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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-02
Man and the Elements.

That same curiosity which taught
primitive man to keep his fingers out
of the fire still impels him in his effort
to wrest from nature her secrets. Such
progress as the race has made has
been along a path marked by many
failures. From our twentieth century
height we may look back on the
wreckage of many experiments whose
projectors we're imbued by that faith
which endures forever, supported by
the hope that springs eternal. And
through this debris Of discarded at
tempts to solve the problem the lane
along which mankind has come is open
so that it can be easily traced. The
effort has always been inspiring, and
chiefly because of it's utilitarian aspect.
Mans first invention was doubtless
the pot in which to cook his food, and
the first improvement of permanent
service was made upon that pot. So
today mans latest efforts are all in the
direction Of adapting laboratory ex-
periments to the daily needs of the
race. The range of investigation and
research is wide and comprehensive
and promises much more for mans
future comfort and happiness. The
pessimist who can scan the records of
recent triumphs and say that mankind
is making no progress is too blind to
deserve consideration.
Man may never succeed in wrestling
from nature her last great secret, nor
is it well that he should. So long as
there is yet something yet undiscov-
cred man will still have a stimulus to
progressive effort. But in anticipa-
ton of what is yet to come we must
not deny ourselves the enjoyment of
what we have. T1e wonderful
achievements of the early years of the
twentieth century have been notable
for the increase of happiness to the
human race and the researches still
being pursued are all in this direction.
Mans conquest over natural condi-
tions affords the proof that warrants
his egotistical assumption of superior
ity above other things of animate and
inanimate creation. The occasional
disaster that marks what appear to be
his limitations really affords greater
incentive to further efforts to over
come the elements,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-02
Taft on Prisons.

President Taft spoke very briefly to
the delegates to the prison congress
the other day, but he gave them some
excellent advice when he said, do not
make prisons too comfortable; do
nothing In the treatment of criminals
that will tend to invite commission of
crime"
This is a thought that prison re-
formers need to have thoroughly i'm
pressed on their minds. Some of
them are disposed to ignore it entirely,
or minimize its Importance. Some of
them are inclined to yield too much to
sentiment in their desire to ameliorate
the condition of the prisoner. About
all that prisons need to do for the law
breaker in the way of making his lot
what 1t should be is to treat him hui
namely. 1t is not the province of the
prison to make either q martyr or an
object of charity out of the man who
wilfully violates law. And doing
these things will never give the GRIM
inal any respect for society. Nothing
should be done by penologists to COM
promise the dignity or authority of
law. This cannot be done without
bringing the law into contempt in the
mind of the criminal. When he sees
the law making terms with him, in
stead Of awning him with its majesty,
he is little inclined to hold 1t in very
high respect or highly regard his OBJ
legation to keep it.
1t is no tribute to the prison re-
formers or their methods that the
chief executive felt impelled to make
this suggestion, but it is to be hoped
1t will be acted upon.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-02

relation Of sacred esteem. But he is
equally quick to resent an attempt by
the church to drag its name and in
fiuence into politics as a shield or de-
fender or a weapon, and he ought to
be. II is a dangerous departure and
most indicate one.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean compares
the sacredness of the church to the
sacredness of domestic relations and
puts the question this way:
what would the world think of the
man who strove to make political capital
out of the delicate and intimate rela-
lions Of family life? How would IL re-
gard the man who tried to drag the af-
lection of his wife, the goodness of his
mother, the innocence Of his daughter,
into the fierce light of a political cam
power or money?
And it clinches this argument by
adding-what every sincere minister
of the gospel and member of the
church ought to take home to himself
this:
The scholar in politics-yes. The good
citizen in poltics-of course. The patriot
in politics-most proper. But the church
man in politics as a churchman, the Liv-
ing Bread brought forth from the table
and Gods word from the altar to help in
an election-could proclamation further go?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-02
Ak-Sar-Ben.

