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Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30
SCHOOL FUND INVESTMENT.

The recently adopted constitutional
amendment, charging the scope of in
vestment for the permanent school
fund, adds to the list of authorized
purchases registered school district
bonds of this state and such other Sc
curities as the legislature nay from
time to time direct" Following out
the intention of this amendment, a bill
has been introduced at Lincoln desig-
mating municipal bonds issued by Ne
braska incorporated cities and school
districts as proper securities for school
fund investments and providing for
their registration. This bill, or n
to the same purpose, should pass.
How much the school fund has lost
in the past because Of narrow limita-
tons on the scope of its investments
will never be known. Because Ne
braska had no state debt and the avail
able county bonds were entirely mad
euuate, money belonging to the school
fund was for years loaned to distant
states at rates much lower Than Il
own cities and school districts were
paying for money they were borrow
ing. In this way the school fund has
been loaded down with bonds from
Massachusetts, Tennessee, Mississippi
and Montana with, in some cases, a re-
turn of but little over 8 per cent. In
other words, we have been loaning our
money to the east, south and west and
borrowing it back again at higher
rates.
By making our city and school dis
trict bonds available for school fund
investments, even though the fund
may not be sufficient at all times to
take all offerings, we will be steadying
the market for such bonds and in the
same degree stimulating the erection
of substantial school buildings and
needed improvement of our cities
without in any way impairing the Sc
curity of the school fund or diminish
ing its income.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30

PEELED sulenly to submit. Then the
Turkish women threw aside their
wells and began chewing gum and the
sultan reluctantly admitted that he
liked the metamorphosis and would
not object to it. If they would not go
in for directoire gowns or Merry
Widow hats. The men took a notion
next that they would like a constitu-
ton and a Parliament and the sultan
granted those demands. expressing
the wish at the time that there would
be no more fads INTRODUCED from the
barbaric Christian countries,
But the spirit of progress once
started could not be checked and when
the sultan awoke one morning to find
two teams Of Young Turks battling for
the foot ball supremacy under the very
shadows OF his palace, he realized that
he had reached the station where he
was scheduled to get off, so he tipped
the porter and ordered his trunks sent
up to the American house and asked
for commercial rates. That is the real
secret of the sultan's surrender. no
matter how earnestly the diplomats
may try to prove otherwise.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30
POLITICAL DRIFT.

President Roosevelt and Senator Foraker
go out together on March 4, but by differ
ent doors.
One Of the democratic congressman from
Virginia is loudly protesting against any
reduction in the tariff on peanuts.
Two hundred and fifty citizens OF Los
Angeles have asked the mayor to resign.
OF course. he won't, but the invitation must
interest him..
Senator-elect Shively Of Indiana Is nearly
six and a half feet tall, which explains his
success in reaching the plum over Johnny
Kern's shoulder.
Colonel Jim Guffey, the Pennsylvania
who was thrown over the transom at the
Denver convention, has been reelected to
his former position as member of the demo-
cratic national committee.
Threatened with tax on their liberty, the
bachelors of the Oregon legislature have
retaliated on their tormentors by proposing
a law limiting women's hat pins to ten
inches. After a good fight, possibly the
scrappers will get together.
The Bughouse Hose company of Freeport,
J.. l., has asked for a place in the line Of
march at the Taft inaugural. The Bug
house bunch are real firemen, wiser than
their title indicates. They know when to
get into the right procession.
Kansas proposes to vindicate the memory
Of the late Edmund G. Ross, the exiled
senator whose vote saved President An
drew Johnson from Impeachment, by APP
propriating $3.50 to place a bronze bust Of
him in the State Historical society.
Governor Harmon of Ohio is holding a
state and federal job, and since the United
States court refuses to accept his ~reslgna-
ton as receiver of the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton & Dayton railroad, he will continue
to hold the two positions until the receiver
ship is lifted.
The commissioners of Cook county, Iii.
wherein Chicago rests, could not find
means to finance the prosecution of ballot
box frauds, but there is no difficulty in
finding the wherewith to boost their own
salaries from $500 a year to 5000. Know
ing where the money will go makes a great
difference in public acts.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30
PROSPERITY FACTORS.
reason for Gratitude "fOr the Things
tina Have Been Given U.s."
Wall Street Journal.

