South Bend News-Times, Volume 30, Number 219, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 4 August 1913 — Page 6

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v a n Tin c ; oo i m i : X . Amid the excitement of the mayoralty riht, the nomination of other officials Wednesday must not be overlooked. Especially is this true of the council. The various candidates for city clerk and city judge are all men of experience and training, well qualified for the otlice they seek. The people can't very well go wrong here. All, moreover, arc well known to the voting public. However, there is a Ion? list of candidates for the council, both among those running at large and from the various ward?. And the importance of nominating good councilmen is rather thrust in the background by tho prominence of the mayoralty campaign and that of other olllclals. A good council is as essential to a good mayor as to a bad one. The council is the check on the executive department of the city administration and the complement to it. It must provide the means for the rest of tho administration to act. It must legislate for today and tomorrow and for DO years lience. The council must order all improvements. It has the power to grant franchises, and in this function has the privilege of extending the city's opportunities or of binding generations yet unborn to a bad bargain. The council makes tho laws of tho city, ,tho city Judge interprets them, the mayor carries them into effect. The council's work is primary, fundamental. Effective work in the council calls for a high degree of ability, of knowledge of the city and its needs, of progressive appreciation of the city's character and for the faculty to make such rules as will facilitate, and not hamper its further development. The people will vote for three councilmen at large and for one councilman in each ward. The people must choose wisely if they are to be governed well. Till: TKIBFNF'S iii,i-:ima. Jim Loughmau- should worry if George Fountain's prophecy is to be fulfilled. He is already handicapped by a divided party and a "so-called" citizens' movement, not to mention the democratic ticket to be placed in tho field, and is not in position to be further encumbered if he expects to win. This is giving credence to Mr. Fountain's forecast of the Tribune's fture sailing orders, and In view of the circumstances it must be given consideration. The Tribune craft has found a tortuous channel obstructed by sunken reefs and the well known caution of its pilot may prompt him r. any time to take some course less l . atening in its consequences. in its present course he Tribune can find no safe anchorage. Between Keylla and Charybdls there is ro stable ground. Keller is an uncertain quantity in his relations to the Tribune and Happ is impossible. Place and Swygart are of course out of the question. Now the "citizens' " party may nominate Keller, or ?wygart or Place may be the choice. In either case the Tribune will be placed in a quandary. It will not support Keller without some assurance that it Is to have the city printing in case he is elected and Place and Swygart are known to bo opposed to turning the patronage over to it. In this dilemma is it not reasonable to infer that the Tribune, rather than support either of these doubtful candidates, will inllict its support on Loughman and trust him to treat it fairly in the division of the patronage? NOT rOOL. AXD VILLAIN lliOOI There is nothing comforting in the news from Chicago that an expert has demonstrated the imperfection of Empire voting machines by showing that they can be easily manipulated to give incorrect returns. We are interested in this style of voting machines ourselves to the extent of $40,000 and it is disturbing to be informed that they are not fool and villain prof. With a pair of keys made in a hurry the expert manipulated the machine so that twentytwo votes, each for four different tickets were made to register as follows: Straight democratic 12, straight progressive T.2. Hinaker 6, Hoyne 3S. A little sticker, inserted at the proper place, did the business. The demonstration was made in the presence and for the edification of a legislative committee and resulted in periously shaking the confidence of the advocate of voting machines. It suggested unlimited possibilities in the way of fraud and error. The purpose .f election laws is to keep the ballot pure, to give every citizen the opportunity to fully and freely express his political preferences and to givft every candidate the full benefit of the votes intended for him. The voting machine has been devised

