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Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-16
Economy in System.

The economy commission named
some time ago by President Taft, OF
which DR.. F. A. cleveland of Chicago
is chairman, is soon to make its report,
so information from Washington
states, and 1t will have a report to
make on which the president may base
recommendations in his next message
to congress for the curtailmept of mil
lions OF dollars in the expense OF run
ming the government. These recon-
mendations will form a vital part of
the presidents message to congress in
December and therefore give the coun-
try something palatable to digest just
before the national campaign year
dawns.
An entirely new system OF account
ing and conducting other details OF the
governments clerical business will be
instituted II the report OF this COM
mission lie adopted. The point of the
report will be TO install more system
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-16

pentance." True, to do that He did
not become one or the world, but
He was always "in" the world, down
with the man in the street. Why, but
to gain his appreciation? And so is
any disciple or church Of His today
that amounts to anything Intoler-
ance has been left in the rear. The
church long ago learned that to hold
a place as a potent factor in the world
IL must concede to the world it's right
to do some thinking on its own ac-
count. Yet who will say that is let
ting down ecclesiastical standards?
Appreciation is generally gained
through respect. The church knows
1t must have the worlds appreciation
and 1t is seeking 1t at every turn and
1t knows that before it has its appro-
baton it must have its respect and 1t
cannot have that unless 1t accords to
the world respectful hearing.
All men do not choose to live on
oatmeal and Scotch herring. Some
even object to being gagged in order
to be converted. This is no day for
unrelenting dogma in the shape Of
empty form.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-16

into government business and through
system effect economy. 1t is not
graft, but careless waste of time and
resources, that consumes extra money
in keeping the official machinery of
state going. There are too many sys-
TENS. One department has its way Of
doing and another its way. Uniform
ity is needed to effect greater Ell
cheney and economy, and It is pre-
cisely this toward which President
Taft aimed when he took hold Of
affairs
This new system is to be more di-
rect and simple and therefore more
responsive to public needs. For in
stance, at present this commission es-
Inmates that it costs in time Of en-
ployes more than 100000 a year,
on an average, to supply congress with
information It calls for. No one is
claiming fraud or graft here, but sim
ply the fault of a bunglesome way of
doing things. And all along the line
such faults are to be found. If
$1,000,000 can be saved here in this
one remote place, what can be saved
in the whole scope of official Washing
ton? This is a great work for the
people the president has ordered done
and congress would be derelict in its
duty not to put the reforms into effect
when they come up for its approval.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-16
SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT.

st. Louis Republic: That preacher who
is trying to find The Real Jonah" should
call at the weather bureau.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: Does that pas
tor who claims a minister cannot marry
on less than 81, 900 a year firmly refuse to
perform the wedding ceremony for his
brethren unless the latter contrive to
show up something above the si,l0o limit
Louisville Courier-Journal: The liar"
says the minister, sis the littlest and most
contemplate of all men, Wen there are
liars and liars. Some OF them inspire a
certain sort OF respect by the liberality
OF their design and the savoir faire of
their execution.
Boston Transcript: II is reported of a
religious meeting in Atlantic City that
numbers OF men were moved TO tears.
Without wishing to discourage the evan
gelists, 1t may be permissible to point out
that in weather like this, the use Of hand
kerchiefs may be for other than the drops
Of contrition.
Wichita (Kan.) Eagle: In the religious
world Wichita has just received con-
spicuous honor by the conservation Of
Mgr. Then as bishop. All Wichita will
join with the faithful In the expression
that God would bestow the abundance
of His grace upon the bishop-slect."
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-16
Helping the Laggard.

