South Bend News-Times, Volume 34, Number 43, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 12 February 1917 — Page 4

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SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMES Morning Evening Sunday. joiin nn.vnY zuvnn. -ditor. GABRIEL R. FUMMKr, Publisher.

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way of eliminating crime. II wants the policy to cooperate with private organizations, not alone fh enforcing the law. but in changing the mental attitude of the wronjr-doer o that he he-

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m this new type of police force. Col. Gray urges, women are needed. Policewomen with training In the law should be available In nil the bit; center? of population to Rive advice to women and Rlrls In need. The entrance of women into industrial and professional work

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depigment anfe.l-Kdlfor'al. A1vr rtl!r.pr. Clrcuinr n. countlnr. Tor "wnnt a-lrv if your n 1 in the ry rft," Many of these ideals have already reached the police fioTML'r ;i5ioff'ÄrT Wp;?; h..i departments of our own country. We hope that more tflrphor Krti'.. c.. f fcen-i cY !pnrtment wth v( j of them will become a part of our own system. r denllnr. Tfc News-Tlmes r;m thirteen trunk line, an i

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FEBRUARY 12, 1917

OUR OWN FIGHT.

THE MYSTERY OF THE GERMAN SHIPS. The whole behavior of the German government in the present crisis has been puzzling. The Herman note warning us that pledges were revoked and a new, ruthless U-boat rampaii:n was about to start wan sent at a moment when our own government had been led to expect a peace note. When wo did the only possible thlntc. and broke off diplomatic relations, the German foreign secretary expressed his "astonishment" that we should take such a step. Since then, Ilerlln statesmen and editors have expressed their confident belief that the United States will not go to war. Hut if this attitude is honest, how can we explain the beha!or of the Herman ships laid i ) in American

It ! reported that our government intends, if war poits? Almost every one of these s. ,'ps has been so

( ornes, to wage the war purely as our own an.ui, wuu- . disabled that It could not be put into commission in

nut lining up the United states with the allies. This policy undoubtedly represents the position of the majority of the American people today. Public opinion Is not prepared to sanction our going over bodily to the allied camp, placing our land and l-a foices under the joint command of the entente powers and lighting at the dictation of Kuiopean leaders. If we did that, we should inevitably find ourselves lighting for the succe? of ambition and purposes which do not concern uk. We should lose our independence of action and become involved deeply in Kuropean luarrels. I.e.-tst of all roubl wo undertake to give the pledge that all th- allied powers have given ach othor. not to withdraw fron the war until all had agreed to quit. With the general principles for which the allies profes.n to be fisht'.ng mo-t Americans are in hearty agreement. Jut we have refrained from going to war for those principles. If we make war. it will be because WO Lae a definite, clean-cut quarrel with Germany which concerns Germany and us. We shall be lighting to thwart the attempted blockade of the Atlantic ocean nd prevent or avenge the unjustified sinking of America!! -hips and slaughter of American citizens. Iti pursuance of this purpose it may lo desirable to work in cooperation with the allies that i, with some sort of friendly understanding and division of labor. I :ut that would pc far different from our becoming one of the allies. We mUht really Join the entente if the war lasted long enough and Germany gae Vf sufficient pro ocii lion, but the nation is certainly nut yet prepared for that.

less thin six months. Many of them may never again lo rendered seaworthy. And the damage was done before the American public knew of the German U-boat declaration in fact, before that declaration 'id been dehvered to our state department. Orders had been sent to every German crew. If the German government did not expect a break with the United States, followed by a declaration of war, why did It take, beforehand, such unprecedented precautions to prevent those ships falling into our hands? We would not have seized the ships excepv in case of war. We have not yet done so. We have not Interfered with ships or crews In any way except for their own protection and the protection of our harbors, and we shall not do so unless war develops. Worst of all. it Is declared, our government has evidence of plots to sink German ships in the Philippines and at Panama s as to block the Manila harbor and the Panama canal. That procedure, which would have been virtually an act of war, was prevented by the arrest of crews under laws provided for safeguarding navigation. Why did Germany plan to-do all this, if she did not expect war to follow as a matter of course?

