South Bend News-Times, Volume 34, Number 62, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 3 March 1917 — Page 4

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MARCH 3, 1917

THE SOU!' POT. Where arc the s.mps a no stew of our youth.' The inquiry isn't merely etitimental, though it brings up iure iiu-iaoii' s ,f .Mi-jitr.inrf platis and howls served ly fond nnthr t hunrry yuvKstcrs. and more h-li-. ions in MiH-N nl t;itr than all th amhrosial concoctionv uf 1'i'fiicli r!i-f- p.trtakon of in niaturor tlay. .-'.;:ps and t-w as m'th-r u-d t make them were practical as well as full of emotion. il ;ippcal. Ai fording to a I 'i tt5-lurIi dietary expert, one of the -hief teasons for !h present well-known cost tt living i the disappearance of tlie mjiii pot from the Amerii an kitcp.cn. "The American hou wife."' sas this eNpeit. "docs not follow the example of her Kuropean Mhter." .he does not follow the example of her own mother and crandmother. She ouys the "l.est iiits," anI serves thn roasted or ), oiled or fried, making little use of the hy-prodar ts of he cooking. She lKnores the cheaper ami toir-flier ineatn which contain more lihre. more flavor and are more nutritious" just the thiiiK for .soups and stews when handled with the culinary skill of our fort mothers. There i little virtue, however, as the expert points out. In thin -oups. In making a clear soup nearly all the substances whkh possess food value are removed. Soups to he nutritions should he thick, and so should s-tcws a fact which all lowin hoy and Mils know i.'xtim ti 1 . though their parents may hae forgotten it.

RED TAPE. The Philadelphia bureau of municipal research has been lookinir into the titv'.s ?V5tem of transacting busi-

nos, and in a recent bulletin make an illuminating j e.xpo.Mtion of the eviis of red tape. It prints a tompli- j raf-d diagram showing the various steps that have to

be taken whenever any city department in Pniladelphia boys any article which rontH f 100 fir more. It look like a portinp pace diagram of the ucissitudes of the puskin d urlng a long and exciting football game. A verbal account of the procedure, as brief as it can he made, will be about like this: Firt there is a requisition on the department of supplier. Then there are specifications and a request for bids. Then there is a proposal bond. Then a certi'irate that the proposal bond has been filed. Then the bid. Then a notification of award of contrac t. Then a request that the city holicitor prepare the contract. Then a contract bond. Then the drawing of the contract. Then a notification that the contract is ready to be executed. Then a notification from the mayor's office that the contract has been executed. Then the city controller geta a copy of the contract. Then the department of supplies gets a copy. Then the purchase order is made out. Then the goods are purchased. That's onTy half the story. It remains to tell of the original invoice, of invoices for the operating department, of invoices forwarded to the department of supplies, of the duty performed by the register of invoices, of the schedule of Invoices and other Invoice matters too complicated for a layman to follow; of a voucher payable, of the registry of vouchers, of the chedule of vouchers, of audited vouchers in the city controller's office, of the warrants-payable account in the same office, of the warrant itself, of an order on the city controller for the warrant, and the final, glorious summation of the interminable nightmare of red tape the payment of the cash for the goods bought. The bureau proposes to reduce all this to nine simple steps, making a big saving of stationery, time and salaries, and enabling contractors and merchants to do business with the city almost as easily and quickly as with a private business institution. The eil exemplified so egregiouly in the Philadelphia city hall exists in some degree in nearly every city in America being worst in the largest cities and in every state capital, and in its most troublesome and expensive form perhaps, in the national capital. "Why should the law be an ass?" asked one of Shakespeare's characters. Why should a city or state or nation be a fool in its business procedure?

