South Bend News-Times, Volume 34, Number 189, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 8 July 1917 — Page 22

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PSNI-Y SUNDAY NEWSPAPER IN NORTHERN INDIANA. rr:,r -t? r:r. solto bea news-times Sunday editorial page JOHN HHNRT 7.UVFR, Editcr. 1

WOMEN MUST NOT FAIL TO REGISTER. Wome-i of Fouth Fend and Ft. Joseph county should by all means ri.ter at the county bulldln. preparatory to voting for .leln-.iKs to the constitutional convention. To vote fit the city paction South Fend women must regi-ter a: the city hall; to vote for delegates to the constitutional convention, women from all over the county me?t regi-ter at the court house. The fact that Judgo Thornton of tl.o superior court of Indianapolis hag held that women shall not be permitted to vote for delegate to the constitutional convention does not settle that question. It is one that has pone to the supremo court of the ?fUe. Meanwhile women should go on resl?terir.K o that In ca- the supreme court should decide In their favor, overruling Judge Thornton, their votes will not ba lo?t. Although at f'.rst anti-uffragi?t. from over the state roucht to put r.n end to wom'n i egistrinsr. apsertint? that for them to do so. -r for the registration boards to permit it. would be in contempt of Judge Thornton's court, and liable to punishment, that has been pet at naught by Jud?e Thornton himself. Contempt proceedings of that order, though technically permissible, will not be c-nt rtainl by the court. He has paid so himself. That i t etter than the c laptrap of any wardhieling politician. Women should reui-ter. Upon their te will depend largely, whether or not full tutjrage si,. ill ::o into the constitution, and ditto, con htitution.il state-wide prohibition. They should understand that wo have only partial suffrage now, liable to p., rep'aled by i.ny k-gisla ture that sees fit; also that we have t -: : 1 statutory prohibition, likewise easily liable to 1 -; i : 1 ; 1 1 i e repeal. The i i-'l.t of women to ot applies to American born womm. t'v.-nty-f'io years of ace; foreign horn women of a-. , married to a natiw born or fully naturalized Amern an, and foreign born women who have them -sHytaken out full naturalization papers. There is ths . 1 1 fr renee between th. foreign born woman and foreign bom man in the maMer of naturalization and M,t.i;f. The naturalized nlbui. if a man. may vote on hi-- t : r -1 papers, but his wife cannot unless he has both l.r-t and s'cnnl papers, and likewise with the woman herself; fh" must have both first and second papers, of course, the Ameriau women by marriage to an alien dors not denaturalize herself, but neither does she naturalize him. I'.at first, the main thing i registration; registration of the womm who will have n right to vote if the suffra.ee lav.- is upheld. There need be no fear of Judge Thornton's deion. If it is upheld the registration will do no harm, even though it do no cood. Women can better afford to t ike that little time than to tako the chance on losing their vote. The legislature did the best it could for them. They ought to show that they appreciate it by doing the best that they can for themFurthermore, there Is Fen. G. IT. Summers, whose vote was the only one from St. Joseph county delegation in either house. (nst for the suffrage cause. The senator Is liable to take to feeling that he misrepresented rather than represented the women of the county. If they do pot turn out and register, as proof that they wanted what helped to Rive them! The desire of women for the ballot will be largely expressed by the fdze of the registration something that suffrage leaders would do well to bear In mind.

