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Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-09
oThs Old Order Changeth. y

For those who like TO judge corporate inter
ests and big business" solely by "the-people-
be-damned" and "I-would-have-done-busin
with-the-devil" standards there should be rich
food for thought in what has come to be known
as "Nnaitland's prayer"
Samuel r. Maitland is boiler house water
tender for the United States Steel corporation,
at Newcastle, Pa. and. like many other en-
ployes, owns stock in the corporation. He at
tended the annual meeting OF the company, pre-
sided over by President E. II. Gary. In report
ing on working conditions he pronounced them
excellent and satisfactory to the men. He emu
merated few such improvements as the clean
ing away OF weeds and the parking of grounds.
the establishment of Fairgrounds for the en-
ployes' children, the employment Of visiting
nurses for the employees sick, the safety first
campaign, modern sanitation. care Of cripples
and afflicted. Then he said, I'VE ought to look
up and thank God for this corporation which is
taking care OF humanity in a large way" and
asked IL there would be any objection to his
praying. "of course, there is no objection"
said Judge Gary and this was "Maitland's
prayer"
Our God thank Thee for these officials and
these good men who have taken such interest in
the welfare OF humanity and rejoice hearts for
the blessed privilege of looking up to Thee in thank
fulness for IT, And we would pray for the man who
works and for all who keep together great
family and organization In Ply name ask It.
Amen.
This brings us long way forward from the
old dictum and creed. 1t shows for fact that
''The old order changeth" even in the relations
OF employe and employer in the great industries
Of the land. II is sure sign of a new era, an
era OF mutual interest Of mutual confidence, Of
mutual respect between these two great essen
tlal elements of industry. 1t makes one be-
lieve in the possible success of the Golden Rule
in big business" 1t is a sign of peace and
progress and prosperity for all. 1t avenges in
tolerance and vlndicates reason. It Furnishes
class passion and rewards united effort, It re-
veals IA new hope and banishes despair. and
should be tremendous inspiration to all that
such an ideal is possible by mutual intent and
action.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-09
Shall a Doctor Tell the Truth

Shall doctor tell the truth" is the subject
Of thought-provoking article in the current
Outlook, In which the drift Of the writer's argu-
ment seems to be that truth-telling is a danger
Gus professional practice. A number of in
stances are cited, from. presumably, actual ex-
perience, in which response to the appeal OF the
stricken for a doctors honest opinion proved
harmful, and even fatal One man who was
losing his sight committed suicide when told
that he was condemned to blindness, and an
other when informed he could not recover died
forthwith OF heart failure as a result of the
shock.
Conceding that only III can result from VEN
turing an opinion of patients expectation OF
lfe the question Is carried logical step fur
Their: what answer shall physician give when
asked as TO the nature OF his patients disease?
Shall he admit It is tuberculosis. kidney trouble,
heart disease or cancer. as the case may be, or
shall he be more vague, avoiding the exact
nature OF the aimentg" And the conclusion 10
which we are brought is that 1.-The proper course
must depend upon two factors. namely. the
character Of the patient and the ability of the
physician to express himself clearly and tact
fully"
Taking It for granted. of course. that when
the doctor withholds the truth he believes he
is acting for the benefit of the patient and not
for his own benefit, this still leaves the doctor
In the comfortable position Of being able to tell
the recovered patient from what dread disaster
his invaluable medical treatment has saved him,
or to assure the sorrowing mourners that he
did not davulge the serious nature OF the illness
for fear Of the bad effect. Where the physician
deliberately Ensembles or evades not for the
patients benefit, but to nurse along profitable
but hopeless case. We take It there is no defense
to be offered.
So it gets back after all to the main propo-
sition. which is the honest and intelligent ex-
eroise OF good Judgment. And no judgment Is
honest unless animated by the sole purpose on
the part OF the doctor to restore health or to
ease suffering without destroying the always
possible chance that something unforeseen may
produce a turn for the better
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-09
Civilized Warfare.

