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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-08
CIVIC LEAGUE NOTES

Bryan, which is just now rousing
from her Rip Van Wrinkle sleep, is
rubbing her eyes to see more clearly
the possibilities of her new enter
prises now under construction. Rome
was not built in single day. and
as the citizens of old Bryan feel, she
is shouldering wonderful responsible
tiles, and what she most needs now
are boosters instead of criticisers, and
an individual backing of the city coun-
Gil, the Civic League and such organi-
cations, which are just a handful of
enthusiastic members who work most
jealousy and meet with many draw
backs There is strength in numbers.
Carlisle has asid, only in world of
sincere men is unity possible" SO
what Bryan wants is unity and work
ers in the field of civic Improvement.
The Carnegie library lawn has been
turned over to the Civic League and
a committee OF ladies appointed to
keep it clean, and they hope to make
it model for the city.
Cleanliness is next to godliness. !"
A tiny cottage and bit Of green lawn,
owned and loved and cared for by
those who live in it, is a home. If a
few pictures of the unsightly places,
dirty alleys and backwards were taken
and published, a few more might be
reused to the crying need of cleaner
city. So clean up or look for the pho
tograph man, and help make Bryan
what it should be-a monument Of
civic beauty.
As an example of a barren spot
made beautiful, drive out past the
home on the hill near the Baptist
Academy. 1t will enthuse anyone to
grow flowers and it shows the fertil-
ity of Bryan's soil.
1t is weed cutting time again. Since
our little rains they have grown rap
idly and "the man with the hoe" has
ACCOMPLISHED wonders
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-08

Subscribers will confer a favor on
the management, by telephoning the
office promptly when carriers fail TO
deliver the paper. or when change of
residence occurs.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-08

and public Indignation is thoroughly
aroused The probe is going to be
thrust in deep, into their very vitals,
and if they escape with their lives
they will be fortunate.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-08
The Truth with the Bark On.

A man may 30 to church every Sun
day; he may sing hymns until the
perspiration from his jowls willis his
collar; he may quote scripture in
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-08

Two weeks till the statewide cleo
ton. The campaign is warming up a
bit, but peace reigns and good feeling
still lives.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-08

The express companies are up
against it, and they know it. They
have reached the limit of eXtortion
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-08

1t is weed cutting time again. Since
our little rains they have grown rap
idly and "the man with the hoe" has
accomplished wonders.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-08

The Carnegie library lawn has been
turned over to the Civic League and
a committee OF ladies appointed to
keep it clean, and they hope to make
it a model for the city,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-31
How Businesslike.

with the addition of S2i1,OOO hydrant
rental, judgments that must be at once
met by the city, It viii necessitate the
increase OF between and 3 mills to the
levy more than II was last year, instead
of permitting reduction Of mills hoped
for. The water board helped some last
year. taking $4,000 from its fund to help
pay water judgments of about the same
amount as thrown against the city this
year. But the board intends to use the
greater part Of the $1,000 on hand now
for the beginning of construction OF new
mains Just as soon as the water bonds
are voted. BY having ready money on
hand with which to begin at once. work
can be put well under way before the
money for the sale of bonds is available.
World Herald.
This is another striking sample of
the .businesslike methods pursued by
the eminent flnanciers who constitute
our Water board. Although they
have had money in hand all the time,
levied specifically for the purpose of
paying hydrant rental, the Water
boarders have let these bills go to
judgment to draw per cent interest.
We are now in the position, therefore,
of having a water fund of 81 900 on
deposit in local banks bringing per
cent interest, and outstanding iudg-
ments for $211,OOO drawing per
cent interest. The difference between
the 2 per cent that the banks are pay
ing and the per cent that the judg-
ments are costing the city figures just
5 per cent, which is a dead loss by the
Water boards management.
At one time when the School board
was running close to shore it made
arrangements to have the needed
money advanced at 5 per cent, thus
saving the school fund the difference
between the warrant rate Of per cent
and the prevailing discount. The first
hydrant rental Judgment, as the rec
ords show, was bought by a certain
Omaha bank, presumably as a profita-
BILE investment. We might suggest that
the Water board work ont a method of
financing this new judgment less
costly to the taxpayers, were it not
that every similar suggestion The Bee
has heretofore made to the Water
board in the public interest has been
Indignantly spurned.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-31
The sween of the Times.

