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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03
Asleen at the Switch.

A resolution has been introduced
into the senate by Senator Hitchcock
making pertinent inquiries Of the War
department officials as to the reasons
for, and effect of, the recent order for
reorganization of military divisions
and reassignment of department WORK,
which will probably elicit some inter-
esting information.
The trouble is that this post-mor-
TEN manifestation of curiosity very
much resembles shutting the stable
door after the horse has been stolen.
The order for Encouragement of the
military assignments has already been
given to be effective the first of July.
This proposed change was known to be
under consideration for months, and
the time to have gotten busy to pro-
tect Omaha's interest was before the
plans had been completed and ap-
proved and promulgated.
1t is possible that some modification
may yet be had, and 1t is also possible
that no modification could have been
had even with earlier action and
greater vigilance. But a resolution
Of inquiry at this stage of the game
would seem to indicate that someone
was asleep at the switch when the
train rolled by.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

Daniel Frohman and his brother. Charles,
the big men in the theater business, were
born in Sandusky, o. They started up the
ladder office boys on the New York
Tribune.
One of the Chicago aldermen wants the
girls who serve as ushers at the theaters
TO be replaced by men. Women would
not be brave in a fire panic, he says. but
at the first sign of danger would pick up
their skirts and run.
Helen Wollan, p has saved 5000 from
tips she received as maid in the women's
parlor at the hotel st. Regis, New York,
in a service Of three and one-half years,
and has sailed for Europe to make her
home with her mother in Vienna,
Justice John NJ. Harlan is in his thirty
fourth year as a member of the United
states supreme court. and he Will not have
TO live many more months to exceed the
record made by Chief Justice Marshall
and Justices Story and Field, each Of whom
have served thirty-four years in the court.
II is said OF Harlan that in all this time
he has been absent from the sittings OF
the court less than twenty days.
Miss Kate M Gordon of New Orleans
Is the chairman of the committee in charge
of raising the gratitude fund which is to
be used at a memorial to Susan B. An
thony. In raising the fund professional
women, college women and business women
are asked 10 contribute 81, teachers and
stenographers 80 cents. college students 8
cents, department store clerks and factory
workers 10 cents and housewives having
no independent source OF fortune whatever
they can spare.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03
Kansas Custer Law at Work.

Kansas is once more in the lime
light, drawn thither by the new custer
law, by which the governor may over
turn a city administration that be-
comes derelict in its duty. Governor
Stubs has selected Leavenworth
as the place for testing the
law. His attorney general, upon
whom devolves the task of en-
forcing the act, reports through
special agent sent to Leavenworth
that what that city needs is a COM
plete new set Of officials. He finds
the mayor, chief of police and all the
rest utterly indifferent to their duties,
the lid wide open, and the whole town
far on it's way to the bow-wows.
This Kansas act is related in a way
to the Sackett law in Nebraska. Under
these laws, the governors of both states
are confronted by much the same
tasks and before they are through they
will find it a grievous one, no doubt,
But 1t is up to them to meet condi-
tions as they exist. Whatever may be
thought of the drastic features of
either law, is not a matter about
which the governors may concern
themselves too much.
Many people will look with more or
less disfavor on this tendency to place
the government of municipalities so
largely in the hands of the legislature
or the state executive and perhaps
the out-workings of these very stat
utes may be profitable in pointing out
better how to meet the great problem
of city government. 1t is not a vindi-
cation of the principle of local self
government to lodge this power in the
governor and it depends upon the per-
sonnet of the chief executive, after all,
as to whether this enlarged discretion
airy power is well exercised
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03
PUT or PAYING BASIS.

