South Bend News-Times, Volume 33, Number 197, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 15 July 1916 — Page 4

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JULY 15, 1916.

THE ENDOWED FREE LUNCH. The trankest of all forms of charity has been discovered in a cheap barroom in w York's Rowery. Tho city health department, in the cour.se of a "free lunch" mrvey, with a view to reforming or abolishing that interesting Institution, has discovered an "en. dweJ'' lunch counter. It appears that the mother of the. proprietor, on her deathbed, asked him to promise her that he would never refu?" a meal to any person who entered his saloon, whether that person bought any liquor or not. He promised and has religiously lived up to his pledge. Every day, all day loner, a chef may be found behind that free lunch counter banding out liberal portmns of wholesome food to all comers. There are regular pat runs who never spend a cent in the plate, and they are served just the same as legitimate guests. The health department has not revealed the exact "location of the saloon, for fear of bankrupting the proprietor. If the city decides to prohibit free pa loon lunches, what will it d about this one? The free barroom lunch is recognized in most com-, raunlties as an objectionable institution, and city after city has abolished it. Hut wh.it should be done about a free lunch counter like this one?

HEALTHFUL ARMY LIFE. The Eondon J lobe? sees benefits to its male population even in this murderous war. If it destroys the fc!ony, argues the niobe, it also strengthens great numbers of men and through them infuses- into the race liew vigor, which may even exceed the drain caused by death and disablement. Tiie writer refers particularly to the Hritish soldiers tit Saloniki, sayimc: "It is not only beef and brawn that the army ha given them. There is an expression of character and r.lertness in almost every face that wa? ru-t seen among the pale-cheeked football crowds In the old days. In fact, if we were sending a contingent to a world's mtnhood exhibition, it would not be easy to find a better entry than the Saloniki army as a whole." There is certainly something io be said for thL point of view, in pplte of the pacifists. Most of the Saloniki army, now said to be in such excellent physical and mental condition, must hive passed through the terrible (lalhpoli campaign. The men would hardly have elicited such praise heakh specimens when they left flallipoll; but a few months of comparative security, with hard exercise in the open air. regular, wholesome meals and good medical care have made them stronger and kiener than ever. ZUodern armies certainly hue this merit of raising the average health of an industrial population and giving them a better chance in life if they escape death cr disablement. There, of course, is the rub. Formerly more s-Mdier died of camp life than of wounds. Now the life is more healthful, hut the percentage of casualties is far higher, th strain of battle more intolerable am. the mutilation more horrible.

HEALTH NOT MILITARISM. Some of the teachers attending th National Educational association meetings in New York have shown a e-urprismg inability to distinguish between calisthenics and mlltarism. "When the term "drill" is used in urging universal healthful exercise and gymnistie training in c:tr public school, these teachers immediately lire alarmed. Tlo ir imaginations picture horrible militarism controlling the bind and they cry out against physical training. Their attitude sterns .lue to unthinking prejudice. Kdue.itior.al r xjh rioiro has sh.iwn, and is continuing to show, the value f thciouüh and well-directed gymnastic drill to the mir.ds as well as the bodies of school .girl and ! o s. Th ontrat bet t en Sweden nd Germany .-hoald be a b-.-on to the people who are terrified by the wonN universal." "drill" and "training:." ; r rr aa ny. without uinvfril physical training in the public jchoo!?. v. as stil! able o make itself the strongest military rati'oi of i.:r day. Hut Sweden, with its

at first. Mrs. Joseph Kl. who is carrying on her husband'" single tax propaganda, has promised to contribute 125.000 a ;ear fts long as it shall be needed. She is said to be willing to put $1,000.000 into the experiment. The conditions will probably be more favorable than they have been In any of the experiments yet made in the United States or Canada. American communities are, of course, handicapped in their application of the land-tax principle by the fact that they have control over a part of their tax system the local part and must pay state and national taxe on the old basis. The Palestine colony Is expected to be almost independent of outside authority, although it will, of course, he nominally subject to. the Turkish government unless Filestine is taken from the Turks by the peace conference at the close of the war. in that event, Palestine might be turned over to the Zionists entirely, and. if they chose, they could make the single tax effective throughout the Holy Land, together with the law of Moses.

