South Bend News-Times, Volume 34, Number 32, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 1 February 1917 — Page 6

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for ed It. There may be honest arsrumnt as to why Indiana ahould not have a contuutional convention, but that :-'ument was only evaalvely uaed. The idea advanced t , have constitutional convention, hut to let the "deer peepul" call It, and then to throw rubri?h in their way, and stultify the atmosphere, until the call mlcrht become Inaudible. Instead of meeting the i.x.siie square, the process was to yhoot around the corner and they couldn't nhoot Ktraiht that way.

VANISHING THE BILLBOARDS.

rhicas'o has an excelient ordinance, passed in l'jll. ;

whif.h prohibit." t lie erection of billboards on resilience .tr-ets without the con.,-ent of more than half the prof.Tty-os ners. It has i-t-en bitterly fought M- the biüi.oiiü men. Now tho supreme court of th L'nited .t.t-M h.-ts upheld its legality. The court further de- ( iaml that .1 city has the rilit to prohibit billboards ;ilt'-t ber in refidenc sections. A movement Is under way now in Chicaso to do this very thirm. i:v-r i ity in tiie ountty !lnuld be interested in lliis decision and in the example set by Chicago a itv which hopes to be beautiful some day. Why : hould any city tolerate the nuisance that dis-t,Kun-their xtreets and avenues and render ineffective th- rnoiiev and effort exi)eiuled in behalf of cleanli-i-.-s. order mi:. beauty? Why nhould lots, fences, blank v. alls and roofs be eoiisidet ed lit places on which m daub inartistic and impertinent commercial appeals? Why should manufacturers be allowed to stick their .-ids where every passer-by is forced to look at them, when they wouldn't be allowed to stand on the street and shorn, those same aus into the ears of the community. The uboie thinp is wronh' artistically and morally. And from a strktly business standpoint. U's unnecessary. There are other legitimate and no less effective wa s to adv ertise.

MAKES PLAYGROUNDS MANDATORY. Ip. Ha-slaner's bill Introduced in the house, to substitute for the present optional recreation committee a permanent playground commission, assure them of a reasonable supply of funds, and, by dividing the city into districts, effect an equal distribution of the play (ground beneJUs, is by no means all bad. Now that ue have pone Into the playground business why not have some legislative assurance of its permanence, why not a commission of more than passing authority, and why not a permanent fund for playground maintenance arid some uarantee that owe or two sec

tions of the city will not get it all?

Hep. llaslanner, quite beyond doubt, is representing the 7th ward in South Ilend in the introduction of this bill, though it applies to all cities of the second class. The 7th ward is well known to feel, and perhaps somewhat justly, tint it has Urn slighted in the playground promotion In South Hend. While we would not take from the fth or 2nd wards any of the playgrounds that have been furnished them, and nie them to any other section of the city, that the time is at hand when the 7th ward should have some attention oes without saying. It is one of the largest, if not the largest ward in South P.end. and to date has received practically no playground consideration whatever. The plea that funds are lacking for it, would he met by the Haslanger bill, which provides for a positive three-cent assessment for playground purposes. That sure should mean money enough. In the districting of the cities, left to the common council, the funds raised then to be equally employed in the four districts would put a. certain end to this apparent favoritism, provided, of course, the common councils would play honest in the districting. We are rather inclined to favor that feature in spite of the possible draw -backs. Hut the main point is that, suppose as the result of the municipal elections this year, we would ret an administration reactionary on the recreation subject, and it should decide to go out of the playground business? Nothing at present on the statute books could stop it. Or suppose the school board should decide to no longer cooperate with the recreation committee, or that the levy for playground purposes should be cut out? It is permissible under the present law, and, the answer is that what has been done for recreation of this Knrt in South Itend could be discontinued and as to the luture become a mere waste. We could hardly conceive of an administration or a school board so reactionary as to pursue such a course, but it is a program that has its advocates, and you can never tell what politics will tackle. Accordingly we are Inclined to look upon the Haslanger bill as a sort of "safety first" measure, and better, maybe, un- . ii it looks on its face.

