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Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19
No Vacancies Under Direct Vote.

Senatorial deadlocks continue in
four state legislatures, and while it is
quite possible one or all Of them may
be broken within the next two weeks,
these states are confronted with the
prospect of being in part unrep-
resented in the senate II no choice is
reached before the term OF the new
congress commences. That contin-
gency Of an untitled seat in the United
States senate has occurred more than
once in several states and Nebraska
among them. The rule is definitely
established that where a legislature
fails to elect, no commission by APP
pointment will be entertained, but the
state must suffer the self-inflicted
penalty Of FORGETTING its senatorial
representation.
The election of United States SEN
ators by direct vote of the people
would make such an hiatus in the rep
Tesentation of any state impossible
True, contests over disputed claims to
seats would not be obviated nor would
the necessity of filling vacancies
caused by death or resignation be re-
moved, but the vacancy caused by
failure Of a legislature to agree could
not possibly reour. The guaranty of
the constitution that each state shall
at all times have equal representation
and vote in the upper branch Of con-
gress, now too often in default, would
become a reality, for it Is inoonceivable
that the people of any state would
fail to elect a senator at the proper
time
1t seems to us that this is a strong
argument in favor Of the direct pop
ular election of senator's, but one that
has not been made the most of by its
champions. 1t is an argument none
the less that must appeal powerfully
to the people of every state which has
at one time or another been left UNI
represented in the senate because of
deadlocked legislatures
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19
SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT.

ST. Louis Timesi A ST. Louis minister
declares religion Is an inheritance, A good
many people appear to have been LETT out
OF the will.
Houston Post: A Brooklyn preacher
says good adus is worth more than gold
II that Is true Carnegie and Rockefeller
arc philanthropic pikers compared with u.s.
Baltimore American. a Chicago clergy.
man says churches should advertise In the
newspapers just hs business mon do. As
the latter have found Il profitable 50, too,
should the churches II done in the right
way.
Washington Herald. A New York
preacher says men ought TO cook sew.
wash dishes and get their own breakfast
and let their wives rest. what office does
he expect when the suffragette era ar
riyes?
St Louis Republics The Alton Minis
terial alliance viii discontinue its publicity
campaign, complaining that the newspa-
per reporters do not get the clerical View
point correctly. IL the reporters can't set
Il, how about the rest OF the congregation
Boston Herald; Voliva. Alexander
Dowies successor as sutocrat Of Zion City,
ousted last year by the independents, II re
elected to the post will horsewhip any
Zionist whom he catches using tobacco.
IL is difficult 60 see how any man calling
himself an independent could live under
such a regime and with the independents
eliminated Noliva ought to find It dead
easy to rule his meek flock.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19
Washington md Lincoln.

Since Washington and Lincoln have
birthdays IN the same month, the idea
of observing their anniversaries
Jointly has been taken up in some
public schools. But another cousid-
Grafton more strongly commends the
plan--that is the striking similarity
in the influences exerted BY the two
men. Schools may do well to draw
the attention OF their pupils to this
fact Il is we'll for posterity to know
how much alike we're the conditions
and circumstances that governed these
two great lives OF Washington, the
father Of the country. and Of Lincoln,
its preserver
Naturally, we think of washington
as the Virginia gentleman, of Lincoln
as the Illinois backwoodsmsn; Of one
as the product and heir of afIiuenee
and comfort, of the other as the child
and man Of poverty and hardship. In
measure the conception is true. but
still the currents OF their lives ran to-
gether at many points. Both bore the
burden Of their country's peril; both
reached the climax of their achieve
ments through the oruoible of war;
both suffered the same peculiar pain
that comes from the apostaeism OF
friends. unable or unwilling to appre-
ciate the tremendous responsibilities
that these men had to meet. Both
were cruelty misjudged and con
demned by many Of their countrymen
at the very times when they were most
freely giving their life-blood for them
and their posterity. Washington's
conquest of the British during the rev.
olution and Lincoln's triumph for the
union were alike fraught with the OBJ
stacles OF disorganization and discon-
tent in the army and congress. They
met their problems with the same
faith in the justice of their cause that
was sublimei with calm but resolute
elaboration; with resourceful energy
in pleading with congress and subor-
dinates in the army and with com
mon reliance upon One Unseen Power.
They were men of great minds, plus
great souls
To some degree the line of COMPARE
son extends even to their physical ap-
pearances. Both men were large and
powerfully built, endowed by nature
with physiques ft for heavy burdens
The one essential difference between
them, that of their ancestry and early
environment, showed itself plainly
enough in their eountenances. Lin
coins original poverty and hard life
was traceable in every line, just as
Washington's easy circumstances we're
reflected in the calm oomposuFe OF his
stern, strong features. Much good, it
seems to us, can come from a com
parative study by children of these
two greatest Americans.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19
Latin-American Distrust.

