South Bend News-Times, Volume 34, Number 33, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 2 February 1917 — Page 8

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MINNESOTA MEALS. A representative of the Minnesota university agricultural college has been making a . "survey" of the food eaten y Minnesota fartners. lie linds that the agricultural j'Opulatinn at that state ia exceptionally well fed, at an average cost of a fraction less than 7 cewt.s a meal for eaf h person. This rate of 20 cents a !,iy, it will he noted, is less than the food allowance made by any of th refor.r-rs in the recent wave of (liet-sqnail experiments. It may he Imagined th; t these farmers have an untitle advantage of their . it eoiisins, in having the for their won tables more than they raise themselves, hulk of their food supply in their own hands. The in estigator. however, says that he has estimated the value of the food consumed at current prices, and adds the surprising commentary that the farmers buy for their own tables more than they raise themselves. Perhaps this "survey" proves something. Kvery -uch investigation is supposed to prove something. I !ut precisely what it proes, we don't know, and the investigator doesn't give us much light. Should every ot-of-liviiv' victim go and settle on a Minnesota farm? Or should every farmer stop buying canned stuff and raise his own ietuals and thereby pet a still better and cheaper living?

GERMANY'S BOLD DEFIANCE. Kaiser Wilhelms defiance of the world, almost inviting the neutral powers to join with the entente allies, an 1 lick him quiek and all at once, is by no means a tiling unthought of in this country before. - (lermany's attuude toward the I'n.ted States during the l.usitania iiiarrd more than once reached the verge of an invitation to fight. There are international philosophers here in America, quite numerous, who have believed that the Teutons would never lay down their arms in submission to the allies, until they could lay hem down to everybody, and say "what's the use. The whole world is on air bucks." Although the dispatches say. "lyes't Wilson was urprised." we are decidedly doubtful of it. and our guess i-i that it goes farther to explain his recent peace note and een rno;c recent address to the senate. Which was another peace note, we have surmise, under a sort of a false pretense. The president may not have intended to say that much to the belligerent powers, and so he talked to himself, but talked out loud, ami made sure that the belligerents heard him. Kverybcdy at war against (lermany and her allies, spanking them completely, and bringing them to submission, would ome about as near to "peace without victory" perhaps as th mind could picture. Victory worth whih- is the prize of equals. Teace conceded at the point of a world of bayonets is submission, or if forced, then just that much more so. lieimany is going t justify herself in her own eyes whether she does in the eyes of the world or not. If she is to be the vanquished she is going to be vanquished ry everybody. Evidently, too. there was more to iec'y Lansing's remark about the "verge of war" than the president was ''filling to admit at the time of the utterance a month ago. No wonder Pris t Wilson wanted the powers to state what it was all about if it were to become necessary for us to get into it; this open defl, plainly enough, i but the dynamite explosion of a long smothered threat. "We may not. and let us hope that we do not, get into actual war on account of it. but that we face numerous strained happenings is practically certain. If (lermany. by her blockade, can do to Kngland what her prophets prophesy she can in a month, viz.. starve her cut. this is without any overt act that hurts the toes of any neutrals. Maybe, too. it will brini; peace that much quicker. "Peace w ithout Ktory' a pain, but peace by attrition. It is giving Kngland a ta.-te of her own medicine, and fir our livts. we cannot blame (lermany for it, could it but be done without violating the freedom of the sc:.s. or doing unlaw ful violence t.u neutrals. "Aye, therv's the rub." It outlines the disadvantage of being neutral up to the point where the outline dir appears and we become belligerents. The times, indeed, are grave. We r.uü-t stand on our rights, and the pns.ihr.t will no doubt see to it that we do stand on o.;r rights, even if it means war. Hut if it must be war. th.it it will le but a prelude to an earli r ?eace seems o certain that maybe after all it will be worth soii.c of the cost.

