South Bend News-Times, Volume 34, Number 52, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 21 February 1917 — Page 8

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scarcely need fear such a law. It would seem that the courts mUht be trusted in this If they can be trusted to fend human being? to the electric chair, and we notice that the senate, ct least, has no compunctions against the courts Imposing capital punishment. Is office sweeter to a partisan scalawag than Jife to other unfor. tunate criminals? We would make the new Impeachment law hard enough to start, with respect to th number of petitioners necessary to its application, that It cannot t.e made a constant embarrassment, but we

would still leave it possible for a sufficiently indignant

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FEBRUARY 21, 1917.

CHANGING A NAME. One of the .signs of the time The Fatherland has h. triced its name. Hereafter it is to be called "The New Worid". This magazine was started by George Sylvester Viereck, a precocious young American writer of German ancestry, at the beginning of the war. It has won notoriety as an uncompromising German organ. Its pro-German utterances have been (o extreme that it has continually laid itself open to the charge of being anti-American. In every important controversy between this country and Germany, The. Fatherland has consistently taken the Prussian side. Th- editor has always maintained th;..t he was a good American, eager to set his blundering country right on the (Jtrman question, and that his work was a disinterested labor of love. Even the published proof, two years ago, that he was on the payroll of the German government, receiving a regular stipend from Ambassador von liernstorfi: for his services in behalf of the German propaganda, didn't feaze the young Mr. Viereck. It might look, on the face of it. as if The Fatherland were now converted to a belief in the righteouness of the American cause, as many other pro-German publications have been. Hut not so, "The change of name implies no change of heart." .Mr. Viereck blandly explains. It's merely a matter of convenience. He finds that at present the Germansounding title piejudices th- publication in the eyes of Americans, just as a magazine named "Uncle Sam" might look offenen o to the Gorman public. "We desire to avoid unnecessary provocation." So The Fatherland adopts ::n American name, just as F-boats occasionally stick up an American Mag because under such udnrs they tan accomplish their purpose more easily. "The New World" i a false si'-'n of the time. When German-Americans have dropped the hyphen from their souls as well as their names, and the whole country rink's with sincere expressions of loyalty, this publication stands forth as an admitted hypocrite. The editor's explanation is an insult to Iiis fellow-countrymen and misrepresentati e of his fellow-Germans. If be is going to keep on preaching I'russianism. he'd Lette- Le honest and tail his magazine "Wilhelinstrasse" or "Schrecklichkeit".

NATIONAL ENMITIES. "Nineteen years ago," reads a Washington dispatch, "Senor Polo de Ilernabe, Spanish ambassador to the United States, received his passports and was diplomatically invited to leave America. Today Senor Polo de Pernabe represents the United .States at Eerlin." This is one of the few pleasant incidents in the present American-German situation. It represents the final

I ci : mi iia nun ii. ttiiv iicjuuh.c or umci nrss uiai may uc lieft in either country as a result of the Spanish-Ameri

can war. The Spanish diplomat expelled from this country, not because he was personally objectionable but because two nations disagreed, is now proud to represent the United States at Perlin, and we are proud to have him. The enemies of nineteen years ago are now friends. National feuds engendered by war are surprisingly transient, anyhow. They don't last unless there is some continuing clash of material interests to keep them alive. Russia and Japan, so bitter in their enmity only a decade ago, are now allies. South Africa, which fought Pritish domination so vigorously in the Poer war, is now shedding its blood for England. It is doubtful whether France and Germany would have remained foes r.'ier the Franco-Prussian war if AlsaceLorraine had not been torn from France and thus made a permanent bone of contention. ily the same token, the present line-up in Europe isn't likely to be so everlasting as the statesmen pretend. If ijoth groups or belligerents don't dissolve into a world federation, they will probably break up in a few scars and give way to new groupings. Even blood spilt in a common cause doesn't hold nations together, any more than blood spilt in hostile combat keeps them apart. Nations are fickle thing".

increasing the requisite j and the meat plentiful.

BRITAIN SAVING FOOD. The British food ministry ha asked the British public to limit the consumption of bread to four pounds a week, of meat to two and a half pounds a week, and of sugar to three-quarters of a pound a week. The food controller intimates that if the people will not be frugal voluntarily, the government will be obliged to follow Germany's example and issue food cards. When food scarcity menaces England, it's time for America to take heed. High prices alone are a warni Put in view of the almost world-wide scarcity, which has steadily increased since the war began it seems not impossible that we ourselves may feel the pinch of real want before the war and its aftermath of limited production are over. The present Pritish limitation cm hardly be regarded as grevious. We Americans are accustomed to a good deal more than three-fourths of a pound of sugar

! a week our consumption is said to be a fourth of a ! pound a day but the bread allowance seems adequate

We are probably eating less

THAT "EASIER IMPEACHMENT" BILE.

