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Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21
Mr.. Carnegie's Peace Plan.

Andrew Carnegie, president of the
American Peace society, has made a
proposition to the organization looking
to the disarmament of nations and the
establishment of world peace. He
proposes an alliance between the
United States and Great Britain for
mutual protection on the Atlantic and
Pacific, arguing that the combination
of the two powers would create a force
which would dominate the rest Of the
world and make war impossible.
Briefly outlined, Mr.. Carnegie's plan
is as follows:
Britain and America to agree as follows:
America will defend against attack the
British possessions upon the Atlantic. in
Guiding the islands in the south.
Britain will defend against attack the
American coast upon the Pacific and Ha-
wall and the Philippines.
This agreement to terminate at the end of
five years notice, given by either party,
The proposition looks as pretty on
paper as a democratic tariff for reve-
nue. only" plan or the prospectus of a
Nevada mining stock company, but
there are some very serious, II not
fatal, obstacles to putting the plan into
effect. In the first place. the Amer
lean people since Washington's time
have been opposed to "entangling for
eign alliances and all of the chances
are that any proposed alliance with
Great Britain would be rejected by
congress and the people. In the sec
ond instance, Great Britain already has
an alliance with Japan embracing pos
sible police duty in the Pacific, in re-
turn for Japan's guardianship Of Brit
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21
M BOILED DOWN.

The golden rule is the best antidote for
the rule OF gold.
The shortest cut to heaven is lifting
someone out of hell.
Virtue never needs to demonstrate itself
by vociferation.
LAttle deeds are often like little windows
into a large room.
A man never has any more religion than
his children can find out.
You never make a mistake in giving
where you give part of yourself.
The man who follows his appetites ex-
poets his wife to follow his ideals,
1t takes more than singing Home, Sweet
Home" to make homes sweet.
When the preacher goes hunting for fame
the wolf needs no invitation to the fold.
It's no use talking about having divine
grace If you cannot be gracious to men.
The hottest work in this world is buying
happiness for others with our own toll
and pain.
II the man who has nothing to say would
only say 1t he would soon acquire a repu-
tation for wisdom.
There is a world Of difference between
praying to melt rocks and praying by sur
mounting them.-Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

March has ten days in which to show its
lamb-like traits.
st. Paul objects TO the odors of a packing
house. Reports TO the contrary, the old
patriarch's proboscis is closer to the earth
tina the halo indicates.
Gun-toting in Missouri will be made a
penitentiary offense II a pending bill goes
territory the pistol pocket is needed for
bottled artillery.
Endowing automobiles to cover necessary
expenses appeals nightly 70 lively sons OF
rich fathers. The addition OF a copious ac-
cident policy would make the motion COM
plete and Insure a unanimous vote.
A New York manager who advertised for
thirty chorus girls" which the printer
hypnotized into Thirsty chorus girls, -
wants to borrow Roosevelt's big stick for a
short. energetic session in the composing
room.
A subsection Of New York is rejoicing
over the retirement of horse cars. At the
present rate of progress the antique re-
glons Of the big town will line up with the
procession before the twentieth century
wanes.
The last Seventeenth of ireland, like its
predecessors. brings to the front an ora
torical thought OF some interest. One elo-
auent ~panegyrist ADDS TO Patrtck's varied
talents the unique distinction OF fathering
a snake story which defies the raVages Of
time.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21
Qualifications for Office.

