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Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14
Success in Business

For many years statesmen, always
sure they have the only remedy for all
social and industrial evils, have been
accustomed to declare that success In
business was steadily becoming
scarcer, and that the door of oppor-
tunity for new enterprise was being
shut tighter and tighter. According
to these prophets the gold standard,
or the tariff, or the money power, or
militarism, or the trusts, were surely
and swiftly destroying the field that
remained for individual initiative
But, strange to say, people continue
every year to embark in business, and
despite the various imaginary and real
obstacles, to get ahead in about the
same numbers that they used to. This
is not mere guesswork, but fact dem
onstrated by the vital statistics of
commerce carefully computed and
compiled. The Industrial organism,
like the human organism, suffers oc-
casionally from natural or artificial
maladies, but the improvement in the
average of commercial health is as no
Iticeable as that in the level of indi-
vidual health. Bradstreet's tables of
business failures show that for the
year 1910 the number of failures was
| less than for the year 1909,
which in turn was much less
than for the year 1908, which
was the aftermath of the panic. The
percentage of business failures to the
total number of business establish
ments represented was ~ for 1910
against 10 for 1909. 1t would APP
pear from the best available figures
that the number of people going into
business each year and the number
dropping out of business each year,
are exhibiting improving proportions
so far as any change is manifested at
all, and that the conditions which
make for business success or business
failure are, II anything, growing
slightly more favorable to success.
Stripped bare, success In business
is the survival OF the fittest. The es-
tablished concern has, perhaps, nat
ural advantage over the new competi-
tor, but cannot hold 1t In the long run
except by merit and good manage
ment. Misfits in business, as else
where, are not apt to be long-lived,
and the man who makes a success in
business would likewise make a sue
cess in a profession or an occupation,
or in any pursuit in which the road is
clear to catch up with and pass a com
petitor.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14

.ceedingly strange II wireless permits
OF the loss of life under such circum-
stances. Already, in comparison with
the vast increase in ocean travel,
fatal accidents have very materially
diminished in number. 1t is only now
and then, where shipwrecks occur at
all, that lives are lost. OF course, it
would be idle to attribute all this to
the system of wireless telegraphy, for
a great deal of it, probably most of It,
is undoubtedly due to other causes,
such as the more modern vessels, in
the first place, and the improved sys-
tenn of life protection, of which the
skill and experience of seamen form
no small part. But the other phenom-
enon is a vital factor and has, in some
cases, been the entire means of sal
walton.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14
People and Events

a recent court decision in Chicago pro
vokes audible signs for a working mode
OF the judicial recall.
In this glorious land OF liberty a base
ball club also exercises the privilege OF
sliding to the bottom and mixing with the
crowd
A marathon run and a suffrage parade
pulled off on the same day ought &c
convince doubters that New York City Is
going some.
Two rounds and knockout in Missouri
courts were required to convince bill
board companies that St Louis has the
legal right to regulate their decorative
efforts.
a move for a state instead of a fed
eral income tax was put in cold storage
by the Massachusetts, legislature. That
august assembly declined to encourage a
tax-shirking stampede to other states
The famous expert on affinities, F. p.
Earle, is disengaged at present. Any
maiden curious to know how the affinity
business works, Earle and late will have
to spend more than letter postage to find
out.
Never since Tom Lawson kicked high
finance over Bunker Hill has Boston seen
an exhibition rivaling that OF later
day loan shark The exhibit shows that
borrower of 500 had repaid Sl75 and
still owed $50.
The eggs were strictly fresh" war
ranted by a groceryman in Rochester, n.
Y. The purchaser. with the curiosity Of
cold storage employe. examined the as
sortment and found on one his name writ
hired lawyer to explain matters in
court.
Note how peaceful is the current Of life
In Canton, China. The rebellion is over,
ditto the leaders and lieutenants The
latter got the axe in the usual place and
the usual court expenses were devoted to
funeral bills, reckoned at so cents a
chopped head. Scientific economy is maxi
ing progress in China.
Let no wide-awake western city boast
too loudly Of its prowess in the booster
line. There are others. For example,
Bridgeport, Conn, the home town of the
late Phineas Barnum of circus fame Bar
NUNS calliope is hushed, but the Bridge
port Standard does some artistic footing
for city Of 10000 people. on the oc-
| casion of its eightieth anniversary on the
4th inst, the Standard rendered a vocal
solo running through a greater number
OF pages than ever issued in one edition
by Connecticut newspaper There
wasn't note Of discord in the mighty
effort-pictures. write-ups, statistics, his
tory, forecasts and business announce
ments blending in exquisite harmony. The
Standard vocalists are such artistic boost
ers that one wonders why they stick to
the Nutmeg state.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14
The Good Loser.

