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Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-31
GRAHAM HAS STEAM ROLLER
Tries to Have Real Estate Exchange
Endorse Bills Without Dis
oussion.
ENCOUNTERS sNAGs ENRoUTE

whether the real estate men favor a
municipal electric light plant managed
by the Metropolitan water district in
competition with the present lighting
company In Omaha will be seen this
week. The matter came up at the last
meeting Of the Real Estate exchange and
was laid over for a week.
w. T. Graham, chairman Of the legis-
lstive committee. had a copy OF the pro-
posed bill which seeks 20 give the Metro
poiitan Water district this right. He got
up and. without reading the bill or Civ
ing any reasons, asked that the exchange
endorse the bill.
Reasons" shouted Harry Turkey.
Reasons, nothin'," replied Graham.
Don't we all know enough about this
question? The newspapers discuss thesel
things enough. and we all know what
we want in this matter"
stin. some were skeptical and refused
to swallow the proposition. hook, line
and sinker, without having the bill ana
lyzed
III for no other reason, we should have
the light plant as club over the present
company" said Graham.
III that's all. I'm against clubs" said
Turkey.
I'VE might want club" said Frank
il. Myers, but we might want TO have
something to say about who handles the
club"
Yes" Joined in Harry A. Wolf. 1--WE
better look out that any club we may
get don't react on our own heads. Now.
whether am for or against this propo-
stion. can hardly say Of this time.
But Il seems TO me that Mr. Graham
has an erroneous idea OF what Is the duty
Of a legislative committee. The duty of
such a committee Is 10 anaiyze a pro-
posed bill, come before the exchange and
give the points for and against the bill
and then make its recommendations, and
not come here without reading OF dis
cussing the bill and ask us TO swallow
something whole"
DumOnt Hedges.
Graham's tongue was glib in his own
defense, and then even ]. II. Dumont
member OF the legislative committee
Jointly with Graham. went back on Ora
ham. He said he had intended to keep
out of the discussion. but he felt con-
strained 10 explain that IN the commit
tee he was first and last opposed to the
passage OF such a bill. He said the bill
proposed 10 let the Water board install
an electric light plant and then declare
any section OF the city a district for
lighting purposes. 'Then they could vote
bonds for the plant and, although the
plant would serve but a given district
OF the city, the whole city would be
bonded for the plant. l am not in favor
OF swallowing anything whole because
any one man wants It, So Graham was
overruled and tho matter was set for
argument at the next meeting"
Consolidation OF the suburbs with
Omaha was also laid over for a week.
Also this was done largely because Ora
ham wanted II opposed by the exchange
without discussion.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-31
NIGHT SCHOOL PUPILS TO
GIVE MUSICAL PROGRAM

A musical program and open house
Will be given Wednesday evening by
the night school attendants at Keilom
school. Superintendent f. U. Graft and
DR.. ID. E. Jenkins Of the board Of edu-
cation win address the school.
There is now an enrolment Of more
than 900 at this popular night school,
which is supervised by Miss Cebbella
sohaller. There are nine rooms in use
and eleven teachers on the staff.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-31
Receptien for NewIYwed..

SEWARD. Neb.. Jan. SO.-(speciai.)--
The Seward Commercial club gave q re-
ception In honor OF Mr.. and Mrs. Bert
Emrick. who returned from their we'd
ding trip of a month at San Francisco
and San Diego. Mr.. Emrick is secretary
OF the Commercial club.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-31
Smith Of The Bee
Is Making Good
Over in London

The Associated Press service bulletin
carries portrait OF Charles s. Smith.
formerly OF The Bee staff, and now
representating The Associated Press in
its London office, where he IL making
good. directing the corps that is gather
ing The Associated Press war news. Mr..
Smith is remembered here as a nephew
OF the late 2. T. Lindsey. and came TO
The Bee from Abba, Ia.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-31

The Best Medicine for Coughs.
The first dose Of DIT. Kings New Dis
covery helps your cough, soothes throat
set bottle today, 6oc. All druggists.--Ad-
vertisement.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-31

"AnnOuncements' ADS bring good re-
sults.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-31

