South Bend News-Times, Volume 31, Number 276, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 26 September 1914 — Page 4

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jour insertion Iiom phene llil; CONE. LOIXENZr.N Foreign Advertising 12$ Fifth Avmue. New York. soi i n i;i:m. iniiax.. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL S. SKXAloIi- HnJ.inun foi: v. r i: ir.ni ihstkp't kkj'kksknta-T(Vi:-Il-urv A. Is-1-..i..irt. TATK. nIt SKCKKT V ST.Vl L-Humr i. '.ook. FUll Al.'UITOll OF STATK-lMle J. Crlttf nl'i'gT. 1 K Ti;KA.SfKi:i: Ol' STATK--org'. v. :mtiT. foic "rrT. vvut.xc iNSTitrcriox CTi.Trim A. irt ip.'ue. ron juiidi: 81Tki:mj: nritT-M 11. IViiry. KUU Jt:STK'i:S (rfl AFl'F.r.LATK (.OlJRT- J vlii ;. I!,..!i. Fr-fli-ri.-!; sMell. Milton 11. Mottel. JMhuM W. IV !t and Frank M. Powers. FOR CLKKK OF SL'PItPMi: COCKT J, Fr-1 l-'rnn.-e. FOi; ATTOUMCY OKNEK.W-Klrhan! Ml!!, urn. fcOK STATU JFOi0;iST I'd ward Lurrett. LKGILTIVi:. VOll STATK SI ; NATO ii ;,,), riel n Suinrrxr. FOI! STATIC ItKlMtF.sr.NTATIvn ;o'5T Y. II11r hi'd '!i:r A. IIirrrtJ. FOR ,TUNT ISIirunSLNTATIVK i'etcr A. F)Ilri!'r. that m:iri,ucAN iuami:i:. Tho irpuMicans made a mistake, and then, in their anviety t cover it up, have made the sond mistake of trying to justify the tir.st. Thi3 is about the sum total f the Oliver hotel affair put owr a week afo in tho desperatPn of the repuhlican leaders to make a respectalde hhowin In the entertainment of their candidates for United States senator and congressman; that is the sum total of the affair plus the aftermath. (iranted that there was no thought of the corrupt practices act or culpabh intention to violate it. Granted that it vas merely the republican idea of the best way, and due to their sMf-conce iv-d weakn s.admittedly the only possible way of petting a couplo hundrcl people together to hear tho quests of honor expound the wornout antl ilishonored republican yo phis try. Out of a semi-pity one minht let the Incident pass on that score, but when, apprised of the provisions of the law, an effort is made to Justify the violation by reading the statute out of existence, the situation becomes more serious. The mere fact that the law covers "meat" and "provisions" as well a.s "drink" served 'is a political campaign drawing curd, scarcely justifies a construction or misconstruction of the statute, to as to admit of all three ... .... I "meat and "provision provisos. I . .. . : south liend and nil imilana nia hoped that the day of the "beer guzzling" house party campaign had gone. To get rid of it the legislature of the tate passed a law, as it found it hail to, considerably broader than the offense really aimed at in order to hit the offense itself, taking in the

entire rang of corrupt practices, and j improprieties. The American people this is where such affairs as that atih:,ve l,,'en UI their hor to

the Oliver cot scorched. The MIIIer-Hickey dinner, while not a "beer party", was a synonym for it within the meaning of the act. The purpose of it was to get out a. crowd by promise of something of more physical substantiality than the legitimate "feast of reason and Mow of .soul"; by an appeal to the appetite as well as to the intellect. To say that there must be a definite understanding as to how the "guzzlers" or "banqueters" will vote. In order to violate the law, is to set uside the law entirely, that situation being covered by the old law against ote-buying, and which the corruptionists had learned so well how to evade. Th' corrupt praetkes act was passed to cover the spirit of the old law. which hy not having the aforesaid "definite understanding", it was so easy to cvad as to the letter. Exhibitions of good-fellowship like that at the Oliver, and such as was formerly shown at the "beer parties", calculated to itihIi a man's heart through his stomach rather than his head, is exactly the sort of rorruptincr influence that the law would put under the ban. Seeing that justices of the supreme am! appellate courts are to be elected this year, one is almost bound to wonder if the ;. o. I interpretation of th-1 corrupt practices law would receive judicial saiu tion frm th- republican candidates tor the bench. . .

