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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25

Americas contribution to the mechanism Of
war leaps to higher levels by the surprising feats
OF the armored tractor on the west front. Its
identity as an American invention seems fairly
established, although the makers are not respons-
ible for the use to which it is put. Designed for
such peaceful pursuits as blowing uneven ground
tearing up trees or drawing trains of vehicles
its unique mode of propulsion made it peculiarly
adaptable to shell-torn country, and its trans
formation into an armored juggernaut supplied
a long-felt want
The tractor is the latest of many American
inventions which are playing leading part in
the titanic struggle The roster embraces atero-
planes, the eyes and scouts Of modern. armies;
the submarine, conceded to be the terror of the
seas, and the telephone, which is mighty factor
in strategy and generalshp. Electric light BAN
ishes much Of the gloom Of the trenches dug by
American trench diggers, and American barbed
wire blocked innumerable attacks until special
artillery blew II off the earth. American weap-
ons are in use to some extent on both sides
The Gathmann field piece and shell, originally re-
jected by United States ordnance officers, was
snapped up by Germany and was used extensively
at the beginning of the war. A similar fate be-
fell the Lewis machine gun at home, yet II has
become the chief weapon Of it's kind in use by
the British forces.
In these and many other ways American in
genuity and resources have revolutionized the
conduct Of war and vastly increased the ma
chncry Of destruction.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25

making a total of $3.50, less $3.50 dis
count for three pages of ordinary
matter, which requires less
than one hours work at the court
house. About a yey ago, | had an
abstract extended and at the rate then
paid, this bill would have been $4.S0.
When complained to the abstractor,
he answers me by saying that he and
his fellow abstractors have raised the
price.
Upon further inquiry ! learn that
sometime ago an attempt was made
by some of the leading abstractors OF
Omaha to form a corporation for the
purpose of avoiding competition and
raising the price of abstracts. This
failed. but an agreement
was entered into between the alb
stractors which, as far as the public
is concerned, has had the same erect.
and as result the price which the
public now is obliged to pay for alb
stract work has been raised 70 per
cent and 40 per cent.
Is not this matter which the
county attorney ought to look into? II
not, Is 1t not about time that we ser
iously consider the matter Of introduc-
ing the Torrens system!
A. MORRISON.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25
Recurrence Of wildea. Banking.

The epidemic Of private bank wrecking in Chi
cago halts for a moment with record too long
and painful to list. A dozen were swept on the
rocks within three months Nothing like 1t has
happened since the panic OF 1898 cycloned the
banks OF the country In some Of its features the
epidemic resembles the era Of wildcat banking,
when bankers multiplied as rapidly as mushroom
towns and flooded their neighborhoods with pa
per promises to pay. Even in those days the be-
ginnings Of state supervision were evident in re-
quiring legislative charters for banks Through
out the three-score years since the wildcatters
stripped the middle west. the state of Illinois,
progressive in other ways, stood still and stag
mated, and permitted private bankers to beat un-
known thousands of depositors out Of their money.
Hardly any business venture in Illinois is less
handicapped in starting than private bank. Usu-
ally the word bank conveys to the average person
the idea that owners possess cash capital as well
as practical experience in the banking line. Be-
sides these primary requisites popular belief as
surnes that the government in some way insures
its reliability. None Of these essentials are looked
into or required by the state. All that is needed
to launch private bank in Illinois are the out
side sign the inside fixtures and the owners front
aglow with enthusiasm for other peoples money.
One Of the recent banker failures graduated from
a scalping ticket Office, ANOTHER from smithys
forge and third leaped from a railroad section
hand to the mahogany and then into the lake to
escape the rage Of duped depostors
Now the state shows signs Of coming out of
its Rip Van Wrinkle sleep Bank regulation has
become a state issue and legislative candidates
are pledging themselves to enact laws which will
end gross public scandal and make swindling
cloaked as banking pententiary offense.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25
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Save the Over. Worked Horse.

Omaha, Sept. 23.-To the Editor Of
The Bee: Should the willing, faith
full horse strain and tug his useful
life away when it could so easily be
avoided?" | asked myself that ques-
ton after watching, last evening be-
tween $50 and 6 O'Clock heavy
heaped-up coal wagon, belonging to
one of our local coal companies, being
hauled up the gradual slope from
Fifteenth to Sixteenth on Harvey by
two worn out horses who, to begin
with, had not even the frames OF work
horses and who had become SO at
tenuated that it seemed as II they
would break every poor. lean apology
for a muscle in their willing, faithful
bodies. Half way up. one of the poor
creatures slipped in one of the water
filed holes in our city pavement and
fell with all his weight upon his
straining bony knees. He struggled
to his feet and, as matter of course,
kept on Juggling in an almost impos-
sible effort to stir the heavy load. At
last, after stumbling and slipping
against each other, the horses reached
the rough cobble stones between the
car tracks and, fastening their hoofs
there, they managed to drag the heavy
load up the hill. Should these poor,
thin, worn-out beasts be used to do
the work that is only fit for strong,
heavy, muscular work horses? At
least, il they are used for that purpose,
why Is not an extra horse put on to
pull load of this kind up this hill.
and others where the strain is so
great on mans faithful friend-the
horse? A. G.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25
The Presidents Plea In Avoidance.