TO REVISE OUR FUNDAMENTAL LAW. Were it possible, without an apparent attempt at romancing, we would call it inspiring, and a tit intro.li.rtb.u to the non-partisan constitutional convention that is to i-e held in Indiana, to witness Sen. D. Frank t'ulbertson. democratic floor leader, and Sen. Arthur l. Kohinson, republican Hour leader, lighting as they did. side by side. In favor of the constitutional conet:tion law. As an additional fit introduction to such non-partisan i or.stltuth nal convention, it is also worthy of note that the attempt to sidetrack the convention by amending the law providing for it so as to render its effectiveness Improbable, was quite equally supported by repul.liians and democrats hence both parties have bestowed about an equal amount of salve on the special interests that the opponents of the measure appear to have been especially anxious to serve. It was 'he brewery lobby and the public utility leg:l.itive agents, locked arm In arm. and aaln doing their d rndest. to ward off anything, and everything. th.it might carry with it a ghost of a show for any reform that they are afraid of. We would not say for an instant that the senatorial gentleman who oted in f.ivor of the referendum amendment belonged to the brewery lobby or to the utility agencies, and e would not een accuse them of beim; unduly inÜ.ii i.i td, but the story of old holds good. These lobbyists and legislative agents ;-.re always there on the ;:ri'und, and m such numbers, exceedingly benevolent in the throwing of dinners, etc., that, applying their il tongues, persuasive ways, and pretenstvely "public spirited" argumentivencss. it takes a real statesman not

to forget that tbe people who elected him are back J

homo, and it is they whom he represents rather than this bestcrtieblian philanthropist that is present and appealing to his self-esteem or over-aweing him by his concealed gall. II'-ittCNer. it doesn't matter, since the majority, and a uoodly majority, evidenced mere wisdom, larger re pousilility to the puMic and less to the interests; thfse, t -f ether with a more extended legislative gumpt'o' . We never like to step on a man. or coterie of mei . too hard when they're down, so we will net mention their reck lessr.ess toward truth in some of their arguments. We merely mention it in a general way as tearing assurances of the direction in which their ears had been turned. What they said on the Moor was merely the same claptrap that the lobbyists and legilatie agents have been peddling about the capital ever since the a?semMy convened. It was the same sreat interest in th people; the same wonderful friendship for the referendum, that you never hear from such people until there is something up that they would like to have kept c'own, sidetracked, or put away. th utilities depending upon the saloons as the machinery for doing it. I'.ut this time they ha", e failed. Indiana is to have a cT.ntutior.al convention. The legislature calls one. It wiil I e a r.en-partisan affair. No party labels go on the deleirite tickets. When they have finished their work the people will pass upon it and that is as It should '-e. They may pass upon it section by section, or topic by topic, or as a whole, as the convention may de.gr.ate. Let the saloons, if still in existnee. ar.v. the utiiites. ther do their worst, if they don't like it. hut one chance for them with their their marel ;: w ealth in1 organization facilities is quite e:.o.;h. A pi e-cor. er.tioii chance might be one too

ü.i.ch We set ruing ! have a somewhat better back- time, the Lars would be lifted to let as many immli'or.vd. and more forvxard-lookitie; type oi men in the grants as could i.j-operly be cared for. i-M'.-i.t ly this year, tb.i'i in tho-- former years, to j It sounds like a good suggestion. Such a plan

which one senator Inferred t' so

TRAINING THE BOYS. It shouldn't be necessary, perhaps, to point out the difference between "universal military service" and "universal military training." Hut there is much confusion on the subject, resulting In undeserved prejudice dice agrainst moderate proposals for training our youth. Training a boy to be tit for soldier life isn't making that hoy a soldier. Ordering him to submit to physical training combined with simple military drill and handling of arms isn't drafting him into an army. The rational preparedness advocates, who are in the majority, only ask that our young men receive such training as this. Then, in case of war, unless it were a very great war, they wouldn't have to tight if they didn't want to. There would be enough men possessed of adequate training so that it would be easy to enlist a volunteer army ready for service. The point is. that all our manhood would be prepared, and those sent to the front w o aid have a lighting chance instead of being shot down helplessly. And the conviction is rapidly spreading that the sort of training proposed is desirable, In and for itself, for the sake of physical development and moral discipline. Henry I Stlmson, former secretary of war, voiced that view the other day in striking words: : "It (universal training) is one of the surest levellers of undemocratic dictinction. It Is the only way in which some boys can experience the elemental facts of hunger, cold, exhaustion, or may learn the vital stores of nerve, grit and courage by which such evils can be met."