The mere combination OF the words, Civ
ilized warfare" suggests an irreconcilable in
congruity How can warfare and civilization go
together? How can g people who boast how far
they have risen above savagery and barbarism
Justify appeal to arms, sure to work havoc
and slaughter among countless thousands who.
individually, have no grievance whatever
against one another? Yet all the books on his
tory and international law tell us that civilized
warfare is a great advance and improvement
on the kind OF war that went before 1t.
While war is a resort TO force and defiance
of law, there are laws OF war which civilized
nations are expected to observe even in re-
lapse to savagery. The honorable enemy will
not attack defenseless civilians nor violate the
sanctity OF the home, nor lombard unfortified
towns, nor attack places that are fortified with
out due notice and ample time to noncombat-
ants to withdraw. The honorable enemy will
not take or destroy private property without
paying for II, nor kill prisoners taken in battle.
nor disregard the flag OF truce, nor use explo-
siye bullets, poison wells scatter germ-laden
disease, nor torture men or women TO force
them to give information. All these horrifying
and debarred offenses have been committed
from time to time in uncivlizcd warfare, and
many OF them also, we regret to say, in warfare
between belligerents who pretended to be civ
ilized as. for example, in the recent Balkan
troubles, and In our closer-to-home Mexican
revolution.
In sum and substance, civilized warfare, at
best, though, perhaps. not so brutal as the fight
ing in past ages, is still not very civilized--in
fact, II only shows how far we have to go to
reach real civilization.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-09
IN OTHER CITIES.

Toledo now has one woman on its police
force.
Dallas. Tex. water plant Is valued at
%000.0O0
New York has 200 Fairgrounds for
children.
BaitImore's public debt will soon reach
s1OO.oOO.OOO.
Buffalo is rigidiy enforcing automobile
speed laws.
Philadelphia firemen are asking in
creased pay.
Milwaukee Is cutting down the number
OF its licensed saloons.
Brooklyn, N. y, has thirty-six school
Fairgrounds in operation.
indianapolis has a new hospital, that OF
st. Francis. recently opened.
Hagerstown, Nd. has rejuected COM
mission government proposition.
Dayton. o.. charter has been declared
legal by the state supreme court.
Cleveland furnishes municipal electric
light at cents per kilowatt hour.
indianapolis has an artificial ice COM
pany, producing fifty-five tons daily.
Cleveland expects new telephone merger
to expend 100000 to improve service.
st. Paul has compelled a negligent con-
tractor to rebuild several portable schools
Philadelphia Is erecting two new high
schools to be models in all appointments
ST. Louis has adopted new charter
providing for rule by the mapor and
comptroller.
New York win conduct a special school
for the instruction of street sweepers In
their duties.
Alameda, Cal, municipal electric light
ing plant takes in i17e.Ooo a year and
spends $4,000
Los Angeles municipal employment
bureaus in the last year has found jobs
for 1852 persons.
San Bernardino. Cal. refuses TO pay it's
poundmaster S6 In fees for killing nine
stray cats. He will sue
New York has turned an east side street
over TO children as a playground from
TO o'clock afternoons.
New York City plans celebration Sep
TENDER 5-26 OF its tercentenary with an
exhibition Of Grand Central palace.
Los Angeles will issue 81. 500,O 900 in bonds
for supplying the city with electric light
and power from the new aqueduct.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-09
AROUND THE WORLD.

Italian demand for fuel oils is grow
ing.
Saskatchewan will protect antelope by
law.
Belgium has four artificial silk fact
tories.
Sweden claims a population Of 5,SsS.5Ss
persons.
Spain devotes sSS4.72o acres to olive
growing.
ceylon rickshaws now use American
wire wheels.
Tunis yearly dlstiIls 10000 pounds Of
orange flowers.
Wild animals work great havoc In
midas wheat fields.
Mines and quarrels in Bavaria, Ger
many. employ 1900 men.
There is lighthouse every fourteen
miles along the English coast.
Electrical workers in Sheffield. Eng
land. are paid II cents an hour.
Birmingham. England, is doubling its
water supply at cost OF ss,4OO.OOo
Belgian state railways buy cloth from
England for uniforms Of employees.
Clerks in the stores and shops Of ell
kinds in Mexico smoke while waiting on
customers.
Dairen. China, has twenty-one public
primary schools with nearly 5000 pupils.
and 2Ss private schools with 1000 pupils.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-09
sHoEMAKING IN AMERICA.