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of that statute be brought before them. The application might even be made locally witb re.-;:rd t the ludue of the superior 'urt. t!o;.h it be :i comt of inferior Juri.-di tn-n. Is the local republican effort to minimize the sope of this law a forecast of uh.it might happen to it with a republican judb iary in the st.it In that party's mad ei'tort to resurrect the obi l lS Whe'l it le.'l to win its elections by corrupting the ballot In l b , Ks of ten. and by threats and intimidation '.' We hob no brief f,,r the progressive p.-.rty. Perhaps as the rfpublirns claim, rile !,-.;H nj"oe affair at the V. M. C. a., 1 ... k in the spring, tva of a similar order to the Oliver dinner, but It wasn't. No campaign

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o.w , phone 2100. j A WOODMAN Ilapretentatives. Advtrtlslnr Bulldlnr. Chicmrt ; si:iti-:misi-:k , ion TICKET. hy. jor.rii coi nty. roir suFFirioi: coitut jfikjk jp.,rf Ford. Foil l'llOSFCFTING ATToIlNKY ('lfstr II. Me njr ir.T . Fii: HIIFIUFF- riairles Unlley. FOi: AFIHTOK -Arthur Wolf. FOR IlKroUIiKU- nHrt K. Kly. FOR t.'LL'UK-'fjenrge Kaah. FOR IIIF.ASFRFR- Frl V. Mirtin. FOR AS.SIiSSOIt John M. Truuv F(R MCKVLVOIl Hen-h-rs..: MK.'lr.an. Toil COItONER Thoma J. Swaatx. COMMISSIONLICS (MIMlt Pistrlct). Thomas Willlauj; (Western tMntrk-t). J. W. Miller. RiK'y, Melville W. Mix and Fra'ik Mayr, Jr. I'OKTAGr: TOWNMIIIT. FOR TRFSTF.K--u A. Klinjler. FOR ASSESSOi: Joseph Voorde. for ju.Tin of tiii: rnACiv-J. Flrner I'iik and .h ijh V. WypUzynakl. FOR CONSTAllLI2 Robert A. Ikyrer aud Andnw FRzkanUz. was on at that tiin. Candidates had not been nominated. It whs more of a sort of general house-warmini; affair, but granted all that the republicans claim for it, the facts do not change the lnw, and there is another party to be considered, namely, the democratic. The point is for all parties to eliminate such entertainments, capable of exercising corrupting influence, from their campaign, programs. The best rule in the world to follow ln the interpretation of this lav." is the rule of right. When your mind suggests to you that something you are ahout to do may be a violation of the statute, give the statute the benefit of the doubt instead of taking it yourself. It is safer. The fact that the question pops up ln your hrain that you are about to go wrong is pretty good evidence that you are if you don't stop, and always remember that there is no law against doing the right thing even if the law does not explicitly require that you shall do it. A republican confession would be infinitely better for its soul granting that it possesses such a property than the attempt to excuse itself by just nonchalantly repealing the law. (iooi) k;ht: In nothing will the diplomatic representatives of Germany and Turkey in the United States be so honored as in their retirement. Were it not voluntary and timely we might i tempt- . ...... . . . ed to use the laminar iormuia 01 "What's your hurry? Here's your hat." This is a land of free speech, but that fact should not bo accepted as a license for impropriety, and partisan discussion of the European crisis has ben ollicially classified among the respect the. neutral attitude of their government by refraining from taking

sides and it is remarkable how unanl- j should not greatly tax his mental enmously they have avoided the con-! orgies. He is working over his old troversial discussion of the merits of fpeecries;. the European contlict and with what: 1T . " . : , . . ,i Hearings of petitions for peace have fairness and good spirit the press has;. 4 , . been postponed until the Aisne contreated the combatants. i , , s troversy is cleared from the docket. The war. i a subject of partisan consideration, is taboo in the American Villa's patriotism has become subhousehold and our guests should have j ject to further consideration.

