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Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21

swered his wants yesterday, fall far
short today He demands the same
comforts for himself and family and
the same education and refining in
fluences for his children as the city
man does for his. He has the price
to pay for them and he is going TO
get them. The unfortunate part is
that ne finds it necessary to leave
the farm in order TO do that. But
that aspect has not been overlooked.
Gradually the modern conveniences
and attractions of the city are being
brought closer to the farm and serv-
ing 10 lessen the gap between coun-
try and town. This in time should
work a mighty influence in overcom-
ing the drift of substantial, ambitious
people from rural 20 urban centers
and the corollary of this force should
be power to start a movement from
the city to the country, carrying
there new life and new energies.
This part of the movement is a mat
ter of education When people in
pipched circumstances in cities find
they can improve their lot and enjoy
life as much in the country as in the
city, they will more easily favor max
ing the move
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21
Kansans Leaving the Farm

The back-to-the-farm movement
should gain its chief momentum in
the distinctive farming states, but,
unfortunately, 1t seems not to have
made such gains in the last few years.
Iowa was the first state to show
heavy losses of population in the
rural districts as compared with the
towns and cities. Missouri shows
some, and now Kansas, whose
statistics have been aired by the
Census bureau, reveals the discour-
aging fact that in thirty counties the
rural or farm population has fallen
off. in some cases heavily, while
nearly all the towns over the state
have made handsome increases. Nor
are these rural losses notable only
in the less fertile portions of the
state; rather they are reported from
some of the very best counties, where
land is richest and farmers most
prosperous.
What is the secret of this town
ward movement? Does overmuch
prosperity on the farm create a dis
content among the people for the bu-
collie life and lead them into the
gayer precincts of the city? Ger
tainly in the good old days of grass
hopper plaques and populist vagaries.
when crops we're short, prices low
and mortgages high. this tendency
was not so marked The man on the
farm staid there because he had to
he didn't have the money to get off.
There must be something in this
theory. Is it, then, a penalty that
prosperity eNacts from the community
at large for bestowing it's gifts upon
the farmer? No, the fact is the ten
dency in the main is wholesome.
The farmer has increased his in
come, multiplied his resources and
broadened his vision. What an
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21
A ohanos for the cnnrts.

Detroit is In the throes Of a street
car strike which has put 1900 men
out Of employment, and completely
stopped street car traffic in that city
during the very busiest week OF the
year.
The last street car strike of threat
ening proportions was that in Des
Moines, which was brought to a sud
den and summary end by the issu-
ance Of a court order requiring the
men to 60 back to work and the com
pany to take them back, that opera
ton Of the cars for the benefit OF
the travelling public might be re-
sumed, with all matters in dispute
between the company and its en-
ployes referred to the court for final
adjudication and adjustment. In
Des Moines the controversy that pre-
cipitated the strike turned on the
dismissal of a conductor for cause
which the employees regarded as
trumped-up in order TO get rid of a
particularly active member Of their
local union. In Detroit the contro-
versy seems to be over a demand for
increased wages and change of the
working day schedule-qUestio
that are certainly no more complex
than those which made the trouble
in Des Moines
How long the strike in Detroit will
last, and what may be its outcome,
is, of course, problematical Such a
struggle interests other cities keenly
because they are exposed to the pos
sibility of street car strikes and con-
sequent stagnation of business. II
the interposition of the court for ju-
dicial settlement of strikes, such as
took place in Des Moines. came into
play again in Detroit with equally
successful results, it would be al
least encouraging, not only to other
street car cities, but to all who hope
for and look forward to peaceable
settlement of industrial disputes
through the machinery of Cancellation
and arbitration.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21
NEBRASKA PRESS COMMENT

