South Bend News-Times, Volume 34, Number 47, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 16 February 1917 — Page 8

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INVESTIGATING FOOD. In eti-atintf cornruissicms usually lisrover what -eryludy knows. Tluy serve a useful purpose, however, in showing the concrete facts on which public Ulkf i.s hasel. It will probably he so with the inquiry which the president 1 as directed the federal trade commission to make with regard to the st of food. As the president pays in his letter of instruction to the commission, there is a general impression that "the nmrse of trade in important food products is not free", that high prices are in part, at least, due to illegal and monopolistic restrictions. It may he assumed that the investigator: will find more or less monopolistic tfreed woven into thL- cost-of-livinp; weh. Hut it may also he assumed that the chief factor responsible for high prices will be found to be blundering inetficiency rather than intentional uilt. I'res't Wilson points out that in order to keep up production and tfive consumers the benefit of it. there must Le not only an "unobstructed system of distribution" but an economical system". Everybody who has looked into the subject recognizes that while as a nation We know how to produce food in unprecedented quantities, and know how to make money by tradinp in food, we do not know how to distribute food quickly and efficiently. tt It will be a fine thlntf if the federal trade commission dius up evidence on which a few food monopolists may lie sent to jail. It will be much finer if the commission presents an nrray of facts regarding wasteful and burdensome methods of uistributkm that will shock the nation, and alontr with it some practicable plans for improving the present system of getting food from th farm to the table.

Americans In the last three years, but bitterness seems to hae nearly all died out. Tody the nation is mor nearly united than at any time since August, 1914. l'rophecies of disruption and internil turmoil have not been fulfilled. The majority of Americans, who have hebl the name opinions and attitude from the beginning, now see the minority acquiescing in their view. The patience of the government and the nation has had its reward. , Most of the men who for so long were uncompromising champions of Germany and defenders of German methods have come to confess themselves wrong, or at least ave grown Kilent. The German government itself, , its insistent repudiation of pledges and its preference for unlawful and inhumane methods, has shamed its own partisans. Loyalty to the Fatherland, no doubt, is as ttrong as ever; but loyalty to the Prussian government, if it ever existed in this country, has vanished. There is only one loyalty now. It is to the constitution and flag of the United States, and to the president who happens to be the official personification of them. The utterances of citizens of German and AustroHungarian origin, since our break with Germany, has been reassuring. A few German-language newspapers, which thrive or imagine they thrive by cultivating an alien pose to hold their readers, may quibble and snarl at the predicament they find themselves in, but of the people they pretend to represent there is no question. They may be torn between sympathy and duty, hut they no longer hesitate. They are Americans. And since their situation is sorrowful enough at best, every other American should refrain from insulting them with open doubts, or rubbing salt into their wounds.

THOSE FEDERAL INDICTMENTS. South Uend may congratulate itself, temporarily, at hast, that it hus escaped the drag-net of the federal grand jury in the election fraud cases. Indianapolis, Kvansvllle. Frankfort and Gary have seemed insistent upon following the Terre Haute example that sent Don M. Huberts and Judge Eli Redman to the federal penitentiary, and a considerable army of citizens, or pretensive citizens, of those cities, are in danger of the judgment. This is of a certainty, but whether there will be other indictments later nobody knows save the oincials on the inside. If there are none, and South IJend. Fort Wayne and other cities investigated, escape

permanently, so much the better.

i LOOKS LIKE "ON TO WASHINGTON". I liirh interest is n :t if est el imt now in thp rpMirts

- - --------- - - ' ------ ' - ' ' - ' ' emanating from Washington with reference to presidential possibilities for 1920, and the dominating issues with which they are likely to be confronted: especially that there is a likelihood that Mr. William Jennings Uryan will prove behind the times for once, in hi.i pronounoements that prohibition will be among the latter. If necessary, we hope he is right, but there are indications from the capital that by 19l'0 prohibition will be a fact, rather than an issue, and that parties and conventions will not be stirred by it at all. Nobody knows how the Indiana delegation in congress will stand this time, in whole, or in part, except as to a very small part, but of a certainty none can say as they did when the Hobson amendment was up before that they are representing wet territory; that is, except perhaps, in the waiting. The anticipations of Washington eem to be that both the great parties will want the issue eliminated und to effectively accomplish this political lines will be largely cut away in state and national legislatures, as has been the case in Indiana, and dryness will prevail. As evidence that thi3 course is likely to be pursued, these prophets point to the fact that the republicans in Indiana, including the governor and the legislative majority, owing their election to wet influence and wet financial support, once in office were made to face prevailing sentiment. In any event, campaign obligations were swept aside and they voted dry, along with democrats who owed no obligation to any influences save the wishes of all the people and their own personal obligations to follow the dictates of individual conscience. These same prophet point also to Washington and the congressional vote on the wet and dry issue, dryness again prevailing. As a pronounced example of eliminating the wet issue and influence, the attitude of Sen. James K. Watson is mentioned. While he owes his election to the wet support, Watson went to the senate and voted dry. along with Sen. John Worth Kern, whom the Indiana saloons helped to defeat.

