South Bend News-Times, Volume 32, Number 86, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 27 March 1915 — Page 4

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Dallr ani Sunday In France, In ritr. lr .ir .". Imlly aiul Sunday l:i iTaiK-e, by mill, year fnoo II your nam apnrs In th tfl-pLone oa 10 ue rw?i-Tlin r.fce aiii a bill phone 1101; IW-ll phone 2:0) com:. LonnxzEX rr-lira Adrercislug 223 Fifth Atoniie, Npw York hOUHI IlLIXD. INDIA CANADIAN COIN AS M.;.L TI'.Xm:u roit sti:i:i:t cut iaih:s. South Hr-rnl h.ink.s having IccMel that thvre will l.c n licunt en Canfiflian meiify, at hast until irtent conditions ar con.-i'loniMy changed, the only embargo r ni.tininK m cms to be that of th Chiraso. .outh HclKl & Northern Indiana rt railway company. In fa t tlw only i al reHrlftion if Mii-h ordr that tr has existed hally api rars t have inanat d from that (uni u'.'i. When thj f-gitation I-an hf r dn to announcement from tlx, strtft railway magnates, and tlio posting of signs in the j-tro-t cur.', r fuirr-r a ((ptanc, of Canadian money for fares, tin; hanks Ixgan an investigation ani took the matter under -advisement. The result has been a imding that there is no more of an excuse for r fusing or discounting Canadian mon'y now than there has been in th past and that accordingly no such discount will be imposed hy the li.nnks. Canadian money is adopted in Chia?o from the loral banks at par, less the usual rate of exchange about 1 1-2 per cent. That is all there is to it. Several local hanks have always discounted Canadian money two per tent, when brought in in sutlieiently large quantities to make it worth while to discount it. However, the South ISeml hank that gathers in $100 a, month in Canadian coin is regarded as having done an unusually big business in that line. It makes one wellnigh feel sorry for the street railway company. Jt would be too bad, if, under its local system of straight fivecent fares, it should happen to gather in a hundred dollars or so in the course of a month, and that the banks should discount it, when deposited in bulk, say, two dollars or four. It would take l.0"0 passengers at tic cents, or. if they unloaded a quarter each on the street railway company, then SOO, to put over this wonderful $1.00 loss. Of course, Canadian coin is not legal tender. You can oblige the street railway magnates for informing you on this decidedly legal point, and, of course, you would not expect thee honorable gentlemen to do anything in South Bend that the law does not absolutely compel them to. To suggest to them that they might be just a trille accommodating to a passenger who miht chance to hac a Canadian coin, this, when the law does not insist upon it. would be to break down a reputation for persistent inconvenience, that people here mr.;ht never learn how to get along without. Indeed, yes, It is important that the people be held down tight to genuine leiral tender In Cue matter of street cars fares. Leu'al tender in the matter of street car rides, however, is a different matter. ne would think from the stress put upon it in the posted notices that Canadian coin no longer counted for anything. It would b Just as well if less of it were in circulation here but as long as it tontinues to circulate, and the banks are willing to take it, it is diltlcult to gues why the street cars shouldn't he as liberal in ac-pting it as anyone ; else. If it is a disposition of the magnates, just to show the people, "by heck. that they're "running the car line?," and that the public must knuckle down with the kind of coin that they want, i:i nationality as well as amount, then very well ami good. The public wants to know. Perhaps it would Increase the tratllc if the com pany should next insist that all fares ! be paid in nickels of the 'buffalo" design? The South Bend banks are to be congratulated on placing this Canadian coin situation before the public in its true liuht that the people may know exactly where the responsibility for it Hi s. handling ;ovi.k.mi;nt mont.y. An excellent plan for handling the government's money has been suggested by Suager Slurley. chairman of the newly created budget committee. This committee consists of Speaker Clark. Majority Leader Claude Kitchin. Chairman Fitzgerald of the appropriations committee. Chairman Hay of the military affairs committee. liep. C,atTie!of Texas, mid Hep. Stout of Montana. Tlie committee is a nsult of the excess of appropriations o er receipts allege d to have been committed by the la?t ci'iiKif". It is an unoltieial body, created by the democratic caucus, but Sherley is chairman, and thus his plan may perhaps be regard d as that of the administration. His idea is to create an crucial budget committee cder the rules of the houie, consisting of the chairman of all committees in the house dealing with appropriations. The (onunittoe is to inert at the beginning of a session and to estimate the amount of revenue likely to be raised for the fiscal year. and then to determine exactly the; total to be expended, this total to be apportioned among the committee leaving the committees to work out tho problem as to how the allowance of each shall be expended. This plan is o"e! by Kitrurrald. who has a sort of Tammany .scheme tj which ho wouid Mirrniind himself

