South Bend News-Times, Volume 33, Number 8, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 8 January 1916 — Page 4

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JANUARY 8. iH6.

OUR GREAT AMERICAN GALAXY OF DEBTLESS STATES. Kasa. quite like Indiana, celebrated the dope of a year v unprecedented prosperity by burning the last of Its public mortSciRes ;i bontl issue of Jl 09,000. In Indiana the amount discharge.! imsreatcd 265,000. It wasn't really ro remarkable an achievement, however. A surprisingly large number of states are free from bonded debt, or were at the time when the last complete report was Issued. In this class last year were Included Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, .outh Dakota, Vermont, Washington, 'West Virginia and Wisconsin. Some of the big and wealthy states have pretty large debts. New York last year had bonds outstanding to the extent of $100.000.000; Pennsylvania. $125,000.000; und California, $85,000,000. Hut most of the states have a debt of only a few millions, many of them only a few hundred thousands. It a our cities that are heavily bonded. New York City heads the lUt, with about $1.000,000.000. as much as the Interest-bearing debt of the United States government. Most citizens never give thei- state debt a thought, although they are keenly interested in local finance. That's partly because the state debt is so trivial as to have far less effect on the tax rate than the local assessments. Hut it's partly because the state touches the citizen's life at fewer points that It does far less for him than the local community does. Making due allowance for municipal extravagance, the fact remains that the city resident gets pretty nearly what he pays for. no matter how much he pays. And conversely, the more benefits he gets in the way of public improvements and communal service, the more he has to pay for them. A.s the stato emerges from its twilight situation, be.t.veen the city and national government, with indefinite powers and responsibilities, and becomes a real power, nerving its people more capably and effectively, state bond Issues, when wisely -made, may represent enterprise and investment, but freedom from debt and a low tax rate with equal enterprise, are just as fit to boast of.

FRANCE SETS AN EXAMPLE IN , MATTERS OF MERCHANTMEN. In December a French cruiser stopped a couple of American hips near l'orto llico and took off some (Jerman passengers. The principle was not the Mine as in our dispute with Kngland, previous to the war of 1S12. England at that time was searching our s .ps and seizing naturalized American citizens of Uritish birth. The French in this case seized (Jerman subjects, not American citizen?. It seized them on the ground that they were enemies of France, who might return to Germany and fight against her. International law didn't seem clear. Nevertheless our government protested, declaring that our flag protects subjects or citizens of any nation at sea just as It doejs on land, and must be respected accordingly. IYance ha-s yielded completely, and without delay. The men seized have been turned over to the American consul at Martinique, and are free. It hardly seems necessary to point out the world of difference between France refraining from offending us even in a matter of so trivial concern to us, and France's enemies continually defying us in big things itally affect irg our life and honor. And yet Germany und Austria complain because Americans sympathize with the allies.

A FINE PEACE COMMISSION AND ONE THAT COULD DO BUSINESS. The Ford peace party has now decided to employ a committee of experts in international law to draw up tentative peace proposals on lines most likely to be acceptable to the belligerents. Merely as a well-intentioned suggestion we would like to recommend as members of aforesaid committee of experts the following: Francis Joseph, of Austria, Nicholas, of Montenegro, Ferdinand, of lUiK'aria. William II. of Germany, Nicholas II, of Uu.-Ma. Victor Fmanuel. of Italy, Feter, of ervia, Mohammed V, of Turkey, Albert, of Helium, George V, of Great Fritain. Raymond Poincire, of France, Yoshihito, of Japan. Chairman. Uncle Sam, I. A. We are ready to guarantee that a peace protocol agreed upon by this conm ittee would get one dozen more signaidres than one drawn by any other committee under the j-'.;n.