The annual harvest home festival
is now being celebrated in Omaha. The
carnival spirit is rife and visitors who
have come to the metropolis after a
season Of arduous effort, whose fruits
are already garnered, are finding all
is in readiness for their entertainment.
The city is gaily sttired and its citizens
are eager with their welcome to the
visitors 1t is time for rejoicing be-
cause Of another year of bounty, which
means increased and continued pros
perity with plenty for all, with employ
ment for capital and labor in new en-
terprises, and with the future looming
bright with promise the Ak-Sar- Ben
celebration is most appropriate.
Yet Ak-Sar-Ben means something
more than a mere carnival period. It's
Significance lies deeper than the super
fetal showing OF good fellowship
which is its outward manifestation. 1t
is, in reality, the development of a
deep purpose which has for it's OBJ
ject the unification of the material in
terests of the state of Nebraska and
the city of Omaha. These interests
are common and are generally so rec
ognized, and the great organization of
empire builders known as the knights
of Ak-Sar-Ben has but one end in view.
The entertainment of visitors is
merely the exemplification Of that hos
pitality which is always extended with
out question by the citizens of Omaha.
| The knitting of closer business rela-
tions between state and city follows
this hospitality in natural sequence,
and, while Omaha and its people main
tain Ak-Sar-Ben, its greatness is the
greatness OF Nebraska, and the people
of Nebraska are therefore equally con-
cerned in it's efforts to build up the
great commonwealth along its material
| lines.
For the sixteenth time the people
are called upon to assemble in the
metropolis of this great common
wealth, to make merry and enjoy
themselves in a rational way, partici-
pating in the pleasures provided be.
cause they understand them. Omaha is
great only because Nebraska is great
and King Ak-Sar-Ben is the only mon
arch to whom all pay homage and
obeisance.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-02
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

ANY weather prophet worth his grub can
nit the mark by predicting a cold winter.
If Saratoga is as sporty as its reputa-
ton, 1t will hand Colonel Roosevelt the
prize medal of the Town Boosters club
Every tailender in the major, minor and
bush leagues hand TO the sobbing fans
this bunch of sapient comfort: Next year
the pennant is ours"
Inventive genius gets another painful
frost. A resident of Sing Sing prison has
invented an aeroplane and the authorities
wont let HIM fly with 1t.
A misguarded highwayman attempted TO
hold up a candidate for the legislature in
Indiana. His sense of humor was sorely
mutilated when he came to.
The sultan of sulu is much wiser than
some of our returning tourists He left
his string Of pearls at home beyond the
reach Of custom house officers
Joyful symptoms of the moral unfit
are cropping out in Pennsylvania Nude
statues are not to be permitted in front of
the state capitol at Harrisburg.
An Ohio freshman countered on a bunch
of woud-be hazers. and put six of them
on the sick list in one inning. An i'm
pressve side line of education can be had
without books.
An unknown and unregenerate rascal
stole the artistic golden cro2ier of the
Episcopal bishop of Chicago. The crozier
differs from the style of walking stick
affected in Chicago, and is of no value
to the impious crook unless he comes back
and gets the clothes that go with II.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-02
30, BANNER OF THE WEST. ,

DR.. Henry Van Dyke in Scribner's.
Pass on. pass on, ye flashing files
OF men who march in militant array;
Ye thrilling bugles, throbbing drums,
Ring out roll on, and die away;
And fade, we crowds, with the fading dayl
Around the city's lofty piles
OF steel and stone
The lilac veil OF dusk is thrown,
Entangled full of sparks of fairy light;
and the never-silent heart of the city
huns
To homeward-turning tune before the
night.
But far above, on the sky-line's broken
height,
From ali the towers and domes outlined
In gray and gold along the citys crest
l see the ripping flag still take the wind
With a promise of good TO come for all
mankind.
o banner of the west,
No proud and brief parade,
With passing show of troops for warfare
dressed.
Can rightly measure or display
The mighty army thou hast made
Loyal to guard thy more than royal sway
OF law-defended liberty.
Millions have come across the ocean
foam
To find beneath thy shelter room to grow,
A place to labor and a home;
Millions were born beneath thy folds, and
know
No other flag but thee;
And other, darker millions bore the yoke
OF bondage in thy borders till the voice
OF Lincoln spoke.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-02
Our Birthday Book
October 2. 1910.