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I'oxtofflee at South P.end, Indhna Dally and Sunday for tfce week hj currier 12Pally, phis!'' ropy Sunday, irtr opy 2C So directory you ran telephone ycur want will he mailed afl fter itu Insertion. Home . woodman Representative. Adrertlilnj: Ilalldinf, Chicago X , MARCH 27, 19K. with an enlarged appropriations committee and control all the appropriations himself. It is also opposed by a considerable contingent of New York republicans who like to keep Fitzgerald filled with hot air anent "democratic extravagance, " encourage him to shoot it off as a would-be savior of his party, and then to play him up as the "watch-dog of the treasury," while, as a matter of fact he is merely the tool of the republican party, and perhaps, as many assert, more of a republican than a democrat, in all his leanings humhuggery and bossism included. ri HLic si-ins r: or ni:atxi:ss. There are many people who are thoughtful for the appearances of their own home plates, yet who are absolutely careless as to the general appearance of their town. Comparatively few persons who have any sense of cleanliness at all, would litter up their own home grounds by throwing refuse out of the windows. Yet the same people will scatter paper bags and other waste matter about the streets of their town. Then they complain against the local officers if the place is not kept in a neat condition. Paint-up and cleanup days are one result. Most people also feel some pride about keeping up home places. They will take pains not to run over grass bankings, and will scrupulously follow paths. IJut when they go down town, they will cut corners, gradually wearing down plots of grass, and give the town an unfinished and run down air. No matter how much money a town spends to keep its public ways in good shape, it will never have a neat and tidy appearance unless its citizens cooperate. People should feel a positive sense of shame in throwing away anything that would make their streets look unattractive. In some places boys and girls are trained to pick up waste paper that is flying about the streets. With a lot of youngsters active In that way, not merely to remove evidences of other people's disorder, but not to make any of their own, it is astonishing how a town's appearance can be transformed. Allowing public streets to remain In a. disorderly condition must hurt the reputation of a town. In these days of automobiles a town receives visitors constantly from far and near. Residents of other cities come in a critical spirit. They are quick to see evidences of public disorder, and they bear away the news that this or that town is dirty. Spring is the time for cleaning up. Let us all resolve to keep the streets neat this season! mow: Tin: ilmluoad liOimv. Just why the senate lobby investigating committee is sitting after the curtain has rung down on the rest of the show nobody except tho committeo seems to understand, but as long as they arc in session and are anxious to investigate something, there is excellent opportunity In the continued mystery surrounding the disappearance of the postal appropriation bill during the closing hours of the last congress. The bill had passed both houses and had passed the conference committee. It remained onl to be accepted by the house. Thereupon it disappeared. All kinds of stories are being told as to what happened to it. One says it fell into the hands of a messenger and was sequestered in a safe. Another rays the messenger was a railway lobbyist who wanted the bill defeated. The fact remains that someone took physical possession of the bill and defeated it by bringing about its physical absence from the spot in the house where it should have been. Postmaster (Jeneral Burleson says the railway lobby is responsible for the defeat of the bilk Here is the lobbyinvestigating committee on the job inquiring why editors write their editorials on the ship purchase bill, but not a "quiz" about the railroads. They might be doing valuable work in estimating this railway lobby and Sherlock Holmesing the mysterious dia ppearaneo of this bill. TIMi: TO ACT. The state department is now in a position to take official notice of the activities of Captain Boy-Kd, naval attache to the Gorman embassy, i barged with having attempted to hire spies for service in England. The case of llichard P. tegler, who pleaded tuilty and turned state's evidence, is now a matter of court record. c?teglei having been sentenced to a prison term for his part In the plan. The verdict against Stegler sustains his charge that he was hired by Capt. Boy-Ed and furnished with money by the latter to purchase a fraudulent birth certificate and other spurious Identification papers, under which he was to travel in London as an American citizen named Madden. While the matter was merely the Biibject of newspaper publication or even of grand Jury investigation It was not oosxibU to connidir it diplomatically. , Now that it is a matter of court record there i no reason jr th ec-

rciary of state should not make formal proteat to Berlin against the use of the embassy and its officials for conducting a spy system in the United States.

