South Bend News-Times, Volume 34, Number 50, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 19 February 1917 — Page 6

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NO SHAMEFUL COMPROMISE. It uns natural, perhaps, that the Oerman government sh.ju!J have sought to conciliate the United Htates by proposing a tliht mitigation of hr submarine warfare in our favor. lint the president gave the only answer ronsi.stent with American rights and honor. What Germany had in mind, apparently, was .o tllow us to sail our passenger ships across the Atlantic at will, provided we consented to her absolute prohibition f cargo ships. It would do u precious little good to have the privilege of traveling to and from England and France if we let all our export merchandi.-e pile up to mat and rot in our own ports. And It would do precious little for civilization If we accepted this slight concession as a special privilege accorded us because we are stronger than other neutrals The president La refused even to discuss with Germany any question relative to the present U-boat warfare until Germany withdraws her proclamation of Jan. That proclamation itbelf was a virtual declar ation of war against the United States. Germany has

and can plead not guilty of any desire for other people's blood or property. Hut there Is a limit beyond which heaven lt.elf cannot ak us to endure ahd submit. There is still a positive, precious duty which we owe to all humanity. It is to compel observance of rights to which all human beings are entlt.tJ on the high eeas. those regions which the Lord created for all. that man mlfht fulfill his destiny. Little doeu Germany understand America, if it imagines that the latter's long endurance of outrage has been due to cowardice or weakness of any sort, or if it believes that Americans will not be united when forced into war. Nor do we believe that Germany is no mistaken. Logic and all Indications support the conviction that Germany takes such a risk against such a people because che's pretty near the last extremity. Germany announces her unrestricted submarine warfare as a sure means to starve out England and end the war quickly. War with the United States surely means the feeding of Kngland. If the combined navies of the allied powers and the United States can assure it. liut the starving of Kngland means also the starving of Spain. Holland, Italy, Denmark. Sweden, Helglum and Norway. To conquer all of Hurope by land and starve all of Europe by sea is a large contract. Only a kaiser whose cause was most desperate would try it.

Energy Cannot be Either Created or Destroyed"; Serüiss

IF WAR COMES. What wil the United States do if we are forced into war with Germany? That is a question now in the minds of every American. What part will we bear in the conflict? How will the war come home to us individually? It is accepted as a matter of course that we won't send an army to Europe. We have no army to send. The one hundred thousand or two hundred thousand men that we might dispatch to France if we quickly mustered all our available forces would be but a handful in the giant contest of millions. Anything less than one million troops would hardly be worth sending. And before we could raise and train an army of that size, the war would probably be over. Our government will very likely take Immediate steps to inaugurate military training on a big scale, as a guarantee of future safety; but it isn't likely that any American soldier or militiaman will see service in Europe unless he enlists.. as an Individual volunteer, in a foreign army, as some fifty thousand Americans have already done. With the navy it is different. The navy is, more than ever in the present contingency, our "first line of defense". In case of hostilities our warships will be needed to protect our harbors, our coast cities and our shipping. A large part of our navy will doubtless be used to patrol the Atlantic routes and to convoy American ships or ships carrying American cargoes. All this activity, however, would be merely defensive. It isn't considered likely that the navy, any more than tho

been warring against us and all other neutrals while we

have all been at peace with her. It is an intolerable larmy. will take an aggressive part in the European war

situation. When Germany places herself once more in the status of a friendly power, which is not at the moment destroying our property, denying our rights and killing our citizens, nor threatening to do o. then we can talk things over with her on equal terms, with mutual selfrespect. Cntil that time comes, we want nothing to do with Germany, directly or indirectly.

QUITE DIFFERENT NOW. It beats all how time and tide, passing from political campaign, to statesmanship and administration of state affairs, do chance the trend of a politician's

zone. Our most important role will be neither military nor naval. It will be industrial and financial. It will be frankly recognized that the allies are lighting our battle, and that since they are on the ground, well organized and situated, with their campaign plans laid and tho end in .ii;ht. we can best defend our own rights and bring the war to a close quickly by helping them freely with money and war materials. There will presumably be heavier war exports than ever, in frank cooperation with the allied nations. Our government and our industries will make a greater effort to ive the allies whatever they need. Our govern

ment and our private financiers will adopt a more lib-

thoughts. Cool necessity and stump-stewt d claptrap , era, polIcy ln retJard to war loans, and the nation s

tell different tales. Krinstauts: During the recent campaign, when James 1. Gooditch was the republican candidate for governor, it will be remembered how he jumped rough shod on the management of ull the statt- institutions because they were (-ostitis far too much money to operate. His ureatest promise was that if elected he would manage all these at a ;;rutly reduced figure. In his speech to the Joint session of the general assembly

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whole will ' loosen up". We might make the allies a gift of several billions of dollars in money, munitions and food, although that hardly seems likely. At tho least, we will supply them cheerfully, quickly and on the easiest possible terms with whatever they need to win the war.