Be as good loser as you are a win
ner. A hard task to set a man, but
mot an impossible one. Many have
met it. Those who have are those
who win more than they lose. For
nothing inspires success or victory
under stress. 1t is true in business,
in politics, in sports, in any sphere
lof competitive endeavor. Not only
that, but nothing is quite as discon-
certing to ones opponent in one of
life's contests as the ability to lose
with a smile and well-directed effort
to regain the lost. Any man who has
run a foot race, or boxed, or wrestled
or played ball knows that. 1t comes
out nowhere more forcibly than in
base ball. The pitcher, say the fans,
who can pitch an uphill game, who
can work himself out of pinches with
out losing his head, is the pitcher who
wins games. But the one who let's
down the minute he strikes the up
grade, who lets the taunts of the OPP
ponents rattle him, serves notice there
and then upon the other side that he
is losing, and he generally loses.
But nobody has any time for the
man who is forever lamenting his own
loss or defeat. The world simply
credits him with being what 1t terms
CROUCH" which means a poor loser
and passes him by for a more agreea-
BILE man. Anyone can be a good win
ner, but it takes a man to be a good
loser. The philosophy of life, itself,
teaches that in all of its precepts.
Someone has to lose; 1t may as well
be you, perhaps, so far as the good of
the world goes, as your neighbor. 1t
makes for unselfshness to keep that
in mind.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14
Western immigration Bureau.

Congress should accede to the de-
mand for the establishment of an i'm
migration bureau in Chicago as a part
Of the Department of Commerce and
Labor. There is a vital need for it,
need that affects, the welfare of the
immigrant as we'll as Chicago and the
west. AS matter of fact it affects
the immigrant more than anybody
else. 1t is made more plain every
year that the great stream of immi-
grafton cannot be adequately directed
solely from New York. Next to New
York, Chicago is the greatest immi-
grant distributing point. To provide
efficient protection to the newcomer
in the matter of directing him where
to go and how, a bureau is simply
essential at Chicago.
Such q bureau in the center of the
great middle west and at the doorway
to all the west would bring remark
ably profitably results to this govern
ment in it's unsuccessful effort thus
far to solve this immigration problem.
The demand was put up to the last
congress and ignored. 1t has long ago
been approved by President Taft and
now congress at this extra session
should give 1t the final sanction it re-
Quires to become an act. II it would
do this 1t would enable the govern
ment to do a much better job Of sift-
ing it's immigration and preventing
the streams from becoming congested.
1t would also lend very helpful hand
to the general enterprise of settlement
in the west by affording facilities for
more systematic and intelligent dis
tribution of the aliens.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14
SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT.

Washington Post: The Washington pas
tor who is going on the stage will al
least cut down the percentage of brick.
layers and blacksmiths who are now tread.
ing the histrionic boards
Washington Times: The resignation OF
Archbishop Keane from his post in Iowa
on account of Ill health is sad news tc
many Washingtonians. His first assign
ment after being ordained was to st. Pat
rck's church and his brilliant career has
been followed here with pardonable pride
Leslie's Weekly: A method of sermon
collaboration which may exercise great in
fluence upon the vexed problem Of church
attendance was recently tried at Los An
geles. Nine ministers Of that city got to-
gether and produced one sermon and on
the next Sunday nine congregations lis
tened to the same sermon, one of the best
they had ever heard. Such a plan makes
good use of diversified gifts One preacher
may be skillful in the use of illustrations
another particularly happy in literary and
historical illusions, a third a master in
theology, another gifted with evangelistic
fervor, and so on through all the elements
that may enter into a sermon.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14
Cabinet Changes.

The resignation of Secretary of War
Dickinson is only the second change
in the Taft cabinet thus far, which is
quite as few as most administrations
have experienced in a similar period
in recent years. The first cabinet
member to retire was Secretary Bal
linger Of the interior. When Mr.
Fisher Of Chicago was named to sue
coed Mr.. Ballinger, making three ap-
pointments from Chicago, there was
feeling, whether publicly expressed or
not, that another vacancy might be
expected before long. Chicago and
New York still have two members
each, now that Mr.. Stimson has been
named as the new secretary of war.
The war portfolio has come to en-
brace so much of the large business of
the government as vastly to increase
its Importance. Beside the manage
ment Of the army and the disposition
toward war, 1t includes the govern
ment of the insular possessions, and
also the construction of the Panama
canal. The fact that President Taft,
himself, held the Office and served as
governor general of the Philippines
gives him, of course, complete grasp
of the situation, making his influence
naturally overshadowing. Even in
the stress of the Mexican affair, there
fore, Secretary Dickinson can be re-
placed without any serious inconveni-
ence.
Mr.. Stimson is a young man of Wig
orous capacity and representative
character, since he was his party's
nominee for governor in New York,
He may be counted on to fill the place
efficiently and satisfactorily. If, as
has been intimated, friction between
Secretary Dickinson and Secretary of
State Knox over the Mexican situation
influenced the formers action in re-
signing, closer cooperation may be
looked for under the incoming secre-
tary. Harmonious support of the
president, of course, is imperative in
a cabinet.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14
STRIDES OF MOTOR INDUSTRY.
Big Money Moves Along as the
Wheels Spin.
Philadelphia record.

