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Omaha daily bee., 1915-06-19
Summer Plans.

Miss Bertha wiese left yesterday for
Sheridan, Wyo.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur crittenden Smith
and family will leave about June Is for
= trip through Yellowstone and Glacier
PARKS. after which they will sojourn for
some time on a Wyoming ranch. II Ia
possible they may visit the exposition. in
the fall.
Mrs william y. lIopson and little
daughter. Clara Jane. will leave next
Wednesday tor Los Angeles, where they
will spend the summer with Mrs. Hop
sons parents.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-06-19
At Happy Hollow.

Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. - Cameron gave one
OF the largest dinners at the Happy Hol-
low club this evening. The NOM
hers Of the Methodist church choir will
be the guests Of honor Covers will be
placed for.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-06-19
Yilssar Club.

The vasser club was entertained this
anSrnoon at the home OF Mrs Isadore
ziegier. This YVES the last meeting for
the season, and thos present were:
Omaha daily bee., 1915-06-19

Will impersonate Gaby Deslys and Ger
trude Hoffman
The cast for the production numbers
over 100 persons, fifty OF whom are little
tots, ranging in ages from to 10 years.
Paul Reese win play the leading role.
Miss Ruth Thompson Is the soprano
soloist, Howard Steberg, tenor and Miss
Phyllis Tebbins also has an important
role.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-06-19

Among The many features Of THE
Artists Dream" which will be staged at
the Boyd theater tonight and Saturday,
under the direction OF Prof. Willard
Chambers and r. Leslie Clendenen OF
St Louis, will be female approximations
by Walter Adams, an Omaha boy who
IL making a hit at the Ak-Sar-Ben den
show with a similar act. Young Adams
Omaha daily bee., 1915-06-19
comus Club Party,

Mrs. Charles Everson entertained tho
members o. the comus club. Thursday
afternoon at her home. The prize for
the card game was awarded 70 Mrs.
Heating. The club presented MrA Keat-
ing with 4 hand painted plate In appre-
cation OF the picnic given by her last
week for the club at her home In Ben
Omaha daily bee., 1915-06-19
Personal Mention.

Miss Eva Dow leaves this evening for
Minneapolis, where che will meet her
brother and go with him to Seattle for
the summer.
Miss Lillian II. Weiss, who has been
Omaha daily bee., 1915-06-19
Friday, June 10, 1915.
BY MELLIFICIA.

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Omaha daily bee., 1915-06-19
At Carter Lake Club.

Tho cottagers had the first Of their
regular Thursday dinner-dances last
evening at the club house. Among those
attending were:
Omaha daily bee., 1915-06-19
ehildren's Party.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Barta gave 9 chill
dren's party Saturday afternoon at their
home I'm honor Of the eighth birthday an
niversary OF their daughter. Miss Ruth
Barta. The following were present:
Omaha daily bee., 1915-06-19
With the Visitors.

Mrs, W. 2. Kirby OF Valentine left FRI
day for Iowa after visit with Mr.. and
Mrs ]. NJ. Welsh.
George Y. woolsy. ir.. a graduate Of
the Omaha High school. now a student
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-31
Who Fed the Beers in South Africa

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: For the benefit OF the anti-Enc-
lish, including Mr. Staehle. whose let
ter appears in yesterdays Peoples
Column" beg to quote the following
from De Vets "Three Years War. I"
page 32l: Before sacrificing our indie
pendence VIC ought 20 tell the owners
of these farms where there were still
women and children to go and surrender
with their families, and thus save them
from starvation" Page il5, "One Is
only too thankful nowadays 20 know
that our wives are under English pro-
lection"
No matter how humanely war is
conducted, there Is sure TO be some
suffering. De Wet says on page 36l:
IL feel deeply for our women and chill
dren, but their suferings are among
what we may call the necessary cir
cumstances of the war"
The reading of De Vets book in its
entirety would or should) tend toward
a change Of attitude on the part of
the rabid anti-English. Whatever
wrongs were committed by the English
government in years past, we should a,
least be charitable toward her when
judging her part in the Boer and pres
ent wars. Give the devil his due"
New York, Jan. %, 1918. W. B.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-31
The Bryan Collapse.