the courtesy to respect the ban St) appropriately placed upon expression. The censorship, which it may be properly called, rests alike upon all within our borders. If any of our guests find it impossible to conform to th? conditions of our hospitality, they will display their good taste by immediately taking themselves off. At the moment Baron von ,choen and Rustern Bey are commended to us chiefly by their purpose to observe the proprieties by asking for leave of i absence, and in a rush of grateful im- ! pulse we are moved to wish that It j may be permanent. There must be j persons in both Germany and Turkey w ho ,-ould be trusted to keen decreet ; who tuld Im tru Wd to ketp scr.t longu s in lueu ueaos t.u i.e., m 1 . i , America do as the Americans do. The indiscriminate talker Is a miisinc mui.ciiuuuaie uuk.i mub a nc cumstances. though ordinarily toler- 1 ate.l because usually harmless, but when it comes to diplomatic agents, ' .1 t . ..1 -i . 1 of the rank o; ambassadors at least. , becoming injudiciously loquacious we j niiut -w 1, rn-jtr.r nf (tf ni! iirn. i rtri,...j i... ,h.,!,...r or ineir moikj. ' CIIAKITV BEGINS AT HOME. We are inclined to side ulth those who feel that Kurope should not expect too much of America in the way t of charitable assistance. Whatever is done should be done voluntarily and with a due regard for our home needs. Furope has brought this calamity j upon herself and while preparing for j eparing tor for its cons was done, war should have prepared sequences. Presumably thl 1 ieuiuaoi wie warring nations can fury their own dead, care for their

own wounded and sick and protect their own helpless and needy. It would be u serious reflection upon these nations If they had engaged hi war without making provisions for

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1 j;vp1oM and could have set aside funds f"r lhis i,un.-. if they failed to ,io u,) ln advance it should he d(int now. There are many people in the r,f.. . , . i I nited Mates who ran afford to make i contributions for carrying on the work j of the Ked Cross and being so situatd it is perhaps a duty for them I . . , , . . i aMf:i!'t. hut the great mass of Amer- j lcan I'nple have ahout all they can; unuruu wiin n 1 ne c n ens u uuu l,ulns condition and the high cost f H Insr. Their first duty is to themselves and their own people. ir motiii;ks .should stiliki:. From a western reader comes the most radical suggestion for peace yet seen. "Let the mothers of the world go on a strike," she proposes. "Iet them refuse to bring children into existence until the whole world disarms." A strike of mothers! Fan you imagine it? Yet why should a woman bring a. child into the world to be shot for another man's glory or to feed with its wasted life another man's hate? Soon or late, in one way or another, the women of civilization must make this strike; for it's evident thft until they do war will remain among the scourges of the race. Man nas Idealized the patient woman who sits within four walls and croons to baby In the cradle whilst he. the lord of creation, plots and fights. Hut in the battles man has neglected to keep th home a sanctuary. From its smoking ruins ho dooms the weeping mother to wander, forsaken, shelterless. It Is woman who must stop all this man, unaided, is still too much the brute. The hand that fondles baby must become the hand that rules the world. It is only in fiction that it does s;o now. Adopting the safe plan Secy. Fanlels has closed the wireless station at Siasconset, Mass. The Marconi people failed to give assurance of compliance with the naval regulations, but will eventually recognize that the government is bigger even than a wireless corporation. Canada has contributed H2.000 soldiers to the allies forces in Europe and they are now on the way. These reenforcements from the west side of the Atlantic will inject the American spirit into the fray. Fthl Roosevelt Uerby and her husband are going to Paris to aid In caring for the wounded. The colonel will take care of the bahy while she is absent. Anyway. American made toys are much the prettiest and will cost fully as much. And the children will not care what language they are made in. Having turned New York's flank and put the allies to route the brave bean busters of Boston are marching peacefully on Toward pennantvllle. Seventy-five miles isn't far when the going is good, but the roads between Paris and the (lerman front are hard ones to travel. For the sake of discontinuing the argument let's admit that the cathedral of Notre Dame is not damaged beyond repair. The German people are backing their armies with their money. The war loan subscription has reached a billion dollars. Tlu colonel's present campaign Iet the Turkish ambassador stick, but s'ick somewhere -else. LETTERS OF THE PEOPLE 5C S? ijc The lVviPs Headlight. To the Editor of The News-Times: The laboring man living a few miles from his work, who rides a bicycle and is unable to 'reach home before dark, or the delivery man who does , ntl ei U! '.H llHJrk' v wno is forced to face the bright lights j

