South Bend News-Times, Volume 34, Number 280, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 7 October 1917 — Page 28

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PRINCELY ARSON. The world H familiar with the fact that Prince Kite!, the kai.-fr's second son, pillaged the chateau of Yvricourt when the German army retreated last fumüjtr from a Motion of northern France. Uat the fall fctory is little known. Dr. Newell Dwight 111111s. famous Brooklyn preacher, after two months spent In personally investigating the devastation wrought by the modern Iltin-i, h i.s revealed tome additional details of that shameful -pisode.. They throw a ivid light on the character of the HohenzoIIern family. It appears that this noble castle, rich with historical associations and rillt J w ith priceless relici, was one of the buildings f-pecitk'ally covered by a clause In an International agreement signed by all the powers, including Germany, intended to guarantee the safety of historic edifices 4tn war time. It was occupied for many months by Prince Kltel, as his military headquarters. Tltls is what happened when the retreat occurred. r,s attested by need .servants and little children, whose utü'iavits were taken immediately afterward, and of vho-e testimony Dr. I Ullis has photo-'-ra ph!c copies: The :-ervants heard German mhcers telling Prince Iii I that h "would disgrace the German name if he destroyed a ouildir.g that had no relation to war and i-ould be of no practical aid or comfort to the French arm', and ho would make his own name of shame and eoriteinpt." Hut the prince was unmoved. lie brought in hie uacon, ;fnd hauled away every object of any J o 1 1 ' I - ;!l'i- in the chateau. Th' i:, -ays Di-. Ilillis. sti mmat i.ing the sworn tfatf"having pron.i5ed to leave the building uniniired. he stopped his car at the entrance and exit gates f the ground, ran i.i k to the historic building with a a-., of oil th.,r )i- had se.-r.-ted, filled his torch (a ti k with a i.all of perforated iron at the end, rilled with a:.es.to.- . ran through the halls and waited until the i!.i;,)e were u-!l in proirress. and th"n ordered his men to li-ht th f s;.-. of a dynamite bomb." Dr. Milli-- has the ihei-rar.d that Kitel used. Thus another or Fra n-. s oldest ami finest monuments was laid by tli? s i.ri of a royal family that boast. itself the greate-t on earth a prince turned l.nr;'!:i! an. I incendiary. Hoya arson was added to the purp"Hev: i!f a.-tation of a fertile land and murder and outrage !" its innocent inhabitants. And there are- still peopb- who want civilized governments to make pea e with the Mohenzolbrns!

PAN -A.W I: RICA LINING UP. Our people hae been a iittb- disappointed by tile iJowing up of A i nt i na's dn't toward war. We hoped to have had the "Yank es of South America' as acknowldqed allies l.toic thi. Th ir anticipated action has. been ret ird I by internal difficulties largely disi der. fomented by German agents and by the opposition of a preMd' i.t who is either pro-German or fainthearted. But according to John Barrett, director general of tho Pan-American union, who ought to know more about the truo inwardness of Datin-Ameriea than any other man in this country, there's no need to worry. He expects Argentina to line up with us before long, and with her, virtually all of her neighbors. If the war goes on for a year, says Mr. Barrett, all of the tw enty rt publics tn South and Central America will be on our hide. Six, he reminds us. have already broken relations with Germany. Thev are Brazil, Bolivia. Panama. Uruguay, Cuba and Costa Rica, in addition. Guatemala, Hayti und the Dominican Kepuhlie have "assumed practically the sime attitude". Argentina may sever relations at any time, and if she does o. will probably carry with h.r 'hilf. I'tru and Paraguay. Of the five remaining countries. Venezuela. IJcuudor. Colombia. Salvador anJ Mexico, lie says that they all lean strongly toward the l'iiit J States and the allies. lie miuht hare added that thoe countries which, like "dom'.ia. feel that they haw any veal grievance against ihi country, are actuated by their lote for France and their fe;r of Germam. !t i- easy enouvrh to r ad the sentiment of these Iatin public !n t!p ir pm-s. Bt inu- really free, our neighhave h f-eo j,i fs. Mr. Carrett reports that public ütimer.t as expres- d by the newspapers is "over v. 1. iiao.k-h pro-C,erman r.ud pro-Ally, for nlnety-fiv "' ' t' ' tit r- l'ap-rs are sincerely anti-German". ST R A F 1 N ( GSEH. Ma . e it'- because ChicuL-o has been credited with aain a pro-c;crnian mayor. That would tend to make any American cit sitive about things German. Any how. ('hic ti-'o m not come t take any chances of having anybody T-ie-tion h r m'i.