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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-06
People Talked About

DR.. Grace Kimball, president Of the
Young womens Christian association of
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, is chiefly responsible
for the new tuberculosis hospital in that
city.
J. w. Alexander, chief engineer of the
Oceanic, has recently retired, having dur
ing his service crossed the Atlantic OH
times and travelled no fewer than 100000
miles at sea.
The Prix de Rome for sculpture was
awarded to Lucienne Heuvelamns, who
won second prize in the same class two
years ago. Her notable achievement has
been made the occasion for rejoicing by
women artists who in It the breaking
down Of what they call prejudice against
their sex.
Mrs. Wealthy C. Brown. aged 81 years
wife of the late Captain John Brown, eld-
est son OF the famous martyr Of Harpers
Ferry q woman who herself was involved
In the tragic antebellum incident in which
John Brown and his four sons stirred the
nation by scheme TO liberate the slaves
died at her home on PutIn-Bay island.
Miss Bella de Costa Green. the librarian
for J. Pierpont Morgan lie said 70 be an
authority on rare books, and she is still
in her twenues. She has been with Mr..
Morgan for the last six years and before
that had spent several years in studying
rare books. Most Of her competitors are
elderly men who have had lifetimes Of ex-
perience.
Mrs. Annie Nathan Meyer, the founder Of
barnard college. who has said some re-
markably acute things about the Amer
lean working girl" in a play called ''The
Dominant Sex" thinks that they were far
from chivalrous and very far from untrue
says that the French working girl knows
how to look we'll in simple becoming garb,
and that II the American girls but knew
1t they would have better chances OF at
tracing men by dressing themselves mod
estly.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-06
A Word for Dollar Diplomacy.

One of the really learned men of
contemporary history and a diplomat
of wide experience, Oscar S. Straus,
writing on American Commercial
Diplomacy" In the current North
American Review, says:
Our diplomacy, in its aims and purposes,
tinguished from political, and this pur-
pose, in it's very nature, gave to It the
character OF sincerity and straightforward
ness. After our independence was estab-
lished and we entered upon our r4tional
life as an independent nation. our first
concern was to negotiate treaties Of amity
and commerce AS early as l77s the first
treaty we concluded as a nation was our
treaty OF amity and commerce with France,
by which France and the United States
engaged mutually not 10 grant any favor
to other nations in respect to commerce
and navigation which should not imme-
oiately become common TO the other party
who should enjoy the same favor.
And Mr.. StTaus hastens to show that
we have not failed to realize practical
returns from the investment In COM
mereial diplomacy, nor to be quick in
awaiting ourselves of the profit when
ever ever it appeared to be within our
reach. He adds;
Historical accuracy compeIs me to say
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-06
Nationwide Farming Campaign

When a project or movement
at least assumes the air of reality and
effectiveness. The scheme of inten-
sive farming has not had to wait for
results, entirely, before reaching to
that advanced stage, yet the national
undertaking which has been brought
to head in Illinois and incorporated
in the National Soil Fertility league
somehow adds zest and system to this
whole proposition of making two
blades of grass grow where but one
grew before"
The incorporation of this movement
is proclaimed as the beginning of a
nationwide campaign for better ag-
riculture to double and treble the
crops of staples from the same acreage
within ten years" Thus 1t has a
definiteness to it which other phases
Of the undertaking have lacked. It
lays out certain, fixed purpose to ac-
complish-to double or treble the out
put of the farm in ten years. 1t not
only sets out to increase production
by a given amount, but to do it In
given time. That brings 1t, down to
most systematic basis. 1t will have
the effect of attracting wider atten-
ton and enlisting more general CO.
operation. For everybody will have
his eye drawn to one definite, common
point of interest.
Back of this movement, which takes
to itself the dignifed claim of "the
most important economic movement in
the world" is the active support of
President Taft, Secretary of the Treas
ury MacVeagh, Speaker Clark, Cyrus
H. Mccormick, William ]. Bryan, DR..
E. j. James, president of the Univer-
sity of Illinois; James ]. Hill and sew
eral railroad presidents. Certainly
this array of names is strong enough
on its personal side. The success Of
the undertaking will depend on its
organization. The farmers may be
led into these avenues of prosperity,
but they will not be driven, and II will
be necessary for the promoters of this
scheme to lead, in season and out of
season. Success will depend on moth
ing short of widespread system of
publicity and education.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-06
I'LL NEVER GO HOME AGAIN.