The United States Department OF Agri-
culture places the value OF farm animals
enumerated on January !, 1909, at $685.
$4,000. This represents an increase Of
1894, 900 or 40 per cent in one year. An
increase in value OF this ratio is only
another form in which the wealth Of the
100000 farms of the country expresses It's
gains. To this should be added approx
mately 5000. % 1900 more, nearly all Of
which represents the value Of the crops
grown by farmers in 1908. The two main
items would bring the farm wealth Of the
year to a total of 81. 525, $4,000.
When one is looking for the reason why
commodity prices in general nave been
maintained during this period. 1t is not
necessary to show the whole burden on
the increased supply OF gold. The unceasing
stream OF wealth from the field ana farm
yard in the form Of cereals and live stock,
may serve as a fairly substantial factor
and also afford occasion for gratitude for
the things that have been given US.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30
GOING FORWARD BACKWARDS.


There will be deep regret in military
circles as we'll as among civilians in
terested in aviation that the military
affairs committee of the house at
adequate appropriation for the ad-
vancement of the science of military
aeronautics. The committees action
must be looked upon as a backward
step at this time when all of the
nations of the earth are deeply inter-
ested in the progress of aviation and
In tests showing to what extent the
airship, in some form, may become a
potent instrument in future wars.
The dirigible balloon has passed the
first experimental stage. The work of
the Wright brothers, Leon D~elagrange,
Henri Farman, Santos-Dumont and
others have demonstrated beyond ques-
ton that the principle of aviation has
been discovered and that only de-
velopment and further experiment are
needed to make the balloon a real and
tSstHlldl AdJlOI III luluIt MILITARY ana
naval operations. The French, Ger
man and Italian governments are de-
voting large sums of money and are
making strong efforts to secure con-
troll of all of the more important in
ventions and discoveries connected
with the science of aviation. The
United States has kept pace with
progress in this direction, the balloon
stations at Fort Omaha and Fort
Myer having been particularly active
in experiments in hat line.
The refusal of the appropriation
will simply call a halt in the work at
a time when a halt may result in
definite loss to the service. 1t is
hoped that the senate will have a
keener appreciation of the needs of
this branch of the military service and
restore the appropriation which has
been rejected by the house.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30
THE sANDJAK OF now BAzAR.
Cincinnati Times Star.

Cincinnati Times-Star.
ut has been suggested that. as a solution
the Balkan problem, Austria Hungary d.
Hlde the Sandtak of Novi Bazaar between
serVla and neutrality-suspicious. item)
As a casual newspaper reader;
As a person lust wanting 10 know:
AS one seeking the light in the darkness
mot TO be too inquisitive, thought
this one point I'd like information,
u you're sure | don't trespass too far
what rs it-won't some one please tell me?-S
The Sandjak Of Now Bazaar?
With many strange terms I'm familiar,
Terms smacking of peace and Of war,
Wnlch the versatile press correspondents
Dellght TO lug In by tine score.
hraai, kop1e and v~eldt-Yildiz Kiosk;
Ihe Duma dissolved by the Car.
But i do not know yet what they mean by
The Sandjak OF Now Bazaar.
l can pirate OF the Punjab; the Meiliss,
ANA / know when a jehad's proclaimed,
Mashruteh is likewise familiar,
And j think / have Selamk tanned;
L can understand. too, causa belli,
Benz Snassen, and tribal QUAR-,
But I'm blessed If see any sense In
The Sandjak OF Now Bazaar.
Why should this. of all things. be concededs
Is u flesh, fish, OF fowl, wi
Can ID sit up and beg. and take notice?
Does 1t live with His Highness, the Bey1
i don't want TO make any trouble,
AND i know what so many things are,
won't you please kindly explain IT.
Inc sano1ak Of NoYi Bazaar,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30
DRAWING THE LONG now.
Taft's jolly for school Girls
Seriously Discussed.
New York Times.