Grover Cleveland's political mana
gers we're put to II to show that his
administration had done anything
toward depressing or preventing the
growth of great corporations of mo-
nopolistic tendencies, and yet the
criticism disturbed Mr.. Cleveland but
slightly. Trusts were not an issue
then, nor later in the Mckinley cam
paigns, at least to the extent, in spite
of Mr.. Bryan's crusading, that they
are today. What would the country
have thought of an order from the
Department of Justice for all so-called
trusts or monopolies to dissolve and
rsorganize along the lines of the Sher-
man law or take the consequences Of
governmental prosecution?
That is exactly the order that has
been issued. And in addition to the
dissolution of the Standard Oil, To-
bacco and Powder trusts, 1000 cases
are said to await the attention of the
prosecuting department of the govern
ment. 1t simply goes to show the
sweep of the times, how the force Of
public sentiment has changed the
whole complexion of corporation regu-
lation. II is the same Sherman law
we had in former years and the same
system OF administration, but a new
way of viewing gigantic combinations
in relation to the government and in
terpreting the law
The change has come about, not
spasmodlcally, but as the result of p
slow process OF popular education on
the obligations of private business to
public service, a subject that en-
crossed the attention of the people in
years gone by but little. Nor is this
new conception narrow or exclusive.
1t seeks to do no injustice to wealth
or commerce. II rests, not on pref
udice, but upon broad, common
reason. It is the feeling for equal
rights to all that has worked on the
people so long until 1t has come to a
concrete expression of action. And
when big business gets thoroughly
adjusted to its new position 1t, as well
as the mass of the people, will be able
the better to appreciate that the ad-
vantages of the change are mutual.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-31
Consulates for Omaha.

The Commercial club has taken ac-
ton In the nature of a request upon
the Mexican government for the estab-
lishment here of a Mexican consulate.
This is unquestonably a good move.
Foreign governments maintain consuls
at different trade centers for the pur-
pose of promoting commercial inter-
course, and the establishment of a
Mexican consulate here would unques-
tionably stimulate trade and traffic be-
tween the two countries.
Commercial relations with Mexico,
desirable as they are, however, ought
not to monopolize our efforts Omaha
is already the seat of several consul
lates, but 1t ought to have consuls rep
resenting the governments of all the
countries whose citizens do business,
or may be brought to. do business, In
our tributary trade territory. The
mere fact that a place is a consular
city increases it's Importance, both at
home and abroad. If Omaha succeeds
with the Mexican consulate 1t should
follow it up with efforts to get on the
consular map with other important
countries not yet thus represented.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-31
Railroads and Express Rates.

1t will be interesting to wait and see
just what tack the railroad officials
take in defending existing express
rates and preventing their reduction.
1t is interesting enough to know that
any railroad man cares to undertake
the job To say nothing of the indie
feasibility of express rates and ex-
press service, it had been supposed
that most railroad men found their
hands fairly full attending to their
own rates and regulation.
VIII the defense begin with the
Great Northern Express company with
its 80 per cent profits, or with the
case of the Wells-Fargo, which an
nounced not long ago a 800 per cent
dividend? Which of these down
trodden victims of unfair govern
mental discrimination will be used as
the starting point?
1t is surprising to learn that such
movement is contemplated by the
railroads. Express rates have been as
much too high as the average express
service has been too poor, and better
regulation is not only desirable but
inevitable. The people using express
service have about come to the end of
their patience and 1t will not help the
railroads to pitch in to save the ex-
press trust.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-31
Appeal in Merger Case.