Arthur Springer in Everybody's.
I'll never go home again.
Home to the old sad hills,
Home through the old soft rain, :"
Where the culew calls and thrills.
For I thought to find the ould wee house,
Wild the moss along the WALL
And l thought to hear the crackle-grouse
And the braeblrds' call.
And 1 SEE, I'll find the glad wee burn,
And the bracken in the glen,
And the fairy thorn beyont the turn,
And the same ould men.
But the ways I'd loved and walked avick
Were no longer home to me;
Wild their sthreets and turns av starin'
brick
And no ould face TO see
And the ould glad ways I'd felt in mind
Loike the home OF MORE Bawn,
And the ould green turns I'd dreamt to
find
They all were lost and gone.
And the BARNS that romped by Tullagh
Burn
Whin they saw me sthopped their pay,
Through mist av tears tried to run,
And ghostlike creep away.
And I'll niver go home again.
Home to ould lost years,
Home where the soft warm rain
Drifts loike the drip av tears.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-06
SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT.

Philadelphia Bulletin: At the rate
billy" Sunday is coming money as an
evangelist. even his former playmatcs %
the diamond win become Jealous
Milwaukee Sentinel: Or Aked tells Calf
fornia that California leads the east in cul- |
turc. II did not take the doctor long 20
learn the gentle art Of spreading IT,
Emporla Gazette; A Chicago preacher is
wasting a good deal Of time trying TO provo
that the devil is real institution, with
horns and tail. And there are so many
useful things he might be doing!
Philadelphia Inquirer; BY lavishly prais-
ing the west Mr.. Aked seems to have taken
the best way to get into the hearts OF its
people. They live on that sort Of stuff
out there and when no one hands IL 10
them they hand It 20 themselves.
salt Lake Tribune. Voiva kissed and
confirmed 2s6 babies at Zion City on a re-'
cent Sunday. and he can fairly claim it as
a miracle II the microbe doesn't get any
OF the children-that u.s. as fairly as other
claims OF modern miracles are based.
Washington Times: The Rev. f. Hez
Sven declares that II he had a million
dollars he would lay It willingly at billy"
Sundays feet for a few sensational SER
mons. II is understood that the Rev. Il.
Sunday shares the regret that the million
is not Immediately available.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: The clergyman
who received a s. check for offering a
prayer in the Wisconsin state senate, has,
returned IT. He says the class Of legisa-
ton furnished by the Wisconsin lawmakers
shows that the prayer had no effect But
II all professions were as sensitive about
obtaining money under false preteuses.
what would become OF a host of profess
sional men?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-06

The Outlook, of which Colonel
Roosevelt is contributing editor, de-
clares that it is sorry that it has been
necessary for President Taft to make
reply to limitations that he has not
acted in good faith in the Alaskan
matter. THE country knows the
president too we'll" it says, TO regard
any other intimation seriously" The
distinguished predecessor of Mr.. Taft
likewise found it necessary on several
occasions to repel intimations of bad
faith, and it is pleasing to note that
the country took those limitations no
more seriously.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-06
Bread and Butter State of Mind.