PEACE AND SWEDES. In Norway the Ford peace party found no enthusiasm and little sympathy. In ,ev,,d( !i it has found sympathetic und'r.-tanding and at Ir.tst a popular desire to cooperate. Theres nothing so my.t i .;;- al.oit this difference in sentiment. Norway sy :n pat hi. w;th the allies and Sweden sympathizes with (Jcrmany. Swed-n. in fact, is the only neutral nation in Furope that i.s frankly friendly to the German cause. Norway, thtu. siiuply rclltcls the wew cX.tliC all.es.

that the time for peace has not cme, that Germany is losing strength while they are paining It, and that there can be no talk of peace until the allied arm are demonstrably victorious. Sweden probably iind erstands the military situation as clearly as Norw-iy does. Hut Sweden, because fhe fears Russia and likes Germany, wants the Germans to win, or to get out of a bad situation the best way they can. And like the Germans themselves, she would like to see peace terms arranged now, while Germany is at the height of her power, fo that she can dictate terms. There is the fatal fact that the Ford peace expedition overlooked that peace now would be to the advantage of only one side, and that the advocates of an immediate peace regardless of the Issues Involved are laboring only in behalf of Germany, Austria. Hulgaria and Turkey, and so cannot expect any recognition from the other side.

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The Velvet Hammer

Bv Arthur Brooks Baker

PRESCRIPTIONS BY WIRELESS. A new use for wireless telegraphy Is reported from North Carolina. The wireless station at Cape Hatteras the other day picked up a message stating that there was a baby crlticalty ill on a ship several hundred miles away and the ship's doctor had been unable to do anything for it. The message .gave the baby's symptoms, and asked that some good physician be asked to prescribe for It. The operator cot in touch with a doctor, obtained the desired prescription and flashed it into the ether. And a few hours later came another message bringing the pleasant news that the prescribed treatment had been followed and the child's condition had already Improved so that it was considered out of danger. There have been greater radio triumphs than this, particularly in bringing rescue to burning vessels at sea. Hut it would he hard to find one making a stronger human appeal. It 19 magic, sure enough, in comparison with which all the magician's work Imagined in the middle ages seems trivial and unimpressive. And it is another proof of the scientists assertion that wireless development has taken all isolation out of the world. Whether far at eea or in the midst of a desert or on a barely accessible mountain top, if there is n wireless station anywhere within reaching distance one Is In touch with the whole world.

NO WAR AGAINST BABIES. It is proper that the efforts being made by Americans to send malted milk and condensed milk to Germany for babie should be supported by the government, and it is imperative that Great Britain controlling all the trade routes, should allow the milk to enter Germany. The F.ritish, we take it, are not making war on babies. It doesn't make any difference what grounds Germany has given her enemies for ruthless treatment. Germany, to be sure, hasn't done anything worth mentioning for the babies of Belgium, northern France, Poland and Serbia. They have died by thousands for lack of food. Germany didn't let milk enter besieged Paris in the Franco-Prussian war. There is military precedent enough for starving babies, along with the rest of a besieged and blockaded or conquered territory. Hut the time has passed for holding to such barbarous precedents. Even the fact alleged by some Englishmen that Germany and Austria have killed babies in their submarine warfare is beside the point. The German babies are not responsible for the acts of the German admiralty and army staff. And no nation claiming to be civilized can consistently pursue a war policy whose weight falls on the enemy's children.

HERBERT D. WARNER. The man who drives his motor ear ut wild and rtvklos ictl Should gie the South I lend ordinances rather t -a refill heed. Unless he 1 a oter with a f rauchig that can -ount. Judge Warner will ases him for a

IhtIIous amount; i Hut lie who cast a !ai!ot of the true

and )micr brand May meet with nothing harsher than a gentle reprimand. When Warner saw the county con hls laiuriiihins in jail Auel eating: out the txttom of the) public dinner pail, Said he: "These fellow citizens require sonic exerclo; An oik'ii air ixTforniance would improve their health and size. Ilt hel)cel them get a steady job at building roads and streets, Which cut the his: expcnes for their fat ami fermal eats. When hast y-tempcrcel citizens liavo looscel their fretful fi.-ts Anel hanscd each other's no-es or have slapicel each other's wrists, They hrinsr their disagreement into Herbert Warner's court. Where each can tell his story anel can swear lo his rciwrt: Anel if the meek belligerent should prove to bo a Hun, It frequently develops that he n.etl tils dukes In fun. For Huns are cooxl Hepuhlie'ans, but lemocratlc Poles Can look for little mercy on their foreign souls. He writes their heavy sentence down in cold and cruel ink, While Justice, far from being; blind, will not as miuli as blink, lint still, in spite of all or that and many other things, The Judge Is almost pood enough for emblematic wings.

