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Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14
CADETS WANTrD Ar VEST POINT

CADETS WANTED AT WEST POINT
With the cadet corps at West Point
121 short Of its authorized strength,
a bill has been offered in congress au-
thorizing the appointment of two adj
ditional cadets from each state for the
purpose OF bringing the corps up to its
authorized strength. No objection
can be offered to this proposition, but
there should be no h~esitancy on the
part of congress in rejecting another
pending bill lowering the requirements
for admission to the academy. How
ever urgent the demand for more
graduates from West Point to fill the
vacancies in the officers list, there
should be no lowering of the standard
either for admission or for graduation.
AS showing that the fault is clearly
not with the academy. the report of
the superintendent states that in the
examinations last spring a remarkably
small proportion of the applicants an
swered both the mental and physical
tests. OF the 46O a%ppointees, princi-
pals and a~lternates, Ill failed to re-
port for examination. OF the 249 re-
porting 124 were wholly satisfactory,
131 were rejected as physically eligi-
BILE, but not up to the mental mark,
fourteen gave up the examinations as
too hard" and ten who passed the
mental examinations were rejected for
failure to meet the physical require
ments.
There is much speculation as to the
cause for this shortage in numbers
and the lack of quality in the material
offered for cadetships. 1t is apparent
that the congressman have not been
at all careful in designating appointees
for the examination and it is equally
evident that the public school course
does not properly prepare students for
the examinations required for admis-
sion to "The Point" A preparatory
school to fit appointees for the exam
nations at the academy may be
needed, but 1t would clearly be a low
ering Of the standard, with a threat
ened impairment of the efficiency to
make the admission requirements
easier than they are. This is an age
of specialization and West Point is a
great military university. Its admis-
sion requirements have been raised,
as they have been in all our colleges
and universities, and their enforce
ment should be kept stringent, in
stead of allowed to slack for the pur-
pose of increasing the number of the
cadet corps. .s.,..
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT

Cleveland Plain Dealer: The Jersey City
pastor who so bitterly condemns kissing
must be a total a~bstainer.
Chicago Record-Herald: There is in New
Jersey a minister who makes marrying peo-
pie his speciality, while his son is doing a
thriving business as a divorce lawyer. Thus
they catch them coming and going.
Charleston News and Courier: Isn't II
strange that Rabbi Wise Of New York is
the only honest man in that great city?
That the newspapers and the managers
OF the theaters are all a lot of moral In
vertebrates; that the rich men of New
York are only money getters? But it can't
be helped, we suppose. In all ages of the
world there has been some one who has
stood out above the herd as a great noun
tain peak-Solomon. the wisest man; Moses.
the lawgiver; Joshua, the warrior, and now
1t has come to pass that we have Wise.
the lecturer. Happy the people who have
such a leader.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14
" DISEASE.

One of the most significant and
cheering features of the annual re-
ports of the different large cities of
the country for the last year is the
showing by the health boards of a
generally decreased death rate. While
Omaha's record in this respect is of
the best, the improvement in New
York, Boston, Chicago, Milwaukee,
Cincinnati and other cities from which
reports have been published is no less
marked and gratifying.
Many agencies have contributed to
this result and there is every evidence
of a growing popular interest in work
for health conservation. Within the
year the tuberculosis congress and
similar organizations have done much
to direct public attention to the ease
with which many forms of disease
may be prevented; that it is much
easier to prevent a bodily wrong than
1t is to cure it; that 1t is more impor-
tant that a person should live in a way
to- maintain robust health than to be
informed how to coax health back
after it has fed; that 1t is better to
ask the physician, "How can 1 keep
well?" than How can / get well?"
Much of this improvement is due to
the growing conviction among physi-
clans and public officials generally
that diseases are not individual, but
in many cases social. Lack of nutri-
ton, wretched housing conditions,
filthy streets and unsanitary condi-
lions generally are found back of tu-
berculosis, typhoid and most of the
children's diseases. Poverty, ignor-
ance and evil environment are the
most prolific sources of sickness, and
their removal becomes as much a pub
lie duty as it is the duty of the physi-
clan to treat the physical ills of his
patients.
Great progress is being made in
that direction and each year witnesses
greater expenditures in sanitation, in
guarding the milk and water supplies,
in enforcing pure food regulations and
in the adoption of other prec autions
for the protection of the public from
disease. The public health is the ma
tons greatest asset and every move
ment looking to the safeguarding of
it should be heartily encouraged.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14
RACE TRACK GAMBLING DOOMED.

