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Omaha daily bee., 1915-09-23
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PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 20-To the Bdi-
tor Of The Bee: I am a subscriber TO
your paper Tor the sole purpose Of fol-
lowing the Omaha sunday campaign and
am grateful at the FULL reports and dou-
bly, gratified at the wonderful success
up TO date. The object OF this letter Is
simply to call Mr.. j. W. Henderson's at
tention 70 one or two things evidently
overlooked by him.
Mr.. Sundays sermons will peel the
hide off Of any "Thlrty-year Methodist
Of the Henderson type. II Mr.. Hender-
son had gone 20 hear Sunday and con-
tributed to the expense fund tho fund
very likely would have been increased
very little.
The winnings Of these "rhirty-year
Methodists" give me a pain Tell Mr..
Henderson to go and hear Mr. Sunday a
half dozen times and his story will be
vastly different
As the meetings go on they will be
more helpful. the collections ample to
take care of all expenses and more. and
Omaha, as has been the experience of
all other cities where Mr.. Sunday has
held meetings. viii be glad he came and
sorry he left. NJ. b. DOCKYER.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-09-23

Subscribers leaving the city temporarily
should have The Bee mailed TO them. Ad-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-26
FINANCING AMERICAN TRADE

[From the New York Sun.J
Our bankers are reaching out in the
right direction for realization of the
commercial opportunity of the war.
In all likelihood the loan just nego-
tiated for the Canadian Government.
in which is involved $45, 90, 900, and
starting with one and two year notes
which may be converted into twenty
year bonds, is but the beginning of ex-
tensions of Large credits to foreign
countries. Operations of this sort
have been going on for about half a
year to an aggregate of $500, 900.
more or less, preliminary to the real
work of co-ordinating our finance
and commerce in such way that the
unprecedented international trade in
which we have been engaged can be
promoted and maintained.
The new Canadian loan illustrates
how utterly remote from an American
standpoint is the standpoint of the
alien propagandists whom we have
too much tolerated. They will assert
that American money is to finance the
war, thus clearly demonstrating that
their reasoning is controlled by for
eign sympathies exclusively. The
Canadian loan is not at all contri-
button to the financing Of the war. It
is simply a transaction for the furth
erance of our own export trade and
but small instalment Of the financ-
ing which we must do to keep our
trade going and growing in these
times when our is the only country
that has surplus goods to sell abroad,
the means to produce them, and the
capital to enable other nations to
patronize our markets during the
strain of the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-26
THAT DEFENSE PROGRAM

IT is intimated in Washington that
President Wilson has under con-
sideration a national defense pro-
gram which will call for a navy "on an
equality with the most efficient" and
an army reserve of "at least 500, 600
men and perhaps more" Not a word
is said about the size OF this efficient
navy or the efficiency OF the half mil
lion reserves. What is even more sug-
gestive, no definite time has been fixed
for submitting these plans to Con-
gress.
On the surface it looks very much
as if the administration, with an eve
on the elections OF next year has de-
eided to reply to the piffle of the news
paper and magazine volunteers in the
armament lobby with piffle of it's own.
If that is the actual meaning of the
vague announcement from Washing.
ton the country might as we'll pre-
pare itself for a great deal of aruv
and navy mismanagement, with Incl
dental waste of large sums of money.
There is no more important problem
time than this matter Of the national
defenses. It is so important that there
should be general agreement that IL is
a question for experts to consider and
settle in an atmosphere free from
political bias. hysterical fear or
chauvinism. But what is happening is
exactly the reverse. Landlubber poll-
ticians are vociferously reconstructing
the navy and deciding off hand
problems Of offense and defense that
the authorities confess themselves all
at sea about. while penny-a-liners
with no greater knowledge of military,
affairs than may be picked up during
an occasional visit to a State guard
camp on the big day, lay down army
plans with the assurance of a. Won
Moltke. We became u~ed to Hobson
and many know to nicely just how
much importance to attach to the out
givings of the Dickie Davises, but the
large number of those engaged in this.
10 them, remunerative activity is a bit
disconcerting, and unless something is
done to counteract it, it is bound to
Sllave an unfortunate erect upon the
public. Considerations such as these
must have prompted close advisers of
the President to put forth the national
defense statement at this time
What we have of naval power al
ready is as efficient as any in the
world. But we need a great deal more
more, in fact, than any other ma
ton except Great Britain. Our army
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-26
GRADE CROSSINGS

