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Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14
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Chicago Record-Herald; 1t looks to q
layman as IL the greatest possible attrac-
ton in any church is a pastor Who thor
oughly believes in the religion he breaches
and Is devoted to the spiritual welfare Of
his flock.
Washington Herald: Rev. DIT. Dixon has
just informed Savannah that there IL mo
such place as HI" Doubtless there are a
few thirsty souls down there. however. who
disagree s%trenuously with the doctor. even
though politeness does prevent them saying
so out in meeting.
Kansas City Times; Bishop Brent Of the
Philippines is the old-fashioned person who
cables his decision. using the Bible as a
code book, John 80" There was a time
when this practice was at least as fash
ionable as postage stamp Irritation and 1t
was hardly good form IL the young woman
did not reply to her proposal of marriage,
See Ruth i:16"
Baltimore American: 1t is a Sine sign of
the times that in the churches of America
the question of citizenship has the front
place. The preachers of all denominations
are emphasizing the point OF active, aR-
gressive morality. They are making II very
uncomfortable for the man who has diff
ferent codes for business. politics and Sum
day. They are showing the glaring weak
ness of any religion that finds excuses for
it's members because they think the preach
Ing Of Sunday should not be too closely APP
piled to the practices of Monday. A ma
TONS safety is In its clean, moral. honest
citizenship. And the churches are doing
a noble work in educating and stimulating
the civic conscience,
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14
TIE AGE OF SCHOOL TEACHERS.

The Chicago Board Of Education has
made a rule against admitting persons
Of more than so years of age to teach
in the public schools, alleging as a
reason that so years is the age limit
at which the mental and physical
vigor OF teachers begin to decline and,
of course. Chicago will have none but
young men and ome on guard to
guide its children and direct them in
the path Of wisdom and knowledge.
1t is unfortunate that a body of men
charged with the most important work
Of the time, the education of the youth
of the land, should be led by ignorance
or politics to make a ruling SO fraught
with injustice to the teachers of the
country and, for that matter, to all
persons who have gatheIed years, as
we'll as knowledge and experience. The
Chicago Board of Education appears
to have had the "Osler theory" in
mind. When DR.. William Osler, in
an address before physicians at Balti-
more, loosely placed at 40 years the
age at which a mans usefulness to the
world ceases, many people took the
statement seriously and its publication
aroused wide discussion and criticism.
Dr.. Osler vainly tried to deny serious
ness in his statement and the world
has generally come to accept his re-
mark as a Jest, but it appears that the
solemn and omniscient Board of Edu-
cation of Chicago accepts his theory"
as law and gospel.
Men and women do not begin to de-
cline at the age of so years. Study
of the worlds history shows that the
greatest achievements in literature,
art, science and education have been
accomplished by men who have passed
the sixtieth year. Won Moltke, at the
age OF 20, was Germany's chief strate-
gist in the war with France; Butcher,
at 70. reinforced Wellington at Water
loo and Dandolo stormed and captured
Constantinople at 90; Goethe COM
pleted Faust" at 50; Titian's brush
was turning out masterpieces when he
died of a plague at the g Of 100;
Humboldt began his Cosmos" at rs
and completed 1t in mis- ninetieth year;
Newton discovered the law of gravita-
ton at so and worked until he was s4;
Lord Palmerston died in the harness
at 81 aud Gladstone's ministerial du-
ties were continued until he vas 81.
Literature and art and science would
be greatly impoverished II the Chicago
Board OF Education had been in charge
OF the workers in those lines and had
placed them on the retired list at the
age Of so.
In teaching, perhaps more than in
any other profession, the teacher is
also a student until his nftieth year or
after. He cannot teach wisely until
he knows himself and his studies
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14
LET ALONE.

