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The San Francisco call., 1910-11-03
MADAME NAZIMOVA
RETURNS MONDAY
Brilliant Star of Shuberts Will
Appear Here in Three
Plays
Rising Young Composer Comes
With Nine. Gadski as
AccOmpanist
By WALTER ANTHONY

Probably the brightest star in the
ShUoert Ornament is Nine. Nazimova.
or at least II she is not the greatest
orb which hangs over The independ-
snts' circuit she is shoulder 10 shoul-
Ger with julia Marlowe, who also plays
5nder the Shubert banner in defiance
II the syndicate. II is a pleasure to
write about Nine Nazimovs under the
circumstances. because. in accordance
E-ith what seemed right. had 10
toast The CITY" which is the cur
rent attraction 81 the Shubert house.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-03
MUSIC CLUB FORMED
BY PETALUMA FOLK
[SeecicL Dispatch 70 The Gill

I LDIoEutLII 4 FIU
PETALUMA. Nov. 2.-Petaluma now
has a music club, and some of Peta-
luma's prominent society people and
musicians are among its members.
Prof. F. L. Lippitt was the organizer,
and at the first meeting today Mrs.
Frank H. Denman was elected presi-
dent. Miss Mabel Sweed recording sec
retary and Miss Nellie Denman treas
urer- The aim Of the club is the study
Of high class music and the bringing
to Petslunla of the best grade of musi-
cal attractions.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-03
NEW HOTEL TO OPEN
IN SAN FRANCISCO
San Jose Merchant Secures
Lease on Building
[Seecial Dispotch TO The Call

lScecIdI DDpdtch 10 ne Call
SAN JOSE, Nov. &C. H. Brooks. for
many years a tobacco dealer of this
city, and w. W. Parker of Minneapolis
have obtained a long term lease upon
a modern building In San Francisco
which is being converted into an UP 20
date hotel. It will be known as the
Columbia, and will be opened about
December l. The new hostelry will be
located at the corner Of OFarrell street
and Taylor Brooks will be manager
Of the hotel.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-03
Law Not Observed

Cd Although provision amend
should submitted the voter with favorng and
negative argument attached it, THE NEGATIVE ARGU-
MENT WAS IN THIS CASE OMITTED AND THE VOTER
HAS ONLY RECEIVED ONE SIDE OF THE QUESTION
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-03
Raises Rate of Interest

5) Constitutional Amendment No. by placing bank capi
stock surplus and will tempt the banks reduce
capital surplus and undivided profits avoid pay
ment of large will supply
cheap money and raise the rate of interest
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-03
The Schools in Politics

y Senate Constitutional Amendment Section a. abrogates e
fixed State income for the schools If vote for
this amendment you the schools and the University Of Cal
orna dependent the compromises and the rolling
methods that to make the General Appropriation Bill
each legislature. politics. perncous poitcsfor
public school and for every public school teacher the
State
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-03
Inflexible Rates

a. According its terms nhexb rates of taxation fixed max
ing almost impossible to raise the rates public service
porations should it be found necessary do
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-03

But Nazimova is d name easy to rave
about. ana though she represents in
& way the exotic she is still able TO
h comedienDe. Whether she PLAYS
IN = Dolls House" and absndons her
children or whether she is the Count
-ess CoQuette. delightfully."- naughty. she
IS ways the artist. During the forth
coming engagement at the Savoy she
Will appear in. three plsys-~A Dolls
House. Schnitzler's play The Fairy
Tale and Ibsen's Little Eylof." with
which piece she opens her brief en-
gagement in this city next Monday
y iEht.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-03
Affects Our Prosperity

thing that here in California need most Cheap Money
stores factories to develop
electrical systems between fast growing
reclamation rrgat and farming projects Develop
along these lines prosperity PROSPERITY TO
THE MANUFACTURER PROSPERITY TOTHE MERCHANT
AND PROSPERITY TO THE WAGE EARNER.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-03
Inaccuracies In Report

@ report Of the Tax Commission that
would defray expenses Of
and that the ad vaore
system of taxation which the law seeks avoid viii be
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-03

Did you ever go 70 the Central when
II was the home Of what the profes
sion known the dog show A
dog show" is q melodrama. and Hef-
from was the grandest villain who ever
stsrtled auditors out OF their wits at
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-19
American Souvenir Hunters.