The danger that the move
ment for direct nominations is the
open invitation It extends to men to
seek Office who have no claim or fitness
for the positions to which they aspire.
If anything will make the direct pri-
farce it is the confusing multiplication
of names on the ballot from which
even the most intelligent voter cannot
make an intelligent choice.
The multiplication of Offices to be
filled by popular election and the null
tiplication of candidates to be nomi-
mated for each Office tend to make the
election merely a gamble in which the
ignorant, the disreputable or corrupt
have almost as good a chance of win
ming out as the experienced, industri-
Gus and honest. The only remedy
that seems feasible is to hold down as
much as possible the number of Offices
to be filled by popular vote and to es-
tablish much more stringent qualiica-
tons for office.
In our city charter a councilman
need be only a freeholder of the ward
he wishes to represent and the free
holder qualification is about to be
abolished, so that anyone who has a
right to vote may run for a place on
the board of managers of the munic-
ipal corporation. The qualifications
for mayor are practically the same, so
that a man may become the head of
our city government who knows moth
ing whatever about its machinery and
problems. If to be a councilman a
mar had to be a t~axpaying resident of
his ward for not less than five years,
and to be a mayor a nan had to have
previously served either in the city
council or in some other responsible
city office, the choice at the primary
election might be more intelligently
directed.
The same is true with reference to
the legislature and the state executive.
If it we're made prerequisite that the
governor should have seen service in
the legislature the executive would be
better equipped for his duty and the
incentive to men of ability to serve in
the legislature correspondingly in
creased.
The adage about locking the stable
door after the horse is stolen, however,
is applicable here. The people are
not likely to wake up to the necessity
of action in the direction of requiring
higher qualifications for oficeholding
until the accident Of free entry to a
direct primary puts some fragrant mis-
fit in the most conspicuous official
position.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21
The Prssidential Succession.

The appointment by President Taft
Of two former democrats to cabinet
positions, one OF them processing still
to be a democrat in all essential mat
ters, has been discussed in various
phases, but nowhere. 80 far as we have
seen, in its bearing on the presidential
succession.
For the first hundred years of the
republic the line of succession ran
from the vice president to the presi-
dent pro tenn Of the senate and to the
speaker Of the house of representa-
tlves, but this was changed by an en-
actment of congress for the very pur-
pose of preventing a transfer of execu-
tive power according to the varying
political control of the senate or the
house. II was argued that the cleo
tion Of the president constituted a pop
ular vote of confidence in the political
ton of lack of confidence in the polit-
ical party or parties represented by his
antagonists. To make sure that the
presidential Office should remain within
the control of the party invested with
it at the election a new line of success
sion was established through the cabi-
net, beginning with the secretary of
state, secretary of the treasury, secre-
tary of war, and so on, conditioned on
the eligibility of the occupants of
those positions for the time being.
1t just so happens that the two
former democrats chosen to Mr.. Taft's
cabinet family occupy the two places
in the line of presidential succession
next only to the secretary of state, and
that the democratic secretary of war,
who insists he is still a democrat, is
only four removes from the presiden-
tial chair. The possibility of a demo-
crat succeeding President Taft by sim
ultaneous death or disability of presi-
dent, vice president and secretary of
state is, doubtless, quite remote, but it
is an existing contingency nonetheless,
although perhaps not close enough to
warrant speculation on what might
happen should it transpire.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21
The Disappearing Waistline.

Mere man will probably never be
able to fathom the mysteries of
woman's fashions-and perhaps 'twere
better so-but even the casual OBJ
server, even a near-sighted man, can
not avoid noticing the astonishing
changes being made in the geography
of woman by the beating of the wav
of fashion, particularly with reference
to the disappearing waistline.
1t is not many years since the waist
line Of even the fashionable woman
was considered stationary. 1t was To-
Gated by just a slight drop Of the hug
ging arm, or both arms, and every
swain, however bashful and ~inexperi-
enced, had little difficulty in locating
it with a reasonable degree of ac-
curacy. For some reason unknown to
man, the waistline began to 10 up,
getting farther away from the hugging
curve until but a short time ago the
same casual observer became con
WINGED that woman had been supplied
with arms solely for the purpose of
preventing the waistline and the neck
line from violating the anti-merger
laws.
But now again the waistline is being
revised downward like the Dingley
tariff schedule. 1t has fallen below
the old familiar landmark, cleared the
hips bunker and is still dropping like
the price of corr after the collapse of
a board of trade corner. The orig
inators Of the new styles have not
taken the public into their confidence
and there is no authentic information
as to Just where the waistline will
wind up OF course have to
walk, and it Is a fairly safe prediction
that the waist will never pc worn be
low the knee.
1t would, of course, be wasted effort
to inquire whether mere man likes the
change. II is also useless to ask If
the women like 1t. Change is the in
~dispensable ingredient of style, and
the woman does not live who will ad-
NIT to herself, much less to anyone
else, that the new style is not becom-
ing to her-if she can possibly afford
it. A professor of the Chicago uni
versity recently declared that a saw
age woman from the jungle would be
as much at home in a new dress as the
leader OF our most fashionable society.
He might have added that a leader of
our society out of fashion would be
just as savage as any woman in the
jungle.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21
Inter-Raoial Marriages.

