South Bend News-Times, Volume 32, Number 160, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 9 June 1915 — Page 8

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SECRETARY BRYAN'S RESIGNATION. The resignation of Col. William Jennings liryan, "iJnl of millions of democrats tlir-'iihout the country, aiki other Americans as well, quitting F'res't Yihnn': cabinet in :uch a crisis as thii, i a matter of much moment. Prudence, indeed, dictates that hurried judgment he not passed upon the action of the secretary. In this land of the free no man is bound to violate his conscience, inexpedient as it may sometimes 3cem that he should not. If Col. Bryan, as secretary of state, has found himself so out f harmony with the administration that he could no longer subscribe

to its policv, it is better that he retire from its councils; better, that

is, but for the influence that it may shed abroad in sinifyini;- a divided American sentiment, with a taction under so popular a leadership. Col. Bryan's action, when it becomes known in Germany, will beyond pcradventure of a doubt be greatly exaggerated. The United States will be made to look as if torn asunder by the resignation of our "minister of foreign affairs." He will be hailed as the champion of Germany's cause over there. The Germans will fail to understand of how comparatively small importance a secretary of state really is over here. Doubtful even if Ambassador von BemstorlT's special envoy, will be able to make Germany understand. The colonel may have seen war dangers ahead in Pres't Wilson's note, but he has greatly emphasized them and made them a thousand times more dangerous. There is, indeed, a question if, as an advocate of peace, he did not owe something to the country under the circumstances, as well as to his own conscience. And, until his conduct proves the contrary, we shall feel indisposed to impute to Mr. Bryan any jther motive than the self-satisfaction of his conscience. We appreciate that he has enemies that will light upon this instance to whet their enmity. He will be charged with all sorts of ulterior designs but we arc still "from Missouri." Questioning Mr. Bryan's judgment is one thing. Questioning his honesty of purpose is quite another thing. He is still one of Amerca's great productions, perhaps not as a statesman and a diplomat, but as a conscientious patriot, an idealist, a teacher and a man, most certainly. We shall not be prejudiced against him because he is very "dry" nor in his favor because he is not very "wet." We still agree with him on a number of his philosophies including his anxiety for peace. We think he has made a sad mistake; that he has even split a hair in his reasons for making it, but we want to continue to credit it to his head rather than his heart, if his conduct will but let us. For we shall need now to exert every energy to convince Germany that we are not a divided country. To her mind, Mr. Bryan, as the antithesis of Col. Roosevelt, will be pointed to over there as leading a third faction over here, quite as virulent for peace as the sage of Oyster Bay is for war. The Wilson administration will be considered as wedged in between these two extremes, and perhaps, thought likely to fall to pieces. No time could have been more inopportune for such a crisis. Whatever of a reputation as a statesman Mr. Bryan may have made is, by this act, thrown to the winds. It is plain enough to see now that however much one may admire Mr. Bryan in other regards, as a president, or in any other otiicial capacity, where majority judgment rules, he is impossible.

CArrTAij.iNG Tin: tlag. It's all very well to say that Americans going to Kurope in these perilous times should travel on Aiirican ships. But when it develops thot American liners sailing from our ports are few and far between, and that the rates on them have been raised to an almost prohibitive hgure. the situation isn't so simple. The biggest of our trans-Atlantic steamship lines has been accused of "capitalizing the Stars and Stripes." at the expense of passengers who fear to cross the sea except under their own Hag. Rates for passage, which vero already high enough for a reaFonable prorit. have been raised to two or three times the prices charged by British liners. Several diplomats, rather than submit to the exorbitant charges, have cancelled their reservations and sailed on foreign ships. The behavior of the little group of men now monopolizing and capitalizing- tho American flag on the Atlantic has aroused widespread criticism. It is n of the things that encouraged Pres't Wilson in his ship-j'urchnsing program before the last congress. It is not new. While we are asking Amrican pasFcr.gcrs to be patriotic and safe in patronizing only American vessels, wo might urge the vessel owners themselves to contribute a little patriotism. If thy will not government e.wnershij) in a line of vessels might help. But everything i:i the way of war stuff is going up. Army rittes hav e advanced SO per cent. Smokeless powder, which a year ago was selling at 7.". cents a poun I, is $1 now. i;ur.e ttort has advm f d from . to 7.". cents a pound. Picric acid, which is used in making melinite, the powerful explosive used m French shell, and lyddite. used by the British., has risen from lu cents to $1.7' a jo.nd. There his been a corresponding rise in carbolic acid and benzol, and other themaaN employed m making u:nmu:i:tion. IaI lias pone up from .'.'.. to i..': rents a pound since ihr war bc-r.r.1.. or has ad a net d f i C Iectroly t : cents a po it m. i.i kc c oppt . v.- t u i ar.J spe.ter mon r.e rents 10 .' en - ten. Ai-.n; with t! a- iu s.. a basic mat liaK there ha b . v. a still gnat rr in' reae in th- pri- c of manufactured ammunition. Cartridges and hells brim: douhl.- or own piadraple thi ir form r p; i peaceful guoUo s ( f i o irc. such iuth.r.-, dio.::. t lec-

