South Bend News-Times, Volume 34, Number 61, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 2 March 1917 — Page 8

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That (icrmany lias already done enough to gtal i into a doon wars, sy nothing of the "freedom of tlie ea-," tlmMiuli inultH to our Intejrrity, alu of rivlhKe, and inlire of our Mill, i dleloMl by thin latoti exwltloii of her treailiery. And jet, while American are still held irWners in (Germany, with iount umi IicrnMorff ennnite home under safe iia.voaKt, M"'urel to him by the l'nltcd Stats,

and th-e other thiiii: olti on, coiisrevmeii und -en-jators wanted to filibuster apaln-t Krantins the prod-

uent wanted j owern 01 luutonai seii-iroieciiou. We wonier when It will he necessary to drop another lomb on conress in ortler to brine it to its national sen?

English Language is Being Disfigured by Unfit Word

MARCH 2. 1917.

STATE MARKET BUREAUS. . A Mil introdur-vl in the Ohio legislature affords a pood examplf of the now, sane way in which public authorities are .-ec-kinK to make living less expensive. The old ldc;i was to arrest .somebody or boycott something or investigate and prepare an elaborate report. These measures are all pood in thfir place, but they have usually proved futile. The new method is that of con-t-tructive action. The bill in question proposes to establish a state bureau of markets which shall be a sort of clearin? house between the producer and the consumer. The bureau will collect information throughout the stat on farm product.-!, freinht rates, commission rates, transportation facilities, etc.. and distribute this information rcKularly and frequently m the form of free bulletins. Such a department is already operating, -with excellent results, in several states. The Ohio bureau will also have power to investigate factories, dealers, commission men r any other persons enpaKed in li uidlin? food products, and will he expected to cooperate with producers and consumers in working out and maintaining economical system;.; of distribution. This is petting down to brass tacks". Kvcry state culit Vav? such a l.uieau. equipped with broad powers am .-.imposed of expt its. It is largely due to Just fiieh pcMie act vity as tins that (Jermary. tremendous1 liandt Nippe-i as she is. has been able to present such a line ec momic J'ront to the world.

ANOTHER SEVERE JOLT FOR TH0ÖEWHO IMAGINE THEY KNOW MORE .ABOUT OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS THAN DO THE PRESIDENT AND HIS ADVISORS. Another reproof to tliof CftimaMo Kcullciucn in ahinuton. in outh Ucnd ami other places that we nad atNMit, who hae Incn ultra-perilcnt in denouncing th adiniiUMt ration's foreign olicic, and have aticmptcd to liainper tin administration in its couix', lias been dclicnil Ihnuigh ihe reelalion. d(H umcnlary and otlierw i--, of the plot that (crmany has suuht to hatch against us to embroil us in war with Mexico and .a pa 1 1. When will we learn we and some others, that peri'ia the men at the helm in Washington know about as much what is going on in the world, us we lackWMMlMiicn, and een some wiseacres, with senatorial togas, know? Only a few daj.s ago, one of these 'know-it-alK" who occasionally hilcrnatcs in the lobby of the Oliver hotel was lamenting loudly that he was "afraid that Wilson was going to get us' into trouble yet;" words slokcn in approal of the opxltioii in Washington to the administration bills asking for larger wers toted in the department of justice to 1h usil to suppress treason, sedition, and ither plots against the government. The' were the same opNitlonit in Washington as iux who, on Wedneslay, were planning a lllibu ter to kfp tie preid'iit from gtttiii the "full authority" that he wanted in maintaining neutrality. This up to the very hccl- of the cplolon which the täte department finally rclcas'l for their edification. I Mat- here, and hints there, have Ihii dropping: fast for fully two jcars, that the I'nltctl StattN has lccii the M i-nc of much (icrman Intrigue. We lwtve had the cases of Hoy-11 ami von Iaien, aiul now u have the cae of von ltorntorlT, lihling bchincl his authority as an ;ini!);-sulor, actually an Instrument of plot against the 1'idted States Itself. Imiced it is high time that congress, and as well, many still only luUewarm Americans, should "drop their Mditical ilifTerenct's, and legln to swing into line behind the president." -I-uising eipresM-s eonlidcme in .Mexico and Japan." as the dispatcho put it. Yes. hut proliably it is more of a diplomatic confidence, than a real one, esccially as to Mexico with recvt to which this revelation throws light on a mimler of things. It might be construed, even, as answering a question frequently propounded thntigh the cidumns of our evening contemMlary during the ast ii.onths. as to why tnops wert s itt to the Mexican holder. The American imagination i, indeed, a great thing: a vcrv suggestive thing. It is jammed lull of interrogating mints as smh as it cs something whih it cannot eimpreheml. It i wonderful, the right whiih our American citizenship thinks it has, despite all cxpcHlicncv. tit demand of the government full knowledge of all Its sTcts, and then to mistrust the government Ins-aiis it does not give them, or perhaps cwn if it ds up to the olnt of grave (Linger. Tho scimtorial "Idihusprers" must. IndeiHl. have .iijojed waking from their dreams Thursday morni.ig. to find that they had !ccn serving as mere tools of (ermaii military Intrigue; vca. but for the fact that the) Jnew not what they weie doing almost to the vc'.-gc of treason. (Juitc eUhntl the administration at Washington has not lcn asleep even though its eves, at times, have 4iiii'( shut. .i- emergencies have arisn, cemundiug. it, it has xvinal alwavs quite able to slmvv