An organization known as the
Women Of the Confederate Choir OF
America" is making a misguided eff
fort to revise Dixie" by elevating the
literary tone Of 1t, without impairing
the Tilt of the tune. The revisionists
argue that the words of Dixie" are
rough, uncouth, almost coarse and
should be discarded for something
real chaste and classic. Poets are be-
ing invited to prepare verses that will
At the good old tune and still be free
from the hint of rag-time and coon
song elements that have come down
with the merry song of the southland.
1t is suggested that instead of the old
familiar words, the song be started
something like this:
Oh, Dixie is the land Of glory,
The LAND Of cherished song and story.
It won't do. Dixie" is the land of
cotton, Cinnamon seeds and sandy
bottom" and all the literary thinkers
In the world can't change it and
should not be allowed to try. It's a
home song, s%pringing from the heart
Of rustics and dressed in homespun,
and 1t would be awkward, unnatural
and without it's real ring If it we're
dressed in literary silk.
Regardless of acts Of congress or
the commands of officials, Dixie" is
p national song and there is no way
of getting around it. Assemblages
may arise, or stand with uncovered
heads, while the band plays THE Star
Spangled Banner" Its sonorous
strains command attention and respect,
but let the band or the orchestral
strings and pipes strike up Dixie"
and there is an immediate ~clapping of
hands, laughter, stamping of feet,
cheers and the swell of patriotic emo
ton. 1t was a south song originally,
1t is true. 1t was a %battlecry of the
Johnny Rebs" in every conflict be-
tween Bull Run and Mobile Bay and
the north tried to learn to hate it. The
effort was in vain. Now that sectional
discord is forgotten, "Dixie' has come
into it's own, it's every note pulsed with
patriotism and its every word written
in the language of the national heart.
Dixie does not belong to the
Women of the Confederate Choir of
America" 1t is the property of the
nation and it's words should be let
alone.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14
RraHrs oF STREET CAR PATRONS.

ftluh19 UT DIUbBL a ~ NOA'S'
Street car patrons everywhere will
find interest in a decision just rendered
by a New York judge concerning the
duty of street car companies to pre-
serve order on their cars and to pro-
tect passengers who behave themselves
from injury and annoyance at the
hands of those who do not. In the
case in question a woman passenger
was hit in the face and seriously hurt
by a shoe, thrown by one of a number
of men who were engaged in a free
for-all fight. The woman sued for
damages and secured a verdict for
$500. The street car company appealed
the case.
The street car company argued in
the higher court that the company
was not responsible for the throwing
Of the offending shoe. The shoe was
not thrown by an employee of the COM
pany, but by a passenger and, so the
attorney argued, it was the duty of the
passengers to protect themselves from
each other. 1t was also argued that
the woman's claim vas not against
the company, but should have been
brought, in a suit for civil damages,
against the person who threw the shoe.
The court refused to agree to the
proposition that it was the duty Of
passengers to protect themselves and
to. If necessary, become expert in
lodging shoes or other missiles that
might be thrown in the course of a
street car mixup. The court held that
it was clearly the duty of the company
to maintain order on its cars, and that
for a company to tolerate riots on its
cars or behavior on the part of passen-
gers that resulted in hurt or annoy
ance to other passengers was IAN Of
Tense against civilization and unjusti-
fable" The award of damages was
sustained.
No street car company is going to
encourage lawlessness or unseemly
conduct on the part of its passengers,
but there is a disposition in too many
cities to allow too much liberty on the
part of h~alf-drunken or quarrelsome
men who make street car riding un-
pleasant, If not at times dangerous, to
respectable persons. The street car o n
ductors and motormen, who always
have troubles enough of their own, are
too often disposed to overlook minor
acts of rowdyism on the part of some
passengers and endure open nuisances
rather than cause trouble. At the
same time, it should be remembered
that ~well-behaved passengers have the
right to protection from annoyance
and insults and it is the duty of the
street car companies to furnish such
protection.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

rarely cease until his iftieth year,
when he becomes more than ever capa-
BILE Of imparting the information he
has gained by years of study and So
bered by reflection and deduction. II
would have been more to the credit of
the Chicago Board of Education IL II
had made a rule prohibiting men and
women from becoming teachers before
the age Of 40 or so, instead of prohib-
iting them from teaching after they
were so years of age.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14
MENACE OF A PLAGUE

