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Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24
Volunteers in Idle Army.

II is not at all surprising to learn
that many thousands OF Chicago's
army OF unemployed are volunteers.
The complete muster Ia estimated at
125,000 and the commission ap-
pointed by the mayor to investigate
conditions has already reported that
Il has found many demands for work
men unmet by the soldiers within
these lines. For instance. a call for
25, 900 men to clear railroad tracks
and other property OF snow fell upon
deaf ears. In another case 1900 men
were advertised for in the morning
newspaper want ad columns and $50
responded.
No impatient zeal for work evil
IDENTIFY animates thousands of these
soldiers OF idleness. Others. no doubt,
would like chance to earn an
honest living. but there Is the un-
answered call for the $4,000. Mace
donia is not saved that way. We
ventured to suggest before that q
large proportion OF this vast army Of
unemployed consisted OF the profess
sional tramp and these early findings
Of the commission seem to justify
our belief. They put very different
aspect upon the situation and Will go
to discredit any attempt to make
political capital out Of condition ap-
parently grave.
Industry and capital. OF course, are
pursuing a conservative line Of action
for the present. but upon the eve Of
national election such a condition
is not entirely strange and 1t offers
no sort OF warrant for magnifying
any fault that may exist. The day
was admittedly saved in this country
in 1907 by the concerted wisdom Of
the newspapers in carefully avoiding
any exaggeration Of the depression.
and such q policy could with greatest
profit to all interests be adopted now,
though conditions are far from
analogous.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24
The Case of Mr.. Schwab.

1t has been several days since
Charles NJ. Schwab spoke SO despair
ingIy of the steel business. from
which he threatened to retire IL con-
gress tampered with the tariff, but II
he has acted upon his threat the fact
has been withheld from the public.
Before Mr.. Schwab throws up the
sponge he might recall a statement
he made in the fall of 1909. which
went far from indicating that the
steel business was altogether unprof-
liable. He said that the capital
stock of the Bethlehem Steel company
his orporation-amounted to
SIS, 200, 900, all of which the Bethle-
hem owned; that it was divided into
100000 shares at $50 par; that
while nominally only 81 share had
been paid in, the surplus of the COM
pany was practically sufficient to
pay the stock in full and that the
company intended to, issue stock to
represent the surplus. Those we're
Mr.. Schwab's own words. Presumably
the company has since carried out its
intention and issued this stock to
represent the surplus.
In 1910 the Bethlehem company
paid dividend OF 10 per cent,
amounting to $500. 900, on its cap
ital stock. Surely any industry that
can earn dividends OF $500, 900 on
an actual cash investment of $780,
600 is in fairly good condition to
weather an adverse wind or two; at
least. 1t is fair to presume that the
principal holders Of its stock would
not be Fastening to throw overheard
what they had acquired. Or, putting
II another way around, a $4,000, 900
concern with 100000 OF stock con-
tributed in cash and s14,7o0, 900 in
earned profits, is not in the most
advantageous position to demand spe-
cial privileges.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24
THE WISE DOCTOR.

W. D. Nesbit in Chicago Post.
She was weak. sne was pale. she was
fragile and frail.
And the trouble grew rapidly Chronic;
She was wan, she was weak, twas task
Just to speak.
She could stlll go around, but each day
That she seemed less concerned with
just living,
And she took with an air Of the deepest
despair
All the medicines that they were giving.
Many portly NJ. D.'s-some SO fat they
would wheeze- p
Came to make renewed diagnosis,
And they talked. grave Of brow, of the
why and the how l- 4.
And Of cellular strength and osmosis.
They. prescribed for her trips on the
They declared she must do lots OF.
walking, .ls
But she shook her poor head and she
took to her bed,
While the specialists kept up their talk
ing. q. -
Came a doctor quite new to see what he
He asked not Of her eating and drinking,
But he studied her case as he looked at
And he kept up power Of thinking.
Then he said: Il am sure that I know of
And he gossiped of cranks and trans
missions, .E. f-
And OF Limousine tors and OF magnetic
pops
which astounded the other physicians.
Well, her husband was keen and he
bought machine.
And the doctor. when faced with the
OF how he was SO sure he could work
out a cure.
Said he did II by auto-sugestion.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24
Postal Telegraph.

