South Bend News-Times, Volume 32, Number 65, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 6 March 1915 — Page 4

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Tin; (;. o. i and thi; suirvi m iiasi; ijill. With iiiv adjournment f tho (' 'Til cvnrv Thutxlay tho tirst half of iTf.s't Wooflrow Wilson'.s ;iIininistrution has passed Into history. Although not all his anticipations have been carried out. a rt ma r k:iMo record has It-en made alon strictly pr Kresiivc lines, and along lines to which the, democratic party will need to tie itIf it means to maintain any sramling oof ore the country. The f.tilurc of tlit; ship-purrhasf! hill to become a law, over which the republicans supported by reactionary democrats hae been onductinK a lilihuster for months, is perhaps the most notable failure of the administration. '1 ho only question at issue appears to have been, that the government finding it necessary to put up the. money for a merchant marine, I'res't Wilson and the proressivo democrats in congress wanted to maintain control of that merchant marine. The republicans and reactionary democrats, under the "influence" of private "enterprise' look the position that this money should be turned over as a. virtual present to carrier corporation in Wall street. Neither side would ive in. It finally became deMrable. that the bill be withdrawn, and it was withdrawn, in order to uivo oinsitss a ehame to I'm is h up some other matters. While, indeed, there is some question as to the advisability of the United States Koing into the. seacarrying business, due to the responsibilities that would come to it especially in such trying times as the world is now going through internationally, lere can be no question whatever a. to the inad viability of the government furnishing the money to some private enterprise to speculate on, and then assume practically til the responsibilities just the same, one docs not need to ro to Washington to catch the patriotic twang of these special pleaders for special interests. A few days in Indianapolis during the past two months would have furnished adequate initiation. It is all to save the poor "widows and orphans," you know, and they weave about statesmen, capitalistic threads of patriotism for the elimination of poverty, that really makes you wonder why thf rest of us do not vacate, and lt these special interest philanthropists do it all. As it stands now, however, there n ill probably be no merchant marine, neither through government subsidy nor ownership, for a considerable time. If business suffers, it tn charge it up to certain embryo ship-builders of Wall street backing, and the failure of their senatorial representatives in Washington, to haul down fof them n little craft. "r.raft!" That is what the ship subsidy would amount to and uouMng more. Any government invcy'..meu in ship-huitding. or anything else, without retaining control over that investment for the benefit of the people, ia graft for those who-gct the eout rol. I'res't Wilson has stood firm against the government being mulct after any such fashion. Various coneesHons were made by the administration but on this central feature there was no wavering. Now let business proceed to carry itself across the brine. If it prefers tho hich rates charged for se.i-frcihts. there need lie no worry about the federal government attempting to reduce those rates through competition, for considerable time to come. If foreign markets have to be abandoned, because incident to the war, there is no merchant marine to reach them, lot the ro.Mdisihility fall uhero it belong?, namely; upon the very grand, and eri.enlinjly old republican party, and thse reactionary democrats in the United tat s senate, with whom bipartisan arrangements appear to lmvo been made, to make passage of the thlp purchase bill impossible. I'res't "Wilson and the progressive democrats, including most of the bull moose progressives in congress, did all they could for the passage of the ship purchase bill. The reason for their failure is obvious. Pres't WiiM'n's reord for the tirst eighteen months of his administration shows so much accomplished that the republicans have felt it absolutely necessary to prevent further progress, lest a democratic v ictory in 1 'J U be made, absolutely certain. They know that the president is without exception, the most popular man in Ameiiea. and they know too that but for the "bad I reaks"' made by democratic administrations in the various states, to shatter faith in the democratic party in thoe localities, the democratic majority in the r.et lop.gress would be even greater than in the pn sent one. It stems to be one great failing of the democrats that they are short on good partisan behavior around home.

Indians ri(;iir uim: ati:i:. It may strike most people as something new for the Indian to UkI the fluuor trulbc Vet that is just wLal

the Northwest Federation of Indian Tribes is doing. The federation, in scion in Tatoma. has askel the federal government for an appropriation of $150,000 for the purpose of suppressing the sale of liquor to Indians. It may be news to some people that the strongest opponent of the opium traffic has been China, upon whom thr deadening drug was forced by English traders. It is almost faded from history that China sunk an English ophim ship in one of her harbors and fought a war against hopeless odds to free herself from the foreign curse. Ten years ago an edict was issued abolishing opium from the kingdom, but only recently was an international agreement signed forbidding shipment of the drug to China. It was the greed of civilized peoples that made the Chinese, in spite of their violent protests, a nation of opium victims. And it is the greed of white men that has made liquor an unmitigated curse to the American Indian. The Chinese opium tratfic is the blackest mark against Uritish foreign trade. The degradation and destruction of the Indian by whiskey has been no less black a mark against our own business record; it has been a refinement of cruelty that put to shame the crudities of the tomahawk and scalping knife. Heretofore it has been one sort of whiteman who has sold whiskey to the Indian and another sort who has tried to keep him from it, with the victim a mere lay figure. Now the Indian is demanding for himself his rights in the matter. All who have a spark of feeling for a dying race will applaud the spirit which prompted the federation's action, at the aame time feeling a vicarious shame that we have so poorly fulfilled our duty to our wards that it was necessary. The highly civilized peoples of the world have something to learn in this matter from peoples whom we consider lacking in' civilization. The decided improvement of the Russian people reported since the prohibition of vodka is causing the rest of the world to sit up and take notice.