With some amendments.

i. umbel of petitioners, from five as originally provided. I nieat than that right now. put British meals will i tw.le as pet amendments to. say, fifty or better ' shrink in quantity and quality as the year advances, -till, one hundred, we do not know but that we would 'and French. German, Austrian, Italian, Belsian. Ser

be for Gov. Goodrich's easier impeachment bill, the

fanaticism of the ultra-religious and the cussedness of the resentful "wets" notwithstanding. Gov. Palston recommended something of the sort in advance of Gov. Goo,lri-h only he didn't go so far as to ask that the power to till vacancies created by impeachment be vested in the governor. He just wanted it made possible to remove oUlcials who have become surilciently cotrup as to become obnoxious to the community. County commissioners might till county otfices by appointment and mayors might fill city offices, and in case of the impeachment of the mayor, there is no reason why the controller should not take hold, same as though his superior had resigned or died. There is really a necessity for such a law, or at least, a desirability. Heretofore it has been almost impossible to get rid of . corrupt official, and especially elected ones. It is a different type of recall, but would serve quite the same purpose, only it should take more than five, or even twelve disgruntled citizens to declare a man's misconduct obnoxious to the whole community. In states where they have the recall, it takes from live to twenty per cent of the voting population to start an election, and we think there should be a somewhat similar representative number to an impeachment petition. That alone would serve to block the abuse of the privileges. An official would need to be real obnoxious to the community to start an impeachment Cäso. Peligious fanatics bent on the enforcement of Sunday "blue laws' .;nd resentful "wets" out to make a decent respect for law and order a crime, just because of their own restraint, would have difficulty in getting a start merely to satisfy their whims. A new law is eoming into effect, however, the enforcement tf which bids fair to call for some kind of a dab over the heads cf officials whose duty it will be to !o the enforcing. We refer to the prohibition law. Already there are rumors affoat that instead of the "open saloon", promi-cs are bting made that carefully secreted "blind piis's" will be permitted in exchange for

political, support in certain localities.

bian, Roumanian and Russian meals will shrink still more. So will the meals of nearly all the European neutrals. If the seas remain open, more of our food supply than ever may How to Europe, to relieve the famine in the allied and neutral countries. In that case our people may really feel the pinch. If the seas are closed 10 food cargoes, as a result of German frightfulness, the r.atural result will be to make a greater plenty here. Hut in either case, this lesson is being driven home tc the American people: We are a nation of wasters, and this is no time to waste. When so much of the world is starving, it's wicked to eat more than we need, through mere gluttony, and it's wicked to throw away edible food. A little restraint in our eating habits won't hurt us. If half of what the doctors preach about diet Is true, it will do most of us good. Whether we do it from our recessity or from a desire to leave more for starving millions beyond the sea. we'll do well to make more abstemious and efficient use of our food stuffs.

PREPAREDNESS AGAINST PLOTTERS. One branch of natlona defense that has heretofore been given too little attention is the passage of laws directed against foreign conspiracy. Several measures, prepared for the most part by the attorney general many months ago, are now being rushed through congress. They cover such vital matters as the conduct of foreign vessels in American waters in time of actual or threatened war, the movements of interned soldiers and sailors, attempts to injure vessels engaged in foreign Commerce, conspiracies to destroy property in a country with which the United States is at peace, the utterances of false statement? In order to influence the acts of foreign governments, counterfeiting the seal of the United States, the alteration and forcing of passports, etc. Nearly all of the new regulations have been inspired

by offenses against our neutrality, our honor of our

Ml that is asked j property, actually committed during the European war.

is that the "pig-" be not permitted to squeal too loud, j Some of them have a direct bearing on such acts as

Trie talk i current in Indianapolis, it is said to be current ir. Kvansville, Fort Wayne. Terre Haute. Gary; in all present "wet" spots, in fact, if we are correctly informed except, of course. South Pend. and even in

those recently committed by the crews of German vessels laid v:p in our ports, who disabled their ships at the first hint of possible war. It appears that there is no legal warrant for punishing the offenders, althougn

M.uth Pend the political activities of certai'i liquor in-j their acts might ha e resulted in blocking port traiHc

tt-revts i.etin to look queer. It is difficult to .Tuess what j and. at the very least, have prevented our taking a just

their particular political interest can be. in the absence j step of reparation in case Germany forces war upon us.

of some s.uh understanding. Ar. easier impeachment !aw might, indeed, have a somewhat salutary effect.

Ao honest orbc.al, attending to business, would

We cannot punish past offenses, but with the enact

nient of these measures we shall be far better prepared !

j to cope hereafter with meddling aliens.

