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Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04
Sand Hill Reforestation.

In matters of conservation people
are apt to overlook small things nearby
in contemplation of the great that lie
beyond. This, perhaps, is the excuse
that will be offered for Nebraskans
failing to do what reasonably could be
done to conserve one of the greatly
neglected of their own state.
For many years it has beer known
that the waste regions generally classi-
fed as the sand hills are susceptible
of reforestation. In fact, the great
watershed that stretches across north
western Nebraska is known as the
Great Pine Ridge" because Of the
fact it was once covered with a reason
ably heavy growth of fine timber,
which has long since disappeared under
the demand for tepee poles, rafters for
sod houses and fuel for campfres. Sew
eral years g the federal government
began a series of illustrative expert
ments, planting young pine trees on
the and hill slopes, and these have
now attained such sturdy growth as to
prove conclusively the p~racticability of
the idea.
Three years ago Mr.. C. F. Harrison
of York wrote The Bee a letter sug-
costing that the legislature take steps
to secure control of a lapge portion Of
the public domain in the sand hill
country and plant the same with pine
trees. Mr.. Harrison, who is an arbor-
iculturist Of wide experience, has made
many tests and has proven that the
jack pine, or bull pine, will grow any
where in Nebraska with little or no at
tention, and it is particularly adapted
to the sand hill region. Would it not
now be a good plan for Nebraska's rep
resentatives in congress to set in mo-
ton the machinery that will provide
for the complete reforestation of the
denuded sand hills in the Pine Ridge
country? Whether this be done under
control of the federal governmen or
whether the work be turned over to the
state is a matter Of detail. The de-
STABILITY of the undertaking is scarcely
to be argued.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04

called that It was an American who
then first discovered the possibility of
spinal puncture. which is the identical
method used by Jonnesco in admins
tering stovaine. This %discoverer was
DR.. j. Leonard Corning of New York,
and from his example grew the prac-
tice of spinal analgesia, which has been
used as far as has been deemed neces-
sary in the profession at large ever
since. 1t was also an American, DR..
William s.. cambridge, who first ap-
piled this method of treatment to chill
dren, and because of his discoveries in
this field 1t is estimated that the NOR
tally among children in certain all
ments has been greatly reduced.
While spinal p%uncture is not likely
ever to replace the ordinary method of
applying anaesthetics, still It is Of I'm
doubted value in cases where general
anaesthesia is regarded as especially
dangerous. The spinal method has al
ready established its place as an alter
native, and DR.. Jonnesco should have
refreshed his memory concerning
Americas part In this as in other de-
velopments of scientific research be-
fore he INDUCED in his hostile criticism.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04
PERSONAL NOTES.

A Brooklyn man named Hersh Barkin
has taken out a marriage license. That
name is a household favorite IL every
family that keeps a dog.
Texas refuses to accept Mr.. Taft's pro-
nunciamento on the contents of the bottle.
Ill fares the state, to Fastening ills a prey,
where whisky isn't what the Labels say.
For wearing a hat three feet in diameter.
a New York girl was laughed and hooted
out of Copenhagen the other day. Those
Danes appear to make about the finest
umpires ever.
Joseph Chamberlain's election address to
the Britisher's show how completely he has
come to believe that under protective
tariff the foreigner pays the tax. Has he
never heard OF the ultimate consumer, who
has at last been discovered In America?
After March l, 1910, soda fountains in
Illinois must be plaoarded so that custo-
mers may know the ingredients of the
mixture which are sold over the counter.
An order to this effect was issued yester-
day by the Illinois state food commissioner
because benzoate Of soda and artificial
coloring matter are contained in the fruits
and sirups used at some soda fountains,
That was a fine tribute that President
Taft paid to Governor Hughes of New
York, at the recent annual dinner of the
New Haven Chamber OF when
he said: ut is a source Of regret that l
cannot meet on this platform tonight that
distinguished American, the governor of
New York state, whose interest in politics
is to purify it. He touches nothing that
he does not adorn."
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04
Canal Zone Government.

