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Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02
Democracy Of Night school.

Nowhere in our very democratic
public school system does its democ-
raoy assert itself more impressively
than In the night schools, where pu-
piis Of many ages and stations come
for instruction. While open TO all
regardless OF race, creed or color.
these schools are largely attended by
people OF foreign birth. who have
been denied educational opportuni-
ties. Some OF them are mothers and
fathers, who, In many instances. are
accompanied by their children. There
they sit side by side. these rugged
folk, eager for the chance to learn,
losing nothing that is given them.
hanging on every precept and exam
pie with intensest purpose. Some
have done q hard days work. No
matter, they lack learning, and here
is a place to get Il. and improve their
chances in the race OF life.
II happens that in Omaha
it's public night schools are
situated in the midsts OF large
foreign-born populations and are
largely attended by them. While
many native Americans take advan-
tage OF these schools. the notable
feature is the use made OF them by
our neighbors from abroad. They
become, therefore. a real and potent
instrument OF democracy. All over
the land such schools offer splendid
opportunities for inculcating the
principles OF liberty and fraternity in
government, and II they are not tax
ing full advantage Of the opportunity
they are missing much that Is to be
done. il is prime service to the
nation to throw the facilities and
power Of its public school system into
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02
Stage Caricatures.

A prominent Chicago preacher pro-
tests against the stages manner OF
oaricaturing the clergy. He says the
typical stage minister lis a pale,
sickly fellow, who will not ask his
landlady for pinch of sugar for fear
OF his own voice" II Is quite true
that the stages caricaturing of
preachers is along such absurd lines,
but II is the same with some others
beside preachers. Jewish people
have for a long time complained at
the ,grotesque and by no manner
characteristic representations of the
Jew on the stage. But there is an
other class OF people who, we think,
have equally as good ground for pro-
testing as the clergyman and the
Jew, and that is the newspaper
worker.
Did you ever try to fit into your
conception of a reporter the creature
depicted for one upon the stage, gem
orally a preeocious upstart with a
cigarette In his mouth, pencil in one
hand and a paper pad In the other 7
Clyde Fitch seemed never happier
than thus caricaturing reporters, al
though no one had a better oppor-
Iunity than Mr.. Fitch for knowing
that this came about as far as possi-
bic from a real description. Report
ers who approach people for inter-
Views with pencil and paper in hand
are about as scarce as the detective
who, before starting out on a still
hunt for crafty fugitive, first be-
decks himself with numerous badges
of his authority, belts a row OF pis-
tolls about him and sticks a bowie
knife in his teeth. Similarly, the
average reporter is not chest
sunken. aenemie fop. but an ordi-
narily able-bodied young man with
two strong arms and two good legs,
and a mind as sound as most sane
men have. The chief antagonism TO
idiotie stage earieaturing should
come, though, not from those mis-
represented, but from the better
sponsors Of the stage. those who care
TO hold II up to be a worthy standard
of it's art.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02
The Evangelism of Literature.

Literature, proclaims a promi-
nent delegate to the meeting of the
woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety of the Methodist Episcopal
church, is one OF the greatest fac
tors in the evangelization of the
world. That gives just recognition
to the power Of the press in helping
10 extend the light to the dark
places of the earth. No one has
ever tried, so far as we know, to es-
innate the part the press plays in
the propaganda of world evangelical
tion, but, as the most insistent sin
gle factor in the form of literature,
It necessarily plays a big and vital
part.
There Is a point at which that
concrete institution called the press
and stable religious enterprises may
enter into harmonious cooperation
without either trespassing on the
others province or forfeiting any of
its own function. And the wonder
often is that the good folks in
charge OF the religious works do not
make more of the evangelizing In
fluence of the press, which lie so
easily at their disposal.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02
The Divorce Mills.