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to relieve elections of th e present comparatively cumbersome method of voting. Many ingenious devices have been offered and in most instances they work satisfactorily if operated intelligently and honestly, but intelligence and honesty are factors which cannot be depended upon in politics and until the machines can be made fool and villian proof, as it is expressed, they cannot have the full confidence of the public. A I VAX CI :n I. KG I S LATI O X. The state of Wisconsin has taken steps in advance of any other state for the protection of society against improper marriages and defective children. Enactments by the state legislature along these lines took a wide range and covers the related subject so completely that Wisconsin must be regarded as a model. The legislation referred to was passed in separate bills to guard against confusion and error and provides that marriage licenses shall be issued only to men holding certificates of health from licensed physicians, prohibiting the marriage of second cousins or persons affected with epilepsy and providing for the sterilization of habitual criminals and insane, the feeble-minded and epileptic persons confined in public houses and asylums. These sweeping reforms are strikingly signllcant of the doctrine of the survival of tho fittest which for years ha3 been more preached than practiced. They afford an example of the modern conception of the best means of protection against the social evils from which mankind is needlessly suffering. They emphasize the principle of prevention which in the prudential plans of mankind has supplanted reliance upon cure. They offer an Incentive to personal purity and a safe-guard against those who, through misfortune, are a menace to health and happiness. Society has a perfect right to take such precautions. It is nothing more nor less than exemplifying the first law of nature, self-preservation, and it a duty society owes itself to raise tho barriers against human misery. niAHY of rATiiru timi?. When Gen. Grant visited Hamburg he attended a banquet in his honor, and was spoken of having saved his country. Grafft replied: "I must dissent upon one remark in that I saved the country during the recent war. If our country could be saved or ruined by any one man, we should If L had never held command if I not have a country, and we should not now be celebrating the Fourth of July, had fallen if all our generals had fallen, there were ten thousand behind us who would have done our work in i!(..T,. .' C'? " , -. . - . 1. AS TOLD IIY AUNT GFUTIF. 0 Chapter II. "Hilly, I want to go a long journey tonight, so saddle two horses, one for me and one for you." "Ask no questions," said the little man, crossly. "Go over to yonder bog, cut two rushes; mount one and I will mount the other." "A rush?" asked Hilly, in great surprise. "What do you mean?" "Go," said the little man, "at once, and do as I bid you!" Hilly knew better" than- to wait. A HUSH TURNS INTO A HORSK He went and cut two rushes and climbed onto one of them. Hut he was so disgus-ted and unbelieving that he did not notice how he got on. S when he started, lo and behold, he was sitting toward the horse's tail, hrVtead of toward his head. For, you see. a.? soon as the rushes were cut. the little man pronounced the words. "Borram, Borram. Borram," which nuans in English to become great. The minute he had finished speaking the rushes began to swell and swell. Pretty soon they took the faint outline of a horse and finally

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The Story of Mrs. McManus is the Mothers' Pension in Operation, and Shows Clearly Why This State i3 Willing to Pay a Poor Mother a Salary for Rearing Her Children. SEATTLE. Wash., Aug. 2. Mrs. Mary E. McManus is an employe of Pierce county. Her salary is $25 a month. Ihr work is to feed, clothe. house, educate, and train her three childrenCharles, 1J; Clement, D, and Parker, 7. For Mrs. McManus is the first beneficiary under the moitTs' pension If : law. Manus were unwilling or unlit to continue to undertake the care of her children, they would become charges of the county. It would cost all of $25 a month to keep them in an Institution and the work would not be done half so well as Mrs. McManus will do it. For the best juvenile institution in the world Is less qualified to bring up children than the mother of those children If she happens to be the right kind of a mother. And Mrs. McManus is that kind. Nearly two years ago Mrs. McManus' husband died. He left his widow $2 50. Hy the time she had re-covered from the death of her husband. THF $2 50 WAS GONE! Since then she has supported herself and her children by taking in washing. Often she has two washings in the tubs and a third waiting. She is up at four every morning and never leaves her tubs before eight at night and her income varies. If it is a good week, she will make as hih as $5. Her rent alone is $10 a m ,nth. Occasionally her children have gone breakfastless to school. This doesn't happen often. It ought never to happen. It never will happen again now that she has the pension. In considering the case of Mrs. McManus and her pension, leave sentiment out. Be hard-hearted and coldblooded and business-like. Although Mrs. McManus is in receipt of her $25 monthly, she will continue to work at her tubs. She Is ambitious for her boys proud of just as well. So long as our young men are animated by this spirit there will be no fear for the Union." The month of July was the next to the driest Kansas has experienced in thirty years. The rainfall was only 1.57 inches and it has been necessary to haul water 'to elifferent sections to save people and stock. People who live in the St. Joseph valley can scarcely .comprehend such a condition. No more practical application of the training school idea has been advanced than that of Sec. Garrison, who proposes to train soldiers to work. Recalling the old cal ??? that a soldier would rather sell his shirt than work it may sound paradoxical, but it is worth trying. American sentiment is quite uniformly against recognition of any government in Mexico not established on the will of the people. The sooner the Mexicans- rise to that standard the quicker they will see an end of their troubles. Westn .the pedestrian, completed his walk from New York to Minneapolis on Friday and laid the cornerstone of a new athletic club. More than any other man the veteran ath- ; lete has demonstrated the possibili ties of pcdestrianlsm. ;... I. , , K -till'' ' ''''C'",'.'-V ikfrightened he could hardly hold on. j And, as he had climbed on the wrong way, he was obliged to hang on to the horse's tail as it rushed over the ground. All night the two rushed up hill and down dale. "Now follow me. .uu nit- tuti iiniii and big buckles. l ,1 41 1 1 with the gold lace "Do as I do. Say what I say and you'll be safe." He said some funny words which Hilly tried to repeat. And what do you think happened? BILLY HIDES AND BACKWARD.