wealthy and well-meaning woman
scolds public school teachers, women
particularly, for maintaining bread
and butter attitude" toward their pro-
fession. They should take different,
higher and broader view. Unfortu-
nately, the average school teacher
finds that hard to do, at least on an
average annual salary of 5000, she ex-
periences great difficulty in divorcing
her mind completely from thoughts
of bread and butter.
Her profession carries with it no
magic means of sustaining life with
out these coarse, unethical elements.
She must, like other mortals, have
them or perish Therefore, since she
must get them herself, she necessarily
has to do some very tall thinking on
the subject or she will find herself at
the end of the year, even though she
has had her bread and butter, under
the disadvantage of debt in getting
them.
II the school teachers landlord, for
instance, raises the price of board In
order to meet the advance in the cost
of living, it behooves the teacher to
turn her mind instantly to this un-
couth topic of bread and butter or she
will soon be eating up money that
ought to go for other necessaries of
life. Indeed, we know of no one who
is forced to think much more on this
subject than the school teacher. He
or she must make little better APP
pearance than folks in some other
walks of life. They must read, keep
informed and abreast OF the times,
mingle in good, though not foolish,
society These all tax the purse
little. The idle-minded teacher, with
never care or a thought of bread and
butter. viii come far short OF making
ends meet under such circumstances.
One good time to take a stand on
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-06
Harem Skirts Game bv pronbec1

The harem skirt, about which SO
much fuss has been made, may not
properly be regarded as merely one of
the incidental vagaries of capricious
fashion, for 1t came by prophecy.
Punch, that bald-headed British carl
caturist, who has Just celebrated his
SEVENTEEN anniversary, published a
cartoon, as a reproduction from its
files show, sixty years ago, presenting
woman in this novel attire. Thus
British humor anticipated the harem
skirt by more than half century, and
all Dame Fashion has done has been
to fulfill the prophecy by putting on
the garment. Our women of today,
then, are but catching up with what
advanced thinkers of yesterday
thought the styles should be-
The cartoon showing woman In the
harem skirt is quite comprehensive in
its intuitive Interpretation of the
times. With subtle irony, but none
theless precision, it touches off the
new woman" idea OF the twentieth
century. Not only is the entire ten
dency OF woman's dress MAYNARD, but
the bent OF her habits is enough exag-
gerated in that direction to suit the
most mawkish Of present-day faddists;
Of course. not depicting the way of the
real or average woman.
The picture, however. reflects with
biting sarcasm some of the eccentrici-
ties of higher life," or Partisan
gayety. indicating that the extremes
of today must have had their roots in
the radicalism of yesterday. And one
gets the impression that the new
woman" idea is by no means novel to
the present period. The exactness
with which the artist has portrayed
some OF the frailties OF future fash
ions is all but uncanny.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-06
Conceding Good Motives.

In an address recently delivered in
this city by a we'll known college pro-
fessor the speaker deplored the
present-day tendency in discussing
public questions to assume that all the
truth and honesty of purpose is on one
side and that whoever is in disagree
ment is inspired by some Interior mo-
tive. To reinforce the point thus
sought to be made he cited the con-
troversy over the conservation of nat
ural resources in Alaska and APP
plauded the Straightforward way in
which President Taft explained his acts
and stated his reasons. yet insisted
that the president weakened his posi-
ton by denounclng his critics for re-
sorting to malicious falsehoods as If
they were trying to besmirch some
body and we're In a conspiracy to block
the proper development of the Alas
kan country.
In general II will be conceded that
public discussions, In this country at
any rate, lean too much to PERSONAL
ties; that we are prone to deny to the
other fellow the same good intentions
that we claim for ourselves. Whether
the particular case cited is or is not
really in point may be open to ques-
ton. II we were waging war and dis
covered that the enemy we're poison
ing the wells and using explosive bull
lets we would assume that we were
fighting savages who did not recognize
the so-called rules of modern warfare.
If we are engaged in a controversy
such as has been precipitated over
Alaska and we find those on the other
side persistently disappearing cas-
lily verified facts and going so far even
as to fake letters and forge documents
used to sustain charges of corrupt con-
duct, the almost irresistible conclu-
sion would be that these indefensible
acts were willfully committed and that
the evil purpose sprang from equally
evil motives. The real trouble is that
too many people proceed on the theory
IhdI Ju0 Gnu JuSJluSb inc means, ana
convincing themselves that the end
they have in view Is a good one, they
seek to take advantage of every sus-
picious circumstance to discredit their
opponents without too scrupulous in
vestigation and recklessly use what
ever weapons of offense or defense
happen to fall within reach. People
should not forget that they are judged
by their acts and are presumed to in
tend the natural consequences Of what
they do.
1t may be charitable invariably to
concede good motives to the enemy
who is denying good motives to us,
but 1t is not human nature. That
would assume that everyone has only
good motives for all his words and
deeds, when we know there have al
ways been a lot of wicked people In
this world. The best rule we can sug-
gest is to try to put yourself on the
other side and ask II you could do or
say the same things and expect your
good Intentions to be conceded.
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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-06