Kansas City star: Although the Post
office department has ceased having
deficit, the government can be depended
upon to find some other way to spend the
money.
Indianapolis News; II as good a politician
as Mr.. Hitchcock can end the year with a
surplus Of 81, 10000 to the credit Of the
Postoffice department It would seem that
a great many opportunities to bring about
reform without running amuck have been
overlooked in the past.
Kansas City Times: Part Of the saving
perhaps s. ,OO0,OOO-has been due to the re-
form in railway mail payments instituted
by Victor Murdoch of Kansas. For the
rest the credit must lie with the postmas-
ter general Whatever may be the politi-
cal alignment of Mr.. Hitchcock, he surely
has proved himself a great director of
posts.
Denver Republican: 1t is a reflection
upon the economy and efficiency of gov
eminent work that this is the first time
in the history Of the country that a deficit
In the Postoffice department has not oc-
CURED. But 1t is greatly to the credit Of
Postmaster General Hitchcock that he is
the first head of the department to achieve
that result.
Philadelphia Ledger; Mr. Hitchcock has
given the country brilliant demonstration
OF the benefits OF scientific management
along certain limited lines. When that prin-
ciple is applied everywhere IL is impossible
accurately to foresee the point of economy
and perfection to which our postal service
may not attain. For the great gain of the
present the country is properly apprecia-
tive.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03
A Senatorial Farce.

Every move made in the senate to
prevent a straightforward, impartial
investigation of the Lorimer case must
be regarded as a move to hold the
Illinois senator in his seat against the
popular verdict and a virtual admis-
sion that the charges of corruption
cannot be refuted. Surely no senator
is obtuse enough to fail to see that,
or to imagine that he can deceive the
people as to his motives. 1t is doubt
full IL all the records of the senate dis
close a greater farce than that already
enacted over the retention by Lorimer
of his seat.
II all his colleagues we're bent on
the one purpose of a fair, direct in
vestigation to determine Lorimer's
right to his place in the senate the
matter would be settled within a very
short time, and the senate, If it had
any other business to transact, could
proceed to It. But too many senators
are plainly interested, not in getting
to the bottom of the case, but in pre-
venting that very thing.
If the senator against the integrity
of whose election these grave charges
lie were not averse to rest his case
upon it's merits he would, himself,
had seen to it long ago that no tech
nicality stood in the way of a COM
plete revelation of the facts.
For men skilled in the law and in
the practices of congress to haggle
over what they call a re-investigation
is for them to exhibit themselves be-
fore the country in a most unfavorable
light. The idea that the great avail
anche of evidence already poured out
is not convincing on the public and
that further tedious investigating"
is necessary prevails nowhere except
in the senatorial chamber.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03
A PROPER REBUKE.
Southern Lawyer Called Down for
Using Terms of OpprObrium.

Pittsburg Dispatch.
Judge Emory Speer of the United States
circuit court administered deserved re-
buke to a member OF the Georgia bar and
inferentally to the element which is loud
est in appeals to race prejudice and most
commonly guilty of provoking it. In a
peonage case the lawyer for the accused
white men repeatedly referred to the negro
plaintiff as this Niger" rolling the con-
temptuous phrase from his tongue as II
he took particular pleasure in 1t. Finally
the judge said: Don't you think the fu-
ture attorney general of the state OF Geor-
Sla can spare us this niger, Niger, Mig
serF It sounds so unworthy of a great
court or justice, so unworthy of your posi-
uon TO be alluding to these poor unfortunate
creatures constantly in the lowest terms of
degradation" The lawyer insisted hotly
that he knew his rights and Judge Speer
aomonished him more severely that he was
exceeding them, that II he continued on
that line he would be dsbarred and suR-
gested that he use the language of a Gull
tivated gentleman.
Terms OF opprobrium, appeals to the
lowest race peJudice, applied by the SUD-
posed superior to those Of another race or
class refute the assumption of superiority
on their face, since the person who resorts
to such language proves himself 10 be the
lower by his own attitude. The really
superior person is the one who is courte.
GUS and considerable to others, who shows
That he does not think he has to proclaim
his superiority to make it apparent.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03
How Municipal Publicity Works.

