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Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28

enough Of revolution. II has, in fact,
had more than is good for the nation
and its people; and at best they will
require a long period Of serious effort
TO recover fully from the emaciating
effects of continued civil strife. Their
commerce and industry, trade at home
and abroad, as we'll as their interna-
tional standing-all have suffered and
must, IL Nicaragua is to amount to
anything in the next few years, be re-
vived And how can this be done
other than through the operation of
peace and of unity among the people2
What measure of friendship and es-
TEEN other nations accord to this one
must depend entirely on Nicaragua
itself and its conduct. 1t has this ad-
vantage to begin with on a new start,
namely, the good will that always
comes to the victor in such crises, and
particularly the good will which would
naturally come to the victor over such
a tyrannical regime as that which has
just been deposed.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28
Regular Attendance at School.

1t is nearly time Tor the opening of
another school year and parents as
we'll as pupils are preparing for the
event. In their plans and prepare
tions both should resolve upon the
most regular attendance possible. Next
to going to school at all the most i'm
portant thing for the child Is to go
regularly. Statistics show that while
ESQ, 900 children go from the grammar
or grade into the high schools every
year in the United States, another
100000 fail OF graduation and drop
out of the procession without complet-
ing the grades, and large proportion
of these failures is due to irregular at
tendance. Another large proportion Ia
due to physical imperfections, which
in the end amounts to the same thing
for 1t begets irregularity.
Various other reasons are assigned
for this great army of school failures
one of which is that the elementary
course is too hard for the average
pupil; that only by dint of the most
supreme effort is the ordinary child
able to complete 1t in the prescribed
period of eight years. II this be true
or no matter from what angle We view
this question, 1t must suggest the i'm
perative necessity of regular attend,
ance. IL, for instance, the average
pupil can scarcely make the course by
exerting his maximum powers with full
attendance, how can he be expected
to make it, say with only two-thirds
or three-fourths attendance? It IL
not possible for very many boys and
girls of grammar school ages to attend
school only three-fourths or two-thirdi
of the time and get what experts ad
nit is a test of the best powers to OBJ
tain in four-fourths time. In all prob
ability more failures between the age,
| OF and IL are due to irregular at
tendance than to any other one cause
Parents should think of this and thos,
who proceed on the theory that it Il
doing the child a kindness to let hin
| stay out of school now and then SHOULD
stop to consider this: II, as expert
say, the course is above rather thar
below the abilities of the averag,
child, how does it tighten the child
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28
Future of Nioaranpna.

Aside from the natural satisfaction
in the final triumph OF the insurgents
of Nicaragua, what interests the
United States more than anything else
is to know whether or not General
Estrada, the new president, will keep
the promises he made as the leader of
the Tevolutionists and set about to es-
tablish peace and practical relations
with the United States. If he will and
can do this, then Americans may feel
more qualification than ever In the de-
feat of the Madris and Zelaya forces.
This country went, perhaps, as close
to the point OF testing the neutrality
laws as it could in its sympathy for
the revolutionists, while being careful
not to transcend that international
line, and II was perfectly natural for it
to hope for the ultimate overthrow OF
the old regime, which would have been
constant irritant as long as it had a
vestige of power left. From diplo-
matte as we'll as commercial considera-
tions 1t is desirable that every such
condition in South America be over
come wherever possible.
And now, next to the hope that the
new Nicaragua administration will
play fair with its own people and
other nations, all the world may we'll
wish that with the overthrow of the
zelaya regime the provocation for rev.
clution is eifectually extinguished, II
will be enough for the spirit only to
survive. So long as that dwells latent
there will not be SO much danger of an
outbreak. provided this passionate 10y.
atty is tempered by a better grade OF
sense than either OF the last two ad-
ministrations displayed.
Nicaragua ought TO have had
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