HENRY, TRY THIS! YOU'RE NEEDED. Gasoline in Texas has jumped from 10 cents per gallon to 21 cents, and is still Jumping. Texas has an anti-trust law and has one great, and several small, so-called "independent" oil concerns. Terras has large producing petroleum fields of its own, and is next door to the immense Oklahoma fields. If the arbitrary adVance in the price of gasoline cannot b prevented In Texas, it cannot be controlled anywhere. It is an outrageous and unwarranted levy of a tax on the automobile owners of the United States. It is ishylock Rockefeller demanding his full pound of flesh and gettin? it There's but one remedy In sight; a readjustment of automobile carburetors to permit the use of a substitute fluid. Here Is a real fine and dandy opportunity for Henry Ford to use his remarkable Ingenuity and superfluous wealth to eome purpose. A medal for the man who beats the Coal-oil Johnny con game!

HOW CAN IT BE DONE? The city of Houston has put a simple problem up to the Southwestern Telephone company which has that corporation stalling for time. Houston wants an answer to the Question, "How can a telephone girl pay $5.50 a week board out of a salary of $5 a week and have enough left to buy clothes" In other words Houston is preparing to fix a minimum wage for telephone workers, if it can be done. The big question is. Has a municipality the power to do so? Watch that Houston case closelj. Some rattling good municipal legislation has come out of the magnolia city, which is being called, in Texas, the Cleveland of the Jouth.

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HE NEVER TOUCHED US. Say! that president of the Bremen chamber of commerce hands us a swipe. He declares that Germany is making a substitute for cotton out of forest products and will not import American cotton for making ammunition, after tht war, and that German chemists are making so much nitrogen from the air that they'll export it hereafter at their own price. Go to it. old man! We don't really warn to sell cotton to kill folks and we've just as much air as you have.

EXPERT TESTIMONY. U. S. Surgeon Gen. Gorgas, one of the great men who made the Panama canal possible, says that physicians have located the greatest general cause of illhealth in low wages. Good wages was one of the chief reasons why the health problem at Panama was solved. Itight you are, doctor! Wages beat pills, any time, anywhere.

THi: WHY OF THE JAIUXESK PHOISLUM. (Chicago Tribune.) Japanese publicists, especially at the present time, are inclined to become rhetorical about the relations between Japan and the United States. They are vexed by our hardness of heart, and feel hurt that some hard headed Americans continue to be suspicions of Japanese motives. They are vexed and they admit it, but they reach hands across the sea and greet us with a kind of resolute amiability. We are both practical nations. Why, they ask, can we not go down the centuries arm in arm? Japan has complimented American civilization not only by studying her methods of business but by making the study of English compulsory in the secondary and higher schools. Why will not the United States attempt also to understand the Japanese? They have done every thing possible to instill confidence. Even after their feelings were lacerated by the California land legislation they spent two millions on the Panama Pacific exposition. Why is the United States still suspicious and repeilant In its attitude? Ho great is the respect of that country for this, according to ono Japanese plaint, that the crown prince of Japan, when asked who is the greatest man who ever lived, answered Abraham Lincoln. Washington, Franklin. Emerson. Loagfcllow, are on the lips of every Japanese schoolboy if we accept the same author's word. The Japanese are hurt by American suspicions. And they keep asking why the suspicion? They have only to look to their own scholars for tho answer. A, a meeting of the Japanese Sociological society, Prof. Tatebe of the Tokio Imperial university talked about population. Over two billion persons can live upon the earth, this professor said, if they all adopt the American standard of living. Hut over twentytwo billion persons can live on the earth if they adopt the Japanese standard of living. The professor has made answer to the questions of his own people. The question is not a racial question, but an economic one. The gulf between the peoples is not one between yellow and white, but between the way we and they can live w ith self-respect.

