South Bend News-Times, Volume 34, Number 41, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 10 February 1917 — Page 6

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GOT THE PEOPLE BY THE THROAT. The most important of cases must be those involving the right of the people of a state to fix the minimum of wages and the maximum of hours of labor, because the prosperity, moral standing and. finally, the fate of the state, or of the nation, depend upon the condition of labor. Our nation is liiCe a tree. Heing a republic, it can cany dry-rot in its branches Its aristocracies a long. time, and still live; but when the decay spread anions its roots. Us ruin i rapid and complete. I'or yearn, the Oregon minimum wae and the Hunting ten-hour test cases have been in the U. supreme court. There have been hearings and re-hearings, arguments and re-arguments, and htill it is not known what is to be the fate of these vital principles. We keep nine V. ?. Justices upon high salary to tell us what we may or may not do. and they tell us nothing. They are either lazy and int tlicient, or else they are procrastinating in the interest of our plutocracy. How silly It looks not to dismiss a body of hired employes who persist in doing nothing in respect of matters of the moxt vital importance? Iiut, we cannot discharge these V. S. supreme judges. They are absolutely without accountability. They can say what laws we may or may not have or they can say nothing, although the final say is left to them exclusively. How long will a free people stand for such an infamous r-rrancement ?

STANDING BY THE PRESIDENT. It Is petting too complicated for us. We gUess we will have to follow the example of the late Col. Nelson or tho Kansas City Stir, in our discussion of international affairs. About as far as we can intelligently go is to Mand y the president, and if anybody asks us why. trlve them the woman's reason: "llecause". For instance, tike the case of the ISritish steamer California. A year auo when we were quarreling ove th..- Luhitanla. and (lermany was insisting that she was an -armed vessel, it was itenerally admitted that in the vent that she was. the L'nited States had no case. That the Lusitania was not an armed ship, hut that Germany only thought she was, was finally admitted by Cicrm any with a seml-apoloKy and promise of reparation. That, alon with the agreement to desist in her ruthless submarine warfare, made on the part of C.ermany. ti ought the controversy, temporarily, at least, to a close. Now it m admitted that the sunken California was an armed me-chant ship, and that she carried uns fore tnd aft. and they wy that rf the president were a mind to take it so. it would be ample grounds for his goins before congress and asking permission to defend the rlchts of the United State?, etc.. with all the forces of the nation. If need be. We simply cannot see what difference it make whether it was th Lusitania that was armed, had she been armed, or if it was the California, so far as it concerns international law. Our knowledge of international law is Just that der.se; that is, or else we are not sufficiently up on the practice of it to Und it applying to one case and not to another. Howeer. we anticipate that the president and his advisers know their business, and as there are exceptions thai proe every rule, they r.o doubt have found one rossih'.y the fact that we are Mot the whole-souled neutrals now that we were before makes some difference, and at that, we wouldn't he surprised if we are about as well posted on the subject as some of our fellow backwoods editors, who know how to settle all such questions right ofT the bat. Take the Chicago Tribune and Indianapolis Star for startling examples. The ease with which they decide all these international issues is simply astounding. "Stand by the president." they shout, yes. and then they forthwith proceed to point out. without saying so, a hundred anil one reasons why you should do nothing of the kind, as everything the president undertakes to do, they find to be wrong in the way of doing it! Thank heacn. we have always had conlidence in Prr't Wilson's intelligence. hisjatriotism. and his alwas rapidly developing and ramifying policies, even though we may not be able to see throuch the m v s -;eri s, or sometimes seeming Inconsistencies involved in then. And we wouldn't be surprised if. just now. when a thoroughly united country is needed, it would ito no K'reat harm if thi 'walking by faith and not by sight", would permeate the press a little more general!.". However, you can hardly expect such copperhead or-ns as the Chicago Tribune and Indianapolis star t Kive up all the eopperheadism in a minute. They are plair. -or.:. stent, at least, and "consistency, thou art a jewel".

especially lately, anything other than a di.-gulse to be wrapped about him when anti-democratic organs have found it convenient to quote him. We doubt very much if Risk. McCSill or Weidler will want to be pushed to the forefront, or would even accept it. but at the sime time, the party needs also to get away from numerous of tho-e ultra-organizational gentlemen under whose leadership it has been held in its present semi-disrepute. Risk. McOlll. Weidler and others of their kind, while one may not like their tendencies toward party wreck-