Jupiter as Planet of Mystery

THE SMALL-CITY STORE. Tlivie was reccnth printed in the New York Times u r-ioiy of how a dry-goods merchant won success in a small neighboring Ity. It serves as an admirable presentation of the merits of the small-city store, and of the opportunities of the intelligent small-city merha nt. Tor two weeks before he opened his store, the proprietor ran an unconventional series of ads in the local newspapers, lie announced that he was not going to ;.k people tti patronize his store merely because they vee l.is neighbors he was smug to make it 00(l business tor them to patronize him. lie proposed to make it unnecessary for any re?ddent of his town to go to the big city for dry goods, lie guaranteed that he woubl kep a stock, which, thouvrh small, would be as good in quality and up-to-iatcr.es as the metropolis offered, and that anything which he did not hae in stock he would t. Thus he would sae his fellow citizens the necessity of spending cm fate, time and envrgy on distant shopping trips. He lould really glc better satisfaction, he explained, than the big t ity merchant could. lie was near at hand. It was easy to run in. If the floods didn't suit, .1 was easy to return them. Ami unlike the big city c.iler. he would make no trouble about changing them. .'.Smoker, in the big city it was hard for the out-of-tonii prrchascr to get credit. 11' himself would always tead reasonable c redit. The bU-city storts, he .-aid, had got ahead because, they specialized on good service. He would give as good serUe as the best of them. He would use a motor truck and deliver any purchase, regardless of bow march or how little it cost, to any part of the city, . he -erf ally a nd promptly. lie proposed to st Ii them cer thing just as cheap, and possibly cheaper, than the biu-city stores did. He could do it, he explained, because, while the big establishments could buy a little cheaper than he could by ordering in larger quantities, he had the adantage of them in paying less for rent, taxes, heat, light, clerk hire, delivery and many other charges. He declared frankly that he would offer "bargains" on only cue ki:ol of goods at a time. On them he would knock off the profit, expecting to make hi proper profit from the quantity of regular goods they would buy at regular prices when they came into his -tore. Then ho dropped, for or.ee. into a more personal ein. b.;t still maintained hi logical and self-respecting -tand. "I own a l.oiae here." he said. "The taxes I I aj on m home go to pay the expenses of the community, as dots a portion of the rent I pay for my :tore. Thrfore a part of eery dollar that you spend in my store tomes back to ou in some way. The. lollar oa spend in the big city goes to help that community. In '.uying there ou h:lp to educate other children at the expense of umr own; ou gie them ; leaner streets to wal'. through and letter parks to play in. P.ring your civic patriotism into j lay, especially so when cu can do it without hurting your V."ketbook." On the ope ring day his store was tilled with shop-er-s. It has it en pretfy well tilled ever since. I5e kept his promises. He has succeeded where fellow uetchants prophesied Iiis failure. And he has helped rther progressive merchant as well a himself, by laming the tide of dry-poods shopping back from the !ig ity to the loead stores. He has helped the pur-rfl4S'.-V5. too. becat's.' they have really cot better goods end better servhe for the money. And he has helped th whole city by keeping that money at home.

TRAFFIC RULES. It's all very well to argue, academically, that the Uerman government has a right to draw- an Imaginary line around a big section of the Atlantic ocean and order us to keep out of it on peril of destruction to our ships and death to ourselves. Put the thing looks a bit different when brought home to us by specific example. Thus the Albany, x. V., Journal addresses the following imaginary letter from Kaiser Wilhelm to a certain Chicago congressman who has made himself a public apologist for Germany: -I would see no reason whatever why I should not permit you to pursue your rightful errands in the city of Chicago in all usual ways to which you are accustomed, except for the following restrictions; "Whenever you traverse Michigan a v. you shall walk upon the curbstone, not deflecting your course oneeighteenth of an inch from the edge of the curb. You shall look straight ahead, neither to the right nor to the left, t'pon arriving at your destination, if no violence has occurred to you by accident, you may return to your own home by the same route and with punctilious observance of these rules. Otherwise I cannot guarantee your safety." Tiie terms are rather mild. The kaiser might have been represented as stating explicitly that if the Chicago citizen failed to wear a retl-and-white-striped button in the lapel of his coat and an eagle feather in his hat, or deviated by the fraction of an inch from the prescribed course, he would be shot instantly. With these emendations, the letter corresponds pretty well to the Perlin decree ordering Americans off the sea except for the route, and under the conditions, prescribed by the kaiser. The citizen in question has as much right in the forbidden sea zone as he has on Michigan av. s'uppose you apply the same reasoning to your own city, and consider the propriety of being ordered off the main street by a foreign government. How do you like such traffic rules?

