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Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
Improving Country Life.

President Roosevelt's Country Life
commission has been under the
thoughtful consideration of sociolo-
gists long enough to bring out more
practical and deliberate comment than
that originally passed and n that is
precision p%ersoniied is issued by E. H.
Libby, president of the Washington
Conservation commission. In an
analysis of the condition of the farm
ers in his section he finds ground for
complaint Of hasty consideration. Re-
futing Mr.. Roosevelt's intimation that
the farmers are poor organizers and
are neglectful of cooperation, Mr..
Libby quotes Secretary Wilson to show
that more than one-half Of our $780,
900 farms are represented in economic
cooperation, such as owe agricul-
tural insurance, creameries, cheese
factories, selling, buying, warehousing,
telephoning, irrigation, study, enter
tainment and the like. On the ques-
ton of business Mr.. Libby asserts that
the farmer is as alert as the city man,
and when 1t comes to pleasure he con-
siders all Americans equally guilty.
The city man plays in the farmers
work shop. The farmer goes to town
for much of his recreation.
Isolation of homes, once the chief
drawback to farm life, is gradually
being cured through the decreasing
size of farms, the introduction of the
telephone and better roads. College
professors and city-bred editors, com.
ments Mr.. Libby, can teach the farm.
ers nothing unless they, too, live the
life. AS we'll, he adds, constitute g
city life commission out of farmers.
After carefully reviewing the high
level Of education Of the farming pop
ulation and the t~horoughness Will
which agricultural interests are
looked after in legislatures and a
Washington, Mr.. Libby advises, from
the viewpoint of n who has lived FOL
many years among the farmers, tina
he can discover no valid reason for con
tinuing the Roosevelt commission OF
the present plan.
81 can see good in the movement,
he concludes, "if given truly nationa
scope. Increase the national commits
sion to twenty or more, men ant
women. composed mostly of educated
farmers. Create a like commission fl
every state. Affiliate the organiza
lions. Connne their studies TO the bet
terment of rural social conditions
Hold annual meetings of all these sew
eral afilisted bodies. Let congress
give the commission official standing
Make Prof. Bailey and his associate
an executive committee to summarize
the results" Only from digestion o
these results Mr.. Libby believes ma
, some good be accomplished.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
LEARNING FROM THE WEST.
Fasteners Getting Information from
President Taft's Trip.
Denver Republican.

Denver Republican.
1t requires something like a presidential
tour to jolt the self-complacent east out
Of its habitual Indifference to whatever
may be doing In the west. But this Jolt
has been given, and the whole east-except
New York, just now busy with its Hudson
Fulton celebration-is watching President
Tafts movements and reading what he
says
The east is learning a valuable lesson
about the west. 1t is discovering that
there is a country beyond the Missouri
river, and that upon its development de-
ponds in no small degree the future Of the
whole nation. From what the president
says in his speeches 1t is finding out that
there are possibilities OF development in
this region undreamed Of by the average
man of the east. who does not know
whether Denver or Salt Lake City is the
farthest west.
President Taft will have. something to
say in his annual message about these pos
sibilities and they will become subjects OF
! consideration and debate in congress. Thus,
not the east alone, but the whole world
will learn that there is a west, and that
it is growing with a rapidity> which will
insure It an enormous increase of Voting
strength in the near future.
Better still, it will be learned that no
more inviting prospects pleases the fancy
or excltes the hopes of hoE-sseekers; and
that in the fertile valleys and under the
clear skies Of this distant part of the ma,
tional domain, millions OF people will build
happy homes and do their part in promot.
ing the prosperity and maintaining the
prestige of the country as a whole.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

During strike troubles whatever the
police authorities do is bound to call
down condemnation. If they succeed
fairly we'll in suppressing lawlessness
the strike sympathizers accuse them of
serving the corporations, and whenever
outbreaks occur the employers and
their friends allege ineficiency. The
only thing for the police to do is to
perform their duty as law officers with
oommon-sense judgment, and to the
best of their ability, and rest con-
tent with dissatisfaction Of knowing
that this course is the right one.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

