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Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-02
Injury in Ordinance Faotories.

In the annual report OF Brigadier General
Crozer, chief of ordnance of the United States
army. made to the secretary OF war. are found
some very impressive figures. In reporting on
the operation OF the liability act General Crozler
ssys.
1t is believed that existing law might be improved
by changing 80 that payment for time lost through
injury would commence concurrently with the loss OF
time. and that the payment should not be full pay
ment but should leave upon the employee a sufficient
part Of the burden to constitute Incentive OF
turning to his work with reasonable permanence.
This remark is called forth by the fact that
the law does not provide payment except to those
absent over fifteen days. In the government
ordnance factories during the fiscal year 1915.
1855 workmen we're injured. ESQ OF them so
seriously as TO be detained from work. or this
number 800 were back within the fifteen-day
period, leaving 265 to receive s25,152.ss in com
pensation
In six years, the total number OF employees
in the governments shops has risen from 6,62S
to 7.143. an increase OF about per cent In
that time. the number OF injuries to operatives
kas increased from 2s6 to 1856. more than 500
por cent OF an increase. The number of men de-
tanned from work by reason OF injury has risen
from 2S6 to $50, over 100 per cent increase The
number OF men off work because of injury for
twenty-five days and over has jumped from
forty-six to ia, more than $50 per cent while
tie amount paid account OF disability has
come up from sS.714.77 to s25,152.ss. or an in
crease OF more than 577 per cent In these six
years.
While It is humanity impossible to perfectly
safeguard Industrial operations and thereby
absolutely prevent mishaps. II is certain that the
increases shown In the report of General Crozier
indicate an abnormal condition. II similar In
crease were shown in any plant under private
operation. IL would speedily be investigated 1t
may be that the speeding up of workmen In gov
eminent factories is not charseable with this re-
sult. but these factories do not show increase
in output equalling the growth in injuries and
Inc consequent payment made by the government
injured employees.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-02
GasOIine as ! Revenue Irritant.

Soaring prices OF gasoline are becoming a
daily annoyance TO Z e administration as well az
the consumer In the last six months prices
have advanced steadily until an average of 8
cents a gallon has been added to the cost In the
middle west the advance almost doubles the cost
during the first half year. and those who control
the product appear confident that the pressure
from below is not exhausted. The situation at
fords little comfort for the automobile multi
tude and other users. who are Obliged TO stand
aud deliver. To the government the bull market
is embarrassing to degree and open indignation
manifests itself in two projected investigations
The governments interest In the oil market
is keener than that OF the consumer. It needs il
for tax purposes. The annual consumption Of
gasoline. estimated at 1900. OOO. 900 gallons.
taxed at the rate OF l cent gallon would ma
ierially tighten the deficit and contribute sub
siantially toward the coming defense bills AS a
source OF necessary revenue IL is highly esteemed
and commands the cordial approval OF the ad-
ministration. But so long as the producers take
"all the traffic will bear" and some over, the
government scents danger II it presses the last
straw gasoline camel
Possibly safe way will be discovered by the
Investigators. The trade commission proposes
u search for the cause II any. in the relation Of
supply 10 demand. Should that fail to produce
satisfactory results. the Department OF Justice
may be depended on to develop a combine 'in
restraint Of trade" and Brighten Il into q reduc-
ton which viii admit the federal tax without
producing shock at the ballot box.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-02
People and Events