! ing through independent movements, etc.. indulging I irreguUf itU s and the like, are nevertheless pretty good t

democrats in principle, and the things they have been righting for, and for which they have been condemned a pioneers, are exactly the Mine as those, the a;proaching" consummation of which is. making a reorganization of the party in the tate now desirable. A constitutional convention, prohibition and woman suffrage, the three big1 iter, are the rocks upon which Weidlerism-Riski.sm-McGillism and Tasgartism and Flemingism Kplit, and in th linal accounting Weidler, Risk and McGill appear tc have been the men mot sensible to the demands of the times. What the democratic party In Indiana needs to do now is to get together on a truly progressive platform, with Klemingism synonym for boozeism, entirely eliminated, and even the new Taggartism considerably reformed. Then a new crowd of men, partisans sure, but patriotic ilrst, and democratic to the core, should be placed in charge of that program, to give the public contidence. Democracy has a lot to answer for in the readjustment that is bound to follow the elimination of the saloon and the graining of the ballot to women. T'nder the leadership of the old crowd democracy has

I saved its fare in the senate ami in the house, but be'hind thaj lace there still lurks the fact that the major liubt to save the saloon, and at the inception, to side- ; track suffrage, was in democratic hands. I How can democracy expect the votes of women un-b-ss men aie placed in charge of the party as to leadership who can carry conviction to women that their 'votes ate wanted? Iemocracv henceforth demands

men at its head who obtain their ideals of government and the demands of the time, somewhere other than across a bar, or at teacups set in Indianapolis hotels at

jthe expense, of lobbjists. It won't be very long until j there won't be any bars, and w hen they're gone, there are the women to be satisfied, aiUj jf Wt. are nut misI taken, the major portion of the women are going to

dem ind a service to humanity llrst, and the special Interests secondarily. Democracy is essentially a popular ideal, with service to the masses rather than the classes, among its fundamentals. In the very logic of things, and of woman's nature, it should appeal to women especially, but saturated with saloon dominance for years, it has been an awful diificult matter for its leaders to see the point. Queer, indeed, is the fact that in both houses of the legislature, it has been the younger men, especially among the democrats, who have "kicked against the pricks", fighting off the "three big sisters", as though reform would ruin them. While older men, able to see the "handwriting", begged and pleaded with them to save the party, they seemed determined to continue their Relshazzartan feast, regardless of the wreck that might follow. And now the party must atone for their dilatorines. It can't do it under anything but a leadership that can administer the atonement. Democracy demands new blood at the front.

Sound Does Exist

Where There is no Ear, Says S er Diss

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THE MEL TING POT COME! TAKE POTLUCK WITH US.

HOW CAME THEY SO? Those live hundred "loose women", who visited Rev. Paul Smith in his church at San Francisco to protest against his vice crusade, seem to have rather stumped him, cornered him in the matter of argument, an it were. When asked how many of them would work for $10 per week, the girls laughed and not one of them raised a hand. "A girl can't live on less than $20 per week," declared their leader, a Mrs. Gamble, who said she'd been running a house for eight years. Then the meeting resolved itself into a denunciation of society and the men who ruin or patronize the girls. The unfortunate girls have much of the argument against both society and the men. Low wages and evil home environment are disastrous in many cases but a considerable number of these girls are what they are through their own inherent weakness and nothing else, and sympathy for such of them is largely misplaced. T?n dollars a week may not be high wages but it is not starvation wages, even in these times, and there's something radically wrong from the start about a girl who prefers the fate of the common harlot to an honest, decent life on $1( a week. There are tens of thousands of decent wage-earning girls who are living on Jlo per week or less. They prefer their self-respect, decent living and independence to flashy dress, auto rides, wine suppers and the tinsel of fast life. They work hard and enjoy no luxuries, but consider their struggles and deprivations better than all the satisfaction of vanity that the career of sexual slavery can give. "How many of you have children?" asked Rev. Smith of the five hundred, and three-quarters of the women raised their hands. Had he then got a truthful answer to the question, "How many of you risked motherhood with your eyes wide open?" he might not have been so surprised at all that waste of motherhood. Insufficient wages is altogether a curse and we can trace a whole lot of our evils to it. and the cost of living is awful, but jve can't yet base judgment of society, or strength of female virtue, or man's seductiveness upon the choice of the sophisticated girl of these times between harlotry and $10 per week.