-ical loyalty to th? Stars and StI Ipt a. The chica tpern company announce that in def- . i t r ee to 1 1 1 e sentiments ot the American public", it will l ot produce any Grrman Optras this season. Kichaio YVawr;.;- will now consider himself properly .-traft d foi h mM-iiii schrecklichkeit. Ye refer, of o'u-m. to la- it; f itiH'iis attack on Belgium, his devastation of northern 1 'it nco ami his U-boat deprt datlons. But why .ctop with enemy opera? "Why not go further, and put at. embargo on all German music? Surely eethoen should he properly punished for his poison gas attacks, and Bach for his liquid lire, and Schumann for his bom bine of wannen and children, and Schubert for his plr dse-br akmg. and Wehr for his corruption rod e; ionaL' Let us hie r.othir. bv;t entente music. Or better : et. none but Amethan music. Let Chlcaco rise up in her patriotic muht and cat out the whole perfidious, criminal l.-t of central European composers. Let her rn further, and turn her stockyards into a detention amp for all Americans guilty rf musical disloyalty. Th melodies of Wagner, Beethoven, Bach. Schuloann. SVhubrrt. ibl V-bcr. are of the old Germany, not the i.tw; r.ot of the military Germany that we are r'.htin-. The "Iron Cross" modern German rag-tim I different, and breathes a different air. PLACH FOR THE CONSCIENTIOUS. Again Uncle Situ -ends up a cry for camo'.i:'..iuu. He ,ays that he wanis artists, scene buildcrr. decorators and, . sp: via!! . "handy ni n". We don't xaetly know wh.at .a "'hamlj man is. in art. M..y' e it'- a xylite washer or a bill-poster. Anyiiow. we move that the oun-r men who have '.ten uddenl aBUct. .1 with "co:.-cientiou sorupks" be coni ript d a- "hand;. 111 r". Li l oüett"'.- .ii.d Thomp-or.'s collections of Übt 1 suit.a?ai:.st publish-! won't be the real thinj unless thej ft tl.t r-fr" BocevuU into the list cf defendant.

WE have a letter from a Mishawaka aspirant for military glory asking us to assure him that if he goes to war, the Enfield rifle will be as good as the Springfield; that the ammunition will be up to snuff, and at the appropriate time, he will have the same opportunity of promotion as other men of greater means. He says that assured of this he will enlist. Our answer is: Don't do it. Wait until you have been drafted and take your chances with the rest Then you will not need be disappointed. Besides, finding fault with ones tools, and fearful of the rules, is the urimistakable sign of a bad workman and maybe, of a bad soldier. The world's heroes, great inventors, discoverers, scientists have generally made their marks without tools, and all rules had to be broken. Faraday mastered the arcana of electricity with an old bottle. Only amateurs must have apparatus and appliances on the most splendid scale. Ferguson calculated the distances of the stars with a handful of glass beads threaded on a string. Many an artist has studio, easel, pigments and brushes far and away superior to Raphael and Rubens, but what does he do with them? "What do you mix your colors with?" said a student to a famous painter, to which the master made the significant reply, "With brains, sir." James Watt made his first model of the condensing steam-engine out of an anatomist's rusty an3 rejected syringe. When the parents of Benjamin West hid his brush he made one of extractions from the cat's tail. Good tools are better than bad ones, but all depends on the hand that holds them and the trained brain that moves the hand. Talent adapts to its use anything that lies close at hand. Guard against the delusion of taking liking to talent. Intensity of desire must not be confused with intensity of power. Because you are fond of drawing or of music, it does not follow that you may become a Titian or a Beethoven. In choosing your vocation be guided by a nobler thought than that of ambition. The greatest man is he who chooses the right with the most unconquerable resolution; who patiently bers the weightiest burdens; who is calmest in storm, most fearless under frown; whose faith in the right is unfaltering. Heaven estimates our life work not by its brilliancy, but by its honesty. We cannot all be great and rich, but we can all be good and honest. Strive to get on in the world, but live in the intent that you may turn to the best account the talents with which you have been endowed; that you may do your duty as' a man or woman, each within his or her proper sphere. All callings in life are honorable, if useful. It is no disgrace to be a street sweeper, but it is a shame to make a poor job of it It is more honorable that your son should be a shoemaker and make good shoes, than be a preacher preaching sermons nobody wants to hear. Pope's lines contain sound philosophy: "Honor and shame from no condition rise; act well your part, there all the honor lies." And it is the same in the ranks of the army.

