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THE OMAHA SLNAY BEE: JUNE' 8, 1919. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNINQ) EVENING SUNDAY BOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSy WATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEK PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPBJXTOB MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tk Asaoeistsd Pns. hlek Ttx Balll SMaibsr. U xoInflWj nutted to lb uh for publication of all mi di natch credited to It or not othwwlM credited In tkl taper, sad also lb loel nw publlihed Benin. All rlgltu of publication of tmt epselal 4JmM r slao mnnd. OFFICESi Km Tark IM rink Am Oajsha-Th Be Bids. 'MeM-irW- SUfar Bid. South Onaha Sill N L t. Louis N B'nk of Commooi Council Bluff 14 N. ula Rt WssMnfton 1311 O lb Iinooln UUK Banding. APRIL CIRCULATION Daily 65,830 Sunday 63,444 Artrtf circulation for to month subscribsd sad rwora to by S. B. Bmu. ClnuUttoa Maawar. ,. Subscriber leaving lk city Would hav Tne Bo mailed a taam. Addraaa ckaagad as often as requested. v Thoie disgraced dental students bit off more than they could chew. Too much smoke in that police department rubbish heap to let any one say nothing -4s burning. .'.' Keep your eye on the real estate market. The movement of dirt has begun, but by no means ended.- . - - Other Nebraska soldier boys are coming home In their turn. Have the glad hand of wel come ready for them, too. . ' The-wayi to stop bomb-throwing is to make its indulgence at least as dangerous to the plot ter, as to hif'intended Tictim. Still too many automobile accidents "in Omaha every day, and most of them preventible. Slow down and drive more, carefully. ., If you are not registered you can't vote. Wonder if the'women will grasp the force and necessity of this more easily than the stupid men. . i Inasmuch as Italy is still, borrowing money from Uncle Sam, the danger of rupture over the president's attitude "on Fiume can not be so great as it looks. 4"hat recent creation of our cartoonist pic- lurina? a race between the doctor's aimlane and . the itork proving to he not so very fanciful after all. Place your wagers On the airplane. Korea's new constitution provides that all politilal offenders shall.be specially pardoned which means that, the minority in an election . V 1 . - ... it. - f contest may nope to survive wic wiain vi uic . victors. " Autograph collecting will have to proceed . on a colossal scale in Nebraska if all the pro posed referendum petitions are to be filed within the legal time limit.. Getting 25,000 sig natures attached to petition blanks is no small job. - Switzerland is to send a commission with 500 members to the United States to study economic conditions here. If we were to reciprocate the favor in proportionate numbers, the Swiss would have to move out of Switzer land. . . (l Included amongjthe honorary degrees con ferred by Columbia university is that of doctor ' of law for General Crowder. This is the civic "croix de aruerre" which the provost marshal would have brought back had k he been per mitted to do some of the fighting abroad. ' We take it to be understood that Omaha is to insist again on a safe and sane celebration of the Fouth without dangerous noise-making explosives. The usual plea of fireworks dealers that they have laid in a stock and must be per mitted to unload -ahould be barred, in advance. : A demand is voiced in Chicago for a down town municipal garage to relieve the pressure of automobile parking in the streets, which is' denounced as "a relic of hitching post days." -The city, that will satisfactorily solve this prob lem first will earn a vote of thanks from all the others. v . The new municipal ordinance governing the parking of automobiles on down town city streets will be useless unless it is observed and enforced without favor or discrimination. Other cities do not tolerate the same obstructions to traffic that we endure and we can stop parking abuses if we want to. , Our municipal ice plant holds the key to the ice problem confronting Omaha householders. I If the municipal plant can manufacture its product on the cost basis reported, addition of a delivery system will make it serviceable and effective, otherwise the private ice companies will continue unchecked. - ' New Kind of Detective Wanted Most reasonable citizens will agree with At torney General Palmer that the time has come for a new kind of detective in the secret service . work of the government, it may be saia aiso .that it is high time that our cities realized that "class" crimes call also for a higher order of pdlice detectives than is now possessed by most of them. Bomb outrages are sporadic social and personal crimes that may well baffle any police force or the smartest of detectives, as detectives are known to most of our cities to day; but "class" crimes that call for extensive planning and cooperation the country over represent an entirely different sort of thing. They call for a special class of men to ferret them out, men who must be endowed with a new kind of training and are familiar with the ways and the methods of