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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29
The Trouble With the Climate.

Sunspots. electric disturbances, the war in En-
rope, and all similar influences are discarded by
the scientific sharps who dominate the weather
bureau at Washington, for they have located the
Bermuda high and, therefore, the cause Of all
the trouble we have been having with our eli
mate lately. This, in simple words, is an unusual
accumulation Of air in the vicinity of the West
Indies, following mood Of the atmosphere, on
which all weather depends, and which is the most
unstable OF the elements. About the only conso-
aton that can be gained from the knowledge is
that the law OF compensation must work, and the
Bermuda high must submit to such distribution
as will relieve the low pressure over the great cen.
trail portion Of the United States, which has been
SO generously scorched while the high" was de-
veloping. Along with this distribution will come
rains, and some of them will very likely come to
the corn fields that now need moisture.
The exasperating fact remains that, while man
can tell why these high" and low" spots occur
he can never tell when nor where Nor can he
til with any exaetitude just what will happen
when the great mass Of heaped-up atmosphere
that makes high gets topheavy and tumbles over
into the depression that is mapped ~ low. II
he knew these two things, the job OF forecasting
the weather would be veritable cinch.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29
EDITORIAL SNAPSHOTS.

Boston Transcript: All an irreconcilable
moose can see in harmony in the harm.
Brooklyn Eagle: During forty years of
republican rule no shark ever invaded New
! York waters. Down with Wilson.
Boston Transcript: Maybe those smart
sharks followed the German submarine over
in the expectation Of another Lusitania Incl
dent. -'v ..r
New York World: 1t is likely that Thomas
Mott Osborne is the only man who has had
cause to regard a second term at Sing Sing
with satisfaction.
Cincinnati Times-Star; 1t Is a dull day in
England when there Is not found some new
way in which David Lloyd-George may save
the British empire. ~
Boston Transcript: Country boarding
house keepers are wondering now II those
city boarders going to try to enforce
this new rural-credits law.
Boston Transcript: Mexico and Mr.. Will
son having formally considered the dispute
settled. that leaves only 900 Ameri-
cans still to pass upon the matter.
Kansas City Journal: Farmers are patri-
otto. but sending their boys as militismen
on wid-goose chase to Mexico right in
harvesting time is not likely to make many
farm votes for Mr.. Wilson.
New York Tribune: The four leading
batsmen Of base ball come from Georgia,
Virginia, South Carolina and Texas. The era
Of reconstruction is evidently over. The
carpetbaggers have given way to the three
baesers for good
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29
AROUND THE CITIES.

Elkhart. Ind. with four-fifths of its
dwelling houses equipped with electricity,
lays claim to the title Of ''the electric CITY,"
Baltimore Is advertising its Industrial i'm
portance by the distribution of . million
pamphlets entitled pied Pipers Of Pros
perity."
Boston is exhibiting In the city parks
and Fairgrounds a series Of free motion
pictures designated to teach hygiene and
clean living.
The United States sold more agricultural
implements and accessories In Venezuela
in the first six months Of 1915 than In any
other entire year.
The tallest apartment house in New York
City will soon rise on Fifty ninth street.
Twenty-one floors, no less. Cost Of quar-
tiers will rise with the elevators.
Binghamton. N. Y, is building u $780,
000-gallon reservoir, which Is to be en-
tirely rooted over with concrete, so that
the water supply will be protected from
contamination Mt all times.
The Historical society Of Delaware pro-
poses to buy the old Wilmington city hall.
built in 1898. restore it to it's original
shape and present 1t to the city on the
condition that 1t shall be preserved.
An American inventor has patented \
lHe-saving suit for aeronauts involving a
cushioned cap and back and front pads for
the body. communicating SO that they can be
blown up by tube extending to the mouth
Of the aviator. communicating pads being
provided on opposite sides Of the legs and
yielding, spring-supported shoes being car
ried on the feet below the waist, so that in
falling the person will fall feet foremost
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29

