South Bend News-Times, Volume 33, Number 1, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 1 January 1916 — Page 6

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January 1. 1916.

THE NATION'S NEW YEAR AND THE OLD LEAF TURNED DOWN

TO HELP STRAIGHTEN OUT OUR OVERWORKED DIPLOMATS. One of the things for which Col. House is golns to Europe, as the president's personal representative, is awl to e tho straightening; out of certain little quarrels among the American ambassadors. There la no question that such misunderstandings exist, to the prejudice of the diplomatic service. And at tirst blush, it seems absurd that citizens representing thl.-s great nation should let themselves be irritated and

their work hindered by petty questions of authority1

and prestige. Their Jobs are too biff and important for the public to have any patience with their personal bickerings. It's natural enough, however. For ambassadors are, after all. only human beings, ar d the work piled on the shoulders of Uncle Sam's diplomats has been enough to drive the most even-tempered and level-headed business man to distraction and ill humor. Our ambassadors to the warring1 powers are holding several big jobs apiece. In London and Paris they represent, in addition to the United States. Germany, Austria and Turkey. Ambassador Gerard at Herlin. besides the onerous work of his own office, is responsible for

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Be It Hereby Resolved By Arthur Brooks Baker

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For many acres man has been in the habit of adding

up his accounts at tho dawn of u new year, reviewing Oreat Britain. Japan and Serbia. Our ambassador at

tho road he haa already traveled and casting a speculativo eye over the future as far as he can discern it.

Xot in at least one hundred yeats has he had so much food for thought, so much reason for hopes and fears as today when he stands on the threshold of 1916. It ia Just one hundred years ago that the world r merged from the long agony of the Napoleonic nightmare and realized that at the price of stupendous acriüce democratic civilization was saved from the most sinister danger that had threatened It since the days of Louis tho Grand. "Today the case of democracy is again at issue. Over two-thirds of the world, its ancient and deadliest foe, militarism tho law of might is insurgent. In blood. In tears, in the anguish of women and little children, amid the ruins of shattered homes and devastated cities the spirit of freedom and progress stands once more at bay. It would bo folly of the worst and most dangerous kind for us here in America to fail to realize or to minimize our share in thU world agony, or to imagine, because we have been so far spared the horrors of actual warfare, that we are the less affected by tho cataclysm vithin the warring nations. If the rest of the world is passing through the testing furnace, we also are being tried; and if we fail, although our punishment may be deferred, it will be none the less sure. Old things are passing away. Old ideas, ideals, beliefs, superstitions, the accumulated dross of centuries, are being burned away in the liery ordeal of war. In the litht of the blaze of this great burning we are granted an opportunity to realize our own weaknesses, inefficiencies, hypocracles, selfishness, thoughtlessness. The faces of the false gods we have been prone to worship in the shadows of ignorance and sloth stand out clearly in all their ugliness and cruelty for those who will to mark. .What are we going to do with this revelation? Sow is the accepted time. If we tear down these lalse idols, if we root out these evil? and vicious things, we may escape the purification by fire that our brothers are now passing through. The heart of America beats true, her sons and her daughters still cherish sublime ideals which gave birth to this nation. Hut luxury, uninterrupted prosperity and security have obscured and dimed the light which once gleamed so brightly as a beacon of hope to all the oppressed and weary of the earth. We need a new spiritual birth, a renewal of faith, a relegating of the tilings that are Caesar's to Caesar, a new dedication to the service of mankind. There Is a great question in the hearts of the peoples of Furope today. It Is the question that is going to be addressed to us. a question which we will not dare, which we will not be able, to evade. When her anguish is at last ended. Kurope will turn to us and say: "What part did you play in my great day of ' xplation? For a hundred years and more you have drawn from me the best of my brawn and brain, -ou have lureit my children with the tellcf ihat you could satisfy their longings for liberty, you have announced yourself as the champion of the oppressed, the haven of the downtrodden anil weary. Have you held true to your ideals? Have you kept the faith that was in you. or have you shrunk from the vindication of your leadership? Have you flinched when asked .'o pay the cost of your hish pretensions?" It is time, indeed, that we had an accounting. It is time that we examined into what answer we shall give when that Inevitable question is thundered at us from our brothers over the seas. It will be no Justification to point to such overflowing abundance as .we g .ve at little cost to a few sufferer. in some Belgium or Serbia. The dole from the rich man's too heavily laden coffers will never be accounted to him for righteousness. Have we made any sacrifice for the riKht as we rir it? Have we proclaimed the truth as was given to us to know It without fear or favor, and without a thought to the consequence of such proclamation? When all things material anil spiritual were being weighed in th balance, to what extent were our minds and hearts directed to the material and to what extent to the spiritual? Have the sky scrapers of Wall st. obscured the slopes of Valley Forge? We are almost afraid that it has.

