South Bend News-Times, Volume 34, Number 51, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 20 February 1917 — Page 6

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FEBRUARY 20, 1917.

GAGGING TOLSTOY. 'ount Illya Tolstoy, a con of the Kreat Tolstoy, is in the United Ftates expounding his father's philosophy. H. himself Is a distinguished speaker and writer, deserving a hearing on his own account. He has been welcomed wherever he has appeared except in one place. That place is Columbia university, which boasts .f I, tint,' the laryest and most liberal university in the worid. Count Tolstoy was to deliver an address before the Comopolltan club of the unlverdty not on a controversial subject, but on his father's life and relißion. Several hundred members had assembled to hear him. Tol.vtoy came, prepared to peak. He was Informed that be would not be allowed to deliver his address. A certain member of the Columbia faculty, it appeared, . professor of Slavonic languages, had registered un objection; and there is a "rule of courtesy" at Columbia that gits any professor the rUht to veto any ad-dre.-s that may be scheduled for delivery within the wni t r.-ity. The professor was said to object to Tolstoy"s "radical principles". Hut it wasn't necessary for him to exphln. All he had to do to bar the distinguished foreigner from the "world's greatest university" and from the so-called "Cosmopolitan club" was to pass the word that lie didn't like him. That club had better change its name to the Corner (irncrry conference er the Crossroad Sewing circle or something eNe Futttciently local and provincial. And Columbia had better change its policy and adopt an American spirit of liberulity. Count Tolstoy comments us follows: "I thought this the country of liberty, of free speech. Why, I delivered the wme lect'C.c in Moscow last October. It was 1 t.y the polio: censors there. But your Rreat universit) won't allow it. I am very sorry for Columbia.."

ment added, this type of civic activity has been given much new momentum, but why always forget the beginning of tnlncs. A quite similar reference mlKht be made to the administration's method of dealing with the municipal water plant, though In this we must concede the mayor a trlile more of fairness than we have witnessed as coming from the superintenajnt of that plant. The mayor admits that the north pumping station was only "completed shortly after the present administration came into ofllce", and that it was "well planned and built". though he wishes us to understand that they took it only as they "received It", and that they "have endeavored to improve on" their "own record"; this notwithstanding that his superintendent's report seems to find comparisons only with what was done before this administration, with the old plant. , Understand. We are not finding so much fault with Mayor Keller as to what he has done. It istonly criticism of his way, by inference, of claiming credit for more than he has done, or tolerating it among his associates. A gradual improvement in the management of the city is to be expected of any administration. The city must grow or go backward and no man of sense will pretend that South Iend has been going backward, notwithstanding the permanence or semi-permanence of the "lid", so distressing to a considerable number. Mayor Keller has made a considerable advance. In the conduct of the city, but It is an evolution only; not a revolution. There are a lot of things that he mglht have done which he has not. And we mention it in passing, too, because it is so plainly a 'campaign document to which we refer, "the data and material embodied in the report", confessedly being compiled by City Controller U. G. Manning, administration candidate to succeed the mayor, and as such, "printed and distributed at private expense". Our highest compliment to the document is paid to the subStance of this last quotation. It is excusable as a campaign document throughout. Candidates, and candidate promoters, have a habit of claiming much too much.

HIS "THIRD ANNUAL MESSAGE". It is with intero:: that we have read Mayor Fred YV. Kellt r'.s thin! unnual message to the common council, and. as published and distributed at private expense, wt- suppose, his message to the people. We mention