GOV. GOODRICH'S MUCH-WANTED ONE MAN POWER. Ah the seventieth general assembU' approaches its close. Interest in the success oC .he governor, with respect to his machine building program, calls for analysis, quite as much so as though it had all been enacted into law. Say nothing of the defeat of the oil Inspection bill, merely an attempt to pave the way for a substitution of republican for democratic inspectors, and the crimp that has been put in the state highway commission system that the governor wanted, it is well to knowthat had the governor had his way, the only state oliicials for whom the people -would he allowed to vote are the governor, lieutenant governor and auditor of state. All other official?, boards, commissions, and employes should be named by and work under the direction of the governor. There you are, Mr. and Mrs. Voter. Is that plain?

jCan.you fully understand what he says? Gov. James

P. Goodrich, who assumes that the people are not qualified to govern their own affairs, told an audience of Indianapolis business men the other night that this is his idea of government of the people, for the people and by the people. The governor has demanded that laws be passed by the present general assembly giving him

i most of these appointments and he has said the new-

constitution will give him the others. The really funny part of it is that these are features of the loudly touted Goodrich economy measures, which the democratic senators are denounced by the Goodrich newspaper lobby for threatening to defeat. The Goodrich speech, designating the three offices for whih the people should le allowed to vote, was made to the Indianapolis board of trade. While lie allows that the auditor of state should be chosen by the voters, he has introduced a bill taking away from the auditor all the appointments of the office excepting the chief deputy. Probably he concludes this one man might not be able to do much damage to any executive program. The women who have, been discussing the governor's views on the rights of the people to self-government have been wondering what in the vorld they have been lighting for. They have struggled for a number of years for the right of suffrage. Now that they have finally secured it there i? going to he nobody to vote for. A'l officials are to he appointed by the governor. This leads to another important consideration, and this is the work of the constitutional convention. The governor has been working ever since the general assembly convened to jam through lulls that will help him to build a political machine. It he is lacking in some particulars as chief executive, his supporters say they will not take off their hats to anyone or any combination when it comes to handling a good machine organization; Jim Goodrich has got them all distanced. It is well for the people right now, early in the campaign, to be up and doing. Constitutional convention delegates are to be elected in September. The women, for instance, say they are going to study the constitution and the changes that ought to be made. Far more important that they turn their attention to studying the right sort of men to compose that convention. The men who should go there are not the sort of men who are going to seek the places. They are men busy with their own affairs. They must be drafted for the work. There will be little use studying the constitution and needed changes unless the proper sort of delegates are to direct the reconstruction. Attempts will be made by all selfish and political interests to pack this convention. There are both men and women with hobbies that the people will not care to have driven into the constitution. The Goodrich lobby will be there with plenty of backing to urge just such foolish stuff as the governor has been advocating about concentration of power in the hands of one man. The governor has gone further than the one proposition concerning state officials who shall no longer stand in the elected list, lie says he must appoint all county assessors, so he may control the levying of county and state taxes. He wants to have the power to remove all city and county officials and all prosecuting attorneys and judges in the districts and counties, so he may designate his personal choices as their successors. All this sounds foolish to people of ordinary thinking powers, and it would seem impossible cf belief that the governor could ever have concocted any such thing if he had not been pressing bills for passage by the legislature and constantly making speeches advocating all that is here quoted. If the democrats in the legislature can keep most of these things out of the statutes, the people of the state, both the men and women, should remember that the most important part of the constitutional convention will be done when the delegates are chosen. Vote only for men who can be trusted to protect the interests of the people and there will be no need to worry. Hut to vote for men of this type it is first necessary to induce these men to become candidates. The women say they are going to study practical politics in order to best ex-

jercise t!.ir new duties anc powers. Here is an excellent first lesson. Make the nominations first and then j get in the votes to elect your nominees. Then will you j be able to protect the constitution from fads and isms ! anil selfish considerations.

