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Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01
For the Good of the Service.

Down at Lincoln one member of the
Public Library board has just re-
signed, explaining his voluntary re-
tirement with the unique reason, 'for
the good of the SERVICE" as set forth
in his letter to the city council, as
follows:
For the good of the service, the under
signed respectfully tenders his resignation
as member of the city library board. My
relations with the board have been uni
formly pleasant and this resignation is
rendered solely because have not the time
to devote to the work of the library which
its Importance merits. Membership on that
board should belong to citizens whose time
is their own and who have leisure to de-
vote to its multifarious duties. 1 have felt
all along that the work l have been able
to perform has hardly requlted the city for
the honor which the council conferred
upon me in my selection for the place. The
| library board expends approximately
$4,000 year of the peoples money, and
those who administer the funds should be
persons who have time and inclination to
look into every item Of expenditure care
fully and procure the most and best that
can be had for the money.
|
true tnlthis particular case, or in any
other particular case, the good of the
service would certainly be promoted
by retirement of officials who cannot
give the public business the attention
needed. Not that position Of honor
and responsibility like membership in
the library board or in a school board
should be reserved exclusively for re-
tired capitalists, or people of indie
pendent means with their time fully
at their own disposal, but that who
ever accepts Office should understand
what is expected of him and be able
and willing to measure up require
ments, even though to do so he must
sacrifice his leisure hours and incon-
venience himself in many ways. The
man who wants to wear the badge of
| honor for dress parade without doing
| the work has no place in the public
service.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01
DOWN AND OUT.

Cleveland Plain Dealer: The chautaudua
circuit is, OF course. open to Mr.. Dlaz.
Kansas City Star: The large and growing
order OF Lame Ducks will now have to
move over and make room for the Hon.
Diag
Chicago Record Herald: Diaz is going to
live in Spain. King Alfonso having con-
ferred a title upon him and made Nine.
Diaz a lady-in- waiting to the queen. II Is
a much more glorious windup than comes
to the average Spanish president.
ST. Paul Dispatch: President Daz may
be down and out. but he still has some of
the old sand that made him the dominant
figure in Mexico. He got out OF his spe-
cial car, and, gun in hand, started out to
get the revolutionists who attacked his
train. Diaz would put up pretty good
fight yet IL he were given half chance.
San Francisco Chronicle: II is asserted
that Diaz ruled with an iron hand, and
none Of his supporters venture to deny the
charge, but they do say that no other
kind Of rule is adapted to the present con-
dition Of the people OF Mexico. Time will
tell whether a milder rule, or one which
smacks more of democracy, will prove as
beneficial to the Mexican as that de
nounced as iron.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01
JUNE
Richard lie Galllenne.

Richard lie Galllenne.
Me thought that winter, love would never
That the dark year had slain the inno-
cent May,
Nor hoped that your soft hand this stAa
mer daV
Would lie, as now, in mine, beloved friepd;
And. like some magic spring, your dream
deep eyes
Hold all the summer skies.
But lol the world again is mad with
The long white silence spoke, small bird
Blade after blade amid the song Of
showers.
The grass stole back once more. and
there was heard
The ancient music of the vernal spheres,
Half laughter and half tears.
Ah!love. aud now too swiftly, like some
groom,
mouth.
The mad young year. delirious with the
south.
squanders his fairy treasure bloom on
bloom;
Too soon the wild rose hastens to be
sweet,
Too swift. June. thy feet! -.
larry a little, summer, crowd not
All glory ana gladneSs in so brief day
Teach all thy dancing flowers a step more
And bid thy wild musicians softner play
o hast thou thought, that like a mailman
The longest summer ends.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01
Safe and Sane Decoration Day Z

