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SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, NOVEMBER 23, 1915. BABY BOLLINGER AGAIN. Recommendations and the fixing of the blame in the Baby Bollinger case, Chicago, as registered by the physicians of the Windy city are queerer still than the case itself. The principle involved, according to these

medics, is rUht, hut Dr. murium ; penalty more nearly represents Amershould have insistr.l upon a onsulta- lean sentiment than does the Utah tlon of physicians to ascertain j penalty. whether or not the diagnosis of the j There were threat differences, of l.aby's ca.se. was correct, and then I course. Joseph Hillstrom was found after all. it In the parents and not the j guilty of deliberate murder. His record doctor who was at fault. They should . was considered bad, and hi.s promhave insisted upon an operation, and j inence in I. W. activity, from that they did not, relieves the physi- , which Utah has suffered much, was

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upon his advlo. Which is only another case of the medical trust adherents of the American Medical society, insisting upon unqualified public confidence in the medical fraternity, and then shifting the Llamo back onto that public when the confidence proves misplaced. The medics must be protected no difference what their blunders. Physicians stand by each other, both in their insistence that they must have the business, and. in Warning the public for following advice that physicians furnish, once the business is cinched. In some states there are laws condemning parents to prison for not calling a physician, as in the case of Christian Scientists, but in Illinois they seem prepared to carry the application a little farther and make the parents suffer, if having called a physician, they are r:-ongly advised, and accede to it. The blunders of thj medics must be 'infallible." You see, it works out this way: An operation of tho simplest kind would have saved Daby Bollinger's life, but the doctor declared; he in whom, in their helplessness, the parents had confided the child; that to save the chilJ'a life would merely result in family hardships and serve to foist upon society a hopeless mental defective and in all probability a physical invalid.' Other physicians now say this was too pessimistic, and that some of them should have been invited to join In the confab, but it seems that the consent of the parents had been obtained, and that put the practicing physician within tho law. It is tho parents, not the doctor, that the profession would have bear the ' stigma of the ornissive murder. And had those parents failed to consent, they might have spent a few more hundred dolars for consultation, and then maybe have been sent to jail, for expressions of a lack of confidence in the "infallibleizcd" medical men.

Tin: cost or piu:iui:i)i:ss. Tho surest thing about preparedness i3 that it is Koint; to cost the American people a heap of money. Our army a:.d navy have always cost vi more per soldier and sailor and gun and ship than those of any other nation. Now tho expense of any particular defensive unit is going to be higher than ever. Tho government has met with an unpleasant surprise in letting contracts for two .lew battleships. It finds that the ships can't be built for ttnywhtro near the usual price. The privato shipyards can get all the work they want from the belligerents, at prices insuring them huge profits, and they're not interested in strengthening American defenses unless Uncle Sam will pay them war prices. The Fame situation Is likely to be found in every branch of expenditure j for armament. Guns will cost more, ammunition will cost more, automobiles and fuel and uniforms and all sorts of supplies will cost more. Even In the government shipyards and munition shops, labor and materials will cost more. The extreme militarists and naval.Ists are blithely given to ignoring such matters. They talk freely of a standing army of 250,000 men, a reserve of a million or two, a navy as br-' as England's and enough munitions stored up to tfuht a great war, without either counting tho cost or suggesting how it is to be met. It is unquestionably necessary to strengthen our defenses. The sentiment of the nation is in favor of greater precautions. But we are spending 5 2 0,f 0 0.00 0 a year on our army and navy, ami the comparatively moderate plans submitted by the president seem to involve at lea.-t the doubling of that expenditure for several years. Whatever congress does in the matter needs to be done in sober judgment, with exact reckoning of the ctst and the most economical J expenditure of every dollar. our I money will buy all loo little defense, at hot. if our past military and naval h;st ry afS-rds any criterion. THE DEATH PENALTY. On the same day that Joseph Hillstrom, the "I. W. W.," was shot to death as a convicted murderer in the Utah penitentiary, William Zimmer, convicted of murder in Baltimore, was