IthOH a
A bookmaker on the New Orleans
race track has been found guilty OF
violating the Louisiana anti-gambling
law and has been sentenced to seven
months imprisonment and the pay
ment of a fine of $3.50. The case was
in the nature of a test Of the race
track law, which has been stubbornly
fought by the gambling interests of
the south. causing the most bitter feel
ing and resulting in open warfare be-
tween the champions of racing and its
opponents. The promoters of racing
and the gambling attachment thereto,
carried their warfare to the extent of
attempting a business boycott OF GER
tain New Orleans newspapers that
favored the anti-racing bill and were
stopped only by a federal court in
junction.
While the New Orleans case will
doubtless be appealed, the decision of
the district court is in keeping with
decisions of the courts in other states
wherever a crusade has been made
against race track gambling. The
most notable fight on this line was
made in New York during the closing
days of Governor Hughes first term.
The legislature refused to pass an anti
racing bill recommended by the gov
ernor and he called an extra session to
consider the measure. The bill was
adopted and, as a result the entire
racing and gambling element OF New
York City and state were arrayed
against Governor Hughes for renomi-
nation and election. His emphatic vindi-
cation sealed race track gambling in
New York and practically drove the
Belmont racing syndicate out of busi-
ness. other states followed the New
York example. but the action of the
Louisiana legislature was a great sur
prise, as it was believed by the racing
men that the southern love for the
sport of kings" was strong enough
to 'stotp anti-racing legislation for
years to come.
The growing sentiment against
bookmaking has apparently routed the
race track gamblers in their strong
holds. Bennings, under the shadow of
the capitol at Washington. Lexington,
Ky, and Sacramento, Cal, are
about the only noted tracks still
open to the running horses and the
patronage at these can not support the
game. Horse breeders and racing
men agree that the gate money al
races, where betting is prohibited, will
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14
TIE NExr WoRLp Var

"A
Students OF the Bible have long con
tended that the thirty-eighth and
thirty-ninth chapters of the prophecies
of Ezekiel, ~foreboding a fourteen
years war between the followers of
the Lord and the un~believers, con-
templates a vast and terrible conflict
between the western world and the
hordes of Asia. The latest supporter
of this view of Ezekiel is found in
Fighting Bob" Evans, who predicts
that the next world-war will be be-
tween Russia and Japan, with Ger
many, France, Austria and Italy
aligned with Russia against the Japa-
nese, who will probably have the sup
port of China and most of the coun-
tries of the orient. In discussing the
situation, Admiral Evans says:
A few days ago. when the Russian gov
eminent floated a loan of $250,OO0 900, which
was subscribed thirty times over, that was
Russia's notice to Japan ito get ready for
war and stay ready, for I'm going to lick
you!" And is more, Japan itself
oh0 ANeAA6Co NlC PO6lllOH IN
which it is placed. The handwriting is
plain. japan can read.
The admiral expresses belief that
Great Britain will be allied with the
Japs, perhaps not in active fighting, but
in financial backing. The prophecy is
interesting and much of it seems
plausible, but a race conflict in which
most of the nations of continental
Europe will be pitted against the
brown and yellow men of Asia would
be a startling situation. The defeat of
the Aslatics, with Britain as Japan's
ally, would give the other nations of
Europe dominance and make the
United Kingdom a second-rater in the
list of world powers.
The bare possibility of such a con-
iict opens a wide field for speculation
as to the result. There are about 3OO,-
100000 white people in continental
Europe. The Mongolians. including
the Chinese and japanese, number
more than $780, O0. 900 and il the peo-
pie of India and the rest of Asia are
to be counted there would be a total
of about 1000. OOO, 900 people against
which Europe would have to contend.
In that event, the result would depend
largely upon the scene of the conflict,
whether the white men would fight on
their own soil or be compelled to carry
on a war in foreign territory. The su-
perior knowledge and discipline OF the
whites would have an offset in the
larger numbers. and the fanaticism Of
the Asiatics. From a purely military
standpoint, the conflict would be we'll
worth watching.
II is refreshing to note that Admiral
Evans leaves the United States out of
the conflict. He insists that Japan has
no desire to fight this country and says
that it will not be long until the United
States will have a feet of warships so
great and powerful that no nation on
earth will dare tackle us. The rest of
the admiral's forecast OF the future
military conditions is interesting
enough for verbatim reproduction:
japan has not the sliEhtsst desire in the
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.