JOBS HUNTING MEN. New York city, which usually has a large unemployed population, reports the greatest dearth of labor it has ever known. The Rowery Is good index to the a'f. or situation not only in New York, but throughout the country. That famous thoroughfare has been turned into a great employment bureau. From end to end it is tilled with offices clamoring for the man without a job. And the agents do not wait for men to drift In. They go after them. Many of the agencies have "barkers" standing outside like the "pullers-in" of cheap drygooda houses, or old-fashionec! circus barkers. Phonographs and free meals are used as baits. Any man who looks as if he might be persuaded to accept a job is promptly set upon. He is offered work on state highways, on the railroads, in factories, on western farms. He is promised free transportation and $2.50 or more for an eight-hour day. And there is no delay. Men signing up are shipped out of the city the same night. Philadelphia, Cleveland. Chicago, St. Louis. Kansas City, .St. Paul, Denver, Sart Francisco, all report a corresponding demand. The causes are the stoppage of immigration, the return of so many immigrant workmen to Europe for the war. and the marvelous activity of American industry. It is a bonanza time for unskilled labor. Nobody, anywhere in the country, who Is willing to work, has any excuse now for idleness. If there is no job for him at home, he can easily get one elsewhere.

THE HEALTH TRAIN. Florida, in an effort to cut down her average of preventable deaths, ha adapted to her purpose the now familiar "agricult jral train," making It over into a -health train." Just as the agricultural special tours the states of the west and middle-west, with its crop exhibits and its lectures to farmers, this special is traveling around Florida with picturesque exhibits dealing with water, flies, mosquitoes, the care of children and other important phases of disease-prevention. It is meant primarily to carry modern hygienic knowledge into the rural districts. The train stop3 in a country town, opens its doors to the community, shows and explains its chambers of horror and its life-saving devices, issues warnings on sanitation and hygiene, gets useful articles into the newspapers, gives moving picture shows on health topics for the benefit of the residents who cannot be reached, and move on to the next town. It Is unquestionably one of the best health-promotion ideas yet put into operation in this country. Nearly all the other states might use it to advantage, especially those already accustomed to the agricultural school on w heels.

HOW A FORTUNE WAS MADE. Maybe Hetty Green's achievement wasn't so wonderful after all. She started with $4,000.000 left her by her father 51 years ago. A banker points out that $1, compounded at six per cent for 51 years, will amount to more than $21. All that Mrs. Green had to do, then, to raise her fortune to its probable present size was to hang on to what she had and keep it safely invested. The vast extent of her accumulations was due partly to her own shrewdness and perseverance, but still more to two other factors her long life, and the country's steady gain in population and prosperity, which insured constant returns on her investments and made her holdings more valuable.

AN IRRITATING TRUTH. "utside of New York and the other large cities of the east," says David Starr. Jordan, "there is no war spirit or desire for bloodshed in Mexico. In the border cities, wheie the intervention spirit is fanned, it is invariably due to a class in the employ of capitalists eager to get at the vast Melds of oil and minerals of Mexico." A bit exaggerated, perhaps, as is the way with professional pacifists, and yet with enough truth in it to make a number of highly respectable Americans very mad.

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copied all over the world '' physical training directors,

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"SOMEWHERE." Europe's war t loud is tasting its shadow even across

'the ?ea.. Here is a heart-breaking tale from Los i : Angeles. Little Jimmie fc-'t. Dizier. IZ years old. was i called home from school to his mother's bedside. A

few moments a-fter hi? arrival she passed away. "Mamma is dead. I don't want to live any more. I want to die with her," Jimmie sobbed. An hour later they found him dead; he had taken poison. Jlmmie's father ia "somewhere in France." You other little Jimmies, aren't you glad your name

I Is Smith or Hrown or Jones, and that you have a

president who keeps your daddies out of war?

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pt out of the war. j

If the war has increased general interest in bodily her.lt h arid vu-or we ran ! e ulal of it. The more universal phv;-il training I com-s in our schools the

).f,fr T w e r.r.d natnotim can be cultivated I the woodpile, as it were.

n'.on with health ar.d strength, w it h out any danger of

o-.;r hovs an 1 irlri into blood-thirsty soldiers.