In one day slxty-two couples are
divorced without protest from either
side in Chicago, leaving on the calen-
dar $50 other cases for consideration
What was done In other cities OF the
land while this onslaught was being
made on the family altar is q matter
with which serious minds we'll may
concern themselves.
The mills of the gods grind ex-
ceeding slow, but grind. they say.
The divorce mills grind not exceed
ing slow, but with an astounding
celeritys They rip Off of men and
women the most solemn vows and
obligations with a velocity which, for
Its influence upon our social life,
may we'll alarm us. Divorce ia 90
common as TO occur In some places in
the ratio OF one TO every four mar
riages and, indeed, a record OF one to
three has been made. Marital bonds
are dissolved for almost any pretext
or excuse. Causes cut very little fig
ure. Merely a capricious disposition
Is sufficient ground on which to
undermine this most serious of rela-
tions.
The other day a noted minister
performed the marriage ceremony OF
his daughter and omitted the word
obey" from her part OF the vow.
The omission was commented on as
very strange. but is II not quite in
keeping with the spirit OF the times?
Perhaps the minister has been struck
by the hollow mockery made by 80
many OF this vow and was unwilling
10 put himself in the way OF incon-
sistency. And with all the distress
ing progress OF divorce, what single
serious effort is being made TO
counteract TT With what better pur-
suits are We 80 engrossed that we
find no time for systematic effort at
solving a problem that, lies at the
very heart OF our national and do
nestle life'
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02
CONTINGENT Fee Litigation.

The contingent fee and its disas-
trous consequences upon the morals
of lawyers who go into shady partner
ship with clients was recently held
up TO public view in these columns
and what we had to say on the sub
ject seemed TO strike a particularly
responsive chord. When a prize, con-
sisting Of from one-third TO one-half
Of the loot, operates as a lure 10 all
sorts Of legal skullduggery, the at
tainment OF even-handed justice is
seriously obstructed.
Our attention has been called by a
we'll known lawyer to a vicious
feature OF the contingent fee game
upon which we had not dwelt. II is
the pernicious practice by which
profit-sharing lawyers seek to bind
their clients as part OF the contract
not to make any settlement out OF
court without the lawyers consent,
and then refuse to consent to a settle
ment perfectly satisfactory to the cll-
ent because the lawyer prefers to
gamble for a larger stake for himself.
Except for this attitude OF the contin-
gent fee grabber. so we are told, a
large part OF the litigation that en-
cumbers our courts would be AMIGA
bly, adjusted with great saving TO all
concerned, including the taxpayers
who foot the bills for the judicial ma
chinery, excepting only the legal
CRATER.
The suggestion OF The Bee that
contingent fee contracts should be
made in the open instead Of in dark
chamber secrecy, and subject to ap-
proval and revision of the court,
would largely prevent this abuse II
settlement OF the litigation we're also
made subject to judicial approval.
and the lawyer compelled to be con-
tent with fee fixed by the court as
reasonable compensation for services
already actually performed.
We have no doubt that the lawyers
who fatten off contingent fees will
not take kindly to any such program.
As a help to the much needed clean
up OF the bar, however, such a reform
would be a distinct step in advance.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02
TRIUMPH OF THE CRIPPLED
Marion FELTON, Guild.

Marion FELTON, Guild.
Beethoven deaf, and Milton blind:
And you and /, of lowlier kind,
With small yet vital tasks assigned
We who have known the spirits ache
At special powers disabled, make
Our bitter plaint for the works sake.
Yet where our blunted tools we mourn,
Divinest music-strains are borne;
Beethoven. eye us not with scornl
And Milton. of his sight bereaved
Vision and victory achieved;
Twice must his crown be laurel-leavedI
All. can It be that Fortune mooks
With cruel-tender paradox
The lives she gives her hardest knocks,
And grants. in strange, relentless mood
Some super-sensuous aptitude,
When well her maimings are Wathstood7
Fortune? Her shrine is gray and cold.
o, Father OF us all, behold
Our handicaps, how manifold
Thou only knowest what self-wrought
wrong
Must in the grievous count belong
Thou only makest weakness strong.
And in Thine all-resourceful mind
Alone our riddle 10 untwined-
How he that loseth life shall find
o, crowning Answer. heartening Grace.
LIT Thou on us Thy regnant face
crippled or no, We dare the raoe
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02
Mrs. Lind's Part.

