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new 3i i; to ot k shirring. i.tjng after Amrieana suppee,i the status of the sailing v ss I William P. Frye was cl r j n i t ly etthd, and the only thinir Wt tu determine was the amount of money to he paid for sinking her. Germany makes th Frye cas.f; the pes on which to hang a new naval policy that may cau-e us vast trouble. In Hrrr on J;i;ow' last note on thf subject, the German foreign secretary nsscrts the ripht to destroy any American ship that is carrying contraband goods, provided Germany pays for the? ship. The purpose is ol.v ious.-Germany is determined to stop our sending war nipjtlie.i to the allies, and von Jagow has now hit upon what he thinks is a legal method. The vast war orders on which American manufacturers are now working will have to he delivered to Kuropc somehow. So will our new rain surplus. Heretofore most of such exports hac gone in foreign, e..-els. Germany is trying, by means oi her submarine' attacks, to drive all merchant ships of the all'es from the ".'.t, and particularly to sink ships carr ni' contraband. We need not expert lhat that effort will slacken. She will hae intelligence of every such shipment, and her submarines will lie in wait. She has a legal right to destroy both goods and ships under an cnem' Hag. provided she respects the live? of passengers and crews. A relentless pressing of that campaign would naturally drie contraband commerce to neutral ships. In sue h cases, while Germany would always hae the right to confiscate or destroy the goods paying for them w here treaties oblige her to do s she would have no right to destroy the ships. Hut being determined to depriveher foe.; of the contraband at any coEt. and finding that the easiest way in submarine, operations is pimply to send the cargo and ship to the bottom together, Germany simply elec.des to sink at her own expense every American ship and possibly every other neutral ship--that happens to be carrying, or is suspected of carrying, war supplies. The legal arbument will provide a, fresh bone of contention for the diplomats of Rerlin and Washington. Here are the main points: The authority invoked by Germany is the old treaty between the United states and Prussia made in ll'J'J. It was on this document and a Liter treaty incorporating many of its proisiona that Germany based her consent to pay for the Frye when we first demanded payment. Rres'i. Wilson naturally assumed thereupon that Germany admitted having oroken the treaty. Von Jagow, however, now declares that Germany admits no such thing that under the treaty frhe had a right to destroy it, if she paid tho damage. 'These trcaics." says the Berlin foreign secretary, "did not have tho intention of depriving one of the contracting parties engaged in war (in this instance, Germany, of the right of stopping the supply of contraband to his enemy when he recognizes the pupply of such as detrimental to his military interests." And since tho party at war is explicitly given tho rte'ht to ' detain contraband," he argues that "if it cannot be accomplished in any other way, the stopping of the supply may in the extreme case be effected by the destruction of the contraband and of the ship carrying it," Article XIII of tho treaty of 1709 cn which he bases this claim says: It shall be lawful to stop such vessels and articles (ships carrying military supplies) and to detain them for such length of time as the captors may think necessary to prevent the inconvenience or damage that might ensue from their proceeding, paying, however, a reasonable compensation for the loss such arrest shall occasion the proprietors; and U shall further be allowed to use in tiie servlco of the captors the whole or any part of the military stores so detained, paying tho owntrs the full value of the same. There is nothing said about sinking the ship. The only possibility suggested is "detention," which Herr von Jagow stretches to make it mean "destruction." it is even provided further that: "if the master of tho ve.5cl topped will deliver out the goous Hurposert to be of contraband nature, ho tdiall I o admitted to do It, and the vessel shall not in that case be carried into any port, nor further detained, but shall be allowed to proceed on her voyage.'To a mere layman, it looks as if Vapt. Thierichens of the I'rinz Uitei Fridrich broke that clause of the treaty when he sunk the Frye. The cargo of wliMt hii been surrendered by the Fr e's captain without any fuss. Tho German sailors then be5a n to dump it into the sea. Finally. tiring of that proce.-. Uapt. Thierichns simplified the diypc-sal of the reraainirg cargo by blowing up the hip. No evidence has boen given to prove that it was an "extreme cr.se," lustifyir.g such a measure because of janger t the captors. He that as it may. we have here a 3e-v peri! for American shipping. Tin 5oaUutar.d lUt has levn so wijel

