South Bend News-Times, Volume 33, Number 176, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 24 June 1916 — Page 4

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THE SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMES

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GAEIUEL, R. .SUMMERS. Publisher.

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v.i not be compelled to choo.e between the present leader in unneutral subservience to England and the advocate of still greater unneutrality." In the opinion of the Cincinnati Freie Pree "Justice Hutrhes ha? xprssd sentiments which are in accord '.ith the German-American idea of neutrality. We are in thorough sympathy with him and his Idea!"." "v'e wonder how the? "idealists' came to know of such certainty of the close communion between their sympathies and those cf Mr. Hughes? If we recall correctly, the republicans in defendins the Hughes resignation from the supreme bench, have sought to makf capital of the fact that he made no public political utterance until after he had cast aside the ermine, but note that they only place their emphasis upon the "public." Maybe the following from the New-Yorker Herold, is merely urging a continuance of whet has been oin on

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llAtNGING THE PREACHERS. A business man of Hirmirifc'ham. Ala., drew up a petition utkin-r. the city council to appoint a committee to han every rtunister of the gospel in town. He circulated tli' document among "0 of th city's leading citizens, including many inthifntial bankers, merchants and manufacturers. And -0 of them signed it. Now they are busy explaining that thfy didn't know what tliey wer doing. Needless t say, they don't want to irjang the preachers. They simply suned that paper without reading- it through. And it's a striking proof of the assertion the circulator of the petition set out to prove that the American business man will hign almost a n thing. The document, of course, was carefully baited. It started out with trie usual array of "whereases," asking the city council to adopt an ordinance excusing the ministers from paying a sanitary tax. The last paragraph contained a little joker in the form of an explanation that in order t gain immunity from the tax the ministers would have to bu hanged. Uut what busin.es man would neglect to read the last paragraph of a legal document affecting his own business? This genial failing, this willingness to sign any sort of appeal without inspection, merely to please the person presenting it, hat robbed petitions of their old aluc. No wonder legislative bodies have conic to pay little attention to hern, no matter how many names they bear. The same amiable tendency has Interfered tvith the proper working of popular primaries. It has ieen found that almost any citizen will sign almost any candidate's nominating petition, making it possible for an absurdly incompetent or undesirable candidate to be nominated if he works hard enough. Moreover, many citizens seem to take a generous pleasure in signing rival petitions, thereby making no end of trouble for the election boards.

CAN EVEN ROOSEVELT SAVE HIM? It is two wteks ago today since Mr. Charles Evans Hughes became the epoblican candidate for the presidency and sent that notorious note from Washington to Chicago and accepted the nomination in the face of the "copperheadi'dism" that had been incorporated into the party platform, supported .y the "copperhead" utterances of such men as Sen. Warren G. Harding, Hon. Chamirey M. Iepev ami Cncle Joe Cannon. that make him simultaneously the candidate of Kaiser Wilhelm of llermany with at least an inferential promise of an American capital at Herlin in case of a republican victory. On the following morning ultra-delighted with the outcome of the convention, Mr. Louis K. Brandt, secretary of tho Cierman-American alliance of Illinois, boastingly admitted that the national alliance of which the Illinois is but a branch, had "brought out Mr. Hughes as their candidate, six months ago. hau backed him to tho last minute," and had "forced the strict and honett neutrality" plank into the republican platform. This plank in the republicai- platform, therefore and its acceptance by Mr. Hughes, emphatically arrays 'Mr. Hughes and the republican party on the side of prolierrnanism. affording assurance to Germany that in the judgment of that party o.d its candidate, Germany has net had "strict and honest" treatment from this government. That the Gf rman-Anu ricans went etn so far as to threaten the republican party with its vengeance should it fail to assert an international policy inimical to that of Pres't Wilson, is een admitted by them. Hooseelt. Koot and l.ode were tabooed by these hyphenates, r. t for tlu ir Americanism but for what the hyphenates choose to term their anti-Germanism and pro-?:ntishism. in of the threats sas that if !iooseelt. Hoot er Inlg" were nominated, the hyphenates would back IVrd and Üry.tii, r Bryan and I-'ord. or anyone or two. v ho would champion their cause on n third or fourth ticket. Mr. Bryan's endorsement of the Wilson administration at the St. Louis convention seems lo have btn a decided surprise to the kaiser's 1 ulitlcal emi.-sariis. 1 ut haing Hughes, still they are s.itlstied. Tht- Herman-American press, since the convention, is full of ronTirma'ions of its. Hughesism. and evidences of Mr. Hughe' pro-Uermanisin. bespeaking