the various anti-social groups. During the first two years of the world war the United States secret service gained an enviable reputation for the way in which it got at the official and unofficial Ger man propaganda and brought even theNhaughty attaches of the German embassy to book. It is a pity that these men are seemingly not on the job today. -They are sorely needed. For nothing can be more harmful to public morale " than the spectacle of the pomp and circumstance ailU UIC Jllipuuiljr will) muvu LUC LHJiliu-ln unti and bomb-senders and the printers of treason- able documents have carried on their campaign for the last six months. So the teorganization pf the secret service of the Department of Jus tice cannot come too quickly. It might be well 1 also for Attorney General Palmer to look into the question of the efficiency of United States district attorneys, . since an indifferent United States district attorney can nullify all the work .of a.' federal agent no matter how able or how eager the latter may be to do his duty and pro- tect the country against those who would un- ' Amrmlnm tt in th inrrct nf nnlitiral anarrflv . - ... . - r" - j and social and industrial chaos. Philadelnhia BOOST THE BOY SCOUTS. Boy Scout Week, as the present week has been designated, offers' Omaha an opportunity to give a real impetus to the greatest boy organization which has ever been deVloped. Scouting is well past fne experimental stage and has adequately demonstrated its value. The splendid ethical ideals scoutcxaft in culcates, the fine physical development which it brings, and the cleanness of mind and soul which are its inevitable product, are worth in finitely more to the community than the cost in time and money that will be involved in giving the boys that, which through their leaders they are asking. f Boy Scout Week should result in the enroll ment ofmany hundreds of new recruits in Omaha. 'It should result in the raising of a fund sufficiently large to make the city organiza tion secure in its plans. It should result in bringing into the movement in this city a large number of new leaders and supporters. Success in the Scout movement is largely a matter of leadership. A scoutmaster needs no magic skill He does need .common sense and a real sympathy with the problems of boyhood'. Every one can not be a scoutmaster, but there are many qualified for the work who should discover themselves and offer theirs services. Those who can do no more can at JeastecOme sustaining members and enjoy the satisfaction of helping this fino work along. A- , Saving Clause of a Sense of Humor. The value of a cheerful disposition could not be better exemplified than it was . in former President Taft during his fefcent visit here. On this occasion his' beaming countenance con stantly radiated good wllL.: His clear eyes twinkled with humor. That lunny, happy little chuckle was always frisking about down in his throat ready to gurgle, up to the top and shake his big body into an ecstacy of contagious mirth. A smaller man - would - have been weighed down with his responsibilities, bowed with the burden' of possible failure, pompous beneath a load of artificial dignity, Mr. Taft happily conceived himself in the role of a traveling showman. He bubbled with fun as he referred to the galaxy of "highbrows" who accompanied him as "Taft's Traveling Troup of Truthful -and Trustworthy, Talkers." -We imagine he :had'Artemus Ward's "Great Moral Waxworks Exhibition" in mind when he named his "show." ' . ' After reading the letters of "Petroleum V. Nasby," a humorist of that day, Abraham Lin coln remarked, "If 'Petroleum' would come to Washington and teach me how to write like that, I'd propose to swap places 'with him." No man can go far in these strenuous days without a real sense of humor. A "sense of humor" does not consist of merely telling jokes. It consists rather in the possession of poise and a recognition of the relative value of things. The mind of a man who possesses this quality is filled with the majesty of calmness, no matter how portentous the affairs in which he is en gaged or how much depends on their outcome. Little men in Lincoln's time could not Un derstand how he could "take time" to tell a funny story when great questions were being discussed. Their pompous dignity was Out raged by his departure from the beaten path of things-as-easy-as-they-should-be. Mr. Taft's . cheerfulness inspires confidence, just as the same quality in Napoleon inspired confidence to his troops at many a hard-fought battle. Pompous dignity and ominous solemnity only begets doubt. Taft's cheerfulness is con tagious. It raises the same quality in those who hear him. This cheerfulness is the natural offspring of ripe experience, reason and common sense. It beasj witness to the fact that its possessor is the master of the powers of his mind and the faculties of his soul, that ' his imagination is clear, his judgment undisturbed, his temper even and unruffled. Incidentally, this very cheer fulness which has such a good effect on others, reacts also for the health and happiness of its possessor. Commencement Time. Again the season of commencement is at hand. The baccalaureate sermon is abroad in the land. Statesmen, great and small, are telling the rising generation of students just how to open the "oyster" of the world. The "sheepskin" factories and the cap and gown mills are work ing overtime. 