South Bend News-Times, Volume 32, Number 81, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 22 March 1915 — Page 6

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Us Important victims. The United States Joes not like cotton to be det clarrfl contraband by tho allies, but it

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dared cotton contraband when, during tho civil war. southern ports were all M"ckadc3 anfl commerce in cotton between tno confederacy and Knglnnd w.is sTiut off. UriKland did not like it and protested, but that was oil the Kood it did her. Tl:e jtrlncltde of starving an enemy into ?ufJectUn. Including the civil pojjul.jt!cn. women and thildren, Mas adov:tcd by the federal Kivernment luring" the c!v!l war and it does not lie In our r.iouth to protest against the inhumanity of the allies thus treating Germany, or Germany the allies, though tho latter seem quite as powerless as w; are on the point. Xor is there any particular ground for protest on the theory that the blockade Ia not an actual blockade. New devices in war make new rules of war. The distance at which battle lines fiht is tiifft rent nv from what it way when men ran at each other with sixteen-foot spears and two-foot short swords. The original blockade was that of a city. It was then called a "siee" and an enemy camped around close to tho outer walls and used sealing ladders, catapaults and ballistas, as against large stones, boiling water, hot lead, arrows and fighting men on the wall tops. The line moved back when gunpowder substituted artillery and the wall became entrenchments. The glorification of war has now made the city only a unit in the nation and the siege has to be a siege of a nation rather than a city. When the siege was on the waterfront .It was called a "blockade" and the enemy ships hung outside the ports as in our civil war, and the opposition tried to run the blockade with ammunition ami food supplies. The last blockade declared by the United States was that of the island of Cuba after the declaration of war with Spain. All tho Unban ports were closed. The increased rudius of our mod rn battleships and tho introduction and development of the submarine has again moved tho line back and the, "war zone" as Germany calls it. is a large range of iters. Croat Mritain declares a "war zone" also, but admits that it doe not reach from the eastern to the western side of the Atlantic. Just where it stops, no one knows. It ic somewhere, however, in the. general vicinity of Germany, and anyone attempting to run this blockade line Is liable to be picked up by any warjdiip of the allies. Tho hardship of the blockade order is considerably modified by the Iiritish, however, in their purely voluntary offer to buy instead of confiscating captured cargoes. Under tho law of blockade, if they had chosen to regard the present status as such, the allies would have the right to confiscate cargoes as well as to sink the blockade-running ships. The test of whether a blockade is a real blockade or not is its effectiveness. If Great Britain can prevent any ship from reaching German Germany is effectually "blockade d." It makes no difference where the imaginary line is drawn, provided it does m t take in tho whole ocean. The only point to be considered are these: is the cargo consigned to an enemy port, and can the blockading fleet prevent the con:U'nr.icnt from reaching that port. The circle can be drawn as lare as the. blov kading fleet ran be et'tcetive, pro vided the bb he blockade is of the ports of I t mv country and not the ports " , the era of the neutral cur.Lrv. The blockade o German ports will j affect the United Slates mot seriously In tho matter of certain imports such -lye Muffs and ch. miculs. of which Germany has had a practical monopoly of manufacture and for which all the world depend, nt on the German, factories. The market for American products in Germany which will be lost is insignificant compared with the disadvantage which we will suffer by inability to import those German wares whb-h enter into certain American manufaet'.ires. This embargo ought to please all tSi"M' political eonomits who beliee i high prot'-ctB e tariff is the secret f national wealth. There is no competition no;-, from Germany and there will be little? competition from any