TRoM the standpoint of public
! safety, the determination of the
Public Service Commission to
frst safeguard, and finally abolish all
grade crossings in Pennsylvania is the
most important step that body has
ever taken. The task TO which the
Commission has set itself is gigantic.
There are more than 10000 crossings
scattered throughout the Common
wealth, and each one of them is a
potential deathtrap. The sum of
sS00,000,000. which the Commission
estimates will be required to replace
them with subways or bridges, is of
staggering proportions, yet in the end
the railroads, which must bear the
bulk of the burden. will be the gamers
Watchmen by the hundreds will be
displaced, safety gates will be re-
moved and the constant possibility OF
enormous damages, such as the Read
ing faces as the result of the recent
Hummelstown tragedy, will be re-
moved.
The grade crossing Is constant
menace to people who find 1t necessary
to use it. AS Chairman Ainey. of the
Commission, says, courts and the legis-
ilatures have condemned it and the
Commission is right in assuming that
the law places upon It the duty OF
ridding the State of a peril that in the
first place should never have been per-
mitted to come into being.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-26
TEACHES CHILDREN TO PLAY
Number of Foreigners Makes Neces-
sarY Standard Games for All Classes.

Number of Foreigners Makes Neces-
sary Standard Games for All Classes.
tFrom the Boston Transcript
Harvard adds to the teaching staff
an experienced director of Fairgrounds
offering thereby technical training
courses in the management of recrea-
tional centers. Nowadays children,
especially in communities deriving
from different nationalities, need to be
told and shown how to play. The
thread of Old World tradition in games
being broken, the folk sports of one
element being not readily communi-
Gated to and accepted by another, and
the native American customs, which
vary with the locality, finding the
playground a sort of Sargossa Sea of
aimlsss. currentless stagnacy, the pro-
fessional grown-up director has de-
veloped from the necessities of the
situation.
So serious a word as necessities" is
applied because the end desired is to
keep children from mischievous and
vicious lapsing through street idling
and aid them to good habits and future
good citizenship. Lately the advant-
age of utilizing recreation facilities for
diminishing the untoward temptations
of the leisure hours of men and wo-
men, as we'll as for increasing means to
better Information and standards, has
been made use of, particularly in Bos-
ton, where several public spirited as
sociations recently have been doing ex-
cellent new work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-26
IN THE WARS VAST ARENA
Moscow, the Most Russian of Russian Cites-It:
Kremlin and It's Mighty Bell

lionaire are inextricably mixed up in
external Moscow.
Moscow is a city of churches Their
brilliantly colored tower domes, -strik-
ing dubious affairs, like upfhrned
beets or onions, or often mottled like
piquancy to the city panoramas
First of the Moscow sanctuaries is
the renowned Church of the Saviour
one OF the most luxurious temples in
the world - a tempre proving the
warmth of imagination and the love
of splendor of the North. Built in
the form of a Greek cross, perfectly
proportioned' its cream-colored mar
Bile base and bright domes are a feast
of beauty, while its interior is an
awe-inspiring medley or precious
stones, metals and marbles.
The Kremlin, the heart of Russia S
heart, the ancient fortress of the city
Moscows Acropolis, is the point OF
greatest interest to the visitor. The
Kremlin is the inner circle of Mos
COW, wherein are situated the treas
ury, the arsenal, the imperial palace
sacred temples and around which are
drawn heavy battlements of mason
ry. Within the confines of the Krem-
lin the first city on the site of Mos
COW grew; the modern town extends
in an outer ring around it. Most OF
the Kremlin escaped unharmed from
Napoleon's visitation, though its
towers were SCARED by the fires to
which the retreating Russians en-.
deavored to sacrifice their city.
The largest bell in the world is pre-
served here in Moscow, with almost
enough metal in it to make a modern
battle. There are many hundreds
of relics of Napoleon's visit here -
abandoned cannon and cannon balls
of the French and their allies. The
famous palace in the Kremlin is one
of the richest buildings in the world
built, decorated and filled with a lux
ury that is oppressive to those unac-
customed to associate in environ
ments of boundless wealth. The
treasury of the Kremlin is mar
velous collection of priceless historic
relics and souvenirs of the past.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-26
THIS STATE IN LEAD