lly iarrvtt P. N-ni-s After next month the planet Jupiter will leave the evening ky, to be gone for a long while, and sc this is a good time to look at him, before he retires behind the curtain of the sunset. Nobody has ever yet succeeded in solving the mystery of Jupiter. In him see a globe nearly 1,400 times larger than ours, whose peculiarities are such that science is: baffled, and even the imagination i staggered. In trying to comprehend them. The distance around Jupiter is about 2 80,000 miles, or 2,000 miles greater than that separating the earth from the moon. Yet he rotates on his gigantic axis at the terrific speed of one complete turn in less than 10 hours. If the earth's rotation were as swift as that the length of day and night together would bo reduced to about 52 minutes 2t minutes of daylight, and 2t minutes cd, darkness. Everything in the equatorial zone would fly off into space, since an increase of only 17 times in the present speed uf the earth's rotation would cause objects on the equator to lose all their weight through the effect of contrifugal force, while if the earth were speeded up to Jupiter's equatorial pace, the increase of velocity would be 28 times. The frame of the earth would give way under the strain, and its rocks would become plastic. On Jupiter the effect of the swift rotation has been to swell the planet out around its equator, until the equatorial diameter exceeds the polar by nearly ,000 mile. Hut to make objects fly off from Jupiter, the speed would have to be three times greater yet.

THE MEL TING POT COME! TAKE POTLUCK WITH US.

A NATIONAL BUDGET. Itep. Anderson of Minnesota has made in congress a definite proposal of a national executive budget system. While he does not expect favorable action on Iiis bill in this congress, he does believe that his presentation of specific plans will further serious consideration of the whole subject and will push forward the necessary preliminary stages to adoption of sums such system. Mr. Anderson urges the creation of "a central agency which can consider, under the direction and control of the president, the finances of the government as a whole, with a view to promoting uniform business

methods and systems of accounting and with the view, life needs a solid planet for a home

The surface of Jupiter is about 122 times more spacious than that of the earth. If it were divided into geographical features orresponding to those of the earth, its Mediterranean sea would be twice as large as our Pacific ocean, and its Cub; half as large as our Africa. Yet. on all that vast surface it is probable that there does not exist a foot of solid iround, or anything solid, or even liquid. There is no certainty that any portion of Jupiter has yet solidified. If it is destined ever to liecome solid. All that we perceive with telescopes appears to be simply cloudlike stuff. unless the celebrated "lied Spot'' should be excepted. Jupiter's red spot is one of the greatest of astronomical puzzles. It made its first certain appearance in 1S7S. It lies a little south of the equator of the planet, and is of a long, oval shape, some i'.O.OOO miles in length and 7.000 or 8,000 in breadth, so that it exceeds the whole earth in area. When it first appeared it was dusky, afterward turning distinctly red. I saw it. and made a picture of it, with a small telescope in July, 1S78, almost as early as the tirat recorded observations-, ami before I had heard of its existence. For a year it deepened its ruddy hue, and the exciting thought that it might be a "red-hot continent" suddenly appearing through the whirling chaos of clouds covering Jupiter thrilled more than one observer. As time passes it alternately faded and brightened. Sometimes a whitish curtain seemed. to be drawn over it. under which it shone like a lire seen through smoke. The latest observations give the impression that it is slowly sinking out of sight. It is only a speck on Jupiter, but we cannot help meditating a little when we remember that it is as large, in superficies, as our whole Ida net! '

HAHSII ()UIs. The human voice is certainly a very lauda'd invention. Attesting to creation's skill as well as to its good intention. Whenever it is properly employed for love and adoration. or in the most artistic art of interesting conversation. It meets with our sincerest praise, our commendation and approval. And does not make us yearn for anv fmdy's larynx's removal. Hut when the owner of the voice is tart, cantankerous and scrappy. And every other syllable is rurt and quarrelsome nnd snappj-. There looms among cut Keen desires, our fondest reveries and wishes. A new remodelled human race as mutely modest as the fishes; Tor when the fish's mind is filled with sentiments urfkind and biting. He cannot get himself expressed unless he puts it down in writing. To curb the famous human voice and hamper it with due restriction Now- there's a task that's worthy of the grardest hcrces known to fiction; For while we very justly fear the famous mirotaur and dragon Or other monsters known to those who cherish the forbidden llagon. The direst demon still alive and capable of wicked walking Js that which tempts the human tongue to harsh, unnecessary talking. Arthur Brooks Baker.