While the tangible results OF Pri-
yate Representative John Lind's mis-
sion to Mexico may be still invisible
through the prevailing chaos, Il g ap-
parent that HIS good wife did not 60
and come in vain. She saved the lib
erty, II not the lives, Of two anti
Huerta deputies by letting them oe-
eupy her stateroom. while she sat up
all night on the deck. with the Mex
lean spies securing the MORO Castle
for the refugees. II Is heroic, dra-
matte, almost enough so for novel or
stage exploitation. though done with
no thought of ostentAtion. II may
seem a very simple thing TO do. but
II amounts TO a good deal to the two
legislators. and II would not have
been done except by one OF very ready
wit and mercy. II was a time for
0uicksthinking, but also for active
sympathy How many OF US would
think first OF a sleepless night on
the deck OF a ship with a comfortable
stateroom at hand under such cir
cumstanoes? OF course. on longer
consideration, that is perhaps what
any Humanitarian might have done,
but IL Was the spontaneous impulse
that makes the deed so praiseworthy
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02
Mrs. Pankhurst in America.

From the first night in Madison
Square Garden the visit Of Mrs. Pank
hurst to this country seems to have
been disappointing to her and her
cause, financially and otherwise. She
has drawn poorly on most occasions
and cancelled dates entirely on 9TH
ers. Even the excitement attending
her detention at Ellis Island could
not be turned to advantage as pub
licity for the box office.
The American suffragists have also
failed TO respond TO the call to arms,
DR.. Anna Shaw, high prlestess OF
votes for women" in our country,
disapproves of militancy, says II
never has and never will advance the
cause of woman's suffrage. Others
less guarded in speech wish Mrs.
Pankhprst had stayed at home and
tended to her own business"
Mrs. Pankhurst is personally cul-
tured and charming little woman,
who won many admirers on her
former visit to the United States.
She represents things. however. for
which American suffragists. no more
than American anti-suffragists. stand.
and her unsuccessful mission among
us is a rebuke to violent and lawless
militancy and not to her personally.
II goes to show unmistakably that
such methods are not to find encour-
agement in this country.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

II said in my heart, all men are liars"
proves prophecy. The Psaimist could
only have known New York politics by
very long foreslght-Brooklyn Eagle
Perhaps the literal quotation might
make no difference, especially to the
autocrat at the proofreader's desk.
but. according to the good book. the
Psalmist made the remark in his
haste" instead of his heart.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

The so-called progressive party
leaders here assuming to read cur
tain lecture to Senator Norris could
easily get Jobs on the burlesque
stage. Those OF them who are not
discarded cogs OF an old machine
never even played as high a role as
''supe" in the political drama until
they thought there was a chance to
strut the footlights as leaders"
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

The Postofflce department contem-
plates the operation Of a number OF
model offices" throughout the coun-
try to serve as pacemakers for tho
other postoffices with view to
standardizing them and increasins I
their efficiency. All right, come on,
1t ought not to take much of Uncle
Sans time and money TO make
Omaha one OF the model offices.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02
Ten Years Ago


At a meeting OF representative busl-
ness men at the Commercial club, s26. .OcC
Of the $4,000 necessary to- launch the
Omaha Grain exchange was subscribed
President A. B. Stickney of the Great
Western railroad. the prime factor in the
move for such a market. was the FIRST
subscriber and Arthur c. Smith. preza-
dent OF the club. the second. and then
followed many others in rapid succession
Mrs. Helen NJ. Drake resigned the po-
sition OF director Of kindergartens to &c
TO Alameda, Cal. to be with her daugh-
ter. who was seriously IN there,
Thomas Herd landed the contract from
the Board OF Education for the building
Of the new Monmouth Park school. foi
about 5000
ole Hanson. the Benson boy. who wal
accidentally shot a few days before BY
companion while out hunting on this
Dodge street road, died OF his injuries
This interesting statement appeared Ia
some election literature put out by r. n
BARTLETT. chairman OF the republican ju
dicial committee. 1T Is well known
fact that lawyers are somewhat technical
and as body cannot be induced 10 father
a proposition which they do not endorse .
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