A Popular Fallacy About College Life

Student Who Has No Time for Healthy Exercise Hardly Has an Advantage Over Those Who Are AMe to Have Hours of Freedom.

THE MEL TING POT COME! TAKE POTLUCK WITH US.

Ily Vmm1s Hutchinson. 31. I). The World's Foremost Write'- on Medical Subjects. Up to a few decades ago. while the hardships might be formally deplcred, it was mite generally assumed and taken fjr granted that while trying and disagreeable at the time, the struggles and deprivations of a boy putting himself through college were really in the long run t. benefit to him, both morally and physically. They were supposed to teach him to bear hardship, to develop his character, to provide him with healthy muscular exercise and to teach him to value properly both money and the opportunities for education which he was getting. All of which was true to a certain extent, but there was a heavy debit side to the account which we are Just beginning to realize. On the Debit Side. The mere routine daily schedule of a college course, with its four to six hours of recitations, filled in and dovetailed with the closeness of a Chinese puzzle by study hours, laboratory works, reading up subjects in the library, class meetings, the college paper, chapel and other formal exercises, with at leas', two hours' study after "business" hours, forms In itself a heavy and exacting day's work, if taken ;it all seriously and conscientiously. s?o eager is each professor to magnify the importance and enlarge the field of his own subject that there is often actual difficulty for the student to secure enough free time for a reasonable or even minimum amount of exercise in the open air, except on Saturday and Sunday. Several times while lecturing before the student body of a college or university upon hygiene in general and the value of exercise in particular, and advising them to spend at least two hours each day in the open air, I have had handed up to me a copy of the college schedule, with the request to please look at it and then tell them where they could manage to get two hours or anything like it for outdoor exercise out of that daily program. "When you add to this heavy load, with its long hours of indoor confinement,

ixr.YLLin i.i: signs. This well-conducted universe is full of many signs Py which the fates communicate their laudable designs. The temperature rising in your unassaulted ear Implies that friends are saying things jou would not wish to hear. A crack across the looking glass can nullify your pluck And hand you out a lengthy line of tough and wormy luck. The power of dark-complexioned cats and rabbits' feet and lees. The mysteries of palm or cards and lore of coffee dregs. The spells pronounced at Halloween by fairies bad or good. The Ills which cannot be deferred by rapping on the wood These have their well proportioned weight and gravity, 'tis true. Put still your most unfailing sign is you. old man. Just you. You spend your moments idly? It's a sign your will is soft. You flirt with every fairy? Pats are nesting in your loft. You try to beat the stock exchange? A sign you'll die a bum. You bought some real estate by mail? The worst is yet to come. You built a palace for your bride? You'll finish in a hut. You read these verses every day? My friend, you are a nut. Arthur Brooks Paker.

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The burglar and th barkeep, the tinhorn and the tout Demand to know where they can go to spend their evenings out. Young gents with off-side noses and cauliflower ears Affrighted view the movement to imperil their careers. And shifty-eyed promoters in wild alarm declare: "Hey! Have a heart! The manly art ain't bein' treated square:" The Willies and the Chollies who hail with glad acclaim Hough blows and telta (when someone else is staggered by the same) Are filled with indignation; they're peeved and grieved and sore That Mike the Pite and One-Eyed White can't mix it any more. What right have legislators, they as"k. to thus cut short The only kind of game they find that's real red-blooded sport? And, oh, the lovely ladies! You've read about their cheers When Piff the Punk knocked off a chunk of one of Clancy's ears. You know the exultation, the pure, serene delight That they evince when Mike the Quince cops out a 10-round fight. How can they find amusement; where can the darlings go These winter nights if public fights receive their knockout blow?

It Might be Worse. If we lived at Far Rockaway we'd

both day and night, the two. three j rather have QUr windoW3 broken by

the concussion of big guns on land

than by the shells from big guns at sea.

or even four extra hours of heavy muscular or confining mental labor which must be carried by the boy who is working his way through.

whether by doing chores or waiting j on table or sweeping out stores or War's Side Lines, keeping books or what not. the bur- j A manufacturer in London was den is too much to be safely and ' exempted because he was working

healthfully borne by any but the most hardy and robust of constitutions. As every doctor knows, many and many a case of nervous breakdown, of anaemia, of chronic dyspepsia, of

dilated heart comes into his office.

on -4.UUU waste basnets ror tne government. Whatever happens, the censors must not run short of facilities for their work. And be Quick About it. Congress ought to pass a law