Oklahoma's first experience with a
big bank failure Isl being heralded by
the champions of deposit guaranty as
a vindication of the Oklahoma law.
Possibly, but not so certain. The
failure of a bank with $S,00O,O00 liza
bilities, of which $75O,O0O is for state
deposits and most of the rest for bal
ances of other banks, all Of whom are
waiting for their money, cannot be a
very severe test. On the other side
the failure. seems to support the argu-
mept that deposit guaranty encour-
ages bank imitation and stimulates
wildcat banking.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
TOUCHING A TENDER SPOT.
Thoughts Awakened by Starting the
Furnace Fire.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Cleveland Plain Dealer.
When the fireplace and the open faced
stove gave way TO tho furnace some of the
pleasures OF life passed with them-and
some Of the discomfoTts. Hospitality is
said by some to nave declined with tho
popularity OF the open fire. There is no
poetry In a hot air register or q steam
radiator.
Yet even a furnace fire has q certain I'M
doubted home giving quality. Even though
the fire Is buried from sight and sound
in the depths Of the basement It has a GER
tain quality that adds to the comfort Of
life. 1t is not a matter OF temperature,
but of cheer.
SO in these waning September days,
which call for a bit OF fire, one may par
ticularly console himself by thinking that
the coming of cool weather means also
the advent OF the period OF greatest home
enjoyment. Fall n winter are the times
when home means most to parents and
children, when they gather as comrades
around the library table in the evening to
discuss the events Of the day and plan, as
parents and children do, for the events of
the morrow. The boys and girls have just
entered school for forty weeks of study
and development; they have plenty Of
things to talk about at night.
And this family life thrives better in tho
days OF cool weather-the days of the fur
mace fire-than when doors and windows
are open and the front porch beckons ir-
resistibly. Il takes a fire in the house to
make 1t a home in this climate. It takes
closed portals with the privacy they af-
ford.
The passing Of the summer has it's com.
pensations, not the least among them be-
ing this renewal of family life signallzed
by the starting of the furnace fire.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
Come On, Mr.. Bailey.

The press report of the speech de-
liyered at Fort Worth by Senator
Bailey of Texas in response to Mr..
Bryan's attacks upon him, among
ether things, says;
In answer to Mr.. Bryan's declaration
that he was seeking the election OF a
democratic congress, the senator asked
why he same to Texas, where the delega-
ton in congress is solidly democratic, and
advised him to go TO Nebraska and exert
his Influence. IF he will go there, l will
come and help him"
BY all means, Mr.. Bailey, come on.
Nebraska is Just yawning for you.
You say you will come to Nebraska
to help make the mex congressional
delegation from this state solidly dem
o~cratic II Mr.. Bryan will stay home
and do likewise,
But why make your coming de-
pendent upon what Mr.. Bryan will do.
Mr.. Bryan's plans for foreign travel
aad his lucrative lecture engagements,
may make II impossible for him 10 de.
vote all his time during the mex cam
paign 10 Nebraska, but that should not
stand in the way of any other patriotic
democrat coming here to capture hall
the Nebraska delegation whose seats
are still located on the republican side
of the house.
The fact is that Mr.. Bryan has been
devoting much. II not all. to his time
for many years to appeals to the peo'
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
Nonpartisanship.

Under the caption, The Nebraska
Election" Mr.. Bryan's Commoner
takes up individually the candidates
for state Offices running on the demo-
cratic ticket this fall and uncondi-
~tionally endorses every one Of them.
It even swallows Judge Dean expressly
BECAUSE of his loyalty to party in his
dissenting opinion in the so-callrd nou-
partisan judiciary case, and likewise
gulps down the candidate who o n
fesses to corporate affiliations" with
out a word Of objection.
In the eyes Of the Commoner the
ticket is a democratic ticket and the
candidates are all democrats, and for
that reason, II for no other, entitled
to democratic votes. Not a word
about the polite form Of perjury which
puts their names on the Official ballot
a second time as populists in order to
purloin populist votes they could not
otherwise get. Not a word, either,
about the fake %pretense of nonparti-
sanship concocted to fool republicans
into voting the democratic ticket.
In other parts of the Commoner,
discussing other subjects, much ado is
being made about the binding force of
party platforms and the sanctity of
platform pledges. The platform put
out by the democrats in Nebraska this
year contains these words:
We urge all Nebraskans in voting for
supreme judges and regents to lay aside
party prejudice and ties. We hope no dem
ocrat will vote for a candidate for either
Of these offices merely because the candi-
date IL a democrat.
We realize that this is a hard choice
to put a democratic organ like Mr..
Bryan's Commoner up against, but 1t
has made the choice. Mr.. Bryan and
his paper propose to stick for every
candidate who bears the democratic
label, even though to do so they have
to repudiate the democratic platform,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

