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Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-13
Population Center in Straight Line.

Growth and movement of popula-
ton continues to claim a share of pub
lie attention, which Is natural in a
country so deeply engrossed in the
task of its own development. When
the census bureau last month issued
its report showing that the center Of
population had in the decade from
1900 to 1910 moved westward thirty
one miles, or twice as far as 1t had in
the ten years Immediately preceding,
attention was instantly turned to the
relative locations of the population
and geographical centers Of the United
States. They were found to be $50
miles apart. The new center of popu-
lation is in Monroe county, Indiana,
not far south of Indianapolis, while
the geographical center lies at a point
in northern Kansas.
But 1t will be long time yet before
the two centers are nearly common, If
they ever are. II might be recalled
that the progress of the population
center from 1890 to 1900 was the
smallest Of any ten years since 1890.
II is likewise a matter of interest that
1t has taken these 100 years for the
population center to travel about as
far as it is now from the geographical
center. 1t is worth while to note the
course OF the center of population. 1t
has kept very close to the parallel
that runs approximately due west
from Annapolis TO Cincinnati and is
Just about as far north OF that line
now as 1t was at the outset,
In 1890 the population center lay
across Chesapeake bay, east and
slightly south of Baltimore. For
forty years thereafter its tendency
was a little south, while, OF course,
west, and in 1900 1t was about as far
west of Baltimore and the same dis
lance south as it was ten years before.
1t made the same progress westward
and a little more southwark by 1910,
and by 1890 was but a few miles
north of the parallel 80, increasing its
westward and southWard progress. In
1880 1t had dropped below this line
south of Moorefeld, W. Va, and in
1910 had started north again, hitting
the line almost center, due south OF
Clarksburg. w. Va. II veered only a
mile or two to the south, still touch
ing the line by 1850, and was exactly
center on the line in 1860, almost due
south OF Chillicothe. o. In 1870 it
had shot further north than It had
been since 1910 and was on a diagonal
line almost midway between Chilli
eothe and Cincinnati, and by 1880
had dropped considerably to the south
and a few miles west OF Cincinnati.
The year 1890 found II over IN In
diana, perhaps sixteen miles east and
Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-13
Use and Abuse of Wealth.

A recent book on religious and eco
nomic problems quotes a lengthy dis
sertation by a socialist writer, who
answers the question, What Is the
meaning of enormous wealth to the
rich?" by saying, 1T means a life in
which real values are lost and where
money is God"
The attorney for the late John w
Gates remarked that "the public knew
little of the real Mr.. Gates. More
than thirty families were dependent
on checks mailed monthly by him"
The case of Mr.. Gates seems fitting for
use as an illustration of the gross I'M
fairness of this too common concep-
ton of the rich mans attitude toward
the poor, because Mr.. Gates made no
secret of his personal enjoyment Of
life. But, like scores Of other men of
large means, he did a great many
things for others which he did not
flaunt. 1t is impossible to know how
much philanthropy of this kind rich
men are carrying on every day.
OF course, the rich man is enjoying
his wealth, but not always to the de-
basement of self, or to the exclusion
of the poor Only comparative few
do that. But these few should not
become the standard by which all are
to be judged. Probably never before
was the rich man doing more for the
world than today. Never before was
there as much Of democratic fellow
ship and sympathy between rich and
poor. The tendency of the times in
business and social intercourse make
1t so. The Balaamites are woefully
in the minority. True values are
commonly taken as the test of man
hood. 1t could not be otherwise in so
pragmatic an age.
There is no call for those who as
sumo superior learning to indulge in
the pernicious practice of arraying
class against class, especially in a
country where equal opportunity is
the slogan of all. Wealth is bad only
as 1t is misused. TIE berate the
wealthy irrespective Of the use they
make of their wealth can only perplex
and confuse the unthinking. The man
who is really looking for a chance to
get along in this country will gener-
ally find the rich man not only an ex-
ample OF self-made success, but also
raody ~ foLa him NJ hia true valuation
and give him a chance to make good.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-13

short, modern methods and sane ac-
ton are nowhere more in evidence.
The south's growth is remarkable
and the west, as we'll as the east. re-
joices, because the south's develop
ment was greatly needed by the coun-
try as a whole. Its resources and en-
ergies lay dormant too long as It was
The fertility of its soil, its mineral
products. its mills and factories, all
we're needed, and their development
is a national boon. The souths at
tention to intensive farming, which
has been spoken Of, is one matter in
which the west feels especial concern,
for the west rather prides itself on
pioneering somewhat in this great
movement, and IL its example has
caught other sections, so much the
better. There can be no unfriendly
rivalry in these two sections. One
profits by the others progress, or
would lose by its loss
Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-13
SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT.