One of the first measures to be con-
sidered at the reopening of congress is
likely to be the bill to reorganize the
government Of the canal zone by the
elimination of the commission. The
reasons for this have already been
clearly stated. The canal is to be
completed within Ave years, Colonel
Goethals has demonstrated his ability
to expedite the work and the president
is DESTROYS of his direct individual re-
sponsibility closely cooperating with
the executive, without n possibility
of the interference of red tape.
There have just returned from Pan
anna, however, several senators who
are reported to be a unit for maintain
ing the existing system, and despite
the willingness of the congressman
who also have recently visited the zone
to agree to the administrations plan,
1t may be that the bill will be blocked
in the senate.
The people are DESTROYS Of having
the canal finished, and care little
whether it be accomplished by commits
sion or engineer, but this has from the
beginning been a project over which
the president has kept direct control,
and he ought to know whether he can
get the quickest and surest results from
a single head or from a division of re-
sponsibility. This would seem to be
one case where congress can afford to
let the executive choose his own proce-
dure, for he is held responsible for the
fulfiIlment which he has promised.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04
Lessons Of the Morse Case.

Like many another offender who re-
sents the relentless activity of the law
against himself. Charles w. Morse goes
to prison expressing bitter resentment
against the courts. In this connection
there is al old saying about mo rogue
e'er felt" which it we're kinder to him
self had Morse not put himself in the
attitude of inviting the application.
Two serious lessons are to be drawn
from the case of this manipulation Of
millions. The first is that the law is
effective, without class or financial dis
tinction. There is a tendency among
some disturbing elements to accuse the
law Of being partial to the rich. To all
such the ease of Morse must hence
forth serve as a ~silencer, for he had
unlimited means at his command, and
tried every resource of the most power
full interests and every trickery of the
shrewdest lawyers to evade the SEN
tence which the government has now
decreed he must undergo.
The other lesson is that the man who
takes the gamblers chance must ex-
pect to pay the gamblers penalty when
caught. Morse had access to other
peoples money, and did not hesitate to
use such funds as came to his hand
from any source, running the greatest
risks for the sake of personal accumu
lation of vast fortune. He shamelessly
violated the law, the chance went
against him, and when he was caught
he defied the law and exhausted every
possible way of averting judgment. His
fate should serve to discourage similar
attempts at high finance and also
should be accepted as indicating that
the principle of equality before the law
lives in the administration of American
Jurisprudence.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04
A LIFE SAVING LAW.
Good Accomplished by Uniform Car
Coupling Devices.
niALnLn.An Ia-nL-I

IitlSDufB DlSpdICn.
Striking evidence Of the efficiency and
Importance of the safety appliance law en-
acted by congress is afforded in the an
nual report of the Interstate Commerce
commission, published this week. The fig
ures tell the story more succinctly and at
the same time more conclusively than
could be done in any other way.
In 1873, before there was any legal COM
pulsion in the matter, one man out of
every 34s engaged in coupling and I'M
coupling cars was killed; in 1908, under the
enforcement OF the law, after many de-
lays, only one man was killed out OF 9s3.
In other words the fatalities from this
cause were reduced to one-third Of their
former volume. In injuries the rate was
one man in thirteen in 1903, and one in
sixty-two in 1908, the casualties under the
law being little more than one-fifth of
those before 1t was enforced.
This statistical showing of two out of
three lives saved, and four out of five in
juries avoided, is a striking vindication OF
the wisdom of the law and the benefit of
its enforcement. 1t also reacts with some
severity on those eminent opponents of
railroad management who first opposed the
law, and after it was enacted secured the
p-ostponement of its enforcement on the
plea OF practical difficulties, for years after
1t had been placed on the statute book. 1t
is hardly possible to avoid reflections on
the moral responsibility for a large share
OF the lives and limbs sacrificed while the
law was in force but not enforced.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04
PIFFLE FROM A JURIsT.
Conditions Are Not as Yellow as
They Are Painted. %

