South Bend News-Times, Volume 32, Number 167, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 16 June 1915 — Page 8

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JIT.VITYS" AND SAFITTV." Kfforts to capitalize tho comment of Grand Kapids newspapers, either the I'rc?3 or the Herald, with respect to auto buses commonly called "jitneys" -i.s hut to provoke a unile on the face of those who know anything of the relations of the Grand Itardds Street Hallway Co., to thee papers. Iienjamin Hanchett, provident of the company, Jtnd in fact, of the street railway trust of the state of Michigan, never asked anything of cither of those papers that he didn't yet, and for quite sufficient reasons. If the Press ever pretended favoritism for the auto hus, it was merely another Ct its clever maneuvers calculated to coax the owners into ;i trap by the use of molasses, rather than to try to drive, them into one. by spraying them with vinegar. If the Press has learned that its soft soap isn't workInsr. and that the 'jitney" owners are not to be caught by its sugared bait, you may expect it henceforth to ppray v.ith vinegar quite as viciously as it formerly did with sweetness. And it is pretty much the same with tho press throughout the country that has grown so anxious about the auto buses, and, their need of control. Pretenses of interest in the publie safely is an excuse and not a reason. It is a mere appeal to the public pense of fear. Anything to win the public approval even if they have to Fcaro it into existence. Rattle-headed people arc always afraid of automobiles and the auto bus is no more dangerous than the others. The principal hatred of them, so far as the public is concerned, develops from being misled, and, from occasional innate snobbery that resents the term "jitney" because of the suggestion that It is the automobile of the poor. Such Fnobs will stand in approving awe of tho millionaire, the street railway magnate, and even the newspaper publisher who can afford an automobile and a chauffeu-, to violate the law, or run over people with, but let the poor man buy a seat for a nickel, part of which goes to the bus owner to act ns his chauffeur in driving him home, and It immediately becomes a great calamity. We would like to see the outh Fend police f"rce enforcing the state automobile laws to the full extent of preserving the public safety, but as against .ill automobile owners as well as against those who drive "jitneys." This done and the needed public protection is amply cared for. The demand for bonds or an indemnity fund is class legislation and an imposition unless it be made to apply to automobiles generally. It might not he so much out of place for the city to license the auto buses, at a small fee. for tiie purpose of keeping track of them, and, perhaps, for the purpose of establishing terminals for them, but that is as far beyond the state automobile law as It can consistently go. Tho cars should be kept within the legal Hr-cd, and not be allowed to carry passengers on the steps; but why require a bond to protect a fool who would ride on tho steps? As to the point that everybody should be f.irnished with a scat who rides in the 'jitney, " we are heartily agreed, not only as to the "jitneys" but also to the street cars which still have their strap-hanging hours. Iniecd, no, we can see no message for outh Bend in tho comment of the Grand Rapids newspapers, except that Pres't Hanchett of the Grand Rapids street railway is being aptly encouraged by his friends.

necessity and feeling are concerned, he is a mere animated machine, to be encouraged no more than a machine, to be protected not so much as a machine. Vet it is the unskilled laborer who almost invariably does the heavy work. Curiously, too, the biggest men of our times are from the ranks of "unskilled labor." They were something more than "mere animated" machines. They, like everything else that's really big in this life, come from small "unskilled" beginnings.

LWV.V TKNMS A MSSiriF.D GAMi:. A recent remark quoted from Rev. Billy Sunday was to the effect that law n tennis is a little too "sissilied ' a game to please him. If Hilly were to start in playing it this spring, he might soon tind himself more winded than he ever got on the ball Held. Lnvn tennis constantly grows in popularity, owing to Us adaptability to limited spaces. It requires no costly grounds, running into the thousands or tens of thousands, lik golf. Tho ordinary suburban back yard is apt to be big enough. While a good court may co.st a hundred or two dollars or more, an inexpensive lay-out can be had for much less. So although it used to be called the "dude game." it has the qualities of a very democratic sport. The real objection to lawn tennis is quite the opposite to that stated by Hilly Sunday. It is so very active that few men play it after they have reached middle age. The long rallies, when a ball is kept seesawing back and forth over the net into different corners of the court, will run the, breath out of any but a man who is well in training. It is more fatiguing than running on a straight track would be. The player must first sprint, in one direction, then pull himself up, recover balance and run back again. The irregular and intense activity calls for a high degree of nervous control and muscular endurance. No game is more practical for physical development of young people. Played in groups of two, three or four people, it calls for no elaborate machinery or organization. The athletic candidates that are disheartened by rejection from a school or college ball team, can resort to the tennis court, and get a better physical development than they would have secured on the diamond. In most schools the number of tennis players is usually limited only by the number of courts, which are commonly too few. Probably the time will come when tennis will be the usual outdoor adjunct to public high schools.