that "private expense" from ulterior motives. In the puMuation of such a message the mayor of the city -Mould have no mis'-avins with reference to the pro;iivty of putting it oi,t ai public expense. We say 'su b a message", however, with certain reservations, omliti. ual upon the message bein a broad, whole-truth-i'iil. non-political public document. It Is because, perhaps, that this message is not 'such a message', that the maor could u.t cor soientiously let the public pay for it. in ul.K b tue mayor is right, again breaking some wM records and setting a new example. Cut in one tiling, in this connection, with respect to he M.ia.-hiu-: ot piecedents. Mayor Keller appears to ii ie followed the example set by former Mayor Charles i.. ;ttz in his "third annual message", and followed it .er. nrely. South Ib-nd mayors in their "third an.i i.'i uh-.,ii;i ", with their city controllers in the .;.; i-ralty race to become their successors, seem for v,.ine reason just bubbling over with gratitude to such controllers for supplies of data. With Mayor Ooetz it was Controller Patrick A. Joyce. With Major Keller it is Controller Grunt Manning. Kxactly why they never mention anyone else among their administrative assistants we do mt know, luif why divide attention when so much is at s-take? Mayor Keller, in his campaign, used to point to .Mayor Goetx's "third annual message" as evidence that Controller Joyce had been a real "power c hind the throne" In the Gootz administration, and used it to defeat Joyce. One might commend the same process with reference to Mayor Keller and Controller Manning, to Messrs. Nicely and Carson, or should Manning be the republican nominee, then to whoever may be hin democratic opponent. "Chickens come home to roost." Mr. Major. Why isit upon the child, the sins of the parent? Take for example, that alleced four cents reduction in the municipal tax levy; the first In twenty-five years, and think of it that the "data and material" was compiled by the administration candidate? It is true that there has been a four-cent reduction, but unexplained it is a half-truth, worse than a whole false hood. That four cents was the annual levy assessed to pay for the city hall. The city hall was paid for last ear; yes. te year before last; and yet notwithstanding this, the four cents was collected la.-r. yar, and probably would have been levied this year but for the, appearance thought desirable due to the approach of the campaign. Not a word is said In this "third annual message" about the reason foi the reduction. Th3 credit for it is claimed -inder false pretense; rather demagogic to say the lea-t. Tr.e foftr cents is cut off or made possible, because the reason for it has been fulfilled. Next with respect to the civic enters. One would think from the mayor's "third annual message" that these were something that came with the administration. Not at all. They passed through two winters before Mayor Keller took hold. Their functions and the number of them have been greatly increased, a uatural consequence, and with the playground move

THOSE "PUBLIC WELFARE" FOLIC Wolves that parade In sheep's clothing seem never to have been more common about the Indianapolis state house than they have this year, as one by one, certain of the administration measures are taken up and analysed. The latest comes under pretense of making It posible for municipalities, by impounding the capita of public-spirited citizens, to take over the breweries in their midst, and convert them into coldstorage, milk, coal, sauer kraut, or some other kind of plant, eventually assuming public ownership. It is the "public welfare" bill, so named to invite popular approval, and being touted by the same people who have been putting things over on the people of Indianapolis for the past several years. The bill has appeared In the senate. It is an innocent looking thing and is made to appear a wonderful boon to the people who are looking to public ownership. It has the approval of all eminently respectable blue sky promoters. They are the promoters who aim to make It In millions by appealing to the people on things that appear in sheep's clothing, but which inwardly are ravening wolves. The newspapers which were enthusiastic for all thP things that have been put over on Indianapolis people

during the past four years are enthusiastic for this bill also. It opens the whole state, by process of law, to a promotion that is most attractive. The bill is touted as favoring corporations like the Citizens Gas Co. May all the power protect Indiana from such. Newspapers that are indiscriminately boosting all the Goodrich schemes arc boosting this bill in particular and proclaiming that Goodrich is back of it. The Citizens Gas Co. has made millions for certain big promoters at the expense of the people of Indianapolis fcr the next 100 years. At is worked out in the Indianapolis gas deal, this "public welfare" company ownership reverts in a certain time to the city. After a certain time promoters got some of the Citizens Gas stock. The same promoters bought up the Indianapolis Gas property. Then they proposed leasing the Indianapolis plant to the Citizens Co. for 99 years. They had bought the Indianapolis plant stock at a vtry low ligure, proposing to put in this stock at par and at seven percent guaran teed dividend, capitalize all the looses the company had ever sustained, insure interest on all outstanding bonds which vere at the time below par, and on this basis take a lease for 99 years from the Citizens Co., a "pub