Before 1850 practically every shoemak-
ing process was hand process.
Lynn, Mass, with over 100 factories, is
the leading shoe city In the world.
OF the worlds boots and shoes, more
than 81 per cent are made in Massachu-
sets.
August Destouy, a New York mechanic,
invented in 1862 the first curved needle TO
sew turn shoes.
More than sS5o,oOo,oO0 is now invested
In American shoemaking and more than
10000 wage earners are employed.
Thomas Beard, arriving by the May
flower in 1929. was the first shoemaker
to come from England to America. He
settled in Salem. Mass.
Ebenezer Breed of Lynn is credited
with securing by personal influence the
first protective tariff on shoes He was
a merchant of revolutionary times.
William F. Trowbridge, at Feltonville,
now q part of Marlborough. Mass. APP
piled horse power to the shoemaking me-
chinery Of 1855. Steam and water power
came later.
The poet Whittier was a shoemaker in
his youth. Henry Wilson. eighteenth vice
president of the United States, was the
Natick cobbler." and was always proud
o. his shoemaking days.
John Brooks Nichols OF Lynn adapted
the Howe sewing machine to sew the up
pers OF shoes In 1851. and this was the
first important step In the application of
machinery to shoemaking.-A Primer of
Boots and Shoes
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-09
The Bees War News.

Nothing is SO gratifying to The Bee than
that It Is never called upon to make labored
efforts to get away from damning reputation
for taking. AS consequence, everywhere and
particularly In Omaha, The Bee is reaping the
reward of a constant vigilance against spurious
news in the past while contemporaries that
have been taking and buncoing their readers
right along cannot disarm suspicion and are
summed by people who want to have reliable
news.
In the stress OF the most colossal war in his
tory, as always, The Bee maintains its news SUI
periority. BY exclusive arrangements with the
New York World and at no inconsderable ex-
pense, The Bee readers have the benefit OF the
best war news cable service that is available
They have this in addition to the full Associated
Press reports.
The Bee is issuing extras with up-to-the-
minute bulletins from the most dependable
sources about the progress OF the great world.
conflict, and will continue to do So and the peo-
pie will continue to look to The Bee. knowing
that never having made a practice of taking
It is not going to begin now.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-09
HAMMER TAPS.


When the tango comes in at the door
modesty flies out OF the window.
The trouble with loser is that he Is
sure 10 lose more trying to get even.
Some OF the summer gowns disclose al
most everything but a woman's inten-
tons
No matter how much faith a girl has in
prayer, she always looks under the bed
before she goes TO sleep.
A man would rather be known as an
ignoramus than keep his mouth closed
when he has nothing TO say.
After seeing the noisy clothes girl can
purchase out of her 81 per week. we arc
inclined 20 feel thankful that she doesn't
get $40 per week.
The fellow who sat down TO wait until
the tariff bill and the currency law
brought good times 20 his door Is still
sitting and waiting.
The world is growing better. But dog
fight will collect the same old crowd II
used TO attract before we had radium and
wireless telegraphy.
Tell a man that he is level-hcaded and
he will want to buy a drink Tell him
that he is flst-headed and he will want
TO knock your block off.
The man who brass that he has strong
will power because he doesn't believe in
going to church is usually the same lad
who hasn't enough win power TO quit
smoking.
The fad of painting the stockings on
has been adopted by some of the society
women of this country. The fad may
start some trouble. Some men can't get
out Of the habit of feeling fresh paint to
see II It Is dry.
There are a few mean skunks left In
the world. including the man who makes
a big fuss over another mans children
and buys them candy and then goes home
and slaps his own children because they
ask him for n penny.
Once upon a time a man who had been
married for ten years carelessly and
thoughtlessly brought his wife home n
box OF candy. And four doctors had to
work for eight hours before the poor
woman recovered from the shock.-Cin-
cinnau Enquirer.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-09
THE WATCH ON THE RHINE.

The Watch on the Rhine" was written
by Max Schneckenburger q Wurttemberg
manufacturer. in 1910. when France was
threatening the left bank of the Rhine
II was set to music by Carl Wilhelm, and
during the Franco-Prussian war OF 1901
was adopted as the national folk hymn
and rallying cry of the army.
A voice resounds like Handicapped
Mid dashing waves and clang of steel:
The Rhine the Rhine, the German
Who guards today my stream divine?"
CHORUS.
Dear fatherland, no danger thine:
Firm stand thy sons to watch the Rhine!
They stand, a hundred thousand strong.
Quick to avenge their country's wrong;
With fillal love their bosoms swell
They'll guard the sacred landmark welll
The dead Of a heroic race
From heaven look down and meet their
gaze:
They swear with dauntless heart, 20
Rhine.
Be German as this breast of mine!"
While flows one drop Of German blood.
or sword remains to guard thy flood,
While rifle rests in patriot hand
No foe shall tread thy sacred strand
Our oath resounds, the river flows,
In golden light our banner CLOVIS;
Our hearts will guard thy stream divine:
The Rhine, the Rhine, the German Rhine!
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-09