In transmitting to congress the re-
port of the postmaster general, Pres
ident Taft takes occasion TO disavow
and dissent from the recommends
ton of postal telegraph. The presi-
dent expresses the view that govern
ment activity should not be substi-
tuted for private enterprise here IL
the service may be rendered by
franchised corporations under public
control In a manner equally cheap
and efficient. This is the real point
of debate. the postal telegraph hav-
ing been established abroad. and
being now urged for this country by
Postmaster General Hitchcock as a
proper function for the Postofice DC
paTtment by which telegraph mes
sages, the same as letters, could be
transmitted and delivered better, IL
not cheaper.
ING piOIbnaA VI Eoot0A
graph is by no means new with US,
nor even new with our postal author
tiles, as 1t has been included in the
program of various successive post.
p:asters general for forty years. II
must be admitted that very recent
developments, i1iniDg the telegraph
and the telephone for operating pur-
poses. has made II more compli-
Gated problem, and has unquestion-
ably deferred the advent Of the pos
tai telegraph. which had previously
appeared to be fast approaching.
without resistance on the part of the
telegraph companies. Fhe attitude
Of President Taft takes the postal
telegraph of Of the legislative slate
for the present. but It will make n
temperance at some not distant day.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24
0spina's Recall.

Colombla's action in promptly re-
calling its indiscreet minister to the
United States, General Pedro Mel
0spina, for an utterance that could
have no place In the delicate func-
tions of diplomacy. is very gratifying.
because II indicates a much better
feeling for the United States on the
part OF its little neighbor to the south
than we had had reason to believe
existed. or course, though all has
not gone precisely 10 the liking OF
Colombia, that country would have
nothing TO gain and all to lose BY
taking offensive ground with us.
though II Is not at all to be supposed
that because Of the American gov
ernment's overtowering strength II
would nse It unfairly upon, weak
neighbor. No American interest has
anything to gain by unfriendliness
with or imposition upon Colombia, or
any other Central or South American
country. and the sane men at Bogota
evidently appreciate that.
The attitude toward osplna Is In
marked contrast with the action
toward an American army ofacer who,
also speaking wholly as an individual,
and not as representative OF his
government. was severely reproved
for making an indiscreet remark al
London banquet some months ago.
II was In nowise as serious. however.
as tho assertion of ospina and yet
the administration frankly took the
Colombian at his word when he said
that he spoke. not as minister. but
as Senor ospina The administration
simply declined to take any notice
whatever OF the remark and to have
done otherwise would have undigni-
fed this government and over-digni-
fled an apparently small man from a
minor republic. The United States
thus comes out entirely the gamer,
the administration having reflected
distinguished honor upon itself and
the government.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24
People Talked About

Moved by kindly impulses and sanitary
reasons" ALabama is about TO provide a
painless means Of killing oysters before
being served on the half shell.
William Temple Emmett. who has been
appointed superintendent Of insurance OF
New York state. is a great-grandson Of
Thomas Adds Emmet. who was a brother
Of Robert Emmet. the Irish patriot.
The fact that George Washington was
penallxed by a Texas court for gun
totlng implies gross irreverence for a
great name and startling departure
from the style which made the Lone star
state famous.
II Is solemnly asserted that Boston
woman Weighing ninety-eight pounds beat
her s5o-lb. husband into unconsciousness-
Boston, the gentle. cultured. humane hub
Of the commonwealth. shocks admirers
by emphasizing with club the sorrowful
refrain: '.Nobdy loves . fat man"
A New York financial paper expresses
the astonishing opinion that 1o,0ao q year
each Is : sh.ss toe rnneh pay for mem
bers Of the Board Of Directors Of the
Central Leather company. The porcins
qualities Of the directors leaves stock
holders gripping the sack Hence the
roar.
Edward NJ. Morgan. recently reap
pointed postmaster at New York City,
has been connected with that office since
lszs. when he was II years old When
he entered the office IL did sleeeo oi
business and employed 800 men nov
there are about 4eoo employees and the
yearly business Is about sp.eooooa
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24
POLITICAL SNAPSHOTS.