NSN AOlh iiiltS
When Charles Francis Adams, then
United States minister to the court of st.
James, submitted to Earl Russell the proof
that the Alabama was being fitted out in
a British port TO ravage American COM
merce. he closed his COMMUNICATION with the
remark: Il need not remind your lord
ship that this is war; When Mr.. Roose-
welt read in his Sunday Times the report
OF Mr.. Taft's speech to the young women
OF the State Normal school at Athens. Ga; :;
he may we'll have quoted to himself these
words.
The single state is a very good one!'
This was Mr.. Tatt's audacious language,
and worse followed: Il congratulate you
on beginning your life In that way, and 1
hope that you will continue 1t through life
and not regard matrimony as necessary
And then he went on to portray the
sweet, self-sacrificing, disinterested, and
lovely character"-not of a mother with a
dozen children, but OF "some aunt of yours
who never married." He challenged tho
young woman to say "if she would have
been better off IL she had been married, :"
and declared, II don't believe it," or course
with the soundness or u-nsoundness Of
these ideas we have at present no concern.
1t is obvious that their universal sppli-
cation would lead to serious economic and
social results. We shall not discuss them.
We simply call attention to the fact that
Mr.. Taft's public announcement of such
doctrine must greatly strain. IL 1t does
not disrupt, his relations with the president.
1t was bad enough for him to take a pre-
mature and conspicuous part in the dis
cussion of the tariff, which the president
had lodged for seven years. But openly
to scott at Mr.. Roosevelt's personal gos-
pei as to the duty and beauty OF matri-
mony and maternity is Little short OF con-
sfruptiVa hlaSnbamv
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30
WY THE SULTAN GIFTS.

Constantinople advices are that
Abdul Hamid has completely sur
rendered himself and his government
TO the Young Turks and expressed a
willingness to refrain from further at
tempt to dictate the destinies OF the
great Ottoman empire If only allowed
to live in peace. He has approved all
the reform plans of the parliamentary
ians and is opposing no obstruction to
the changes demanded in the internal
management of the government at
fairs.
No explanation is v~ouchsafed in Of
hcial circles for this change of heart
on the part of the hardened old sultan,
but n is suggested in a consular re-
port showing that the Young Turks are
enthusiastically taking up the game
Of foot ball. This appears to have
been the last straw. The sultan made
a tremendous protest some time ago
when the typewriter was introduced
into his kingdom, but he was com
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30
DEMOCRATS AND THE TARIFF

As the newly elected leader of the
minority in the house Of congress,
Champ Clark that the demo-
Gratis Of the ways and means commit
tee will conduct an investigation on
their own account with the intention
OF presenting to the special session a
list of schedules to succeed the Ding
ley tariff rates. Mr.. Clark has APP
portioned the subjects to members of
the committee and their report will be
discussed by the entire minority mem
bership in the new congress. The pur-
pose OF this discussion will be to OBJ
tain, IL possible, an agreement among
the democrats as to the limit they will
go in maintaining duties.
The minority leader is undertaking
a mighty task in attempting to get the
members of his party in congress COM
mitted to a tariff bill hat may be
offered to the people as ~embodying
democratic doctrine. Discussions have.
already developed among the demo-
Gratis in the preliminary discussion of
the measure and there are grave
doubts of Mr.. Clark's ability to get a
bill that will enlist enough men in its
support to insure a unanimous
minority report. Failing to secure such
a minority report, Mr.. Clark will have
to content himself with having the
democrats offer amendments to the re-
publican measure and to supper. their
amendments with arguments that will
pass as defining the democratic atti-
tude on the question.
While the democrats may be able to
agree upon some general features of
their tariff measure. there is open con-
tiict upon the schedules most generally
discussed. The Louisiana and Missis-
sippi democrats are bitterly opposed to
reduction On sugar and sugar products.
The Texas democrats are ready to
fight any proposition for lowering the
hide and wool schedules and some of
the democrats of Alabama and Georgia
are openly declaring their intention to
work for retention of the duties on
iron, steel, lumber, cotton and cotton
manufactures, all of which industries
are being rapidly developed and en-
couraged in the southern states.
In the senate the situation is even
more complicated. There the demo-
Gratis have not thus far paid the least
attention to the tariff measure. There
are about as many views of the tariff
among the senate democrats as there
are members of the party in that body
and nothing has been done to reconcile
them. No plan of action has even
been discussed, so far as the revision
of the tariff is concerned and all in
dications are that the senate demo-
Gratis will work along individual lines,
without any attempt to make the issue
a party one when the new bill comes
up for discussion.
The democratic party has not been
able to offer anything constructive on
any important question before con
gress in a dozen years inc it's standing
will not be improved by it's taking a
purely negative position on the tariff
question which will be the chief, If not
the only, subject for consideration al
the coming special session of congress
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30
Heroes at the Telegraph Key.

