South Bend News-Times, Volume 32, Number 93, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 3 April 1915 — Page 4

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i:DHi wisi-: am) povkktv. While Kabbi Stephen Wise, in his address before the Northern Indiana Teachers convention, dwelt uion an old theme. In (loalln with th? "Crime of Poverty," his treatment of it was In a mann r 1 sorno jn-oplo comparatively new. In fociolo'y all the good in all the religions of the vrM can cla-jp hands, and .shrMin their theological aspects, undertake a service to man, and th-; upbuilding of the race, to the credit of each of them. It was really sociology that the rabbi was advocating, with th proper education of the youth of the land at the basis of It. And this education Is decidedly essential. Throughout the ajres the wcrld has preached charity as an alloiation for poverty but never i: ti til quite recent years has anything been undertaken to render poverty less probable. It is about the most unpopular thins In tho world too, that a man can undertake? to advocate. Tho forces of entrenched wealth are against it and that is a most formidable drawback in itself. Men of means too frequently a synonym for mean men, while perhaps not ultra-un-Bclfish iti advancing charitable relief at Thanksgiving and Christmas, still prefer the liberty to continue to rob t the fulfilment of their coffers, and then to pay back what they please as their victims sink lower and lower until they need it. Fitting the minds of the rising generation for such humanitarian service as will be able to meet these conditions is a splendid thing to talk about where instructors of those minds are brought together. Wc hear a great deul now-a-days about our school system resulting in impracticable training. While making a living is important tho ethical side of life should not be overlooked. We may well regret that so much of the criticism of our school .system should emanate from men whose main interest is to keep clown the advancement of ethical training. Observing that with tho growth of intelligence the ways of the oppressor is growing harder, it is but natural that he should seek to stem tho tide and head off much as possible such brain cultivation ,as fits a youth, when he becomes a man, to take up tho battle of life for man, and placing him above the dollar, seek to secure for him such rewards as justice demands.

Wo may quite expect, on the heels J

of the convention, a world of criticism on certain of the utterances that have been made, before the teacher body, and Rabbi Wise most certainly will not escape. Men grown rich on the sweat of others regard any spread of humanitarian doctrine, such as may inspire an inclination to sometime clip their wlnj;s, are quite certain to rebel, but it is too late. The religion of the tut ure, and likewise the politics of the future, are bound to assume more of the sociological tendency than ever in the past, and the reactionary who thinks he can head it off will fail jusi as truly as did the small dog, which by barking, seemed determined to frighten the moon from its course.

cn.;i; dixii: iikjiiway KOl Ti: TO SKIF SOITII HKXD. outh lend is soundly interested in the movement said to have been started before tho Dixie highway convention at Chatianooga this week, to change the route of that great enterprise so as-to leave this city off from its map. The proposition made is to turn the route to Lafayette, thence to connect with the Lincoln highway at Kast Chicago. A storm of protest very naturally left here yesterday for the convention city whence ec'y II. 0J. SpauMlns ff the Chamber of Commerce had already irono to defend South lie mi's claims. The protests of Friday went by wiro directed to fall upon the ears of Gov. Samuel M. Ualston. J. M. Studebaker, of the Studebaker corporation. Sen. C. 11. Summers, and a score of others sent telegrams. Whether the governor was taking interest in the opposition route is not known, but if so, he

is pretty well Informed by this time as to what South Hend and vicinity is expecting of him. Ills intluence is urged to operate in favor of the original course, 'outh Bend is the logical point at which the two great highways should connect. Chicago would have nothing to gain by the change of route. We w ould have considerable to lose. Important to this city is the; splendid line of road that with the Dixie highway built, would extend out from here to Indianapolis. The Dixie highway is calculated to connect the great south with the Lincoln highway which traverses the country east and west. The other end of the road is set for Miami, Florida. .vouth Hend cannot afford to sit idle and let this opportunity to capture the northern terminal to pass, and the action taken, it is hoped, will have the tleslrcd effect.