lic welfare" concern. Through the public service commission of Indiana this was a!l put through. The deal had the indorsement also of the c'.ty administration and when it was finished a high otticial appeared as a large holder of stock. In a short while the citizens "public welfare" franchise will revert to city ownership. This comes about automatically. Then the city will have on its hands a lease extending 99 years on a gas plant. The city will have to pay seven percent annually on an outrageous capitalization, will have to retire the bonds and keep up depreciation. With the present progress and substitution of other things fcr gas. can you imagine, dear reader, what Indianapolis will be doing with this gas plant before the end of 99 years? Would you, for instance, in your

J right mind, want to lease a gas plant in 1 1 1 5 to serve

you until 2015? That If exactly the thing to be saddled upon the people of Indianapolis. The scheme worked so well that promo ers see a splendid chance to "promote" all cities and towns of Indiana on the "public welfare" plan at millions of profits. The plan will cover all sorts of public utilities and there is no man in the state who has a larger variety of utilities that would just love to be leased for 99 years than has Gov. Goodrich. And that portion of the press that likes to get in on such things assures us it is a splendid thing and has the Goodrich support. The assembly let on hank promotion scheme get by without discovering what it contained, but it will hardly repeat the mistake in this case.

Improved Standards of Medical Schools

Instructors to Be Selected on Their Merits Instead of Bein Allowe J to Play to Teaching as Advertisement foi Private Practice.

THE MEL TING POT COME! TAKE POTLUCK WITH US.

There's some hope, after all. in our hig universities. The students .it Columbia have protested vigorously against the faculty order barring Count Illya Tolstoy, son of the great Leo Tolstoy, from speaking on the university grounds. Kvery higher institution of learning tends to become reactionary and fossilized, but fortunately Young America is always breaking in Tinu stirring up the dry bones.

By Woods Hutchinson, M. I). The World's Foremost Writer on Medical Subjects. In the old style medical schools much more attention was paid by both professor and students to the study of medical diplomacy than to that of practical science. This simple principle was one of the chief secrets of the ease with which a medical college could be launched and floated in almost any growing city whose doctors were ambitious to have it become a consultation center, and whose faculty could manage to put up among them the few thousand dollars required to rent the second story of a business block, which could be cut up into lecture rooms and a fer bare laboratories. Then the fees of the students, the consultation cases that they sent back, and the hospital and non-paying patients of the members of the faculty did the rest. Was it any wonder that CO years ago we had nearly live times as many medical colleges, so called, in these United States alone as in the whole of western Europe, with nearly ten times our population; and that the progress of medical education has been accompanied by a steady reduction in the number of medical colleges? Strange as it may seem, not a few schools established on this frankly rakeoff and split-commission basis rc-jc rapidly in dignity and spirit, profited by the mistakes of their earlier years, and became useful, honorable schools, with high and deserved reputations. For Instance, one of the most famous and widely known medical schools of the Atlantic seaboard, as recently as 20 years ato, when it numbered its students by the hundreds, paid its faculty, which included some of the most illustrious names in American medicine, no fixed salaries at all, but

only a certain percent of the annual

net profits, and every newcomer honored by election to a chair had to put up a goodly sum as his contribution to the capital stock. Rut as the dividends were said to be half, and even two-thirds, the amount in a good year, there was no trouble in getting hold of the money to pay for the "eat." Fortunately, these matters belong now largely to history', and the improved standards of modern medical education imposed nearly 20 years ago by th state boards of health and committees appointed by the better class medical colleges themselves, have

wiped out or compelled a reform in these consultation mills. But the greatest obstacle to this