Only one man was killed outright
at the Indianapolis auto speedway on
Decoration day. True, half a dozen
were injured, some probably fatally,
but reports say the races we're signally
successful They must have been, to
Judge from this thrilling flash of the
climax:
The cars began TO cast THEM tires, burned
out by the fierce grind over the speedway
brick pavement Steering gears began to
give way. Directly in front Of the grand
stand Joe Jagersburgers Case car got
away from him and switched back and
forth across the track Wood, the mech
anician, leaped out and fell and the car
passed ovet him. He lay in a path Of
death, for other cars were rushing upon
him. All swerved safely by as he rose and
staggered to the track side, with the eX-
ception Of Harry Knights Westcott, which
plunged to the inner fence, threw out
Knight and Glover and careened against
Herbert Lytle's Apperson, turning 1t over
a scream from a woman when the race
was half over faced the crowd in the
grandstand toward the north end Of the
home stretch. Louis Disbrow's Pope Hart
q
front Of Tetzlaffs Dozier. A collision fol-
lowed. in which the rear wheels of Dis
brow's car were torn off and the Lozier
turned turtle. Tetzlaffs mechanician was
caught under the car and his leg broken.
The roar Of the motors, belching flame
and smoke from the exhausts and the con-
tinuoLs cheering Of the multitude in the
grandstands and bleachers was deafening
as the race grew into it's last hundred
miles. An overweight woman in a box
tainted and fell from her chair and the
incident almost caused panic in the ner-
vous crowd. Hysterical screams of women
In the southern grandstand when Burman's
Benz cast tire over the retaining wall
were heard above the deeper roar of the
grandstand and bleachers
The old soldiers, whose ranks are
thinning fast, have but a single plea
to make for Decoration day-that it
shall be the one day Of the year for
their celebration and that it shall not
be desecrated by other demonstra-
tions. But surely they would not
call such sacrifice of life as this desc
Grafton. Nor this (from the press
dispatches): "Harroun (the WINERY
was followed by a delighted mob" at
the finish, down the path where grim
death had stalked before him. What
of the dead? On with the dance. Let
Joy be unconfned.
Is It not about time the effort was
divided between the safe and sane
Fourth and a safe and sane Decoration
day?
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01
Moribund
service.

A few years ago our lawmakers
decided to institute a reform that
would consecrate Decoration day in
Nebraska to the veterans of the wars
and to no others. A statute was,
therefore, enacted, which declares:
Any person or persons who shall on the
SOth day of May, commonly known as
Decoration day, engage in horse racing,
ball playing or in any other game of sport
which may tend to disturb the public
peace on the Both day of May shall be
guilty Of a misdsmeanor, and shall be pun
ished by fine not exceeding 500 or be
imprisoned for not more than thirty days,
in the discretion of the court.
Reading the accounts of Decoration
day doings prompt the question
whether this law is a dead letter or
only moribund.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

Frank Tilford is one of the partners in
the big firm Of Park & Tilford New
York wholesalers, who mixes groceries
with philanthropy.
The capture of Juarez and its sequels LEFT
young Giuseppe Garibaldi temporarily out
Of job, but his father General RicciottD
has cabied him to be ready to go to Turkey
and lend hand with a sword in II tn the
insurgent Albanians.
Love at first sight has deprived the
capitol of a good guide and won for the
guide a beautiful and wealthy widow as
his bride. The guide is Charles X Amidon.
Wolf OF Bristol. r. l.. daughter OF John b.
Herreshoff the boatbuilder.
Christopher Gladys of Hornen. N. Y.
celebrated his 9Oth birthday anniversary
Wednesday by dancing a brisk waltz with
his great-granddaughter Though he had
not danced for. sixty years, It Is said he
had no difficulty in keeping step. His
eight children, thlrty-five grandchildren
and nineteen great-grandchildren were
present at the party.
Mrs. W. A. Johnston. wife Of the chief
justice Of Kansas, and Mrs. Genevieve
Chalkey OF Lawrence. Kan. have been ap-
pointed by Governor Stubs TO visit the
state institutions. It will be their duty to
make frequent visits TO the different in
situations and make suggestions for their
improvement to the board OF control Mrs
Stubs the wife Of the governor, viii 20
with Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. ChalkIey on
somes Of their trips
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01
Blood on the Moon.

