South Bend News-Times, Volume 34, Number 252, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 9 September 1917 — Page 26

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1 AMY SUNDAY NTAVSPAPEIt IN NORTHEN INDIANA. CINGM: f,pi-i. Bandar. Fire Onts; with mornlnj or a ..r -t: r south bend news-times Sunday editorial page inr: s'r Är as John hcnrt ZLVHR. Editor. 1161; Ji. 2100. Office: 210 W. Colfax av.

UP WITH THE FLAGS! THE BOYS FOR FLANDERS ARE DEPARTING! TOMOIiK'AV the lnt of South I'.tJ'h contribution to the Indiana, national guard division of the national array the last of the third Indiana Infantry, leaves the mobilization camp at Leeper park, and Is off for Hattiesburg. It was notir-f -ibl. when Co. F left pome two weeks ago, that there vj.s a noticeable absence of (Jid Glory along the line of n;arch to the train, and we were just wondering if it wouldn't bo a plendid id'a to speed up a littlo on that point, seeing that it is a sort of farewell. We wouldn't urcpt that any one leave their ilags up any lo;--r th in is ah-olu?ely necr-s'iry. Von might wait until y..u h'ar !h" and corning before hoisting them, and tl. haul th m down a? soon qh the rear of the parade ; pa.-?. The main thinir is to have them up when the d !i'r h'-y? and their escort go by. Wo mention this in pas-ing. realizing, as w" do. that the flair manuf.M ti.r rs and venders have placed a heavy tariff on f.atr-. and it stand. an economical public in Viand to to cautious a? to the number of Mai;s they allowthe 1 rf z -- to wear out wh- the cost of them is ,.o nf (-,iry to keep up the pleasurable supply of gasoline. Rut anhow. ( t tret a few flairs up alone the route if w can; cultivate the habit. Pretty soon there is to be a consbi rable a-'irreeation of selected men to leave f.T th" front. and somebody may take into his head that th ;.te entitled to s-ome kind of a sentl-off, too. It nullit not be s-ir-h a bad idea, had someone only thouuht of it in time, to have invited the men Known ti fcv.e been s lerf d to join In this farewell to the third regiment; that is. If the ethics of the milit; i' y i .,ild admit of it. As it is. )mw . :-. in addition to bidding farewell to the national gu ard, tin- oecasion is to serve as a sort of reception t. the home gu;rd. Tho home guardsmen are to march in the parad It is to be a patriotic oce.islon. and nothing that the puMie can do to show its P itrioti-m. and appreciation of these men, off for Flanders, ran be misspent. It is proper that the home guard should Join in the farewell. It Is proper that everybody .should, not that all should march, but the half of a parade is the mass?? of people that look on and the enthusiasm that they show. Out with the Haps. then, folks, nut with the flags!