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ms i:ati:s. i Killr ;i:xl Sun-lav -.i rrl. r 1.' I ally. ;ln tr I ji y I illriM lurv -im t.l.i.hi.t... vi hp w n,t i iu i... . ', .V .r- . . if. . ... ' & woodman Iiopr'-nt.itlv'. Advertising r.ulldinir. ridcajfo maucii 22, ioir. foreign countries for many weeks or months. The present situation is equivalent to a tariff so high as to bo prohibitive the ideal of Aldrich and Uncle Joe Cannon. It only rt mains now for the American manufacturer to do his part and show how efficient and enterprising :.e can be in supplying the market which is no longer supplied from foreign sources. ia(;i:k or losing lkagui IIASIJHALI. AT S!KIXGIlKOOK. Appreciate as much as you may the prospect of South liend having a real active otnuscment association in charge of Sprlngbrook purk. with race track, county fair and coliseum attachments, report given out Saturday night of a disposition to eliminate the baseball park, or throw about it restrictions likely to lose us our Southern Michigan league team naturally! arouses a bit of resentment. Haseball is the great American sport, and the cleanest and most popular of all American sports, horso racing not excepted, and to eliminate baseball of the recognized league variety, is to detract from Springbrook a lot of attention that will bo neded to bring to the new amusement organization, its largest measure of success. This is no brief in behalf of 1M Smith, local baseball magnate, and owner of the Southern Michigan league teain of Xouth Rend residence, nor of any other baseball magnate. It is merely a brief in behalf of league baseball, and in behalf of South Bend in particular. We know nothing of the under-currcnts that may be operating to effect a change in the leasel'f of Smith's Springbrook operations. Our only point is that South Bend a:i a city, and the amusement association as an investment organization, cannot afford to do away with the Springbrook baseball park, or render league baseball in South Bend an impossibility. If the present site, of the park is needed for the proposed coliseum, as asserted, all well and good, but in that case a substitute idace should be found for baseball 4 panics, and we are inclined to believe that there are plenty of them in the vicinity. The purpose of the amusement association can be nothing other than to provide South Bend and Mishawaka people with clean, wholesome amusement, with educational features, at times, addenda, as for instance, during the season of the county fair. It is a tendency of the age. The grind and toil of the work-a-day world, and the growing inclination to relieve It in some other way than by carousing ami beer-guzzling, calls for amusement resorts of such character. Human nature naturally looks upward. Real reform comes from affording man tho opportunity of better environments that are agreeable and inviting. To say that a man should be good, exclusively by attending to church on Sunday, or, through keeping out of mischief by work during the week, is imposing a laggardh m to w hb'h a largo number of people may decline to peacefully submit, and this is not much of an age of inquisitions. It is all right to preach idlvidual uplift ! through personal economies, cultivation of the brain, taking a bath, and i I earning twice your wages for what i vim irot. but "all work and no play ' makes Jack a dull boy," and nobody knows it any better than the men who have tried it. "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the best of men." And so we say let the amusement association proceed. It can be made to supply good, wholesome substitutes for a multitude of sins, but to overlook baseball, the most popular .ame in all the land, would be to render the consignation woefully incomplete, at least, even if not an- absolute failure. We believe that association promoters should take this well into aeoount. not to the extent of letting t Manager Smith, of the Southern Michigan club, put anything over on them through asserting a disposition to leave if they do not give him tho earth, but to the extent of affording him a reasonable opportunity to stay. It is not so much Smith, and his own way, that South Bend and Mishawaka will demand of the amusement association if it takes the park over, but baseball league baselMl and the local team vvimhng up "as well as ,. , , , , . ;, ,, it did last season presents an inta- , n. t. t o-mnot Hon for retention here that cannot , l consistently be overlooked. PA KM B()OK-lvi:i:riMi. The American farmer has traditionally boon a shrewd sort of u eat lire. While he was laughed at as a prey of gold brick men as a matter of fact no other class of men has been equally ditticult fer confidence men and sharpers. He is a master of the art ef trading, and his calilng made htm a keea judge of values. Hence it does seem singular that j?o many farmers have been so terribly cheated by their own farms. The typial edd time farmer ran along in a dreary circle'. Ho raised grass and corn and a garden, to feed his hers?es. cows, and family. He did raise a little milk from his cows, which was ;bout Ids only cash crop. Muca "t the milk

went to the feeding of younK calves. The offal from tho l.arn went back into tho lanl to complete the profitless

