South Bend News-Times, Volume 34, Number 97, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 7 April 1917 — Page 4

SATI IIDAV ITi:U.00, AI'IUI. 7, 1917.

THE SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMES

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;;ejmar,H, we believe that respectable treatment here, will man almost no trouble whatever. In their case disloyalty would mean treason, something of a vicious chare to make aalnn a man If not founded upon far t. It would prate upon our nerve, and does rate upon our nerve to learn of Ill-treatment to Amerlan citizens in Germany. Let u do by the German here as we would have the Germans do by us if we were over there. We can practice the golden rule without its hurting us one bit, or interfering with our self-preservation.

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APRIL

7, 1917.

OFFICERS FROM THE FRONT. The fates stem to have been dealing kindly with th'j United States-, though unconsciously ori our part, in preparation for what is to come een since the war in Uuropu brst broke out. (Irateful as we must be, to France for her unorliciul o'.Ter to send w French o(Ii t-ers to htlp train our troops, upon our entering the war, we are not so hard up 011 I'ibt. even of modern warfare, as many of vis have supposed. .Such an offer from the French should probably be Krutefully y.."--,',Jt.d by our government: certainly so far as; eon-err... sentimental and practical motives. We ar knit tu France by such close bonds of sympathy and tommou purprse that there need be no shame in accepting sucli aid, especially if we ive linamial aul to l-'rancc a- we probably will. And we could have no better instructors for our new armies than l'rench dfivers, trained as they are both in the theory of war and in all th; methods of modern trench nuhtintr. There is stiM another interesting possibility of suppling our great need f otticer.-. The I'hiladelphia In-iuirer reminds us that there are in the Canadian army at the front about twenty-six thousand American lads, fering as olunteers in the American Legion and in arious other units They have served now from one to two years. They haw been well drilled, and have had an oppoitunity to master the new warfare. Their average of intelligence and education i.s high. Many thousands of them are doubtless lit for otticrs' commissions. .Most of them would be proud to return home for the purpose of helping to build up an American arm). The British government might acree readily to their release for such a purpose. It is a matter that should he taken up promptly by our war de pa rtiiic nt.

THOSE 'ENEMIES" .N OUR MIDST. -'onSlts has done its work, following the recommendations of the president, and we are as much at war with Germany, so far as the formalities o, as is Britain. France. Kussia -r Italy. The situation which A merit a has dreaded since the tirst outbreak of the contlict is upon u. l or the present, our chief concern, however, seem. To br hre at home. In a proclamation issued by the president, we are reminded that w e have among us many aliens notably Germans who, by it tue of tho a tion of congress, are as muc:. our eneii les as though upon German soil. niticau jf America, it is pleas ing to note that the presiden vroclamation, respecting their lives, property and f edom, as long as they lemain notwombattants, ha'.l e secure. We caimoeactl ask these German sul'jfr s to be hal To America, but we can ask them to r respectful of America, mid as hum as they do lib",r.. there i due them a like respect. We hae no sxmpatliy for urceral movements that Imvc 1-tt-n .tarted here recently, through the spreading of fal.-e tales, to cet Germans here in this community, some of them German-Americans, into some sort of trouble. We hae heard of American Mags lein-C torn down and tramped upon. We have been told of

FREEDOM FOR GERMANY. Ferment of freedom is working in Germany, regardless of whether I'res't Wilson's message ' ever reaches th- German people, and regardless of whether the allies' plan for translation and distribution fhall ever materialize. Instinctive and ultra-Mibmlssive loyalty to the government has bottled it up hitherto, but now under the influence of the Russian example it is breaking" o.:t and running over. The first pign of it was the announcement of Chancellor von Hethmann-Hollweg in the Reichstag that the elective franchise must be reformed. The movement thus recognized seems already to have passed beyond