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I'oN.ffi. e nt South I5t'1, InJI.m.i o n i : a t i : . Dn'.lv Knn.!iiT fr.r th week by c-irrlr 11 I'iiiii, wit.ti' t'i'7 - Suyday. siiisrie rojy llre'tnry ton ran f-'eph v.e your w.-vnt Mil be niil'ied aftr its lr.vrtiva. lloin a woodman KeprtsDtativ AUert!ins: I.Uinj;. Clilctff j extended, and is so constantly changing, that it is almost impossible for ! any freight ship to cross th Atlantic without rarryiug some sort of contraband. Germany asserts, therefore, tho right to sink any American merchant j vessel on the high seas if she pays ror ine vessel. n s going to (p us a heap ef goo,1 to build ships for tho trans-Atlantic trade if wc grant that right, and Germany takes full advantage of it: tin: sTitr.i-rr kailw.w monopoly and Tin: .irrNKY- m s. Mayor Keller is merely keeping his campaign pledge to tho people of .outh Rend in refusing to come to the rescue of tho Murdock street railway lines by prmeting "jitney" bus regulations calculated t'. put the latter j out of busine . linlv enough it ! was stated at the .op of the second column, front page of tho Tribune, one day during the campaign, these words of the then possible mayor, whom that paper was giving its: support for election: Among other things, in dealing with the public service corporations. I shall use my inlluenre to get fer the people six tickets for L'T cents from the street railway line's, and to promote a frequenter and better service. Mayor Keller has perhaps learned from experience with the city's cases against tho Ineliana & Michigan 1 dectrie and Chicago & Northern Indiana Gas and Klectric companies, instituted before the Indiana public servico commission, frought as they have been, with innumerable delays brought em by tho utilities, that to institute any more cases of the same order in hope ef immediate relief, is near nonsense. On the other hand, competition from any other source, save through the "jitney" bus, has been rendered virtually Impossible due to the clever manipulations of the utility attorneys that framed the public service commission law. The Murdocks may argue that because the city fathers o,f years agone foolishly gave them a perpetual and virtually non-regulative franchise of the streets ef tho city nevv quite as virtually and as foolishly revested in them by the public service law, they are legally entitled to a monopoly of the city's internal travel for hire, hut a legal right and a moral right, are not always synonymous. The Murdocks uneiuestionably have a legal monopoly of the streets of the city for street car t rattle. There is no way of getting it away from them unless they wih to surrender it to the utility commission, and then tho lawleaves them a string on it, vouchsafing its recovery, should the commission law be repealed, and the commission be put (nit of business. Will any progressive citizen say that the developments of the times, instituting new moeles of travel, should bo kept sidetracked to gratify the greed of a system that insists upon lagging behind, and antequating itself, oven as against the furnishing of an up-to-date service such as it should be capable of? Understand. Tho Murdock monopoly, vouchsafed to them by their franchises, anticipates protection only as against competitive street car lines. They insist upon this as a legal proposition. Haven't other people, then, both a legal and moral right, to all uses of the streets not contemplated Ty that franchise? Any regulation of tho "Jitney" bus that would enure to the benefit of the street railway company, would be a virtual enhancing of the value of its franchise, even beyond that which the grantors eontemplated. For instance. The first franchise for lighting purposes granted by the city of South Bend was a perpetual gas franchise. Gas was the only up-to-date mode of public lighting known at the time. It was an exclusive franchise, but eventually there came along a new method of lighting, namely, by electricity. Will the defenders of the street railway monopoly as against all other modes of street t rattle insist that the gas franchise should have been allowed to exclude an electric franchise 7 The rights of the gas company were limited to the exclusive use of the streets for gas lighting. Likewise the street railway company is limited in its rights to the use of the streets for railway trattic. The "jitney" bus is a new and different mode of travel, same as was electricity a new and different mode of Hunting. It is all right to talk that the Jitney" bus should be regulated for the public safety, et cetera, but it is in the main a miserable subterfuge, hatch-d up. we believe, front street railway headquarters, to throw the public off us guard. This "safety" talk is a clever device calculated to promote an ordinance requiring a bond from each "jitney" owner that would virtually retire him from the business, due to his inability to furnish it. It is another mode of .e nfiscation of the few privileges still open to the poor, and the conversion .-f them Into profit for tho rich. Kn."arcement of the state automobile laws requiring licenses for the machines, ;nd licensed chauffeurs, together with ither compliances with J.e U.W3 of

the ro.id. furnishes .ill the protection that cm !. h i-itimaf-dy demanded. Thi. 'lon th public i as well prot feted from tho "jitney" hus as it is frrn any .?h-r automobile, ami an awtnnw.i.ii. after all. is all a -Jitney" bus really is.