1t is not surprising that the govern
ment has decided to appeal to the su-
preme court the Hartman merger
case, which it lost in the circuit court.
A case of such magnitude naturally
would be expected to proceed to the
highest tribunal, no matter which side
won In the lower courts. But the
statement is made that the government
is appealing, not merely as a formal
procedure, but because Il expects to
be able TO secure a reversal of judg-
ment. This statement is made on the
basis Of advice from the special counsel
engaged by the government to prose-
cute the case. Nor is it unnatural for
the special counsel 10 hold to this
view. The special counsel must al
ways be lawyers of great wisdom and
skill, and so the fault in this case
surely must lie with the court that
decided that the merger of the Union
and Southern Pacific is not unlawful.
The layman has been impressed
with the apparent logic of the circuit
courts decision. Appearances may be
deceptive, however, and he will natu-
rally feel an intimate touch with this
case until It is ultimately decided
This is one decision against the gov
eminent which has not elected any
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-31
Ten Years AGO


Congressman w. p. Hepburn of Clarinda,
Ia, and his son, Captain c. B. Hepburn,
spent few hours in Omaha. The captain
had just returned from Cuba.
Milk dealers met and mapped out a boost
In milk prices-to users of less than one
gallon a day, 6k cents a quart or sixteen
quarts for 81; users of one gallon a day,
eighteen quarts for 81 to users of two
gallons, twenty quarts for 81.
Judge Frank Irvine gets appointment to
the chair of practice and procedure at
Cornell university.
DR.. and Mrs. ]. c. Bishop returned from
Colorado.
Henry Ostrom, at a meeting of the county
board, attempted to put a stop TO suspend
ing the rules and allowing bills indiscrim-
inately, and Commissioner Hector opposed
him.
City Detective ]. T. Donahue, who picked
up a pocketbook on the sidewalk contain
ing $685.. a day or two before, found the
owner in a stockman, ]. w. Porter Of Cen
trail City.
In honor OF Miss Benedict, who is Miss
Rothschild's guest and Miss Oberdorfer,
Mrs. Abram Simons' sister, Miss Mae
Heller and Miss Henchen Rehfeld Mes
danes D. Sampson, NJ. Klein, N. Rothschild
and S, Goldman entertained sixteen young
people informally in the afternoon at Mrs.
Goldman's home.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-31

OMAHA, July 2S.-To the Editor of The
Bee: Would like TO be enlightened on thiI
subject: What has become OF the money
levied for water? As understand IT,,
money to pay the water bill is levied every
year. Last year the levy was s4 mills
Now this money is paid In as other taxes
are, and see It has not been used to pay
the water company, What has It been
used for?
Is II legal to use 1t for other purposes
If not, who is to blame? Or was the levy
too small?
There seems to be something radically
wrong and the blame should be placed
wherever It belongs. Such blunder should
not be tolerated Tit guilty party should
be dismissed. Or are the city's affairs in
such shape as not to be able to locate the
blunderers Stop their pay at once would
seem a good remedy.
JOHN SCHROEDER
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-31
THE LITTLE HURTS.


Detroit Free Press.
Every night she runs to me
Wath bandaged arm or a bandaged knee.
stone bruised shin or a swollen brow
And In sorrowful tones she tells me how
She fell and "hurted herself today"
While she was having the bestest play"
And / take her up in my arms and kiss
The new little wounds and whisper this;
oh, you must be careful, my little one
You mustn't get hurt while your daddy's
gone,
For every cut with it's ache and smart
heart"
Every night ] must stoop to see
The fresh little cuts on her arms or knee:
The little hurts that have marred her play,
And brought the tears on a happy day;
For the path of childhood Is oft beset
With care and trouble and things that fret.
oh, little girl, when you older grow,
Far greater hurts than these you'll known
Greater bruises will bring your tears,
Around the bend on the lane OF years,
But come to your daddy with them at
night
And hen do his best to make all things
right.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-31
ProddinE Hank Directors.
springfield Republican

National bank directors are again being
prodded by Controller OF the Currency
Murray. Unsatisfactory conditions in
banks. he says In a circular letter. are due
nearly always 20 the failure OF directors
to direct, and his examiners tell him that
after all that has been done 20 stir up the
directors OF national banks many boards
still fail 10 meet more than two or three
or four times year. II is his view that
directors cannot do much directing In such
cases, and Of course they cannot, But
some boards are so exaeting in the fees
for attendance that possibly many banks
cannot afford TO have frequent meetinEA
How 10 this3
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-31