President Wilson's answer to the attacks on
his wage increase force bill is what the lawyers
would call plea in avoidance" Instead OF
defense OF the measure as he drove it through
congress while the labor leaders held the stop
watch he endeavors to befog the issue by pre-
tending that it is law for an eight-hour work
day. THE first thing told both sides before
requested their opinion he declares, was that
| stood for the eight-hour day. believe in the
cight-hour day because man does better work
within eight hours than he does within more
extended day. And, therefore stated to those
gentlemen OF both sides at the very beginning
that the eight-hour day ought to be conceded"
But the president knows, and no one who has
read the text will deny that not one word written
on the statute books aims to cut the working day
OF trainman by an hour or by minute. The
law itself does not purport to establish an eight
hour day but merely to give for eight hours the
pay formerly earned by ten hours work, with
overtime pay beginning at the end of eight hours.
1t is wage increase law pure and simple. It
does not carry even the usual penalty as deter
rent against overtime of time-and-a-haf wages for
the excess hours. In word, it merely raises the
wages OF brotherhood members working more
than eight hours without changing the number
of hours particle.
Another point President Wilson carefully evades
is the compromise made by the law, with his con-
sent with the principle Of an eight-hour wage basis
The senate amendment excepting from the opera
ton of the law employees Of interstate transporta-
ton companies with mileage Of less than one
hundred miles, or operating interurban electric
roads, produces this situation: The fireman who
brings train Of live stock into Omaha, for ex-
ample Is entitled, on principle and by the require
ments OF humanitarianism, as the president puts
It, to have overtime pay after eight hours, but
the fireman who takes over the train for the
Union Stock Yards company is entitled to no
overtime no matter how long he works, because
he works for road less than 100 miles long. By
the same compromise with the principle of the
eight-hour wage basis, humanitarianism requires
the locomotive fireman who crosses the Union
Pacific bridge to get overtime after eight hours
but the motorman who crosses another bridge
a thousand yards away, although employed by
a street railway company, likewise subject to the
interstate commerce law, is left to work for the
same old hour rate for as many hours as he is
kept agong.
The wage increase law not only does not estab-
fish an eight-hour day for any one but in itself
violates the principle it Is supposed to embody
and all the president says in his explanation
merely sidesteps the point.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25
People and Events

The Cape Cod cranberry crop is nearly har-
vested and promises to yield 10000 barrels. Re-
ports from turkeydom are equally appetizing and
will remain so until the price tag is visible.
lust as Peoria adjusts its tank" laurels Pha-
delphia reaches for the CORY wreath by claiming
patent rights to superior saughterhouse
weapon 1t is an aeroplane bomb of the most
destructive variety, timed to explode in the air
and wipe out all living objects within a radius
of 200 feet Uncle Sam secures use of the new
killer, consequently foreigners must be content
with the devices in stock.
The commissioner of weights and measures OF
New York City urges housewives to use their
scales to test every article purchased by weight
There Is money in it. The commissioner points
out that one Of the bakers who said he could
afford to put more than twice as much bread into
a l0-cent loaf as in Scent loaf was found to be
selling a twelve-ounce loaf for cents and only
twenty ounces for 10 cents. By using the kitchen
scales this system Of scaling weight will quickly
reveal itself.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25
The Incredible

For these thrilling days we need new prov
erb--"It is the incredible that happens"
Two prosperous citizens from north shore
community discussed the story Of the new British
tanks" as they travelled loopward on a sub
urban train. They reached the conclusion that
it was an extravagant fairy tale, concocted by
mendacious newspaper men in order to fill space
Stupid business" said one, ito try to put over
such ridiculous stuff" "Yes," said the other,
"but the papers must have something to print"
With 5000 miles Of battle line popping it
never before; presidential campaign in full
swing; an epidemic of failure among private
banks; Villa on the march in Mexico, and the
federal authorities running down society" black
mailers. the newspapers have not been sorely
tempted. to employ invention lately.
The incredible has been happening under the
noses Of these good citizens for years. The in
credible fight of man through the air has been
demonstrated for them by an incredible hydro
aeroplane cruising back and forth over their pri-
vate littoral The incredible wireless has shocked
their credulity many time with stories from
overseas--hard to believe, but true. The incred-
ible 42scentimeter guns Of the Germans have de-
stroyed the indestructible The European war it.
self was Of all things the most incredible in the
early. peaceful, Wilson-Bryan summer Of two
years ago.
That crawling gun turret should be con-
structed, armored to resist rife and machine-gun
FIRE, and capable Of advancing over shell-pitted
battlefield, crushing ruined masonry, barbed-wire
barbados and other obstacles, is minor marvel
compared with the aeroplane. why should it
be thought thing incredibler as the Apostle
Paul exclaimed about much less materialistic
miracle.
We shall see greater wonders than these. Peo-
pie who keep their credulity in cotton wool had
better take il out and exercise it. Harder tests
rnu,inc
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25

