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Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23
Seeking the Short Cut.

Compared with the times gone by,
this is the shortcut age. Everyone
wants to get to his destination by the
shortest and quickest possible route,
regardless that 1t may be decidedly
more dangerous and much less COM
Portable to travel.
The same thing is witnessed in
nearly every field of human activity.
The short cut to knowledge is what
the educators are hunting for with
the purpose of equipping a youth to
practice medicine, or try a law suit,
or design cathedral or build a bridge
without devoting unnecessary time to
preparation. In trade, or in banking,
or in manufacturing, no disposition is
manifest to daily long with small be-
ginnings, but the immediate desire is
to expand and combine and attain the
big scale level all at once. The spell
of the shortcut spirit is upon us, and
knowledge of that fact will help us to
explain a lot of things otherwise OBJ
scure and confused.
1t is not that the quickest or short
est cut is a bad thing in itself, nor
that we should return to the slower
and circuitous paths, even though
they may be safer and saner. What
we must do, however, is to recognize
and appreciate the hazards of our way
of doing things and guard against
OVERRIDING. 1t is all right to take the
short cut If it gives reasonable assur-
ance of landing us at the right place,
but we must be careful not to be tur-
tied at the halfway station.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23
LOADED WITH WATER.
Dangerous Tendency In Promoting In
dustriaI Corporations.


dustriaI Corporations.
New York Financial World.
Although II has been demonstrated quite
frequently enough that the rock on which
was wrecked a goodly number of industrial
corporations was decentralization, that
lesson does not seem to hold out any warn
ing to some of our bankers All that seems
to guide them in their flotations OF indus
trial enterprises is the thought OF how
much stock the public may be induced to
take. They cut their cloth accordingly.
This is a dangerous tendency TO which
very little thought Is now given. But
there must come a day Of reckoning. Cap
itaization, to be conservative, cannot be
stretched 10 the full limit and then some
more without at some time breaking under
The strain.
The item of good will" on the assets
side OF a financial statement is the useful
vehicle by which some bankers succeed in
stretching the capital of an industrial en-
terprise out OF all proportions. This IS
the bukhead in their structures wherein
hogsheads of water may be pourned and
concealed.
In glancing over the financial statements
of some OF the industrials whose securities
have been recently publicly offered we find
that in some instances a value has been
set on good WILL" trademarks, etc, all
| values OF the most intangible character,
nearly equal TO 10 per cent Of the total out
standing capital.
Where there Is so much water II is In
evitable that in the end investors who de-
Iude themselves with the seemingly good
showing In earnings will drown themselves
with the coming OF the first long drawn
out period OF industrial depression. The
banks which load up with such watered
collateral will ind themselves in vulner-
able position should pinch in the money
market overtake them, for they will then
discover a very narrow market for this
class Of securities.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23
Twenty Years Ago

The Bee says edtorially: "A session Of
the grand jury is needed TO clean up these
parts before election"
DR.. V. T. McGillicuddy Of Rapid City, S.
D., was in town with an enthusiastic re-
port of the new smelter- there.
Mrs. S. II. Towne and daughters Alice
and Agness, leave for visit in eastern
Iowa.
DR.. George L. Miller Is in Salt Lake City,
making democratic speeches.
A. j. Kendrick, city editor of the Chi
cago News, formerly Of The Bee, with Mrs.
kendrck, was in the city enroute west
for a vacation.
The First Baptist church Sunday school
held its annual picnic at Bellevue.
Police Commissioner Chris Hartman re-
turns from Hot Springs.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

The other day the consistent sena-
tor Bailey got to Grating about man
sions on the mountains" OF some Of
"our big rich." when colleague
called attention to an invitation in the
Texas senator's inside pocket to at
tend q house party at the palatial
summer home of Senator Watson Of
West Virginia and the invitation was
accepted.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23
MisfOrtunes of sunny Italy.
Boston Transcript.

