South Bend News-Times, Volume 32, Number 52, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 21 February 1915 — Page 4

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THE SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMES

GOVERNMENT IS LARGELY DIRECTED BY WiSSUS

Great Number of Such SemiLegislative, S e m i-Judicial bodies Developed Since Commerce Board's Creation.

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growth of "commis.-ion government" in Warhinston has lM.n astonishing. Tho specialization demanded by !h Mfvclopmtnt of federal control has created a. new group of irid pendent

t,odie, semi-judicial and s-ml-legi.s-lative, and possessing vast power overj the industrial, economic and hnancial ti s:tlni-s of the land. J Th pione'T commission, from the; national point of view, was tho inter-;

Mi'te cimnifT'c commission. it was originally created in lsss to "inquire into" certain transportation problem and surest remedies for them. Now It is on of the mot powerful group of administrators in the entire world, wielding what is practically the power of life and d-atn over th; American railroad system. Within the past decade temporary ommissions of van in;' character, iich ax the Immigration t omniission and the monetary commission, have l (in created for temporary purposes o fir.vestigation. and they have commonly )een regard d as "purely parasitic" in their real character that is, as having created to provide jobs for political harks or junkets for provincial legislators who desired to sec trie world Jit the nation's; exnense.

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cllicicnt, such as the presidential commission on economy and etliciency, which, although ignored by congress, provided a budget system tor the national lAcriimciit whbh has been irmed by experts at home and abroad as the ideal one of its type, f.ut most of them have become byv. orda thrmmli their extravagance v itli the tapaers' money and their monumental useless ness. The interstate commerce commission was the first great commission crated under the national government, and the Inderal reserve board, nitli powers equivalent to those of a commission, was the second. Just as the former has powers approaching absolutism over the railroads of the country, so drf'cs the latter govern the I'inl.s of the nation. Although at present it seems merely a branch of the treasury department, it is in reality an entirely independent body, with powers far exceeding those of the j-'Ctetary of the treasury, and with no eto power aboe it. It has not yet developed itself to its full stature. Tu .Name New Coinni-iii. The third great commission is soon t( be appointed by Pre.s't Wilson--the federal trad, commission. This body will exercise the same jurisdiction over trade and industry in general as the two others hae over the railroads and hanks. Its true place m the administrative fabric of the government remains to be seen. It can be made powerful or " comparatively negligible just as the men composing it are positive and trenchant in character or negative. It all depends. The fourth great commission under

the government will be the shipping board that is, if a -hip purchase!

measure passes. As the bill seems to be '.loomed at the present time, the shipping board will have to be postponed until another period of mercantile marine development. This vommi&sion would have no direct power over ships of American registry, but its indirect inllmnce would be cry t;at. The civil service commission was created nearly two decades aeo to bring the government departments out of reach of the political spoilsman. Although its powers are not great, it has lean a substaniial factor in the improvement f the conditions which formerly prevailed in Washington, and it his always been 's-liu as a rock" against any political influence. The president himself i the n!y prrson who can disregard or veto its decrees regarding appointments to the government service, t'aieil Ilody Now Defunct. The isthmian canal commission is no v.- a defunct Lod. beeavse the I'anama canal is now practically complete, but undtr its supervision tii - "big; ditch" was built. of course il is needles to say that the chairman of the commission was no less a permm than i'o!. tleorge Washington (Joothuls himself. The commission of line arts N an advisory board created under the administration id' ITcs't Tail to urapple witli problems of architecture in the construction of government structures and projects of impocn;ent in Washington ami clsew ha iv. The i -otnmisMon of industrial relations, which has been investigating the Rockefeller and t'arnegie inundations, and other philanthropic projei ts. in New York the past two weeks, was also created under Pres'c T.t't to inquire "into the causes of industrial unrest." The board of Indian ommissionei s has considerable power in protecting the Indian--- from illegal exploitation, the international waterways commission looks after questions of navigation on streams :!oing from the

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Mexico, and the international joint commission ponders oei boundary o.utstions itivolving the tl"nited States and Canada. It might b" said tii. it the administrative powers originally residing in congress are! the pr. s;d nt have i con delegated to a group of commissions wh'.eh are constantly growing in power and intluer.ee.