MUST RECOGNIZE DRY FORCES. Plainly enough the democracy of Indiana If It ever expects to get anywhere again, must drop some of its reactionary "wot" timber, and give recognition to some of the li.ore seasoned drys U is not necessary to t'.irr. the tv- "r-L.i :ua:.'M. over to Kirby Risk of In-

SIMPLY STARTLING. Those internal revenue fellows at Washington certainly can find things to startle folks. They now report that, notwithstanding all the prohibition legislation. Uncle isim's revenue from whiskey was greater in 1916 than in any year since 1909. Again, in 1916, seven billion more cigarettes paid taxes than in 1913. the total for 1916 being 25.2 32. 960.92 S. The increase is attributed to the growing use of the "coffin nails" by women. Clearly, if t'nele wants more money for preparedness, one way to get it is to put bigger taxes on liquors and cigarettes.

Hy CiarTTtt I. Sonl. I have lately received from many different correspondents, in various places, questions all relating to a single topic, which I should not undertake to answer if they were not so clearly indicative of a widespread state of mind which seems to me inconsistent with valuable thinking. The gis.t of these recurring question is contained in this: jH there any sound where there is no ear to hear it?" One. more specifically, asks: "If a tree falls In a, forest, beyond the reach of any ear, does it make a .-ound ?" . or course, the whole question rests upon the definition of the word "sound." and disputes having a basis of that kind lead only into mental quagmires. In medieval times: they were the pabulum of the "schoolmen," or s holastics," who filled the intellectual atmosphere, of their day with "darkness visible." I would earnestly advise everybody who has not time to waste, and who wishes to really train his mind, and to acquire useful knowledge, to avoid all such vain speculations. Napoleon was justified in his contempt for the "metaphysicians." What have all the "philosophical systems" done for the world? What practical achievement can be redited to them? They have not endowed mankind with any inventions. They have made no discoveries. They hae not widened the habitable world, or increased its productiveness. They have not ameliorated social conditions. They have not made the surroundings of human life pleasanter, easier, or more endurable.

TIGHT SHOES. A lady with a little foot acquired a little boot, A very tall and tiny one. commendable and tute. It lent to her extremity an air of chic and grao. Resulting in a . look of pride on her patrician ice; And as she pattered gaily down the classic avenue She felt that all the eyes in town were fixed upn her shoe. However, it caressed her toes with tension too extreme. And wakened in her bosom a sincere desire to scream. She id some rather hasty words, unfeeling and severe. Addressing them abruptly to her wedded husband'? ear; Tor husbands are. according to a feminine belief. The very proper target of emotional relief. The gentleman in question ww a jupt and gentle judne. Who didn't hold for criminals an extra special grudge. Hut on the angry impulse propagated by his wife He called an honest chicken thief and sentenced him for life. Now, isn't it occasion for conspicuous surprise That ladies do not care to walk in shoes of ample size? Arthur Brooks tSaker.

Till: Sl lH HBA.V L'MVKRMTY. Hy James J. Montague. Solomon and Epictetus and a lot of of other guys Who have joined the dear departed were reputed to be wise. They could solve all sorts cf problems, could these nimble witted sages. And the truths that they exuded have defended through the ages. Rut they'd lose all competitions for preponderance of brain If they entered with the statesmen on the commutation train.