In the bland and relatively successful days OF
Mr.. Bryan's political history he thrived on bitter
criticism Especially if it came from the East
which could be tagged as plutocratic, denuncla-
tion WAS almost as good as cash in the bank. 1t
was his best "stuf" on the road. Smiles and
only smiles were his answer.
Things are very different now. The country
has had almost two years in which to watch Mr..
BRYAN at work-not talking about work and COM
posing resonant sentences about everything IN
general and nothing in particular, but actually
face to face with important duties 10 be per-
formed. The result cannot be questioned. Inc
stoutest friends of the administration, the ones
who greeted Mr.. Bryan's selection with real
satisfaction, have given in. Mr.. Bryan has been
a downright failure as a Secretary OF State ana
a erievous disappointment as national Inquire
little more than a petty, ofice-grabbing politi-
cian without proper respect for his Office or his
duty to the nation.
The change speaks loudest of all in Mr.
Brvan's own words Criticism is no longer balm
10 his soul. To the National Press Club, IN Wash
ington. he said: at will take me ten years to
even up with some people when get out OF
office" If only his listeners could understand
how difficult it has been for me to keep silent!
1t was the speech of angry, defeated pollti-
clan. who realized that his hour had struck
The collapse of the Bryan myth will furnish an
interesting contribution TO democratic psychology
in DAYS to come. If it was a myth! Any num-
Der of able, sincere Americans pinned great
hopes upon the earnest young lawyer OF Lincoln
the Boy Orator of the Platte. Was the potent
alitv really there? Was valuable public SER
want really spoiled by some process of self-hypno-
tism upon the speakers platform? 1t is too soon
to analyze the causes or to fix upon the funda-
mental weakness which brought Mr.. Bryan to his
present low estate. All that is now certain is
his utter collapse as a political prophet of the
American people.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-31
What 1t Means as a Restraint Upon the New Free.
dom of Secretary McAdoo.
. Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: We all congratulate The Tribune on the
triumphant vndicstion OF its efforts to uphold the
freedom of the press against the attacks of the all
powerful Treasury Department and of the President
himself whose ideas OF the new freedom have become
sadly mixed.
But for us ordinary people there are results of the
decision which are still more important Until the
next Congressional election Mr. Wilson is free to
tinue to exercise the powers OF national Executive
and national Legislature. For old-fashioned Amer-
cans who think the Constitution OF the "grandfathers"
preferable the fsds of the youngsters" there is
a solid satisfaction in finding that he is yet the
Supreme Court also.
Some of US have noted the way in which Secretary
McAdoo manipulated and remanipuated the pro-
visions of the income bill, making over the law
first in one way and then in another that the de-
cison of last month was overruled by that of the
present as completely IL Congress had passed
new law.
We have seen him accuse bankers as honorable as
himself OF conspring against the United States and
then refuse to prove the /: dth of the Islander.
The banking Law ordered that in dstrcting the
country regard should be had to the convenience of
the people Yet solely for the sake of political adj
vantage McAdoo ordered gerrymaud by means of
which bankers in Stamford and Jersey City we're
ton and Philadelphia Nothing was TOO high-handed
for him to undertake. and boss rampled more
completely upon all who ventured to oppose him. Yet
this decision shows that even the Secretary of the
Treasury is not supreme. that n limitations Of the
United States Constitution apply 10 politicians as
much TO journalists, and that even a Democ attic
administration is unable 10 make the ipse dxit of
members OF the Cabinet the law Of the United States
New York, Jan, 80 1915, JUNIUS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-31
Subway Protection.