Tin; m:ci:ssiui:s or life. A swell young man of New York, in a suit to get possession of nearly $:k000,000, which he says is his rightful share in his father's estate, makes the allegation that he can't live on less than ?:. 4,500 a year. The father seems to have entertained different ideas, for he cut the young man off with a paltry $n,000, upon which he has been starving. The young man figures his necessities as follows: "Three servants and a man $1,."00, rent $l,G0O, insurance $K0. automobiles $:.,000, clothing $11', 000, table $fi.noo, traveling sxpenses $;t,00o; cigarets and other necessaries $7. "SO; total $::!, ."iOU Of course there are different grades of living. What are luxuries to some are necessities to others, iv one's necessities of life form a complicated question that each must settle for himself in his own mind and in his own pocketbook. That is what this young man has sought to do. lie has figured it all out. Most men are content to let their necessities find them out, but this oung swell has chafed out after them, rounded them up and corralled them within figures. Evidently, his necessities are dear to him in both senses. He charges himself with $12,000 a year for clothes. To the average young man this might seem too much. Hut we must remember that it is "clothes that make the man" and in some instances it takes a lot of them to do it. Hut the item that does not quite exp'ain itself is the tirst one ? 1,500 for three servants and a man. The distinction between a servant and a man is not altogether clear. It is a fatal admission. Having, conceded that a ' man" may live on .1 share of 00, he might be forced by the court to make a man of himself and thus live within reasonable income.

Killing 27.000 men in Europe doesn't draw any crowd around the bulletin boards, but wait until they put 27 men out in the first league ball game of the season!

Ueeling that the cost of living ought not to be increased, many food producers are generously selling bread for the same price by cutting down the size of the loaf.

Hilly Sunday has agreed to hold three months of revival services in Hoston next year. Ho must feel shaky about his grammar.

Many of the farmers are opposed to the new cooperative association, as romebody else might make a dollar.

The girls' colleges are now playing basket ball. Time callJ for Ujc of mlrro

Statesmen Real and Near. By Fred C Kelly

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WASHINGTON. March 6. ec'y Franklin K. Line of the department of the interior, keeps a full outfit of evening clothes in his otlice. The reason is that he is one of our most popular diners-out, but has never been able to apply banking hours to hi.s job. He rarely leaves his ollice until 6: CO or 7 in the evening. When he does leave, the chances are that he will have on his half-after-six garb, for he dines out oftener than he docs at home. Awhile ago somebody about the otlice kept track and line was a dinner guest in Washington 2G times within a month. One reason why Lane is constantly besieged by friends to come and eat their food "is the fact that he is forever in good humor, and hu never bee-n known to run out of good stories. A few nights ago Lane told a story that made a big hit. In condensed form this is it: A southern lawyer was never good at remembering names, and so when he made a speech he always jotted down any names he might want to use on a small calling card and held it concealed in his palm. He had to make a speech one day at the funeral of a prominent member of the local bar. "I feel certain," he said in the course of his remarks, "that if our friend had been granted the same opportunities he would have been recognized as one of the great orators of the nation, and would have occupied a place second not even to that great pleader" consulting his memorandum "Daniel Webster. "And not only that, but in his qualities of real statesmanship he had few equals and no superiors. He had many rare traits in common with that beloved and martyred president" again looking at his little card "Abraham Lincoln. "Hut our friend stands now at the final court, where his good deeds will be weighed bv that final judge of us all. I refer, of course, to er" once more looking at his notes "Almighty Uod."

Sen. Martine of New Jersey speaks with a deep-down voice like an echo from a hollow. Sen. John Sharp Williams, on the other hand, has a strange draw! that borders almost upon a whin-. One afternoon these two senators began to twit one another about their voices. faid Martine to Williams: "John, when you speak it seems like a child crying in the wilderness a good deal, 1 imagine, like Moses when he was found by Pharaoh's daughter." Whereupon Williams retorted: "Anyhow, I haven't got one of those sepulchral voices like a well-digger. When you talk it always makes me think of a voice from the grave."

Within an hour after that Sen. "Williams overheard .Sen. Lewis telling somebody that he had half a notion to cut off his famous whiskers. "I suppose," suggested Jehn harp. "that you'll get a taxidermist to mount them for you." Hy employing a guide at trifling cohl one may learn a great many entirely unexpected facts concerning the national capitol building. For instance, the other day we heard a guide standing beneath the great dome describing the paintings around the wall. "These pictures." said he, "were done by a man named Trumbull. He was a contemporary of most of the people in the pictures, and knew them nearly all personally." And the painter must have had a wide acquaintance, for the pictures ran all the way from such people as Christopher Columbus and Uoscahontas on down to Ceorge Washington. (Copyright. 1113, by Fred C. Kelly.)

TWENTY YEARS AGO Reminders FTom the Columns of The Daily Times.