Omahas claims for recognition as proper To-
cation for farm loan bank under the new law,
are ideally supported Members Of the newly
named board suggest the appropriate qualification
for location is proximity to farm region center.
regardless of size of the community. And in this
resides the advantage as we'll as the danger to
Omaha's pretensions.
Omaha is the center of the richest agricultural
region in the world. circle having radius o.
$50 miles, with Omaha for its center will en-
close an area that annually sends to market more
OF the products of the soil than any other SINH
larly sized area in the world This is not guess
work, but is based on facts. Omaha is the nat
ural market for this wonderful region, and is
surely coming into its own, in spite OF efforts Of
communities located around the edges of the rich
est farm region the sun shines on. This is the
advantage of location
The danger that Omaha faces is in the person.
fort to dissemble his personal prejudice against
this city when the federal reserve banks were being
located. The farm loan board has on it one
Sioux City man, and former resident OF Sioux
City; and one man from Great Bend, Kan. This
accounts for four OF the five members OF the
board as it stands, who will not ordinarily be
especially favorable to Omaha's selection.
Only ignorance Of the facts can prevent this
city from getting the bank if proximity to the
farmer is to be the determining factor. Expert
ence with the location Of the federal reserve banks
shows that natural advantages do not always
count in these matters.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29
People and Events

A full grown jay from Oregon who was
trimmed in fake horse race at Gary, Ind. blew
into Aurora, ILL.,, all doled up in stage rustic
fashion seeking the chief steerer A bunch Of
whiskers stuck out from his chin, hay dust decked
his hair, and wisp OF timothy kept his teeth in
action. His mission proved failure because the
cops saw him FIRST.
The "Newsboy Of Newark came back to the
Jersey town last week, after an absence of eight.
cen years, and was the guest Of honor at several
social functions, cordial welcomes and presenta-
ton Of a gold-banded gayel from former newsies
The boy who came back in the man is now His
Honor Samuel H. Silbert, Judge Of the municipal
court Of Cleveland.
Miss Edith H. Kitching the recluse maid of
Greenwich village which Is ii New York City,
thinks better Of the tainted money of her uncle,
and intends to accept, with due mental reserva-
don, bequest of $l264o8 The lady in the case
is classed a. Village philosopher" but, even
so easy money and philosophy are capable Of
team work IN pinch.
The high cost Of living has lost its terrors
for dentist ct Youngstown, o. He has passed the
twentieth day Of his annual fast, has lost all de-
sire for food and expects to pass his best record
a forty-fve days. The dentist ID fine specimen
~ tlin and bones. and u improving in that line
every Aay. II the coroner doesn't get him, luck
hAs deserted his shop.
Political scoffers in Texas loudly assert that
Congressman Cyclone Davis. while preaching the
upliff Of the oppressed, skillfully maintains his
reach On The resources Of the job for the uplift
If ~ kGniiy Cyclones son," reports Wash
i4StoN eofKespondent, serves as his secretary.
HE Il young man about Dix and half feet
h.gh and he calls his daddy Pepper
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29
The Death Toll Of Alcohol.