gulf or ocean in making the Journey from Chicago to Mexico. The project i.? a tremendous one, second only in importance and in magnitude, at this time, to the Panama canal. All the rivers branching from the Father of Waters will be eventually made navigable for shallow draft vessels, arid in quiet waters vessels of f to S feet draft are eej.ual.in size and carrying capacity to many of the great ocean liners. Thus the vast commerce of the great lakes will spread to nearly all parts of the country east of the Rockies, by what will be, practically, an all-water route.

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A GOVFHNOH'S ClIANXi;. The Georgia prison commission has passed the buck to the governor in the Frank case and in its report has succeeded in conveying the impression that in the minds of two of the board, at least, to commute his punishment would be to thwart a proper sentence. In the face of the wording of the report, and the extreme public sentiment still alive in Georgia, the executive who is hardy enough to extend clemency will predahly sinn his own political death warrant. The report of the board, from this distance, looks like a cowardly at

tempt on the part of the majority

members, to square themselves with the maddened voters at the expense of the state's executive. Gov. Slaton is afforded an excellent opportunity of getting from under by granting a temporary stay, thus passing it on to his successor. On the other hand, he is given a chance to do a worthy and noble act as is seldom the lot of mar? an act that will cause his name to live in the memory of the better people of Georgia and the annals of justice, long after these judges have been forgotten.

MAX AM) MACHINK. "Unskilled labor is mere animated machinery." Prof. Stevenson. This is the Rockefeller view, and false because, unskilled labor has a body that can suffer, a brain that can think and a soul that can aspire. None of these have machinery. Unskilled labor often progresses, adds to itself. Machinery continually goes back, wears out. To tre.it an unskilled workman as a mere animated machine does not r.ecess.arlly make him such. But you can never treat a machine as anything save a machine. There is no limit to the possibilities in unskilled labor. The possibilities in a machine are :;ed from tho day it is set up. Indeed, in these days of the high pressure of efficiency it will bother anybody to dcr.ne "unskilled labor." There's a certain skill in digging a ditch, or in wheeling dirt, coal or ore, or in milking a cow. or in carrying railroad tics or rails, or in sweeping a street, and in many other things that an accomplished college professor, or machinist, or engineer, or architect ,-annot skillfully do. Rut the big employer? of labor

have got up the:r own definition of I

"unskilled labor;" created a class of laborers. In this class they put all cheap labor. "Ignorant foreigners" socalled, all these laborers who come cheaper than machinery, and for them they set a daily wage that is pretty much the same -.til over the country. The unskilled laborer may have a big family, or other burdens, Jut this docsu t count. So far a.s his