The disappearance Of the piece Of
in Chicago on which President Taft
was to deliver his st. Patrick's day
address recalls a statement by Flight
ing Bob Evans that "the American
people will steal anything but a cellar
full of water" 1t now looks as though
they would even take the cellar II the
excuse of souvenir hunting could be
found for it. In times past 1t has
made no difference what 1t happened
to be, If it could be carried off as a
souvenir. Even visiting foreign bat
tleships have been stripped Of silver
ware, table linen, dishes and other
necessary equipment, and the officers
quarters have been ransacked and-as
happened in one case-an officers
carried away in pieces. Hotel men,
especially those along the coasts and
in summer resorts, say they have to
make allowance for at least three com
plete new sets of table silver annually
to replace what is stolen by these
"faddists."
No good excuse exists for such
wholesale pilfering on the part Of the
American faddists. Although the
souvenir habit started as a fad, 1t be-
came a profitable traffic in condoned
larceny. 1t must be profitable, too,
for the valuable articles are the ones
which go every time" remarks a vic
tim who ranks high in naval circles.
But, happily, this state OF AFFAIRS
has been resulting, quite frequently. in
publicity and an OCCASIONAL prosecution
by the officials Of the law. The habit
loses its humor under those circum-
stances and when the humor is lost
the abuse may be abated.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-19
Younger Officers for the Navy

The recommendation of President
Taft that the age requirements for ma
val promotions be reduced in order to
secure more general proficiency in
commanding battleships and battle
ship fleets is meeting with general ap-
proval. The exact proposition is that
the g limit for promotion to the
rank OF rear admiral be reduced from
sixty and one-half years to hfty-hve,
with a corresponding reduction "all
along the line" This change would
make it possible for every officer
raised to the highest naval rank to
have actual experience in commanding
a fleet, which is not always the case
at the present time. The age at which
officers now reach that rank gives
them a shorter term of service than Is
in the world. These reasons, together
with the constant increase in the size
Of our navy, has prompted our chief
executive to propose the change to be
made as soon as convenient.
There was a time in the history Of
the United States when our isolation
from the nations of the world was in
itself an almost complete protection.
But that time is past and our coasts
are within reach of the fighters of
the sea" by a few days.
We have possessions across the Pa
cihc and commerce everywhere. All
this calls for the very best and the
most effective protection. With q pro-
gram Of naval expansion, it is neces-
sary to give to our naval officers of
all ranks as much experience as posi-
BILE at as early an age as possible. 1t
is a responsible task to command a
feet which requires scientific knowl-
edge backed up by actual experience.
A navy is an essential in our present
affairs, even though we are not an
ticipating trouble with foreign powers.
We do not want trouble with other
nations, yet that does not warrant a
course which is liable to handicap us
in protecting u possessions, our
coast line and our commerce, should
trouble actually arise.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-19
OUR NATIONAL WEALTH.
Comes from Fertility and INVENTIVE
ness Despite PrOdiEality.

wan oNIetN JOuIndl'
1t sometimes seems as IL this country
had become so gigantic a proposition as
to make 1t necessary to stand outside in
order to realize its v~astness. We arch be-
ginning to outgrow that childish self-con-
seriousness that made us resent any crit
icism from outsiders which was not all
compliment. We may benefit, therefore,
by one Of our most intelligent foreign
critics, the editor of the London StGtist.
He SAYS:
Does anybody seriously believe that the
United States owes its prosperity to its
fiscal system? The United States must
have prospered whatever fiscal system It
had adopted. 1t makes grievous mistakes,
not in customs duties only, but in banking,
In currency and in many other things.
Yet, costly as its mistakes are, they do
not keep 1t back for any length Of time,
because the land produces wealth in such
abundance that all these losses are rapidly
made good. Moreover, owing to the popu-
larity of education and the recognition that
science can minister to business, the Ameri-
cans are exceptionally inventive. Need we
say that invention is the most powerful In
strument of progress?"
Here, in a large measure, is the secret
Va Jul SuSSSobCS dlu ldlluTtS, our GSlOn-
ishing crises and equally astounding booms.
We extract from the soil proportionately
one-third of the crops produced in Belgium
or Denmark. We destroy by fire eight
times as much Of our fixed wealth as the
countries of Europe. Far too many tf our
people are living up to the last cent OF
their incomes. Our domestic servants
waste for us more than the food neces-
q . - gV,gN,EV 49,. 7 -ua-Ia - -
fish an unfair ratio to say that dishonest
administration in our cities has wasted
SIT to steal SO. This list could be extended
indefinitely, but in the face Of it all, ma
ture has so bountifully blessed us that
in spite Of repeated financial crises, there
has been no general liquidation IN the
country since the depression which fol-
W the panic Of 1898.
1t is only In the great cities that we
really parallel conditions in England or
other older countries. England and Wales
had in 1901 a population Of 80, 527, S43 per-
sons. This meant 55s people to the square
mile. At the same time, in a population
Of 1873, 1872, we were only called upon to
support twenty-four persons to the square
mile. AS the Statist points out, every
square mile in England and Wales has in
some form or other to provide a liveli-
hood for twenty-three times as many peo-
pie as the square mile in the United States.
II ought not to be necessary TO say that
there are economic laws which apply to
all people in all conditions. 1t will be
seen, however, how enormously our re-
Inarkable conditions can modify such laws.
We should not allow ourselves to forget
that these unique conditions themselves
create our own difficult set OF problems.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-19
Railroads Cost of Living.