Congressman norland's resolution to have the federal tfnde commission Investigate the meat packing Industry Is being fought by the packers with a fierceness

'that's not only highly complimentary to the trade comI mission hut stronfly indicative of a colored gent in

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SINGLE TAX IN PALESTINE. It will an interesting phenomenon if the most modern of taxation s stems shall h given its first genuir.e trial :u old a hind as Palestine. A plan announced by tile Federation of American Zionists aims at tii.it very purple. The 7J :ii.-ts. who are steadily gaining strength In tho ;b'. Iind. expect to establish a single rax colony there at the close of the war. It is recognized that the venture will require outside help

Southern California democrats are urging Francis

iHeney as candidate to fill U. S. Sen. Works' shoes. If he ever gets a chance to put on those shoes, Francis 'had better lay in a stock of corn and bunion cures.

j Old Stromboli is erupting again in S;cily. Rut he j might as well stop, for he's hopeleKsly outclassed by

the eruption in norinern r ranee.

Henry Fo -d indignantly denies that he has shirked his citizenship duties. He a)s he has voted six timeIn the last CO year.

Barnhart Favors Pay for Families of Men on Border

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In a recent speech to congress. Rep. Henry A. Harnhart made a strong plea for the government to

take better care of the w idows of j

soldiers who fought to save their country. He pointed out the merits of a bill which the house has passed and sent to the senate giving pensions to the widows of SpanishAmerican war soidlers and especially urged action on more liberal penfcions for widows of soldiers who served their country in the Civil war. Among other things he said: "In my first campaign for congress I especially advocated four items of just and needed legislation better pensions for old soldiers, better conditions for labor, shifting the burden of government taxes from the tolling millions to the rich, more safety to banks and those who put their money into them. I have helped to enact such legislation and much more in behalf of fair play between man and man. But I am especially proud of my assistance in passing the Sherwood pension law which gives most old soldiers a dollar a day and increases the allowance to nearly all others. "I do not say this boastfully, for doubtless other congressmen have been able to do more, but I call attention to it as an illustration of what has been done for the soldiers In contrast to what has not been so liberally done for their widows, who either shared the awful hardships of war with them by suffering the disadvantages of a soldier'? wife or cared for invalid soldier husbands as the direct result of military service. True, we give many of these widows meager pensions, but many others, on account of marriage restrictions, are left in need, with no present means of helping them. For instance, If a soldier's widow, who may have spent the best years of her life helping her soldier husband, remarries she cannot have her pension restored if she Is again left a widow. And again the widow of a soldier who married him within the last 26 years cannot have a pension. however much of her life and means she may have given tu his care and comfort. This, I Insist, is not showing the gratitude to widows of soldiers they deserve. "Now we have a bill pending in this congress and reported for passage which I hope will become a law before the end of the present term, which will be next March. It proposes to give the widows of soldiers who were the wives of soldiers during the war an increase; it proposes to give widows of soldiers an increase if they are past 70 years of age; it will restore widows who were once the wives of soldiers to the pension roll; and it will give all widows pensions who married their soldier husbands prior to 1905. "Quite recently this house p.issed a bill giving pensions to the widows of Spanish-American war solcaers. Now we ought to take care of the widows of the Civil war soldiers, and we must do this if we are just to the soldiers of the past and fair to those we expect to become such hereafter when their country calls. If it is right that we spend "millions for defense." as the great majority is now advocating, it is but answering the cal! of common humanity that we liberally provide for the women and children made helpless or needy by the patriotic sacrilice of life or health of those Who volunteered to die that their country may live. "Pass this bill and be just to those who are already the victims of war's cruel hardships and thereby assure those-of the future that they shall not suffer neglect."