Baltimore is keeping doggedly at its
Industrial campaign, having raised a
fund of 100000 for the purpose of
municipal publicity. There is a rea-
son for the fierce competition be-
tween cities for the acquisition of
new industries and expansion of trade
territory" says Charles H. Dickey,
chairman of the Greater Baltimore
committee. He is right and the rea-
son is that the city that fails to &C
quire new Industries and expand its
trade territory, drops into the back
ground and makes room for a more
progressive city. Baltimore has come
to appreciate the necessity of action
on its part. 1t has neglected oppor-
tunities and now, with the great,
growing south at its door, it sees that
its easy-going methods have let rival
cities get ahead of Baltimore. This
system of municipal advertising is not
new to the west, particularly Omaha,
Kansas City, and other cities in these
great river valleys. We are reaping
our harvests from it and II our ex-
amples have inspired older and larger
cities to the east and south of us, so
much the better for the results.
The Baltimore American we'll says
that western cities are not primarily
concerned with large populations;
they are first interested in acquiring
industries to employ their people and
develop the territory adjacent 10 them.
Do both of these and the population
will grow automatically. Develop the
field within and without and new re-
sources will force an increase in pop
ulation. AS the great stretches to
the west of us settle up with sturdy
home-owners, omaha's markets en-
large. The demands upon her mer-
chants and manufacturers grow with
her source of supplies. Our CONNER
cial evangelists have had all this in
mind in their propaganda which has
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03
THESE CONTROL THE TRUST.
six Men Practically MonopOIiEe To-
baccO Holdings.
New York American.


New York American.
James y. Duke. Thomas f. Ryan, An
thony n, Brady, p. A. b. widener Oliver
II. Payne and the william c. whitney es-
tate control each 1884 shares Of the Amer
lean Tobacco company's common stock,
total OF 200,O0 shares out Of 10000. The
present market value OF each holding is
Sl6e67 900, and the dividend each received
last year was 81, SSS,s0.
Other officer and directors or assoc
ciates held additional shares, but these
six men absolutely control the company,
whose total outstanding stock (common)
is 1900 shares. The bonds and preferred
stock in the company have no voting
power and are limited as to dividends
1t is understood that ten individuals own
more than 60 per cent of all the voting,
and therefore controlling, stock Tho origi-
nal common stock of the original American
Tobacco company Cpar $50 sold as low as
$3.50 per share on the stock exchange in
1895. One who had bought 100 shares OF the
stock at that price would have invested
$3.50 Three years later the holder of 100
shares would have received 100 shares more
for nothing as stock dividend making 200
shares of the par value OF $4,000 at the
original cost OF 1850 Two years later he
might have taken 200 in 4 per cent bonds
OF the Consolidated Tobacco company for
his stock, but If he had refused TO take
that and had held his original stock until
the big merger in 1904 and the formation Of
the new American Tobacco company he
would have got par for It in the common
stock Of the new company; that is, 100
shares par 5000 of new American Tobacco
company for 200 shares tpar $500 of the
common stock of the old American To-
bacco. company. And his 100 shares of
American Tobacco common would now be
worth $4,000 Deduct it's original cost,
$3.50 and the profit is $4L45O That is
about lSG0 per ceut in fifteen years, to
say nothing of large returns meantime in
dividends
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03
THE DEADLY PARALLEL.

Chicago Post.
Four months ago But yesterday
When blizzards You puffed and
blew TUNED,
And ice and snow Though down the
Made mock OF you way
When cold winds The uIacs bloomed.
howled on every hand
ANA SKIES were Gay o s o IN s
gray tossed
you growied and You madly famed
growled And nrayed for
BY night and day. frost.
"Confound the cold!" This awful heat"
You muttered I'm You weakly gasped
SICK OF TINS old To all you'd meet
VIVA Wlntertlme. In tones a I
With icy street rasped.
And pipes that You SAT and sighed:
freeze Ard sat there er,,T,
Oh. for the heat, And asked what
Send summer, made
please ,,,. The hot wave
So was your look;
me , tseth Oh yTSS Your face was red.
shoot Your shirt a rag.
You shoyeled coal You mopped your
And stirred the Ana 'iet u sag
uar-r,th xxas tha And wished II were
goal Four months ago,
or your desire The air ablur
tsff " HTH e' With d n &
You could not seeiVo- snow.
Tn snow-vTeatbed You did not care
tree A single hang
OR ice-locked For meadows fair,
stream; For birds that
You sought the shade sang
Turn summer on! Oh. when you're cold
10y is united Or when you're hot
When winters You sit and scold
gone" Foo what you've
not
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

