South Bend News-Times, Volume 31, Number 36, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 29 January 1914 — Page 4
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SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, JANURY 29, 1914
ORGANIZED VAGABONDAGE. Recalling v. hat th Coxy march on Washington twenty yar ;mn did not do for th" unemployed tho threat of the lra'lcr of thut rxp ilition to rp at the performance this y ar adds nothing to the optimism of the nm-
nifiit. "den. Jacob crli"r Lxoy can best sro his country by keeping him?olf atvl his followers away from the national capital. Twenty years aro there y;i little enough excuse or warrant for such a demonstration. It meant nothing more nor le than a political movement fostered by the republican party for the purpose of embarrassing the .-administration of Prop. Cleveland, then Just opening his second term. 11 can man nothing le.M now with the embarrassment of Pres. Vilson as the objective. Fortunately the public is in a frame of mind entirely different from that of twenty years ao. The problems wluch then perplexed the nation are no"? in a fair way of solution. The tariff, with almost common consent, lias been reduced to a business basis. Tho financial atmosphere lias been cleared oy the passage of the banking and currency bill. The president is pushing legislation for commercial and industrial reforms. The administration id working hand In hand with the people to remedy evils from which the country has long suffered. Coxey v. ill have no great ditliculty in recruiting an army of considerable proportions. This is the idle season in Industries and the prospect of living several months without work will appeal to the habitually idle and to many who might have employment and would seek it under other circumstances. The plan, of course, will be to live off the country. The army will expect, as twenty years aco, that in selfdefense municipal authorities will provide feod and elothinir for the marchers to save t heir communities from being overrun and looted by a lawless ir.ob. It contemplates a national holdup so far as the country between the starting point and Washington is concerned. In Chicago alone there are enough idle men to make a good sized army, but as one newspaper writer said of them they could be driven out of the city by a proposal to provide work for them. Of such material will Coxey's army be formed if he carries out his plans. It will represent nothing but organized vagabondage.
depleted their revenues to the amount of $13,000,000 or more by a system of rebates to industrial railroads. The industrial railroad is a system of trackage and equipment with which large manufacturing plants deliver
anu receive ireignt from common carriers. The claim has been pet un bv
manufacturers owning these systems that they were entitled to allowances for special services and allowed by the railroads to the extent of millions of dollars annually and to the prejudice of other shippers. Such allowances arc not only illegal under the rulings of the interstate commerce committee, but they take from the railroads revenue needed to maintain themselves without charging unjust rates. "Before they may fairly ask the general public to share further in carrying their burdens," says the interstate commerce commission, "it is manifest that the railroads must themselves properly conserve their sources of revenue by making every .servic e performed contribute reasonably to their earnings." The idea of artificial stimulation of railroad prosperity is repugnant. It can yield only temporary results of a beneficial character. Wherever there Is action there must be reaction. Stimulation is inevitably followed by relapse. Let the railroads tote fair and there will be no necessity of resorting to dope.
di:mocilacys task. Delegates sent to the state democratic convention this spring should meet with a feeling that it is a high privilege and a high responsibility that is vested in them. It will bo first state wide meeting of legally elected representatives of the party since democracy s;ell it with n small d or a large one has been in power In the national government. Their party's record should be an
inspiration to every delegate. It is a record of pro es "kept to the letter tho recori. of an intelligent unswerving facing of the big problems confronting tho nation and the solution of (hem in a manner commonFurato with the nation's expectations and the nation's needs. Keeping in step with so splendid a program, the delegates should bend themselves to the task of selecting a state t'eket of men whose records and characters are beyoiul reproach, big. tmad .uauKCi; progressive democrats who will command the respect of the thinking men of the state. The convention has a further duty the nomination of a party choice Tor the United .iate senate. It can. not be safely prophesied at this time whether there will bo one candidate or several for the place now to ably filled by Benjamin V. hively tf .outh Bend. Progressive democrats all over the nation will be looking to Indiana to return en. Shlvely to his seat indeed .t will be regarded as a distinct loss :o the cause of progressive democracy f any ether result should ensue. In J)'. ncite task of writincr a tariff, Ji'.w that would result in the irning of opportunity, in the lowernc of the high ro.?t of living and yet
A IXXIICAL APPOIXTMKNT. It is a relief and a satisfaction to have the matter of a permanent government for the canal zone settled and to know that Col. Goethals Is to remain as civil governor. The uncertainties surrounding the organization of the governn ent have been pleasantly dispelled. The public was in no mood to accept the idea that Col. Goethals was to leave the canal for any other work after carrying the canal to a successful completion. His services to the country in the capacity of chief engineer of that Important work would have been more or less discredited by any change short of honorable retirement. As governor of the zone Col. Goethals will be in position to round out an achievement unparalleled in tho world's history and to establish a government in accordance w'lth the dictates of his experience. Outside of this the closing up of the work can be accomplished with greater economy under charge of Col. Goethals than if a new and experienced man were put in his place. The new government will not im
mediately, but eventually, dispense with the services of the canal commission, though tho commission will have no administrative functions after the new government is installed, 0L will remain as a proper adjunct to the celebration of the opening of the canal.