SPRING ADVERTISING. This newspaper Invites its readers to the careful consideration of the announcements In our advertising columns of the fine lines of spring goods now being offered. This is a tim3 of year when people are spending a good leal of money for new material. It makes a big difference to the family balance sheet at the end of the year, whether or not the purchases of the spring season arc made carefully and thoughtfully. If you go down town haphazard, blunder into the first store you see, and buy the first article offered, without previous consideration, you are apt to regret it. The wise purchase is the one made after study of tho announcements In the home newspaper. Examination of the advertising gives a clear idea as to what merchants are the most enterprising, and what special bargains are being offered Just now. Pick out the men who bid the most actively and intelligently for your spring trade, visit their stores, and inspect their offerings, and you will find tho chance for a selection that you won't regret. WANT HIM citoss-iri'i;i). A Washington dispatch says that it is inconceivable. In view of American interests in the "open door policy," that administration officials are not keeping a "closer watch" on developments in China. Washington must remember that Uncle Sam is a real busy little watcher right at the present moment, and it may be excellent policy to look in the direction of Europe, with an occasional side glance at Mexico, rather than to keep his eye screwed around on Asia. The city man who gets out after trout with fancy tackles and swell sporting togs can always secure fish to take home to his friends, from the farmer's boy who goes out with worms and a pole cut along the stream. When a lecturer urges liberal help to the Belgians some quiet people put money in the box, while others generously contribute loud and prolonged applause. Why is it that tho present style of small hats was never popular In the days when women used to wear their headgear at the theater? .Since the Dresden's destruction, Germany has only two cruisers roaming the seas, and they don't report business as very brisk. Observing the Howland case, nobody will have tho hardihood to claim that women in Colorado don't take an interest in politics. So much waste paper and other litter blow about the town that the streets must eeem very homelike to many people. Sec'y Daniels has created a vice president's flag. Tom Marshall ought to get up a secretary's flag. Lots of flags won't hurt. Somehow it is not always easy to display tho same admiration for your wife's new hat after you learn tho price. Having closely observed the sufferings of several presidents. Senator Hoot says "Not for Ell In 1916!" Seeing America First liy Fred Kelly. Lifted right from diary: Now that I'm travelling, there aro several little odds and ends of things that I wonder about. For example, why is the average sleeping car porter such a zeulous advocate of early letiring? Unless urged to do otherwise, the porter will begin making up the berths at about half-past eight. Yet I cannot recall ever seeing, voluntarily, any one retire on a Pullman at that hour. Each porter when a small lad was told by his parents or by his family physician that an hour's sleep before midnight is worth two hours after midnight. Ever since then each porter has predicated his life on the hypothesis that the travelling public would protit by getting into bed nice and early. Board a train at 0 o'clock and nearly every berth is already made up. Soon the steam is turned off. There is no place to sit, even if it were warm, and no place warm even if there was a place to sit. There is nothing to do but go to bed. This is particularly distasteful if one happens to be a newspaper man, habituated to sitting up until about 2 a. rn. If the porter had his way, there would be no night life anywhere and no fun. Everybody would be tucked into bed shortly after dark and up in time to be an eyewitness to the sunrise. And why is this? Go into almost any city