Even a weather man earns a slice 81 cake
occasionally.
Starting in as a scorcher the last week
Of summer overturned the ioebox and
scooted for cover
The Oklahoma branch Of the AnRnias club
is enjoying the greatest prosperity expert
enced since the sooners rushed over the
Kansas border.
Having convinced themselves that they
have not received their full share OF the
automobile loot garage owners In New
York City have advanced their charges 20
per cent
BY the deft touch Of a ponman the word
mo- was substituted for any" in the pure
food act OF South Dakota. and the Joker"
saved vendors Of Rdulterated food from
prosecution
A noted weather prophet of Canada, Prof.
Il. Stone Virgins died At ottawa last sun
day, aged II, Twenty years ago his re-
marks on the weather rivalled campaign
predictions in public esteem.
Experience and observation covering a
period Of five years convnces Prof Garner
that monkey talk develops twenty eight
different sounds. Evidently the professor
did not get his ear close to the ground
when q primary recount contest was on.
The Des Mones spirit of boost overflows
In the double number of the Midwestern. "a
magazine OF appreciation" published by
Carolyn NJ Ogilvie at the Iowa capital 1t
is an attractive and helpful number, copi-
ously illustrated with capital scenery and
progress, and scores of portraits OF men
and women whose energetic cooperation
makes the Iowa world move.
II the members Of the American Press
Humorists association are alive to the in
terests OF the order, heroic measures should
be taken to suppress the stored gags pub
llshed in the anniversary souvenir Of the
Baltimore American. Antedating Joe NIL
lers best efforts by quarter of a century
and bearing the vintage label of 1773, they
have earned official interment beyond range
Of repetition. Let the living jokers bury the
dead,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28
Is Beauty a Bar to Business 2

Homely girls are SO rare in st. Louis
that a florist, who wants one for cash
Ter, is compelled to seek her through
the channel of the want ad. He wants
an ugly girl or woman" because the
pretty ones have all quickly left his
employ to get married and he finds it
impossible to keep a good-looking
cashier.
This is q remarkable coincidence of
beauty as a bar to business and a step
to matrimony, and must suggest to
some fair ones who would prefer to be
married rather than remain single the
golden opportunities awaiting them in
the florist shops of st. Louis.
On to st. Louis, girls! It's the
mecca of your hopes, the chance of
your lives. 1t is your own fault if you
fail to find the one best man in the
world. He is looking for you at the
counter of the rose-tinted, fragrant
florist counters in this metropolis of
old Missouri And why is that not
the most likely place Of all to tempt
Cupid, who has always found a plenti-
full harvest among the flowers, rich
with their intoxicating aroma There
is only one more natural abiding place
and that is out in the gardens where
the lilies and roses and lilacs and but
tercups grow.
But one may wonder still how sue
cessful this ST. Louis florist will be in
his quest. What woman is going to
admit by her application for the place
that she is ugly? And even If she were
so honest and outspoken,- with whom
would the final abitrament rest? Per
haps hers and the employers ideas
and ideals of LONELINESS and pulchri-
tude would vary so widely as to ex-
clude her at last. But whatever the
outcome may be, 1t only goes to show
that Dan Cupid is keeping faithful
vigil for fair victims wherever he NAV
set his trap.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28
The Nationwide Primary.

