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Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-06
Antns and Einanne.

A financial paper published in Bos-
ton and which, therefore, assumes to
speak authoritatively, is unduly exer-
cised and grossly misinformed about
the western farmers buying and own
ing automobiles. As a premise to its
alarms it says that Kansas City and
other southwestern bankers had
agreed to loan money to no one who
proposed buying an automobile be-
cause the farmers OF Kansas had in
vested last year 100000 in auto
mobiles and that one Kansas City bank
held fifty real estate and farm mort
cages for money that went into motor
cars.
After a diligent investigation The
Kansas City Star failed to find a
banker who knew anything about such
an agreement or situation. 1t found
several bankers, however, who knew
that SO far as banks we're concerned
farmers were buying these Injuries
without mortgages and others that
were ready to loan money generously
to Kansas farmers, regardless of what
they bought with it, just so they put
up good security.
But it will require some authority
nearer the farms and farmers of the
west than Boston to convince anybody
out here that our farmers are reck-
lessly mortgaging property to buy au-
! tomobiles, or are generally living be-
yond their means. The farmers of
Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and other
western states are, to be sure, invest
ing heavily in these vehicles, but as an
almost invariable rule they are paying
cash for them and believe they can af-
ford the luxuries because of the long,
unbroken prosperity they have been
enjoying.
The Boston paper sees in the enor-
nous growth of the automobile trade
new financial problem, but If its Wis
ion is correct, it Is a problem that will
readily adjust itself upon perfectly
natural grounds. Money spent for au-
! tomobiles is not necessarily taken out
of circulation, but remains in the cur
rent of business activity. Now and
then people outreach themselves, nc
doubt, to get an auto. but the farmer
is less likely than the city man to &c
broke to satiate an overweening pas.
sion for motor cars.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-06
Modern Business Ethics.

A Chicago minister recently told the
students of the University of Chicago
that the code of modern business was
pagan and not Christian, with bru-
tally and selfishness as its chief at
tributes This Is on a par with the as
sertion of another Chicago minister
who said that the state of Nevada
should lose its charter and be set back
into the territorial c.ass because its
laws and officials permitted the prize
fight. Such overdrawn utterances do
no good, but much harm. In the first
place they tend to destroy respect for
the men making them and their call
ing, and in the end vitality impair their
influence.
Modern business has much in it that
lie bad, but 1t is far from being ethi-
cally pagan and it is not, as implied
by this assertion, as bad as the bust
ness codes that preceded. 1t is far
cry from the day of apprenticeship
slavery and Imprisonment for debt to
that of short hours, sanitary labor and
liberal pay and laws exempting debtors
from unfair exactions by creditors.
Our loquacious old friend, Micawber,
would, no doubt, revel in the patience
and privileges of this day and conclude
that this era, without it's debt-prisonz
and Uriah Keeps, was indeed a ITO
plan age. But the serious fact is that
with all our strenuous competition,
our quick amassing of prodigious
wealth, our business code is more hui
name, more mindful of the other man
and his rights and indeed, more moral
than that of any people in history. All
about us we see these men of colossal
fortunes giving with lavish hand to
charitable or other worthy causes and
even in the severity of their business
dealings they are not driving as cruel
bargains as they used to.
True, we have surrounded business
today with legal restrictions and moni-
tory influences, 30 that it may be said
the business man deserves no credit
for doing what he is by law compelled
to do. Perhaps, but that does not alter
the fact that he is doing it and has
himself helped to set up these re
straints and regulations to make sur,
that all do business on the same higi
plane and none is permitted to takt
undue advantage of the other,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-06

government, rich in resources and
complicated i'm detail, make necessary
increasing drains upon the treasury,
this very fact is all the more reason
why we should seek more effective
methods of holding our expenses
within bounds.
The proposal of Mr.. Tawney came
too late in the session TO evoke ex-
preston as to congress- disposition
toward 1t, but it will be strange indeed
IL it does not prove acceptable. There
appears to be no political maneuver in
IL and it can doubtless be worked out
so as to satisfy democrats as we'll as
republicans. 1t may be that this plan
can be dovetailed in with President
Taft's method of comforting with his
cabinet officers as to the best means
of keeping down expenses. Congress
appropriated 100000 for an investi-
cation that would lead to such a dis
covery and when congress reconvenes
in the winter the president will prob
ably have some valuable aid to offer
Mr.. Tawney.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-06
NEWS FROM NEBRASKA.