Within a week after the resumption of indiscriminate U-boat warfare two Itelgian relief ships had been sunk

Friday afternoon what h had to say on this subject is j with their food cargoes. That's the worst thing about most interesting. Listet to this, taxpayers who be- irthis whole wretched business. How are the starving hexed him during the campaign. Here is his message j women and children in Helgium and northern France

to the legislators in pleading with them to approve an excise tax on ecry business in the state that Is incorporated : "An annual income In revenue of not less than $u0.ot0 to take care of the increased maintenance charge that mut be provided far the benetlt of the state's unfortunates." He must even resort to extraordinary taxes ln ord?r to raie the money to keep going, for listen to this further confession, after he tells the general assembly .how they must ll. "t take care of extraordinary expendiutres in his first year aggregating more than Jl.r.C'O.OOu. he says: "In short, leaving out several needs amounting to approximately $1,500,000 a year, the appropriations contemplated by the general assembly will at least equal those of the general assembly of two years ago." Dear reader, the democrats took hold of the government a few years ago and found an empty treasury and debts c ,1 more than $3,100.000. They resorted to no extraordinary or excise taxes. They paid the republican debt of $3.000.000 and over. When the republicans stepped in the other day, through a combination of various elements and influences constituting a majority, the retiring democrats handed them a cash balance of over $3.000,000 with pot a penny of debt. With this cash balance unprecedented at the time of chnniring an administration, the tirt act of the republican governor, who told you democrats were extravagant. Is to cry for an excite tax and to tell you he is ;vdding to your expenditures by millions and must have an exci- tax in order to keep the state government going. Democratic economy will be required in two years to pav off more millions of republican debts.

goinr to be fed now ? Must the lives of millions be sacrificed to German rightfulness?

As ox-I'tes't Taft says. "We are seeing an exhibition of patriotism that we have-not seen since the days of the Civil war." And in this patriotism there is no division. If there was any mutual resentment left from the Civil war, it is gone now. And the new division that we feared has been swept away by tho new patriotism.

That new Mexican constitution is no doubt a fine document. Hut the trouble Is that the best constitution in the wor'' can't run itself. What's needed is not a Mexican c - stitution so much as a constitutional Mexico.

Only 18,000.000 barrels of beer will be brewed in England this year, half the usual quantity. Ixrd Devenport is careful to explain that it's not a moral but a war necessity ln reduce beer production.

You put your diamond ring on the third finger of her left hand because it is believed that a delicate vein connects that finger with the heart, and it's her heart you're after. If she hasn't any money.

At last accounts, Switzerland had decided to continue strictly neutral. She may feel different as soon as some submarine sinks one of her warships, however, seeing as she has none.

REAL DESPERATE UNDERTAKING. Germany, or any other nation, must be in desperate straits when it will risk the enmity, if not active hostility of a people who have behaved as have the people of the United States during this war. This is a feature of the status quo that Is decidedly conspicuous. 1 1 ever a people merited the cross of honor for neutrality, .it is the people of these United Statea. We have had some conspiring and tome dynamiting but we have these in times of world's peace. It la one of the most remarkable features of these war times that we hae had no bloody riots between the races which make up a considerable part of our population. We hav patiently submitted too much in the waj' of ins ait. wrong and infringement upon our rights. NotwitluUui Jin,; this ..e have been neutral and peaceful.

Ten oil tank steamships and five million barrels of fuel oil at Tampico have been offered to the United States government. Why not take it and pour it on the troubled waters?

After the kaiser has ;ot his ocean properly cleared of American ships, will he make us paint barber pole stripes on our airplanes, and hang "verboten" signs on the zodiac?

Uirst Monday in April was long considered the most unlucky day. Cain was born on that day. Then, it was moving time and folks broke things.

With three eclipses of the moon and four of the sun, this might be called eclipse year, were it not that no eclipse of Roosevelt is promised.

Golf isn't Scotch but Dutch. It originated in the Netherlands, where is was called "Kolf," besides the usual blashphemous things.

