South Bend News-Times, Volume 33, Number 7, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 7 January 1916 — Page 8

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SUBMARINE CONTROVERSY NOWONE OF TEUTONIC HONOR. The joihmarine controversy has. since the sinking of th" l'crsia, -heroin chiftly a qiuMion of the good faith of the Teutonic powers, (lerniany and Austria may Kie the United States fnrtlier assurances of friendship, legality and humanity, hut it is a i"stin whether we tan trust tho.-e asvuramo. Ivrrythin hanus on that, in our present and future relations with those t w powers. If the American people once make up thir minds that the Teutons are inertly playinir with us. usirijr this nation as a (atsiaw when they choose, iunorinff its riKlits when they please, lyinR to it as if it wire a rhild. and innorin it derisively when it suits their purpose, urowin raue may drive us to war. If war is avoided, and yet the conviction takes hold in the Amerim mind that neither the intent nor th word of Clermany and Austria can he trusted, it will color all our intercourse with them for a hundred j ears. The American pnhlic is slow to forget ronps. Teuton honor is at stake. As far as Teuton interests are concerned, the Teutonic allies have no hiuer stake in the war. If they force neutrals to set them down as not only harharous and murderous in the heat of war. hut as deliherate and persistent hreakeis of their phd-ed word and they have already persuaded their Mil mics of that how ran any honorahle German anywhere in the world hold up his head hereafter?

proposed as the new line, is ac rich and fertile as the famed Imperial Valley of California, which, in fact, is largely formed by land upon th? Mexican hide. The great water system which Irrigates the Imperial valley begins in Mexico and for that reason it, unfortunately, cannot now he made a soverninent project. Moreover, the north end of I,ower California Is rich in minerals and precious stones and what development of this wealth that is being done is financed by citizens of the United States. An inland port can be built at, or near, the mouth of the Gulf of California which would he of immense benefit to this country, now that the canal has been completed. This is now beyond consideration because no part (if the Gulf of California lies at present in this country. There are advantage too numerous to recount here. As for Mexico, it is more than likely that she would welcome a chance to replenish an empty treasury by selling this strip. It i inaccessible from Mexico without passing through the United States and for that reason Mexico's rnonied men nre reluctant to invest capital there. For the same reason it Is difficult to govern and costly of administration. The development of a. harl.or at the mouth of the Gulf of California, with a connecting railroad, would add an impetus to the development of the remaining portion of Lower California in Mexico, as well as that part of f'onora along the gulf, for it would bring steamship lines which would touch at points all along the gulf coact. In fact, apart from the cash consideration Uncle Sam would pay, It is as good for Mexico as for the United States. Madero expressed himself often as favoring the sale. There can be no objections on Mexico's part save sentimental ones, and money may be expected to override sentiment these enipty-euphoard days in Mexico. It will require an amendment to the Mexican constitution and an act of congress of the United states which may present some difficulties, but not insurmountable obstacles. It, is a big proposition, so big that the entire west should et solidly behind it without delay.