Like others, the railroads of the
country are complaining at the "in-
creased cost Of living" The presi-
dents of the several great systems
have Joined in Issuing bulletins to tell
how they are oppressed. Nearly every
item of railway expense has increased
during the last twelve years. One
item consists of 5000, 900, 900 spent in
litigation with federal and state-regu-
lating bodies. This is dwelt upon
somewhat at length and the impress
sion is given that 1t reflects an injus-
tice.
1t is only natural to suppose that
the railroads have really been, to a
certain extent, made to feel high
prices the same as individuals. The
cost of equipment and labor has in
creased appreciably. But in spite of
that fact and the large acquisitions
Of property and the increase in taxes,
the roads have been paying good
sized dividends and building up sur
Pulses. Inc CObl VI llBdLlO III WulCn
1t has been decided that the roads
we're In the right has not been any
thing like the cost where they have
lost out. The railroads themselves
have been to blame for more of the
litigation than they have ever pub
licly admitted.
No wants to load any railroad
down with unnecessary expense. 1t is
just and right that the roads should
have a fair profit on money actually
invested and the business done. And
yet it is not to be expected that the
railroads should be exempt from the
higher prices which beset the people
generally in the matter of the cost of
living. Prosperity and adversely, In
creased profit and the increased bur
den of expense are not distributed by
favor, While it would be a tremend-
Gus calamity to have the railroads
fail, 1t would also be a tremendous
calamity for conditions to be such that
the railroads should monopolize all
the prosperity at the expense Of
everyone else. This is a free coun-
try, but its motto is live and let live,
the greatest good to the greatest num-
Der and the majority rules.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-19
POLITICAL DRIFT.

Detroit shows symptoms Of another spell
Of Plngreyism. The fever manlfests itself
in hot talk for city ownership Of street
railways.
Scoffers at the efficacy Of the prayers to
be offered for the conversion Of Boss Cox
Of Cincinnati suggest the more practical
method of registration and voting for con-
version. That's what reaches the spot.
Advanc agents Of Joseph Folks preslden-
tial boom journeyed from Missouri to Min
nesota TO manage an informal launching
in the Gopher state. Minnesota has AMI
abundance Of water for launchings and
other purposes,
After having in several courts for weeks,
curious politicians at Pottsville, Pa, sue
oeeded in prying open a ballot box in court
The find consisted of a blotter, a lead pen
Gil, Instructions to voters and unused pro-
hibition tickets. The other boys got there
first.
The honorable state senator OF New York
who is accused Of thrift as q
legislator, has had an amazingly studded
attack Of forgetfulness. During the lapse
of memory ne could not tell where tive
checks, for $4,000 and 5000, respectively
came from or how they dropped into hill
Dhnk account,
Down in Governor Haskelrs baliwick
officially known as Oklahoma, officers with
a penchant for the national game of poket
are privileged by a generous state u
charge their losses to their expense act
counts. An employee Of the state admitted
on the witness stand that he rarely won
but the state treasury didn't squeal on hie
"incidentals."
The late Senator Plat Of New York Is
said to have compiled "reminiscences of his
life with the assistance Of a newspaper
friend, which will be printed in book form
shortly. Unless the easy boss" hewed
closer to the line of fact than in his pos
deliverance on Harrison's cabinet
the "reminiscences will have a fierce time
keeping afloat,
A touching compliment to the zeal OF
Governor Hadley Of Missouri in challenging
Senator Stone to a recount of the primary
ballot, which placed the senatorship in his
grasp, came from Washington in the shape
Of senatorial garden seeds. Gumshoe BIZ
insists he did not frank the package. but
would cheerfully accommodate the GOVERNOR
for the asking. Government seed cost moth
ing.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-19
Our Immigrants and Emigrants.