bOSIon transcript.
The saddest thought in this cholera
scourge is the blight 1t puts upon fair Italy.
No land is more beloved by the world
than Italy. None is more beautiful, more
glorious in it's past or radiant in it's present.
Its people are hospitable, courageous and
in many other ways admirable. It's gov
eminent is ambitious. progressive and gem
erous to its people. The country has
steadily grown in sanitary and humani-
tartan ideals. Yet upon this fair land falls
disaster after disaster. Earthquake, vol
cano, fire and now again pestilence. What
have the gods against poor Italy?
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

Senator La Toilette rails against
the newspapers that have favored
reciprocity, charging upon them that
they are selfish. How lonesome they
would be in this world, in which SEN
ator La Toilette lives, if they were
what he thinks they should be.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

It is announced from Washington
that Senator Brown is about to food
the state, under congressional frank,
OF course, with his speech on reeiproc-
fly. There was faint suspicion al
ready that that was why the speech
WAS made.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23
Look at the BIII, DOCTOR.

San Francisco Chronicle
David Starr Jordan says our universities
and colleges are sending out lawyers who
have not the least conception of the funda-
mental needs of the law. Let the doctor
wait until he gets a bill OF costs and he
will see that. however much his attorney
may be lacking in a conception of the
fundamental conditions of the clients
purse. he has pretty clear conception of
the fundamental needs OF the lawyer.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

Among the chief influences that
have promoted the popular-election-
of-senators, for which Editor Hearst
claims sole credit: Lorimer, Lee
O'Neill, Browne & Co., Hines, Tam
many, Murphy and an indignant, but
sovereign, people.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

serving their identity. But IL makes
no difference with destiny that the
lords chose another way. The $50
vulgar persons" are now to be made
peers by the king, and the agony will
soon be over.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

No one ever claimed for the COM
mission plan of city government that
It would usher in the millennium. 1t
is hard to see. however, how 1t could
possibly fail to produce an improve
ment over what Omaha has been
having.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

Talk about making laws dead let
ters and all that, but observe that the
law of gravitation is enforced with
grim impartiality, as has Eeen noted
OF late In aviation.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23
JUNE CIRCULATION.
48,466

State OF Nebraska, County of Douglas, IS:
Dwight Williams. circulation manager OF
sworn savs that the average daily circula-
ton, less spoiled. unused and returned
copies, for the month Of June, 1911. was
4s.H6 DWIGHT WILLIAMS.
Circulation Manager
Subscribed in my presence and sworn TO
before me this first day Of July, 1911.
(Seal.) ROBERT HUNTER,
Notary Public
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

Unless congress adjourns soon those
ohautauQua managers may make the
distressing discovery that they can get
along just as we'll without hiring high
priced congressman and senators.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

Sam Blythe recalls in the Saturday
Evening Post that IN. e. ingalls,, the
railroad president, was a member of
the Massachusetts state senate away
back in 1867" But why dig up that
on the gentleman now that he is living
an honorable life?
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

]. Adam Bede puts 1t that an insur-
gent is progressive who has not been
Vaccinated. Wish Adam would revise
the Congressional Directory by insert
ing Identification marks.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

Kansas City Times.
A Kansas fisherman declares that cat
fish will purr like tomcat when it is
stroked the right way. Did he ever try
stroking a German carp and hearing 1t
sing Hi lie, Hi lo7''
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23
what WIN Richard Do Then,

Houston Post
If an arbitration treaty is negotiated be-
tween the United States and Japan, we
fear that Hobson will have to tap some
other reservoir of alarm In order to hold
the focus Of the llmelight upon him.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

According to beauty doctor, the
lips should not be too full nor too
thin. So examine your lips and revise
them accordingly.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

Subscribers leaving the city tenn
pOrarily should have The Bee
mailed 20 them. Address Will be
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

Anyway, when Mr.. Bryan spoke in
Omaha last week he did not have to
hire his own hall and act as chairman
of his own meeting.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

Among the factors working for in
ternational peace the money spent
abroad by American tourists should
be enumerated near the top OF the list.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

1t is to be hoped that gallant
archie" Butt will give due credit to
the training he received in riding Ak
Sar-Bens goat.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

