South Bend News-Times, Volume 32, Number 153, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 2 June 1915 — Page 6

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Tin: pimsTiniNTs .vnnTm; Quit evidently, and properly, if Washington dopcters can bo taken at their word. (! rmany's imperial r ply to Pros' t Wilson's note hhhs fair to have provoked a rebuke for the kaisr-r In the president's forthcoming answer. Vf; say the 'Mopcftcrs" for the n afon that ve doubt the president having Kivcn out any information to that effect, the probability having been gathered from the Washington atmosphere, rather than any direct knowledge. We. wouldn't be a hit surprised 'f the preside-it were to take thkaiser's government quite severely to task. The country appears not the least Fatistled with Germany's response, repardlnjr it Kenerally as a "dallying" Kamc. Tho Kl Paso (Texas) Herald, as quoted in the dispatches, summarizes American comment quite accurately, when it says: Germany's rply is no answer. It does not meet one single point in the American note. It ignores oi;r koo! will, questions our good faith, doubts our facts, brushes a.side our argument?, overlooks our threats, acknowledges no wrong, transfers all blame, claims full Justitication. declares her policy fixed, avoids the whole question of duty to humanity and awaits our next move. And our next move is what is anticipated from the president in the nature of a statement that will need leave no further doubt In the German mind that tho United States means business. It Is very unlikely that there will be any receding from our former representations, but rather that they will be a trifle more bristling, if not actually embarrassing to Germany's diplomats. We have to expect a certain amount of sidestepping in diplomatic correspondence, but this situation is getting more serious every minute, as the submarine warfare continues without regard even to promisees with respect to neutral ships, and a halt in tho sidestepping may perhaps have to be called a little sooner than ordinary. This much,. however, is certain. The country stands solidly behind the president. Ho has the full public conlldence. Everybody, practically, respects his knowledge of the situation, believes In his patriotism and in his wisdom. What he will actually say will be awaited with interest, but in the belief that when he has said it, he will have said it quite right. Tho only question is, will it be safe to move without first having heard from Theodore. We haven't noticed him breaking into print so boisterously on account of this note from Germany as ho did following tho one of some weeks ago, just after tho Lusitanla went down. Maybe the Rage of Oyster Bay has discovered himself, as none too old to learn after all.

strained, first one and then another. At present they are, upon the vho! more cordial, and closer telling and better understanding mutually cxi-ts, than for jears. We trust the PanAmerican union will do much to fustf-r the friendship.

pi:usi:t 1 tio.n to tin; limit. M( niphis, T'-nn., is on-j of the many eitifs where the street ear companies are lighting the jitneys with any kind of a weapon they can liy their hands upon. In Memphis, as in many of the th rs, the most deadly weapons ne the "city ordinance" sandbag and the "zealous police" slung-shot. An ordinance exists in that city against "spooning," in jitneys, which though perfectly proper in principle, is nothing short of persecution as en-

i forced. A day or so ago. a jitney bus

driver took his bet girl for a ride. They were old acquaintances and sweethearts. "He put his arm around her and kept it there," so a detective said. Of course no man should put his arm around his best girl. Anyway the detective arrested both and they admitted tho heinous crime. The driver and this twenty-year-old girl spent the night in jail. Naturally she was broken hearted, but it didn't matter, for she was only a waitress, and had absolutely no business with a heart, so the Memphis authorities concluded. Memphis ought to be proud of that detective for he caught two criminals red-handed. Had the girl been riding in a street car magnate's luxurious limousine, with said magnate's snobbish son and heir, the ardent youngster could have hugged her until the buttons popped oil his fancy vest, either with or without her consent, and they would not have been "detected." Oh no, it would have been just a good joke on the girl, particularly if she had hollered for help. Or the same jitney driver might have taken his girl riding on the street car and put his arm around her to his heart's content and everybody would have grinned. They do it everyday in 'Memphis and New York and Paris and Hong Kong. "All the world loves a lover" but not in jitneys. This is Memphis' affair, it's true. Put the same spirit prevails everywhere. If it's not tho "spooning" ordinance it's some other designed, drafted and passed to persecute the auto-bus, to put them out of business; and it's enforced by a corporationowned police force to that end alone. There's no limit, as the Memphis incident discloses. What's an innocent girl's reputation compared to the necessity of teaching the jitney riding public a lesson.