THE SUPREME COURT DECISION ON THE INDIANA LAW. The. decision of the Indiana supreme -oiri uphoblinv; the state-wide primary law passed bjVir?l lut leg islature may be disheartening to reactionary republicans and democrats, of the master class. Uut with the masses of voters, we believe the resuh will be very acceptable. The one section eliminated (unlucky U!, w :th refer nee to the candidates putting up one per cent of their prospective salary should they he elected, is of minor importance. It merely throws the expense of the primary upon the whole people, instead id upon the men who would reap the rewards. As to section 10, having to do with the right of the members of one party to xote the ticket of another party, we like the construction that the court h;us put upon it very much. We regard It. indeed, as an improvement. The elimination of the democratic riht to challenge ;i man asking for a rep w 1 1 icu n lallot. or the rrpuMiean rU'lU t ehallense ;i man asking fur a (Ifinocratio ballot, though enabling republicans an! democrats to challenge voters not heretofore atfiliated with their own respective parties, is r-xactly as it should be. Possibly the legislature did not think that far, but the statute admits of that construction, anil it should have been what the legislature had in mind whether it was or not. l'ach ticket before the primary very appropriately represents a separate party primary just as truly as though they were held in separate locations on different dates. We cannot give the republicans mm h on their tight sent tip from Indianapolis, nor the democrats much on "Lnbl ist" Kelsoe's case from Xevv Albany; nor. ditto. th:it progressive who instituted some such proceeding at Vincennes. About all they have succeeded in doing has heon to relieve the olfice seekers of the tax on their primary aspirations. The argument was, of course, that the poor man could not afford to run for olHce. and need to pay such a tax on his prospective salary, but, auain. of course, that wasn't the real motive. A man who i- such a poor stick that he cannot afford to put up that one per rent of his salary, in order to get nominated, or run for the nomination. Isn't fit for the office anvway, and if he runs, even without that tax. his expenses will probably he met by someone who expects to use him if he wins. The elimination of the tax. in consequence, with reference to uch poor sticks. m rely lifts a little of the burden from the subudi rs. like United States Steel, at Gary, in financing its ciniiowMe for governor; and, perhaps other examples might be uivt n. But the state-wide primary law is to have a trial, at bast. The supreme court has not seen tit to stand in the way of "what seemed to be the people's wish, from the way the political parties luve flirted with the ouestion democratic, republican and progressive, quite alike. All of them h.ivv promised the piimary in their platforms, to cap h the popular ote. ami thanks to the last legislature, it made at bast a good start at standing by its platform. The primary law may not be perfect, but it N a grvat heguining; a beginning, which f urtherniot e. ;.y bringing out tlbs decision of the supreme court, has put an end to the question as to the constitutionality of sm h a law. The "constitutional'" lawyers, oppo.-ed to primary legislation, have had th ir contention tested, and their ignorance confirmed, and we hope thev are satisfied.

ASIATIC VIEW OF THE GREAT EUROPEAN CONFLICT. Sdiaykh Achmed Abdullah, vouched for by Harper's Weekly as a nephew of the ameer of Afghanistan and descendant of the prophet, gives that publication Asia's view of the war. It may he a distorted view but it is worth reading because of its warmth. Says he: "We are unmoved by the slaughter, the losses, the untold suffering, the wholesale destruction. The reason for this is sweetly simple and wholly obvious. Lach Kuropcan killed is a killed potential enemy. "The common basis of steadily growing Asian solidarity is "..tred of the whites, the Christians. This hatred is universal from the Siberian tundras to the burnt south of India. We despise the European as a hypocrite who ships whisky, rifles, diseases and missionaries in the same mixed ca'rgo. Our sword-arm aches when we behold the cross. "We like to claim Iiussin as an Asiatic outpost. So. if wishes we have in the present conflict, they are for the success of the Russian arms. It will be the vanguard of Asian aggression. "We are glad of this war. It will weaken Kuwpe in treasure and blood. It will kill the Mower of their fighting men. It will reduce their birth rate. Kurope will not get over th effects of this conflict in fifty years. Asia will he strong and ready in less than fifty years. The Uuropeans have taught us with the sword. Presently we will teach them with the sword." It is doubtful if Mr. Abdullah's fierceness pervades all Asia, or if all Asia will ever be able to unite on anything. However, nothing is more certain than that on this side of the world we understand little about the feelings and aspirations of Asia. Heaven alone knows what future for Kurope this war is making.

RAISES SOME OF THE DEAD. They say that some charitable ladies out west recently visited a 'bereaved woman and 'ave her $'20 to pay her husband's burial expenses. The money was in silver coins and dollar bills. One of these angels of meivy found alter she left the house that she hid dropped one of her gloves. sUie returned to set it and upon opening the door she neheld the corpse, sittingup counting the money. Can you leat it ? "Yet there is nothing particularly remarkable about it. Twenty-fix p dollars in spot cash would brink' many a corpse to life these days.

HE'S A DIPLOMAT. One thing you can say for Gen. Villa is tha he knows Mexican character, all right. Witness his promise, in his proclamation of a new revolution, to pay his soldiers two silver pesos at sunse each day. You don't notice Villa paying off at .sundown: not much! He wants them on the job each, morning at sunrise and takes the surest method of setting them there.