that the aid France extended to us In our
revolution did not arise exclusively out OF
sympathy with or from sentiments OF lib
erty, but underlying. II not superinducing
its generous assistance. the remembrance
which our national sense Of gratitude
should ever cherish. there were substantial
reasons Of commercial interest: as the
revolution. besides affordng an opportunity
Of weakening an enemy. also held out the
probability of breaking up the British
monopoly Of trade with the colonies, a
trade which France hoped to divert to
itself.
1t is not altogether necessary to go
to such excellent historical precedent
for justification for Secretary Knox's
so-called Dollar Diplomacy" for in
it's own achievements is to be found
all the justification It needs, yet 1t
may serve a very good purpose of call
ing these facts to mind. 1t shows to
what extremes political antagonisms
will go. Mr.. Knox has been held up
to contumely for practicing a rule that
has always governed our dealings with
other nations, as II he had introduced
the rule for the first time and it had
worked with grievous results. The ia
nous Chinese loan is one of the fruits
of the Knox dollar diplomacy. Is 1t
to be decried as either unwise or un-
profitable2 Indeed, this country would
be departing from the basic principle
of the diplomacy of all great powers
were It to seek to eliminate the COM
mercial element.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-06
Friendship as an Investment.

Pure, unselfish friendship yields
profits which cannot be measured by
temporal standards. Investment in
this is one Of the essentials in any life
that is worth while. The dividends
that come from genuine friendship are
mutual always, so that such bond
or relation helps not one, but two,
lives, at least two. Jonathan's ambi-
ton was less self-centered and David's
passion more easily curbed because of
the powerful bond of fellowship that
bound them together. And their other
less intimate friends must have been
helped accordingly.
But 1t is a serious mistake to usurp
the function of friendship for baser
purposes. No man may expect to get
out of it the real fruits of friendship
If the coin he invests is spurious. He
may not expect genuine friendship to
grow out of selfish design. II he
seeks friendship for selfish favor he
will miss results. II he invests in
friendship to enable him to use a
friend he will soon find himself bank
rupt in friends. At least he ought to-
And yet, how many men are prone to
cultivate friends for what they can get
out Of them. 1t is the common fault
of seeing how much one can get for
nothing.
The largest measure of i'll from
such an impulse is still not to be
found in the individual case at hand
of friendship abused, though that is
bad enough, but it is to be found in
the wasted opportunity for good De-
base thing like friendship, potential
of the highest benedictions and bene-
factions of life, to the mean end of
selfish aggrandizement-in this lies
the largest and real evil. Friendship
sincerely nurtured is potential of deep
and abiding confidence and friendship
betrayed of questioning hope and fee
BILE faith, suspicion and doubt.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-06

the bread and butter attitude OF the
school teacher is when their salaries
are fixed. The capable, efficient
teacher should be fairly paid, and such
one does not need to be prodded on
the ethical side of his or her calling.
They have not neglected the profess
sional character OF the work or they
would cease to be capable and eff
cient. A good deal of talk goes to
waste in attempting to maintain such
positions as this good woman has
taken, when the effort might better be
employed to remove the need for such
close, thoughtful adherence to the
sterner realities Of life.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-06
What is BeerR