Morgan Junior is peeved because the public criticizes the means by which his father made his fortune and refuses to turn the Morgan art collection over to tho Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mr. Morgan shouldn't be peeved. If reduced to the last analysis it would be found that the collection was purchased with money which belongs to the public. U J-TA J. L' The pope think? dancing the tango would be a severe penance for a sinner. As ordinarily danced it is certainly a punishment to the innocent bystander.
STATESMEN REAL AND NEAR
BY l'lU:i C. KELLY.
THE MELTING POT COME! TAKE POTLUCK WITH US.
I low would you like to be spending the winter in California, where it rained four days in succession and tied up the railroads? Compare that with the climate of northern Indiana,
The statement that if work for the unemployed in Chicago is provided most of the unemployed will leave the city is probably true.
Science is carrying us backward at aeroplane speed. A Trench scientist declare? the proper food for man is man.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2$. When the Ovens-Glass, 1914 model, currency bill was in process of construction, Bep. Carter Glass, chairman of the house committee in which the bill was incubated, sat in a weighty discussion one flay with Sen. Robert L. Owen, papa to the senate draft of the bill. After they had talked about their forthcoming offspring for a long time and were about to separate. Glass suddenly shifted topics and inquired: "Boo, speaking of currency, I have often wondered where you ever got the money to buy those cannon tirecrackers the day you made such a big stir down in Lynchburg?" You know, Owen and Glass, parents of the currency bill, were born two or three doors apart in Lynchburg, Va., and played together as boys. It was a rare thing: for either one to catch sight of money in those days and the idea that they would separate, grow up. and meet after many years in the national capitol to draft a currency bill for the nation would, of course, have seemed preposterous. Owen's uncle, by the way. was a doctor, and was for years physician to the Glass family, although he misted being on hand when Carter Glass was born. The first that younr" Robert Owen ever heard of the Glass family was when a fellow townsman shot little Carter Glass father's eye out. on account of an article that had appeared In Glass' newspaper.
What has been threatening appears :o be imminent. The yellow peril is
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:he eounlbs- industries to be affected jy it. Sen. Shively has had a big part. His intimate knowledge of affair.--, his appreciation of tne needs of the counry. made him a leader. Likewise? in the finally initiate jurrcney matter. Sen. .hivrly has flayed an important and "Ti'iciious ?art. He is one ,,f ih,. n.aio's "furvard looking"' men and ha ' dordV Won the o:;!;denee and :-;. !. of :lie adm;r.itratbn from .. ir gtf.it president down.
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if Tncle c'anvs roush riders should be turned loose en those Mexican banflits it would ease up the situation along tho border.
No one will be deceived by placing the mask of eitieiency on the mug ef extra a-ance. The mercury rose almost to CO Ti;,r.I.iy and if continued another Jay straw hats would have budded.
But to get back to Glass question about the cannon firecrackers: Lynchburg was a quiet little place and "Bob" Owen thought it should be aroused up a bit. He saved his money a penny at a time until he was able to buy two or three dozen large cannon firecrackers. It was not the Fourth of July, but that made Owen's project all the more noticeable. He put his mess of big firecrackers into a large and commodious basket and went about placing them on street corners and lighting them. As fast as one cracker went off and attracted a crowd. Ov.tn was a block away lighting another. His enterprise caused more talk than anything that had happened in Lynchburg for a long time especially among the youngsters, for a boy counted himself lucky If he had the price of one big firecracker. No one but Owen ever had the patience to save up for cannon crackers in dozen lots. Carter Glass was deeply impressed with Owen's great feat at the time, but the thing alipped from his mind and never occurred to him again until here the other day. And when he did think of it. it was small wonder that he dropped the discussion of national currency long enough to have Owens tell him how he acquired the currency to buy all those cannon firecrackers.
