South Bend News-Times, Volume 34, Number 128, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 8 May 1917 — Page 6

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l'nite.J States in a de ision rendered last January upheld th validity of an ur;ti-bill board ordinance p;is"Cil by the chicaco city council. Th regulation .f hillboat ! m h ll to lv a valid exer- ( ice of polite power. It is a matter of cmmon observation that billboards in mst ff ou.- citie ate very much in need of p'db ing. It's a pleasure to evervone who prefers f i v if l.oauty and order to nnsightlines and confusion, to hnd nty after it y taking up this long ti'qlect-l pha.-e of ivic improvement. There is no exou.-e whatever for u-ly hillhoarMs. There may 1. no excuse for any kinl of billboards whatever, though that's more open to discussion. At any rate, there oimht to be. everywhere, the most drastic regulation, flood citizens have a right to hav their city kept clean, decent and free from all forms of ugliness. There's no more reason for plastering billboards and handbills all over vacant lots and the walls and roofs of business buildings than there would be in plasterinc them all over private houses.

Cauliflower Needs Cool, Humid Climate In Order to Thrive

THE MELTING POT COME! TAKE POTLUCK WITH US.

Piper will f-onff-r a f.ivor u the in;m;i jjernt-nt by reportlug the fjcta cocipU tely.

TUESDAY. MAY S, 1017.

AMERICAN FAIRNESS TO ALIENS. Jut for the education f those ladies and entltii,,eM, of foreign birth and alleia n . suffering as some ut them. ttill app-ar to be from Prussian paranoia, considering then;sl ves .super-abused because of the American break with the kaiser, the a.-e of a Herman woman, plaintiff in a suit for damages against a subway construction company in Hrooklyn, N. Y., is in point. The woman bein; still a subject of the kaiser, counsel for the defendant introduced a motion to have the case dismissed, on the ground that the plaintiff was an "alien entmy" and therefore had no standing in an American court. The judge miht have allowed the motion and turned the woman out of court. Plenty of precedent could he found for it in the practice of other belligerent countries; and this especially, considering what has been Germany's attitude toward Americans. Hut the court overruled the motion and ordered the case to proceed as usual, on the ground that Pres't Wilson in a recent proclamation had guaranteed that all subjects of enemy towers who obeyed the law mi'-cht continue to enjoy ivil rights in this ountry. The case accordingly went to the jury, and the woman received a verdict of $800. Kvcry American, as the jude himself remarked. might to be proiiil of that verdict. We are lighting kaiocrim. hut no innocent subjects of the kaiser vho mine their own business and do us no harm. We are bhting for something infinitely bigger and more important than th- inMb tio.i of hardship or humiliation on any individual alien;- who happen to live among us; when they mini tbir own husine iti no offensive manner, as toward the I'nited States. livery citizen, no matter what his lacial or;t;ii.. should take patriotic satisfaction in dealing fairly and courteously with war-bound foreigners. Nothing can better exemplify the Amerir-au spirit, and nothing is more calulated to drive linking hostility out of the aliens them-st-lves and tit them lor sharing our life .and ideal". (Silt we still have th- right to insist that these aliens, 'and the suptv-s mpathiers with them, rotiduct them- . elves tow.it d us with at least a respectable silence, so far as concerns slurs and slanders being thrust at America. Coming to Ameni-a as m'.st of them have lo escape the autora.-. and enjoying here as they have, in mot cas.s. their bist taste of independence, freedom and pi osperit v ; we have a right to expect of them while enjoving these thing", that: well to paraphrase from the iur m the stor. that They bite not the hand that's feeding them.