A MOTHERS pension bill was
n passd by one branch of the Wis
consin Legislature last week. We
mention this in the hope that it will
attract the attention and stimulate the
reasoning facilities of a few of those
earnest souls who have been taught
by constituencies politicians and news
papers to believe Pennsylvania to be
hopelessly reactionary and its legisla-
lures invariably stepped in toryism,
while Wisconsin and the little group
of States in the extreme northwest,
where reforms" run riot, are in a
condition of political idealism.
The plain truth is that Pennsylvania
is more frequently in the lead than
not when it comes to genuine reform.
We do not embrace every wild idea
that comes along, it is true, for a GER
tain amount of conservatism is neces-
sary to guard against palpable errors
and costly experiments in government.
But if we adopt fewer so-called pro-
gressive laws we actually make more
real progress along all lines, and we
are called upon less frequently to
wipe mistakes off of the statute books.
And at the same time, as in the case
of the mothers pension movement,
States that are anxious 20 be regarded
as advanced in their views frequently
are content to follow our lead.
These facts are clearly understood
by all who are familiar With PennsyI-
vania conditions. Even those people
who have been most active in recent
years in misrepresenting the State and
its citizens know them, but for reasons
that are as despicable as they are
palpable these people refuse to
acknowledge them or even admit
them. 1t is safe to say that if an
equal amount of energy had gone into
legitimate boosting of Pennsylvania as
went into vilihcation during the past
five or six years the effect would now
be apparent not only in the spirit OF
the people; in their attitude toward
each other and the rest of the world,
but in the bank balances.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-26
FACTS ABOUT FLAX

FARMERS BULLETIN, No. $50. of
the United States Department of
Agriculture says that "it has
been demonstrated beyond all doubt
that fiber fax of excellent quality can
be grown in various sections of the
United States" The trouble seems to
be that the fiber fax can be grown,
but the farmer can not prepare the
fiber, and it is suggested that the
farmers unite to pay for experienced
men to superintend this work for
them. There appears to be no reason
why American-grown fiber and Amer
tcan manufactured linens should not
be substituted for at least a large part
of the imports" says the Weekly
News Letter, published by the Depart
ment.
We can suggest one reason: Charles
W. Hess. of the United States Linen
Company. appearing before the COM
mittee on Ways and Means when the
Underwood bill was under consider
alton, traced the experiments, step by
step, which his company had taken to
achieve some measure of success in
the growing Of fax in Minnesota and
Wisconsin.
He closed his brief with the state
ment: Under the present tariff Gre
publican) America can have a linen
industry; without at least that amount
of protection she cannot. Under the
present tariff the fiax-grower will have
profitable market for his byproduct
flax straw; without at least that
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-26
REGRETTABLE, INDEED


tFrom the Harrisburg Sunday Courier. ]
1t would be regrettable. indeed, If
anything is permitted to interfere with
the completion or the clty's public i'm
provement enterprises now so very near =
ly finished. one can scarcely imagine
that party politics may go to such
lengths. It is to be hoped that some
way can be found whereby the work
may go ahead, especially in view of the
fact that the City Solicitor has pro-
nounced the hold-up without legal
grounds. Nothing can be gained by
foolish delay. In the end the work will
be done. Those who put themselves in
the way as Obstacles to that end may
expect nothing but public censure. No
good can come out of such a proposal
for anybody. This straining at gna q
and swallowing of camels has gone
far enough. Inside facts concerning the
financial transactions of the city in the
stances more open to criticism than the
proposition TO finish public work
which the people themselves have au-
thoriZed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-26
D. c., July 26.-
wv Deep in the heart of European
w Russia, more than 700 miles

