South Bend News-Times, Volume 31, Number 14, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 7 January 1914 — Page 6

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1914 THE SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMES.

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SECRECY--A BAD PRECEDENT. It strikes an unfortunate note that at the opening of an administration as auspicious and with so many things in its favor as that inaugurated by Mayor Keller, that the new city council should take the backward step of voting to continue the outgrown custom of secret sessions. It was to be hoped that they would rather keep in step with the m-wt-r program of enlightened politienl movements the wide open door to tle public and the. broad licht of publicity to be thrown on all matters of interest to the public. This does not mean of course that matter would be made public in which the public lnrest would suffer by premature publicity, but that it does me;ui that the people have a ri'ht to know what their paid representatives itre dolntf, to know by what arguments from outside parties they aie moved, and read their conclusions. The committee of the whole fills a certain leal purpose, but one in no enso needing -crecy from the public press. In matters where the public Interest would be damaged by publicity the press would keep silent until tho proper time came. The only argument made recently in favor of the -!.s-il session of the committee of the whole was that tho councilman should have this opportunity to withdraw from the public anil deride on the arguments presented to them. Yet so illy has the plan been abused th;it nt the wry metinr

concerning which this argument was

advanced the representatives of the street car company which Nought a change in a proio.M'( ordinanco were admitted to the committee medini; and the newspaper representatives excluded. It was as though the jury had retired to IU deliberations taking with it the attorneys for ne side of the case and excluding the attorneys for the other eide. Justification may be rightly found for not making the committee meet

ings open to the whole public where

but an earnest purpose, as manifested in the performance will receive due recognition. Tiie regulation of the liquor traffic involves three principal features, the limitation to legal hours, the sale of liquor to minors and intoxicated per

sons, and the haboring of women. As compared with the suppression of prostitution and gambling the process of regulating the liquor tratlic should be siniplw and easy. As an aid to law enforcement the mayor will have the cooperation of a number of saloonkeepers who are disposed to keep within the law if they can be assured of relief of the unfair competition of saloons doing business out of prescribed hours. It has been demonstrated, however, that this fair competition and strict observance of the law cannot be obtained by occasional arrests and fines. Saloonkeepers who violate the law can probably afford to pay a line occasionally out of their profits made from illegal sales. Nothing short of the certainty that they will be put out of business will compel these violators to obey the law. Placing their licenses in jeopardy will make them reluctant about opening their saloons when they should be closed and selling liquor to improper persons. The state law gives the mayor this hold upon retailers of liquor and plainly prescribes the course to be pursued, and the use of this weapon is tho only effective means the authori-

ties have of enforcing the law.

Violations of the liquor laws are more or less open and public. Prostitution and gambling may be called insidious offenses. They are more difficult to detect, locate and prove. Gambling may be more or less regulated by fines and confiscation. Prostitution deals with an unfortunate class. The element of humanity enters deeply into the olticial treatment of it. The vice is a menace to society, but can it be said how far society is or is not responsible for it' r r I 1 a m o

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, , v,. .t I that confront Mayor Keller. The other side of a controversy might influence! . . , .

"weak minded councllmen awav from

STATESMEN REAL AND NEAR

MY VllV.D C. KKLLY.

THE MELTING POT

COME! TAKE FOTLUCK WITH 178.

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BRALEY'S POEM TODAY

WASHINGTON. Jan. 7. Though

74 years old, and dignified, .Sen. Au-

gutus O. Bacon, of Georgia, walks each morning from his home to the National Zoo, a distance of a mile or two, and spends an hour with the wild animals before breakfast before his own breakfast. Night sessions of the senate never prevent Bacon from getting up in time to put in his early morning hour with the wild beasts. He finds that there Is nothing like these conferences with the monkeys and leopards and zebras to rest his mind from the cares of statecraft. At such times he waves aside senatorial dignity and mingles among the animals with the utmost informality, lie talks to them Fimply as man to lion, or man to zebra, and all lines of inequality are lost tright of. The animals think of

him not as a United States senator, i friends.

but .as a pleasant acquaintance who never fails to have a pocket filled with peanuts or sugar or something to make his visit worth while. And Sen. Bacon never comes away from the zoo until he has learned something new about animals some little characteristic or physical item that he never noticed before. The other day a senator was talking In one of the cloakrooms about a bear hunt how they tracked a bear for several miles through the snow. "Do you know what a bear's track looks like?" asked Bacon. The senator who had been on the hunt didn't know except in a rough, general wav. "I do," smiled Bacon; "it's like thii." And he drew a picture of the bottm of a beat's paw. "You see," he said, "it is much like the track of a negro boy." He had spent an hour at the bear cages in the zoo that morning.