needed reform was this vicious prin- I

ciple of appointing and expecting men to play at teaching medicine in the hope and for the sake of reward through incidental private practice and practice profit later In the language of the day, "on the side." Selects Teachers on Merits. This the new national medical school proposes to abolish entirely, selecting Its teachers solely for their qualifications to teach or do productive research work in their particular subjects, and then paying them all, including the hospital and clinical workers, a salary substantial and adequate to enable them to devote their entire time and energy and interest to their chosen work, without being under any necessity to "go and earn that damned guinea," as the great father of English sur--'ery. John Hunter, once furiously exclaimed, when he was Interrupted in the middle of an important dissection experiment by the arrival of a patient. It also enables three different and equally important types of doctors each to be made happy and useful in his own field. The successful general practitioner who can enjoy bis obvious reward undisturbed by the spectre of competition from his more scientific brethren, who are safely shut up in medical schools. The born or natural medical teacher, who Is so full of his subject, so carried away by its charms that he can't be happy until he has a class room full of promising youngsters, whoso brains have not yet ossified, to whom he can unfold i delights. And he will make them believe In it and love it and continue studying and advancing In it all their lives long, tco. Finally, the born investigator, the discoverer, the man who can't help asking why and will willingly give his life to find out the answer. Sometimes this man has the gift of expression as well, and then he becomes one of the greatest blessings of his age. Often he is inarticulate, bashful, embarrassed as t. schoolboy standing up to speak his first piece, but. even at that, he is a most inspiring and interesting sort of animal for the embryo doctor to rub up against and be allowed to stand and watch, even as it were only through the bars of Hs cage.

THK XKAIt-SlG!ITi:i 3 IAN. I saw a poor near-sighted man, whose two myopic eyes Could hardly comprehend the earth or penetrate the skies. The circle of his vision was regrettably confined. Which naturally circumscribed te limits of his mind. He did not feel the astral pulse with which the planets throb. He only knew his wife and child, his neighbor and his job. I saw another citizen whose broad and sweeping gaze Embraced the glowing star-dust of a score of Milky Ways. He ..new the minds of men and mice, of angels and of imps; He called the lengthy Latin names of pelicans and shrimps; He broke the spell o distances Ineffably immense; He pierced th pill of darknesses Impenetrably dense. The gentleman of mournfully abbreviated sight Fulfilled his simple duties in accordance with his light. He loved his neighbor and his child, his labor and his wife. He crowded every moment with the honest joys of life. But he who scanned the borders of the swollen universe Declared with deep conviction that existence is a curse. Arthur Brooks ilaker.

LrTTLK IT011H1I-7S PA. By William 1 Kirk.

xia Dought some goldfish & had the littel deers

them in the parlor when Pa calm hoam last nite, but he dident Fee them till this morning. Wen he was eeting brekfust Ma put them on the tabel so they cud swim around in the sunllte.

Well, well, sed sum Uttel pets, sed Pa.

Pa, so you have Are thay talm?

Thay will be soon, sed Ma. Thay arent supposed to do many tricks. All thay have to do is swim around & ect. A kind of a ideel life, all except the swimming, sed Pa, No worry about ent or other bills & no chanst to catch cold. A fish is lucky. Pa sed. I wish them fish had my cold. Deer Uttel things, sed Ma, you wuddent want them to die, wud you? Well, sed Pa, I wuddent exackly want them to die, but to every fish on this erth deth cums soon or late, Pa sed; so I suppose? if it calm to a questun of losing yure husband or them goldfish you wud choose the latter, wud you not? I wud have to think it oaver, sed Ma. The littel things are grate cumpany to me during my loanly hours. I see, sed Pa. Then I guess I will have to git in the way of sticking around hoam moar. It is terribul wen a married man has to see a bunch of goldfish alienating his wife's af'feckshuns. It sounds prltty scaly. Ha, ha, sed Pa. The man that sold them to me sed that In time we wud be in love with them, sed Ma. I have naimed