A Chicago man who served several
years as judge on the bench in the
Panama canal zone, is back in this
country with a severe criticism of the
United States conduct toward Latin
American republics. He says It has
been Of such character as to destroy
or impair trust of those people in our
good intentions AS a matter of fact
he asserts that this feeling of distrust
toward the United States is so strong
that in Colombia IL takes the form of
open and pronounced condemnation.
Colombia, he says, has exerted its in
huenee against US with other nations,
misrepresentins, no doubt. where ID
ran short of facts, in order to dis
credit us. The Judge thinks this
country has not maintained consis-
tent policy down there and that il
should establish and stand by one. He
says We have interfered with their
elections and their revolutions" when
we had no right TO, imprsssing the
people with the belief that we are
wholly sinister in our manifestations
of friendship.
While there may be some ground
TOR criticism, II is doubtful If the sit
uation is quite as bad as this Judge
pictures it, Il has never been easy
Tor the Anglo-saxon race to ingratiate
Itself in the confidence or esteem OF
the Latins, and the best OF motives
and intentions have been misunder-
stood when the least warrant existed.
The United States has. doubtless. done
rome interfering In the affairs OF the
Latin-American republics, but It has
generally been with the purpose Of
aiding in the solution of national
problems and the fact of the proxim-
ity OF location and community OF in
terest between us, seemed to Justify
our concern. At least, there is moth
ing 10 show that We have gone about
trying to NEEDLE mischievously in the
AFFAIRS Of those Countries Perhaps
our friendship, was manifested, theo-
retieally at least, when an American
secretary OF state took the trouble to
visit all these republics with assur-
ances OF friendship from the United
states upon hts lips.
Our policy may need a more definite
shaping up-posslbly we have sp-
peared too friendly on occasions with
a people who did not care for our
friendship. Certainly this government
should not leave stone unturned in
doing its duty toward the weaker re-
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19
People and Events

A telephone manager IN California ad-
vertises Tor homely girls to manipulate the
switches. California IS about the only state
able TO supply the article called for.
girl who married as a Joke has ap-
piled to New York court for divorce.
II took her only three months to dis
cover that marriage is not Joke
Or. Cook Is doing a turn IN vaudeville
IL VIII help some as an emergency job.
He cannot hope to strike his proper gait
until he becomes managing spleler for a
moving picture Of the tomb OF Ananias
out Of his salary of $4,000 a year John
Hays Hammond is supposed to have saved
enough dough to shine with becoming
splendor as Uncle Sans representative at
the coronation Of King George. There Is
where dough is transmitted into cake.
Authorities Of Budapest. Hungary. un-
able to find jail accommodations for women
who spurnod the long hatpin regulation.
now pass up the law breakers and con
fiscate the pins. The trophies Of one days
chase number 1900 which were stuck in
the police museum.
John Gender Of Jersey City enjoys the
rare distinction OF dropping in on his own
wake and breaking up the funeral From
grave to gay was but step in that fam
lily consisting Of wife and six children.
Even the undertaken smiled as he re-
moved the mistaken corpse.
A. J. Newton, an S0-year-old elevator
man in Walla Walla, Wash, bought a
pair of new shoes, but they pinched his
feet so he had to throw them aside. lie
tried on several styles Of shoes at a shoe
store, but not finding any that he could
wear comfortably he went home and dug
out an old pair he had passed into his
garnet nearly forty years ago. He oiled and
polished them and when he had put them
on he said he felt like dancing a jig. Mr.
Newton bought the shoes in Elko New,
In 1870. and paid SIS for them.
writer in Harper's Weekly furnishes
enough ammunition to shatter an idol OF
the Civil war. Captain Ericssda was not
the inventor Of the Monitor tpye of war
ship. The famous "cheesebox on raft
was designed and patented by Theodore r.
Timley, a New Yorker. who received a
royalty Of 5000 for the use Of his de-
sign by the firm which employed Ericsson
in building the Monitor. FINLEY died In
poverty last December and his body mar
rowly escaped the potters field. The re-
mains of Ericsson was conveyed to his ma
tive land in an American warship.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19
cORN BELT MOVING NORTH.
Minnesota and North Dakota Flirting
with the Cereal King.
Minneapolis Journal