Medical authorities of the govern
.ment appear to be getting very much
in earnest in urging the public and
the officials of the country to take
proper precautions against a possible
spread in this country of the bubonic
plague, which is spreading through
most Of the Caribbean countries. The
marine hospital service has issued a
number of bulletins advising the adop-
ton of the most rigid sanitary meas
ures in both the Atlantic and Pacific
seaports and in a special publication
the people everywhere are urged to
institute and prosecute a systematic
warfare for the determination of rats,
which are recognized as the greatest
means of spreading the disease.
Latest reports show that practically
all of the coast towns of Venezuela are
infested with the plague, which has
spread to Trinidad. All the ports of
Cuba have been closed to Venezuelan
commerce and the most stringent in
spection methods have been adopted
for vessels arriving at American sea-
ports from Venezuela and the Carib-
bean countries. Some time ago the
disease seemed to have had a strong
foothold in San Francisco, but was
stamped out through energetic and
systematic effort of the federal and
local authorities. The best medical
authorities agree that the disease is
most commonly spread by rats that
are carried from plague-infested coun-
tries in ships holds and soon spread
the contamination through the rats
that thrive In the sewers, along the
wharves and in the warehouses in the
shipping centers. The experiments in
San Francisco showed that rats which
had been caught in ships holds and
marked for Identification were later
caught as far east as OgGen, where
they had been carried in cars contain
ing grain and other merchandise.
Such experiments, proving the danger
Of a wide spread Of the disease, have
cause the publication of the warn
ings and the agitation for a war of ex-
termination against rats.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

Henry Holcomb Bennett.

Hats off
Along the street there
A blsre OF bugles, a ruffle OF drums,
A flash OF color beneath the sky.
Hats off!
The flag Is passing by!
Blue and crimson and white II shines.
over the steel-tipped. ordered lines.
Hats off!
The colors before us fly;
But more han the flag Is passing by.
Sea fights and land fights, grim and great
Fought to make and save the state;
Weary marches and sinking ships.
Cheers of victory on dying lips;
Days Of plenty and years OF peace;
March OF q strong lands swift increase;
Equal Justice, right and law,
Stately honor and reverend awe;
Sign OF a nation, great and strong
To ward her people from foreign wrong;
Pride and glory and honor-al
Liv in the colors to stand or fall.
Hats off
Along the street there comes
A blare OF bugles, a ruffle Of drums;
loyal hearts are beating highs:
Hats off!
The nag is passing by!
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14
rHr onnIon az oHtc1nn

James A. Garfield once won a nom
ination-followed by election-for the
presidency Of the United States by a
speech " which he declared that "the
shadows murmur, while the deep are
silent" and explained that the verdict
Of the voters of America was not de-
cided in the heat and passion and
hurrah of political convention, but by
sober reflection of thinking men In the
homes and at the firesides, in which
the merits of issues and candidates
we're considered by the cold light Of
reason. Mr.. Garfield's picture very
fairly reflects the proceedings of the
republican national committee In its
sessions ut Chicago for the purpose of
considering the contests in the various
states over the selection of delegates
to the convention to be held this week.
The national committee has COM
pleted its labors, so far as the consid-
Grafton Of contests is concerned, and
the result is simply a confirmation Of
what all Americans have known for
weeks, that the sentiment Of the re-
publican voters Of the country is en-
phatically in favor of the nomination
of william Howard Taft of Ohio as the
next standard bearer Of the republican
party. 1t were idle now, perhaps, to
discuss the motives of the opponents of
Mr.. Taft. The political game, in all
parties. Is played by well defined rules.
Mr.. Taft has been a victim of the usual
charges. 1t has been asserted that he
is not a real candidate, but is an echo
Of the present occupant OF the White
House. 1t has been charged that execu-
tive influence and federal patronage
have been used in influencing delegates
to his support. 1t has been heralded
that while the voice was the voice of
Taft the hand was the hand of Roose-
welt. On those issues the preliminary
fight has been made and the contests
presented to the committee. The result
has been an overwhelming victory for
Mr.. Taft. The contests from the south
have simply broken down by the weight
of their own insincerity. Almost with
out the necessity, or ever the request,
for a roll call, the national committee
composed of men, many Of whom
have not been friendly to the Taft
candidacy-has decided the contests in
favor of the Taft delegates, the evil
dence being that most of the contests
were trumped up solely for the pur-
pose Of throwing sand into the ma
chinery."
The result Of the preliminary in
quiries shows simply that Taft is
stronger than Hughes or Fairbanks or
Cannon or Knox or any other candi-
date mentioned for the nomination.
He has had a wider experience as an
administrator, has met more people
and impressed nor people with the
solid worth Of his character, and, mor
important, stands more emphatically
for the continuation Of the policies
espoused by Mr.. Roosevelt and en-
dorsed by the public. In the final
analysis, Mr.. Taft is the candidate who
is needed and has been asked for by
the country. He stands for the prin-
ciples that have taken deep root In the
political soil and best represents the
policies to which the republican party
is ir~revocably committed.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