Americans will have difficulty in
agreeing with so distinguished a
scholar as DR.. Charles w. Eliot, the
retiring president of Harvard univer-
sity, that the negro question in the
south is a lesser problem than the
menace threatening the progress of the
nation in the intermarriage Of the
races and the admixture Of racial
stocks. In a recent address at Mem
phis DR.. Eliot is reported to have de-
clared that 'the Irish should not inter-
marry with Americans of English de-
scent; that the Germans should not
marry the Italians; that Jews should
not marry the French; that each race
should maintain its individuality and
that there is no reason why the races
should not live together, side by side,
in perfect peace and amity."
The logic of the worlds history is
against Dr.. Eliot's contention. The
Japanese and the Jews are in fact the
only highly civilized races that have
kept their stock practically pure from
refusal to intermarry with other races,
and even with the Japs history shows
that many of the most eminent men in
the mikado's kingdom trace their or
igin back to Malay sources. The
Chinese who have resisted, or at least
not invited, interracial marriages have
taken their position in the worlds
march of progress with the rear guard
since civilization was young. The old
world races have in~termingled and ap-
parently profted by it. The Britons,
Irish and Scots have mingled with the
Normans, the Danes, the Angles and
the Saxons and have grown in strength
and progress with each merger, just as
the Slavs, Spanish, Italians and French
have intermarried with the Germans
in practically all of the German states
and colonies. All European tests of
these mixtures have assayed for gen.
eral betterment and there is nothing
to indicate that Americans have suf-
fered from a similar cause.
The man who has had behind him
three generations of ancestors in the
United States, and who is wholly Irish,
German, English or French, is a rare
specimen. The intermingling of the
white races in this country has pro-
duced the American" type. Theodore
Roosevelt, who boasts of Dutch, Eng
lish, Scotch, Irish and French blood,
is a striking example of the American
mixture. and there can be no sound
objection to a blend of nationalities
that produces such vigorous and capa-
he stock. There are no barriers OF
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21
HEAVEN so NEAR.
Raltinlore Sim

Baltimore Sun.
Heaven is so near, when we go to find IL
We can't see clear for the glory behind II;
It's right at our feet, but we never mind
It'll
Heaven is so near, but we sigh and sigh
for il,
We mourn and grieve n pray and cry
When the thing to do is to toll and try
for I'll
Heaven is so near that we bump right
On every side and at every minute
That we live life right and deserve to
win It'll
Heaven is SO near-like a soft wing press
ing,
It floas everywhere with its tender bless
ing
OF bloom and bird and the winds caress-
ing!
Heaven is SO near-it's the morning, beam
ing, =
The dusk's still hour. with the starlight
cleaning,
Loved lips at the gate and the dear nights
dreamingI
Heaven is 30 near-why, we search all
around us
Till it leans with IT'S ear TO our hearts to
sound us.
And here in our own dear lanes It has
found usi
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT

Philadelphia Record: The clergyman who
was quoted the other day as saying that
he can take a pencil, a pad, and a 800
bill and make a fortune in Wall street is
only a beginner. The streets idea is to
use somebody else's 800 bill.
Brooklyn Eagle: A Massachusetts, church
has barred women from public worship
WHO refuse to take off their hats on enter
ing the church. Apparently there are
women who could get into the church with
out taking off their hats. Massachusetts
is slow. a' |
Boston Herald: The Protestant Episcopal
bishop of Arkansas recently received a
draft of 800. drawn on London, and given
by Chinese Christians in Hankow for use
in relieving the physical needs of Arkan-
sars, end converting them to Christianity.
This can be looked upon as one "of LIES
little ironies;" or 1t can be seen as a case
OF bread cast upon the waters, returning
after many days. Or some may find In
Il a prophecy that oriental missions will
work in America to save our people to an
oriental faith.
New York Tribune: slang and barroom
conversation" used by some e%vangelists
was the subject of caustic remarks by the
Rev. Frederick e. Hopkins, pastor of Pill
grim Congregational church. speaking Of
~"Evangelists and Evangelism at a meet
ing Of Congregational ministers of Chicago.
There seems to be today a kind of
evangelist that is downright vulgar" said
he. "A woman f~ittingly described this
sort to me the other day when she said:
This species OF evangelist cuffs the reg
ular pastor around when he pays a visit,
advertises himself and then takes all the
money out of the parish and leaves the
minister an the work to do
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21