of the automobile do not expect to be(a"oxt l"e noise ami tumult 01 tni

benefited by this article, but they "f wners or illy learn ;ht li 'hts this nuisance to rea n - - what a detriment these bright are to a person coming from the opdirection Reeentlv I rode a bicycle on a streer in th north nd of town nn this same street they were building a ft'w nw houses. Gravel and boards were heaped ln the gutter of the strt (th on,y la0e ftfc;ierw,n is hafo to ride a wheel when an automobile is cominir l. T vn irolnir mirth with . . v. 1 !!.... .1. v.!.. uir 011x111 hkius 01 uie macume shinin- in mv evs I not known of thls trash in the gutter I would' undoubtedlv have ridden into it and ' 'injured myself. The bright lights of tiu untn 1 .... ...... ,.u i i'huu ii -v ee but had I hurt mvself I do nt . ee. uui 11a.11 1 aun mseu 1 do noi l believe they would have riuyi'ru i" see what happened and surelv thev wmihl I mirnavehCerdd nor wouUthey have had to sutler the pains. .Surely this new city government. J motto is a wrn dl U l Moi. .hP 2 .MnTl" whose South Bend - nrhi;;;, ; . iVm ed or dimmed in some war as the Ltr orr,v- fr.i .... the lives of the public much lonirer -.-r. vai -""'i"'U ton-eu in uu 7' oan ms 1 th hrlirnf ntornr .fin H,r,t few years ago AUTO LIGHTS Don't you enjoy hearMusical On ing a good flute player? Heartless Wretch I certainly do. But don't let that stop you.

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SIX MONTHS WITH POETS AM) PHIIiOSOPHKKS. There are stranire shadow filtered of the moon. More numutdh than the eleareut duule of day. Go forth, when all the Ieaes whisIkt of June, Into the dusk of swooping, hats at play Or go Into that late Noemler dusk When hills take on the noble lines of death. And on the air the faint astringent musk Of rotting leaes iours vaguely troubling breath Then sdiall you Me sliadows whereof the sun Knows nothing, ay, a thousand sliadows tliere Sliall leap and flicker und stir and stray ami run, lake ietrJs of the changing foul or fair lake ghosts of twilight, of the moon, of him Whose homeland lies past each horizon's rim. Arthur Davison Ficke. It ts a vanity to iei-suade the world one hath much Icnrnhu; hy getting a great library. As soon MiaH I believe etery one is xaliant that hath a well furnished armory. I gtics "mmI housekeeping y the smoking, not the number of the tunnels, as knowing that many of tliejn Imllt merely for uniformity are without chimneys, and more without fires. Thomas Fuller. PERHAPS the people at war Jn Furmip are .is nivilireri n nil,l consistent wnn me uusiness tnev art engaged in. At the period when the physical struggle for existence was a ,n,ttnr rxt th. cnrvJvni r,f t,. d.t.ct