Tintouf.ii tiii: Yi:n with

LOXUFKLLOW.

O weary hearts! slumbering cye! O tlnxiping ul, liosc destinies Aro fraught with fear ami pain. Yc shall be lovetl affain!

Bacon has a great habit of watching the doings of the squirrels in the parkd, too. The other day he reached a senate session a trifle late. He had started In plenty of time, but paused for half an hour in the capitol grounds to

PUBLICATION of the letters of Robert Browning antl Khzabeth Barrett moves K. C. G. to ask if correspondence, or letter writing is a lost art. We have the same impression that prompted the inquiry. This impression has been brought home to us by repeated unavailing efforts to extract chatty letters from absent

AVE charge the decadence of the

And bought the liniment To oas i the ache in Jasper's back. And he was well content. But when she'd slaved herself to death. And hunger's pangs came fast. He had to work and toiling hard. Forgot his back at last. N. P. Jones. "PEG CV MY HEART," if "Jerry" isn't good to you send him to The Melting Pot and we'll reduce him to proper proportions. Of Course He Knows If He ILul It Done. (Bluffton Banner.) Homer Derr, son of Clarence Derr, had a rabbit and six small ones stolen early Saturday evening, and he says he knows who did the stealing. A FRIEND at Atlantic City sends us a postcard showing the automobile

ities, easy communication by tele

graph, telephone and wireless and the stenographer and typist, though perhaps the last named "has sufficient to answer for without loading this upon her. MEN, in particular, and women in general, perfer a thousand-mile ride to writing a letter that cannot be dictated to the steno. Familiar Names In Kvcry Community. (Burr Oak Acorn.) Now the year 1913 is almost gone and I have seen in this year Mr. Pinchemhard, Mrs. Showoff and Mr. and Mrs. Nevergive, and Mr. Grabbit, Miss Wantall, Miss hellish and Mr. Takeitall. These people don't know what happiness is. for they only think of self. I also have seen the - very best of persons. "BOWLING," writes J. It. S., is said to prevent appendicitis. But why make that exertion when champagne, they say, will do the same thing? BEN JEROME, the songsmith, has met the fate of most writers of love guff. His wife wants a divorce. Singing

witness the operations of a squirrel to so many sirens makes one's emo-

, , v , . . 0,i rn j routes to that haven of the Income art to modern transportation facil- . r, .m v.oi t,-. fries Mv .nmm.miritinn bv tele- tax paers. and we will hand it to

. 1. H. or J. C. K.t who enjoy

their proper duty. Hut this justification could not possibly be extended to excluding the press. It is a weak man who is afraid to vote In the open or to express openly tho reason for his vote. And the weak man la apt, in an emergency, to become dangerous to the public. At the meeting Tuesday night at which the issue was raised and championed by Councilman Hageity and voted down by a majority of the council, there was probably no single thing that any member of the council would object to being made public. The News-Times is not at all concerned over the deliberations or decision of this particular session. But it does feel that the councllmen were establishing a bad and a dangerous precedent, and one entirely at variance with the expectations of the people when they voted the citizens' party representatives into office.

affairs of the city are matters of bust

ness for which there are well established principles and rules. In dealing with the moral aspect what the mayor may possess of initiative will serve him well.

a sjim: di:al. The principle involved in the profit sharing plan o the Ford Automobile oomjkany is the one that is to prevail if tiie country is to find a logical and just solution of its labor problems. As expressed by the head of this preat industry, the principle is that the division ot" earnings between capital and labor is unequal. The cor-rrctne-s f this principle is proved by the results of the prevailing system. It is dividing the industrial people of this country into two classes, the excessively rich and the excessively poor. That is manifestly unfair. Hold it up against what Henry Ford say: "We ant those w ho have helped us to produce tliis preat institution and are helping to maintain it to share our prosperity." This starts the reform on tiie right side. It is fortur.atelv so.

Washington gossip admits that the United States may be forced to intervene in Mexico. The admission does no particular harm, but the fact must be regarded as still cuite remote. That card will be Pres. Wilson's last, and he has quite a good hand. Under a new law passed by the Wisconsin legislature the question as to whether telephone subscribers must pay their dues at the company's office is to be determined by the result of a suit that has been taken under advisement by the presiding judge.

burying" a nut.