Minnesota and North Dakota Flirting
with the Cereal King.
Minneapolis Journal
The corn belt is moving north, or rather
its upper boundary Is moving north The
success of various recent experiments has
been such as to show that corn may be
profitably raised almost anywhere In Min
nesota or North Dakota The corn show
just held at Grand Forks gave ocular and
convincing evidence that the old idea that
corn couldn't be raised 80 far north was
mistake. While the growing season is
naturally shorter in these ATTITUDES, the
summer days are so much longer that the
plant reaches maturity more quickly.
Doubtless, as experiments with seed go on,
special strains will be discovered or de-
veloped that VIII produce larger crops and
prove more hardy.
The development Of corn raising, IN Min
nesota wifi Undoubtedly, as Prof p. G..
Holden. the Iowa corn expert, declares
result here as elsewhere in increased land
values. Corn Is the most prolific and
valuable OF all grain crops, especially
when 1t lie turned into beef and pork on
the farm where It Is raised. The corn-fed
steer and the corn-fattened hog are at
the top Of the market, and will always stay
there.
The development of Minnesota and North
Dakota as corn raising and meat produc-
ing states will have a vital relation to the
effects of reciprocity with Canada. II that
agreement is ratified, we shall gradually
on this side Of the line retreat from the
raising OF wheat into corn, beef and pork
The Canadian west will more and more
raise our wheat, while we shall furnish
them corn for feed and meat for human
consumption. II will be a change OF great
Importance, involving greater prosperity on
both sides of the line Already the ex-
portstion Of corn from the United States
into Canada is very large item, because
of the fact that there is no Canadian
tariff on corn 20 restrict It. But the
American northwest is not yet factor in
this trade, as 1t surely will be when our
farmers learn how rich a mine is ready for
development.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19
WHEN MY SHIPS COME HOME.

Stephen Gwynn in Pail Mall Magazine.
If all of my ships come home my dear.
Deep laden from bottom 10 deck.
III buy you bright diamonds to hang on
your ear
And rubies 10 Irvine around your neck:
No queen shall be fine as this lady OF mine
II all Of my ships come home.
II half my ships come home my dear,
Wen travel to look for the rest;
The near shall be the far and the far shaM
shall be the near,
And Wen roam from the east to the west
You shall journey In state, love- with me
for your mate,
II half OF my ships come home.
IL one Of my ships comes home, my dear,
Wen build us house on hill,
With garden 70 work IN all through the
sweet year,
And roses to pluck at your will
You shall taste the good life Of a cOttager'H
wife,
If one Of my ships comes home.
But If none Of my ships come home, my
dear,
II ali Of them sink in the wave
Then, bankrupt, with nothing to forfeit or
fear
I'll bind me TO service, your slave.
And proudly tn take what you give for
loves sake,
II none Of my ships come home.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19
Boom En- Rihlss

Bible publishing houses must be
booming with business these days as
result OF the campaign recently in
augurated by the Gldeons OF INSTALL
ing Bibles in all the hotels throughout
the country One order reached head
quarters in Chicago recently from Los
Angeles and adjacent towns for $4,000
Bibles The movement Is spreading
all over the country. so that other
orders must be pouring In.
The Gideons is band OF religious
travelling men who patronize hotels
themselves. They came to the con-
clusion that a Bible In every hotel
room IN the country would be pow
erful means Of spreading the gospel,
so their secretary took up the task OF
supplying the Bibles He has a plan
Of apportioning the hotels Of each
city among the churches and securing
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19
Race Prejudice North and South.