Emigrants to the number Of $685.
40 left the United States for Canada
between the years 1897 and 1909, &C
cording to the reports Of the Canadian
immigration bureau, of whom over 90
per cent were farmers and farm la
borers. These people have gone
largely from the northern border
states, although many from Iowa,
Illinois, Nebraska and Kansas are
among the number, During that
same peuod of time the United States
has received at her ports OF entry
from European countries several mil
lions of f%oreign-born people. 1t is
true that in this great horde are many
of the worthy middle class, but the
majority Of them are OF the laboring
or peasant class.
The contrast between our immi-
grants and our emigrants is, perhaps,
not to our advantage. because those
who are leaving our high-prieed lands
for cheaper Canadian farms are Of the
sturdy stock of the second or third
generation Of prior immigration
waves. The type OF the immigrant
We are getting 10 I'll their places are
not, as a rule, up TO their standard
and will require a generation or two
20 be brought 10 hat standard.
A peculiar feature OF the situation
is hat the Canadian government is
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-19
ROMANCE OF RUMBLE SEAT.


Minna Irving in Leslle's Weekly.
A pretty maiden tired Of golf,
And bridge, tennis, too,
Went out and bought a motor coat
And filmy veil OF blue.
And then she got an auto car,
A model new and neat,
1t was a sporty runabout
And had a rumble seat.
She tied the veil coquettlshly
Beneath her dimpled chin.
And with her sister at her side
Went out to take a spin.
And as they sat I'm front she cried,
In accents silver sweet:
Il wish a young and handsome man
Was in the rumble seat"
She looked so fair behind the wheel,
So graceful and so gay,
She captivated old and young
And stole their hearts away.
And when a dashing college youth
One day she CHANGED TO meet,
lie Yielded to her giTlish charms
And took the rumble seat.
Along the winding country roads
They motored far and wide,
And soon the ardent lover changed
His place unto her side.
Loves old sweet story as they sped
lie managed to repeat:
Her sister always after hat
Rode in the rumble sea
Three times since then the golden rod
Has gilded vale and hill;
She drives the racy runabout
With him beside her still.
And now to make their rosy dream
OF happiness complete
A chubby youngster and his nurse
Are In the rumble seat.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-19

than any undertaken in the United States,
is described by American Consul Slmpich
at Bagdad, Asiatlo Turkey. The consul
says that III It should succeed only in part
1t promises to revolutlcnize and
shift trade balances In this part Of the
world" -Four thousand coolies and the
necessary engineers are already at work
on the initial projects in northern Mesopo-
tamia, and agricultural benefits are ex-
pected in two or three years, About 12,5OO,-
900 acres OF land are to be irrigated, the
work to occupy six or seven years. The
Turkish government has submitted figures
which estimate the cost Of reclamation Of
the land at fS an acre, and which fix the
value Of the lam when reclaimed at $l55
per acre. Wheat, barley and cotton can
be grown on the land, and the present
population Of 100000 souls is expected to
be greatly increased as the project pro-
crosses.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-19

actually paying a bounty on every i'm
migrant from the United States, and
also pays a commission to the sub
agents who induce them to make the
move. That is n reason why Can
ada has succeeded in drawing from
our agricultural classes. while another
reason is the chance at a cheap farm
with a slightly lower cost Of living.
In this same connection all the big
steamship companies Of Europe pay
the bounty as we'll as the commission
on the immigrants whom agents can
induce to come to the United States,
which, however, is offset by the head
tax imposed by our government.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-19
LET THE GOVERNMENT KNOW.
What to Do When Ia Census Man
Comes Around.