Philadelphia Record.
Statistics ordinarily are dry and duh. but
figures put out by the census bureau in re-
lation to the growth of automobile manu-
facture in the United States are 30 start
ling as to compel attention. With the ten
year period from 1899 to 1903 the value of
motor cars made by American makers
jumped from $4,7OO0OO to s194, 100, 0O0 or a
gain OF 4001 per cent. There are already
between $4,000 and 10000 motor driven We
hicles in the country, and at the present
rate of increase the 10000 mark will be
passed before the end of the present year
Had anyone predicted twelve years ago
that the motor industry which wasS then
beginning to loom as a possibility in this
country, would today occupy so command
ing a position. he would have been laughed
at, much as were Morse and Edison when
the one first projected the telegraph and
the other the photograph
With such an example as the auto in
dustry before them critics of the aeroplane
should be conservative, for what with hun
dreds Of able and active minds throughout
the world at work daily perfecting its mo-
tive power and carrying qualities, 1t is not
toe much to assert that another ten years
will witness the development Of aerial navt-
CATION to point OF high practicability.
Incidentally every improvement made to
the motive power of the automobile adds
to the possibilities of the flying machine,
for the same power is employed in both.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14
Scientific Management.

What strikes one most forcibly In
Frederick W. Taylor's magazine arti-
cles on scientific management of in
dustry is that he and his associates
attained the ends they have, not by
some occult power or magic, but by
the natural process Of patient research
and downright hard work. Scientific
management is a growing cry of the
day. 1t is being applied to transpor-
tation, to manufacturing, to com
merce, to agriculture, to every chan
mel of business activity. And the big
gest factor in it is the elimination of
waste and the perfection of labor
saving devices. For science, after all,
is simply the easiest effective way of
doing a thing.
The late e. H. Hartman once OBJ
served a man with a one-horse cart
unloading three cars of coal at a coun-
try station. At the rate the fellow
was working Mr.. Hartman figured 1t
would take him at least three days to
complete the JOB. There, said the
great railroad genius, is one of the
causes of the car shortages, which the
railroads suffer so frequently, and
were then suffering. BY having the
coal yards near the track, OF by run
ming a spur to the coal yards and en-
ploying modern methods of dumping,
these three cars could be unloaded in
less time than 1t would take the man
with the cart TO back up to one of
them.
In addition to the waste involved in
primitive methods there is the equally
costly waste that comes in the lack of
harmonious relation between the en-
ploye and employer. So the problem
of scientific management embraces a
social side, too, and calls for q moral
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14
Danger of over.oelebrating.

A continuous fiesta is being held In the
captured city. Bands play, flags flutter
and all is gayety. Not one stroke of work
has been done toward terrifying the city
against attack Everybody loafs. All are
heroes.
This graphic description of the stu
alton at Juarez in the wake of the
rebel victory is significant of reverses
unless the Maderists soon recover
their poise, which seems to have been
completely upset in the first flush Of
triumph. Resting on their laurels
and fighting among themselves when
they should be following up their
victory may cost them dearly
They may over-celebrate. Diaz, in the
meantime, grimly surveys the ruins of
Juarez and has doubtless, since
Navarro passed his sword to Garibaldi,
been moving at double-quick time
with plans to repel the next rebel in
vasion. Manifestly, he is not as much
in favor of peace now as he was be-
fore Madero took Juarez.
A good many moves have been
made by the rebels, as well as by the
federals, which have not impressed
American soldiers for their military
strategy, and the conduct of the insur-
rectos in victory seems to be the eli
max. 1t is not certain yet that, with
out the handful of Americans they
Il had among them, they would have
taken Juarez so easily.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14
That Safe and Sam Rnnrth

Chicago and New York have al
ready begun agitation for a safe and
sane" Fourth. Other cities should
take it up until the Fourth is passed.
The results in New York, Chicago and
Boston last year fully warrant the
country in adopting the slogan. Those
cities held celebrations such as they
had never before held, and without
the usual train of accidents and
deaths. They undoubtedly had far
more patriotism in their festivities
than they had had in those where bed
lam and brutality reigned. AS a mat
ter of fact anybody knows that the
kind of Fourth of July celebrations
we have been holding in this country
allows no time or room for the
thought of patriotism. II gives no ft-
ting expression to the day. 1t crowds
out of mind everything that is worthy
of the event and gives way to a riot
Of demonstration that should have no
connection whatever with the thought
Of American independence.
The day is coming, We confidently
believe, when deadly noise will have
no place in Fourth of July obserV-
ianees; when the real spirit OF the day
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14