Give more time to the laggard is
one of the recommendations to school
teachers made by the National Educa-
tional association in its San Francisco
convention. The complaint is that
too many teachers are not attentive
enough to the boys and girls at the
foot of the class. Perhaps this is
natural, for Americans instinctively
admire a winner. School teachers,
doubtless, prefer to give their extra
time to the pupil who is alert and
bright in his studies. In fact, we think
this is usually the case. The laggard
generally lags not only in his own
work, but also in favor with the
teacher. To balance things, it would
seem that more attention be given to
him than to his more fortunate class
mate. 1t might make more winners.
STILL schools must fit their pace to
neither the best nor the poorest, but
the average. It is a question in the
minds of a good many educators If
this is not overlooked too much; that
is, it has been felt by some that the
course Of study in the public schools
might be above the average child.
This theory has had a good deal of
consideration in the effort to arrive at
the real reason why as many pupils
drop out as graduate from the grade
to the high schools every year. Two
hundred and fifty thousand children
pass from the grammar to the high
schools every year and another ESQ, 900
pass from the grammar schools out
into the world to lay down their les
sons and take up work for wages. OF
course, economic reasons are partially
responsible for this, but even that has
not overcome the belief in some minds
that the grades are above the average
and that If they were not, fewer would
become discouraged and leave school.
So, while 1t is doubtless important to
give more time and attention to the
laggard, 1t would seem to be most i'm
portant to aim always at the average
without holding anyone back
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-16
IN THE CLEANING.
Birmingham News

Birmingham News
They were standing alone in the cleaning,
Each clasping the others fran hanA,
AS memory backward went roaming
To youth and faraway land
Where mock-birds were trilling in msrriest
glee,
And flowers were blooming all over the
A far-sway land which they. only. could,
They, only. today. understand.
His locks were Of soft, downy whlteness,
Her eyes brilliant luster was dim;
His love was her life's only brightness.
And she was the sunlight to him;
MY Marie he murmured, caressinG her
AS she lifted face. in Its lovslisht still
fair,
And brokenly whispered, My Jim"
They were back in the days Of youths
glory,
With the sunshine Of love in each heart:
They were telling again the old story.
Inspired by Cupd's own dart;
Her siyery tresses were cleaning with
gold,
of old
Yet fingered, still loath to depart
And there in the peace of the cleaning,
Alone In the dear yesteryear.
As memory backward went roaming
They kissed. for the parting was near
And she was his Marie, fair youthful
And he was her soldier--hsr soldier in
gray
They turned. but the stranger was walk
And Silently wiping a tear.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-16
BLASTS FROM RAMS HORN,

Nothing tells for good like truth that i'
lived
Good nature and good fortune cannot be
kept apart
The higher little man Is lifted the
more he shrinks.
Leaning toward sin is as bad as taking
II in your arms.
DO right and God will see 90 It that
you come out right.
The man who fights the devil with fire
will have warm time.
The lazier a man Is today, the more he
intends to do tomorrow.
A mans wife is better Judge Of his
religion than his pastor is.
man runs down his shoes because he
walks that way in his mind
The faster the wrongdoer travels the
swlfter he goes TO destruction,
When God is on our side every star In
the heavens is fighting for us
When the devil can run the choir he
don't care who does the preaching.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-16
Tyranny Of Custom.

A Chicago minister has thrown
down the gauntlet to the tyranny of
custom and gone into his pulpit on
Sunday morning in thin, white trous-
ers and without coat, and has babe
his congregation follow his inspiring
example in making himself comforta-
BILE at the expense of empty form.
In such heated weather as the coun-
try has experienced of late why should
not even a preacher adopt humane
style Of dress? Does anyone suppose
that this man would preach better IL
he were bundled up in long clerical
coat. with the Precipitation trickling
down his body in streams so much
that It made him feel, while trying to
expound the gospel, as II he were pass
ing through purgatory, Not only did
this Chicago minister defy all prece-
dent, but he carried the spirit of 1t
into his sermon and preached on the
subject, The Tyranny of Custom"
showing how thoroughly wrought up
he must have been.
Too often We pay exorbitant tribute
to custom, especially in the matter Of
dress. 1t would be better for varied
spheres of our public and private ac-
tivity II people would do as this cour-
ageous pastor did. There is the po-
liceman, the motorman, the floor
walker in the big store. and last, but
not least, that man of sorrows, ac-
quainted with grief, despised and re-
jected-the base ball umpire. Ty-
rannical custom hath decreed that
they wear their uniforms no matter
how blistering hot the sun may come
down. Well, here is their cue, given
them by this man of the cloth. Will
they accept IL. or will they continue
to bow supinely to this tyrant custom?
And in the meantime, how about the
rest of the preachers? VIII they have
the courage OF their iconoclastic
brother?
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-16
Summer Philanthropy.


