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Evening journal., 1916-06-03
RESORTS.

rVHE COLONIAL HOTEL. CAPE MAY.
n. =. Beautifully located overlooking
the ocean. Refined and homelike; cuisine
unsurpassed. Address John n. Coleman.
Cape May, n j. june2 fri sat we'd a.
Evening journal., 1916-06-03

NXyANTED-TO BUY A GOOD. UPTo
w date home on monthly payment plan ,
Address W-58, Evening journal once.
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Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-13
Under the Propped Up Ceiling.

Appropriations must originate in the lower
house OF the legislature, and as this body sits
under the propped up ceiling OF its chamber its
members will have ever-prcsent incentive to work
out ways and means for providing the state with
new capitol building. Sentiments very gen.
eral in favor OF such a proceeding just now, the
people finally having awakened to the made
quscy as well as the insecurity OF the antiquated
building now doing duty as statehouse at Lin
coin. The Bee has advocated action on this line
for several years, and herewith renews one OF its
suggestions That is that the new statehouse
be made part OF comprehensive plan for ar
rangcment OF public buildings at Lincoln, so that
the whole will form center OF architectural
beauty Of which the people will be forever proud.
This plan may be worked out in detail and carried
into effect by graduated steps. but so devised that
IN time the several buildings OF state, county and
city government will Unite with those OF the uni
versity in forming an harmonious group in which
the Importance Of the state as typihed by its
capital city will find proper expression. This plan
does not contemplate any extravagant expenditure
Of money, but should provide for economy, both
in construction and maintenance. Action is i'm
perativc in the matter OF the statehouse, but
wisdom should prevail in any move that will be
made
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-13
William Jennings Bryan
Chicago Tribune.

Mr.. Bryan, we suspect, is the most powerful
single individual in the United States. J. P. Nor
gan, Billy" Sunday, and Theodore Roosevelt
might be thought OF as challenging his pre-
eminence, but we doubt that they are to be con-
sidered as serious rivals.
Morgan can break eggs for a million people
and carry off the omelet. leaving them the
shells but he could not make chautauqua ad-
dress. Whatever power he has will die with him.
Bryan's will live twenty years after he is dead.
He will have directed the thoughts Of men and
women and their children. 1t will take at least
twenty years to eliminate Bryan. Twenty days
may eliminate Morgan.
Exasperated American patriots will be encoun-
tering the Bryan srup Of life at least twenty
years after this amiable has been gathered
to his fathers. Billy" Sunday operates violently
on restricted area He stands community on
its head. Boston now offers the spectacle OF the
Brahmins on theirs. The bean not being the
natural resting place of the human race, there
OF standing on the feet, but while Mr.. Sunday
is effective he is very effective.
He has not such influence as Bryan. He is no
such power. People cannot always be running
to fire. as Charles Eliot Norton Cor was it he?)
said OF reading Carlyle. Bryan does not turn
out the fire department. HE uses sausage
suffer, fills it full Of strip, and fills the people
so full of sweetness that they are ready to burst
The business Of beating folks over the head
with good solid club is Roosevelts. The more
iHC oouHu iHuIChtcS sOl1u DONE OF pTOteClcu va
Guilty the more enraged the colonel becomes and
the stouter his raps.
People will stand on their heads for while,
but they never like to be pounded them.
Therefore Bryan with his strip squirt is more
deadly than Roosevelt with his club.
1t is no accident that now while Colonel
Roosevelt considers himself in the position OF the
mate Of the New Bedford whaler whose skipper
wanted silence, and damn little OF that Colonel
Bryan is the cock OF the walk in Washington
He is talking, as always, without thinking
He typiies the impulse to talk without thinking.
We have nothing but admiration for this amiabe
man, but the damage he does is enormous. He
has permeated the west His mood is the mood
Of the west. He is more responsible for President
Wilson now than he was four years ago. He is
the most powerful living American, and our only
wish is that he had been German or Jap, or
even Canadian or Mexican.
Twenty years after his last word has been
uttered the effect Of what he has said will have
to be combated by Americans WHO wish the coun-
try well. -i
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-13

Fewer Laws--More Enforcement.

