South Bend News-Times, Volume 34, Number 245, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 2 September 1917 — Page 24

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LABOR'S SONG OF TRIUMPH

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Thank Go3 for the might of it,

The ardor, the urge, the delight of it Work that springs from the heart's desire, Setting the brain and the soul on fire Oh, what is so good as the heart of it, And what is so glad as the beat of it, And what is so kind as the stern command, Challenging brain and heart and hand? W0RK! v Thank God for the pride of it, For the beautiful, conquering tide of it, For the grace of it, the embrace of it, And the brawn, and the muscle, that come from For the strength of will, and the manly power,

it;

That radiates from it, by the day and the hour; For the sweat of the brow, the horny hand, The soul of the workshop and tiller of land; Creator of all things; 'tis work, work, work! (Not even creation came through with a jerk). "Six days shalt thou labor" and do what you can, But the seventh day, rest! 'Tis God's way to man, Sweeping the life in its furious flood, Thrilling the arteries, cleansing the blood, Mastering stupor and dull despair, Moving the dreamer to do and dare. Oh, what is so good as the urge of it, And what is so glad as the surge of it, And what is so strong as the summons deep, Rousing the torpid soul from sleep?

WORK! Thank God for the pace .of it, For the terrible, keen, swift race of it, Fiery steeds in full control, Nostrils aquiver to greet the goal, Work, the power that drives behind, Guiding the purposes, taming the mind, Holding the runaway wishes back, Reining the will to one steady track, Speeding the energies faster, faster, Triumphing over disaster. Oh, what is so good as the pain of it, And what is so great as the gain of it? And what is so kind as the cruel goad, Forcing us on through the rugged road?

By Angela Morgan WORK! Thank God for the swing of it, For the clamoring, harnmering ring of it, Passion of labor daily hurled On the mighty anvils of the world. Oh, what is so fierce as the flame of it, And what is so huge as the aim of it? Thundering on through dearth and doubt, Calling the plan of the Maker out, Work, the Titan; Work, the friend, Shaking the earth to a glorious end, Draining the swamps and blasting the hills, Doing whatever the Spirit wills Rending a continent apart, To answer the dream of the Master hearL Thank God for a world where none may shirk Thank the good Lord for the splendor of work!

JUDGE GORGE FORD AN ALL-MAN OF RFAL CHARACTER AND WORTH. SOUTH HUND lias liid to rest another one of her distlruMiishf .1 citizens Judge George Ford, of the tuperior court. This judgeship is only a recent, and the last of his connections with the public life of the community. He grew up with .South Bend. He has tcrved her in a number of ways; served even the larger political units of which Xouth Henri is only a part. Ho

ws a man of force of character; an individualist, as a

of force of character must be.

a'-thing like a year and a half ago. Judge Ford

fto the writer that he wished to delegate him to

his (Ford's) obituary, after lie was dead, with the

late, to tell the truth.

he whole truth?" was asked of him. "Yes," he

'ied. lawyerlike, ' the whole truth, and nothing but

truth."

hat was Genree Cord. Everybody who knew him.

jws It was fleorge Ford. It was characteristic of

:n; fdpnllicant of his idiosyncrasies, if one may call

em that, now that he is gone; and beyond that we sire to surrender the. portfolio conferred, since it

livers his case quite completely.

Judge Ford had none of the hypocrite in him. IIo

vas what ho uns. He was a mighty poor pretender:

f.vas outspoken, plain, and possessed of an idea, he sel

dom smothered It for expediency's sake, in consequence

of which he was sometimes unpopular the crowning

flory of strong men in minions or cases. You could believe in (Icrrge. Ford, just on that account, even though you miht disagree with him. II vas an apostle of non-conformity when conformity became an interference; social conformities, we mean, rnwrlt'rn custom?1, and the like. lie was also a conformist when non-oonformity became too much of an interference, because he was George Ford and an inM idualist. He kept out of puhlic life as much as he could, just

that account, but the strength that It added to hm

praeter, ami tho likablenes.s of the trait, nevertheless

t forcing him in repeatedly. He couldn't stand

lgiess more than one term, because there was too

'ich sham in it: too much pose.