1 Valedictories and class plays and faculty re ceptions all carry us back to the days when we, too, stood, at the threshold of the world. . Bright-faqed youths will tell the world again how, its perplexing problems can be solved. We venture to say that many a forensic champion is at this moment rehearsing his oration on "The Peace Conference" or "Solution of the Great Problems of Todlav" n We are inclined to tm at these enthusias tic, ambitious youngsters. (Are we not even protie' to take a little malicious satisfaction in our knowledge that they will soon find "out some things that we have discovered to our dis appointment? ' The old world will swing along its accus tomed way, we say. Poverty, injustice sin and sorrow will come as they have always come. Vast problems will perplex men and often, too often, they will solve them the wrong way and reap the unhappy harvest ' Probably this is true. But the optimist sees hope in these young men and women who have prepared themselves for the fight of life., The perennial enthusiasm that blossoms with each succeeding class is what keeps the world alive. It is the leaven that leavens the lump of this old world's cynicism and selfishness. Youth may be vandant and callow. But the sight of it is refreshing to those who have ad vanced more or less -beyond the pleasant vale of youth into the foothills and mountains of maturity. T Several cities are continuing their war chest plan of raising a community fund in bulk again this year, presumabbly tos be apportioned out to support their various civic and charitable ac tivities. The lesson of the war is indisputably for unification of x money-raising efforts. If Omaha had only gone to the war chest plan, it would have had the benefit of it now and for a long time to come. , ; v- ' , An exchange of police officers by the cities to fight the bomb terrorists, goes only half way toward a co-operative nation-wide police or ganization. Where the crime conspiracy covers the whole country, it will have to be handled Pioneer. Suffrage Leaders of the Earlier Days While suffrage in the national constitution has yet several lengths to go, endorsement of the amendment for submission to states bv the senate brings it much closer to the realms of probability. It is recalled tnat the amendment, although it bears the name of only one of them, was drafted in its present form in 1875 by 'Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. An , thony, was introduced in congress for the first time three years later and has been kept more or less in the -foreground of agitation for the more than 4v years that have since elapsed. The pioneer suffrage leaders all came out to Nebraska for the suffrage campaign in 1882 and some of them at different times since. One of the high spots of that campaign was a debate between Miss Authony and rayfather, which held the boards before V crowd that packed the old Boyd's Opera house. Miss Anthony was prim and slender, angular in feature, hair parted in the middle and drawn around smooth above the ears, be-spectacled, penetrating in voice, quick in retort, thoroughly versed in her .subject.' She resembled the usual picture of a New England spinster as contrasted with the matronly appearance of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was plump and pink and puffy, with beau tifully wavy snow-white hair, benignly , com placent countenance, who might easily be taken fdr a Quakeress. ' , " . When I spent a winter in Washington a few years later the suffrage notables were there in full force for a convention and a hearing before one of the congressional committees. I was collecting autographs at the time and, as a souvenir of the occasion, have the autographs of Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton, both written on the same page of my album. . I also attended a reception, given . for them, I think by Mrs. Spoffard, which was the suffrage social event of the day. Miss Anthony visited in Omaha once or twice after that and was entertained, as I recollect,, the last time by the Omaha Woman's club. Mjss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton, we may be sure, will go down into history as the moth ers of equal suffrage in this country. Speaking of the suffrage movement, another of the leading lights of the early days was Miss Phoebe Couzins, who was likewise entered in the lists here for debate during that campaign. I noticed in Colonel Watterson's series of re miniscent articles an account of an incident in which she figured when he was presiding over the democratic national convention in 1876 as jts temporary chairman. He says: . ' "Much against my will and over my pro test, I was brought to promise that Miss Phoebe Couzins, who bore a woman's rights . . t . ...... . memorial) snouia at some opportune moment t be given the floor to present