Ireecuiiccl. Mr. Hughes is the only defeated

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which careful investigation shows to i which w ill prevent any Chicago

have had its foundation laid in the j speculator from putting all the visimuscular and mental strain, the supply of calories into cold stor-

poor and hurried meals, the lack of age fresh air and wholesome recreation I

and the society of his kind involved in working his way through college. Takes lalge Off Work. The boy who is compelled to devote a substantial share of his energies tq earning his living, instead of being free to devote everything that is in him to his college work, is handicapped and at a disadvantage from start to finish. All the finest edge and enjoyment are taken off his work, because he has neither the time nor the strength to do his best at it. While some of the tasks which he undertakes are either comparatively liffht or give him a fair share of vigorous. wholesome muscular exercise, yet "beggars can't be

choosers." one the boy is obliged j to take just whatever job he can get I

In that particular town and commu

nity, especially if a dozen other ambitious young chaps- are in eager competition with him for them. The net practical result Is that not a few of the positions which the working student is compelled to take involve muscular overstrain, exposure to dust, dirt, smoke and other unhygienic conditions, are extremely confining or interfere with proper hours of slee. while some of them are so humiliating and menial as to be positively degrading. Get Iess Out of College. It is the almost unanimous opinion both of men who have worked their own way through ccdlege and of thoughtful students and teachers who have watched others doing it. that while it was better than not taking the course at all. the selfsupporting pupil got far less out of his college course and life, especially upon the fellowship and cultural and social sides of it. as they are apt to be insufficiently fed and rested and to start the real I attle of life after commencing half tired and "stale." as the trainers sayinstead of in the full vigor of enthusiasm and exuberance of their

vouthful powers. All honor to the t

plucky youngsters who are forcing their way up the hill of learning by their own unaided efforts, but the story of their courage and selfsacrifice ought to be a bugle call to wake the community to see that not merely free tuition, but free, generous maintenance should be provided to every youngster who has the ability and the ambition to try to make the very best of himself and his powers.

candidate for the presidency, who hasn't advised Mr. Wilson as to his course, and he's been too busy advising New York to give Riverside park to the New York Central. Strategy. Mr. Whitman vvill deal a heavy blow at his enemy, the Demon Hum, when he lands on the Demon's chief ally, oil man Prize Ring. Sensational, If True. Thero is something about Dr. Nicholas Murray Putler's information concerning the 200 German submarines captured by the Pritish that leads one to suspect that the doctor had a long, if not an entirely sound, sleep just before he Imparted it. A Difference. This country needs fighting men not prize fighting men.

Inklings and Thinkings

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Health Commissioner says, "I recommend the New Pngland boiled dinner." We don't mind fecommending it. but we'd hate to order it.

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A writer in the Toledo Plade asserts that he- has a friend who likes parsnips. Either the writer or his friend is an awful , well Munchau sen. From here it looks as if this leak investigation were just one of those things.

Sociologist says it takes the American family three generations to progress from pip4 to cigarette. Looks as if the fourth generation would have to "progress" to hop.

At our present rate of acquiring islands, we'll soon have 1 per capita

Gov. Edge is sore because so many of his subjects work in NewYork and play golf in New Jersey. They have to get the money for their club dues somewhere, don't thay?

John Curtis, a log. holds a card in the village library at -Norfolk. Conn. John exchanges books at the

l library for his owner, Capt. Philip

Curtis.

Congress is hunting a gas-leak with a lighted match. ONCE-OVERS WIIi: YOU TALK, SAY SOMI7TIIIXO. What is your idea of truth? Are yo'u proud of your reputation for "kidding"? Do you grin from ear to ear when some man calls you a "josher" or the girls say you ar a "jollier"? Have you really a keen sense of humor which vents itself this way. or do you do the "kidding" because you are afraid to tell the truth? It is no credit to a man to have the reputation of 'lying faster than a horse can trot." It becomes a habit of the mind. After a time it will seem impossible to give any matter serious thought, and harder yet to give a true and definite answer to matters which come up and for which you are accountable. How long do you think you will keep your character and re putation unsullied, if you are not to be depended upen as truthful? And then you wonder why you do not advance faster? When your word is as good as your bond, you may rest easy that your worth will make itself felt and will be acknowledged.

Don't try to fool yourself any longer. They are all "on." and friends are hoping you will wake up in time.

Make Thrift a Household Word

Teach the children to be thrifty. Habit 3 formed in childhood are not apt to change in after years. The key opening box of ShinolA with more than fifty shines and a SnmoiA HOME SET

for polishing is an outfit unequalled for economy and convenience.

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oiismiv.vnoxs. F. S. national and state banks now hae resources of over $32.000,0 '.0.000.

Those Villa bandits demand $500 for four raptured Americans. Say. they must have caught New Mexico uewspifper men!

NOT MIRIors. "No." said the once musical maid firmly. "I could not sing if you should ask me. I have given it up." "But why?" asked the wondering friend. "The doctor ordered it." "Is that all?" breathed the friend, with a sieh of relief. was afraid it migh- have been the police."

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