Oh no, not that he was a reformer. He wasn't. He

is distinctively a democrat, even more, wo have soments thought. In character than in political opinion.

emorracy means individualism if it means anything.

nd individualism capable of Icing pushed almost to

he point of what is sometimes called philosophical

unarchism; anarchy with the violence eliminated. He

elieved that the state existed for the individual, not

the Individual for the state, so he must have been very

distinctively antl-(lernian, though we never had occa

sion to directly sound him on the point.

uch were the dominant traits of the man, and whv tay more? They embraced a kindly, considerate- nature to bo sure; that is. a kindly, considerate nature when something which he regarded as more important was not at stake. When there was. ho sometimes became very blunt. Inconsiderate, quite i.nkindly, but not that he meant to hurt anyone. He was driving that something home, nd he wasn't wholly unconscious of the average thickness of human heads. To make a confession, alsn charaetreistio of the man, the writer has taker, more cussing, as an editor, from Georce Ford, than from any other ten men that he ever knew but it wasn't onesided. Fach cussing was alternated by "sones of praise" on some other mubject, Fo that the sam can be said of him as, If we may call It that, an "admirer". Mach subject stood Alone with him. He came alons? and talked it over At frequent intervals, sometimes rather vehemently, snd then again with much delight. You can't lu!p liking , man like that. You get his roint of view all rlirht, and he gets yours, and you agree and disagree, perhaps with much loud talk but without ill-feeür.gs. We know from experience that George Ford was a student cf humanity and of what from his viewpoint appeared human frailties, and it semed a part of his mature to want to discipline you Just about so often, and then to help stiften your spine by backing you up. when he thought you were right. The editorial sanctum of this paper Is going to miss George Frd. not from a life-long acquaintance, but from one lately acquire,! within a half decade; it will miss, but not forget him. One just sort of loves him for hi peculiarities, his Idiosyncrasies. h: Individuality, which every time you met him carried a conviction that you had come in contact w ith a r al character, an all-man, and no sham. We can siy :.o , vS- r.or r.o more of him, for we know rothing more. If we hae not diagnosed his case quite tight, thoe wl.o know him better are welcome to th?!r wiser Judgment, but we have marie good the mandate imposed upon us; td i 'the truth, the whole truth, and Nothing but the truth", rxs we see it. . r. mis O' i'.'i do i,n better.

ViM;oi;i't I-hti v;.iw- Frt-'t Wilm a nice talk, but there w asv.'t much w.-t M-wide democracy in It. Yc-J ree. Japan has t -.:.-;i. -r.i f the "dllne rights" virus in her st m and Ishii couldn't allcrd to w hoop it up muck Iwr duru-ciix.