IS a DOOSIGF Tor
Omaha Real Estate
Much of the property placed the market in re-
cent years was acquired long time ago as specu-
laton by who realized that the time would come
when the natural growth of the city would make
their holdings worth fortunes
Property under' such ownership develops slowly,
however and in most all, When these prop
ambitious people who about to building homes beau
trying the grounds and In all ways making the property
its market value
The Omaha Bee Is interested in the man who owns
his own home 1t is interested in seeing these unde-
veloped properties made into comfortable modern
homes for the sort of people who are making Omaha
of the most desirable cities in the country to en
Most Of the properties offered now worth every
cent the prices asked and in numerous much more.
There are no inflated values, and yet these prices rep
years the buyers will be able to figure their own
profits at comfortable sums.
These conditions can be verified by anyone who
takes the trouble Omaha real estate Is splendid
investment for the large small investor alike It is
made especially easy for the home buyer, who is
offered monthly terms well within his reach
If you interested there is a large number of prop
critics offered for sale today and publish the de-
scrIpnons In the Real Estate columns Of the classified
section When you investigate you will be enthusi-
astic
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-17
URGE ENGLAND TO
 PRACTICE ECONOMY

London, July 16.--t905 p. m)-Strictest economy both by the nation and by in- dividuals was urged in resolutions adopt ed tonight by leading bankers and finan- ciers of London, The meeting voted to convey a copy of the resolutions to Pre- mier Asquith. The resolution read:
 Tn this national crisis expenditures, both public and private, should be risidly curtailed and at the same time new tax atien should forthwith be imposed on all classes of the people in order that when the war shall be brought to triumphant conclusion the nation may enter the pe- riod of restoration with its financial pow CT impaired to the least possible ex- tent"
 Harold Cox, we'll known as political would carry the country over until Christ mas. and that personally he did not think the war would end without England having to borrow sl0,000000. Altogether the interest on this. Mir. Cox said, would be Si50 000 which, with the sinking fund would he increased to 550,000,o0o and am other $1C0, ,00O0oo would have to be added for the first two years after the wal for pensions.
 The new taxes imposed last November Mr. Cox said produced $315 100000, so that many more new taxes would have to be levied
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-17
WESTERNERS WIN
 TENNIS MATCHES

San Francisco, July 1s-Pacific coast players had little difficulty today in talk ing both double matches in the special east versus west tennis contest The play was for an exposition trophy. Four singles matches will be played Sunday the team winning the greater number of matches to hold the cup temporarily.
 It is the intention to hold a return match in the east next year.
 William Johnston and John Strachan, Pacific coast doubles champions, first defeated R. N. Williams and Watson M. Washburn, the Harvard pair, 7-6, 6-S 6-2. The second match of the day was be- tween Maurice Mclaughlin and Thomas pions against G. NJ. Church and Dean Mathey of Princeton university, the former pair winning. 6-2, 7-5, 6-3,
 Tomorrow the finals in the exposition championships will be played in the men s singles, women's singles and mems dou- bles Mclaughlin meets Johnston, Miss Anita Meyer plays Miss Majore Vale, while Church and Mathey will be op- posed by Johnston and Strachan
 The pairings for the Sunday matches arc:
 Dean Mathey, Princeton vs. T. c. Bun dy, Los Angeles; W. M. Washburn. liar ward. vs. J. R. Strachan San Francisco; G. M. Church, Princeton, vs William Johnston, San Francisco and R. N Will Hams, Harvard, vs. Maurice Mclaughlin, San Francisco.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-17
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