' -Mi:iilC M7. TK) ll.W.' The proposition to make the coming Fourth of July an 'Americanization Day" is finding great favor everywhere. The bloody Fourth is a thing of the pa.-t in all but a few benighted and unprogre ssive localities. Tho idea that the signing of the Declaration which made us a nation of free d independent citizens could only bo fitly celebrated by maiming our childn n is fast moving backward to take place with the witchcraft elelusion and other obsolete superstit ion--. Now comes the suggestion that the day be given over to a sort of intiation af new citizens. Receptions' are to be held for the newly naturalized ones at which the speakers are to toil of the, glory ami the- meaning of citizenship ef the United States. This was the original idea of celebrating the day, when all our citizens were new, when they felt tho honor and the responsibility deeply, anel use el the day for public gatherings in which to impress these things upon their children. With the growth of largo cities these village meetings went rather out of fashion, and fireworks beeM4iihe one form of amusement. Kvoning fireworks, set off by experts, paid for by tho city or by neighborhood groups, with tho beauty present and the danger eliminated, may well have their place at the close of the holiday. Hut that each community should use the day in some way to emphasize the meaning of citizenship, to welcome its new citizens, and to halp make the nation one of its purpose and ideals is the fitting moele of commemorating tho birth of the nation's inelependenoe. . WHAT sriLMAHINKS A Hi: FOIL The news that a German submarine had sunk twei British torpedo boats in the North sea was received in America, recently, with a sort of pleased surprise. Not that anybody rejoiced in tho elestruction of property anil life; but it seemed to suggest that the German admiralty was again coming to a proper use of submarines. That is what submarines arc for to sink torpedo boats and either war vessels. That is what tho U-boats were used for early in the war, when the sinking of three British cruisers, the Aboukir, Hogue and i'ressy, all at rmco, was hailed as the sign ef a new epoch in naval warfare. Americans gave Germany full credit for that achievement, and acknowledgeel Capt. Weddlngcs as a hern. It was a. legitimate stroke of war, brilliantly executed. But there has been little in tho subsequent history of German submarines to win applause from the impartial. Beyond tho sinking of the British cruiser Hawk, anel some effective strokes in the Dardanelles probably accomplished by Germans, they have seemed for several months to shun danger deliberately, preferring the mild sport of Mowing up merchant vessels, trawlers and unarmed passenger ships. If the Germans would turn their submarines in earnest against the enemy's warships instead of using them for the destruction of property and life without military advantage, they would win back some of tho lost respect of tho world and do the enemy far more harm. Mom: poyi:k fok goyfiinoils. Our state eov crnments are supposed to be modeled aftor the federal government. In one important respect they are not. The state's executive branch lacks the unity and simplicity of the national executive. The president appoints his cabinet. The heads of departments are responsible directly to him. If anyth'ng goes wrong, he is blamed for it. The result is that things seldom go very far wrong. Our federal system, on the whole, has worked admirably. When we come to the state executive, there is confusion. The governor's power is far more limited than the president's. His cabinet is chosen for him by the voters. I p. Massachusetts he has a council wl;h power to thwart almost any official act. In New York his executive power is broken up among many semi-inde-pendent department heads. Yarious states have various ways of tying the governor's hands. And perhaps that ene reason why state government in general is so far inferior in efficiency to federal government. Now comes former President Taft with the suggestion that New York, in shaping its new constitution, should provide for a short state ballot ami give the governor power to appoint his own administrative heads of departments, as the president does, consolidating the cxeeuthe responsibility. Why shouldn't New York, and every other state as opportunity offers, adopt the suggestion? In answer to the statement of Dr. Sargent of Harvard university that vom?n are as well fitted for soldiers as men, a critic suggests that "at a bayonet charge and hand-to-hand fighting women would not have a living show." h, well, when you put it like that, men tho extreme feminists will admit fhat it looks a little different. Firing a rifle and facing told steel are two different thinss. The French government has burned 100 tons of wormwood leaves, from which absinthe is made. Apparently Franco is sincere about swearing e-ff, vr.d intends to keep seber just the same when the war's over.