Omaha, July 28.-Tto the Editor Of The
Bee: Your Letter Box" has become the
tail that flies the kite. It deals only In
living issues. in which all people are deeply
interested indeed 1t has become one of the
most interesting departments of your valu-
able paper. That column reflects public
sentiment as no other department can; it
throws light from all angles on local issues
and helps to reach correct decisions. 1t is a
school of politics and morals and Is really
4 benefaction to the community.
Mr.. High has been represented as over
stating the deaths from alcohol In placing
1t at $1,000 per annum, Great heavensl It
was estimated at 100000 forty years ago
Mr.. High is certainly under the mark. The
fact Is, there are no reliable statistics-not
even the government's-on deaths caused by
alcohol. In the nature of the case, there
cannot be; indirect deaths are never traced,
and direct ones are rarely reported. Thirty
years ago l sat in the office of the leading
physician Of St. Paul. MINI. An undertaken
stepped in and required a certificate of the
cause Of death. The physician seized a
blank and promptly wrote, "Pneumonia."
When the undertaken had gone he said,
"the man actually died Of pneumonia, but it
was brought on by alcoholism"
why did you not say so7"
DO you suppose I'd be fool enough to
do that3"
Hoboes and social nobodies are correctly
reported, when dying from alcoholism, but
people Of social standing, never.
The same Is true of accidents and in fatal
surgical operations, admissions to hospitals,
asylums. prisons, poor houses, homicides.
suicides.
Three average citizens were killed at 10
q. m. in the heart of this city two years ago,
and nobody knows to this day who killed
them. If the police had asked certain sa-
loon keepers. they would have found not
who. but what killed them. as
Mr.. High is too low in his estimate of
deaths from alcohol. The estimate Of prison
wardens, superintendents Of asylums, Judges
and physicians is that is per cent of deaths
must be attributed directly or indirectly to
alcohol.
It will require a million more lives and
billions more of dollars to conquer the CEN
trail powers than It would have required il
the archbishop of Canterbury and his Clergy
had given up their toddy as their king and
cabinet requested. The drive, now being
made. would have been made year sooner,
Il the inefficiency of alcohol had not delayed
preparation. Alcohol wastes men and money.
..- D. G, JOHN
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29
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Omaha, July 2s.-To the Editor of The
Bee: The increase of valuation, which 10
naturally followed by raise in assessment
on the unmproved city lots in Omaha of IS
per cent, or about 25 per cent more than
the increase on improved lots, Is nothing
more or less than an outrageous socialistic
measure. 1t Is. in fact. one of the funda-
mental principles of sociaism-the viper
eating at the heart Of the nation. admit
that there are lots and tracts of land that
are lying vacant, and in this condition are
a drawback to the surrounding property and
the city as a whole; but does our value-wise
assessor the who wears out his precious
sole leather personally sizing up every piece
of real estate in the county, know that there
are vacant lots in the original city owned by
people who can neither sell them on ac-
count Of the depreciation of property in
their immediate vicinity, or build upon them
because they have not the means to do so:
nor can some of them procure the means.
Even those that are in a position to raise
the money with which to build, cannot build
for the very good reason that they can find
no tenant for whom to build. II he is aware
of these facts he does not seem to give them
the least consideration. Some of these lots
are valued at from IS to so per cent more
than the price that they have been, and are
Hu" peiHB OHeTeu LOT bhle ht. IL Is q 1acI
and l have the proof.
Now, Mr.. Editor, just a request for
small correction: To my letter of the 9Th
inst. published in the Letter Box" of
July 10. under your most appropriate title.
Likes and Dislikes Of a Reader" the limo
type (see, am throwing the whole blame
on the machinei It won't care), mis-
spelled the writer's signature.
Ny name should read Wslund, not Wah-
rend.
It will most likely make no difference
whatever to the most of The Bees readers
whether the writer's name is Jim or Jack.
but as l touched upon the very vital ques-
ton, that of the coming prohibition cam
paign. would like to have the correction
made by the publication of this letter, II for
nothing else, for the benefit of your "prohib"
readers whom trust are not more numerous
than the pesky musca domestica has been
so far this torrid summer.
A. H. WALUND.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29
SEEING AMERICA FIRST.

F. H. Beach in Los Angeles Tlmes.
At last the train had left the town.
And comfortably I'd settled down
To watch the rolling hills slip past-
To see my native land at last!
OF giant cows saw herd,
Each one OF which did bear word: ,.
And each was trained to stand twould
seem, ,,
To let me read: Use Dewdrop Cream"
Beside a cow, a stool, and on It
maid who blushed beneath her bonnet;
| wondered why she blushed, forsooth,
Until l saw the cause! A youth!
Full thirty feet his proud form rose,
His ankles clad In silken hose,
Above which doomed his wind-swept knees,
And, horrors! naught but D. B. V'sl
I saw a pickle green and thin,
With the profile of Zeppelln
Twas but one of fifty -seven
That botted out and soured heaven
saw a Durham he-cow snort
Besides q towering flask of port;
A skidless tire toppled the hills;
The wales were pink with Leacham's pillA
saw girl In lingerie,
pen the size of redwood tree
Colossus in a dollar shirt.
shoe SO big 1t couldn't hurt!
The evening shadows fell at last,
And still the curious world sped past;
TIL the sun was quenched by a bottle Of
Scotch,
All! the landscape is an open book,
Wherein all who ride may look.
Go FORTH l would to all advise,
And see America-advertise!
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29