THE PROGRESS OF A PACIFIST. First Henry Ford declared all war foolish and indefensible, and sailed to I'urope to get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas. Then he financed a publicity campaign against pre-

Perhaps a revival ,

of the public memory by repeating the eampe sot by the federal court in the Terre Haute cases, will have the salutary effect without further in dictments, than those 166 already returned. And the awful chagrin of it; that republicans as well as democrats are hit this time, and in spots moreso. Wc are glad that South Pend has escaped on this account especially, for had it struck us. it would have been considerably moreso in this spot, we fear, and the

Then he admitted hat a nation had a right to fight if attacked. Then he admitted that it was all right for a nation that expected an attac k to get ready to meet it. Then he offered his automobile plant, free, to make motor trucks und submarine to use against Germany. Then he offered his fortune to the nation as i war fund.

men lie said, " llieres no fighter Pke a p u iMLst. w hen

republicans of St. Joseph county got punishment j n1 st ,rt0lj

enough for one campaign. We wouldn t mind, j At thls ,.aU. if tu, . t)U unpleasantness fails to either, if some of the republican leaders and including Cüme lo a hoa(, vhat ,Ai Hei,ry Jo next? some of our manufacturers of republican inclinations. I

would come around now and thank us for reassuring !

them during the campaign, not only through the col

umns of tho paper, but more personally, that they

were being w itched and that the department of Jus- I

tice at Washington was fast on the Trail of all illegal political manipulations hinging on election crookedness. Republicans to reassure themselves, and democrats secretly, had strong inclinations to regard District Attorney I Frt Slack's warnings as a 'scare," and the reported appointment of Frank Daily, former district attorney, as a great "Joke." Daily is the man who prosecuted the Terre Haute cases, and they looked upon the report of his appointment as special investigator as "an attempt to terrorize." It might have been better for some of these wiseacres to have been terrorized n little, if the indictments are any criterion to go by. The 'scare'" and the "joke" are now, plainly enough, of a more "real"' significance. It ought to put a definite end to election frauds ,n Indiana, and especially, now that the saloons are soon to to: tho-e v ery v:st ful. and willingly useful, tools of political corruption. We will have clean elections in

A GENEROUS INSULT. It is ki.id of the kaiser to say that American passcnger ships may land at Falmouth and make regular vveekl trips. He rally probably intended the permission as a kindness. B it that v ery kindness is an insult, to. say nothing about infringement upon international rights. When a foreign monarch rws to boshing America after this fashion, formal diplomacy is a pretty tame instrument with which to ive answer.

A New York judge orders John Myers to pay Mrs. Myers a week or go back to her. John quit her because she wouldn't sew a button on him although he asked her to daily for one solid week. Five dollars is a lot of money. John, and jou can use these here snap-on buttons; or wear a safety pin so she and other fellows' wives can see it.

Seventy-two midshipmen of the Annapolis naval academy are to be asked for their resignations. What's the matter with them, anyhow ? jf they've not been properly trained, shouldn't some of the Annapolis au-

Indiana. free from frauds, sooner or latter, and w ith i thorities resign '.' And if they were hopeless material to the saloon pone, i i.llot corruption will become more ! begin with, how about asking the congressmen who of a curlstone affair, and loss of a back alley or beer ' recommended them for their resignations'; warden proposition. Campaign methods are thrown!

th.it much more into the open where crookedness seli"in thriven i:t-ntually. vis. the election crooks, l.oth "higher t;p" and "lower down." will come to the certain conclusion that the public means business.

I.es than S.OOu cases of inf intile paralysis were reported in all the American cities last year. In London alone the Oriental plague wiped out tiS.i'C'O people in

j 10 K.',. and from 04- 1. C. a plague lasting 00 years ! killed fifty million people.

ALL LOYAL NOW. This is a time that tets men's loyalty.

Hut it is not j

tin.e to question hchtly the loyalty of any citizen, j

'fiie only honoraH. tJ;:n for any American to do. a:

g.'ntU-man and a-, a citizen, is to assume that his

until

regon's house of representatives promptly meets that 1". supreme court decision by enacting a "bone dry" prohibition bill. And her senate passes a meas-

lure to sterilize perverts and criminals. That's a re ;1

lively state, is ( regon.

Five Minute Talks by National Leaders

now mini; will it takk franc i:

to or

ItK O VF. K FROM TIIK WAR?

Tili; FFI FCTs

THE MELTING POT COME! TAKE POTLUCK WITH US.