trie supplies and prepared foods, ordered for quick delivery for war purposes, cost more than usual. And prices for all sorts of war supplies are sure to continue rising as long as the conflict lasts, for the demand will be continually greater. The United States, as the chief pro-

isioner and supply depot of a world in arms, will therefore derive more and more prorit from this export busi ness as long as the other nations keep on fighting and we remain at peace. Already we have piled up a favorable trade balance of nearly Jl,000.00o.noo and recovered from tho industrial jrostration caused by the war at first. But there is no disposition among any class of Americans to gloat over the situation. There is no desire for the extensio of the conflict, and its indefinite prolongation, for the sordid hoje of continued jrofit. .Neither is there any inclination to hold fast to our profitable peace if that peace should become dishonorable. We say this, that is. unless it be those ship owners whose vessel.? fly the American flag oajutalized. MORI', MILITARY PROHIBITION. The arid war zone area still grows. The latest temperance reformer is Gen. Villa. He is reported to have declared total prohibition in the Mexican war zone that he controls. Tho order was inspired by the failure of a military operation, due to the fact that his soldiers were drunk. Villa immediately adopted Carrie XaRon tactics, sending troojs into Leon, where the liquor had heen ohtained, and completely wrecking all the saloons, hreakin' the h.,ules and keu-s and pouring their contents into tlu tatters. For one ..f ill.is sohlitrs to take a drink is now an o;"fens punish. i !'! l.y death. Nothing scents to drive home th oi: of ab-ohol so e:":tctiel as war, It is aiccptrd almost universally that i 1 j u r is in. omp.1!iMr with tfleetxvo f.-htinj. T m pet at. a 1 ha v e ' en in . ; no piou:ouim:i ; i r s oi 1 el lig ore nt ' i o : i d i r s ; governments a prem.se (.f world-w ide j abstinence fro:n alcohol after th- v;:r. -M.-n every v. hir. h.ivo learned that i alcohol lowers human efhcu ru y, ! t h a r-: a . "and i ih y vv ill see k th hen p aeo c "im hi-hest industrial ef hen ncy ip.od." by banishing alcohol lVssibly they will. But it also

possible that. following the trnr.eni ,jr.;:s strain of war. with all human j powers ami fiiiot ions at their highest ! '.' nMon. there will conn1 a pork"! of r-laxati'n t haraet rized bv aloeholic