WANTED Younj: ladies to learn telephone operating Mut be over sixteen ami id trod character. All applications will be investigated before employment. Apply Chief Operator's ofiice. third" tlo.r Telephone Building, between the liuurs or S:oo a. m. and X :o p. m. CjooJ salary while learning. Central Union Telephone Company. E. T. Bonds. Manager.

Tili: VAMKIIi:i PATHIOTS. Pill Smither's voice was strong for war; He blushed, he said, to see his nation Detested and derided for Its weak and wabbly vacillation. IJut lately Hill is sitting tight. His talk is mild and unexciting, A mix is actually in sight And he's afraid there may be fighting. Jim Jones fed up on Teddy's dope. His words were wild and fierce and gory. He piously expressed the hope That we'd go in and gather glory. Put now he's singing very low, He sees1 real war on the horizon. And thinks perhaps, he'll have to go. And Jim dislikes to light, like pizen. Jake Plodgett, when he stumped for Hughes. Said we were like dumb driven cattle. We ought to send our troops and crews To mingle in the worldwide battle. Hut now that things are looking black And almost anything may break And people's nerves are on the rack We've never heard a word from Jake! o

Emergencies The man who is on the lookout for emergencies is not taken by surprise when they come. He knows they are coming, and has an advance guard out to meet them. The money he has placed in this bank makes the meeting of most emergencies an easy matter. Our plan has helped many people meet emergencies, and will help you. American Trust Company on Savings.

Route of the Lakes

The Star Restaurant Reduced Prices. 109 West Colfax Ave. 15c LUNCH HOUSE. We serve lunch from lo a. m. to () p. m. Eor lunch we serve all kinds of m e a t , steaks, chops, eggs, roast beef, roast pork and stews. Italian Spaghetti, home made. Beans every day l v. We will save to every

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meal. If you try us once we are sure you will become a regular customer. This new system will commence Monday morning. March 5th. ALL INVITED.

Streibel & Stemel, Props. PUBLIC DRUG STORE 124 N. Michigan St.

No llcauts. After looking at the phonograph ads one gathers that (I rand Opera singers, unlike children, should be heard and not seen. I'inuricial (.cuius. It develops that .Mr. Iiwson made I.OUO instead of $ ."i U 0 , 0 0 0 out of the leak, but that is doing pretty

I well considering the fact that the ! leak never existed.

SuHrf. There was a super man Who saw a super play That starred a super actor , As a super village jay. The super jay was flimilammed Hy a super city yegg. And the super man regretted That he had no super egg. o Tiro Height of I 'llicionc-.v. Any country desirous of finding a means t effect a perfect blockade ought to send a representative to I'orty-seeniid t. and Fifth av. about half past five in the afternoon. The lMi do J.uxo. Terrapin is still expensive, but the lfroadway spender who wants to make an impression r.ow orders potato pancakes. o Vol I'ntil Then. Tf we o ild get all European

kings, statesmen

The imagination likes to take hold of things from which science recoils. The imagination does not like to think of Jupiter, the grandest world in our system, as an idle ball of clouds and vapors. If science were sure of the correctness of the suggestion, sometimes made in its name, that Jupiter is a world not vet cooled off and consequently not yet ready for inhabitants, the imagination iniiiht be content to assume an expectant attitude: but the suggestion is only a venture, an! sc the Imagination goes ahead and pictures the possible state of things on Jupiter in a way to please itself. It affirms, for instance, that there

is no necessity ior assuming that

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the trenches Uncle Sam might be really doiiu; a service to humanity by going In. o And a fJood One. Whatever happens, this country will have a friend at court when Ilernstorff get.-: to Herlin. A Mere Trifle. Some of us are inclined to believe that Mr. Roosevelt is just a bit too overt. o In the Interests of Kchieation. us hope that Columbia students interested in naval statistics get them from somebody besides Pres't Hutlcr. o The J'-tsiet Way. The readiness with which the railroads promised to cure their congestion when warned that they would be compelled to make one wonder why they were not warned before. 0 They May le I'r-ofiil ll and Ity. Why not give Walter Johnson and Joe Wood a little practise with hand grena des? o Nothing Visionary Alxmt That. The real leak was the money expended by the Henry committee in finding that the other one didn't exist.