n
wv Deep in the heart of European
w Russia, more than 700 miles
from the German frontier, guarded
over the intervening space by lake
country, marshes and innumerable
riverways, always certain of reinforce
ment by the bleakest of winter
weather, with its heavy, binding drift
of snow, is Moscow, the old capital of
Russia, the CITY against whose walls
the craft of Napoleon smashed. Mos
COW seems more secure from war hor-
rors and devastation than any other
metropolis within the confines of the
fighting nations, begins a bulletin
describing the most Russian of Rus
sian cities, issued to-day by the Ma
tional Geographic Society at Wash
ington.
Moscow belongs alike to the Orient
and the Occident; more, however, to
the East than to the West 1t is fur
ther east than Jerusalem, and behind
it extends a vast, sparsely settled.
half-civilized, linitless, little-known
region, sweeping the Arctic Sea to
our West and China. Moscow is the
pulse of this vast and undeveloped
region, and through it have flowed
endless streams of pioneers in peace
times on the mission of civilization
to the bleak northern plains and
their Asiatic natives. To the Rus
sian, Moscow is a sacred city; to the
stranger. it Is a city of surprising
beauty; to both, it is the heart and
soul of Russia.
Irregularly built, the intricate and
uncommonly involved plan of this
mighty city adds to its charm upon
acquaintance. Its streets are one of
its most trying experiences to the
foreigner, mostly badly paved and
filed with "raisins," as the cab driv-
ers call the sharp projecting estones
over which their ancient droshkies
lurch. Then too, the magnificent and
the sordid are oddly mingled in the
city's architecture, and beside the
wonderful cathedral and the impress
sive government structure one sees
the mean buildings of poverty. The
peasant, the gentleman and the mil
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-26

amount of protection his straw will
continue in the main to be burned on
the fields"
The Democratic committee looked
wise. put flax straw on the free list
when it had been dutiable at s5 a ton;
flax, not hacked. on the free list, from
S22.40 per ton; dressed linen (hackled)
on the free list. from s67.20 per ton.
That is the way they encouraged the
industry which the department of ag-
riculture seeks to revitalize.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-26

also is good as far as IL goes. but it Is
too small. 1t totally lacks a reserve
force and most of the time it is in
sufficiently supplied. These deficiencies
call loudly for a remedy, but it is not
merely a matter of more dollars, as so
many of the people seem to believe.
IN spite of our small showing on land
and sea We already spend as much
money as do the frankly militaristic
nations of Europe. True reform must
begin with elimination of the graft
and the waste. When that is done,
and the Government is getting a dol
lars worth Of service or supplies for
each dollar expended, we can proceed
with confidence to increase the ma
tional forces.
Right here is where the duty of
President Wilson and the party in
power lies. Public opinion will sup
port them in the complete wiping out
of useless navy yards and army posts.
This should be the first thing taken
up by the Congress which will meet
this coming winter. The pork barrel
SNfAAAdetlt W AAANAl llNSS bNCAA "SA~~ S'@ANN
the Democratic party came into con-.
troll of the Government than ever be-
fore in the history Of the country,
must be suppressed. Congressman
with the instincts and the intellects
of errand boys must be taught to think
nationally and internationally and the
whole campaign must be carried on
with a frankness and sincerity that
will command the confidence Of the
public. This would be a large order
for any party, especially that part OF
it which calls for congressional re-
form, but it will be especially hard for
the Democrats to fill it. However, If
it should develop that President Will
son is in as complete control of the
new Congress as he w-s of the late
one there is hope that some gains will
be made.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-26
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
AS TO THE JITNEYs
z Edi.or Of lhe TeIegraen:

To the Editor Of the Telegraph:
Correspondent of the telegraph
writes as follows regarding the jitneY
development in the transportation SER
vice:
"I am just back from several days in
Detroit, Mich ana was surprised to find
of many automobiles. 1 inquired from
several residents as to the absence of
the jitney service. and was informed
authority that the street cnr serxIce
was 80 excellent that the iitnevs.
though they tried several times, could
never get n hold.
"It occurred to me that this miehr
be of interest to you with regard 10 the
conditions in Harrisburg. I believe the
same kind of street car service here
would accomplish the same purpose.
mention this to you because / know
you are interested in all such things"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-26
CITY WITH A FUTURE FAVORED
[From the st. Louis Republic.I

lFrom the st. Louis Republic
The average man is not ambitious
to cast in his lot with city that is
reeled up and finished, no matter how
neatly reeled it may be, or how per-
feet the finish is This Nation, speak
ing generally, is in the constructive
stage. The people of america have a
fancy for places where there is some
thing doing" They like the towns
where the big transformations are be-
ing made, where the big struggles are
going on. A city attracts people by
the opportunity it offers to the in
dividual.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-26
CHINAFIED?
kansas City Star.


Is the United States to be Chinafied ?
That issue, made vital by the course
of recent events, has never been more
forcefully stated than by Colonel
Roosevelt in his San Francisco speech
To-day Belgium and China are living
examples of the fate that menaces
pacitist nations. They trusted in inter
national guarantees and in their inof-
fensive dispositions. To-day they are
subject peoples.
To contend that preparation against
attack invites war is as absurd as
Colonel Roosevelt pointed out, as to
argue that the maintenance of a fire
department is an invitation to care
lessness against fire.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-26
A woMAN's POWER IN WAR

Atherton Brownells peace play, The
Unseen Empire,a written before the
war, offers some startling condolences
with later conditions. The cabled re-
Krupp Works. which may imperil Ger
mans supply of munitions, and the men,
tion of the great influence OF their
owner, over the workmen is paralleled
the owner of the big steel works is a
young woman. and her influence is so
great that she is able to avert war.
And in The Unseen Empire" Mr..
Brownell has pointed out a method by
which the United States might bring
Germany to terms.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-26
OLD MAIDS
tFrom scribner's Magazin,

tFrom Scribner's Magazine.
l am not only an old maid, but ]
know many others, just as I know
many married women, and I believe
that it is time for the world to look
upon them neither as pitiful, perverted
beings nor as unclaimed blessings, but
as fellow workers and comrades in a
world in which there is serious busi-
ness to do whether one be married or
not. After all, does it make so very
much difference except to the novelist
and the poet ond the scientist-this
question of being an old maid?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-26
More Reason to Push
Harder

Speaking OF business condi-
tions recently. John Wanamaker
said:
People to-day are buying only
ing apparel and shoes.
"Thev are buying the first be-
cause they are cheap and shoes
and clothing because they must
be replaced"
Then he made the telling point
that IL manufacturer of other
lines are TO meet this condition
they must push harder.
They must follow the aggres-
sive methods of the large stores.
They must advertise.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-26
WHILE THE TEAMS AWAY
By. Wing Dinger y

By Wing Dinger
In offices and stores. ct Get,
About this little burg, you bet
Hard work will more attention get,
For three weeks-here's the whyl
Because till August 14th. bo.
Therell be no baseball games. you
know,
And fans will have no place to go
Hence at their jobs they'll ply.
But If the players, while away,
The character of ball will play
AS they have played for many day
They'll cinch first place. and say
The fans at home will sure be proud
They'll sound their praises long and
loud
And. gee, but there will be some crowd
When next "at home" they play,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-26
Our Daily Laugh
THE BETTER
HALF.

I give my wife
half my salary
every week to
spend on the
house keeping
and herself.
And what do
you do with the
other half Of your
salary.
oh, my wife
borrows that.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-26
MONDAY EVENING. JULY 26.

NeUer deliberate about ,ohGt is
clearly t1rong, and try to persuade
yourself that it is not.-Frederick
Temple.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-26

Boston and Philadelphia newspapers
are puzzled as to where Secretary Dam
iels got his mobilization of brains
idea. We suggest a cross-examination
of the bright young correspondents
summering at the nations capital.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-26
Soldier Killed

Samuel Bortz, corporal in Com
pany A, First Pennsylvania Artillery,
was almost instantly killed when he
walked in his sleep last night and fell
from the balcony on the third story or
Orsinger's Hotel. He was a resident of
Shiremanstown before the war.