tin: Gi7r-Tor.irriii:H. The time Is a particularly happy ono for the session of tnf- Pan-American congress. Tho attitude of this country towards Mexico during its internecine troubles has convinced the states of our sister Americas that this country has no thought of territorial expansion. The Kuropean war has shown them tho United States at its best as a friend and well-wisher of all countries, a true and sincere neutral. On tho other hand. It has shown them how little, dependence can be placed in treaties with tho nations of Europe. It has shown them, too, that tho epirit of war and conquest still reigns in tho eastern hemisphere. There's not aouth America country today able to stand alone against the weakest of the powers at war. The South Americans are. and have long been protected by our Monroe doctrine, yet for tho first time do they fully realizo it. Now is the time for a treaty, to which all the countries of the two Americas, and the smaller ones between, shall bo a party for mutual defense against acts of aggression by a foreign foe. irouth America is developing: rapidly. Poth continents are well ablo to support large navies, which, when acting in conjunction, might defy the remainder of the world. Such a treaty would be of immense Advantage to us; not that we expect to neel th help of those countries in a military sense, though it is quite within the range of possibilities that we ma3 some day. but that it would entirely restore the confidence and cement relations, which would turn to us the trade of South America, heretofore going to Europe. The products of tho two continents are so different, generally speaking, that each would buy from the other, to the profit of D0th. Mexico should also h made a party to euc'a a treaty. A trunk lir.e rfdlrosd from the center of commerce in the United States through Mexico and Central America to Prazil and Argentina rhould b buiit ns early as conditions will permit. The Americans would then be independent of the world, financially, commercially, and in every" other way. The Monroe doctrine would indeed be a thing to be respected by all nations. Unhappily, for a gcr.c ration or more Dur relations with rrm one of the "tin-American countries have been

IX CASK or WAIL The chances that the United States will become involved in the war may not be large. Put until that contlit is ended, no American can feci safe. If Germany should declare war against tho United States, the lighting could reach our shores only in case the Teutonic allies should largely overpower their adversaries. This may be unlikely, but every possible contingency should bo faced. The United States has plenty of available material with which to make war. The problem of organizing that material would tax the biggest intellect in the nation. The government at Washington in time of peace under all administrations is conducted by the class of men called politicians, rather than by business men. In case of a sudden outbreak of war, the politicians high and low of every party should feel their limitations. They ought to expect to call to their aid a sufficient force of the most capable business executives. Of course army and navy methods have been vastly improved since the confusion of the Spanish war. Put the countryis so far unprepared that the problem

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be beyond the powers of any group of men that ever gathers at Washington. In case of war there wquld be plenty of enlistments. While the average citizen shivers at the thought of enlisting, there is plenty of young blood hot for battle. livery hint and threat of war always stimulates enlistments. Tho country has no aviation force worth speaking of. but it has a host of amusement tlyers who could be mobilized. Its equipment for feeding an

nrmv would be or.lv a fragment, but I th streets are swarming with motor j trucks that could be levied. Arms : and ammunition are woofullv inade-

quate, but the country is full' of machine shops. To systematize resources for a sudden call is a problem far greater than anything that falls to any single group of our executives in time of peace. It a time for tho most detailed plans to be formulated.

careless way by boys. They will throw ,'

a bill on the porch of a house, where the first puff of wind blows it into the Street. Many boys in delivering hand bills will stiff them into the hands of pa: -sers-by who have no interest in them, and who throw them away without looking at them.

Young fellows working as store j clerks are often careless in handling1 1

litter. The first duty of the morn'ng is to sweep out the store, and if they perform this task before the employer gets around, they sometimes think they can save five minutes of their procieus time and energy by swee ing the refuse into the streets. This newspaper has previously remarked on the common habit of throwing away on the streets the paper bags in which fruit, candy, peanuts, etc., wore purchased. Another slovenly and offensive trick is the habit of tearing up letters and scattering the scraps over the walks. S'ome one has to pick up these pieces bit by bit if the street is ever to look clean. Probably the only way to get at this disorderly spirit is in the long run through the schools. Every school room ought to have a regular lesson each spring, and perhaps several times a year on th public value of neatness. Tho children should be told that dirty streets make the town less attractive to strangers, make people less likely to come hero to live, that they depress the value of real estate, and thus work against the prosperity and comfort of every family. THi: FIRST SMI1AIL The charge that a government employe has profited from the purchase of tobacco for the Panama canal workers is of interest chiefly because it involves the first hint of corruption in our management of that vast public enterprise. Even if he is proved guilty, the clean record of the actual canal builders will not be smirched, for it seems evident that nobody in the working organization knew anything about the matter, or could have profited by it. Indeed, it is hard to eliminate the crooks.