Charles H. Taylor, jr., publisher of the
Boston Globe, was born October 2, 1se7, at
Charlestown, Mass. He has been president
Of the American Newspaper Publishers,
association and has practically succeeded
his fater in the active management OF the
Globe.
Henry NJ. Whitney, big Boston capitalist,
is Il today He was born at conway,
Mass, and has run for governor on the
democratic ticket. He has been visitor
to Omaha where his daughter is the wife
Of N. p. Dodge. jT.
w. r, MoKeen president and general
manager of the McKeen Motor Car COM
pany was born October 2. 1869. at Terre
Haute, Ind. He is mechanical and
technical engineer, educated at Rose Poly
technic, Johns Hopkins university and the
polytechnic at Berlin. He has been en-
gagged in railroad engineering. first with
the Pennsylvania lines in 1899 and later
with the Union Pacific, till separate c. I
poration was organized to manufacture
the motor cars he had devised.
Charles w. Halter. attorney at law, in
the Paxton block Is celebrating his forty
ninth birthday. He was born In Dayen-
port, Ia. and graduated in law from Iowa
state university. He has been pTacticing
his profession in Omaha since 1885
Herman @. Boesche, attorney at law at
South Omaha, was born October 2, 1873, IN
council Bluffs He studied law in the
University OF Nebraska and is now a
nominee on the republican legislative
ticket In this county,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-02
The Church in Politics

A minister of the gospel in seeking
to justify his and his churchs action
in going into politics as minister and
as a church, said: The devil is in
politics and If We fight him we have
to go into politics to get after him"
There is ample room and perhaps
call for the churchman or the minis
ter in politics, but as a man, as a citi-
zen, not churchman. There is a
place in politics, or in any sphere OF
public action affording a similar OPP
portunity for civic righteousness for
the good citizen, be he minister of the
gospel or what not, but there is no
room in this country for the church
as an organization, or for its votaries
as a society, in politics. True Ameri-
cans ought to understand that and in
sist upon it. Members of churches are
usually good citizens and their influ-
ence, therefore, Is needed in politics.
good citizens, 10 take an active part in
the political affairs Of their country
but 1t is not their duty to take this
part in politics as churehmen and both
the church and the nation will suffer
whenever churchmen attempt to usurT
such a privilege.
The average American is quick to re
sent an evil imputation 10 the church
That is because he is trained 10 hold II
as a thing separate and distinct-in 9
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-02
MAJESTY OF KING CORN.
Greatest Single Factor I'm Our Ma
tional Economy.


Although only about one-thlrd of the
years yield OF corn, the greatest Of our
agricultural crops, is actually sold out Of
the county in which 1t is grown, 1t still
furnishes volume of traffic, directly and
indirectly, vital to the railroads in the
territory through which it is distributed.
The surplus corn crop, over and above
what is used on the farm will this year
contribute nearly lO00,O 100000 bushels to
railway traffic On an average the fifteen
interior markets receive nearly 25O,OOO,0OO
bushels of corn a year by rail, and 70 per
cent Of 1t has another haul in the form of
shipments from these dstributive centers,
This does not include, probably, an equal
amount which enters into more direct long
haul traffic, nor the short haul distribu-
ton between the different points within
the surplus corn belt.
The corn movement for the new crop
begins to be felt in railway traffic about
November l. From that time forward to
the end Of the year the activity is at its
height. But so universal is the commodity
that 1t maintains traffic in large volume
through all winter months, during which
the live stock of the country is maintained
on cereal foodstuffs. The basis of the live
stock industry for the nation as a whole
rests more largely on the maize or lndlan
corn crop than on anything else. The live
stock of the farms where corn is grown
consume about 1000, 100000 bushels a year.
AS a meat-producing factor II is the main
stay Of American agriculture.
The progress of corn culture in this
country has kept pace with the westward
extension OF the frontier. AS the line of
settlement pushed forward. the area cul-
tivated grew from S2,567.OOO acres in 1867
to more than twice that in 1881. In 1910
the corn area has again almost, doubled
with 100000 acres. Probably in no other
part OF the world has there ever been SO
wide scope of productive industry on a
single crop within any one country. The
corn area is nearly as large as the COM
bined area Of wheat and oats. and two and
one-half times that Of hay and three and
one-half times that OF cotton.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-02
Elective system in Schools.