One result of the recent subway fire is the
promise of Mr. Hedley to enlarge the emergency
exits. More than that is needed, however, and
the suggestions of Mr.. Craven, chief engineer of
the Public Service Commission, indicate what
might easily be done to guard against such disas-
tiers in future. He recommends supplementary
telephone system connecting with the outside
world, an additional lighting system, and a sys-
TEN of ventilating cable manholes by connecting
them with the surface that smoke and gases,
if formed, would pass directly to the outer air
instead of into the tubes.
These are all comparatively simple measures
precautionary and not very expensive. The
necessity for such changes would never have
occurred TO the minds of the subway officials If
there had not been that fatal short circuit Since
the desirability Of these safeguards has been es-
tablished they should be installed just as soon
as the work can be done. All the precautions
that can be taken against the recurrence of a
situation like the one which so narrowly escaped
producing gigantic catastrophe are worth while.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-31
For the Business Men of America.

We commend to all our readers the interesting
article in the Special Feature Section Of to-day's
paper on 1.-THE Chamber of Commerce of the
United States" Here is clear and readable
account of new force in American business, an
organization which, with proper support, can do
vast and farreaching work for the manufactur-
ers and merchants of our country
The nation has clearly reached the end of a
great period of internal development That de-
velopment will 90 on; but we are no longer salts
fed 10 sit down within our own boundaries.
American trade Of every character now looks
overseas. Certain great industries have already
organized for foreign commerce upon scale and
with a power typically American. The same cam
not be said of the bulk of our industry. Our
have their eyes turned in new di-
rections but they have neither the experience nor
the proper aid TO succeed quickly.
1t is here, we think, that the first great need
Of a national chamber OF commerce is to be felt.
1t is exactly the counterpart in the business
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-31
JUSTICE VS.. CHARITY
II the Latter Has Failed, Why Not
Consider the Former?
TOR of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: A correspondent to-day replies
to L. w. Van Valkenburgh, of East
Orange, that charity is better than So
cialism, has accomplished more, etc.
Charity has certainly accomplished
more than socialism; but whether all
that it has accomplished is unmltlgated
b nefit would be a more difficult ques-
ton. Be that as IL may, charity has
had several thousand years TO accom-
plish its results in, and socialism has
never yet been tried. A medicine which
ha been taken for a lifetime has ac-
complished more than one not yet un-
corked which good prescription drug
gist has recently put up.
As TO whether charity is better than
socialism, your CORES pondent must ask
himself honestly whether an imperfect
but sincere attempt al justice 10 not
better than charity. Socialists believe
tn. present industrial system embeZzles
part Of the earnings of workers TO
support idle persons. Would not your
correspondent rather have what he has
fairly earned than 10 receive charity
Until more just social order $50
cialism or something better, II any one
can devise anything better replaces
the present one, charity must be plen-
tiful, and we may hope il will be cor
dial and unpatroniZlng IN an increasing
number of cases. But even in its kind
est and most Christian form few of US
l. K upon the recipient OF charity as
an enviable person.
Camden, S. c., Jan. 81, 1915.
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20 keen their children at home when home re-
sources are sadly deficient To such the receipt
of pension from the state would not DE an
acknowledgment of pauperism. The recipient
would agree 90 do return service ON WHY" '''
state may rightly put considerable value
If the money to be spent on WIDOWS pensions
is raised locally and thus represents oniy a"o'ie'
form of local relief activity no criticism Vi '.,e
scheme can well be made. Each community VIII
determine for itself the urgency OF the asSiS'
ance requested and can thus regulate iS own
charity expenditures. What we call puDhc ,char-
itv is not pure aims Every community mas tha'
in the long run the investment made comes BACK
in higher average Of welfare and IN greater
social efficiency
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-31
No Mourning for Departing Coroners

Since the coroners are products OF the same
political system, representing the same political
Jurisdictions as the borough presidents, it is not
surprising that the borough presidents, with the
exception of Mr.. Marks, stood by their coroner
colleagues when the Board of Estimate voted on
abolishing them. 1t is distinctly fortunate that
they could not succeed in voting down the pro
posed BILL which now goes TO Albany with the
Board Of Estimates approval.
Mr.. Wallstein's investigation showed how rotten
the coroner system has become, whatever it may
once have been. The public has known for years
that it was joke, yet never how expensive that
joke was in money, In mistakes in ineficiency
and in actual crookedness. Now that it knows, the
coroner system must go. No feelings Of personal
friendship or political advantage should be per
mitted to stand in the way of its speedy departure
1t will not be mourned.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-31
The Widows Pension Bill.