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HiciiHHows and m:ysIWPKItS. (Pine Hluff. Ark.. Commercial.) "Do college professors nowadays believe in newspapers? We believe the best of them do." says Itene Kelly in Harper's Weekly. "Some professors even read them, and there are occasion. 1 instances of a college professor actually nelng persuaded to write articles for the Sunday supplement." "It was different in 1S3S. Edward Everett Hirle was a Harvard undergraduate then, and was one of those who signed a petition for a college 'reading room.' Not only did the faculty say no. but Pres't Josiah Quincy explained to young Hale that 'there had been a reading room some years ago which the college government had been obliged to break up: ihat newspapers were fascinating things even to us old men, and that they would take young men away from their studies. A very weak argument. "It Is a far cry from Pres't Qulney's view of TS years ago to the view of James Melvin Iee, director of the department of Journalism of New York university. Prof. Lee suggests that a good daily newspaper be used in the classrooms where instruction In high school grammar and rhetoric is given. Newspapers are turned out in a hurry, and the best of them fall into errors of style as of taste, but, if not in schools, at least in colleges, the use of newspapers ought to be urged upon such youngsters as require the urging. One of the hardest tasks of the teacher of "English composition" is to impress upon his so-called ttudent the practical importance of learning how to write good English. Many a practical minded boy regards instruction in this field as wasted time; he is going to be an engineer or an agriculturist or a merchant and not an Addison. Miltoo or Emer.-on so why bother with Sir Hoger de Coverley and hi Irtends, cr Burke's speech on Goa-

tiii: ti:mpft. The sailor labors with the most laborious exertion To save the passengers and ship from dangers of immersion. Aud when he finds the vessel catastrophlcally leaklnr. Ar.1 .'ees the water through the hole methodically sneaking. He sounds a loud alarum with his big thoracic bellows Which in course of time awakens all the other fellows. The waves are rolling with the sound of diabolic thunder. Perrlster.tly attempting to divide the ship asunder. The wind among the shaken shrouds is sibllantly squalling. The lightning flashes on a scene imposing and appalling. The life-boats which were built to sell but never to be trusted. Arc quickly launched and to'ally. immediately busted. A midd of poise and pulchritude beseeches him to serve her; She asks the sailor to become her noble life preserver; And as the vacillating ship beeins to fill and founder, He looks in her affrighted eyes and puts his arm arcund her, Ard wonders how they may escape the hurricane and hoodoo. It's t'ct me puzzled, I confess: dear reader, what would you do? A. B. B.

One thing can be said of grand opera. When it's sung in a foreign language you know you don't know what they are talking about and it does not worry you. Hut when they sing In English you know you ought to know what they are singing about and you try to understand what they are saying, but it's seldom you can. and your whole evening is a disappointment. o Most of the time you can't tell whether it is "The dress my mother used to wear" or "She kissed her father's grayish hair." Continuing, and for the benefit of the cash customers who cannot understand Italian, French or Swedish, we will gla ly inform you what the grand opera troupe at Sprinsbrook park was singing about the other night. o Not to interrupt ourselves, but it was not what one man said. 11 said one of the men was complaining because his laundry was not delivered on time.

Hut to get back to the proper interpretation of the song, here is what was sung the night we heard it. It runs like this: I swipe a mosquito, 1 swipe a mosquito, 1 swipe a mosquito, I did; She'd been hanging around, she'd been hanging around, hanging around all a day. I hit era whack, 1 hit er a whack, hit er a whack, I do. The whack that I hit er, the whack that I hit er, hit on her back, O yah! O yah! , 'twas a cruel thud, yes a cruel thud indeed. I swipe a mosquito. I swipe a mosquito. I swipe a mosquito, I

did.

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"Boy." said the newsboy, paper?" "No. sir,"

meekly. "Very well." said the Qash customer, "but I do hate to buy a paper that's been read." "What's the matter." asked the guy. who hands down cement to the trench workers, "are they going crazv or am I just slowing up?"

"In those days." said the old fan "they didn't ask you how many hits you made, but how many home runs you got." o No. the crew of that German sub did not sing "Go out and go under" while coming across the Atlantic. o Speaking of the barber shochord, try this on your piano: O, hearken to the news. They've named Mr. Hughes; We register a kick To whiskers so thick. So it's up to him To purchase a trim. o London tells us the present offensive is the beginning of the end. but Berlin horns in with it's the end of the beginning, so you can take your choice. o THE WOMAN'S PAGE. Thousands may die on battle fields. Where cannons and rifles rage. Hut wide dear she rays no heed. She reading the woman's page. I read the stuff the editors write. The comment of poet and sage. Hut wifle dear she does not henr. . She reading the woman's page. I like the pictures of ladies fair, Who speak upon our stage. Hut wide dear does not care. She's reading the woman's page. MIME ADYICF,. Keep cool. o "German sits in the president's chair." startled us at first, but we later discovered it was not political literature. o Perhaps the reason the hyphen is standing up so well under all its attacks is because it's so small. We see where the Russians and the Teutons engaged in an Cgli battle.