The clerks in the military head
quarters of the Department of the
Missouri are permitted to express a
preference as to where they shall be
transferred. AS most of them would
rather stay right here in Omaha, the
War department officials need have no
trouble in learning how to accommo-
date them.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

brought such fruitful results Of late,
extending our trade far into the Pa
cific northwest and our corn exposi-
tons and land shows are cooperative
influences that work toward the same
common purpose.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

Speaker Clark has already written
a letter of congratulation to the demo-
cratic candidate for congress in the
Ninth Iowa district across the river.
Still, It would have been safer to wait
until after the election is held and the
returns are in.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

In Japsn's edict against colored tea
some OF our tingoes are likely to see
a thrust at American society women
who are in the habit of attending pink
teas.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

When subpoenae6 as a witness At
torney General-for-a-Little- While Null
len was unable to give the grand
jury any information about law viola
ton in Omaha, That will not stop
him, however, from telling the SUI
preme court all about 1t.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03
Prospective Contradictions.

PhIIadeIphla Record.
1t is one thing for the progressives 10
refuse to aid in the election of reaction
airy of the type Of Senator Galllnger of
New Hampshire for president pro tenn of
the senate, and another and far more i'm
portant thing for the same progressives to
coalesce with Senator Gallinger and the
rest Of the ractionary republicans against
reciprocity with Canada. The progressives
will find 1t hard to reconcile these contra
dictory positions
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

II that promised vacancy In the city
council materializes by the resignation
of a republican member. the demo-
cratic majority will have a fine chance
to prove how nonpartisan it Is.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

nationaiists control the county councils aho
need the money. As consequence there
is no particular noise made about the eN-
petition OF tax collectors TO the Arrah
Islands off the south coast OF Ireland
where the poorest Of Irish people exc
bare existence and have nothing where
with 70 pay the rates. But the Galway
county council insists the Arran fishertolk
have the coin and is going to search for II.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

The minister who defends Mr.. Ana
Mas on the plea that he dropped dead
from apoplexy as the result of telling
his first lie will probably say that
Adam had visual stigmatism or he
would have seen the apple first.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

Douglas county has nearly one
seventh Of the population of Nebraska,
but receives only little over one
ninth Of the state school fund appor-
tionment. There is evidently some
thing radically wrong either with our
school census here or with the school
censuses In other parts OF the state.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

Times have not changed much, after
all. Thirty-four years ago Diaz went
into Mexico behind a gun. and the
other day he went out with a pistol in
each hand, so the press dispatches saw
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

The democrats in congress have
tried to let Mr.. Bryan down easy, but
in the meantime Senator Hitchcock
has shown his teeth in a very ugly
way and disclosed the animosity to-
ward Mr., Bryan still ranking in his
breast
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

The last shake of the democratic
Kaleidoscope shows that Mr.. BRYAN
might yet find himself compelled to
boost for Governor Wilson.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

Dr. Wiley, who has been called a
dreamer may take comfort in the
thought that they preferred like
charges against Chris Columbus and
Benjamin Franklin.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

II should be remembered Mr.. Bryan
only beat the bushes at that st. PAM
democratic powwow; he did not get
into the thick of the discussion NJ
presidential candidates.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

In casting about for a summer
White House, we cannot think of one
that would be more summerish than
the regular headquarters at Washing
ton,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

II begins to look as IL Gates and
Gary did not have definite under
standing as to what they were to tes-
tify to before that steel investigating
committee.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

W. j. Bryan did not indicate his prefer
ehee Tor presidential candidate in lsl2.-
News Item from St Paul.
Mr.. Bryan always was credited with
an innate sense of modesty.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