The worm is turning and mere man Is getting
show for his coin. Hitherto, courts held to the
rule that alimony ceased on the remarriage Of
the divorced wife. An Iowa court extends the
rule in another direction by relieving divorced
husband of the alimony penalty on his remar-
riage. Should this novel precedent stand the
acid test Of the high court, almony on the in
stallment plan will cease to be a joymaker in
the Hawkeye state.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25
0elR Mr., KABlBsEI
WAN IS YOUR 1nA Of NJ
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Obnoxious Suitor-Angling, Ell? And
have you caught a fish YETI
Dolly-Only one-and he looked so much
like you that threw him backl-Puck.
Here's a millionaire says rich men soon
get tired Of riding in limousines."
II don't notice that any Of them are talk
ing measure to recuperate from that special
Observation-Disclosures American.
Sillicus--In trying to please . woman
what Is the first thing to do?
Cynicus-Make fool Of yourself over her.
Judge.
Diner-see here, waiter this water isn't
At to drink; it's discolored.
Walter 0ifting glass and replacing it,
Oh no. sir, the waters perfectly all right;
It's only the glass what's dirty.--Boston
Transcript
while out west did you see many cow
boys7"
Troops of them"
But I thought barbed-wire fences had
largely displaced cowboys in the cattle
country"
~ wasn't in the cattle country. WIS.,
tied motion-picture city."-Birmingham
Age-Herald
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25

requires only gentle shake to MARBLE
the latest fashionable airs. Mrs. Nat
finger was presented with a beautiful
brass clock. The presentation speech
was made by Councilman Thomas
Daley
Jailer Miller Of the county Jail has
left for Minneapolis, where he will tes-
tify in the suit against James Kelley.
The Lake school is completed and
will open there Monday, the 9th.
Chief Galligan Of the fire depart
ment has left for five-days' trip to
Chicago, during which he will make
arrangements for the caps and other
articles of uniform for, the use Of the
department.
Walter Q. Gresham, formerly post
master general Of the United States,
Is in the city visiting A. U. Wyman,
late treasurer of the Unit States and
now president Of the Omaha Loan and
Trust company.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.

Mr.. Belle Isle, proprietor of the
Omaha employment bureau, on Six
teenth street, has just returned from
the east with his bride, formerly Miss
X. W. Cuttings Of Drisco, Ill.
Articles of incorporation were filed
of the Omaha Toboggan and Slide
company with w. l.. Croft, e. P. Null
len, l.. C. Stephenson, A. E. Hutchiu-
son, William Banks and John Melon
aid as incorporators. The company
has capital stock Of $1,000 and pro-
poses to construct a toboggan slide
and deal in toboggan supplies.
The officers of the Omaha Mutual
Loan and Building association, OF
which Mr.. G. w. Nattinger is secre-
tary, marched to his residence and
presented him with handsome call
bell and music box combined, which
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25

1t certainly takes gall for Congressman
Stephens to introduce Senator Hitchcock with an
appeal for his reelection on the ground that
President Wilson needs staunch supporter in
the senate. AS everybody knows, the senator has
been fighting the president openly or secretly all
the time, and the president was never able to
count on his support at any stage Of the game.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25
EYES.

].
The unfrtendly eyes
OF those who gaze
Can keep my feet
In narrow ways;
Like a crawling worm
Or convict serving
A lengthy term;
They can weld strong chains
with which to fetter
But they do not make
My life any better.
II.
But the friendly eyes
with love ashine
Can fathom the depths
OF this soul of mine;
Can loosen the letters
That long have bound,
And dispense the gloom
That has gathered around;
And find my feet
Left free to tread
The path Of service
That leads ahead.
Omaha. -BAYoLL NE TRELE.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25

The deposed democratic insurance examiner,
in his comeback lets the cat out Of the bag. He
refers by name to one member of the board
whose appontee am" indicating that the pay
roll jobs parceed out as personal perquisites
to favorites regardless of experience or fitness for
the work. Another fine example Of democratic
reform "
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25
SMILING LINES.