TWO ACHING VOIDS. . There are aching voids in a number of South Iend hearts these days: many a home from which the grim hand has grasped a pried one; many a circle of friends that luv- been broken. Death is inconsiderate of our tears. Particular reference is made to the pasin- of two ( the city's leading business men. Kdwurd J. Twomey, in the insurance line, and I:, louis Kuhns, most prominently kmi-..n of late as president of the Chamber of t'ommerce. We speak of them in their relations to the community. Thf lo to their families and immediate friends is beyond the power of outsiders to cali alate. Mr. Kuhns, in a few short years, was accepted .and j. laeed at the head of the city's leading commercial organization, for the sterling qualities f citizenship, and disposition of helpfulness In community welfare, that he demonstrated from the start. A movement was on. almost up to the day of his death, to place hint at the head of the republican ticket in the coming campaign; an effort to place him at the head of the city. Such men cannot step d'nvn and out so suddenly without being missed. He belonged to the community and the community joins his family and his iriends In their grief A larger nnd more Intimate acquaintance with Mr. Twomey. and the shock that comes from the suddenlies., of his. demise, makes a reference to him a bit more personal. No one Intimately acquainted with I'.dward J. Twonu-y, but his felt the impulsiveness of his nature, and his warmth of fee'Iag. which the science of humanity define as aftin to love. He left as if it were the snittir.g out of u candle. It was an eloquent Ftriuon on the uncertainty of life, "a vapor what appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." Truly, "no man knoweth what another day may bring forth." It is well that all who knew these men an say, "they lived not in aln," and the answer is that they died not In vrin. The impression of their lies. examples set. -work begun, accomplishments numbered: all these things count. Head a million biographies, and th lt you can find is the use that men ha e made of the ir talent at 1 their, opportunities. The inspiration that man affords to man is hi cljim to im mortality. We miss them now. and miss them ell the more; now that thir eternal absence calls us to reflect upon the panorama spread before us by their lives and scrlce. .'riendshlp and chastisements unappreciated

vnte too often, as seems nature's way, until the closed !

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UNCLE SAM AS MILLINER Among hi many other duties and interests. Uncle fam finds time to deal In millinery. He makes J. trimmings from a growth dug up from the bottom of Chet-apcake bay. Ilefore the wvr this hydroid substance was imported from the Ualtie. It was dried and treated chemically, and eventually prepared as a fluffy decoration on the hats of American women. It Is said that fishers receive 120 a ton for the stuff. The department of commerce and labor handles Uncle Gain's millinery business. And that's but one ol many novel labors the department performs. According to Sec'y Uedtield, speaking at a convention of men of the hardware trade, the bureau does everything from running u stone yard to conducting research work in aviation. Just to enumerate a few of these pursuits would furnish cause for admiration. Uncle Sam sends me to Africa to see what kind of goods the natives make up into clothing; he Inoculates fishermen with disease germs to help the pearl button industry; he runs a paper mill and a rubber mill; he discovers and introduces new foods; he charts every rock in the 26,000 miles of water surrounding the United States. These are only a few of the enterprises of one department. Altogether, Uncl-s Sam seems to be pretty capable.

UET THEY'RE THINKING HARD. Spain. Norway. Sweden, Denmark and Holland must be doing a lot of serious thinking Just about now. It Is not that the German blockade will kill their profitable trade, but every one of them will have to go upon short rations. If the blockade Is long continued and effective. Their trade hasn't rot real mad yt because profits were so large that the looses of a few whips and cargoes could be sustained. Hut, a condition that makes all the folks actually hungry is an entirely different matter. The kaiser Is surely working up for himself some very ugly neighbors, who may finally take to throwing things at him.

EATING HORSE. Speaking of that New York horse meat butcher shop, an editor says that tho prejudice against eating horse meat is 'largely sentimental". It's wholly so. If New Yorkers discarded the sentiment and acted on the practical, they'd quit eating beef and go to horse fiesh exclusively. They'll get only horse me.'t from horses that are good for nothing else, while they're now eating cows and calves that ultimately would represent much milk und butter. But it would take a bigger than a world's war to knock the sentiment out of New York's menu

Mrs. Greenwich, probation officer of Chicago's morals court, say she has carefully investigated and is convinced that girls laziness is the contributing cause of life in the underworld.

All Secrets of Atmosphere Net Revealed as Yet

Ily Garreu 1. Sen Us. We are not quite as ignorant of the nature of the fluid medium in which we live, the air, a fish are assumed to be of the nature of their- medium, the water, and yet there are many things about the atmosphere which may be of fundamental Importance to us concerning which we know almost nothing. Of course, there are many things about it that we do know. It Is a transparent Fhell, relatively a mere film, surroundingthetearth, out of which we could not pass and live. It is the home of cloudj and winds and Ptorms. It is a blanket to retain heat. It Is an invisible machine continually conveying water from the pea and scattering It in refreshing showers upon the continents. It is the agent through which the sun distributes some of the most important of his life-sustaining energies broadcast over tho earth. Not a river would How but for the atmosphere. The loftiest mountain would have no crown of snow If there were no air. Every land would be a desert without the atmosphere.