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j. imuci: GAFILL. Work has been started In the erection of a plant for the CJaflll Oil Co. to be located on the property formerly occupied by the Harmon Coal Co., on College st. near Lincoln way. W. J. Pruce Claflli is president of the new company which has made application for a charter. The proposed capital stock of the company, a purely local concern, is $10,000. The plant will cost approximately $10,000 and will consist of storage tanks with a capacity of 40,000 gallons and .also a warehouse. The expectation is to have the plant In operation within a few weeks. The business will consist of a wholesale trade in Pennsylvania lubricating oils, gasoline, naptha and kerosene. J. Bruce flallll has been associated with the South He ml Oil Co. for the last five years In the capacity of sales manager. Under his management the business of that company increased rapidly. CJaflll started in the oil business 21 years ago when, at the age of 1G years, he secured a position with the Standard Oil Co. at Toledo, O.

CONCERNING PERIODIC OPTHYLMNIAAND HORSES Jury Faces Serious Technical Problem H"t Sajs .Man is Not (iuilty. , Why is "periodic opthylmnia." what is it, when is it and where is It? That and a horse were the issues in a case which was tried before Justice Peak Saturday. The case involved a criminal action brought because of the sale of an alleged defective horse. The defendant was represented by Clifford DuComb and the state by J. V. Wypiszynski. The testimony "was becoming involved when Clifford abruptly asked a witness for the state, "do you know what 'periodic opthylmnia means?" "Sure I know what it means." "What does it mean?" "It means are you ready to tell the truth and nothing but the truth." And so the composure of the court was disturbed ror "periodic opthylmnia" really doesn't mean that at all. It means "moon blindness." The suit was instituted by King Jagla Produce. & Commission association which charged that Myron Milllken bad sold them a horse afflicted with "moon blindness" (periodic opthylmnia) without havine- said anything to them about the affliction. Now to do such a thins is a criminal offense punishable by a. $1,000 fine or six months in jail. However, the defendant was not found guilty and for this reason: A veterinarian surgeon testified that the horse was not afflicted with "periodic opthylmnia" but was afflicted with blindness in one eve and also with "amurosis" (meaning, undoubtedly, that he couldn't see out of the other) and so, as the l?iw did not know anything about this, the defendant was acquitted.

CLAIMS CLERK SOLD WITH0UTPRESCRIPTI0N (notion of Proprietor's Keioiiibllity KaKcd When L. C. KrlcdIcr is Trictf. Is a drug store proprietor responsible for the action of his clerk, particularly when that clerk sells intoxicants without a prescription, as is charged in the case of Louis C. Kricdlei. SOI S. Michigan st. Mr. Kriedler's attorney in city court Saturday afternoon maintained such were not the facts as set forth in the Indiana statutes, based a motion for the discharge of Kriedler at the completion of the state's case upon that law. Special Judge Pattee refused to favor the motion either way and withheld his decision until next Thursday morning. Patrolmen Kudynskl and Czenkuseh were the principal witnesses for the defense. They declared that two pints of whisky had been purchased at Kriedler's store by J. H. Quilhot. special investigator. In their presence. The defense maintained that the affidavit tiled accused Kriedler directly of violating the state drugs acts whereas it was his clerk who made the sale.

COM IMS IIOMF. I.ONbd.V. Feb. 20. (.'no hundred Americans who were temporarily marooned in Pari as a result of the cancellation of sailing betv.een French and Pritish ports arrived in Ixndon today and will sail for home tonight.

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Harmless "fruit laxative' cleanses stomach, liver and bowels.

T..M.k at tii'- tnue. mother! If o.ited. it is a sure sign that our little tie'-; stomach, liver .i riil how-els need . g-r;tle. thorough cleansing at once. Vh-n j . ;sh. eross, listh-s-. pahv doosn't si ' !', i or ;;i t naturally, r l'ov !i!i. stomach sour, 'uaath bad, Jt. stomat-h arhe. " throat, dirfrrhee:'.. full of cold, .ive a e.ispoonful ri "CulUuriiU and

in just a few hours all the foul, constipated waste, undigested food and sour bile gently moves out of its little bowels and you have a well, playful child again. You needn't coax sick children to take this harmless fruit taxation: they love its delicious taste anil it always makes them feci splendid. Ask your drugv'ist fo t "0 cent bottle of "California, Syrup of Figs.' which has direction? for hahie-?. children of all aues. and for grown-ups plainly on each bottle. Heware of counterfeit, sold here. r,et the genuine, made by "California Fig Syrup Company." Refuse any other kind with contempt. Adv,

WEST FORM OE

LIFE ON DISPLAY

Exhibits at American Museum of Natural History in Central Park Form Most Astonishing Collection.