IJy Garrett I. Seni.. 'A' say that tiergy creates heat. 'IT :yn th:t bent oreab-s energy. Whl'-b I. right ? LA I'ohTK." Energy, as far as we know, can neither be created nor destroyed. The usual degnition of energy is "the capacity to do work." Having learned that, you naturally want to know the definition of work. This is something that the college text books generally dodge, substituting for it a statement like the following: "Whenever the point of application of a force moves in the direction f the force, the force is said to do work." This is perfectly clear, as far as it goes, but it hardly tells you what work actually is except so far as you may conclude that it is an effect of force, but when, in turn, you look up the definition of force you will either be led around Hobin Hood's barn again, or you ir;-.y come upon this: "Force is that which produces, changes, or opposes motion." and the real thing in itself once more escapes through the sieve. In fact, you will have a good deal of Intellectual entertainment if you trace out and compare the efforts of learned men to define these things, and if you read the scientific Journals attentively you will occasionally see the doctors pulling one another around by the ears over the definitions of these subjects. in short, a good general rule to bear ln mind is that whenever you find anything- defined as "that which does so and so," you may safely conclude that the "that which" is something which respectfully but firmly declines to be pinned and labelled. The Amount of Work I Kmc Gives Fair Measure of Energy Expended. On the other hand, you must not suppose that barring the dlrhculty of telling what it is except by talking of what it does, the.'e is anything incomprehensible about energy. The amount of work done, or of effect produced, gives a fair measure of the energy expended. If you think of energy as the cause of all physical, chemical, electrical or other lurms of activity you will have a workaday conception of it. Science supposes that the universe contains n. certain sum of energy, which cannot be increased or diminished unless something outside of, or superior to, the universe should Interfere. That something would necessarily be a supernatural power, capable of making or changing nature at its will in a word, God. There are people who think that energy is God. I have never cared to try to believe that. Hut let us descend again to the level of science and take up your question in another way. Heat has been defined as a form of energy, but it is, rather, an effect of energy. Heat consists in a vibratory motion of the molecules of a substance. This motion can be transferred from one substance to another. A hot iron will set a piece of wood on lire. The burning of the wood is the result of violent vibration of its molecules, which arc thus thrown out of cohesion, and, according to their nature, shape themselves anew, some into ashes, some into smoke, and some into gas, or vapor. The flame is the result of additional molecular vibration, disintegrating carbon and other chemical elements set free from the wood and turning them into the gaseous condition, or rendering those that are already gaseous luminescent, or light-giving. Energy, then, may be said to create heat, but heat cannot create energy; it can only hand it along, or call it into operation. There .May lie Light Without Heat, illut It Is Always Energy That Creates IL Energy is the most protean thing imaginable. It has endless forms and guises. When the temperature becomes great enough the "thermal energy," or that which produces heat, chanires into "light energy," or that which produces luminosity. There may be light without perceptible heat, as In the firefly's lantern, or in phosphorescence, but it is always energy that creates it. If energy were not so changeable in its forrr.3 the world could not exist as we know it, and we could not live. The food that we eat is full of energy which Is transformed into the vital forces. Streams of energy are continually entering and leaving our bodies. Nothing" of it is ever lost. Change is ceaseless and universal, but In the sum total there is neither loss nor gain. The books usually speak of energy in two forms potential energy and kinetic energy. By potential energy is meant energy not in motion, or not doing work. Kinetic energy Is energy in motion, or doing work. If you suspend a stone by a string from the ceiling, the stone posseses potential energy in proportion to its weight and the distance from the floor. If jou cut the string, the ener,ry in the stone at once change to the kinetic form as the stone falls. But a hot body also contains kinetic energy, because of the vibration of its molecules, and this form of kinetic energy may be derived from the other by causing the moving body to strike another body, thereby arresting its motion as a whole. Then the energy that kept the body moving will give rise to energy acting upon the molecules by setting them into the vibratory movement called heat.

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Tin: trouiili: is ixcatep. Shortcomings are the baleful ban of purpose and endeavor. They wreck our plans and thwart our alms forever and forever. We grimly buck the game of fate, we wrestle and we Juggle; We face with never-yielding hope the never-ending struggle; But something always falls to meet our merry calculations And interferes unkindly with our ardent aspirations. Perhaps it is the Janitor, whose enterprise informal Has left the office temperature ten degrees from normal; Perhaps it is a husband who Is nonchalantly shedding The trite responsibilities inherent in his wedding; Perhaps it is a motor tire, whose unimportant puncture So frequently deflates it at an inconvenient juncture. But we could gaily suffer all the sorrows and dejections Arising from the source of other people's imperfection. The heaviest calamities that burden life and labor Do not proceed from any faults and failings of our neighbor. It is our personal defects whose perilious persistence Bestows a blighting shadow on the picnic of existence. Arthur Brooks liaker.

