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Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-26
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

A JOY rider who killed a woman in New
York was sentenced to fifteen years in
the penitentiary. In passing sentence the
court told the culprit he ought to get the
virus out Of his system in that time.
A French physician announces that any
of tho ills of the flesh will vanish by
simply exposing the naked body to the
direct rays Of the summer sun. Corn
building weather hereabouts would hang
the hide on this tale.
Margaret Ellington Frohman Bowes
talks merrily Of returning to the foot
lights next fall Less than year aSo
she travelled the Reno road to BovSss and
domestic peace. Much more might be
told, but Margaret has a press agent of
her own.
San Francisco has pledges of 5000, 900
OF the SI5O0,00O needed to float the Pan
anna exposition. Disgruntled sports in
that section maintain that the balance
could be raised by a finish fight between
Governor Gillett and Mayor Mccarthy Of
my town"
In the noise and excitement of the
Roosevelt landing one Isaac Pollock OF
Brooklyn, fellow passenger neglected to
tell the custom house sleuths about $4,000
worth of iewelry hidden in his clothes.
Uncle Loeb declined the explanation, but
took the jewels.
Bleriot had spent his entire fortune be-
fore he started on his famous channel
night and few years ago he had an in
come Of $1,000. 1t all went on his aero
plane experiments and only his wife, OF all
mis- relatives, had faith in him. Now he is
rich again, and 1t isn't anything Tor him
to clear $4,000 a week.
The story of King Georges early NOR
ganatic marriage has had such a wide cir
culation that 1t is only fair to note that
the dean of Norwich in his address last
Sunday took pains to denounce it as OBJ
solutely, root and branch, an untruth"
The dean also thought 1t worth while 10
deny that the king ever drank to excess.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-26
Fine Points of the Constitution

With the income tax amendment tc
the federal constitution in process OF
ratification by the various states, the
speech delivered in the United States
senate not long ago by Senator Money
of Mississippi attempting to draw in
question the validity of the fourteenth
amendment brings out a number OF
fine points which may yet have more
than academic significance.
To ratify an amendment and incor-
porate it into the constitution requires
submission in due form and the assent
of three-fourths of the states of the
union. The fourteenth amendment
was submitted by congress when there
were thirty-seven states, which would
make three-fourths of that number,
or twenty-eight, necessary to valid rat
ification. But Nebraska was admitted
shortly after and counted as one of the
ratifying states. The question is
raised, therefore, whether three
fourths of the states contemplated by
the constitution is three fourths of
those enjoying statehood at the time
the amendment is proposed or three
fourths of the number enjoying state
hood at the time OF final ratification.
If the latter, plainly an amendment
lacking the necessary votes could be
carried by creating enough new states
to make up the three-fourths. If not,
then subsequently admitted states
should have no vote. Inasmuch as we
have in prospect two new states to be
formed out of Arizona and New Mex
leo not figured In when the income tax
amendment was submitted by con-
gress, 1t is, at least, barely possible
that a similar situation might be again
presented as when Nebraska was ad-
mitted.
Another question raised by Senator
Money goes to the point whether the
assent of a state once given for rati-
f1cation of a constitutional Amendment
is irrevocable or can be later with
drawn. 1t is conceded that a state
failing to assent through one iegisIa-
ture can through a subsequent legisla-
ture change it's position and help make
up the necessary three-fourths vote.
The record Of the fourteenth amend
ment shows that six states first re-
jected and later, through reconstruc-
ton governments. rescinded the rejec-
ton by formal ratification, but two
states also which at first ratified later
attempted to reject prior to the pro-
mitigation and affirmative vote of
three-fourths Of the states. Senator
Money insists that they had a right TO
rescind and that, going on the theory
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-26
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.

Love is the secret Of loyalty
Tho rage for sold defers the golden age.
Heaven is often hidden In our hsrdships.
A good deal Of honest impiety is due TO
sham piey.
No man was ever yet led into truth by
shaking a fist at him.
None set on the heights with the divine
who are not or the level with men.
The pessimists are the people who ana
lyze the game, but never get into It.
our poverty is more likely to be duo
to the good we miss than to the goods We
lose.
The best way to meet some enemies Is
to Stay them first and argue with them
afterwards.
When the church goes into the circus
business the side shows soon swallow up
the main tent
Nothing viii keep men from becoming
saints better than the sight OF some who
are dead sure they are
No man ever deeply admired a great good
without deeply detesting that which stood
in its way.-Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-26
Advice to Young Lawyers.