Senator La Toilette, having duly
roasted everybody and everything,
nothing remained to be done but pass
the reciprocity bill.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

Georgia must heave a sigh of relief
to know that 1t has Hoke Smith placed
for another four years.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

Still. the Missouri judge who ruled
that a man may" spank his wife did
not advise any to undertake II.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

Perhaps Ethel Barrymore found she
could not maintain her artistic tenn
permanent and remain In matrimony.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23
wouIa All BE Forgiven Z

Chicago Tribune.
II DR.. Wiley would consent to recant on
his benzoate Of soda theories would all be
forgiven him?
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

1t is to be hoped that before the
regular session convenes Senator
La Toilette will have got in a good
humor
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

Evelyn Arthur See should have
known that the only absolute life
there is is in this fine old Nebraska
ozone.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

1t takes two for reciprocity. 1t is
Canada's next move.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23
adulterated

Certain adulterated interests
thought they had DR.. Wiley where Ad-
'miral schley had Admiral Cervera,
but they are discovering their mistake.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

Senior Castro is lost again. The
senior is great on his high lonesomes.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

Beverly, Mass, will now again be-
come a news foundry.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

One must wonder why DR.. Wiley
wants the job, anyway.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

That trial of the italian camorrists
must be a regular serial story.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIEs.

Maud-After all, a hammock is nothing
but net.
Jack-Right Many a girl makes a good
catch in one.-Boston Transcript.
How'd you like TO sign with me for life's
game?' inquired the young man,
I'm agreeable" replied the girl.
where's your diamond?'-Loulsvllle Cour-
ier-Journal.
".Mlaybsls il always keen for bargains -
She got a coat Of tan as good as mine
for $50 less. Chicago Tribune.
Judge-You are charged with beating your
wife. What have you to say?
Prisoner-Not guilty. II I could lick heI
I'd be the white hope.-Puck.
Yes, the fair divorce is taking a twr
weeks rest"
And then?'
And then she marries again,"--CleveI
land Plain Dealer.
Old Gent-'Pon my word. madam, should
hardly have known you, YOU have altered
so much.
Lady--For better or for worse.
Old Gent-Ah madam, you could only
change for the better.-Judge.
The Inquisitive Guest-I suppose you
would like to get a job in a restaurant
patronized by milionaires, where you'd gel
big tips.
The Obsequious Waiter-No sir. I'd
rather have Job in a restaurant wheEe
four-flushers on Sl2 Il week salaries brjdd
the girls they are trying to make o. hit
with.--Toledo Blade.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

"Maybelle Is always keen for bargains.
How now?"
She got coat of tan as good as mine
for $50 less. Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-23

Judge--You are charged with beating your
wife. What have you to say?
Prisoner-Not guilty. II I could lick hei
I'd be the white hope.-Puck.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-15

the committee as hired counsellor and citizen the Farmer is in substantial agreement, as it recollects, with the views of the American Bar Associa- tion, expressed in the rules which, it has formulated for the ethical instruc- tion of it's members.
 Two classes of lawyers make their appearance in Hartford. One prac- tiers before legislative committees, epsnly and honorabiy. The other class Hobbies, or guides the lobby; influ- ences legislation by methods seen and unseen. This class draws strike bills to get retainers, kills honest bills for hire, travels ever close to the line that divides the outer world from the penitentiary.
 Lobbying in it's simpler forms is not of course, criminal per SC, but it is so much in bad odor of the law that courts have again and again held that lobbying contracts cannot be en- forced The lobbyist cannot by legal means compel his employer to pay him for lobbying service, such ser vice being deemed against public policy.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-15
THE STOCK MARKET.
Watson. Alpers & Col