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It's "service" here and "service" there; The butcher brags that he supplies It; In ads and adlets everywhere The ice and milkman advertise it. You r.nd it in the magazines In many a full page boost and puff. It's sold with cheese and beer and beans. But what in blazes Is the stuff? The mpn who peddle motor cars Have got fanatical about it; You buy it with five-cent cigars. You never see an ad without it. The haberdashers give It free With all the socks and ties they sell you. But what the Moses it can be Is more than any one can tell you.

Suddenly "connect" with the "Horn" of a Rocker while prowling around for a match? We venture to say when that happened you made a "HOUSE WIRING RESOLUTION." "Make Good" now by "Wiring Your Home"

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Ixt Us Not Take Too Much Credit. We are keeping cool in the face of a crisis, but it is barely possible that the weather is helping a lit-tis.

I la nk Favoritism. It seems a little unfair for Ohio to place the quail on the song bird list when all he does Is to run around paging Bob White. The Futile Post Mortem. Our idea of nothing to write a 5,000-word magazine article about is why Mr. Hughes didn't carry California.

But Then He Never Writes Poetry. It must Irritate T. It. to think he gets only a dollar a word for his literary product, while a single letter of Edgar Allan Poe's sold the other day for $250. KnouIi is Knotigli. England is going to abolish grand Juries, ßhe gets all the indictments she requires from the German general staff. The Opportunist. Having discarded his own cue. the Chinaman was quick to take up Mr. Wilson's. The SoulTuI Cuban. No one can acc.se the Cubans of apathy. They voted for president in October and the election riots are just getting fairly under way.

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Uarranza says he'll be neutral as between U". :'.e Sam and Germany. Now bring on your war!

Wolves appear near Rochester. ; N. Y. Headline.

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CONCERNING BLOCKADES. South Bend, Ind., Feb. 15, 1917. To the News-Times and All Other War Advocates: Dear Sirs: Why has not Germany as much of a right to declare and enforce, if 8he can, a blockade of the ports and coast lines of her enemies as England has? Does telling the world that any vessels entertlng certain waters do so at their own risk amount to anymore than an intended blockade? Does saying "Do so at their own risk" make it anymore inhuman than saying "You cannot"? According to the best information that I can get, and I have been reading Thi News-Times every day, Kngland has blockaded all German coast line and ports since the war began, permitting no commerce with Germany nor her allies. Of course, England has not sank any American ships because they know there is no chance to slip through, so they do not make the attempt. I have not heard any great howl about neutral rights, etc., in that case. Does it alter the principle whether a blockade is to be enforced w'th a line of battleships or invisible weapons? Can the number of miles of coast line and the number of ports affected change the principle any? Does there being a possibility of 6llping by one and not the other give neutrals any more right to protection by a declaration of war in case they fall and are destroyed? No. of course not. The principle is the same. The difference lies somewhere else, and not because of the Sussex note either, if you please. Several months ago England bdT-

rowed of Americans several millions of dollars, well, no, not dolars, but credit. In other words, she made arrangements to purchase several millions of dollars' worth of our goods on "tick." It will be remembered that the loan was subscribed to by financiers all over the United States. The only thing that remained was for England & Co., to make her purchases, take as many with her as she could carry and have the rest delivered. There is the rub. Do you think that the common people cannot see through the newspaper dope and governmental maneuving to Influence public opinion so that it will tolerate being dragged into war to satisfy an insignicant bunch of financiers? They propose to deliver those goods if public opinion can be moulded to suit, no difference how much blood it takes. The blood does not come from the same people that the profits go to, as a rule, that is why it does not make any difference about it. Now, In conclusion, I want to say that I care nothing whatever for Germany as s. country or a people. All of Europo is alike to me. but what I want to see is fair play all around. Yours for neutrality. B. V. COLEMAN, 1615 S. Columbia st.. citv.

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Big fry to be unmasked. Headline. Having discovered some "hiv," fry, might proceed to dig up some "tiny" giants.

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"Money tallci." Maybe, but the money involved ln this leak inquiry isn't what you'd call loquacious.

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