william Waldorf Aston. IT., Is or
KaniEing q ssmi-teetotal pledge asso-
citation In London, which binds ita
members to drink only at midday and
evening meals. Aston claims thai
men need a stimulant TO help their
conversation. II two drinks q day
make Astor talk like that, We suggest
he become a total abstainer.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14
Punishment Fits the Crime.
Baltimore American.

The fool who rocks the boat appeared in
Pennsylvania the other day n got a lesson
which should be repeated on all his tribe.
He stood W in a rowbOat and rocked it TO
scare two young women companions.
whereat one Of them promptly knocked him
overheard with an oar and rowed away.
A crowd on the shore cheered the duekins.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

Congress appropriated $4,000 for
the Plat National park In Oklahoma,
In justice to congress It should be sx-
plained that the park was named for
the late Senator Plat OF Connecticut
ana not for the New York senator.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

John Hays Hammond's vice presi-
dental boom has collapsed, but 1t
be a good plan to make him
chairman of the finance committee.
He has a worldwide reputation for his
ability TO locate gold.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

A college president says that secrets
cause most of the divorces. On the
contrary, a secret never causes q d.
Vorce. The trouble m when II is
no longer q secret.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

Richmond Pearson Hobson has re-
luctantly decided hal there will be no
war between the United States and
Japan for another year, at m rate.
For this relief, much tanks. Heart
disease is too prevalent to make it safe
for the country to stand a presidential
campaign and a wal with Japan at the
time,
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

1t is proposed to perform surgical
operations on school children to see If
It will not make them bright. The
plan should be discouraged. If 1t
works we'll the doctors may be trying
Il on some of the rest of us.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

II appears that Tammany fooled
Mr.. Hearst the second time by not
stunning the ballot boxes in that may
crafty election in 1905. Mr.. Hearst
was also fooled by the people who
promised to vote for him.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14
Gracious Diplomacy.
%springfIeld Republican.

No diplomacy could be more gracious
than that of China in deciding to spend
practically all of the Boxer indemnity
which was Cancelled by the United States
in educating Chinese boys in American
schools. Two hundred boys will be sent to
this country annually for a period Of ten
years. incidentally, China could hardly
use the money TO better advantage.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14
Nome seraps OutsIde the Fence.

New York CommercIaL
"You have a fine country said Cardinal
Logue TO Mr.. Rockefeller, and the latter
rnodestly admitted as much. OF course II
wasn't necessary 20 go into trifling details
ana specify M there were some few odds
and ends to which Mr.. Rockefeller had
not yet acquired title.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

THE new directoire gown" says a
leader of New York fashions, lis a
most uncomfortable and highly expen-
sive garment" No other reasons are
necessary for its popularity.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14
PeriIOus Lures for Man.

Within the past few days one man has
been killed while gazing at a pretty wom-
ans pretty dress and another probably ia
tally hurt while reading from the 'Ru-
baiyat' OF Omar Khsyyam. women and
song thus appear 10 be more disastrous
than wine.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14
An Impreasive Spectacle.
81. Louis Republic.