knowledge is power only so far as it is
practieed.
You can complete a good work, but you
can never end 1t.
Conscience is simply our sense Of moral
social responsibility.
No man bears his burden better by add
ing your blame to it.
The faroff vision comes half way to those
who follow 1t faithfully.
New thought is like new coin, the brass
seems as good as the gold.
Life is pretty sure to be tragedy to those
who take it only as a play.
The proof OF an education lies In a mind
so titled that prejudice gains no root.
The man who thinks he Is generous to a
fault is often generous only TO his own.
The greatest wonder In the character OF
the angels is that they endure all the saints
All men would try to be meek II they
were dead sure OF the promise to the meek.
1t is often our failings hat hold our
friends. but We do not need to multiply
such anchors.
Some folks always sing, "oh, TO be moth
Ing" before they sing. Here. Lord. give
myself way."-Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14
PLAYING n1rn rrRr


II the railroads are behind the bills
introduced at Lincoln to change the
method of assessing railway property
in Nebraska aud TO repeal the terminal
tax law put on the statute books two
years age, they are foolishly playing
with fire. It is for the reason that the
railroad managers are, as a rule, men
of intelligence and far-sightedness and
any plan to relieve them of present
taxes would be so palpably an evasion
of tax burdens they ought justly to
bear, that we hesitate to believe that
the controlling authorities of M rail-
roads are really behind these measures.
notwithstanding all their protests
and complaints. the railroads of Ne
braska have been treated more than
fairly in the matter of taxation, and II
the balance were struck they would
find themselves far to the good as com
pared with the owners of other tax
able property. The experiment of the
railroad tax injunctions cost the rail-
roads involved thousand upon thou
sands of dollars in cash, to say nothing
of the cost in alternating public senti-
ment which would otherwise have re-
main ID much more friendly.
The present disposition in Nebraska
is to let railway legislation now on the
statute books work out in practical
operation and to rely on the State
Railway commission to redress new
grievances that may arise from time to
time, provided the railroads adjust
themselves to the new conditions in
good faith. Undertaking to put
through a r%eactionary program on the
part of the railroads and their spokes-
men cannot but have the effect of
again infaming popular resentment
and starting anew the old condagra-
ton that is still ~smoldering, but not
totally extinguished.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14
THE FADED
william ID. Nesbit

William ID. Nesbit.
NOW, smith is hard and stern of face
A man opposed to sentiment:
His eyes give not the slightest trace
OF what within his heart is pent-
ana yet today he'll close the door
And with lips in a softer line
VIII gaze for half an hour or more
Upon a faded valentine.
Within the pocket next his heart
He carries tia yellowed thing
OF penciled scrawl and feeble art:
You would not think that ii could brin,
Inc light that now comes to his eyes
which have the dizziness brought with
age. ~
Nor that he'd bend, with stifled signs.
And Kiss the smudged and tattered page
The prints OF chubby fingers mar
The Wilderness Of the crumpled sheet
But Smith, in thought goes back, afar,
ana hears a child's voice, shrilly sweet,
And sees the little hands that traced
The message that Is written there
In letters that are half misplaced
Though made with slow and painful care,
All, You and / could never see
The child-face that CLOVIS in the lines.
All valentines, to you and me,
Are ordinary valentines,
But he can hear her laugh and sing
When he looks at the little scrawl
Upon the old and yellowed thing;
You kno 1 luv you best of all"
And there are tear stains on 1t now
The chubby fingers, one dark night,
Grew Waxen as the curl-kissed brow
That faded into waxen white.
And so-you see-you understand
Why Smith has memories that wine
About the page held in his hand,
The little faded valentine.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14
THE HORSE AND THE AUToMoBILE