civilization was impossible. Now . lowers wet with dew. Iheie is beaut when the struggle for higher stand- ! 1,1 f"nught as golden as the apple ards of living degenerates int.. phvsi- at N fus doth hold thore s somecal combat a reversion to type inev- thin like ecstacy moves u when the itablv follows. angela their star-scrolls unfold. There are glorious tints in the anWE should be thankful, perhaps, turnn and venial delight in the that the survivors do not eat their vie- spring, while the cadence that echoes tims. the cccan doth heart-easirg peace to us bring. But there's nothing below GOLFERS are at times amazed by or above us so beautiful, pure, unthe "form" displayed in advertising defieled, as the glimpse into God's illustrations, juU as, we presume, own sweet heaven we get in the smile

surgeons are at time nonplused by finding abnormal growths and malformations ln cadavers. And yet, as long as the club and the knickerbockers are there to suggest the game we presume every purpose of the author is fulfilled. THIS may divert your mind from the horrors of war. "We have wondered many times," writes a correspondent of the Burr ak Acorn, "who would have been the first man if it hadn't happened to be Adam." ON THi: SIDE LINES. A cold drizzle is falling. The Germans are on their eight yard line. Captain von Kluck runs along behind his men, patting each on the back as he whispers the signal. "Forward, Kin hundert und dieizig, Hoch der Kaiser," he. cries. The heaving green line plunges forward. A dull thud spreads over the field as the Green collides with the Red of France. "Hold 'cm, hold 'em" wafts across the field from the stands at Paris. The teams untangle and the stands see the correspondents on the line move their markers back two yards and the ball is planted on the Green's six yard line. The Paris stands break out in nine times nine "Huzzahs" and the Marseilles rolls over the field from thousands of throats. And slowly the chant comes to the Red line, "Hold 'em, hold "em." Quickly the scrimmage lines again form. WHAT THE A TIME I OK LARGER VOICES. Twenty leading English authors nearly all widely read in the United States, have Joined in a statement that the "present war ia one to maintain t)w f 1 1 , . 1. 11 4 the free and law-abiding ideals of western Europe against a rule of blood and iron and the domination of the whole continent by a military caste.") These afithors express their honest conviction. Men like Barrie. Bennett. Zangwill, Doyle, Galesworthy, Jones, Pinero to mention a few of the signers are entitled to be heard with respect. But their voices fall fiat amid the noise and tumult of this tremendous conllict. It needs larger voices to be heard today. Only the great minds of all nations, the minds large enough to rise above the accidents of time and nationality and make themselves the oracles not of a simile nation but of all the world, not only the prophets not of a generation but of humanity, lift voices high enough to hear. It takes a Shakespeare's voice to Fban the terror-laden seas and speak ru,r - IaKfs :i Goetne s majestic tone to impose itself upon the hu- - t..o. n.-' 11 m".n , man niind in these days of the grea nMiet. U needs a Tolstoy, arch it "ltle of peace, holding fast to peace ! as 11 to eternal Truth, to speak mum ami neart today. ininif ouuoing in exile ami giiei his "mediaeval miracle of song" Cervantes making his half-crazed knight noble with noble aims in' spite of his disordered wits, Moliere. upon whos face the comic mask became a sym bol of wisdom, depth and penetration such olees onlv c:in l.e h-aril tt "a-v-"u poueriuiiy tney speaK lhese ur"at voices! How their majes- ' K "ots in tu' lar' aI lal',1 n.toie air aooe tnis war-mad worm. . ! ,,l,,lu,, nuiii ine gouin.e luniuui, , . .... .... , i, e . , ... : niiiMi iuhi lilt" IIlLieiieS."" Ill tlll.Ol.I i numanuy ami me am"f nationality, the eternal truth "JlK.S1. j wiirir innt i eilUS mill ailUS loo lliutil have sway! How wonderfully they speak: One rthnht of nful, sinless Margaret in ' Prison moves the human heart and I mind more powerfully than all that' Vr thOUlh n ! H ni t onski. wounded on I th held of battle and feeling a great ; ....... nn.i oil ku r, . h.1Mmih:.- .... i soui avails much more than miles of author' statements. I One small, imagined sigh from i sweet Cordelia, one fancied smile j upon the lips of Imogen, one Meeting dream of Juliet from her window i leaning, brings Ungland closer to this ' land of ours than Kipling, Pinero,