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sentenced to serve one day in jail for his crime. These cases represent the extremes in our treatment of murderers. And absurd as it appears to punish a man with only one day's imprisonment for killing a human being, the Baltimore penalty more nearly represents American sentiment than does the Utah penalty. There were great differences, of course. Joseph Hillstrom was found guilty of deliberate murder. His record was considered bad, and his prominence in I. W. W. activity, from which Utah suffered much, was looked upon as aggravating his oflense. The evidence against him was circumstantial, but apparently conclusive. There was nothing particularly horrifying in his being shot rather than hanged. The Utah law allows a choice. Shooting is probably the more merciful of the two methods. William Zimmer, the Baltimore murderer, is a paralytic, 67 years old. The' man he killed was proprietor of a cheap lodging house. Zimmer, while drunk, had an altercation with him, and struck one blow with his fist, which resulted in the victim's death. The killing was, in a sense, accidental, and the prisoner's physical condition helped to win him leniency. But there was one common element in these cases. The ridiculously trivial penalty imposed on Zimmer was the extreme manifestation of the American prejudice against capital punishment. The same prejudice appeared in the wave of protest which rolled in upon the Utah authorities from all the rest of the country, and included an appeal for leniency from the president of the United States. Utah rejected these protests, as she had a perfect right to do, but there is no mistaking the powerful opinion that exists against such legal taking of human life. Every conspicuous murder case reveals it. In response to this opinion, state after state is abolishing the death penalty. Eventually Utah will do likewise, and the Hillstrom case will have helped to hasten the decision. REV DECKER'S DENIAL. When Rev. C. A. Decker, pastor of the First Baptist church, makes the statement that it is untrue that he ever headed a delegation of ministers and called upon Mrs. Marian MillerQuilhot, previous to her marriage, or at any other time or place,-Jirectly crr indirectly, and assured her of the good character of her fiance, despite current rumors; in the face of such statement, we say, we plight our faith in Kev. C. A. Decker. And such statement is made in another column of this paper today. It is regrettable that tho denial could not have appeared along side of Mrs. Quilhot's statement on the subject. Tne point is. however, that If Mr. Decker is telling the truth, so contradictory to Mrs. Quilhot's assertions, the time is approaching when it may be the part of wisdom .to handle some cf her charges with euro. We hold no brief for Kev. Decker, for the ministerial association, or the law enforcement league. Some of those elements miht feel contaminated were we to profess such a contact. But neither do we hold any brief for Mrs. Quilhot, or any of the forces interested in bringing her husband to such justice as he deserves; that is. beyond letting the public know the truth as we may be able to locate it and it makes no difference to us as to which way it hits. Mrs. QuilhoU aml her friendSf however, should un derstand that the truth win always out, and that falsehood cannot always maintain a disguise, and that therefore she syould carefully present her case with full truthfulness if she expects to hold the public favor. Mr. Decker's position is. not that he belieed Quilhot's record to be bad, or that he would no; have spoken well of him. from the information at his command, had the occasion arose, but h asserts that the occasion did not arise. Mrs. Quilhot, therefore, must have gotten her cards mixed, for it is facts, not intentions, in these respects, that count in courts of law. It is only due to Mr. Decker that the public should know his side of the story, and that he appears of no disposition to cover up his part in the vice investigation, regardless of ittiat Mr. Quilhot's record, or recent antics, may eventually prove. Tili: (iOlUCAIt UHAKC.CS. Tiie fairness and self-possession of the American public have been clearly shown in the reception given the revelations of Dr. Joseph Goricar, the former Austrian consul at San F ran iioo. His statements deal with the mo.t wtal subject now occupying the public attention, and a subject that is provoking much bitterness the alleged criminal activity of Herman and Austrian representatives in the United States, anil the treasonable support said to be given them by American "citizens. Dr. Goricar has madev uuwng