there, 'The Sabbath with us Is for the very purpose of grand holiday"
 The Rev. II. s. Pomeroy says of con- tinental Sunday in Austria. Tt Is GUS tomary to close shops at 1 D. m and then the people go to concerts, pienics and theatres. which open twice on Sun day. l know of but one retail store which closes in Prague on Sunday"
 Of a continental Sunday in Berlin. says Miss Mary Gordon, in the Advance. Tn going to church Sunday morning wa passed fields where German women were patiently hoeing endless rows of pota- toes often with children or 3 years old, clinging to their slSlrts-crying to be taken up." But look at our eharm- ing coacert garden on Sunday afternoon" cries a German Though the places of public amusement are ratronized on Sun day afternoon by people who play cards, drink or dance till the small hours over take them. we may safely reckon that for every working man we see there taking one of the few aiiings of the sea- son. there could be found threc at home occupied in some kind of labor. The same view of the Sabbath which makes beer gardens and theatres admissible on Sun day makes sewing. scrubbng, digging po- tatoes and building houses admissible." With reference to the Hebrews and Sew enth Day Baptists.f l will state that our laws are largely for the majority and cannot change them. While l live I expect to work for that which I know and see to be for the uplift of all our people. Proper observance of the Sab bath as taught by our leaders in church and state Is great part of my creed and will help our descendants for more than two hundred years,'
 L. F. WRITTEN.
 Rjrminghnm July ti 1915.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-17
AIMED AT LOAFERS New Regulations for Conduct of City Jail Warden's Office

New regulations governing the warden s office have been drawn up by Inspector Turner and have been posted in a con- spicuous place. The regulations are aimed at people who loaf about the warden s office for the purpose of getting what money they can out of the man who is arrested upon promise to get him out in a short time. Inspector Turner is de- termined to break up this practice and has accordingly given instructions to the wardens to carry out the rules to the letter. The regulations follow:
 '1. Wardens will not permit drunk men to talk to attorneys.
 ''2. No attorney shall talk to prisoner unless prisoner has sent for him. War den shall ascertain from prisoner if any attorney has been sent for, and if SO, whom.
 "3. Attorney will not be permitted to talk to prisoners from 8 p. m. until 6 a. m. Bonds may be made at any time "A. Wardens will not permit any but officers to use telephone, and then only on official business.
 "5. No person, except on business, will be allowed in office of warden, except on his invitation.
 "6. All persons must be searched in pri- vate and amount of effects must not be disclosed F. w. TURNER,
 Inspector of Police'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-17
zAPATA'S ARMY IS
 REPORTED ROUTED Carranza Troops Win De- cisive Victory Over
 Retreating Foe

Washington, July 16.-General Zapata g army. driven from Mexico City and re- treating southward, has been routed by pursuing Carranza troops in the valley below the capital with loss of 800 men. according to a dispatch today from Gen eral Carranza to his agency here. The message claimed the Zapata troops lost a vast amount of war material and that the engagement virtually clears the valley of Mexico of Zapata forces
 Consular reports asserted that General Villas forces in the coal region near Par edon and Hermanas, had won in skir- mishes with Carranzas troops. To the Villa agency here confirmed previous statements that Villa had moved north form Aguas Calientes, but declared the withdrawal was a strategic move. Villa still holds Zacatecas, the reports said. Villa himself wired his agency:
 We have not been defeated and if I am apparently retreating, we will soon show the Carranzaistas l have not lost my strength Obregon's communications with his base of supplies has been cut off for almost 10 days
 Tn statement reviewing the military situation, the Villa agency tonight made the following claims
 Convention forces operate in the states of Tobasco. Campeche, Neuve Leon, Sina- loa, Tamaulipas, Jalisco. Michoacan, Yu- catan, the federal district and in north ern and southern Vera Cruz.
 'In the following states, the convention forces hold more territory than the enemy: Huerrero, Puebla, Tlaxala, Mex ico. Hidalgo, Guanajuato, Querearo, San Luis Potosi, Aguas Calientes, Coahuila and the territory of Topic.
 Convention forces control the state of Sonora, Zacatecas. Chihuahua, Moreos Duango and northern lower California The Carranzistas control Chiapas, terri tory of Quintana Roo, Colima and south ern lower California The state of Oax- aca has maintained neutrality
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-17
Effort to Set Mir. Leishman Right