PRUSSIANISM ON THE SEA. Wesley Frost, for three y ars American consul at Queenstoun, recently began a speaking tour of this country for tho purpose of bringing to the people at iirst hand some of the realities f German submarine warfare. We have grown accustomed to considering the Uhoat activities as unlawful and brutal. We have realized with indignation that nearly all their victims were non-combatants, and many of them innocent women .ind children. But we've grown eomewhat callous to the daily news item of ships sunk here and there. Most of these news dispatches now .simply state that another vessel has gone down before the attack of a submarine. But Mr. Frost brings home to us the startling and horrible facts of these briefly stated sinkings, facts coming under his own official observation. The only warning given to boats by the attacking submarine is the shelling of the boat. When the boat surrenders-, and oüieers and crew are bending every effort to comply with the submarine's commands, they are subjected to gun tire just the same, with no pity or justice. IJf boats are shelled, palling vessels carrying no wireless and no guns are raked with shrapnel. But. -n-orse. than thes-e things is the evil glee with which submarine crews set about to perpetrate their diabolical "Jokes." Mr. Frost tells of cases where German sailors Wied the water casks of a life boat with salt water and then left the sailors to their fate, made more horrible by their lack of fresh water to drink. In one case the Germans threw overboard everything the sailors had tried to save in their lifeboats. These treasures included food and water and little bundles of keepsake the sailors carried tied up in handkerchiefs. In another case, the officers of the submarine merrily took snapshots of their drowning victims. Prussian methods of warfare are the same on land as- on sen. Are there people who still ask whv the Fnlted states ha gone Into the war0 Are there people who still call these reports "incredible and prejudiced stories." "imr,ole,, etc.? It's time for the last doubter to take his head ut ef the sand and cive hi undivided support to hi country In its ficht against all that Frussianism is doing and would do hi the world. POETRY AND AMBULANCES. The American Poets' union has undertaken to raie J10O.i"00 to supply nee. Jed ambulances to the Italian armv. Perhaps th.'t i?snt really the o'llcial name of the organization. Po-uMy our poet? haven't been orani.red Into a uni-m as ye?. Put anyhow, it's the poets that ar- doing it P'" ts y faith and practice, tuen and women of sufficient poetic c nvietions to admit that they nre poe's. It must not be - :m.ed that they're going to raise all this money them-. :.o Who would ever expect anv aggregation cf po. to have as much as $lf"r,,,P that they didn't need f r immediate necessities? Th-y 'pet their friends to contribute. And they will see th r the friends do trust th-m f'T that. It's an eminently worthv phi'an hrory. which might well have been attended to before Italy ha had little aid from America, com' ared with the ether belligerent She ha foucht as hard a any of them except possibly France, and. today she 1ms more '.slide accomplishment to her credit thin any of the ret. And in lending the rh.intaMe help sr long delayed, it's Mttlv.c that cir P'"" should take the leading rart. The Italians will appreciate contributions all the more, coming thron rh th'"".r hands. For Italy is the land of poetry and sentiment, as it has been for so many centuries. Hrr war Is l. ing fought with poetry and music no !e- than with shell. P'Anr.unzio ami Toscanini play almo-t as 1m; ortant a part as Gen. Cadorno. We hhould t. k' satisfaction in the knowledge that our own ports, as a'I;s, are doing their humble part. The i. em: rs f the Japanese imperial diet the national parliament are asking to have their pay raised to S 1 . r ' ' . The ect o' living's gone up in Japan, too, and they can't g t a very imperial diet for Jl.OCO & JUT,

CONGRESS shall make no law respecting the establishment of a religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or of the right of the people to peaceably assemble, or to petition the government for a redress of grievances. No, thank you, that isn't original with us. Congress itself thought of that as long ago as 1879, and submitted it to the states for incorporation into the federal constitution. The states ratified it. It has been a part of the fundamental law of this land now for 125 years. It constitutes a part of the American bill of rights, borrowed in substance but with improvements, from England's magna charta as wrested from old King John, and fundamental with the English speaking peoples to this day. It is the heart and soul of democracy. Even the Indiana fathers incorporated it into the fundamental law of Hoosierdom. It was recognition on the part of those sturdy pioneers, who had been oppressed by denial of these privileges, in their fight for democracy, as essential to progress, and to the furtherance of human rights. It is exactly wherein democracy differs from autocracy at bottom. The ballot is merely the expression of what freedom of conscience, of speech, of the press, of peaceable assembly, and the right of petition, conceives desirable, hustling it along toward incorporation into law. It