When the earth was divided between the land and sea an atmosphere had to be stretched over them both In order that the land might be rendered habitable. Hut, in fact, the atmosphere is probably more ancient than cither land or sea. When the globe was jet too hot to retain oceans and too plastic to have permanent elevations and depressions on its surface, it must have been already enveloped with gases ana vapors. That primeval atmosphere differed widely from the present one, hut was. In a sense, ts ancestor. After the oceans were deposited and the continents rose the clarified air became a universal highway between them, through which the energy of the sun brought up vapors from the sea, even to the mountain-tops, where, condensed to water, they began to flow back again, by gravitation, to their source. It is amazing to think that the waters of all the mighty rivers first ride invisible over our heads from the broad oceans, to come back again, under foot, through the soil, through rivulets and springs, gathering in the valleys uniting their hurrying streams, until a Hudson or a St. Lawrence, a Mississippi or an Amazon, is formed, pouring its majestic current unceasingly seaward! An Irrigating system so vast that we may see its working without comprehending its mechanism! Hut, while we know and infer these great facts about the atmosphere, there are others, perhaps not less important, that remain to be cleared up, and possibly some whose very existence is still unfruessed. What, for Instance, is the explanation of a phenomenon that everybody must have noticed at times, namely, the curious intluence of certain atmospheric states upon the activities of the mind and the body? This often seems to be independent of all the so-called meteorological elements constituting weather.

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On days when . the detailed weather report shows practically no difference of atmospheric conditions some subtle influence appears to be at work, stimulating or deadening the nervous system, as the case may be. Many human beings, like many lower animals, are conscious of the coming of foul or fair weather long before the most delicate meteorological instruments give any indication. Many think that electric forces play a great part in such phenomena, and a possible support for such an oplnlan is furnished by an observation recently made at th Ixiwell observatory, at Flagstaff, Ariz. It has been found there that, since June, l'Jir., when the first experiments were made, a persistent

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made. The effect Jias been found even In the presence of moonlight, which might be expected to obscure so faint a luminosity. The light is not distinguishable to the eye, but its presence is shown clearly In the photographs because the apparatus is so arranged as to bring out with particular prominence the most characteristic line of the auroral light, which is in the yellow-green portion of the spectrum. Continuous exposure of a few-

hours show this line in the spectrum of the faint light of the ky. no matter in what direction the instrument is pointed, but there are indications of greater intensity toward the horizon and possibly toward the sunrise and sunset points. The inference is that there is a permanent, though probably variable, auroral illumination in the atmosphere.

Dr. Hurty of the Indiana health board, says that only twenty out of a hundred Americans are porfectly sound because of typhoid. And typhoid comes from familiarity with filth!

Wheat went up four cents upon the kaiser's declaration that he'd get peace with the sword. It sure makes us mad to have those foreigners running our bread and butter.

NEW POLICE IDEALS. It may surprise the enlightened western hemisphere to h.rn that South Africa is soon to have policewomen and ha; already developed a modern and constructive iev of police duties hnd ideal. I.ieut. V1. Hray. deputy commissioner of South African püiue. Cape Town, points out that the police furt-p is dimply an administratis instrument of lh i.ubllc. ui.d must grow in usefulness as society learns bow to better existing conditions.

Formerly the p! ep-.un went around simply arrest- Thaw's mind Is wandering, sav his doctors. Hut so-

iv.'i lüalelui tors. He had to 1. strong, but not much ciety will feel easy until his legs get lo wandering .!. Now we cpt more than this negative service jonce more.

THE MEL TING POT COME! TAKE POTLUCK WITH US.

SILK WORMS. The silkworm's a philanthropist, free-heart d and refined. .Ilia selfish interests do not monopolize his mind. He Fplns a thread of wonderful tenuity and length. Remarkable for look a.s well as marvelous for strength; He dearly loves to sacrifice his caterpillar life P.y way of helping make a decoration for your wife. He doesn't nag the government to raise his rate of pay Nor ask it to abbreviate his cheerful working day. He has no walking dt legate to pester and anr.oy No union scale to interfere with his employer's Joy. To manifest appearances h is content to die "Without insisting on his right to he a butterfly. Iet every honest workingman and working .vornan, too. He elevated and inspired by this pacific view. Create the world's ir.azuma in decorum and content. Hut do not worry at the way in which you see it spent; Con mtng your attention to a life of honest use. Fulfill your fated function, which is simply to produce. Arthur Brooks Baker.

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When Hill begins to shine his shoes and brush his clothes and hat, And spends ten minutes at a time arranging his; cravat. And manicuring his finger nails, and neatly parts his hair, And folds his pocket handkerchief with unaccustomed care. With floods of dread anxiety his mother's heart o'erflows, We don't know what to make of him but, ah! she knows, SHE KNOWS. She knows not w ho the creature Is she knows not how or where Poor Hill became the victim of the artful baby stare. Hut well she knows the ways of maids she knows the power of smiles And all the helplessness of youth ensnared In woman's wiles. Her hoy has strayed beyond her door, and far beyond her ken, And never In this world can be her Jittle Ulli again. Not many years ago it was she wondered in despair If Bill would ever learn to mind his clothes, hands and hair. She yearned she thought to see the day when Fhe need not entreat And scold and threaten and cajole to keep him trim and neat. And now the miracle is here ah! how she longs to see Her little tousled Bill once more ju&t l'ke he used to be.