After a heated discussion congress
has decided that when Mr.. Taft be-
comes president he may have the use
of automobiles instead of horses for
official locomotion. So long as it is a
matter of custom and law for the gov
eminent to bear the expense of main
tanning the White House stables,
whether the barn should be full of
horses or automobiles. should be left
to the preference of the president.
Congress should ask the president,
Horse or auto?" just as the thought
full hostess would ask a guest whether
he preferred tea or coffee. But we
are having an ~oratorical form of gov
ernment at this session OF congress
and when the bill appropriating
money to buy automobiles for the
president came up Senator Bailey had
to let OF some steam.
Mr.. Bailey owns : stock farm and,
anyway, there are more horses than
automobiles in Texas, so he denounced
the automobile, lauded the horse and
kicked like a mule against the appro-
p-iation. He declared that if he had
his way he would make it a crime to
use motor cars on the public highway.
II believe" he said. that the horse
is the noblest of Gods dumb animals
and / do not want to see him sup
planted by a senseiess machine. Next
to the dog, the horse is mans best
friend"
Things do not appear to be going to
suit Senator Bailey at all. He rallied
against the dress suit, but they still
wear them in Washington. He has
denounced the social life at Washing
ton and has opposed every increase OF
pay for federal oficials because theiI
substance is squandered in riotoui
living. III a private citizen of New
York wants to give a feast for mon
keys" say he. 'he has a right to en-
terrain the descendants OF his ances
tors. but We want no such exhibitions
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14
New Terror i'm Life.
philadelphia Record.

HIIdUCIDIId ItVCUIN-
The Maxim device which dissipates and
destroys the noise occssioned by the fir
ing of a gun. without decreasing the speed
or otherwise affecting the flight of the
bullet, adds a new terror to the use of
firearms. 1t will make stealthy gum
powder crime much less liable to detec-
ton When a man may load his weapon
with smokeless powder and discharge it
without telltale noise.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14

not produce revenue sumcient to main.
tain the great breeding farms and rae
ing stables and that II betting is bar
red the incentive to breeding and
training thorouEhbreds is destroyed.
Whichever the viewpoint, the New
Orleans decision may be accepted as
a final getaway day for the racers for
an indefinite term.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14
Home Love the Rest Charity.

We have come to realize that a child
needs something more than clothes and
food to develop the best; 1t needs the love
that can only be found in a home. The
success of the whole depends entirely
pom the success of the unit. and this
can only be achieved by recognising q
unit, though 1t be merely a puny little
child of want or crime, as an individual.
with individual characteristics n an in
dividual yearning for owe.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14

A French writer insists that corsets
are the greatest menace to good
health. Those of us who never wore
them will have to take hearsay evil
dence on the subject.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14

DR.. Marquis says Mr.. Rockefeller
could have become pope IL he had de-
voted his energies to the church. Still,
there is no record of a Baptist ever
having been made pope
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14
Good Day for Good Deed.

The Maine was sunk in Havana harbor
at 9:40 in the evening of February 10
1898, eleven years ago next Monday
Surely that anniversary date should not
be permitted to pass by without sons
substantial action being taken in con-
gress for raising the wrecked hull of the
old American battleship from a foreign
harbor and giving the bodies of the Amer
lean sailors imprisoned in the wreck an
honorable burial.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14

The name of the new lieutenant governor
Of Missouri Is GmelIch. How he pro-
nounces It we are quite unable to say
Los Angeles Tribune.
Mr.. Gmelich p%ronounces his name
just as though the &c" were on de-
tached duty.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14
Good Business Proposition.
Boston Herald

Well, why shouldn't the life insurance
companies take the advice OF Prof. Irving
Fisher of Yale and enter upon an active
campaign of education to improve ny
gienic conditions throughout the coun-
try? 1t would surely cut down their
financial obligations sufficiently to make
it a profitable proposition.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14
DOMESTIC ~PLEAsANTRIEs.