A 10 per cent increase in the wages of
Pullman pOrters lifts the vocation to the
salary class and makes more complex
the problem OF what to do with all the
money.
A Pittsburgh woman assailed a dentist
because he would not pull the aching
tooth OK pet bulldog. and raised the
roof OF his shop by a vocal deliverance
on dental inhumanity. The purp wisely
kept his jaws closed.
A common affliction makes the victims
kin, or words to that effect tags the ef-
ficiency score OF o. D. Corley OF Dallas.
Tex. Corley il an armless inventor Of
arms for the srn1less and ig doing over
time business turning out arms for the
arnlless OF Europe
Admiral Dewey signaized his seventy
eighth birthday last Sunday by rising at
{ a m. and taking q horseback ride be-
fore breakfast. That's the class of sun
rise activity which keeps the man with
the scythe at a respectful distance.
Minnesota admirers rescue william
Sulzer from obscurity and put rim for
ward as primary aspirant for the prohi-
bition nomination for president About the
same time the drys OF New York turned
him down as a candidate for governor.
Both states are we'll within the snow belt
for political toboggans.
Andrew Massey. aged lO7 an Indiana
farmer. is dead at his home in Fayette
county. Hoosierdom is somewhat skepti-
cal about Massey's great age, an extreme
rarity in that section but is willing to
let It stand as an example OF what the
INN mill 40 fought In no
Mexican and civil wars.
Simeon Woodrow King, retired federal
judge of Chicago. at the age Of 50 Is
visiting relatives at Chester. Pa. The
judge is a remarkable man. President
Lincoln made him judge at the age of q
years and months. served on the bench
fifty-three years. and has never been sick
a day in his life. II have kept the promise
I made to Abraham Lincoln" says the
judge, "and that promise was that I
would never smoke or chew tobacco
never touch liquor and never tell an un-
truth"
A revised and enlarged edition of safety
first warnings are tackled up on the bill
boards of the Huntington division of the
Chesapeake G. Ohio railroad. They arc
intended for members of various, train
crews, forbidding them flirting with the
wives Of certain residents of Ashland.
Kenova and Huntington while running
through those cities, as the husbands OF
these women have filed numerous COM
plants with the main office of the com
pany and now threaten suits for dam
age" Limiting the vision to a poor grade
OF inanimate scenery is mighty tough on
live railroad men.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-02
GM.y.- GA:


Announcement was made OF further promotions
by the Union Paelfie W. f. GTiffths to be assistant
general freight and Sam Nash be assistant
general freight agent at Salt Lake City.
Omaha lodges OF the Independent order OF odd
Fellows have been installing officers new year
Among the names in the official roster are: John j.
Toms, j. A. Johnson G. II. Mayne. Ernest stunt, Ben
Edhom, A. J. Hunt. p. Van Nostrand F. L. Car
penter. J. Disbrow, J. b, Piper. W. j. weshargs F..
II. Rhodes G. A. Bennett and f. c. Cooper
About o'clock in the evening Farnam street
car broke loose the grade from Eighteenth SIX
teenth street and went flying down the hill. The
driver set all brakes. but the wheels slid over the
tracks like slegh-runners. gaining momentum each
instant The driver lit his head was dragged
by the flying horses for blocks Most of the
passengers jumped out and the kept going until
II left the track at the foot OF the hill and ran into
a drift.
Mrs Annie King assisted by her daughters. Miss
Lula and Lottie, entertained New Years visitors at
their residence. HOS Cass street.
The annual meeting of the Omaha club elected
these members OF the board OF directors; Arthur e
Wakeley. Free Willard. Guy c. Barton W. r. Norris,
Joseph Garneau jr; ]. c. Cowling. Lee Funkhouser.
c L. Buell. and J. f. Wilbur.
b c. Ferguson. who has been the stenographer
for Superintendent Dorrance of the Union Pacific,
returned TO his old home Virginia. where he viii
remain permanently
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-02
WHITFIELD TO A POINT.

Hardened hands are the real trade
marks OF labor
But the hen that sits on china egg is
better off.
New flannels and small boys shrink
from washing.
Take the consequences-if you are en-
titled TO them.
Gossip is always short lived. except
when properly ventilated
All the world may love a lover. but 1t
isn't every sutton that suits.
The more men talk the more they may
have to pay for the privilege.
A dentist says that it's like pulling a
tooth to get money from some people.
The heiress who marries a man to re-
form him is foolish to begin with the
sold cure.
A woman who msrries a widower Is
likely to mourn the demise OF his first
wife.
When a girl gives a young man the
marble heart he is Justified in giving her
the stony stare forever sfter.-Chicago
News.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-02
woMEN's ACTIVITIES.