Vienna represents Great Britain. France and Japan.

Our ambassador to Turkey bears the diplomatic burdens of the United States, Great Britain. France, Russia, Belgium and .Serbia. Brand Whltlock, minister to Belgium, represents the United States, Germany, Great Britain. Austria. Japan and Serbia. The activities of all these harassed diplomats are constantly criss-crossing and uettlng tangled up with each other. No wonder they crow nervous and irritable until they need the ministrations of a disinterestedness and pacific colonel from back home.

MAKING DIVISION OP MEXICAN LAND FOR THE PEONS. There will be a big howl about the division of Mexican estates under the new government, but not a great many people will participate in the howl. The Carranza policy, unjust as it is sure to be in some cases, mean in general the restoration to the Mexican people of lands that were stolen from them and given to foreigners under the Diaz regime. It means, too, if successfully worked out, the elimination of the fundamental cause of the discontent which found expression in the revolution. Hundreds of landlords, most of them American and British, some of them Mexican, are being stripped of their estates. Whether any compensation is to be made is not yet apparent. It Is certain, however, that if the landlords et no more for their land than they paid for it, it wouldn't bankrupt Mexico to vote them compensation. Most of the vast fertile tracts held by absentee landlords and by such native potentates as the Tcrrazas family were bought for a few cents an acre. The size of these estates is almost incredible. The property held by Mr?. Phoebe A. Hearst in western Chihuahua is said to comprise S, 000, 000. The Uockc-feller-Aldrieh syndicate owns a 2.000,000 acre ranch in fhe state of Zatalecas. British and American interests hold under the title or lease more than 20,000,000 acres in the Tampico oil region. There are huge ranches and plantations owned by Americans scattered all through northern Mexico. Most of the property in question was formerly known a.s "community lands." It was divided into small farms held and worked by peasants without titles. It supported in modest comfort a great population which, since the land was taken and consolidated Into big estates, has reduced to helpless peonage. The agrarian, commissions maintain they are simply restoring those community lands to their rightful owners, as an act of social Ju.-tice and a guarantee of the future peace and prosperity of Mexico. The unscrambling process is drastic, but there is much to be said for it.

THE COMPENSATION WAVE. At the close of the year 1915, thirty-one of our forty-eight states have laws providing in some measure for the compensation of Injured workmen. There is nothing more remarkable in the annals of social legislation than the rapidity with which this reform has swept over the country. Five years ago not one state had provided any sort of compulsory insurance or pension syst era for its soldiers of industry. In 1911 tho wave started. In that year compensation laws were enacted in California, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts. New Hampshire, New Jersey, Washington, and Wisconsin. In 1912 their example was followed by Arizona, Maryland, Michigan, and Ithode Island. In 1913 Connecticut, Iowa. Minnesota. Nebraska. Nevada. Oregon, Texas. New York and West Virginia followed suit. In the two following years ten more states have been added to the list. Five years, then, have seen a revolution in the attitude of the American public toward its wase workers. It is true that we started late in this field, and are far behind other civilized countries. The laws enacted so far are partial in scope and lacking In uniformity. Not one state has yet adopted a system comparable in completeness to that of Geimany or England. But it is a big thing to have made a good start in so short a time. Another rive years may bring laws establishing this reform, in the name of social Justice and industrial efficiency, in every state in the Union, with a more practical and uniform system of operation than any et adopted.

REMEMBER "NO. 2" IS YOUR 1016 RIVAL. "You may get Smith's order." said one commercial traveler to anothtr. in the Pullman smoker the other evening, "but I'll make jmi travel some to beat me to it." Old you ecr sop to think how important No. 2 is in tli.s race of life? Think of it now; this New Year's day. It takes two to make a good rate or contest of any sort. It takes two to make n real success of anything lasting. No 1 goes his best because No. Z Is after

him. '-First Addle" keeps corret t time because "second ' fiddle" will snarl thin-'s if he doesn't. A sells his coods at low nnruin of profit because he knows that ' F. will. Fditor Jones sweats to pet a news item first tiling because !Mlt-r Bones has a reputation for going ' after items early. One drummer hurries to get Smith i because the other drummer makes him travel. A good j No. 2 means that No 1 extends himself. The best ;

iiiniKir of any business is one who has a pushing, grcwin subordinate cloe on his heels. The other name for No. 2 is competition. Fair, justly directed. V-.tsed on mt rit. it is a good thing. Unfair,

based on mre p reedine-. it is brutality, no matter how . - ir.-idious or disguised When men compete as brothers, ' Those foreigners seem pleased to welcome Ford, pro they civilize. When they compete ia pure selfishness, vide J his peace makirg doesn't embarrass war.