INtW IUTh NUTIUs
The news stories OF telegraph operators
remaining two days at their keys without
sleep following the Republic collision have
a familiar ring. They are related Of all
great disasters, the telegraph service hav-
ing a roll of honor for devotion to duty
in time Of emergency peculiarly its own.
The fact for note is that the operators
in this case were servants of a new science,
trained employees Of an industry which has
been created, developed and systematized
all within a decade. The evolution Of the
telegraph and the telephone presents no
such marvel of intentional progress as that
shown by wireless telegraphy while yet
in its infancy.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30
New EngIand's Costly Pest.
Philadelphia Record.

The gypsy moth has now practically
accomplished the conquest OF the New
England states, with perhaps the excep-
ton of Vermont. The costly light made
by tho state of Massachusetts for the
determination of the brown-tailed YER
min has ended in defeat. 1t is now pro-
posed to make a more energetic fight
against the pestiferous moth with the
Big Stick. The house committee on agri-
culture has practically agreed to increase
the appropriation to a total of $500, 900
for the coming year. Thus far no sys-
tenn of warfare has been devised that
gives promise of more than partial re-
lief.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30
An Omaha minister lays down this

An Omaha minister lays down this
proposition with reference to rigid en-
forcement of blue laws:
There should be no law upon our statute
books upon any subject which cannot or
will not be enforced by the officers of the
law.
That sounds very well, but the fact
remains hat there always have been,
and always will be, laws on the statute
books which will be either dead letters
Or will be enforced only s~pasmodically
or half way in comparison with other
laws which will be enforced vigorously
all the time. In the very nature of
things the law against dropping ban
ana peelings on the sidewalk will not
be enforced as strictly as the law
against burglary, nor will the law
against playing base ball on Decora-
ton day be enforced as strictly as the
law against playing kidnaper on week
days.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30
COLLEGE MAN IN BUSINESS.
Qualities which Make for Success I'm
Life.
New York Times.

New YORK Times.
Mr.. Harriman's opinion as to the con-
ditions under which a college man will
bet on in railroading is very much the
same as that of most successful men re-
gal ding college men in their special call
ings. The great railroad administrator
and organizer inevitably lays great stress
on the moral rather than the intellectual
qualities of the man under discussion.
1t is the stick-to-it spirit" that carries
one through. But also it is to be re-
membered that it is his spirit that car
ries a boy through college with the best
results. The one who is endowed with
it Is not necessarily or generally a fair
representative of college training, for
that training does a lot more for him
than it does for his chum who may lack
in perseverance.
The truth is that there is such a va
rlety in boys at college, and such a va
riety i'm the colleges, hat any generaliza-
ton is defective. One thing, however.
is iEdicated in Mr.. Harriman's shrewd
commentary. 1t is that the boy in col
lege who has to work and work hard
in order to get on has, in the very limit
atoms of his career, a real and valuable
advantage over those in easier" circum-
stances. Whether he be poor, or only a
little dull. II he is forced to put his
whole strength into his efforts, they
gradually and almost unconsciously build
up in him a capacity for work that is
more precious than any other quality in
after life. And this fact again suggests
that in public provision for the so-called
higher education it is quite possible 10
make il too cheap and too facile. Be
yonj the sound elementary schooling TO
which every child is in a sense entitled
for the protection OF the community. It
is a sound doctrine that education will
be more Justly valued by him who gets
self-denial
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30
Heroic Sense of Duty.