o.ves es and a general loosening f j morals, some ohservant philosophers believe that the abstaining nations i will uo n an .awful spree when tho war is ii.fr. VON JAC.OWS LO(;i( Americana have not been led to expect niucji JoL;i- from hellig rents in their war Imputes. No other statesman. hnu'evtr, st cnis to tind it so ! hard to reason straight as floes Ir. von Jak'ow, tho ilerman foreign secretary. In a rt cent interview he declare: Tho question of feodstufTs and raw materials is not a question of ne ssity for (lormaiiy. tail one of jirineii.de. Germany cannot he starved out by Groat Britain's embargo on foodstuffs. We may he a little short on some particular food products, hut we have enough to live on and keep up the struggle. Tho same is true of raw materials. Thus ho overthrows in a moment Gcrmanv's eontention and his own of the last four months that her ruthless eampiiun at sea was justified hy necessity, as a means of breaking 'down the embargo on food and savins the lives of German women arid children. Pursuing, then, his explanation that the submarine warfare is hased on "principle," he says: Germany objects to the cool assumption of the British cabinet thai when it is unable to defeat the German armies legitimately on the battlefield, it is entitled to try to force the nation to its knees hy economic pressure. Wo may pass over the obvious retort an Fnglishman might make, that "Kngland objects to the cool assumption of the German hoard that when it is unable to defeat the Hritish navy legitimately in buttle, it is entitled to try to force the Hritish nation to its knees by a campaign of terror against none ombatants." Tho gist of the German argument, then, appears to be this: Kngland can't starve us; but just because she tries to, we've got to sink Rnglish ships and neutral ships, too, if they get in our way for we owe it to civilization to teach the Hritish cabinet a lesson. Proceeding with his elucidation of the "principle" involved, Dr. von Jagovv explains that: There is no nrccedent for the siege of the civilian population of a whole nation in its own land, with no possibility of escape. Dr. von Jagow would hardly expect that statement to be accepted here if he knew American history. What he declares to be without precedent is precisely what the United States did to the Confederate states in our Civil wax. It is also what Great Hritain did to the Hoers in its South African war. Germany herself established an excellent precedent in her stibjtiK.it ion of Helpium by starvation last summer. Every fair-minded American will admit that the situation is really debatable that there is a German side to it. Hut Germany has been amazingly unfortunate in not having that side better presented than it has been by her foreign secretary and her other public spokesmen. TIIK OKKIIX OF SPORTS. To the ordinary observer, the sight of a jolly crowd of jieoplc at a ball game is a pleasant one. The antics of humorous or enthusiastic coachers, the yells of the crowd and the air of a general romp makes the world seem like a very jolly place. Scenes like these seem a wholesome offset to the toilsome side of life. Man a workingman's week is brightened. But there are some persons to whom this philosophy does not appeal. Many socialists argue that all this absorption in sports is worse than time wasted. It i3 a wicked device of capital, to divert the working people from interest in and attention to -their wrongs. According to their theory, jiopular sports were devised in medieval or ancient times, as a dev ice to quell popular disorders. The leaven of democracy was beginning to work. The kings and emjierors saw that they must have an outlet for growing unrest. So they devised popular festivals, holidays, and athletic competitions. These took up pojmlar energy, which would otherwise have gone Into rioting, revolution and dtst; action of the established order. Baseball and other sports, it is arcued. are hut the present day perpetuation of this triek of the moneyed classes to keep the working people in order. Could the ball games and other sports but be abolished, our people would stay at home, meditate on their wrongs, and rise and overturn the classes that enslave them. With this philosonhv of loom. the average man can have but little symIathy. As a matter of fact, the rapitalist of today is not over f riendly t to baseball. Tho office boys and the ! stenographers have too many prandmothers' funerals during the season. Also it is mihty hard to run the plant after tile hour when th ga;:.. is called. Probably r.othiiig" maKcs a man more normal, more hotter aMe t-. see things in a common sense way. than to uet out into the open air and "hollar" and 1'oruet his troubks w iir.AT am ti:ix. All lat rep-iris Lear out the early tu .m is s of l hi vv heat crop. 1 1 st. ems ! iikolv t bpi. i im'.oOh b.. he Is more 1 than the rcord output of last ar. ' an.l oo.-siblv it -a ill i u tn to a round j billion bushels. nd every httsht 1 will bt ing the highest price situ the civil 1 war. That means wealth for the uet, t greater spttitlin-; ; -owcr. more money irculatitig and salted down bi Ihe 1 banks, mere actnity in all lines ef