San Francisco Chronicle; A pastor IN
South Carolina is reported to have prayed
for rain 30 successfully the cotton growet~'
met for the purpose OF considering whoeher
they should set cut an Injunction.
New York World; II that anti-Astlor
preacher In Philadelphia was right in SAY
ing "Our girls and women are monef %
mad" the women folk must be wCi,
matched with the men.
Des Moines Register and Leader, In a
Chicago church they are now issuing init
tation street car transfers punched for
Heaven" But so far not many Of the
recipients have appeared in a hurry 20
get to the end OF the line.
San Francisco Chronicle; A Chicago pas
tor says the devil is as subtle as a TWEEN
tieth century politician. His Satanic mai
esty does not usually receive such conpl-
ments. but will doubtless feel flatterep
II recalls the comparison Of the poet WIZ
said Hell is a city very much like Lob
dom"
Baltimore Americana A minister in Colo
RADIO in sermon advised the young people
Of his congregation to marry soon, and on
its conclusion called the pretty orEanst
and a brother clergyman up and was mar
ried himself forthwith. But 1t is not every
practice what he breaches.
Kansas City Timos II the Episcopal
clergymen I'm New York are forbidden TO
perform the marriage ceremony for John
Jacob Astor and Miss Force. there aERu
plenty % other clergymen A great many
satisfactory marriages have been per-
formed by pastors who were mere Metho-
dists, Baptists. Congregationalists. Presby-
terians or Lutherans.
Houston Post: DR. Jacobs told his Chi
cago congregation Sunday: brotherhood
is the inevitable result and browning evil
dence OF true and undefiled Christianity"
We could say nothing finer than this in
one of our addresses to a Bible class. And
isn't II apparent that brotherhood is not
the inevitable result and browning evil
dence OF true and undeflled statewide pro-
hibiton2
New York Mail: A Philadelphia clergy
man protests violently against what no
calls the sacrifice of youth to the pomp
OF fashion and the power Of money Il
may be so-the world at large will surely
think so; but it is not the worlds privilege
TO decide Nor this young girl She Is mis-
tress of her own fortunes. The life she
has chosen to lead will be her Hfe-not
the worlds. 1t is her own fate that she
willingly goes out to meet and for all
time, come good. come Ill, must abide by.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-13
People Talked About

Cincinnatus lie Conte of Haiti ought to
control the solid farmer vote of the island.
Ex-President Simon of Haiti seems to
have been as little in accord with his time
as Liliuokalani was with hers
Much is being made in ribaId newspapers
OF the fact that the expert who was called
in TO determine what is beer is named Dr..
Boos.
owen Wister's monkey appears to have
been reading some of the authors short
tales of western life. Bad men should keep
to the Rockies.
The duke and duchess Of Marlborough are
about 10 be reconciled, peace overtures
coming from the duke One gathers that
his lordship's funds are running a bit low.
General Miles at 70 still maintains the
clear eye, rudy color and erect carriage
that marks him as a man who through a
diversity OF experiences has always cared
for himself
When b. A. d. Luck OF Pine Bluff Ark,
registered at a Chicago hotel the other day
the clerk did not assign him to room No. iS
We aFsume that the clerk does not pretend
20 be a humorist.
James Hazen Hyde offers 500 prize for
the best manuscript tending to promote
better understanding between the French
and American peoples. Mr.. Hyde. It will
be observed, is not nearly as lavish as he
once was.
Hiram spriggs OF Nation, ILL.,. Is years
old. Is the only man now living who took
part In the famous raids of John Brown,
the noted anti-slavery leader OF Kansas.
He had seen but twenty-four summers.
was athletic and giant physically when
he enlisted in the famous company at osa-
wAtomie
Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-13
Our Exnressive Vernacular.