Beatrice Express: The Omaha Bee
gives us q tip that had not occurred to
most Beatrice people. While omaha has
beaten Beatrice to adopting the commits
sion form Of government. we can still
beat her, 10 putting II in operation, for
Beatrice holds her municipal election in
April. while omaha does not hold hers
until May.
Blue valley Blade The ''proEressives"
who attack President Taft in their chau-
tauqua and other addresses are DOING
themselves more harm than they are the
president The people are becoming sus-
picious Of them, and DC not place much
confidence in their claims that they are
good republicans They seem to be
'progressives" toward the democratic
cramp and will no doubt arrive there
in sood time il they keep busy. That is
where some Of them belong
Grand Island Independent Secretary
Shotwell OF the Nebraska Progress
sive Republican league has been given
free transportation through the tran
som because he expressed the opin-
ion some months ago that President Taft
would be endorsed by the republicans
of this state. Losicallv this would be
construed to mean that II Mr. shotwelrs
successor has any opinion Of his own
as to who would be the choice Of the re-
publicans Of the state for president he
must remain silent about II. But will
he.
North Platte Tribune The Nebra ska
Republican Progressive league starts out
on rule-orruin policy II has deposed
F. A. shotwen as secretary because he
favored the denomination Of Taft. and
undertook to discipline J L. Kennedy
the newly elected chairman Of the state
committee. because he, too. is for Taft
When the league was organized II was
understood that any member should have
perfect freedom in presidential prefer
ence. but IL now looks as though it was
TO be converted into a machine TO boost
L. Toilette and Norris.
Fremont Tribune After all It may
be that the city Of Omaha will not
have gained anything by going to
the commission plan of city govern
ment. The overwhelming vote for
it was due to a widespread dissatisfac-
ton with the present administration. Yet
when it comes to an election Of commits
sioners it is altogether probable that
Mayor Dahlman will be retained as the
head of the city. II Is an anomalous
thing that men will fight for certain
principles and then neutralze those prin-
ciples out OF friendship. However far
short Mr. Dahlman may come as mayor
he is personally popular in omaha; that
cannot be denied. Still with six others
in change of the government with equal
authority with the mayor. there might
be an Improvement in municipal manage
ment The experiment there viii be in
teresting from every point OF view.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21
Spanish Gpis4s--No Surprise.

In the transition of an ancient
monarchy into any form of liberal
government such crises as that that
now reigns in Spain are to be ex-
pected as a part of the natural
process. A good many such upheav-
ais probably will ensue before Spain
ever becomes in fact a republic. Max
ing it constitutional in name, is far
from perfecting the scheme of repre-
sentative government. Divers con-
flicting interests and preiudices have
to be reconciled before anything ap-
preaching settled authority can be
claimed by the new regime, The prob
lem is the more complicated in Spain
because of its long conjunction of
church and state control. Separation
of these, as the first step in the evo-
luton, is at the same time the most
difficult step and the progressives of
Spain see already that this crucial
step is far from taken. The deplor-
able part of the proceeding Is that
the revolutionists have resorted to
such cruel and incivil methods OF
dealing with the clergy and the
church. Their cause Of separation
would gain by more tolerant treat
ment But such is the fate of revo-
lutions of this character, or, rather
of the countries in which they are
carried on.
In the present crisis, the labor tur.
moil is evidently used only as an in.
strument or weapon to further the
plans and purposes of the new order
of things and used, it appears, tc
very great advantage. 1t is, indeed
complicating element and compiled.
tions always have been at a premium
in national overturnings BY upset
ting the industries Of the country
martial law obtains ready justifica,
ton, distress is spread and intensified
and a readjustment of some sor
made the more imperative. 1t ap
pears, therefore, to be revolution with
vengeance. But underneath 1t all
the student of the times must recog
nize the slow, but sure-workinl
leaven of Observation-Disclosures
come at last in Spain, as 1t has com,
in other ancient empires. to super
sede autocracy.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21
A New Development.

Springfield (Iass) Republican.
1t is enough TO say that II the United
States supreme court should concede the
right of the governors conference to be
heard at the bar of that tribunal, the
courts act would be equivalent TO an
official recognition by the highest inter-
prefer of constitutional law in America
of the standing of the conference under
the American constitutional system. We
should then have in the governors con-
ference an entirely new branch of govern
ment with a status established on the
unshakable rock of the courts recogni-
ton of its existence as a political entity
entitled to be heard in the settlement
of juridical and constitutional questions
II is hardly possible that such a devel-
opment would be viewed with composure
even by the states, for, Notwithstanding
the fact that the governors conference
could be depended upon to defend and
also promote the rights of the states
these commonwealths would never view
without jealousy the creation out of their
own officials of a body which possessed
distinct federal status not absolutely
subordinate to their own. The action of
the governors certainly raises an impor-
tant question OF CONSTITUTIONAL develop
ment, even as it seems to precipitate a
struggle between the new statism and the
new nationalism. One can be heartily in
sympathy with a movement to preserve
the rights and functions of statehood
while at the same time questioning the
desirability Of giving 10 the annual con-
ference of governors any status what
ever, as a conference under the Amer
lean system Of constitutional law
whether written OF unwritten.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21
Ten Years Ago