SEASONAL JOBS. Mis. Jones's husband is a painter by trade. He is

regularly out of work every winter. During the slack

season Mrs. Jones goes out washing by the day. Spring und fall Jones'n services are so muh in demand tha he cannot possibly take all the jobs that are offered him. Mr. Smith is night watchman in a big office building the year round. Spring and fall Mr. Smith is also a paperhanger. He works about eighteen hours a day during his two .short seasons, making as much then as he does on his steady job the year round. Why do such jobs have to be seasonal, anyhow? Isn't it a sort of superstition that walls must '.e papered and woodwork painted in April and September only? Would the house of any worn in fall around her ears If she did her renovating in January or August? Householders would pay less for work of this kind and be much less subject to the annoying delays which make spring cleaning a tribulation if they would scatter their orders throughout the year. Also. Mrs. Jones wouldn't have to go out washing while Mr. Jones loafed at the corner bar. 1

ASIATIC RECRUITS. During the last week of April four train loads of Chinese contract laborers, 1,000 to a train, passed through northern Maine on the Canadian Pacific track-, en route to Halifax, where they were to take passage to ICngland. They will be employed as agricultural laborers, releasing somewhere near the same number of Englishmen for army service. Fiance has already imported a considerable number of Chinese for the same purpose. This is another impressive proof of the tremendous resources available to the allies, so long as they keep their sea routes open. There are uncounted millions of men in China, Japan and India who might be brought to England, France and Italy, if the necessary shipping and money were available. It is conceivable that almost the entire man-power of all the allies might thus be released for military service. If the I'nited States, in pursuance of the tirst duty imposed on it, provides plenty of ships and money, there is no reason why this process cannot be continued indelinitely. The only question is, whether European countries want to till themselves up with Asiatics, even temporarily. The central powers have no such resources. When Germany, Austria. Pulgaria and Turkey exhaust their own man-power, they are done for.

"BUSINESS AS USUAL." Incident to our comment Sunday on "f'onsei v atlv e 'pthnism vs Progressive Pessimism" in the matter of war econoiuv. hue is a bit ot verse that has proven "clfective in England and 'anada, and is fittingly supplemental. We employ it as a means of driving further into the public consciousness if posil.le tip' importance of keeping ail the r,a h 1 1 t v ot national indusirv and ( cm nu t ce a w oi k : "l.et the foe who i ikf- ai England s e her fa toi v t u i it.. e Loin, l.et Iimu vv ho wats with England hear her

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For thej toe most fats the cannon, and bis llf.llt li.ost ijlialis with dread. .n behind the :n.ui in khaki is the man who .eeps his head." Germany has sneered ; t the slogan, "business as Usual!" Geiman ritus t.sd t,, t.ike it as a text to preach sermon" on the veuabtv ;uul sofdidness of a nation that vva" making war "for purposes of trade". Hut the cntbiMii soon died o .t. For the despised motto represented i t . ; t . wisdom and effectiveness. Many busme-s no-n who have vislfed Washington lately and talked with the pre sidt rit or his advisers, and asked vvhat thev could do to hlp, have been told: "Go lack home and enrrv on vom business just the same asUsual. There must he no Ut-ip of business activitv. In doing your i egul.tr woik as well as vou can. vom ar helping to win the wur" "liu-sines as U"V1 " np-ans the steadv. continued, perVstent utilization of all our matt rial resources for the great undertaking. It means the production of the goods needed b our government and by foreign governments for va-ir.g war. It means the creation of wealth to poor into war treasuries. It means the inntinued emplov ment of wor'U sat pood wat". It mean the maintenance of tit cent living conditions, the conservation of the nation's health and strength. St mean" the assurance that back of tb nun who do the fighting will be the unimpan d energies of the most powerful people in the world.

YES, THEY FOUND OUT. ; You. of course, read about tbe federal food inquiry commission getting to work; how its first tackled NewYork city, the skinning of hungry folks there being especially strong and habitual. The inouirers reported thai there's no just ground for the high prices of many products: that shipments have been abnormally held up for speculative purposes; that gambling in food prices has been a potent factor, and that the great need is distribution more closely relating the producer to the consumer. We haven't been within a thousand miles of New York in six years but we knew what ailed her. at long distance.. Fact is. her trouble is a nation-wide epidemic and we've got some of it right in our own midst. Put those inquirers cure getting producer ami consumer into cahoots against the gambler and middleman sounds like a nine-week old chicken with the pip. Poth producer and consumer know what's what, but they don't get into clasp relationship, and there vou are. with producer getting little, consumer paying much, and the commission meichant still cheerfully raking off his "com mish." The real cure is government regulation of prices, oh! how we do groan and squirm and kick and make ugly faces rather than take our medicine like the little men t hat w e a re !