run the needs only forty little ones may be
cared for at the Astor place at one time, mere
drop in the bucket compared with the vast
armies OF needy children in New York's tene-
ments. Yes, but what is 10 hinder other philan-
thropists from founding other such farms? No
doubt this is what will happen. IL is too fine
thing not to catch the fancy OF other good folk
looking for opportunities for serving humanity.
Fathers and mothers will have tenderer
feelings for the Astors now. Yet this is but
of countless benefactions they and other rich
men and women are constantly making for the
relief and happiness OF the race. Why stint the
praise7 IT gives a much swoeter taste to life
to make the most instead Of the least Of these
things and It tends to allay that insidious agi-
tatlon Of classIsm. which is wholly destructive
in all Of its tendencies.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-09
NEW WRINKLES

Accurate measurements has shown that
few raindrops exceed one-fifth of an
inch in diameter.
A clip to hold a pen or pencil in a
pocket has been combined with an eraser
In a recent invention.
An improvement on the channels wiper
for cleaning spectacles has been patented
by Boston woman.
France has granted patent for a
process OF bleaching and drying seaweeds
for packing purposes,
A new air rife OF high power Is equipped
with a safety device to prevent the trig-
ger being pulled until its user wishes to
do So
For sprinkling clothes "A Pennsylvania
woman has invented a device to be at
taehed to a kitchen sink faucet by rubber
tubing.
A recently patened sea anchor to hold
boat head-on to waves is equipped with
a tank from which oil flows TO smooth
the water.
An Illinois man has patented clamps
20 hold paint brushes on the ends OF
poles at any angle TO save painters the
need OF ladders.
A kitchen table the height OF which
Is adjustable has been invented 20 facili-
tate various kinds Of work for which Il
may be needed.
A recently patented parachute launch
ing device for aeroplanes shoots para
chute clear OF entsnglements by gas or
compressed air.
An attachment has been invented for
telephone receivers 70 enable steno-
graphers to take both sides OF converse
tiOps over wires.
One Of the newer motor-driven lawn
mowers uses the power only to revolve
the knives being propelled by the hands
In the usual manner.
Shears with one blade saw-edged and
the other knite-edged have been inventsS
to enable even an inexperienced person
to carve poultry neatly
An oil burning steamship recently ar
rived at Philadelphia from Hawaii. hav-
ing made the reoord-breaking run OF Ia
500 miles without stop.
In q new headlight for automobiles
and carriages there Is an arrangement
BY which a beam OF hght can be turned
back upon the step OF vehicle.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-09
A Worthy Philanthropy.

That 100000 baby farm founded by the
Astors is not freak philanthropy. as its name
might suggests it represents one OF the most
practical and worthy benefactions made in re-
cent years. Mr.. and Mrs. Aston have put that
amount into beautiful place near New York
City with brooks trees grass and birds for lit
tie sick children Of the squalid quarters. There
they may go and stay until fully restored. There
they may open their eyes upon a new world,
real world filled with all the fine things .
ehnd's heart Graves and a ehiId's body
thriyes on.
II takes additional sums for operating er-
penses and these are left to the provision Of
other good folk with plenty OF money. surely
the demand for q share In such work will over
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-09
Nothing Sacred to a Traitor.

1t being the intent and purpose OF this act not
only to remove said board of directors likewise
the employees OF said water district from the infiu-
OF partisan politics.
That Is what the vote-chasing Water board
boss wrote into the water district law. which,
taking God to witness, he solemnly swore he
would fully execute and obey.
Plainly, the oath taken as water commits
sioner to observe the law requiring him to keep
out OF partisan politics is no more sacred to him
than the pledge Of fealty which. as member of
the republican national committee, he ruth
lessly violated by giving reasonable aid to the
enemy against the standard bearer for whose
success he had assumed the duties Of one OF the
responsible campaign managers.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-09
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT,