And the plot thickens. Aroused
by William j. Bryan's attack on demo-
Gratis who favor a raw wool tariff,
Democratic Leader Underwood made
statement tonight declaring Mr.. Bry-
ans attitude unjust and unfair"
Evidently, there is blood on the
moon in the camp of the democracy.
1t may be easier now to guess why Mr..
Bryan decided to withhold his an
nouncement of Champ Clark as his
preferred candidate for the presidency.
But what is democracy coming to,
anyway, when its official leaders
openly defy the oracle of their faith?
In Texas the Baileyites denounce him.
In Ohio Harmon refused to stand
aside" In his own Nebraska, lifelong
home folks" drive him out of their
state convention, while down at Wash
ington a recalcitrant senate rejects his
choice of leader and now a heretofore
meekly submissive house floor-leader
and speaker spurn his dictation.
AS Grover Cleveland used to say,
Truly we have fallen upon evil
times" Is this a systematic plan to
side-track Mr.. Bryan? In times past
the Clarks and Underwoods have
simply walked up, hat in hand, taken
their orders and meekly complied with
them. Now, they not only refuse to
walk up, but decline the orders when
they are thrust at them.
But Mr.. Bryan is not yet eliminated.
He laughs best who laughs last.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01
UNsATIsFIED LAND HUNGER.
Miniature Stampede at an Opening I'm
tg Utah.

MlhAhturO Stampeue at m opening IN
Utah.
- ST Louis Republic.
About 10000 acres OF land in Willard
county, Utah, lately restored to the public
domain, were opened for entry under the
homestead act last Tuesday.
The 'rushes'' of the old DAYS followed
the opening OF Indian reservations to set
Element are said 10 have been duplicated
in mipiature In the eagerness of would-be
settlerf to obtain some OF these lands.
1t is declared that more than half the re-
quests for application blanks came from
persons whose residence was outside of
Utah. One party Of fifty-two journeyed
from California in the hope of getting a
share OF the farms
OF course, there are still hundreds of
thousands OF acres in the public domain.
but the quality of a great deal of 1t is
unknown. In the case of these Utah lands
it was well understood that they were To-
Gated in most promising agricultural
district and the circumstances that 10000
acres Of heretofore unavailable lands were
to be thrown open to entry at one time
attracted attention throughout the west.
The scenes attending the distribution OF
the farms in this tract, situated about $50
miles from Salt Lake City, near the Fill
more forest reserve, are interesting be-
cause in the, nature of things such "rushes"
even on small scale, must take place
with greater and still greater infrequency
in the future. Also they show how far the
land hunger still is from being satisfied.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

William Stewart Reyburn, son of the
mayor of Philadelphia, recently elected to
fill vacancy in the Second congressional
district, is the baby member of the house
of representatives. He is q. The next
youngest member Is William f.. Murray of
Massachusetts, who is going on 80. His
senior by nine days is Byron p. Harrison
or Gulfport, Miss, who was elected a dis
trict attorney at the age Of a. and after
serving two terms in that position was
elected to congress last fall. He is a product
OF the primaries, having been nominated
over two strong fellow democrats whom
he led by 1000 votes
The fourth of tender political years is
Sydney Anderson of Lanesboro Mimi, who
is 80. Robert J. Buckley Of Cleveland, o.,
Is about thirteen months older than Muir
ray. They were students at Harvard at
the same time, though Buckley was a
Junior when Murray was freshman. He
also received the degree Of master of arts
from his alma mater but obtained his
legal education in Cleveland. Thomas E.
KonOp OF Kewaunee, Wis, is only 81 and
self-made man. He had to struggle for
an education and did not receive his law
degree from the University of Nebraska
until he was rs, but has served two terms
as district attorney, is married and is the
father Of four children. The seventh young
est Of the new representatives is Claudius
Ulysses Stone and the third Of those mem
toned with Spanish war record, Murray
and Anderson being the other two. Two
Of the seven are Harvard men; Reyburn
is q graduate Of Yale, and the Universities
OF Minnesota. Nebraska and louisiana
claim one each.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01
Frivolous Amendments.
Chicago Tribune.

The esteemed Commoner says Mr. Bryan
will do his part" The equally esteemed
Washington Post wonders IL a final "y''
was not omitted accidentally from the last
word, and the valued New York Evening
Sun, admitting the correctness of the
criticism, suggests that a final "g" may
have been omitted from the fourth word.
AS working hypothesis, it is safe to as
sumo that Mr.. Bryan will stand by his
proofreader.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

Tense and defense is provocative Of
war. when it would be inviting trouble
not to maintain them.
Colonel Roosevelt was just the man
to make this speech, for no other man
has done more for actual peace, as
witness the Portsmouth treaty. He is
able, therefore, to apply his epigram-
NAUTICAL rule to his own case. Words
are good, and only so when backed by
deeds"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01
Early Romancing in Air.
New York Tribune,