All this has made Hacon about the most observant member of the senate. Not a detail about the appearance of any of his associates ever escapes him. If another senator comes up smiling with a new necktie or a new haircut, Bacon notices it instantly. In the senate restaurant one day a senator couldn't Unci his hat. Others at the table were helping to hunt it. "You didn't have any hat when you came in here," declared Bacon. "It must be upstairs." And it was. Though he was the oldest man in the group, he was the only one who had that much power of observation.

Sen. IJristow of Kansas was saying not long ago that official position has never given him the feeling of Importance he enjoyed back in his school days when he wrote a certain anonymous series of articles for the local paper. It occurred to Bristow that if somebody would write up the funny characteristics of a few of

the professors at his school, it would '

make good reading. He went to the editor of the little paper in that town and placed the proposition before him. The editor agreed to print them and to keep the writer's identity secret. Bristow began to write the letters to the paper, making sport of his professors, and in a ?hort time - the whole town was talking about them, for they made a hit. Wherever Bris

tow went he met persons who were

tlons too promiscuous.

When Jasper Went To Work. (Lafayette Journal.) Jasper Dean was neat and clean. His hair was smooth and trim, His hands were soft, his face unlined. And all went well with him. He read discriminatingly And careful facts required, And always had the point to give That anyone required. His poise was beautiful to see; 'Twas always just the same; But Jasper Dean refused to work because his back was lame. His wife was less than half his size, A frail and tiny bit. But what she lacked in height and strength, She balanced by her grit. She made a living for the two

old

automobile cold storage. As for us, we are not due at Atlantic City before warm weather at least. UXCUOWXEl) HEROINES AND HEROIC. The man who stays awake after 7 p. m. that the other members of the family may enjoy reading the evening paper. The woman who makes a. fall hat do two seasons. The man who refuses another drink. The woman who fired the cook. The man who goes out on the porch to smoke. The girl who refuses to marry a millionaire's son. The woman who stands over a hot griddle and bakes the cakes while the rest of the family eat them. The man who sold his auto and put the money in bonds. The youth who takes his sister to church. The man who stays up all night and walks with baby. The employer who fails to fall in love with his stenographer. The office boy who is seen and never heard. The man who says 'thank you" after getting your order. The woman who can keep a secret. The waiter who refuses a tip. H. Lynn Staley. OXE might provoke a little verse out of the name of Prudence Ialn of Darlington if one had the poetic instinct. The ong somble Is almost irresistible. Obviously. (Lafayette Courier.) Some one has said that the spoken word once spoken Is spoken forever, but that the unsaid word may be said at any time. IT is just like taking candy from children for one person to take an office of trust and profit from another. AT least it seems so to the children.

X. P.

GRATITUDE.

SECOND YEAR OF MARRIED LIFE.

TV "WHICH 1 1 FLEX AND WARREN SIT OUT ON Tilt: BEACH IV THE MOONLIGHT.

BY MABEL HERBERT URXER.

"That red light way over there beyond . the light house what do you suppose it is?" "Just some tramp steamer." an

swered Warren, "a lot of them pass

talking about the cleverness of the alon5 out, here."

letters and wondering who the au

thor might be. Xo one ever found out that Bristow was the author, but the talk about him, nevertheless, gave him a great ,?ense of importance. He was muc: more proud of himself than he has ever been since.

Fixing ihe blame for the Michigan st. wreck is a process of elimination which requires delicate and fairminded direction. The responsibility for that tragedy is not a mere matter of censure or fine.

Mr. Hinebaugh sees a good chance for the success of the progressive party in 1914. The republicans see the same. Through the widening rift between the two the democratic sun is shining.

Sensational dispatches sent to outside papers concerning the collapse of a building on Michigan st. are not substantiated by facts. The calamity was bad enough without painting the story. Those fortunate citizens who will be due to pay an income tax about March 1 are doubtless anticipating it

nd it is an encouraging circumstance i as a mark of distinction. At least

that Henry Ford is nt alone in inaugurating it. A voluntary couccsmou of rUhi- h.cs adatu:ges over an extortion of rights which is well worth considering. It satisfies reasonable conceptions of fairness without stimulating rep'KiN. It is that spontaneous justice which needs neither the promptings of administered law nor the menaee .f iojer.ee. It i a square deal btf.vten man and man. Whatever th- m;ie may be which is pruinpting cmplo. rs to be fair with their cmp!v.e. whether it emanates from a su- of juvtic'or is born of prudence it is riht and ood. It marks a new and just cor.teption of th hire of which the lal orer worthy.

there are many people who would.