an understanding somew here, in spite of the candidate's I

telf-asserted "t'ndilut d Americanism.'

the Herold cautions the Germans "not to

overdo our business' and make the mistake of working too openly. After declaring that "the overwhelming mass of the German-Americans in the country will fall

gives this advfee to the German oters:

"We Germans will beware of all mistakes in our campaign. Also not to oerdo our business. Am far as we can see. there is no necessity for German-Americans to work openly in the campaign. We also believe that neither for the campaign nor for the German-American alliance is it of advantage if they and their branch take any kind of position in the campaign. The present election is not one in which the German-Americans can participate as republicans or democrats, but that does not include their forming a political party. Such would, aside from other severe thoughts, become rather an element of weakness than of power for German-Americanism." And so evidences of something akin to an antiAmerican conspiracy continue to accumulate; evidences of a secret understanding somewhere, either to doublecro.su the German-Americans by plucking off their votes and then telling them to go to thunder, or else to tell America out to the kaiser, which is treachery and dishonorable whichever way you are of a mind to take it. If this is what Mr. Hughes means by "Undiluated Americanism," then, we think, we understand him. After two weeks, with this sort of propaganda going on. and with no chastisement other than to assert his "Undiluted Americanism," and that whoever votes for him must take him at that rate, the American people have pretty well grasped his detinition. As the New York World puts it. taking the Hearst papers, the New York Kvening Mail, and the Chicago Tribune to task for their "copperhead" leanings: "Whatever Mr. Hughes may say, whatever Mr. Hughes may do, he is the German candidate for president of the United nates. He may not welcome this professional German support, but without it he could not have been nominated and without it he can not be elected. "If Mr. Hughes should be elected president his success would inevitably be regarded throughout the world as a tremendous victory for Germany in the United States. It would be a notice to all civilization that the German vote, and through the German vote the German government, holds the balance of power in American politics. It would proclaim to the nations that no president of the United States could hereafter hope for reelection unless his foreign policy was satisfactory to Berlin and the kaiser. It would make Potsdam the political capital of the United States, and in its moral effect upon Germany it would be more potent than a great victory of the German armies in the field. "That Is the situation that the American people face. Must their president, In the words of Col. Roosevelt, be "the viceroy of a foreign government' in order to be reelected? Can a president of the United States be defeated by the kaiser? Willingly or unwillingly, every American voter, be he democrat or republican, must vote on that issue when he goes to the polls in November." The German-Americans framed the issue and in their insatiable itch for office, the republicans at Chicago wrote It into their platform and named the GermanAmerican favorite to head their ticket. They have either been bribed by the kaiser's emissaries here in America, or have sold out to them, or else they are playing the German-Americans for fools, and the genuine American not taking stock in that brand of politics, will not care so very' much which. Mr. Hughes will have a riithcult time squaring himself with the American people, even if Col. Koosevclt should further crown his hypocrisy by changing color, when June 26 comes, and attempt to throw his plainly anti-German strength against the imputation. That is the day, you know, when the Oyster Bay man is to decide definitely whether or not he is to be the progressive nominee. Possibly Mr. Hughes is waiting for him to throw himself into the breech between Americanism and his proGermanism, but we fear that by this time the American people have gotten the situation pretty well through their heads. A party and a candidate so patently kaiserian will scarcely be acceptable to the mass of American people, regardless of party, and the republicans will In the

jinaln get just what it has thrown down its strongest j bid for the vote of the apostles of Wilhelm.