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"Hit 'em high, bit em low" shru-k the Ferlin stands. Coach Wilhelm. races down the side lines. Crouched low he watches for the next play. Again Captain von Kluck pats his steaming men and whispers encouraging words. "Hohenznllern-Donnerwetter--Xechs und Hechzig." he calls. Like an avalanche the Green line ploughs forward and this time the lied line rolls back. The correspondents put the marker on the Green ten yard line. ; Captain Joffre is seen to wave his arms. Weary men from his lines drop ovit and drag themselves to the side lines. Fresh men this tim from the I British Browh rush across the field into the fray. The Greens are again hurled back. Then thev gain and again they lose. J. AKE. (To Be Continued.) ADD horrors of war: "The Grabill male chorus is preparing to render a concert in the near future." Ft. Wayne Journal -Gazette. AVE are persuaded by reading their contributions that the ramblings of the American war correspondents in Europe are not wholly physical. A "Bab" Ballad. ( K a 1 a m az 00 Te 1 1 1; ra n h - P re s s . ) Th radiant glow of the sunset at the dose of a beautiful day inspires Nature's poets to paint it in a soulful ami wonderful way, and the artist. i with brush touched by magic, its hues I to the canvas doth bring, and we gaze 1 on his work, all admiring, and say, ! " 'Tis a marvelous thing!" A garden of roses in summer delights beyond meagre the eye; as we list to sweet i "U1-s"; " ' uinu-HKe aim, speuuouuo I with melody, sigh. There's beauty and joy in a sunrise that melts into oceans of blue; there's rupture in nring a linnet sing iorm in uie of a child. HOPE springs eternal. The Iike Shore Is to build a new passenger station in Constantlne. .Some sweet day but, no, we dare not give utterance to the thought. BY the way, what has become of the old-fashioned man who used to think we ought to have a union railway station in South Bend? Horrors of War In Toto. (North Judson News.) Toto, city of modern heroism, resembled a village of seething Europe, Saturday evening, according to reports from the seat of war. What promised at first to be a pitched battle with odds even, at last degenerated into a one round drawl for white hope supremacy of this bold region. The artistic affair culminated, fortunately, at the proper time, and the scene closed with soft lights and purple music. WE are unable to work up any grief over the position of the Chicago Ameiican and National league clubs in the pennant raco. Chicago should command the support and respect of every fan in this section of the middle west, but never will until she learns true sportsmanship. Buy a bale, buy a bale of cotton; Put your dollars where they'll do Something for the country, too; Buy a bale, buy a bale of cotton. C. N. F. PAPERS SAY Doyle. Bridges and all that list of am nors e cr couiu. it u lvlmn v. tliinl- of these erpat creation.s creations that are a part of the common heritage of humanity vast in insight, scope and reach, serv.ng the highest in all mankind alik(.J:that 1(rofudicrs fil(le away like magic and all our better, truer, nobiPr selven comes to the surface, when we think of these great protagonists of art and truth and beauty hniip P,,, rlenr tbnt some dav nations may bring themselves to move and act in the line atmosphere of high ideals may realize that a nai tion, even as a great genius, exists not for itself alone but all the world. Chicago Herald. COUNTING NOSES. There have been many conclusions regarding the Maine election, but after all has been said there is one thing very evident. Tiiat is that the progressive oters of Maine stood up and were counted. If the rest of the country votes as did Maine, in this entirely normal and average-man election of hers, we may com Hole, iirst. that there will be no landslide; second, that the predicted revulsion against the party in power j will not be strong enouga to turn it out: third, that the progressives are strong enough to prevent the republican party from returning to otfice. If the progressives had gone back to their old party, Gov. Haines would have been reelected. 'omparisons with the vote of l'jlL' are idle: in 1!1the vote cast for Roosevelt in Maine was not a progressive vote, but a Roosevelt vote, cast largely by republicans and democrats who had no idea of leaing their party. The progressives as such, have now stood up to be counted in Maine for the iirst time: v,; v,...i ...... m. im o. ni.s u.f otle Jiau .o ,,1,.1,0. u. .-. . ... t-,.- ,t .-... ....... .I-,;- ? r,n h " ii' mri ill"" nrn ruuill, n n, . . 01 m.unhi; men cv.wr.tw. The only conclusion remaining is that X "CJX"? A oiai iiiU r nui u " t-u irn j for tin political expediency of capI turing jobs. Maine is a suite in which the new party will grow and grow. I The defeat of the standpat candidates can also be int Vi- t0r'-T . ..PVIV, STAMNG interpreted s a progresTerre Haute Tribune. on thi: job. "America is greater than any party. Parties will fare well enough without nursing if the men who make them up and the men who leacl them forget themselves to serve a cause and set a reat people forward on the path of liberty and peace." This is the spirit that breathes throughout Pres. Wilton's letter