'his control. He proposed to grant a more equitable

suffrage after the war. With the hope once held up before them, the champions of political freedom are protesting against delay. The Berlin Tageblatt demands to know of the chancellor "whether he still thinks it desirable to delay necessary reforms indefinitely'. The Lokal-Anzeiger declares that he has .satisfied r.elther the conservatives nor the radicals, and wants definite action instead of words. The Munich 1'os.t. naturally more outspoken because it is far removed from immediate Prussian influence, makes this significant statement: "lly failing to introduce universal suffrage the .chancellor intshd a golden opportunity of showing that Germany is no longer dominated by military Prussia. With lie flimsiest excuses the chancellor has shrur.k from reforming the most reactionary state in all FJurope." The facts seen; to warrant this biting characteriza

tion; "the most reactionary state in all Kurope". Governmental representation In Prussia Is still controlled by an apportionment made in 1S50. "upon a class system giving every first class voter the power of twentylive men in the third class, which includes the wage workers". Imagine an American farmer masting twenty-five votes to his hired man's one, or an American manufacturer w ho employes twenty-five men having as many votes as all of them together. Moreover, imagine Pres't Wilson holding office by birth, and for life, responsible only to his own conscience; imagine the United States senate responsible only to itself and the president: imagine the speaker of the house of representatives endowed with more power than Mr. Cannon ever had. and appointed by the president and responsible only to him. That's Prussia. Still the Junkers In the Prussian diet shout, "Hand? ff Old Prussia": It is that reactionary Prussia which the allies ate fighting, with which America is driven to war, and which must either be crushed or reformed if there is to be any peace in the world and any assurance of human liberty either in Prussia or out of it. And we have a vital interest in Its reformation. If the Prussian masses are given a voice in government, and the Prussian military class loses its power over Germany, we may be able to renew our old friendship with the German nation on terms of mutual respect and honor.

"The t.ir in-line, but do not compel"

HOROSCOPE

Sat unlay, April 7, 1917. According to astrology the bad influences outweigh the good today. While Mercury is In benefie aspect. Venus and the un are strongly adverse. It is a day most promising to edPors, making for an increased interest in the news and added respect for published opinion. Advertising is well directed and again the prophecy that it will be used in new wa? is made. Taxation that will meet with extraordinary approval from all classes is foreshadowed. This will have a novel aspect or will appeal to public sentiment. An airship exploit will awaken profound admiration for an American aeronaut, who will be hailed as a hero. This is not an encouraging sway for women, who may be thwarted in a public movement of some sort, probably in a peace move. Schools and colleges come under a direction that promises for commencement time changed conditions which will affect seats of learnin-r. Theatrical affairs continue under a planetary direction that is most encouraging. Changes among managers again are foretold and success for women is indicated. The kaiser continues under a sinister government of the planets presaging bodily suffering during the vext few weeks, which will be menacing to the health of all the rulers. Growth of brotherly love and a unifying of many divergent opinions are likely to be the signs of the coming of a, new era. which will be recognized hefore the end of the summer. There is a sign read as ominous for the stability of financial affairs. Stock-raisers have the promise of remarkable prosperity in the coming months. The west will benefit greatly. Persons whose birthdate it is should be exceedingly cautious during the coming year. Business affairs may be very unsatisfactory. Children born on this day may be too speculative in business. These subjects of Aries usually have strong intellects and stubborn wills. Mars is their principal ruling planet. (Copyright. 1017, by the McCIure Newspaper Syndicate.)

THE MEL TING POT COME! TAKE POTLUCK WITH US.

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Tili: GOI.FFK. When man is. young and full of hope and kindred inspirations, Pursuing bashful maidens in hi choice of occupations! He chases them with foot and horse and panting motor carriage. Soliciting permission to conjoin with them in marriage. Indicting mournful verses for posterity's perusal If they elude his grasping hands and waft him a refusal. When man is plain and middle-aged and practical and prosy. He drops pursuit of Maud and .May and Caroline and Kosie. He hunts the ruble and the franc, the dollar and the shilling Intent on making in their ranks a lar:-;e and lovelv killing. While wife and grandma, aunt and niece as: well as wn and daughter, Applaud his efforts to achieve the big financial slaughter. But when he tomes at last to his f ull-P.rdgedtnd keenest senses. He sees that such avtivities are void of recompenses. Henceforth he trails a rubber ball o'er brakes j,nd brooks and grasses. Attacking it with crooked cluhs in fa ivy swipes np.d passe?; Ami. just as other golfers do. he confidently ho'.lers That it is much superior to chafing dames or dollars'. Arthur Brooks Baker.