Cleveland Leader.
The proclamation in which President
Taft asks courtesy and fair treatment for
the census enumerators and all reasonable
assistance In obtaining the Information
they are sent out to get. ought not to be
passed over lightly. It is no mere incident
Of the day.
Every enumeration Of the people Of the
United States is accompanied by trifling
with the census takers and not a little
serious opposition TO their work. They are
unfairly dealt with. in too many instances,
and their task is needlessly hindered and
made less satisfactory than II ought TO be.
This is folly. IL interferes with the collec-
ton OF information which Is the basis on
which much government work has to be
mapped out and carried on. 1t detracts
from the value OF statistics which are vital
to the intelligent management OF the coun-
try's business.
The nations which are most advanced
and are most competently and wisely gov
erned have the most accurate and COM
plets census records. The farther down the
scale OF national development the student
Of governmental and economic conditions
carries his Investigations the worse he
finds the statistics collected by the public
authorities. At last there ceases TO be any
census, and statistics become mere estl-
mates, often representing the guesses Of
foreigners.
AJAX the census as perfect as possible
by helping the enumerators TO do their
work well and thoroughly. They dare not
and will not make improper use OF any
Information given them. No harm can
come 10 any citizen from doing his fun
duty In this respect.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-19
The commotinn in Congress.

With kaleidoscope changes taking
place in rapid succession It Is difficult
20 take a survey of the situation in
J congress because what may appear to
be settled one day may be entirely In
settled the next. This much, however,
is clear, that the democrats are en-
deavoring skillfully to take advantage
OF the factionnl differences that have
developed among republicans and by
putting their votes at tie disposal Of
the smaller group Of Insurgents 10 give
them the whip hand in their contest
with the regulars.
Conceding the determination Of the
insurgents to carry on their fight for
what they contend js a principle, no
one will claim that the democrats arc
actuated by any other motive than the
desire Ito put the republicans in the
hole" so to speak, and while holding
the republicans responsible for what
ever legislation is enacted, or for
failure to enact promised legislation,
to render the republican majority i'm
potent for effective ~law-mGking. While
cooperating with the insurgents to
take a fall out of Speaker Cannon and
the republicans who made him
speaker, the democrats are by no
means to be counted on to assist the
insurgents to carry out any construc-
tive program of republicanism, but, on
the contrary, are sure later to use
whatever advantage they may gain in
this skirmish to combat any and every
republican policy, whether formulated
and presented by regulars or by in
surgents.
The rules committee In the house
corresponds most nearly to the sitting
committees which we have in our
legislatures, and the control of that
committee should be lodged with the
party which is to be held responsible
for the record which each congress
makes. Whether that control would
bership Of the house or indirectly
through the speaker, is open to de-
bate. But any plan which completely
overturns responsible party govern
ment by tending to make the work Of
the governing committee that Of
merely holding a grabbing, would be
worse instead Of better.
The commotion in congress is
further stirred up w the personality
of Speaker Cannon, Who has unques-
tlonably lost popular confidence, and
who, as we said months ago, should
make way as house leader for some
enc in closer touch with the president
and the republican rank AMI file
whose views the president voices. It
may be desirable to make sure that
Mr.. Cannon will not be continued as
speaker after this congress, but to do
that it should not be necessary to de-
stroy the whole machinery OF RESPONSE
| H. - ox,nrnnoank
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-19
Our Birthday Book
March IS, 1910.

William Jennings Bryan is celebrating his
flftleth birthday today somewhere in the
vicinity Of South America, Mr.. Bryan was
born In Salem, ILL.,, and came to Nebraska
in 1887, locating at Lincoln, where he started
his remarkable career as a candidate for
office. BY profession he is a lawyer. by
nature an orator and by acquisition an
editor.
Moorfield Storey, lawyer, former presl-
dent OF the American Bar association, was
born March 10, ls45, at Roxbury, Mass. Mr..
Storey was once private secretary to
Charles Sumner, and figures prominently
nowadays as a political reformer.
James @. Martin, OF Martin Brothers,
live stock commissioners. South Omaha,
was born March 10, 1854, at Kirkwood, III,
He has the title OF colonel by virtue OF
appointment on the governors staff. and is
also a member Of the Board Of Governors
for Ak-Sar-Bg