WOKKINfi ONli'S WAY THItOUfill colli :;i:. Although the expenses of sending a boy or girl through college are steadily increasing, yet the number who work their own way through seems to be gaining as fast or faster. It is one of the tine things about college life, that students who are working their own way seem to stand well socially. They may not get as many invitations, simply because they are carrying papers or driving grocery wagons at times when their classmates are hanging around the society rooms making friends. Hut no stigma attaches to work. Social lines may divide their parents in their home town. Hut young people are more generous than grown ups, and are not apt to draw arbitrary lines of distinction. Young people who work their own way get quite as much out of college as anyone else. They may not acquire quite as much of the social polish that comes from tea-tables and chapter houses. Hut they are living a life of carnost effort, which always brings reward. The avcrago college boy, llnanceel by a generous father, can hardly be said to live a life of earnest effort. He ilrills along In the regular goosestep, and can pass his marks without any strenuous exertion. He docs put earnest effort into his athletics, which has its value. Hut whether running at top speed to reach tlrst base helps a boy tackle the hard drudgery of supporting a family later on, is an open question. It would seem as if the person who ha.-; worked his way through college were entitled, not merely to whatever honors he may win on his scholastic standing, but to some special mark of distinction. Certainly his achievement is infinitely greater than that of the student who has simply used the tools which parents have bought and paid for.

the railroad to Tilsit, would possess a harbor through which it could move its products to market at any time of the year. It would be of utmost value to Russia during the war and as a permanent possession thereafter. s r7Ti x if ni-ovix ( : . One of the most famous lines of Knglish verse runs: "The plowman homeward plods his weary way." This was written before the days of sulky plows, automobile plows, gasoline plows, and other labor saving inventions for opening up the earth In the spring time. When the poet wrote those lines, the word "plowman" associated itself with the most laborious and toilsome task in farm life. So it has continued until recent years, and is still wherever farming is done on a small scale. Holding a pair of plow handles.

while horses or oxen jerk a man from clod to clod, hitting rocks, stumps, and roots in many kinds of soil, is the most fatiguing task in the agricultural calendar. It is no wonder that the unemployed of the cities fight shy of farm jobs wherever they mean this kind of work, at which moreover they couldn't earn half their board. Today on the big farms the plowman sits in his sulky seat and lets tho motor do the work. Riding over the yielding and lumpy soil for a whole day may not be Quite so easy as it seems to the man leaning over the fence. Hut at least the labor of the old time process has been vastly reduced.

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somi: sun shim :. Uncle Sam's trade with South America is growing. Fxports to Argentina and Brazil for Frebuary increased 11,142,915, or about 39 per cent. Most of the articles exported were manufactured products which were formerly purchased from the nations now at war. The silver lining of the war cloud is becoming more apparent each day.

kvex Tin: io;s von:. One of those Terre Haute political crooks confessed at Indianapolis that he registered the name of a dog and that a negro finally votetl under the cognomen. Thus the Terro Haute elections are shown to have been a high-handed outrage even on the dogs.

People who don't pay an income tax long for the time when they will bo legally assessable, and those who do pay one groan at the sufferings imposed on them by an unjust government.

And now the western railroads are asking permission to reduce rates on freight from Chicago to the Pacific coast. They want to meet competition of water rates via Panama.

On one of these nice spring days the impecunious youth heads his best girl for the open country, but befoie they get home she manages to lead him past the soda fountain.

People might be willing to get up an hour earlier, with the clocks set ahead on the daylight saving scheme, but never can they be persuaded to go to bed an hour earlier.

The principal difference between the coming Mother's conerrcss and the other kind is that the former requires no boxes tilled with sawdust to be scattered around.

MKillTY THINGS IN MKMi;i,. The reported capture of Memel by Russian troops would seem of far more importance than tho meager press dispatches would indicate.