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till todav, sed Pa. in that wonderfu' book of wires von

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wen he cam hoam last nite. what a offul lot of things thare is in the world that I newer knew beefoar. I feel kind of stunned this eevning. Pa sed. like a kid that has I0.1 1 his way hoam. You have moar or loss trubbel finding ham many nites. sed Ma. but what seems to be on yure mind now V

Straight Rows Add to Beauty andMafye Gardening Easier

Oh. sed Pa. I got hold almanack that sumone hat! the car & I was looking at ming up town. I bet yt-know-what county Pres't

of a left in It "umdoant Chester

THE HURRY-UP MEAL. me folks load a gun. go out in the brush and hunt up trouble. Some also have time on their hands. Some have to discuss and cuss or their lives are full of

j gloom. Here's an organization of southern California mesdamcs who formerly met to formally discuss this:

"What would I do if, when the fire was going for dinner, my husband should come in with a stranger and ask if dinner could he ready in twenty mi;nte and I hail on hand bread, huttcr, fruit and a few cold potatoes, half a raw onion, one quart of milk, six eggs, a little boiled rice, a few cooked carrots, and nothing else hut salt, pepper, vinegar, spices and a bunch of parsley."

We're only a mere man, but we know what we would do. In fifteen minutes we'd give that stranger a corking layout of bread, butter, fruit, potatoes, eggs, onion.

wie remaiks tittered against tho government of tho j Illilk ri,.t. ami carrots, and if he turned up his nose at Fnited States, the president, and the flaz. which, if jt. w e'd take him by the throat and make him eat that true, would, under the president s proclamation, lc ; Lunin of parsley. But then, what would women's so-

vorcc the e 1 rest punishment. Investigated, we have found all but one to be false. Henceforth Americans should take notice that especially with respect to an alien German charges such as t.ie above are under the president's proclamation an accusation of crime. Falsely made, sich charges arc likelj to fall back rather heavily upon the people that make them. We. as Amcriians. have a right, and it is our duty, to keep an t open, ;ui,i an rar attuned for any activ ities on the part of German subjects in our midst, that tend to insult, abuse or harm, to our government, or warlike way to cur people or industries. But we can afford to le truthful. F.y being fair and s.juare with thee people, we have little doubt but that all difficulties with them will be reduced to a minimum. All the president has asked of them has been to mind their own business tl.eir vwn personal business. and rot become to interested in the German imperial gov-

I t ieties do. if they didn't have something to discuss?

TOO MUCH CANDY. While nobody would ask for candy prohibition, there are many who will wish that they had at least practiced temperance in their use of sweets. Statisticians

i say that the value of candy made in the United States

last ear reached $200,000,000. We are said to spend an average of nearly a year for "candy for every man. woman and child in the country. That sounds modest enough, perhaps, but it really is a good deal. And candy consumption is increasing right alon;. Candy is a food. But very few of us eat it as food. We don't stop when we have had enough, we don't use it onlv when in need of that kind of nourishment. We

! simply have the habit and the cash. So we devour 'candies of every description at all times. We do not

The News-Times ii conducting -r 1 11 in 11 with th rnopeni t bin f the .Natloi.;iI Ilinergency Food Garden iundisiin to Inspire the planting of iimre food gardens throughout the country. Members of the commission are: Charles Lathrop Pack, president of American Forestry ni. MM-lation: I.uther Burbauk, Br. t'harle W. Fliot. Prof. Irving Fisher. John Hays Hammond. Fairfax H.irrisoii. .Myron T. Herrick. Br. .lohn lirler Hibben. F.nieraoti b--MilUn. A. W. Shaw: Carl Vroonum. Assistant seeretury of ngricMilturcV. Capt. J. If. White. F. S. shipping board; James WIN011, former secretary of agriculture. You should watch this column every day. Any questions should be written on one side of he paper ni.d sent to the Garden lalitor of the News-Times.