Hasn't the Ford joke both in its usual forms and its recent pacifist variations runabout long enough? Toledo ;.ury things the mayor has been bribed by being presented with, an automobile. What make was it?

Docs the Standard Oil Cc. holler about the proposed tax on gasoline? Oh no, dear child! Oh no! When Uncle am puts on one cent, old Standard get.; an excuse to put on two.

Cape of Good Hope astronomer announces that his new comet is traveling slowly north. The allies in Serbia ought to be able to see? it right soon. .

Villa says one of the generals to whom he resigned command was a Chicago dishwasher. !He years ai,'o. Mexico's the country of opportunities.

Iv, Angeles uplifters believe they should lift the

! mvie tamps to 'a higher moral plane.' la derrick that isa't werkin

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A HIGH i:XAMPI,i: OF IlCXKVOm;xci:. (Washintrton Herald.) Such a scene as occurred last Tuesday evening at the Carnegie hall in New York when more than $1,000,000 was collected in the space of a few minutes for the relief of the suffering Jews In Furope finds no parallel in the unemotional records of

the Gentile peoples. As Dr. Magnes told of the terrible grief and destitution among their compatriots and of the high and admirable record of the Jews fighting in the contend!ng armies men and women wept unrestrainedly, and when the appeal for funds was made emptied their pockets and threw their jewelry' and money on the stage at the feet of the speaker In a delirium of compassionate generosity. It is perhaps to be expected that tho most long suffering of all the peoples of the world should be the quickest to respond to the cppeal of suffering. Tut the emotional generosity of the kind exhibited in the Carnegie hall is something beyond and p.bove the reasoned benevolences of philanthropy. Only a people stron? in self-reliant vitality, full of spiritual grandeur and great of heart can so act. Is this not a lesson that those of other faith may learn? Has their giving always been of this transcendently self-sacrificing type or has it cot sometimes teen of the calculat-

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SINCE Jan. 1 we have heard of pickled pigs' feet, stewed oysters and pork souse, and. as G. 11. R. says, it recalls many pleasant recollections of the night before. AND probably every bun he eats is a reminder of those he has had before. QUITE appropriately Mr. Penner is the gentleman who translates for our composing room what comes in over the A. P. wire, except that he uses a typewriter. Stookey Stuck Stickle. (Macomb, 111., Journal.) Mrs. Mary Stuck went to Macomb to attend the marriage of Miss Hatel Stookey to Ralph E. Stickle. THE noble Athenian who on occasion nonchalantly polishes our nether extremities gave the last analyse cf the European situation and at the same time eliminated the hyphen when we casually inquired if he was going home to light. "Whatsa use?" he said, "dis is good enough for me." "TOELL with the hyphenate," roars Judge Clayton. "Let him get oft tire earth or go back and fight for the country whence he came." There can be no such thing as a hyphenatej citizenship. A man is either an American or something else, and it doesn't matter whether he was born here or, as a foreign born South Rend man said of himself, proved his citizenship in the Civil war. Why Congress Never Gets Anywhere. (Congressional Globe.) Mr. SNYDER. I should like to ask the gentleman a question. Mr. GARDNER. All right. Mr. SNYDER. I should like to ask the gentleman if he knows whether the submarines or parts of submarined that have been furnished by the Schwab or Bethlehem steel companies have been operating successfully? Mr. GARDNER. I do not know anything about the Schwab or Bethlehem companies. I know about the Fore River Ship Building Co... and that is the only one I know about. I am told that Schwab has bought up the plant. Now, Mr. Speaker, to continue Mr. CALLAWAY. Mr. Speaker. The SPEAKER. Does the gentle