Has the experiment with the direct
primary for the nomination of state
and local tickets proceeded far enough
to call for the nationwide primary to
determine our presidential tickets by
direct vote? That is the question
which is suggested by the announce
ment of Senator Cummins that he in
tends to introduce in the next session
of congress a bill providing for ma
tional nominating primaries on the
same plan that has been developed in
the various states.
Waving for the moment the point
whether congress can constitutionally
exercise any authority over the nomi-
mating machinery of the political par
ties, there are practical difficulties
which stand in the way of any imme-
date Inauguration of the direct pri-
mary for the makeup of the presiden-
tial ticket. Ours is a federal govern
ment, recognizing the equality of the
states in the upper branch of congress
and regarding the states as units,
whereas the direct primary making the
candidate receiving the highest vote
throughout the nation as the nominee
for president would completely disre-
gard state lines and practically de-
prive the people of large part of the
country of even the small voice which
is now accorded them. Before we
are ready for a nationwide primary it
would be logical for us first to elect
our presidents by direct vote and abol-
ish the electoral college, which as an
intermediator operates as it was de-
signed to operate to obviate the inc
qualities of a direct vote.
No one will contend that our system
of national nominating conventions
could not be advantageously revised
and reformed in the direction of max
ing the apportionment and control
conform more closely to the distribu-
ton of party strength. The defects,
however, are not confined to any one
pOAAIlSui paAbyi DUb oAC NoAhhOh W aii
of them, although perhaps more &C
centuated in one than another. In
the last republican national convention
an effort was made to curtail the over
representation of the southern states
but it failed chiefly because the plan
proposed did away with representation
of congressional districts and would
make it possible for the larger cities
in many states to monopolize all the
delegates and leave the sparsely set.
tied districts wholly at their mercy,
A federal law regulating the national
nominating conventions could accom-
plish all that a nationwide primary
could accomplish, but, as already indi-
Gated, our best constitutional lawyers
are convinced that no power is vested
in congress to legislate on this subject
| at ALL
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28
Buying BY Weight.

The buying of foodstufts by weight
is being agitated as plan to affect
the cost-of-living problem in favor of
the housewife and enable her to come
nearer getting the worth of her money.
If 1t will do either, or both, it should
be adopted without delay, providing 1t
entails no incidental hardship that
would Offset it's benefits.
But would such a plan produce
these results? theoretically, one is
inclined to answer yes, for it does
seem that one would be paying only
for what he got by buying by weight
and not measure, or article. Yet in
places where the plan has been in
vogue has it accomplished this? Cal
ifornia has always bought by weight
even potatoes, fruit-nearly every
thing in the edible line, and yet the
people of California have been caught
by the high-cost-of-living wave along
with the rest of us. In Cuba, it is
said, the plan works with good results
it being applied even more thoroughly
there than in California, Eggs are
bought by the pound in Cuba and the
American advocates of the plan pro
pose that we buy eggs the same way.
That might be the ultimate solution
of this "fresh-egg" problem, who
knows? Fresh eggs are not as heavy
as some others which might be a clue
But could the wholesaler as we'll as
the retailer not manipulate prices on
the weight system as well as any
other? On the surface the plan looks
all right, and those who are advocating
it declare that 1t is, but somehow II
fails to strike the ordinary person al
more infallible than the established
usage.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.

Duty Is never done by dreaming OF IT,
A small religion will never draw big men.
The only way to feel right is to get
right
1t takes more than polishing to make
men shine
Faith is more than taking everyone at
his face value.
Much Of our education lie only an attempt
TO polish putty.
The louder the pious bluffing the less
the heavenward hauling. a
Few things have less feeling tnfR the
piety that is all feeling,
When q man always does what he wants
no one wants what he does.
Progress is to be known by developing
consciousness Of the unattained.
You are not getting ready to shine in
glory by Withholding your light here.
Grunting would not be so much Of sin
II the grunters did not demand an audi
ence.
Repentance may have tears, but It is
never genuine with endeavor for better
things.
The blessing OF prayer is not a reward
for telling the omniscent all about our
neighbors.
Most fads are winnowing winds, the less
the weight the greater the speed with
which they are followed-Chicago Tribune
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28
PREACHER AND HIS PAY.
Transition from the Pulpit to the
. EOotlights.

Transition from the Pulpit to the
EOotlights.
Chicago Record-Herald.
The minister who last week gave mp
the pulpit for the stage was not the first
of his profession to take the step, but he
is the first to enter comic opera and also
the first to take his wife into 1t with him.
Earlier clerical venturers into the drama
have generally professed q high intellectual
ambition in the direction Of Shakespeare.
The newest convert to the footlights was
not only a minister but the son OF a min
lister. Yet one may well doubt the authen-
ITCHY of his call" Music seems to have
been a stronger influence with him than
theology. A still stronger influence ap-
pears to have been the necessity Of earn
ing an adequate living-a feat OF ever in
creasing difficulty. as 1t would seem. in
the ministry. The salary was too low The
increased cost Of living has hit the pulpit
as well as the pews. The pews, while
recognizing the fact as regards themselves,
have rather blinked 1t as regards the pull
pit. The laborer 10 worthy of his hire. and
this fact must be borne In mind by con-
gregations IL still further OBJECTIONS among
the preachers are not to occur.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28
Our Birthday Book
August as. 1910.