The Velvet Hammer

Bv Arthur Brooks Baker

ANDREW JACKSON HICKEY. When Anthony on Caesar's hrow preM-d dem ii the crow n of Homo, That worthy shook Che wicked tiling from off hii noble dome. And with an indignation grand, young Caoar say, says lie, "Confound on, wear that thing- yourself don't work it off on me!" Hut Andrew Jackson llkkey is not Caesar hy a rod; IIc wry like an lionet man, that nolilest work of (iod. Lon the nominating speech hy Colonel t'harlc Carlisle, lie tlid not hem and haw ami hluh In deep and iiis('ious ende. lie did not weep, .y fellow men, it's meet that I should stay And feed the pig and herd the geee and help to stack the hay While one of . more ability should have tlie fame and fun At that big house iiihhi the hill far off In Washington." I 11 1 when the Colonel's eroration reached its glow ins height. And mentioned Hit key's merits in & wry friendly light. The -olonel smote the table with a mot convincing thump. And Mickey climbed the platform with a blithe and artless jump: And while the rules of parliament congenially slept. Ho roam! with splendid feeling;: Mr. Chairman. I avept!' Why prate of mere formality on whic h the masses dote. Iluinilitlng candidates hy putting them to ote? Let (iiand Old Party experts do the job of running things; Let master hands und fingers pull the highly fruitful strings; Co i there is naught incongruous, ungainly or inept In Andrew .)ackon Mickey's "Mr. Chairman. I accept!" ,

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tiii: ailmv's constiu'cti i: WORK. (Kansas City Star.) Much is heard of the destructive work of the soldier, little of his con struct ive and life-saving work. In his recent Princeton lectures (Jen. Wood has called attention to this feature of the army's achievements. In Potto Kico our soldiers have stamped out tropi?al anemia, or hookworm disease, and this alone reduced the annual death rate there by a number exceeding the total number of men killed in the SpanishAmerican war. In Cuba our army surgeons discovered the cause of yellow fever and the means of controlling it. Their discoveries will prevent epidemics of that disease in the south and will save thousands of lives. In Philippines our army has stamped out berri-herri. one of the most dreaded of Oriental diseases, has brought malaria under control, and has halved the percentage of infant mortality. The vok of army surgeons made possible the construction of the Panama canal. In all the Cnited States army there was not a death last year from typhoid; and the army stumped it out alonn the Itio Crande and elsewhere. Our army also has been busy for years past In terminating intolerable conditions and in establishing humane, just and equitable Kovernments among dependent peoples. In Cuba, the Philippines. Porto Rico and in other places, this has been the great work of the army in the

OUR fear that congress would start something1 have been confirmed. Inspired by .ambition to make a showin? for the benefit of the gallery back home and a desire to discount the preside-nt's chances for re-election some of the members have cut loose on the diplomatic policy which ha.s 50 successfully kept us out of war for two or three years and put a piece of ginger under the tall of business. In this Instance it was the expected that happened. YET it would be strange if any policy, however effective, could not be modified to advantage with changing conditions. So we will not be surprised if Americans with inordinate cases of wanderlust are politely, more or less, told to remain at home or take their own chances. MEANTIME, disappointed in not receiving renewals of their reception gowns and traveling clothes tho feminine end of the Ford peace party h rapidly going upon the rocks. What did Mr. Ford expect? IF W. J. B. accompanied the party, W. H. S. conceives he might have asked for a topay. The Versatile Peanut. (Cor. Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette.) Progressive peanut was played and a delicious lunch was served after the New Year greetings. WHEREAS, write." "Observer." the ultra rich formerly confined their conversation to hoss lore and the habits of hired girls they now specialize on motor curs and maids. SPEAKING of the church unity conference, now in session, the Methodist? present who would amalgamate with the Baptists will please raise their hands. That will do. The noes have it. More Than Can !e Said for a iooI Many Mothers. (Chicago Tribune.) She said Mrs. Bryant took her children to church every Sund ty and smoked cigarets after -dinner. THE leading caterer in Angola. Ind., i Charles Noise, who specializes on silent service. OUK Kingsbury cor. writes that

"A dance was given on Arch Harri i Friday eve. to remind him of his ; birthday." Poor Arch! He has to be; jumped on to make him realize that the years are pi-sslng swiftly by. 1 AND. In this connection, w hen 1 they tell you they feel as young as! ever, you can bet they are exempt from military sorvice. ! ! OL.D Ed Hovre says the world is . full of fools and some Hoientific ; 1 physician has lately declared most of j us are crazy. So it seems to be a j