H.en if they have been repulsed 1

their proximity to Memel and the evident fact that it may be captured again when Russia desires, is noteworthy. Memel is an important city of 25,000. principal seaport cf North Prussia and fortified at that. It has a large harbor and its exports are very important, coming principally from Russia and Lithuania. It is but a few mihs from the Russian border and has rail connections with interior Russia. It has sawmills, Iron foundries and ship building yards. The possession of Memel with its fortifications would give Russia control of a magnificent harbor, landlocked, nearly five hundred miles nearer the marts of commerce than Petrograd. It would afford a haven and a base of supplies for Russia's lleets in easy striking distance of Konigsberg. Should the allies fleets fail to open the Dardanelles. Russia by using a force suthcient to hold Memel, a narrow strip of German territory, and

The fishing parties will soon be started for their experiences roughing it in tho wodds, with spring beds, tents with floors, oil stoves and phonographs. Billy .Sunday saved 50,000 Philadelphia souls and got $50,000 for It, say the newspapers. A dollar a soul! It's cheap enough to be suspicious.

The mayors of most cities throw out the ball at the first ball game, but the college presidents sometimes neglect this important duty.

STAT KM K NT OF THK OWNERSHIP. MANAGEMENT, CIKCCLATIO, I:TCm KEoriRFD BY THK ACT OF AUGUST 21, 1012, Of The South Hend News-Times, published daily at South Bend, Ind., for April 1, UU.. Editor. John Henry Zuver, South Bend. Ind. Managing Editor, John Henry Zuver, South Bend, Ind. Business Manager, C. N. Fassett. South Bend, Ind. Publisher. The News-Times Printing Company, South Bend. Ind. Owners: (If a corporation, give its name and the names and addresses of stockholders holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of stock. If not a corporation, pive names and addresses of individual owners.) Gabriel R. Summers, South Bend.' Ind. Chauncey n. Fassett, South Bend, Ind. I Tow ard W. Rongley, South Bend, Ind. Cecelia Hagerty, South Bend, Ind. Known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders, holding" 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities: John B. Stoll, South Bend. Ind. Average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold or distributed, through tho mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the .ix months preceding the date slkown above, 14,87o. C. N. FASSRTT. Husiness Manaccr. Sworii to and ub:-ciibed before me this 25th day of March, 1 0 1 . CECELIA 1 IAGERTY, Notary Public. (Seal) (My Commission expires January 11, 191!.)

If the woman's college ball team would admit spectators, the gate receipts ought to pay all the Mils of tho Browning society. It is hoped that some of our brother editors will celebrate Clean-Up week by sweeping1 a path through the center of the otfice. It is embarrassing when Villa, Carranza, Obregon, etc., refuse to quail when our government sets the dove of peaco on them.

Anyway the celebrators of the opening of the Panama canal can probably go through on a tug boat or a dredge.

The army worm is ravaging the state of Washington. How this militarism does spread!

TWENTY YEARS AGO Reminder From th Columns of The Daily Times.

Resolution adopted by the teachers' convention: "Second. We desire to express our approval and pledge our support to all efforts to make the public schools the schools of the people, free from all political, sectional and religious entanglements, devoted solely to the work of securing the most Intelligent, conscientious and patriotic citizenship in those committed to our care." N. J. Bernhard was elected grand sentry cf the Royal Arcanum at grand council meeting in Indianapolis.

STllVMSHIP MOVIIM i:TS. VEW YORK. April C Steamers sailing today: Lusltanla. Liverpool; Cameronla, Glasgow; Duca D'Aosta, Naples-Genoa: New York, Liverpool. lue to arrive today: Kristianafjord from Bergen: Libra from Gibraltar; ;r ir Lisbon: Lydie from Rotterdam; Marengo from Hull.