charges. He accuses th German and Austrian governments of inspiring and financing a great conspiracy to destroy American war industries. He accuses their consular and diplomatic representatives In this country of directing the conspiracy. He declares that there are as many 3,000 aliens and citizens of alien sympathy interested in plots to inspire strikes, burn ships, blow up factories and destroy in ever way possible, war supplies destined for the allied governments. His narrative has been detailed and consistent with itself, at least. It. has seemed sufficiently worthy of notice to cause our federal authorities - to listen to what Dr. Goricar has to say, and to proceed with a broad investigation to determine the truth or falsity of his charges. But the public, while recognizing that there Is some such evil force at work, has suspended judgment, and waits calmly for corroboration.. - Dr. Goricar'H critics charge him with being a renegade, a spy in the pay of Itussla or England. rather than a conscientious man seeking to undo a wrong committed by his own government. The truth will come out. If Dr. Goricar lied, our federal otttcials will expose him. If he has told the truth, he will have rendered the nation inestimable service by helping the government to crush the most offensive foreign conspiracy ever found in America. honohim; the bell. Forty thousand people waited at the railroad station at Houston, Texas, until two o'clock In the morning, on a chilly night, to see the Liberty Bell en route from San Francisco back to Philadelphia. The train was late, and most of them went home then. But L'.OCO school children remained, shivering in tho cold, until the train pulled in at S:"0 a. m., and climbed aboard the car to touch and kiss the sacred emblem of American freedom. A Liberty Bell, like a prophet, has to leave home to gain honor. Most of the citizens of Philadelphia have never seen the bell, but most of the citizens of Houston are glad of a chance to stand in the cold nearly all night to see it. The bell has had much the same experience everywhere through the west. At nearly every city and town, going and coming, crowds have assembled to pay it honor. It was the first time the bell was ever taken west of the Mississippi river. After such an enthusiastic and continuous welcome, it should not be tho last. It Is much for the great, new, pjoneer sections of the country to see a relic thai reminds them not only of the east from which they all came, moro or less remotely, but of their country's early history, of which the west has so few visible evidences.

CLEAN IT Ul The Goocfter court martial at San Francisco discloses a series of petty quarrels among the army aviators at the San Diego station, beginning with the appointment of Capt. Cowan as commandant and contfhulng until the present time. Very possibly the loss of the lives of several officer aviitors was largely due to the chaotic condition of the morale at the station. For the good of this most important branch of the military service that sort of thing should be promptly stopped. If the court martial Axes, äs it appears now it will do, the blame upon both faction in the quarrel alike, every man in authority should be relic, ed of his command and sent back to the line. Uncle Yarn's army aviators are as skilled as any in the world, given an even break. . That they should have. Let's have a clean sweep and a fresh start, if essential to complete har mony. GIVE THEM PUBLICITY. The income tax being pronounced a failure, because so many of the big fish slip through its meshes, it is now proposed to tax the profits made in manufacture" of war materials, in order to fight off a government deficit. In other words, because scoundrelism has been rather successful, it is proposed to create more cause and opportunity for scoundrelism. We don't know how they're going to get around the constitution and put a special tax on special profits, but there's no doubt but the income tax failure is largely due .to its secrecy provisions and inefficiency on tho part of collectors. Perjury and concealment, with politicians in office trying to make collections without hurting anybody's feelings! It is an old si on. And the cure, as usual, scorns to be to make up the deficiency out of somebody who Is prospering for some reason or other. Forty thousand North Carolina farmers have joined . in a protest against additional national preparedness. Farming communities generally look at the matter somewhat the same way. It's the industrial communities that are particularly interested in preparedness. The farmer feels that war ctm never reach him. The price of wooden legs has gone up. and now, according to a story from Chicago, the nation is threatened with a shortage of glass eyes, because of the European demand for them. You can never tell where the war will strike next. There's going to he considerable sober second thought about this preparedness business. Great Britain is handicapped by the fact that her lighting lords fight in parliament lni?ad of In the trenches.