Just one question more DR., Wiley
has to PROFOUND, and that is. What is
beer?" 1t follows rather closely upon
the heels of that twin query, What
is whisky?" 1t is to be assumed that
the doctor has by now discovered to
his own satisfaction what is whisky
I'm tired buying foam" the gov
ernment's food and drug expert is
quoted as saying. The doctors de-
mand is not an unreasonable one. OF
course the common, everyday run OF
beer bibbers may not care whether
they get foam or not, but the esthetic,
scientific drinker wants his beverage
to be beer and nothing but beer. He
wants 1t so pure that he can actually
taste the barley or the hops or what
ever the main ingredient may be. Any
brewer could AFFORD to cut on about
three inches OF foam from his beer
without getting down to where the
profit and loss begin. They have been
flowing. It seems. with such increas-
ing facility and volume. In spite of the
wave of prohibition, as to bring the
income far above the high-tide line OF
the foam, SO to speak.
The trouble seems to be that the
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-06
INOokin$BaCkward
hisDSSy in0maha
r COMPILED FROM BEE FILES
Thirty Years Ago
AUGUST @.

Thirty Years Ago
The men employed in the locomotive de-
partment Of the Union Pacific shops held
an informal meeting for the purpose Of
getting an increase of pay It appears that
at present they get 15l1 cents an hour and
they want 20 cents.
General Henderson and wife, ]. H. MIL
lard. Marsh Kennard and daughter and w.
n. Hubbard and family arrived home from
Lake Minnetonka,
Mr.. C. S. stebbins and family have re-
turned from Colorado.
Durant engine and hose company No. !
has elected the following officers 20 serve
for the year: Foreman. Thomas Medium;
first assistant James Pagan second as
sistant, Frank schmitz secretary. William
Dcnker; treasurer, John Mcdonald. After
the meeting Gottlleb Zimmerman. who has
been a member Of the company nine years,
invited all present to go around TO Tenth
and Capitol avenue, where he entertained
them In jolly style.
Races at the Council Bluffs driving park
are drawing good patronage from the
Omaha side Of the river.
A little boy, staying at the Occidental
hotel with Mrs. Landrum. while playing
with dog. had his face badly bitten.
couple OF spoony lovers make the steps
OF the Presbyterian church the scene Of
their love making nightly, and people pass
ing are forced to sec an exhibition Of bill
ing and cooling. People like a little bit
Of that kind of thing. but they do not like
too much of It,"
Bricklayers have commenced laying the
foundation walls Of the Willard.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-06
Secretary Fishers important Tour.

Really, big results depend upon the
tour Of Alaska which Secretary Of the
Interior Fisher is about to make. For
two years an incessant warfare on
the governments Alaskan policies and
methods has been kept up. 1t is most
desirable and important that this
cease and that the problem of Alaska's
development be solved without further
elimination and recrimination. No
man associated with the present admin
istration, or who has yet been asso-
ciated with 1t, is adapted to the task
at hand better than Secretary Fisher.
Owing to his previous alignment, his
views on such questions, his personal
and political connections and his good
sense of his fairness and wisdom, the
secretary should be able on his return
from Alaska to bring the question
down to the solid basis of truth and
fact and have 1t settled on that basis
That no mistakes have been made in
Alaska by agents Of the government
would he undertake to say that the
situation had been improved by the
acrimony that has been engendered
and the scandals that have been ped
died. The regrettable fact is that
some of those protesting loudest their
own pure motives and good intentions
have, by impugning the motives Of
others and misrepresenting their ac-
lions, seriously hampered the govern
ment in it's attempt and befogged the
people in their effort to get the correct
understanding of the case. If Secre-
tary Fisher is only given free hand
to learn the facts and make such rec
concentrations as he thinks wise, that
much-mooted question of Alaska
problem" may yet come to the begin
ming of its solution before another con-
gress convenes.