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wimiiFK aki: vi: imimxc.? Man is always planning planning For the future of the race. Scheming for any betterment And to increase his pace; He i lookinr for a lever That will shoot him far ahead, And put him in position Where other men have led. Ne more mankind contented With tho good old ways of earth; What yesterday had satisfied Now shows a sorry dearth Of what makes life worth living. And his spirit spurs him on To reach the heights his ardor Would place his feet upon. What is it mankind aspires to? Is it merely wealth and fame, Or is there something better - In this socialistic game, Which through his constant striving. Though blindly, ho may attain? That's tho question now before us Is it likely to remain? WE agree thoroughly with Bishop Carroll which must he gratifying to the bishop that education comes before labor, in erder that labor may ben intelligently, and therefore efficiently performeil. but there is another preliminary quite as essential, and that is inclination to do the work. OUR acquaintance Includes riuite a list of educated drones. MIL Hi: VAX says that he has received letters and telegrams of congratulation from l.oOO people, and we do not doubt it. The wonder to U3 is that out of 100. COO. 000 of people there are not 2.000 who think he did a patriotic thing. Some Court Rulings. The sale of intoxicating liquor to a minor is unlawful, even though he is over six feet In height. State vs. Hartfeil. 2 1 Wis. IT is a glorious thing to see tho name of our team at the top of the percentage column, but it helps some to have it printed in blackface type. Jeremiah Simply Shows That the? Redgian Situation Was Possible. ir: on the other hand, what about tho starving Belgians? Are they all dead? Do you suppose that Belgium is in the throes of an experience such as Jeremiah tells us befell the children of Israel when Jerusalem was overthrown: "The tongue of tho sucking child cleaveth to tho roof of his mouth for thirst. The young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unti them. They that had fed delicately are desolate in the streets. They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. They that he slain with tho sword are better than they that be slain with hunger, for they pine away, striken through for want of the fruits ef the field. The hands of the pitiful woman have sodden their own

Britain Shows Queer Attitude in Handling Germans

By Phillip LONDON. May 15. Officially all German residents in England are nowinterned in the various concentration camps, but in reality, it is only the most harmless part of the Germans here, which has been put behind barbed wire fences, while the more dangerous clement is not only enjoying absolute freedom, but many of these, who make no attempt whatever to conceal their real feelings, are being paiel high salaries by the British government ns experts in various branches of industries which are now being run under government supervision. Tho proofs that German agents are as active as ever in all parts of the country are many and varied. It is asserteel that flashlight signals to mysterious vessels at sea are continually being sent all along the coast under the very noses of the military authorities, and it is also said that German consuls in England are still in regular communication with the German government through certain neutral individuals who are not watched, although every letter that leaves England for France or Russia is opened and read by the censor. A German consul in a town very close to London has a daughter who travels openly and regularly back and forth between this country and Belgium unhindered ty the British officials, who are more than strict with ordinary travelers. Her father since the outbreak of the war, or, to be even more exact no longer than six weeks ago, was decorated with the Iron Cross bearing the white ribbon which goes with this decoration when it is conferred upon civilians. When Chancellor of the Exchequer Lloyd George announced his attention of imposing extra taxes on alcohol, beer, wine anel cigars, the refreshment committee of the house of commons immediately took the precaution to buy a very large quantity ef whisky and 4 0.000 Havana cigars, hoping in doing so to earn the undying gratitude of the members. Unfortunately they were in too great a hurry, the taxes were never imposed, the bills have to be paid and the refreshment committee is praying that the members may elrink more whisky and smoke raire cigars than usual. Ben Tillett. the famous orator and socialist leader, has just sent Pres't i uuuiie in rrar.ee a leuer io voice the fraternal feelings of the British workingmen towards their French brethren. He also writes that the workers here are determined to support the government in its resolve not to sheathe the sword until Be'.clum has recovered all she has lost, and France has been revenged ar.d the military system of Prussia has been crushed forever. A Japanese who has succeeded in escapinc from a German concentration camp writes in the neutral paper "Dater.e Hyhfter" of Stockholm: "The most cruel fate befell the Japanese women in Germany, many of whom were highly cultured and refined. Thev were incarcerateti in dark cells were they could barely move. Their money was taken away from them r.nd they were charced three marks SO pfennig a day for their food. When they cried they were mercilessly beaten by their guards. "We spent three weeks in this prison hefor? we transported to an internment camp at Ruhleben where we found English. French, Russian and