Distinctions Without Much Difference HERBERT S. BIGELOW, Cincinnati clergyman, peace promoter and pretender of especial friendship for America and democracy, while evasively pleading the cause of Germany in effect whether in purpose or not; Rev. Herbert S. Bigelow, and Senator James Eli Watson, Rushville politician, seeking to divide America against herself for political effect well, to our mind, they belong in pretty much the same class. What Rev. Herbert S. Bigelow did at the high school auditorium Friday night was at least apologetic with reference to his criticisms or veiled criticism of the president, our entrance into the war, our reasons and our purposes. Senator James Eli Watson, addressing the republican state convention at Roanoke, Va., admitted of no apologies. This is an "unpopular war," he said, same as did Bigelow, only Bigelow cited the number of exemption claims that have been filed, in justification of his assertion, while the best that Watson could do was to assert it. "This war is the most astounding piece of treachery that ever shook this country," Senator Watson declared to the Virginia republicans. His pretention is that the president had made his campaign on a peace platform last fall, and that then, as soon as elected, he had turned traitor to the people who had elected h'm and plunged them into a war without further excuse. Bigelow did the same thing in his speech Friday night, only in another way, and in the open forum of popular discussion instead of before a political convention. That the one spoke in South Bend and the other in Roanoke does not mitigate in favor of one or against the other in comparative culpability; nor does it change the situation that the one was pretending excessive patriotism of the pacifist order, and the other merely talking politics. This is a war of the United States against Germany, and South Bend and Roanoke are both American cities the one no more likely to be contaminated by such talk than the other. We hold no brief for Herbert S. Bigelow. We merely hold in contempt his cleverness in hoeing as close to the line of sedition, if not treason, as one could conveniently get, without crossing it and endangering his scalp. On the other hand, we insist that the wearing of a senatorial toga, whether it be on the top-knot of James Eli Watson, "Bob" La Follette, or "Gumshoe Bill" Stone, does not lessen the seditious intent, or at least, the seditious effect, of the same line of gab. LET NO REPUBLICAN adherent of the Indiana senator imagine for a moment that by riding rough-shod over the smooth carcass of the Cincinnati clergyman, they can make Indianians In South Bend forget that James Ell Watson is their senator, and that the patriotism and honor of the state is somewhat at stake, incident to his utterances. Bigelow has come and gone, but Watson still represents us; that is, he either represents us or misrepresents us. Last year the Rushville man, along with the whole national coterie of republican politicians, was crying for war; "we should have gone to war when the Lusitania was sunk," they said. Now it's an "astounding piece of treachery" that we were ever forced into the war at all. For two years, or nearly so, Pres't Wilson kept us out of a war, or at least did not plunge us into one; one that politicians of the Watson school would have plunged us into, at least that same two years earlier. Some of his ilk, of those campaign days, even insisted that we should have taken up the cudgel from the moment that Germany invaded Belgium. They were great for war then, "war at any price," too anxious, for some reason, to wait until necessity demanded war; too anxious even to try to maintain peace. They needed no Zimmerman notes; no broken promises of respected neutrality; no violated assurances of extended peace. Nothing would do but war and war from the hilt. Evidently the Watson brand of statesmanship runs to "peace at any price" unless it can be a war of republican declaration, which this war is, at least in spots. Congress, not the president, has the power to declare war, and war could never have been declared had not a majority of the republicans in congress voted for it. Senator Watson voted for war himself; voted for this "astounding piece of treachery," but the masses are expected to forget that. We wonder how many German sympathizers, propagandists, spies, anti-American blatherskites, Sen. Watson expects to win over 10 the republican party by this brand of "copperhead" campaigning? Add these to the "war profiteers" whose cause he, along with his colleague, Sen. Harry Stewart New, has been championing against conscription as to excesses, and we anticipate that you have pretty near the following that Sen. Watson is looking for; the source, maybe, or that is to be, of that $100,000 "slush fund" that Republican State Chairman Will H. Hays has directed shall be raised in Indiana, for campaign purposes next year. Speaking in Virginia, it may be it is to inspire contributions to a similar fund to be raised in that state, and like as not they have been ordered throughout the states of the union. Would Sen. James Eli Watson sell his country to the internal foes of the republic, in order to raise such an enormous campaign fund for his party? Is he so much more politician than statesman as that? He says "this is an unpopular war." We hope so. Wars ought always to be unpopular, but Sen. Watson does not seem to be speaking from that angle. We hope never to see the United States engaged in a "popular" war, save as it is "popular" as a "necessary evil." In that sense the war with Germany is popular; is unpopular only with the pro-Germans, war profiteers, "copperheads" and political jack-snipes. It is unpopular with the pro-Germans because it is war with Germany instead of war against England. It is unpopular with the war profiteers because of the revenue taxes, threatening a heavy blow at excess war profits, and because price regulation is being instituted to ward off war extortionism. It is unpopular with "copperheads" and political junkers, but mainly as they want to preach its unpopularity, for the advancement of political chicanery. Sen. Watson will gain nothing before the country by arraying himself, even evasively, into the class with "Bob" La Follette, "Gumshoe Bill" Stone, yea, Herbert S. Bigelow, and others of that ilk. The senator is clever, but with the public it makes little difference which way you play that game. It all points in the same direction. La Follette is at least redeeming himself on one point. Since the "necessary evil" is with us, he proposes to see to it that the wealth of the country and especially that portion of the wealth that is utilized to multiply itself, incident to the war, shall, if possible, be made to pay its share of the bill. We notice that Sen. Watson has opposed this quite consistently, due, we suppose, to the "unpopularity of the war" with the gentlemen at whose fattening pocketbooks it strikes. Still, you can't be too hard on the senator. Every man is more or less a reflection of the company that he keeps. Sen. Watson always has been a close associate of the "big profits" grafters, and they close associates of his. Watson "stands by his friends," his friends all say of him; yes, he stands by the kaiser, the war profit grouches, the pro-German incendiaries, emitting a traitorous gospel consoling to them, at least anything to get a campaign fund and another vote; "he stands by his friends." He's "mollycoddling" the traitors. BIGELOW at least has it to his credit that he was probably sincere. He has a reputation for sincerity, though now slightly damaged by the cleverness employed at the high school auditorium to protect himself in saying what, if sincere, he might not have taken so much pains to guard. He speaks, however, as a private citizen, while Sen. Watson cannot speak save in effect, at least semi-officially, and we all know Watson to be more or less of a demagogue; you can take your choice. Put them in a bag and shake them up. The one that comes out first leaves the other to come out last and that is all there is to it. Not only South Bend has been insulted during the week that is past, but all Indiana; South Bend to her face and Indiana at her back down in Virginia. We won't say even that there should be a bull-pen for such people. Perhaps there shouldn't, and certainly not for the private citizen, or even a clergyman, when United States senators speaking aside, are permitted to run at large, harranguing such irresponsible bodies as partisan political conventions with the same brand of clap-trap. All we have to say is that when the socalled "People's Council o America for Democracy and Terms of Peace" makes its next visit to South Bend, it should receive its immediate passports on arrival, passing them along until öfter the war, same as has been done in a number of other states. That will meet with more or less of popular acclaim, we axe sure, and then The next time James Eli Watson comes to South Bend, to deliver a Fourth of July address, or something; well, he should be put astride a rail and toted somewhere to a junk-heap.

