South Bend News-Times, Volume 34, Number 48, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 17 February 1917 — Page 4

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him into court, and shooting him dead on the spot." The British r.avy corresponds roughly to a city police force of whose constitutional authority there is

j 'me question, though it operates on the whole according to established legal method?. The German

navy correspond- to a crowd of desperadoes who rush into the .trects with drawn revolver, warn everybody to stay Indoor., and shoot everybody who disobeys.

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THE FIVE WHO WERE LYNCHED. About a year aro the oneriff of Worth county, Ga., was imirdered. Six Nrsjrocs wer arrested and charged with the crime. A i:iol immediately assembled and lynched five of them. The i.xth was rescued. Worth ounty rani; with praho of this jirompt and effective administration of Justice, though its Joy was tempered omewhat by chasrln over the escape of one of the .Negroes. Jim Keitli. the man who thus f iled lynch law, was tried In court and sentenced to life imprisonment. That trivial punishment was pointed to by friend.-? of Judge Iynch as proof of the .ui-eriority of extemp'T'zcd mob law over court house law. However, it has just developed that Jim Keith -eally hain't anything to do ith killing the sheriff. He has bad a new trial and has proved his innocence, incidentally it has been proved that the other five were as innocent a lie. Jim has been fred. The other live Nigrops have been olTIcially vindicated, b it it in't clear that that will do them any particular Rood. A man thoroughly lynched stays lynched' a lonp time. And jet there are men in Worth ounty, and in arloiis other counties around the country, who will maintain the superiority of mob law. And there arc people in every community in America who still defend capital punishment, although a lef?al execution in such t case as this would have been just as effective a render in- of injustice as the lynching Itself.

THE TWO BLOCKADES. There aie still people who write to the newspapers, inquiring what the difference is between the Herman Mockadu and the British blockade, and why our goveminent doesn't oppose the latter as igoroiisly as it opposes the former. It shouldn't be necessary at this late day, alter the matter has been discus.-ed publicly in all its bearings oer and over a'ain for marly two years, to point out the dissimilarity of the two blockades and the absurdity of re-rarding them in the same light. And yet the case seems to need tatin once more. Ti begin with. International law does not forbid one belligerent to blockade another with a view to starving" out the enemy. The I'nited .States itself established the classic precedent for such action by its blockade of the Confederacy in our 'ivil war. The allies' blockade i.f Germany and Austria is modeled after our example. We have denied the legality of the present British blockade on technical grounds, simply because it is not complete, because It fails to seal up all the German ports. If that blockade were made one hundred per cent effscthe we could not complain so long as Great Britain obeyed the law of "search and seizure". This latter obligation is more important by far than the question of complete effectiveness. The British and French naies hae in general treatid neutral shipping with punctilious correctness. They bae stoppe. 1, delayed and dierted American ships and u goes; but they have not sunk a single American rhip or destroyed n single American caro or taken a single American life. When they hae seized a cargo, they have paid for It. Hery ship and cargo seized has leer taken int a "pri;:e court" and been dealt with acrordlm: to the established forms of international law. Germany has not even declared a blockade. he ould not do so legally without destroying the allied fleet and taking visible possession of the sea. The German government has carefully refrained from calling its present actum a blockade. It has merely warned all neutrals to keep it of an arbitrary "prohibited zone" nhich has no si.mdir.g in international law on pain of being sunk without warning if they disregard the notice. And Germany ha carried out her threat, pursuing a course w hich in the l.nv of nations is regarded as unprecedented, unjustified and criminal. The so-called Gtrman blockade, then, is far less lawful than the British in its fundamental conception. It j wholly lawless in its en for ct meat. Hen if it were granted that C.i rni.u.y has as good a ri'-.ht as Great Hritain to oathr.e a present ed zone and seize neutral yhip.s and .argoes m that zone, it is intolerable and ropiirnant to all law and all notions of humanity that (ierniany shou'd attack such ships without warning, destroying bottoms, cargoes, crews and passengers. .s.jJi conduct is r.ot warfare, as cUiliZed nations have practiced warfare. It is piracy and murder. It is no crime to try to run a blockade. We have a perfect r-ot to carry cor traband to either Germany or Hr.ij'and. if we an. The nsk is ours that's all. And the risk we assume n doing so is a risk merely of property. J ot of p. f-. Germany is bound by hu. and b old treaties with u, net to destroy our ships if she latches them arr;: g central and to her enem. Sdifc J.'.ay hot eeu law f. Illy i .:-.:i.-i ate tbv contraband, beaue her blockade is unlawful. The most she may do 1 what Ilr.gland J. a d'T.e ov.oasior.ally take our cargi ..es an i pay for them. As he tut. -n the British and German procedure, a distinguishi d American authority says; "It is the difference ltwfc.n arrtvti:.; an alleged offender and taking