SAIITTY COUPON CLUB. AdvU

BAB. (To Harliu 11 Hancock.) There's a lonesome town In Michiganthe line; And the lonesomeness spreads across the line I've just returned from the wish again strand, I've heard the murmur and seen the sign. The town's just the same as it formerly was. But something is missing, missed all the time; I guess your departure is mostly tho

cause. Homo folks are lonesome for "Bab" and his rhyme. They read of your metrical thought, don't you know, And wonder if you will come back some elay. Or send in a bit of heart stuff to show You're lonesome yourself at times anyway. Oh! they wish you luck the best in the flesh, Just blue, understand? they are lonesome for you; Your lines were so breezy, inspiring and fresh, That it's hard to get by now in Kalamazoo. WRIGHT AT EM. WIu await with some interest the decision of the teachers as to whether they will dissolve their association. We are thinking not so much of the material or cultural phase of the question as of the sentimental. It would be difficult to calculate the degrees of new pep injected into South Bend by turning loose within its precincts a thousand or two bright, snappy, peachy American girls with a proper mixture of more mature", but charming women, and here and there a conventional man. RECENTLY a banquet speaker admitted that he accepted every invitation to speak in order that he might perfect himself in the art, anei long before he had finished his statement was confirmed. At that he was not half as bad as the half-baked orator who regards himself as the finished product. AVE agree with the first named that every man, and woman, for that matter, should be able to express himself or herself on his or her feet, as the

case, or the gender, mav be. Not that

it should be expected or desired that

an should be orators, but that they

could clearly state their iews. It

w ..Id take the rrnro out of mnnv a

public assemblage and lend variety to

tne speaking program.' n?!it Until They Fall Apart. (News Item.)

The Austrians must be reckoned

with as fighters as long s.s anv of

their corpses remain whole. Their

morale has been badly Impaired by

successive defeats.

AS an instance of underproduction

look at the egg crop of the state of In

diana as given by the census bureau

for 1909. The hens of Indiana laid that year 80,7 55,437 dozen and the

population was 2.700.S26. This gave

each Hoosier a fraction less than 21

eggs, to sav nothing of visitors from other states. It is apparent the Indiana hen is not living up to her antecedents. Time was when we had eggs

to throw at barnstormers from the

purlieus of Chicago. Lids. To keep up with the style you try As you forget the past. But somehow every hat you buy Looks fuunier than the last. Exchange. I buy my hats always alike, Their shape always the same. I know no other way to beat This blasted new style game. Washington Observer. We have a better game than that. It works the season through; We have a series of old hats, And never buy a new. A CORRESPONDENT asks what Hannibal would do today if he were sent against one of the modern armies operating In Europe, and we confess that the question rtumps us. Just off-hand we don't see that ho could do anything. WITH the opening of the fishing season wo note that anglers can find a Hook in Texas, a Line in North Carolina, a Sinker in Idaho, a Bamboo in South Carolina, Worms in North Dakota, a 'Minnowbrook in- New Y'ork and Fish in Georgia. Site Stuck On. (South Bend's Greatest Newspaper.) Rundell further alleged that his wife went to places with Oldfield against his consent. DO you suppose the. teachers were as sweet when we were schoolboys? C. N. F.

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I am becoming the power omnipotent. Kings and emperors, once my masters, are to become my puppets. 'l make and unmake presidents and governments. 1 am more powerful than law; I make law. The most powerful of railroads have ceased to rebel against my rule. Those who feared me and fought me now seek to woo me. Dreaded by malefactors. I am the friend of real benefactors. Plutocrats and monopolies and trusts long flouted me, but I now hold thMr welfare in the hollow of my hand. Secrecy in high places. whether governmental or financial, I ablvor and am surely conquering. 1 have set my face against the plundering of the public Legislators are learning to cease plotting nefariously and to do mibidding honestly and openly. The rich have already found it vain to thwart me. And labor has of late learned something of my strength and my dominion. , The interests ef capital and labor alike are subservient to mine and must submit to be regulated accordingly. 1 am the creator of prosperity. J likewise can decree depression. Confidence and nervousness both