Chicago, So. Bend & Northern Ind. Ry. Co. and Southcm Michigan Ry. Co. TIME TABLE.

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Five Minute Talks By National Leaders

Inklings and Thinkings

By Wex Jones

"Chimpanx.ee in tne I'ronx zoo has learned to play the ukelele." Thought it came instinctively to chimpanzees.

Pennsylvania wants to legalize Sunday rishini;. r.o !ih and lew fishermen away from church.

This would keep

i-Idwin DulTey, New Voi k state commissioner of highways, has written for the International News Service the following arti'le on what federal government aid will mean as a contributing factor in interstate highway work:

lly, to considering the relative importance and necessity of the proposed expenditures of each department from the standpoint of the government as a whole". Kx-Pres't Taft has long favored mich a plan. I'nder our present system, heads of departments make their estimates, only too well aware that they're not going to receive from congress what they ask for. They are forced to ask for more than they actually need in order to get a fraction of the sum. The result is a general confusion in which nobody knows the actual facts, nobody is responsible for accuracy and honesty in the estimates and there is a discrepancy In the cost of performing similar services in different departments that is astonishing. There is no general review of all the expenditures of the I'nited States by any central, responsible authority. Kven the methods of accounting vary in the different department, so that useful comparisons are impossible. There is no attempt to harmonize expenditures with revenues. It has been said that a budget, well organized and properly administered, would make even a democracy efficient. It's high time that Uncle .am developed some effective budget system. It's not a matter to be hastily dealt with, but the government should be as businesslike and efficient as any powerful, private corporation.

Court papers just tiled show that Hetty (Ireen used to pay as high as $lo per week for board and lodging. No wonder the poor woman couldn't ri.-e above the multimillionaire class!

It that is granted then Jupiter miht really be filled with inhabitants of a more tthereal structure than that of terrestrial beings, living in its vaporous ball as tish live in water. Science laughs at the idea, whereupon the imagination says: "Well, then, what objection have you to assuming that deep in Jupiter's vast globe of spinning vapors there exists a solid nucleus perhaps not very unlike the earth, from which the Jupiter that we see with our telescopes serves as a huge enclosing shell, a firmament of cloud, shielding the life-supporting kernel within from the cold of outer space, and supplying the absence of sunlight hy pouring down an electric radiance v hose splendor may exceed the glery of the sun and stars?" If science objects again, the imagination may finally retort: "Did I not long ago tell you that there was a world wthin the atom, that elements are transmutable, that wonderful creatures furnishing their own light enjoy life in the eternal niht of the j-ea-bottom, that voices could be made to p-ound round the world, that the air was navigable to man. that vision might penetrate solid walls, and many other things that you scoffed at until the bare truth forced confession? Suffer me. then, to scatter my guesses as thick as rain, while you plod after and note where the drops fall on fertile soil."

At present prices, it's only a social climber that would refer to a potato as a spud.

Itockaway park profits J.4ÖU per cent. Headline. Ought to call it Throwing-the-rocks-away park.

Minister whose mind dwells much on current topics, announces his? text as from the "Overt Acts of the Apostles."

"Proposed to stop ath'.etics at Harvard." Wl o started em ."

Iog show note: Incubators can't take the place of Knulish setters.

I Abyssinia is having a Mg civil war. but will have tc do better than j that to get a place on the front page.

t'ncle Sam now has sixty thousand navy men. ninetyone per cent of whom aie American born, and the others are hurrying to take out their civilization papers.

Now that European production has been shut off. Nebraska leads the world in the potash industry.

The sun is showing more spots than usual. Polka dot fashion this spring?