The Velvet Hammer

By Arthur Brooks Baker

SAMI KL IWHKKR. When certain southern statesmen took the sad mistaken viewThat since the country was so large it might be cut in two. The patriot? took down their guns and hastened to the fray. To show the Dixie citizens the error of their way; For when a head is made of bone o large and sanguine dent Quite often constitutes the final form of argument. The consequent discussions i.i the court of last resort Are things which Mr. Parker loves to study and report. He motors to the battlefields when

green is on the wood. To mark the place where each and every soldier may have stood; To get a line on history where it was being made, Which constitutes a study of the very highest grade.

lie glows with admiration for Napoleon Bonaparte, W ho got the game of killing folks reduced to such an art That all of Europe sizzled in a warm and restless stew Until they cornered Bony on the field of Waterloo. And tied on this remai kable and widely worshiped man Appropriate insignia to represent the can. Sam Parker is replete with useful knowledge of the law, And mystifies the jury with his smoothly working Jaw, He doesn't reprimand the judge in accents harsh and stern. But uses oil, of which he has a quantity to burn. The verdicts often come his way, for large and fat amounts Which is, as lawyers all confess, the thing that weighs and counts.

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imiTISH HEATING US. (Albany, N. Y.. Argus.) Statistics just published by the National City bank of New York in regard to British trade activity in South America are calculated to open the eyes of American manufacturers of cotton fabrics and ought to inspire them to make a greater effort to increase their trade with the Latin-American republics. These figures show that notwithstanding the fact that Great Britain is engaged in the greatest war In Its history, her exports of cotton cloths to Argentina. Uruguay, Chile and Brazil in the first four months of this year were actually larger than in the corresponding period in 1914. before the war started. Her total sales to the seven principal countries of South America in the first four months of this year were 125,000,000 yards, as compared to 65.000,000 in the same time last year and 109.000,000 in the first four months of 1914. No doubt one reason for this remarkable increase is the fact that the English have better shipping facilities than American manufacturers have. In fact, it is said that South Americans are seriously considering importing machinery" for the making of many articles they have been buying in the United States but which they now find it hard to get delivered because of lack of ships. If we are going to hold our trade with South America in the face of such competition as the British manufacturers are nowputting up, we must get busy and build up an American merchant marine. It is practically certain that England will be prepared to give our manufacturers stiffer competition after the war is over than it is giving now. Considering our nearness to the South American markets and our abundance of raw cotton, we should be able to undersell the British manufacturers in LatinAmerica. In the four months ended in April, 19 1C. Great Britain's exports of cotton goods to the seven countries referred to averaged 31,000.000 yards a month, while those of the United States to all South America for the eight months ended with February' last averaged only 6.500,000 yards a month. It is high time that we made more strenuous efforts to expand our trade in South America, and the administration shipping bill is one of the ways to do it, and the most important one.

George Syl ester Vieietk. editor

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which is the in-t frankly disloyal and seditious of all the German newsp,iprs ;n the United States, declares that "The nomination of Ji.suce Hughes means

the salvation of the repuMican party, a triumph of -renuir.e Americanism

nativ ism." The editor of tb, Cincinnati YolKsMatt s.t

nomination is a splendid one." and the Cleveland Wächter and Ar.uor co:.mends Mr. Hughes while attack;!. g Pi es t Wilson and Col. Boosevelt: "W e consider it a great ! tuii of the Chicago cvaunLon that the people of the United States

IT IS MUCH TOO MUCH. The much-heralded two hundred million dollar automobile trus has been abandoned. And a wise thing it is. The American pubhc has put

I up with an oil trust, and a steel trust, and all the

the U-ithrrland ' olnel' varieties of trusts which have put the cost of

living up 100 per cent since our grand-daddies' time, with only a little spasmodic growling; it might even worry through a corner on its bread and meat, but it sure won't stand for any octopussing of its automobiles. Automobiles are a luxury of the rich.