Johann Wolfgang Won Goethe. who bears
the most ilustrious name in German lit
erature was born Aug. 2S, 1749 at Frank
fort and died in 1892 at Weimar. Among
his many works, Faust" is generally con-
sidered his masterpiece.
Count Leo Tolstoi, the celebrated Rus
sian author, is 50 years old today. He
breaches and practices the doctrine of
non-resistance. and is the best known
Russian of the Jay.
Bellamy Storer. former ambassador to
Italy, who figured in a notable CORE
spondence with President Roosevelt, was
born August 2s, 1857 in Cincinnati He
is a lawyer by profession, and was mem
Der OF congress before he went into the
diplomatic corps
Francis G. Newlands. United States
senator from Nevada. is sixty-two He
was born in Natchez, Miss, and came to
the front in the free silver movement
eliminating in 1895.
William Stapleton, editor OF the Denver
Republican, was born August 2s. 1857 at
Milwaukee. He has been in the news
paper business for forty years.
Charles S. Elgutter, with law offices
In the Bee building, was born August 2s,
1881, at San Jose, Cal He was educated
in Phillips academy and Harvard
university, and was member OF
the Omaha school board for one term.
Frank B. Johnson secretary and mana
ger of the Omaha Printing Company, is
celebrating his fiftieth birthday. HsSwas
born at Rock Bluffs, Neb, and started
out originally as teller in ,.le Omaha
National bank.
John W. Towle, civil engineer and con-
tractor is Just ,..irty-eight. He was
born at Falls City, Neb.. and graduated
at Cornell and Is now the head OF several
bridge companies.
ID. Glenn Deaver, general agent for the
land department Of the Burlington, was
born August 2S, 1884. He Is a native
! of Ohio lie was twice appointed mem
! Der of the Board of Fire and Police COM
| missioners and was for five years re-
ceiver of the United States land office
at ONeill. lie has been with the Burling-
| ton since 1905.
! Horace ID. Corneau, one Of Omaha's
policemen, is just thirty-one. lie was
born at Decatur, and received his star ir
1905.
| Dallas c. Rich, of the Omaha police de-
partment, Is rs years old today. He Is q
native Of Kansas. and has been two years
on tha force,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28
BEATS THE ARMY MULE.
Pliers and Flying Machines AZ Fac
tors in Future Wars.
HhInaO Tnfar Oaaan

Filters and Flying Machines az Fac
.- tors in Future Wars.
Chicago Inter Ocean
The chief of the signal corps. no doubt
taking the cue. from General Grants rec
ommendation with regard to automobiles,
wants law passed to make all aeroplanes,
with their owners or operators. liable to
draft in time OF war. So a dispatch from
Washington informs us. The suggestion
must strike even a layman as extremely
wise. With a full supply of aeroplanes at
its disposal, the army should be able TO
fail on the opposing forces more often and
more Unexpectedly than II has heretofore
been able to do. The aeroplane, in point
Of fact seems specially designed to per-
NIT people to fall unexpectedly. and with
crushing effect, on objects or persons, In
this respect It is superior to even the army
mule. Perhaps the chief of the signal
corps has in mind at present little more
than the utilization Of the drafted aero
planes and operators in connection with
signal operations But II requires little
Imagination to see that this will probably
be the least important OF the services they
will eventually render 10 the army
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28
Not a Dogmatic Age.