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The study of them is intellectual tennis or golf. In their own held they have introduced no light, cau.-ed no real advance. Does somebody call up the name of Plato? What did Plato do but breed by his speculations an endless progeny of word-spinners? Archimedes was worth to mankind

many I'latos. Newton, in service to thought, was worth many more, j IMion put in the balance againstPlato would make him kick the ! beam. Emerson, although fond of j

reading, wax too shrewd a Yankee in his mentality to try to set up, or to follow, a "philosophical system." All the "philosophers" in Germany's long line of them have only been a damage to her. Metaphysical speculation, has not helped or advanced religion, but only clouded it. Whenever it has touched poetry it has withered the flower. Young man, avoid mental mists, and try to think clearly about things, and the relations of things, that come within the range of your senses. These are the only things that you can apply true reasoning to. because they are the only things known to us, while we are in this world and this state of being, that are verifiable in their nature. They are the proper subjects of education. And they will not lead you away from (Jod as mere speculation may. Now, as to that question about sound, how shall it be answered, assuming that some qulbbler has befuddled you? Tell him that while it is true that "sound" is a word describing only an effect and not a thing, and t.vdt this effect can only be produced where there is something, such as an ear, to be affected, yet the scientific conception of sound includes its cause, and that this cause is a real thing, viz., a series of waves in. the air. When these waves strike upon the drum of the ear they set it in vibration, ami the vibration being conveyed into the nerves of the

I know just why Mr. Roosevelt shouldn't organize a corps Of his children and their children If we happen to have war. I know Just what Mr. Wilson should have done two years ago To prepare us to be ready for the fiercest foreign foe. I know how that leak to Wall street had its start in politics All these facts were laid before me on the seven fifty-six. I know how the war was started and the day that it will stop. I know why Henighted Copper is about to take a drop. I have learned that Eddie Leonard can lick any pus his size. And that Bryan by next summer will have copped the Noble prize. I have found that prohibition by next year will he in sight I have got all this information while I journeyed home at night.

Once the village barbel- told me all the startling bits of news That somehow are never mentioned in the papers 1 peruse. Once I searched through books for wisdom and endeavored to seek knowledge In the writings of professors who were working for a college. Hut I find that all these methods were both" profitless and vain One can find out all he needs to on a commutation train.

For a few days Anyway. Ivet's talk about something else. o They Need Food Now. Since the New York policemen have been put on double duty it has been found expedient to Kive them something for their meals besides calories and cream. o Fse Tlicm for Channel Huoys. It ought to be easy to steer a deep water course about half way between Col. Roosevelt and Col. Dryan. O Communications Aloft are Still Uninterrupted. Now that Sweden can send us no more matches we may he compelled to use exclusively the matches that are made in heaven. Snap! The fear of a camel in going through the eye of a needle doesn't

seem so rrtuch to a man who has entered the subxvay at the Grand Central station at S:30 a. m. And it Doesn't Last Very Ixns. The best thinjf that can be said of February is that is comes but once a year. Sot .Much Consolation. It is always colder in Medicine Hat In winter than it is in New York, but then ther? is another place which has a more torrid summer climate. Business Opioriunitj. Why doesn't somebody start a hank where we can deposit the daylight we save? o lie Knows Alxnit it Now. Maybe Count Tarnowski never heard the song about the man who walked right in and turned right 'round and walked right out again.

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sitates the eating of turnips instead. Put on turnips, Vkt'd yell for peace or war ourselves, mighty prompt.

Rut these waves are entirely independent of the ear, and they, in their turn, have a cause, that cause being a shock given to the air by some material thing, such as a falling tree crashing to the ground.

Then remind him that it is not nec-i essary to take a purely imaginary1

case, such as that of a falling tree in the depths of an untenanted forest, to illustrate the fact that the cause of a sound may act without producing the corresponding effect usually ascribed to it. for you can get a beUer illustration and a more illuminating one, by placing a deaf person beside you when a tuningfork is struck. You hear the sound. but your deaf companion does not. Yet' the waves of sound are there just the same for both of you, the only difference being that your ears are in condition to be affected by the vibration and his are not. There are sounds so hih pitched that no human ear can hear them, but their existence can be rendered evident to other senses than that of hearing, and there are grounds for believing that insects, ami perhaps other animals can hear those sounds, which lie beyond our gamut of audibility. The same quibble is often indulged in with reference to light. If there were no eyes to see it the sun would continue to send forth the vibrations in the ether which produce the effect of light when they strike an eye. We are perfectly justified in speaking of the light of the sun, or the stars, as traversing space in all directions, although it is true that the effect called

"light" is only produced where those

vibrations reach an object capable o? transforming them into a particular kind of sensation. There are more than enough intellectual wlll-o-the-wisps in existence to trouble us without wasting our reasoning

-powers with mere plays upon words.