The Nebraska laws ION the subject OF cam
paign funds and expenditures are undoubtedly
violated or evaded In sore instances. 1t sor,e-
times looks as II the federal laws my lightly
upon those subject to them. Must we have cleo
ton 'wardens' 10 keep campaign funds and
practices within ooundsf-- Lincoln Journal.
Laws limiting campaign expenditures are
undoubtedly evaded in Nebraska, just az 1rc many
other laws. The trouble is that no one. except
those directly concerned as candidates for Office
have the slightest mixing Of what these laws re-
quire and the candidates only secure that nfor-
nation by posting themselves after they throw
their hats in the ring.
II Is the multiplication Of dead legislation reg
ulating everything down to the mnutest details
that makes for so many dead letter laws and,
when It comes to securing enforcement by special
machinery Of detection, prevention or prosecu-
ton, il is only question which dead letter law
should have first attention. Perhaps election
'wardens" are really needed but we have changed
our elections so that they come but once in two
years and the jurisdiction of the "wardens" should
be broad enough to let them keep themselves busy
in between, They might watch the candidates
who are elected to see that they do their duties
scrupulously under their oaths OF Office And
then, to make doubly sure, we might have another
set OF 'wardens" to watch the wardens Really,
we see no escape from this outcome unless we
elect public officers we are willing to trust and
lawmakers who have sehse enough not to pass
unenforceable laws.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-13
Aladdin's Lamp Eclipsed


Aladdns lamp wasn't public utility. Elec-
tricity, the servant of everyone who pushes the
button, eclipses Aladdin's lamp as the sun ecpses
a match Electricity is a Jim, as powerful as
that which awaited the call of Aladdin. 1t serves
individuals, science, industries, cities countries
The all-powerfu Jim OF the twentieth century
Is at call upon the plunging steamer in the midst
Of the blacklist storm upon the bosom of the
heaving ocean beyond the equator or at the Arc
tic circle. Electricity propes the submarine. 1t
is the life-spark of the aeroplane. 1t draws the
coal and iron from the mountains heart and per-
forms innumerable magical feats Of strength and
intelligence undreamed OF by Aladdin.
Electricity in its general application for prac-
tcal purposes is too new to cease to excite won
der in the mind OF anyone who has imagination.
There still is fascinating sense of power in be-
ing able to lay finger upon a switch in dark
room and turn on flood Of light to say nothing
Of witnessing the less common manifestations Of
the Harvesting OF force which the average man
does not in the slightest degree understand, al
though he has been for some time perfectly ia
miliar with its use.
No science is more progressive than electrical
science. Every year discovers to the world new
and wonderful employments Of the electrical cur
rent Everyone who reads hears occasionally of
some latest electrical device and in reading the
next days news forgets about it.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-13
Germany's Proffer of Peace.

Until the exact nature of the terms on which
Germany and its allies Austria Bulgaria and
Turkey, proffer peace to the Entente Allies, dis
cussion of the situation must be much in the
nature of speculation. That such an offer can
be made in good faith is surely an encouraging
sign In each Of the several countries now en-
gagged in war statements have been made by high
government officials of terms and conditions on
which peace would be acceptable, but OF such
manfestly impossible character as to leave some
doubt as TO the exact purpose of the speakers. II
the present proposal contains anything on which
honorable and lasting peace may be predcated, it
is the most acceptable Christmas gift that could be
made to distracted world Nothing will be
gained for the moment by analytical discussion
of Germany's motive or positon the nature of
the terms offered is the point on which action
must turn.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-13
Uncle Sans Form

II Uncle Sam is no longer rich enough to
give us all farm" as the song, familiar in the
COS, and born probably Of the homestead law Of
1862, hath it, he is not yet landless Secretary
Lane counts somewhat more than 250000,000
acres Of public land and that mostly in "the arid
region waiting for irrigation. A stable tract,
but what mere patch compared, say, with l,00O,-
600 odd square miles of the Louisiana purchase,
reckoning Oregon in it, as the land Office always
has reckoned. Doing land Office business"
will soon be an unrecognized fossil of speech. In
few years the land Office will have no or small
business to do. In less than ten years. probably,
no public land Of consequence will be available
for the homesteader; There will still be. plenty of
western desert" that mysterious region, since
SO shrunken, that used to sprawl vaguely over
the old American aliases, and Mr. Lane is sure
that this can be tapped for water
In the last fiscal year more than 100000
acres of public land was taken up So the home
steaders are still active, It will be good thing
or American farming when there is no more puo-
lie land. Scientific. intensive cultivation is what
is most needed. The Department of Agriculture
is doing mighty good work in teaching the farm
ers that
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-13