when YOU put your hand in your pocket
thought for a moment you were going 10
give me your bill.-Puck.
glow did you find your dinner when you
came home late last night =
Pretty good. except the course my VIE
introduced in the bill of fare OF tongue
ssrved with hard sauce Baltimore Amert-
can.
patience-Have you seen Peggy's new
suit? . 49, u,s,,,,,o,. ,,.
anything? , 4. .o,vo,r.,.
Statesman.
you shall not marry the cuo' ana that
! settles il" ~ vo,r. H.. uo,,d
die for me-" 49,, Tall h,,,
IN i,smre his life In your favor and 90
ahead,"-Louisville Courier-Journal
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29
WEAR Mr.. kABlesE<
WHEN I IOLb M FANcE THAT
7 pEcibEb 10 SEW ny OWN
RoUssEAu, NE LOOKED SORT
or DolNNcAsI - WHIT CAV the
REASON BE?
MsSBE NE. THINKS WHEN YOU
CIR InR0UGN WITH fovR
TPnUSsEAV, Ovu DECIDE 70
| MAKE HIS Fuu-RESs sur!

Mrs Blueblood-We dined al fresco last
evening.
Mrs Newrich--I think I've met him some
where. Is his first name Albert or Alfred?
Boston Transcript
THE odor of gasoline seems to annoy
you"
1T does" said Mr. Chuggins. 1.-THE stuff
costs much that I hate to think of the
waste In evaporation. washing Star
80 you can read the future?"
Yes. For 50 I'll tell you exactly what's
coming to you"
"Pd rather put the 50 in bank. Then I'd
know that have that much coming to me-"
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Classy, who thinks such a lot of himself,
had the nerve to tell me yesterday that he
had such an unselfsh way of thinking about
others even in matters that were his own
concern"
IT guess that's true. He lost half his joy
in being accepted for his regret in thinking
what some other girl was losing.'-Balti-
more American.
Snagg--I think I'll try that new dentist;
he adyertises painless filling.
Wag-My boy, about the only place where
you can get painless filing Is in a restaurant.
Chicago Post
Specialist-Your heart is acting rather ir-
regularly. Is there anything worrying you?
Patient-Not particularly. Only just now
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29
The President's Variable Mind.

President Wilson's public advocacy Of the Kea.
ting child labor bill chiefly serves to draw atten-
ton to the fact that very short time ago he
expressed his earnest opposition to this measure
Conditions which have arisen in the last few
weeks have apparently convinced him that he
made serious blunder in his FIRST stand on the
BILL and he now hurries to its support in the wake
Of the popular demand that II be made law.
Maybe he has received assurances from the south
ern cotton barons that he will get the vote Of the
solid south regardless and that they will take
their chances on evadjlg the law, leaving him
free to pretend to the LABOR vote OF the north that
he has been friendly all the time.
This is not the FIRST time the president has
given proof that he does not know just where his
single track mind is leading him. He has re-
versed himself on the Philippine question; on the
matter Of national defense he has made COM
plete about-face movement his off -and-on policy
with Mexico has witnessed so many changes and
variations that it has come to be like the snake
described in the "Bigelow Papers," Of which the
observer was unable to say Il it was going south
or coming back" He changed his mind with re.
gard to free trade, on the tariff commission and
on other important issues Not the least Of these
is the matter Of running for second term 4
His fellow countrymen have welcomed some Of
these reversals, and eheerfully accord to Mr. vii.
son the right to change his mind as often a. he
likes. But the voters have minds of their own
and will soon let him know what they think Of !
president who Is consistent only in his inconsst.
ency
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29

Expert economists forcefuliy urge that invis-
ible fortunes which rarely contribute to the sup
port Of government should be pinched for back
taxes when the estates reach probate courts.
Hetty Green's fortune Of $iO0,000000 offers a
shining opportunity to give the view practical
test.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29
Storyette Of the Day.

Storyette Of the Day.
The wife Of Dorchester man who had the
traditional failing-he forgot to mail letters-has
before the breakfast hour-which is compare
lively late, One morning she said to her hus-
band:
did you have any mail this morning; dear?"
Only circular" he answered as he bit into
fne brown slice Of toast.
Him. said wife by the way, did you mail
the letters gave you yesterday"
Sure I did" was the righteously indignant
reply.
well, answered wife with an eloquent smile.
sits funny, then, you had no letters this morning,
because ono OF those | gave you to mail was adj
dressed to you--just as sort OF key."-Boston
Herald
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29

What the deal was by which the senator was
induced to permit the nomination Of Brother-in-
law Tommy Allen to be reported for con6rma-
ton as United States district attorney Is not dis
closed, but the consideration will PROBABLY be
known in due time
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29

The hot wave seems to have affected the bat
ting eyes Of the Omaha base ball team most
seriously. No other hypothesis will serve to ex-
plain their resent conduct At Wichita.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29

Another bank in Nebraska has de-nationalized
and taken out state charter and the last report
shows loss Of more than forty to the national
banking system throughout the country, so the
reason must Be sought not so much in the attrac-
tons Of the state law as in the new burdens or
Objectionable features which the present admin
istration has put into the national Law.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29
Eclipse of Moon Tonight-Not Visible Here.