A GOOD MAN FOR THE JOB. Kery mw a .id then a new name appears upon the horizon of dcb.'-u.tes to tlw onstitutional convention particularly for deb cat s-at-large hut here is one that pa 1 1 1 i i la 1 1 y m t i 'st i.-; a man who stands for things quite as much to our liking as could be. Reference is made to the Mai -wide mention that is being made of Fdwaid . Tonei, editor of the Anderson Herald. Mr. Toia r is r.ot unknown in South I lend. He was a progressive, w hen there were sin Ii things as progressives, and stands for what the ja o-:ressi e party, in its day, stood for. He went a k to the republican party in j :!.. !"it we d?re .-ay that has not banned his proe pi i:,ciples. ,-uch men in the constitutional t ::t ! i e-'ardl ss of party, are of the sort that Indiana needs. i !;rs... perhaps, they oueht not all be of hla al:'. e;-.. -' ut thcie is i.o danger. The reactionaries will : to that. It i well, however, that the reactionaries sko.:V. not be allowed full control of the constitutionm.ikinc body. I rotn wliat we know of Mr. Toner, he would be a splendid man for all progressives, men of progressive iilea. whether republican, democrat, or former hull moose. p get behind. and push. This is to be a r.on-partian convention anyway. It is the men an 1 the motive rather than the party label that should count. "We will be rlad to learn that Editor Toner has taken ki.idly to the lrr.porturir.es of his friends. A revised taxation system, improvements of our judicial system, suffrage, prohibition all the bie issues, come within the scope cf his line of thoucht. He Is a thinker. He ha been a writer about them for moons. Indiana n-:ld make no mistake in dumping him into that constitutional "meltlnc-pof there to help work of thlt certain mas of differentiating opinion a new fundamental law for tbe state to live under.

HOT TIMES FOR NEUTRALS. All is ready to put into actual operation the first of the lie war plans entrusted to the president control of exports. t'nder arrans ment witb the British povcri.HHr.t. the Tnited States and Great Britain will, prac-tie.-.lly. hi ave control of the world's trade in their hinds, which im-nr.s a nichty bit: rln and mighty Ms o: trot. It means perhaps mighty possibilities In th future, sir.' e th world is tuni; to be very hungry for j-i!v.e tune utter peace corner. 1'uttlra; it In plain words, we've directly encaged in the buir.es of st.irirr Germany. The American food supply wilt e '.fed r:.rst to fed Americans, secondly tc f t e 1 the alli s. and w hat is left will po to the neutrals under such tlcht regulations that It cannot reach Clerl.nany. This latter fact will spur the T-boats on to mktr.c hotter var on neutral ship, which means th;it neutrality Is roir c to have a real hot time in sticking to its neutrality. Ira'.rcd. that neutrals are to pet only what's left r. , er from Americans and allies is a warm proposition In Itself. To torpedo neutral shipping, under such, ondinrs. .i!l le like blowing up both lie. id and tail of neutrality.

Herlm announces strong offensives by the Russians in Gahcia. When I?erlin does thba, you can bet that th 2X LtUe scheme for a separate peace has fizzled.