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CONGRESS at the next session in December, will be an Amercan congress; will deal with an internal America, perhaps, with less special consideration for the world war. We will probably hear from the house during that session on the prohibition constitutional amendment, already past the senate, and the woman suffrag constitutional amendment hybernating in both senate and house. The prohibition amendment is a quite foregone conclusion. The saloon must go and with it the intoxicants upon which it has thrived. With it will go, too, much of that corruption in American politics which has madeof the franchise so much the more an expression of the mob than it has been the voice of candid thought The woman auffrage amendment is not a forced issue. The pickets of the white house will haye failed if the amendment goes through. It will pass in spite of them rather than because of them. Their performances have served, if at all, to retard the cause, rather than to advance it. Man has merely been awaiting the time of conviction that woman is. not his slave nor his toy, but his equal. Equal intellectually her imagination is as fruitful and her reason as vigorous as man's. She is socially man's equal and should have the same suffrage in public affairs. To deny her action in the political movements which so cloiely affect her; to deny her a share in ordaining good laws, or suppressing those laws by which she often keenly suffers, is to withhold from her an exercise of power which is a glaring instance of that injustice which gives denial to our boasted liberty and light. Suffrage is not woman's right; it is. the right of a human being and right will, conquer. But, while according all this to woman, still her peculiar position, her hemisphere, is with the affections. 9 V7 OMAN'S empire is home, the beautiful work of developing the heart's beat and holiest feelings, where she reigns with a royalty no W less dignified than that of man in the issues of debates, the marts of gain, and the dazzling paths of ambition. If woman neglects her work inside this sphere, there is no one to perform it Our domestic shrines would be overthrown and turned out of doors and our homes become haunts of selfish cares and discordant tongues. Woman is peculiarly adapted to. the work of the affections and how powerfully that work affects the destinies of man! The home is the seminary of all institutions. There are the roots of all public prosperity and the foundations of the state. Woman's power in the home is beyond all calculation. And woman will not have to abandon her sphere, her divinely-ordained position in the world, to exercise the ballot. Woman is to be man's co-worker in hastening the new and better age, seconding his reason with her love, his appeals for goodness with her deeds of benevolence and peace. The warrior watching on the tented field, with the destinies of a nation committed to him, striking in the conflict for liberty and right, may act in a wider sphere, but his work is not greater than woman's as she keeps vigil by the bedside of suffering, or toils in the uncheered routine of domestic duty. The statesman may regenerate nations by his policy; the orator may shake senates by his eloquence; the scientist win new worlds by his discoveries, but as great is she who stands by the cradle, shapes the" tendency of thoughts, drops into hearts the balm of her affection and the purity of her virtue, reviving the life of goodness in many a blighted spirit, and in the abodes of poverty, where many may be too proud to go. She may enter with her sympathy, illustrating her dignity and power, in watching and waiting, in patient endurance and unwearied effort, filling that narrower orbit with the fullness of love, illuminating that dark fortune with the steady radicJice of constancy and faith. r XJO WORK that man does can excel the grandeur of woman's work. It will be the same in politics as in the other walks of life. She 1 will prove a splendid balance wheel in politics as in other things. Take the coming municipal elections in Indiana. Here woman already has the vote,- limited. Our reactionary state supreme court, readjusting itself to Chief Justice Roger Brook Taney's Dred Scot decision, revoking