THE DIFFERENCE. Herr Zimmerman, the German foreign secretary, found the decision of the I'nited Ftatea to Fever relations with Germany "astonishing." He assumed the Gennan government's uxual poe of injured innocence. "The entente's refusal of our peace tonn?," he said, '"eft us with no other step open except unlimited submarine warfare in the fight for our existence against the entente's violations of international law." Kn gland has done w ronsr therefore Germany may do greater wrong, and neutrals must stand the consequences. This childish argument may still prevail with the German people, but it doesn't "go" with Americans. The issues are perfectly clear to our public, through long and lucid discussion. I'res't Wilson, in his note on the eighth of las. May. took pains to explain that the I'nited States government "cannot for a moment entertain, much less discuss, a suggestion that respect by the German naval authorities: for the rights of citizens of the United States upon the high seas should in any way or in the slightest degree be made contingent upon the conduct of any other government. Responsibility In such matters is single, not joint, absolute, not relative". In other words, our. quarrel with Germany hasn't anything to do with England, and we refuse to let Germany punish us for what England has done to Germany. The New York Times puts the matter with admirable clearness and brevity: "Germany now proposes to 'starve' England. She has a perfect legal right to do it, just as England has a perfect legal right to 'starve hr; just as she had a perfect right to starve Baris in 1S7, in which case she brought about not a figurative starvation but an actual famine for food. But she has no right to kill neutrals or destroy their property in the course of that starving process. That is the difference between her blockade and England's, and it is the reason why the United .States protests not at all against her starving process, but against the slaughter of neutrals." And if we happen to he more tolerant of England's offenses which has nothing strictly to do with the case it's because England has not slaughtered our citizens, nor even sunk our ships, whereas Germany has done both, and has calmly announced that she proposes to keep on doing It. The only thing about our behavior that ought to have astonished Ileri Zimmerman is our patience. It's probably true, as the New York World remarked the other day, that "we wouldn't have stood from Great Britain for two weeks what we have stood from Germany for two years."

SAILOR HEROES. Two ships which sailed from New York on Feb. 10 are being witched by the whole world. And they deserve watching. They are the first American ships to venture across the Atlantic since Germany outlined her "prohibited zone" and announced that she would blowup any ship that entered. They represent, unofficially but effectively. America's defiance of the insolent German decree. The Iloehester and Orleans are names to remember. They may loom big in history. They are unarmed. They have the American colors painted on their sides, but not in the barber-pole arrangement prescribed by the German government. They do not follow the route prescribed by Germany. They are bound for France, and their course lies through the perilous zone infested by U-boats. We may soon hear ih one or both of them have been torpedoed and that will mean war. Or we may hear that they have arried safely at liordeaux and that, w hile it may not guarantee peace, will be a hopeful sign, showing that Germany either cannot or dare not make her threat good against American commerce. The captains and crews of the Iloehester and Orleans are heroes. They have taken their lives in their hands, deliberately and voluntarily, to force a show-down and reestablish the freedom of the seas. If they die, they will be martyrs, worthy of being numbered with the bravest Americans who ever laid down their lives for their country. Anybody can die fighting, but it takes tourage of a high order to face death without one chance of striking back.

WHEN EXTREMES MEET. A grocer who paid fr a barrel of apples found, tlo other day. tucked away in the middle of the barrel, this note written by the farmer who raised the fruit: "I got $LÖ0 for this barrel of apples. How much did you have to pay?" It wouldn't be a bad idea if producers in general would adopt this picturesque way of getting into touch with consumers. A more intimate acquaintance would be mutually beneilcial. And when the two extremes of the cot-of-livin? system had carefully compared notes for a while, they'd probably decide to get together und w ork out a better plan of distribution.