What did your wife say about that lie
you told her?'
1.-THE one she nailed me in?"
Yes"
81 caught her in good humor, so the
lie passed off as fib."-Louisville Courier
Journal.
He-Your cousin Alice looked awfully
bored at the party last night
She-Oh, don't know
He-But do. Wasn't talking to her
nearly the whole evening-Boston Tran
script
as his word soodf"
IT don't know as to that. I've never
taken his word for anything, but I've got
four of his notes that weren't any good
Detroit Free Press
81 am not afraid that my daughter will
ever marry in haste"
why notf
cit will take at least SIX months to pre-
pare any trousseau she would consider fit
to marry in" Kansas City Journal.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25
TIODAY]


We see times burrows on anothers
brow,
And death intrenched, preparing his
assault;
How few themselves in that just mir
ror see, Anon.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25
One Year Ago Today In the War.

One Year Ago Today IN The war.
English feet bombarded German
bases in Belgium.
Austria claimed minor victories on
western front of the Tyrol.
French gained footholds at points
In German lines north Of Arras
Great allied advance in France after
; twenty days bombardment.
British attack on nearly their en-
tire front and captured German posi-
lions near Lens.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25

The latest bulletin from the judicial trenches
Of Nebraska indicate little damage from the bonn
bardment OF federal and state injunetions. The
aim is good, but the execution poor. A decision
is unlikely without material enlargement Of the
gas area
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25

The tussle between "nanana' and "watchful
waiting serves one useful end. 1t keeps New
London on the map.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25

Several hundred cities plead for land banks
score or more are bidding for an armor plate
factory. While these slices Of democratic bacon
whet the appetite, it behooves the applicants to
demonstrate their qualifications at the polls.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25

The route of the land bank board throughout
the country has been sprayed literally with the
literature of rural uplift. Politics? Perish the
thought
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25

The Old Man with the Scythe, famed as the
Grim Reaper, wisely backs off the stage and
hands the laurels Of ages to the Peoria juggernau
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25

The glorious days of autumn help the intelli.
gent citizen nightly to more cheerful view
Of the prophecies OF spellbinders.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25

Owing to the complete modern equipment o
Omaha hotels the proposed new rate card car
readily take the elevator to the roof
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25

Specialists in such matters assert that speed
ing weakens the mind" Those who have flown
over the windshield or somersaulted into ditch
reached the same conclusion, but refrained from
telling it.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25

Slowly but surely the big silver dollar re-
cedes from public view and no whisper Of pro-
test comes from the caves Of free and unlim-
ted
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25

An Eskimo just in from the Arctics offers to
tell all about the North Pole for million dol
lars. Peary and Cook might club together, buy
the secret OF the ages and end the worry Of rival
claims
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25

II Great Britains military execution equalled
its volume Of excuses the war would quickly see
its finish
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25
AUGUST CIRCULATION
55.755 Da;ly-Sunday 81 ,O48

Subscribers leaving the city temporarily
should have The Bee mailed 70 them Ad'
dress will be changed a. oftsa - required.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-25
Timely Jottings and Reminders.

Imeiy JOttlnSS anu IteInunuers.
Charles E. Hughes, republican nomi-
nee for president, is to be the chief
speaker at big rally to be held at
Dayton today to mark the formal
opening Of the republican state cam
paign in Ohio.
Men who built million horse
drawn vehicles last year will meet In
Cincinnati today for the forty-fourth
annual convention of the Carnegie
Builders National association.
Plans to protect Canadian labor
against the vast influx of foreign
workers expected after the close of
the war in Europe to be the chief
subject of consideration at the thirty
second annual session of the trades
and labor congress of Canada, meeting
today at Toronto.
The coast guard board Of life saw
ing appliances will meet in Boston
today to examine and test inventions
that have been submitted to the serv-
ice for saving life and property at
sea.
Members of the National Grain
Dealers association, representing the
trade in all sections Of the country.
will assemble in Baltimore today for
their annual convention.
Former Senator Albert ]. Beveridge
of Indiana is to be the principal out
side speaker at the annual banquet to
be given by the Middlesex club in
Boston tonight.
Chemists from all over the country
are expected in New York today for
the opening of a great convention and
exposition to be held under the aus
pices Of the American Chemical So
ciety
Delegates representing prominent
French Catholic societies throughout
the United States are to confer today
at woonsocket, R. l., on plans for the
formation of a national federation.
The claims of Indianapolis to q To-
cation for one of the farm loan banks
to be established under the rural cred
it's act will be presented today at
hearing Of the federal farm loan board
in the Indiana capital.