Women are to he employed in the mu-
nitions factories Of Austria for the plr-
pose Of releasing the men. that they may
go TO the war. Even mothers having
children in charge will be asked to spend
half a day in the factories.
Miss Clara Dow OF Cincinnati, who, at
her death left an endowment to the Gin
cinnati symphony orchestra Of between
5000 and 81 ,OOOOOJ. was the owner of
eleven drug stores She is said to have
come from the humblest OF surroundings.
and to have had her own energy to thank
for whatever she acquired.
Prof NJ. V. o'shea of the University
Of Wisconsin says that the movies that
show a fight over a beautiful girl" are
doing more harm than good In the edu-
cation OF children. He also tells moth
ers that the tango and turkey trot are
unfit dances for children, whose efforts
In that direction should be confined to
folk dances
The Sob sisters society OF the school
OF journalism at the University Of Mis-
souri, gives as one OF tho primary reasons
for organizing the fact that the members
wish to be represented In every student
activity i'm every honor awarded in the
university and In every department or
general office to which journalism stu
dents are eligible.
Dimensions and descriptions Of the per
feet woman as approved by a New York
sculptor Height, feet inches; weight.
147 pounds color Of hair. chestnut brown;
color of eyes, hazel; waist measure. PAY
inches; bust, 36 inches; hips, a. inches;
thigh, p inches; knee, II inches; cali. Is
inches. ankle. inches. wrist, 6l5 inches;
size Of glove, So; size of shoe, 3ia
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-02
Courts Instead of War.

One attractive feature about the program Of
the World Court league. which has just been
formally launched in New York. is that it holds
10 no visionary schemes for the salvation of man
from perils OF war. The project of organizing a
tribunal on international lines, to be charged
with the duty and given the power to inquire
into the merits OF points OF international dispute
has long been mooted. Its advocates are men of
weighty influence in the world of affairs. not
readily moved by impulse, and accustomed to
carefully weigh and prudentIy determine all mat
ters before them Their advocacy of the pro-
posal that nations follow the example of in
divlduals and have recourse to rather
than force for the adjustment of differences at
least suggests that it is worthy of full consider
alton before It is finally rejected AS substi-
tute for war. an international court seems most
II asible.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-02
TABLo1DS OF SCIENCE.

The tensile strength OF a paper f1y
wheel is far greater than one made Of
iron.
A humming bird, when stripped OF it's
feathers, is no larger than a bumble-bee.
BY treating them with certain gases
a Frenchman has succeeded in keeping
eggs fresh for ten months.
Ashes obtained by burning wooden or
cotton cloth are used for healing wounds
in the European war.
To tell the difference between diamonds
or crystals and glass or paste. touch
them with your tongue. Diamonds and
crystals feel very much the colder.
Bentonite is a clay which is used to
give body and weight to paper. in the
preparation OF dressing for inflamed
hoofs OF horses. as a constituent of anti
phlogistine and an adulterant Of candies
and drugs.
In the quadrangle OF the Grand Canyon
known as Powell plateau, the visible
rocks represent in turn nearly every geo
logic age and the sequence or order Of
deposit of each series OF beds is apparent
at a glance.
A recent investigation by Professor
Haberlandt OF Germany shows that living
wood Is Of much food value. sapwood.
twigs and branches containing large
quantities OF sugar. starch and oil. with
some albumen. Soft woods contain
much oil. hard woods much starch.
Scientists differ greatly as to the earths
age, estimates varying from 100000 to
100000 years. One of the first esti-
mates was that of John Phillips. who in
1880 based on a study of stratified rock
his assertion that the figure lay some
where between 100000 and 5000. 900
years"
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-02
Alchemy and Industry.

Out OF the erucible of war pour steady
streams Of advantage TO man. IL is not perhaps
ereditable to our civilization that for the present
at least the activity OF the human mind is gen
orally bent to the development discovery OF
means for destruction. Yet the researches pur-
sued are disclosing new sources of energy that
will in good time be as servieeable in peace as
they are terrible in war. knowledge Is being
brought from the seclusion OF the laboratory and
applied 10 industry in many ways that II
would be tedious to undertake to catalogue them
all. Science is raising man beyond what seemed
70 be natural limitations. and his zeal in the
chase for newer and better ways OF doing things
and providing for his wants, is keeping achieve
ment close upon the heels OF imagination. As
the thunder storm clears Nthe atmosphere and
brings the ozone TO stimulate and revive nature
on a sultry day. so has the presence of the tre-
mendous conflict in Europe dispelled the tor
pidity OF the nations. arousing them from the
sluggishness into which they had fallen. and set
them TO work more theoretically than ever on
their problems. This much Of good has come
from great deal OF evil. that man is better than
ever before qualified 10 supply his wants and to
meet the increasing emergencies Of existence.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-02
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