REGULATING IMMIGRATION. For practical purposes, our Immigration problem Is essentially a labor problem. In spite of our fine traditions about our country being a "haven of refuge for the poor and oppressed of other lands." the fact Is that those same poor and oppressed look on Ameriica primarily as a place to find prolitahle Jobs, and we look on them primarily as labor recruits. Naturally, we welcome or repel them according to the state of our labor market. In good times, we want them. In bad times, when there i?n't enough employment for our native workmen, we don't want them. That's about what the whole thing amounts to. In justification of this apparently sordid attitude, :t might be added that the liner considerations of liberty and opportunity really depend on this same question of adjusting the new, raw labor to the domestic labor market. When the Immigrants have work, they get along all right, and their children develop rapidly into Americans. When there's no work for them, the immigrants themselves would be better off. or certainly no worse off. where they came from. This fact is recognized by a representative of the National Civic federation who at a recent meeting of that body proposed the government regulation of immigration. He wants a law establishing a federal department which shall automatically adapt the inflow of foreigners to the needs of our Industries for unskilled labor. The labor market would be watched carefully, in ail its branches. Domestic workmen would be given the first chance. Thei.. from time to

New Healing Methods In War Hospitals Source of Wonder

Hy Barrett P. Serls. The worst things have some good sides, and a good side of war is that it stimulates both the desire and the abilty to alleviate suffering. New methods and inventions In medicine and surgery find the door wider open to them, and their field of usefulness if they prove themselves useful vastly expanded, in times when the animal fury of raging nations lays hundreds of thousands of their human units on cots of torture and agony, and condemns those" who survive to lameness. blindness, helplessness and disfigurement. Every preat war sees an advance in the treatment of wounds, the alleviation of pain and the elimination of quick-sprouting seeds of disease. Ask any surgeon what was gained in this respect during our Civil war, and read the aiewspapers for information about what Is being gained during the far more terrible war now convulsing the world Some of the things accomplished in the hospitals of Europe are of such a nature that laymen are apt to look upon thern as approaching close to the line of the miraculous, and are not readily convinced of the truth of the stories of the wonderful cures effected. I have myself regarded with preliminary skepticism some of the accounts of what has been achieved in the St. Nicholas hospital, in France, by the treatment invented by Dr. Harthe de Sandfort for the cure of burns and similar injuries, which have been so dreadful a feature of this inhuman struggle; but one cannot resist such evidence as is now offered of the faithfulness of these reports. Photographs, it is true, can be falsified, but the photographs shown to me in this case are manifestly genuine, and are hacked up by verbal and written testimony that cannot be doubted.

Faces, hands. limbs burned so terribly that the human semblance was all but gone have been and every day are being restored almost completely, and in many cases made absolutely perfect by a method so simple and so merciful in its operation that the beholders can hardly find words to express their astonishment. The secret. a 111 everything of this kind, consist In leaving nature to do her work undisturbed. A waxy substance called "ambrine," made of the resin of amber and parafin, and, according to diseriptiojis, resembling honey in consistency is applied hot to the wounds by spraying or with a soft bfush. The immediate effect la soothing, the patient is relieved of pain and a protective film forms swiftly over the excoriations and over deep wounds. Repeated applications are made, a new tilm, or mask, being formed in place of each former one removed, until the physician finds that nature lias completed her work of restoration, and then the last of the waxy covering is taken off, and the patient is discharged, cured, and bearing again the form and features of humanity. Terrible cases of frost-bite while In the trench warfare are treated with similar success, the effects not being confined to restoration of tlesh and skin, but including regainert muscular strength and nervous control. The lifelong disfigurement that follow deep burns on the face and other exposed parts of the body are so universally known and dreadful, and the general helplessness, or inadequacy, of surgical and medical treatments with regard to them have so long produced discouragement, that this new and simple method comes as a boon to mankind in times of peace as well as war. One can understand the enthusiasm with which American women, who have been in the hospitals and witnessed the seeming miracles of healing and restoration, appeal for supplies of the simple substance, paraflne. which is needed in large quantities for preparalng the remedial ba sam.