Mostly a Case of Unrefined Lard

PATRIOTISM that stinks with the odor of hog-grease; that is what ails congress and at that congress is fairly representative of the people. Five million American men are to be drafted into the army in a few weeks, that we may "make safe the world for democracy," a democracy which other millions of American men seemingly interpret as an open field for "pork.' Grab everything in sight get all you can while it lasts salt it like bacon and let the multitude whistle; that is the apparent center and circumference of statecraft and warcraft, and every other kind of craft, located at the capital and everywhere throughout the national environs. The Chicago coal baron was no exception when he admitted that the men of his stripe were only human making the best of an opportunity, and it isn't alone in matters of coal or other business, that you hear the squeal. Everybody with a fad, or even with an ideal to promote, seems to be bent on taking advantage of the stress of the times, and wants to block everything else until his or her something or other, is incorporated among the consummations. A Boston clergyman, for instance, gets up in his pulpit and roars: "Buy no Liberty bonds until we have national prohibition !" Be for prohibition as hard as you like, but such talk is seditious; positive treason to the millions of young men who must offer their lives in the army and navy, not with respect to what they may have to drink, but with regard to the needed war revenue. "Prohibition right away," says the war opportunist, in substance, "even though we may otherwise have to pay a German tax on our drinking water, for centuries to come." He would wreck the republic to advance his own little idea, no different than the brewer and the distiller whose worse than hog-grease they would conserve, even though all the rest of the world starve or 30 to ruin. Quite the same with a considerable branch of the American suffrage movement. An insulting, seditious picket of women at the very threshold of the commander-in-chief's residence they demand immediate votes for women, too blind to see that the issue is not whether American women shall vote in the next year or so, but whether or no they shall be ravished by gorilla-like Huns in the next year or so! O ne might almost surmise hat they were afraid they were going to escape the ravishing, as their: "The president is lying to Russia; we are not a democracy," greets the Russian mission at the white house door. If it is not sedition, as well as a brazen hold-up, what is it? "Female suffrage at once," these wartime opportunists, say in substance, "even though otherwise the kaiser may come and wrench political freedom from all." The fate of Belgium has no terrors for such petticoats as these; happily but a minor contingent of the American suffrage movement. They are absolutely blind to the fact that the liberties of German women, now and forever, have been merely to serve as virtual German slaves. Then there are the American socialists allowing themselves to be worm-eaten into anarchy by the Industrial Workers of the World, and fighting the government every minute for its wartime tendencies toward the very things that true socialism stands for. They want "government ownership and control of the factors of production and distribution, democratically administered," right away too blind to see that one of the first things needed is to preserve the democracy to do the administering. Germany is a specimen of "government ownership and control of the factors of production and distribution," autocratically administered which one ;night assume is what the socialists are really after. Apparently they want an autocracy, not a democracy, to administer their brand of socialism. Should Germany come over, which she never will, powerful enough to hold world sway; well, GerV many doesn't stand for the soap-box sedition that America stands for she never has and she never will while she's autocratic Germany. But be not too hard on the ultra-prohibitionist, the militant-suffragist, or even the I. W. W.-socialist! We have heard that the railroads recently discovered that they couldn't do business, attend to the transportation of troops, government freight, etc., without a fifteen per cent increase in freight rates. They stuck to it, too, until the interstate commerce commission told them where to get off bringing to the surface the hog-grease of increased net income last year, that lay hidden beneath the hide of the railroad business. Just now, in Indiana, the gas companies and electric light companies are flirting with the state public service commission, asking for more leeway in the matter of rates, and the provision of service, while pleading increases in the cost of operation and maintenance through such agencies as the increased prices of coal, steel, copper, gas-pipe, and., of course, labor. It is the same all over the country. No such idea could possibly come to them of getting behind the government like men, and trying to get something done to reduce the prices of coal, and copper, and steel, and gas-pipe, and with them, the cost of other commodities necessary to sustain life that perhaps even labor might follow. The reason is that the men behind these utilities, are as a rule, and in the main, the same as those behind the coal, and steel, and copper, and gas-pipe, and other high prices. Through interlocking directorates and stock-holdings, they push up the prices on themselves and then ask the government to permit them to pass it along to the public by way of increased utility charges. It is the squeal of the pork. Yes, the squeal of the pork! We hear it even in the selection of the cantonments in which to drill the conscripts. Twelve selections have been made and the men and money for them have been voted, but the majority of them are in the southeast. Accessibility to ocean transportation, sanitation, climate, health; none of these can count. Louisville got what Lexington wanted, which is only a specimen, and so at once, congressmen and senators proceed to break up the selections. That hog-grease "pork" must be spread over more congressional districts, and the building of all encampments, no difference where located, is held-up; Uncle Sam is brow-beaten, bulldozed, and plucked, that this locality and that may have its slice of "pork." "Pork," yes, though we have no cantonments, no powder, no guns, no ships; "pork," gold-plated, or just in furtherance of a fad everything gives way to "pork." Little Roumania, Servia, and Montenegro, each cost the kaiser much in red blood and otherwise colored money, but all he's got to do with us is to keep such as that Boston pulpit-pounder roaring, carry encouragement to the Militant Suffragist union, mollycoddle our lop-brained socialists, suggest cussedness to the greedy minds of our railroad and utility magnates, brewers, distillers, and food manipulators; block congress in the matter of regulating food and fuel supplies, and, incidentally keep shifting the location of cantonments, and, well, he can well afford to boycott our war. We'll lick ourselves if given time and the odor of "pork" lingers in the nostrils of congress and people long enough and not only that, but we'll lick France and England, by helping Germany to thin out the allied shipping designed to let them starve. Can't you smell it? Just mention to some man of means the probable coming of a war tax, and if you can't smell it, you can hear it squeal. One might almost judge that the land were literally saturated in hog-grease. Patriotism almost everywhere loses its altruism when it begins tickling at the strings of profit. "Too late," said German autocracy, when our declaration of a state of war was made. To her, civilization afire, had already been destroyed down close to the very embers; too close for us to rescue it. We cannot get to that fire by spending our time before our wardrobe selecting some appropriate moral or political uniform in w hich to serve as firemen. That isn't what the selective draft means at all; that is, it isn't what it means to the most of us. We've got to grab, and grab at once, the wettest quencher at hand and pour on floods and floods of that which quenches; this in our very shirt-tails if that's the sort of uniform that's quickest to put on. Oh, yes, we're great on debate; great to chew on "pork" and diddle-daddle over each others' political complexions, personal liberty, moral convictions, and our own gold-lined cash-boxes but there isn't going to be any "pork," political complexions, personal liberty, moral convictions, or gold-lined cash-boxes, later on, unless we cut out on it now. This war must be made our business, and our first business; our almost exclusive business at least to the extent of making the winning of it our first and exclusive purpose. And we are going to pay for it, either as winners or losers, which means that we won't be "too late" in paying the indemnity in case we lose. The Honorable Wilhelm Hohenzollern, expert collector, will see to it that we act quick when it comes to that, and thank the eternals, it will be those who have that he will be first to plank down his iron heel upon. He won't bother with the small fry; dealing out fiftydollar Liberty bonds, and accepting one, five and ten-dollar Red Cross subscriptions from men who account themselves, when out in society, among the exclusively well-to-do. Get ready for the Hohenzollerns, that's it; get ready to beat them or else get ready to greet them. True we have sent a few transports over to France; transports leiden with our bravest and best. There was a battle with the U-boats; our destroyers met the enemy and put them to rout, with some sent to the bottom of the blue hut that dosen't end the war. When the smoke of the last battle has finally risen, and the sky is again cleared, which would you prefer to have standing before you: Woodrow Wilson or Wilhelm Hohenzollern? You'll get one or the other if it doesn't last too long, and it's up to you to make your choice, and do your part right now, and from now on to the last cannon. Stop wallowing in hog-grease! Quit chewing pork! If the kaiser gets you he'll make nitro-glycerine out of you and turn your bones into hog feed and fertilizer. You'll turn into fattening for "pork" instead of the "pork" being employed to fatten you financially or otherwise. America will be nationalized as the result of this war. It is going to last until it is nationalized, and that nationalization means, that the national welfare will, as a national ideal, find its way into the mind of the individual placing the public good above private gain, and public service above the private snap. It will be made hot enough for us before we get through to literally fry the hog-grease out and from out the fire of purification, will arise a patriotism that is true.