The got nearly a billion dollars more than the year ' eiore for cereal crops that were a billion bushels less. Their profitable experience will naturally lead them to plant a lark'e acreage this year, and take good tare of it, in the expectation of continuing high prices and bitr profits. They can afford better, too, to buy m hinery and seed and employ the labor they need for increased production. All indications point to a more energetic and intelligent cultivation of the soil than ever before. Let us hup that, the farmers won't be disappointed in t i :r general expectation of bicker rewards. We don't ask for such a glut of the food market that their product will fail to bring a fair return. Nobody is -nviotis enough to want the farmer's 'nrome curtailed. !:ut tii- majority of Americans, who are not farmers, d.-'outlv hope that those profits will te made this ye.-i r o-it of bumper crops rather than bumper prices for short crops. From tills standpoint, every farmer or gardener who plants a bigger area this year, and tends it better, is a public benefactor, though his intent may be selfish.

Sound is Faster in Water and Solids Than in the Air

AMENDING THE HOL SING LAW. The joker" In the Indiana housing law by which

(efforts of board: of health eo enforce it cn be thwart-

eel by appeals to the courts and invoking the law's delays throih unscrupulous lawyers, will be wiped out if a bill introduced In the stave senate by Sen. (1. It. Summers, at thj instance of Dr. C. S. Iiosenbury. city health ofheer. can be gotten through the assembly. A somewhat similar bill is also before the legislature, introduced by Sen. Krskine of Kvansville. The bill does not destroy the appeal but makes it possible for the court to hear it at chambers, does away with the jury, and requires that it he heard as soon as possible. At present such cases on appeal must await their turn on the calendar, and since, when a house is sufficiently unfit for human habitation that boards of health need to act for the public safety, rendering it an emergency action, the possibilities for delay are so great that enforcement of the law is almost impossible. South Pend has one such case pending in the circuit court; no doubt the inspiration for Dr. Hosen bury's action. Laws that are unenforceable are useless, "ami as before stated, the Indiana housing law has been rendered practically unenforceable, so far as emergency action goes, at least, by this "joker." The possible delays might all be overcome without the amendment, by a sufficiently aggressive prosecuting officer, but it has been the experience of health boards all over the state that prosecuting attorney, as a rule, decline to take the enforcement of the housing law so very seriously. The bill calculated to remind them of their responsibility at least. The amendment should go through. It is a matter in which South liend is especially interested, and an amendment that may be needed from all appearances, if icllowing the Fox housing survey any attempt is made to correct the bad conditions likely to be uncovered by it.

PATRONIZING HOSPITALS. New York reports that its hospitals are overcrowded. The reason, as explained by one of the hospital superintendents, isn't that there's an epidemic raging, or any more sickness of any port than usual at this time of year. The increased demand f jr hospital care is attributed primarily td the fact that so many people are now living in small apartments. At home they lacked the room, the air and the piivacy of a house. So they go to a hospital to get well. It may look like a lametable thing. And so it is, so far as regards the cramped apartment existence to which so large a part of our city populations are driven. A three or four room city apartment is no place to live. People should have real homes, with space, air. light, privacy and fredom. Put from the standpoint of medical care in general, it may be a good thing that people are thus driven to hospitals. It gets the public to looking at hospitals differently, and using them more freely and sensibly. The old notion of a hospital was a grim institution where one went to have a serious operation performed, or to die of a hopeless disease. People seldom thought of going there for a trival disease. Put now we are coming to think of hospitals as pleasant, friendly, serviceable places, to be used readily whenever there's anything wrong with a member of the family that is easier to care for there than at home. We go to the hospital, we send our loved ones there, wihout gloomy forebodings or misgivings. And because we thus avail ourselves more promptly of the best medical facilities the community has to offer, we live longer, enjoy life more and get more work done.

CITY SONGS. From Iloquiam, Wash., comes this hymn of praise, written by a local bard: Smilirg-seated by Gray's Harbor, Woods ahout her, one great arbor, Hoquiam, O Iloquiam! Where heaven's purest winds are fanning And the c-a-elam comes to canning. Hoquiam, O Hoquiam! Hasn't it a fine swing and lilt? We're not just sure just what k "Hit" is. but surely this poem has one. And the local color anil flavor? Can't you just smell those clams? And the best thing about this verse is that it's so easy a model to follow. We can fancy a bard across the continent, say at Quincy, Mass., drinking in the melody, aroma and patriotism of this song, and forthwith lifting up his own voice something like this: On the shores of Poston Pay. Where the salty breezes plav. ejuincy. Mass.. O Quincy. Mass! Where boatmen tend their lobster pots And agents sill suburban lots. Quincy, Mass., ) Quincy, Mass.! It's full of possibilities. Try it on your town.