An Anti-Saloon league representative blames the women for the increased consumption of liquor in wet communities. Other reformers have accused women of responsibility for the increased consumption of cigarets. Same old story we've heard ever since the first woman was blamed for the increased consumption of apples.

George tunkard dropped dead while laughing at a funny story, in a grocery at Sidell, 111. Maybe the grocer told him that one about e?gs being cheaper when the hens begin to lay.

Do we ur.deistand that that birth control lady at NewYork is digesting all those tubes she swallows while they're feeding her forcibly: We're tager to learn of a chejp. easy diet.

Arkansas senate taboos liquor advertisements. Pretty soon John Barleycorn's only way of getting acquainted will be through personal introduction.

in its he.cdpin bowling tourney the Cleveland Tress has pulled off the biggest sporting event etr known. There were K.312 contestants.

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Once Upon, a Time It Was Deemed Unladylike for the Feminine to Be Anything but a Clinging 'Vine But a Great Change Has Come.

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Hy Woods Hutchinson. M. I. The World's Foremost Writer On Medical Subjects. The thin?.? which we all take for granted are often those which are least supported by evidence. And the longer we have taken them for granted the less likely they are to be true. Old as the everlasting hills, hoary as gray old ocean, fixed and immutable as the granite ribs of earth is the universal belief, which approaches the dignity of an article of faith, that women are inherently and unchangeably frail, defenseless, timid, incapable of facing danger or enduring ha.-dship, helpless without the protecting shield and arm of the. sterner sex. The sturdy oak and clinging vine business was regarded as absolutely describing and tlxing the relations of the sexes. When once this immutable lawhad been established everything possiblo was done to make it come true and suppress and discourage all exceptions. From the time they left the cradle the tottering steps of girl babies were hedged and palisaded upon the right hand and upon the left with a cheveaux de frise of precepts and injunctions and conventions, sternly forbidding and repressing every act ami thought which showed the slightest taint of that deadly sin, boyishness or mannish ness. So rigidly and senselessly have these taboos and restrictions been enforced that it has often been difficult for girls to be healthy and human and natural, and a real marvel that so many of them succeeded in growing up. On no account must they run or jump or scramble over fences or climb trees or scuffle or whistle or throw stones or shout, because all these things fall under that last and most damning ban of excommunication "unladylike.'' Then after a girl has been honbled and blind-folded and straitjacketed and sissytied and yat upon, day and night for 20 long years, society turns a disparaging but condescend ingly approving eye upon the prod uct which it has itself created and says: "There, that is a typical woman" soft muscled, dependent, emotional, physically and mentally afraid, lacking in initiative, a slave to convention: so she was born, so she must ever be, world without end, Amen! Onoe Rude to lc Healthy. In the days of our grandmoth-

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Just as the Astor baby has to live on $75 a day, Borden's go and boost milk a cent a quart.

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Proposed to let English women vote when they reach the age of Which would mean, in practice, that the ordinary woman would casting her first vote about the age of 45.

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Jod;;e Ben. B. Lmcisey of Denver established the l'rst iuenile court in the world. He has profoundly af-

ers it was actually considered indeli- fected the chile', delinquency system

cate and unwomanly for a girl to possess rude health and round, red cheeks, and an audible voice and square shoulders and lsible feet and to swing her arms about as if they had teal muscles in them, and to walk as if she intended to get somewhere. Everything must be dieaway and lackadaisical; delicate complexion, languishing eyes, long neck, sloping shoulders, wasp waist, mincing gait and an unlimited capacity for giggling or bursting into tears a la that mushy little idiot, "Sweet Alice, Ben Bolt." and for promptly and gracefully fainting away upon Z.W appropriate occasions. Really it is a wonder that the women of our self-styled better classes had a spoonful of brains or an ounce of real muscle left. But their descendants have been gradually freeing themselves, throwing off a strap here, a bandage there and a hobble somewhere else until now they are boldly challenging; the whole sacred tenet and declaring there is no inherent and inevitable mental difference between the sexes. That women are just as brave, just as competent, just as enterprising, jus: as active and vigorous, Just as

capable of facing danger and

during hardships as men are if they are only given a man's chance and a man's training. Coiuiucrin? in All Field. In one field after another they are competing with and even superseding men. even in that supposedly masculine specialty war. War with