Future historians Of aviation will prob
ably dismiss as mere tradition the tales
told by Vedrine and Gilbert of their en-
counters with eagles in midair on the way
h.rom Paris to Madrid. The rulers Of the
air attacking it's invaders should, by the
way. suggest capital subject to one of
our writer's of animal stories
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

walking about and doing other thi 81 that
are of no inheritance. but you l4.e ne ar
heard OF one who did any nd oil ".rN
while he was asleep, have your JUG.
my wife married me to reform me
Did she suCcccdy'
yes. thoroughly I wouldn't m -
again a. / lived to be us Old as M,lhu-
selnhi'-puck
"NVho gave We tn black eve, JIM
Nobody gave Il me. / had ~
fer it"-Lfe.
You made a fine mess OF that potage
for Esau." remarked Jacob 20 his mother,
after the transaction OF the transfer
Yes my son" answered R'hccca
placidy. Il dare say EsRu himself found
il something OF a sell. baltimore Amer
lean.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

Senator Jonathan Bourne, jr., has
modified his statement that he would
rather himself lose out for reelection
in Oregon than see Senator Norris
Brown retired in Nebraska. He evil
IDENTIFY expected Senator Brown to re-
ciprocate the kindly sentiment, only
to be sadly disappointed that no such
Damon and Pythias proffer was forth
coming.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

The Laird of Skibo, it may be noted,
sailed for Europe about the time John
w Gates took the witness stand in
thst congressional investigation into
the Steel trust
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

Having busted the Standard Oil and
the Tobacco trusts, it only remains to
explode the express monopoly, the
Lumber trust, the Steel trust and a
few dozen others to complete the job
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

1t is to be noted that our new dem
ocratic senator from Nebraska got
away from his party caucus far enough
to offer a half-and-half amendment to
the caucus resolution for the Lorimer
investigating committee, but not far
enough away to vote for the La Fol-
lette resolution, which is the real
thing.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

There are other kinks in the new
Nebraska primary law besides that
surrounding the state platform con-
vention. 1t might not be a bad idea
for the state organizations of the
political parties to charge Joint COM
mittee of lawyers to investigate and
report where We are at.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

If the salary appropriations had as
much trouble in getting on as those
gas lamp contracts-but why try to
imagine the impossible?
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01
APRIL CIRCULATION.
48,106

State Of Nebraska, County Of Douglas, IS.
Dwight Williams, circulation manager OF
The Bee Publishing Company, being duly
sworn, says that the average daily clrcula-
ton, less spoiled, unused and returned
copies, Tor the month of April 1911, was
dS,l06 DWIGHT WILLIAMS,
Circulation Manager.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this LIST day of May, 1871.
(SeaL) ROBERT HUNTER,
Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

If Champ Clark thinks he can favor
a tariff on wool and continue to re-
main the preferred choice of Mr..
Bryan for the 1912 presidential nomi-
nation, he is entitled to another guess.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

There is no more harmony Din the repub-
lican party in either house or senate) than
in Chinese orchestra, World Herald.
What kind of an aggregation of dis
cordant musicians, then, does the
democratic party in the house and
senate resemble?
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

The scene of war shifts from the
Mexican boundary to the democratic
councils at Washington. with old
Colonel Bryan leading the attack on
the home guard.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01
An Essential of War.


Eighteen Shoshone bucks are said to have
gone on the warpath in Arizona, and, as
the very first real warpath operations since
the moving picture was perfected, it may
be presumed that they will not go unuul-
lied by the camera brigade.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

1t is a tight race between Detectives
Burns and Pinkerton. Burns scored
a long lead In his dynamite case, only
to be overtaken by Pinkerton being
called to help guard London during
the coronation.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

In the award of the new State Agri-
cultural school location to the last en-
try in the competition, we have an
other striking exception to the rule
about the early bird catching the
worm.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

When congress begins it's investiga-
ton OF the weather department
Omaha base ball fans will gladly tes-
tify that it has rained every Sunday
the team has been scheduled to play
at home this season.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

If the Mexican revolution. cost $780,
100000 and Joe Carroll, the Omaha
soldier of fortune, received $10.SO
for four months service, who got the
other $19,999.9S9.2O?
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01
Improved scenery.