come from my loins. When dishonesty and rapacity mount the saddle I rebel and unhorse them regardless of the cost or the disturbing consequences. Rig business used to mistreat and misunderstand me, and the politicians became my servants in demanding and obtaining for me justice. Today it is the politicians who aTe out of harmony with me. my temper and my aspirations. nut r shall in duo time asseit mjself and compel them also to do my l I(1am' becoming tired of hurtful, amateurish legislation. I care less for the creation of a sparkling opigram than for the creation of a job for one honest worker. A full dinner pail for the nation is more to my liking-, thar a ?ufpe"f finely-rounded periods and peroraUTalkers have had their day: I now decree that doers be accorded the center of the stage. 5i,i Theories and theorems ma ticKie th I palate and fascinate for a time, but they do not satisfy emptj stomaCIn the United States I am rapidly coming into my own. In Europe my sceptre is not eta Ipowerful; but when the present j ness is overpast I shall erf seel! and bring even the proudest . of rulers and chancellors into subjection to m W Th- hour for dethroning autocracy and tyramvy has almost struck. Those who arc nwk for m

vengeance a.ru, - and thc

Slipping j " v.oir feet ground creaking deruth!ir !f ach : They see my triumphant approach

and know their doom is seaic". I am the father of democw and democracies, the slayer of tyrannical mTgaarinhsSt anmdemnoarlnhuman human

power can mrj"geclJi care. I The oppressed are m speci

The girdle 1 iore compass the whole earth.

AN OPKN LETTER. S4C Park aw, South Bend, Ind.,

April 2nd, 1913. State Tax Commission, Indianapolis, Ind.: I find the assessors of St. Joseph county are instructed to assess purebred cattle and grade cattle on the following basis, to wit: Grade cows, three yearn and over, $35; purebred, $150 . Grade heifers two yeara and over, $25; purebred, $100. Grade heifers one year and over, $15; purebred. $70. 1 km informed by the county assessor that these rates are established by jour board. As these pricesare from 400 per cent to 4 66 2- per cent on puiean d over grade stock. I, as president of our t. Joseph County Purebred Cattle Breeders' association, and as a large breeder of registered cattle, protest that, as a paper pedigree is entirely worthless to nine men out of 10, and in tho best conducted herds rarely adds over 50 per cent to the value of the entire herd, that this is at most the amount that should be added to the assessment of a purebred over a grade herd. As in my own herd, grades are assessed on a basis of 5) per cent of the cash value, the purebred should be on the same basis. This would be assessing a purebred herd at a cash value of $100 per head, and grades at a cash value of G6 2-3 per head, which is about a fair valuation. This is not taking into consideration the fact which is of public interest, that breeders of stock whose blood will add even 50 per cent to the value of the scrub stock of the state, should be favored Instead of penalized. While your assessors take most property at 50 per cent of cash value, and none over 75 per cent your assessing value of purebred cattle of $130 per head, is on a cash basis of an entire aged herd of .$"00 per head. I would be very glad to et a cash buyer for my herd at considerably less than on-half thiy price. I consider your instructions to assessors ior purebred cattle rets a price at hast I!00 per cent too high. It should bo $30 instead of $150. As the modern physlsian prevents disease, so your board should prevent litigation. It is much cheaper for all concerned than costly litigation after the wrong is inflicted. Personally I can assure you that if this assessment stands. Indiana will lose one of the finest, and one of the largest purebred Galloway herds in the United States, as my herd will be shipped to Missouri wheie, fortunately, I own lands, and where the people aimreeiate good Mood, and whorp

the'r assessers use some cattle sense i

111 iiicii uviiuiitm. kjl luiikj men. . pretty common herd of scrubs will occupy the fields west of South Bend next year, where my herd has secured favorable comment, even from United States officials. Yours very truly, O. H. .SWIG ART. President St. Joseph County Purebred Cattle association.

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