Tonight's eclipse OF the moon will not be Wis
ble in the United States, the central line being in
the southern Pacific, crossing the islands of Aus
tralia and Tasmania. 1t will be annular eclipse,
that is an observer in the central line will see the
moon projected on the sun, leaving an uneclipsed
ring around it.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29

Cleveland Is called upon to sustain an addi-
tional calamity in the form OF advance on cost Of
ice to the consumer Dread OF ice shortage Is
given as the excuse, but the people who feel the
gouge will hardly be content to let It go with that
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29

store on Farnam street, which consists of a
basket on wire running from each department
to the cashiers desk. 1t is the only continuance
Of its kind west of the Mississippi.
A newspaper from Queenstown, ireland, ad-
dressed to John Jenkins, city boiler Inspector,
has just been recovered from the sea, having
been in the ocean from the sinking of the steamer
Oregon, March IA, to July T. 1t is quite relic
and is on exhibition in the corner window of
Kelly Stiger & Co.'S store.
c. D. Clark, brother of D.. o. Clark OF this
city, is here from Kearney, where he practices
law, to visit his brother.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29

1t was too hot to work in the Chicago rolling
mills yesterday, and too hot to fight in the Bel
sian trenches, but no one has heard Of the ice
man laying off.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29
One Year Ago Today in the War.

Won Mackensen broke the Russian line on
Lublin- Cholm railway.
German empress left for Poland presumably
for triumphal entry into Polish capital.
Washington instructed Ambassador Gerard to
present claim for American steamship Leelanaw
to Germany.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29

Y II ID al very plain now that Brother Gurney's
objectionable mistake was in not first submitting
his republican convention speech to the editor Of
the local democratic organ for blue penciling and
rewriting to suit the democrats
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29

This, too. shall pass" wrote the Indian archi-
,sct on his completed temple, and thereby planted
root Of hope for the mortals Of today, who are
At the mercy Of the climate
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29
GRINS AND ORGANS.

Il tell you. my friends" said the campaign
orator. 'the laborlng classes are the back
bone of the country"
That's right" responded a man in the
gallery. I'VE have to support the whole
blame shooting match."-Washingto Star.
ITS hard to be q hero to your own
daughter"
What's the matter nowf"
MY child looked me over this morning
and said: Pa, ma surely must have married
you for your CONGRATULATIONS Ledger.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29

Great Bend, Kan, was good place to study
the farm loan industry twenty-five years ago. Not
a great deal Of farming, but plenty Of loaning
went on in that vicinity then.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29

The grand total Of preparedness appropriations
by congress on the last footing was $6Ss,343,-
0i7.27--and don't forget the 81 cents.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29

But the arguments are all the very identical
ones on which Omaha lost the federal reserve
bank because our democratic senator was then in
50 bad that every boost Of his was knock
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29
Today In History.

l8l2-British were repulsed in their attack on
Sackett's harbor.
1846-An American force under Colonel John
c. Fremont occupied San Diego, Cal.
l848-Abortve instruction of w. Smith
O'Brien in ireland.
l8s6-Robert Schumann, the great composer
June 8, 1910.
l859-Convention at Wyandotte adopted a
constitution for the state of Kansas.
l8o6-An armistice was agreed upon in the
war between Austria and Italy.
1870-Napoeon III assumed command OF the
French army at Metz.
1874 convention met at Jackson to pro-
mote the formation of new state out of western
Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi.
lH8-Marquis of Lorne was appointed COVER
nor-general Of Canada. ,
l893-German emperor arrived at Cowes on
visit to Queen Victoria.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-29
[TODAY]
Thought Nugget for the Day.

For whatever men say in their blindness,
And spite Of the fancies of youth,
There is nothing so kingly as kindness,
And nothing so royal as truth
Lee