GUAM Kali special representative OF
the viceroy of China, and Moy Bash
Hin, Chinese consul at Portland, Ore,
are impressed with our expressive
American vernacular, and All Quan is
equally taken with our newspapers.
This street tongue and the press re-
feet a restless energy, a facility Of
thought and action that strike the
slow-going orientals as quite ideal,
and the consul shall have his sons ed
ucated over here that they may be-
come-how you call it?---live wires"
Il like that expression" he adds.
Perhaps there is no better index to
the spirit of the times and the habits
of the people in the United States than
their newspapers and their slang
their vernacular. Sometimes both
are carried to extremes, but as a
whole they are what the people make
them, and reflect the peoples temper
ament. The meaning Of the term,
vernacular, Mr.. Webster tells us, car
ries with It the idea of the slave born
in his masters house." coming from
the French root, "verna." This def
milton is pat one, for certainly this
slave which we make of our vernacu-
lar-and to very good uses, too--was
born in it's masters house.
To the phlegmatic easterner, with
his ponderous ways, this speech must,
indeed, seem attractive, though
strange Being the product of quick
ened life, it naturally has a vividness
and jauntiness to 1t which the pure
diction cannot claim. Every age has
its own colloquialisms, but ours seem
to surpass ell others as much as our
age surpasses ages gone by. So ex-
pressive is our vernacular that 1t has
forced itself into legal and accepted
use, and 1t is doubtful II 1t will ever
be less popular. How better. for in
stance, could one describe what is
meant by a live wire" in this case
than with that term, itself2
Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-13
Booms. West and South.

In comparing the present era of ex-
pansion in the south to former periods
of boom in the west, an eastern ex-
change makes the point that they
differ only in manner; that booms in
various parts of the west were always
spectacular and sometimes unhealth-
lily feverish; the south's development
In every material aspect is steady, sub
stantial and permanent"
This is all doubtless true, but ii
leaves a wrong inference of present
day development in the west. 1t, too,
is steady, substantial and permanent.
Long years ago the west, when It was
young, learned the lesson booms had
to teach; learned they were potential
of harmful reactions, and so when the
west, In its maturer years. set out
upon it's new plans Of expansion It cut
away from the boom method. There
are no booms today in the west, and
have not been for some years, unless
the whole systematic growth and
progress that is going on from the
Missouri river to the Pacific coast
might be regarded as a boom. Nor
is there, any spectacular show about
the VESTS growth, except in the open
ing up OF millions Of acres OF land to
cultivation. the influx OF millions of
new home-builders. the exploitation of
natural resources of every kind. the
raising OF prodigious crops, establish
ment of new industries. new railroads
and the conquest OF new empires, In
Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-13
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
IhisDSVy inOmaha
COMPILED from BEE FILES
Thirty Years Ago
] AUGUST is.

Thirty Years Ago
Omaha needs a market house." says
The Bee.
The Union Pacific brass band excursion
and basket picnic was held at Wahoo to-
day. In the announcement people are told
that street cars will run down Ninth street
to accommodate those living in the north
part OF the city. and will be on hand In
the evening on the return OF the special
train. In the contests. George Fleming
won the 800 yard race. James Hart was
winner OF the prize ball throw, showing a
score of 10 yards; j. Dawson won the
boys race Of 200 yards, and A. HeintS
made the longest standing high leap.
Morris Elgutter left for the east to visit
the principal cities OF interest.
Mrs. NJ H. Goble, wife of the freight
auditor OF the Union Pacific, started on a
trip TO Salt Lake City.
While King, the lion tanner, was in the
cage with his animals this Saturday night
at the Tivoll. one OF the brutes sprang
upon Inn and lacerated him considerably
before he could escape.
The b. & NJ nine went to Columbus for
ball game with the Keystones of that
city. and must have run a foot race for the
score was le to l. The game was umpired
by Frank Remission of the railway mail
service.
N. ]. Durham, the district attorney, and
family left for Laramie on a vacation.
Z. A. OBrien returned from his trip to
Denver and the mountains.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-13
The ACKNOWLEDGMENT Incident.