.ANTI-NEGRO ANT) ANTI-WHITE RIOTS. Sec'y Newton D. BaXer ir his Fourth of July fpcJt. in which he counted thit "whi Jlchtlrp ?or a worldwide democracy, we mi:s: r. i fni-; our own", inny never have had a thoucht of ihe r.'p rirts in Kast .t. Louis, but his remarks wir-1 :iproro incident to that affair, Just the same. Ti- n;pear? r?r t dally true a1 it continues to leak out ? h t th r:o:r. w as rnor white-faced than Mick, ar.d this from more than direct ancles. Importations of Negroes ly i:.it St. Lou: employers, to replace white labor at a lower wace now appears to be at rock-bottom of it all. and white riistnnce to this method of cr'.t ir.c the white, fuppte 1 the rest. F.ut let this underlying vause p.i5?. at Iran temporarily, and read on. From a detailed and apparently trust worthy account of the riot- wP reprint this passage: "The first '.rouMe ourred when a Necro appeared at liroadway and Collinsvi;if tv.. rr.e of the busiest corners in the city and an important street car transfer point. A white man struck the Noro in the face, an i others in the crowd knocked him down and kicked him. As he lay in the street a white man coolly appi oache4 and rued .u him ve times. Two of the shots took ft.it, one in tho arm and one in tho Uz. As the crowd, thinkinthe Negro was dead, fell back, he jumped up and ran. This Xe pro said he had had n-. part in previous race trouMes." Somehow this story .ovnd typical of mo-t of oUr lynchinps and "race wars '. of course, our Declaration of Indepe ;.io;u o .l. rl.4r - that all men are "endowed by their 'rator with certain inalienable rights, aim r.i; which are lite. h'. erty and the pursuit of happin And the c onstitution . f the Fnited States contains m: h puara:!t-v as thso: "No per3on shall ., he-Id to answer for a capital or other infamous crime u?.!-on a presentment or Indictment of a .-rand .jury." "No person shall be deprived of life, hbrtv or property without duo process of law." "In all criminal prosecution- the accuse.! shall enjoy tho right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury, to be informed of the nature and causes of the accusation, to be confronted with the witnesso acainst him, to have compulsory process's for obtaining witnesses in his favor, an.l to haw tho assistant of counsel for his defcr.s " Fut what are the declaration and the constitution when the "person" happens to ho a hi., ok man? Such differentiation H not democracy, but a rac- autocracy for which the teutonic race presents no j.aia'.lel. Wh.v are the whites of Fast .t. Ixmis bestowing their wrath, upon the Necroes? Why not upon tho white employ, is that imported them? Those black men have as mm 'i legal right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness-' including a job in Fast St. Louis, as anyone, and if for economic reasons, the equal rights of the whit i have been unduly abridge! or destroyed, the abridin and destroying parties are the ones thar should be held responsible. If the people of East .t. Louis, due to this importation of Negro labor, are being subjected to unusual rapes, robberies, burglaries, etc., catch the rapists, robbers, burglars, etc., and punish them. t.. be sure, but from a social standpoint, and from an e nomi,- standpoint, the must legitimate basis of running riot, wh;. strike at the branches and overlook the root of the il' Is it because the more common whites of that . :ty. are snobs tc. or n"ae in holy fear the autocra y f wealth which iz the real underlying source of the mi--chicf ?