Why, they went right through a keyhole into a wine cellar and sat down and drank, and drak. and d rank! When the dawn was just beginning to line the sky with faint streaks of gray, the little old man sneezed. "God bless you." said Billy, as he had always been accustomed to do when anyone sneezed." "Don't you ever sav that again!" answered the little old man, almost white with rage. "If you say that to me it will cause all my happiness to become sadness." "Indeed." said Billy. "Then I'll try to remember." (To bo continued.)

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them and wants them to succeed. ?he will continue to take in wash ing and the money so earned will be added to the $25 to give them a good home. f,'ood food, education. Think of it! The princely sum of $50 a month in this age of hisrh cost to give her children a good home, good food, and an education! Put it is far better than $25! The county wants good citizens. Good citizens are a liability. Mrs. McManus, being the right kind of mother, will bring up her boys to bo good citizens. She will spend her tub money as well as her pension money to that end. In Mrs. MoManus the county gets an employe who ij willing to do more than she is paid to do. Now look at the reverse side of the picture. In the confusion of the moment we have completely lost track of Jack Johnson. Information as to his whereabouts will be more or less gratefully received. If those European countries do not come out of their grouches they will miss a mighty good show. The United States will be there. When you swat a fly, swat with a will, swat with the swat that is hard enough to kill. In accordance with an old established custom August is serving cool night for sleepers. It is the wise man who starts ahead of his hay fever. Castro has demonstrated his ability to come back, but can he stick. Evelyn Thaw is broke' and repentant. The two usually go together. imm i. mum ' , t- -- J -- -' - -- - . -- O m rl s -- - n vra CounciSman-At-L arge Asks that all laboring men throughout the city pull down lever No. 17 over his name Aug. 6. He has every qualification for making the public a faithful servant. Tl IHH im .11 m m r, I. w -m m .pu lHlllH n i ra Pa

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ATES T I H '"a s . .V. v, ,. i Mrs. McManus works and lives on the narrowest kind of margin. A single setback, uch as sickness or unemployment, would spell disaster and shipwrecK without the mothers' pension. Once Mrs. McManus fainted from sheer exhaustion over her tubs. More than once the children were sick. T have known for a long time," says Mrs. McManus, "that, if no help came, I would have to give mv two younger children away. I prayed that a way out would be shown me." Doesn't it seem to you, in the light of the facts, that the county, in its little business deal with Widow McManus, has a little the best of thej bargain? And don't you think that the mothers' pension would be a good investment for every state in the Union? PEACE! HY HFItTOX IJHALKY. When all our monuments are dust. When there's an end of every trust, When aviation's safe and sane. When bankera cease to work for gain, When justice and the law agree And get along in harmony, When strikes and lockouts are no more And there's an end 'of bitter war. When all of us" shall have our share Of food and clohes and God's good air, When women cease to think of dress And cost of living groweth less. When all men swear off smoke and drink And there's nobody in the clink. And life no more is grim and glum, Hut glad as the millenium. When all the racial rancor's fled And k've sets every heart aglow, When all the Mexicans are eiead Then there'll be peace in Mexico. TRY NEWS-TIMES WANT ADS One Mock from Portage avenue on Kcssler houlevard, at prices ranging from $500.00 to $1100.00; S10.00 down and $10.00 a month. On one acre you can keep a cow and 100 chickens, and raise all the fruit and vegetables one family can use. Our automobile at your service to show you. INDIANA TITLE AND LOAN COMPANY Cer. Main and Center Sts. Phones Home G538; Bell 132. p m v . "' - M of Romance and Adventure 99