Arthur was horn in. sod Pa. No. sed Ma, I doant know. Well, sed Pa. I know, but 1 ain't going to tell. Do you know howmany horses died of spavin in Spain in 1873? No. sed Ma. I know, sed Pa, but I am keeping it to myself. Sum of these days, sed Pa. you will admit that yure husband is the best read man in the whole ward. You will be proud of he then, sed Pa. all beckas I picked Tip this almanack. Thare are many piestuns not in that book wich I wud much rather have you anser. sed Ma. Questun No. one is, What will you hare for dinner? Stake or chops? sod Ma. No chops, sed Pa. It says in this almanack that many peepul git anthrax from eating chops. I will have stake, sed Pa. & about three eggs. Mavbe. sod Ma. if you will look

will find that eggs are so high that only the welthy can afford them. How welthy are you tonite sed Ma. I am thare with a hankml that wud choke a horse, sed Pa. here is $00. Send out & git a dozen eggs keep the change. We must eat, sed Pa, in order to have strength to take away these J5u from our fellow men. Pa sed. I will not look, heekaus 1 will not diet, sed Pa. livery American citizen is en-titled to the pursuite of life lil-erty 1 inch, sed Pa. Hath?r than be a starving slave, sed Pa. I will die of over-fecdinp. Facing the heerafter on a empty stummick newer appeeled to me, Pa sed, & I want my three square meels every day. Well, well, sed Ma. I suspect that if you want them you are going to git them. I wud hate to be lost on a desert island with you, sed Ma. with only a little food. I doan't say jou wud take moar than yure share, sed Ma, but you wud think yure share was enuff for three hired men. Well, sed Pa. be that as it may. I will furnish the mutiny & you will furnish the food, no matter howhigh it soars. As the old German filosolfer, Herr Herring, onst sed. to eat well is to live well, to live well is to die well, & to live well and die well is the beginning iV.- the end of life. Bring on the beans, sed pa. While thru life we gaily prance, give the inner man chance, sed Pa. .- that is moar truth than poetry.

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Ira White Pkai macv. 1 Ml W. Wash Ave. Pr ul C Wolter, Taylor and Divisor Sts. Prandon-Durrell Co. Kllsworth's Store. 1'nion Shoe 'o. Quality Shoe Kepair "o. A. W. Hutf - 'o. Cusho.g and c i .In Way W. Henry 1. Spohn. Proadway and Mich. St.

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r.nmeiit's war business. He t.emur.ds of them a "strict

a .itral ;t v ' and we, as Amebian citizens, should afford them evt-ry pos-ible pl t.-i:: e of maintaining such : ci.trahty. We ci. r.ot need to 4; . blind, or uto -v df.if. to any iolatl. , of uch neutrality in order to cio t!iN It is er.ougii that we hold our tongues and

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:env. it i just r. s well that w e read the presb

I confine our consumption to the plain, w holesome

1 candies. W e go in for rich, heavy confection? that

are decidedly bad for the health. The German people are suffering from lack of sugar. Americans are in danger of suffering from an overindulgence in that line. We'd better take heed before teeth, stomach and other bodily organs are ruined.

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ernment is pm at w ar w ith the German people, but with

Nothing should tend more to convince the world of the righteousr ess of our war motives than the presi-

the German autoctacy the Prussian militarism that dents declaration that we expect to get nothing out of

dominates tho German people. This is our expressed purpose as a natbui. Thus friendly to the people of tlermaii)' o er theiv. r-vt-n in th trencht-t. we should lc- f inally friendly to unnaturalized Gtrmabs over here. 31 lust, until tlicy inui aiiualiy j. ro en, Mivh Jov.tlty to th it (icriiuii .1 titot . anl ttit-mit-s to the

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Thi !M.c. a'.s wc anü' ip.'t r-piia!ly h r in S'-;lh I'.erid. country It may L Jifetent.