The News-Times 1 ronluting roluuip tv 1th the cooperation of tht .afl"t.nl Umerpetjcy Food Garden Coiimd4"loti to inspire the planting of inor food gardens throughout the country. Member of the comniUnien are: Cbnrle Lathrop Pack, president of American Forestry -so-i;itin : Luther Ihirbank. Iir. Charles W. Eliot. Prof. Irvlnz Eisner. John Ilnys H.-inunond. Falrf.ix Harrison. Myron T. Herrkk. Dr. John drier Hibben. Emerson MrMillln. A. W. Shaw; Carl Vroornan. assistant secretary f ntrrb-ulture ; Capt. J. II. White. U. S. Mpplng board; James Wilson, former neerefnry of agriculture. You should watch this fohniin every d;iy. Any questions should be written on one id d of th paper and sont to the larflen Editor of the News-Time.

The cultivation of cauliflower is so precarious that it is not recommended for the garden beginner unless he lives in a climate which is humid and cool in summer, says today's bulletin from the national emergency food garden commission of Washington. D. (.. co-operating with The News-Tidies to induce general planting oi -od gardens this y ear. Cauliflower does he.-t in cool districts near large bodies of water. It is successfully grown on eastern Long Island and in the interior districts of Wisconsin and northern Michigan. The plants are easily stunted by hot. dry weather, and the heads will not mature properly if the weather is too warm. The seed is quite expensive. The plant demands plenty of water it is even sometimes advisable to irrigate by' allowing water to Mow between the rows. The plants, too, take up much room in4the garden. They ought to set from 14 to IS inches apart. Early cauliflower seeds should he sown in hotbeds or indoor seed boxes and the plants set out in the garden as soon as the soil is warm. Care must be taken to harden off the seedlings by getting them accustomed to outdoor life before transplanting them. For late eaulillovver the seeds may be sown in the beds between the dates of June 20 and July 11. but in hot climates these plants are likely to fail. Resides plenty of water they need constant and thorough cultivation with hoe and rake. When the heads begin to thicken, the outer leaves should he drawn over the centers and tied, to exclude the sunlight from the "core". Care should he taken that thj heads are dry when this Is done, otherwise they are likely to rot. Also plenty of room should he lift for the head to expand. Harvest the cauliflower before the head begins to break up into sep arate clusters. This will be in 12 to 15 weeks after planting. The condition of the head can be seen by opening the tied leaves on the north side of the plant and looking in.

Five Minute Talks With National Leaders

Dr. Kate W. Paldwin. senior general surgeon of the Woman's hospital of Philadelphia and a member of the leading medical societies of the country, was asked by a representative of The News-Times to give her views as a woman physician on the much discussed question of birth control. She wrote in reply the following article:

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Now New Orleans is following the example of several oilier enlightened American cities and planning to eliminate billboard". The n.c.voi and the commissioner of property are both strong adoutes of the n.casute, and the commission toum-il epe ted to pass it. Several important c ivic hodws have I cm urging it for some time. Mayor iichrm.i.i in a b-ttcr t" the council has called attention to the fact that an municipality is free to aticpt fcuch lceislatiuu. Mr.ce the supreme court of the