to bondage the fugitive slave, may return woman to her captivity pending a constitutional amendment, but otherwise woman is to have her say in the elections this fall, provided she has qualified by registration. The opportunity came to her through a legislature in which the political parties vied with each other, quite equally in proportion to their numbers, to prove their chivalry. Neither democrats nor republicans can claim the credit These measures were passed as matters of individual conscience by the members of the assembly, with the machine organizations of both parties against them the governor joining forces with the majority in both houses which commanded partisans of both faiths in its making. ' Women can be strictly independent in Indiana municipal elections without violating the least reciprocal obligation to any party. They are the beneficiaries, rather, of their personal friends. They are at liberty to disregard both the parties represented in the assembly, if they wish to, in the plighting of their political vows. They might even vote for the woman, one of their own sex, if the courts leave them the chance; this as a matter of protest if they don't like the old party nominees. Such an expression of independent stamina might have a very salutary effect upon the future of political parties in the choice of their nominees, for whom they would like woman's support. It is just one of the ways in which woman can make her power felt; with independence always, and with her eye fixed on the moral aspects of things the things that should always concern her most and which men, generally, are most afraid to touch. Congress is watching the handling by women of the ballot in the states where they have it. It has generally been handled well. The west, which leads in suffrage, has made mighty strides since women began to vote. There is no thought anywhere, where woman has voted, of ever disfranchising her again, save where the appeal is made to autocratic-legalists perched on some bench. It is coming and it is coming fast, and it will next be nation-wie'e. While our boys are fighting in Europe to make the world safe for democracy, congress, at home, must wrestle at its next session, with enlarging democracy at home, and keeping it safe. The liquor traffic must go and equal suffrage must come. He is butting his head against a stone wall who uses it to oppose' either. The millenium, while it will not have come, even with the world war won, when these changes come will at least have begun to daws

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THE JAPANESE MONROE DOCTRINE. The assertion of a Japanes Monroe doctrine to apply to the far east as ours applies to America has long br. expected. Viscount Ishii. head cf the mikado's mlMioa to this country, has now made a denn!: declaration ol that sort. There is no doubt that he ?pe-aks with th full authority of his povernment. The .matter may therefore be regarded aa settled. Japan intend to t.fciruard astern Aia from forelcrn a pr sion rr"fi?!v & ve have safeguarded our hemisphere for a century. There is no alarm expressed in this country. Ar. i there is no apparent reason for pnr. Tor th vr.ver'J statement guarantees fair treatment of all forcier, nation, and cf China her5elf. Japan's mo'Ive s carly explained. ays Ishii:

"Circumstances for which vt wer r. r.o sene responsible, we us ceri'Jn rights c Chinese territory. Hut at no time in the pt and at no time, in the futur have we taker. will we seek to take territory from China or d--spoil China cf her rights. Y wish to te th sincere friend and helper of our neighbor. For we are lntere.ted more than anyone els except China, in gocd government there. Only, r must at all times, for self-protectlo-. r revert other nations from doing rvhat we have r.o ripht to do. "Wo not only vril not week to assail the Integrity or the sovereignty of Ch'na, but eventually win bo prepared to defend and maintain tho integrity of and independence of China against any aggressor. For tve know that oar own landmarks would be threatened try any outside invasion or Interference of China." As for tho "open door" that has been bo important j part of American policy with rgrd to China, ih:t gives assurance that it will remain