is because of the absence of this that the German people today are held in such bondage to the German imperial government; bondage through warped conscience, and warped through suppressed speech, a controlled press, denied right of assemblage, and permission to petition only for those who dare. It means ignorance, or at least a limited knowledge, and a still more limited understanding, save in the light that the government would have things understood. We lament that the German people have never seen the president's war message, nor his more recent "peace note," except perhaps in spots, in garbled form, and misconstrued in language uncomplimentary, and in consequence we are raising an army of two million men whom we propose to send to Berlin, to deliver that message, and that peace note, if need be, on the point of the bayonet. Because Germany's autocracy will not permit the German people to have these things, in freedom, through the columns of the press and the avenues of speech, with the right of independent thought, open discussion, and the privilege of popular action thereon, we are going to make ourselves understood to those people, even if we have to do it with bullets and shrapnel. We cling to it, at least in theory and we have been pretty consistent, too, in practice, that the intelligence of mankind can be trusted to do pretty near the right thing, when allowed the reins of open knowledge, the right to draw its own conclusions, and the privilege of popular expression. The major portion of mankind is at heart sound, and, the major intelligence accordingly bent upon justice, righteousness, and brotherly regard. Truth and truth alone is eternal; it never dies. Falsehood and error cannot live. You may gilt it over, polish it bright, sweeten iJ beyond honey to the taste, the sight, the ear, and hoist it to the very skies on the eloquence of a Demosthenes, or Cicero, but it never yet has held its own for long against the battering rams of truth when available through freedom of thought, cr worship, or expression. Let the propaganda be what it will, and the truth will take care of it if permitted. Given an even show and truth must prevail, else it is not truth, falsehood is not error, intelligence and conscience are fakes, Christian civilization is a sham, and democracy a humbug. The people will sift it out, separate the wheat from the chaff, tear off the false faces and unveil the naked reality, if left to act in freedom, with intelligence, and are not subsidized from position, influence or special privileges, into overriding their own consciences. Falsehood and error may hold sway for a season, bury the truth beneath the debris of brutish ignorance, and. maintain an apparent ascendency by evasive cunning, cajolery, brow-beating and bully-ragging, but it soon spends its force and then gets the laugh. Meanwhile it may cause much inconvenience, hinder progress, and as if vested with the "voice of thunder," appear to ride the waves, the air, and speak the language of the skies, but you can't always judge the righteousness of an undertaking, or the strength that it has gathered by the noise that it makes. Truth is what the quiet majority is thinking, and what the unvoiced many need, more often than it is what the noisy minority want and seem so assured that they are going to get, or that they should have. If you cannot hold your own at the bar of public opinion, against the blusterer, the flannel-mouth, the bluffer, the demagogue, the false pretender, the humbug, step aside. Don't certify to their superiority or the superior logic of their cause by trying to have them muzzled. Fear of freedom certifies to a fear of investigation every time. You know how much of influence this type of chronic propagandist has among his neighbors. They see through him. The community sees through him. The nation and finally the world, soon comes to recognize him in multiples. He is one of that type of individuals, and his movements likewise, of whom the fates and the proverbs appear to have decreed, that if you'll leave them alone they'll hang themselves. If they are not of that type of individual, or their movements likewise, it is you that is probably mistaken, and no amount of suppression, persecution, or resistance, can hold them down. Autocracy prescribing modes of conscience, thought, and action, may hold the obstreperous at bay, keep them down, curb their advancement, but even in an autocracy, they break the bands at times and usher forth triumphant. That is what America is sending her two million men to Europe for; to help the oppressed, the suppressed, the persecuted people of Germany, break those autocratic bands; to carry to them the "new freedom" that has never been theirs to enjoy, and liberating them, to liberate all mankind from the ambitious designs that would subject all the world to these same German people's masters. But this "new freedom" meanwhile must not be misunderstood. It is not the freedom of self-assumed license. It is liberty guarded by law. There is no such thing as "personal" liberty any more. The personal rights of every individual are curbed by the relative rights of the other members of society. The "new freedom" is the freedom of equality. Congress has power to punish any overt act of religious worship that society