To the Editor of The Age Herald:
 In Mondays Age Herald MT. Leishman reminds me of the story told of a summer boarding house keeper in the Kansas City Journal: These summer boarders are aw
 full hard to please" What Is the trouble now ?" They're kicking because I hain't got no field of shredded wheat to show 'em" l have tried to show him what the religious bodies from purely sectarian standpoint declare on the Sabbath aues- ton; 1 have given him the Bible teach ing; the statements of some of the great est men who have ever lived and the re- suits of proclamation of the Sabbath by nations and individuals. Still he states:
 NO one is dlsputing what the churches do or do not believe ine this matter. The question is what is right, not whether
 they say 1t is right or not" Surely he does
 nor believe that these delverances on this
 great question were given by incapable
 men, and ignorant representatives of the
 churches. Who can say what is right, if
 we eliminate the Bible and those who re-
 gard it's teachings as inspired? Does the
 gentleman kick because we have not
 anybody better qualified to show him?
 The Bible. good men, and the history of
 nations are sufficient foremost men. Re | ligious legislation with the purpose of en- forcing any religious observance upon the people is of itself wrong. unfair and un- | just" he says. If we do not need re- ligous legislation for the purpose of saw in6 us from heathenism, oppression of poor and savagery l am sure we do not need irreligious legislation, as I under stand 1t. It has been the entrance of Bibl" doctrine and religious legislation which would insure safety and protec-
 tion from former cannibals for Mir Leish- man and the writer in the South Sea Islands, where their choicest meat was
 that of white men on their tables or at their feasts
 My other argument was largely of mat ter immaterial and irrelevant" But l sub init that when so-called innocent amuse-
 ments are introduced in this city or state of the kind MT. Leishman desires no
 man, or set of men could prevent per- feet flood of sinful amusements follow ing, which would result in an undesir-
 able continental Sabbath for us, which says a great man. lis more to be feared l than a continental plague" A continental Sunday in Spain Is one where four bull fights were witnessed In four Sundays,
 and a half day of shopkeeping, with some servie la bor and a great deal of noisy amusement and drinking" A con
 tinental Sunday in Russia. says the au- thor of "Exucursions in Russia Ifs one in which people are everywhere busy at
 work in the fields; and the market places
 in all the provincial towns are crowded
 with peasants selling potatoes mush- rooms, apples, turnips. cucumbers, etc,
 just as on the ordinary. week days-only
 there Is more trading by far on the Sab
 bath day than any other.
 A continental Sabbath in Bulgaria is according to a Russian doctor residing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-17
VON BERNSTORFF
 DOES NOT REGARD
 SITUATION CRITICAL
Expresses Confidence That There Will Be No Further Attacks of Submarines
 on Unresisting Vessels

Washington, July 16.-Several drafts of note setting forth the course the United States intends to follow as a result of the German reply to the American protest against German sub marine methods have been prepared and will be discussed by the President with Secretary Lansing Monday and sub mitted to the cabinet the next day
 Although officials generally are reti- cent, the purpose of the United States tc continue to assert it's rights on the nigh seas probably will be announced in a definite form in the next note In authoritative quarters it was declared today that the new note likely would not enter into an extended discussion of the principles already stated and reiterated.
 It became known in official quarters, too, that there was little Likelihood that the United States would sub ordinate the Lusitania case or asser~ tion of its rights to intimations that Germany is willing to have the United States mediate between Great Britain and Germany in an effort to restore recognition of the principle of the free dom of the seas.
 Bernstorff Stresses Point
 Count Von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, in an informal interview with Secretary Lansing today stressed this point, but high officials indicated that another effort to mediate on the subJect> of submarine warfare and coIi- traband would not be represented un- less specific request were made by one or the other of the belligerents
 lnasmuch as Count Von Bernstorff had no instructions from his government, his tfNflo .f..1~ likely to change the purpose of the Uni- ted States to take into consideration sole- ly what was said by Germany in its last note. The ambassador exchanged views With Secretary Lansing on all phases of the question and sent long report to Berlin.
 The interview, it was believed, might have tangible results in later negotiations as Secretary Lansing explained to some extent the American viewpoint. The Sec retary however, did not commit himself In the absence of the President to the course that the United States would fol- low.
 The ambassador expressed confidence late today that the situation was not criti- cal. He believes that there will be no repetition of attacks without warning on passenger vessels of belligerent nationals ty and bases his opinion on the fact that German submarines recently have exer- csed great precautions.
 Asked if oral assurances that Ameri- cans would be safe on unresisting and unarmed ships would be acceptable, Sec retary Lansing told inquirers that if such assurances were given by direction of the German government, they would be as satisfactory as those of formal charac- ter. AS yet he has had nothing from Berlin on this phase of the situation since the last note arrived
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-17
SAYS COST OF WAR WILL FORGE THE LIMITATION OF
 APARTMENTS IN FUTURE
French Minister of Public Works Declares Conflict Now Cost ing France $100O0 Minute-Pubic Indebtedness Will Open Eyes of People and Stop Military
 Appropriations, He Declares