Five Minute Talks

By National Leaders

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or Charles N . x. World sas that our Civil war ended in "a t to P.ernard : peat e without utory". On Nov. 8 it also said that

i Hughes was tlected.

A new wharf. .666 feet lon and 4 5 feet wide, which will accommodate the largest ships entering the harbor, was built last year at Hons'kon. Lichters have hitherto handled the imports into and the exports from this jorL

Mrs. Oscar It. Hunley. former president of the Alabama Kqual Suffrage association, is about the most popular and best known suffrage leader in the south. At the request of the International News Service she consented to discuss southern women's problems in the following article: Hy Mrs. Osear It. Hundley. leading Southern Suffrage Worker. The southern women of today, while cenerating the traditions of the last century, are alert and perceive the fact that the ultra conservatism of that time had to give place when the nre of progress was kindled at the dawn of the present century. Now,- when conditions potently demand a change, so that they may make easier the economic condition of a Kieat mass of women people, southern women are rapidiy rallying to the cause of women suffrage, which has for Its high purpose remedial action. Woman suffrage is vitally appealing to Alabama women. They are coming to realize that justice demands for each woman the same opportunity to express her needs and to protect her rights as that accorded to each man. For the purpose of promulgating this doctrine of political freedom for the women of the state the AUb.Vna Equal Suffrage association was organized four years ago. and has developed rapidly. At its instance to the qualified voters of the state a constitutional amendment providing for t.ie enfranchisement of Alabama women upon the same terms as Alabama men. The vote on this hill, which fell slightly short of the necessary threefifths required for passage, proved an existing favorable sentiment which was as gratifying to its friends as it was surprising to its opponents. In view of the endorsement re

cently given the principle of woman suffrage by the national democratic party, the Alabama suffragists feel that at the next session of the Alabama legislature a woman suffrage bill will te passed. They point out that since the woman's vote re-elected Pres't Wilson, that fact will be a potent argument in its favor with the men of Alabama, where the democratic partj' is the dominant one. The Alabama constitution, as adopted in 1901, prescribes certain qualifications fcr voters which result in the comparative disfranchisement of the Negro in the state. Despite this fact, about 3.000 Negro men do actually vote, being adjudged qualified by th election officers of the state and permitted to register as qualified voters. The argument .that giving the ballot to white women will give it indiscriminately to Negro women also, is unsound insofar as it applies to an amendment to the state constitution, because the laws already In existence in Alabama controlling the qualifications and registration of voters will necessarily apply to the control of women voters in the same manner that they apply and control the male voters. Those who fear the effect a federal amendment would have in relation to the enfranchisement of the Negro women are reminded of the 15th amendment of the federal constitution, which prohibits the states from discriminating against a man on account of race or color, yet in the state of Alabama, out of a total Negro male population of 4 47.79. only about C.0C0 are permitted to register and vot-?. The legal status as to the Negro vote and the administration of th law governing it has been permitted by affirmative decisions of the United States suprerie court. In connection with this question of white supremacy. It is an interesting fact that in Alabama, as in von- other southern states except

"You have such a pleasant, bright light here." "Yes, it has been a little dim, but yesterday the Good Service Man from the Gas Company came here and adjusted all our gas fixtures so that every room has splendid light now." "I'd like to have mine fixed that way. How much does he charge?" "Nothing at all for his work. We needed one new globe and two new mantles and we paid the retail price for those. He says that there are a number of Good Service Aen out who will visit every house in South Bend to make sure that the lights are all working properly, so you will see one of them soon." Have YOU seen the Good Service Man yet? He is on the way.

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two Mi.-.-i.-sippi ar.d South Carolina the number of white women greatly t-xCH.Is the nurnber of Negro women. In tli 1." st.-ites south of the Mason ar.d Dixon Im, thre are twice as many white won. en as there ar Negro womeii. Womn suffrage wouM n'-t onl make sure white r-ontrol r.ow, but white supremacy wowH r.-w erly, according to the ofM'ial estimate of population for i:'l'., published bj the bureau of the cenvjs. which show an increase of l. percent in white population in 1 -' southern states, w hile th- in re.t-.- i f Negro population in th'-.-e s'atts is only Z. 5 percent.

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