pie Of Nebraska to send democrats to
congress 40 one time the whole delega-
ton, but one, was democratic, but de-
spite Mr.. Bryan's continuous and per-
sistent efforts 1t later became solidly
republican Notwithstanding the fact
that two Of the districts are normally
fighting ground. And last year, with
Mr.. Bryan running for president and
the democratic candidates playing the
bunco game Of pretending to>be popu-
lists, the democrats won only two Of
the six districts away from the repub-
.licans.
So come on, Mr.. Bailey, Bryan or no
Bryan. Come on and contribute to
the amenities Of next years Nebraska
campaign.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR.
Springfield Republican.

SpTlnkIlelu ItopubllIdhs
The homely proverb says, you know,
Its money makes the old mare 60"
GET Il, by fair means IL you cam
n not. well, try another plan;
The needful thing In lire's brief span
Is money; get II, felloW-man'
Get It I'm silver or in gold,
In stock or bonds, both new and old,
In oil, In railroads, houses, land
Grab anything that comes TO hand.
GET money, fairly. II you can,
But get II somehow, greedy man.
Cash In your politics, your friends,
Make your religion serve your ends;
You cheat the church, you're smart and
You whited wan! you living lie
Get money. IN any way you can,
Gold is your God-idolatrous mani!
Heed not the hard pressed poor mans
Business is buslnsss"-no sentiment there.
The bitter cry you must not reck,
Though heel be grinding another's neck.
Get money, by any Infamous plan,
Though the blood sweat starts on your
brother man.
OF ili-won wealth you have a store,
And still are reaching out for more,
When q ETuesOme guest (unbidden he)
With ehilllng touch, says Come with me-"
The almighty dollar they NAV not know
As the unit or value where you must go.
The curious ones Will eagerly say,
How much did he leave, who died today
An echo comes back from the funeral pail,
How much did he leave? He left II ALL"
lie got money, he cared not how,
Hls money " here. Where - he noSt =
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

The Lancaster county jail is charac-
terized by the Lincoln Star as an un-
couth den "rivaled only by the cave OF
horrors Which disgraces Douglas
county" Just speak for yourself.
The Douglas county jail may be sub
ject to improvement, but 1t is a brand
new specially equipped building in
temporary use awaiting the completion
Of the county jail in course of con-
struction. Lincoln, and Lancaster
county, could come to Omaha Inc get
some good jail pointers.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
PERSONAL NOTES.

There is q genuine comfort In the in-
formation that the coal trust is a myth.
Perhaps the ~householder's notion OF what
he has to pay for coal Is only a bad
dream.
Mrs. Joseph sullivan is the first po-
licewoman OF Chicago. She was sworn
In the other day and invested with all
the authority and privileges given 70
special policemen Of that city. o..
A Chinese laundryman who cut pri
and scooped In most OF the business
the college boys at Columbia, Mo.
been chased out Of town by his RI
Nothing was said to the fellows who
ronized cheap John.
The Simplified Spelling board. Il
to impress word-builder elsewhere
addressed its last circular to teaC
appealing for support for spelling
form. Right place to make a
Teachers do the worrying in spells.
Prophets Of various grades, amat
and expert, are getting hard knocks tn
days. Things fail to happen as TN
think they should. A lambasted Britts
general has been credited with the sae
remark, Don't prophecy unless yoV
know"
A young woman who has left society
for the stage say the average drawina
room is a marriage market. Perhaps this
is true. However, a handsome young
woman anxious to get out OF range of
possible investors would hardly select the
glare of the %footlights in which to hide.
Mrs. Edith Rockefeller Mccormick has
offered $1,000 900 toward the improve
ment of Lake Michigan in the neighbour
hood of Lake Forest, Ill. According to
plans which are now being perfected a
series of islands will be built out in the
lake in such a way as to form a shelter
harbor for small boats, and on the shore
a municipal bath house will he built for
the use of both the rich and the poor,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
Cruel War Averted.