wrote to the angel of the Church of
Laodicea: II would that there vert
hot or cold. but because thou art
neither hot nor cold | will spew thee
out of my mouth"
In 1860 my father drove an on
team twenty-five miles, taking me, IL
boy of IA, with him. to hear General
Thayer make u political speech, and
in the first Grant campaign ] rode
twenty-five miles to march in torch
light parade in Omaha and the demo-
Gratis had a parade the same night and
it required much planning to time and
route the two parades so as to avoid
collision. That was forty-eight
years ago and l guess it is safe now
for me to say that / had a pistol in
my pocket that night. In those days
there was life in the parties, but the
primary law has destroyed 1t all.
have here briefly and very family
expressed few Of my objections to
the law and it would be of no use for
me to write what l really think about
1t, for it would be rejected as imprint
able. JONATHAN EDWARDS.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-13

Grant and the Training School.

Miss Jane Adams, opposing the suggestion
OF the secretary Of war that admission to West
Point be as far as possible confined to students
from vocational or technical schools. says such
rule would have deprived the nation OF Grants
great services The significance Of this is that
Miss Adams Is not given to such loose state
rnents even in the exhuberance Of debate. She
is too careful a student not to be familiar with
the circumstances that preceded the entry of
Ulysses S. Grant into the West Point military
academy. Jesse Grant, in common with most
American fathers, was anxious his son should
have the best education possible and shaped his
life to that end Young Grant worked, as did boys
OF his time and station, and was sent to school
in winter. According to his own story. he pieced
out his education with knowledge gathered from
the few books available to him, and when he went
up to stand examination for appointment as ca
Diet he was well equipped, Happily for the coun-
try, boys are no longer restricted in their eff
forts to gain education as was the great gen.
eral and president in his youth, and just as the
young men Of today have extended opportunities
and advantages, so is more to be expected of
them, and the nation, in calling them to its serv-
ice, has full right to ask for the better quail
fed among them No limitation is placed on Cd.
portunty Emulation of Grants industry will at
least give any American lad his full chance to
rise as high.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-13
CATO'S SOLILOQUY.

Joseph Addison.
tCato sitting in a thoughtful posture, with
Plato's book on the Immortality OF tho
Soul in one hand. and a drawn sword on
the table by him.)
1t must be so.-Plato, thou reasonest we'll,
Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond
desire,
This longing after Immortality?
Or whence this secret dread, and inward
horror,
OF falling into naught7 Why shrinks the
soul
Back on herself. and startles at destruction.
It's the divinity that stirs within US;
It's heaven itself, that points out here
And intimates eternity to man
Eternity!-thou pleasing. dreadful thought,
Through what variety of untried being,
Through what new scenes and changes must
we pass
The wide, the unbounded prospect lies be-
fore me;
But shadows, clouds and darkness rest upon
Here will hold. II there's a Power above
And that there is. all Nature cries aloud
Through all her works,-He must delight In
virtue;
And that which He delights in must be
But when or where! This world was mad,
for Caesar.
Pm weary OF conJectures,-this must end
them all.
(Laying his hand on his sword)
Thus am doubly armed. My death and life,
My bane and antidote, are both before me
This, in a moment brings me to an end;
But this informs me I shall never die
The soul. secure in her existence, smiles
At the drawn dagger, and defes its point
The stars shall fade away. the sun himself
Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in
years;
But thou shalt flourish In immortal youth
Unhurt amid the war of elements,
The wreck Of matter, and the crush Of
worlds.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-13
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Light In Council Bluffs.