Chicago Post: Americans, the True
sermon yesterday Is It necessary for
piety to be priggish
New York Herald: Kansas City bishop
has placed the ban Of the church on the
custom OF sending flowers TO funerals
This will deprive many OF what is a real
pleasure
ST. Paul Pioneer Press: Every European
nation involved in the war prays to God
for success TO its arms. Believers in d.
vine interposition will have something to
think about before peace is brought about.
Detroit Free Press: II is very proper
for the house chaplain to pray for the
day OF the universal brotherhood Of man.
but the reverend gentleman will also do
well to remember that once the row be-
gins there's no fight like a scrap between
brothers.
Houston Post: DR.. Ben Broughton, a
Tar Heel preacher who went to London
from Atlanta and was recalled by his
Atlanta congregation. announces that he
declines the recall. The doctor knows
what he is talking about The Lord had
nothing to do with this recall, because
when the Lord calls the salary goes UP.
Pittsburgh Dispatch: A saloon in Pas
sale, N. j., is displaying Bibles in its plate
glass windows and lie said to be selling
them briskly. Bibles have long been re-
ported to be among the best Sellers"
but it was not supposed that saloon
patrons were their buyers II might be
an interesting question to determine what
liquors go most harmoniously with Bible
study.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-09
In the Neutral Zone

St Louis Times. The Chicago meat
packers will scarcely overlook the chance
to advance the price OF all grades OF inn
porter wiener-wurst
New York Herald: The only ray Of
hope now remaining Is that modern en-
gines Of warfare will be found so terribly
destructive that the end will quickly
come.
Kansas City Journal: What little Bel
GUM needs is a change Of venue. II II
could move few hundred miles in al
most any direction II could sleep much
better o'nights.
Buffalo Express: with Holland and
Switzerland as we'll as Belgium and Luz
emburg invaded. the little neutral pow
ers appear 10 be regarded as mere pawns
In the war game.
Washington Post. Prospects OF building
up the American merchant marine much
resemble the plight Of Weary Willie, who
had the button. and only needed some one
TO sew a shirt on 1t.
Pittsburgh Post: The fact that thou
sands Of Americans are stranded and
stone broke in Europe leads to the reflec-
ton that this would have been the case
with many Of them II there had been no
war.
New York Mail: with whom shall
Americans sympathize in this conflict?''
asks the Boston Transcript. Seems to be
nobody in sight entitled to any sympathy
except the widows and children OF the
CLAIM and manned.
Boston Transcript: There is some con-
ISOLATION for Americans in the reflection
that the war will be so terribly expensive
that France will have to economlze. and
that before long the dernier cri in Paris
styles will be a Bingham frock casting
S2gS
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-09

While riding out in his carriage the team OF 8. ].
1oselyn OF the Union Pacific pay department became
startled and ran. throwing him out. completely wreck
ing the vehicle. in front OF the postoffice
The policemen and saloon keepers played a game
OF base BAH at Cricket park Tho police won by
score Of Is 70 T.
Mr. and Mrh. George II. Backus. esl4 Douglas street
are mourning tho loss OF their eldest son.
I'd d. Williams and wife have gone on a two
weeks drip 10 Colorado.
A. Mclnnes Of the firm OF McInRes a Bussey has
returned from an extended eastern trip. who're he
had been 20 purchase fall goods
Only One-half block OF the Ninth street pavement
remains to BE- laid. ana completion u promised for
next week
j. 7. Allan, northwest corner Twentieth and Cum
Ing wants 10 employ i've women 10 hap MIN arrange
grain for exhibition.
Bemls has reduced the price OF his new maps OF
omaha Cor the next thirty days to 3 nom $40 here
tosore
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-09

There ought, in our judgment, to be one
revision OF registration day before each primary
and general election, when the registrars would
sit in each OF the respective voting districts for
the accommodation OF the voters. We regret
to say that the administration OF the registra-
ton machinery under our new election commits
sioner system seems to be particularly designed
to inconveniencing and discouraging the voter
as much as possible. and quite unnecessarily so.
when II ought to offer every reasonable encour-
agement TO induce him to vote.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-09

The New York Worlds special war news
cable service, for which The Bee has exclusive
arrangements, is recognised everywhere as the
very best special service TO be had. Anyone
who pretends differently does not know what
he Il talking about.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-09

II all the office-seeking candidates would
sign an armistice and agree under severe penal
ties TO abandon further prosecution Of their
campaign. none OF them would lose anything by
IL. while ali OF them would gain some measure
OF public gratitude
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-09

II every one concerned is so unetiously sat
isfied with the resoluting done at Columbus
why should Il be thought necessary to keep up
the debated
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-09

Just wait till Ak-sar-Ben stages it's Eu-
pean wbr for the benefit of next years initia-
ton recruits
Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-09

From the number of Its "unwritten" laws
one may wonder II Texas has any that have
been writ down on books"