Shall a lawyer help a client violate
the law? That question propounded
to an attorney would ordinarily pro-
woke an indignant mo" But 1t is not
a question asked by the laity; it is put
by Edward M. Shepard, one of the emil
nent lawyers of New York City, and
his answer is such as indicates the per-
tinency OF the question. In the course
OF recent address Mr.. Shepard said: :
Shall lawyer help a client violate the
ia"E II a client comes to you, saying that
ne meditates breaking into a house, and
committing burglary, and you help him,
then you deserve the same punishment as
the burglar. And the same thing is true in
regard to lawyer who helps a CORPORA
ton break the law. But it is no uncommon
thing that corporation or an Individual
wishes to do an innocent thing that, in ono
way is lawful, and in another is not. Then
1t is the duty of the LAWYER to find out
what is permitted by law.
This is wholesome advice and a
sound principle Mr.. Shepard holds up
to the young men about to enter this
already overcrowded profession. And
the advice is needed, too, for there are
today too many lawyers who are not
following these precepts. If they
were We would have less cause for
complaint at retarded justice or de-
feated justice where money tips the
balance of the scales on the side of one
of the litigants.
AN innocent thing" to which Mr..
Shepard refers is harmless and there
fore not always productive of fees or
revenue, but that should never be the
moving influence with any lawyer in
any case and before we reach that ideal
goal of equal justice which is tripped
so lightly upon the tongue today It
will be necessary to practice some of
these golden precepts. Why should
the talents of lawyer be used to pro-
tect guilty persons from Just penal
ties. So long as such distinguished
members of the legal profession as
NJ. Shepard say that this is
done the rest of the honored bar will
have to be patient If the laity makes a
similar insinuation. The fact ia there
Is crying need for reform along these
lines.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-26
Omaha as a Seat of Medical EducatiO,

The Flexner report on medical edu
cation which has created such ptii
in medical circles by its drastic criti
cism of existing medical schools anC
their methods, outlines a plan for re
construction Of interest to layman al
we'll as professional.
The proposition is laid down as g
starting point that we must at once
reduce the number and improve The
output of our medical schools. and
that 1t would be easier and cheaper tc
snuff out the undesirable and super.
fluous institutions now than to lei
them prolong a precarious life through
an intervening period consuming
resources that would be worse than
wasted. The plan proposed by DR..
Flexner would save only thirty-one out
of 155 medical schools and prescribe
race suicide for the other 1874.
For the group of states comprising
the middle west he would provide five
medical schools, locating one each at
Minneapolis, st. Louis, Omaha, Kansas
City and Iowa City. DR.. Flexner goes
on the theory that the medical school
for Nebraska should be conducted in
connection with the state university,
But he objects to the university's
present plan of dispensing its energies
through divided school and advocates
concentration of the two parts, prefer
ably at Omaha because of the great
advantages here in clinical material
and hospital facilities over Lincoln.
If Dr.. Flexner had his way ap-
parently he would merge the medical
department of Creighton university
and of the state university and build
up one big we'll equipped, literally
endowed and high standard pro-
fessional school at Omaha to serve as
the medical department of the two uni
versities and receive students prepared
in either. There was talk once be-
fore of a merger of Omaha's two medi-
cal schools, but nothing came Of it,
anu WAObhOA ouNh q 10
still feasible, desirable as it might be,
Is open to question. These two nedi-
cal schools seem to be going along,
each in Its own path, at about the
same pace. 1t Is certain, however,
that complete reconstruction of the
department of the University
of Nebraska to conform to the require
ments of the most advanced standards
will come before very long, and that
the medical department of Creighton
university will likewise, unless such
merger ensues, have to strike out first
or follow suit.
Omaha is destined to be the prin-
cipal seat of medical education In this
section of the middle west, and the
forces ought to be conserved and sys-
tematized to produce the best results
Those engaged in medical teaching
here or interested in our medical
schools can be leaders in the move
nent IL they only Will.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-26