open. Japan, candidly explain?, has no res?on whatever for closing . because &he herself enjoys such natural adavntagf there that she would bo "very stupid or very lnscUve' if she failed to succeed in competition -rith the. rwt cC tho world. There will still bo American, who ralstrun Jaw, purpose, de5pite these positive a-surance,. Our government, however, appears to have no mlsgivirv Neither has former Prea't Taft He reminds us thar Japan has kept her criminal gentleman's agreement-" made with tho United 8tate, in ISO and renewed in 1911. and "has kept it like a gentleman". He la convinced that she may be trusted likerle to kp f.ith with regard to her pre&ent pledge. THE INCOME TAX MUDDLE. The new income tax .'aw may be all riqht a v revenue-producer, but a.s a statement of what peopi are expected to pay the government out of their yearly Incomes, the best that can be said of it is that it's n clear as mud. Tho more it is explained, the less th'V peneral public understands it. Tho confusion arises from the fact that there ar now two income tax' laws in force instead cf one. Tho new law was merely superimposed on the law enacted last year. Each in itself is confusing enough. Combined, they require the services of the traditional rhila. delphla lawyer to untangle them. The old law has its particular set of exemptions; it"normal tax" for moderate incomes and its progressiv. surtax rates for large incomes. The new law has thre, similar sets of provisions, differing at nearly cery point. The two complex systems have to h combined and harmonized before any citizen finds out what lie expected to pay on his income. The dimculty may b, seen from the fact that experts themselves don't acre about the working of the plan. Many current table meant to elucidate the matter vary in their conrlubm.. How, then, can the non-expert le expected to f!;rur it out? The government will n doubt provide, sooner or later, a dependable table fhowing the payment regIr' 1 on incomes of various size, and reducir.e the work of riguring exemptions to as simple a plan as pos. ir.Ie. li-.t it will be puzzling at best. Why couldn't congrr? ha' repealed the old law, and if n us one, income tax -tern instead of two ? THE PANACEA GARLIC. .Many a man or woman remembers being oc-ei, ia childhood, with "onion juice'' for a cough. That home'., and not unpleasant taste is now nearly ohcol'te. W take "German drugs" ior such ailments. But the doctors ere beginning to tell us that mother and grandmother were rieht. Onion Juice Is credited today w.th remarkable curative properties. And those prcprt;e.are said to be found at the best in that tupreme representative of the onion family garlic. A recent number of the Medical Record demotes , whole page to editorial comment on the medicinal alua. of garlic. It is declared, hy man:.- eminent phys :cia.r. to be wonderfully effective in cafes A wfcocpir.ff oourh, typhus, pneumonia, and diphtheria, i-'ome doctors -a.y that it is the bet known remedy for tut roulc?!. Ordinarily it is administered in the form of traet. or c:l of garlic'". In cases of diphtheria, one nudical writer advises the simple us of the raw garlic, in the form a garlic "clove"' kept in the mouth and munched lik candy. Amerirar.5 in general are prejudiced atriUrj't ?iri!c,. ;md aeainst the "foreigners" who u it. Put perha: the foreigners are rirht. An American authority eurgests that the well-known longevity of Uulgarian peasants is due not to their drinking of vo'jr milk, an Metchrdkoff taught, but simply to their fondness for trarlie, which system. kep.- th direct frerrr.' rf their MORE REASONS. .-11. cc the first Liberty Jrn bonds were ortered it ht-rf on proved, by th" testimony of German autocrats themselves, that Germany l..-r.u. the war C establish - orU-wiJe empire for :b- Hoher.zollerr.s, the cc?. o - a, h enterprise to be taker, out of th United SUAes. If ou hive an ounce of -democracy In your rr.ake-t:i : i .h.i'.r ir: r pock t. grab one or mor f :. Ia'e-rtv bo:.. is It s ire means liertr to you. it imaa consulate forces at Iiarceiona Lave b. .0 greatly increased. L'ok o Alfor.so! To j're goln t. be knifed in tho back. Wo.;;.;,' ' " we'd to e,!"ri hon rnar.y cf tn o"1 ..' e r .-. :). : "-:.. p' : : o: i .- r--, !!.: -I"e '-.uuoht a bond ai?