Strickland Gillian IN Baltimore Sun.
"Ha! l notice by the papers they have read
me out again
From the democratic party" said that tAlh-
INCEST of men.
But the act was done in Maryland Ctwas
Randalrs, but not mne),
A state that always knocks me south OF
Mason Dixon line.
They've praised me as q cltizen'--Im weary
Of that song
But as a party leader they declare don't
belong
There seems to be a feeling wheresoever
have been
That I'm a bully 'ctizeh'-that praise has
worn TOO thin!
1t isn't as q citizen that am faIn to shine
But everywhere they tell me it's the private
life for mine
They love to hear me below and they listen
and applaud
But home folks vote no more for me than
folks who live abroad!
"Since Izzy Rayner whooped his whoop and
read me out again
feel that / am doomed to stay the prl-
vatest of men.
But in my bonnet sounds the buzz that's
sounded off and on
Since many years ago began my talking
Marathon.
My habit and my stubbornness are urging
me to run,
For splitting UP the party is my choicest
kind of fun"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-06

The glories OF many a Fourth have
been dimmed by the sorrows Of the
Fifth and It has taken the American
people long time TO realize the peril
that turks in a gunpowder celebration
of their independence. Many parent,
unwilling to deny it's child the freedom
enjoyed by its playmates on the
Fourth, have mournfully rued their in
diligence on the Fifth, when count
ing the fearful toll they had paid.
This year as in years past all over
the country the Fourth OF July has
brought it's victims, but apparently in
fewer numbers than before. The COM
paratively small aggregate of casual
ties proves beyond doubt that we have
made some material progress toward
a more ideal, safe and sape Fourth and
that progress, which is measured in
human life, may be very largely attri-
buted to the incessant agitation which
the newspapers Of the country have
maintained against reckless forms of
pdlllOJlO NAplNoolOh' WI Inv
newspapers have kept up their crusade
and campaign of education until today
they can measure the profitable results
of their labor. In New York and Chi
cago, the chief cities of the country
which took the lead this year in the
movement for a safe and sane day, the
list of dead and injured is far less than
in previous years, showing great en-
couragement for the future and In
both cities even more attention was
actually paid to the celebration of the
day than usual.
The example of these cities must
have it's influence upon others and
next year it will not be surprising If
all over the land there is a united de-
termination to enforce a rational cele-
bration. We have paid enough for this
experience to get the maximum good
out of it. When We attain complete
sanity in this respect we will be able
better to understand and appreciate
what the Fourth of July really is for.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-06
PERSONAL NOTES.

Hitch not your wagon to a star. An air
ship Is more convenient and is sure TO land
somewhere.
At present temperatures 1t is impossible
to get very much excited over the normal
July increase in the price of coal.
Mayor August g. Meyer of Manka to,
Mimi, has two brothers who are also
mayors OF cities in Minnesota, the business
of being mayor seeming to run in the Meyer
family.
Ex-senator Clarke, once of Montana, says
he is not a candidate for reelection. He
may not know 1t, but the custom OF living
in the state one represents in the senate
is almost imperative.
Four months after her marriage a Brook
line, Mass. bride became a widow and in
herited S2,0OOO0O from her husband It
must have required much tact for her
friends to extend their sympathy.
Stowe Phelps, the New York cotilMon
leader, has been airing his views on the
high cost of living, and declares that the
high price OF labor Is the cause, dwelling
upon the fact that bricklayers now get $40
a day.
In his younger days Napoleon b. Brow
ard, who Is to be the next United States
senator from Florida, worked successfully
as logger, farm hand, steamboat roust-
about, cod fisherman. sailor, grocery clerk
and steamboat pilot.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-06
NEBRASKA PRESS COMMENT.