NAAillCopOllG journal
A New York supreme court justice walls
that the age of patriotism has yielded to
the age of commercialism," and that up
permost in the human mind today is not
the Stars and Stripes, but the dollar mark. -
We don't believe it. The distinguished
Jurist must nave eaten too much Christ
mas dinner.
The baseless superstition that m
is a selfish thing and trade utterly without
bowels and sentiment is a survival from
the feudalism that despised any pursuit
save murder and every profit save priv
ilege. The truth is that all national pat
riotisms today rest upon the need Of COM
merce and industry for organized order,
law and security, and those countries
whose national power and good are upheld
by the commercial and Industrial classes,
are exactly the ones whose citizens eX-
hibit most national patriotism.
Napoleon called England a nation Of
shopkeepers, but the patriotism Of the
shopkeepers in the course OF thirteen years
of war wore the Corsican down.. The
South despised the Yankees as devoted to
the almighty dollar, but the South was
conquered by the sacrifices of blood and
treasure the Yankees made. Feudalism,
chivalry and that sort Of thing kept Ger
many disrupted and Japan a collection of
warning tribes. National patriotism is a
quality of modern Germany and modern
Japan.
Right here in America at this present
hour is more sense of civic responsibility
of patriotic devotion, of public ideallty
than ever enamated the rank and file of
any numerous people. We need them an,
in order to deal with the evils that affllct
us, but we are not corrupt to the core or
blind worshipers Of Mammon-not by a
great deal.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04
Our Birthday Book
January 4, 1910.


David w. Mulvane, lawyer and politician
OF Kansas, was born at Princeton, Ill,
January 4, 1868. Mr.. Mulvane came TO
Omaha for a wife, formerly Miss Minnie
McKenna, and is a frequent visitor here.
w A. DeBord, attorney in the partner
ship of Baldrige & DeBord, is 45 years old.
He halls from Oskaloosa, Ia, and is a
high-up Mason as well as a leader in
Christian church circles. MI. DeBord began
studying law with Judge Sedgwick at York.
Charles II. Grafton was born in Syracuse.
N. y January L. 1859. He is in the mer-
chandise storage business and used to be
a member OF the Omaha school board.
Charles Wilmot Kennedy Of the army,
stationed at headquarters, Department OF
the Missouri, is 81 years Of age and has
been an officer In the army since 1883. He
is still active at his profession.
Fred L. Smith. one OF Omaha's colored
lawyers, is "A today. He was born in
Springfield, H., and graduated from the
law department OF Wlberforoe university
at Xenia. o.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04
PROFITS OF FARMiERs.
Proposed investigation Goes Against
Obstacles.

New York sun.
In investigating the high prices Of food
stuffs, Secretary Wilson will have some
difficulty in learning what the farmers
spend on their crops and what they sell
their products for. Few farmers keep an
account book in which the actual profits Of
their industry would even be indicated.
General averages are hardly to be re-
garded as a suitable basis for such an
Inv estigation. Undoubtedly the great ma
jortty of farmers are men Of limited means
and small income. They share that con-
dition with the great majority of people
the world over. The industry shows few
If any millionaires, whose million has been
made on the farm, but 1t is doubtful IL
any other branch Of human activity will
show a larger percentage Of people. who
are at least in comfortable circumstances.
Regarding the farmers collectively, we
already nave Mr.. Wilson's testimony that
they are prospecting. The total value OF
American farm products last year is re-
ported by him as IS, 76O,O 900, 900, an increase
of 40 per cent in only five years. lie does
not say whether this is farm value or
market value, but farm value is implied.
He points exultingly to eleven years Of
production with total products valued at
not less than $4,000, 900, 900. This, he says.
has paid off mortgages, established banks,
made better homes, helped to make the
farmer a citizen Of the world, and pro-
vided him with means for improving hi.
soil and making it more productive" This
declaration seems to warrant a belief that
some of the consumers money at least
gets past the middlman and into the hands
of the farmers. Whether this uplift is
effected by an unreasonable draft on the
pockets Of the farmers fellow citizens may
or may not be clearly revealed by the re-
port of the investigators.
In his last report Mr.. Wilson says that
the total cereal crop OF the United States
for 1909 exceeds the five year average
by SO per cent, and that the farm value
of that total exceeds the five year aver
age by "a per cent. The farmers may
not get all of the increase, but the secre-
tary's report indicates that a fair share
Of it at least goes to the producers.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04
FARMERS FAIRY STORY.
How Crop Statistics Look In "a New
Frame.
7 o.tt.f. VHy--tt-