finds inimical to the best interests of society. Accordingly it declared polygamy illegal among the mormons. With respect to the freedom of speech, the laws of every state have declared against slander, and likewise with respect to freedom of the press, we have laws against libel. The right of the people to peaceably assemble doesn't imply that they shall be permitted to preach sedition or promote treason after they have met. Laws against sedition and treason are old as the hills. Freedom's rights are equal rights. They are open to everybody on an equal basis. The right of the people to declare by law what is in their judgment inimical to the welfare of all the people has never been denied here in America, and never will be. Democracy, accordingly, is not without its safeguards. Let the majority do it; that is as much as is necessary. It merely reverses the order that leaves it all to the dictates of an autocratic minority. The test of the hour is, not one involving the freedom of speech, or of the press, or of the right of the people to peaceably assemble. The question is one of treason, sedition, or misprision of either, "succoring the enemy, giving them aid and comfort." The freedom of speech, of the press, and of assembly are not abridged. Every man is privileged to make a fool of himself if he so prefers. He may exercise his freedom, but interfering with the equal and legitimate rights of others, or promoting that which society has by law illegalized, he must also take the consequences. You wouldn't think of permitting a man to advocate murder, whether from the soap-box or through the Ladies' Home Journal; then why treason and sedition, quite as hideous as crimes? It is the difference between the use and abuse of things. The same may be applied to autocratic power. There have been benevolent autocrats, though not as frequently as tyrannical ones. Democracy, however, seldom if ever becomes tyrannical. Take the trouble that congress had, for instance, in passing the espionage law. Everybody, almost, it seems, was suspicious, and afraid that they might be the first to get caught in the trap. That article one, of the first amendments to the federal constitution, rung through the halls of congress with a vengeance those days. It was echoed from throughout the land, and we know of both people and newspapers ultra-zealous of their liberties then, who would like to see some of the trimmings taken out of the bill, put into the law now. And thus democracy is the best safeguard against tyranny in the world. The majority looking out for their own freedom, cannot in equality, deny the minority the same privileges. Democracy is a check upon itself. The world knows it. Autocracy fears it. The people soon learn that they are safer in their own hands than in the hands of any master. It is thus that the world, outside the central empires of Europe, is so thoroughly determined today to establish the world sovereignty in the people. Mankind regards mankind safer to live with. The people of the central powers are invited to affiliate. In their benighted wisdom, due to a freedom that has never been theirs, they may have to be forced to it but they're on their way.

At the sates of Berlin, etc

Freedom and Truth

NOW FOR THE INTERSTATE FAIR! THEY PROMISE US "BEST EVER." A 'IAIN, this week, the Interstate fair throws open lti Kates, th third tirrs In its hUtory, and wilii p." ;,e-t of a srrtal ehow xceedin all previous oc-f;s't-T..' It me.ns much hard work for the men l i cnrK purely educational, and carried on for the ruo-: part without compensation to the o:!lcers ar.l pronicteru. South Bend and Mishawaka people, and wlth them the whole surrounding country, should respond liberally. Hero we have an opportunity to see what Is be'.r. don" in the. way of agriculture, horticulture. st-ck-rais-Ing. etc., in this section of the country; what is 1 etr done In manufacturing, and the kind of race horses fir. I th lo al pur.s attractive. The fair is a lant exhibition, an occa.-iou for a sort of gnlly week, an attractica el'an. Inspiring, educational. Anybody can attend th fair and need not worry that wife, daughter, sister c f'a eMl.eart w ill y. f impoe,i upon hy ponie beer-guirler or other freaks of dissipation. The InterFtate faihas a reputation to maintain In this rpect, and w have the assurance of the fair management, that it means to maintain it. Last year, the second season of this fnlr, prwmu l an exhibition that has never hcen eclipsed In Indiana. It had the state fair heat. We are told that lat year will not he permitted to eclipse this year. That is guarantee worth while. The management has not bee a as extravagant as it was last year with some cf 1 prizes, hut It was more extravacant last yesr than wth necessary. It isn't necessary to buy an exhibit to it on exhibition and then let the owner keep It aftr th exhibition Is over. There Fhould be sonvo prMe in an exhibition as well as hope cf reward. And Tuesday, at Springrook Park, the gnte wl t open again, and the big show will be on. No or should miss it. It should he a part of the regular annual program with every family for a hundred miles around. It i their show. They make it: the an I their neighbors. an1 they, at least, can do no 1 thn i o and see it. That much of encouragement l du from everyone.