Council Bluffs, Dec. S.-To the Edi-
tor of The Bee: Your editorial, THE
Light Referendum" in the Morning
Bee Is all o. k. This reminds the
writer that Council Bluffs also should
have more light, especially along the
street car line. No one can see the
streets at night and is obliged to grope
his way home after alighting from the
car. 1t does seem that the street car
company doesn't care very much for
the accommodation of it's patrons, or
1t would find remedy for the trouble
But as long as the property owners
on Avenue A don't put up a fight for
a better lighting system from lower
broadway to the bridge along Avenue
A the city as well as the street car
company will make no move. The
longest blocks the writer has ever
seen have but one lightning bug at
each end and such a nice lot Of cot
tages the whole length (say about
two miles) on both sides of the street
car track and as I believe, the incest
part of the city. l should like to hear
from other property owners along
these lines. j. G. BLESSING. d
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-13
II Haze Liued"

Now and then above the elang and clanor
OF the worlds discomfort, rises refreshing note
OF human gratitude and gladness, Such note is
sounded by the Rev. Joseph Anthony Milburn,
a Chicago clergyman, in the autumnal philosophy
Of life" called "Everymans World"
My sun has passed the meridian" says this
genial elder, and is moving with rhythmic and
deliberate stride toward the western horizon, be.
yond which lies the alluring world OF mystery and
wonder
As look back over the years feel that I
should say liturgy Of thanksgiving TO Fortune
for the layishness oil her bounty toward me She
has not always consulted my desires nor bunored
my moods. ] have found her to be more a Stole
than Sybarite in her manners and methods. She
has made me pay with sufficient liberafty for
the many felicities | have enjoyed through the
grace OF her favor. In the things Of lesser impor-
tance the mysterious providence that rules over
the affairs OF men has been frugal with me. but |
have been blessed beyond measure in the one
treasure OF priceless significance, the treasure of
life. | have livedl'
Not bad saying that for those still in the
thick Of the fight still seeking fortunes favors, to
remember. The point OF view alters all possible
perspectiyes; things seen in the retrospect seem
different indeed from the same objects under adj.
vance or even contemparaneous consideration. Mr.
Miiburn has not found life's pilgrimage too easy
or luxurious Individually he has known periods
Of doubt, distress, Encouragement depression
But now, from the western slope he recalls
mainly life's general sweetness and splendor The
burden OF his sunset song is less Nunc Dmttis
than paean--'f have iyedw
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-13

One of the male victims of Charley Wax, femi-
nine heart-breaker and crook, tried to spoil his
face with two vigorous swings, but Wax was too
quick in ducking The irate man hailed from
Philadelphia, where Charley ogled $1,000 out of
his wife,
Beating the high cost OF living is simple
matter of intelligent marketing" remarked Chi
cago woman, addressing group OF food nvesti-
gators. In proof of her claim she produced a
dozen eggs bought for 20 cents Eight of the
eggs were opened for inspection and stood the
strength to force hasty adjournment for fresh
air
Under the leadership OF Benjamin ]. Rosen-
thai and the cooperation of employers practical
steps are being taken in Chicago to relieve the
distress caused by the rule barring men of As
years and over from new jobs. 1t is said there
are 10000 able-bodied men idle on account of
age objections in the city. The main object OF
the movement is to find what particular work
the men are used to and their physical condition
and thus bring their wants before employers.
1t has a practical and phanthropic side, pro-
notes industrial economy and promises to halt
poverty.
Beside some of the smooth Jobs pulled off
along legitimate business lines wild boss trades"
and similar tricks OF the shady profession appear
as insignificant as Jtney in a provision shop
Seth H. Whiteley an insurance philanthropst OF
Philadelphia, fathered plan to insure the police
of the city on the group plan. The Polio Bene-
hciary association fell for it, AT the end OF eleven
months Whitley admits having cleaned up $40
5s47S on an original investment Of $4,000 The
state insurance commissioner after hearing
Whteley's admission and confirming it, pro-
nounced the scheme Expensive and suspicious
phanthrophy" Police comment is limited to
one word, "Stung."
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-13