i: i:h xotiit: it? A very distinguished suffragist makes the sharp-pointed observation that "the devil is a man." Come to think about it, the devil is represented as a man. and a man with a mustache and goatee, at that, and we'd like to hao it explained. In his first earthly appearance, we are told, the devil was in the form of a serpent. In order to carry out his hellish purposes, he thought best to assume human form. Eve was very kind to him, and so he adopted poor old helpless, impotent Adam's form. This is the explanation given by some folks. Satan's reasons for adopting the mustache-goatee effect rather than a full beard behind which he could hae hidden all facial expression have never been given. However, since his strong cards were to be temptation and deceit, it would seem that his best rolicy would have been to adopt the form of a woman with a full beard. It is a fact that all nations of all times have been satisfied with tho devil as represented by a man. The villainous gods have .always been nun. The great masses of angels pictured by the masters are females ami when the man is occasionally given a chance as an angel, a sword or something else devilish is put in his hand. Reality, grace, spirituality, science and art are always represented by the female form, and plenty of it, while anything in the line of brutal proclivities or character is depicted by a man. Among the multitudes of ideals of the deil there's not one but conceives of him as a man. Mind you, we're not kicking about this arrangement but. in these days of growing equal rights, we're simply hungry for reasons for its being so. ANOTHFR GRFAT WATFRWAY. On May 2th the Illinois state legislature passed a bill providing for a waterway eight feet in depth from the Grea: likes commencing at Chicago, to the Mississippi river. A commission will be appointed to build the canal. When eomph. ud, a great inland waterway will be opened by which light draft vessels ami barges may g;" from the lakes to the extreme southern point of the Gulf of Mexico in safety. The little bays lining the gulf coast from the mouth of the Mississippi to Jirownsvii!:, Texas, are b ing connected by shallow canals and small craft will r..q forced t.. venture into the troubled wj.tc.fc of the

T 1 1 1 : A S( ) X A R L 1 : THADI The French government threatens

to cancel eemtracts made with Amer- I iean manufacturers because the goods delivered are so much below sample, and there is an announcement from Paris that of the '27, American houses '.

with which the French have been doing business only one has always delivered up to sample. There's nothing new about this scandal. The U. S. government has always been the victim of similar rascality. More than one Union soldier in our Civil war was killed by the rascality of army contractors, while the practice of cheating Uncle Sam in times of peace is notorious. It is treasonable, but it goes. We know of no way in which tho U. S. government can protect the French against such crookedness. The latter's only relief lies in doing business elsewhere, if they can. With an opportunity to bag the world's trade, an international reputation for crookedness is a nice thing for America, isn't it?

THERE is this about peace, that you can't bore anybody with the subject. It is always timely, and a pleasant tiling to contemplate. Even when you broach the subject to the warring powers of Europe thev stand still and grunt with satisfaction like a pig when you scratch its back. RUT there are several brands of peace, some of which no honorable man or woman or self-respecting nation would accept at any price. For example, there is the peace without honor and the peace without virtue, and there is the peace without patriotism. None of these suits the man, the woman or the nation who or which is disposed to defend inalienable rights. AUSO there is peace ef the household, which must be purchased at the cost of cherished rights. For example, there was the Columbus. Ind.. woman who left home because her husband objected to her kisses. Tell us. how could there be any real peace in a home where the wife is denied so modest a privilege? AFTER listening patiently to some of William Knoblock's reminiscences Abe Staples asked him what year he came here. "In IS 4 4." was the proud reply. "And you call yourself an old settler? Why. I came here in 142," Abe sarcastically remarked. Then up piped Al Morgan: "You fellers are newcomers. T came to South Rend in 1S40!" lie Should Hao slipped On An Air Shaft. (Cot. Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette.) John Kessler tumbled into a tenfoot hole with six sticks of dynamite and lives to tell the story. He slipped on a ladder while making the descent, hut fortunately landed in mire in the bottom of the pit. THE government, wc observe, at

Washington still lies. .

This Sooms to Settle It. (From Some Court Rulings.) Poker is a game of chance. Kennon vs. King. 2 Mont. 4 r.T. GREECE has so far yielded to the military spirit that the war party has gained the ascendancy. We may now expect Greece to slip" into the fray. Which would be something like jumping from the frying pan into the fire. IF the coiner of the phrase "What is so rare as a day in June," could view the present weather, observes J. A. A., he would change it to read in this manner: "What is so rare as a nice day in June." Unless, we interpolate, he should say, "What is rarer than two nice days in succession in June?" "Some of our merchants." remarked the observing citizen, "see ?;ome of their profits poured into other people's gasoline tanks." Try This On Your Porch Swiiis. Eddie "You must have been to the joke factory." Emmett. "Where's the joke factory?" Steve. "On Lafayette street." S. H. C. IN case Mr. Bryan shoulel be selected to preserve the peace between Germany and the United States but why anticipate? A WOMAN we never before heard of died in Alabama at the age of 100 years. It seems incredible that one could live that long without becoming more widely known, and yet it was not because this woman did not do a heroic thing for her country. She left 79 direct descendants. WHICH prove that It is possible to be great without being famous. C. N. F.