new phase of the Jim Grow"
discrimination praotioed upon the ne
gro in the south is presented by the
case in which verdict for heavy
damages was secured against a rail
way In Mississippi by a young woman
whose complaint was that three
negro bishops had been permitted
TO ride in the same sleeping
car with her She claimed damages
in the sum of $4,000 and was
awarded $4,000, while the defense OF
the railway company was that the
bishops had travelled from Washing
ton to Vicksburg In sleeping car
and were entitled to the same accom-
modations on the return trip. The
Jim Grow" laws require railroads in
southern states to provide separate
waiting rooms and separate coaches
for whites and blacks, but as the de-
mand for sleeping car accommodations
is there, as elsewhere. strictly limited,
the roads have felt under no ohliga-
ton to duplicate sleeping ear equip
ment on lines that scarcely Justify the
hauling of such cars at all.
The incident is not referred to here
for the purpose OF arguing against the
verdict for damages. although how the
damage could be greater from having
negro bishop In the same car than
from being waited on by the negro
porter is not clear. but rather as an
illustration Of the difference in the
degree Of race prejudice north and
south. We are frequently told that
this prejudice is as strong or stronger
in the northern states than IN the
black belt, but clearly such state
ments are unfounded The negro In
the north may labor under certain
disadvantages, but he enjoys privileges
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19
The Habit of ExarreratiOn.

Exaggeration is a common fault. It
is grave fault 1t leads often to
serious results, not infrequently to
confirmed untruthfulness. Beginning
with Jest in childhood, it may grow
to habitual presentations in maturity.
In fact, it generally does unless some
thoughtful influence interposes itself.
But people come to Justify a certain
sort of misrepresentation and that
deepens the fangs of the fault
Exaggeration amounts to intemper-
ance in speech, which we may all,
young and old, well guard against,
In nearly every realm of life this ten
dency is found. Regrettabie as It is,
it is found in those whose business IT
is to preach temperance in other
things-sobriety of conduct and the
appetite. Yet nothing can be more es-
sential to the sound upbuilding Of a
people than sane, sober action, which
must be preceded by sanity of thought.
The over-indulgenee of speech, this
over-weening way of reaching out for
the superlative degree of expression,
this publicity-agent habit of exploiting
everything we talk about-it is all
bad. 1t not only tends to undermine
our purity of speech, but IT likewise
tends to destroy the highest regard
for exact truth.
It is quite important that we con-
Germ ourselves with the Importance Of
stating thing as 1t is. Liberty of
speech was never meant to become
license of language. Where people are
scrupulous in their use of words, they
are likely to become so in their han
ding of the truth. One somehow
seems to bear close relation to the
other, without. perhaps, being inYari-
ably correlated. Incorrect use Of
words is, of itself, not necessarily a
moral wrong, but il is offensive, Just
the same. and sometimes far from
being correct statement of fact, as
when one says, 'oh, 1t is Just awfully
nice" IncongFuity, inconsistency -
step by step We get away from the
facts without intending or realizing it.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19
THIS WILL QUICKLY Make
A ROUGH PIMPLY SKIN
SMOOTH AND VELVETY

How You Can Make a Pint of Fine
Face Cream at Very Little Cost
Beauty experts say rough. plmply skins
quickly yield TO massaging with cerol, be-
coming clear and velvety, and as this costs
little and is easily prepared, II should
find a place on every woman dresser.
TO make get 2 ounces OF cerol from the
druggist and dissolve In a scant pint OF
boiling water, stirring until smooth. When
ties, preventing and dspeling wrin-
kies and giving the complexion an exqu
site bloom and refinement impossible with
artificial aids Men frequently use cerol
cream after shaving, as Il soothes smart
ing itching skina.-AdY
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19
ROOSEVELT IN ACTION.
Spring Tour of the Southern and Pa
cific Coast states.
Cleveland Leader

Spring Tour of the Southern and Pa
cific Coast states.
Cleveland Leader.
The newspapers OF the country have been
having a lot of fun with Colonel Roose-
welt. They have been initiating him in
the MISUNDERSTANDING" asking him
whether the price Of his literary output
has not declined from a dollar word
to thirty cents and eongratulating the
oyster Bay mail carrier on the tightening
Of his work. And the colonel has answered
nothing.
But it is apparent that he does not intend
TO continue saying nothing much longer.
The country viii hear from him plenteously
next spring, II not sooner. Then he will
start on a tour fully as extensive as the
famous one made by President Taft last
year. and 1t goes without saying that 1t will
be speeoh-making journey.
He will leave New York on March g.
Just after the new democratic congress
comes into existence. His first stop will
be at Atlanta Ca, where he win address
the Southern Commercial congress. Then
he goes to the child labor convention at
Birmingham, Ala. He will speak 81 Jack
son, Miss, and New Orleans. Al San An
tonic, Tex, he viii talk again, and at
Albuquerque, N. NJ. he viii foregather
with some Of his rough riders. Al Grand
Canyon, Ariz, he viii dedicate the great
Roosevelt irrigation dam, tie will deliver
an address at Phoenix, Arz. and others
at Los Angeles. Berkeley and San Fran
CISCO Cal. He will then 90 through oregon
and Nevada and visit Seattle and Spokane
Idaho and Montana are his next objective
points, and beyond that his itinerary has
not been fixed.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19
A HoPELEss CASE.
Americans Cannot he Ctvilired
Thinks chinese visitor.
New York sun