sang. while Miss Shoemaker delivered
several recitatSons, and Mr. Harding rem.
dered musical selections Miss Ballou
and Mrs. Gallin had charge OF the supper
arrangements
w. r. Shotbolt signs as secretary the
can for a meeting OF the Douglas County
Horticulture society.
J. p. Bay, popular foreman of ths
Union Pacific shops, has gone east for q
short trip.
Mr.. Dion Bouccicault, while In the city
is being entertained by his friends, J. J.
Dickeyt and Samuel Shears.
j. r. Norris has resigned responsible
position with N. b. Falconer to take a
place with the wholesale hat firm OF
Parrot q Co.
Captain T. w. T. Richards, accompas
MED by his wife and children, left for
Aitken, S. c., to spend the winter
Letters from Honolulu announce the
safe arrival there Of Miss Belle Dickey,
after pleasant voyage on the Australian
steamer City OF New York.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

on Mrs. Lind's part. The dispatches
refer to her as "a very wifely little
woman" Those are the sort most
given to such things, the kind to be
counted on in such crises. Ex-Gov-
ernor Lind may serve the purpose
well for which he was sent to Mexico,
but he ought to with such a wife as
he has at his side during most of the
trying period.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02
Tit for Tat.


ANNINUIINs
George w. Perkins says that II all the
officeholders in the United States were TO
lose their positions, not 10 per cent of
them would be worth $500 a year In
business. To which We respectfully reply
that there have been some 100000 men in
this country who would not be worth
anything to the people II they carried
their business principles into office.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

Those Huerta boys laugh at the
Diaz boy>for running over on the
American embassy's cellar door for
protection. but, OF course, IL the HUI
ertas had beat him TO the door, Felix
might now be keeping company with
those imprisoned lawmakers.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

In the whole history OF New York pol
ities state and municipal. there has never
been quite 30 mixed a situation as Is this
year presonted.-Boston Transcript.
And unless Tammany is defeated
at the forthcoming election things
will go on from worse to worst.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02
IOOkipSDackmardT3
This Day in Omaha III.
NOVEMBER 2.

Thirty Years Ago

Thirty Years Ago
Mr.. GEORGE b. Moreford has been elected
vice president OF the Lincoln q Saline
railroad. The company's principal offices
are TO be in Ilncoln. and work Is to com.
mence on the road about January 1.
Miss Amy sherwin will be a soloist at
the first concert Of the Omaha Glee club,
scheduled for the 10Th at the opera house.
Colon Tappan, the newly appointed SUI
perintendentN of the Indian Industrial
school at Genoa, is in the city. He ex-
poets TO open with about $50 children from
the santee and Blackbird reservations.
The autumn festival at the North Pres
byterian church was a great success.
The choir. consisting OF Mrs Day. Miss
Maui and Messrs J. L. and F. s. Smith,
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

The prophets who predicted the
enactment Of that currency law be-
fore close OF the. special session Of
congress are beginning to hedge on
their bets.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

The raise in the price OF sauer-
kraut from 81 to SIS and $40 a bar
rel only goes to show that. though a
few minor matters may be over
looked at first. all will be reached in
time.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

Queen JOY" Is said to be ruling
things in San Francisco. where cele-
brations occur with each new step in
the Panama-Pacific exposition build
ing. The good queen reigns much OF
the time there. anyway, by virtue of
the fact that skillful management has
given just enough pragmatism to her
sovereignty to make it go.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

The wonder is where those Tam
many and anti-Tammany warriors
in New York are going to get epithets
enough to last through the campaign
at the present rate OF exchange.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02
Twenty Years Arn-