Influence as we'll. Waste of time and
money in defective or outworn ma
.chinery or methods of operation is no
different than waste of time and waste
of resources in strikes or other trou-
bles that tie up great industrial
plants. The country is making
progress in this science, but the prob
lem is many-sided and has only begun,
after all of Mr.. Tsylor's research and
experiment, to realize on results. 1t
will continue to be the big problem for
Industry in the years to come.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14
CARDINAL GIBBONS ON PEACE.
WhOle-Hearted Approval of Proposed
Arbitration Pact.
New York Dvening Post.


New York Evening Post
In more ways than one, Cardinal Glib
bons' part in the opening Of the Peace
Congress at Baltimore was peculiarly i'm
pressive. He had been asked to open the
exercises with prayer. but made a brief
address to the congress instead. IT
thought" he said, that formal invoca-
ton was unnecessary on the present oc-
casion, for every discourse uttered today
will be a prayer in the sacred cause of
peace" In no way could he have more
signally testified his feeling OF the identi-
ficatiOn of religion with the cause of
peace. But It was not in this respect only
that hts utterance was specially notable.
Born Of Irish parents, and educated in
Ireland in his boyhOod. the head Of the
Roman Catholic hierarchy in this coun-
try devoted the whole OF his short but
eloquent, speech TO an enthusiastic well
come OF the prospective union OF England
and the United States in general treaty
OF arbitration He did not feel II neces-
sary to qualify by a syllable the applause
with which he greeted It, but, on the con
trary. dwelt on the essential unity OF
these two great nations in their language,
their literature and their institutions as
marking them out for the initiative In a
peace movement that should grow TO
worldwide dimensions. Let Britannia
and Columbia join hands across the At
lantic," said the cardinal. and their out
stretched arms will form q sacred arch
OF peace a rainbow which will excite the
admiration OF the nations and will pro-
claim to the world that with Gods help.
the earth shall never more be deluged with
the blood shed IN fratTiGidal war"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14
New Victory for Wireless.


That was a remarkable feat by
which S19 persons were saved from
death or accident when the line
steamer, Merida, sank to the bottom
of the Atlantic in thirty-five fathoms
of water in five hours. But 1t did not
take the full FIVE hours for the vessel
to get deep enough into the water to
endanger life had those aboard not
been hastily removed. 1t was the
Farragut, the destroyer of the pas
senger vessel, small fruit ship,
which effected the rescue of all the
passengers, but to complete the res
cue the wireless telegraph had to be
brought into commission. The Far
ragut, itself, was endangered by the
collision and gave up its human
freight to the battleship Iowa, which
arrived in due time in response to the
message through the air.
People are likely to become callous
to most anything in time. Wireless
has saved so many lives at sea that
what once was never dreamed of as a
possibility now fades from the mind
without as much as a second thought.
Soon we shall begin to think 1t ex-
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14
MOTHER.

In childhoods care-frAe hours,
In the CLINT Of daybreak's charm,
When no cloud of pain e'er lowers
And naught can cause alarm;
"Oh! mother! mother!' cry at sunrise
oh! mother! heard at eve,
IT'S the same old source of comfort,
Mother, don't you leave"
In noontide's rush and battle.
In the dusty, cherries mart
Mid the din of workday's rattle
And the crime that kills the heart;
Thoughts OF mother kindly stealing,
Words of mother that relieve;
Sweet old vision OF her prayertime,
Mother, don't you leave"
At evenings sunset portal,
Cold the death damp on the brow,
Earnest hopes of life immortal,
Hated sins that pleased but now;
See! tbs mother reckoning homeward
Yes! the angels can't deceive:
Dear old face, yet now Respondent,
Mother, don't you leave"
WILLIAM EVERETT JILLsoN.
Crete. Neb.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-14
Open Road to Real Action.
Springfield Republican,.

1t is the sugar trust which is now to
have a congressional investigation. That
trust has already been quite effectively in
vestlgated, first at the New York customs
house and then in the United States courts
on rebate prosecutions. Cut away from
these aggregations Of capital the special
advantages they have rioted in and grown
fat from. such as the railroad rebate, the
customs cheating and the exclusive sales
agreements. and they would be largely or
entirely robbed of their monopolistic power.
All we shall get from more official in
vestigations will be more talk.