In view of the menace of the Federal league the National soem willing to listen to amends from their players for reform.

MAYOR KELLER'S PROBLEMS. Mayor Kelb-r's f-ineere purpose to regulate tli- liquor tr.t:V of the eity in accordance with slate and. municipal laws, to suppress gambling, prostitution and other is will have the icppcct and support of every good citizen. The task set for himself is not an easy one and the r suits of the mayor's efforts may not be what he anticipates.

Chicago Is an overgrown infant. The widow of the first white man born there ruts just died at the age of eighty.

Edwin F. Sweet, assistant secretary of commerce, has a peculiar hobby. Instead of collecting stamps or money or hotel keys, he collects smoking car acquaintances. Ho likes to see how many pleasant people he can fall in with when traveling on trains. So far he has had great luck at this, and has not taken a trip of any consequence for years without meeting somebody worth engaging in conversation on matters and topics.

Dr. J. B. Aswell, one of the Louisiana congressmen, has a habit of dashing out to some town every once In a while and delivering a scholarly lecture. A few weeks ago he did this, and the official starter introduced him 05 follows: "I am not a speechmaker and I shall not bore you with a long speech, but shall Introduce at once the man who will."

How aggressive they sound, such an assertive snorting, isn't it? Look, you can see It now it's coming into that strip of moonlight. Oh," and a huge wave rolled up almost to their feet, "hadn't we better move back a little?" "We'll go in now in a moment," drawing out his watch. "It's twenty minutes to nine." -

Oh, that isn't late, and it's so love-

we folded them between two clam shells and buried them. Surely you haven't forgotten that?" "Well, what of it?" 'Oh, I've often wondered what you wrote, I thought then that some time in years after we'd come back and dig them up and read them. I tried to

remember the place, to mark it by a distant tree and cottage. Isn't that

the way you locate buried treasure?" "Hm-m."

-"What did you write. Warren? Do

tell me, I've often wanted to know!

"Heavens! I don't remember now!" "Oh, vou do surely you do! It

was to he the thing you wished for

ly out here." pleaded Helen., "4?ee, we more than anything else in the world.

Miss Alice George, secretary to Rep. Henry George, jr.. of New York, is an enthusiastic suffragist. The other day she met up with a crowd of society women who were anti-suffs. "I hope we'll meet at the ballot box some day," said Miss George, by way of being agreeable. "I'd rather die." replied George, without the loss of a second, "I hope you do."

The full name of Hep. Dyer, of Missouri, is Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer, but he maintains a cheerful disposition and enjoys life as much as anyone. (Copyright. 1914. by Fred C. Kelly. All rights reserved.)

Ben Jerome, the song writer, wrote love songs for the world, but he could not keep love singing In his own home.

The citizen who is obliged to pay an income tax gets about as much sympathy tls a fat man.

Gov. Ferris has taken vigorous hoi 3 of the Calumet situation. Here's hoping his hand doesn't flip.

Conn on with that building inspection ordinance.

MRS. ASTOR GETS ANOTHER MILLION NEW YOFcK, Jan. 7. The gross value of the estate of the late Col. John Jacob Astor, one of the victims of the Titanic, Is 1 8 5. S 9 C-.S 2 6. according to a report of a reappralsement filed Tuesday In the surrogate court here. The reappralsement. which was made for the purpose of fixing the status of certain properties transferred by Col. Astor to Mrs. Madeline Force Astor In an ante-nuptial agreement, adds another $1,109,321 to the latter's share of the estate and also reduces her inheritance taxes by $29,69. Deductions due to the reappraisal amount to $1,163,329. leaving the net value of the estate at $ S 4.239.497.

Well, if the lid fits why net wear

iou nee i rich, red blood in your

svstem, builds you up, makes you strong and rugged, prevents rheuma-

I tism, boils eczema, stimulates 'rnd

can move Winifred back without wak

ing her," gently pulling the steamer rug upon which Winifred was sleeping. "Oh, look, I love to watch the waves roll up like that. It seems as though each one was trying to go beyond the other. See how they fall back to gather their forces for another effort." Warren yawned and leaned back on the sand. He had taken off his coat and folded it up under his head, and as he lay stretched out there in the moonlight, the strong lines of his figure had never shown to better advantage. Ad ml rins Warren. Six feet and 190 pounds! Helen thought proudly as she looked at him. From the first time long ago Warren had told her his height and weight they had been to her ever since the standard of man's physique. It is a curious thing that a slight, delicate, refined woman will worship the splendid physique of the man she loves far more than would a coarser grain. To her. Warren's broad chest, his

long clean limbs, and iron muscles were an ever present cause for pride and delight. And when anyone spoke of a fine looking man she would ask quickly: "How tall is he- About what does he weigh?"