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ut v en little tro'ihle. In other sections of the As to the naturalized

it in the way of material advantage. Let us hope that no American will try to soil the tine idealism with which we enter the war by demanding territory or In-deirdulie.

Straight rows add to the garden's heauty and the gardener's pride and make gardening easier, says today's bulletin issued by the national emergency food garden commission. which is co-operating; with this paper in urging planting of gardens. The slight care needed in this respect is well worth your while. A piece of stout cord and two stakes are the equipment needed. Set the stakes at the ends of the row, stretch the string from stake to stake, and open the row by dragging the point of a hoe underneath the string. In city and town gardens, where the space is restricted, it is best to have the rows run the long way of the garden north to south if possible to prevent the growing plants from shading each other and planting several kinds of similarly growing vegetables like green onions, carrots, radishes, etc.. in the same row. If you plant such crops as beets, radishes and onions in beds, the beds can be made six to eight inches high by digging narrow paths around the beds with a hoe and throwing the soil upon the beds. A convenient size for such beds is 6 to 10 feet in width and as much length as you choose. When the drainage of your garden is not good, it is a good plan to grow cabbage, cauliflower and similar crops on small ridges throw n up with spade or hoe. This gives the roots good drainage. Hy setting plants on the south side of the ridge they are forced to earlier maturity. Other crops, among them early peas and celery, should be planted in shallow- trenches scooped out with the hoe. When these plants grow the trench soil is gradually worked back around the stalks. Since hoeing must start early, and sometimes when the soil becomes

(caked above planted seeds it is nec

essary to break it, a few swift-growing radish seeds planted with other sorts will quickly spring up and show where the rows are.

llcriiiiin s-t.tfsmeii only it little while ago wert- annuiiiH ini: th.it ttu-y were "supremely indifferent" to whether the I'nited States entered the war or not. Hut sinc e April - they have chanced their tune. They re-mtml-er now how indifferent they were unce to "that contemptible Lule Pritish army".

The Kansas City Star recently asked for the nun who would admit that he played with dolls -when he was a boy. P. Caspar Harvey not only admits hut is inclined p; boast that he reared a family of three dolls, named respectively Karzillia. Jessie May and Kdna. Mr. Ilarvey says he has them yet and has a tight every Christmas to keep them from giving the dolls away.

Tin: i.iL.-ouii-:it and ciiainsTonn mi:. n (Waterbury, Conn., Demociat.) During the past year 17,-72 business concerns with a capital of less than $.".00U failed. According to Ilradstreet's: commercial agency, a very large proportion of these failures were due to the immense expansion of mail-order business and chain-store systems. The truth 1? that independent retail dealers are being rapidly crushed between the upper millstone of the mail-order houses and the lower mill-stone of the chain-store systems. Tho oldstyle grocer will soon ho as rare a specimen as the icthyosaurus or the pterodactyl if the chain-stores and mail-order houses continue to ex

pand at the phenomenal rate of the I

last six months. Within the last fewdays the merger of more than l,:;oo grocery stores in Philadelphia and the immediate vicinity has been announced. These stores command a total business of more than $00,000.000 a year, which represents more than one-third of the total grocery trade of the territory covered. In addition to this new merger there are at least a dozen other chainstore systems in Philadelphia alon;, It would be conservative to estimate that at least half the retail procery business of Philadelphia in future will be done by chain-stores. Similar mergers are being made throughout the country and there is now hardly a city of more than 000 people that is without one or more chain systems. The chainstore idea is hardly Ki years old. us far as the retail grocery field is concerned, and yet it seems probable that one-fourth of the grocery business of the larger cities is today being done on that system. Everybody remembers the little shops