Many rich people in large cities are
putting their means to the very use
full end of supplying the poor with
warm weather comforts, among which
are ice and water and fresh air Here
are three-two, rather-of the COM
monest necessities Of life-air and
water, and yet the most uncommon to
those who most require them, because
unpossessed OF ample means. II
seems strange to talk of philanthropy
in supplying them. But the grim fact
is there, just the same. Many a mis-
cradle mortal in Chicago, New York,
Philadelphia and other cities during
every summer languishes for want of
these commonest of natures elements
and the people in places nearer home
suffer for them.
Conditions should be such as to af-
ford every person all the fresh air he
needed to breathe and all the pure
water he wanted to use, and all the
ice required. But since conditions in
big cities are otherwise it is a fine
form of philanthropy adopted by many
good men and women OF means to
provide for their less fortunate fellow
beings. II anyone imagines that the
need for ice in such weather as we
have had Of late is thus overdrawn his
Illusion might have been dispelled by
reading an account of run on an ice
company's headquarters in one Of the
large cities last week, where the
crowd, when denied ice, stampeded
the place broke down doors and
helped itself.
Fortunately, we of the west, while
paying exorbitant prices in some cases,
as In Omaha, for ice, have not come
to such extremes as this, but only be-
cause we do not have armies Of i'm
poverished people to care for. Why
should not philanthropy adapt it's OPP
erations to the seasons, giving timely
effect to its beneficences? The good
that free ice and free open-air excur-
sions and free water do for the op-
pressed in the squalor of large tene-
ment quarters is not to be measured
in dollars and cents. The greatest
Benefactor the world ever knew at
tached very rich reward to the sim
pie act of giving cup of cold water.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-16
THE SCOUTS GRAVE.

w. W. Edwards in Pacific Monthly.
An empty shack on the mountain side
And an unmarked grave below,
Where guarding the plain stand sentinel
peaks,
with helmet and shield Of snow.
A "waif OF natures" last resting place!
Apart from the worlds fierce strife,
Mid well loved scenes he has fixed his
camp"
At the end OF his journey Of life.
Though his history's page is a trifle dim.
In the years that he called his best,
He had piloted through an adventurous
crew
who were lured to the golden west
He saw the change creep over the wilds
That followed mems greed for gold;
The cities that rose on valley and plain
Where the buffalo ranged Of old
But gold and cities held naught for him.
Remote from the haunts Of men,
His spirit set forth DER the Great Divide
And what was his monument then?
An empty shack meath the mountain pines
Chanting a requiem slow.
And the sunsets fall like a royal pail
On the lonely grave below.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-16
A Question Of Confidence.