Dogmatism in Christianity has been
condemned by William Adams Brown
of Union Theological seminary, one of
the eminent theologians of the coun-
try, as destructive in it's tendency of
the real, practical good of the faith.
He attacks the old idea of interpreting
the Bible simply as a miraculous and
unerring book, contending that this
theory is inimical to the largest salts
faction of Christianity, as we'll as a
distortion of the facts and influence
of the Bible. He would have the
church study the Bible for its por-
trayal of practical life, character and
moral teaching as they apply to every
day activities and the immediate needs
of the human race. Christ had great
social purpose, he says, and he went
about meeting 1t in most matter-of-
fact way. Why is it necessary to look
over these experiences in the Bible
and pretend to find its genuine in
spiration in the exceptional miracles
and parallels?
DR.. Brown is not alone in his attack
upon dogmatism in religious teachings
and practices. The trend of modern
thought is all on his side. This is not
the day of the dogmatist, In religion
or anything else. The world is too
generally enlightened, people are too
much bent on finding the truth to be
content with dogmatism in any form.
This is tolerant age, but not tolerant
enough to admit infallibility in any
thing short of the infinite. Men pre-
fer to study and think as their own
minds and reason, guided by the light
of the truth as they see it dictate for
themselves. They demand intellectual
emancipation in all the schools of
thought and research, and this is not
undermining the system of Christian
ity, but instead it is contributing to
its stability and strength and potency
as the great soul-stirring, mind-mov-
ing power of the universe.
Dogmatism could not thrive in a
day where popular government is
reaching out its influences in such a
wide scope as the present. 1t needs
a different atmosphere to grow in,
where the mass of the people look to
an acknowledged leader for their pre-
digested mind food and people are not
doing that today.
No institution, no system of mental
or moral instruction or influence,
needs to be more careful to avoid dog
matism than the church and the Chris
tian religion. In the former days when
the church set itself up in the more
restricted sense as the substitute of
the kingdom of God on earth, instead
of drawing men into it and teaching
them the true ways to righteousness,
1t set up bars and barriers by its very
dogmatism that kept men out of its
folds and possibly discouraged their
search for what the church called the
Great Truth" But this fault can be
alleged against the church today only
in sporadic cases. In the main It is
making splendid Roadway toward
truer, better and sounder religion.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28
No Partisanship in Dishonesty.

The keynote Of Colonel Roosevelt
offhand remarks coming across the
country has been that there is no par
tisanship in dishonesty. The corrupt
public official is not only entitled to no
sympathy or protection from his party,
but quite the contrary, it devolves upon
his associates who have helped to put
him In office to make an extra effort
to purge the party by exposing cor
ruption and dislodging the culprit who
has proved himself unworthy.
This is the doctrine which The Bee
has preached in season and out from
the day of its foundation, and which
moreover It has constantly practiced,
often at no little cost to itself The
Bee is a republican paper in the sense
OF UNFOLDING republican principles and
giving preference to republican candi-
dates when other things are equal.
The Bee, however, recognizes no obli-
cation to support or defend a crook
for public office or in public office be-
cause he tries to hide his crookedness
under the cloak of republicanism. The
Bee has been, and expects always to
be, as energetic in throwing the search
light on rascality and turning the ras-
calls out when they pretend to be re-
publicans as when they sail under the
democratic banner. If there is any
thing worse than dishonest democrat
in public office it is q dishonest re-
publican in public office because a
higher grade of integrity is generally
expected from a republican.
In refusing to recognize the parti-
sanship of dishonesty The Bee has fire.
quently had to stand alone in Ne
braska. More than once republican
crooks exposed by The Bee in their be-
trayal of public office have found aid
and comfort from the democratic or
gans, and more than once The Bee has
had to show up democratic rascals in
public office whom democratic organs
sought to shield by silence.
Colonel Roosevelt has also empha-
sized the time-tried truth that where
a public official has once been recreant
1t is risky, If not inexcusable, to give
him another chance. The best place
for a crooked public official is in pri-
vate life where the injury he may do
by more rascality may be limited and
where he can steal only from a few
people rather than from all the peo-
pie. The political party that wants to
keep faith with the people will not
nominate men for office who have
made dishonest records when previ-
ously entrusted with authority.