1 The Germans are pressing right ahead at Verdun. te , ,, . 1 Ii I TiracPnt rnt ff r rn Pr vq Vr,l:in Tt-111 oil

in about twelve months, and they will reach Paris in thirty or forty years.

The Matters case appears woman's "baby ways."

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VOCATIONAL THAI XING. (Tacoma, Wash., Ledger.) Arthur S. Hurrell of Buffalo, N. Y.. has been chosen by the school board as director of vocational education in the Indianapolis public schools. He will have charge of an educational survey of the city, which is to be made this summer with the idea of developing and correlating the work of industrial education in Indianapolis. Employers report a shortage of skilled workers and various inducements are being offered to obtain the services cf such men. Job hunting would be simpler for the thousands of boys who are graduating this month all over the country if they were equipped with a mecnanical knowledge that would fit them to supply this demand. The hoy with a trade has an advantage over his fellows when it comes to securing immediate remunerative employment. It is essential that any vocational work undertaken by the schools be thorough. Employers have complained that such instruction as was given was of little practical value when it came to holding a job in the s-hop. To overcome what is sometime called the liilure of the

THE .NAVY I1EAX. They've built a host of monuments to heroes great and smali 'Tor often little men are marked by shafts extremely tall); They've celebrated folks in stcne for things they did or said. Or for their great accomplishments in making others dead. But one can not recall the fart that man has ever seen A rtxtue to the glorious and tal navy bean. Ko- where the armies gather to the grim and mortal strife And deal in dire r.nd dreadful death, the bean declares fcr life. It fortifies, the larmer as he reaps the nation's grain; Its soup inspires the cowboy as he rides across the plain: Its strength propels the woodman's ax in roiests gray and green, And trappers greet with spreading smiles their great ally, the bear?. Let others sing of golden corn, or cherries on the trees. Of honey slowly gathered by extremely patient bees; Let others laud the liquors which their mag'c has distilled (With which too many citizens too frequently are Ailed); L' t rdhers praise the neat brown crusts with mincemec.t in between, Uut as for me, I tick my type for thee, old navy bean!

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thing, but has anybody noticed a Itoosevelt regiment? Add horrors of war: Some patriotic citizen has removed the name plute from his flivver. o Funny, but a man may lose his suit and rtill retain hia clothes. "Well." ?aid a young lady, "going to war is not so bad after all. You have to die once and you might as well die for your country as not." "That's all right," remarked her fair companion, "but I would rather die at 90." o Mexico City, we see, is celebrating its great victory. o Trevino warns he will repeat. If Americans start to moving. If he does he'll find defeat In a manner quite reproving. Stories of the family sending the

largest number cf sons to Mexico are now in order. 0 Evas put Crimp in Benders, according to headline. But we always understood there was a crimp in a bender. LAKE W1LVTHEK. Lake Michigan Fresh and probably squalls, east and southeast winds with equalls, showers and thunder showers. o VI31Y SIMILAR. One more on the handy "intelligent compositor." The types madeit appears in The News last evening that C. C. Salee wan in partnership at Bloomington, 111., with C. E. lieslet, when C. C. Gale was the man that should have been named. Tho error was due to a similarity in names, and while Mr. Salee has not lost any sleep over the matter, the mistake has caused him no little annoyance. Michigan City News.

public schools hundreds of employers in different sections of the country have organized trade schools for giving technical training to employes. Over a hundred commercial and industrial firms are listed as members of the National Association of Corporation Schools, which has as one of its objects the modification of courses "in established educational institutions to meet more fully the needs of industry." Much of the instruction given at the employers' schools applies peculiarly to one employer's business, but some of the training Is general in character and could easily be supplied by the ordinary public school. Indianapolis has made a good start toward a system of vocational training in the courses given at Manual Training high school and at the Technical school, but probably more could be done. The proposed surveyshould point out the defects in present methods and pave the way for a practical and comprehensive system of vocational training.