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IJY MYKO.V T. IIKKIUCIC Former Ambassador tn Prance. Now long a time will France need, after the comln of peace, to recover from the effects of the war? Who can tell? To hazzard an answer one would have to know howmuch longer the war will last, what the French losses in men and money will be and what the terms of peace will be. On? thing is certain in the mind of every Frenchman and every' Frenvh woman France will not be beatea. The battle of the Marne decided that. The France of 1914 wa? not the France of 1870. Naturally, the terms of peace will have a decided effect on tho recuperative priH-ess. A victory that would include the recovery of Alsace-Lorraine, the definite ending of the menace of German invasion, the attainment of all that France is fighting for. would have a wonderfully stimulating effect on her people, even though she should come out of the war pretty well drained of men and money. The French are more susceptible than some peoples to that sort of physchologlcal influence, as was illustrated by the effect of the war of lSTr. On the other hand, they would be disheartened for future exertions if, after their prodigious efforts and sacrifices, the war should end In a draw. This they are determined shall not be the issue. While France lives there will be no "peace without victory" for her. It is true that the fighting on Fie western front has been almost wholly in France and Belgium, and that the strip of northern France nowheld by Germany or actually In the battle zone includes some of the most valuable industrial territory that France has. It has been stated that SO per cent of the normal pig

iron production and 70 per cent the steel nroduction of France is

the region now held by Germany. The French expect to get all this northern territory back at or before the end of the war. The re-acqui-sition of Alsace-Iorraine would give

them also the rich fields of iron ore

and coal located in those provinces. There are many points of difference between the situation of the United .states at the end of our civil war and the probable conditions in France when she emerges from this war. We were a divided people then; France has been unified by the war. We were a new country, with vast areas yet to be opened up: France can concentrate cn reconstruction. During our war the unusual demands for uoods and produce created by it ami by the shutting off of foreign competition through high tariffs made an industrial boom in the northern states somewhat like that which the European war has made here for the last two years. High prices and high wages continued four or five years after the war. Then there came a reaction, culminating in the panic of 1873, from which the north did not fully re

cover until the resumption of specie payments in 1ST 9. Thus it was about 15 years before the northern states ceased to feel the effects of the war. The south, which had been a rich and prosperous part of the country before the war, felt Its effects much more thi n the north and was a good deal slower in recovering. The process of reconstruction in the south was not even well under way until the 'election of McKinley in 1S&6 opened a nevv area of prospeiity that was shared by all sections of the country. oon after the S; : lsh war. uniting north and sou' in a patriotic and humanitarian rand, practically completed the unification of the country, but the southern states had lost 25 years orxmore in getting back to normal. France will not need any such length of time as that to return to normal conditions unless some unforeseen developments should deplete her resources to a point that is still remote. There is sure to be a reaction. Nations, like individuals, cannot undergo terrific strain and loss without subsequent effect. There will be delay and confusion in making the change from war to peace. But the French, are a vigorous race and I look for a rapid restoration of the country. Financially, France is better off than most of the belligerents. The land is fertile, fully occupied and highly productive under a system of intensive cultivation, aided by adequate methods of rural finance. Direction of military and civil affairs is in strong hands. The businessmen and the labor organizations, all sects and all classes, are standing behind the government in the most patriotic and self-sacrificing manner. Frenchmen are introducing the mos: modern methods in their factories and are organizing production on a large and eihcient scale heretofore unknown. Most important of all. the French people are united in spirit and in purpose. Forgetting ancient differences they are welded together in national unit to carry through an undertaking to which as individuals and as a nation they have set themselves.

hows your ovx sinorGTnR? A fellow owned a motor car of neatly molded tin. Its weight was very modest and its cost was ultra thin. With prompt and earnest willingness that motor covered ground And earned its board and lodging every' time it turned around; Hut still the thrifty gentleman, who dearly loved Ms kale. Acquired him a speedometer to dog the auto's trail. He calculated gallons and he calculated miles. With disapproving frowns or with commendatory smiles. He kept a faithful record of the breakage and repairs. And split a fearsome quantity of fine financial hairs.' Since he would fain recover from that mystery of tin The full and fruitful value of the money he'd put in. Hut on his own erratic self he never kept accounts. He wasted time and energy i'n wonderful amounts. Like- many other gentlemen of forty horses' power. He often failed to raise a .peed of seven miles an hour; And had the modest motor shown a record half so punk. He would have sold her to a friend or cast her oft as junk. Arthur Hrooks Hak er.

I was reeding a today, sod Ma to

& beekau. I good famhly. You toald

littli: nonmirs pa. Hy William I Kirk

butiful old story . Ma. I married

Pa wen he cairn

hoam last nite, a story ahout swords & a lady's hand & brave days. Those times has gone with mortal peepul. sed Ma. Yes, indeed, sed Pa. Wen a bomb drops out of the air on a gent, his sword is only in the way. There are no moar braiv days except wed

ding days. Pa sed. This story tells about a man that was a grate rogue in Paris, sed uMa. He was a grate rogue but he was also a grate swordsman & a grate poet, his naim was Franswa Villun.