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OLD G. B. (slang for Great Britain) acquired the habit of swiping American shipping in the latter part of the ISth and the early days of the 19th century and can't cet shut of it. Iike other bad habits it is a dangerous one, and for that reason al the more persistent. On two occasions the vocabularf protest was exhausted and wo were compelled to resort to the militant. We hope the language of diplomacy will suttice in this instance. We'd hate to jump on old G. B. when she is so near down. "1 am curious to know," writes C. K.. "if the national baby week announced for March, 191G, is based on tho marriage statistics for June. lfj 15." THE subject of kissing is recalled by a newspaper recipe which says (langT of infection may be avoided by placing a piece of disinfected tissue paper over your mouth, but we predict it will not be popular. Why Think Affout What A. L. If. Docs? Dear Mr. .Melting Pot: Having recently been privileged to see the sacred interior of the fishing ehack of old A. L. H.. at Diamond lake, I noticed therein, prominently displayed upon the wall, a large tooth brush. I am wondering why this tooth brush. Does old A. L. H. use it to clean fish? What do you think? I also noticed that of late he has been using gold fish minnows for bait. Does this account for the manv large bass he claims to capture? Arid, after all, it is fitting that a banker should use gold fish minnows while the rest of us must content ourselves with dog end cash fish minnows for bajt. Yours truly, LEX. THROUGH the efforts of the U S government the high cost of living has been materially reduced, it has been found that radium can be produced for $37.000 per gram. We have been paying from $120,000 to S160.000 per gram. "PUSH Serbs to Last Line." Headlino. Why not try a forward pass? Watch Your Stop. (Con Burr Oak Acorn.) A fellow came rushing onto me and said out here. I fell pver one of your TALKING IX BILLIONS. (Nevada State Journal.) The republican party first inaugurated billion dollar congresses. ' The I party in opposition, at that tirrle, strongly urged retrenchment and bewailed the extravagance of the party in power. The party In opposition, prior to 1912, now is the party in power and the nation haj congresses that appropriate considerably over a billion dollars. The pork barrel, It appears, must be filled by both parties and expenditures grown upon those already made. ck ucuci " system of "trading" is fastening the . ... ö . There Is a growing belief that a pork barrel burden- upon the people for years to come. Arrangements are made for certain towns to get postotfices this year, other towns to get theirs next year, and others to be remembered three, four and Ave years hence. Congressmen of both parties trade their support in order that, when they need appropriations, they will have a support of a majority. This is a beautiful system, from the congressional point of view. It is a great aid to the congressman who is up for reelection. He may have secured an appropriation, or a promise of an appropriation to be made some ' i i . ki. . : it. I f ,w V go before his constituents and tell them that if he is not ree ccted his uv.-.-wi .. w,. v, v appropriation, becaufe the prmiso was made to him and not to a successor. So long as our people place a local wwiw to ....v. "a", question of national benefit, so long will these billion dollar congresses aÜ?' inc inutuj ioi luiihiiw.u.iai tA travagance lies with the electors But this is such a rich nation the average man and woman is inclined to talk in billions. The nation is not stirred as it should be by talk of a $1.250,000.000 congress this fall. The naiton. as a whole, is too prone to take billion and a quarter congresses as a mater of course. There are signs of a change of attitude. A stronge movement is developing in favor of retrenchment of nirk barrel expenditures that the country have more money avallabte for the really great que. Uons. sueh as national preparedness against war Whether this movement will make much headway before the 1916 election remains to be seen. A UFA SON WHY. (New York Globe.) At Nashua. N. H.. where a strike is in progress, women strikers, with babies in their arms, seated themselves on the railroad tracks leading to the plant of a manufacturing concern to prevent cars from passing. Members of a company or tne .aiion al uuard on uuiy ui m- - tempted to drive the women away, and Vinn thAv rp fused to co a charge was " wv : . - made on a crowd tnat coneuiea, uu in it one woman was iauui) by a bayonet thrust and a man was shot. nv one who does not understand i aversion of many men to enlist in 4 the aversion or man mrii lv ; ; the National Guard, or why it is that most of our pians ioi uiuua. fense have broken down for lack or men, should consider this Nashua tragedy. Guardsmen supposed themselves to be members of an army for national defense. They find themselves members of a police force, practicallv never called to active duy except to shoot or to threaten to shoot strikers when there is a labor dispute. Bightlv or wrongly the average workingman thinks of the state militia, not as an Instrument for national defense, but as a sort of private guard organized in the interests of employers. There is nothing inspiring in the" uniform of the National Guard