it. I foresaw what a row it was bound to accasion. "Toward noon when there was a lull in the proceedings I said with an emphasis meant to carry conviction: 'Gentlemen of the convention, Miss Phoebe Couzins, a repre sentative of the Woman's Association of America, has a memorial from that body and in the absence of other business the chair will now recognize her.' "Instantly and from every part of the hall arose cries of 'No.' These put some heart into me. Many a time as a schoolboy I had declaimed the passage from John Home's tragedy, 'My name is Norval.' Again I stood upon 'the Grampean Hills.' The com mittee was escorting Miss Couzins down the aisle. When she came within the radius of my poor vision I saw that she was a beauty and dressed to kill. . "That was reassurance. Gaining a little .time while the hall fairly rocked ' with its thunder of negation, I laid the gavel down and stepped to the edge of the platform and ; gave Miss Couzins my hand. "As she appeared above the throng there was a momentary 'Ah!' and then a lull, broken by a single voice: ? '"Mister Chairman, I rise to a point of order.' ' "Leading Miss Couzins to the front ofvthe stage, I took up the gavel and gave a gentle rap, saying, 'The gentleman will take his seat.' "'But, Mister Chairman, I rose to a point of order," he vociferated. '"The gentleman will take his seat,' I an swered in the tone of one about to throw the gavel at his head. 'No point of order is in v order when a lady has the floor.' "After that Miss Couzins received a posi tive ovation,' and having delivered her mes sage," retired in a blaze of glory." Miss Couzins died a few years ago. after having experienced a complete change of heart. From an enthusiastic champion of suffrage she had become an uncompromising foe of it, and her last appearance before the congressional committee having the suffrage amendment in hand was to present a strong argument against it, a copy of which she went to the trouble to serid me personally! Here is a wittigrain that is being carried around by Mr. Taft's troup of league of nations orators: "Mr. Taft has been dieting. He has lost 80 pounds. But he carries more weight than ever.". War Junk Made Useful The sale by the War department of more than $236,000,000 worth of surplus material at a price representing about 88 per cent of the original cost, shows remarkable public economy. It is easy enough to buy war supplies, but a decidedly different matter to dispose of them advantageously under peace conditions. As it is, unused munitions of a certain kind must necessarily represent a total waste, but copper and brass material, chemicals, oil, lumber, com missary supplies, etc., remain merchantable, and mean' a substantial reduction of the country's enormous war bill The sale of hand grenades for conversion into dime savings banks illustrates the curious uses to. which discarded implements of war can be put. The millions of brass cartridge cases may meet some demand as art novelties. The news that a steamship has brought a cargo of German helmets to Wales for fabrication into knives, forks and spoons reveals the infinite possibilities of transferring the junk of war into the utensils of peace. Never before has war provided such oppor tunities for beating swords into ploughshares. The most destructive of all wars may, in fact, have the opposite distinction also of 'furnishing more material than any other for reclamation and conversion into objects of use and senti ment. New York World. Home Health . Hints Reliable advice given in this column on prevention, and cure of disease. Put your ques tion in plain language. Your name will not be printed. Ask The Bee to Help You. Chnrch Advertising Pays When backed by good sermons, attractive music and a proper' cordiality on the part of the church membership, church advertising can be made to pay its own way financially, and more. Well handled advertising campaigns have proved this in numerous communities, de clares a bulletin from the Associated Advertis ing Clubs of the World, which has fostered the use of advertising' in behalf of the church. . Church advertising, however, is like all adver tising, says the bulletin. The church, to adver tise successfully, must -have "the goods," as truly as this is necessary in the case of a mer chant If a business man undertakes to advertise poor goods, the advertising emphasizes the poor quality, because more people are induced to ex amine the goods. They talk about it and, therefore, such advertising cannot pay. It is so with the church. The church that advertises successfully must be sure that the services are U Mod ii JJls advtiscmcjil&sF ourth Climate and Disease. Climatic conditions, asi is well known, differ widely in various parts of the world, from which arises for the most part great differences in plant and animal life. Moreover, practically everywhere, there are seasonable variation more or less pronounced, which have their cor responding influence upon all living things. In tropical and subtropical countries, where a high temperature and a maximum amount of moisture predominate, the luxuriance of the