BIGGER CROP'S. Whether the war ends ,r r.' t. it .-, natural to . p .. t a fill food pri- this heu the new . ;-op Cu:.;c. I't-r w'!l p;oi .t s .iX e more food. I-at -4? :. '.;r - Acre shor:. Accord;?:,: to t he i iw : t. h.u.t w i-o ibl rot e:-t two hurt ears in sutte.-sjon There s a n.ore ton.iiun. reason, however. The tArnitrs ol the nation made monev last star.

Speakin- td the proposed exemption of farmers from the new taxes on business pror.ts, the Kochester (N. V. Democrat and t'hronale Mig-ets that it's sound poiitv to leave one .da-, in the t ommuiutv free from such butd'i'.s. because it piovides a haven of r'.fuge for the other classes "After the business, man or manufacturer has been t.ixed im. d;' our licement. he may re tire to a farm i-a -oü. e qui t e jiuiTK.nity and there wring a humble !i.n- out of the reluctant soil, finding, comfort in the thought that as a fanner congress will protect him from its own rapacity."

Ily Ciarrvtt I. Sert !-. "Will you kindly state how fast sound waves travel? M. M. c;." The velocity of sound depends upon many circumstances. It differs with the kind of medium, or substance, through which the waves pass, and it differs in any particular medium, such as air, with the temperature, the humidity, etc. in dry air, at the temperature of zero centigrade (the melting point of ice) the velocity of sound is 331 meters (l.OS'J feet) per second. As a general statement one may say that sound travels in :-till air about one mile in rive seconds. Put a wind blowing with the eound will bring it to the ear sooner than it would otherwise have arrived, and a wind against the sound will delay its arrival in proportion to the speed of the wind. The average speed of sound in air Is a valuable bit of knowledge to carry in the head, since it affords a measuie of distance that can be instantly applied. Suppose, for in stance, that a thunderstorm is raging, with terrific lightning", and you wish to know how far away from you a particular bolt has fallen. You have only to count the number of seconds elapsing between the flash and the arrival of the thunder, in order to ascertain the distance. For this purpose it is not necessary to look at your watch, for anybody can easily train himself to count seconus with considerable accuracy and everybody ought to do that.

THE MELTING POT COME! TAKE POTLUCK WITH US.

corioxs. The world is full of coupons which are printed to be clipped And filled with name and full address in plain and prudent script. You seize the opportunity with hrm and faithful hooks. And let the advertiser send his famous set of books, For such another brilliant chance may never come your way. :o clip that little coupon off and send it in today. The world is full of coupons as the forest is of leaves. The man who clips them is the one who conquers and achieves. He keeps a pair of scissors in the pocket of his pants And lets no coupon get away which might contain a chance To better his condition in this slow and stolid earth. Where few appreciate what opportunities are worth. He clips the chance to get the job, the chance to buy the land. The chance to eize the senior partner's handsome daughter's hand. The chance for nomination and the chance to own the earth For thirty-seven and a half per cent of what it's worth; And when he passes on his stately sons are w ell equipped To spend the glad results of all the coupons he has clipped. Arthur Brooks Caker.

II Y JAM MS ,1. MOXTACiCK. Lucky London. In London they are complaining because the parks are to be used as vegetable gardens. Put hire in New York they are used as railroad freight yards, and the mayor tells us to mind our own business if we protest.