that used to sell "notions." Nobody J

ever knew what notions were, ana they will have little chance to lind out. for the little notions-shops have been almost wiped off the map by

f the fiv e-and-ten-cent stores. As an

index to the expansion of th-? mailorder business, the recent report of Sears-Koebuck shows that their sales

in reased $ "l.GOo.uoO during the last! year. Other houses show an almost' equally rapid expansion. and th11 rich profits that have been reaped ' are bringing new companies into the,' field every day. Sears-Koebuck 1 earned -6 1-2 percent on its common1

s'.ock last year. Chicago mail-order houses are today selling -rocerie, shoes, dry-goods and hardware in Washington. Philadelphia ai d NewYork. Mail-order catalogues, which used to be seen only in tho backwoods, are now cropping up in city houses all o er the country. I'p to date it i posx-iMe the 1 haii-store-and mail-order houses ha civen th. consumers' apj.recially lowfr PTP'v particularly on staples; ut isn't it alioiit time some consideration was gi.tn as to what the results will he if the entire retail lusine- of the country come- ur.der the control of th-se fa r-rtacLUisj ciiiLiuatiun uf capital?

WHY SIK)fU)T TIIi:si: CHAPS HI! MA hi: TO PAY? (Los Angeles Tribune. K. I. du Pont de Nemours iVL- Co.. being manufacturers of munitions of war, made n?t earnings last year amounting to SS2.1Ö7.G32. That huge profit was earned on gross receipts for the year's business aggregating $::iS,S4o.6S4. When it is considered that the average sales of the company during and 1011 were under S2!.O0O.000, it will be seen how- greatly K. I. du Pont de Nemours .Si Co. profited .'is a result of the war. The company found itself able to pay the required six percent dividend on its debenture stock and dividends amounting to lOA percent on the common stock. While it is true many millions of dollars have been expended in construction of new plants to till war orders, neverthtless the company set aside out of it-; profits an amount suflicient to amortize the cost of such construction. The dividends shown in the annual reports represent profits in excess of such amortization charges. Moreover, when the war ends, as the president of the company reassures stockholders, "tho greatly expanded munition plants," the cost of which, it is to be borne in mind, has been wholly defrayed, "will be turned over to productive commercial uses as soon as the present abnormal demand ceases." Why should not that company and like companies pay a heavy tax on excess earnings? What is unfair about the requirement that munition manufacturers who are distributing 10m percent among their stockholders shall be made to contribute a heavj percentage of their profits to the support of the federal government? The United states is entering upon ii policy of preparedness to which it is enforced in part by the enmities created and resentments engendered through the activities of these very manufacturers. That preparedness necessitates huce increases in taxation that will fall heavily upon the average man and woman, and even requires the sale of bonus, that, in turn, must be defrayed both as to principal and interest by further taxation. Yet, w hen it is proposed that these munition manufacturers, whose annual promts equal their capital and whose operations have drawn down upon this country hates that hereafter may prove costly, shall pay a proper percentage of their extraordinary probts to the government's support, they let out a voa1 about confiscation that can ; heard as far as Patagonia. If ever war taxes were justified !n time of peac. then a war tax upon the earr.in'-'s of munition manufacturers wears the aspect of perfect equity. Tho ohjection to tho proposals that heretofore hae t.f-en made with respect to such taxation is that thev did not o far enough.

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No "Goblins" to Fear

in a Wired Home

rf II III I' WT.cn bed-time comes and mother touches ihr IM 1 little 1 Littoa at th-e foot of the stairs the pood fairy cT

ilcctric light drives away all the "bug-a-boos'' frcrn thi dim trrder cf Slumbcrland. Electric light for the path -head and for datt corners, rtu!cL heat without Isr? for chilly morninps cr evenings, and vtilHr.s electric motors that t3kc the crinj cut cf daily tasks for busy housewives .f c ci!y a fru; cf the aJ?an:arf cf a u-ireJ hc-u. Let us tell you some of the others

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