Nearly every observer Of social, In
dustrial and political conditions notes
the widespread unrest and discomfort.
The spirit that Is abroad In the land
crlticises and finds fault with nearly
all the institutions which we have in
herited, explaining that while they
may possibly have been serviceable in
their time, they have outlived their
usefulness, have gone lame or broken
down altogether, and can no longer
keep pace with modern progress.
The tendency OF this agitation and
irritation is to undermine public conf
dence in the stability and integrity Of
our governmental and industrial agen-
cies, and even in the prevailing social
fabric. AS a rule II is admitted that
the people as whole are more intel
ligent, better educated, more prosper
Gus, more healthy, more comfortable
and less overworked than they have
been at any previous era in history,
but their desire for still further i'm
provement is likewise more keenly
whetted and popular suspicion or
prejudice more easily aroused against
whatever appears to menace their ad-
vancement or well-being.
Assuming that there are many
abuses that should be corrected and
many grievances that should be re-
dressed, the next problem after ex-
posture is cure, and tearing down will
avail nothing unless a new and sound
superstructure is substituted. In its
ultimate analysis the foundation stone
of civilized society is confidence, and
we must restore, maintain and
strengthen public confidence in the
permanency and benefcence of our
free institutions.
Whatever form of industrial organ
ization is accepted, both employer and
employe must be convinced that it
will produce substantial justice in the
division of the product.
Whatever society may do to ameli-
ornate the living conditions of the
masses and improve the opportunities
of the rising generation; whatever it
may do to relieve social testers and
rescue social derelicts, confidence in
the family as the social unit, and pro-
lection of the family group against
disrupting forces, is elemental and
basic.
Whatever changes may be made in
the machinery of government, conf
dence in our ability to secure honest,
competent and devoted men at the
guiding wheel, and In all the smaller
positions of responsibility, will be in
dispensable.
Once, when we almost completely
destroyed public confidence in our
currency, the wheels of industry came
practically to a standstill and began
again to revolve and hum only when
confidence was restored. Without the
tonic Of confidence in ourselves, conf
dence in our institutions, confidence in
our public servants, confidence in the
perpetuity Of the republic, the body
polite is sure to languish and the in
dustrial organism to slacken its
motion.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-16
Money that Goes Abroad.

Some people who have not gone
deeply into the subject of foreign i'm
migration find fault with the condi-
tions by which aliens can come to the
United States, work, save their money
and take it back to Europe with them.
They profess to see in this a serious
draining OF our wealth into the old
world, but do they stop to think of
the way some of our own people are
lavishly pouring wealth into these old
world countries?
DR.. Edward A. Steiner, an authority
on immigration and an eminent sociol-
ogist, relates an experience on board
ship going to Europe, which fits this
case we'll. In the steerage were about
1000 southern Europeans going back
to their native lands, carrying with
them an aggregate of $25 900. In the
first cabin he met a dozen wealthy
Americans, men and women, who, he
learned, we're supplied with a total of
100000 spending money for pleasure.
One or two of them condemned the
conditions that made it possible for
these foreigners to come over here
and take back our good money to
build palaces for their kings and en-
perors." But they had not stopped to
think what the kings and emperors
would do with their much larger
amounts.
What is the difference?" they
were asked. The difference is" one
replied, that we are Americans and
they are not" ''No, that is not the
difference; it is that these people down
in the steerage have earned their
money, while many of you have not. -"
At any rate, every alien who goes
back to his native land from America
with hsrd-earned wages accumulated,
becomes a valuable representative Of
democratic America in a foreign land
and it is through such a medium that
the United States may hope to dis
tribute and extend it's power and in
fluence. In this way II may partially
assimilate less fortunate peoples with
out their ever setting foot on Ameri-
can soil. Back OF every dollar these
laborers take TO southern Europe is
something of a conviction of the su-
periority of the country that affords
them the privilege of earning enough
money to support themselves and have
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-16
People Talked About
Sweet are the uses of advertising. En-,