LET US NOT BE UNGRATEFUL I IT IS OUR WAR AS WELL AS THEIRS. LATEST directions have It that our "selectmen" ee lected to represent and do th nbting for w home birds" in the great national army, are to s forth, as tho Man of Galileo directed his disciples to go, "In twos and twos". It mean little opportunity for grand send-off. It appears po?ibl from th lack c2 u.stling. with the day for starting of the first pair, al three days off, that there probably -won't b much of ; rend-off for them, anyhow. Somewhat characteristic, c vrould sny. KnthuHffcSrru cools off awful rasy hero in America, in spots. Ther vas a dinner for the national pruurd. a Ms crtr4 at tha train when Co. F went, but whether It ich a gT3! rtrain on the public nerreg as to wear Itself out, a.nrj leave no reserve, we do not Xnow. Anyhow, everybody r.eemed to settle down to the thine pat, as & matter $ course; an though we had done our share, and the v$oory was already won. Without some fultahle recoffnfücm of the m1cs1 men, on the part of South Bend, civlcally jTarwr4, cr somehow, we repeat that we are even mar of a ban of inpratcs who Ftay behind, than w allowed th volunteers to depart unnoticed. This la thrtnrlnjr col lrlckVrts at th volunteer either. To them all honor but they volunteered. These selected men, like the ret of uo, didn't vohoat?er. We have figuratively, if not well-nljrh UterUy taken them by the collar, pat . prun In their rutntla. mJi houted "march!" And they're rolnj? to march, yi the provost peneral, in "twos and twos", cr word" ti thnt effect, starting Wednesday, and Ftrtnrlnjr eIoticJ :ntll tho first contingent in all rone, eametJm near5 middle October. Yes, "march", you relctM men. The rest of 1394 lucky or unlucky enough to be physically unfit, to? antiquated, or havlnp someone dependent upon u, will ftay at home, buy liberty bonds maybe, -nibCTibe to the Red CroF. perhaps, Join the home jruard pn. pibly, but all of us hanirlnjr. !ike prim death onto our .1obs, our businesses little and hier, and planning to wrinr; every dollar out of them, during the war, and on Recount of the war, that ws can. Unless we do something to how our personal, direct, 'ippreciation of thosn elected men. eendini? them awav with the feelinp that we are personally Interested ia th-tn, as well as generally; thrn lKme becomes -v "slacker' retreat" for everyone cf us within volunteer ae, who jtays behind, and h.ive not at leat made af ffort to land in the army pomewhere. It is not Impossible to arrange a dinner, especially for the lir.t fifteen or twenty to ro before the 15th lnt , and hold it before the first two start, on th fifth. Th 'arper farewell reception could be given before the remainder are pcheduled to make their start on the iT.th or any of the remainder. The, whole f;r?t quota will be pretty well known by that time. There is sense to the provost general's order that th men travel in fmall groups. It saves train arrangements. .Straggling away from home, and into arr.p, may not be quite so picturque, but it in economical, and it is good to note that economy is one of the very things that the government Is beslnnln to look 0'.;t for. Yes, it puts something1 In the way of a possible b?g" show, when the selectmen leave, but we can adjust o"r-!-eives to It, and make our srratitude felt Just the Fame, if we will. We are likely to have to adjust ourselvee t a number of things before the war Is over. The tlm may come later, when we may have to grtve up o::r Jobs, our Incomes, our dependents, and even overlook our physical defects, and go to & training camp oijrplv.. No one knows how long this war 1 irolng to last; r.o one knows what the results may be. Tet us ser: 1 then men whom we, ye. "we", by virtue of our dmo-rpu-Mcnn system ft doing thinjrs, have extracted fron smong ourselves, away feeling at least that our h-arts are with them "Our hearts, our hope, our tear, nur prnyers; Our faith, triumphant o'er our fars Are all with thee! Are all with the:"

AGREEMENT IS BEST. After an amicable conference with tha government food administrators, eighty per cent of the eet nigar trodu-ers agree to limit the price of their product. This is tine. An ounce of amicable agreement Is worth ton of pounding cn the head. But the twenty per cent of sugar men not In tV. conference can spil the arrangement. They shouli be invited to concur and those, who refuse should fee' the hand of government dictation. When .-overnmei;T undertakes to fix prices, it cannot afford to lt any price hr.gs escape.

"Skinner's H.iby" i- a ?noie play that's prcnou:.c c d a succes? by eastern critics, althourh it has no vampire, no wrestling in Cupid's firry embrace and no murder. Hut thoc critics don't know art when thy see it, anyhow. A play with no vampire, love f,r niurd'r in it h:ii better stay back e:ist, by heck

If Germany's autocracy would quit talking peace and vor.d up Just one hone.r yell of "Knough!" thwe would be a Letter understanding all 'rourjd.