Cleveland Plain Dealer: Il never was
deserter," proclains Colonel Roosevelt.
But. no. He has always stuck to the
eolors as long as the Oyster Bay insignia
were printed plainly on the label.
Sioux City Journal: The very idea of
an organized democratic fight In Ne
braska against Mr.. Bryan is startling.
But that is the movement. And all Mr..
Bryan is asking Is the honor of attending
the Baltimore convention as delegate
at-large from Nebraska; and. incident
ally, to be sure, the opportunity to get
in a few more licks on Governor Judson
Harmon and a few side swipes on other
democratic candidates whom he cannot
consistently approve.
Minneapolis Journal: The Outlook may
be right in estimating that the president
has forfeited political strength by lack
of quick, spectacular decisions. But sure
and dependable decisions will read as
well. II not better, in history than the
quick kind. If he has lost the ear Of the
people, It is not because of lack OF in
terest in their welfare, but because he
did not speak in the vernacular which
was for the moment popular.
Springfield Republican; There are
traces Of resemblance in the republican
situation to that in the spring Of 1892
Secretary Blajne's friends were urgent
that he should compete with President
Harrison for the republican nomination
but the ''plumed knight" did not actually
resign his cabinet position until three
days before the convention was con
vened. Then he became an active candi.
date. Blaine in that period was the pop
ular hero of the republican masses. In
copsenting to make the race against ever
an unpopular president. he gave the fina
tragic touch TO his career,
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24

The democratic World-Herald is
not happy over the appointment OF
Judge Pitney to the supreme court
vacancy, although 1t has no word to
say against him. But 1t is inconsol-
able because President Taft did not
give Louis d. Brandeis the place as
q reward for going up and down the
country attacking his administration.
We shall file this recommendation
away for the event. which we do not
think at all imminent. Of demo-
cratic president with a supreme court
vacancy to fill. and see whether the
World-Herald will still be as inslstent
for Mr.. Brandeis, Notwithstanding he
avows himself a republican.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24
WHITFIELD TO A POINT.

you say your Jewels were stolen while
the family was at dinner
No, no. This Is an important robbery,
officer. Our dinner was stolen while we
were putting on our jewels."-Louisvill5
Courier-Journal.
q like those decisions the judge is CIV
ing"
Eyes. they seem absolutely frank and
fearless. Do you know what they sug-
gest?'
No"
They suggest the sort of decisions some
judges would give II the recall embraced
the judiciary. Plain-Dealer.
my daughter, professor, plays entirely
and aren't you having her treated for
the trouble?'-Baltimore American.
"Is that man a ruIer?" asked one orr
entail statesman.
mo" replied the other: '.juding from
his extreme pliability, l should rather
call him a tape-measure. e."-Washington
Star.
Frayed Francis-Ever have dyspepsy,
Dusty? -.
Dusty Rhodes-wots dat?
Frayed Francis-Dat means trouble
after yer meals.
Dusty Rhodes-Not me. Ny trouble
comes afore my mesls.-Boston Tran
script.
Miss Gushington-Love is like kitten.
Ii Is born blind.
Mr.. Blunt-Yes but It only takes kit
ten nine days TO get its eyes opened
Philadelphia Record.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24

violent objections that were urged against
such men as Judge Hook and Secretary
Nsgel. either Of whom would doubtless
have performed admirable service. In
finally turning to New Jersey and select
ing Chancellor Pitnsy for the vacancy
made by the death Of Justice Harlan the
president reveals his despair OF pleasing
.he particular western folks who interest
themselves in judicial appointments.
Probably host of objections to Judge
Pitney would have found their way to
Washington II the president had delayed
sending the nomination to the senate for
q few days. No one can be mentioned
whom someone does not object to.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24

bench OF this district, and but one
change in the supreme bench of the
state, and in neither case because of
any special grievance against the de-
feated candidate, but rather because
his successful competitor hustled
harder.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24
Letting fa the Light.

The supreme court has again held con-
stitutional the clause in. the Interstate
commerce act of 1910 which makes the
railroad on which a shipment originates
liable for loss or damage incurred in any
part Of the trip. As long as railroads
reserve the right to route freight no rail-
road can object to its being held responss-
bic for accident on route which the
shipper does not select.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24
Ten Years Ago