Hastings Tribune: And now Governor
Shalenberger says that he couldn't have
called that special session II he had so de-
sired. Is there some consolation in that
governor
shelton Clipper: Buffalo county Is given
representation OF eleven in the populist
state convention. Wonder where they will
find enough populists in this county to iii
the delegation.
Rushville Recorder: The governor has
decided to again ignore Bryan and refuses
to call an extra session. This is another
injustice to old Ireland. II was the Bryan
vote that largely swept Shallenberger into
power, but we are not running the demo-
cratic machine, so what's the use.
Albion News: Governor shallenberger has
decided not to call a special session OF the
legislature. Now county option will be the
biggest kind OF paramount, and Bryan
will be compelled to enter the fight. The
stage is being set for a melodramatic per-
Torrance that will attract the attention Of
everybody.
York Times; TO those familiar with
Colonel Bryans tactics It looks as though
he was in the senatorial race right now.
The voice is the voice Of Jacob. but the
hands are the hands of Esau." The hair is
so long and silky that no one need mistake
the hand that is turning the democratic
machine in Nebraska.
Stromsburg News: No, the governor has
not appointed a successor to President
Childs OF the State Normal board, and
he probably will not until after the pri-
mary election. There are a lot OF friends
pulling for the place, and only one Of them
will get it, and the governor hasn't the
heart to make all the others feel bad-just
before the primaries.
Falls City Tribune: 1t is not the business
OF the newspaper to act in the capacity OF
public prosecutor. Your paper has done its
full duty as paper when It has faithfully
and impartially presented the facts as they
are. 1t is the business of the proper authori-
| ties to act upon the facts produced, and
the peoples high privilege and sacred duty
to elect officers who will act in the en-
| forcement OF law without fear or favor
| The officer who lodges, and the citizen
who condones, are both alike guilty OF
malpractice and deserve to be ousted, the
one from his office and the other from
! his citizenship.
Friend Telegraph: Governor Shallenberger
Is Just at this time attempting to explain
why he has not called the legislature in
tiie ihteresI VI the county opuon ana REFER
endum law. To be frank, the governor ad-
mits that not three fifths Of the late la
mented legislature is in favor of such a
measure. lie might, with equal candor, add
that the whole democratic party OF this
state is feminist these measures and thai
1t is left for the republicans to commit
political suicide by adopting measures oil
this kind. This will be cheering news tc
those Of our temperance brethren who
bolted Sheldon and voted for Shallenberger
The time has evidently arrived when the
colored gentleman in the wood pile can nc
longer be hidden from the view of ever
the casual onlooker Temperance is al
right so far as the general and greatest
good to the state is concerned but 1t Should
not be lugged into the platform of any
political party.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-06
Practicing Conservation.

BY signing the bill authorizing the
withdrawal of 100000 acres of
power site, phosphate and petroleum
land, the president has brought US a
distinct step forward in the conserva-
ton of natural resources and makes
us practitioners as we'll as preachers
of this doctrine.
The president throughout the
spirited controversy during the recent
session of congress maintained that
the right of the chief executive to
make such Withdrawals was not
clearly defined and that he was un-
willing to exercise this right in the
absence of specific statute giving it to
him. Whether or not he was correct
In urging this point, now there can
be no question of the power OF the
president to authorize these with
drawals.
At the same time of signing this
bill the president appoints five army
engineers TO act as board to psss
uPOh AVSAAhh&NAOA PAOJONIp W DC COA-
pleted under the provisions of the
appropriation of $4,000, 900, and this
work win soon be set in motion. This
arrangement, We believe, will prove
eminently wise and satisfactory, for
with a disinterested, nonpartisan
board of competent Judges to decide
as to the order Of these projects they
will all be brought to the speediest
possible completion and the work
now on foot will be finished before
new enterprises less important are
begun, thus avoiding needless expense
and complication. We may expect
also these army engineers to give us
less political wire pulling and more
business in the operations of the rec
lamation bureau-aDother end highly
to be desired.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-06
Talks for people who sell things