adjustment Of swollen fortunes. II
the design were to promote more
equitable economic distribution, the
rate of the taxes would have to be
progressive and much higher to &C
complish tangible results. So, even IL
adopted at this time, the inheritance
tax is likely to be temporary or at
least elastic, with the rate subject to
increase or decrease, according to the
treasury needs.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21
The Birth of Spring.

The calendar fixes the date at March
81, but the birth of spring is an in
definite date which the individual
really has to locate for himself. Some
persons watch for the dandelion or the
crocus, while others pin their faith to
the appearance Of the robin, the friski-
ness Of the squirrel or the movements
of some other wild or domesticated
animal or bird. But the real spring
arrives when the individual finds a
new feel outdoors. when the earth
begins to yield under his tread, when
the sky takes on a sweeter blue and
tinges of green force through the dead
leaves on the lawn to greet the warm
ing sun.
These are the early symptoms. and
some folks whose sympathies are so
attuned as to catch the first opening
notes of natures spring song have a
Joy in living that comes to eve the
staider souls later on. To these ia
vored ones the soil has an odor of its
o"u Ihese udys' q hOIiSS ChaI thS 6oOu
earth is awakening again and giving
thought to the necessities and Joys of
all living things. Winters cloak is
dropping and nature is bidding its
children to get closer to it and watch
anew the enactment of the miracle of
creation. 1t needs no cross mark on
the calendar to notify the nature lover
of the birth of the season.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21
A Divorce Innovation.

The somewhat sensational testi-
mony in the Stirling divorce case,
which has attracted much attention
throughout Great Britain and no little
notice in this country, has been sup
plemented by the novelty of the find
ing in the case, Lord Guthrie, in
granting a divorce to John Alexander
Stirling, having decided that the costs
must be borne by the man named as
correspondent.
In this country there is little heed
paid to the legal obligations of the CO.
respondent in such cases. The usual
occurs against him is a suit for dam
ages for alienation of affection, al
though in some few states he is liable
to criminal prosecution. For the most
part, however, he escapes with what
ever share of criticism or obloquy So
ciety may have to offer, and society at
the best is not harsh in such cases,
rather preferring to shrug it's shout
ders and to intimate in whispers that
the culprit was not wholly to blame.
In the agitation and consideration of
divorce reforms it might be a good
plan to include the plan of Lord Guth-
RE and provide for mulcting the CO.
respondent for costs. The injured
husband might hesitate to ask the in
Fiction of this form OF penalty, but it's
adoption might go far toward making
home invasion unpopular.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21

splendid example of what a wife, two sis
tiers, a rown-up daughter and a mother
in-law think a mar ought to
yes, indeed" said Miss Uppisch, my
great-grandmother on my mothers side
was noted for her proud and imperious
"How stranger exclaimed Miss Knox:
our servant girls the same way.'-Cuth
Ollie Standard and Times.
Mr.. Highsome-Your daughter plays
classical music, does she notY
Mr.. Struckoyle-I don't know. MY wife
looks after all that. But 1 think she does.
I've hear her say she could play every
one of Sousa's marches with her eyes
shut-Chicago Tribune.
Jack-There's one good thing about
widows weeds.
Tom-What's that?
, Jack-They rarely interfere with the
growth of orange observation-disclosures
News.
Mrs. Knicker-How do you induce your
cook to stay?
Mrs. Bocker-We give her an engage
ment ring that has to be returned
Harper's Bazaar.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21
Source of ~JinKoism.