John w. Alexander, the New York artist,
will drop his brush and palette any time
TO take up a tennis racquet.
The first load of alfalfa ever seen in
Ebenburg, Pa, came from the farm OF a
newspaper man--Dditor Louis e. Kaylor
OF the Cambria Tribune. 1t brought $50 a
ton.
Little Miss Alma Henderson, aged 7
years, of Mapleton, Huntington county,
Pennsylvania, recently had her photograph
taken. surrounded by her four grand
parents and five great-grandparents.
The champion life saver OF Ashtabula
county, Ohio, is Joseph Blotschbacher, a
l6-year-old lad OF Plymouth, who, during
the last week. has been credited with
cheating death four times by pulling boys
out OF the water.
Pacific coasters who sent words OF sym-
pathy TO the east during the heat wave
with diagrams Of thermometers out there
caring earmuffs, neglected to suppress
official records showing 90 degrees in the
shade at Portland and other places down
the line.
A masseur and chauffeur accompany
Hammond the typewriter manufacturer,
on his world cruise for longevity. Weston.
the walker. seeks the long life by being
his own chauffeur and letting exercise rub
his muscles People who have no money
to loaf at sea need not die young.
For the first time in all his life, 10 his
knowledge, William Walker, 81 years old,
a wealthy farmer. near Mount Pleasant,
Pa, saw his father. John A. Walker, 70
years old. OF Laporte, Ind. The reunion
was beside the bier OF Clark Walker,
brother OF John A. Walker and uncle OF
William Walker.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-31

chorus of popular dissent or outrage
and many people believe it is para
doxically favorable to the government.
after all. since the people are the gov
eminent and their interests, especially
here in this great developing west,
may be better subserved by maintain
ing the status Of the Pacific roads than
by overturning Il.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-31
Needless BIockading of Streets.

Needless bIOckadtnE OF stEectAs
OMAHA, July 27.--To the Editor OF The
Bee Recently / attempted to drive east
on California street at the intersection or
Twenty-fourth street but at the street
car crossing is a pile of stone five rect
high taking up two-thrds OF the street.
Sand was being unloaded, making pile
about five feet high and taking up the
other one-third of the street. drove to
the next street and found it torn up and
impossible, which made 1t necessary for
me to go to Cunning street to get through,
Recently I started to come in via Leaven-
worth street, but on account of paving
every street was blocked and impossible
which necessitated going to Harvey street
to get east in order to make connection
with a train at the depot. Fourteenth
street has been torn up for months; Seven
tenth street, by Courtney's store, is nine
tenths occupied by stone, sand and debris,
ETC., and there was not on July % six feet
of clear street through the same
The blocking of our streets is causing
one continual complaint. In case of fire
the fire department would be immensely
handicapped on account OF these streets
being blocked continuously.
understand there is an ordinance per-
IdlIllnB 10 inc ploChiHB VI NhOIOubuihiVH' 1
understand the public are entitled to high
ways where highways are shown on the
maps. / understand we have municipal
government with power and authority for
regulating such things and that the public
rights are protected by ordinances. There
fore, the question arises, who is response
BILE for the enforcement of the peoples
rights? In other words, what branch Of
the government of this city is derelict in
its duty to the people? AS the peoples
rights are ignored as the laws OF the city
and government are being violated with
out any control-and more flagrantly dur
ing the last three or four years than for
merly-who is responsible for the same;
Who is it that has the power and author
ity to regulate same?
RUTHERFORD JOHNSON,
111S Davenport Street.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-31
TheBctsLcHcrBorx