foliage antl the mustiformity of ani mal life never ceases to, excite the admiration aftd wonder of the trav eler. While from the temperate zone, in a direction away from the equa tor, vegetable and animal life grows less and less abundant .and flour ishes for a briefer period of each year, as we apporach trie frigid zones. These diversities in climate have given origin to forms of lfe peculiar to themselves, and attention is directed to this most obvious phenomenon because similar influ ences play their part in the produc: tion of disease the world over. The Jiving agents of disease are either animal or vegetable, and are therefore subject to the same physi cal laws -as govern higher forms of life than they. Just as there are plants and animals indigenous 'to the several regions, so do we find pathogenic agents In one region that are mot encountered in another. Likewise, as many plants native to temperate zones outgrow in size and color all semblance to the original when cultivated under atmospheric conditions, so do certain diseases, common in temperate" latitudes, where they are relatively mild, as sume in the tropics a virulence that makes of them a terrible scourge. But here the simile of flora and fauna, and disease, ends. , Tropical plants, unless carefully nurtured, do not nrosrjer when transDlanted in temperate climates; whereas tropical diseases do, if circumstances are the least propitious when they are intro duced. The microscopic agents or disease are less sensitive in some respects to physical agents than plants, and moreover, are capable of ready adaptation to new environ ment Conquest, improved methods of travel, and shorter routes, have' brought the tropics to the very doors of western nations, with the result that in the great commercial benefits accruing from easy intercourse there has come a menace in the guise of disease. Here and there tropical dis eases have been introduced, and while the number of such Instances is not great, and they have been suc cessfully combatted, it has excited alarm. And well might it: Europe has a number of times been over run with oriental plagues. Up to the present these problems have been dealt with chiefly in those countries where such diseases prevail, but who can say when from a single im- DOrted case a herculean tasK in sanitation and preventative medicine will not confront some nation? In temperate latitudes, tropical heat Is seasonable for one or two months each year, a time during which the way is open for the spread of an exotic disease. This danger the na tions are cognizant of, and special commissions are forever investigat ing such dseases In those regions where they are epidemic: the reason being to discover a preventive, for it is Obvious that the only safeguard the peoples of temperate climates have against foreign diseases is to stamp them out in their home coun try. All the nations, also, on this account have founded schools of troDical medicine," where the cause and prevention of tropical diseases are studied, and where the same Is taught to physicians and nurses whose duty it may be, at some time, to cope with them. The Prudery of the Press. All offoptn in diminish the SDread of venereal diseases have encoun tered as a real obstruction a peculiar prudery in tne American press, in his recent work on "The American Language" Mr. H. L. Mencken calls attention to the fact that the de partment of health in New York City in 1914 announced that its ef forts to diminish venereal diseases were handicapped because "in most newspaper offices the words syphilis or gonorrhea are still taboo and without the use of these terms it is almost impossible to correctly state th nrohiem." The army medical corps in the early part of 1918 also encountered the same aimcuuy; most newspapers refused to print its bulletins regarding venereal dis ease in the army. "One of the newspaper trade journals there- iinnn ' Munnlrpn savfl. "KOUfcht the opinions of editors upon the subject anri all nf them aavA nne declared against the use of the two words." One editor placed the blame on the postofflce, and another reported that "at a recent conference of the Scripps Northwest League. Editors" it was decided that "the use of such terms as gonorrhea, syphilis, and even venereal diseases would not add to the tone of the papers, and that the term vice disease can be readily substituted." Mr. Mencken is of the opinion that the most Pecksnlffian of American cities is Philadelphia, antf he cites as a conspicuous example the change by the Public Ledger of the words "a virgin" to "a young girl." When the motion picture entitled "To Hell with the Kaiser" was ad vertised under government patron age, all of the Philadelphia bill boards changed the announcement to read "To H with the Kaiser." Most of our readers know the nu merous synonyms used by, the press for syphilis, among them "blood poisoning," 'social evil" and "social disease." Apparently the pres has been unabel to coin a word for gonorrhea and the subject is merely tabooed. The campaign agalnpt ven ereal diseases depends largely on the education of the public, ,1s the prudery of