There Is an extraordinary echo fq the
cathedral at Pisa II you sing two notes
there is no reverberation. but IL you
sing three they are taken up. sweled
and prolonged into a beautiful harmony
In the Four Counties inn. In England.
Il is possible to cat I'm Leicestershire
sleep in Staffordshire, drink in Warwick
shire and smoke in Derbyshire without
leaving the building.
Nice shiny bugles may be bought very
cheaply up in Manitoba, where large
consignment intended for the troops has
been cast aside because in a wee sma
nook on the inside was found these
words: made in Germany"
The philosophy OF thu untutored Tun-
gus, most northerly OF the Siberian
tribesmen. Is Eat much and laugh
much" The gospel OF conviviality is
ever the same the world over Civilized
man says. Eat, drink and be merry"
A family Of seventeen. all able to pick
cotton. paid Hillsboro. Tex, a visit re-
Gently. In this family are four twins
and one set of triplets. leaving eight sin
giles besides the parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Joel. The Joels gather two bales of the
fleecy staple a day.
Niagara Falls being out Of date,
ssys the Boston Transcript. why don't
the lovers spend their honeymoon at
Bliss. Idaho: Joy. KY; Delight, Kan, or
Paradise. CALI" The reason is, OF course,
that Huggins. Ark, and Kissee Mills,
Mo-. are far preferable.
In 1860 a young turtle was caught un-
der a mill in Calias. Me, by some work
men, who cut the date on its she'll. In
1899 the same turtle was caught again
under the same mill and this year It was
once more captured by some fishermen
off the coast of Grand Manan. During
the fifty-five years since 1860 II has
grown only six inches
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-02
THE LONELY LAND.

Madison Cowein. in THE Cup OF Comus."
A river binds the lonely land,
A river like a silver band
To crags and shores of yellow sand.
1t is a place where kildees cry.
And endless marshes eastward lie
Wherein looks down a ghostly sky.
A house stands gray and all alone
Upon hill, as dim of tone,
And lonely, as a lonely stone.
There are no signs of life about;
No barnyard hustle, cry and shout
OF children, who run laughing out.
No crow of cocks. no low OF cows.
No sheep-bell tinkling under boughs
OF beech, or song in garth or house.
Only the curlew's mournful call,
Circling the sky at evenfall,
And loon lamenting over all.
A garden. where the sunflower DIES
And lily on the pathway lies,
Looks blindly at the binder skies.
And round the place a lone wind blows
As when the autumn grieving goes.
Tattered and dripping, to its close.
And on decay ing shrubs and vines
The moons thin crescent dwindlins
shines,
Caught in the claws of somber pines.
And then a pale girl, like flower,
ENTERS the garden; Tor an hour
She waits beside a wild-rose bower.
There is no other one around;
No sound, except the cricket's sound
And far off baying of a hound.
There is no fire or candle light
To flash it's message through the night
Or welcome from some easement bright.
Only the moon. that thinly throws
A shadow on the girl and rose.
As to its setting slow IL goes,
And when tbs gone. from shore and
stream
There steals a mist. that turns to dream
That place where all things merely seem.
And through the mist there goes a cry,
Not of the earth nor of the sky
But OF the years that have passed by.
And with the cry there comes the rain.
Whispering of all that was in vain
At every door and window pane.
And she, who waits beside the rose
Hears, with her heart, a hoof that goes,
Galloping afar to where none knows.
And then she bows her head ana weeps
And suddenly a shadow sweeps
Around, and in its darkening deepz.
The house, the girl, the cliffs, and stream
Are some. And they, and all things seem
But phantoms. merely In dream.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-02

You propose tax on gasoline?"
Yes"
Il fear that would he unpopular"
''Um," said the statesman addressed, IT
have been looking around for a tax that
would be popular, but haven't succeeded
in locating one as yet. louisville
Courier-Journal.
Il wonder more spectators don't make
aviation trips"
why speculators?"
Because they're used to taking flyers"
Baltimore american.
Smith doesn't seem to be a very pop
ular man." remarked Jones.
"Popnlar.H replied Brown. why, he's
as popular as the only winner in an all
night poker game. Cincinnati En-
Ouirpr.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-02
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIEs.