I wonder if he was a ancestor

red Pa.

of I

Mister Villa of Mexico.

wuddent be surprised. Mavbe. sed Ma, but anyway

was a very brite yung man & deeserved to succeed. He was took to a king's court vi the king let him boss Paris for a week, sed Ma. The king told him that after he had felt like a boss for a week he wud be hanged. Fine, sed Pa. I used to have a boss wen I was a kid that ought to have been hanged, Pa sed. I was five minnits lalt one day & he fined me a nickel. Well, sed Pa, there is a butiful love story" in this book. It tells how he was in love with a butiful grjrl & he made sum verses for her & won her luv. That is a old stunt with poets, sed Pa. Do you remember how I made sum verses for you out In Wisconsin & made you fall in love with me. T remember those verses well, sed

you in spite of them.

knew you cairn from a me you thought thay

was divine verses, sed Pa. I dident want to brake yure hart. Ma sed. I have the first verse yet. 1

memmerized way it went:

it, svo Ma. This is th

You are the

Claire. With lovly eyes

hair. & I wud marry you

calls Eeven if you had cairn pewa Falls.

fairest damsel in K

& lots of rawii

beer Love

from Chip- j

It doesnt sound verv well now. sumhow, sed Pa. Are you sure that Is the way I rote it? Sure, sed Ma. The eevil that men do lives after them. Hobble, sed Ma, wen you grow up nevver try-to rite poetry to a gurl. She will keep it & wen she feels sad she will look at it & laff. I wont nevver rite any poetry. I promised Ma. You prubly w ill wen you git oalder, sed Ma, it is in yure blood, the blood of poets. You will meet sum fair yung maid & sum nite, out in a garden of roses, you will say poetry of yure own to her, sed Pa. '& she will trembel with deelite. WimmeVi luv the butiful. sed Pa. poetry, ait, jewels, etc. Yes, sed Ma, & she will marry you &- heer Love's calls, eeven i she has cairn from Chippewa Falls Ha, ha, sed Ma. Then Pa got kind of red in thr face & didnt say any moar to. Ma fc me.

Inklings and Thinkings

By Wex Jones

Mary Garden announces that she can count her ribs. man who thinks he's lucky when he can count his feet.

Know a fat

Natural history note: A turtle always leaves its umbrella at home.

Unique: Know a newspaper writer has never rewritten Henley's Invictus.

whose proudest boast is that he

Four famous pops: Gineer . the question. Hlack Tom.

Anson.

Hill in Connecticut legislature provides backed by the solid mouse vote.

for muzzling cats at night. It

After looking at the map. we've decided the best name for our Danish West Indies would be the Measles.

Photograph of Dave Fultz, the baseball Gompers, shows him at desk with a pen in his hand. We may yethave baseball games played by mail, just as they play chess.

Americans are buying more rice.but we don't know whether it's for eating purposes or for throwing over bridegrooms.

ONCEj-OVERS CUT DOWN TO IJUSINKSS STAUT SOMKTHIXG. Hope without ambition is worthless. Don't be like that character of Dickens, "who was always waiting for something to turn up." It is fine to be cheerful and look on the bright side of life. I i3 fine also to be of a "contented disposition." Hut when contentment signifies lack of amoition look out. Fill your mind with good solid facts. Then compare your work with those you know who fill similar positions. If anyone else can do better than you, you have a right to be discontented not the complaining sort but the inquiring kind. Just why do you not go faster? A weak, w ishy, washy "hope," avails nothing. Get down on your marrow bones and pray for the right kind of a thorn in the flesh to prick jou up to gTeater efforts. He contented only when you know that you are putting forth every effort to further your ambition. Be dissatisfied with nothing less than the top of the ladder. Hope is beautiful, but it takes more than hope to succeed. (Copyright. 1917, International Nws .service).

i.rih-'ors and fel low -citizens are as bal as lie

they tlit-!iAtlw g;e evideiu'e t!";t they are not. And i Brazil's newspapers generally demand that Brazil

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One hundred American tractors have been ordered by the Russian department of agriculture. In recent tests the one defect pointed out in these machines was that the ploughshares are set too dose together. isiac Iseman of Sparks Hill. N.

Y.. sawed and chopped a cord of : wood and then went fishing through the ice for pickerel. Isaac is 92. He,

was an engineer lor 4" ears ana retired r.O vears ago.

to a i L L la ei few instances will such, take part in patting down "the mail kaiser". And Brazil be civ er has more Germans than anv othe r nation of the west-

TLciw Laa lun Litter conti ovvrs and division among 'cm hemisphere i-ave the U.

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