morose--a safe example for the one
but dangerous for the many.
The moral. the mental, the physical
man calls for recreation, certain
amount of it, and while work is the
main thing in life, play has its place.
1t is characteristic OF the American
people that they play as hard as they
work, and the American people as a
whole are the healthiest, happiest and
most prosperous people in the world.
There is some reason to doubt, after
all, If the prodigies Of life are more
useful than the ordlnaries. We can
do without the brilliance much more
handily than we can sacrifice the
average.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-26
PREACHER OR PRoMOTER
One Clergyman Objects to Union of
Both Duties.

Both Duties.
Boston Transcript.
Many clergyman will sympathlze with
the Presbyterian divine who, though he
has long successfully ministered to one OF
the Oldest churches in Chicago, recently
resigned because he felt that his true func-
ton, that Of preacher and pastor, was OBJ
scured by the executive duties that fall,
almost inevitably, upon the head of a
metropolitan church. He had to manage
institutions, preside over societies, solicit
endowments, and act as charity trustee,
bond broker, gymnasium director, settle
nent worker, school official and even bill
collector. and, being essentially a religion
ISL such activities seemed to him not
only wasteful, but wrong. There are many
young men who are equipped with capac-
ity Tor executive work, he says, and to
such belong the pastorates of urban
churches Possibly that is true Perhaps
II is still more true that no man should
be expected to combine the incongruous
duties Of priest and promoter, except he
be fully persuaded that he can do so sue
cessfully. In any church there should be
some devoted man or men who would be
willing to relieve the minister OF such
burdens and set him free to fix his heart
and his mind upon the things of the spirit.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-26
A MEMORY.
Author Unknown.

AuInOT unknown.
l think the gentle soul of him
Goes softly in some garden place,
With the old smile time may not dim
Upon his face.
He was a lover of the spring,
With love that never quite forgets,
Surely sees roses blossoming
And violets.
Now that his day of toll is through.
| love TO think he sits at ease,
With some old volume that he knows
Upon his knees.
Watching, perhaps, with quiet eyes
The white clouds drifting argosy;
Or twilight opening flower-wise
On land and sea.
He who so loved companionship
j may not think walks quite alone,
Failing some friendly hand to slip
Within his own.
Those whom he loved aforetime, still,
/ doubt not, bear him company;
l think that laughter yet may thrill
Where he may be.
thought, a fancy-who may tell?
Yet ] who ever pray II so
Feel through my tears that all is we'll
And this l know.
That God is gentle to His guest,
And therefore, may ! gladly say,
surely, the things lie loved the best
Are His today"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-26
LAND WITHDRAWAL BILL.
Most Important of Conservation
Measures Passed.
Kansas City Times

Most Important of Conservation
Measures Passed.
Kansas City Times.
The most important OF the several con-
servation bills before congress has been
passed by both houses and will be signed
by the president. 1t provides that the
president may at any time withdraw public
lands from entry for the purpose OF pro-
tecting water power sites, for classification
and valuation or for other purposes calcu-
lated to protect the people against the
private absorption of such lands without
due compensation. The matters Of mineral.
COAL oil and other deposits are taken into
account in the bill.
This law will make legal by explicit
authority what President Roosevelt did
without such authority, but also without
explicit prohibition in the constitution Of
the laws. The extent of which the public
lands more especially those holding heavy
deposits Of coal, minerals or oil, or covered
by fine timber, were being taken over by
private interests, often by unlawful meth
DDS, made 1t necessary that some arbitrary
power should interfere to save the public
domain from such exploitation. Mr.. Roose-
welt did the right thing. and he persisted
in doing it in spite of the believing of the
gored oxen. When he was told that the
laws did not specifically grant him this
power he answered that the law did not
specifically deny it, and intimated cnat If
law was necessary thep the law should be
provided
Secretary Ballinger. almost Immediately
after assuming charge of the Interior de-
partment restored to entry most of the
land withdrawn by President Roosevelt's
order. But public sentiment overwhelmed
Washington in vigorous protest, and soon
after many of the lands thus restored to
entry were again withdrawn. pending the
enactment Of the law which is now through
both houses
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-26
Mere Mans Opportunity.