II YOU We're to travel through Asia you
would find that we are regarded as the
peculiar persons. Have you heard Of the
Chinese gentleman who travelled through
out the United states and wrote a letter
back to his fiends describing us7 He said ;
You cannot civilize these Americans.
They are beyond redemption. They will
30 weeks and months without touching
mouthful OF rice but they eat flesh OF
bullocks and sheep in enormous quantities.
Nor do they eat their meat cooked in
small pieces, It is carried into the room
In large chunks, often half raw. and then
they cut and slash and tear It apart They
eat with knives and prongs; It makes q
civilized being perfectly nervous. One
fanoies himself in the presence OF sword
swallowers
They have no sense Of dignity, for they
may be found walking with women. They
even sit down at the same table with
women, and the latter are served first.
Yet the women are TO be pited too. on
festive occasions, which Americans call
balls, they are dragged around a room to
the accompaniment Of the most hellish
music"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

that his southern brothers would not
dare hope for.
He has opportunities to work him
self up in any legitimate occupation,
to educate his children, 70 move about
freely from place to place, to share the
benefits Of public institutions and to
command decent treatment on all oc-
casions II only he behaves himself.
His immunity from the indignity of
Jim Crow laws alone would be sig
nificant of the difference in the race
prejudice north and south.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19
LIne on wlth 80 Leaaer..
New York World

ANNW AoAh WbAAhs
In heartily endorsing Champ Clark's plea
for reciprocal trade relations with all ma
lions, especially those Of the American con-
tinent, President Taft did not so beyond
James G. Blaine. He did not go beyond
republican national platforms in the rather
recent past. lie did not go beyond Nc
Kinleys solemn political farewell, To aid
reciprocity is good republication because
It is good business and good politics.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19
The Coming "Best seller"
cprtngfiaid Rant,bIfra,

Senator Hepburn OF Idaho Is urging upon
congress a reduction in the price OF the
Congressional Record from 81 TO 81 per
session. He thinks this would give It a
circulation larger than that OF any other
periodical Perhaps 50 Ordinarily speak
ing the lower the price Of newspaper OF
periodical the larger the sales, but there
are some publications whose circulation
could not be increased by any amount OF
price reduction
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19
Boo.tIng dc UpIift.
san Franelseo Chroniele.

vi
The appropriation by the Herman sys-
tenn OF 81 600 TO be spent for advertis
ing purposes during the year. following the
decision Of the directors TO double-traok
the line from the Missouri river 20 the
Pacific at cost Of t75OOOOOO gives an idea
Of the magnitude Of modern railway opera
tons The present prosperity OF the eoun-
try and the confidence In the future which
Is implied are also indicated.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19

Postmaster Thomas cautiously de-
MES that he collected money, directly
OF indirectly, from postofice employees
for political purposes. What was It
for, then? CharityY
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19
San one wheel. ao, Round.

The republican party may be utterly
ruined and the policy OF a protective tariff
forever destroyed" as some OF those house
patriots would have us believe Neverthe-
less. the sun seems to rise as usual and
reciprocity goes cheerfully on TO the senate.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-19
JANUARY CIRCULATION.
1926

State Of Nebraska. County II Douglas gs:
Dwight Williams, circulation manager Of
Tho Bee Publishing company being duly
sworn says that the average daily cir
culatiOn, less spoiled, unused ana returned
copies for the month Of January, 1911 WIS
a5's2G. DWIGHT WILLIAMS.
Circulation Manager
subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this LIST day OF February, 1911.
tSeaL) ROBERT HUNTER.
Notary Public.