1 today took occasion to say so and to pre- | pare the public mind for it-endeavor to | form an idea of what will be the state of the public finances of the belligerent
 countries at the conclusion of peace We
 must expect that the public debt of each | of those countries will be augmented by | a considerable number of billions. I ask
 then, if anyone capable of seriously ex-
 amining a financial situation, how it will | be possible to pay the debts contracted | or the interest on the loans and at the 1 same time keep up as costly armies as l in the past without renouncing expendi- lures for social reforms which impose l themselves today upon all civilized people.
 Open Eyes of People | ~The carnage of which we are wit
 nesses may reasonably be expected to open the eyes of the people to their real | interests. But considering only the prac- | tical side of the question whether 1t | will be easier after the war than before | to limit ornaments, it seems to me it will
 This war has demonstrated above all the supremely important role of cannon,
 rifles. shells and explosives. In the Uni
 ted States you know it better than any | one. You know also that rifles and can
 non cannot be improvised over night months are necessary.
 | Formerly to partisans of the limitation of armaments was cited the ability of | Prussia to get around the precipitation of l that sort imposed by Napoleon l. but since it is demonstrated today that troops I however numerous, can do nothing with out power of artillery, We may find a practical means of control in the super- vision of all manufacturies of arms and | cannon by an international commission
 instituted by the eventual treaty of peace. | hot 7t,,tc ctr chn
 sentatives of each European power and
 should be presided over by a representa- tive of some neutral state, such as
 Switzerland"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-17

Paris. June 27.-(Delayed by censor.) erent countries will be the most force full advocates of the limitation of ar maments after the war, asserted Marce Sembat socialist leader and French min ister of public works, in a statement to a representative of the Associated Press today
 M Sembat occupies the first actual cabinet post held by a socialist In France Continuing the minister said:
 They will speak not only In the name of the superior ideal of the socialist sol idarity, they will speak in the name ot the budget and of public credit. If We leave aside the philosophical considera- tions that might incline us to desire a limitation of ornaments. it seems to me that during the war and after it, finan- cial considerations alone will suffice.
 What War Costs
 T have come from an interesting ses- sion of the chamber. consecrated to dis. oussion of war appropria Two dis courses completing the admirable report of Albert Metin. general budget re. porter of the Chamber of Deputies foi the appropriations committee emphasized the extent of the sacrifices that the wal has imposed on us. You know that M Metin calculated the war was costing France $i0,0o0 a minute. The expenditures of the English are not less than ours while the, Russians and Italians are feel ing a heavy burden on their shoulders On their side our adversaries, the Ger mans and the Austrians are crushed by financial burdens. You have noticed re. gently the failure of the Austrian loan
 If the war proves to be long, not ar improbable conjeoture-the president oi the cabinet and the minister of finance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-17
Strike Settled and 2400
 Men Go Back to Work
tContiuued from Pnrr Ono,

of the department of labor today named Clifton B. Reeves of Trenton, N. J.. and A. L. Faulkner of Cleveland, O., as com missoners of conciliation in. the strike of Rhode Island trolley workers. The con cilators were instructed to proceed im- mediatey to Providence.
 Directors of the Rhode Island company were In session late tonight considering articles of arbitration which were to be drawn up for formal signature. union officials having announced that the men would not be ordered back to work until definite articles were signed.
 In his letter to Mayor Gulner accept ing the union plan. President Potter spec flied as matters to be arbitrated the rate of wages to be paid to members of the union, and the number of hours to bs guaranteed extra men for a minimum days work The letter said that all other points of difference had already been set- tied.