The Ak-Sar- Ben carnival starts with be-
tween 1900 and 10000 people on the Mid
way.
The Nebraska bankers in their conven-
ton in Omaha elected George w Post of
York as president, Fred H. Davis of
Omaha vice president. 60
Edward Rosewater returned from the
east. John L. Webster returned from the
east
Miss Carrie Purvis gave a party to a
number of Delta Gamma girls of the Uni
versity of Nebraska Her guests were
Misses Herberta Jaynes, Ethel and
Louise Turkey, Macumber. Maude Macunn-
Der Fannie Cole and Florence Lewis.
Among those entertaining at dinner
parties at the Country club were: Mrs
T j. Rogers. Mrs. H F. Cady, Mr.. Har-
rie Lawrie, Mr.. ]. L. Paxton, Mrs. Bee
son, Mr. c. c. George and Mr.. and Mrs
G. w. Wattles.
c. H. Roby returned to Omaha with
Jessie Killing. the pacing mare
John r. Haislip, a prominent travelling
man, died at his home at 251S Caldwell
street of dropsy.
The demolition Of the Emmett house or
Eleventh, between Farnam and Harvey
streets, began. 1t had been an old land
mark in Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21
SUNNY GEMS

L vac Just thinking n there were 20 Be
an aviation financial scandal"
Yes p
1T ought 70 be easy TO end the man
higher up."-Raltimore American.
Is this really chicken soupT' asked NJ.
Starboard
"Of course" snapped Mrs. starveu.
Don't ~ taste like chicken
WHY, no: it's positively tender ~
Catholic Standard and Times.
Truth" said the orator who ouoteA,
is at the bottom OF a well ="
Yes" replied Farmer Corntossel; am
amt II discouragin' how the wells hev
been runnin' dry this summerT'-Wash-
ington Star
Here shouts the dealer IN nquid
stuff What do you mean by giving 100
much7'
"Why. you told me that your policy
was TO sell five quarts TO the gallon,
answered the new assistant.
so l did, you condensed IDIOT, 90 I
did! / said to make five quarts Of .
quarts Chicago Post.
The Young husband next door to us 10
lust crazy about his wife"
"Humph! you can't always tell the
truth about these men who are 80 affeo-
tionate in public"
THAT isn't why I know he truly loves
her
What makes you think he does, then? -
He won't let her bring Up the COAL
Baltimore American
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21
TOLD BY THE TYPES.

The tragedies. the tragedies,
The headlines ever tell
Like Thought II Wasn't Loaded" ana
He Didn't Hear the Bell"
Los Angeles Express.
The tragedies, the tragedies
We read on every side
Like Tried to Break q RAcord'' and
Milwaukee Seminal
The tragedies, the tragedies,
A lack Of sense denotel
Like "Ventured in Deep water"
Worst still He Rocked the Boat.
Springfield Union
The tragedies. the tragedies,
What damage we infer!
Like Tried to Cross Before the Train"
And, too, He Married Her
Boston Transcript
The tragedies the tragedies
That every day are seen.
The Runner Died at Second
And Gets Popped on the Bean
st Louis Times.
The tragedies, the tragedies,
Through the pages bleak
Like The King, Admires Fair Dancer"
And Wed on Twelve a Week
FIT. Worth Record.
The tragedies the tragedies.
My goodness sakes alive
Stepping Backward from a Moving CARR
And 'Toadstools Poison Five!,
Detroit Free Press.
The tragedies the tragedies.
They cause us many sigh!
Like Extra Maine Has Voted Wet
And Latter: Maine is Dry"
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The tragedies the tragedies.
The newsboys run and yell!
Like Another Record Broken"
And with the Aeroplane He Fell"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21
Interesting and Important.