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IT wo correct ly interpret the signs of tao times, tbe Mevio.in revolution is tottrrm to its end. Compared with the eruption in Kurope the volcanic firs of jealousy and hate have burned slowly, hut they have burned oxcfeninL'ly finp, to paraphrase. There isn't enough tight in the Mexican people to make a skirmish on th Vprc5. AND tin re is a reason. W hile I.ody and sjtirit have consumed the food supply of the ountry has been burned with it, and treasuries have been reduced to proportions which may be transported a! out like jackass batteries. IT takts men of deeper natriotic eonooptions th m the Mexicans possess to have the stomach for hshtins after the food supply is exhausted. IH'T th European war will end before tluit sta-'e is reached. Civilized and intelligent races know when further liizhtinj: is futile. Sacs I.o:al Technicalities. (Waukornis. okla.. Hornet.) George Metz and I-rank Molstein have dissolved partnership in the urain business owinir to a slight misunoerstandinc. The dissolution compact was sealed Tuesday nipht hy Metz juishiror Holstoin through one of the plate windows of the meat market. AX old book pives this picture of June: "In a mantle of dark prasssrorn; upon his head a garland of bents, kinps-cujts and maiden hair; in his left hand an anple. with a box of cantharides: in his ripht. the sijrn of Cancer; and upon his arms a basket of seasonable fruits." WK should never rocncrn.'ze June in that disguise. In the first place, we have alwavs regarded June as feminine, and paid more or less tributes as such. Are we risht, or have we been a victim of misplaced confidence ? The CilliNl Indian. (Colonv. Okla.. Courier.) Making Road aiplied for divorce from Little Man of Cantonment and she trot it. Making Road has been Koinff some for last five months she make several trips to Arapaho, in buiincss, easy credit and sound national finance. Moreover the steel business, nex. in importance to agriculture, is ra'Xnw it a close secemd in boom prospects. Lust winter the mills were operating; at only 4u per cent capacity. Xow they arc working at bO per cent cajacity. and still gaining ami 1)5 percent is their practical limit. This iminoveme nt isn't by any means all due to war orders, either. Only one-lifth of the whole steel business is for the export trade, and much of that as for example, the steel nettled for Russia's huge freight car orders has nothing to do with munitions. Xearly all of it is evidence of the basic soundness of our domestic industry and commerce. We are now without question on the uj)-grade of prosperity, and far-sighted business men are declaring that nothing, not even war, could check the 'growing activity or shake our financial stability. "Ri:;rLTiN(;." A Dallas, Texas, motorman writes to a South Bend friend as follows: Doggone it. that blamed "regulation-ordinance" gun I was tellin' you about, has gone and back-fired in Dallas. It was a dandy little old weapon all right as long as they kept it pinted straight at them measley jitney buses. But these Dallas people have gone plumb crazy about this regulatin' projmsition since we sicked 'em on the jits, and now they are goin' to "remilate" the street cars. It ain't no joke, either, not a bit of it. The new mayor says that "when the street car regulations have been made, the juiblic and the jitney owners will have no cause for complaint," jest as if the public and jitney owners had a riuht to comjilain about anything. Why some of those fool regulations arc tierce. They say we motoniifii aio't got no right to smash the w heel off a dinky Kord and it right square on the track. And that we gotter give everybody a seat for their five cents, and stop dead still every time a passeners gets of and all that kind of rot. Xow. what do you know about that I wish they'd quit this regulatin' business. .MORI-: RAY roil MACK! We now have a clear view of Mr. W. L. Mackenzie King, imported from Canada by Rockefeller to deal with our social and industrial affairs, in connection with the Rockefeller moneybags. Says Mackenzie: The will and conscience of young Mr. Rockefeller is more powerful in Colorado than any other force that can be brought to bear at this time. It is a very fine exhibition of bootL.'King. and shows that Mackenzie is up to his j..b. He took no chances by savin..; that it was the tuonev -pul.l of j young Mr. Rockefeller, or that it was ; young Mr. Rockefeller's social ; v.d in,jui :rUi in'luence. 4'Tho will and conscience" tickles the whole Rockefeller family. It pleases to discover that one lias a conscience. nen if one has to hire a foreigner t make the i diFeovcry. j Vt. suuvfst th appropriateness of i raiing th pay .f Mackenzie. His , miloyf i s . ;in ;ifford it and their emi T,j0ve shows that he knows t!::nkey;sm to a Rock, hire. fa re- e-well. Bvcn the young t'elhr bibofcr i vvorthv oi his si liMAIUM The : v ( r. shipbuilding yards at I-V-re j I; Mass., have turm d out ten submarines i months. f"r Great Britain in ::ve At that rate. American ship- ' yards, priat- and public, could pio.ide us wuh seral doz-n modern , submarines m six months time, u they ut re ii b d. We could take over those Brit: h boats, too. in an emergency. just as tho British government