all its terrors is the great hammer I

that smashes ancient fetters. "Mallens Domini" "the sledgehammer of the Lord," in the old monkish phrase. It is bursting the bonds of petticoats, the slavery- of skirts and all that they imply for women ns nothing ever did before. The skirt is not a garment, but a state of mind, and though silken to the touch, steel against freedom or change. The real "petticoat government" is the bondage imposed by it upon its wearers, and that has tone glimmering in this war. Women volunteers in the training camps shed the shackles of centuries and bloomed or Moomered out in knickers and leggins. naturally and am a matter of course, as a part of the game. It wasn't rifles and bayonets and crawling on your stomach and not shutting your eyes when you pulled the horrid little trigger that were the great emancipation, the Insignia of the New Freedom It was pants and puttees. To fire off r run doesn't take half the feminine courage that It does to wear trousers.

of this and other nations. At the request of the International News Service he has written the followingexclusive article on Tili: CIKL PUOBLFM. By Ben. II. Idndsoy, Judge of the Denver Jtnenile Court. When children's courts were first instituted in this country the number of boys dealt with by those courts far exceeded the number of girls. But gradually the cases concerning girls grew in number, until now, in some jurisdictions, the difference is not nearly so great; and while the cases concerning boys, .as yet in most cities are considerably in excess of those concerning girls, the girls' cases are growing, not only in number, but in difficulty. This is because more attention is being given to the case of the girl; more cases are being discovered that need such attention through the more effective work of those courts that deal with youth. Hirls are be-

en" 1 ing better protected than ever be

fore. Because of the privacy and secrecy thrown about such cases for the protection of the girl, both the girls and their parents are more willing to present their troubles to these tribunals. Perhaps 9 J percent of the cases concerning girls are what are known as "sex cases." We find, in our own experience, very few girls charged with larceny, although outside of the sex cases, cases of petty stealing are most numerous. Girls like pretty things and temptation t'aat comes through this fact is the chief cause of the rases of larceny in which they are involved. I-'irceny cases are frequently reported by department stores and other small shops and by people who employ young girls as domestics. As a rule. the:' are not difficult to deal with. Contributory delinquency laws that permit the officers to hold adults strictly accountable fur their

conduct with young girls, have been

a great help in petting girls. posed to be wayward, under th tecting arm of the court cdficei

j fore it is too late. In tne case 01 ui

girl, the old adage mat -n "u"lc of prevention is better than a pound of cure" is especially applicable.

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NATUHALLY. "What's making th noise in the clump of trees over there?" "I guess it is the bark of the dogwood."

When a girl giggled during Billy Sunday's opening sermon in Buffalo he yelled at her: "That's right, you little frizzled-haired sissy. You couldn't turn a flapjack in the kitchen without snilline the batter."

I am

disnosed to despair oer wie

the chronic delinquent girl or the girl who is indifferent as to her virtue. I am always anxious to emphasize the importance and the value of the work for a girl before she takes

fatal step. After tnat uip ui.u-

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portion. The desire for pleasure and to compete with other girls in the matter of dres and finery' are among the chief causes of th downfall of girls. It often begins in that sort of rebellion that exDress itäeLX first In

the home when the girl, in spite of the warnings ct her mother, persists in having her own way to go where she pleases and, generally, when she pleases, to places of amusement. These places are mostly the picture shows, theaters, dance halls and on automobile rides. It is perfectly amazing how careless girls are becoming as to their conduct in this regard. Many j;irls think nothing of taking up with absolute strangers whom they meet on the street, in picture shows or that accost them while passing in an automobile. The great majority of such sudden acquaintances are, of course, dangerous. A certain type of young men in the cities makes a business of imposing upon girls who are given to such indiscretions. In many homes there is a separation betwee l the father and mother, leaving the girl with the mother, who, because of the separation and generally the responsibility for smaller children, is forced into the double burden of breadwinner and home-maker. The pleasure loving girl, of the character I have described, comes out "liest" in these conllicts in the honi that is. she comes out in what she regards as "best." She loses all respect and love for her home, and the home tie is no longer a restraint. And yet, there is the girl s side to -many of these cases; she is a healthy, vigorous, young animal; she craves companionship, and she is entitled to legitimate pleasure. Because, largely, of the economic conditions of her life, these things are denied her. While these are not excuses for a rebellious concuct, or for the common indiscretion of this type of girl, they nevertheless enlist for her a certain amount of legitimate sympathy. This does not mean justification for any wrong she does. The only complete remedy to this unfortunate condition Is to be found in sweeping tconon ic changes that will be a long time in coming. In the meantime, .such palliative measures as recreation centers. -nunicip;tlly supervised dance halls, picture plays, playgrounds, etc.. are ;11 helpful. Society itself is lobbing these young people of many things to which they are entitled. The mother Is forced to work, and, as a result of her burdens and the physical inürmities that generally follow, the girl lives with a nagging, fault-finding1 mother. The