Merely as a matter of record to sat-
isfy the critical demands of history
it is we'll to give as wide publicity as
possible to a letter tending to contra
dict the oft-told story how Grover
Cleveland hated his native town,
where a movement has been started
TO buy the house in which he was
born and preserve it as a national
landmark. The story is to the effect
that because his father was dismissed
as pastor of the Presbyterian church
at Caldwell, N. j., the son took on a
dislike for his birthplace which kept
him from ever visiting the town after
the family left 1t. Opponents of the
Cleveland memorial plan contend that
on that account no tribute to the
former president should stand in Cald-
we'll.
That this spirit has no foundation,
In fact, on which to rest is shown by
letter written by Mr.. Cleveland in
1884 to Rev. c. T. Berry. pastor OF
the church his father formerly served,
in which he says:
I have your letter informing me that
on the 7th OF the present month the CEN
tennial of the church at Caldwell, in
which my father once preached, will be
celebrated. Though 1 remember almost
nothing of the village where / spent
few early days, l can sincerely say that
the spot is dear to meas the place of his
birth should be dear 10 every man. The
name brings to mind scenes in the family
circle, when the incidents of Caldwell life
were recalled and dwelt upon with pleas
ure and gratitude And when 1 remem-
Der that there my sainted parents had
their home and there my godly father
wrought and struggled in his Heavenly
Fathers mission the place seems to me
hallowed and sacred
The Caldwell church, built up and pros
pered by the labors of such pious and de-
voted men as have been Its pastors, has
nuch in it's centennial year TO chasten and
consecrate its history. In the days to
come may II always remain true and
steadfast in the work committed to it's
charge. faithfully teaching the pure doc
trine OF the gospel and avoiding all malice
and uncharitableness.
This letter will probably satisfy the
people outside of Caldwell, and there
fore should appease those there who
oppose the project. Whether 1t does
or not. the Cleveland memorial plan
will doubtless go forward, since IL has
been taken up in other cities and
states, on the theory that Mr.. CleVe-
Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-13
Reelection and Recall.

At the very time that we in Ne
braska are engaged in the process
of choosing by popular vote judges to
sit on the bench of our supreme court,
district courts and subordinate tribu-
nails, general discussion is on over
the merits of the recall for judges.
While there is both distinction and
a difference between recall and re-
election, they also have elements in
common in the appeal for popular
favor and endorsement. The argu-
ments invoked with reference to the
pending election of judges are fraught
with significance for the recall of
judges.
Down in Lincoln great ado is being
made over certain anonymous attacks
on the sitting judges, calling them to
account for decisions in particular
cases likely to prejudice them with
the voters The friends of these
judges insist that unless it is charged
and proved that the Objectionable de-
cisions were due to corruption or bad
motives the conclusions conscien-
tiously reached by the judges, even
though unwarranted or unfair, should
not subject them to discipline at the
hands of laymen IMMERSED in the in
tricacies of the law.
On the other hand, we have, both
in Lincoln and elsewhere, a public
proclamation issued by the officials of
the Anti-Saloon league listing certain
candidates for judgeships as friendly
and deserving, and advising people not
to vote for anyone for judge who has
been left off the list. In selecting the
favored ones, of course, the eligibility
of the candidate has been here deter
mined, not according to legal training
or judicial qualifications, but accord
ing to presumed tendencies for or
against a prohibition program mani
tested by a disposition to tighten up
the liquor laws whenever up for ad
judication. In other words, the Anti
Saloon league idea is to reward judges
for deciding cases against saloon keep
ers, while it would excoriate and de-
nounce a saloon keeper who should
oppose the reelection of judge for a
reverse reason.
All this may be somewhat beside
the mark except that the recall of
judges would be based on this very
proposition of appealing to the cleo
torate to unseat Judge whose de-
cisions we're displeasing to any con-
siderable element of the community.
When a Judge has to submit himself
to reelection he likewise appeals for
support to those whom he has favored
assuming that they have been favored
in the conscientious discharge of
duty, and expects the opposition of
those litigants and lawyers who think
they have had the worst of 1t.
Whether this system gives us the best
judges, and keeps them at once re-
sponsive to public sentiment and faith
full to the letter and spirit of the law,
is perhaps debatable. But so long as
reelection every four or six years
gives us practically all the privileges
of a recall, the demand for the recall
will not be very urgent.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-13
BALLADE OF SUMMER sHRINKAGE