NW WdlSOI, Alp6IS N SO-J
 The technical position of the stock markets is apparently strong. as shown, by the rallying of prices when ever selling pressure relaXes. 1nsti- tutional buying of the standard is- sues continues to be noted. The re- servoir of bank reserves is still fill ing up: money rates so low that capital, if it sees no invitation in present comm merciaI enterprise, will in time seek better returns in the pur- chase of sound securities. The local banking position has been greatly strengthened by the acceptance by about a dozen trust companies of the new ruIes of the Clearing House As sociation requiring stronger reserves and inter-institutional examinations. The unsettled trust questions before the Supreme Court, the disturbing in fuence of Congressional agitation and the poor industrial reports that un- fortunately are still the rule, make up the factors which prevent specu- lation from broadening. These will disappear in time and the strong phases of the situation become the inspiration of the markets but patti ence IS the watchword best applicable to the temporary situation
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-15

the whole domain of knowledge.
 Such an education will have it's fin al result in the one person in a hun. dred, or in a thousand or in mil lion, who will show extraordinary talent and by it's exercise make in numerable contributions to the social efficiency. and productiveness
 An Edison occurs perhaps once in 90 years among so million people If the number of Edisons is no more than doubled in the same period, by reason of the diversity and breadth of the public education, that one. by his inventions and contributions to science and knowledge, will produce values sufficent to justify the cost of a large part of the school system of a nation for the entire period.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-15
 GOV. BALDWIN AND s Rs VIEWS ON TEACHING

The institutions of Democracy, inl- perfect as they are, run so smoothly that they seem almost to operate tionary whose purpose seems, to the outside glance, to be attendance upon public occasions to give an ornamen- tai look >to things. But sometimes a man gets elected to the office who brings home to the public mind something of it's real importance. Such a one is Governor Baldwin, at once the civil head of the State, the commander in chief of it's military forces. and the nominal, if not the actual head of it's system of educa- tion. The Governors address before the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents is commend able for it's brevity and common sense.
 He makes it a prime qualification good English and surely such teach CTS will transmit some portion of their knowledge to their pupils, and they who are founded in a sound knowl- edge of a great language, and who have acquired the art of reading will never lack an education. Indeed those who read, and who continue through out life to read, will be the only per- sons who can be said to have ac- quired a broad education, though practice and habit may specialize them we'll enough in some one matter, or two.
 Sound also is the Governors advice not to lay too much stress upon the result of examinations. Life is not made up of test" days, but of re- quirements to be faithfully perform ed each and every day Often that child who makes a poor appearance on an examination paper later makes an excellent appearance in the worlds business.
 And not to- attempt to teach too much is good advice. Something must be left to the future and to the in telligence of the pupil
 We do not take this to be a plea for the limitation of the curriculum in public schools, but merely an argu- ment in favor of teaching thoroughly whatever is taught.
 The theory behind the public schools is that the good of the State requires the individuals composing the State to have an education
 To receive the fullest benefit for it's enormous educational outlay the State must have regard for two things.
 The first is to see that the schools afford a sound education in elementals for the great mass of those who. be- ing without exceptional capacities. will come to be as most of us are. the ordinary average men and women.
 The second is to see that the curri- culum is broad enough to attract su- perior minds and extraordinary abil- ities, by a display in some degree of
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-15

figures where the shoulders are very sloping is beyond question.
 Skirts are all straight and narrow in effect, but there's a, tendency, in the high class lines, to slash at intervals at the foot, presumably to add to the walking comfort of the wearer.
 Just now sashes and belts are i'm portant features, and, worn as they often are, with simple tailor dresses, transform the latter, by their amusing note of originality, into chic little toiettes.
 The lace rever is always very wide at the top, running well into the shoul- der. Deep frils of ace are beginning to be seen on sleeves.
 Orientally-draped scarves of multi colored stuffs are wound closely round the figure, the ends crossed at the side and falling low over the skirt. Some times they reach from the chest to be- low the hips.
 It is very evident that the new mill linery will not be confined to any hard and fast fashion or to specified sizes. Never has the variety been more in finite. the colorings more artistic, the results more fetching.
 Pique, mercerized poplins, linen, crepe, madras, etc. either plain, en- broidered, figured or striped, are the fabrics employed in the new soft tail OreQ neckWea1, WnlCn Is severe WlIH- out being masculine in effect.
 Hat trimmings run to flowers and the combination of the largest and the tiniest on one hat is the latest idea. Field and garden flowers also hobnob on the same model, and natural color ings are given little attention.
 Combinations have firmly establish ed their place in the underwear modes, especially for spring and summer wear. Drawers and corset cover and skirt and corset cover share favor equally, and the three-piece style is also seen.
 There is tendency to elaborate skirts with braids, bands, folds, but tons, fancy panels and gores, fashion having evidently tired of the plain bag-like styles of the past season or two. Ankle lengths at present pre- vail for the street.
 A pretty bandeau is out under the name of Dorothy, and consists of cloth of gold shaped wider in the mid dle. and embroidered in colors in the widest part: there is loop affixed at the ends for catching hairpin in to hold It ss6lfely.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-15
JOSEPH MEYERS HURT
 IN RUNAWAY WHILE
 LEAVING AERODROME