j cirdo. At tho end of the year, if he ' had placed r.o new mortgage notes on his farm property he did well. In the rich corn and wheat belt?, and in the cotton country, of course things wont a little better. The yoll was proline, and it was hard not to j Hut tho terrible slumD I v t'v,. . - . . . . . .... ; . . .. .. i I -- larm mortgage loans mat occurreu . some 15 or 2u vears aco showed that; even in Kod lands many famera worked at a loss. The farm has been the only business that has had no book-keeping. Kvery other line has had its operations in each department down in black and white. A printer who should undertake to turn out a lot of posters or catalcgs i I without definite liKurcs of expense, ob tained from similar operations in past years, mii;ht just as well board up his front windows and call in the auction man. Hut the majority of the old fashioned farmers are still trying to raise half a dozen different crops, without keeping any separate expense account of each. WJIAT MAKIIS riGIITI'ItS. An army composed of men of a eertain stamp may be annihilated but never whipped. That's why Germany and Austria fear Great r.ritain above all their foes. Sir Herbert Raphael Hart, richest members of the English parliament, is now Private Raphael of the I'lth battalion Royal Fusiliers. When asked why he enlisted as a private he said: "Became I had no military experience and did not think it right to tako an oilicer's position without it." The same spirit was abundantly manifested in this country during the Spanish-American war. The wealth and chivalry of America fought .side by side with the wharf rat. That spirit is what has made the militia of this country an effective lighting force from Bunker Hill to San Juan. It is why Uncle Sam doesn't need a mighty standing army. From the highest to the lowliest the pons of America are willing, in the hour of danger, to serve as privates in the rear rank and, if tho need be, to go to a "common" soldier's grave The invention of fireproof shingles has been announced, but so far as has been discovered ho insurance company is preparing to go out of busiIhvj. The U. S. senate will miss Root and Burton, says a tearful eastern editor. Eikely enough, but just watch the country stagger along without them. Close to Famous Folk By Fred C. Kelly. WASHINGTON, March 22. The long arm of coincidence plays many a funny little prank. On more than one occasion it has mixed into the odd career of Edward J. King, who has been elected to the next congress from Galesburg, 111. In his early boyhood King was subjected to an itnerant mode of life because his father was continually falling into hard luck and obliged to try I first one town and then another. King's father was a carpenter. One day the lather was awarded the contract for building the Second Baptist church in Springfield. Mass. He built it all right, but in the building of it the contractor wont broke, for he was not good at figures and his estimate of the cost had been too low. From then on the father was never out of hard luck. And today Congressman King is not an.v better at figures than his father w as. He was obliged to do so ! much moving about from place to place that his schooling was seriously interrupted right at the .important Ju'rl,Ml "f v 'hMh' 7?m,? to conquer the multiplication table, Thfl rt,slllt w;IS lhat he never did get bevo nd the nines. He knows all the eini-iumi ,!.'. l well enough eight-turns eijht are sixty-four and all that but when he gets into the nines lie has to stop and ligure. Later on he succeeded in getting a degree from Knox college, but he did so without any definite knowledge of that part of the multiplication table lying beyond the nines. Always he luus faced that handicap. Ask King right now howmany are nine turns nine and he ! would be not a little perplexed. We started to speak, however, of coincidences. A great many years ago young King worked as a waiter for a caterer in Galesburg. He helped to serve a dinner one night in the finest home in Galesburg the show Place of the town. It was the eostliest house he had ever glimpsed from the inside and made a deep impres sion on him. Time went on and once more King was called to that same tine home, and to perform services. But on the second occasion he went there to draw up the will of the woman who owned the home. When he was about eight years old. King went with his father to Galva111., .k-hich is also in the district he is now to represent in congress. IBs father was selling washing machines about the country. They lived at a little hotel in Galva. n this hotel was a cupola where the King boy and t . - anothcr l"y Ua to ,,lay U was U ratncr dangerous climb, but the two 1 ii'..m1.1 ... ........ . U .-. , niiKiiiiiiniV lanelscapc. and talk ef the things they would do when thev grew up. Then King moved with his father to other parts and forgot all about the little chap who had played with him in the cupola. Ho even forget the hoy's name; all he remembered was that he usually wore a blue sailor suit. Forty years elapsed and King was running for congress, t oie afterneom he v. as holding a conference with Frank Kranz. editor of a paper at Oneida, 111., and chairman of the Knox county republican central committee, which was handling- King's campaign in that county. King" spoke of having once lived at Galva and mentioned that he used to play in the hotel cupola with a little boy in a blue sailor suit. Krar.z grew interested a.id asked for more particulars. It came out that he was the little bey in the blue sailor suit.