Geno Miller is in Chicago. Attorney Rich was in Laportc yesterday on business. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. A W. Ha con.

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The Alhambra theater. London, offers two private boxes nightly for the use of convalescent wounded soldiers hemic from the front. Playing cards are said to have been invented in i::Q to divert e'harles IV, then king of France, who had fallen into a melancholy mood. In Jewish marriages the bnde stands on the right side of the groom; it is tlir custom of all other races for the bride to stand on the left. There is a plant growing on mountains in central Europe that develops enough heat to push its Hower stalks through snow anil produce blossoms. The women of the world: Christian,

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cian, 128.U0O.0o0; Hindu. 05.000, 000; Huddhist. 73,000,000; Mohammedan, 100. ooo. 000. Parrots seize objects with the left claw by preference or exclusively, and they have been found to make a readier ue of the left claw for climbing than the right. A 125-mile stretch of the government owned railroads of Chile is being given up to extensive experiments with oil fuel. United States engineers arc supervising the investigations. The problem of giving southeastern Italy n adequate water supply, which has been studied since Koman times, is about to be solved by the construction of an aqueduct to cost about $2 3,000.000. Wild hors s in Arabia will not admit a tame horse among them: but the wibl horses of South America endeavor to decoy domesticated horses from their masters, and seem eager to welcome them. Silk was tirst made my Si-Ling, wife of Hoan-Ti, emperor of China. 2'.'oi H. C. Among the Greeks. Aritotle (CS4-S22 H. C.) is the first who m ntions it. It was not until A. I.).. 3 ::". however, that it began to be cultivated in Furope, the lirft eggs being then brought from India by some monks. The music halls of Paris have not all been closed, but they have been robere-l by the war, and tht ir moral tone has immensely improved. Le

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the time for the music halls to be made over. I-et them bring out all the old French songs, the songs of

Islurv and victorv."

This is the season when optimism gets a strangle hold on pessimism and prvsCo lxtli shoulders to the mat.

FO one will ma intain that in all the history of the world there was a lack of subjects for discussion. Go back to the Garden of Kden if you will, they presented themselves to our progenitor and his mate. Hut all given to discussion will as readily admit that they are not as uniformly" prepared for the eliscussion. A.S a mechanism the brain is not unlike other pieces of machinery, in that for unknown and unaccountable reasons it at times refuses to work or cannot be operated at high speed. The liver and other essential elements of the brain become disordered and friction ensues. THUS does the humble and sequestered liver find its place among the vital forces of the universe. It Is to laugh. Ed M. P.: Ha, ha! the best joke on me! I thought the democrats in the legislature were going to pass an equal suffrage bill an act that would give them a cinch on the progressive voto for the next ten years! Nothing doing. Same old jackass! M. MARCH'S commendable effort to get this kind of stuff out of her system before Fashion Week endears her to us as the weather clearing house of the year. The Intelligent Ignoramus (Fssays of Klia. ) Not that I affect ignorance but my head has not many mansions, nor spacious: and i have been obliged to fill it with such cabinet curiosities as it can hold without aching. I sometimes wonder how I have passed my probation with so little discredit in the world as I have elone upon so meagre a stock. Hut 'the fact is a man may do very v eil with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much

morer ready to produce his own than to call for a display of your acquisitions. Rut in a tcte-a-tete there is no shuffling. The truth will out. There is nothing which 1 dread so much as the being left alone for a quarter of an hour with a sensible well-informed man that eloes not know me. R. M. H. ggests that "Now that the word jitney has come into good use, why not legally sanction such apt phrases as squirrel-food. vacuumparroted, fullapruncs and wop? They would all add a deal of color to our language." PRFS. WILSON cannot, feel mere relieved than the rest of the country over the adjournment of congress. Not that we condemn what congress has done, but that we feared what it might do. This country was never, we telieve, involved in war without an act of ccngress. With Apologies to 11. M. H. First the Germans, then the Hrits Meet together and both get fits; It makes no difference whi:h they lean The British always claim the bean. AV. A. B. We want to be a farmer and with the farmers stand, a straw hat on our noodle and .a pitchfork in our hand. Then long before the sunrise we'll hustle t the field and tvlth our little measure find out the turnip yield. We love the voice of nature and enjoy the touch of soil, and still we cannot quite lorget it all smells strong of toil. THINGS beyond our imagination: Another farewell trip to America of Sarah Bernhardt; peace in Mexico; standard styles for women. J. P. L. Well, Wc Don't See How They Could. (Cor. Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette.) In this vicinity the clubs of both villafje and country side do not devote their time to gossip more than their more pretentious city societies. THERE are so many wrong ways of doing things that it is hard to find the lonesome little right one. C. N. F.

REVOLT IS PREDICTED

"A time will come to the people of the world when a great revolution is going to take place because of the greed of some people and the starving conditions of others," said Rev. John M. Alexander, pastor of the First Christian church last night at the regular meeting of the young men's Bible class held at the Y. M. C. A. in the lobby on the subject, "Covctousness". He told of various ways in which a man can be a great man of the world, and none of these ways were through wraith. The regular dinner was given before the address.

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