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A MonoioJy. Mr. Hughes enjoys perfect peace and without a victory at that.

Helping a Little. There is a greater demand than ever for free vegetable seeds in the west. They stew and eat 'em out there!

And It Never (Jot Bill Anything, IMther. "All that I have and all that I hope to be," William J. liryan. The

Doc must pretty well out of ammunition when he has to use Hill Sulzer's stuff.

Nobody Loves a Neutral. We are told on excellent authority that this country is not held in fond affection by any of the belligerents. Well, doesn't that beautifully qualify us for the Job of umpire?

MERCURY GOES BELOW O Not very cheerful reading the thermometer some mornings especially by the one who has the washing to do. Look the weather indicator squarely in the face and then let us have your FAMILY WASHING AT 6c A POUND. SLICK'S LAUNDRY & DRY CLEANING CO. Bell 117. 126 S. MAIN ST. Home 5117

l'ood Is Still the Host Thing; to lilt. There are lots of calories in anthracite coal, but none of the diet squads have tried to live on It as yet.

Hopeful. The allies may not think Mr. Wilson's peace plan amounts to anything", but it has caused their various statesmen to do a lot of explaining.

ONCE-OVERS IT PAYS TO UK ILRSAXT. Young. woman, the f.rst step toward a gracious manner is what the little girl said in her prayer, "Love every one in this whole world." There it goes again. You raise your eyebrows in pupercillous pcorn. Think it impresses others with your personality, don't you? Never made a great r mistake. No, they won't think you are illy If you are always pleasant. You do not have to gush, you know. A gracious manner is never preceded by a gigle, either. There is a certain dignity to a gracious manner. There is always pois in a gracious manner. It shows you are merciful in your criticisms, lenient in your judgments. A gracious manner goes with those who are tender of young and old. Courtesy is due every one with whom you cc me in contact. The real gracious manner Is the courtesy which springs from a soul which wishes well to "every one in this whole world." Get rid of your grudges, and strive for the greatest charm in a woman a gracious manner.

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According to a Herman newspaper. S . 3 0 0 Jews in the kaiser's armies hae received the cross of honor of the second order.

Now, the auroral light, which attains Its greatest intensity In displays of what is usually called the aurora horealis, or the northern lights, is believed to he due to electricity, and the ultimate source appears to lie in the sun. Great out

bursts of solar energy, whose effects may or may not he otherwise noticed, seem to react upon the earth in such a manner as to produce "magnetic storms," attended by Hpectacular exhibitions of luminous columns, curtains, arches, coronas, and streamers, wiving and coruscating in the nky and centering about the earth's magnetic poles. The recent observation at the Ijwell observatory' indicate that besides these great exhibitions which are relatively rare yhenom-

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nXTHAV.VCJAXCi: IN l'-VllOLKS. (Columbus, S. C. Record.) The Times-Star of Cincinnati is making a big fus because the state pardon board has paroled three murderers. One of these was Orvllle Thompson, who murdered Anna Schemelien, a joung girl of unimpeachable character with whom he was infatuated. Judge A. K. Nippert. who presided at the trial, has made a statement in which he denounces the action of the pardon board. He says that it was one of the most atrocious crimes in the history of Hamilton county, and that it is a mockery of the law to release a man of that kind alter only two years of service. His comment may throwsome light on conditions in other states. " It seems," says he, " that murder has become such an everyday occurrence in Hamilton county and other counties of the state that the criminally inclined do nut fear the result. I believe in an adequate sentence both as punishment fof the convict and as a deterrent to others who are criminally inclined. Judge Max V.. May. in commenting upon the othf r caes. says: " It Is no wonder that the carnival of crime in Hamilton county c4ntinues

when the work of the prosecuting attorney nnd the trial Judge is overturned by the maudlin sentimentality of boards at Columbus. Of what use is it to spend the state's money and the time of the state's oificers and courts in obtaining the conviction of criminals of the crimes of which they are guilty, if tho verdict is to be nullified by parole ar.il pardon hoards?" " These facts and statements speak for themselves," is the deduction of the Times-Star. "It is diilicult enough for the police and the courts to protect law-abiding people without being constantly interfered with by sentimentalists and others in positions of authority. No pardoning board in Columbus ought to put i. premium on murder in Hamilton county and that is exactly what the board of administration are doint: at the present time." We sometimes hear it said that there hau been a lot of lawlessness in South Carolina in the last fewyears. When one administration released not three but several hundred prh oners, some of whom had committed terrible offenses, is it not reasonable to suppose that while the individuals is nearly every

case might have been helped, yet the who moral tone of the state must have been lowered?

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