Word Tor Nhe hnsN Emu
OMAHA. July 2e.-To the Editor OF The
Bee: / read an account OF the meeting
Of the members Of the Orchard Hin I'm
provement club, where Joe Hummel can
didate for sheriff. is quoted as expressing
himself as follows.
"If am TO get any support II will be
from the better element. for my position
is different from that OF the east end Of
Omaha"
II he said this, II is entirely uncalled
for, as Joe Hummel has got his bread and
butter for at least fifteen years to my
knowledge with the support and aid Of
the east end of the city. The records WI
show that the vote in the east end Of
Omaha elected him councilman. The east
end of the city elected Frank e. MooreS
mayor three terms, from which he held
the position of street commissioner. When
Mr.. Hummel refers to the support he ex-
poets to receive from the better element"
do not know whom he means except the
heads of the corporations whom he has
favored at all times while in the city ooun-
Gil against the people. Mr. Hummers
fling at the east end should forfeit him
support not only in the east end of the
city. but also in every section of the city
AL. SMALL.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-31
LAUGHING LINES.

You don't seem inclined to do much to
further your own interests as possible
mo" replied the prominent democrat,
too many of these early presidential
steam roller "-Washington Star.
What has your friend Hooper been doing
Why he got cheap SINCE the other
day"
"a cheap singer"
Yes, HIS celluloid collar burned up
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Marks-I know your wife didn't like It
because you took me home unexpectedly to
Parks-Nonsense! why. you hadn't beers
gone two minutes before she remarked thai
she was glad II was no one else but you..-
Boston Transcript.
"a political party" said Uncle Eben, us
sumpln like de church choir. De man dat
make de mos noise in II amt allus de
one dat Is most promotions OF hahmony."-
Washington Star
she-Poor Cousin Jack! And to be eaten
by those wretched cannbals!
He-Hes, my dear child; but he gave them
their first taste in Standardization
Opinion. ~
Mrs. Newbride-Boo, hoo! Henry threw
2 cake at me. one that made myself
Mother-The monsterl He might have
Killed you.-Brooklyn Citizen,
TIL" widow had just announced her en-
gagement
But, my dead Maria" said her friend,
you don't mean to tell me that YOU in-
t zen IN, marrytIng, man you've only known
oh. yes" said the happy widow II can
easily overcome that objection I'm time I
hope to know him tolerably well after We
nave been married couple OF years. -,
Harpcrs Weekly
My houses" said the up-to-date builder
have padded closets"
Why are the closets padded?" asked n
prospective buyer
-, To keep the family skeletons from rat
ting too loud. boston Transcript.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-31

Douglas county will be called upon
to contribute $25O,OOO to the support
of the state government this year,
which is substantially one-tenth of
the total proceeds of the state tax. If
Omaha were located on the east bank
of the Missouri instead of on the west
bank the state treasurer would know
the difference.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-31
Now for the Punishment.
Thfcago Racord.HaraId

The coroner who has been investigat-
ing the cause OF the recent accident on the
New York New Haven & Hartford rail-
road finds the railroad company eriminally
responsible for the deaths OF the fourteen
80 ,rcIe killed. He may not be
sustained by the courts, but he has at least
furnished a precedent Usually the
verdict is that there is no
means OF fixing the blame.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-31

The city revenues from miscellane-
GUS sources during the coming year
will probably approximate 100000,
and certainly be much larger than
ever before. 1t will be hard to make
the taxpayers understand why the city
tax rate should also be larger.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-31

The Louisville Courier-Journal
thinks $40 pounds a perilous weight
for a man like John L. Sullivan, In
constant danger of falling off the
wagon. Yes. but think of the danger
to the wagon II he says on,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-31

On the eve OF the election when the
S6,5OO,OOO water bonds were up, two
years ago, the bellwether of the Water
board sprang a great conspiracy to
rob the city OF its chance at this won
derful buy" A fertile imagination
like that might be expected to invent
any kind OF tale with similar incen-
tive
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-31
JUNE CIRCULATION.
48,466

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. for the month Of June, 1911. was
IS 4C6. 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. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-31

"Will you walk into my parlor,"
said the Spider to the Fly. Say the
democrats to the republicans in Ne
braska this year: please help us
elect few democrats to office, and
we promise not to crow about a dem
ocratic victory until after it is all
oVar -
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-31

1t seems, then, as the case stands,
they all agree on the general PROPOSE
ton that they buy and sell votes In
the Illinois legislature. and on the
specific proposition that they bought
and sold votes. but nobody is guilty.