ANTI-GRIP POETRY. New York city has a new motto, in verse form, which if not poetic is at least hygienic: "Cover up each cough and sneeze! If you don't, you'll spread disease." The appropriateness of it consists in the fact that 200,000 New Yorkers are said to be suffering from the rip. and 1. .00.000 have bad colds. The health board has started publicity campaign against the allied germs entrenched in the subway and other public places. After firing the 4 2-centimeter couplet quoted above, it has plastered the city with such bits of advice as these: "Avoid crowds and keep away from persons who cough or sneeze.

"Pon't tide when oi; have only a short distance to '

jco. Walk." "Get plenty of sleep, with the windows wide open." "Avoid overcrowded movies." "Walk a mile every day in the open air." All of which is admirable preventive advice for any man. woman or child anywhere In America.

If There Is One. We have said many bitter thinKS Of the old ycvir just gone out. We have called it a disastrous And a year of gloom and doubt; We damned its belated spring time And knocked its humid summer. And cuffed and beat it all about. But with all it was a hummer. More with sorrow than in anger We have viewed the strife afar. We have wept with others weeping O'er the tolls of lurid war; But beyond the clouds that hover O'er the fields of carnage there, Though from our eyes 'tis hidden. The sun is shining fair. We believe in evolution. As part of God's great scheme; We believe that revolution, As an agency supreme, Ts essential to the solvlnir Of life's problems as they run. As this old earth depends upon The rising of the sun. So why condemn the dead old year As civilization's foe? Why impose the burden on it. Just because it happened so? If this old world is purified By the sacrifice we made. We may be thankful sometime It w.'us no more delayed. THK new year will be very much what you make it. Iike those of the past it will be a plastic substance v. hich you may mold at your will. Good resolutions are all right as far as they go. Like the architect's plans and spet-iflca .ions, tjood resolutions may be botched In the execution. GOOD resolutions are brittle things, easily broken in the handling, ar-d the water wagon is a slippery 1 lace to stand. Watch your steps. What They Found In Their Socks. (Kilmarnock Standard.) A further consignment of comforts for our gallant soldiers at the front, consisting of ir pairs of socks filled with cigarettes, soup, coffee, etc., was dispatched this week. WHY not leave the school military plan to the pupils if we want it adopted.

AND recurring to the watchfulness or your steps let us remind you that this is leap year. Haying on the Carpet. (The Docket.) Our office has just received tho case of Sarah Carpet vs. Gertrude Gruber (Mun. Ct. Boston, No. 12S7S, 15). Being for the defendant, we hope to see Gruber beat the Carpet; but, if the case goes to the Massachusetts supreme court. Carpet should stand a good chance before Chief Justice Ituirg. A NEW line of Investment is suggested by the increase of a judgment from $3.000 to $20.000 in 20 years. Why scrimp and save for Christmas? MOTORISTS who complain bitterly of rotten country roads have their remedy in the city, where they can drive 72 1-2 miles cn pavement, qualified by whatever that is on Mich, st., Jeff. boul. and Vist. av. January. (From an Old Book.) Clad all In Tvhite, as the earth looks with the snow, blowing his nails; in his left arm a billet; the siirn of Aquarius standing by his side. TIE to EMBER that father used to say New Year's morning to cheer us on our way? "Well. boys, this'll be a god day to shuck the rest o that corn." my ii)i:.L or LIFE.

;To study always, to think quietly, to act frankly. To be worthy rather than wealthy; To seek refinement as far superior to fashion. To commune with Nature, as with both babes and nages, with an open heart; To do all things cheerfully, hurrying never; In a word To let the unconscious spiritual grow unbidden through tho tread of duty. This is my Ideal of Life Leita Katherine Brechensere. AND. do you know, that is quite a cute little ideal. C. N. F.

The conduct or the numan race i

requires persistent mendintr.

Pr life's a melodrama that deserves j

a happy ending. The grand and total record of a fellow's earthly action

Should not be vulnerable to de-

nouncement or detraction. Our 1915 history is questionably checkered. And each should make a firm resolve to Hhovv a better record. The sinful schemes which satan has industriously plotted Should be by all good citizens terrifically swatted. Instead of buying wicked booze for ill-'onsidered drinking, Good people should indulge in books to Ktimulate their thinking. Instead of using words which deeply shock our pious neighbors. We all should cool our warm remarks to "hang it" and "be jabbers." So once again we cross our hearts in solemn allegations That with the devil and his hosts we sever all relations. Weil walk the earth with strttely tre'.d, serenely and uprightly; We'll say our prayers and to bed at 10 o'clock each-nightly; Weil be among the nice and good, the Kreat blue-ribbon winners. And few will dare to e'en suspect that you and I were sinners.