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w ) i ; i v 1 1 :n w a x t i : i . Considering that yomo states are overrun with unemployed men, and the problem of taking care of them a weighty one, it is a novelty to hear of one calling for help. Rut that's just what Oklahoma is doing. The commissioner of labor of Oklahoma sends out word that to 18.000 men will be needed this season to harvest the grain crop. Wages will run from $2 to $:) per day and board. Bureaus are being opened up at room 212 Postoffice building, Kansas City, Mo., for the pu; 'nse of giving elctailcd information to mploycr and unemployed and bringing them together. Services are free. If you happen to be out of work, and need a job, write a letter to C. I Green at above address.

RULERS AM) PEOPLE. Roumania's rulers having apparently decided for neutrality in the European war, the people are beginning violent demonstrations to force their country into the conflict, as in Italy. Public opinion is a mighty force and if they persist the Roumania people will doubtless eventually prevail. IT IS A GOOD THING. British war policy has changed to the extent of giving captured German submarine men "honorable treatment" as prisoners. Maybe it isn't a great step but we do love to chronicle anything that is a step away from the dishonorable in this war.

IT SUITS s()Ml. Germany's reply to Uncle Sam's last note will not reach us before June 20. 'tis said. That's plenty early to suit most of the peaceable people all right, and some folks would not grieve much if it then wound up in the dead letter office. It appears that when Jake Kuppert, the big New York brewer, passed from our mi ilst to his eternal reward, he left an estate of L'o millions. Jake put his beer profits into real estate and let the city grow up around it. Ex-Pres t Taft says that "we would, at this moment, be in war with Germany if we hail a jingo in the white house." Now, we wonder if Mr. Taft meant to be personal in that remark referring to T. R.

SPEAKING OF MEXICO. (Chicago Daily News.) Americans, like everybody else, arc prone to judge other peoples by American standards. Therefore those who do not pursue the American ideal of happiness are considered very miserable indeed. It is true that many thousands of the people of Mexico at present are very miserable in an intensely human way, but they have been and are capable of being happy in a Mexican way a way that would not appeal to Americans at all. Their present miscries, one conjectures, are due in large measure to the infusion of the American spirit into a number of powerful Mexican families. For the cientifico is really a sort of American business man born into a Mexican home and environment. He is a congenital hustler despite his parentage and nationality. He wants to "develop the resources of the country." He wants to see everybody at work and enjoying life according to his somewhat warpeel notion of enjoyment. Naturally, Jose of the contemplative, case loving life resents the attempt to hustle him and regards the cicntitico as a traitor. Jose, in a country of such splendid opportunities that any one may be prosperous if he chooses, provided others do not systematically rob him by means of bad laws and otherwise, has chosen picturesque poverty after mature deliberation and considers it an infringement of his inalienable rights to have prosperity thrust upon him. In a climate where generous nature provides for almost every human need, perhaps even Americans would choose the easier way. These are considerations that all those who seek to redeem Mexico should not overlook.

London Times' editor is on a hot griddle. He has raised a war fund of over $ .".'""'O. and yet the government is suing him for aiding the enemy by publishing war news.

It's really touching to note with what extreme sorrow English papers chronicle the resignation of Bryan, as forecasting a cruel war for their continental cousins. The pen may be mightier than the sword, but we haven't heard of any pen factories working overtime these days.