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coincidence. Put K A I S K It on the topmost line. And S; E It V I A below. Then under that place Jofi're's name And French beneath that so joFFitr: FRENCH Then draw between the A and I A straight line right down through That splits all four names clean in half. Dividing them in two. Nc- under Servia's proud name And over Jotfie-'s too. Draw still another line across That cuts the lirst line through. No,v read the first division down, It's the same when read across. And every other one's the same Coincidence, of course. K A I S E K S E K I V I A

Journal of heredity declares that, 20 years after graduation, less than one-half of the girls from separate colleges have married, and among those who married the average is only one and one-half children. Abolishing the colleges might make that half child a whole one.

Even the dead may, yet fight. Glycerine, necessary in making explosives, is made from animal sinews. A sinew famine is threatened and it is suggested that the sinews of horses and men killed in battle bo used.

J O F i F H E F n E j N C H J. A. It. Philosophical Brevities. There would be fewer divorce cases if the bride would be married to the best man. Many fellows figure that they are

getting by with something when they '

take up a girl's time. Put time shows j

that he has slipped and fell into the clutches of Cupid. Many a man after his marriage agrees with the old adage, "Every man makes one great mistake in life." The trouble with the ministers today, they do too much preaching on

prize lights and war, instead of saving I

souls. The girls today do not believe that opportunity knocks but once.

Many of our greatest men were boys who lived on corn bread. The trouble is the corn bread theory is i becoming too popular. J. Ea F. 1

A Grouch to Spring;. It's here again, the balmy time Of lover's song and poet's rhyme, And for a jit at most, a dime, I'd fell my sharo most any time. Of Spring. It's nice to dream of sylvan nooks. Of joys cf wine and poet's books. Of waving trees and rippling1 brooks. While sb.ov'ling snow and ice, gadzooks! In Spring. When Omar wrote of skies so blue, I think his joy ('twixt mo and you) Was in the jug he loved to woo. And not the Oriental hue, Of Spring. I'm hoarse and sick, and awful blue, Put since the world's saluting you, I'll lift my hat and greet you, too, And wish a hearty a! atchoo! To Spring. E. R. McB. Short Circuits. Who will volunteer to write another verse like this: The silent flight of winter snows has come. To man the joy of summer's sun; The birds no song will sing but fly and run, To lands of heat and shining san. They are always making rules to govern war, and always breaking them. Probably our traffic law will be no exception. Most men say to you: "My wife and I are one." We would like to know which one. While sitting in the bleachers did this ever occur to you: That in order to make a success of their professions both tho baseball pitcher and the orator must have a good delivery. That the pitcher may hand up all the curve's he pleases and still play a straight game?

That a man can steal three bases and be considered the best nan on the field?

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Count Peon Leschinsky sues for divorce at St. Louis, because the countess saturated his bed with alcohol. Downright extravagance, with St. Eouis turning out barrels of beer, daily.

If Poumania and Bulgaria go into it, they may get a piece, when Turkey is carved. If they don't, they may find themselves given away as bonuses, when the spoils are divided.

With every factory going into tho armament business, it docs sort o' look as if this nation was beating its plowshares into shrapnel shells and its pruning hooks into bayonets.

What do you suppose they gave the labor party in making the new British cabinet? Why, tho presidency of the board of education. It's a fighting job, all right. ,

Italy declares that Austria broke tho triple alliance treaty by pitching into Servia without notifying Italy. Another "scrap of prper" on the scrap heap!

Bryan needn't worry over not getting an Invitation to the wedding of Champ Clark's daughter. Next time we marry, Bill shall get two invitations.

During the first six months, a billion and a quarter tons of freight went through the Panama canal. In war times, too.

Yaqui Indians declare war against Germany. Cold day when somebody doesn't declare something against Germany.

Hot apple pies given away at Frisco Expo. Now, will you see America first?

Cl'KKD. Pinks must have bait, so h-? asked the first boy he found it he could tell him w litre" he'l find someone who'd sell him tome minnows or anything the fish would bite. "Don't know," answered the lad; "bait is scarce round here. But you might try the boy on the hill, lies

beuei ;iuy ol iuihj. Pinks" climbed the path and the oan.-.sUT near the -:aU-. Johnny! Got any worms'.'" "1 did have till the new come to town."

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