were their meat of the daughter in of Nice business, this, that calls for tho wholesale drowning of women and cniiaren on tho one hand, nrd starving women and children, on tho oth-f1"-D. S. M. STATED as a concrete fact tho declaration of Prcs't Wilson that "the makers of tho republic were not swashb jcklers. but men of sober, quiet thought, without bluster, who thought of duty and not self-aggrandizement" presents a thought which should give us, in this later and different age, nause. And it appears to have a present application of peculiar force. ONE familiar with the streets can see that the traffic cop and the traffic rules save him from everything but the fool driver. One should look "to the right and to tho left for all ordinary elanger, hut the fool is apt to catch him in the rear. JIG AX1 JICCKIt. Kngincvrs, There are lots of engineers, therot are many kinds of beers, and the engineers and beers are always "pals." Why i this? We bite. Why is it? Sunday, one paid us a visit and we talked of engineering feats from graveyards to canals. He a civil engineer was, and a connoisseur of beer was. he could engineer a schooner straight to port. He oouM survey any buffet if he had somo Malt of Duffv. When I said "Have a drink?" ho said, "All right, we'll spilt a quart." Then he showed me with equations how to stop this war of nations, showed me algabraically why Bryan quit tho Mob. With calculus ho estimated 1 how Bill's chances were ill-fateel of becoming president with Wooelrow on the Job. A hyperbolic revolution, which ho elrew with execution, demonstrator! what he stood for, where and when anel why. Ho made a topographic Hurvey, (twas a little topsey-turvey) hut it showed old Mister Descartes eating rhubarb pie. But with all their faults we're for 'em, tho' they live In Niles or Gorham, and we hope to see in heav'n the engineers, with a transit an 1 a level "shooting grades In" at the devil with tho speed they show on earth in shooting beers. H. C. KNEE deep In June, and we left our rubber boots at home. WHICH reminds us that Wash Rains Is a respected citizen of Tioga, Texas. AND that tho traffic in wicker suitcases between South Bend and all points in Berrien county i3 increasing. AND that it mav rain Tuesday. C. N. V. Everett Serbian prisoners. The camp is a well known race course and we were lodged in the stable, four in each stall. "There were about 300 prisoners there, guarded by 20 soldiers who cursed and abused us continually. "On our way there we were beaten and kicked and several women fainted. They were immediately surrounded by hundreds of people rwho Insulted them and spat in their faces. "The stalls in which we were quartered were damp and draughty and there was nothing to sleep on but the bare gremnd. We decided to sleep outside on the turf, but at 0 o'clock the soldiers orelered us to go Inside. When we explained that it would he impossible to sleep inside. they laughed and told us that wo had to. "We were allowed two heiurs' exercise daily in the open air under guard. Then we had to rest for half an heur in the camp grass anel were told that anyone who tried to get up before ordered to do so would be shot without warning. The slightest remark was punisheel iv 24 hours' incarceration in a dark cell. I saw an old man beaten until the blood ran down his face. One day a young Russian lady arrived under police escort. She had undergone a serious operation in the hospital the day before, and was barely able to move her feet, supoprted by a policeman on each side. Every step appeared to cause her the greatest pain, and the following morning she was found dead on her f;t raw mattress." MOKOC The Original IV2ALTED IVIIUC Unless you say "HOIUiCICS" you may get a Suustituti SOUTH BEND GRAIN CO. Hay, Straw, Salt. Flour, Feed. Seeds and Poultry Supplies. Homo r3Bf Bell :J9. Prairie A v. anel L. S. 31. S. Trai-k Trio White Hoam of Modern Home Furnishers S06 to 210 So. Mich. rU "SHIMP'S COAL MAKES WARM FRIENDS" Good Soft Coal $3.50 Ton All kinds of Hard and boft Ckat. AI50 COKE, Pocahontaa PEA for underfeed furn&or CANXnT, Coal for Grates, and Wood ard Fred. dive me a call and I will mako It HOT for you. W. D. SHIEV3F 1613 W. WASHINGTON' AV. Home Phone 5840. ilell Phono 110

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