The elective system was initiated In
the colleges, but gradually it has
worked it's way into the primary
schools of this country, which is ex-
tremely bad for the primary schools
and the children depending on them
for their foundation of an education.
Even colleges now realize that they
have gone too far with this system and
colleges can better afford 1t with their
students who are nearly II not quite of
adult age. But for primary schools to
adopt the system simply places a prem
ium on loose and inefficient work.
When a child realizes that If he fails
in one branch he may substitute an
other, he is likely to fail, and in the
end come out Of school minus what
he went into it to get. He will not
have a thorough training in the funda-
mentals, and will never be able to get
q thorough education with a deficient
foundation.
Another danger of the elective sys-
tenn lies in the diversity of studies. 1t
is not so important that young people
get smattering of many subjects as
1t is that they get complete school,
ing in the few branches which go to
make up practical education in later
life. Primary schools should fix a
definite course or curriculum and COM
pei every pupil to take it, eliminating
electives entirely. If electives have
any place in the education of youth,
that place is in the higher institutions
Of learning and not In the primary
schools. No child of primary school
age is capable of determining what is
best for its mental development or life
pursuit and the majority Of parents
cannot expect to know what is essen
tial for the general education of chill
dren as we'll as men and women whose
business it is to know such things.
That is why 1t is safe to leave these
matters to school authorities.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-02
Records for French to Break.

When those doughty Frenchmen ar
rive on their high-heeled aeroplanes to
participate in the international avia-
ton competitions in this country they
will find some records worthy their
skill. If they break them they will
certainly be entitled to the rewards
that go with supremacy, but we don't
think they can do it,"
Our Partisan friends have an
nounced that they propose taking
home with them the laurels which
Glenn H. Curtiss carried out of France
AS Americans we might inform these
gentlemen that since Mr Curtiss
eclipsed their best records in Paris so
many other new ones have been made
in America that we almost lose sight
of this one being at all noteworthy.
They will be kept reasonably busy and
interested, to say the least, therefore,
If they fitch from us our good name in
aviation.
Unless some other long-winged man
bird outstrips him, Walter Brookins,
student of the Wright brothers, will
have q little record to submit to the
Frenchmen which will call for some
rather good flying on their part to
beat. That is the record he has just
made in flying from Chicago to Spring
field, ILL.,, distance of 1872 II miles in
Ave hours and forty-four minutes,
making only two stops. This, we are
more than pleased to say, is a western
record and also the best record for
long-distance flying, a record that won
a prize of $4,000.
This coming international aviation
meet is an event of world interest and
| it is well that the best men of every
nation where the science is practiced
are to participate, for then what rec
ords are made must be taken as con-
elusive and the interchange of ideas
and methods should rebound greatly
to the progress Of the art.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-02

has a population of 100000 and
an area Of 100000 square miles.
At glance one may perceive the
immensely of Russias social problem
and the excellent possibility Of it's
solution. With a climate so mild in
this southern section that snow is un-
known, and with the government
promoting irrigation and fostering
plans for settlement, we in America
may afford to modify our judgment of
the Russian government in its attempt
to work out the destiny of these
hordes of poor people Evidently it
is making some progress Evidently
it does not mean to leave the task for
Americans to perform.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-02

Francis j. Heney declared at the
Irrigation congress that We as a ma.
tion had already given to the monopo-
lists four-ffths of our natural re-
sources. This looks despairing, but
so much so when we remember that II
was Mr.. Heney who, at st. Paul, de-
clared that the Great Northern ran
road had been enriched by government
land grants worth millions OF dollars
The fact as 10 this is that the Great
Northern is notable first for being
the one transcontinentRl railroad thai
was built without q penny or an acre
OF subsidy from the government.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-02
DOMESTIC PLEAsANTRIES.