Twenty Years Ago
A quartet OF negro singers a brass
band, Mary Ellen Lease and utopia"
Ike Hascall drew a crowded house at Ex-
position hall in the evening, where the
principles of popuism were expended
compounded. confounded and resounded.
Grover Cleveland was flayed and quar-
tered and both the old parties put out
Of business In true bull moose fashion.
Chairman ID. Clem Deaver read a letter
from Sheridan county telling him that
Judge silas A. Holcomb would poll two
out of every three votes in that neck
OF the sand hills for supreme court chief
justice, and the Judge, who was sitting
on the platform. was introduced for a few
remarks. in which he practically con-
firmed the hunch.
B. c. Crawl, who had been clerk at the
Barker hotel crawled up a notch higher
to a similar position at the Murray.
John C. Drexel. candidate for sheriff,
being approached as to his religious con-
nections felt forced to come out in The
Bee with a public statement explaining:
II am a Protestant as my father was be-
fore me. II am elected sheriff OF Doug
las county I expect 70 take the oath to
support the constitution OF the United
States and The constitution OF the state
Of Nebraska"
'Hoss and Hoss" began an engagement
at the Fifteenth Street theater, The Bee
said willie Collier. who heads the list
OF funmakers, is a very talented young
comedian and since last here has broad
ened his art considerably"
Governor Crounse discussed political
economy at the First Methodist church
chautauqua in the evening
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

According TO treasury adyices. the
man in the street personally response
bic for the payment OF an income tax
on the excess OF what he makes over
$4,000 need not worry for the pres
ent No. indeedy. Before the year
Is ended he may be below the IS. .oo0
mark. and thus enjoy an immunity
bath even against his wishes.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

Government sleuths think they are
on the trail Of a gigantic plumbers
trust. What incentive can plumbers
have to enter into an unnecessary
combine?
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

The Lincoln Highway has fur
nished us a pillar OF fire by night.
The pillar Of cloud by day will be
gladly dispensed with so long as the
red, white and blue sign-pOsts hold
out
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

The wonder is that those lawyers
who are so smart In most things
should be so obtuse and blind to the
footprints Of crooked members Of the
profession.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

A Chicago man Of so complains to
the Juvenile court that his boy OF 81
refuses either 10 work OF 10 keep
sober. What that brat needs is a
sound hickory rod.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

Those democratic lawmakers have
made the income tax clause OF the
tariff act 50 good that even Wall
street broker cannot understand It.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

The evidence submitted that Presi-
dent Wilson is no politician il proof
positive that he is the most adroit
politician OF them all.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

Indianapolis Is face to face with a
street car strike. Omaha offers real
sympathy born Of its own sad expert
ence.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02
Prepare to Dig.

Mr.. McAdoo, having prepared the rules
for the collection Of the income tax, It
only remains now for patriotic citizens to
get busy and hustle for the incomes.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

The Gates millions opened the
door OF opportunity wide to sweet
''vodevillians.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

Talk about your fast towns. St
Louis can build almost half a mu-
nicipal bridge in the time It takes to
complete the Panama canal.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

A hunger strike among boys In an
academy terminated abruptly. There
is one place where hunger strikes will
never thrive.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02
5O,O85

Subscribers leaving the city
temporarily should have The Zee
mailed 90 them. Address will be
changed as often ss requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

And all this riot OF rent gowns
came with Anthony Comstock right
on the Job.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

Governor Metcalfe should worry.
His $4,000 job is clnch until after
the Panama canal is opened.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

Definition OF the Nebraska School
masters club; A circle within @
circle. and an inner circle within
that
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

this mission Of democratizing those
who come at our behest from other
lands TO cast their fortunes with us.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

II seems that President Huerta Is
having trouble in mdhing the ghost
walk. And that on Halloween, too.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

Eugenic marriage restrictions are
poor things for parsons who make
marrying their speciality.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

IL is already demonstrated that the
new tariff Is not going to reduce the
high cost OF living for milk-fed
babies.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

Our nut-brown October turned a
BIT pale there for a while.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

Notice that no one tries to draw q
color line In foot ball against the In
dians.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02
PASSING PLEAsANTRIEs.

What makes the trains on this ROAD
always later" asked the passenger.
probably the fact that the employees
have to waste so much time answering
needless questions" replied the weary
conductor. Washington Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

The foot ball season is half over.
Too early yet to count up the casual
ties and fatalities.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-02

The weekly wage-earner will like
November, for IL has five pay days.