1t is beyond question that this action
on the part Of the governors is both in
teresting and important, The first ten
dency will b. to exaggerate 1t and talk
about it as a revolutionary proceeding
To this the press reports of what &C.
CURED at the meeting will noturally give
an impetus. We all love the startling,
and 1t gives us quite a thrill to be told
that the governors will descend upon the
supreme court and say: See here, what
Is it that you are letting these. inferior
judges do?" But in the end, of course,
the country will discover that whatever
is done in the matter will be done de-
Gently and in order. The very attitude
and language of the governors. however,
are Of great significance. They do not
shower certainly could not have been
intended to show-the disrespect for the
lower federal courts which II is easy
hastily to infer, but they do constitute
one of the most notable of recent deter
limitations to vindicate the rights Of the
states.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21
People Talked About

With only a majority of twenty-six
votes in favor of repeal in Maine. dis
arming of the oorkscrew brigade will be
deferred for a while.
Slowly. but surely, the uplift movement
is moving onward. The caddies on the
links at Bray, Ireland, have struck be-
cause of the profane output Of the
golfers.
Countess Won Claussen is searching all
Chicago for an honest lawyer" Mr..
Diogenes has fled with his lamp to the
woods, leaving the field TO the hopeful
countess.
Commissions as captains of high finance
await the return of the hooters or the
New Westminster bank. II too busy to
call, by sending in their names and pres
emit address they will get what is coming
to them.
Colonel John P. Irish of San Francisco
is back in Iowa visiting his former com
rades and haunts. His come back will
not be the real thing If he omits call
on the Omaha Jacksonisns who followed
the colonel over the transom in the hot
days Of Sc.
Jack Curley. whose real name is Ar
mond Schulz. was persuaded by a Chi
cago divorce court to hand over to his
wife $1,000 OF the $4,000 cleaned up in
promoting the Gotch- Hackenschmidt
wrestling match. At the same time the
court gave Mrs. Schulz a degree Of
divorce
Representative Michael f. Shannon Of
wilkes-Barre, Pa, is so anxious TO be
elected Judge of the orphans court that
he has pledged TO the poor OF the city
$500 a year for ten years out Of the
$500 salary, which he viii get in the
new office. His opponent contend that the
promise is q violation Of the election
laws.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21
.EOokinS Backward
IhiSDSSy mOmaha
r COMPILED from ZEE FILES {
SEPT. 21.
Thirty Years Ago

! AUtAEb -
The proclamation decreeing a period Of
thirty days mourning for the dead pres
/ ident is signed by Albinas Nance as
governor Of Nebraska and 5. ]. Alex
ander az secretary Of state.
The committee on the memorial service
/ to be held in the Academy Of Music Mon
day next is called to meet at General
Manderson's office. Preparations are
being made for a properly solemn serv-
! ice of an elaborate character The Omaha
Glee club is preparing some appropriate
songs. The academy will be deliberately
decorated both stage and auditorium
being festooned.
A meeting was held in the Hascall
school house at night TO organize new
hose company in the southern part OF the
! city. The meeting was presided over by
Henry Ehrenpfort, while l. Willis acted
as secretary. Messrs. John Rush. Van
Dusen, Willis, Miles and Ehrenpfort
were selected as . committee to per
feet the organization.
Omaha has been enjoying a rare treat
of operate music by the Emma Abbott
opera company, but "a series of unfor-
tunate and unforeseen circumstances
combined to rob the engagement Of the
brillancy and success which might other
wise have been expected"
! Nearly all of the roads between this
city and Chicago, noticeably the North
western, have their engines heavily
draped in celebration of the national
calamity. The patriotic men of the Q.
at this end of the line also wear badges
on their uniforms.
| The Concordia society has postponed its
festival on account Of the president
death, the announcement being signed
! by r. Schwabe, A. Dornann, c.. c.
Schaffer, l.. Raapke and Charles Meyer.
Members Of the Congregational church
at meeting decided TO estab-
lsh a new church in the southwestern
part of the city. The following COM
mittees were appointed: On lots, w. j.
Connel, G. A. Hoagland, David Cook
and Mrs. Rushdon; on buildings, Mrs
| Locke, Messrs. Rushdon, Hoagland and
Gibson. to solicit subscriptions, Messrs.
Hendley, Lock, Hoasland and Connell. A
subscription list was then opened and the
following gentlemen subscribed: Mr.. Con-
nell $3.50; Mr.. Burnham, $50; Mr.. Lock,
$50; Mr.. Hambold 800; Marshall, 500;
Forsythe, 800; Cannon, $50; Welshans,
$25. Fleming, $50; Zabriskie, $50; Sheriff.,
$50; Snow, SIS; Hurlburt, SIS; Clapp, SIS.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21
Twenty Years Ago