Omaha, Dec ITO the Editor of
The Bee: The talk about changes in
the primary law leads me to make
few remarks about that law,
plead guilty to having been an ad-
vocate of a primary law, but having
watched its operation through the de-
Vious, various and sometimes fantas-
tic phases l am ready to say Il have
sinned' and promise never again to
open my mouth in approval of a di-
rect primary law.
One Of the ridiculous features of
our present law is that requiring in
presidential years all nominations to
be made in April, at a time when we
are usually having our most disagree
able weather and when the average
citizen is thinking more about how
he can get that last ton of coal and
If he can get along with his old over
coat than he is of whom he would pre-
fer to vote for next November for the
various Offices. This also subjects the
successful candidates to seven months
Of leg-pulling and pan-handling from
all the unkempt mob of men with I'm
f1uence."
Another abominable feature (now
happily done away With was the open
primary, and that fortunately was
short lived, but 1t showed what freak
ish acts could be performed by peo-
pie who said they wanted to purify
politics.
1t was claimed that the primary
law would lessen the expense, but the
statements Of candidates expenses
shows that claim has been cast into
the discard.
The expense of the primary being
thrown upon counties is another of
my objections. / wonder how many
or Omaha's well-informed citizens
know that the cost of the primary
election last April to Douglas county
was $17,61612.
The general election, of course, we
must have and the expense must be
borne by the public, but we have that
now only every even numbered year,
which is a little relief all round, but
now we have another sweet-scented
thing called the referendum" which
we have just gone through with, and
which will cost Omaha about Sc, 900
TO answer a simple question, upon
which l would venture a guess that
a good percentage of those who
signed the petitions could not now
say what it was for I have always
refused to sign any petition for any
tnlng under the initiative and refer
endum and shall continue to refuse,
for l am dead ag1n them" and have
always been. ~
Another objection is that 1t per-
mits a minority to nominate, as has
been shown here. II I remember
rightly. not long ago seventy-three
candidates sought twelve places. Now
II compact minority of one-fourth Of
the voters had selected twelve candi-
dates and the others had divided their
votes nearly equalys among the other
sixty one. the twelve would have been
nominated. although they might not
any of them have majority.
Perhaps my strongest objection liz
that the primary law completely de-
stroys party organization. In the old
times we had our vigorous ward and
county organizations and our ward
meetings were full of spirit and men
were known for the faith that was in
them. But 1t has become very fashion,
able with many people to- speak of
themselves as an Independent voter.
A plague upon the independent voter!
| would rather have a sturdy oppo-
nent than lukewarm friend. would
quote John the Revelator when he
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-13
Timely Jottings and Reminders.

Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of
the president, Is to be the presiding
officer at the first afternoon session
OF the American Civic association,
which is scheduled to open its annual
convention in Washington today.
The American National Red Cross
society, of which Woodrow Wilson is
the honorary president and William
H. Taft the chairman, Is to hold Its
twelfth annual meeting today in Wash
ington.
Governors, former governors and
governors elect from more than half
the states of the union are expected
to arrive In Washington today In an
ticipation of the opening of the annual
conference Of their national organi-
cation.
Chicago's eighth annual poultry
show, one of the largest exhibitions
Of its kind In the middle west will
open in the Coliseum in that city to-
day and continue until December IS,
Approximately 2,700 miners en-
ployed by independent companies in
the iron fields of Wisconsin, Michi-
gan and Minnesota will go to work to-
day under a new schedule, which pro-
vides for q 10 per cent increase in
wages.
Clerical and lay representatives Of
the Episcopal church are expected to
gather In New York today from vari-
Gus parts of the country to attend the
conservation Of Rev. Hugh Latimer
Burleson as bishop of the Protestant
Episcopal diocese of South Dakota.
The ceremony is to be performed to-
morrow in the Cathedral of St. John
the Divine.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-13
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.

Mr.. Dewey has on exhibition at his
store water color portrait Of his
daughter. executed in Japan, on some
odd crepe-like fabric. The likeness is
excellent and shows that the Japan
csc have some idea of art notwith-
standing the queer vases they send
over here.
John Schill of this city has invented
an automatic car-coupier, which is at
tracing favorable attention from the
railroads in this part of the country
The Bee is pleased to acknowledge
receipt Of an elegant basket of flow
ers from Jay Kelsey, the newly-estab-
lished florist at 1902 Dodge II this
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-13

II is difficult to reconcile the wealth making
possibilities Of the drug business with the Assmsn
theory that sidelines are needed to make ends
meet, Until the contrary is shown il Is prefer
able to believe that close confinement spurred
the desire for outdoor exercise. Easy money
was incidental