If five seconds elapse between the flash and the report the place where the lightning struck is about a mile tlistant. and the distance is two miles if the interval is ten seconds, etc. Suppose you happen to see the Hash of an ammunition plant blowing up (a thing not so uncommon these lays as it ought to be); then if you simply count the seconds you can

immediately determine the distance J of the scene of fhe explosion, and l

if. in addition, you note the direction (another bit of everyday education which might readily be improved), you can, by consulting a may, or without a map. if you know the country well, spot the very" site of the accident. In war this principle may often be of practical value in ascertaining the location of distant artillery. The velocity of sound in water and in solids is much greater than in air. Here, too, knowledge is power, for circumstances are easily conceivable in which it might be of immense importance to send a sound, or to receive a sound, quicker than it could be transmitted through the atmosphere. In water the mean velocity of sound is about 4.3 times as rapid as in air. so that it would go more than live-sixths of a mile in a second. In wood, following the line of the fibres, sound travels from 14 to Di times as fast as in air (depending upon the kind of wood), and in iron it travels about 1.'. times as fast as in air. So if ou had an iron conductor long enough you could send a sound signal three miles In a second, or lä miles in five seconds. 1 commend this to the writers of thrilling stories. I once wrote a story myself in which the hero was saved from a terrible fate by the difference in velocity of a sound signal for his execution sent through the air and a warning transmitted simultaneously from the same point through wafer.

It Will Percolate In Time. Some day John Pull will wake up to the fact that all the president said about ruling small nations against their wills applies pretty forcefully to Ireland.

short-SlghteI Cleveland. Wh should the people of Cleveland agitate so loudly for a new union

station, when what they really need is a new baseball team?

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Lord XorthclifTc of the London Times wrote of Lloyd George during the British Cabinet crisis: "He doesn't seem to have settled hours for his meals. During the past week his diet seemed to consist principally of

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As Usual. We'll know less about that North sea destroyer battle when the British admiralty has had time to make an olficial report.

"The leak investigation," says Mr. Taft, "is a waste of time." And he might add, "also of imagination."

No .Mistaking It. It is noteworthy that no congressman ever mistakes the call of duty when said oall invites him to New York.

That Is What Comes of Ilating Lion-. Apparently Col. Roosevelt will be satisfied with nothing but a league tc enforce war.

While as a general statement it may be said that all sounds travel with the same speed, in the same medium, yet loudness sometimes has a perceptible effect on the velocity of a sound. A very curious example of this is found in what happened during one of Capt. Parry's expeditions, when he was experimenting on the velocity of sound in the Arctic regions. A cannon was used to produce the sound, and the time of the sound's arrival at a point a measured distance away was carefully noted. On one day, and only on that particular day. it was noticed by Capt. Parry and his assistant, and to their great surprise, that the sound of the firing officer's voice giving the command to tire, reached their ears about half a second after the sound of the explosion. This indicated that the loudness and abruptness of the sound of the cannon caused it to travel, at least for a time, faster than the fainter sound of the officer's voice. In some experiments by W. W. Jacques it was found that the velocity of the sound of a cannon rose at a point a few rods in the rear of the piece to a maximum of 1.267 feet per second, and then fell off toward the normal velocity. Sound waves are reflected and refracted like light wave, although the latter travel in the strange insubstantial medium called the ether, while the sound waves travel in air and other clearly substantial media. Light waves run, in length, from say 1-40. 00f to 1-tJO.OOOth of an inch while sound waves run from a 20th vi an inch to 60 feet. Musical sounds, however, are confined to waves varying in length from about three inches to 2$ feet. There arc ,ound shadows" as there are light shadows, and remarkable effects are produced by them. The nightshade family. Snlmanacad. i a most curious and useful one! for aside from the tomato, potato and tobacco sections, many of t, nhrs vleld poison. yet close

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cherry, chili pepper, ino. melon pear. etc.

Inklings and Thinkings

By Wex Jones

(Jreece gets more thrills out of pe ace than she would out of war.

Signs of Sprint:: ("Jetting ready for Billy Sunday.

If the congressional committee ever finds the leak, who's going to J plug it? I

Human nature note: At a dog show it's alwajs the gink with a bum dog that says the judge is a crook.

lAltp the old scout who had heen talkimr nrose all his life without i

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Toledo Plade thinks there's no place where a man can feel so important on a small expenditure of money as in a shoe shining parlor. How about the chap who gets a piece of chocolate out of a subway slot machine ?