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coming from iv-rr " Yeok her team give out nur miles north of colony, i Hull booking; Around went out nith j his team and brought her in. Making Road's daughter of Jessie Crow Xeek is attending Soger sc hool and she ; come in to visit her. j AS a fine specimen of American j neutrality we submit tho statement ' of an advertisement that John J. i O'Brien is agent for the German Fire ! Insurance company at Tort Huron. ! KM XT is the rock on which our j tidal wave of success broke. j Not KiHKkin the (Jnnvrs. (Wilmington. O.. Journal-Republican. ) There is no dancrer of the sujiply of j leather being exhausted long as the ; grocers are allowed, to bell the rest of j Saturday's Tucsdav. supply of radishes on THl'RI": are men who never work, some in South Bend. They toil not, neither do thev spin. They don't oven saw wood, or split kindling, or fill up the coal stove in winter. N-ir do they pump the water for the weekly wash. And yet, we say unto you, no one is more regular at meal time. I How do they do it? They don't. Their j wives do it. I THIS leads by natural avenues to j the reasons why some men can Iways borrow a quarter and get away with j it. but what they are we have never been able to determine. AXY father can understand tho satisfaction with which Gov. Whit man of Xew York, sojourning in an : Francisco, heard his baby cry over i the telephone all the way from home. Mrs. Whitman was at home. ( Some Court Killings. The word "thousand" as ajd'Med to lahhits means "twelve hundred." Smith vf. Wilson, Z B. & Ad., Tl'S, H. C. U CONSIDERING the well known fecundity of the rabbit, ihe estimate id small. c. x. y. appropriated and paid for foreignowned vessels of war that were building or waiting for delivery in her shipyards when the war broke out. As matters stand, we may regard those ten submarines as a potential reserve for our own navy. They couldn't be delivered to Great Britain, anyhow, during the war, without violating our neutrality. The Rev. Billy Sunday, after saving 17,000 men and w omen of Pater son, X. J., from the clutches of his inveterate enemy, the devil, has gone for a summer's rest at his apple f irm in the Hood River valley. But even in that western paradise, Billy may find Br'er Devil snooinng around among the apple trees as of old. .atan never t knows when he's licked. A Xew York dentist informs the world that it's unhygienic and cangerous to use a tooth brush. Oh, well, we've been assured by scientists at one time or another that its unhcalthful to wear clothes, or take baths, or eat meat, or wear hats and shoes, or live in houses-, or anything else civilized. Guess we can stand this anti-tooth brush theory as long as wo. don't apply it. The college girls w ho have arnounced their engagements previous to graduation are evidently planning a thorough post graduate course of domestic science experimentation on their prospective husbands. The worst thing about that GermanAustrian drive against the Russian center is that if the Teutonic allies get much further, they'll change Percmysl back to Rrzemysl. Clyde shipyards are about to turn out a new style vvarboat that will surprise the world's navies, 'tis reported. Maybe it's something that will fish for submarines. The dissenting opinions of the trial court. Georgia supreme court and I. . supreme court ought to come ; pretty near "reasonable doubt" in the Frank case. Tola, now Austria's great naval base on the Istrian peninsula, first got historical mention in 178 B. C, when the Romans grabbed it. City of Bremen is going at high cost of living, with a cleaver. Is putting up homes for workingmen. to rent for $ 12 o per year. Yes, China and Japan are hopeless1 v nnoit'iliiml TV-.-.- i.nttIc1 f liiir quarrel without going to war about it. Illinois now has a $4 mm pension for teacners oi 2) years' service. .State id working teachers, part, pavs part an Even Rome newspaper reporters are enlisting. Just think of being" part of a battle and not able to report it'. AiiOther Portugal president resigns but If ph runs short. Porttgal can borrow one from Me-xico. Two .vidows one real, one i:rai luoiinifd at the bier ut' 'anderiili. Two were all he had. it sin Mi i or iu;i:i. Birch bark seems to have been proidd as a natural bacKr :und for mounte 1 tish. and in general, no form of mount is bettor than the dead -.line style, hich shows tne :ih as if haiiiu frm a string or as laid on a birch b-g. Perhaps the nearest approajh to the illusion of life j in mounlii; the tin Hat, and independent or a panel (,r background. A Hat, light pioro of' w('t! is shaped and smoothetl to re - produce the lines of the tish. Tiie j sKin is liawn around this j..rm to, give the appearance of the fisli as. i when resting in a pool. The tinsi slmubl not bo fallen at r st r.or stinB erect, i-ri'l the tail should be: slub.tly drooped. June Outing. '

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