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South Bend, Ind., Dec. 31, 191Ö. To the residents of South Bend: In the midst of the New Year's holiday, usually so joyful to all of us which we had and are iust celebrating, with what immense grief have our hearts been filled this year! While on: souls were lifted up to God. and we samr wth the angels. Glory to Tod in the Highest, praying for pecce on earth and good will toward men., our ears beset by the groans c.f wounded, sick and crippled thousands across the Atlantic; before cur ages were visions of the fallen, our nearest and dearest. Not peace on earth, but war; the most horrible, the most terible. cruel war ever suffered by humanity; and this war was raging before the gates of cities. In the midst of towns and villages acros. the Atlantic ocean. The present war. with all Its machinery of devastation, has burdened our people, the poor people in

the poor country with a heavy j

curse. 1 he hiood-staincd tieius and villages tell but too eloquently of Its pitilesnes. The towns beyond the sea are fallen in the ashes and ruins. And durintr the endless marches of millions of armed men, the farms and cottages have ruined the fruit of the toil and sweat of generations. the cultire and acquisitions of eenturiej?. In the midst of this desolation and ruin, many hundred thousands are without a roof above their heads; the sceptre of famine, of pestilence, not only threatens the future, but crushes the whole families today, depriving of the shelter, property and its bare means of livelihood. This all but c omplete devastation enbraccs territories larger than the rich provinces of other countries. Words cannot describe the magnitude of the disaster; to understand, one must see with ones own eye. Since the people of which I am one of the descendants have fallen victim to this terrible struggle, humanity demands that endeavors should be made to alleviate in some measure, to prevent Poland froin becoming a horrible desert in the midst of the world; and to keep thousands nay million.- of unarmed and helpless beings from perishing with hunger and cold, and save the balance from starvation. To the humanity and to the Christim feeling f the residents of city of South Bend, and our good state. therefore, I do not he.-titate to make an appeal to you all to contribute to the much needed fun i f'-r relief of the situation in Folnnd. as per proclamation issued by our Tr s't Woodrow Wilson, on Dec. is. Setting the day or designating Jan. 1. 1515. a the Polish day in the U lited Statt

ir.gton, D. C. which will care for the proper distribution. I am making this appeal in behalf of the stricken people, making this appeal to the hearts of all our countrymen, and to people of other nations, to come to our assistance with what aid they can afford; for alone we cannot heal the wounds Inflicted by this unparraled disaster. TAvioe already, In tho history of this war, our ancient Poland is in danger, and was, but God has protected it; was it not that it should be now. as In centuries past, the heart of Poland, Poland filled with bloodshed and devasting fires? The heart must embrace all, protect all, and I am making this appeal for all those who cannot now do so for themselves. Let then a cry go forth from ancient Poland, an appeal to all. far and near, to stretch forth a helping and merciful hand on this first day of January, 1916. Respect fully Yours, Ignatius K. Werwinski.

A NFAV KXKMY. (Cleveland Leader.) Mexico Jity is in the grip of one of the most fearful scourges humanity knows typhus fever, otherwise known as jail fever, putrid fever, famine fever and spotted fever. It is not typhoid, but somethiag infinitely worse, that comes with hunger, filth and vermin. It is estimated that there are 11,000 cases in the federal district of the capital city alone and the number is increasing. The death rate in the city exceeds 1C0 a day. And tho Mexicans are meeting the situation with the usual Mexican helplessness, incapacity and ignorance. Unable to cope with the plague, the authorities are doing all they can to hide it. and meantime the swift contagion spreads. This is one almost inevitable result of the three years of revolution which Mexico's adventurers and bandits still keep going in the name of liberty. It is the first really great task that must be performed in the restoration of the country that has fallen to Carranza, Handicapped by his people's poverty and degraded and exhausted condition, it may well be doubted that he is capable of dealing with it successfully. The situatiop he faces might well appall a stronger end abler man.

Here is New Y'orker's idea of the extent of the United States. A correspondent writes to the Brooklyn Daily Times asking if there is any state in the union in which a couple can be married without a license and the editor replies: "A license is required in every state from New York to South Carolina, Rochester, N. Y., Union and Advertiser.

Here's Wishing You a Happy iSJew Year and many of 'em.

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(I. & M. stands for Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. The next I. & M. talk will appear in tomorrow paper.)

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paign again.-t Serbia, but the doggoned Serbians won't announce completion of their side of it.

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