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lliarap)iraiii? Mimetlilnsr tliat a miifli greater nuiii onro aid, wo de not know a more mortifying or e-xaix-ratinc: tiling to 1m omx-iou-, of liavliis hail a thought witliout tlie prcxMit ability to recall it. COMING in on a souside car a young couple sat, or reclined preferably reclined opposite us. The young man's hat was on the back of his head, leaving his open face exposed to the glare of the incandescents. The young woman's face was shadowed by her toque, but visibly in a state of constant activity, due to the stimulation of a wad of gum, which she deftly switched from one sidee of her jaw to the other a -d masticated with a rotary motion. The pair occupied three scats, their crossed knees in justaposition holding the third safely against intrusion. They spoke, when they did, in suppressed tones. There vas nothing remarkable about this except that it is eo common. Funny thing about those felows in the editorial room. It is either Fall upstairs or Walk down stairs. GETTING back .to the fly, which may bo regarded as the precursor of summer we have nothing new to say. The old rule of swat continues to apply. Why Preachers Are Popular With Women. (From an Evangelist.) There are three ways to spread news telegraph, telephone and teli a woman. FOR good and sufficient reason? which are too indelicate to mention ii the Melting Pot, Elinor Glyn is noi popular with her sex. Evidently she doesn't ca.re, since she has expressed her conviction that women should not ote. And her reason r this attitude is that "A nation should be ruled by logical intelligence. Women are guided by emotion and Instinct." But, we obi ?rve, Elinor is careful not to say the nation is ruled by logical intelligence. What's the T life re nee? (South Bend Tribune.) Dear Mrs. Thompson: (1) I lowlong sheuld a girl wear her dresses A Mothers' Help in Public Office By Elbert Hubbard One of every four wage earners is a woman. One woman out of every live is a wage earner. Consequently, the majority of women in the United States arc not economically free; they have to look to some man for board and keep. A few women think they dd not want such freedom. Many do want it. Some of the many want to work for it and are willing te pay the price. The dependent, frail, delicate, beautiful female has gene out ef fashion. The clinging vines are r ot running as much to the acre as formerly. The innocence ef ignorance ami the dependence eif helplessness no longere attracts. Women whose human elesires are dormant are not attractive either to themselves er to others. In other words, women no longer enjoy poor health mental, spiritual, physical. Thev are not only coming out of their dimly lighted life, but they are participating in the work of the weuld and doing their share of the world's work. Within the present decade women have entered the business world as assistant helpers ami a few have taken the big responsibility of big business. They have not vet become eooperators in the world, but they have become assistants in all big branches of school, church, business, government. The king of Holland once addressed Caroline Herschel as "a great astronomer." And she said, "I am not an astronomer, I am only assistant to a great astronomer." But Sir William Herschel, her brother, replied: "You are not only an assistant, you are an astronomer." It is thus that all roads lead to Rome. The governor of the state of Colorado has recently created a new state othce, "assistant governor." Gov. George A. Carlson is so big a man that he was able to appoint his wife te help fill his othce. A man less strong might not have dared. A woman less capable than Mrs. Carlson could not have filled the position. tint thrro are no rumbles, grumbles er roars coming from Colorado. Pos- j sibly the fact that no appropriation has Doen asKeo ior o accomau new othce may account for the peaceful reception. Colorado is not a state that sits serene and secure, saying: "I am perfect, my government is complete." She has had Rood cause to know that she has legislative problems al! them paternal problems, if you will in which she needs help. Also, she has maternal problems. Colorado has recognized its women as citizens since the vear 1S0.1. Mrs. Carlson is a mother, a mother with hopes, aspirations, dreams. There are many mothers in Colorado, all citi7ens. And mothers have, because of their mothcrlmod, wisdom and power to protect those who need protection. This mother has four children iVjr-iC "i a to n iTfi fru m SO VT Vl'UfS t O eight months. Itut because she is a mother, Mrs. Carlson has not ceased to be a human being. The governor knows how capable this woman if. She assists him. STie has assisted him for a number of years. He knows that she can do for him what no man can elo. Because of this woman's experience as a mother, she has wider and larger sympathies ethan ever before. " To legislation relating te. the welfare of women and children, to bills that come before the legislature which do not affect women and children. Mrs. Carlson gives her splendid intellect, her great heart. She considers these bills with regard to their effect upon the welfare of the people. 'of all the people of Colorado. Will there be a less to the four little Carlsons because their mother spends a part of her time in the ln-