TiiKot Tin: yi:ii with LONGFELLOW. Week in. week out, from morn till night. You can hoar his Inflows blov; You can hear him ving lus heay si o I go. With ineaMircil boat and slow, lake a sexton ringing tho ilIago Ik-H. When tho owning sun Is low. The Yillage Blacksmith.
THE French scientist who attributes stomach troubles to animal food has coined a new phrase; "The proper food for man is man." Man, we presume, is used in a generic sense so that there need be no sex distinction. THE suggestion has its ramifications, since the human diet would provide not only flesh, but fruit and flowers. "Peaches" and "buds" would not be a bad concomitant, especially if the meat is from some tough old rooster whf) couldn't be made tender by parboiling. WE are persuaded, however, that the present high cost of living would be cheap by comparison. All of the men would want to live on fruits and flowers. Melting: Pot Definition. Laboring man Somebody just before elections. , Prostitute The only being to which man ever gave birth. Footpad A natural born captain of industry vulgarized by environment K. WHY should the Vanderbilts and their noble guests, shipwrecked in southern seas, be designated as a distinguished party? Our idea of being distinguished has no financial or com
mercial relation.
Boots Irf-ft Track-. (Angola Cor. Ft. Wayne News.) Clyde Boots, of near Salem, and
Mary Denny, of this city, were married at Hillsdale th .n afternoon. They want,ed to keep their marriage a secret and to do this Mr. Boots got on the train at Pleasant Lake and Miss
Denny here. THE venerable Anna Held and John Drew joke is revived by what the spiral Anna is reported to have drawn from the estate of a dweller in San Francisco's redlight district, it is un
derstood that Anna's compunctions against taking tainted money will not interfere with the transfer.
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Events move sometimes in funny little circles. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray of Oklahoma got up in the house a short time ago and delivered a rpeech boosting the proposition for government aid to manual training in the public schools. It was a good speech, with ideas and facts in it. When Murray had finished, Bep. Charles Davis of Minnesota walked over to offer him congratulations. "Do you take an interest in that sort of thing?" inquired Murray. "Yes, indeed," replied Davis; "I got up a vocational education bill and made several speeches on it myself when I first came to congress. I also had the pleasure of speaking before a number of educational associations over the country in regard to the bill, and I have been a strong advocate of such a measure ever since. When did you first become interested in it?" "Well," replied Murray, '"I guess my first serious Interest in the proposition dates back to a speech I read in a paper at Oklahoma City several years ao. A big national education association met there and a man then in congress delivered a spech before them on vocational education that deeply impressed me. I've been investigating and following it up ever since. And by the way, the congressman who got me started was named Davis the same as yours. Funny coincidence that he would have the same name wasn't It?" "Yes." laughed Davis, "and the coincidence goes even farther than you thought. For I was the Davis."
Little things like Japan's impudence strengthen the argument for a bigger mJ bitter navy.
Tin: m:soN. A capable wumun had been named fer a JT.jfO position by Mayor Mitrhel of New York. Perhaps one reason so many men are averse to biting womtn vote is that they are qualifying so t:,si fur the big job. Baltimore American.
As he was about to carve a handsome large turkey and apportion the
wnite meat and dressing among a
number of distinguished guests at his home one night. Sen. Atlee PoTierene of Ohio was reminded of an awful experience. It was when he was a young lawyer, and shortly after he was married. He had gone to a small town in southern Ohio, some distance from his home, to try a lawsuit and the
case ran up to the Thanksgiving
season.
All the lawyers were anxious to get
home, especially Atlee romerene as it would be his first holiday with his
new wife. But the Judge was equal
ly anxious to have them stav and get the case disposed of. Atlee Pomerene got up and proposed that they adjourn over Thanksgiving giving as his reason the necessity for looking up another witness or two. But he failed to fool the judge. "Young man." said the judge, shaking his finger sternly at Pomerene, "you've got more turkey in your eye now than you'll have in your mouth tomorrow. We're going to stick right here."
Knocks the Installment Plan.