PRICE-LLXINr, AND FARMERS. There has been n general impression that the farmers were flatly opposed to governmental price-hxing for foodstuffs, because it would limit their pror'.ts. (iov. Frazier of North Dakota believes this impression wrong. He doesn't think the farmers of his state, at least, would object to the establishment f minimum prices for their products. "We have hat! prices set for veats by the gamblers in the markets."' he savs. "and there i" no reason why they should not be set by congress." This is an illuminating view of the matter. With the government fixing prices, the farmer might not make quite so much profit out of some particular crop, but neither would he lose money on his crops. The gamblers have occasionally benefitted the farmer ami often ruined him. They have worked nlv for their own pockets. Fncle Sam would be considerate and fair. With no unearned profit going to anybody, the fanners might s"et more for their products, while the consumers paid less. This sounds like treason to the Chicago board of trade, but there aie a god many people in the Cnited States, who believe that that body, together with the El-Tin heard and all other groups of private citizens who presume to food prices for the nation, should abdicate in favor of the government.

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I I'mle Sam being up to his eyes in personal trouble. I Sen. Shields pu toots m w ith his w aterpower grab bill The senate should promptly maul the measure 'until Sen. Shield can't recognize it as his own child.

DR yCATEt W. QAIDVJM It is not entirely a false hope, in my opinion, that with the advent of the practise of birth control, the better and stronger children of the future will prove that a knowledge of contraceptives would do away with certain sins against the human race injurious practises and remove the stigma from many thousands every year. From an ethical and economic point of view, all parents must learn to consider themselves responsible for the lives they produce. Those who are incapable of such responsibility must be classed with the unfit and cared for with them. America is the only civilized nation in which it is a crime to give information on the subject of birth control. The statutes place in the same sentence abortive and preventive me.vsures. and mete out to both the same punishment.

MACIUNKKY. The fathers did their daily tasks by simple power of muscle, providing much occasion to industriously hustle. They ro.se at half past four a. m. each morning of their lives (with many of them carefully preceded by their wives) and labored pertinaciously throughout the merry day until the curfew bell announced the hour to hit the hay. How different the problems which the moderns have to meet! Howmany things to make their lives acceptable and sweet! They faithfully caress' the downy pillow with their ear and leave the early chores to electricity and gear; and where the grandsire needed ample strength and firm resolv e, they only have to warm a chair and watch the wheels revolve. Iet others write their poetry abouWhe good eld times. To praise the high grade present age I tune my modest chimes-. With easy chairs for multitudes whose daddies used to stand, with big rewards for all who have some brains and health and sand, with many workers wearing silk for calico and jeans, we owe a rising- vote of thanks to progress and machines. By Arthur Hrooks Raker.

INTERVIEWS TIIAT NEVEH HAPPEN I y Porter Kmcrson JJrmvne. THE CZAR.

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I found the czar standing near his favorite snow bank in an attitude of thought. You will note that I said "attitude". I accosted him politely. "Good morning, Mr. Romanoff." I satd. "Oh. good morningovitch," he returned, talking that Patrician Russian of which he was so proud. "And how do you find yourself this lovely morning?" I queried. "With difficulty," he returned. "It's a bad year for kings and emperors and things like that," I murmered sympathetically.

"1 es." he said. "A tough And the road." he went on.

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wonder?" "What do you mean, wonder?" he asked, moulding a snow ball with his own fair hands. "Why," I said, "look what kings and emperors and things have done." "What have they done?" he inquired. "The war." I returned, delicately. Tie considered a moment. "Well." he advanced. "wouldn't you put up a right if you saw you was going to lose your job?" "Not if I had to kill a few millions of my subjects to keep it," I replied. "Hut George is a king, and so is Emanuel, to say nothing of Al, of Belgium," he argued. "There are kings and kings." I replied. "Some kings love their people better than themselves. while others love themselves with a passionate devotion that has no room for their people. Now you " I went on. "Well?" he queried. "What have you ever done for your people?" "Iots of things," he replied, hotly. "I asked what you had done for (hem, not to them," I corrected. "Well." he began, "I have given them "The secret rolle?, poverty, suffering, taxation without representation, injustice, terror, abuse and a nice place like Siberia to spend their exile in. While business mayhave been slow in other ways, under vour management, the jails and

the graveyards of Russia have certainly had their share." He was silent. "I can't understand it." I said. "It would seem to me one that has had the advantages you have had has learned to read and write and do sums in arithmetic and everything. WuOuld have known better." He was silent for a long time At length he spoke. "Did you, by any chance", he asked, "ever happen to marry a relative of the kaiser " "No", I said. "No wonder there are a lot of things you don't know." he said. And at th.it he picked up his snow shovel and I came away. o Spring Wind. Come tell me you blustry old wind What good are you doing today? You gather the things all around And try to sweep them away. "There's grasses and old leaves and things That shouldn't be laying around You people are careless of springs Neglecting to clear up the ground "