The widows pension bill, introduced in the
Senate by Mr.. Mills and in the Assembly by
Mr.. McCue, represents an effort to have the state
discharge more completely an obligation which
il already assumes in part toward the dependent
in the community. Pensions are TO be paid TO
widows who have children to support and can
not support them unaded. Such children often
have to be taken care Of in state institutions, and
if they stay at home are pretty sure TO become
a charge Of some sort on the public. The COM
munity must pay eventually for their lack of
fair opportunity to live decently and to receive
a normal education.
The scope Of the state charity system may
properly be extended so as 70 give assistance
70 widows who would be glad to bring up their
children at home if they only had the means to
do so. Orphans 90 10 the state institutions but
. poyerty-stricken widows little ones often have
a harder fate than that. The objection has been
made 70 The pension bill that it may tend 10
aggravate pauperism. Yet it is the wholesome
dread Of becoming recognized paupers which
leads many mothers 70 make a hopeless struggle
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-31
THE THAW CASE
A Reader Who Refuses to Believe That Murder Is
To Be Condoned and Justice Suborned.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Permit me to congratulate you upon your sane
and fearless editorials apropos of the Thaw case.
Things have indeed to a sorry and unsafe pass
when murder is condoned and the prosecutor of 2
murderer is denounced as Nemesis
To the best of my understanding, District Attorney
Whitman was elevated to the Governorship in recog
milton of his zeal in bringing criminals to justice and
particularly in convcting four gangster assassns.
But unfortunately, Mr. Jerome's endeavor to do his
duty seems to have met with less appreciation Is the
inference then TO be drawn that is less vital to the
security of society to punish gided DE- enerates than
obscure gunner?
II u.s. of course regrettable that tn, state should
have been put TO the expense of hiring special legal
talent However that could hardly have been avoided
while the defence was provided with unlimited funds
with which to crcumvent the Nv. Is justice to have
the bandage removed from of her eyes, and her
scales weighted with gold? LOUIS NJ. RICE.
New York, Jan. %, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-31
AN UNEMPLOYED VIEW OF RELIEF
Open Every Shelter Without Delay
Count Them Afterwsrd.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t is pleasing to me Can unem-
ployed) TO read that when the severe
weather comes the city will give more
help for the unemployed by opening
the armories as shelters. 1t is claimed
that to employ a thief to. catch a thief
is gleat, but it does not seem to have
struck any one to ask for the opinion
Of an unemployed as regards relief.
To me, when my stomach is empty
and my overcoat in pawn, the weather s
already severe; months of insufficient
food have not tended to improve my
condition to resist the cold. A | can
find no work | play one-strlnged
fiddle in the street when hunger drives
me to it; and although the shaking
finger on the string improves the tone
it is difficult to get music OF suihclent
quality to bring money.
Again, for a hungry man to walk
about all night, as several respectable
newly-made acquaintances OF mine
have to do, is very severe experience.
would urge, with much respect and
humility, that all available shelters be
opened without delay, without even
waiting TO count the unemployed.
They could be counted. If necessary,
as they entered the shelters.
STANLEY FLEMMER.
New York, Jan. 20, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-31
THE VIEWS OF MOTHER JONES
Why Woman Suffrage Should Go Hand
in Hand with Labor.
le Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your issue Of this date !
find three characteristic utterances on
the two great worldwide social move
ments that are so persistent in their
demands to be heard.
First, our good Mother Jones is so
completely immersed in her mission as
an apostle of the great labor movement
that she is unable to see it's correla-
ton to the equally great woman move,
ment. Also, that the attainment OF
Justice for the laboring man, in its last
analysis, depends upon the political
freedom of his mother. This conclusion