CENTEXAKY. (Grand Rapids Herald.) Friday is the centenary of the battle of Waterloo. The anniversary comes in the midst of renewed hostilities between nations whose soldiery followed Wellington and Blucher and Napoleon to one of the most far-reaching crises in the last one thousand years. If you will try to imagine the possibilities of a battle in the present great European war which shall be so terrible in its effect and so far-reaching in its iniluense as to mark the end of this present cataclysm; if you- can imagine such a battle today, you can r;ls?P some approximation of the parallel importance of Waterloo a century ago. But what a difference in the lines of alliance 100 vcars have made! About the only similarity between the international affiliations in the war of lSlo as compared with the war of Hlo is the fact that Germany then as now was opposed to France. But otherwise how different is the situation. Then Prussia and Britain lollowed common standards and it was the arrival of Blucher which saved the dav for Wellington. Together they formed forward against the power of Napoleon. Now today these erstwhile enemies (Britain and 1-ranee inhabit the trendies of France and BeK-ium against the Germans. Although Austria and Russia were not at Waterloo, nevertheless they stood together as Prussia's allies. Today they are locked in death struggle in the Carpathians. How different too is the arithmetic of war! Napoleon at Waterloo had 1 '4 . men. Wellington and Blucher together had HI 1.7 1 men. Armies of this size would today be little more than a respeetihle scouting squad. II reports are true, as many prisoners were taken in the fall of Przemysl as Napoleon had soldiers. We have progressedif such development may called "progress" from simple arithmetic to Euclid in our martial computations. Meanwhile, what an .Hounding difference in the paraphernalia of war. Then couriers on horseback small guns bayonet charges cavalry ever conspicuous no railroads no telegraph no telephones no motors no flying machines. Now all tnese and a constantly increasing tqutpment from the fertile brain of Mars. The centenary of Waterloo is a particularly interesting subject tor contemporary study because the movement for the unitv of German states into that single force which is now Germanv. received it- greatest lmpetu. when Waterloo smashed Napoleons dream of a world empire. It is prooablv not too much to say that the seeds of German militarism which have sprung into the kaiser's sturdy army machine of today were planted loo years co a a time when Germans had fresh in mind the terrible dangers in inability to meet the inva

sion of a "man on horseback" like Napoleon who might again seek to rule Europe. The Waterloo centenary is a most interesting anniversary, and it offers much food for thought and anquiry and historic parallels.

srn.MAHI.NE'S IXNG JOURNEY. (Terre Haute Star. When the British battleships Triumph and Majestic were torpedoed by a German submarine, U-51, in the Dardanelles, wonder was expressed by a good many American pat ers as to how the boat reached Turkish waters, the general understanding being that these vessels cannot carry supplies for long voyages, and the German undersea craft would find no safe harbor in the 3,( 00 miles between its home port and Constantinople. The theory was advanced that this boat and, perhaps. e)thers o its kind, had been shipped In parts by rail, and to the "landlubber," who did not know whether or not a submarine could be so transported or whether railroad facilities existed, or whether shops er yards could be found at Constantinople or thereabouts where it could be put together, the explanation seemed plausible enough a tritle vtgue, to be sure, but not more so than many other matters connected with the- war It now appears that the U-51 did go by tho long water route. A correspondent of the Chicago News has interviewed the captain of th'i U-51 at Constantinople who told him that the trip was comparatively uneventful. Extra supplies were taken on beard at Wilhelmshaven. Off the coast of England the boat was fired on once by a British destroyer and was under fire several times as it approached Gibraltar. During most of the journey it traveled on the surface, and was in plain sight as it went through the Strait of Gibraltar, yet it attracted no attention. In the Mediterranean it dived frequently to escape watchful French ships, but had no mishaps and arrived at the Dardanelles in exactly one month from the time of starting. The British ships, which were firing on the Turkish forts, were surrounded by a fleet of destroyers which constantly circled about to protect them, but the submarine watched its chance and finally found opportunity for its fatal shots. After the second ship had been destroyed the U-51 remained

' submerged for several hours, then

came to the surface to find that all i the British ships had disappeared. ! When the submarine arrived at Con

stantinople its officers and crew had passed 4'2 days on board without rest or change. The German captain tells his story very simply and as if he had done nothing out of the common, but his achievement certainly sets a pace for submarines and is one of the remarkable incidents tf the war.

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