Many Of the middle aged citizens who
once thrilled at pictures of Indian fights
on the plains find a photograph of the
same plains covered with wheat vastly
more satisfying.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01
Dangerous to Play with.

Kansas City Times.
General Madero is expected to discover
during the next few months that a revo-
luton is a dangerous plaything, and that
ii is easier to start one than to stop It.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

Now let the Standard Oil and To-
bacco trusts go along and be good,
reasonable law-abiding combinations
In restraint of trade.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

The severe old doctrine Of total de-
pravity might have more latter-day
followers II the legislatures of Ohio
and Illinois remained in session the
year round.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

Senator Hepburn of Idaho is the most
persistent and annoying objector in the
senate. He does not like departures from
the, established order of things. During his
speech on direct election Of senators, he
had number of clashes with his COL
league. Senator Borah, and whenever he
alluded to the latter did not fail to call
him ''the junior senator from Idaho" with
the accent on the junior. Hepburn thinks
that the present method Of electing SEN
ators by legislatures, rather than by pop
ular vote, is Just about right
In this connection it is interesting to noIe
that when he ran for congress out in
Idaho in 1898 he was defeated. AS Idaho
has only one representative, the election
was statewide Hepburn was beaten by Ed
gar Wilson, silver republican, by more
than 400 votes, although he ran on the
regular republican ticket. Four years later
Idaho sent a regular republican to con-
gress by majority OF 1900 over all his
competitors. The same man, Burton l..
French, came back to the present congress
with a majority Of about 10000. Senator
Hepburn, while defeated by the people for
congress- was elected to the senate by the
legislature of his state and subsequently
reelected.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

Although Alma failed 10 land the
Agricultural school, for which the leg
islature appropriated 800, 900. It still
has Ex-Governor Shallenberger and his
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

Subscribers leaving the city tenn.
pOrarily should have The Bee
walled 60 them. Address will be
changed as often 40 EeQusstsd.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

If there we're any doves of peace
around Grants tomb on Decoration
day they must have fluttered when the
colonel spoke.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

Mr.. Bryan has postponed the an
nouncement of Champ Clark as his
favorite candidate, pending Clark's
conversion to free wool.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

The new New York library has sixty
five miles of book shelves. What show
has DR.. Eliot's five-foot row of books
there?
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

Although not at all disposed to
turn socialist, since the socialists
must hold their meetings somewhere,
they are welcome to Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

The Baltimore American says the
civic spirit OF that city has received a
dose of ginger. Now mix with little
mustard and you will have 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

A fourth leper has shown up in
Pittsburg, Heavens, leprosy mixed
with smoke must make a terrible
disease.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

Those Kansas City women boot
blacks had to close their places of
business for lack of trade, which is a
distinct tribute to the men of Kansas
CITY
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

What is the matter with Congress-
man Hobson? Is he never going to
speak again.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

How skin-deep is fame when a man
like Colonel Goethals is not recog-
nized at the port of entry to his own
country.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

If our old friend, Mr.. Bryan, is not
more careful down at Washington he
may shortly find himself member of
the In-Bad club.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

DR.. Wiley need not vince at the
paragrapher's jabs. 1t is the price of
greatness.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01
A PipefuI,

Kansas City Star.
The Tobacco trust is at liberty TO put
the supreme courts few words in It's pipe
and smoke 'em.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

The Boston Herald asks, Are
There Angels?" The idea. Yes, Ne
braska's population is 1,192,214.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

Now, get ready to listen to the corn
grow.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01
TRIPLES LIGHT AS AIR.

There must be something wrong" said
the economist, with a system in which
ate"
oh, dunno" replied Farmer Corn
tossel The same thing is always hap
PENN with rain and warm weather.
Washington Star
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

senatorial boom, whose expansion will
take up all the unoccupied space there.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

IT'S a queer thing about somnambulists,
isn't it2"
Yes, rather"
You often hear of them getting up and
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

Now that Diaz has been superseded
we have two New Mexicos.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-01

The Shortstop-Going to try out that new
boy for the team2
Captain-No. The minute / heard him
spell plenipotenuary, erysipelas and trigo-
nometrical, | knew he wouldn't be no use
on a ball team.-Puck.