TRIPLICATING DHFHNSf: PUBLICITY. It occurs to i;s that an inhnite amount of literary junk is being disseminated ju.-t now more to than through the press. on which there mUht be a great saving somewhere if it were properly bgurel out; :i saving in whit:- paper, envelopes and postac, r,n though the lights behind the gleam are, as they ,,re In the main, rendeiing their serv ice fre . We ref. r t the publicity operations, for instance, of the national and state councils: of defense. They might cue n something different from each other at b ast. They ar-almor-t as bad as the various Hugh' s, aid societies that operated last all In behalf of the republicans. We get it about this way: First, from some bureau of the. department of agriculture at Washington; then about next day. though slightly eh ange.i, from th'- r ational council of defense, incorporating som. advjro from P'ood Dictator Hoover. Th third shot come from Indianapolis, and we have it that "Will II. Hay, chairman of the Indiana rouncil of defense, by G'org Ade. director of publicity, today gave f.ut the foiF-tv. ing": and it is the same thing pretty r-.urh throughout, wdth Food Commissioner jf. j; p.armrd. perhaps, substituted for Food Director Hoover. It j- getting to bo a nuisance. The papers don't print it. ?t least more than once, and the people wouidrt r--td it If they d;L Anyhow, hero in Indiana, we are all aware that Gov. Goodrich made his party . hairn-'ia of la.-t fa'!, chairman of the state eour.oil of ,)r f r.s. and we ar all rz on George Ade. We approbate hi- sen-e of humor. I may be that Mr. Ade i-- kinu to ' fa! u'.ir.-" th tat chairman literally make .. ok.- of him, but these ar serious times. We want t' . all that we .-an to assist the Ftate council of lff r.- in its work, rfilly, unless we can get something lifferer.T el!, it hecom so funny that about the only pl"rf f- hao left f or jt would be in th "M'ltlr.? Tot", r-rc wouldn't want o misappropriate tho r-. ; -- o f Mr. A1 In the Mitto? n! tho "Mr-Itln pot".

Gen. 'Goeth.il.-? announce? w.irdir.; of c rtnets for ten new ste 1 carcn carrier. Th :-rt of the ship? cannot be oomph td before J':r. FM. Artv transportation enterprise rased upon a wh"de year of F-hop.t warfare sure hi-- its risk.".

In the past year potato-udvar.e. d or. hur.dre 1 and forty-nine per cent in priee.. W.itrh the heme irardenn knock the everlasting daylight- out of su-h goug-ry!

S'eamhout inspectors at 'h:cag- are ir.-pecting another slaughter of peopb after the fun ral. us i:uh1.

It is going to be a real hot tiinmer, weather or no weather.