Hopes OF new fireproof hotel for
Omaha, to be built by the Dean Brothers
OF Kansas City. were once more revived.
p. y, Her brought them back 10 life.
The mayor and city counciimen Of Red
Oak. Ia. visited Omaha in a body. They
were Mayor Thomas Griffith. Aldermen
George Brown. Henry Peterson. John
o'Rourke, Charles Wilson and L. Fixes.
Al a meeting of the tax committee OF
the Real Estate exchange W. 8. Popple-
ton brought up the resolution Of the city
council to issue current expense bonds.
and asked the committee IL II would at
tempt to stop the proposed issue, and the
committee unanimously decided that 1t
would not.
There was a break In the democratic
trinity Of Harry Miller. Walter Noise and
Ed Howell. Miller doing the breaking. He
declared that he would fight Ed Howell
as a candidate for mayor TO the bitter
end.
The Board Of Fire and Police Commis-
sioners formally appointed Charles A.
salter as chief of the fire department to
succeed John Redeii, with salary at $500.
The agitation for two market houses in
Omaha arose tn. first one was already
located by the city council on Capitol
avenue between Thirteenth and Four
teenth. and the second one demanded
somewhere near Eleventh and Howard
streets. councilmen Karr. Trostler. Has
call, Lobeck and zimman favored the
idea. Robert Smith. Douglas street
grocer, was the spokesman for the duplex
proposition.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24
Some Very Live Relics.
Pittsburgh Dlspatch.

Ex-senator Bever1dge is reported as
saying that the antitrust act is "a
relic Of the seventeenth century" True.
II Is also a relic Of tho eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries. .inasmuch as 1t puts
into statutory form the principles Of the
common law that have existed since law
was formed for the public interest. The
first decisions against the Standard and
sugar trusts were under the common law.
But old principles Of the common law
are not necessarily effete. The Ten Com
mandments.t for instance. date back a
good many centuries before Christ.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24

John Barrett urges the business
men OF Omaha to start a campaign
Of education on the value to this sec.
ton Of the Panama canal, and how
to make the most OF It as soon as II
ia open for tratfic. The trouble is to
determine which campaign of educa-
tion to start first-.ope for the Pan.
anna canal or-one for the Platte rive.
power canal.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24

The city building inspectors de-
psrtment is the one supposed to en-
foFce the bniidinS ordinances upon
contractors who take exclusive pos
session of streets and sidewalks ad-
joining their rork. This Information
Simply to let the counercia1 club
know to whom to direet complaints
Oh this score.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24

Press dispatches say that Governor
Wilson's visit TO Topeka brought out
the largest crowd seen there since
Mr.. Bryan's visit in 1903. Why
mention it, Most any stranger who
will make a speech can draw a crowd
In Kansas.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24
Uneanny Eavesdropper.

II half the stories told about the dicta-
graph are true that uucsnny inyention
may be as serious a menace TO the Sc
eurity Of society as the Maxim .'sllencer''
for firearms promised to be. Put to the
right nses Il may be. a useful servant.
mlsused Il may become an intolerable
nuisance; as dstector Of crime ii has
becn justified. az an Illegal means for
the invasion Of proper secrecy it will
soon call for some form OF regaIative
control.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24

st. Louis Republic.
To stimulate the increase of population
a tax reform measure has been drawn In
Iowa In which. says the report. 1T Is
proposed to relieve a man Of taxation on
$40 for every child he has" VIII like
inducement be offered to women to un-
dertake the cares Of motherhood?
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24

Some of the professional hold-up
men around the country must have
read that published letter about
there being mo police protection
within ten blocks" and hied them
selves TO Omaha accordingly.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24

That political calendar has plenty
OF red-letter dates. but they are badly
punched. II would be more con-
venient II we had an election or a
primary. or a registration day. say
the first and third Tuesday of every
month. We may come to Il.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24

The government lawyers claim to
have three kinds Of evidence against
the alleged dynamiters. The gov
eminent is very modest in its claims.
From showings made il seems to
have 400 kinds OF evidence against
them.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24
LIookin{ Backward
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r COMPILED FROM BEE FILES
FEB. "a.