Gathered at the Waldorf-Astoria in
New York the night of July 81, over
800 advertising men did honor to Will
liam G. Freeman. advertising mana
ger of the New York Evening Mail.
There were present newspaper men,
magazine men, agency men, and out
door advertising men-present also, If
you please, were number of advertis-
ing merchants. Surely this is a far
cry from the days when merchants re-
garded advertising men as their pet,
particular enemies.
The occasion was the twenty-fifth
anniversary of Mr.. Freeman's entrance
into the advertising rofession-twen,
ty-five years of fighting for honest,
straightforward advertising!
Mr.. P. ]. Murphy of the Mark Cross
company said that Mr.. Freeman had
made not only an ar1stocTacy Of adver-
Using but also an aristocracy of non
advertisers because there were so few
left.
The Rev. James M. Farrar of Brook
Ign said: 81 call him Bill Freeman of
the honest smile"
Andrew Mclean, publisher of the
Brooklyn Citizen said: THE modern
press is more influential today than it
ever was. Honest advertising has
helped very greatly to bring it to its
high place"
They gave him a fine diamond ring.
In presenting it Mr.. o. ]. GUIDE, of
bill posting fame, said: And whenever
you look at 1t we'd like you to remem-
Der that it stands not only for love,
but for gratitude, from the members
of q profession you have helped to
raise up until we are all of US proud
to belong to it,"
MIR. Freeman said: THE passing of
twenty-five years in our profession has
seen us develop from peddlers to con-
fidential advisers Of big business inter
ests.
I'VE have witnessed the sneer give
way to respect.
1T has witnessed US advance from
the boot-kick to the hearty welcome.
"It has made business emerge from
tricky methods to the square deal.
at has placed American business
men where the public has faith in
them and approves of them
TT has stamped our profession as
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-06
Tawney,s Economy Plan.

Representative Tawney of Mime
sofa, chairman of the mouse committee
on appropriations, has made what will
doubtless strike the country as a most
practical proposal to congress for cur
tailment of public expenditures and a
promoting of general economy, He
suggests a change In the house rules
that will permit the appointment of
one committee to have initial control
over all appropriation bills and so con-
stituted as to be representative of
every section. Without any argument
from Mr.. Tawney, who is a thorough
student of national finances, this plan
commends itself by mere statement,
but he offers reasons which reinforce
1t strongly.
Mr.. Tawney shows that even the
present appropriation committee was
able to effect a reduction in bills
brought under it's jurisdiction of nearly
SIT, 900, 900 at this last session, while
the bills drafted by the seven other
committees touching appropriations
went nearly s2s. 900 above the es-
Inmates. A single committee with
power to control the drafting of ap.
preparation bills in the first place
would, of course, be able to accom-,
plish far more than a committee which
only passed on the bills after they
were drawn and fortified by every
available influence.
This Tawney plan Is in direct lin,
with the presidents persistent de
mands for retrenchment in government
expenses. We have been talking econ
omy for long time and, while tn,
contingencies Of a rapidly growing
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-06
Our Birthday Book
July 8, 1910.


John Paul Jones. our first naval officer
was born July 8, 1747 at Arbigland, Scotland
and died in Paris in 1892. His remains
were brought back to this country year
or so ago amidst notable ceremonies.
Richard Golden, the well-known actor.
was born July 8. 1854. at Bangor. Me. He
has been a weil-known figure on the boards
OF Omaha theaters.
w. ]. Connell, attorney at law, with
offices in The Bee building, is 81 years
old today. He was born in Cowansville,
Canada, and came TO Omaha in 1863, where
he has since continuously practiced his
profession. He represented this district
in congress one term and was for ten
years city attorney.
Theodore r. Lewis. real estate man in
the Paxton building, is GO today. He was
born In Utica. N. Y. and is a veteran
OF the union army.
John Alperson. cigar man. was born
July g. 1871 in Russia He was educated
in the University OF Chitomer In Russia
and has been in business here In Omaha
since 1855. He is now running the Central
Cigar store on Sixteenth street
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-06

the greatest business force in the
world.
Il hope to be here twenty-five years
from, now---still on the HjobG--stilI
working for the good Of the advertis.
ing profession, and deserving, If pos
sible, the esteem of both the business
community and the advertising pro-
fession."
The Bee publishes this tribute to a
brother in arms" because it, too, has
helped in the good fight for honesty
and integrity in advertising, and
square deal to everybody, and is glad
to honor a man who has done so much
in placing the advertising profession
where it belongs-in the front ranks of
honorable business.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-06
POINTED PLEAsANTRIEs.