Natural history note: It's almost impossible to replace the shell on a fried egg.

Poultry expert says hens should be provided with shoes in cold weather. Whv don't the fool birds grow their own socks, as the Cochins do?

Life's mysteries: Amateur golfers.

Delegates to the National Daylight Saving convention will meet next week in New York. Not needed here. Proadway already has hundred.? who save all the daylight they can to sleep in.

ONCE-OVERS TIIK WOMAN XKXT HOOK. Mrs. Housewife, why not be a little neighborly and drop in for a friendly chat with the woman in the next apartment who has recently moved in from the country? Make her feel that she is privileged to come in for a visit with you when she feels lonely and longs for the old friends. Without the same bitter experience, you do not realize what it means to leave -the companions of a lifetime and enter a new and different environment. It will not take you long to judge whether she is respectable and honest. If she isn't the clasp of a friendly hand may rouse the latent impulse to do better. If she be true and honest, you may be sure sh? has left behind a host of worthy friends In the small place, and you will as like as not find them far superior to some of those with whom you go out in the bis city. People in the village have more time to improve their minds than in the city's whirl, and if you lead her along to talk you may find her an interesting surprise. "From the country and unused to city ways" is she? All the more reason to be friendly toward her. (Copyright, 1917, International News Service.)

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Ily William P. Kirk. Well, sed Pa. I am glad that the holidays is ovar. Now we can settel down aggenn with the old shotgun & watch for the wolf at the door. I enjoyed the holidays, sed Ma. I always enjoy them, & you were fine this year, deerest. sed Ma to Pa. Yure old friends Tom & Jerry, that used to make up moan of yure rhristmus. must have felt awful snubbed & out in the cold, sed Ma. They were god old frends in thare way. sed Pa. I wont say thay dident hand me a lot of cheer, at that. Put I am glad it is now the season of work Ar catch up. I will have to do same terribul hustling to make good. sed Pa. for the munny which I threw around so lavish beefoar Christmus. Well, sed Ma. it is worth all the trubbel A: munny we spent, if we can bring happiness to our frends A: deer ones. Wen are you going to ware that luvly purpel tie mother sent you. Ma sed to Pa. One of these brite days, sed Pa. The sun has to be Jet about so brite. Fa sed, to set off a purpel tie. Usually the sun Is about rite In July, sed Pa. so I have put that tie away till then. Wen are you points to ware the butlful pink one I Pave you? sed Ma. I was thinking about next September wud be a good time to ware that, sed Pa. The dawns is kind of link in Setember, Pa tel. & sum

morning wen we are up in the country I will git up erly A: put it on. I am afrade you doant think much of youre Chrismus ties sed Ma. Oh. indeed I do. sed 13. indeed I do. Put like all deer things. Pa sed. thay shud be cherished Ar not worn out like a oil suit. I see Pobbie has on his new tie, seil Pa. It will i.e worn out A: forgotten beefoar lone, Pa sed, that is not the proper idee

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I am going to ware the nice hat you paid for for my Xmas present, sed Ma. Oh, sed Pa, that is all rite, a hat is different, a hat mite git out of date, but these ties which you have got for me, sed Pa. will newer be out of date, at least not aggenn, sed Pa. I shall offen look at that purpel one sed Pa, wen the twilite is purpel o'er the Lea. Pa. sed. It is at twilite that we are sad Ar thotful. Pa sed. A I may need sumthing to hand me a pood laff. I hoap you are not hoaldim; that purpel tie up to ridi-cool. s.-d Ma. I am not, Sed Pa, that purple th doesent net ti any praise or blame, sed Pa, it speeks for itself, like a bucle. Pa sed. It smites the senslike a erth-iuaik. It sed. Ileleeve me deerest. s-d Ph. that purpel tie wud laff to scorn any feebul reemarks wich I mite see t't to mail: aggenst it. Pa sed be waj going to riv- ' to me. beekaus h- sed it wud j . a.s good as new wen I frew -V-

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