By Garrett P. Ser i. Among the most astonishing exhibitions in the American Museum of Natural History in Central park are those representing the lowest forms of animal life, such as various kinds of protozoans, radiolarlans, sponges, etc. The fact is that many of the exhibits really are models in glass or wax, carefully copied and colored after nature and used because the actual animals are either too delicate or too minute to be permanently preserved or placed on exhibition. Some of the creatures belong to the microscopic world, and the models are magnified a hundred or a thousand times, showing them as the naturalist sees them under his microscope. But this fact only adds to the interest of the curious visitor and increases his wonder, because he perceives that within a space which to the naked eye would hardly be larger than the point of a pin the life forces have found room to build up an organization almost as complicated in its details as if there had been unlimited room to work in. The highest magnification brings into sight new perfections, but is unable to reveal anywhere a lack of finish. An elaborate piece of frost-work jewelry might bear a close resemblance to some of these animals, but if the jewelry were put under a microscope its ragged and unllnished edges, corners and surfaces would go far to destroy its beauty. On the other hand, the protozoans show no such imperfections of workmanship. The mystery of life is redoubled when one looks at these strange forms in which ft has manifested itself. The protozoans constitute a part of the animal kingdom, which is so different in its fundamental organisation from the part to ivhich we belong that at rtrst sight there might seem to be no community between them. The word protozoan means, literally, "rtrst," or "lowest animal." A protozoan consists essentially of a single living cell. It seems to stand near the parting of the ways which lead to plants in one direction and to animals in the other. They are marine animals, and that fact is a part of the evidence that life on the earth began in the sea. But the greatest marvel about these low forms of life is that, as Prof. II. B. Ward says, "their physiological complexity is as striking as their structural simplicity," which n;eans that although they consist of only a tangle cell, while the higher animals, or metazoans, consist of millions, their one cell performs all the essential life functions that in the other animals are discharged through the agency of a multitude of cells. Instead of the various tissues and organs of the higher animals, the protozoans have only modifications, or differentiations, of their single cell, which serve in the place of regular organs. They eat and drink and digest their food, they move about more or less freely, they reproduce their kind, and all this is accomplished without the possession of the complicated system of special organs that the higher animals employ. Many protozoans live in colonies, in which great numbers of the singleCelled animals are united. This docs not effect the simplicity of their individual organization. But among the cells of such colonies there arc often to be found indications of the beginning of differentiations which mark an advance In the direction of the multicellular organization of the mctazoans. In an illuminated window, in Darwin hall, showing a partly underwater view of an old wharf pile, there are to be seen creatures which, although more highly organized than the protozoans, exhibit very strikingly the possibilities of an animal whose body is only a kind of bag. These are called "sea-quiris," and some of the larger species of them, clinging to the jdle, in the midst of a crowded assemblage of other forms of plantlike animals, look like miniature copies of Oriental "wine-skins," with two spout-like openings. It may be said that the whole active life of this creature is consumed in allowing a stream of food-bearing water to enter its sac-like body by way of one of the siphons, or sprouts, and to leave it by the other, while the interior of the sac digests the nourishment. And now comes something to make the most thoughtless observer pause and ponder. These sack-like seasquirts, or ascldlans. are. as Mr. Roy V. Miner says, "actually primitive members of the chordate group, which includes the vertebrates and culminates in man!" Their ancestors seem to have started up the ladder and then missed their footing. This story is told by the metamorphosis which every ascidlan undergoes In Its life development. It begins as a free swimming animal, has a tail, an eye, a "brain" and central nervous system, and a "cartilaginous prototype of a backbone." But as it nears maturity it becomes attached to some stationary object, its "brain" and special sense organs degenerate and break up, and the animal becomes virtually a mere "digestive and reproductive machine."

MAY TRY CASE WEDNESDAY Quilhot Hearing Is Set as Well as .Mausoleum Suit. John II. Quilhot, charged with public indecency, will probably be tried in the circuit court on next Wednesday. The complaining witness is Naomi Burnside. The case was con. teinucd last week when council for the defense submitted an atlidavit relating that a certain witness could not be found at that time. Another case set for next week is that of the St. Joseph County Mausoleum association against the Riverview Cemetery association. This is a suit to collect 5C0.00O damages for alleged breach of contract. The case is set for trial on Thursday.

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is ToitPi:i)oi:i). LONDON. Feb. 20. The steamer Cambank was torpedoed, supposed, by a Oerman submarine off Holy Head tdaj. Four of the crew were Jrowned.

P R I NC ETON . Le o n o r e We l bo r n. seven years old. was accidentally knocked down by a boy on roller fkates and her left arm was broken. Agitation against roller skating lias been renewed. Numerous efforts to

j huve the city council put the ban on the sport huve failed.