Paul Ludington returned to Princeton.
where he was pursuing his education.
Assistant Postmaster ]. l. Woodland
went on a vacation. the first in many
years. He planned to visit in the Black
Hills and Denver.
The case OF D. ]. Scott for assaulting
Martin Quick was continued in court.
DR.. Maxfield of Cincinnati put in twenty
minutes at the North Nebraska Methodist
conference lambasting the secular press.
Charley Taggart, a newspaper reporter,
died at the County hospital at the age
of 80. He had been found on the streets
demented. Taggart had worked in THE
Union Pacific headquarters and taught
at Creighton college.
w. l. Kierstead of Dewey & Stones
furniture dealers, speaking OF the city
councils awarding the contract to furnish
the city hall to Toledo firm, said: III
was not a fair business and we were not
in il from the start"
Johnny Hops. 1S son of Mr.. and Mrs
Hops, Seventeenth and Canton streets
died of typhoid fever.
Francis William Montmorency, second
son of the late Alfred Montmorency, 10
died at the family home, 1529 South
Thirty third street
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21
Election Contest Sure in Maine

Maine is still in doubt as 10 the ex-
act result of the late election for the
repeal of the prohibition clause in the
state constitution, but it can be in
little doubt about a contest to deter
mine the outcome. That is virtually
settled now. Governor Plsisted, the
democrat elected on a resubmission
platform, claims the victory of the re-
peal proposition by only twenty-six
votes. The vets, to be sure, believe
this margin will be widened some by
the complete count, but even if it is,
it will scarcely be widened enough to
satisfy the drys without exhausting
the last legal recourse they have. So
that Maine may safely count on an
other conflict as a complement to the
election
Even should a contest show a re-
versal of conditions and a victory for
the drys, it would be too scant a ma
jority to offer substantial hope of
long continued status quo of this or
ganic prohibition, Outside of the
mere fact of victory or defeat in this
election, what the returns show most
conspicuously is that there has been
formidable overturning of senti-
ment in Maine on this proposition.
which, in 1884, was put into the con-
stitution by a majority of $4,000,
when the total vote of the state was
far less than it is today.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21

That last attack on Judge Hamer
through democratic organs is charac-
teristic of the political holdup, only
more brazen in confessing it. This
is from one of the letters quoted:
Now, Mr.. Hamer, l will give you Just
ten days from the receipt of this letter
written August %, eight days after the
primary election) to turn over the money,
$50, with interest at 10 per cent from No
vember 8, 1906 together with all papers in
the case, otherwise l will write a true
statement of the case and have IL pub
lined in all the leading papers of the
state so help me God
Presumably. the payment of $50
and 10 per cent interest would have
warded off this terrible blow.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21
Go 10 II, NIX!
Philadelphia Ledger.

Nikola Tesla has hitherto been dis
thnguished for roseate predictions as to
the future OF electricity rather than for
practicable inventions. He has been the
Camille Flsmmarion OF electrical science
He now promises an ideal gas engine.
available for steamships or airships
and AYERS that from the waste gases Of
steel plants he can generate from 5000. 900
TO 50OO0,O0O horsepower a year, valued at
perhaps $3.50. 10000. No one has any OBJ
lection TO offer to DR.. Tesla's making the
attempt.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21
Some Delicate Questions.
Chica 90 Tribune

The supreme court has not shown any
inclination TO trespass on the rights Of
the states to amplify the powers of the
national government. 1t has vindicated
the powers Of the latter and has shown
itself on many occasions solicitous to de-
fend the rights Of the former. There is
no reason to doubt that it will be impair
tial in. dealing with what is confessedly
a perplexing railroad problem. Where
the same road does both an intrastate
and interstate business, and thus serves
two masters, delicate questions neces-
sarily arise.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-21
Question of Fact.
Indianapolis News

The question at issue is almost wholly
one of fact. For the law is correctly
given by Judge sanborn. If the Mime
sofa rate law encroaches on the author
ity of the Interstate Commerce commits
sion it must give way. Judge Sanborn
was right when he said that when state
and federal authority conflict the fed
eral authority must rule. The questions
are whether there is any encroachment
on the powers of the Interstate Com
merce commission, and whether there is
any conflict between state and federal
authority. To be sure. il may still be
asked whether the encroachment is sub
stantial or the conflict irreconcilable
But the great question is as TO whether
Minnesota actually invaded the federal
| jurisdiction