Bornhart Check Waste Bill To Save Million Dollars In Public Printing, Is Debated

Wednesday of this week, according to the Congressional Record, must have been at bast one-half Barnhart day, when the lower house of congress reso! c! itself into a committee of the whole on the state of the Union, the Barnhart bill to reduce the cost of public printing, being one of the principal subjects of debate. On this occasion. Congressman H. A. Barnhart of Rochester, representing this, the thirteenth Indiana district, and father of the bill, was 'h center of considerable attraction ami object of much criticism from the republican side of the house where, to make the democratic economy record look a.s bad a5 possible, every effort was made to cut down the bill's economic features. The extravagance of Uncle Sam's printing bills, through a system inherited from the republicans, is revealed in the report filed hy the house committee on printing which has had the Barnhart bill to revise and codify the public printing laws under consideration. That something needs to V" done to check waste in the Mg government printing office is evident. The bill gives the joint committee closer supervision over the government printery and provides for a curtailment of the indiscriminate use of the printing privilege by government departments and officials. The hnusp committee estimates that the government has been losing about a million dollars annually in the publication of useless documents and the duplication of work. "That the present method of printing and distributing government publications has become an almost uttf-r failure is clearly evident from the enormous accumulation of obsolete and useless documents in the government warehouses year after year," says the report on the Barnhart bill. "In the last six years these publications have reached a total of more than six million, the great bulk of which have had to be disposed of as waste paper without ever having been unwrapped or read by anyone." The report contains a table showing the accumulation of these useless documents during the past six years and it appears that 1909 was the banner year for needless printing. The superintendent of documents, government printing office, showed that he had on hand 1,435,271' uncalled for documents and in 1910 there were 1,000,000 useless documents in tho folding room of the house of representatives and more than 900,000 left with the superintendent of documents. The 1914 report of that superintendent showed 500000 on hand for condemnation. "The accumulation of 1909 in the office of the superintendent of documents." continues the house committee report, "resulted from documents returned bv the departments and libraries that had no further use for such publications. The books had become so obsolete and shelf worn as to he unlit lor further distribution, and the entire accumulation of 1,4?,5,212 publications was sold by the public printer as waste paper at eighttenths of a cent a pound. to Congressman Doremue, in which he tells why he must decline to engage actively in the democratic campaign this year. It Is the spirit of patriotic service, of service to the whole people, so strongly exemplified by the president throughout his official career. It Is the spirit which declared that that party serves itself best that serves the country best and which forgets selfinterest in working for the common good. The president, In his own homely language, will "stay on the job." His job, as he sees it, is to stay in Washington and face the serious responsibilities that the war abroad has placed upon those who have been chosen by the American people to administer 1 their government, to advance their prosperity and to preserve for them the blessings of peace. The nation has suddenly been confronted with new problems, in which questions of party have no place. These problems must be met wisely, unselfishly and ln all harmony, with full confidence that the people will justly appraise the work of their servants. "This is a time when America expects every man to do his duty with1 out thought of profit or advantage to himself." Here is a broad hint to those members of Congress who have been too busy seeking reelection to attend to their public duties, who have been more solicitous for their own advantage than for the public welfare. The people will not forget to reward those of their representatives who stay with Wilson " (in the job' at Washington nor will they fail to remember those who have deserted their posts to advance their own interests. From this time on it will pay every Congressman to "stay on, the job". Pres. Wilson's letter is worth more to his party than a thousand campaign speeches. Newark News. 35:

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J "The accumulation weighed ;ip- ! proximately tons and the amount received therefor was $14.n49. The I public printer, however, had expended J2.SL." in handling this accumulate. ... . .

iion. wnicn mad the net receipts $11,224. "The publications undoubtedly covt the government $ Tom, 00 a. thousands of them having been bound in the best grades of cloth and leather, thus Indicating a net loss of $. s3,l2." on this one accumulation. "When the accumulation of 19 lo was reported to the printing commission, it submitted a complete inventory of the books listed for condemnation to every department and establishment of the government to ascertain whether any further u.-e could be made of the publications. Without exception, all of the departments reported that they had on hand a sufficient number of the publn ations. Accordingly the public printer was authorized to sell the same as wajte paper. The or.3. iis publications weighed approximately Tu tons and brought about eight-tenths of a cent a pound as waste paper although the blank white paper upon which tho books -were printed had cost the Kovernment from three and a half to seven cents a pound, without regard to the cost of printing, binding and handling the .same." The. report contains an account of other endeavors made to dispose of documents from year to year by writing to members of congress and public oliicials to show if they had need for them. The responses, it is stated, were few and in the majority of Instances the matter ended by sending the obi documents to the junk pile. The report continues: "The record of tho last six years shows that more than one million government publications find their way into Uncle 5am's junk pilo each year. These publications undoubtedly have cost the government at least 5 0 cents each for their printing, binding, wrapping; handling and storage. Upon thousands of these worthless documents there has also been an additional expense of transportation in the mails from Washington to various; parts of the country and then for return to Washington again. A loss of 1500.000 is thus Indicated under tho present eystem of printing and distribution, but undoubtedly double tho number of documents accumulated by by the government itself more clearly represents the actual waste of uch publications. It is a matter of common knowledge that the great bulk of documents now allotted to and distributed by members of congress finds its way into the waste baskets of their constituents, who have little or no interest in the general class of publications allotted to senators and members for distribution. It would be more nearly accurate to estimate, the annual waste in government publications to be at least $ 1,000,000." Which is thci evil that Congressman Barnhart has taken up and in addition to his other work, especially undertaken to remedy. TWENTY YEARS AGO Reminders From tho Columns of Th DjOJj Tlm. The doctors and policemen played baseball, score 22 to 10 in favor of tho doctors. "Happily," says tho reporter, "the game was ended in the seventh inning." Eorado Taft delivered the eecond of his lectures on art. The weather was of tho ttraw hat and duster variety. Marion Campbell talked to the high school on tho value of education in business life. The Mothers' club was entertained by Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Williams. "Soy Reaii teitiorari1y isn't leadin a double life. He wrote a new girf telephone numbiT on th etrff of hi shirt, and sent it to th 1a 11 ml n't f,,r" fcettin' tliat Ids regidar girl wvrL there." Home 5462. .

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