If I were ever inspired with
enough continuity of thought to attempt writing more than a dozen lines on a given subject I would be effectively pulled up by the thought of having a part of them unread, being relegated to some other and undiscoverable part of the paper by the Interjection: "Continued on page ." D. TO our mind rather the best thing Mrs. Colt does is her "Tante." We speak of her as Mrs. Colt lor the reason' that while we admin? her none the !ess as an actress we admire her the more as a mother. A Fable. One tim there was a gink what onwke,, nothing but ten cent perfectos. If the old uy would of had to fork over his own coin for 'cm, he couldn't of done it. But his pals kind of took a shine to him and kept him pretty well stocked up v. ith choice Havana?, but just like most all regular guys this one began to get perticular and wanted his pals to give him fifteen centers. His pals got hep and dug for the background, so the-old guv had to bean up for his own smokes. He couldn't cough up for Pittsburgh stogies, so he had to buy an old pipe and smoke clippings, and he's still using clippings. ADAM PHULE. (To Be Continued.) "POSSIBLY it is the suede shoes," writes old D. R. S.. "tlu.t give the girls that Swedish movement when they walk." Tliat Accounts For It. (Marion Chronicle.) The couple had been divorced once before, but the sickness of one of their two children caused them to remarrv. After the child's death the couple lived together about a year until they parted again last October. The,y are Marion residents. WE are not surprised that the first robin is reported. The robin is very human. He will go wherever there is a chance to get something to oat. BUT it takes more than one robin to make a spring month out of January. C. X. F.
SECOND YEAR OF MARRIED LIFE.
PACKING AWAY THE SUMMER AND GETTING OUT Till j WINTER CLOTHES.
BY MABEL HERBERT URNER.
YIee Pre. Marshall has a double in Washington. He is But wait. During the Baltimore convention Edward B. Clark. Washington correspondent for the Chicago Evening Post, sat in one of the galleries talking to a group of Indiana people. Within plain eight were a number of lithograph? of Thomas R. Marshall. "You Indiana folks would have more chance to have your man Marshall nominated," remarked Clark, "if you did not display so many, pictures of him. He probably Is a good man and all that, but thee pictures make him look like a professional horrible example." Marshall has gray hair and a gray mustache. So has Clark. Just as Clark was in the midst of deploring the Marshall pictures, a stranger walked over. put out his hand and said to Clark: "Good afternoon. Gov. Marshall." (Copyright. 1914. by Fred C. Kelly. All rights reserved.)
MARRIAGE LICENSES. Charles Johnson. 22. bootmaker; Mary Sheibley, 21, Chester King. 21, porter; Yora Washington. 20. Harry Kemble, 40, contractor; Caroline Dreler. 4 6.
There is something subtly depressing in putting away the clothes of one season and taking out those of the next. There are always memories and associations that cling about them. If the season had been a happy one. it is with regret that we realize it is past. If it was unhappy or even an indifferent one, we are tilled with vague sadness that another half year has gone and brought us so little. And there is always, too, a feeling that we have failed to make the most of the time. There are suggestions of lost opportunities, possibilities of happiiress or achievement in the. season now ended, that we have missed. And now as Helen folded away her summer dresses, something of all this was in her mind. She wondeied, too, what the next summer would be like what change might come before she would again unpack these things. Would Warren and she be closer or farther awav? what gradual shifting of conditions might not another six months bring? There is, too. a deminiscent sadness about the things from the year before. And as she shook the camphor halls from her furs and laid them in the window to sun she could hardly have analyzed her feeling of depression. She thought of the day Warren had bought them for her. She remembered how he had said, as he rubbed his hand over the oft fur: "Looks Just like you. Kitten." How rarely he called her "Kitten" now. How rarely he used any pet names or endearing terms. As she shook the creases from Warren's heavy overcoat something fluttered from one of the pockets.