Ity Garrett 1. Serviss. There is an a-hominable word, coming more and more rapidly into general use, an ill-sounding, disagreeable, viscid compound of hissing and roiling consonants, which does well enough as an engineer's noun, to desribe a physical state, defined by science for scientific comprehension, but which, when it

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verb (a part that it was never intended to play, and for .which it is unlit), becomes an interloper in the good society of literary English, from which it ought to be expelled v ith ignominy. 1 mean the word "stress," as used in such a sentence as this, the first example that falls under my eye: "It was not denied that the president still had under consideration the question of asking congress for advance authority, but this was not btressed." When it appears in the form of a present participle it looks and sounds, If possible, even worse, as, for instance, here: "One official said that the newspapers, through stressing this or that incident, had," etc.

SOME NET, THAT! First thing, our Hanpton Iloads submarine net catches an Old Dominion liner. Golly! maybe they've got up a net that'll catch the big fish and let the little ones slip through. Set her in the income tax collection department:

"War would pave our streets with gold!" declares a down east economist. Hut what we're hankering after is a war that will pae our streets with potatoes or onions.

Washington reports extraordinary earthquake shocks two thousand miles away. We hadn't heard that Teddy had even started on that trip.

There is no sufficient excuse for thus disfiguring the language that we all speak and write. Already there exists an abundance of synonymous words with which to convey, and that with far greater exactness, the meaning intended by this malformed changing which

smells of he laboratory -words and phrases as urge, emphasize, enfo:xe, require, upon, prescribe, lay stress on.

tain, demand, and many

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THE MELTING POT COME! TAKE POTLUCK WITH US.

Tin: DHK TIIUTIKH. Come here, my young and empty son." the careful parent cries. And I will fill your vacant mind and make your noodle wise. Incline the handsome funnel of your finely chiseled ear To truths which every youngster should be hankering to hear. And let your best attentiveness be reverently turned. To lessons which, at great expense, I personally learned." The courteous descendant of the proud and tnxious dad Permits his ear to listen, as becomes a civil lad. Ills countenance is lustred with a comprehending light. He says. "That's very true indeed!" and "Yea, papa; you're right." Do not the rules of etiquette declare it isn't nice To treat with disrespect the kindly sources of advice? Put practical experiments undoubtedly outwtigh The humble heft of all the thinva that other people say; And all the futile foolishness by future fathers done Is later on exceeded by the soft and silly son. Alas, that human beings are so wonderfully dense That little penetrates their skulls except experience. ' Arthur Brooks liaker.

LiTTLi: ttojmnrs iv. Ity William F. Kirk.

which have long been in use, and are perfectly understood. As I encounter the new vefb here and there (always with a shudder ot disarust), I And that it is employed indifferently to take the place of all the expressions just cited, with a consequent loss of precision. For instance, I am sure that I have read a sentence equivalent to the following: "Here is probably the best way to do the thing, but I do not stress it," meaning "I do not require it, or prescribe it." Or again: "He expressed such or such an opinion, but he did not stress it," meaning "he did not emphasize, or enforce, it." Or. once more: "1 ahould be pleased if you would do that, but I do not su ess it," meanir.g 'T do not urge it," or "I do not insist upon it." No doubt the modern tendency to conciseness, in preference to preciseness, of speech is responsible for the attempt which has been but too successful to introduce this and many other objectionable neologisms Into the language. .Many young writers of novels and short stories (and the writers of iuch things seem to be seriously taken nowadays for historians, philosophers, psychologists and teachers of the public) lard, their pages with lamentable twlstin-s. substitutions and transformations of words merely for the sake of novelty. In these environments a young lady always "smiles" or "purls" her yes, instead of saying it; or else, in the opposite case, the old-fashioned commonplaces of language are avoided in the manner following: "He fell on his knees at her feet, and suspired, 'can you not pity me' 'No!' she rebuffed, 'your treachery has stoned my heart.' "

Pa was playing a peece on the fonygraft last nite & thare was a line in it that made Pa feel kind of bad. Ma sed Pa newer felt sad except wen he had been too glad during the day down town, so she kep looking at him. That was a terribul sad line, sed Pa, that line wich goes For Memory is the only Frend that Greef can call Her Own. It brings many sad thoughts to me, sed Pa. Here is a clean handkerchif if you want to cry, sed Ma. I didn't know you had a streak of tenderness like that. Ma sed, we certingly live and lern. So we do, sed pa, .t speeking of Memory, that song took my thoughts back to my old hoani out West, ware I was a carefree, child. I was a kind child, too, sed Pa. Of course I plugged a few frogs with my beanshooter, & ended the promising career of many a chipmunk. Pa sed, but that was the hunting nater of man coming out in me. Wen Man is a child, Pa sed, he hunts for birds & bullfrogs, & wen he grows up he hunts for a hoam. Quite so, sed Ma. Yes indeed, sed Pa. Well, my hunting days are over. I have found enuff to maik anj' two men happy. Pa s d, & I suppose I shud be blithe & gay the livelong day, but s'inihow thare cum times wen a feeling of sadness & longing cums oaver me & I dreem of 'hddhood & its floury feelds, Pa sed. As Mister L.ongfellow sed: That is not a relashum of pain & reesembles sorrow only