After observing the Taft q n wagon
during the last few days. writers Of q
former and more classical generation would
have called 1t the Car Of Juggernaut. But
the allies In Chicago clearly perceive that
they are in front Of a steam road roller
OF heavy tonnage.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

Eastern papers announce that the
price of Holsters has been cut in half
on O of the unusually plentiful
supply found in Maine waters. 1t is
funny how information Of that kind
can so long escape the attention OF the
nronrietors OF restaurants.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14
"If Taft is NOMINATED.

"If Taft is nominated" a y a
Georgia colonel, 81 an going to stump
every doubtful state for Bryan" In
other words. he will do some spell
binding in Missouri and Kentucky
and they're not very doubtful.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14
DOMESTIC P-LEAsANTRIEs.

Mother-You should AVE given al alarm
last night.
Daughter (demurely)-I did give one.
Big Brother-Humph! II must have been
a still alarm.-Baltimore American.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14
A GIIded SouYenir.

IHuIdHdpOIIH NFWs.
After the convention Governor Johnson
need not hunt up the fellows who furnished
the gold brick. They will not take II back.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

But said the lawyer, your case seems
hopeless. 1 don't see what I can do for
you. You admit hat you beat your wife"
Yes" replied the defendant. But my
wife's testimony will discount that. Shed
never admit that she was oeaten.'-Phila-
delphia Press.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

The seating capacity Of a band
wagon is really not as important as
Sood wheels and running gear.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

Venezuela is entitled to real SYM
pathy. Even If 1t gets rid OF the bu-
bonic plague 1t will still have Castro.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

There ean be no good argument
offered against King Edwards visit to
the car, who has been doing a lot of
business with his uncles lately.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

Frank Hitchcock gave up his proxy
as national committeeman from New
Mexico when Sol Luna came out Of
eclipse.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

There is no longer any question that
the ticket to be named at Chicago will
be Taft and -
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

Public Printer Leech has assumed
the duties of his position. He ought
TO be able to stick.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14
STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION:

State OF Nebraska, Douglas County. SIS:
George b. TEschuck. treasurer OF The
Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn,
says that the actual number OF full ana
complete copies of The Daily, Morning,
Evening and SundRy Bee printed during
the month OF Nav 1908 Was AZ follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

us reading in bed injurious?" asks
q correspondent. Depends very much
upon what you are reading.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

Can you tell, off-hand, what became
OF the William s~tuyvesant Chanler
presidential boom?
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

The country is getting along re-
markedly well. considering the fact
that Senator Tillman and William
Randolph Hearst are both In Europe.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

The sentiment for johnson grows
stronger every day." says the New
York World. Perhaps, but sentiment
does not vote in the convention.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

What did father say when you asked
him for me7'
He didn't say anything. He fell on my
neck and wept."-Chicago Record-Herald.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14
Getting q Move On.

Chicago News.
From the crop prospects It appears that
the idle boxcar soon will have q chance 70
wear the ruSt off its axleA
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

The opposition to Mr.. Taft at Chi
eago promises to be numerically less
than that to Mr.. Bryan at Denver.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

They say tina tips for walters have
greatly declined"
"I never knew them to be."-Clsveland
Plain Dealer.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

wanted somebody to do our city shopping.
Baltimore American.
Pensively the soubrette who was touring
the provinces applied the color!ng mixture
20 her hair in the solitude of her own
room.
How sad II Is" she murmured, Ito dye
so far from home "'-Chicago Tribune,
"Jim has Joined the silent majority"
Whom did he marry ?"-Houston Post.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

WHEN OUT, OF TOWN.
Subscribers leaving the city tenn
DorariIy should have The bee
mailed 20 them. Address will he
changed as often as requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

when will we have none but hon.
est lawyers?" asks the New York
Press. When we have none but hon
est litigants.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14

Farmer Cornstock-who are these folks
who have Just found out that they are
cousins and will g us a summer visit
Maria?
Maria guess they're the same folks we
discovered were related 10 US when we
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-14
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