How Crop Statistics Look In IA New
Frame.
Leslie's Weekly.
At current prices wheat will bring to the
farmer for the year SIPS. 900, OOO. with s6C5
OO0,0 600 for hay, $500, 900, 900 for oats. S2l2. OOl,-
900 for potatoes, and 500. 900, 900 for tobacco.
These stupendous figures cannot he
grasped by the ordinary intelligence. While
the gold production of the year was the
greatest In all the country's history. It fell
a few millions short of the value Of tho
tobacco crop, and was mmeasurably ex-
ceeded by that OF the wheat, cotton and
corn crops. The production Of all the GER
calls combined was greater in quantity for
1909 than for any preceding year except
1906, which broke several records I'm the
bulk of the output. The higher prices now,
however, give the farmer much more
money for his work in 1909 than he ON.
tanned in 1906 or any other year.
The aggregate value OF the country's
farm products for 1903 would 90 much
more than half way toward buyinR ont
the entire railway system Of the country
with the accumulations OF property OF all
sorts which nave been gathered through
the years, The money which goes into the
farmers pockets for their labors for the
twelve months amounts 10 a fourteenth of
the value OF all the country's property
real and personal; and the wealth OF the
United States, II must be remembered.
equals that OF our two nearest rivals COM
~blned-Great Britain and Germany. The
fairy tales contain no greater marvels
than the story OF the yield OF the coun-
try's farms tells US, and the latter has the
advantage OF being based on solid and
tangible fact,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04

The World-Herald loudly proclaims
its devotion to the democracy of Jeffer-
o and Jackson. All right. But
how about the democracy of Cleveland
and Bryan? And the democracy of
Alton B. Parker and Bryan? OF course
the democracy of big Tim" and Lit
tie Tim" "Fingy," and "Hinky Dink,"
and "Bathhouse John" and other emf
nent democrats is still good enough for
the World-Herald. These are "the
servants of the people"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04
Lifting the Packers Lid.
Boston Herald.

TIL Acknowledgement of Kansas will
institute suit in, the courts of tina state
against Kansas City packers for violation
of the state antitrust statute in fixing
and maintaining prices on meats and Kin
dred products. Under this statute the
state may become custodian of the packing
houses as a receiver if it wins it's case.
This is a beginning of the battle which
the people will make for their right to fair
prices. 1t is the beginning of a battle
against arbitrary and artificial charges
for the necessities of life, the present
day diminishing of which will eliminate
in a battle more important thai that which
was waged against railroad rebates or
even against the Standard Dill corpora
ton. The fighting will not end until right
is established.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04
America,s Share in surgery.

After the respectful and dignified
hearing given him by the surgeons OF
the American cities he visited TO dem
cnstrate the efficiency OF his method
of administering stovaine. the newly
exploited anaesthetic, 1t was. decidedly
u~ngracious of DR.. ~Jonnesco to fling
back at this country as he was sailing
for Europe the criticism that our hos
pitfalls were deficient in appliances and
our surgeons behind those of Europe.
For not only have we specialists in
every branch of surgery to whom Euro
pean experts refer as authorities, but
in many Of the greatest advances in
surgery and medicine our scientists
have been the pioneers.
Or. Jonnesco evidently forgets that
It was the United STATES that first gave
enaethesia to the world. thereby rescu-
ing humanity from the barbarous suf-
Lferings OF operations. and II he had
harked back to 1885 he would have re-
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04

The n%onpartisan aspect of the Shall
lenberger administration receives most
excellent illustration in the efforts the
governor is making to divorce the Nor
NAL board from politics. Just as soon
as he can get rid of the present mem
bers and replace them with his W
appointees the board will be nom
partisan, according to democratic
standards.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04

The decision Of the government to
maintain both a Pacific and an Asiatic
fleet indicates a realization of the per-
manency Of our interests in the far
east and an intention of being eter-
nally vigilant in looking after those in
t~erests with a. preparedness that shall
inspire a respectful consideration from
other forces.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04

There has been too much of a ten
dency Of late for English notables to
write memoirs exposing the follies and
frailties Of their friends, and the sur
feited world owes a vote Of thanks to
Sir George Henry Lewis, the famous
solicitor, known as the Keeper of Eng
lish society's Skeletons" for his prom
Use t o keep the corruption of the bones
entombed,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04

In the customers room of a large brok-
erage concern in the Wall street district,
reports the Tribune, a wag posted this sign
on Monday: Yes, we know all about the
great blizzard. 1t was much worse than
yesterdays. We were all in it and forgot
1t. Tell your story to the elevator man"
The sign had been put up after three men,
disregarding the spectacular Quotations on
the tape, had told long stories. When the
days business was over a departing custo-
mel stopped in front Of the little notice
and taking a pen from his pocket, added:
There are billiards in which snow and
wind are lesser factors than nerve. Rock
Island, December q, 19O9."
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04
CARD OF THANKS.