Sweet are the uses Of advertising. En-,
VIII?
Chicago proposes to invest bunch OF
money In voting machines. Omaha's junk
pile won't be so lonesome when Chicago
builds its pyramid In year or two.
Drouth in New York cannot be as bad
as reported, One concern there Jumped its
capital stock from $500 to 100000 Pos
slbly a little wind was annexed on the
side.
There are exceptions to the charge that
actresses doff the matrimonial harness
as readily as they change costumes.
Ethel Barrymore respected the marriage
pact for two whole years.
James Whitcomb Rileys gift OF $4,000
worth of property to the home folks at
| Indianapolis is an example OF the civic
| spirit that cannot be overdone. II is not
| copyrighted. ANY citizen with civic pride
in his heart and having a purse TO match
may In this way insnuate himself into
the lasting good will OF the community and
| hitch hts name TO the chariots Of pos
terity. Now is the proper time DO 1t
while you live.
Former Governor Vardaman Of Miss
issipp is pulling off a campaign for the
senatorship that throws in the shade the
! hest efforts Of Mayor Jim" last fall.
| vardaman rode into Meridian recently in
chariot drawn by 100 oxen, all white
and decked with streamers bearing the le-
gend, Vote for the White Chief and Up
hold the White South" The pace Of oxen
Is not as speedy as a motor car, but the
race is not always to the swift Jim
knows.
General John S. Mosby takes several
columns OF the New York Sun to prove
| that the Lost Cause" was lost at the
! first battle of Bull Run, because the con-
federates failed TO follow up the victory
! by taking Washington, which he thinks
would have been easy, Similarly, MoClel-
Ian at Antletam and Meade at Gettysburg
might have crushed the rebellion had they
vigorously pursued the shattered confed-
crates. In each case the troops had all the
| fighting that human endurance could
stand. Hindsight would be more iuminat-
| ing II II weighed physical limitations
Consul General Church Howe has be-
come the greatest peace advocate attached
TO the foreign service OF Uncle Sam. The
stormy petrol of Nemaha and Nebraska,
| having "fit and lit and fit at home
while a feather chung to the proud bird
OF liberty evidently looks hack on strife
/ and contention as a shocking waste OF
energy, besides being fruitless. In his
dove cote at Manchester, Eng. he COOS as
soothngly as a warrior retired on a fat
pension. Manchester newspapers are
charmed by his vocal talent and rarely
pass up a chance 20 work him for copy.
The Evening News Of June p attached the
generals picture to peace overture as q
guarantee OF good faith
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-16
CATHOLICISM VS.. CARNEGIE.
Influence of Pension system Estab-
liShed by IronmasteF.
RrnnI.IA.rn "a


The Catholic Educational association
meeting at Chicago adopted resolutions de-
nouncing the Carnegie foundation as "a
menace to the intellectual and moral we'll
being Of the American people" and as aim
ton OF this country"
or course, no such aim can be fairly
attributed to Mr.. Carnegie. That his pur-
pose was high one. we assume most
Roman Catholics will concede. He provided
pensions for instructors in colleges that
came within the terms of his plan. He
barred out both Catholic and Protestant In
stitutions owned or controlled by religious
body In effect this took from Catholic In
stitutions all hope Of participation. This
was natural corollary OF the Roman Ca
tholic view OF education.
And. frankly speaking. though there was
no aim" to de-Christianize the education
OF this country. the question whether the
scheme is working out I'm de-Christianiza-
ton is open TO discussion. Protestant inst!-
buttons that refuse to surrender church con.
troll like Catholic institutions, find the pen,
sions in more favored schools and colleges
a temptation to teachers and professors 70
leave them, and as a consequence, the re-
ligious colleges are placed at a disadvan-
tage in the matter Of securing instructor.
equal in breadth and force to those Of the
secular colleges That disadvantage is real
and is serious.
We do not think the scheme has gone
far enough yet TO be finally passed upon.
Perhaps the exclusion of institutions under
church control was unwise. Perhaps Mr..
Carnegie may be brought to recognize its
unwisdom. II he should do so. and IL the
foundation plan should be so amended. all
criticism would be avoided, but in number
and volume the pensions would not be
what they are now
Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-16
Twenty Years Ago

United states Senator John J. Ingalls, OF
Kansas spoke at the Omaha and Council
Bluffs chautauqua.
The city was visited by fierce electrical
storm with drenching rains.
r. Arnot Finley and Miss F, Mae Hal
bert we're united in marriage by Rev. Frank
Crane, assisted by Drs. French and VIII
Hanson, at 1912 Burdette street.
Charles Weymulers left for New York.
whence he would sail for Europe on the
18th inst.
John Cooper and Catherine Fox, and Fritz
Bloomer and Anna J. lessen we're married.
The building permits for the day amounted
to 81 900.
The temperature ranged from a to rs.
Burglars robbed the meat market of
Samuel Dreyfuss in the Hitchcock block at
Twentieth and Farnam, taking advantage
Of the short police force. Many officers
were attending picnic