THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1910.
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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.
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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
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- 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.
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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.
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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
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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-
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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.
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