As coffee reesembles rain. Well, sed Ma, wen you git oaver feeling greef-stricken, I wish you wud finish reeding that continued story to me. We left off ware tingirl had about made up her mind that she cud land Oswald Ollifant any time she wanted to. All rite, sed Pa, I will reed to you & maybe in that way I will be cheered up t fergit my happy childhood. I can't reed vary long tonite, tho, sed Pa. My voice is kind of hoarse.. I was teaching sum of the bojs that pong of lauder's about A Wee Dochen Doris. It is a grand old Scotch Hong, Pa sed. Yes, sed Ma, (c it talks the grand old Scotch to sing it in publick places wen thay ought to be gitting loam to thare dinner. Hoarse voice or no hoarse voice, sed Ma, you are going to reed to me tonite. So Pa put on his slippers & lit his pipe Sr after he smoaked a littel he beegan to reed out loud to Ma. Can I put in a few words here & thare if I think It will improve the etory? sed Pa, Yes, deercst, ed Ma, anything to keep you amused. Yure mother toald me yeers ago that I must humor you, sed Ma, & I have humored you to many yeers that I am quite a humorist. Wen you are reddy, Gridley, you may lire, sed Ma. Then Pa beegan to reed & I had to lisen to the story, too. Thare wasent any fites in the story. Pa toald me the fites wud cum after the Romance was oaver.

Inklings and Thinkings

By Wex Jones

How to peel potatoes: Don't.

Tailors' convention says a man can get by on 20 suits of clothes a year. He wouldn't be up to standard, of course; It's merely that his elbows wouldn't be sticking out.

There is another word, not so new as "stress." used for a verb, which I personally would like to see tabooed, and that is the adjective "human" pluralized, and then employed as a noun to describe men and women. "Humans" is a very weak word, with too many consonants at the end of it which get up into the nose. There is something disrespectful about it, too, both in look anil sound, and our recent performances require that we should at least speak well of ourselves, lest higher intelligences take us at our apparent face value. One thing may be said for this whole class of words, that is. words used in an unusual or forced sense. which is that unless they are utterly inadmissable they often have an excellent temporary- effect when employed under the spur of a sudden impulse by a writer, and still better by a speaker, but they ought to be dropped with the occasion. I spared him with a jest," the single line by which a once popular Scottish poet is now remembered, offers a classic example of what I mean. But nobody can use that phrase now, except as a quotation, although, so far from being in itself objectionable, it is a literary gem of rare brilliance. Shakespeare Is full cf similar things, which will no more stand handling than the patterns on a butterfly's wing. The great trouble lies in the vulgar habit of imitatine, which is the mainstay of all fashions and fads. If some college professor, with his mind full of mathematical conceptions of force, should impatiently speak of 'stressing" an idea into a stupid student's head, we mu'ht applaud him for his unconscious poetry, but to see such a word displacing its betters in the field of common language is altogether too distressful

Treat maniacs with water. Headline. Might fool a maniac.

Professor says to girls: Don't marry pacifists." Sounds like foolish advice. Might be the only -way to make fighting men out of them.

Robert Louis Stevenson must have been thinking of present prices when he said of his garden First let the onion flourish there.

"Jersey City man wants divorce because his wife likes Brooklyn." Incompatability of tenements?

Great trouble in a high-brow versus low-brow contest is that the high-brows always talk like low-brows and the low-brows act like highbrows.

Inspiring sight a regiment of bellboys charging the enemy with suit cases full of grenades.

And how about a regiment of hat boys, with the motto: "They shall not pass"?

Notice an editorial entitled: "A study in boiled dinners." Never could wait long enough to study one start eating it right away.

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We're going t keep lent. With the prices prevailing at the butcher's, it's about the only thing we can keep.

In California the farms originally were the old "Spanish land grants," usually of enormous extent. In a fashion these great holdings validated by the American government when California came into the union have remained as ranches. Today the people are learning that both for taxation and production, small farms are better, and a move

ment to bring this about is under way. i

More than 10.000 bound volumes were added to the library of Oierlin rollege last year.

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