choice between being a nut or a fool. Which do you prefer? FOll our part we'd rather be a nut, and perhaps we are. At any rate, it is better to have ideas, even if they are wrong, than to be fool enough to accept what everybody else nays, for some of them are nuts and some of them are f jols. THERE seems to be a demand for a burglar wearing blue serge pants with a ragged hole in the seat to match a sample of that kind of pants goods brought by a Hush st. dog, but the' burglar is not likely to show up. He ha.s had a taste of the dog. And everybody should knowthat a dog is the greatest little burglar alarm ever invented. And the smaller the dog the greater the alarm. THERE are seers in these days aswell as in Bible and mediaeval times. Every day or two somebody is seeing things. The end of the war is the most popular vision. Some, see it for next sprirg and some for next fall, though none of the sight seers put it more than a year away. But we notice that Germany has driven a wedge down through central southern Europe and tapped inexhaustible sources of food supplies, Great ßritain is trying to have 4,000.000 men in the field next May and all of the belligerents are flooding the market with war bonds. To us- these are not signs of an early fall. They look more like a hard winter. STILE, you can't always sometimes tell. YOU remember where little Johnny may have gone. C. N. I

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CALL Tim IXOIi KILLER. (Muncie, Ind., Press.) The New York Tribune prints an editorial demanding that the republicans in the senate and house offer at once a resolution "calling upon the president of the United States to suspend all relations, diplomatic and other, with the imperial German government until such time as the Lusitania crime is disavowed." The late Whitelaw Reid. whose heirs own the New York Tribune, was for some years United States ambassador to Great Britain. lie grew very fond of the nation to which he was designated, naturally enough, for it is the business of forelgn governments to make ambassadors of other ntaions feel that way. His daughter married a British otFicer. It is not surprising that the New York Tribune has a rather acute ease of Anglomania, Rut this- thin? of demanding that the American people thrust themhelves into the European war in order to staisfy the partisan feelings of AnRlo-Americans is carrying hyphenation too far. The Tribune says that if the republicans in congress itself fail to take steps which

would involve the United States in the European war "it will confess itself bankrupt in patriotism and honor; it will confess itself a party without purpose or policy, without courage or comiction." This is the drivel of an assinine incendiary.

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NO HOCK FOR PEACE. France's minister of war receives art ovation for declaring that France today wants war "most energetically." The British cabinet decides on compulsory service. It is plenty enough to quench all hope of peace for .scone time.

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j A Dallas dispatch savs that application has been i made for a receiver for the Texas and Pacific railroad. Great Scott! when did it get out of a receiver's j hands? Have we overlooked something so novel as a Gould line being operated by its owners?

Wonders never cease. The American Mathematical .society has found a new method of derivirrg the equation of the rational Juane curve from its parametric equations.'' and "eliminating modular existence postulates." After this, what does it matter which side wins the war or who runs for president?

I The New York Staats-Zeitung is .soliciting subscripI tions for suffering German and Australian immigrants j out of work who "have been compelled to quit by the ! laws of their countries." The ordinary citizen, when t

a.sked to give for this cause, is likely to inquire, "What laws, and what country?"

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launched by the i in tuen 1 organizations of Phoenix. tul other Auzt'M.i ( i!o. to .-cure .i i ImI'.k.' in the i-oundary l.n- ! tet;i the l'iii:-d St.its und .Mexico. -o a to jiiclii'b in thi. tir.try ;i considerable j.ait of I.ot ".thiol ii. a and the Gulf of tlifrnia. It is tlietl an. ot;.r the po--i ! 'll it i s and a movement the I t y-f o t; r t h . .rc r s intht tari which would wine ;t rali.e nt hj-to'y in hl.uk fa e t pe. To. t I'.uT of J.iivr " i i 1 1 . r ii i.i ju-; 1on the pte-ent viiviJ;i.i; l.r.e, ai.d .u.'u. th JUi luralitl, which ü

I The Hritish government asks $9,000.000.000 to carry ! on the war this year. In comparison with that, the I sums asked for by the administration at Washington j look trivial. But we can't help wondering how many more hi'liun.s Kngland would need if it hail our army and navy hoards doing the figuring.

Pullman porters h ive had their wages raised. If they Kt another raise or two. maybe they can pay their 1 tiaveliiig fvr." out of their wages, and have their tips left to support their families.

h! Ut some good kind friend send us a picture of !:o- P. trues' face as he pays that $1.44J.3y tu lluc;ejvclt fwr Teddy's -usU in that hbtl suit!

"Every Change Meant a Loss" One of the founders of the Electric Company, commenting on the struggles of those early days, said: "The changes came with overwhelming frequency every change meant a loss and a call for more capital. All of our earnings were also swallowed up in the constant effort to give service by improved apparatus." And, there you have a first hand glimpse of the policy that has maintained through all the years since 1 880 service first.

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