Captain Sealby would have done his
fun duty had he left the Republic before
she actually went under water. But as he
and Second Officer Williams would not
leave the ship while there was enough
of her left above water to stand on, we may
be thankful that two such brave men,
with their noble sense of their duty to
their passengers and to their owners, were
picked up. The splendid discipline and
self-possession of every officer and man
of the crews of the steamer is an honor
to the human race.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30

ishable by law unless the person refusing
1t can show that the refusal was based
upon some other and better ground than
the mans record of conviction and impris-
onment. Underlying this policy is the idea
that the law that Furnishes for an offense
against society is not intended to destroy a
mans usefulness and that a social system
that permits a man to become a pariah is
barbarous. The opposite principle. "once a
convict. always a convict" too often obtains
in countries Boosting of a higher civiliza-
ton.
The obstacle which goes furthest in
China to paralyze every act of life and
every function of government Is the
squeeze pidgin,' a method of getting
something for nothing. commonly called
graft in the United States. A correspondent
of the New York sun says it %pervades
every private and every official act of
every Chinaman. It is everywhere and
in all walks of life, the uppermost ques-
ton. What is there i'm it for me? How
much am l to have? Every body, whether
Of high or low degree, every servant, every
agent stands for a squeeze and expects his
share Of every Iiece of money going through
his hands as a matter of right. There Is
no law against 1t, no principles of morals
violated by 1t, and no wrong conceivable
in connection with 1t. 1t is a part Of
Chinese civilization which may have had
its origin in the system of low salaries
paid in official life. IL may be condemned
by edicts from the throne in the past, but
1t is openely claimed and commended for by
every Chinaman."
The international conference proposed by
the United States for the purpose OF secur-
ing concerted action in the suppression of
the opium trade is scheduled to begin its
sessions at Shanghai, February /. At
least a dozen nations will be represented
at the conference. China has already began
an official crusade against the evil forced
upon her people half a century ago. The
conference will encourage and strengthen
that crusade and strike an effective blow
at the deadly traffic by restricting exports
from Asia. The traffic is a crime against
civilization.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30

The night riders of Kentucky have
sold their tobacco crop to a London
syndicate. What a relief it would be
to Kentucky If they would deliver the
goods in person and fail to buy return
tickets.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30
Put IL on the b

New 1OIk WOTlu.
Benzoate of soda may be quite harmless
Wiley may be wrong, as the govern
ment's consulting chemists say-but people
who prefer it as a health tonic ought at
least to have a chance to know what
they are getting.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30

The Christian Chinese of Hankow
have been raising funds for a mis-
sionary campaign in Arkansas. Ameri-
cans can lose nothing by the adoption
ton.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30

Congress has granted the use Of the
pension building for the inaugural ball
or March 4. Congress always refuses
the use of the building and then
changes its mind. when il is almost
too late for the committees to get the
place in shape for the ball.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30

The commission plan of city govern
ment for Omaha has duly made Its APP
pearance at Lincoln. A single glance
at the personnel of the Douglas dele
CATION will be enough to tell how far
that bill will 60.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30

Prejudice. perjury and drunkenness
have been responsible for the rejection
of several hundred talesmen in the
trial OF the men charged with the kill
ing OF ex-senator Carmaek at Nash
Vile. Politics should be added to the
causes for peremptory challenge.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30

Los Angeles reports nine inches of
precipitation in four hours. A Los
Angeles precipitation would be
classed as a %cloudburst in any country
that does not count climate as its chief
asset,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30

Russia has decided to annex two
accomplishing by benevolent as
sanitation" what it has failed for de-
cades to secure by force.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30

The managers of the big express
companies have testified before the
Interstate Commerce commission that
they do not believe their charges are
too high. Unbiased testimony of that
kind is always valuable.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30
Catch Him Both ways.


Pittsburg Dispatch.
Whether Judge Lands rules for or against
the Standard Oil company the circuit court
reverses him. This looks like a sort of
vindication for the latter tribunal in the
suggestion that its s29, 900 decision was
not due to the fact that it loved the
Standard more, but that it loved Lands
1ooc
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30

Senator-elect Root of New York has
endorsed the parcels post. His pre-
decessor, Senator Plat, always had
American, United States, Pacific and
Wells-Fargo express reasons for OPP
posing the same plan.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30

Our amiable democratic contempor-
airy has just discovered that Governor
Sheldon is not the only state officer
who spent the states money with law
ish p~rodigality." How all this could
have escaped it's lynx-eyed sleuths
during the campaign is not explained.