War between the state of Georgia and
the United States of America has been
averted. The state court, which has been
holding a federal gauge for contempt be-
cause he wouldn't answer questions about
moonshine distlleries, has decided to send
the official in charge Of the sheriff to At
lanta for habeas corpus proceedings in the
federal court. We have recently learned
how near war between Alabama and the
United States was a couple OF years ago,
and the incident in Georgia gives evidence
OF the growth of a peace sentiment through
the south for which we nay be grateful.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
HOW pid the Race s~urvIvst

San Francisco Chronicle.
States are TO bRnished from the schools
Of Sacramento on the ground that they
are ~unsanitary; Philadelphia physicians
are warning on the bath tub, averring
that such appliances are merely lurking
places for deadly germs; the government
chemists are lifting up their voices
against the use Of all kinds Of foodstuffs
whose method OF preservation does not
meet their views, and there Is a general
attack all along the line against well es-
tablished practices whose harmtulness
was never before suspected, but which
are now pronounced extremely Injurious.
Meanwhile those who are making all the
fuss refuse to consult the tables of NOR
tality prepared by the insurance com
panies which show that In spite of our
carelessness In dietary and other mat
ters human longevity IL increasing year
after year.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
WHAT LITERATURE DOES.
Historic Characters and Incidents
Kept I'm Public View.
Philadelphia Press.


Kept in Public View.
Philadelphia Press.
Swedes and Dutch together, a flag other
than England's was on the Delaware al
most as long as on the Hudson. Spain was
in Florida a century and a half longer.
Yet Swede and Dutch here and Spanish
in Florida are shadowy by the burghers Of
New Amsterdam and its Dutch governors.
They did little. The colony was small.
When you turn to the original records al
most nothing is there tangible and sub
s~tantial.
But it is real, living and known. Nothing
Is more visible to all Americans than the
life OF New Amsterdam. Washington Try
ing did it, just as Homer did more to make
Troy real and the Trojan war substantial
than Achilles and Hector rolled together
and all the mighty men OF war marshaled
In their embattled host.
This literature does. Take away Died
rick Knickerbocker's History Of New
York and all that ever was under the
flag Of Holland on Manhattan island be-
comes an insubstantial dream. mere an
mails that have no flesh and blood. Add
Irving's magic touch and these things live
and move and nave their being more real
than history itself and more lasting than
monuments Of brass. II men thrill to Hud-
sons memory this week, II the Dutch oc-
cupatiOn looms large, II Wouter Van Twill
Ter and the rest live again, it is the work
Of the printed pages and the enchanted
wand Of Imagination that calls these shad-
ows from the deep, where else would they
slumber.
In all our education, and our schools
often miss here, Il Is more important 10
awake this sense by the reading Of the
/ vital picture-creating books than to do all
else In the mere world OF empty fact and
leave men and women empty Of the sense
for and Of litaEk-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
v
American Designers Several Laps in
the Rear.

New York Evening Post.
II the naval display in the Hudson river
should succeed In stimulating our naval
constructors to endeavor to be up-to-date
in their plans the celebration will have
worked at least one miracle. The presence
Of a oruiser-battleship superior to our latest
battleship in speed and fighting powers
must make a sensitive naval mind wriggle.
Our two latest battleships, the Michigan
and North Carolina, were obsolete when
launched. They are admittedly inferior to
the Dreadnaught, yet the Dreadnaught has
been surpassed in the British navy by a
whole group OF improved vessels. Last
week there was much ado because our
latest destroyer, the Smith, planned for
only twenty-eight knots. made thlrty-two
on its trial trip. But at the same time
the newest British destroyer, the Swift,
earned It's title by logging its required
speed OF thirty-six knots and more besides.
Similarly, the Navy department has fol-
lowed where others have led in scout
cruisers, turbines, submarines and in many
other branches. Hence, we are sorry to
read this morning that the new fire-control
towers on our battleships ave been so
adversely commented on as to stop work
On the erection of any more, Here, at
least. we we're in the lead for once our
Navy department had an original idea. II
would be really cruel II this prestige should
now be taken away from US by the prac-
IDEAL men Of our own service.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

Do not claim any unusual feat. If
you would avoid defamers. A Chicago
professor who telegraphed the story
of his thrilling descent into a living
volcanic crater is now being denounced
as another Cook by an American mis-
sionary, whose mission is opposed to
those who seek reputation at the vol
cano's mouth.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
Get There First.
ST. Louis cAobe.Democra!