Like flagons full of choicest wine
In eager gulps the days are tossed;
Too soon the wintry winds shall whine,
Too soon the furnace must be bossed
And there where golf balls oft are lost,
On field where beckons quiet sport
Soon will the golfer cuss the frost
The summer always seems too short.
Full many sights are still TO see
The tourists hardly got his stride;
stu beckons many a hosiery
New camping spots, all charming, hide,
And there are streams we haven't tried
Where giant trout still hold the fort;
Downhill the hours fairly slide 7
The summer always seems too short
The plans we made, long months ahead
The trips we mapped-oh, where are they7
All proftless the life we've led
We haven't seen the home team play,
Nor caught Whit of new-mown hay;
King Leisure soon breaks up his court;
Doggone such brlefness. anyway
The summer always seems too shortl
Denver Republican.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-13
Judicinl ssttl.msnt Of striks,.


Every Industrial dispute that eventu-
ates in a strike involves the public as
an innocent third party in addition to
the employers and the employees. The
settlement Of the street car strike at
Des Moines by the Intervention OF the
courts has not given complete salts
faction to those representing either
capital or labor, but the much more
numerous public, we believe, finds
merit in this method.
Whether we are yet prepared to
justify judicial interference in all
labor outbreaks. or only in such strikes
as threaten public service like that
rendered by a street railway, the
quick relief brought to the public by
the court order commanding resump-
ton of business and subsequent judi
cial arbitration OF the subjects in dis
pute presents an attractive solution
because of its effectiveness. In the
Des Moines case the strike had already
been precipitated. The motormen and
conductors had quit work; the street
railway company had been unable to
continue operation with strikebreakers
and the cars had stopped. to the great
inconvenience and damage to the COM
munity as a whole and to its individual
members But II II is right and proper
for the courts to intervene to restore
tntarruntad atraot roiluov sorygoo a.
would, of course, be equally right and
proper for them to act when a strike
is threatened without waiting for the
blow to be delivered or actual damage
have judicial settlements of strikes,
even though limited to semi-public
undertakings, the court must assume
to decide all serious differences which
the employers and employees are un-
able to adjust between themselves, or
with their own machinery of con-
ciliation and arbitration. Every labor
dispute must be settled or compro-
missed one way or another, and it is
certainly better for the public to Sc
cure a peaceful settlement than to let
the combatants fight it out to a con-
clusion.
Judicial settlement of strikes also
negatives the idea which frequently
produces the deadlock between capital
and labor, namely, that there is moth
ing to arbitrate. The courts settle all
other controversies, whether the stake
be great or small, and whether on the
cast Of the die hangs liberty or even
life. No good reason exists why a
court cannot bring the same principles
Of justice to bear upon a dispute
over wages or hours of labor or the
forfeiture by misbehavior OF right to
employment. We are proposing courts
of arbitration to settle disputes be-
tween nations with view to ending
war and the horrors of conflict at
arms. A peaceful solution of the labor
problem, stopping the enforced idle
ness, waste, loss of property and
human suffering that have marked
the stubborn strikes Of the past, would
be almost as notable an achievement.
or course, the solution will not come
all at once, nor from one source, but
every step In advance must be hailed
with delight by all who love justice
and fair play and detest the rule of
force, by which the strong win at the
expense of the weak.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-13

a BIT south OF Columbus In 1900 IL
was almost at Columbus. Its course
since then has been practically due
west to Monroe county, near Bloom
ington, Ind.
Whether with the rival growth Of
the great north and south and north
west and southwest the population
center will be able to keep as closely
in the succeeding ten or twenty years
as it has since 1890 to this line will
be the interesting point 10 watch.
There has been little disparity as a
rule in its progress by decades
Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-13

Mr.. Bryan's Commoner prints a let
ter from a correspondent living in
Jackson, Miss, addressed to Congress
man Underwood, giving him this ad-
monition in black-faced capital-letter
type, Don't mistake the cheers of the
politicians for the votes of the people. "
Mr.. Bryan himself, COLD give that ad-
vice with much more added force.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-13

Before leaving for the weeks end
at Beverly President Taft announced
his intention of vetoing the Arizona
New Mexico statehood bill, the wool
and free list bills and appealing to
the country to force the senate's APP
prevail of the proposed international
arbitration treaties. Which shows
that he is still determined to be presi-
dent for at least four years.