Subscribers leaving the city tenn
pOrarily should have The Bec
mailed TO them. Address Will be
changed as often ms requested,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03
An Omitted ChnIIenne,
ST. Louis Ren1lhlic

bt' I1UuIS INtUUUIIC,
careful scanning of the press reports
fails to disclose that John w. Gates Of
fered once to bet congress a million during
the whole time he was giving his testimony
before the Steel Trust committee.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03
MAY CIRCULATION.
48,473

state Of Nebraska, County Of Douglas. IS:
Dwight Williams, circulation manager Of
The Bee Publishing Company, being duly
sworn says that the average daily cIrcula-
copies for the month of May, 1911, was
S,f3 DWIGHT WILLIAMS,
Circulation Manager
subscribed in my presence and sworn to
before me this LIST day Of June, 1911
(SeaL) ROBERT HUNTER,
Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

Two balloenists in Massachusetts
dropped In on their way to Lowell to
attend a country church meeting.
Right down from heaven.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

Possibly Bill" Stone "a blown
over on the Lorimer css. :, baking
powder explosion.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

Baltimore and Louisville are en-
gagged in civic advertising campaigns,
with mint juleps on the side. no doubt
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03
Send In the bids

Champ Clark having announced his re-
fusal to throw anybody out of the window
who might come around with a nomination,
we may now go about the selection of a
summer capital In Saskatchewan.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

'Lobeck preparing a bill" Oh
Joy! Oh rapture Who would have
suspected him of It?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

We are still waiting for the roster
OF those volunteer policemen who are
to serve as home defenders.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

Are Clerymen Vain of Their
Cloth?" asks the Washington Times
They certainly should not be this kind
of weather.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

AT any rate, Justice Harlan has es-
taolished his claim to being the insur
recto of the supreme court.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

1t is SO easy to address open letters
to the president that the wonder is
30 many resist the temptation.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

Latest man nominated for vice
president is Governor Burke of North
Dakota. The list is still open.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

Mr.. Bryan has not yet named Alton
B. Parker as a democratic possibility
for 1912. Jealous.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

Nothing the supreme court can do
VIII curl Mr.. Rockefeller's top hair,
however.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03
Bushes. for soldiers of Fortune.

The Lord tempers the wind to the sAorn
lamb. Just when the Mexican peace dove
throws the soldier of fortune out of a lob
Chile begins slapping Peru on the wrist
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

The joy rider leaves lot Of gloom
in his wake.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03

A game of tag for $4,000 is a game
worth playing.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-03
TAPS ON THE FUNNYBoNE.


prisoner. you are charged with being
a receiver of stolen goods. What have YOU
"" Ys'T honor. I'm not goin' to dignity such
a charge as that by denyin II. ,,., -,
THE court interprets that as a plea OF
guilty. one year in the penitenuarN. '-
Chicago Tribune.
Your city, sir, seems to be very quiet
lava biding place for the far west
Yves IL is. but what Will you say when
tell you the tery first day l arrived In
this town | was held up?
Neither; by the doctor as the finest Nn-
FOUNDER in the place. baltimore Amer
lean.
Hubbubs--I love the early spring. Every
thing looks so fresh and clean around here.
Subbubs-Yes, we've had couple OF de-
tectives out here securing the country for
a burglar Philadelphia Record
First Bad Man-who's that fellow in the
check suit who Keeps lookin at you?
Second Bad Man-Thats McStalker the
detective.
First Bad Man-Geel But say, how do
you know him In plain clothes?
Second Bad Man-Easy. l never saw him
in any other kind.
Sometimes" said Flooding Pete, I'm
tempted to map out route that'll take
me TO them there ar'tic regions"
THE climates no good, Nentured
Meandering Mike.
O. the them DT EsR sGU5 "Y is ioeEn fur farm
hands. "-Washington Star.
she-Tm afraid Tom, dear, you will find
me a mine of faults.
He-Darling. it shall be the sweetest
tabor of my life to correct them.
She (flaring up)-Indeed, you shan't'-
Boston Transcript.