Mayor Buckingham and his broth er-in-law, pr. John HID. Budau, were the first to bring help to Joseph Mey- CTS and party of friends who figur- ed in a spectacular runaway in the throng leaving the Aerodrome yes terday afternoon. In the surrey were Meyers his son Joseph and his Wife, and Mrs. Pauline Kerschoffer of Fairfield Taking fright at the pass ing automobiles the animal dashed through Stratford avenue at top speed and side swipfng an automo- bile, dashed across an open lot near the car barns at Avon park. Mayor Buckingham and his party were pass ing in their machines. They picked the unconscious Meyers out of the roadway made him comfortable upon cushions awaiting the arrival of the ambulance. Meyers and the two wo- men were taken to the emergency hospital He had several scalp wounds. The women were only frightened.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-15
A SUCCESSFUL VENTURE

Bridgeport may now deem itself thoroughly initiated into the myster- ies of flying. since it has witnessed within ten days a series of successful flights. exhiting the capacities of the two rival types of heavier than air machines, the biplane and the mono plane What the biplane lacks in grace and speed it makes up In strength and stability. Either re- quires for pilot a man of nerve and daring as Beachey, McCurdy, Owing ton, or Charles K. Hamilton. Beach ey's flight to New Haven during minutes, was a masterpiece of it's kind just as Oyington's ascents and descents from the limited area of the Steeplechase indicated skill of an other kind. The only accident that married the four days at the aero drome occurred after the exhibition was over, when a horse, leaving the park, ran away, and its driver was hurled to the ground. Doubtless the injured man had come to the park, expecting, as many others did, to see a D1rQ man QdSHeQ IO uedlu, Uy IGd- son of the great danger attached to flying Yet in a place where airships went up repeatedly and where high power automobiles sped in and out by hundreds the only casualty was due to, the vagaries of the plodding unmem orial horse.
 Much of the credit for this result should go to the Bridgeport police department, which did fine work in policing the crowds, much of it under the eye of Mayor Buckingham, who was personally present most of the time, and who was zealous for the success of the meet and the launch ing of Bridgeport as the aviation cen ter of Connecticut. Simon Lake, who established the aerodrome, Glenn Curtiss, the promoter of the exhibi- ton and the civic organizations who assisted in the work of. making the event a big one, are to be congratu- lated. The venture was in every way a triumph, socially, financially and scientifically.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-15
PADS AND FASHIONS

Very pretty are the muffs of satin ribbon loops to. be carried by brides maids. These often have a spray of satin flowers at the centre
 Embroidered chiffon and net bands are endless in variety and for the most part show beautiful colorings in Egyptian or Bulgarian designs.
 The heavier faces now in vogue as point Venice, filet and guipure com bine effectively with tussah, so also do the net laces in all-over, bandings and single motifs.
 Leghorn seems to be the straw used for the bonnets for the little tots. Fac ings of pale blue or pink crepe and puffed crowns of crepe are trimmed with little rosebuds. -
 Drop fringes of the crochet-button or ornament type are becoming very popular and are shown in both cotton and silk so that even wash gown may be fringed if desired
 In fancy waists plait is now being made over the shoulder of the peasant sleeve, and it's becomingness to many