Detroit Free Press.
I'm grateful to
My grocer, and
The coal man, and
/ understand
A debt OF graft
tude l owe
To merchants whom
/ do not know.
The milk man I
Arise to thank,
Likewise the men
Who run the bank;
Eight life insurance
Firms / find
Have graciously
Kept me in mind.
The butcher, and
The baker, too,
I'm going to thank
Before I'm through;
Three ~breweries,
The drug store man,
To thank them all
Is now my plan.
Four printers there
Are in the list,
Not one OF them
Must now be missed;
/ thank you all
Kind gentlemen,
For calendars
For 1910.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04

perity, but they should not be misled
by the biased statements of %disgruntled
politicians. Their prosperity has come
to them under republican administra-
tion, and as a result of the enforcement
of republican policies.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04

The Omaha and South Omaha live
stock men are making their annual
swing through the west keeping alive
the bond Of community between the
great market and the producers. These
trips are always worth as much as they
cost
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04

Gaynor's gain seems to have beef no
loss for Murphy. The mutual admira-
ton OF the two is very touching. even
at this distance. It is evident that the
tiger has not lost his smile.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04

Louisville Courier-Journal.
Postmaster General Hitchcock may carry
out his announced intention to prevent
cows from being franked, but neither the
angels in heaven, nor the demons down
under the sea, can prevent raw recruits in
congress from franking their bulls back to
the district in the congressional record.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04
The Better Way.
New York Sun.

The Intervention of the United States in
Nicaragua to feed the destitute and bind
up the Wounds of combatants is COM
mended, we have no doubt, even by the
anti-imperialists. 1t is satisfactory to
Know that the Prairie, having reached
Colon, is to engage in a mission of mercy
more congenial to it than carrying war
riors to a field Of slaughter.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04

A jump of more than $50 per cent
in value of Nebraska farm products in
a year ought to stop some of the clatter
about the injustice worked to the
farmers by the increased cost OF living.
No one will begrudge them their pros
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04

%Indianapolls News.

Any way, Mr.. Pinchot ak well when
he goes to telling of the fight he has
waged against the land thieves and water
thieves that were robbing Uncle Sam.
When that joint committee of investiga.
ton gets to going, 1t might be not only
rare sport but a means of public illumina-
ton to arrange a verbal duel between Mr..
Balllnger and Mr.. Pinchot.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04
Privilege on the Kick.
Sioux City Tribune.

olOuA lily Tribune.
The corporation privilege tax is to be
contested in the courts. Some lawyers be-
lieve it is unconstitutional" They are
encouraged by the Vandewenter decision
in Nebraska and the Pollock decision in
Kansas that the deposit guaranty laws of
those states run VI against that venerable
fortress Of privilege. Incorporation. being
a privilege, 1t naturally objects to being
burdened with a tax.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04

The gentle reader need not get ex-
cited over the headline Judge Lurton
Found Out" 1t only signifies that the
president called to see him when he
wasn't in.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04

The pitiful fate that has overtaken
the widow of a former Central Ameri-
can president is striking proof of the
vanity OF mans brief authority.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04

Wall Street Journal.
Mr.. Pinchot says 1t is the duty OF Off
cials to do for the people all the law
will allow" Many others entertain the
same idea with the exception Of the word
for"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04

Now that the people have got the ex-
ploration excitement out Of their sys-
TEN. they can concentrate attention on
home affairs with especially vigilant
oversight OF the legislators at Wash
ington.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04

The Retail Liquor Dealers associa-
tion has provided death benefits for its
members, But what they are most in
terested in is insurance against the ac-
tlvity of the opposition.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04

Ak-Sar-Ben will hold it's annual bus
mess meeting this week, and all loyal
knights should be in attendance. No
real citizen can afford to miss this ses-
sion,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-04

The east appears somewho dis
turbed over the controversy vhother
Jared Bean, the old-time librarian. was
from Boston or elsewhere. His ,ame
ought to determine that.