the press to continue to hinder such education? ' ODD AND INTERESTING. Welcoming Our Boys. Omaha, June 5. To the Editor of The Bee: . It is beautiful it is won derful it Is inspiring when We see a great nation so united in its de termination to honor the return home of the splendid boys who so nobly on the bloody fields of France showed to the world what it means to be an American. These bdys do not return to us the same as they wore. Those who Asturn unmalmed are matured, with higher Ideals than when they went away. They have memories not alone of those who died and were maimed that Liberty might survive, but their own suffer ings have told them the serious side of life. At least I thought I saw, as 1 stood on Decoration day, studying the faces of those boys, something deeper in their souls than mere pleasure at returning home. There was an intensity of feeling an their hearts, which I interpreted to be a declaration that their life's endeavors ahould be from this time on to shape the action of America even more true to the ideals of liberty to see to it that nothing henceforth shall undermine the foundations of the temple of liberty fof-whlch they have paid so dear a price. - Our welcoming spirit may die out. We are so prone, when engaged in the strife of life, to forget the higher sentiments or the heart. ii ut a grateful government will not forget. The government presided over by one of the noblest men that ever lived in the tide of times has already planned for the rehabilitation of those boys who return to civil life disabled by the ravages of war. It is taking the disabled boys, quietly and without ostentation, and if their dlsabllty" is such that they cannot follow 'ther former' employment, training them for a new one, or by careful advice making them more efficient in their old employment Nor 'does the government stop merely at training them for a higher s'tatlon. The purpose, of course, in this is to make it possible for these boys to live more comfortably than before by less physical effort. Teaching them to become more effi cient in their former employment or supplying them with training for a new vocation will enable them to gain a livellhod without the stress they would otherwise have to un dergo. After training, the govern ment will see to it that they are provided with employment and it will keep a constant eye upon them, helping them until they are fully capable of taking care of them selves. , They shall never be obliged to become objects of charity. They will take their places with other workmen upon at least an equal footing? During the period of train ing, they are paid at least $75 per month in addition to the cost of training supply of tools,! books or apparatus needful for the training. When the civil war closed, its vic tims were turned loose to shift for themselves, merely being paid a pen sion. In a sense they became ob jects of charity, even of the govern ment. Today the government rehabil itates them, making them self-sustaining, self-respecting, independent citizen This is the noblest work any government ever before under took in the interest of the disabled soldier. L. J. QUINBY. no DAY . Why in the Dark? Omaha, June 2. To the Editor of The Bee: According to our sen ator, it would be incompatible to public interest to publish the terms of peace and that the German peo ple do not know the terms, either. If this is true, was the war to make the world safe for democracy won or lost? According to newspaper re ports, the Big 5 mix the medicine and all the peoples on both sides are in the dark, and it would be a bad thing for them to know what the Big 5 are doing. Then when the senate of the United States is given no voice in the mat ter they will find it impossible to do other than ratify the secret-made treaty that will make the Big 5 the masters of the world. If the re publican party fails to makes a stand against this arrangement there will be a host of us ex-democrats who voted them into power very badly fooled. The Big 5 international government don't look good to me, although it would make a fine secret job for Colonel House. T. S. "Atmospherics" is the bugbear of the wireless telegraph operator. Any electrical disturbance in the earth's atmosphere seriously interferes with his work. As an illustration, every single flash of lightning gives rise to waves of such enormous power that a flash in England will affect sta tions in Africa. The red and white flag of Monaco flies over the smallest nation on earth. The entire area of Monaco is only eight square miles. Although it is the smallest in area, however, there are three smaller in popula tion. It has 23,000 inhabitants, as compared with 6,321 for Andorra, 10,716 for Liechtenstein and 11,513 for San Marino. On the backs of most gloves will be found three thin strips. These marks correspond to the fourchette pieces between the fingers. In ear lier times gloves were not made so neatly as they are today, and the stitching of the fingers was carried down part of the way on to the back of the glove, braid being used to con- cjaj us eeaavy ' Whence Came This Superstition? One of the