INTRODUCING A NEW STANZA. A fctanza of poetry which has been added to the national hymn in Canada, for at leaj?t temporary use, and. which is being widely sung over the. Dominion, h 4 been brought to our attention by Rev. Georg W. Allison, pastor of the Hope Presbyterian church. It fin to the tune of "America," and is so well adapted to on. own national situation, why not appropriate it here a well: "God bless our nobl men. Send them safe home atrain; God bless our men. Keep them victorious. Patient and chivalrous. They are so dear to us; God 5ave our men." "We suggest to th choirs and choristers Crat thj tr;. it, but somehow it is always difficult to rAd po.nsthJn new into a hymn like America, and malt It stick, after" so many years. It is quite as difficult to rad something new in as it is to read something old oat, s-s. xsitneFi Sec'y of War Baker's recent attempt to Itzntnat from the "Star Spangled Panner," during the -war, that ßtanr-v that especially refers to Great Britain, hr tyranny r that time, and her friends, pro-British foe rf America, then In our midst. The secretary says It Li not etJtuettw t atj trat, stanza now that Great Prltaln Is oar aTg. ttrt ft Is th heart and soul of tho anthem; that which !nyp?rI Francis Scott Key to writ ft. Tak It oxit and oar rational anthem is soulless. Let us not raar history for the sake of this war. Let us ahow our modern friendships that the world Is improving and fprglvlngr, thorn h not always forgetting. This new stanza for th national hymn, cff!c&rd to the boys, is p. new soul introduced, contrary to an attempt to eliminate, one. VTe suggest that as marry as possible learn it for thy may h called upon to follow it now and then. In congregational or assembly ringing, and why not he as uP-to-dato 0,1 convenient? BREAD HERE AND ABROAD. In most parts of the United States 14 ounce of rre I aro sold for 10 cents. In Great Britain 22 ounces ar sold for 11 cents. In France H5 ounces are eold for 0 cents, in "starving Belgium" 2Z ounces ar sold for 1 1 cents. These figures were quoted the othT- ay rn th hous cf representatives by a congressman who followed up his facts wdth such natural questions as these: "Why is bread -o much more xpnsiv in the United States than In Europe? Why is bread made from American wheat sold to foreigners so much cheaper than our bread, despite the high cot of transportation? If the people of Europe can ret two pounls of bread for 10 cents or lss, why can't we, who rale the wheat, get somewhere, near one xound of hread for five cents? It should be recognized, in falrn?Fs, that th bread sold to the peoplo cf Great Britain and France ii not the familiar white bread of America made from the best quality of all-wheat flour. It is a peeisl, standardized "war bread," rr.ado from a blend of grains. But it Is said to be thoroughly palataMe, and not inferior In nutriment to cur own bread. The difference in prie, after due allowance Is rr.ado for the use of cheaper ingredients and rr.arM;r milliner, demands explanation. It i plain that tho Bri?ih and French are really getting about twk-e as much for their money as we are. Tho argument of our v-!cr miller? nnd riker.s that th" price can't be substantially low rd In Amri-a isn't convincing. Perhaps when th.A r-ad industry i thoroughly regulated by the gov-rr.nr-r.t I.t. h it : ahro.iM, making production and distribution more, f f ier.t and eliminating big pf'f.ts. th 1 read manufacture rs and dealers will see a great light. For the easy consumption f neutral ? v.: ::- that goo. I Bnclish may stump, we reduce I're-'t '.Vil-m'-emlargo message to "Fi-'ht with us or - vt Germany !" Up to date the kaiser h i 1 dStrt uted .rr- ::" V iron crosses. He'll b' rry he d'.dn't statr. m '.--'tra f Amerika" on thtm and make them pass for m ney I elore &a feu thxough