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iiualiy U-riag, all that time ha never called a conti- j prat, tice

Iv ; th.it - bian- , would surely be better than our present chaotic

The fact that there is nothing essentially new in the principle upon which Dr. de Sanfort's method rests makes its success all the more surprising. It is the old story of hitting upon the right thing after many unsuccessful or only partially successful attempts. It is also a striking" lesson on the soundness of the fdea which is as old as the art of medicine, that nature Is the only real healer. Neither the physician nor the surgeon can do anything more than aid nature by removing obstacles from her path, or by giving her a little boost here and there. There is no claim made that in this case any mysterious agent is set to work. Th applications have a soothing effect but their virtue consists in the protection which they afford to the restorative forces that already reside in the body. The access of inimical influences from without Is prevented, and the work goes forward of itself, the destroyed tissues being renew-ed by a new growth, and a new skin with the life and finish of health, taking the place of the old one. Regenerations of a similar kind, occurring among lower animal forms, have been known from time Immemorial. Frogs sometimes regain amputation. With lizards this is a common phenomenon. Among mammals muscular tissue, bone, epithelium and nerve structures are occasionally automatically replaced. It is in the protoplasmic cells that this power resides, and th process ha bt-en regarded as lue to the removal of resistances tu

THE MELTING POT COME! TAKE POTLUCK WITH US.

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Tin: cK.wvrisii. If all the animals were judged by personal appearance There's one w ho'd fail of getting by with wide and ample clearance. The crawflsh may be great on virtue, honor, faith and duty. Put nature fashioned him with small attention to his beauty. His inner self is very fine for purposes of cooking. Though one might travel far to rind a beast so ugly-looking. His head is set with fearsome horns of wonderful proportions; He keeps his monstrous tail employed in horrible contortions; His fingers in exaggerated ratio to his body Suggests the things a fellow sees who's had excess of toddy. ie well may be commended for the ultimate completeness With Which he has avoided hints of handsomeness or neatness. And yet. as Nve have said before, if you desire to eat him. You'll find that he's so good inside it's difficult to beat him. nut just the same, my love for him would not be any colder If he were more attractive to the eyes of the beholder. You say tbat beauty's skin deep and I have no cause to doubt It, Hut still I grieve to see a fish so utterly without it. Arthur Brooks Baker.

Tin: maxicukk lady. Iiy William r. Kirk.

"The smartest man just went out, C.eorge," said the Manicure Iady. "He is one of them efficiency men. you know what I mean, them gents that goes to work in an oflice and tells all the men how to do their work better." "A kind of a buttinsky." suggested the Head Barber. "Not at all Georse." said the Manicure Lady. "He wouldn't butt in. He only goes where he is asked to go. He may blow in here some day and look you barbers over, too. 1 seen the boss talking to him." "I suppose he will tell me what razor to use on a heavy actor with a light beard, or on a lighthouse keeper with a heavy beard," sneered the Head Harber. "If he comes around me I'll put the crusher on him double quick." "Of course, nobody could tell you nothing!" exclaimed the Manicure lady. "You are one of them don't-tell-me kids. That's hoy you rose so high in your chosen profession, Oeorge." "I may not be very high in anything," said the Head Barber, "but when I look for tips I am oing to get them either from my customers

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listen to advice. You ain't s.Ud a single word since he went out, have you?" "I think it's grand to be efficient," mused the Manicure Lady, looking out of the window. "We have a.11 came to this earth for some purpose, I read in an editorial the other day. and I think it is kinda up to us to nnd out what that purpose is. .Sometimes I feel that I wasn't intended to be a manicure girl at all, a good many of my thoughts beln- kinda deep for this business, and then again, after 1 have been gave a compliment by some agent that has just had his nails did extra good. I figure that worth while. Ain't it so, George?" "Search me," said the gloomy Head Barber. "I ain't done nothing worth while since I bet a hat on Wilson, and that's some moons ago. If I could pi;k ponies like presidents, I'd save enough in a year to buy a home like the white house." "If you had brains enough to live In a home like the white house, George." declared the Manicure Lidy, "you'd have too much sense to bet money on race horses. Gee, I wish I had a quarter for every time