ONCE- OVERS

Tin: sr.ciurx or uxrii) adv.wci:. Vou amount to very little if you give no thought to your work out cf o"ice or shop hours. often you wonder why that younger and les,s experienced man steps along so fast in his advancement in the company where he i-5 emplov ed. Investigation invariably proves that the man who advances is making a point to study conditions as they arise duri ig the day. If there has been a break anywhere, lie tr:-?s to think out a way to prevent a recurrence. In a situation which is puzzlir g, he tries to solve the problem. Helpful suggestions which occur to him ne lavs before his superior when opportunity comes. In most ases the interest displayed by an employe is appreciated and many times his advice is followed with profit. No matter how inisni:.cant your position, it is well worth our lest thought and efforts. (.Copyright, !l17. International News Service)

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Hy Iluin Diiffey. Commissioner of Highways. NewYork State. With the release of the ;,rt unit from the .7".0'o.c"o ;, ppropriation approved by the I'nited States government for aid to the states in road building. New York state has held out to it an offer of approximately $4. 000,000. If the state takes advantage of this ium and appropriates a like amount, the resultant 5 8.000.000 will be a fund additional to the J 100. Guy. 000 voted by the people of this state for the improvement of its road system. The situation is of more than etate-wide importance, as the fund thus established would aid materially in supply inc moneys to improve roads leading out of New York. As an example. ChautaU'juu county, large in area, and containing heavy mileage on its county and state highway systems, faces a deficit for both of thes,. croups of roads from the bond isue n.or.es. With the allotment to New York of this supplemental JS.OOO.OO1. equivalent to approximately miles cf new construction, mon v- enough

would be assured to metal th- cp-.u. HufTalo western connection on t!. shore of Lake Krie. Again. Pennsylvania is toning ! New York with iniprod loads a its northwestern bi.rd r. whicu southern loutes will afford Pennsylvania motorists improved roadlo Ihltfal". New Jersey. with a sph -mlid'y maintained iniip of mac -ad.i mi.-d roads, meets unimproved io,ni at Ito kland county, in tlii M it-. Tl ismall county ran out of state hubway money two v e.its :ik'o. With assignment of f 1 tal aid a mo-' desirable . .nnc tion with NYv Jf i -sey js j a is- i ! . State liii' are ,,- siht of in tipfreipo i)i v ,f travel between t!p Umpire- siat' and onn.-tii It is interesting to note that th:t rathe converges at a f--.v poii.-- m Westchester eounty and then eastern improved 1"t1 betvvei New York ami onn-f t i u t i- m ' until t" mile- north, vleue m,tadam is laid from Mil!rton e'oil' . Massa -Jiu-c tt- fortunate!-, now joins jmpiovd trunk line- f:o:n Ore at 1 :.i i T i n -1 on. Pit t s '.!! . I.eio.v South William-Town and North Adams a' New Y-i k s.,te'.-. e.-erii boundary. An additional onne.tic)ii shortenin- t"..e di-tar: b'tweejj Albany and' Oi at p.ai r.M.gteoi and its environs will b.- effected through (')iatlian and Austerlitz. m Columbia count;.-. Crabr th f"deral stat ite. tb money are broken up ir.ti he apjTopriations, startir.g with 5T.Q0".ci'iu for tli country in !'.!; and ir: -i reasing by thnt amount for the r.ext h'.e y ears, until the ut atiHUal fund is ft .cui, urt)m So fa r-reaching are the bener. t whi: h ccjr stat an re-e;e fiom this money- that any ter.tativ. scheme of mileage allotme-tit presents positively fi; inntir.g poi'...jlities. e'reat lateral onnei tions such as t!ie Pn.gharntfdi-rtica rout joining the southern tier, and A 1 -bany-II'iffalo trunk lin-, which r.ov shows an 11-rnib- dirt road stretch iti Chenango cot:nt. vco'ild be so';,; macadam highw av s. Witli the manufacture of th n'Oijerate priced automobil'-, rour.tv ar.d eveti state boundaries are blotted out. This is not. a-e is often claime d. -I system of rovd for pleasure travel, j.iit is a mo-t important c-tmomic e'ev -b !:; ri T in every c om rrui rut;.'. Wliat-v er redu--5 tti . o.-t of i a-ilin- be t .. ! pro-Iu and on-urr.e-r a proftab'.e inv. mwi.t for the state