when sh is five feet two inches tall? ( 1 ) No matter what size a girl is she should not wear her diesf cs after they are soiled. DESPITE the efforts of the press to correct the public most everybody is still pronouncing it allies. THE traveling salesman's strong argument io that his house is "running low on that line of goods and they dem't know when they'll get any more across the pond." And in most cases the consumer fa Is for it because h doesn't know whether it'strue or not. NVxt: (Tioga. Tex.. Herald.) We feel pretty sure that fpring is near, ns all three barber shops repeirt a heavy business last Saturday on hair cutting. TEX and Mex. you know well, there isn't much difference between them. "200 Begi?t?rd in Terre Haute Where 20 laved." Headline, is this the same system '"erre Haute puts over em the school enumera:ion and the census bureau. er ebies it vary according to circumstances? OFTt foreign cousins, who are demanding that we rtop selling war material to combatants have an exalted idea of the scope of Pres't Wilsem's authority. They fall to catch the idea that our captains of industry are not subordinate te the chief executive. The Xohleness of Asso. This is the title of a tract printed in 159r and described as "a work rare, learneel anel exce'lent." The- following pasrage is extracted: "He (the. tsse refuseth no burden; he goes vhither he is sent, without any conradiction. He Kfts not his goote a gainst any one: he bytes n M : he is to fugitive, nor malicious affected. He doth al things in good sort, and to his liking hat hath cause to employ him. If strokes be given him. he cares not for them; and as our moelern poet, singeth. "Thou would.t .(perhaps) he should become thy foe. And to that end dost beat him many time; He cares not for himself, much less thy blow.' M THK modern asse is much the same. C. N. V.

terests of the great, big family which makes the state of CedoradoV Or do they have the love, care and wise guidance of a growing, evolving mother, whose wisdom increases daily, whose interests are so large that she is not petty, petulant and terrified by confining cares of one little home? , Does a woman cease to be a human being when she becomes a mother? Does a mother cease to have human desires when the unpremeditated cares of a family have stolen softly upon her? . She cannot be less a woman. She should be more. This woman can give more, not only to her own family but to the people of Colorado, of the United Slates, because she is assistant te the governor. How about other states? Might it not be an experiment worth trying by the gevernor of New York to create the oliiee of "assistant to the governor of New York state?" TWENTY YEARS AGO Reminders From the Columns of The Dally Time. A contract was let for the sinking of five 4o HO six te eight inch artesian wells near the Lceper bridge-. Abe Seeberger left ?aturilay for a Mediterranean trip. The linger works began running nine hours. , 1 We Can Save You One-Half on Your Dental Bili. Come in and talk it over with us. Examination Free. No charge for extracting when ordering new teeth. Painless Kxtractiiig r0c White Dental Parlors 111 West Washington Ave. Over Herrs Book Store. Lady Attendant. Open Tues., Thurs.-and Sat. Nights Hell Phone Main 420. EYES EXAMINED tad X2Mdch Believed without th at Dru by Eytj'uwSmiitii ' I it ,1 ' i a I (I htttiitiftA-ftsau M. LEMONTREE tuth Bend's LAlng OpUntetrlit i iiaimffcUurlnc OpHclan. X23H S. Mlehlran treft. Home Phone 65M. Bell Phvne 947. Vuadaj rm to 10:S0 m. t j AfplnU "SHIMPS COAL MAKES WARM FRIENDS" Good Soft Coal $3.50 Ton All kinds of Hard and Sort Coal. Alo COKE, Pocahontas PIIA for undrrfeed furnaoe., CAXNIHj Coal for grates, anel VYood and Keed. (live me a call and I v.ill make It HOT fer jcu. W. D. SmftQP 1013 V. WASIHNC.TOV AV. Home Phone 5810. dril Phone 11D

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