They were the stubs of theater tickets "Orchestra M, Dee. 5." She remembered the night, a bitter cold night with the deep snow 'rom the day before, and Warren had scolded because she had forgotten her rubbers. She had wanted to go to a problem play, but he had insisted on vaudeville. And it had been a very poor bill, except for a one-act play. She smiled as she thought of their heated argument on the way heme over the ethics Involved in the sketch a girl to choo.e between stealing and going on the street. Helen put the bits of pasteboard
into the coat pocket with a foolish sentiment, that since they had been there so long she would not throw them away. Then, Instinctively, she went through the other pockets some matches, a cigarette, a collar button (the cheap black kind -the laundries use), a pencil and a subway ticket. Evidently she had packed the coat away in a hurry' and had forgotten to go through it. There Hashed through her mind a story she had read not long before of a wife emptying the pockets before sending one of her husband's suits to the tailor and finding a note which proved his unfaithfulness. Helen stooped over and rubber her cheek against the coat with a sudden rush of tenderness. At least she need never fear that! She could go through the pockets of all his suits. and find nothing like that. She hugged that thought to her now as she had many times before. "Do you want tomatoes with the salad tonight or Just the plain lettuce?" asked Delia. coming to the door. "Why tomatoes of course, if you have any nice ones and a little green pepper. While you're hero, Delia, help me lift out this tr;iy. No. I want that chair we'd better put it here on the tloor. And Delia." as she started out. heat an iron for m I want to press out some things." The dining room clock struck four r.nd Helen realized that she must hurry if she wanted to g- t these trunks and boxes cleared away before Warren came. Quickly she took out the ret of the winter clothes and packed in their place the summer things, making a !it of the contents of each box and trunk. This she always did. so if any one article was needed before the others, it would easily he found. She never packed WarrenV things separately. There was always a
feeling that she wanted them with hers it gave a certain sense of intimacy seeing his clothes laid away with her own. "Tho iron's hot,' ma'am?" called Delia. "All right, but come help me here a moment tirst. Here." handing her a pencil and pad, "mak a list of these things as I put them in." Delia was not an expert penman, but she managed to write legibly the articles which Helen called out as she folded and packed them away. "Pongee suit. Blue mull dress. White parasol. Warren's linen coat. Warren's gray llannel suit. Warren's blue serge suit. White duck skirt." There was a quick step in the hall and Warren opened the door. "Hello. What's going on .here?" gazing around at the littered' room. Helen was on the floor folding up the white skirt. "Oh. I didn't expect you so soon' I'm Just getting out the winter things." "What on earth's that?" as something crunched under his heel. "Oh. dear, vou've stepped on a moth ball. Wait, I'll get the dustpan and brush it up." "Well, it smells like fury! Can't you get something else for the moths besides this stuff?" "Yes. but nothing so good. It's the odor that keeps them awf:" "I should say it was strong enough to keep anything away. That's my heavy overcoat over then??" crossing the room and picking up the coat. He took it over to the window and examined it critically. "Not a bad looking coat. Have it pressed up and it'll do the first of the winter anyway. Where's that brown suit?" "Flight over there, dear, on that chair. No, not there the other one there under my dress." "Needs a good sponging and pressing. What's this on the lapel? Some of jour powder, that's what it is. You've got most of my coats ruined with .hat infernal face powder of
yours.
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stick? like grease. By Goorge, nothing will take it off!" "Why Warren, you know I never Use anything but rice powder and surely I don't use enough to " "Enough? Enough? You Just plaster it on that's all. But I'll take mighty good care you don't smear up my coats this winter." "Don't dear don't say such things to me now. I've been depressed all day working over these things." "Depressed? What's there about this to depress you? The only thing I notice is this," kicking a moth ball out of his way. Helen was rolling up some gauze underwear and filling in the corners of the trun.k. "It is depressing. der. packing away all these summer things and wondering what will happen what changes may come about before they are taken out next year." Warren threw down th sweater he had picked up. with a gesture of disgust. "Cad! You're even orse than I thought! If there's 'anything you
can't moon over. I'd like to know what it is. Here!" as ho stepped on another moth ball. "What are you trying to do; scatter these blooming things all over the place."
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Eidy. I like and admire you. Think you a regular pencil. Yet 1 would ask and desire you IVg you to hark to my speech You who are sweet as the heather. Fair as; a rose and all that Why do you carry that feather Stuck" in your hat? Think you, perchance, it i- natty? Nay. it is fearfully plain. Stiff in the sunshin c and ratty When it comm ences to ram, Yet in all places and weather. Everywhere an y man goes, Some woman's hat has a feather Tickling his no se! Eady. I hate to bo kicking. Yet I protest to you, why "Why must that fe ather be sticking Constantly into my eye? ome day I'll lose altogether Patience and en Imness. I swear; Then I will Mto ofT that feather Eadv, beware! $ BERTON ERA EE Y
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