury. He dld't want his grand bullfight turned into a Joke. So Senor Ma tador ran out to kill Red Spot. He held in one hand a red flag, which he waved in Red Spot's eyes. The red seemed to drive the bull crazy, for he bellowed with rage and lowered his head to charge his tor mentor. That was just what Senor Mata dor wanted, for he planned to Jump nimbly aside as Red Spot charged and run his sword into the bull's heart. Senor Matador was so busy get ting ready for the deathblow he didn't see what was happening be hind him. Just as he drew back his sword Nanny Goat went flying through the air. Wham! She landed on the proud matador and knocked him flat on his face, his sword flying out of his hand. "Br-r-r-oo-oo-h-umpmump!" roar- Daily Dot Puzzle is lb 22 23 ,2o ' . IO ..7 "5. , " M " WW 2425 2b 7 ' 27 25 a . a 4. . So SI 2. .37 . J2 8 I 5 83 34 7le .p. a 64'f V84 - 7o 63 . .4 fc5 .43 .1 75 VN H ' f 5s (, Jl . What has Willie drawn? Draw from on. to two and ao en to th end. ed Red Spot, charging at his fallen foe. His horns caught under the matador's short coat, and with a mighty toss of his head Red Spot flung the man up, up, right Into the governor's box, and upon the gov ernor's lap. (Tomorrow will ba told how Red Spot eacapei. ) Find it .strong- Amu. P i COMFORTABLE V mvm. I Appreciates Patriotic Effort. Washington, Feb. 7. To the Edi tor of The Bee: The United State3 public health service wants heartily to thank you for the publication of the editorial, "Dealing with Social Diseases." It is by such patriotic support as that of your newspaper that the general public will soon come to know the full truth about the menace of the venereal diseases and when the truth is known the ulti mate success of the government's task is assured. If at any time you desire any special information about the work it will be promptly sent you on re quest. By direction of the surgeon Ren eral. C. C. PIERCE, Assistant Surgeon General. ' Daylight "Saving." Omaha, Feb. 11. To the Editor of The Bee: When Congressman Lobeck wrote me a number of weeks ago that the great fraud called the "daylight saving system" would not be in force this year again, I took it for granted that he knew what he was talking about. But it seems that he did not. We are-to be af flicted with that obnoxious and irk some system again this year unless it is repealed in the few remaining days of the present congress. The so-called daylight system is one of the silliest of all the war fad that were forced upon us, and it is time it was repealed. In order to satisfy the faddists it might be well to hu mor them with this obnoxious sys tem for the three summer months, but when It comes to the shorter days of spring and fall it ought to be knocked out altogether. All who are opposed to this unnecessary and uncalled-for system ought to get busy at once and write to members of the house and senate at Wash ington in favor of Its repeal. FRANK A. AGNF.W. Give the Commission Power. Omaha, Feb. 11. To the Editor of The Bee: I am not a home own er in Omaha, but have been greatly interested in the subject of city government for several years and have studied It from different an gles. The rights of the individual taxpayers are not to be surrendered under the provisions of the proposed bill to amend the Omaha city char ter, giving the commission authority to order improvements. The peo ple will have as great an opportun ity to protest against various im provements as ever. It will only be necessary for a majority to object to bring to naught the attempts of any "gang." There is no reason to believe that taxes, which would re sult from the placing of public im- OX Albert Calm 219 S. 14th St. For Shirts My Spring line now ready. Order Early to Insure Prompt Delivery. provements, could be imposed with out the consent of a majority or those who have to pay them, and the majority rules among American people. Any interested party could canvass his neighborhood in opposi tion to proposed improvements. If he could not secure a majority against them the results would, in effect, be the same as under the present system, where the initiative belongs with the people themselves. Such a law provids a substantial boost for the Indifferent owner who thinks little about the question of improvements and cares less. One progressive person in a community could present the value of a definite project to the city commissioners and thus get ihe thing started. When once started thus it would be much easier to persuade these in different owners to see the error of their way than if no steps at all had been taken. At least, they would be afraid to put themselves up be fore their fellow citizens as being opposed to projects which live-wire men and women were pushing. This system of securing public im provements goes along with the commission form of city government which Omaha has today. The adop tion of this bill would be a very good way to again show the progressive spirit which Omaha has manifested on so many occasioms. Our cities would be much better oft today if they would take the ad vice of experts and place themselves on a firm business basis such as that of any firm or corporation. Omaha has great possibilities for such in the present commission form of gov ernment and should not neglect as great an oportunity as this to push forward to its rightful place among American cities. In closing I would like to say that I am heartily in accord with every thing that Mr. Hubbell said in his article. Such a law would be par ticularly useful in settling the prob lem of nonresident owner or specu lator who stands in the way of many projects favored by the real citizen ship, unless they prove highly pro ductive of ill-gotten gain. Such opinions as his are really worth while and possess real value. ROCHESTER F. SIMS. II of no HONK YOU Ci SAVE ON SHOES The Trade Mark here shown is" on every wrapper of genuine Clarence J. Bloenker of St Louis, Missouri, writes, "I have a pair f shoes with Neolin Soles and have used them for two years. I think they will last another six months." Mr. Bloenker also recommend3 Neolin Soles for their comfort and waterproof ness. . 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