ST. Louis Ghobe-Democrat.
Minister WI Ting-fang butts into the
polar discussion to say hat an almond-
eyed Celestial discovered the North pole
more than 5000 years ago, but Com
mander Peary promptly retaliates with
the statement that he saw no traces Of
the Chinaman.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

Mrs. Stetson having dismissed the
Scientists, the Scientists promptly dis
miss Mrs. Stetson. II Homer nodded
" by should not angels of grace occas-
ionally flutter into other flocks?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

That Pittsburg millionaire who has
given $4,000 anonymously to found
a pension fund for school teachers is
a modest and praiseworthy tribute TO
one Of the worthiest and least apprec-
lated branches Of public service.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

The Tribune prints a list of twelve
women whose combined wealth could
purchase Chicago's entire real estate.
What twelve women could be found to
agree that Il was q bargain?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

In the Commoner OF September "a a mis-
placed line resulted IN an absurd error
Mr.. Bryan's Commoner.
An error in Mr.. Bryan's Commoner!
Is 1t possible? Had not Mr.. Bryan
better cancel all those lecture dates
that would take him away from the
home ONCE?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

Mr.. Bryan says hat the democrats
who favored tariff duties on raw ma
terials are dropping the mask" If
all the democrats would drop the mask
Of pretended assent to the Denver plat
form Mr.. Bryan would feel mighty
lonesome,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

Belin expects a thrill from the e
American opera based on the lore OF
the Blackfoot Indians. On its native
heath it would not draw so we'll as
the blackface comedians.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
Preachers aud Rulers.
Philadelphia Press.

IHIIdUtIpIIId IItSs,
Roosevelt, Taft and the kaiser are the
only three sovereigns who preach SER
mons. Edward VII and Nicholas XI are
heads of state churches, but neither fill
pulpits. Mohammed V leads in prayer
as Caliph, but he does not mount the
pulpit.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

Charles w. Morse is again in con-
troll of the Hudson Navigation COM
pany and is fast getting into his old
financial form. Wall Street just can
not keep that child from padding his
boats upstream.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

And now the busybodies are gossip
ing over a cipher disclosing John Wes-
Iey's remote past, with the usual en-
phasis on the mote, which they seek
to magnify into a beam.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

The New York Sun has on its hands
0 raging controversy to define a ger
tleman. Just to settle the matter, let
us remark that a gentleman is any
man who isn't a gent"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

1t costs 50 fine to call a man a
Dutch mutt" over the telephone in
New York. Yet Dutch mutterings were
the first words along the line when
New York was New Amsterdam.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

Those scientists who report the dis
covery of water upon Mars have given
the water-power grabbers an incentive
for achieving inter-planet transit.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

The thanks of ~playgoers are due TO
the crusade Of managers against late
corers. Those who are seated in
theaters when the curtain goes up are
entitled to remain undisturbed till the
curtain goes down. But then its so
fashionable TO come in late.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
Luck I'm Defeat

Pittsburg Dispatch,
Walter Wellman may study the pend
ing controversy and congratulate him
self on his good fortune in having his
balloon burst at a time which rescued
him from the task of having to defend
his own veracity.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

Los Angeles and San Francisco are
swapping their floating population by
a steamboat war rate Of 81, and each
town thinks itself the better off for
the swan.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

King Edward, by carefully avoiding
taking sides in the fight over the bud.
get bill, proves himself a sport who
knows when to hedge.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
The Evidence Needed.

IndlanapOIis News.
At This Writing one can hardly feel that
the polar controversy will be finally set
tied until there has been an examination
by competent authorities of that narwhal
horn which Harry Whitney was compelled
to leave in cold storage at Etah.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
Union of Preachers.

hAAoANAbAAo .
President Taft has followed the eX-
ample of ex-President Roosevelt and has
preached a sermon. When Dr. Roosevelt
returns from Africa he and DR.. Taft
might resolve themselves into an ecu
menical council.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

Boston and New York have locked
horns to decide in which city ThacS-
cray made his famous remark that
swallowing his first oyster was like
swallowing a baby. To what slight
holds on fame these olden cities cling!
Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

Everyone must register anew for
the coming election. Last years reg
istration does not hold good. Regis
tration day is Tuesday, October 5.