Suppose women went TO congress, what
do you suppose would happen"
''They would simply go along domestic
lines"
How would that be-"
EVERY woman who went to congress
would want to be speaker OF the house. -
Baltimore American.
"Your husband plays poker a great deal,
doesn't her"
No answer young Mrs. Torkins, 'he
doesn't play much
'What events himf"
THE fact that pay day does not come
oftener. "-Washington Star.
Mistress-what did you tell those ladies'
who tust called?
Servant-Oi told 'em you was out, mum.
Mistress-And h did they say?
Servant-"How fortunit," mum.-Puck.
Teacher-Tommy, what is a trust buster?
Tommy-Pa is.
Teacher-In what way. Tommy?
Tommy-Well. mi told him when he went
to the club last night that she'd trust him
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14

An orange-colored bulldog named
Ace" is missing from the White
House. An orange-colored ace may
be all right in the dog line, but its ap-
pearance in a poker game would start
a riof
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14

Laboring men on the Pacific coast
might make a stronger case against
Japanese and Chinese workmen IL they
could show that they are willing to do
the class of work for which the orien-
tails are employed.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14

The federal supreme court Is sup
posed TO have decided that a trust IAN
not collect its bills. II 50. the trusts
will get around that by hanging out
the mo Trust" sign.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14

Senator Perkins declares that the
Japanese must go and that congress
has no right TO interfere with the pro-
eeedings OF any state along these lines.
senator Perkins must desire TO be
known a. the California Hobson.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14

Spain is now explaining why 1t
dropped Cuba in 1898. Spain dropped
Cuba because the little island was too
hot to hold longer.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14

How much wealth can a man &C
quire and keep within the law?' asks
a magazine writer. Don't know, but
are certain hat most OF us are keeping
within the law on that score.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14

"A suspender factory in Kansas City
IS advertising for twenty "hold-up"
men. Chicago could supply the de-
mand without materially reducing the
visible supply.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14

The sultan of Turkey has discovered
that he a duck debts under a con-
stitution almost as well as in the old
days OF despotism.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14

A travel magazine has a long de-
scription of South American flowers
that no man has SEEN" The name
OF the woman explorer is not given.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14

The head OF an Indian school in Ok
lahoma has been indicted fourteen
times. He must be trying to get into
Governor Haskell's class.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14

II the weather bureau has n re-
spect for presidents we may not look
for any lengthy retirement of the cold
wave until after March L..
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14

Governor Haskell of Oklahoma is
said to be exceedingly fond of apples,
although folks insist on handing him
nothing but lemons.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14

At last accounts 1900 Tennesseeans
had admitted that they were unit to
serve Of the jury trying the mar who
killed ex-senator Carmack.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14
season Of Preparation
Washington Post.

The announcement that the house and
senate are preparing for the extra ses-
sion of congress probably means that they
are practicing on how TO communicate
thoughts without the use of expletives
inc epithets.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14

The new battleship Delaware is $40
feetelong and So feet wide. That's
about the size Of its namesake state
when the tide is in.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14

1T may be explained on the theory
that the Japs have refused to buy any
stock in the Nevada gold mines.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14

Mr.. Bryan says he is much encour-
aged by the spread of democracy. The
trouble with democracy is that it is
spread too thin.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14

s~No great statesman can be born in
New York." says Woodrow Wilson.
Ohio papers please copy.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14

How large is Omaha?" inquiries an
eastern editor. Just about half as
large as It will be in 1919.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14

Speaking of names. the prohibition
lists have been defeated in a license
fight at Coldwater, Miss.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14

There is nothing to show that serv-
ant girls in Missouri have quit start
ing the Ares with Standard oil.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14

It is difficult just now to arouse any
interest in the new styles of fly screens
and mosquito bars.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14

Highwaymen tried to kill a st.
Lodis barber. who managed to escape
from them by a close shave.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14

The Milwaukee Sentinel refers to
elf" Pinchot. Why not call him
''Pinch?" eff sounds so formal.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14

There should now be a long closed
seaso for ''stories that Lincoln told"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14
srATEMENT or CIRCULATION.

state of Nebraska, Douglas County, SIS:
George y. T~zschuck, treasurer or Tne
sworn, says that the actual number OF
full and complete copies of The Daily;
Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed
fOlItWa.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14
WHEN OUT OF TOWN.

WHEN OUT OF OWN
Subscribers leaving the city tenn
DcraSily should have The Bee
mailed to them. Address will be
changed a. often a. requested.