Senator Scott expresses the opinion that
japanese war scares are started by persons
who nave munitions or military or nava
supplies to sell to the government. This
belittling Of the patriotism OF lingo agita-
tors will receive the condemnation 1t de-
serves from every owner of a vessel suita-
BILE for sale at a high price for use as a
transport, and from all contractors who
could profit from a war. 1t is an open
affront to a recognized American industry.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21
Not an Easy job.
San Francisco Chronicle.

Those who think that congress will speed
lily lick a new tariff bill into shape are not
basing their expectations on observation OF
what has occurred In the past. Under the
most favorable circumstances the orange
ment of schedules is a work Of extreme
difficulty, but, complicated as 1t is this
time by the necessity of considering sources
of additional revenue. as we'll as the pro-
lection Of American industry, the finances
are that 1t will he pretty late in the sum-
mer before a measure is re .ly for the ap-
proval of the President.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21

1t is reported that Henry White is
to be dropped from the diplomatic
corps because he snubbed Mr.. and Mrs.
Taft when they visited Vienna on their
wedding tour. when Mr.. White was
secretary of the American legation
there. The story is substantially cor
rect except for the fact that Mr.. White
left Vienna two years before Mr.. and
Mrs. Taft were married.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21

religion. social caste, language or gov
eminent in this country to keep the
white races apart, n the single fact
that the American blend Of all the
white races is challenging the admira-
ton and envy of the world is the most
effective answer to DR.. Eliot's argu-
ment.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21

What has become Of the old
fashioned mar who always used to
turn the wringer for his wife on wash
day?" asks the Detroit Free Press.
Last time we saw him was c%ranking up
his automobile and insisting that 1t re-
minded him of old times.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21

In Italy about 90 per cent of the
murderers tried are convicted. The
percentage Of convictions In the United
States is only ID per cent. The
"Black Hand" has a reason for select
ing the United States for it's field of
operations.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21
An Effective Invasion.
New York Evening Post.

While Englishmen have been watching
from dune and headland for the invading
armies Of the empress of the north. the
Englishman's home has been captured by
an American department. store.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21

The indianapolis News has discov-
cred that the panic was caused by the
refusal Of President Roosevelt to pre-
vent the absorption by the Steel trust
OF the Tennessee Coal and Iron COM
pany. The World-Herald and the
commoner must feel Inundated over
being beaten to that remarkable dis
-Overy.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21

The New York World refers to "A
Chicken Coop" as meaning a poker
hand containing three aces and three
queens. Apparently they cannot even
play poker in New York without run
ming In q ringer.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21
killing Merely Incidental.
Chicago TribuI

Common fairness demands that Mr..
Roosevelt shall not be classed with the
Gordon Cummings. He is not going to
Africa to kill ions for tho mere pleasure
of killing, but TO collect specimens for the
Smithsonian institution. Please bear in
mind that the killing, though unavoidable,
Is merely incidental.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21

Winston Churchill says that an
African lion will stink away at a stern
word. Mr.. Roosevelt may discover
that a lion is not as nervy as a con-
gresham.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21

The man who gets an unexpected
wallop on the head from a base ball
while he is passing a vacant lot may
know without further investigation
that spring is here.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21

Frederick Palmer wants to know
why more missionaries are not sent to
Central America. AS a rule missiona-
ries are not quick enough IN the trig-
ger TO enjoy long life in Central
America.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21

A Chicago minister says that a
preacher should always have a third
party present when he is talking to a
woman. The preacher who feels that
way about It should have his o
science polished up a bit.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21
An Omcious Buttinsky.
Springfield Republican.

Mr.. Pinchot's labored argument for the
high tariff on lumber is calculated to dis
gust many people who have supported his
crusade for the preservation of the forests
very cordially.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21

Salt Lake City Tribune.
1t is said that President Taft has selected
his family physician, and this is perhaps
about the only public appointee who the
people hope will nave nothing to do.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21

Some of the corporation magnates
who expected to find the Welcome
sign on the White House door imme-
diately after March 4 are having difh-
Guilty In suppressing their chagrin.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21

Jim Jeffries has refused to fight for
a purse of less than $4,000. He
thinks it would be disgraceful for a
prize fighter to get less money than the
president OF the United States.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-21

Henry James new play is said to ap-
peal entirely to the intellect. 1t is
difficult to understand why 1t should
be tried out In New York.