The odors of war or onions have ' nothinc on burnine asnhalt. I

Fighting sharks is not one of our accomplishments. The man-w ho-never-bathes has another alibi.

Safety first.

ciliation With America, or Stevenson's 'Lodging For the Night'? "The newspaper is a part of daily life, even for agriculturists and engineers and merchants; and the youth who reads newspapers must realize a little more completely than he did before the advantage it is to command words and sentences as well as flesh-and-blood employes. Moreover, a good newspaper serves to bridge the gap between day-by-day practicability and all-time literature; often it is a stepping stone from literary blindness to something like appreciation."

KEEPING UP SOIL IERTTLITY. (Orlando. Fla.. Times-Star.) The farms of Europe produce crops of the great Praln staples that in yield per acre greatly exceed ours. imr farmers have had too much the feeling that you could go on indefinitely taking away from the soil without putting anything back. In the virgin soils of the middle west it has often been said that the land needs no fertilization. The Illinois Farmer in a recent editorial admitted that even in the bounteous soils of that state mere has been taken out than has been restored. The editor attributes the unsatisfactory acreage production of staples to failure to keep up fertility. Agriculture in the United States has been a form of mining. The crop derives its element? of nutrition from the soil. When those elements pass into the ear of corn and grain of wheat, they are taken from the earth. It seems incredible that anything that may come through rain, irrigation, floods, the air. or the under soil, can supply the place of what has been abstracted. If not, then soil exhaustion in any locality is a mere question of time. Man is a prodlKnl creature, and organizes his systems of waste as carefully as methods of production. Vital elements of food pass into animals, and pass out in waste. Much of this material is turned into streams to be thrown into the sea. Costly systems of sewage are constructed to effect this throwing away of necessary elements. The farmer who Is down on his luck and complains of adverse weather, conditions may simply be suffering from failure to keep up his land. During recent years fertilizing materials have been freely sold, and have done good, though not alwavs applied scientifically. But enrichment pavs today better Oian ever, owing . high cost of labor, if t; e pioduct vl a farm can be

doubled, the labor cost per unit of product is greatly reduced.

WAR AND ECONOMICS. (Savannah. Ga., News.) Mere mobilization of an army, with initial equipment, does not constitute preparation for war. There are economic problems Incident to war that are just as vital in prolonged strife as the enlistment and fitting out of armed forces. It is interesting and gratifying to note the move that is being made to insure maintenance of the equilibrum of the American food market in the event of war with Mexico. The war department and officers of the army are seeking to effect the organization of large dealers in supplies in order to minimize the possibilities of destroying the economic balance through war. In connection with the proposed association of dealers, it is explained that the organization would be similar to a produce exchange. Provision would be made for the filling of large orders without giving occasion for a sudden rise in prices. Speculation would be guarded against by requiring heavy bonds of the dealers participating. Whether the plan has been worker" out in such detail as to make it immediately practicable, it is not possible for an onlooker to judge now. Rut it is in line with work undertaken some months ago, when an industrial and commercial survey was agreed upon as an essential step in effecting national preparedness. The war in Europe has shown that som; legalized and concerted action in thi3 direction is v itally important.

If you wish to know what an angel boy is, ask the mother when the minister's present; but if you wish to know what a fiend incarnate he is, ask the neighbors no matter who's present. Macon. Ca., News.

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The woman who wears a dress a"l- ; most to her knees and a waist cut ! half in two is certainly guilty of "contributory" negligence" if nothing else when the street corner lounper ogles her. Macon, Ga., 1 News.

Millinery will be one of the prac- : tical arts taught at the summer school of the University of California. Just now a course in he win .: shirts for soldiers would even lmore practical. Albany, N. Y.. ' Argus. j

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