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Women who want whatever they buy now to be of a fashion that will carry through the spring, are the very people these dresses are intended for. They are of high grade silk poplin, soft messaline silk and best of French serge. They have vestee and cuffs of hemstitched and lace edged lawn or chiffon over net. The serge dresses button high in military fashion. With the new flare skirts and new collars such as those that are high in back and very low in front. None are more fashionable at much higher prices. Colors are Belgique blue, sand, putty, new browns, Russian green, navy and black $9.95. When you come here tomorrow you will say, as others have said, "How stylish are those spring dresses at Chas. 13. Sax & Co. and how low-priced, too."

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We have already sold 35 of the 60 coats placed on sale at this price, aiui the sale is only 6 hours old.

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At $2 Of 40 coats offered at this price there are still 30 left. It seems that women prefer to pay the few dollars extra and get one of those very "high class coats. But these are all the best sio coats shown in South Bend this winter. Not one Winter Coat has been reserved Every one is priced either

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25 dozen Women's Warm OUTING FLANNEL GOWNS $1 kind, 69c Six different styles, high and low neck, yokes, pleated, braid, silk or ribbon trimmed, some tucked. In all white, also assorted pink, blue or black striped. Buy them for next winter.

New Silks and Dress Goods Tub Silks, very desirable stripes; for men's shirts and women's waists and dresses; 30 and 32 inch; all colors are represented 65c, 98c, $1.25 yard. Radola Silk Poplin, the famous lustrous silk-and-wool fabric, in 40 of the newest street and evening shades; 44 inches wide, requiring only a small quantity for a dress. Very popular for this spring's dresses; per yard $1.10. New French Serges, 40-in., all wanted shades; vard 75 c. m New Wool Poplin, 56-inch, in black, navv and plum, per yard $1.49. 42-in. Tussah Crepe, lustrous, crepv silk-and-wool suiting; brown, navy, new blues and black; per vard 98c.

Eight new Styles in $1 Lingerie Vaists

All eight are airy enough to make one think summer is actually here. lingerie Waists of fine voile. One model has vest, collar and culls of embroidered scalloped edge organdy. Insertions of embroidered organdy and Val. lace; hemstitched over shoulder, tucked back $1.00. Blouse at $1.00 of allover embroidered voile; heavy lace insertion down front; hemstitched collar and cutis. Neat Tailored Waists of .black and white striped corded voile, and all white cord stripe voile, hemstitched organdy collar and vestee. China Silk Blouses, blue, pink, green and yellow floral printed, also all white with hemstitched organdy collar and vestee $1.00. EQUAL OF USUAL S1.50 AND $2.00 WAISTS.

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To give our Monday patrons an opportunity to share in the many advantages we announce the continuation of the NINE CENT SALE tomorrow

CENT SALE Tomorrow

HUSTLING YOUNG MAN WANTED A large manufacturing concern, engaged in ambitious plans for further increasing its annual sales that now run well into big tiures, proud of its good will and remarkable business record, oilers a rare opportunity to a HUSTLING YOUNG MAN whose ability and efl'ort "must be worth S50 per week to begin on, to represent their line of goods in the South Bend territory, a line that sells in 95 'I of the retail stores. Kequirements CI o oil health, vigor, push A good reputation. The ability to .vill ijooils as well as handle other salesmen. A 5mall capital necessary to carry initial stock, which will amount to kss than ?3f,,, whkh investment will not lie necessary after the first CO to G days. Unless you are ambitious t make money fT yourself and arp willing to put push and energy into your work so that you provo yourself worthy of representing our name in thi? territory, do not reply. Mil. J. Cm. r.LAKENKY, representing tho company, will be in oath IJend at the Oliver hotel on Thursday and Friday, Feb. -3 and JC, ONLY, wh'-re he will personally interview all applicants.

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burned since last fall in my furnace. Flow is that? Solvay Coke is the best fuel known to me." Staples-Hildebrand Company Exclusive Agents Genuine Solvay Coke. Beth Phones.

WINCH i;STi:n. John Jordan, a former Losantville resident, who has been missing for several years, has hern declared dead ly the circuit court. Since Jordan's disappearance he has fallen heir to highly valued real estate through the death of his grandfather.

FOKT WAYNi:. Following an adanee ly the leaking estahlislimcnts, the Fort Wayne dealers have adanced the retail price of ! r. d to sir ci nts for the former ta--- j.t kaves. The l(--cvnt loaves reir.a::i the in price l.ut are slightly :e:. -ej ia wciuht.