Man has been complaining for some
time about woman usurping his fielc
OF employment. He finds scarcely 9
sphere of labor today in which in some
channel or other woman has not in.
truded, and the less gallant of the
sterner sex have resented what they
choose to call unwarranted competi.
ton.
1t is not so easy to settle the merits
Of this controversy as it is to suggest
way of relief to those men who feel
aggrieved at woman's ambition and
aggression, or who find themselves
crowded out of work as a result of it.
Let mere man go into woman's field
OF occupation. Usurp what has al
ways been her exclusive rights, turn
the tables of competition and engage
in domestic service, And you will
find ample opportunities, too, for
woman herself is neglecting this field
and households all over the land are
crying almost in despair for servants.
That man who can solve the servant
problem has his fortune made. He
need not harrow his brain longer
about woman taking from him his pre-
negatives.
AS a matter of fact there are many
men who could do worse than 60 into
families as cooks. In the large
wealthy families of big cities the lead
ing chefs are men; then why not in the
smaller places? II great men can be-
come great chefs, why not ordinary
men become good cooks? OF course,
we do not suppose that this opportun-
ity will ever lure the men so far into
the work that they will actually seek
to monopolize all forms Of domestic
service and crowd the women out en-
tirely, but the opportunity is there.
Think what snap it would be, men,
to have your Thursdays and Sundays
of-two ball games a week, or in the
winter you might make it two matt
nees--and sure pay day all the year
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-26
Our Birthday Book
June ae, 1910,

Serene z. Payne, member of congress
from the New York district and chairman
Of the ways and means committee, was
| born June 26, 1916, at Hamilton, N Y
He will pass his name along in the rec
ords in connection with the Payne-Aldrlch
tariff law, OF which house bill was drafted
under his supervision
William James Mayo, OF the famous
Mayo brothers, surgeons at Rochester,
Mimi. is celebrating his forty ninth birth
day. He was born at Lesueur, MINI, and
has done some work that has put him In
the class Of a wizard of surgery.
Howard II. Baldrige, lawyer, officing in
the First National bank building, is forty
six today. He was born in Hollidayburg
Pa, and graduated at Bucknell university
and in the law course Of the University OF
Pennsylvania. He has been assistant
United States attorney, county attorney
and state senator.
Rev. Frederick T. Rouse, pastor OF the
First Congregational church, was born
June %. 1859. at jamestown, N. Y. He
was educated at Williston seminary and
Yale seminary, and has been In the min
istry since 1884. starting out in the Ha-
waiian islands, coming TO Omaha in 1907
from Appleton, Wisconsin.
Henry f. Daley. the real estate man, is
40 years old today. He is secretary OF the
Estevan Coal and Brick company, with
headquarters in Minneapolis.
John w. Redick, with II. Il. Palmer Son
& Co, insurance, was born June %.
1884 right here in Omaha. He was edu-
Gated at Williams college, having been I'm
his present line OF business since 1907. He
is the son OF Judge Redick.
A. O. Beeson, who runs the fire insur-
ance inspection and rate bureau for Omaha
is celebrating his fifty-flrst birthday. lie
was born in Dowagiac. Michigan. ana has
been in the fire insurance business for
thirty-fiYe years.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-26
A Record Breaker.