man from Massachusetts yield to the gentleman from Texas? Mr. GARDNER. Yes. Mr. CALLAWAY. You seem to GARDNER. Is this a question for informationor do you want to discuss some general principle? Mr. CALLAWAY. Oh. no; I just want to ask you a eiuestion. Mr. GARDNER. All right, go ahead. Mr. CALLAWAY. You object to our contentien that submarines that have been ordered should be counted when we go to considering a newprogram? Mr. GARDNER. No; I do not object to that. I object to your sending out information to the people that is not correct. WE see by the Chicago Tribune that "tomorrow was the last day of grace for filing primary petitions." Which seems to prov? the claim that for getting there quick the Trib. is the W. G. N. AS Mr. Ford's name is going on the presidential ballot a movement to make W. J. B. or Jane Addarns hLs running mate. THIS life is full of unjust discriminations. When an old newspaper man, like Charles Knapp of St. Louis, dies1 he gets a "stick" and a half on an inside page. When a man who has done his fellowmen for millions checks in he gets a "banner" on the first page and a monument. "WHAT," asks the conductor on the Detroit News unlimited, "is the exception to the Golden Rule?" To our notion It is "Do others lest they do you." BULLETIN from the world's "serious" in London: Asquith wins. Three ministers struck out. In the beginning our ideal was nothing short of Mercedes. And there we hung in midair, like the well known Pleiades, Until with time our hope got chilled, like fingers to the marrow. And we slipped down a notch or two. And settled on Pierce Arrow. From that time on and until now the slipping became easy, We've skidded down the line as though the skidding place was greasy; Through "Stüde," Ruick. Reo, Stutz, we've passed the holedam horde, Till now, by gosh, we must confess, we'll be contented with a Ford. C. N. F.

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Inp and sophisticated kind that only parts with what will not be missed Believing as we do that the Child of Bethlehem came upon earth to shed upon our lives the great light of a faith that the children of Israel never beheld, it will ill-become us at this time to do less than they.

THE INFLUENCE OF MOXEY. (Dayton, O., News.) Two items went the rounds recently concerning the war, or the end of the war. One was to the effect that a group of the worlel's greatest financiers was about to assemble to end the struggle in Europe. The other item stateel that the war would not end so long as a certain group of capitalists were able to make money out of it. Both items hinted at the possibilitj' of money ending or continuing the struggle. But there is nothing new in such hints. Cicero, in ancient times, declared: "There is no sanctuary so holy that money cannot profane it, no fortress so strong that money cannot take it by storm." And the power of money has not waned in the least since Cicero spoke. Money started the war and money must stop it. There is no other way. It may have ben a round-about process, but it is literally true that mon

ey started the struggle. At least it grew out of the, struggle for money; it came about because one set of men believed they could make more money by having war, or because another set of men were afraid they would make less money. It was a commercial wax in the beginning, begotten by commerce. It is profitless discussing new who started It. But it is the truth that commercial rivalry brought it about And it is just as true that it could be stopped today if the moneyed interests of the world so decreed. It requires money to carry on the war, of course; no nation now in the strife could continue if it could not obtain money. S;o the war will end just as soon as the money of the world so

'decrees, and not before. Verily

Cicero of old had it right no fortress is so strong that money cannot take it by storm.

BRIDGE. First Bridge Fiend I once knew a man who had 13 trumps and never took a trick. Second Bridge Fiend How so? First Bridge Fiend His partner led an ace, he trumped; and then his partner threw him out of the window. Brunonian.

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A Change In Nannie Only The coal and wood company which has lven known for several years as "The Walter C. Miller Coal Co.," maintaining oinces at 100 15. DivMon and 216 W. Broadway (the latter the Vandalia coal yard) has changed its name and will be known in the future as Miller & Sooke Changing from a company to a partnership will in no way affect the service that has characterized this concern. The same standard brands ot hard and soft coal will be carried, deliveries will be promptly made and the same close attention that has helped build up a profitable business will be a disiinctive feature as before. A continuation of patronage is hoped for and a solicitation for new business is made. MILLER & SNOKE Walter C Miller Clarence H. Snoke Dealers in COAL, WOOD and COKE. Offices: 109 E. Division St., 216 W. Broadway. Telephones Home 5043-5689; Bell 56-924.

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