in the United States and there is a hotel there called the St. James, and every St. James hotel is a good deal like almost every other St. James hotel. Whv is St. James the foremost patron saint of the hotel business? Then there is St. Charles almost invariably be for men only. Why not the t. John or the St. Luke? Any one able to furnish me with information on these points mailed in a plain wrapper may have positive assurance that it will be cheerfully received. Here in Chicago today I experimented at asking 10 men this question: "What should a stranger here for a few hours go to see?" Seven o tit ef 10 I asked recommended the fctoek yard. Two told me I ought not to miss the Marshall Field store. The 10th suirirestod srointr to an art irallery. And he w as a po- i liceman! I have had similar experiences in the past to confirm the notion that Chicago i.s inud of It stock yards beyond all else just as the Xew Yorker takes hla greateat rride In the

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The farmers have been hit asain. The pure food department has irlerei the hnrxcrailMi manufacturers to cut out the turnips. TEN CENTS A PIjATK WITH OilDKHS ONLY lTYi: CENTS. The thinnest thing I ever sawThinner than what the artists draw As their idea of mother-in-law; Thinner than stories told to his spouse Py Hubby when he gets in the house Home from an "up with a sick friend" souse; So thin that when we met face to face I wondered if it occupied space It did! This fact, me sure did amaze! When I saw it I had to stoop And bow, and then end with a whoop To the world's thin'st thing: LUNCH BOOM SOUP. GEE EL. THIS country is accumulating so many holidays and other red letter days that we should have a handy vest pocket calendar to indicate the days we should work and those on which we should wear our Sunday shirt. IN the reference room at the public library: Rabbi Cronbach seated at a table deep in a ponderous tome. Nearby Rector White equally absorbed in another book. Between them a prominent lady follower of John the Baptist studying church unity. Just Ray Thanks aiul Let It Go at That Sir: I like to notice that a virtuous press, whether of high or low degree, always impliedly apologises to its readers after feeling constrained to mention old John D. Rockefeller's benefactions or philanthropies, by a postscript recalling his ineradicable sin. Let us see to it that olel John understands that for him redemptive grace is1 out of the question. We should put In his mouth the lamentation of Macbeth: "No; thia my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine. Making the green one red." Perhaps it would be too much to expect the benighted starving Belgians to refuse his shiploads of food, but they ought to be cautioned that anything approaching effusive gratitude for what he has done for them would be considered by us as entirely uncalled for. M. "WHAT." apks H., "is the most useful bird alive " We give it up. Do you? THE predominant thought with us. suggested by the war is that we didn't know there was so much ammunition in the world. high prices of every thing and the various petty grafts in that city. And when it comes to civic pride I got to talking with a man who boarded the train at Kansas City. I remarked upon the hills about Kansas City in contrast to the level country lying immediately beyond. "Yes, sir," he declared, slapping his thigh with enthusiasm, "our hills here are Just high enough. If they were higher they might be a nuisance to climb. But those here are Just right for giving our people proper exercise. The consequence is that our men and our women have the most shapely limbs to be found in any city in the country." That's what the Kansas City man was proud of. TWENTY YEARS AGO Reminder From "tho Columns of Tlie Dally Time. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kelly. Mr. and Mrs. C. L Goetz are in Chicago today. Miss Franc Knevels of Elkhart was a guest of the family of Mrs. J. A. Knevels. Rev. H. A. Percival will preach his farewell sermon at Mishawaka tomorrow. He goes to Logansport. BITS OF INFORMATION William Lewis, 60 years old, 9 43 W. Washington st., Indianapolis, was run over by a street car and lost his leg. Edward Winslow. colored, 10 years old. has been arrested in Indianapolis, suspected of having robbed four homes in Muncie, Ind. The officers of the Italian general staff claim that the newly made Italian cannons arc the best in the world. FOR JEFFRIES AUTOMOBILES see Frazier and Frazier. General repairing. Distributing agents for Bosh magneto and Htromoerg carburetor. 11S-120 Lincoln way E. Adv. The J. W. Davis Co.. in the hothouse cucumber business, Davenport, la., have done LO per cent more business since they put the Studebaker delivery car Into service. It has run S.riOO miles on the same set of tires. giyi: it to Tin: children. Phila. Peanut Butter is delicious for their lunches as well as nutritous and wholesome. Buy it Saturday. Special price. 2 lbs. 2:c Advt. LO-TUS LINIMENT Stops Rheumatism, Neuralgia, aches and pains. Best and cleanest Liniment made. 25c Z fie at Coonley's. Advt. (). I Child?. Studebaker taxi service. Taunton. Mass.. ran i,31S miles on one Fet of tires, spent $'.4G for repairs, averages 50 starts per day, and the starting motor has never refused to operate. COONLEY'S LAXATIVE COUGH BALAAM Works off a cold, cleans the stomachdrives out worms. Splendid for children. 2Zc & 50c at Coonley's. Advt. Automobile Owners Our specialty is the corre-ction of ignition troubles. If your engine runs irregularly, brin your car to emr shop. Vistula av. and Sample st.. as tho doe tors say, consultation free. The Knoblot k-Heideman Mfg. Co. Adv. MOTH & LAVKNDKH FLAK1 Keeps away moths, vermin of all kinds. Leaves a pleasant perfume. 15 & 2oc xackages at Coonley's Advt.

A Quick Change. (Huntington Herald.) George Quick and his family who have been visiting relatives in this city for some time left on Erie train No. 3 for Chicago from which place they will go to Ft. Benton, Mont. GOOD-BYE, Larry, here's hopin' Old Joe Cannon don't git you. IT might or might not afford satisfaction to the late Pres't Benjamin Harrison to know that $5 bills bearing his picture are being raised to tens. Ilittiiig the School In Rhyme. (Cor. Burr Oak Acorn.) As the whole force is very dependent On Mr. Milner. the Superintendent, I want to say for the Burr Ook school That he is O. K. and takes things cool. Talk about your peaches and plums. How a brut the High School mums? They're ever present and on duty And their able work's a real beauty. 'Tis said some students are repentin' Under good teaching of Miss Fentcn; Many others, too, are getting wiser. By work of one standing by the kaiser. Then comes genial C. G. Bowdish He calls the kids when they're rowdish He's on the job, his work at stake. Born on the banks of old Round lake. Now Miss Herndon of 5th-6th grade Has sure a splendid teacher made But she has dis'pointments hero belo', 'Specially so when the auto won't go. In 3rd and 4th is Miss Mary Bell Doing her work easy and well Works of course with all her might, Starting her pupils along just right. And Miss Reynolds of lst-2d teaching Whose future is way out-reaching Duty may call her that way or this. Or possibly somewhere near Sturgis. Then, too, Miss Fox is nicely startin' The little folks in the kindergarten And in music she is really splendid; Bless them all till all work is ended. THE same correspondent writes to his paper that it sounds musical to him to hear the holler of the northbound goose. Can you doubt now that he is a poet? THE next time we go abroad, which will be the first time, we will postpone it until the kindly hand of nature and the enterprise of man have effaced the scars of war. WE have no morbid curiosity to witness the ruin unbridled passions of men have wrought. WRITERS speak of woman's thirst for admiration, which presumes that admiration of woman is liquid. WE have always regarded it as a. solid of the consistency of mush. C. N. F.

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