Singleton-I cannot understand why a
mans wife is called his better half. go,
Wedmore-lou would " you had TO DIVIDE
your salary with ono.-Boston Transcript
yes. I will marry You ~ you will make
over your entire fortune to me-
alimony Philadelphia Ledger.
Household putting up season employs
uuarrels doesn't it,
How do you mean
I'm the former one takes pickles to put
into a jar, but IN the latter IT takes Jars to
get into a pickle. Baltimore American.
And how soon is the duke coming over
to marry the Goldenwad girl?.'
him the price OF his passage. Cleveland
Plain Dealer
First Ansel-what is that spirit fussins
second Angel-she says her hat-pns stick
out beyond her halo.-Harpers Bazar
Kate-Maud is drcadfully particular about
her appearance. ,
fire on her head and she'll want to know
II they are on STANDARDIZATION transcript
II think you change too much TO be a
good politician, Remember that consist
nm posing Just now as one OF the plain
people and can't afford jewels."-Philadel-
phia Record.
He loves me, he loves me not muir
INJURED the romantic summer boarder,
you must have picked thousand daisies
TO pieces today" remarked the old farmer.
Possibly have
Couldn't YOU play that game Just as
well with potato bugs?''-Loulsville Courier
Journal
"They say that new doctor Is fake.
How did his instant cure for your Witts
sore throat work?'
"ENCellepty."
Then II cured her really2
NO; but she can't speak above Whls-
per. "-Baltimore American.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-02

A bright spot in the IllinSis bribery
murk is the testimony of the young
woman stenographer who had worked
for one Of the "jackpotters. She adj
mitted on the witness stand that her
bill against him had been abated by
nearly one-fourth because she thought
he did not have sufficient money to
pay all his bills, and she wanted to
give his other creditors a chance Just
how she felt after she learned of the
large bundles of shining yellowbaeks
he pulled out of the Jackpot" is not
recounted, but her action shines like
good deed in a naughty world" and
proves, which so many OF US hoped,
that all human nature at Springfield
is not perverted.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-02

The tendency of divinity seminaries
should be- to raise, not TO lower, the
standard OF education II the require
ment of high ability is to be met by
the church. 1t is dificult to see how
a seminary course can be reared upon
an incomplete foundation, such as a
lack OF a thorough college training.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-02

In California woman shot at her
husband and the latter refuses to file
a complaint, but the prosecuting attor-
ney will prosecute the woman, anyway.
And why not? Her deed was a viola
ton of law. breach of society. Her
husbands attitude should not AFFECT
the rights of the community in any
degree
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-02
Novels by Weight.

Bernard Shaw's latest contribution
to the worlds fund Of wisdom is the
suggestion that fiction be sold, or
bought, by weight. This certainly is
Mr.. Shaw's profoundest utterance. 1t
marks the acme of his greatness as a
sage. BY all means buy it by weight,
then there can be very little ground
for complaint at the high price of
novels. Moreover, it will be in direct
line with this popular movement to
buy groceries by weight, as a means Of
solving the high-cost-of-living prob
lem and getting ones moneys worth.
Perhaps, also, this Shaw system will
have the desired effect OF limiting the
output, of bringing the SUPP some
where near the demand. Thi .esent
method of buying it by the yard seems
utterly to have failed In this achieve
ment. That means of measurement
has not even proved wholly successful
with reference to DIR. Eliot's five-foot
book shelf, which, of course, no one
but Mr.. Shaw ever would have thought
of buying by the pound.
But in the case of the ordinary run
of fiction, buying by weight ought in
many instances result in placing the
seller in the buyers debt, for, as the
New York Sun once remarked about
a certain public document, 1T is seven
pounds lighter than a straw hat" OF
course, none of the Shaw output would
come under this head and thus fail to
disturb the scales on which it was
weighed, but Mr.. Shaw is not writing
quite all the fiction of the present day.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-02

Since John A. Dix bolted Hearst in
1906, it will naturally follow that
Hearst will bolt Dix in 1910. AS the
democrats have never been able to
elect a governor in New York whom
Hearst opposed, they must reckon on
the effect of his opposition this year.