latter does not know how to apply or to enforce authority. Resultant irreconcilable dilferences come between them. Thse are all effects, the cause for which we must probe for deep down into our social system. This system is more or less itself a conspiracy against nature.

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They were all unmarried. I was told that married women were not wanted. Even those wlri had been married were not preferred. In the same city there was another gi;it commercial concern that employed almost as many young men. The wages received by them were below what is needed for an ordinary standard of living, as demanded by modern civilization and so iety. The result of these and similar conditions is that illegitimacy U largely on the increase in this -oun-try. Improper relations 1 etween young girls and young men is far more frequent than is -' ik rally supposed. Mr. Ernest Coulter, farmer crk of the Children's court in New York city, who is now superintendent of the deary society, is mmt-d a saying that if thy ft the ( imfidr-nco of the young girls as we g t that confidence of the girls brought to the Denver court, so ns to know the names of all the uirls who haw thus transgressed the moral rod. he believed that there would bo :.n.000 such cases of girls under years of ace in a single ear in the city of New York. Of rourse. i o effort is made to be definite, slr.ee we cannot have any reliabl data on the question, b'it we can our estimates from expeiier.ee. ar.d these estimates. I '..ehe-, e. are ronservatiic. The matrazires. newspaper and especially the modern theaters, present powerful appeals to s. v. In ari average city of 2-e.r,.,,, , .p u !. t Km it is safe to say that o-e may r.d within a singl week in as many :ls three or four theater-. i are-1. ce.t M-v- tsr ,n, irr r.VHil.hs in sr :..e r-x-

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othe- states, laws are beir.g proposed tr. care for the mother. of s ; h children du rim,- maternity. These laws a i o not limit d o .!; mothers .-f illegitimate children. . : apply to ? lie mothrj- of an h:M wherever conceived, where !. c.'i,er is unab!'-- to p rform the .i .ti ,, mat rnity. So lon;r a sr.fi ty ?:ia!.e th --, dirion-j that cot.tribite to il.,-.M-m.icy. society m-.p--t furiiMi an at . -dote to n the !,'ir!-n- of itiui. So long" as v. , jet v ; par'.orps iriniiiis o uhat.-w-r f t m.e her" may he in th" iia ir.il ep: -sioi of fie e ii; tiipts. a?Y 1 M '-' -ot to mitigate its permit i'.-. .n.-l ! puni.shm nts. Again, p-;?.,--.rn

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One of our largest life insurance companies has issued statistical data in which it is contended that about one-half of our women of childbearing age IS to 4 0 are unmar

ried, as are nearly one-half of the ; of eirls' cases am

icn nmnnc thp dependent-

I once visited a factory where it was said that l),0"o girls between

en r. -than

Under existing ror-ditmr-.s w rot expect any other result

that -een in the increase.. n ur

1 ii legitimate Ch'.l-

The

appr hilreadv in

dren

problem of illegitimacy

ling such a stage tnai

the ages of 16 anl 4 0 were at work. Colorado. Missouri and. no doubt, in

tory remedy. In the fit - of I ci en fite-, W e ha iding for tl.e ? ment of any m. ab" l rr. prp re' t i r : i-

ylider tl.e under 1 1 . ; s over " ' ' ' ! : i e n . ( '..' ae-- We!

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it h a fem i e 1 h I j yr .i r 1 r, there were v gills ,-.g:i;- : ! ; 1:1! '. -t ' the cr;i;i:r i'

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of .hi-' I pre.'.

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