commonest of all street supersitions is that there is tremen dous good fortune ahead of anyone who meets a piebald horse in the street. Where the idea came from nobody really knows,.but it exists in all parts of the world. FREE ! Extra Pant$ WITH m Our Leader $ (Union Made) Made -to -Measure SUIT A saving of from $10 to $15 charged by other tailors , N. W. Corner 15th and Harney Open Saturday until BP, M, i 1 a- - ! The Day We Celebrate. Udgar Saltus, distinguished author and Journalist, born in New York City. 61 years ago. Charles B. Henderson, United States senator from Nevada, porn at San Jose, Cal., 46 years ago. Dr. Samuel Simpson Marquis, noted Episcopal clergyman and soci ologist, born at Sharon, O., 63 years ago. Dr John W. Kllewer, president of Bethol college, Kansas, born in Rus sian Poland, 50 years ago. Thirty Years Ago. "Among the Breakers," by the "Onco a Week" local players, was given as a Johnstown beneflt per formance with Mrs. Louis Baer in the leading role. Five of Ed Rothbery's homing pigeons were liberated from Fre mont, a distance of 47 miles, at 12 o'clock. They returned to their loft at intervals from 12:45 to 1:05. Miss Eugenie Kountze is in Paris, France. The home of Herman Delss, Twen tieth and Wirt streets, was the scene of a merry birthday party for hia daughter Mamie. IN THE BEST OF HUMOR. "I can ntfi Cholly like a booli." "You're foollh to atraln your eyes over small type." Cleveland Press. Oil Well, how did ' you find th old town when you went back? Can All right,' but it wa unconscious. Nebraska Awgwan. "Is your watch going-, George?" she asked sweetly, stifling a yarwn. . "Yep," answered George. "How soon?" Indianapolis Star. Redd They say that a fish never stops growing. Greene Well it hasnt anything on a fish story, at that. Yonkers States man. '"tha professor seems to be a man of I are gifts," remarked Mr. Naybor. "He Is." agreed tne proiessor a wire. 1 ir q ho.n. .Ivan ran nna since we were married." Philadelphia Ledger. "I undtrstand," said the reporter, "that the defaulter's method was very simple." "Verv." said the bank president; "he juat took th money." New Haven Reg ister. , . "Has hs a lot of money?" "No, but he has the next best thing." "What Is that?" "The ability to make people think he a rich." Detroit Tree Press. The Knut It's simply absurd! What's the use of showing me low cut collars like those? Do you mean to say that you have nothing taller? Shop Girl I'm sorry, but our next size Ib In cuffs. Cassell's Saturday Jour nal. "Too do not aeem to take any great , pride In your oratorical ability." , "I have seen harrowlna Instances." re- piled Senator Sorghum, "of a man'a taking so mucn intereat in nia oratory inai nc lorgot to watch the people wno were at tending- to plain, practicar politics." Washington. Star. "How a your husband getting alonn, Ur. -Fotfarty?" "Well, sometimes h's better an' some times he's worae, but from the way be t row Is an' takes on whin he's better i think he's better whin h worse." nat ion Transcript. SOUTH SEA FANCIES. I am restless aa a lover, when the wind is off Ui sea: Then the booming of th breakers on far Islands rail to me. Then aeagolng freighters call me, to come up and go away Where th purple Ma born night Is chang ing to th tawny day. And to strange and far-off islands where the wide lagoons are calm, And are copper colored women weaving mats beneath a palm. am sure that of my forebears many r them knew th sea. And th wlldnesa of thrlr living has nt down a strain to me; And I'd rather than be cozy In a comi? Inglenook, With the weather shut out from me. al my nose stuck In a book, B out on (the slanting deck when the storm rides the night at sea. And the ship la Ilk a stallion fighting fiercely to b free. When the wlmTti from the sea and bring the scent of sea born (things, Then I the albatross aaleep upon his widespread wings. And I see th rushing billows! And i want to go and ride, 3n the very wildest of them, to the big world's other side: tnd I want to see the maidens weavlutf mats beneath the trees . Ah, I want to go the pathway all acros x th Seven Seas. , - k A T nl a taHA In allUa anil In the spices of the Esst, . And I want to sit In with them when the atranger peoples feast. And I want to laugh loud with them, and wear gold rings In my ears. And go bark generations and wipe out the humdrum years, " And be such aa my forefathers used to be, and spread my sail. And laugh at the reaching waters, and laugh down the howling gale! JUDn MORTIMER LEWIS, In The Hous ton Post. PATENTS THE firm of Munn A Co. has for 74 years been engaged in the preparation of patent ap plication relating to mechanical, electrical, and chemical subject. All communication strictly confi dential. Our Handbook sent free on re quest. Scientific American contains Patent Office Notes, Decisions of interest - to inventors and partic ulars of recently invented inventions. MUNN & Co. PATENT ATTORNEYS Suite 807 Tower Bldg., Michigan Av. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Woolworth Bldf . 625 F Strict NEW YORK. I WASHINGTON, D. C. 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