A NEW ISA RH I-: I) WIRE. (Indianapolis News.) The present method of employing barbed-wire entanglements as a means of checking the advance of soldiers is to stretch ordinary barbed wire on posts in parallel rows and then carry additional strands between the fences until the completed entanglement is a maze of dangerous barbs. To place such an entanglement in the face of enemy lire is, of course, very dangerous. One authority has declared that it is one of the most dangerous feats of war, for even without enemy lire the wire is hard to handle and in order to make the entanglements the soldiers must get Into them and out again. According to Capt. Arthur L. Wilson, a British officer, a Toronto firm lias invented a new kind of wire which will eliminate much of the danger of erecting entanglement:? under fire, and wiil. at the same time, add to the danger of the enemy which tries to pass. The new wire is so thick that an ordinary wirenipper has little effect on it. The barbs are three-quarters of an inch long and placed one and one-half inches apart. And the strands arc so twisted that when short lengths are strewn on the ground and step

ped on they curl about the legs. The barbs are also very sharp and so arranged that when the wire is lying on the ground one barb is always up. The British government thinks so much of this kind of wirethat it is buying the entire output of the Toronto factory 73 miles a day. The device would appear to be a modern adaptation of the obi chevaux-de-f rise.

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Here's One Necessity That's Gone Down in Price

Electricity has gone continuously down. The downward trend of Electric Prices through the years is as interesting as the situation is exceptional. Such a sharp contrast with the upward trend of other necessities. Let us show you.

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Grand Trunk Brings South Bend Nearer

TORONTO, MONTREAL, NIAGARA FALLS A AND THE EAST. K Summer Schedule for Summer Tcurs. Effective June 21 Ml

NEW T It A I N Niagara- N o v. Vrk i:x;.f s. v.;i. ! v o f. South Bend :.:.' V. M.. .;irio Niagara F.,'.N -.. .. v., A (giving a full day at the Falls fur sh: se. ,-.s,r,,; , 1 Buffalo S : 1 ." A M.. and New York 7:. I'. M. T;:r.:.-n ; . .. 1 i

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York. Observation .sleeping car.1- S mth F'V-.d :i ; : i . r '." and Buffalo; also sleeping car So'ith 1 ; il.i: .. Toronto. SHORTEN I. u TIM H TO CANADA The L.tt, Limited, catering ; ially to Can:uh.- it i N'. a ? . : ( travel, will leave Chuuuo G:10 V. M .. arrie ;":i v.;-, Bend S:5I 1'. M. and arrive Toronto v:.." A. .V . M -r 3:45 P. M. I-atest evening train from So nil I i: J. :r .. arrival in Toronto and Moutteal. S'r.o ;h -brub'.t t: i perfect equipment. ADDED OBSERVATION 'All SEEViCE I :a t: .v Grand Trunk trains now tarry observation c.".rs. a i !, observation parlor ear bavin.- been added t tho e ;. n ;. of the Michigan-New York Express Kavir.v South l' i I i

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WILSTROUNI Train No. 7 nRl 1- iv.S'.iitb R nd 1-':17 P. M. arrive Chi-: 3:1." P. M.. Instead of ."-"i P M. A iiw trn'in fnun th ':it. arriving South Ken.l r:oJ P. M.. will jirrtr. C!iionc J:' P. M. It Hlil earry Pullman observation parFr ur. Tritu No. 10 will bvive S.mth Rend 5:.V P. M . arrive CMeag :.V P. M. iBT NEW FOLD KIIS showing coinn'i.Me details. Our now sorvlee and tl low fare summer tours we are n"w offering make a en 11 well worth while. ('. A. Mf.Niitt. Pa"enrrr Agrnt. i;rn1 Trunk llaiiway Station. south Ilrmlphenr Hell 3; Home .o93.

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