And if the answer was less than six feet and 190 pounds, she would make no comment, but "her silence would be full of superior consciousness of Warren's physical perfection. And now she ran her hand along the shirt-sleeved arm that lay beside her. Tho Notes. "You won't take cold, dear, without your coat?" "Nonsense! On a nlsht like this?" For several moments they watched the sea in silence, while she softly poured sand over his outstretched hand. "Doesn't that feel cool? Don t you love the feel of sand?" He submitted indifferently while she buried hi hand in the sand and then tunneled her own under to meet it. The faint white sail of a distant vessel passed now through the strip of moonlight. The waves rolled up nearer and nearing. leaving an outline of seething white froth. The revolving light of the light house flashed up and out again. lUhting up the dark waters around it. There were no stars, but the moon shone clearly from a brak in the clouds. And over it all was the fres-h salt smell and the haunting roar of the sea. "Warren, do you remember that evening before we were married when

we sat on the beach and buried those

You couldn't have forgotten that

"Probably didn't write anything

was just humoring one of your whims.

Georee!" slapping his ankle, "there's

another of those infernal mosquitoes.

Did you have that net put over our

bed today?"

"Yes. dear, and one over Winifred's cot. I told the housekeeDere we must

have them.

"Well, I should say so! Imagine

running a hotel down here without

screens! Come on," getting up and

shaking the sand from his clothes.

"I want to get some sleep tonight.

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THOUGHTS ON ART BY ROB IX DUNBAR. What is a good painting?

One

it?

Mayor Keller get the lUibit.

organs of the body to hlthly action, notes in the sand?" to ward off diseases, Hollister's Rocky "What notes?" Mountain Tea is guaranteed to do "Oh. don't you remember? We this; befcln today, enjoy good health each wrote on a slip of paper the tomorrow. Gu cents. Advt. thin we most wished for, and then

done by a man of talent who felt what

he saw and who makes us feel a part

of it too.

What is a good statue? A good

piece of music? A good piece of writ

ing? What is fine in a good play?

Need I answer those questions?

A good play is a slice cut out of life

by the author, buttered w.th his own

Individuality, good only for those who

are hungry for bread and butter, not

for those who are stuffed fuil of cake.

"Great thoughts," says a reader.

"need a great vehicle for their utter

ance!" Yet poetry and blank verse

are as dead as "thou" and "thee". The

statement of a fact nowadays counts

more than "a beautiful line".

Ibsen sought in Italy among the painters only those who let their indi

viduality shine through their works.

Ibsn was brave enough to leave hia mark on his work: naturally he

sought his equals.

The test of an artist is the same as

that of an ordinary business man: Is

he honest? Is he sincere? Does he

know his business and attend to it?

Does he pay his debts? The only dif

ference i3 the artist and the business

man start from the same point and travel in different directions. The

business man towards the goal of animal comfort; the artist towards that of Intellectual peace. One ends up a dogan; the other develops Into a man.

(There is talk of a political organization of the Panama Canal Zone. News Item.) Now that he's finished we'll harry and worry him. Make him as cheap and sick a,- we can. Send him cheap talkers to argue and ;!urry him. I'utterers built on the two-by-four plan: Now that he's finished the tasks most laborious. Now that by toil and by trouble- he's s-'arreJ. We will repay hhr; with speeches censorious, Bully and badger him as his reward! Now that he's done what we said wasn't possible. Now that he's proven his title to fame. Now that he's crossed what we said wits n't crosablo. Let us begin our political game. Let us get busy at roping and chaining him, Tieing him down with a mess of red tape. Balking and hampering, tripping, restraining him, Binding him close so he cannot escape! Now that he's set all the nations to wondering. Now that he's conquered the damp and the heat. Let us begin our political blundering, Iet us set traps which will clutch at his feet. Let us exhibit a kno-v-it-all attitude. Sniff at the wisdom which he may impart. Let us display to the Colonel our Gratitude. Ending his power and breaking his heart! B K K TO N FB A L K Y. t

a.

The Semi-annual Clearance Sale Women's Chinchilla and Arabian formerly up to $25, down to

has brought Lamb Coats, ..$12.98

And Handsome Chinchillas, Wool Coats and

striped novelties, that were S 18.50 and 15.00. Now at

$5.00

They are worth what they were marked. They are the city's Best Bargains now.

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