Whatever political opponents or
critics may say, President Taft has the
word Of history to support the claim
that no president since Abraham Lin
coin ever accomplished, or persuaded
congress to accomplish, as much &C
tual business in the first sixteen
months of his term as he has done.
The adjournment of congress marks a
record-breaking record in the history
OF. congresses so far as volume of con-
structive legislation goes, and that is
what we have come to conceive to be
the function of congress.
Two months ago lot of impatient
people were certain most of the prin-
cipal measures which the president
and the party had pledged to enact
would never get through this congress
Among these measures we're the rail-
road bill, the bills for statehood, postal
savings, issuance of certificates of in
debtedness for reclamation and other
conservation measures, extending the
activities of the tariff board and the
campaign fund publicity bill, and yet
every one is written upon the statute
books, and 1t is there because and by
reason of the fact that the president
forced congress to such a unity of &C
ton as would get them there The
personal equation of the president has
figured as the dominant influence in
this congress and 1t is we'll for the
days and subtract from the dellbera-
tions the faithful direction and per-
sistent prodding of the president and
leave the two houses divided on politi-
cal and factional lines and determine
for yourself how much of this legisla-
ton, promised by the party in power
and demanded by the people, We would
have today.
William Howard Taft has revealed
new side of his character in his lead
ership of congress. He has applied
the rod with vigor at times and spoken
softly at other times, commanding al
ways and conciliating when necessary,
and, by most fortunate combination
of tactful elements which few men in
his position have possessed to a more
practical degree, getting results. And
the country is the gamer by It, 1t is
q personal triumph for the president,
but distinct victory for his party, be-
&c n,,Ie N.,I
hllment of pledges to the people.
Not all this legislation may be the
best that could be framed, but all has
enough good in 1t to make the best for
the time and the circumstances. The |
tariff law, against which many have
rallied, chiefly in ignorance of it's ac-
tual content, is not ideal, as the presi- |
dent himself admits, but 1t is raising |
about $40,000,000 in revenue a year
more than the Dingley law produced,
and through the operation of a maxi
mum and minimum schedule has
the admission of about so per |
cent OF our exports to foreign ports
free of duty and 95 per cent of those
under the minimum rates In
these respective countries.
1t is hard to conceive Of intelligent
voters failing to appreciate and APP
prove the party and its leaders respon-
sible with the president for these laws,
for this congress of strenuous activity J
and efficient service, beside whose ac-
tual achievements the record of no
may be compared with dis
to this one.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-26

France that indulgence has brought II
to such an extreme. II the strenuous
Americans courageous speech at this
Partisan university is the leaven that
has stirred the national spirit Of the
French people, then 1t is time to pay
the proper tribute to this Rooseveltian
characteristic of saying what he feels
to be right and needful at any time or
place.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-26


The enactment of law providing
for National Fine Arts commission
has been promptly followed by the APP
pointment as commissioners of the
group of architects and artists who
were named as an unofficial commits
sion during President Roosevelts ad-
ministration. A fine arts commission
to elevate our artistic ideals will strike
everyone as a step in the right direc-
ton, and yet We in the west cannot
but wonder IL there is no art on this
side of the Mississippi river that is
worth being represented in the men,
bership of the commission. Ours is a
great country, and no section of 1t has
any monopoly on love of art or artistic
sense-to be truly national the com
mission should be national In it's
makeup.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-26

No wonder the prosecution lost in
the case against Cleveland's golden
rule chief-of-police when 1t dropped
thirteen of its original twenty-three
charges. But the chiefs acquittal
must be accepted in the best OF faith
seriously, for he run the gauntlet of
two weeks hearing. involving the tes-
'imony of 200 witnesses.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-26

Pixies peak or bust" loses all its
grim glamor when we hear that they
are building a smooth boulevard from
Kansas to that eminent eminence in
the Rockies.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-26
The West and Postal Savings.

The west has always said that the east
was mistaken in its attitude toward the
postal savings bank project; and that the
section with its abundant facilities, in
GLIDING highly organized savings bank
system, did not realize the large service
to the community which a government
agency of this kind might perform. The
opportunity to test this question has
come. The people who want per cent
interest can now stand up and be counted
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-26

OF course, while the colonel has de-
termined not to speak in public for
two months, writing his views in let
ters might not be regarded as a viola
ton OF the rule of silence.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-26

Down in Memphis the color line is
drawn to exclude negroes from two
public parks. Negroes who live in
this land OF comparative freedom from
race prejudice can hardly realize what
they have to be thankful for.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-26
capt Illustrations ArtfuI Aid"

'"rhowing pebbles at mad dog" says an
exchange, would be as effective as the
fines thrown at automobile scorchers by
our complacent American police magis-
trates." One fancies that the pebbles would
be even more effective, inasmuch as the
fines are not effective at all. The COMPARE
son Of the speed maniac with a mad dog.
however, may be allowed to stand.