is inevitable if Mother Jones's premise
is correct. that "a man is never more
rotten than his mother. And he is
never any better than she is If this
be true, so long as his mother is po-
ltical nonentity, just so long must he
be an industrial slave.
These two great worldwide move
ments-the labor movement and the
woman movement-have grown right
out of the spirit and the teachings Of
Jesus the Christ.
In the letter "The Ballot a Nui-
sance" is seen tho Characteristic men
tai condition OF all anti-suifragl sts--a
condition described by the Great
Teacher in these words: "lf the light
that is in thee be darkness. how great
is that darkness" 70 one who walks in
the light, a retrospective glance over
the pathway of human progress and the
achievement Of human liberty will note
that the ballot Is always the symbol of
that liberty which has made free the
individual to express his will in human
government.
A third utterance is full of that wis
dom with which the name of Rabbi
Wise is becoming synonymous. When
the teachings of the greatest Rabbi his
race has ever produced-Jesus of Naza-
reth-become fully recognized as the
wisdom cure for all human ills, Rabbi
Wise will be a first among the prophets.
One of the great prophets of his race
has foretold the coming of the new
woman" and the great eugenc move
ment which would be inaugurated after
her advent. Those who would be in
terested TO read il will find the proph-
ecy in jeremiah XXI, 22-34.
New York, Jan. 20, 1915. VI. A. 5.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-31
Honest Advertising.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Let me add my appreciation
and that Of many others know Of to
the number of commendatory express
sions that an sure you are receiving
on account OF your "honest adyertis-
ing" articles. II may be Of interest
10 you TO learn in this way that every
one | have talked with is enthusiastic
and anxious 80 hold up your hands in
this enterprise.
As onetime news paper man, ! sd-
mre the ssgacity that 80 featured
these articles on the first page of The
Tribune.
Yet more power 10 you,. the writer
of honest advertising and The Trib-
une! L.
New-York, Jan. 81, 1918.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-31
An Open Forum for
Public Debate.
WOMANLY WOMAN'S NERVES
They Arc Cracking Under the Strain
Of Suffrage Success.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: There have been times and
seasons when | feared that the con-
tinuous strain of trying to teach the
public the first lesson in democracy
was bad for the nerves of some of my
equal suffrage friends. To-day, how
ever. find them p.acid and smiling
compared with their opponent, the
womanly woman, whose place is ever
at home.
Goodness me, what has happened TO
the 'perfect-lady- anti-suffrage" wom-
an? We have Mrs. Annie Riley Hale
trying to break up suffrage meetings,
then Mrs. Forse Scott and Mrs. John
Martin in your columns bursting into
unrestrained abuse of their opponents
which would put mere |. W. W. agl-
tator to the blush.
Apropos Mrs. Martins letter in to-
days issue. We have heard il all be-
fore, yea. even a million times. They
have told us, oh. so often, that men
have no characters-thati it is all moth
er's fault" In this the ladies of the
with Mother Jones. Yet | wonder, |
Just wonder, If Mrs. John Martin APP
p les to her cook the same principle
she asks all women to apply to men.
Does she teach cooks to do a cooks
work and then "see to it that cooks
do their work without her interior
ence. That's what they are here for" ?
At what point does Mrs. Martin grad
uate her men-and cooks-to do mems
(and cooksO work?
Alas, we can escape the inefficient
cooks by comparatively simple means
but il is by no means easy to escape
the anomalies and discomforts of the
"man-made world" EVA WARD.
New York, Jan. 20. 1915.
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world Of the federal government. The local bodies
have done and will continue to do important WORK
But united in the new federal body they can
accomplish results which individually they could
not touch
The organization promises to be the mouth
piece of business America 1t can look beyond
local needs. beyond sectional needs, to the great
problems Of labor. finance and the development
of industry, national and international. Its I'M
portance to every business man cannot be estl-
mated too highly.