& Eustace,

naims vary reemcmber

Harold

Ma sed. Thay will lern thare soon, sed Ma, & will

them until thay die. Thay are vary cunning, I think. Thay say a goldfish has a lot of intelligence. Any sh is intelli-gent, sed Pa. Living down under the waves maiks them kind of deep, & from thare childhood thay have to keep on the Jump to keep from being eeaten by oalder fish, wich has a ten dency to keep them from being dopey, sed Pa. If we had to hide from cannlbels wen we was little we wud be wise guys wen we grew up. These; fish will have to be fed even' morning, sed Ma. That will be yurt; Job. I must decline it, sed Pa. It is too grate a honor. You feed them. I will seo they get plenty to drink, Pa sed. Than? is no doubt of that, sed Ma. You wud be a efficiency man in that line. One thing about ,'oldfish, sed Pa, after thay have lived a few yeers in a globo thay git to be all-around guys. Well, pets are grate things. Thay say that wen wives have goldfish & yellow canaries it maiks them think too much about things like gold, but I hoap it isent so in yure. case. I hope you will still leeve me my weekly allowance, sed Pa. Keep watching them fish, Bobbie, sed Pa, & you will lern how to swim. Thay know how to swim rite, sed Pa to me. Thay newer git cramps. Then Pa gaiv them a whole slice of toast for thare brekfust.

Inklings and Thinkings

By Wex Jones

Jess Willard doesn't consider Fred Fulton an overt act.

Want to pave Broadway with granite blocks, enough Scottish actors.

Didn't know we had

Famous horns: Golden

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Who'd have guessed it? City officials of Newark and some contractors have small dinner at $18 a plate. The contractors paid the bill.

Natural history note: The first robin has more use for cough drops than one that comes alon; later.

Tailors say that men's clothes will fit more tightly around the waist this Hiring. Not unless old Hi Costof living climts down.

Rockaway needs only a winter fort. care away any hostile fleet.

In summer the life guards could

Principal difference between a blonde and a brunette is that a blonde doesn't trust a brunette and a brunette thinks a blonde is deceitful.

The old citizen who says we have no cold weather nowadays is always muffled up like an Arctic explorer.

ONCEJDVERS TRY THIS YOURSELF SEK HOW IT WORKS. In Springfield, Massachusetts, seventeen persons have organized an unusual society, a rule of which is that "every time a member mentions the name of another in a conversational manner, only words of praise shall be uttered." Another rule is to "think only the best" of all friends and acquaintances. Newspapers in many sections of the country are making fun of the club. But why? Wouldn't this be an Ideal world if we, each and all, refrained from speaking ill of any one?" How often do you tell the virtues of those who are mentioned to you? How often do you refrain from repeating that bit of gossip you heard? Why do you care to hurt the reputation of another? Try this Springfield stunt and speak a good word for every one you mention in conversation. Begin now. Soon you will begin to hear good of yourself. (Copyright, 1917, International News .Service)

Those Cubans have beep good a long while, for them. A revolution is necessary occasionally, down there, in order to kill oft" the crop of generals who won't work

on the sugar and tobacco farms.

It is a great satisfaction and spur to active-minded and ambitious youngsters to be able to watch what a discoverer looks Iik when he is discoering, or at least on the road toward it. And the mere fact that he knows and has worked with and perhaps even been of some infinitesimal assistance to one who is really blazing new trails, finding out new-

facts and law s, increasing our pow - j point in medicine

er over nature s secrets and over disease and our ability to protect and upbuild humanity gives him a lift and a touch of enthusiasm for science and for humanity which will influence him all his life long. Teams of Professors. Not a few of the more procres-

j sive medical schools o! today plan I to have twin or duplicate professors

In many of the branches of study, one a research worker and Investigator, the other a teacher and "ex-

pounder," and let the students take part of their work under each, the research professor beln only lightly burdened with teaching work, so as to leave him plenty of time and strength for his original investigations. Th plan of liberal salaries to the

j hospital teachers is, of course, not

new in this country, having been in operation in part for a number of years in some of the leading progressive medical colleges, notably Johns Hopkins. Washington university of St. Louis, and the University of California, where it gives excellent results. Success and long life to the new Chicago medical school, with its recognition of the new view-

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