Did you play Santa Claus at the Christ
mas partY?'
Sure" replied Mr.. Cumrox; Il had
fine audience. too. I let II be understood
laugh or applaud wouldn't get a present"
Washington Star.
Patience-Why. ANYBODY coi.ld see
through his devices.
Particularly?
Sure; he makes opera glasses.-Yonkers
Statesman.
II wonder why Nero fiddled when Rome
was burning.
Il suppose It was because he thought
the critics would have other things on
their minds. baltimore American.
Hazel-Its always to a mans credit
when he stops drinking.
Omar-Don't you believe IT, Sometimes
1t is to his lack of credit.-Indianapoli
Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-02

distinct upward trend OF wages signaliEes
the lear In various sections. particularly in
New York where 100000 wage-workers secure
Increases Gratifying as the uplft is TO the bene-
felaries 4 is far from equaling the old years
increase In the cost OF living
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-02
When 3. > nan prunkf

A court at Salem. n. j.. wrestled with expert
testimony the questions. when Is drunk -
for whole day without finding satisfactory light
wet witnesses asserted that long a is
able TO stand regardless OF the size Of the load he
Is sober. Dry" experts the measure Of truly
forsure drunk at three more glasses OF whisky.
or. IL beer drinker the fifth gobeg' tags him
as soused when experts disagree it behooyes court
to seek impartial precedent for guidance
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-02
W~,o, Rs4.~
omA 9nt1usIaD,s

nj oTEIING could make a person realize the over
IN shadowing and all-pervading character OF the
subject Of keenly than the flavor
Of the programs Of the various national and nterna
onal learned societies that have been holding their
sessions In Washington this week. In these con
OF "high-brows' supposed concentrate the
thought Of philosophers. scientists economists or
in the underlying principles OF mundane life and Of
the universe the papers discussions TO the
great European conflict II drawn by lodestone
Probable Changes in Foreign Trade Resulting From
the European War" Economic Costs Of Wa
Social Values and National Existence" war and
Militarlsm in Relation Women" Statistics OF the
Food Supply in Germany" war and Nilitarism in
Relation to Government" Can War BE Done Away
Withg These some OF the topics the schedule
resting undsguised foundation, and the war
point OF view the disturbing factor into
play at nearly Of the debate OF questions
on their surface far removed from the zone. 1t
Is needless for to say, ] able attend bCt
few OF the meetings and those chiefly of the Ameri
can Economic association with which have kept
my afnliation, but believe the generality OF these
conclusions is justified from what likewise
observed and reported Of the other associations.
That the is to have a reactlonary effect and
10 retard the progress which the civilized world
previously making seems to be the concensus OF
thoughtful opinion The Impression is that
what have called "internationalism' Is to en-.
counter severe setback and that the spirit Of ma
uonalism is 70 take on life and fire. The
expectation Is that nations will by deliberate
policy and all sorts of devices TO avoid international
interdependence and. to speak, to go it alone"
Yet I caught peculiar contradiction to this
idea in the suggestion that confronted
with exceptional opportunity extend foreign
trade. especially with South America and the Orient
I'm a word that at the moment that all nations
are TO make themselves self-sufficient to
set forth trade conquest that will make certain
nations more dependent And every time we
sell to any other country have to buy from that
counry-so that the dependence mutual and In the
nature of things must be at least two-sided. Again
while set OF thinkers preaching the return
natonaiism. the president of the Historical
society was inveighng against narrow national
istc teaching OF history chief of conflict
and the propagation of national and racial hates"
which must get away from for the advancement of
a common humanity.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-02

new crop of prophecies is coming with
the beginning of the year, aud they are all about
as good as those made last year or the year be-
fore.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-02

The California publicity bureau must have
been asleep at the switch when the story OF snow
and freezing weather slipped over the wires
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-02

Pretty soft for Brother-in-Law Tommy"
Allen bu; what's the use Of having pull IL you
can't pull it?
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-02

The demon Rum certainly got some swat as
New Years reminder of the uncertainty Of
things in this life.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-02

Why go TO California; An equally fine grade
OF winter weather. the same quality OF snow and
f.ost. may be had with all the comforts of home
al less expense.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-02

General Won Hindenburg says peace is not
III sight. This is expert testimony with the
bark on.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-02

Last years record OF progress in Omaha ia
mighty incentive to greater endeavors during the
coming year. Plenty to do may be found in any
direction.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-02

Don't mind the jolting. but hold onto the
wagon. and you'll find the riding quite smooth
In time.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-02

The real quality Of New Year halo is not
TO be determined in day or week. The acid
test OF succeeding months is needed to fix the
durability OF the goods.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-02

Austria accepts the American note withou
discount DIT unnecessary delay in settlement,
Omaha daily bee., 1916-01-02

A slice OF Omaha real estate rightly located
has the Klcndike beaten seven ways.