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yard And recline in our neighbor's way? "Oh yes, but that answer is plain You're careless and thoughtless today. So I blow them across the lane He's anxious to sweep them away."

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my neighbor In a pile he'll burn bye and bye, Am I freed then for good of labor. And don't have ' my patience to try? "Oh no. it is not quite so easy. Don't think you can get off that way, I send them across to your neighbor. But he sends . them right back next day.

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long. For as long as you try to shun them You're likely to hear my drear song." Florence Nokes James.

ONCE- OVERS LOYALTY OI' THE LIIVS. Is your tongue the only thing about vou which is patriotic? Do you do a lot of talking, without any actual thinking or doins, for your country? If this applies to you, you are not a loyal American. While, of course, you should talk favorably of the t'nited States and attempt by your words-to convince others that they should do something for their country, if this is all you are willing to do you are a poor representative of Americanism. You may be incapacitated to take a place in the ranks, but there is a lot of assistance you can give your country in war time besides carrying a gun. Isn't it possible for you to offer vour services for some job for which you are really fitted and capable? Could you not join the Red Cross or some other organization which has for its object help for the United States? Isn't there a financial obligation which you c;n carry and serve the government? Can't you get an appointment to collect money and material, and then ask the women in your neighborhood to meet together and make it up for the soldiers? Why do you not start something all by yourself, or join with your next-door neighbor in working for "our boys" and all loyal upholders of the flag wherever they may he? Begin at home. Begin now. to-day.

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This Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday only we are going to sell 300 new garments at less than cost, as we must make room for wash goods that arriving daily. S 10.00 Navy Coats, $10X0 Black Coats, S9.00 Gold Coats, S 13.00 Navy Coats, all at

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S 18.00 Green Coats, SI 8.00 Navy Coats, SI 5.00 Black. Coats, SI 5.00 Gold Coats, all at

S 10.00 Silk Poplin Dresses, SO.oo Silk Poplin Dresses, SS.oo Silk Poplin Dresses, all at

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GrfMiMt Bju-galnfl In Tuwn Economy Cloak Dept. Economy Dept fceccrad Floor, 210-311 A. Mietogaa. In Obnjorcttoo vrUfc the Independent ßtore.

Folks who can't go to the war front can get up a neat tight over selection of a national flower. What has red. white and blue in it? Cite whilikinal we believe it's only the rum blossom!

to m: CANDID. "What sort of a ticket does your surf raget club favor?" "Well." replied vonng Mrs. Torkins, "if we owned right up. i think most of us would prefer matinee tickpt " Puck.

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THE STORE FOR MEN WASHINGTON AVENUE.

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DR. J. BURKE & CO. Optometrist and Manufacturing Optician. 250 Sonth Michigan St. LKNSES DCPLICATITI).

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WHY PAY 25'' TO 50' EXTRA FOR FURNITURE THE YEAR AROUND AND GET "FAT" DISCOUNTS ONLY ONCE IN A WHILE? We don't run any special discount sales, simply because we jrant the discounts each and every day of the year. Our low rent, low selling expense and close buying pjve you opportunity to FURNISH YOUR HOME HERE AT ANY TIME FOR A 25'; TO 50'- SAVING. This week we would like to have you look over our new lines of Silk Velour and rich Tapestry Upholstered Suites, strictly highest grades. Very handsome as well as serviceable. Vou will be well pleased with these big values.

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