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Tin; link, fc'ay, pal. I'm a link In an endless chain. If you'll stop to think You can Put see it's plain. Bum rag paper money Money gets the rum; How it works is funny, For it's run that makes the bum. So we've figured it out. The scheme is sublime; I'm of use beyond doubt; Can you stake me to a dime. D. B. H. POSSIBLY we have a wrong Impression, but we have a conviction that while automobiles make business for men it is also true that men make business f,,r automobiles. You can see what we mean? Yes, that's it. It is easy to make an excuse to hop into the car and chaae out for half an hour or so. THE analogy between a pacing horse and a left-hand pitcvr has never been defined, but that it exists a rhomcnt's reflection will convince. MEDICAL science has a number of problems to solve before it becomes exact. For instance, among its stumbling blocks are pneumonia, cancer and hav fever. The approach of the hay fever season suggests the subject. Many quacks profess to cure all these ills, but the honest physician throws up his hands. IT is well to reflect in these days of political turmoil and the profession c?f virtues that Dr. Johnson once said, "Hell is paved with good intentions". HEADERS of Byron will have discovered in his "Don Juan" the motif for Kipling's line. "And the female of the species is the deadliest of them all". Byron says: Alas! the love of women! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing; For all of theirs upon that die is thrown, And if 'tis lost, life hath no more to bring To them but mockeries of the past alone. And their revenge is as the tiger's spring. Deadlj', and quick, and crushing; yet, as real Torture is theirs what they inflict they feel. SIN men control the money of the nation. Five of them are well known, but we modestly decline to name the sixth. SOMEBODY got Henry Lane Wilson's pay envelope in New York, and he may miss it if the president gets his goat. THE new fashion in skirts is spreading the split contagion to the extreme of affecting the infinities of politics. A SMI LI-:. I wandered the streets one dreary

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t:ay. When the winds were chill and th" clouds were grey. Anil my own heart struggled wirh irrim despair. As I thought, with sadness "no matter here I walk the same bleak sights ar here.. As grim ami as dark and as void c cheer." I vainly sought, with a wearf eye Some pleasir.tr scene to linger by. And so forget for a little while. That my heart had staggered beneath its trial. But not a sight that was fresh or n e iv. Could my eye descry as 1 wandered through The streets I've known for vcars an I years. My sadness grov too drop for tears And my head drooped low as I walked along. Hut I heard, at length, a sound ef sontr ; Only a breath, but so soft and sweet. That I looked, and lo! at mv ver feet. Stood a slender, fair-haired little child. And it looked in my gloomy eyes and smiled. It smiled, with lips so sweetly pure. And eyes so deep and calm. I'm stir The message it brought to me was sent By a greater power than a child's content. And it entered my heart like a golden ray. Lighting the sky on a oloudv day. I felt my pulses throb and thrill With a wondrous hope and a jov, tintil My soul reechoed the mighty strain And m own lips parted and smile. 1 a gain. Then I stooped and kissed the lovely face. And walked away from the holy place With a reverant heart and a mind that sang. Free rfom a single bitter pang. HEATH ICE E. HARMON. WE are willincr to take out tim for any public period citizen who will sit down with us in the seclusion of our sanctum .and make comprehensible, as it were, the provisions o the new currency bill. He will havo virgin soil to work in. PITY the overworked candidate, who patriotically strives to stir the drowsy citizen to a sense of appreciation and duty, and who, failing of his purpose, sinks to rise again at the next opportunity. YET their labors must be regarded as lifrht compared with those of United States senators, who have voluntarily added an hour to their day's work with no increase in waes. LABOH unions, take no'iee. C. N. F.

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