Americans have such queer and incom,
prehensible ways Of expressing themselves
said the erudite forelgner' FSr SSassn nv
quart Of beer they call fastening the
oroaksr Or i something r, IKE mat ooh !
Il pleads guilty ter stealth dem melons
ledge" said the prisoner but l wants
de mercy er de court" -,
"On desc grounds" replied the prisoner
Il stole de melons but de sheriff didn't
give me a chance ter eat 'em!"-Atlantit
Courier.
resign"
But senator, the sentiment"
Sentiment be hangedl Il has no place
in business. bought the senatorship,
lows l bought II from come through with
a refund. Ledger.
Sympathizer-wer you almost over
come with Joy when your lawyers told you
that you had won your suit for almony?
Sparkling Brunette-I was-but l went
home Observation-Disclosures Tribune
II guess our boy Josh will be back on
the farm soon" said MIR, Corntossel,
~ thought ne has good situation in
town. replied the summer boarder.
Yes, But l Judge Il Kind o set him
xninSn wne9 ne IounS Ss opetty tn pes a
much as two weeks salary" washington
Star.
Pop" said Tommy, with a self-a ppreci-
alive chuckle. baby sister is like a criti.
cal time isn't she?''
How do you mean, my son?' asked hh
father.
why. isn't she a ry-sis?''-Baltimore
American.
Mr.. Dorkins Cautiously approaching the
kitchen)-Bobby, what is your mother
storming about?
Bobby Dorkins-She burnt herself on that
fireless cooker.
The girl had thrown pepper into In,
eyes of suitor who had become obnoxi.
Gus.
Lucky for me she'd pulled the wool over
EN- first" murmured the target, STARTING
for cold cream.-Philadelphia Ledger.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-06

1t is suggested that the stoppage of
the work of street paving in Omaha
for lack of paving brick is due to a
brick monopoly that prevents the use
of brick not made in one factory, even
though 1t tests up as we'll. If our
streets are being kept in torn-up and
impossible condition Just because one
brick making concern is overloaded
with orders which cannot be filled
perhaps we had better look around fol
other possible sources of supply.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-06

One t. H. Tibbles, who says he
got $4,000 of democratic money in
1904, while running as a populist can
didate for vice-president, rises to re-
mark that President Taft is entitled
to no credit whatever for any of the
legislation enacted by congress at its
recent session. This is the same Mr..
Tibbles who called the gentle McKin-
ley a murderous monster.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-06

With over 10000 automobiles run
ming at large in Nebraska, 1t is to be
expected that automobile accidents
will happen now and then. Still, this
affords no good reason why every pre-
ventive precaution should not be taken
There is a difference beween automo-
bile accidents caused by mere mishap
than those caused by reckless careless
ness or speed lunacy
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-06

The Omaha police also arrested a
few people for disturbing the peace
of their neighbors by premature cele-
brations during the hours usually
given over to sleep. What a chance
for another cutlery against the precious
privilege Of hailing the glorious
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-06
EFFICIENoY seeREs AGAIN.
Some Steps Toward Economy in Gov.
eminent Service.


Boston Herald.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has turned
back into the treasury another million of
postal earnings and expects to reduce the
deficit in the department f1O,0 900 this year.
With the first Of July improved methods
will be put into effect in the Treasury de-
partment which will make considerable
saving In expense. The leaders Of senate
and house are agreed with President Taft
that the river and harbor bill Of the last
session Is the last pork barrel which will
go through for that purpose. The president
is planning to spend part of his vacation
studying appropriation bills, and, with the
aid of the commission on economy which
was provided by congress, will try and save
some OF that $SOO,OOOOOO which Senator AID
rich said is annually wasted. There's plenty
OF room for improvement.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-06

Another explanation vouchsafed for
the defeat of the bond proposition
recently submitted at the special cleo
ton in Lincoln is that taxpayers are
adverse to voting omnibus bond
schemes. That has been observed in
Omaha, too. A city, like an individual,
can overdo the borrowing business.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-06

Senator Cores intimation that a
bride of $4,000 was offered to him
suggests the thought at once that it
was, no impecunious crowd that sought
the benefits.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-06

Just because one black man can
whip one white man, every other
black man must not get the idea that
he can whip any other white man or
vice versa.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-06

Mr.. Bryan says he will be in at
tendance at the Grand Island conven-
tion-presumably just to make sure
that no one man dictates what is to go
into the platform.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-06
High Livers on the Move.
New York Tribune.

Committees of congress continue to in
vestigate the increased cost of living, yet
outgoing steamships carry more passengers
than ever with ready money to scatter
abroad. Travel Of that sort is pure lux
ury. But have these pleasure hunters
reached the conclusion that it is no more
costly luxury to travel than to continue
to live at homer