Thirty Years Ago
A delightful musical was given by Miss
Rustin and members Of the Mendelssohn
quartet at the residence OF Captain C. B.
Rustin at Harvey and Seventeenth streets,
The quartet, compased Of Misses Rustin
and Poppleton and Messrs. Mayer and
Calm. was assisted by Mr.. G. F. Sauer
as violInlst, and Messrs. Estabrook. Will
kins. Northrup and France in the vocal
numbers.
A sociabe was given by the young peo-
pie Of the Lutheran church at the resi-
dence of Joseph Redman on Sixteenth
street.
Prof. Samuel Aughsy lectured in the
Unitarian chapel on THE Growth and
Development Of the Rocky Mountains"
A fall Of rain and oceans OF mud were
not sufficient to stop THE Voyage Of the
Bristol as the benefit performance for
Manager Marsh at Boyd's.
The Omaha Brick company. for the
manufacture OF brick and tile with a cap
ital stock Of 5000. has been incorporated
by orville f. Coombs, r. Stanton Lewis,
David d. Seamton and Charles N. Mead.
Over twenty rich costumes have been
ordered from New York for the coming
Concordia society's masquerade ball.
Electric light will be introduced into the
new Millard hotel. Gas. water and steam
pipes are being laid. and the painter and
plasterer will soon be at work.
With the resignation OF II. w. Yates as
cashier Of the First National bank the
stock he held was purchased by Mr.. Her
man Kountze. the president.
There is hole in the gutter on Tenth
at the Howard street crossing that Is sup
posed to be direct route for China. Sew
eral horses were floundered there today,
and II was necessary to get help to pull
them out
Edward Updlke Of Harvard Is in Omaha
on n business trim
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24

Colonel watterson says Of Cover
nor Wilson that under thh veneer.
ing of scholarly polish lies the coIled
serpent of ambition" Any man
should esteem it an honor to. be de-
nounced IN such elegant diction.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24
Twenty Years Ago

c. F. Goodman returned from ST.
OF Omaha men to labor with the leading
committeeman to get the populist con-
vention for Omaha in the summer. Other
Omaha men with him were w. NJ Mason,
secretary Of the Board Of Trade, and J..
o. Phillip. Mr.. Mason has the promise
OF T. V. Powderly TO favor Omaha.
Governor Boyd was making changes In
the personnel Of the fire and police COM
mission. ID. Glen NDeaver was out Of
town. but the other newly appointed
members OF the board evidently had a tip.
for soon after coming down town Shields
and Gallagher made a bee line for
chafi,s ogden's Office. where they were
handed commissions. William Coburn was
also reappoInted, but Gilbert. Hartman
and Smith failed to set commissions.
ID. G.. Patterson and half dozen other
property owners In the southwest part Of
the city offered TO donate to the park
commission the rlght-of-way for q boule-
ward 200 feet wide and about four miles
long. The boulevard would start at
Forty-second near Amber Place, and
terminate north OF Dundee about Ham
ilton street.
Rome Miller OF Norfolk. until recently
one OF the proprietors Of the Paxton
hotel. was a guest at that hostelry.
Elmer Frank was reported 70 be in q
precarious condition, suffering from ty-
phold fever. y.
1t was reported that the Union Pacific
conductors and brakemen bad won = sub
stantial victory in computing overtime.
Their grievance committees obtained the
concessions after long consultations with
General Manager Clark and Assistant
General Manager Dickinson.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24

Well, II Mike" Harringtons red
ink circular is no more deadly 10
Harmon than 1t was to Hartman, its
effect on the democratic primary will
be negligible, but 1t may be useful
to the republicans later in the cam
paign.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24

Perhaps the president felt that a
Jersey justice on the supreme coutt
bench could throw additional light
upon the dark and devious ways OF
the trusts. most Of whom are New
Jersey institutions.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24

when winter is over and get
back to Gods country" writes Col
onei watterson to his Courier
Journal. What. coming to Nebraska?
Welcome!
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24
Itch for Publicity.

Chicago Reoord-Herald.
Senior Pedro Mel ospina may. on the
other hand, have thought that was the
only way in which he could ever get upon
the front pages.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24

The people of Nebraska had a
chance to recall their judges last
year at the regular judicial election.
but they made but one change in the
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24

Subscribers leaving the city
temporarily should have The
Bee mailed to them. address
will he changed as often as re-
auested.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24

Governor Aldrich has been COM
PEELED to cancel speaking dates be-
cause OF hoarseness. The dry air OF
the irrigation districts is very hard
on orators.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24

II may be impudent for a little
old dictagraph to stick around when
a private conversation is going on.
but we need the talk.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24

Those Modern woodmen are going
after each other with their axes Just
as II they we're all democrats.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24

The Sioux City Journal invites the
colonel in with the premise that he
x.ll ind the water warm. Yes. and
warming up with the approach oi
spring and summer.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24

The newspapers frequently offend; but
never so seriously as when thex ignore
individuals VINO are seeking notoriety.--
ST. Louis Times
Oh, how true that is.
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-24

Since Mr.. Hearst has formally put
his brand upon Champ Clark. we
will now hear that the speaker is the
only really and truly grand candidate
In the race.