I have told you that. But it don't

hers In good advice. No outsider! do no good. I'll bet if that elfiis going to tell rne where to headlciency gent knsw you he would tell n." I you the same thing I'm telling "Maybe he won't bother with! you."

you," said the Manicure Idy. "I thought he was kinda nice. He told me if I knew what a clever talker l wa I would save my talk and sell It to a magazine. I thought that was kinda lovely of him being a stranger." "It was," said George. "And you ain't like the little girl that doesn't

"He better not come butting in around me," said the Head Barber. "Pd fill his mouth with lather in a second." "That's what you do to all your customers," declared the Manicure Lady. "Goodness knows I don't have to be very efficient to notice

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Inklings and Thinkings

By Wex Jones

Charming authoress writes that "the ideal man abhors suspenders." Yes, yes; but the police will stand for beeveedees only when you're running a marathon.

Lord Northcliffe says that Americans are teaching English soldiers to like pork and beans. Vhat's our ideaof an easy joli teaching a hungry man to eat pork and beans.

Column in Philadelphia paper entitled "Old World Chitchat" is headed with picture of one man choking and stabbing another, and the caption "A Kight to a Finish." If this is chit-chat, what the dickens do they talk about when they're serious?

Natural history note: An eye like a lish does not signify anything wrong if it's in a fish. Paterson actress sues for damages because, when in swimming, she hit a log and now her knees don't match. Must he awfully confusing to have a pair of left knees.

Don't think Butler had "peace without victory" in mind when he wrote: Sympathy without relief Is like mustard without beef.

?e?k.s $10,000 for loss of trunk. Headline. Are elephants people?

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Higher wages and shorter hours, together with keen competition on prices, had me with my back to the wall just a year ago. Then I began buying my Power from the Indiana & Michigan Electric Company, and. now competition does not worry me, as my reduced operating costs leave a good margin of profit. Yes, I get my power from the

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ONCE-OVERS

OLD MEN' AI NEW WAYS. fome large Institutions of the country are giving a tryout to the young-old men and the aged men, grading them by a system according to what they can do in comparison with the young men. Perhaps you may get a position as a "young-old" or elderly man with a firm which has adopted this new plan. If you do, first of all forget our old-fashioned ways of doing things. Take right hold of the new methods. Perhaps you may feel that the new and latest method is not an improvement on the way you are accustomed to performing the work; maybe it isn't, but the chances are agaimt you. Be this as it may. the main thing ist to take up the new ways f doing things. Your superintendent is probably a comparatively young man. He favors new methods, and It Is up to you to please him. Because you worked at the same business when he was a schoolboyis no reason why you can dictate to him how the work in his department shall be done. Take a hunch. Modernize yourself. (Copyright, 1917, International News service, t

growths and expression whose generality proclaims the lack of definite knowledge behind it. but which, nevertheless, seems to offer a gleam of light upon the cause of Dr. de Sandfort's success. There is also food for reflection in Dr. I. C. Mitrheir srtatement that "It is becom-

Tlng clear that, at least In the high

er animals, regeneration if. in intimate relation with the central nervous system." We should beliece Kmerson when he says: "Man is to convert all Impediments into instruments; all enemies into uowtr."

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eight summers go by. not very long ago developed a fondness for playing "hookey" from school. After two or three offerees he was taken to task by his teacher. Johnny," she said, "the next time you are absent I want you to bring rne an excuse from your father telling me why you v ere not here." "I don't want to frintr an excuse from father." "Why not?" asked teat her. " 'Cause father isn't any good at making excuses. Mother rind him out every time."

Well Earned Success When the battles have been fought and won -.ve soon forget past hardship?, strife and labor. We then feel well repaid by the reward that follows the accomplishment of well earned success. A Sr. Joseph Savings Bank account, steadily increased, wil'. soon overshadow all sacrifices you may make while traveling the road of thrift and econo

4 Interest on Savings. TT. JOSEPH COUNTY SAVINGS BANK. ST. JOSEPH LOAN & TRUST COMPANY.

The Star Restaurant REDUCED PRICES 109 W. COLFAX AV. L. Michalos, Mgr. Low expenses and increased patronage allows us to give more for the money than any other place in the city. If you try us once we are sure you will become a regular customer. Otrr Regular Dinner is 20c.

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