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mistake.. I said too bad. but that he had better stumble ever his own faults. MANY examples of overworked imaginations are offered by the well known press. For instance, quotation. Only the fact that Mr. Archibald came-to New York in his yacht on Saturday faved his life. Had he been driven to the railway station at Tarrytown his automobile would have plunged into the trap set, quotation. A LIGHTED cigar caused the explosion of a zeppelin at Copenhagen. Whv not equip the aerial fieets with lichted cigars? Prelerably the campaign brand. 4,no to Four." (The Commoner.) "The shades of right were falling free When up from Washington, ü. C, There came decrees, all handed down By judges wrapped ia black silk gown "Five to four." Tho income tax? They pondered lato And argufied with learning great; They seized their pens and gravely wrote Opinions then they took the vote "Five to four." The merger? 'Twas a famous case, Each judge sat there with solemn face. And heard the argument. so keen. When tho decision came 'twas seen "Five to four." Our wards beyond the deep blue sea? Ah, surely here they will agree! But after rods of legal lore. Behold the spectacle once more "Five to four." t A law to safeguard human life, . To tare for orphans and for wife; Ah, judges on that will agree! But there's the record look and see "Five to four." NOW that Porter Charlton has regained his liberty, what is he gonna do with it? TURKEY is not essential to a proper Thanksgiving spirit, but is a long step toward it. A DUCK cannot step half as far. C. N. F. for that sort of military service do patriotic young men offer themselves. Of course, this charge Is not true. .Some of the largest employers of labor, like Judge Gary, are opposed to the use of the National Guard for strike service. But this kind of police duty is unfair to the National Guard. It is not the kind of service for which the avvrague guardsman's years and training fit him, and it cannot cause much wonder that men who otherwise would be glad to enlist for military service hesitate to enlist. rfWT rm mi T.i'm.- l.-nrrtnov i (Trenton, N. J., State Gazette.) According to figures compiled by the Yale News the average veirlv rv L ) I aerae eari ex oendltures of freshmen and snnhn penditures of freshmen and sopho mores .at the university was a trirle more than $1,000. During junior and senior years it was something more than $1,100. The largest amount spent by . a senior was $3,100, the smallest $230. During the other years there was also the same wide difference Some freshmen got through on $200. During the pas-t decade or so the average of college expenses has considerably increased. Th-3 same may be said of preparatory schools'. The cost of higher education has advanced but the jump has not teen in all probability greater than the increased cost of living in ordinary life. Many colleges and universities have a,so . advanced thir t , charCf, to th studcnts cnarges, however, are only a fair proportion of the expenses of the stu dents. The Harvard university corporation hfl illSt flonirlaA J u annua, tuition fee from $150 to $200 Thii gt p j necessarv it is asserted' Lecause hc ycftCHv deceit of the cot Potion fc.j52.000. The income of tne university is not sufficient to meet its running expenses. The same may be said of most other universities and colleges. There is nearly always a struggle to make both ends meet despite the heavy endowments that many universities are possessed of. The students receive far more than they pay for. A MODLL APPOIXTMFXT. (Indianapolis Star.) I .,, " :k.? The appointment of rv, r ,; J -'c y neral may al profMS,oa of'Ve jute " and" thl g as attorney general mav . I A f a a ..... people generally. Mr. Stotsenburg is an attorney of high standimr, keen appreciation of the ethics of his profession and careful training covering a period of nearly thirty vears. H is dbubtful whether Gov. Ralston could have obtained a man bet'er equipped to succeed the late Ilichird M. Milburn. Although Mr. Stotsenburg has been prominent in the democratic party he never has been given to Playing politics as the game is understood generally. In the nrPTif i '"nmuem uie ornce sougit th man Mr. Stotsenburg was talked of three years a (-j , . 7 ' i hu-uiur , ana iasi year ior 'attorr ey general but he refused to enter either mr-o As a member of the senate for eight years he was the leader of his own party and recognized by the op position as a man. of ability and goo( r;u"'" 41 A ian,oi ability and good judgment. An unfriendly press which coui i use mm to smt its purposes re- ...... ,4..-, iikK- irauer or a cmue oiparusan combine but the attack failed to deprive him of his usefulness as a lawmaker or weaken him among the men with whom he served. A Kansas woman claims to have been cured of rheumatism by being thrown from an automobile. Is the automobile going to put the doctor out of business as well as tne horse? Albany, N. Y., Argus. Why Is it that the baldest barber fn the shop is always the one that pushes tne r.air tonic the hardest? Cleve-

Real W orfcli vs. Low Cost If you asked' your butchor for a porterhouse steak and ho handed you a cut of the flank and said, "This doesn't cost as nuch and is just as good," you wouldn't believe hin, would you? Yet the butcher's statement' Is just as truthful as the assertion that inferior baking ponders cade of alun or phosphate iOf line are as good as Royal, v-hich is cade fron crean ot .tartar. Alua is a mineral acid saltV (declared by cany nedical authorities unsafe to use in food. Royal Baking Powder is as (pure and vholesone as the vineyard 'ßrapes from which its crean of tartar is derived. The only reason for using such substitutesas alun and line phosphate is because their cost" is less to the nanufacturer.,

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Inheritances, good and bad, are constantly being handed down to new generations. Greater knowledge of the sciences, of nature's relationship with man, and of better ways of living, are the priceless gifts we will hand down to our children and our children's children. But of all the gifts that will be given to' the world, electricity is the greatest the most valuable from every point of view. The electric telephone and telegraph, electric railroads, street cars and subways, electric lighting, cooking appliances and labor-saving devices are all priceless boons which will lighten the labor and brighten the lives of untold generations. And, next week comes the country-wide celebration of electricity an occasion that is decidedly appropriate and to be emphatically celebrated in South Bend.

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